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First, set up a solid financial base for yourself so that no matter what happens to the business, you'll be financially fine.

And then just let it rip...go for it. $400k a year is only the beginning. Take it to $4m. Like someone else here said, that'll definitely give you a lot to do. If you don't do it, the risk is that someone else will in due time.

It could be a lot of fun and personally rewarding especially if you already have a solid financial set set up and especially if the growth means you can take on employees to create new jobs. Job creation, especially in the community where you live, is a huge net positive.

If any of this resonated with you, then you know what to do.
It's a bit of a public health nuisance when kids start dying because other people don't want their kids to get a measles shot

It's hard to believe that tens of thousands of kids still die from the measles every year.
No, it does't yet... Sorry.
It's a made up problem. There has always been lots of bad information. People are better informed than ever.

Just take religion and magic and superstition which have declined a lot.

It's a made up problem to justify authoritarian solutions.
Fantastic. I would be thrilled to see other tech companies declare a holy war against this kind of misinformation. In fact, it would make me ecstatic if they started doing the same with other topics that have overwhelming scientific consensus, like climate change.

I frankly don't care if it's censorship. It's a hill I'll happily die on.
There's a really nice place you may consider as an option that tightly controls information. No need to worry about encountering bad ideas in the People's Republic of Korea. There's also China. They have a much safer internet there. Not as safe as DPRK's internet, but still pretty good.
I mean, if you made a documentary about it being physically impossible to incinerate 6M humans in the span of time the nazi's had to do it in the ovens that they had to do it in, you'd get banned from Amazon before you could so much as publish your video.

But you believing such a fringe nazi conspiracy theory couldn't kill me or my neighbour. My children wouldn't be at a real risk of dying from spending time with your kids, even if you indoctrinated them in your beliefs.

Some ideas are too dangerous to even get the chance to compete, especially in a country like USA with an education system so broken that 40% of its people believe that Psychic mediums can actually talk to the dead.
Neat.

I generally like Django migrations. A few rough spots. This seems like it could help some of them, but would take s lot of work to wire it in.
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Are there pro-vaccination documentaries, that Amazon could promote? If not, our indie documentarists are asleep at their cameras ...
You really do bear such close resemblance to Vin D in that photo, wow.
If you would like to, feel free. For myself, I think that the comment's context of showing how ambiguity may not be resolved merely be contextual information is important, and that it would not stand as strongly without it.
Vaccinating your child is basic medical care for your child. Your child has a right to life and my child has the right not to get whooping cough and possibly die from it.

If you don't believe in vaccines, don't have kids.
But is that true? Did they remove all videos based on false premises? And how did they decide the premise was false?
You don't have to have a receipt to take a deduction. In case of an audit, your bank statement or cc statement indicating the amount and who it was paid to is sufficient.

But in the case of meals, you would definitely need some documentation like notes on the purpose of the meal.
I added a pager duty alert to my wall-e when backups stop. Happen once or so a month. Not ideal but I just poke it with a stick and it comes back.
You like "science" but can't actually read the insert. Why?
Agreed, there is just too much junk out there. There should be some sort of editorial control especially when it is a paid service.

I personally expect Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video to provide some sort of filtering. YouTube, on other hand, I don't expect any editorial control there and also for same reasons, I will never let my kid to access it alone.
When you have an abortion it doesn't risk a disease outbreak that threatens the lives and health of large numbers of children.

Even hardcore government-distrusting libertarians acknowledge some version of the harm principle.
I don't know, I'm pretty okay with the government forcing people to do things so they don't compromise herd immunity.

I suppose it's cruel, but I find it hard to sympathize with people whose ignorant convictions are a disease vector.
I don't disagree. I personally think it's irresponsible not to vaccinate your kids. I also support schools and such requiring vaccinations for attendance (although that gets murky when the government runs the school).

