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He’d be earning more if paid in some other currency and spending in pounds.

He’d be earning less — as the article mentions — if earning in pounds and paying out (to subcontractors) in other currencies.
When was your experience with Mongo? I'm wondering because I use Mongo now with transactions (supported since version 4) and I like to know about problems I might face in the future.
> Stripe will create an account through SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) for you. You can go ahead and read the reviews on that bank yourself

As an SVB customer:

- Their UK experience, was, until recently, not updayted since about 2002. 8 point font, the entire width of the page, totally separate from the rest of their banking

- They want things confirmed on 'company letterhead'

- They have four different versions of 'balance' which makes things super confusing

- No 'find as you type' search for transactions

- No analytics

- Their mobile app is incredible limited

- They alerted me to a 700 USD fraudulent card charge, which, after I spent a week investigating, turned out to be a 7 USD card charge

The people are great, but SVB sound like a new generation business bank, but they're really not. Pick Starling or Monzo or anyone else.
For how many customers do all of AWS flaws combined represent more than 2% of their production outages? I think it’s a very small number.
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What about Ray Dalio? He dominated his industry almost as successfully as Gates and is about the same age. There is no pedigree benefit there. His dad was a jazz musician.

Drawing a blanket conclusion from a single comparison of only two samples is a hasty generalization. Downvoting somebody out of comfort for your fallacy is kind of assholish.
Torture is the main ethical reason to not eat meat. You are right about death - we all die, nothing new there. But doing the right thing is never about purity - its about choosing the actions that cause the least bad will.

Torture and Death should not be chosen over Incidental Death if one wants to be honest about acting with pragmatic good will.
In what way is salt an “implement of suicide?” Do you mean literally that consuming a very high dose would be fatal?
Looking at the source code it’s done with Preact and the css seems to be written by hand.

I was a server side centric dev for a long period before being able to design decent apps.

Here are my tips:

- Spend as much time as possible on Photoshop / Adobe XD / Paint.Net or whatever software design you are using. Do not start to write any HTML or CSS before the design has all the pages done.

- Spend time in Design Network like Dribbble to be inspired by top notch creators

- Code stuff you see . If you see a design you like on Dribbble you should try to do it in HTML and CSS.

- Frameworks will not make you a good front end developers. The majority of front end devs just use Flexbox these days, frameworks are less and less important for CSS you’ll be faster if you just learn the behavior of html and css without frameworks.

- Be patient
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Thanks for those posts. Learnt something. Hopefully one day we are better at producing this data for everyone at a personalized level.
When the reason for rejection is "obscenity" and they are letting exhibits play porn in the exhibit hall, I'd be pissed too.
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> The app is live here (requires registration)

Doesn't look like it.
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I mean...if it performs well all of that is irrelevant to the customer.
He’s correct about it though. There’s so many laws that no sane person could possibly know and understand them all.
Exactly. There is a jealous undercurrent on HN about success. Usually it is around so and so started rich and/or was just lucky.

Is some luck involved? Sure. It also helps greatly to not have to worry where their next meal is coming from, but that is very different than having to start in the elite.
There is import and export in settings.
One of my favorite lines against "I have nothing to hide" is from national security whistleblower, Edward Snowden:

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7308507-arguing-that-you-do...

But ultimately, the idea that you want privacy because you have something bad to hide is a deeply flawed one, pushed by governments, maybe not necessarily because they are "evil" and want to abuse that power (although that certainly seems a factor to consider lately), but also because pretty much the only times they do want to bypass privacy laws is when they deal with criminals. So that gives them a very narrow view of the issue. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Privacy is both about "keeping things to yourself" and not wanting others to know everything there is to know about you for no good reason, as well as to protect yourself against potential abuses (from governments, but also criminals, unscrupulous companies, etc) that can't be predicted ahead of time. There are thousands of potential uses for the data, like say using your data to manipulate you with ads during elections, make you buy anti-depressants, make you pay higher insurance, and so on.
It actually appears my comment has triggered some useful discussion below. But thanks for the heads up.
Also career guidance. This is a hugely important ingredient if you want to start ahead of people your age (from what to do on your free time to what summer work you do where, if any, between college years, through what you see on your parents lives, their friends, etc. And it seems very underappreciated on these discussions, that normally turn to accusations of nepotism and corruption, tax avoidance, or other means to transfer wealth and power among generations.
e.g. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-hexyl
That’s not how I feel about it.

