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>I haven't come across any information that would indicate that we can generalize a person's immune system to be better than another's,

There's definitely people who seem to get sick all the time and people who don't. Ask any schoolteacher and they'll tell you that for every cough/cold/whatever that goes around there's a couple kids that always get it and some that never do. Of course there's other variables like hand washing and whatnot but there's probably still some differences between people. Whether these are genetic or environmental (e.g. nutrition) I don't know.
Consider this.

* Revenue > OPEX, but all the difference is put into expanding to new areas, maybe even topped with some debt. If needed, the expansion can be curbed, and profits will show. This is the Amazon case.

* Revenue < OPEX, and no matter what other expenses you cut, you make a loss on every sale. You cannot show a profit however you try. This is the case of WeWork and maybe Uber, AFAICT.

The amount of other expenses that you can cut to turn profitable, and the amount of profit surfaced this way, is indeed a kind of a spectrum, from near zero to a quite healthy ROI. But it does not apply for companies that are fundamentally in the red.
> 2. Give them a playground to fail - Offload any non-business critical tasks and let them make mistakes. No one I know ever learnt programming without making any mistakes. Immediately tell them about best practices and how to avoid such mistakes in future.

I think even more importantly is to encourage failure, or at least reporting it. How many times have you been ecstatic that you managed to get a program to crash differently? A lot of people are terrified of failure, but people probably learn better from their mistakes. And showing them that it's ok (even encouraged) to report what their stuck on to you means that they can potentially get a quicker solution, learn from you.
Mysteriously, whenever I'm forced to work on an existing C++ code base, it has far more bugs than all C code bases that I've worked on.

And yes, apart from the myriads of usual C++ leaky abstraction bugs that "just" cause wrong results, this includes segfaults.
In the same way you find interesting things in real life. You talk to your friends what they like and collect RSS feeds starting from that nucleus of websites.
"Indians thinks that UAE gold is more pure than what they can get in USA or India."

Gold is cheaper in UAE than in India. That's why there are smuggler rings that give people(migrant workers) free tickets in exchange for carrying gold(that is within legally permissible limit), as human mule[0].
In some instances, they dupe migrant workers into carrying them[1].

[0] https://www.theblaze.com/news/2013/12/24/the-clever-way-almo...

[1]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/migrant-w...
>There are no safe array or safe string libraries, because they all fall appart under scrutiny, given C's approach to secure code.

I do not understand, maybe give an example.

About the history I am not sure that proves that UNIX and C advantage was only because of that, it could be a factor but there are merits to C and UNIX that if you want to disprove you can;t just do it by mentioning that history. I mean Windows API used C.
And yet I'm betting your language is run through a C program on its way to being interpreted or compiled.
Ejecting people for making rape and death threats to other members of the community is not the same as ejecting members of the community for being PoC, LGBTQ, Nazis or Republicans.

These are not the same thing.
It wasn't fair criticism.
How does Flutter sit in the spectrum from Immediate mode to Retained mode? I presume it might provide an interesting erspective. On the one hand widgets are constructed on the fly, on the other it uses an OOP language to do so. So I suspect this maps to statefulness and statelessness?
Toyota and Tesla merging would be great. Toyota masters scaling and world-wide logistics but doesn't have EV technology. Their software is also very basic. Tesla doesn't control logistics but master EV and autopilot. Them merging is not impossible, Toyota once had a stake in Tesla.
Yes, of course; but deposits will come, Revolut communicated as much (IIRC). Also (IIRC) the license does permit accepting deposits, but as of now there are limits / quantity constraints imposed. So there is that. But those limits can be raised (and intuition (not knowledge) tells me it may not be hard; but this also stems from my distrust of BoL and its regulatory oversight capacity).
And you make sure that you can purge the logs afterwards.
It only "does the same thing" if you consider the Mozilla foundation to be the moral equivalent of the authoritarian regime ruling China. I submit that most reasonable observers would not.
Regarding the catholic Church, one could make the argument that it helped preserve and translated Antic texts in the monasteries. And there are a few point on which society regressed in the Middle Ages: human trafficking for slavery disappeared in the Middle Ages (but not slavery, since one could argue that serfdom is a form of slavery) and reappeared in the age of enlightenment; the place of women improved during that time too.
>Their one mistake can have very drastic effects on hundreds of thousands of employees.

