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> Her proposal also includes a plan to pass legislation that would prohibit platform owners with more than $25 billion in revenue to participate on their platforms as well. This policy would largely affect companies like Amazon that both run a sales platform and sell their own products on the site.

Seems like this proposal is essentially just anti-trust legislation. I'm all for it. What I particularly like about it is that she's demonstrating her commitment to the citizenry, not to the Democratic party. She's not only going after coal companies or traditional (R) strongholds. She's taking on tech, a left-leaning industry, too. This is the type of bipartisanship I think we need to see in candidates and politicians.
It strikes me as similarly naive as "If you're not religious, how can you be moral?".

It turns out that humans are innately moral and social, outside of extreme situations.
The more it happens the more I hope he succeeds despite all the push back. Men who have goals this grand deserve a shot at finishing them.
Being able to own a house and raise a small family should be something that the majority of people can attain. It shouldn't be like "winning the lottery" but it can seem that way for younger people, including myself.

The guy profiled has one child, who is disabled. The article describes his house as a "big house in the woods", but looking at the picture of their kitchen it is clearly not very "huge" and very far from the kitchens you'd see on HGTV. And the fixtures are 10+ years old.

I think heart-stirring profiles of people as examples of political and social issues are usually not good journalism, but maybe a benefit is that people could humanize whoever the boogeyman of the day is. This guy deserves some flak for putting his whole identity into his job and for believing too much in various political dei ex machina that promised to let him keep it, but "selfish" and "wrecking institutions"?
I came here to say this. If Earth gets struck by a large object we might be glad (i) we have another planet and (ii) we have a way to survive on an otherwise uninhabitable planet that Earth has become.

In fact living on mars might be the perfect preparation for what Earth might be like after climate change in a few hundred years time.

The technology generated by colonising Mars might help with climate change.
The company has a one strike policy for letting someone use your badge, or letting someone tailgate.

They also have people who go out and try to tailgate, and say they left their badge on the other side of the door and ask if you can badge them in, or let them borrow your badge to get theirs. If you help, they walk in and get security and HR and you're done.
It looks OK if you have your browser set to the default 16px font size. If not, that page might not look good at all, because unfortunately it uses a fixed line-height but keeps the browser-configured font-size.
I work for a small business(~50 people) and we use Salesforce more or less across all business functions. I've been with the company for nearly 4 years,so I witnessed a lot. Salesforce is a fantastic platform,if used correctly. It's worth it. It does make sense to use it for a small business. Salesforce can be as big or as small as you want it to be.If you are small business with small needs,keep it simple and use it to track sales.If you are business with complex needs, do tons of customisation, integrations and etc.
Testing the results of the algorithms doesn't address the problem of institutional racism, though. Any bureaucracy will simply use the results that the algorithm supplies in a way that maintains the behavior that the bureaucracy is already programmed to maintain.

To address things like institutional racism, you have to change the institution. That's a human problem for which there is no technological solution (although technology can certainly be one of the tools used to create a larger change).
Same here... I actually put maintain a starter project for react + VF: https://github.com/ChuckJonas/bad-ass-salesforce-stack

I don't see this changing much. Salesforce has a serious follow through problem. They tend to half-a$$ good ideas and then once they get the press for them, they stop investing in them.

Just tried the create-lwc-app and it didn't build finish properly
> Netflix AND the studios would go out of business in no time without the ability to protect their work.

Maybe they should. I think having open standards for collaboration is more important in the long run.
> If oil were substantially less common, its feasible that we'd still live in a 1800s-esque society with some form of civilization development, but would we have radio? Certainly not space travel.

We don't have space travel now...
Redundancy. Plus the earth as it's is now is very hard to change and improve.
To be fair, most European commuter rail does the same thing. They just use electric heaters, so it doesn't look like their tracks are on fire. Chicago was built up with a big natural gas infrastructure for some reason (like every home seems to have gas heat/dryers) so I guess it made sense to put gas heaters on the rails.
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While not revolutionary (or even all that evolutionary) it at least generates a bit of revenue while garnering more practical experience for Boring. I'm not really sure there's a future for Boring, but it is nice that an additional company is trying to improve mass transit.
Old laptop is even better. Android might pause your applications so they won't respond to the requests. There are ways to overcome that, but it will eat much more power. And those ways might break with new Android versions, probably because Android creators hate when some app does not allow their phone to sleep.

What I don't understand is why nobody does some kind of cheap battery backup for PC. Even cheapest UPS costs a lot and good UPS costs like a PC. While laptop battery is pretty cheap and provides a lot of power. All I need is few seconds to properly turn off the machine when power cuts.
> "Travel to Paris"

Dumb question: Is that a field trip or just a "learn about Paris" lesson?
What is the latency? I don't see any latency numbers listed on the linked site. Latency would be my number one concern when using software like this.
If you're already at say a 4.2, a 0 could really bring you down if you don't ride a lot.

