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> I just checked Live Nation's interactive map and I don't see them having any sort of monopoly. Two venues in Manhattan, two in Miami, etc. Surely those locations have way more venues than that...

I've commented elsewhere in this thread, but no, that's not a complete list. Live Nation owns many more venues than that, and there are even more that it has exclusive contracts with. It has also illegally[0] used its market power to retaliate against independent venues that work with other ticketing systems, forcing them to use Ticketmaster.

It is virtually impossible to be a performing artist with a decent following and go on tour without being subject to Live Nation and Ticketmaster, and everything that follows from that.

[0] as determined by the DoJ
While I generally think Mary's room doesn't prove anything, it's not strictly nonsense as a thought experiment, it only seems like nonsense if you already assume that everything can be described by a physical theory. Then of course vision and feelings and all of our experiences must be physical. The point of Mary's room is to test the plausibility of this assertion.

It seems very implausible to many people that anyone studying physics, biology and anatomy for any length of time in a black and white room would ever truly understand the experience of colour. Or as another example, do you think studying physics for any length of time will yield an understanding of what it's like to ride a thrilling rollercoaster or sky dive? Doesn't it seem somewhat plausible that such descriptions wouldn't be able to capture something about those experiences?

There are a number of possible responses to such challenges. One is to say that experiencing redness is not actually knowledge but an ability, so no amount of factual study will yield competency, only exposure will (like riding a bike).

Another is as you sort of implicitly assert, is that the very question assumes a kind of infinite knowledge, which humans are terrible at reasoning about. Mary would be able to describe what she'd say in response to any question about colour, but she wouldn't actually understand her answers? This is the kind of paradox that hints at a poorly formed question.

There are plenty more, but the point is that there's something interesting being discussed here, and we're not yet sure what it is, so the thought experiment currently only serves to identify what camp you belong to, ie. strict physicalists, or dualists, or epiphenomenalists, etc.
> I really don't wish to belabour the primes vs. ASCII discussion because: it really is but a trivial implementation detail

OK, so we agree.

> What you have just proven is a corollary of that theorem, but actually a weaker result: > Arithmetic truth is not decidable

No. My argument does not depend on the soundness of the system. All it depends on is that the system be able to do arithmetic correctly, so it requires consistency (because it needs to be able to identify e.g. "1+1=3" as false), but not soundness. You can throw in as many additional axioms as you like, including false ones. As long as the false axioms do not destroy the system's ability to correctly do arithmetic the proof holds. And this is true for Godel's proof as well.

[UPDATE] I just realized that what I wrote earlier:

> Note that you essentially get soundness "for free"

is misleading at best, and probably just flat-out wrong. I'm actually not quite sure what I was thinking when I wrote that. It might have been something along the lines of, "The fact that we can build TMs is evidence that the mathematical models of TM's are in some sense 'true'", but this is obviously not on point. So I retract that part of my argument.

[END UPDATE]

> systems of reasoning which are not dependent on our physical world

You cannot have systems of reasoning that are not dependent on our physical world. Reasoning is a physical process conducted by physical systems. Mathematicians are physical systems. Symbols are physical things: patterns of ink on paper, or electrons moving around, or vibrations in a medium. Any claim about a system of reasoning is necessarily a claim about a physical system. Platonic ideals do not actually exist, not even in math.

We can imagine situations where this is not the case, but these are counterfactual. We can think about "systems of reasoning which are not dependent on our physical world" just as we can think about Santa Claus or Darth Vader. We can even make factual claims about them, e.g. "Santa Claus has a beard" or "Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father". Claims about "systems of reasoning which are not dependent on our physical world" have exactly the same ontological status as claims about Santa Claus and Darth Vader.

The reason that we care about "systems of reasoning" at all is that some "systems of reasoning" correspond to physical reality in ways that give us leverage to navigate that reality more effectively. Absent that, the entire enterprise would be a complete waste of time.
YAML: Yet Another Meta-Language.
It's not a what now?
Yes, assuming the rental market has sufficient competition and can take advantage of existing homes. Local rental property monopolies or regulation (either governmental or from private organizations like HOAs) that prevents the excess homes from being rented can cause a rise in rents that is not related to underlying housing prices.
Note the size of those venues. The bigger the artist, the higher probability it is that they can only play at venues larger than a certain size, most of which are owned by Live Nation.
> extra profits generated by dynamic pricing are going to ticketmaster rather than to artists.

Yeah I don’t think that’s true?

My understanding is that even a portion of the “service fee” TM charges also goes to the artists.

