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It sound pretty meaningless to me!

It's like saying you're on your own and if anything goes wrong, don't tell me I didn't offer to help.

Or the worst phrase ever: "let me know if you have any questions" (often following a barrage of gibberish empty talk). Kind of like saying if you have no questions then you totally agree with my poor vision/leadership.
Coincidentally I happen to be reading a book on the same subject. From memory, how the commies picked up the signal was even more interesting. In a false chimney attached to the Embassy they installed a remotely controlled Yagi antenna, that could be pointed at a particular target. At the top of the 'chimney' was a copper v-shaped dome serving to gather and focus the weak signal from the typewriters. The signal from the antenna was then sent through an amplifier and cable down a tunnel into the Soviet sector. The transmission from the typewriter consisted of a compressed burst-mode signal hidden in the side-bands of near-by television transmissions, making it virtually impossible to detect using normal bug detecting equipment. When the existence of such was reported to the ambassador, he said: can you bring us 100% proof the commies are bugging us.
People still buy EA games?!?!
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Measure power consumption and framerate (especially for scrolling scenarios) rather than CPU usage before making any performance claims for mobile.
But why are the lenders even paying 6% when they could go get a SoFi loan for four percent and on top of that have the balance in a more convenient form?
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Sounds like you aren't the target market. If I hadn't just last week finally deactivated my dumb phone from 2011 and bought a cheap Motorola, I'd seriously consider this.

Literally all I want from a phone is the ability to call / text for coordinating near-term meetups with people, and the ability to receive / send calls in emergency situations.

Unfortunately, they don't make phones like that anymore.

I have my new phone set in battery saver mode with everything deactivated except the calling app, the texting app, and Facebook Messenger. The battery can last four or five days with this configuration, which pleasantly surprised me. Still can't match the two weeks I'd get out of my old dumb phone though.
I read somewhere (Atlas Obscura?) that there are some hollow sidewalks in NYC, and the sidewalk-adjacent property owners pay for the real estate underneath. To get around this, some owners have sealed off access from their building to the sub-sidewalk spaces, leaving closed off, empty chambers.
Like GameStop stores now. Zombie company.
Those with loans in the system will have to pay a 6% interest rate. Since not all holders of Dai have savings accounts, this allows for the system to use the interest charged to loan holders to pay out the savings rate while accumulating a surplus.

A 6% interest rate on USD would be a red flag, but Dai isn't USD. As far as I know, no banks allow you to use Ether as collateral for a USD loan, so the comparison isn't apples to apples.
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Thanks for sharing, Charlie.
In this case, the Message-ID seems to be <Pine.LNX.3.91.961016155929.27735D-100000@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>.
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Interesting enough the glass floor was never removed during the demolition of the original Penn Station and can still be seen from the track level. Of course the floor has been tiled over and no longer functions as a light source, but it serves as a hidden reminder of the old Penn Station.

https://ny.curbed.com/2018/10/23/18009496/penn-station-new-y...
They highly cater to the corporate benefits market:

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I think that going out with an Apple Watch instead of a phone will become popular as a way of (partially) unplugging. It will also signal that the wearer is not an ordinary worker bee (who need to keep a phone around to respond to emails) but instead a member of upper management (who can skim important messages that come in, but needs not respond at length).
Because SoFi doesn't allow you to use Ether as collateral for a loan. Many holders of Ether may not necessarily have the credit required to get a loan on more favorable terms.
If the idea is to edit the single file, rather than include it and an override - would it make sense to distribute a minified version?

Also, what's the difference after gzip/deflate?
Just my opinion, but I don't think "private markets" are incompatible with a proper valuation of human life?

It's a bit macabre, but, to me, "dead people don't pay taxes / generate GDP" seems pretty interchangeable with "dead people don't pay insurance premiums / contribute to a risk pool".

To me, the problem is that billed medical costs (what the hospital charges you) have come unhinged from realized medical costs (what the hospital spends on helping you, including salaries, supplies, etc).

If that world is alien-sounding, it's similar to how the billed education costs at universities have come unhinged from realized education costs. In both of those environments, the ballooning costs seem to be propped up by well-intentioned but fundamentally "unnatural" source of funds, in the form of government subsidies.

These have been exploited by profiteering and accounting optimizations, over the course of literal decades. If your surgery costs 2k to perform, the hospital will happily charge you 20k, collect 3k in insurance, and write off the remaining 17k as un-recovered medical expense, for which the government will reimburse some portion.

