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Lots of successful exits recently, many new millionaires and billionaires. Not a lot of causes changing things, at least not that I've been seeing.

I did see a homeless encampment get bulldozed the other day. The day before that I watched a Vietnam Vet take a dump on the sidewalk, we made awkward eye contact.

Not sure where all those billions are going but the "cause" does not seem to be moving forward.
He did not. But he DID repeatedly question the value propositions that Apple is based on, and produce a new value proposition that cannibalized the existing business.

Apple is now fundamentally following the course of milking the last value proposition that they were left with. There is a lot of profit to milk, but long term the industry will leave that value proposition behind and Apple will wind up one of the losers.
This is really cool. What will the pricing model be down the road? For instance, if I were to use these models and the cloud API to service a main feature of my application, what ballpark are you thinking of in terms of monthly cost?
Giving up 1% of performance every day will give you an app that is twice as slow.

I think its a trade-off between productivity and performance. This skillset used to be non-hardcore just a few years back, just like programming using ASM used to be a non-hardcore skillset before that. The middle ground could be managed languages like C# or Java.

>So much so that even behemoths like Microsoft write electron apps to get work done.

But getting work done != release code. Sure, everyone writes ugly hacks to get stuff done, but usually its either an internal tool or a temporary stop-gap.

>If anything, this shows some serious good qualities in the developer that he wants to get the product to multiple people and not ponder over perfection.

If you're competing with other mail clients that already exist (not identical clones, but more or less similar) , would you want to release something that works or something amazing that takes time, but also has a high chance of not succeeding? Depends on your philosophy. Some people choose the latter.
For me all I can think of when asked this question is all the topics I wish I could learn/study that are not specifically software / programming / information technology related.

Wood frame construction, new ways to run organizations (e.g. Holocracy etc.), how to build solar power systems, how water purification systems work (e.g. Hydrolysis or reverse osmosis), cooking and baking... so many more.

And, probably Tensorflow/Keras, Kubernetes, Angular, VR and maybe a deeper dive into Apache Spark. I didn't really ever get into blockchain. But lately I don't feel as motivated about the latest technology fad. Which is surprising even to me!

Original poster, why do you ask?
> The government has no overhead

Realz.
When did this turn from a fact to an allegation? Jesus they really are rewriting history.
The engineering manager role is not listed as an open position. How should one apply for it?
It’s foolish to believe that private enterprise is always more efficient than a government run program and it’s foolish to think that government is always more efficient. One should not live in a world of such extremes.

Sometimes government is the efficient solution. Sometimes private enterprise is.
7 months could be an eternal hell in his role.
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Why is the age of the expression relevant?
> If Medicaid pays $100 for a $500 procedure

On what planet would the special interest groups responsible for setting reimbursements make it less than the cost of delivery?

Let's try again:

> If a medical provider overcharges $100 for a $400 procedure

Ok now your position makes more sense. Debt recovery is a well-known problem and yes, providers write it off or sell the debt on.

> What other business exists where it's ok for people to get something and refuse to pay the bill?

Loans, contracts, anything covered by tort law really.
Errors from parsing the JSON should show up somewhere visible, as of now it looks like nothing happens unless you check the console.
There could be a genuine need for this sort of CSS "framework", for example mobile phones mess up font size quite a bit.

My site CSS has the following just to make sure that the mobile browser (from testing) doesn't make the font unreadable:

-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-moz-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
max-height: 999999px;

No doubt there are some breaking cases still!

But agreed, this is getting quite ridiculous...
No, it is not just a matter of which set of papers the company and the individual signed. I expect, and the government expects, that if someone works like an employee they are an employee (and have employee rights and payroll withholding, etc.)

Different agencies have different criteria, but the IRS considers several factors:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/independent-contract...

The agency [IRS] is more likely to classify as an independent contractor a worker who:

can earn a profit or suffer a loss from the activity
furnishes the tools and materials needed to do the work
is paid by the job
works for more than one company at a time
invests in equipment and facilities
pays his or her own business and traveling expenses
hires and pays assistants, and
sets his or her own working hours.

