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The fat intake you allude to is entirely possible on a vegan diet. Saturated fats are exactly the fats you should not be eating.

"Saturated fats are linked to increases in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, which is positively associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Specifically, saturated fats have been shown to block the expression of LDL receptors[3], which ultimately prevents this unhealthy type of cholesterol from being filtered out of the bloodstream."

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My dream is to create a perfect platform for writers to share/discuss fiction and earn income from it. I want this project to be beautiful and elegant and awesome, and I will never run ads there. So I am thinking about the right way to monetize it, that would be the most convenient for both writers and readers.

Given that more and more people will be using adblock in the future, this is a question many content creators on the internet will need to ask. I think it is a big problem that internet will be facing, and solving it would make for a great startup idea.

So I would love if you could share your thoughts and ideas on this topic - what is the best way to monetize content such as blogs, videos, comics, fiction?

- Micropayments?

- Patreon?

- Paywall and subscriptions? (monthly/yearly?)

- "Pay what you want"?

What are the other possible options?

How in your opinion would the perfect system look like?
It isn't difficult to examine the science reported to date, combine it with first principles, and have a pretty good idea if a scientific idea is correct or not. By the time regulators have overcome inertia and industry pressure and created a new regulation, the science has been there for a long time.

As for the previously held view (now considered incorrect) that saturated fats are harmful, a similar review of the scientific results at any time over the past 40 years would have shown that the view was based on the flimsiest of actual data, like one correlation combined with a second correlation.

That said, if you are relying on the government and other authorities as the final word on health advice, history suggests a bad outcome.
I still go to stores and see products proudly labeled with 0 grams of trans fat that actually contain trans fat after consulting the ingredients list. This did not stop years ago.
It's probably worth noting that you only need to register for VAT if you're expecting to make > 82KGBP in VATable sales per year.

If you're contracting is mostly remote and outside the UK, you don't need to register, or charge VAT (as I understand it).
> Apps that stay at the top for weeks on end make lots of money -- up to several millions per year.

Paid Mac apps, no. The article is about the Mac App Store, not iOS. Even among iOS, however, the most successful apps are free ones with a viral incentive to do in-app purchases.

Most of the top apps have an external influence. 4 of the top 10 come out of Apple. Look at top games on Mac - most of them are major publishers. Even "independent" apps had a following outside of the Mac App Store, like 1Password.
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one thing I would say is that i have had good fortune with recruiters, providing they are a decent recruiter they can ensure 0 downtime between contracts and if financial stability is a concern then this should notbe overlooked. One thing i have found is that finding a good recruitr and sticking with them has ben more useful than calling a handful of agencies and using the shotgun approach.

I would note that none have ever told me the name of a client prior to me accepting to be represented by them and I have been introduced to a client company who then asked me to work directly through them and to bypass the recruiter (and any fees the client company would be paying to them). I refused as it was a single contract for 6 months and burning bridges with anyone isnt worth it for that sort of duration. Plus the recruiter had got me the interview within 7 days of me getting in touch with them.

YMMV just my 2cents.
Also shown in the "we'll send you on $expensive training but if you leave within N months, you have to pay us back" scenarios.
There are other webkit browsers without Chromium's extended libraries such as Surf and Web (Epiphany). Konquorer was still kHTML last time I checked, but there are with webkit ports as well if that's really what you want. Then there's Opera, which on some platforms (eg Linux) is still using it's older renderer rather than Blink (see footnote); and Otter as well. There's quite a few Firefox forks too (eg Palemoon)....and if all else fails, you can always run lynx or elinks :p

So there are definitely quite a few alternatives (the last two were obviously a joke though). Granted many are not as feature rich, but they'll still be HTML5 compliant.

Thank you for the correction on the Google Chrome/Chromium point though. Updated my post to reflect that.

Footnote: has anyone checked if this is a Blink issue or just Chromium? Because Opera, Vivaldi and other browsers use Blink but likely wouldn't have hotword. So that would be even more alternatives available.
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An app in 30 hours? Believe me that this is not the usual time it takes to build an app !
This one: https://www.google.pt/search?q=too+many+cars&tbm=isch

Excluding these atempted solutions: Driverless car, Uber
In terms of the recruiters section, whilst I appreciate you may not have had a good experience, this is probably the way a lot of people get contracting work, at least until you have a fairly big network of contacts.

