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Bullshit companies like this (they aren't alone - there is also Accenture, Deloitte, and plenty others) will be around as long as there are idiots who believe in their bullshit and are happy to pay them good money to produce it.
> The bots would just get good at getting around the bot block.

That's not what happened with email spam. The spammers lost the arms race.
The US spends far more now on social welfare than it did in the 1950s, 60s or 70s.

Social assistance to drug addicts concentrated in neighourhoods where a disproportionate number reside, combined with reluctance to institutionalize them, or otherwise force them to stop doing drugs, creates ghettos where drug abuse predominates, that perpetuate drug use lifestyles.

From the other end, restrictions on housing construction, like zoning by-laws, and limitations on private property rights, like rent control, lead to housing scarcity, which pushes more people to the margins where they are more likely fall through the cracks.
Ditto Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" which posits an alternate-Earth history with a future of widespread info war (quoted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592 ) and the evolution of a special quasi-priest class of people whose unique ability was to filter out the crap and find true things on the Internet.
Irredeemable? Have they committed some awful moral transgression? Certainly some people are chronically incapable of looking after themselves, but please avoid such prejudicial language.
Wouldn't the https://forum.unity.com/ be a more targetted place for specific questions about this software platform?
Original because I missed it in reading this article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/20/nasa-laun...
This is such simplistic and reductive thinking and I'm tired of seeing it. We're all circling a Fallacy of the Golden Mean drain and if I never saw another "both sides" non-argument again in my life it'd be too soon. At a minimum, it obscures the fact that in the US today we have basically one 'side'; by referring to our oligarchy's two mouthpieces as separate sides we're implicitly giving them a free pass. It probably also plays into the 'two and only two sides to every story/event' narrative that gives implicit platforms to anti-vaxers, holocaust deniers, and all sorts of unpleasantness.

As an edit, that came off as ranty because obviously I'm miffed but I stand by it for the most part.
I understand how building more housing would improve a housing shortage.

But I don't understand how reducing inequality through taxes and social re-distribution programs, while not building more housing, would improve a housing shortage!
The difference is, nobody on the right is advocating to make corporations even bigger, while left in virtually any country works to make government bigger than it is.
Institutionalized care for the weaker members of society actually makes productive members more productive.

Likewise for social security and state-run unemployment insurances.

AI is coming in the form of industry automatization, in a very competitive, capitalist framework. Agriculture and resource extraction is also being automated.

Capital is literally growing a brain, and once it doesn't need us it will stop feeding us, and we'll be powerless against it because we are so dependent on it. Think of a spider shedding its dead skin after molting.
Exactly this. The best example here is NodeRed, Javascript underneath and a dataflow UI on top.

You can get connectors for pretty much anything eg. Raspberry pi robot/ home automation, twitter, http, email, mqtt, SQL, openCV, parallel processing.

The dashboard allows you to create UIs visually, and I've ported it to run on Android + IOS:

https://github.com/alexisread/noreml
The post I replied to referenced ln
The whole site has a trashy click-bait vibe. They're even using the classic click-bait word "jaw-dropping" in the story title.

I've noticed other news outlets who picked up this story used the alternate click-bait word "breathtaking" to describe the image. It's usually one or the other.
The mainstream liberal opinion is that corporations should a) be regulated by a sufficiently funded independent government agency, b) pay taxes, and c) be required to limit contributions or at least disclose campaign expenditures

The only people advocating the destruction of corporations are actual anarchists and anarcho-communists.

A large chunk of the right believes in the wholesale destruction of government agencies- they don't think EPA should even exist. But the equivalent opinion on the left has no political power at all. The leftiest member of Congress is not calling for a Worker's Revolution.
Where the opposite conclusion would actually make sense... right?

"Lots of people have succeeded with Brand A, but we failed... so I guess it must our fault."
> Your points are all well-made, but I don't know if a message has to be surprising to be worthy of studying, whether satirically or otherwise.

For satire to work, the message must be surprising either in content or in context. Sure, the effectiveness of fascist propaganda is worth studying (in both the investigatory and artistic senses), but I don't think Starship Troopers does so effectively, and particularly not as satire.

> It's in conversation with its genre of 'science fantasy action schlock'

I might agree that ST does not completely fail as somewhat meta-level (and cautionary) satire of the way that 'science fantasy action schlock' (and war porn more generally) function as militaristic authoritarian propaganda simply by being so deliberately modelled on and prominently incorporating heavy-handed fascist propaganda and still succeeding, enough to foster production of sequels, largely as 'science fantasy action schlock'. I don't think that was Veerhoeven’s intent.

> It's cautionary less in the direct sense of "Nazis are bad", than "Take a closer look at the mythologies you believe in".

