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It isn't necessarily more stressful and time-consuming.

The point isn't to "start a business", it's to carefully engineer a viable business - which means doing solid research on customer numbers and income/profit estimates, creating a system for acquiring customers, and so on.

Basically an adult plan. Not am impulse or hobby business.

And that includes setting work limits for yourself, so you don't become the cliched 80-hr a week self-employed robot.

2) is certainly true. But it's true for any job. It's very rare for work to be wholly positive, no matter what you do.

The most basic difference is that you have an internal locus of control. This immediately removes a lot of stress, because you're no longer responsible for cleaning up other people's mistakes, or pandering to unrealistic whims.

You're still vulnerable to macro-economics, although that's true of any job. But you can also improvise and pivot your way out of difficulties - which is much harder when you're being managed from above.
Dumb/feature phones saved SMS messages to the SIM card as simple cards have a limited amount of memory that is dedicated to a crude phonebook and SMS store.
Smartphones and smarter feature phones (can) use their own storage for that. You could disable/enable the phonebook/save to SIM features on feature phones and early smartphones.

(I'm talking about win CE and symbian phones being early smartphones here)
It may even attract more people to live there.
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
These will both be addressed in the next release. Thanks for the due diligence.
Real talk - sweat. I can pop on a scooter for 20 minutes and get a cool breeze. If I rode my bike for 20 minutes I would arrive a dripping disgusting mess and would remain a stinky ape the rest of the day.
If using a drug puts you in the category of someone who has committed a 'drug offense', then you have -- by definition -- taken an illegal drug.

> An excellent argument for decriminalizing them.

Indeed, but that doesn't automatically exculpate those who have -- during prohibition -- directly caused violence by their money. In my opinion, they should all be in jail for murder. For life.
As a Mexican I can only agree, and would love the US to have a hard solution to this problem which a wall could certainly help. People think migrants are the US's problem but no, sadly the real question is how can we make migrants thrive in their original places and why this is not the approach to take?
What is the hidden premise that precludes the alternative conclusion—that “pure mathematical objects” ought to be patentable?
Sure but one has 10x more digits than the other so takes a heck of a lot longer to convert and display the string for the same number of iterations.

As a quick test of my theory the majority of the time is being spent trying to display the progress:
- Default 100,000 = 58.276
- CSS display: none; = 22.359
- Display when done = 20.057
Better for use with a laser cutter
IANAL, but in my opinion, a gun emoji is not a threat in any isolated context. There would need to be enough other context before I would consider it a threat that the emoji would be irrelevant compared with the other evidence.
Conservatives under Harper started to align their policies more with Democrats and then with eventually Republicans. The gag orders on scientists, climate denial, private prisons, mandatory minimum sentences with a focus on drug crimes, slashing social programs, tightening up immigration and nationality rules, singling out muslims, and broad tax cuts without specific goals. This is the playbook of the US right / global far-right. The recent feud / split with the new Libertarians in Canada I think illustrates that at least a subset of the party was dragging everyone right, and eventually they had to break off. Of course trump is one step further right still so by comparison they appear downright reasonable. Then at the provincial level Ford speaks for himself haha.

I can’t imagine for instance a Joe Clark conservative jumping at these ideas but maybe it was always like that?
> "Google" is not an entity

It is. It's a legal entity called a corporation

> Don't hire them. Don't associate with them.

You no longer have a choice to opt out of google invading your privacy. The websites you visit everyday are letting google track you. The websites I use for my work are tracking me via google. My employer also requires chrome for some tasks which allows google to track what I do. I've even seen government websites using google trackers. You just can't escape google on the internet. Google is so pervasive even ARIN is allowing google to track people who go to their site.

Google is quickly intruding on offline public spaces as well.

When a user-hostile company becomes impossible to escape the only option left is to regulate it to limit the damage, but Illinois made a solid effort to do just that and it made zero difference
Strange there is no mention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game) (released 1991 and present on all MSDOS after 5 and early windows machines), probably itself paying homage to https://www.mobygames.com/game/rock-olas-nibbler * (1982). MobyGames' list of earlier Snake variants at https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/snake-variants/offset,1... attributes oldest position to Taito's 1977 arcade game Hustle https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=hustle&page=detail&id=1950... which also received a TI-99/4A port https://www.videogamehouse.net/hustle.html (1981).
The USPTO disagrees.

"Although the Supreme Court has not delimited the precise contours of the abstract idea exception, it is clear from the body of judicial precedent that software and business methods are not excluded categories of subject matter."

