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Funding a massive war effort (Vietnam) while spending freely on welfare programs (Guns and Butter) wasn't sustainable. A few short years later, the country was taken off the gold standard due to its recklessness. The effects of that action reverberate today in the trade war and blooming currency war.

During the 1970s, the US experienced a surge of inflation that wreaked havoc with the economy.

Many countries you allude to are in dire shape - especially Europe. They pay next to nothing (compared to US) in defense and a few have been richly endowed with oil reserves. Their economies have been teetering on recession for years and now are in the unenviable position of facing negative interest rates heading into recession.
I think the "POSIX hellhole" is really just the Linux hellhole; there's no reason the underlying implementation or the desktop on top of it needs to be that way (and Haiku is more or less succeeding at being POSIX and not a hellhole :)
Back in the day I didn't think upgrading from a 56K PSTN modem to DSL broadband would matter that much to me.
I was naively thinking in terms of downloading things a bit faster, the classic futurologist mistake of seeing things through today's frame of reference.

What happened instead is that it enabled Youtube, Skype, Facetime, and that did change the world.
They ban films and books for the same reason that some authorities may ban articles and images of certain events that took place at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Software development doesn't need to be an art and it doesn't need to be a science either.

By science I mean using data and statistical evidence to drive development, by Art I mean using your gut and your intuition to drive development.

A computer is a deterministic system. It is 100% predictable and follows an exact set of rules. Software development is amenable to proof, logic and theory. You don't need to make decisions driven by data or your gut if the problem space can be described by a logical and axiomatic theory.

The problem is that the current "theory" is incomplete and not all parts of systems are amenable to statistical measurement. Thus a proper system architect needs to unify Theory, Science and Art to form a cohesive framework of system architecture.

Theory is priority because it says definitive things about the system, Science is secondary and operates as a data driven backup for places theory is currently incomplete, and Art is basically the catch all admission that there is no data or theory to back up the problem space and you're just going to have to rely on your intuition.

The problem with Martin Fowler is that all his stuff is 100% Art. It's just made up stuff from intuition and buzz words. Art is largely ad-hoc and does involve a lot of guess work that is often wrong. People identify with Martin Fowlers stuff because they identify with it on the "gut" level. It "feels" right. Your feelings are not a good way to do engineering, you rely only on intuition when you have no choice.

Fowler is also a big Object Oriented Architect. The thing with Object Orientation is that it has no basis in theory or science and is almost 100% art. The pattern is starting to fall out of favor because people are realizing that they tend to build over-complicated systems when following the pattern because they are largely just relying on their gut intuition to build these things using primitives that are validated by the same flawed intuition.
Your curiosity, professional or personal, probably has little bearing on what they tell you. The wording you use doesn't matter - exit interviews are always framed as "what we could have done better/could do better in the future?" but it is rarely so innocent in reality, and people know this. At best, companies use divulged complaints as a basis for negotiation retain the employee (what if we raised your salary to match your offer? What if we reassigned you to a different manager?) but often it is simply used get the employee to sign a waiver relieving to company of any legal blame. And a likely outcome is that their complaint about their boss gets passed along and it bites them in the ass when they need a referral down the road. So what advantage do they have for being honest? In what way could it possibly benefit THEM to tell you anything?

To be honest, a company should always know or be able to figure out the real answer to this question if it their own doing. Either the employee got a better job or the writing was on the wall. If you as a company have people leaving and no one knows why, you don't ask the leaving people you ask the people who are staying - Bob is leaving, is there anything we can do to improve YOUR experience? When they are out the door it is too late, so focus on the employees that are there.
... and, I am afraid, ever will. One just needs to realize that life (on Earth) critically depends on being able to increase the entropy of the environment. A spaceship (smaller than a planet) simply cannot provide an environment that could support such need for an extended period of time.
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I didn't have any news before because the current brazilian government is negligent and there are some interest in not making a big allarm over the issue locally because of the consequences on economy (agribusiness related and because of the EU-MERCOSUL agreement). But the fire is more severe than usual (about 80% more fire focus than last year), so much more severe than usual that the smoke reached the Southeast part of the country and one day the afternoon became night in São Paulo because of it and that never happened before...

