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What is the middle ground here? Are all public figures supposed to completely hold back all views and follow some unspoken social rules?

It's one thing not to make dumb mistakes that hurt your company but the end result of this outrage/apology tour culture we're developing and forever expanding the scope of is going to create a completely risk averse, milquetoast, and boring culture where honesty from public figures is rare and withheld as it was in the Victorian era.

I'm happy there are people like Musk who push back on this idea. He's still human, this is how he actually feels, and he has nothing left to prove to the world as a billionaire with multiple successful companies.

Plus measuring a private citizens communication to the same degree as a presidents is a bad idea. And it's like a good reason why Elon wants to take his company private as well.

I'm okay with having red lines but everyone seems so eager to make those red lines one step above corporate-speak filtered through a PR firm and a focus-group. At some point we need to push back on this and tell everyone to calm down, the world isn't ending because someone tweeted something you find (the key word here) mildly offensive.
Our "trade war" with Canada is a proxy trade war with China. Our "trade war" with Europe is, to a much more limited degree, a proxy trade war with China.

A big part of the rationale with all of these little trade wars is to make China stand alone on the global stage, so that they are more easily negotiated with. A secondary effect is to eliminate "Made in $country" goods that are 90% manufactured in China and finished in e.g. Italy or Canada.
True, but protection from stealing trade secrets and stealing customers are very different from ordinary devs facing non-competes. Every job I have taken in 25 years as a dev has them, never specifying what a competitor really means. If I work on optimizing compilers for Google I can't work at another company for a year? Amazon has actually enforced them against nonvps. Big companies basically compete against everything in the industry. You are confusing the issue imho. My current job says I am working under California law but still put a non-compete on my contract, because they want to make people think they can't leave.
Except now I have to wait for the digits to appear...
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Thanks! Also completely understand the need for an iOS app, but just so you know the mobile experience and full responsiveness are top considerations when we ship new features.
You don’t have to upgrade every year though. Still happy with my 6S.
Thanks, we'll reach out as we spec out bundling, looking forward to hearing your feedback.
All of those are not supported by the evidence in the linked article. They observed specific fixed speeds per provider, regardless of location, time, or load. You're correct that there are emergent effects from peering, routing, etc, but that is not what the evidence suggests is the cause of the issue.

And the specific regulation of "Do not throttle or shape legal traffic based on origin or contents" doesn't require large complicated regulatory intervention. A simple complaint system "we observe that traffic to origin X exhibits dramatically different performance than traffic to origin Y" and response would work basically fine. Of course it would be better if ISPs would behave reasonably without regulation, but we can see clearly that it's not the case.
Eric Gill: can we separate the artist from the abuser? (2017)
I just signed up for the Linux trial version of the ProtonMail bridge and installed it on my Mint box. Now I get mail via IMAP on Thunderbird totally transparently and couldn't be happier. My only complaint right now is the inability to forward mail automatically (which I understand, they can't decrypt my mail in order to forward it), and also that I can't sign up my wife on my custom domain without getting a significantly more expensive business plan, but otherwise I'm very happy and getting closer to ditching Gmail altogether.
> Do you need a license to just float down the river on an inflatable?

Can't speak to the UK but in the USA, maybe. In my state, if it's a "managed" lake or reservoir, or in a state park or forest, there is a watercraft license requirement. Natural lakes, streams and rivers are exempt.
Yeah, that’s me - I basically use email as a task queue that other people can append to as well as myself, for low time urgency types of tasks, and have separate ways of dealing with the stuff I need to do more urgently.
The wonders of evolution (of the cold virus, that is). I'm not sure we'll ever beat it.
I've taught high school aged kids how to code for four years on behalf of a non-profit [0] and now I run a for-profit coding camp in the bay area [1]. Here's my advice:

* Realize that you need to frontload fun over value here. Fun needs to be the hook in a way. You can't jump straight into the coding, you need a bridge and that bridge needs to be something that is fun, visual, and most critically, provides immediate gratification. I would suggest using Scratch as that bridge. If that doesn't work, research the build-a-game-and-learn-coding solutions.

* Code along with them. Do exercises and challenges with them. Have small hackathons or competitions with them. Make the entire experience feel like a game - it can get really fun if done right.

* Get their buy in. I get it, they might be too young to understand this pitch but if you do it right, it will resonate over time. When I go to pitch my camp to parents and kids, I ask them what coding is and some examples of it. The last part is key; once they realize how omnipresent machines and codes are and that it can be used to make the apps they use and the games they play, they be more eager.

Hope that helps. Drop me a line at manish@youthcodecamp.com - happy to share more over a video conference or coffee.

