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> you need to be able to move data faster than bad software gets released. And releasing software at a rate of one machine per second still means a release takes 3 hours!

Since others have already demonstrated why the remainder of your comment is overly simplistic, I'll tackle this bit.

Generally, software releases are not rolled out at a constant rate to all machines. A typical thing to do is to release it to staging, then to a "canary" subset of machines (e.g. to 1% or 5% of the machines).. Once all seems well there (e.g. metrics are clean and the canaries have handled X writes, reads, and simulated drive failures), it can be rolled out to a larger subset, and eventually to all machines.

In that way, the release can take whatever total amount of time is desired while still catching any such bugs fairly reliably.

Ideally, at backlblaze they could ensure that their canary instances are "data-redundancy aware" such that even if the 5% they roll to for the canary test all explode, data is still safe.

Regardless, any talk of "recovering data faster than software releases" is completely silly and totally misses the reality of how releases are done, how recovery is done, and what sort of bugs might happen. The math based on faulty assumptions about rate is also pointless.
you erode worker bargaining power for 30 years and you wonder why they're share of profits is going down. go figure.
You lose between 1-2L/hr of moderate exercise. To stay fully hydrated and performing well, you would thus probably want to drink 5-10L ish on those hikes, leaning towards the high side if it's hot and arid.

You certainly can get by with less, but that's not the point.
The design docs are linked right below :)

Go 1.5 concurrent garbage collector pacing: https://golang.org/s/go15gcpacing

Proposal: Separate soft and hard heap size goal: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/14951-...
ooh i get it, `alias did="vim +'normal Go' +'r!date' +'put _' ~/did.txt"` and this starts in insert mode. I like this. I think ill change mine to this.
Machine learning for fair decisions
> “It’s as though you took six bits in your computer, but each bit tripled in how much information it could hold,” Schreppler said

"Each bit is tripled in how much information it could hold"? Normally bits have two states, but Shreppler is claiming these qubits can have six states? What am I missing?
The relevance of some of this advice seems like it best serves an VC track company dealing with SV ecosystem pros and cons - especially commentary around investor behavior and availability.

Some of the points around distractions, planning, and tactics do apply outside the bay, but in general the term "High Growth" feels like "early high valuation large cash infused startup", which while interesting, isn't terribly relevant to an extremely large portion of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Given that - does anyone have any recommendations for reading in this space that are a bit less "valley flavored"?
Superfluid 4He is quantum-entangled and non-local effects are observable. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170321110344.h...
Shame for this is very warranted.

Shame, shame, shame.
> It's worrying how obscure and poor standards compliance modern hardware is starting to display.

The standards are too complex. I've spent thousands of dollars on ISO standards documents over the past several years.[1] The complexity of these documents is absurd. And I've never seen an implementation that came close to adhering to the entirety of the standard--everybody always takes shortcuts because it's not cost-effective otherwise. The problem is, everybody takes different shortcuts, so you end up with endless interoperability problems.

The exceptions are often when everybody sources hardware or software implementations from a single vendor. That's when things go more smoothly because everybody is using the same half-baked driver or firmware.

[1] The last document I purchased was 138CHF (coincidentally $138USD at today's exchange rate). They've always been at least that much in recent memory, and often standards are broken up into separate documents or incorporated by reference so you're paying 4x or 5x to get the entire standard. There's alot of free documentation online that open source developers often use, but personally I find it difficult to wrap my head around these things unless I have an idea of the overall design. (I want to see the overall picture so my initial API and architecture isn't a pile of technical debt from day 1.) I have the means so I bite the bullet. But it's a real loss to the entire community--and industry--that these standards aren't freely available. Quality of implementations would be so much better if standards were always open, and sunlight might help minimize the complexity of these things by exposing the flexibility demanded by proprietary vendors on the committees as useless barriers to entry.
My personal feeling is actually quite different. I tend to respect a leader much more as a professional and as a person if they are able to deliver really great work within sensible working hours, leading by example with effective and sustainable work habits.
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Filing for sole proprietor is really easy. You just make estimated tax payments. It really depends on how much income you generate. If you file quarterly, you're doing well I think.

Accountant can do more than taxes, so they are more like a business ally. Tax agents can file taxes for you and represent you if there's any tax issues.

I've been able to get by with Quicken & TurboTax for sole proprietor.

For LLC, hard to say. QuickBooks desktop or online seem to be the most common. It really depends on how complicated your business needs are I think.
It's not "obsolete"... S3 sleep mode uses much less power.
But with 99.999%, there is a risk to smooth in practice? How about 99.99999999999999999999999999999999%?
I agree that the "natural" result will always be something along the lines of a Pareto distribution. That's bad news for my libertarian instincts, because I think it means that, in the absence of any mechanism to (partially) flatten this distribution back out, we inevitably see power accumulate more and more in the hands of fewer and fewer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
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>>> iron clad immunity from any claims of any sort.

