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Twilio got out of that business a long time ago in order to focus on the core product, which was the right decision at the time and ultimately still now. There are loads of Twilio customers who make their living sell contact center solutions built on top of Twilio and that is exactly what Twilio wants.

Disclaimer: I am ex-Twilio
I disagree. I run a SaaS product and disposable emails are a bane to my existence. I get thousands of signups a day from people all around the world using disposable email addresses trying to milk the free tier of the product.

You have no idea the lengths people will go to.

If all you wanted to do was test a product out, create a real email address even if it's full of bogus details.

If you won't try my product without a real address then you're a customer I don't want and don't need.
> motivation

All new writers\performers\creatives have 0 people waiting to receive their work.

You don't need motivation, you need discipline. Write\create\whatever. It will be the only way to turn your 10 readers into 10,000 readers.
We don't have even sustainable use of the Earth resources, even if the Earth is actually suited for human life, but you somehow imagine that we'd be able to do better on Mars, which isn't suited for life at all, having no magnetosphere?

Please study where the energy on Earth comes from and how the rare materials are obtained.

The basic assumption of all "Mars colonies work" theories is the functioning Earth civilization that supports it, paying a lot for it (at least in resources and work) to support it.

The argument for having a Mars colony is "in case something happens to Earth." But "in case something happens to Earth" the Mars colony dies. It's that simple.
I really don't like this service at all. It destroys value, like the ability to be anonymous, and enables abuse by companies - the 90% use case is by companies who use it for sending marketing junk as we all know perfectly.
I decided to try using VS: Code (which was installed under Windows) to work on my projects. Opening a file ends up trashing it entirely. This is actually expected behavior; I just wasn't aware :(
Very much so.

More and more i feel that he PC and smartphone has just been about recreating the mainframe using smaller components.

The laser may well have been the last really new thing to come about.
this is a ridiculously uncharitable interpretation of the comment you're replying to. do you expect a charitable response? it looks like you're trying to provoke a flame war.
Pence particularly caused a HIV outbreak: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-indiana-hiv_u...

And for the rest: Anyone who wants to remove Obamacare without having a more inclusive plan ready.
You realize "privileged" in this sentence is a vacuous epithet and has no bearing on the term's origins in sociological criticism, right?
"APL, and its successor J [...] provide a notational interface to an interesting model of computation: loop-free, recursion-free array processing." How is APL loop-free, exactly?

Later they say: "Under this implicit lifting, the iteration
space is the argument frame rather than a sequence of loop indices." So if I understand correctly, we have iteration, but no loop. But that doesn't seem like a really important distinction...what am I missing?
Perhaps it interferes with deduplication/compression of the storage, which would throw off some level of storage efficiency and increase costs for Drive. That said, I don't think I would really want to use a cloud drive service that discouraged client side encryption.
>> Single payer has the government pay those tolls.

On our behalf, collectively, with our money. Some people still haven't processed just what "single payer" means.
I don't see how you can say my approach, a disposable email address, is less secure or privacy focused than yours. It makes zero sense to me.

Please by all means explain this to me.
I agree, but I think that vaping of concentrates, edibles, and sub-lingual preparations are the biggest in the next decade or two. Now that people with degrees can work in this space without fear for their freedom, lives, and careers, interesting things are emerging. Cryogenic removal of trichome heads, then fractional distillation of the oils with steam and CO2. The result is that you can isolate individual terpene profiles from a given strain, separate from the THC bearing oil, and the CBD bearing crystals!

I think it might just end up as one of those things we all have in the medicine cabinet, in various forms.
> I have recently been trying to bone up on the legal discussion surrounding the general welfare and commerce clauses

You will find that the jurisprudence surrounding those clauses bears no resemblance whatever to what the clauses actually say. For example, look up Wickard v. Filburn and see if you think that Supreme Court decision used a reasonable interpretation of what Congress can regulate under the guise of "interstate commerce".

Interestingly, though, the clause under which the individual mandate was found constitutional was actually the Taxing Clause--the Supreme Court said it was not constitutional under either the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause, which was how the government had argued the case. In other words, the Supreme Court said that, while it was not constitutional to require everyone to purchase health insurance, it was constitutional to tax people who didn't. Go figure.

