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This is the same model that Uber at large is following with the taxi service. The underlying premise is that if Uber can just get a monopoly they’ll finally stop losing a billion dollars every month.

I doubt that Uber will be allowed to monopolize this industry. And if they did, I doubt that customers would be willing to pay the premium.

I doubt the validity of the food delivery model anywhere but the most dense urban areas. And in those areas competition is fierce and regulators are quick to pounce.

Just because Amazon lost money for a decade doesn’t mean every single company will follow that same trajectory.
While the spec allowed for outrageous settings playback wouldn't have been possible. Most hardware decoders were meant for (or derived from) VCD playback. The VCD spec covered CIF video which mean QVGA would fall into the supported macroblock rate for hardware decoders.

In MPEG-1's heyday there would haven't been a lot of point in encoding presets producing content common hardware decoders couldn't handle.

There were several other video codecs in the same era that didn't have hardware decode requirements. Cinepak was widely used and could be readily played on a 68030, 486, and even CD-ROM game consoles. As I recall Cinepak encoders had more knobs and dials since the output didn't need to hit a hardware decoder limitation.
Don't get me wrong; I expect Go to be far more performant than Python. Just, they're both garbage-collected, and I have no reason to expect GC perf (specifically) to differ.
https://egbg.home.xs4all.nl/counterscript.html has a decent resource on how to handle these kinds of calls (if you choose to engage at all). One should really have a printout ready to use at all times.
walmart is a completely shit company to have around. It would be far better for society to have UBI than to prop up Walmart. Walmart can’t even pay most of the employees a living wage or any kind of insurance while simultaneously pocketing billions and billions in “profit” annually.
> As a member of the public, I have never been asked where I want my electricity to come from, so my interest has little bearing on what actually gets built.

Really? Here in the UK every energy supplier offers a "green tariff" (usually at a slightly higher rate) where a proportion (or all) of the energy is derived from green sources. There's some shenanigans with trading of certificates which means it's not quite as straight forward as that, but still I believe this does end up subsidising green energy.
I'm curious about this is well. I imagine it must be huge to handle the scale of the grid!
I have not run Java on iPhone (that I know of). Do you know if it will pass the App Store review?
IMO there’s a general pattern in which the remaining independent, expert-driven institutions simply have to pick up the slack left by America’s increasingly populist and dysfunctional elected government. This isn’t necessarily a good or sustainable strategy since it only makes the populists more motivated to mess around with those institutions. But it works.

The FED’s chartered goals are “maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates.” For decades, economists have been dubious about maximum employment being a useful or productive goal for monetary policy, but it remains a goal nonetheless. Even though they aren’t bailing out Wal-Mart with this deal, you could argue that even if they were, the employment clause of their charter would justify it.
Most doesn't just have to refer to absolute quantity, it can also refer to a relative measure. Either way, it's a shit load of dead people, not sure what your point is.
The most basic solution. People age 70+ keep paper books of hand written names and phone numbers next to their home POTS phone. Have them write down the "password" next to your name in the book.
I've seen the video of the guy opening his faucet and lighting it up but I read somewhere that that was found to be biogenic, and that that kind of thing is actually really rare with fracking. Not an expert in this though so I could be wrong.

Coal pollutes lots of water though so it seems hard to beat. Certainly fracking causes more fracking waste than coal, but I believe the overall environmental impact is less across the board.
Direct payments to consumers is a 100% loss on those funds. Buying Walmart (or other corporate debt) means the Fed gets the money back when those firms pay down that debt. So very very different.
I'll have to chew on it for a while. I would imagine, not being a scholar in it, that the UDHR applies more stringently to government action and use of force, rather than to a group of people without use of force or detainment.

Your definition of "mob", "attack" both would need examples. In a real world analogy: If someone on my street waves a Nazi flag and says God hates Fags, and our entire community were to shun him, refuse to interact with him, or at times, warn others of his beliefs - do you believe that is a violation of his fundamental human rights? That no person can be shunned or disliked for their beliefs?
Pick 'n place are usually only XYZ fixed-envelope cartesian systems with additional part rotation about one axis. Sometimes the XY is replaced with dual rotary units (SCARA), or XYZ are replaced with delta systems. See https://www.valin.com/resources/articles/five-types-of-indus... for a good overview here. Plugging in cables requires fine and reliable gripping at two ends plus additional degrees of freedom, and a clear path through a more complex motion envelope for access. This generally necessitates a move to arms, which come with additional issues (play at extreme positions, repeatability constraints, higher cost, power and space requirements, non-square envelope, slower motion, etc.) Having two of these work together on a flexible part means very fiddly parallel control of two systems with these drawbacks. Basically it's expensive because good end effectors cost a lot, parallel control exceeds conventional industrial requirements, industrial control systems are purposefully non-standardized, sensors have to be added in an application-specific manner and subsystems prototyped as requirements are identified, and experienced talent is hard to find.
Consumers don’t subsidize the revenue of even a 30% of existing industries. If the payments were made to individuals then all of the companies that have Walmart as a customer would go down along with Walmart.
I first got into computers in the mid 90s. Back then, clock speeds were doubling about every 2 years. Combined with architecture improvements with each CPU generation, it really meant that computers were almost completely obsolete in less than 5 years, as new hardware would literally be over 4 times faster in all applications. So with this in mind, I find it puzzling that you'd think 8 year old hardware should still run today's software and algorithms.

