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You are right that they need to find more goods to ship on the return trip. The current route actually runs on existing tracks so didn't require a lot of investment.

For cities like Lanzhou, Xining, Urumqi etc it makes sense to develop a land route. The economics are even better than Chongqing since Chongqing actually has access to the Yangtze river.
I don't really get the identity politics thing. Aren't all politics identity politics?
Eh, abandoned forks will just have all "6 years ago" under the updated column. It's not a good look as I see it, but it's not hidden.
AKA regulatory capture
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/microsemi-corporat...

This is about half as powerful but comes preassembled and ready to go. Also "only" $500
What world are you living in? There is one conservative tv network in the US, and five left-wing networks.
Does silicon valley think they can do anything, regardless the industry, better than the incumbents? It is easy to disrupt (when capital is cheap) but harder to improve. I think expectations of technological progress have become untethered from reality (as happened in the last dot-com boom and bust 20 years ago). This time the bust may be even worse.
I agree as long as the rules are enforced and landowners aren't forced to deal with the consequences of people that break them.

Really this is called "sharing" and it's sad that it's causing so many problems.
Are you in academics? If you see some Chinese is cheating on his paper. You cannot effectively prove that the whole academic people are cheating. Given the basic ratio out there. Top-schools rarely cheat(https://www.natureindex.com/annual-tables/2017/institution/a...), Tsinghua is top tier. And its graduates are welcomed by top tier schools in Europe/US or tech companies. As for cheating, there are metric-system problems in China. For instance, to be a physician in China, you will be buried in day-to-day operations, however, if you want to climb up, you will need to have essays. I am not saying those cheaters are right, they are definitely wrong, but the system need to reconfigure itself as well.
I hear you, brother. Much less work for more benefits with benefits. Men and women both have sex on the Maslow hierarchy of needs, to varying degrees. Men and women both get mood and cardio improvements from getting laid regularly.

PSA: Practice safer sex.
Not a loop hole, but possibly a worm hole.
Thanks, a rarity on the internet these days.
Maybe they remain poor because of brain drain. Perhaps we are hurting them by allowing immigration so their best and brightest can contribute to the Juiceros of SV.
I am advocating a land value tax, not a property tax. This is the most progressive tax possible as the incidence of the tax does not fall upon labor at all.

> Wouldn't it end up hurting people as you just see rents rise?

No, rents would not rise in proportion to the tax. Adding a tax as a carrying cost on a good of fixed supply such as land produces the opposite effect of a tax of goods and services. It increases the supply of available land and decreases prices because the tax makes land less attractive as a speculative investment and store of wealth. It encourages land holders to sell off any underutilized land being held for speculative purposes, thus increasing the supply of land available for actual use and improvement by workers, and lowering its price.

The 'ground rent' collected by landholders is the surplus profit above what is necessary to bring the land into use. If no one paid ground rent to private landholders, the supply of land would still remain the same, and there would still be just as much land available for everyone to use. Confiscating private ground rent simply shifts this payment from private parties to the state, and the tax cannot be passed on to renters through higher prices at all.

This increases the disposable income of a super-majority, because once all private ground is instead paid to the government for the provision of essential goods and services, all other taxes which fall upon the labor of workers, such as payroll and consumption taxes, can be eliminated.
Sounds like you have a lot of unnecessary cruft in your infrastructure.
I like to write side code projects. You might think I do not have a life outside coding, but I do. I do not spend more than 3 to 4 hours per week on side projects. I play the guitar and saxophone. I go out in the weekends. I love mountain climbing. Like the author, "I loathe hackathons" too. But unlike the author, I do have side projects.

As someone who has been doing personal as well as public side projects for possibly 20 years now, I think I can share some insights about why I (and perhaps people like me) work on side projects.

I grew up in a time when we had computers with 3 MB of memory and 300 MB of hard disk were considered powerful machines in my school. The students would get only 30 minutes of computer time per week. These were times when you boot your computer, type GWBASIC, press <ENTER>, and start coding. This was one of the very few ways to use a computer meaningfully. Writing code in GW-BASIC became like a mindsport for some of us. I would write tiny games, draw diagrams or solve math equations with code. It became a hobby.

I guess everyone has hobbies. I have some too. Coding is one of them. It's not the only one.

