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No, it's economics and game theory.

In situations where most of the cost to set up a business is upfront, the marginal cost is very low and you can't "move" the immobilized capital after (like power lines, train lines, water main, fiber optic networks), there is a massive advantage to the first entrant (the "incumbent").

In these cases, there are massive barriers for new entrants: any new entrant would have to make an immense investment with zero chance of making it back, as the incumbent could just retaliate by lowering prices and driving the entrant out of business.

This situation means that there is little chance that competition will happen, so it is the best interest of society to mandate the operation of the infrastructure from the service. That's what happens with local-loop unbundling, or when the ownership and operation of the rail infrastructure must be separate from the ownership and operation of train lines and services.

That is not the case with mapping the world: anyone can do it, and having an incumbent doesn't block new entrants. There were already many incumbents when Google entered the mapping business, and there's still plenty of competition.

Therefore, there is no reason to mandate separation.

So no, it isn't "100% just your opinion".

But I appreciate the Lebowski reference :)
Jaxx is a very low security wallet, and this has nothing to do with storage- it's watch-only like Blockfolio.
What use cases need no runtime (genuine question)? I understand the benefit of being compiled, since you can target a cpu instruction set and run without dependencies.
I think the author is misrepresenting Musk's views and statements. Musk isn't condemning public transit, he knows it plays a valuable role in large cities. Musk is simply saying that there are ways to make it better. Also the statement below is sort of troubling:

> This means that if you decide not to ride transit because it’s too crowded, somebody else will be happy to take your place there, delivering the same level of efficiency.

That statement is fallacious. Overcrowded public transits can be a serious danger in the case of an accident and they should not be overlooked simply because someone else is willing to take your place. For example, on my morning commute in san diego the doors on the light rails can barely close due to being overcrowded and people jamming in to not miss the light rail. Sure its efficient in that a lot of people are riding, but if an accident happens we have no room to maneuver.
I feel like the people decrying the tax bill do not consider that an adequate means of addressing the problem.
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Does Google count as a 3rd party? It is launching a default-on ad-blocking service on Chrome.
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Rust really doesn’t require much intelligence per se; it’s just a different set of patterns to learn.

I find myself thinking more about data ownership, allocations, and type structure. C++ is more about testing correctness about memory ownership and trying to break existing assumptions as I code. Different skillsets entirely!

You may be able to produce C++ faster, but i’d choose maintaining a rust codebase any day. Memory models require a lot of energy to maintain correctly, and rust does the heavy lifting for you.
Possibly even a single partner was defrauding the business.

If the other partners were not aware this was occurring until now, that might be a more benevolent explanation of why the agency has gone dark.
> Somehow I don't get the feeling he's this selfish. If that's an agenda he's pushing (which I don't know one way or another), I would expect it's because he genuinely thinks it's better for society,

I'd really like you to be right about that, but the cynic in me has to assume that's what he wants you to think (car companies run by "unselfish people who want to improve the world" sell more cars).
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> which is the second highest effective rate in the OECD

Yeah that statistic was shocking to me; it was significantly higher than most other nations. But the next the bullet point is that US corporations actually pay significantly less than other countries because of deductions and loopholes.

If US corporations actually paid the new lower corporate tax rate they'd spend more on taxes than they do now.
"I agree with other commenters that I wish we could just make things simpler and more fair."

That's what was so nice about a pass-through entity: It was both politically and revenue neutral. All of the profits flowed through to the taxpayer and the politics and revenue occurred there. Terms like "fairness" had no relevance to them.

It could not have been simpler and it was completely outside the sphere of the political discussion on taxes.

But now, by answering a question that nobody asked, the new tax code politicizes the passthrough entity and, in my opinion, will eventually lead to its discontinuance - or at the very least, layers of complication added every time we revisit this topic.

I benefit maximally from this change to passthrough entities but it is a benefit I never asked for and that will hurt me (and all of us) in the long term.
What userland is it ? And why is it a problem for that userland to mount it itself ?

Why would you even write to efi ? Maybe at boot, i don't know, but certainly not while running ? Not all the time ? Oh i hope there isn't a single program that continuously writes to efi.

In my opinion systemd is at fault, as they aim to be the "system" and yet every once in a while prove that they don't know shit.

EDIT: A program that changes the boot order is all i can think of. (I'm not the one who knows best, on this topic)
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There's also http://www.treasureboat.org/App/WebObjects/Kisa.woa/cms/road... which is a framework built on top of Wonder which is very actively developed (on a private GitHub right now, but you can get access signing up for a $15 Udemy course)
Trivially false: buggy autopilot software is, many times, worse than no autopilot software if the bug is “blow up immediately”.

