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> The commenter didn't conflate anything. They defined the legal parameters under which freedom of speech actually exists in the United States. You can insist on talking about this idealistic normative if you want, but in common parlance it's reasonable to refer to the legal concept by the colloquial term.

This is an opinion, and one many people disagree with. The idea of freedom of speech existed before the first amendment. They're not the same thing, it's just convenient for authoritarians to conflate them because it creates a narrower scope. It's intentional equivocation and a pretty flimsy argument tactic.

> You know how you can say whatever you want on the street, but I can make you leave my house for whatever reason I want? Same idea. Free speech is only a coherent concept in public spaces. Otherwise my right to private property would be impaired by your right to say whatever you want in my dojo.

Again, not the same thing, but what you're getting at is freedom of association. A company can choose whom they do business with, as an individual can choose whom they allow in their home. The interesting thing lately is that many people only believe in freedom of association when it means that they get to pick who is excluded, and very rarely believe in the actual principal. You can see this in the whole "gay wedding cake" situation that played out in the last couple of years. Much of the same political group that loves to trot out the idea that you can censor people out of existence on the internet was horrified when a private business chose not to create a specific message on their product.

> You're quoting Voltaire like the stakes for private and public censorship are the same but that's utterly ridiculous.

Not really, it's actually pretty dead on. John Stewart Mill wrote at length about censorship in On Liberty and specifically wrote about censorship via social pressure and how dangerous it was. It's not some imagined idea, it's just one inconvenient to a particular political group's goals right now.
"there is not much of a reason to use Neovim (except Lua scripts, maybe?)"

Vim has allowed scripting via Lua since before Neovim existed.
I'd be concerned about the drop out rate. They started with 55 the day of, 50 the next morning and 22 just after.

That said I am a proponent of psilocybin research and believe there are some merits to it. I just think this is an odd part of the study.
Only for Americans in labs, though. It's totally fine for the rest of the world and our ancestors. I'm an American not in a lab and I do it all the time with life-changing results.
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Lest anyone take the advice in the OP to heart, there is no shame in obtaining a bankruptcy discharge - it's just another tool in your financial toolbox. Moreover, it's needlessly stressful and harmful to struggle under the burden of managing someone else's debt while also going through a divorce and suffering a serious illness. I marvel at the dude's strength and if he were participating in the comment thread I'd ask if in retrospect he'd change anything.
Avon is an interesting case because they started out as a legitimate direct sales company, not an MLM. I'm not sure when they turned into an MLM.

Avon's business model made much more sense back before we had mega retailers and the internet.
I mean that is exactly what the thread was about. Legalism, and the 1st amendment is very uninteresting as an argument about morals to me. The principle of the freedom of speech is an interesting moral argument which these platforms (publishers if we're being intellectually honest) are often guilty of abusing. Slavery was once "legal" yet when people talk about freedom the entire concept isn't hinged on the 13th amendment.
Londoner here - yeah it doesn't seem that great an idea.
If you need to translate what you are going to say, e.g. your thoughts are not in your targeted language, then you are not exactly a speaker.
And I can assure you, Google translate is fairly awful. Sometimes my wife is showing me the translation from English to French, and it would take me a while to understand the French meaning. I won't even start on Chinese/Japanese to English (and to French ) or the reverse.
When you try it for yourself, you realize that it's not.
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> Minnesota spent about a decade and $100 million to replace its ancient vehicle-licensing and registration software, but the new version arrived with so many glitches in 2017 that Governor Tim Walz has asked for an additional $16 million to fix it.

This raises so many questions.
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They want it both ways; to have the legal protections telcos have, and to have a tight control over their platform.

This was touched on in the Congressional hearing with Mr. Zuckerberg, where he avoided the answer:

SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TEX): Thank you Mr. Chairman. Mr. Zuckerberg, welcome. Thank you for being here.

Mr. Zuckerberg, does Facebook consider itself a neutral public forum?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, we consider ourselves to be a platform for all ideas.

CRUZ: Let me ask the question again. Does Facebook consider itself to be a neutral public forum, and representatives of your company are giving conflicting answers on this? Are you a ...

ZUCKERBERG: Well ...

CRUZ: ... First Amendment speaker expressing your views, or are you a neutral public forum allowing everyone to speak?

ZUCKERBERG: Senator, here's how we think about this: I don't believe that — there are certain content that clearly we do not allow, right? Hate speech, terrorist content, nudity, anything that makes people feel unsafe in the community. From that perspective, that's why we generally try to refer to what we do as platform for all ideas ...

