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> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. – John Gall

While this sounds more like a strong tendency than a law it sure rings true for my programming career. I've built complex systems from scratch, but they all started from the universe of discourse of an existing business model. When writing such systems I've learned to always start from a dead simple version of it. (I called one such system "Moe" to purposely keep it stupid simple) And then increment it.

If the creationists are correct, and God did indeed cook up Adam from scratch, that would be more evidence of the exceptional power of God. What we do know about actual evolution seems to support Gall's Law.
Who is the target audience specifically? There are lots of organizations who work with state unemployment agencies around the country to try to place people with training, and then help find them jobs. This seems perfectly placed for that.

Assuming I could find 10 formerly convicted felons who live on unemployment/welfare and dropped out of high school and got them to apply to this program, would they get accepted? If "The most important thing we care about is evidence of grit" is true, I think these individuals should qualify.
That is not as big of a problem. The problem is primarily recruitment, not the content itself. Recruitment happens on centralized platforms where susceptible people can be reached and brainwashed.
I don't. It comes from the ground and I keep it in a container for a couple of weeks. I keep my sourdough starter open in the same area for a similar reason: I want to come in contact with local bacteria. Over time it builds up my immune resistance to things in that area.

I don't go different places often (to minimize fossil fuel output), but I imagine when I do reloacte I'll have to start with sterilizing water for 90m as you recommend, then slowly start adding local water to introduce my immune system to the region.
What's funny, is sometimes I like a bureaucratic mess, but only when I'm on the edge of burnout, and only for about 6 months... as for backwater tech, I always try to leave things better than how I found them.

I completely agree on the laundry list thing. More often than not, it's more of a turn off. I find it particularly funny when I see $CurrentDotNetTech...jquery, javascript, css or similar. They'd be better off just mentioning "C#/.Net web development" and leave it at that. Over-specificity or too long of a list just leads me to believe the decision makers settled on their tech a decade and a half ago, and never grew from there.
How much energy and water does it take to grow the cells? Are there any environmental benefits here or are the benefits primarily ethical? The article mentions the potential for decreased emissions but I've yet to see hard numbers about how much waste these products produce.
>doing local tax collection authorities' work for them isn't exactly Airbnb's responsibility.

Not by default, sure, but nothing prevents a local government from creating a law that says, "where an organization takes commissions in connection with its marketing and/or or the facilitation of payment for short-term rentals of property within our jurisdiction, the organization is responsible for collecting any occupancy taxes associated with the transaction."[0]

[0]https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/publications/20...
The Google Search page is not a market place and the original argument against Google is absurd. For instance, if I search for "The Art of Computer Programming" on Google, the first result through which I can actually buy the books is Amazon, arguably one of the largest competitors of Google.

I understand the desire of playing Devil's Advocate here, but it's difficult to stomach. Google has been such a force for positive change globally that it's hard to see the EU as the good guys in this case.
libvte is a major offender here. It's used in several popular terminal emulators, and it's deliberately capped at approximately 40fps[0], which means on a 60Hz display you'll sometimes get an additional frame of latency, and not even predictably because the timing is so uneven.

Set your keyboard autorepeat to 60Hz, hold down a key in a libvte-based terminal, and watch how bad it is. Now try again with xterm and see what it's supposed to be like. I can only assume the slow update is some misguided attempt at power saving.

[0] https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10547
McDonald's is a real estate company. That doesn't mean they don't sell burgers.
That reminds me of this Twitter thread that put into words what I've been feeling vaguely for years:

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1083956746220195840

It wasn't until I read this that I realized how miserable being a liberal has felt over the past few years. Compared to the days of "Earth Day is every day" and "We are the world", being liberal today seems to be this never-ending race to see who can self-flagellate most intensely on social media.

I have to wonder how many people have been driven to the right simply because Trump and co. tell you that you are great and should feel great.

The left sure as hell use a little bit of that positivity.
> People are products of their social environments

This is both a useless platitude and deeply offensive to state... we may be the product of an environment, but we also produce/reshape the environment on our turn, that's the important part of the loop, and the part we can act upon!

Focusing on the other is both counter-productive and depression-inducing. We're humans because we create / build / forge / destroy / reshape our environment, otherwise we could just as well imagine we're vegetables growing in a "social garden" fed by "societal night soil fertilizer" - such an attitude can only promote apathy and justify not taking responsibility for things!

