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I think Russia itself could be used as another example of your rebuttable if you look a bit further back in time. At the end of the 19th century the country was still extremely agrarian - far less developed than the other great powers. But by the 1960s it had essentially made up for a century of lost time, at which point the famous stagnation set in.

The classic line is something to the effect of 'capitalism is the best system of generating wealth, but not for distributing it'. That does seem wrong. Once the innovations exist, systems like russia or china seem to successfully and efficiently reproduce the wealth generation. What happens after they have caught up to some baseline of industrial prosperity is a different economic issue altogether. I don't think we have enough examples from modern history to draw any sweeping conclusions.
So you get an education for free, then pay back into the system after you're in the workforce? Congratulations, silicon valley, you've just re-invented public education!

Imagine what our public universities could look like with solid funding increases (which would be a fraction of that 17% that this group wants to take). They could be both free and amazing.
It depends on your protein needs and goals. Survival is different from optimal performance.
you either just start, and fumble through and make it or never start. there is no such thing as perfectly figuring it all out and then starting. I desperately wish there was, but it doesn't exist.
Sears was always a crummy store since I can remember. This shutdown has been a long time coming.
If you want to read an excellent guide on GDPR from a regulatory authority (i.e. an organisation that is actually tasked with implementing the legislation) the UK's ICO website is the best place. It uses plain English as far as possible while not oversimplifying things to the point of uselessness.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
On desktop, it means that if the user chooses to install the Viveport suite, that home experience and the suite will provide Firefox Reality as the default browser.

For all-in-one devices, Firefox Reality will be preinstalled and the default browser.
I'm way late on this comment but you would likely have a completely different set of challenges at a disadvantaged high school than your mom's challenge of a parent complaining about their child's chances of getting into Princeton with an A-minus.
Do interns in technology jobs do low status jobs either?

My experience is interns usually try the big cool new ideas, because it frees up the regular people to bring work to production and it doesn't matter so much if the interns try something and it doesn't work?
Re: I [now] shy away from GUI programming because of how tedious it is.

It's not really "GUI programming" anymore. It's making HTML/CSS/DOM act like a GUI.
Can you post your request and who is sent it to - with yours as a starting point I reckon a few of us can iterate to a good solution
If you're only interested in obtaining it to read, you can find PDF versions at Hathi Trust Digital Library.

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008886840

Edit: DanBC beat me to it.
> Membership at Costco is like 60 dollars a year. Not saying it's doable for everyone but its hardly something 'you need to have a good amount of extra money' to afford

If you are poor to the point of relying on public assistance to meet basic needs, an extra $60 up front even if it will pay off over a year means foregoing other essential expenses now.

But the bigger cost in many parts of the country is the space needed for inventory to maximize the benefit of bulk purchasing. Sure it works well for my family, but we live in a decent sized suburban home with an second refrigerator, and a storage closet converted for additional pantry space.
So you are basically saying "if I had to make no effort at all and I could also save some money, I would switch".
Yes, that's obvious, everyone would, it's redundant to state it.

But what those 'vegan proselytizers' are asking you for, is to not be so selfish and make a bit of a sacrifice to spare the lives of others. But of course, you 'can't stomach' to be asked to not be selfish, and they are the ones to blame.
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This white guy agrees :)
WeDie with free beer/kombucha/whatever sounds pretty amazing tbh. Funeral home industry could benefit from some disruption.
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Removing friction is tremendously valuable. Same reason people use Uber even in cities like New York: not having to pay at the end of the ride.
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> Why are you assuming I'm "suggesting it's preferable"?

I asked a question for clarification, beginning by agreeing with your comment about paths to prosperity. What pitchfork?

As to why I sought clarification, you are claiming that China's prosperity is independent from Western values. However, much of China's success comes from theft of Western intellectual property. This IP was not produced in a vacuum; it is a product of Western values. In fact, some have argued the Age of Enlightenment occurred due to these values, which produced a remarkable (and lasting) acceleration in GDP growth.

> As for your laundry list of "China bad!", I could come up with counterexamples of the US doing the exact same things at various points in our history.

Here you engage in the logical fallacy of 'whataboutery'. First and foremost, I did not mention the United States in my comment, so I'm not sure why you invoke its history of misdeeds in the past. The United States has absolutely enforced abhorrent policy in the past. Without attempting to enumerate all: genocide, slavery, detonation of nuclear weapons, forcible sterilization, concentration camps, unethical medical experimentation. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, what bearing does this have on the fact that China is currently doing horrific things at a scale far greater than atrocities perpetrated by the US?

