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> It’s about bringing people to God.

True enough, but the community ('fellowship') aspect of the faith is essential.

Maybe I'm missing it, but it also seems to be something that's missing in more secular world views.
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Yes, and governments benefit greatly from monopolies in the form of control. Consider any heavily fragmented market with several small players where control is decentralized. It’s more difficult for governments to coordinate with all these smaller players to get stuff done, like wiretapping or getting data off a server. It’s much easier for a government to sanction monopolies so they can go to a few, more powerful players, to accomplish the goal of control.
> Sociologists Peter Berger and Grace Davie report that “most sociologists of religion now agree” that the secularization thesis—that religion declines as a society becomes more modern—“ has been empirically shown to be false.”

This statement is directly copied from page 24 of 'Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World' by Timothy Keller [0]. I make no judgement of how true/false this is.

> Most striking of all are the demographic studies that predict that it is not religious populations but secular ones that are in long-term decline. The April 2015 Pew study projects that the percentage of atheists, agnostics, and the religiously unaffiliated will slowly but steadily decline, from 16.4 percent of the world’s population today to 13.2 percent forty years from now.

The citation for this study is [1]. tl;dr on it is that the global population is growing much faster than atheists are growing. But the number of atheists aren't shrinking.

[0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=kzNODwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA24&pg=P...
[1]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/07/why-people-w...
> Of course there is, but when considering substitute employers, in the economic sense, working in a small-town software shop isn't quite the same as working at a multinational tech company.

The life outside of the FAANG/GAFAM bubble isn't just "small-town software shop[s]." There's a lot more diversity than that, and to conceive of the industry in that way is too parochial.
Is “Wolf Children” an accurate portrayal of what it will be like to renovate one of these houses? (minus the wolves)
> The American skies have gone from an open market with many competing airlines to a cozy oligopoly with four major airlines.

It is clear why we have reached this point. Most monopolies are allowed to exist because of state influence (which happens thru many forms, regulation, patents, or plain direct support), all increasing the barrier to entry for would-be competitors. You see this in most heavily regulated markets.

There are other markets where the cost of entry is so high anyway (investment-wise) that naturally very few companies can make it - this is something that is not an issue per se.
In many of the industries listed, competition is regulated out of existence, thanks to the large corporations' deep lobbying pockets. I looked into starting an ISP when Spectrum left New York, and wow. It's not too cost prohibitive, except for the licensing and regulatory fees. It's absolutely incredibly expensive.
Are there no unregulated markets?
Good timing since Envoy just became a graduated project at CNCF.io

https://blog.envoyproxy.io/envoy-graduates-a6f71879852e
The author specifically cites large tech companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook) as examples of monopolies that have formed due to lack of state intervention.

He also says bad rules have led to monopolies as well (through regulatory capture, lobbying, etc.).

So bad things (like monopolies) can happen due to the state or due to lack of the state. Maybe the problem here isn't the state at all.
You'd be surprised how generic most code is or how easy it is to port if it's POSIX-like. Out of the major consumer OSes, only OSX is POSIX certified (in 10.5 which is only 11 years ago). Hell, the majority of Android code is written in Java which has no POSIX roots at all so avoiding POSIX isn't a death knell you seem to imply. iOS, while it supports POSIX, most of the developers use iOS-specific APIs unless they're in shared code with another OS & not using something like Boost. Have you actually tried using POSIX networking APIs? They're god awful. POSIX threading primitives are terrible. etc etc.

POSIX is sometimes useful for writing cross-platform C/C++ code. It's extremely limiting though, out-of-date, & doesn't actually offer the write-once run anywhere you'd like with POSIX.

You can write POSIX code that will fail to build, fail at runtime, or even behave incorrectly when you run it on another "POSIX" system (at least as far as Windows/Linux/OSX/Android are concerned). Certainly a far cry from how a standard is supposed to behave.

POSIX also, for the most part, targets the lowest common denominator of platform features which means the POSIX API isn't as rich as makes sense for the majority of applications, doesn't have the same performance/security, and/or isn't as easy-to-use.

POSIX also leaves many subtle decisions to implementations' discretion which means that even if everything works in the happy path, it'll break in subtle corner cases. For example, PATH_MAX is defined as 256, _XOPEN_PATH_MAX is 1024, but Linux & OSX both have unbounded limits so a POSIX program can easily fail to be able to open all files on an OS; making this a build-time constant was the stupidest decision in the world & endemic of how POSIX is designed.

