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> why should I implement things ... in SQL

It's simply more efficient? If I have a table with millions of rows, I'm not going to bring down the entire data set on every request just to sort by latest and grab the 10 most recently updated rows that haven't been soft deleted (WHERE active=1 ORDER BY updated_at DESC LIMIT 10).
"scare quotes"
The counter argument is that a unified subcontinent would degrade into chaos as people kept fighting each other internally. Although, India itself has remained largely democratic (perhaps overlooking the Maoist insurgency) so maybe that wasn’t a huge concern.
I never read any account from travellers (from Europe/China) describing India as poor before colonialism. So, i think this article does have some validity.
> Rigetti has made their own quantum computer, and they beat D-Wave to a public cloud offering -- doesn't fit the vaporware narrative

Can normal people sign up and immediately get QPU time, API access, etc? The D-Wave offering is much more complete, I think.
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That's great - will it be open sourced in some way? SiFive demonstrated RISC-V secure boot using (closed) Rambus IP for the RoT.
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I think there's something to this.

A lot of these changes are driven by economies of scale. It's much more efficient to live in a huge apartment building than hundreds of small houses. You use less energy, the overall maintenance bills are less, etc.

But you give up some independence and more things become about politics. Example: if my pipe breaks in my house I just hire a plumber and fix it. If I live in a huge condo/apartment I have to convince the manager to fix it. That allows all kind of favoritism and chicanery to emerge.

I think we'll find a new equilibrium where fewer things are owned (more leased/rented) because it is genuinely more convenient, and "efficient" in some sense. But it's less robust (in the Talebian "antifragile" sense). But it's not going to swing all the way. We'll have to build new mental tools/understanding to cope with the new set of options that we didn't have before.
I don't see any ambiguity in the wording of the law -- seems like it was intended to provide maximum flexibility in how the information was delivered. The wording also didn't rule out tying the information to a brick and throwing it through each customer's window, but I don't think anyone would be blaming the politicians if that's what the ISP decided to do...
I think they are but they are also rarer although certainly not impossible.

Part of it might be the "unreasonable man" effect based upon the Shaw quote paraphrased as "A reasonable man adapts to the world while the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself - therefore all hope of progress rests upon the unreasonable man.

Essentially making advances ahead of everyone else requires disregarding what everybody else thinks and not being deterred. So not caring what the naysayers think kind of becomes a prerequisite. One can dissent and not be an asshole but patience is limited.

That can be a hazard for assholishness which combined with some level of obsessiveness means many probably fall into the category of being considered assholes rightfully or not.

The perception itself of being an asshole is itself biased towards the status quo - just look at Eartha Kitt's blackballing over answering the question of the why juvenile delinquency and disaffection was on the rise by pointing out the dissatisfaction over the Vietnam war and being called to give their lives for it.
>I suspect this is a much bigger deal in the US, since we have rural power bias built into our political system. Thus, the rural voter has a much bigger "say" in how things run.

At the federal level there is a bias toward rural states mostly because of how the senate works. At the state level pretty much every state is ruled by a couple counties that have the biggest cities in the state in them and everyone else is along for the ride.

I personally think this is pretty well balanced but would prefer for there to be far less federal authority (so it matters much less who controls each branch of the federal government) and far more (like 100 or so) states so that both groups can do what they want, in their own state, without much federal interference (and without fighting as much over everything) but that will never happen because the cities depend on the rural areas for resources and the rural areas depend on the cities for money so states will never split (and even if that were solved you'd never be able to divide states in a way that wasn't gerry-mandered to hell and back which would defeat the point).
Most tax dollars in most countries are not spent on goods and services for the benefit of the people who paid them.
Which is also what the U.S. did for its first century or so.

A lot of us think U.S. IP law has seriously overextended itself these days. I'm not sure I entirely blame China for not going along with it.
My firefox never cache anything. Going forth and back in history always reloads the page. That's the reason I have many tabs open - to prevent reloading and waiting.

about.cache says:

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Not sure if he would have been better off or not. I'm glad he didn't grovel; we shouldn't incentivize mobbing innocent people, especially under overtly false pretenses (though it's entirely unfair that the innocent party has to endure all of the consequences for doing what is right while the mobbers get off scot-free).
Yeah. And the haircut is usually quite small. If I sold my money market for 98 cents on the dollar in a financial crisis I really wouldn't be that upset.
Well, obviously limiting results/rows should be done in SQL.. but that's not what the article is demonstrating..
Hang on a minute... is this guy saying the country that

* had the largest supply of slaves[1],

*
tried to levy taxes on American tea,

* broke China and forced them to buy their own Opium

* invented concentration camps to defeat the Dutch Boers[2]

* used Gibraltar as a control point for the entire Mediterranean

* erased most Tasmanian Aboriginals [3]

did something dodgy in India ??