Not really possible. This is a planetary matter. That would require cooperation from literally every legal jurisdiction, some of which have no concept of such immunity. This is why such statements should not come from individuals or groups but only from sovereign governments. NASA, not the Hawaii telescope people.
For some interesting examples of what can be done with the Formlabs 3D printer, Ben Krasnow has a recent video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8uPHL52Q0
I'm in the exact same boat. React never really felt comfortable for me, but Vue clicked immediately. Admittedly, I'm coming from an AngularJS background.
> So my question is, where does it mandate what PEC costs are allowable to avoid abuse by providers?

The ACA prohibits denying coverage or charging additional premiums based on, or limiting in any way coverage for services because they are related to, pre-existing conditions.

(Now, within the existing state and federal rules on minimal coverage, insurers may limit coverage for particular conditions, but can't differentiate based on whether they were present before the person sought coverage.)

The real big deal, though, is the linked prohibition on rescission: before the ACA, insurance companies would frequently do focused investigations to find evidence of non-disclosure pre-existing conditions, however minor and unrelated to the current condition, when an insured person incurred high covered expenses, then use any discovered pre-existing condition as an excuse to retroactively cancel their insurance avoiding the high pending bills and dumping them on the patient.
> Sorry, I meant the somewhat cosy relationship between the drug companies, the insurers and the doctors.

Yes, and this is exactly what I'm talking about.

> Maybe it's because of the newspapers' portrayal of NICE as a death panel here, but I find it hard to believe that they're cosy with anyone.

NICE is many things, but they're certainly not "nice". And where that shows the most is in treatments for complex conditions (especially cancer).

But beyond that: providers under the NHS have dramatic leeway in determining appropriate steps for care (that's inherent to the practice of medicine itself), and they are both explicitly and implicitly expected to consider costs as a factor in that decision-making.
I thought qubits had an infinite range of states?
I run linux, have the latest BIOS, but it is not the NFC model, with the "HDR" screen and i7-8650U. I idle around 43C and my fan is completely off under 50ish, at which point it (very silently) ramps up. I get 8-10 hours of battery life, and the screen is fantastic (and very very bright). However the speakers are worst than a 200$ smartphones. No issue with the trackpad as it is a non-NFC model.

I suggest OP revises his configuration...
Vue has all the stuff that made AngularJS so great, and none of the baggage. I've made a few small to medium-sized projects with it, and I see no reason to use Angular[JS] or React anymore. I love how well it plays with regular JS modules, allowing you to share your HTTP code and service libraries across multiple apps (Vue or React, or vanilla JS).

Vue hits a nice balance between opinionated code and flexibility. Throw in their ESLint plugin and I think you will end up with very maintainable code.
It works like normal radar, except that they send one entangled photon towards the plane and keep the other.

When the reflection returns, they can use the entanglement to sort out signal from noise much better and radar is safe from jamming and spoofing.
Yea, that was my first thought: where on earth is the project manager in all of this?? You’re not going to get back on schedule by preaching the good word of “best practices” this late in the game. That ship has already sailed.
True, and the pricing issue goes even deeper. In my experience in shopping around between doctors while being in an exclusionary waiting period the doctors themselves often have no idea what anything costs.

That's why I think banning non-catastrophic insurance would be helpful. I'm confident if insurance companies were kicked out of routine healthcare you'd see a very quick shift to price transparency.

There's one doctor here in town that mostly caters to undocumented immigrants and he has a price board in his waiting room for cash price of most of the common services. BCBS (which is 90+% of the insurance market in my state) actively prevents other doctors from doing this. He can only do it because most of his patients don't have insurance.
Several of my tool designs for developers have not been applied to products yet (while some have).

See my pub list: http://austinhenley.com/publications.html

Let me know what you would like to fund :)
What's 'Japanese handis'? Googled it but couldn't find anything on it.
This article, or at least many of the sources cited, seems to be conflating two very different things.

We already have various kinds of medical technology that are implanted; pacemakers, for example. Those are mostly uncontroversial because they have obvious advantages for patients and because of the general trust we put in the medical profession to act in the patient's interest.

This seems to be entirely different situation to an employer putting their own chip into employees. I didn't see a single benefit in the article that would come anywhere near justifying such an invasive and potentially harmful procedure. We already have instant payments with NFC devices, touch cards to open doors and so on. What's the big advantage of embedding such things within the human body?

