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How is this going to work with the gazillion existing NPM packages and projects using Babel?

Right now you just require a Babel runtime first, then use import for everything else not caring what type of modules they are. The acceptance test for proper module support in Node.js should simply have been that you can remove the Babel wrapper in an existing project that uses imports instead of requires :(
As a general rule, I subscribe to the theory that businesses should make it as easy as possible for people to give them money!

Most of my business is billed through online invoices: PayPal makes it trivial for me to email an invoice to someone and have it paid by their credit card. So trivial in fact, that every time I've looked into switching, I've found no reason to.

Also, I'm finding that more and more customers are in locations where PayPal is more accessible than credit cards.

YMMV but in the 10 years or so that I've been taking PayPal, I can't think of a single bad thing to say about it.
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The formula in actuality is your annual income should be 40x the monthly rent. So if your rent is $2k, you should make $80k a year pre-tax. There are a lot of studios and Jr. 1 beds for < $2k/mo. in Manhattan. Most people have roommates though, and your average 2 bdrm is like $3,200/mo., which means you only need to make around $65k/yr. This is very doable.
Does it really change that much though? I suppose they would not be able to control inflation, but taxes and tariffs would remain the same. It's not a total loss of control.
I have tried it, but I didn’t think it was as useful for me personally. That is, I don’t need a budget. Instead, I need a high-usability, interactive visualization of all of my accounts (12+) with relatively accurate categorizations and alerts. But, I’d like to pay less than $49 / month.

I would try to start a service like this myself, but I don’t think the market is large enough to make it usable.
> Later I read a book which said that there were a handful of tiny little Dravidian isolate languages scattered around Saurashtra

Do you remember the title or author of the book by any chance?

This is fascinating. Because there is a pocket of Brahui (a Dravidian language) speakers in Pakistan.
You had it right the first time. A photon has no time. The Universe has 0 size in the reference frame of a photon. In a photon's reference frame, photons are absorbed by the instant they are emitted, discretely, they do not travel in a continuous manner.
It doesn't really make sense to think about the reference frame of a photon.
>Yes it does.

While you've presented a compelling counter-argument, I'm still not convinced.

>And when did I agree to Equifax's terms?

You didn't need to because they never stored "your data".
> But Stellar is not Turing complete… Ok

This made me smile.
You are getting downvoted and I can't figure out why.

You were absolutely right to ask that he not touch you.

You were absolutely also in your rights to just put up with it rather than deal with the potential consequences of trying harder to stop it.

My story: I worked at a place with a guy who I didn't particularly like, but I didn't really dislike him, either. One St Patrick's Day, I wasn't wearing green, and told people I don't like being pinched and not to pinch me.

One person did it anyhow. Out of reflex, I raised my fist as if to punch him. I didn't actually punch him, but my instinct was to do so after having been bullied as a child.

I went to the general manager and reported the incident. I was told that what he did wasn't wrong at all, and that if I'd punched him, I'd have been fired.

I stood my ground. I looked him square in the eye and told him that it was assault. The manager insisted that it wasn't assault, and I kept stating that it was assault, and that I'd just finished telling him not to do it when he did it. After going around a few times, the manager finally stopped saying it wasn't assault.

That incident never happened again.

However, now the other employee was sure that I didn't like him, and things were tense between us for a year or 2.

The story does have a happy ending, though. Eventually, that employee came out as gay and told everyone. Apparently, he thought I would react badly to that and looked particularly worried about what I'd say or do. I was just like, "Alright." and nothing was different on my side. However, he was much nicer to me after that, and so we both treated each other better from then on out.

That's a long way to say that "people are complex" and "it's okay to deal with the situation how you did". Taking the harder path was indeed harder for me on an on-going basis, even though I didn't end up fired or anything.
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You do realize that this can happen with any merchant gateway, don't you?
"If it is a scam, the employees I know there don't appear to think so."

