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> Are you willing to make the argument that looking out from the top of Everest or tramming to the bottom of the canyon for an afternoon is something that everyone should be able to do?

Yes, absolutely. Why shouldn't humanity aspire to that?

> Grand Canyon development also has costs which would reduce the value of the site. Are those costs worth the benefits?

My point of view is that yes, the benefits do indeed outweigh the costs. There's plenty of canyon for everyone. Let one section be for families, children, the elderly and lazy. There will still be plenty of trails for hikers who want to get away from all that.
I'd much rather see how it works, or what it's capable of before being asked to sign in with Slack and approve your app.
I just spoke to a family member who's also a McGill grad and was told the education program is "the worst by a mile".

It seems a little disingenuous to lump the education program in with the rest of McGill.
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That doesn't tell me anything. It assumes the reader is somehow familiar with the context and shares the authors' sentiment, although that is not true.

This is what should be explained there:

1. What is the problem with Node.js?

2. What is wrong with Joyent?

3. Why the fork was the only adequate solution?

4. How come this is beneficial (and not harmful) to the community?

5. Is it a drop-in replacement? How does it affect existing projects?

6. How the future looks like from this point of view?

However hard I look at that paragraph in Readme, I still can't see these questions answered.

Edit: typo
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If you have Windows installed I think you can extract the license key from it (assuming Windows is genuine), then use it to do a clean install, or just save it for posterity in case the hard disk ever dies. As far as I know this is fine WRT Windows EULA.
"Phonetic reductions," according to the article. Although in elementary school we learned to call them "contractions." (Isn't. I'll. 'Cause. Didn't. That'll. Who's.)

It's mumbling if the listener doesn't understand the meaning of the word or words at all. Which might be data compression, but I don't think of mumbles a being any more concise, just less intelligible.
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Or have trouble with reading comprehension.
I think his $5k estimate is much stronger than his $20k estimate.

An Apple Editions is not a Patek Phillippe. There is a dramatically different replacement cycle which means that any attempt to cut and paste lux strategies is going to either fail entirely, or narrow the market so thoroughly as to be indistinguishable from failure.
For every site that's reliant on AWS, there's probably more than 10 000 that aren't. The giants, for example: Google. Facebook. Wikipedia. Microsoft.

It's hard to get actual numbers, but Equinix might be the largest. I believe their Singapore data center is actually what AWS, Digital Ocean and Azure use. (there's a lot more of these, such as Internap and Level 3 (which provided (and might still) services for Netflix and iTunes.))

AT&T is quite large. World of Warcraft used to be hosted on AT&T's infrastructure (might still be).

The above tend to be for large setups. Going smaller, you have the Rackspaces and Softlayers (now IBM). And, to a lesser extent, providers like OVH and Hetzner.

And, you can't forget the likes of Digital Ocean and Linode.

It's hard to come up with examples because more things are examples than aren't. AWS' market share is growing, but that's to be expected, in a lot of ways, despite EC2 being ~10 years old , it's still a new player.

AFAIC, what's more interesting about AWS is:

1 - How dominating it is over Microsoft and Google

2 - How popular the less invasive offerings are. A lot of people are sticking to their colocated, dedicated or VPSs, while using some part of AWS for DNS, backups or email. I hope they keep this up.
I'm in the UK, and I don't think it's fair to be singling out teachers on this.

I work with retailers - we make eCommerce systems - and I never cease to be staggered at how many CFOs/finance people/buyers/business owners don't:

- Know the difference between "gross" and "net" when talking about prices, tax, or margin.
- Know how to calculate a percentage. What's 10% off £90? No idea.
- Virtually all fall for the "mark it down by 10%, then mark it up by 10%... same price!" fallacy.
- Completely fail to grasp statistics. "Me" is not a statistically significant sample size.

So long as Western society treats mathematical literacy with contempt, this will only get worse - and treat it with contempt we do, for if you are able to figure out the average of two single digit numbers in your head, you are a "braniac" or a "geek", which is fucking incomprehensible.
I would hope most teachers stopped calculating averages by hand a long time ago.
when a teacher went on maternity leave a history teacher had to teach grade 11 math

