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(edited to match parent) Her mother was Helena Jens, and she was already married to another man at the period this article talks about. Descartes was also back in France while she was still in the Netherlands.

Although Descartes did vivisect animals for research purposes, I think it's safe to say that this particular account is an invention.
Isn't this at some level taxation without representation? If I don't like how some other state is taxing, I can't alter that behaviour by voting. At least in my current state I might have a chance to do so.
That was pretty much the case for me, yes. I usually preferred working 6:30-3:00 and it fit my schedule really well.
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They did!

"Node.js on ChakraCore" [0] already exists. It is maintained by Microsoft, but lives under the NodeJS organization on GitHub. Instead of reimplementing the Node APIs, they roughly implemented the V8 API layer on top of Chakra (which they call chakrashim) to enable "normal" Node to run. I believe the original use case was to run Node on Windows IoT, but I can't seem to find a source on that currently.

A very cool feature that is enabled by ChakraCore is time travel debugging (i.e. the ability to go backwards when stepping through code), which has worked very well for me so far.

In terms of performance, it does not appear to perform better (or just as good as) V8. The most recent benchmarks I could find are roughly one year old, but have Chakra consistently performing worse than what was at the time a recent V8 version [1].

It would be interesting to see how memory usage compares. MS has benchmarks to compare different engines for Node in the repository, however I am currently not able to run those. Maybe someone can provide current insight?

If you are interested in just testing it out, you can get Node versions built on Chakra from nvs and potentially other Node version managers (see [0]).

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore
[1] https://sqreen.github.io/node_engine_bench/?q=eyJ0ZXN0cyI6Wy...
I don't know how it is in the US - but here in Poland there are companies forcing janitors to open their sole proprietorship to optimize taxes.
In several decades it may be possible to transplant such a brain into the body of a brain-dead human (preferably an infant Neanderthal brain into a brain dead human infant), which could alleviate a lot of ethical concerns from the start
(and yeah, I get this already happens if, for example, I visit the state. Just seems to be different in this case)
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The person I know who had this problem was getting stalked and fixed it via the Google voice trick. Sure the government might know where you are, but what does a person with a private detective level of sophistication have access to? I guess one way to find out would be to hire a red team to see if they could find the person using data brokers.
>basic communication is not language.

That's an statement based on arbitrary (and vague) definitions of the (already vague) words "communication" and "language".

It also presupposes what it should try to prove: that Koko was only capable of "basic communication".

(Not to mention the quality of our general understanding of language, which is primitive in itself, as is our understanding of how we, and even more so how animals, think).

>CHOMSKY: That’s about like saying that Olympic high jumpers fly better than young birds who’ve just come out of the egg — or than most chickens. These are not serious comparisons. For whatever reason, the study of human higher mental faculties is pervaded by a curious form of irrationality, foreign to the sciences.

Well, Chomsky wouldn't be the best example against irrationality. He has his closely held beliefs he touts whether they pan out or not. And I'm not even taking about his politics, rather his concept of brains "hardwire" grammar center...
> early Java had a frustrating tendency to use Object for many basic things, seemingly requiring boxing and casting more than it should.

Early Java didn’t have Generics. With Generics, using Object instead of genericizing the type would be an anti-pattern in modern Java.

A lot of warts in Java are being removed.
With all the baby prisons in the USA happening at the same time, this story has flown under the radar a bit.

Can anyone politely explain how the fuck the EU voted in this insane law that basically breaks the internet? This is infuriating. I think the net result will be similar to what the LA Times is doing since GDPR started: the site is simply not available anymore in Europe. After this new law comes in, no one will want to make their site available in Europe for obvious reasons. Or am I missing something?
RIP Small Business, States CAN Collect Sales Tax
So buy from a retailer in your state.
It's amusing to watch people defend Linus every time a post mentions his abrasive style. They always offer the same set of excuses: Linux is too important to leave to nice people! Linus only does this to people who should know better! Get thicker skin! Etc etc.

It's the same set of excuses that justify assholes in any profession, and it suffers from the same flaw: it's not actually necessary to be a dickhead to be good at your job. In fact, being a dick to others makes it less likely for good, qualified, and smart people to want to work with you.

Linus will continue being a dick to others because of who he is - that's never gonna change. But I wish people would stop sticking up for his bad behavior. I don't want people in other OSS projects emulating him.
> I have heard anecdotal tales about ADHD medications as revelations bordering on spirituality, people crying after taking their first dose at age 30 and realizing how much more "normal" it might make them.

