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> I've never understood software engineers and organisations who contribute their code to the open source and free software worlds and then think they're owed compensation for it.

It's obvious isn't it? The logic goes "I need to eat" + "I develop open source software" => "I need to be paid for developing open source software".

The only problem with it is the world then live in doesn't support their implied version of the "=>" operator. People fall into this trap all the time. "Men like porn" + "Men like sex" => "Porn turns men into sex addicts". "Criminals commit crime" + "Jailing criminals stops them committing crime" => "We will be better off it we spend a lot of money on keeping criminals in jail".

Taking the time to understand the underlying mechanism that drives open source takes effort. Yes, it started when people scratched itches when they had nothing better to and gave away the result for free. If you have a certain mind set giving it away for free is the natural thing to do. A true idealist might try dedicating their life to it, but find it is very difficult as they have to eat. Most of us acknowledge that reality and move on.

After moving on some of us found to our delight that it made business sense in the places we worked in to give away some our work for free. This wasn't because we convinced business to share our ideals at their expense. It happened because we brought open source into the business. The business then discovered it was pure (if perhaps enlightened) pragmatism to let us give away some of our work, because the business got far more back from the ecosystem than they contributed; mostly because contributing the work they were going to pay us to do anyway costs almost nothing and as a lot of other businesses are doing the same thing, it amplified that feed back effect. Combine that with copyleft licences like the GPL providing a way to keep parasites under control so we could avoid the tragedy of the commons, and business found they too can be part of a wonderful virtuous cycle.

This is the mechanism that drives most of open source development today. Since open source has eaten the world I'd say it's been very successful. But nonetheless not all of us get to participate. If you didn't find such a place to work then most of your open source efforts mostly died because worshipping ideals doesn't put food on the plate.

Such is life. Accept it and move on.

But if you are both stubborn and idealistic it can take a while to realise you don't have a lot of choice in this. Asking people to pay for your open source software is a stop along the path to discovering your simplistic "=>" operator doesn't and will never exist in the real world, no matter how much you want it to.
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> did you type the first "‽" and then copy/paste the rest?

Typing that is easy with a composing keyboard. AltGr+!,? outputs ‽ (Or AltGr+?,! is ⸘)

Apologies for the off-topic tangent.
Go to the front page of the Washington Post right now and count the stories sourced from Reuters or AP.
Agreed. Although he did have to count on the British having a sense of morality. I'm not sure that exists at the top-level in the PRC.
The difference is the chance involved. Chess involves no chance. Scrabble involves the chance of the tiles you get, there's still a lot of skill involved. E-sports is more like scrabble than chess.
I'm having a hard time grokking how Amazon is somehow culpable for the fraud of "another seller" claiming that their wares are "product A" (by self-describing it by the same SKU).

If this happened on eBay (user buys/wins auction of "product A" as sold by "another seller", but described the product sold by "a legit seller"), who is culpable? I'm sure the reputation of the "another seller" should take a hit -- the only question is should the marketplace's reputation?

Perhaps if the "fulfilled my Amazon" is used, that might make more sense, but I think they just add the "distributor" role to their transaction role.
It's not 'his' fast inverse. He didn't put it in the game, independently or otherwise. He didn't do it at all.
> In a third paper, Nicholas Muller, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, outlined how the Fed might factor environmental circumstances into monetary policy by, for example, keeping rates lower when pollution levels were increasing, to encourage consumption before they got worse, and higher when pollution was declining, to depress spending until the environment improved.

Doesn't this seem backwards...?
> But Twitter is still worth fighting for — it remains the only free platform for many Saudis.

Found the problem. Twitter is not worth fighting for -- it was never a free platform, it's a corporate platform. Twitter's internal security breach, paid for by this state actor, is a perfect example of why we need federated or decentralized services.
I'll pitch in my 2 cents. Most interest bearing debt has a higher interest rate than most investments. So it makes sense to pay down the debt before investing. Paying down debt has a more certain return (to excuse the term) than most other high yield investments. Outrunning debt it easier than chasing high returns. Better yet, not go into debt in the first place.
Your bias is showing with your "brand fanboys/amateur investors" slurs.

Their P/E is an irrelevant measure for AMD's market value, as it was for AMZN when they were aiming for 0 profit and re-invest everything towards growth. They're obviously interested in maximizing R&D and selling their chips at very competitive pricing over profit which currently offers much better value over Intel's chips.

AMD only made 120M in profit last quarter on 1.8B revenue up 9% YoY, Intel made 6B profit down 6% YoY.
How much more likely is AMD to double their profits to 240M then Intel is to 12B? If the market perception of AMD's chip superiority and OEM vendors start preferring AMD over Intel it could happen within the very near future, not decades out.

