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> 3. Reveals that senators who are both millionaires and still receiving pay, don't actually have your interests in mind

Senator Pay is $174k, which is less than senior developers around the tech world.

Your senior developer who frequents this site will make far more money than any Senator. The reason why Senators are millionares is because you need to be a millionare to even consider running for office (with all of the organization, ads, and stuff you need to buy...)

> Critically think about the ripple effect of this situation:

No. That's precisely WHY Republicans are shutting down the government. Because they want to push forward those viewpoints.

Its why Republicans are so happy to keep things shut down: the longer things are shut down, the more their point is proven ("That Government is inefficient").

Its a fundamental advantage Republicans have to shutdowns. Every shutdown "proves their point" innately.

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Government workers make far less than their counterparts in the private world. A "Senator" is the leader of an entire State, but will make far less money than a typical executive at any ol company.

Want to know where all of our good leaders have gone? They've gone into corporate leadership. Any ol' executive position at any major company will make multiples over a Senator or House member's salary.
There are a ton of real-world systems that actually do deferred settlement and reconciliation at their distributed edge - for example, in reality ATMs work this way (and credit cards, in a way). These systems should actually be thought of as sources feeding into a distributed log of transactions which are then atomically transacted in a more traditional data store after reconciliation. In systems like this, you must have a well defined system for handling late arrivals, dealing with conflicts, often you need some kind of anti-entropy scheme for correctness station keeping (which people should think about anyway and must people ignore), and so on. These systems are hard to reason about and have many many challenges and many of them that I have personally seen actually are impossible to make robustly secure (a byproduct of having been implemented prior to security being a strong consideration).

In these applications the deferred abort problem is dealt with in the settlement and reconciliation phase and these events are themselves just events handled similarly.

But this article is blurring the line between underlying transactional data stores where invariants can be guaranteed and the kinds of front-ends that loosen up on 2PC as a requirement.

As an observation 2PC is not the problem, the problem is data scope. If the scope of the data necessary for the transaction to operate correctly is narrow enough there is no problem scaling transactional back ends. This gets back to traditional sharding, though, which people don’t like.
They're dead on the first day.
I find that the worst pedestrians make the worst cyclists and drivers (and vice versa).

Being courteous in mixed traffic is all about predicting what others will do (and choosing what you do to not conflict with that) and behaving in a way that will let them predict what you will do (so they can act in a way that does not conflict with you). Being able to predict what others want to do is very important to be a courteous pedestrian/cyclist/driver. Generally speaking I find that people who hate a certain type of traffic do so because they do not empathize with that group of road users are bad at predicting what that group will do. This consequently makes them likely to be bad drivers/cyclists/pedestrians because it is harder for them to optimize their actions to not conflict with that other road users.
Maybe, for the right wing, this situation is working out as intended. They want to starve the beast (government) into becoming as small as possible. Trying to show that things can go on just fine without much of the government, and reducing the attractiveness of government jobs, are all means to this end
For a short time, you could actually hide a video in your subscriptions by just clicking one button (an "X" overlayed in top-right). Best feature ever. Now it takes two clicks and mouse movement to hide.
It’s interesting to ponder how much of the smartphone ecosystem was an accidental byproduct of implementation details: namely, the decision to use a stripped-down desktop OS, rather than a beefed-up iPod OS. Allegedly, the latter was also in the works as a phone, but it was Scott Forstall’s OS X team who won the battle internally. Even though the feature set was shipped as “iPod that makes calls”, the fact that everyone knew there was a full OS under the hood made the proliferation of apps inevitable.

I suspect we would have gotten to the present-day norm eventually either way; but, if not for “OS X in your pocket”, the iPhone might have wound up in the same historic dustbin as the Newton, the Palm, and the Sidekick, a mere precursor rather than the thin end of a revolutionary wedge.
Agreed. Trump said that he would 'drain the swamp'[0], and I think this is one of the reasons why he's OK with the shutdown lasting indefinitely.

One of my friends said that DC has never experienced a recession. I hate how negative this sounds, but DC is finally realizing what happens when the largest employer in town suddenly closes. This is something that (pro-Trump) small town America has been having to deal with for at least the past 30 years.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/politics/trump-governm...
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^Site to do so. I figured that I'd share my lesson[s] from my own idiocy: Note that you need to put in your full international number (even though they make you select a country?) for it to work.

