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The FAA has actively worked to assist and promote general aviation, air taxis, and charters for a long time. All of those compete to some extent against commercial airlines.
Used Skype yesterday.
I bet the flights will be considered to have been under 91 (don’t see how it would be 135 or 121). I also think it won’t help them at all because these are commercial flights either way.

You seem to be both speaking with authority and saying the opposite of what I’d expect here. What’s your background in aviation law?
> One of the bigger problems in healthcare is also over-utilization i.e. getting things are are technically covered under insurance but not objectively medically necessary or getting a more expensive brand name drug over a chemically equivalent generic drug.

Another problem is that procedures and appointments that could be considered routine maintenance in other areas are paid for by insurance. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or new tires. Services such as annual physicals/check ups, vaccinations, etc should be cheap enough to pay for out of pocket.

That would leave insurance to pay for the more expensive forms of care, just like one would use car insurance to pay for damage as a result of a collision.
I’m not a big fan of Walmart but it’s either 10 minutes to Walmart or almost an hour to other retailers. That being said Walmart let’s you return almost anything. They don’t want an upset customer. I can value that especially with all the times I shred a receipt but then realize I didn’t need something or something happened to it.
cash (fiat currency). cash advances are limited in amount, and treated differently in terms of interest.
I think somebody is going to discover that the aviation regulation is of a completely different kind from the taxi regulation.

The FAA is rather sanguine in making their regulation cheap to follow, and in cutting unnecessary rules.
> Is data changing that big of a problem?

Yes, but it is hard to recognize it as such until you've experienced the alternative.

I don't know much about Kotlin, but the fact that it relies heavily on Java libraries is sufficient to tell me that it is a particularly poor example of the power of immutability. You see the usefulness of immutability when you have objects that are deeply immutable - when you pass them around, you know those functions haven't changed them. It is much easier to reason about deeply immutable objects than mutable ones.

> in immutable languages, are there cases where immutability extends to nonscalar values like arrays or hashes or objects

Yes, this is largely the point. Although, you will rarely see an immutable array or hashtable - more likely it will be a linked list or balanced binary search tree.
Incidentally it was Prime Video that caused me to cancel Prime briefly a few months ago (though re-subscribed when it became evident that shipping costs would cost me as much and didn't feel like cutting my nose off to spite my face) - they added (or I noticed) pre-roll ads for other Amazon shows which I really dislike in a paid product.
I’m excited about this because it’s about Plan 9 but I have no idea what it is or why I should be excited. Please tell me more.

I read the description but I’m not sure if it’s a time sharing system on plan 9 that the public can log into or another internet or... something else.
As a former prime member, there are times I miss it, but not much.

What I miss most is Amazon caring about me as a customer. I don't think I am the only one who finds that as a non-prime customer my packages take a really long time to ship.

I often have to contact Amazon to get them to actually ship my infrequent orders.

Once you are out, you are really out.
Just to address the Part 91 vs 135 for commercial flight: it is legal provided there are no revenue generating cargo or passengers aboard (e.g., zero people and a couple of lost bags = nope, because bags are freight).

The carriers commonly make use of Part 91 for reposition flights to move equipment into place to resume original schedules following weather diversions or whatnot.

(me: Licensed Aircraft Dispatcher)
One scenario I can think of is a non-IE user telling an IE user to go to a particular website and click the button that's at the top of the right sidebar. For the IE user, it might be a stacked layout where the sidebar actually appears under the main content. I would call this a nuisance more so than a major issue, but nevertheless it is something to consider.
Amazon Key as a mitigation for the unprofessionalism of Amazon delivery personnel seems...ill considered.
The questions of morality are largely orthogonal to questions whether surrounding institutions have strategies to address behavior considered 'problematic'.

In the overworld, we have institutions which continuously interpret, enforce, refine, and revise both the letter and the spirit of contracts and law.

Ethereum developers and VIPs have already shown that they'll use hard forks to steer the community towards their preferred direction, and individuals will have to decide which chain to pursue. Since your actions are small beans and unlikely to prompt the Ethereum decision makers to reverse these transactions, you and others can likely keep doing such things in the future, and those affected will have little choice but to accept it.
Sounds a bit like Javascript, am I right?
Am I missing something interesting here, other than that this is from Apple, and satisfies curiosity about the details of a very large-scale deployment?

Specifically, nothing in this paper seems particularly novel from an engineering perspective.
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It's a collaborative environment build from 9p services. If you add the scripts to use it to your plan 9 machine/vm (or use the ANTS iso images), it will create a grid workspace with a chat, shared filesystems, ability to send links and images and documents to other connected users, and access to a registry for adding your own services if you choose. It currently has a small user community but it seems people are finding it fun and useful.
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> Do you not use Prime Video at all?

