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> The Commission sent then a formal request to the insurance company in question, which suddenly made the insurance company much more eager to pay me what I think they owed me

I'm a huge fan of complain-and-respond frameworks. I have complained to my state Attorney General when my cable company change pricing on me mid-contract. I complained to my state Department of Financial Services when a rebate issuer sent me a card instead of a cheque. I complained, the other night, when a construction company decided to run jackhammers on 26th Street at 1:30 in the morning.

Complain-and-respond regimes work. They're also expensive, and cause known incumbency biases. Deploying them should be carefully considered. For insurance and financial services, the tradeoff makes sense. For literally every business that might ever touch a European's data, it's a bit overblown.
More like coerced in as—like you say—it's required to get a mortgage or for that matter buy any financial product.
Despite widespread belief to the contrary, members of Congress are not allowed to trade on information for which they are bound by either a confidentiality agreement or a fiduciary duty.

Information asymmetry does not constitute insider trading. Trading on information which you have that the broader public does not have is also not insider trading. Trading on exclusive information which you learned through professional exposure, and which does not come with confidentiality or fiduciary requirements, is not insider trading.
> Idealism alone won't convince people to switch to Mastodon instead of using Twiiter or Peertube intead of Youtube.

Just curious, according to you, is democracy an idealism that happened alone or with a product?
Great, thanks! Will listen to it on my way home!
It depends where you are, construction costs vary. Sure, if you're building in NYC. They built a tunnel for 2.4 billion. You can build that same tunnel elsewhere for a fraction.
I imagine

> C) this story is just made up.

Was interpreted as being too hostile and uncivil.
If you’re now focusing on the people and management, whose responsibility is technical strategy and execution?
There is also python-future which does similar things, I think.
> When house prices go up, this measure goes up by a similar measure.

That’s only true if you assume interest rates aren’t falling. Artificially low interest rates have inflated the actual price of housing while keeping monthly payments fairly steady.

The Fed is then able to say “look, no inflation!” despite actual prices rising very rapidly.
Please correct me if I'm reading this wrong. It sounds like AT&T is just going to stop providing HBO free as part of the Unlimited Data Plan, not that AT&T will charge extra for watching HBO.

This is just a clickbait title.
The standard library is where code goes to die. If six were in the standard library, it would be as stagnant and impossible to fix as 2to3.
The price of a standing army, stability of a country's market, faith of its people in its government institutions. If you go blunt with it, you can say that a country is worth, in real terms, its GDP times its predictable future stability in years.
This sounds very familiar. Do you know any other variants of this song?
I'm a former purchasing manager turned developer, I can tell you the p-card business is ripe for innovation. This is a great space to go after. Good luck!
I still remember how to say "i am a very hungry hamster" from high school. Does that count? ;-D
If you live within walking distance, why would you carry 20+ grocery bags. Just shop for what you need in the next day, not an entire month.
The whole article is really weird. It has the quote about it being "OK" that MS bought Github, followed by a non-sequitur article about Google employees protesting military contracts.

I don't see a connection between the two but I suppose the author is implying that Google didn't buy Github because it was distracted with its own internal turmoil around the protests?
The second-in-line CIO of Equifax did just that actually (link is referenced in OP's article)

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-40
I saw the title and thought "I hope it's by monty", then I saw the domain and was a bit sad, then I clicked and it was a miracle!
I also find that I accidentally, slightly hit the touchbar whenever I type on it and all my windows expand. Incredibly annoying. Not to mention the awkward placement of the escape button without any haptic feedback.
Hopefully you've hired solid technical VPs/leads/senior developers who don't need C-level babysitting
> For example someone with bad osteoporosis, and who doesn't have a $10K+ wheelchair and a $75K minivan to carry it, won't really gain much by theoretical ADA sidewalks if the distance is too far.

You can't exactly escape the cost issue. The alternative you present is that this person has a car, which is quite expensive itself, and presumably someone to drive them given the bad osteoporosis.

Regardless of the design of your hypothetical city, such people may just need family help or public assistance to get to where they want to go.
I do recall reading that the bulk of scholarships end up going more to privileged, caucasian children than of minorities.

Anecdotally, my well off college friend still applied for many scholarships and got a decent 50% chunk of her education paid for via scholarships.
Also, three-quarters (generalization) of America is rural. You're not going to implement this everywhere. I don't think that is the point of the article or OP.
One thing that Lego does very well despite (or perhaps because of) being a closed system is ensuring the consistent quality of all its bricks. In the years I played with Legos as a child I never encountered two bricks that didn't fit together perfectly. I wonder if an open standard would be able to achieve the same consistency.
I don't know why you see it as so complicated.

