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Philosophical inquiry leads you wherever it leads you. We started looking for truth but the more we dug in we realized that that's not a very useful way to think about it and you can see how each successful and popular philosopher at least in the west basically keeps peeling off layers of their predecessor showing that what had previously been thought of as an objective foundation wasn't that objective when it came down to it.

Postmodernism was the philosophy that peeled of kind of the last layer which is the language itself and showed that the very tool we were using to express objective truths itself was in fact highly subjective and ridden with assumptions.

I can assure you the point is not to miss the point. Philosophy is for the most part not useful for everyday discussions as it tends to deal with things that often sound absurd (is it ok to kill babies if they cry) but it's important to understand that philosophy is informing other areas such as scientific methodology and to inform how to think about scientific discoveries. Falsification is a product of philosophical pondering. So is Kuhns Paradigm Shift.

With regards to books.

I would say that "Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations" is a pretty good place to start.

https://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Theory-Interrogations-Stev...

Although he isn't considered a postmodernist per se as such I would also say that Kuhns "The structure of scientific revolution" gets you an interesting view into postmodernism without gunning for it. And it's about science which in itself is always interesting.

You should probably also read some Derrida or maybe start by watching the documentary about him he is pretty hard to read unless you are motivated. But you could start with "Speech and Phenomena" or of course Focult (but try and ignore the many political nuances)

And keep in mind postmodernism doesn't lead you to a conclusion it just shows you the limit of language. It's from that limit we must build structures while knowing they can always be broken down again.

Personally, it's helped me analyze the world differently and see past assumptions which allowed me to come up with better solutions for my clients. But it can also just be something that opens up your eyes for a different way to think about the world.
Besides Avalara, I'm aware of taxjar.com, taxify.co, taxamo.com.

Avalara and Taxamo don't list prices on their sites as far as I managed to find. Googling turns up comments saying that Avalara is expensive.

TaxJar and Taxify do list prices.

For a small business (up to 1k transactions/month) is $17/month if you pay for a year up front ($19/month on month-to-month). A transaction is either giving them an order and having them figure the tax, or looking up a rate with their API.

That will get you reports for each state, ready to file. If you want them to actually file for you, that costs more. If you have to file in all 45 states that have sales/use tax, with a monthly filing in each, it would come to $5000/year at TaxJar.

Taxify is $47/month for up to 1k transactions, and it would be $14580 to have them handle filing under the same 45 state/monthly filing assumption.
I had started my own dev contracting and consulting shop. I was about a year into it. I was doing well. Once of my clients asked to hire me at 2x my normal hourly rate as a salaried technical lead for their company, as they were being shopped for acquisition. I initially declined. They offered to buy out all of my remaining contracts (wind some contracts that were ending in the very short term, buy out others with early termination fee).

They ended up offering a very generous salary, compensated me for the income missed due to the bought out contracts, paid out my early termination fees and the company was acquired about 7 months later where I got a retention bonus and another bumped salary on a 3 year contract.

Not sure if I regret it or not - I was really enjoying the entrepreneur aspect - working towards passive income. Now I'm back in the grind, but my compensation is pretty silly for the effort required.
I thought with use taxes you owed the remaining difference in tax. Say I purchase a $100 widget in Kenosha, WI with a sales tax of 5.5%, and I live in MI with a sales and use tax of 6%. I would owe MI the 0.5% difference on the $100 which would be $0.50.
Confirmed. 46% of US voters are fascist.

"Fascist" can be understood as any entity which supports radical authoritarian
nationalism. Example: Donald Trump is a fascist, if you donated to his
campaign then all rights provided by this license are not granted to you.
If you think about it you can probably come up with 10 points that you can use over and over again in different situations. Write them down, then do a second draft and then a third. Memorize them and then start using them during conversation. Your presentation and flow will improve when you are not searching for one word out of a possible four different languages.
> I quite strongly disagree. Just like picture is worth a thousand words, working code (prototype) is worth a thousand words too.

Working code is the easiest part. No one every throws it out and we are doomed to maintain the shitty prototype code for years. I find for internal software / consulting: "working code, ends arguments" but for enterprise software it is exactly the opposite.

It's idiosyncratic code that doesn't scale to a team developing it. It's has no tests and no thought to broader usage. There is no documentation. It fails apart after you put load on it, want HA, load-balancing, disaster recovery. Almost all code works at the small scale. It's so hard to prove to even mid-range developers why an architecture that "works" doesn't really work.

When you mix developers coming from the opposite spectrum it is disastrous.
I find it hard to believe coaches of any professional Soccer/Football team abide by non-compliance of the team.

