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I wonder why we don’t see any kind of tax on advertising (or maybe we do?). It seems to me like a way to recoup some of the social cost of advertising. It also seems like it could be popular with eg some European governments as a way to get companies like google and Facebook to pay some tax on the profits they make. If the tax were per estimated impression then it would encourage more accurate estimates of volume (or at least it could curb the inflation of the estimates) as companies offering advertising would be incentivised by taxation to keep estimates low, and by competition to keep estimates high. Perhaps instead there would be some kind of gdpr inspired tax on collecting unneeded information to cover the societal cost of breaches and leaks and tracking in general.

A few reasons that we don’t see this:

1. It seems a slightly weird thing to tax. On the other hand, sugar taxes are becoming a thing in some places.

2. Elected governments may not want to piss off the media companies who they feel elected them.

3. Maybe people don’t care about advertising and so would feel like such a tax was for some hidden purpose. São Paulo (iirc) banned almost all public advertising. I wonder how the people there feel about it.
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Advertising is good [for all]; making stuff hard to evaluate and compare isn't [for consumers]
I would have agreed in the past but now that my SO has started an escape room, if your ideal world existed, she would be bankrupt right now.

Most ads isn't about manipulation, it's just about getting your attention and reminding you that this product exists.

Ads are the only way to reach her market. You could argue that search is a good one too (which is true), but sadly people have trouble paying to watch videos online, there's no way they would pay for a search engine. We are still not really high in the search result after a year of existence either and paying for ads is a good way to get people on the website (which I'm sure will help our position in search results).

EDIT: In case it's not clear, I don't believe she deserve to be higher than other escape room in the search result, we have actually almost no competition close to us and it's pretty much why she started that business. Simply that Google have no metric to know that her website has to be higher than another one, so clicks are needed to provide some.

She always asks people what they think of the experience once they are done and recently one even said that we are not visible enough. It's a pretty great feedback, we are lucky that's our main issue, but sadly ads are the only way to become visible to others.

Ads are almost amazing by allowing investment into market that people aren't ready to pay for but yet provide great entertainment, learning experience or a great service. Without ads, I probably wouldn't be the developper that I am today because the guy that did the great tutorial that create the passion in me wouldn't have time to works full time on them.
Advertising never works on me unless it's for a product I already wanted in the first place in which case i would've gotten it anyways. But other than that, I'm completely immune. I've calculated, less than 0.25% of my earnings go towards a product that was advertised to me.

I have no idea what brand my clothes/shoes are, if any. None of the food I buy has any branding whatsoever. ever seen a branded cucumber? nope, neither have I. I only buy new eletronics when the old one breaks, and I almost always get the cheapest one. Other than that, almost all of the rest of my spending goes to housing and savings/assets.

If everyone was like me, the advertising industry might not exist, or at least be much smaller.
Who knows, without the adtech infrastructure & research, their costs would likely plummet. With an aggressive anti-ad approach, their index wouldn't contain a billion spam documents, so every dollar gets you a lot more searches.
I disagree. You don't need to run the commit-hook on all files, just on the files you changed. It shouldn't take more than to write the commit message (and I wonder if there is a way to run the git hook right when you type the commit message). And you still should do the same checks for all files in your CI.

The other way - committing, pushing, waiting on the CI, just to see the pipeline fail when all you want is to get a hotfix out to the server... it would make me furious.
I should probably also acknowledge that Arnold Reinhold apparently started writing this page in 1997, and so the techniques presented there weren't nearly as far from the state-of-the-art then!
The decision to overload parentheses to express generic type is the only part of this spec I find nauseating. It doesn't scan well, and doesn't have a precedent in any major generic implementation I'm aware of. <, [, @-annotation... I don't care. Just don't mush it into the function declaration with the same syntax that encloses parameter.
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No, I think you may have this backwards. The median really is unaffected by adding a zero (or ten zeros) to Bill's income. All that matters is that if half the population makes less than Joe the plumber, and half more, then Joe is at the median. (There's a chance that if you shot Bill, then Joe's brother who earned 0.1c less would become the median, but this will be tiny, tiny effect.)

The mean would however be affected by such things.
If you read the article more closely, it says that Borg was written in C++. If you watch the video linked by @tuvan below, you'll hear the speaker (who is a contributor) mention that the original authors of Kubernetes wrote the first version in Java, which was rewritten in Go.
Plastic does degrade over time. It might take a long time, but then, there's a lot of plastic.
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Whatever marginal risk increase I suffer from my moderate consumption is well worth the guaranteed enjoyment I gain.

