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> Why are you inventing new facts to rationalize this practice?

The driver being nice and wanting to contact the driver is cool at a small scale but at a large scale with millions(?) of trips per day, that sort of casual niceness doesn't scale at all. At scale, you run into all the questions asked by the parent. You have to address the "oh shit, I need to get/give something back" issue in a more systemic, scalable way that accounts for all the ways drivers and passengers might try to screw each other.

Whether the fee is the right way to make this happen, I cannot answer. But what I can say is the questions asked by the parent are the kinds of questions you absolutely have to answer when creating a feature allowing "call backs" that might get used by thousands or tens of thousands of people per day.
Here's a story about that firm from June of last year.

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15746928/republicans-politic...

The big question for me is not whether hiring an opposition-research firm is within normal ethical limits. That ship sailed long ago, and don't think for a moment that FB is the only one who has ever hired such an outfit. The question is: why this one? Just one look at the people involved and their records would have told anyone who was paying attention that it's an exceptional sleaze magnet and engaging with them could not turn out well in the long term. Seriously, not a wise choice.
How'd that work out in the case of Brexit? Direct democracy is not really the best way to govern.
I'm also in Europe, using GCP, know many others who do, and have actually never heard criticism of GCP with regard to data security.

Yes, there are lots of people criticising Google. But for a business using GCP, my impression is that they have been pretty good crossing their t's and dotting their ö's during, for example, the recent introduction of GDPR. They have contracts and model clauses for different scenarios and products. And while I can't judge how good these are, I would assume they will be tested in court pretty quickly.

Long before that, they have reacted well to criticism. For about a decade or so, Analytics has had the option to only collect anonymized IP data, a requirement from a couple of court decisions categorizing IP addresses as PII.

I don't disagree that Google's size alone is reason for scepticism, and to keep an eye on them. But please don't go around claiming to speak for some imaginary European consensus when no such thing exists.
I prefer better water and dust resistance over having a headphone jack.
So Facebook is producing fake news. Hmm.
Excellent work with Zig and great documentation with detailed examples. Beautiful syntax.
So if I spend $250 on UberX rides I get $5 in credit? Hmm, that's going to be a pass on my end. In my city a local taxi company created an app similar to Uber, and it's typically 10% cheaper. Most people I know switched over to it, because it only takes a few seconds to do so. I'll take that 10% over 2% in Uber credit.

Also, isn't it already determined that Uber offers higher prices to frequent travelers, and people that take the same route on a regular basis? So, if I spend $250 on UberX, they probably added more than $5 in there because I'm a regular traveler. Now, they're just pretending to be a hero by returning some credit. If they had flat $10 trips in my downtown, and I would get a free trip after 10 rides, then it would make more sense. As of now, I don't trust them at all to provide equal pricing for different users, so I don't trust their entire concept of a loyalty program.
I suspect that is what is meant by "artificial", in "artificial cap". The idea is that we train fewer people than we could without a drop in quality (and further, make it difficult for already trained people from elsewhere to practice.

This is almost certainly true, and the incentives for physicians, medical schools, and banks are difficult to re-align.
NIMBY = Not In My BackYard. I'd say it's a pretty accurate description of both groups.
"Please tell me what about this is bad."

A trillion dollar company does not need subsidies.
3) why is this left to Amazon or am I misunderstanding how this is managed?
Interesting. Assuming "enterprise" really is that big of a deal in this arena, they had a chance to integrate with Red Hat's customer base and lost it to IBM. I suspect IBM will handily pull into third unless they manage the acquisition like most of their other acquisitions.
There is also explicit instantiation: it's a language feature!

Split the template into declarations and definitions, similar to .h versus .cc.

Then #include the definition into some module where you write template instantiations for all the needed types.
It sounds like the big box stores themselves are validating the Strong Towns interpretation that towns have invested far too much public infrastructure compared to the property value of the big box stores (https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/3/big-box-stores...). Perhaps these towns could zone every big box store for subdivision and redevelopment so that the stores will have to pay taxes based on the upzoned value. As an added benefit, the stores will be encouraged to use the land more productively.
Both the prices and costs of a hospital/clinic are very much politics-driven.

And the most infuriating part to all of this is that whether a system does well financially has little to do with patient outcomes or any other metric related to human health. Yes, I understand Goodhart's law ("when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure") since it's a common counterpoint used against my argument, but surely there are better metrics to optimize for other than profit?

