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> I wonder what do you think is complex?

For me it culminates in the way gpg feels really opinionated about key management (with keyrings). Way too often (in relative terms) I end up creating a temp dir, setting GPGHOME, then setting some permissions to quiet up gpg, then importing the keys, then actually doing the thing I wanted, and finally cleaning up[1]. I have no doubt the keyring design works wonderfully for gpgs author(s), but for a tool that should really be more generic than that it feels less ideal.

gpg being as monolithic as it is probably is the fundamental problem here which, in addition to making it unnecessarily cumbersome to use in some cases, also makes it more difficult to learn piecewise (imo).

[1] For one example, see my comment here: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2230#issuec... That operation should be basically "curl ..|gpg-key --to-ssh", but instead it exploded into 10 line bash script, complete with parsing gpg output with grep/awk.
Report: GM and Waymo lead driverless car race; Tesla lags far behind
My worry is that people deep link to a comment and think that I'm astroturfing. Trying to balance spam vs. full disclosure.

Note I left it off of this one. :)
They are selling a job board service by having "millions of qualified candidates" on the LinkedIn service (paraphrasing, not a direct quote, but still gets the point across).

So yeah, you're being sold.
Sam’s club is owned and operated by Walmart, at least according to wiki. That Walmart’s retail operation carries the same name as the corporation isn’t unusual. So this is fake news like the rest of what Trump calls fake news is (meaning, it’s actually true).
Your company can increase voter turnout: make Election Day a company holiday
Yeah i fear that very few acknowledge, never mind appreciate, the kind of long term outlook one develops as a farmer.

Lifestock, crops, all that happens over years, not weeks or months like in most industries.
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>Most traffic in India is extremely slow moving, which makes those risks possible. Go to a country where the to Urban driving speed is over 50 kph (~30 mph), say 80-100 kph, Indian drivers will refuse to take those risks.

That explains a lot.
Nobody cares "which bank it's in" - but if a company has $1B in out-of-US cash not currently subject to US tax, and bringing it into the US will cost them 30% of it, they may (sensibly, in many cases) just elect to leave it sitting wherever it is.

As to "what does it matter if the government can't take a cut?" --- the government does take a cut, and the reason it matters is that the lower rate will, on the margin, encourage cash repatriation.

Remember too that firms know they will be taxed in the future at (unknown, but estimable) rates, and today's rate will be compared against firms' estimates of current rates.

So in terms of the government's cut I forget the numbers in the current plan but say the corporate tax rate goes from 30% to 20%, and Apple decides that 20% is As Good As It's Likely To Get, and decides therefore to bring $1B of cash into the US that at a 30% rate it would have left elsewhere -- the US gov now gets 200M, rather than the 0 it would have gotten if the tax rate had stayed where it was.
There are two ways to convert a fatty acid to a volatile fuel: you can convert it to an ester or an alkane. Biodiesel is comprised of esters; biokerosene is made of alkanes. Converting fats to biodiesel is a much simpler process, which is why biodiesel is common and biokerosene has yet to take off -- currently, biokerosene is made by hydrogenation, and hydrogen usually comes from fossil fuels. This is described here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulf_Neuling/publication...

The most land-efficient way to produce fats from crops is by far the palm oil fruit ( http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html ), but because most cropland is already used for growing food, most palm oil plantations are on recently cleared forest, which gives palm oil an undeservedly bad reputation (farmers in Southeast Asia would simply grow something else on cleared forest if not for oil palms).
Agreed. The author also presents a highly confusing timeline for 1st wave cyberpunk, 2nd wave cyberpunk & postcyberpunk. Confusing enough that I don't understand why the author thinks his/her examples are 1st or 2nd wave. And I am well-versed in the genre!
It reminds us of how little we feel like we have accomplished, which triggers jealousy.
Why is it unethical / criminal? This is already a calculus doctors, patients, and loved ones have to do. How does adding historical statistics to the discussion introduce an unethical / criminal aspect?
Logitech Trackman FX was the best trackball of all time. I've had a half dozen of them. Sadly, I eventually gave in and moved on to the trackpad.
> people who are afraid of death

