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That statistically the fringe wing's candidates don't win?
Another lightweight contender, not WASM though, is Phoenix Live View[1]

[1] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
You can't win a bad argument by just moving to an adjacent position (which is still wrong)
Height is a bad analogy for gender, since most peoples height are somewhere around the middle and fewer at the extremes.

Handedness is a better analogy. Few people are ambidextrous, most people are at the extreme of the spectrum, either left-handed or right-handed. Since handedness is not politicized, nobody is claiming that it is logically impossible to be ambidextrous and that they have to "pick a side". Neither does anybody really deny that the majority of people do have a dominant hand.

That said, a linear spectrum is obviously too simple for something as complex as gender. Take people with AIS. They are unambiguously male (XY) at the level of chromosomes, but in apperance unambiguously female, to the extent many don't know they are XY unless they happen to seek fertility treatment. Many probably never learn. So they are not really "in the middle", rather they are at two extremes at the same time.

The article seem to suggest that "non-binary" people are just muddying the definitions in order to seem interesting. But something like AIS objectivity exists, and shows that a purely binary definition of gender is not sufficient to describe reality. That does not mean that most people can't comfortably consider themselves a single unambiguous gender.
If your team embraces threading, you'll soon see it's far superior re: not missing messages. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758075 for some details on this; the gist is, when everyone threads, it’s easy to catch up when you’ve been away, and you automatically get notified when someone follows up on a topic you’ve been participating in.

Are you familiar with the way you can cc: the channel on a thread comment when you’re concerned people might miss it?
There are many industries where this happens. Biotech and drug development is particularly prolific in this regard. Often drug development companies spend tens to hundreds of millions creating a drug, only to have the whole company bought out by a large pharma company once it passes a certain testing/approval milestone. No profits for the company at all. [1]

Just because a business doesn't turn a GAAP profit doesn't mean it is not a worthwhile investment opportunity, nor that investors shouldn't have access to it so they can decide for themselves. There are many reasons why investors might want to back an unprofitable company - I won't go into them all here, as it differs dramatically by industry.

Keep in mind that a large part of the public market capital is from institutional investors who have just as much experience, if not more, as private investors.

No one has to buy shares in these companies. It is all a choice. "The public" is not some block of sorry schmucks who keep getting stuck with toxic investments pawned off by VC funds, and I'm not exactly sure why you seem to think "the public" is getting a bag dumped on them...

[1] Endocyte acquisition by Novartis for $2B, December 2018. Endocyte had ~$300m of accumulated losses and zero revenue prior to acquisition
[1] Ablynx acquisition by Sanofi for $4.8B, May 2018. Ablynx had ~€370m of accumulated losses prior to acquisition
Brussels. A lovely Melting-Pot. A data visualization
> Personally, I made money for years using Microsoft products, find Amazon quite useful (living in small towns) and just see Google as irritating. But then, if the internet were reduced to USENET, email, and maybe a curated list of serious websites like online banking, I'd be fine with it, and probably better off in some ways.

You're not alone in this thinking. The vast bulk of the Web is of marginal benefit, or harmful, and I think in the end it's going to contribute to taking us (humanity) to a very, very bad place.
I would probably date the exact collapse to the singularity of UK politics, the Iraq War, where failure to ask those two questions got an awful lot of people killed. But the years before were hardly free of gimmicks.
I think it should, or some sort of oversight should be in place. Their filters are extremely aggressive. I have a specific GMail rule in place to ensure that all mail gets through and nothing gets sent to spam, but even with that the occasional message gets sent to spam. It's generally advertising, but never actually spam.

There's definitely for GMail to become the new "Windows", with everyone else fighting to stay connected.
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Oddly this is also true for go....
Contrary to popular opinion, I don't think the technical aspects of operating a mail server are all that hard. Perhaps I'm underestimating the learning curve since I've been doing it for 27 years. (If you're running your own mail server, you are the sysadmin.)

The frustration comes with scenarios such as the one outlined in this blog post, where small mail server operators get bullied even though they are doing everything right. I can completely understand not wanting to operate a mail server due to this situation, or not having interest in leveling-up server administration skills.

For those of us who do have expertise in running mail servers, it's a shame we have to deal with these obstacles.
> If it is a poor service, you can (and should) fault people for using it.

Agreed. There should be some give and take, some minor reputation at stake. It's healthy to have some people applying back-pressure against popularity. I like the idea that laypeople might hear whispers among their tech-savvy friends that it's not considered "cool" to have a gmail address. Much like having an aol.com email address was seen as uncool in years past. It's perfectly reasonable for some people to be working to give gmail.com a bit of that same reputation.
Until it turns out this is incredibly sexist/racist by the current climate and "reverse" bias gets added to the software.
I think they have plenty of science to back their thinking. That’s the bigger issue in my mind.
If you're going to comment, make it substantiative. Arguing over the definitions of words, and not the underlying phenomenon, is the opposite of that.