A lot of HN users wish to "optimize" these facets of other people's lives through government regulation, but it's no less odious than going up to people in person and knocking their drink to the ground. It's not your choice.
This is different thing from having the capability to believe so strongly in things like duty and honor that a single king could rule over thousands.
GF canceled 7 nm; I guess they didn't have enough money to support the R&D needed to develop advanced processes.
Why wouldn’t a European pharma company take advantage of the abuse and corruption in the American system?

It boils down to this: drugs are a pretty anti-competitive market, and the US doesn’t have much in the way of opposing rules that would bring prices down. No surprise that companies make more money compared to European countries.

The real question is: if the US stopped allowing this and brought prices under control, would it wreck pharma R&D? People seem to assume the answer is “yes” when they bring up this disparity but I don’t see it being that obvious.
And also only works if your project requirements are entirely foreseeable from day 0.
The key question here is : can the phone be booted from the removable storage card ? Without such final control of your data, you can be pressed to decrypt your internal disk by any repressive acting party - and those are rising steadily. Hence the only save way to give users REAL control of their data, privacy - and safety from torture, repression etc, is a removable storage which holds the OS and user data. Anything less looks like cosmetic pseudo privacy and security.Can Librem boot the OS from the sd card, then ?
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quality standards is the reason, same for any protections around import/export.

Read about the raids on generics in India meant for the USA.
I doubt most consumers see the hardware in the mac and the software installed on it as two disparate products.
If this is being designed as a consumer device that may be true, but the ESP devices have their own issues and the pi makes for a great proof of concept!
PRs welcome.
CAN-SPAM is US only and doesn't allow for a "REALLY REALLY want to unsubscribe?" confirmation email.
I wonder if there's room for a language that is small, allows for nearly limitless abstraction, and still has great tooling. Go is (or, you could argue, was) small, and now has better tooling, but is just beginning to increase its ability to create abstractions. Common Lisp is large (only 200 pages fewer in its spec than C++, if I remember correctly), has unparalleled tooling (like the don't-unwind-the-stack debugging and SLIME), and really good abstraction power. Scheme is small and consistent (unlike CL), and also can create similarly advanced abstractions, but is missing some of the tooling that CL has enjoyed for eons.

I'll be really cool to see a language that feels consistent, tight, well-engineered, and small; can create powerful abstractions similar to what can be achieved using CL macros and CLOS; and has an awesome debugger, editor interop, interactive programming with a REPL, build tools, etc.
Idk why are some HVAC techs are working paycheck to paycheck in Las Vegas.
You should read the article and find out for yourself. Let us know when you're done!

Edit: Fair enough.
Sounds like spurious correlation. Is it that the hospitals that can afford art can afford better care?
For all the ways Office Space is dated, I think its meditation on morale won't be for a long time.
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I will take it as a first step.
I'm not saying you didn't read the article, but the article is from 2012 and is about archaeology.
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What's with the large number of 'unroll' requests to some bot in that thread? Can't they just click the first response from it?
"You might also be disappointed to learn that if you sign up for Equifax credit monitoring, they sell your data + require binding arbitration https://www.equifax.com/assets/corp/consumer-privacy-notice.... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EA1KK-vUwAAmrnd.jpg"[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/hoofnagle/status/1156662788221050881
The city of Calgary has pretty much no billboards or ads except on public transit property. Its very refreshing.
In short you have human bots working for you.
>unfortunately the majority of plants die at the hands of livestock

Exactly, so if we kill the livestock and eat it, then less plants will suffer.
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I have heard this theory several years ago but at the time I thought it was considered a sort of fringe theory, has that changed? Is this pretty well accepted now?
Credit Karma will already monitor your credit for free. Letting Equifax do it just lets them off the hook.
Well, since female is something you are, while conservative is something you think, I imagine the reason for the latter discrepancy is probably quite different from the reason for the former.

Is that what you were going to say? It looks like you forgot to conclude your point.
It's also the nicest time to hike in that area, i.m.o. Thru hikers probably do contribute to the spike, but I'd bet a lot of it is just that April and May are the best weather.
Let's imagine you use 3 different marketing providers, plus an in-house one, because you're a big company and your teams all want to use whichever tool works best for them.

A user unsubscribes. This creates an entry in one specific system. In order for that to be reflected across all systems, it needs to be copied somewhere central, then synced back out.

Ideally you'd have a webhook hit a Lambda function and call it a day.

But, again, largish company with a gotta-move-fast employee growth mindset, engineering doesn't want to work on it (or, if not a tech company, you don't have in-house engineering).

So you hire some consultants who convince you that your email marketing is a "big data" problem, and they contract out the work on some Enterprise Infrastructure Platform as a Service product (an expensive, slow Lambda). The resulting system is slow, and often breaks, and you run it every few days in one bulk load/unload.

