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>the rich and powerful drive cars, so they have no incentive to improve the buses.

The urban rich and powerful can afford to live within short walks of their offices, or right next to stations on the best parts of (small) existing transit corridors. They are most assuredly not sitting in rush-hour traffic.

>low density, partly to accommodate cars

Figure 1000 people work downtown, half of them park in 200sqft spaces, the other half live in 400sqft apartments.

Convert all the parking to apartments. Now downtown can support only 750 workers. Great for me if I'm one of the 250 who no longer has to drive, but what if I'm one of the 250 who can now neither drive nor live there?

Statistically, it was worth ~$9,000/year to me not to ride a bicycle or use public transit. Unless that was purely ignorant, starting to do so will be a bad time.

>bad zoning laws,

I'm with you there. We need to massively increase the height of buildings in the small walkable cores and along transit corridors so that more people can live in them. Over time, employers could also spread out, so that there is not a single downtown that everyone's trying to get to. And of course it is ridiculous that any one lives far from a grocery store by fiat, rather than by economics.

>It's one where nobody owns a car, and everyone shares the benefits of that.

But if we do that and, the contention for housing along the transit corridors will be so intense that only the wealthiest can remain, even with free-for-all zoning and a huge construction boom. I've no doubt that the proposed new state of the world will be awesome for the few people who can afford it, I merely doubt that I will be one of them, and I'm not looking forward to 3+ hour/day commutes, no matter how safe the streets.

Sprawl, the automobile, and the highway are fundamentally housing affordability devices. Land value isn't so important if you can traverse 10 miles in 10 minutes. When 10 minutes its half a mile, it suddenly matters a great deal.
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your structs are open and your functions expect the structs from outside - addition of fields is not backwards compatible

Sometimes it's possible to handle this case (if you've planned ahead) by including unused space within the original struct defintion that you can then repurpose later.
Chelsea Manning is a trans woman, please don't misgender her.
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As I dove into the Haskell space, I noticed where all the major "innovations" I encountered (as game-changing and substantially productivity/expressiveness/deeper-understanding-enhancing for the developer) in the mainstream tech stacks (whether .net java python ruby rust jquery coffeescript node or the more recent hypes) in the last decade were really discovered/pioneered/refined/formulated/scrutinized/formalized. It's definitely the most interesting and educating ecosystem I have discovered to play around and evolve my breath and depth of developer skills in since I basically wrote my first lines of code in Basic and Pascal long ago. Just when I got fed up with the boilerplate staleness of it all, I found the actual frontier. Good enough for me, some hackers are kept going by figuring out where currently their old "endless fascination with brainy stuff but also immediately interactively attackable with a REPL" nerve will be well tickled for the next n years.

So yes "why push deeper"? It's just what some developers feel they need to do in order not to just throw out their laptops and turn to full-time gardening, full-time redditting/4chaning/twittering, or cooking shows. Not that there's anything wrong with any of these..
Interesting.. my path is Windows -> Linux -> Mac = Happy ever after.
I don't do C++ normally, but the situation seems similar. There's http://wiki.c2.com/?PimplIdiom for opaque objects, so you don't have to make their members part of the public API. But for things you do want to make public it's the same solution - make it a your public API by documenting it. If you know it breaks compatibility, it requires major version bump.

And no, after compilation, I don't believe the symbol order matters.
I'm glad more and more providers are offering APIs these days but the important feature for me is the ability to slave off of my own servers.

We (ISP) run our own authoritative name servers. Ideally, I'd have a single hidden ("stealth") master (maybe two, w/ anycast) and all of the public name servers would simply slave from that one. If you run PowerDNS -- which supports MySQL/PostgreSQL backends, among others -- you can keep everything in a local database and use standard tools (or write your own) to manage it.

(If I was pretty much anywhere besides an ISP, I'd definitely be using a provider with a fully-featured API. I use Route 53 now for my personal domains but I manage the zones by hand in the console since the RRs practically never change.)
"History is like a grandmother; it loves the younger grand-children. To the latecomers it gives not the bones but the marrow, while Western Europe has hurt her fingers badly in her attempts to break the bones."
I remember working in an office environment with some very large powerpoint files (50-100 slides with large images), and the rule of thumb was that 'openoffice is free, but MS can handle the big stuff'. Don't know if that's still true, haven't tried OO in a while.
> "Most People" in the market for cryptocurrencies will just switch to ethereum or monero.

