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That's very normal in a lot of places. If I commuted daily into Boston from the western suburbs where I live (I don't actually work in the city), I'd be $380 for a monthly rail pass, another $60 or so for daily parking, and another $75/month if I needed to use the subway to get from the train station to an office.
Taking my car in for maintenance requires time as well. For most things I'm time ahead doing my own work. I get parts while doing a different errand, so it is comparing time of driving to the mechanic, waiting for the shuttle, the drive to work, and then the reverse on the way home.

Of course I already have nearly all the tools (except every car needs some special tool, so add $15 one time).
A short summary of China's Belt and Road Initiative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXROXiIpvQ
(6 min)
When I first started running www.ibm.com in 1994 the only realistic browser options were Viola and Mosaic. IBM WebExplorer (OS/2 only at first) showed up and was fairly good but quickly lost out to the Netscape betas. While I was aware of Spyglass I can't remember ever using it.

When MSIE first came out I was explicitly prohibited from using it (typical of IBM at the time). Netscape gets slagged for becoming bloatware but the initial versions were fairly decent and cross–platform. IBM WebExplorer was genuinely not too bad, but it became a victim of IBM internal politics and died a slow death of neglect.

True tidbit which I have no public sources to cite: IBM WebExplorer was the first browser to support scripting, albeit in Rexx, IIRC a couple of months before LiveScript came to Netscape. IBM, in its wisdom, decided not to release that browser, I believe out of concern it might undercut the market for Lotus Notes.
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More broadly, taking on debt to build the infrastructure needed to level up industrial capabilities isn't exploitation. Building better energy grids, transportation, and communication infrastructure is expensive. It's fundamentally no different than software startups taking on fundraising rounds to enable growth. As long as the leadership isn't irresponsible about it, there's nothing wrong with it and it should easily pay for itself.

The important thing for debt-for-infrastructure planning is to keep corruption manageable, so you don't wind up borrowing to build boondoggles that are for the personal enrichment of the the well-connected rather than the good of the country.

At any rate, China is no more predatory in this regard than the IMF, the World Bank, or other western financial institutions. They have a surplus of capital and need to invest it somewhere. The goal is not imperialist, but rather capitalist.
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None of what you just said made sense.
Let's have a nuanced conversation about this. The article suggests that Ethiopia may be trying to position itself as a destination for manufacturing. In today's global economy, regardless of value judgments about its merits, less developed countries have an opportunity because they can offer much lower labor costs than highly-developed states. However, structural changes that result from large-scale gainful employment cause costs to rise over time, as a middle class emerges, people place themselves into global context, and begin to ponder whether they can realistically achieve something better. This is happening in China today.

The continent of Africa remains the last frontier in outsourcing manufacturing, but right now it's not competitive: transport costs are high, there are issues with utilities, capricious governments, and no established concentration of expertise. The Chinese involvement is working hard on improving these for other reasons, but ironically it may enable Ethiopia to begin to take on roles that China has now in the global supply chain. It may also be deliberate: during a gold rush, most money was made by those who enabled the prospectors, not the prospectors themselves.
i disagree for exactly the reasons you listed. i don't want to charge it myself, i don't want to lug it around or worry about it's security once i'm at my destination. i'm paying for the ability to leave it anywhere.
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Yes, of course, but they're not part of government. They're a company...

These Kafka-esque arguments are way over the top when applied to a private, profit seeking organization.
You are describing the ideal. But for some reason all that companies can come up with are closed "ecosystems" where systems work well with each other as long as you buy everything from the same manufacturer. Interoperability and open standards seem to be in no companies' interest. Where is that new generation of companies going to come from?
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It only "helps" if you want to dismiss the horrific consequences of the system because they make you uncomfortable.
Ye well maybe it's a domain thing. I do driveline programming for cars.

As soVeryTired wrote "In general I find Kalman filters a little suspect where the underlying dynamics of the system can change over time, and when the physical process that gives rise to the dynamics isn't known."

This maybe applies in a less degree to radars etc?

In general we use only one sensor source at a time for eg. rpm rather then fusing them. If one is obvously off just select another. Maybe it's rather about how exact you need the estimate to be.
This is significant - it's not just that gyms want memberships from people who forget they're paying or get locked in, it's that they want low occupancy.

