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Well in my situation Phoenix is really overkill. I don't build monolithic apps anymore. To me Phoenix felt lake taking Ruby and slapping it on Elixir. It didn't really feel like, "The Elixir Way." So I set out and learned Plug(which is mostly what Phoenix is).

I build all my front ends as stand alone ReactJS apps, so I found it very strange to need Phoenix at all. I started learning to work with OTP & Plug and realized that I can build a json-api spec API in complete Elixir without any phoenix requirements and if I need to add sockets it's very very trivial to do so.

The amount of code needed to make this all work in pure elixir is minimal.

Essentially I just didn't need it for the way I build applications these days.
From the article: "The Paris administrative court ruled that Google Ireland Limited was not subject to corporate and value-added taxes for the period 2005-2010". Presumably, GIL has no presence in France and Google France is a separate entity.
Those aren't rebuttals, they're platitudes.
You could argue that energy is being wasted in traditional currency systems. Printing currency, ATM machines, cash registers, transporting cash in armored cars. This energy doesn't serve any purpose besides maintaining the currency itself, similar to bitcoin.
If the answer to "are my dependencies installed and up to date?" is "well, yes and no, we can't tell which copy I'm actually using", I am not ready to go to prod.

> "diamond" where you depend transitively on two different version of the same library

That's a trainwreck waiting to happen. It's not even worth testing, much less deploying.
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Scientists will ALWAYS say this about single events. It's impossible to tie a single event to a long term process like climate change. Although I'm not surprised to see this kind of defense from the party that brought a snowball into Congress as proof that climate change isn't occurring.
Or the back button?
> Could someone make a pro-repeal argument that doesn't boil down to caring more about which bureaucrat enforces the rules than the rules themselves?

If you believe there's capacity for new entrants to the ISP space, e.g. from satellites [1], then the incumbents' present-day margins are a short-term cost for that long-term gain. If you believe the ISP field is more or less locked, then all the innovation will happen downstream. It would thus make sense to restrict the ISPs' margins in favor of Google, Facebook et al.

I'm in that useless place where I see good points on both sides. ISPs need to be able to make money to encourage new entrants. But they shouldn't be able to do so in a way that discourages new entrants downstream. Net neutrality appears to strike that balance. Turning ISPs into utilities does not.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-next-mission-interne...
I don't understand what you think I'm getting wrong here. All of what you say seems completely consistent with the point I'm making.
The fact they thought this was a good idea to begin with speaks volumes about their actual position.
This is because they're not trying to give you stuff you'd generally like given your entire history. The recommendation feature powers the part of YouTube that auto-plays the upcoming video.

So e.g. if I go and view Russian dashcam videos they're going to automatically play more of them, even though I've shown no prior interest in that topic.

Having two systems for recommendations would introduce a lot of UI complexity, so I can see why they didn't go for that, and why the recommendations are consequently tuned for people who are actively watching videos on some topic right now.
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This has been the weakest day of action I could imagine. I thought sites were going to be throttled. Turns out its just some color changes and, oh, reddit has a fancy "slow-loading" gif for their website name. A real wake-up call!
The idea that this will somehow wrest control from governments is a libertarian fever dream, and will be as long as governments have a monopoly on force. At best, governments will allow it to continue to operate in parallel, albeit subject to regulations. At least for citizens of developed nations with heavily regulated financial industries. I don't know if it will be more true for Venezuelans.
Wow nice. I feel like a real noob I didn't even know about the command palette. It's too bad my friends on facebook aren't sharing these instead of all the damn recipe gifs.
It isn't that hard. I have code which lets an OCaml program speak the Erlang distribution protocol. It can more or less stand-in for an Erlang node in the distribution layer. Writing the same for another language shouldn't be that hard: the protocol spoken is a simple prefix-protocol which can be parsed with LL(1) from the head plus an atom cache that is easy to maintain.

That said, good Erlang architectures definitely knows when you should fan out and use a common layer for distribution. At $work we have a Kafka cluster for some event handling simply because it is the right tool for the job, and because it makes it easier to interface other programs on top of it.

In my experience, the distribution features are best used as orchestration however. Your distribution layer is Erlang, and then you use other languages for "leaves" in the architecture. If the right library is present in e.g., Go, then by all means use it. Erlang easily speaks protobuf for instance.
So I would have no problem I don't think with a certain mandatory minimum amount of guaranteed bandwidth unlimited free (as in beer as well as bird) data being provided subsidized I suppose by people who want to stream 3DHD entertainment (say half/third the highest speed the ISP offers). A free and open internet guaranteed and the ability for ISPs to offer VIP services to paying customers/businesses. Everyone is happy or am I just a smug liberal looney left millenial whatever that other guy said... or merely mistaken somehow?
So, we should use a system that’s inferior to actual simple wire transfers, which are less than 20 seconds, free transactions, directly via the ledger?

