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This is covered in the book I linked. The "contingency fund" for the most needy. When properly managed, has a net benefit to society because it helps people get back to work and become productive capital accumulators, which benefits both themselves and society.

However, when welfare is badly managed and is essentially given out to anybody, is overpaid because "muh rights to basic standard of living," and without adequate consideration of where the capital comes from to provide the welfare service, then there cannot be a sustainable welfare. The government does nothing but drain capital away.

Poor voters will always vote for the politicians who promise them freebies (out of other people's capital savings!) It is only savers who have skin in the game and who ultimately have the moral right to decide how their hard earned capital should be spent.

Youth for the past few decades have been fed a heavily distorted image of reality where they are expected to believe that capitalists are evil and that government is protecting them from those evil capitalists. It's no surprise they have no idea that capitalists are providing 100% of the funding of their welfare systems, and that their government only consumes the capital - it creates nothing, and cannot survive without the capitalists which fund it.

Capitalists are of course not these evil monsters who only care about getting rich at the detriment of everybody else. They're just regular people who try to improve their own lives, and accidentally improve other people's lives in the process if they succeed.

You really love capitalism: https://www.prageru.com/video/why-you-love-capitalism/
Thanks for the catch, should be updated now.
I'm one of the longer time Dwarf Fortress supporters, with somewhere around $2500 donated over the past decade or so via PayPal. If I remember correctly, it was around January 2007 when Tarn started accepting donations.

I don't play it much, only a week every year or so to see what's new, get lost in the wacky reality of it all, and put it down to tend to other things. I read the communities from time to time. The wacky stories. Occasionally watch someone have a go on Twitch and enjoy seeing everything unfold.

Dwarf Fortress is an unsung touchstone of internet culture. Game devs in AAA studios (I know a few) talk of it in hushed whispers -- most are aware of it, even if only a few of them have played it. In fact, Dwarf Fortress is what sparked Markus Persson to create Minecraft, which was originally intended to be a voxel version of Dwarf Fortress itself.

I regret the circumstances that have resulted in Tarn and Zach having to find ways to bring in more income. They moved onto Patreon in the past year or so, and thankfully it was a meaningful increase in income. Hopefully Steam can help in that regard, as Tarn seems to manage his time and communication with the community quite well, and at least the Bay 12 forums by and large respects that he takes the time to reach out before continuing with the game as he sees fit.

It's something very novel and lovingly crafted that creates real joy and sparks the imagination in ways most people will rarely see. Although a bit obtuse upfront, it is one of the most novel toys mankind has ever created. Hopefully this can ensure that its development can continue for much longer still, and help other people discover the magic that it is.
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"Tesla publicly stated he made violent threats. The police refused to corroborate that claim." ... because Tesla "declined" to make the witness/es who received those threats available to the police.

That's a bit more contextual.
What about on the East Bay? Isn't there a more lively artist community in places like Berkeley, Oakland, or El Cerrito?
Agreed. Not happy EU laws are affecting US business. We had to do a bunch of GDPR stuff even though we sell products only in the United States. I get if we are marketing to or selling in the EU, but we're not. What do I know though? I'm just some dude who lives in a terminal.
> front-end developers who claim to be in favor of better accessibility, but then vehemently oppose the idea that HTML should have built-in component that cover basic web use cases without the need for scripting.

Is this a thing? (specifically that the front-end devs are the problem) I'm a dev with plenty of front-end experience, but back in the day I was sad when login pages became a thing (as opposed to built-in browser authentication), and frankly if Apple would stop being a problem I still retain hope that HTML5 form validation could actually be common.

The problem has always been (in my experience) - when browsers provide an insufficient/notably unfriendly experience (no means of managing forgotten passwords or registering logins, for example), when browser vendors refuse to play ball (IIS/IE only supported BASIC authentication, for example. Today Apple is the hold out on HTML5 validation), and/or when designers want to be "different" or have a brand that is consistent across platforms (despite those platforms having their own conventions).

Usually the front-end _devs_ want things to work with minimal effort. It's only when they are asked to do things the browsers won't do that they/we waste time rolling our own reinvented solutions.

When you run into yet-another-page that screws with how scrolling works - do you think the front-end _dev_ wanted to work on that bug-ridden task?
I was an artist for about ten years before becoming a computer guy, doing oil paintings from life.

I would highly suggest you take a class. There's a lot of basic tech stuff you need to learn (how to mix paints, wash brushes, prepare canvases) and after that come the rudiments of drawing and color.

I would compare it to learning to play an instrument. You want to pick up the violin and just express your emotions in music after a busy day, but to get there you need some initial help about where to put your fingers, advice from a teacher who knows the kind of pitfalls beginners fall into, and a lot of practice that can sometimes be frustrating.