For example, I work closely with a medium-sized reference laboratory, and it's clear to me that they have to take literally every shortcut possible in order to survive. The only reason that they're able compete in the market at all against a LabCorp or a Quest is due to the fact that they have deep political connections (lobbyists, governors, lawyers, etc) - certainly not because they have a better product or have better testing methods (although if you asked them, that's what they'd tell you).
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>Are we supposed to stop complaining about Facebook's negative impact on the world because their business model makes it impossible for them to resolve those problems?

You can always complain, but I find it akin to complaining about telephone companies because people use telephone services to plan and perpetrate crimes. Or knife manufacturers because people kill others with knives.

Facebook is a tool, and turned out to be a pretty effective tool. As with many effective tools, there are bad uses for it.
Precisely why government mandated third-party payer plans are a terrible idea.
Have to factor in parking, gas and insurance as well.
The tax gains would always outnumber the tax cost for any business, which is why the city government is favoring corporate over small business, that employ way more people for a lot less monopoly rents.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/12/facebook-...

To their credit, FB got better (or smarter).
As a small indie app dev - Great resource! Will use it. My thoughts -

1. Agree that use of space on screen could be improved.
2. Need to be able to rewind/replay videos to see interactions well
3. One way I think about patterns is the following 4 buckets

- consensus among whatever major apps like fb, google are doing whether u like it or not, because that defines the ‘standard’ people are used to, and there is a good chance it’s backed by a ton of UX research $$.

- novelties / cute details / visuals/ conceptually elegant design that add differentiation & perceived value, but on the other hand often suck up dev time and end up not being the ideal in terms of functionality.

- design that adds usability, even if it is considered not elegant or redundant - E.g captioning icons

- design that nudges towards intended behavior.

Of course great design does all 4 (HQ trivia is a good example), but more often there is a real trade off and a lot of the design pattern sites I see focus too much on #2 and a bit of #1 - at least I think it would be a really useful segmentation to have e.g “we’re showing you this pattern because it looks cool & different” vs “this has become standard” vs “this is simple & works really well”

4. a more comparative view of the apps (A does this this way, B does it this other way, etc) would be more useful than the individual ‘A does this, isn’t it nice’. I realise some comparison is possible if you select a tag (eg settings) then scroll through the apps, but not ideal yet
The word 'opinion' doesn't appear anywhere in the article, much less the whole page. You seem to be implying strongly that this article is fraudulent/biased with no evidence of that. I hope you do realize that news outlets (especially at the size of CNBC) fact-check and try to make sure their stories are vetted. They're not 100% perfect at that for sure, but you seem to be ascribing almost malice to them.

'People read it like the news being reported factually' because it is. That's literally what this is. There shouldn't be emphasis on 'opinion' because it's not an opinion piece.

Your take on this news article is however straight up opinion.
> An IDE should be able to automatically generate something like a header file regardless of language.

https://www.hwaci.com/sw/mkhdr/
The distance of separation between a New Yorker and the city government is magnitudes closer than between a Briton and the EU agencies.
I was in the focus group where they tested this six or so months ago. Ask me anything.
Ah, the Netflix model. After a point, you just have to start producing your own content.
It does if you want their business. You made a statement, you didn't say why it was bad.
> Homelessness never existed before government regulations?

The context of the parent comment is high real estate prices in San Francisco, which are caused by government regulations.
Considering that they've effectively aided and abetted undermining of democracies around the world, along with outright mob murders by enabling the massively scaled-up spread of dezinformatsiya, lies and rumors, we might expect some decline in morale among the employees with a conscience.

When their leaders actively discourage repairing the situation, it's even worse.

E.g., "Ms. Sandberg was angry." about employees "Looking into Russian activity". [1] Even tho her anger was about that it might leave them exposed legally, it is obvious that she consider protecting her FB domain far above protecting her country or democracy itself.

At this point, their entire enterprise is a plague on society.

[1] https://t.co/Vwr3dC8v1c
After having a different car and driver come to pick me up in Chicago I wowed not to use them again!
Just simply slowly substitute C code, piece by piece into Rust. Building userspace less depending from C ecosystem.
Perhaps they've seen how well this practice works on a subset of the American population and decided to emulate it because it was their best and least worst idea? While a bad approach it certainly seems to resonate with some portion of the populace.
> userspace

Pure userspace software is the easiest to fix; there has already been a huge shift to {safer,easier} languages for most new(-ish) software. C/C++ is mostly used for existing software where other options we not {possible,practical}. Porting to another language will probably happen now that we have options like Rust, but it will take a massive amount of work.

However, one place where we need more (and better) alternatives to C is the library ABI. If you want to make a library that can be used by as widely as possible you either use C or something that can generate libraries with a standard C-style ABI. That's the FFI tools of most other languages expect. (C++ ABI is also used, but name-mangling complicates interfacing with other languages) Rust's #[no_mangle] helps, but what we really need is standardized ABI with a safer calling conventions and memory handling semantics that is still very generic, without any language specific baggage or other complications. Until that exists, key parts of the infrastructure will stay with C out of necessity.

