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Yes you need two pipes, but it might or might not be expensive.

If your target it a farmer in the middle of nowhere you have twice as many pipes, twice as many pumps and no real ways to leverage economies of scale. Thus farmers typically have their own private well: they can drill a new well every 10 years for less than the cost of putting a pipe from the nearest city to their house. (wells generally last more than 10 years, but you have to replace the pump once in a while)

If you are targeting a downtown then there are high rises all over which increases the population density. The cost of putting in two sets of pipes is not much more than one larger pipe, and the pipes are amortized over everyone in the building on both sides of the roads - figure and extra $.50/month to have the second set of pipes: cheap enough that nobody will care.

The above are two different extremes, the only question is where along the spectrum is your question asked?
My plan relies on politicians in the USA/UK considering the wellbeing of the workers in their country a priority over the wellbeing of workers in other countries and a priority over a small group of elite capital-holders. It's failing because they don't but that's a pretty sad statement about where we find ourselves politically.
Yes, and delayed_write as well.

I tried to port a (very simplistic, but fast) market data append-only database from Scala to Erlang. In Scala, I have no performance issues, but the code is unnecesarily complex to my taste.

In Scala, I am getting around 100000 events per second, with great additional optimization margins (memory mapped files are great). In Erlang, it barely works with few hundred events per second.

Right now I have googled that disk_log in Erlang is fast enough, but it uses Erlang's own internal binary format (there is an option to plug custom codecs, but it is wonderfully under-documented, to say the least).

This looks strange to me, because Erlang is well-optimized regarding the network IO. What's the difference for file IO?
The effect described by Von Mises is exactly what leads to this aggressive behavior from large retailers. Walmart knows that the customer doesn't care about Walmart. They go to Walmart because they believe Walmart will get them the best bang for their buck.

When Walmart sets aggressive standards for its suppliers, it does so in the interest of maintaining that position, because they know that the customer will not hesitate to switch to a retailer that they perceive as being more advantageous (which usually means cheaper).

It could even be seen as honorable that Walmart is on the ground doing the hard work of pressuring suppliers to ensure that they actually are able to offer rock-bottom prices, instead of just relying on marketing voodoo to create this as a phantom impression in the consumer's mind without actually attempting to affect it.

The system can either try to restrain this core human tendency to jump at the most advantageous thing, in the belief that such disloyalty is a primal impulse that does not belong in 'civil society', or it can attempt to recognize this tendency and account for it organically rather than ruling it out of bounds.

The extent of such tradeoffs, authoritative restriction meant to prevent damage v. organic re-routing such that damage is minimally disruptive, is always a matter of context and subjective judgment. We get into political snafus when we adopt one side of this scale as an ideal with near-religiosity and overemphasize the negative costs of the opposite side.
There are degrees to things, and wealth inequality in the US is the worst it's been since right before the Great Depression. The idea that wealth inequality on this level is 'no big deal' is as stupid as it gets.
> Better service? That is highly arguable.

You shouldn't ding me on voicing a clearly labeled opinion as an opinion.

> but to say Azure is a better service is a lie.

Like you did here. This is ridiculous. You have your value judgement, I have mine. They're different.
capitalism -- an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

So you are saying that the investors, i.e. the capital, pressured Kalanick out for reasons of profit rather than due to pressure by the state in the form of multiple lawsuits. You are mistaken.

In particular, there is no evidence that Uber's naughty bro culture is any less profitable than a mature egalitarian culture. Lack of profit wasn't why Kalanick was shown the door.
There were actually reporters on the ground and you can listen to interviews with them. Also, I never said it was very hard, I simply said they did it, and they did it quickly. Nobody can claim that Kabul and Baghdad did not fall quickly.

There is not gone be a war with Russia. If there was a war you can be damn sure that the US would whip Russia armed forces of the map. Also, Russia official defense doctrine is nuclear response to a lost in conventional conflict.

Again, yes the military is expensive. They do a good job of fighting traditional military conflict. The reason the US never wins is because of defunct politics, not defunct military. The military is just bloated and expensive, but not defunct.
We've updated the link from https://cacm.acm.org/news/218748-whats-new-in-googles-go-1-9..., which points to this.
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Oh yes, you're right, so not a mortgage, but someone renting, with no savings, and a credit card debt or as you say, a student loan.

That is a problem - for a lot of people, that will mean little to no leeway when things go wrong - but that's not the point that most people are making when they use that statistic.
if that's the case, you'd have to protest lots of start ups and companies in silicon valley. There's no shortage of toxic workplaces.

