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I believe the idea is that it is you essentially get the best of both worlds with this setup because 1) switching between sitting and standing is more fluid, as you need only to sit down or get out of your chair to switch (rather than needing to change desk height) 2) it is in general cheaper and longer-lasting because there are not motors, etc. involved.

Anybody know if/how well this can export scores to MIDI? I've recently been learning to use Ableton and found that exporting my compositions created in Finale to work excellently, which has given me a whole new level of control over it.

> Time sharing and the obligation not to break "the family computer" make it pretty useless as a tinkering platform, unless your parents are technical and comfortable with it.

I follow the logic here, and intuitively agree, but anecdotally it was almost the exact opposite experience that started my interest in computers.

We got a computer mainly to help with personal accounting type things. Beyond what my mother knew of Excel, my parents were not at all technically savvy. Probably because of this (that is, that they didn't know how to restrict/follow what I was messing with) they gave me relatively free reign to tinker on our family computer from the age of about 8 on. After a few years I just fell into the de facto IT of the house.

I wonder if the problem now is that computers are used for so much more by adults? As long as I could fix/hide whatever I broke before my parents needed to update their budget or check their email, hardly even a daily ritual at the time, I was in the clear.

Aren't f-holes a common style choice for electric hollow-bodies in general? Maybe they're all just copying Gibson's example as well, but I can't remember the last time I saw one that had any other shaped sound holes.

Ah, I see now. Looking back, it wasn't terribly clear what the parent meant by changing the orientation to carry it by, I just made the connection automatically and assumed it was there.

What? It would sag when you have it turned on it's side vertically? That's like, bean-bag level sag.

> It would be much simpler to take home a few floppy disks tucked into an attache case.

This talk from Ed Lu[1] has a lot of great illustrations and cost/benefit analysis of NEO defense measures. He is obviously a bit biased as CEO of the Sentinel Mission, but IIRC, he isn't shy to admit that.

[1] https://www.astrosociety.org/silicon-valley-astronomy-lectur...

This hits on something in the calculation that I feel is very hard to factor in, the cost of development time. Sure, there are plenty of ways to do these things cheaper on a hardware/software cost per user basis, but more often than not I've found that we can get changes out so much faster in AWS that you're easily saving thousands in developer time, which would seem to more than cover the extra cost to me.

Not to critique the legitimacy of the work your interviewee, but I can't imagine another time this would be relevant on HN. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3971

I think it's a bit disingenuous to paint with such a broad brush the level of knowledge there is about the long-term effects of GMO foods. Numerous studies have been released[0] and more published every year seem to lean towards minimal to no perceivable negative effects.

EDIT: I will grant that all of these studies deal with animals rather than directly at effects on humans, but it doesn't seem there is compelling evidence thus far for one to assume there would be a significant difference.

[0] http://www.fass.org/page.asp?pageID=52&autotry=true&ULnotkn=...

The thing is, I don't think the "What would it take to convince you?" discussion is generally actually fruitful for beliefs like these. For example, Bill Nye posed this exact question to Ken Ham during their Evolution/Creationism debate and essentially his response was "Nothing, this is my belief and I'm sticking to it."

So, it seems like your best option is just to ignore those with decidedly unscientific opinions for the moment and attempt to instill more genuinely curious/less dogmatic thinking into those who have not already made up their minds.

Where are you seeing that Solitaire was bundled in Windows 2.1? Both the wiki page you reference and the Wes Cherry's linked comment both suggest that it was originally included in 3.0.

According to that then it looks like the 12 month running average is significantly lower, is that to be expected/in line with predictions/at all statistically relevant? I'm still not sure I actually understand what those numbers represent.

EDIT: After jacobolus updated with more columns and checking some other years from the link provided, that does not actually appear to be a trend. My apologies.

I don't exactly agree with the rationale, but I don't think your analogy about luxury housing accurately portrays the problem. Larger, better built housing with extra amenities will cost more and almost certainly gentrify the neighborhood. I think the idea against allowing luxury housing is more that this would only help the already affluent population while simultaneously driving up housing costs in the area.

Those were just extras in case we lost some.

My favorite is the only other review on his profile from years ago of the Orange Box soundtrack.

I'm unfamiliar with the term "MW project", could you please clarify?

That sounds cool, but I wonder if there would be a problem if the repo hit anything close to a critical mass where several people were editing forked repos at once and submitting pull requests. I imagine it would be pretty frustrating to go through the process and make some changes only to find out that your original revision is now too outdated for the bot to merge.

Alternatively, a Reddit post describing essentially the same thing, but in fewer words, that is a good read and has some good advice on avoiding/surviving these situations.

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3pcvfb/saudi_arab...

Top contributor decides which editor we write it in.

May the Helix forgive your ignorance.

I was much too easily convinced that this could be a real book.

Real Optimizers use Fortran.

If Wikipedia doesn't know about it, it's probably not important. In light of this new information, I hereby pledge my support for these reformations.

Maybe it's an attempt for the YouTube Red developers to boost their out of the gate numbers?

While it wouldn't exactly follow the lunar cycle as the parent mentions, there are already proposed calendars similar to what you mention[1]. Of course, with any calendar readjustment come just as many drawbacks, as the wiki entry mentions some.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

Does it significantly damage the image of Twitch as the place to go for gaming streams? YouTube has been gaining a lot of high production quality content makers for a while now (e.g. web series and music videos) but I feel like it still holds its reputation as the place to go for more independently made content as well.

I assumed the hacksaw blades were also trade goods to be used for making weapons. I imagine if you were really determined to escape you may need more materials than that.

I feel like you're ignoring a whole host of variables with a reductionist statement like "they commit more crimes proportionally". First of all, how do you compare what "more crimes" is proportionally? Different countries have vastly different definitions of what constitutes a crime, and further, different penalties for those crimes.

Even if you did isolate those factors, it's still not really an answer to "why does this happen more here than there?" You're answer is, essentially, "because it happens more often there."

Edit: After rereading the second paragraph I realize that you do seem to be pointing towards solutions to the root cause of crime rates, but I find the first statement confusing in light of that.