The people called out in this story are all super stars, and have more power in a sense than the coaches of their teams. Much like Lebron James is in basketball.

But if you look at other teams, like Spain, in which there is less dependence on a single player, and more on the team play, my guess is that part of that is due to the coach pushing for more passing, more calm control of the ball. Not to say they don’t have individually great players on the team, but they clearly play as a team, and not individuals.

The article might be right that to excel in Soccer one needs to be more free in expression and experimentation. My theory on why Brazil excels, is that socially the sport is played almost all the time by everyone... and it’s a great sport for low income areas, ball, field, game. In the US, we rarely did pickup games of soccer, even though many of us played in the neighborhood, because most of the other kids wanted to play American Football...
I know people hate to admit it and create these fancy terms for ages old behavior. Procrastinate is being lazy,as simple as that. Reading news and watching YouTube videos while you are getting paid to do work is being lazy with a capital L.

So yeah, please stop coming up with excuses if you procrastinate as if it is some sort of disease, drop the distractions and just get to work.
I can't release the whole codebase before publication, but if you're really serious about analyzing it, I can probably sanitize it in an evening and get you an MWE.

Regardless, apart from pathological integer math cases, these things have little to do with the cost of overflow checks. Rather, it's about the followup optimizations the compiler can do after the UB frees it from a restrictive assumption. The trivial common examples (optimizing x*2/2 to x for integers, etc.) don't really capture the impact of these things very well, because you can't demonstrate it in a oneliner, but you can derive representative examples pretty easily if you take tight-ish loops (>16 independent loads, some SIMD-able compute, a few dependent stores at the end) and switch the index types. The vectorizer is often easy to defeat if it can't assume no overflows, the cost of the check itself is irrelevant.

On your last point, I don't think compute intensive kernels are "self-evidently more important" than anything else. I think there are usecases - like scientific computing, device drivers and embedded software, to name a few - that often benefit from prioritizing programmer control over any safety net, and FORTRAN doesn't cut it for many of those uses. There are plenty of languages that give you all the safety you could possibly want. C/C++ have never been about that and I don't see why that should change. Use the right tool for the job, by all means advocate for people who don't need this level of control to use something "safer", but the notion that every tool should be blunted to some common denominator just makes no sense to me.
As a fellow former resident of the county-spanning Westlake area, I can tell you that even the people that live there don't know where they live. I was debating with a friend of mine just the other day, and her and her mom couldn't even agree what city they lived in. Then I looked it up on the map, and different maps gave different answers. And they keep building new houses, so who the hell knows which tax jurisdiction each individual house is in? The people that live in them can't even keep track!
I'm not sure that I have a learning disability that could be diagnosed, and I did (barely) finish an undergrad degree, but I feel exactly the same way.

Higher education is (mostly) a market response to social stigma / conventions. Degrees are as much about asserting social class as they are about career prep or the passing on of knowledge.

Anecdotally, I have a number of friends with graduate degrees, some full PhDs. I make more money than any of them and am arguably more successful (by their standards).

Everything I learned in life was self guided. I too am a software engineer (doing some relatively hardcore stuff) and have started more than one successful company.

I can't fix the system, but I will tell my son that higher education is optional and help him get a start on his own (and not just wrt money) if he decides to skip it.

And to more directly address your post, I do consider myself educated and an expert in a couple things. I encountered exactly zero teacher along the way that made a meaningful contribution to that.
"The supervisor already, necessarily has a lot of power they could potentially abuse. So let's put some rules in place to check some of those potential abuses, and give us clear-and-fast reasons to discipline if needed."

It's extremely poor judgment to date some that reports through you. "Power corrupts"-type stories are everywhere. Don't trust yourself to be the perfect exception; have some self-control.

Or, if you must, move to a different role or job! You're the one in the scenario with more options. And remember: most relationships end! Then it gets even messier if you work together directly, especially if they report to you. You break up, you can't work together well, now what happens? IME, nothing good for the person in the management role.
MBTA North South commuter-rail project could cost up to $22B
Debt. Debt. Debt.
My personal approach is to read papers that seem interesting. Of course I usually do not have the necessary background in everything that's mentioned, but I treat those cases as black boxes. E.g. if the paper says that they use X to do Y I'll simply assume that you can do Y using X. If I think that the details of X are important, I dig deeper. Sometimes just by reading the corresponding Wikipedia article, sometimes by looking at the references in the paper. Then repeat recursively.

