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> Well. What is a distro for then if not for picking the most highlevel of defaults suitable for them?

IOW the distros maintainers made a mistake by picking systemd? Agreed.
A 15% drop in iPhone sales, but net income stayed the same.

~$60B in net income in the last 12 months, and the market cap minus shareholders' equity is now ~$610B.

Apple could afford to pay a 10% dividend (on the share price ex shareholders' equity) just from its earnings, without touching cash. And that's with iPhone sales dropping 15%.
I saw that and that's even better. Which is part of why I don't like people jumping on the shame bandwagon without knowing the full story.

Thanks for clarifying. Good on you for taking an active approach to this and being thoughtful.

Also - I think this is where the power of the unionization comes into effect. While Unions can be a tremendous blocker of progress I feel that the pendulum has swung too far the against them.
Hm, 42 cents of that was his mileage pay for the trip. 38 cents was his actual salary.
Isn't this what restaurant's do with wait staff in the US? I know in NJ wait staff are required to be paid minimum wage. Typically the restaurant pays them less (I think it was around $3) and then their tips get them to minimum wage. If they don't get enough tips the restaurant is required to pay them the difference(although in practice I'm not sure this ever happens)

If someone is willing to be paid $10 to deliver groceries, does it matter who is paying them $10 for it?

I've never used instacart before. Is the verbiage around leaving a tip lead the end user to believe that they are giving it directly to the person making the delivery?
I remember looking at used books in my college bookstore, and found one which had nearly every sentence highlighted in yellow. The book might as well have been dipped in yellow ink! Overuse of the highlighter amounted to not using it at all.

I agree, comment judiciously.
Perhaps the images will load for you when pushed over to Archive.is: http://archive.is/ROVub

For me, they load on both archive sites.
Nit (with sincere hope that you'll appreciate rather than feel picked upon):

Hades, not hadeys.
the diagrams are just different ways to draw expressions, you are actually editing text, it's really the same data. one diagram implies many different but behaviourally equivalent expressions, so the diagram is actually the more efficient way to encode the thing

this is ignoring all the UX issues of course. but we are quite confident eventually everyone will use such diagrams as at least sidekicks in their text-based-code
Talk by Matthew Flatt on why they are doing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t09AJUK6IiM
Some good advice on there. I like the no shortcuts one. Another way to put it is the longest way is the shortest way. If you think you are taking a short cut you are likely taking a long cut overall.
It depends on the country. I'm also Brazilian and got German and Australian work visas without a degree. Most of Europe should be fine. I reckon for the American one you would need at least 12y of experience. The biggest challenge is to convince the company to sponsor you since a self-sponsored visa without a degree is usually quite tough.
A lot of places' wait staff can make fairly decent money. They will usually make below minimum wage, but they often come out way ahead. So at some level, most businesses where you're expected to tip are using tips to subsidize wages. But there are some who take it to the next level, like IHOP or Instacart.

My mom was a waitress most of my life and made decent money, so I always tip 20-25% and a minimum of $5 unless I get extra shitty service. Depending on where you and your coworkers ate at, I would say they were just cheap asses.
Cant be a personal inidual attack if people are asking about how to contact a company

Often companies over 1 million dollars are :-

Anti Consumer

Anti repair

Have ZERO accountability

Have no proper customer support

Listen to share holders or Global Socialist LEFT
before listening to the largest demographic buyer base

Same issues exist with twitter, youtube, google and facebook, steam , etc

has anyone had real luck talking to an ACTUAL person at these companies for help desk support
I find that a lot of articles/talks by designers make such declarative statements... "Design for PEOPLE, not USERS!". Lots of time spent on semantics.

Even basic "user personas", however, attempt to capture the "not just a user" dimensions, and a decent business plan needs to answer questions like "What's in it for me? How is it better than <substitute x>?"
I'm grateful for your response. I especially appreciate the "We can be concerned about more than one thing at a time." That's useful language I can use in the future.

I'm wondering what could be possible if a group of people (say, some in prison?) started saying "We peacefully revoke consent to be governed this way and request immediate transformative justice in the form of a justice system that allows us to craft our own path to recover from the wounds inflicted upon us by ourselves, our family, and our society free from imprisonment."
I am go ahead and say it: Go is a replacement for Perl. It is nice for process and machine administration automation. Can you write your app in go? yes. Could you also write your app in perl cgi? sure. Did many people wrote perl cgi apps? yes. did they regret it. yes. Will people writing apps in go will regret it? who knows. Probably yes.

