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TL;DR: Some company acquires apps to track those apps' users' activities so that the company can simulate the activities in a farm of bot-controlled ad-enabled phones?

1. Why don't they just show the ads to real users?

2. If the real users don't really get to see the ads, isn't this a win for everyone (except advertisers)?

(I'm not saying I agree with their practices, but just trying to think how they rationalize their moral decisions).
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And yet Perl 6 has been droppping their performance floor by enormous factors, with a lot of room for improvement still.

Everyone always shrugged at me when I explained that Perl 6 was designed to be able to be fast, with the ability to outstrip Perl and even other languages.

And now that it's happening? They are still shrugging, but its the uncomfortable shrug of someone trying to shake off an inconvenient truth.
perl5 has more explicit and reliable scoping and more flexible and powerful OO than python or ruby, and has had for a decade now. If other languages would actually take the lessons, I'd've switched.

Recent javascripts have 'use strict' and 'let' (perl5's 'my') but the errors are at runtime, not compile time, so in terms of maximising productivity perl5 is still my preference - though ES6 is almost an acceptable perl5, and I'm working on some libraries to bridge the remaining feature gaps since apparently nobody else actually wants working OO and proper DRY.
Long story short - because it's deeply un-American.

Atheism is fundamentally at odds with the values and ideals of the founding fathers and the vision they had for America.

Remember this is a country that was born because "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".

The idea that all are created in God's image therefore all are equal - is a foundation for why our country exists in the first place. That's a fundamental gene in the American DNA.

Moreover the founding fathers were either A-devout Christians themselves or B-held considerable regard for the Christian religion.

Yes there's the odd quote about the shortcomings of organized religion, Jefferson's Bible, Ben Franklin's religious aloofness - however, the founding
fathers were overwhelmingly what most today would consider 'devout' Christians.

Take for example, the members of Constitutional Convention of 1787 (which authored the Constitution) - 96% were Protestant, %4 were Roman Catholic. A fair
portion of these were actually trained for ministry.

Or this quote (among many others) of George Washington -
"I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them."
...in which he literally outlines his abhorrence to the omission of God from the American consciousness...because of what God has done for it.

This is not to say atheism is 'wrong' or religion is 'right' or vice versa.

It's just to say that American and Christianity have been historically intertwined.

It should be self evident why atheism is considered a taboo here.
Long list of problems with stablecoins, but a very big one is the backing itself.

To name a few of the problems this will mechanically bring about:

1) counter-party risk: that money will need to be stored at some institution. However small, custody carries a risk, which means the peg will drift.

2)Even assuming the audit mechanism is bulletproof (unlikely) and the custodians risk is spread on a 1000 different institutions ... what are you going to do with that huge stash of backing USD sitting idle in your coinbase/circle bank accounts? How long do you think it's going to take for someone to realize that the money can be "put to work"? Or that actually holding the full amount is a very unnecesary thing to do. Or that banks hate carrying huge idle USD deposits and will likely try to charge you for it?

There goes the peg.

Unless of course, like Tether did get away with for quite a long time, you're smart enough to let the world behave you actually have the USD backing the coin.
Yeah, the entire thing is rubbish.

I'll just keep writing perl5 that solves customers' problems, and use the rust integration we now have to write fast safe code when I need that.
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> As I understand it, Julia's current implementation is not a JIT in any comparable sense

Going straight to machine code via baseline compilation is a common JIT technique. Until a couple of years ago, V8 compiled everything.
You forgot the "live at product hunt" combined with the annoying "HI IM X LETS CHAT?" that takes up each corner.
WebPerl is fascinating, I'm hoping at some point the author talks to the rest of the perl community so we can compare notes.
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Not at all - and Larry has been working on perl6 for years, so the people behind vanilla perl5 are a different group again.

The perl11 people are mostly disgruntled kooks who got kicked out of perl5/perl6 development after yelling at everybody for not instantly believing everything they said.

Meanwhile, actual perl5 and rakudo continue to progress.
> Mr Musk would like to have a word with you

Tesla had much more than massive capital availability. If anything, it spent most of its life at a significant capital deficiency relative to the competition.

For Tesla, there was nothing to buy. The only option was to build.
So the sight of pluggable VM backends, which includes JVM, somehow struck you as a deadly limitation?

