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It depends what you create. If it's business apps for your customers, they might not care about availability to 1 billion people, but will appreciate several other things (such as rapid modifications) that more often than not are not so trivial to implement in modern web apps.
> You say "screwed", I say "contributing to society".

How is a coercively collected subsidy for the health expenses of other demographics considered a contribution to society? Is trading one's labour for capital not enough?

> I can't really choose whether or not I get psoriasis or have a heart attack.

There are plenty of places throughout the United States where the only viable means of transportation is the automobile (or a motorcycle, as you point out). The consequences of not having auto insurance is also bankruptcy. Would you characterize the auto insurance market in those locales as similarly coercive?
Yes, it is still unethical.

> Where it gets murky is if you don't have a job, you're stuck -- it's very difficult to leave your marriage without at least attempting to find someone else before a divorce.

Are you saying that you should continue to live off of the spouse's salary while shopping on the side?
After having spent the last 3 years in insurance with Allay trying to take on employer health insurance costs by making it easier for smaller groups to become self insured, I have found that the regulations are cumbersome but not huge blockers. The regulations are there to protect people and for the most part do that job correctly.

The hard part about this industry is that there is no single incumbent to disrupt, but thousand of very small businesses who have personal relationships with their clients. Also whereever you jump into the process, you have to deal with companies who do not value technology as much as the HN crowd would. These companies still print out PDFs and have automated very little of their business. No matter how fast you make your software, you are the behest of the companies below and above you in the chain.

If anybody wants to nerd out on the insurance industry, my contact is in my profile.
That would be the most romantic story IMO.
Do you mean in the 2nd paragraph? I think they're using it correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass
Health insurance is a very different business than P&C and one that I've spent a lot less time researching. Each customer interaction at least 3 participating actors (patient, provider, payer), each of which have different incentives, rules, and understanding of those rules.

I think there are great companies being built in the space (take a look at what Clover Health is doing https://www.cloverhealth.com/en/), but it's not an area I'm focusing on.
Ehh... the issue is mostly that online dating doesn't go very well for the vast, vast majority of people. On the other hand, I know plenty of not-particularly-attractive people who've met partners through all sorts of weird and whacky situations.

Fact of the matter is that finding potential partners, like finding anyone, is about constantly growing the network of people you interact with. I meet new people nearly every week through various communities I'm part of and organise. Many of them stay that way, just "part of my community", some of them become great friends, and very few become partners. You're unlikely to manage that while working 80 hours a week, going to the bar once or twice a week, and otherwise not being involved in much.

Also, speaking personally... the sort of person who thinks it's fun to spend their time automating personal interaction is not the sort of person I want to date.
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The ones I've met are fairly critical of their government and know about Tienanmen. Yours is one anecdote, as is mine. Only a study can give concrete conclusions, but since the nature of life in the US is in direct contrast to that in China, I doubt they're unreasonably supportive of a authoritarian government in China
> It's not a visa waiver if you can be denied entry so easily, as many people are.

I'm not sure that 700 out of 1.2Million qualifies as 'many people'. Of course there's no way of knowing how many of those 700 are mistakes, but even if they all are (as I'd be more than willing to believe - government employees aren't high on my list), that's only a 0.06% error rate...

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> Silicone Valley

Silicone Valley is something else entirely.
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Let's just assume all what you alleged is true. Then what do you suggest we do with "the Chinese" or at least "Chinese like that" in the US/West/Wherever-you-are-referring-to?
Right? All the core models are going to be FORTRAN2110 because later editions weren't widely adopted.
I found these insights interesting:

"I know that most people won't believe it, but a 100x increase in income really didn't have that big of an impact on me as a person. It is certainly nice to be in a position where people can't exert any leverage on you, but it's definitely not the primary focus of my life. I get to drive a Ferrari in to work, but my day to day life is almost exactly the same as it was eight years ago. I get up, go in to work, hopefully do some good stuff, then go home. I'm still happy." [1]

[...]

"I feel bad for some companies out there. The founders, who are these incredible engineers, are now directors of their departments doing management rather than engineering. At the same time most of the people they are managing are nowhere near as good as they were at doing the actual work. That's what I hope never happens to me. I want to stay in the trenches working on the things all the time. There is some benefit to sitting back, reading and researching and getting some broader scope on it. But if you're divorced from the low level nuts and bolts of things, like how this actually applies to the real world, then you're just an academic. You get these huge disconnects between what an academic can do and what somebody in production can do." [2]

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I'm afraid it is common.

