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> Even when a company becomes profitable, there's always pressure to make it even more profitable quarter after quarter.

Would you keep your retirement funds in a company that doesn't grow?
I recall (but cannot find) a story of someone that this happened to. The copycat in his case was not very sophisticated and just did a direct copy clone of the source site. His solution (IIRC) was to add some simple javascript that detected if the host was the copycat site and redirected(?) the visitor to the real site (his).

When the copycat site did a verbatim copy, it picked up the javascript as well and solved the problem.
Example: micro services, webpack based stacks, containers, graphql, blockchains, etc

Those are bazookas. Your 10 users/day software is the fly.
That's a bit like... your relationships and mental health are terrible, so you take drugs (especially alcohol) to ease the pain of that. It might get you some temporary relief, but in the long run the consequences might be far worse than the original problem(s) you were running away from.
Sure, 640kb should be enough for anybody.
They also could just capture the data from the subjects' routers, assuming they can be hacked (which for most people is probably the case).
Again, I'm not convinced that's the case. You're implying that, for example, almost the entirety of the employees at Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop, General Dynamics, etc. and a good chunk of the employees at companies like Boeing would somehow be redistributed into the broader economy at a similar compensation level. That's upwards of a million white collar workers. You can't magic all those people into the broader economy without serious impacts, and replacing the expenditure on their salaries with expenditure on things like basic research and public infrastructure does not equate to the same economic outcome. I'm pretty sure doing so would further stratify the economy by replacing solid middle class jobs with a few tech and research jobs and a lot of blue collar jobs.
Yup. But my point was that the constitution actually makes it a point to grant those privileges to persons and not citizens or even permanent residents. It's not a happenstance, it was deliberate wording on the part of the Founding Fathers and it's been upheld every single time in courts high and low. If you're in the US, the same dignities and protections afforded to US citizens under the US Constitution and in particular the Bill of Rights are extended to you.

People might believe that green-card holders are "special" in that regard because they're on their way to becoming permanent citizens, but they would be mistaken.
Kubernetes has more or less invented their own type system. I agree that much of it is horrible to deal with, but I don't know how you could easily express it in any language.

Of course someone could always prove me wrong by doing just that.
Fair point, but there are some exceptions. For instance, the Atlantic's Masthead subscription gives you ad-free access to their audio podcasts.

Overall, I agree with you: once I am a paying subscriber of NYT (say), why should I be served the same ads as a non-subscriber viewing the same article in an incognito window?
Yeah, I read it after, silly of me to comment first.
> if the coin is fair you learn nothing.

But that is simply because the theory that a coin is fair cannot be falsified with one data point. (Well, that's actually not quite true. It can't be falsified with a single data point which is "heads" or "tails". It could be falsified if the coin lands and breaks into two pieces revealing some internal mechanism that makes it unfair.)

> if the coin is not fair, Solomonoff induction works.

No, it doesn't. It is possible (given sufficient technology) to produce a coin that generates a sequence of flips that is indistinguishable from fair for any finite number N of flips, but which then produces HEADS forever after the Nth flip. Moreover, it is possible to know that this will happen without even flipping the coin!
This is wrong. Plastics can and do escape landfills. Also it doesn't seem to be the case that all, or even most, single-use plastics are properly disposed of and make it to landfills.
For what it's worth, it's quite easy to dance a waltz to the song. It's got enough of an oom pa pa that a waltz is very natural.

Possibly it makes more sense to musicians to notate it as 6/8 because the triples come in pairs. It's still a waltz though, and dancers' instinct will be to break it into triples. It's not hard to scramble a 6/8 signature to make it not a waltz (don't put downbeats every three, and it isn't a waltz) but that song definitely doesn't do that.
Yes! This is so important and yet so often not understood even by people who've supposedly been to Bletchley where they spell it out pretty clearly in their museum.

Tunny (the German thought of this as "Lorenz" because that was the manufacturer name) is an actual stream cipher, more or less. It's making pseudo-random bits and XORing them with plaintext to produce a ciperhtext. The plaintext is Baudot code rather than, say, ASCII, but it's definitely bits. Lorenz is doing this in (by modern standards) a ludicrously mechanical steampunk-looking way, but that's what it's doing. Even though to our modern eyes it looks not so different from Enigma in terms of the principle of operation it's entirely different and radically more like how things would be done decades later.

Salsa20 and ChaCha are modern stream ciphers, they're designed for modern binary computers rather than a mechanical contraption, but the core underlying principles are the same as Lorenz. If you can make a lot of "random-looking" bits from a small key you can XOR them with your plain input to produce a ciphertext, nobody can decipher it without knowing the key in order to generate the same "random" bits.

