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Thanks for the correction. You are right.

Still doesn't make it better though, wouldn't you agree?
Okay, since you're said the magic word 'empirically' I would like you to cite your studies and evidence that proves your position.

Because for example let's say I wanted to put my money towards having proper healthcare for everyone. What action would be more effective: wanting people in my wealth bracket to be taxed more, or donating my income to charity?
I dunno, there's probably a cargo bay in it. Stuff an airman in there with a couple of tanks of oxygen and a rifle.
How would shifting the tax burden more onto the poor reduce the influence of the rich on the government?

It seems like the wealthy's influence on politics is two fold. Indirect, people who get elected to Congress have wealthy friends, and interact more with wealthy people. I.e. they have way more friends that are doctors than burger flippers.

Direct, wealthy people and directly contributing larges amounts of money to access politicians.

It seems like the first would be unaffected, and the second would mbe made worse because the poor would have less, and the rich more disposable income to use to donate to and influence politics more.
Thanks, I hadn't yet heard of Fuchsia.

More info for any others who are interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia
They are just as dysfunctional as Microsoft with their WinDev vs DevTools political issues.

It is not only the multiple OSes, also the developer stacks.

Android, Web/PWAs, Flutter, with each one presenting themselves as the solution for delivering software on Gooogle's platforms.
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I think the original idea behind compile-time evaluation is that it simplifies metaprogramming (compared to e.g. templates or macros), because there's only one set of evaluation rules - so the language works the same way, it's just that some parts of the program are run at compile time.
At least you can still close your eyes...

...and that's what I usually do when I fly --- sleep. I've found it to be the best way to make the time pass quickly.
An ordered society with a stable government is a necessary precondition to building a business like say Facebook. (In the absence of a State, your best bet as a nerd is to try to make yourself as useful as possible to the most powerful warlord who will have you.) In that sense, Facebook's shareholders and employees receive a lot more benefits from the existence of government than say a day laborer.
BouncyCastle is a low-level crypto library that aims to export to callers every primitive and every common (and many uncommon) ways of working with those primitives. Tink is a high-level crypto library that aims to expose only safe ways to use its primitives.
Automatically code execution when you're dead
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What's particularly insidious about a lot of these link shorteners is the use of non-semantic redirects. That is, redirects which are not based on HTTP Location: headers but things like meta http-equiv="Refresh". I assume this is done to allow these pages to be loaded with tracking scripts.

Of course this is a completely broken way to implement a link shortener since it won't work with non-browser tools such as curl. I tried a t.co URL with curl and it returns a Location: header, which means they're doing user agent sniffing. If you need to use user agent sniffing to make something practical, it's generally a good sign you shouldn't be doing that thing.
Could you explain how 'credible allegations' is better or more powerful than 'credible evidence'?
In the US. Good luck in other countries[1].

[1] I've been to much more countries where the currency of choice is top-up cards for mobile phones. Master- and VISA-cards issued by local banks are usually only usable for national transactions - not to speak of gift cards, which just don't exist.
Okay because it kinda sounds like you're saying "the war on drugs and Nazis are bad". Which no one here is arguing against. So congratulations, you win.

This is the weirdest trolling I've ever seen.
> That logic should also work in reverse: If high-skill talent is rare their wages should rise.

Which is precisely why the top 10% in the Silicon Valley are earning more money. Some of what would otherwise be localized gains are offset by globalization and offshoring, but income is definitely going up for those people in the Valley.

I don’t know about Germany- that’s not where the article was about so it’s not terribly relevant here.
> the amount of warming has been consistently underestimated by the IPCC reports

I think you mean overestimated. The IPCC reports have consistently predicted more warming than has actually occurred; by now the actual warming is outside the lower end of the IPCC's confidence interval. The IPCC AR5 responded to this by no longer claiming that its predictions of warming were based on climate models; instead it said they were based on, in effect, the personal opinions of the report writers. This does not strike me as a valid scientific method.

> The press, being the press, tends to sensationalize science with "Conflict! Intrigue! Breakthrough! Physicists vs Biologists! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!". I suspect that these misleading characterizations have a bigger impact on people's perception of Science than the actions of scientists themselves.

While I agree that the press likes to blow everything out of proportion, I think scientists have to bear the blame as well. Scientists do not do a good job of conveying the relative levels of confidence in different claims; to the public, they portray every claim as being made by Science, with the same authority, regardless of how solid it actually is. It is hard to blame lay people for losing trust in science when so many of these claims turn out to be wrong. What scientists should have done is to not have made those claims with the authority of Science in the first place.

