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FWIW, @modestproposal pulled out some interesting nuggets from the S-1 filing and wrote a very interesting thread about some good stuff and some things that raise questions. Worth reading. [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/11015421794812887...
xDAI is no more than a few months old, and DAI itself is a little over a year old. Give it some time... Come back in a decade or two if you're looking for super smooth user experiences.
Users that already have a Bitcoin wallet don't have to jump through any hoops to spend BTC. It's just as easy as any kind of digital money transfer.

Obviously using BTC to pay for anything is a huge hassle if you don't already have a wallet with some BTC in it. But that's like saying Apple Pay is inconvenient because your customers have to go to and buy an iPhone first.
The current price is the market's expectation of value throughout the existence of the company. The market believes that these past cash flows are not indicative of the company's future ability to create accounting value. And you may choose to value a growth company by its historical cash flows, but the market doesn't.
> oh so this is just a thinly disguised anti-rich opinion piece

are you rich?

I'm very anti-rich.
Great! That got us our first two customers, and it allowed us prioritize really effectively for what they actually needed. And it cost us almost nothing, like $15k total - a great investment :) Would you read a blog post on this?
I've had people find me on LinkedIn and reach out to do due diligence on companies I've worked at, which I thought was pretty smart.

I would do the same if I were looking at a small company with potentially astroturfed Glassdoor ratings.
Interesting. I think I saw this in Swift? Or c#? I guess in Python this is where EAFP comes in.

I definitely hate chains of guards to get at a nested property.
I can pull off some ok stuff with the shell toolkit, including awk and sed but that's a whole different level.

Whoever authored that, mad props.
A recruiter for Revolut approached me a couple of months about a Head of Credit Risk role... After reading about their culture, it was obvious what the career trajectory would be:

- three months of being pushed to lend lots, regardless of what the nonexistent risk models say, while not being allowed to set up a Collections team with real people

- three months of watching helplessly as a wave of bad accounts roll through the delinquency buckets to writeoff

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No thanks...
I was a grad student, so I might have a skewed view of these things since I have access to these subscriptions via the university library, but does anyone actually pay (especially that much money) for access to a single article like that? It seems really crazy to me since to do a decent amount of research into something, you would have to go through dozens of articles that are behind paywalls.
I agree, I support nuclear power, but their are legitimate reasons to be wary of it other than just ignorance. Being anti-nuclear isn't just a case of being uneducated, some intelligent people who understand the technology are anti-nuclear as well
Trump and North Korean official contradict each other after summit collapse
Or you could literally buy a bunch of the normal nightlights everyone else has, with a cheap photoelectric sensor, and move on with your life.

I don't understand products like this one. Or IoT coloured lightbulbs, or Nest thermostats, or talking speaker pods. In fact, they make me a little angry - incredibly talented people spending tons of time, effort, and money on "solutions" for problems nobody has. Worse still, they all have disgusting privacy tradeoffs nobody should be making.

Is there really nothing more pressing in the world that we need to suck up the talents of designers and developers to make a "better nightlight"? I'll admit that it looks like a nice enough product, but nobody needs this, and I sure hope nobody thinks they do.
But let's say you have a 300m budget.
They deferred necessary maintenance (including replacing outdated equipment & tree clearing around lines) for years. I'm not saying that climate change isn't an important issue to address, but
there was another report just a few days ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-delayed-safety-work-on-pow...
about the necessary maintenance that was deferred. Climate change is being used as an excuse because the fact is there was plenty that PG&E and CalFire could have done to prevent these disasters.
You are right. The random checkpoint and interrogation proponents have been in charge for some time now. And it looks like it's going to get a lot worse before it hopefully gets better.
This is actually a really good, practical solution. Use the platforms you don't trust, just don't give them internet access. It won't work for every case, but probably a lot of them.

I think I'd get overly frustrated transferring files, but if you have a good solution for that...
No, but I would take a pay raise for a worse title. Titles I would accept are:

- (no title)

- Resident Grumpmaster

- Principal Jira Closer
Especially when they have a meteorology department.
Exactly. And this idea that everyone should get a vote on every issues also assumes that people casting a vote are smart enough and will take the time to fully consider all possible nuances to 'vote' in the right way. Not to mention the fact that people are not all the same and/or stand to gain or lose in the same way. Someone in the neighborhood is quite different than Fred Wilson living in a $35m condo in NYC (and yes he does by the way..)

The election process along the same lines is certainly less than perfect. But is is way better than having referendums and letting people decide all issues by popular vote.
Language design should not be determined by "votes".
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The story has been around for 1 hour on HN and only 3 comments.

