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> The solution is much higher taxes on the ultra-rich

I was with you up until this part. This has been tried for decades and it clearly doesn't work. What we need now are tax breaks specifically for small businesses. We want people to be able to work for themselves or work for somebody more willing to share more of the profits with their workers. More businesses willing to pay market rate means more employment, more competition and more pressure on the companies who like to underpay.

Neither idea (tax breaks for SMB, more taxes for rich) are going to happen anytime soon. Nobody with deep enough pockets to lobby for it would want either idea to become law.
This will be one for the (forgotten) history books!
I'm actually a little bit sad because I thought booking a duck would start some two-way WebRTC session between me and a live stream of an actual rubber duck...
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I imagine Richard, the owner of Desk Depot, rubbing his hands together and chortling to himself.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/desk-depot-mountain-view
> Property-based testers also often (though not necessarily) try to reduce their example (of the property not holding) to a simpler version thereof, AFAIK few if any fuzzer does that.

Actually, it's pretty common. Both afl and libFuzzer do this. I'm not sure about the details in libFuzzer, but afl runs a test case minimization round automatically during fuzzing. The afl package also contains a specialized tool afl-tmin that does this more extensively.

It should also be mentioned that even more coarsely-grained fuzzers like afl and libFuzzer can be made to detect subtler property contradictions (i.e. less dramatic than crashes) through the use of things like AddressSanitizer/MemorySanitizer and asserts. Libraries like Hypothesis and QuickCheck are in a better position to try to construct a contradiction since they possess more language-level knowledge.
That Thrive Capital magic touch. Another useless consumer company bites the dust.
>I had a problem which required finding the minimum distance between an ellipse and a point. If that had been my day job ...

OT: I had the problem as part of my 1st day job in 1990 on Parasolid.

IIRC, there was more than one way of converting the problem into solving a quartic polynomial, which is solvable by radicals and so doesn't need Newton's method.

If the point is inside the evolute of the ellipse then the quartic has four real solutions, which gives two local minima and two local maxima of distance.

If the point is outside or on the evolute of the ellipse then the quartic has two real solutions, which gives one local minima and one local maxima of distance.

Having said that, all methods using quartic polynomials could be unstable if the ellipse was pathological, for example very long and thin. Maybe that would be a time to revert to Newton's method.
This whole thing never looked like anything other than and experiment in what yuppies will pay for.
He may have already donated this money to the org. So, this may be funding allocation not a donation.

Or this could be new money I am not sure.
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This is becoming true for most of the first world. Women are more successful in educational institutions than men on average already.
So python still has to look at the class for each attribute access on an instance of Foo (to find the descriptor). Any unknown attribute (say, Foo.ham) will still result in Python looking through the class MRO to search for that attribute, and that includes dictionary searches.

Yes, it has to lookup, but the lookup is cached (see typeobject.c).
For everyone that has ever been a part of something exciting, that's not cringe inducing at all. I feel sorry for anyone who never got to experience a driven team putting all they have on the line. These are the times I felt most alive.
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Question: why does it take about 5 seconds to load the list of projects when clicking on the dropdown arrow on the top left of the screen? It's even slower than loading the whole GitLab.com website, which includes a list of those projects.

I find this a frequent annoyance and often choose to go back and load the full projects page just to change project.
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And the only way to combat that is to disregard it. Meaning that you have to be aware of both sides doing it and that you expect it to be misleading. Kind of like how you combat clickbait by teaching people to not click.
Airports are full of $6 lattes and smoothies, $4 bottled water, etc. I would imagine their might be enough folks who want something "healthy" who'd be willing to pay.
What's your platform and browser?
I simply do not understand the mindset of silicon valley investors. I used to think that perhaps they had some edge that helped them to get behind successful companies, but looking at this -- how much money they raised and from whom -- I think that there are just a bunch of people who have so much money that they can afford to risk throwing it away on something that will not likely succeed.