How many people knew that Enron is a scam? I bet 99% of people there were hard working intelligent people who had no idea. Same for Theranos.
It is important to note that this is a tool for developer that you can customize it to your needs (if you know Java). It does not compete with Google Maps! And (real time) traffic can be integrated: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2017/11/06/time-dependent-o...
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The subscription price varies substantially according to age and region. I also suspect that they make a lot of money from "whales", i.e. people with the most expensive subscriptions who also buy their other item packs (superlikes etc.)
It was weird because we were having a discussion about problems in the office, construction related noise, and if we could find a different place to work temporarily. In that group discussion, specific companies that provide co-working services were proposed. I never searched for anything related to this around this time (but it's possible someone in that group did!), I remember that very clearly and why the experience was so creepy. And then that same day I start seeing advertisements for many of the co-working spaces in the area that came up in that discussion. Sure, it could be a coincidence, but it's not the first time I've had that happen with a similar context.

I think the example another person gave is almost just as creepy -- your friends influencing your own advertisements. That means that what your friends are searching for, private (embarrassing) things, could potentially leak over to you.

I'm pretty aware of the fact that if I go looking for socks, I'm going to start getting sock advertisements on almost every page I go with advertisements, on both Google and Facebook. I don't find that creepy, just dumb and ineffective because it usually starts well past the time I already bought the socks.
I find it more troubling that someone would think they needed any of these patterns to implement php sessions.

What you fail to grasp was the code was so completely unnecessarily complicated that it introduced a fuckton of subtle bugs that were difficult to track down. Things would look like they're working, and then reports of terribly broken behavior forcing an emergency rollback followed by days of trying to figure out what bullshit state things were in to repro the problem.

Worse, is so much of the code was some misguided attempt to future proof the code in ways that make no sense. When your code will never have more than a couple dozen simple sql queries you will never benefit from a polymorphic sql class intended to allow the swapping out of your sql backend with another vendor. It's easier just to rewrite that small piece of code when the time comes.

Just because you can implement fizzbuzz using a dozen design patterns doesn't mean the problem actually requires it.
For what reason exactly? What point are you proving?
you're implying that your revised analogy is better? If I order a sandwich I don't expect or want any tongs. To get them is suspicious.
I maintain an idea notebook in latex via Lyx and presently, while reading a math PDF I have to paste a screenshot in paint, clip there an equation, and paste the image in lyx. Very clumsy.
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> Things that use crypto are not crypto.

It's questionable that these thing even use "crypto". Cryptocurrencies are named so because they use "cryptographic signatures". While the modular arithmetic used here is very similar to that used in "encryption", "hidden writing" doesn't take place, as the name might suggest. Signatures are more of a dual concept to cryptography than actual cryptography.

(One more note: applying a hashing algorithm may be considered "one-way encryption". In areas where this is used for signatures, an argument might be made that this is cryptography).
> The main difference is that Bitcoin's consensus model is fully automated

Except when it isn't. For example, the DAO "hack" resulted in humans overriding the automation to roll back history to bail out certain "investors". Or all the bitcoin forks. Or the fact that bitcoin mining is largely done by about three mining groups in China.

So Bitcoin is "trustless", but really believing in bitcoin involves every bit as much trust (or dare I say, faith) as any other thing in your life does.

> Though I suppose "trust" can indeed be one factor humans use when making such a decision.

Watching the bitcoin/blockchain hype-train has shown to me that humans require trust to thrive. To thrive you need to trust that you have a stable government, that you eat breakfast cereal doesn't contain lead, that you can walk past 99.99999% of people without getting stabbed.

Take away trust and suddenly the world get massively more expensive. Transaction costs go through the roof. You have to personally inspect every aspect of your breakfast cereal maker and all their vendors (eg: the folks that made the fertilizer used to grow the grain (don't want toxic chemicals), the hygiene of the employees operating the production line (don't want piss in your cereal),etc ). If you don't rigorously verify everything, you'll get fucked and die. In bitcoin this happens all the time - you can't trust anything in bitcoin--you can't trust your wallet maker, the printer used to print a paper wallet, the exchange you use, the software you use, the OS you run on, you can't trust any of it. Any break in the system will result in total loss of your bitcoin (and then you'll be called a moron by other bagholders because you didn't follow all 231 "simple" steps required to secure bitcoin)...