I am afraid to live after a certain point of time. When you have no direct descendants or significant other, when your bucket list is done, what's the point of keeping a slowly failing mind alive in a more rapidly failing body? I don't want to grow old, I fail to see why I should and there's no law, not even Canada that would allow me to choose a peaceful ending date for my own. And they call this suicidal which I am not. I have my life planned and I know when I want to end it, more than a decade from now. Some people plan to travel the world when they retire, I just want not to live but I can't.
> as I didn’t have a car at the time, I actually chopped up two entire sofas with an axe and a knife and recycled them over the space of three months too :)

And for sofas that aren't in unsalvagable condition there are furniture recycling projects around the country that will collect old furniture, give it a bit of a sprucing up, and sell it.
> British class thing going where there is the elite (capital) and the commoners (labour). Except that it's purely financial (mostly) these days. Nowhere near as bad as, say, the Bahamas.

I meant to type "Bermuda" not "Bahamas"
Indeed. I inserted "[marginal]" to qualify the production cost, and "Added:" a question to crystallize the profit options.
It's hard to find anything about working at Google that isn't geared towards SWE. What job title(s) would someone working for Google in IT support hold? Is the interview process as grueling as the SWE positions, or is Google looking for generalists?
This may sound pretentious but from reading how this "experiment" was going to be I knew it was a bad idea.

I get the idea here: wanting to have a deeper familiarity with some albums you've only heard once (personally, I listen to albums/EPs before passing any judgement) maybe some of them by a band that has produced one of your "masterpiece" records.

But, on the other hand, I don't get why subjecting yourself strictly to some music would be good. I find it better to listen to new music or music I have not digested yet along with music that I love already.

Just make it part of your routine. Do you want to listen to that obscure album? Just put it between some other music you enjoy or make that one your first listen of the day. Making it part of your routine is a good idea but variety is good and, in the case of the author, unavoidable. Especially because the author is a record producer.

This is a no-go idea for me.
If you follow this rabbit hole deep enough, you invariably wind up right back at the beginning. The people who buy stuff and create demand for said stuff typically work for someone else, and that someone enables that person to buy said stuff by paying them a salary, in which you could argue that it’s again the employers/producers who create jobs rather than the consumers. This is not necessarily my argument, but just demonstrating that it can be argued in a way that makes it appear cyclical.

Apple isn’t creating jobs out of thin air, but they do both directly and indirectly provide distinct opportunities, despite those opportunities generally having existed in some other form (possibly in some other country) before. It might seem more accurate to say that Apple shifts jobs, but that’s an equally imprecise way of framing it.
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We wouldn't need BGP at all if they hadn't ditched flow routing from IPv6 before it even became a proper draft, and if IP in general wouldn't assume we still use thicknet everywhere.
I stopped publicly posting my resume on my website when I started getting 2-3 calls per hour from sketchy consulting firms in India trying to sell me on some contract-to-career nonsense.
Some examples, please?

(tho, I bet if you read news from Brazil, it would go the other way)
It has also been unusually cold in Florida recently.
Several people (including Feross, who I know) have made comparisons of Datomic to gun, which I have made open source: https://github.com/amark/gun they're based on very similar principles and architecture of functional reactive programming (elm and eve are also in that camp, but not databases).
Note: I work at LogRocket (and also a European)

I believe we fall into the same categories as any other analytics tools (or any data controller/data processor in GDPR speak). Which is to say, there are compliance boxes that need to be checked (right to object, right to be forgotten, etc), but it's possible to be compliant and we plan to be when the law takes effect in May.

It's also worth noting that pretty much all frontend error reporting tools nowadays send a URL along with the exception and allow you to assign user data to the event.
While you are absolutely correct that many of the "pieces" of an application I list above are going to have to exist somewhere, "Essential complexity" is a loaded statement here.