But when you get there, it's very rewarding and enjoyable. Good luck to you!

EDIT: it's also helpful to have initial instruction so you can navigate the thicket of art supplies. They can get very expensive and the wrong ones, or inappropriate ones for your level of expertise, will make painting a misery.
As an European, it honestly surprises me how much crap people are willing to put up with to advance the nanny state, and even support and advocate for that shit.

I'll take freedom any day over someone telling me that they know better.
Has it? Does it afford me 'contextual' permissions, rather than an app just requesting contacts for no reason? Does it let me know _what_ data it's requesting (long/lat coordinates, state/county, country, continent?)? What about the data it's requesting about my contacts, does it tell me which contact's data was accessed, and what data that was (first/last name, DOB, email, phone number)? Does the app make a request to a server after getting that data, does it store it on a server? Are apps compliant with the GDPR, do they respond to privacy requests, such as what data they store, or whether they delete data when asked to do so?

Everything you see about privacy is an illusion, designed to do the bare minimum to make people think Google respects your privacy. But there's a reason Facebook likes Android simply due to how much information it gives developers with or without permission. You can hope the user allows that location permission (accidentally just once is all it takes).

Without actually detailing what information they want, why they want it, how they'll use it and how it'll be stored and processed and deleted (LOL) then no, privacy has not increased.

And this isn't exclusive to Android, but operating systems and 'apps' as a whole.
What race are the kenyans and ethopians?
Or higher basal metabolism and higher activity levels ... Both of which would increase CO...

But we're getting out track , my point is simply that CICO expresses a relationship between calorie in , calorie out and the variation in people weigth . It's doesn't say that one can control people weigth using CI. The analogy that Judea pearl uses is that there is a relationship between the number displayed on a thermostat and the temperature outside , but that does not imply that one can control the temperature outside by changing the number displayed on the thermostat
The "internal politics in the colonizing country" were premised on the notion that the colony was their (the colonizer's) economic resource, not the indigenes they took it from.

The existence of multiple-axis exceptional cases like Singapore doesn't obviate the general pattern. The notion of "the exception that proves the rule," might apply here.

All of these things ultimately, directly or indirectly, fall into the bucket "consequences of markets". Whether we're are trying to own a market, or own a resource, or whatever, we have demonstrated a set-your-watch-by-it reliable pattern of considering the people in the way of the thing we're trying to own expendable, but we somehow very pointedly ignore counting those people and consequences when we talk about how "bad" Communism is.

It's a double standard, and it's boringly predictable, and boringly disappointing, especially in a crowd that purports to be as smart and capable of understanding all of the things as this one does.
"... in the data they're collecting from Chrome users."

What percentage of Chrome users consented to the data collection? (Is consent even required?)

Does the data represent all Chrome users or only those who have consented?
Unless it's material detrimental to the RNC after they've met with Donald Trump Jr, of course...
Does anyone know anything about the company (8bit Solutions, LLC) or people behind it?
That’s more the fault of the higher ups for not understanding the law correctly, which really, is on them because the EU went to quite a bit of length to make the document readable and if execs/managers aren’t smart enough to know the difference between necessary and tracking cookies on their own site, then that’s really their own fault.
Hopefully when the developers are eventually incapacitated they've made provisions for the source code to be released. I know I stopped playing because occasionally there were bugs were so bad that the fortress had to be abandoned; and there is substantial evidence in the bug count and framerate that there are underlying architectural issues in their design.

An open source version would be technically superior; although how that would affect their income stream I do not know.
Both companies are massive and have tons of developers. It becomes almost impossible to look at the system as a whole with the amount of changes coming through. And, you get scenarios where small failures cascade through the stack reaking havok. Often times its just one config change

Its telling that one of the hottest areas of distributed systems research these days is the boring topic of configuration management. Google, Microsoft, etc are paying researchers top dollar to figure out how to prevent massive outages through novel techniques. It is one of the harder problems to solve and requires massive investment in tooling, refactoring, etc.
Naive null hypothesis: ~0.8% that MAX 8 is as safe as other planes and the shared accidents are a coincidence.
(the bang can be anywhere in the search query, fwiw)
As an aside, the parent comment appears to be a misplaced response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19382254

> I think I may have upset you.

It's probably best not to post your guesses about other people's emotions when they don't contribute to the discussion.

> I don't understand your original comment in the context it was made.

Clearly, and you keep trying to interpret it as a defense of (what I have already explained why I consider a misinterpretation of) rb808’s comment, even after I have explained both that I see your interpretation of his comment as wrong, and that my original comment was a tangent that didn't intend to defend his comment (whether as I interpret it or as you do) in the first place.
I bet American and Southwest were receiving phone calls from customers cancelling their flights.