Also, IIRC drivers can and do reject rides for people at their predetermined threshold. E.g. they will pass on a 4.0 waiting for a 4.5 or above (or whatever the thresholds may be).
> Browsers could have said no to Netflix

They tried (namely FireFox), but most users don't care about DRM, but they do care about Netflix and Hulu working, so the user pushback was just too much for them to not do it.
Didn't realize "as const" worked; will have to try that next time.
What’s the bar for that? Not having actually scammed anyone elsewhere? Crypto is a sewage dump.
As of late 2018, if you don't rate your Lyft driver we automatically get a 5-star rating for that ride. That further emphasizes how crucial keeping a high rating to Lyft for the driver.
The Apple doth protest too much, methinks
It's not a question of enforcement, but incentivization.
I think public school system provides a good return for dollars spent. It has the scale that is difficult to match with other schooling methods. This is my experience from shuffling between private preschools. I think other schooling methods are appropriate if your circumstance forces you (e.g. bad public school system.)

You can always opt out of the crazy things that happen at public schools. After school, you can homeschool your kids. This way you can get the positives of both systems.

Education is complicated. We need to avoid comparing and optimization. It's idiotic to make a personal stance in education.
What?! Build something that actually solves a real world problem in the blockchain scene? Madness.

Blockchain scene: here's some shit to help you perpetuate hyper-capitalism and create artificial scarcity so you can, um, gamble (and inflate our own token).
People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected.

It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possible if you haven't already. Too many wake up calls. They are not a tech company, they are data monopolists. Stop giving them your data.
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Jira all day? No browser can save you then
An Uber driver is not my friend. They’re someone I’m paying to drive me.

Furthermore if I were driving with a friend someplace and they got a call, I’d think nothing of them answering it and having a conversation.
A good quote I can relate to:

I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds and looking at the stars and saying, "I want to go there."But I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in. This is the kind of person I am. - Linus Torvalds
Private Investigators would absolutely love this dataset, since it could include who got ID'd at what bar when. Can definitely piece together places to try to find someone, people they might know, etc.
It sounds like type inference for object literals is coming along, even if there a few quibbles about some of the defaults on literals mentioned here.

Did they ever get a solution in place for partial function application (e.g. - as for Ramda.js)?

When this gets to the point where the only place I have to define explicit types is for JSON data read from the network, I’ll consider using it.

I know I’m in the minority, but I’d rather NOT have any type checking than have to read through Java-esque drivel (at least most modern languages put the types after the identifier like Pascal does, rather than before like C). In practice, I don’t spend much time chasing type errors, but do spend too much time reading through MEGO inducing verbiage which I would just as soon not.
Is the functionality of your app already included in the Health app? If not, take a guess what feature will be soon included in the Health app. Apple have a history of killing competitors in the App Store, most recently with screen time apps:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/27/tech/apple-screen-time-ap...
My biggest hope is that one day they will make type error formatting way, way, way better in VSCode. There are some gnarly type errors that take a lot of concentration to work out from that tiny, unformatted error text box :|
Exponential growth can continue in virtual realities as the physical reality maxes out.
>Netflix AND the studios would go out of business in no time without the ability to protect their work

This is literally precisely what the music industry said. Repeatedly and ever more loudly as Apple in particular turned the screws. And then they did away with all DRM on buying digital music. Oh, turns out that was all a pile of bullshit, they didn't go out of business, and their motivation for DRM was not piracy but rather control. Their dream was to repeat the format change gold mine, where they could resell the same content over and over again. But in terms of selling once nope, DRM-free was no problem.
Mail can simply be refused: https://uspstrackingpoint.com/how-to-refuse-usps-mail/
> Well I hope giving that 3 makes you feel really good about yourself when the guy did his job and you're just hurting him for it.

Since I had no idea that 3 stars was a bad rating that hurt drivers until I read the comments here, I think that your condescension is very misplaced.
i too don't have one. not because i have any physical problems, it's just that i don't have use for one. i don't have a car and i don't plan on having one -- so why bother?

also, by not having a car (and using public transportation/uber/cabs) i like to think i'm helping the my city a tiny bit by not having yet another car on the street when it's not needed.
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. No, because you can buy games for each console in physical stores, you don't have the same issue--none of these company's stores is the sole way to sell your game to a owner of that console.

The physical games require the approval of the respective platform owners who also take a cut.
Initially, I'm more worried about plain bugs that creep in, get depended on, and can no longer be fixed because of web compatibility.

