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> Many people commit suicide without such a final moment of exhilaration.

...and without costing tax payers (F-15 fighter jets scrambling) and private companies (the airlines that owned the crashed plane) millions of dollars, causing stress and anxiety to people boarding other flights at Seattle airport and the subsequent delays to everyone else.
A lot of these same folks are abusing the primary residence exemption on capital gains by pretending to live in an income property. (The gains on your primary residence are not taxed at all in Canada)

They get their mail delivered there while renting it out to help bolster their residency claims.

So they are getting a nice tax shelter while pricing legit home buyers out of the market.

Nobody wants to actually do anything about it, so we pass laws that are easy to work around. Like a foreign buyers tax that is easily circumvented by using a shell corporation.
Yes indeed, but the cultural issue can be addressed by adding it into Base in a 1.x since it's not breaking. I don't think it will make it into a 1.x though but it can.
An array of value types (including structs) in .NET (not just C#) is laid out contiguously in memory and stored in-place like an array of C/C++ structs would be. The problem of chasing pointers does not exist if you use structs (and don't use non-value types such as strings within those structs). And .NET value types are mutable, of course.
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This 1835 law is utterly sensible. Electric scooters on pedestrian paths ? No, just no. The only modes of transportation on pedestrian paths should be powered by your feet. We can allow powered wheelchairs for the disabled but that should be the upper limit. Why are pedestrians always the one to get the shaft in road 'innovation' ?
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I think helped show how sudden this change was. One day, he's working his normal job, another he's stealing a plane and crashing it into an island.
What's kinda mind blowing is that this is an actual business. I can't imagine why someone would need this specifically for their cloud presentations. Like isn't visio enough for everything?
The article title seems like an overreaction to a really sad situation. We have to trust at least someone, and although he clearly had some issues (maybe recent), he wasn't out to hurt anyone or aligned with any groups that wanted to inflict harm.

Fighter jets were there immediately, people tried to talk him down, and he was lost. Nothing better could have been done all around. Yes, commercial planes could be keycoded or controlled in some other way, but I think most engineers in a controlled setting will agree this creates exponentially more day-to-day headaches than catastrophic situations it prevents.
Slight devil's advocate episteme: what about an even-further generalization? How about: the market is the computer?

Not only is the network essentially imbricated with/in the market, but recognizing the market in the role of the computation also means recognizing the roles of all of the different functional components, not just the mechanical/computational "atoms". Basically, I think that thinking this way lets us treat supply-demand basically as a messaging layer.
Google claims they do not do this.

>We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.

Seems pretty clear cut.
What's the issue with cloning the hardware?
They have 84% occupancy, but revenues are still less than 40% of costs? Whatever they are doing ain’t working.

Especially when “WeWork said it has reduced capital expenditures through steps like a 20 percent cut in the cost per desk, or space one member occupies.” That sounds like a typical end of life trend for failing startups, reduce the value and quality of your product to desperately try to stem losses.

I work remotely for a startup and can get reimbursed for coworking space if we want it, but I’ve never been tempted. Why work in a noisy, distraction filled shared space when I can be far more productive working at home alone, with zero commute?
The anecdote at the start of the article seems to me to suggest the investor talked about "being at the edge of science" or technology - i.e. doing something disruptive and new.

But the rest of the article talks about the location of data and servers and it's relationship with the word "edge".
Am I missing something? Why is the anecdote unrelated to the article?
“Relationship” implies “sexual relationship,” otherwise you would just say “friend” and bedrooms would be irrelevant.
Interesting. There are that many companies paying for their employees to work at WeWork? (instead of home or coffee shop - makes sense though if they're more productive)
Needlessly negative/critical, but I could not edit my post. Apologies, I really liked this effort. I dig stylometry, that's why I change my username so much.

Their future research may be really cool, tracing popular chord progressions all through pop history.
If you're still experimenting in a local market, or just don't need that many staff - then going with a provider that provides a known set of features in random countries could be a lot more favourable than trying to find decent local coworking spaces or short-term rentals in each country.

Having been exposed to some of the inane bullshit that you get from coworking spaces in some countries, having a known-good factor could be very valuable.

We've had police turn up to the coworking space in one country and inform us that it was an unlawful occupancy. The police gave us until the end of the day to get all our stuff out. This was while we had important partners/clients in for meetings. Moving our 20-something people in that office out within a few hours was a nightmare, and basically killed a week in productivity, not to mention lost business opportunities/etc.

One coworking space had hundreds of people, but only a 100MBit residential internet service hooked up to a bunch of home-grade wifi access points, and eeeeeveryone was running torrents, and the coworking space didn't care to police their network at all (not that they could, they didn't have any IT staff).

