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> If a big player such as Ford decided to commit to e-bike development - and it seems likely that this will happen - we can expect to see the pace of innovation shift up a gear.

I could see the car companies getting into the eBike market. The biggest reason Segway failed was because it made you look goofy, not entirely for functional reasons.

I just bought an eBike and I'm convinced it's going to be a massive market going forward.

It's the perfect urban mobility option. No insurance required and no license, you can mount heavy high-end locks, cellphone, LCD, and other attachments/baggage without worrying too much about weight because the pedal assist is always available.

Most importantly it doesn't make you look goofy or less 'manly' like the traditional European scooters do (this is just a popular cultural phenomenon that does exists here in North America, not one I'm supporting, but is very important). And the benefits of going pure electric don't need to be mentioned.

Right now the only barrier is price and the designs have a long way to go. The eBike companies are finally finding a way to blend the battery into the bikes. So it fits a normal road bike style, not just the lower seat one.

As lithium batteries get cheaper and better designers/manufacturers hit the market it could be huge.
Ha. Though if you're seeing a persistent difference over time, thousands and millions of evictions, your luck is already so immaculately bad that you should expect the power to go out every time you try to run a program.
Or you could install hackintosh on whatever hardware you already have, or run macOS in a VM.
I think it is trading at a discount currently :o
Yeah, knocking out their backup IRC (or maybe it was the authentication to the backup IRC?) along with everything else was the key.
Thanks for this, this looks really interesting as well.
(Full disclosure: I was in Google AdWords 2008-2010. I did not work on the auction.)

Google's 2nd price auction started in 2003 or so and was a major factor in their success. Don't you think you ought to consider, not why it was bad, but why it lasted so long? Also, what the rationale was for it in the first place?

"Easier to compare with other vendors"?? Seriously? You were a small player, I assume, which hardly describes Google.
Linux supports a larger number of architectures than NT ever did, but NT was originally implemented on a non-x86 processor to insure portability. The MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, and IA64 ports of NT are all dead, but they were all supported in the past. The speed that Microsoft brought up NT on ARM illustrates the portability too.
I am ignorant in this topic, but why do americans seem to drink soda( pop as they call in cinema) excessively ? I live in India and flavoured soda is considered luxury item here. We just drink water with everything, unless its a festive occasion or with alcohol. What makes soda so attractive that US customers consumes it so heavily. The only points I can think of is the cheap price and concentrated sugar which is found to be addictive.
Thank you for your answer. Found a similar explanation in[1].

But my question is not really about: should humans eating meat? I know we eat meat(in general). I know it made us who we are, and we are all gonna die.

My question is rather. It is a question people ask, and the answer from our modernday oracles is honestly bullshit.

So who to ask? Yes Google Scholar used to pop up. It does not any more. I/we have to know.

And honestly again I no longer really trust any of Googles/abc's products.

So let me try to rephrase.

Where would normal people like my self seek information, without knowing the correct lingo in advance?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16990
Gearboxes are seeing a little bit of usage on Mountain Bikes, this is largely around moving weight to the 'sprung' part of the bike to improve suspension performance and also protection/maintenance advantages
They still have resistance/efficiency and cost disadvantage though
https://pinion.eu/en/
homeboy.storage $550.18 /year
homeboy.storage $999.99 for the first year

Ha ha ha! Crazy price. Second one is godaddy.
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I don't see the CBC saying that. I see them quoting someone they interviewed as saying that. Can you pinpoint where the CBC themselves take such a stance?
What is master level to you?
No, it's the trend because it claims to make everything simple while pushing all of the burden back onto the customer. Did I say the quiet part?
The black label Coke Zero uses aspartame instead of saccharine, is strongly carbonated, and has a noticeable caffeine bite. Sorta similar to Barq's root beer, which is less flavorful than A&W and other competitors but has caffeine and was marketed with "Barq's has bite."

The newer version tastes a lot more like regular coke, but to get that flavor, it seems that it is meant to be poured over ice.
All the communication is initiated on the Django side and it's either HTTP and tasks queued in Redis depending on whether it needs to be synchronous. It adds a little extra complexity but it's also nice being able to stop and start services without bringing the whole system down.
Leaked US spy plane footage shows ‘rubber duck shaped UFO flying at 200mph’
Let's not conflate the question about the independence of Poland's constitutional court (on which I would agree with you) with the question of whether international agreements can or should override national constitutions.
Hospitals consider universal DNR orders for coronavirus patients (2020)
People will eventually abandon FB and WA if you ask me, the accelerant to that is their friends leaving and no longer logging in over time, and also the authentication eco-system slowly disconnecting from the platform.