Next after that would be web API additions or extensions that make sense to Google but interfere with or prevent other things from being pursued (eg more pro privacy directions). They may try hard to play nice with standards bodies, but a quarterly goal can be a strong influence...

https://blog.mozilla.org/sfink/2013/02/14/browser-wars-the-g...
any pointers to open implementations of those two?
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> An anecdote is irrelevant. There's vast amounts of peer reviewed research that supports the need for DRM, and unequivocally proves the financial harm piracy can inflict on content creators

Could you give an example (or many) since as you say the evidence is vast. I did a cursory search, and couldn't find sources, but perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places.
And it never moved by a factor of even 0.01? Since they are probably doing some rounding, it never moved by 0.005?
Maybe it did and by the time I checked it was back at 4.88.

It's interesting that many people in this thread report 4.88 though. I would assume Uber wants to obfuscate recent ratings (eg if you notice when your rating changed, you might pin point the driver and add a case against them if you 're vengeful enough). Maybe it's similar to the number 300 for youtube (where views stop being counted in realtime and they are being grouped + analyzed). Who knows.
Nope! The number of economic-driven migrants on the southern border of the united states has been falling for years, and is at a low point right now.

I have neither reason, legal authority, nor moral authority to a priori doubt the legitimacy of asylum claims, and neither do you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/01/17/falli...

http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...

http://theconversation.com/todays-us-mexico-border-crisis-in...
Failover doesn't mean that the system fails when you transfer load over.
And the pistachio eaters have more ice cream per capita. Obviously the quantity of pistachio should be made smaller so that vanilla eaters can have bigger shares of ice cream.
I think we definitely disagree on what a "minimal acceptable standard" is here.

Declining updates in general weakens herd immunity.

Pro does let you turn off the "Basic" telemetry that is mandatory on Home and that turns off "all" telemetry in the OS itself (you may still have to opt-out for some applications). Keep in mind that turning of "Basic" telemetry also turns of Windows Error Reporting and crash/BSOD telemetry, which can also weaken herd immunity.

Anti-telemetry and "update control" arguments kind of sound a lot like anti-vaxxer arguments.
If you struggle to setup business logic (or simply have tons of it) - here's a project I've been working on for a while:

https://appexchange.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listing...

It ain't too pretty, but instead of creating of thousands of workflow rules or spending days clicking, you can simply use spreadsheet to decide how your logic runs.
I don’t think parent means that in the absolute sense, just the relative sense. As in, not even opening emails where the sender or subject suggests spam.

I’ve almost direct-deleted an email like this, but it turned out that the sender got married and changed their name.
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You have contradicted yourself.

>For most games, programming is far from the biggest labor cost.

And as you say, the other bigger costs are out of the picture when re-implementing old games. So, programming is the largest remaining part, almost by definition of 're-implement'.
I think that the general public is more okay with these systems than we think. I personally find them abhorrent.
Not sure why GP's downvoted, the definition sucks. What's "close to stars"? 1AU? Here to Pluto? Here to the Oort cloud? 1LY? In the orbital plane? Localized to an arc or surround
ing the Sun?

Then the link to desert goes to nothing but Earth deserts and the wikipedia article was literally made today. It's like the author has no clue what the Neptunian Desert is.
Subway cost in mismanged US are ridiculous.[0] Around the world, countries like Spain are already building tunnels for the claimed cost of an Hyperloop tunnel.

[0] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/03/03/why-american-c...
I added a section with some more resources on containerization:

https://github.com/pirate/wireguard-docs#containerization
Did you read the piece? They talk about VR.
I believe there are other ways of waking up apps, I suspect notifications and location services/bluetooth can do it.
Life on Mars would be so horrible as to not be worth it for the vast majority of people, I'm sure. "Beats being dead", you might say, but I disagree.

Not to mention it's still unclear if it's physiologically possible for humans to survive long-term off planet Earth.
Salesforce reporting is relatively basic,consider Einstein Analytics for more advanced stuff. Alternatively,just connect it to Tableau and do all the fancy shpancy stuff there.
Wouldn't the obvious solution be to multiplex cars at each station? They could have twenty Teslas at each location for passenger pickup/drop-off, only entering the launch queue when all occupants are seated and restrained.
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Yes!!! I've had this happen several times, and it's incredibly annoying! I was just about to comment on this issue before I saw your post (as a "this is a good opportunity for Firefox but they still have some seriously irritating bugs").

It seems like my entire profile (about:profiles) got switched out several times with a brand new one. Exact same symptoms as you - bookmarks, custom UI tweaks, extensions, etc. all gone (basically consistent with creating a new profile yourself). For a regular user, I think that only needs to happen once for them to uninstall and never come back.