Some problems are worth the time to solve them.
I’ll hazard a guess that this has to do with the fact that the work load is a set of scheduled tasks.

Their customers expect the cron jobs to run when they expected and how they expected.

With that constraint restarts look a lot less acceptable.
Agreed! Tulips are an imperfect analogy. The only analogous part is the rally, which is not due to the intrinsic value of the item (gold is ornamental, a paper can pay coupons or dividends, etc), but due to the bandwagon effect.
Is picture-forth an actual thing? Sounds interesting.
> Rust simply makes memory-correctness something the compiler can check

and the latter half of that statement is where things get problematic. Prove it to the compiler has repeatedly been too hard.
I'm not talking about the CWA's reaction to this. I'm talking about Trump's reaction and what he might pressure the Attorney General to do. I think both of those men are highly corrupt and without scruples. To me it is clear that this bonus, the timing of the announcement, are clearly meant to give Trump an ego boost so that he does a quid pro quo with AT&T. I could be wrong.
Because countries are the units that humans organise themselves. Why do laws differ between countries? Why is international policing difficult? Because within a country you have a fairly (not very, but to a functional degree) unified mode of operation; you have laws, organisations, policies. But coordinating those between countries is hard.
In reality pimax delivers 1440p per eye. Someone needs to calculate this, but I think even that would be orders of magnitude away from a few 2K+ displays projected in your FOV. I think technology is really far away from that for any price. Don't trust the hype.
I don't think he can credibly argue it's better for society, he's probably just a realist. The hunger for detached houses and independent cars has had a long opportunity to subside, but hasn't. So might as well make greener independent cars and detached houses.

Your carbon footprint commuting on high-occupancy diesel trains while living in a 50 year old highrise is usually going to be significantly lower than commuting in a Tesla and living in green detached house.
> Musk's approach can give us a significant improvement over what we have.

But this isn't even necessarily true. As the article mentions, the entrances to the tunnels are rather low volume. The Boring Company seems to essentially be building an exclusive subway for the wealthy. How is that a solution?
That just means the supply of healthy people in the market is going down, leaving behind a pool of heavy insurance users which will make premiums rise for those left in the pool.
If only there was some way to send and receive money, using the internet, that didn't rely on banks.
I can’t find a source for NS meaning NeXT and Sun either in the article you linked or elsewhere (sorry if I missed it). I get there was a name change associated with OPENSTEP, where the prefix changed from NX- to NS- and makes some sense because otherwise wouldn’t the prefix change for OPENSTEP have been something like OS- or OP-? I’m just wondering about the source for this. It would be interesting to hear from someone privy to reasoning behind choice of prefix.
Not trying to troll, but one just needs to take a minute to get through a few pages on https://www.bartcrimes.com/ to see why public transportation in America, at least in the bay area, is not pleasant. I have first hand experience of taking Bart daily for a year or so, and even been through being the victim of an assault while walking out of a Bart station.

Perhaps public transportation works somewhere else, in other countries. There's something about America that makes it not work. Someone pointed out Japan to which Elon rebutted that it's too crowded. Trust me, trains in Japan are more pleasant than here in the SF Bay area even considering how they cram people in in Japan. I grew up in Hong Kong where cramming is also the norm. It is not nearly as unpleasant as Bart.

For someone who lives in California, I see why Elon Musk considers existing public transportation a failure right now.
In that case RefCell[1] is the right approach. I use it a ton with C callbacks where like you said you can't get the compiler to understand lifetimes. You get the added bonus of Rust validating the lifetime at runtime and catching any regressions.

In the rare case where the lifetime check is too expensive you're free to turn the types into pointers and use an unsafe block, which gives you the exact same constraints as you have in C++.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/index.html
The taxi companies here in Vancouver did that themselves (ostensibly to show they weren't behind technologically in contrast with Uber). However, that in itself doesn't solve any problems. If you can't get a cab by calling dispatch, you can't get a cab using an app.
It doesn’t change the incentive structure much. This will lop 20% off of each owner’s taxable income after their other deductions. So you’ll still want to pay on the low side of “reasonable” while still optimizing for 401k contributions.
Very much so. There were two primary candidates in the running, NeXT and Be Inc., run by Jean-Louis Gassée, previously the president of Apple Europe.

Some very strong arguments have been made for why BeOS would have been a better choice for Apple at the time, but the truth is that Be was always a second choice for Apple if NeXT could not be acquired.

Apple got a great two for one deal by acquiring both a solid UNIX-based foundation for their future and Steve Jobs, but Jobs was really the crown jewel. Apple was in a terrible position at the time, and most industry watchers didn't expect them to survive.