The more obvious solution to me, would be to take a hard look at how these subsidies are actually used (/gamed), and steadily reduce/focus them over time, so that hospitals don't have an incentive to inflate costs. The source of the problem isn't anything fundamental about "the private market", it's rather about the current set of public incentives that have distorted the private market into it's current form.
Their doctors get paid by insurance (employer or Medicare/Medicaid) the same way any other doctor gets paid. $200 per year is a fee on top.

They are just much nicer to use than some alternatives.
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There are (or were I haven't checked recently) various freebies to encourage exercise and stuff but no direct discounts or fees.
> It's interesting to see exactly that happening in the comments here - "if it only had X, Y and Z I would buy it".

The classic response of anyone not financially invested in a product. Hopefully they follow through with their intention not to throw in the kitchen sink rather than burn all their resources trying to attract a picky customer base that has no intention of ever actually buying the phone.
ITT: People complaining that a purposefully minimalist phone doesn't have the very specific feature that they want.

If the point is to be reachable by a loved one in an emergency and nothing else, this seems like a reasonable option.
Partly recent news, and partly friends who live in New Zealand.
I remember my school had hundreds of them in the library and across different labs. Maybe it was education rather than home user / consumers who bought the bulk?
Definitely disagree. You're essentially making the argument that Softbank is too big to fail. This is not true.
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This isn't much in terms of value or functionality. You can buy a low end iPhone and just not install any apps and get more functionality and utility. I guess if you are on the road and need multi-week battery life??? Even then, it's easy enough to plug into your car outlet.
You shouldn’t use a phrase just because it sounds familiar, without considering the meaning of that phrase.

It wasn’t a bad article, but in my head I was hearing “danger, danger, danger!”
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Last summer I had a severely broken wrist, and the orthopedic surgeon was able to "squeeze me in" a few days later - literally at the first possible moment I could have had a surgery consult. Later on I had a follow-up with him, he kept me waiting for at least half an hour, but I totally didn't care because I knew why.

But yeah, I use One Medical and it's amazing. For primary care, they really respect your time like none other.
I can't remember exactly how it's set up but they're effectively the same thing.
It has texting. They are developing a "taxi" feature, which I think they'd be dumb not to integrate Uber into. And they have a screenshot of a "directions" app.

Maybe still too early to rule it out entirely.
While bare metal Kafka does really bundle itself with lots of OpEx trouble,
have you ever tried using an orchestrator to manage it ?

DC/OS implementation easily shuns out 1. and 2.

3. and 4. are valid points,
but I think in a real life these scenarios
are usually related to cloud service cost optimization,
and I would never recommend anyone running Kafka in a cloud due to these reasons.

There one more reason, which was not cited, but poses itself a real killer for cloud Kafka dream AFM: clouds, being prone to all kinds of network interruptions, are not well suited for running Zookeeper ensembles with decent uptime.

Disclaimer: I have never tried or used Apache Pulsar, and just examining its documentation after spotting this thread.
Honestly, despite your facetiousness, this is the best starting point. And then from here work up to more complex solutions if there are reasons why rhis simple one isn’t suitable
That’s a great point that often makes an otherwise genuine “how can I help” look/feel empty unnecessarily.

An important thing we can actually do to help is think about what we can do to help and not wait to be told that. It’s hard, especially when your team grows, but it’s where you earn your team’s trust the most.
Is there still a market for kids with cash and no debit/credit card?
Just to make it clear that im not blaming you, just that your post reminded me of the exact trap things like ChromeOS are.

They are platforms that put Google strategic plans first and the user in the background.

If they teach (and phones are teaching this) that is ok/normal to have everything in the cloud and not stored locally, we are doomed in the long term if we dont fight this trend.

You are a tech-savy person that can use Gallium instead, but you are a minority and the normal person who bought a Chromium OS wont understand why you got into the trouble in the first place.

If we forget and ditch the culture that came with GNU/Linux, personal computers will be akins to TV's and big tech corps will have absolute control over our lives.

Anyway, your post just reminded me about this trend. Not saying that you are directly involved in it, just to make it clear, but is a possible scary outcome if this thing get out of control.
If you haven't read the chapter of 12factor on logging I highly recommend it https://www.12factor.net/logs

This is coming from an ops person, do that and I'll be happy. Essentially the goal is to externalize all your log routing to stdout, then wrap tooling around your application to route it wherever you want it to go. It's geared toward heroku but same rules apply in docker land and more traditional VM environments.