One of the most important services that TM provides is they are a scape goat. Artists can charge crazy high prices and TM takes the blame. They’re willing to be the bad guy.
I strongly disagree. Amelio's Macworld 1997 keynote was a legendary failure, just a shocking public show of incompetence. He built zero confidence in anyone joining from NeXT. His book shows a poor understanding of what happened at Apple ("wow, I directed a VP to go write a new modern OS, and they just never did it!?!"). There was no useful depth of vision or insight coming from him or Hancock at the time (my opinion as a lead eng from that time), and it is clear to me that Apple would have continued to spiral into oblivion under their lead (like yahoo).

I'll grant that he did spark the revival by doing the NeXT deal, as Apple did need an acquisition to reboot the software stack.
This! People learn differently - which IMHO schools don't usually account for - but I personally always learned best when putting something to paper (well, preferably the keyboard).

At my university, assignments were primarily used for guided learning - most of the grade came from the exam. If you cheat on the learning, you either don't _need_ to learn to pass the exam (meaning you should have a way to fast track), or you're asking to fail the exam, which hurts no one but yourself.

Maybe it's different in other schools? Cause I don't fully get the "Good." argument based on my experience. YMMV.
For the last 2 years in particular, strategy had nothing to do with it.

In most “active” markets, houses went pending almost immediately, regardless of price. It was fueled by low rates, easy access to capital, and FOMO.
… because they’re probably better thought-out and less fragile?
Yes, but Hans has to prove they knowingly said false statements. The defendants don't have to prove what they said is true.
> Pardon me for being insulted by the insinuation that something that took me 40 years to become as proficient as I am with it can be mastered by everybody else in a few months.

I don't think anyone who claims that "programming can be learned in an afternoon" understands that to mean "programming can be mastered in an afternoon". Mastery comes, in large part, from experience, and there is no shortcut to experience.
Being able to charge with 11kW (level 2 charger) instead of 3.5kW (level 1 charger) allows to charge daily 20kW within 2 hours instead of 6.

Two days ago kWh was at 0.03€ For two hours only, after 0.41€ peaks during the day. Of course this scheduling is automatic. Using Gridio (https://www.gridio.io/) for that.
Maybe, but few people truly want to live in a condo. They're what you settle for unless you're old enough that you can't maintain a yard or regularly partake in outdoor activities anymore.
From what I can tell, using Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing is a choice the artist can make (or the artist's company, or some business entity), and assuming the artist's contract is such that they get a percentage of ticket sales, the ticket price is the dynamically calculated price, so the artist does get more money for a dynamically priced seat.
Knowing Ticketmaster’s past actions, I find it highly likely. But I would appreciate a source too.
That is what I gave you. The “global center” on social issues is that the public, through the government, has the prerogative to regulate personal and social morality. They have the power to regulate abortion, who can get married, what kind of birth control is available, etc., based on social consensus. Even countries that choose to allow certain things, typically do so as an exercise of that prerogative, not as a matter of “individual rights.”
"To compound the family's distress, the neonatal team then failed to properly carry out a vital resuscitation procedure on Harry, struggling for 26 minutes to insert a life support tube."

My son was born 3 months premature 16 years ago. In US hospitals, insertion of vent tubes and other things like this when a baby is first born is handled by specialized technicians. They have a lot of training like nurses do, but they aren't technically nurses. They are called "respiratory technicians". Along with the nurses, they are EXPERTS at doing these procedures on tiny infants. They practice on dummies constantly. I spoke to a few (one of whom saved my son's life) over a period of weeks while my son was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the hospital in North Carolina he was born in.

Just stating this, because something that I learned from British parents is that NHS hospitals, while excelling in providing affordable care for general issues, are lacking in highly trained specialists who can insert a breathing tube in an infant in literally seconds due to having practiced it obsessively for years. NHS NICUs also lag behind American NICUs in having the latest equipment. The tradeoff of course is that American NICUs are orders of magnitude more expensive, and that is a very important point to emphasize.
The MWI does not postulate extra universes, although that pop science description is unfortunately common even though it is wrong. The MWI just says that the one universe that exists is actually very, very different from what we perceive. (To be clear, I'm not saying this correct description makes the MWI any more palatable. I am just clarifying exactly what kind of unpalatableness the MWI requires.)
Oh for sure, I am on a team that's been working on the same app for a decade now, which is soon to be retired. It's done hundreds of mil in business, but soon all those years of time we put into it will disappear. If we'd just met up every day in a field and piled rocks up, after 10yr we'd have a huge stone wall (no millions, though).
I'm not to worried about convergence of the models that use prior training data. Eventually the models won't work and people will notice, and either create new training data or go back to only using older data to train. Also there will always be people who "want to do it the old way" and will still create new art and new writing, which will seed the training data.

