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Reason is slave to the passions. Musk sells a mirage that you can be reasonable without ever having to examine your passions. Who doesn't love driving? We just want to be told a lullabye that driving can still be the right thing to do. Musk is there for you. Musk and his little man.
>I suggest you learn something about history.

>you are a US citizen and you clearly know very little

Yet, you've said very little outside of hand-waving about how evil America is and co-signing to deep-state conspiracy theories that plainly make no sense to even the casual observer. But, you love your country, right?

If you really understood history, then you'd know that invoking it is not on the side of the arguments you're making.

You've then gone on to offer a near child-like version of the world wherein the U.S. operates in a magical vacuum and liberal democracy is some guaranteed default mode that simply exists, irrespective of what the rest of the world does. We simply withdraw from the global world stage and the world order just remains as-is, right? Or perhaps you have a problem with the current world order?

And, once the space begins to shrink for the ideal of liberal democracy, how does America fare? OTOH, I can think of some nations that will fare quite well. Can you? If, so, what affect has the amplification of their ideologies across the world vs those of the U.S.?

>People like yourself who think that any of our serious problems are caused by foreign actors are truly delusional and the reason that our country is in such bad shape

This is just mind-numbing and I don't really know where to start. Let's just keep it simple and say that both categories of things can represent really, really big problems that require our attention.

No one is claiming that America is perfect. We have miles to go and no right-thinking American agrees with everything we have ever done. But, those who love our country understand that it is the ideals that we must protect and perfect. Yet, here you are suggesting that we must instead decide between addressing, say, a.) wealth disparity in our country and b.) allowing our democracy to be undermined by hostile adversaries while reducing our global footprint to our own borders.

Please keep your MAGA-style faux uber-nationalism that rests on an infantile view of the way the world works and feigns patriotism, while it surreptitiously promotes the interests of other nations above our own.

You see, your comments reveal that either you have been brainwashed and understand well what you are promoting; or you have absolutely no idea what you're on about and you're utterly lacking in the historical context and logical capacity required to reason about it.

So, just know that any thinking person can see this quite clearly, "Stanislov".
Or, more relevantly, why immigrants from Guatemala and Honduras are increasingly coming to the U.S.
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There is actually a lot to be said for the subtle art of not giving a f*ck!
What, is it being pulled by magical unicorns, while you blissfully float on a cloud of unicorn farts?

Eh, no, it's a car. Not particularly great or luxurious at that.
How many short vs. Tall people have crypto?

Green eyes vs. blue?

Nice try with race baiting and bringing identity politics into this.

Next thing you know, you will be advocating stealing people's bitcoin and property at gunpoint to redistribute to <insert current in-vogue identity class here>

It's what the Russians did and it's how the Communists divide the people: turning people against each other to make them more dependent on politicians and the loving gentle glove of the state (which had an iron fist inside)
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When I think the human race cannot sink any lower, then I am brought back to reality.
If I knew how, I'd be a billionaire myself :-)
> - Because of economic opportunity - I could build tools that earn a living for me, so my earnings are not dependent on my work hours (a very VERY attractive feature for women).

Perhaps which is why developing countries like India has much more women engineers than rich developed countries? Once women can pursue their passion and have reasonable incomes, programming goes way down the list?

> Show everyone the basics and let them taste the opportunity it presents in a required K-12 class.

Is programming NOT a required class during high school anywhere in a developing/developed country? I got out of school a decade ago and programming was a part of "IT" class, which was required. From what I hear, now they're putting even more programming into curriculum and introducing it at earlier age.
Welcome the the real world! ;)

> You aren't good enough to land a job in one of the cool companies you admire.

Cool companies are often overrated. Working there can be a grind just like everywhere else.

> You look back to all the money spent helping your family (who is poor and live in a developing country).

I understand this very well. But you will be of no use to them if you are dangling from the end of a rope or living under a hedge. Own oxygen mask first. I see this a lot in the filipino community here in UK. I believe the solution to this is you have a set amount each month that goes to you savings - that money just doesn't exist - not even to you. It has to be like you never earned it. That becomes your critical savings. You then have another fixed amount each month that goes to the family slush fund. I don't know of any other way. You have to drawn the line somewhere.

First things first.