There are different contexts and use-cases for complexity. A traditional 3(or 4)-layer MVC web application will obviously contain quite a bit of complexity surrounding data persistence/access, enforcing business rules, and view semantics, but it likely won't have much complexity surrounding "adding an item to a list" on the client. In fact, up until the last 10 years or so, my simple example of how that might look in JS is probably how that would have been implemented on a client (a full page reload is a moot point here).

With a SPA, we are adding another MVC (or MVVM) application on the client that is entirely focused on managing the view. That is the complexity to which I'm referring in the point I made above. I named it a "front-end ecosystem" as to not be opinionated on how it might work.

I'm certainly not arguing against developing SPAs, rather, adding some context surrounding the OP about how/why bugs develop. To reiterate, I think it's an oversimplification to simply hand-wave the OPs example bug as sloppy engineering that has nothing to do with creating a SPA, because doing so glosses over "why" that bug may be occurring in the first place. The point that I am trying to make is that it may very well be the case that such a bug is occurring because of the added complexity an SPA tends to introduce into the view. Does that make sense?
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While I love capturing these moments of time to share with the world, I can't help but feel a twinge of sadness that these and many other vibrant, productive communities all eventually get swallowed up by the mainstream.

What are these groups called today? Where are the mini-Renaissances that play a massive role in generating culture? Will these happen less and less as everyone is exposed to the global stream of information?
Suicide Prevention Hotline Was Top Post on Cryptocurrency Subreddit Yesterday
Global minimum tax. No more rinse and repeat thanks to the tax bill. 11% tax on all foreign profits so this eradicates tax havens in Ireland and the islands because if you are paying 2% then you pony up the other 9% to Uncle Sam.

Last repatriation, the companies did exactly what you said but now that is no longer possible.
The first redesign after Microsoft bought it motivate me to create my own personal page because it was so bad and broken. Now it is less broken (more content is displayed) but still not as fine as before. So I’m mot maintening my profil there anymore.
Also citing Minority Report the movie, repeatedly, and not Minority Report the PKD story...
Note: they're not talking about the death of sedans in America—they're just talking about the death of sedans made by American car companies. To the extent that the most popular sedans (Accord, Camry) are made by foreign car companies, this trend is somewhat less important.
This is pure fiction you've invented here.

Apple bringing capital back to the US is solely to do with their being tax incentives to do so.

Nothing more. Nothing less.
At least where I lived in Germany, in cities, there were dumpster-sized stand-alone donation bins labeled "Kleidung und Schuhe" (clothing and shoes) everywhere.
Recognizing it is a little tangential to this article, it seems to me there would be a great benefit to the USA's domestic environmental policy if the Iowa caucus wasn't so early. Food to fuel is a tragic waste of resources.
While I am sure there will be some pitchforks and torches for this, it seems mostly harmless to me. One of the most common objections to GM crops goes something like "what if scientists add a peanut gene to my tomato? I am allergic to peanuts!" (What is 'a peanut gene' anyhow? Genes code for proteins, one gene won't give that tomato a shell - and as an aside, if you're allergic to aflatoxin from mold that grows on peanuts, that won't be a problem either). So knocking out genes isn't be adding anything to the plant. I'd still like to think we'd do some testing, but it seems generally likely to be safe...
Here's to hoping 2018 is the year of solarpunk!
I'd probably rather re-read Please Kill Me: An Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
Saigon (aka iPho) in St Paul. There are lots of others too, but theirs is the best.
I think you're hitting on exactly the same thing I did in the OP: AT&T won over the FTC in 2014 on the very basis that broadband was classified as a common carrier[0]. The FCC has just removed that protection, so now the FTC should step up as the cop on the beat. That was the factual meat of my post. In my opinion, this could very likely be better for the public, because the legal definitions and technical specifications that make up agency regulations tend to be murky and fraught with politics. Anti-trust law on the other hand has a much stronger foundation, doesn't tighten the oligopoly, and doesn't cede any unanticipated federal control.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/atts-throttling-...
I tend to listen in this kind of way but usually I listen to something for a few months until I can't stand it. Most of my playlists have less than 10 songs on them and I just repeat them all of the time until I find myself skipping most of them. Then I realize I have to go find more music. Right now I'm actually just looping the same song because I have only found one suitable replacement so far.
Yep which comes back to 'no silver bullets'.