This is already a dead story. There's no consequence for follow ups. It's better to lie in the first round. Save the truth for later when the rage dips.
Do you think ridesharing is just going to die as a product or do you think it will become easily commoditized and all margins will essentially disappear? I think it's going to be around for at least another 10-15 years, and considering how much money uber and lyft had to burn to get to where they are now, I feel like it will be quite hard for competitors to capture relevant amounts of market share in the US
very cool. congrats!
If you creating a hybrid app the apple app process takes longer (needs approval) and involves more resources (how much is an apple license these days last I checked it was 100 us)
Amazon gave them the fuck off price and they signed the contract.
Firefox (and I suspect other browsers) allow per-profile configuration of the language, independent of the OS.

In the scenarios you describe, it's hard to see how geolocation makes things better, as it has all the same problems, except for the "installed in English because didn't change the default" where you now have a chance (but no guarantee) you'll select the correct language.

And unlike configuring the language in the browser, there's no hope geolocation could even possibly work correctly.

>In the idealized world that Silicon Valley imagines where 1 person uses 1 computer with 1 owner and speaks 1 language, it's fine. But in the real world, it's just a mess.

In Silicon Valley geolocation works fine, but it's a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE idea everywhere else.
Amazon to launch grocery store chain cheaper than whole foods
I would say PG&E's biggest fault is their maintenance and inspection practices being subpar. Regular line and pole inspections would work wonders to prevent these types of things.

It's hard for PG&E to argue against this when they are willing to spend millions on lobbyists after the fire knowing full well the event may mean regulations that closely resemble what the natural gas utilities have to follow.

Deferred maintenance is typical in the utility world. You look at the item being maintained and the criticality and safety of it and determine if it can be deferred. In something like a transmission line, maintenance should not be deferred as the knock on effects are far greater than say a small transformer on a city block.

In the utility world there are a lot of software options to help you manage your assets and do preventative maintenance of those assets. I am sure a deeper investigation will look to see if those tools were being used and if they were properly being audited.
Why 5.6, specifically? What was it about that version?
CIA FBI FB... are very important government agencies. They will never face consequences.
Android, new apps will be required to target API level 28 (Android 9) or higher
It has to be trivial to photoshop an ID scan, too. None of the fancy anti-forgery measures they have would help.
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If every asshole CEO were that sincere I would have lost a lot less time on shit jobs
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I'm not privy with the gory details, but insofar as I'm aware that seems besides the point.

California is dry. They knew it.

California is drier because of global warming. They also knew it.

Ultimately, this is about the fact that ensuring their equipment is safe (by clearing brush and trees around their lines, etc.) is under their responsibility. And if I got the reporting on this right, they cut corners in doing so.
Cargo ships get attacked & hijacked all the time. There exist some shipping lanes where such risks are well known. In fact, US Navy ships regularly patrol such shipping lanes in an effort to curtail or stop piracy. At the very least, many pirates are turned off by the prospect of facing off against a heavily armed Navy ship.

This isn't the same thing as retaliation. This is the US government deploying its considerable resources to mitigate an obvious vulnerability. Under international law, crews of merchant ships aren't allowed to carry weapons, leaving them defenseless against even the shabbiest of pirates. The navies - US and allied alike - are out there protecting ships that cannot legally defend themselves. Retaliation in this case would involve the American Navy sending landing parties ashore to Somalia, or attacking Somalian cargo ships in a tit-for-tat fashion.

Compare this with infosec vulnerabilities in the private sector. Are companies legally bound to stay vulnerable? No. Most choose to do so - consciously or not - because to date they've gotten away with a weak security posture. This is just the nature of business. An appropriate mitigation would be for Congress to pass legislation requiring companies to safeguard their systems. I would even go as far as commend the government for subsidizing infosec consultants for companies that are considered important for the continued functioning of society.

None of the above jives with retaliating in kind.
Doesn't that rather imply that we haven't recovered from the last time we needed to bring interest rates low?
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That's likely because he expected the block size to increase in addition to second layer scaling solutions.
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I think it's just externalities in action. Fixing your power lines to not sag into trees and warm them up to the point of igniting is expensive. Burning down a city accidentally is cheap (maybe they will be made to pay, but the calculation has to be done as % of a catastrophe happening * cost of fixing catastrophe, which probably ended up quite low). So it's logical what option they went with.

As many people have said, the state of infrastructure in this country is not amazing. When New York City got hit by Sandy, power was off for a week. There was a single point of failure with no replacement stocked; for the largest and most dense city in the country. ConEd doesn't care. Maintaining basic infrastructure is the least glorious thing anyone can do right now, and people treat it that way. The results can be deadly.
I am captivated by how they nailed a need of mine: navigating Lego at night.
Fair enough. And I know companies need to act in the best interests of their shareholders. But shouldn’t a backpage exist? We need companies to provide services that the government (which is still stuck in the dark) doesn’t approve of: prostitution, drugs, etc.
ENIG is pretty standard these days and cheap in high volumes. A few cents more per board (the plating is super thin) is offset by more reliable soldering of parts like BGAs due to the superior flatness compared to cheaper HASL.
> In other words I want the dealer to optimise for that variable and as long as they meet my constraint for affording the down and monthly payments then I don't care how those vary as long as the optimisation goal is met.