I think it's a good think to break down monopolies and open up competition.
It is a clear alternative to C++. The GC is optional.
Combinator is a pretty overloaded term, it's difficult to pin down. In practice, something like `never` would be called a combinator, though.

Also, in theory a combinator is just an expression of no free variables. S-K-I calculus is the canonical set of "combinators" and all three of them could be considered "functions" but also could be considered "atoms". So perhaps it's just vague.
I find this use case interesting (linked from the comments in the ars article)

https://www.augmedix.com/

having the doctor wear google glass while a "remote scribe" takes notes for the doctor to sign off on later.
I don't know much about brewery, but is there a reason this method might have been lost to time and why the more familiar 'china wines' took over popularity?
Trump (err well, The Whitehouse and his staff) don't have a policy on trade deals at the moment officially.

But the GOP do. Some notables include:

"International trade is crucial for our economy." [1]

"Negotiate reductions in tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and the elimination of other trade barriers so that our autos, heavy machinery, textiles, and other products will no longer be shut out of foreign markets." [2]

"Advance a Free Trade Area of the Americas to take advantage of burgeoning new markets at our doorstep." [3]

Interesting to see how GOP ideals are forced to evolve at the helm of a madman president because the quoted text above around a decade old.

[1] http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Republican_Party_Free_Trade...
[2][3] Ibid.
Capitalism did indeed force Kalanick to resign.
Blind was not the best term to use. I meant the rating will have to be made by the driver before he can see the tip given by the passenger, so they cannot leave a lower rating because of what they deem to be not enough of a tip.
How many times have you thought to yourself “Damn, I really wish my bank account had an API”?

Now that's an intro!
> This is the argument that Trump voters knew he was likely a con, but at least he was paying lip service. This is belied by the continued support since when he has done the exact opposite of what he said.

“Continued support”? No, Trump's seen a significant decline in support since taking office.

> He's revealed himself to be that con and yet his voters still enthusiastically support him.

No, again, in fact, the decline in his strong support in polling has been more rapid than the decline in his overall support.
It's the same in France, yet some aggregators (e.g. Bankin) are using those credentials directly (and afaik the risk is handled via some sort of insurance).

I'm personally waiting for the PSD II law to be deployed (see https://blog.teller.io/2016/04/26/tauth.html) in order to have clear-cut protections & boundaries, before leveraging Bankin or similar (Teller) as a SaaS product builder.
It's not even in the same order of magnitude as the sales of AWS.
Are they shadowbanning this?
Great, corporations holding off new ideas.. This is why we are still using the same linear programming style we had 30 years ago
But how do you smell after you shower it off? It could also be that people who exercise a lot might be less likely to sweat outside of exercise time.
Maybe you meant to post this on Soical Worker News?
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Wow, really? Do the banks know about this? What's to stop them from changing the contract?

This is so insanely risky...
> I’m not a database guy, I’m a node guy.

Is this really a distinction your "scrappy startup type" can afford to make?

> Although since version 3.4.x Mongo passes all Jepsen tests, when our original database was chosen the current version of Mongo at the time did not and was deemed unreliable by the team

Does not pass all Jepsen tests => deeemed unreliable :( Wow. Of all possible reasons, THAT'S the reason MongoDB wasn't chosen? Jepsen, man. Pretty sad so many people just look at Jepsen results like this. Jepsen, really, is about the tests more than the results. It highlights various failure modes that may be difficult or uncommon to replicate in production. These failure modes are important to know about to understand the product you are using, but are not really the end-all when it comes to deciding whether that product is worth using!

Anyway, show me a database that passes Jepsen and I'll show you a database that only accepts writes to a single node.
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They made a big deal about an illegal app that was only necessary because unlike NYC, the other city(s) were trying to restrict the market competition. Uber never used that app in NYC because we welcome technology and competition and the special interests did not dominate the politicians.
No, I think many people just don't like the term and so decided everyone is confused by it. They're not.

It's not self-driving, it's autopilot. That's the contrast they're drawing, and it actually IS clear to the car-buying public. A car is the second biggest single purchase you're going to make in your life, so people aren't going to /not/ figure out what the term means before buying the car.
I think that the GUI-related tweaks must be on sites that are done properly and well established. For these guys the customers know what to expect so a change in design will be received negatively by people that are used to the old site. Although not in ecommerce, the redesign of the BBC site is like that, people want to cling on to the old site and instinctively don't like the new. In time they adjust or get a touchscreen computer and 'get' the changes and what the redesign is about.