Funny, most other languages dream of having their core implementation runnable on multiple VMs. Otherwise why does every successful language end up with a separate-and-nearly-equal JVM implementation?
It's a silly idea.

Fortunately, none of the people actually involved in progressing perl5 or perl6 have anything to do with this moonshot.
It really depends. In the US pedestrians account ~10% of total number of traffic related deaths.
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These [1] are the ice core data from the past ~400k years. Not only has the temperature gotten substantially hotter before, but this cycle of rising and lowering global temperatures has been happening before humans even existed. And these are not small temperature deviations. The range between the lows and the highs is around 9 degrees celsius.

I don't entirely understand why people are so averse to these data. Do people think they're just fake or something? This does not mean that humanity is not contributing to the current warming trend. But the data show beyond any doubt that warming cycles do, and would happen, even if humanity did not exist.

There were not periods where 'over a few years we saw a bit of warming' - there have been centuries of major warming that increased the ambient temperature of the Earth by ~9 degrees celcius. The most recent warmining cycle, before the one we're currently in, lasted some 20,000 years.

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_...
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To piggyback onto this comment, it really is a matter of rates, of chemical kinetics. The current increase in CO2 from fossil fuel burning and related human activities has occurred at a rate that is geologically instantaneous. There is no real precedent for this. CO2 has indeed been higher in the geologic past (e.g., Cretaceous maximum, early Paleozoic prior to vascular plant systems), but these increases are likely tied to very leisurely evolving cycles of plate tectonics and enhanced volcanic CO2 fluxes. Higher pCO2 during these periods produced warmer, wetter climates that drive enhanced rates of silicate weathering. The result? High pCO2, somewhat lower pH, yes, but also higher carbonate alkalinity in seawater as well, which gave rise to higher, not lower, saturation states for marine carbonate minerals, and are associated with higher rates of biomineralization (e.g. Steven Stanley's periods of 'hypercalcification'). So it's really a matter of the balance of rates. "Natural" rates of C oxidation via the slow uplift of buried organic carbon are far slower than what we have produced via fossil fuel burning of coal, hydrocarbons. In this process, silicate weathering acts as an essential thermostat through the feedback to chemical weathering of crustal silicates. This has been understood for quite awhile.
What a remarkably concise demonstration of Dunning-Kruger effect.

Someone should make a screenshot of this and use it in their next talk.
Do lazy + Suspense replace the react-loadable [1] package?

[1]: https://github.com/jamiebuilds/react-loadable
I use perl5 like that, but honestly I sometimes script in Tcl because I'm too used to applications perl.

For me perl5 is lexical scoping, closures, map/grep/reduce, and an OO model that steals the best of python (ignoring ruby's crippled OO which involved failing to steal from smalltalk properly) and then adds a first class attribute system so you can declare attributes once and not need to re-type the names to get a working constructor.

ES6 isn't bad, mind - with 'use strict' and 'let' it's close to a usable perl5 apart from the fact that its errors are runtime instead of compile time (typescript helps there of course) and the OO is still relatively limited, but I have some ideas using decorators that should bring the best of perl5 OO to javascript since I've been unable to convince anybody else to steal our features already
try this:

1. clone https://github.com/fdiskyou/Zines
2. go offline for a week
(or longer) and enjoy the read!
If you're removing 700,000 apps a year from your store for violating your own policies, it's fair to say your system is not only not perfect, it's horribly broken.
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I don't find it at all desirable that some people have the right to devalue my holdings. It is farcical to think that people would hold the medium of exchange forever if it kept increasing in value because at some point they would either have so much that they would prefer to convert (some of) it into material wealth or chase something with a higher rate of return. Alternatively they would have so little that they would have no choice but to convert it to survive. You cannot eat the medium of exchange.
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I just wish ruby had the same quality of scoping and OO that perl5 has, but it ended up with the same "variables magically pop into existence for the entire function" footgun as python and a horribly restrictive OO that also requires me to repeat myself (accessor/constructor etc.) in a way that after about an hour sends me screaming back to perl