WIRED ran their famous "101 Ways to Save Apple" cover story around that time, and Michael Dell made his infamous quote that Apple should "shut down and give the money back to the shareholders."

It really was a bleak time, and a technology solution was only part of what Apple needed. Steve Jobs' return was what the acquisition was ultimately about.
Why do you think the boring company plan is so much more viable than improving public transit?

Note that I am not using your strawman here (subways everywhere) as that's not the point--the point is better public transit, which includes subways, busses, etc. That seems like a much richer target than building an entirely unproven tech.
Laughable... they'll need something to offset the higher taxes they soon will be paying in Blue states etc.

And that 1 Billion investment will probably be on equipment to throttle/slow/degrade those who cant pay the Net Neutrality Removal Premium.
but I'm not writing autopilot software and rust isn't going to save you from everything.
He is from SA which is a lot more violent so I maybe his initial upbringing has influenced him in that regard.
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I doubt many people expand their salary to maximize social security contributions but I can say with certainty that people expand their salary to allow maximal 401k contributions, which your parent also referred to ...
Apple even considered licensing the NT kernel before the acquisition: http://lowendmac.com/2013/the-rise-and-fall-of-apples-gil-am...
the regulatory compliance of Bloomberg lies in its chat function. seriously, type "sold for 10million" in there and it's a deal, reported to the SEC and sucked into end of day reporting
I think people don't want all the cars for one person on the road. For moving one person to and from the city current cars are too big, weight too much, ...

My preferred robo-taxi that may pick me up every morning is the C-1 from Lit Motors.

http://litmotors.com/c1/
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> Effective transit doesn’t go to your door

I don't know if this is true. If someone finds an efficient way to do this there is nothing wrong with it. Current transit is limited by resources and technology given sufficient increases in either going to you door is not a problem.
Some people find it very stressful. I have a relative who did not use the tube in London as he had claustrophobia.
It would be a little more accurate to say that in D, memory safety is optional.

If you wrote every method using the @safe flag, you'd be forced to write a memory-safe program. Eg:

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int everything = 42;
int* theAnswer = &a;
int* earth = theAnswer * 2; // Won't compile.
}

With no flag or @system, safety is not ensured. Using @trusted will allow a function to be called, safe or not, from other safe functions ending the safety. But by design @safe functions can only call other @safe functions.
Just like all the other UEFI implementations, the Lenovo one is probably a giant piece of crap.

The main problem is Windows because it allows manufacturers to get away with the 'it runs Windows so it's good enough to release' mindset.
And that would've been fine, as long as you provided some context. My comment was based (as I explain elsewhere) on newly created accounts throwing one-off propaganda comments.
> what we need is longer and more frequent trains so that people can at least have seats and/or room to breathe.

I think autonomously networked trains would be a huge leap towards accomplishing this. The headway between trains could be cut down dramatically and could allow for some magical improvements, eg express trains passing using the opposing direction's rail, that aren't feasible with human drivers.
Normally I'm a fan of the "it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" idea, but not in this case. If Musk gave a shit about his livelihood, he would have banked all his Paypal money and lived off market gains. He was willing to throw it all away to get SpaceX and Tesla off the ground, which is something I respect.

And "propaganda outlet"? "push that agenda"? Last I heard, this whole thing was in response to a audience question when he was talking about something else entirely.
> I like people too but not random train passengers. They smell bad, are unattractive and grouchy.

I wouldn't want to ride a train with you either.
Well, shit. That law was the only thing keeping the super-villains from going through with their plans..
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I like transit, but transit in SF is horrid. Slow, people with mental health issues on board, filthiness, it does not go everywhere (within 20min walk).

But, one of the biggest things is lack of cleanliness. I mean, after knowing the people who board and use the system, it's hard not to think of how unclean the trip is. Your hands, your clothing all possibly in touch with contaminants.

Also, of you want families to use the system, crack down on people who think they're in their on house (drinking of alcoholic bevs., on drugs, loud, obnoxious, profane, underdressed to put it lightly, etc.)
I think everyone* wants this, and this is how it works in Sweden where most people get mailed a pre-filled tax form and just have to vet the information and direct the refund/pay the bill. In the US there is a not small industry of tax preparers that exists solely due to the complexity of our tax code. The complexity is there to keep H&R Block, TurboTax etc... in business by encouraging middle/low income people to keep returning to them every year.

I am amazed at how far from the stated goal of "We want you to do your taxes on an index card" this bill is going to come out as... and saddened that the majority of voters supporting the GOP won't feel fleeced by it.