That's fallacy one - assuming nobody notices the attack and realizes that if one coin falls, the next could too. You can't assume an unaware population. This isn't politics, people are paying attention because their money is on the line.

Also, in this scenario you're dumping a ton of money into the coin to make it die ... that provides a tremendous pressure to make it live.

> Again, side chains do _not_ scale with users.

This is a blanket statement that may apply to one or more pathological sidechains, but does not generalize.

The scaling of sidechains depends on the structure of the chain, trust requirements, and other usage decisions. This is utterly independent of what it's linked to, and only partly related to how often you link to the upstream chain.

> On a side chain, 10,000,000 transactions between 2 people costs $72 and takes ten minutes, but 2 transactions between 10,000,000 people costs $72,000,000 and takes over a month.

lmftfy - "On X sidechain design ...."
Some people that use Office really push it hard, they've got macros, indexes, all sorts of junk that's edge-case. The converters do not always pick up on this stuff, or if they do they subtly mangle the formatting enough it's all wrong.

For example, if you have an index then a tiny kerning shift can bump an item to a new page and screw up your numbering.

It really depends on the types of documents you're dealing with. Some are hell, others are a no-brainer.
Why not compare China to countries that were similarly poor in the 1950s? China, Korea, Taiwan were comparable then, but Korea and Taiwan have leaped ahead now due to saner government. If anything how poor China is in PPP GDP per capita terms vs Taiwan/Korea should be taken as an indictment of how terrible the government's been.
[1] There is more than one way to power. Sam seems to get there by consensus

[2] These are for survival in the case of an apocalypse, not aggression

[3] Graham loved Sam Altman, so he put him in charge of YC.

None of these really related to Sam making a joke about Reddit. Conde Nast is extremely happy with Reddit. It's growing (#7 site in the USA), and valuable.
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Thanks.

In the past, I've had a habit of passing "ipv6.disable=1" (a.k.a. the "nuclear option") to the kernel on hosts I manage. I'm trying to get away from that, though, and lately, I've simply been dropping "everything IPv6" in my rulesets to avoid things like this.
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"Soto and Blauert also allege that ... the company violated state law by failing to provide a safe workplace for them and should have realized how harmful viewing such images should have been for their employees."

They might have some valid claims and expectations in their suit, but some of their allegations don't really sound reasonable. For example, the above. Of course Microsoft knew that viewing these videos is very psychologically disturbing. Hence why they hired moderators to find and censor them, on a voluntary at-will contract. If we're going to fault Microsoft for exposing their moderators to disturbing content, what exactly do we expect them to do instead? Not have such moderators and allow members of the public to be exposed to these highly disturbing videos instead?

The lawsuit sounds a bit too much like firemen suing the fire department because "fighting fires creates an unsafe workspace that is harmful to firemen." If the fire department didn't do everything it can to help its firemen, the lawsuit would certainly be reasonable. But blaming the fire department for the intrinsic and unavoidable dangers involved in the job, doesn't sound reasonable at all.
Great post. I'm working on migrating from OSX to Linux.
I feel like they're meant to be jokey about UX failings, but I'm unsure what the author is trying to convey.

For example:

> [something about history being present and immutable]

>“Splendid!” exclaimed the historian. “I have a historical record of a merge commit with two parents. How can I find out which branch each parent was originally made on?”

>“History is ephemeral,” replied Master Git, “the knowledge you seek can be answered only by the gods.”

the pedantic explanation here is that branches are a separate subsystem, with each branch just being a pointer to a commit. And the history works off of the commit.

The answer from "Master Git" doesn't feel like an answer from a master. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but Git becomes way less confusing if you think more about what things are, rather than how they're used .
'The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.'

[1]: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...

I suppose there are different ways to read that, but Thiel doesn't believe democracy with universal suffrage leads to the best outcomes. I disagree.
Isn't semver the best way to do what he's advocating, then?

I mean, it's not like people delete 1.3.0 from their packaging system when they release 2.0.0. Incrementing the major version number is semver's way of declaring a new namespace, and once declared, it lives alongside the old ones.

What is Hickey suggesting be done differently?
Have you tried the google docs sheet? A lot of Excel lovers seem to like it.
So, cheap seafront property in Nevada right now?
Do you mean AGPL? GPL backend/database code can be modified (i.e. to integrate with Amazon internal systems) and run as a service without releasing modifications, so long as none of the covered code (only its outputs) are "distributed" to end users. AGPL is specifically designed to work around that, but most folks don't release as AGPL (likely because it's that much easier to spread FUD about it); https://neo4j.com/ is one exception.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
You can't opt out of government tracking. The GP was talking about commercial tracking.
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Agreed. They could be the Mozilla of streaming video but they have to open source.