1) You have to make the best of your current job. Talk to the other engineers and find out what they love about the job. Make new friends at work. Talk to people about cool tech or outside of work activities. Put yourself out there a bit more. Find a new tool that gets you enthusiastic again. Watch a few videos that inspire you.

2) Plan your weekends. You mention family. See your family on the weekends. Take up a new hobby that will get you out in the fresh air - long distance walking is an awesome hobby (for example https://www.ldwa.org.uk) and you can do it alone or preferably with some guys from work, or other friends.

3) You are probably a bit depressed. Maybe discuss with your doctor.

4) These depressive cycles tend to be self-reinforcing. You need to break out of the negative thought patterns - CBT is very, very useful for helping with that. I use CBT all the time now - even though I'm not depressed as such. It's actually fun.

5) I wouldn't worry about side projects if you are pushed for time. Side projects can add a bit of stress - oh I really need to write that blog post. Just let it go and, for now, focus on getting your job back on track as that's what pays the bills. It seems like you are putting quite a bit of pressure on yourself.

6) Easier said than done but a quick mental list before you sleep of the things you are grateful for can help.

Good luck!
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That's not paranoia, it's realism. Also this everyone is against us tactic is a very powerful management stick. Sir Alex Ferguson was a master of using it.
In a world where 8 people have more money than the bottom 3 BILLION people combined.

You can blame the poor for surviving...or blame the rich for the greed that forces people to do this to survive.
Related:

http://iam.tj/prototype/guides/boot/

There's something to be said for flow charts when trying to explain a complex topic such as the boot process.
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When you are in business asking your partners to pay a bit of attention and not be willfully ignorant - is not misinformation, this is a business standard that should be encouraged.

I think folks like you confuse something not having a law against it as something that prevents honest businesses from doing anything about the issue. That is misinformation.

I'll let this lie here because you seem both unwilling to consider the source of the container, but unwilling to consider this a useful or meaningful business standard.
Good performance is not surprising, it's a statically compiled language.
>Now tell me, what institution is going to make a holder of cryptocurrency 'whole' again if something goes wrong with their wallet or the block-chain itself?

There will be crypto lending banks and multi-sig custodial services to fill that use case.

The code and math is open source and has been available for a decade.

Unbelievable how HN has tech dinosaurs that can't be bothered to check all the open source implementations available for the particular problem/use csse they are seeking to solve. That is so 2009.
Citizen is doing things around this [1]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sp0n.citizen&h...
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> but people enjoying your product (and obviously helping to promote it)? WTF.

The usual rationale is that walkthroughs / let's play videos show enough of the game that people may opt to just watch the video, instead of playing the game itself.

I can sort of understand this position when it comes to videos that e.g. show the entire single-player campaign with zero commentary. But I'm not convinced that people opting for such videos would have bought the game if the walkthroughs were not available.
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Not yet, I guess?
There's something really sad about all the people who are claiming that Musk has developed deep psychological problems in recent months.

Do they really think these claims are going to stop people from buying his cars, or stop big companies from hiring SpaceX to launch their satellites into orbit? Or that it will cause the megafactory to be a total failure?

I think what we are seeing here is speculators who have bet deeply on Tesla's stock crashing and are about to be wiped out. They are desperately trying anything they can to undermine the company, even though they know it is very unlikely to succeed.

To those who are so critical of Musk I ask, what is your prediction about how the company will be doing in 6 months or a year? And give us some specific reasons, not just some vague claims about Musk's mental state.
This is a fairly big abstraction, but we live in a world system that's based on discounting unseen externalities; sweeping the hurt under the rug, so to speak. The world-system started with the theft of the American continent and perpetual genocide of the natives, continued with the mass industrialized kidnapping from Africa, and persists today in a cyberpunk, abstracted form that some call "capitalism." There isn't any real name for what we have, the name will come from the next world system, if there is one, a world system where the collective genius of humanity will be free from the constraints of nation, money, gender......
It is precisely because we cannot trust the US government, that those of us still living outside of the purview of the 5-eyes nations are utterly unwilling to put up with the heinous powers granted the NSA, which services its 'customers' with near-impunity and utter lack of civil oversight. If you thought UFC is bad (it was) and if it is the only example you know, consider what the NSA is currently capable of doing, with regards to corporate espionage, and who it works for ...
What if it's a lot more performant? It's of course always a risk to incorporate another language, but sometimes performance is a critical feature, yet you have no time or inclination to write (say) low-level GPU code by hand. Futhark is more of an alternative to CUDA or OpenCL than to high-level languages.

