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> NO ONE knows the answers to these questions,

NO ONE knew the answers to those same questions about active investment either, though. Markets are markets, and behave in crazy unstable pro-cyclic ways because of psychology, not abstract theory.

Here's an obvious hypothesis: Nothing's going to change at all. The fraction of holdings in these index funds is high, but matches the fraction that was always just thrown into the "balanced random junk" segments of portfolios. Players who want to make focused bets on particular securities or industries will continue to do so, in exactly the same proportion they did before.

I mean, NO ONE knows if that is true or not, but I'd put money down on it.
In my company and many others, germans are actually in the minority, at least in product and tech. Talent shortage lets companies bring a lot of people from all over the world and English is the lowest common denominator. We have many more people from South America, India, Africa and other parts of Europe than germans in a team of 100+ people. Many restaurants/cafes/bars have non-german staff so in many areas it does not really feel like being in Germany. Personally I love the diversity though.

Watercooler talk is usually english unless I am around a group of people where I know that they all speak good german, but that rarely happens tbh. It's more likely to hear another group talking portuguese, spanish or arabic :)
> It has failed spectacularly at that goal

No, it allows apps to don't rerender whole page on every click, so it works just fine.
Blocking github would hurt the Chinese government more than it would help it: Unlike facebook, github contains very valuable content.
It always strikes me when these stories mention the UFO’s speed and altitude, usually presented as confirmation that the object is beyond known technology.

You cannot determine the speed or altitude of an unknown object visually! Close and slow looks just like distant and fast. Unless you have some other way to determine one of those variables (being able to judge the distance because you know the size of the object, for example), any claim of a UFO’s performance is bound to be bogus.
Oh no! Yet another Kafka operator for Kubernetes
I thought "that's silly, but I'm sure it's in the article" - I couldn't find it. I flipped (quickly) through every slide and couldn't see what they meant by NLP. We can infer, but I couldn't find a place where we are implicitly told, and for some reason that's maddening to me.
Downside protection for when market is near all time high and or trade war posturing going on...
This reminded me of London Bridge getting sold to the developer of Lake Havasu, AZ.

https://www.history.com/news/how-london-bridge-ended-up-in-a...
It is absolutely not complicated compared to running Kubernetes yourself. You don't have to use serverless and infinite scaling. For things like Azure App Services you don't autoscale to start with and if you want autoscaling it looks like this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/platfor...

You won't get many surprises there.
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You forgot one other possibility, it could simply be some poorly understood environmental phenomena. I'm sure anyone who has being lucky enough to see ball lightning would probably think it's a UFO or a sign from god.
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It could also be about Github private repos, which cost money, and therefore are a business relationship. If Huawei has a private repo on Github, is Microsoft now required to delete their account?
This logical fallacy is sometimes called No True Agile.
Currently dealing with a situation where a SPA app doesn't work with FB Sharing, because it exepects a set of META/Open Graph tags. So now we are going back to rendering a portion of the HTML on the server to support this.

In JIRA, if I hit enter in the wrong field, it does a post out to somewhere and returns me a weird xml page and I lose my work.

SPA apps are like building a browser, in a browser, and on the server. You lose some built in functionality and have to ship the framework down to the client.
Re: welfare, the attitude is also borne out of misconceptions on the left about what “socialist” European countries actually are like. The American left, especially the younger generation, is strongly anti-corporate. Places like Sweden are not anti-corporate. The Nordic countries all do well in the Heritage Foundation’s economic freedom index: https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking. The top capital gains tax rate in Sweden is 30%, lower than California. The corporate tax rate in Sweden and Denmark is 22%, about the same as under Trump’s tax law. The countries are also highly deregulated. Denmark recently got rid of its version of the FCC. The Nordic countries never had the equivalent of Glass-Steagall, and on several key dimensions their financial systems are less regulated than in the US: http://webhome.auburn.edu/~barthjr/papers/The%20Repeal%20of%... (see p. 19; note that the article is written in 1997 in contemplation of the repeal of Glass-Stegal, which had not yet occurred). Most passenger rail in Sweden is run by private operators over publicly owned track: https://www.cerre.eu/sites/cerre/files/161206_CERRE_PassRail.... (While DC is complaining that WMATA isn’t being run as a “public service” because it won’t run massively money-losing late-night trains, and the Union is fighting the plan to have part of the silver line operated by a private company, Stockholm’s metro is completely operated by MTR, a Hong Kong corporation.)

