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My comment/question isn't about Stripe per se, but rather the surcharges of payment processors in general. It seems like 2.9% + .50 is about average, but then I see a site like https://sendmoneytoschool.com/ and they are charging a $1.00 processing fee for credit card payments to put lunch money in my kids' school account.

Is there some way to get super low processing fees if you don't use something like Stripe? Or are they taking money from the school and the parents? I'm just wondering how low of a rate is is possible to get for your ecommerce credit card payments?
Tim Cook runs a multi-national corporation. His obligation is to a shareholders as CEO. It is a simple as that.

A lot of us don’t agree with these policy decisions by these companies, but there they are.
What? Why do they need support from the adminstration. Either they do business in China, and implicity endorse all the anti-freedom, or they do not. Sure it would cost them revenue and share price. Well right and wrong are not economic propositions.
I agree. Anywhere there's a dam, people will drown in it. In fact, if it's close enough to a town and people like to drink then we'll see many more deaths in the winter since it looks like you an skate on it---but can't.
Yes, and did they take into account a backstabbing from the Chinese government (both national and local) and the stealing and then re-using of their IP for the purpose of replacing them in China in due time?

They are public corporations. They probably only took into account the next 2 years of profits they could make there, put it in balance and said "yup, betraying our Chinese users as well as our principles is worth it."

But is it? Will it be? We'll see.
> just as during dismantling of US car industry

GM and Ford sales: $317 billion

Dismantling, no. What actually happened, is the global market for automobiles drastically expanded from ~1960 forward with globalization and equally dramatic increases in the global median standard of living. Ford and GM didn't get dismantled, they gained a large number of new, competent international competitors that divided up a radically larger global pie.

Further, see: automobile production within the US by Toyota et al. which is vast. That counts as part of the US car industry.
Yep. I'm just waiting for it to become thinner. The thing still looks like a wrist computer instead of a watch in my opinion.
If you are ready for that, is it possible for a foreign company to obtain an ICP license and thus operate in China?
Certainly not in the part of America I currently live in, where "hustling" means ripping off or defrauding someone.

I actually literally heard it a few hours ago while watching The Wire, where someone is playing pool, his partner walks in and asks him "yo, you hustlin'?".

I was a bit taken aback when I came across that verb in the article.
I have a few points for you in response:

1. I'm what you'd call a "watch guy." In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange & Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The Apple Watch comes with me on all but the most formal/elegant occasions, and I now hate changing straps on my mechanical watches in comparison. The Apple Watch may not be as beautiful, but it is far more versatile and useful. When I want to dress it up a bit, I throw a Hermes leather strap on it, which works nicely in just about everything other than a suit (which is essentially the only time I'd jump back to the Lange).

2. You're vastly underestimating the utility of quick replies on the Apple Watch, in particular. I have quick replies for every conceivable response I could give to someone that is fewer than five words or so. This makes a lot of communication much faster because I don't need to take out my phone - I can tap, "congratulations", "cool!", "no", "yes", "I'm in a meeting", "I'm in a movie", etc.

3. Having notifications or synced functionality on the watch is a very frictionless way of enhancing iPhone interaction. As other commenters have said I can quickly glance at a multitude of things, not just the time. If I receive a message on Slack, I don't need to take my phone out if it's not something that requires my attention. When driving, I can have directions on my wrist directly, instead of on my dashboard. I can even have conversations on my wrist, hands free, while cooking. These are all ways it's directly enhanced my life in ways I wouldn't have really thought of without trying it.

4. I run a fair amount - at least 30 miles each week. The Apple Watch is the single most empowering device I've ever had for quantified self tracking and fitness enhancement. Having a pair of Airpods and an Apple Watch is a fantastic combination - I can't even imagine bringing my phone with my on a run anymore. I can look at my wrist to see my pace and split information, and that's just on the native Workout app. I can track my heart rate constantly using something like Cardiogram. I can also track my sleep. There is a massive amount of data enablement that I can now see and monitor as much as I want in the Health app.
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Did you study industrial beef production or grass-based holistic management? As far as I'm aware, the latter isn't taught at schools (yet). Although the technique is very old, and based on nature's natural cycle of herd movement, it only caught on again in the early 2000s.

