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What does OP mean with "liquidity issues"? Lightning is a routing network, and you can connect directly to your counterparty, circumventing all potential liquidity issues.

> But companies and organizations routinely transfer millions and billions between normal banks

Just like companies have direct lightning channels between each other, they can send billions of they please.
Does the DC metro count as light rail? It's... not luxurious. Maybe new light rail is nice, but I've never ridden one. Regardless, I see the point the author is making. I'll probably look harder at the buses around here.
Having to rent or store a trailer is a huge pain in the butt - for me anyway.
That's for expulsion, which makes a certain amount of sense. A student with home life problems or a psychological condition is still entitled to an education. But why is it incumbent on every other student that they receive their education in the same classroom?
How do you know that gold coin isn't filled with tungsten? With Bitcoin, it takes a handful of milliseconds to verify a transaction.
I've always gone with my gut, which is nothing more than just common sense, and I've also been luckier more often than not.

"Good enough" has been a highly rewarding concept for me.
The bullies aren't living healthy, productive lives either. More than likely, their home life is awful if not horrific.
Because there are less people of ethnic minorities than in the majority demographic. That’s why they’re called minorities. The key point is that they have a chance.
If we are comparing to a successful "subway plus bus" model, isn't light rail clearly filling the "subway" role in the model, not the "bus" role?
> I know it is easy to be cynical on these types of "announcements", but I am having a really, really hard time understanding how curved strokes (or any branding decision) can result in empathy or "open space for peoples stories".

They don't "result" in empathy, but the design is meant to reinforce that.

In our inherited tradition of typography, the modernist era inspired so-called geometric letterforms based on very few basic shapes, and while those letterforms were very distinctive, clear, and straightforward, they lacked the familiar structure, that "human" and "organic" feel that comes out of handwritten letterforms.

This brand chosen for facebook is, at its core, geometric; it reinforces and puts center the notion of clarity that it intends to communicate. This clarity and simplicity is actually quite practically demonstrable: you see that the branding team demonstrates it in various shades superimposed on all kinds on stock branding photos and video, and yet it is recognizable and easily identifiable. Not all marks of companies can be used in this way; some are so inflexible that they can only be displayed in one palette in fixed Pantone colors before a white background.

Nonetheless, as they are proud to state, the mark deviates from the geometric paradigm in a subtle yet clear way in the curved strokes of the A and K. It is not so overdone that it obscures the inherent clarity and simplicity of the geometric paradigm, but clearly present to show a conscious acknowledgement and recognition.

Ironically, in the branding videos with the FB mark superimposed, the extreme versatility and yet extreme distinctiveness of the FB mark highlights a very FB-ish behavior. They want to, and want to be able to fit into all kinds of social space that you have, and to do so without losing its distinct FB identity, so that you are aware of its presence in all kinds of social activity that you experience.

To a large extent, it has accomplished that (e.g. use of FB and IG in marketing and organizing events).
No mention of vi or Sqlite? While I'm no vi expert it's a great tool for working with big files when you want to browse around without grep. And Sqlite is similarly ubiquitous and capable of crunching large files.
And then, when they get caught they hang out the junior analysts out to dry, and everyone who had any power to stop it is promoted and safe. Example: Lane Cove Tunnel (no not the lawsuit about the exit ramp collapse, the one about traffic forecasting).
Well OP seemed to be unhappy about not getting the benefits of having people sponsor them with a model like this.

There are tons of people who like to just go do stuff, and that's great! But if you don't promote it at all, certain avenues are not open to you.
Big Cos will stop publishing research. Typically today they file a patent before presenting research at conventions, etc.

Gadget manufactuers would also obfuscate or hide design features to make it harder for their inventions to be copied.

Also, I imagine, in the absence of patent protection, trade secret or non-compete laws would be more onerous.
This reminds me of one of my favorite historical audio clips. A few minutes before the 1965 Blackout in NYC the power frequency dipped as low as 51Hz (US is 60Hz). Playback equipment with motors setting speed based on the power frequency sllllooowwwweeeeddd down.

https://www.musicradio77.com/images/ing11-9-65blackout.mp3
Garrett Gee – How I Sold Scan to SnapChat for $54M
Very-very short scoop: light rail provides neither the high bandwidth of a subway nor the wide coverage of a bus network, but costs a lot.
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You may be right about elementary school teachers, I'm thinking more about high school STEM teachers specifically. Although the grade school teachers in my city seem to struggle even with fractions [0].

Only one of my high school math teachers seemed to have any idea what math was about (not just regurgitating formulas, but deriving them and proving them from a set of axioms and only then using those formulas to solve free-form real-world problems).

My High School CS teacher was a geography teacher who just read one chapter ahead in the CS textbook and had no idea what he was talking about.

Being good at teaching seems kind of useless when you don't know anything to teach.

