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India would very much like the USD remittances that these people usually send to folks back home in India. India has been riding on foreign inflow of money for quite sometime. I don't know the share of remittances from the US vs. other countries (like the Middle Eastern Gulf countries), but the lack of more remittances over time from the US may not hurt India much, but losing it wouldn't be nice either.
IRC has terrible UX, and Slack beat it because the experience is better.
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Tried that too, in relation to the ‘12.mp3’―no luck, though I posted only once so far. I'll probably have to barge in on some similar Japanese resource.

At other occasions, I'm usually having trouble describing what I'm looking for, since it's practically all instrumental and sometimes rather vague.

(“Circusey frantic melody?” Good luck with that to me. Turned out to be from the excellent and, critically, diverse “World Shopping” album by Space Ponch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-VxYG0nRWhk).
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Canada has a relatively large (~5%) Chinese and Chinese-Canadian population. A large immigration event happened during the 90s due to the uncertainty surrounding the UK handover of Hong Kong[1] and many resettled in Vancouver.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_immigration...
These will be separate jobs in any large enough IT org.
If you are unwilling to get your hands dirty interacting with the people who use your network you'll be unaware of how your decisions affect their day to day lives and consequently they'll probably end up hating you, which will not do you any favors in the long run. It is important to remember that everything you do is ultimately in service to helping them do their jobs.
No, they're actually slightly more expensive than a regular taxi. The growth limiter for Uber in Japan is the strict regulation around transportation vehicles, partly due to the government's close ties with the taxi industry, and partly because I think the government wants to disincentivize car use in its bigger cities (this makes a lot of sense, since in Japan's large cities, public transportation is quite good).

Because of this, any kind of commercial activity using a motorized vehicle is highly regulated - services like UberX are impossible to launch in Japan. Even for food delivery, delivery drivers all ride bicycles.
Trust has nothing to do with westerners reliance on China.

It’s the low cost of human capital, and now the realization of lost non-Chinese suppliers, that continues to keep China thriving.

One does business in China because it’s the only way (currently) to stay afloat.

And yes, corruption is inevitable in China because of its inconsistent rule of law and inability of dedicated journalists and grassroots movements to expose, uproot, and punish said corruption.

Edit: China is at a crossroads, but whether those in power will step-up to greatness and allow its greatest resource (its people) be more than puppets and slaves remains to be seen.
Replace "now" with "too". They've been killing pangolins for countless decades.
Yeah, what's the deal with that? There have to be at least 2 nines in the percentage of end-user systems used by only a single person. The only explanation I can think of is that they're angling for a Chrome-like cross-device experience that conveniently stores all of your browsing data on their servers.
The fact that the performance of the application is awful. You would think that a $16B company could move away from Electron and make native applications for their platforms.
There is an emacs Slack client, though I don't know if you'll find it a seamless migration or as polished as what you're used to with IRC: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Slack
I dont know, I use Rocket which seems to be similar to Pock but after almost a year with it I havent actually made use of it once.

edit: IMHO the problem is the dock itself. it just sucks. even windows 10 taskbar is way better
Except people still release protocols. Just look at https://matrix.org/

IRC is an early protocol and wasn't designed for extensibility purposes. A new chat protocol just needs to replace it.
>That and poaching them only for their fins.

This is the part I personally find most disturbing. When you see videos of shark finners slicing them off the shark while still in the water, leaving it to bleed to death it's very disturbing.

If people were eating the meat as well, and they were being fished at a sustainable level (so not endangered species), I'd have no issue with it.
Umm you do realize Youtube is free to the end user? That makes the two exactly comparable in business model.
It's part of DoggoLingo[0], a meme-filled Internet lexicon (or... something). It's all in good fun, and I don't understand why anybody could be upset by it. Sure, he could've called this "SmallTCP" and been bland, but decided to inject some (silly) humour. Plenty of other projects are similarly named.[1]

It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoggoLingo

[1]: https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v

[2]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cromulent

[3]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen
Which is a fair expectation to have.

Free markets are nearly optimal for commodities, restaurants, and similar sorts of goods, as well as many competing small businesses.

They grind along for IP, utilities, and some sectors of education, as well as large businesses.

They break down almost completely for large-scale finance, real estate, medicine, and other sectors of education.

