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contract != law.

You can also put in "we own your kidneys and your first born child"

Just because it is in a contract, it doesn't mean it's enforceable.

I agree with your point that one should be aware of it, but to go as far as not creating an awesome company and living comfortably because it's "risky" is ridiculous.

One should not be chained to a corporation forever if chooses not to.

[EDIT]

Also to add more to my point, litigation CANNOT be avoided.

If an entity (a person or a corporation) wants to come after you, they will find a way to do it.

Running any kind of viable business requires legal work and protection. It would be foolish to think otherwise

If your side project grows enough that you have either massive traction, VC funding or a good amount of cash, you can easily fight these in court .

And even if you don't fully win, it can be dragged on for years and meanwhile your business can continue to grow.

So it's a none issue.
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This is true. I have quite high status, but that’s not the same as being an employee or government member.

In this case, I don’t think that’s what happened; I was able to re-book the exact same flight all three times. In those cases, I should at least be notified my flight was cancelled, but was not. The third rep suggested it was a KLM/Delta integration issue. This is also only one of many issues I’ve run into over my years of pretty extensive travel.

Regardless, you are right; it could be a white lie.
You don't need the extension to get the benefit. Just go to https://outline.com
Lol at the flak being hurled at this guy like we wouldn't all do exactly the same thing, were we in his position.
He's talking about investing in value stocks.

There's quite literally a word for low growth but reliable stocks that pay out decent dividends. "Value stocks", as opposed to "Growth stocks" where investors expect to see the returns directly in the stock price.
That still doesn't explain margins though. Competing processors keep pace with fraud-fighting tech as well. For large customers, processing is still a commodity service and they have a lot of negotiating power to call up Stripe and demand they lower their rates.

Until we see Stripe's financials I would not assume anything about healthy margins. Square also had a lot of hype in the early days but turns out their processing margins were really low and most of their current valuation is from expanding into other products like business loans.

Stripe's valuation is similarly based on a hypey "grand vision" to offer other services that actually make money, not by magically making businesses pay more for commodity services.
You should checkout Chisel.

https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/

Its a HDL in Scala. It used extensively by Berkeley for things like the Open-Source RISC-V Rocket and Boom SoC chips. There are lots of projects based on it and you have some of the best open-source cores implemented in it.

See:

- https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip

- https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom
VRs best chance at mass market adoption is still games and entertainment IMO. This is priced like a game console.
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The 6k/req with 40ms is just at the front door.

I'm talking about a real application here. With 100s of database and API calls on each web page load. I could make the whole thing in Golang or Scala and that would be at least one order of magnitude faster. But then I would have to throw away all the business knowledge that was added to the Rails app.

For instance, the slowest API call on the 40 ms is one that hits an ElasticSearch cluster with over 1 billion documents and is made on a Scala backend using Apache Thrift. There's a lot of caching but still, long tail and customization will kill caching at the top level.
Funny, I've often been the future programmer. And It's often my own code I'm looking at. Past me has been such an asshole...
Yeah, as a random viewer, I really only need to know that the power is running out when the last bit of charge is nearly used up, at like 5% maybe.

I have no concept of whether even 10% means another hour or another year, and since it's load dependent, neither do they. If the power is at 75%, what do I care?

It really belongs on a status page, and as a banner, pinned to the top of the page. If anything, it motivates random people to slam the page with more hits, just so they can watch the meter move.

That was my second impression, once I realized what it was. I wanted to watch for a chnage. My first impression was that the styles were defective, it was a scripting error (until I read that extra fluff was eschewed) or whatever, but I just wanted to find a way to make it get out of the way, so I could read without the distraction, so I started looking for "dismiss" icons, to close a broken pop-up.

Then I noticed the Sun icon and the percentage, and realized it was a meter.
How to visualize decision trees
As a postman, this cheered me up a little.
Understanding the basics of machine learning
Thanks.

I think a recent EU complaint to the WTO about IP transfer rules in China does a better job of explaining the issue than I have. Bloomberg wrote about it in June:

In its complaint, the EU is targeting rules in China on the import and export of technologies and on Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures. Certain provisions “discriminate against non-Chinese companies and treat them worse than domestic ones,” violating WTO requirements that foreign businesses be put on an equal footing and that IP such as patents be protected ...

From

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/europe-ta...

or

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/2018/06/01/e...
I'd be skeptical. The author of these charts is a staunch Oculus fan, and seems to spend his time doing little else than posting positive Oculus stories to reddit.

