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I wonder how the British East India Company compared to its Dutch equivalent. I am too tired to write a comprehensive post right now, but with the Opium Wars and the monopoly on the Indian Subcontinent, I think the British EIC would be more powerful (and wealthier) than the Dutch EIC. Here are some (probably low quality) sources [0], [1]. Will write a better comment tomorrow after work.

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-Dut...
[1] https://indonesiaexpat.biz/travel/history-culture/colonies-d...
In a statement, Airbnb told CNN: "The safety and privacy of our community -- both online and offline -- is our priority. Airbnb policies strictly prohibit hidden cameras in listings and we take reports of any violations extremely seriously. We have permanently removed this bad actor from our platform."

It's shit like this, which really makes my blood boil and guarantees that I will never again do business with this bunch of despicable assholes. let me translate that:

In a statement, which Airbnb was forced to provide CNN, because of really bad publicity they meant to say: We give exactly zero fucks about the safety and security of our "community". Unless of course it becomes bad publicity, in which case we pretend to actually give a shit. What we mean is that if you want a fighting chance for a reasonable resolution then you should go public and and hope that it goes viral. Then we may actually do something about it

How can those PR assholes actually sleep at night?
> The day jazz will reach the masses is when the reviews about it do not even mention the word "black".

Indeed, and most of them don't nowadays!

> It's created by emacs users, for emacs users, it should absolutely mention that word everywhere and stress its origins

Of course, when you are explaining the history of org-mode you can mention it. Or when you are explaining how to org-mode with emacs. But to promote org-mode as a generic markup language (which I think is a very good idea), any mention of emacs, even indirect, should be best omitted.

> who really cares if somebody who is so superficial that he rejects a superior solution because it originated in a text editor he doesn't like doesn't use it?

I love emacs and I like to use it, no idea who are you taking about. Or was it sarcasm?
On macOS, fork() is a bit weird: https://opensource.apple.com/source/Libc/Libc-997.90.3/sys/f...

Many frameworks are backed by XPC services, where the parent process has a socket-like connection to a backend server. After forking, the child would have no valid connection to the server. The fork() function establishes a new connection in the child for libSystem, to allow Unix programs to port easily to macOS, but other services' connections are not re-established. This makes fork on macOS (i) slow, and (ii) unsafe for code that touches virtually any of Apple's APIs.
All that would accomplish is taking control of the revenue generated while they are in control. If the big mining centre is working with private keys that are unknown to the operators, then they would not be able to spend the coins previously mined. If they gain control of more than 51% of the hash rate in this way, they would be able to censor transactions or reorg the chain. That would still leave most of the blockchain in tact. A deep reorg might even get forked away from by the rest of the network, leaving them alone in a situation analogous to Ethereum Classic.
Bonds are just a debt instrument, they don't give control over companies like stocks. The VOC also had publicly tradable stocks though.
Akamai's CEO, Dr. Tom Leighton's math class at MIT, still my all-time favorite. It change my life, since I thought I will never be able to understand math above high school algebra.

Gilber Strang's linear algebra and Stewart's calcus is the other two.
I've always wondered why IRC clients didn't add seamless integration with NickServs of large networks. Maybe this was one of the reasons why services like Slack or Discord are successful; these services are taking your hand and are guiding you through everything, while IRC expects the user to read RFC and diagnostic server output in order to figure what's going on. I don't think it has to be this way.

IRC as a protocol probably can be used to build a service as friendly as Slack. I.e. it's not a problem to add URL autoexpansion, like in this WeeChat plugin: https://github.com/antekone/youtube-autoexpand . Of course it's not easily possible or practical to show pictures inside of the terminal window, but I think it's entirely possible to create a new modern Slack-competitive IRC client over a pure IRC network. What could be done on IRC can be seen in an old Microsoft app, Microsoft Comic Chat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat .

(disclaimer: i prefer IRC to Slack/Discord but I get why for many people IRC is a bad idea)
Forget it, he's obviously a wingnut.
I think it's because you're are defending your point from a deontological point of view, while the person you're responding to is arguing from a consequentialist point of view.

For a consequentialist, arguing on the ethics of the acts leading to the consequence is moot (and I think he's quite right that from a consequences point of view, the situation is hard to distinguish from quid pro quo corruption).

Of course, I'd love to see you too reconcile Kant and Machiavel, but you're fighting bad odds here ^^
We use Netlify for https://standups.io and we still are not paying a penny for their service. It works for our different environments, creates deploy previews out of every branch, supports split testing, and we even use it as a CI for our ReactJS app using Cypress! It's so painless and reliable, we just love it.
In general I agree with the sentiment but in the case of the VOC they owned the entire nation of Indonesia. Jakarta was a trading post they founded (nee Batavia). First company in the history of the world to issue shares to the public and an 18% divided for 200 years. They owned 2000 ships (more than Maersk, which has “just” 786) It’s probably fair to compare them to the conglomerates of today in inflation adjusted dollars.
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> VOC (Dutch East India Company) was more powerful than most nations at the time

This is simply not true. VOC at the beggining was extremly profitable but never had that much of military muscle. They were able to hold to some important trading posts but never been able or interested to expand their holdings.