CRUZ: Let me try this, because the time is constrained. It's just a simple question. The predicate for Section 230 immunity under the CDA is that you're a neutral public forum. Do you consider yourself a neutral public forum, or are you engaged in political speech, which is your right under the First Amendment.

ZUCKERBERG: Well, senator, our goal is certainly not to engage in political speech. I am not that familiar with the specific legal language of the — the law that you — that you speak to. So I would need to follow up with you on that. I'm just trying to lay out how broadly I think about this.
Just be careful about how much you change it, since you could get banned. You might be able to get away with changing the app ID or version, but even that's risky.

> NEVER lie about your user-agent. This includes spoofing popular browsers and spoofing other bots. We will ban liars with extreme prejudice.

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API
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Raise what questions? It seems par the course for many software projects.
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> You can process four independent instructions per cycle in parallel

is this down to pipelining, or is that separate?
So you edit with ed? :). Also anything wrapped inside tmux would definitely defecate if hooked up to printer.

Some jobs are interactive. TUIs ain't bad for those.
Lawyers. There are lots of reasons, but it boils down to them not being like the phone company because they dont want to be. Facebook et al spend millions each year to maintain a very specific legal status across many areas.
I don't think anybody is "solving depression" by tackling problems some way or another.

Rather: you're getting out of your depression and that allows you to tackle problems.
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I just linked ag too, then decided to skim the comments again since it's grown to >100 and saw yours... Someone did mention OpenGrok, my company supports it but I find it less useful than ag because it's on the web and (due to company policy) gated behind another layer of authentication despite my browser being SSO'd... For monstrous code bases it's also prudent to ag on an SSD or at least make sure there's enough RAM to have most files in cache.

Another simple CLI tool I like to use is tree. (https://linux.die.net/man/1/tree) Seeing the full project layout, with everything expanded, is occasionally extremely useful.
I just gave it a try. It's amazing. I haven't thought about a social platform like this before. We can share the perspectives, articles, discussing about any pros and cons of any products to give other people advices before they really decide to buy them. I found It benefits us a lot. This product is still growing. I believe that it would bring much more values to community. Let's give it a try guys. You will love it.
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I hire about 150 COBOL guys and gals (as full time employees) and they are making in average 100k€ (European Bank) incl. 1 month holiday.

Big brand contractors cost us around the same.

DBAs, Sys Admins, operators, a bit more.

Having 30y experience myself, from mobile and Java to Mainframe Assembler, I find the older guys - both on mobile (few) and COBOL (most) to be much more focus on engineering a system that lasts whatever you throw at them, while (most, not all) young coders are about speed and hashing something together that works (but needs overhaul after 3-4 years).

Just my own experience, not saying is the only perspective.
Huh, weird.

On the creator side, they say:

> We currently support processing payments through Stripe and PayPal.

From that point of view, they could potentially get stuck paying creators operating in what Visa/MasterCard/etc. consider high-risk categories.
There are multi-billion dollar companies that still need IE11 because they don't want to build new internal applications. Contrasted to the funding that some cities get, it's amazing they have computers at all.

There's this huge fervor over disruption and startup dollars, but just like the rest of the country... municipal software infrastructure is just sitting around full of holes.
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14% is bad when you consider that the NEXT step after preclinical experiments is basically clinical trials (and Phase I is not to test efficacy ) which effectively costs several hundred millions of dollars or more.

And the pharmas would just add the cost of 86% failed trials to the other meds that do pass, so they effectively pass the cost of their bad decisions to us.

I worked in a lab that studies antibody therapeutics for almost a decade and can go on a tirade of all the shitty decisions companies seem to make in candidate identification, but fundamentally I really believe that this number won't be this low if the people making the decisions in pharma companies know what they're doing but then the CEO of gsk used to sell lipsticks so who am I to talk right?
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>> I don’t think all decades old software necessarily needs to be uprooted and replaced because it’s old, so long as it’s functional.

I'd say that's especially true in places like power plants. The old stuff is impossible to hack remotely because it's not on any networks. The rush to put everything on the network has made these types of systems vulnerable and places are only now trying to figure out how to secure them.
If those websites wish to police speech to this degree then they can reclassify themselves as publishers and accept all the legal burdens that come with it. At least then they'd be intellectually honest.
Unless you call it something cool, like "Tor".
You say today's marketing but this has been going on for a while now...! It's been at least sixty years since Vance Packard's [0] 1957 book, 'The Hidden Persuaders' was published, which was probably the first time the public learned about these tricks.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Packard
Yes, that's one way to describe what I'm hoping to do with this. The focus right now is on markdown, but since Pandoc supports so many input formats, it should be easy to add support for other formats like LaTeX once the markdown features stabilize. There isn't yet an equivalent of org-babel's ability to share data between code blocks, though I hope to add something similar eventually. The next big feature will probably be the ability to name code blocks, and then insert any combination of their code/output/errors at arbitrary other locations in the document.
For me, things like VIM where you first have to configure the hell out of it are a pain. Every time you're on some other machine, all your customization is gone. So after switching machines a bazillion times over the years, making the same little tweaks over and over, I've learned to deal with the default config. What I didn't expect: It made me a lot more productive in the long run.
There was something like this a while back. It was discussed at the time[0] and had some serious faults. The link[1] no longer works.

