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I'm not sure I see where objects enter into this. I mean, you seem to be asking for something like this,

public unit Util {
public void foo() {
// do things
}
}

which would compile down into a bytecode-containing artifact which we could call a unit file, which the JVM would load at runtime using some sort of unit loader. Callers could import the Util unit and then invoke foo with the statement

Util.foo();

But then, I don't see the diffence between the above and the following,

public class Util {
public static void foo() {
// do things
}
// If we're really pedantic, we can ban construction of Util instances
private Util() {}
}

which compiles down into a bytecode-containing artifact called a class file, which the JVM loads at runtime using a class loader. Callers can import the Util class and then invoke foo with the statement

Util.foo();

What's this downside you speak of? Is there something a different kind of translation unit would do that a class currently doesn't?
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What I was thinking was to use the OS native search as a way to quickly find a candidate set of files, and then to manually winnow down from there. The indexer would only help for a subset of queries: there are many queries it wouldn't help with at all. But it could help for many common ones. I suppose it depends on how the OS full text search is implemented: if it has hardwired NLP stuff in it, for example, it might not be useful at all.
Jews being Jews. Hardly surprising.
fao_ -- Thanks a lot for that gesture! Very kind.
I did not realize I was shadow banned at all and I'm not sure why I would have been. It does sum up "the internet" in 2019 perfectly for me though.
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it's actually a dog :,,) . We agree, adjusting the lighting now.
Nobody has to pay money to file their taxes. Anybody could figure it all out on their own.

But I have a new & deep appreciation for how complicated taxes can get. If you have W-2's and 1099's, it's pretty easy. But holy cow, I ran a rental property and there is a huge step function in complexity when you venture beyond the W-2 & 1099. And that was only just dipping my toes in the pool of business taxes.

So a hired accountant, or a software-accountant (turbotax, h&r block), really can help you out where you might otherwise have to pour over IRS documents every weeknight for months.
Every business has an obligation to make money. However, the VC game has been filled with a win at all cost mentality that has led to the downfall of many companies - as well as evidence that the companies themselves are not prepare to become public (they aren't worthy of the public trust).

One could argue that the market is okay with these types of things. But, we talk about doing the right thing. And if it's not just lip service, this could be a great opportunity to prove it.
Sounds like VCs need a plagiarism detector for websites (think TurnItIn) to make sure their portfolio companies aren't blatant ripoffs.
They don't support all states unfortunately.
I agree that some things would require more evidence, but it's problematic when that is applied simply because they results are inconvenient in one way or another, and when it keeps being applied so the results never have to be acknowledged. Look at climate change. People are far to willing to discount information that is at odds with their preconception of the world. To differing degrees, this is a problem on both sides.
When building Chrome from source code our build system creates about 70,000 processes. This is enough that, even without CFG issues, process-creation time is a factor in the minimum build time.
How many counter examples do you need before determining if a heuristic is bad, in your opinion?
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Ah that makes sense, thanks.
As an Australian I can confirm that Amazon launching here was a hotly anticipated disappointment. Amazon US is (was) far more popular in Australia than Amazon AU is now, for many reasons including price and breadth of product.

In order to force use of the AU site they blocked sales from the US site to Australian customers, which caused endless irritation and frustration.
> I think it's entirely possible for you to avoid most of this type of tracking if you so choose, but it does mean not using services such as Facebook,...

Why do you think this is a choice? This is definitely not a choice any more. It has been 10+ years since Facebook removed your choice to not use it from society.

Step outside and walk around. You will be photographed. Those photographs are going to Instagram and you are in the background. Your face is scanned by Facebook and they know where you go and what you do in the day. Facebook will know your location because other apps that you use will send Facebook your location without you even knowing it. Other people's actions online, who are tracked more vigorously, like emailing you or even meeting you in person for a coffee, will give further info to Facebook. Your cell signal location and your credit card history are probably up for sale and Facebook probably buys that too.

You want to opt-out by staying home? Just order stuff online? I'm sure Facebook will still find a way to figure you out. There is no such thing as not-using-Facebook, or opting out any more. Saying that there is a way to choose not to be tracked is dangerous and wrong.

> ...and not giving out your phone number to people who use these services.

The tracking they can do is so far past just linking phone numbers though. Trying to keep a phone number secret simply isn't going to work and if it did, it would be ineffective in protecting you from being tracked.
> I'd be interested to hear opinions from anyone who prefers the studio apartment with windows at the narrow end (and why).

I've lived in both shapes (technically, they were 1 bedrooms, but had the same difference in layout). I much preferred the one with windows at the narrow end. It allowed me to actually use the walls for stuff - couch against one wall, TV opposite without having massive glare and my back to the window. Still allowed lots of natural light in.

