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I empathize 100% with your frustration. I went through the wringer to get my first medical and have watched a lot of students go through this. It sucks, and there’s no good reason for it to.
` ...after General Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga during the Revolutionary War...a young nobleman...declared that the surrender would be “the ruin of the nation.” To which Adam Smith reportedly responded, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” '
I don't think this means you shouldn't say no. It just means that you need to understand how to decide what to say no to. If your boss is the one who decides your performance, and they would rather you dropped everything to help others than do what you're "supposed" to be doing, then you need to say no to what you're "supposed" to be doing.

There is a bigger picture version of "saying no" in play here as well, though: is a company where your boss doesn't even seem to care about what you're "supposed" to be doing one that you want to work at? Will it make the best use of your talents?
I remember those days. Around 2010, i waited 2 hours to download VLC from my dialup setup.
Average download speed was 3.6kbps and download size was 18 mb i guess.
I’m reminded of a long bet made a number of years ago between Joseph Romm and Greg Blencoe that 1% of car sales in the US would be Hydrogen Fuel cell vehicles by 2015.
I’d done a report on this in college and completely forgot about it, probably because hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are near impossible to find on the consumer market.

So Blencoe lost the bet and paid Romm the $1000 and wore a T-shirt. He posted a very short post to his blog saying it happened. [1]

What’s most interesting to me is that the blog has since disappeared. At the time these things seemed like such a big deal, but a few years on and it just vanished. It’s like the bet never took place and the advocacy for Hydrogen wasn’t a big deal. It was kind of shocking to me how ephemeral it is, in spite of “nothing ever disappearing from the internet”

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160911231646/http://www.h2carb...
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> Generally I feel the echo chamber effect would be more common

almost certainly is
At first pass it seems a little odd that they are specifically naming Google and Facebook but not the "Media" that they are supposed to negotiate with. Sounds like the government is trying to avoid having every blog and website be caught up in needing to pay to provide the link.
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...so that's why it's called VideoLAN/VLC. I've always thought it was an odd name for a media player.
The median wage gives you a picture that is closer to the real value than just anecdotes. For most people on Earth, there has been a great increase in living standards. It just so happens that much of it took place outside of the West.
Wanting to have a discussion about important topics with loved ones isn't an instant trip down selfishness lane.

Are you sure?

I don’t know. It helped me to view it as “yes, this is selfish. They’re more important to me than the topic.”

The reason they’re talking is to feel good with themselves (as we all are). But asking someone to explain a tricky subject throws that off, doesn’t it?

Another way to phrase it: why care so much what they think? If they don’t explain themselves, then they probably don’t care whether you agree.

To reframe the question a bit, what do you feel you would get out of it if they explained their belief structure to you? (Explain your belief about this, ha.)
I don't mean to be flippant (maybe I do) but these robots have been filmed doing parlor tricks for 20 years now. They've been through multiple owners that failed to find a market for them including Softbank and Google. Is there a real application that they will be cost effective for? Jumping rope isn't it.
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GME – Are retail traders proping up the market?
So, the media has boosting that it is retail traders who are pushing up GME.

But, if we look at the September 2020 snapshot of the instituition holders of GME, we can see that GME is ridiculously held majority by big instituitions:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/holders?p=GME

Compare this to Tesla:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/holders?p=TSLA

How are retails traders going to build the GME wall if institutions were the primary holders in September? I am feeling that this whole thing is almost a scam by big institutions.

But, I guess we will know when the institution holders are updated for December 2020 and March 2021…

Thoughts?

Originally from my post:

https://yaohong-kok.medium.com/gme-are-retail-traders-really-proping-up-the-market-b71e89c029df
>2 hours till the JVM C2 compiler is able to fully optimize

That's really hard to believe claim with the request throughput you have.
There are a few metric compatible fonts used by stuff like pdf. and so on. I believe an alias for these fonts are needed. Obviously add an emoji and UI font. that will be the best
I know many of you will disagree, but for those that are interested in meeting to discuss the first amendment, lets hang out and see what we can do about bringing back normal
Murdoch is 90yo this year. I find it hard to believe that he wants to line his pockets. He has more money than he can ever spend.