But using the government to forcibly inject stuff into people's bodies seems wrong.
> constructed via a polyglot union of taped-together tools and lubricated by the daily tears of a hundred college hires only to regret it after the engineers who designed it have successfully used it as a springboard for promotion and departed with their accumulated arcane knowledge (and vested shares) for greener pastures?

I think the parent was pretty clearly sarcastic and suggesting that this was a bad idea.
My problem as a westerner living in Asia for a couple of years, is that the type of retail products that I'm interested in (API's for various things from financial exchanges to consumer goods/services) that are available in the US and are actively marketed, aren't really available to retail users in Asia, and it's really hard to get people to care about it even while they are pitching you to use their mobile app/website.

I know it might not be the best thing to say, but i'm glad that the global economy is starting another downturn with major industries that have provided a boon starting to lose the impact it's had because it will incentivize the marginal person to pursue new opportunities because they no longer have enough economic uplift.
don't expect them to enjoy facts. They just want their cult to prevail. They'd love to delete your "anti-vaccination" comment. Facts that go against their desires are evil propaganda and should be deleted too.
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People not wanting to listen to someone is not censorship. An organization not broadcasting you is not censorship. Even good ideas and real science aren't entitled to be broadcast by every organization in every way possible.
What is your definition of fake news or fake facts?
> my child has the right not to get whooping cough and possibly die from it.

Interesting, I've never heard that being disease free is a right. Where do you believe rights come from?
All seafood is contaminated with mercury from coal mining/burning
Phlogiston, luminiferous aether, and Newtonian mechanics also once had "overwhelming scientific consensus".

"The ends do not justify the means." Even for something as important as addressing climate change.
You responded to the wrong comment of mine, but to answer your question: I did read the insert you posted. That doesn't mean I'm qualified to interpret what it means.

You posted a link with red boxes around things, and I'm inferring I'm supposed to make a new conclusion or challenge my beliefs on the subject. But I don't have sufficient context to follow what you're getting at without you explaining what claim you're making that is supported by the insert.
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Disable JavaScript. Bonus: the site loads much faster.
I think I was pretty clear that I was still in favor of taking the phones away
gimp has a horrible UI. If someone tweaks it to act more like Photoshop, I would use it as a PS replacement.

The blur filter in GIMP is almost indistinguishable from the blur filter in PS.
It's well known that each year's influenza vaccine is produced with imperfect knowledge of what strains may prove most dangerous later on in contagion season, after several months of selection/evolution/travel time.
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I love the more rural areas, and I found a decent fit. I'm within 50 miles of an international airport, within 15 miles of a significant hub for my field, and there are fields just 5-10 min bike ride from my house. I'd consider my area to be suburban/semirural, and my main complaint is that it's starting to get crowded (there are 3 cities in my area > 100k people, though mine has 30k or so).

I started working remote, and my mind went immediately to moving to a less populated area.

I really don't understand the appeal of living in a city. There's a ton of traffic and noise, and it seems that people are way more busy in larger cities. But different strokes for different folks I suppose.
In theory, but this would not be true in practice. The cost is meant to make Redshift the default data warehouse versus that “cool new service” over there as an example. Each one of these types of decisions creates more AWS team expertise, and a harder decision to migrate to another service.
While I believe anti vaxxers are wrong, there are very few things in the medical field that are "indesputible".

Plus, this isn't just a black and white issue. What if a specific vaccine is released some day that turns out to be harmful? Harmful drugs frequently make it passed FDA approval only to be recalled later.

If one of them happens to be a specific vaccine, are we going to be censoring any and all media that tries to sound the alarm?
This happened last year to some people I knew. They were in an SUV, stopped in traffic behind a flatbed truck. A semi hit them from behind and shoved them under the truck in front. Family of four, killed instantly.
Software works like this. Language package management and open-source libs are a really close analogue to these little factories and markets full of parts. (I also think we do it with practical knowledge when people change jobs, and I think the short tenures in SV are an undersold competitive advantage.)

