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>When a company like Slack gets all this money, can they decide to not spend the money?

Not really.

E.g. The firms investing $250 million basically would like to see ~3x return or more on their money. The want their $250 million to turn into ~$750 million. That's the whole point of investing.

If Slack simply parked $250 million in the bank for 1% interest rates, that's something Softbank could simply do themselves. If Softbank can buy $250 million treasury bills for 1% return, there's no need to give Slack $250 million to do it for them. Besides, VCs like Softbank can't survive on 1% returns; they're hoping for ~20%+ returns.

Instead, Slack is supposed to put that $250m to productive use and make the company more valuable. This makes more money for everyone including investors. (This doesn't mean Slack spends the $250m all at once though. Softbank and CEO Stewart Butterfield probably had long discussions on the strategic uses of the potential capital. Presumably, Softbank agreed with Butterfield's vision which is why they invested.)
What were they using before, and what's wrong with MySQL?
But when everything is pushed to the web the same argument applies to your browser.

> Why do I need a web app, tens of millions of lines of code, a website with massive permissions to my browser.

> To read a news article?

> ...
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Services mentioned here don't require a manual to read before use and don't come with a list of quirks. Good list
I think their last name is Walton.
Its really hard to find an objective line in these things. Your 'tools exist to find this so they should buy them' is someone else's 'good developers should know this so hire good developers' or 'customers should know to be careful so its their fault' or 'Other languages are better about array length checking so they should use them'.
I can't help but wonder if _sec has jumped the shark...
> Drug lords don't strike me as having quite the wealth that Gates has

Escobar at his height had an estimated wealth of $30bn - with inflation that is very much in the same ballpark.

And he had a huge share of his wealth in cash - you might know the anecdote that his operation spent $2,500 a month on rubber bands to bundle up cash...

Nobody knows what the wealth of today's global drug kingpins is, but I would be surprised if El Chapo Guzmán weren't worth tens of billions.
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The article also states, in the first paragraph, that he wants to use the ChromeOS linux variant because he believes in the security model.

> I've come to fully appreciate Google's Chrome OS design. The architecture benefited from a modern view of threat modeling and real-world attacks.

This linked in the article explains what he means https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/....
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I think the key language to focus on in the SEC notice is those “participants” who have a necessary role in the transaction of an unregistered offer and sale of securities are liable for violating Section 5 (page 16). Taken to the extreme, one could argue that even buyers of unregistered securities have a necessary role in the transaction but this is not the kind of activity relevant for Section 5 violations. Section 5 activity is more concerned with things like underwriting, offering, issuing, promoting, and soliciting the offer and sale of unregistered securities that lack a valid registration exemption.
"The best product that can be made will never be made with cross-platform tooling."

You're making a circular argument to the original point. If you pointlessly cripple the best "cross-platform toolset" (the web) then of course the products made with it won't be as good.

Native mobile apps belong in the same category as desktop apps - they are good when you need close-to-the-metal graphics but there's no reason you should have to open up a desktop app to read the news or even do some light word processing.
Best paid CIA operative.
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I'm with you on Swift as well, beautiful language. But regarding JS, nobody these days write vanilla JS, most of devs are either using ES6 or TypeScript(which supports types and generics).
I used to work a night shift in a cash depot that routinely stored over £200m. It was famously the subject of a heist, and the robbers only quit at £30m because they couldn't fit any more in. That was a lot of money.
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Food industries have influenced what people think of as 'healthy' so much, even as it's shifted over the years, that people believe they're eating healthier when really they're not.

Protein bars, granola, multigrain, fruit juice, don't have high fructose corn syrup, just have a bunch of sugar instead, it's more natural!, etc and having sugar and wheat and soy and other crap put into almost everything you buy at a supermarket has contributed to this mess.

My general rule of thumb is if you're not having at least 3-4 solid servings of vegetables (not fruits, just veggies), every day, excluding corn (corn should be stripped of its vegetable status), you're probably not eating anywhere near as healthy as you should be. Fruits don't need to be avoided, but you shouldn't think you're eating healthy if you're eating 5+ servings of them every day, since they do have sugar in them (offset a bit by the dietary fiber, but still sugar).
After nearly 10 years working with AWS, I've learned to never trust that page.
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What's wrong with emulating a FAT32 disk?

I mean, the expected workflow is: I hook up the device to the computer, it shows up as a storage medium in my system. I can move files between the device and my computer as if it was an external disk or USB drive.

Anything on top of that is designed to be annoying.
The danger of loosing data on a RAID10 resilver is much higher than people expect. A 6x8TB RAID10 has a 47.3% chance of encountering a URE during a rebuild, which means data loss.