All people have innate characteristics/talents/deficiencies etc., we're not blank slates programmed by "the social environment", it's about understanding how to work with what we get from the gene + "random chaos of the natural environment" lottery...
When Facebook first became a thing you only added people you knew, rejecting friend requests from people you didn't, so it didn't feel as weird to share a group photo from your birthday party. When I first joined the site I really only added my friends and acquaintances from school, I wouldn't even add relatives unless they were around my age.
Indeed, my kids did not ask to be in their own real life truman show. Their lives are theirs to live, not for the rest of the world (or even extended family and friends) to constantly observe.

We take a lot of pictures and videos of our kids, but we don't share almost all of it. I keep everything backed up safe with the intention of handing it all over to the kids once they're old enough. They're the subjects of the pictures, they're the owners.
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Seems tasteless, especially for a company that doesn't do anything related to social justice.
> Looking around, ~$11.4K is the average tuition for a coding school, so this proposition works out to be a rather high interest loan (that can't be paid off early)

You are paying extra in the hoped-for successful case in return for paying less if the whole thing turns out to be a bust. Or, equivalently, you are paying a lot extra for a portion of the tuition (which is, in fact, a straight $20,000—the $30,000 maximum minus the $10,000 stipend) to be due over time after completion, repaid on an income contingent basis, and foregone in part or in whole if after-program income isn't at least $200K over two years.
You are mixing up 8chan and 4chan.
Yes, unfortunately the top result isn't very good...

To start it uses 3.5 oz (100g) as its serving size, which is (according to its own nutritional source) about 13 slices of bacon... Not exactly a "typical" serving.

On a per slice basis...

Looking at its own source (https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/pork-products/7676/2):

B1 (Thiamin) - 0.0 mg (2%)
B2 (Riboflavin) - 0.0 mg (1%)
B3 (Niacin) - 0.9 mg (4%)
B5 (Pantothenic Acid) - 0.1 mg (1%)
B6 - 0.0 mg (1%)
B12 - 0.1 mcg (2%)

Selenium - 5 mcg (7%)
Phosphorus - 42.6 mg (4%)

So, yes, technically it does contain those vitamins... But, like I said, not exactly in large amounts...
> There's something to be said for having an album of photos that you pull out a couple of times a year to show a select group of others. It makes the experience much more valuable than blasting out content for everyone to see.

While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, and mostly agree with the idea, a part of me sees that only as a change in scale. As someone that doesn't really partake in social media sharing (I use FB for event notification) or take many pictures, I see parallels between sharing the album and posting online. I've had plenty of embarrassing childhood photos shown. Generally the only difference is time from the event.

I mean, it's not like a couple hundred years ago we even had the option to do this (other than the obscenely rich getting portraits painted).

I note all this because I find often when it appears it's just scale that makes a difference, that's just hiding the real things that are causing concern (or perhaps we should also be concerned to some degree about the small scale as well). So in this case, is sharing an album really all that much better? If so, is it because of temporal distance to the events, reduced group size per sharing instance (the overall size might be the same, over time), or sharing with people that aren't in some tighter group (or some combination thereof)?
> Why would renters cause more wear on those resources than full time occupants?

When you travel, how many people do you cram into a single room? How much are you driving around the town you're visiting?

The answer to both is: probably a lot more than someone who lives there.
they say standard rackable ... so maybe it can replace a vanilla Dell server?
I mean... every one of those examples involves construction/renovation or directly impacts neighbors. Having guests over in your unchanged house, parking in your designated parking spaces, and just happening to charge money for the experience is a much more reasonable grey area - and doesn't affect tenants much if they hold the guests to the same behavioral standards as the original tenant. If they were just regular roommates/friends, it would be pretty intrusive to ban such behavior, especially if they're not violating maximum occupancy rules. I agree it's a violation in spirit, and many of the above rules get broken anyway, but there's definitely a grey area here that needs a different set of rules.
I know another company that has been doing something similar in the UK for a few years. In their model they pay for you to train and guarantee you a job at the end of it. The catch is that you have to repay your tuition if you leave that job within 1 or 2 years. They send you on crappy consultancy projects and pay you a relatively low wage while they rake in high consultancy fees.

The people I know who had trained through that could not wait to leave and didn't feel that it had been overall positive.

On the upside you get some work experience too.
I have to agree... when you're at the top end salary for a given area, the conversation can often end right there without any ill feelings.
Does that mean I then can't use a native mail client?
>or using a population of "immortalised" cells, that will keep on dividing. "Which means that you don't kill any animals; you have this immortal cell that can be used forever."

Another term for "immortalised" is cancerous or pre-cancerous. I wonder if in 15-20 years, we will find out that exposure to these artificial meats can lead to cancer?
So this is the new neo-liberal globalism, same game, just younger millenials doing it to each other. Airbnb is detrimental and harmful to the local socioeconomic dynamics.