Nowhere in Western Europe can properly be described as “socialist,” not even “socialist life” after the 1980s and 1990s when states went on a massive privatization binge. They’re capitalist democracies where heavy taxes on individuals (especially the middle class) are used to fund a broad welfare state.
Not a single reference in the OED.
Do not use your company's time or equipment, period. "Gaining knowledge" needs to be justified, if you start learning tech stacks not endorsed by your company on company equipment and time, you'll have a problem.
It is a wave however, rather than a circle. There are oscillations, back and fourth between all sorts of things. It is inevitable because the competing ideas and systems are oscillating, all the way down. Nature is not perfectly in sync, and that is indeed what makes things interesting.
Cool, I dont do that for a living either. What do you do?
How do you know it's not happening?
* Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects | Hacker News || https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20018535

I saw this as the follow up article on the front page, and it got my hopes up.
Laptops with Thunderbolt 3/USB-C are pretty great for use with a docking station.

I get the advantage of having nice large monitors, proper clicky keyboards and mice, and the ability to charge/power the laptop - all over one cable. When I want to move away from the desk - unjack and keep going.
I apologise, I might have misunderstood your point then. I assumed you were saying something more interesting then a simple tautology. Why say a tautology?

I thought what yout were saying is that we shouldn't want it to be legal because it's illegal and therefore bad.
How certain is that speed?
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This is the part that often gets forgotten in these discussions: it shouldn't be "SPA for everything" vs. "vanilla HTML / CSS / JS for everything"; rather, we should be using the most appropriate set of tools for the job.

I've worked on simple static sites, for which I typically lean more on vanilla HTML / CSS with a sprinkling of JS as recommended here. I've also worked on heavy-lifting applications, for which the limitations of this approach quickly become evident; in those cases, I use reactive component frameworks like Vue and React.

But there's also approaches in between! For mid-complexity sites / apps, I've used vanilla HTML / CSS / JS, with some additional Python / Makefile plumbing to generate more repetitive parts. I've also used hybrid approaches, where vanilla HTML / CSS / JS is used for more static parts of the site and Vue is used for more dynamic parts. You can use Vue in full-on SPA mode with "server-side rendering"...but you can also just generate HTML server-side as you would have before, then progressively enhance parts of it with Vue / jQuery / whatever.

I've also used "unfashionable" frameworks like Spring before, simply because it met the client's available in-house expertise. As developers, it's incumbent upon us to step back, assess the task / team / environment at hand, and pick tools accordingly.
That's exactly how you do it. To me, it's the opposite of brittle - every consumer owns a queue, and is isolated from all other consumers. Clients are totally unaware of other systems, and there's no shared resource under contention.
I work pretty much 100% on my desktop at home every day. Only reason I'm on a laptop right now is because of a power outage.
I think you mean, by the context of the comment, that is no longer true, maybe is not an ortographical skip and I am mistaken on this one

Just to clarify, is not a misundertanding, usually in english if someone says " is longer true" it means it is true for a long time, but in the context of the comment, I guess what you want to say is that what many people repeat is no true for a long time, usually what you would write in this case is

" Its no longer true"

Or " Its long not true"

But no misunderstanding, just a grammatical litle note, the meaning of your comment is simple to see by the context, so just a little note
Perspective is important. Messaging is already so inexpensive as to be free, it's time to move towards the other end of the pendulum.

We need privacy and accountability more than the ability to further reduce the cost of a message from $0.0001 to $0.00005
You have a point that colour perception is culturally modulated, but I'd argue that the original point still stands in the modern world (which is what's relevant to the discussion of syntax highlighting): the majority of people who look at code will sooner associate red with bad than with good, and this association has become self-sustaining (much like the widespread adoption of qwerty-like keyboards).

Your example of Japanese taxi signs using red to signal availability is an interesting but rare exception to the general rule across the industrialized world that red={warning, danger, no, stop, delete}, and green={safe, good, yes, go, maximize}. For this example, there are many counterexamples. After all, Japan uses red=stop, green-blue=go on all traffic lights, railways, shipping, and aviation, in accordance with international conventions.

Yes, colours are very much culture-dependent, but red=bad and green=good (or green-blue for cultures that don't distinguish these two colours) has been intentionally adopted across cultures for generations -- dating back to shipping and train signals, if not much earlier to verdant countrysides versus blood, fire, etc.
Anglo-american culture did enough appropriation itself... no reason to feel bad for appropriating its language :P

(Though, tbh, "international high-English" as spoken has a very latin vocabulary, with non-native-English speakers often choosing the latin variant of words instead of the "native UK/US" phrasal verbs and such, eg. "we're accelerating" instead of "we're speeding up" or "we're gaining up speed", "inadequate" instead of "unfit", "superfluous" instead of "useless" etc. Not sure if to love or hate it, mostly loving myself it I think, but it's interesting and sort of contributes to more precise/explicit communication.)
iPad Air 2 or iPad 2? Because you should most definitely upgrade if you have an old iPad 2. The new ones are truly amazing, especially the Pro models.
They are complementary.

