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The cities in America grow because there's various incentives for them to do so, and nothing really constraining that growth in a way that favors cars.

Don't build new roads to the core, maybe even take out, restrict, or slap huge tolls on the existing roads, and you'll keep people from wanting to commute in by car. Also remove rules requiring parking spaces, and even encourage replacing parking lots with buildings or parks or anything else, to make car driving the most miserable experience it can possibly be

There's lots a government can do to make people stop driving cars so much, and stop moving out to the suburbs. There just isn't political will (in America) to do so.
I definitely understand the desire to not have one's IP tied to their search history/browsing in some cases, but as this service makes no mention of being an anonymous or private search engine I don't think your critique is an actual issue with the service. Your use case simply doesn't match the purpose of this search engine
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Excellent point!

Isn't age a protected class though? At least in the US, discrimination over 40 is covered by the EEOC.
Probably as it is about the amount of sugar. It would be difficult to eat enough fruits to intake the same amount of sugar as drinking juice made from fruit.
Some years back there were press articles citing studies (of course you can't believe what you see in the headlines) that claimed artificial sweeteners don't have the same affect on satiety as real sugar, causing you to eat more.

That matches my one-person anecdotal observations, but perhaps that isn't much to go by. Find what works for you. I had much better luck with health and personal fitness by that vs. getting overly worried about what other people say works.
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I restore old cars and make them perform better as an addiction/hobby. It's discouraging the gradual decrease in people who know less and less about how cars actually work and what it takes to get them working well and safely, coupled with a rise in people whose only interest is how much what they look at for 20 seconds is worth. The lower rung of that ladder is people who see perceived value and then look for ways to steal it and resell it in whole or part online which is alarmingly easy...drug addiction seems to fuel this group, but I suspect the train thieves are a less doped out sophisticated bunch who possibly are even stealing to order, as is often the case with car thieves
Neanderthal had rituals of some kind, maybe they just buried one of theirs with a skull s/he had found laying around?

Although I imagine the likely explanation is just that sometimes things fall next to each other.
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>This means PCs will use Windows Hello face authentication, fingerprints, or a PIN code. The password option will simply disappear from the login screen, if you decide to opt-in to this new “make your device passwordless” feature.

All bad ideas imho. How is a pin different than a password? "face authentication" has never been accurate for people of color afaik. I cant stand Win10, forced to use it at work but I will never use it for any of my personal computers until they remove the phone-home-back-door-ability and the many more dumb and silly features.
Out of curiosity what do you see as the difference? Is it just how long the juice sat there? Or are you suggesting they add something to (not-from-concentrate) "100% fruit juice" that isn't listed in the ingredients?
Even staying with the framework of "public resource use". They benefit from the attractive market created by the country. An educated, safe and healthy population with high bandwidth internet with disposable income ready to buy on Amazon.
Pah, you could as well have gone full sed: /^America needs/,+4s/not just/only/
> Oh no, won't someone please think of the U.S. software.engineers.

Next time you're wondering why you're a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, but only making 45k EUR in a major European metro area and can never afford to own your own home, please don't forget to remind yourself that you'll get to stay for free in the hospital for the 2 weeks before you die in your late seventies.
Shouldn't that be covered by the 20% VAT that Amazon pays on goods and services sold to entities in France?
>France does it mean I do business in France? It seems to me it should be treated the same as French person coming to my country, buying my game and going back home.

In that case you, the vendor, would need to pay taxes where you sold the game.

The problem with these large companies is that they basically pay little to no taxes _anywhere_, an optimisation that only large companies can really afford.
Rather than focusing on a particular company (Amazon) or even a particular industry (retail), they're addressing a more fundamental problem - digital businesses using arbitrage to virtually "move" profits around and minimize corporate income tax - something that's inherent to their business model and creates an (allegedly) unfair advantage.
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For those curious, the techniques referenced are Wrong Warping[1] and Sun's Song without Zelda's Lullaby[2]

[1] http://zelda.speedruns.com/oot/wrongwarp/wrong-warp-explaine...