In short, society can't exist without trust. Bitcoin and the blockchain are attempts to remove the need to trust each other.
The result is a cumbersome, non-scalable, deliberately inefficient design that still requires human trust to function. Which is why I personally think they are worthless technology in search of a problem. Every problem they try to solve still requires human trust, which renders their use pointless... Might as well just use git. It is far more efficient, can handle vastly more data, and doesn't require more electricity than many countries use in order to operate.
In my work with the Common Crawl, I agree with one thing the author states uncertainly: just download it.

Everyone tells you that you should compute statistics on the Common Crawl by running a distributed task across a lot of AWS machines, leaving the data out there on S3 and moving your code to it. But this only seems to be cost-effective if your development time is worth nothing and if you get it right the first time (hahaha of course you won't).

As long as you pay a reasonable rate for bandwidth, you should just buy a 5TB hard drive and download it. Now you have a lot less system-wrangling to do and you don't have to pay Amazon for your mistakes.
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That's metaphysics. Physically, there's no way to answer the question. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle
So it's "curated by the community" ? If so that sounds like "crowd-sourced" to me.

There's an opportunity to evaluate some of the content that's listed here, imbue it with more structure, and espouse opinions about what's worth watching and (crucially) what _isn't_. People might disagree with you, but they can curate their own list.
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Which is fine as far as semantics go, but in the context of this thread the first category doesn't exist unless you're under 13 and in the US, or subject to the GDPR, or a few other nooks and crannies of international laws.
I think your analogy would be more apt if you were spitting seeds onto public property, and the state took the trees. Or even further: you spit seeds (your data) onto Google's property while they gave you a free tram ride to the other side.
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"spooky action at distance" is a relativistic term, coined by Einstein.
The node police ... they randomly wipe out your server. Or randomly uninstall modules so your app does not work.
I love edbrowse! I keep a copy handy; it's the only web browser I know of that is distributed as a single statically-linked executable. Great for getting through wifi login portals before installing packages.

http://edbrowse.org/
But if they are maintaining "no automation" as a rule, CI should not really allowed.
I used to feel so nervous hugging someone I wasn't on a hugging basis with. And then one time I did and I'll never forget how at ease they felt afterwise.
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> What makes the software market so fascinating from an economic perspective is that the marginal cost of software is $0.

I see this claim a lot.

The marginal cost of software is actually its support cost﹡.

If some customers bought the product without a support contract, then the marginal cost of the good that is sold to those customers is the (non-zero) cost for support staff to categorize them and turn them away.

If none of the license includes support, then the vendor doesn't need support staff or activities, and the marginal cost is indeed zero.

Only some software products — especially among commercial software products — don't include any support at any price point.

﹡ Also marginal increases in distribution costs. Also costs that stem from marginally greater exposure to product liability issues and claims.
That's really not what parent poster was asking for...

"Pay $10 and follow onerous procedures to unfreeze" and "receive a notification on my phone when my file is opened" are really not in the same class of interaction.

I would like to be able to alert the company that just issued fraudulent credit account in my name, directly, that they have done a bad job at KYC, to tell them they have just interacted with a person who wasn't me ASAP after the event. The best I can get right now is to check with the credit report provided by my CC issuer once a week, and hope they get the signal, and that I read it on time.

A week later on-demand is still not anything like a notification on my phone when the file is opened. If this loop is tight enough, I might even be able to call the company who has been contacted by the phony applicant and get them to stop the process before any loss occurs!

By comparison I really have no desire to freeze my credit through the agencies, if it means I'll have to go through an extra hassle and pay a fee (and fwiw to some companies I really consider to be bad actors and not trustworthy at all) every time I move, or sign up for a utility account, or open a credit card.

It's not really the job of credit reporting agencies to verify identities, and just like that it's not my job to "own" the credit file. Even though it's ostensibly my personal information, that is actually the fact in question here, and next step in the dispute resolution process is up to the credit issuer to verify the debt (which they won't be able to do properly, if they have done a poor job at KYC.)
Hey this is cool! How come I haven't heard of <script type="module"> before.

