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My first job in the '80s was doing RFI/RFP shotgunning for a mom & pop (my mom & pop) defense consulting firm out of the GSA register. We would essentially cold-respond to everything in our domain. From that experience I learned that there were some genuine requests with no fix in.
In broad strokes, my ideal safety net would be means tested (if you are poorer you get more) but gradually phase out as income increases in order to incentivize working, be a cash transfer to let people spend however they want without layers of make-work bureaucracy and political lobbying (farm lobby pushing food stamps, etc.), and be actually funded rather than through deficit spending.
I agree that so many class action suits seem to result in peanuts for those in the class, but I also think it's difficult to assess how much that acts as a deterrent to even worse behaviors.
Laravel Forge [1] offers what you're after though I'm not entirely sure it's worth the added cost imo.

[1] https://forge.laravel.com/features
Our western/christian way of seeing the world has a lot to do with this condition. The illusion of control, this permanent struggle for betterment and perfection is a very good recipe for anxiety, depression and mental illnesses. Add to that the loss of faith, and that's it, you get millions of people on antidepressant...
> We don't know why Docker did this.

Well, yes and no. They've said why they've done this:

> we've made this change to make sure we can improve the Docker for Mac and Windows experience for users moving forward.

but at the same time, that explanation is clearly bollocks. Something I realised and find very helpful to remember is this:

> If someone gives a reason for something, and the reason is clearly bullshit, then it means the person giving the reason has a hidden agenda which is likely to be negative for the explainee. - "Will's law of corporate bullshit"

Here's how it works. People do stuff for a reason, for instance I ate lunch because I was hungry. I have opened the windows because it is hot and I like the breeze.

It is usually easy to match the action with the reason given, there is no suspicion here, there is no cognitive dissonance.

So let's take the example in question, Docker moving downloads of their software behind a login. Without attempting to guess at their motivations it seems clear that this is a very inconvenient thing to do for end users. As someone has pointed out, the steps to download the software are nearly doubled, and there are fears of getting corporate spam.

So OK, that's the action, what's the reason given?

> we've made this change to make sure we can improve the Docker for Mac and Windows experience for users moving forward.

Well, that's clearly bullshit, right? It isn't possible to match the reason given with the action. It's not going to allow for a better experience for end users.

Let's apply the logic. Company does something -> Reason given is bullshit -> there is likely a hidden agenda that is bad for the explainee.

So we have arrived at a situation where we are pretty sure that the hidden reason for Docker to make this change is negative. We don't know exactly what yet (we can speculate), but we are pretty sure it's negative.

So you are right, "We don't know why Docker did this", but we can be fairly certain it's not going to be for the benefit of us end users.
"Jerk" is a pretty mild word to express dissatisfaction.

I would maybe ascribe it to a mismatch in expected decorum, hardly call it toxic. Like, do you expect a church or an informal conversation among peers? Or if you will, a cathedral or a bazaar? :)

And it was just one comment .. "We're all adults" goes both ways, let's not fall all over ourselves because of a little mildly bad word. Personally I don't think that's very constructive either, in the sense that it lights the fire under something that distracts very much from the actual topic.

They called it an astounding level of toxicity. Whatever your thoughts on the expected level of decorum, that seems a tad hyperbolic to call out over usage of the word "jerk". Such hyperbole is definitely not helping, and in my personal opinion, actually more "subtractive" than generically calling a group of people that did something you don't like "jerks". For one thing, it's not astonishing. It just isn't.
This video shows an aerial line crew (lineworker and pilot in a helicopter) bypassing a high-resistance splice in a 220kV overhead power line, attaching a large bolt-on shunt while the line is still live. The lineworker sits on a platform on the outside of the helicopter while doing the work, in an incredible demonstration of precision helicopter hovering.
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They did. But you ignored the fact that your original number was the amount raised for several different organizations over a longer period of time. You chose not to mention that, for reasons I think I know.
Too little, too late. It only protects "minors, students, and low-wage workers". So non-competes against most of us reading this article are still perfectly enforceable.

It's good that they're protecting the weakest class of workers, and those who need this protection the most. Enforcing non-competes against sandwich makers in fast-food chains was probably the most egregious abuse of non-competes ever committed, and a blatant attempt to keep down wages for jobs that already pay barely livable wage.