I don't disagree that it wants to do that. I just don't think it produces the level of identification needed to do that effectively. I don't think audience members see thenselved and their own mythologies in the movie’s Johnny Rico, and his transition from doubter to drone in the militaristic mythology to which he is subjected.
You sound a lot like my brother. And you seem to have landed in much the same position. I could not help him keep a job so I won't pretend I could help you, either. The best thing that has happened to him is he found an employed woman whose head is fucked up in about the same way his is, and so they get along nice. And she owns her place. So at least he isn't homeless at this point.
Yep. Really the only city with a transit system on par with New York/Metro IMO is Chicago. And even then the Manhattan subway system has much better coverage than the L.

I prefer living places where I'm not reliant on owning a car, and when I was moving back to the states there were only a handful of metro areas I felt this was possible in without it being inconvenient.
> 20 Brain Foods That Boost Memory And Concentration

> Magnesium Deficiency Causes Heart Attacks!

> This is What Happens to Your Body if You Eat Ginger Every Day

> 15 Fruits that Burn Fat Like Crazy

> This Is What Will Happen When You Eat Bananas Every Day

> 17 Home Remedies for a Blocked or Stuffy Nose

> This Is What Will Happen if You Eat Beetroot Daily

> This Is What Might Happen When You Drink Lemon Water for 7 Days

> This Happens To Your Body When You Eat Oatmeal Every Single Day

> Foods that Burn Belly Fat

> 5 Foods to Lower Blood Pressure Naturally

> 20 Superfoods For People Over 50

> It's Never Too Late! 20 Super Foods That Prevent Osteoporosis

The more I scroll the more convinced I become of the strong scientific rigour of this publication. I even saw a few ads from Elsevier, so you know it's the good stuff.
> What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now anywhere between 30 to 50 and we can only dream of the ages past when we could do the things you described without any other worries.

I agree and identify with this. The reason I point these things out here is that the kinds of people actually doing the leg work on these platforms are on the site. And in some cases if they did a few things differently (e.g., upstream the drivers much earlier in the SoC bringup) then maybe we could actually fix this. I'm not nearly as pessimistic about the situation as you :)
Earth and Mars are also close enough to have seeded each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
Its always the lettuce!
Sorry, no idea. Seems like a decent summary of why docker would be interesting to a dev instead of a sysadmin.
> The left thinks bad corporations are responsible for the ills of society,

No, we don't.

> while the right thinks bad government is responsible.

More “libertarians” than “the right”; they overlap but not are not equivalent. (In fact, libertarians also overlap with the left.)

> absence of government just leads to less restrictions for corporations

No, because corporations are creatures of government. Absence of government (or just absence of government chartering corporations) means no corporations, not unregulated corporations.
Some of the projects I work on are pretty high-profile. I assumed they did that for everybody, but perhaps that lead to special treatment?
Good reference. I've definitely seen cases where it was referenced since then (2008), but this is good support for a SCOTUS case -- the case you reference appears to have occurred in the Second Circuit whereas MAI v. Peak is Ninth Circuit. The competing precedents will probably need settlement at some point (assuming people don't just wise up and surrender the RAM Copy doctrine organically).
Well you can if you want
Fare jumpers, bums, filth, lax schedules, ignorant employees, 24 hour schedules, pay the same fare whether going ine or 100 stops. Eliminate one of these at a time and Boom! Problem solved.
Streetcars aren't even necessarily worthless. They're called trams in Australia and Sydney has recently rolled out a network after seeing how heavily utilized they are in Melbourne, and how convenient they are for short-distance travel. Pretty much everyone who works in the city has a tram trip somewhere in their commute. Provided the tracks run past places people need to go, there's no reason they need to be worthless.
Why? Transport for London is close, if not past, covering operational (and some, but not all, very significant capital) expenditure from fares, property and advertising revenue. MTR in Hong Kong also is profitable, as I believe many Japanese networks are.

Being run entirely from fares means you are not at the whim of politicians for subsidies and grants that can change overnight with an election, which makes it very hard to think longer term.

I think this is what NYC should be aiming for - operationally covering its own operational costs from fares, advertising and property revenues with then state/federal grants for larger capital projects.
Lettuce alone!
I bet I can guess which side you identify with in one try.
The latter problem would be solved with approval voting at least https://ncase.me/ballot/
The Mormon Church played a big role in it because that organization is involved in its community. But it's not like it only helped Mormons. Everyone was helped, regardless of religion or lack thereof.

Why can't the Utah success be replicated elsewhere? There are no religion-specific aspects to the Utah plan.

Are you implying that atheists are incapable of compassion, generosity, or the need to help their fellow man?
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He's likely referring to how (some) people enjoy driving because of the sense of freedom & control it gives them. But he is asserting that this is just an illusion.