Supposedly the profit margins for discount airlines are pretty slim, so if they can't fill all the seats what's the point? What's bad is that they had to wait for that to happen before they took action. It just makes it look like they'd choose profits over safety every time... as long as they can keep making profits.
This is relative to desktop where traditional apps don't even run in a sandbox and app permissions weren't a thing.

A Linux app can not only create Internet connections, it can read and write all your personal files. (But we thought that was pretty secure since it didn't run as root.)
No Southwest and American airlines stand to lose the most. Nothing is worse for an airliner than a grounded jet.

As an aside, do you know who actually owns most of the jets for an airliner? Banks like wells fargo and chase. They still expect leasing payments regardless if the plane is flying or not.
Well, of course. It's 42. There are many integers, but only one answer.
Pretty bad article. Spelling mistakes, no references and broad statements like
"For many junior engineers this is a burden that really is unnecessary complexity".

Microservices in a monorepo with a proper dev env and build pipelines is just as "simple" as a monolith. Simple in quotes because I have seen crazy, sprawling monoliths.
Thanks for the suggestions! Smart suggestions is something that I can really see happening as well.

For the idea of "day tabs" - we actually used to have a calendar view in the product, but stripped it out for this format of "lists". Currently, it's possible to get close to what you want by just naming the place lists: "Day 1" or "Day 2" - see https://travelchime.com/plan/grayuczaswflzvto

Would this work for you? Or do you like to plan hour-by-hour?

The place suggestions based on what you have make a lot of sense. There are 2 approaches we've considered for that: by doing Netflix-style "users who watch these movies go to these places", and using crawled data. Basing it off of user preferences does require a good amount of data and lots of care to ensure good privacy.

Because of that, I think we'll most likely start by expanding the range of pre-curated lists. There's tons of content on the web that we'd love to link out to for specific types of travelers: "best for families" or "best for adventurous" travelers. We can make that information easy to find and easy to incorporate into your own plans
I know this feeling - you're climbing up that hill at the very beginning, trying to figure out the mechanics and what the game is about. Then when you finally crest it, you see the whole game set out before you like a beautiful valley... and you realize, "this is going to take hours and days, and I already understand it." You judge the time required vs. the enjoyment that may be gained, and the game loses. And it's sad, because you want the game to win, but you can't just let it.

One game I'll recommend if you're in this boat with me is Slay the Spire - it's a roguelike, so you play run after run from the beginning, instead of working from the same save like Factorio. The mechanics vary from run to run, sometimes significantly, because the cards and relics you collect along the way can completely change how the game plays. I've been enjoying it for a few months now, and while I sometimes put it away for a week or two at a time, I'm still coming back to it. I think part of it is I'm playing to figure out how to survive a run, not to figure out how the game works.

Anyway, check it out - definitely worth $25, and it may give you that long-term enjoyment you're looking for. Though I think, to paraphrase Stand By Me, "I don't have any games like I did when I was 10. Jesus, does anybody?"
At my company’s site[1] we have a non-intrusive banner at the bottom which lets you agree or disagree to tracking cookies, or just ignore it and browse the site.

You don’t get served any tracking cookies until you agree.

This fulfills the explicit consent requirement of GDPR as well as the requirement for people to be able to use your site even if they don’t accept cookies.

We get much less analytics then we used to - many people just ignore the cookies bar, either knowingly or just because they don’t notice it. But it’s totally worth it.

I hope the EU starts fining non-compliant (i.e. 99% of) sites aggressively, specifically those that pretend to care about your privacy, but don’t really (“Agree” button only).

[1] https://www.soundradix.com/
We did once informal study among friends comparing heart rate in rest and taste in music. Those with low heart rate favored faster tempo and those with fastest heartbeat favored slowest tempo.

(Age and cardiovascular fitness matter more, but tt the time we were all young and relatively fit).
I would say its impressive that Netflix (an international organization present in 190 countries) has been able to leverage its operational and development expertise to offer an experience on par with those programs that only need limited local (small nation rather than international) distribution.
Do any of these options have a case that feels sturdy? It seems a little silly describing it this way, but one of the reasons I keep coming back to macbooks is the aluminum case. I want good specs, but my lizard brain also wants a laptop which doesn't feel like a flimsy plastic toy.
Pretty sure it doesn't apply to Facebook, but Amazon's cheapest AWS tiers are around there. Same with Virginia.
The downside is, there are techniques and tools that make sense together. If you just start, maybe you find something interesting. Maybe you just spend days feeling frustrated because nobody told you it's a good idea to prime a canvas, or that metal solders better when its clean.

