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>>They don’t know how close India came to losing democracy or how easily it could happen again.

Would it have been a bad thing? Well, China is doing swimmingly well. And please don't give the oh-India-is-very-diverse argument. Those who claim China is not diverse, doesn't know China.

Democracy was not something that originated out of India. It got shoved upon and lapped up by the very white-washed freedom-fighting leadership back in the day. No other alternative has/was ever been considered ["A political system with Indian characteristics"]. Also, for a country with a very high illiteracy rate, I never figured out how democracy actually works.

>>They don’t understand the dangers of promoting one language at the expense of others because they don’t know that it’s been tried before.

So let's just promote English and ensure there will always be animosity and division amongst the intellectuals (since by definition, they'd already know English) and the rest who only speak a "regional vernacular".
The thing that has shocked me most on my interactions with the Indian English-speaking (elite) is on how unoriginal they are. I could have well been speaking with a Brooklyn hipster and wouldn't have been able to tell the difference (other than the appearance and context).
Well with none of their "regional vernaculars" being developed and growing up on just a diet of American and British books and (liberal) ideas, can't quite blame them.

ps: I do a lot of business travel to India. Let's just put it that I have a love-hate affair with the country.
The behavior that you see from a system is the behavior that that system encourages. I guess the proof will be in the pudding as to what hooks actually encourage.

I find a healthy dose of 'gloating dismissive' skepticism is usually a good thing. Because it stands in stark contrast 'gloating dismissive' dismissals of criticisms as 'nonsense' that usually come in the form "nah you just don't get it".

UI paradigms in particular warrant a good deal of skepticism in general. Every time it's "this is way!!!" and there are a whole slew of issues people regret wading into eventually down the line. Then new stuff comes out to fix those issues and "THIS is the way!!!" with the assumption that the new way doesn't have it's own problems (or at least the optimism is just ignoring them as they aren't salient enough yet to impact thinking). This just keeps playing out over and over. No reason its different this time.

So, I think it's absolutely fair to say "I wonder what nastiness come along with hooks that we are accepting as a trade-off for the potential benefits of Hooks?". At the same you can't compute the actual result as an intellectual exercise, so a healthy degree of optimism is warranted too in which we also ought to say "I'm excited to see if this really is the way and maybe we wont arrive at front-end utopia just yet, but hopefully we will get one step closer through the learnings".
India and China already have more people than America. Why does number of people matter in your context? Isn't the average American's quality of life much higher than the average Indian's in terms of housing, health care, public transport, etc.?
Are Wag and Rover doing this also?
Maybe with Bitcoin I have to trust the software a little bit, but at least if it turns out to be faulty, I can switch to another app.

That's much harder to do with governments controlling fiat money. Or with banks. What is a person supposed to do, who is denied financial transactions by the established financial service providers (paypal, credit cards,...)? There have now been several cases where paypal and others have tried to silence people by cancelling their accounts. What can you do, in the traditional banking world?

And many complaints are not about things Bitcoin actually promises to do. It doesn't promise to make exchanges safe.

The environmental impact is a concern. Miner power perhaps not so much. For example mining hardware coming from one company doesn't seem that bad - you can simply verify the transactions the miners find before sending them out to the network.
None of those should be written in Python, except for perhaps the cache handling code. The rest should be platform-specific.
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In my experience, dimmable bulbs are no better. Most of them still suffer from the 120 Hz strobing effect. That's because even though they might PWM at 1-10 kHz to control the dimming function, when A/C voltage crosses zero, the "on" state of the PWM can still be a lot dimmer than the "on" state during the A/C voltage peak.
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Since it does in fact have racist origins

The article doesn't say that. The Army test before it seems to fit that description, but my reading says what would become the SAT was simply to keep stupid people out. The fact that the test's author thought "stupid people" would consist primarily of non-Nordic not-white-folk not withstanding, the test is what brought college admissions equality, or at least more of it, to minorities and immigrants.

seems like the kind of thing that pretty much everyone except racists would be for

Even if it were admittedly design to keep out minorities, the fact that it backfired and did the exact opposite is enough for me to support such a test. So you're calling me a racist? Can't we just have an honest discussion?
Dimmable LEDs are not automatically flicker-free. My father had very cheap dimmable ones, and I complained at every visit about the strobe effect until he bought flicker-free ones.

Most dimmers work via pulse width modulation [1], i.e. the power supply is switched on/off in a different interval (more off time means lower brightness). A true flicker-free dimmed LED has to be dimmed in an analog way (probably only feasible for "dumb" light bulbs). PWM of 20kHz or something might also work, but who knows what that does to brain waves.