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2106.html
> Violence related to drugs is mostly caused by prohibition

The rising violence rate due to the marijuana trade in California (and other states) does not agree with your made up reasoning. Although, in principle, I agree that your reasoning ought to make sense. Unfortunately, my principles and empiricism are often at odds, so it's best to side with the latter.
Emeryville does as well, primarily during commute hours.
Yes, sometimes there are corrupt judges. Note that the article doesn't say whether the owners of the detention centers approached the judges or whether the judges approached them. Both sides had to be evil (and know the other side was evil) for the scandal to happen.

If you read more into the cash for kids scandal, you'll see it was the tip of the iceberg. The level of nepotism in Luzerne county was absurd and the state did nothing to fix it. There were judges abusing their positions, using staff for personal errands, showing blatant bias against certain attorneys, fixing cases, etc. By the time the FBI was done, around a half dozen judges in the county were convicted of various offenses.

My takeaway from the whole thing was that judges have too much power and too little oversight. They're the one relic of the royalty/nobility system that we kept after the American revolution.
That's the tourist price. NYC residents typically buy an annual pass for $170, which gives you free 45 minute segments.
One still could be able to license the software while keeping it closed source until one decides to let people use it freely.
And open borders hurt everyone
I like how the pop up I got on this story offers to let me “Do More With Alexa” if I subscribe
It’s a multipolar world, the USSR is out now but China is in and so are other wealthy states. We’ll see how it goes.
If we ignore the obvious possibility of blackmailing people who have something (legal) to hide, there's also a huge problem of innocent people being in a wrong place at a wrong time. It's not hard to presume that police would use such database to quickly find everyone with a previous convictions who were in the neighborhood when crime happened, and would then try really hard to connect them to it. Which is great if they pick the right guy right away, but history teaches us that they often don't. Mistakes happen a lot in investigations, and this type of tool - if police trust it too much - could make it even easier for them to jump to conclusions and fall for prejudices. Even if they don't, at the best, it will still create a lot of inconvenience to people who only happened to drive too close to the crime scene in a wrong time. Having police questioning you is very sensitive and unpleasant experience, especially if you're not the white middle-class and you have previous convictions. Police coming to your work can get you fired immediately even if you're completely innocent. Or landlord can kick you out, or wife can leave you. You could easily completely screw up someone's life with this, and still not get any closer to solve the actual crime.
Yeah, also when they took away the sword and replaced it with a gun it was so much less "humane", you lost all connection with the person you kill, how horrible.

Just admit it, you don't like it because it goes against your politics, you don't want an effective immigration control for whatever reason. If it was you who had to use this technology to protect your house for example you wouldn't have any problem.
Seattle used to have free transit downtown. I'm not sure how much of it was about moving people around, and how much was just to move people around faster by not requiring them to go through the payment process. The free rides are over now. Literally.

When I lived in Seattle, and outside Seattle, I was always impressed that Sound Transit lived up to its mandate as a transit agency, and not a revenue source. Its mission was to move people around. To that end, if you didn't have any money (forgot your wallet, too drunk to remember where you left your Orca card, too poor to pay, etc...) the bus drivers would give you zero hassle and let you board.

In contrast, I can't count the number of times I've seen clearly poor people kicked off of the buses in Chicago because they couldn't afford to pay. That just seems wrong. There should be some sort of income line below which you are entitled to free public transit.
> But your assertion that opposition to government run healthcare is based in ignorance is absolutely, completely false.

Socialized medicine is in no way equivalent to the VA system or the issues of the DoD and VA. So if you're using that as an example to disprove ignorance, to me that just proves how ignorant people are. Pointing to the VA as an argument against universal socialized medicine is such an absurd take that I'm not sure how to respond.

If anything, your comment proves my point. Americans are completely ignorant on the basics of the topic to the point where they compare a poorly designed military system as some kind of argument against socialized medicine. The incentives of the VA are so radically different from any national healthcare system. I appreciate the debate.
If you think something is 80% likely to be true, is it really? Test yourself
Algorithms can apply to much more than just software though. The process to make a given drug, or a specialized manufacturing process is still just an algorithm. Doing so at scale requires specialized tools, but so too for software patents.
I wonder if they could could programmatically scan all bodies of water for submerged vehicles
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In the case of strings it's because in practice it's just not that much of a problem. If your not in a highly constrained environment you'd just use one of several libraries like glib that have strings and other stuff you'd typically find in the standard libraries of other languages. These libraries have the freedom evolve faster, break backward compatibility, not have to worry about committee design and keeping everyone happy, limit themselves to certain classes of machines and do all sorts of things you can't in a standard library.

