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Google is putting effort into using Rust, but in more greenfield work, like Fuchsia.

Integrating a new language into a new codebase is a lot of work; it would be great if Chromium started using it, but I also understand why it may be a harder sell there. Engineering is all about tradeoffs.
Interest != usury.

And what do you mean by "artificial" inflation? QE?
The Fight for Gender Equality in One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth
Product Hunt post there:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/voice-boloss
That says a lot about you.

But I'd say most of us don't want any living thing, including our dogs and cats, to be poorly treated. And humans fall under that umbrella as well. I wouldn't even treat your personal property poorly, and I don't need to attribute human qualities to your blender to do that.
Agile Stacks Completes Series A Funding Round
>However, when it comes to frameworks and approaches which build complexity around writing HTML and CSS, there is something deeper and more worrying than a company having to throw away a couple of years of work and rebuild because they can’t support a poorly chosen framework.

I take the author's point on this because infatuation with latest micro-frameworks and the lack of long-term support and backward compatibility is well-known aspect of modern JavaScript-based development. I attribute this to the fact that the industry is dominated by young professionals, the web as a platform is still exciting, and the fact that JavaScript is a terrible language that requires custom frameworks to work around its intrinsic limitations.

Having said that, you cannot write web-applications in just HTML/CSS. You can create very nice looking websites, but not web-applications with any sort of complexity.

>If we make it so that you have to understand programming to even start

Sorry. That's the reality. Many websites, and certainly those that are the core competency of the parent company, are really full-fledged applications that use HTML and CSS as the UI layer, and are backed up by thousands of lines of client-side code and thousands of lines of server-side code. You need to be a programmer to meaningfully contribute[1] because however way you slice is, writing and maintaining thousands (or millions) of lines of code is complicated and hard.

There are areas where programming skills are overkill, such as when you're not building a (web) application, but rather a website for your church bake sale, or putting together Wordpress-backed web-page for a local business. But that isn't where the money or need is.

[1] There is obviously a need for non-programmers, such as designers, testers, and UX professionals in software product development. But to actually realize the product, you need programmers.
There's another view which is that the Culture Minds keep humans around as pets. For those who hold that view, the Culture is actually a dystopia.
Obviously price per gigabyte isn't the only parameter. Things like latency, uptime and maximum throughput should also be specified. Densities in rural areas are lower, so the reasonable price per gigabyte will be higher.

Ideally wholesale prices should be set before the infrastructure is built. Then telcos know what they get themselves into.

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In South Africa, DSL was never unbundled. But it's still in decline due to competition from 4G and fiber.

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IMHO a lot of innovative business models are built on zero rating. Based on what the article says about prices and your thoughts on innovation, zero rating may actually be a good thing.
> There is something remarkable about the fact that, with everything we have created in the past 20 years or so, I can still take a complete beginner and teach them to build a simple webpage with HTML and CSS, in a day.

Speaking as someone who has spent many hours lovingly hand-crafting CSS, I don't see how this beats using ms word or google docs or any other way to produce a static document. You can even have those editors output to HTML. I can teach somebody to do this in minutes, rather than in a day. What actual deliverable can people produce using html+css that isn't easier to make with other tools?
There is vast scientific evidence showing that using sunscreen reduces cancer risk. There was a study that showed it could cause increases, but when analyzed further (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447210/) it showed that people who use sunscreen spend more time in the sun. While using sunscreen reduces your chances of getting cancer, there is nothing quite like avoiding the sun entirely for the vast majority of the day.

There are more recent studies like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22086817, where if you go to the link, it actually points out the value in spending some time in the sun, getting some melanin and vitamin D development, which will fight a specific kind of skin cancer (CMM) that doesn't seem to be stopped by sunscreen, and might have a number of confounding factors.

The basics are that it's complicated, but that if you are spending time in the sun, you should be using sunscreen, but that you also need some sun, or something like that, who really knows.

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/skin-care-and-aging

That article also suggests the use of sunscreen.
Hi Sahil, who are your most prominent competitors? Do you consider Patreon a competitor? I'm asking since with so many platforms for selling items online I find it surprising there is still room for more companies in this space.
So we had this cause a spectacular outage a few years ago.

We were doing exactly this - but we had a flaw: we didnt handle the case when the AWS API was actually down.

So we were constantly monitoring for how many running instances we had - but when the API went down, just as we were ramping up for our peak traffic - the system thought that none were running because the API was down - so it just kept continually launching instances.

The increased scale of instances pummeled the control plane
with thousands of instances all trying to come online and pull down their needed data to get operational -- which them killed our DBs, pipeline etc...