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_concentration_camps

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_War
What's the delta between the environmental impact of growing wheat and beef etc locally vs shipping it 8000 miles?
What was the point of your comment? To be smug? You just posted the equivalent of "hueh hueh and water is wet amirite?"

Let's have real discussions here.
> Also, with css in js I believe that pseudo elements and animations are an issue

Here you might be remembering a particular, older technique known as "inline styles." This is probably the oldest CSS-in-JS technique, and has greatly fallen out of favor.

Modern CSS-in-JS doesn't use that method anymore, and can do everything that normal CSS can do (in part because it really is just generating real CSS). So pseudo elements, media queries, animations etc. are no problem. :)
Thanks, I confused it for an upload button.
That office is so important that I’m happy to wait until the right candidate shows up. And I don’t want republicans or Democrats.

I want scientists of law with integrity.

And there are plenty competent people with integrity. It is people who lack integrity that marginalize them.
I buy hemp milk at the grocery store in the US.
No kidding there, and more than once it has bitten me. Spend enough time eating restaurant meals, and a sane portion size soon seems way too small, unless you're disciplined enough to chop your portions in half and bring the rest home.

Pay-by-the-weight buffets (as opposed to all-you-can-eat) seem to offer me the best way to control portions and get a variety of healthy things to eat without the prep hassle, but it still costs a good deal more than it does for me to make my own meals.
IPFS is a protocol, I don't think one can ascribe 30+ second latency to language choice.
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I like seeing guides like this for newcomers. It's pretty funny, though, to see Architecture Astronauts try to find similarities between any two activities, no matter how different:

"__ can resonate with the geek inside us because it has gadgets, it requires systematic approach to our own progress and it provides a lot of satisfaction and fun we typically find in the creative process."

Is there any human endeavor which could not fill the blank here?
If you're into this, you might also be interested in robotic pen plotters. This article from last year kicked off a serious new hobby for me which combines code/art/robotics/etc and has been a ton of fun.

http://www.tobiastoft.com/posts/an-intro-to-pen-plotters
Must have been a big ass drone. That's a huge hole.

That said, the headline is speculation. All we know is that the pilots heard a loud bang and there is a hole in the nose. It might be a drone or it might be something else.
Woah. I clicked the link and was logged in already. I'm sure I logged in on this computer (work) at some point, but I'm disappointed that session didn't expire. I can't remember the last time I logged into dropbox here, it feels like months!
"... can’t be tracked on radar ..."

Can I voluntarily strap a transponder to my own drone if I buy one? How small can transponders be?
Bogle's book "Investment vs Speculation" discusses this point at length. He calls the world today the "double-agent society" in that there are two levels of intermediation (corporate management and investment management) between productive activity, and the ultimate owners of capital.
We all know the right answer is 42 ;)

Anyways, asking the right question is just a consequence, not a cause. If you are searching for the "right question", you won't find it, it is something that comes naturally with knowing about things.

In the penicillin example, he asked himself the right question "why did the mold kill bacteria" only because he knew about how bacteria and mold proliferate, and that he was confident in his experimental results.

To make an analogy, if you roll a dice and get a 7, you will definitely ask yourself the question, inspect the dice, etc... But that's only because you know that dices only go up to 6, that question is a result of you knowledge of dices. Now imagine you know nothing about dices, you wouldn't even ask yourself the question: the last roll was a 6, so why not 7. Worse, you may find yourself questioning the next roll, a 1, because by chance, you never rolled it before, and by the time you finally understand that it is normal, you have forgotten about the 7.
No need to get aggressive. The article also says that we don't actually know yet what hit the plane; OP was simply saying they agree that a drone strike is plausible.
This is a great essay on reviling. Revilers are mentionable in the last book of the christian bible.
"Skin in the Game":

If a social media company leaks private photos of its users, the company's executives and senior staff shall have its photos leaked.

I would love something like that. Nobody protects anyone else's interests in this modern world unless there's Skin in the Game. Would highly recommend reading Nassim Taleb's book of the same name; he is popularizing this term, and its implications to society.
It seems that this article has been flagged. Dang, I have noticed this quite frequently now: criticisms of Facebook and articles critical of colonialism get flagged off of the front page. As a regular member of this community, this really undermines my trust in the objectivity of this forum
Discussed at length in Putnam's "Bowling Alone" under the heading "professionalization of politics".
I was in India last month after being away for over 2 decades. Visited Calcutta for the very first time. Our Driver and Tour Guide at the Taj took us around the city and told us about a lot of history about the City. At one point he said that over 1 million people live on the sidewalks (called footpaths) in Calcutta. I have seen abject poverty in India while growing up there, but not to this level. There are generations of Indians living on the sidewalks next to each other, from Grandpa to Grandson. They eat, cook, shower and sleep all in a 4 or 5 Sq Foot area.