We have people in a WeWork space in one country, and while it might not be fantastic, there's slightly less bullshit there than in other locations.
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Waves of slow traffic don't require tailgating, and easily form either way. The biggest root cause is variance in driver reactions: someone ahead of you slows down, you notice their brake lights, you step on your brake pedal. But how quickly do you notice and react? And how quickly does the person behind you notice and react to your braking?

The people on the slower end of the reaction time spectrum will have to brake longer and harder, causing the people behind them to have to brake longer and harder, and the people on the slower end of reaction times behind them will brake harder still... and eventually you get the effect amplified to the point that traffic is coming almost to a dead stop despite no obstacle in the road (other than traffic itself) causing it.

All of this can and does happen independently of whether people are tailgating. Autonomous vehicles can, in theory, maintain very small following distances behind each other and avoid this problem because they react so much more quickly and (in some visions of the future) can communicate wirelessly with each other to coordinate a reaction. Humans can't do that.
Agree with your points but we do need terms for various type of edge computing in our vocabulary to avoid another nebulous concept. How do you communicate with your peers - network-compute/point-compute?
> Zlotnik compares his team to “venture capitalists in a creative medium, where the businesses are the shows. The [writers’] room is part of a system of staged investment that manages the risk.”

It’s interesting that the article makes this analogy, then compares mini-rooms to the gig economy. Are startup accelerators promoting lean methodology not exactly the same concept?

The difference between getting into YCombinator and being “accepted” as an Uber driver is that the former has significant upside potential. Is this true of a scriptwriter in a mini-room? Very possibly, from a career progression perspective. But there also may be some exploitation - is your writing credit for Show That Hit It Big worth less in a world where new scripts are churned out by other mini-rooms daily?

Makes you wonder what shows would be like if scriptwriters were given equity packages. But that wasn’t ever on the table. With or without this system, it’s tough breaking into screenwriting. This doesn’t change that - it’s just an optimization by the studio itself on how to use its human resources.
Finding a job or project that involves both web dev and another discipline and slowly sliding into the other discipline is a good way to transition, especially if you are older or with less free time.

I was able to transition from web dev to aerospace software while taking care of a family.
I have put many hours in flight simulators (the ones you can install on your own PC). One day I decided to take a real flying lesson. It was almost the same as in the simulator. Obviously the controls are a bit different because of different feedback, but you get used to it quickly. I think what helps a lot is that there are so many very detailed plane packages out there you can buy for the simulators. Too bad the community is kind of toxic, so I stopped playing these games.

Obviously it's not enough to get a pilot license because there are some things that you just can't do in a simulator.
I kind of expected this to be about Derek Smart and Battlecruiser 3000 AD:

https://timhowgego.wordpress.com/bc3k/introduction/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD
how is this labeled [dupe]? They are two separate articles. I'm confused because I've seen plenty of times an issue covered from different articles where both show up in results not labeled dupe.
For me, the big deal about generics is that they allow the type system to cover a much bigger part of my design. Without generics, any parametrized API will erase your types and then the compiler is blind. With generics the type information is preserved and when I specify a parameter type, somewhere several API layers away a type is suddenly fixed, too. That gives me a warm feeling (and code completion, too). And since expressive static type systems seem to be the right way to go, allowing the type system better insight into your code is a big win.
Lol, I put that code in my last project, a 150,000 line codebase built by lazy contractors, as just one of the tools to clean up the errors from their objective c like approach to software quality.
I'm offered it fully paid. I just don't see why. I'm sure to some it is important. But I have a basement office that's a ten second walk to my wife and son. The commute in the morning is also phenomenal.
It’s because he is a white guy. Can’t demonize them unless they are brown or dark.
> how then does every single other DNS provider manage to handle it correctly?

They do not handle it at all. Remember that the responses are tailored to the IP address of the client, i.e. Cloudflare's back end. It is not Cloudflare that is doing that tailoring. So the question that you should be asking is how come archive.is did that tailoring for (as you claim at any rate, although I suspect that no-one has exhaustively tested this before claiming it) every single other DNS provider and not Cloudflare.

Indeed, if you read what you replied to, you'll find that it's the inverse of that situation. archive.is answers are explicitly tailored by archive.is for whenever it is, specifically, Cloudflare asking. So the question that you should be asking is how come archive.is is saying that it is on a Cloudflare-hosted CDN ("cdn-wo-ecs.archive.is", mapped to Cloudflare hosting IP addresses), but only saying that when it is Cloudflare asking.

