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That may be part of it. It's also that people like thin phones, and replaceable batteries place mechanical requirements on the phone that make it thicker.

It must be one of those things that's harder than it looks - China had a train crash because they decided to roll their own signals.

Private railway operators in Tokyo aren't subsidized by the state, though I think they get a not-insignificant portion of their income from property rents around stations.

Twitter could have avoided so many problems by sticking to verification as they advertised it - that the blue check mark just meant you were who you said you were and nothing more. It should have provided no benefits other than followers know they're following the right person.

Using it as a stamp of approval is an absolute minefield for a public company. So far the competition is, well, incompetent, but eventually somebody's going to come along and take advantage of these kinds of mistakes.

>The research community still lacks a reliable, ready to be productized method of producing vascular networks capable of supporting an organ.

I got the impression they were getting pretty close.

I believe that. I'll bet mead, beer, and rum were more affordable.

Heh heh. I worked for a company that rebranded itself as "b2b" back when that was the buzzword. We didn't get a 24x pop, but I was amazed at the extent to which our little company was suddenly worth so much more even though our product and operations remained exactly the same.

>I’d be more concerned about water TBH. Most of us carry a fair amount of fat, enough to survive several weeks without eating.

They used to call it "the law of twos" - you can live two minutes without air, two days without water, and two weeks without food.

So yeah, water is the big concern. Two weeks without food is the low end, but electrolyte imbalances can kill you even if you still retain plenty of stored calories.

>...and the employee wins because they are paid minimum wage and get their tips tax free.

Not tax free. Your employer reports 8% of your total receipts to the IRS as income. It's likely less than you make in tips, but you still pay some tax.

The Koch brothers fund libertarian groups, so it shouldn't be surprising to find these groups are against ISPs funded through tax dollars.

The nice thing about SOAP was it had a full-fledged type system built in. REST is certainly easier to debug, but it's also more likely you'll be required to debug it, since many of the problems you'll run into in a REST interface would have been caught at compile time with SOAP.

SOAP's big problem, IMO, was the crazy insistence on URI formatted namespaces, which took a simple XML message and turned it into something bloated and confusing.

>I don't know where else to post this question, but why can I not reply to some comments in this thread? For example I can reply to this comment, but I cannot reply to gozur88's comment beneath yours.

There's an increasing delay between when a comment is posted and when you can reply, based on the depth. The idea is to create a "cooldown" period for people who are upset. You would have been able to reply to my comment eventually.

... who keep a lid on the street crime. Your calculations shift when you believe mugging someone might get you thrown off a tall building even if the police don't catch you.

"The police said before he was caught he was able to run on top of the walls with ease, rather than in the street."

That's... pretty impressive for a guy that old.

Jake Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was an eye opener in this regard. The amount of effort the cops put into a case has a lot to do with the victim. Non-white foreigners and gangsters aren't worth a lot of trouble, e.g. if they find a dead guy with yakuza tattoos at the bottom of a building it's a suicide. Case closed.

If the outcome of the plea bargain is about what the defendant would expect after conviction on reasonable charges, plea bargaining would be fine. But that's fantasyland.

The problem is the incentives are set up such that the charges will not be reasonable. They can't be reasonable, since the state can't possibly afford to take more than a tiny percentage of cases to trial. Which sets up another incentive - the state must make an example out of people who demand a trial to encourage everyone else to take the plea.

The problem is the prosecutors have an incentive to rack up as many patently ridiculous charges as possible in an effort to strengthen their position in the plea bargain. Something relatively minor balloons into the possibility you could spend the rest of your life in jail... or you could take the plea and be out in a few years.

That effectively removes your right to a jury trial, particularly when the natural human tendency of a juror is to split the baby, i.e. if you get charged with 60 counts they're unlikely to find you "not guilty" on all 60 regardless of circumstances.

I agree with OP - if the crime isn't important enough to take to trial, it's not important enough to prosecute. Furthermore I would add judges should sanction prosecutors for overcharging. If I have $100k in cash I put into the bank in $5k increments that's one charge of Structuring with a potential five year sentence - I shouldn't be looking at twenty charges with a century in jail if I refuse the plea.

>Free markets would have let the banks fail. Instead we’ve created a world with champions for free markets for trade, free markets for labor, but protected markets for capital.

Because the government was afraid failing banks would take everything else with them.

The problem was banks were allowed to become too large and to sell risk to each other. If I were running things I'd break them all up into regional entities and separate them financially.

There's no question the ratings agencies played a huge part in the collapse. Part of the problem, politically, is these agencies were set up by the government.

You can survive on a whole lot less, though. During the last famine in North Korea, the daily ration was 700 calories.

It's not that they need less sleep, it's that they don't sleep as well as they did in earlier years.

They haven't started cracking down until recently because they figured there was a good chance cryptocurrrencies (bitcoin in particular) would collapse on their own or remain an insignificant niche. I think this year for the first time you have large governments which see bitcoin as a bona fide threat.

I'm kind of curious to see how this plays out - how far they're willing to go and whether or not, as you say, they're ultimately successful.

That's true, but people who have been buying DieHard batteries for forty years are comfortable with the brand.

You take out a fraudulent loan by making misrepresentations of some variety on the loan documents.

In the end, governments can not tolerate widespread use of cryptocurrencies. They benefit too much from the ability to print money in sovereign currencies to lose control. They will use whatever excuse sticks - child porn, money laundering, aiding terrorism... whatever gets the public on board with new restrictions.

I believe that's why we've seen article after article lately about all the horrible people using bitcoins, plus scare stories about bubbles and how You'll Lose All Your Money. Concrete legal steps are on the way.

Credit card companies aren't really paying you to use their cards. You're still paying the fees; it's just that they're being collected by the merchant.

There's a lot of assumptions baked into that cake. The most obvious being what's considered acceptable behavior in a man by his female colleagues. There are a lot of countries where this kind of thing is considered part of the job by women.

There's a limit to the extent to which HR can control basic human urges. This kind of stuff is going to happen no matter what the rules are.

Also, while it may drive up the price a little, the idea the NSA won't be able to tap into worldwide internet just because the bits don't travel through the US is naive.

CanCon prompted Bob and Doug McKenzie, so it's not all bad.