Also, there is the important property that Futhark programs tend to be fairly small, and are semantically close to ordinary functional programming. Thus, even in a worst case situation where the Futhark compiler is abandoned, it is a reasonable task to simply rewrite all the code in another high-level language.
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Terraform modules are loaded from local fs, github, or central tf registry - much like pip or npm in spirit.
I really don't understand why you're comparing his diction to Trump's when lots of proficient orators use the same kind of language... So... yeah...
I don't agree that that's the discussion. The discussion is the knob that ranges from "inconvenient" to "occasionally deadly"

Imagine being dead because drivers were tired of their overly cautious vehicles.
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Didn't object to that!
A brazilian startup - Zaply - launched a new price comparison website that finds the best price for e-grocery shopping baskets, comparing many e-commerce websites at the same time. Expected to launch in the US in the coming months.
Not to nitpick because you are spot on but I think you need to go back to at least the D'Arcy Concession to understand the modern Middle East.
It's also interesting to note that not too long ago, pink was considered a masculine colour.
Same here; I don't think I've ever even read a Facebook post in my life[0], and I see less and less reason why I would ever want to.

0: Admittedly, NoScript helps a lot with this.
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The chain we had in ${BIGCORP}:

Programmers: read-write to repository

Staging team: read-only on repository, read-write to test servers and staging zone

Deployment team: read-only on repository and staging zone, read-write to production

It wouldn't prevent malicious code going out but at least would require a chain of cooperation between employees, which would be harder to achieve.
Just wrote this 3 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17325760
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Yeah, it’s different this time. :)
No, the logic is that just calling something a conspiracy theory doesn't make it any less true. The term "conspiracy theory" has been socially engineered to automatically produce an 'ok, no need to think about it any more then' reaction, which is precisely the opposite of what needs to be done, in many cases, when enough evidence is gathered to the point that such theories are being formulated... especially when it involves known-nefarious actors and agents, such as the US government, top-secret military-industrial-complex inner societies, and so on.. too often, the general public is dissuaded by critical thought with a mere phrase or two. "Conspiracy theory" is one of those phrases that has been intentionally propagated in modern society to shut down attention.
I've never heard or seen that. Seems weird as well. Source?
It's educated guessing, from analysts, according to what I've seen.[1] That said, it's not just a large short position, it's the largest (recently surpassing Apple shorts). Given that Apple's market cap is 15 times that of Tesla, that's quite a lot.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/04/15/tesla-has...
So the question remains, though, is her baritone voice an act, or is it her real one?
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Uh it says the guy admitted to it...and gave reasons...a confession is more than enough evidence.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/04/15/tesla-has...
> I appear to have no friends who are interested in my content.

Are you a magazine journalist? If not, why do you have “content”?

Maybe Facebook has trained you to believe you're playing a churnalism RPG, and that your ability to grind for Likes reflects your value as a person.
From what I can tell of the latest release trailers it looks to me like the bulk of Laz's work is still in there despite it having 10 years more dev since I played it, a majority being after Laz handed it over to the community, so I would be cautiously optimistic that it's still the transformative mod it once was!

I'm also tempted to reinstall it!
It wouldn't be a bullshit takedown request. The source code even had a copyright notice before the repo owner "removed the fear factor".

https://github.com/galaxyhaxz/devilution/commit/bb01c6f084b8...

In fact, when you wrote your comment, those notices were still there, so you have no excuse for writing such an ill-informed comment.
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Unlike bart that infra is shared and taxes are paid by all users . If uber and its drivers are paying lesser than they should for their usage the govt which needs to fix that, however it cannot be said uber is not paying for the infra they use.
New Zealand has actually rolled out location relay for 111 [1]. They've also managed to do it in a way that seems to keep privacy in mind, the location is deleted after 60 minutes. It's only for Android phones though.

Anyway, it's a great initiative, and one where the possible privacy implications seem to have been mitigated, while providing a massive benefit.

[1] https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/new-emergency-11...
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I chanced upon the XY problem (http://xyproblem.info) and found the concept to be really applicable in my day-to-day when asking and answering questions.

I also recently discovered that my manager had never encountered the word "bikeshedding" before and I've been wondering what other concept or vocabulary is out there that might provide some interesting insight.

