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But a more complete notion of "object" isn't what solved the problem.

Much of what constituted physics prior to the advances by Galileo and Newton (and many others) was essentially what was developed by Aristotle. Within the Aristotelian framework, which is what most educated people knew at the time, the concept of a distinct "object" is perfectly well defined. My point is that the natural philosophers at the time were quite capable of asking the question, "do heavier objects fall faster?" without being led astray by an incomplete notion of "object." In other words, the problem is conceptual, not semantic. The Aristotelian - again, the dominant framework back then - was instead led astray by the notion that all objects had a "natural" tendency to move towards the center of the Earth, and that this tendency was stronger for heavier objects. This worldview had a very long history, and a fair amount of evidence (such as it was) to back it up.

In this context, what matters is not the distinct objects but instead what properties influence their dynamics. It should be clear then why it was necessary to demonstrate the empirical truth. Many plausible theories had emerged, including the prevailing Aristotelian one, which accounted for the differences in, say, a lead weight falling versus a feather. Or, to get back to your original example, the Aristotelian would have answered, probably confidently, that yes, your chain of cannonballs would fall faster than separate ones. Your (correct Newtonian) intuition is that the mere act of chaining them together should not alter them, given that the threads would not exert forces in free fall, and therefore mere mass should not alter the falling rate. But, those notions depend entirely on the Newtonian framework. "Force" and "free fall" are the undefined concepts, not "object."

A key insight was needed, namely that you could separate out different causes in the motion; in this case, gravity and air resistance. (Though, of course, "cause" is itself a thorny concept...) Galileo's experiments demonstrated the point elegantly. More formally, this resulted in the development of the notions of inertial reference frames and linearity, which underpin much of classical physics.

I hope you don't think I'm belaboring the point. Newton's revolution was so total, so complete, that it changed everything about how we think about physical problems. Centuries of difficult philosophical and scientific work has been condensed down into a semester of freshman physics. To us, the problem is trivial, and it is easy to think that such experiments are so trivial as to be useless. To Galileo, this would not have been the case. A single thought experiment would not have been enough back then, even though it suffices now.
> Privacy regulations -- most regulations -- cement incumbents.

I’m not sure about this. This seems likely in industries where the user-facing product/service is necessarily tied to the business model (e.g. manufacturing cars, nuclear power plants, dentistry, etc.).

But that’s not the case with the Internet giants. Surveillance capitalism is the business model that Facebook and Google have chosen, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a social network or a search engine sustained though a different one.

It’s the business model, not the service (or the technology), which violates peoples’ privacy.

And it’s one that, upon reflection after reading the article, the EFF seem to be a supporter of.
One might also consider Eloquent JavaScript: http://eloquentjavascript.net/3rd_edition/
I can watch the clip of him singing with Mr Rogers all day, there’s such pure, unadulterated joy in his eyes, his smile, and his voice. The backstory of the scene as explained in the current documentary makes it even more touching.
It must mean that it is woven to every point and part of reality. Like time.
Yes they do, just chat them. Keep insisting. Worked for me.
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Yes, clearly I just don't understand the complex problems they are tackling. I'm certainly not calling them out on being shady and awful like every other payday lender since forever [0].

A few takeaways from their most recent CFPB fine of $6 million :

>"Misled consumers about graduating to lower-priced loans"

>"Hid the true cost of credit"

>"Reversed pricing without consumer knowledge"

>"Understated the annual percentage rate"

>"Failed to report credit information"

It's honestly sad how weak the CFPB is, but at least it's something. This entire industry is a stain on humanity.

[0] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/lendup-enf...
If more people do this, the scammers may stop supporting this workflow and force deaf users to get their friends to call.
I always check HN when I want a snitch's perspective.
>To answer to my initial question: API logic should not be written in Vuex nor in components. There is even a good example on how do that in some of the official code examples.

Ok, but where's an example that shows how this backfires? Why should the API logic not be written in Vuex?

One more thing I think deserves mention: Vuetify - Vue's material design component set. It's being used in the project I'm currently in and I worked with Angular's material design component set and I have to say the former is way better built.
>Threatened with a blackout in China, they rolled over like an obedient lap-dog and quietly transitioned ALL iCloud-China related compute and storage to a government controlled cloud.

The Chinese App Store generates 6-8 billion annually in revenue and that's not even including the revenue from their other services. China is also one of their largest phone markets, if not the largest, and the source of their growth so of course Apple rolled over like a lap dog and handed over the data of their Chinese users to the Chinese government. The fact that the EFF has been so silent on the the hypocrisy of Apple's privacy policy says a lot.
Right - but it's not like Google is unwillingly complying with surveillance. They are happy to comply!
I've had good luck at niche meetups like for one particular language or framework.

