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Revenue grew from $8k to $150k in two years. You have no idea if this is a viable business, but the market seems to like it. They clearly in scaling mode:

==Peaceful Fruits is in the middle of a production expansion to 5x capacity so that we can hit breakeven levels and beyond.==
Please provide an example of these "continues existence" costs that the government is immune to.

>Whereas the defining characteristic of a private company is that it can, ultimately, go bankrupt and be wound up with little recourse.

Wall street already has countless mechanisms for pricing risk into things.
Like on Fiverr where if I leave a 3 star review for substandard work, below expectations set by their portfolio, I feel like I've killed their dog.
>It's a pretty sculpture that people can walk on. That's it.

Famous last words.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...

Bridges are supposed to be boring and functional. Fluffing them up with all sorts of over engineering to make them pretty tends to introduce unnecessary variables that are less well understood or less easy to account for or may be "unknown unknowns" which have the potential to reduce the strength of the structure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/world/europe/italy-genoa-...

If you want to make a pretty art piece then make a fancy ornate bridge deck and slap it on top of your boring but functional steel I-beams that reliably carry rail, road and foot traffic worldwide.
"You mean I have to worry about the consequences of my actions? Why can't I just bury my head in the sand and make tons of money?"

Plenty (most? all?) large businesses do this. It isn't good for the world.
This is not an argument.

You've merely listed things you don't like, punctuated by little insults ("crashing lack of self-awareness", "baby steps").
To further complicate things, an array can only focus in the far field, which is typically D^2/lambda (where D is the largest array dimension). So simply increasing the array size is really (^2) self defeating, and is only useful for large distances, and then you have normal 1/r^2 losses.

A whole wall of transducers in a room is pointless as you can’t focus it in the room.

So there really is a limit to the power transfer, not even taking into account when the air becomes nonlinear (which ironically is MP’s thinking).
>for prioritizing social pacification over software quality.

Well quite literally it's doing the opposite. Social derisiveness does nothing for the community. That's just one example of many. And of course you had to nitpick about systemd instead of understanding what's being discussed. Missing The Point (TM) 2018. Linux itself isn't really a good example of sane kernel development and architecture. It's popular and it works.
> ST3

I'll take it that's not Scream Tracker 3 (1994), Seattle's Sound Transit 3 ballot measure, or the New Jersey tax form, right?
> And yet STD rates are skyrocketing in the US. I take Truvada but it’s used as an excuse in the gay commmunity to engage in unprotected sex. If anything the availability of Truvada is probably a leading cause of why STD rates in the gay community are increasing.

No, STD prevalence is dropping. STD diagnoses are increasing, because PrEP requires more regular STD testing, which people weren't doing before.

Please stop spreading the anti-PrEP propaganda touted by people like Michael Weinstein. It is actively damaging to public health.
IMO, lobbying is legalized bribing, so too me, lobbying is paying a politician to vote or do as you ask.
Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was an analogy - just as Colombia or parts of Mexico were taken over by the narcotics industry and everything about them was transformed by the influx of drug money, Vancouver has been taken over by Chinese money transfers and everything about it has been transformed by that influx.
Yeah, like mirko said, being pressured by project leader to merge absolute crap (I was in charge of merging), "because it works and we don't want to suppress less skilled colleagues". "Try to explain nicely how to do it better" while that other guy a) doesn't want to learn and b) has feelings that are more important that making better software / learning.

Edit: to clarify, that other guy couldn't understand the project or how to do proper code so all the PC dance afterwards is the perfect shield and role playing. I just walked away after few weeks.
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Getting off into the weeds here, but I doubt you would have been offended if he was referring to a man and used "dude".
I visited abkhazia and was told they have wood that is very hard it does not float in water. Could not verify that.
>this will blow over in a month or two and we'll forget all about it, like we always do

>There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen

The house of saud can't be on the top of the throne forever. Their monopoly on oil is diminishing (as is the importance of oil) and they don't have anything else even remotely comparative.

You could have predicted that nothing would happen to the Assyrians for 16 thousand years and you would only be wrong once, but that was the one time it did matter. You could have predicted it about the romans for a thousand years; about the soviets for 70 years; about the third reich for 15; iraq for 40. In the end they all fell.

Now, I am not saying that this won't blow over in a month, just that it is really difficult to predict the future, especially in international relations.
What would make more sense is to build a certificate system around this that news organizations can use to declare an article is Fake News Free. Might be a nice business to start riding the Fake News Boom.
>those are a very effective way to force a noncompliant culture to take its thumb off the scales.