Got any favorite terms or interesting formulations you want to share?
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I'm an Android developer and I need to jump into web development.

Mainly worked with Android Studio, competent in Java with very light experience in Spring Boot.

Need to ship a twofold product over the next few months which is my main motivation. First part is a simple stand alone web app targeted at a small audience, followed by a marketplace platform (mobile & web).

What stack & tools do you recommend? I'm trying to optimize for speed over any other factor.

A route that was suggested to me is a combination of React & Spring Boot, but I don't feel it's the quickest path and wanted to get some sound advice on this.

Recommended resources are greatly appreciated as well.
You hit it on the head. It's either just not real, Musk is actually developing some issues, or people have learned to use bots (duh) to persuade public opinion (where have we heard this before??)
> they could simply buy up its outstanding debt and call it in

They could try to buy it up, and they might succeed, but they can't call in the debt willy-nilly before it matures.
Oh, I don't know about that. You really get used to how decks work. I've loset tournament games (Regionals and PTQs - though I never qualified :) to mana screw/flood and it didn't sting as much as when I made a stupid mistake that I immediately realised was a stupid mistake.

The problem with having to add lands to power up your deck for me is that it means I can't throw in the kitchen sink, as I'm wont to do if left to my own devices. A deck design must first of all work - and that's 50% getting the manabase down pat, which includes tough decisions (should I trim out a basic land for one more copy of OP sleeper rare I'm sure shreds the deck-to-beat to pieces? Hint: no). So you have to build a deck while respecting some constraints (minimum deck size, enough mana for your spells, sharp strategic focus etc). But that's like, all the fun in deckbuilding (which is all the fun in the game, for me :).

In fact, I know this will sound eminently silly but I believe that playing M:tG and in particular bulding decks has taught me important lessons that I took with me in my career as a programmer. The most important of which is: don't ever waste resources.

Perhaps a more esoteric lesson is this: you can still have infinite variety even without absolute freedom. Even with the burden of having to include land in your deck and risk mana screw/flood, you can still design any deck you want and have a lot of fun while at it.
This is ridiculous. We live in a generally improving world with declining global poverty, declining child mortality, declining war etc etc.

There are still tons of problems but I don’t think such a pessimistic outlook is useful to solving them. We should look for concrete political and technological solutions.
Look up a stock on WSJ, for example: https://quotes.wsj.com/TSLA

Note 'Shares Sold Short', multiply by value of stock.
Capitalize the gains, socialize the losses. The infrastructure has to be built, if the company doesn't do it, the state does, which means society pays. More individual rides mean more traffic congestion which means a worse experience for everybody.

I think that Uber from an investment perspective is looking good but from a social perspective it's looking bad.
This _is_ billions. $10.7 billion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/04/15/tesla-has...
This doesn't make sense. If there is/was a saboteur then you would expect Musk to stay quiet until after a criminal investigation. Especially if there are alleged co-conspirators. Electric cars are a given now. The tech is proven. The AI autopilot is still open but that's a NTSB issue.
You seem too easily persuaded that Elon Musk is a con man.

Have you taken into account the massive empire he has already built - if he were truly as nefarious as you seem to imply, its hardly likely that he would've been able to effectively build rockets that land themselves, cars that drive themselves, alternatives to the oil-addiction we're all suffering under, etc.

I mean, put some balance in your argument: What has Musk done right, in your opinion? Anything at all?
The government can already track you reasonably accurately using cell tower triangulation, and have been able to for decades.

If you're emitting any sort of signal, the government can track you. That ship sailed about 70 years ago.
I think what they meant was that the label "conspiracy theory" is often used to discredit the truth, At this stage we have so many examples of conspiracy theories turning out to be straight up conspiracies that you would be unwise to not look further for yourself when you hear someone roll-out the conspiracy theory label.
Just pull in updates from them... No need to maintain it all by yourself.
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Why the default is important in this case, if the device owner can enable side loading in an easy way then I am okay with a secure default. Hopefully some progress is made and OSX and Windows remain unlocked even if MS and Apple are slowly pushing in the other direction.
That could also be bipolar.
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That's China's playbook now in the South Pacific.
Lots of expensive infrastructure and hundreds of millions in loans to Countries that don't need it.
Would that have infringed on Google's copyright?