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Going to reader view is instinct now.
You can detect it visually by the sparks and smoke coming out of your device.
European casinos I have found to be boring compared to American casinos. A craps game in an American casino can get raucous in a good, exciting way. Even more so at a 'cheap' American casino.

Contrast this when I was at the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco where they somehow sucked the fun out of craps.
> allow call-center employees in third-world countries to pretend

I agree companies should be forced to tell the truth to their customers, but in all cases where they're asking for details about the customer service rep? That could go weird places.

If a caller demanded to know the rep's HIV status, we wouldn't insist the company disclose it. We'd probably demand they didn't. Honesty is important, ok, but the customer has no reasonable need to know that. So, ok, it's not as simple as "tell the customer everything." There are some judgment calls the company has to make about what's important to disclose and what is irrelevant. The service rep's race, religion, medical history, or sexual orientation are probably not up for discussion. Why not national origin?

This isn't just about fairness to the rep, but the majority of customers need the company to hold this line too. If some portion of the population strongly believes that foreign call centers are lower quality, are you going to get the best possible answers on a survey if you say, "this was a foreign call center, how was the quality?"

Disclosing irrelevant details can sabotage collection of unbiased information on call quality.

If customers as a whole want improved service quality, they'll want the company to be able to collect unbiased post-call survey results.

If call centers in country X are all terrible, unbiased surveys will reveal that. If it's really about training, and there are good and bad call centers in several different countries, unbiased surveys will reveal that too.

I know passions run deep on this one, and it's a hard case, but this one seems a little more complicated than the others.
Is there something like this in Berlin?
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Did you watch re-runs of Top Gear on Dave too? I am surprised given the popularity of the show that more people haven't gone for the car-seats-at-home option. You get head rests into the bargain, plus, if you need to re-upholster there are after market seat covers and even those bead things that people had in their cars then.

Essentially all these seats go for scrap so you could get the leather seats from a 7-series BMW to have a mega cool sofa at home complete with arm rest and cup-holders. With a few more bits of wood you could make some outer arm-rests. Heated/cooled seats could be nice too.

Maybe there is a 1990's sweet spot where the electronics aren't present so adjustment can be done with mechanical controls, as per your Astra option. A Transit Van could have particularly good pickings with the right vintage.
to be fair he said at least in this case(i could see it working in more cases and is very group psychology but a bit passive agressive)they left him alone not that they were not assholes anymore.
Check out Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
Yeah, I'd also back laws banning a lot of the no-recourse situations companies cost-minimize you into but that'd also want to account for, say, having you talk to people who are under strict instructions not to help you or tell you why.

(Once Verizon tried to charge me an ETF despite being a couple of years out of contract. The phone support was horrible and I thought it might have just been an English fluency issue but then I called the executive office and the person who fixed my bill just casually volunteered that the people in the first-tier call centers cannot in any way reverse charges or escalate to people who can, and aren't allowed to say that. They understood the question but their jobs were literally on the line if they told you that they couldn't help.)
More of a philosophical perspective than any sort of real proposal, but worth a read if you're into that. It's a mid-length piece, looks longer than it is due to the comment section at bottom.
Interesting the Carnegie foundation did something similar in the UK around 1941 and set up 18 Plus after they did a study called "Disinherited Youth".

And there is "our" competitor Rotaract the youth arm of Rotory - they tend a bit more to charity though.
You're absolutely right about normalizing lies and deception. You know what normalizes lying faster than anything else? Requiring that people lie about the evidence of their own eyes if they're to be accepted into polite company. We've built a society in which lying is compulsory in certain domains. Why on Earth would anyone expect the lying to stay within those domains once the taboo against dishonesty in general is broken?
Why would choose such a terrible text editor then? </joke>
Outsourcing to India is cheap on paper expensive in reality. If India was able to compete with local they would charge the same price.

Poor communication and lack of progress will frustrate them in 6 months.

Your client will be working with a local account manager who is clueless but a good bullshitter, they pass on what they _think_ the client means to the Indian team.

The Indian team is provided with a shitty brief they can't really work with, and they don't have the communication skills to go back to the client so they just build the wrong thing.

Since the team is in a different timezone all this poor communication takes ages.

After a year of lots of back and forth the client still wont be any closer to what they actually want and have spent a fortune on staff in meetings about the issue that never gets resolved. Going local even if it is more expensive will be cheaper in the long run and will produce the results they want.