Once you ask that latter question, you'll get to the meat of the issue, which is that archive.is demands that Cloudflare et al. pass on (most of) your IP address to them, and returns fake name-to-address mappings for Cloudflare and indeed anyone else who says that (for privacy or otherwise) they are not going to pass on that kind of ultimate client identifying information to archive.is nor to anyone else.

(It's archive.is tailoring its response where there is no EDNS0 client subnet, a.k.a. ECS, information, for the technical. That's what the "wo-ecs" means.)
If you put a demo system set up by a sales rep into production without even checking the settings this is what you get.
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It’s the difference between a crash pointing exactly at the cause, and spending days or weeks isolating crashes that only occur minutes after the error that caused them, or only on certain devices, or in certain memory configurations, or only on every other Sunday, etc.
Hey I just wanted to say thanks for this article. I'm interested in CRDTs but the papers are a little over my head, so it's nice to be able to step through your examples in detail.
They explain it a littler further down by saying that they are incurring a lot of costs right now for offices that will bring in revenue in 2019. In other words they blame it on balance sheet imbalance.
but it is not enough for cases requiring sub-millisecond latency and incessant availability: Fields such as IoT metric processing

Why would IoT metric processing be latency sensitive? Whether my thermostat processes the temperature in 3 milliseconds or 30 milliseconds seems immaterial.
I feel like you may want to go a little further back than the 20th century. There is a large time span in there that was the single most dirty and unhealthy time in human history which started off our incredible production of carbon and subsequent impact on climate change.
> If that was the case, then couldn't someone simply establish a perpetual entity to invest and sell their average returns to people with shorter time horizons?

> Like a corporation that sells annuities?

They exist, of course, but I think you'll find "simply" doesn't begin to describe how this works in reality, especially with the confounding factor of that corporation adding another layer of risk/opacity.

> any asset with perpetual outperformance

That's different from your initial premise, which was returns exceeding inflation. Outperformance is a different concept, which is about being better than the mean, but the "stock market" (at least in the US) is often considered that mean.

To consider inflation (i.e. zero, in real terms) to be the mean suggests zero economic growth and/or wealth creation and/or zero-sum activity, and I think it's safe to say it's obvious that's not what's happening.

It may certainly be that the stock market outperforms overall economic growth, but that premium can easily be explained by risk, so long as it's not huge. If S&P500 real returns are 6%, there's not much room for a huge premium to begin with, and I'd be surprised if it's as wide as a full percentage point.
Not while real estate is appreciating dramatically. A unit would be worth several times that. Play with the NYT rent/buy calculator for the Bay Area’s recent numbers.
You should look into barebone laptops.
People should stop coming up with such wrong metaphors. Real-time doesn't mean fast, it just means reliable latency. If you miss a cycle it needs to reboot or stop. But it doesnt mean that they are particularly fast. They are rather slow in fact.

A real time controller in car would be perfectly fine with 150ms cycles, it just depends what is controlled. An engine controller is fine with 500Hz, a GPS controller with 10Hz, Formula 1 has 10Khz controllers, ...

So if a costly central computing service is fine to control something in a car, it might be done. But obviously not as described in the article, they are not stupid. A central service would be async and not RT of course. Updating maps, traffic warnings, eg.
That fails the sniff test. Markets are made up of agents that want things. Computers only want what humans say they should want, so computers are simply the agents of humanity.

You can't abstract out supply and demand, at least, not forever. Abstraction is something you do to things so that you don't have to cognitively deal with them, they're predictable.

Humans will act predictably for as long as it makes sense for them to do so. Your business model will eventually fail because nobody will want your product / service anymore. Or they won't want exactly how you're delivering it. Or they'll have decided that X company is more reliable.

Someone has to keep on top of what the people supplying the business with life-sustaining revenue actually want. It can't ever be a machine, unless those machines actually become sentient, which is a completely different discussion. The person can use machines, but they can't actually be a machine.

People spend money, not algorithms. People may delegate to algorithms, but it's always a person in the end.
PC clones were deemed legal back in the day. No reason this wouldn't be.
> It’s not about the little boy who identifies as gay in the moment; it’s about the little boy who realizes he is gay later on, and who has already internalized the message “it is wrong to be gay and people will make fun of you for it.”

Do you think people should think it's a good thing to be gay? I don't. So i don't see why it's so important to make sure kids think it's "ok". They shouldn't, it's mostly a negative life choice.

> And it’s not just gay people; this can apply to anyone who is considered “lesser”.

Like pedophiles? Because i know plenty of "journos" have been lining up to make those arguments of late.