Most cryptosystems you use today have block ciphers inside them, which work quite differently, but some will have a stream cipher, a descendent of Lorenz inside them - spiting out "random-looking" bits.
Async recursion: promising, surprising, but foremost confusing
> Communications mechanisms and so forth were different at the time but I can't imagine starting out without physical proximity to co-workers.

I started programming without co-workers, or instruction, or related experience. I did get a lot of use out of IRC for a while, but I don't really see what difference having someone physically proximate might have made.
>> Nobody thinks that's a good idea, whatever you think about gun rights.

I am a gun rights supporter, very extreme one as I believe all gun laws on the books today are clearly violations of the pain reading of the 2nd amendment, any federal gun laws would require the passage of a constitutional amendment.

I also support the idea that any teacher that has the desire to be armed for their own defense and the defense of others should be allowed to be under the law. No teacher should be forced to carry as a condition of their job however no teacher should be prevented from it by law either.

That is the "extreme" NRA position you believe no one thinks is a good idea, but in fact is widely supported in libertarian circles, as well as actual gun rights circles.

If you believe "no one" supports it then I would question if you exist in a echo chamber
Agree on first, disagree on second. There’s a lot of reasons to work a well paying corporate job.

But here-here on the first point: never take stock at startups, kids. It’s never gonna work out well. Wanna work at a startup? Make one.
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I knew a fellow who had Emacs as his init program. IIRC that was together with the Linux kernel though.
To muddy the waters further - what if the definition of "ethical" itself changes based on who invents the technology and wins the conflict? Have you acted ethically if everyone left alive considers you evil, even if you were upholding your own moral code?

There are ample historical examples of this. In the United States, we consider property rights, progress, and industrialization to be advances and theft and trespassing to be crimes, but this value system was used to justify the dispossession, relocation, and eventual genocide of the Native Americans. I bet that if diseases had worked the other way and slaughtered the colonists rather than the native inhabitants, we'd be living under a very different value system. Similarly, if the South had won the Civil War slavery would likely be considered just & ethical, or if the Nazis had won WW2 Jews would be historical scum, rightfully exterminated, and white supremacy would be the natural order of things. These groups are considered morally abhorrent because we won, which lets us write the histories and gloss over American atrocities like the firebombing of Tokyo or atom bomb.
Algorithm development isn't only about correctness either, but correctness is usually a necessary condition.
Give people a soap box, and they'll stand over you and lecture you.
It doesn't say anywhere on Linkedin that you work at YC.
It certainly has the feel of a waltz. It's not that hard to make a 6/8 time signature not sound like a waltz (as you say, just hide the second down beat, or move it). But it's very very easy to waltz to the song.

Whether it makes more sense to musicians write it 6/8 or not, I have no idea, but it's still a waltz.
How many? How often? To what total effect?

This whole “this is how you get Trump” rhetorical maneuver deployed without a scintilla of evidence across a ton of issues is both lazy and tiresome.
That's not quite what I meant. It does seem clear that the plastic littered throughout the environment is a problem. The bit that isn't obvious to me is why the plastic in landfills is a problem.

The first step to picking a solution is understanding the problem, and I'm not there yet.
That falls under won't, which is understandable. Can't implies someone is legally preventing you from talking about it.
It depends on what is your risk profile and time horizon.

Safest bet and something which doesn't require any expertise - hold cash.

The other extreme is to buy LEAPS [1]. They are a cheap alternative to protecting your downside.

Now obviously both these two things are not full proof and have their ifs and buts.

Cash will lose value due to inflation. But at a slower rate than losing in a crash.

LEAPS are mostly 2-3 years out so if the crash doesn't happen you will lose your premium. But again a small price paid to save your downside.

There is one thing to stay away from is Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

Gold has gone down in last 5 years. So, it still maintaining a slight negative correlation to stock bull market runs.

On the other hand, the supposed gold like bitcoin has gained lot of it's value in the last bull run. So, I am not convinced that there is an argument that bitcoin will hold when we start going into a crash.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEAPS_(finance)
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There is not a SINGLE legitimate link on bing - https://i.imgur.com/blcO4Xu.png

(The quora one is spam that leads to adware apk site on .in domain)
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They don't have a conscious experience.
I think most people that go into a restaurant assume that just as they were not coerced into buying a meal, the employees chose to work there from their available employment options.
Disclosed in this post from last year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806 Would be better if that was on his public profile page, but I believe it's legit.
For those who want to skip the Youtube video, it's troglodytes removing their diesel truck emissions controls in order to spout large amounts of particulates in order to appear as if their vehicle is coal fired.
Thanks for that! "Plastics" as a media thing is like "Fake News" in how it works. It's a spectacle
> This country runs from the bottom up.