Towards the end of our trip, we visited Queen Victoria’s Memorial Hall. There was a small Museum in 1 corner of that Palace, which had photos and newspaper stories about Calcutta from the time the East India Company arrived to the time they left.

There, I learned that Calcutta was the Capital of the British Raj in India for a very long time. One of the plaques in that museum gave the reasoning for the British Raj for choosing Calcutta as the Capital. Apparently Calcutta was the richest city in India when the East India company arrived. It was flush with natural resources, grains and wealth accumulated by the Rajas and Indian Kings who ruled before. By the time moved their Capital from Calcutta to Delhi and then left India few years later, they’d plunders everything from that City.

Ask any Indian about Calcutta and the first thing they’ll say is how dirty and piss-broke it is. But most don’t know why it is so. I attribute the state of this once great city directly to the British Raj robbing it blind over a century or two.
Vanguard is not a corporation. It is structured as a mutual company; it is owned by funds managed by the company, and is therefore owned by its customers.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group
Yeah, so you might manage to spread the flu through secondary contact and that wouldn't be great. It's not as bad as spreading lice, or several serious bacterial or fungal infections that can do a lot of damage.

We should also really encourage people to wash their hands because that's super important, especially in environments like hospitals and daycares.
> it's the only way to structure UI for an application

No, it's not. Want consistency in all your text boxes/links/buttons? Are you going to copy/paste or inherit from a base button component or define the general common styles in one place and have the browser automatically apply them with 0 thought.

Need a button to be different - then do inline styles or more specific selector(incl. CSS in JS) or use !important.

As parent poster said, definitively stating there is only one true™ way to do something is the height of hubris.

> That's why it's been so frustrating for me waiting to see this paradigm come to web development

Inline styles were the norm for quite a long period of time...
> Must have been a big ass drone. That's a huge hole.

Small things at (relative) high velocity make big holes. It's physics.
When the US was founded, about 95% of the population was rural, and notably, Thomas Jefferson was famously pro-rural, and viewed cities as corrupt.

You can just search "thomas jefferson agrarian quotes" and get tons of pro-ag, anti-city statements from him, such as:

“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else.” –Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1785.
CenturyLink is totally shady. My wife just yesterday spent a significant amount of time fixing our phone bill. She decided a couple months ago to upgrade to a "fixed" bill plan (apparently they've been raising our prices $10/mo every year for the last few years). This plan price won't change until we change the plan. It's bundled with their internet though, but my wife told them to not send the modem because we weren't going to be using it and didn't want to be charged for it.

Fast forward to yesterday and we had a modem in the mail a $200+ bill for our landline that should be <$60. She called and the guy on the other end was very helpful (surprisingly). He went through the bill line-by-line and almost every time said something to the extent of, "Why is that here?" "I'm going to have to talk to {previous sales lady who 'upgraded' us}". Some of the items he didn't even know what they were and couldn't remove them, so he instead gave us a permanent $10/mo discount or whatever it was billing.

About the modem, he said, "You can keep it or mail it back. I can make a note on our software that you didn't want it and it shouldn't bill you for it. However, I recommend you mail it back because sometimes that note will disappear from our software and start charging you again".

Wait... what!? Did he just acknowledge what some of us has suspected all along? That their software has intentional "bugs" that don't remember to stop billing someone for something?

The whole thing feels like a scam to me. I don't trust them at all. This isn't the first time and won't be the last either.

The reason we haven't canceled? No other traditional landline offerings in our area. Everything is VOIP or Cell. My wife wants something independent for emergencies. She's starting to question the value of it all though.
I would hope that wasn't the case and that they actually consulted all this with specialized lawyers.

You just don't launch a financial product of this nature, out of your ass like that.
If that was the case then Robinhood customers have legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of their funds and securities. (For the record, I'm on of those Robinhood customers).
This happened to my brother-in-law. They told me that their internet went down and that they need help. Since I'm good with computers, I came over to "fix"
I won my first (and only) programming contest in Logo. Fun to see the idea alive.
As of 2016 both Google and AWS: https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-str...
"The law made me do it" is an outright lie. They had numerous options under the law and they chose this one all on their own. They're trying to pass the buck onto the legislators and we should not stand for it.
That's amazing! Do you have any insight as to which structural properties make this problem simple?