I don't think he's a shill, just over-committed. At one point the the founder of Oculus Palmer Luckey even called him out as an "insufferable fanboy". [1]

I don't say this just be a detractor or mean-spirited, but I would advise caution as there's likely bias in these charts.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4gfpjk/palmer_lucke...
Easy loophole, infinite open beta, continuous integration, rolling release. At which point, with which release would it turn from beta to commercial full gold master? Slippery Slope that. A better wording would be "if you make money, we want a cut, or you get a cut, got it?"
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Exactly. I'm pretty sure if I developed the whole thing in C, it would be really fast. But I would be the slowest part of the development process.
Most startups fail, take the most cash you can.
Pi-Hole is great! Around 30% of the traffic is blocked on all my devices.

However, I would recommend adding a few more decent block lists to the default ones. Also updating these lists through a cron job on a more frequent basis is a good idea.
Here's a script that you can use to setup pi-hole and additional block-lists: https://gist.github.com/user501254/1d4c8cb9f22fb51ae970f5fe0...

Also make sure you are using 1.1.1.1 as your secondary DNS service. So this way in case your Pi-hole running RaspberryPi is down, your devices would be still be able to access the internet with some privacy.
I'd even go as far as saying this is one of the reasons. From January people are kinda fed up because in Nov/Dev everything tastes like it.
At least in my circle of friends sooner or later someone says "this tastes like Christmas" - which is usally an indicator of Cardamom, unless very much hidden in e.g. Indian food.
I'm not sure that you'd get enough growth in residential units by converting to 3 story buildings with the achievable pace of construction; but I agree it would be a start.

OTOH, if you're right about cost of construction, it's probably also faster to build out 3 stories than taller buildings.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... for a detailed analysis of this effect
I definitely think static sites are a great alternative to WP, and I love Markdown. But you're right: trying to get non-developer users to write markdown was a struggle, they thought it was some new special language we were forcing down their throat.

I work for https://forestry.io/ and we created a CMS for static sites that lets users write markdown with a WYSIWYG editor, and allows devs to build an interface for editing front matter.
Sounds like you've made your decision already but you just want to be sure it's the good one, which unfortunately no one can tell you. I feel what you're saying, I've been to Asia (especially SEA) every year for holidays, and I love the atmosphere and the "easiness" feeling; however I do like the stability and the reliability of things here in Europe. Tough decision. Good luck to you!
I usually love Fabrice Bellards stuff, but I have to admit that I don't really understand the how and why of this project.
This is not meant as negative towards you at all. But I think your post demonstrates the gulf in perception between the savvy PC gamer and others. You say you have no problems, then go on to list a whole bunch of problems.

You're in a nice groove where this stuff is pretty easy to manage, but to a lot of people this stuff is an exasperating pain in the butt.
taking initiative to participate in maintaining a malicious status quo is being malicious. google isn't being coerced here, they're volunteering to help with oppression.

put differently:

what do you call an accountant who sings up to perpetuate the status quo of a criminal enterprise by updating their books?

guilty.

but they were "just extending the services of accounting to a new organization while maintaining the status quo of criminality".
Biggest issue I have with the solution proposed is the recommendation to avoid DFS channels. These channels are much more "cleaner" as adoption is less due to added cost caused by extra design and certification.

Radars are pretty static and does not come and go (especially weather radars), so the router does not need to move from channel pretty much. False alarm can be an issue but if one has a decent quality router, it should not be very often. Furthermore, after a radar detection (false alarm or actual), routers can switch to non-DFS channels and and start operating immediately.
10 servers does seem a bit much. But who knows what their hardware specs are.
Please send me some details, timezone, spec. My email in the profile, thx.
Print, on it's own, is not that high energy. Paper has been made for thousands of years, printing has been here for 400.

But the question is indeed an intriguing one.
How does the hole punching work? Is there a high level overview of the difference between this implementation and textbook Kademlia?

I am not sure in which part of the code to look for this (is the hole punching part of the dht package?) so any pointers are appreciated
I hadn't heard about Amazon using Stripe before.

Here's an article from 2017 talking about it: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-quietly-starts-using-st...
If you're based in SF and want to have a high quality boutique IT shop work with you, without hiring IT staff yourself, then I can't recommend https://www.boxit.net/ enough.

