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As far as I can tell the article basically says: If you reward people for doing something, they will stop liking to do it and quality will suffer.

BAAS helps people to do something they set out to do, but can't get themselves to actually do it.

It seems to me it doesn't really matter if you start to like it less, since you already don't like it enough to get started. And the quality point is moot, since it's better to have something shitty (that you can then improve), than have nothing at all.

Don't forget that actually getting started is the most important part of doing something. An effective way to finally clean up the kitchen is not to plan 2 hours for it, but to just take 2 minutes to wipe the countertop. Before you know it, while wiping the countertop you move stuff back to their proper place and two hours later the kitchen is done. And if not, then at least the countertop is clean again, which was better than leaving it dirty.
How can you be sure about this?

Disclosing the existence of a short makes people doubt the bias in every piece of information you bring up.

Keeping a position secret might be more effective than disclosing. I know when I watched that Herbalife documentary I assumed the whole thing was paid for by Ackman and therefore of dubious credibility.
If there were as many cars in Pripyat and evacuation was done US-style then yes. Except it wasn't done US-style: http://chernobylplace.com/chernobyl-evacuation/
LOL. There are no such paths in India
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There is more to analogy with big tobacco. Facebook is used exactly ina way that cigarretes are used. People at work or during commute look at Facebook instead of taking a cigarette break. And then they go back after their business.

As more and more democracies realize that Facebook and the likes are toxic for them [1] (democracy is people taking informed decisions not 'engaged' decisions) Facebook will get regulated just as smoking. Which means banned.

And people will move on to healthier alternatives. And Zuck will probably end in jail or under heavy litigation for beeing complicit in so many crimes. This is just beggining now.

[1] - funny that Russia and China realized what Facebook really is right away years ago and banned it or used to their advantage. But to 'free' countries it is always profit above social consequences.

As Lenin remarked - 'Capitalists themselves will sell to us ropes that we will hang them on'
I love RARA's.
No, you also have the choice of using separate repositories, and just connecting them with dependency lists. I never understood the obsession with putting hundreds of millions of lines of code¹ in a single repo. Whatever happened to decoupling?

¹ Git can handle dozens of millions, as shown by the Linux kernel
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I wish
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https://i.imgur.com/8Q6PBBp.png

Is this the definition of progressive web design? :)
From the very little work I've done in Mathematica (which was years ago, and I'm not anywhere close to a "real" mathematician), the mathematical formatting was one of the great perks.
There were a series of issues with the Hyatt Regency walkways, and at this point I'd expect every structural engineer knows the story.

1) The engineer designed something that was not easily buildable. (The bridge had to be jacked 2 stories up along threaded rods that supported it, and nuts rotated up that distance)

2) The contractor modified the design in the shop drawings to make it more buildable, (split the threaded rod into two sections, with the lower half hanging from the upper walkway) but in doing so doubled the stress on a particular piece that itself was replaced by a less capable similar item. (box section vs welded C sections)

3) The Engineering firm signed off on the change to the shop drawings without realizing the significance of the changes.
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You might be interested in the Fortress language (RIP), whose input allowed, and was canonical rendered using, mathematical notation.

So, for example, xˆy could be written as x superscript y. SUM[i<-1:n, j<-1:p, prime j] a[i] xˆj was more elegant as a big sigma with the ranges at the bottom, etc.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/samth/fortress-spec.pdf
If you look at TE's content and editorial agenda, they take a very much larger view of their remit and the role of economics in society than just finance.
I am my own life-coach. What a terrible idea that is, let me tell you.

You have to constantly be two people, wear two hats. And then, at some point every day you also get to wear the tally hat, to see how you did.

A bit more about being two people - it's like when you do awareness meditation, you have to watch yourself go, but you also have to be there and do the work.

I am getting good results in my last three years (tally hat on) but that's after six years of miserably failing to get any control whatsoever over my life. Lots of pain there, heaps of depression.

No individual trick has done it for me, nothing stuck or moved the needle any. What I ended up doing is: new place/town, new job, new acquaintances. Some distance from older acquaintances. Did that twice, and both times got fantastic results, got progress. So, reset lead to progress.

I fucked up the distancing the first time, didn't move far enough away, didn't change my cellphone habits. You really are the sum average of the people around you, that is true if you want it or not. You need to shut up and cut the noise to have a chance to hear yourself weep when you're miserable doing what you do, to feel yourself content and joyful when you do something that is you.

Tally hat is not optional. Measuring progress, noting it down as you go, reflecting on what did and didn't work makes all the difference. Do, note, reflect, adjust, do again.

Awareness is not optional. Sitting down to watch Youtube? Think about what it is you're going to do after that, before sitting down. Set a timer, so you won't find yourself with the sun down and nothing accomplished that day.