So, for Sweden, 075555555 becomes +4675555555 (which most people don't store their contacts' numbers with country code but what do I know, yeah?).
I don’t see #2. What it has shown is that “non-essential” government workers do things that don’t have immediate consequences (kind of obvious), and that “essential” workers still show up without being paid at least for a while. As it drags on, it’s also starting to show that what these people do is actually kind of important.
I was in anchorage last year for work. My experience in the city was internet was similar to at home. I suppose it depends upon the provider in the small town.

I would suggest contacting the cable/phone company in that area and asking for tech specs.
A few weeks back I got a weird fan biopic of Himmler created by some account with the SS logo in their picture recommended to me after watching a video on some obscure DNS features. I reported it but it's still there.

Google is beyond broken. Chasing those engagement numbers on a forever treadmill, just hoping they inch up a little more at any cost.
Seems to work fine for me. You just have to click "not interested" on every video of the topic that you don't like and after 5 times or so it stops recommending that topic.

Let's say you watched a video called "Top 10 most amazing things you never knew until today" and now the youtube algo recommends you a bunch of clickbait. Just hit "not interested" on every single clickbait video you see and eventually it stops showing you those videos unless you watch more of them.
This could easily circumvented by passing the Stop STUPIDITY Act, which basically says if the government can’t pass a budget or continuing resolution in time, the government automatically adopts the previous year’s budget and suspends all pay for the legislative and executive branches until a new budget is passed.

Instead of using government workers keeping intact our very thin veneer between civilization and barbarity as bargaining chips at best and hostages at worst, the pain would fall squarely on the President and Congress.
I don’t really disagree with anything you’ve said, just want to add.

It’s not really 750k packages you’re keeping in your head. Instead, there are swirling communities of standard convention. This happens because the js community is so large and the code syntax so “forgiving” that many different “dialects” of js exist. There’s a reason “Babel” is called “Babel.” Within your dialect, one package may be better suited than another package, which does the same thing. A great example of this is where ‘_ => result’ may look perfectly coherent in one sub-ecosystem, another sub-ecosystem would more readily understand ‘function AsyncCalculationProvider(callback: CompletionFunction) { return callback }’, both for perfectly legitimate reasons. That people wish to ‘standardize’ on one common way of doing a thing within their sub-ecosystem is the reason people accept dependencies for dumb little things. That people disagree on how those things should manifest in the context of their subculture is the reason there’s 10 different popular ways to do the same exact little thing.

This isn’t even just ECMAScripts fault. The Web APIs provide a lot of great fill-in as a standard library (for example, for Date localization), but even here we do not see consistency. For example, the “fetch” api for browsers is nice enough, but is not implemented in Nodejs. If you want to share a signature for HTML requests between nodejs and browsers, you’re going to use “axios” or maybe “node-fetch” (which replicates the Web api but is more verbose), or you’re going to end up rewriting a wrapper for that functionality, and why would you do that when there’s a community that will immediately see and understand what you mean when you import the “axios” module?

Big optional standard library needed, but minimized deliverable also needed. Recent tooling (eg tree-shaking and Babel), make this more reasonable today than it was in the past.
It would be hand-waving if we didn't actually do it :)

Calvin uses a locking scheme with deadlock avoidance. PVW uses a MVCC scheme with no locking (and therefore no deadlock). Fauna uses an OCC scheme with no deadlock and deterministic validation.
"The IRS is also losing 25 IT staffers every week since the shutdown began, with many finding other jobs, one House aide said, citing the IRS officials' briefing."

At least some are already doing this.
They have not patented any programming language features.

They have patented one or more ways to implement some programming language features.

Read the claims, that is what is protected. Do one step differently and you are golden.
Good point, I hate how multi-part videos aren't automatically queued up. I also don't like getting videos queued that I've already seen.
Seeing that by the time the iPhone was introduced, there were already millions of people tuning out the world with iPods, I doubt that SJ didn’t see this coming. By the time he passed, the App Store and social media on mobile were already a big thing.
I agree, targeted compromise remains feasible.

I wasn't aware of Binary Transparency, thanks! A cool idea, akin to Certificate Transparency.
Atlanta resident here, couldn't agree more. It has always been the most efficient airport for me to fly out from, so far...
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It’s interesting to note that some credit card companies are allowing government employees carry extra balances and not pay them off during this shutdown. However, I do wonder if they will be charging interest on that balance. If not, then all is fine. If they are, well then this just adds to the total cost of the shutdown :/.
For sure. It's a giant step over last year's course.
I'm not looking for replacing any of the current Congress (yet...)