C has an anemic standard library but many libraries you can use as your standard, this keeps everyone happy. I'd expect the javascript/npm world to evolve this way in future.
I'm not a big fan of the dual class voting structure of these IPOs. It just seems cleaner when a share gets a vote. Obviously this seems to let some private individuals lock up control of a "public" company.
Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger
Sure, but zero incentives don't work either, for obvious reasons. Neither of which implies there aren't better or worse options along the continuum.
Everything they listed is also true for non-software patents. End all patents.
What is your basis for this claim? Was there a survey?
My uncle is a cop in DC and he says >90% of the hits on plates are for the same number but a different state. Is there any work in identifying the state a license plate is from? Just the style is often enough to narrow it down, despite the fact that most license plate frames partially or totally cover up the state name.
Yeah, that's fair. I think there's a strong argument that bounds checking satisfies the "don't pay for what you don't use" rule (although one could say that every slicing having to carry around its length, doubling it's size, is a pervasive cost, but that's fairly weak, given the other things it enables), but I think the other rule is much, much less clear.
Very interesting read. Thanks! :D
And wouldn’t it be great if some company - say, Anduril - built the tech to catch those drug smugglers and gang members?
More appropriate would be to have English Wikipedia translated wholesale to ACE. In that one the article about ACE would be naturally in ACE.
> There is no such lottery, in which souls are assigned at random to bodies.

citation needed. Are you claiming that some invisible hand assigned me to this planet and this time in history for reason specifically tied to myself?

> it is by no means random

Please provide evidence.
You're not too familiar with prison, I guess.

By and large, I would expect inmates to choose the closest prison to their family, regardless of quality metrics. What good does it do to know that some prison 2000 miles away has a really good meal program?
I love it! What a blast from the past :P
I think a reasonable rule might be that you can ride them on sidewalks as long as you stay at least 25 feet from pedestrians. So basically if the sidewalk is empty, go for it. It might mean taking the side streets rather than the main ones, but that's ok.

I don't think these things coexist well with cars either. (nor do bikes, which is why I don't ride a bike in the city)

Pedestrians need to be aware of their surroundings too. (another good rule, pick up your dog shit)
LOL! Too funny
"> But this doesn't seem to have any relationship to daily life where I am, or similar places, because train or plane rides are for going on long trips, say over 200km.

Which seems to suggest you live somewhere without a well developed rail system.

I grew up in Norway - a country with a population density of ~14 or so people per square km."

If I Google "Norway" and "subway", I get hits for Oslo. The Oslo metro area is close to two million people.

So I don't see any indication that my view of what's possible is likely wrong.

Patronizingly saying "you don't have a well developed subway system" implies that is something that could be changed if Americans were just sensible like Scandinavians. But is there any magical solution outside the largest population centers, in any country? In another post, Kyoto was mentioned, as though that was a refutation of something.

When I ask how you can have a certain level of infrastructure in an area with a million people, pointing to all the arbitrary boundaries enclosing a million people within a significantly larger population doesn't seem like constructive dialogue to me.
A friend of mine, who worked with Verilog a lot, was expressing some anger about extension .v on the Internet (Github?) mostly related to Coq, not Verilog. Oh well...
I've got no idea. One would have to understand the code fairly deeply to tell that. For instance, are the volatile reads/writes meant to be atomic ones (which could be done safely) or are they truly volatile?
Fair enough, this was basically what I thought you meant; there are a lot of people in the "lol they is nazis because they is tories lol" camp and I worry sometimes that nobody is actually paying attention to the specific issues.

The one that really got to me was the F-35 purchase order, which they did not even try to explain to the public.

I hope the PPC can bring some competition and vigour back to our parliament, and get them actually talking about issues, and talking to their own constituents rather than to the fourth wall.

I don't agree with all of their framing, and the English is not native, but their platform documents actually name the laws and procedures that correspond to their legislative priorities, in plain language, and that gives me the warm fuzzies.
You couldn't pay me to step foot in California.
If you don't want America to have borders just run on this ticket and convince the majority of the population to vote for you and change the laws. People still want borders for their country and there is no reason not to use the most effective technology to enforce border control. You just want a dictatorship where things are decided by you against the will of the people. I don't like taxes but it doesn't mean that I will object the tax office to have the best software to do their job as defined by law.
S3 has the open source Minio, and it seems every cloud provider has adopted the S3 API for object storage.
Which private OS calls. Can you site what they are?
Parent Who Criticized His Son's Math Program Is Sued by Curriculum Company
Istio 1.3 Released
That sounds like "abuse" in itself!
Useless for backcountry safety, it won't trigger for way too long. Off the top of my head there are two apps that are actually useful: Cairn and I believe AllTrails has just added such capability. You can set a notification that will be delivered at a certain time if you don't check in with it. Cairn's capability on Android I find quite limited, I haven't tried AllTrails.
Thank you. That's eye opening. This thread is making me realize how much the US health care system really is impacting my life choices.