If "corruption", as you prefer to call it, leads to selection pressures and selects for those most "fit" in the arts of corruption, then "evolutionary pressure" is a perfectly adequate metaphor, and likely helpful for analyzing the situation.

On a related note, the knee-jerk application of moral terminology rather than clear analysis to government issues is one of the principal hacks that corrupt bureaucracies use to perpetuate themselves.
Maybe it finally pushes the student loan crisis over the edge when an influx of unemployed tech workers are added to the tens of thousands defaulting on their loans?
That $50mm a year AWS bill seems pretty high - I think some optimizations there could easily cut this big expense...
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>But what you now get in “business class” is what you used to get in “economy” 20-30 years ago

That's nonsense. Especially in long haul flights, business class is in fact more comfortable and has more amenities than it did 20-30 years ago with lie-flat seating, on demand entertainment, etc. Traditional domestic business class is about the same as it ever was while economy has mostly seen a decrease in seat pitch. (Economy Plus--which differs by airline--is more like what regular economy used to be.)
America copied a lot of ideas from England during the industrial revolution. From my cursory understanding of things it seems like copying technology is how you get up to speed, before you can start really innovating yourself.

I think a lot of the ideas about how China isn't capable of innovation for cultural reasons is frankly rooted in racism. Not long ago they were a developing country, and they are rapidly, rapidly getting up to speed. If you were raised by subsistence farmers, you can rise above that but it's hard to become a technological prodigy.

But there's a whole generation of Chinese people being raised in a modern, prosperous economy, and I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be capable of the same contributions that Western students will make.
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Two years ago a company we were at had Slack and it was used vigorously. They hit a user limit and couldn't get the CEO to pony up whatever it cost to extend Slack. (This company was the kind of company that had unlimited budgets for conferences and sales calls, but could hardly ever get a CC# for a dev team need...)

They switched to MS Teams, but at least two years ago, it felt unusable. Or, the team's Slackness couldn't translate. No one used it.

Neither Slack nor MS made money in this exchange.

Maybe Teams has gotten better and more usable, but I wonder if Teams is taking off in business environments, whereas Slack definitely is more common in tech environments?
An Office 365 subscription includes Teams, email hosting, the Office suite, and 1TB storage per user for less than the price of Slack alone. So I would call that markedly worse pricing.

Sure for companies already using Slack there's probably not a whole lot of reason to move off. But Slack seems to be relying on continued huge growth numbers to become profitable.
Because email is one of the few edifices left of the truly open internet, and some of us aren’t ready to concede defeat of what was once a free platform to a corporate oligarchy.
That would probably require a larger seat pitch. No argument from me.
I've reread it a couple of times, and I fail to see the malicious intent. You assume Google Finance makes revenue. The reply simply asks, what if it doesn't?
Not in the list of quarantinable diseases, at least not on the federal level: https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/2...

I would assume California has their own list. Are they just arbitrarily adding anything and everything to the list?

The state's power shouldn't be unlimited, and measles is not a justifiable disease for quarantine.
Correct. I think it takes something like a total of 4 hours of failed password logins to trigger a wiped phone. That is a long time to be worried about your kids playing with the phone.

Once the phone is wiped you can restore the phone from backup. If you allow kids to play unsupervised with a phone for 4 hours, I hope you have it backed up for a variety of other worse case scenarios.
I doubt there will be a global stock market crash but a there can definitely be a burst of the second dot com bubble. It would be enough for one of the overvalued companies to go bankrupt to take them all down, e.g. Tesla (they certainly have liquidity problems).
To be fair on the NHS, there aren't enough Doctors or Nurses as it is.. it would be even worse if we started wasting their time managing budgets and KPIs
How does that say anything about people who listen to rap, as opposed about people who purchase music?
Teams is super buggy and I hated using it. We are now back at Slack (and actually happy paying customers).
But why? Their revenue is growing faster and they aren’t running out of money.
When I try to be sure that I will get a answer, I always try to write to the company email instead of filling a web form. When Gmail sees that I wrote to a company, it won't put its emails in the spam folder.
I think most people would also care about not receiving important messages that someone was trying to send them, but since they often don't know what they're missing in this scenario, they don't tend to object or make decisions accordingly.

