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It depends on what you value for that money. Of course all of this is personal opinion, but I’ll give it.

The 2015 and now 2019 MacBook pros are the best fit and finish computers on the market (yes I skipped the nonsense they did with that keyboard and thinness over heat and battery size nonsense in between). The keyboards are my favorite touch out of anything on the market. The screen, while annoyingly reflective, has great quality and pixel density. The OS despite flaws in each new release, within a patch generally is more stable than any other I touch on a daily basis. The battery life first on the 2015 laptop and now on the 2019 version was the first time I’ve experienced using a machine that I could program on and watch movies on flights across the country, without concern of running out of juice. The trackpad is better than anything else that I’ve tried on the market.

Yes, a lot of this could be due to limited experience of other systems out there, but Apple despite its missteps, generally lives up to producing a luxury brand computer that doesn’t feel like a waste of money given the joy of the overall experience.
> At this point duckduckgo is just as good and less annoying

I see this repeated all the time and I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only person who finds DDG results to be much worse. I tried DDG again this week and turned back within an hour.

Examples:

- I wanted to migrate a Debian 32Bit system to 64Bit. So I searched "debian convert from i386 to amd64". Google's top results are the official Cross-Grading docs from Debian Wiki, whereas DDG points to some outdated private pages and mailing list posts, with the official Debian Wiki not even in the Top10. Completely useless.

- I had the problem that with idx-Subtitles, Kodi would show white boxes instead of the proper text. So I searched "kodi idx white box". Google points to bug reports for my exact problem, whereas DDG shows pages for "fully loaded Kodi boxes" and "Best adult addons for Kodi". Again, completely useless.

- I wanted to build Kodi from source. So I searched "building kodi". Top Google results is the building instruction in the Kodi Wiki, DDG again shows obscure pages for the Titanium build and Steamlink ports.

This is all done in Firefox in private mode, so this is not because Google has tracked my behavior.
> But they wouldn't have the monopoly on ads

I'm not seeing how anything would change. Google search and whatever other google branches will continue working together so it'll essentially be the same thing but with a different legal structure to appease everyone.
The anti-google (or anti-amazon, anti-FB, basically anti-FAANG) garbage that gets plastered on HN is really childish and tiring.

Reminds me of all the “M$” bashing back when slashdot was still relevant. I can recall top comments for articles about larger HDD’s were usually people decrying “bloated software” or wondering who would ever use all that space. Articles about LCD monitors were full of people bemoaning the loss of “superior CRT’s”. Anything new was suspect. Of course all that “M$” anti-tech bashing eventually made them completely irrelevant and now they are but a footnote in history.

Dunno where I’m going but besides being “two minutes of hate”, these anti-FAANG articles totally remind me of slashdot.
Define large?

Norway, for example, allows only 2L of spirits or 200 cigarettes IIRC. If you're a heavy smoker that's less than a week. I believe Switzerland is similar.

I don't smoke or drink, but I'd imagine that would be fairly easy to get tripped up by if you were travelling around Europe.
7a. If you take VC money and require network effect, be prepared to turn into that which you loathe. leave your principles at the door.
If Google peaked in 2009 and has been declining since then, then any search engine that's as good as they were then would be better than they are now, not as you say "just as good".
"Leading Brutalist Expert" is a hilarious phrase.