So I thought I'd pull out one of the examples from my crontab that didn't work for that one and try it on this one:

6/2-59 * * * *

Nope, doesn't work.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8122129

[1] http://www.cronchecker.net/
Same. I sometimes go for 36-48 hours without eating because I am busy and forget or because it is inconvenient. It is a small thing and I feel fine when it happens, it doesn't slow me down at all. It would be a stretch to suggest that human biology isn't well adapted to long periods of not eating, since that is a normal state of nature.

I do know people that seemingly need to eat constantly but their diet consists of mountains of refined carbs and are borderline diabetic, so that probably is a factor. Refined carbs have been a negligible part of my diet for a long time.
I'm currently working through the implementation of my own personal Lisp, following the awesome MAL process [0]. It's instructive to compare the result with the language as defined in the early 60s and available to programmers then (e.g. as defined by the Lisp manual referenced in the video). One thing that immediately stood out was the use of GOTO ('GO' actually) in the early Lisp rather than some sort of loop or tail recursion.

Incidentally, I've been wondering what app I should write to test my Lisp. The obvious end-state mentioned in the MAL guide is to self-host a Lisp, but I'm thinking it would be more appropriate (and fun) to re-implement one of the early chatbots like ELIZA [1].

[0] https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
chicken and egg, are you in depression because of the problems you have ? Then solving them one by one will eventually end up removing depression (that was the case for me)
The Chief complaints table had some interesting tidbits:

> Cancer: Breast (11), Andrologic (10), Lymphoma (3)

> Tumor: Neck (6), Breast (1), Colon (1)

So a nontrivial number of people reported cancer as a side effect of water fasting.

I suppose you'd probably want to review the standard correlation-does-not-equal-causation fallacy, but still.
Geez. This is the truth. Applying A/B tested mobile design fads from consumer app to data driven for-professional-use software is leading us in a very bad direction.
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Newer GPUs have scheduling. See https://twitter.com/jhaberstro/status/1090816578298335233
Im not sure that I think software is always bad just because its old.

I recall working as a technician years ago we used text user interface ticket system from the early 90s. While it wasnt the prettiest system it did its job and one could navigate it quickly once they has commited the keystrokes to muscle memory.

We thought about replacing it with more modern software but after evaluating a few of the options found none of them to be particularly compelling. If anything, we appreciated what our “old” system could do even more.
> The reminds me of that card game that raised money to dig a hole.

Honestly, that's quite a compliment.
Agreed. Perhaps this software from the '80s should be replaced by software with interface design sensibilities from the '90s.
Didn't your original message say "neighbors"?
Common, as a VC-backed company Patreon doesn't even pursue a sustainable business model. Most of those 74 employees are for anything, but sustainability. When they first started they had like a few people and pretty much the same service as they do today.
This is great news! Hopefully it will keep Facebook's Fan Subscriptions from becoming popular.
The author is actively participating in the search for a hiker who got lost in the Joshua Tree National Park in 2010:

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/searchi...
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The US taxes sales twice. You get taxed on the sale itself, which is the scenario you describe. Then you get taxed on your income at the end of the year, which is the "38% marginal" rate being described here.
I don't think any 4 year old can do better at French<>English translation than what Google Translate does. It's a no contest here. Even at 9 year old kids tend to make huge mistakes when it comes to their maternal tongue, fudging up words or creative spelling.
I know some people, who are in complete paralysis thanks to (overly) analytic thinking. On the other hand, from all the people I know having a major depression, nobody was able to advance simply by analyzing, deciding, acting, and without help. That said, it might worked for the author, but I doubt that it would work that smoothly for the majority of people with problem paralysis, let alone depression.
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Good. We don't have to worry about node.js, apache whatsit and Google go-away v1.0 being our goto technologies in a critical space. That's progress. Stick a rest/rpc interface on the outputs and ctl and attach a wireless dongle to a middlebox: voila modernized! If you really want to get fancy attach ELK to the 'stack' and put what data you want in it to represent something or another. Mission accomplished!
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Agreed. I liken it to the natural world where a species can be extremely specialized to exploit a particular ecological niche, but that niche is getting destroyed. Times are good when you're the only animal that can get to a particular fruit but when that fruit goes extinct, you're screwed.
You're not talking a lot into account, especially that drivers are freelancers who own their own vehicles. That $6 per 15 minutes turns into $24/hr (if you're literally non-stop taking fares, which is impossible).

