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> "Smart, wealthy shareholders love cash hoarding"

Any evidence to back this up? Activist investors generally pressure companies to not hoard cash, for exactly the reasons outlined earlier. Example: http://money.com/money/3484599/icahn-letter-apple-cash/

"Icahn controls 53 million shares of Apple, worth $5.3 billion, which gives him about a 0.9% ownership in the company. In his letter, Icahn lays out his reasons that Apple should repurchase its own shares"

Companies can return money to investors using share-buybacks - this avoids any taxable event for investors, while also not suffering from the downsides of hoarding cash.

There is one significant tactic where it makes sense to hoard cash temporarily - keeping it overseas while waiting for a tax holiday or a reduction in the tax rates. This only works as a temporary tactic though. If any company announced that they were going to hoard cash over a long period, it would depress the share-price significantly. This is exactly why activist investors like Icahn pressure their companies to reduce their cash hoards.
they were totally soft, you could make a cylinder out of them and after releasing them - they got back in the original state.
Yeah but much less than Apple
I wonder how much of that association is precisely because of this pressure/requirement in a lot of communities to maintain grassy lawns, rather than anything innate about grassy landscapes themselves.
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If they are documented, as a user I would still think, "What else could they have been improving/fixing if they weren't working on easter eggs?" I wonder if in an alternate world, Excel minus the flight simulator easter egg could have been $1 cheaper or had 5 more bugs fixed.
Might be a worthwhile start-up idea... I'm wondering...
A few countries had copyright terms longer than the US. For example Mexico is life of author + 100 years while US is life + 70 years.
How do you know all of this?
It's not just tradition, it's law written into the kernel of the country. Changing it is possible, it's just not easy, and requires the support of those who would "lose" under the arrangement proposed. Some compromise will have to be made to do so.
you also get a perpetual license if you pay for a year upfront or 12 consecutive months of your subscription, so you can stop paying and keep using the version you paid for forever
Every society has that tendency. "The West" is just the only one in the position of being able to export their ideals.
Turnabout is fair play?
Nobody is claiming that money managers have omniscience.

What they do certainly have is more information and expertise than a random internet commenter. They don't know everything, but it's safe to assume they know more than you.
I am in a pretty similar position to you.

Have you taken a look at Keybase as an alternative for IM and replacement of Slack-for-sharing-with-yourself?

Advantages over Signal:
* Doesn't rely on phone number for auth or id
* No limit on devices
* Great CLI experience
* Smooth to share files and messages in groups
* Encryption closer to widely used protocols

Downsides:
* Server-side closed source (but hey, that goes for pretty much any IM alternative you hope to use outside of close circles today unfortunately)
* US-based company
* Can't think of much else

UI/UX still has some way to go before being on par with e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram, but they've been constantly improving a lot recently so I think they might get there soon.
Thanks, but don’t I still need a package list, to know what sources I need to grab and start with? How do I get that from a prebuilt distro or don’t I?

I see Buildroot and Yocto are pretty interesting and handle a lot for you. Thanks for mentioning them.
It didn’t actually buy. It sent me an email saying “you bought this, are you sure?”

So it was a funny situation where I had to get my phone out anyway.
You're absolutely correct, and it's something so many people do not realize.
Surely evidence of the declining mind share of unions.
Yes, that’s it. It was actually and ancient program and I remember finally playing a mud version once I got to college.
Discussed at the time (in 2016, not the 14th century): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405810
It’s perfectly possible.

I once worked on a site that had over 25k pages, all hand coded HTML with Microsoft Frontpage. And all in the root folder.

Not even the owner knew how many pages there actually were.
Isn't managing consensus extremely hard to do? Wouldn't one want to rely on a proven solution rather than spinning up a new solution?
We need to research what kind of mycorhizal fungi and microbes can be inoculated into the soil to best optimize for tree growth rate.
So the military industrial complex is incompetent and bad with money but they should have more ships?
It would be rather ironic if the post you replied to only thought they ran no ads because they forgot they ran an ad blocker.
The short answer is that with Prolific you can use any survey/experimental software you'd like. Behavioural researchers (our primary customers) don't tend to use SurveyMonkey, but instead use Qualtrics, Gorilla, and custom experimental software which have many features important for behavioural research (e.g. randomisation and reaction time recording).

In addition, SurveyMonkey audience uses a survey exchange provider CINT [1] and as a result you don't have any transparency of where exactly the participants are coming from, how they're vetted, the user experience they're having, and you can't communicate directly with participants or retarget them for longitudinal studies. All of which is important for research and are features that Prolific provide.