I've found it's easier to understand their domain and map it back to mine than it is to try to build a shared domain.

Also I find business stuff interesting, it's just a nice change of pace from fighting with code.
Yes! And ignoring that PKD's story has a radically different ending, so different that its message is the opposite of the movie's.
Alternative air gap bypasses:

badBIOS Sound: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/meet-...

Acoustical Mesh Network: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/scien...

DiskDrive Sound: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/new-a...

Survellance Cameras: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/attac...
I think this is where mentorship is paramount to junior/entry level engineers.
This is only annoying to some people. I don't know if it's part of a person's brain structure or just a preference, but some people are fine with ambiguity and others are not at all.

My personal theory is that some people learn generalized coping mechanisms for various situations in life and other people prefer to memorize scripts for dealing with some situations. We all probably do a little bit of each, but some people prefer one or the other. My theory is that people who like to memorize specific steps to take to solve problems don't deal with ambiguity well.
Just want to add, same all around!
$1000 bonus is $500 after taxes. Which means, it is $40/month or $20/paycheck. It is laughable. Most employees will get $200 bonuses, which roughly will equate to $4/paycheck.
For now, until existing developing nations become more developed and their birth rates drop too.

In a number of decades you'll see developing nations catch up to our fertility rates, and then the immigration solution to the unceasing growth pyramid scheme will need a new mechanism to survive, or we'll have to adapt.
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I feel like this potentially buried the lede. Apple is planning on opening up a new campus in the USA.

I feel like Amazon's HQ2 search is going to open the floodgates for tech companies asking for public incentives. Tech companies in the Bay Area have been creating tens of thousands of jobs for years without asking for much publicly. Expect that to change now.
Long term should benefit as well as the short term. The US had one of the highest tax rates on corporations in the world and all it did was cause the money to stay out of the country. Just like very rich individuals, when you are not bound to one country you can just keep elsewhere. The US even experiences it on a smaller scale with people moving from state to state.

Obama Administration did propose 28% in 2012 and get taxes for those under 200k down as well. The current plan that is in effect has a lot of similarities but it did not set a 200k high limit. The US really needs to figure out a way to handle small business taxes that get caught up in the way personal taxes are done.

Less tax burden is always a win. What the US really needs for explosive growth is a cap on spending. Many other countries to include a few European countries have rules in place to keep it below growth for a reason, because it pays off fast.
This is probably the most pseudoscientific/anti-intellectual comment I’ve ever read.
I'm using Hugo static site generator with this theme: https://github.com/digitalcraftsman/hugo-material-docs
And all it took was another $1 trillion in deficit spending. Color me unimpressed.
Yes, Rust is awesome and very enjoyable to use. Especially compiling for the web is pretty cool as you can even interact with the browser.
Good question- customers that have switched from FullStory generally say the logging is the reason they choose LogRocket. Network, console, and Redux logs gives support and developers crucial context for fixing bugs and understanding user issues.

At larger scale (10M+ sessions), LogRocket dynamically samples sessions to help surface the most important sessions and issues from your application. Hope that's helpful.

(disclosure: I work on LogRocket)
I'm not sure step 1 ever happened for LinkedIn,
> trackball doesn't need to move

Unless you are using it on your leg, on a sofa. Trackballs are second-to-none for home cinemas. Regardless, most are semi-wireless (such as the M Ergo) - just keep it plugged in.
There has to be some additional power expense, otherwise mining rigs would be sold in the "space heater" aisle.
Also, check your family history. If you are a descendant of Arathorn, those spirits might be persuaded to be your personal army as atonement.
I wonder if it will be a hit with the ladies.
When my mom had terminal cancer, her GP told her she was out of options.