I’d say it’s more “look how many lines of code there are vs how many ways this could break in production”.

This will always be very different from your average ClojureScript/Reframe/Reagent app, which may or may not have fewer lines of code (in my experience they’ve been roughly equivalent), but vastly more opportunity for runtime errors.
there's so many frameworks etc to create interfaces, in so many languages..

this is made mostly in JS so it runs clientside / offline (i think that would be the motivation to do it in js).

click view source in the browser :-) or 'inspect' if you use chrome, and look into the .js files which you find from there.

Should get you on your way :)

though if you are server side developer, maybe php is more interesting as it processes on server side and will be easier to interact with your server side developments

css language is used for style related things in any case (where elements might be generated from code like js or php, but css still reflects the style in the browser)
This is a funny joke, but a really dumb thing to say seriously. It all depends on your use case and knowing the tool. Mongo is far and away the best choice of DB for an internal app I’ve been building, but managing it is a pain and I’ve been unhappy about the direction the company has been headed. So I’m thrilled that AWS is going to take the burden away from me entirely with this new service, which I would have happily paid MongoDB for instead on the same usage-rated terms. Oh well.
Your comment reminded me of the Total Perspective Vortex - "the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul" :)

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
Azure DocumentDb (now called CosmosDb) also has "MongoDB compatibility" i think so it's not unusual to advertise it as such.
By John's usual standards it is yes, but it's still interesting IMO
You only need to resolve the distance between stars, not the stars themselves.
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But, I mean, why wouldn’t you? If that’s what the law allows, then there’s very little incentive not to do it.

You’ll get all those public services regardless of how many taxes you pay. And if somehow everyone else decides to do it as well, you can be sure the politicians will rapidly figure out a way to finally make it illegal.
ledger.humanetech.com - good place to submit studies and view the cumulative damage, engagement maximizing social networks are doing in one place.

People need to see the diverse effects in one place, otherwise they keep reacting in defense, selectively to individual issues that are raised that don't necessarily effect them personally.

Think of it as an github issue tracker not about software bugs, but about the social issues being created.
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Are you thinking about no-light perception and nonlinear programming?
illusory? In that real feelings exist in a more real form?

The world is what our bodies make of it - its as real for me as it is for my cats. IQ doesnt imply worth.
I’m not saying it’s easy now, just easier. Thinking back to the TurboPascal/Delphi era you had to convince people to make a large purchase, and your team had to spend a non-trivial amount of time dealing with compiler code generation, debuggers, and a wide range of less compatible operating systems (when I worked for a compiler vendor, our QA test matrix was ~600 different OS & CPU combinations). That’s a lot to fund out of a smaller revenue stream.
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it would be easiest yes to use something avalablee to people for free where good encryption things are present. but i suppose a lot of the world is waking up to the fact these things aren't so nice really, and offline storage for personal things is better.

it would be cool to have some export or import button to save everything into some kind of archive, then you can move it between offline machines and import it into the browser to use it there.
Well, it should be noted that appreciation only matters in this equation in the case of a sale. The idea of moving in order to liquidate assets isn’t something palatable to me, so I treated my home purchase like any other product: I bought the cheapest one that meets my requirements.

As long as the numbers work out, though, It does seem entirely reasonable to take a loan to buy a house with the intent of renting it out for income. If the rent you receive can cover the maintenance and loan interest, you can sell it on again any time you need your capital back and bank the appreciation (or lose the depreciation, prices move both ways).
It doesn't matter if the star is smaller than the pixel. You can see them individually as long as you can resolve the distance between them.
This, exactly. And it should be noted that even with a theoretical ideal PSF, point sources would still have non-zero-sized images simply because the recording surface (film, retina, CMOS sensor) has discrete sensor elements. A point source will always be at least a single "pixel" wide in the image, it just needs to be bright enough to stand out against whatever else is projected onto that pixel.
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i think at that point you should realize that you need professional help. i was the same and finally i just gave up and called a psych. very useful, the meds have evened me out and i am way more productive and focused instead of obsessed.

wish i had done it 5 years earlier but it is what it is.
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> So inheritance tax?. Or is there an argument that this is good for society?

