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"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." --T. Jefferson

It means you leave people alone, unless you have a mutually beneficial trade to offer them. If a country has no entrepreneurial class, you look to make money elsewhere.

The US has no moral authority to demand imitation. It just has money--lots and lots of money. And it lets its own businesses spend their own money relatively freely, so long as they obey most of the laws and regulations and pay most of the taxes and make sufficient campaign contributions.

So that leaves only two acceptable foreign policy sticks. You have the embargo, and you have the boycott. And you have only one carrot--access to all the money held by your country's consumer market and philanthropic donors.

The US could decide, for instance, to boycott all goods and services produced in whole or in part by children under the age of 16 years, or by prisoner or slave laborers. This would, of course, require detailed provenance records for all goods entering US ports, and voluntary certification inspections for facilities listed in those records. And it would make all goods imported to the US more expensive. And it would put a lot of child laborers out of work, even if they really do need to be working to survive. If you are an international supplier, you only need to imitate US working conditions if you want to export to the US. If you do want access to the market, you can't get there with kids, convicts, or slaves.

This is slow. Apartheid ended 35 years after the first international boycott campaign, and the actual impact of the boycott is debatable. Israel has shrugged off a boycott for a long time, because the US actively undermines it. The US embargo against Cuba never produced any meaningful result, after many long decades.

In contrast, you can charge in, guns blazing, topple a regime, eradicate its bureaucracy, and stir up its internal politics with a bayonet, then go home by the end of your presidential term. But it isn't going to earn you many friends.
Georgetown alum here and I can definitely vouch for this. While most students across the country would have to take an entire summer for an unpaid internship on The Hill while living in a very expensive city, our students can do this as an extra curricular during the academic year while living out of their dorm.

Plus if you're already doing political stuff in the city as a professional, the law school is not only the best in the area but one of the best in the country, which makes it a common choice for those in that line of work.

And let's not forget that this is just people affiliated with the university, which could include members of congress who teach classes at the school, not sure what the congressional roster is like right now but for example Madeline Albright teaches a very popular foreign service course.
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> If you have a paid individual or organizational npm account, you can start using hooks right now.

Okay that eliminates the vast majority of npm users.

> Each user may configure a total of 100 hooks, and how you use them is up to you: you can put all 100 on a single package, or scatter them across 100 different packages.

Only a hundred even with a paid account? That's pretty light.

I'm not a big fan of vendor lock in but this is the type of thing that would be nice to have as a public service on SNS. Call it a "NaaS" (Notifications as a Service). It could be as simple as an SNS topic that allows for public subscriptions with subscribers paying their usage bills (which honestly would be tiny if not zero).

I suppose that wouldn't handle the the private repo situation (since you wouldn't want to publicize events regarding them) but for the majority using public repos it'd be a win.
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I've had a great time with Tokamak: https://vertexclique.github.io/tokamak/
You're getting a few things mixed up.

> '...but to rule that you should offer more than the market was valuing it?'

Acquisitions in general are almost always for a premium based on the current market value of the company. Just look at Salesforce/Demandware this morning, with the stock up >50% over where it closed yesterday. As the article states, the current shareholders of the company obviously believe that the company is worth more than the current price - if they didn't, they would have sold their shares. The argument is regarding how much more it was worth, but the practice of it being worth more than it was at the time trading publicly when it comes to a buyout, take-private or acquisition is not in and of itself unusual.

> Even though no one was actually willing to pay that price?

'Nobody' is sort of subjective here. No, nobody that was involved in the take-out process was willing to pay that price. But the lawsuit was brought by shareholders, who very well could have believed that the stock was worth $50, yet had positions as large as they could manage. The judge actually ruled that his price was correct because nobody (in the sales process) would be willing to pay that amount as private equity would need a significant return on its capital (25% in this case).

> Isn't the whole point of a buyout that you think other investor's are incorrectly valuing a venture based on the available information? If any buyout is going to be subject to this later, with-more-hindsight review that forces buyers to "top up" to the "correct" value, what's the point?

The Dell case is unusual because Michael Dell did not make the case for any sort of managerial or strategic shift post-buyout (hell, why would he push for a managerial change as the CEO). Normally in the acquisition/buyout/merger/etc process, there's something materiel that the acquirer wants to change to make the company more valuable. Maybe they want to purchase the company and get rid of all the managers. Maybe they want to purchase the company and achieve cost "synergies" between two or more companies where significant savings could boost sales. Maybe they want to let both companies sell each others products. In this case, Michael Dell didn't want to do anything different from what the current plan for the company had been -- he just wanted to do it in private. So while this decision is wild, it's not one that sets precedents for most acquisitions.
Those female members of Congress have mastered politics.
Has she given a video presentation on this yet? If so, link?
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No it hadn't, but looking at it, you're right that that could could be the intent. If so, perhaps my crankiness towards such things (it's not just this project that uses such phrases) projected itself into a comment at the wrong moment.