Java isn't perfect and when people also treat their IDE as a glorified text editor I think it is no wonder they dislike it.

(If you go with Java, embrace it. This is probably the thing I disliked most about the way programming was taught in school: they used Java, but without the tooling that makes it awesome. Supposedly so we should learn it well.

If anyone here teaches Java: by all mean have your students use javac in the first assignmemt but teach them maven the very next thing you do. Learn them to use an IDE -
it's not harmful as long as you don't accept autogenerated code.)
> They come out of this with more obligations: to globally filter some silly thing that somebody somewhere considered illegal, and possibly in the future to globally filter every silly thing that anybody considers illegal anywhere. That's a lot of mess for sure.

They don't have to do this. The ruling is very finely worded. See Michael Geist's immediately following article that replies to the music industries comments about monitoring. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/06/no-monitoring-no-liabilit...

The choice quote is here:

> In fact, the majority stated precisely the opposite, emphasizing that there was no obligation to monitor content and no liability for facilitating access. The court states at paragraph 49:

> The injunction does not require Google to monitor content on the Internet, nor is it a finding of any sort of liability against Google for facilitating access to the impugned websites.

> The music industry may have wanted the Supreme Court of Canada to establish an affirmative duty on Google to monitor content, but the ruling is unequivocal that there is no such requirement as a result of the Equustek decision.

The music industry representatives are basically lying.

There are negative consequences to this law, but it's important to fully understand the written ruling and the limits it imposes and what it could impose. Google is an intermediary in this case so there were limits as to what the SCC could impose on Google.
Most of them that have moved to America exhibit China as a "difficult" situation. Speaking to them as someone of Chinese ethnicity (I was born in Phoenix with parents from Taiwan and I also spent time in Taiwan), I don't think they believe China is great. Many are leaving because the air is bad, some believe a bubble is going to burst, etc.

I mean, that's some serious cognitive dissonance if they're living in America yet exhibit hyperpatriotic attitudes.
It’s funny that you say “I'm designing it in response to real client code.“

To me, a test is not real client code. Real client code is code that calls the API in service of the user. E.g. the real client code for the Twitter API is in your preferred Twitter client, not in the tests that run against the Twitter API.
Not a bad strategy even if it didn't work, dating is often purely a numbers game.

Meet as many people as possible, be as social as possible, create as many opportunities to meet new people as possible.

Also if you're a single male and you want to meet a female partner, I'd recommend moving away from the west coast. The south and midwest have far more women, and a generally friendlier culture which can make the entire meeting/dating process a bit easier.
As I recall, most of the "computer skills" taught were MS Office. Your school must have been different.
Effectively if you take any kind of risk it involves insurance. A concrete example is starting a company and quitting your job. Health insurance is currently heavily tied to employment, so the incentive is not to start a company under those circumstances.
Fuel cells and batteries are fundamentally pretty similar. Fuel cells require that you put in a lot of not necessarily clean energy in a central place to generate hydrogen, then distribute that hydrogen to vehicles, which then use it to drive in a way that doesn't produce further pollutants. The same can be said of electricity. You generate it in a not necessarily clean way, distribute it to vehicles, they use it without polluting further.

Cleanliness isn't really any reason one way or the other but there are other differences. Energy density of hydrogen fuel cells is higher than Lithium ion batteries so vehicles can travel further. On the other hand, physically moving hydrogen is relatively expensive and infrastructure to do so doesn't currently exist while distribution of electricity is a thoroughly solved problem and is relatively efficient.
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That's wonderful, and many health insurers will reward with discounts for such behavior. Mine gives credits for gym memberships, for example.

Not every health condition is preventable.
It's easy to turn this question around: Are you saying that you should live your life beholden to someone else just because they're supporting you financially? Isn't that servitude?
If a "travel ban" or "muslim ban" or (apparently) "guy who coded curl ban" was actually in any way effective, by any yardstick, at reducing danger to the US, then perhaps some action would be warranted. But this is completely hypothetical. I think history will judge Trump and his apologists very harshly.
> The Lee-Gardner Amendment would help us reduce drag by allowing us to make our engines narrower

What am I missing?

They're comparing things to current-day high-bypass turbofan jet engines, which are very wide by design and on-purpose (not because of some regulation).

