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So... Many people are hypocrites and/or inconsistent in their politics?

Not exactly insightful.

Go ahead and point out whatever bad policies you think lead to this outcome, and why you think they should be changed. But calling people hypocrites on a tangential topic (social services) doesn't add anything.
Also, a simple example of the action being a saddle point: a moving object constrained to the surface of a sphere, with no potential, which will move around a great circle.
A récent exhibition of the Paris musée d'Orsay is in a similar vein: Black models: from Géricault to Matisse

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/in-the-muse...

Can't comment more on it right now but did want to at least provide the connection.
A majority of people voted to leave the EU. They didn't (at the ballot box) express any opinion on how to leave the EU – deal or no-deal, hard Brexit or soft Brexit, etc. If having an initial referendum on whether to leave was the right thing to do, why would not a further referendum to decide how to leave be equally right? It could take the form of an up-down vote on Johnson's deal; or, it could take the form of preferential (1, 2, 3, etc – as in instant run-off) voting on options – e.g. leave with May's original deal, leave with Johnson's new deal, leave with no deal, withdraw article 50, ask for another extension to negotiate further.

Some will argue that the coming general election is an up-down vote on Johnson's deal. However, it isn't in that it is a first-past-the-post contest between different parties in each constituency – a majority of the vote might be received by parties opposed to Johnson's deal, yet the Tory candidate might still be returned due to the majority against them being split. A referendum on the deal itself wouldn't be faced with that issue.
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Y38 is really a non-issue. It only involves using more than 32 bits in the epoch-counter. (Strictly speaking, merely moving from 32 bits to 33 bits would take us to 2106 or thereabouts.)

The easiest way to fix this for millions of years would be to switch from using a 32-bit counter to using a 64-bit counter.

You can be sure than entities requiring to use dates later than 2038 today (banks, insurance companies, etc, etc.) are doing this already, others who don't need to do that yet probably won't bother doing that until they actually need to.

Very little programming work is required. In many cases, it requires little more than recompiling after updating a few definitions.
I'd turn the question around. What does functional programming do better? What would you miss about not having it?

I like OOP because it's like boxes where you can just plug one cable from one part into another. It's easy to write "contracts" in, as in assigning what object does what.

There are definitely flaws with this, in that it can get messy, but does FP solve it better? What exactly does FP do better?
Apart from the schools, the roads, the post office, the hospitals? No I can't think of many. Electricity and banking would have been on that list before they were privatized though.

As for Venezuela, they've also been subject to US sanctions when the privatize something, so cause and effect are hard to determine.
Every feature controls one "dimension" of a language, and can be freely combined with other features that control other "dimensions" without worrying about how they interact.

I am quoting the word "dimension", because applying a precisely defined mathematics concept to something messier (like programming) will require a certain amount of hand waving and squinting.
Fishbowl by Bradley Somer. Clever book imo.
That makes sense. I see based on p. 28 - 29 it looks like they spent about ~500m in this quarter on stock based compensation. So I guess the argument would be if they have more salary type employees and they blew off some of their new money losing divisions they would be closer to break even.

I think you can argue that in the long run Uber doesn't need to be more high tech than FedEx or WalMart. They are an app powered by logistics. You maybe don't need to offer Silicon Valley incentives to do that in the long run.
>All the CEO's care about is next quarter. Five or ten years isn't even on the radar at most companies anymore.

If their comp package is weighted towards the five year term, they absolutely care about five years from now.
If you read his commments regularly, he comes across as really corporate-minded and risk averse.

There was one post where he talked about how much money he was spending on one of his businesses and for a pretty simple web app it was astounding. Like the exact kind of stuff you see big businesses blowing money on but it’s just one guy.
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Got it. I though it was for a personal project. I understand a company might feel uncomfortable.

Anyway, I found: https://cryptlex.com yesterday while searching for other options. That looks interesting.
This is basically what I hear from the firefighters actually having to deal with this.

EDIT: not that PG&E is without responsibility, but it's just aspect in a complicated issue.
open up their networks to interact with other services using an open protocol such as Mastadon or Matrix

And here is where the two camps of Facebook-haters will go to war with each other:

* The decentralization mavens want open protocols and distributed control.

* The privacy mavens want to control information as it flows through the network, preventing friends from oversharing "your" data.