But FWIW, H.266 isn't going to be in any sort of wide use for a few years. Buy something that supports H.265 and you'll probably be good for at least 5 years.
I find pretty much everything the Fed does alarming.
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> If that were true, AMP would be consistently faster.

It is. AMP results load instantly for me.

> you would find it educational to learn about the issues with detecting user intent, reliably prefetching dependencies, and the relatively small / frequently purged caches on mobile browsers.

And you might find it educational to learn why AMP doesn't rely on these things. There are no dependencies that need to be fetched for the initial render.

This idea isn't surprising. Multiple other systems use the same ideas, including Apple News, many RSS readers, and Facebook Instant Articles. AMP just does it in a way that isn't anti-competitive (like the former) and allows for multiple monetization schemes and rich formatting (unlike RSS).

> if you are using Google search results, they correctly guess what you’re going to tap on before you do and your browser fully preloads it, it _might_ be faster to run all of that JavaScript before anything is allowed to load and render

AMP doesn't rely on fully prerendering the page, only the portion above the fold, which it can calculate because the link aggregator page knows the display size, and the elements allowed in AMP are required to report their dimensions. This allows multiple pages to be prerendered.

> because it disables standard browser behavior,

What standard browser behavior does it disable?
They haven't expected cheap debt from the government. Large corporations routinely cary debt to finance short term cashflow needs. Right now Walmart has about 60B worth. The FED, as part of a large program of corporate debt purchases, has bought a grand total of about 9 million dollars worth of this. That's .015%.

Whatever gave you the idea that Walmart had this expectation is wrong.
It's the opposite of that.
I wouldn’t worry about those ones at least.

I read through the claims of the US patents, and they’re essentially describing “turn the arrow keys into a joystick”. US8717202B1 explicitly limits the mechanism to a light-and-mirror sort of arrangement (thus, optical switches). US8922399B2 is a broadening of the former patent, removing that limitation (which weakens it a lot because it’s not describing a concrete implementation but an abstract idea), and thus I think it would be claiming other forms of analogue switches (e.g. magnetic) too. Either way, there are a number of products on the market that, if would be infringing these patents (unless their manufacturers licensed the patents).

Besides all this, I don’t believe individuals need to worry about patents if they’re doing things for themselves only.

But beyond that, I would be quite happy to ignore the Aimpad patents because the concept was not novel, and prior art exists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEwDImE0DU4 was in 2012 and I haven’t gone searching any further. Taking the broader ’399: the project in that video is, I believe (I haven’t watched much of it, more just read a few comments about it and skimmed it), prior art for claims 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, and maybe others. For the rest, claim 2 is a supremely obvious extension of claim 1. Claim 4 is obvious and shouldn’t be patentable anyway. Claim 7 is… “what? how else could you possibly do it?”, viz. obvious. Claim 8 is obvious (as in, if such noise is a problem, of course you’re going to do this, it’s been a standard technique on input devices for many, many years). Claim 9 is stupid (“slap the rest of the keyboard on it”). I think there’s a good chance you could get the patents cancelled (that is, without waiting to be sued and getting a court to rule) if you wanted.

(Although I wrote a fair bit of detail here, I’m in no way expert on patents. I’ve just picked up a few things over the years from public news and reading, when related things have interested me. Do not trust my conclusions here to reflect how USPTO, courts, or any other relevant bodies will look on things.)
This wins the day. How do I jam multiple instruments?
> Or switch them to Linux. For browsing/mail it's perfect.

My dad switched to Xubuntu a few years ago and has been singing praise of it ever since. It's a pretty straight forward desktop environment that isn't prone to frequent radical changes like some other DEs. I think it's an ideal DE for somebody with basic browsing/mail requirements.
Cool video, thanks. :)
Letting the yields go up means that it becomes more difficult for companies to borrow money during a period of economic stress. This would mean those companies are at greater financial risk. Which is the exact opposite of the Fed's goal.
This has become so absolutely stupid at this point. I can even maybe understand this for future admissions. But from the messaging it looks like they want to deport students who came after a valid visa process. This is just absurd.