1: https://www.waveformlighting.com/film-photography/an-introdu...
I spent 5+ years on a ship in 7th fleet and am all too familiar with what was described above.

I would attribute it to a few things. Mostly the over-extension of resources and people. The operational tempo in 7th fleet is absolutely ridiculous, so everything that isn't "mission accomplishment" gets pushed to the wayside. Training, making sure equipment is properly fixed.. our days were so jam packed full of bullshit that this important stuff suffered.

I considered myself lucky if I got 5 hours of unbroken sleep a night while at sea, and most of the people I worked with were the same way. Walking around functionally drunk doesn't lend itself to good problem solving skills. Do you know after these incidences there was massive effort to train people about the importance of sleep? Guess what, this mandatory training forced people to interrupt their sleep to attend.

All in all 7th fleet suffers badly from undermanning based on the operational requirements. Ask anybody. AMA I guess.
I saw an interesting article about how a million line production codebase was able to run simultaneously in both python 2 and 3, so I don't see how you could call them "different languages with similar names."
"The 7% are the software engineers who possess the shamanic knowledge of how to manipulate said codes to influence human behavior."

No, no. They mean military veterans. The numbers were probably Military Occupational Specialties. Army MOS 11B is infantry. MOS 25M is "multimedia illustrator".

"Oil, water, bread and wine are signs that bring about profound changes in the soul of the recipient because they are tied to a fundamental reality, God’s saving love for mankind affected through the Incarnation and the created order."

Huh? Oh, right, that ritualistic cannibalism thing Catholics are into. The tortured reasoning around that is amusing.[1]

The author is in media studies, not theology.[2] He also wrote "Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs". Reviews of that book are mixed, but trying to understand Apple as a religion is promising.

[1] https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2011/08/06/the-eucharist-a-...

[2] https://mcgrath.nd.edu/about/faculty-staff/brett-robinson-ph...
If only "atheist" was a meaningful descriptor of how a group acts
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But a key difference is that nobody is forced to use a specific cryptocurrency and it's much easier to see if your cryptocurrency is being manipulated.
If a currency isn't working for you; you should be able to choose a different one which does.

As an investor, it would make things more interesting because you will no longer be able to just sit around and wait for the capital to come to you through the same reliable fiat channels (e.g. interest, corporate dividends, index funds, ...); you will have to keep moving your investments across cryptocurrencies to follow the value and talent.

If any specific cryptocurrency becomes unfair, smart people will dump it for another one; the manipulated coin will lose its value.

There are crooks in every country and it's not fair that you should be forced to share a currency with them just because you live in a country which happens to have a lot of them.
Clojure is easy to teach. Why not just hire good devs and teach them Clojure? I think people overlook this too often.
The other big problem I see with these "cash strapped school systems" is that they're all locally-run, and mostly locally-funded. So poor counties have poor and crappy school systems; there's no higher level of government making and enforcing standards to any serious degree.

You don't see this at the college level because state universities are run at the state level (and are also funded in an entirely different way, but they do receive state tax funds for in-state students to my knowledge).
First of all, VAT is collected by the vendor. But the entity actually taxed is the customer. That's why VAT is an explicit line item on any bill.

Second, almost all customers of Google Ads are businesses, with the resultant right get refunds for any VAT paid.

Third, because of [second], most customers likely take a shortcut: if you add your VAT registration number to your account, Google does not even charge VAT.
> If more companies became DAOs, we'd have much better checks and balances and transparency for corporations.

Why on earth would any corporation ever want to become a DAO?

The transparency benefit there is roughly that a DAO must, by design, not be able to keep any secrets, since it's incapable of having nonpublic state. Similarly, the "checks and balances" benefit seems to be just "more literal enforcement of contracts".

Is there a positive advantage, something doable with a DAO that's not doable with just "a court system", besides doing illegal things where you can't rely on courts (which is, at least, a valid use case)?

And note, too, courts already exist, and there are plenty of folks with very exciting weapons eager to enforce their judgements. Your smart contract's bytecode may say you don't have to pay somebody, but if the sherriff's office shows up to start seizing your assets... Well!
Experts tend to find the question much more complicated than your armchair economics would suggest. The real world rarely follows what you learn in the first week of Econ 101.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/wildlife-watch-i...

Mind you, I am not saying that your thesis has no value, rather that you have way more confidence in it than it deserves.
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In my experience, Google does this to some extent.

I’ve had great coworkers who didn’t go thru the traditional route.