Amazon only recently started to turn on profits after achieving dominance in a number of markets, I don't expect AMD to focus on profits until they're able to get much higher market penetration so I expect their focus is going to continue to be on R&D and low margins. So their P/E will remain high along with their potential for future growth.
The people who could make it happen didn't have the resources. Your rebuttal is a poor one; of course there are enough resources, but that doesn't mean they are allocated ideally.
I went through 1password.ca, 1password.eu seems to direct to pricing page with € pricing.
> Ads are art to the same degree that cannibalism is gastronomy.

Good one.

So maybe a couple years ago, being a klutz, I brushed a finger against a red-hot stovetop grill. There was a hiss, with ~no pain at first. And creepily, a delicious smell.

Took months to heal. And hurt like fuck.

But that smell. Damn.
If it helps you, you can consider that no version below 3.5 is worth thinking of. It's the edge when python added back enough features to ease the migration and many libraries started being ported.

Current version is 3.7. If you expect your migration work to take a year, you should consider going for 3.7 and above only, because the previous minor versions will be dropped by the time you're done.
If you prefer to get into credentialism, I must admit you don't sound like a very trustworthy lawyer, and I find your manner of argumentation surprisingly weak. Furthermore, the photographic camera was invented in the nineteenth century.

Please state your LSAT score before I engage you further.
Regulation is what made taxis so terrible. We don't need the government to control everything. Many of the externalities you describe would be the same if people just drove their own cars.

If ridesharing is so bad then govt should invest in proper public transport to create more choice, not try and crush a valuable service used by millions.
> One could imagine going back to the old Whatsapp model of charging users $1 per year

Or more likely, the AT&T/Verizon model of charging $0.10 / message which was the norm before internet-based communication became common.
Taler's demo doesn't even work
I'd say Okta is pretty much the standard corporate "password manager" (SSO) solution. I'm a consultant and probably half of my (very large) clients use Okta.
There's going to be far more economic repercussions if ads are yanked out of the market. Believe it or not but they do drive a huge amount of small business growth.
ditto, but on windows and Android
This is a very welcome addition to our existing system's core toolchain :)

I just wish that all Rust implementations would include a "Git" or "Docker containers" section as a stepping stone in the right direction for other projects.
It is almost double the amount cited above, estimated to be $241,000,000,000.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-241b-pension-debt-st...
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> I believe this model is almost always the right starting point for a web application, barring some unusual job requirements or massive initial scale.

Would you run this job queue on the same postgres database as the rest of the application or rather use a different one specific for workers?
In the US, contractors have a higher effective tax rate than employees, and are responsible for FICA withholdings that are usually part of an employer's payroll tax.
> The only answer would be that money is increasing in value for some reason, and the government must print more to keep prices stable (otherwise they would fall). Even then, it would be a technicality.

I don't think that's a technicality at all, but rather the norm in an expanding economy. In such a case the supply of money must increase in order to maintain stable prices. More stuff to purchase requires more money to purchase it.

Inflation occurs when the supply of money increases faster than the amount of goods and services available for purchase, or if the money supply remains the same, but the goods and services available somehow decrease (for instance, after a lost war or natural disaster).

Deflation occurs when the supply of goods and services increases faster than the amount of money, or when the supply of money decreases with the goods and services remaining the same.

We've seen a lot of bad inflation in recent history, but it's not often appreciated that deflation can be equally ruinous. The Great Depression is an example of what you get if deflation gets out of hand. The prices for everything from stocks and bonds to apples and wheat plummeted, but it sure didn't lead to a consumer's paradise.
It's too cheap when new, provides little value as a recycled product and is far easier than glass or metals to corrupt by getting contaminants in the batch. Contaminants could be as simple as a bottle of the wrong type of plastic or remnants of lid or labels.

Better to discourage plastic use through an escalating tax, use home compostable alternative plastics and burn what is unavoidably produced in the local combined heat and power (that most places don't have). Of course it's still a hydrocarbon so ideally you want carbon capture and storage with that.
How are they getting screwed? Drivers do it by choice, and many of them do have a full-time job or other commitment and like Uber for the flexibility. They specifically don't want a full-time driving job.
Oh boy there comes a yet another batch of react like “frameworks” no one needs.
> Most of our beautiful classical art was advertisements for the Church

I guess that's why I hate so much of it.

Also the bloody hymns that are popular this season. Especially the castrati voices.
I like the idea of a single cloud.

The problem I would see is the fact that the service needs to be built as a whole.

In the past when I used multiple cloud services it was very easy to build a single cloud solution and the cost of each version would increase.

