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Maybe it is in Texas German
Kelt cognac as well.

Not bad, but is it really better than ones that did not do it? I don't think so.
Indeed. This.

I saw the title of the article and had to do a lookup - the word democratised; it's a terrible choice here. This makes it sounds like stripe somehow made crypto send and receive easy.

They've done nothing of the sort. I'd say they have actually increased the chokehold monopolization of the major CC issuers instead.

If they used their clout to change the game, great, but they haven't.

You made some API things easier for developers - congrats. You are like paypal from a decade ago, but with 2.0 docs, and modern code for developers - except that paypal is actually helping more people take payments that are in threatened groups these days, and stripe just goes along with the censorship upstream and makes it easier to deploy.

Even coinbase is doing more to "democratize and reshape the digital economy" (not that they are doing it as well I had hoped they and others could).
People form rigid organizational structures around themselves. At first these structures advance progress, but eventually they run their course and become a burden. Natural death of the key members of the organization is one way to promote progress within. Absent that we're looking at massive stagnation.

The death of the organization itself is another way, which is basically the foundation of the free-market capitalism.
It matters a little but not as much as you may think.

(By the way nothing says the dividend has to be yearly, as a company you can pay multiple dividends a year if you so choose. It's more paperwork, and probably costs more in time from his accountant but otherwise you can do it as far as I know.)

Onto the two points,
1) The Social security is based on their wage, and no arrangement with the employers bookkeeping is needed. Their full time job would likely be Tax Class 1 (Or 3 if married) and the second job would be Tax Class 6. If there did happen to be a discrepancy it would likely be small, and paid back when they do their tax return. I also think that the Geschäftsführer of a company doesn't pay social security (or maybe pays a reduced amount?), but I might be wrong on that bit.

2) Yeah he/she must inform their boss, but unless they directly compete with the company, or the side business would affect their job performance they don't really have a valid reason to say no.

My suggestion would be to form a UG, they're relatively cheap and would be easier than the hassle of a foreign company. A foreign company whose operations are based completely within Germany would be liable to pay tax in Germany anyway.

I've heard http://firma.de are good with this sort of thing, and they have several articles on the different company forms in Germany to help. I am however in no way affiliated with them, and haven't used them myself yet.
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> The difference is that when you CONVERT that data

Heh, "convert" it by concatenating it with a different directory path? Print it for the user? Stuff it into some kind of output format? Every one of those actions is going to toss an exception in python[1], and there are no tools available for reliably doing this in a safe and lossless way that matches the obvious syntax you'd use with "good" strings.

Maybe that's "fine" to you, I guess.

[1] And in lots of other environments. The quibble I have with the linked article is, again, that this kind of thinking is pervasive in modern string handling. Python certainly isn't alone.
The encoding is a property of the string, just like the content, just as with any other object. If you want to compare strings with different encodings, you'll have to convert at least one of them.

I was never forced into encoding hell again, after reading this excellent post: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
My current group and area at work are super quiet. It's what I've always dreamed of but at the same time it is almost too quiet.
The HN discussion of the book in question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18128063
The Haiku operating system has released R1/beta1
Mid-level managers often cannot do anything about it. It’s the CEOs and other high level management who have a concept of what they want the office to look like, usually driven by what they read in some magazine with nice pictures. They will claim things like having to keep up with industry trends and being able to look a certain way to attract talent. These people also spend their whole day in meetings while also responding to email at the same time. Their entire life is one distraction after another, and they really have no idea what kind of environment is really needed for their employees to accomplish deep work. They seem to think that “fostering creativity” is the goal above all others, whether or not modern office layouts actually even do that to begin with.
Oh I'm not making excuses for it. The commenter I responded to noted that NYC's political dysfunction makes things difficult. I'm just noting that New York State's political dysfunction is also to blame.
Hum... Do you really think you can sue Google because of some bug in Gmail? I doubt it. I guess he should put some tos saying he is not responsible for lots of sales because of bugs...
A ban on vehicles could be restraining even to those with a special exemption because the infrastructure will adjust for the ban. What use is a car when the place you need to get is only accessible by bike lanes and sidewalks?
Sorry for the late reply. Computer vision.
“This is now part of art history in its shredded state and we’d estimate Banksy has added at a minimum 50% to its value, possibly as high as being worth £2m plus.” - MyArtBroker.com
How is the power draw even a factor for the fuel? A sedan is using 10 or 20 kW just driving around, 2 kW to power a computer isn't going to require fundamentally rethinking anything, just a correctly sized alternator (or whatnot these days).

