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In relation to the first part of the essay, how smoothly Amazon handles customs, that's not my experience in Brazil. Specifically, Amazon makes one rather large error, they include the shipping costs in the declared customs value, so you end up paying import duties and sales tax on the combined product + shipping, which is just plain wrong. Recently for example I bought a product valued at US$35 and shipping charges were US$25, but I ended up paying duties and sales tax on US$60 instead of US$35. Amazon pre-charged me those duties and tax, and since they declared the package as having a value of US$60 the Brazilian customs happily charged them that amount, so no refund for me.

I've written to cs@amazon.com about it a couple of times and not gotten any reply whatsoever.
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I would take this to mean a replacement for the "original" Facebook feature set, of sharing personal news, stories and photos with a pre-selected list of friends and family.

Many people (myself included) don't _want_ the newer marketplace / open community aspects of Facebook to be mixed into a platform where they share personal updates. If that means I have to give up 100 likes and comments on every baby/puppy picture I post, that seems like an acceptable trade-off to me. If folks want to comment on any of my updates, they can communicate with me in other channels (e-mail, text, real-life). Not for everyone, but it's definitely a market niche that's under-served right now.
Why would I turn my family into a business?
> a well organized and reasonably trustworthy third party who can handle this stuff

You hit the nail on the head. In the US we can trust our third parties. Europe too. But that's not always the case elsewhere.

I am reminded of a friend who told me he wanted to sell some stock held in a bank in his country in Latin America, but the bank refused to process his transaction for a few weeks. By the time he was finally able to sell, the price had fallen greatly. It later turned out that the owner of the bank was selling his own shares during that time.

Blockchain is good for systems where there are few transactions and energy is cheap, but there is no one single trustworthy actor. That's often the case in the third world.

Third world equities exchanges (not places like Brazil and Chile but other countries with very undeveloped financial markets) would benefit from blockchain. There's not much liquidity there and the individual investor ends up getting pushed to the side when the large players want to trade. Even if you have a central clearinghouse and a liquid exchange, corruption is a factor.

I don't pretend to know how best to implement blockchain for electronic exchanges, but I suppose the starting point would be to build a settlement system that has the imprimatur of a coalition of different governments (like Mercosur or Comunidad Andina), hold the shares in trust somewhere, and use the settlement system to process exchange-traded transactions from the constituent countries. Eventually, exchanges don't have to be the origination points of transactions, and you could presumably just get bids and offers directly from other participants over the internet. No guarantees that you are getting the best ones, but that doesn't matter as much for third world markets because the prices are wide and slow-moving anyway.
Nobody's impressed unless someone triples battery density overnight with a radical new chemistry, but lithium-ion energy density has tripled since 2010.

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/19/bloombergnef-lithium-io...

There's a long road between the lab and production, but having all this cool stuff in the lab suggests that the long-term trend can continue for a good while.
Yep, then I agree. I'm not advocating for trying to time the market, or holding cash instead of being on the market.

But selling your position simply does NOT mean you take on "unlimited loss potential". It's simply being outside of the market, which means you're missing out on gains. It's not like selling stock is suddenly the same as shorting the same stock. I think the terminology here is clear-cut and well established.
It's a comprehensive and capable offline office suit, that is also open source.
For a better matching alternative check out ONLYOFFICE's private offering. They have nice online editors, a small free storage and everything is free software.
Hi Karma.
Can the Wikipedia-model be applied to Public Policy-Making?
I want to believe that but "the customers" hate the fake reviews, hate the counterfeit goods... Returning an item now is all over the map — it seems it depends on which 3rd party sold you the item.

Yeah, they're backsliding. They need to get their house in order.
> But I don't see why we can't have both (a stable syscall interface and requiring all syscalls to go through a standard library).

What's the point of having a stable syscall interface when you can require that only libc perform syscalls?
This has always been true. It's just less true now.
Chart most battery metrics over time and you'll see great progress in the past few decades.
To someone who is not interested in math per se but rather in its applications to engineering, category theory, too, has something to offer.
People can build their own smart mirrors for an order of magnitude less cost by going for privacy film instead of real glass.
It’s a shame that education has become so transactional. I was lucky enough to have a scholarship, but if I’m fortunate enough to pay full-ride for my kids when they’re old enough, and they’re at a place where they seem ready to get the most out of it, I’d spend that money in a heartbeat. Not because I think we’d see a dollar value return on the investment, something coldly transactional. But because I was lucky enough to see firsthand the value of that experience.

And it was lucky, because the vast majority of people are under a ton of financial stress for something that hasn’t provided a clear return on investment.