In the past I used a single cloud provider to build and deploy the entire AWS ec2-core infrastructure.

It is not too bad for the AWS-core business but I would much rather have a single cloud service built in than rely on one provider.
> ~20% of the tech that engineers are working on

Citation needed. 20% of tech by what metric?

I'd say the majority of work at FB, by far, is plumbing, like at most tech companies.
Why does an ad company need my medical data?
Maybe now. When python3 came out, anything that touched the filesystem was a hideous mess to port. Let's say you have a simple script that takes a file name as an argument, reads the file, prints some message to stdout (which includes the name of the file), and creates a new output file whose name is based on the name of the first file.

In python2, that's trivial. Whatever system you're on would normally be configured so that filename bytes dumped to the terminal would be displayed correctly, so you could just treat the strings as bytes and it would be fine.

In python3, it was a nightmare. No, you could not just decode from/encode to UTF-8, even if that was what your system used! Python had its own idea of what the encoding of the terminal was, and if you used the wrong one, it wouldn't let you print. And if you tried to convert from UTF-8 to whatever it thought the terminal was using, it would also break, because not all characters were representable. And your script could just not tell Python to treat the terminal as UTF-8, either; you had to start digging into locale settings, and if you tried to fix those, then _everything else_ would break, and nobody had any idea what the right thing to do was, because you were using an obscure OS (the latest macOS at the time).

I assume that it works better now.
"... in a mysterious and highly fluid vacuum, the force is not very small; it only moves at the speed and frequency of the plasma from two to three orders of magnitude faster than the plasma of other electrons to three orders of magnitudes..."

This makes me wonder what would happen to this device? Is it a device like the SG?
Amateur porn? User-uploaded X-rated videos? When things go wrong they go wrong fast. Professional studios know how to abide by all the various regulations, many of which change from one state (or even city) to another. Amateurs with webcams in their bedrooms do not. Just look at the "Girls do porn" fiasco to see why someone might not want to do business with an amateur-focused studio.
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> Wouldn't that still require some kind of cooperation from banks or credit card companies?

Yes. The net practical effect of anti-money-laundering laws is that you cannot transfer money at scale without the government's permission.
Seems fine to me. They sold some equity, nothing wrong with that.
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As someone who works in the domain name industry, I'd like to note that there is ever increasing pressure to police domain name use. When you buy and use a generic TLD such as "com" or "ninja", you are buying a US product and it is subject to sanction laws and other things you may not realize. CC TLDs (two characters long like "ch") are products of that country and have their own laws UNLESS the registry company is located in the US - in which case it is also subject to sanctions.

I point this out because unless you get everyone using your IPv6 address directly, your name is certainly NOT decentralized.
I want a phone that's small, light, is very powerful and has a battery that lasts a month.

Look what you are asking for is not economically possible. The connectors you are comparing with are much larger and don't even have close to the number of lanes as USB cables. It's a useless comparison.
One really obvious thing for Apple to do, which has always been a really obvious thing for Apple to do, would be to distribute a version of iMessage on Android.
RCS does not have end-to-end encryption. It has network level encryption, but so does SMS, and that means anybody on the operator side can decrypt it.

https://www.thercsblog.com/2018/10/16/rcs-encryption-the-low...
I had a side job as a tech reviewer ~15 years ago and I can tell you why this is never going to happen. It's a classic case of "works in theory, but impossible in practice." What you're actually asking for is a database of every permutation of hardware, hardware revision, firmware/BIOS, benchmarking software, benchmarking software version, driver version, OS, OS patch, user selectable feature state, etc. is tracked and tested. It's a nearly infinite data set size, and you'll still miss things like ambient room temperature/humidity for CPU thottling, that one finicky USB device you spilled water on that sometimes disconnects randomly, and specific workflow quirks.

"Objective" benchmarks were an almost tractable problem 15-20 years ago, but with the way modern OSes run background tasks, access network resources, and perform self-maintenance, it's even more difficult to bridge the synthetic-to-real world divide.

So, you select a point of reference (e.g. - new GPU), you choose the most common system components and a selection of components that tell a story (usually "if you're building a new PC now, here are the options"), you assemble the current versions of all software/drivers, and run your tests x times. The good sites will have "sub-stories," like specific workflows or new/changed features, but once you get to around 4 of these, you start hitting too many permutations to clearly communicate the significance of your choices.

Even if you crowdsourced it, it's A) extremely difficult to verify the integrity of results and prevent manipulation from marketing departments or brigading, and B) an unrewarding, tedious process where the best practice is to leave the machine untouched for hours. Most of the crowdsourced benchmarking sites are set up to be little competitions and sanity checks when overclocking. For a pure review of shipping hardware/software, you run the benchmark and you're done. It isn't particularly fun, requires invasive cataloguing of system specs, and isn't very new-user/first time builder friendly.