If only 1% of your members want to use a squat rack at peak hours, you need gear and space for one rack per 100 members. But if 10% of your members are in squatting at noon on Saturday, you have 10x the capital and maintenance costs. And that's even before hardcore members create other costs like wanting unusual equipment most people won't use.

The obvious answer is pricing discrimination - people who work out more care enough to pay more. But it's hard for one gym to sell tiered access to facilities, plus the different groups often don't want to work out together. Hence, Planet Fitness.

It's hard for me to see what MoviePass could do in this vein. They have the same low-occupancy objective, but much less consumer optimism (who makes a New Year's Resolution to see more movies?) and much less ability to shape behavior; either you want to see a movie or you don't. The only option I can think of is horizontal integration - gyms target either high- or low-use consumers with open access, but MoviePass can more easily sell "x visits per month" for a range of X.
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>> The exception is the regex benchmark, which has little to do with the languages and everything to do with the regex library used by the language.

Perhaps that's "a truth" about regex :-)

>> If the dynamic scripting languages were required to…

Then we wouldn't be using them as scripting languages!
But imagine someone sitting there in 1804 Wales, looking at the first steam train, saying "slow down buddy you haven't actually changed anything yet". It seems like there's a sense in which this is short-sighted.
I imagine most or almost all of those jobs are going to chinese firms and citizens
It _is_ append only. But doesn’t use flat files. The main storage files have 2 different immutable btrees to find documents (by id and by sequence num). And it does have mvcc for both storage and secondary indexes. Internally it has transactions but they aren’t exposed to the user, as multi document transactions don’t make sense for the replicated document model.
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> if you tell them it's an emergency, they'll stay on the phone with you until the matter is resolved.

That seems like a terrible idea. How many times has someone entered a "CRITICAL URGENT" support ticket regarding not being able to change their background image, or being blocked from downloading a game or something?
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While "permanent" covers one aspect of this requirement, I would add that "You can't or shouldn't trust a database to an otherwise trusted authority."
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And the point of this reference to MS and Explorer is...? I don't see how it relates to Google and search at all.
We don't have spacecraft? We never will? It's recently been found that Europa sprays out detectable water to great distances, and that traces of amino acid would be preserved at such temperatures. So we may have one answer re life soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/14/europa-moon-...

If you're assuming that life from, say, Europa, even if we found it, and it was the point of origin for octopi, would have altered so much as to have no genetic or chemical similarity to octopi now, I have no idea what your evidence is for that. To the contrary, there are plenty of very highly evolutionarily conserved proteins, hormones, etc - melatonin is one (it was originally an antioxidant for one-celled creatures.)

Refusing to entertain hypotheses by reason of expense isn't science.
I’m not sure how this is related to its parent comment thread, but in any case I agree with it, and would view this as supporting my point.

In my experience, a big lukewarm codebase is exceedingly rare, and often gets that way because there was premature optimization in the form of assuming the project had to be written in this or that language way back at the beginning, without there ever having been a prototype stage when multiple implementation languages were actually tested. And even given that, it takes a special kind of alignment of the stars for the usage patterns, resource limits, and language tools to all work out properly for a system with few hotspots.

But regardless, I do agree there are plenty of cases when it can be the right choice to presume a need to write the whole thing in C/C++.

Examples become irrelevant though when they try to do a horse race comparison of a contrived, unoptimized Python example with a C/C++ example that would be more optimal out of the box just due to intended differences in the languages. Because these examples are exactly like targeted hotspot optimization, which would be the case when Python augmented with Cython/numba is a stronger contender.
> Grandparent gave a ton of reasons, though, why this situation is particularly implausible. Why exactly do you disagree?

None of grandparent's reasons are smoking guns, they're just "things that would fit the conspiracy if it was a conspiracy". The probability that it's fake given those reasons isn't high enough (like by Bayes' Rule) to deem the whole story "definitely implausible".

> "I do not know why Google has a scorched-earth policy when it comes to this kind of stuff, but I fucked up and our boss is looking to migrate away from Google even though we just recently signed on not too long ago."