The one advantage of the long layout was it allowed better airflow from a window at one end to a window at the other. But it also allowed way too much sunlight in during the summer, meaning that ventilation was less effective at cooling the space.
I would imagine it would look like European solutions; which pretty much work perfectly vs whatever bullshit a market would put out.
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As the blog suggested may happen, dotsucks.sucks is, in fact, owned by the Vox Populi registry, and allows people to complain about the .sucks registry.

easydns.sucks appears to still not go anywhere.
Its super de-motivational. Par for the course with everything these daysthough.
As an engineer working in non-profit health, just remember the grass is always greener.
One thing I did to spot these dark patterns is have two credit cards.

The first is used for re-occuring bills (Netflix, Phone, internet etc).

The second is for everyday spending (Amazon, groceries, sundries etc). The second has an extremely low threshhold for alerts and emails about pretty much every transaction.

If something were to set itself to autopay, I'd notice very quickly since card 1 pings me, and card 2 only should have <10 merchants per month for easy auditing.

(Paying in cash for entertainment expenses also makes auditing easier. Having every cup of coffee or burrito clogging your statement makes it hard to spot double charges and other small frauds)
We need more wolves and less suburbs. Or at least more hunters.

Deer are out of control. They're being chased out out every development around here.

In the midlights, they commute to all the business parks. I guess for the lawns around the office buildings.

There's tons of them, and they don't all look so good. I imagine they're facing trash, exhaust, and fertilizer, all day every day.

We have too many little developments and too few predators.
This is insane. With this in mind, why would they not use RISC-V?

My better guess is that they started it a long time ago. Long enough for RISC-V not to be in usable condition.

Hopefully, they'll redo the frontend.
Here you go with the source: https://www.shopify.com/enterprise/global-ecommerce-marketpl...

And Amazon is also big in Brazil, Mexico, Japan etc. I think it is suffice to say that my point wrt Amazon dominating global eComm is fairly well laid out. Well, except for "China".
8 year olds dude.
Product ideas are not subject to copyright. Documentation is. If developers copy other products' documentation "all the time" then they should stop (unless the documentation has a licence that allows it). Doing something "all the time" doesn't make it moral or legal.
> The reason Intuit has been able to make so much money is that no one wants to waste hours poring over verbose IRS instruction publications

And because Intuit spends a lot of money lobbying to ensure that the IRS won't make things any easier.
The all process you described there is called science.

Stopping people from doing science just because of political ideology, is a very dangerous proposition.
Social media has sadly exasperated the effects. Everyone is a target! Every time I see a person being lynched, I can't help but see the mechanism in action. This affects both the sexes, I would say Katie Bouman is the most recent scapegoat.
I think it's a knee-jack reaction. People didn't even read the article, but decided that this is what must have happened.
This is bad, but not quite as bad as it could be: they have tons of money and are ripe for the plucking due to their incredible stupidity at ripping you off in this blatant manner.

Lawyer up and take them to the cleaners.
I think you have a totally valid point/concern, but that logic could be applied to nearly everything. For example, anorexia is a marker for possible mental health issues, but someone who doesn't eat because they can't afford it doesn't have anorexia.

I think it's assumed that a diagnosis/marker is valid only to that particular person based on their background.
The entire Chinese economy has to do with government interference. The scales are absolutely tipped in favor of Chinese companies.
JD and TMall have about close to 1,000 distribution points in the major cities with at least 10,000 delivery people each. Same day delivery is standard (order before 10am and it arrives by 6pm) for a lot of products.
Install and building furniture at your home is also a common feature. Two day delivery is slow.

Amazon isn't willing to invest the money and for most products on their site they still don't stock products locally. Half the time I find products on their site I have to wait 2/3+ weeks for it to be imported.

There is nothing stopping them having local stock but ... they don't.
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Re: The idea behind mass immigration is that you have a constant supply of workers and tax payers to subsidize the welfare of the retiring natives of a country.

Politicians run up deficits and then cover their boo boo via immigration. I'm not making a value judgement on immigration here, but politicians have a bad habit of sacrificing the future for current benefits largely because their political career is a relatively small slice of time. It's why we have debt and pension problems. True, voters play a part by having short memories, voting for instant gratification.
You can't have equality of outcome without removing the ability of an individual's choices to influence their outcome, aka freedom. Therefore "equity" is a fundamentally anti-liberty concept.
Even so, from your side, your motivation from being in business is for your own work life balance and to further your goals - which are not necessarily financial.