That's all well and good, except irrespective of the issue, if you as an individual Citizen tell Facebook to do something, it will take one look at you and say 'bugger off'.

I don't see that there is anything intrinsically wrong with the government directing Facebook to operate within laws or take action. The problem here is that, the particular policy of the government in this case is stupid, and it's up to the collective Citizens to change that policy.
That's a good question, I never thought of that. Maybe while rendering they don't have easy access to which component is "this" due to the recursive algorithm they probably use? That's my only guess.
It feels like you’re strongly supporting his closing point: the ideas are successful with groups because they're impractical and dumb. It's about exhibiting group fealty. I'm so devoted, I'll say things that any non-member thinks are ridiculous. It's like burning the boats behind you when you land on shore.

For the 99.9% who don’t define themselves through group membership as whatever version of libertarian you are, and out ideology far above practicality it’s nuts. What you’re saying however does strongly proclaim your membership in that group, sort of like a communist carrying around a little red book. The fact that it turns off everyone else is a bonus proving your devotion.
> It is similar to Berkeley DB, LevelDB or SQLite4 LSM.

Can you point out the pros and cons vs above projects?

> reading from transaction while resetting it can lead to unpredicatable consequences.

I read this as: only use it single threaded.
> Not many people will have their lives made worse when banning plastic straws

Conversely, nobody will have their life made better by a ban of plastic straws. So why ban them?
So many awesome memories with this one. I liked how each multiplayer game had a theme: mines, pistols, etc. So you had to adjust playing style but you also got to choose. Led to a lot of variety.

Sadly there were only so many mines you could lay before the first ones started disappearing.
The problem is that it’s misleading. Our lifestyle in the western world is unsustainable with existing technology. We can’t fix the problem by “do[ing] more.” The gap between where we are and where we need to be is so large. To fix the problem through conservation we have to dramatically lower our standard of living. Not just “use paper straws,” “compost your trash,” and “buy an EV,” but “bike everywhere, get rid of your AC,” and “eat meat once a month if that.”
Could you go into some detail on why it couldn't be followed by them? I know of some different arguments about why it could or couldn't, but I don't know what you are referring to.
> Are you a straight white male?

Does it matter? Please feel free to respond to my comment and not my identity.
One might see this as a positive feed back loop. One thing a large brain is really valuable for is having ideas about the future you want and then acting in the world to achieve that goal. The farther in the future your goal is the better brain one needs. Thus having to raise a child successfully for a long period of time will help evolve even bigger growing brains and longer childhoods.

On the other hand, maybe humans are now breaking this restriction as more and more births are by C-section. I could see a future where most births are that way (if we don't get artificial wombs first).
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Recycling in the United States is in serious trouble. How does it work?
Quite agreed, and it's why I deliberately chose the "revisionist" label.

Before screens, there were pages, before pages there were cards... going back to plugboards, etc.

Each of us got in at a certain time point. When I learned programming, we had a workstation that simulated a card punch, let you see the contents of one card at a time on a little vacuum-fluorescent display, and stored the data on an 8" floppy. You handed the floppy to the computer operator, and received a printout on green-bar paper.

The other way I got into "programming" was staring at a nest of wires, reading my output on an oscilloscope, and making corrections with a soldering iron. ;-)

The common theme was that a program gets too large for somebody to look at and understand it, much less for a team to work on it all at once, unless disciplines are adopted that tend to come from software engineering. When I'm mentoring colleagues who are just beginning to get into scientific programming, some of these simple techniques, such as avoiding globals and creating functions, are in fact an improvement.
It was in the NYT and it was by Justice John Paul Stevens [1]. I don't think it's stupid and certainly doesn't seem like a ploy for attention.

Repealing the second amendment does not mean banning firearms altogether. Writing a new amendment with better scope might be an option, or relying on congress to enact sensible limits might also be an option. But I do agree with you that such an amendment would be received as "[the left] wants to take our guns." That's the challenge of politics: you have to meet that criticism head-on and be clear about what sort of policies would get changed. This is no different from debating critics of socialized medicine who quickly throw up their hands and say "Death Panels!"

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens...
Not "abuse" as in "targeted bullying". Abuse" as in "untargeted spam".

Just look at what happened to IRC. And Usenet. And Email. Heck, even the Fediverse. The major providers colluded in the form of de-facto network-wide blacklists as a way to counter spam, ultimately centralizing control of the network. People stick to the major providers that participate in the blacklist because, while a few people will occasionally be unjustly kicked out, most of the time it actually works pretty well and the major providers aren't flooded with garbage.
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When anatomically modern humans first appeared, they weren’t into gathering and storing food for much later use, because they simply moved too much for it to make sense. Additionally, the best way many tubers is to just leave them in the ground.