Most people are working on sites other than the top ones. With these websites where customers are not regulars, change to the GUI is received differently. Sensible updates to the UX will convert.
Boy aren't you looking to get offended :). I said less OR no return, since it wasn't explicit in your comments. Picking only parts that suit you is ginormously dishonest if my logical OR seems 'quite dishonest' to you :)

But investors are actually doing something as well - they are putting their hard earned money towards a venture. And as it stands today, we have more need for capital than 'actual work'. So it gets rewarded more. In simplistic terms, If you want an investor to put his money into a business you are starting instead of buying up rare resources or hoarding his cash, you give up equity. And hence their reward are relative to the money they put in.

I was just trying to see if you have any alternative plans to encourage such investment. This is back to basics economics as I know, but I don't know much there. Hence my query.
Hi,

Firstly, we don't always need a credential. Some banks provide other auth mechanisms, e.g. EMV CAP. We use this for Barclays and Nationwide. Using Teller might not violate your bank's terms of service, which is why we advise you to read them in conjunction with ours. Furthermore, it is the view of some senior bank people that I speak to that PSD2 will make such clauses in banking terms illegal. It is also worth mentioning there has never been a single case of fraud or loss attributed to "screen-scraping"

Secondly, we have ongoing dialogue open with every major UK bank at very senior levels, from C-level down. We want to help banks deliver these APIs. Formal agreements with banks are a key strategic objective for Teller, but they only started returning my calls once I'd broken their apps and took their APIs. The market can't wait for the banks, developers and users want new choices, apps and service now.
It's only a monad if you define it to be. It's also "just" an applicative if you like. The monadic part arises when people actually _use_ bind and then you lose some information that might be nice for optimizations.
I'm in close communication with many Jupyter developers, got a lot of help and feedback from them, and I hope I influence their direction in some cases. We view CoCalc Jupyter as another Jupyter client in the Jupyter ecosystem (much like nteract, Google Collaboratory, etc.); the implementation framework of CoCalc Jupyter is React.js, so the main code sharing is with Nteract, rather than classical Jupyter. Regarding commercialized open source, Nteract is another Jupyter client who development is funded by a company (currently mainly Netflix).
> Nobody is supposed to "give them" anything. They are supposed to be responsible adults, and as such they are supposed to earn their living themselves.

The point is that the system shifted to "give" some people more, and "give" others less. The winners in these cases were, by and large, already better off than the losers, with the result that political power also shifted (further) in the winners' favor (this is all covered in the linked paper).

The economic system we collectively create absolutely "gives" and "takes" from different groups, all the time. The notion that it's fine for one group to shift the rules to help themselves and harm others, but it's not fine for the harmed to try to retaliate (even via a voting-driven "revolt") is silly.

Letting this go on will, right or wrong, definitely create more crime and, taken far enough and especially coupled by political power shifting toward economic beneficiaries, reliably create political violence (see: relative deprivation). You can be personally offended over how these people aren't "responsible adults" and take an expensive, weakly effective law-and-order approach, or you can try to do effective (even just from a not-unreasonable point of view!) things like redistribute part of the gains that some people receive from changing economic policy to those who are harmed by the same policy, through direct transfers or e.g. retraining programs, even if it offends your derived-from-first-principles sense of right and wrong that labels this as theft or something.

Of course, if (taking a shot in the dark here) your view is that most of what's complex about economic policy (as e.g. the topics essential to the analysis in the linked paper) is accidental ("artificial", perhaps?) rather than essential ("natural"...) this will all come off as nonsense, I suppose.

> If for some reason they can not be satisfied with what they earn, and if they react by "revolting", that is with violence, then unfortunately the only sensible thing to do is to defend the rest of society against them. Poverty is not an excuse for crime, is it?

So no. That's not remotely the only sensible thing to do.

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The Raleigh/Durham area heavily research oriented, so it's better than Austin for data-science work IMO. There isn't really a big web company scene here, there are lots of developer shops and B2B IT service companies though.

If you get a house in south Durham, your commute will be between 5-30 minutes, averaging about 20 minutes. Public transit is not really an option and nothing is walkable, but parking is plentiful (except at the universities).

The area is pleasantly low-density, with lots of parks, hiking, boating, rafting and similar outdoor activities.

Cost of living is lower than Austin for a similar commute and quality level.
The really important part of this post is the section articulating why not Dynamo. It uncovers a big question I ask of all of my customers when they're trying to choose data stores at any point during the life of their application.

Do you know your query patterns for your application?

If you know how your application / product need to pull data from the data store, you way more information that will allow you to pick the right data store to fit the problem at hand.

When you don't have any prior query patterns to go off of, picking a relational database to start your application is a good choice. You need the flexibility to allow your schema to change over time. The schema and query patterns will eventually reach a point where changes don't happen all that often and then you can look to other datastores if you need to scale. Plus, are you really going to have THAT much data when you start?