So what I would caution is this: don’t write off college. But also don’t write off the enormous financial burden you may be taking on. If you’re young and have a shot at a scholarship, really consider it! A lot of the negativity around college is financially driven, but the experience of getting a truly rounded education is invaluable. As well as the friendships you make.
I use Feastr and complement it with Captain Cook if I feel like trying something new. Took me about a month to pick out what I liked (I am vegetarian and I try to gain weight) and which dont take too long to prepare.
I definitely spend more time preparing food this way (more than i save from just buying groceries once a week instead of 2-3 times a week)but I see that as the cost of living healthy.
Shouldn't it be easier to explain a general concept than a specific one? The only reason I can think of why this isn't happening is because you need to learn a large amount of information before any of the category theory stuff can be applied in real life. But honestly speaking, that can't be true because languages like Haskell exist and isn't that on the whole programming using category theory? (I am be completely wrong about this).

OTOH it can also be just a pedagogy issue. That nobody has figured out how to condense it into an undergraduate level so working engineers can grasp basics.
Perfect. April fools day isn't that far off folks.
The author is a right-wing political opinion columnist, this is not an unbiased analysis of Florida's response.
Well, those managers are only there for the hype. You need liars apparently. I can name a couple of popular of software projects who went this route, and were successful because of this. But NASA?
Because they trust the exchange who does more than blockchain though. That example seems off.
It's so that it's not classified as gambling.
YouTubers Union Fully Incorporated (OK YouTube, you had it coming)
Texan here. Our county investigates death and marks it as COVID if it follows the stages of it. We have zero deaths under the age of 40. Schools remain open, very few distance learners. We still take precautions, especially around older folks and retirement centers.

But I can say that your speculation, at least over here, has no merit.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist; I work at a COVID testing lab. It is a novel virus, do be careful, don't be afraid.
I honestly am having trouble understanding what you are trying to say here, I think the reason you are encountering so much resistance isn't necessarily because of what you are trying to say, but how you are saying it.
Every type theory gives a categorical logic [0]. Category theory is all about describing the structures which definitely exist around mathematical objects even if we don't acknowledge them very often. This isn't social signalling; I'm not posting under my real name and I'm not trying to get accolades. This is mathematics; we teach it to each other.

[0] https://mikeshulman.github.io/catlog/catlog.pdf
This seems like an oxymoron. What is your definition of a "private" website and what are the technical controls Haven implements that make it so?
Don't know about the comment author, but in consulting huge excels are quite the normal. Especially when dealing with data driven domains such as energy
Krita Warp Tool Hits Warp Speed
Not to be confused with Haven from the Guardian Project: https://guardianproject.github.io/haven/
Mac version of Excel can be frustratingly slow, in my experience. And while multi-threaded computation of column formula, it can also be a real annoyance for small to mid-sized Excel sheets where the performance gain seems to be outweighed by whatever overhead is involved.
I don't think it would work for physically settled commodity futures because contract specifications require a particular quality of product, and that's part of the motivation to trade via an exchange.

But it would work for securities that have no distinguishable attributes from one another, especially if the extant problem with trading those securities is market access.
You have to use a mac to develop for iOS. That's pretty unique.

Compare that to Android where you can develop on a large number of platforms, or the many cross-platform tools that can target Windows, MacOS and Linux. Or embedded platforms like Arduino or FPGA where you can download and install the software on many different computers. Back in the day Infocom developed games like Zork on a PDP-11 and published them to home computers. It's a normal thing in the industry unless you're developing for a monopolist.

Similarly iMessage is sneaky and substitutes for SMS -- my sister-and-law noticed this the other day and was suprised. Thus the system shuns and isolates non-iPhone apple users from their friends and shames and intimidates them to switch.

Android is about as much a real competitor for iOS as MacOS was in the late 1990's when Microsoft bought a stake in Apple to keep Apple alive so the antitrust courts wouldn't tear them apart.

Google doesn't make money on Android, Android phone makers don't make a profit despite selling $2400 phones. The real economic value of Android is that it's an atomic bomb pointed at Apple. If Google decided to end Android the way that they end most platforms, the EU would kick Apple out in a heartbeat. So Apple owes a lot to Google (patronage network style) for keeping an unviable OS alive.
In my country, customs is charged on CIF - Cost, Insurance, Freight, so that's probably the correct treatment. Not sure if that's the case in Brazil.
I'd definitely switch over to a webstore that sold items that were sourced from the manufacturers or their authorized / official distributors. And who could prove it.

Bonus points for getting the manufacturers themselves to link to this company directly from their own websites. Obviously, they'd have to cut a sweet deal for providing the fulfillment services, but for many items, I'd rather pay a slight premium to ensure I'm getting the real thing.
This "average of a list" is a red herring, because in practice one gets some variation of dynamic programming, trees, graphs, etc.