Poor engineering is why it takes a few days.
More like people were advocating against the shitty Copy&Paste phones used to have.

When it came out, it was possible to C&P pictures to emails and other fancy stuff that wasn't possible before.
and seaweed near areas with ocean access. I wonder if you could have wastewater treatment plants that feed seaweed (in a large enclosure with seawater access, done responsibly), then harvest the seaweed, dry it, and send the carbon straight to mines for sequestration.

More simply, perhaps farmers could be encouraged to sink waste carbon in the same way. Corn farmers could be encouraged to send the husks to sequestration instead of burning (I know they use the ashes as compost, so there are downsides). Or hemp, as you said, strip the leaves from the stems and send one or the other to a carbon sink.
'Jail time for senior leadership would be nice too'

'If you can't do the time don't do the crime' doesn't seem to apply except in very extreme cases like Enron
I tried but was met with an un-closable modal and I didn't feel like creating a NG account so I closed it.
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Yeah, the "pawn tries" rule in particular reminded me a lot of his "blind spycheck" algorithm in that video. If you are allowed to rank every move and perform the first legal one, you can get away with some interesting stuff.
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Totally agree on the interest use case, that's exactly where precision beyond 2 decimal places is needed. For payments specifically it makes sense to keep it at 2 because all the payment systems in the US have that precision. When we do build support for ledgers we've considered a few approaches for how that might be serialized. For example we sometimes deal with MasterCard data that tags every amount with an exponent field so something like 1.2345 might be serialized as

{ "amount": 12345, "exponent": 4 }

We could do that or something like:

{ "amount": "1.2345" }
Oh, sales might go down a little. So GM doesn't advertise their latest model and it doesn't sell as much. No worries. It's not like the livelihood of thousands of people is at stake. They'll just find other jobs. Who cares about them?
Does Rust have good stable image processing, linear algebra libraries? I want to learn a low level language but I was told to learn C++ for image processing related IOT.
Construction of the Great Wall is actually considered a major reason for the fall of China's short-lived first empire (Qin, BC 221-206). By forcing people into inhuman labor, it fostered rebellions.
This also:

> It was also revealed that three Equifax executives sold almost $1.8 million of their personal holdings of company shares days after Equifax discovered the breach but more than a month before the breach was made public.[0]

Nobody was prosecuted as a result.

They were literally promoting their own $16.95/month credit monitoring product (ID Patrol) on the original website about the breach before they were shamed into taking it down.

Executives profited. The CEO profited. The lawyers profited. And the shareholders lost little. The public is the only one paying the cost, and their information was largely shared with Equifax without express consent.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equ...
>objecting

Reads more like suggesting to me. And, a helpful one.
I guess, the next step now should be declaring "Sales Is a Cancer on Society". I believe one could draft a similar list of downsides for sales and sales tactics.

Jokes aside, advertisement itself maybe not a "cancer on society", but click-based advertisement is definitely ruining the internet and damaging the society. Can't wait until its era is over.
Agreed, specifically it creates ambiguities in parsing (for computers but worse: for humans). Given Foo(x), you can’t tell if it’s a function call or a generic type without knowing what x refers to. You need context from afar to disambiguate.
I say they extract it from the corporate officers by declaring any bonus payments they've returned over the last several years to be invalid and requiring them to be returned.

Then if there's any leftover money owed, forbid the company from paying out bonuses in the future until the debt is cleared.
While I am all for the end of the beef industry, I don't think it's happening until we get actual synthetic lab-produced animal tissue.

It's great that we have companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible working on this - this is the work that will eventually lead to the meat industry going away for good, or at least becoming a niche industry - but until we can synthesize actual meat many people will hold out.
You are overlooking that emissions accumulate, so you need to look to emissions over time, not just year to year, when determining how responsible each country is.

The US is around 29% of cumulative emissions, followed by the EU at around 26%. Russia is around 8%, and China a little behind that. India is around 2%.
> Equifax just has a bunch of essentially public financial data, addresses and such. None of that is actually private.

I agree that the information IS public. However, employers do not. Employers share employee compensation with Equifax but they refuse to share it with their employees. So which one is it? Is employee compensation public or is it not? If it is, please disclose compensation to all your employees to all employees. If it is not, then stop disclosing it to Equifax.
> I work at an organization that does almost no marketing; we mostly spread by word of mouth. We have no shortage of customers or work, and growth would be harmful to the quality of our product, so we're pretty content with our place in the market.

The good old survival bias. You did it thus it's possible for all!

