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Policies like this always lag economic indicators, whereas exchange rates and prices adjust fairly quickly.

From [0], "However, Zimbabwe's peak month of inflation is estimated at 79.6 billion percent in mid-November 2008."

Even a private charitable organization cannot deal with that level of inflation by tweaking the minimum wage. Plus, you start running out of money (the physical paper kind) really quickly because you can't afford it anymore.

Or you can go further down the rabbit hole and enforce price controls. Which leads to shortages of goods and lack of supply because of zero incentive to work and produce. Seeing your children cold and hungry and fair prices is a huge incentive to be productive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
no alcohol before breakfast and try to remember to change my underpants at least once a week.
no seriously, I like kramer1416 idea of figuring out how to get into flow state on a regular basis. I reckon that would be an overall win for personal productivity.
Also, lose weight through exercise and learn how to brew cider.
In the UK there has been several benefit reforms.

One of these is a simplification of a bunch of benefits into something called "Universal Credit". It's a good idea, with some nice points. It's being implemented terribly, and is causing significant harm.

When someone makes a claim there is a minimum wait of six weeks before they get any money. In the England a landlord can apply to the courts to resposses a rented home if the tenant misses 8 weeks of rent. So the rollout of UC is causing some people to be evicted from their homes.

The old benefits were paid fortnightly. UC is paid monthly. People have to budget very carefully to last all month. Poor people tend to be bad at budgeting, and being poor makes it harder to budget.

There is a very strict, punitive, sanctions regime in place. You'll see people being given sanctions because they attended a medical appointment or had to look after a child. People are expected to spend 35 hours a week searching for work, and they have to provide evidence that they've done so. That could be ok, but it means a claimant will send very many applications to unsuitable jobs, rather than spend a couple of hours polishing an application for a more suitable job. There's a lot more about sanctions and suspension: the rules are very strict; there are very many rules; the DWP and JC+ don't know what their own rules are and sometimes give incorrect advice. So sometimes a claimant will ask DWP or JC+ what to do, and will follow that instruction, and end up being sanctioned because it was the wrong thing to do.

Benefits are paid by the Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions. That person is busy being a government minister, so they employ "decision makers" who look at the various acts of parliament, statutory instruments, and case law and apply those to the details of the claim. The quality of decision making is particularly poor at the moment.

Two judges (who are involved in appeals) have said this. Here's a useful article: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/872276-ai-assisted-fake...

Note here they're not just talking about UC, but also about PIP and ESA. (PIP and ESA are disability benefits. ESA is an out of work benefit.)

To get PIP or ESA the claimant will need an independent medical. This is provided by a nurse, a physiotherapist, or an occupational therapist. These people are employed by private companies. Those companies have said that over 30% of the assessments they do are not acceptable. https://twitter.com/CommonsWorkPen/status/942773136390590465

Imagine that - imagine if fully one third of everything you did was not acceptable.

Finally, because the claim is about suicide: https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/shocking-nhs-stats-sho...

We have to be a bit careful with these figures. (We'd expect the population claiming benefits for a disability to include more people who've had suicidal thoughts).
My link proves that vegetarianism is a significant group which you can cater to. The system I proposed does not force you to be bound by my artificial social constructs (with which you assume I am a vegetarian which you are wrong about, btw). The system I proposed takes into account the option of vegetarianism, and allows a vegetarian to also partake in the overall system without damaging your fun in any way except the mention of a diet you apparently do not agree with.

At the very least, a bunch of disclaimers that the outcome might not be according to certain diets (ie. "the random outcome is unlikely to be kosher, halal, vegetarian, etc").
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Why would someone being late on party or other similar socual activity stressed you? Makes no sense to me. In general, many people tend to stress over things that should not elicit that much emotional response - nothing is in danger in this case and no harm is being done.

I agree with the opinion that if you demand much punctuality for non work events, to the point that you get angry at people being late for evening beer or party, then you are high maintennance friend.

As for your other questions, if it is generally known that agreement to party at four means "sometime after four" then it means exactly that. All participants know people show up after, so they are not bothered.
We wanted to take our own shot at building a reliable open service with new tech. We're also much more focused on providing open and easy access to the data we have as conveniently as possible, so that people can build cool stuff with it. Right now, we provide a Google BigQuery dataset [1] that you can run any queries on. It has around 70M listens from 1300 users.

