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IMO I was picking a representative US example, but working one in Germany yields very comparable results. The difference is the interchange is capped 0.3% which means that the cash-back portion is irrelevant.

COGS: $10.00, retail after CC markup: $10.03. In Germany I would get a 0% rebate, so I would pay $10.03, and for that $0.03 I would get a one-month interest free loan, chargeback abilities and numerous warranties.

COGS: $10.00, retail after CC markup: $10.03. You have to buy the $10.03 from an exchange for $10.07 (assuming 0.4% fee). You then pay another $1.26 for the BTC transaction and get back nothing, for a total of $11.33. That means your total fees paid are 44X the total fees I paid. No chargebacks, no warranties, no loan, 44X higher fees. In Germany no tax liability is incurred AFAIK when using it as currency. That makes your payment method inferior for any normal, legal purchase. That's one of the reasons buyers don't want it. Sellers don't want it because it exposes them to enormous FOREX risk.

Companies that offer crypto discounts are unicorns. Why would they? It's more expensive and more risky to offer it. The only reason I can think of to offer a crypto discount is if you're not reporting to tax authorities like cash-only restaurants. Your one counter-example is by no means representative, and in Germany, you're even worse off than in the US in the average case, by double.
GSO is very high orbit (22K miles) and therefor has much higher latency. The lower orbit (100-1K miles) constellations are lower bandwidth because of the high angular speed of travel removes the ability to do directional (high powered) transmissions.
> In all seriousness, this is just another step towards instagram being another bland reflection of the media fun house in which we all live: famous people get air time to pimp products and movements.

???

Instagram is a mainstream everything-is-an-ad site and has been since I've first heard of it.
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That's fair I guess, I did a cursory search and saw things from Toyota and Nissan in the $16-18k range, and I didn't really search more.

But I was also expecting to compare MSRP, but I now realize that it's not really a good comparison since Teslas are bought less like cars (with haggling and discounts) and more like a new phone (you pay the price they set). Still, I'm floored that ICE cars are that cheap!
I bike and run, and like you appreciate how gentle cycling is on one's body. With that said, I don't worry about getting killed while running the way I do while cycling (i.e. by cars).
Interestingly, the semiconductor industry has thought it was close to its theoretical limits since feature size was measured in microns 40 years ago. Back then, one of the big worries was that we were approaching the wavelength of light used in the photolithography process and that there was no clear path to getting below 1000 nm. I expect that it will always be difficult to see beyond a few years of innovation in this area. It certainly does seem that we will soon need to switch to other materials and forms of signal transport though.
>It seems like you could solve this problem in an even more dev-friendly way by sticking to one of the most fundamental principles in scrum (and possibly others): Don't schedule 100% of your developers' time, and definitely don't fill them up to 100% on coding work. Not even close. Devs are supposed to work at a sustainable pace.

This sounds great until you work someplace where you need to allocate 7.5 hours every day to a billable project.

If you don't allocate 7.5 hours you are asked what you were doing the rest of the day...

I've seen where someone won't have a conversation at work because they can't allocate a project to 10 mins chatting with work colleagues.

Or when you get asked a coding question from a junior and so you help them, but then need to get their project code they were working on so you can allocate that 10 minute chatting /giving advice to that project.

Or helping a junior with something they are stuck on, management sees and questions why two devs are sitting at one machine...
Most of my professional networking is virtual mixed in with traveling to some events (and, of course, work colleagues though I work remotely). I do local activities with a couple clubs as well as more ad hoc things, which is good from a social perspective, but TBH it's never been especially relevant from a professional/job perspective.
Is this even that negative PR? They're probably going to get more people going "oooh Prince Harry and Meghan are on Instagram I should follow them" than being outraged and quitting
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I'm surprised that FAGAM haven't got into the crowd-sourced fact checking space. Seems like a great way to build a knowledge engine / AI, by getting humans to "connect the facts" while motivating (herding) them with the idea they are doing it to "preserve truth in an era of fake narratives", when actually they are just helping build an AI.
> Which clearly references Lion Air the company.

Ah, yep, I misread that (can I blame the typo...? ;) )

My point is that is that it is appropriate to call out Boeing for their attempt at deflecting blame. The pilots apparently did not take an action that _may_ have saved the plane (we now know it may not have). That doesn't change the fact that the issue they failed to correct was a faulty design in the first place, and would have resulted in a crash at some point.
I recall reading something similar about the depleted uranium rounds that A10s and other weapons dumped all over the middle east.
> If you're arguing that you could just look at the file-open code to see the errors it returns, couldn't the same apply for seeing which exceptions are thrown?

