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The northern/southern lights are bucket lists items for me. Hope to mark off the northern lights soon though. Flights to Iceland have gotten pretty affordable with Wow airlines. I finally saw the southern hemisphere night sky a year ago and imaged the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. Crossed that item off the list. Atacama dessert is another item.
I love use the index luke. Some of the best query advice I can get when I have to get something done faster.

Personally, the most important part of getting advanced with SQL is being able to vizualize the DB in your mind and how the query should look. Also, sometimes bad design is at fault than a query. If the design is too complicated or wrong a query is gonna be slow in relation to the amount of data it has to go over.
DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections from Foreign Meddling
I have received a "suspicious activity" warning on Twitter for any new account I've helped open up over the last year.

You can confirm your identity by entering your phone number and receiving a text.

I feel like it's more of a cheap ploy to get additional info after your first 25 tweets than it is any bot detection algorithm.
I'm curious to hear what this guy thinks of the esoteric math in higher level economics... how base assumptions there are built and extrapolated on to ultimately guide economic policy. He would have a field day with the assumptions used in DSGE (which there are empirics to contradict those assumptions, and economists keep using those assumptions anyway).
Lol the title immediately made me think of this https://imgur.com/gallery/pux7Pn8
Can you expand on that? I have a weird case of internet nostalgia where IRC, niche forums and a little Usenet were perfect. But I think they were perfect because they were small and most people had a common ground based in tech. Lots of diverse people together in the same space, I don’t think, has ever worked in the history of man.
> Unions totally dominated major industries in the US.

Yes. They DID. And since their heyday they've been sliced and diced at until there's nearly nothing left today.

>As for the Northern European zone, how has wage growth been in there these past 40 years?

Not a lot. But that's the case for all of the west, and certainly also for the US. Meanwhile, quality of life and happiness in those countries has risen. The US, on the other hand..
It sounds to me like a critically important part of their model that they don't want you to understand or think about. There's nothing about it on their site from what I saw.
Or use on the cloud, much cheaper https://cloud.google.com/nvidia/
This may sound bizarre, but to fuck is a fundamental desire of organisms that reproduce sexually, and reproduction is one of the prime objectives of living organisms.
> I would also recommend reading something like "Capital" - by Thomas Piketty

I have a copy of it, understand the central thesis (r>g), agree with conclusion of the central thesis (inequality increases), and agree with the proposed counter-measures (progressive tax regimes, Tobin tax, …)

I don't believe that Capitalism creates r>g. I believe human greed creates r>g. So r>g leads to capitalism's excesses: I agree that capitalism in and of itself is merely the system of private ownership, voluntary transactions, and contract law …

I strongly strongly disagree that unions violate the ability of the capitalist to engage in voluntary transactions. I'd go further, anyone who makes a claim like that is either an apologist for the rich, or has no empathy for the working class, or is a doctrinaire "free-marketeer" (in short, an ideologue).

I strongly strongly disagree that taxation violates the tenet of private ownership. Again, I'd go further, anyone who makes a claim like that is either an apologist for the rich, or has no empathy for the working class, or is a doctrinaire "free-marketeer" (in short, an ideologue).

> Why are all Public Efforts a form of redistribution? Cause if they were not then they would simply be a corporate effort.

Ever wondered why city and county councils are sometimes called corporations or are said to be incorporated? I may be going out on a limb here but I doubt you did. There's no God-given rule that every single part of society must be privately run. No sane person actually believes that. Police? Emergency services? Army? (To name the obvious ones). What, wars outsourced to unaccountable mercenaries? Policing crime outsourced to the lowest bidder? Guess what, we used to have voluntary and competing fire services and they used to start fires to create work for themselves! Eventually people copped on and decided that they should be publicly funded.

> If you are just trading value for value there is no need for government. (Game theory aside)

Vacuous. Literally devoid of sense.

> This is why in highly capitalist countries like the USA the medical system remains private.