About 10 years later, I learnt that this hobby could become a career and I chose programming and developing software as my career. Is it fair to now be considered a "human machine" who "work 80 hour weeks" and have "absolutely no evening or weekend plans" just because my career also happens to be one of my hobbies?!
To me, hairsplitting about whether the conduct technically counts as sexual harassment is more or less beside the point and even getting into it makes the allegations sound more, rather than less, credible.
Lookenv: Set rules for the environment variables. Works with dotenv
Europe is a mature civilization. Africa has arguably never established rule of law. That's the difference.
Maybe, as part of an overall, integrated strategy.

Cryptocurrencies needs pervasive/critical mass deployment and price/scarcity stability in order to be everyday useful.

I think the greater issue is the "Russian roulette," billionaire-media-legislative corruption complex that has infected many countries to the point of gross inequality (which may lead to a similar repeat of the French Revolution) and ecological collapse (eg Holocene extinction).
If they're able to detect that, then it's basically guaranteed that they're not hashing their passwords.
In the free time that I can set aside to code, I don’t use it to write complete programs. I poke at stuff that’s intellectually interesting to me. It’s not good code. It’s not structured well, the variable names suck, it’s buggy. But none of that was the point of the exercis. I don’t put that stuff on GitHub because I don’t want some hiring manager thinking it is my best code. My best code is my professional code.
I'm not stretching those words; the entire thing (including the "abuse and harassment engine" bit) is a direct quote from Jeff Vogel.

I recommend considering the idea within the context of the entire blog post, which is the other reason I shared the link.
#!/bin/sh
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test $n -le 240||x=$((x+n));
done < /etc/passwd
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D and Go compilers can both run a script seamlessly without a visible compilation step (it still happens, but behind the scenes, and compilation is fast enough that you would not even notice it).
People who have only recently completed their 10,000 hours don’t understand that there are diminishing returns, and that learning something else entirely may help you more than doubling down on your narrow skill set.

Some of the things you can learn outside of this field are what overtraining is (actually not that different from the AI concept), perspective on the learning and teaching process, the importance of preparation and good tools, patience with new ideas, and the dangers of trying to rush through the learning process.
It sounds like you are like many others in tech who believe everything should be open source. Good for you but some of us need to make money off of our life's work in innovation.

Time will tell, I view this in a hopeful way as a shift in direction.

I think companies that invest in innovative products big or small should be able to defend those innovations against being ripped off.

Yes, fights over this will be resource intensive but there are ways to fund expensive litigation if winning is plausible. And of course the expense of litigation touches on all kinds of unrelated problems.

"This also works to inhibit innovation, as companies can lock out competitors via legal machinations, as opposed to needing to innovate continuously."

You're flat out wrong here. Companies will need to create their own innovations rather than ripping off others. This will give power to the the people actually innovating and encourage companies to invest in their own R&D.

RE the 4th circuit, yes it's not the Supreme Court but it's a big decision in the right direction in my view... and suggests this and/or related issues may be heard by the supreme court.

Ultimately software is not the open source cooperative utopia that many people like you hoped for. It is a ruthless for profit marketplace, and if you ever want to give the guy in the garage a chance you have to give him a mechanism to protect his ideas... and the patent system is not that mechanism right now. Perhaps terms of use will be?

Maybe not, in any case the status quo is letting giant tech companies power and influence grow without limits... and that needs to change.
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Maybe it does, but does intelligence require consciousness?
It relates because we are not talking about scripting. We are talking about programming.

Python/Ruby/etc.. are slow.

D/Go/C/Rust/etc.. is fast.
Sadly, that matches my experience as well. Everything is built with a lifecycle that is closely related to the release date of the next model.
I like my job, and I like programming... But there are other things I like too. Such as playing the guitar and saxophone, writing side coding projects, mountain climbing and traveling. Do you realize that writing side coding projects is just one of the many things we like to do?

Just because we do side projects does not mean that we do not have a life outside of coding.
Why?

If you're an average citizen in the US, Europe, Australia etc, then why wouldn't you care more about attacks in other western countries than you would about attacks in Africa?

The majority of people in western countries aren't planning a trip to Somalia or Syria any time soon. They don't look for jobs there, they don't have family there, and by and large they have very little reason to care about anything that happens there, as long as it doesn't affect them globally.

It shouldn't be any surprise that "major terrorist attack in a country I holidayed/interviewed/was born in" is a much bigger story to most people than "major terrorist attack in Africa".