As for normalizing the quirks of the output -- maybe? But would that be so bad? Language changes all the time, it's constantly mutated by influencers (not the Instagram kind, but the ones that have existed for centuries). Look at how British English is literally called "The Queen's English" because it actually shifted to how the Queen spoke, since she ruled for so long and was very influential to that society.

Also it should be noted that some news articles, especially in finance, have been written by computers for over a decade now, and not a lot of people seem to have noticed.
The problem with that 20MM number is that it's in large part the result of registrars auto-signing names (especially in Europe). There's 2 issues with that:

1. The overwhelming majority of those names are meaningless, just as it doesn't change anything about Internet security if I do or don't sign the "paulgra-ham.com" domain I bought on Hover years ago when I was drunk.

2. Registrar signatures are more or less security theater, because those customers aren't even controlling their own keys.

The total adoption of DNSSEC in commercial zones is between 1-4% right now, right?
If interest rates are up then you want a comparably higher yield (ie rent as % of purchase price) on the property (otherwise you could just earn interest on the money directly) and so that’s either a lower sale price or a higher rent. The rents you take in will mostly be determined by the market and it likely wouldn’t be a good investment to buy a house to rent it if market rents suggest you’d make a lower yield than buying similarly risky bonds.

It’s a bit of a different story if you’re just buying the property on the expectation that its value will go up better than other assets. There are reasons to expect that might happen (old people typically own more property and vote more than young people and they tend to care a lot about the value of their property going down so governments often have policies to try to ‘help people buy homes’ which allow people to afford higher prices which helps to keep the prices high) but it does seem that something has to give eventually (and eg it seems like there has been a bit of a change in Californian housing policy recently).

Generally I would expect an institutional investor to be more sensitive to things like interest rates and price when making purchasing decisions than a potential owner-occupier who has to live somewhere and may be more sentimental about certain things investors don’t care about.
There are tax incentives for doing R&D so everything that could remotely fall in that category is classified as such. There are even consultants that specialize in turning course-of-business development into R&D
Yes, I think it's the same thing. It happens several times in a conversation. What intrigued me was how the translation intensifies the gratitude when read in the British context.

Same way that when an American acknowledges my thanks with a "sure" it seems, from my perspective, to be downplayed.
That will certainly make it easier to get rid of the bots.
This changed over 20 years ago, GPS no longer has artificial limitations for accuracy.

You can't get commercial GPS receivers licenced unless you restrict the altitude and speed they operate at, but a dedicated self-built receiver technically doesn't need to have these restrictions. There are SDR+software projects that do this, which could technically be used for ICBM guidance with no restrictions.
Better alternative to Adderall.
'Touch it once' method for tasks can boost productivity
At least from my experience being a student in the US, we kind of do that, but it is separate. I had quiet a few assignments where I had to give a presentation of some kind. Where we mess up with this, it usually works out that kids make power points full of information and just read off the slides. Of course, this practice isn't exclusive to students, I've seen many presentations in academia, my time in the military, at technical talks, etc that do just this, read off a power point.
Fantastic stuff in here! Can't wait to try some of the things that already work... And see the ones that are coming!
- Drive through taxidermy

- Car washes

- condoms

- oil
Florida isn’t even a legal recreational state (lawyers made sure that ballot got kicked off) so this is still only for medical.
But now I'm on a wide screen and want the lower two containers side-by-side with the top element spanning across the top. You can't do that with tables.

And that request will come.
Everybody understands economics.
Everybody pretends not to when it's in their benefit.
Florida is why this is news. East coast legal states just don't have the same attitude so far. Dispensaries on the east coast are typically quite limited on where they can operate.
They are massively more resistant to jamming. The antennas are very good at rejecting signals that are coming from the wrong direction, that is, not from above.
I took "just read/write from S3" to mean that they didn't interact with any other AWS services apart from S3. Such that they didn't care where in the world it ran.

Not that they didn't do anything memory intensive.
So true. And San Francisco is a prime example. A recent post (of many) highlighting this:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6988177...
And then a lot of them will take out a mortgage to payoff the loan against the stock after the house is purchased.

Cash buying is one of those terms people don't understand. You're almost never getting a suitcase of 100's.
Yes.

- you use an actual programming language (which you're likely to already know) instead of desperately figuring out how to simulate a for loop in yaml or to replace a part of a string, or whatnot

- you have all Python static analysis tools at your disposal. mypy/pylint etc can make your deploys less error prone

- you can easily implement a custom DSL in python, so deploys ends up more declarative and with less copy pasting

- it's easy to implement custom arbitrary operations (since you're working in python) -- and again you can reuse variables, etc instead of having to use some weird templating or pass them in command line
Can you not mitm the CA's dns lookups for http, tls-alpn challenges and make them sign the certificates for you? How does letsencrypt prevent this? Do they check with multiple resolvers around the world?
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> At a disadvantage for what?