These two camps are mortal enemies, but they apparently haven't figured it out yet. You cannot share data with open protocols and still maintain control of that data.
15 minutes is a lot of water usage. Bathtubs seem ideal to meditate in.
Government entities have NO incentive to improve their quality of service from year to year. If they fix it, they get less tax money. If they don't fix it, they get more money. This over the years becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Look at all the failed communist states and you will see the same pattern. Remember Venezuela was one of the most educated, wealthiest latin countries at the end of the 90's.
The primary source is a video. And there are no claims it has been doctored or anything.
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> whether it's the "right time" to protest oil companies doing bad things.

What are the bad thing oil companies do? Extract the oil you and I pay them to extract?
You’re assuming there isn’t more noise too.
I think it's important to distinguish between "mental health issues" and a "healthy mental space". These are things you can do it maintain a healthy mental space, but people with mental health issues probably _can't_ start meditating daily for 15 min, or journaling, or exercising, or any number of other things that are helpful.

Which really just means "do these things if you're struggling" is skipping the hardest step, and not very useful.
You can have attributed strings! After a fashion:

Text("Hello,").italic() + Text("World!").fontWeight(.bold)

Works with multiple lines, multiple font sizes etc.

Another undocumented gem that I discovered via the SwiftUI community. You should be able to build a constructor that reads a string with formatting codes like Markdown and spits multiple Text views.
I keep seeing this said, that the fires were caused due to poor line maintenance. Are the fires caused by lines failing or is the maintenence that they are failing on just clearing brush from around the lines?
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t majority of agricultural funding going to France, Germany etc, the wealthy members?
CPUC controls PG&E's budget and determines how much they can pay as dividends. Usually around a 5-6% return on capital.
This has to be bytes, you wouldn't be able to open a website in entire minutes if it were bits.
Utah... is that the place with the large rocks in the desert? Lots of mormons? It shows up from time to time. Oregon I have no idea. Only thing that comes to mind is the Oregon Trail?
> Users have the right to break or circumvent geoblocks, DRM, and other technological mechanisms that would prevent them from discovering, viewing, and archiving information that they have lawful access to.

I would personally reword the end of the sentence to be "...discovering, viewing, and archiving any discoverable information." I do think the abolishment of copyright and other IP is an important and necessary step of our progress in the information age (though not one that I expect to happen in my lifetime). I agree that as authors we should have no obligation to distribute our content, but when we do, our choice is effectively "how many global internets would you like to release your information to? Options: 0 or 1." Personal ownership of property is important, and should be inviolable. Copies of information are not property, nor is information a finite resource that can be boxed up into an ownable piece of property. As a creator, I still have full control and "ownership" of all of my time and resources, as well as copies of information that I produce for myself. I do not maintain any ownership over identical copies of information I have produce that others manufacture for themselves, or redistribute, or acquire from a source other than me.

All of the guiding principles in this manifesto rightly approach the recognition of this core idea that all individuals must be free to interact with information how they will, and that individual interactions with information take precedence over government and corporate interests. Duplication of information is likely the most common interaction we have with information. It should have no special exception that allows a government to set up and maintain regimes that enforce the monopoly ownership and artificial scarcity of copies of information.

All of this being said, I appreciate the thoughtful compilation of all of these guiding principles into a manifesto, and believe that overall, it describes the proper way we should recognise individual rights in the digital age. Thank you!
SwiftUI should have carried the “Beta” label in my opinion.

Rumors are this was pushed out this year in order to respond to Catalyst’s public unveiling. Word is there was a little internal politics over what is the “preferred” method for apps on the Mac.

At least, that’s what I have seen on Twitter. Personally, I think it was mainly about wanting to get the Swift features in place to support it and since Swift is largely evolved and developed in the public it needed to come sooner, rather than later.
I dont want to own PGE though
Doing better. I gave up on my job a month ago. Not sure what I’m going to do now.
well, to be fair the premise that public ownership is somehow going to fix this turkey is a bit flippant in and of itself. required reading: Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) scandal during 70s-80s for both pros and cons of non-private utility ownership

really this is a regulatory failure. see e.g. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-cat-and-mouse-game-pg-es-long... . Harris largely did nothing FWIW; to be fair it's not clear that any other regulator would do anything differently.
>So you have countries like Germany that are effectively subsidized by poorer countries.