That seems like something you would definitely overhear your boss talking about if you also heard that they were trying furiously to contact Google.

The best reason it's maybe a conspiracy is that Google would be hesitant to "ban a whole company", but who knows, maybe if the perceived ToS violation appears severe enough (they didn't know OP's persistent piracy was a joke) Google has zero tolerance.
I really think if you combine a user co-op with access to code(or other digital assets) only for co-op members you could really change the game when it comes to technology.
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Your comment says most of what is worth considering.
I'm surprised how little skepticism there is about posts like these. A month earlier the user posted a comment about a mortar round in the same group, and posted a video about a security prank. Not saying it's fake, but it's far from obviously true.
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I signed up for MoviePass 5 months ago, thinking I'd be more likely to go watch movies in a theater if it "doesn't cost anything" to go. Sadly, that's not been the case for me. I haven't been to the theater once, so I've basically wasted $50.

Time to cancel MoviePass, and I guess also time to admit that I just don't care that much about seeing movies on the big screen.
I have a milder form of this hallucination every few months or so. Certain thought patterns related to "arbitrariness" trigger it, for example asking why earth has the continents it does, a question to which there is no satisfying answer.
Hi there,

Could you give me some details on what we've done to make you feel like a second-class citizen? I'm sorry if we've made you feel that way, it certainly isn't our intent but clearly we've done something that hasn't sat well with you.

Licenses aren't going away and we are definitely offering them for version 7. There are a variety of new features that both license and subscription users will see in version 7 as well.

The command line tool was made possible because our server component was written in Go and so we had a great deal of the work done as the command line tool is also written in Go. So there's a great deal of shared code there.

The original intent of the CLI was to allow administrators to automate the creation and deletion of users and vaults. They do this type of stuff all the time and having a tool accessible to them for this purpose was a goal of ours. It has the ability alter items and all that but I think for the most part it's used as an admin tool more than anything. Very little of this applies to the way the standalone vaults work.

Either way, I'd love to understand more about what we did to wrong you so I can pass that information along to the teams that need to see it.

Thanks,

Kyle

AgileBits
Just a reminder that authors have to pay around $800-1000 to publish an article. Then readers have to pay to read the article.

And you have to submit your work edited and almost ready to print, it's not like they are doing heavy work there either. I remember one time I submitted an image as SVG but they wanted EPS and asked me to do the conversion. Yes, that oneliner with "convert" was enough.
After taking a step backwards however then you're just exploiting/taking advantage of vulnerable people looking for help and using that to manipulate them into giving you money.

And not doing that would be a case of "leaving money on the table" - a cardinal sin.
>> obvious optimizations (like arenas) are prohibited

No, not prohibited.

Which widely-used third-party Go library do you suggest people use to implement Go binary-trees programs?
This isn't colonialism.
Haskell on web, Android, iOS, desktop (and shared code with the server of course) with https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-platform

It's pretty hard to beat the productivity of one codebase for every platform with a powerful type system catching errors across every part of system.
If this is true AWS either demands more or pays them more because AWS high tier support vs GCloud "platinum" support is a joke.

I can usually get even a very hairy ticket resolved on AWS in a manner of hours, every gcloud ticket we open takes days. Sure the respond in 24 hours but it's usually just a response that says "We'll get back to you eventually". If google actually wants to compete in cloud services they need to step up their game.
Only things from @apple.com in mozilla-central are a few commits from the auto-syncing of web-platform-tests ( https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests ), and a few patches from code shared with WebKit where patches have been copied over. So, uh, no direct contributions.
The company is dead and almost all the code has been rewritten. Is it your grandfather's axe if you've replaced both the blade and the handle?