I’m sorry, but I don’t see the value in Bitcoin if it is worse than SEPA transfers.
My sentiments exactly, especially since we as developers aren't in one team with system admin so they do not seem to understand our struggle.
Yes, sounds reasonable.

I know a few companies and people who make good money with shopify-, wordpress- or atlassian-plugins.

There should be a directory for such systems with market places.
that sounds like 80% of the population, not only Uber drivers
Exponential economist meets finite physicist is a fun read.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
Concerns that seem petty to you seem of existential importance to others. Surely you have noticed that there's a trust deficit in the political economy of late. Also, I don't agree with your implicit point that political activity should be limited to participation in elections, especially given the way a good part of the population is structurally barred from doing so.
It's a hard problem. If they kept recommending old topics, you'd be like "hey, I quit watching pink zebra videos 5 years ago, stop recommending that stuff to me".
Sure. I tried to find information yesterday when I posted that regarding whether / how the `add` code handles differing types. Now since I'm not on my phone, I looked up the ECMA spec and it looks like CIL still only allows like types, with some minor exceptions involving `native int`. So it's just up to the compiler to make sure that actually happens and extend types as necessary.
As I already wrote in my first comment. And now?
"Really? Where is this mass distribution taking place?"

It happens at the transaction level.

You now don't have to pay 30 dollars for a wire transfer. You can send money anywhere in the world, for 1-30cents, depending on your cryptocurrency of choice.
Hopefully the publicly exposed API call into the traffic light network is "I am old, at [x]", not "Set traffic light time to [n] at [x]". Hopefully.
> Bitcoin payments can be cleared off-chain, like VISA payments can be cleared without using SWIFT.

The whole point of SEPA transfers was to move all transfers to be cleared directly via the main ledger, in a matter of seconds, across different countries and currencies.

If Bitcoin is inferior to an existing payment system used by 500 million people, then it’s worthless.
That's a fair concern, but to me it seems like an "easy" yet flawed solution to systemic oppression, kind of like affirmative action. For starters, by drawing districts specifically along racial lines for minorities, you are de facto also drawing the other districts along racial lines for white people. I also think that more diversity in congressional districts is a good thing, as it avoids "lock-in" districts where the incumbent has essentially a 100% chance of winning every election due to homogeneity of their voters. Of course, the other side of the coin is that minority populations can get "diluted" to the point where they can be safely ignored by politicians.

I believe the real solution to our problems is to move away from geographic representation in its entirety. It's too easy to cheat, and by design it only ends up allowing representation of around half the constituents in its area. I'm not sure what could replace it; perhaps a parliamentary system based on opt-in voting blocks could work. But in its present form it does seem deeply flawed.
Yes, compared to a Qt or Xamarin, I guess React or Angular is a walk in the park, hehe ;)
Yes it's 10 years for me as well. Most of that is because we have a 30% efficiency hit because we didn't want to cut down a tree in our backyard that shades it for 2 hours a day during about 6 months of the year. Our system is also larger than our current usage, because we plan to use more (electric car, more kids, etc).

Another benefit to think about is you've effectively locked in your electricity rate. With some companies that might not be a big thing, but here in CA PG&E has been relentless with their rising kwh costs.
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E.g. The Shanghai AWRU index 2015 has 15 US schools in the top 20.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/shanghai-r...
I think we have to be really specific about regulation, and, because of scope, it's hard to do that. The system we currently have is not quite, but similar to, the worst of both worlds. We have regulators who let major corporations get away with murder - because the regulators are either beholden to corporations or beholden to politicians who are beholden to corporations; at the same time, they make life unnecessarily difficult for small businesses, which helps the larger corporations by eliminating much of the competition for them.

I don't agree with everything William Sanjour says on this, but he makes a lot of good points, and it's very possible that my points of disagreement stem from me not knowing/understanding as much as Sanjour, which I clearly don't. In this piece, he even gives you the TL;DR.

To summarize, this is what I believe needs to be done :

1) Agencies which enforce regulations should not write the regulations.

2) The revolving door should be shut.

3) Whistle blowers should be protected, encouraged and rewarded.