Google is a worldwide monopoly. No one has any chance of negotiating with them. Even a country as it turns out without them threatening complete pull out.

I see this as strong leadership standing up to monopolies.

I would prefer the free market to sort it out honestly but what chance does anyone have against them.
Note that this was published on 1/5/2021, the day before the coup attempt.
Can you share some articles or studies that demonstrate the increasing openness? (I hope it’s true that it cuts both ways, but would like to see more data/research).
Most people won't have to "get over" latency because they're not used to or sensitive to low latency in the first place. I'm not saying their eyes aren't good enough or something, but the fact is that a majority of them either can't or won't spend on gear necessary for the performance you're claiming. Steam's own hardware survey indicates that the most basic, cheap monitors are the norm with 1080p or lower being the most common resolution; refresh rate isn't explicitly shown but I'd be surprised if 120+hz is even above single digits of marketshare. Many gamers don't even play on PCs, they play on consoles running games as low as 30fps with cheap TVs that often don't have "Game Mode" turned on which alone can eliminate more than 8ms of latency.

Tactical shooters and MOBAs are still immensely popular despite the fact that most consumers likely experience a fairly high level of latency. People play games like Fortnite because they're fun, not because they're so competitive & fast paced that 8ms of latency makes a difference. Even competitive games nowadays try to soften the direct correlation between player skill and wins using matchmaking and RNG mechanics so everyone gets a reasonably consistent rate of winning. Want to play a really competitive and fast paced game where 8ms probably does matter? Play Quake Live against the 100 or so people that still tolerate that level of competition.
I think the advice is more like "build a circle of good, like-minded friends." A hobby group can help with that. There is no quick fix.
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Woh... Sorry to hear that. How does a small stroke manifest?
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So when the water evaporates you get salt precipitates all over the wick, and more and more over time?
Imagine the money they'd save!
I recommend gamers nexus as well. It’s mainly YouTube content but they do very in-depth benchmarking and some innovative visualization on how uniform the cooling surfaces of a certain cooler are and things like that
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You're going to move your stove to your bedroom and leave it on while you sleep?

You're paying $20 to $30 for safety auto-shutoff features so that you can leave these things on all night long, and not have to worry about fumes, fire, or a myriad of other issues.

Yeah, its basically equivalent to a pot of boiling water + a stove. But... being able to move it to the locations you need (and safety features to boot) is the big advantage.
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per capita, sure. Another way to think about it is this capsule is flying what, twice a year? One 777 will do 2 trips in 24 hrs, 365 days a year. Then add up the thousands of planes doing that a day. I'd be worried if we ALL had a reason (and the means) to take frivolous space flights. Which may come some day out of all this, who knows anymore!?!
> I bet you US$1,000 that in the year 2020, we're not even close to...a global currency collapse

Why would anyone take this bet? If you're right, then $1000 USD probably won't be worth very much after the "global currency collapse", so you'd basically be saying "I'll give you $1000 in 2020 if it's worth anything"
I need to play around more with clj-org-analyzer, but thanks for making it! It was great to visualize time tracking over a long period of time last I used it.
$100MM on memes? I wouldn't give you my strategy but my returns are easily 100% per and higher. It's not meme stocks, but my data came up for GME a few days ago at $57 and then again today to buy shares. I don't like the signal at all but have to follow the system so it can learn or teach me.

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> And if you seek treatment as an adult you likely already tried everything,

I think the mistake in your line of thinking lies here. Why do you think is the case? Could you not imagine a person who tries medication first before anything else?
There are plenty of people having real experiences today. In absolute numbers, there are probably more of them than in the period you describe, since the population has ballooned. The life you want is out there.

Plus you are ignoring all the bad parts. Don't want to be a stay at home wife and be bored out of your mind? Too bad. Wrong tone or sexual preference? Whoops. Don't want to get black lung or mind numbing-factory work? Better luck next time.

There is a selection bias at work. Only notable people are portrayed in media, for the most part. But the past is filled with atrociously empty and broken lives.
Well, wouldn't it be irresponsible to do otherwise?