But these are not the classes of workers who made California's economy boom. It's too bad lawmakers prioritize their short-term funding needs and donors over long-term welfare of their state and its economy.
As a (soft)libertarian I have to acknowledge that social spending can be such a great value that it's almost imperative - for example if we were to drop taxpayer funding of education, it would put our country at a severe disadvantage to other countries. Those more economically successful countries could over the long term buy our assets. Public-health vaccinations also come to mind.
As I mentioned above, it probably varies per person. Nobody has reliable "head data" (studies) either way. If you can donate for a formal study, that would be great. But until then, my experience with other programmers is that people think different from each other. One's own head is not necessarily extrapolate-able to other heads. It's too small a sample size.

For my head and a couple of others who have agreed with me, an ordered map is a better root linguistic structure than nested lists. It's more natural to OUR heads. No language will make everyone happy, but map-oriented languages are under-explored. I intend to explore. Call me "Ferdinand Mapgellan".
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Interesting idea, although it seems that it would more likely wind up forcing the creation of money-laundering schemes than doing real good.

While it wouldn't really solve the activist investor issue, I favor a strongly time-based capital gains tax system, designed to favor long-term investment, over short-term financial extraction. The rate table might resemble:
<1 minute = 95% cap gains tax rate

<1 hour = 80%

<1 day = 70%

<1 week = 60%

<1 mth = 50%

<1 qtr = 40%

<1 year = 30%

<2 yrs = 20%

<5 yrs = 10%

<10 yrs = 5%

>10yrs = 0

Obviously a mere first-draft, subject to tuning. But the general concept should be clear - the short end would eliminate the volatility, unfairness and flash-crashes created by submillisecond trading. The encouragement to the longer end would get everyone to think longer-term. The 0% for decade+ holdings would prevent a lot of silliness around inheritance (e.g., you inherit a few shares from your grandfather, and have no records or reasonable way to figure the cost basis, but are required to assert one).

Of course, I doubt it would happen because it isn't in the short-term interest of the bankers.
Columbus was one man, here you have an enormous organization: Are you sure that all decision-makers know the correct statistics and not the falsified one? Are there more than two levels of truth here - does the academy of sciences have the same figures as the central committee? What about the ministries and regional authorities? This madness must be creating its own challenges, so to speak. You never know if the numbers that one is looking at are correct - the job of Mandarin is not an easy one.
> Freedom of speech isn't just saying what you want while alone on your back patio.

Freedom of speech isn't "You can say what you want on any platform and reach as many people as you want" either. Saying Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube are "digital public space" is akin to saying some sports stadium is a "public space" - yes, big crowds come to them, but they can still escort you off of the field. You can even just try protesting peacefully (in USA) and get a not-so-nice visit from the police.

NN can prevent things like an ISP blocking $SOME_PRESIDENTIAL_CANDIDATE_WEBSITE or $ABORTION_CLINIC_WEBSITE or $GUN_STORE_WEBSITE. Not having NN is more like electricity company blocking you from charging Android phones and requiring that you only charge iPhones, or vice-versa.
Depending on cannabinoid profile, intake, strength it can help with or potentiate panic attacks (which sometimes start with omg I comitted a crime. What if someone finds out? Or by the unfamiliarity of the feeling - was my drug laced with something?) For the exact reason it should be legal, so people know what they take. As a sufferer of panic attacks I can attest that cannabis had been a life saver at times, although I don't medicate (with cannabis nor prescription drugs) at all now.
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Do you think your water company should pick and choose? How about your electric company? Maybe they can charge you a higher electric rate during Game of Thrones because they know you want your power more than normal then? etc

I don't want a company picking and choosing which bytes of mine are fast or slow. I'm buying byte containers, their job is to ship them. I dictate how fast, and who it gets shipped to. End of deal. Full stop. Any deviation of that is wrong in my book.
Or you could just use ECC instead of RSA and not have to worry about generating primes at all.
I think another user put it best[0]:

> Some people might scoff at the ideas in the article. You took out a loan, only a deadbeat leech would default on that loan and expect to keep their house. Sounds about right, but that assumes we live in the world we all imagine. The "right" world, where business still resembles interpersonal relationships. It doesn't, and we don't live there.

We know that at the end of the day, a loan, insurance, utilities, etc. are all business contracts. Each party signs something, and each party expects what they signed for. The problem is that contracts (especially when buying a home) can be absurdly long full of unintelligible language. So we as ordinary people want to believe that we aren't going to get screwed over. We know that these major companies have the manpower and funds to ruin us, but we hope it doesn't come to that. From that same user[0]:

> You've paid your insurance bill diligently for years, but as soon as they are needed, they start looking for ways to get out of paying the claim. They will happily screw you over the tiniest technicality. The insurance industry certainly isn't the only offender in that regard.

It's a business transaction. Some of the time, we don't even have a choice with who we do business. But as an ordinary person, I don't want to get fucked over by these forced contracts.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17810765
> My cat loves the panic attacks though. I stay up later, and I'm petting her the whole time trying to calm down. Great for her.