Before you go to sleep, half an hour before, shut down everything, your phone, your computer; take a shower and think - if there is one thing I am to do tomorrow, what would that be? What would make the most difference? Write it down on a sticky note and put it on your monitor's top bezel. This is what you'll do in the morning, first thing. Then you get to do anything you want (set a timer), and proceed to tally-hat, then turn your phone on. This is when you'd get back to everybody and do household chores or what have you.

Do four good days like that, in a week. You don't have to be good all week. Just most of the week. There are 52 of those in a year, set your phone and desktop dash to show you what week number you're at, and use that when putting on your tally hat. Where are you coming from, what are you to do right now, what's the immediate next thing? No point planning way ahead or keeping a todo list (do keep a backlog and review it weekly, do mark things on a calendar so as not to miss them). Don't make yourself do a list of things, you're not a machine, yet. Make yourself do 23 minutes of "I'll just start doing that, even though I don't feel like it, and then take a break". You will feel like it after 15 minutes, but never before you actually start.

Or hire a boss/secretary and they will do your tallying for you (moderately well), and your awareness (works better if not remote).

Cheers.
Is it more horrendous than what will happen if we just keep reproducing and using up the earth's resources?
Oops, I somehow didn't see that :( It just looked like one thing to me. In a small browser window.
> E = m * c^2

The problem then occurs when you work in a multidisciplinary group and 'everybody' wants to use 'p' or 'c' or whatever mean the the super obvious thing it means in their field and you have to remember what each letter means in 6 different fields and the 'p' in function f means something completely different from the 'p' in function g.
I don't see what's wrong here. The framework is bad and privacy invading but this seems to be a positive advertisement for it
I'm thankful that

- I found my wife and she agreed to spend the rest of her life with me.
- I was lucky to born into a loving family in a relatively stable part of the world
- that I earn money (decent money) doing something I enjoy
If there is no cash how would you buy drugs or something else illegal?
> E2E communications

What popular by masses E2E encrypted comms are there?
This is mistaken. If an adversary has control of your routers, they have a way to pivot into your computers. I used to do this for a living.
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No, I wrote the title, it uses 'interface' or 'UI'.

It's inspired by edex as well as Tron:Legacy but I wanted to keep it short.

New title is less relevant and needless meddling.
The ethic of reciprocity is a simple logical construct which defines a survival advantage for the adherents to it.

Religious values are merely an abstraction over that which define a lot of specific super-rules, some based on faith and some on opinion but rarely on logic. Fundamentally the only reason there are "religious values" is so that the idea survives as well as the people.

It's difficult separating the two concepts.

To note I have no problem with people believing what they want but I think the universe is simpler than we like to make it out to be. That might be a little scarier than god though.
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'Protecting people's IP' is an extremely charitable view of US copyright and IP policy.
”The Chinese government is currently working to combine the operations of more than 170 million public security cameras"

How's that even possible? Are they state-owned? Security cameras come in all colors and shapes, barely get any maintenance (IoT!) and have horrible management software. How to manage and, even worse, stream anything in a timely manner from them? Surely this has to be something else.

Come to think of it, considering the size of China, they could very well be state-owned but still I doubt they follow any standards at that scale. Anyone with direct experience in that market could clarify the possibilities?
Some part of that is bad namespace handling, remove the namespaces and it already looks better:

thing->Energy = thing->Mass() * pow(speedOfLightInVacuum, 2)

And you can obviously clean it up further by using variables and just write

auto mass = thing->Mass();
auto c = speedOfLightInVacuum;

thing->Energy = mass * pow(c, 2);

// or thing->Energy = mass * c * c;
// or thing->Energy = mass * c**2; (for languages that support it)

The issue is that in "E = m c^2", it's obvious from context what everything refers to. In programming languages, that's not necessarily the case. You can have "thing", but also "other_thing" and "array_of_things". And all those things can have many different properties. And those things can be either objects, or pointers to objects.

You're not wrong: it's a definite flaw of many programming styles (and programmers!) that they're "too wordy". But it's also true that mathematics can get by with a bit of ambiguity that humans can handle that computers can't.
Not strictly true if the elevator braked gradually.
No, I'd rather not. Angry HNers are best kept on the other side of the online/offline divide. Pleasant HNers I hope to see in real life :)

The downside is I can't recruit off this user handle but c'est la vie.
It could. OTOH, most workflows I've seen use the approach "do whatever you wish in your repo and in your branches, but merging requires that the tests pass on a CI server, which only has access to the repository and has exactly zero uncommited files.