There is nothing you can do about this, the customer has to scold their hand before they realise that the oven is hot.
An excellent click bait article for functional programming. For example, the brief talk of validators, why couldn't you just put the validator in the credit card object? The credit card validator should only be used in the credit card object so the discussion about not being able to see it can be accessed by simply navigating to the classes that compose the credit card. Putting it in the constructor or other credit card methods fixes the not being forced aspect (when I look at the FP example, it looks like it's doing just this). And you can use the validator anywhere in the CC object.
Also curious about differentiation strategies, if anyone has tips. I'm guessing the marketing materials for the cables isn't even sufficient to tell them apart in many cases.

It's tempting to build some sort of test rig for this (though I hardly have the background for it)...
Yes, this is approximately customary.
>USB-C has a special-case allowance to drive analog audio signals through the port

Wat. Just when I think I've heard it all...
Netherlands is also a tax haven for some with favourable holding company regime, many of my friends have moved there for lowering taxes on group of their companies.
This post conflates two very different things:

1. Benign lack of social skills (terse emails etc.). These people are not a major problem in my experience, and are sometimes even under-appreciated because they don't (successfully at least) sell themselves or play politics. They don't really have bad intentions and can often improve their behavior.

2. Narcissism (belittling others, must always be right, etc.) This is a _huge_ problem that in severe cases can destroy an organization. Such people are basically incurable because this is a deep seated psychological problem (really a personality disorder) and nothing a manager can fix. You must get rid of such people at all costs.
All good points. While I think TV is perhaps too specific an example, my personal hypothesis is that availability of other forms of entertainment is a cause of declining birth rate. I’d say close to half of my married friend couples do not plan on having kids, and their main reasoning is usually that they like their social life, freedom to travel, ability get out in the weekends and generally do what they want. Also often they don’t seem too keen on loading themselves with additional responsibilities.
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They spend months if not years on the design and crank out millions. Getting USB-C right seems like a no-brainer!
I wonder whether there are any cars that can fit a good desk in the passenger seat. You’d have thought it’d be useful for a lot of people.
Considering the heavy emphasis on budget, it could very well have been on reduced cost. Is a single resistor expensive? No but each decision adds up and it may just be ingrained in the team's ethos.

Many times if we push something too hard, we apply the rule without questioning whether it truly makes sense in a particular situation.
The light difference between winter and summer get too extreme for most trees far enough north. The soil is also extremely poor. This gets brought up by people who think Canada would be hugely successful in a warmer climate, but even if there's no permafrost, the growing season won't change.
Yeah, this wasn't thought out the greatest. I have a bunch of USB-C to USB-C cables for my computer to phone (mobile dev, so use it a lot). Some of my cables actually automatically force my phone to charge my laptop (who would want that...), but Android lets you change the options.
The biggest problem is that Indian government taxes middle class who are few and there are many havenots in the country

Even if you take away 50% of the money from middle-class, it will not be sufficient to improve the quality of life of the people at bottom.

This scheme isn't going to work, it just snatches resources from the ones who can somehow integrate with the global economy and gives to those who have no idea what to do with it.
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This is really nice. Thanks for building and sharing
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Hey BeetleB,

I hear you. It sounds like you are engaged in the conversation in good faith and are trying to understand why your communications are being downvoted while others are not.

I can't say for certain why your comments have been downvoted while others haven't, but I can make a conjecture.

Peter Drucker said "communication is perception." That has stuck with me.

Why might this matter here? If an initial comment you made rubbed anyone the wrong way, then the rest of your comments in this thread are likely to be perceived negatively.

This could be compounded by political preferences and group psychology.

Again, I'm just making a conjecture here as I didn't want to leave you hanging.

I drew on Drucker's thoughts on communications from his original 1973 publication of Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, and Practices. I uploaded the relevant pages to an Imgur album if you would like to read them.

https://imgur.com/a/SYsuFu0
(Random fun point of cross over of your interests, writing a parser generator that can consume Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī... )
> If F# or rust or haskell really was quicker and more effective in a prototyping environment as well as when writing production hardened code, programmers would likely eventually converge on only using them. That isn't what is happening.

This does not seem to me to be a safe assumption to make. The market is irrational. There is no reason to believe popularity has any significant correlation to the effectiveness of a tool.
> I just assumed it was a mistake and didn't bother getting angry.

No need to get angry, but you might need to get careful. It's a bit like seeing a single cockroach in a restaurant; you can't just kill and remove it then declare that everything's fine.

Contacting them and confirming that it was a mistake is basic CYA, it establishes with them that it's not your transaction and hopefully gets something on file.