And then less good specific but decently good networking at interesting side projects meetups.

I think the general purpose tech meetups can be hit/miss. It takes some work to find the best big one in a city. The best one in my city asks that only startup employees attend and not third party recruiters unless they're sponsoring.

It also helps if the meetup is hosted at an incubator or accelerator type space — one signal of quality vs a random place.
I found this out after I signed up, and realized the offer was time-limited (illegal business practice).

But I managed to cancel through online chat..

It surprised me that a supposedly reputable news outlet is so quick to sell out its credibility.
(guess I'll stick with the guardian)
The founding fathers did not develop a radically new kind of country. They observed the inter-national confederacies of the people who had already been living in and around the area that is now called New England. Under the articles of confederation (in which the term "The United States of America" is coined) the country was run in a way very similar to the Iroquois Confederacy. The big difference was that the Articles did make it possible for the central government to develop policies to be implemented in all states; the Iroquois Confederacy did not have anything of the sort.

The federalist influence came later, but the Constitution we live under now did not require such a huge amount of creativity as we like to teach in our American History classes.
Before? How an event loop works under the hood (select) so you understand the single threaded nature (the benefits and pitfalls). Most resources cover the effects of this pretty well, but it's always nice to understand how it works by implementing a toy project with the syscalls directly

JS is a fun, but sometimes frustrating language to learn. The async-first, functional model is eye-opening and interesting (depending on where you're coming from!). I also find it more fun to program in than most other languages for some reason. Enjoy.
If you combine it with insoluble and soluble fiber it's very filling. Guess what the macros are for beans and legumes?
I don't keep track of people's vacation time that closely. When I transferred to Google Munich though I didn't notice a change in work life balance, other than having more vacation.
Surveillance company employee indicted for attempt to sell spyware code for $50m
And then they get buried in ADA lawsuits.
I don't see the benefit of studying the jQuery source. I'm grateful for every $-littered line of code I get to carve out of our projects
My biggest issue with PowerShell is the lack of a good, web-indexed, resource for exposing what SHOULD be expected in a normal operating environment. It makes looking for features that are expected in a standard library just not worth the effort. By comparison every other language I like programming in actually has a very strong set of documentation in an easily found repository.
We started experimenting with building an automated insurance agent bot that would help someone purchase various types of insurance from a particular provider. This could easily be tweaked to provide different information/comparisons of various insurance types from various other providers/sources. You could also pull in public reviews/feedback to allow for rating and recommendations.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xgMEkvEppM#
I don't know about trust being the root. But the argument can be made that society is very different. And the Fred Rogers model won't have much of an impact given the environment of hyper stimulation/24x7 distraction that consumption culture creates.

Fred Rogers was critical of it even back then. Since then, consumption culture has exploded, objectification of women, violence, escapism whether it is in games, drugs or your social media, news streams is at an all time high. For a Fred Rogers type message to get through the volume dial on all this other stuff has to be dialed down. Otherwise the very valuable message gets lost in the noise.
as a european living in America I would somewhat disagree

I've had more than one colleague who modifies anything on a menu until it's mostly meat, carbs & cheese
True, but it may at least fuel our imaginations for the time being.
20% of code covers 80%. 80% of code covers 19%.
I'm specifically talking about what Google gives its employees for public holidays. And federal holidays are basically meaningless unless you, y'know, work for the feds.
Yes, I was there for all that. I am incredibly proud to call myself a LendUpper and I have no regrets.

All of that stuff was either done on accident when the company was a small handful of people or is pretty innocuous (we got in trouble for not displaying on our advertising that the rate may differ from the imaginary icon we showed, which displayed one of the possible rates based on how much money you took out. Or getting nailed for trying to give people a discount if they promised early repayment and not giving the discount if they didn't pay in advance).

Literally any company that had that regulatory weight on it would have the same number of things the CFPB could go after if they could, but no one else is trying to play by the rules and just operate out of sovereign nations.
Such a strange comment to read ... quite literally, the reason I first started using Vue over other frameworks was I wanted to put it into legacy apps and did not want to use a build tool. It's one script tag. Not in a half lying way like people say about React, for real. It falls down if you start throwing in components and libraries that presume webpack based setups (which is annoying), but Vue itself is completely and trivially usable with zero build step.
> This is a transparent hit piece

From what I've read so far (about half), it definitely feels like a hit piece, but it might come out more effective than transparent.

From the beginning, there were signs and a general feeling that there was an agenda that was forthcoming, and only slightly alluded to. It comes in full force only later, when well into the article, so I wonder how many people that weren't primed to look for it or didn't sense something amiss early where successfully primed from the first portion to accept the insinuated problems later.
Agree 100x

Example from my field: silicon photonics project which got a lot of press and all of them mentioned MIT, usually in the headlines. U boulder contributed to the project and got e near zero recognition.
Woohooooo, I hope this means I can cancel my Morningstar sub. They make it impossible.
My bank allows me to cancel my credit card online, which is good enough for me.

