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Well, I agree with everything except that Google's not arrogant. Google is arrogant, and that's precisely why they can never be a successful platform company. When I've used Google platforms, things changed under me, for my apparent benefit. If Google changes something in my personal email, that's sometimes annoying. If they crack something I run my business on, it's a whole different ballgame. This is exactly why you see the constant disasters of Youtubers or Android developers being falsely flagged for violations, and having their livelihoods removed by automated algorithms with no means of appeal.

When Google tries to build platforms, others can't use them BECAUSE of Google's arrogance.

Quote is below.

"You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant? I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as 'doing everything right'. We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines. They're inferring arrogance because it makes them feel better.

But when we take the stance that we know how to design the perfect product for everyone, and believe you me, I hear that a lot, then we're being fools. You can attribute it to arrogance, or naivete, or whatever -- it doesn't matter in the end, because it's foolishness. There IS no perfect product for everyone.

And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.

It's not just them. It's everyone. The problem is that we're a Product Company through and through. We built a successful product with broad appeal -- our search, that is -- and that wild success has biased us."

And you know, it might not even be bad. Google does very well in B2C / nonplatform / ad-supported. It's not clear they want to go this way. But making a massive investment in platforms from a culture of such arrogance is misaligned.
I don’t think too many people invest in these bonds, but banks that are forced to hold government bonds do.
That's basically how it works on the Isle of Mann.
If your pension doesn’t pay out in dollars (ie, you’re a German pension) then you’re exposed to swings in the dollar-euro exchange rate. If the Euro appreciates relative to the dollar but you’re holding T-bonds, you lose money.
Vinegar and sugar are the two other vital components of tomato ketchup, with vinegar probably being the more characteristic of the two. (Tomatoes are naturally somewhat sweet, so you are always going to have some sweetness in your tomato sauce as a flavor component.)

Both are either used not at all in tomato sauce or used in much, much lower doses. (I actually have sometimes used very low doses of balsamic vinegar in my tomato sauces but it’s an atypical ingredient. Sometimes adding carrots, honey or just a bit of sugar is recommended if your tomatoes are particularly sour and lacking in sweetness but that’s more as a workaround to hide not so tasty tomatoes. I have also done that in the past but we are talking about adding a pinch of sugar or a drop of honey, not having sugar as the third entry on your ingredients list.)

Obviously, the texture of ketchup is also very smooth while tomato sauce can have many different textures, from completely smooth like ketchup to with substantial vegetable chunks. Depending on how long you cook the sauce those chunks will also be more or less soft. Also, tomato sauce can and probably often is much less thick than tomato ketchup and tomato sauce often has quite a bit of added fat (typically butter or olive oil or both).

Ketchup is also typically served cold and tomato sauce hot but that’s more like the default. Both can go either way.

So, yeah, I would say there are a lot of substantial differences between tomato ketchup and tomato sauce beyond just how concentrated the tomatoes are.

But maybe we are talking past each other and what you call “tomato sauce” is actually something else entirely.
We do tomato paste and tomato puree. Typically use the paste for a pizza base, and if you're making your own pasta sauce, tomato puree with a dollop of paste to up the tomatoeness.
If you deal in Euros, US bonds are in no way safe.
I am the creator of this. It's really far away of what Grammarly can do. It all started copying what the Hemingway app could do, but for Spanish.

I want to see with this prototype if it makes sense to dig deeper and develop a proper NLP model.
One reason is that many funds have mandates that require them to (for example) stay in EUR and have x% in government bonds.
The per capita gross world product was approximately ~$18k/yr in 2017. No matter how efficiently you redistribute resources, you cannot exceed this number.

Instead we really need to invest more in productivity gains for the world's bottom 90%.
Air travel may be one of the last major users of carbon-containing fuels. Perhaps there will be sufficiently little of it that the fuels can all be sourced from biomass (upgraded with hydrogen from non-biomass renewable sources).
Exactly, fatalism is not going to be any helpful.
> Every time you choose to buy something from, say Brazil, that will be read as an endorsement of Brazil

But that decision was not made by the consumer. It was made by the executives of Burger King who decided to buy beef from a factory farm that has decided to buy soy from Brazil which has farmers that have decided to exploit the rain forest because the government has decided to not do anything against it.
I think Manyverse is similar, although it too is just Android for now: https://www.manyver.se/
> Yes, people make pasta sauce with it.