The recent "replication crisis" is an example of this. The reason all those findings weren't replicated is that they weren't valid in the first place; they were only indications that needed further investigation. The scientists publishing them should have known that and should have said so. The narrative that should have been given to the public is "these are interesting indications but that's all, they might not pan out, more research is needed...well, we did more research and it didn't pan out.". But the narrative that was actually given to the public was "WoW! Great new finding! Everybody change everything you're doing!...oh, wait, turns out it wasn't true after all." After enough iterations of this, naturally nobody trusts what scientists say any more.
Ads are less about "information sharing" and more about manipulation though.

If I think about "information sharing", I'd imagine that the information is the thing of value to be shared and the goal is to enable the recipient to perform their own decisions with and increased base of background information.

However, ads work the other way around: You start with certainly outcomes that you would potential customers arrive at in their decisions and then think which information you can deliver to them to reach that outcome.
Are there any serious studies that show that shrinkwrap is far less harmful than plastic rings ?
> AMD also has its own completely incompatible way to do virtualisation.

You have this reversed: AMD developed x64-64 virt, and Intel decided to go their own way.
> Low salaries for low-skilled labor enable companies to delay modernization, automation and other increases in efficiency.

I don't see that modernization or automation have been kept back in the US due to unequal wages.

They are "kept back" until the exact moment they become cheaper than human labor, then they effectively take over.

> High salaries for high-skilled labor creates inflationary spirals for things like housing.

High salaries for anyone create inflationary pressures. In fact, high salaries for a relatively small group would do this far less than paying everyone more, as the article suggests.

I'm wary of government intervention in the market because every case I've examined deeply enough turned out to be a failure.
> I found python and ruby much easier to read and pick up. One reason for this is, that programmers are not allowed to define new irregularities.

The mechanisms they give you are more than enough, though. Ruby especially
favours this kind of thing a lot; how many people really have any idea what's
going on (and how many of them beyond "something to do with method_missing and
instance_eval") when they write something like:

FactoryBot.define do
factory :foo do
bar { 'baz' }
end
end

I don't think understanding that it's all blocks and method calls wins you
that much.
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Wow, you really hate Gatsby don't you?
If the developers enjoy working on it and they have consciously chosen that as their only intent then the effort isn't wasted. But I don't think the Mastodon developers see the purpose of their software as some sort of technical onanism.

If you look at their web site, it's clear their goal is "social networking, back in your hands". Vanity metrics lead to wasted effort relative to goals like that.
Or you can just print the date on the cardboard ?
The "feeling of a $1" is more of an opinion type statement whereas the other comparisons are more fact based.
hi userbinator :) isn't the purpose of virtual 8086 mode somewhat different? i.e. to run real mode applications while the cpu is in protected mode? or did you mean that virtual 8086 could be generalised into a wider virtualisation system?
I have no idea. I do know that the "something followed this path, therefore anything on that path is evil" argument is, and has always been, specious and a dead end.
Here's the concrete suggestions they make:

>To improve workers’ wages across the board, the report calls for local and state government to support workers’ rights to organize, adopt better labor standards for subcontracted workers, increase taxes on corporate headquarters and provide affordable housing.

All of this seems reasonable and structural to me, ie it maintains a level playing field for businesses.
I'm sure they'd start caring if everyone started blocking their ads instead of accepting them. Maybe one day we'll have augmented reality glasses with built in ad blockers; I wonder how they'd react to that.
Sure I understand the difference, but that doesn't make one better than the other.

Netflix interrupting what I chose to watch with something that I did not chose to watch is (in my subjective experience) pretty much equally bad whether it's information about other Netflix shows or an advert for breakfast cereal.

(Also is there an actual "I don't want to see these any more, permanently" option? Or are you just talking about the ability to skip each individual one manually?)

(Edit 2: also how is it not advertising? Just because it's advertising their own product doesn't mean it isn't advertising.)
You can't buy that car. It's not a Ferrari product.
Perhaps its ultimate usefulness might be augmented by people writing functionality using the SDK. Considering that it has wheels and is mobile (I assume) maybe the potential functionality is greater than that of stationary home assistants? I like the idea of a robot that has a few core features, a lot of potential functionality, and a solid SDK platform on which people can harness that potential. Don't know if this will live up to that notion but I find it interesting.
By obscuring the real destination, it's also terrible for security.
> The field of climate science is entirely underpinned by models...

This is not correct. There is plenty of data in climate science. There just isn't a good enough understanding of the underlying mechanisms to make predictions that are accurate enough to drive multi-trillion-dollar public policy decisions.
How are the top .0001% paying a smaller tax rate?