Likewise, in grade 11 the trigonometry teacher had to leave and the wrestling coach had to fill in. The students had to teach him the material.
I attribute it to the title. It inspired some degree of wishful thinking. /:
Windows has gotten pretty good at finding and installing drivers for you. I'm not sure about 8.1 (only used it briefly on a tablet that came with it installed) but with the 10 preview it has found and installed all the drivers I needed for the two Thinkpads I tried it on. It didn't download the Lenovo power management utility which is key to really squeezing the most out of it, but in my experience it isn't significantly better than Windows power management + keeping the screen brightness down (which is what the Lenovo utility does anyway).
I like the insight that air breathing animals have stronger energy input systems than those with gills. Respiration in mammals is an energy system evolved for land, where the constraints involve 5 degrees of freedom and normal g. The ocean has 6 degrees of freedom and reduced g. So in the case that an organism's niche can be improved by evolving to be larger and they have an energy system which can support more flesh, doing so is easier in the ocean than on land. It's true for all ocean animals but it's especially true for mammals.
I wouldn't want to be a dumpster diver anymore than the next person but I applaud this person for actually having a view outside of rampant consumerism and following through on it.
You could be forgiven for thinking that, since the first claim on the home page is

> Layers is built into the WordPress core, creating a familiar but joyful building experience.

"Built into the WordPress core" is a very different thing from "is a theme framework."
From what I've heard McGill is very dependent by program, and education is by all accounts by far the worst program they offer.
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Relax, it was a joke.
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> For [2] It's strange when I see these stats. Where I live in the US, 60-80% of high school teachers (depending on school) have advanced degrees (masters or higher). And that's also a weird stat to cite. What percentage of teachers with 5 years experience graduated in the bottom third? That would be a more important stat.

It's worth noting that the market for higher degrees for teachers is maybe not what people unfamiliar with it would expect. Plenty do get "real" higher degrees because they actually want to learn something, but there are strong incentives ($$$) for universities to offer fairly worthless higher degrees marketed toward working teachers, and many of them do.

Around here, at least, it's expected that a teacher will eventually get at least a master's. It's not expected that they'll choose a challenging program, or that they'll come out the other side substantially more knowledgable or capable at their job than they would have been without the course work. A master's from a top university puts you on the same pay scale as the guy or gal who went with State-U's-Cash-Cow-Teacher-Degree-Mill-Correspondence-Program—except that the school probably paid a much higher percentage of their costs than yours.
> The NSA sees itself as a military organisation, it is bound by military rules.

What rules would that be? In the military, actively seeking (and using) information you have no right/classification to see is a serious offence. According to articles I've read, not a single NSA employee was disciplined for e.g. spying on their SOs or Exs.

Also: If the NSA doesn't have Swiss and German citizens working for it, it's not a very good intelligence agency. And we know for a fact that it is, at least as far as reach is concerned.
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In the past Microsoft would have been both installing it and have their security tool removing it, left hand does not know what the right hand do in large organization, then after figuring out they would whitelist their own spyware from the removal tool. This may have actually happened.

The rest is simply PR, microsoft is still the evil corp it used to be but has to fight other evil corps to keep a share of a market it once dominated. Microsoft had too much money to burn to die quickly, its agony will take quite some time.
Not exactly. I mean, claiming that the LHC had "minimal potential" after all the "we shall see when the LHC shows the data" is quite disingenious.

The "effor" has nothing to do with cancer and has a lot to do with the REAL WORLD we live in. Physics either talks about REAL experiments or is otherwise void of value.

There are lots of speculative nonsensical theories which can be brought up and have no relation to the real world. As long as they are not falsifiable, they are not Physics.
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Not sure I understand what you mean? Are you saying this is a duplicate submission?
Same here, rMBP late 2013. Problems happen most frequently when plugged into an external thunderbolt display.
you should use this "link" instead, just to make the point: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=javascript:alert(/xs...
So if 60% of the 80% condemned to use the public school system are failing to achieve the already lowered standards this is mere nuance?

What you have in Quebec is an elite (both english and french speaking) that gifts their children a private bilingual education with actual competition while they actively deny those rights to the rest of the public. Poor monolingual french speakers are actively screwed from birth to such a degree that they don't even notice how bad it is.
Nice to see the random Servo reference drop, it's cool to see it gain recognition outside of Rust circles. They're doing so much cool stuff.
Right, hence:

- Decent to good retirement, assuming politicians don't find a way to raid it.

...

- Little respect/demonized by politicians. Relatedly, many benefits above under constant threat.

The benefits were a bit idealized, yes, but I think I qualified them fairly well.

[EDIT] And to be clear, I wasn't trying to paint a rosy picture of teaching as a profession.
How can you say best education in the world? Have you studied all over the world to have a point of comparison?

I've been to three different cegeps and they all had their share of clueless teachers.
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2000 square miles is a circle with a radius of about, what, 25 miles? Have you ever been to the American southwest?
I'm saying you can understand the concept and still fail to do a sanity check using that knowledge.
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Teachers in the US are paid more than teachers in Finland: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/09/09/business/econ...
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I can't imagine a Spanish teacher who only knows the Spanish in the textbook.