The most alarming of all it is that the environment minister had take many actions that lead to this situation (cut money from a fund that worked to prevent fire, had actively work to disrupt environmental government organizations, among other things). The president also, lost a lot of money from the Amazon fund and now it's saying there is no money to put the fire out... He also fired the head of a scientific institute (INPE) that report that deforestation had increase and put someone that denies gobal warming in his place... A totally irresponsable fool...only now, with all this (economical) pressure he started to take some action to diminish the fire. Beside there are a lot of bills being discussed in the Congress to free for economical exploration indigenous reserves... It is a very alarming situation for the environment here in Brazil....
Similar issues (calculating somethings-per-second when the test 'something' started executing faster than expected) caused a good number of games to stop working as CPU speeds increased.
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No. I leave my work laptop in the office Friday at 4pm and don't open it or think about it until Monday at 9:30am.

Unless you're self-employed or at a bootstrapped startup, why give your employer your free time?
But you'd still want inheritance in your interfaces even if you didn't rely on base classes that much. IList is an ICollection and an IEnumerable in C# for example.
I'm not judging but there are 6 kids in that picture. How in the world is she going to manage in the first place with a minimum wage job? I'm surprised she can even afford to feed and cloth them never mind rent.

These kids don't have a chance without a lot of luck. I can only imagine not having a husband or a solid family (brother, sisters, aunts, uncles, etc) makes things more difficult with no one to give a helping hand.

I just want to ask where the fuck is the father in all of this and why isn't he helping?
If it happened during the time that Anne McClain was on the ISS, and she was the only person within NASA with credentials to this account, it seems like a plausible conclusion that she accessed the it from space.
It is definitely about the number before the G. With perfect infrastructure investment like what your carrier seems to have done with 4G in Denver, 5G could reach 1-2GBps.
In other words, real world imperfect 5G is ten times better than 4G with all stars aligned.
Digital content makers produce, they don't create. Mobile media are inherently limiting and limited media. There used to be a digital art which operates at the borders of what is technically possible and is thus inherently creative. It has increasingly become crowded out by the digital equivalents of ikea posters
Canada has (temperate) rain forest on Vancouver Island. It is also under more or less constant threat of being cut down, some of it already has but a lot of it still standing. If you happen to be in the area it is more than worth taking a hike through Carmanah [1] for a real life Lothlorien/Middle Earth experience.

[1] http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/carmanah/
What you say is logically valid, why are you being downvoted?
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What do you think I meant, when I said that? Do you think I believe in a font of cosmic meaning that flows out through some human pursuits but not others, and my job is in the latter set?

I'll tell you: that's not it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "honest business" or what any of this has to do with non-profits.

Nothing is free. You either pay with cash that you earn, or you pay with your attention with ads. Option 2 is faster, easier, more passive, more affordable and more equal. That's why billions of people prefer to monetize attention on-demand for their content instead of paying cash upfront.
Permission to enter can be revoked, such as in the case of divorce, even if the individual still, technically, has a key.
> So “[fake quote containing strawman opinion about rents]” is supposed to be OK

I said nothing about this, despite your insidious insinuation. I’m saying that taking a quote out of context and/or altering it by cutting off a very relevant bit in order to make it more outrage-inducing is bad. Or, to emply your rhethoric, is any amount of misleading and lying in order to induce rage in readers, as long as it’s rage about the “right” thing, supposed to be OK?
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I agree that paying by phone is convenient and pretty cool, but you really need to be in a special kind of first world bubble to think it’s a valid and future proof complete replacement for a wallet. There are just so many failure scenarios that are so easy to imagine it’s hardly even worth talking about.
You have heard wrong - it's amusing that you're so confident in its failure despite having the wrong information.

There are two phases in the 5G NR standard. The first phase relies on some elements of the LTE control plane to coordinate data services. These data services use new numerologies for their OFDM modulation, vastly more flexible resource block, allocation, improved error control coding, lower maximum latency, better channel allocation, and standardized MIMO support - all of which will improve reliability and throughput, especially in crowded channel conditions.

Phase 2 formally introduces millimeter wave signaling - this is what does primarily propagates through line of sight (LOS) channels. Clever beam forming and beamsteering can alleviate this to an extent but these cells are intended for dense urban environments or interiors of large buildings. These will supplement the lower frequency bands when available but 5G NR devices will still use the lowband when mmWave is unavailable. Phase 2 also switches over to an entirely 5G NR backed control plane (Standalone, or 5G NR SA) which has its own reliability and throughput improvements though these will all happen in the lowband since mmWave isn't suited for these tasks.
Regardless of the consequences, I'd be a more at rest knowing the ones responsible will be prosecuted. However, based on history we will know this will probably not happen.
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Right, the generated machine code also matters.

Scala has partial TCO, surely not cross recursive calls like Scheme language standard requires and how it is defined from CS point of view.