Why is this binary? It could be terrible for society, and something which an inheritance tax cannot cure.

Or something awful for which cures would be worse. We could eliminate most cancers from society if we shot everybody on their 60th birthday... but few would regard this as an improvement. Ditto Maoism, etc. But there are other more incremental things we can, and do, try against cancer.
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> I'm sure the real reasons are political rather than financial.

He did say he's originally from Yugoslavia. Since the Brexit vote, the UK has become a lot more hostile to immigrants. That can certainly be a good reason to leave too.
> The more restrictions on individuals, the less free a society is.

I think this is a fallacy. Freedom, when defined this way (taken to its extreme), is not desirable for society as a whole. It only helps the wealthy and powerful and works against the poor.

If you are poor or indebted, you are not really free, even if there are no individual restrictions. People in need will probably be inclined to "freely" take out loans, giving up their freedom. Wealthy people may want to keep a good portion of society in need so they'll always be "freely" working for them.
Is an articulating cordless drill a robot? Because that’s all this thing is. It’s still an electronic, but it’s not a robot.

If this thing could learn and sense which movements produced the best effects, then it would be a robot. But it’s no different than a remote control car, and we don’t call those robots.
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You pay for a streaming service, you don't pay for specific songs or artists.

I have been using Spotify since 2011 and have never once had an issue with music being deleted from Spotify or my device.

Perhaps I'm missing something here but it's not really an issue. You are at the mercy of the cloud, but for great benefit over having to purchase each individual track for $1.99 from iTunes. Where you could argue that you had a level of "ownership" over the track because you could export it anywhere.

What is your alternative?
The policies really used to be extreme. I'm still on the inside and I will say things have dramatically improved in the last couple years.
Still stands that they're advertising it as a replacement for MongoDB.
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I am curious to see the comparison as well. I suppose one difference is that capital gain tax can be delayed far into the future. Wealth tax could also have a cooling effect on stock market bubbles.
True, but fortunately the particles come to the rescue. Generally a word is "tagged" with a particle indicating its grammatical significance, e.g. that it's the object of the sentence. And all the particles are Hiragana, so they stick out nicely. Helps with reading.
These are three long standing exploitable bugs in systemd's journald which can be used to gain local root privileges. Most systemd based distributions are vulnerable and, from the looks of it, may have been for years.
Anyone has a good guide on setting up DNS-Over-TLS on Windows? I've only did something similar before on Debian and seems I'm quite dumb when it comes to doing this on Windows.
> South Korean LEGO Certified Professional Wani Kim

LEGO certifies professionals?
Disinformation was rampant in England too. British tabloids have a long history of blaming the EU for the weirdest made-up stuff, as well as for unpopular laws from the UK government, while the government loves to take credit for popular measures from the EU.
Awards get retracted from time to time, mostly political reasons. I think it’s silly. Once you award, you shouldn’t take it back, but it’s not unheard of.
Yea, that was an issue that I skipped over and never got around implementing a fair enemy spawn
Literally every S1 filing will have some sort of language like that. They are required to list the risks that may harm them.
I like how they repeat "mindless tribalism" three times in the first few sentences without qualifying such an extreme statement. Looks like shameless propaganda to me.
> if you need to project (transliterate to ascii) Chinese unidecode is close to black magic

That might be a dangerous assumption. The project page explicitly states:

> Transliteration of languages like Chinese is a very complex issue and this library does not even attempt to address it. It draws the line at context-free character-by-character mapping.

I.e. it is not black magic; just a mapping of Unicode characters to static ASCII transliterations. The results will certainly be incorrect in some contexts.
What's your favorite talk by a founder?
Mine is NVIDIA co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang's talk at his Alma matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqiBzmuqPNY
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The savage thing about the Rebels blowing up the Death Star is that they never evacuated any of the civilian family members. Just blew millions of women and children to smithereens and cheered.