How will said vegetable matter get it's nutrients year after year as the soil it's growing on gets eroded? Wouldn't external fertilizer, pesticides, etc need to be brought in? Doesn't creating that expend huge amounts of energy on it's own?
Agreed. Seriously it should be magnitudes cheaper than real meat (since it is plants and presumably not as nutritious), not more expensive.
You can bet I'll be removing every last coin I have from coinbase as soon as all of this is over. They gave a whopping three days notice. For those of us who had our coins in a vault, which adds a 48 hour delay to any transfers, this gave almost no time at all to react. In my case, I wasn't able to get it out in time and it essentially means I just lost money. Coinbase of course has no way to get a hold of anyone. I just have to watch my money swirl down a drain.
And last I checked their jobs aren't, in fact, automated. They just moved to the various cloud providers and were renamed to "SRE", with a major boost in pay.
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I hate to be a hater, but I was never too impressed with Mossberg's reporting. My opinion is that his platform was stronger than his content. I suppose my claim is Mossberg was the New York Times Best Seller List of tech writing.
Help... sure, but this isn't unvarnished charity like caring for sick babies or saving people from flood waters.

They're asking the US to go and kill their enemies as a favour.
Fine. Tim Cook loses all his SJW cred then, for whatever that's worth.
This is cool however I think it may exhibit performance problems when used in the wild if the trigger constraint were to be used. (Could possibly gain some performance replacing a UNION with UNION ALL).

Also your colleagues may curse you down the line when they need to change the state machine's behaviour. Would of course be possible to keep note of a "state machine version number" on each row but you would end up with a transition function that had to know about every historic version of the state machine...
Yes but the amount of griping over the need to fight the status quo is absolutely there to keep the bulk from noticing they are the status quo.
> It saddens me that these people are so underserved due to capitalistic forces.

Are you serious? 99% percent of people are forced to deal with the noise pollution from self-checkout machines, every single day.

How's that "underserved"?
Yes, playing ball with a despotic authoritarian regime is precisely what people are faulting these companies for.

A lot of companies left the market in South Africa market in the 1980s, to which the parallels are obvious.

But they didn't do it because they suddenly woke up and felt like doing the right thing; they did it because people's outrage over human rights in South Africa began to threaten the profits gained from playing ball there[1].

That's why articles like this one are important.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/11/17/t...
Gah, now I wish I did. I've been meaning to start blogging for years. I had a lot of fun in a drink-n-chat site a while ago, but the environment isn't quite right for long conversations. An opportunity, I suppose...
It's a myth that companies are legally required to maximise profit.
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What would be useful in FF is a content blocker, especially in the mobile version. Not pocket, file sharing apps, voice, notes. There are web apps for that.
Still has to pay for storage? GCS nearline?
Thanks, i didn't know the performance of j is so good. But Sorry, i am not very skilled in J, just a beginner, so have no idea if it use all cores of CPU.
Do you suggest all companies boycott China then cause there is no other way to break into the market?
Youtube not only is not profitable as far as anyone knows, but has vastly reorganized its funding model for creators and most now make pennies on the dollar from what they did before.

Youtubers themselves were screaming about this recently, and almost always with any algo/payout change, and that is pre-Youtube red renegotiations.
> They are public corporations. They probably only took into account the next 2 years of profits they could make there

That's exactly how Amazon & Jeff Bezos have not operated over the last two decades. See: their latest quarterly report.
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Then he should not yell left and right how he is fighting for freedom and human rights, just so he can win some "points" from people...It's always easy to make it look like you are fighting against something bad when your ass is safe and warm...
You provided absolutely no context to go with what was quoted.

You replied suggesting a specific window manager (a single component within a desktop environment) to a post lamenting the rough edges in popular modern DEs. You made no indication that your recommended replacement offers no way to hot plug a monitor, connect to the internet, or even launch an arbitrary application without installing and potentially configuring additional packages. These are very basic features folks have come to expect in a DE.

Making this sort of recommendation is throwing the user headfirst into a painful situation likely to give them an extremely negative impression of i3.
Reinstated mysteriously after he explicitly appealed, and got a reply he did not qualify for reactivation because of unspecified policy violations.

Let's not pretend this system is doing what it says on the tin. He was reinstated because they realized how it looked and because he has the clout to make a fuss. The next potential Jordan Peterson will be snuffed out before that can happen.

Which is exactly how these Trust and Safety councils like it. Soft power with plausible deniability, like the two faced authoritarians they are. It's always set up as a one way ratchet, they can never allow this stuff to be rolled back in any form. Disagreement is harassment, after all, and harassers are guilty until proven super guilty.
I take your point, but China specifically has an absysmal, wretched human rights record.
I just suggest them not to proclaim then that they are "proud" fighters for human rights and freedom...
If you think that's bad, I encountered a package of tofu recently which stated "Serving Size: 1/4 package; Servings per Package: 8"! Things like that really make you wonder about the reliability of the rest of the information on the label...
Love to see Kenya representing, you guys are really making it happen over there in Africa.
There's no reason to believe these are anything but PR stunts.
Aiding Chinese censorship for a quick buck is your idea of a "reasonable middleground"?
11 blocks in the last 10 hours. Looks like the mining rate really is about one block per hour. That's an 83% drop in hash rate. Not enough to trigger an early hash rate reduction.