[1] https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2017/08/05/listenbrainz-data-is...
The default subs of reddit are utter garbage, but the rest of stuff is not that bad.
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Go visit a restaurant in Germany. They have all kind of numbers after their ingredients which show exactly which dishes contain which allergens, as well as showing which options follow popular diets (vegetarianism being the most common one, but also gluten-free, vegan, and multiple others). Why can an online website not do this when a German restaurant with a physical card is able to do this? Its not much work. You just add some more tables in a database with yes/no on certain allergens, ingredients, or dietary propositions. No rocket science, not a whole lot of work. And IIRC San Francisco is quite open minded to alternative diets.
Yea I saw this in Tanzania too. Our clockwork machinery society doesn't work there (yet). I'm not so convinced they have to adapt. Maybe it is us who, in a post clockwork machinery society need to (re)learn from them ... One insight that struck me when I was there: this doesn't apply to time only, it is really related to numbers in general. While we obsess with how long, tall far or wide things are (in numbers) these things don't seem to matter much to the average Tanzanian, and they get uneasy having to answer such questions and will give widely inaccurate answers if pressed. Maybe there is a latent anti-colonial attitude at heart that inspires this? or something else. It's worthy of a study nonetheless, as more and more people suffer stress-related problems in the industrialized world
You can also use this as proof that you are a good RAD/Agile developer and can Timebox / Descope.
> I applied to 14 companies, talked to 8, interviewed at 5 and got an offer from 3.

That's very good success rate, can anyone confirm similar results? Over here (central EU states) it's more like:

>50 --> ~30 (good match they want to talk and ask for salary requirements at this point) --> ~10 (they could pay if you are "REALLY good" i.e. child of Knuth with Torvalds) --> 0-1.

The market is flooded with dirt cheap Russians and Ukrainians, even Americans/Canadians for some reason desperate to put their foot in the doors. Asking for anything above 60k EUR gross annually pretty much guarantees 0 at the end of the pipeline. Big 4 are so capricious, demanding, and time consuming (while still paying local salaries + 20-30% max) that it's better to not bother with them over here.
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I think RxSwift and MVVM architecture work great together. I know some large companies that would keep it simple, would not use any framework.
Some are stuck with legacy code, that requires lots of effort to change, but most of the time you will be asked about different architectures during an interview.

I would say it does not really what architecture is used, as long as it is easy to test, simple to add new features, any architecture will be fine.

From my point of view, I probably have a bit different approach to MVVM where we have Service layer (similar to Java Spring), below View Model, stick to the simple rules like single responsibility, separation of concerns, define your rules about communication between the architecture layers. RxSwift makes the communication between the layers so much easier, the old alternative would be using delegation pattern, notifications. In a large project over 30k lines delegation pattern will become painful to manage. Choose the right architecture for your project and don't be scared to add additional mechanisms, layers, because there is no solution that fits all.

With RxSwift concurrency is handled for you, you can do the heavy duty tasks in the background, observe on the main thread for ui updates.
You can run multiple tasks in parallel and return the combined result. Things like these, become trivial to work with.
Another benefit is that you will strive to write more functional code, functions that return observable that does one thing, and chain other observables, It wont be pure functional since most of the you will have side effects, which is fine.
But still it is a good fight between the Object oriented paradigm vs Functional programming paradigm, finally you will settle with both and find a good balance.
hey, thanks for the feedback, I guess linking to my product can be considered as soft-launching it(both my company website and invoicing app at the same time). I fixed the typo, the contact form is on the works. You can reach me out by email: im at bithavoc dot io
Nice observation.

What really matters is the actual thinking about the actual subject. In nearly all math proofs, the writing is closer to that thinking than in coding. Or, each sentence in a math proof -- and well written proofs actually are written in sentences -- is closer to the thinking than for the programming language statements in the coding. Or, look at the statements in the coding -- without mnemonic identifier naming, they are close to just gibberish.

To get the coding closer to the thinking, that's the documentation in the coding. However the documentation is usually not as precise as the sentences in a math proof or the statements in code.

So, maybe we need to do something to get programming closer to the real thinking: For this, maybe try to have what we use in programming to be easier to describe. That is, in a math proof, we have numbers, sets, vectors, functions, etc. and at each point in the proof see clearly what these mean. In programming we have variables, arrays, structures, IF statements, loops, subroutines, and without documentation or careful reading don't see clearly what these mean.

Once I tried: I wrote some subroutines for sorting, permutations, etc. and tried to have clear properties for the operations the code die, properties that could reason about. Then for some uses of these subroutines, could do some logical reasoning much like in algebra in math. I didn't go very far with that idea!
I agree. Anything you can recommend aside from programmerHumor?
Ritual. Some of this helps with sleep, too, if you do it before bed.