If almost everyone considers it brutalist, well, too bad expert gatekeeper of an ill-defined abstract notion.
As an emergency system it can be allowed to do best effort if it's better than no pilot at all. Still great safety improvement.
I get what you're trying to show with that image, but could it just be that its hard to design an attractive giant SUV?
Considering they already provide the !g command how is that significantly different for DDG? They obviously have access to Google search results if they want them.
As someone who speaks three languages, it's just as hard to find music. Grooveshark used to have a much larger and well-rounded selection, though it had legality issues similar to Pirate Bay.
I asked "if you say it's happened to you..." therefore you don't need a log. Just log in to SO and bingo all your Q's with their A's are available. It's not difficult.
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That's good, they're trying to put everyone in a level play field given the system they use.
There's definitely some bits and pieces that are relevant to the average traveller. For example over the counter medication in one country can be considered a controlled medication in another, so if you're found to be bringing the medication in to the country you can get in trouble.
Speaking of new streaming services, I was trying to watch The Expanse Season 4. Amazon famously made this happen, so thanks to Bezos there. But even though I have their Prime service there seemed to be a monthly service called Prime Video required. Amazon seems to be doing the Microsoft thing where everything is Prime something and it’s confusing and annoying.
It’s also creating a pool of resources to actually do something about the problem.
I worked for a small company right out of college and we had some monsters under the bed too. Unfortunately the manager would rather new code written than cleaning up technical debt or resolving risks. So I would have to double my estimates and use my “spare time” to try to work toward some level of sanity... but there were still plenty of things that I felt guilty about and would be evasive about if someone asked.
Yes, airbnb used as a bed and breakfast is great. I'm not saying otherwise. But what has ended up happening is people buying multiple properties to list them only on airbnb. This has created shortage for people actually living and working in the city and driving the rent prices up in desirable neighbourhoods since tourists want to experience the city through the lens of a local person. And Airbnb actively lobbies and tries to skirt the rules where city puts a limit on how many units you can list and for how many days a year. So yeah, long story short, fuck airbnb.
The United Kingdom is now undoubtedly going ahead with Brexit, and based on recent history of now-powerful politicians, and the announcements earlier this year on billboards everywhere, it looks likely that new visas will be required to travel between the UK and EU from 31st Jan 2020, and new conditions will come into force.

Those new visas and conditions are likely to be different for different classes of people as well. E.g. EU citizens, non-EU partners of EU citizens, EU partners of UK citizens, non-EU partners of UK citizens who entered via EU treaty rights, non-EU partners of UK citizens in well paid jobs who entered not-via-the-EU (different rules and status apply to them), the same but in non-well-paid jobs, EU citizens in well paid jobs, EU citizens in poorly paid jobs, children of EU citizens, students, recently graduated students, etc. And it seems that quite a lot of people don't know, yet, what class they are in, or whether they will be allowed to stay in the UK, either in the short term, or the long term.

A huge number of people regularly travel between UK and EU for work, holidays and family visits. Travelling between EU countries is almost like travelling between states in the USA - a lot of people do it fairly casually, and some do it almost as a commute.

Because of the changes, a fair number of people are interested in rules around dual citizenship, changes of citizenship (either people whose home is in the UK but they didn't need citizenship before, or people from the UK settled elsewhere in the EU who are now deciding whether to apply for change of citizenship to continue where they are), what rights they may have based on ancestry or other family connections which they previously did not need to investigate, the rights of their children, how much they need to earn to obtain different rights, how long applications take and how much they cost, etc.

On top of that, travelling across the border can jeopardise a person's applications, because it creates discontinuities of residence and the institutions judge such things arbitrarily, some of the time.

So information on visa requirements, conditions, and how different rules apply to different people may be something people will really need starting fairly soon.

Just saying, as I think the information could prove useful to many if it's made presentable and accessible (and isn't misleading), and for your site there might be a lot of visitors if it's the place to find out.
Her husband was mulling a run for leader of canada's left-wing party, so they tried to make this part of their official policy: https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/

Whether you think that's an alternative, or a <expletive deleted> is up to you.
> It hurts real customers

Yes it does. We bought a lot of kids movies on iTunes, and then I couldn't play them back because a device was not authorized (I bought it on my iPhone, so it doesn't work on my girlfriends iPad), or because the internet didn't work, or because iTunes was broken after upgrading to a new OS, ... it's so frustrating when you have a collection of video files on a USB stick that you paid for and you can't watch them.
Cool. And good thing you open sourced it now, before you built failover strategies (e.g. supervision) — you still have time to change the name.
> This is also why the cybertruck in it's current form will never be allowed in Europe.