I'm looking to send a message. "Stop acting like two-year-olds. Stop playing stupid political games and get something done. If you won't, you risk being removed before your two-year term is up." And if that's not enough for them to stop acting like idiots, well, then let's actually hold those recall elections.

But it will only work if most or all of the states do it.
> we have more millionaires and billionaires in political positions than ever

I was curious about the numbers on this in terms of congress members. It doesn't appear that anyone in congress specifically is actually a billionaire as of 2016[0], but over half of them are millionaires as of 2014[1]. Of course there are non-congress members that are billionaires (Trump, DeVos, Ross, some governors, etc)[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/politics/more-than-hal...

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

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> Public sector employees take the risk of being fired by an administration who decides that unit isn't a priority.

They mostly don't, both because the Administration has limited legal and even more limited practical political ability to do that, and because civil service rules further mitigate that risk with noncompetitive reinstatement eligibility.

They do take the risk that the political branches together decide a function is unnecessary, mitigated somewhat by civil service reinstatement rules.
You've summed up my frustrations, well.
Calculating IRR for Spotify Pre-IPO
There is one DAL which doesn't take relations into account, nor has a plug-in based approach, but I don't remember it's name. Also didn't have the goal of being a collection of packages that solve problems 'around' your data, like migrations and throwing it back and forth between client and server.
Yes it'll be a bit more work for you, but it should be OK. I provide links to more math background where required in the course.
The article said to allow users to easily message cross-app. That change to me looks like on the front-end product side.
Why do they recommend the same five videos of a series (like Barefoot Contessa) over-and-over when I've watched them already?

I don't want to say "not interested" because I don't know what that means... I want a feature where it's like "more like this, but not this one in particular."

It's surprising they've been under Google's control for a very long time and yet their main recommendation algorithm still leaves a lot to be desired.
Hotmail provided just 2MB of space when gmail launched on 01 Apr 2004. They increased it to 250MB in June 2004.

source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/116657/article.html
I've briefly analysed ProseMirror as well as Quill. IMO ProseMirror seemed well built with better literature compared to Quill.

ProseMirror's author has truly thought out every API and has got most of the details just right.

For example, if I ought to build a grammar checker on top of Quill vs ProseMirror, I couldn't find any APIs in Quill that lets us decorate the view with grammar errors and suggestions, without polluting the core data-model with custom nodes/attributes. ProseMirror on the other hand had the concept of Decorators (https://prosemirror.net/docs/ref/#view.Decorations) for such a case. That was just one example.

More from the author of Quill himself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15468402
This is great. Thanks you!
Yeah, you have to use IOKit, which hidapi wraps.
OpenStack–uh Open Infrastructure? OpenDev?–remains Popular
How are you running the Docker containers in production? e.g., Docker Compose on a single server, Kubernetes, something else, etc

For prod, if you are trying to keep runtime simple, I would bake the content into the Docker containers and keep the containers immutable as others have suggested. This works especially well if you're deploying on a FaaS platform like Zeit Now. Baking the content into the image makes scaling effortless if you need it.

For local dev, I would just use a docker volume or bind mount.
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/corporate-social-responsibil...
The article focuses on dental care specifically, not healthcare in general.

Most dental plans don’t cover much at all beyond regular check-ups, cleaning, X-rays and fillings. Beyond that, patients are expected to fork over much of the cost of large but common procedures like crowns, root canals and implants.

One of the reasons dental care is so expensive in the United States is insurance.

Another cost for US dentists is malpractice insurance, which is not required in Mexico.

Dental work in Mexico is on average two-thirds less than in the US and customers may save 80 percent or more on some costly operations.

I've gotten a cleaning in Nuevo Laredo 10-15 years ago while in school. It was very straightforward and I'd do it again if the circumstances warranted.
One thing that I always find in these discussions is that a lot of people who think that you can trust 'real' news outlets to accurately report anything have never been on the interviewed side of the table.

I have never once been interviewed or had a project or event I've been involved with featured in a media outlet that wasn't grossly distorted to the point of comedy. I've had my age reported incorrectly, my title reported incorrectly, quotes made up that are literally the opposite of what I said to the reporter, reporters taking things out of context. And for this sort of thing to be coming up on fairly minor everyday reporting?

Having experienced this in my life so many times I never saw any news on any topic the same way again. When you imagine this kind of massive distortion on something minor, it is impossible for me to fathom how distorted big stories actually are.
What is MVP in Agile and why does it matter?
I seriously think that San Francisco can benefit from this.

Each zone in SF is actually very small - and very walkable.

