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You are absolutely right, Bitcoin will never achieve the same stability of strong government controlled Fiat currencies, in my opinion it only makes sense to use it as a currency in regions were Fiat is very bad like for example Venezuela.
Agreed. My home server has a Concourse instance on it because setting it to run tests on projects takes, like...five minutes of editing a template.

But, then, horror of horrors, it makes it incumbent upon me to write tests, and clearly that's just horrible. ;)
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>> "What Trump was saying is that because Haiti is a shithole, my Haitian neighbors should be rounded up and sent back there"

You're projecting.

Trump's comment was that we should discourage immigration from places with low-skill labor. There was nothing in his statement about rounding up existing legal immigrants and revoking their citizenship.
If you read through the articles numbers don't seem to add up to 350B:

The Tax repatriations count for 38 bil. The new capital is 30 billion. Supposed the 20000 people are all making a 200000 dollars/ years thats 20 biliion. Where does the other 250 billion come from?
In Brazil Ethanol is made from sugar cane. It is much more efficient and environment friendly than corn ethanol.
I don’t see it as spam. It wasn’t pushed into your mailbox/feed and by saying that you can decide if it adds or detracts from his credibility.
All of life and evolution is a never ending arms race. I don't see what the problem is in applying human intelligence to that arms race. An important part of being human involves using our intelligence to manipulate nature in a way that is beneficial to us. If lithium chloride helps us with the goal of healthier honey bees by decreasing parasites, we should do it. We should also be researching and thinking of what to do if/when resistance evolves in the parasite. But, just because resistance can evolve, doesn't mean we despair of using chemicals to fight parasites.
It started way before GMail client. OWA was the first application to partially manipulate the UI on the client. GMail was the first decent app doing it in a modern way. Even AJAX is invented for OWA.

https://garrettsmith.net/blog/archives/2006/01/microsoft_inv...
If you're interested in old-fashioned cooking and/or nautical history, this is a fascinating read:
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The use of the word shithole to describe the conditions of certain countries is vulgar but not necessarily racist. It was a combination of his connection of Latin American and African countries to shitholes in contrast specifically to Norway. And the root of the problem and what made it racist is the implication that people from shithole countries weren’t worthy of emigrating to the US solely for the misfortune of having been born there. Which would be merely bigoted in the absence of his description of the entire continent of Africa as a shithole, but is racist in the full context of his tirade.

Furthermore, to give the president the benefit of the doubt, one would have to ignore the copious evidence of his racism from his days as a landlord refusing to rent to black people, to his race baiting in the Central Park rape case, to his racist tirades against Mexicans in the campaign, etc, etc.
There is the "çi börek" from Eskisehir in Turkey, a fried pastry with minced meat inside, where they use actual onion juice (juicing the onion like you would juice an apple, basically) to season (and also partially cook) the meat.
> 80% (30% with zero) of the country/population has 0-1 options for 25Mbps and 92% (55% with zero) of the country/population have 0-1 options for 100Mbps

Good data, though these numbers still are pretty much the same. The data you linked rates 10/25 Mbps not 25/100 Mbps when rating competition in areas. Most people still only have 0 or 1 options at 25/100 Mbps.

There has been a small bump in 25 Mbps. But even then they are only are up a bit. However, 49% for 25Mbps is still pathetically sad, up under 20% only in 4 years as they did little '16-present to help push NN removal.

They fail to highlight that most places with 'multiple broadband providers', of over 10 Mbps which is not really broadband that is good for today, typically have one provider at 100Mbps or higher and the other false competition at 10-12 Mbps so they just barely rate at the low 10Mbps pathetic broadband classification. ISPs also still have great interest in their local monopolies, which still more than half the population are under at 25 Mbps, and more than 2/3rds under 100Mbps local monopolies, only 10% have gigabit available and those areas have no competitive option, not good enough for the US.

Much of the move to 100 Mbps, which the broadband cable companies could do more easily with DOCSIS anyday they like, was the result of areas that Google Fiber entered. Cox for instance was 25 Mbps down here until Google Fiber then suddenly they got 100/300 Mbps and started offering gigablast/gigabit but that quickly stopped after Google pulled out. REAL competition is good. Saying competition is one provider with 100Mbps and the competitor at 10Mbps is not real competition.

Most of the US is still under local monopolies for 25 Mbps service (0 or 1 option only), and nearly all of the US is under local monopoly for 100+ Mbps, unacceptable.

So now that ISPs have net neutrality removed I am sure we will see multiple 100 Mbps competitive products and gigabit service rapidly rolling out across the country right? /s
Can I ask where you work? I'm trying to get a better sense of who is still building native business apps and why. What leads to you building a WPF app vs. A Web app?
The taxes are only one part of this announcement.