Sure, part of the high-bypass allows for quieter noise levels, but it's also about efficiency at cruise altitude and speeds.

Turbojet engines designed for supersonic speed are already much narrower, well at least the nacelle is, or lack-thereof (again, by design -- optimized for fast speeds, not because of some regulation).

As far as I'm aware, the reason there aren't supersonic civil aircraft is because of the enormous cost involved in operating them, and the restrictions of supersonic flight over mainland due to shock wave damages, etc... not the size of the engine as appears to be asserted in this article.

So, any new legislation only needs to target lifting the over mainland restrictions (and somehow change physics to not have shock waves...), but you can't legislate-away the enormous costs involved in building and operating supersonic aircraft.
Insurance is essential. They are like brakes in your car. You incorporate them not because you want to go slow, but because it enables you to go fast.
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On the very first page of the PDF you linked: paragraph a, "Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking that permits the development, testing, manufacturing and operation of civil supersonic aircraft in the United States."

I mean, it's right there. S. 1405 is about operating supersonic aircraft in the US, aircraft that by definition make sonic booms.
I did not read the whole post yet but it could be a picture of his fiance. I could not quickly find the source of the image through google image search [0]. What are the odds?

[0] http://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn-images-1.me...
It does on phones where voice detection is not ran on a separate chip.
Yeah, either his "optimal" picture made him look a lot better than he looked in person, his personality was off, or he was really picky. 150 dates in a place like the bay area, where probably lots of his dates had something in common with him (blogging, tech, etc.) and not being satisfied with any that liked him back? That seems crazy to me.
> I've yet to see someone suggest a better process or practice that alleviates their concerns with TDD.

I think that's part of the point. If you want to follow a process like clockwork, test-implement-refactor-test, then TDD might be the best we have.

But what if not having any process is better than even the best formalised process? That's certainly my personal experience: my haphazard, process-free way of hacking delivers solid results very fast.
Exactly this. It's Red, Green, Refactor.

1. Write test; build fails because code under test DOESN'T EXIST

2. Write the least amount of code needed for the test to pass

3. Refactor & repeat process ad infinitum

The Wikipedia entry for TDD also states this explicitly [0]

This is a differentiating feature of test-driven development versus writing unit
tests after the code is written: it makes the developer focus on the requirements
before writing the code, a subtle but important difference.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development#Test-d...
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Someone could still create a single app that plugs into many cities' existing ride services. It may not be as uniform an experience, but it saves the headache of downloading and setting up a new app for each city.
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The problem with your first item is that Taiwan's political orthodoxy ALSO says its part of China... the disagreement is about which government is the legitimate ruler of both zones.

I personally believe Taiwan is a separate country be every objective measure, but the current mess isn't just the PRCs making, past and present Taiwanese politicians deserve some blame here too.
> SWAT-ing of a country

Iraq comes to mind, although the forged information came from the invading country's own services.
One example - startups that are looking to sign large enterprise contracts are often prevented from doing so because they don't carry a sufficient level of errors and commissions (E&O) insurance to satisfy customer requirements.

Getting that level of coverage can be difficult because the few people on the insurance side really understand how to price software/security risk, and because the size of contract isn't meaningful to the seller of the policy, though it is critical to the startup in question.
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Hong Kong was not wealthy, developed, or cosmopolitan to begin with. At the outset of the colonization the mean income was 1/3 that of Britain, a few decades later it was 4/3 that of Britain.
Oh, right, they added their FIFO queues. My bad; thanks for the correction. Worth noting, though, that AWS's own services can't talk to FIFO queues. If you want to wire up SNS or Lambda dead-letter queues to a FIFO queue, you are out of luck.
I'm not an expert on TDD, but how does TDD help in this situation?

If your requirements change, your existing tests and code become (partly) useless. This would indicate the most efficient way is the exact opposite where you test minimally until the requirements have stabilized.
I know jokes aren't allowed here, but this really made me crack up.
A tunnel is already massively over specced for that because it's preventing the tons of soil/rock/building overhead from collapsing down. The forces for cars passing underneath is minuscule compared to that. For a hypothetical covered roadway you want something much cheaper and lighter so it's not mind numbingly expensive to build.
> Step 1, for success, is moving away from the west coast

FTFY.