In my extreme SF transport utopia - SF would only allow pedestrians, bikes, and electric muni transport in certain regions of the city.
WhatsApp also notifies on rekeying. A yellow message is shown warning that "your conversation partner's security codes have changed" or something of the sort.
Good thing this patent does not protect any programming language features.

(It protects how Apple implemented some features)
No system is perfect and, no, there is no silver bullet.

But US health care costs more as a % of GDP, and doesn't lead to appreciably better outcomes.
I disagree with two points of what you said. The first is that you call something that copies an arbitrarily long memory section to avoid two ifs "elegant", the other is everything else.

Elegant code uses less instructions, clear structure and is in general one of the better implementations in terms of performance.
The suggested implementation shifts the workload into standard ruby functionality, but multiplies it by many times in the process; turns the clear structure of two conditionals into weird data trasnformations that and ultimately performs much worse than just the two extra ifs.

The multi-gigabyte-dataset was obviously an extreme example (yet one that may very well happen in practice).
The point is, bad code like that is inevitable going to slow down an application, the question is whether you care about speed at all. Arguably, if you're using ruby, you probably don't.

Premature optimization usually refers to taking straight-forward code and making it more complex based on certain performance assumptions, like unrolling loops or writing inline assembly. This is bad because, well written code is most of the time fast enough, and if it does need optimizations, that will become clear soon enough.

Choosing not change your code in a way that considerably impacts performance based on ones individual perception of cleverness and elegance, however, is not an optimization; it's avoiding a dumb mistake that will bite you in the ass later on.
Perhaps I'm not getting the main point right. Looks like the proposal is a minor optimization of the 2PC protocol, where a worker ACKs the transaction as soon as possible, presumably somewhere between updating the durable log and updating the durable data. However, said worker cannot proceed to execute a subsequent transaction depending on the updated data until the 2PC protocol completes, because _another_ worker may abort the original transaction for perfectly logical reasons, as opposed to transient failure reasons.
I remember that! That system was so sensible, it was great when I was following the lessons on ExcelIsFun/VBAisFun. The next video in the series would play seamlessly.

Now, thanks to the all powerful algorithm, I can watch a video about a rescued pitbull living with his new family, and have it followed up by "10 times Ben Shapiro owned the libs".
Arduinos are not for production, but for prototyping, hobby projects.
> >If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

> Am I misreading this to mean that if Apple sues someone for infringement over the patents they have been granted, they immediately lose those patents?

You in this case is likely a defined term with a narrow meaning and likely does not refer to Apple (which is probably referred to as We, Us, "the company", etc) in the document.
We are all trapped in the “Feed”
Madrid is doing the same.
How does keybase do key exchanges?
Questions asked of influencer marketing in wake of Fyre documentaries
No, I would say that it's necessary but not sufficient.
Good move. The closer we move our healthcare system towards "pay what you want" and get rid of all middleman positions (both private and government-based), the better.
An older relative lives in San Diego. Badly neglected his teeth, and later in life needed implants for all 28.

A few years after having the work done in Tijuana, decay was discovered at the roots. All 28 have now been replaced, by a stateside specialist, and his retirement savings are considerably depleted.
There were no apps because they assumed everyone would use websites. Which is still mostly what I use my phone for (although I have an Android).
I always check aliexpress.com https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?SearchText=co2+sensor+m...
This one is extremely long, though. It’s the longest on record and still getting longer, so it’s not something people would have anticipated. I can see how someone would enjoy a few days off of work, maybe even a week or two. But going a month or more without pay is quite a different matter.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I agree that propaganda and social media are problematic. But they can only be a problem if people pay attention. And nobody is forcing people to pay attention. Which gets to my point: people have pre-existing notions and inclinations before propaganda and social media can even have an effect.
Didn't China receive special access to iMessage from Apple?
> Except Ukrainians and Russians are the same people

I don't think that's for either of us to declare.

I'm at least quarter-Ukrainian from my father's side (I think my parental grandfather was Russian, but parental grandmother was certainly Ukrainian). You sound like you have much less than that in you. We're in no position to dictate who's one people and who aren't.

I do consider Ukrainians and Belarussians brotherly peoples, from my view as a Russian. I wish either of them no harm, and all the best, and hope that no major conflict arises between either of the three.

But they're going to be the ones to tell me what nation they are and what other traits they identify themselves with.

> and Slavic culture has always been defined by culture, not necessarily ethnicity.

I don't think Slavic culture – if there is, indeed, such a thing – defines itself with itself. It can't be its own description, see?

Aside from that... Don't you think there's this whole new massive issue of nationality that defines a people?