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If rents always went down there'd be no incentive to build and own supply. I think the thought experiment here is that though this is a seemingly simple supply and demand problem on the surface its also exceedingly complicated to actually plan and adjust for due to all the related inputs to housing (schools, water, fire, political representation, etc.)

Their twitter page promoted their first "maker space" which I have trouble squaring with this story. Is the message the school wants to send: creation, making, and learning is very very dangerous and only allowed under strict supervision?

https://twitter.com/MacReads/status/643784222394552320/photo...

The author mentioned: "a DNN with 2 hidden layer and a modest number of units can sort N N-bit numbers", does anyone have a reference to this result?

A great service that I loved using, a shame to see it go. I do appreciate the text-only export in a simple format, makes it easy to parse for future use.

I hope one of the many alternatives listed in this thread hop on providing import functionality.

I'm not sure if the article is supposed to be attacking the people that convicted Turing or the legalese used by the Crown in the pardon. On both counts, it seems to miss the mark and just wander greatly.

Unless there's precedent for not using formal wording in the pardon, I don't see what the author's point is.

Amazon Lockers have been a boon for me living in apartments with hours that don't match up to my schedule for their 'helpful' package signing service. I recently noticed I can return packages through the lockers as well. If they can saturate with enough lockers I'm not sure I'd ever actually need the "final mile" of an actual delivery service.

I don't totally follow his methodology for "time-boxing", it seems like goal-setting with a time for evaluation and course-correction, which is something all goals should involve anyway.

Time-boxing as I've heard and used it before is a working style, similar to a scrum sprint, where you have a set of goals and a limited set of time, so you force yourself and team to prioritize what fits. The team then constantly re-evaluates what fits and takes a hard realistic look at the goals that have to be done at the end of the time-box vs. those that can be changed/cut.

While this analysis, and the many others moving their way up HNews make sense, I can't help but wonder if Amazon has started to back itself into a corner. If I as an investor find value because I think they'll keep plowing money back in future R&D, what should I think whenever they do start transitioning to booking profit? Wouldn't I then be worried that taking the profit is a sign that Amazon no longer has grandiose plans or visions for the future and instead is starting a (very) long coast towards decline?

I have limited experience with a standing desk, but what are the downsides to that system vs. ergo chairs?

It seems like it would be much cheaper to outfit an office with all standing desks and work areas.

I don't find 2-3 hour commutes all that unusual, though just an anecdote, in PA I knew families which would commute via car to NYC 3 hours in traffic. On the commute if there's room to work, 3-4 hours could represent a decent chunk of thinking/coding/email time.