> The slurs are hurtful; and should be avoided out of empathy for your fellow humans rather than because the government said so.

Why should we have sympathy for child predators? We shouldn't be encouraging pedos to feel ok about themselves. In the same way I don't want to encouage gays walking around in public in g-strings, i don't want to see that culture promoted.

Remember I'm saying this all as someone is apparently is of a "lessor" group according to you.

> But naturally there are a bunch of unempathetic edgelords who have to defy authority. So we are where we are.

When defying athourity is just trying dismantle whatever rules you can grab your hands on without thinking about the consequences then you end up with the modern left.

They can't stop and think for a second about how their actions lead to catastrophic consequences like the collapse in liberal child birth.

Considering that conservatives are having children at around a 4x rate of liberals, It's only going to be a matter of time before they simply are just outnumbered by those who actually have children.
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Right but my point is if you're premeditating the theft to the point where you've studied the manuals/practiced in flight simulators then a key isn't going to be the thing stopping you. I mean will that person realistically go "oh man, I've spent 100 hours learning how to pilot this thing, snuck into the plane, properly fueled the plane and did weight balancing but shit I don't have the keys, guess I'll just go home!". Nah, that guy is hot wiring that plane or stealing the keys on his way into the plane.
Abandoning notions of boolean and aristotelian logic at the outset is the first step toward success in understanding developments.

Children have to invent their own logic, and then discover words that fit it. Only later do they learn about other logics, and adjust. Most never get to Boole, never mind Aristotle, but what they have works well enough for what they expect of it. At the same time, they are inventing causality, which formal logic still has not absorbed, and that most statisticians remain deeply suspicious of.
People have been doing client-side development for millennia. That's ancient. Who wants boring offline technology that's locked down from communication with the cloud where hundreds - no, thousands of servers are using algorithms that are constantly improved with machine learning?!

I kid. Mostly. Most sane people would agree with you. However some people can't see the forest for the trees. Has "buzzword-driven development" become a phrase yet?
I think the better question is why should a car be relying on a cloud computer at all for real-time decisions -- what would that car do when it's in a cellular dead zone?
Anecdotally, I’ve noticed a bunch of people using “scary”, “dangerous”, “hazard”, etc. a lot more recently. I wonder if there’s some sort of correlation with our helicopter parent upbringing and a desire for an entirely safe environment.

Personally, there’s a risk level that I’m content with living with and scooters on the pavement are beneath that.
> Cynics might of course argue that we have come full circle, from thick client to cloud back to thick client, but that would miss the point of what "the edge" is all about ...

You don't have to be cynical -- merely to have either been in, or have read about, IT trends over the past few decades would suffice to understand that it's all cyclical.

The cynical observation is that fashionable management trends and/or the market's eagerness to engage in ill-considered change as a convenient substitute for thoughtful progress, manifesting as regular vacillation between a centralised and a distributed approach to compute & storage, 'keeps us all in jobs'.
I dunno, if subscribers are down 5% and prices are up 44%, it doesn't sound too bad. Even if this is the start of an avalanche, why would they be increasing prices so much if they believed it?
"Unfortunately, the law overshot this goal; it reaches most businesses, online or off. Facebook may have been the target, but the local pizzeria will bear the law’s brunt.

Specifically, the law reaches businesses that collect personal information from 50,000-plus consumers per year, regardless of revenue. This applies to businesses that accept credit cards from 137-plus unique customers per day, including Walmart, Amazon, and a typical frozen yogurt stand"

1) 50000 / 365,25 = 136,89 and 50000 / 365 = 136,986. That's 137 unique customers per day, over the entire year.

2) This number does not take into account paying by cash. I know, I know, Americans love credit cards. But for a simple frozen yogurt stand everyone uses credit card? Really???

3) This number does not take into account returning customers over the entire year. Many customers are going to be regular, loyal customers. Depends on location and such (touristy area probably far less).

4) Revenue can be gamed...
The trick is to drive to an out of the way suburban DMV while everyone else is at work.
I also got completely lost on what was the point. I thought the investor was talking about is it "sexy/new" rather than a technical definition of an edge in a datacenter..
>Sandberg’s anxiety had continued after launch. He worried about his financial security and felt like he’d wasted the last 10 years of his life.

As someone in a similar boat, the burn of "hey, I just wasted my 20s working on some project that didn't really go anywhere" is an incredibly painful pill to swallow, and perhaps something you never fully come to terms with. Life is so very short, don't waste it.
For those interested: https://hackmii.com/ is still up and has a lot of interesting notes on the Wii.
IBM themselves released the board schematics for the 5150.
I'll sell those shares for 419.99
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