I tried to cancel a credit card in order to escape a recurring charge I couldn't cancel. I was informed by Chase that because I had a previous auto-bill relationship with that company, its charges would follow me to my new card, and if necessary, my bank accounts.
Executives should go to prison for not staffing call centers properly?
The more limited time does suck, but on the other hand the huge amount of money makes it way easier to retire earlier, so you can have more time off in the long run if you want.
That is definitely true. Whenever I see a link to MSDN I assume it will probably be dead or redirect me to the homepage.
#RunAway from Russian-Linked Twitter Accounts That Are Posing as Ex-Democrats
Yes, because it's a great book. Everything in the book is still relevant, closures, currying, object binding.

If you use the syntax he suggests all your code will still work.

Just because let and const mean you can avoid some problems doesn't mean you shouldn't know why we have them.

The Monads and Gonads talk [0] he gave is also great.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZFtimgAcM#
Awesome, I will - thanks!

Property insurance attritional losses are fairly predictable, and reinsurance is there to smooth out Catastrophe loss years; they'll be there to support us and bring our Loss Ratio back under control. So key is to charge enough to cover attritional (i.e. predictable) losses + reinsurance premiums.

But yes in those bad years where there's no UW profit, there's no dividend - everyone's contribution was needed.
It's not common. My site with hundreds of thousands of users has been using React/Vue for years and I've never had one complaint about JavaScript.

If JavaScript is disabled I just show a message saying the site needs it.

I also only support modern browsers and haven't had a complaint for 3 years.

About 3 months ago I completely dropped support for any browser that doesn't support CSS grid (no more IE 11!). Again, no complaints. This one is more "brave" but I use Modernizer and show a clear message outlining all the required features the user's browser doesn't support and why they would want that feature in a browser. There's a link to a website to help them find a modern browser on their platform.

Edit: I realised that based on what I said you could argue that users are annoyed but I'm just not aware. I doubt this is the case since the users are keen and vocal. I get messages almost daily from them telling me the features they want to see. The last time this had to do with browser support was one message 3 years ago about IE9 not supporting the TLS certificate or something. They were forced to use IE9 at work.
Hah, that is a great story.

Reminds me of ancedotes of devs intentionally wasting ram in old school console game development; locking it up in some obscure way; just so that at the 11th hour, you can remove it and claim "amazing optimizations". ;)
The only time I've ever been rear-ended was that way — pulling out of a parking lot where the street was at a slightly higher level, so I couldn't see around the parked cars on either side of the exit. I started to pull out rather quickly, but then was forced to hit the brakes, and the person behind me — well, I don't know where they were looking.

I guess that's not quite the same scenario, though, since the person behind me couldn't see the cross traffic either; they were just cueing off my own behavior to conclude that it must be clear.

Anyway, you're right: good driving isn't just predicting what other people are going to do; it's also making sure your own behavior gives them the correct idea about your intentions.
Yes, crickets require high-protein feed to grow at a viable rate. I don't understand the logic of using the crickets instead of just using the feed.

Black soldier flies, on the other hand, feed on sewage and rotting waste, things it would be really beneficial to get rid of. Using them as a protein source makes sense to me, on an intellectual level at least.
Facebook correctly labels hateful sections of the declaration of independence as hateful.

not as catchy a title I guess.
Hey, thanks for the interesting article, and the benchmark of course!

One bit of constructive feedback: add a date of publishing to the article. PSPDFKit already has multiple articles on WASM before, and it's nice to be able to tell which one is the most "up to date" at a glance.
A couple of years ago I got Octane2 and went through similar ordeal (new OS and a bunch of other fun things). SGIs and IRIX are a lot of fun, especially for us that saw those only at workplace or in adverts 'back in the day' (they were a highway robbery back then).

There's one advice from a friend here. If you ever want to use Octane2 on your desktop, let me warn you that it sounds like a jet engine. Not practical at all. Now I know why we kept only O2s on desktops and Octanes were in 'server room' when we did work on them.
I cancelled in person, and that didn't even help.

I got calls from Comcast for weeks afterward telling me that I needed to return my equipment. I kept telling them that I did return the equipment and have a receipt. The only thing that made them stop calling is when I described the receipt to the person on the phone as having "that big stupid NBC peacock logo that you stole on the top of it."