I'd be more interested in knowing what agencies do have a good reputation / good developer experience along with the note to beware of the cowboys.
Sure, in the sense that people won't consciously seek out trans fats. If organized crime gets behind this, it will be in the form of, "Hey, the fries at Joe's in Little [ethnic enclave] are really good..."
I was thinking of Paxos and Raft, which are the two prevailing algorithms.

(I'm 53. Would be happy to hear your old-man theories :)
Hmm, I might be missing something here, but don't most high performance network applications skip the kernel for this exact reason? (IE http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/13/snabb-switch-skip-...)

Makes me wonder how often bypassing the kernel is used in production networked applications.
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I can back up his claim.
I work for a large entertainment company that has a top 50 app, (in top grossing) and it consistently brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars a week.
When it was at its highest, around 15, it was bringing in about 400-500k per week.
(I don't mean to come across as standoffish -- quite the opposite. I'm just being curious) How that could be taken as an insult?
Not sure about Canada, but in the US it's generally very easy to buy a chainsaw and hire yourself out as a "logging company". There are plenty of father-son teams who hit a rough patch in the labor market and go off and do exactly that. Not everyone who does so is properly equipped or knows how to use the equipment safely, and most are familiar with only a limited subset of the techniques required to do a job correctly. Many are desperate and will take on jobs they cannot do safely (or with the results the landowner wants!).

Harvesters are great but they are not necessary to do a safe, neat, and professional logging job, nor are they appropriate to every job. The conduct you describe and the fact that you mentioned alcohol and macho behavior are strong evidence that the crew you hired, however experienced, is not competent and has no business logging. Logging will always be dangerous work regardless of the equipment used, but there's no excuse for adding to the danger through amateurish and foolish practices.

A professional logging company will employ loggers who work as safely as possible, equip them with the right tools, and ensure they are properly trained in correct procedures and the use of those tools. Those things cost money, and the low barriers to entry and limited employment opportunities in many forested areas mean there is always plenty of cheap competition. Landowners don't have much incentive to seek out more safety-conscious logging companies. Even if a landowner has a bad experience with one company, it is usually many years before they hire loggers again, making it difficult to punish a sloppy or unsafe company by taking the business elsewhere. So accidents tend to put a small-scale, unprofessional logger out of business before the market does, and that's a significant contributor to the accident rate.
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I used to make frequent 4.5 hour drives between Austin and S.E. Texas. The drive home always feels twice as long, not shorter. There's an excitement about the place I'm visiting and so the trip there feels quick. The drive home is after the fun has been had and now I just want to be home as quickly as possible. As a result that trip feels so much longer. My experience has always been the opposite than demonstrated in the article.
>Time magazine articles in the 1970s

We're talking network TV and the cover of the nation's most popular magazines and newspapers. A lot of people were exposed to these ideas, lets not deny that.

>It's a strange topic for WUWT

Let me guess, you're too young to know any of this stuff, but to the boomer generation they really went from "Guys new ice age coming" to "hey global warming" pretty quickly. I think you need to sympathize with them. Yes, obviously climate change/warming is happening, but dismissing how these things get into the media, climate cooling hysteria in the 70s, etc just makes you seem like some "SCIENCE CAN NEVER BE WRONG" type who disingenuously pisses on the experiences and realpolitik of the time.

The reality is that that cooling was in the popular consciousness and led by x amount of high profile scientists. It happened. The question in my mind is what stops this from happening again? Nothing as far as I can tell. Experts have a high levels of influence and combined with mass media can change or understanding of things pretty quickly. This is often a feature of our mass communication society, but it is just as likely to be a bug (wrong facts, conspiracy theories, propaganda, etc). The internet seems to make this worse.

tldr; science is as much political as it is technical
You could do it at 35MPH but that's pretty unrealistic.
It'll be very interesting to see how the Commissioner's Office responds to the FBI's findings. While I don't believe espionage is new to MLB, this is the first case of it reaching the public (and federal government) that I can think of.
Same here, but a lot of people, teachers and kids seem to love the story of how their (when they feel native enough) ancestors lived. How much time is wasted learning dates and false truth about societies. Also how much people do remember when adults ?