[2] https://youtu.be/kr-D0gn27J0?t=45
Obviosuly nobody with the necessary money was interested in funding such a study.
Most of those are still American businesses (twenty of twenty-nine, or over two-thirds). Another interesting way to look at it would be by revenue breakdown - I suspect the total revenue of American companies may be disproportionately high.
This is fast enough, it could be used to write command line utilities in Javascript! What about a Javascript OS in the style of the Lisp machines or early Smalltalks?
I interpreted the $40-$70k/yr ($3.3-$5.8/mo) figure as the cost of the mortgage, not the home. This should correspond to a roughly $1M loan, which, with a downpayment of around $200-$300k (the cost of a house elsewhere…) gets close to $1.3M, which pretty nearly the median list for much of the Bay Area (corresponding to ~1200 sqft in SF).

On the lower end ($40k/yr or $3.3k/mo), you should be able to find a studio in SF for that or for a bit more, a 1 bedroom (median 1 bed is ~$3.6k/mo in SF). (I'm not saying that's good, just that it shouldn't be as bad as you think.)
So what messages were employed to sway the electorate? Should be possible to give examples even if it was targeted.

If these important questions are omitted, the seriousness of the investigation should indeed be questioned.

It just looks that people tried and failed to dig up some dirt. Standard political procedure and you would find something like this for any political candidate. It was just scandalized by media.

The article is a disgrace to Wikipedia and I do see many parallels to the WMD stories. There was never any evidence of their existence as well as there is no evidence of any collusion.

Not even the hacking could be attributed without any doubt.
Even though that is a tool governments are ready to employ.

> Obama emphasized that Russian efforts caused more harm to Clinton than to Trump during the campaign.

True. He also said that Putin isn't our friend. Also true. But it isn't that hard to see that there is basically nothing here.

My opinion? A substantial part of the electorate voted Trump because they were sick of fairy tales.
That doesn't really scale to a team though, esp for tools that have a common configuration (e.g. localhost ports).

Some sort of tooling to point "this machine to this VM" becomes needed.

Then for full stack development it is even harder, as the app has to have this endpoint injected into it.

It is all possible, just a pain. Writing a mobile app (https only!) that talks to a service I am writing has a rather annoying set of minimal requirements to get up and running. (This may be why Firebase Functions are so popular, super easy to go from nothing to deployed endpoints in just a few minutes.)
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you're thinking of only surface functions/endpoints, those that are invoked directly from your api route dispatcher. i'm talking about any function in your source code of a large backend with many endpoints.

think of function `+` - i want to be able to deploy a change to that function such that no worker process gets respawned.

also imagine every time you call `+` in your application - it goes throught the whole FaaS shenanigans with serializing, sending rpc over wire, receiving response, deserializing, dealing with throttling, errors, backoffs. all of that is ridiculous for `(+ 1 2)`.

and yes, erlang is a good example of an environment where this could work.
You don't have to accept anything at face value. The whole point is that you are able to consume different points of view and make up your own mind on the matter.

This theme seems to come up a lot with different topics, not just privacy policies. Would it be better for NYT to NOT be hypocritical and just not report on accessibility if they don't implement it correctly themselves? Would it be better if it as a whole never verified sources given that their editorials are largely their own opinions? Personally, I'd take the "hypocrisy" because I understand that in large corps, typically the right hand doesn't talk to the left hand.
In addition to the fiber, I wonder if it's also a quantity issue. It takes about 4 oranges to make 1 cup of orange juice.
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It was an ancient museum.
What makes you think it's worse than the New York Times?

I've indeed not claimed journalism takes no money. I'm just pointing out it's not expensive. Corporations nobody has heard of routinely piss away more money than is spent on breaking a major news story by large papers on vanity website redesigns. News is extremely cheap, especially these days - so cheap it's literally given away for free.
Why? Is only the US allowed to practice protectionism?
If you are looking for a TLDR, I've got it summarized here.

https://smashnotes.com/p/disrupting-japan-startups-and-innov...
How did they manage this with such little diversity among the crew?
apart from that they take advantage of there even being people who can be advertised to (i.e. who have the means to buy stuff, to be even worth advertising to) facebook etc certainly make use of the digital infrastructure in place.