But unless I as an employee think that I’m doing something for a higher calling, what motivation do I have to work for your company besides either making more money now, or to learn skills where I can leave and make more money later? In other words, I may be willing to make less for a non profit but not for a for profit business.

And that’s not meant to be judgemental. You would be hiring me because you can arbitrage my talents and pay me less than you can profit from me. On the other hand, I would work for you to get the most money I could and at the same time understanding that you are profiting off of me in exchange for me not having to worry about all of the headaches of running a business. I think negotiating is about coming up with a mutually agreeable amount.
At least in Wyoming and Colorado, overpopulation due to lack of predators has everything to do with ranchers killing those predators. Conservationists tell us the overpopulation either needs a sharp shooter's bullet to cull the herds, or we need more wolves and therefore wolves need protection from being shot by ranchers. And ranchers pretty thus far almost always win that contest.

What gets my goat is finicky meat eaters who somehow think they're entitled to a) beef and b) inexpensive beef. There's ton of game, in these two states, that eat plants which are basically inedible weeds to humans. Which is another thing that gets my goat, are vegetarians who want to rip out entire ecological systems to plant non-native plants so humans have food. Simple solution for all of our pest problems: eat more indigenous meat!

But then I look at this zombie map and I think, ugh. We've poisoned the well! Congratulations humans! You protected the cattle industry for so long that the native herds are contradicting disease you probably don't want to be eating.
On Linux, give qpdfview a shot. It's quite lightweight and snappy.
There is a UUID they use in a example that is 1:1 copied.

> For example, the number of random version-4 UUIDs which need to be generated in order to have a 50% probability of at least one collision is 2.71 quintillion [...] This number is equivalent to generating 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 85 years, and a file containing this many UUIDs, at 16 bytes per UUID, would be about 45 exabytes, many times larger than the largest databases currently in existence, which are on the order of hundreds of petabytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

The probability that they generated the same text 1:1 and a UUID in it by random chance is very, very, very, very slim.
The "chemical imbalance" theory is a Big Pharma marketing slogan, not a real scientific fact.
Yes, you were missing "paired with specialized protocols designed for delivering real-time performance".

You're welcome.
How is it possible?
Just wanted to also give a shoutout to Eugene Khutoryansky for providing a ton of science and math videos with great 3D visualizations. I'm not sure what 3D system he uses, perhaps someone here does:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r18Gi8lSkfM

https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky
We always check this sort of stuff for our customers, and more than once it has triggered.
> Objects can have a private state. This a problem with mutability, not oriented object programming.

That seems to be the crux of it - I remember reading a post by Paul Graham where he said something similar about object oriented programming. His core thesis seemed to be that functional programming does a better job of organizing things than object-oriented programming does, and once you have the core of functional programming in place (closures, first-class functions, whatever the hell a "monad" is), you don't need object orientation any more. I've never gotten deep enough into pure functional programming to really see things this way, but I've gotten deep enough to at least understand why these pure FP guys might think that.
Ah look, another facebook/ex-facebook employee. Interesting how on this site the only people that consistently defend facebook are people who have or are financially benefiting from it, and yet they never mention this in their comments
You may not hear anything right away, but someone who works for (or was outsourced by) Otonomo is currently having a Very Bad Day.
Check the competitors' website. /s
Out of curiosity: What makes it not good enough?

I use a Fitbit, and I really have no idea how good the data is: I'm asleep at the time it's being collected.
And also, since you don't need Proxies, you can target not so old browsers.

We're working on a project with MobX 5 and mid project we realized some of our users on iOS 9 or KitKat do not have Proxy.
Sure, that's a pretty high interest rate. If you have the liquidity, you definitely should pay upfront. But it's conceivable that for some (small) segment of the population, that loan is worth it.

Payday loans are a similar situation, it seems exploitative to many/most people. But those people who think it's exploitative are the ones who don't need the service in the first place. If you can avoid it, you should never ever get a payday loan. But if it's between a payday loan and missing a rent payment and living on the street, it's a pretty attractive and rational proposition.

Would it be better that a certain segment of the population not have any access to credit? Or is it better that they have access to expensive credit? Moreover, if they want some (expensive) credit, it's pretty paternal and condescending (and sometimes racist) to say that they aren't rational enough actors to deserve it.
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Sell your rights to sue them to those Texas class action lawyers and call it a day.
It takes hours more to do it by hand, which is way more valuable than $60 for turbo tax.
Bessemer & Co. likely know that Otonomo is building a drop-in replacement copy of Smartcar's API. I'm not sure there's anything terribly controversial about that, although reasonable people may disagree.