[0] - http://dopeboy.github.io/teaching-code/

[1] - https://www.youthcodecamp.com/
akshaynathan, if I am understanding this right the eventual goal of monolist is to be the bucket for all incoming notifications and communications, and the be-all-end-all for quickly replying to or addressing action items. If that is right I am hoping you the best of luck because I've long wanted something like that. Someplace where my todo list, my inbox, my chatbox, my git repo notifications, my slack notifications all live would be awesome!
Look at what they do, not what they say. What Merkel says at a podium doesn't matter. It's what she says behind closed doors that matters.
You'd have to ask Apple, and I'm sure they've discussed it, but they don't generally spend a lot of resources on something that can be easily replicated.
Google AMP was never great as a standard. It's too fuzzy and random and nobody _really_ cares about it beyond the search ranking benefits.

I understand where they were coming from, but creating a reduced-interaction, faster-loading HTML subset would require way more spec work than they put in to be self-consistent and long-term maintainable.

This is the same sort of reason PNaCl didn't get traction. Both were great science projects, but neither was appropriate as a long-term standard. Hopefully we'll see the WebAssembly equivalent to AMP from the ashes of that project.
I think the maximum penalty = always penalty sort of misunderstanding tends to appear when programmers look at the law. Technical people tend to look at the laws in a technical way. Does this equal a violation or does it not? If it does, what will it cost? Judicious opinion or "We'll know it when we see it" rarely sits well with those of us who are used to cementing behavior into lines of code.

Existing laws we already operate under have much more severe maximum penalties than people realize, and judges are (relatively) reasonable at applying them correctly. Right here in the US, nearly everyone is technically violating some law every day, the key is ensuring that our justice system has the mechanics in place to deal with clear violators, while having adequate redress for improper application of the law.

The copyright law is much the same. No, memes will not get banned by it. Yes, Google News will have to pay for the content they scrape. No, you will not get hunted down by the copyright gestapo for sending a link to a friend.
I guess anything 'could be viewed as an attempt to manipulate algorithmic traders' then.

At what point did obvious jokes become illegal?
Just to go ahead and "be that person." Pretty sure CommonLisp already fits the "blazing fast with a large library ecosystem."

The ecosystem can be somewhat confusing, because much of what would look like abandoned packages in most ecosystems are more like completed packages, but speed hasn't been a real failing of Common Lisp for a long time now. Talked about a ton, of course.
It's not mentioned in the article, but Eric Gill was also the designer of the fonts Gill Sans and Perpetua, raising even more questions - is using a font designed by a child abuser somehow different from viewing that person's art?

An excellent article from 2009 by Fiona MacCarthy, the author of the mentioned biography, can be found here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/17/eric-gill-exhi...
This all gets adjusted at tax filing time. The pay I returned to Google essentially counted as "negative pay" and decreases the amount of taxable income reported for the year I returned it.
Here's a link to the page that renders as HTML: https://rawgit.com/tcr/langlangmatrix/gh-pages/index.html

(there will be a warning about loading unsafe scripts as the original file loads jquery under http)
It's not as much a skill as a task from which skills will flow from... Finding a mentor that does what you want to do with the spirit you want to copy will leapfrog you past your peers by light-years.

How? Writing letters.

Whom? That's up to you? Someone well established in their field even near retirement age. No less than 25 years of experience in their field.

When? Now.
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> Only typos, sorry, corrected.

Oh, my mistake! I thought maybe it was like how British people spell things differently from Americans, and maybe this was another thing along those lines. Apologies.

> I was only pointing out how you didn't use the metonymy in your Tim Cook example.

Oh I totally misread that. Apologies again.

Metonymy is not compulsory in any case, but it does serves a specific purpose when it's used. Metonymy is used to draw attention to a person's (or maybe group of people's) identity through an inanimate object. You might talk about the "first violin" in an orchestral setting, but "Jane" (the violinist) when talking about her dreams and aspirations in school. It's just used depending on context and desired mental imagery.

In the Steve Jobs case, it was Amazon that held the one-click purchase patent, so it makes sense that he would call Amazon. Additionally, it may not even have been Bezos he needed to talk to. Maybe it was some other executive or something. The fact that it might have been Bezos is not the important thing, so metonymy is used to say "Steve wanted to acquire this specific thing from Another Company".

In contrast, Tim Cook called Warren Buffett specifically because of his skills as an individual. Calling Berkshire Hathaway wouldn't have made sense because the company doesn't have that knowledge. If Cook had wanted to hire consultation, then he might have called Berkshire Hathaway, but as it was he was talking to a specific individual for personal financial advice.
Your last sentence sounds like cargo culting at its best.