I was managing consumer grade routers for the company since its inception until we switched to Aruba APs (which are awesome <3) and then eventually to an office with a real firewall, several APs, and a switch for 100+ cabled desks. The folks at BoxIT were a real life-saver at that stage, both for the initial setup and proactive monitoring of your network's health over time. Having your staff spend brain cycles on this stuff isn't the best ROI IMO.

The one thing to watch out for is VoIP in SF office buildings. Our APs conflict with about 300 other APs in the area, so getting reliable VoIP for your sales people over WiFi is not even worth trying. We got lucky and inherited an office where the previous company learned that the hard way and wired every nook and cranny with ethernet.
Second that. Here in Atlanta, the expansion of the Marta (basically the metro train) to suburban neighborhoods is held up due to similar issues.
Also watching a youtube video on Javascript makes you a "Software Engineer". Bit of a slap to what an actual engineer (in any concentration) has to go through to get a degree.
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The recommended setting for Band Steering is Balanced I believe. Probably depends on how many clients are connecting.
Its what I did with beatsaver: https://beatsaver.com

1.4MB (most are thumbnails) and kept to stock bootstrap 3
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There's enough exceptions to this broad constraint though that partisan lean may not be a terribly relevant factor. As an example, Kalamazoo, Michigan is one of the cheapest cities according to several surveys, and the city is a modest left lean in a modest left state. (I actually can't think of too many hugely expensive cities in the Midwest, to be honest...)

Basically, without data comparing several possible relevant variables along with the actual statistical correlation the factor represents, these types of discussions are IMHO useless.
It has the full content. See view-source.
Firefox hides it.
You can also 'cloud' host a unifi controller on a VM somewhere and set up the APs for "layer 3" management, where when you originally provision them you tell each AP to register to a specific hostname. It's all done over TLS. Each AP just needs to be able to get a DHCP lease, default route out to the internet, and to resolve hostnames. A small Unifi controller can run on a $10/month VM if you don't want the 'cloud key' device on premises.

Or if you happen to have your own hardware on premises a unifi controller on debian can be a really small Xen VM that runs at an average load of 0.02, your xen or KVM hypervisor can be as small as an Intel NUC stuck to a plywood board on the wall of a telecom room in the building.
No one has mentioned "The Color of Law" yet, so here it is:

https://amzn.to/2IjeIhi

It's an entire book dedicated to this hypothesis, with a bunch of evidence. It's difficult reading because it pisses you off to hear about how horrible people were (and are), but it's a very good book.
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Adyen is actually 23b as the 19b you mentioned is in Euros.
It’s also noteworthy that Stripe has about 1/2 the revenue and the same growth as Adyen, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the public markets given that they have nearly identical business models.
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I have a full UniFi setup in my home office/house and it is glorious. It Just Works!

Well, with the one exception which is the Cloud Key. I’ve yet to see it run for more than 24 hours before soft rocking and requiring a total re-setup of the network.
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It is difficult for me to assess the validity of this statement. I cannot tell if the behaviour is or is not a privacy invasion. What I can tell is that it is not in the direction of greater privacy. That it is not a feature I'd requested, want, or am comfortable with. And it's in line with multiple past trust violations.

That Google are announcing walking this back within days of release and publicity suggests some measure of the storms roiling the 'Plex presently.
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Good thing my child has invented everything I ever created!
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>which fund schools vastly differently based on property values, which provides very different access to education, which provides very different access to opportunities in the future.

Spending per student is often significantly higher in urban areas that have a larger proportion of poor students than in tony suburbs. Of course those urban schools probably need to spend more because they often need to compensate for less supportive home environments. Nonetheless, the correlation between per student spend and educational outcomes is quite weak in most places.
Decision trees are the fundamental building block of gradient boosting machines and Random Forests™, probably the two most popular machine learning models for structured data. Visualizing decision trees is a tremendous aid when learning how these models work and when interpreting models. Unfortunately, current visualization packages are rudimentary and not immediately helpful to the novice. So, we've created a general package called animl for scikit-learn decision tree visualization and model interpretation.
Honest question: what if we removed the notion of “foreign” from your question?

And, what if we extended this across the board to all corporations, not just Google?

I feel uneasy when thinking about the society China is trying to build overtly, and the society that Washington is building covertly. It’s sad that 15 years after the Patriot Act, we’ve just accepted domestic surveillance as a requisite function of governance.
Actually, YES, to the extent that the foreign policy is supporting & maintaining institutions & policies necessary for continued open democratic societies.