With tomato sauce? Really?
Infrrd’s AI-Enabled Platform Optimizes Invoice Management
Precision Screw Components
Launching an Atom or Caterham with big power is incredibly hard for most people, even for those who own them. Not really a drag strip car, more a club circuit vehicle.
Faceswap and Regulation
That still isn't undercutting when you don't even have the infrastructure to sell the proposed service. Those companies are not your competitors.
>The people getting extra non-resident traffic on residential streets don't benefit.

Those streets being public roads, they don't have any right to exlusively using them. Furthermore, a public resource should be used efficiently.
FreeBSD is a complete operating system but it is not like Linux distros where everything is pre-packaged for you (but then requiring distro hopping to find what you really want). I can install what I want for a complete desktop system in about 20 minutes on FreeBSD.
Building Emacs 26 on macOS Mojave
Probably meaning the amount of access you get to configure your VM. I’ve never had a need for one from them, but the amount of configuration they describe in their documentation from an SSH/CLI to your VM is pretty comprehensive. It’s a slick way to avoid the overhead and infrastructure needed to support a big web GUI.

You can pretty much see the entire interface from the link above.
Tax the wealth of the rich
This is hardly a 'first'. ESA felt their satellite was being obstructed by SpaceX who moved into the space much later and didn't act responsibly as they should have. So ESA decided to send out a press release.
That's an ad for the new release of the translations, imitating an article. Read Monsieur Monde Vanishes instead if you want to read some Simenon, it's a better book.
"SO is a blessing for humanity."

My opinion is that "Stack Overflow" vastly exacerbated the eternal September effect -- people went there for instant gratification (of both the question and the answer variety), instead of focusing writing better manual pages. Yes, manual pages. The ones written in nroff. Those.

"I like Linux because I can find an answer to anything within seconds on Stack Overflow" (a "UNIX systems administrator" once told me that to my face) is not a good reason to adopt any technology, any programming language, or anything at all.

From my point of view, "Stack Overflow" is one of the great evils of the information technology industry: nobody bothers to think about the problem and research it any more. It's all about instant gratification and non-existent or shitty documentation nowadays. Great evil befell us all.
If I develop web endpoints, I usually use http until I know the target domain and have acquired the needed certs. In a lot of cases this is one of the last steps in deployment.
How is stealing from Peter to pay Paul going to help solve the world’s financial problems?
We didn't hear about all the other hospitals that easily switched over to generators, just the one that failed. There's room for investigation there, but it's on the site, not the system.
I spent a few years working as a cook, from crappy catering companies all the way up to a michelin-starred restaurant. At every level, it was a known "rule" that one thing you should never attempt to make in house was...ketchup.
a single AC outlet still pulses power sinusoidally, could you provide a diagram? the 240V split phase is just with a center tap to ground, so each phase is 120V with respect to ground... I don't see the relevance here (unless I misunderstand you)...
An important ingredient to Proton in DXVK, which was a new project and the author of which was quickly funded by Valve as it greatly improved performance, especially AAA+++ titles. Secondly, Valve funds Crossover, the commercial entity already responsible for large parts of Wine. The heart of Proton is thus free and libre software.

What sets Proton apart from alternatives like Lutris, which also configure Wine, DXVK, and other components, for you, is that it is zero conf, integrated in a tool (Steam) you probably are already using if you play games. Personally, Proton is the only tool where the autoconfiguration actually always works.
Show HN: Small Websites
https://bananatron.github.io/small-websites/

The modern web needs a diet - I'm trying to start a list of web sites/services that deliver a small payload (HN being a good example). Any submissions would be helpful!
I'm no expert but it seems the 'cause' of a lot of problems right now - the one mentioned in this article, but also climbing housing prices - are caused by low and negative bond interest rates. Who sets these interest rates? Why are they being kept low? They seem to have such a big influence on the economy right now, driving it towards riskier investments - I mean my bank's savings account, which IIRC is tied to government bond interest rates and (also historically low interest) mortgages, is pretty much zero so I've moved some of my funds into (riskier) investments.