Whoever is mining should take about 20% of their capacity off line (presumably devoting it to the other Bitcoin) for a day to force the early hash rate reduction.
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> SJW cred

I really hope this isn't gonna start being a "thing" I see on HN
There can be some ethical issues orthogonal to profit and loss considerations though. Now would shareholders be able to sue Cook for losing money by fighting the Chinese government, I have no idea, but its not quite as simple as that, that's letting them off the hook too easily in my opinion.
> you can write a valid TypeScript program that will never finish compiling.

Specifically, for any implementation of a TS compiler, there is some correct TS program that will never finish compiling.

Every program has a TS compiler that will compile it, but no compiler can work on all programs.

This is addressed by (1) not finishing in these cases or (2) imposing practical limits on the compilation and concluding failure if these are surpassed.
For protocols yes, but you need to look at the full picture. e.g., what would the oracle be in this case?

Encrypt then compress makes no sense at all. Compress then encrypt, or don't compress at all.
The US government has interests beyond preventing terrorism. Do you think it should be purposefully blind to facts such as the energy security of other countries, or the capabilities of their space programs? Space programs have a very clear military "dual use" as North Korea has been demonstrating recently.
We're a long way from where it's acceptable to have a headset with a screen on in a business meeting. Meanwhile, during a meeting I can surreptitiously glance down at my watch to check when my next meeting or a email alert.

It's a surprisingly good form factor, combining voice touch and a display in an accessory that's already socially acceptable to wear everywhere.
I can say that I use it accidentally without realising(at first) it was a PWA website. So, Im just gonna tell it in layman term.
From what I can tell, its a website, but definitely felt more like an app rather than a website.

the best way to understand it is just to try it. Its just a website(PWA) pinned to your homescreen, so theres not much cost to try it.
You would have to maintain that all package names are unique. The "cross-env" part would have to still be unique.
Shareholder lawsuits are among the least worrisome for a public corporation. They happen frequently. They very, very rarely end up adding up to anything that matters.

Why is that? There's an extraordinarily high bar to jump over if you're a shareholder and you want to sue and win, when it comes to showing damages from a corporation's decisions. I should emphasize it again: the bar is extraordinarily high.

It's so high, it's difficult for shareholder lawsuits to prevail against companies like Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
Doxxing in my experience implies publishing their info publicly. That's certainly what I thought you were saying.

I'm fine sharing with law enforcement, but sharing with other service providers seems to be a slippery slope. I imagine a dev losing access to their github account because they used a shitty password on their npm account and got compromised. That would suck.

I'd much rather we invent a better UI for dealing with software dependencies, but alas.
I think you're also missing my point. Techniques like what you describe are exactly what I was referring when I said "C++ possess[es] ways" and "using friends rather than methods", although you don't even need a wrapper for a reference (which is actually a pointer, and so also part of what I mean by "pointer soup"!) for this sort of code: just the struct works fine (although a `class` does too, the only difference is the `struct` keyword has different privacy defaults).

The only "downgrade" I made was saying that it is only "almost" the default in C++, versus the other two where they are completely the default.

To be clear, like C and Rust, C++ has great semantic attributes for this sort of thing:

- classes/structs that don't require allocation/pointers

- precise control over pass-by-value (for everything except the `this` pointer of methods)

- pervasive static dispatch of methods/functions (including operators, which can be considered to be method/function with an unusual name and call syntax)

The only downside, and the reason I said "almost" (which is what the C++ETF (C++ Evangelism Task Force) seems to be up in arms about), is methods are what most people reach for by default and so the `this` pointer comes into play. But as you point out, and as I implied in my original comment, this isn't required, just the default.
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AFAIK it is possible now to get the ICP, but to integrate Wechat / Alipay or any other meaningful service you need a Chinese legal entity. A foreign company can register WFOE which is a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise, you do not need any Chinese partners or anything, but might be costly to set up and in paid-up capital depending on the industry. E.g. for a fashion brand I know of, they asked to have ¥10 million ($1.5 million) to be deposited within 1 year.
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> he does almost the same thing as what he is fighting against in US

That's baloney, they are not remotely the same thing.
Which basically ends up to the classic deontological vs consequentialist ethic theories. I believe though that if enough companies like Amazon and Google won't accept the conditions imposed by the government then, after some time, they may decide to change their politics.
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MSG is Monosodium Glutamate, the sodium salt of glutamate. Glutamate is an amino acid common in food, I assure you you eat tons of glutamate on a daily basis. There's nothing inherently unsafe about it, and your body knows exactly what to do with it. In fact, your body is literally made with it.