When Papa John's founder said a bad word the sales dropped. Any executive could cause a similar reaction from the public. You want them to be paid well enough that they never cause such problems.
Not sure if ratemyprofessor is used as heavily nowadays but this seems relevant: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=605892&s...
You’re probably right and my counter argument would be:

1. Human [curiosity, desire, necessity] drives innovation.

2. Profit mandate suppresses most of those innovations by promoting the few money making ideas (however beneficial or harmful they may be).
A great strategy in teaching a subject is connecting it with something the pupil already knows and finds interesting. This reference or association makes it meaningful and can motivate them to learn more by themselves.

You can show them what of a superpower programming really is, now they can sense, process and affect things that are normally out of their reach. Let them create a thousand files, read an API, create a bot, crash the system and blink an LED.

They can automate many processes and solve new technical problems or create something entertaining. Maybe a new small website. Or a mod for their favorite game.
It doesn't fix anything. In most compilers, the behavior of compilers with respect to undefined behavior that everyone complains about boils down to "the compiler creates implicit __builtin_assumes that undefined behavior does not happen." That is "behaving during translation [...] in a documented manner characteristic of the environment," (especially given that the constant discussion of how undefined behavior is treated in the compiler by compiler writer means it's more well-documented than other mandatory-documented things, such as the actual implementation choices for implementation-defined behavior). It's just that the environment isn't the environment people thought it was.
I am generally in favor of the liberal arts, but this sort of smug self-satisfaction and assumption of superiority, as displayed here, does not sit well with me.
Well, not really. I hate on Electron not because of its size on disk, but its runtime memory footprint. Things like Skype in the background using 500MB, an Autodesk update notifier sitting silently in the tray using 350MB etc. all add up to a few GB of main memory you suddenly don't have. And these numbers are real, by the way.
This meme has to die.

Yes it's interesting that childhood mortality has a larger effect than expected by laypeople.

But we have still made huge improvements, look at the current difference between countries -

https://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/population-ageing-da...

But yes this article confuses the issue, and yes it's hard to get a good graph showing life expectancy at post infant levels.

Even eliminating smoking in countries (Which is basically happening) is 1 or 2 years - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62363/table/ch5.t2/?re...
In the left's defense you have to be all over the map to defend a position. And with the right attacking on multiple fronts it makes consensus on how to respond even harder. Take global warming and climate change. You only need one person to cast doubt to cause thousands of scientists to go into whirlwind of having to defend their data.
I guess, but what about PNaCl? Was V8 blocking that too?
You could make it binary and label everything as improving profit or investing in the growth of the company but I think we should define "growth" in this case as the relatively short-term investment made to grow. That's immediately what I thought of when I read and re-read the parent comment.

Reading what was said, I imagine rolling out new markets, testing new customer acquisition methods, and hiring to focus on new features would all fit in this label as growth.

Things like R&D might not. If Uber has been investing in self-driving vehicles, it may not pay off in the short-term, and therefore wouldn't fit in this set as it's quite speculative. Technical debt might fit here too. Or marketing debt: perhaps they want to establish brand guidelines and everything that comes with it. Great investment but not what directly helps you grow. A more direct "financial dial" might be restructuring your company from a legal perspective and forming new entities.

Just sharing how I read "black-and-white consideration". Maybe the parent can clear up what they meant.
You still need to breathe air, and that has to come from somewhere.

Face masks are effectively preventing droplet infections, but probably wouldn't prevent traces of peanut from being inhaled.
It's not that she doesn't have the right to the wealth, but that she didn't work for it. The executive probably did.
Helm has conditionals, you can just cascade a different value files.

I did a similar thing last week, if you want I could try to post some example.
> If personal storage units were given away for free, you might argue that it doesn't make sense to organize your stuff, or remove stuff you don't need anymore, and you would be wrong. The least important reason to consider is to conserve disk and bandwidth; the most important is to reduce risk by reducing surface area. Small, sleek and efficient is mostly about reducing cognitive load, even if it had it's roots in mechanical resource conservation.

I agree with that much, but using GTK+ in the normal way for your language has a much lower cognitive load than any proposed alternative.

> BTW I work on a project that made this same argument years ago, writ large, for the CI system they built. "Size doesn't matter; just throw more money at instances; its cheaper than spending dev resources to make it efficient." So, now we have a development pipeline that uses more EC2 instances than production, by a factor of about 100. The build no longer runs well on (very fast) dev machines, and takes 30 minutes even on xlarge instances. The build is enormous, complex, and slow, and it was allowed to get that way because someone made the same argument you are making against a strawman.

