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Very much so, in all the call centers I've worked in there was no "complaints department" we are just told to listen to the customer, relate with their concerns and tell them it will be "reviewed" by another department. In reality, it goes absolutely no where. Even if I 100% agreed with your complaint, I have no place to record it or know who it's supposed to go to to get further up the ladder. Some managers will accept your complaint, put it on their desk, then throw it out. If you been employed long enough the managers wont even accept it, cause honestly I don't think they have anyone to pass it up the chain to that would actually accept it.

Best way to go is social media, companies have "Social Media Experts" that are employed solely for online damage control.

Another way to get something done is by sending a plain snail mail letter addressed to someone high-up at the company in question. You have to figure that out yourself as if you call the call center, the reps are never allowed to give out that information or they are told to tell you a fake address/fake person or the general C/O Complaints Department. Those go to no one at all and directly to the garbage.

Now if you successfully send a written complaint letter to someone high up, everyone knows about it, cause the internal police come to investigate if anyone at the call center gave out that information (It's a huge deal and grounds to be fired).

Another thing, youtube clips, if you are recording and posting on youtube your conversation with a rep, the company has a team to watch for that stuff. Once they find you doing that, you then become a "Flagged Customer" and we prepare while we leave you on hold, get one of the better reps available and have 2-3 other managers listening in on the line guiding the rep through the call step by step.
> it's not that difficult to live cheaply for awhile to pursue a business if you are motivated.

The immigrants from poor countries may have the relative advantage that living cheaply feels more acceptable to them, and is more socially acceptable in their community.

Most people spend all the money they make. If the average salary in your community is e.g. $1000 a month, then to look "normal", you have to spend approximately $1000 a month. You can cut corners here and there, but if you do it too much, you will suffer social consequences. Either your friends will start seeing you as a "loser", or you will stop participating at some of their more expensive activities. In such situation, most people won't push too far. Maybe it wouldn't even be a good idea to burn your social capital, because if your business fails, you will need a Plan B.

If you are an immigrant from a poor country, your social circle probably mostly consists of people coming from the same place. They won't judge you for not having expensive hobbies; it's "normal" not to have them. They are probably saving the extra money, and so are you. Maybe you only spend $500 a month on yourself, so if you have a brother, you can make a deal like "one of us goes to work for $1000 and pays for both, while the other tries to start a family business". Or parents work hard and live cheaply in order to provide their children a better future. The second generation is much less likely to live like this, because they already made friends in the majority culture, and start doing the expensive things to fit in.

Social pressure is a thing. It is much easier to live the way people around you do. Sure, it's also about conscientiousness; I am not saying it's either-or, just that "conscientious and living in a subculture that encourages saving" is better than "conscientious and living in a subculture that encourages spending" for starting your own business.
But that also includes operands to !, so you wouldn't be able to use !! to bool-ify something.
If people can lie, then why are humans used as witnesses to crimes?

"Evidence" doesn't have to be irrefutable to make it into a court of law (and the standards are far lower for the court of public opinion).
Well, the impact is greater because the availability is much wider. Social acceptance can make most any evil the norn. Just look at obesity/diabetes. Now there's a killer no one REALLY wants to talk about.
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> If they enjoy the taste then it cannot be deemed unpleasant

why ? a lot of people have no problem enjoying unpleasant things, it doesn't makes them less unpleasant
I get this weird issue when there is an exception - vs code debugging just stops and there is no exception message in the output/debug/... window etc. Perhaps simplifying the various windows would be helpful.
A SDC needs to be better than humans on average to be a safer choice. It doesn't need to be perfect. Now, getting humans to acknowledge that and embrace that is the real problem.
I'm sure this is true for the pain associated with the various ailments that bring most people to the ER, but opioids are massively more effective for serious trauma. Motrin does very little for people who've been shot. Fentanyl lollipop on the other hand....
It is vital to the intel community that their methods of attribution can't be publicly audited and that their authority is trusted on word alone.
If you expect Bitcoin to increase in value, wouldn’t it be a better idea to just buy bitcoins rather than buy computers and electricity to mine at a (current) loss?

I think the only reason such people would prefer mining is if it’s difficult for them (legally, practically, etc.) to directly buy bitcoins in the area they live or at the scale they desire to invest.
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Wouldn't a branching do the trick?

checkout a WIP branch and push it. You can pull it on any other computer you want, keep working on it till you are comfortable enough to merge back on master/develop.
> It makes it so you always know where the source code for any package is.

Where is a useful question to answer, and nice to have consistent across an ecosystem. But What is also a very important question to answer, and tying What to be mutable and dependent on When is... highly unfortunate.
I live in a very interesting area, across the street from me is a different city with housing costs roughly 10x the costs of mine. I am daily confronted with the absurdity of pricing of housing.