A 6x8TB RAID6 has a 0.0002% chance of a URE.

(Assuming URE rate of 10^-14, in reality this rate is lower)
Putin doesn't need to be personally wealthy. He's got the largesse of the Russian government at his disposal and a populace which has been conditioned for generations to support the person in power.
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I'm looking to hire somebody to write articles on robotics and AI for http://roboticsaustralia.org and wondering if anybody has suggestions for finding good writers who are actually interested in and knowledgeable about a specific topic. I've posted in forums, looked on Upwork etc. and not really had any luck.
I cant imagine a service that you frequent enough to want push notifications but not enough that you would be willing to install a native app for a smoother experience.
I run the Enlight (https://enlight.ml) newsletter. Right now, it just delivers new project tutorials to 1k+ subscribers, but I plan on expanding that to other articles and interesting thoughts related to development.
Yes. The crime in question is the human trafficking. Pursue and prosecute that.

If you go by the economic definitions of money, which generally include uniformity and fungibility, money laundering is really a whinge from law enforcement that police work is difficult, and can't they please go after someone who may be less dangerous and less guilty, but is much easier to catch?

You can't reasonably expect people to investigate the full history of all money they receive as payments. Merchants have the right to presume that their customers are innocent in the absence of blatantly obvious evidence to the contrary.

As they say, gold has no smell. A coin that was obtained by murdering its former owner cannot carry residual guilt from the crime. Once it is used to buy a sack of oranges at market price, it is indistinguishable from a coin that was mined and refined by devout monks, repeatedly donated to charity, sequentially blessed by all the religious figures at that bar where all the jokes happen when they walk into it, and then spent on a sack of grapefruits.

If you buy a house with 50% legit income, and 50% black market contraband profits, you don't seize half the house and claw the other half back from the previous owner. The proceeds of criminal activity attach to the criminal, not to the property. The money has no soul or conscience. It is innocent whenever the person who carries it is.

And money laundering is not a crime, in my opinion, because in order for it to be a crime, certain inaccurate assumptions about money have to be true--namely that money is not uniform and fungible. It artificially makes money from a marijuana dispensary business different from money from a pharmacy. Cash should be cash, agnostic of the sins of its bearer.
Interesting point. Maybe we should consider "total lifetime net worth accrual" instead of current net worth.
Native apps are the new desktop apps. OK for gaming, overkill and gaping privacy hole for everything else.
I remember they used to say that...when the world was flat :)

The issue I have with this type of engineering is there is no means of egress (if you will), no thought about how a recall would be implemented.

Humans are flawed. The history of engineering displays those flaws. But instead we purposely stand in our own blindspot and insist "no. THIS time I'll be different" completely forgetting the countless times that was said previously.

Long to short, our certainty is likely overstated. It wouldn't be the first time either.
wait until you learn about these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies
In hindsight
Trello seemed to be affected also
The choice is between a web app or no app.

why do you assume that's a worse alternative?
From our EC2 dashboard in us-east-1:

[RESOLVED] Network Connectivity 07:28 AM PDT Between 6:47 AM and 7:10 AM PDT we experienced increased launch failures for EC2 Instances, degraded EBS volume performance and connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.

edit: looks like this message is now on the status page
I've given it plenty of thought, I simply don't subscribe to philosophical masturbation involving that which simply has no evidence of existing at all, the non-physical; there is no such thing, it's woo, nonsense, magic, unsupported by any evidence in all of history. Dualism is the view of an irrational mind.

You give equal weight to the possibility of an eternal universe or a created universe, this is simply illogical as there's no logical argument to be made for a creator that doesn't suffer from the fallacies of infinite regress and special pleading; the very idea of a creator is at its base irrational and illogical. Thus the entire fantasy of the creator can be ruled out leaving only the universe to contend with, and as there's no such thing as the non-physical that rules out the other path. Of the three possibilities you presented, two are magic, which I addressed originally.

This is not outside the domain of science, it is not a metaphysical/philosophical debate, it is very much firmly a matter of science and evidence. Abiogenesis happened, we can deduce that logically as a fact, we are here, there's really nothing to debate other than figuring out how it happened. So please don't talk to me about illogical while you posit illogical faulty arguments akin to magic; you have no logical leg to stand on.

Where does this leave us in this discussion, with me realizing you haven't yet grown beyond belief in magic and superstition making having a logical discussion all but impossible.
I am just beginning to learn Django. Would you advise against it??