I hope unis do a hybrid thing like CMU, otherwise it is a lot of pain for students who are already here.
> No taxpayer money is being loaned out here

That doesn't mean there isn't an opportunity cost to providing liquidity through buying up bonds versus other socially productive forms of spending. Just because we have a magic money tree, why does that mean Walmart should be the beneficiary?
How do you think all of coming wind and solar will be balanced on the grid? Today and for the foreseeable future, that's what natural gas is going to do. Batteries have come down in cost, but natural gas is far, far cheaper than grid scale batteries.

Also, to put one of the quotes in perspective, the vast majority of Ontario Power Generation's assets are hydro. The two ways you balance the grid currently are natural gas and hydro. Hydro is fantastic, but it's really, really hard to build new hydro.
I would argue that _none_ of the articles about “hiring is broken” and “interviews are broken” actually help with this problem.

There is near-universal consensus that technical hiring is atrocious and yet very few people putting forth possible solutions and/or companies willing to experiment with the status quo.

My ideas are:
* Real-world interview questions
* Standardized testing for "soft" skills. It can be done.
* Dedicated onboarding resources
* Apprenticeships for entry-level engineers with dedicated training programs
* Remove all names from all inbound job applications
* Offer _more_ money for internal referrals. Make them on par with what you'd pay a recruiter.
Its not that people are dumb, they usually target the elderly. Senility is a real thing that can happen to anyone no matter how smart they were when they were young.
You certainly try harder than most!

Plus, most of these companies are in B2B commodities industries where purchasing is the margin driver, not sales. So I wouldn't worry too much about whether the Nylon 6,6 in your yoga pants was made in an Invista facility... your purchasing decision just wouldn't matter that much.
The nocheck thing confused the hell out of me.

As I understand it: the issue isn't the nocheck; it's where the OCSPSigning EKU is. You're supposed to see OCSPSigning on end-entity (CA:NO) certificates; the purpose of the EKU is to delegate a non-CA cert the authority to revoke certificates for its parents. When you see that EKU on a CA:TRUE cert, what you're really seeing expressed is that CA's parent delegating OCSP for the root; ie, the CA is granting its customer the right to control revocation for the whole CA.

What nocheck expresses is: "you can't trust this OCSP Delegated Responder to revoke itself, because that's silly; seek confidence in its validity elsewhere". "Elsewhere" apparently usually means "the fact that this certificate has a very short lifetime", which is feasible for an end-entity cert but not so much for a CA.

My understanding is that nocheck (or, lack of it) is how Ryan spotted these certificates, but isn't really the big problem with them.
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It varies by state, see for example https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-cases-testing-growth-62d62...

Looking at only the US numbers hides some of the picture. For example, there's this chart from about a month ago showing that only looking at US numbers without breaking them down can be misleading: https://www.axios.com/us-coronavirus-new-cases-second-wave-n...
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> Some in the Silicon Valley set turned their sights on the Times after Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist who ran the philosophy blog SlateStarCodex, deleted the entire blog because he said the Times was going to "dox" him by publishing his real name in an upcoming story. (It is worth noting that Alexander has republished SlateStarCodex blogs in books using his full name.) This event resurfaced an ongoing and tedious discussion among venture capitalist types about journalism ethics, business models, and publishing incentives.

I didn't know that. Is it true? What's the name of Alexander's book?
I agree with this thread. There really isn't a diminishing return. I'd even argue that the return gets even better. Beyond the point where your basic needs/expenses are covered, every extra $N reduces the amount of time I need to continue working before retiring, and my goal is to retire as quickly as possible. So there's really no upper limit where I could say "more money doesn't help". If you offered me like $500K more for a year to work 16 hour days, sacrifice my mental health, family life, and social connections, I'd do it because that probably cuts 10 years off my retirement date. What an amazing trade: temporary pain for an extra decade.
There's no way that buying corporate debt could ever be more efficient than direct cash payments to those employees. This is a bad argument.
Then you have to deal with the fact that you get a bunch of developers not liking the default implementation that was given to them and complain that they can’t write their own. Everyone starts screaming “walled garden!” and that they’re held back from making ad revenue in someway shape or form.
Some of this has been targeted at recent-immigrant ethnic communities from places where government corruption is endemic. From the point of view of the person being scammed, it actually is plausible that some person working for the IRS is demanding payment via a sketchy method.
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I’ve been very happy with a dell premier wireless (717 not the 616 or whatever) scissor keyboard and mouse combo purchased 3 years ago. I don’t care for the mouse at all (don’t use it). I like the key feel much better than HPs offering that I have also used.
With Azul, it's basically the same puzzle every time, and you're dealing with the particular order in which things are available. Sagrada's goals and special moves switch out every game, which makes each game its own puzzle. This adds a lot of replay value for me, though there's also a lot of random variance in the puzzle difficulty: sometimes it's a very easy puzzle and everyone gets near-perfect points, and sometimes it's deliciously difficult.
gap years, if done responsibly as you say (not in front of the tv), can be extremely life enriching. i'd highly suggest spending some time abroad. getting out of your "only lived at home, now in college" bubble can expose you to other things when you're still young and impressionable while being open to new things.
Huh—that is interesting!
I don't recall saying its OK to use slurs against the mentally ill either.
If He returns, then He is who He said He is - the Son of God. And you're going to try to fight Him with audio engineering? That's, um, not the wisest possible response...
The laws and very fundamental structure of this nation is designed to protect wealthy property owners and disenfranchise the working poor.
Why does Walmart have so much debt?
The Electric Universe is a much different, much more wide-reaching bit of crackpottery than this.
I'm first transcoding the Java code into Objective-C code with a Java to Objective-C transcoder that I wrote for fun. Google has their own Java To Objective-C transcoder, though I've never used it.
I do not know, but my guess is that it is related to the cabin layout.