Most modern language runtimes these days (Rust, Go, Java, Swift) comes with a far richer, less bug-prone & more feature-full set of features in the standard library out-the-gate on all platforms (so you just need to port the 1 standard library) & most libraries build on that standard library so you usually get them for free.

Most platform vendors also provide custom APIs to interact more richly with their specific features for performance, battery, usability, security, etc. To take full advantage of a platform, which you're pushed to usually by market forces, POSIX doesn't help you.

* EDIT: Also, POSIX is gigantic. The majority of useful existing tools probably use 20% of the entire standard. Porting that smaller API surface isn't challenging.
Given same speed, much easier to crash on a scooter with much less centripetal force than a bicycle with larger wheels.

Also the longer wheel base of a bicycle results in a slower response to user steering input, which results in greater stability as well.
Maybe she didn’t know it had one, which is one of the major problems with any type of rental device. A rental device that a user isn’t familiar with is subject to misuse by uninformed users. Imagine if we allowed car rentals to people who had never driven before or bike rentals for people who never learned to drive. I’m not suggesting there should be a license for these and maybe that’s just the cost of having them.
If a church is too large and non-denominational, it ends up being a YMCA with sermons. In other words, there's no more church there, just vague platitutes and networking.

Jesus himself said: "Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

Big amphitheatre churches will flourish in the short run but they don't produce real roots, and in the long run they'll have about as much staying power as Javascript frameworks.
Are you talking universities or K12? Because everything the parent said is true in K12. Spend 10 minutes at a Jersey City School Board meeting and you’ll see just how aggressive the union is if you even hint at reform. Can’t speak to higher ed though, except tenure for classroom instructors is a real problem. Since they have absolutely zero incentive to be good teachers but instead only engaging in activities that bring in research money for their area of interest.
I didn't dismiss other variables so flippantly as you are doing and I never blamed unions, I said "dysfunctional relationship". I'm a big defender of unions actually but that doesn't mean they are perfect.
Come to Seattle. Dogs freaking everywhere. And an unusually high number of restaurants that don't allow children.
25mph on a bike is very dangerous. Average Dutch cyclist goes about 10mph (imagine a person running a 6 minute mile, very fast but hardly dangerous).
I forget where I read the study, but it was along the lines of our brains being hardwired to believe in a higher power, be it reason or god. I doubt this will change, especially in a country as genetically Christian as the US.
If one thinks the important thing is a dominant position in the relations of production, the effect would be reversed - the tendency to monopoly means more power for the monopoly, means it getting government help. Whether or not there is a "free market", whatever that means, would also be affected by the desires of monopolies.
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Are scooters really alternatives for cars?

I'm not sure the comparison makes sense as the use cases I think are different.
Yes, the US scores much higher in religiosity ... when you use self-reported numbers. But it turns out a lot of Americans lie about church attendance, at least. If you survey how many butts are in the pews on Sunday and compare that to the population of a city and weight it by how often people say they go to church, there is a nearly a 2:1 discrepancy.

This isn't where I first read that statistic, but it is the first Google search that seems credible.

https://churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-s...
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Scooters are amazing. I could see how some people could feel unsafe on them but besides the one offs I think its silly to demonize the scooters. People can always bring their own scooter and even bikes to the road. It says all over the scooters near me to keep them off the road as well
Christianity emphasizes community heavily, and church is one of the last common social events that continues to exist in American society.
Whenever people say this, its always "based on what they've read".

Real work culture varies from company to company here, and isn't that different than US work culture overall.
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JavaScript is extremely accessible and the warts can easily be worked around.

I spent a lot of my life being a JavaScript hater and after working with it for four years I can definitely see how it is really a simple starting point for a lot of concepts. Sure it has warts. What doesn’t?

Have you worked with a JS language for any extended period of time? What about that made you not even want to consider it for anything? I’m really curious, I’m not trying to set you up - I’m really not exeperienced enough to do so :)

Edit: to be clear because of general curiosity and because I hate bringing work home, most side projects I work on are in some other language.
I'm always surprised that Lenovo use in the enterprise space didn't take a hit after all this came to light. I would have thought competitors like Dell and HPE would have used that opportunity to disparage Lenovo.
When they are paying the bills, they have a right to providing feedback on the product they are receiving. Students go into deep debt to pay schools, they are the customers and their feedback ought to matter.
> large monopolies only form with government help

Markets only exist in the first place because of "government help": without government creating and enforcing property law contract law, and numerous other laws, there would be no markets.