With how many uninsured. Roughly 30 million, isn't it? And how many needless deaths a year. I think the number is around 40,000? You're basically saying that you're okay with the status quo, a status quo which results in needless death. Luckily people with the extreme views that you have are outliers. Over 70% over people in the USA want Medicare for All. It's coming. It's happening and there's nothing people with the views you have can do about it. Here is Life Expectancy measured against Health Expenditure compared in the developed world: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Life_exp... That's the reality you're living in and want to continue to live in.
For example, in Java, lambdas cannot capture mutable variables from the outer scope - it must be final, or effectively final. C# always let you do that, from the very first implementation of lambdas.
But that’s what I said. You prefer the slow driving option. You said Americans prefer the fastest option then contradicted yourself and said you take the slower one. You said it yourself. Why are you asking me ‘how so?’
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Hello everyone, Instead of trying to do many things together, figure out what deserves your time and energy. Make sure existence always.
apod.nasa.gov is the classic example for me
Sure, but we're talking about passenger transportation. That was thriving in US as well, but it doesn't anymore.
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Are you talking about the distance the rovers traveled while on mars? Because that's not what Retric is talking about. Retric is talking about the distance from the earth to mars (hence why they compared it to the moon).
It’s gone and for the better. The tipping point was the Airbnb blogpost.
I always thought the obvious route is to replace a couple lanes of interstate with rail.
Taking on debt to finance a public good like high speed rail is perfectly reasonable. Privatization isn't a natural outcome of a public corporation running a deficit--it's the result of a political decision to disinvest in that project.
That's not a very good excuse for what has happened here, particularly since the "entertainment piece" was presented as a documentary.
Agreed, a single market participant can be constricting the supply intentionally or because they have a utility unknown/inaccessible to the rest of the market
Can the compiler really do much considering how dynamic Javascript is?
I actually kinda liked having a virtualenv.

Although the hacks used to make it work, were not nice.

I would have loved to see core python suppport for virtualenv, which could probably avoid these hacks.
I do a lot of work with both traditional RDBMSes and NoSQL databases.

The main question I would ask is: Is your data schemaless? Often it is - especially when storing what we'd normally call a "document". Heavily polymorphic data is often better stored schemaless. And sometimes you don't necessarily have the schema in advance (common when storing "other people's JSON").

You can store schemaless data in Postgres via the JSONB type, so this isn't necessarily a "Mongo vs Postgres" issue, but more of a general data modeling issue.

As a point of reference, the folks that struggle with schemaless tend to be the ones using Javascript, Ruby, or other type-ambiguous languages. Schemaless is less of a problem in Java and other languages where class structures enforce your schema.
Yikes, that's a contrast ratio of 1.84... well below the AA accessibility guideline of 4.5 from webaim.org. I personally aim for about the AAA guideline of 7 (about #595959 on a white background) since I appreciate the lower eye-strain of slightly reduced contrast. I also like having the option to go darker for emphasis.

Chrome developer tools now shows you the contrast ratio along with these recommendations when you modify text colour.
I foolishly tried out the new google call screening thing, and I'm also think it increased the number of spam calls I get per day because any answer means someone is there.
They don't explain it, but it sounds like the whole deal is effectively seed financing where they eventually get a 9.5% stake, but also with a 3-5x loan interest payment once you make money (which they're framing as "Shared Earnings").

And they're trying to hide the 9.5% part.
Sitting on a train from Jilin to Beijing, I noted the below from Wikipedia:

> In another study conducted about Japan's High-speed rail service, they found a "4-hour wall" in high-speed rail's market share, which if the high speed rail journey time exceeded 4 hours, then people would likely choose planes over high-speed rail. For instance, from Tokyo to Osaka, a 2h22m-journey by Shinkansen, high-speed rail has an 85% market share whereas planes have 15%. From Tokyo to Hiroshima, a 3h44m-journey by Shinkansen, high-speed rail has a 67% market share whereas planes have 33%. The situation is the reverse on the Tokyo to Fukuoka route where high-speed rail takes 4h47m and rail only has 10% market share and planes 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail

The journey is a bit more than 4 hours. The above "4-hour wall" seemed to make a lot of sense. Passenger ridership end-to-end was not very high, but intermediate station pickup and putdown, consisting of quite large cities by European or North American standards, was high. Taking a plane would be slightly faster and sometimes a little cheaper, I prefer the train because of time in laptop/connectivity, good seat size/leg room/decline, ability to have a snooze.

Without the intermediate cities, the train would have be mainly empty. What the train brought/brings was a relief of bus/coach traffic, and a substantial increase in facilitating movement between 'smaller' (though not small) cities that mainly don't have airports.

Does the US have this layout or need?
> Interest is part of the issue, but $22 trillion is still $22 trillion.

I'm sorry, but how exactly does your point work, numerically? If I take out a 30 year mortgage on a home with a monthly payment of $1000 and am given the choice of a balance of $100k with an interest rate of X and $200k with an interest rate of Y, why exactly is it not in my interest to take out the bigger loan? What breaks?

It sounds like you're making a moral point, not a financial one. And while you claim not to be loyal to either party, you're parroting talking points pushed by only one. I think it's pretty clear who has your ear and counts on your vote, and is probably feeding you stuff to confirm your worldview in other ways.
Indeed. Electron supports code-sharing because both the frontend and some of the server code, if it is in Node, can be shared easily between desktop and web. Nearly every cloud service with an Electron app has a web app, unless it does something like Etcher that is incompatible with the web sandbox. But yeah, I'm all for web apps.
Longer than the term of a 30 year bond, almost certainly. Source: heard all this stuff before, almost verbatim, 35 years ago.
I would start with identity, that's all everything boils down to, and that math is as much a language, a shorthand to express ideas and communicate across the world like some state department, as it is computational.