That electricity is cheaper is the big factor, especially for a service doing shorter runs. Whether it's used for traction or steering doesn't really matter.
It's just a not very well explained rant of some shitty libraries and a lot of legacy code. If you want to read about REAL complaints, read Armin Ronacher thought about it instead: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/
Oh come on. I would rather integrate Stripe into a customers' system than any other EU payment provider (though Stripe's "Look how simple this is" changed somewhat once 3D-Secure became necessary for our customers), but they have not reshaped the economy or democratised payments.

I'd award that to PayPal and the work they did over a decade ago. Also see Braintree (not used), Square (not used) et al
It's against the site guidelines to editorialize titles, so please don't do that.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Why Are We Still Ignoring Lee Krasner?")
Somewhat different perspective - torture works great, at what it's actually for. It's actually for oppressing a population you have control over, not specifically getting information. The getting information part is just a moderately useful byproduct. The torturers purpose is to terrify you, and your friends and family, out of having anything to do with the anti-regime forces. Considering that, whether you are actually guilty of anything may not matter, and whether any information you cough up is true doesn't matter that much either. Getting actionable intelligence against actual organized anti-regime forces is just a bonus.

If you're thinking that way, and the forces you're up against are too, then the only thing this really accomplishes is potentially protecting the information that reveals your actual comrades. And if you're actually in a situation where protecting information about your comrades and operations is more important than potentially avoiding torture, then you're braver than most of the people on the planet, and good luck - you'll need it.
Brief proof that the sqrt of 2 is irrational.

Suppose that sr2 is rational. Then it can be expressed as two integers with no common factors[0], p and q, as p/q.

sr2 = p/q (1)

Thus

2 = p^2/q^2 (2)

2q^2 = p^2 (3)

So p^2 is divisible by 2. Since 2 is prime, and 2 divides p*p, it must also divide p. So p = 2p'.

Plugging this back into (3) we have

2q^2 = 4p'^2

Which implies

q^2 = 2p'^2

Which means that q is also divisible by 2. Which means both p and q are divisible by 2 which violates are orginal assumption [0] that p and q shared no common factors, which can be assumed for any rational number, which means that sr2 cannot be rational.

Compare the above with:

https://coq.inria.fr/distrib/8.2/contribs/QArithSternBrocot....

and you get an idea of the work that needs to be done to make proof assistants more ergonomic before wide adoption in mathematics. The benefit from ensuring no mistakes were made (I'm betting I messed up somewhere above; like not specifying that p and q are not zero) is dwarfed by the difficulty in expressing the core intuition and thus reusability of the proof.
Are you really trying to justify the lynching?

> Palestinians try to stop angry mob

Composed of... Martians, I presume?

> Somehow Israel is not at fault.

Yes, it is not. Those who perpetrated the murder are at fault. No amount of sophistry and "but what about?" is going to change that simple fact.
> mobility is a right

Spot on - and societies obsessed with cars effectively deny that right to people who cannot drive or cannot afford a car.
I'm excited to see that effect handlers are gaining popularity. I read the original papers that introduced them, and I think that they have a lot of potential.
The city brought homeless problem upon themselves by raising taxes to literally bring them in by the bus load.

http://mynorthwest.com/985398/seattles-next-homeless-encampm...?
I thought there was a hack to put 7 on the hd2. Unofficially of course.

There was also the hd7 which was a very similar device.
I can absolutely confirm that standard procedure is to seize storage media as evidence, send them to a lab and clone the images as the very first step.
I didn't say "everything is a virtualization layer". I said every problem could be solved with one, because it is a fundamental capability of computing. It's the same difference between implementing something in hardware vs software.
Virtualization technology is advanced but not perfect. Some of my own programs are 2 or 3 times slower doing CPU stuff under virtualization than under the raw machine.
Electrically readable water meters have a lithium battery that lasts for decades.
I agree Python3 is an awful mistake and that straight-up Unicode is not well suited for storing arbitrary byte strings from old disk images. However, Python 3.1+ encode disk names as WTF-8 (aka utf-8b): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/ .
Defense contractors race to build self-driving submarines to clear sea mines
I understand that Anonize is used for anonymous ballots. I understand that Brave used to submit its ballots via a single-hop proxy. My understanding is now that Brave no longer uses this proxy, which wasn't a good solution anyway because the proxy sees the user's entire set of ballots (aka browsing history). Thus Brave is now given all the ballots directly from the user, and thereby learns the user's browsing history. I do agree that other browsers and services also track users around the Web. Eliminating that is a goal that I support and that I think Brave does as well. I think that it is failing to achieve that goal. Either you don't realize the technical reality of your solution, or you are being misleading.
Very true. I can do architecture meetings or dealing with marketing and project management easily in 1 hour chunks. But actual coding needs full days or even weeks without interruption to be at full performance.
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They usually clone the images, but may ask for passwords, e.g. devices where the media is soldered to the board. I do not know if they compel you to provide the password; I believe that varies by jurisdiction.
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Many of the posters in this thread miss the point, perhaps because they have not tried to get a credit card for their startup or small business.