In addition as I've watched rents around me rise, and anticipated my own rent rising, I wonder at the expectation that we should continually get less for more. My house isn't getting any newer after all.

If my employer decided to cut my pay by 10 or 20% every year there's no way I would stay, and yet I must admit that I have tolerated this behavior from my landlords.

Unlike commodities or consumables, for which unrestrained markets influenced by collective expectations of supply and demand are not routinely shocking, the expectation that my house, in which I already live, and for which I have been paying consistently for years, suddenly being much more expensive ... well that feels like a hole in the social contract. A problem to be remedied by legislation if the governing societal expectations do not naturally lead to a different equilibrium.

What if the expectation was that if you let someone live in your home you are granting them significant rights, significant stability, and are assuming significant risk of losing money? This set of expectations is well known elsewhere, but not so much where I live.

So while I am willing to be convinced that a humane and equitable improvement to a cities housing situation can be achieved by building more housing, I would hate for legislative restrictions to be ignored as complimentary and beneficial efforts.
Maybe add a [humor] tag
People talk about obesity all the time. The problem is nobody knows what to do about it.
It is, though.

> (U) Definition: Special Intelligence, or SI, Is a sensitive compartmented information (SCI) control system designed to protect technical and Intelligence Information derived from the monitoring of foreign communications signals by other than the intended recipients. The SI control system protects SI-derived Information and information relating to SI activities, capabilities, techniques, process and procedures.

Page 80 here: https://fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/capco_reg_v6-0.pdf
Architecturally this uses threads, a master listener and some number of worker threads. You will add a couple calls to your program to initialize the web server. The workers use synchronous I/O. You can easily add server side support for Lua or JavaScript from which you can expose and manipulate your program’s state, to the extent you can use threads in C without tearing your leg off.

It looks much nicer than anything I’ve hand rolled in the past to add web management to various servers and daemons.
Custom domain name SSL is also provided by Cloudflare, it's called "SSL for SaaS".
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Yeah... the last thing I'm thinking about if my car is sliding around is hitting my horn.
>I say that if WL's real goal is to promote human rights,

That's where you're wrong. Wikileaks' mission is "transparency for governments and privacy for people". Perhaps they seem to have affinity for publishing things contrary to the US' interests and you're right that the US isn't uniquely bad at protecting human rights, but the US (and Western European sigint community) violates privacy on a scale that's simply unmatched, it's reasonable for them to treat the Anglosphere's sigint as their primary adversary.
Super cool!

Solving problems like DropTurk with stronger guarantees around turnaround/quality/confidentiality is exactly what we do at Scale. Would love to hear more about DropTurk’s experiences around building this internally and how it compares to our product:

https://www.scaleapi.com/ocr-transcription
This is good work. Keep it up.
People who would, instead of eg living in SF, have lived in Oakland, SSF, San Mateo etc instead move to SF and nothing changes and/or net increased rent results? Continuing to allow the peninsula to add jobs and dump its housing problem on SF obviously doesn't help priced out SF residents. And in SF, at least some of those higher end housing projects remove housing first.

Nothing in economics says it's obvious without observation or experiment that adding expensive housing in SF helps affordability for lower income brackets.
Wasn't this connection pretty well known? Colon cancer and all that. Plus like cmon its no secret alcohol os tough on your body, cancer is probably the least of your worries.
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Cause or correlation? Given the (bad) dietary and lifestyle habits of the majority of people, it's too easy to attribute something to X when in fact it's likely Y or Z.

Full disclosure: I'm half way through Grain Brain (having read Wheat Belly a couple years ago) and the current "ideal diet" is anything but.
I'll politely point out that your response is flawed and incorrect. As self-governing British territories, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Bermuda etc. all have ccTLDs pertaining to their ISO 3166-1 designations. Because of that, it isn't the British government that creates the ccTLD. There is no basis to say that BIOT would not have the .io ccTLD if its domestic population was self-governing.
Thanks for the encouragement. Will do. And feel free to add comments on the github repo if you have ideas
This is talking about the personal danger, not the total societal impact.
There is a case to do policy that relates to dealing with addiction and public health, but I garner immediate rejection at the idea that the State should devise policy with the goals of affecting what people should or should not do with themselves.

The 'war on crime' is a modern example of what happens to both consumers and providers when the State gets between them.

Edit: I meant 'War on drugs'.
How did you manage to find a housing price gradient that sharp? East Palo Alto vs. Palo Alto or something?
People generally don’t mine bitcoin. Their computers do. And they don’t even need to sit at the mining rigs for 8 hours a day like most employees do.
Ya, for example, I've seen people react with surprise when they're told (withdrawal from) heavy drinking can cause life threatening seizures.
My favourite is always Professor David Nutt, fired from his position advising the Home Office for saying ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/30/drugs-advis...