Most of the time I've been able to restore it to my old profile, but one time a file was corrupted and I had to start from scratch again. It happened before the extension signing fiasco, and those two things combined led me to explore new options (Vivaldi, Chromium, etc.) although those didn't pan out for me so here I am, still on Firefox and crossing my fingers hoping it won't happen again.

Perhaps relevant: I do have Nightly and Developer Edition installed alongside the regular version. I used to use Nightly as my daily driver, but switched to the regular version after the first time my profile got messed up.
Yes, I think Perl based that on Awk, but then those are the only 2 languages I know that support something like that. That's still very unique. On the implicit loop, along with Ruby, they're the only 3 languages I know that support something like that. That's also pretty unique, and Awk is the only one that has the implicit loop as a requirement.
That report resulted in an update to Istio docs: “Warning not to use demo profile for performance evaluation”

https://github.com/istio/istio.io/pull/4220

More here, which basically suggests, don’t stop Istio from scaling out before 500 rps, it doesn’t like that at all:

https://kinvolk.io/blog/2019/05/performance-benchmark-analys...
This is a big part of why, as an app user, I'm pretty unhappy with Apple's long-running string of decisions to effectively bottleneck app discovery to the App Store. It just doesn't matter how good the App Store is, it cannot possibly scale to embody the diversity of interests that is today's mobile app ecosystem.

Most recently, there was the decision to discontinue the affiliate referral program. Perhaps this was not "moving the numbers" significantly from Apple's perspective, but it did severely impact some sites that were great at covering domain-specific app niches in detail. And unlike Apple's in-house editorial, these were sites with writers with actual names meaning you can track their 1) quality of writing and 2) how the writer's individual preferences mesh with your own over time.

Related to that, Apple went on a bit of a "buying spree" from the independent Apple journalist community and the bylines of some writers I really liked just ... vanished. They're still out there, still writing, but part of the faceless Clone Army of Apple editorial. :-( So I'm glad those folks have stable jobs, but I'm mad at Apple for undermining good, independent tech journalism.

Going back further, to the misty dawn of the App Store, there's Apple's long-standing blockade on any app that functions like the App Store, i.e. curated app editorial. This essentially shut down another first-class (here, meaning "app") venue for app-centric selection.
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> Catch thieves going through your data. Plant a crypto-wallet amongst your files and get an alert when someone takes the bait.
My local ICBC bank app/website (Argentina) disables several operations outside of (10 to 3) banking hours.

- Forex buys and sells are disabled

- "Large" transfers are disabled (over some silly amount on the order of $2K)

- And my personal favorite, you can't see or pay your credit card bill (for Mastercard ONLY), and you get a "this function is not available right now, call the bank at $BANK_WORKING_HOURS_ONLY_NUMBER" message.
I don't get it. I've used Firefox and Chrome for years. Firefox is easily as good and capable as Chrome. The barrier to switch from Chrome to Firefox is almost non-existent. Is Google counting on the majority of people not being knowledgeable enough or motivated enough to switch browsers?
Hell, even my dealership "only" charges $80 per wheel. Though we quickly learned the local tire shop does them for $40 a pop with a much quicker service. I generally just let the dealer service our car since there's not many mechanics in the area qualified to service hybrids anyway, but hell if I'm letting them rip us off on anything related to the tires again (even though their prices for Toyota factory tires are quite fair, I'm not paying an extra $40 a tire for the sensors when we buy a new set).
I'm generally shy and quiet, especially in a stranger's car, and I can attest that it almost certainly does have a noticeable negative effect on one's passenger rating. However, 3.9 is lower than I'd expect merely on account of being quiet.
Yes, they are Chinese Americans and they feel this country discriminates heavily against them (for example in college admissions).
I see this point get made often, but I'm not sure it is an insightful way to look at the world. Tesla cars are only barely related to Mars colonization, and PayPal is not really at all, which is a product conveniently ignored in your post. Even the SpaceX internet satellite constellation looks almost nothing like what internet access on Mars will be anytime in the forseeable future. It seems like a similarly strong argument could be made that every Google product is designed for Mars colonization.

I bring this up because I think it is important that Elon has some projects targeted at making the world better today, like PayPal, the Boring Company, and Starlink, some projects designed to avoid catastrophes a few decades from now, like Tesla and Solar City, and some projects designed to help humanity centuries from now, like SpaceX going to Mars. This is a very nice way of resolving the objection that Elon should focus on Earth's problems, which is to observe that you can both make the world a better place today while also working towards a brighter long term future.

I think that to the extent that Elon will inevitably serve as a role model, I want that part of the story to be told as well.
I decided to declare a jihad on downvotes. In some ways, this site is as bad as reddit with the children and their 'vote' concept. Every downvoted comment gets an upvote from me, it doesn't matter what they say.