I don't, despite having Prime, because it doesn't work with Chromecast.
>Some kind of updating status or progress is, assuming it's not complete bullshit

This is where we agree. If the progress bar is bullshit (like the IE6 loading bar), then it means just as much to most users as a spinning beach ball, but slightly more insulting to the users' intelligence/experience.
Context: https://support.google.com/store/answer/3036017
Wasn't that brucee's gig for a while? I remember they had written a windows 9p client which is hen's teeth now, but I remember it working well.
The "why immutable" question usually attracts zealots that throw around terms like "easy to reason about" and detractors that mention "slows code down and is harder to write"--as if those statements were inherently true, universally understood, and defined in an agreed-upon way. None of those are the case.

The usual argument in favor of immutability is not that mutability is a big problem in general, but that when unexpected mutation occurs, it's a really hard to find (debug) type of problem.

If you have a well behaved codebase that does "a = { :foo => 'bar' }; render_hash_to_browser(a); store_hash_to_database(a);", you're fine: you can assume the same data ends up in the browser and in the database.

However, if that assumption ever fails ("users are seeing data that isn't in the database!") it's often a debugging nightmare, because you have to dig down into any code that might possibly ever touch the hash to see if it's accidentally mutating it. This includes utility functions, totally unrelated areas, et cetera.

If you have a good debugger to assist you, and an easy way to attach your code to a harness that follows bug-reproducing paths, you're set. But those things are a) never as present as we want them to be ("just don't write bugs, duh!") and b) tend to be harder to get working in old, large, monolithic projects--just the kind of projects where sneaky mutation can become a frequent issue.

Now, all debugging is hard. And a lot of it involves delving into code you've never seen/touched before to find a bug. But sneaky-mutability issues typically expose a much wider variety and volume of code as suspect. Because of that, mutability issues often tend to be, if not objectively more difficult, at least objectively more frustrating to debug.

With this as in all things, there's a spectrum. Some folks are fine with ultra-dynamic languages that let you mutate/bind anything, and protect against that with convention and tooling. Hell, some folks are fine with languages that mutate their data structures when you do nothing but read from them (https://perlmaven.com/autovivification). For others, they just want control over what you can bind to names (a type system, or "const"--the Java/etc kind--which prevents rebinding). Still more folks want the ability to opt into truly immutable deep data structures. And others want everything in their platform to be immutable when they use it, and have all the mutability (which you nearly always need, if only for performance alone) handled behind the abstractions of their runtime.

However, past a certain criticality or size (of code/complexity/age/number of developers threshold) of a project, it often becomes necessary to move "up" that ladder to something that provides more programmatic/automatic assurances about "what is happening to my data as it passes through all this code?"
English.

You can write your requirements in this language, then send to a programmer to convert them to code.
" Just like Uber, Airbnb, and other successful companies that changed the status-quo, TapJets Inc. is now facing push-back by government regulators,"

Sounds like they have more work to do on the whole "changed the status quo" thing; "are changing" or "trying to change" seems more accurate.
Exactly. The Work Number is a goldmine for fraud, and Equifax's guards on that mine are about as effective as a couple of guys sleeping off a hangover in the corner. Your employer should not trust them.
Honestly its not so bad over a bad cell connection as long as latency isn't extreme. I've found that throughput isn't a huge issue, but latency is a killer.
For some reason I have never seen an ad in Instagram. (And yes, I do use it...)
Definitely. It's a common sight in tropical countries to see modern buildings covered in random growth foliage (gutters, roofs, pavement cracks, window sills, etc.). I'd hazard a guess that even 20 years would probably be enough to significantly hide most low-rise buildings.
It is. Even proficient Chinese typists are significantly slower than English typists.
Yep, brucee has (or had) a 9netics email address.
A example of this approach failing can be seen in Pokémon Go, where a Pokeball will shake to show a captured Pokémon trying to escape. The user is forced to sit through an obviously fake delay before they are rewarded for their efforts.

It seems to be an attempt to increase the tension but the execution is incredibly bad.
> Plus, in immutable languages, are there cases where immutability extends to nonscalar values like arrays or hashes or objects?

Yes, see (among others) Erlang or, if you like static typing with your immutable values, Haskell, both of which are pervasively immutable.
It's not like they tore up all of the parking/loading/unloading areas. They just moved the baggage claim to the farthest point along which everyone had to walk anyways.
Former Self-Storage Manager: I bet you can fit everything worth keeping into a closet sized unit, or nix the unit?

I really hate Storate facilities with a passion. The owners know once you move your crap in; they have you for life. It's a psychological thing.