Even if you have millions in the bank, the process of getting a card is long and tedious. It took me weeks, hours of phone calls, visits to the bank, and affected my personal credit. In the end a well-known card provider gave us a $5000 limit. We sometimes put that much on the card in a few days, and autopay is monthly, so someone had to manually monitor the card balance just to keep the card working.

The experience of being a small business that wants to use a credit card sucks. It's not even a little surprising to me that Brex is doing great.
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NASA Voyager 2 could be nearing interstellar space
I feel like Western and Eastern WA should just split, they are pretty different culturally, geographically, and economically, plus Western WA sends the rest of the state tons of money while the state largely ignores important problems affecting Western WA. The wealthier part of the state subsidizing the rest of the state is fine but not if the wealthier part gets screwed like this. Plus, if Western WA were to become its own state, they could start off with a new constitution that doesn't prohibit income taxes.

There is a pretty big need for a stronger, faster transit system spanning the region from Olympia to Everett. Housing price madness could be mitigated by fixing the ridiculous commute times over reasonably short distances that occur during rush hour.

Light rail is being built in King County, and the bus system in King County is actually pretty good in my opinion, but those don't cover a wide enough area to truly be effective. Given the geography of the region, I think the greater Seattle region needs a mass transit system most similar to NYC (though smaller)
Honestly, I just don't want to die. We can work out the rest once we get there.
This is kind of neat but why not just use pandoc?

pandoc -s input.md -t html -o output.html

https://pandoc.org/
"Nowadays, I am just trying to get my developers productive by trying to my best to give them uninterrupted blocks of work either in morning or afternoon but it's not easy. "

It's totally insane that you have to do this. We have to try to make people DESPITE the workplace instead of setting it up in way that people can perform at their best.
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Nixpkgs does carry more than one version of some packages, but only when the maintainers deem it necessary. These are treated as separate packages with different names.

In the case of OpenSSL, Nixpkgs currently has two packages named openssl_1_0_2 and openssl_1_1, with openssl being an alias for latter.

Different programs depending on different versions can be installed at the same time without conflict. Full paths to dynamic library files are used in binaries instead of relying on a global library path.
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So where does the revenue come from? A slice of the transaction fees run on the cards or interest on rolling balance? I can’t imagine the balances over 30 days being that high (the targets have VC money to pay their bills right?) and the transaction fees can’t be that much either.

I can see why they’d need a lot of capital but I fail to see the business model for actually generating (big) income.
> options that would restrict individual choice

That's technically true but frames the conversation in a biased way.
I agree for your personal computer. I've been using it on my PC for several months, and it was definitely a mistake. Most things work fine, but there are enough problems that it is extremely noticeable. Whether it's the mess that is steam-run and that whole hack, or having to build your own derivations for literally anything that's not widely used or that you need the latest versions of, it's just an endless time sink. And the documentation is non-existent, as you say. You need to go into the git repo to see what actual options are available, despite how comprehensive the options search on the NixOS page looks, it's not.

For a server, where you're typically doing that kind of work anyway (and want to have the specificity and control), I'd say it's pretty good (Guix works too).

I'm actually going back to Mint today.
How long can they power a radio though?
The German orthography was reformed in 1996. That did not change the vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation etc, i.e. the language itself. Like any other natural language, German evolves naturally.

Also, the orthography had been standardized since 1901.
Taxes don’t make people homeless. Dumb low minimum wages and the lack of government aids for people who are struggling to survive is the reason for homeless people. More taxes directed at helping people in need is a good thing.
They mentioned that in the Bloomberg article.
But the true solution to the homeless problem is greater spending on addiction treatment / mental health care, which the state needs to fund
The humble AA/R6 battery has been around since before WW1.

Obviously, the capacity has improved vastly, but the size, terminals and voltage has been with us since your great grandfather wore diapers.
Sorry for the really late reply but what helped me in the end was "The easy way" by Allen Carr
Right, I wouldn't dispute that. If I wanted to rewrite the 15k lines of code in this application (which is what, 500 pages printed? two books?) I would probably use react+redux and could maybe even eliminate half of the code when I was rewriting it.