That said glutamate is a neurotransmitter, so yeah you probably shouldn't inject large quantities or anything.
I sincerely hope that people never start copying code into their packages. I see virtually no upsides, except for making it easier to dodge bureaucratic hurdles at some big companies, and a huge number of downsides (basically forgoing all the benefits of Cargo).
But people often write papers anyway assuming X and Y and Z are true just to see what happens because of it, it's not like you really need it to be true to at least publish things.

And for your example that touches on applications of math, it approaches scientific research from the wrong perspective. If some math follows reality, (agrees with experiment and even better makes predictions that turn out to be right), there is has to be some backing to it, even if the rigor isn't fully there. Physics often runs with ideas before Math has caught up (see QM in the early days, HEP in general, etc).

So, if we back off from applications who, quite frankly, only care about whether X is true in only a few, really important number of conjectures I can think of--big questions like P=NP for example--then math itself I imagine is, well, a study for its own sake. So, what above exhaustive proofs of your run-of-the-mill conjecture? Who would want to read a paper from a math person that merely iterates through a 200TB cache of data?

People forget that science is a social phenomenon as much as it is systematic process.
It might be a good idea.
But scripts inside HTML not compiled because every user should have a right to see what gets executed of his device.
Or this is just my fantasy and not design choice by early days engineers?
I feel really conflicted about wasm and this.

Maybe now we can just put index.exe and forget about openness of web already
> If ever you decide you want to migrate away from Postgres, you'll need to rewrite all the business logic into some other out of process language.

Of you follow this rule you'll never be able to use the most powerful features of postgres.

> If ever you want to scale this, such that you want to calculate states in batches, you'd want to have the business logic somewhere else...

Not due I'm totally on board with the premise here, but the need to calculate state outside the database is a generally valid one and so it might be a good idea to write the core of the transition function in JavaScript and implement the postgres functions in PLv8.
Apple's issue isn't just about 'losing money'. Their supply and manufacturing chain is in China. They have their throat laid bare on this one, and if they stood on principle, their throat would be cut in short order.
No. A better comparison is the iPad.

iPad 1 got little traction, it was slow, had no camera, couldn't play HD mp4, etc. iPad skyrocket with iPad 2 which was so much better in every regard. The same with Watch, the Watch 1 (series 0) one had no GPS and was to limited. Watch 3 (series 2) has a dual-core processor, GPS, is water-proof and is a decent device.

The question is do I want to carry a smartphone and a watch? I switched from a digital watch to a smartphone like a decade ago, I don't need a watch. I can imagine switching back to a watch as soon as phone functionality gets inbuilt in Apple Watch and no additional iPhone is required.
My buddy/boss is selling two houses he built himself on a plot of rural land. Right now both houses are up for airbnb and vrbo rentals (with amazing difficulty). He's and living in a pole barn he built, on the same property, until he can sell the houses. All the money from the rentals right now goes to his developers and other business expenses (inventory, shipping materials, etc..)
He gets his food from the food bank and his diet is pretty much cereal and ramen. Two employees live with him under the same circumstances, working for equity and experience. I'm one of them.
> Neither of them refute my point, which is that you can trustlessly scale bitcoin basically as much as you want.

This is unsupported. LN is a research project, not a production-ready payment system. It has plenty of limitations (trustlessness is a huge limitation), and the topology of the network doesn’t match that of a real economy (routes to fellow consumers are practically useless, since everyone wants to pay merchants). There’s plenty of work left before LN can scale properly, if it ever manages to (again, trustlessness for both senders and receivers is setting the bar as high as it can possibly go).

Scalability is secondondary for LN, trustlessness is primary. Due to this choice I predict difficulty in scaling sufficiently.
What is the source of the information that he was executed?
Your objection is predicated on the assumption that issues would need to be edited "for all time". That's not true for anything else in git, I'm not sure why that would be true for issues. I mean, if you had an "issues/" directory in your repo, and files named "issue1" "issue2" and so on, you would just edit the issue whenever. If someone made a branch for the issue, then they'd want to merge your edit into their branch ASAP - which is good, because it indicates that they read and understood the change. And this merge would be particularly painless since changes to "issues/" are absolutely not going to conflict with anything in "src/".
Sure, London has a level of investment in public services which is unrepresentative of Britain as a whole (though they also pay most of the taxes that fund public services.) But all big cities (and many small ones) are multicultural.