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> Monopolies are inherently bad because not being subject to competitive forces

Some companies are a "monopoly" in a small sector, but there are substitute products which are close enough to provide market-like forces. Don't want to pay for a Tesla? Buy an internal-combustion engine car, a gas-electric hybrid car, pay a premium for a Fisker Kharma, get one of the less desirable tiny electrics from any one of a dozen tiny-production manufacturers, or simply buy a Tesla used.

If Tesla was a monopoly, they could (would?) charge far more now than they are for the early delivery units (time-price discrimination). As far as I can tell, they have biased early delivery Model 3 cars to premium features, but they are charging the same price in delivery month 1 than delivery month 3.

> If that makes you sound like a libertarian it speaks poorly to their general economic literacy.

I'm reasonably well versed on the basics of economics (both classical and behavioral). "Libertarian" comes with a connotation, which I don't prefer to adopt. Some of it comes from Ayn Rand acolytes, some from the ignorance/naiveté of AnCaps (although I admit that there's enough ignorance on all sides of economics).

But more extreme libertarians tend to think that the market will correct itself faster and better than any government intervention, so "monopolies don't exist for long in free-market conditions" (although this assumes perfect information transparency, which never has and never will exist).

> On the flip side, Tesla is also treated a lot better than smaller competitors, because its size enables it to play states off against each other

Every big company that has already raised the funds (or promise of funds) can get similar attention and courting when shopping for a cite for jobs. It's not unique to Tesla, or even large companies:

* Amazon is shopping with HQ2 to major metro areas
* Google Fiber had cities put together competitive bids, including cutting red tape and cheap access to utility poles
* Wisconsin just offered a *massive* tax discount package to woo FoxConn to build a factory in the US
* Almost *every* auto manufacturer gets courted by different states to build plants (incl. Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, etc) in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Alabama
* Boeing gets many bids on their plants and Airbus recently got similar incentives for building a plant in Alabama
* The Kansas Cities (two adjacent cities in two states) have long been at economic war, offering unsustainable tax incentives to keep companies from "crossing the street" into another tax jurisdiction[1]
* Video Effects ("VFX") is in a tax-free treadmill[2]

[1] https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599368-missou...

[2] http://www.studiodaily.com/2013/04/ending-the-vfx-crisis-wha...
That would be a sound assumption.

Why else should a Silicon Valley billionaire give 300k to someone running for attorney general in a Missouri? Is he just interested in justice being pursued in a small Midwestern state he doesn't live in, that he is neither from, nor studied in, nor has his major business interests in?

$300,000 is a sizable donation for someone running for attorney general in a low key state.
USITC says launches probe of allegations of patent infringement by Apple
It's always a matter of degree, though. If someone grabs a boob, then one time is way too many and they need to go. If they say "Hey guys,..." and someone expresses discomfort with the genderedness of the phrase, a few warnings are warranted; different people will have different feelings about whether such a thing is ever enough to fire someone, and that's valid.

The middle ground is where thickness of skin comes in, and while it's not on you to buy in to your employer's standard, it is on the employer to set a standard.

In that respect, I don't think Tesla has been very clear here. I have no idea from this article where the actual line is.
I suppose that's one of the UNs weakness in that they lack the ability to enforce a lot of conventions.
It's good to remember that he is in power since 1980.
Calling a dictator as a President doesn't make him one.
And this doesn't make the takeover good or bad, btw.
I forgot to mention that these days most of the projects that I see use a combination of webpack and npm scripts. I guess gulp will be obsolete in the next years.
Pacific time, that's 11:27.
Pre-Mugabe Zimbabwe was known as "the breadbasket of Africa" for the productivity of its farms. Mugabe brought economic collapse and famine, while living a life of luxury and stashing billions overseas. Hopefully whoever comes next will be a better leader.
Actually it was more Apple picking up Steve, which ended up leading to an inverted buy from inside.
Which is why there must be good rules that people can't stay in power for too long. Power will corrupt eventually even the nicest of people.
This is why Javascript is 20 years behind...
No, it's actually a "this page has finished loading" animation. Personally I like it, but of course taste varies.
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At my previous job a colleague showed me some C++ code and asked if I could help him spot the issue. I looked at it and said it looked fine. He ran the program and it crashed.

We ended up staying late in order to try to find a minimal reproducible example. We finally managed and found that the cause was a basic trigonometric function in the standard library giving the wrong result.

At first, we couldn't believe it. Then we googled the issue and found a bug report about the intrinsic version of that function not working properly. With Microsoft confirming that it didn't and that they weren't looking to fix it. We disabled intrinsics in that section of the code and the original code worked as intended.
> you could probably point out this kind of a strange feature case in nearly any language if you look hard enough

I disagree. I think it's a product of bad language design.
When was Mugabe a hero? Like, what year and what heroic thing did he do?
I think + for append is fine, it certainly seems to make sense to me that you get "helloworld" from "hello"+"world".

