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Your site looks great, we don't have EV on Construct.net because it's just to laborious. Will be ordering soon from you.
In cold climates, the problem with failed thermostats isn't frozen people, it's frozen pipes, which can happen when the people aren't home.

An easy way to insure against such failure is to put your homemade thermostat in parallel with an old fashioned thermostat which is set to a constant low temperature.
And if you want to get even more techy, get a google home and say "hey google, add soap to my shopping list"
But, corn is corn. There's no winning in a commodity market. And grain is the classic commodity.
One question I would ask: Has the average age of a farmer gone up substantially in the last couple of decades? This alone could be a major contributing factor, because the male suicide rate (at least in the U.S.) goes up with age.
In a world where remote is an option, there really shouldn't be large differences in salary. In negotiations, the party who can most afford to walk away has the advantage. If there were a real dev shortage, devs would be in that position, but they aren't.

SV (and other markets) basically refuse to hire remote (and often refuse to relocate employees). This splits the market up into mini-markets where the slight oversaturation of devs allows the local market to dictate prices (under-saturation would boost salaries even in a small market). This is born out with the fact that those who do work remotely seem to have higher salaries for a given experience level (their market is much bigger and more diverse).

The obvious answer is unions. Joint negotiations would yield immediate effects. No large company could survive even a day or two of IT strikes without extreme losses. Unlike other jobs, you can't simply replace your staff because most of a company's software IP is held in the heads of its employees and is far too complex to decypher before the losses occur.
It hasn't so far.
Which one was that? Any citation?
> If puppy bites were traumatizing and frequently fatal, and we had 40k+ deaths per year from puppy bites, then yeah, I'd want to consider some puppy regulations.

That's the point. We have that number of vehicle fatalities. We don't ban cars, we improve safety. Air bags, concrete barriers on divided highways, etc.

There are a lot of things we could do to reduce the number of firearms fatalities that we aren't doing. Mandatory firearms safety classes in high schools would reduce the accident rate. The government actually prohibits normal citizens from buying body armor, even though people who know they're at high risk of being shot could otherwise buy it and cause them to be less dead. A huge proportion of the shootings in the US are drug and gang related, which means if we addressed those problems better there would be less shootings.

But it's politics. Their intent isn't to solve the problem, it's to whip people into a frenzy so they'll vote for one party or the other.
It's probably mistaken to say that 10% of the software engineering workforce could become millionaires within 3.3 years if {condition}, for all values of condition ruling out survivorship bias.

Also $300k total comp translates to $450k fully-loaded cost to the employer, meaning you can only hire four of those engineers before you burn through $2M funding per year. Are you sure that's worth it?
The transparency is great.

Here's a question: why doesn't Buffer pay the "low CoL" developers more? It doesn't seem right that "low CoL" workers get paid so little compared to their peers.
Not every company/product needs "top talent" to work, and I could definitely see Buffer being one of them. Why should a company pay extra for top talent if all they have are mundane problems?
> It’s the lesser-known sites, I think, where this sort of “trust” (for some version of trust) matters more

I think this also goes by the 'nobody got fired for buying IBM rule'.

For the nominal cost of the EV you don't want to take a chance that you are wrong. It can't hurt and it might help.

Additionally I bought one also because I kind of like the green at the top and I think that as a design element it adds to a page in the position that it's at.
Loot boxes are amazingly well done in Clash Royale despite being totally linked to the core progression system.

It's a PVP game that all players get points for winning and loose points for loosing. Power of your deck comes from lootboxes you get at decent pace for playing or can buy for real money.

The great thing is that thanks to the ranking people are matched with players of the same strengh (either skill or money/time investment) so you are always facing challenging but not impossible opponents.

Getting higher in ranking just makes few new cards available when you are above respective ranking thresholds. Those cards are not obviously stronger than others because units are well balanced.

All this makes the game fun for all players no matter what is their time/money investment.