Also in their most valuable possesion (Banda Islands and in Java/Sumatra) they had been challenged by small British force. As a result VOC have swaped Riu Island for New Amsterdam/New York.

Latter attempts at military expansion made VOC bancrupt. British India Company in comparision had been doing way better in this regard financing their private armies via taxing Indian subjects and profitable drug dealings. VOC simply lacked enough profit/tax base to keep up significant military presence.
Define study. Define mental phenomena. Define behavior. I just don't picture the wording being clear enough that it wouldn't be scrutinized if some company failed to disclose seemingly benign (blue vs. green) A/B tests.

I'm not a lawyer though.
The refutation (https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-reports-of-bitcoin-environm...) is a medium article.

Please try not to let that influence your opinion about the article though, because it does rightly point out the flaws in the original calculations, and the validity of the peer review of the original article.
We've been having it since quite a few years, it's called export and it looks like this:

- original org: https://demo.filestash.app/api/export/hnorg/text/org/emacs.o...

- markdown: https://demo.filestash.app/api/export/hnorg/text/markdown/em...

- html: https://demo.filestash.app/api/export/hnorg/text/html/emacs....

- pdf: https://demo.filestash.app/api/export/hnorg/application/pdf/...

- more fancy plain text: https://demo.filestash.app/api/export/hnorg/text/plain/emacs...

there's more builtin and with plugin you can say extend the github markdown to cope with jekyll, hugo, ...etc
Pandoc only handles a subset of org-mode markup.

IIRC last time I tried this (long ago) there were a number of gaps in things like org-mode tables.

At the limiting case, the (common or uncommon) elisp extensions (e.g. org-babel) will likely never be processed by third-party tools.
What site to trust? MDN once hanged their own browser (granted it can display itself without javascript).
I can't remember when I last heard someone saying "Amazon Web Services". It's commonly called AWS and while most people know it's owned by Amazon, it's a very distinct product.

Google Cloud follows the same naming pattern as other Google products, many of which were discontinued.

These things shouldn't make a difference but I believe they do, and they help to shield AWS from negative press around Amazon.
Welcome to our community of people in Discord :)
Now even more upset for my 7 year old self that I didn't get one reading the comments here about how awesome it was! The marketing was certainly very successful - I can still just about remember the TV adverts 35 ish (eek) years later.
I also subscribe. Having a non-technical background, CS101 and CS253 were essential for the start of my career in web development. And even though at the time (2014) I went with PHP to get my first dev job, I soon returned to Python because of that strong foundation.
> Treat this student as an individual and a real person

Treat everyone else as an individual and real person. If this were not what amounted to a pointless election and therefore a dumb prank, there could be real consequences. Some jackass screwed around with his high school election, sure, I don't think a severe punishment is in order. Suspension? Detention? Sure, whatever.

You think that individual's individuality is supposed to somehow put him in front of everyone else affected by his actions? Or is it the fact that someone is interested in STEM, that makes them special?

There is sometimes a victim of actions (in this case, other people running, other people voting). You write as if they don't matter or exist.
This has nothing to do with it, but for hardware interfaces I grew to love DIN Next, which is inspired by the classic German Industry font DIN 1451 Engschrift and DIN1451 Mittelschrift
> Marissa Mayer was an accomplished engineer and then a senior executive at Google through its transition from startup to behemoth

She was a product manager not an engineer. Her greatest accomplishment according to her was keeping the home page simple by only including the search bar. She also made the right decision to invest heavily in google maps.

You also left out the part where she slept with the founder during her time at Google, which undoubtedly gave her a leg up for promotions.

> then took on the impossible task of rescuing Yahoo when no comparably experienced man wanted to step up to the plate

She took it because she struck a sweat deal with board. In exchange for forgoing her google shares, she was able to reap 300 million in 4 years despite having an abysmal performance. Give any experience man that type of deal and I assure you there will be many that step up.
I very much prefer to mine a bit with my browser than watch ads
I‘m assuming Outline is blocking domains (nytimes.com comes to mind) when those publications ask to be excluded.
Fair point. I guess that just leaves a free filing tool :)
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I started here:

https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photogra...