Choose a smell, music, a special way of sitting. A cup of coffee, a snack. A combination of things. Perhaps use headphones. The more often you do this before time you have flow, the more likely it is that your body and mind will view that ritual as a signal to get into a flow state.

Resource: Occultism. Some mind states used with occultism are likened to the state of flow and folks work some time getting to those states faster.
> "Don't negotiate with terrorists."

> since we are dealing with known criminals here

Every time I see something like this I'm reminded how fortunate I am to live in Europe. "Known criminals" are people too, you know, you can't just take anything from them for free, they are not slaves, they deserve a fair compensation for the value they provide. Not to mention, being "tough" on them simply doesn't work the way you'd hope to. I really think that the system in your country would benefit tremendously from being a bit more humane.
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Interesting "stupid" idea there. Is there enough incentive on either side for a small nation to offer its entire population to scientific research for a large one that cannot afford the failure of a similar experiment on itself?

It'd be fair to assume that a successful experiment would eventually become self-funding and discontinued if unsuccessful. Your $13B number puts the budget in the same ballpark as ITER; smaller than half of the foreign aid donated by the US in 2013, an order of magnitude smaller than Project Apollo, and less than 10% the size of the Marshall plan.

However such a project will not be able to avoid wide publicity which would attract many "confounding factors" trying to ensure its success, or more likely its failure.
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agreed. that's the equivalent of doing work for free when it should be a business transaction. so, tech-related new years resolution number one: learn to say no in as diplomatic a way as possible.
> If people say a party starts at 7, they might actually mean "don't show up until 7.30". Personally I refuse to play such opaque games, and usually show up exactly at the time specified.

This is another question, this would be more of social cues than respect imo. You are free to dislike this kind of 'game', but we should not confuse the issues.
Use a text based file format for diffs, or use a binary diff tool (vbindiff)
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"Who knew making friends in a city could be so hard?"

I've never found a place where it was easy to make friends, though the easiest has seemed to be language class full of other immigrants. We all had that one thing in common.
Moving to the charge by time instead of by CPU doesn’t change the scale or the functioning of the system. They just realised that inactive apps also consumed resources.

And AWS Lambda has sort of picked up on this. Not exactly the same but very close.
It's not even an electronics company anymore, is a luxury goods company.
> there was no way to collect or monetize reams of user data like there is today

Xerox was at the time the world leader in handling literal reams.

A huge portion of data processing was related to managing customer data, mailing lists, etc.
I thought the article would be about something like the rise of SSBC, maybe a reprise of diaspora*, and I wish this was true - but in reality most of these are still groups within the larger systems, let that be instagram or tumblr.
Politically, in the US, the first step to basic income is something like getting people to support free lunch in schools.

You know, instead of shaming kids.
Or, you just tax the top earners to pay for BI. Much more transparent.
This reminds me so much of high school and university physics tests - the hardest part was guessing the level the teacher was thinking at and answering accordingly (or covering all bases with conditionals if possible).
I feel this issue comes up in many more places than just interviews.
You poor socially stunted loser.
I agree with this despite probably talking about different communities. It is night and day different than communities based around school and childhood.
That first one: I suggest working some of the exercise into daily life. Walk where you can, and let that walking be your time for the day, for example.

The second is really difficult. I'd honestly start with broader things, like increasing overall fruit/vegetable intake (no juice or purees) and increasing the variety of vegetables you eat. It affects all meals and eventually leads to eating less junk and allows some variation in your days - obvously void if you are one that doesn't mind eating basically the same thing every day.
I missed that, thank you!
This was interesting. I'm myself 0- or O-, which I now learned actually means I'm O type in the ABO system and D- in the Rh system, but there are many other factors at play. And I've considered myself a "universal donor", meaning I could give blood to anyone, but I myself can receive blood only from someone with the same group as myself.

This was significant when I lived in China, where O- type is very rare (something like 0.3 % of population) so foreigners would register with a private clinic to be able to donate/receive just in case someone needs a blood transfusion of this type.

But, apparently, there are even much rarer types where just being O- is not enough to donate.
It really depends on your use case and requirements.

When you have a simple stack and reduced uptime requirements, getting something like 3 servers from a provider like Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-px) can give you a lote of compute power for little money.