If, instead of relying solely on GDP per capita, we factored human costs into our assessments, we might see that the economic picture is not quite as rosy. To clarify, suppose a human life is worth $8mm [0] and a closed economy that has only two people. If one were to kill the other and use the deceased's skin to make a tent, GDP (and GDP per capita) would have increased due to the production, but the value of human capital in the economy declined by $8mm.

> Chill.

It's not really necessary to write things like this, as it seems like you're trying to avoid the content of the discussion by (incorrectly) labeling me as upset or agitated.

Also, I'd request that you stop downvoting me simply because you disagree. However, I assume that your (self-described) "progressive politics" [1] are motivating your decision to downvote more than the content, so I'm not holding out much hope.

[0] https://www.theglobalist.com/the-cost-of-a-human-life-statis...

[1] https://twitter.com/davestagner
> I can't see a business owner tolerating someone with age but not experience

But why would they care if two people have the same experience but one is older? What difference does it make that they wouldn't tolerate?
I'm not sure why you're pointing this out – it could be because it's interesting or it could be as a warning. If as a warning, nothing here seems particularly unreasonable.

> GDPR.EU is a website operated by Proton Technologies AG, which is co-funded by Project REP-791727-1 of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.

This is probably a requirement of the funding.

> This is not an official EU Commission or Government resource. The europa.eu webpage concerning GDPR can be found here.

This seems reasonable. Funded by does not mean endorsed by. Here's the official page.

> Nothing found in this portal constitutes legal advice.

Realistically it can't be legal advice, even though it's dealing with an area that could get you into legal trouble. It's referring to a directive which has been implemented by member states. Each member state has its own enforcing body, and some will take a more firm approach than others.

As for legal advice, in at least some jurisdictions even paid advice is treated as just that – advice – and if you get bad advice, there is little to no realistic prospect of redress.

This appears at first glance to be one of the better resources on the GDPR I have seen.
You should try interviewing as a software engineer with 10 years experience. They never ask you to double the value of each integer in an array. They ask you to find all matching subtrees in a binary tree, or to find all sub-matrices in an NxM matrix with a positive determinant in a matrix of arbitrary size, or find all words in a dictionary that can be constructed by concatenating other words in the dictionary.

The easiest questions I've been asked are unimaginative but straightforward things (build a binary tree, print inorder, find all permutations of a string, code a hash map).

There's also a particularly pernicious trend toward asking for on-line assessments or homework assignments, things that save the hiring company time but put an even greater time burden on the applicant.

I'd say "cracking the coding interview" is a good reflection of the kinds of questions you need to be prepared to answer in an interview, and they are miles away from doubling the value of each integer in an array.

I think this is why there's such a disconnect between us. You do see self-described software engineers with 10 years of experience who can't do fizzbuzz, I really do believe you. But we (the applicants) never see this, instead we see a vastly higher standard applied. Which would be fine if the companies acknowledged that they are having trouble hiring because they're extremely picky. But instead, we hear people claiming that there's a "shortage" and that they can't hire because all these supposedly senior people can't code fizz buzz.
> I'll strictly only purchase items "Sold by: Amazon.com Services, Inc"

Most users don't think to check for that, though. I know my mother-in-law doesn't...
What about pets.com and webvan? I feel like we are back in the webvan days again. Except the companies figured out they could trick regular folk into doing deliveries instead of driver who is an actual employee with some kind of benefits.
Is that really a primary growth factor? I've never once acted on an Amazon recommendation, and it's always felt almost entirely useless - "you just bought a vacuum, here's 15 more vacuums just in case you're a vacuum-obsessed lunatic"
Telco companies will keep selling data as long as it's profitable. If the company continues to sell data to the offending clients despite knowingly violating its terms, then a case could be made for negligence against the telco. In my eyes this practice, like many shady data-dealings, lacks legal precedence and its profitability will change as litigation mounts against the telcos. Furthermore national laws need individual cases to gain traction. Bad practices are bound to change when a few high profile cases end up in the courts. Feels funny to say this, but it seems like the world needs more lawyers.
> “The only reason for a library's existence is to help solve problems for consumers.“

I agree and this is the whole line of thinking behind my comment. In order to help consumers with what they need to solve, I might be required to break backward compatibility, delete old code to reduce complexity, refactor/redesign in ways that require consumers to change usage patterns, etc. If I cannot do these necessary things because every change I make is beholden to every regression test for every consumer for every legacy behavior, then it means I am failing to help my consumers, and the library is failing to give them what’s needed.

Instead, if they can isolate their dependence on the library away from possibly breaking changes needed to reach new solutions in the newest version, then the library is still healthy and capable of solving consumer requirements.
Single founder here as well with an enterprise startup. The path is definitely quite different but the principles are the same: sell your vision to everyone - customers, co-founders, employees, investors.
This is why I can't watch most "youtuber" youtube videos, I get unreasonably frustrated when I hear the words "like" and "subscribe."
Indeed, Microsoft already had the monopoly on desktop PC's when Linux took off so they could continue to hold it.