Personally, Google hired me when I quit my first job out of college, before the one year mark, and was unemployed for a few months. It wasn’t a great look on my resume. The vast majority of companies didn’t give me the light of day. These weren’t top-tier companies, and I doubt they could have offered me the engineering experience or career growth as Google. Those same companies look to employment at FANG as signals of competence. 3 years later, they’re spamming my LinkedIn. One of these companies ask candidates for their SAT score and high school GPA.
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I was coming to make these points, but you covered it very well.

I can think of offices that would implode without the receptionist/assistant/office manager that performs the "glue" functions and allows others to focus on their roles.

I would say telemarketer is not standard sales, its high pressure unwelcome sales tactics that are stressful and harmful to both sides in my opinion, but I wouldn't classify that as "Goon" but as "negative sales techniques"

He seems to vastly misunderstand the actual function and roles hes criticizing.
A senate race costs a few million. 20 at most.

Netflix revenue for 1 year was 845 million.

Netflix can afford a few senators if they want. Instead they just lobby existing legislators and put bills on their desks.

Corporations are not just "following the law", they're writing it.

>If you don't like the law elect different politicians

How? Government officials are far more beholden to corporations like netflix than they are to people like us. If push comes to shove then corporations can spend a trivial amount of money to crack the consensus among the group of people pushing for change.
Could be the driver is designed for a specific range of equivalent series resistance of the capacitor. High ESR could help with peak current and EMC.
You're probably right in general, but in this case the policy shifted risk from the contractor to the company, not the other way around. The $10 minimum meant that contractors were shielded from low payouts caused by a small tip, but also meant a lower payout for high tips.
> Clojure is settled. It found its niche: a small/medium group of experienced professionals who like its practicality and power.

Agreed. I'll add though that the problems with Clojure are soft ones. Here's my summation:

* it's business- and Java-friendly. Enterprise-focused.

* it's quite beautiful, though steeped in Java-isms

* its license is GPL-incompatible

* it's not a community-focused language and project; it's Cognitect's [edit: Rich's] project which they're graciously sharing with us.

That last one (IMO, the last two items) is a problem. For example:

* docstrings. Real improvements from the community?

* Lein? The clear winner, and yet for the longest time there was no mention of it in the getting-started guide on clojure.org, and then Boot was created. And then clj. NIH?

* It took ages until they began accepting PR's for their docs.

* I don't know the status of improving error messages. They've been complained about for years.

Clojure is Cognitect's [edit: Rich's] industrial-strength enterprise-ready Java-replacement and they sell consulting services for that. That's what Clojure is for and it's very good at that. It's also a seductively beautiful language, but if you're expecting a community-driven project with grassroots adoption and support, you're going to be disappointed.
No. Instagram has refused to add that feature.
So one thing I still don't understand is whether Neo4J a pure graph database is better than using something like AegensGraph[0] or Cayley[1], which uses a pre-existing DB engine for their persistent layer. If yes, what are the advantages? Is it something that totally depends on the use case? If it is, what criteria should be used to make a decision?

[0]:https://github.com/bitnine-oss/agensgraph
[1]:https://github.com/cayleygraph/cayley
This is the exact thought I had when I read the article. I never understood how or why this practice was legal in the first place, but it sounds almost identical to what Instacart and DoorDash are doing.

People SHOULD be outraged!
While adding Python3 support for numpy at a time when I worked for a large Ad-serving company, we managed to uncover a bug in python 2/3's import code that had been latent (no crash) in Python 2 for 15+ years. The problem was unique to people who had made it possible to import the same library from two filesystem locations.

In python2, it was silent, in python3 it was a segfault. There was really only one person in the company truly qualified to understand and fix the bug.

I'm finally moved over to Python3 but boy, was that an unwanted transition.
How does the average worker make a loss? People are not going to be working for negative wages. Only investors or business make loses.
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What are the benefits of knowing cloud architecture that deeply?
I thought I was the only one (with a firstlast@gmail.com) that kept getting confidential info from/for construction companies, dentists, and some Canadian woman.
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Yes, according to wiktionary at least:

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Clojure is not only simple and thoughtfully designed/composed from first principles it also is pragmatic (!) and reaches (JavaScript, JVM, CLR, …).

The power and joy derived from the above is incredible and (to many) even more important: it means Clojure is not sitting idly in its own ivory tower it plays very well with real world day to day situations.

Try to find languages that see eye to eye with Clojure here.

I’m super excited about the language and the welcoming community. Also super fascinating to see how so many community efforts are composing and compounding so well. I wish other languages / communities would look more closely and adopt some (more) of it.