Bessemer & Co. probably don't know that the docs are literally being copied though.
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Your comment gave me an interesting idea. What would happen if we imposed a minimum char-limit for say, hacker news comments? On one hand I'd expect more descriptive responses, fewer comments that are a short "Your wrong but I won't tell you why", etc. Comments just spamming letters would be fairly easy to detect.

On the other hand what would this minimum char/word length be? Even your comment is fairly short, but it's descriptive and fully communicates your point...
That smoking gun is smoking plenty. That and the typos are the kind of proof that are a godsend during a lawsuit when you're on the offense and a really really bad day when you're on the defense.
They would not have looked at the API docs of either the startup they are investing in or their competitor (99.95%). I've worked as VC and technical detail at such a level is basically non existent. Economics, team, market take up the vast majority of the effort.
A more apt metaphor might be hand tools vs power tools, in case you someday arrive at a place where you're actually trying to explore the point, but I suppose the intentionally stacked metaphor choice is a convenient signal to onlookers.
If you want to disguise how poorly your animation system works, you put a black skin on a black background with no lighting. This demo is beyond terrible, and I love cyberpunk.
And that app is only used by / required for (? not sure) CCP party members. I know this because I have confirmed with personal Chinese acquaintances, including one party member and several non-members. While many Chinese nationals are party members, the vast majority aren't, so the app has nothing to do with them. The article doesn't mention that at all.

Also, I was told by the one who actually use the app that many of the quiz questions in the app are just about general scientific/cultural knowledge and stuff; only a small percentage involves current events (censored or not) or politics. I find that pointless, but again NY Times chose to cherry-pick the content here to paint a more horrifying picture.

It's intentionally or unintentionally (I don't know which) incomplete or cherry-picked coverage like this that makes me not trust Western coverage of China, Russia, or any other "enemy" nation at all.
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Getting onboard a company where there is a fast growing but not established market leader might even be a sound investment. Just add more thrust.
Some people built the world's most popular operating system doing just that - copying Java's API.
> I can't imagine how horrible a single captive solution from the IRS would be compared to one spawned by the competitive marketplace.

I see literally no reason to think the IRS would do a worse job of it than the commercial services.

But regardless of that, there's no reason why the IRS couldn't provide services alongside the commercial services. It's not an either-or.
How do you do it? Just using Google on various phrases? Are you checking for your customers our on your customers? If the latter, why do you care (most vendors wouldn't).
Just because something is a blatant ripoff, doesn't mean it's not a good investment. VCs are doing investments based on predicted ROI, not uniqueness. Lyft and Uber are extremely similar, but the particulars of the business are much more relevant to the investment opportunity.
I've yet to find the point where more money doesn't make me happier. Money buys a lot of things that make you happy. Money is also more much more capable of making one's family happy than a job I like more than my current one is. It's not like I hate my job. I just like it less than the blue collar stuff I did before I got my degree. I don't have a trust fund. I have to make my own living and I optimized for doing that. Waxing poetic about "occupational fulfillment" is something the upper classes do after they've been upper class long enough to forget how well they have it. I don't care what other people think. Money is making me happy. My property is covered in classic cars in various states of disrepair, my fridge always has beer in it. My life is quite comfortable thanks to money. The ease with which money can be converted into things that bring me joy is unparalleled. Not taking all that for granted probably helps a lot.
You're totally right. This is good feedback — we'll have a think about how we can best address this.
Not remotely true -- the climate would still change. The question is "Is climate change a problem?".

Personally, I don't like the idea that the expression of some latent genes may produce this monster:

https://www.thestar.com/news/2009/02/04/croceating_snake_was...

Which is only possibly if the temperature goes up considerably. Which means that my answer is: "Yes, some climate change is a problem". From the perspective of the giant snakes, the answer is the same: yes, climate cooling is a problem. Go figure, the same answer on any change. On the contrary, climate staying the same? Trees are, in general, happier if there is more CO2. There are lots of trees -- if they had a "vote", I'm pretty sure they want more CO2. So, in favour of warming.

All of this (our needs, snake needs, tree needs, etc) makes for a very interesting and complex problem.

What I don't understand is "climate change advocacy". Given that the climate changes, is that advocacy for more change? Less change? And how is this a "tool for oppression"? I live in Canada -- we have a carbon tax, which is oppressive.

Can you clarify a bit?

Thanks in advance
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Svelte as a lot in common with Angular, arising from the decision to use a component compiler at build time. But culturally it appears most attention to Svelte comes from a React direction, so Svelte is most often described as a “diff” from React.

You could possibly predict the future of Angular and Svelte by comparing them and looking for ways to cross-pollinate.
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