Curiously, much of this was predicted by Adams in Wealth of Nations (read his sections on real estate; they sound downright dystopian). Even more curiously, China has privatized all the sectors where free markets work, kept public all the ones where they don't, and their economy exploded. The US economy exploded with free markets when it was driven by essentially commodity manufacturing. As IP, finance, and real estate became more important, it began to fall behind.
Linux is way harder to target, as any software vendor will readily tell you, so it would need to be significantly juicier for worthwhile return on investment.
This is the first time I've ever heard of why the source release was delayed. I have also managed to see the related issue [1], which was posted too late. You should have said at the first time. [2]

You have instantly earned much reputation by releasing Volt at the first time; that reputation is much easier to lose as well. People easily gets disappointed, no matter what you have achieved (or think that you can achieved); you should be very careful. Or you can stack much reputation that your mistake or short-sighted action doesn't harm yourself.

[1] https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/287

[2] Not that I like this form of release. Proprietary languages simply don't work in the modern world.
On slower internet, slack takes ages. If I'm tethering, slack has taken over 30 seconds to load. Insane.
Part of the idea of the ‘poll tax’ was also to increase accountability of local government by making it more transparent - ‘why do you charge twice what the neighbouring council does?’

Council tax actually is relatively progressive when you consider that council tax benefit is also part of the system. Very few areas have a large number of band H homes - parts of central London do, but even there you might be surprised how small a number you’re talking about - there are only c15k in the City of Westminster for example, the borough which includes the whole of Mayfair and Belgravia.
This is good news but how many daily tasks come close to being represented by Cinebench?

Is Ryzen a better choice for a daily driver?
I think if someone is in a huge house they're barely using and possibly not even maintaining, there isn't a massive issue with gently incentivising them to move somewhere smaller.

There especially isn't an issue with a redistributive land tax rather than a property tax. That would take money from corporate landlords and move it back into the rest of the economy.

You have to balance your caution with the reality at the other end - which is people living in slum conditions and/or sheds, or being homeless.
> we don't discuss possible future projects externally

There's a limit to how much you can "no comment" your way through a congressional hearing; it would be obvious that this meant that Facebook were working on such a thing, and would increase the likelihood of it getting pre-emptively banned.
A long time back (i.e. when I was a kid, which was a long time back), you could get a visa to come to Canada if you invested a certain amount of money into a company and ran that company for a few years (2 was the minimum, I think). For relatively well off people in China this was a great opportunity and basically the default thing to do was to open a Chinese restaurant. Lots of these restaurants went under after the proprietors got permanent residence status, but a suprisingly large number of them stuck around. My good friend's father was one of those immigrants and he said that he had no interested at all in running a restaurant, but after doing it for a few years he found that he really enjoyed it. So historically there have been a lot of Chinese restaurants in Canada and a large population of Chinese Canadians. Over time, quite a few of these restaurants have gotten very good and the owners hire famous chefs from China to come over and cook in them (at one time that was a thing you could do... I'm not so sure any more). Because of this, famous Chinese dishes started to appear in the restaurants. Again, when I was a kid, most restaurants had 2 menus: one in Chinese and one in English. The English one had "Chinese Canadian" food like sweet and sour pork balls in neon red sauce, while the Chinese menu had actual Chinese cuisine. As Canadians became more aware of this, they started preferring the Chinese menu. By the time I was in University, everybody I knew wouldn't dream of ordering off the English menu (I grew up in Winnipeg, which had a very good set of Chinese restaurants at the time). Again, over time, Canadians started to appreciate fine Chinese cuisine. One of the dishes that is popular is shark fin soup. That's basically the long and the short of it as far as I can tell.
Masklinn kind of has a point. Clearly, the subjects of this article are not "mcmansion" people.
I'm reminded of Feynman's discussion about The Beauty of the Flower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo

Replace the word beauty with magic, and you get a similar point with regards to the "loss" of magic. It's not a loss at all, it's really just familiarity; "knowing" how it works doesn't make it any less magical (or beautiful). My suggestion to recapture that magic, is to delve further into the things you don't understand or know, and to ask further questions to unravel deeper layers, rather than continually having to use the knowledge you already have. It's worth recognizing that you can still appreciate that "magic", despite having looked behind the curtain to see how it works.
> Also the use of the word "embarassing" makes me wonder if you truly understand what massive efforts it takes to create something as ambitious as Ethereum without running into some critical bugs.

What made the fork controversial was that it wasn't a bug in Ethereum itself (Bitcoin also had a fork due to a code bug and that was wholly uncontroversial), but rather a bug in a single contract.