Like Friendster, ClubHouse, and MySpace, there is a life cycle for every app. All the redisign and rebranding can't cure a good idea that has festered into a bad idea.

Facebook's tenure has been long indeed, but it's best time has likely passed.

Many people also don't realize the tactics that platforms use to try to uphold the illusion that they are still active, including paying influencers to post, and in even creating totally fake accounts. I won't say any names, but this is why most sites no longer publish their active user numbers like they did when they were growing, because many were caught as well back then in overstating their active user numbers.
Thanks, I didn't know that was an even older version version of the same claim. I imagine that's one of the reasons for the developers being tired of the same (incorrect in their view) claims.

The only remaining issue with Palemoon for me is webrtc (which is selectively disabled). For those that value stability (especially on Windows) that's no bad thing (personally, I'm not a fan of being forced to use a specific browser to access some sites). It's like the IE6 days.
Yeah but this isn't a choice unless the developer allows for it (and if they do, they can use price discrimination to force users to their preferred platform -- which on each of the game stores, this price discrimination exists today). Lots of developers make their product EXCLUSIVE to a platform and then you don't have any choice but to abide by sometimes a scummier platform's rules.

Apple has undoubtedly made managing payments in their mobile ecosystem easier for the end user to understand. It definitely limits some of the choices for developers, but given what I have seen and experience in the massive failure that is Epic's game store, I think it is not something most consumers will benefit from.
I don’t think the $1.5k option is unlimited or forever. I thought that only gets you the code and one year of support, no?
Comments like this are a weird form of semantic catnip nerd sniping that unproductively derails the discussion. "We should ban tall buildings." "Oh yeah? Well define exactly how tall a tall building is." Clearly there's a thing as an ad, because it's a common word everyone understands. If your point is that it would be hard to pin down the part of that that's actionable, well of course. It's always hard to get regulations right.
Trust me, it's not only the U.S.

Source: I'm from Germany
Well I guess this seems to be quite unlawful and it reflects the true moto and intension of this evil aimed company, which just want to play with its users mentally and psychologically. This should not have happened , we have evolved our generation to come up to this?? What a petty!!
There is such a thing as forgiveness.

In Buddhism there is a form of meditation called "metta", sometimes translated as "loving-kindness" meditation. The way I've been taught to do it is to wish sincerely to yourself, "May I be happy, may I be healthy, may I be safe." Then bring one's attention to those one most loves and think, "May they be happy, may they be healthy, may they be safe." Then repeat that for the people around you, then your neighbors, then your town or city, your country, then the world. The most advanced form of the practice is to sincerely wish this for one's enemies and people one most dislikes or hates.

In Buddhism it is often taught that hatred and ill will towards others is a poison that hurts oneself. It is more constructive and healthy to forgive and move on, rather than fixate or seek vengeance.

In many other traditions also, forgiveness is greatly valued.

In the article, the author writes:

"There are many things we can live without. Self-respect is not one of them. One would think the absence of self-respect would resemble much of a sameness, but the circumstances that can make people feel bereft of it are as variable as persons themselves. A psychiatrist who interviewed a group of men imprisoned for murder and other violent crimes asked each of them why he had done it. In almost all cases the answer was "He dissed me.""

I wonder if the outcome would have been different had these people been taught the value of forgiveness and how to detach and let go from their negative thoughts, rather being in environments where lashing out in violence is modeled as the norm for how one reacts when faced with humiliation.

Also, obviously most people don't react to humiliation with violence. There is something unusual going on with the minority that do, and I wish the article had explored that.
There's also some evidence that artificial sweeteners affect the composition of the gut microbiome [1], which could be more influential (over the long term) than the taste/insulin theory. See also: evidence that different sweeteners have different impact on gut bacteria, which could make it easier to test which effect is more significant.

[1] e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6363527/
Cloud sync of plugins/tabs. Pocket, filesharing between devices, their VPN nobody uses, Firefox monitor integration, earlier updates (i.e. you can still get the latest build by building from source, but prebuilt libraries first get supplied to Firefox pro),...
Basically all the stuff they have acquired over the years, with few users but large support requirements.
These are just the ideas I came up with in the spot
With an external derailleur, I could train you how to change out the gear set on your bike. Sure you might need to wait for a special wrench or two to arrive in the mail, and futzing with chains has gotten harder every time we added another gear in the rear, but you can do the math and decide if it's cheaper for you to take it to a mechanic. Personally I think people change their minds over time about what the correct gears are for them, so if you do it once, you'll probably do it at least twice.

And some people buy extra cassettes so they can change it up on a whim (based on where they're riding and with whom) in a matter of minutes. Being able to change your mind is the primary advantage of being able to do it yourself.