4) To the greatest extent feasible, those who the regulations are intended to protect should participate in writing and enforcing the regulations.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/designed-to-fa...
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How can people drop a comparison between a kernel and a supposed init and not stop and go "wait, what?!".

Having a would be second kernel metastasizing in userspace is no a good thing, full stop.
Mach is fine. The IPC primitives it exposes are a lot more straightforward than Unix sockets. The performance issues everyone talked about in the '80s are not really problems anymore in 2017.

L4's send/recv context switch trick is great until you get to SMP, at which point its performance necessarily moves closer to that of traditional microkernels like Mach.
Piping together the other programs is certainly practical and efficient...but spending a whole ton of time writing complex code is fun. I tend to take the practical route at work, an the impractical route when I'm writing something for fun.

In my perfect world, I'd be writing something for which there are no existing libraries to lean on.
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Getting a patent doesn't mean the patent office doesn't give someone else a patent that more or less covers the same thing.
i dont think its a good idea to discriminate a voter on any metric: age, income, race, education, or status of health among them.

I am really surprised that anyone would even suggest it
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I think the idea is that having an app encourages more people to do it, not that it can't be done without an app.
"The only figure of merit in a PV system is cost per kilowatt-hour installed". Multijunction cells require concentrating panels and two-axis tracking. In order for them to make economic sense, both the panels and the tracking have to have lower lifetime costs than standard untracked panels.

So far, they don't. Plus, concentrating panels don't work under cloudy skies, so...
I always wondered why we did not just use prisms to separate the different wavelengths, then capturing selections of the spectrum with a variety of simpler, unstacked panels. Perhaps one could even deflect the infrared into a more conventional, presumably more efficient, heat collector while the higher frequencies are directed to true photovoltaics.
Who said anything about metal? Physical cash is dying.
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Prior returns don't guarantee future results. Have you considered that people have taken steps to avoid catastrophy.
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But that isn't what is proposed, the ISPs can't regulate which services you get to just how fast they serve? If youtube wanted to paywall they could easily.
Yep. It's already in Chakra (MS's JS engine), they just need to do the Edge DevTools support.
In the US, electricity + transportation makes up 56% of anthropogenic emissions and agriculture makes up 9%:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

The European Union reports aggregates a bit differently, but agriculture is only 10% there too (see Figure 3):

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

Neither the USA nor the EU are undergoing deforestation at present, and electrical heating can substitute for the vast majority of applications currently served by fossil-combustion heat. That's why most research and headlines about GHG reductions in the developed world focus on transport electrification and electricity decarbonization.

In poorer parts of the world, where automobile use is less common and/or fewer people have grid tied electrical service, deforestation and agricultural emissions make up a larger share of total anthropogenic emissions. But most of the world's anthropogenic emissions, and most of the low-hanging mitigations for emissions, come from geographic regions that commonly have grid tied electrical service and other modern amenities.
Not to nitpick or anything but guns and chemicals might not be the very best choices of industry for those looking to first dip their feet into the startup pool...
Those were just examples. PWA is short for progressive web application. And this article title is "Turning your website into PWA". My point is, that if your site is just regular website not an application, staying conservative about implementing features is better, then implementing them recklessly, just for temporary page rank boost, or to show how cool programmer your are.
It is not worse.... That the point. There are significant advantages over a wire transfer.

With bitcoin you can send money to anywhere in the world for 20cents. Thats cheaper than a 30$ wire transfer.

Also, the censorship resistant part of bitcoin is really important, and is being used by the Venezuelans right now.

And there are technologies being built on top of it that will make it even better.

This is like 1994 internet right now. Even though it works, and has significant benefits, there are still a whole lot more stuff to come that is being worked on.
They are using electricity to do computation. Even if, hypothetically, the electricity could not be transported elsewhere (and that's not realistic), if hypothetically manufacturing could not be set up there (and that's exactly what normally happens), the electricity could be used to do computation which is _actually useful_, which is why companies set up datacenters in the middle of nowhere with cheap electricity.
I'm guessing much of this "failure to thrive" among startups is driven by the inability of a small US company to deliver services that are commercially sustainable. Most startups don't make a product; they resell or provide a service. So their profitability devolves to the margin between their hourly service charge rate and their hourly labor cost. And that profit margin has continued to shrink due to continuing optimizations by large/foreign players in our hyper-optimized global marketplace.