No, because then you have to look at every function inside there. And there every function inside those functions. And then...

With typed error handling they're only one-level of abstraction deep. Actually zero-levels, since your function won't typecheck unless you handle the errors.
Maybe you already do both or maybe they sound banally to you but they are important. (Especially when you're young; form habits that will help you in the long run.)

- Get some exercise, this might also help you make new friends. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26978184/
- Eat healthy foods. There is growing evidence of a relationship between gut microbial metabolism and mental health. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-018-0337-x https://www.nature.com/news/the-tantalizing-links-between-gu...

This will take some time.
If you still feel crushed by your job then think about doing something else. You're still very young, you have lots of options.

If you have the time, read some books to gain perspective, to widen your horizon. Use what works for you. Examples:
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
- Twelve Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
- Waking Up by Sam Harris

Or listen to some podcasts, e.g., Joe Rogan has vastly different people on his show. You can get a lot of ideas from them.
You know you're depressed when you stop caring about things, when you stop putting effort into things.

You may have a burst here and there, but it's short lived.

To fight this, you need to regularly (do not skip a week) put focus on your hobbies, spend time away from work (ex: a day trip up to Mt. Diablo), spend time with people that make you happy, spend time outside, sleep 8 hours a day (a lack of sleep will make you a zombie), meditate, exercise and stretch (make sure you do a light jog before stretching)

fighting depression isn't something you focus on after you're depressed, it's something you focus on while you're content so you don't get depressed. Crawling out of depression is extremely difficult, so make consistent efforts to fight it now.
Why does the absence of posts indicate inactivity? He said in the article he uses it to like posts, but not create content. That doesn't sound inactive to me.

In fact, Instagram basically encourages this type of account use. Any time you try to browse the site they try to get you to sign-up, even if you have zero intention of making your own posts.

It sounds like the guy would have given the account name over either way, so why couldn't they have simply contacted him first and asked?
That's not what you wrote. You wrote:

> Safari is terrible and I applaud all applications that are broken on it

What you meant to say is that testing in Safari is inconvenient for you, so you don't like it. Which is fine, but does not mean that "Safari is terrible".
What does that mean, really? What is a sign of respect that you find missing?
I rarely observe developers investing in forcing the error conditions that they’re supposedly handling. Without that mechanism, your error “handling” might be code that looks good and does nothing (or worse, the wrong thing).

For example, in this case: the claim that error handling is “centralized”...how can you be sure? It is generally trivial to locally ignore or capture errors that may not propagate even if they should. Dependencies may not be well-behaved. If you cannot force (or fake) key conditions that “should” cause a component to fail, you don’t really know how that error affects the system or if it can even be seen by the “centralized” handler. One of the issues with exception handling is that programmers may think synthesizing each exception “tests” the condition, when you may not even be able to prove that the real error will lead to the expected exception. You have to be able to simulate or force the bad behaviors themselves, independent from your exception hierarchy.

I’m also skeptical that having local error code “disappear” is a net win. When debugging, you’d probably have to add it all back to know how the heck an error might have originated from that local code. At the very least, local code to reveal errors should never go away.
USAF Combat Controllers, Pararescue (PJs), and others are elite troops. In fact, the requirements for Combat Controller are extremely mentally and physically demanding. They are not only Air traffic Controllers, which is tough enough, but they are also effectively equivalent to Army Rangers.
What jumped to my attention from your comment is that tolls seem to bother you more than public transportation not being a suitable option.

I live in Madrid, which has a metropolitan population of 6.5 million (compared to Sydney's 5.2m). I can get pretty much everywhere from anywhere in about 1 hour, combining metro and buses.

So when I want to visit a friend, I just go out the door, and walk to the metro station. If I had to drive a car just to do that I would feel I have less freedom of movement than I have now.
> either cannot find the energy to do their own research

So person 1, who made the assertion, gets a free pass on doing research, but person 2, who doesn't know the basis for the assertion is being lazy? Nope, no. This is shifting the blame.

If you make a fact-based assertion ("access to guns saves lives"/"access to guns kills more people"), you need to be prepared to back up that assertion to give people a starting point. Is your assertion based on opinion, are you saying that based on a survey conducted by viewer on Fox & Friends, or was it a formal study conducted by an accredited researcher?
I’d go beyond an “off switch” and argue that any software that’s smart enough to turn itself on without being asked needs to turn itself off if it’s obvious that the pilot is fighting against it. It’s like a classic Bayesian probability problem where the chance of a false positive is high. The software has to take into account that the stall scenario it thinks is happening is rare, and that happening followed by a pilot yanking back on the stick is vanishingly rare, accept that it was probably wrong and undo its actions.
> Instagram has gotten so big that finding anything that's not a conflict is difficult.