[0] https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2016/05/13/for...
> And when we separate students into different classes, the message we send them is that their ability is fixed. When students, instead, embrace the knowledge that there are no limits to their learning, outcomes improve.

I find it difficult to believe in a sudden shift in the student worldview from a relatively minor change. I'd tend to assume any effect was a shiff in classroom norms.

We all tend to take behavioral hints from those around us. If you go from a class where most people aren't paying attention, to one where most people are, it can sway the behavior of the remainder.
> especially over trains running at street level (since these can't go much faster than traffic)

Why would trains at street level be limited in speed by traffic? Trains in the UK run at street level and regularly go over a hundred miles an hour.
Bernard Lietar identified one of the modern properties of money as indeed speculation. 99% of forex is just that.
Most of history? I'd argue three Rs is the basics everyone needs, and then they can find their own way.
Disagree. 1. poor countries already have electric power. most of the countries are using 220volts, that charges your electric car just fine. evs will soon be cheaper that most gas cars because no maintenance, 1 million mile power tranes, no spark plugs, fan belts, clutch, heater core, oil change, air filter, gas, gas filter.

2. The power of the existing industry - ha. Economic forces conquer all. Coal is failing because nat gas is way cheaper. Just like solar power and wind power will soon be cheap enough to attack nat gas.

3. Tesla is doing just fine against basically the entire gas, financial, automotive industries, etc.
I'd sooner credit Sam Raimi's Spider-Man with starting the modern big-budget superhero movie trend. That movie beat Harry Potter's box office record. It was a big hit and I think it proved the concept.
A very good example of "win-win" scenarios that aren't just "isolate the smart kids" are classes built around group work and projects.

Group work means that more successful groups can probably get pretty far on their own without needing much teacher intervention, freeing teacher resources for less successful groups.

Group work also means students can help each other, and the "teaching" students can get experience in passing knowledge to others, the "taught" students also get attention and help from their peers (hopefully in ways that improve student relations more than harm them)

This kind of work can also be a bit freeform and usually ends in a "real" work product, so students can feel pride in making a thing, and in being in charge of what is going on.

The difficulties are mainly around evaluation and resources. It's hard to generalise evaluation of this in the same way as standardised testing does (which is more of a problem for means testing than for actually educating people).

Teachers also probably need to be more prepared for these kinds of things, because students will end up in a variety of situations that the teacher might not have ever seen before.

But the elephant in the room is just money. Try to do a robotics thing, and now you gotta buy a bunch of equipment. Same for lots of stuff involving computers. In other domains it could be easier (I had a math class that worked on this model, and the costs were basically the book and the calculator), but there's a need for money. Too many teachers are already fronting relatively inexpensive stuff like stationary.
150k/year. Let’s assume the professor teaches 4 units per semester and maybe 2 in the summer (or research or some equivalent). Comes out to 15k/unit. Let’s say 15 students per unit just to represent smaller classes comes to $1k/unit/student/year. Each unit is like 3hrs/week for 12 weeks on average. So comes out to something like $28/hr. Doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.

Average course load for a student is like 6 units a semester so using the back-of-the napkin math above it should cost roughly $6k/per semester for students to have a full course load of $150k professors. $12k/year + other expenses is a far cry away from $100k that is being charged.
"Most surprising, says Dr. Isaacson, is that the MCI patients who followed at least 60% of their recommendations showed cognitive improvement. However, MCI patients who followed less than 60% of the recommendations experienced cognitive declines similar to the control groups, he notes."

-- Another explanation: those able to follow these directions might have been in the best cognitive shape. What I'd wonder is if the less-than-60% cohort could have done worse than the control? Was this sorting masquerading as treatment?

When they were in their early 80s, my mother and my Stepfather each started doing Sudoku puzzles to fight dementia. My mother lost interest and developed non-Alzheimer dementia six years later. My stepfather kept at it and did not develop dementia though he had cognitive issues. Where is the cause and where is the effect here, however?

Edit: another thing that makes the study seem rather problematic is the "customized advice" part. Maybe some of the advice is better than others. How do you generalize? etc. For a more object study, you'd need to have people just meriting one kind of treatment in both control and treated groups. I understand how hard that could be - this stuff is just filled with quandaries. Customized treatment would logical at final patient level but very hard to objectively analyze.
It depends a lot on the city, but in high-traffic areas, buses are extremely slow and unreliable because they have to fight through the traffic jams. Dedicated bus lanes get around this, but it’s very hard to recapture the lane from car traffic at that point since the car drivers will see it as being taken from them.