We either send logs ECS -> Cloudwatch for our AWS stuff or docker swarm -> fluentd -> s3 for an onsite appliance (also anything syslog ends up in Sumologic through a collector we host in the environment). From there the logs get consumed by our SIEM (in our case Sumologic, which is a great service). We keep logs hot for 90 days and ship archives back to s3 for a year. Set up the lifecycle management stuff, keeping log files forever is not only a waste but can actively hurt you if they ever get exposed in a breach.

I highly recommend formatting your logs JSON (even if you have to do it by hand like in Apache). If you do that and go to Splunk, Sumologic, or ELK all your fields will be populated either automatically or with a single filter. Saves writing or buying your own and if you add a field there's no action for you to take.

nginx/apache default logging is complete trash. Look at the variables they expose, there's a lot of stuff in there you'll want to add to the log format to make your life loads easier. I have a format I use I'd be willing to send you if you want it.

I don't recommend logstash (the L in ELK), ever (except maybe if you're java across the board). It's way too damn heavy to run on a workload host, fluentd is much lighter (and not java, why would I deploy java for a system tool ever?). Maybe as a network collector you throw syslog at but that would be it.

For your use case Sumologics free service would be great. You can get I think up to 200m a day with a weeks retention for free and you'll get exposed to what an SIEM can do for you (ingestion rate and retention period are typically how hosted solutions are billed, you'll need email with any non-free email domain to get a free account from them). IMO you have to get to some fairly insane log rates for me to ever recommend running ELK stack yourself, it has way too much care and feeding if you want to run it correctly with good security.
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I don't understand. Cash and other liquid assets are not typically used as collateral for a loan. Etherium is a crypto-currency, right? I.e. it's liquid? Collateral is almost always something like a house, or shares in a business. If you already have liquid assets in the amount you're borrowing, why are you taking a loan and paying interest as opposed to just using those liquid assets?
This isn't government we're talking about here, this is a company that has every incentive to do their best to make money from the games they release.

I agree about the GOP though.
The author (Audrey Watters) is a truly great journalist, and her work provides a candid — and harsh, if needed — look at the education world. She's a must-read for anyone working in edtech.

EDIT: I found her work on the incestuous world of edtech funding and media (e.g., EdSurge) to be especially illuminating. Because she is not an edtech founder, she was able to point out these relationships/issues without worrying that she was going to anger VCs on whom she might someday seek funding.
Seems much easier and accurate to have the supervisors install an app on their mobile phones that checks whether the phones move (and thus being carried by a person) via accelerometer and whether they are on the factory floor via wi-fi/bluetooth beacons and reports to a central server.

In general, it's much better to not use machine learning at all if at all possible.
Thanks for this. I was wondering about this exact thing. Any idea about the the current transactions/second with finality of the BTC or ETH? What is expected from the new methods?
I had a UTI at 4pm on a Friday, used their app to do the virtual appointment thing, and literally was home with antibiotics at 5:30.
Doesn't do anything for my watch though, and can you make calls on those? I thought they were data only?
Best guess is Electronic Medical Record... I had to google it.

https://healthit.ahrq.gov/key-topics/electronic-medical-reco...
I agree, the thin font is annoying, I have no problems with vision. But for some reason it's also ridiculously big, I had to turn my browser's zoom to 67% because it was hard to read that big, Skeleton's defaults are much better. Interestingly Medium and a few other rare sites have the same problem, I think web devs have forgot that people might have 5:4 aspect ratios.
It's perfectly fine to critique without contributing. You'll also notice this:

> I can’t open issues myself because I’ve been banned from the V issue tracker, or I would have already.

Also this from their previous article on V:

> I hope this feedback can help make V a productive tool for programming. It’s a shame it seems to have been hyped so much for comparatively so little as a result. The developer has been hyping and selling this language like it’s the new sliced bread. It is not. This is a very alpha product. I bet you could use it for productive development as is if you really stuck your head into it, but as it stands I recommend against using it for anything.
While I understand I only met a small fraction of the people trying to "disrupt" education, my experience with Ed-Tech was that the absolute wrong people were behind it.

I interviewed at Coursera in 2012, and much of the interview focused on my academic background. Every round I'd sit down with an interviewer and they'd look at my transcript and say, "hmm what happened here!?" as they would point to my C+, the only grade that was below a B on an overall 3.7GPA history. Every one of them had a Stanford-or-similar background. The juxtaposition of cliche-academics telling me they were disrupting academia was really something to behold.
"It looks like a new thermostat." - my girlfriend when I showed it to her.