I mean I don't really want to be doing that but right now, putting money in savings and keeping it is basically costing me 2-3% of its value a year due to inflation.
The things holding you back from financial independence
I'd take an English major who is self-taught in computer science over a CS grad any day. And I'd take a bootcamp kid who went on to study the theory themselves over a Stanford kid who only knows this shit because he was tested on it. I'm honestly, at this point, not sure why we even teach software engineering in schools, as we so manifestly fail at imparting anything to the kids, and the ones that come out as decent engineers would have been so anyway. Oh right, it's signalling.
They don't even have snow. Add the speed bumps. Lots of them.
Of course people invest in those bonds. After all, if they didn't, those countries would have to offer a higher interest rate.
Nearly every time you recall an event, you are modifying your memory of the event.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-memory-gameeach-recal...
AWS Post Exploitation Framework
What a beautiful world we live in.
Timeless Programming Tools (2016)
They're keeping the rates low to prop up business borrowing and the stock market it seems.
This is called Unit in the context which we are discussing.

A monad is a different concept in this context.
As someone with several years of experience with both RDBs and mongodb, I totally agree with everything you said.

Also, you got downvoted by the same people that upvoted the stackoverflow post on the problems of downvoting on technical problems on the internet.

People might not like or know the technology and are guided by older tech gurus from the previous generation such as Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd, although he was a genius, now the market is much larger and there's a lot more use cases.

Additionally, most people know RDBs such as mysql and that's what they are comfortable with, i.e. can't get out of their comfort zone and give an honest and good try to something else or don't even have time.

Also it's what's taught in courses as superior to non relational databases.

I would not change our MongoDB clusters for Postgres/MySQL/etc even if I could do it with a single command. In this case it's not relational data though, for a large business relational model I would stick with RDBs.
Sometimes you don't know what you've been missing until you are shown. This is one of such things. Only thing that could possibly make it better is chapter on bloodstain pattern analysis.
I've started making sure the sun comes into the room - I've read somewhere that this is supposed to help keep things clean w/out running the washer as often.
Ninety-Ninety Rule
It’s disappointing to see LADOT neglecting to use a road management tool already at their disposal to stop Waze’s abuse of their residential zones:

No Thru Traffic.

Posting NTT signs at entry points into residential neighborhoods and specifying even as little as a $5 fine would make entry for thru routing unlawful, stopping Waze.

Whether or not the city enforces these signs would be irrelevant, as long as the traffic laws were in place permitting enforcement. Their simple presence would require Waze editors to accurately identify all such entry points and force Waze to prefer the surrounding arterials. They are, I believe, requires to denote such signage to their maps so that Waze does not compel unlawful driving behaviors, even if some percentage of drivers might otherwise make the entry illegally.

As an additional possible bonus, by marking zones as NTT, the Waze algorithms would not only exclude those zones but likely also reject periphery roads near those zones, as their value as a shortcut would diminish further versus the arterials they circumvent.
"move to Europe"

"the immigrant problem"

Well, you see, the act you're referring to is "immigration" so, by definition, no.
Pensions are primarily a concern of the working class, the richer classes benefit from “growth at all cost” policies while everyone else falls behind.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
> I think the most important benefit of co2 tax would be we would be much more conscious about emissions

I think discussions could get more constructive if proponents of CO2 tax did get conscious of the epycal change they are talking about.
The latter part of your first paragraph is the answer to the first part.
In germany we will enter soon zero interest for house credits... Where that will lead to...
That would be true if the poor just socked that $18k away into savings.

We know this isn’t the case.
Live+and+Sleep+Labor+Day+Sale
King's Cross facial-recognition plans revealed by letter
Philip K.Dick was prescient:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Who...
No need for drugs. You can train to use it against traumatic events, though the side-effects seem to be severe (inability to actually process what happened is only the beginning). You want temporarily accessible episodic memory, just so you can think about recent past.
Judging people from a different culture and age by the contemporary mores. Does one need to know what Simenon got up to in the bedroom department in order to appricate a detective novel?
The gist of it is that if you have 1, 10, or even 100 thousand dollars in cash, sure you can sit that in your bank and probably earn ~0% interest, but at least it's not negative.

But if you have 100M in [edit: $your_native_currency], you aren't going to put it in a retail bank account, you're not going to put it in your mattress, and so you have only a few options:

1. Stocks/derivatives: If you were holding cash already, you're probably not comfortable with the risk profile of any of this stuff

2. Bonds - this exposes you to the slight negative interest rate

3. Corporate bank account - you might be able to avoid a negative interest rate here as well, but only because you're passing the buck (literally) to the bank, who then has to pick 1 or 2.

4. Actually use the money yourself, in your business.

The whole point of the NIRP (negative interest rate policy) is to push people to pick 3 or 4, and if 3, then for the banks to pick 1 or 4.