I don't need to imagine her; she taught me for three years in high school.
I enjoyed the learning part of school, apart from classes I had no interest in, and was terrible at.

The alternative to school currently is homeschooling, and, I do not feel that I would be able to teach my children the range of topics covered at school, and ensure they understood them, even with a university education in a STEM subject.

My role therefore is to pique their curiosity about life in general and the universe, and allow them to explore questions, and show them why the world is so cool. This then enables them to use what they have learned in school to form bigger questions and answer them themselves.
No. It is describing adaptive aspects of some linguistic phenomena.

chasing is suggesting that when a person starts to mumble, which they seemed to define as speaking incoherently due to a variety of psychosocial circumstances- completely different from the article's definition- they are behaving irrationally and wasting time because the rational thing to do would be to directly and clearly state the reason, assuming the speaker is even aware of such a reason, that they began to mumble in the first place.
I see your point, I'll add a little something :)
At every lecture, Professor Rota, wore the same three piece brown suit and a red tie while he taught us probability. I was fascinated with random numbers and their generation so I went to visit him in his office to talk to him about my ideas. I knocked on his closed door, but there was no reply. Instead I heard a bell ring. My second knock was again echoed by a bell ringing. Peeking through the door, I saw Professor Rota sitting at his desk behind a table covered with high stacks of books, the floor was likewise covered in stacks of math books, and behind him on the floor was a mound of journals. There he was, holding a large bell with a long wooden handle.

What an experience it was taking a class from him. He was funny, charming, unique, and totally brilliant. It's a shame that I was only 19 and didn't have enough mathematical sophistication to get the most out of that class.
Except the history of such proofs suggests we not take them too seriously, because they necessarily depend on assumptions that may or may not apply to our universe. Hawking's proof that our universe contains a singularity in its past depended on a positive pressure assumption that is violated in inflationary universes but that was believed to be compellingly reasonable at the time, for example.

The important thing is that our inability to imagine a universe that violates some assumption tells us nothing about the likelihood that the universe violates it. What we can or cannot imagine is simply irrelevant to the way the universe actually is. No one could imagine a universe in which anything like Bell's Inequalities could be used to test local causality until Bell derived them.

There was nearly 200 years of philosophy arguing that no such test could possibly exist, culminating with the positivists just decades before it was found, and 2000 years of philosophy before that arguing that no such universe as one in which Bell's Inequalities were violated could exist, because no one could imagine such a universe, or such a test.

This is why science and math are different disciplines. Science is the discipline of publicly testing ideas by systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference (if you read that definition carefully you'll find it's a lot closer to "Anything goes" than Popperian hypothetico deduction). Math is the discipline of formal deduction from axiomatic premises, or something like that. Math is an incredibly useful tool in science, but so is plumbing.

The attempt to prove there is one consistent theory of the universe is ambitious and interesting, but there are good reasons many scientists are skeptical about it. It has resulted in a great deal of interesting math and no strongly testable predictions over the past century (string theory encompasses so many diverse models of the low energy world that its predictions only ever knock off models, not the family of theories proper).

Testable predictions come in many forms, and "unique consistency" is one of them. It's just not one that many people outside the string community think they can achieve, and my personal bet is that the next century of string theory will involve a widely-believed claim that the uniquely consistent theory has been found, followed by its collapse some time later as a key assumption is found not to be true of the universe it is supposed to describe (that is if loop quantum gravity doesn't take the field on an experimental basis first.)
I have the same issue on the mid 2012 13" model. The camera seems to stop being recognised whenever the macbook goes into sleep mode... no solution found so far.
As a site visitor it was already murky - the site's probably passing off all sorts of data to Google, Facebook, etc., my ISP might be monitoring my DNS requests...
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Maybe you shouldn't jump on top level posts with nothing but paranoid speculations and that wouldn't happen so much.
Is it more useful for your grade to tell you how much of the topic you know in relation to the other students in your class (C = the average grade) or for your grade to tell you how much of the topic you know (A = you understand everything that was taught, B = you understand most of what was taught, C = you understand some of what was taught...)

If you fit an entire class on a bell curve and give out 1 A, 2 B's, 4 C's, 2 D's and 1 F but the highest grade was actually a 32% would those grades be useful information? Sure, the A student knows more than the C student ... but none of the students really understand any of the material.

Edit: by "how much of the topic do you know" I actually mean "how much of what was taught of the topic do you know"

Ie, if the teacher taught you how to graph a linear equation and you can graph a linear equation, then you should get an A. If you can't graph a linear equation, you should get some grade less than an A. If nobody in the class can graph a linear equation, then what use is it to give an A to the person who can't graph a linear equation, but does it less wrong than everyone else?
I'm going to "shut up and build" right alongside the entrepreneurs.