Then moved on to image streaming but it didn't add that much more:

http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm

There's still a lot of mumbo-jumbo feeling to it and the videos and writing, but it does work. 10 minutes a day, a little over a week, and I started to see things. I found it a lot easier to do just as I was going to sleep, first time it happened I'd forgotten to do it in the scheduled slot so did it just after I went to bed without the recorder. The recorder is useful to begin with to remind you to carry on speaking out loud.

It is frustrating to begin with.
I think Bitcoin resembles the Mississippi company a bit more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company

TLDR: Scottish gambler becomes the most influential financial state official in France and uses his power to create an impossible financial scheme, makes everyone crazy for stocks for a colony that is mostly composed of colonists dying of hardship, resulting in an implosion of French Economy. Scottish, oh how they've been around. This is a funny sidenote to one of the founding fathers of US, Alexander Hamilton, who was as well of scottish heritage but created a financial system that did not implode.
Fidelity has an HSA with zero fees that lets you invest just like an IRA. I don’t know if you can open one without being a US resident, however.
Doesn't the government already need to calculate what everyone has to pay so it knows when someone hasn't paid enough? The IRS probably already has the same systems being developed and maintained to keep track of everyones taxes, the system would need an user friendly public interface, but it wouldn't have to be developed from scratch.

The idea that some business gets to ban the government from offering a service and some people argue that it's good for eveyone is totally absurd to me.. from a country where I log in to our version of the IRS, where my salary information is pre-filled, I only need to add stuff if I had some other income.. and the system is totally free to use for everyone, and most people just spend about 5 minutes once a year to declare their taxes.
> do you have all of their birthdays memorized

I surely do. It's not a problem to memorize a few numbers related to the people significant to me enough to send them a birthday message.

The Dunbar numbers go around 3-5, 9-15, 30-45 [0], so even "the 2nd tier" relationships' birthdays are not really that hard to remember

[0] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2004...
> just doesn't make sense outside Emacs

That is the entire point. If I can only use it inside emacs then I will only use it inside emacs.
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I think Bill Gates was brilliant leading Microsoft. I hated about everything Microsoft did, I hated their software, and to this day I hate their history of crushing alternatives/competitors that were much higher quality than whatever Microsoft was selling. They are a much better company today, but in the past Microsoft was really a bully of a company.

None of this speaks against Bill Gates being a genius making Microsoft as powerful and successful as it was and still is though, to the contrary. You may not have liked his style (I didn't), but he did a lot of things right. It's why 90% of business are more or less chained to the Windows platform to this day.
Not sure about that: When the next generation doesn't know what a stamp is, and the fascination, getting a message from someone, getting glimpse into the world, has no basis, who will 'collect'?

I think it's similar to collecting old guitars; people in their financial prime buy a connection to the music and bands of the 60ies and 70ies; their children may have grown up with electronic music and can't relate.

Cars might be relatable, since you can still drive around with it, but the current fashion of having 'vintage' things may be over in 10 years.
> Nothing special, anyone can do it.

That's what I'm thinking every day while I'm working and talking to other developers.

But when I try to teach, or help non-coders who decide to take up coding, I am amazed every time to find out that there's one skill that I don't even think about that seems unteachable: structural thinking.

I can teach a person how to get an input from a user. I can teach a person how to process that input. I can teach a person how to present output to the user. I have not been able to teach a person how to decompose a task "calculate effective property tax rate" (or something similar) into those steps.
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Glibc got its main clone-based implementation in 2016, so it should be much more competitive now.
Bread. Look at the Arab spring. All countries that revolted did so in a period when the price of bread exploded. That price explosion was caused by financial mismanagement of the leaders of the country.

The dollar has lost 98% of its purchasing power over the past 100 years, and in recent years has been watered down enormously with QE. That money had to go somewhere, which is why stocks and corporate debt is currently at record highs. QE isn't possible in Bitcoin, and the coin itself is deflationary to 0 in about 2140.
"every other system has a feature except us, and we are not going to add it (because reasons) even if it's very widely used"

also:

> When a fork syscall is made on WSL, lxss.sys does some of the initial work to prepare for copying the process. It then calls internal NT APIs to create the process with the correct semantics and create a thread in the process with an identical register context. Finally, it does some additional work to complete copying the process and resumes the new process so it can begin executing.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/06/08/wsl-system-c...
Are they? not seen much sign of that though.

I am pretty sure (90%) I got dropped from consideration by a FANG company because I don't have a degree.
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Fork is quite excellent, except in cases when the intent is to run a different program or when threads are involved (threads are basically an incompatible, competing model of concurrency).

The use of fork as a concurrency mechanism (creating a new thread of control that executes in a copy of the address space) is very good and useful.

In the POSIX shell language, the subshell syntax (command1; command2; ...) is easily implemented using fork. This is useful: all destructive manipulations in the subshell like assignments to variables or changing the current directory do not affect the parent.