My take is that it's not worth spending money on this game but I recently found out that TotalBiscuit came to that conclusion only after he spent few thousand dolars on this game. So it's a great game for everybody, rich, poor and the game developers themselves.
I guess my hang up is that it seems pretty self-evident. Yeah, money makes things easier. I don't think any of the software developers on this site making 3-5x the median individual wage will argue against that. Assuming for a moment that "money buys things" is a valid criticism of some independently wealthy software developer buying a farm (?), what's the proposed solution to that?
Firefox is removing an absolute ton of bloat. It's slimmer than it ever has been in a long time.
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Yup. Worked in the healthcare space. Kinda know what I'm talking about. Reality has a well known liberal bias.
A ton of CPU has gone into Stockfish, if only for their distributed computing project fishnet: http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests
Hardly flies in the face of strong local governance, if anything, it makes local governance more important because the funding of local governments is more dear under this plan.
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Just my opinion, but society benefits from having manageable costs of living. I acknowledge that landlords have a business to run, but we also have a policy favoring ownership. Not allowing a property tax or non-occupied mortgage interest deduction raises the costs of being a landlord, disfavoring that activity a bit from a policy perspective. That, in turn, may lower housing costs (and increase owner-occupation of primary residences) by taking some landlords out of that market.

We built a broad middle class by favoring home ownership, allowing regular folks to build wealth in the form of their primary residence. I think we need to get back to that, and that does mean making policy decisions that eats into the margins of landlords.
I've never seen an ISP that didn't have an extremely accurate measurement of my usage in MB, so it's a bold face lie.
How is the user supposed to know what to verify in the EV indicator though? If the user is expected to know that the EV indicator should contain "Apple Inc.", why can't we just expect them to know the address should be apple.com instead, what's the difference?

I can't seem to get away from two key things that put me off and they are requiring the user to have some pre-existing knowledge of the name of the legal entity and then having to manually notice and verify that information on each page.

Let me list a couple of scenarios to see if I can better articulate my thoughts.

1) The user wants to buy something from ACME Corp so they search for them on Google and find acme-corp.com listed as their site. The user visits the site and sees in the EV indicator that this domain is indeed owned and verified as ACME Corp [US], the company they wanted to interact with. In this scenario the user is required to have pre-existing knowledge of who they wish to visit the site of and then manually verify that information.

2) A user is browsing the web and finds a product on a website that they want to buy. They check the address bar for https and also notice an EV indicator that says Bargain Central [UK]. Without existing knowledge of who the company is, what value does the EV indicator provide?

Maybe I'm missing something, and please do feel free to point out some other user scenarios, but #1 requires the user to have existing knowledge which is a pretty big burden to place on them. I can't really think up a scenario these days where someone would tell you a company name to buy something form or visit online but not their website address.

With #2 it seems to provide no value because the user has no reference as to who that company is. Given the information in the EV indicator the user would need to go and lookup information about the company somewhere else? We certainly can't assume that they're trustworthy just because they have an EV cert!

I honestly don't think the biggest problem with EV is browser UI. As I detailed in the linked article there are many scenarios when EV will never show because of AV/interception/proxies/etc and there's nothing that can be done about that. Even if all browsers had a consistent UI, my biggest concerns would still remain what they are now.
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[Copying my reply from reddit]

I can give you some background on the way we structure things in case it's helpful. We use GitHub for our open-source projects, GitHub:Enterprise for our internal code, and our engineering team has about 300 engineers. Each project or feature usually lives in its own repository, and is split into a number of Maven modules. Using the maven-snapshot-accelerator ( https://github.com/HubSpot/maven-snapshot-accelerator ) as an example, it's roughly 1,000 lines of code split into 6 Maven modules (representing a small percentage of what my team owns). There's the root pom which just aggregates the other modules, a core module that contains the POJOs, a REST API module that uses the POJOs, a client module which uses the POJOs to hit the REST API, a module for the maven plugin, and a module for the maven extension. If this was an internal project, it might also have supporting Hadoop jobs, Kafka workers, Spark jobs, etc. depending on how the system was designed. Each of these would usually live in a separate Maven module. I'm not sure how much thought we gave to splitting into Maven modules along these lines, it just kind of seemed natural to us. It also has a few benefits compared to larger modules:

- The dependency trees are smaller, because you're pulling in a more focused set of libraries rather than the kitchen sink

- Our build infrastructure only builds what has changed when you push a commit, but it can only do this at Maven module granularity. So by splitting things up this way, pushing a change to your kafka workers won't rebuild your Spark or Hadoop jobs.

Using one of our larger open-source projects as an example, Singularity ( https://github.com/HubSpot/Singularity ) is split into 15 Maven modules (and represents maybe a third to a half of what that team is responsible for).

Snapshots vs. versions is a whole different topic and probably deserving of its own blog post. More generally, whether we should bend our workflow to the tools or bend the tools to our workflow is a constant tension and something we're always thinking about, so feedback is always appreciated.
This creates perverse incentives among your employees. Now every employee is fighting to work on the "moneymaker" applications. And I don't really believe that a company will be able to accurately assess the value that every application used brings it.
Because your health is generally safer when we don't.