I too would have loved deeper ideas in history classes. Only recently I've realized how subtle historian's work can be, very interesting investigations, but maybe it's too often open questions rather than answers, something kids and schools don't like until college I guess.
yes, its a postfix mta with dovecot and sasl/clamav/postfixadmin set up to use a mysql backend and
suite b encryption. kinda a pita to configure, esp for production, but very reliable and secure.
Aside from that, those are paths for birds, not for people. I wonder how an optimal path would look like if it was forced to follow actual roads.
I suppose a defeatist might not drink coffee because it can be grown unsustainably and farmed with slave labor, while a pragmatist recognizes the merits of fair-trade and lives a java-full life.
Yep, having set consulting companies a couple of times now having something like Freeagent is invaluable. Getting a good accountant is important as well, after switching once I now use 3wisebears who I'd recommend.
Well, you also have to take out Apple's cut (30%), plus taxes.
My advice would be to use an umbrella company and let them deal with all the tax hassles - they have an entire staff purely for this. You will take home slightly less (no opportunity for tax "optimisation" but I disagree with that on principle anyway) but then also have no exposure to HMRC coming after you 6 years later saying "Where's our £10,000?" (has happened to several people I know.)

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> Are you new or unfamiliar with free software? Open source software and web browsers of all things shouldn't have any need for secret code. It's highly suggestive.

Indeed. But that doesn't change my statement.

> Sure, why don't we just leave our countries to go live somewhere else when things don't go our way? Why not just give up?

Because you'd still have the same browser choices if you did move :p

In all seriousness though, what are your options:

1. fork Chromium and remove the closed components

2. use another browser

3. moan on the internet

You've got 3 nailed but that doesn't seem to be helping the situation. So maybe you should start a fork instead? Or perhaps go with my suggestion of boycotting Chromium since it actually turns out to be the easiest practical solution despite your exaggerative remark.
>>the level of effort given to each language's implementations is all over the map<<

Evidently the level of effort to contribute a working Rust spectral-norm program is too high for anyone ;-)

>>pretending to be an arbiter of implementation quality (which, as much as the benchmarks game disclaims it, is still what people take it as).<<

The benchmarks game is "just 10 tiny examples."
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That's not bad for a passive income stream, and for only having spent 30 hours on it.
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Anyone else reluctant to buy through the Mac App store because of the perceived lack of uptake? For example, I've been a longtime owner of a Transmit license...it's worked for years now. If I don't keep up with OS X releases, I can still download past binaries and use the key (within a limit...for example, Transmit 3 owners were required to upgrade to 4.x). But what if the developer decides that it's not worth maintaining the binary on Transmit? Do you get a license key for the App store purchase? From my perception, once you buy into the App store, you're bound to its limited upgrade routine. This has bitten me plenty of times on iOS, where the developer doesn't feel like keeping up with iOS upgrades, leaving you with broken apps with no ability to get them working again. I'm not talking about fly-by-night developers, but AAA developers like Capcom.
The companies are not the problem really, it's the people who think the company that need to solve this is really the problem. Want more challenges and the company doesn't have them or cannot give you these don't switch companies, work part-time on another project or your personal projects. I think that's the best plan, quitting jobs all the time is not going anywhere.
Golly gee, web development sure seems to be getting complicated. Do you think there will ever be tools that can test web pages against a diversity of browsers in order to catch this sort of problem before it hits production?
Things have changed drastically since then. Shenmue was the first virtual world of this size, nowadays you can leverage engines capable of that out of the box.
30 hours is the amount of time the author of Redacted claims to have spent developing the app.
Why bother with a third party company registration service? You can do it yourself pretty easily through companies house.

Do companiesmadesimple have any value-add?

While I do share your cynicism about recruiters, I have also got most of my contracts through them. There are bad recruiters (vague job descriptions, never call you back) and there are good ones (We need someone here, you fit the bill, can we arrange a time to talk to my client?).

Learning to swallow your distaste and listen to them as if they were worthwhile human beings is a useful skill. Some (few) of them actually are.

(--edit-- good guide in general! I don't just want to harp on the negatives!)
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On the other hand if you do register then you can claim back the VAT on any expenses.
I found it much easier to start by using a store-and-forward service to receive email and a relay service to deliver mail. A store and forward service will accept delivery of your incoming mail, do the necessary spam filtering and blacklisting, and then deliver messages to your mail system. The relay service will accept deliver of your outgoing mail, do any necessary validation, and see it to it's final destination.