If you are talking about the capital gains rates then there is definitely a huge reason that rate shouldn't be the same as income tax rates for obvious reasons.
Adguard works, too. I’ve been using it a while but eventually would like to try a PiHole. Do you find yourself having to adjust the settings often, or does it work fairly well?
I looked up the Polly reference concerning discussion of BLIS missing optimized implementations, and GCC and clang apparently failing on BLIS-type loops. (It mentioned examples of people not using the relevant libraries in national labs, not that I'd defend that.) It might also have been other types of kernel that don't exist for ARM or POWER, say. Surely it would be good to have an effective general-purpose tool (compiler) that could replace labourious hand-optimization or building special-purpose tools.
You clearly don’t work in the area the article is about them, do you? It sounds like you likely don’t even live in the same country, let alone that specific region of that specific state.
Sure. Vanity metrics can be great for marketing or generating reasons to celebrate. There's nothing wrong with saying, "Wow, we have a million registered users!" as long as they also recognize that registration is only the first step. In a retrospective like this, I want to see them doing both.
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I think the app is the important part, building the best backend doesn’t help you if you don’t have any decent apps for iOS and Android.

That’s the problem that most new social networks have. I’m not using Mastodon because there’s no good looking iOS app. If Tweetbot would ship an app that works with Mastodon I would probably use it. Back when App.net was around some famous Twitter apps did just that but I think they got burned because it never took off and now nobody is doing it again until it’s more established.
> Why do you think this hypothesis is simpler than the existence of matter we haven’t detected yet?

Scientifically speaking, if you can't detect 85% of something that you think is there, then you have to admit to the possibility that it does not exist.

For example, the original article has this poorly-phrased sentence - "Not finding dark matter in an experiment is not evidence that dark matter doesn’t exist". Clearly the writer does not literally mean what they wrote, because not finding something in an experiment _is_ evidence it does not exist.

It is pretty obvious something is going on, we have lots of highly suggestive data. As you point out there are lots of extremely plausible explanations. But until we have some direct evidence, then we are in a situation where there is no direct evidence that it exists. Therefore, it might not. That remains a very simple explanation.

As I was alluding to when comparing this situation to the aether, and as other commenters have pointed out, working on the question of what light was turned out to break time. Same thing might happen with gravity.
Exactly. The tax rates in Somalia are very low, but there's a reason that rich tech geeks are not rushing to set up shop there.
I urge you to look at spending, you can have a stable government at 1/4 the cost or less. That's kind of my point.
When the easiest way to get started is to install Bazel, I'll re-calibrate the rest of the claims accordingly.
> I'm not sure about that. Rust's use of a Result type instead of exceptions is one of my favourite things about Rust.

It works because Rust has pattern matching and generics as well. Just having a Result type isn't going to help with error handling much, and Go is not getting generics Rust style nor pattern matching any time soon.

Let us be reminded that Go errors as values are purely a convention, nothing in the language mandates their use. On the other hand panic/defer/recover are language constructs.
good point, never thought of it that way
There's an important difference between "dropped out of undergrad because you were failing" and "quit your course because your company succeeded so hard that finishing your course was irrelevant."

You probably wouldn't be sceptical of a managing director of a medical research company who'd dropped out of med school when they reached 10+ employees.
Looks like their headers are all very C++, not the type of thing python can call into easily unless you want to mess with swig.

I'd use a python binding to libsodium instead of holding my breath for bindings to this code. But maybe I'm wrong and they're actively working on it.
Absolutely.

1. Forced Arbitration clauses in an employment contract.

2. Successful reduction of workplace safety laws.

3. Easy relocation of factories and capital to low-wage locations.

4. Poor environmental protections

5. the elimination of defined benefit pension programs

6. CEO income being 400-1000x greater than average worker at same firm.

Oh, I see you are talking about factory workers in South-East Asia.
I didn't mean to imply that at all.

Though of course that is sometimes a factor.
Pretty sure his example was just to illustrate his point. He even points out "even if" to show that it is an example and not the current tax system.
Programming languages has been one of my major subjects at the university and I don't see anything new in Zig regarding memory allocation.
Wonder how the universe would look like, then, through our telescopes.
"If you can't opt out" was a qualifier, not an assertion. I don't use Netflix and didn't research how the feature works.

The idea that the "information" they provide is not at all intended to modify your behavior is laughable.
I’m already watching the Github project, I’m very excited about the project. I really hope there’ll be a good app at some point. Thanks for posting that again.
In New Zealand you can buy prepaid credit cards with cash (and no personal information) that work anywhere visa/mastercard is accepted afaik.
There was a case only last year involving manipulations of cattle futures. The firm made the decision that the cost of being caught was less than the potential penalty, and they were right.
Video speed controller chrome extension. It lets you speed up videos on any site. I usually watch videos at 4x to 6x speed now (in addition to saving time I feel that I don't get distracted / daydream as much).