Honestly, I feel the same way, since most time I spend driving I spend sitting in traffic or something.
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1. That overtime is usually rare. Half of all tech workers don't have to be at work for every night shift, through holidays, and weekends. The buses, on the other hand, have to keep running, even after 5 PM on a Friday rolls around.

1.1. Even if you're an auxiliary on-call, you only need to work if something comes up. You don't need to be physically working, all through the night.

1.2. If you're constantly crunching, every week, you need to find another job, or demand non-meaningless equity, or higher wages, then your tech-worker peers, who do their 9-5. Most mature tech companies are full of people who do their 9-5. They employ hundreds of thousands of tech workers.

2. Tech workers are a tiny subset of the working population.

2.1. They also have much higher on-paper compensation then their similarly-trained peers in other fields (Bachelor's degree, and 0-5 years work experience), and even despite the occasional overtime, much higher hourly rates.
In comparison to SF/LA/NY etc. we have very few homeless people in Scandinavia. If I were to speculate then I think our extensive social security systems (free healthcare & education etc.) is the reason why. But then we all pay 30-55 % tax on our income to fund that social security.
I think from the perspective of getting things deployed, you're probably right. Kubernetes really shines there.

I still think that a LAMP server is better for an average beginning developer because troubleshooting is significantly easier on a stock install. Stock installs of Kubernetes give you very few troubleshooting tools. I've had issues where CoreDNS stops responding, so some pods basically don't have DNS, and even figuring out which pod that traffic was going to is a nightmare.

My devs frequently struggle with things that I would consider basic in Kubernetes, despite having worked with it for a year or so. Things like creating an ingress, a service and a deployment that can all work together are still a struggle, and Kubernetes isn't very helpful when those things don't play nicely together. Just today had to work through with someone who created an ingress and service correctly, but forget to open a containerPort, which caused the service to decide there were no valid backends and to route all the traffic to the default backend.

It's probably mostly the network, but Kubernetes overlay network can make simple troubleshooting very difficult.
$7/month for AI arranged pieces of human written music.

Here is their white paper.

https://brain.fm/assets/pdfs/new_white_paper_unformatted.pdf

This appears to be the extent of their claim:

"Behavioral results suggested this music did help people over time, but the differences in the brain appeared first, were easier to see, and verified that the experimental manipulation (added modulation) was having a measurable impact on brain activity beyond auditory cortex"

Continuing down the rabbit hole, here is their grant application:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1720698

They are pursuing publication of a paper, but I can't find anything about it beyond what is on their website.

Also found this other FAQ paper:

https://www1.brain.fm/assets/pdfs/science_FAQ.pdf

They claim their music can improve slow-wave sleep, although this study looked at just three subjects

https://www1.brain.fm/assets/pdfs/EEGSleepAnalysis.pdf
To be clear if you did any of this sort of stuff at any non-elite institution it would be even worse for you. The elites get a lot of lee-way that the rest of us don't.
Right? The economics of fare enforcement are a great illustration of this. It's probably more efficient to just abolish fare collection altogether.
A “subprime” crisis in housing? Think again
I may have been sloppy to use the cloud infrastructure expression. It can mean different things to different people. Sure thing, you want to use at least VPS-s, from the very beginning. Maybe even blob storage as/if needed. But probably that's it at the beginning.

> Put another way: in what way have you seen containers being abused?

Well, I wouldn't say abused, but they aren't really necessary a lot of time. E.g. if we talk about a small company with a single product (which, the developers being sane, is a 'monolith' as opposed to being broken into microservices) then containerizing the thing really adds nothing. The server will just have this one component anyway. And even if not, you can install multiple apps on the same server easily. You're unlikely to have dependency conflicts even if you have multiple apps as we're talking about a small org, small software and of course whatever platform you use (JVM, Node, Ruby, Python) they all come with solutions for this (jars, npm, gems, virtualenv). The only problem you may have if apps (probably through their dependencies) depend on conflicting OS level packages. Then you need (or better off with) containers.

> To continue, if we take a rack full of high-end physical, dedicated servers and we want to deploy a Ruby Rails application (a very powerful, common software stack), how would you sell me a bare mental, direct-to-OS deployment of a Rails application versus using containers to deploy the same application?

So we use VPSs. Which kind of solves the issue in itself. Also, the context I'm talking about is the small company/startup hosting their own SaaS solution. Yes, if you want to install 3rd party apps, containers are pretty convenient. I remember wrestling quite a lot with installing GitLab, RedMine and Sentry locally 4-5 years ago. (Not sure about the problems with the last one.) Wasn't fun.

