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>I take the point but why?

Because we are spending resources teaching them things, and not reaping the real reward of that effort. Being attractive to the best and brightest is a way to keep innovation and progress going.

>And is it fair to steal the best and brightest from third world countries?

Is it fair for them to be forced to live someplace with a lower quality of life just because they were born there? To deal with the lack of infrastructure? etc. If they feel a moral obligation to go back to their home and try to improve that, that's great for them - but it shouldn't be an obligation we've forced upon them because we decided that immigrants are icky and all we want from them is their money for 4-6 years.

There's absolutely no reason we shouldn't make it easy for students educated in the US to stay in the US, especially if they work in STEM or any other research heavy field.
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Morality isn't really absolute, so I could see people justifying it. One line of reasoning could go:

1. The letter of the law and the Right Thing aren't always the same thing (jury nullification, MLK)

2. You disagree with what the government spends tax money on

3. You think AI progress is a form of "doing good"
So she’s a marketing genius for selling $2300 of rewards for $450?

(100k points at around $0.02 per point [0] plus $300 of travel credit)

Also, you had to go on a “listening tour” to discover that wealthy young professionals enjoy traveling and eating at restaurants?

[0]: https://thepointsguy.com/2015/03/redeeming-chase-ultimate-re...
With what is known about this bug so far, wouldn't it be possible to mitigate it by locking the kernel to one CPU core, and run user processes on the other cores?

Also, if this bug lets the kernel leak data to user processes, would it also not be the case that different processes would leak data to each other? If that is true, then it seems that just isolating the kernel wouldn't be enough.
It usually requires more copies and more uploaders due to the fact that personal devices' uptimes are much more ephemeral.
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How would syscalls work exactly?
I've been eating Chinese at the same place in Greenwood, MS since I was a kid. Never thought anything about it. Good food.
Apple needs to drastically simplify how Xcode builds work instead of acquiring more companies. For example, provisioning profiles solve a problem that doesn't exist while creating a dozen more. Xcode is still limited to macOS.

On the deployment side iTunes Connect is possibly the worst website that I've used. It's incredibly slow (both the front and backend) and has limited options for phased releases.
Only problem is this would allow some pretty simple dictionary attacks if you use the method described.
"A Logic Named Joe" has predicted the Internet and many of our current problems in the mid-40's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/19/a_logic_named_joe/
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Aren't you just describing doing a proper 3-way merge?
The whole reason why credit cards provide benefits is because "points" cost less to them than the nominal dollar value. I'm pretty sure that Chase has done the math on that.
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Thanks that makes sense.
What does the interview process consist of for DevOps/Operations/SRE type roles?
This was very cool. Thanks for sharing!
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It’s irrelevant that it’s marginally profitable. The problem is that the article makes it sound like nobody ever thought of giving away free money before. It’s not genius marketing by any stretch of the imagination.
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How would you feel if someone were applying this argument to software development?

I'd ask how much FOSS software is running on your machine right now, and how you intend to pay for it...
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Often <45k. You should aim for 70K+ if you want to move to Germany, preferably 85K which would give you middle-class life. 100K+ is fairly rare. Or go to Switzerland and get 250K.
Quantum Entanglement made simple
> Anthony Tan, who co-founded the Grab taxi-hailing service, recalls first meeting Son a few years ago when the Japanese billionaire was considering investing in his startup. As the two chatted, Son mentioned his early support for Ma, then an unknown school teacher who is now the richest man in China. “Years ago, Jack Ma sat there,” Tan recalls Son telling him. “Anthony-san, you take my money. It's good for you. It's good for me. If you don't take my money, not so good for you.”

Like so many others before and since, Tan took Son’s money.

He sounds like The Godfather of VC investing.
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>It messes up government planning and spending by cheating them out of money that they were expecting based on the profits from the company.

>It's clear cut.

See, that's the thing; it's obviously not clear cut to other people.

There's a very reasonable (IMO) position that a taxpayer is merely obligated to comply with the law, but is not similarly obligated to structure their affairs in such a way as to maximize the government's take.
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That says they have "begun expanding" there, GGP makes it sounds like "the Siri team" is mostly a "satellite operation".
> Also, if this bug lets the kernel leak data to user processes, would it also not be the case that different processes would leak data to each other? If that is true, then it seems that just isolating the kernel wouldn't be enough.

There is already a TLB flush when context-switching from one user-space process to the other. This is one of the basis of multitasking. The problem here, if I understand correctly, is processes accessing arbitrary kernel region.
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Agreed. As a JS app developer I now feel more confident about my job security.
"Mastermind" - giving away a ton of points for a card that is doing it's best to be an Amex Platinum?

I don't see how "copy the most successful prestige card" and "Give a huge point bonus higher in value to the consumer than the cost of the card to the consumer" is a mastermind strategy.
Wait, this is wildly off topic, but can we talk about the snow woman in the sixth picture? What is happening there? Is that a person covered in snow? A really shockingly well crafted sculpture done by two women with shovels? I am so baffled.
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> This is a mistake a lot of developers make. The server and client are not the same.

This is the basic value premise of frameworks. Write less code with uniform conventions and make it easy by hiding the complexity. Unfortunately, the premise is faulty.

You can only lie to yourself for so long that your ignorance of how things really work is fine because of (name your favorite abstraction). This is a very direct example of tech debt. By ignoring how things really work the application will gradually get bigger and slower until it is an incompetent mess like paying off credit cards with other credit cards.