When I'm away from home I can reduce an anxious feeling by imaging I'm petting one of the cats and feeling its rumbling purr.
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Good. These agreements by themselves are completely immoral, but when you have a sandwich shop and a summer camp using them, then you know you've reached a new level of evil.
> I think it's a symptom of times changing. People don't want to code in vi/nano anymore.

Not sure if that is true. Many people are still using vim for many newer languages. I think it depends on the language.

Some languages are simply more IDE-reliant than others. Statically typed languages with a large vocabulary (Java, C#, Scala) tend to benefit more from IDEs than simple, dynamic languages like Python and Ruby.

And there are newer languages like Go. Go was designed to not require an IDE while not being opposed to one.

I think the language server idea is a brilliant one and probably something we'll see more and more of, because it makes a language completely editor/IDE agnostic. It would allow folks using vim or VS code to debug or refactor as cleanly as full-blown IDEs. I suspect this will lead to a decline in the specialized IDE market (Jetbrains).
>Not quite sure what the relevance is today of this article from 2012. It's core message is a good one, though.

I can't seem to find it at the moment, but it was linked in an article yesterday that was about clouded titles and how the mortgage crisis continues to have effects on the ownership of homes long after people thought it was over.
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That's a pretty invasive question don't you think?
A decentralized solution still needs to be hosted by _somebody_. Where is it expected to live? On the PCs of Rohingya refugees?
I've had the same experience with Cannabis.

I'm convinced I have a mild allergic reaction to it. I think people don't realize that can happen.
Noncompetes are a classic tragedy of the commons, where it's in every individual company's interest to use them, but doing so nonetheless works against the vitality of the whole economy, and the competitiveness of the state.

Great to see Massachusetts taking a step in the right direction.
My, likely flawed, understanding is that the Chinese trust the government more than the west have a history of doing. The mentality is something more like a family elder, if i have understood things correctly.
Appropriate background for any claims of unbiased decision making based on statistics:

https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/LieStat/

The numbers can be completely accurate, but the interpretation will always be biased. Also - "USA Temperature: can I sucker you":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744886
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I don't know. I didn't offer an alternative, and I'm not sure that there is one. I only pointed out that from the GP's viewpoint, these examples of democracy reflecting the will of the people (Trump, Duterte, Brexit) are not having positive impacts on society. I don't believe they should be held up as examples of democracy at work, but rather as unfortunate failures of democratic systems.
Find a way to subtly detect them (user agent? Sneaky headers?) and serve them janky content. Serve them the same copy with copious swears. Have a bit of fun while you go through legal channels.
Same. At some point the link was very small and almost invisible.
It seems to me that I have more choice between ISPs than in auction sites, as an example.

The tendency towards monopoly in networks makes all these cases similar I think.
If you count death tolls in the Korean war, Vietnam war, and the middle eastern excursions in the last 25 years, you are in the same order of magnitude.
This is actually fascinating and a pretty fascinating view point. I've been meaning to write something on this topic myself; will check out your blog posts/comments.
> Be sure to read that first sentence of mine a couple of times before replying. It does not say "integrations are always trivial to port and are thus irrelevant", for instance. If I wanted to say that, I would have.

Off topic, but when you write something like this the message you’re sending is “I’d rather insult the reader than take the time to communicate in a way that can be properly understood.” Hopefully that’s not the intention.
>"Everyone does it" is a piss poor excuse for pretty much anything.

It's really not. If doing "it" gives you some advantage, and not doing "it" means you're going to get outcompeted by someone else who is doing "it", then it's in your interest to do "it", which is a perfectly fine reason for doing things. If you can manage to get everyone not to do "it", or make doing "it" disadvantageous, then by all means. But that is not always a viable option.

It's probably not a viable option in this case. You can try to make it less advantageous by attempting to punish other countries that engage in it, while downplaying it when you do it, but it's still going to be worth it for countries to try.
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Show up drunk or stoned to your friends kid's birthday, to a wedding or a funeral, to work, to meetings with clients, to the DMV, to your parents Christmas meet-and-greet, to your kids school play, to the PTA meeting, and then ponder that and you'll have your answer.
Thank you, as someone that has been on the other end of snafus like this, I know owning up and opening the program to an additional 11K people is not easy.
Wow, I wish I'd read this thread a year or two ago. I'm in my early 40's, and I had a couple of panic attacks last year for the first time in my life. For the first one I was driving and had to pull over and walk around in a strange neighborhood because I was convinced if I stopped physically moving I'd die. The second time happened at work, and I got a friend to drive me to the emergency room, having tunnel vision and difficulty breathing the entire time.