The full opinion is here:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf
Is anyone actually short Tesla to a significant degree? I can understand the normal hedging positions and daily trading, but shorting a stock with so much positive sentiment is folly...
Why not? I've actually adopted this habit lately because I think it makes it easier to read, especially if the quote is lengthy.
War happened a lot in the "Cold" War.

MAD arguably lengthened conventional conflicts since it made both sides less willing (and both sides knew this about the other) to seek decisive victory.
> ... the solution is not to legally prohibit employers from performing genetic screenings, it's simply to cover [everyone]

OK, but then why would employers even bother to query the genetics of their employees? So they could STILL discriminate on the basis of genetics (regardless of whether it cost them in medical insurance)?
Difficult for family reasons right now, but having lived in New Zealand w/universal health care, I know first-hand how many things improve in a society with safety nets.
> a secure, free and open source platform for messaging.

Free and open source is relatively easy, "secure" is a very hard problem

> It's somehow impossible to find a solution that combines both great features and privacy

what great features are missing from the likes of telegram and signal?

Please don't take this personally, I'm not trying to pick holes in your statements, I just want to understand what is driving you to try to build your own IM client.

It's important to realise that
1. There's a lot of competition
2. building something like this is a huge commitment and will take up all of your spare time for at least a number of months
3. People are happy using what they already use

I imagine you're hoping that you'll build an IM client thats free, open, secure, has all the best features of others and respects privacy, and that all of your friends will then switch to using this client.

Getting user traction is perhaps the hardest part of this equation. If you're lucky, you'll build an open, free, working IM which has a handful of the features you want, and you'll convince a few friends to install it. But the majority of the people you know will still use whatsapp, or snapchat, or whatever, and you'll end up splitting your conversations between those apps and this new app that you yourself created.

As always, there's a relevant xkcd comic for this situation, and this is it: https://xkcd.com/927/
1 study back in ... 1953 / 1957 ? the technology of headlights really changed in the past 15 years not to mention 70.

For me, it cuts down on the amount of glare from those HIDs and maladjusted headlights.

"PURKINJE SHIFT" is the shift of frequencies that an dark adjusted eye is sensitive to; basically, a dark adjusted eye is more sensitive to blue.
Well, it could just use function name and leave it to javac/kotlin/other JVM front end to handle overloads and generate unique names. Although that wouldn't work nice with refection and other run-time features I guess.
The US (and Canada and Australia) are bad on climate change because they have entrenched interests in fossil fuels which leads to political lobbying.

Europe doesn't have those specific problems, but it has others.

Politicians will do whatever has political benefits to them. Economic benefits, or even reality, are purely secondary. You might get the occasional exceptionally altruistic politician, but the average one will act on his incentives.

This is why you see stuff like the Reinhart & Rogoff paper, which never passed peer review, touted for austerity politics even long after it was retracted. Austerity is popular with a part of the population and politicians will use whatever to justify whatever they're trying to do.

Judging anything on its political success is nonsense
I just read Chaos Monkeys (http://amzn.to/2nr5THJ) – a silicon valley insider tale with someone who worked at FB – and it points out that one of FB's cultural strengths was the ability and willingness to completely change their character in response to new conditions.

As it grows, I'm sure inertia will continue to slow it down, but that willingness for reinvention seems like quite a powerful property.

(Another current book – Antifragile (http://amzn.to/2nr15ST) – discusses systems that benefit from randomness and volatility. I wonder if the willingness for reinvention allows for a kind of anti-fragile generational selection to work: instead of waiting for selective forces to birth a different and new stronger generation, you transform yourself (or your company) to _become_ that new generation, allowing you to directly benefit from selective pressures. It's tough to do, psychologically and culturally, and the willingness to do so seems an extremely valuable quality to cultivate.)
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Its not the impact itself, but with activism people can influence local outcomes much better than national and much much better than international outcomes. Almost any one can go to City council meeting and let their presence know, and with enough patience can get audience of the council both in public and private forum. To do that at National and International level the costs involved are high and there is no denying you have fund your trips to DC/NY/London/Geneva/The Hauge etc.

That is the point, big fish in small pond vs small fish in an ocean metaphor.
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Indeed - in fact, the previous paragraph states your app risks not being approved if you don't follow the guidelines!