Edit: Look, this is a genuine opinion, I've chatted to ruby core devs about this and they couldn't find ways to achieve the same things I do with perl5 as elegantly in ruby (Steve Klabnik and I have an open conversation about how to find a kata where we can compare this stuff properly), I'm 100% happy to discuss this but blindly downvoting because you disagree is depressing - tell me why you think I'm wrong instead and I'll do my best to reply constructively
Yeah, but the point of "storing value" is storing the purchasing power of a dollar today for future purchasing. You don't do that by saving the dollar, you do it by investing it or by buying something whose value will hold with time.
Not just save more for retirement, but also work on lowering your cost of living.
Indeed it was Moxie: https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/
Is there a today equivalent ?
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Freedom of speech doesn't supersede securities fraud.
If anyone else thought this article is pretty scant on context, here's the backstory behind the lawsuit, Google was using Play Protect to nag users to uninstall the Aptoide app store: https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/2018-07-12-aptoi...
One important thing for anyone to learn is that they won't get work if they don't complete, or even just start work. The more effective someone is at working with other people the more valued they will be. Asking the right questions, and knowing which need to be asked, is an important skill to develop as well.
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I'm on of the founders of a small but fast growing startup. We're a team distributed across Europe, and so far we've had the fortune that everybody we employed had a sole proprietorship lying on the shelf somewhere.

But as we're growing, we can't keep asking every single employee to begin a company, right? Also, starting a mailbox firm in every country where >0 employees live sounds like administrative hell. How do other distributed teams (across borders) solve this?
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Oh my God, I want to see it right now; I just love Dieter!

When I first saw him in Objectified I went nuts by what has he done with his design, how he has impacted the world we live in today.

Thanks for letting me know mate, I will check it as soon as possible.

Cheers +1!
Same, my thoughts went straight to the quest giver. After receiving a response of "getting there" or "it's tricky" for the third time, rather than sitting back and smugly speculating on the deficiencies of the adventurer while "nothing happens", maybe they should have asked "what's the problem?"

I'm seeing a bit of a pattern in these blog posts, where the author is more interested in proving their superiority over others than in actually getting stuff done.
IMO, this is just yet another crypto exchange trying to solve their day to day liquidity headaches, with some sugar sprinkled on (programmable USD).

In doing so, I think they gravely underestimate the kind of meat-grinder they're putting their hand in (as in: the kind of liability they're taking on).
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Fantastic concept if your primary goal is making the subject non-taboo rather than selling lots of food.
>It's pegged to the USD, isn't it?

That's the intent. They may vastly over-estimate their ability to maintain the peg.
I think you mean conspiracy theory.

Of course this event is a conspiracy.
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What has the SEC said about this endeavor?

Who are your custodian banks (how many)?

Who are your auditors?

Will you be holding exactly one USD for one token?

Will the backing be just USD sitting in a custodian account or do you plan to invest them?

How are you going to deal with the fact that your custodians will likely be doing fractional reserve themselves?

How will you guarantee fungibility of the token?
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It IS a conspiracy.

What you said is not a conspiracy theory.
Yep, Samsung list the prices: https://www.samsung.com/au/support/screen-replacements/

Unfortunately I then called Samsung support and was told because I hadn't bought the "Australian model".

Nevermind that there's only one glass/screen/digitiser combo worldwide for the S8+.
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I recommend updating the person that defined the task you are working on of your current status and the sub-tasks that you are working on. They will value any information you provide and may also provide you insight to accomplishing some of the sub-tasks (the key is under the doormat, make a copy). They will also probably value hearing about your thoughts and discussing potential alternatives, and if they are not then that is important to find out as soon as possible.
For the part only or the part and labour?
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acceptance letters 1st or rejection letters?
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What andrewflnr said, also http://klisp.org/
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Usually acceptance go out first based on previous years.
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I was going to propose the term "yak scissors", since it's needed to complete the side quest to get to the main quest.
Having been party to stuff like this before, absolutely this.

There are people at Amazon and Apple that know and are participating in an investigation. The vast majority of people (including almost all executives) don't know.

Amazon's denial for example came from the CISO of AWS (who is a VP), not Michael Cava the CSO of Amazon itself (who is an officer of the company) and the most likely person to be handling the situation.
Whenever I talk about self driving cars, there is often somebody in the room who feels they represent a loss of freedom.

I’ve never been able to comprehend their position — Is this what they’re talking about?
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It's all about manufacturing shared realities.