To be honest, Cybertruck may be not allowed in Europe for citizens, but I not see any limitations that could prevent allowing Cybertruck for farming in Europe.
On a tangent: how do you know if the outcome is directly meaningful? that part is easy: ask yourself if you, personally, care. If I told you "an hour of Yoga will make your hippocampus more dense on an MRI" you should

1) ignore me, because that isn't even internally consistent

2) ask yourself why that's a good thing.

Compare that to

"your brain scan in 10 years will show less atrophy", or

"your brain scan in 5 years will show less chronic microvascular injury", or

"your scores in attention and daytime sleepiness will improve", or

"your life expectancy will increase by 4 years"

Those are directly meaningful, because you don't need a doctor to tell you why they are good things (or you do because it's jargony, but a doctor could explain it in one sentence)
You would assume wrong about me not being a parent and you also assume wrong that you "thought like [I] do] based on a few sentences on a public forum.
Fair point.

For the record, though, if you ever do decide to pay for news, FT is one of a few that are actually worth the money.
This should not be surprising, follow the money.
Google bad, my blog good!
Every house on my block can supply my car with electricity, and I don’t think our neighborhood is unusual. Knocking on someone’s door to borrow a cup of hydrogen would probably be less productive. Borrowing a gallon of gas might be possible, assuming my neighbor hasn’t purchased an electric mower.
Comments in this thread are missing the actual takeaway: when interfacing with legacy systems and bureaucracies, get help and don't DIY. Experience counts and experienced people know what to do when the form talks about "A3" which doesn't exist - or they know who to call.
I don't think the CPS had anything much to do with this - these were private prosecutions by the Post Office themselves. Which also meant that they could get away with things like requiring people not to criticise the Horizon software in order to avoid going to jail.

Also, it's not just that they thought hundreds of people, all of the same rank, all committed fraud despite never working out what actually happened. The larger Post Office branches are directly owned and operated, employing a number of staff. They are equally convinced that none of those staff did the same thing, even though there's apparently a whole bunch of unresolved accounting discrepencies around those branches and their controls seem entirely inadequate. The difference is that sub-postmasters are basically liable by default.
Problem with the smaller browsers like Qutebrowser is there are no real extensions.

If I could run Qutebrowser with uBlock it would be perfect.
What privacy transgressions? Are you referring to the data they collect or their use of it (or both)
I agree. I've found DDG results to be sub-par in a variety of situations as well, and Google Search is sometimes almost oracular in it's prediciton of my search queries and surfaces the right solutions.

I really understand making the argument about privacy, , but Search is not the product to target here, it only seems to have gotten better these days, not worse.
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Sure, but what's the alternative?

I know big companies do a lot of AB testing with interviews and change their approach over time (Google stooped asking why are manholes round and looking at AST scores because data showed them those things had almost zero correlation with performance).
It's not a total wash:

"The studies reviewed also implicate the role of yoga in functioning of the dlPFC and the amygdala (see Fig. 4). Gothe et al. [24] found that yoga practitioners demonstrated decreased dlPFC activation during the encoding phase of a working memory task in comparison to the controls. Froelinger et al. [30] also found yoga practitioners to be less reactive in the right dlPFC when viewing the negatively valanced images on the affective Stroop task. Task-relevant targets activate the dlPFC, whereas emotional distractors activate the amygdala [49]. Exerting cognitive control over emotional processes leads to increased activation in the dlPFC, with corresponding reciprocal deactivation in the amygdala [50, 51]. The studies suggest that when emotional experience occurred within the context of a demanding task situation, yoga practitioners appeared to resolve emotional interference via recruitment of regions of the cortex that subserve cognitive control. Plausibly, these findings may indicate that yoga practitioners selectively recruit neurocognitive resources to disengage from negative emotional information processing and engage the cognitive demands presented by working memory and inhibitory control tasks demonstrating overall neurocognitive resource efficiency." [discussion, ¶5]

To a literate outsider, this does not seem like hand-wavey bullshit and seems to establish the signal->source->implication chain you request. This just happened to be where I was in the article when I read your comment.
Or news articles.
In past few days I've heard so many praises and also I have heard so much criticism about Database Books in general.