Running a mail system involves a lot of moving parts, each of them requiring study and practice to competently operate. It can be difficult to deal with every piece all at once if you're just starting. The store and forward and relay services let me build out mail infrastructure without having to expose it directly to the internet, which let me deal with deployment in a much more controlled manner.

Why do you want to run your own mail server? It's hard to avoid potential pitfalls without knowing what you need to accomplish.
Chicken and egg. Hard to tell if widespread use of X is not harmful in anyway until widespread use of X has been studied.
I'm curious, do you bill yourself as a .NET dev for iOS via Xamerian? Or are you also highly skilled in Obj-C?
Couldn't you just use lard?
As it's not the "preferred form of the work", I think it is proprietary - same way any object/intermediate or obfuscated code would be.
It complements Gorilla context. It's not a replacement because it doesn't solve the context problem for middleware (no way to pass net/context from middleware to your handler code).
And to take this example to Spotlight, when I search for "used iPhone" with Spotlight today I get.... absolutely nothing of value. The top hit on my Mac is an Ember.js JavaScript file. Certainly not what I wanted. Paid used iPhone ads would be infinitely more valuable, as they actually have some value.

Could Apple compete with Google in search? Yes. Are they today? Not really.
And as a last resort, one could always resort to telnet :)
Was it a scrape for technical evaluation, or to find other committers?

It seems that if two people communicate on the internet, a third person will be interested in it.
There's an interesting comment on the blog post:

> Does handling all range's consensus traffic in bulk
would be the most effective way to handle this?
Instead could all the ranges from a node be represented
as a single state machine to be handled by plain etcd
raft implementation, like the approach taken in spanner paper?

Do you have any comment on this? I've been trying to wrap my head around the implications. What's the downside?
There's also the occasional teeth-curling screech when a fingernail or little bit of hard matter in the chalk scratches the board. Even at that though, I think I prefer chalkboards.
> Well, there isn't.

Are you sure? Why do you think the content is being provided then? Presumably there's a reason they've put the effort forth to make it available?

> If these terms are expressed clearly at the top of every page then I agree that there is an understanding of the publisher's wishes. That doesn't mean I should feel obliged to honour them though.

You shouldn't feel compelled to honor a site's acceptable use policy? In some cases violating the AUP can result in legal action, so in at least some cases you are legally compelled.

> Look, a lot of people run websites because they have something they want to share with others...

> I for one would never want someone to think he wasn't welcome on my site because he chooses not to download certain assets

These aren't your sites. It's not your right to make choices for other people. You can accept what they want to bring to the table, or you can decline to trade.

> I'm not making it harder, I'm making it easier. I downloaded the content but not the ad, therefore I wanted the content but didn't want the ad.

You've made it easier on yourself. How have you helped anyone else out? The content provider wanted to trade you content for attention, and you took the content without providing the attention. In what way does that help anyone besides yourself?

> I don't even know what to make of this.

People are susceptible to rationalizing their current behavior, regardless of whether it's truly beneficial in the ways they think to the parties they think. Doubling down on behavior that a content provider may not like with the excuse you may feel morally obligated to save them money by doing so is ridiculous. What right do you have to dictate how they run their business, as long as it's within the law?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied-in-fact_contract
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Better off just eating as naturally as possible, rather than listening to some group that's pushing something that's not.
There is a financial incentive to do so, you charge VAT at 20% and you pay it at 14.5%.

I.E. I do £100 of work, I charge £120 and pay the government 0.145 * 120 = £17.4

Further, for the first year, you get to pay at 13.5%, £16.20 in the example, effectively boosting company revenue by 3.8% for the first year, and 2.6% thereafter.
It's built into FreeBSD: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4

Netmap is commonly used in HFT as well as packet filtering applications. I believe Verisign is running some of the root DNS servers with netmap as well, getting millions of connections per second.
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Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...
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I tend to find that in good environments it's not at all weird to call people out on things that happened a few weeks or even months ago if they were wrong. Anyone who cares about truth should welcome it. If people around you are the obnoxious kind who win arguments through charisma and aren't willing to revisit things in light of truth, it might be time to switch people.