For example, a corporation doesn't really exist independently outside of human minds, but we often act as if it does.
> But then again they know they have you hostage, its not like you are going to change your mind and tell the doctor to just leave it in there.

I hear people make this argument about patients who are bleeding out, and that's one thing. You're not going to suffer any extra harm from leaving a bean in your nose for a week. The nose just dumps out into the back of your throat. Why wouldn't you shop around in that case?
> Aptoide said the Android antivirus program, Google Play Protect, was nudging users through a notification to uninstall the app store from their devices, warning them the program could download harmful apps. For those that choose to keep Aptoide despite the warning, the app store no longer functions and can’t install apps, the company said.

I'd be pissed as well
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Do you church hop? Many protestant pastors will denounce the behavior, but I think it's quite interesting.

Also, did you never study apologetics in Bible School?
Not sure if it is me, but for a long time I have kept away from anything perl of moderate complexity. Package management used to be atrocious - it would be slow, pull a ton of modules, compile them with the C toolchain, break for missing dependencies and leave you wondering where the log was. Maybe it's better now. But I wonder why on earth interpreted languages need mandatory C bindings.
What’s the benefit of rendering on the client given you need to get the Ajax response anyway? Can’t the server just return the html of the page?
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FFS downvote if I call you a Trumptard, but don't downvote if I'm right.

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There's a major philosophical school of thought that holds nothing exists outside the mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism
I wouldn’t say genius.

The value of the advice has been tested over the last 15 years with many happy students returning over and over again.

We’ve got people in the UN doing good work.

We’ve had people find love.

Entrepreneurs get funding and lead their own companies.

We’ve got a book in the works. It seems better though to teach things live with this kind of experiential skill.
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I like to Joke that Perl is the ugliest most usable lisp ever. The way it lets you play with the symbol table for all its various namespaces is extremely powerful. It also exposes dynamic and lexical scopes in a way reminiscent of Common Lisp.
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I think all the carbon removal solutions assume some sort of carbon tax for them to be viable. Otherwise carbon removal is a process with some cost and zero benefit for the individual.

So to answer your question, the popularity of carbon removal will probably be about the same as the popularity of a carbon tax.
Wouldn't help with perpetual corporations owning most of the assets. Globalism was just an extension of capitalism, to escape to other jurisdictions.

It is not an accident that the GINI coefficient, is so drastically out of whack in the US.

The mortgage system, was meant to break the original land grants (which had to be honored under British-American common law).

The corporation both a shield for the rich; and a sword against the middle-classes as it disenfranchises citizens from the bill of rights.

Intellectual property is just a more extreme form of corporations. The notion that idea can be owned for decades, with the cost of enforcement out-sourced to the public, and private profits insourced.

Same with the public schooling system (ready workers). Etc.

Just about every Western institution ("improvement") you'ld care to name, has an ulterior motive moving us one step further along to what amounts to perpetual slavery.

I think if you sent back a person from this era, 120+ years ago, to try and "improve" the American system, they'ld have burned him alive. Such is the level of degradation inherent in todays "modern" governance.
Completely disagree. Could also mean they're doing a great job finding problematic apps.
Actually Safari has been supporting this for over a year already :) Edge is probably coming out this spring
I see. well fingers crossed.
They do negotiate - the prices they’re charged are vastly less than what you would be as an individual.

As far as I can tell the problem is really the big HMOs seem to be essentially managing another companies money, rather than their own, and they essentially get a cut of money going in and out of them.
Aha. Okay I think I'm having a moment. I could possibly use this to pass a reference to a websocket stream for streaming data that's way too high frequency to be handled with redux actions.

Say, 100 robots driving around, displayed by a map component. I want to handle the addition of removal of a robot as an action but the actual 10hz pose updates can just be handled by the canvas and ignored by react entirely.

Maybe even context for camera streams too.

Previously I would just handle a websocket stream as a global. Yuck.
They do by weight.
> In public, your right to privacy doesn't protect you from having your picture being taken.

I believe it does in some places, for example France.

Rules on the sort of thing are not universal. Europe collectively (continent not union) cares a bit less about freedom of speech, quite a bit more about privacy, compared to the USA.
Huh, with Bundler, Ruby was one of the first language ecosystems that actually got it's act together on those points. It is so much more mature than python in this regard, for example.