And for these kinds of more complex algorithms problems I would not expect most architects to be able to solve them, since they're utterly irrelevant for their jobs. Heck, a huge amount of software developers can't solve them and bitterly (and at least partly legitimately) complain about them to whoever will listen.
I'm in the same boat. I was put on a hyperledger project last year. The configuration was like 4 maybe 5 certs or private keys. We were using the AWS blockchain stuff and it uses a version that's like a year or two behind. The code, samples, everything felt super enterprise level crazy. I would be super surprised if I hear a company puts Hyperledger into production beyond some silly PR stunt.

TG I'm off that project...
Agreed that clicking via the bar takes getting used to. Actually, agreed that clicking at all takes getting used to.

The ridiculous stability of where the device is, is amazing. I could wish it had a method to self center.
Different Red Hat employee here, that said, this opinion is my own and I have no real authority to say anything beyond my experience. I, in my job, have a lot of contact with IBM folks now for obvious reasons, but I think it's a slow Red washing rather than the other way around. The independence of Red Hat is fiercely defended and is largely respected, even by IBM. I think we all want this to work as it is, rather than make huge changes, especially culturally.
>“They put me in a freight elevator surrounded by steel plates and plywood, with a hard-hat operator,” she said.

Oh no, you had to occupy the same space as a mere commoner? Perish the thought!

>The residents, many of whom live elsewhere most of the year, have splintered into groups.

They don't even live there and they're upset (probably because it's "an investment").

This article inadvertently paints an excellent portrait of how detached and anti-social most rich people are and how their money could be put to so much better use by society through higher taxes. The myth that wealthy people got that way by being clever or smart or hard working needs to go away very soon. These are people who were born on third base and think they hit a triple.
I guess maybe I'm alone then, but I don't hate using Amazon.
That's basically what the word "employ" means in a capitalist economy.
They can, in theory, borrow against the current value of the company. I'm not sure many banks are gonna want to trust that valuation, though.
I think she's using the LaTeX package for Edward Tufte's style:

https://edwardtufte.github.io/

(If you like the design, you'd like Tufte's books.) Anyway, her paper is fun to read and one of the most beautiful papers I've read in terms of layout and design - I like the contrast between the hand-drawn illustrations and the abstract content. It reminds me of Lin Clark's Code Cartoons (https://code-cartoons.com/) .
I don't know, it was the sort of a period when regular people in England where ran over by cavalry for demanding suffrage rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre The whole Europe's elites were busy putting down the post-French Revolution upheaval.
I'm not sure that IBM leadership really understands what direction they want to go. They seem to pivot all-in on a tech sector and then abandon it a few years later. Rinse and repeat. It was AI/Watson, then a cloud platform, now its "hybrid cloud" because they can't compete with the established cloud providers. What will be the all-in bet next week? I also have to mention their strategy of trying to cut their way to prosperity.
$499/month! That seems expensive - is it a big problem when Apple does a lot with App thinning? Big enough of a problem for $499/month?
So you want to be a wizard? by Julia Evans is a nice "zine" of her. https://wizardzines.com/zines/wizard/
Does anyone else find it absolutely hilarious how scared everyone vaguely left of center was about surveillance, tracking, and facial recognition, and then all they had to do to make these things "good" was invent a narrative about how the plucky rebel alliance of "normal people" used these forbidden techniques to defeat the evil bad guys? I am physically in hysterics at this, did these anti-surveillance people ever actually believe any of that crap? Was all that libertarian bullshit ever only ever possible in the absence of a sufficiently strong "bad guy"?
I’m still not exactly optimistic for their chances, but I guess Netflix does show these kinds of tech pivots can work. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Washington Examiner is a rag. Keep that shit off this site.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/media/washington-examiner-fox...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/media/washington-examiner-wor...

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_F._Anschu...
> > We know that "profits go up, prices go down" is too simplistic and/or flawed of a model to talk about the real world because it's not accurately predicting what companies do in the real world.

> Yeah we do. [...] So when you insist on a gross misreading of my theory

Literally two comments earlier:

> This is true and still misses the point that an increase in the cost of inputs results in an increase in costs, resulting in an increase in price.

I'm not the person here arguing that changes in input costs and prices are universally linearly coupled to each other.
Re PlayChoice: yes you are right. Good spot and apologies for that mistake!
The most urgent and pressing thing is democracy and the rule of law, since everything else that I value flows from that. I therefore elevate democracy and the rule of law over everything else, because without those, all else is lost.