Can someone watch the video in the article and explain what sort of mindset you have to be in and think that this is a good idea? Perhaps the initial vision was different somehow and the final product does not align with what you thought you were putting your money behind? Is it possible that you see the issues, but have so little faith in consumers not to buy crap that it seems like you'll make a reasonable profit? Maybe there's something you see or know that I don't -- perhaps some sort of shake up in the fruit industry was set to make this a hit only to not meet expectations?

I am now more deeply concerned than ever about the effect that an exploding tech bubble is going to have on our economy.
> APIs that trade memory efficiency for ease-of-use

This is currently being worked on. With the addition of Span<T>, many APIs will soon have a version that does not allocate and instead use a buffer you pass in (which can be managed or unmanaged).
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I built https://localname.io as an excuse to learn some Swift and node.js.

It helps server side development by giving a publicly accessible URL to your computer.

I needed it for development and testing of mobile applications together with the backend. Also works well for webhooks.

Didn't reach the $500 yet, but it's getting there!
The things that make TeX and its offspring so sticky are:

I agree with your list, but I think you overlooked another crucial one:

TeX is one of the most remarkably bug-free and stable pieces of software ever written.

For all its quirks, you can take a .tex file written for an academic paper 30 years ago, and you can run it through a modern TeX implementation today, and there's a good chance that your output will be identical for all practical purposes. Just about everything about TeX and its supporting infrastructure is rigorously specified, robustly implemented, and of course incredibly well documented.

In the era of moving fast, breaking things and pretending it doesn't matter, many dev teams could learn a great deal from TeX's priorities. Given the momentum behind the TeX world now, I suspect that anyone who wants to offer a more modern alternative is going to have to clear that bar as well (and I hope this project does, because it seems to have a lot going for it in other respects).
I saw Gary do it live and in person. You can bet your ass it's live.

I've never seen anybody else who is able to do that. It's truly mind blowing.
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Ok, I'll bite: how are they supporting violence? Who has made that determination?
You might find this introduction to the different flavors of TeX useful: https://www.overleaf.com/blog/500-whats-in-a-name-a-guide-to...
There's also the frequent downtime, often related to one NFS server, or something.
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Not that I don't support legalization, but I'm skeptical as to how much legalization would help. Put simply, can we expect new sex workers to come out of the woodwork to create the supply needed to make sex trafficking substantially less profitable? Are women and men suddenly and substantially going to start selling that service if it became legalized?
I am still iterating to improve it, but I was doing it for fun and to scratch my own itch.

There is not much traction, the 1% internet rule is real in terms of the number of people that contribute verse those that consume content.
I was talking about Antifa, but yes.

Although it is easier for the white supremacists to keep the law on their side, unfortunately. The ones who aren't utter thugs know not to throw the first punch. There's probably a lot of low hanging fruit left, though. But would Antifa really just pack up their masks and bats and go home if the white supremacists stopped giving them the rationale around which they've built their identity? It seems doubtful to me.
are you people okay with non-US resident, or the remote OK possibility is US only?
...what are the steps you followed to even try running it?

I was able to install the modified ARCore APK, but I wasn't able to install the browser.
It's an indicator that the market needs to be more discerning about consumer needs. There is a lot of dry powder waiting to be deployed in the VC industry, so expect to see more specious stuff get funded until LPs decide that they can generate returns elsewhere.
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Could some of this also result from the contractual nature of using Chinese suppliers? I know that from my own experience with contracting, that proposing an improvement can be difficult if you also want to attach a fee to the improvement. How do you say, "I think your proposal is flawed, this way is better, but it will cost you $X more" in a way that doesn't feel like a money grab or an insult? It can be in your best interest to allow the flaw to stand, let the client notice and propose the improvement during the next round of contract negotiations. And so the only improvements a contractor can propose are those that do not cost substantially more then the established price.

Of course this is more for fixed price for fixed work contracting. Contracts with more variable pricing my be better. Maybe other contacting setups can alleviate this issue, but I haven't seen many that could work and that clients are willing to sign.
Co-founder of Overleaf passing through and I just wanted to say thanks for the mention - glad you found it (and the git integration [1]) useful :)

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> CoreRT (.NET Native) seems to have been put on the backburner

It looks fairly active to me: https://github.com/dotnet/corert/graphs/contributors
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Chinese reader here. It's a very valid characterization of the culture. Respect is much more important. Less anti-intellectualism when compared to the West. Much more communal than individual, in all aspects.