I guess I should seriously subscribe to a newsletter or something.
Or better yet, $36.2M
My take, after living in NYC Airbnbs for around a year, is the effects are most dramatic in non-white areas. And it's not lower income people who are renting their place out on Airbnb; it's typically commercial renters and hipsters/professionals looking to supplement their income. So it certainly feels like the main effect is to accelerate gentrification.
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Or in the case of Chrome, that the extension didn't auto-install on a work device when they logged in.
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"Prevention of suicide with regulations aimed at restricting access to highly hazardous pesticides: a systematic review of the international evidence:

FINDINGS:
We identified 27 studies undertaken in 16 countries-five low-income or middle-income countries (Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Jordan and Sri Lanka), and 11 high-income countries (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, UK, and USA). Assessments largely focused on national bans of specific pesticides (12 studies of bans in six countries-Jordan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Greece [Crete], South Korea, and Taiwan) or sales restrictions (eight studies of restrictions in five countries- India, Denmark, Ireland, the UK and the USA). Only five studies used optimum analytical methods. National bans on commonly ingested pesticides in five of the six countries studied, including four studies using optimum analytical methods, were followed by reductions in pesticide suicides and, in three of these countries, falls in overall suicide mortality. Greece was the only country studied that did not show a decrease in pesticide suicide following a ban. There were no high-quality studies of restricting sales to people for occupational uses; four of the seven studies (in three of the five countries studied-India, Denmark, and the USA) showed sales restrictions were followed by decreases in pesticide suicides; one of the two studies investigating trends in overall suicide mortality reported a fall in deaths in Denmark, but there were also decreases in suicide deaths from other methods.

INTERPRETATION:
National bans on highly hazardous pesticides, which are commonly ingested in acts of self-poisoning, seem to be effective in reducing pesticide-specific and overall suicide rates. Evidence is less consistent for sales restrictions. A worldwide ban on the use of highly hazardous pesticides is likely to prevent tens of thousands of deaths every year."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28807587
Google has had performance guidelines for seveal years now: https://developers.google.com/speed/

Funnily enough, Google’s own AMP fails those guidelines when not preloaded and pre-rendered from Google’s own CDN: https://ferdychristant.com/amp-the-missing-controversy-3b424...

Google will continue doing what it does: caching and preloading whatever content it prefers (select publishers, select advertisers) and penalize everyone else even if they follow all of Google’s guidelines to a T.

Web Packages, no matter how well you disguise them as a web standard, will not solve that.
The answer is a curious no.

More precisely, the double slit experiment demonstrates that the possibility that it existed in one place at a particular point in time interacts with the possibility that it existed elsewhere, and the interaction affects where it can be possibly found.
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Isn't the word for hug in French "embrasse"?
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It's something I made up. I just fully extend my arm towards another person's shoulder and give it a brief rub/pat/shake with my open hand. The other comment where you rub shoulders and perform a tango dance move is definitely not what I had in mind.
They didn't? Next you'll be telling me the word dates from Middle English. :-)
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Cool! I think evidence-backed modeling is a really interesting idea.

As an unsolicited suggestion, I wonder if there's a way to emphasize numbers that are backed by evidence (links and maybe commentary?). Right now from a visual and informational standpoint all the numbers look like they're equally valid when in reality some of them could be based on reports published by Tinder and some could be just totally made up.
I don't really believe the government is capable of the foresight necessary for massive long-term (multi-generation) conspiracies, but stuff like this makes me feel like they might be doing one.

The goal of government and corporations is to grow larger. Ultimately they want to create a generation that looks to them for everything: financial assistance, security, housing, love, friendship, belonging, etc.

With that in mind, a decrease in physical affection is huge, making us scared of one another is step one. Divide the population into manageable individuals, break apart the family structure, erode self-reliance, squash independence, isolate us from one another and convince us that what we need can only be found through them, not eachother.
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On the other hand, Italians and French have more lax attitudes toward kissing acquaintances, particularly women, than we find appropriate here in the USA. Those little cheek kisses... even those are weird to us, unless we're intimate.
I didn't realize this was an American thing. I'd assume that people the world over hugged their relatives, at least.
Sure people are rational, even though you as an external actor may not agree with their motives. Even a schizophrenic is rational given what they have to work with.

I'm not sure what perfect information has to do with anything. It's impossible that perfect information could ever exist.
I really like what you're doing here. Two things that I would like as a user:
-ability to get updates (pref email) when new companies are added or companies I follow are updated
-timeline for the financials. are these annual revenues? monthly? etc.

Nice work on shipping!
You should hire a CFO as soon as you have product/market fit