It really does whenever you have ADHD and you feel like your restless mind is finally at rest. It's absolutely infuriating to be unable to concentrate throughout most of my days.
>"Autonomous vehicles can drive without Lidar because humans can drive without Lidar"

I have another reason to hate this. If we could give humans lidar to make their driving even better why shouldn't we?

Why should we deny an AI extra senses that can help it do its job better than we can?
> If internet stores are required to support all locations, it will be a huge disadvantage.

Who said anything about internet stores being required to support all locations? Nothing is stopping an e-commerce outfit from restricting sales to a particular state, or county, or city, and simplifying their tax situation considerably. And brick-and-mortar chains with multiple locations already have to deal with these rules.

I don't see the "huge disadvantage" you're talking about.
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Insert "hurting my brain" as the first answer and enjoy a comedy of questions.
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The actual quote is (according to Wikipedia and “understanding what you’re trying to say”) - “This time IT’S different”
> There are companies that already sell massive lookup tables or API access to calculate a lot of this stuff. I think for most retailers, this won't be that big a change.

Ok great so you know the tax to collect. How do you remit to a vast amount of jurisdictions? You think that's trivial? It's not.
I have used Firefox since forever as well and fell the same way. I have never run into memory issues or slow loading with Firefox while I kept hearing about Chrome constantly using too much memory recently.

As a developer i noticed some minor default CSS bugs with the new Firefox Quantum that didn't used to be there but that's about it.

I also use Chrome in my development cycle so it does seem to have some neat features that Firefox is lacking but I doubt regular users would ever notice that.

It was just never enough to make me switch although I would appreciate Mozilla putting more effort into their developer tools.

P.S. I end up having over 100 tabs open so yeah... although my OS is Linux not Windows so your mileage may vary.
We have used TaxCloud which handles paying each jurisdiction
Also GDPR is more like 90 pages and it took me about 2 days to work it through an to come up with an assessment of how it will impact our business. You want to do business? Make your homework.
Every nascent industry is dominated by startups and little guys becoming big guys. It happened with oil, the auto industry, electronics, and among many, many others.

Although I believe we're only in the midst of the information revolution it would make sense that over time as the industry matures it becomes more and more difficult to break into it. The big guys have leverage and lawyers and I think what we see today with many startups being built to get bought rather than as new enterprises that will stand on their own is evidence of this new phase shift.
The remittance is the key, and part of the reason that I've only ever partnered with other companies that can handle that sort of thing.
This just happened to be two anecdotes with 2 browser dev teams that should not be generalized.

Everyone who has to deal with n-th layer tech support regularly (where n > 2) knows that even there it's hit or miss. Sometimes you file a bug report and get a "thanks, fixed!" an hour later. Sometimes you spend an hour to gather all the data upfront only to be painstakingly taken through the exact same data gathering process step by step. By email. Over days. On a "4h response" SLA (and they always just barely make it, not considering the value of the "response").

Randall Munroe has the best description: https://www.xkcd.com/806/
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Programming one of these for a Canadian website for provincial tax to hook into another recurring payment script, that hooked into PayPal was an annoying overhead especially when the company was bootstrapped and had like $0 revenue to even care about at that point.

I would hope Stripe or people using online services like Shopify will quickly add support for everyone. But the state by state, county by county, grocery vs non grocery stuff sounds like a goddamn nightmare.

EDIT: You won't be able to just be some just launch it break stuff and fix later SASS. You will have to keep track of all this shit and send out 50 different cheques, or track when your company has reached the minimum to have to pay sales tax back.
Most of what I see on Seeking Alpha is people cherry picking charts and statistics to support a pre-existing hypothesis. Many times authors continually double down on clearly wrong opinions and just say "oh well, the market is crazy".
Not to mention remitting the money to the proper place. Not a trivial matter at all.
> Could it be that the cost barrier is lower today than in the past, but there is much more money to be made as an educated employee today than 25 years ago?

One big confounding factor could be the cost of student debt. You can't tell your student loan company to defer payments until your business gets off the ground.

Also, I think in general, enthusiasm for capitalism (and with it, entrepreneurship) is waning.
I don’t have enough broad economic insight to know if this should be worrying generally or possibly even be seen as good.

But what I do know is that work conditions, pay, and equity risk characteristics in start-up jobs are miserable, not to mention that work life balance is often poor and the start-up management is often deluded about the scope and importance of the business.

I would be happy if entrepreneurs believed they needed a far greater amount of initial capital before starting a business, and viewed it as essentially mandatory to provide market rate salaries, comprehensive insurance, and seriously professional work life balance and workplace behavior, all before even hiring the first employee, and also even after accounting for early stage equity.