Tesla's stated mission it to accelerate the adoption of electric cars. So basically every $ they get should be put into R&D making the cars better and increasing the volume of cars they can produce. So basically they should keep the profits around zero and pour all profits into R&D or expansion.
Wicks are a consumable item, whether in swamp coolers, humidifiers, candles or lamps.
Always, if used correctly. i.e. = in other words, e.g. = for example. Surely, as a native English speaker, you can see the huge difference? One is definitive, the other is presenting one or more examples.
They spend a lot of time tearing down others but not really giving us any reason why they were so supposedly superior. Just came off as an arrogant whiny rant.
I'm with you. I've had CarPlay and Android Auto in my past 3 cars, and could not be bothered to use them. I'de much rather just use built in navigation, stereo and local media. Involving my phone is just frustrating. Gerneralization, but for model years 2017 to present I've enjoyed Volkswagen's system the most. Chrysler's was not bad either. Ford's was terrible.
Somewhat unrelated - I tried both adderall and ritalin. While these certainly help with my attention/focus issues, I often get a weird side-effect - it makes me sleepy. My doc is completely puzzled by it. Nor I see much of such mentions in internet. I wonder if any1 else here had such effect from stimulants? (it is not lack of sleep - I get 7+ hours at night and occasional hour during the day).
I went ahead and ordered them later that day. I had seen the custom options, but since I don't have a 3D printer/have awful eyesight, I wasn't sure it was worth the hassle of trial and error/poor fitting lenses. I am under the assumption that they will not have an effect on the visual quality, but I can update you if you are interested. I never tried the DK1/2, I've only really put time into the Vive and Index.

I think it would be neat if Valve made it so you can more easily pop the lenses in and out, allowing you to pick what you need prescription wise (and in your case fresnel vs non-fresnel). I am unsure how well that would work, since the focal distance between headsets could change.
> Take regular breaks from the medication.

I'm not sure this is universally necessary. When my pre-adolescent son forgets to take his medication in the morning it's immediately obvious, so it's clearly still having pronounced effect. He's been on the same dosage of the medication continuously for five years.
In looking at the data for pot usage in CO around legalization, the data is mixed. Teen usage rates of pot went down after legalization, while adult usage rates went up. The 2020 data is not yet out from what I could see. Like with all drugs, potentiation will alter the dosage rates of individuals, so data on weight of drug sold needs to be calibrated over time. Though pot and heroin are vastly different drugs in terms of effect and addiction, the pot legalization effects provide some guidance on usage among those that can purchase it legally. Per what little data I could see, it does seems that legalization increases use of the drug. As to what that does towards safety and health, I've no clue and would love it if another HNer could enlighten us.

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It's not unlike when you had to buy a copy of Adobe Flash to create flash applets. But much cheaper.

There are open-source fantasy consoles like TIC-80 that try to scratch the same itch, but PICO-8 has the biggest community of people creating things with it.
The fact they threaten to pull out because they are going to make a small decrease in profits speaks volumes of their bullying tactics. It’s clearly a case of: we don’t want to set a precedent in other countries.
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I hasn’t been an issue, but I am careful to not overdo it. I have overdone it once with a cool mist humidifier, and it was definitely noticeably uncomfortable. I replaced the water quite quickly.
Tesla's progress is painting a target on themselves. Just about ever stock owner in any other car brand is asking the CEO/Board things like "How are we going to compete with Tesla?" and "How quickly can we electrify our product line?"
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Let's be honest here about our youths (or current lives): if we weren't consuming media compressed by hand tuned, artisanal release groups, things probably wouldn't be as hard.

To use a firearms metaphor -- when you're looking for the performance optimizations of wildcat rounds, don't expect to be able to buy at Walmart.
I think it's a language thing, were they are indeed more productive if they use their native languages at work. It's a tough situation because there's already regulation against enforcing a language in the workplace.
Hmmm, I totally agree there are local cultural food grammars. And I love trying some of the things that stick outI would not have thought of like the fruit in whipped cream sandwiches (yum) or the hamburger served as a steak (also yum).