So, like most of what Milton Friedman said, it's a dumb, wrong, and misleading statement.

And of course, monopolies exist quite happily in the libertarian fantasy of version of a free market, because economies of scale and network effects exist.
I can't name one that's legal
Which markets that have huge monopolies do not have high costs of entry or capital costs?
What's maybe not so obvious is how much danger scooters expose pedestrians and cyclists to. Scooter riders are not just a danger to themselves. They have much less road awareness than motor cyclists and tend to zoom in and out of crowded cycle lanes and right through car lanes and zebra crossings as if there are no rules at all in and around Amsterdam. I've seen more than one pretty bad accident involving a scooter and pedestrians or cyclists and I've yet to see my first accident with a car and pedestrians or cyclists (in Amsterdam, elsewhere it's unfortunately not such a good record).
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Big tech companies arent really monopolies. A ton of them can disappear overnight, its just a trendy thing to harp on. Look at the irrelevance of IBM, CISCO, HP, Intel, Oracle, etc. The list goes on and on, companies fail to innovate after a certain point and most die. Enough with the monopoly narrative.
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Sure, let's use per-mile-travelled statistics.
Yes, fundamentalist Judaism and Islam do a great job at driving reproduction. And keeping women subjugated is a huge part of it.
Anyone interested in this will likely enjoy Don't Skype & Type![1] where researchers decoded keystrokes from background audio of Skype conversations. The best part is source code is available[2]. I wonder how many people are applying this to Twitch streamers or YouTube videos (especially any Talks at Google videos) today?

1. http://spritz.math.unipd.it/projects/dst/
2. https://github.com/SPRITZ-Research-Group/Skype-Type
Plenty of languages do I/O, files, and co.

Why choose a language plagued with warts and a half-baked ecosystem for something pedagogical? A language with all sorts of peculiarities from the '95 browser era, and not at least leverage browser technology? A language which gives you very non-interesting coarse control over resource, and has no concept of parallelism?
(App Mesh SDE)

We chose to use some common configuration for deploying Envoy to drive consistency there, but App Mesh itself is a custom control plane for managing Envoy.
I don't work at google, but do use the guidelines for github.com/jupp0r/prometheus-cpp. Why? because it's reasonable subset of C++ and it establishes a consistent style that I can point people to in PRs.
Played a bit of code golf with your snippet, but can't figure out how to combine the .map(Number).filter(Number):

let avgAge = [...document.querySelectorAll('.commtext')]
.map(span => parseInt(span.innerText))
.map(Number)
.filter(Number)
.reduce((i,d,c, ages) => ages.reduce((x, y) => x+y) / ages.length)
Can I just mention I find it very strange that there are hip techy Silicon Valley startups that invest their time in these scooters, when from a pure engineering perspective these things are doomed to be unsafe. COG is very high above the ground, which makes keeping balance more difficult. Wheels are close to the COG in the horizontal direction, making it easier to fall forward over the steering handle. Wheel radius is small causing the scooter to get stuck behind all pits in the road and stuff like that. I mean sure it’s fun to ride these things but please tell me this is not the Technology Age’s means of transportation. Apart from that I found this article to be quite sensational. I’m missing the cold hard statistics proving these things are actually dangerous, which do not (yet) exist as stated in the article itself.
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>You see this in most heavily regulated markets.

Except airlines were heavily deregulated in 1978. In my mind it's also "clear why we have reached this point", except that I've come to the opposite conclusion that you have.
I think it was a few years ago I registered an AS# in DN42. IIRC my setup was OpenVPN to a few peers that I dont remember how I found, but one was in the US and one was in France and I think there were others. Through the tunnel I was running a virtual Cisco router and peering with folks running Quagga or strongSwan. No one else seemed to be on Cisco.

The whole thing was slow, communication was crappy, but boy was it fun! As a young NetEng this was an awesome opportunity to learn BGP better and mess with all the BGP settings.

Apparently there are folks that run all kinds of services over DN42. I never really dug in enough to look though.