(I've just got off the phone with EE after a mysterious charge appeared on my account. They couldn't tell me where it had come from or even when it was applied, so after putting me on hold for a while they agreed to just take it off again. But I only spotted it because I'm checking my bills carefully after a previous dispute ...)
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Thanks vijayr. I missed that one.
I visited St Augustine this week and went on a trolley tour around the town with my family (highly recommended). The guides mentioned Coquina and there's actually a place where you can see a rusted cannon ball embedded in a wall of Coquina, pretty unique material that was easy to quarry from nearby.
Cool. Keep insulting people then, your prerogative.
Fair point, PayPal were possibly mistaken because they've designed their system badly. They have it in their power to ensure they're not mistaken. Choosing to tell a falsehood as truth ... now, there's a name for that ...

I'm assuming good faith on behalf of the OP primarily because I've had a similar experience of missing transactions on PayPal.
It’s not ugly, either.

For generations people who wanted to do business in another jurisdiction had to follow the law of that place, even if it meant physically traveling there or opening a store.

Internet businesses would still have things much easier, as a change in software can be done by someone working from home or in Chennai or what have you- without any capital expenditure.

Dont make this out to be armageddon- it’s not.
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Interac "works" but has many pitfalls. Some examples:

- Inability to issue refunds

- Lack of 2 factor authentication

- Non-unique payment addresses (receiving emails are not bound to one account or even one person)
"I really need to get this deployed to production. I'll
build it... AH MAN look at all these compilation errors and failing tests!! Screw it! I don't have time to fix them all. I'll just remove them and fix it later."
If an antibiotic doesn't wipe out its target, then its target's numbers will be devastated in the short-term, but in the long-term, its target will evolve immunity to the antibiotic and ultimately recover.

If you think about it, contraceptives are extremely similar to an antibiotic whose target is human beings. We're still living in the short-term when the antibiotic seems to be effective.
I generally find law and order assholes the most disruptive of assholes.

Here we are getting work done and this asshole starts making a federal case out of someone wearing shorts on a Thursday?
I think I actually played Haunted Mansion at a party my dad took me to when I was super little; I rediscovered Dangerous Dave later. Never did get past the "outdoor" level...
How is it "literally the only way to counter scamming sellers"? There are so many competitors out there that offer better services... Stripe, Google Pay, Moneris, Braintree, Square, WePay, Authorize.net, the list goes on...
Dietary sugar—sugar that’s bound up along with fiber in its natural setting like fruits & vegetables—is a very different thing from non-dietary sugar. The former is fine; the latter is a chronic hepatotoxin that leads to metabolic disease, including lethargy, irritability, fat gain (sp. interstitial), and diabetes.
My guess regarding why PayPal does so badly with edge cases: they probably use very low wage "contractors" to run customer service and support.

Google, Facebook, PayPal all rely on their automated systems working perfectly and handling as much as possible. But there's always edge cases where things don't go as planned, and they require human intervention. But big tech wants max profits, so they try not to hire anyone, and those that they do hire are as poorly paid as they can get away with.

So you get very uninterested and unmotivated people handling customer support.
HAL9000 had a pretty strong and justified bias about his being right too. It didn't end very well. :)
The USB-C ecosystem is quite a mess. Most cables are either limited functionality, or not up to spec that they advertise. Frying your devices with nonstandard chargers or cables is easily possible.

You can't tell them apart visually, and you can't always trust the specs promised on Amazon either.

There are testing tools like https://www.tindie.com/products/aroerina2/usb-cable-checker/

There was a Google engineer (Bensen Leung) who bought, tested and reviewed all the cables he could find, but with the shutdown of Google+ the archive seems to be lost.
Curious that they don't seem to have Cicuta maculata, spotted water hemlock. The emphasis seems to be European toxics.

C. mat. is interesting because no one has identified the minimum fatal dose, and because the root tastes and smells good. But people hospitalized survive it, given help breathing.
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SQL queries and GL shaders tend to be much shorter than a typical program.

There are exceptions of course, but it's rare to find shaders with thousands of lines of code or more.
Can i navigate app using vim keys? I'm looking for image viewer similar to sxiv, pqiv or feh that will work on macos.
Eh. No worries.

I expect a relatively small minority of the HN crowd have exposure to decades-old mainframe systems.

It seemed a plausible rationale, given the state of the world ~2000 when PayPal was ramping up was very different.

Especially in the financial sector, I can see partners and/or requisite systems to interface with being heavily mainframe-based.

And now, even if PayPal is following best practices, it's possible one of their counterparties is stuck in the 1980s. People forget that "building Fort Knox around a private line from X DC to Y DC" is sometimes cheaper than "rewrite COBOL system of record that no one alive worked on."
OK, what you're talking about in the example goes far beyond "not doing one's job", however, and definitely crosses into the personality defect zone of a-hole.
But then it's a $50, $60, $70 computer.