I hesitate to wager, but I can imagine a world where an open video only protocol sucks up a bigger percent of attention than the web.
We would love to have your bug reports: http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/

It's good to search for duplicates first or see this filterable list of the most popular dupes: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/duplicates.cgi
Came here to say the same thing. Also related: http://hintjens.com/blog:85 "The End of Software Versions"
You're explaining exactly why the properties may be a good value. Most people reflexively assume they're a dangerous investment and never take a close look.

When I suggest real estate investing of any kind, I usually hear a wall of objections about risks, and a lack of interest in how to counter those risks. It's part of the reason I like it.

(Not that I'd invest in Detroit, I don't have a rationale for it. Some people do)
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That sounds pretty bad. If you make everything illegal then only selectively enforce the laws...
git beats positr0n with its UX

at that moment, positr0n was enlightened
If for some reason you actually need to understand 30kloc in 17 files in any meaningfully substantial fashion, I posit this will always require some time investment on your part. (Such as outcommenting most of `main` / a module, then progressively interactively proceeding to dive into the codebase via repl/compile trial+error etc.) I gather that such diagrams and visual aids etc help much more once one's basic understanding "clicks": as most of us can more easily mentally lock-in our understanding for later recollection via some visual mnemonics / cues.

As always.. not the silver bullet, just the perfect tool for a context and use-case only you can decide/suspect/discover =)

Edit: actually looked at the screens. Hmmm seems like a language/programming learner-aid tool mostly. Fair game for dem young'uns I guess!
I guess so. Seems like the companies you listed all deal with 'basic human survival' - in 1st world countries, things people need in order to achieve an above average financial state. So not google, facebook, uber, etc. because you can do really well without them. And the ones you mentioned, GE, AT&T, CN, JetBlue, Mondelez International (Kraft), are much closer to to providing actual necessities - you can't do a ton without household machinery (e.g. food prep equipment), or cheap food; cheap long-distance transportation can be crucial to success, as would be phones.
What does a package manager "using" SemVer for apps look like in any meaningful way? The package manager never has to do any dependency resolution against the version number of an app, so, I would assume (and know, for the package managers I'm familiar with), the version number is just an arbitrary sequence of three numbers. A version number only becomes semantically relevant the machine when other things depend on (aka, use the public API of) it.
Just curious as to why you would disagree. The way I see it -issue more shares with lesser face value when the company is valued. So if you are valued at $4 million issue 400,000 shares of $10 each and crowd fund. If you can't set the valuation, use a bidding process and let the crowd value. No ?
You do realize that Obama has tried to find several ways to do this, and has been shut down by the Republicans every time?

Congress ultimately decided to keep Guantanamo, and left zero room to find a single solution; Obama had no choice but to negotiate transfers with other countries (a long and problematic process) while at the same time let the court system handle the remaining cases. Obama could perhaps have tried harder, but he has had a lot of resistance on many fronts from the GOP.

He has almost succeeded at this point, anyway; there are only about 40 prisoners left. [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/with-...
Suddenly I understand why a lot of cities with those cutesey redone downtowns have central parking in mutual places, like the median in the middle of the street. The city fronts it, to keep businesses from doing annoying crap like that.
The law always had gaps. By virtue of its written-down-ness. Pardons are for when someone very definitely did break the law, and for all same readings of a sane text they are guilty, but the heart of the people says let them free.
This change happened a long time ago though. Debian stable releases included APT starting Debian 2.1 in 1999, RH resisted for long and finally included yum in late 2003. But agreed, it was a big improvement for workstation use.
You can find good Androids for every niche. (Xiaomi has some good high-battery options.)
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For me the whole "uploading people into computers" and other immortality pipe dreams are really just playing for time. Even if it was possible and desirable, which I have my doubts about, that's not how it will play out. That's the carrot, not the road, and I think the destination will be more tiled and dimly lit rather than a sunny meadow where we all dance and create in. It's like saying you have to burn everything to start building... but burning really everything, including the will and the means to build.

If we threw the Earth into the sun, and the sun managed to dissolve all of us and all we have made, would that mean we ascended, that a molten sea is a higher stage of evolution because it "won"? Of course not. We're like a magician who makes himself disappear.. okay fine, neat trick, now what? If there was anyone to applaud, we wouldn't hear it anyway. Am I too cynical? But I'm biting my tongue!