Got MSRA on your throwaway plastic bottle, no problem it's going to the dump.

Got MSRA on your refillable bottle? Better steam clean it first or peoples heads might start falling off.
>Fortunately, as part of some unrelated work we'd done recently, we had a version of the cluster that we could run inside Docker containers. We used it to help us build a script that mimicked the failures we saw in production. Being able to rapidly turn clusters up and down let us iterate on that script quickly, until we found a combination of events that broke the cluster in just the right way.

this is the coolest part of this story. Any chance these scripts are opensource ?
> Are American just more homicidal than the Swiss

As a non-American living in America for a few years, I'd suggest that the American environment leads to Americans seeking violence as an answer more often, yes. The vast wealth (not income, wealth) inequality, decades of racism and oppression, destruction of culture and social support, the "patriotism" emphasized by Americans, etc. all lead to a culture where violence sometimes seems necessary and even celebrated.
Dunno if you're still interested, but here's my clarifications.

What makes reddit great is the millions of users. Millions of user are instrumental to its success and popularity. However, reddit can still exist if no one used it. It wouldn't be very successful or popular, but it can still exist. I fully agree a one person reddit is useless, but useless != impossible to exist.

In the network case, you make a good point. However, I think there is still a distinction to be made between an entity that lives on the internet vs an entity that supplies the internet, which I think goes back to the original barrier to entry argument.

If you decided reddit was awful, you could conceivably run your own with fairly little cost. On the other hand, digging up your street, putting up poles, buying switches etc is far more capital intensive, and that's just a network for two people! Even if both groups are shitty, one is clearly prohibitively more costly than the other. This distinction warrants a difference in treatment, where the ISP is subject to NN but reddit is not.

To put it another way, it's totally reasonable to create a parallel reddit, so much so that several exist. It may be popular, but it's reasonably possible. Creating parallel internet infrastructure is downright inconceivable. No one in their right mind would think laying fiber optic cable across the pacific for a parallel network is a workable idea because local_ISP is awful.

A monopoly isn't just defined by being popular and having a large market share. It needs to have several other features, one of the ones I think is especially important is price control. Google/Apple/reddit do not have price control, the ISP does.

Wikipedia has an excellent article on monopolies.
That's fair but the comment I was replying to posed it as a criticism (maybe that it was posed as a criticism in the original thread, which I have only a vague recollection of). That's what confused me. I agree it seems like a perfectly valid response.
I too am coming up on a need for no-downtime HA failover for Postgres. I too am not allowed to use a hosted PaaS-ish solution like RDS. I was considering Citus's multi master impl (I don't need to spread the load, just need HA). I had not considered Pacemaker. Has GoCardless investigated this option and have any insight to give? HA has traditionally been a real pain point for traditional RDBMS's in my experience.
That wouldn't generally be my approach. In my view if something is a number it should be typed as such.

That said, I recognise that there are pros and cons to this approach similar to those in strongly vs weakly typed PLs. My personal preference is for a strong schema.
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You can store a NJ zip in an integer; you just have to be careful when printing it. Annoying, but if space is scarce, maybe worth it. (Though if space is too scarce for zipcodes, good luck storing anything else more interesting.)
Explain to a dev that "we don't pay SV devs more, we just think you're worth less".

You don't have to be on-site, so the real market is nationwide (if not international). Companies simply pretend it's limited so they can pay less.
It is the use of "counterexamples" that doesn't make sense.
I wondered, can you do that? Because there are a million kinds of soap. Can you say "Hey google, add tide xt extra bright in the HD bottle" and it understands?
I mentioned this before, but one of my former colleagues quit to trade BTC and claimed he could account on some days for 10% of exchange volume.

No idea which exchange.

But his trading activity as far as I understand were on-average neutral (not net long or short). Though I think he also kept a bunch himself too.

So volume alone does not imply the exchange could absorb a large one-sided addition of sell orders without significant move in spot.

Also it's unclear if any of this volume is 'churning', by those with significant quantities of BTC happy to pay transaction fees to create a sense of false liquidity.
Why do people view it as "high CoL salary earners make too much" instead of, "Why do they pay low CoL workers so little?"
Haven't read anything ever, including the subject of this thread, and including any number of language-advocacy opinion pieces, and including software development methodology opinion pieces, that in any way compares with the empirical data-based work of Manny Lehman (R.I.P.).

http://ai2-s2-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/5454/5a907a43c798c1193be...