>Apple expects to invest over $30 billion in capital expenditures in the US over the next five years and create over 20,000 new jobs through hiring at existing campuses and opening a new one.

All of this is discretionary spending.
they finally pay for part of what they owe

You only owe the taxes that the law compels you to pay. There's no obligation whatsoever to pay a dime more.

Do you personally look to pay the maximum amount of taxes that you could possibly justify through various readings of the tax code? Because I guarantee that your tax software or your tax accountant are not "taking advantage" of opportunities for you to pay more unless you look to.
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You're giving him way too much credit.

And he's already taking concrete steps to round up Haitians and send them back.
It would need a lot of investment. You need glass makers, metal shops, semiconductor shops all close together to emulate what is there in China right now. I don't know if its really possible in the US.
My experience with Datomic was that it is not appropriate for a system that has performance requirements. We developed a system using redis while the data team was developing the data service on Datomic. When we tried to integrate, the whole system slowed to a crawl and we needed to do a rewrite.

My advice is to develop with Datomic from the start and not separate it out into a service. Any other database will be so much faster that you won't know how bad your performance is until it's too late.

Another piece of advice would be to seriously consider if you need immutability in your database. If it's not a hard requirement, I would not use Datomic.
I got started at Google years ago in the IT support department. I was an atypical case because I have a CS degree from an prestigious university, but at the time, I was caught in the fallout of the dot-com bust, so I needed any job I could get.

I eventually interviewed successfully to become a SWE, but my experiences working with the broader swath of people (not just CS/CE grads from elite programs) in IT really opened my perspective on technology, products, and the diverse set of people and talents it takes to make an organization function.

I have no connection to this certificate effort (I moved into development eons ago), but I think that the opportunity for exposure to a technology profession that this program offers could be the foot in the door for a lot of people, regardless of their background.
All Xamarin apps are natively compiled on iDevices, and Unity uses their own AOT compiler, IL2CPP.

There is ongoing work on CoreRT, the UNIX version of .NET Native.
Savory is "umami".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami
There are cases where a blacklist totally makes sense, I will agree with you on that.

"I can access this thing" are totally not that for the 99.9% case. Do the simplest thing that will work--and the simplest thing so very rarely involves public-key cryptography!
He still said you have to "beat [the] cost of operations/electricity"...
That's pretty damned clever.

In a far less sophisticated way, I was able to achieve audio transmission without any extra hardware except for a ~6 foot aux audio cable. This was back when I was maybe 14 years old and I was already building RF circuits with crystal oscillators and such. Learning that audio is sampled at specific frequencies, I was then lead to wonder if the same principles used to send and receive audio through proximal electromagnetism(since electrical current generate fields). While this is obvious to any adult with basic knowledge of science, it was quite novel for me to discover that my boom box radio, when set to auxiliary mode, could slightly pick up audio passing through an open-ended cable from my sound card. What I really didn't expect was that by upping the volume further, I could send a clear signal across several feet. Clearly, this wasn't just the force of magnetism but there was some radio activity happening. I never figured out what was going on, although I hypothesized that the transistors in the microphone input hardware of the boom box were configured in a way that was behaving like a transistor radio.

I would love to understand what was really happening there.
Incompetently trying to get him a lesser sentence. He straight out declared that his client was guilty in favor of a defense that legally was not allowed.
Mostly correct, except the price dropping squeezes out some miners who have less efficient hardware or more expensive electricity.

It’s possible those miners would find it more profitable to 51% attack, or sell their hardware to someone who wants to.
It comes from how much they spend with US suppliers. They're basically highlighting what their economic impact is to the US.
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Have you seen printer software? Those jobs are safe for the foreseeable future :)
I hate the phrase "job creation". It sounds almost like the "job creators" are of divine nature. How about "hiring"?
> If you test this way you'll be sure to have a correct implementation for this dummy program.

That's the point. If the dummy program fails then your implementation is bad.

> Further, if the test fails you now have to try and figure out what component caused the failure.

Have you heard of logging?

> A unit test should test a specific unit; commonly a class. You should have unit tests for the interface of that unit (never private or even protected methods).

This is almost exactly what I suggested. I stated 'dummy programs' for individual tests because it's more modular and closer to actual usage than mocking. If your language has an equivalent, use that.
I think user expectations (and/or product/UX expectations) have changed along with the rise of the SPA.

In the days of server-rendered apps before SPA was a thing, the answer to all of those questions would've been some version of "You don't," followed by "Why would anyone expect a website to work offline, or be fast when the network is slow?"

But SPAs are in a sort of "uncanny valley" where they sorta look and feel like native apps and users expect them to behave like native apps but doing that is much more work than building a simple webapp.