If it was something of a cultural norm that you are a shyster, suspicious “entrepreneur” if you attempt to convince people to work for you without already having the capital arranged to invest that significantly in giving them good jobs from day one, I think this would be a great thing for the labor market generally, and would greatly deter a bunch of hype-driven nonsense startups that essentially allow already wealthy people to treat it like lottery tickets at the expense of employees.
Fundamentally, because we are judgemental and this is the only industry where experience is a bad thing.

As soon as you slide out of the expected norms of the group, you're dogshit. Those norms including--dress, age, ability to binge drink, working 70 hour weeks...

God forbid you not spend your weekend learning the latest JS framework.
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How do you apply to jobs if you haven't kept in touch with anyone who can serve as a reference?

It's not that I've burned bridges or haven't had good working relationships. There are plenty of people I've worked with in the past and got along well with. I'm just really bad at keeping in touch with people.

I think they would give me good references, but it seems rude to reach out to someone and say "hey, we haven't spoken in 5 years, but could I put you down as a reference?" Certainly nobody's reached out to me about that recently.

Has anyone else dealt with this situation? What are some (short term) solutions?
Nobody guaranteed anything with the LHC.

It's good to have a clear hypothesis for an experiment (especially an expensive one), and the predictions for the mass of the Higgs boson was a good starting hypothesis for the LHC.

But there was also the expectation that, colliding at higher energies than ever before, there would be the opportunity for unexpected discoveries.

The proof that the brief for the LHC was more than just "find the Higgs" is that the LHC found the Higgs, yet is still operating--and is just about to get a time-consuming and expensive upgrade in luminosity.
Change in demographics. A 25-25yo in 1990 was living in a very different place. The boomers were still working. Now they are retired. Lots of upper middle-class family money that in 1990 might have been used by kids, to do stuff like found companies, is now locked up in retirement planning to maintain the boomers as they age. People today generally don't get access to the family money until their parents die, something that happens long after the kids turn 54.

Remember too that this is about people owning a company with 10+ employees before age 54. That is an unusual situation. A large number of those actually owning their company, rather than have outside investors, would have gotten started with family money. Seed money today rarely comes not as outright gifts from mom and dad, but from formal investors who then take a share of the company. Mom and dad today are also more likely to take a large interest in the business than gift money outright.
> One, article 13, sets the stage for large scale corporate surveillance of internet users, especially by the largest platforms such as Google and Facebook. The article, sometimes referred to as “the Google tax”, will require all content posted to net platforms and sites by European users be filtered through tools that screen for copyright content.

If true this is pretty ironic considering it's only months after GDPR.
>Isn't this at some level taxation without representation?

I'm not a fan of the ruling but I would expect the answer to your question would be: "No because you aren't forced to buy the product from a retailer in that state"
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$170K/year doesn’t make you happy, but you think a mere extra $50k would?
My entirely anecdotal experience is that they are white-hat friendly some time. My last experience was super good.
I've heard theorists say exactly this a number of times before.

The reason Java isn't a 'pure' object-oriented language is simply performance.

Suppose everything - even every int - is heap-allocated. You now need a very sophisticated JIT compiler (as in, better than any we have today), or it's going to run dog slow. Having a huge number of needless allocations happening at every step is going to:

1. Slow things down by doing vastly more heap allocations that you otherwise would (even with Java's ultra-fast allocations)

2. Slow things down by doing violence to your code's locality and cache behaviour, because your ints no longer live in the stack

3. Slow things down by doing violence to your code's locality and cache behaviour, because Java objects are bloated compare to raw ints

4. Slow things down by hugely increasing garbage-collection pressure

If Gosling had taken that route, we wouldn't be talking about Java today.
The actual (quite readable) Supreme Court decision is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf

Most of the coverage I've seen downplays it, but it should be noted that the question is not whether tax is owed on these out-of-state internet purchases, but whether the retailer should be required to collect it and submit it to the state. Currently, the purchaser is (in 45 of 50 states) legally required to pay a "use tax", but most Americans (98%?) are blissfully unaware of this requirement, or have simply decided not to pay it. This is pure illegal tax evasion, based on the (correct) assumption that enforcement is lax and risk of punishment is low: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/16/177384487/most...

Rather than attempting to enforce these existing laws against their residents (unpopular and difficult), states believe it will be easier to get compliance from retailers. Until this decision, it was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause for a state to demand this collection unless the retailer had a "substantial nexus" in the state, generally defined as a physical presence. Post-decision (pending new national laws created by Congress) all retailers are fair game. The particular South Dakota law in question has requirements as to volume of purchase, but this is not a principle of the decision.