A bit confused with some of the comments here but then again YMMV and just wanted to jot some of my thoughts down before I transition into some late-night recreational coding that I was looking forward to the whole day. < 3 Clojure
Major selling point of most modern microcontroller architectures is that they don't have separate hardware return address stack, and are thus "C compatible". Many early microcontrollers had exactly that as it also typically means simpler hardware implementation.
You'd value the property based on the max offer the person had gotten, not the minimum.

This gives the person you don't like the option to take your ridiculous offer and stick you with the absurd taxes. Sure they have to move, but they now have the resources to do it.
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Yes you do. People pay a lot of money to get into the Palo Alto Unified School District and some can't afford to donate. But there's apparently a lot of pressure to do so (according to my GF; my kid went to private schools).

But what this means is that the kids in, say, Lodi are still getting shafted even though the whole point of spreading the money around was to try to level the school spending difference between rich and poor areas.
For whatever it's worth, it's not just the South. I live in Wisconsin and a lot of our city governments are not even half as competent as the city governments you probably have in the South. (Of course, I guess I don't really know how bad it gets down there so I shouldn't say that? But it's pretty bad up here is my point.)

That said, yeah, Seattle is something else altogether in terms of governance. What's funny is that people from Seattle would probably complain about their city government...

until they tried to live somewhere else for a little while.
I've noticed a trend that migrating from Python 2 to Python 3 includes adding mypy annotations and going async.

At that point, why not Go? You're trying to correct for a language that was designed for scripting, not application software. Go already has a type system, coroutines are a simpler model of concurrency than async (and Go can actually use multithreading), you don't have to choose between writing and async or nonasync library code, built in formatter (wheras Black is still experimental), and the code will run 10x faster.
It's hard to imagine many other organizations with their level of experience on the subject. The analysis of the issue seems fairly spot on, and their own agenda seems fairly transparent.
Somewhat related, I am collaborating with someone on building an indoor aquaponics system, and he's ready to pick out LED lights. We both are really confused by all the acronyms (PAR, PPF, PPFD, etc). Does anyone have a good, ELI5 (or ELINP: Explain Like I'm a Normal Person) article on what to look for?
"workloads even closer to things like self-driving cars, smart cities, IoT devices"

Oh, please. If you really need those last few milliseconds of lag reduced, you need local computation. If you don't, an AWS datacenter on the same continent is probably good enough.
Did they? Can you name the people to blame? If someone shows up with Instacart on their resume, is it hard for them to act like they were either ignorant or against the decision?
> setState mutates some “global” state

Is this true? Maybe I'm reading it wrong but this.setState in a React.Component just transparently calls out to `this.updater`[1] where `this.updater` is injected by the particular platform library (eg react-dom). At least in react-dom/server's case, a unique `updater` object exists per-component[2], so it's effectively a private instance field; and those state changes apply to a similarly per-component `inst.state`[3]

You can also prove this by calling setState with the wrong `this`: `this.setState.call({}, {x:1})` blows up. So the `this` is required, unlike how `useState` works.

[1]: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/aa9423701e99a194d65a8...
[2]: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/aa9423701e99a194d65a8...
[3]: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/aa9423701e99a194d65a8...
I think that's what GP is saying. AP classes are supposed to be college level work. If high school ended after sophomore year, you could just actually just start your college education. It doesn't hurt AP kids at all, in fact it probably helps them immensely. It also helps the kids who don't want to be in school. These kids are likely taking fluff classes. The area that it hurts are the kids who aren't quite AP kids but want to learn. Some type of college prep would need to replace those last two years.
I h#$@ it and I didn't miss out. A month's salary turned into 16 months of freedom and a bit of money to start a non-crypto company.

Reason being the ignorant hype, even greater inequality, and the support of criminals, terrorists, and bad actors built into the very nature of public blockchain.

Private blockchain is a different story, but I see that more like a choice between SQL and NoSQL. Just need to wait a decade or so for the tech to mature.
As a user with a decent amount of followers(almost 28k), all of these accounts make me angry. I spend so much time filming and editing posts only for some T-shirt woodworking account to steal it and gain more followers than me. I don't care what size the account is that is sharing it. I report them and block them. These accounts are stealing content and making money from stolen content. It makes me sick seeing these accounts have #ad in posts because I know they didn't work hard to get where they are.
Am I missing something, "switch to another app" in this context also means finding buyers for all your bitcoin and exchanging them for whatever your new coin-de-jour is.
I disagree. I've seen P2P outperform traditional CDNs many times, take a look at some of the data from Peer5 I linked below around improving the user experience.

P2P doesn't need "always on" boxes in large scale live stream scenarios, which is one of the use cases where it works best. I think we'll see a lot of growth in hybrid P2P/traditional CDN in the next couple of years.