Even in a JS heavy front-end world, Django seems to be a good candidate to create REST services or JSON Web API's.

And for certain kinds of sites, a combination of a static site with parts of it automated with DRF seem to be a very good fit.
It's all free software but due to license proliferation, we have this mess. Hope somebody relicenses and everybody becomes happy. After all from what I hear ZFS is a great file system for recovering backups and better than ext4. And the BSD guys are using it all the time.
Correct. Don't get me wrong, I 100% respect and appreciate what he is doing, not just by giving but also actively engaging in educating the American public about important issues they wouldn't be aware of otherwise. But in being charitable later in life, he is kinda following in the footsteps of people like Carnegie (gave a ton to CMU) and Rockefeller (gave to many places but UChicago is probably the most famous).
The original default was actually SQLite3
Great, you broke it.
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More technical article worth reading: https://dev.ghost.org/ghost-1-0-0/
Why would it matter to Amazon if someone has a contract with a re-seller - "don't sell my stuff on Amazon"?

If the re-seller breaches then it is up to the other party in the contract to sue the re-seller. Amazon has nothing to do with it. So then Nike would just sue a bunch of smaller companies when they try to sell on Amazon.
Only inside a Linux chroot (like Crouton)
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I think if you're offering your cryptocurrency/token in a crowdsale/ICO, then it should be seen as a security, because you're essentially offering people the opportunity to "invest" in your company's potential future.
It is unfortunate.
I'd also like to draw some attention to this proposal: https://github.com/Maksims/web-udp-public/issues/6
Agreed. I'm a non-secretor and I've benefited from not getting a norovirus when I really ought to have. But if such a valuable trait hasn't reached fixation in the population there's bound to be a reason. It also has a variety of effects on susceptibility to other diseases, some positive, some negative.

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That seems like the kind of broad brush statement that could never be substantiated.
asset liquidity matters though, right? amazon or msft stock are highly liquid. stolen renaissance paintings, giant palaces in the middle of a desert wasteland, and hereditary claims to mineral rights are not very liquid assets.
On reading news articles: I can do that offline and fast right now. I add things to my reading list as I browse the web and Safari downloads them in the background. Then I can read articles when I'm offline (like on a flight). I'm a pretty voracious user of the Reading List and Reader Mode features of Safari.

On booking a flight: I'm not sure how doing this offline helps? Last time I did it, I did have to wait for pages to load after clicking links but it was on the order of seconds or less. And not anything frustrating.

On commenting on an Internet post: Doing it offline is not really interesting to me, and I'm not sure how that would work (which is why I'm happy to do it in a browser). Hacker News is more than fast enough. It's really minimal.
I have a hard time having sympathy for someone who puts together something that critical with infrastructure meant primarily to sell to modern day gold diggers disguised as technologists.
This is fascinating. It's a (possibly too late) push back against a growing monopoly/monopsony but the approach is a heavy-handed rejection of First Sale doctrine and the positive aspects of open markets.

Trademark should suffice, if enforced well, for customers getting the right products.

On the other hand, a world in which absolutely everything is available at Amazon and most shoppers use it exclusively will be a terrifying one where Amazon will have true tyrannical power over the market.
what types of features do you think would make it more useful for this use case?
Word from Amazon is "elevated packet loss", but I saw pretty much the same. Elevated to 100%, I guess.
I get plenty of push notifications from native apps that I find useful: e-mail, twitter, calendar events, chat. I can block those I don't want. That developers can't write a web app if they want as much as the option is ridiculous.

Well, actually they can, as Twitter has shown. It looks like Apple is trying to pull an Internet Explorer on us though.
PWAs would enable me to book a flight and comment on an internet post offline?
Better yet, total lifetime charitable giving.
React, probably redux, with a backend using either node/express or scala/play
right! they have different focuses. Nevertheless, this trend will strongly continue!
I mean that Ikea thing is brilliant. May not be the most honest but damn impressive circumvention of the system.
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When I last tried to sign up, they requested a phone number, I assume as some sort of an attempt to make it harder for spammers to sign up. I don't think they have any legitimate reason for that sort of information, so I didn't provide it. I don't remember the specifics, but either I couldn't finish creating the account, or it was created and then automatically locked/suspended a few minutes later. The end result was that I couldn't sign up and use the service in any meaningful way.

I don't know if that's still the case or not. After that rather awful experience trying to sign up, I've lost all interest in trying again.