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Google's internet dominance isn't in telecommunications, SpaceX will be competing with the likes of ATT.
and then it loses all meaning, because a pathogen that can travels within people who travel on planes is a pathogen unconstrained by geography. It was a very odd, and frankly, telling turn of phrase.
In the limit, Gödel.

(I'm not joking, I swear! To objectify morality you have to encode it, eh? So you're sunk before you begin: there will be moral things that can't be encoded, and encode-able things that are not moral, or cannot be proven moral nor immoral. And then you have the problem of deciding whether "objectifing morality" is itself a moral goal, n'est-ce pas? )
If the EGC is floating, it's not an EGC. EGC is tied back to Neutral at the distribution point. Its sole purpose is to carry fault current.
That attempt at a Venn diagram makes my head hurt.
How did you start?.. the fear of not being able to acquire work is what's stopping me.
All these commenters with heartwarming anecdotes about older programmers need to familiarize themselves with the concept of survivorship bias.
Yeah, this is 100% based on the US electrical system. I am not familiar enough with how other countries do it to speak intelligently on their systems.
ok, they created a bureau, not a "rip consumers off and your executives go to jail (viz. wells fargo, HSBC...)" law.

Great convictions are a start. but in order for them to actually pass legislation, they need other congress members to vote for them. and that's where the dirty tricks start (I wont vote for your X unless you vote for my Y, etc).

I guess I'm contradicting myself a bit, because I said "name one" without acknowledging that it takes a majority in congress to pass anything. So yes, Warren and Sanders have the courage to face corporate interests. Thank you. I just yearn for the day where shareholders of XYZ get a 30% haircut because laws were passed that reigned in their company's behavior.
Is Poe's law currently in effect?
> Theoretically, functions and procedures exist side by side one is not better than the other.

You've just spent multiple days arguing with me about how one is better than the other. Glad you finally agree with me, though.

> Composition exists in computers not at the primitive instruction set level.

Yes it does, because even instructions can be composed by executing them sequentially. Whether or not it's useful to execute them sequentially is a separate concern, just like whether or not it's useful to convert sunlight to distance is a separate concern.

Instruction composition enabled procedure composition enabled function composition.

> I know how it all works. both in theory and physically.

Then why are we still having this conversation? If you know how computers work physically, then you'd know that procedures can be composed, and that the composition thereof is exactly why function composition is possible on real computers.

> Executing one thing after another is not composition. Composition requires something to be combined with another.

Which you can do with procedures, by defining another procedure which executes one after the other.

> The canonical definition not the hand wavy one that spans across arbitrary languages defines composition as something that can only be composed if they should be composed via the type system.

Nowhere in the actual definition of even function composition (let alone composition in general) is that constraint present.

Like, that doesn't even make logical sense. Because I shouldn't eat donuts for dinner means I'm physically incapable of eating donuts for dinner, by the rationale you're presenting.

> I defined the composition definition at the beginning of this topic.

And the definition you provided is not the one used in computer science.
Grow 100 foot trees, fell them into central points into a teepee like structure. Move soil to the points plant a new tree on top.
Not sure I'm following you. Would you transmit in plain text N-1 random lists along with the real one? I would not consider that encryption.

I guess one brute force way to do it is making encryption unnecessary. For an input of N bits, have the results calculated/returned for all 2^N possibilities. Does not sound very practical.
There was a recent HN submission about how distributed message queues are a bad design from history, with a lot of problems, and request/response is much better.

This calls to me as a problem with email - we dump information into email and then expect a response, while trying to forget about the email. Then with no response, the system breaks down - we have no clue what happened; do we requeue the email? Wait more? Ask if the email system is down? Chase every email with a phonecall?

We need some replacement (like a ticketing system, for more than just tickets) for tracking work, and where the system will chase it up until it's done - or close it once it's no longer needed. For at least part of things, a centralised work queue that isn't duplicated in inboxes and relying on individual's organizational skills.
Well it sure suggests that younger people work harder.

...and/or less efficiently.
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Note: this is not about replacing ZooKeeper in general with Kafka as the title might suggest, it's about Kafka considering an alternative to its internal use of ZooKeeper:

"Currently, Kafka uses ZooKeeper to store its metadata about partitions and brokers, and to elect a broker to be the Kafka Controller. We would like to remove this dependency on ZooKeeper. This will enable us to manage metadata in a more scalable and robust way, enabling support for more partitions. It will also simplify the deployment and configuration of Kafka"
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I wonder if the azw3 files work with the Kindle's latest display engine? Specifically, can ragged-right be turned on? Are hyphenation hints embedded?
Does it seem odd to exclude Microsoft from FAANG when it's the largest?
I’m not an electrician but will take a stab at your answer. Please see if you can verify what I said so you don’t fry yourself.