A sociologist might discuss factors in the home like household wealth, childhood exposure to crime or violence or disease, quality of education, parents' education level, and a whole bunch of other things and their effect on a child's future wealth and educational outcome and so on. (and yeah, something like IQ is a little more taboo, but you can always look at that) That's sociologists, but even among normal people that looks like a reasonable list of things that would constitute privileges, at least as a first approximation.

Oh yeah, I don't know where you live, but in a country like the one I live in, where money by design tends to trump just about everything in importance and effects the ability to obtain or maintain everything else, guess which factor tends to constitute the most important privilege?

None of this makes me want to wave my arms around and cry out "oh my, this privilege thing is so complicated we do not even have a vocabulary to talk about it!" but YMMV.
>However, most people (US) would not prefer to live in such a town.

Citation needed. Most people in the US were never given the chance to live in such a town (all other things being equal, like them being able to afford to live there).

And there's also the cultural conditioning.

Besides, there are rich areas in the US too, with little to no cars and lotsa walking and jogging, and people go live there just fine, paying millions for a house there too.

I know plenty who'd kill to live in Manhattan (and not drive, like bona fide Manhattanites) but can't afford to precisely because too many want to live there and since it's an island not much further expansion is possible.
If you have a 1:1 mapping between array cells and pixels (no geographic transformations), just use any image format as intermediate. But I am interested what quirky issues you encountered. I found rasterio very nice to work with using numpy arrays.
You've had sizeable replies and I've yet to read them, so forgive if I'm reiterating something here.

But as for 1):
IPs are distinctly /not/ PII (AKA: PD). They're identified /by name/ in the regulation, unless you sell that info. Anyone who brings this up as a topic has not actually read the regulations.. or they have and are trying to create uncertainty for some objective.

It sounds like you've done enough of reading the regulation to actually know this, it's part of your job and you've spoken to legal experts (as I have).
EU doesn't have that kind of problem since those companies don't exist there. I'm not sure why NA is different...
If you are rich you have a number of advantages in a crisis of any sort, global or personal. If you are rich you can diversify your assets away from property and cash - into commodities, stocks, bonds, art, luxury goods, gold and so on. If you are rich you can loose significant percentages, even the majority of your net worth and not worry. This allows you to have liquidity when assets are very cheap, at the bottom, and then you can get those assets! In a crisis there is more bad luck about, poor people are wiped out by a drip of bad luck, rich people need a big dollop, only a few people get a big dollop of bad luck. Only the tail of the distribution of rich people are wiped out, the tail of poor people don't.
Yup, support is on top of it, thanks!
I meant that in the sense of, make sure that there's enough of the type of living space that people actually want.

Right now people have to pay absolutely MASSIVE premiums, both in terms of absolute space and in $/sqft, in order to live in dense walkable neighborhoods. And there's one reason: zoning has been bad and prevented many people from having the life they want.

For health reasons, sure, separate industrial zones.

For building safety, yes, have building codes.

But as far as general office/retail and housing, we need far more places where growth is allowed to happen at least a little bit organically. Maybe have some small nudges here and there for central planning, but overall city planners build for what they want, not for what the populace wants.
I don't really know, but I would say that, in areas where people largely walk and bike, businesses tend to have a smaller area that they draw regular customers from, and it is easy for a few businesses of the same type to coexist relatively close to one another. There are duplicates of many types of businesses in my neighbourhood. Walking is the most distance-sensitive major form of transportation. People who mainly walk tend to shop at the closest possible place. Nothing in walking distance will match the selection of a big store like Tractor Supply or Home Depot. I use Zip Car when necessary, but it is pretty rare, especially now that everything can be ordered online.
Ah, I missed that little detail. Good for me, I suppose, since I almost immediately started to write code depending on this behaviour in a Python 3.6 code base :)
There are many companies delivering embedded products successfully with those technologies.

I call that production deployment.

As for myself, feel free to believe whatever makes you feel better.
I think either of your options would work. If you have in-house skills (yourself and/or another engineer), exploit them. If you have a trusted third party who can help, spend some time and money on them. If neither of those work and you feel you need to hire someone, do that (although I’d go with the other two options first). Also, as you undertake these audits, keep a solid record of documentation (questions and answers) as most due dil exercises will be made up of many of the same questions. Stock answers go a long way.
> Artificially low interest rates have inflated the actual price of housing while keeping monthly payments fairly steady

There's a case to be made for each approach. Given we have excellent ways of measuring house prices, but no great ones for cost of living, having CPI measure the latter and thus usage--instead of user costs--seems reasonable. (We don't include stock appreciations and declines in inflation, for example.)
Aikido and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
whats the rate of failing for startups with >$50m valuation? Is there a tracker for that as well?
> Ocaml already has a very mature module ecosystem and is now becoming safe and modern.