That's a textbook slippery slope fallacy. If and when resource consumption becomes a significant issue for your use case, take measures to address that. Size absolutely can matter. But 120mb does not matter.
The point I was trying to make is that different markets define "luxury" in different ways - I don't think anyone here in the UK would call an Audi A4 a luxury car - even at its highest spec level.

Edit: Sort of reminds me of the differences in defining "class" between the US and the UK :-)
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https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-...

Gluten can induce anaphylaxis in some people. I guess we just wait now for them to ban all gluten-containing foods?
Dysgenic freaks of nature are biohazards and should be sterilized to prevent them from passing on their dangerously flawed genes. The fact that they aren’t sterilized means that their deaths are in fact a good thing for humanity as a whole.
Entitled is not the same as earned. She might have been entitled to her inheritance, but she likely didn't earn it.
> Both are solved, controlled and executed constantly by other car companies.

Executed for ICE cars and their components. They don't have the supply chains for batteries, inverters, or electric motors.
Ensure you've eaten well.

Pick a drink which has a taste to your liking. Relish it while you drink it.

Drink a glass of water between drinks.

Stop after a couple of drinks. This is much easier if you've done the above.

(This may turn out to be rubbish advice but there may be a good idea or two in there.)
Nice work!

I'd recommend adding a license to make it easier for other people to contribute (if that's something you'd like): https://help.github.com/en/articles/licensing-a-repository
The point is aptly demonstrated within this thread; sometimes things that look trivial at a glance aren't so trivial in reality.
My sister was one of the many students who signed multiple letters of defense. She leans very much to the left end of the ideological spectrum but still had nothing but amazing things to say. What a shame.
I'm talking about the E-Tron Q4, which is a different model from the E-Tron.
Commenting unofficially as an open source fan inside a globally giant enterprise, your post (a) made sense, (b) was circulated to folks much less familiar with these concerns.

The table was particularly helpful, and at least this global enterprise is well aware of all the other nonsense it didn’t cover. I would have found adding those to the table to lessen your focused point about license openness and pitfalls vs. need of the ecosystem to be sustainable.
There's a lot of great advice here, so I'll just add one more thing. Don't let them get too caught up on tools and "setups". Sometimes beginners will expend hours just tuning their IDE. Use something like repl or just any text editor. At our bootcamp, we created our own platform to host Jupyter Notebooks, the improvement has been huge: https://notebooks.ai
Cheer up, outside of SV & academia, it's not all that much contentious anymore. People moved on, we are dealing with issues that we consider timely and well sourced.

In my estimation, the 2017 was the high watermark of climate change worries. Recall how AOC's recent Green New Deal went down with little support beyond lip service, and note how the current Extenction Rebellion protests in London gets only moderate media coverage.
"And given the ever shorter life cycles in the automotive sector the window ever was max. one facelift / model replacement"

That assumes that Tesla's competitors actually have the expertise to compete.

Its been mentioned elsewhere I believe, that Audi's Etron has less range per kwh of battery, compared to a Tesla.

Tesla also has a charging network.

I'm tempted to turn your statement around and say there's a rapidly closing window for the other car makers to start taking EVs seriously. I suspect theres going to be a tipping point situation where the market for EVs is going to rapidly increase, and the established car makers better hope they have something they can sell, and at scale, because theres the Chinese as well as Tesla all ready to go. My crystal ball doesn't tell me what car companies are going to go bust, but I predict there'll be some big names, and Tesla could be one of them, I doubt it would disappear as a car making entity though.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that has a problem with this phrase. I feel liberated to start mentioning it now.
And if you add in modern abortions to life expectancy then the view also changes.
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It's really ironic to see HN posters staking out bold claims about the value of totally "uncensored" platforms...in a thread with dozens of dead, hidden comments, on a message board subject to heavy-handed, arbitrary and unaccountable moderation.
Yes. When most people say "life expectancy" they mean "life expectancy at birth." Even in the depths of the middle ages when life expectancy at birth was around 30 years, most people who lived to adulthood lived into their 60s and 70s.
The biggest problem regarding electricity costs in Germany is the fact it has too many underutilized power plants. 28GW of mostly unused gas plants that could have reduced CO2 emissions years ago. Meanwhile coal workers have to be protected just like in the US and therefore 46GW of coal capacity gets used instead to make sure coal towns don't disappear.