I don't understand online services' obsession with making sure public-facing identifiers are unique. This is not close to true in any other area. How many British guys can be named Harry?

If there could be two World of Warcraft toons named Joe, maybe there wouldn't be so many xX_KillStealr69_Xx-es running around.
Rent lets you live in a house; taxes let you live in a civilization.
And "Who Is Michael Ovitz" which tell the story from one of the founders.
You think thats bad. Tesla is about to have to head to head with all the majors who are now starting to finally harvest about a decade of their own research in the space (prompted by Teslas early success).

Musks ambitions and outbursts strike me as a man who suffers from the top killer of successful entrepreneurs, The skill/talent portability fallacy. It's this idea because you did something similar well, that your ability should port to "things like it." Seems like Tesla is going to extend itself to death.
Don’t even have to sign one in Finland. You get a prefilled form and if there are no amendments to be done then that’s it.
> That said, running 400m sprints with small rest intervals is extremely hard on every part of the body and I found the muscle stress from running far greater than from swimming.

This surprises me greatly. If you look at the body of a professional runner vs. a professional swimmer the swimmer is much, much more built.
None of this is like a NK concentration camp. The camps in NK are rather designed around forced labour.
> Or how hypochondriacs who go to the doctor when they don't need to are shamed in countries with socialized health care.

More likely it's old people living alone and with nothing better to do who sit in the health centers before opening.
I used to live there and they don't really know MIT in China. I'd say only among the academics. Certainly not a household name.
There’s a big difference between a patent and a working product
Surely you’d take a protein shake after lifting?
What’s #1 then? :)
Theoretically. Practicaly they don't do that kind of planning and high estimate leads to pressure to lower it down (or making you feel ashamed for it being to big etc), which most developers will do, because developers tend to sux at negotiation.
"...and Republicans’ long anti-tax crusade."

"uncharitable characterization of a group that has argued for a simpler tax code with generally fewer loop holes"

Fewer loopholes for middle and lower class folks? Yes. Repealing the estate tax is very literally a new loophole that allows the rich to keep more money while closing that pesky mortgage interest deduction for the middle class. Taxes are just a way of redistributing money. Calling a party pro-tax because theyre moving the burden from one group to another is...interesting.
> It's the experienced developers that try to gold plate to avoid the issues that they had in the last project

Literally learning from the past and applying it to the present is “gold plating”?

I’m stunned.
Does it really make sense to call it "reputation" if you're the only one that can see it?
The idea that any process is the blame or can be a success in an environment with sociopathic management is absurd.

"Baseball sucks because my manager hits me frequently with baseball bats to make me work harder. Here is my blog against Baseball, I am pushing my org to switch to Soccer. I'm sure the lack of hitting weapons will stop my manager from abusing me."
I can understand (sort of) that thinking, but from my very practical point of view: I care about delivering a working application to my users, who should have a good experience. This is what they pay me for. And Safari delivers the best experience of all modern browsers, without any additional effort on my part (I do not have any Safari-specific workarounds, while I did require fixes for Chrome, and Firefox causes problems regularly).
There is one thing mentioned there that I've never considered for some reason (and it's quite obvious in retrospect): Giving a candidate a code review exercise instead of (or in addition to) a code writing one. A code review can reveal a lot of how a candidate pays attention to details, looks at (and deals with) other people's code, reads code etc.
> to the various car manufacturers

Or to Apple/Google. While I'm a big fan, I fail to see how they become a dominant player in the industry, especially when most of their much larger competitors have committed to producing similar cars. Transportation as a service seems like it has more room for growth.
>yet it provides dates for these business dealings

That isn't illegal, and doesn't prove what was known by the company at the time.

>and salesforce anti human trafficking/prostitution efforts

Which again, doesn't prove the company knew anything about the client or what the customizations are being used for.

So far we know that salesforce provided services to a company like it does many other companies. We don't know if it participated knowing the business/use case. Those are the facts I"m talking about.