Same applies to F#, because neither JVM nor CLR have direct support for TCO.
What makes you think that God didn't find the movie funny?
/diy/ is my favorite board and the only reason I go to 4chan. There are plenty of knowledgeable people there eager to help.
Yes, just as earth nations currently have leverage against hundreds or thousands of ships of freight corporations.
That's incomplete, though- NASA has terrestrial computers

That's why it's an investigation, not a conviction.
Anything that causes mass die-offs that lead to loss of biodiversity is a cause for major concern. The system can be forced to crash multiple different ways. Currently it looks like the warm water heat waves have been killing corals en masse, which leads to collapse of shallow-water ecosystems, which is pancaking everything else. But plastics and overfishing are body blows being delivered at the same time as jabs and uppercuts.

Make no mistake, everything is interconnected. The recent uptick in gray whales dying off with signs that look like starvation is absolutely connected to the loss of coral reefs worldwide.

We need an all-front defense of the oceans, and I don't think we should pick winners or ignore major, major problems as somehow "solved" in our imaginations.
it's plausible but it's not true/factual (imagine a bank that didn't expire credentials, somebody broke into her computer at work and logged in there, etc, etc). However, she did apparently admit she did this. I was just hoping the article had a line line, "and NASA verified the IP was coming from space" or something like that. Otherwise, it's circumstantial.
Story was updated.

"Anne McClain acknowledges accessing the account from the ISS but denies any wrongdoing, the New York Times reports."
In short - some but not really. 5G NR allows for extremely efficient resource block allocation and can handle ~10x more concurrent users than 4G. The latency should not degrade as long as the carriers don't do weird things with traffic allocation - the standard allows for ~4ms worst case latency.
Technicality. You're still putting yourself into a situation that's known to have a high likelihood of resulting in your serious injury or death.

You're talking like if you were to run across a live gun range and get shot it's not really your fault, but instead it was the shooter that killed you.

That may be technically true but you knew the risks were basically a certainty and chose to do it anyway.
Do you work in the industry?
One of those sources was on PM Harold Wilson's staff. :)

They took a lot of ideas and turned them up to absurd. One or two turned out to be actually happening like they thought they'd only imagined. Others were grounded on real events.

One of the two writers, Jonathon Lynne I think, went to Oxford or Cambridge, and took part in the debating society. He mentioned something I heard mentioned again recently regarding Boris Johnson and his government cronies university and school days - so perhaps no wonder it seems horribly familiar again. Something roughly along the lines of university debate club being filled with self-important overblown and pompous asses, sure of their right to rule the world, and to be in the right by mere opening of their mouth, endlessly spouting crap and winging it. Yes Minister was born here. :)

A decade or two later all those pompous asses were populating the government and opposition benches, spouting the same crap.
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People have asked for evidence on this thread, so let me share my experience. A couple of years ago, I was developing an E-Commerce platformm internally for my company. I follow Martin Fowlers' articles on using DDD (Domain Driven Design) and Microservices to architect applications. What should have been a month long project took us 8 months! I'm not including the time I took to read about, understand and practice DDD and the surrounding concepts. Every DDD book is atleast 500 pages or more. And none of them are clear on the concepts, and are mostly full of fluff.

To give you more details, our stack was based on Phoenix, but it used a concept called Umbrella applications (basically Micro services pattern). Along the way, I hit so many snags and I thought I must be doing it wrong. Because, that's what these authors kept saying all the time to people who had failed to implement their preachings. So, I met a couple of people who had actually done this DDD on a much larger scale than I had and even they shared the same experience and stories of failure and struggling. Still, I shrugged them off thinking it must be something we were doing wrong instead of DDD/Fowler's teachings itself. In the meantime, we were struggling to launch features for our E-Commerce software because our microservices architecture based on DDD was just a house of cards at this point. And then, I finally called up someone I knew who had done DDD successfully and asked him how he did it. He said one of the authors of a popular DDD related website, had offered to consult for his company. And they had no choice but to employ him because they were pretty invested at this point. After a while, I started meeting a bunch of such companies who got their DDD setup done by either authors or by some vendor these authors had a stake in.

And then BINGO, it all made sense - most of these patterns/shortcuts/discoveries/secret sauces by these authors are hardly tested by them. It's just a way to sell you more consulting and training.

A couple of weeks later, we hosted a casual meetup for tech talks in our area and we got to meet more folks who had followed the same path and failed. We finally decided to do a small hackathon over a weekend and get our projects done. In the end, in about 3 days from Fri-Sun, we had got done so much more with a monolithic architecture than we had ever gotten done with DDD and microservices. Today, my platform is in production and is a proud monolithic app and still going strong.