This comment is not about the language per-se. it is about the current goals of the people with money and weight behind the language right now. I guess the regret will come or not if those goals keep or change.
The tips go straight to the shoppers, yeah. And then their pay gets, you know, "adjusted" (in Instacart's favor) in the amount of the tip.

The whole point of the tip is that it is supposed to be a bonus on top of the worker's normal pay. Instead, here it is displacing the money that Instacart would have otherwise paid them.
> Expecting some sort of change to come from spontaneous, collective consumer action is ridiculous.

Does that mean you believe that collective consumer action had absolutely nothing to do with Travis no longer remaining as CEO of Uber?
GP is also tipping in cash, forcing instacart to pay the full boat and returning tip to its rightful place as additional (and untaxed!) income.

Seems like a not-bad approach.
I would agree, if the app didn't say "tip for delivery person" instead of "tip for instacart" or something maybe more ambiguous like "tip." Take a look at the screenshots of their app being discussed here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2018/04/24/instacart-...
I agree with this 100%. It's the same short-sighted approach that led to teachers getting paid pittances and forced to buy supplies out of pocket.

By in the short-term propping up those employees, we reduce the overall pressures to improve their conditions / negotiate better wages, and we've somehow managed to shift the blame from the employer to the employees and customers/students.
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I bet the U.S. Chamber of Commerce can tell you the answer to this one.
Agreed - looks like something very simple to add as a test-case. If not manual, an automated QA process could've easily caught this if it was even remotely robust enough.

The steps to reproduce is trivial so I'm shocked.
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No, that’s just rude (given that the tipping culture still exists). If they really wanted to show solidarity they’d leave cash tips, which their server could then forget to report.
Legally in America, employees who get tips instead of wages have the tips added onto a minimum of $2.13, which is three times more than these contractors were making. More than that, these contractors are from Washington state, which doesn't allow this exception - the minimum wage for everyone is $12/hour (except if you're an Instacart "employee," of course). Many other states also have higher minimum wages. Also, these Instacart workers were hired under a different pay system (wage + tips) and then this replaced it, while regular tipped employees at least knew it coming in.
No, there need to be laws or regulations. even if some people watch these things and stop using the service most people don't know about the practices of a service.

For most companies I deal with I have no idea if they are doing shady things or not and I generally don't bother checking.
The very people collected those checks are making those arguments, directly. Lets be honest, service staff prefer the way it is. They can prey on their customers, and they end up making more than they would if paid min wage.
Modified clients are definitely possible - review the recent Project Zero research into webRTC vulnerabilities, which included a look at FaceTime and discovered several exploitable bugs

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/12/adventures-in...
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No idea, I ditched my Meraki after leaving CSCO.
>Is this true?

For the most part. It depends on your perception of a boycott. Very, very few boycotts are adopted by a significant fraction of the customer base. I've participated in plenty of boycotts. Only one of them resulted in a change in behavior. The rest were ignored by both the company and the majority of their customers.

For the most part, the value of a boycott is helping me sleep at night - not in actually solving the underlying problems.
Maybe the (YC [SW]\d{2}) is good news only ?
Not sure why this is being downvoted, as you absolutely are not wrong about this. They are independent contractors who entered into a contract just like a restaurant could contract with a food supplier. They aren't employees in the least as far as the law is concerned.
There is no excuse for exploiting people no matter if they are poor or something else. Ever.
The best option(for those functions) is probably filling a "Google My business" page. Has he got one?

Where's you're friend's store(roughly) ? depending on the area, maybe there's value to some local SEO - so he would appear higher in Google and get some more customers . I'm willing to have a look.

If you prefer, you can also PM me, my email is in my profile.
> Next year's tech will still be cheaper. If they don't have to retool for the next gen because they literally can't, then we can enjoy the economies of scale in producing the same tech over a longer period of time.

Slightly cheaper, maybe, as the fab equipment depreciates.

> I also dispute the scope you assign to this "upgrade" cycle. It's a huge overstatement to claim that the whole tech sector would "collapse". The tech sector is far larger than phones and personal computers.

It used to be that new hardware would drive new software sales, and vice versa. You'd buy a new PC, because Windows XP ran too slow on your old one. And a couple years later, some awesome game comes out, and you'd need to buy a new PC to play it.

Expansion, not replacement (of broken systems) is what drove the PC segment. It was the foundation of the growth that affected everything that used or could benefit from PCs. And we've seen that with the mobile segment.

And we may yet see that with the VR/AR segment, but that's going to be a tough hill to climb if we can't count on continuing IC improvements.
I didn't say your claims were wrong. I said that they were poorly supported and that you ignore the two much larger reasons that large numbers of people avoid dairy.