*(with the exception of those preparers that very much want to keep the complexity and rich people/large businesses that can exploit loopholes effectively)
> Evolution has had billions of years

As a general rule, if your argument starts with this premise, you're probably heading down the wrong path. Natural evolution is an extremely limited optimization process with a dramatically different loss function than the ones used by humans.
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I've once spent quite a few hours debugging a dangling pointer that wasn't zeroed after delete and was written to which might or might not have corrupted a piece of lua interpreter's state.

fixing that felt good. the preceding 24 hours, not so much.
Like I said, Medallions are there to control supply to ensure profitability of taxi drivers. Sounds like bribery? Well not if the government is dictating your price and business model.

The government says "you can't charge 10 bucks a mile when it is raining during rush hour." And note, that is exactly what Uber does when it is raining.

Limiting competition is the compromise for limiting their profitability. The government is ensuring they'll profit, but not too much. It was a common method of regulation in the past.
Yup, I'd even go further to say that if you don't need the memory or performance advantages that come with native languages it's probably a better idea to reach for your favorite flavor of GC'd language instead.

That said, when you need it Rust does the right thing both in keeping you from blowing off your foot and making cross-platform development a breeze.
Fear is a very powerful motivator. Even if the chances of being the victim of a crime are small, the mere possibility is enough to put some people off. Stories of wonderful encounters with strangers will do nothing to counteract that.

Comparing it to being exposed to strangers just by living in a city doesn't work either. If you come upon a stranger that makes you nervous on the street, you can cross the street or walk past quickly. If you're stuck next to them on the subway you're going to feel threatened for the length of the trip.
My Nokia 6230i (which I still sometimes use as a backup), Nexus S, Xperia Pro, and LG F3Q would disagree with that assessment. Maybe treat your devices a bit better?
Dear Alanfriedman,

Thank you. I will look into this.

However, in this case, I can analyze the source now because it is available to me. What should I do when the source isn't available ? How do I proceed when all I have is the 'minified output'?
I am not sure what exactly that gist tries to show. As it forces the go runtime to run each read call on a separated native thread, it just shows that one can use go to implement rather bad epoll antipattern.
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As someone with a pass-they entity (s Corp) who has done my own personal and business taxes (with payroll for myself from gusto/ zen payroll)... this all seems so complicated i expect to hire an accountant for the first time next year.

How the hell is this being touted as making the tax code simpler?
Yup.

Data races are particularly nasty because any print statements or debug tracing can trigger a memory fence/reorder and make the problem disappear.

Nothing more frustrating then adding a printf only to see the issue no longer manifest.
The more interesting part of the post is in the 'Why I did it' section. I'd be interested to hear what others have to say on the topic considering I was about to invest some money into cryptos.
Ok yes, I wouldnt write an autopilot in C++.

However, for example, on the average desktop or mobile app, it's not clear to me(yet!) it is worth the pain of writing in rust.
Yes, I'd like to see experimenting with only a sales tax as well, so no income tax at all. You could then test a combination of the sales tax only with a flat corporate tax. These are all things hypothesized about and there has been a little bit of testing, but we really need to get on the ball with actually applying the scientific method to policy if we want to build more rapid progress in improving our societies.
And the US Rail system has a terrible safety record there have been no fatal accidents (excluding person on the line) on the UK rail system in the last decade.

The USA has mad many and the number of passengers caried is orders of magnitude less
Back in the day there was a clear distinction between personal computers and dedicated workstations. Personal computers were cheap, underpowered and used wimpy operating systems and workstations were expensive, powerful and used powerful operating systems. At some point personal computers became powerful enough to run workstation operating systems so Microsoft started working on Windows NT after hiring workstation guys like Dave Cutler. Dave Cutler had worked on VMS which was one of the few non Unix-based workstation operating systems of the day. Apple purchased NeXT to acquire its workstation team and tech and as a bonus they got Steve Jobs who founded that company after leaving Apple. Every Windows OS of today descends from NT and every version of Mac OS X descends from NeXTSTEP. Dedicated workstation companies like Sun and SGI couldn't compete with much cheaper workstation PCs and nowadays just about every modern personal computer on the planet uses a workstation OS.
This was posted a few days ago. It's a talk about the dangers of man made viruses by Intel's chief medical officer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY

2 minutes in he talks about how a strain of flu escaped from a lab in 1977 and killed (and is still killing) millions of people.
I did not know this. Recent addition? Just googled it and you are right, single database with 2 GB storage is $4.9.. / months.

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Thanks!!
No - I'm saying that for many people, a Democrat that would vote the way they'd like on this issue would also vote in a way that was opposed to their interests in other matters, some of which they might consider to be more important than NN.
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