> kernels

That's one of the infrastructure pieces I was referring to. Other parts that depend critically on a generic C-like ABI interoperability might include driver-based stuff like libGL.so.

> microcontrollers

While I needed the low-level properties of C (w/ assembly) when I was implementing {802.3,IP,TCP,HTTP,SNMP} on a Z80-clone with 16kB of RAM, modern "microcontrollers" often aren't very "micro" and basically a lightweight linux host. They will move to other languages following after regular userspace software.

However, this is assuming there is even a need for safer languages on the micro, which is true when it's accepting data from a hostile source like a network. A much better idea is to simply not connect your embedded device to a network. A safer language isn't necessary if you aren't controlling anything dangerous, your input is limited to reading buttons states with GPIO, and any bugs can be fixed with a reset from a hardware watchdog timer.

> other embedded stuff to worry about.

There is defiantly a lot of embedded crap that need to be junked and replaced asap, but that's not really a C problem. Buffer overrun safety is great but it doesn't do much when the device has a backdoor password clearly visible in the firmware, ships with the admin password "admin", or grants remote admin access when the password is "" (empty string).

We do need to fix C, but there are, unfortunately, far worse problems with embedded devices.
How many years is such a discovery away?
> "Super-Earths" are among the most numerous planet type in the galaxy

Source? Just because our limited technology for detecting exoplanets tells us in the results that "X is most common" does not mean that X is really the most common.

It could be that planets smaller than Earth are the most numerous types, but we just cannot see many of them because they are, well, relatively small.
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How is the Roku on this list? I have a pihole setup to do network level adblocking and telemetry disabling and the Roku is the absolute worst device. Thousands and "phone homes" per day that are not needed for the device to function properly. I can only assume it is feeding data back to the mothership at a very high rate.
We can all pick the analogy to suit our argument.

You pick a cafe. I'll pick the phone company. Would it be out of line to ask phone companies to reconsider allowing mobs to use their services?

(Let's temporarily ignore the legal position phone companies have - they are explicitly protected by the law and not held liable).
This is the same broken logic as people who think they need to go to the "world's best X doctor" for care. That inevitably leads to sub-standard care because everyone is trying to go to the same person for a service and getting rushed in and rushed out. Most of us don't need the best doctor at X in the world to perform our services. It's like thinking you need James Gosling or John Carmack to write the code for your small business website.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfucXtyEsU
As someone who used to live in Pittsburgh - fuck UPMC. They may do some excellent research and have great doctors, but their business practices are akin to Comcast. So many hidden fees (some of which I suspect would be overturned if taken to court, but that would require a class action lawsuit or someone willing to spend 1000x on lawyers than paying the fees) and just terrible practices as you mentioned. They buy up real estate in bulk and then pay no taxes because they are a non-profit (something that is regularly challenged in court but they just threaten to leave the city they're named after). What's worse is many of the buildings they buy are historic, and they raze them and replace them with cookie-cutter corporate facilities. And as they raise prices and screw over customers their executive suite rake in 7 digit salaries. I believe that running an organization of this size should command large salaries, but they are doing it by fucking over their customers not by providing better healthcare. And since they're the largest employer in the state (and this is in Pennsylvania which includes Philadelphia) they just keep doing this shit.

Fuck UPMC. The only other non-profit organization I can think of that is so undeserving of the status is the NFL. We need stronger enforcement against entities that are clearly operating for a profit while reaping the benefits of paying no taxes.
This is really inspiring. I played around with converting an RC car to self-driving with an arduino but it was very simplistic. It used an ultrasonic sensor (Parallax "Ping)))" sensor) to try to keep a specific range of distance from a wall to its left. It wasn't aware of its angle so it had a positive feedback loop in its reactions which caused it to oscillate more and more out of control. Just knowing there are people are there playing around with this for fun makes me want to get back into it.
I switch to Lyft, but was surprised to see a semi-autonomous Uber drive by the other day in Northern Virginia. Pretty cool, but I still don't trust the company's corporate culture, and how they treat their drivers and the public, to consider going back.
Does facebook ever do anything with a shred of decency or just plain not-evil?
Are you suggesting wealthy white kids should take public transportation?
My point is that Approval, especially Net Approval, is better than FPTP and is no worse in that respect. Either Approval or RCV is an improvement. The rest is a matter of degree and weighting your priorities.