If the green wire is connected between the receptacle and the outlet/switch then it’s “bonding” the two mental items. (Using the terminology from post). Most people refer to this as the ground wire or grounding the receptacle. The purpose, from my understanding, is to have a stable system. In the event the hot wire touches the receptacle.

If the red/blue/green are coming from the same cable (3 wires inside another sheath), then your green is the ground/neutral that connects to the electrical box itself, while the other two are hot/lead.

I posted a similar question above which may clarify things if the OP answers.
Is there some kind of interoperability with other libraries? Or does it support CPU encryption / decryption ?
For example, one can expect clouds to have GPUs to perform computations but encryption and decryption are typically done by clients on various devices where portable code is expected.
Typo aside, I greatly prefer a stiff, snappy UI. These kinds of animations look nice and smooth at first, but get in the way after a while. I just want to type some text and check a few boxes, not wait for animations to finish so the UI is responsive again.
Because they don't get taxed properly for destroying the environment, it would be a lot worst.
Unfortunately we all know that dems will proceed with Biden and that's how we will get 4 more years of our current president.. :\
The guitar playing is a good analogy here. Say you've played classical for years and dabbled in rock and some jazz. Like any musician you've played around a little but probably focus on one style. You're best friend asks you to play flemanco for them at their wedding.

Sure, you won't be as good as someone that's played flemanco all their life. But if flemanco was invented 5 years ago you're sure going to pick it up fast and probably be better than someone who has only been playing it for the past few years.

Skills translate. Transfer learning is unsurprisingly a real thing. The funny thing is that a guitar player will pick up a brand new instrument and quickly gain and surpass someone who has only been playing that instrument for a few years. Even though each instrument is a different "language" per say, there are common patterns in the language tree of music. I don't think any programmer worth their salt would disagree that this is also true for programming.

No matter the language you use, there are common patterns. Someone who has been programing for years generally picks up a new language quickly (because of this). Certain languages will make you a better programmer in general too (low level languages help you understand what's going on behind the curtain).

So should a programmer with 30 years of experience in C and 1 year in rust be paid more than the programmer with 5 years of rust experience? Absolutely. Those 30 years they were learning to program, to debug, to solve problems. The skills translate. And I say this as someone under 30. I've seen the wizards solve problems in languages they've never used because they just understand programming.
The degree to which this tries to push a narrative rather than just presenting facts and reasoning makes me question its credibility, but I’m trying to be open to it. I just get the vibe that the author sees himself as living in a novel in which they’re the hero. A natural way for intelligent and creative people to contextualize their lives, but also a colossal source of cognitive bias.
about 5.5B tons of new wood furniture a year would be needed. That is 70tons of furniture for each person born in a year.
> Instead, I think what we need is a process for the USPTO to grant third parties permission to use a work when a good faith effort has been made to determine and contact the copyright holder. In my view, this would involve involve paying of statutory license fees to the USPTO who will hold them in escrow.

In this case isn't the government stealing from the copyright holder and/or public domain? If I use a presumably abandoned work as a jumping off point to a billion dollar franchise and then the original copyright holder comes out of the woodwork to claim 50% of everything I've made will the government escrow cover that? What if two people come out claiming to own the copyright? This solution seems to have all of the problems of the current system and offer little to fix the problem.

I agree that the old paper recordkeeping was not scalable to the modern world, but an online registry of works doesn't seem out of the question. It's exactly the sort of thing the web should be good for. Renewals could also be done online. For easy lookup a standardized copyright numbering system could be optionally added to each work similar to an ISBN.

The hardest problem would be validating that people actually have rights to what they claim on the service. There would undoubtedly be a cottage industry of people seeking out forgotten works and registering them under their name for the license fees. A modest fee for renewal should help reduce that problem and also stiff penalties for knowingly stealing other peoples work. The fees would be used to run the massive server farm necessary for keeping all of those records available. I would also suggest that a modest copyright term, say 15 years or so would automatically be applied to any work and you would only need to register if you're planning to renew the work after the original term is up. We don't need people writing bots that automatically register every forum post or email or google query they make, because there will definitely be people who try that shit just to troll for licensing dollars.
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The myth of developers not being able to keep up as they age seems to be mostly propagated by two types of people. 1) Managers who want to keep wages low and 2) Young developers who try to hard too prove themselves and don't want to listen to/or work with older developers. [0]

[0] Note, I'm not saying all young developers or all managers. Only a small subset of each.
Fair point, but to be honest nearly all modern work is borderline dystopic, regardless of how "important" it's deemed by society.