I think some would argue that quota approaches aren't quite this, but rather that they're a thumb on the other end of the scale. The first thumb is still there because non-compliant cultures that aren't fundamentally converted to becoming compliant at the cultural level will generally continue to be non-compliant cultures and only comply insofar as the quotas require (to take a rather contrived example, you can hire 50% women, but what about when 30% of them are harassed, feel unwelcome, and leave?).

I'm personally of the mind that the only way to really take the first thumb off the scales is to persuade the non-compliant culture that complying is in their best interest. Which seems to be the gist of these guidelines: "We all agree contributors are a good thing. Let's be welcoming to all demographics so we optimize the number of contributors."
Could you distill your issues with JIRA down to a few items?

I've worked with JIRA and have my own complaints, but I'd really like the perspective of someone else as well that decided that a simpler issue tracking system is better than what JIRA offers.

I've used Bugzilla, GitHub issues, and now GitLab issues, but I still feel like there's an appeal to JIRA that these solutions don't offer, and examining the pain points helps me understand that a bit better.
Then how has uBeam raised so much money? Napkin math pretty much sticks a fork in their ideas.
YMMV massively depending on what exactly you're working in.

I've found when I'm writing libraries that will be leveraged by other programmers, especially in a modern/high level language, insights I've derived from my understanding of category theory have been incredibly valuable.

If you're working very close to the metal (eg, embedded), very close to non-technical users (UI stuff, edge layer business logic), or in less featureful languages, then you'll get much less value.
On the contrary, I think more often than not, people here need reminders like this. Nothing they said was wrong.
It makes sense with pump and dump schemes, but less so, to me, for investments you need to hold on to for a long time.

I think about Warren Buffet's IBM investment. Anyone who talked to IBM engineers or perhaps read Robert Cringely's blog knew that IBM was facing a steep decline. However Warren Buffet applied the lens of finance to IBM's stock and it looked like a good deal. It wasn't.

Probably what is happening is that VCs/tech investors in general have had success in one area and then take it as a positive reinforcement of their own skills. Sometimes the investor is looking at other signals, which worked for them in another project. In this case, there was probably total ignorance of physics combined with the unwillingness to just ask some basic questions from people with knowledge in the area.

Perhaps the lesson for everyone is the VCs who did really well in the past decade or two -- if they fail to learn about the areas they are investing in -- may not be capable of distinguishing the next wave of great companies from intellectual fraud.
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That seems shortsighted for such a traditionally longsighted company. If you sell tents to people who sell fruit, and don't screen the fruit for disease, and then people get sick, they will use other bazaars.
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You lose quite a bit more. People keep checking if it's back online. The usual flow is disrupted. Questions might be asked about whether branches can be merged. Integration with CI might fail. Managers start asking questions why features cannot be deployed. Some of the tooling I wrote even would stop working because the API was unavailable.

Unfortunately, it's easier to down vote, than to come with a better estimate of the total cost of a 13 hour down-time of github.
> Do you think that Ts'o just needed you to step in and explain how domestic sexual abuse is rape and that he's just being insufficiently awesome[0]?

So you believe that Ts'o claimed that domestic sexual abuse is not rape? Let's see what he actually wrote:

> Also in the survey, in the rapes that were reported via a randomized telephone survey, in 66.9% of those cases, the perpetrator did not threaten to harm or kill the victim. (Which makes it no less a crime, of course, but people may have images of rape which involves a other physical injuries, by a stranger, in some dark and deserted place. The statistics simply don't bear that out)

OK, so it seems that his own words contradict your assertion. Care to explain?
Saudi is powerful because of the reliance on fossil fuel. Any way to decrease dependancy on fossil fuels, both from governments and from individual citizens, will prevent situations like this.
It wasn't an attempt to be polite. They didn't use the long form of their name (which would be irritating but I can see that being an attempt to be polite), they used a rather infantilising diminutive. The effect was condescending and "Sal" was well within their rights to object.

In the general case, telling someone that actually you are the person who has the last word on what they are called is bullying.
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You know what, I honestly hadn't really thought about schisms and Scotsman fallacy being as equivalent before. I've been slightly enlightened.
I'm a believer in tools that enable transactions on the smaller scale. Think SQ, SHOP, and eventually Stripe whenever they IPO. Tools like these, once integrated into the checkout/payment funnel, tend to remain in-place. The one caveat for these would be if we were to see a dramatic downturn in the economy. Smaller stores would likely experience revenue declines, translating to fewer total dollars flowing through these systems, so it's worth keeping that in-mind if you choose to invest in this space.
Would you happen to have a slides or transcripts then ?
> I have strong personal anecdotal evidence that casual hookups are much more upfront about condom-less sex and in fact I find that a shockingly high percent outright refuse condom sex (e.g. bareback only). I'm not sure if the actual condom use rate is lower (I wouldn't be surprised) but in my experience the upfront non-condom attitudes is staggering and way higher than 10 years ago. Tech, attitudes, PrEP have shifted culture and depressingly for me lowers match rates from an already tiny population in my experience by more than 50% of guys on hook up apps !