GitHub provides an easy implementation of many things that are more difficult in a decentralised model.
This sounds promising. Do you have a favored hosting platform or static html generator?
All of these features are things other languages have too (I personally disagree that npm's "download the world" model is better than Python's envs). A huge drawback Node has is that it's not installed by default on any Linux distribution I know of, so I'd take a Python script over a Node one any day. Compiled languages have an even better distribution story, and Rust's Cargo is nothing to laugh at.

I'm not sure what you hope your posted comparisons show, but the Go "monstrosity" seems to have many more features than the Node one.
Hire someone. Then you have a company. Just make sure that you are not competing with your current employer! Ask your employer just in case if you are allowed to run a side business. Its probably illegal to deny having a side business if its not a competitor. Make sure your own company becomes its own entity eg. it owns all IP not you, you are "only" the owner. Ask your employer if its ok to work for another company too. It might be illegal to deny that. Just make sure you are not competing. The all IP clause is to protect them from rouge employee stealing IP. And might even be illegal in the exact wording. When you start a company you want to get help with the paperwork then ask the lawyer if there's any issues with you current employee contract.
I've only been to two of the restaurants mentioned in this article: Liverpool House and Au Pied du Cochon.
They are two of my most favorite restaurants in the world, with the latter being my most favorite. I've never been able to get a seat at Joe Beef. I've heard it's "touristy" now but I'd still like to experience it.
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Do you have an ISDA master agreement?
There are around 70k high net worth people in the world (>$25 million). How many of them do you think use ISDAs ?
Also not a lawyer, but I would urge more caution - this is overly optimistic advice. A lot of employment contracts in the US claim ownership of all your IP produced on or off the clock, regardless of the equipment used. Whether or not that contractual language is "really legal" is another issue, but practically speaking it may not matter, if determining that means a costly legal battle against your employer.
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> Esperanto is easy to learn because it's very regular, has a small vocabulary, phonetic spelling, etc...

I had delved into Esperanto enough to see that this is not necessarily true. (I'm a native Korean speaker with a working knowledge of English as you can see. And I'm not even opposing to Esperanto in general.) It would be great to have concrete numbers to backup this claim; by comparison, it seems that the prior Esperanto knowledge actually helps learning European languages [1], which again indirectly shows the European influence to Esperanto.

> It's not even fair to say Esperanto fits in the European language family.

The article correctly points out that the "European" or "Asiatic" labels are not necessarily good groupings, but that's only because those groupings completely disregard both the history and the linguistics. It is absurd to say that Esperanto is very different from other Indo-European languages because Esperanto is isolating and others are not [2]. When we are gauging simliarities the historical influence cannot and should not be dismissed.

> China is also one of the largest state supporters of Esperanto. You can take classes in it at University and Radio Peking has regular news broadcasts in it.

There are several Esperanto courses around the world, I'm aware of one in Korea, and that doesn't make the state a sort of supporter. Talking about China Radio International (CRI, originally known as Radio Peking), it is comparable to Voice of America (VOA) in such that both are propaganda broadcasts and target as much languages as possible. It is not special for them to have Esperanto versions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paderborn_method

[2] That is, even after acknowledging the unusual statement that Esperanto is not agglutinative because its "affixes" can in fact freely move inside a word (and even concludes that Japanese is also not agglutinative to the similar extent). I think this is a fair assessment by its own, but it would be inappropriate to reframe the original question with a unusual definition.
> People who speak different lanaguges litteraly "think differently"

This widely held belief is absolutely not a proven fact. It's called linguistic relativity or linguistic determinism [1] and the strong form (language determines thought) has not been taken seriously by researchers in the field for a while.

The weak form (language can have somewhat of an impact on the way you think) has not been proven or disproven and is a topic of debate. You just state it as if it was known, even though the causal relationship of most examples you could name can easily be the other way around (culture / thinking affects how a language develops).

I'd argue that everyone learning and speaking the same language would have immense benefits for a global society. You can keep recordings in museums and linguistic researchers to keep a historical record of languages, just like we have for other tools and methods that we no longer have any use for.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
I see where your coming from, and it makes sense. Your point of view, if I understand correctly, is that the government should protect consumers from accidentally making bad choices. And I get that. It seems like it would be nice. But I don't think that's a road we want to go down, because if the government gets to make choices for people in one area, why not others? And why are we assuming that the government always knows better than the people that are actually in situations?