You can't change gear ratios on a Rohloff yourself, under any conditions, and the damned thing is part of your wheel so there's no swapping them either. Wheels have always been the hardest part of a bike to assemble properly, and the next two are headsets and bottom brackets. Simplified bottom brackets designs stopped being specialty hardware over 20 years ago, and headsets 10 years ago, so the wheel is now by far the most technical part. And you just welded your gear ratio choices to your wheel.

The downside of front and back chain rings was that you often didn't have 2 times Y gears, because there were overlaps, and if you or your bike manufacturer were not careful, sometimes exact overlaps. Having a 95:1 and a 96:1 ratio is useful when you are struggling to keep up with the guy in front of you and you need just a tiny bit lower gear, but you have to do a double gear change to accomplish that, and in the old days especially you might miss, so there was a non-zero chance that instead of keeping up by downshifting, instead he drops you while you swear at your derailleurs. Plus to even know that you practically had to print out your gear ratios and stick them on the neck of your handlebars (and I knew people who did) because if you're that tired, you aren't doing gear ratios in your head or from memory. Two 48:1 gears are just wasted much of the time, even despite this failure mode.

The Rohloff at least is going to be 14 gears, all unique and all sorted so you just need one click to spin faster or slower, so that is probably about as useful as 16 gears. 18 is a stretch, but I could see an argument, so 14 is probably 'enough' for most people (though I bet they'd sell more at 15).

But if you switch from rides on mostly flat terrain to hilly terrain and back, you're gonna need two rear wheels. And if you're on a trip you'll have to bring both if you're not sure, instead of throwing a wrench and a second cassette into your luggage. And if you're on a cycling tour you can't really bring two wheels, so going plains to mountains means compromising.
No dice

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/q3ffy6/are_peop...
Try drinking tea, caffeinated or decaffeinated. I'm not sure why, but brewing tea has helped me stave off many such addictions.
Good on you for recognizing it as an emergency and responding appropriately.
Yes that’s right.
ApplePay doesn’t have a 30% cut on transactions, no bank in world would touch them if that were the case.
So does your country provide phones that also serves as payment solutions or is it still plastic cards? Or are you suggesting everyone should get a free ride on Apple?
Especially when, according to the article, they make threats over texts and social media.
as a gnu libc person, i wholeheartedly hope for your failure
On obtuse ways*

Autocorrect

But anyhow, IMF and World Bank are both themselves integral creations of BrettonWoods to ensure global USD supremacy, so to claim that reporting on the damage of externalized global warming is itself a "Chinese disinfo operation" is..... Quite the reach, not even two years ago we had the IMF work with the coup government of Bolivia to set up onerous loans to the country at disparate interest rates to quite literally shackle them into the infamous IMF debt cycle, so it can't even be argued that IMF is to this day an hegemonic institution
Yes, how could I ever make a hook without three failed print attempts thrown in the trash first which will last millennia. If only there was some endlessly-recyclable material like steel or biodegradable material like wood which could be used.
When is meta-humor too much?
This does bring up the general question of who is sensitive or insensitive to humiliation.

I am reminded of something Michael O. Church wrote a few years ago [0] in connection with agile/scrum and the issue of intense observation of an employee's work process:

"Another topic coming to mind here is status sensitivity. Programmers love to make-believe that they’ve transcended a few million years of primate evolution related to social status, but the fact is: social status matters, and you’re not “political” if you acknowledge the fact. Older people, women, racial minorities, and people with disabilities tend to be status sensitive in the workplace, because it’s a matter of survival for them. Constant surveillance into one’s work indicates a lack of trust and low social status, and the most status-sensitive people (even if they’re the best workers) are the first ones to decline when surveillance ramps up. If they feel like they aren’t trusted (and what else is communicated by a culture that expects every item of work to be justified?) then they lose motivation quickly.

Agile and especially Scrum exploit the nothing-to-hide fallacy. Unless you’re a “low performer” (witch hunt, anyone?) you shouldn’t mind a daily status meeting, right? The only people who would object to justifying their work in terms of short-term business value are the “slackers” who want to steal from the company, correct? Well, no. Obviously not.

The violent transparency culture is designed for the most status-insensitive people: young, usually white or Asian, privileged, never-disabled males who haven’t been tested, challenged, or burned yet at work. It’s for people who think that HR and management are a waste of time and that people should just “suck it up” when demeaned or insulted."

[0] https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-an...
I see them useful for winter biking in the city, where corrosion and dirt is the biggest problem.
When Chromebooks came out, Google made schools a major target for those devices. Looks like it worked.