Beyond the implications for internet retailers, this is an interesting counter-example to the Supreme Court tradition of "stare decisis" (to stand by things already decided). Apparently, everyone on the court agrees that earlier decisions that produced the physical location test were poor precedent. Usually, the court is very reluctant to revisit these decisions, but in this case, the majority justices decided to abandon precedent and explicitly call the earlier decisions mistakes. The dissenting justices, despite conceding that "Bellas Hess was wrongly decided", felt that the court was better off sticking with the flawed precedent than changing things up now.

Personally, whether or not this is good constitutional precedent, I think I agree with the dissenters that allowing local jurisdictions to make laws affecting far-away businesses who have no other local presense is going to lead to problems. Beyond just the burden of collecting confusing locally defined taxes, I fear about where else it leads. If a locality can enforce its local tax laws, what other custom crafted local laws can it enforce in return for access to customers? Can it require a business license? Should it be allowed to enforce its local environmental and labor standards as well? Is this a good thing?
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It seems kind of silly that the stock prices dropped for online sellers that already collect state sales tax. Is this a knee-jerk reaction or is there more to this ruling that would be cause for this?
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> One is that they don't use the infrastructure in the state.

This is one way of looking at things, but I think sales tax is much closer to a tax on consumers than on businesses. Or at least is intended as a tax on consumers to fund their state infrastructure, often because imposing an income tax is impossible (e.g. Washington State constitution) or just politically unpalatable.

Normalising taxes is basically impossible in an environment where sales taxes are a meaningful part of a government's budget.
The thing I realized, that may not be obvious, is that this allows for a “real” Optional type in Java, where the Option itself can not be null. This will allow us to remove bare null usage from existing and future Java codebases, without the annoyance of checking if the Option itself is null.

I hope that there will be a compiler flag at some point to enable a warning or compiler failure on any bare null usage.
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This would bring GPU accelerated compute shaders to Chrome. It's probably a (very) long way off, but the intent is awesome.
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Might just be me but the start button over laps with the "Made with" message and sends me off on a hyperlink somewhere else.
I find it highly unlikely that mom-and-pop stores will have to collect and remit taxes to other states.

From they very start of Quill they said: "we ruled that a "seller whose only connection ... is by common carrier ... lacked the requisite minimum contacts with the State." So the issue was: how substantial does the seller's contact have to be?

The court ends this decision by saying "the first prong ... asks whether the tax applies to an activity with a substantial nexus with the taxing State... sellers who engage in a significant quantity ... are large, national companies ... undoubtedly maintain an extensive virtual presence." So the issue remains: how substantial does the seller's contact have to be?

The underlying logic of the law hasn't changed, they just fixed some imprudently broad language referring to a physical presence.

So I doubt the SCOTUS abandoned one bright-line rule for being flawed in favor of another bright-line rule that equally fails to address the underlying issue of substantiality (e.g. imposing a "single-sale" rule).
They've open sourced some of their work on this, but it look abandoned:

https://github.com/Microsoft/node-v0.12

https://github.com/Microsoft/node-uwp
Yeah, that one article is all I've seen. And IMO, it doesn't even come close to making any kind of case for an actual "AI Winter". Especially in comparison to everything else we see around us. AI is still very much in the news, AI companies are being founded, and acquired, etc. AI (in the form of Deep Learning in particular) is being used to create value today, even if it has been oversold to a point (and yes, it probably has).

Of course, the interesting thing about predicting an upcoming AI Winter (or "bubble collapse", or recession, etc.) is that you will eventually be right if you keep predicting it long enough. I certainly can't say an AI Winter isn't coming, but I am unconvinced that one has stared or is imminent.
Because torrents are not a storage network. Even ignoring the read-only aspect of it, there is no way to ensure that someone will download your torrent.
that seems like a really low amount of money for the things you're giving up. particularly given your already good salary in a presumably low COL area
The truth does not care but human opinions tend to be biased towards extremes.
Bite the bullet and reach out to your former coworkers.

Alternatively, explain the reason you don't have any references newer than 5 years old, companies will probably find it odd that your references haven't worked with you in a long time.
A good TL;DR from my co-worker at the Tax Foundation (https://twitter.com/jbhenchman/status/1009808187137150977):

Does your state online sales tax law have:

* Safe harbor for sellers who have limited activity

* No retroactivity

* Adheres to SSUTA

* State level admin

* Provides software

* Provides immunity for errors

If so, upheld. If not...
It's not that rude. Just reach out to those people. They'll likely understand, and if they don't, no harm done to either of you.
As usual hacker news is so much against Elon not sure why.