On the other hand, the IRS is more likely to classify as an employee a worker who:

can be fired at any time
is paid by the hour
receives instructions from the company
receives training from the company
works full time for the company
receives employee benefits
has the right to quit without incurring liability, and
provides services that are an integral part of the company’s day-to-day operations.
I can't believe I've never seen this before, just brilliant sir.
How exactly is Alexa different than Siri on iPhones? Why is one a surveillance speaker but the other isnt? I'm near my phone far more often than I am in my living room.
I'm with you. I used to love web development. These days I find it exhausting unless you limit yourself to a clear set of tools and ignore the rest, at least for a while.
Federation significantly complicates usability, and Signal's approach tends to prioritize usability. This is probably its most significant difference from other open source crypto tools.

Your argument is that Signal should erase its differences and become like other open source crypto tools. But as you pointed out, the tool you're asking for already exists! If Matrix is already doing it right, then what's the problem? Surely everyone will switch over to the superior infrastructure and not look back.

I have a different explanation: Signal is successful specifically because of controversial decisions like refusing federation, and the reason other tools do not enjoy the same success is because of the usability compromises they have made.
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That doesn't help. I'm on it, and I regularly get spam calls that are all conveniently from my area code and a similar exchange code.
Indeed, the iphone was coming with or without steve jobs. At the time almost everyone had a mobile phone, the only thing they didn't all have was internet / wifi / gps on their phone, and a capacitive/useful touch screen. When the iphone dropped it combined it all of this into a great product but nokia, samsung and others were all on their way with competing products that would have filled the void had the iphone not been there.
In situations with clear org structure the final decision between product disagreements can always be handled by the chain of command. When two product people disagree on a feature, the one higher up the org chart can then make the final call.
Feelings are saved because roles are clearly defined, and those with greater product knowledge have the authority they need to "make the call", making the product better overall.

For those stuck lower in the org chart, they can rest assured knowing the more good ideas they contribute, the quicker they will rise up the ranks in decision-making authority. When job mobility is also meritocratic and has efficient review processes, those middle managers should be correctly rewarded or punished for making good or bad calls.

The problem arises for confrontation more frequently in startups because org-structure is often very loose. It's seen as "undemocratic" to force an issue because of seniority, even if someone may have more experience in a topic. Startups generally the traditional business hierarchy as being inefficient for decision making, because many institutions also fail to properly reward decision-making, or punish bad managers.
You should consider refuting his argument instead of countering with a rant.

>Many more people in the US would have access to health care, including insurance for catastrophic events, if the state and federal governments stopped interfering in the supply side.
My mom got injured while hiking in a country with universal care. She hobbled to the next town, found a clinic, and got treated. Then she wanted to pay. First, the person at the clinic said: "What do you mean, you don't pay for health care." My mom explained that she was from another country. It turned out they didn't even have the means to take her money.

Treating a few foreigners for free might actually be cheaper than setting up a billing system.
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Anyone have experience with mosquito yard treatments? I'm in the southeast and have a good-sized garden, so I don't want to treat with anything which would harm pollinators. I've used the Terminix AllClear Bait and Kill spray the past couple years, and there's several studies which support the efficacy of its patented ATSB ingredient. The problem is it's only available to consumers in the small spray cans, which run $15 for a 2-pack. The concentrate is only available to Terminix exterminators and municipalities. There are other natural methods, but they mainly rely on deterrence rather than elimination.
I have this, but recently "local" spam callers have been getting through a lot more. I don't know if they're spoofing or buying up blocks of numbers but most of them have "valid" caller ids in Hiya.
> How do lawmakers in the USA convince people that this is acceptable?

When comparing different health care systems there are dozens, probably even hundreds, of points they can be compared on.

If a US politician or party advocating universal, affordable, effective healthcare uses Australia, or Canada, or the UK, or Germany, or any other specific system as a model, or even just as an example to compare to, their opponents can find for that specific system something that it does not handle as well as the US currently does. They use those to convince their constituents that the current US system is better than the proposed replacement.

If the politician advocating change does not reference specific other systems, then their opponents say they are pushing for a government takeover of healthcare using an untried, untested system based just on theory and speculation.