Also did anyone else expect this to be a Lego stop motion video instead?
This. I have it in my contracts or a rider if they don't like amending the contract itself. I write code, when I stop working for you for the day I still write code. Yes it's lucky that I can get paid to do the main thing I enjoy, but you aren't paying me for the stuff I do off the clock. I will let you know about any major pieces of software I write (not like twenty line Python scripts for managing my music) and if you detect a conflict that's the moment to object, if you do then I'll work on something else, otherwise I own it outright and that's fair.

Good employers don't want to abuse you, and in turn don't want to get abused, drawing a line is something they can understand and their lawyers can get their heads around. "This is mine, this is yours".
That's interesting. I actually quite like it. I can build monitoring dashboards for our various services an see how something I don't need to monitor is doing just by going to the panel for it. To each his own I suppose.
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> And yet... I continue to eat bacon. sigh. I've met pigs that were clearly happy to see a friendly face of any species... haunts me, actually.

I've raised pigs, and eaten those pigs. They're a lot like dogs - very loyal and intelligent. I suppose that makes me a monster in this thread full of vegans.
it's not necessarily the facebook app (if you have it disabled), but most free and even paid apps are 'phoning' facebook and sending up data when you open the app (as part of the FB SDK). This is what became big news recently.

I've noticed it for years and thought it was widely known. There are apps that will try to hit graph.facebook.com before they even connect to their own services. You can install a VPN based firewall to block this behavior.
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- working 5 days a week, 4 to 6hs per day on my own schedule (most of the time)

- 8 weeks of paid vacation

- interesting and high value work

- private office when I need/want to go

- remote whenever I don't need/want to go to the office

- 5x the salary needed to mantain a frugal style of living
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1) Actually in some countries it's entirely possible to attribute past actions to a new company. It sounded a bit odd to me at first, but when you think about it... why not? If a company is able to take on responsibility for something, it seems reasonable.
I totally agree that there are plausible mechanisms by which wealth today might help your grandkids stay wealthy. But the empirical question is whether these actually explain much of what we see. Many things which sound plausible to novelists turn out not to be very solid. And I'm trying to tell you that the data is not kind to such explanations here.

Re family status surviving Maoism or whatever: If you posit that there is something besides actual assets which is helps "dodge or mitigate", then I ask why this same something isn't in play in normal times. If it alone can explain the persistence, that weakens the case for assets mattering so much.

The other line of evidence is things like the Georgian land lottery, which elevated some people to quite significant wealth. Their kids lived well. But it's been, I forget, 150 years or something, and their decedents are no longer unusual at all.
I don't know about the US but in the UK a land value tax looks quite attractive. For one thing it's almost impossible to avoid, you can't shift land to a low tax regime. I'm not sure we will ever knowingly vote for it though.
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode in a gentlemen's club where a member bets one annoying member can't go a year without speaking.

Guess I won't spoiler it but the guy has to make a pretty big decision in order to complete the bet - here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_(The_Twilight_Zone...
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I don't know about these guys specifically but a lot of "vegan bodybuilders" are recent converts jumping on the bandwagon. That said I know longstanding / lifetime vegans and vegetarians who are into weightlifting and they get on just fine.
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Ray Dalio made his money on Wall Street before striking it out on his own. He didn't drop out of school or anything.
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Jobs grew up in San Francisco. His father supported an interest in electronics, and he got an in at HP by being mentored by a neighbour who worked there.

He joined the HP Explorer's Club and got to see world-leading new products ahead of release at a time when HP were creating incredibly impressive calculators and personal computers.

He also attended lectures on the HP campus - which wasn't just educational, but also contributed to his relatively fearless approach to networking.

The family may not have been rich, but it's just plain wrong to say he had no connections and no advantages.
Definitely, only with less functionality and not as pretty.
Thanks for sharing abetterrouteplanner.com. Planning a couple long distance trips that I commonly take seems much less odious than I would have expected. Although the last time I seriously considered buying a Tesla their network was much less well developed. I'm two years away from making that decision again and it seems much more likely that I'll consider a Model S or X then. Although there are still many aesthetic intangibles that make Teslas less appealing to me. But at least range anxiety seems more manageable.