Agricultural year cycle of planting and harvest, with long periods of storing the produce is very recent phenomenon in evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, and not even universal at that — it is northern thing, because it is tied to grain based agriculture . African and South American peoples often practice agriculture when they simply leave tubers in the ground and harvest as needed. It makes the social dynamics much different too, because it makes it less profitable to raid and steal neighbors food supplies, as they will spoil relatively quickly when pulled out of the ground, unlike wheat, rye, millets or rice.
I've not used Elixir, but I'm surprised by the strong dislike for GoDoc. I've used Java, C#, C/C++, Python, and JavaScript and I've never found anything to be as nice as GoDoc.

In particular, Godoc is absolutely effortless. No build step in your project, no cryptic documentation syntax, no need to tell the documentation generator how to link to your dependencies' documentation pages, etc. Everything just works, and the output is quite a lot cleaner than the aforementioned as well.

No doubt there's a little room for improvement in how the text is layed out and organized, but it's still leagues better than all other documentation systems I've used. With Python (sphinxdocs) in particular, everything gets rendered into a giant page with no clues about what class's `__str__()` method I'm currently looking at.
This is a brilliant idea I feel. Students of history have a fairly unique position in having in-depth understanding of events. They are like cultural scientists, they work to understand facts and causality.

With applied history, they could be actively studying ways to prevent mistakes of the past. Then also, blending with the contexts of modern-day life, inform more useful ways of living in the present and future.
Ha, I didn't know about him before. Sounds really interesting. Reminds me a lot of Socrates. I have recently been reading the classics about Socrates and was surprised to realize that

a) his main mission seemed to be to show people they didn't know as much as they thought

b) he was basically a huge troll, even if he was usually correct

c) he was such a huge troll that the Athenians actually put him to death for it via a public trial

If our culture didn't have certain moral qualms that the Athenians didn't have too much trouble brushing aside, I imagine Karl's career would have been cut a lot shorter, along with quite a few other philosophers.
If food stamps are helping you get out of a tough spot, I'm glad it is helping you.

> there is a feeling that this kind of intrusion is justified since I am apparently getting something I don't deserve anyway

The idea that you deserve food stamps implies that you some how earned it. Keep in mind that what you get in food stamps effectively comes from someone else who would earned that money and might rather use it to pay off their college debt or put their kid through school.

If you are not listing your bank account because you don't want them to know that you DO have enough money to provide for yourself, then you are highlighting why they ask for that information. I'm glad if you are getting temporary help if you need it. If you think you somehow deserve and are trying to hide the fact that you actually do have resources you could use for food, you are making a good case for the fact that the government needs to do a better job of requiring that type of information.
Bullshit. There is nothing like what VB6 was being shipped with anything today.

PowerShell or Python are about as close as you get to BASIC in terms of things that are shipped with the OS, but they're an order of magnitude or more as complicated and do basically nothing as far as creating GUIs, which really aught to be much much more straightforward in 2018 than it is.
I took the "safer" in the OP to mean harassment but totally agree with you on your point. It goes to what I was saying about centralization offering better technical advantages.
Careful, there are a lot of WP, Drupal, and PHP devs here, and they make up a much bigger chunk of the front end developer pool than you'd expect post-2000s.

And from sitting in on a lot of leadership meetings, they're one of the few groups that perpetually seems to be concerned with something they depend on sunsetting.

As long as they're passing with ISO, I just stay out of it.
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That's mostly what I mean. I love godoc and the philosophy behind it; its a massive improvement over the manual documentation build steps of Java, JS, Python, etc. But even more modern languages, like Rust and Elixir, do it better. There's a lot of low-hanging UX and usability fruit to be fixed in godoc which can make the experience better.
I don't want to debate the actual particulars here but it's peculiar that you use the word 'extreme' to describe your point of view and then suggest that the parent's use of the word 'extreme' is unfounded. Your post appears to contradict itself.

> I am a gun rights supporter, very extreme one ...

> That is the "extreme" NRA position you believe no one thinks is a good idea ...
Yup, that's how I feel about ever being on-call again. I used to be part of a four-man rotation for a set of services that regularly went down 2-3x times during sleeping hours. This was really rough as a lifelong insomniac. I could never fall back asleep again after being woken up, and was basically a zombie. (And before anyone asks, I've done a sleep study, melatonin, seen a therapist, tried SSRIs, light therapy, intense exercise (biking across America did not help with my insomnia--yeah, biking 8 hours a day, I still couldn't manage to stay asleep longer than six hours any night, now if you don't believe me I'll fucking fight you), Ambien (it takes four Ambien to knock me out), Lunesta (worthless), Remeron (worthless), hot milk (worthless), lavender pillows (worthless).)

Never again.