Another thing they like to do is label every other system as "socialized medicine", and paint a picture of adopting such a system meaning we will have to go to government assigned doctors who work in government owned hospitals and deal with a giant, intrusive, inefficient bureaucracy for every medical thing we do no matter how minor.
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It is useful to talk about both inefficiency (the thing you point out) and exploitability (the ability for any individual actor to make useful amounts of money out of fixing the inefficiency.)

Unless an area is both inefficient and exploitable, it is plausible that it will go unfixed for a long time.

When you start viewing it in those terms, you find obvious inefficiencies everywhere.
Hey maybe some other parts of the world need populating too. This obsession with location location location is quaint to me in the age of telecom. Maybe the Bay Area is just Done. It'll turn into every other Rich Person Town and the people who need to get real s* done will go somewhere else.

Legacy industry is no excuse to keep cramming more people onto a tiny peninsula in California. It sucks for people in the middle and lower involved right now but honestly I encourage them to move at all costs.

The writing is on the wall.
Ah, that was the thing I was after. Thanks.
How big are the bribes compared to co-pays or ER bills in the US?
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The thing is, Kara almost certainly has clearly articulated, rational, objective arguments for the design decision in question. If she didn't, she wouldn't be making the decision in the first place. (If she's prone to making decisions willy-nilly with no idea why they're being made, that's a different issue.)

So from Kara's point of view, you're getting just as emotional and defensive about, and ignoring clearly articulated, rational, objective arguments for, the decision as you claim she is. Which is the point of the article - if someone goes into a discussion assuming they are the only one who is "objectively correct", they've already failed.

I've used the method outlined in the article very often in my career and it almost always works. Often it turns out I was right and we shouldn't have done X - but sometimes it turns out that Kara knew something I didn't, and X worked out way better than I expected.
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If other laws exist that clash with GDPR, those laws take precedence. This question most often comes up specifically with regards to payments and finance. If a law requires you to retain payment/accounting information for three years, you must keep that info for three years, because this is addressed by a more specific law than GDPR.
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Or just use the fallback, and code once instead of twice.
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> It’s easy to read, you can lie down on the couch and enjoy it

No, it isn’t. It’s an awesome book. But it presents diagram after diagram of CPU internals and it would require a huge amount of stamina to get through them. You cannot just turn the pages; the entire point of the book is understanding how these components work in detail. It might be a good book to keep in a nuclear bunker to help rebuild civilization though.
Because other companies that spend a lot on research actually publish a lot of papers for other colleagues in the industry to read.

The fact that Apple rarely publishes research is part of the problem, because it’s relationship with scientific community is unbalanced and more of a taker than a giver.
AT&T offers an app called Call Protect that flags and silences a lot of spam calls. Not perfect, but I’ve been using it for about six months and am very happy with it.

https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM11477...
I got into the habit of using a separate password for each site I use, except for the throwaway sites.

I have a method I use regardless if 2fa is an option or not.

I have a fairly secure password that I have memorized. Then for each site I pick something about it that I can remember to add on to the password.

For example if my current ebay password is: Pa$$w0rd the new one would be: Pa$$w0rdEb or EbPa$$w0rd
Amazon would be: Pa$$w0rdam

That has helped a few people I know keep separate passwords for each site without having to go through a password manager. YMMV of course.

The way I look at it is if the sites DB gets dumped, at least the scripts will fail using the password on other sites, even if it's not the most secure password.

You're point about the phishing e-mails is spot on though. No amount of secure passwords will stop that
Thanks for Travis.

It's great and it's is really useful, at least for our open sources project.
>The Washington Post reported earlier that Koum is exiting the company after clashing with Facebook over strategy

I think it's a very important point to make that a large part of the strategy that was being debated was weakening the encryption. [0]

At least as far as I'm concerned, that is one of the more important parts of the story that I don't feel is being discussed enough, or in cases of articles like this, entirely glossed over.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/hours...
I can understand that perspective.