Here's my epiphany though: When I got to the emergency room, they just laid me down in a bed for monitoring, and after a few minutes (and about $1k) it went away. Since then, in the couple of times I've felt it coming on again I've just told myself that if it happens I'll find a place to lie down and relax until it passes. I haven't had to actually do that, because just the idea that I can is enough to make it go away. (YMMV, but it works for me.)
Wow dude, you might want to examine what made you say this.
I'm in Mass and most of my past non-competes had this clause.
"And it's not like the Democrats are super-good on this issue either!"

Democrats don't claim to be "super-good" on free markets. Democrats would rather see fair treatment of employees and consumers, even if it makes the markets "less free".
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Exactly, its just a bandaid that keeps ripping the more you use it. Meditation and positive thinking and exercise I think help best.
> If they gave the people what they wanted then everybody (and nobody?) would be elites, right? Or maybe the majority of people just want those 10% to be rich.

I think the majority of people are actually comfortable with the existence of even extreme (billionaire-scale) inequality. Although people want to feel that the inequality is just -- based on wealth-creation, rather than rent-seeking.
Our customers required being able to build our product with the system compilers managed by their IT.

GCC was only accepted by customers with Linux installs.

Asking GCC to be available in any sort was not an option for other customers. In fact was a deciding factor why we got some contracts back then, as we always cope with whatever they had.
That makes you, me, and two other people on this site who've noticed it.

There is no shortage of incredibly intelligent people on this website, far more intelligent than me no doubt, but this particular topic has quite the "elephant in the room" feel to it, no one will address it.

I feel no shame in stating my biases up front - I am a small government advocate, history very clearly demonstrates that governments (including the US) have a tendency to bend the truth now and then to achieve a state in public opinion conducive to particular policy goals and actions, and because of that I am distrustful.

But that said, above all I am interested in the truth. If this is in fact a simple open and shut case, as seems to be the general consensus, then so be it. But why such secrecy around the evidence demonstrating this fact?

EDIT: Some good technical discussion in here for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16653671
It's also much more supportive of different levels of productivity throughout a day. I have incredibly poor consistency when it comes to focus. So sometimes I'll sit down and not be abke to get anything done, so maybe I'll go exercise and pick it up at a time where I'll be abke to concentrate.
As far as I understand (not an MD), benzos are not generally considered a long-term anti-anxiety drug. They treat the immediate symptom for people who need immediate relief from debilitating anxiety attacks and occasional 'flare-ups'.

Generally, you could go on an SNRI or SSRI coupled with some form of cognitive-behavioral therapy to try to treat the root cause of the anxiety.

But I'm not a big fan of GP MDs giving out benzos like that given their long-term effects (anxiety, dependence, tolerance, withdrawal syndromes). GP's don't have the time to spend with you that a psychiatrist or therapist might in order to figure out what's going on.
I am tempted to paraphrase the Elephant man, "I am not a sigmoid function, I am a human being!" in response to that headline :-)

That said, I think it is great that they are trying to characterize this sort of thing. The second law of institutions is that every process must require more people to execute than can conspire without being detected[1]. But relying so much on humans in one way or another is going to gum it up. My mom for example, a certified human, would always flag anything that offended her belief system as 'fake news.' Fact checking is fine but it is important to understand that conspiracy folks actually believe what they are saying is true, regardless of any facts presented that contradict their world view. I have always attributed that to an internally rooted desire to "need" it to be true, either for their own self image or their own conscience.

[1] No, I just made that up. But the kernel is true, if you have a system that is being gamed you have to build a defense that cannot itself be gamed.
The amount of people downplaying Russia in this thread is absurd.
Video performance is a LOT harder than you think.

At another company, I watched an five person team, half of whom had related PhDs, the other half over a dozen years of video engineering experience, make incremental improvements to the WebRTC stack.

After a year, was it better? The metrics said it was somewhat better, but the customers still complained all the time.
They never are. And given that the company is usually the one making the demand, they get to define "similar value".
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Thunderbolt v3 is 40 Gbps which is also the most demanding standard mentioned in the article.
You can always "opt out" by not using the web site, unfortunately.

So I don't know that they would lose any challenge on those grounds.
There was also Turbo C/C++, Turbo Basic, Turbo Prolog.

On the Microsoft side, there as Quick C, Quick Basic, etc.

IDEs were the norm rather than the exception in the 80s and 90s for DOS machines. Writing code on DOS with a plain-text editor was a little unusual, whereas on Unix it was a norm.