If you’re building a new rapid transit line with dedicated ROW, it then comes down to BRT vs LRT and the cost of BRT and LRT aren’t actually that different I believe. The buses are cheaper up front but the maintenance cost on light rail vehicles is supposedly cheaper (plus, they can use electric power and are cleaner than diesel buses). The article’s criticisms would apply equally to BRT though.
I was a graphic designer, then I did cabinet making, auto sales, manual labor and construction. I was also in the military. I finally got into tech and I don't always love it, but I remember those years when I froze my ass off working on a jobsite somewhere making peanuts, and I'm thankful. TLDR I've started from nothing several times. If I had to do it again right now, I think I would open a coffee shop.
DC Metro is “heavy rail”.

What exactly the difference between heavy rail and light rail is a matter of debate in some cases but I don’t think there’s any dispute that DC Metro or NY Subway is heavy rail.
We whitelist common dynamic IPs, for example CI, CD, and deployment IP address ranges including:

* AWS

* Heroku

* GitHub

* Circle CI

(this whitelist is a WIP and I'm open to adding more)

Also since the goal of rate limiting by IP is to limit # of users, not necessarily # of machines, we allow you to remove any previously used IP addresses from your subscription's history. This way if you hit your limit, just go to the payment page, hit 'Manage IPs' and remove any unused IPs.

See this doc for more details: https://gitroyalty.com/docs/faq/how-do-subscriptions-work
Your whole new network wouldn't be Bitcoin then. Therefore there is no cloning. Bitcoin scarcity remains in tact.

Bitcoin's initial distribution was as preferable as it can really get. It was announced to a mailing list of people most likely to pay attention to it. Anyone with a computer could join the network and be rewarded with bitcoins. You didn't even need to have a fast computer. The software was free and open source. There isn't much you can improve upon without introducing trust or maligned identification schemes.
AEI is a hard-rightish conservative think tank. I’d be wary of trusting anything they publish about money and schools.
"Media history" would be the English translation. It wasn't about the technical origins of the internet which are irrelevant in this discussion.

They studied the impact on a few big media inventions (printing press, TV and the internet) on (western) culture. It seems you don't believe I had this in University? You can find some information here: https://docplayer.nl/2209094-Studiegids-2013-2014-communicat...

The subject is called "Mediageschiedenis" and you can find it on page 37. This document is unfortunately in Dutch.
I bought a combined washer/condenser dryer.

It usually took 3 - 5 hours to wash and dry a load, but it was ideal as a working solo Dad, I could put a load on before work, and it would be dry when I came home. Then I could put a load on before bed and it'd be dry in the morning.

Not sure who the average person is, but if they have a job, I found that very convenient.
I could not agree more. Public transit in the Portland (Oregon) metro area was much better (easier to access, predictable, faster, weather tolerant) when they prioritized buses and had no LRT. Now that the city is all-in on LRT the bus system is neglected and under provisioned.

My other big beef with LRT is that cities are dumping hundreds-of-millions of dollars in to single use track - LRT is only used for moving people, whereas money spent on buses funds roads, which benefit all aspects of commerce. Also, on another, tangent, LRT is plagued by weather related woes - at least in Portland, if it is too hot or too cold, the trains cannot even safely run. Bring back the buses!
Was SequelPro trying impute any field types? That could have been causing the crash when faced with a large file.
I'm in favor of single gender schools. I went to both coed and boys only grammar school in the UK, and the latter was much better. Bullying was much lesd without girls around to impress. Everyone was friendlier too, even between jock and nerd cliches. It was actually cool to do well in school. For those who wanted girlfriends, there was an all girl school they could go visit once school let out. Much better system than all the coed schools I ever attended in the US, UK and Maledives.
At Microsoft, they know that no matter how bad it gets, you won't leave. Just about everyone who might leave already did. Likewise, for Apple.

Having a customer base that will tolerate any abuse, no matter how bad, is worth way more to Apple and Microsoft than a base that is incrementally larger, but more demanding.

People who expect things to work well are what MBAs call a "cost center". Business school taught them that cost centers are to be shed, to the maximum degree possible. People who tolerate bad products and services are what the Business School professors call "cash cows", to be milked forever. (No, literally. It's there in the textbooks. There is no shame in Business School!)

Apple and Microsoft each have countless $billions in cash, a very small bit of which (1%? 3%?) would be plenty to make things work well, and keep them working well. But that would attract demanding customers, who would just expect better, all the time. Cost center!

Clearly, the status quo is what keeps the cash pouring in. Upsetting that flow would be a huge mistake: the most likely outcome, just from basic thermodynamics, would be less cash to divert into holdings. Nobody wants that. Anyway, nobody who matters.

So in answer to the question, "Whose problem is Microsoft solving?": Microsoft is solving Microsoft's problem, quite deftly, just as Apple is deftly solving Apple's problem. Apple is doing it better: they have people paying $1200 for a $300 phone, again and again.

Apple and Microsoft have only one remaining problem, Fafnir's: nothing on Earth is worth as much to them as their respective cash hoards.