I'm the perfect customer for this phone (had a Nokia 3310 3g recently) but this is perhaps a little too minimal for even me. Still looking for a replacement for my iPhone SE someday.
> I do assume that any bank in this industry is already required by law to keep a record of all transactions, and that it's all digitally processed and stored.

This is true, but it's not necessarily organized in a straightforward way, and standards can differ from organization to organization despite everyone attempting to follow GAAP. This is why entire firms exist to audit large corporations.

> You'd have to hire an auditor to verify the blockchain software too, and even on the ongoing basis, to audit the infrastructure to make sure it hasn't been improperly modified.

Not necessarily. Each transaction on the blockchain is cryptographically signed, so all you would need to audit for each transaction is that the claimed signatures verify. It's not possible, even through a bug, to forge a signature if you don't hold the private key.
I cringe when I see obese American (and often British) children in a huge car being driven to school etc, and all of us breathing their fumes.

There's potentially more damage from that, to society.
> In Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, though, they frequently burned the dead person’s heart, sometimes inhaling the smoke as a cure.

That sounds like an attempt at vaccination, but grounded in woo. Some of the heart-burning described predates the invention of the first vaccination in 1796 (although inoculation was known to the West by the early 1700s). How did wrong methods come so close to a real preventative protocol?
ITT? This isn't Reddit. Of course people are going to talk about missing features.

If the point is to be reachable by a loved one in an emergency and nothing else, I can think of a hundred other options that don't cost $350. I think that's what you meant.
"Membership revenue accounted for 19% and 20% of our net revenue during the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018, respectively, and 20% and 19% for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2019, respectively."
<fanboy>Looking at Flutter vs React Native, the only comparison of interest for, perhaps most of us, Flutter for the win! Lower dev resources and way lower cpu usage. Dart is lovely, the docs are great, wide array of great UI widgets, and easy animation. As for hot reloading, well, you just have to experience the difference.</fanboy>
Are you against private banks being able to create money when they make loans? If so, why?
If you sell the Ether, you no longer have the Ether. If while you're holding the loan the price of Ether goes up, you benefit from that. Of course, if the price of Ether goes down, you're at risk of having your loan liquidated, but that's a requirement imposed by the system to maintain the Dai peg.
I'm surprised that kmart is still around. And staples too, but to a lesser degree.
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This'd be one instance of said interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM
Something to look at is the classic image processing algorithms that can be effective and more importantly behave predictably.

In your example, take a film of the factory floor when it is empty, then once work begins use a approximately human sized/shaped rectangular sliding window and look for areas that exceed a threshold of difference to the image of the empty floor.

You can then use that window as input to a classifier which will be easier due to the considerable dimension reduction or perhaps you can get sufficient performance using further deterministic techniques.
If you’re a small startup, just like we are doing at ours [1], you want to share as much code as possible between your web and mobile apps, and also backend, so sadly due to Dart, I don’t see us anywhere in the future using Flutter.

[1] https://standups.io
> (who can skim important messages that come in, but needs not respond at length).

iWatch + Airpods + dictation, my friend. It is amazing.

If only the apple watch could play audiobooks (on Audible) and music (on Spotify) without a phone nearby, it would be the perfect minimalist phone. Alas until that happens I have to continue to lug my phone around when sportsing.

You can download books to the Audible watch app but I've never gotten it to work. The connection just isn't stable enough.

The new WatchOS supposedly enables the API that Apple Music has been using to stream via LTE (from what I've heard), but it smells like Spotify has decided it's no longer worth the bother.
Very interesting article on earnest and very well done. The author seems to argue that there is a bond like investment instrument that SaaS are starting to become. The S curve the author talks about is a continuum in my limited observation. There are companies at EVERY ONE OF THOSE points i.e. in the past as well as in the future there are commodity companies. It is not clear to me why he target SaaS to be that.
Is that still a thing to build a market around?
I would argue that the predominant reason to choose One Medical for primary care would be the value added services included with the $199/yr fee.
Whatever is happening at Fry's, it's not the normal retail circling the drain. Toys R Us had more inventory on shelves a week into their final clearance sales than Fry's in Fountain Valley did a couple days before Christmas.

If it were trying to make things work, they should be consolidating stores to reduce operating costs. But they're just in some sort of holding pattern. I saw a rumor on a Fry's employee forum that one of the brothers Fry was going through a personal bankruptcy and that was disrupting the corporation's credit, which seems plausible, but hasn't been reported anywhere legitimate, so I dunno.
Insurance is the second-cheapest way for physicians to be paid. People who can afford higher quality care regularly go to physicians who charge far more.
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