Could you explain this comment further, or have links to stories that go in depth on how that works? Not saying you are wrong, but I don't understand how germany, which is an economic powerhouse and exports a lot of goods, are being subsidized by poorer countries.
And a month ago it was about the same as in Jan 2018.
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>In most other languages, a string is extremely straightforward because it was designed into the language from the start.

I think one of the classic advantages of C++ over C is that you have the option of std::string instead of char arrays.

I don't program in C++ so I don't really know but I do a lot of pure C and the strings truly are a mess (despite being VERY straightforward)
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Yes, well, regulators have a say at least.
...consisting of ~1/4 of the population. Parliament represents the interests of all 65 million of us.
Part of it was just resources. XP ran a lot faster and better without the theming. Another part of it was due to buggy graphic drivers. But once you started getting XP on much faster computers you tend to leave it on or turn it off out of habit.
> That's even better, there are lots of ivory white houses out there to sue.

Only if those houses are in the same industry as your trademark. You can paint your house UPS-brown and they won't be able to sue unless you were using it as a place of business.

Case in point: Lake McDonald Lodge (https://www.yelp.com/biz/lake-mcdonald-lodge-west-glacier) can exist because its in a totally different business than McDonald's fast food.

Yeah, "McDonald" is trademarked, but trademark is very restrictive over what you can sue over.

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So your hypothetical "Ivory" trademark will only apply in the industry that you've registered the trademark under. You can't just sue private houses for using your color.

EDIT: Furthermore, to obtain a "Colormark" trademark, you need to prove that the color has secondary meaning to your particular business. Ex: Fedex-brown is a trademark because Fedex is using that particular brown to color their trucks and employee uniforms, and applies it consistently across their enterprise.

It would be unfair if I were to start my own rival shipping company using a similar color uniform as Fedex. I'd have to use blue-uniforms or green-uniforms instead.

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EDIT: As an example: General Mills was unable to trademark "Yellow" as a trademark on Cheerios cereal, because yellow was used on too many cereal boxes already and clearly wasn't a color that people associated with General Mills.
End the government mandated monopoly PG&E has. Let multiple companies bid for service on a per-city basis, with annual renewal.
Interesting. In both this and the parent the generation seems to center around one or two words ("bed" for the parent, "breasts" for yours) and then generate text connecting those words that is grammatically correct but is incoherent gibberish otherwise.
€0.02 SwiftUI is ‘declarative’ done pretty horribly wrong. Specifically: the DSL is a mess, very not easily compatible with vanilla Swift; the gestures are really hard to get working just right; the animation api is way too automagical. All in all it makes doing things like trying to use helper functions become sado-masochism. It really makes me miss my days with React+Redux, even with all the boilerplate.
Postgres has excellent documentation.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/
Who likes China or art and wants to learn marketing?
PG&E is a monopoly. In the vast majority of cases you can't shop around for electricity or gas service, the only alternative is to go without electricity and/or gas service. In the event that a competitor tries to enter the market it will take a colossal capital outlay just to connect the first customer with no guarantee of profit. Nobody is going to do it. Lastly the rates are set by the state not PG&E so their income is quite predictable. Working harder at PG&E doesn't mean you're going to affect their bottom line, this isn't a factory making widgets or software company making code.
With exception of Internet Explorer, for which backwards compatibility ended up being the bane of every UI developer's existence. It seems fixed for the most part now with Edge.
> I am sorry for derailing, but how does that happen, did they come out like a faulty batch from a factory?

They grew up lazy in soft times. It's a never-ending cycle, parents work hard to make kids lives easier than theirs, kids don't get challenged as parents did, grow up soft and lazy and blame the world. They fail, raise kids poor, who get challenged again and grow up hard and make something of themselves, and then raise lazy kids trying to improve their kids life, repeat ad infinitum.
It's a pretty amazing oversight on their part. If it goes badly, they will lose a great deal of money.
Jet travel is safe. Air taxi (civil air and helicopter) is not safe. VTOL flying cars are the latter.