That approach has the advantage that you'll learn about techniques roughly proportional to their current popularity, but it has the disadvantage that explanations in papers tend to be brief and you have to put them into a coherent whole yourself.

If you prefer textbooks, I heard about http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ but didn't get around to reading it. In addition to neural networks, you'll probably also want to read about classical statistics and probability theory, since that's the origin of concepts like conditional random fields, which can be mixed with neural networks but are unlikely to be covered by literature on deep learning.
> "It's insanity, and because we can't see the wood for the trees we have smart people go study things like how much titanium you have in your body rather than solving the actual problem of carb intake."

if we can reduce type 2 diabetes without reducing carb intake, that's a win.
Yeah, the only problem is that the people who reply in threads like these are mostly virtue signaling, and you won't get any 'controversial' replies from people who have done unethical things for money, and if by any chance you do, they will come from throwaways, and be as vague as possible.
Iniesta moved to Japan.

Also, Australia has 5200% less people than China, so not a great comparison. A better comparison would have been India, who have a comparable population but a heavy focus on cricket.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/football/barcelona-iniesta-ja...
For the US it is more about the quality of athletes and interest in the sport. The best athletes don't play soccer. They go to football, basketball, and to some extent baseball. On my son's club basketball team they regularly get some of the best soccer players in the city joining, and dropping soccer. The inverse (great basketball players joining soccer and leaving basketball) rarely/never happens.
The V8 memory improvements (as benchmarked in the official V8 blog) should really help, but I agree it would be nice to see a benchmark for an Electron Hello World.
they wanted us to assume liability for anyone getting injured when they exploded the car

I've seen a handful of such clauses too. I don't know how lawyers' brains works, but I imagine it is something like "lets try to sneak in the nastiest clause we can in the contract. What is the worst that can happen? If we get caught, we can simply remove it"
> Please share your experience which validates this point

Sound like your story actually invalidates this point. You didn't have a price - you refused and didn't cave.
When I launch a single brick and mortar store, I have to worry about the tax jurisdiction that store is in.

When I launch a single small web app, I have to worry about everything single tax jurisdiction in the country.

I'm super not opposed to taxes, but I do think this is an area that the federal government should step in. If only to provide a standardized system for different jurisdictions to report their sales tax laws.

It seems like a very very clear use of the commerce clause and regulation of interstate commerce.
> This would I _suspect_ reduce memory usage and app size.

App distribution size maybe, just like any app relying on shared libs on the system, but it needs to be ready to install them if not already present and has to have strict compat guarantees. With download speeds and disk sizes being what they are, most people would just ship the lib w/ the app anyways. It would have no real affect on runtime memory usage; surely runtime mem cost of a browser is more on what it loads/does, not its code.

Now, if Chrome would put chrome.dll (or chrome.so or whatever) in a reliable location and promise ABI compat w/ some functions, there could be some real reuse since a lot of people have Chrome on their systems and could be used as a webview. However, I wouldn't expect Google to do any such thing both because they don't want to restrict themselves with compat guarantees and embeddability has no benefit for them.
That sounds a bit dysfunctional on Apple's part that they can't exert that kind of control over their own employees for an issue with potentially enormously negative consequences.

I'm not saying it isn't dysfunctional, but it sounds like every single large company I've ever worked with or for.

Especially when "security" is provided by a third-party security company.
Am I missing some wordplay about vipers and sexual organs or something? What's the "sexy" part of this framework and why is marketing technical products this way deemed to be acceptable?
The Ryzen is better, as another commenter pointed out with the passmark scores. Is it better enough for me to actually go out and buy it?

The system the i7-3770 replaced was a 4 year old dual-core, with (IIRC) just 1GB of RAM. The i7 was a dramatic improvement, but I don't feel that the Ryzen would be a dramatic improvement.

And that's the issue. It is not just me being a little unimpressed with current offerings, or me just being cheap. The issue is that there is even a valid discussion about replacing a 6 year old desktop. In the past, in the 1990's and 2000's, it wasn't a question. You had to upgrade because you wanted to run Windows XP decently, for example.
Yes, it is probably, "modern kids," who are conditioned to do what they're told. I think you've solved it. Also, they're immature and haven't even lived in the real world until at least 28.
What 'optimization' really means in games
Using the browser installed in the system instead would reduce resource usage even further
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Another factor could be that before, big companies kinda sucked for the employee. Today's big companies like Google and Facebook are wonderful place to work for. In the grand scale of things, the new management styles are considerably more comfortable for the employee, the decision making and the promotion methods are significantly more efficient, interesting and smart. Not saying they are perfect, there is definitely room for improvement but 30 years ago, it was all wage slavery.
I would perhaps argue that most modern procrastination is fundamentally due to tech and social media addiction.
Be careful about that kind of wording. I and friends who're on the spectrum don't consider it a "mental disorder". It's simply a physiological difference, one that theoretically can be tested for.
Yes because you can't fast forward during commercials for on-demand content while you can for DRV'ed content.
This probably gets around streaming/broadcast licensing differences. You can save and watch later if licensed only for broadcast.
I was briefly Director of Community Life for the TAG Project. I was homeschooling my 2xE sons and moderating a gifted homeschooling list, basically.