Another classic YC production, so it seems, on top of the other 'questionable' startup investments.
Back in the 2008 financial crisis I read articles about what went wrong, but I am not sure I understood exactly what was going on so well. I filled in details mysefl by guessing. Maybe someone can clarify this?

When they combine a number of risky assets into a single asset, they factor in an assumption that a number of these will fail. Others will not and given the payoff of those, the net investment pays off.

I don't know much about finance and how they do these calculations, so I'm going to say something dumb here, and maybe someone can tell me if they are being this dumb (or dishonest) when the calculate these things. Forgive the "explain it like I am 5" description.

There is a naive way of combining these probabilities which high school students probably know. However, this assumes the outcomes in question are not correlated. For example if you flip two coins, the probability of each coming up heads is .5 and they are not correlated, so the probability of getting two heads on two coin tosses is .25.

Of course, if the events are correlated, then that formula doesn't work any more. For example, if there is a new Quantum Coin Toss Manipulator (because we all know it would have to be quantum) that makes all coins flips near it come up the same, then the probability of getting 2 heads when you do two coin tosses is no longer .25 but instead it is .5. And, if you do 100 coin tosses, the probability is still .5 of getting all heads.

Back to the CDOs or CLOs. The chance of individual components failing is clearly not completely independent. Economic conditions such as a big recession presumably will have similar effects on the different components. So the naive formula does not apply.

Hopefully they are not being that naive or dishonest, but it seems like it would be pretty tricky to estimate the correlation and correspondingly difficult to estimate the true risk. Is it that case that they are just not good at estimating the correlation in the risks of these different assets?
I’m sorry that’s just naive and not at all borne out by history. When executions were a public spectacle (as in Tyburn) they were a huge party. People laughed and drank and cheered as people were hanged or drawn and quartered. I think you underestimate just how turned on a lot of people are by watching people suffer and die. We need to think very carefully before we empower people to engage in thst economy again.
Haven't done it. There is farmland nearby so I suppose I'm getting some of that eventually. But I believe the well taps onto a different aquifer (100' down) that receives water from a different runoff than the immediate land.

I'll have to keep an eye out for ants. I look at the water the entire time I fill, and everything always looks clear.
Probably everywhere necessary. The snuff video has been adjudged obscene, the way the NZ law works it was always obscene, the censor just confirms it. In practice if you access something like this and once you realise what you're seeing you stop watching then the government isn't going to come after you, but if you share it, keep a copy etc etc you have broken the law enough that you're likely in trouble.

Because it's illegal to have a copy or to publish it the ISPs are likely liable for having transient copies in their routers (these laws were written for film), the ISPs chose to do this initially purely as a public service but now I suspect that they are likely legally liable if they don't make a good faith effort to block these sites (remember ISPs can IP block and DNS block, they can't edit an SSL query on the fly, so everything at that IP will be blocked, if you're hosting your web site along with a snuff film archive I don't have a lot of sympathy for you).

A couple of people have already been in court for sharing it, one is an actual nazi, the other alt-right who may also be an accomplice.

Several people have also lost their jobs for sharing it at work or just plain accessing it at work (this is an action by the companies, not the govt).

There's no real reason why anyone needs to watch this snuff video, except maybe the police themselves as evidence.
> > Just as the daughter has the right to not share herself or her life on social media, I don't believe she has the right to demand approval of her mother's or sister's posts.

> A legal right? Absolutely not. A moral right? Absolutely.

Depends on your jurisdiction. In some regions, the subject of the photo is the legal owner, and absolutely has the right to control distribution.
AtlasLion is saying the fact the government "can't" or "shouldn't" ban drugs hasn't stopped them putting a lot of effort and resources into trying to.
As for your tight local control, fuck that. No, you shouldn't get to decide exactly what happens in your neighborhood just because you got there first. You don't own the neighborhood, you own single plot of land, and people who want to buy other plots of land and collectively evolve the neighborhood in new directions should have just as much of a right as you do.

The commenter you're replying to was a member of the Board of an HOA. Meaning that he lived in a condo or townhouse development or a private community. In all of these cases, all of the owners are bound by the common rules of the HOA (which, as owners, they have the right to vote on, amend, etc.), and "tight local control" is pretty much the point.
What's the fork that fixes the problem? I haven't used Go since modules released, but I'm going to be needing it soon, and this is something I need.
For a single module, there is a "replace" directive that you can use to point to a local fork:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#when-should-i-use-...

But if you have an internal version that's used in lots of modules, it's probably better to use an import path under your own organization, to avoid confusion.
> Currently, you must have the right to work in the US in order to apply.