We had to reboot our entire production environment at peak service time...
I'm glad it doesn't push a narrative. I like documentaries that get out of your way and let you think on the subject instead of being railroaded.
Thanks for explaining the rationale, as well as future hopes and plans for documentation.
I still prefer Hugo to JAM. The lesser JavaScript, the better
This was a great read! I think allowing aws/gcp hosted sites/apps and then also allowing apple would make this reasonably achievable for the average person. Apple is a tech giant, but they are very far from a monopoly. Allowing microsoft and google hosting might be a necessary evil at this point - too many valuable services rely on them.

That being said I would love to read this same article written by an average joe and not a wealthy san francisco techie. SF/Cali often forgets how the rest of the country/world lives - most of us don't casually get airbnbs, use encrypted chat apps, send large files, or chat with 5+ experts. Her <5 year old daughter has been on twice as many flights as I have.
> No mention of ending inflation

Did you mean to say "No mention of ending low inflation"?

Otherwise your comment doesn't make sense to me.
I was basically alone. I didn’t have a team, nor an office. And San Francisco was full of startups raising gobs more money, building amazing teams, and shipping great products. Some of my friends became billionaires. Meanwhile, I had to run a “measly” lifestyle business. It wasn’t what I wanted to do, but I had to keep the ship from sinking.

There's that term again, "lifestyle business." Uttered like a dirty word, when in fact Sahil has an actual product that many thousands of people use and pay for. I'm one of them.

Meanwhile, many startups aren’t true businesses – they book no revenue, and they may not even have a sellable product. That’s fine, because almost all businesses start with an idea or a dream or a need or pure desperation, and it’s up to the founders to make it work. They may even need investment, too – sometimes a lot of it. And that’s fine, too.

But when people from the startup world use the term “lifestyle business” to describe real businesses that aren’t pure tech, have solo founders, don’t take VC money, don’t intend to scale to a billion users, or whatever other qualities are not worthy of investor consideration, I find it condescending and misguided. Some startups could actually learn a thing or two from the vendor who sells hot dogs in the park, the person who starts up a specialist marketing agency, the partnership that builds a ceramics factory, or the solo founder running a media distribution and sales platform. They have products or services to sell. They have customers. They book revenue, pay their employees and suppliers, and if they do things right, may even become really successful.

In short, people who run small businesses are not hobbyists or dilettantes. They’re entrepreneurs doing real business selling something, often with limited capital and without the glamor or hype.

Kudos to Sahil for what he's accomplished. But for the love of Pete, please stop using the term "lifestyle business."
I believe the Facebook offering in India was rejected after a series of PR missteps by Facebook and some increased public awareness around net neutrality: https://www.cnet.com/news/why-india-doesnt-want-free-basics
Eh, unless 718-387-6962 was long distance. My family went 1.5 years w/o internet after the local ISP went bankrupt, since nobody offered access that wasnt long-distance. Yes, this was a rural area, but those businesses weren't quite as fungible as you think.
Disclaimer: I have limited experience with anything finance, my profession is programming.

My understanding is that 10 years ago was a stock market crash(2008), and since then we've been in a historic bull run. My understanding is that it WILL crash again (obviously), we just don't know when. But the stock market has always been like this, cycling between bull/bear runs.

Wouldn't it make more sense to use a larger dataset that isn't just a bull run? Maybe the last 25 years or whatnot?
Amazing that one of the largest banks in the US is somehow still (apparently) reliant on a single location.
Thank you so much! Going to start from tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!:)
Well, my point was really more that the orignal claim was explicitly talking about "at the end" of the timeframe, so we're talking about near death -- where putting weight on immediate gratification is harder to justify.

But to address your question: people 'take the limit' and argue that life is just meaningless in every way all the time. If it were true, you shouldn't be bothered to make that effort in the first place. Obviously your actions matter to other people by the sheer virtue of the fact that you're optimizing for it. if you weren't, you wouldn't have bothered to ask the question.

Sometimes life is what you actually do, not merely what you think.
Thanks a lot! Now it's clear for me from where to start!Thanks for helping.
What was your resolution to this issue? Did you fix your service to account for the API being down, or did you switch to an entirely different approach?
I was objecting to the statement: "The brain is most certainly not a neural network" - as if to say that the types of artificial neural networks employed in machine learning are somehow the central definition of what a neural network is. I would be happy with "the brain is not an ANN", or "The brain is very different from the types of neural networks used in Machine Learning", but to say the brain is anything other than a neural network is just plain wrong.
Don't get me started on Darmok. I don't understand why that episode is so praised, it makes no sense.

How... HOW do you have a technological, much less warp capable, civilization if you only speak in metaphor and allegory?

How do engineers get anything done? Do they write white papers in metaphors? Do the captains of their ships issue orders in metaphors?