I won't claim to know what the "optimal mindset" is, but I think it's obvious that both the US and the EU have made many blunders in recent history, economically and otherwise. I'm sure if there is an optimal mindset, it is one that learns from those of the US, EU, Asia, etc. and takes the best of each (not necessarily in equal proportions, of course).

Knowing different cultures, contrasting them and making your own choices will always be superior to being "indoctrinated" (voluntarily or not) into one.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015252 and marked it off-topic.
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> What is the middle ground here? Are all public figures supposed to completely hold back all views and follow some unspoken social rules?

The middle ground is that you shouldn't be so full of yourself, that when you make a technically stupid suggestion, and get called on it by an expert, your immediate reaction is making personal attacks against that person.

And then, instead of apologizing, doubling and tripling down on it.

The middle ground is that when the owners of your company ask you questions about your financials, you don't dismiss them as boring questions, and then take five fluff ones from some dude that makes gushing YouTube videos about you.

The middle ground is that you should generally behave honestly in public.

The middle ground is that you shouldn't fire people from your company for testing positive for THC, and then going on the air, and smoking pot.

These aren't some arcane, unwritten rules, that only slimy politicians and social contract lawyers understand. This is basic human decency.

> Plus measuring a private citizens communication to the same degree as a presidents is a bad idea. And it's like a good reason why Elon wants to take his company private as well.

If you're exhibiting a lot of selfish and narcissistic traits as a private person and CEO, you'll probably keep exhibiting them as a president. I don't think the amount of scrutiny you undergo in the latter job goes down.
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I am in exactly this situation working in Seattle for a Cali company.
This is completely backwards. There is a trade deficit with China, not a trade surplus, and the result of that deficit is lost private income which increases the U.S. government deficit as we then pay more benefits to the displaced workers. So trade deficits create budget deficits.

Second, it is impossible for a foreign nation to "fund" the U.S., which is a currency issuer. Rather, because we have open capital markets, we allow foreigners to purchase U.S. assets -- something that most other nations don't allow, including China. What this means is that there is a demand for dollars other than the trade demand, but an asset demand. This allows trade deficits to occur.

If you want to stop trade deficits, then don't impose tariffs, but do what China does and ban capital inflows. With no foreign capital inflows, there are no trade deficits -- the golden rule of international trade is that the changes to the capital account plus the changes to the current account must equal 0. No change to one implies no changes to the other, as a mathematical identity.

The way to understand this mathematical relationship is that when the rest of the world sells a good to the U.S., it gets a dollar, and now it has a choice of using that dollar to buy an asset or using it to buy a good. If it is very hard to buy assets, then you buy a good. In this way, the exchange rate adjusts so that the rest of the world doesn't have a trade deficit or surplus.

The reason why you want balanced trade is that when the foreigner gets a dollar by selling a good, but doesn't spend the dollar on buying an american good, then american economy has 1 dollar less income and it needs to sell off $1 of an asset. Selling assets does not produce income but selling goods does produce income. This is why nations like China basically ban selling assets to foreigners and so it's impossible for them to have trade deficits. There are very few nations that have the open capital markets of the U.S. -- really no nation, and our unique policies on capital are why we have such a uniquely large trade deficit.
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Well, of course I realize that I'm oversimplifying and exaggerating but my point was that I have the impression that messing with money is a much more serious problem than messing with people in the USA.
In my head, Chicago seems like it could work if you subdivided it into smaller regions of no-car zones, and marked out specific high-volume streets to connect them on a grid with designated parking per-zone.
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Yeah. I don’t think it’s likely that production would come back —though not impossible.

That said the main point is Foxconn could move production to other manufacturing centers, if need be, though it would need some transition period to avoid disruption.
yeah, thats exactly the goal! In fact we already have git/slack notifications right now. It would be awesome if you could try it out and let us know what you think.
Now they just need to move it to the trash bin.

Edit: The whole point of AMP is so Google can gain more influence and lock out competitors in the search space. The original article said they have decided to "move AMP into open governance". It is therefore hilarious (and substantive) to say they should "move it into the trash".
It seems to me that Yandex is doing the right thing.

Why does Google not do the same? It seems to me that it's their responsibility as a search engine to give authors tools to identify their work.
Not sure what you think is wrong with this statement. Seems to me that he let his hubris, lack of sleep and desire to stop the short sellers get in the way of using a bit of discernment. For him that tweet was a weapon against the shorts. I have no reason to doubt that he is fully committed to Tesla being successful, so I stand by the statement.
I don't know if this is necessarily fair. The US is almost alone globally in having such a strong economy (right now), and many/most resource and manufacturing based economies are struggling.

