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The average nurse cares more than her wage pays for. I guess it's the same with the average daycare worker. At least it's my own experience (against all odds daycare workers have pretty low wages here in France)

You are right, I think it's the only way to expand this kind of service, and the reason why they require the bags to fit in a sedan.

We can even imagine an uberpop for thrash with untrained people driving and destroying their car with thrash, and picking up hazardous wastes such as asbestos and everything that should be highly regulated instead.

If there is room for improvement the solution is always an uber for X because people have cars and people need money.

To be a little bit more constructive, there are already lots of convenient ways to get rid of stuff we don't want anymore, most of them requiring some time investment. But that's not so bad since owning and getting rid of stuff should come at a price. A price we generally dont pay when buying stuff (the recycling tax for electric stuff in Europe is a joke for example).

I found a TR808 in a garage sale 10 years ago. Nice memories! There is a cheaper alternative with a similar sound and programmation capabilities (althoughfar more cumbersome and no sound tweak possibilities) : the CR8000. All this gear is getting expensive these days, but maybe Roland will follow Korg's lead with the MS20 and rebuild TRs.

I especially find the instant delivery order disturbing. Is that even close to necessary in 90% of the use cases? Putting the product in a shopping cart would be more than enough and would allow group shipping.

So clear that amazon did not bother avoiding around april 1st for the product presentation.

Maybe he thought apple was scrapping his data not google.

I don't think that this is a huge problem when it comes to selling relatively expensive and bulky items like bikes. First you get to buy see & try the bike. Most of the time the seller will not ship it. There is a huge incentive for telling the truth on a product you sell when you get to actually meet the buyer : it's an awkward moment for the seller when the latter realize, after a 30 min/1 hour trip that the item was not described accurately. I won't say that it never happened to me as a buyer but it certainly happens more often when you buy a used item that is shipped to your place.

Also the buyer knows where you live, and is relatelively close to your home. Some buyers being complete morons hidding the flaws of an item is definitely a bad idea.

It amaze me how the app ecosystem drove down) (maybe too much) the price of those effects. We used to pay (back in 2005) big bucks for the same quality AND less practical controls (mouse vs touch screen).

Art of Fighting is a good example. Something remarkable is also the more and more refined graphics throughout the iterations of a serie. If you compare fatal fury 1 & 3 it's the same resolution and same colors but there is a huge progress in the graphics. It's the same for most of the game systems, when programmers have to cope with the same hardware during 5 years or so.

Many of the already mentionned books. Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity, in the hard science genre.

As a kid I was absolutely stunned by The Tripods. I highly recommend these books (trilogy) for your kids (10-13 yo).

I was looking for a portal reference. Definitely reminds me of glados & stupid turrets.

Even if there are only driverless cars, you can imagine that some models will have a costly casualty limiting option that will ask cheap neighbouring cars to take the maximum damage when a collision occur.

Driverless cars will in the far future also be able to minimize the injuries and deaths when an accident cannot be avoided by deciding who should be hurt and who should not.

For example it might hit a motorcyclist with a helmet, rather than one wearing none. Or a single older pedestrian walking on the sidewalk rather than a young one suddenly crossing the street.

It's frightening.

Maintenance is expensive for sure and new old stock is scarce. But there it's not only tube amps vs solid state amps, there are also modeling amps. They've been around for more than a decade and they are able to simulate the effect of tube amplification and even model each electronic component individually. Well at least they pretend they do. And anyway even if they did guitarist would not buy them because they are a little conservative.

If you give the average programmer a problem that is impossible for him to solve, the best of the best will appear as a infiniteX programmer.

I find it pretty neat. I usually get a dozen games on my steam store page, based on the games in my library (=my supposed taste decided by an algorithm). With this I get a whole (and unexpectedly large) picture of the sale. I'm overwhelmed by the amount of data that you scrape to build this. 80 GB? is it because of the videos?

No problem using Opera on W7 here.

If you want to go that way, you really should think of some compensation for being over targeted. It shouldnt be free for a society to over target an individual for being part of a minority.

That's interesting by itself. One could expect something unusual in NK.

Very low price means 2k/person for Egypt. It is immensely expensive for this country and not sustainable for the egyptian healthcare system. But it's the same for developped countries. There is an inherent conflict of interest in producing a cure that heals a chronic disease. You only get the money once. So you'd better get as much as you can.

An alternative is to provide data as ressources that can be imported using Excel web queries. I don't thnik vanilla excel can be linked to JSON ressources, but a simple HTML table does the trick. Excel Web queries can use parameters, making the use of several ressources faster vs the download of several files. As a bonus you can set the Excel file for the client, with your data ready and up to date in it.

I remember the qbasic gorillas game. But there are older ancestors : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game

Technically, manipulating commodities prices to build higher profits will drive prices up for consumers making them poorer.

Thanks, the parent link did not mention this. His email reads like something sincere. Still confused why he did apologize on the phone. Harder to CCI your CEO on the phone maybe.

Kudos for wiring this (and also for the rest). I can't seem to succeed wiring much simpler circuits on the first attempt, and get mad going through all the connections to see what's wrong.

Are there legal reasons why this SVP does not apologize to the journalist he specifically targeted while recognizing he threatened her and regreting it?

Brillant. What's not to like? Even the CEO looks 3d rendered.

Usually this kind of gear acts like a wifi access so that you can directly connect to it and input ssid / password.

Neat machine. Desktop computers need things like this. After all, what can you do with today's desktop computers that you can't conveniently do with a tablet?

I can't predict a mass market destiny to this but it warms my heart to see a huge company release some kind of engineering chimera

3d cam is what is a perfect addition to 3d printers. Well, 3d printers prove pretty useless without 3d cams. It also enables 3d movement detection.

Something bugs me though, how is it possible for the 3d cam to see beneath the object (bird origami) to come out with such a perfectly scanned shape?

With vocal fry dressing.

The pi is made in the UK, it does not make it better but it might be important for some people.