And meanwhile, the 'directory structure' of Google docs remains one of the worst I've seen. Haven't opened a document in 6 months? Good luck finding it without using the search bar.
Excessive soda consumption? That's me! But I drink the sugar free versions.

I guess because it is cheap (~$1 for 2 litres), sweet, and fizzy.
This is not actually an unpopular opinion but one that many players (including former world champions like Gary Kasparov) have voiced as well.
Not parent, but I'm not afraid that people would prefer alternative app stores, I'm afraid that developers will hang shady incentives and dark patterns into getting users to prefer them...

Look at the "choice" we got when Epic opened up their own game launcher/store. It created all these awful exclusives on those platforms and ultimately people still picked the terrible Epic experience (buggy launcher, crashes, etc.) just to get those games. That isn't consumer choice... that is developer choice by incentive/price discrimination/exclusivity.
They’re likely earning ~40-70k so the shift isn’t very significant

The real question is: are they changing the deadlines? Studio already suffer from crunch and all the meetings you had on Friday are now spread throughout the week
>But that's not the case, there simply are not enough employees right now.

Anecdotally a few of my neighbors have quit their minimum wage jobs for higher paying ones. There are enough employees at those wages. I know two people who have quit the job market and are living with their employed SOs/parents. Raise wages and people will sign up.[0]

[0]: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

The number of persons not in the labor force who currently want a job declined by 835,000 in August to 5.7 million but remains higher than the level in February 2020 (5.0 million). These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the last 4 weeks or were unavailable to take a job. (See table A-1.)

I had a big argument with my friend who runs a small sales agency and complaining that he was not finding any sales people for minimum/commission wages. He was losing them to agencies that were paying a $15/hourly and was arguing with me that $15 was too much when you included commissions. SMH. Funny how "market rates" only work one way.
My buddy thinks this is a real ufo because he is unfamiliar with any battery tech that can do this. I'm not surprised at all.

Thoughts?
Yes they do. If users like the app store more than competing stores companies will be faced with the choice of putting their app on the app store or losing customers to competitors that put their copycat app on the app store.
https://www.irrlichtproject.de/houston/

Houstontracker 2 is a surprisingly powerful music software for TI calculators which accomplishes its magic by bit-banging the serial data port to produce stereo audio!
You can do this with HAL too:

IBM
HAL
GZK
FYJ
EXI
DWH
CVG
BUF
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I think more people would be more satisfied with their iPhone if Apple introduced a form of "Enter your Pin number to install $APP_NAME from $APP_REPOSITORY" system. That way, users would know outright that they're not getting software directly from Apple, and are forced to authenticate in order to confirm they want it.

Then both sides win: you get to have your perfectly secure iPhone, and I get to have a device that actually does the things I want it to.
I am not of the persuasion that a for-profit corporation can maintain a standard. A standard in my mind is an industry-wide effort to create an open, low baseline and barrier of entry without proprietariness. Even if 90% of bikes have a Bosch motor, that's not a standard if it's not open.
I'm pretty sure because Apple is doing full-stack optimization. I'm willing to bet you that Safari has a worse trade-off than Chromium or Firefox on non-Apple platforms.
R, RStudio, and Shiny are great for prototyping, but you'd regret building a production data science ecosystem around them. Better to start with Python and rely on JavaScript viz tools in the end.
This is all happening in Q4 at https://www.q2.com/, of course.
everyone points to a "hunger response" or something similar with non nutritive sweeteners and then these effects don't materialize in actual outcomes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13020

"Grouping by nature of comparator revealed that NNS vs placebo/no intervention and NNS vs water produced no effect."

so like, there's a food craving, and then ???? you don't gain weight. who cares! maybe you eat more in the next meal, and then it's not clear this persists into a real caloric surplus.
Also owned now by a China-based company and closed source
I definitely don't judge an ex-FB applicant for our company for being from FB because there's many reasons someone would want to work there, so I understand, and I'm not willing to play this game of ethics of judging others based on their company names (because I think the world is a very complicated place).

That said, I wouldn't want to work at FB unless I had a significant pay bump, and I'm used to other FAANG offers so make of that what you will. I do think FB will start trying harder to hire. Moreover, how many young engineers do you really think want to work at a company that is constantly under threat of litigation? If I were on an H1B, then threat of litigation is very real threat of my visa being invalidated. People who think FB looks bad on a resume are letting their personal beliefs cloud their view of the world, but conversely people who believe that a company under constant threat of litigation will not have retention issues are equally clouded by their personal beliefs.
That is a convenience function. You can manage pointers to multiple screens yourself if desired. An LVGL "screen" is roughly equivalent to an Android activity. A complex UI may need to switch between multiple screens and it is often easier to just ignore lv_scr_act().