Then I would explain that imaginary numbers mean harmonics. exponential functions give you a derivative, one function can serve as input to another, PID control, ... ... and that's about it.
> Dazzling green and red light displays regularly dance across the night sky-

OK I'm going to stop this right here.

The Northern Lights do not dazzle you with the incredible green light displays you see in pictures. In real life, you might not even realize you are looking at a Northern Light unless you know what to look for.

The only way the lights appear so vivid is by taking a photo of them with a camera with a long enough exposure. When I saw the Northern Lights I had mistaken them for bright clouds illuminated by the moonlight. Only when I took a photo with my iPhone did I realize they were the Northern Lights.

The fact that I was not made aware of this until I arrived at my final destination after a journey of thousands of miles across the world has made me bitter about it.

With such an inaccuracy on the very first line of this article, I can't bring myself to continue.
I'm new to all of this computer jargon. What does pizza mean?
The Drudge Report is another one.
Sort of.

I think the book "Roving Mars" covers this the best. They were worried about a dust storm like the one that killed Opportunity, so they designed the rover to last 90 days even in the pitch darkness of a dust storm. To make sure they'd succeed even in this worst case, they added two additional petals worth of solar panels (IIRC, about a 50% increase in area) to the MERs.

Reading a contemporary description, they seemed to be very scared they wouldn't make the 90 days - hence this major and risky redesign. (The new panels had to open, and if one failed it would block off both the new solar panel, and one of the original ones.)

It worked, and so they had enough extra power to last through that first Martian year, where the winds blew the panels clean. And the rest is history.
Loved the story. I'm studying (mainly web) software development right now, but this type of work is what I enjoy most. Studying & understanding users' workflow and building a solution that does exactly what they need.

Do you have any tips/ideas on how can I pursue this as a career?
Either that, or their lack of common sense suggests that they are.
i struggle to see why in-memory data structure is the way to start can you please explain. do you create json for all your users?
I'll just plug my repo here that helps with upgrading existing RN projects to new versions.

https://github.com/pvinis/rn-diff-purge
balenaEtcher is a good example, it's written in Electron but obviously requires direct USB access that webUSB can't provide.
> The problem immediately goes away if you let google track you

I took that to mean they were blocking cookies
One can build orbital models to predict link fade and anticipate when a given point to point link will die.
There were single script 1-click installs for it in bash all over for me..but yeah jvm is a hog.
Ideally we wanted OZ. Google hadn't even come onshore at that point. We wanted in our hemisphere, we'd have settled for JP or SG probably. It wasn't on offer: Google didn't sell "put my data in my chosen jurisdiction" it sold "we put it where we want to, unless you are the US government in which case yes sir whatever you want sir"

Being told they do "now" is great. 5+ years too late. And, the evidence about this is that Google cave to intercept requests far faster than microsoft do. Microsoft ask for strong evidence you have jurisdiction. Google don't make any public noise about this, and about how they act.

I am not a hater btw. I use a lot of google product.

(to latency: a lot of fiber in Asia goes odd paths. being in Japan or SG wasn't actually a good guarantee it would be faster than from the USA)
Yeah, I was think of Electron being open source and Flash being closed, just wrote it wrong.
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Carbon pricing may change this cost-benefit ratio though - planes are grossly carbon-ineffecient. With a respectable carbon price, will electric HSR become economical?
That would never actually happen. What did actually happen is now I get at least half a dozen robocalls per day. It has rendered my phone useless.
Hey Peter! Twin studies are one of the more powerful tools we have to try and separate out the effects of genetics, shared environment and non shared environment in humans. Shared environment represents what twins raised in the same household have in common in their environment and non shared environment what is still different. Studies of heritability tend to indicate for many traits that genetics have the largest role and (perhaps surprisingly) non shared environment the next largest with shared environment having the smallest (though often still important) role to play. Your example of the twins would be a classic case of non shared environmental influence.

Certainly nobody claims that environmental influences are not important and like most things the details are complicated and leave much room for debate over the exact role of each component in determining traits. In some ways it is true that the environmental factors are the most interesting since they are the ones we have most control or at least influence over for ourselves and our children.
I went for longjmp(), non-local goto, for precisely the reason you highlighted: I realised pretty well everything in JS can throw, so needed something easy to trigger from anywhere

See https://github.com/timruffles/js-to-c/blob/1befbf4220753576e...
I used it ~1.5 years ago and would consider using it again even if it only worked on Android, just to avoid having to implement designers' various flights of fancy in native Android. Styling, at least back then (I really doubt it's improved—it'd already been bad for years) was horrible as soon as you deviated much from "change the colors". Bizarrely, their support for their own crap, like Material Design, wasn't even very good. Worse than it was in web-focused JS libs from the big G. Fits the pattern, I guess—their Android maps API was missing features from their web/JS one, too.