The late fees are encouraged. The owners depend on late fees, and gave seminars detailing how to get more. Most storage facilities start rent on the day you move in, unless you demand end of month. It's easy to forget to pay of 17th.

Security is atrocious.

Every once in awhile, a guy would come in fuming, and dump all his crap into the outside trash bin.

(It makes a good school job, because you literally don't do much. 98% occupancy is common.)
How is the browser not a system resource when there are so many apps that are basically a wrapper around a webview or have one embedded? The preferred Webview on iOS for apps is an out of process Safari instance that the app has minimum control over.
Yeah there's a couple of different groups that still use/admire/say they use Plan 9. There's the /g/ guys that seem to have a perennial interest in it for whatever reason, the cat-v.org/9front guys (of which I'm one) that still heavily use, maintain, and improve the system, and the guys that have historically used Plan 9 prior to the bell labs dist more or less dying.
Ok, but their question was morality, not what will be enforced, so, I'm not sure why you are bringing up what will be enforced?
I have a cell phone to eliminate the standing is boring problem. (Before that it would have been a book)
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions.

For all you know, they build websites or applications that don't have any need to run on older browsers, or at the very least, there are diminishing returns.

There's always an opportunity cost. While you're building support for older browsers, they could be adding valuable functionality to their software.

Which is more valuable depends on the situation.
I arrived at it simply by looking at the evidence. There is virtually none that indicates that given the same number of punches, glove size matters much.

any change that would bring the head punch count down to ufc levels would likely have similar safety improvements.

The evidence is really sketchy but early research indicates Thai boxing has a bigger incidence of brain trauma than western boxing than ufc and boxing do. The glove is essentially the same.
My sister and I were both big fans of Sierra. It’s unfortunate that bad business deals and timing killed the company.

They were pioneers in many ways.
If this sort of thing interests you, checkout Dfinity's random beacons - They use threshold cryptography (think of it as a type of "multisig") to solve the commit-reveal problem (where the last party to reveal their commitment can abandon, so they have an advantage).

They build on it to create a provable, deterministic source of randomness which can't be exploited in this same way.

Here's a video that goes into more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1dql4Zoqw
It's the distinction between private and commercial that doesn't make sense to me. If I want to fly from A to B, whether I get paid or not doesn't make a difference to the safety of the passengers. If I have a private pilot cert, I am qualified to fly the aircraft safely.

Enlighten me if I'm wrong.
Seconded. Experienced absolutely nothing.
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Not really true IMO, because you can even use initialisms to type entire phrases and sentences in pinyin and omit most of the characters.

Let's say you wanted to write 我很喜欢吃汉堡 (I really like eating hamburgers), you can get away with just typing 'w h x h ch han bao' and predictive text gets you the entire sentence.

Chinese text is well optimized towards readability and information density, at the expense of taking a lot of work to manually write, but that calculus completely changes if your writing system is smart enough.
Flu vaccines are reasonably cheap. $30-40.

The flip side of that is that they aren't contributing much to insurance premiums. At a policy level it may be worth a slight increase in cost if building it into insurance significantly increases the number of people that actually get the shot.
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The decentralization enters in a couple different ways. First, the set of services is made from several different machines - I didn't make every single service a separate vps, but there are 4 different nodes that provide the different 9p fses that are used, and it would be possible to run each service on a separate vps, but at the moment that would be a bit unnecessary because load isn't that heavy. The other decentralized aspect is that if people want to, they can announce their own services to one of the registries that is being exported, so people could build their grid environment from more resources than just the ones exported from 9gridchan. That is still mostly theoretical right now, people are still exploring the possibilities of the set of 'default' services.
That really isn't true, even with a pinyin IME. More so if are talking about spoken Chinese (used for chat) vs. more colloquial written Chinese. Prediction really does speed things up (on my old nokia back in 2002 I used to be able to text faster in Chinese than in English).
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We put the new tires and brakes on the the fastest vehicles we could make, then had a professional run them around a track with a dozen other lunatics. Anything that broke was fixed forever, and relatively few lives were lost. The number that died was low because there were fewer participants. The critical technology was well-tested before it was sent to the production line.

That's how we got our century of development. Testing, verifying, refinement. It wasn't by pushing out new stuff to a batch of users and seeing if everything worked out allright.
Part 135 vs Part 91 is exactly the issue. They thought they were complying with Part 91, those are reasonable rules to run your test flights under I think?

Was TapJet reckless?
But you can buy a car that costs as much.

Some of these restrictions are clearly arbitrary.
An exercise that teaches team work, communication, planning, and patience. As simple as this is, there is a lot of good skill building here for young kids.
Tangential-ish question:

It's often claimed that the Linux /proc virtual filesystem has roots in Plan 9's design, and it's certainly a very powerful abstraction that allows, at the cost of some expressiveness, near-universal interoperability with some of Linux's internal state.