As an example of the lack of support:

> igf1 and cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15562834/

I read the abstract. It suggests that circulating levels of IGF-1 may be related to cancer. It does not say that drinking IGF-1 is related to cancer or that milk contains absorbable IGF-1. In fact, I found one study that determined that IGF-1 in milk is broken down during digestion and that mechanism by which various dairy products might impact blood IGF-1 levels are unknown.

So I maintain my claim that all the reasons you listed are poorly supported. In contrast, the fact that most people do not have the lactase persistence trait and end up lactose intolerant as adults is very well supported indeed. Similarly, I know people who have done genuine lab tests and determined that they have bona fide IgE-mediated milk allergies. Apparently some people also have non-IgE-mediated immune reactions to milk. Of all of these, among adults, lactose intolerance is far and away the most common issue with dairy products.

BTW:

> the industry and how cruel it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI

If you want to drink milk or eat cheese that is cruelty-free, there are quite a few purveyors in Northern California that have cows that are very happy indeed. If you ever want to feel jealous of a cow's living conditions, just drive near any of the dairies in Point Reyes. Some of them offer tours, and others will let you just drop by and say hi to the cows. I'm sure there are plenty of places like this outside Northern CA, too. Obviously, you'll pay a bit more for this milk, although, the cheese doesn't seem to carry much, if any premium. I suspect the latter is related to the reduced costs of being a Class B dairy that produces cheese in house.
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"high-performance" is a qualifier worthy of question, though.

If the goal were to write one algorithm to be the fastest implementation, performance would usually equate to having low level control.

If the goal were to do automatic optimization of a wide variety of similar algorithms, then we're in the "actually writing a compiler" territory and then there is little to be gained from defaulting to low-level control.
So we need to get rid of this "independent contractor" loophole.
What I want to know, how many SE's did they sell in the past week to beat EPS by a cent?
Or if you have a package that generates a service user that starts with a digit. Then you'll be running an arbitrary service as root in which case any vulnerabilities become that much more serious. Or have things regressed so much with systemd that the standard is now verify each and every thing you have the init system do?

The other problem is, of course, the utter lack of understanding Lennart demonstrates by being so dismissive and the increased potential for systemd to be hiding future security vulns.
Reminds me of this editor project from Kent Beck for working with the AST instead of with text alone when developing, somewhat related

https://www.facebook.com/notes/kent-beck/prune-a-code-editor...
What part of Python has those things that you are describing?
Great idea, but the first route I searched which was LONDON City LCY to Athens ATH gave me the option of LCY>LUX>ATH, which is not possible. When I click the button that takes me through to skyscanner to check prices, I’m told there are no direct LUX>ATH flights.
Please don't clutter the comments by copying and pasting what is already a fairly succinct page.
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I wonder if this will be a wake up call to Microsoft to maybe allow offline use of things like OneNote. It's really unacceptable to have something that important so reliant on an online service.

(I doubt they'll change their tune. Theee years of complaints about this and they still refuse to allow local notebook storage on Mac, so it seems unlikely that they'd change their minds now.)
Not sure if I missed something here but how has it interfered with the kernel? AFAIK it has broken some userland tools (which is bad in itself in most cases), but actually breaking kernelspace is not something I've heard of.
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>“With many democratic institutions under threat across the globe — often by leaders with authoritarian or populist tendencies — we need to do more to strengthen checks and balances and protect citizens’ rights,” said Patricia Moreira, managing director of Transparency International in a press statement.

So a politician responding to what the "populace" (i.e. the demos) wants ("populism") is a threat to democracy. Hmm.
Most employees of large grocery stores are paid significantly more than minimum wage.
That had more to do with fostering a workplace culture conducive to harassment and his opening of Uber to massive legal liability from Waymo. Uber's investors forced him out, not consumers. Investors have power because there are generally few of them and they have a great deal of skin in the game. Collective action is both easier and more incentivized in that case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/technology/uber-ceo-travi...
My biggest successes have come from teaming up with people like you and people who are way more optimistic than me and cover both sides and balance them well.
Comparing Go with Perl is rather odd. Maybe you could tell us why we might regret it more than using Java or C# or Node.js?
I think there is license to complain.

You're upset that the thing that solves a nice pain point for you and is very useful is doing it in a way that you find disagreeable. You don't yet have an alternative or at least it will take some amount of time and effort to find one and make the switch. You are voicing your dissatisfaction and dissapointment in the hope that the situation will be rectified and you won't have to go through the process of switching because it might be expensive (in some sense) to do so or there may be no alternative that you find compelling.