> It's not an extraordinary life, but it's mine and I like it.

From where I'm sitting it seems pretty extraordinary :)
Software should be copyrighted not patented. I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.
It hasn’t been just the last few years. Heidegger’s Nazism became an issue already in the 1960s, when other intellectuals like Paul Celan struggled to reconcile his philosophical insights with his actions during the Hitler regime.
The government itself, no. The correctional officers' union, yes.

Outlawing private prisons is probably a good step, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to eliminate the vested interest in mass incarceration.
Extremely excited about this. Becoming vegetarian meant missing chicken wings (I've found awesome alternatives), burgers (Beyond Meat!), Mexican food (several vegan options in my town now) and finally steak. Steak is the last meat-based food I cannot stop craving after almost ten years...
I feel you. I wrote this post just now and it couldn't be more relevant: How I code for 4 hours a day and make more than my peers https://medium.com/@marcospgp/how-i-code-for-4-hours-a-day-a...
You've discovered a wonderful loophole: Fraud!
Some tough love incoming:

1. Delete this post. Your feelings are valid, as are your struggles, and a lot of people are struggling with similar issues. If you had posted under a throwaway, this would be a great place for discussion. But airing these issues publicly with identifying information won't help anything. Your coworkers and employer read this website, this isn't something you need to share with them.

2. You need to reevaluate your relationship. If you want to provide these things out of caring and love, great, go for it. But if you are doing it out of a feeling of obligation, the only result will be resentment. You can't change someone, and in all (non-dependent) relationships, it only works if both people want to be there under the same terms. If the terms you want for a relationship don't match hers, even with compromises, then it probably won't work out.

3. You have a skill that few people have: You can build something once and sell it over and over at no marginal cost. And people like you are needed everywhere. You can make a change, in location, in job, in relationship, etc. and you will have the earning potential where ever you go to make what you need. (What someone else needs, that's another question.)
One site I've thought it made sense was in Discord, which acts as a properly themed web app and where the clash of certain native scrollbars would be jarring (eg: bright scrollbars on a dark theme). That said the scroll bar it uses for the user list is microscopic compared to the one used for the message log, which is a baffling decision.

For every other regular site, and even most web apps, I always prefer native, for Windows.
I think the patent system is broken, not software patents.

Patent trolling is blatant abuse, and none of these loopholes ever get fixed because patenting is a one hundred year old legal concept that hasn't been touched in decades.

Why not create a better system? To patent your idea it should have to be non-obvious; therefore pinch-to-zoom wouldn't be patentable. To patent your idea it would have to take a significant amount of work to implement. Maybe certain 'types' of ideas cant be used to litigate for financial compensation.

Really theres so many ways the system could be better but i don't see the need to throw it out. People like having their ideas protected and valued. The concept is there, it's just been corrupted by corporate greed.
As weird as it sounds, Go is one of the easiest to understand compilers I've ever worked on. The language, and the implementation are relatively easy to understand and follow most of the standard compiler design and implementation texts. Similarly, since Go is so opinionated, the code is easy to read.
you should post them on a blog or make a subreddit or something. This comment section would seem to indicate people love looking at weird stuff on Google Maps.
Are you actually arguing that people wanting too much healthcare is a bad thing?
We all have periods of work stress and life stress. When life stress increases a manager can choose to find ways to decrease an employee’s work based stress.

As a manager I’d consider tools to use might include paid time off, temporary re-assignment to work that is more rewarding/less demanding.

Even simple things like showing concern by following up to find out how those life stresses are coming along and being an ear to listen can go a long way.
I know this question might not apply to the article, but in general, how does Crispr work on adults? Does it change the DNA of all the cells in the body?
What are you working on? I have no experience in graphics development, only a cursory familiarity with some concepts, but can I help? Typical Frontend has kind of become boring now that everything is abstracted and the harder stuff mostly resides in graphics or on the edge. Just haven't really found a way to make that change yet.
> borders are also created by geography and culture

If this was true we should have the right to enter any country we want as long as we align with its culture.

> distinct peoples with different values

Can you provide a list of values that make you suitable for your country?

One could wonder: would it be ethically acceptable to run value exams on citizens and non-citizens to decide who can enter / stay / gets expelled? Would the exam be reliable?
I didn't note timing numbers, but rendering digits in hex was basically instantaneous, even when doing a million (decimal) digits.

Rendering the digits in decimal was significant delay (like 40 seconds for a million digits). That's why it just shows the hex until the very end, and it shows how long the decimal conversion takes.
Heh, it actually bugged me while reading that it wasn’t written in ACE.