For things like UI patterns and non-trademarkable design decisions, I think letting good ideas spread quickly is great for the pace of innovation. Good ideas of those kinds more quickly become table-stakes, and the scales tilt further towards "can execute" and "can consistently innovate" over "had a great idea".
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Yet, if you argue for the exist of Phlogiston in a physics conference they will politely but firmly show you the door, and make it known that your opinion is wrong and you are not welcome.

Anti-Vaxx is basically like that.
Language design priorities should definitely decided based on votes.
Why do you keep calling it "stuff?" and why "forcibly inject?"

You say you support vaccination but you can't help but describe it without the necessary context, as if random Feds are strapping babies down against their will and pumping random fluids into them against their will for no particular reason.

You can make your argument and avoid the pointlessly nefarious language.
Author here. Where I've used this in a CI environment, the migration step goes from:

- check schema version number, if newer version exists, apply migration files

to:

- check schema on this branch matches production schema exactly, if it doesn't, look for (one or more) pending migration files that would bring production to target state, apply those files

So you can still have multiple migration files as needed. The differences:

- no version numbers

- no long migration chain (you can clean up old pending files once they've hit prod)

- migrations are tested directly, and only get applied if a correct outcome will result
We could be. Edge computing though could be an interesting partial disruptor, or it could further entrench the leaders as AWS already has an edge computing package I believe.
All the information on vaccines is out there, from trial data to journal articles to wikipedia articles to graphic novels on the history to your doctor being willing and able to explain them.

The existence (and growth) of these "sceptics" is a testament to our inability to live up to your standards of critical thinking. I don't see how more pro-vaccine information could ever move the needle. The dynamics are rather asymmetric.

And the "all the information/everyone decides for themselves" strategy is fundamentally impossible, anyway: if you "trust no one", your only chance to verify the benefits of vaccines is to redo the studies yourself. That's impossible, obviously.

So one way or another, we need to delegate some editorial control to institutions/people that we can trust to take on part of the burdens of verifying information.

"Trust" does not imply blind allegiance here: these institutions have track records that you can spot-check. There will always be competition between them. And they tend to follow long-term incentives to keep your trust instead whatever short-term benefit could be derived from lying to you.

This isn't some obscure idea. It's so fundamental to the functioning of our society people don't even notice how they constantly rely on trust. Do you ever board a plane? You're trusting some FAA employees, and that they work within a legal structure that makes it unappealing for them to let a drunk pilot bribe them. Do you trust your spouse more than some random stranger not to steal from you? That's because you have known them for a decade, and (again) because they have far more to lose than to gain.
It's not an inconsistency, it's an axiom: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_extensionality
>But the big consumer electronics manufacturers aren't really innovating either.

Yet they continue to attract global capital investment flows that crowd out funding for others (like those R&D labs, because they have their own in house labs with no real pressure to get anything novel to market) to explore something that might yield the next breakthrough.
The absolute irony of having to send a physical letter to get support for an online bank is not at all lost on me.
Are you implying classical mechanics is comparable to the anti-vaccination movement? Are you aware we've successfully landed people on the Moon using calculations derived by classical mechanics? That example has harmed your argument, not supported it. Just because we have quantum mechanics doesn't mean we can't make true statements about the world using Newtonian mechanics.

As for phlogiston and luminiferous aether - yes, science is not omniscient. But those hypotheses are attributable to insufficiently precise instruments and knowledge.

More importantly, they were positive statements about the world. You're comparing them to the demand for evidence that vaccinations are harmful, to which the best rebuttal is a counter-demand to prove a negative (that they're not harmful).

What else you got?
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The idea is competing -- it continues to grow and spread despite the (continually growing and already present) threat to public health and as such, is increasingly being considered as dangerous and bad. I simply don't understand why we have to have this exact same conversation every time a private platform makes its own content determinations.