This despite the fact that React Native was in fact a giant pain in the ass for a bunch of reasons. Native Android styling's that bad. Also saved me having to run Android Studio most of the time, which is a bonus. Though to be fair AS is more pleasant than Eclipse was, at least.
Depends on how you would define expert. If you define it relative to one's peers (e.g. top 0.1% of practitioners), it makes sense.
There has been a huge amount of work in V8 addressing these cases and concerns:

https://v8.dev/blog/launching-ignition-and-turbofan
https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-66
https://v8.dev/blog/background-compilation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Oh sure, it's just for fun/learning! Check my first post.
I mean, most apps that have configs treat them in this manner. It's just that people assume that configs and other metadata are "small enough", and the actual data they process is not. But when you look at what "small enough" really means on modern hardware - heck, even on 10 year old hardware! - that divide doesn't really follow.

The same thing goes for queries, by the way. When it's in-memory, you often don't even need indices, because linear scans will be "fast enough" on many datasets. And with list comprehensions etc, this can be written just as declaratively as SQL (for an extreme example, see LINQ, which even has outer joins).

And yeah, the "very little can go wrong" part is exactly what's so great about this. It's KISS at work. If you don't really need complexity, why pay the tax?
> In fact passenger trains usually travel on freight tracks

But the idea of ‘freight tracks’ vs ‘passenger tracks’ isn’t a thing in most other places.

In most of the world they’re the same thing and they prioritise using a schedule. This is another artificial problem that Americans see as an inherent one.
In my experience Java, C#, and Go are roughly on par. Go is a bit easier to optimize though.
You can select US or Europe or no preference. So, you cannot select LatAM or Asia.

Google are getting better, sure. EU feels like they did a reaction to GDPR extra-territoriality issues. The thing is there is either zero selectivity, or there is n+ because nobody codes a two value toggle for this: They clearly have intent to add more. How many more?
Spam robo calls consist of more than just spoofed numbers. Maybe you've been blessed with good luck in that regard, but I receive both variants of spam.
Hopefully it can extend to other cities
"1M socket connections" is easy.

Having them all do something useful at the same time is the hard part. (And no, "async" won't save you here.)
Win7 certainly has some rough edges in retrospect, but I occasionally interact with old systems and so many things are so much snappier. I'm sure the modern frameworks in Win10 allow for "new experiences" but the plain old desktop experience was well served by Win7.
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It's not a thing here either honestly - and we have freight trains, and amtrak is now mostly ontime - but still slow - and it would remain slow - even with high speed rail.
It generally won't hurt. FWIW, as a US citizen working in tech my whole life, only my entry level job was from a connection.

Now for the bad news - it's really, really hard to get a job places without living in that city. Much less country.

That said, big tech is so hungry for talent they put the resources into relocation, visa support, etc. That would be my suggestion - look at the big tech (Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix, MS, etc.)
So does Google with collab, right?

I could use those but was hoping for something more turnkey.
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I'm sure Pai "threatening regulatory intervention" has them quaking in their boots. They just toss him a few benjamins and the he shuts tf up.
The country is the same size, but a lot of new tech has been invented, like airplanes and cars.
The United States has the greatest reward for those who fight in its military: You are an American hero, a soldier of the greatest most powerful country in the world, and not just because we say so.
Here we go: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/former-director-corporate...
How about neither?
lol. our team over here will be multitudes more productive than yours with react-native, so thanks for the leg up.
Americans prefer the most convenient transportation method available to them, sometimes that's a train, sometimes it's not - and the US has a very vibrant rail system, one of the most efficient in the world.
I'm left wondering, what if they said you were lying when you ticked the box? What would it mean for the transaction?
It's like 10-20 minutes slower. That's not even including travelling to the station.
You're right. It's like when people lump IT and Software Engineers together. I should have said UI.
Being a utility hasn't stopped Comcast from being terrible either. In fact being considered a natural monopoly means I _have_ to use Comcast because they've entered a deal with the city to be the sole provider. I would hate to _have_ to use Twitter, Facebook, etc because the government only licenses them as social networks.
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I can argue more apps killed by grumpy unmotivated developers than whitespace leaving designers.
Agree. Government debt is a good thing - just ask fiscal conservative Ronald Reagan, who was the first president since World War II to increase the national debt relative to the GDP. Government is not a company, and judging it by the standards of a company is a mistake. (If anything, it is the dual of a company.)