Since he was a preschooler, I have told my oldest son he will need to be an entrepreneur. He won't make it as an employee. I tried to enroll him in college classes when he was 13. The college accepted him, but the classes fell through. I think one was full and the other was cancelled.

After that, he told me he really did not want to attend college. He wanted me to keep homeschooling him, even though what he knew in some areas was beyond me, so I wasn't really qualified to teach him per se in some areas. So I became a resource person that fostered his own self education.

Bill Gates is a college drop out. So is Madonna. I used to be able to quote statistics. A fairly high percentage of entrepreneurs can't be arsed to finish a degree program. They are too busy making things happen.

Degrees are about credentialing. Entrepreneurs often take classes for a specific purpose, to learn specific knowledge or skills. Credentials tend to matter less to them than knowledge and skill.

The minute I post this, you can bet someone will rebut it. It isn't true of, say, 90% of entrepreneurs and there are plenty who do have substantial formal education. But the aggregate figures show (or did at one time) that these things are generally true.

It's certainly not just you. Plenty of entrepreneurs describe themselves as mavericks or misfits or similar.
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant. I would figure tax holidays are optional and might even require an application to take advantage of. So you would charge the regular sales tax and remit it to the state.

UPDATE: Out of curiosity I looked it up. And it looks like sales tax holidays depend as usual on the state. The MO back to school one is optional if less than 2% of merchandise is affected. But the TN one doesn't look optional.
I feel like the Dunning-Kruger effect plays a big part in the problem. Many people feel an illusory confidence in their capacity to understand a problem domain, whether they are in the role of the rebellious person or the law enforcer. Consensus with group wisdom outside of that hierarchical dynamic seems like one of the best protections against foolish rebellions or foolish rigidity, but that still leaves the problem case of what to do when the larger group wisdom is not correct. That's going to be the rarer case by definition considering how badly people tend to be at rating their own knowledge, but we also depend on those rare, capable individuals to overturn established wisdom. Or as put more succinctly by George Bernard Shaw,

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Lists" is in the footer, together with a bunch of other important links like the site guidelines. Why they're not in the header as well, I have no idea.
How two-wheelers are weaving their way into urban transport
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When a CEO steps aside for the right reasons
There's a brief article on Reason:
https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/21/aclu-leaked-memo-free-spe...

Quoting from it:

It's hard to see this as anything other than a cowardly retreat from a full-throated defense of the First Amendment. Moving forward, when deciding whether to take a free speech case, the organization will consider "factors such as the (present and historical) context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values; and the structural and power inequalities in the community in which the speech will occur."

The memo also makes clear that the ACLU has zero interest in defending First Amendment rights in conjunction with Second Amendment rights. If controversial speakers intend to carry weapons, the ACLU "will generally not represent them."
"What would be good for the country is to abolish sales taxes entirely."

In favor of what, exactly? Don't pretend that sales taxes could just be abolished, and states would just go without that revenue. Kansas tried gutting their tax revenue; it failed miserably.
Msybe it's a catch22. It's not very popular so not many people try it so the team doesn't have very good players so it's not popular. Argentina has soccer schools for children everywhere. And recruiters are always looking for rising stars in them.
I've started going for a long walk before I start working, and I've since found it much easier to dive into work before "just checking out this one article". I think it's because I feel like I've already had a part of my day devoted to something that's just for me, so I don't feel like my day is belongs to someone else's goals from the get go. That, and I'm more awake, which makes it easier to think about complex tasks.
Totally agree. Just to pick a specific example and add on a bit: Germany reorganized their nationwide soccer development system in the mid-2000s to be much more centralized, and that's widely considered to be one of the reasons they have risen in prominence recently (they are the current reigning World Cup champions, for instance).
that does sound like US companies that contract out their cleaning services to an independent company. here the motives are a bit different (reduce employee headcount and thereby eliminate unemployment insurance and benefit costs and reduce other liabilities. possible other advantages depending upon workforce eligibility to work legally in the US.)