It's a two way street. If the company refuses to change and it upsets you enough, you need to move on. If you voice loud enough complaints and there are enough of them then it may cause the company to change.

Complaining is part of the mechanism that makes the system work.
Also, that they were lying to him.

(Not agreeing with wage / tip theft, of course, but, as an employer, you need to be able to believe your employees.)
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Not sure why I was down-voted for this, it's a direct copy-paste of the service status page which a) may not be accessible to everyone and b) often has old information removed.
Sure, I should have maybe made my point clearer and say PLC programmers in my experience are often guys with no programming background who have an Associates in automation technology or something similar from a local community college.

They have often not been taught basic things like don't name a variables or identifiers that have no significance like 'b123' and are in a workplace where as long as the lines are running properly nobody cares. There are leagues of difference between what I would consider a pretty messy codebase at say, some B2B enterprise software company, and a large codebase maintained by people who actively don't know how to program for lack of a better description.
It’s just that boycotts never work, could only ever work on consumer-facing companies, arbitrarily seek to punish the select few whose misdeeds become viral, etc.

Remember United Airlines? Yeah, neither does anyone else. Exxon Mobile? You’d first have to find out their local brand name. Etc etc
I thought that was simply how tipping worked. Wage+tips have to average (at least) minimum wage.

It's obviously a terrible system, but is this different from how most everywhere with tipping in the US works? I've never worked a tipped job in the US.
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I saw the ceo speak at a YC event in NYC a few years ago, and I looked around the room and thought "what the fuck is this shit". I guess Instacart ticked the checkbox of tackling a problem that doesn't scale, something YC looks for. To me it symbolizes everything I hate about startup culture- the CEO trying to change the world by doing something mundane, the circle jerk celebrating a stupid idea and dubious ethical practices...etc.
Within the context of this conversation, the burden of figuring that out would fall more properly on you, since you're the one invoking the existence of things the poor are at fault for in order to challenge someone else.

I think, though, that, unless you're coming up with examples that specifically demonstrate that the things the parent poster listed weren't actually victim blaming, such an exercise would be tangential to the subject at hand.
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Looks like a significant drop in iPhone YoY revenue.
We thought that too - gwmigprda.aadg.windows.net.nsatc.net seems / seemed to be failing to resolve, but then it seemed like it was internal to their infrastructure - which they later added to their status page (and clarified it was their authentication infrastructure which needed to be 'rebooted').
I don't agree with this. Not everyone wants to click an extra link when browsing on a mobile device.
What they meant, I believe, was that calling for boycotts which never work is just a talking point against meaningful regulation.
This oddly reminds me of gamergate whereby engaging on the facts seems to side you with the abusers.
It's only used for positive news
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Nothing.

Sure, INDIVIDUALS are at fault for a variety of options, but if you're looking to blame the poor as a group for something, you're using the wrong criteria, since it's a status that has no direct mapping to choice.
As I said below the "status page which a) may not be accessible to everyone and b) often has old information removed"
Why are you in favor of tipping? Can you justify your reasoning?
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Is a company like Apple actually any good for world’s economy ? They seem to be hoarding too much cash without spending any significant portion of it.

I dont care about companies earning money however i care if they dont invest back.
I sort of agree with you. The web is the wild west, reckless and unrestricted. The app stores are considerably more tame, yet intrinsically restrictive in many ways. Eventually we will tame the web app/PWA ecosystem, while keeping things much more flexible than the app stores. I agree some aspects of PWAs are a little rough round the edges (as you described), but there is plenty of polishing ongoing, and I bet PWAs will eventually emerge shinier than their native counterparts.
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This is taking advantage of both the customer and the worker.

I am not an instacart user myself but I use similar services and I expect that any tip will be delivered to the driver.

I'd be pissed off to find out otherwise.
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you do get to complain actually, complain to your elected representative and get them to legislate against this sort of behaviour. It is the responsibility of the businesses in a free market to act responsibly, if they dont then regulation is the result. Funnily enough most companies will continue to do things considered immoral or unfair until they are regulated, many will spend the money that they have generated 'immorally' to lobby against regulation.
Cool. I thought you are a smug marathon professional who doesn't understand that not everyone can run a marathon under 2:30 :-)
Neither major party is at all interested in doing this, only some on the left wing of the Democrats. Labor reform is opposed in unison from the entire business community, so it is extraordinarily difficult in our political system.
> Not sure why I was down-voted for this, it's a direct copy-paste of the service status page

Being a direct copy and paste of th page linked to the thread without additional explanation is probably why it was downvoted.
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