(BTW - Love that phrase... I'm stealing it!)

Clearly this approach is not very scalable longterm across dozens of companies if I do it alone. So I'm building a team of full-time, world-class experts (design, dev, growth hackers, entrepreneurs, etc) to also "shut up and build."

With the small team I've assembled, we can build half a dozen "obviously fundable" projects over the next 6 months. The deal flow is there - in fact, if additional resources were available, we could launch a dozen.

If I can't find a lead investor for the new projects, I'll simply lead the rounds myself and hope others follow... again, not long term sustainable (I'm not a blazillionaire.)

But by leading the first dozen ventures myself, I believe the lemming-like investors who follow on behind my lead can begin to get some comfort around building a portfolio.

Statistics and history tell us that we need to take at least 50 GOOD swings to build a homerun (Series C) business. As a state, we need to take a minimum of 50 GOOD swings every year. (Note the emphasis on the word "good.")

To your second question: I ABSOLUTELY know of entrepreneurs who are sitting on the sidelines due to lack of seed funding. A couple dozen, actually. I'm not talking middling college grads either - I'm talking mid-career 25-35 year old, A+ rockstars who are experts in their field who have a fundable business plan gathering dust.

They don't jump because the risk is too great. And I don't fault them for that.

Think about it - as a society who wants more entrepreneurs, we're asking potential entrepreneurs to abandon a steady paycheck at a cushy job AND risk their entire life savings to fund their new venture.

Entrepreneurs shouldn't have to bear ALL the risk... even with seed funding, entrepreneurs still shoulder the VAST majority of risk.

Abandoning a steady paycheck is hard enough... someone willing to that AND risk their life savings is likely clinically insane. As a culture without seed funding readily-available for the best and brightest, I believe we're building a startup system than selects for the clinically insane!

The last thing we need is a bunch of mediocre (perhaps insane) entrepreneurs pursuing mediocre ideas receiving seed funding from mediocre sources.
That's assuming there's no upgrade story to be told at the launch event.

I agree it would be a little weird coming from the modern Apple, but I just can't see a marketing pitch that sells even a "merely" $5,000 device that's functionally equivalent to a $350 one and essentially guaranteed to be obsolete within 5 years.

Obviously there's a market that can afford to treat such a luxury as disposable, but that doesn't seem like a large enough market to justify creating the Edition line.

They're going to sell these things (at least partially) through upgraded Apple Stores, and presumably those stores will have to offer (possibly off-site) jewelry-like fitting and repair services. How much of an engineering obstacle would it be, really, to guarantee that the next N generations of Watch internals will be able to be retrofitted into the Editions? Probably with a nice markup on the labor, too! After all, if there's one thing they're good at, it's continuous miniaturization.

I think it would dramatically expand the market for the high end models. If it extended down to the stainless tier, I'd certainly buy a much more expensive Gen 1 version.
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In fairness, thinking that 1 is a prime number (or just not knowing that it isn't) is in quite a different league to not knowing how to calculate the average of a list of numbers.
No, Coinbase is insured even if only a "fraction" of their site is hacked. I am not sure why you would claim the insurance only covers a hack of the "entire site", but not a "fraction". See, my point is that there is nothing inherent to Bitcoin that prevents it from being insured. Insurance companies do insure dangerous businesses all the time. It's their job. I am certainly not going to claim that the level of insurance is equal to the average financial company. It will take years. But it's getting there. It's improving over time.

> why bitcoin can't get a census to upgrade

You say it can't be done but it has been done. Multiple times. You should read and learn from Bitcoin history. Bugs and limitations have caused the block chain to fork multiple times. Yet every single time the Bitcoin users have been able to reach a consensus about which software upgrade / software fix to follow: March 2013 fork due to BDB vs LevelDB, August 2010 due to an integer overflow, etc. It is very clear that when everybody will see their transactions never confirming because all blocks top out at the 1MB limit that everybody will want to upgrade the limit. People won't be stupid, sit there and do nothing, and watch Bitcoin die.

> Considering you haven't even made a single bitcoin transaction, and didn't even know about the limits until today, you're not really qualified to comment on it.

Huh? I never sold coins but I have made a few dozens transactions, since 2010. And I know very well the 1MB block limit.

Anyway when you start using personal attacks (accusing my competence) instead of using technical arguments, it is clear you are running out of logical arguments in this debate...
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The reason it saw that was that 1) your post was inflammatory, and 2) it was completely content-free. The very same reason I downvoted this.

Yelling "shill!" does nothing but decrease the site's SNR. It's not helpful in any way.
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