Disclosure: I work on Heroku Postgres. Could be a little biased....
For the record, I have no doubt you worked very hard and that you deserve all the success you have.

I was only stating that it's impossible for all 7 billion people in the world to do what you did. The 'system' has its limits.

There's a reason why in statistics you throw away outliers...
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I don't understand your second sentence. Government currently allows some pollution. Should government disallow all pollution?
Since low income earners are 1-2 order of magnitude more than high income earners. There can be lot of both variety (peaceful vs angry mob) and it will still lead very troubled times ahead.
Valid point. I don't know why hacker neswies always like to try and extrapolate the entire universe of a poster's discourse from the focus of one specific post.
Learning React and ES6/ES7 at the same time? Invest in a gun ahead of time and keep it relatively close by.
Not without pushing out an update to all of their clients. Which presumably they would know about.
The whole idea that you need to be a monopoly to be subject to any sort of anti-trust regulations is exactly why things are such a mess.

Oh yeah, Bing exists but are you really trying to say google doesn't dictate search?
A lot of that money is going toward Uber/Lyft growing market share. But a lot of the overhead could disappear because so much of it is run by computers.
It's probably not only one. But maybe it's not quite seven billion.
What are the advantages over Anki?
There's plenty of people, myself included, who don't have a car but would otherwise probably get one if effortless car services on-demand like Uber didn't exist. You need to take that into account.

According to some estimates I've seen just constructing a car is equivalent to 3-4 years of carbon footprint of driving it[1][2].

You might say "buy used!". I would, but over the entire economy it would add up to the same amount, the net demand for new cars would increase.

1. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t...

2. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
"But you seem to want the variability, you don't want to be subjected to my setting of 4 spaces because you find it unreadable."

No. I want consistency. If you use 4 spaces and it is readable, then I don't care. But I want to see it the way that you wrote it in order to make that judgement. If I am looking at two different files that were written by 2 different people using 2 different tab width settings, I don't want change my tabwidth per file, just to read it clearly. This is especially a problem where continuation indents are used, and all readability is lost with the wrong tab setting. It is needlessly messy. Using spaces (even if they each used a different number of space indent) would ensure that I see the file as they intended it to be read. That is consistency, and that is what matters to me.

If you use a different number of spaces than me, then that is entirely fine. By using spaces, then I will see your code as you see it. If you use tabs, then all bets are off.
I thought they are?
any thing that you can do with C++ templates, could be done with D templates + CTFE plus would be far more easy to read and understand that C++ templates.
Removing roaming fees for all European telecom operators was also a something that they had little to gain and everything to lose. But, here we are.
From my understanding SEPA is getting implemented. I could see PSD2 following the same path. Some banks will drag their feet, but it is a pandora box situation, as the banks that will implement PSD2 first might get all the apps attention and love, potentially driving new customers.
Let's see next year how PSD2 adoption pans out...

PSD2 explained: https://transferwise.com/gb/blog/what-is-psd2
The site looks great. A welcome change from Large news articles on your face. Great for skimming through the headlines when you are late for your morning classes.(my use case). If you add more general categories I will definitely use it.
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Most of the water we desalinate gets dumped right back in the ocean, add the salt back. Even the water that doesn't get into the sewage system ends up back in the ocean again via the water cycle/rainfall. (meaning we need to worry about local salinity issues but not global)

Actually most sewage systems output water that is safe to drink so we can put that water right back into our drinking water system and forget the whole problem over an over again. (If you ban lawns there might even be water left over as food is turned into water and the food probably isn't grown with city water). People generally don't like the idea of drinking sewage though so this will never happen.
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I've used similar to scrape real estate data. Reverse engineering mobile APIs is often the most consistent way to get programmatic data access these days. Just grabbing a bit of data as a user this isn't a big deal - but I wouldn't want to base my business around it, it seems like there are too many opportunities for that to blow up in your face.

What happens if the banks realize you're doing this and just block your IPs? What happens if they decide to go after you legally because you reverse engineered their applications and are benefiting from it commercially - you'd have a decent argument, but are you prepared to go to court with it?

Then again I guess the screen scrapers have gotten away with it for a fairly long amount of time, so maybe it's not a concern...
I'm not sure if it's not understanding poverty or actively not caring. The US is do divided that I think the sympathy level between the "elites" and "real America" might be so low that many actually care more about Manta Rays going extinct than people in there middle of the country having a life worth living. Who doesn't prefer seeing a Manta Ray over losing an election?

I feel this might be the elephant in the room that nobody wants to talk about. We need to address this very badly.