I have a similar concern about a lot of privacy and data processing issues. My experience has been that many people aren't OK with what happens if they are told about it, but in most cases either they didn't previously know or perhaps they suspected but didn't think there was anything they could usefully do about it short of becoming some sort of digital hermit.
Isn't this economy called Seattle?
The main issue is that jsx can contain both mutable references to a variable and immutable references. For example <div onClick={() => count = count + 1}>{count}</div> contains both a mutable reference to count and an immutable reference. Thus, the naive way of storing this in a single struct will fail. The use of the elm architecture (where the onClick handler returns a message, instead of directly updating count) side steps the complicated borrow-checker issues.

It is certainly possible to get around this with the proper procedural macro, but it is not easy, and will never be as "magic-free" as people want.
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Which mathematicians or CS are (were) members of this group after 2000?
People are buying music and not listening to it? Right now, the top steaming artist is Drake.
“The days of being rewarded for owning a Tesla are long gone”
Interesting. I've called 3 times, to give you a sense of my sample. They seem to have an interesting program going there. It's been at least fun to play with and run experiments.
I think what happened was that they had an "import friends from your email contacts" feature in the past and the code was reused for "verify your identity via email" but they didn't realise the code would still also upload the email contacts.

At least that's the story I've heard about why this was an "honest mistake".
HipChat was utter crap. At some point things are good enough.
That doesn't sound like a legally enforceable quarantine; if they were kept in their rooms by force, that would be unlawful detention.

Of course, if you legit have the swine flu, you probably won't be milling about anyway.
Something like 80% of trades on the market currently involve tether, and tether accounts for ~$3 billion of (presumed) cash-like holdings. If it collapses then liquidity of the market is going to be severely hit, and the people trying to exit to fiat are likely to cause a variety of bank-run type situations.

These will be exacerbated by exchanges which have been run in bad faith and which do not have either the cryptocurrency or fiat reserves they claim (see Quadriga CX for a recent example).

Either way, it's going to be interesting to watch.
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> that only help to further inflate shareholder value, which large majority of population isn’t.

This is incorrect, at least in the US. A majority of Americans are shareholders (Somewhere between 51%[0] and 55%[1]), since if you have a 401k or IRA, you are a shareholder.

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/scf17.pdf
[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/211052/stock-ownership-down-amo...
It's understandable. It's very easy for people to read questions challenging them as malicious and pointedly sarcastic, implying that of course the person is wrong.
I take D3, K2 MK4, K2 MK7, chelated magnesium religiously. For some reason, DHEA doesn't agree with me. I get headaches from it. Excess D3 also causes pain in the back of my head and neck. Curious if its related to calcium scavenging or some deficiency.
Not a deadly virulent disease. Less deadly than the flu.
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The question is... right now, is it more like 1995 or 2001?
Numerous studies show that humans have the propensity to view other humans as non humans and that this propensity happens with as little stimuli as seeing someone riding a bicycle. You can imagine how people who do not conform to gender norms are seen as less than human.

People who do not experience this dehumanization are fundamentally not equipped to understand the situation.

Thus saying that 'cis' persons are experiencing 'violence' is stunningly absurd.

If anything, cis people are the ones in boxes based on societies discrimination against anything that does not conform.
I used to run my own mail server and spam assassin, and felt pretty comfortable ignoring the Spam folder.

Now that I live in a lot of Gmail accounts, the Spam folder is just another folder I have to check on a weekly basis.
I'm trying out purelymail (basically one dude's AWS hosting of email for $10/yr) and I'm having the same problem with my custom domain: google stopped having issues after the first few emails I sent got marked as "not spam", but microsoft, despite the purelymail guy filling out all the requisite forms, still eats all of my email, not even sending it to the spam folder of the addresses I'm sending to.
My experience falls in line with yours.

I had an MVP in azure web services. I had 20 users in my "beta" phase that were using the product and giving me feedback.

One day, I got a message that I need to update my billing method. Strange, I was using mostly free tier with one paid component and the card on file was good til 2022, but ok. I put in another card because maybe there's something wrong with the system.

The next day I get a call that the site isn't working from one of my beta users. I log in and all of my azure resources are gone.

I immediately try to reach out to azure support via various mechanisms (their support chat, email, twitter, etc). Funny enough, twitter is always the fastest way to get support. Just write that something bad happened and tag their product, and you get someone who can communicate. However, they just redirected me to their support channel.

Two days go by and I get a template email response. I have an email chain going back and forth over the week to try and get the resources restored.

In the end, they tell me that not only will they be unable to restore my resources (a production database. the backups were all "gone" because the resource didn't exist anymore), but that I had to create a new azure account to use any services because of how screwed up my account got.