Though the article doesn't propose specific causes, since 2008 I suspect the causal changes in small US business to be:

1) domination of product sales and distribution by a handful of on-line mega-retailers (Amazon, Alibaba, Walmart) due to their high efficiency and ever broader and deeper market penetration and hyper-efficient distribution networks, and

2) increased mobility and adaptability to quickly fill newly created market niches from low labor cost foreign firms (still 2X-5X cheaper), and

3) the rising cost of US employees (esp. healthcare).

As such, the ability of the traditional ma and pa startup company to eke out a positive cash flow has become more difficult than than it was in 2008.
You can write low level code. Tier 1 platform list is very short however.

https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html
the government actually privatized what was at the time a public infrastructure connecting govt agencies and universities in the early 90s.

i agree with you that the internet would not be what it is today if it had remained in govt hands

i also think that if it had evolved soley from the private sector, the kind of balkanization and complicated service contracts that people are concerned about today would have been baked in from the start.
> but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat

If your ideals can be so easily threatened then perhaps one-liners are not the problem.
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I'm considering it. But it means having no legal source for House of Cards. It's like saying "stop going to Wikipedia" if the problem is that lack of net neutrality means you don't have a decent connection to it.
That is not possible, it's not part of the spec. Maybe what you're thinking of is the wifi hotspot selecting the channel automatically when setting up a network based on the neighbours it can see. Nothing to do with frequency hopping. AFH happens between packets and maps out bad channels. Wifi does not do that, never has and never will because it's governed by different rules.
They are probably adding a new section in their privacy policy right now that includes the mess they made.
A lot of this seems like it comes down to how that initial pool of users is treated. If they show it to 5 users and his mom is the only one (ever) that likes it, then it makes sense to show that content to people common to him and his mom. If the other users like it, they should distribute it more widely and maybe include users from other non-overlapping networks. That all seems good. If mom likes 90% of the posts, then show that 90% to the family and maybe they care and maybe they don't. If it gets engagement from other people, share it more widely. That seems like a good approach.

The wrong way to do it would be to show it to 5 people and as soon as his mom likes the content, decide the content won't be interesting to the other 4 people they showed it to. I haven't seen any evidence of that happening, and I don't think the article points to any (anecdotal or otherwise).
Why should it be free? Internet access is very affordable.
For an extreme example, see the Android bug tracker. It is hopeless.
> "RHEL and Red Hat's historic treatment of CentOS"

What? Red Hat didn't treat CentOS badly: they happily let people make trademark-less respins of their OS per the license and didn't try and stop anyone from doing so.

(Disclaimer: worked for RH around 2003-6)
He was against people calling Deep Blue AI when it was not. I doubt he would say the same thing about AlphaGo.
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They are both issues. My principal point is that they're all part of the same problem in the bigger picture, which is: Mozilla is breaking its privacy promises to its users.

1. Mozilla casts aspersions on Google/Chrome for not respecting users' privacy. (eg: recent billboard advertizements)

2. Mozilla doesn't respect users privacy because it uses tracking, that too third-party, that too from Google.

Pot -> kettle -> etc...

Mozilla risks losing credibility. What fundamental principles do they claim to stand for, if they're willing to compromise those for convenience?
I know right? The question for me is why? Netflix has gone on record saying "well, we're big enough to negotiate the deals we want so we don't particularly care if the ladder gets pulled up behind us". I imagine many other big corporations/sites are in similar positions. But even so I doubt they'd want to make said deals in the first place, they'd be expensive. So isn't a stronger response in their best interest?

Or perhaps they're all secretly looking forward to fast lanes they can buy...
Regulations regarding shooting ranges, chemical companies, and algotrading seem burdensome to you... Somehow I think you are exactly the person that we create laws to protect ourselves against.
such "free data" thing is popular in some developed countries as well, e.g. Australia. It is just business promotion, has nothing to do with net neutrality. With or without net neutrality, new/smaller services can not complete in that front - how many of them can show their names in super bowl? should super bowl be ads free to make it more new/small services friendly?
> and so the system fails him.

At least in the USA, this is a solved problem.

The federal, state, and/or local government step in and provide disaster relief, including access to ice and/or medications.

And the diabetic gets to live without parting with his life savings for a cup of ice.

> through an emergent distributed calculation.

Diabetics are not electrons in a calculator.

There's a general pattern to both the argument you're making here and the argument you made about remote surgery. You're dreaming up a completely non-existent and totally hypothetical possible harm that the status quo already has exception handling mechanisms for, and providing it as a reason for ignoring much more systemic and plausible harms.
To a large extent the court should punt. Congress - as the ones who make the laws - should decide which model is used, not the courts. The job of the courts is only to say if any particular model congress decides on is fair enough.
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