In any event, if it is meant to be tongue-in-cheek it could stand a bit of a rewrite anyway since in that case, it isn't over the top enough to make its intent clear. :-) The big tag above is "iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for OS X that does amazing things." "Amazing" is also over-the-top, but again not enough if trying for parody.

It' a bit of a poe (look up poe's law if you're unfamiliar). It's hard to tell whether they mean it or not. If parody, throw in a few "magicals" and such and my thick brain would get the clue.
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What does it mean to have a "double pumped" ALU? Google is failing me.
They were able to predict Trump winning. All of their data showed it. The polls showed Trump winning everywhere. What they failed to do was trust the statistics. The polls show Trump as favorable, and they say "yeah but he won't make it past the first state." The polls show Trump beating other candidates and they say "he has a ceiling of 30%". Other candidates start to drop out and polls still show voters rallying behind Trump, and they say "the polls are wrong, the voters will go to Cruz".

I'm not a Trump supporter by any means, but 538 went way out of their way to ignore every poll that was put in front of them in favor of punditry.
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Is the goal to provide POSIX file access as NFS and AFS do? The mention of object storage as a future direction feels like the early "the sky's the limit" euphoria of a new project that has yet to adopt specific end goals.
Every OS is a first tier platform for mozilla.
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Because the offline file already belonged to the user.

Adobe doesn't forcibly move a user's files into the cloud and delete the originals.

The fact that you would do this makes sense of why you think Apple would

However, it seems like it would have no effect until a user tried to leave, and make an already unhappy customer even more displeased. How can this be a good business decision?
Maybe I'm wrong but it appears to me you tell them what job you are applying for:

"Fill out a form with details about yourself, your background, and the company/position you're applying for. All your information is kept safe and confidential."

Then they create a custom landing page for the job application, give you some tips, and if you get the job they take 3% of your gross. If that job is $100k you pay them $3k, after taxes.

On top of that, I do wonder if they are or will start double dipping on the other side, typical recruiters will charge up to 15% of gross salary to the company.
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As maxerickson said, this possibility should be covered in the shareholder agreement. For that reason, any shareholder is already responsible for factoring in the risk of a buyout-by-vote when they buy shares. They were already responsible for making their own decisions as to "fairness" of that agreement. No information was hidden before the buyout, according to the article, so no "evening out" should be necessary, as far as I can tell.
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You do really need it, at least for me. I'd rather write $ sign calls instead of getElementByID or querySelector just to start with. The sizzle library in jQuery is so advanced, that you can't do complex queries on the dom yet with today's browser.
Importantly, it's the Ok variant of the Result<(), SomeError> type, which is richer than a boolean because it carries information about why/where an operation failed, not just whether it succeeded or failed. It's similar to (but not identical to):

public void someOperation() throws SomeException { ... }
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I think it's an interest ebb and flow of history. The US had (and continues to have) a similar process related to grazing lands in the West (someone correct if I'm wrong).

But the broader theme of "in order to make more, we privatize this resource so that it may be exploited more efficiently" starts to become questionable in a hypothetical post-material scarcity, "we don't need more" world.
Doesn't this create some sort of prisoner's dilemma situation, in which it's in the best interest of each individual shareholder to vote no to a buyout, hoping that a majority votes yes, but if a majority votes no, noone gets anything above market price.
> I'm still hoping for an open-source competitor for elasticsearch

I thought Elasticsearch was open-sourced, and the GitHub repo says Apache v2. What am I missing here?
I have a personal, but less extreme, example of why it can be beneficial to keep an eye open.

A service my company started using had an easy-to-find gap in authentication, where they were only checking to see if you were logged in, but they were not preventing accounts from accessing data in other accounts. I pulled some data, made a screenshot, and told my CEO. He then started a call with the CEO of the new service, and I provided the screenshots, and the details of the vulnerability.

We ended up getting 90% off service fees for 6 months, which saved us a ton of money. In cases like these, everybody wins.
() is the unit/void value. The void value isn't a concept that most languages have, so the syntax may be unfamiliar, but it's really useful and once you have it it's annoying to work with languages that don't have it.
The question is utterly hyperbolic, that's why it's a straw man. Phrasing your answer in the form of a question does not magically grant rhetorical validity to your line of reasoning.
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It's good to see new web-focused projects in Rust, I think it can be a really great language for this kind of thing. But to be honest, I'm looking forward to seeing what will be considered the go-to approach for Rust web applications _in a year_ or so.