When you look at this turning off 10GW of nuclear starts to make sense, it's expensive, there are no suitable storage sites in Germany, people don't like it and finally: Germany doesn't need it because it has too much anyway. The dark side is that coal gets to live another day because nobody wants to be personally responsible for the loss of thousands of jobs.
I have the same question. There are many things that are problematic about Qt (personally, I loathe anything that feels the need to interject itself in the middle of the build process) but to completely ignore Qt without explanation - and subsequently post detailed experiences with libraries I've never even heard of - led me to believe the author exists in some uninteresting-to-me parallel plane of existence.
> I also find the use of statistics/citing numbers from studies to prove a point, a most boring way to argue a point in writing.

This definitely depends on the point being argued, and the rigour expected by the audience. For any vaguely technical subject, it's quite possible to cite statistics to great effect, though it may not always be necessary.

Actually, your comment made me think about how I respond to statistics in non-technical writing, say, in a news article or forum post. My gut reaction seems to be: "how is the author going to spin this fact, and what other evidence did they conveniently ignore because it contradicts their argument?"
>> I don't understand why the most elite schools seem to be among the most likely to decide that their students need protection from harm

Do you have a source for this, or is this just a biased opinion?
So I take issue with the GP's assertion that is overly "emotive", the implication being that the BBC is biased about blowing things out of proportion that suits its agenda. The article seems quite factual to me.

But I do take issue with the claim that we "might lose between 50% and 70% of the global population" because of reduced sea ice as overly simplistic extrapolation [1].

As much as birds (like many animals) seem to return to the same place (typically where they themselves were born)--and, on a side note, I would love to know how they do this--they also seem capable of adapting. It seems relatively likely that a good number of them have moved to the nearby colony mentioned just based on numbers.

So even if sea ice does reduce dramatically by the end of the century, it doesn't automatically follow that penguin populations will similarly decline. Stability of ice (April-December) is important but declining sea ice just moves that further south (to a point). Proximity to food sources is also key.

I actually kind of wish we'd just stop with "computer modeling". Part of the reason we have so many climate change deniers (IMHO) is just how bad climate model predictions have been.

[1] https://xkcd.com/605/
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Presumably you have to compile the C++ once to wasm though?
Are there such patients who live daily life normally but get sick at a whiff of a cracked chocolate? Will they get as sick from walking in a food court or other places in daily life? I can't judge this policy as reasonable or draconian.
That's kinda the fault of the developer. Electron itself isn't very large and I've seen very well crafted electron apps. The fact that slack uses 1-2gb memory is definitely on slack.
>> people at elite schools are the most likely to complain and be listened to by their fellow elites

You have no source for this and seem to have an anti-Duke bias based on your second statement. Why should we believe what you said?
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Tesla doesn't make good cars. They make unremarkable cars with good drive-trains. It's like the EV version of FCA's ~700hp offerings. Sure the interior and build quality are kind of crap for what you pay but with 700 ponies on tap you don't care.
Are the NSA being pressured from certain current Political actors who do all their criminal things by phone? (instead of having a public showdown, they are preemptively "suggesting" that they are done with it?
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> Save millions of lives by being safer driving than humans?

That’s not a perceptible change. It’s a wonderful thing and I’m all for people not dying, but people aren’t suddenly going to notice the difference. It’s not like people entering a car think “Am I going to die?!” every time they go to work.

> Drive you home the rest of the time?

Again I don’t see this as being more than a convenience. At beta it leads to more screen time zoning out with a Netflix a la train commuting.

> Drive you cross country overnight while you sleep?

The vast majority of people can’t afford to take a week off to travel across the country so they would not notice this.

> Come and pick you up at the airport after a holiday?

Again a convenience, not a major change. One can already call an Uber from the airport.

> Make you money during the day as an autotaxi while you're not using it?

I don’t see this being as popular an idea as people make it out to be. The phrase “Make money while you sleep” has been pitched for years and in the case of renting your car out overnight, doesn’t factor insurance costs and the race to the bottom on pricing . Once that catches up there won’t be much money to be made.

> Save your life by avoiding accidents you didn't see?

Again this is a great thing but not perceptible to the daily user.

> Radically bring down the cost of taxis and car hire for those who don't own a car?

It’s already lower than the cost of ownership thanks to VC money.

> In our lifetimes all cars will be electric driverless cars in at least some countries. It may not be Tesla but the future is coming.

Electric has nothing to do with “smart”. It can be a gas engine. It can be a fuel cell. It could be something we don’t even know about yet.