I just reread your question, and realized I didn't fully answer it. Investing in foreign bonds exposes you to exchange rate risk. I was sorta hand-waving it into 1 since it's basically like doing both bonds and forex. Not very appealing if your risk appetite is "preferably cash or govt bonds".

I feel obligated to include a disclaimer that this isn't investment advice and that monetary policy is immensely complicated and this is just the high-level thinking of the point of NIRPs.
Doesn't that assume that $18K will get you as far in one place as it does in another?
I don't think so. The vesting contribution terms can lengthen, the payouts can decrease, and the withdrawal minimum ages can start later. Sure, some funds that are ailing will be in trouble, and there may be a yearning for the good ol days, but "Destroyed"? C'mon: these are govt. jobs with mandated contributions from people who are risk averse and have few better employment options.
It's happened in Denmark already - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/danish-bank-is-offering-10-y...

It feels very weird.
Would love to compare notes! Left the US in 2013, and living on a bit of land in Ireland at the moment. Remote work helps a lot.

The city trap is a big problem for a few reasons, and I LOVE cities. Sadly we have artificially constrained them (especially in the US, where it's illegal to build a real city and not just a zombie stretch of suburbia). In short, if you're in debt for the necessities of life (i.e. you have a mortgage) you are not free to choose your actions, and instead must choose them in a way that helps in servicing your debt.
I agree with you and I see the main problem with the current US pension system is the lack of clarity. This allows bureaucrats and politicians to spend money collected to support old folks in the future for unrelated pet projects now. Social Security and similar schemes are valuable (even if trust fund is completely spent SS would still provide good benefits from current contributions), but I personally trust my 401k more. My 2c.
Anyone knows how this compares to chrome?
"SO is on Wikipedia level of blessings to humanity."

I think it's time to pick up my toys and go home. And never return here.
What are some disgusting habits your ex-girlfriend had?
>should be continuously running simulations that are constantly fed fresh TLEs from tracking stations, that check whether or not anything is going to collide

I'm ready to bet that they do this already, and that collision detection is automated indeed. However given the very high cost of orbital maneuvers (can't refuel a sat, so there's a limited quantity of delta v corrections you can do) there's probably a backlog of possible collisions to be checked and acted on manually. The ops team gets to it when they get to it.
I agree that it would be niche today, but for devices that don't switch location in a house, one time wiring for DC "straight from the panels" so to speak makes sense for those devices that can draw a lot of power: it decreases the energy storage requirement on the inverter

Redesigning them so that in addition to AC, the devices have terminals for DC would probably not add that much to the cost. And off-grid may be niche, but partially because it's inconvenient to connect some of the larger loads that may require AC to your solar panels: if your going to buy energy buffering AC inverters for the house anyway, and don't understand or want to think about the price gradient for the energy buffer, people will obviously choose the setup you describe.
you can pretty much take their wealth and still not pay the negative spending in some countries. in the US the tax system is very progressive with a large swath of the population have little to no federal tax.

the truth is the the public employee pension system has been far to generous for far too long and many are counting on a bailout from Washington to keep the largess going. I will post it over and over, Illinois is a prime example of what is wrong in the public employee pension system[1]. When you have twenty three thousand retirees pulling in 100,000 per year there is a problem. Chicago is in dire situation too from both too much largess and simply kicking the debt bomb down the road [2]

There is not enough wealth in the US to tax to support this level of largess and it goes by unnoticed because it was designed to not be see by the public.

If the only way to fix the pension system is for them to implode it is a far better solution than to tax our way out of it because the behavior has to change.

Tens of millions of Americans are counting on their 401k retirements and such and the only true source of wealth that can be taken to fix the pension systems of public employees is to go after those 401k funds. There aren't enough billionaires to take all the money from

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2019/01/10/the-problem-w...
Defined benefit pensions have always been Ponzi schemes. When there’s an expanding economy and population that works fine. As soon as it stops the writing’s on the wall. That’s why defined benefit pension schemes have pretty much disappeared in the private sector. In the public sector there’s no one to say “We can’t afford this.” except politicians and regulators appointed by politicians. It’s not their money so they have no real incentive to stop it and promising public servants a great retirement wins votes now whereas the people who’ll have to pay for those pensions mostly can’t vote yet as they’re too young.

This is a disaster that’s been a long time coming but it’s also been clearly signposted the entire time. Actuaries have known this for a long time.