On security: I'm far from being an expert but I do know that LXC (the containerization solution docker uses) is not really meant for security purposes. A kernel exploit is enough to break out of them. See e.g.: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/169642/what-mak... . So if your container is compromised, then your VPS/server is compromised. Which means that you probably don't want to deploy these 3rd party apps on the same VPSs as your SaaS. But that kind of goes without saying.
Wiping out the bots would absolutely destroy the user counts of most social networks, so it's just not going to happen.

On the other end, there are a lot of formerly credible sources of information that have stepped in it badly and repeatedly, and tarnished their aura of authority. The fourth estate is looking more and more bought and paid for, and the academy has their own issues there, not to mention a mother of a reproducibility problem.
The equivalent opinion of "disband one agency" is not a "Worker's Revolution", it's "disband one corporation/industry", and there are plenty of those opinions on the left (tech monopolies, oil/gas, defense contractors, etc.)

The equivalent argument to a Worker's Revolution on the right would be the disbanding of the Federal government or a reduction to independence-day levels. That opinion does not exist in Congress either.
I’m talking about the people who will never be functioning members of society, no matter how much support we give them (monetary or otherwise).

If you don’t understand what I mean you haven’t met enough homeless people.
People of Scandinavian descent in the US have much lower levels of homelessness as well, so I think it's far more likely a socio-cultural cause, rather than political.
Why do you not leave San Francisco for some place cheaper or with more available housing? If it is simply due to lack of funds, would you relocate if money was offered to you for that purpose?

Relocating to a place where you don't have a job makes you even more homeless.

Remember that a significant percentage of the homeless are also employed. Many full time. Some as developers.

It's easy to relocate to an unfamiliar place with no family or safety net if you have a job and savings. But if you're just going in the hopes that maybe there's a job, and maybe you'll find a place to live in that requires no deposit, and maybe there's a market for your skills in that place, you're just going to end up on the streets again.
> Their trends seem dated because they're not going to feed enterprises bleeding edge tech trends

Not to derail your points; but their trends publication included a framework that is no longer supported. It could’ve taken an intern one minute to update.
Yes they are. The right works to remove regulations and checks on corporations.
The other day, my wife introduced me to yet another difference between Chinese cuisine and US cuisine: She cooked the Romaine lettuce she got from her coworker. She just cooked it like you'd cook Bok Choy. It was quite good!

My wife also rinses everything we get from the store. No one is to be trusted with your family's food. Absolutely everything is rinsed, including things most Americans would really rather not. One day, I had to work a bit to convince her to not rinse the steel cut oats!
> MIT president Paul Gray said: "There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that I had anything to do with the planning or promoting of [the hack], but I wish there were."

That’s probably my favorite bit. Then, the sad reality of the present day sinks in:

> If anyone were to attempt the harmless type of stunt they pulled off -- let alone the one in 1948 -- it would likely be met with a prison sentence.
Well said. Re leftiest members of Congress - for one thing, they won't be very lefty as long as having a religion is a virtual requirement:

"The only open atheist in congressional history was California Democrat Pete Stark, who spent three decades in Congress before admitting to his lack of faith"

https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/how-many-open...
It is just our human bias to envision complexity as only occurring on earth-like planets, on human-like time and size scales, communicating over the EM spectrum, formed of baryonic matter...

The argument works just as well if you stipulate that it covers only sufficiently human-like complex life. The speculated existence of life composed of galaxy-scale non-baryonic matter or something doesn't affect at all the question of where all the other more prosaic life is.
It is already in the works. In 3-5 years every big box store product will have UV QR codes on every side of external packaging that encode the existing product barcode plus a unique per item ID.

This is being done to improve self check out speed (no more having to find the bar code) and help with tracking receipt-less returns (this box of cereal was purchased at our store).
Absence of government chartering corporations was a thing not that long ago. It doesn't mean no big businesses, it just means a return to partnerships and personal liabilities as the primary entity. Some businesses today still operate on these older principals, notably law firms. They seem to do their evil well enough despite not being corporations. So I doubt that much would change.
They wouldn't pay the full fare anyways? Would they... take cheaper transportation?
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The way the leaves are bunched together makes it hard to clean. And secondly it is not cooked before eating.
Paris has a zonal system though that goes up past €10, which NYC doesn't do. I'm not saying that 'central zone' fares aren't ~$3 in many cities, it's very odd to only have one zone and the fare be that low.

Keep in mind the distances that the subway does (and has express service on) make it similar to the RER in Paris more than the metro.
It's an endless money pit because if you subsidize something, you get more of it. The massive increase in subsidies for low-income single parents has resulted in a massive increase in children born into single parent families over the last 50 years.
~500 feeds! That must keep you busy!

I'm working on increasing subscriptions on my blog - do you frequently see the "Subscribe on Feedly" buttons, and if so do you use them? Or are they not useful?