Is it not the news's job to report the news that's most relevant to the audience? I'm not saying that European terrorist attacks should be plastered all over the front page and on the TV 24/7 (on the contrary, I too think it's overhyped), but I also don't think African terrorist attacks should be, for the same reason I don't particularly want the weather forecast for Nairobi in my news. It's not that I have any particular opinions about it, of course I want them to have nice weather and no bushfires or blizzards or hurricanes or anything, but at the end of the day it's just not relevant to me.
It's less about ego, and more that the removal of ambiguity in the workplace hierarchy is itself a social attack. If Alice is considered "better" than Bob, then Bob cannot act as if he were "better" without getting smacked down for being uppity or putting on airs or the like.

It's not about the money. It's not even the fact that you ranked them. It's that you ranked them publicly, and from a place of authority to boot. And worse still, on a one-dimensional scale.
wow, or maybe people should not be expected to be always rushing in life? If you are busy to get to a workplace that do not allow coming late, tough on you, leave earlier. I'll keep enjoying life (and be a "tourist", even where I live) at my own pace, and stop to take a picture if I feel like it, thank you
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It says to not call people names. We can disagree while still being civil.
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The El Faro is a good example of how a rigid chain of command can be disastrous. I'm reminded of Malcolm Gladwell's analysis of "cockpit culture" and deference caused an airliner to run out of fuel and crash.[0] In the case of the El Faro, perhaps not deferring to the Captain could have saved the ship.

[0]. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/malcolm...
I don't think it's that different from your local news reporting about local crime versus crime in other cities or even states. To get something reported from another state it would have to be notable.

I think that's the same happening here. People can only be concerned about the periphery of their lives so much.

Likewise, those people in far away places likely don't hear much reportage about incidents happening relatively close to them. It's not that they are callous or don't care. They just have more immediate things to think about.
>Good employers care. I care. Its not signaling. Its important.

It's not important. There are plenty of good companies who don't do these things that manage to pay developers $100k salaries. They may assess in other ways, but it's not the only signal.

It's only important to you. You choose what you want to see in candidates. You need buy-in from the candidates that your process is conducive to a good environment, good code, and good delivery. In turn, you cultivate a team who share something in common, and the team gets along well and makes good code.

It's people finding like-minded people -- the same social movements that are in every other profession. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's currently no prevailing right or wrong way to do it, otherwise that would be the technical interview.

Practically, development is still in demand. So if I get rejected, I can go apply some place else. That's why it's not important.

Maybe your pay is slightly above those other companies, but is a marginal pay increase really worth all of the extra effort? That's up to the developer. But the employers that don't use this criteria are not non-good employers.
If your washing machine and car are loaded with software, then the benefits and freedoms of ownership are basically non-existant.
FT itself is heavily invested by the Japanese.
There is the Sinclair Broadcast Group they own many small stations and will benefit from this change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
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You do realize the irony in quoting the part about how so many people overvalue their performance and then following it up by talking about how you are 3x as productive as everyone else at your previous companies?
Maybe reply instead of downvoting folks.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

They have been buying up local stations for years. They then use that influence to push conservative ideas.
Maybe "local" news sells and US/Europe is considered more local to their audience than Asia/Africa. I wonder if the Asian/African press is covering Asian/African terrorism more than they cover terrorism in the West.
They must be popular in pockets of people here and there, because I've never used either of them or seen them in the wild. I had to look up what Venmo was a week ago when someone mentioned it here. As far as I can tell, it's a "hipper" version of PayPal except it's not supported by web stores or anywhere else I might buy something. So cool I guess--I'm probably just an out of touch old fogey--I don't use Snapchat either.
They fired him for just asking? Then they're horrible, and he's better off far away from them. Most employers are not actually cartoon villains and will be reasonable.
Even if they removed it, it would still be there... in Spanish ;-)

("EL" = "THE")
> We've seen it hundreds of times in all kinds of software. Functions that return bool instead of an error code. Where did the precise error vanish to? Poof, it's gone!

A thousand times yes.

Earlier this year, two of us spent a full day debugging a problem with some of our automation. Our team has pretty good automation, for the most part, but this particular problem was in kind of a dark corner. A shell script in the automation would start up a process in the background, and then send commands to that process. The background process could be slow to start up at times, so to deal with this, the commands running in the foreground had long timeouts if any. Guess what happens if the background process dies?

Well, the shell script doesn't care, that's for sure, it wasn't watching for error codes in background processes. It was a bit of an adventure following the path from the foreground commands to the missing background process, and finding the log files for the background process.