There's a bit of cargo culting here too, I think. Not everything needs offline support and instant updates from Firebase. But $fancy_native_mobile_app has it, so our imitation SPA must too.
What I understand is that ethanol can be produced from, among many things, byproducts of corn.
No but I also don't set up a pretend subsidiary in Ireland that owns my intellectual property and pays me dividends for my freelance work. To pretend that they didn't go above and beyond to avoid paying taxes is lunacy.
> So essentially Typescript is importing JavaScript's already onerous dependency situation putting another set of dependencies on top of it without any formal correctness guarantees or automated compatiblity checks.

An increasing number of JS libraries on npm maintain and provide their own Typescript definitions, so the ecosystem is getting better and in some cases there are no additional type information dependencies beyond your JS library dependencies.

> The language itself is under constant threat of breaking changes introduced by new JavaScript versions.

I've used Typescript in production software since around TS 1.0, and Typescript has been very adroit of working ahead of JS versions. The biggest change, and closest to a compatibility break, was that import/export syntax changed slightly to reflect ES module import/export syntax, and that wasn't entirely a breaking change (the old syntax still works, though is marked with a deprecation warning). On the other side there were ES2015 features I was happily using in Typescript years before ES2015 was finalized, and am happily using proposed features that are only Stage 2 or Stage 3 today in the standards process.

Ecma's TC39 is following a similar playbook to the rest of web standards and using an approach to where multiple implementations should be built before the proposal is accepted into the language. TC39 has the benefit that not only do they get browser implementations, but polyfills/prollyfills, Babel, and Typescript implementations to learn from in adopting a proposal.

Typescript very much is leading JS development as much as, if not more than, it is following.
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From the link:

"Apple will spend an estimated $55 billion with US suppliers and manufacturers in 2018"
You don't need server rendering to avoid double validation, right? Just validate on the server, and return error codes that the client can render.
One problem is that the time required for the adjustment to happen is determined by how many miners are left and is unbounded.
Mining at a loss might make sense for a while if you've made hosting/power commitments.
You could also write the headline as "Most Profitable Company on Earth To Receive $42B Repatriation Tax Break"
Googling for the EROI and NEB of soy biofuel, numbers appear to be significantly better than for corn, but still no better than low single digits. Also, soy uses a lot more water than corn, which imposes another host of considerations, including higher transportation cost due to regional growing restrictions.

Cane ethanol seems to do better than soy fuel. I'm also aware that new biofuel "generations" have the potentional for much higher returns, but these things are either still emerging technologies (e.g., cellulosic and algae) or horrifically damaging to the environment (e.g., palm oil biofuel).
>"Combining new investments and Apple’s current pace of spending with domestic suppliers and manufacturers — an estimated $55 billion for 2018 — Apple’s direct contribution to the US economy will be more than $350 billion over the next five years, not including Apple’s ongoing tax payments, the tax revenues generated from employees’ wages and the sale of Apple products."

It's just everything they already spend in the US, lumped together
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I wonder what the data is on hitting 1000 subs from scratch. I can see it taking 6+ months and if you're putting out daily or weekly content thats a lot of unpaid labor till you get some of that sweet ~$1 per 1000 views. But yeah I think most tubers monetize through patreon/merchandise/non-yt ads so this might not affect things too much.
I'd like to know who those 9,000 American suppliers and manufacturers are. Other than Corning who supplies the Gorilla Glasses for almost all smartphone makers, I can't really name any significant domestic suppliers who would make up $55B of their "spending."
Agreed, but why aren't HR departments required to stress that to employees when hired? It's absolutely not OK to let people think they can raise an issue in confidence if that's really only a bullshit promise (to use Harry Frankfurter's term).
Not the parent, but I assume he means an application that itself takes in 1000 requests per day.

At the free tier your options include, on a monthly basis:

* a single EC2 t2.nano box with 0.5gb memory and 1vcpu

* 1,000,000 requests (or 40,000 gb-seconds worth of requests) to your lambdas

Assuming you're taking in less than 1m requests monthly the lambdas will handle traffic spikes much more gracefully than the small VM will; as well, since it's not an either-or proposition this also means you still have a free VM you can do something with.
Regarding calculus, I think basic multivariable calculus can be enough for starting. If you need a refresher you can look for (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-02sc-multivariabl...)

Also the basic idea of chain rule is important for deep learning.

Regarding statistics, I already mentioned the probability course which describes most of the important statistics concept you need. Also, some idea of Hypothesis testing can be helpful
> The FCC have ignored this -- as they ignored everyone else to serve their corporate buddies.