Jet travel is sort of energy efficient because it's a flying bus with 100+ passengers. VTOL flying cars are not.
Its not just the obvious examples like cocaine and methamphetamines. Im mean MDMA and other synthetic drugs are usually manufactured abroad and smuggled into the UK/US by criminal organizations whose income also finances violence and corruption.

Theres no stopping the demand for party/recreational drugs, we may as well legalize them already. But if you buy these illicitly you should know that you’ve likely financially contributed to despicable acts abroad. I find the idea of ‘safe’ illicitly purchased drugs deeply ironic.
Who could have seen this coming?

You can only laugh.
I don't see the distinction. If they have Activision, Apple, Tesla and Disney as customers why wouldn't banks, financial markets and investors trust them? I would argue they already do, I highly doubt China has trouble floating debt or attracting foreign investment right now.
> I have to go in and fix my Grub config or else my Windows dual boot just infinite loops

My limited experience with Windows dual boot, shitty Windows issues or Bios caused problems.

Do you have a good reason to blame Linux here?
You basically fill out a form and check a couple of boxes. It's about a simple as opening a Facebook account. This is not much of a deterrent.
Problem was it divided people into the ones who could afford the hike in interest and the ones who couldn’t. Either you could keep up and were rewarded by a house going up in value massively, or you went bankrupt.
I think it has a body type [0] (Never). And since a default implementation is provided [1] the compiler probably does not complain. This default body implementation does likely not draw anything, but that's just guessing.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/emptyview/...
[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/32785...
MacOS is a desktop operating system, the other devices you mentioned don't run desktop operating systems. You have to do an Apples to Apples comparison, because otherwise linux wipes the floor with every OS if all we are talking about is market share on metal.
One question I have - which model is the best for stewardship of a resource?
I've always struggled with using the term nationalization for state level control, but it is technically correct for any governmental control.
Every single meditation expert I know has given a warning with it. For some people, even 5 minutes is harsh. I've been in groups where people just break down and cry at that point.

One meditation coach once told me a story of one of his clients who did a 20 minute guided session, and he went out of it with vomiting, diarrhea, and was really angry at the guy. But a few days later, he felt something clear up and asked for more sessions. He says it's normal, and with corporate counseling, he normally restricts them to 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15, 20, 30 for a week each.
There was a court case that made PG&E liable even when they were not negligent.
And the wage inflation eroded the debt in a very short time. Far better than paying 50% of your wages now and for decades.
Seriously? A huge cultural meme when it comes to Trump being elected was this idea that rural America was disaffected and disheartened because it had been 'left behind' economically.

Another example, every once in a while you'll see an article or a politician talking about what a tragedy it is that broadband is more expensive/worse in rural America, and how we need to, say, support some government program to fix that through subsidies. Usually said articles will include some quotes from people who are in relevant areas. I'll see comments on articles -- including places like HN -- talking about how satellite internet operators are "price gouging" people for mediocre speeds.

But I admit that I'm far from an expert on this topic, it would be interesting to read studies or polls on how people in rural areas feel about this.
I lurked Dread (reddit for Tor) pretty often during the Dream vs Wallstreet market battle. Wallstreet was well regarded as a solid market, whilst Dream was continuously called a LEO honeypot. I'm pretty convinced that all this talk was FUD spread by the German cyber-police after reading this article.
Welll... it learned what gene names look like. You can't quite expect it know which are the real ones. It would have to understand what genes are.
The CPUC is able to set PG&E's target profit margin.
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VC is not the only way of funding your company though. If your goal is to produce a long term viable business that genuinely creates value, VC is probably not the way to go.
Yea, but just because exploitation is commonplace doesnt make it right. Thats a terrible justification
maybe that's how it should be. Then kids wont get approved for 250k loans due to the risk and colleges will have to either ask for more money upfront (good luck), expect less students (not good for funding), or lower tuition.
We cant have it both ways.

On the one hand, Twitter, Facebook, et al. are "basically" town/public squares - they are also private companies. So we either regulate and minimize private companies ability to silence speech as they see fit, which is their right - or we allow them to exercise their own rights, thus bending to the masses and appealing to the lowest common denominator through censorship.
This is correct. Move to TypeScript for the types. If all you want is the latest syntactic developments from ES, babel is a better fit. It tends to be further ahead than TS for the bleeding edge features.
Except nobody in epstein story is israeli. So then why make the link ?
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