But there's definitely change going on in China. Juxtapose all of that with increased Western exposure, and increased sense of Chinese pride. More individualism. More "We're Chinese, we can do better!" attitudes.

In many ways China has been playing catch-up and still is - it's only been in a position to innovate and lead in very recent times. I mention this as a rebuttal to accusations of China being uninventive.
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There has been exactly this type of collusion in the past and I would argue it's still ongoing, just better covered up. http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/
Note also that due to browser caching, Google wouldn't even get some sort of "tracking benefit" if they wanted to. Most of these documents do not trigger an actual browser request for these javascript files.

Also, if the webmaster wants, they can simply add `rel=noreferrer` to the script tags. This is still considered valid by the AMP Validator.
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I don't know how it is in your business, but if I was given a new batch of team members every 90 days in the expectation that 75% of them would be gone in three months, I would also be gone in three months.
Fair enough in some respects, but the facts you're looking for are really about product quality ratings, which gets into a quagmire.

My point isn't that decent quality audio with BT isn't possible, it's that I don't think BT standards are at the same point as 3.5mm. As you yourself said, if you're saying that BT is fine "as long as you're making sure you're using the highest quality standard possible" then there's a problem.

It sounds like you've run into some of the same issues ("choosing to communicate over the hands-free profile"); I think my broader point is that with BT, it seems like there's a lot of those sorts of things.

Something like car audio or home stereo, with a nice, well-configured set up, is fine, but for a lot of things it doesn't have the same plug and play kind of simplicity of 3.5 mm.

Maybe we agree more than we disagree, although come to different opinions about jacks in phones. To me, BT is a promising thing that's not quite foolproof enough to compare to 3.5mm.

In general I feel like mobile device design has this tail-wagging-the-dog problem the last few years.
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Great to see how kids engage and appreciate the help that you can provide.
In doing this, I got some valid lifelessons on how to interact with people (regardless of age or skillset). It's really fun to 'teach' logical thinking to kids and - frankly - I sometimes gather a new perspective on things when problemsolving with these kids.

In fact, we're all ready to go for another season of coding and mentoring as of tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces ...
It's more serious than that.

Legally speaking, if the cops show up and tell you that a user is using your site for X, or Y, or Z, then from that point on... you know that your site can be used for X, or Y, or Z. How that knowledge impacts your liability in the event there are others using your service for similar ends, is not at all clear to me given the wording of the Act in question.

It's kind of a "Notice, Knowledge, and Privilege" thing. And that gets really tricky in federal court.
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>> Facebook could easily send such messages only to people who support one particular party or candidate, and that doing so could easily flip a close election – with no one knowing that this has occurred. And because advertisements, like search rankings, are ephemeral, manipulating an election in this way would leave no paper trail.

I would be interesting if someone setup some kind of monitoring that might detect if that happens. They'd probably need the cooperation of many legitimate and diverse Facebook users, though.
This is largely a problem of "informational asymmetrics between agents," as Nassim Taleb would describe it.

Or Gharrar as describe in Sharia law. "It is an extremely sophisticated term in decision theory that does not exist in English; it means both uncertainty and deception –my personal take is that it means something beyond informational asymmetry between agents. It means inequality of uncertainty. Simply, as the aim is for both parties in a transaction to have the same uncertainty facing random outcomes, an asymmetry becomes equivalent to theft."

The employer sees the entire talent pool and can therefore leverage this informational advantage to drive prices (wages) down.

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What does WeChat do that isn't handled by other, separate apps?

For instance, I don't really see a need to have the same app do chat and payment (in fact, I'd prefer if they didn't).

What about WeChat is particularly innovative, other than just bundling a lot of different functionality into one big app?
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Its unbelievable to me that Google makes this mistake. Very frustrating.

Makes me sometimes wonder how accurate their ad system is ? If they do not seem to record such incredibly basic and clear thing as the few languages I can read...
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