I'm writing this via a glass fiber connection supplied by "Orange" (formerly known as France Telecom)
That's very odd, since I moved from Java to NodeJS and felt the opposite. Especially, building and modifying API in NodeJS is just JSON.parse/stringify, while in Java you need a PhD in DAO.
Hrm...we don't deploy code in to prod in 50ms, but we certainly deploy to dev/staging/testing in <1s, and promote to prod once we are 100% sure we want to do so. We use the boring, industry-standard tooling and process everyone else uses (Jenkins, k8s, Ansible, nothing bleeding edge). I'm unsure what advantage their product has that makes it stand out among the battle tested tools already in use. Would someone elaborate?

disclaimer: working for a l2 network provider, and a mistake costs us infinitely more than an "Oh we're sorry!" can fix.
I'm not sure what your question is getting at, but if I owned a business, a fine proportional to the profit that I would otherwise receive would hurt equally for a low margin business and a high margin business.
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it is more like, you are putting your product in their shops and not paying any tax on it!
If I recall correctly this is one measure used in one of "the science of discworld" books.
So "everyone else does it" is a valid defense?

Apple charges $1k for their monitor stands. I think they can afford to build their stuff at a factory that doesn't use modern slavery.
I disagree. The transmission in the Focus/Fiesta fails to apply clutch torque correctly pretty often. This problem is especially noticeable at low speeds. Clutch engagement failure would not cause a stall, since the engine would just spin freely in neutral the entire time, burning up the clutch and causing it to engage even less.

It only takes an hour behind the wheel of one of these to realize that Ford knowingly sold a poorly designed, dangerous product to customers. People don't realize how bad these are until they actually drive them. All lawyers would have to do to win a class-action against Ford for this would be to let the jury take one of these home for the night, they will come back the next day with a unanimous guilty verdict.
Can you expand on this? The App Store isn't really involved in this case: it's a first-party app, for one thing. It was also disabled by turning off the backend, which is something that any developer could do to their own app.

The Zoom thing has more to do with Apple as gatekeeper: they pushed an update to the OS that disallowed Zoom's web server from running.
Apple has had a battery replacement option for quite a few years. Apple Store employees don't work on commission, so a customer coming in with a battery problem would most likely be offered the battery replacement option before being sold a new phone.
Customers buying from local businesses that compete with them also pay VAT, so the consumer side of it is fair. But local businesses themselves pay much more in corporate taxes, which is not.

You are free to argue that the playing field can be likewise leveled by lowering corporate taxes to Ireland's levels. That's a debate for the French to have, as citizens of a sovereign country. It is not a decision to be forced on them by global tax loopholes.
Worth the read.
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the business did not really understand the accretion of technical debt

And WTW are a risk-management firm. The failure to recognise technology as risk to be managed seems particularly perverse.
Android with a version number is ancient; current Androids have single letters in their name.
In this view, the sucker is the VC? I'm not saying that's wrong, but wow.
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I know you probably picked "$50 billion in stock" at random, but for the record there are only ~10 people in the US with that kind of money. If they're the only people you are counting as "rich" you have defined the term very very narrowly.
I'm the founder and CEO of a national conference/events business, producing a dozen events a year and significant editorial content.

What's being described is way too many people, unless they're all heavily ROI-positive sales people, in which case this problem doesn't exist.
Try bringing much more expensive items across a border and you will see what happens ( you will be taxed at the border ).
Well .... yes? It'd be better for the NYT to not report on something that clearly is overblown and doesn't matter!

Accusations of hypocrisy are useful because they act as a reality check. If 4k word privacy policies were so terrible the NYT wouldn't have one. Clearly nobody cares, so journalists should have taken this as a strong cue that they're chasing a non-story, almost certainly due to their own strong biases and desires. This isn't some evidence of heroic journalistic integrity, it's evidence they're spinning something out of nothing.
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So variables in Perl 6 can be sigil-less...by prefixing a backslash like
my \p = [];

Umm.. backslash is a sigil. Why do we need to add this ?
One very intuitive explanation I've heard:

It's very difficult to eat 5 oranges in one go.

It's very easy to drink the same 5 oranges as a fresh squeezed drink.

So it's basically a question of quantity, eating it makes you full very quickly, unlike drinking it.
Yeah, I've been working on Upwork for about 1.5 years now and it has been such a vast improvement over other freelancing sites - both in terms of the size and scope of the projects and in terms of the types of clients available. Not one of my hourly clients has ever insisted that I use the monitoring app; yet I do it anyway because then I don't underbill and the payments are guaranteed.

In my mind, the screenshot every 10 minutes is no more invasive than sitting next to a colleague in an office and if you want to do something private, simply pause the timer and do it on your own time. Upwork is a pretty great site if you're a freelancer.
Figured that would be it. How do you like it? Do you think performance is solid?
I should have expanded more on your original reply in my parent response but rather than editing it I'll continue it here.