In other words, go ahead and break your builds six ways from Sunday, but they won't get merged until they pass based solely on the state of the repo.
There are circumstances for which I'd suggest a bike is a reasonable mobility tool. Say, after a major earthquake, where immediate hazards are few, fuel supplies are limited, mobility options few, and when the ability to pick up the bike or wheel it through areas where the roadbed is badly damaged or littered with debris would be a strong plus for a bicycle.

Having done quite a bit of cycling myself (multiple century and double-century rides -- miles, periods of 200-300+ mile weeks regulary, a 30+ mile round-trip commute, extensive tours), personal experience with much of the regions burnt by recent wildfires (I'd visited a friend in Chico fall of 2015, and drove out via the next highway north of Paradise, CA-32 to Lassen), with its mountainous terrain and very close-in forests (I was struck by how dry the region was three years ago, and was concerned at the time of what I'd do if a fire were to start), and been relatively close to smaller (though still multi-acre) wildfires, and watched footage of the Paradise evacuation, I would not want to rely on a bike to get me away from one under the circumstances prevailing for Paradise.

The timeline of the fire, warnings, alerts, and evacuation were short. The fire was massive and intense. Flames were immediately adjacent to if not on the roadbed. One of the factors disabling vehicles were tires exploding from heat. And the primary road out (Skyway) is not a constant descent -- there are up-and-down sections.

Cycling through that would simply be insane.

Flat terrain, a constant descent, ample warning: possibly.

Conditions of Paradise in November 2018: not a chance in the hell that it was.
Well, perhaps it's time to put some science behind it and do some RCTs ...
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These guys seem and act like a pyramid as pretty much nobody has received their DNA data. They don't have much info about the company. Even if people get data, the huge delay justifies my suspicion - the new victims pay for the difference, and this will run until there are no more stupid people who are willing to pay Dante Labs despite all the negative reviews.
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Well even the entire windows sits in a single git repo https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-large...
Finland freezes arms export permits to Saudi Arabia and UAE over Yemen
It sounds like you haven't seen the documentaries Silenced (2014), about persecuted US government whistleblowers (i.e. people who were actually in government agencies), or War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State (2013).
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"Didn't achieve its dominance based on technical superiority" - I partially disagree. Compared to SVN, Git was superior in multiple aspects. Perhaps it was not The VCS To End All VCSs, but lacked the annoying warts of CVS and SVN. (Mercurial does have some nice features, sure - but wasn't quite there when Git was on the up-and-up)
I'm pretty sure Snowden would get sent to "re-education" camp if US could get hands on him ;)
Because it costs money and isn't mandated by pesky regulations.
Absolutely agree to your assessment.
Encryption was already in the works via a collaboration with Open Whisper Systems, the makers of Signal (see signal.org).

AFAIK end to end encryption was actually part of the acquisition deal.

And now they regret it ;-)
Id say the value of new earlier stage companies in the space will increase given its obvious FB needs to constantly buy new properties to keep the machine running :)
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Those would be interesting indeed, as well as the transition to/from superconductivity of the rotor. I'd imagine that, when the rotor loses superconductivity, it'd becomes an insulator and the whole thing would be a rotating ceramic brick inside the fixed coils. There would be no torque to counter the wind, so it'd rotate faster, maybe fast enough to overheat the bearings.
My perspective is this. I am a quite experiance CNC operator and have used this particular model for over a decade. I don’t have a problem with it, even though I admit it took a bit of getting used to originally and I still agree that the controls aren’t intuitive, but that doesn’t matter to me cause I know them by heart... but now I’m running a shop with 5 other CNC operators who constantly break the machine and shut down work for trivial completely non problems like John used Peters Machine and now Peter is back so John is back on his own machine, suddenly none is able to turn on their machines so they’ve all started cutting out parts by hand. So I’m spending tons of time dealing with complete bullshit things that would not otherwise have been a problem had it not been for this particular brand of CNC. It doesn’t matter how well I personally know the machine, because the problem is that I’m now wasting my time trying to prevent them from wasting theirs. This is not a problem of inexperienced operators, it’s a problem with a machine that only works with the aid of a super-user, and which doesn’t easily show the path of how people should develop super-user abilities without breaking stuff and working really hard to understand what they broke and why before they can move on to fix it.

Thank god I’ve never had to deal with a CNC machine like that. But git is that machine.

Secretly I think this is the true reason for gits popularity. It’s like vim, a wonderful tool once you get past the first hill, but I would never force a whole team to use vim, I know it would be a disaster productivity wise. But because of gits popularity it is indeed forced on almost every developer.
This question resonates with me because I am a junior dev (bootcamp background, 20 months into my career), and am currently on the verge of switching jobs. I am very thankful to my current employer for hiring me and giving me a shot to grow into this career and treating me extremely well in the meantime.