I'm also quite sceptical about the idea that the younger generation who have grown up as digital natives will find this more acceptable. That younger generation are often a lot wiser than their parents and grandparents about staying safe online; for example, many of them casually discard social media accounts and move around, and they routinely give false details and use pseudonyms. Older generations might have used their real name and still have the same Facebook account 10 years later, but try finding any 20 year old who does that. It's true that digital natives still put up with a lot of intrusion for convenience, but IME only in cases where they feel they have no choice without giving up a big part of their lives. Nothing in the article here comes anywhere near that category, and given the simple idea and obvious alternatives, it's hard to see how that is going to change any time soon.
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I think life was much too severe. Yes he did bad things, but people who actually murdered other people get out of prison, why can’t he?
> some people (capitalists) would be getting lots of other peoples' (workers') orgasms

Isn't that plainly the case? The distribution of sex experiences is likely very skewed, just inferring from network effects.
Companies like Stripe can become profitable in a simple way: by cutting R&D. And they'd stay profitable for a while, before fading into obsolescence.

For most tech companies, the right long-term strategy is to spend heavily on R&D and growth, using up all profits and some investor money to do so.

The exception is established companies in a declining industry, where the right answer is to cut R&D and growth to nothing and try to extract as much profit as possible in the remaining years.
My daughter works at Starbucks. There is a shocking (to me) contingent of people who do indeed order $4-7 coffee-based drinks daily. She sees the same people every day. It's mind-bending to me, but clearly normal for many.
One thing I really like about Angular is Angular Material[0]. For me, it solved the same problem Bootstrap first solved - get a decent looking & usable app ready even if you suck at design. With the library of components[1], it's super easy to prototype and build stuff with Angular. Is there an equivalent of this in the Vue land?

[0] - https://material.angular.io/

[1] - https://material.angular.io/components/categories
How do you mean? Is upload too slow?
> do you have some reason to believe the size of pools in a market with less interference would result in unreasonable premiums?

Demonstrably so. Just look at pre-Obamacare "high risk pools" for concrete examples. https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/high-risk-pool...

You'll also see it in other insurance markets, like life, house, car, malpractice, etc. - many people are largely uninsurable in these markets.

> What is 'large enough'? The populations of many entire European countries are dwarfed by the number of subscribers to several health insurance companies in the US.

It's not so much raw population as how much you're allowed to slice it up. A decent sized city is big enough - many corporations of a few thousand people self-insure as it's cheaper.

The problem is when you allow insurance to pick their customers. They just pick the healthy ones, if allowed.

> And our health care system requires subscribers to insurance companies to pay those insurance companies to A) provide charity to people who wouldn't be able to afford to buy insurance in real market...

You are using some very weird definitions of "charity".

Obamacare's subsidized premiums aren't shouldered by the insurance companies, they're provided by the government. Those insurance companies are making bank, not providing charity.

Single-payer or income-based subsidized healthcare isn't "charity". Insurance paying out more than premiums taken in for a particular subscriber isn't "charity", it's how insurance works.

> Is it really any surprise that system gets expensive?

Oh, not at all, but that's because we've picked the least cost-effective bits of both private and public healthcare systems to combine into a monstrosity.
> the fact you downloaded an app specifically meant to wipe your phone via an "oh crap" code.

Are we now assuming PKI is fundamentally broken or that one were dumb enough to download an apk from a plain http site?

I'm not going to address the rest of the comment as I don't feel like it, but they'd have to know in the first place.
Obviously a place called Strange Loop is going to biased towards knitting and biased away from Haskell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_knitting

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21505192/haskell-program...
The Free Soilers did something no other American 3rd party has ever done
He wanted to keep traveling and avoid the NHS

Private health insurance is by definition avoiding the NHS, which was 10,000 miles away anyway, so I’m not sure what point you’re making here? If the terms of the policy were we’ll fly you home in cattle class and dump you on the taxpayer then that should be made clear
> But with 99.999%, there is a risk to smooth in practice? How about 99.99999999999999999999999999999999%?

Uh, I guess this question might be interesting from an academic perspective, but not a practical one. There's no risk out there which can be predicted with 35 nines of precision, let alone one that people are interested in insuring. And certainly not one in which the overhead of providing services wouldn't inherently dwarf any benefits to both parties.
Which means every customer suffers data loss

They suffer partial backup loss.

The customer only suffers data loss if they lost their 'master' copy of the data as well during the outage. Iff they don't have a secondary backup solution.
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My daughter works at Starbucks. The answer is: many people, many more than you think until you're there every day seeing them. And it's $4-7 coffee-based drinks.
I drink at least 4L of fluid on a normal day. For what you describe I'd probably double it.
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Title is clickbait. Whatever you can learn from "drawing, playing with beach balls and knitting" is most likely not advanced math. (Otherwise professors in a math department would all be playing knitting and beach balls to get tenure.) Advanced math is hard. It is like toiling in the field under a scorching sun.