I think the confusing thing is the type coercion. Does it make sense that "2"+3 is "23" but 2+"3" is not 5?

(3*4).toString() + "=" + 3.toString() + 4.toString())

would not be as surprising that the two sides are different.
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For those who are interested in web development using custom elements (web components) and native API.

slim.js 3 was released with major improvements: 50% reduced code size (5K gz), faster implementation (overall score faster than react 16.0-rc), and a more friendly api.

documentation: http://slimjs.com
github: https://github.com/eavichay/slim.js
benchmark comparison: https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/1922d6b922816b5b7f5c81fecf7a950df7bc005e/webdriver-ts-results/table.html

slim.js is a new library aiming for future compatibility with browsers, ease of use and performance. It is based on native custom elements API and enables developers to write modern web applications faster and in a declarative manner.
Switch to the "light" theme in the customization options. It looks better.
I guess people confused it with http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.ht...
Its not the kind of things you can get confirmation. He was called a traitor in official letter yesterday.
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To the point of rewriting syntax just because of it, e.g. ReasonML vs OCaml...
Isn't $300k like $500 to Peter Thiel?
I had to look twice at this. I was surprised that I could add the string “=“ to ‘3’. I guess what’s happening here is the int gets boxed and then gets implicitly converted to String. Proof of the pudding would be to try it with a simple string assignment rather than System.out.println. What happens after the “=“ is more straightforward
I'd wager half of them does not have diagnosed gluten intolerance.

There are many chemicals in bread one can be allergic or intolerant to. Gluten proteins are but one. Bad lactose intolerance and lactose sweetened breads may be responsible for some reported symptoms. Soy protein or bean protein used in fast mixes. Fructans are another.
The EU have acceptable "Maximum Residue Levels" of Glyphosate in foods:
http://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/eu-pesticides-data...

In wheat it is 10 mg/kg. (Page 5 from the above link).

This UK report:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

found pesiticide residues in 90 of 96 cereal crop samples tested. However, it concluded that "None of the residues detected by the laboratory would be expected to have an effect on health."

A BBC TV programme covered this issue in 2014:
http://www.countryfile.com/news/pesticides-found-over-60-uks...
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We can tell that the tone is authentic. The language doesn't hedge. It makes clear, verifiable claims about the facts of the situation. If they are lying, we will almost certainly find out in the trial process. An inauthentic message would be one that hedges and avoids making specific, falsifiable claims.

We perceive this tone as authentic because it makes claims that an uncertain or lying PR department wouldn't have the nerve, authority, or legal standing to make. In that way, it is an unforgeable signal. Of course it's possible to forge in the moment, but then it makes your situation 100x worse when you inevitably get called out later. Which is why people afraid of being called out later can't do it.
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> This doesn't look good.

Who for?

The situation in Zimbabwe is bad enough that things could hardly get much worse. Worst case, one corrupt dictator gets replaced by a different successor than would otherwise have been the case. It's not like a military junta could be less democratic or more corrupt than the existing regime, after all.
On closer inspection I have to say that I am a bit confused by these rankings. It appears that Inspur (a Chinese HPC company listed as the vendor for Alibaba's systems) lists its product as rack scale servers. By that standard what is to keep any data center operator from claiming a top spot on the list? Is it because Inspur systems can be configured to run Linpack benchmark as clusters? Alibaba's published use case http://www.inspursystems.com/case-studies/alibaba/ does not seem particularly floating point intensive, so the distinction seems somewhat artificial.
I was expecting something more interesting, very disappointed.
Erlang does not support currying, so having the subject in the last arg does not help much.

Also, the actual ordering is not `func(Args..., Subject)` but instead `func(Args..., Subject, OptionalArgs...)` which bit me more than once.

I like Elixir's consistent use of the first arg for the subject along with the pipe operator, which gives you essentially currying-like behaviour in the first argument.
Cheaper developers, anyone doing webpages can be hired for doing server stuff and easily replaceable, the dream of most enterprise shops.
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A comment in another thread made an interesting point about this press release done by the Missouri AG. Generally AGs don't need to send out press releases to announce the beginning of an investigation if they already have evidence that will stick.

Google will probably end up hiring an expensive local law firm in Missouri and spend money on marketing to Missourians to improve its image. Without the AG's threat of a lawsuit, Google expenditures would probably largely avoid Missouri.

If this is true, the AG is playing at something that kinda smells like a legal form of racketeering, unless there is actually strong grounds to bring a anti-trust case.
"Ruminations on the heavy weight of software design in the 21st century."
Not all racial slurs are equal in everyone's eyes. What some people consider racial slurs, others say out of ignorance (less common, in today's sensitive reaction to them).