Bugs in contracts will always happen, since, well, it's code. Code has bugs. What's makes it funny is that the investment terms page explaining the contract was extremely clear that the contract code itself were the only terms that mattered, not any "intent". Everyone who invested agreed to the bug, even if they didn't know about it.
The competing pressure is to drive down costs because no one wants to pay taxes.
> Oxford's university to exist built somewhere for students to live right inside the university too

For those it's true, but also forgetting there's more than one university in Oxford. There are plenty of places on the East and North sides of the city where denser housing could have been placed, but it comes down more to politics around NIMBYism and preservation, more than geography.
I didn't mind image based ads with a clickable url.... that was ok...

what was never ok was the javascrap that is loaded along the advertisement image.... this is where all the creepy tracking and privacy invasion takes place.. . browser vendors have been absolutely fucking shit at providing end users with finer controls over what inside JavaScrap is allowed to be run...there have been addons over the years that have provided more finer grain control, and even the various ad blockers.

It's an social issue now because the industry that has grown around this constant tracking and surveillance doesn't give a fuck, infact they're practically funded by globalist scum to keep doing it. Goolagdo all evil mantra, being the worst offenders as they have always had the agenda of data collecting everything. With the likes of MSuck/Faceb0rg/twatter etc and even Moztard corp, all just pushing this insanity along. Never mind all the chum 'partners' involved.
Thw only credible statement I found regarding that was that they sell the spots on the default start page for money. However, I have no idea how much these are worth in a browser with approximately 0 percemt marketshare.
There s nothing wrong with extensions unless they break the entire system, but seems there was no One IRC company that would essentially dictate extensions to everyone else. Google has changed HTTP and HTML a lot, and email too. Slack could have done the same with IRC (maybe someone else will do in the future? ). Yes, walled gardens are a recipe for success , but despite massive walled gardens we still have not switched wholly to those gardens, because they come and go.
> statistically speaking, we're almost guaranteed

> this guarantee comes from the believe

So it's not statistically speaking, it's not a guarantee, it's a belief. I'm ok with that, but please don't try to present it otherwise. I personally don't believe there'll ever be a technology able to simulate a human to the point you describe, which I think is ok to believe too and not less scientifically correct or incorrect.
I'm not sure I understand. A single word may have many different IPA transcriptions for different regional accents, so IPA won't necessarily tell you what you want to know.
If we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen?

Would a general election be called?

It's a bit farcical that the country will have a PM that was not the leader of the governing party at the last election.

Granted with the Brexit mess they could arguably have some legitimate reasons for not calling it straight away but it seems that they've all ruled out calling it at all, AFAIK.
You can now set Fn keys to always show. Now, as in since one or two MacOS versions ago. More so, you can actually set Fn to show _only_ for certain apps.
For instance, when I remote desktop to a Windows machine, I usually use Visual Studio, and Fn keys are a must. Therefore, I set it up to always show Fn keys when Remote Desktop has focus.

I am honestly surprised how much people complain without actually digging a bit. This is not aimed at you OP, don't take it personally. :)

Edit: granted, Apple doesn't do much to let us know about such improvements. Maybe it's in some release notes, but I found out about this feature while playing with the settings.
My uncle just started a small bee colony on his property. This will help his garden, the surrounding gardens, and the area as a whole. My work also has a few hives on each of our buildings rooftops.

So some people care but a larger majority do not. As humans we, especially in the west, don't care about a problem until it's too late. who cares about the bees when we have the latest iPhone Xr+ Max ultra
I have no idea what a free account gets me, but the fact that the lowest "Explorer" tier costs $39/month for 1 map per month causes me to lose interest immediately.

I have two suggestions:

1. Show a bunch of prominent examples of star maps on giftable items like mugs and shirts memorializing various events like a birth or a wedding. The more explicit you are about the stars matching the night sky on the day and place of the event, the better. I could see these making for cool party favors, but I think the concept will go over a lot of people's heads (pun intended) unless it's spelled out for them.

2. Offer a la carte pricing. The couple planning their wedding on a shoestring budget might buy a star map for $40, but starting and cancelling a $40 subscription could be too much of a hassle.

Longer term, I might look into partnering with a company like
zazzle.com and integrating into their create-your-own-shirt-or-mug-or-whatever pipeline for a royalty.
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In this context, let me mention one point. India does not yet have a data privacy law (it relies on some interpretations of the IT Act). So people's data may be better protected by laws in other countries that have such laws (regardless of how comprehensive they are) than if the data were to reside in India.