I'm not joking either, for straight single men they will certainly have better odds in the midwest or south. Demographics plus minor cultural differences matter.
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That is not a solution. That's like saying "Prices of McDonalds burgers are really high, the solution to that is to give a fixed $15 tax credit for every burger people buy".

A single actuarial pool is like not having a pool at all. If you want to support a single payer healthcare system, then say so, don't call it a 'single actuarial pool' because then the word 'actuarial' doesn't mean anything and at that point it stops being an 'insurance'.
To be fair, they are upfront in the beginning about not being able to adhere to an exactly-once model.

"In the past three months we’ve built an entirely new de-duplication system to get as close as possible to exactly-once delivery"

What's annoying is that they do not get precise and formal about what they want out of their new model. Also, their numbers only speak to performance, not correctness.

On the plus side, I think it's awesome to see bloom filters successfully used in production. That sort of thing is easy to implement, but not easy to get right for every use case.
I think you are totally correct both in your view that some take goods things too far and that this isn't the first time this pattern has been repeated.

I wonder what things I am expounding now that I will pull back on in the future?
It's funny, at my company we implemented deduplication almost exactly the same way for our push notification sender.

The scale is smaller (about 10k rpm), but the basic idea is the same (store a message ID in a key-value store after each successful send).

I like the idea of invalidating records by overall size, we hadn't thought of that. We just use a fixed 24-hour TTL.
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Jutland: there were issues around the culture of waiting for signals (flags!) from the flagship and also around the personality of the Commander in Chief and some of the other admirals as well as the issue you mention.

See The Rules of the Game by Andrew Gordon if you have an interest in naval history or how large organisations respond to change.
> Is trading one's labour for capital not enough?

No? I believe folks in a modern, developed-world society have slightly more obligation to their fellow citizens than that. Some people can't labor, so we have things like SCHIP (kids), SSDI (disabled), etc.

> Would you characterize the auto insurance market in those locales as similarly coercive?

The US focus on private cars is problematic, but the choice to move somewhere with better public transport or closer to a job is generally available (if potentially difficult).
The highest I've seen in the wild is 60 or so, so I'll bow to your superior getting-bitten-in-the-ass-by-it. =)

(And if so, in the prior commenter's situation--okay, create three certs. LE might not support 300 certs, but 3 with 100 SANs should work just fine.)
Dental insurance in the US is a bad example, because they generally pay for (in a year) 2 routine cleanings, silver fillings, and a percent of anything else, up to some ridiculously small maximum of $2k or something. You very much can get price quotes for dentistry.
This is perhaps a bad political environment to propose a bill that would let billionaires operate supersonic pleasure craft over the US, at considerable annoyance to 99.99% of the population.
Eh they've been pushing this for a little while. I consider it more like hedging their bets:

H1B labor + "everyone can code" = WIN!

No H1B labor + "everyone can code" = WIN!
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From my friend group there are two types of individuals:

1. Individuals who date many people, breaking up if they find something non-optimal. These include minor things like, not cleaning up on occasion, or not liking something you do.

2. Someone who dates very few (1-3) individuals, sticking with them until a serious, fatal flaw appears, like being racist or physically harming others, etc.

If you define a successful dater as someone who has both longevity and quality in a single relationship then Group 2 has far more success in their relationships, in my experience.
This is why TDD failed...

People don't like doing it.

So they don't.

The end.
Actually, dental care is like that in the US - your dentist can tell you the price, and you can price shop it. If you happen to have dental insurance, they may not know how much of that bill will be covered, but you can absolutely get costs from them.

Other healthcare on the other hand is often a mess, although it is getting better. I've found recently (an MRI in this instance) that I was able to get costs beforehand, and even compare prices. I think the prevalence of HDHP (high deductible health plans) has steered people towards expecting to pay out-of-pocket for care, which has led to a positive change in this area.
TLDR;

Corporations are funding university research in a way to get a return on their investment which leads to remaking society according to their own, unrepresentative political beliefs. After all, corporations are headed by billionaires who are making the world a better place, or are they? The one percent have disrupted the media and universities by creating their own brands, products, authors and bloggers around themselves. New energy to address unionization (create or destroy - not sure) within the established media and academic circles (our flag bearers of trust and intellectualism) can create strong political networks to protect us all from this type of future.
"how did you meet that guy?" -Ow, he had a bot on tinder and I responded to it.

Not the most romantic guy, despite his date ideas.
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