Languages don't work like that. They literally can't work like that.

It literally makes me... mildly annoyed.
Easy tool, that simplifies access to some of Git information
A few years ago there was an extremely broad study of all males living within a town, totalling 900 men in all. They monitored orgasm frequency over decades. As a result they were able to show that those who were below average in their orgasm frequency had a 50% higher chance of dying from any cause. That was alongside all sorts of findings about the general health dangers of abstinence. I imagine there is likely a pretty strong correlation between those who live alone and those who are starved for orgasm.
So the basic argument boils down to

That's the basic argument in a particular branch Republican thought, against the entire system of regulatory power delegated by congress to federal regulatory agencies. It seems weird to state it unlabeled.
Is Docker the best example here? Before Docker built "Docker" they were dotCloud and doing the fundraising game. Had they not done the fundraising game, they may have never built Docker.
I use an 8gb 580 to VR game, and it is phenomenal. Every game at at least 1.5 supersampling, maintain 90fps, even running hardware encoded video capture in the background.
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Absolutely - cooking is a totally unnatural thing that humans have learned to do, because it provides additional nutrients, calories, and variety. Find an animal in the wild that cooks its food... Closest may be the firehawks, which may spread fire to help hunting (live) prey. (Though many wild animals are happy to consume cooked food if available!)

But in drinking "not animal milk" you're trying to artificially approximate the experience of drinking "animal milk", which you described as unnatural.

Note that I'm not one to say that "unnatural == bad". I think cooking is good. I think dairy is good. I think consuming something nutritious in its natural state is more natural than cooking something.

You're free to differ.
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...given sufficient hours/time in the game.

Just to bring the thought home.

Im a blackjack player, and i calculate my returns at 100hours of play because of this manifestation of the law of large numbers
Where are the facts, then? We have two people who claim to follow an all-beef diet, and built a business around giving advice to people regarding their diet.

Similarly, breatharians make claims about their diet and built businesses around giving advice to people regarding their diet.

Both the Petersons and breatharians make huge claims about their purported diet, but don't have the evidence to back their claims up. There isn't even evidence that the Petersons follow their own diet advice. There are only claims and consultation fees.
Worst case, Google Fi is discontinued. Then you find another provider and port your number.
I understand you may have missed my question. Please allow me to repeat it with emphasis on the part you may have missed.

What are the alternatives to abortion if the problem is not the child existing but the birthing process?
If you're given $8M, how hard are you really struggling? I think many people here on HN believe they could build a tremendously successful company with $8M.

It's frustrating that I cannot get money for my ideas, which I believe are more impactful.
The Deforestation of American Cities
> Expressed too anthropomorphically, you would send an arm out deliberately and hope the local fine-tuning goes right.

That's basically how playing table tennis feels like. If you wait with reaction till you decide how to bounce the incoming ball (and if the ball is fast enough) - it's too late already.

You have to decide before you see the ball and hope the automatic movements will work ok.
Not at https://www.learnpythonthehardway.org/ . Where are you getting the "still"?
Declaring another living thing to have a life purpose that involves a harm to them and a benefit to you is probably not that defensible, at least not if you want to be objective about it.

You've said "if someone would do some unnecessary torture on said animal"; since a person can be vegetarian or vegan, isn't it a reasonable argument to say that any pain inflicted on food animals is unnecessary?
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Except that you don't have to wait until 59 1/2 to withdraw it without penalties. You can start at 55 or earlier using the "Rule of 55" or SEPP exception depending on the retirement plan that you want to withdraw from.

https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-rule-of-55-2894280
Globalization Saved the World and Damned the West
What is more likely going down in the middle of the day? Their mainframe/COBOL stack? Their Java stack?
Interesting, I cannot relate to your lack of self-questioning your beliefs in this matter but I am positive I am similar about topics I feel strongly about in other areas.

While I feel it is delicious, I think there a multitude of things which are enjoyable, yet morally wrong.

Thank you for this exchange, I understand your position better and i hope I have helped to elucidate mine.
Apparently there was a fire in a Datacenter - theres a thread on /r/sysadmin by an insider.

https://np.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ao4g2y/wells_fargo...
I say that often: when watching beos demo (97?) these decade.. it brings tears to your eyes. First, because it's so nicely designed it's beautiful. Second because even today my laptop system can't really do that.
I think the problem was in dnautic's phrasing.

I initially read it as "No mention of ending (inflation, which is a deliberate state-driven policy to steal from the poor to give to the rich)".

But after reading the follow-up from dnautic (peer to this comment), I now think the intended meaning was "No mention of (ending inflation), which is (a deliberate state-driven policy to steal from the poor to give to the rich)".