The problem is that that still comes out to ~250 printed pages, so one book, so that's an investment of 2 months to create no obvious business value, and I think if I could take that I would actually be part of that 1%. But the point of my post was just to give an example of "we can make smaller architectural decisions all the time to clean out crap and make our lives easier," and nobody is going to look the ~2 hours you spend cleaning as wasted time since it causes them to get a more-correct product sooner.

Another example: I remember at IntegriShield we had an API written in PHP, and one of my favorite little things I had written was a data model. ORMs are not hard to find in PHP but because the data model we were using was JSON we could express inside of that data model a declarative security model for the data and it would get written into the SQL queries: you say "Give me all of the groups!" and it rewrites that to, "I will give you all of the groups that you can see." The logic for the group-editor does not need to explicitly handle the checks for "can this person really edit that group?" because the data model will check it for them, "UPDATE groups SET values WHERE id = (the group you are editing) AND (user can edit the group)."

Adding the first security type was maybe half a day's work threading stuff through the SQL generator? Adding subsequent new checks took more time but was incremental so each of them might have delayed their projects 1-2 hours. But the net result must have saved a tremendous amount of programming. I have always had that latitude to create structure, if I want it.

That said, I have been pretty lucky with the places I've been privileged to work, so maybe I'm already part of the 1% and this is not representative.
The fact that it came out at the “right” time, doesn’t mean it’s false. Previous propaganda ops (uranium from Niger, 45 minutes etc) were much flakier while the stakes were much higher.

I think it’s just a case of national-security actors sending out a message while leaving FAANG with enough plausible deniability to avoid tanking the whole market. As long as it’s semi-official, the only victim will be Supermicro, and everyone else will have received a message that they should pay more attention to their supply chain.
The title is:

> The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook

I then did a control-F to look for how Apple is involved, and it only appears two other times. Once in a discussion about a WiFi pineapple, and then as a tag at the bottom of the page.

Do Apple and Amazon really use stripe for their payments? I've certainly never noticed any stripe branding.
AFAIK its always been pegged at around 2045. Also, 49 years ago? Pretty sure Kurzweil hadn't written the book that long ago...
As much as I'm advocating for public transit (heavy user myself, don't have a driver's license), "no cars" is a very unrealistic ideal. If I had to propose a rule, it would be something like "no privately-owned cars". Even in an ideal scenario, you still need car lanes everywhere for:

- ambulances and fire engines

- trucks that deliver goods to inner-city shops

- moving vans

- vans of craftsmen

- etc.

Also, there should still be some form of carsharing for when families go grocery-shopping, or when I buy a sofa and need to haul it home.
Some of my childhood summers were spent in the back room of a jewelery store casting wax models of custom rings/bands.

One summer the owner had me casting wax slugs for his handgun in the same fashion, which he used for DIY shell recycling.

Judging from the cardboard box they had setup back there for target practice, the wax slugs were very effective. As an adult I've wondered on multiple occasions if those wax slugs were actually a good alternative to lead for indoor self-defense where the risk of unintentionally shooting people through walls is high.
Perhaps a person's psyche will change, given the change in perspective a longer life could induce. After all, a child has many erroneous perspectives, and yet is able to adapt. With longer, healthier lives may come the freedom to re-examine old ideas. I hesitate to make sweeping statements, however, since this is psychology.

What I can say is that it is fallacy to assume one can extrapolate into the unknown by projecting linearly, or even statically, the known. In this case, why should the old be locked into old views? Wisdom urges always incorporating the latest information. People persist in wrong thinking after being shown right - this ego grasping may be a symptom of short lives, for some. And yet, certainly the desire to live longer is, at (the very) least in part, ego grasping, but that does not mean a sentience with infinite longevity will engage in ego grasping forever. Forever is a long time. -Eventually even the most ego wrapped ``child'' should grow out of it, if he or she grows at all.

New challenges give us the possibility of change and new ideas. Certainly re-doing life's challenges again with new minds does induce humanity to take on new ideas, as you say. Maybe there is something of the breadth first vs depth first search style in this comparison. Surely both can have their place.
That's not very scalable: with a team of 100 developers merging on average 100 PRs a day, you have lot of concurrency. Imagine everyone want to merge at the same time, only one can, the 99 others have to re-run the build/tests. Then only one merges and 98 others have to re-run the build tests, etc.
On a project where the build/tests can take hours, this becomes difficult to justify...

And then, there is the "I merged a fix into the release branch, which auto-merge into master, the fix built and tested OK in the release branch but not when propagated to master".