So they're just incompetent? Because if I were trying to serve my corporate buddies, I'd do a satisfactory job of it instead of jeopardizing the whole darned thing.
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This is the correct answer...
This is true of literally every celebrity.
(author here) It's possible that this could turn in to something like that. When I originally started writing it that's exactly what I had in mind, actually - but I have since started working with common.net and I'm quite happy there.

If this is something people are interested in though reach out to me! I may be able to line something like this up.
The line discipline in most UNIX-like kernels is generally pretty simple, and mostly open-loop. In cooked mode, the kernel is just accumulating bytes in an edit buffer; if you add one, it echoes it; if you remove one, it probably emits "\b \b". If the buffer is empty and you press delete, it does nothing.

If you were to send cursor positioning sequences, instead of just ">", this would probably fall apart as the kernel's edit buffer and the terminal reality would be out of sync.
Why should this go to court? I'm not sure if you have understood what this thread was about.
Blue in LA as well.
I remember in my twenties having a recruiter rewrite my CV, removing relevant experience and claiming experience I didn't have. All without my knowledge. You cam imagine how the resulting interview went....
In D.C., the place where I've spent most of my adult career, that is the case. If your recruiter doesn't tell you the salary range, it's because they (75%) honestly don't know themselves. Either because it may be based on experience of the candidate, or because there are multiple roles which you as a candidate could fill and the company doesn't want to throw out numbers to confuse/hide things.

In fact, it's usually the opposite situation here. It's weird to NOT know the salary range, and how much wiggle room there is. (It honestly helps that salary range is usually defined in the proposal for contract companies to the government, and they've already built in profit before they even begin to hire employees.)
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The marketing blurb mostly mentions new stuff like new expenditures and new employees. But the $350B is their total contribution to the US economy and I'd guess it includes current employees, programs, and infrastructure.
Ha! Great story. And to think I was disappointed the other night because I couldn't find the exact type of hot pepper I was after and had to settle for habaneros. We are living in a golden age of food. Yet wars were fought over access to black pepper.

It's difficult to believe, but just 100 years ago a food as commonplace as spaghetti with tomato sauce was considered somewhat exotic; at the least predominately an ethnic Italian dish.

Even 50 years ago, chicken was considered an 'occasional' meat. Cornell university is famous for a basting sauce, as a result of an effort to encourage more domestic consumption of chicken.

I wonder if Pad Thai, bulgogi, or stretchy Turkish ice-cream will be considered everyday foods in another 50 years.
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HotSpots optimization and code generation is far superior than any other VM.

But that is kind of my point - there are advanced vms out there. I don't see why the web needs its own vm apart from them. All the differences I see are fairly minimal.
Try Meallime. (Not affiliated, but I've been using the free version for a long time.) It doesn't exactly optimize ingredients, but can put together a weekly meal plan for various dietary restrictions and groups ingredients together so you can do one shopping trip for your week.

https://www.mealime.com
Saying we need to keep fighting does not mean we need to fight as stupidly as possible.

With care we can prevent antibiotic resistance becoming significant for decades, or we can get it to show up in the first week an antibiotic is introduced. While parasites are slower to develop resistance we still face similar issues with Lice and other pests and we really should consider both the short and long term impacts of any approach which is directly fighting evolution.
Apple pledges $350B investment in US economy over next five years
Yeah, I thought Navigator, too.

Now get off my lawn while I load winsock.
Apple wants to create competition for the components they need to drive down prices throughout the supply chain. Most of their investments relate to this from camera tech to oled screens.
Another user made a similar comment and although you are (both) correct that the issue is sloppy engineering and not directly related to the idea of a SPA, I think you are (both) missing the point.

The issues pointed out above are likely not manifesting out of laziness or inexperience, rather, the sheer amount/complexity of Javascript used to create an SPA can result in seemingly simple issues (like the one above) to crop up, and often makes fixing them far more complex than updating a few lines of code.

If I make a page with a few simple JS functions and one is used to "add items to a list on click" (or whatever), yeah, detecting the cause and identifying a solution is trivial. But these days we have an entire front-end ecosystem of controllers, components, events, models, callbacks etc. with many of the above including numerous life-cycle states and actions themselves. Add to that the sheer amount of indirection many of the popular JS frameworks employ, and it no longer takes a sloppy developer to create a bug like the example. In fact with today's component-based architectural style, it's likely the functionality to add items to that list was developed and tested in a completely different context than where the user above was encountering it.

I think it is entirely possible (maybe even reasonable) to assume that the folks who built that web app are aware of that bug, but know that the solution isn't worth the amount of time needed to deploy a fix (in relation to other bugs of course) or, even worse, are constrained in such a way that prevents a fix from being possible.