It just needs a cargo equivalent. The existing tools weren't sufficient last I checked.
Deploying them should be carefully considered. For insurance and financial services, the tradeoff makes sense. For literally every business that might ever touch a European's data, it's a bit overblown.

That's a fair argument to make. The counterpoint is that before GDPR we had so many problems with companies mishandling data that "a bit overblown" is not something that everyone would agree with. Additionally, some countries (e.g. above-mentioned Poland) had GDPR-like laws (Ustawa z dnia 29 sierpnia 1997 r. o ochronie danych osobowych) for over two decades now, with a corresponding regulatory office (Generalny Inspektor Ochrony Danych Osobowych) that regularly looked into complaints. In practice it turned out to work great, local businesses easily complied with the law, and nobody saw this as a huge hassle in the two decades of the application of the law. I find it hard to believe that it's going to get much worse than that with GDPR. Many companies are just overreacting here really.
I think it's because it implies that their job is to report to you -like you're really the brains of the operation rather than just in a different role
Your OP stated one is lighter, not one is different.

It's easier than the 12-coin one different puzzle, but introduces the ternary concept well enough to get you started on the harder problem (there are some other complications to it as well).

Weigh 2 coins. If the scales move you've found the lighter coin. If the scales balance, it's the third coin you didn't weigh.
If this project is accepted can I be on the mailing list as well?
Never underestimate the kind of mess lawyers can think up. I know of a big organisation providing all kinds of services. I was involved from the sidelines in GDPRing a small part of a very unimportant and almost forgotten service of them.

My personal guess was they wouldn't need consent, as it was a clear-cut case where all requested data was clearly needed to provide the service. And asking for consent to use the data a customer just typed in the site for requesting the service seems a sure-fire way to annoy them without any upside.

Then the GDPR lawyers came.

It turns out, if you interpret the company charter in a very nasty but still legal way, there might be a very rare edge cases where a service was provided to someone who was not strictly 100% a customer. Yeah, I'm a bit vague here, sorry about that.

To be clear: No real-life example was found now or in the 10+ year history records of the service, both the almost-but-not-quite customer and the company would have to do insane things, and service delivered in the case was almost non-existant, but theoretically, on paper, it was possible. I'm pretty sure nobody would care if it happened, either.

So boom goes our legal base. Consent it is,then.
AWS Fargate – run containers without having to manage servers or clusters
Is not even an issue of number of jobs, but of quality of labor.
Spain grew economically in the 70s and 80s because it was a developing country, and could provide cheap labor to neighboring countries. The growth in the 2000s came from a massive housing bubble that didn't end well for most involved.
As we became a developed country we didn't know how to reorient our economy. Now we are too expensive for cheap labor, which is relocating elsewhere, neither we are specialized or competitive enough to oppose other strong economies.
Some times I have evaluated the possibility of going back there and try to make a career in tech. It just takes a couple of conversations with locals to erase that idea from my mind. The country is not socially tailored to attract and retain highly skilled specialized workers, and sadly it's an issue that I don't hope to see changed in the future.
Haha of course you're right. I'm not sure what was going on in my brain when I typed that...
> scooters you’ll see pretty much all over the place in cities like Los Angeles.

have to laugh at this. The touristy areas are indeed packed with them. you can't even see the floor on 3rd street promenade because it is now covered in five companies' scooters. Maybe you see a couple in the silicon beach (which is not around snapchat house, and neither on the beach anymore). but actual places you'd call Los Angeles? none.
I could imagine algorithmic differences adding bias in error margins. Both versions might be accurate approximations of the answer, but one might lean towards one end of the error space and one might lean towards the other.

It's like when fixing a bug in library code breaks application code. Usually it's because there was some undefined behavior in the library - which wasn't part of the contract - which the application (knowingly or unknowingly) relied upon, and then the updated version produces a different undefined behavior.
>>people running successful startups don't have time to write about it

This is both offensive and incorrect. Offensive because it implies that if someone manages to find the time to write about how they are running their company they probably aren’t successful. Incorrect because the startup world is in fact full of leaders who do manage to find the time to write about how they run their companies (kalzameus comes to mind).
It's a brilliant business move, since they are important enough to motivate many people to take on the work. The greatest value will come from having a group tracking the performance and methods of all these small entrepreneurial companies, to find the innovators. Most will invent nothing, just try to make a living akin to that of Uber drivers. A few will think, experiment, and figure something radical. Then they'll be rewarded handsomely (and absorbed) in order to scale up, to the entire country, and to the world.

What other business problems should be farmed out by current tech giants to small entrepreneurs in order to find better solutions? In a way, Apple's iOS app store was a mechanism that achieved something like that -- on a wider, deeper scale than they probably had initially conceived.
Growing wealth/income inequality is bad. Transfers can be effective for reducing wealth inequality. We'd need more revenue for that, however.