Meanwhile, Google has picked up the strays. Their huge advantage is that you aren't even a customer; you're the product! Anyway your eyeballs are. The actual customers are more demanding, in principle, but much, much fewer. Google has to keep your eyeballs pointed at their screens, but they know everything about you, so they can automate a lot of that, and they don't even have to pretend to be trying to keep you happy; just attentive.

Moo.

If you notice a similarity to Spammers, give yourself a thumbs up. Spammers have to be extremely picky about their customers. Spammers need you to give them all your money in exchange for nothing at all. That is a very special customer, and they need to sift through millions to find each. If you are bothered by bad spelling or grammar, they know not to waste time on you -- you reject yourself! No, they want only the least discerning customers. Anyone capable of doubt has to be driven away in absolutely the most automated way possible. If a hundred people per million took up any time, they would need to find something else to do.

The difference between the spammer and anyone who sheds discerning customers is only degree, not kind.
Hats off to Microsoft. About time we had a serious competitor against Google Docs.
I mean street cars, trains that run on streets behind and in front of cars.
Note that your last point applies to copyright as well.
I had to check that today is not April 1st.

If you badly want my money, sell me your product honestly, under a commercial license, and don't call it OSS. There are other "source available" licenses.

If you want a donation from me, show your tipping jar / patreon / whatever else link.

If you want your software be OSS, well, don't conceal the source.

I suppose that a project of any significance that would use such a "paywall" will be plainly forked, with a build / manifest / whatever file maintained manually.
I've had pretty good experiences with both of those editing the raw files. However, neither of them give capabilities like moving columns or doing filtering. But for basic editing or viewing, they definitely work.
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It's generally wise to be skeptical of this sort of demonstration. It's been my experience that the cool stuff that Microsoft shows off at these events might actually land in six months to a year, sometimes farther out, if it actually comes about at all. I've been beating my head against the wall with Teams for a couple years now, as features drip out like molasses - there are things I saw demoed almost a year ago that won't land before Christmas this year.

Also when people start the hand-waving about plugging in arbitrary bits of AI to help out with tasks, my engineer brain explodes a little bit, because that is hard to do right, beyond cute little proof-of-concept demos. It's great to demonstrate and put in the marketing material, but the real-world usage and effectiveness often leaves a lot to desire.
I’ll give a short anecdote that might sway your opinion. I grew up poor in Baltimore City. I directly benefitted from the CTY program, where I was able to take accelerated math courses over the summer. My family didn’t pay a dime of the $3k+ per summer cost to attend. After several summers of CTY, I was able to take AP Calculus as a freshman in high school. I would not be who I am today without CTY.

I agree, that article written by the director of CTY is biased. And most who attended were rich kids, so maybe in aggregate their approach doesn’t make a difference. But it made a difference for me. CTY provided opportunities for me I never would have had otherwise.
I think what they mean is what's usually called light-rail or trams--train systems that have at-grade intersections with streets.
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vi is an editor so it doesn't really solve my requirement of getting spreadsheet-like editing capabilities. SQlite is a good idea, I never thought of that. I will investigate that and add it to the article. Thanks!
They poked the wrong dragon. It’s impressive that CF invested the resources in fighting them. What’s unfortunate is the number of small companies that have been killed by patent trolls.
> Bring back the buses!

I think the 'red transit lane' is a step in that direction:

https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/10/paint-it-red-po...
I think they mean urban trains, or trams and the like. Intercity trains can of course go as fast as they can.
If you believe patents harm innovation, then patents are a way of ossifying a country.
Someone is suffering. It's either the taxpayer or the receiver of the education.
I don't believe so as it was a CSV export from Sequel Pro. I could be wrong, but the import worked fine using the same file truncated to the first few thousand rows.
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Interesting article, except for the mumbo jumbo about feedback loops.

Development is all about land and cost. Suburbia hit critical mass because road networks were building out in the postwar economic stimulus and cars were cheaper than traditional infrastructure. Taxes were low because everything was new.

The driver of today’s changes is also about cost. We are out of suburban land. If you look at new construction in suburban areas, say around Boston, you see new build outs on shitty parcels. Apartment buildings 50 feet from the interstate, hilltop shopping centers, etc.

At the same time, the existing suburban housing stock is old and creaky. I was born in the late 70s, my parents are in their 70s and their house is 40 years old... and basically depreciated. It’s not going to yield great value because it needs lots of work. That’s not an atypical story.

A vital city like New York is another great place to look for guidance from. As the old ethnic neighborhoods collapsed, they turned to slums. The slumlords sucked the value out, and left cheap shells that attracted investment.
Why would it have to be a one-time selection? Put kids in a class based on their current level of academic performance. If you're doing better than the other kids in your class then you go to the more advanced class.
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