>We want to give you some guidelines for apps not to build on the Amazon Drive platform to save you time in building something that will not be approved during the App Review process
hmm, I wonder if that doesn't explain the lack of a new GoTs book

that GRRM doesn't really like his options from where he is in the story
1+ (2?) billion users. You make it sound like they're a has-been.
The only app on my phone that's not trying to copycat Snapchat is Termux.
Not if you are talking about compilable java code, because as the article explains, there are things you can express in byte code which you can simply not express in java source code.
One of life's little mysteries is that you almost always lose money if you invest internationally. A friend of mine says it is because the locals know what is going on better than you do.

Tencent was a major investor in Magic Leap and the Saudi Sovereign Fund invested heavily in .coms in early 2000. It is definitely not a sell signal, but I would not buy what Tencent is buying.
How do they accept pins for chip-and-pin transactions? If it's on the seller's phone then I wouldn't be comfortable using Square on either side of the transaction.
Twilio has been using many AWS services since inception. Many of Twilio's early team members, including Jeff Lawson came from Amazon/AWS. It was while at Amazon watching AWS's explosive growth that Jeff had the lightbulb to offer cloud telephony services.
Sorry it isn't clear to you, we could definitely do a better job with the README. If you look on the website[0] you'll see actual examples of usage. (I just announced this project on stage at ReactLondon during my talk, so it's very fresh and we haven't had a lot of time to clean up the docs yet)

Basically, there is lots of styles in JavaScript libraries floating around, especially in the React ecosystem. The issue is that many people need Sass utility functions and mixins like lighten/darken/clearfix to be productive with their styling, and no real comprehensive "Compass for styles in JavaScript" exists—so this is it.

We looked at a lot of existing JavaScript color libraries, but most of them have some sort of fluent API that is very different from the way CSS preprocessors handle these functions. This confuses people and makes the API hard to learn, so we decided to build our own that mimics the Sass API as closely as possible. (apart from being all curried functions that are composeable, which means switching some argument orders around)

[0]: https://polished.js.org
War is a criminal act perpetrated for power and money, and happens because propaganda is unchecked and human life under appreciated.
Sure, i can do little to impact back, however the post i was replying to was claiming it would be impossible for me to be impacted by both. Yet i undeniably am. Also, being informed means i can at least provide my friends with appropiate emotional support.
The cynic in me groans at the ability for chuggers to accept card. The "I only carry card, sorry" excuse will need revising!
You've to download the app and then hope that they are in English. If they are indeed in English you've to create an account and add your credit card information before you can call a cab.

I was in Germany recently and compared the fares quoted by both Uber and mytaxi apps and Uber came out to be cheaper by at least 5 euros on multiple occasions.
Keep online privacy intact
yeah they load up my Google Analytics stats with referral spam all the time.
OK, that beats my previous favorite which was testing whether adding mercury to rocket fuel will make the rocket go better. (As predicted from theory it does, but pollutes the landscape.)
My work laptop will forget my window arrangement maybe once per week, maybe less than that. I mean, it restarts at least once a week and forgets everything, but there's nothing I can really do about that, so I don't fault the system for that.

However, my home laptop forgets window layouts constantly - basically every other time I unlock it. I don't know what's different between the two setups, and I've never bothered to spend any time trying to 'fix' it, but windows is kind of inconsistent on how it behaves. Windows 10 definitely makes multimonitors much better, though.
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From Wikipedia:

In an effort to bootstrap the GNU operating system, Richard Stallman asked Andrew S. Tanenbaum, the author of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit (also known as the Free University Compiler Kit) if he could use that software for GNU. When Tanenbaum told him that while the Free University was free, the compiler was not, Stallman decided to write his own.Stallman's initial plan was to rewrite an existing compiler from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory from Pastel to C with some help from Len Tower and others. Stallman wrote a new C front end for the Livermore compiler, but then realized that it required megabytes of stack space, an impossibility on a 68000 Unix system with only 64 KB, and concluded he would have to write a new compiler from scratch. None of the Pastel compiler code ended up in GCC, though Stallman did use the C front end he had written.

GCC was first released March 22, 1987, available by FTP from MIT. Stallman was listed as the author but cited others for their contributions, including Jack Davidson and Christopher Fraser for the idea of using RTL as an intermediate language, Paul Rubin for writing most of the preprocessor and Leonard Tower for "parts of the parser, RTL generator, RTL definitions, and of the Vax machine description."