The co-founder of Paytm (the CEO's brother) has been caught on video saying that it can provide all its customers' information in exchange for money. Oyo Rooms decided to funnel all hotel guest information to local police directly regardless of whether there was a crime or not and if the police requested for some data or not. There are many such instances where data privacy is not valued at all.
> Cab drivers in Japan usually take pride in their work

This is more of a Japanese work mentality than cab drivers being some high-skilled craftsman type class of workers. Cab drivers in Japan are generally very overworked and the demographics look quite bad: average age is something like 55, few newcomers because the pay isn't good and the hours are bad.
I use the Firefox extension "Hide fixed elements", which is not only useful for hiding these kinds of modals but also overlarge headers and cookie warnings.
The jobs are in London, but so are the costs. In terms of living expenses, the cost/benefit ratio for other cities is much higher.

The real benefit of London is the networking and the culture. There's a lot of both - more so than elsewhere.

Whether it's worth the insane housing costs is debatable.
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And the pattern of "desperately searching everything except genetics for a scapegoat" continues.
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Except for message retention and search, IRC already has all that, and even that is possible with bouncers.

Mobile applications with notifications, conversation threads with +draft/reply (IRCv3 draft), multimedia attachments (IRCv3 idea), authentication with SASL and standardized account management (IRCv3 draft), etc.

Look at what IRCCloud provides, and what IRCv3 is doing.
That's not an intrinsic problem with IRC-the-protocol. The only technical issue with it is the lack of server-side channel history scrollback which makes it inconvenient for users who aren't connected 100% of the time. This could have been entirely solved with a single extra server command - "/fetch-channel-history". But I suppose no one was convinced of the need.

If you wanted to make a modern, user-friendly chat application that relies on central servers, there's no reason not to base it on IRC.
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I'm truly hoping the Matrix protocol takes off.

(FWIW, /me has been using Matrix-based chat clients for group and individual chats at conferences. Quite happy with it.)
should, vivaldi is the only decent browser I use now.. used to be firefox pre quantum garbage until moztard corp went full retard in turning there browser into chrome clone complete with web shit extensions, and proceeded to break every damnn addon that ever made firefox good in the first place.
I recently spent some time introducing typescript to a javascript code base. My background is mostly backend/JVM, so I wasn't the perfect person to be doing this obviously. But as there was nobody else and I needed to own this stuff, I put in the work and got things done.

My impressions are mostly positive in the sense that if you are doing JS, you are better off doing TS. The tooling is great and you can start with simple changes that almost immediately start giving clear benefits in terms of typing related warnings and other improvements. Typescript is minimally intrusive in the sense that all js is valid ts and you can gradually improve it by adding type annotations and addressing warnings.

The benefits are a vastly improved safety net at a very minimal cost, smarter tools, and more confidence that a given piece of code will not break with some entirely preventable error (like an NPE). Excluding whole categories of bugs is a good thing. For new code, I consider it a no brainer. Most new projects seem to default to using typescript so I guess more people have come to the same conclusion. Lots of upsides, no real downsides that I know off. You'd have to be pretty stubborn to opt out at this point. For older code that you still care about, migrating is a good investment as well: you will improve the code. Any other code you probably need to get rid off anyway.

That being said, I believe typescript is merely a gateway drug. Typescript is great and you definitely should use the strict mode. But even in the strict mode it still inherits a lot of cruft from javascript and this makes life needlessly hard. Other languages don't have this problem and the progression from the js/ts ecosystem to other things is very obvious with some younger full stack engineers I've known for a few years. Go and Rust seem particularly popular lately. And even Kotlin seems to be well liked (big fan myself).

Better still, a lot of these languages are coming to the browser (via WASM or transpilation). Inevitably, some projects will start moving away from defaulting to the js/ts ecosystem for frontend work. Right now you'd be a very early adopter but things are improving rapidly and there are some early adopters. I played a bit with kotlin-js recently and while it still has lots of rough edges, it actually works quite well. Not quite a drop-in replacement for typescript just yet but most of that is related to consuming javascript from kotlin; which I'd argue is short term needed but long term undesirable and likely to become less important as native kotlin frameworks emerge (e.g. kvision is a popular one). Tip, parcel recently added kotlin support; works without extra configuration even.
Worse, some people wear their lack of caring as a badge of pride. See 'rolling coal'.
Their biggest lock-in and I think a reason a large portion of average users don't switch to Android. I know this to be true for both of my siblings, as well as my wife's entire family.
How would Slack make this human behavior different?
Anyone have any experience with AMD and ECC memory? I was going to do an AMD build for a NAS but the support for ecc was kinda like:

“We enabled it but didn’t test it and we don’t guarantee it will work.”
Totally intuitive. Kids have always been broke.

It's a trope seen in movies and tv shows that go back several decades, because it mirrors real life. In the early working years, people have never had much money. (Fortunately, this later corrects.)