Sadly it's like an addiction and now I even watch Netflix at 1.5X speed too (which makes it impossible to watch with family)
You don’t need to be making 200k to be in the top 10% nationally - that’s actually just under 140k.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...
The batteries glued in is kind of annoying but without it[0] the battery rattles around and (I suspect) will have a shorter life due to the stresses on the tiny wires in the cables.

And while maybe they overquote repair bills to get a commission on a new computer it also follows that they take the conservative route and make sure you don't come back in a week because you previously spilled coffee on the motherboard and the thing goes up in flames but they just bend a pin back in place to "keep it going for now". If you want your car fixed "right" you go to the dealership but if you just want it going until something else breaks you take it to the mechanic on the corner.

[0]owner of an iPhone without the battery glued in.
Hulu, to me, has the perfect model: limited content for free, full content with ads for a subscription fee, full content with no ads for a (slightly) higher subscription fee.
>If you're a subscriber, you're the most valuable advertising target

Back in the 90s my dad used to buy shit from mail order catalogs. The volume and variety of catalogs he got in return was obscene. Seemingly every day he'd get a new catalog for something.
Not the US, but in Bolivia in the late 90s cable was essentially ad free. My favorite channel was "The Sony Channel", they had stuff like Dawson's Creek (don't judge!) and Seinfeld ad free. Because those shows had spots for commercial breaks they stuck music videos in between. Ok, maybe that isn't completely ad free, the music videos were essentially ads for Sony's music artists, but it was better than regular commercials.
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Errata: I asked him permission means I asked my friend permission.
Well said.

The way I see it, we are all very closely tied together economically at all income levels. The top few percent don’t carry their wealth off into space, they spend it in shops and restaurants, they invest it in businesses even if indurectly through pension plans and funds. They employ basically everyone else one way or another.

On the other hand, they benefit from living in a stable society, with fair and equitable laws and a skilled healthy work force. We all do, but it has to be paid for somehow.

Here in the UK we faced this issue the hard way in World War 1. Many young men called to service were malnourished, sickly and unfit for duty. It became clear that a national effort to educate, economically support and maintain the health of the general population was a matter of national security. The consensus around the national health service may have been catalysed by socialists, I’ll give them that, but it gained cross party support because it’s just good governance.

Society doesn’t need to be a brutal zero sum game of haves versus have not’s.

I’m a true believer in capitalism. It’s raised billions of people out of poverty. It’s based on basic principles of individual freedom and responsibility and it works. But it also works best I think when woven into a durable, fair and equitable social fabric. Capitalism needs an educated work force that is healthy and well nourished. To the extent that free markets can provide those things fine, but where they fail to do so ideology should not prevent necessary intervention in the national
interest and that needs to be funded somehow.
Ideally something with a C-FFI interface and a runtime without a lot of concurrency opinions.

Hooking up Python and Pony is fairly straightforward for example. We've done it at Wallaroo Labs. That's very much "embedded a Python interpreter inside a Pony process" approach. Perhaps you are thinking of something different?

I'm not really sure what you are thinking of. If you sent your ideas to the user mailing list, someone might have some ideas. Something a bit more concrete might help on that front.
This is what bothers me about stupid password requirements that create massive user friction because we'll never remember the password. Passwords aren't guessed or brute forced 99% of the time. They are stolen or phished or access is gained in another manner.
Inflation is pretty well measured (and "core" - which is a term not used by BLS - includes healthcare, education but does not include food and energy: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_09132018.htm ), but there are a lot of crackpots out there, for example read this detailed rebuttal of one such:

https://moneymaven.io/economonitor/emerging-markets/deconstr...
I don't think forcing is the right word.. I've noticed that languages where the "right way" is the path of least resistance the code quality stays high even if a lot of people with varying levels of expertise contribute
Let me put it another way.

$1 feels like the difference between eating and not eating to some people whereas other people wouldn't stoop to pick a dollar up from the sidewalk if they dropped it.

How "fact-based" do you need this to be?
Create some Lua code that runs within C? Rather than just passing and converting to C values when needed?

That's the role of the C API [0]. But usually you'd just be passing C up to Lua to bind it together.

[0] https://luajit.org/ext_c_api.html
This is a tetris clone made in zig
https://github.com/andrewrk/tetris

I bit hard to follow without the syntax highlighting, but seems a good example of what a larger application would look like.
OP means the license plate frame.
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