Sadly the truth is, word of mouth doesn't always work, you are just lucky.
Because a law has worked really well to stop underage drinking, smoking, and weed.

It’s the same consequences. Little Johnny with well connected parents and a judge who doesn’t want to ruin the life of someone “who could be his kid” gets off easy while they expel little Jerome who is just “going to turn out to be a thug anyway.”
As a doctor, I'm all for banning soft drinks, recognizing that it probably will never happen.

Just curious, what are some of your hobbies? Things you like to do in your spare time?

LOL, looks like some people can see where I'm going with this.
What is it when you know about the power of features of the "higher level" languages, like generics, but still chose the "blub language" because of other reasons, like ease of hiring devs?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, are you claiming my assertion is entirely fictional? Harvard and Wharton aren't reputable?
Well, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of discussion of alternatives at all, so I can’t really see what design and implementation decisions are actually being made. Most likely I’m just looking in the wrong place, and those discussions are taking place elsewhere.

I guess my complaint is that this talk, like all the other updates on their progress on generics, implies that Go generics exist in a vacuum, whereas in reality there’s a ton of prior art that could usefully be referenced.

Edit to add: this particular talk is focused on syntax details. Those aren’t unimportant but they’re a small part of the whole picture. As I commented on the detailed Contracts proposal, the decision to add contracts rather than simply using interfaces (as in Java and C#) seems significant but isn’t explained.
I am glad Mozilla took their time, because their implementation is better than the one in Chrome. If I open https://codepen.io/rachelandrew/pen/vwMyMr in Chrome and use the scrollbar arrow buttons to scroll up from the second section, it reverts back to the original position...
Nice story of enterprise life. But personally, I still apply strict standards - if your unsubscribe link doesn't unsubscribe immediately, then you are spam, and will be marked and treated as such.
This is awful. Do not work for companies that do that. They are looking for ways to take advantage of their employees and underpay them. Choose an honest employer that respects their employees instead.
Seriously. This seems underrated. Very excited!
The terminology that I've often used for the two modes are backpacking versus car camping. When you go backpacking, everything in your campsite has to be lugged in (and out!) on your back, which places a very high premium on weight, whereas car camping involves carrying stuff in your car's trunk. You're not going to see many 5-man tents or propane tanks going backpacking, for example.

That said, we did have one trip that ended up being "dutch oven backpacking", because the road to the campsite was blocked and we had to lug all of the gear, including the cast iron dutch ovens, the mile or so by hand instead.
Not similar at all, if you'd compare what which did. The p-code is practically assembly for a virtual CPU which uses more or less the same resources that assembly code for the "real" CPU would do, only does that with less bytes per instruction.
That’s an utterly irrelevant question unless you have evidence of the equifax data being abused.
Apple has always marketed their products as being for creative professionals, but has that ever actually been the reality? Feels to me like that marketing is really intended to hook non professionals into thinking that that's what they need to be successful.
trees don't need to be in perfect shape to sequester carbon. breaking off branches is part of nature's process. and they can be trimmed to avoid powerlines since you have plenty of warning. I think the biggest concern is for those who live in deserts where water is scarce.
1% is OTC strength, it can be prescribed at 2.5% which I believe requires a consult with some kind of medical professional in most countries.
You've never used a data-structure other than the built in maps and slices?
At my company, we prepare one-off marketing and legal email blasts in advance, and need the final recipient list a couple days before sending. This allows time for processing the list for opt-outs, duplicates, etc.
this are dev boards. Just look here for example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32656775273.html, the nodemcu dev with USB for 3,55. You can even get a fully working board with a webcam for under 5 bucks (though that does need a UART bridge, no usb included). Unmounted esp32 chips are going for as low as 2,10
Anything that is free on the internet?

My SO escape room wouldn't exist without advertising either... I'm pretty sure that's true for PLENTY of business.
You’ve misread.

“Note that don't buy in all at once, diversify not just the investments but also by time, so you're not buying all into the stock market at once.”

This is the recommendation.

This also gives you time to think and reflect about how you want to use your money and what legacy you want,”

This is the main reason, comfort/acclimation.

“while also getting some returns on investments”

This is saying you’ll get better returns than cash, so the price of structuring your investment for comfort will be somewhat mitigated. It’s not advising DCA or suggesting outperformance of or parity with investing everything up front.
Problem with this argument is: what do you do when someone who can't pay shows up at the ER.

They will die without treatment. They can be saved, but not for free. What action, if any, do you recommend?
there's a better way. Just have consumers stop buying products that are advertised. it's so easy.

i can only imagine that consumers love the advertisements, otehrwise, why would they buy the product?