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Do you lose your transcripts if you have your loans forgiven? What if a few years later a student enrolls in a different university and applies to have these old courses counted?

That's really misleading wording if they're using it to charge "city tax". Fees upon checkout are usually based on any charged consumables, damage, room service etc. and it makes sense that those won't be included.

Does that mean that european travel websites will list the full prices even for American hotels?

There are even websites that list the resort fees, such as https://www.lasvegasjaunt.com/las-vegas-resort-fees-2018-gui...

It's also possible to scrape them from other travel search sites.

I just applied for a different position listed on your website. Quick question:

1. Do you sponsor H1B's for people who join on OPT/do you hire on OPTs?

3. There are like 3 or so jobs with almost identical requirements. Should I go ahead and submit identical CVs and cover letters for all of them?

I know ... am I the only one facing this predicament?

I have an early 2009 Mac Pro with OSX 10.9. I don't want to break anything so I haven't updated to Sierra but more and more apps are incompatible with my computer now.

Is there any way to run this/download a compatible version for OSX 10.9?

Why not go work in cities that don't mind building vertically and having mixed use zoning? A lot of people like urban living.

I think the priceonomics guys are regular HN participants. They'll probably see the comment and its votes/discussions.

No really, this is confusing. OP and the person who downvoted this, it's better to explain. There is Offshore Leaks and there is Panama Leaks. Or is there a different offshore leaks, and Panama papers are also called offshore leaks?

I will donate to any effort that brings this to court or a political campaign that runs this line.

But the cost of pure silicon is not due to the cost of the raw silicate. It is due to the energy requirements of purification. AFAIK

Yeah, but is it specifically about its chemistry and electrical properties that makes it interesting?

Interesting. So is the content stored in the tag? Is there more privacy, in the sense that the tag shares the content rather than a username? I wish they had these details.

It won't happen overnight and it won't happen in all countries in the short term.

However, Al-Saud family was heavily financed and armed by the British during 1900 onwards. People's allegiences were divided among the Sharif of Mecca Hussain bin Ali, the House of Rashid, the Ottomans, and the Al Saud-Wahhabi alliance. It is not hard to imagine that these forces would have evolved in different ways during industrialization, post-Colonial and Cold War times.

Besides, there have been external forces at play to further or curtail the direction Saudi affairs are going in during the times of King Saud and King Faisal respectively. So it is not as if the people have necessarily chosen the kingdom system of Saudi Arabia while the West has installed democracies.

While not democratic, I think Sharif Hussain of Macca, the Ottomans, and to a lesser extent King Faisal of the Al-Saud would have moved things towards a more representative system. King Faisal's efforts brought women's education to Saudi Arabia and added a little (if only a trickle) to scientific education in some countries in Africa and Asia through student financial aid programs.

So there are various contradictory forces at play locally and globally and nothing stays constant.

How about letting the people take the lead in changing the system. It won't be what other countries would like to see, but it will probably be a lot better than the experiments you mention.

It is sort of linked. The working class and middle class will have a better access to meaningful and diverse jobs in diversified free economy compared to a rent seeking one. It will also be in the state's best interest to educate more people for these kinds of jobs in order to grow the economy and keep them off welfare, crime, and violent opposition.

True, it is a chicken and egg problem. However, it can be done, and there are some promising cases to build on like Austin, Salt Lake City etc. The way I see it, there are enough people looking for jobs not already tied down to the coasts who will gladly take a job that pays reasonably well in one of these proto-Hubs.

This is incredibly naive, IMHO.

So far the ubiquity of computing power has not had a measurable effect on the mechanisms of aging. Yes, we've made some progress on specific disorders and pathogenic diseases by designing and screening active molecules but it is tangential to the various ways we age.

The gene therapy ideas are similarly in early ages, and if we start hacking away at the various aging mechanisms, it will be well after 2029. Additionally, there are complicated long term effects on tinkering with our machinery. The fact that aging as a natural phenotype is not very diverse means it is pretty complicated. We don't have humans who naturally live to be 200 years old. for example.

So is there any microwave radiation escaping the cone? If more of it escapes from one side than the other, won't the momentum of the escaping photons (radiation) be the reaction of the thrust produced? Why does it need special physics? I am probably missing something here, but what is it?