That is, dnautic (if I understand correctly) is saying that the problem is ending inflation, rather than that inflation is the problem.
The straw that breaks our suspension of disbelief is always amusing. :-)
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Should I stay or should I go?
A web page.

A word processor or a web publishing framework are more complex and less tractable than HTML and CSS written in a text editor. Even if you manage to export something it will be mangled and you haven't learnt the tools or produced the result that you set out to.

Learning HTML and publishing something on the web is a uniquely technically empowering feeling.
I am still using the WordPress installation I set up around 2011/12. Complete with custom styles that are messy balls of entwined PHP and HTML crudely hacked on top of existing styles.

It does what I need it to: sits there quietly and builds the HTML for my blog entries and my slowly-growing art gallery and my ongoing comics projects. It is not sexy. It does not check any boxes that will get me a job at a startup. It just sits there and does what I need it to do; I dive into html/php/css about once every year, at best, to do a quick hack to properly display my latest art project, or to improve and polish that quick hack to really nicely present my work.

I doubt I could get a job at a Silicon Valley unicorn with these skills. But that's fine. I get other work with the skills that my basic web design skills help me show off.

I look at the never-ending cycle of Hot Frameworks and the thought of trying to get on that train makes me feel immensely tired. That's two full-time jobs right there just to be able to check the box on an application asking for six years experience with a hot new framework that came out two years ago.

All these frameworks, all these technologies, all these lengthy toolchains, I don't need any of these to do what the Web was invented for: put some text and images online where people can see it.
so many things were done on Amiga before becoming products..
Indeed, computers in that universe seem to be both extremely mature and immature. Mature enough for sentient, highly specialized (and general) AI surpassing human ability. But so immature that the "targeting computer" for a state-of-the-art fighter is a crappy norton bombsight-esque augmented reality screen. Advanced enough to store/sort/route navigational data for any 2 points in the galaxy. But so underdeveloped that architectural blueprints are best stored and moved around on physical media. Advanced enough to automate intergalactic cargo/freight/etc. But so underdeveloped that humans need to operate WW2-style plexigalss ball turrets in order to target/shoot down TIE fighters.

It's what happens when you lock retro-futurism into the franchise's canon.
The employees got paid less because of vesting. It is a gamble and this story shows different outcomes for employees. Pinterest paided off and gumtree didn't.

In both cases the founder made between 20-50 million.
I don't know about the GP, but it's shocking how poorly many people pick up their things after themselves, leave messes in common areas, etc. I don't miss having roommates at all.
Centurylink is offering gigabit for $65 flat (no taxes or fees) across its footprint, and 100Mbps for $55, 40Mbps for $45. At $70 a month Google was significantly above the average price people paid for internet, but they were offering a premium product (gigabit). Had they offered slower, more affordable tiers to residences that didn't initially jump, they likely could have broken even.

The problem with overbuilding is uptake rates, its not good to only capture 28% of the market or similar, you really need 40+% to break even. The City of Tacoma ran into this with their cable network, and so has Google. Webpass is Google's fix for that, only targetting larger buildings where a 10% uptake rate gets them in the green.
You have it all backwards. "Data" isn't a thing that somehow has a natural location-dependent cost. The cost for a mobile provider is infrastructure. They have to buy devices, install them somewhere, and supply them with energy. None of those is in any way inherently much more expensive in the US than in other developed countries. It's only the price that you pay that is expensive, and the reason for that is zero-rating.
There's no moral panic about project managers though. Their decisions do not affect the excesses of software development in any way, only those of software developers do. ;-)
I can see the revenue issue with auto scale down, so I suppose that makes sense.
Is it possible to short these securities?
>What are the alternatives to abortion if the problem is not the child existing but the birthing process?

1. C-section.

2. Do nothing and let the thing come out the existing hole knowing full well that one of the side effects may be death of the mother, infant or both.

In this day and age the latter really isn't an option that's seriously on the table but back in the day abortions/c-sections weren't really a thing or were more risky and you couldn't tell in advance if there would be complications so that risk was just accepted.

Edit: FWIW I am pro-choice (since apparently we can't have a discussion about alternatives to abortion without assuming other people's opinions on the issues).
While I agree with the general sentiment, I can't quite put my finger on what's off with this text.

It's a bit like saying I'm pro-9/11 because I used a quarter to buy some candies, thus backing our military support of the Saud family in exchange of guaranteed oil trade in petrodollars.
Strategies for handling outliers in your machine learning model
IoT devices are vulnerable to state-enlisted espionage: Booz Allen report
The BBC writer uses the phrase "forms of behaviour that conflict with deeply held moral principles" to assumably define moral decision making paradox. One could also add "being hypocrites" to make a sort of definition triangle containing all of these examples. Where's the differences?