Dynamic graphs would be nice (I love them), but I suspect many review sites have run the numbers and found they reduce overall web metrics. Many (I would argue most) people don't notice interactive page components, aren't interested enough to turn their quick article skim into a deep dive, or are reading in less optimal settings (e.g. - on phone on the toilet). Instead of getting 7 page views for 1 minute each with separate graphs, you're getting 1 page view for either 1 minute (probably 70%) or 10 minutes (probably 30%) with a dynamic graph.

I'm a total data junkie and I WISH there was a good solution to these problems, but there isn't a practical implementation that I've seen or dreamt up that doesn't have enough variance to render the point of having such fine-grained data moot.
I hate to be that guy, but I'm curious what they do with the $5k/year it was a few years ago. I don't recall hearing that much about the money, as it was given to them by the government.
You are assuming that the Uber drivers are actually paying their unemployment insurance and disability insurance taxes. Chances are they are not doing so, because independent contractors typically don’t pay into those system and are not eligible to receive benefits.
> to stop doing things that are causing significant harm to society.

When people say this, what they really mean is they prefer a society where people are less empowered to speak their minds, looking into the past with rose tinted glasses.

Meanwhile, society today is more educated, richer, healthier and more cognizant of its problems than ever. Try telling a 50s housewife to stop driving around her gas guzzler while smoking.

> I prefer we instead pass legislation and solve the problem quickly

and in the process demolish liberties - that's something only dictatorships do.

> and mass torch construction planning is underway

That sounds a horrible thing to wish for. Such talk is purely vengeful. Even if i don't care if facebook is shut down tomorrow (don't use it), it's pretty clear people will start using the alternative the day after tomorrow, and that may be VK or the chinese alternative. The social media cat is out of the bag and it's wrong, indeed violent to take away people's empowered rights to speech

Taking away people's rights to force-install someone's idea of utopia in a society is called authoritarianism
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Javascript is the king of compromises. It's supported by every browser on the planet so of course support is massive. It's not as if a front end web developer can choose to work on the web and not use Javascript in some form or another.

Python is popular largely based on the fact that it's so approachable. It is the BASIC/ VB of modern times for whatever that is worth. It does scale up to larger projects and is frequently used for big scale stuff, but I suspect the fact that it's so ubiquitous has more to do with the fact that it's also easy to pick up and for companies to find people with Python dev skills (or train them up).
I can't wait for someone to do web based enterprise password management right, because almost no one has yet. I'm still over here clinging to my keepassxc like a life-raft after the Titanic.
> victims

I like you.
AVX-512 severely downclocks all cores of a processor.

If I'm using some of my cores to run AVX-512 code in the background, it's going to drastically slow down everything else I'm doing.

This can be a significant issue even if you are only running the one task. If you have intermittent AVX-512 code, any time any one of the cores starts running that code, everything else also slows down too which can result in a net loss in performance. Even if you only ran a single core and it used AVX-512, this could still be the case because it takes precious time before and after to lower and raise the clocks that much and everything else runs slower that whole time in addition to running slowly while the AVX stuff executes.
The use cases for anonymity will drive the tech.

I'd argue there isn't a middle class use case for strong anonymity. There are tons of use cases for identity and privacy, but anonymity presumes you are being preyed upon somehow. You need antagonists, and most of those are government/institution related, but by defining yourself in opposition to them, you in-effect leave the middle class. E.g. cease to identify as someone those institutions ostensibly serve, and identify instead as one of those they target.

To value strong anonymity, you need to be part of either an underclass group, or have enough wealth that it needs protection internationally, with a big gap for use cases in between.

There are tons of criminal use cases for anonymity that facilitate the needs and desperation of people afflicted by poverty, but those are illegal precisely because the line between relieving and exploiting poverty is so grey. Lotteries are a great example, as are cash jobs, narco logistics, vice and sex trade, short term loans, gambling, escrow payments for irregular immigration. These are all things people do for either survival or relief where to facilitate them is exploitative. Arguable, but that's the mainstream view.

On the upper end, moving collateral around to protect the "beneficial owner," of an asset like art or property just reduces to variations on tax and regulatory avoidance, or sometimes evasion. It's almost uniquely both high risk and boring.

I don't see this fund producing anything interesting.
If that's your experience then I can absolutely understand your frustration, but as someone who has been using Linux on the desk top full time for about a decade this simply is not the case for me at all.

I almost never have to compile anything on my desktops or laptops that isn't related to work on a server.