His resulting model of software evolution explains many observations we engineers make about "feature creep," "technical debt," balance of effort between development and maintenance, etc.

I think his model also helps point the way to techniques we can use (e.g., DSLs in preference to OOP) to help improve how we build and maintain software.
> Take gun laws. Wildly divergent in law. Widely divergent in practice. wildly divergent in results.

And then we get into the practicalities and the politics!

In order to have strict gun control you first need strict border control.

Yet the group that wants strict gun control is strongly opposed to strict border control.
The point is that a rich software developer's idyllic romanticized farming experience might not match with an actual farmer's soul-crushing experience. That's the reconciliation.
(I'm the post's author.)

This is another great perspective on how not every dollar is equal: unlocking better pricing as your volume increases.

When I wrote this, I was especially thinking about low-margin industries like grocery stores. For a high-margin industry (e.g. 75% margins), it doesn't really matter if you save the customer $1k or help them earn an additional $1k. Those are roughly the same to them in terms of money added to the bottom line. But if the customer's margins are more like 2% or 5%, then the difference between $1k in cost and revenue is much more dramatic to them.
I am a fan of index cards, and only recently was thinking of buying a deck to replace my current GTD organizer.

I have heard that Vladimir Nabokov used to write his works on index cards. The Wikipedia article on him mentions this.
> Reviews written by real people on different computers, so the anti-scammer technology TripAdvisor utilises doesn't pick up on my hoax.

It gets a little lost in the article but this and the above quote is all they did for the reviews
So if I'm worth 100 million a year to Google they will not be able to pay that to me. So stupid.

Spoiler alert: There's a very large chance that you're not worth $500k to Buffer.
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Governments need to subsidies farming even more. In India farmers generally don't have to pay income taxes.
>without digital forensics

How long till me make a GAN with the express purpose of defeating digital forensics?
That's because decriminalization is a worst of both worlds option. It's not illegal to possess drugs so you see a bit of an uptick in usage, but the market is still unregulated so you have all the biggest problems remain: drugs being sold are adulterated (e.g. fentanyl), drug prices are way high because they're black market products (junkies are known to sacrifice everything they have, then steal from their family, then get kicked out of their family and steal from somewhere else in order to afford their drugs. The legal-market price of heroin is at least 10x smaller, meaning junkies won't have to become quite so decrepit, and won't be kicked out of their families, so they do that lose their support network). Without legalization, people who are curious about drugs have to interact with shady criminals to obtain them, which serves to involve them in crime.

Decriminalization would probably cause the same uptick in usage as legalization would, but unlike legalization, it wouldn't make drug use less devastating to people's lives.
> How is the user supposed to know what to verify in the EV indicator though?

In the proposal, the user doesn't know anything about the EV indicator.

The browser simply prominently shows the user the highest level of identity information on first POST (maybe with a two week delay on fresh browsers).

Do you trust:

- amazon.com

- Apple, Inc. (United States)

- apple.com-yolo.swag.ru

The proposal is particularly neat as it doesn't discriminate against well known domains with DV, just shows users what the cert proves at the time they most need to know.

I could make this in a day, and prove it improves end user security, if Ryan (or anyone else) would let me.

(I'll address your scenarios in another comment, just wanted to clarify the identify-on-first-POST proposal first)
Could something like this alter human behavior? Maybe the goal wasn't to cause damage or to attract this much attention but was instead meant to induce erratic behavior or something.

(I'm venturing into tin-foil-hat-zone here because this article is really lacking any facts or details about the incident)
Yes, I should have attached a disclaimer that I do not claim that a photograph would be enough to verify the safety of infant formula. Fair points.
Can I buy a Lootbox that might have your answer in it?
Automation could mean it analyzes your average usage, and when you will run out in (amount of time it takes product to get to you + 20% for a buffer) it will order more.

Or hell, when you are at 50/25/10%, order another.

And if you are uncomfortable with it ordering it for you, it could just add it to a shopping list for you.
> "A Man For All Markets" by Edward O. Thorp....

Seconded. I started reading the book last night and it's a can't-put-down. You just sense the genius and greatness of the man shine through with every page you covered.

I however wouldn't go so far as say it is the "best book published in 2017 bar none"
It's not that awesome. Miniature, WIFI-capable components with batteries that would last years already cost very, very little. This is a strange use of a low-tech approach, seems to fall under the "We can, but why would we?" category.
Instead of "criticism" read takeaway or insight, rather than criticism of the preference. I think they are saying, the new farmers can choose that path because they have fall back, not that they have a better farming plan or better farming insight over generational farmers.