Edit: Didn't see that the author of the article is a math professor. This method seems to work in a liberal arts college, but I doubt it would work in a STEM curriculum.
how do you figure that? there are many researchers whose innovative and practical solutions do not get funded. why would people keep quiet about under-funded research?
Having used vanilla JS, jQuery, Backbone, AngularJS, React (with and without Redux), and Vue (with and without Vuex) I really don't see eye to eye with the folks who love Vue so much.

To me, it looks like Backbone, AngularJS, and React had an orgy and out came Vue. The "opinionated" claim strikes me as marketing BS, templating vs. JSX, attributes vs. components (assuming you're using their templating language), etc. There really isn't a performance benefit over React. You're wading into a new ecosystem without all the build-up React benefits from. The templating language itself is yet another thing to learn, and frankly I just don't think embedding control flow into the templates themselves is a sane approach.

The documentation folks love to talk about is alright, I've definitely seen worse, but it is too much "Go do X" and not a lot of "Why we do X." The latter is a particular strength of React, in my opinion, as they describe very well the underlying logic behind why something is the way it is.

About the best argument for it is the batteries-included nature of the projects, but even then I've not truly had that much trouble upgrading something like React Router such that it would make me question using it in the future.
There are a number of Material libraries for Vue (https://vuematerial.io/, https://vuetifyjs.com/en/, etc.). Not sure they'll ever quite match Angular's, given the relationship to Google.
> According to the laws of physics, water always flows downhill. So if you’re looking for water, it only makes sense to flow the same way. No matter where you are, there’s always something downhill of you, unless you’re standing at sea level.

New Orleans, Death Valley, and a lot of other places would like to have a word with you.
I forgot to mention that the extinct volcano at Tatvan should not be missed! This was one of the highlights of my trip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemrut_(volcano)
This

Firstly this is not about the team. It's never about the team. Even if these guys are incompetent and flailing, a competent upper management would have seen it and dealt with it ages ago - long before this hail mary pass you are being handed.

So that means upper management are not up to the job. They could not spot a three-ring disaster, so they won't spot brilliant effort from you.

Now if you are not looking at the team but at the project management the questions become very different - forget code reviews, start asking

- what is the business value for the project
- who pays for the project, who gets the benefits of the project,
- and what are the utter core deliverables that will get them that value

If you don't know this you should not get on the plane

Next, those people identified above (presumably the CEO and his stakeholders) have three options - chnage the team, chnage the scope, increase the timelines

if you fly out to become the team, you will get changed when you cannot deliver

So pick your battle very carefully and be very sure the CEO or other stakeholder is fully onboard with cutting scope and extending time to get it over the line.
Brains think brains are the best problem-solvers.

Eyes see eyes as the most beautiful part of the body.

Skin feels that skin is the best part to touch.
I just switched from an MBP 2013 to a ThinkPad T480 running Ubuntu 18.04. I'm loving it. Linux support has been really great and I didn't have to install a lot of special drivers. (e.g. trackpad support with multi-touch scrolling worked from the start) A lot of Dell's have that terrible bottom placement of the webcam.

Things to love about the T480:

- Fairly portable at around 3.5 lbs with a 14inch screen. It avoids the dedicated numeric keypad that some larger 15inch models have, while still having good screen real estate.

- Great keyboard as all Thinkpads have. (media keys are working great under linux)

- Very durable having undergone mil-spec testing.

- Camera placement at top with a mechanical shutter if you get the FHD screen.

- 32 GB of ram if you want/need it

- Hot-swappable batteries. No need to turn off the laptop. just flip it over and replace. (You can buy the extended 72Wh battery for extra battery time)

Bonus if you find one on eBay slightly used. You could save over a $1000 for a comparably specced machine.
Again, I still doubt that Google places ads with key loggers via their platform. Maybe I misunderstand something about how they operate though, and I can't recreate anything close to what the original article shows. In fact, I can't even load cnn.com right now.
https://vuematerial.io/

https://vuetifyjs.com/en/

(I prefer vuetify)
Vuetify possibly thought unlike material.angular.io it's not supported directly by the framework creators.

Not sure if that's a negative or not.
I assumed this was one of a handful of unfortunately placed typos.
Similar to this idea, the province of Alberta in Canada allows pharmacists to write prescriptions for patients with only the only limit that they can't prescribe controlled substances.
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>So you raise prices for them, and they get kicked out, too.

They only get kicked out if no one will offer them prices that they can afford and that they want to pay for. Why do you expect that would happen?

>Until they do get sick, at which point they get kicked off the insurance plan.

It seems like that would be solved by treating health insurance like term life insurance as the person you're replying to suggested.