The reason for this snowball effect is largely due to a lack of confidence that feeds upon convenience as opposed to examination of why technical problems exist in the first place.
Economic coercion is unpleasant even when the transaction is consensual. (There is a whole movie about this: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107211). Maybe we can’t get rid of such conduct, but we sure can pass negative judgment on the people engaging in it.

Speaking of which, the social opprobrium gets dismissed as prudishness, but I suspect most readers would react differently to the article if everyone involved was economically and socially equal.
And think about the timing. Just before Spotify wants to go public? Nobody wants to go public with a pending lawsuit, so added pressure to settle.
You think so? Spanner looks more amazing to me but I haven't had the chance to try it yet. Aurora did half my teams query time over traditional MYSQL RDS though.
The arguments would seem more powerful if the author was aware of today’s preprocessing stack. I expanded references to “constants” to mean any additional language features, and it was a better argument, but I have no problem with improving CSS usability with nesting and variables. If it had those I wouldn’t use SCSS at all, just autoprefixer. It’s probably harder to write a buggy implementation of them than a correct one.
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What I do is to force myself to do something painful every day. Make it a habit.

It can be push ups. It can be a morning or evening run. It could be taxes or cancelling a subscription. It could be doing algorithms or reading the white paper of a random crypto.

Sometimes it's optimization. Find something you repeat a lot and optimize that. It could be doing laundry or showering faster. It could be learning to read faster, memorize better. Maybe automating daily tasks through something like IFTTT. One of the best things I did in 2017 was getting my typos for capital letters, semicolons, and brackets down by 50%.

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If it was simply a matter of giving away benefits and points for free, why is it (as alleged by the OP) that Chase/JP Morgan managed to such a major encroachment into the premium market due to the Sapphire? Sure, “anyone” can brainstorm a benefits package and viral branding and yet Chase seems to have dominated this phase at the particular moment.
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You can flag if you have a high enough karma rating I believe.
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Can anybody cite prior art on the notion that corporations are paperclip maximizes? It's not really a profound idea, I don't think, but the notion came to me about a month ago, and shortly after SciFi author Ted Chiang[1] said the same thing on BuzzFeed, and here's Charlie Stross saying it. Is this an example of simultaneous invention, or has it been kicking around for a while, and I just haven't noticed?

[1]https://www.buzzfeed.com/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civili...
They are elegant because they are probably from the local bourgeoisie. Go out of the city center and I would bet clothes would look way worse than that. It was probably a minority who could afford to dress like that.
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They've got the best programmers, the best lawyers and the best accountants apparently.
That might improve single core performance.

But you lock up two entire cores doing so.

For multi-core workloads, performance obviously decreases, mostly because you are missing an entire CPU core. Also, you would introduce locking between cores as only one user core could call the kernel at any one time.

Additionally, we have no idea how this bug (whatever it is) interacts with hyperthreading.
> But why is it only women are expected to provide such care and are classified as gold digging whores if they think the father should provide for them while they do so and also provide some compensation into the future for the lost career building opportunities it costs them?

I'm inclined to believe this opinion runs diametrically opposite to the general consensus in Australia, insofar as legislation can be considered the general consensus.

I'll admit some men, and some women, may lean in the general direction of the opinion you've state, but I feel "gold digging whores" is overly strong.

But their opinions hardly matter as we have strong child support legislation, with a strong Child Support Agency to enforce the laws to direct an appropriate amount of money to the resident-parent to aid in funding the child. We also have a fairly well run welfare system.
It's also an actual use of you know... A database.
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If a mechanical license was required by Spotify, wouldn't that mean I'd be able to keep copies of the songs forever, even if I stopped paying them?
Definitely al about the money
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I'm not even sure why is performance such an issue in the first place. It's not like 50 users can cause a lot of traffic. They have time to literally pre-generate all the views that could change after every action, between the times a user actually makes any change. I get that the data behind the views is complex, but having to wait multiple second for fairly trivial pages is crazy.
CSS is getting variables: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_v... and I cannot wait to use them. This is the main reason I will be pushing to stop supporting all versions of IE. If you don't like them, you don't have to use them. But I'll give an example of why they are super super handy and long overdue.

Let's say I want to enforce a color palette across my app. I define color variables, and only use those predefined color variables. If the palette changes, I just change the variable, and everything changes. Great, an easy way to have simple and consistent colors on a large project with multiple devs. Even better, I can do this now, with prepocessors like SCSS. After years of using it in an increasingly large project I have zero regrets, I only wish we did it sooner.

But think of this further use case: we want to have different color palettes based on different situations. For the same markup. We want the user to be able to toggle between dark mode and light mode. We want to change the colors when the user is printing something (especially in dark mode). I can't do this in SCSS directly without native CSS variables. I have to compile multiple CSS files from our source ahead of time, and dynamically switch between them, which feels like a hack and causes a lag while the files are fetched.

With CSS variables, I can change the variable to another value inside a certain class. So to toggle between light or dark mode I can just add a class to the body element on the page. I can use the print @media rule to change the variable values when printing. I can do the same with sizes based on the screen dimensions.

This is so simple and clear. When devs are maintaining or adding code they don't need to think about it. Just use the right variable and everything will work out. The alternative to using variables (the new CSS ones or by generating multiple stylesheets using CSS preprocessor variables) is to redefine all the styling that you need to change under a new class. So I have a stylesheet for a feature, then a smaller one that changes all the colors for that feature when the "dark-mode" class is on the body tag, and another for @media print. And then every dev needs to be aware of that and maintain and check all 3 versions whenever they make a change.

Needless to say, I entirely disagree with this article :) I don't think I am the only one who has struggled to understand why CSS is so difficult to use. We've had a few decades to refine it, we should be in a better place by now.