I wonder why, though? Is there a legal barrier that prevents them from introducing this to foreign students as well? Or is it just because US-based salaries are much higher than in many other parts of the world?
You could gate it on primary residence, but some people have family-owned cabins or lake homes that AirBnB would still be a good way to optimize use of the asset. It seems like zoning regulations are still a good way to regulate this.
I use it while driving, in the winter times when I have gloves on, and sometimes when swimming or when my hands are full while cooking.

More often then not however, I find it infuriating at how bad it is at picking up "Hey Siri"
There very much is a pattern there isn't there....

Also wonder how many of them structurally work to disrupt themselves into a sort of untenable situation.

Like can Facebook exist at its scale ... and not sell everyone's data or just behave as it does?

Can gig economy companies exist without grabbing into tips / passing risk off onto delivery people?

I don't know.
No, I don't think it's simply a supply problem.

As much as it pains me to use a reductionist metaphor, I'm going to. Suppose my community has a finite amount of resource X available to us that we need to live and and we only require 75% of that resource. A company comes along and offers individuals a whole pile a money to sell of their claims to the resource, so much so that the company now controls 90% of that resource. The company begins boxing up that resource and shipping it off to people who will pay more money for that resource. My community now has meet their need another way, and probably in a more expensive way.

Regardless of how the resource should have been managed, and what the authorities in my community should have done to ensure we had the necessary access to our resource I think I can still point a finger at the company say "If that company didn't exist they wouldn't control our resource."

Obviously the metaphor is riddled with unconsidered complexities but I use it as a way of raising the question of at least an ounce of culpability of the company.
Can confirm that latency on iTerm2 is awful. I tried it for a while at the behest of a colleague and switched back to Terminal.app because I couldn't bear the lag.
While it's interesting and I'm curious, it's just not worth $1K to me to see a more full list.
So very true. I loved, loved Google Inbox. Knowing that it was on the way out, I chose not to install it on my latest phone. Gmail is a pale imitation: busy, full of ads (granted, this is how Google makes its money), just no good anymore.

Honestly, it's given me yet another reason to use K9 as my primary Android email client. If I can't have Inbox, I might as well have something open source.
Interesting question - I'm not sure I know the answer but happy to speculate. Electrolysis certainly is a much tidier process than gasification, but everyone seems to assume it's powered by 100% renewable energy. What incentives exist to make H2 production decarbonize faster than the rest of the electricity grid? I'd expect electrolysis to only be fully carbon-neutral when the rest of the grid is, which will take some time.

On the other hand, our process is close to carbon neutral from day one (we've confirmed this with an external life cycle assessment), and will become significantly carbon negative when we begin sequestration. And as I mentioned elsewhere, sequestration is the primary mission and electrolysis is unremarkable at it :]
I actually consulted briefly with a company that tried to do what Qwest is doing.

Popular bars and clubs have lines out front for a variety of reasons. It exists, and while "we're at capacity" is one reason, its not the only reason.

The issue they encountered was that right now, "skipping the line" is something you pay the bouncer to do in cash. They're also the ones you have to convince to use this app. But you're asking them to use an app that kills that revenue stream for them, it transfers all that $ to the club owner instead. So bouncers would only half use it, or "forget" to use it, or quit and go to another club.
Linux had been my primary OS for over two decades and modern Linux is at least as pretty as win10 and I prefer its font rendering (there will be a degree of familiarity favouring that I'm sure).

You keep bringing up these arguments as though they are show stoppers and yet people using Linux as a desktop never mention them.

My mum's been on Linux since 12.04 and has never once said "You know what I need DirectText" users don't care how text gets on the screen only that text gets on the screen.

Edit: should mention she doesn't just use it as a glorified browser container she uses libre office, gimp and a few other programs, organises her music and all the stuff an average user her age would do on windows.

To her it is entirely a functional windows replacement, enough that when I upgrade her machine her request was "can I have that minty thing?"
The first one is so god damn annoying. The tab is there for a reason if you really want the full autocomplete for crying out loud!

The second is very annoying and has even caused me to abandon the tool / software.
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Every mainstream programming language that came out in the last 20 years has already solved this. Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Rust, you name it.

I am baffled to why Go has not figured this out and are presenting recent developments as some kind of breakthroughs - they are not.

To me, and I'm not trying to be disrespectful here, because of the shortcomings it has, Go is in the experimental/keep an eye on bucket. It does some things really, really well but it's far from the panacea most developers that use it think it is.
8chan is much much worse, but 4chan is certainly infested with that stuff as well
Perhaps it's an XR thing. My X and my wife's new XS both had the adapter.

Look on the back of the EarPods. It's attached to the cardboard carrier.