Each airline typically orders a quite specific arrangement of classes and seats which almost surely are unique to an airline.

As to why Air India? Maybe he found a detailed 3D model of their chairs and cabin layout? Or maybe their cabin layout is particularly easy to model?

Sorry for the drivel, just felt the urge to share my speculation.
Seconding this. Literally 99% of what many old people need to do with a computer can be accomplished with xubuntu/xfce desktop environment (which is now a traditionally comfortable GUI similar to windows 98/2000), and inside a browser like Firefox. Install ublock origin and a few other common sense plugins.
It's worth noting that the scoping of names in C language is designed to be solvable in one pass: you can't use a function before it's declared. Most newer languages instead require a full pass to discover all the available names, to allow functions to not require a separate declaration before all uses.
When you have a team of designers who can't agree on which image to put on the frontpage, the dreaded carousel is frequently the result. The more bitter their disagreement, the shorter the timeout on the slideshow.
Can you please not make up bullshit arguments? The size of a reactor has virtually no impact on thermal efficiency, especially not if we're comparing large (100MW) to very large (1GW). Even if there was a direct connection, a few percent difference (something like 33% vs. 36%) is not increasing the waste problem (which is not a problem to begin with) "substantially".
NPO is the public broadcaster umbrella organization. It could very roughly be compared to e.g. BBC, with the big caveat that NPO itself does not create any content. Instead, its member broadcasters do. That's a relic of the Dutch pillarized system. NPO is funded both through taxes, and through advertisements. STER is the organization that handles the latter, and indeed it is a public body.
iOS 14 offers exactly this feature.
It boggles my mind too. I've conducted a fair number of interviews both phone and in-person, and I don't think I've ever encountered anyone remotely that bad.

I work in a non-tech company (bank), so I assume the general caliber of candidates is quite lower than what a bonafide Silicon Valley style tech company would see.

Would the typical candidate I interview be able to pass a DS&A leetcode medium or hard, getting the superoptimal solution on the first try within <40 minutes? Probably not. Maybe most of them wouldn't be able to do so on a harder leetcode easy problem either.

But most are still able to code up an acceptable solution to a more "realistic" in-person coding exercise we give them.
Sure, but they do subsidize Walmart. As for other sectors, we should take national ownership in the company if they want us to buy their debt.
1. It's not a flu virus. (Some coronaviruses cause colds; none are influenza.)

2. It's entirely possible any number of coronaviruses in the last few million years have been eliminated from humans via herd immunity. The faster the spread, the more likely herd immunity.
from the article :

Just a few humans were present to deal with a handful of tasks -- two to feed bare motherboards to the line, and two to package the finished consoles.
This study from 2014 details the interaction of Zinc and HCQ. This isn't new knowledge but it is being used as a political cudgel. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/

A study at NYU study showed a 44% reduction in death rate for patients treated with HCQ and ZINC. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.02.20080036v... A recent study in Michigan at Henry Ford Health System showed a significant cut in death rate using HCQ . https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study

Some doctors are able to put 2+2 together, Zinc kills the virus, HCQ helps Zinc into the cell and they are saving lives with this treatment. Other doctors hate Orangeman so much they would rather see people die than give any sort of credit to Orangeman. When this becomes clear to the American people that 44% of those lost to this disease could have been spared, there will be a revolution.

This is the only trial in the US that has a chance of completing a study of HCQ+Zinc. Unfortunately, it is not being fast-tracked while people are dying. Call you representative and demand that this trial be fast-tracked before big pharma and the Orangeman haters destroy it.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04370782
Walmart is the largest grocery store in the country. Just giving out UBI and collapsing Walmart, without some sort of replacement would make things even worse for people living on the edge of food deserts.
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The fed gets the money it loaned to wallmart back, it doesn't get the money back from consumers.