Then a nearby "cancer center" got a hold on her, I believe through one of the diagnostic partners she was using. Two weeks later she was in heavy chemo -- as an elderly person who had almost a zero chance to survive.

She ended up with MRSA and in intensive care in isolation. I lived far away and traveled to see her when I heard her condition gotten worse.

I'll never forget her GP walking in. My mom couldn't hear well. Her GP was both sad and angry. She didn't have any idea how she ended up in the ICU.

He explained to her again that all we had left was palliative care, perhaps hospice. I could tell this wasn't the first time he had had this talk. There had been many other patients.

When he left my mom looked at me and said "What'd he say?" So I sat next to her, took her hand, and explained that the doctors had done all they could for her and she would die soon.

I'll never forget that, either the talk or the look on that GP's face. We have a terribly broken system.
Not exactly on topic, but what a cool domain name!
I'm hyped for Altered Carbon series. (NF, Feb 2018).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhFM8akm9a4

I adored that series and it was well written cyberpunk when I'd given up on ever finding more that I liked.
Start with Saigon (aka iPho) in St Paul. There are old newspaper review clippings on the wall. In one, an interviewer tells the (original) owner that his are the best in St Paul, and he corrects and says they are the best in the world - that he cannot get the quality of meats and vegetables in Vietnam that he gets in Minnesota.

I believe him.
Datomic is interesting. It is somewhat similar to object databases like ZODB. I use an object database called Durus (spiritual derivative of ZODB). Both ZODB and Datomic make use of aggressive caching in the application. That is a huge performance boost for applications that do a lot of reading and little writing. ZODB essentially puts the indexes in the application, rather than having the DB layer take care of indexes. Again, I understand this is similar to how Datomic works.

Developing an application on top of ZODB vs on top of an SQL database leads to a very different data model design. You can't just swap one database layer out for the other and expect things to work well. I'm not surprised if a team who is used to developing on top of SQL-like DBs did not have good luck when moving to Datomic. It is just a very different model.
If we are defending $1,000 one-time bonuses, why not just pass a law requiring these companies to pay $1,000 to their workers?

This is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum, but the point here is, what cost are we willing to pay as a society in exchange for the $1,000 one-time bonuses? This hypothetical law would be a terrible precedent for businesses, but would it be worse for the people receiving these bonuses than the actual tax plan?

And in order to answer whether it would or wouldn't, we need to look at the merits of the actual tax plan's substance, not the fact that it has (supposedly) caused people to get $1,000 bonuses.
Fabrics used for insulation are treated with flame retardant.
Everything that's jarring about the article seems to be taken directly from tvtropes. Now, I love tvtropes, but I'd worry about basing an article on "knowledge" from that site.
Yep! LogRocket also supports Vuex, @ngrx/store, and mobx-state-tree (both actions + state logging)
This is factually baseless nonsense.

Jeb Bush:
https://taxfoundation.org/details-and-analysis-governor-jeb-...

Marco Rubio:
https://taxfoundation.org/presidential-hopeful-marco-rubio-a...

You can compare all candidate plans here:
https://taxfoundation.org/comparing-2016-presidential-tax-re...

In fact it was Ben Carson who proposed cutting the tax rates the most (corporate tax rate -> 14.9%).
BTW your https cert expired on makerslate.io :)
You yourself point out the reason to have a tax at all: because someone has to pay for the cost of the US government. Also, at least in the versions I heard about this was a very carrot-and-stick tax bill. It didn't just allow companies like Apple to repatriate their foreign cash hoards at a lower tax rate, it taxed that foreign cash at the same one-off rate whether they repatriated it or not. The whole point was to remove all incentives to not repatriate money, to make it futile to try and wait for some hypothetical opportunity to do so at an even more reduced tax rate.