The biggest problem with modern representative democracies is that they tend to be myopic.
I think a natural disaster will have a major effect on prices or a refinery leak or something. Apart from that I think it is limited. The market might top out if the IPO and VC money slows down.
Of course, that's why I've mentioned California explicitly. Mentioned Texas is similar, and is also notable for my only time when I saw a car tire explode due to the heat.
A lot of the sound of cars are them moving over the road, not the engine noise. Electric wouldn't help.
Which is, frankly, the sensible definition. People would and should rightly look askance at a court decision that found some obscure legal precedent to come to a different decision rather than just letting the voters decide. The question may make for interesting law review articles but there's pretty much zero practical justification for a more stringent definition. (Especially given that even the citizen from birth requirement is arguably something of an anachronism.)
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>This is why, for instance, Mormons seldom defraud other Mormons

>If the link is mere nominal membership in the same faith, that may be worse than no link at all

So which is it?
Yes, but what’s the actual strategy? According to Woodward’s book, Trump’s true opinion is that “Trade is bad.” These tarrifs aren’t negotiating chips — something unpalatable to get what he wants. They’re what he wants.
Don't worry about it, it's an open source project cannot be owned by one person.
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> It's because of the belief that specific acts shouldn't be illegal, just the negative effects caused by those acts.

Ah ok it actually makes a lot of sense presented that way. So it really is about "culture" then.
I've used it to build a very small landing page for a project, and here is the gist:

1. Very nice, fluid, rich way to edit.

2. When using Command + <- (back arrow) on mac, equivalent to Alt Back Arrow, you should ask if you want to leave project, regardless if it was saved. First time users wont understand at first that you need to click many times in a text box to select THEN edit it, therefore they will not go to top of word/sentence but instead they will leave the current project and go back to project creation or dashboardm, therefore creating frustation.

3. I had a very bad UX case: I went back to dashboard, and came back to upload logo, just to find that my text had been erased and replaced by the original LOREM IPSUM text (effectively, I LOST my write-up work). I believe this is a history navigation issue, but the result is that I lost my page. I could get around this and correct the damage because I had published the evolved version earlier and did not refresh my published page, but you need to check this as this is a deal-breaker when you're authoring.

This is a great tool and if you keep the excellent look and feel, reliability both in UX and hosting if you get it is going to be the make or break part of the equation.

Good luck, and count me in if you need debug and assistance.
I think hydrogen is here to stay. Japan is going full throttle on hydrogen, phasing out gas to a great extent in the next generation or so. The technology is viable and working already, just needs state sponsoring and determination to make it happen.

https://www.japanfs.org/sp/en/news/archives/news_id036048.ht...
And shorts I guess keep down voting my comments but I hate that musk posted that, and he better be able to document why he felt that was true.
definitely agree. in fact, one of the biggest dangers of accidents is difference in speed on the roads. Its my understanding that this is one of the primary reasons for a speed limit (note if you drive too slow you also get a ticket), which is to limit the variance of speed.
This doesn't change the bad smell. AMP feels like it's being forced on us to appease Google so sites will appear in search rankings.

The kerfuffle over React's licensing was different. React was a tool the community loved that was hamstrung by a license and opaque ties to Facebook. React's licensing switch was a liberation, this feels like appeasement.

One possible upside, this should provide some long-term stability -- something Google is generally not good at.
Heh, enclose the pedestrian piazza to minimize exposure to the weather, thereby creating what we usually call a 'shopping mall.' Ah the irony that would be.
No: https://wiki.galliumos.org/Hardware_Compatibility
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Palindromes can be compressed 50% by using their symmetry. Representing a number as 3 palindromes would "compress" a number to 1.5 times the original size in the worst case. Obviously not an improvement.

If the number itself happens to be a palindrome, you can get down to 50%, but that's completely unrelated to this trick.

In general, it's impossible for a compression algorithm to losslessly compress all numbers to a shorter representation, it can only make some numbers shorter and others longer. (Pigeonhole principle: there are not enough short codes, so if you assign a shorter code to all numbers, some will get the same code, making the compression not lossless.)

Practical uses of compression are all about reducing the average length given a nonuniform probability distribution, so a palindrome-based compression scheme would only be useful if you could expect most numbers you're dealing with to be palindromes.
"But privately owned gasoline-guzzlers are an archaic solution to the transportation problem, and they are not effective in today's society."
I live in a remote mountain town in the North Cascades mountains and am approximately 80 miles from the closest stoplight. Obviously we rely on cars and trucks. It is wonderful place, and an additional benefit is that sanctimonious city dwellers who make comments like this are nowhere to be found.
> The EU also seems to assume that if someone is making money, someone else is being damaged

How did you reach that conclusion?