Though I don't really mean the body, I think that's kind of orthogonal. Someone can be paralyzed from their neck down and still think straight, while others walk about, go to the gym regularly, and still don't see the woods for all the trees.

What really strikes me is that reading intelligent people had more interesting things to say about automation decades and if you squint hard maybe even centuries ago, than we have today. We are at the court of the king exchanging platitudes so to speak, not in the halls of scholars describing that king freely and in depth.
Um, predicting someone's suicide is gross. Just give them a chance at a healthy life. If you are concerned send help.
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> How would most of us feel if we came into an office for a blood draw and saw this toy?

"I might be dying of malaria; I don't care"
If that were so, then why is the majority the ones all in agreement? The people who are skeptics are few. Doesn't sound like any Catholic Church I am aware of.
In the American South one can also find "familial graveyards" [1] Although it's a dying tradition, as I understand it.
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The AACS key file is updated every now and then. I get it from here: http://www.labdv.com/aacs/

I've run into some recent disks that I can't play, but never one that actually damaged my blu-ray drive.
If you look only at raw numbers, there are literally two candidates. But if you look at proportions, there's a different story to be told. Chile 1973-2000 comes to mind, or some colonial governments, which, like China, achieved success by replicating strategies already known to work. In fact one of the best examples pf this is Stalin's Russia, and an analysis of this general pattern is given by Paul Krugman in this 1994 article:

http://faculty.georgetown.edu/mh5/class/econ102/readings/myt...

Japan 1960-1985 is another good example.

With regard to the authoritarian structure of China, one disease that persistently affects these systems is adverse selection based on cultural evolution, i.e. the populace "learns" to get around the system and it works as long as the system is sufficiently oppressive that most people sympathize with the rule-breakers, see also the War on Drugs and de facto legalization of marijuana in some small towns. The thing about corruption in bureaucratic heir-choosing (Caesarian?) systems is that once corruption gets in there's almost no way to get it out whereas a democracy can rebel
I'm pretty sure this is the beginning of the space opera, Alien. Biotech firm synthesizes ultra spider DNA for space silk... new ultra light bio-satellites traverse dark distant planets looking for mining targets...
I wish at the very least that our tech companies would stop abetting these crimes against humanity. We should be trying to liberate these people, not use tech to forever enslave them. It's sick.
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Our ability to create, record and maintain data is increasing exponentially. Someone in Indonesia was able to get a message 35,000 years into the future using a cave and come paint. We have only gotten better at preserving data since then. I think it's safe to assume that at least some of the information we record will survive as long as there is someone around to care.

I don't think that two works of fiction from the last century are reliable indicators of the longevity of our species. I look more to the historical evidence we have of the resilience of humans. I don't know if we will be around for millions of years but I don't think we have reached midlife.
Yeah, as a tourist I was surprised that all hotels ranging from 5 star to small local inns were insistent on having everybody's passport when checking in.
They can never achieve that without political reform that removes collectivism and replaces it with individualism and I'm not even sure that is possible with 1.5 Billion people or whatever they are up to now.
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I usually use VLC without a problem. Some distros won't include something like libdvdcss, and you have to download, compile, and install it.

It's annoying, but better than when DVD support first appeared, and you'd end up compiling something like 5 libraries and a custom version of Xine.
Google Apps just asked you to upload random text files to certain locations or add DNS TEXT records to verify you own the domain. So does Amazon with SES. You just make an account with them and they give you the stuff.

Why isn't that good enough? No need to use a cert to verify it.
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Emacs, on the other hand, has some pretty big system dependencies (like gtk3, alsa and imagemagick on a modern linux) and one step of compilation where it actually loads up all the elisp stuff (which is really slow to load), then dumps the memory holding the loaded elisp stuff, and on next startup it just reloads the dumped state into memory. Somehow I strongly doubt that's going to be a simple "cargo install foo".
I wish America had that. At my office, people never even say hi or bye, and I'd be out of place to be the one to do it (but sometimes do anyway).
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SemVer is awful. Yes, even for libraries.

The only purpose of SemVer is to express whether a change is breaking or not. It fails at that. Nobody can predict whether a change is breaking. Because code is complicated, and code with dependencies is exponentially complicated.

At best SemVer communicates from one human to another the _expectation_ about whether a change is breaking. The expectation can, and frequently is, broken.

All changes are breaking changes. Vendor your dependencies by hash. Humans cannot be trusted.
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