Then you have maintenance, wear, healthcare, retirement, etc... Just accounting for fuel and maintenance these drivers are making minimum wage without any benefits, even if they drive full-time.

The so-called gig economy is bullshit that erodes just about everything it touches, from workers rights to public services.
https://github.com/wal-g/wal-g/graphs/contributors
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> Some jobs are interactive. TUIs ain't bad for those.

Exactly. A printer is an inappropriate output interface for an interactive job, it's not the input interface that's at fault.
I want people to pay per letter they email me ...

"Hey it looks like you want to send Amelius an email. Please visit this page, where you can pay and make sure your email actually arrives"
Where is the AI here? This is yet another line-of-business app generator. Others include Microsoft PowerApps, Microsoft Access back in the day, etc.
In my (admittedly indirect) experience, there's always a specific medical issue being targeted, and usually a specific biochemical system (i.e. protein binding partner). Very occasionally, they end up with a drug for a condition completely different from what they were trying to treat, but that's the exception. (Viagra was one of these; I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when they realized the implications of the side effect profile from the original trial.)
>add more intelligence (system health, wear, etc.)

Of course, telemetry is the first thing that comes to mind about modern software.
ripgrep author here. Yes, the Teddy algorithm was originally extracted from Hyperscan. But this is a teeny tiny piece of Hyperscan. And AFAIK, ripgrep's implementation (which is actually in the underlying regex library) doesn't carry over the full Teddy algorithm. Or so I've been told. :-)
Because each yard out there could in principle support at least a little biodiversity: at least some plants, some insects. Curated lawns tend to the opposite.

But plants are "weeds" and insects are "pests." So people spray neurotoxins, and see how much biodiversity they can destroy.
It was basically a leadership problem. There was nobody really running the project who was responsible. I suspect the leadership who chose to bring it in house straight up had no clue how to manage such a project.

https://www.twincities.com/2019/02/14/mn-dmv-mnlars-report-d...
Mike Carson hints at his methods for this in interviews on how he built Park.io.

Basically lots of custom scripts to try and buy dropped domains using registrar API (i think gandi.net has one). The skill was in increasing the speed of these scripts. Apparently he and another person competed for dropped domains by speeding up their scrapers.

1. https://www.failory.com/interview/park-io
2. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/034-mike-carson-of-park...
3. https://saasclub.io/podcast/million-dollar-saas-mike-carson/
I've found some great UX designers who could fix this. They complain that they're constantly at war with designers, who think things like text labels are "ugly".
this was an excellent history lesson on multiple levels. The final personal remarks about how the speaker connects the ethos of open source to his family history was an unexpected turn.
And? I'd rather civic data being handled on some ancient console that's relatively bugfree than some modern webapp nonsense that loses data half the time but has pretty hamburger menus.
I actually wondered if somehow I had been slipped something, but I hadn't eaten for hours by that point and had been sipping out of the same water bottle all day.

Many attendees were acting fairly happy/goofy but it's just one of those things that would be inappropriate to bring up or ask. I attended a follow-up 3 day advanced seminar to see if I could recapture that feeling and left disappointed.

This stuff falls under what I would consider the 'cult' umbrella and I think one of the reasons why such orgs are so successful is because group empathy sessions are really powerful. Unsure if my experience itself was in essence an MDMA flashback or if MDMA (and psilocybin) is a conduit to what group empathy can achieve.
Git blame is one of the best tools for understanding the history and archeology of a large legacy code base.

There is nothing worse when you're trying to do solve some problem that you discover a giant reformatting commit typically instituted by a youngish developer.

It obviously doesn't remove the history, it just makes it so much harder to actually find out why the code was written as is.
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If the sofware is from the 80s that is very good news, it means it runs on simpler hardware and the code will be simpler and easier to fix. Which is what made it viable for us to code in Assembly back in the 80s and early 90s with the same ease someone codes in c# nowadays. Coding in Assembly now is pure insanity.

Sure you could still write super ugly code but super ugly simple code is far better than super ugly complex code. Even if it comes with a forest of gotos.
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I don't think any fasting or religion is needed to develop a sense for economics. According to the marshmallow test, all you need is to be born rich.