The reason I was asking after tree-width is that control and dataflow graphs in structured programming languages usually have small tree-width (which gets added to the maximum number of overlapping patterns during instruction selection, more or less) and this leads to the fast heuristics used by the PBQP solvers in llvm and libfirm. It's been a few years since I looked into this though, so I'm probably a bit behind the state of the art. :)
1) I never said css in js puts js in css. I don't even know what this means.

2) You can still have component level css files without using some kind of framework that puts css into js. I've written projects where there was an implicit organization of components where css rules would target components by having more specific rules. Like I said, there are reasons to have css in js. If the project doesn't require it, there's an argument to be made for keeping things simple by not including js dependencies for styling. Especially because in those situations it's not difficult to refactor the css into js.

> Maybe learn a little about the subject at hand before spouting off and showing your own ignorance.

ironic
Cloudflare serves at least 7 terrorist groups
AllenNLP is great, and influenced the design of PyText in several ways. There are some central design decisions of AllenNLP that make it incompatible with PyTorch's jit tracing and so make productionizing models require much more manual work. It also generally leaves preprocessing up to the user, so preprocessing consistently between training and inference is outside the scope of what AllenNLP does.
There are single (slalom) water skis, they are different from wakeboards.
and those paywall's refusal to take any kind of micropayment option makes it even worse.
If they OEL a storage platform, surely they'd let you export it fairly simply, and you can transfer it to another provider.
Nonsense. At 300-500mph, hardness doesn't really matter, mass is the killer. There's no reason to suspect from the damage alone that it was a drone.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jet+bird+strike&t=brave&iar=images...
Trans-oceanic shipping and trains are surprisingly low-impact per unit of food. When you add in the environmental impact of things like growing rice in Texas deserts and almonds in California, the results can easily come out in favor of trade.

There are other considerations, too. Favoring local products is a good way to keep poor food-exporting countries poor. I don't want that, though I understand some people have different priorities from me.
Unless they found pieces of bird or drone, I don't understand why there's speculation yet either way.

At jet speeds, you don't need a man-made object to explain a huge hole. Here's an example of a bird strike in a 737: https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/97238940/mass...
Looks like tiny ADS-B transponders are readily available: https://uavionix.com/
Which has more mass, a goose or a drone? My bet is on the goose.
AWS API gateway is one of the worst UIs I've ever used in my life. Lambda isn't great either. That said I love AWS, but I haven't used GCP much.
Relational databases are brilliant, but SQL is terrible and I don't understand how it hasn't gone the way of COBOL yet. For a start, the bizarrely English-oriented structure forces a completely different ordering of the code than what comes out, and the syntax appears to completely ignore the underlying tabular concepts. Not to mention that IMO joining on foreign keys shouldn't be a thing--the database should be able to figure out what you want when you write `order.customer.address.taxRegion.rate` without specifying any joins at all. Even if you use an ORM you still have to understand the code it will emit to avoid building bad queries. There's just so much awkwardness in trying to write a SQL query that I can definitely see why people would avoid it.
Speed can cause outsized damage. Meteor Crater in Arizona (1200 meters in diameter) was caused by a relatively small meteorite (50 meters across).
This happened to my brother-in-law. He asked for help when his router wasn't "working". Since I'm pretty computer savvy, I agreed to come and "fix" it. Little did I know that it was this BS. I got to that notice and then finally the internet started working again.

This is a small reason why NET neutrality is important. Total BS. I'll never use CenturyLink. I've thought about it in the past, but after this, H no.
Shouldn't that office should be held to the same standards as the other three branches?
They were but run by marketers in the early days and poorly run near the end. They had so many chances but poor leadership.
It hurts. True! The day one of snowboarding is knowing exactly how much it hurts to fall. The next day is all about learning how to not fall. As you learn how to not fall, the day 3 begins with how to move your weight and balance your center of gravity and so forth. The trick to learning snowboarding is knowing how to avoid the hurt;)
And literally no one who knows anything about the industry thinks that requires more than a few hours of classes.
This is an example of why the FCC needs to regulate ISPs and enforce net neutrality. CenturyLink needs to be fined $$$ per incident for stunts like this. Their shareholders need to feel the pain.
Birds can cause the same damage. Here are just two examples, the second creating a much bigger hole than the supposed drone strike:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a15419/bird-strike-d...

https://www.aviationcv.com/aviation-blog/2016/bird-strike-de...

EDIT: Here's one with a "drone" still hanging from the nose cone: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/...
www.mysavingsdirect.com now up to 2.4%!
I've been using them for the last 2 years.

Also, Citizens Access at 2.25% is also pretty good.

both of those are FDIC insured.