My preference is to study techniques like I'd study anything else - learn the principles, etc, and stay pretty agnostic about what it actually means to make art. I mean, is art really about self-discovery? It's somewhat rare for a good artist to be particularly self-aware. Is art really about freedom? Art has consistently bloomed under absolutely absurd strictures - only being allowed to paint specific things, write on knife-edge-narrow themes, and so on.

Seems to me that it's ideas like these that really seize control of the imagination. I've definitely known artists that have been permanently inhibited by internalizing one or another idea about what it is to make art.

Tools, on the other hand, extend and alter the human senses. A screwdriver is a feeler you stick into the radio, oils are an invitation to a whole light-oriented conception of painting, a chisel tells you stuff about wood you'd never know just by running your hands over it.

I don't really believe there's a raw sense-experience. I think everything we do is mediated socially, conceptually, technically. In this sense, to actively engage with the world, it makes sense to be greedy about grabbing every technical or concept that increases the engagement surface, or makes it more varied.
It makes me beyond annoyed that google seems to insist on radically changing the design of their apps every 6 months, for no discernible reason, with no unifying theme or thread or underlying rationale.
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And with this, Android as an open system is dying yet again.

It’s sad we won’t even have an option to give apps full filesystem access. At least make it optional.
Also "legacy" language runtimes. "Legacy" being in scare quotes because JavaScript, the JVM, and the CLR all work this way and are all very much in widespread use today.
This is amazing!!

Love that you all have also pre-seeded itineraries from popular travel blogs - any plans on also bringing in tripadvisor data in?
Yes, I think that was kind of the beginning of the end. That one event sort of puts the subsequent behavior in the proper frame. Had that never happened, one might be forgiven for overlooking this situation.
Last time I dealt with a cloud provider outage the status page was unresponsive during the outage because the status page had some kind of dependency on the resources that were down...
Indeed! Conway's the man. Unless your "service" corresponds to an actual existing team who has the time and authority to focus on it, you are asking for trouble and/or wasteful busywork. I curse misapplied microservices.

By the way, for a relatively small service to be shared by multiple applications, try RDBMS stored procedures first.
Often, HTML is not hand-crafted by developers but created by content authors in WYSIWYGs or generated from markdown. Of course developers could find ways to force content authors to write accessible content, but most content needs to be cheap, so people will always find ways to take shortcuts.

I don't want to say that modern JS frameworks aren't problematic, but I think they might only account for a small part of these bad numbers.
I assume it's at best opt-out so 90-98% would be my guess. Although I'm talking out of my ass.
You’re assuming an even distribution of requests, but that’s not usually the case. It could be several multiples of that at peak.
Is there an architectural flag that will get Alpine to install these wheels? If so, I’d be happy to help with this.
ahem...apart from that...I was referring to the higher-purpose of accelerating the much-needed transition to electric vehicles - it's kind of obvious that was my meaning from the context - I'm saying, yes this is shitty, but look at the bigger picture.
Having said that, Bing is no replacement for DDG.
> I guarantee you that if Google produced the laptop that you and 22 other people would buy you'd hear nothing but complaints about it.

Counterpoint: I know plenty of happy developers that own multiple Nexus and Pixel products, without bagging them. Engineers want good hardware and many are willing to pay for quality.

> As for the so-called "Apple tax"

For as close to equivalent as I could get (specification, reliability, etc) the equivalent Apple cost 50% more than the XPS 15. Paying 50% extra for an OS I don't need makes no sense for my situation. Paying for an unused Windows license for the XPS was unavoidable (I have our own licenses for the Windows VMs we need for testing).

> It's clearly not trivial [to make a laptop better than Dell or Apple]

The Google hardware I have experienced has mostly impressed me (even if third party, they have mostly enforced quality constraints). Although I have owned a Nexus with a design flaw, I would consider buying a Pixel (although at present I find the Nokia gives me better bang for my hard earned buck).
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Not in this case, since the instability is caused by the lift generated by the engines.
Even the criminal justice system has no qualms about "grounding" (taking into custody) people before they are found guilty in a court of law.
It's illegal to advertise prescription drugs in various countries. (So is manipulating drug prescription on other grounds but medical ones)
Medical discussions regarding drugs should be held by doctors (qualified) not by (unqualified) patients. Likewise we should get vaccinated against SJW's who try to turn every discussion into a debate because it can be unhealthy and very immoral.
Why not, if that's how you are paying for the site to exist?
Well, the second sentence isn't often correct.

It'd probably be true for pure TEXT files IIRC, however the markup elements of webpages and javascript also take up space and /those/ are western elements. On actual web pages UTF-8 is actually the smallest choice.