So why is it that many industries like software, electronics, finance are all located in the non-expanding, expensive cities? Sure, access to the beaches is nice for recreation and the ocean limits expansion, but surely there can be alternatives?

If the Bay Area won't build/expand, why not develop a hub somewhere that will?

It's easy to stack boxes.

How much of the messy stuff like plumbing, kitchen, toilets, electricity, HVAC is handled by the "rack" vs. the "box"?

True, though I'd like to understand it on deeper level. For example, how much of a house or condo price due to the land and how much of it construction, maintenance, taxes?

In any case, at least for building straight up, there is scope for improvement even with the land remaining a bottleneck.

This is where I'd like to see more innovation. The kind of stuff that takes most of the time and money for most people. Housing, cleaning, food storage, plumbing, transport, security. How come cars, homes, wholesome dinners, home repair, car repair costs more or about the same as 20-30 years ago. We have more and more materials to work with, efficiencies of industrial processes and machines has improved and more stuff is automated. How come the little guy/gal is not getting any of it other than the internet?

In many part of, say the Rust Belt, or many innner cities there are tons of abandoned buildings and houses. If only the repairs and maintenance costs decreased, a lot of people could use them.

First impressions:

1. It also covers "classical" artificial neural networks, i.e., things like backprop from before Hinton and others made breakthroughs for deep learning. This means you can start with this book even if you are new to ANNs. The later sections cover "real deep learning".

2. The language is great for beginners and users. You don't have to be an advanced math geek to follow everything. They seem to cover a fair amount of ground too, so its not dumbed down either.

3. I guess it covers most of the underlying theory and practical technicques but is implementation neutral. You should probably pick up a tutorial for your favorite implementation like Theano, TensorFlow, etc.

All in all, I like it a lot.

Pretty much ... the only edge case I feel for is having an offline copy in places with low or expensive internet access. Like parts of the developing world. Clicking through isn't such a big deal.

Why was this comment down-voted? Software developers, assembly line workers, cashiers can all be worked to death. It's a function of labour laws, supply and demand, and culture rather than tax laws.

1. Have you taken part in protests under authoritarian regimes where the judiciary is biased or unreliable, or where the police force is trying to control a problematic out-group? Or is your experience from first world countries like the US, Western Europe etc? Would you excuse the police in a similar way, say in Venezuela or Iran? How about in apartheid South Africa, India, Pakistan, Israel, Syria, or Saudi Arabia? Who gets to picks and choose?

2. In case of an attack on a police station or church, what should be the correct response: a) arrest and prosecute those involved by presenting evidence in an open court, or b) fire on protestors elsewhere against a coup because you think some have the same sympathies as those involved in the said attack?

The reason why feel I dejected by your line of thinking is that it makes it really easy to justify violence. Daesh can use the same line of reasoning to target those it deems part of the Egyptian state, including the opposition liberals and Muslim Brotherhood for being part of the mass that is not violent towards the state. Trump rallies the epicenter of violence and racism, BLM should be justified on opening fire on them? Since BLM opposed to police actions and hence the rule of law, the Fraternal Orders of Police and the like should open fire on them.

Regardless of your view of religion, political position, Sharia etc., are you saying that the actions of the Egyptian military on 14th August 2013, in which they fired on civilians killing somewhere around 1000 people were justified (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2013_Rabaa_massacre)?

The negative of course does not mean justifying any actions of the MB or other groups.

In reality, it was the Mubarak and Sisi regimes that have killed and tortured civilians in the thousands. There's a bit in the article about how Morsi issued a presidential decree making his actions unaccountable to the judiciary. This is a judiciary stacked during the Mubarak era that has sentenced dead people and infants to death in these political cases. Sisi's justice minister said that only the elite should keep controling the Egyptian judiciary and in his words, "a cleaner's son" has no right to be a judge. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/18564-denying-...

Activists and journalists should investigate and bring to light the misdeeds of everyone including Morsi and the MB, but it is incredulous at this point to believe that the real problem with Egypt is not the corrupt elite of the military, crony businesses and the state apparatus. It wasn't the Muslim brotherhood, the left, or the liberals who were firing on crowds from helicopters, killing thousands in the streets. It was the military.