EDIT: David Nutt on how ecstasy isn't as dangerous as "Equasy"

http://www.encod.org/info/EQUASY-A-HARMFUL-ADDICTION.html
Custom domains for multi tenant apps is our biggest value right now. You can get it elsewhere, but there's typically a huge fixed monthly cost just to start.

There are a bunch of companies who've done most of what we've exposed in house (us included in past lives!), once we're a bit older and more fully developed I think we'll have compelling features even for you though! We do have deep volume discounts, fwiw, so if you get tired of running all that stuff let us know. :)
"Someone in the Strawberry field for 10 months still can't forever."

I love this. Thank you whoever sent that in
This entire interview is very Japanese. There’s certain mentalities, especially an ironic, self-aware, self-deprecating cynicism, that is really present in some Japanese people that Americans can only understand with some effort. Maybe the business could be fake for some unrelated reason, but the interview itself is entirely consistent with a Japanese mode of thinking, and the writing does not scream as fake at all to me.

The writing is definitely more self-aware and humorous than you would expect from an American in the same situation.
See https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/competitors.html for a comparison of various HTTP libs (obviously through the lens of cURL)
I know you are talking about Desktop OCR, but I had a very good experience with Google Vision API. On my previous gig we were trying to automate receipt scanning, and it gave very good results with no previous image manipulation whatsoever (meaning, no special camera alignment, lighting condition, rotation, skewing, etc).

It was not perfect, but I was very impressed with the quality, speed, and price.
IDK but more than one addict has told me their habit was a symptom of a deeper (emotional?) ill. So we could ban alcohol but then what? Would that solve a problem or will something else just take its place?
The point is if nobody builds the nicer dwelling, the person with the money that could have afforded the higher price will just turf out a lower-earning person living in a worse house, because the main feature of the house is that it provides access to the occupant's job.
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Right. When you get your legs blown off, Ibuprofen ain't gonna cut it. That's why Army medics carry morphine.
Can you explain what it does? I signed up for the beta, but there isn't much explanation on the site and I haven't received an invitation yet.
I would recommend "Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth. This small book (< 200 pages) will teach you the basics and show you how to build a single-pass compiler for a subset of Oberon (a Pascal successor).

The book is freely available here: http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index.h...

For a more comprehensive example, you can have a look at my compiler for the full Oberon language targeting the JVM. It is based on the principles of that book: https://github.com/lboasso/oberonc
I think I'm a pretty decent senior network engineer but I've been hit by firmware bugs more than once. No matter how much redundancy you build in, there's always shit that can go wrong and there will always be things that you just can't foresee (like the bug in this case). The software on these network devices and optical gear is written by humans, like all software, and is not perfect, like all software.

(In one case I experienced, the vendor reassured me that what I reported was not even technically possible -- until one of their engineers flew out and witnessed it firsthand.)
But why would that need to be in two steps?
By fueling the boom? The greater the supply, the bigger the phenomenon, the more people it pulls in.

Notice there are not a lot of speculative booms in things the world only has three of.
Well, MDMA did in fact start as a therapeutic drug. It's roots are not a street / designer drug.
I find that really hard to believe. Maybe for some kinds of pain OTC meds or marijuana will cut it, but when I have really bad back pain nothing works as well as opiates, not muscle relaxers, not tylenol, not even close. Opiates work like magic.
Ohai! Yeah, you can do the same thing with Fly (which is what most of our customers do - just point DNS at Fly). I cannot stress enough how nice it is being able to build on top of Let's Encrypt! bows

The API is mainly for people who'd like to automate the process, because they want to provide custom domains for their customers (so more for B2B use-cases) ;)
I think we know what to do but nobody has the courage to do something.
Oh? What should we do?
Somebody made a video of manually bitcoin mining on paper once, kind of amusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo
That's not all that crazy to me, I can imagine many scenarios where that could happen. The answer is, as always, "it depends". It depends on what you build, how you build it, where you build it, how it's perceived, the time interval across which you're measuring prices, etc. Price of stuff is way more nuanced than surface-level supply and demand. It all comes down to perception of value, and there are a LOT of factors that can affect perception of value outside of scarcity, and they're often very dependent on each other.
Not self-hostable, but Google Vision API OCR was pretty good when I used last time. AWS also has a offering for that, but I haven't personally tested.
> So maybe Windows 10 beats Gnome 3 (although I don't know if it's true, I don't have Windows), but it definitely can't beat "Linux"

This gets back to the question of what performance are you even talking about. It sounds like you're talking about the performance of random apps here rather than of the OS or any of its fundamentals.