Condom usage has been dropping for decades. It began dropping before ARVs were discovered in the 90s, and it's steadily decreased in the years before PrEP was discovered as well. There are a lot of well-studied reasons for this.

So yes, you're right that fewer people are using condoms today than they were 10 years ago, but the correlation runs the other way. The search for a different prevention tool (which resulted in PrEP) was motivated by the fact that people have realized for decades that condoms were not going to be a viable long-term solution for addressing the spread of sexually-transmitted HIV.
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Does it? It should be hard to convince anyone of something that goes against accepted and proven constraints. They don't and never have had the data/science to back up their claims. That should be the bar.
> Then how has uBeam raised so much money?

They were good at selling a product that cannot work. Imagine how much better they'd do with something that does work.
Neither of us knows if he was smeared or just outed.
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In the Netherlands every vote is counted equally. I don't know of any problems or complaints from our rural areas, but I don't live in them.

Also every party represents their constituents proportionally. In the last election 10,563,456 votes were cast, so every 704,230 votes (1/150th) gets you a seat. There are basically no thresholds, so it happens regularly that parties with less than 2% of the votes get seats.
Windows made the framing of the windows translucent with a blurring effect, which I still think looks pretty bad. Still pretty pointless imo.
I can kind of understand why it is options. We have them in our conference rooms and I have seen too many locking display port cables just ripped out of laptops. Makes me cringe every time.
When you are sitting on nearly 1B a year in cold hard cash profit, I guess suddenly it becomes very efficient to just make the content yourself rather than pay a middleman in Hollywood!

I wonder, are most studios and writers "on the NFLX books", or do they work for small external studios? This would impact NFLX's costs and IP rights in interesting ways if they are keeping it off the books.

Methinks they have enough money and power to maintain complete ownership. Amazon does the opposite-- delivery drivers and factory workers are usually employed by faceless contracting firms like "AFS Delivery Inc" of etc
Also these were made by professional specialists. Even just regular consulting companies had people doing graphs for their reports and presentations. Excel and Powerpoint came and analysts started doing them themselves with drastic loss in quality and legibility.
For people interested in how the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive works, Weber Auto has a series of videos explaining it in detail:

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>regimes that will violently murder to silence critics might not to get even for bad business investments

I don't really disagree with that but at the same time it doesn't really feel all that wise to whack a hornet's nest with a baseball bat. If anyone feels like taking the risk, then I wish them the best of luck in swindling them for as much as they can get away with, but playing stupid games can lead to winning stupid prizes.
Thanks for the response Nicolas. I'm not reading any ill intent into this. I do think that it's time for the Haxe Foundation to make time to be more transparent, or it will continue to stunt your growth as community members get frustrated and leave. As you know, criticism like this isn't new, and it isn't going to go away.

If you don't feel design decisions can be made effectively by a committee and prefer to steer these decisions yourself, that's understandable - just remove the language about the core team voting on proposals or reaching consensus, because in practice it's not how the process actually works.
There is no fast when talking abou tenders. You need to give at least 6 months by law to give companies a chance to respond. If they start asking basic questions, they get extra time to read each others answer. 9 months to 1 year seems a reasonable guess for a not to big tender
I still use my t440p, and my dad still uses a t61 (!) as our respective daily drivers. I've upgraded the drive to an SSD, and slotted in some extra RAM for mine, since it's so easy to upgrade by design.

From a consumer point of view, they're great machines. But from the seller's point of view, I can see why they want them to be harder to repair. I probably won't be upgrading for another few years, why should I? The whole trend of planned obsolescence is becoming more and more obvious. I hate it, but it was the obvious outcome.
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So if we do nothing we are bad people and if we do the right thing we are still not good people, because "privilege"?

That kinda trap sure doesn't make me more likely to give a shit about ethics.
See my longer comment[1]. At some point, with some hopefully small fraction of members, the maintainer will need to make a call between keeping the member and letting other people suffer, or kicking someone out of the project. Stallman even mentions this:

>the appointed maintainer(s) of a GNU package can, if necessary, tell a contributor to go away; but we do not want to need to have recourse to that.

in his email, although leaves that out of the guidelines themselves. Why on earth is being forthright about the fact that abuse will lead to exclusion worse than being cagey about that fact? If the end result, you can be kicked out, is the same, why would you prefer that the circumstances be entirely up to each individual maintainer's discretion instead of a somewhat objective (and importantly, public and available!) set of criteria?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275994
If they released it now there would be a glossy video animation and a press kit, and then fifty different websites would add clickbait titles like 'You won't believe what NASA's new Robot Tug can do with its arms' and then make you wade through paragraphs of blurb before letting you get to the bit that actually explains whats going on. And you'd also have to click no to a pop-up subscribe window and turn off the sound of an unrelated autoplay video, by which time you would have forgotten why you even came to look at that page.