But some of the things in the articles are like???

> TO an Italian, and they may question why pasta and meat are being served together.

Pasta and meat together are common in Italy.

https://www.google.it/search?q=ricetta+pasta+carne&source=ln...

> In China, explains Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, rice is served after the main and before the soup

Never heard of this. I'm Chinese. Spent lots of time in China. Never once had this experience.

> shokupan, a Japanese white bread that’s even sweeter and softer than American Wonder Bread

shokupan is not sweeter and softer than wonder bread. It is delicious though!
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I learned vlc makes it really easy to get videos onto my ipad over wifi. Truly a lifesaver. Donated to them straight away. Extremely useful and effective.
The value prop for Stadia is console-class gaming without hardware. Most devices where Stadia is able to run could run a port of a decade-old PC game. Similarly, most Steam games that could run unmodified on Stadia's custom server hardware (running Linux, not Windows) would be games that don't tax the hardware. Maybe that's a better service than what Google rolled out? (GeForce Now seems to be doing better than Stadia, anecdotally.) But it's not what Stadia is, and if they wanted some more recent console-class games, Valve as either a storefront or a game developer was not going to help them much. They would still have to deal with getting Ubisoft/EA/Activision/whoever to do the ports.
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A few random very curious and potentially-rhetorical questions:

- what was the situation around the shutdown? Was the whole thing knowingly on life support and just waiting for the right excuse, or...?

- was the shutdown effectively coincidental, in the sense of "ok everyone's making a scene about $random_thing, kill it" (where $random_thing just happened to be what the internet interpreted as a data leak)

- did the data get purged from the very last backup, or does it still get used to finetune improve AI models etc?

- does G+ still exist in its original form anymore? Trying to visit https://plus.google.com/apps/activities still works, but only in the form of Google Currents, and visiting via an old Google Apps (yep :D) account that's somehow still eking along (for how long???) also works, but that's Currents too. It looks/feels just about identical to G+ though (https://imgur.com/a/rqvF03t).

Is it being used for education or something?
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Paedophile spelling is used about Guy Babcock in all the posts ???? This is the british word and spelling. Perhaps the internet post were made in England .
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Hello HN,

I built an online service that prints PDFs through ClickSend. It also sends fax.

I stopped owning a printer years ago because it bothered me seeing it on the desk. The thought I might run out of ink scratches my OCD bad enough that I don't print stuff.

This is one of the top five unsolved problems I had over the past decade+. I drove to Kinko's soo many times to print stuff, brought the USB with the ext3 filesystem and had to drive back to reformat to vfat, or forgot the name of the file I uploaded on my webserver. Now I live in NYC. When my local print guy shut down, the next closest one is 15 mins away of walking in the freezing cold to print a flight itinerary.

I used Staples.com for a while for prints (small fonts in their UI but it works) until they jacked up their prices. I had put in (quite) a few orders with them for 1-2 pages, paid ~$1 each, and had the pages shipped in boxes! Once I asked them to ship to a PO BOX (some insurance form I had to send) and a very nice lady from Staples left me 3 voicemails to tell me they couldn't do it.

Meanwhile I was using hellofax.com. Asking me to get an account and plan for a 4 page fax was annoying. I'm not a business. I'm a consumer. Without a printer or a fax.

I want to reduce the prices and initially built this over Lob until I learned Lob always adds barcode watermarks on their prints. Lob can't print and mail a blank page. It targets businesses.

Then no search engine got the site indexed. Posting on HN triggered the filters. So 0 users. Got a bit bored, so I lurked on /r/pdf to get ideas and started writing scripts for people to do some of the weird things they wanted done. This turned into the LLVM of pdfs for consumers. Yesterday I saw fax has more hits on Google Trends than mail, so added that.

Love to get your feedback.

edit: Today I learned hellofax was bought for $230m. Is there some ratio of business/consumer to estimate how big a consumer market could be?
Your statements are extreme. There may be some subcultures and bits of society that behave like this, but it is far from universal. Please take a break from your current forums/podcasts/youtube/etc.
Ironically hydrogen is having a renaissance as we speak