No matter what DE you run, though, you're not fixing Linux's graphics problems, so Windows will always beat Linux on that front until the driver & compositor situation radically improves. Wayland simply can't compete with WDDM today, and for some god unknown reason you still get X11 on many distros by default anyway.

Running on a raspberry pi isn't some monumental achievement, either. The Pi has rather quite a lot of power. Windows IoT core runs just fine on it, which despite the name still has a graphics stack and all of that (more "windows lite" rather than "iot core")
The article reminds me a lot of a Murakami novel.
I'm not sure what kind of app you're running, but our product/pricing are targeted almost entirely at SaaS apps that need multiple hostnames — which is $2500/mo min on CF: https://fly.io/mix/custom-hostnames

It's really expensive to do that on top of CloudFlare, and most apps like that aren't using a tremendous amount of bandwidth.

We're not _yet_ a great option as a general purpose CDN replacement (both pricing and featureset) but we're getting there, and are pushing prices down continuously. It's more expensive to buy bandwidth and power in certain cities, too, hence the different pricing per region.

If you're willing, I'd love to know what your traffic breakdown is and how you got to that $1200/mo number. You can email me if you'd like! (kurt.mackey@fly.io)
I haven't looked at any resources in particular. Basically my compiler has 3 parts--parser -> type checker -> code generation. Parsing was tricky at first, but then I stumbled upon a pattern which is pretty close to parser-combinators. Type checking seemed daunting, but my language happened to be Hindley-Milner compatible, and there's lots of reference information for HM. Code generation is easy in the base case, but I'm still wrapping my mind around template expansion.
How ingenious the VAT is.
I don't think we "forget", I think developers are after the quick buck and buyers are after most-sqft-per-dollar. Building up or down is more expensive.
This appears to have first gotten funded in 2015?
And it mixes popular sheep via genetic algorithms with fitness based on the voting.
It's so rare lately for tech companies to do the Right Thing (tm) that it's pleasantly surprising - even heartwarming - when they do.

(Still wish they'd open source the backend.)
This is a funny fantasy world you're living in.

Bitcoin is a waste of power. Mining gold, creating banks, printing money, these aren't wastes of power as the result is always something equivalent to said power. A bitcoin is just a bunch of 1s and 0s that takes 1ms to get, but wastes thousands of hours proving it.
I see supply and demand like the Ohm's law of economics, it's always true, but can get a bit complicated when you see things like reactance and reluctance. Sure, there can be interesting discussions about housing, but ultimately supply and demand is always key, but can get complicated do to realities like lack of space (SF) and nimby's (also SF)
> I think that is the way it is framed, but as the OKCupid user base bleeds out those users are most likely turning to Tinder as it has more people. OKCupid has actually lifted some features off of Tinder which makes no sense as they're owned by the same parent company which is kind of shooting itself in the foot with this approach.

Do you own index funds? I do. Which means I have stock in Coke and Pepsi both. But this is stupid because Coke and Pepsi are competitors, so my Coke returns are offset by my Pepsi losses whenever Coke wins and vice versa, right? Actually, no, because the beverage industry still grows in aggregate over time, and in exchange for not having to guess who's going to win the cola wars, I get to collect the benefits of both companies growing the overall market.

In this analogy, I'm match.com and OKCupid and Tinder are Coke and Pepsi.
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I agree completely, but in reality people will just think "lol he wants to make cocaine legal, what a whack job." The war on drugs is entirely contrary to the concept of personal liberty.

In fact if you read up on the history of the war on drugs, usually it wasn't even motivated by public health. Alcohol was first made illegal largely because of anti-catholic and anti-Irish sentiments (also, interestingly, as part of the women's movement!). Marijuana was made illegal because it was associated with Mexicans. Psychedelics were cracked down on because of the hippies. Crack possession carried harsher penalties than cocaine because it was used by poor black people.
I think the argument being made is one worth evaluating:

"In fact, if they'd waited three more quarters to do the IPO — meaning right here — the stock likely wouldn't be anywhere near this high. With these numbers, you know what, it might not even have been able to come public at all."

Did they know this is where it was heading and rushed to IPO, leaving the public holding the bag? However, It's not as if they necessarily misrepresented their situation, they were pretty clear they have no profits and no clear path to them.
Criminal investigations are non-partisan. You don't get structural immunity from espionage charges just because you are "of another political party" than the current president. The wiretap was authorized by a judge. The Whitehouse also never denied wiretapping Manafort, but if they HAD done so, it would have been proper. Wiretaps are secret, by their nature. This also occurred after Manafort had been removed from his position on the Trump campaign.
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