I mean, if I'm being honest my views on government aren't very common, so it'll probably be expedient to agree to disagree. (:
There is a difference between "cloud" and serverless though. I bet most people are not using something that can autoscale infinite by default.
Funny, never heard this joke on HN before.
You don't even need an alias, you can just stick the flag in ~/.config/youtube-dl/config instead.
My desktop w/a Ryzen 1800x still randomly freezes. I disabled most of the power saving features in the UEFI, which definitely reduced the frequency but it still happens on rare occasions. :(
I don't think the vast majority of programmers are paid to generate tons of IP.

More importantly, we're almost always only paid to generate IP in a single domain. So if I go home and generate IP for a totally different domain, there's no reason why my employer should have any claim to it.

But many companies will have it in your contract that they own it, regardless of relevance to the company.
I guess the other thing that you’re leaving out is the number of users your site will receive. For smaller numbers in a simpler market you can get away with more technically complex solutions. My last four years have been spent working on data driven platforms with a minimum of a billion individual visits a year, and for those typically prerendering the common parts and pushing them to a caching layer is much more computationally efficient and leads to a faster client.

If you’re dealing with a lot of custom data for each user they that plays less well into the prerender solutions. But again, it comes down to how best to serve your users’ needs.
Thanks for the detailed answer. Cheers!
My company literally says "assume 0 privacy". Not joking.
A lot of dangerous, stressful or painful experiences are fun as long as you know you are getting out Ok on the other side. People would probably enjoy it much less if there was a chance that they may get killed in that machine.
Thanks for the info!

Yes, I would've always used a "hub" to connect devices to the outside world, it's the sensible thing to do.

I checked out the availability of hardware on eBay Germany, and it seems GSM/GPRS modules start at €3.00, averaging at about €12.00, whereas 4G modules start at €30.00, and average around €70.00, that's quite a hike!

I'm guessing the Arduino MKR NB 1500 is something like a "reference device", and runs for ~€66.00 before tax on their own website. It has the uBlox SARA-R410M 02B chip on it.

A cheaper alternative seems to be the SIM7600CE and its variants, selling from Chinese traders around €30.00 to €70.00.

Does anyone have any experience with any of the chips I mentioned?
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It's well-documented in youtube-dl's readme: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection

It has examples as well: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#format-selection-exam...
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There's a mixed-content warning because the original site doesn't have a valid HTTPS cert but yours forces HTTPS, you might want to fix that.
Sure, the the node code uses fewer lines than the Go code. But what you’ve failed to notice is the Go code calls APIs directly rather than fork()ing and does so within its own code base (how many lines of code is in the countless imports of your node example?). Plus the Go code also has unit tests which the others don’t.

Line numbers are always a terrible metric for proving anything but in this case your especially abusing that data.
Many people still use UML. It will always be there to use, whether or not it "worked out".
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i am not too concerned. market crashes such has the 1929 crash predate passive funds by half a century.

The market will gravitate to its fair value based on fundamentals and other factors. Most of these passive funds just mirror an underlying benchmark but do not control it.

Most trading is done by futures, etfs, and the individual stocks that compose the index. It's sorta like a tug of war between all of these participants to reach an equilibrium and eliminate arbitrage.
Just run 'grep -r'...

Oh wait, Windows doesn't have grep.
This kind of terrible state management is super widespread and really annoying. I agree that lots of folks seem to have have spent the last few years thinking more about their build chain and tooling than about basic UX.
AFAIK Apple has zero macs with AMD cpus. Also I've heard about issues running macOS even in virtual machine on AMD hardware. So I have my doubts about that. You're more likely to have RAM Mac Mini.
AMD also wants to get more into servers, supercomputing, AI, and cloud. That's mostly Epyc but Ryzen is fast enough to play there and integrated GPUs dont matter there either.
What about Google blocking Android access from Huawei? Have they been forced to make that decision as well? I don't see them complaining, possibly to still have the government available as a possible customer and because they got harmed by the Chinese government's trade policies themselves.

Similarly, Microsoft has the US government as a customer too. They might instruct GitHub leadership to not complain and simply follow the requests by the US government.
>The wooden structure survived the firebombing campaigns

Yeah, and Mount Vernon survived 9/11. Marugame was never firebombed or targeted for firebombing.
I really can't follow your argument. The EU laws are brand new and not usually connected to the civil code of the countries of the EU, who all have their own take on a lot of stuff. Case in point: the GDPR. The English text is used as the reference by the various countries that have now implemented it, there are translations but anything before the EU courts will most likely be conducted in English and use the English text. Regardless, those texts can be translated and nothing stops a country that is worried about its citizenry being unable to read the text to translate it.

I don't see any major influence of either common law or the Napoleonic civil code on the EU legislation, though the court process arguably has been influenced strongly by those principles.