Progressive taxation is good. Progressive taxation that only targets the top 0.1% isn't effective unless income inequality were much worse than it is.

To make a meaningful amount of more revenue via income tax without hurting the bottom 90% too much, we'd need to target the top 10%. That probably means the top tax bracket should kick in around $130K. Much lower than where it is now, but high by the standards of many other rich countries (in the Netherlands 52% kicks in at $63k/yr, in Denmark it's 60% at $55/yr).

We should add a VAT too. Possibly with a simple UBI-style system to offset its impact on the poor (since they consume more of their earnings than the rich)
github and irc

I've never met them in meat-space, but none of us see that as a problem, we spend most of our time at our machines and communicate mostly through text. Without the need to answer immediately our conversations are often deeper and slower, and we prefer this.

we communicate through whatsapp and slack, sometimes IRC but that's getting rarer
In your example a corner to corner trip would take ~90 minutes by scooter, considering the 20 mile Manhattan distance + stoplights. A ring highway would get you there in 15-20 minutes. Even a set of properly timed lights would allow 35mph traffic to cross the width in ~20 minutes - which notably can't be (or just never are?) efficiently timed for pedestrians/scooters.

for the extra hour+ that scooter would take (given no/low traffic) there is no price where its worth it vs the ~$10 that trip costs in a car. (20 miles, irs rate of ~50c/mile)
> The point of the article is that what is being done in places like San Francisco […]

Got it. For other places, step 1 is to build a dome over the city to establish San Francisco climate.
That makes Germany sound bad, but factor in PPP and hours worked and it's pretty comparable to the US overall.
Ask HN: Desk Space for lease  Startup did not work
Our office can be shared office space in near Mtn. View. downtown.

Our initial idea (teaching) did not pan out, and other issues, so we need to use the space for rest of the year.

link is :
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/off/d/shared-office-space-walking/6629584167.html

Thanks
I think about this all the time, i'm not sure how far it could go but it'd nice to witness
The Y2K issue did actually require a significant amount of patching for some systems, and they absolutely would have failed if not for that patching.

Complying with government regulation is not really in the same class of issues.
BOE Warns Banks and Other Firms Against Cryptocurrencies
I'd say if you ever get the time again, give OCaml another look. The toolchain experience has been improving at a rapid pace! I started to explore OCaml again earlier this year and the day to day tooling around it has felt at par or better than my experience with other languages.

Between Opam [1], Dune[2] and utop[3] the "new comer experience" has been really good so far. The editor integration with vim/emacs has been top notch, and visual studio code has turned into a really nice option as well for people who don't like vim/emacs. I'm sure there is still room for improvement, but i'd say its atleast heading in the right direction!

[1] https://github.com/ocaml/opam

[2] https://github.com/ocaml/dune

[3] https://github.com/diml/utop

[4] https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ocamlformat
> I wonder if all these sour grapes about cars will simmer down if a generation comes along that can more easily afford them again.

In the UK you could afford a car on minimum wage. I have a car. I still don't think cities should be designed for cars. How can anyone look at one of those pictures of American five-lane highways of bumper-to-bumper traffic and think that is in any way sane?
Maybe it's because I'm used to Rails, but there is really little magic in Django. One is even free to structure the code as one likes. Almost no mandatory directory structure. It's a beefier Flask but still straightforward. If I may come up with a criticism, there are too many complications that slow down development compared to Rails.
I'm in the UK and we certainly do have Experian, Equifax, and other credit reporting companies here.
Well-funded fintech co that just ran into this- going to check it out!
My understanding is that a lot of SQL drivers support compressing the data anyway, so that the server (and client) avoid duplicating the data over and over just to fill the rectangular result.
But then in Goland most people are even against ORMs, so the difference in productivity becomes gigantic. Maybe the pragmatic way is to write a prototype in Django and rewrite in Go once the design stabilizes (I mean, for the smallish stuff I work on..)
There's a concept called "loading zones", which are curb space set aside specifically for commercial vehicles to stop for short periods while loading and unloading deliveries.

They're very compatible with the rest of the curbside lane being set aside for parking (if they're actually enforced), or with that lane being built out with sidewalk extensions, micro-parks, bicycle parking, bus bulbs... etc.
"System's dominant species not recommended for contact at its current state of development"
This article is self-contradictory. If only 1.5% of art thefts result in prosecution, yet thieves are stupid enough to try and sell in the open, this suggests there may actually be a number of private stolen art collectors. Or, the thieves are keeping it.
Why are you sympathizing with pharmaceutical megacorporations that are able to raise the price of medications faster than inflation (e.g. 8%)?
You should look at Chris Sacca's story. I am not sure how much of it is real or fake but I assume it is at least rooted in truth.