Thats why a simple diagram is better.
From the proposal [1]:

> It is the caller's responsibility to handle cut-off logic such as deciding between displaying "in 7 days" or "in 1 week". This API does not support relative dates involving compound units. e.g "in 5 days and 4 hours".

Specifying the locale is optional, and you can specify a list that will be matched against the user agent's preferences.

1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-relative-time#api
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I mean... you don't have to feel okay with it, but if you're paying taxes, you're certainly complicit in it on some level. Similar goes for Americans and the Iraq War.

In the old days, in some countries, we had a device for changing the government when it did stuff you didn't want to be complicit in. I think they called it an "election" ;-). Now, admittedly, even if I take a very broad array of American political parties, from the Greens to the Libertarians, their spectrum on foreign policy still ranges from bloody-stupid to fucking appalling, so I don't entirely blame actively anti-war Americans for the anti-war movement's failure to stop the war.

But that's because the democratic system has decayed to the point where, if you don't want today's fresh new war of choice, you're left choosing between two irrelevant third parties, one of whom puts forth a candidate who doesn't know where Aleppo is, and the other of whom are outright tankies on foreign policy and may be paid by Vladimir Putin.
True enough, even though there is nothing but negative sentiment these days toward the Facebook brand.

I suppose there is someone even thinking that Portal will be good for their home.
I thought the Hyperloop was debunked already?
so due diligence for infotech startups maybe doesn't make sense but wouldn't at least a "first pass no phebotonium" filter mean better likelihood of returns for hard sciences?

I have been closely watching indie bio do their accelerator and I'd say a full 60% of their startups are phlebotonium, or at least "this is not a crazy idea, but the choices you have made are totally crazy".
>> the boom-and-bust economic cycles have grown more catastrophic

While agreeing with your post more generally, this one statement seems a bit off the mark. Shouldn't the Great Recession should fairly be compared with Great Depression? So far, at least, the Great Depression was far more catastrophic, as was for that matter the Long Depression starting in 1873. All three of these were real financial sector collapses, not simple recessions. Independent central banking seems to have done great good, generally, despite of course being imperfect.
You must now present, to me,

First off, thanks for that. To think that any random stranger on the internet "must" do something for you... well, that's quality humor right there.

and separately and individually to any other person who asks it of you, a minimum of five credible primary sources of people who advocate diversity and who have used exactly this phrasing

My guess is that he's capable of original thought, and this might be one of his original thoughts. Not everyone builds a facade of intelligence by regurgitating quotations from other people. Because someone else hasn't posted something on the internet doesn't mean it's not a valid thought.
I expect you'll use a thin wrapper library around this.

I think a lean api without a lot of business rules is the way to go
He won't be able to because anyone employing such a technique generally wouldn't be stupid enough to use those exact terms.

There are plenty of examples in the UK, specifically with the BBC, putting out recruitment campaigns that specifically state they only take in Black/Minority candidates. There is no reason for it other than to boost 'diversity'. The jobs are just as capable of being done by black people as any other colour.
> Those "thousands of diverse communities" include the ones who were using their religion as a pretext to burn heretics/witches, torture homosexuals and in general oppress the weak and the diverse as well as the ones that today are still trying to infuse young people with their toxic shame when they are non-conforming.

Wow, those Benedictine monks have really been up to some heavy shit.
> Retrospectively, Mr. Shih, the former VP of Kodak thinks that the company “could have tried to compete on capabilities rather than on the markets it was in” like Fujifilm did but “this would have meant walking away from a great consumer franchise. That’s not the logic that managers learn at business schools, and it would have been a hard pill for Kodak leaders to swallow.”

It's a classic case study best told in the book, "Who moved my cheese?" Walking away from the consumer business would have been an abrupt about-face and forced a massive shift within the sales and marketing teams... they very people responsible for maintaining the Kodak brand.
I have come across cloned news site of mirror.co.uk promoting crypto-currency scams.

They talk about it here: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/warning-fake-mirror-we...

It was from an advert on a legitimate website, but it had redirects/popups that show only on mobile devices.(this seems to affect a lot of even normally very trustworthy websites for some reason)