(This has always been my complaint anyway. The Pi Zero works great with any of the USB chargers you already own too many of, but the rest of the Pi line needs higher-spec chargers that most people need to buy as an add-on)
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> Travelling by plane with a small child seems equally irritating.

I experienced that first hand and I rather have a flight. For me it was 2 hours flight plus another 2 hours getting in and out of airport. That's nothing with 23h of train ride on the same route with couple train changes. From my experience any travel over 4 hours long is almost impossible with a small child especially if most part of that time require sitting in one place.
>And that's a problem in this case, because it's not like any of the predators in ad industry actually dies.

Hmm, I'm not saying that you unintentionally found a solution here.
I don't have a USB-C device right now to check, but according to https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-c... there might be some information at /sys/class/typec/<port>-cable
You do need something more than Schroedinger’s equation to get definite outcomes and probabilities. Apparently when and how it happens are not questions so easy to answer, are they?

MWI may be what you would get if you took collapse out of the Copenhagen Interpretation, but to get the same predictions you have to put the collapse back in somehow. And the question of what is a measurement cannot be completely avoided.
You obviously missed my point, so kindly re-read my comment, particularly the part about the entire chain. Everyone involved is responsible for the deaths of innocent lives. Testers are at the end of the chain and have the power of approving or halting the deployment but the ones working for these inferior companies don't put on their thinking caps because they're just incapable of doing so. They test the spec and collect the check.
If this is a joke, this is the wittiest comment I have read on this site.

If this is not a joke, this is the funniest comment I have read on any site.
It is not better, the two have different use cases. If you are using setTimeout to delay then you need a callback. Being so obsessed with the syntax that you right your code twice is the only wrong solution. While the AsyncFunction is used only by async statements and expression it uses Promise under the hood. In terms of performance it is not a good idea to make assumptions like that, performance can only be determined by testing.
Did you take the vendor (who made the fraudulent charge) to court to get your funds back?
> that’s their freedom

Also, addiction, and addiction, more than anything, is related to trauma.
It's the problem of "he knows what he's doing" vs "I know what I'm doing".

In the old unix days, tools were built under the assumption that "he knows what he's doing", meaning that if you typed "rm -r /" you probably had a good reason to do so. We've since learned that just blindly trusting potentially fat fingers is probably not the best approach, and so the more dangerous of those tools have been modified to require you to add additional flags to do the most dangerous things.

It was the same in C, where the compiler blindly did exactly as told until we realized that software developers have fat fingers too. Unfortunately, they got it backwards, issuing warnings that by default don't halt compilation ("he knows what he's doing"), which led users and managers to believe that warnings aren't serious enough to deal with.

What they SHOULD have done is made those warnings halt compilation by default, and only allow compilation to continue if the user had invoked an additional opt-in ("I know what I'm doing") flag.

There's also the issue of inconsistent warnings across compilers and the subtleties of UB in C that contributed to the warnings problem, but we don't have that in Go.
New Zealand Ends Involvement with SKA Telescope Project
How about the lottery? If the Megamillions jackpot is, lets say 500 MM, your changes are not higher to win it, but more is paid out in that drawing than paid in.
I will listen to them when politicians stop flying.
Traveling by Eurostar train between countries also require airport-like security check.
Sounds like people would pay for a small, readily-accessible private space. At first I thought this could be better served by having a proper space and building to house these spaces but maybe, unintentionally, parking a bunch of cars around for people to rent is actually a much lower barrier to entry than dealing with zoning and inspections and regulations.
I think this is great! I’ve moved money from VTSAX to Vanguard’s ESG funds, despite big concerns about their governance voting. There’s nothing inherently incompatible about climate friendly voting and index funds, so I wish you the best of luck.
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Here's an idea to help "viralize" tree planting, especially among younger folks.

How about a tree social network? A website/app that incentivices the person to plant a tree and adopt it as a pet. The person plants a tree, names it and takes a few photos. A profile is then created.

The person can find nearby trees to socialize. Some cute artwork may help engaging people. Snapchat-like filters could be used to "dress up" the tree, further increasing cuteness (and the engagement).

People keep score by how many trees they've planted, which gamifies the process.

This may sound crazy (and possibly it is) but hey, it may just work.

If you (or anyone else) like the idea, I'd be more than happy to help build it, with the condition that it should be open source. Email is on profile.

ETA: Open source condition
On youtube it's only available with Russian and Bulgarian subtitles, alas...
That's the best way to learn — post a stupid thing on the internet and let the internet prove you wrong. Thanks to everyone who replied!