The thing is, they pay below the market rate, my wife is pregnant and not very employable because she doesnt speak the local language, and the 40% pay increase would allow me to get the mortgage to buy the apartment we live in. Otherwise we will be priced out of living in the city. I just feel really guilty, but my responsibility to my family exceeds my commitment to my employer...
The CPAP business has been a scam for many, many years. As more people use them, it's just getting worse.

I think the crux of the problem is the intersection between a large population in need, the ability of the machine to keep people alive, and the machine's foray into into what once was well-marked regulatory territory, the respiratory therapist.

I expect it to get worse.

I need my CPAP to stay alive. I have severe, obstructive sleep apnea. So there's no option for me except "do whatever it takes to keep and maintain a CPAP"

That tends to be a powerful motivator to separate people from their money. And the machines themselves, even with the cost of regulatory compliance, aren't extremely expensive. Retail they're 500-1200 bucks. From the parts involved, manufacturing costs are probably a tiny fraction of that.

I've had my CPAP for years, and I was burned by the system getting it. My wife was prescribe a CPAP as well about a year ago and had an even worse experience.

She was told to go down to the local CPAP shop and pick out a unit. Her insurance would cover it after her deductible.

When she got there, they gave her the nicest one. Then they told her because of compliance worries, she would be paying only so much every month. If she decided she didn't want it? She could take it back in the first month or two. Makes sense, right? Then if she wanted to file with the insurance company to cover her rental, that was up to her.

Flash-forward six months. The insurance company refuses to pay. She's not using it enough (even though she needs to. Long story.) So she calls up the CPAP folks. No, they will not take it back. And guess what? If you stop payments, you now owe us for the full cost of the CPAP. Not the cost you could get online. Nope. The "cost" we've put on our special price list for insurance companies.

She's now in a spot where she's paid about twice the cost of the machine in "rent", plus the CPAP folks want her to pay twice the cost again -- or they're taking her to court.

Try to sell it online? Great idea. They won't let you. You can't sell medical equipment online!

The best part is that the manufacturer of the CPAP now bugs the hell out of her to buy all sorts of replacement parts. And why not? They're all covered by insurance!

She finally gets them to shut up and leave her alone. Decides to pay off the CPAP dealer. Yet again. She goes back to the machine, more out of anger and spite than anything else.

The machine refuses to work, makes you screw around with it. It's nagware, reminding her about all the supplies she needs to keep ordering.

It's a fucking scam. God only knows how many billions of dollars they're screwing people out of.
I'd like to keep the TouchID without touchbar, but what I really want is shortpassword+touchid (failing back to longpassword) everywhere they currently only support longpaswordpassword||touchid.
Google wouldn’t guarantee data wouldn’t leave EU for the longest time, and still don’t on some services.

They were also extremely slow to adopt EU legislation required, and still haven’t for all services.

Microsoft by contrast did so immediately, with Amazon doing so as well shortly after.

Still, when I ask our DPO which cloud is better, he’ll point to Azure, then AWS and directly advice against using Google.

Which is a shame, because I’d actually like to use firebase and flutter to up our production effectiveness on mobile. As one example.

It’s also why we solely rely on OpenStreetMap instead of using google maps, even though supporting OSM with server infrastructure to do so is more expensive. At least these days, OSM is a great map service, but we also used it when it wasn’t.
> There's no sane way to add support for this header and make older servers behave correctly, so now we have better facilities for this

KISS. Endow the "400 Bad Request" server response with a special header that acts like a cookie or nonce, with the semantics "this server does support Content-Range uploads and won't corrupt your resource". If the client resends the PUT + Content-Range request with the correct cookie/nonce added to it, it has acknowledged this semantics in turn, and the upload can now go through. This adds a roundtrip, but it's still trivial compared to what's being proposed here, and keeps the semantics of PATCH open for more complicated cases.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Some (but not all) of my American credit cards charge an explicit 3% foreign exchange conversion fee on top of whatever exchange rate they give you. It can happen even if the transaction is denominated in US dollars.
in the European Union, nowadays, it is required to have a safeguard for "shooting up" as well[0]. If I recall correctly for quite some time it wasn't though. My Father who works in the elevator industry told me that in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) it was already mandatory but after reunification for some years Germany had more lax regulations til catching up again.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... (See Annex I , 3.2)
Any advantage over using rsync in a terminal?
The article you posted does not say anything about fire (I searched for the word 'fire').

Even in that case though, what was the percentage of buildings burnt because of rent controls? if it was extremely low (as in less then 0.01%), then there is no real problem.
It'd probably evaporate before it reaches the ground
As far as vendor lock in, it seems like there are a large number of other vendors supporting the S3 API, so this doesn't seem like a huge concern.
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