If politicians can be coerced with violence, the only politicians left will be corrupt ones, and democracy and the rule of law will be lost. Then regular citizens will no longer have any say over the situation anyway.

If a regular citizen can be coerced with violence, they still have recourse to the polling booth.
Why would it be worth emphasizing in a very home island bound setting which doesn't even address the middle class residents of the isle. Colonialism went on for over a century before and after.

It would be like emphasizing that Edgar Allen Poe married his thirteen year old cousin when discussing his horror influence. Terrible but hardly germane to the topic.
same with Elon talking about video games, he gets excited talking about them after this interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JoTw_JuE78

really, both are highly ambitious nerds who apply systems thinking to the real world.
Narcissism and Leadership in Children
Correct. My rather obvious point was made by implication; I was trying to avoid patronising people unnecessarily.
Word Online is a mess, but the real killer feature of 365 seems to be collaboration within the standard apps. You get the full power of a well-established desktop app with the convenience of someting like G Docs. Add to that the new-ish diff and merge features for the majority of companies that still rely on sending docs back and forth through email and it seems that LibreOffice really has no way of competing in anything but a highly-regulated and locked-down scenario such as some government offices, where MS's fancy features actually pose a security threat (and a project can't survive from just that).
in all these amazon threads over the years, i've never chimed in before, but what the hell, just this once.

i think you can have a better than 50/50 chance of getting a decent item from amazon. you just have to be picky about what you buy from them. for example, i would never buy an apple charging cable from amazon. no matter what the listing says, it is probably going to be a cheap chinese knockoff that might set my house on fire. for that particular case, i'd buy it from apple instead.

about ten years ago, i paid US$1500 for a brand-new sony teevee, from amazon. it has always worked fine, and i am still using it today. (i'm glad i bought it before "smart" teevees that phone home to the mothership became the norm.) my trust in amazon was much higher in those days. really doubt i would ever do that again. for any moderately expensive piece of high tech gear, i'd try to buy it directly from the manufacturer, or from a reseller that specializes in that particular type of thing.

if you limit your amazon purchases to medium-expensive items that are not easily cloned in china, you'll probably be fine. it is kind of a shame that you have to be so cautious, though.

okay, actually, i lied: i wouldn't buy anything at all from amazon these days. they are looking far too much like a monopoly for my tastes, and i do not approve of the way they treat their minimum-wage workers. it has been a struggle, but i recently abandoned my amazon account, created in 1998, and have moved 100 percent of my substantial amount of e-commerce to other sites: chewy.com, target.com, crutchfield.com, b&h photo and video, newegg, ebay, and so on. almost all of them have a substantially worse experience than amazon did, but i am willing to suffer a bit of inconvenience for this particular bit of principle.
So you used a language years ago when it was in its infancy. Have you used it recently?
What would you say pros and cons are compared to yahoo?
This is just an opinion but I'm a big fan of Apple and have been using their machines for a long time. There are just some new conventions that have been introduced alongside hardware that add complexity that I don't think is possible to get right the first time around outside of some pretty minimum functionality. Any time an process needs to be re-thought or redefined, you're basically starting from scratch even if the end results look similar. In the example I gave, Notification Center was something that had to be ported over from iPadOS/iOS (and I'm glad it did as I find it very useful and much more consistent of an experience) but it then needed to be retro-fit to handle applications that weren't originally intended for it. It also needs to deal with notifications in a way that make them consistent so that new users pick up the basics of how it works easily. To me, that's a hard task. I just wish there was a bit more consideration taken towards keeping existing functionality in place, even if it contradicts new paradigms, but that's really a design choice that I just have to disagree with because the alternative is probably better for most people using the machines. If it's not, the analytics will bear that out and they'll change it to the one that I prefer.
Sales from officers have to be scheduled in advance precisely to prevent that kind of behavior.
... when it blows. Backed up by fossil fuels when the wind isn't blowing.
Yes. Many proponents of blockchain speak with glee at how doing so will "cut lawyers out of the process". Lol. In every generation there is someone who thinks they can do away with the legal profession. Lawyers have walked the earth for thousands of years and shall continue to do so for many more.
People are reacting negatively (flagging) to the fact that this is mentioning florida's response to covid-19. Leave that aside and read the rest of the article, it's an interesting point of how florida is attracting top firms and could be a true destination for ambitious people.

(No relation, don't live in florida and do not plan on it)
You still need to seek your passion. Only then can one form an opinion lime yours. It’s possible !
Go made the design decision to encourage checking for errors where they occur instead of catching exceptions somewhere down the line.
How do you "spin" actual financials? They are in fact "haemorrhaging cash". Whether it's a good idea or not is another story.