EDIT: I dug through my email, I was AS#4242420690 (I was having fun here) and I think I was assigned a /28 or /29. My setup was particularly slow because I was nervous to peer from home so I used a VPS in Czech Republic as my VPN pivot point. OpenVPN from VPS to home where the Cisco router lived and OpenVPN to the BGP peers. I then could communicate from the Cisco router through the VPN to the VPS to the remote peers on the other VPN through the VPS. I definitely over complicated things but it was fun!
Economies of scale create natural monopolies.

Though one could argue that IP monopolies (like Microsoft) could only form through government help - in the form of IP enforcement.
Man a lot of butthurt over the unions comment. Let me clarify something: I am pro-union. I said "dysfunctional relationship" not "evil, commie, libtard, unions" (which is apparently what you read).
Carlsen was in a better position in both time and pieces on the board (he had a higher chance of winning). However, he offered a draw to cause all 12 games of classical as a draw.

The point that others here are making is that Carlsen is objectively better at blitz chess, which is what the tiebreakers are formatted in.
Indeed, the unary system is the easiest for very small numbers.
Reasonable people interpret these things differently, but I'd say there were two gratuitous negativities: its snark, and venting an internet trope like "bloat on the web". I don't like bloat on the web either, but we've all heard countless rants about this already, and it's mean-spirited to haul out the artillery in this context.
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I'd be very interested in a book or blog series similar to the scads of "how to build an os from scratch" or the raytracer projects, like Peter Shirley's little One Weekend series. Is there anything that scatches that itch?
Are you trying to say that because a company can disappear overnight, it isn't currently a monopoly? Because I don't think that makes any sense.
They didn't even have a great response on social media. They just requested a DM and said they updated the ticket.
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I didn't think I needed any of these when I was I running around schools in 80s...also, most things above seem like those that we could collectively live without and be happier.
I live fairly close to several churches that have been converted to (high end) condos.

From an economic point of view I get the appeal.

In terms of the modern cynicism about religion, I also get the appeal.

But on a personal note, It's hard to get excited about a place that was once home to community events getting turned into a half-dozen or so retreats where people of means can go be alone. (Particularly considering all the other options for housing around here, and the fact I don't exactly see community centers, etc. springing up to fill the gaps left by the churches.)
I agree that it's trivial to invoke a member function called MarkFileIncludeOnce on some object in response to encountering a #pragma once.

I don't think there is any good way to specify how this should behave for all the corner cases; but a given specification isn't hard to implement.
What about the danger to pedestrians hit by the driver of a scooter?
It's the same answer for why so many more bicyclists are killed by cars in America than Europe. We need protected lanes that are separated from cars by more than paint.

https://peopleforbikes.org/blog/14-ways-to-make-bike-lanes-b...

It's a lot simpler for bicycles and scooters to live side by side than either of them with cars.

Some basics like safety standards for rented transportation are even easier.
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What does "government help" mean? Did the Microsoft monopoly form with the "government help" of enforcing intellectual property rights?
They aren't monopolies, they will be taken out eventually.
Why We Sleep isn't really a "10 tricks to sleep" book, it's a book explaining the state of sleep research in 2018.

I found the research survey (less sleep => more cancer, more Alzheimer's, worse emotional states; more sleep => dreams for self-therapy, better health outcomes, better memory; your night/day inclination is immutable like your eye color) more effective at motivating me to improve my sleep habits.

What about your differing sleep schedules causes problems? My wife is an early bird and I am a (relative) night owl.
> and the warts can easily be worked around

Not really. The author doesn't leverage any kind of static typesystem, which would at least mitigate some of the warts. He's chosen Node.js instead of leveraging the browser, so no free visualization layer for doing anything interesting with, unfortunately.

> Have you worked with a JS language for any extended period of time?

Most of my day job is working in a really, really big Javascript codebase.
I can say with confidence that the language is something that we're absolutely stuck with, and I still have no idea why somebody would implement a pedagogical database with it (well, then again, they haven't; they've implemented a key-value store, which is trivial).

To offer an alternative, they could have chosen something boring but everywhere like Java, which is just as accessible to those with less experience. Then they'd have the possibility of doing fine-grained parallelism, file access, designing abstractions that fit within a statically typed language.
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Why the votes? There’s nothing there.
Sure, but that feedback which is directed at someone who is also a private person does not need to be made public.
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