I'm not surprised they're having trouble growing when they impede the ability of people to sign up! There's no reason for their signup process to need anything more than a username and a password. They don't need my email address. They surely don't need my phone number or any other information about me.
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You might get a mug from donating to a charity, but your not really buying a mug. Preorders are much the same in that you have high risk of not getting anything and there is no compensation for that risk other than helping them make the product.
Barely beating the sp500 at the scale his money is at is still not bad though, no?
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I agree. Don't forget Amazon still has so much it's doing with its current projects. Bezos has been really impressive. If you haven't read The Everything Store, you should get it - great book.
There was a network outage in one of the useast1 AZs at 1:53pm utc for about 10 minutes. I had a db instance that was totally unreachable during that time.
I looked at it once last years and it is really easy to you and very nice designed. I like it.
The SFC article doesn't seem to me to be very clear on this point, but I wonder it has to do with shipping a memory image.

Many years ago there was a disussion between a member of the Squeak Smalltalk community (an IP lawyer by day) and the FSF's Eben Moglen. Moglen's position was roughly along the lines that libraries that are not considered to be deeply linked while out on disk in separate files, become deeply linked when loaded into RAM (or maybe into the same process's virtual address space, or something), such that taking a memory image of such a combination of modules, and using it as a means of distribution would be sufficient to trigger the "viral" aspect of the GPL.

(Since Smalltalk systems tend to rely heavily upon memory images, this is why GPL code became distinctly unwelcome in most Smalltalk communities, presumably except for GNU Smalltalk.)
You don't need to know the radius of the earth unless you're asked for a numeric answer. The rope is 2 * pi * 10km longer than the Earth's circumference, since its radius is 10km more.
Yes, that's what I meant. Windows was a commoditizing force on PC hardware makers. Microsoft did the commoditizing here by taking their market power that came from controlling the thing people wanted most, and enforcing standards that hardware makers had to meet in order to reach the market MS controlled.

It's the same in travel, where the airlines and hotels are selling commodity products, and the high value is in the brokers people trust to select among the commodities. But the brokers here are also in still competitive positions, because it's still easy for consumers to switch compared to something like an OS or social network.
I mean they don't have "inventory" in the dictionary definition of the word. I search for items, and they will sell or fulfill an order that I click on, but the results are a confusing list of pseudo-similar things.

It's just like searching the internet for a product, not like buying from a store.

It would be like if I went into Target, and rather than an organized collection of products, it was a flea market with real and knock-off items lumped together in big piles all around the floor. And then a bunch of helpful employees to get me checked out real fast when I made a decision.
It's useable, far from the worst I've used, but it's bad.

I'm planning on buying a MacBook pro again but I'll keep my Chromebook for something I can use haphazardly.
Now getting Lambda provisioning errors in us-east-1:

LAMBDA_FAILED: ServiceException: We currently do not have sufficient capacity in the region you requested. Our system will be working on provisioning additional capacity. You can avoid getting this error by temporarily reducing your request rate.

I wonder if they had to take part of their fleet offline due to the issues
I think they've scrapped the AWS dependencies there, which were awfully silly. But it doesn't really seem to update regardless, and when it does it's a cute little 'i' on the green checkmark to inform you that everything is fine except for the 'actually working' part.
This is not a rejection of the first sale doctrine. This is about Birkenstock being free to choose their distributors. End users are of course free to sell their own shoes, and Birkenstock is free to choose for which retailers it will provide its stock.
Postgres was an option for production along MySQL and SQLite3 was suggested for development instances. Sqlite3 is still supported.

The mentioned why they dropped it here: https://dev.ghost.org/dropping-support-for-postgresql/

> Without active community support, Postgres has always been, and always will be a second-class citizen. For that reason, we are dropping official Postgres support from Ghost core.
So when do we think Bezos will go on the typical billionaire philanthropy track? Actually, a better question is probably will he even? At Bezos' age, Gates was already in a backseat role with most of his non-philanthropic ventures. Though he shares some similarities with Gates, he shows no signs of stopping. He seems actually content with Amazon eating the world, and I don't think it will be a net positive for humanity.
Owns 5% of Berkshire Hathaway. Doing pretty solid right there.
Because the web app is portable across OS'es to start with.
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I look at it this way: the entire industry was utterly cutthroat (still is, in many ways). If Bill Gates/MS didn't do what they did, I believe another company would have. That doesn't mean they are utterly innocent, but in terms of effect on my life, I'm not convinced an MS-less life would be that different.

On the other hand, if Bill Gates doesn't spend money curing diseases in the third world I'm not at all convinced that someone else would come along and fill in that space. After all, they could very easily match him today with all the work there is to do.
still no auto upgrade??? :(