I guess without the logo description, none of the other callers would believe me.
I bet some nastythings would be exposed if their admissions policy were revealed. Like you'd still lose points for being Jewish or a visible minority.
Following our nature is easy, we just do it naturally. Opposing our baser instincts is hard, so a lot of people don't. The greatest leap as a species we can take is if we can make it a social imperative to act against those urges, but in today's corporate-controlled world, our "corporate overlords" want us to react on instinct to purchase expensive, wasteful, and useless items and services. Until we figure out how to hold a corporation to the same ethics and morals we hold individuals, that won't happen.
When theory meets reality, requirements change. We thought this approach would work, and our research suggested it would. Then the real world came along.
So now we have to consider the specter of someone writing an overly verbose review of something that reduces to "tl;dr". Someone might summarize the review by writing "tl;dr: tl;dr". Or they might express the same thing, but overly verbosely, so someone might summarize their response by writing "tl;dr: tl;dr: tl;dr". In general, if N "tl;dr"s is a valid sentiment, and any valid sentiment can be expressed overly verbosely, then N+1 "tl;dr"s are a valid sentiment, so by induction any positive integer repetition of "tl;dr"s is valid. However, there exists some number L such that L repetitions of "tl;dr" is itself too long to express the necessary point, and someone who didn't read it would want a summary, the most succinct of which would presumably be "tl;dr: tl;dr nested L times". This meta "tl;dr" itself might be expressed overly verbosely, of course...
Funny.. I actually had to call justfab.com today to cancel my wife’s account. Took me one hour and three different people before they finally managed to shut it down. First attempt they hung up on me when I told them she was a mute. Second time I just told them it was none of their business why she couldn’t talk on the phone. The account was registered with my credit card in my name but they still wouldn’t let me cancel or even have my credit card removed from the account. Shit company...
> "I think the problem is not the schools - it's the way we treat 'brand value' particularly in places like the Silicon Valley."

I agree with basically everything you said except this part. These schools very actively attempt to boost their brand. OTOH, silicon valley stands out as being one of the few places to place relatively less weight on such pedigrees and has even developed alternatives, e.g. the Thiel fellowship.
Wouldn't that actually be illegal? Deafness is a medical condition and I doubt "get a friend to do it" would be a suitable accomodation.
> not just to think everything related to big-tech is solved by machine learning.

In fairness, I think most people realize that a significant number of problems are actually solved by blockchain instead.
It saddens me that JSX became so popular in the React community. I find the syntax verbose and hard to read ... similar to HTML.

At my last company we used `react-hyperscript` which was a simple wrapper around `react.createElement`.

Ultimately, the React developers made the mistake of making `createElement` so annoying to work with, I assume because they bought into JSX. Granted, JSX might have been necessary when React was first created in order to ease people into transitioning to HTML in JS, but I feel like we can move passed that now.

I highly recommend `react-hyperscript`: https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript
I have two Gmail accounts.

One morning about six months ago, when I tried to login to both (one after the other) from a browser, Google responded that I have the wrong password. (I guess this is possible, since I don't login from a browser often. But I don't think so, and certainly not on both accounts!)

Since I still have access to incoming mail using the Apple Mail client and the accounts are linked (the backup of each is the other account), I asked for a password reset and got the code, but when I try to reset the password on Gmail, it won't let me. It says it cannot verify that I am myself - on either account.

The cell phone I used when setting up the accounts some ~10 years ago are no longer in my possession, and I don't remember exactly when I created the account. I have older passwords 100% sure (written down) but Google won't accept them. I tried using the date of the latest email I have in mail, but that didn't work (am pretty sure that there were older mails that the client deleted).

I have no idea how to recover the password via the Apple mail client, and could not find instructions online anywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

ATM, I cannot login to photos, docs, or anything that is not accessible from the mail client. I don't know what to do if the mail ever stops connecting.

The fact that there is no recourse from G, and that they won't even honor the reset code they send me (while still letting me send and receive mail), is ..scary. But is also irresponsible and destructive - I have lost all access to family wedding photos, to older contracts, to who knows what else.
Frank Olson
Unless this is some other type of support, their official page seems to indicate 24/7 phone support[1]. Also, aren't they owned by Amazon now?

[1] https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/213608406-Phone-N...
Poe’s Law is like a litmus test for ideologies.
They'll likely find some loophole around not calling it a subscription. "You're timesharing with our gyms"
First, you really have to use some kind of a wrapper for the DOM. Very few web development is done directly against the DOM, due to design flaws and browser incompatibilities. (Unlike Windows / Mac / ios / Android where you just use the API that the OS vendor provides, and it's usually decent.)

But, those various wrappers get outdated very fast. The UI APIs on Windows, Mac, Android, ios, ect, change very slowly.

In Javascript, whatever framework / library / pattern / ect that you use to manipulate the DOM seems to change every few years.