By virtue of the US' historically strong support for open democracies (albeit often flawed or failed), and historical accident, it essentially now falls to the US to attempt to maintain it around the world.

To the extent that we have failed to maintain and support democratic institutions and traditions around the world, they are lost.

To the extent that these free, open, democratic governments, institutions, and traditions are lost around the world, those remaining in free societies will find ourselves under threat of losing those societies.

So, yes, if a company wants to enjoy the fruits of being able to grow and prosper in the greatest open society and largest economy on the planet at this time, it is not too much to ask it to avoid supporting adversaries who would undermine our society and economy at the first opportunity (and are actively doing so right now).

[recommend reading Garry Kasparov's "Winter is Coming" & other titles -- Fmr World Chess Champion, Russian Presidential candidate, author -- he's been there, done that, and buried his friends doing so]
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Also, the fraudsters found the online payments business fairly early on, before there were a lot of real customers. In the late 90s, many merchants had as many fraud attempts as actual transactions, and a few fraudsters working through a box of stolen credit cards could take a small merchant to the cleaners. Now that online payments are so large, and there is a finite number of sophisticated fraudsters, fraud as a percentage is lower.
Why can't you do some non-linear optimization with your resource routing? Power grids have been doing this for ages.
Shiver me timbers. Tell the tale of your pillage matey or its the plank for ye.

Share the booty. Yo ho ho!
"...they were the good guys and could be trusted"

I've said this before but Google is neither the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy'. They aren't there to look out for your best interests and we'd all be much better if we stop ascribing human qualities to gigantic corporations. And they have never been 'stewards of the internet'.

As for the recent uproar, well better late than never. The attitude of the tech community is incredibly hypocritical on matters of privacy.

Google has always tracked users on an industrial scale. That tracking now extends to schools where ChromeOS is in widespread use. Tracking school kids online behaviour even if that data is detached from individual accounts and aggregated in some way is simply indefensible in my view. The amount of pupil data stored on Google's servers must be simply staggering. But barely a peep from developers on this issue.

Next time developers rush to Google's defence, they should ask themselves: does a gigantic multi-billion corporation that tracks people on an industrial scale need to be defended?
It doesn't stop them from suing you though. Do you really want to deal with this stuff in court?

Anything I do in my private life I keep on the down low.
> There’s no IT team at startups

Uh, what? Are you nuts? Hire somebody.
I'm asserting that you were only backsplaining something you couldn't be fucked to download and read regardless. :)
Entering a contract without checking out who the customer was ...
It's difficult to quantify, because it's hard to distinguish between what someone claims as justification and their actual motivations. Having grown up in a part of the US where racism has a long and strong history (South Carolina, where the American Civil War began), my own experience is that racism has changed its face. Old-fashioned overt, visible racism is less prevalent due to a wider shift in culture. Overt racism is publicly condemned and considered an embarrassment, but that doesn't mean it has gone away and it lurks just beneath the surface. I know and grew up with tons of people who are without a doubt strongly racist, but they find other justifications to present in public.

It's somewhat of a secret language, where certain phrases sound ok on the surface but have racist connotations. For example, "urban" or "inner city" is often a code word for "black". I have a rather racist uncle for example, he often rails about how the Democratic party has a strong grip on the "urban" vote, while the real America is the "rural" population, who are of course all true patriots and thus Republicans. Of course he is perfectly aware that political lines are not so neatly divided by population density, but that's because what he actually means is "urban" == "black" and "rural" == "white". Intentions are obscured, so everything gets fuzzy.

Going back to the Cupertino city council meeting, it makes it really hard to know what they really mean for sure. This is all based on my own experience, but I've seen enough cloak and dagger racism to know it's definitely a possibility. I think they would absolutely prefer an affluent black person over a poor white drug dealer, but on the other hand I would bet that for a significant number of the residents if you say "poor", the image that pops into their head is a black person.

It's also worth mentioning that this is a political issue, given that there is a pretty strong racial gap between political parties. I think that's where a lot of this doublespeak lingo came from, as a way to discuss race in politics (which, practically speaking is important) without sounding racist.

All that said, I think that the prevalence of sincere racism has definitely decreased significantly, so it's not all bad. Edit: I should also add, this is not universal on the American right, I know plenty of conservatives who aren't racists, nor is it only white Republicans who are racists.
I plan to save a few million dollars and retire in my late thirties. Why stop people like me from being able to do that?