It was perhaps the most expensive lesson I've ever learnt, but one that I will remember for a long time.
I would say that an interest may be "purely scientific", but if you don't consider the impact of your work then that in itself is a political stance. Your position is that your scientific curiosity is more important than the impact of your discoveries on others.

It's not a great look.

Doing the work implies that a researcher has considered the impact of what they're looking at to the extent they feel it is important, and concluded that it is in line with their values to move forward.

What those values are is the politics. Certainly they can make mistakes, if their intent was good but they were naive about the usage because they simply didn't grasp it, it's hard to think they're bad people. If they don't bother to consider impacts, that's a position as well... but it's not neutral.
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> I think the answer to your question would be

Yes, that's the problem. The pixels spent here are based on hypothesis, not experiments. You think one thing, I think something else, and not a joule of effort is spent measuring.
This is also the main reason psychedelics are illegal in many areas, in my opinion. Society benefits from that ego being nice and protected, and psychedelics have a way of breaking the ego down and reconstructing it slightly differently.
lawl, so another public resource being demonized? this like those posts regarding the trouble of public transportation. only the stupidest people will buy into these kind of social media brainwashing. anything the wealthy do not use will be demonized.
You linked me an article. I demanded an official document, that states that the amazonia must be take down. The article only states plans to build things, not to disapear the forest. Again, people only read the titles and the accuses.
I always thought it as a comedy tradition and related to both Shakespearean puritan prudity that women working as actresses are also prostitues advertising and therefore should be banned. Plus the British public school "traditions" based upon good ole imperial anti-decadence as the peak of messed up presenting itself as the peak of morality (see Roman gladiatoral combat and its professed purpose).

The concept of the boarding schools were because they worried the compassion of women raising young men would make them too weak. Their whole foundation was frankly of the "so misogynistic it winds up automatically homosexual because women can't be considered people by them". I state homosexual as opposed to gay because it refers to behavior rather than preferences. Surprisingly the majority won't choose celibacy over their preferred gender - so women are subsitited for men despite a preference for them. The crossdressing speaks to both the "boys club" society and the "easy to laugh at" - comedy actors are usually about average or below in attractiveness.

Graham Chapman also was very to the "ubermanly men". It could have been a "stop being stereotypical" thing - a "it should be laughed at because the mincing is ridiculous" attitude.
Exactly what magnitude is this story? It's not on the front page of the Times, the organization that did the actual reporting work. Even the HN link is to a BBC rewrite of the Times story. Doesn't seem blown up at all. It's on HN because it's a curiosity.
Oh man. If I could get unlimited 4G home internet and have multiple ISPs to choose from that would be the dream.
Faster upload speeds enable new applications -- easier high res streaming, self-hosted storage (stream from home to your phone regardless of whether what you want is on a commercial streaming platform), just plain less waiting when creating and uploading creative work
Not for the big telecomm's but I design parts of the radios and DSP algorithms implementing the major cellular technologies.
A city that starts getting rid of parks is a city I’m not moving to.
Here's the thing. Your writing doesn't make it sound at all like this person trusts you, and you said you're doing this in a quasi-official capacity.

Those two things make me think your management either sucks, or fucked up and wants to know what your coworker will say.

If you had a good relationship w/ this person already, you could take them out to coffee and pretty much ask, "so, what happened?". Since you don't, and since your coworker is presumably not stupid, you're probably going to get the same answer that your management team would get.

Which brings me to my next point: your management team should know. If this person's boss isn't doing weekly 1-1s and closely monitoring this person's enthusiasm for the job and company, then they're an incompetent boss. That's table stakes for competent management.

Particularly when a coworker quits over an "I'm not a good fit", that means (1) there's a problem, and (2) I don't trust management. Acting as an agent of management isn't going to get the answer.
> 90 percent of Americans over age 12 listen to AM/FM radio at least once a week — down 2 percent since 2009. (This does not include public media, which Pew covered in a separate fact sheet.)

Source: https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/am-fm-radio-holds-strong-f...
And crimes committed on planes going between nations.
I never thought of this. Thank you.
> space station citizens

What do you mean? People are governed by the laws of their respective countries per signed treaties, as explained in the article.
it's amusing that you're so confident in its failure despite having the wrong information.

Why would that be "despite"? That would have to be being confident in its failure despite having information that it would be a success. Surely they're confident in its failure because the information they have says it will be bad?

And then your comment becomes "I'm laughing because you're confident in your beliefs" which is content-free smugness, or "I'm laughing at you because you don't know what I know" which is more or less the same, if not worse.