You said: Or do you expect these companies would continue to operate in the EU with no net profit.

A tax doesn't have to eat up all the net profit. Googling "how much is a Facebook user worth" comes back with about $158 dollars, whether that's accurate or not is beside the point, some value can be derived[1], France can say "we want a X% tax on that value". If the tax is too high FB leaves the market and France gets nothing so there is little incentive to do that[2]. FB then has to take the cost of servicing a user against their value minus the tax and decide if they want to continue as is, offer a paywall option to avoid the tax, or leave the market altogether... I don't understand why this would be so controversial?

[1] Whether FB or regulators should set that value is up for discussion.

[2] Some would see FB as such an overwhelming societal net negative they would want to tax it out of existence, but that could be true for any industry (fossil fuels, tobacco , meat, etc...)
Very salient point.

It's funny that the US is allowed to tariff anyone who breathes at them wrong under the guise of protecting US jobs/etc. but they are up in arms when another country decides to implement anything remotely seen as "against the US".
The US is big into tariffs these days, why do they complain when the same treatment is applied in return?
I'm no food technologist but squeeze an orange and put it in a glass, which is pure orange guice (100%?) and leave it on a table, and do the same with the 100% store bought one. The one from a bottle or cardboard box, not the "squeezed today" ones which are refrigerated. There will certainly be a difference, the freshly squeezed one will be stale, possibly ransid within a day. The bought one, not so sure... So there is obviously "something" else. Either preservative or some process done to the fruite.

Not to mention the taste.
Record-query [1] embeds v8 for its query language, which seems to add a significant amount of heft. I know that couchdb uses js for querying as well. It seems like this could be another option for something like that.

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This is super impressive!

Also - Yay! Another awesome target for ClojureScript - capable of producing standalone binaries!
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They harp a lot on how fast it starts up - which sounds great - but I would like to have some solid numbers on what that startup time actually is on actual devices! I can't seem to find anything perusing around the GH page or the site
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Most fruit juices have a GI of ~50, which is moderate (about the same as a sweet potato). They don't really spike blood-sugar. Fructose is low-GI. They also contain other phytonutrients and flavenoids which may aid health in appropriate doses (e.g. hesperetin and naringenin in citrus juices).
Possibly, but two oranges usually fill up a glass nicely.
Could it be https://ethical.net/resources/?
Damn that's a great idea. I might acctually try and write that.
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Everything about Adobe software is poorly documented except the rental extraction agreements, and even they are pretty unclear. They bought Linda.com to try and improve their 'how to' shambles online. I'm running the last iteration of the DVD creative suite on an old mac and the product registration server has been taken offline by Adobe so there are endless pop up verification screens that just 404'd at adobe. Call center calls are necessary to validate software that was bought and wholly owned...
Brings up an important point about how long you actually own functional old software before it becomes obsolete
If you are just going to drink it once, there is no difference.

If you are going to drink them habitually then we need to know more about the contexts in which you drink them, how often, etc. If you were to only drink one per week for example and you are otherwise living a healthy life, then probably you would find something like “they are about dead even but maybe the Coke is ever so slightly healthier?”—this sort of thing gets dominated by the really little things like some people have phenylketonuria which means they shouldn’t consume proteins containing the amino acid phenylalanine, and aspartame is a really simple protein (only two amino acids, I think?) containing phenylalanine.

On the flip side, if you drink a lot of Coke or fruit juice, each dose is giving you about as much calories as a glass of beer or wine and a similar analysis results; a bunch of those calories in both cases need to be processed by your liver and your liver can get overworked and even if it doesn’t get overworked you are likely not hitting the gym once for each sugary drink and so the surplus energy increases your equilibrium weight until you start burning the extra calories by merely existing.

By contrast the research on artificial sweeteners tends to not show negative effects here. There are some potential risks; I know a guy who is very DIY-health-ish who used to taste his urine because of some prediabetic condition where he would pee out sugars; he said that he would never drink Diet Coke again because it made his urine taste sweet (most of it passed through unharmed) but unnaturally foul (some of the aspartame was getting converted into something really nasty).

But the key thing is that most artificial sweeteners are thousands or tens of thousands of times more sweet than sugar, so there's actually surprisingly few molecules in the drink that are artificial, so you tend to get an unusually low dose of any toxicity. This is also why artificial sweeteners have a huge problem matching the natural taste of sugar—amplification of a weak signal always makes it really hard to replicate a target signal.