But are you really treated more humanely in Europe? Instead of a cash cow, you're a statistical number that determines where you will get placed in the queue and how long you'll wait. In the US, you at least have the potential for autonomy to pay the best doctor you can find you to treat you as soon as possible. That autonomy (or illusion thereof if you're a cynic) is a core component of the American identity. That feels more human to me.

However, I do agree spending is completely out of control. A big reason is because Americans are extremely unhealthy. Many are obese, don't exercise, and eat like shit. I think those people should be punished with large insurance premiums, instead of being treated equally to someone who proactively takes care of their health and has a higher chance of long-term survival. What's left of the insurance market does still respond to those incentives. There's some fits and starts with this in insurance (e.g. step trackers) but these are values and habits that need to be instilled in people from youth. That is an area I can see the state stepping in, and something they're better equipped to handle than a complex healthcare system.

Genetic diseases are a different case, and should be treated differently. There is a huge opportunity for prevention through genetics, but everyone raises a stink because of the "eugenics" bogeyman. This is an area where I agree with the transhumanist types in that we should really be taking a close look at our genetics and taking a scientific approach to improving them for longevity. I'd love to see a Manhattan Project for life extension.

The main problem I see with universal healthcare, besides the stupid communistic utopianism, is that it doesn't really fix the underlying problems with the incentive structure. I think we could agree that the incentive structure should revolve around proactive physical fitness and the early prediction and prevention of disease, not pills and palliative care. From my perspective, it looks like European governments are struggling and failing with their systems. They're slow to treat people and are not innovating in medicine at a high level. Yes, corporations want to extract wealth from individuals with high prices but so do government agencies with high taxes. And governments have much less incentive to innovate; they tend to ossify.

My point is, Americans have other options other than universal healthcare. I think we should not settle for the European-style socialist system because it relies on a religious holdover manifest in a secular world: that if we treat everyone equally we'll all be magically saved. Instead, Americans should draw from our founding principals of individual autonomy and manifest destiny to form a healthcare system that embodies our ideal future.
I guess it does work in that it makes society more efficient by doing it's best to get rid of the health sprawl - the sickly, poor, and old.
Because it's the 1950s, and it must be someone calling from the local exchange, probably the butcher's down the street at KLondike-0130...
Network Engineer here as well - I support one of the world's largest enterprise organizations (although my area of 'expertise' is pretty far down the stack - somewhere between the internet and the WAN circuits) - I can see no personal use for a 400 GbE port on anything.

As far as my organization goes, there will always be a bottleneck somewhere else (speaking location to location across the WAN).

The only applications I could see this being useful would be maybe huge ISP interconnects or maybe some big players in the video streaming world. That doesn't mean that future-proofing is a bad thing - of course cost will probably be a very large concern in the case of 400GbE...I see a lot of 40 gig ports that go completely unused, personally.
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No, but the fact that it results in demonstrably better outcomes in pretty much every case does.
I would say yes. I've read where the UK does this as do other countries. Of course, any mass migration for free health care would bankrupt us, so we would need some sort of protection against that.
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> In the long-term, it's in the private interest of those having sustainable companies to have a broad base of educated and healthy workers to employ.

Immigration affects this calculation significantly.

If your long game is to be an attractive destination to healthy educated immigrants, investing in the "land of opportunities" mythology has better ROI than investing in universal healthcare.
If you go dig into my comment history I have several comments where I praise Richard Stalman and his commitment to open source. He is the zealot (and I use that word with both positive and negative connotations) that open source needs.

But I have to ask what ARE you running then? Intel? AMD? What about your phone?

If your going to make this argument in this way you better have a Stalman like response. If you are running closed source in your stack then your argument is selective.
My current experience with just about any cashierless option at a grocery or department store is far from a minor convenience, it's almost entirely an inconvenience. I now get to do what I did over 20 years ago and bag groceries, except then I was paid for it.

However, it allows the store to place one minimum wage employee over multiple lanes versus having to have one per lane (or even two if it was like the grocery store when I grew up that actually had backers AND checkers).

So, like many innovations, it adds little to no convenience but is a very effective way of cutting labor costs. By Grabthar's Hammer... what a savings.