I'm sure you enjoy being contrarian, but I also suspect you know precisely what I meant.

In the short-term, yeah, what's the big deal? But in the long-term, this devalues the courses and the degrees.

It's not in the long-term interest of the universities to behave this way because the course they offer are, ostensibly, a way of determining who understands the material and who doesn't.
Reminds me of phone trees with a robotic voice telling to to press 1 for X, 2 for Y etc. When Google announced their automated phone tree handling, I thought, it's just two robots talking to each other over an imperfect medium, human language. Why not just connect the two systems together via API or something?
Yes, they check with multiple resolvers around the world.
It's hard to overstate how bloated Apple was internally.

Marketing had products for every conceivable niche. Engineering was all posturing: great hand-waving plans papered over nasty middle-management infighting. Hundreds of engineers in new glass-walled offices, producing plans. I wrote test code against a component that had been delivered months earlier only to find that it was just a stub. Even the debugger had bugs. Everyone knew it was a mess, but went along with it, fatalistically thinking that any OS-level project would be that messy.

I went across the street to JavaSoft: small teams cranking out code that would last forever. Swing was built in a year. Signs on the offices not to disturb the programmers. ~1,000 classes in 1.1, ~10K in 1.2 the next year. One main engineering manager hired a bunch of kids out of college. The JDK tech lead, Mark Reinhold, is still at the helm today.

Night and day; it was like going from the Soviet Union to the U.S.

When considering a new job, I almost don't care about technology. Engineering culture makes all the difference.
You're right, and this is the thing that's frustrating about the conversations here--I guess I'm not surprised that this is an audience that doesn't get it. A lot of music acts, even popular ones, were broke as hell for a long time. It is reasonable and, I think, actively laudable to want folks who are not of the Patagonia-jacket class to be able to see them live for a reasonable price.

There is a point where decent people can go "y'know, I make enough money" and not seek to squeeze out every ounce of blood from that stone; those same decent people can find it objectionable that other people attempt to do so on top of it. Not everything must be profit-maximized. Sometimes things like "bringing joy" might actually be more valuable.

And even if you are a meat-variant paperclip maximizer, there's obvious value into getting people who do not make onewheel-through-San-Francisco money into your music or your art. The people who currently make that money are usually older and will eventually age out. I still go see certain 90's bands every time they roll through in no small part because I saw them as a kid and I think they're fun.
A franchise is very comforting. All of those consistent, comfortable minimum standards constantly checked by employees from checklists; the excellent insurance; the ability to speak to someone in charge when something goes wrong and get a nearly instant reply... comforting. When I stay in them, I don't even have to wonder if I'm raising residential rents in the area (although I'm certainly raising commercial ones.)
Those aren't the true aristocracy.
See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support . The laptops are very usable as a daily driver on Linux already, but not 100% is supported and depending on your specific requirements some of the missing hardware support might be a deal breaker. You can very much run a normal Linux desktop with a working UI, that's been working for months, it just doesn't have hardware rendering acceleration (but the CPU is fast enough to make this tolerable).
The MTP protocol is terrible for transferring a large number of big files (hangs and crashes a lot), and there's no way to reliably resume interrupted transfers.
I dont blame Copland on Amelio, like the product was moribund before he got there, he had the sense to realize it was moribund, hire someone to verify that and then to cancel it and go find something else.
And in last (calendar) year, the rocketing stock market makes the audience of this forum able to just buy houses out right with cash
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Hey all. My team is building population health and operational quality measures reporting for healthcare providers in medically underserved areas.

We want to map data into the FHIR data standard, because we find that it can be quite useful for very descriptive organization of data.

Has anyone worked in the area of determining the appropriate terminologies/codesets to map to? How do ya'll manage conducting descriptive analytics over data fields where multiple terminology sets may be in-use to describe the same concept?
>You mean a hotel? Hotels are not inadequate for longer stays. If someone desires the comforts of a home, they can move there and actually rent/buy a home.

What about a middle ground. If I go somewhere for 2-4 weeks? For that length of time I kind of want a proper kitchen, which I won't get in a hotel, but obviously it is not long enough to actually rent/buy a home.
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The problem with a hotel is that you have less space to relax and you can't cook for yourself. You might be able to get one with a small kitchen but they will probably be >$100 and likely not as featurefull as the ones you get in an Airbnb.

I prefer to have my own kitchen if I'm staying for more than a few days as I don't like eating out all of the time.
It should be noted that in most states with medical one can tell a teledoc "I have anxiety" and get a card very fast.