But you would have already told them, "As long as I can afford..." So they'll spend the entire exchange trying to optimize for the maximum amount they think you can afford. They can try to convince you they've optimized when they really haven't, and they can try to pick a vehicle of a lower quality and persuade you that the price drop is the optimization.

If your response to every trick is to respond, "No, please try again to optimize for TCO," they'll eventually interpret your behavior as the equivalent of an ad-blocker. Then they'll either persuade you to reveal more data or move on to a customer who negotiates on their terms.
They already did. Every major browser allows you to configure the language you speak.

Of course it doesn't do much because sites do very stupid things like use geolocation.
There are thousands of buildings in NYC that need fire inspections, but only a few inspectors to handle them. How to they prioritize the buildings that need the inspections most? The answer could have prevented this tragic event for PG&E.
Here's a brochure from the heat pump manufacturer about the plant: https://www.friotherm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/katri_v...

In general, the evolution in district heating networks is towards lower temperatures, allowing better efficiencies with things like heat pumps. As you say, integrating heat pumps into existing district heating networks designed for combustion based heating is suboptimal, but redoing the network for lower temperature operation is incredibly expensive as well.

Currently, in the case referenced above, during the winter the heat pumps are AFAIU the "first leg" when the cold water returns to the plants; the output of the heat pumps is then routed via the fossil fueled CHP plants for topping up (depending on how cold it is, it's heated up to IIRC ~120C) before it's sent out in the network again. The challenge is that due to climate change, the fossil fuel plants need to be replaced with something else (no, biofuels are not an environmentally sensible solution). What that something else is, is not entirely clear. Moar heat pumps + wind + heat storage? Or geothermal? Or nuclear?
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The trouble is when people build around Amazon, they get locked into a lot of those services. Sure you can run your own DBs instead of using RDS, but what if you start using their proprietary rubbish, like Knesis or DynamoDB?

You have to rewrite application to use something else that's open source and self-hostable.

For new startups, I honestly recommend using DigitalOcean or Vultur. You don't get all the AWS components, but you can build around flexibility. If you have to move, you can take all your Terraform and Anisble scripts, and port them to a new provider (and yes, you do have to rewrite your Terraform config. Every provider is insanely different and the magic of multi-cloud is a myth, but it's still easier than trying to move off of AWS specific services).

I remember back in the day, Stackoverflow ran everything off of a single, very expensive, dedicated server. I've worked at other shops where we've migrated stuff from AWS to self hosted solutions to reduce our $200k/month AWS bill.
>> Tax cuts can't directly cause deficits, only spending can. Spending money you don't have offsetting revenue for causes the deficit. Cutting taxes without cutting spending is a problem. Tax revenue is not down, even with the tax cuts, but spending is growing much more quickly.

That's a political debate. Economically, an entity needs to have equal inflow and outflow of money to be balanced. The govt needs enough revenue to offset its expenses (a lot of which is interest on debt taken years before, military and entitlements.)

If you think about it, generations before partied hard on the credit card with low taxes && still getting social security, medicare etc. Today's generation gets to pick either low taxes or social security/medicare. Tomorrow's generation might not even have the choice.
Christians would do well to abandon their bible and pick up Marcus Aurelius; it's a lot better. Of course I know they won't; they have a philosophical inflexibility imposed on them by threats of eternal death and torture. A very dishonorable thing for a philosophy to do.
Wellllllll....

Languages are used by people. So it depends, a lot, on the goals of the stewards of a language. Votes can be a useful signal for whether or not people are going to care about your language enough to adopt it.

... but it's absolutely true that voters can vote for the moon and then skip off blissfully, never having to worry about how you implement the Apollo project.
> Although Lisp is considered a high level language

Lisp is generally not restricted to a particular 'level'. It also comes out-of the box with support for different programming paradigms - but no particular language support for logic programming.

> if one thinks in Prolog rather than in Lisp

Lisp supports high-level programming in logic by zillions of extensions. This has been popular throughout Lisp's history. Thus if we have a problem which is best solved by some kind of Logic, then it would be great of the Lisp system could be programmed in terms of that logic - which is not unusual.

That said, a programming language built from the ground on some logic formalism like Prolog is a great tool.
Google is a bad comparison here IMO because Google IS a datacenter company. No different than Amazon... They run datacenters and offer IaaS to customers, and piggy back off of that.

I agree with you on Uber and Facebook though.