Trying to compete in a new market against free was a much harder prospect (and they where not the only one, I had a Blackberry Playbook, it was for it's time an excellent device and the OS was intuitive and solid...it got murdered in the market).

In fact unless you invent the category (iphone) you would be hard pressed to own it via the OS anymore.
The purpose is to get some kind of signal that you're on the right track. Many times I've seen would be founders just go off of a hunch without a buy in from any possible users of any degree. Even their voluntary email sign up is far more of a sign than what the founders know users want.
So, more productive / friendly workers don't command a higher wage?
I view ads as toxic and bad for my health

Absolutely. The online advertising industry blew their goodwill with gross carelessness years ago, and have only continued to make things worse as revenues fall. Fuck 'em all. Aside from a handful of sites I can count on one hand, I'll never browse without an adblocker again. If innovations like this audio blocker catch on and start to kill podcasts too, well...sorry. Unfortunate collateral damage I guess.

The strange thing to me is people expressing that they'd rather block ads, but they're too noble to do so, so they get mad at others for blocking ads? Uh, okay?

I think most of the people doing this are playing the troll contrarian card and fishing for responses.
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What gets me are all of the places (like Venmo, et al) who pitch a fit if a user dares give them a not-a-real-mobile-number. Even if the number is SMS-capable, they complain.

I wonder if the fact that services like this won't work on VoIP numbers is a reason why. Regardless of the motivation, it's annoying because I don't give out my real mobile number to hardly anyone for this--and spam call/text avoidance--reason.
It's going to be very hard to usefully measure, because it'll vary hugely by personal experience, where you are, what services you needed, etcetera.

I can't imagine how any experiences I have with the NHS could be better privately, I have enough money that I could afford a private system if I had any idea why or how that could be better, so I'd be genuinely torn (I support the existence of the NHS and one way to kill something like the NHS is to encourage everybody who can afford to go privately to leave the system) but it never comes up at all.

Not everything is perfect, but the less-than-perfect things don't feel like private healthcare could fix them e.g.

At home I live near a hospital, because I live in a city, but where I grew up there isn't a nearby hospital. Private doesn't fix that, under the US system I might be even further from an "in network" option, and even in a sane system the private hospitals would be in similar places to those for a universal system, it doesn't help.

I had cancer years back. Nothing about this seemed awful except the "having cancer" part which I'm sure private healthcare doesn't get rid of. Curing cancer is urgent so there was no waiting for treatment, the staff were competent, my oncology consultants were the exact sort of "no nonsense" people I'd have picked if I had a free choice. The hospital was nice. A+++ would recommend (except cancer, don't get cancer)

Once upon a time I moved to a new city and friends were all like "Oh my god, get a private dentist, ugh, it's just impossible to get an NHS dentist". And being contrary I was like "Huh, I wonder how impossible it is?" and the answer was "You phone this number and they assign you one" and I'm still with the same dental practice twenty years later. In fact my specific dentist left last year and I was like "Oh, maybe he went private and I could follow?" but nope, he retired, I feel old. His replacement is young enough to be my daughter. But she's already nagging me about stuff just like he did, so that's fine.

I had a scary moment in a distant city last year, I had found a lump and was experiencing peripheral neuropathy. I went to an Urgent Care clinic and rather than examine me they booked me into my own GP for the next day and I went home early. In hindsight they should have examined me, because my GP was like "The clinic nurse could have told you this is not what you were worried it might be". But, would private healthcare have done the examination? That comes down to personal judgement by a clinic nurse, and money wouldn't change that.
Yes - but based on info from friend on Soli team, same tech+team... (but I could be wrong)
I'm switching careers from tech to nursing. Being older--mid-thirties--hasn't been an issue. It helps that healthcare has less of an age bias than computing.
Firefox Reality is the brand we're using for the suite of browser products across VR and AR devices.

Today, Firefox Reality is available for standalone VR devices (like the HTC Vive Focus) and is a native Java application that talks to the GeckoView library, which is made up of components from the mobile version of Gecko, the Firefox web engine.

Firefox Reality for desktop will similarly be based off of the Firefox Desktop product pieces.

Note that there's a bunch of "Servo inside" - from small Rust components to the Quantum work including the new CSS style system to the forthcoming WebRender component.