At least about:mozilla still works.
Oh, absolutely; I can definitely feel the impact of the 12-15 l/100km ;) But since it's Poland, like seemingly half of the cars here this one too was converted into an LPG+Gas hybrid, halving the fuel costs.
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The problem with the security of containers doesn't have much to do with mandatory access control and similar mechanisms: it lies with the fact that you get a huge pile of software, a whole operating system to inspect, whereas the software in question is just a tiny bit of it. You need to trust the people who created the app as being competent enough to crate the app without errors, but also trust that they made no mistake in configuring the whole rest of the system that you would normally set up yourself. Having AppArmor/SELinux or not doesn't change much here as practically anything can be broken, and your task as a security officer working for a company using Docker images is an order of magnitude more difficult.
Sorry, I don't see what your point is. MoviePass nor the theaters require you to buy a monthly subscription. Go pay for one movie, and be done with it. If you're dumb enough to buy into subscriptions and not use it, that's your issue. This isn't anything new anyhow, Netflix makes money off of people never returning movies for a year.
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How do you like using Expo? Any serious drawbacks?
Microsoft tied MSIE to Windows distribution, if you wanted to distribute Windows with your PCs you had to agree to Microsoft's terms. In some cases you had to pay Microsoft for a Windows license regardless of whether or not you had installed Windows on the PC.

I concede I could be wrong but I do not believe Google Chrome ships with Windows or OS X.

Would Google be as big as it is today? I have no idea, but the reason Google is Google has less to do with Microsoft's antitrust case than with dozens of previous commercial search engines failing to compete with them. By the time the MSFT antitrust case was resolved there was no meaningful competition to Microsoft on PCs and Netscape was winding down into the Mozilla project.
The game is much older than Milton Bradley's version (which I assume you're referring to) and has gone by several different names - including "Battleships". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(game)#History
"They Live" is a cheesy sci-fi movie on this topic that should be mandatory viewing.
12000 miles in 6 years is 2000 miles a year, not 500.
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"There is an all-out, 24/7 war on your brain."

And the sad part is that a lot of our brightest people work at Google, Facebook and others to win that war for the seducers.
We have platinum support for gcloud, it's terrible.
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How is that terrifying? I can access the web, use all the base protocols (email, etc) and store all my documents without having to rely upon Google. If I don't like/trust Google, I can easily migrate away. And, if enough people don't like it to make this "Kafka-esque nightmare" more than hyperbole, then the laws of private organizations will catch up and Google will either shape up or be no more.

This is almost the polar opposite of Kafka-esque.
That depends. 14 years ago I bought a brand new car. Even though I get 45mpg (real, EPA says I should get 41 highway), I've still spent more on fuel over the last 250,000 miles than everything else combined.
I repeated vimtutor for a few days in a row trying to following this nice Vim learning plan [1] I saw on HN and I gave up trying to switch to Vim as my main text editor after that. Even though I knew how to perform most of the basic operations, the fact I had to switch to normal mode to do anything more complex than editing of the current line felt just too unusual to me. I mean, I'm comfortable editing files on remote servers in Vim now but I don't think I'd ever be considerably more productive in Vim than in IntelliJ/Sublime.

[1] https://medium.com/actualize-network/how-to-learn-vim-a-four...
If they've got more bandwidth than your connection you're going to need to go upstream to the network provider and work with them. Alternately, find a hosting provider that includes DDoS protection, or use something like Cloudflare in front of your site/API.

Resources for learning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17063924
Isn't that exactly why we should expect a solution from them? Google knows first-hand why some leaders are opposed to remote work, and stands to make a lot of money if they can overcome it.
Does the brain store information in discrete or analog form?
Near $0. The problem isn't really the monthly cost (heck another $20/month wouldn't be noticeable). The problem is the vendor onboarding process for an infrastructure specific vendor.

Initial onboarding can take 20 to 50 hours of effort from an expensive resource. Plus, routine reviews which would alone cost more than I'd be willing to pay for such a service.
Okay, but you can expect a car to last upwards of 10 and you own it. If you decide you want to drive down the coast, you can do just that. I think services like this are way overhyped and wouldn't exist if they saved you money.
Note: I could be wrong, but I believe LiveScript was what JavaScript was initially called. I realize there's something now called LiveScript which is completely unrelated.
Who is talking about jailing, the guy just got a fine. It was pretty big (still less than one paycheck, no?), but if that is the worst case you can find, I think you can make fun of anything.

And fwiw I do think Europe is oversensitive about Nazis-related stuff. But for good reasons.
As opposed to those free roads that appear magically out of thin air!
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