What makes this book so much better?
Definitely, i will start working on it right away, so lot of brits can benefit from visa list.
I didn't say, nor did I imply either one of these statements in your false dichotomy.
There's no room for moderates in today's political climate. "You are either completely on board or you are against me" so the current zeitgeist goes. Essentially you have to align your beliefs and talking points with /r/politics and /r/enlightenedcentrism, or you are just closeted alt right.
Price controls are a dead political option. Laws that either mandate change or enforce original intent tend to work better. Ie forcing home buyers to sign a document stating they are not flipping the property.
What is it about Soundwaves that allow plastics to move in a direction?
Wants an email... to sign up for email? Lolwut?
The post system needs to be eliminated. There is no reason in 2020 to burn a huge amount of diesel to cut a tree down, make it into paper, ship it across the ocean, print it, ship it again, the use delivery trucks to put it in a box, to be thrown away, to be picked up by a truck and put into a landfill.

The government is having trouble getting consumers to cut carbon. Why not start with cutting the government's emissions?
> It's pretty hyperbolic to call Google results a "full page ad".

If I search for "lake district cottages" on Google, the first screen is covered by an ad; scroll down, and the second screen is covered by ads too. The third screen is a featured snippet with a map - I have no idea whether this is paid-for. Only halfway down the fourth screen do I get to a genuine organic search result.

iPhone SE, Safari, standard text size.
Yes but that idea validates the habitation of an ivory tower.

The notion that visual design for a consumer product isn't fundamentally validated by a sufficient demand by a sufficiently large set of consumers, to me, is stupid.

So much of humanities seems to be somewhat arbitrary and fashionable categorization in a (somewhat vain) attempt to be able to academically analyze (or at least publish the equivalent).

So this article seems hilarious to me.
No it is not example for rest API. Sorry I misunderstood you. I will add example for plumber with rsuite.
Nevertheless the example presents workflow where only scoring should be changed to online from batch.
I though the new school of aerodynamics actually does involve sharp edges, something about breaking turbulence. For example, check out the newest high speed train of Germany, the ICE 4, designed for operating at up to 265km/h, with the weird edges around the front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_4_(Deutsche_Bahn)#/media/F...
Ultimatum Game
I mean, once you’ve accepted the basic requirements of:

* four wheels

* meets legal size limits

* reasonable aerodynamic characteristics

* room for passengers

* sufficiently sized windows and doors

* crumplezone

* reasonable collision and roll characteristics

* front that mitigates damage to pedestrians

* (for SUVs) large trunk with large door

* practical to manufacture

* etc

the design space is pretty limited, and so it’s not surprising that all vehicles in a given class look pretty similar. It’s like how most large planes look pretty similar - it’s not laziness, it’s optimization within constraints.

It’s also worth noting that the Cybertruck, as shown, does not meet a lot of the basic requirements (rear views, windshield wipers, impact characteristics, headlight legality) so any shipping version will have to have a changes made towards a more traditional form.
Yeah in the UK there seems to be absolutely no accountability for the repeated and disastrous outsourcing from public to private sector in particular.

By the time the problems come to light the decision makers are long gone on to their next brilliant transformation gig at another gullible organisation.
Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers (2014)
So they look at it like every ISP and OS does you mean?
Doing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is one of those super hard things I try to do a day. It's not as "super hard" physically as one might think, especially as one improves their technique. Rather, for me and many others, it's very mentally and emotionally challenging in a fun and approachable way. The mental benefits I have realized since doing it very much speak to what you say about mastering various other skills, knowledge, and life itself. I've realized that for most of my life I've really doubted myself and that has held me back. BJJ has showed me that I can do this thing that I doubt I can do. I need only try. I might not succeed at first but with focus and persistence I will get there.