However, many BSDs do not support it out of the box, and I've heard it claimed that they're deprecating/have no plans to keep /proc around, favoring sysctls which return structs instead.

Assuming that both are true (/proc came from plan9 and BSDs are moving away from it), why is this the case?

Why abandon a universally-interoperable, so-simple-a-child-can-interface-with-it interface to what is otherwise a very hard-to-work-with type of system state?
Kind of similar to the CG work for Blade Runner 2049?
Pong sucks though. Not even kidding, that's what most kids will say. Nirvana is educational pokemon.
I hate the credit agencies as much as anyone (and the poor quality of the app is shameful), but the "skirting the law" angle smells like an unfair criticism to me. Surely the heavy amount of regulation around credit freezes prevents an app like that from being created in the first place. The simplicity and ease of switching it on and off probably conflicts with some regulation or another. (Anybody in the know want to fact check me on that?)

And it's not like they did away with freezes. They just added a alternative alongside. I've never frozen my credit because I didn't want the pain of having to unfreeze it at an inopportune moment. The concept (if not the implementation) of having locks as an alternative might convince me to actually use them. I hope it catches on.
I am reminded of a webcomic, that i fail to locate at this moment, that reminded me of the practice of placing something next to a progress bar, like say during a Windows 95 install, to check if anything is actually happening.
In my team a lot of people use WeChat. So I set out to give it a try. When I was forced to leave my voiceprint [1], I chickened out and aborted the registration.

[1] http://blog.wechat.com/2015/05/21/voiceprint-the-new-wechat-...
Your insurance company sounds like a bag of dicks. Do they also deny a claim if you ride a motorcycle without a helmet, which is legal? What about skydiving, or skiing a black diamond course, or attempting Longs Peak in the winter without three layers on?
I picture kids yelling and hitting each other to get what they want, but I guess that's a form of scheming and group allegiances.
Yeah, I want to talk further, It's 4am in Poland though, would you be willing to postpone it a little bit? Thanks in advance
Never mentioned anything about that. I was merely talking about discontent. You can always move to other places.
I think it depends of if you need trafic from those browser or not.
Because if you do, you'll have to maintain several version, or increase your time on working on it to do gracefull degradation (which is of course a good way to do, but more expensive)
I see ads on Instagram all the time. Just scrolling through two days of my feed (but it's hard to tell, because it's not chronological anymore), I see some ads from therealcost, xbox, lovepop cards, kelloggs frosted flakes, m&m's chocolate, some music festival, instagram itself, and six posts from accounts I don't follow, as part of its new 'Recommended for You' (aka garbage I don't care to see) sections. Perhaps I fit their demographics, so I get more of them.
Even if you actually would make that choice doesn’t mean that you would be happier than if the airport implemented the other option and didn’t give you the choice. That may sound counterintuitive, but there’s no particular reason to think it’s contradictory.
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I don't mean buying those on margin. I meant if you already had some lying around. maybe you mined some back in 2010, maybe you already intended to hold some long term.

>If you’re talking about buying and selling from yourself to milk points, that’s fraud.

i'm not sure how that's fraud anymore than you buying goods with your credit card and immediately selling them to rack up rewards.
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That’s a slightly different example then, because that actually does save time. Parallel vs. serial.
It is trivial to make this contract forfeit money so no one can withdraw anything including owners.

You really need professional advice and audit.
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Is the planet conscious but on a time scale that we are out-of-touch with? Plants are just an order of magnitude quicker to react but still much slower than needed to make us care. The truth is, we associate speed with intelligence, it's natural for us. We even have the word "slow" to mean stupid. It's possible we will eventually have a super intelligence able to craftily manipulate matter at the highest ability -- but will still be as slow as a turtle. If it builds shields and preventative measures to compensate for its' slowness, I think we'd consider it a superintelligent species -- slow or not.
Humans are lazy and stupid, see, and they don't get it until they learn the hard way. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of our forebears. Thus it has been since the dawn of time, and thus it shall ever be. Amen.
I'm doing the same. Robert Reich did a video about the hypocrisy of most Americans. It's on his FB site. Yes--ironic it's on FB.

And most of us knew we were hypocrites, but don't have the real money to make a difference? Anyway, I do try to buy from companies I respect, but I think we're alone. My father was called cheap back in the day, but he was a principled buyer.
I think it's fair to view anything they do with suspicion after their mishandling of the leaks. They haven't shown me any reason to give them the benefit of the doubt, and ample reason not to do so.
More like 0.5%
If that's not a psychology hack; I don't know what is.