Of course building something on top of GAE or AWS EBS / Lambda is a lot easier on the OPS side and gives you much more confidence, but at a much higher price.
Both theorem proving and programming operate on an abstracted view of reallity ( in case of mathematics this reallity is often determined by some choice of axioms). By some metric the abstracted reallity of programming tends to be more complicated and noisy than that of mathematics.
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I get really tired of this knee-jerk "X is bullshit" response without even bothering to see whether researchers are aware of potential issues. A simple search on Google Scholar would have shown that they are, and want to figure out what the methodological implications are. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=mechanical+turk

It's just as easy to argue - when you're not citing any evidence - that online respondents are more likely to be truthful because they're anonymous, and therefore their answer doesn't have an impact on their social reputation.
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Ask the UN security council
Arab Standard Time too.
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This article is about a German citizen looking for a job in Canada.
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Lapped "overtake (a competitor in a race) to become one or more laps ahead."
so true....
I'm from post-Communist country, EU member state, but talking about Germany. In my home country the threshold is even lower ~40k EUR.
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The article regularly conflates high sugar, with weight gain (aka calorific surplus). So it's hard to draw any useful conclusions from it.
UN Security Council one
It is, the author is just saying that even without it they still have enough entropy in the system to be secure enough.

Any old image doesn't have pretty strong random number generators in it.
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It didn't. All of the energy was there, it just happened to be located in one place. Now all that energy is spread all over the place but it's still the same amount of energy.
The answer is simple.

In Mathematics you operate on a much higher level of concepts, and these concepts don't just fall out of thin air, but were sometimes decades or centuries in the making.

In programming though your concepts are made up very much on the fly (if you bother developing concepts at all; usually you just use your framework of choice and hope it got enough concepts baked in so you can survive), and therefore often not very good and coherent. That means you can not rely on them for any kind of correctness assessment.
You make it sound like end to end encryption is some trivial thing you just switch on or off according to personal preferences. It's very, very far from that. Even today Facebook/WhatsApp's e2e encryption is essentially theatre; they can disable it at any time for any people and nobody would be any the wiser.
This is fantastic! Can't wait to test it out.
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Maybe Europe is different, but I've interviewed in two different countries and I never had this experience. There were at most short, easy technical tests and a few open-ended questions about my past work, but nothing like this.
Because in mathematical proofs the preconditions are usually explicit and well understood. A program usually has reality-bound constraints that are not explicit, e.g. "does not work unless the target system has at least 3.5mb of memory" or "assumes that opcode X never fails" or "assumes memory is consistent and never is corrupted"
When is GAE & Cloud SQL coming to Southeast region?
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> The more you watch it, the less of it you seem to have.

Well if you need to watch it more, you apparently have a shortage of it.
How exactly do you propose to do that? One of Facebook's founders renounced US citizenship because of tax rates.

Again, it's only the rich who can afford to find tax havens and expensive accountants. The middle class is stuck paying taxes.
I interviewed recently and had very similar experience. Only applied for postings that were ideal fit based on their requirements - basically the exact same role at 20+ companies. Only heard back from ~half, then got offers from ~%70 of the ones I heard back from (so roles really were fitting).

I found that medium/big companies replied almost without exception and the ones I haven't heard back from are almost all small startups so I assume the real reason is recruiters there are just fuckups.
The intimation that the Trump travel bam, is somehow evidence of how airports embody a national psychosis is a silly jab. Throwing out absurd comparisons...what about the different classes of tickets at Disneyland? This article is devoid of intellect and filled with musings.
But there is also the human factor to consider, especially in organisations that are fully or partly government owned. They don't have their "own" money (it's taxpayer money), and in some ways they aren't allowed to pursue their own agenda (it's not their money right?), it is political; so rocking the boat by pushing change can be difficult. So for these types of organisation sometimes it takes catastrophic events to foment change.
The usual explanation for how proof-of-stake works — compared to proof-of-work — is that it uses the scarce resource that is the chain’s own token, as opposed to the scarce resource that is electricity. The fundamental problem with this approach is that, in the absence of consensus, a token is not scarce at all — but rather its supply is unlimited — since infinitely many tokens exist on an infinite number of valid chains.

So, in order for a token to be limited in supply, consensus on which chain is the canonical one must already exist. Thus, proof-of-stake reaching consensus depends on consensus existing beforehand.

Scarcity of a digital decentralized token requires consensus on which chain to view as the truth. Therefore scarcity cannot be used as a requirement for reaching consensus.
Indeed: places with higher beer tax and overall higher price levels such as Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Finland were "accidentally" not included on the chart.

So it looks like the author did some cherry-picking of data points.