That's not to suggest everyone do BJJ. But, to your point, I think everyone should find things that really challenge them and try to engage in them on a near daily basis.
>> This is all done in Firefox in private mode, so this is not because Google has tracked my behavior.

Other people have mentioned that your machine can still be tracked via browser fingerprinting despite being in private mode
I guess much of it is related to Disney pulling their stuff (and of all the brands they've acquired) off of the existing streaming services, to give Disney Plus a competitive advantage.
> They learn how to behave in a group.

See this with my LO from going to daycare. Mob mentality is real, at home can't get a nap to save our lives.. at daycare napping at 12pm like clockwork.

Also the book thing is real, when my phone is off limits a book becomes the next fantasy reality for kids. For everyone reading, keep giving your toddlers something to do other than your phone. Everything is a teaching opportunity, and you are teaching them how to keep themselves preoccupied. Books, gadgets, legos, matchbox cars.. whatever, their imagination takes off exponentially once they hit 2
For the Black Mirror fans, Charlie talks about using Twine to help write Bandersnatch in this interview: https://www.wired.com/story/black-mirror-bandersnatch-intera....
WSJ: Google to Offer Checking Account with Citi Group and Stanford Credit Union
Huh; you're right. I somehow managed to confuse emoji with kaomoji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Japanese_style).
I wrote my thesis on something similar [1, 2]. My thesis asked all kinds of questions [4].

It was about XIMPEL which had a lot in common with SMIL (a former W3C standard), mostly because they were developed by people who were a bit rivals of each other. Here is a showcase of XIMPEL [3].

[1] https://melvinroest.github.io/ximpel/documentation/theses/ma...

[2] An introduction with some background context is here: https://melvinroest.github.io/ximpel/

[3] https://www.ximpel.net/category/showcase/

[4]

What happens when you introduce applications in non-linear storytelling? Answer: you can recreate CodeCademy.com.

What happens when you allow for media to be played in parallel: you're opening a can of worms that has a lot of implications on user experience and architecture of non-linear stories. You'll see some of the implications later on.

Is ReactJS suitable as a framework for non-linear storytelling compared to vanillaJS? Answer: yes, because ReactJS is component-based, so the components will be based on media items for which you can tell a story. I also think it's possible to make story/content components.

How do you measure frustration in a non-linear story framework? Answer: you could do it via the webcam if the user consents. Since mouse clicks and watch time is not enough. Non-linear stories are not applications, but they can be (in XIMPEL at least), when media is passively consumed, you need facial expressions (and user consent).

Now that we have parallel media playing how to do time scrubbing? Answer: in my thesis I outlined multiple options. The biggest question is: do you want to have a time line or a time graph?

Now that we have parallel media playing does that mean that a subject point in the story should be able to survive subject point in the story that comes after it? If it makes sense, content-wise, then yes. If you wouldn't have parallel media playback, this would not make sense. (ok, I'm butchering this answer, can't summarize it well, you can always read my thesis ;-) [1])

Is XIMPEL Turing Complete? Answer: almost! If we allow for the user to disambiguate certain issues, then yes. What helps a lot with this is that XIMPEL allows the use of integer variables. And you can get very far with 2 integer variables, since you can represent 2 integer variables as 2 stacks, and 2 stacks makes a tape. Where it fails with XIMPEL though is knowing which story/subject point to jump to.
Yes. You post a question of yours that's been unfairly shut down. If you have no such question you clearly don't have a problem with x.
Ts-80/100 for solder, bk-858 for hot air rework, and a mini frying pan on the oven for ‘reflow soldering’