If you think being a programmer in BigOrg, Inc. sucks, then take a summer and work on a construction site or with a landscaping crew. Trust me, you'll yearn for that loud, open-plan office soon enough. Modern society would quickly implode without plumbers, yet actually being a plumber and crawling around under houses in rat shit is not very fun.
>people who have had a successful career in one field their whole life

It's not only being successful, but also being happy with the characteristics of software dev work.
Thats ok, anyone who has been a bench tech, field tech, especially in the later 90s to early 2000s, has a similar story to this. Ive had people manage to force CDs between two drive bays and wonder why their CD wasnt being detected. Have had people insert credit cards in floppy drives, etc..

[Edit] there used to be a website, similar to bash.org, that people would submit stories like this all the time of stupid shit they were running into as a tech. Dont recall what it was. There was also and admin site, they may have been the same.
Do Bonsai trees count?
Yes, if someone wants to riot because they're no longer allowed to oppress someone else then fuck them.
I'm a fan of Standard Ebooks for my Kobo Aura One reader. Their EPUB versions look great.
That's kind of hard to measure though. It would require a LOT of government auditing to catch cheaters. Like Hollywood movies would never have to pay to be renewed because they never make any net revenue.
If we don't maintain this driver, our grandkids will never understand certain bash.org quotes concerning a floppy disk and a hard drive.
And the neutral is tied to (earth) ground. Otherwise all metal devices would shock you if you touched something earth referenced, such as a radiator, at the same time.

Edit to clarify: In principle, only the voltage difference between Live and Neutral matters for running a device. So theoretically one could construct a building supply where Neutral is not at earth potential. However, EGC has to be at earth potential, otherwise there would be a voltage between any metal electronic device and earthed objects, such as radiators or your feet standing in a puddle. This means that in practice both Neutral and EGC are always physically connected to the earth in some way and have to be for the system to work properly.
Good enough engineering to start an Internet company
> For high performance, we use another strategy entirely that's a lot more involved.

It sounds interesting. Is there a write-up with more details to read?
The major difference between what they're saying and existing fields (history, sociology, STS, economics, urbanism) is that the authors are only talking about looking at successes, not failures. That is juvenile at best, catastrophic at worst. Studying progress without studying failure is incredibly ill-defined, because you have to start by defining progress, and you can't actually guarantee progress without studying failure and studying how to avoid failure.

You perfectly articulated what I wanted to write but couldn't find the right words. Reinventing the wheel is one thing, but reinventing it and adding corners to it is just embarrassing.
Yes, you could use Prolific for something like this. You would need to use our "opt-in" screeners and avoid collecting personal data as part of the study.

It would probably cost about $5-15 (it depends on how much you would pay the participant, I would recommend being generous for a study like this).

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The most important thing to remember when working with animations is the following:

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {}

Animations are fine but they will induce vertigo or nausea for some users. Allowing them to turn them off is a must.
Those violence is indeed not acceptable. However, proclaiming all pro-Chinese students behave / think the same way is also too subjective or even racist in some extreme cases.

If the Chinese students have a different opinion, they should do the same thing as the HK students. They can also start a petition / protest to against violence riot in their Country.

Free speech is not only available to HK students but to Chinese students in Australia too. The principal of free speech is not just speaking out loud without any responsibility, it's about mutual respect.

A side note is that although you may feel insecure / anxious about being monitored, it is not necessary the fact without any evidences. As a free country, anyone can feel whatever they feel like. With the same theory as one of the HK student, others with opposite opinion can feel that they will be assaulted in HK given the violent riot situation in HK too. If that is the case, free speech is not being taken away by the Chinese government but by the rioters themselves.

If the Chinese student assault HK student, he should be put under the justice system. If HK police is using excess force, they should be put under justice system. If HK rioters broke the law, they should be put under justice system. Denial should never be excuses for act of violence.
Not surprising. As someone who grew up in rural and suburban environments, big cities feel intensely depressing. I go there and nothing I look at makes me feel happy. I'm sure people who grew up there feel differently and see things I don't see, but for me Manhattan feels as dead as the surface of Mars.