There is much experimentation going on right now, with cool little innovations here and there, but I have yet to see an approach that looks really new and Rust-y to me.

For example: Rust's type system certainly has some nice properties to track dependencies between middlewares[^1] but I'm not convinced middlewares are even the best approach possible here. Also, it will be interesting how a framework based on async IO will look and what tricks/syntactic sugar/macros will be employed to keep boilerplate code down.

This is a pretty big order, of course: While I enjoy using small libraries, a well designed web framework requires a lot of organisational effort for all the small pieces to fit together nicely. I think most of the 'small pieces' are already there or at least well under way, by the way. For example: The async (mio) branch of hyper looks pretty solid for HTTP1/2, the Diesel ORM is fantastic (and will, according to creator Sean Griffin, soon hit 1.0), and handling JSON will only get better with future versions of serde.

[^1]: As recently discussed in https://chrismorgan.info/blog/tween.html and some other posts concerning the use of sessions types in Rust.
More than "sky's the limit" -- early versions had POSIX access, though it was terribly messy. We know the architecture can support it, it's just a matter of learning from the mistakes and building something worth supporting.
I don't presume these offers are entry-level?
If the standard is a 20% return on investment, then any buyout can be proven to be 20% undervalued, negating all benefit, so you're right, the natural response would be to reduce the bid to make up for that, but now that we have this precedent, we can assume they know about it and have even further undervalued any buyout, so we can prove in court that any stock is actually somewhere around 40% undervalued. But any buyer would anticipate this further proof of devaluation and lower their bid even further, so naturally we're going to approach zero bids on provably infinite value stock.
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It's not a strawman - it's an analogy. If you don't thing the analogy fits, it should be easy to make a distinction to show that.
That's not really the challenge being placed in this case: " The best reply, especially in a conflicted management buyout where the buyer is also the CEO, is often along the lines of "because management deliberately undermined the sales process to prevent other bidders from seeing the company's true value, so they could take it for themselves on the cheap." But that's not really what happened here; the court found that, while there were some inherent conflicts of interest, Dell's independent directors basically did a bang-up job of running the sales process, and even Michael Dell himself -- despite being both the CEO and the prospective buyer of the company -- behaved like a prince. Actually, reading the opinion, you almost get the sense that Michael Dell didn't do this leveraged buyout for the money. It was just an intellectual engagement, a point of principle. He thought the stock was undervalued, and he wanted to argue his case, and the way you argue that is by buying all the stock."
Yep. And personally, I disagree with the ruling.. but I'm not in charge.
Does anyone else find it odd that these letters are not signed by a judge and are signed by the 'Special Agent in Charge?'
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If it's in the agreement, how can they have a leg to stand on? They agreed to such a thing!

When you're forced to sell at whatever price, you lose any claim on the future price of the stock.

If a court can give you more money later, then you effectively weren't really forced to sell the stock. You retained some sort of "ghost ownership" with an entitlement attached.

Thus, effectively, the provisions of the shareholder agreement which have to do with this are disregarded.
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Velocity Raptor's end game screen was worth the insanity and craziness of dealing with time dilation at c=3mph. If the speed of light ever slows like that IRL though, I'm refusing to get out of bed.

I'm also working on a game that at one point had a quantum mechanical theme, however it is more backstory than science. Quantum Traffic Control. Watch for it on the App Store sometime in this decade. Hopefully.
Fair enough. There're examples of that behavior in the retiree community, where a Social Security recipient moves to Costa Rica, Thailand, New Zealand or (until recent violence spike) Mexico to arbitrage their Social Security check into greater buying power.
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"but for ease of reading we refer to NGINX Plus throughout"

Uhuh. Suuuure. :p
Pissed? Sure. But, anger isn't generally grounds for a successful lawsuit.
The ALU performs an operation on half of the machine word (16 of the 32 bits) each half-cycle, i.e., one on the rising edge and one on the falling edge of the clock. Basically they split the carry chain across two (half-)pipe stages and then run it twice as fast.

See Hinton et al., "The microarchitecture of the Pentium 4 processor" [1] for all the nifty details -- pp 8-9, and Fig 7 in particular.

[1] http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/ece568/papers/Pentium4.pd...
Where's the formal specification of the system? If we want these distributed systems to be reliable how can we be sure our algorithms and processes work if we do not first model them?

I'd be happy to work on a specification with the community.
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