Consider "colored" compared to "nigger". Colored will definitely be seen by some as a racial slur, but to others it may be the appropriate for the time, not necessarily racially charged, correct terminology they initially learned. For that matter, "nigger" was a fairly neutral term originally, but changed over time, as the circumstances of the people it referred to changed and they preferred a different, less loaded moniker.
You can charge any modern smartphone (except iPhone) with the USB-C cable coming from your laptop charger
The trial lawyer who filed this lawsuit has a long track record of extorting money for meritless claims and using the threat of media attacks and expensive trial costs to get companies to settle. At Tesla, we would rather pay ten times the settlement demand in legal fees and fight to the ends of the Earth than give in to extortion and allow this abuse of the legal system.

I wonder how your shareholders will feel about that.
and MSR

but does this really exclude enough people to be problematic, if not... then it better to have too many restrictions..
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And they even sign the climate agreements.
Maybe because I'm not American, but it sounds fine to me. Whoever wrote the text is not using those words, just reporting.

When there is a murder with a knife everyone says person A murdered person B with a knife, not "he m'd person B with a k-thing". How come people can cope with describing murder and violence and not slurs?
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It's not even about being thick skinned: it might not bother me at a personal level, but I'm not letting a team malfunction as baseline where some members make a habit of abusing other members and will absolutely make an issue of it until management does something.

Mostly because it's illegal for an employer to operate a business that way.
Could you tell me the language which is 20 years ahead of JavaScript?
A big part of me is very happy that they would "fight to the ends of the Earth", but then again i'm also very sad that the only ones that can actually do that are the ones with a huge amount of money at their disposal.
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The link lacks answers to the basic, first-order questions I've asked regarding methods, particularly methods that yield historical background to currently observed phenomena. Also, your attitude of contempt, and continued reliance and argument from authority, shows weakness. After all, if you really knew what you were talking about, the answers to my questions should be easy.
How is wetback as a slur even remotely comparable to the N-word.
Ask HN: Why are stackoverflow so tough?
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Did you purposefully misspell "clickbait"?

Also, even if there is no connection, it doesn't seem "clickbait"y. The article is probably drawing a tenuous connection, but it seems straightforward in it's attempt.
There is a language server build by the Haxe team. https://github.com/vshaxe/haxe-languageserver
HaxeDevelop consumes that.

If you want a cross-OS IDE, or something that works on mac/linux, then use vscode + vshaxe.
> Do you mean that if they were sincere, they'd stop the behavior?

Yes
I'd not be so sure. It can almost always get worse.
> it's amazing how many times eyes have seemed to independently evolve

And yet some claim that eyes couldn't have evolved, in the face of so much evidence.
I would pay for an API that will let me lookup company name based on IP address, anyone providing this type of service?
...does it really matter?

I prefer the companies tell it how it is, and not to censor information.
Wheat contains FODMAPs. I can't remember what kind exactly, but they're there. So it's actually kind of hard to eat gluten without FODMAPs, unless it's seitan or something. Hence the abstract of the article states:

"Foods with gluten often contain fructans, a type of fermentable oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols"

https://www.verywell.com/wheat-and-the-low-fodmap-diet-19447...
Thanks for the answer. Currently I’m using AWS Lambda to deploy my TensorFlow models. But it’s pretty hard and hacky. I need to remove a considerable portion of the code base that is not needed for inference only routines. I do that so the code loads faster and to fit the deployment package size limit.
If TensorFlow Lite is already a compressed code, then it may be much easier to deploy it to a serverless environment.
I’ll be trying it in my next deployments.
The rules of thumb seem to be that (a) for JPEGs under 10kB progressive may actually be larger and (b) for mobile devices the extra effort (CPU, memory) of progressive decode may be significant eg in taking time away from other parts of page rendering.
But mypy is basically a static type checker for python. So my point still stands that static implies that strong-ness is checked at compile time, or IDE time in this case.

Thinking about this more, if all that strong vs weak is referring to is implicit type coercions then it is a useless confusing term. Static vs dynamic refers to when the type checking occurs, implicit type coercions are just one of the things the type checker looks for.
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I appreciate semantics and nuance, and often get called a pedant, but you seem to be missing the argument being made. It's not technically 'invite-only' though it in practice, it is 'invite-only.' This looks like a product management shortcoming that seems all too prevalent at Twitter HQ. I say this as someone who was on Twitter in early '08, but quit late'10. I still believe in Twitter's value, which I thought was obvious, then couldn't understand the disinterest, and finally surprised it caught on with the US public. The company really has a long way to go in product management WRT user experience and developer ecosystem.