I don't have anything to announce today about a Firefox Reality-branded browser based on top of Servo.
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The experience today is not what made them great in the past. 10 years ago the negatives you list didn't exist.
Hadoop is not gone yet. But the intention is there. AWS EMR is killing them. Users/Companies just pick EMR by default, leaving few crumbs left for the now one company that develops the platform. The EMR team is what, a two pizza box team? Like you said, Cloudera pay for hundreds of top developers to develop a product that is repackaged by a two-pizza team whose company earns more than Cloudera on Hadoop. That situation will not continue, that is my prediction. And Hadoop will be the crossfire. My prediction is that Cloudera will release a new data platform in time that is not "hadoop", but they will leave Apache Hadoop in maintenance mode. It's the only logical way to address the AWS "problem".
It sounds pretty clear to me, albeit your explanation is long winded. You're saying that, in the FS you're using, the time-stamp changes are "local" in the sense that they don't bubble up the tree after N = 1 levels.

In elevator-pitch terms, you're working on a search engine that takes into account user intent more accurately? Is that more or less correct?
10 years is enough for a newer generation to rise and make money. Those in the 15-25 right are quite adapt with Crypto. They'll be the next investors. Granted, if they are wise they won't put all of their liquid there. But if the 30-60 of the current world put a little in crypto; its' market value will fly out of the sky.
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Just replace "wsj.com" with "fullwsj.com"

https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of...
I think everyone does this to some extent. The problem is there's a tradeoff* so we optimize to this with varying degrees of success.

*Memorizing takes less time but you sacrifice depth of understanding and duration of retention. Understanding the "why" provides a great depth of understanding and a lengthy duration of retention but, depending on the material, it can take a long time and potentially lead you down a rabbit hole if you continue to seek understanding of the underlying abstractions.
> How can one avoid this kind of aggregated location tracking?

Write your representatives, explain the problem, and ask them to fix it.
>big cool new ideas

Can confirm, have interned at 3 of the big $N.
And the same goes for a social media account.

It's a place for you to observe.
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You might notice HTC Vive seems to be distancing themselves from Steam, including focusing pretty much entirely on their own Viveport platform. Though I'm not sure why, that seems to be the mentality behind their current direction.
I'm not vegetarian and love these types of products.
That's my fear also. Emulating GUI's in web browsers takes a ship-load of code. Therefore, it needs strong maintenance prospects to safely last into the future.
One shake of the economy and everybody will cut WeWork and go back home or somewhere considerably more affordable

Or even free.

When I was in the Seattle tech scene about ten years ago, the State of Washington had free co-working space at the convention center as a way to stimulate local entrepreneurship. The desks were a little strange, but they were free!
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What is outline.com?
Apple's CES 2019 appearance is a great lesson in snark
Actually, both revenue and income are proxies for the relevant number, given that I had in mind to address the GP's point of 'effectively funding a significant portion of R&D.' If the article [0] is to be believed, that's about 8-9 Billion for Pfizer, and about 70 Billion for the top 15 pharma companies, about 2% of US health care spending. Even if we cut US health care spending in half (to, say, the UK's level), funding pharma research at current levels would be a fraction of total costs.

[0] https://endpts.com/top-pharma-biotech-research-development-b...
Interesting. Do you mind telling us what made you choose nursing over tech?
"It's free real estate" is a meme based on a parody of late-night infomercials touting quick and easy money but are actually bait-and-switch scams.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-free-real-estate

The other two bits are probably meaning that the phone company can make money selling your location and make money charging you to change phone numbers every so often to avoid tracking efforts by people who only have your old number.
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That's a relatively decent development AFAIK. 10 years ago I mostly trusted results and reviews. I suppose it's getting a lot worse lately because 1/ Amazon being hugely successful means that it's a prime target for advertisers and scammers and 2/ Amazon being hugely successful means that they have less of an incentive to solve the issue now than they did back then.
One of the smaller Asian grocers in New York City has made the best fake meat I've had by far, and I wouldn't be surprised if it sources for many of the vegetarian Asian restaurants in the city. http://www.maywahnyc.com/ I wonder how many other places exist in the world like it, and how much a little bit of marketing would do for them.
I would sacrifice so much karma for more upvotes for this
I would think that most people buy gold as a safe-haven investment, so in this case its floor and/or non-correlation would be very important.
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> We're disrupting funeral homes.

Man, that sounds...horrible.
I see -- most complaints I've heard about .NET Core relate to F#'s status as a second-class citizen vis a vis compatibility problems, which have recently resolved.

I'm with you on AOT, but I think the language makes more sense if you understand it as a .NET port of OCaml. If you isolated F# from CLR, you'd lose libraries and tooling, arguably F#'s raison d'etre, pleasant design choices aside.
In the early 70s, my dad worked at a place that (as a side business I think) made a meat substitute called KESP. He used to bring samples home and mum would make pies from it. Tasted awful if I remember correctly but I'm surprised it's taken this long to get to a viable meat alternative.