I tried escalating, but received the same response.

Now I just go with AWS. I'd even go with google as long as they don't delete my production database.

I've previous experience as a Devops engineer for a Large company which at the time was one of the larger customers of Azure (as in they'd put our company on the marketing materials). Support was obviously better when we could get a turn around time of <1 day to talk to an engineer that worked on a piece of infrastructure. Still wasn't a pleasant experience.

It's really unfortunate, all of this. I know that there are so many teams that are putting out great products, but their cloud approach is awful. _Some_ of the offerings are actually pretty nice, but combined with UI churn, the worst support (I'd rather take googles non-existent support as long as my data doesn't get deleted) of all cloud providers (IME) and empty apologies on the internet (you can say you're sorry, but I don't believe you unless you act on the mistake), I don't see myself going back anytime soon.
I've not seen any evidence of MITM attacks by ISPs since snowden.

Have there been any evidence of HTTPS and/or VPNs being MITM'd by UK ISPs?

Unless the UK government has cracked all the ciphers used by HTTPS + VPNs and have backdoored every CA, I think we'd already know about widespread systematic MITM attacks in UK users. If they have done all of that, then you can bet others have
too then the whole world is screwed

Please cite your sources of actual evidence. Talking about mysterious black boxes doesn't count - they could be pollution sensors for all we know.
Why is there no US rival to compete with Huawei?
> For example, government simply can deny cars with odd numbered license plates to drive on Mondays to reduce traffic and pollution.

Isn't this the policy that mainly resulted in increasing the instance of dual car ownership?
I am finding hard to imagine not seeing the difficulty here, so instead I’m just gonna point out simple operations like stripping whitespace, splitting strings on a character pattern, changing case, dealing with character encodings, regex matches all require manually iterating and mutating or copying strings and in the case of regexes require compiling and auditing various libraries. The abstractions other standard libraries have used, such as rust, make it much easier to simply express the string operations as high level operations and spend your time elsewhere while retaining relatively high levels of performance. Often, string processing is not in the inner loop and does not benefit from things like combining multiple string operations into a single pass, traditionally a thing that might make c perform better all other things being equal.
One can dehydrated not in a sense of having not enough water, but in the sense of not having enough salts to hold the water in body. In this case, the water you drink just becomes urine very fast and doesn't quench thirst at all. Just taking a bit of bare salt is not a solution either, you have to get some kind of an oral rehydration solution (either a specialized one, an isotonic drink, or maybe eat some soup if your apetite is not impaired). More about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy and here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
>>>Immutable here means no in-place update, you have to update using an "errata" record.

Yes, and people have been building financial systems with relational databases using this journaling principle (updates and deletes handled by inserting new records and timestamping) for decades.

>>>Distributed here means no single point of failure.

Which can be done with most standard RDBMS or NoSQL databases and clustering/sharding. Not that the scale of medical records is anywhere near requiring any of this. Do you really want multiple copies of your personal medical records on some public blockchain?

>>>Encryption without authentication opens up many types of attack. You almost always want authenticated encryption

For financial transactions, sure, but for medical records? For what purpose? Other than me and my provider (and any specialist I select) why would anyone else even need to access my medical records? Who would be faking them?

None of this makes any sense for medical records.
A Slack team is a self-contained unit, however, if I understand correctly. It -should- be easily horizontally scalable (please correct me if I'm wrong). Each team could have its own database, its own app servers running on whatever region(s) was/were needed. So it's not like they would have some mammoth central database that requires strong scale engineering. Furthermore, you know in advance how big each team is because they all pay you for X users, so you can allocate resources to them appropriately.

Lyft's AWS bill (from their S-1) is much higher, but their application has very different scaling constraints to something like Slack, it's not as easily horizontally scalable. Even though their bill is high, I suppose it can be hand-waved away as "oh scaling's expensive".

And a lot of the redundancy/security comes built into AWS services. S3 has redundancy built in, there are Multi-AZ RDS instances with easy support for at-rest encryption, and there's container orchestration these days for easily handling app server redundancy and worker servers. So a company starting out, like Slack, just a few years ago, would have access to all of that without much additional overhead.

I'm seriously fascinated by what it is that makes it so expensive. I suppose the real explanation might just be that there's no incentive to optimise for costs. It's like Slack's own app: A native app -could- be built that is super efficient and light, but there's no incentive to optimise for that.
Oh good, we replaced proof of work with a proof of stake system rife with conflicts of interest and unknown incentives. That’ll go well.
Fringe!!! You would name Bernie and AOC and politicians with similiar ideology fringe candidates?
This is trying to form a narrative by nitpicking data.