Check out the fork-based Perl solution to the Amb task in Rosetta code: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Amb#Using_fork

This essentially simulates continuations (in a way). (If the parent process does nothing but wait for the child to finish, fork can be used to perform speculative execution, similar to creating a continuation and immediately invoking it).

Microsoft "researchers" can stuff it and their company's flagship piece of shit OS.
Github's Ruby implementation of org-mode syntax has quite a few holes in it, as shown by this test page: https://github.com/novoid/github-orgmode-tests
After reaching $1.2 Billion they shut it down. Probably the same with the next scam. Most money probbaly cannot be recovered as a lot of it trickled down to a lot of people.

Doesn't Medicare and/or DOJ have teams of investigators looking for scams? Don't they watch TV commercials?
Yes and no. They’re not on-chain but so what? Exchanges are the sole fiat gateways, which in turn determines the exchange rate between BTC and fiat, which in turn determined the exchange rate between BTC and goods and services. These off-chain transactions determine how many apples a bitcoin gets you. The net is then settled onto the blockchain. They’re relevant. As relevant as any Lightning transaction, or is LN not “real bitcoin” either?
I think it's very likely nobody is "lying" (why would they?) and still get conflicting opinions. It's not always easy to get a faithful picture of somebody's character (especially not if that someone wants you to get a certain view of them).

I've had people I've casually (sometimes in a business context) interacted with on several occasions & gotten a very positive impression, only to late be told a lot of negatives from people who knew them better.

One guy in particular was praised by my boss (also his ex-boss at the time), confirming my positive impression & years later a coworker of mine who worked under that person had a very negative view of them...

There are several possibilities but I think the most likely is a combination of 1. people act differently in different contexts 2. the same person can be good at one position/time and bad at another 3. people are not always honest with you & especially if they're good at it can come across the way they wish.
For me, Udacity just has crazy prices.

I mean I can pay ~40-50 euros for Coursera and edX (and lots of them are free).

But Udacity costs thousands of euros - I could attend a brick and mortar school with a great reputation for that price here in Spain.
A/B testing is usually trivial and the disclosure will be trivial too. It does not need to be any burden to the readers (like a popup), and with a good tooling (and A/B testing requires tooling) it will not add much work to the developers too. It might be just automatically recorded in a public log. From time to time there will be something more interesting in that log and that will be the task of the media to analyse the logs and discover the interesting stuff. The disclosure just makes this work easier.
Ah, I see the gradient now, it's still hard to distinguish because its colour is basically the same as that of the ring line. Yesterday evening it was nigh impossible to see because of the red-shifted colours of my monitor.
Speak for yourself.

If what you are doing can be done by a 13 year old, that is your reality.

What I do requires years and years of experience/study, and 90% of the 20 year olds cannot do it, and that is being very conservative.

Of course you are talking about the average developer. But your average health personnel aren't doctors, they are nurses or assistants. And there is nothing wrong with that.
I'm a big fan of Perl myself, but when writing POD, I occasionally stumble about the C<...> for inline code.

The problem is that you have to take care that there is no > in the inline code, and if there is, you have to switch to C<< ... >>. With Markdown's `...`, this happened far less often to me.
Within Google there are several tools, but the most common (and IMO best) is markdown. (Docs is a close second.)

Pros: Get's checked in like code, gets reviewed, and leaves a nice paper trial of edits.

Cons: Doesn't invite comments/discussions as well as Docs does.
It's more appropriate to compare the photos rather than the actual things.
That eight megs of memory is a pretty terrible price.
I too find myself skeptical of this condition. I think we probably aren't so different, we just have trouble describing our subjective experiences in an objective way.

Imaging something is clearly not the same thing as actually seeing something. And yet I can imagine shape, 3D positioning, color, texture, movement, etc.. all the while NOT seeing it (and NOT hallucinating it). So do I have the condition or not?
I'm not parent, but yes, I've always been this way.

Just like he says in the article, and other posters are saying, for decades I didn't even realize because I didn't think people were being literal about "seeing pictures" in their head. I thought it was simply a label for remembering.

It was only when doing the course "Learning how to Learn" and getting frustrated with the memory techniques that I found out that people really do see with their mind's eye.
> - Why add rivers to this map?

Rivers are often used to navigate. Knowing if a station is just south of the river or north can help a lot to determine the closest station. Esp. as real walking speeds often differ from those assumed by trip planners, a fairly accurate map with rivers helps to find a quicker door2door journey.
Blocked as well for me. Wish the author could host it on Github.
Magit does make pretty good bait.
> Without Emacs, org-mode is just weird markdown.

So, are you saying that the title of the article is bogus? Or that emacs is the only reasonable editor?