The last few ranks in ranked choice voting go unused or are randomly filled, except that making an explicit ranking of a least favorite candidate requires ranking them all. The first few ranks also may well be random, as the first two or three candidates may all be equally acceptable to a voter. On a ballot with city council for a ward, council members at large, mayor, county board, county chair/county judge, school board, sheriff, constable, state House, state Senate, governor, lieutenant governor, comptroller, secretary of state, land office commissioner, agriculture commissioner, several judges, school board members, US House, US Senate, President, and more that's a lot of ranking and a lot of time to do so. It may no better support the voter's will than Approval after all the effort by the voter and effort to update the counting process. However, some people may well have a strong opinion on where each candidate in a seven-way race belongs in a list.

Approval/Disapproval or Net Approval voting, especially with a neutral option, solves that problem of having to support candidates you don't care about higher or lower relative to other candidates that neither RCV / IRV nor FPTP solves. In FPTP, you can choose just one and either Approval or RCV solves that. In Approval you can denote clearly that you approve of any number of candidates, without your first four choices being arbitrarily ranked. You can disapprove of any number as well, without your last choice of disapproval getting ranked right behind your choice for winning the office.
Seattle was created to supply the Yukon gold rush miners. Then it was heavily dependent on Weyerhauser (lumber). Then it was Boeing (will the last person who leaves Seattle please turn out the lights.) Now tech.

Seattle's always been a one horse economy.

(Something like 15% of workers in Seattle are Amazonians.)
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This. Walmart might be evil but it's a godsend if you're poor. $1.28 bread. $16.97 jeans.

I'm fairly poor but the bread and the jean and what-not sold at Walmart is of the worst imaginable quality. Ross Dress-for-less and thrift stores offer deals. Walmart sells cheap stuff that's more or less worth what you pay for it.
Eventually everyone will have to worry. Prices will rise as far as people are willing to pay.
And this is why we need a better image format so that people don't cripple their images to get around the misuse of tar archives.
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You know, I was going to respond to you by saying that there will always be Amazon business without a new HQ in a place. However, I thought about it and it is certainly possible that they would test new and interesting things in markets around their HQs, potentially providing unforeseen benefits for the residents around them and markets around them. While the whole package deal still seems like a net negative and shady to me, that certainly does fall into a potential (though very not proven) positive category.
One big selling point of GCP vs other cloud providers in regards to HIPAA is that pretty much all of GCP is covered, and probably will in the future:

"GCP’s security practices allow us to have a HIPAA BAA covering GCP’s entire infrastructure, not a set aside portion of our cloud. As a result, you are not restricted to a specific region which has scalability, operational and architectural benefits. You can also benefit from multi-regional service redundancy as well as the ability to use Preemptible VMs to reduce costs.

The security and compliance measures that allow us to support HIPAA compliance are deeply ingrained in our infrastructure, security design, and products. As such, we can offer HIPAA regulated customers the same products at the same pricing that is available to all customers, including sustained use discounts. Other public clouds charge more money for their HIPAA cloud, we do not."

https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa/#covered-...

Its been about a year since I last checked out everything you need to be HIPAA compliant to run AWS services, but IIRC it required running dedicated instances for nearly everything. That can make running on AWS way more expensive.

EDIT:
Apparently the limitation of dedicated instances was removed in May 2017.
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/hipaa-compliance/
Except why does any of this make sense? Just because it can't be pinned on anyone, it has to be them? Why should it be a slam dunk conviction simply by process of elimination?

We don't know the witness or even the victim, by way of this article. Who were they?
If we wait a few thousand years, it'll get just a little closer to us:

> Barnard's Star will make its closest approach to the Sun around 11,800 AD, when it will approach to within about 3.75 light-year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star#Overview
Essential will sell your phone’s missing headphone jack back to you for $150
I love JavaScript but I like TypeScript better.
This project needs more love.

Would be incredible to see async events magically distribute across CPUs - kind of like how goroutines work.

EDIT: Though I am having trouble getting it to work with expressjs and the intellisense is not there
This looks to be a program for a subset of students. I'm specifically referring to giving every student a transit pass. Familiarize them early with mass transit, de-normalize driving kids to school.

Even in the well to do neighborhoods of Seattle, most of the students from upper income families are riding the bus to school after elementary. Driving your kid to school is very odd, even for the most wealthy. That being said, the private Catholic schools in Seattle are a whole different ballgame, they're singlehandedly bringing back long gone diseases as the archdiocese up here is very permissive of anti-vaxxers.
Agreed. A lot of one-way streets in Seattle. I had been setting the pickup spot 2 blocks away just for traffic / one-way / highway access, now UberPool automatically selects that spot and I save money. It's been a win for me personally.