Mastodon is coming for Twitter.
I'd recommend reading the PM canon, its useful even if you just want to work better with them. Don't know the canon, find out. What books/podcasts do all the PM's you know own and listen to?
You could get the cert (PMBOK). Certs can mean the difference between someone taking a chance on you or not.
Ask the PM's/BA's in your company for advice (you can word it as your friend/kid is interested).
Another useful thing is to look at job ad's, what are they asking for, do you have those skills? Can you demonstrate them?
In the case I think you're thinking of, the corruption was pre-existing.
Yes. It's ridiculous.
Funny thing, there is some undocumented suspected DoD mode for high certification that disables almost all of it, because it is unverified code.
The problem isn't the scale, it's that the pennycutters decided to build the backup generators so low that they'd get flooded.

And they have been many times.

Just that previously, in those cases, the grid was still up, and the reactors running.

If the reactors were in progress of being shut down, and the connection to the grid severed, this could have become the same issue as with Fukushima.
Back when i wrote software for GSM mobile phones (2000'ish), we spotted several compiler errors in our "Infineon E-Gold" C compiler.

If you declared something like :

int a = 1 + 2 + 3;

The result would simply be "a=3". Turned out the compiler threw out any argument besides the first two.

Another error would be the compiler failing to increment the segment pointer (16 bit platform), and the offset pointer simply wrapped around.
This didn't show itself until we added a new 120x90 pixel four color display, meaning our display shadow buffer grew to a staggering 20 KiB, and depending on the build, the display buffer would become corrupted.

Certification for GSM compilers is expensive, so we just learned to work around it, i.e. we reimplemented our stdlib memcpy, memmove, strcpy, etc functions in assembler.
The EU limit for the residual amount of glyphosate allowed in wheat is higher than many other crops, so maybe that's why. But barley and soya beans, for example, are even higher.
Eh, I feel like I manage to find something to crash scalac about every month or two.
"And what do you think that proves exactly? Did you prove that the kids using the old textbooks actually absorbed the more advanced material?"

Well, yes, at least some pupils did. See my comment about degrading exams difficulty and problems in contemporary national competitions. Math problems are fundamental, so it's a good indicator of skills, despite changing times. Science is boring at most times, you can't gamify everything.
How do you know the tone is authentic? People who lie are very good at looking confident. That is how it works.

And being totally certain about whether fuzzy incident happened/not happened usually means you are aware of peoples bias toward looking confident - or that you jumped to conclusion without really investigating all the conflicting evidence.
SecureBoot is fine actually as long as you can replace the root keys. (It is about add trustworthy as TPM hardware and Intel's SINIT blob, which does not say much.)
Nope. The German login works fine with thus — I've been using it on Amazon.de for years.
> Why isn't it sincere? Do you mean that if they were sincere, they'd stop the behavior?

Not trying to excuse any behaviour or anything, but it's indeed quite fathomable that even with all the best intent in the world you can't change your behaviour overnight, forever, with a perfect track record.
Even 0.1 g of psilocybin mushrooms is enough for me to notice changes in consciousness / perception / bodily sesnsations. I and plenty others consider it a micro dose but it is definitely a sub-tripping dose (you need 1 or 2 g for that usually).

Granted, there is confusion over terminology here but _small amounts_ ie. sub-balls-to-the-walls-tripping-with-visuals of psychedelics can definitely be helpful and contribute to increased well being, concentration, problem solving, energy, mood, etc.
Alvin Toffler, Daniel Bell, and Marshall McLuhan.

I think that "futurist" is only a subset of those who make "any attempt to predict the future". For example, the Congressional Budget Office routinely makes predictions about the future effect of new legislation, though they are never called "futurists".

As to your second paragraph, I have no idea of how you concluded that that is my view. As a kid I enjoyed James Burke's "Connections" which, quoting Wikipedia, "explores an "Alternative View of Change" (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress", and that viewpoint has stayed with me.

Personally, I'm of the view that the late 1800s - the Belle Époque - contained much more significant technological and cultural changes than the late 1900s, and that people like Kurzweil end up minimizing the large transitions brought about by the telephone, phonograph, the vertical filing system, punched cards, lighting system, etc.

Concerning just lighting, Paris got the nickname "The City Of Light" because of its early installation (in the 1860s) of gas lighting, and night-life started around them, enabled first by limelight and then arc lamps.
I'm also pretty convinced that "gluten sensitivity" generally has little to do with gluten. I react to many wheat products (including certified organic ones) with gastrointestinal upset, acne, etc. But I can eat some regularly, with no problems. It's clearly not crackers vs bread. But what?

So maybe fructan. I wonder what affects fructan levels in wheat products.
Pretty much all the native ones. When you're debugging c/c++/etc, you're relying on source maps (via dwarf/elf/etc)
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Would that make it equivalent in the eyes of the recipient?
I know it's not really the subject, but since you work at Firefox: Is Thunderbird still actively developed? Or basically on life support?
I thought it meant "whore". Wikipedia has a redirect from "w word" to "prostitution": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W_word&redirect=n...