It's one of the things I like about writing this quick-and-dirty automation in Go--the error handling is so explicit that you'll usually end up with good logs explaining what went wrong and what the program was trying to do at the time. Much better than dealing with shell scripts. Shell scripts are quick to write but you're often left in a bad position when they fail in unexpected ways, or even in expected ways.

(The actual bug we hunted down was traced to one missing line in a configuration file, but the problems with that piece of automation are far larger.)
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Here's an interesting 2014 article on the game's creator, Mahdi Bahrami [1]

[1] https://iq.intel.com/irans-gaming-pioneer-brings-the-east-to...
If you’re considering reading a Ben Franklin biography, I would highly recommend reading his autobiography as well (if you haven’t already).
Continents are a little coarse of a unit here, don't you think? You could choose to use them and treat them as an aggregate of some sort, but I think you end up losing a lot of information when you do so.
Thanks for the kind words!

I worked pretty hard to get the native feel on mobiles. Unfortunately there aren't really many libraries out there that let you achieve this easily, so I ended up writing a lot of the animation/transition logic myself - it was great fun! If I do end up making a bit more money on this project, I intend to wrap the code into a nice library and open source it :)
It's just another word the right has latched on to in order to sound more intelligent, c.f. "cultural marxism". It's the same as people who throw around words like "Social Justice Warrior" as if that's a bad thing and make critiques of feminism without having actually taken even a second to read feminist literature on topics like intersectionality. It's the age of buzzwords. Ironically, caring about "identity politics" is identity politics as well, but the people using the term will still feel holier-than-thou and pretend they're rational, impartial, impassionate, and indifferent beings.
So I buy some land. I plop an apartment building down on it. I pay "land tax" on the land.

Why would I not just raise rents to preserve my profits?
I would expect my doctor to read papers, news, etc to keep abreast of the latest medical advances though.
Quel est le titre du documentaire en question, avec un lien si possible ? Merci d'avance.
It also seems to me that improving public and mass transit would be a more proximate solution to traffic deaths. Every one will die of some cause or another. as medicine improves the share of deaths due to accidents should increase. Even with increasing medical capacity to treat diseases traffic deaths only account for 1.5 % of all annual deaths. Maybe silicon valley would be better to spend its talents improving health care and preventative medicine. But that is not as sexy to pitch to wall street and the public as Jetsons fantasies. Recently Silicon Valley's contribution to healthcare was Theranos, who Tim Draper still believes was unfairly maligned by the press.
How would you use a poo emoji then?
In normal countries, Pai would have been in jail for all the damage he is causing through his corruption.
Do you have a source for your 4% figure or is that just a gut feel estimate? I have no idea (as if anyone can definitively know) what the actual rate might be.
Please don't post like this regardless of how lame another comment was. It only makes this place worse.

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Edit: I'm sad to see that you've posted nastily uncivil comments before this too. We ban accounts that do that, so would you please read those guidelines and err on the side of civility when posting here?
About half of the US gets government-sponsored healthcare (via Medicaid, Medicare, or one of the state-run programs). The other half don't, and getting it via your employer is generally a win-win (they are providing a benefit that costs them nothing [0], and you get to pay for healthcare via pre-tax income). You certainly don't have to rely on your employer for healthcare, you can buy any legal health insurance you like with your own money.

[0] Yes, it is extremely common for employers to pay for healthcare in full or in part (and the ACA complicates this a little), but there is no reason employers have to pay anything in order for employees to realize the tax benefit.
Rural Americans don't tend to think that the government is a functional entity and that going through that chain will net anything.

They may have a valid point since only money talks in government these days.
I'll walk at any pace I find appropriate for the day, Thank you very much. Usually slower than most if it's sunny because I'll want to enjoy my walk outside. Tough that you need to be rushing, leave earlier or get a job/friends that allow being late. Are you the kind of guy who also resent older people for being slow?
Everyone agrees that it's terrible, but it's hard to change anything without screwing over at least one huge industry in some way, plus now the question is totally politicized and everyone assumes the worst about everyone else's intentions.
Our client always ask for code samples. Code samples we use from projects. When we hire a dev. The dev needs to at least have a github and "some" code samples. its what the client wants ( i know ignorant but here me out)We work with the project owner, who's boss ( signs the check) applies pressure on him ( blames him really) for any fuck ups in code / app failures) Meanwhile the boss changes the app features on a daily basis. So the PM does not know any better since he has to have the code approved from another teach lead. So if you want to make money you have to provide ( proof of work / code) which may take the form of a side project ( demonstrates your not in it for the money without passion) I don't know, just my experience with hiring a dev.