So while you seemingly make your mind up on allegations without facts, I'll wait for facts or otherwise wait to make up my mind. If those facts don't come out, then my mind just doesn't get made up.
Another bit of wisdom I got from Kent Beck is that there are three basic controls to every project... schedule, scope, and resources. You can only control two of them. And resources are generally fixed at the beginning of the project(1), so most projects are either scope-bound (we must have all these features), or schedule-bound (we must hit this hard date). If you're feature-bound, estimation failure means you'll be late. If you're schedule-bound, estimation failure means you'll be incomplete.

This can be a very hard pill for the business to swallow. They want it all, and they want a predictable schedule. But Beck's triangle is akin to thermodynamics. Do you want the volume, or the pressure, or the temperature? When fixing devops-related and agile-related process problems, I often hear "But we're a schedule-driven company!" when they have a scope-driven problem like process transformation.

1. As The Mythical Man-Month pointed out almost 50 years ago, adding resources to a late project makes it even later.
> The police sometimes take Uighurs' phones and check to make sure they have the compulsory software that monitors calls and messages.

Wow, this is the definition of a modern police state. Sounds like a dystopian video game.
USAF has a "Special Tactics" force, similar to the USN's SEALs.
Very relevant, and after a couple years away, coming back home and see the network you had faded away as well.
We need this decentralised
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I'm gonna have to disagree with you there ;)
Hadn't seen this, thanks!
At first glance, it appears that the difference is that Dyon is dynamically typed and requires the programmer to get lifetimes right manually (though annotations, ordering, or clone), whereas Lobster is statically typed and does all lifetime analysis automatically (and falls back to a runtime reference count increase when analysis fails). You'll be able to force the Rust/Dyon behavior manually with a type annotation in the future.
Linus doesn’t have any uniquely informed point of view here. Internet giants are much more like media companies than technology companies in the way they interact with society. Linus’ opinion is like a famous actor’s opinion on climate change: not necessarily wrong, but not really newsworthy.
The fact that you'd need to even own a car to get to your job is a massive barrier for people with low incomes. The fact that we are spending money building roads that we could be spending on other social programs is way more harmful to the poor than any congestion tax could be.

If this congestion charge reduces traffic and makes buses run faster, it's possible that it would actually massively benefit poorer individuals.
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I have never had to do any income tax paperwork. It’s not intrinsic to the concept of income tax, just a feature of the particular implementation in your country.
Nobody really understands or digs into the implications. They simply assume that if they are successful it's because they are great people while others are not great or as smart or hard working and that's why they suck. It's very difficult for privilege to understand implicit privilege... or for those looking to fix the situation to not piss people off as it's seen with those that are already in the in-group as being unfair.
> I sometimes climb 5000+ feet in a day

Unless you mean proper climbing but rather you hike/scramble, that's not really anything extraordinary. I am a rather active person but by no means any endurance or ultra runner. Doing 1500m+ altitude gain hike (which I sometimes do over weekends, most usual one is 1000 -> 2500m) is a weekend warrior level, next day I go and do something else (usually easier).

If you experience that elevated heart rate a whole week afterwards, that ain't normal IMHO, at least not for somebody who is on verge of starting marathons and planning for some lighter ultras soon. Get your heart/cardio/breathing checked by some experts.

My personal theory is - we are not born equal, and some people can literally grow with almost any challenge, others are easily destroyed by the same. I am rather the latter but it has some positive aspect - I need to train harder than most to get to their levels, which brings good amount of mental fortitude.
A couple million dollars a year [1]. It's always interesting to me how relatively little money it takes to make life objectively worse for everyone else in the country while making a small number of people richer. For the cost of a nice house or a low-budget indie film you can make sure taxes are difficult to file for everyone. Of course there's more to the influence these companies have than the dollar value they spend per year but still, it ain't that much money.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
In terms of prestige? Harvard.

In terms of academic excellence? Cal Tech.
If you go back to the beginning of the discussion, the person I was replying to was citing these studies to claim that running is perfectly safe. My reply was intended to raise doubts about that claim.

The burden of proof is on running advocates to show that running is safe and to clearly lay out the conditions for safety. As a former runner (who quit after breaking an ankle and speaking to an orthopedic surgeon who saw runners all the time), my strong suspicion is that running is only safe for those who:

a) run with perfect form

b) have perfect-fitting shoes

c) eat a well-balanced athletic diet

d) are already slim and fit before they begin running

I feel like that last one is the real key. If you're massively overweight and someone tells you to just go for a run, you're going to get hurt. To be a runner you need to get in shape first and have someone help you buy proper shoes and teach you proper form. Anything other than that is bad advice.