I'm also getting really tired of this "it's just ideas, guys!" as nationalism, flat earthism, anti-vaxx and more dangerous, anti-intellectual bullshit spreads across the country in this YouTube-era. I'm on the phone with my brother and he's telling me about a student teacher telling middle school students the earth is flat. I'm tired of acting like it's fine and this is unconcerning. Maybe the ever-reliable, ever-silent downvoters could express themselves and tell me why I'm wrong to be concerned.
People are committed by the state (MN at least) for mental health reasons, and in certain cases, forced to take neuroleptic drugs, some of which are injected. Tyranny?

In my opinion, promoting an anti-vaccination stance is akin to shouting fire in a crowded theater, or should be viewed as such. It's a public health risk.
This is only true in the US; in the rest of the world the population of those with various religious beliefs is growing rapidly:

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-201...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/06/why-muslims-...
Schedule C deductions aren't affected by standard deduction.
When someone doesn't vaccinate their child and they get the measles, which kills someone else's child, who was too young to be vaccinated, that also seems wrong.

People will spend their entire lives as a potential danger to society. I don't think the measles, for example, will be eliminated.
Yes! We can handle credit cards and Paypal! In fact, we can handle basically all U.S. based financial institutions.
Disclaimers don't work. In Soviet Russia, a lot of people believe in strange things like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(2006_film) Rossiya 1 is one of the primary TV channels with a huge audience. When those people see that someone thinks that vaccination is the main source of childhood disorders, they start using folk remedies. My classmate's child died from this stupid anti-vax propaganda. I can't believe that I'm sitting in the office and writing software for a better understanding source of cancer, reading publications about ML and so on, but my classmates really believe in this bullshit about magic power of vater, vegan food and anti-vax.
So has anyone used it ? It seems like a great, well thought out idea. I just want to make sure before I drop $40 and give save a few hours of accountants costs.
I've noticed that it's a commonly accepted fact in most other areas of software development that mass rewriting of large and extensively-used pieces of code is a bad idea precisely because it'll probably introduce plenty of new bugs that were either never a problem in the existing code, or was noticed and already fixed there in the past. Yet when it comes to UI, those introduced bugs --- breakages of users' existing workflows --- are often dismissed with "sorry, you can't do that anymore" or "here's a (longer and more cumbersome) workaround to do it".

I'm sorry, but besides fixing the UI where it impacts the usability of your application, no one is raving about how a redesign makes the application any better.

This brings up a great point: if you examine user's comments on redesigns that didn't really fix things, you'll find that the positive ones are all about how it looks or feels and tend to be vague, while the negative ones will almost all be very specific criticisms about precisely which part of their workflows got broken. In any other context the latter would be treated as bug reports --- very clear ones at that --- to be investigated and fixed; but it seems a lot of designers are inclined to simply "close"/ignore them all as "they don't like/understand what I did, maybe they just hate me."
I think they meant it's inconsistent with the 'memory value recorded vs memory address value' distinction in a Turing machine (as in, it's not consistent with its physical instantiation: "the real world"), not inconsistent with axioms of formal logic. I'm getting confused because I think these are two or more different research camps (computability, philosophy, logic, etc) and I don't know how much jargon is shared.

OP's other post's comment is related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19265632
Thanks! I'd love to learn more about what you guys are doing as well.
Whilst I'm sure brands will love this ability, let us not lose sight of what this is. Amazon has a responsibility not to sell counterfeit goods, a legal one in many countries. What they are doing is in effect offloading their responsibility onto the brands in policing their shop for such counterfeits. Now I'm sure they are not going to totally depend upon this level of counterfeit policing, and customer feedback. But customer feedback does seem to be a driving force for them in identifying counterfeits currently and with this. Are Amazon shifting work they are responsible for onto others for zero pay? For me, it does seem that way, though I hope I'm wrong.
How are they confrontational? They go hand in hand.

Nomadism and foraging is the opposite of urbanization and agriculture.