It reminds me that the success of Stallman's free software movement is in no small part due to Stallman being an incredibly talented programmer...Emacs or GCC alone and separately would probably be enough to put him in a hacker pantheon.
> competition in the marketplace is ultimately great for the consumer

Not necessarily. History is replete with monopolies that arise through competition; cabals, sweetheart deals and other secret arrangements designed to fool the consumer into believing there is competition where there is none; race to the bottom in terms of quality vs profit margin; exploitation of underprivileged workers; and so on.

Not to say that all competition is bad, just that market competition is not a panacea.
It's legitimately a tactic, but not a legitimate tactic.
spiritual gutter? Well, it's your choice. If you want to avoid the gutter and spend your 100 year dream doing very "pure" things and not indulging in hedonism go for it. That's a valid choice. But so is mine. You have to ask yourself if you are really not you, you are the universe, what did you want? Did you want a 100 year boring dream or a 100 year exciting dream? How exciting? And is the 100 years serious? Or is it all a big joke? Well, that your choice. What do humans do when all the work is done? Sing and dance. And the real question to ask: should this be allowed? Like how dare we enjoy ourselves!
Focus on HTML and CSS. Those will still be relevant in ~10 years, while most of today's JavaScript hotness will be nothing but a memory long gone.
you're the cannabis equivalent of a 3 pack a day tobacco smoker. the very high end of extremely heavy usage. the average cannabis user is probably smoking like 1 joint per week, honestly. a daily user maybe smokes 1 joint per day. very few people have jobs where they can be stoned all day.
Can someone explain the TempleOS author's sprite and graphics interface? From one of his videos it appears that:

1. Once a sprite set has been defined the user can manually (programmatically?) rasterize it
2. User can set affine transforms
3. It seems like the boundary between 2d and 3d API is small, or easily traversable, or non-existent. In one of his 2d examples it appears he changes a parameter to get animation in the z-axis.
4. Sprites are somehow part of the language (or at least seem to be integrated deeply into it).

To me it looks a bit like editing an SVG, automatically converting it to HTML5 canvas, then switching to WebGL, seamlessly.
I think this is an Easy win for DIMM in servers where you could fit a much larger capacity then DRAM. And this is only a first gen product.

But for consumers? I am not sure if they can feel the difference between a decent SSD drive and Optane Memory.
It fits the role of Page File. So you could always have 2x - 3x the Optane Memory as Page Cache. System with this would means less Memory required, and saves battery. While the controller for SSD could be less complicated and focus primarily on Seq/Read Write. SSD could also be DRAM-less, save cost and battery.

But even then, $44 for 16GB is just hard to convince most consumers.
Looks like it is on the seller's phone, yup.

Not sure how trustworthy that is, exactly.

--edit-- You can find their PTS approval here - https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ptsdocs/Contactless_Chi...

--edit 2-- That's the only one with ICC and contactless I can find, but it talks about USB connections. This surely must be approved for untethered/bt connections? Hmm
I would be curios to know which of the buttons gets the most use
The analogy doesn't work, because "racecar" isn't a technology used in the side mirrors.
I did that for a bit, but there's only so many variations and remembering which email belongs to which service is not nearly as straight forward.
I wouldn't doubt overwork as a factor, but the elephant in the room is meaninglessness. Work, like God, is dead. Even for tech workers, the novelty has worn off, and people pretty much realize that the core feature of their jobs is their own economic exploitation.

Burnout, like all pain, may be a feature.
You should have told this fact to Yahoo management before they invested in Alibaba or maybe to Naspers before they invested in Tencent.
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I don't know of any democracy that requires deposing money before you get access to a tribunal. That's not loser pays.

Raising the bar into requiring evidence before the court accepts the case solves the problem. No need to invent an access to court tariff.
Just hit the over 40 bump ... readers are necessary.

I went from needed bifocals to just readers and in 15 years; of wearing 1+ to 1.25+. Now, for fine detail work, i look like the guy from Toy Story 2 with magnifiers up to +4. SMTs are tiny !

Normal computer work, still +1s. I do need a lot more light though.
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Can you explain what kind of access you mean? I thought preferential information sharing with specific investors violated SEC rules?
Or maybe the fact that we didn't do it would inspire a new generation to achieve something (going to the Moon) that is still out there to do. I don't think anyone is forgetting the inspirational value, just challenging whether it was value for money.

For what it's worth the moon landing had a profound effect on me. I was 6 during Apollo 17 and still remember looking up at the moon and knowing there were people on it at that moment.
“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results”
such a trash piece