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The ISPs charge lots of money for the CDNs and private networks that want to connect to their customer networks at the edge. This is the net neutrality argument; it's almost impossible to get good performance at scale without paying extra for it.

I actually think the problem this is meant to solve is an example of why, from a purely pragmatic sense, net neutrality is effectively impossible to deliver at scale. Someone has to eat the costs somewhere, and the publishers are the ones who benefit the most financially.
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> Sounds like real estate investment in high density and highly educated cities would be optimal here given your assessment

There are stock market ETFs which do precisely this.
Based on your replies I am going to assume you are actually trying to misinform people.
Its about the appearance of serfdom in the early modern era, just as western Europe was freed from it, which in turn is partly driven by population-density.

This is far from a new idea BTW, and largely drove the abolition of these institutions in the 19th century (it largely came from the top, not as a result of great rebellions).

Here is a nice and short explanation from Paul Krugman:

"my old teacher Evsey Domar wrote a classic paper arguing that serfdom and slavery often were the response of ruling classes to labor shortage. Thus Russia imposed strict restrictions on the mobility of peasants from the late 16th century onward, precisely because the availability of rich new farmland on the expanding frontier would otherwise have increased their bargaining power against landlords. (The frontier expansion itself was probably the result of the growing effectiveness of firearms, which turned the military balance against the steppe nomads; so gunpowder, which contributed to the rise of the bourgeoisie in the West, created serfdom in the East). And, of course, slavery - which, along with serfdom, had died out in the West during the labor-abundant high Middle Ages - was reintroduced in the land-abundant conditions of the New World."
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/Serfdom.htm

Darren Asemoglu's and Robinson's "Why nations fail" in turn go on in length about effects of repressive economic and political institutions to economic growth.

Forms of serfdom and slavery were (re)introduced around the same time in the Muscovite state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Hungary, Wallachia, Moldavia, the Ottoman Empire and even the Cossack Hetmanate which had roots in anti-serfdom rebellion had a form of serfdom.
Also shocked to see Worcester, MA mentioned here!

Many of these triple-deckers are pretty great in the sense that they can house a lot of people - they are not so great in many other aspects.

The youngest triple decker in Worcester is ~100 years old and many of them catch on fire and burn really easily. Your mileage may vary depending on the landlord you get. One landlord I had owned 100+ properties in Worcester and barely had anyone working for him. He refused to hire more people, so many of the issues we brought up would not be addressed for a while. My current landlord is great and any issue we have gets addressed almost immediately.

That being said, the city is currently working on revitalizing triple-deckers: http://www.worcesterma.gov/announcements/city-announces-worc....

Triple-deckers have a certain quirky charm to them. My current apartment has closets that are the right depth, but for some reason are super-wide. Many other triple-deckers have split the living room in half so that there can be a bedroom - this means that the door to the bedroom are sliding doors that you close.
They are still quite common in older tin can airplanes i.e. Cessna 150s and the like, but often with "INOP" written on the instrument with a sharpie.
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Look up residential zoning codes nearly anywhere. They are not specifically banned. Most things are banned because of setbacks, FAR, parking requirements, or certain areas zoned only for a certain type of housing (detached single family for example).
Atlanta, for example:
https://www.dorseyalston.com/knowledge/atlanta-residential-z...
That still accrue interest at crazy high rates.
Edit: you edited the irony out of your post, never mind!
Sure. And I assume that, at least so long as the claim/quote wasn't too outrageous, you'd probably get away with it.
The government already gets first dibs through corporate income taxes. Buybacks aren't deductible from that.
The US has a similar repayment program called Pay As You Earn (PAYE). It ties your payment amount to 10% of your income that is above 150% of the federal poverty level. This only applies to federal loans (not private loans) and requires opt-in, which probably causes a lot of people to not do it.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
There's a distinction that Kong is not payable on demand, until after expiry, but I'm not sure it's a useful distinction. Unlike a conventional bond, there isn't a question of default by the issuer; the Etherium is locked up in a smart contract, rather than relying on the issuer honouring the bond at maturation.

Rarely do users of cash care about the property of it being payable on demand by the issuer (conventionally a central bank), only the property that it be practical for physical commerce.
SF (or SOF for Americans) would better be light infantry:

>Light infantry is a designation applied to certain types of foot soldiers (infantry) throughout history, typically having lighter equipment or armament or a more mobile or fluid function than other types of infantry, such as heavy infantry or line infantry. Historically, light infantry often fought as scouts, raiders and skirmishers—soldiers who fight in a loose formation ahead of the main army to harass, delay, disrupt supply lines, and generally "soften up" an enemy before the main battle. After World War II, the term "light infantry" evolved, and now generally refers to rapid-deployment units (including commandos and airborne units) that specifically emphasize speed and mobility over armor and firepower. Some units or battalions that historically held a skirmishing role have kept their designation "light infantry" for the sake of tradition.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_infantry
Does it work any different from the Rust plugin for IDEA?
No, it makes the upfront cost of a house more expensive, it is a fine example.
Yet more suckless-style posing. Ho fucking hum.

Software is complex because the real world is messy. That messiness cannot ever be "abstracted away", it can only be hidden.

You can't derive a better software stack from first principles. What we have is the tireless work of many people, quite a few of whom are smarter than you. Rust and LLVM, for instance, are much more fit for purpose than "my pet compiler backend + my favorite C subset" because even the most disciplined C subset is still full of UB traps and Rust has had years going on a decade of work, by many hands, addressing the very cases where C falls flat on its ass. The same with LLVM vs. whatever brain fart J. Random Hacker thinks up as an ideal abstract machine,
> why would I live in the condo?

Because life without friends is hard on the mental health.

If you can make friends in a rural area, they're likely going to be the best friends anybody could ever ask for. But when there are approximately 5 people your age and gender within a 25 mile radius of your farm it's pretty hard to find someone with any sort of shared interest.
This is why i love my current employer and i won't leave unless i'm forced to.

We have a policy of "Chargeable work always comes first but if you've got nothing to do go learn something, we'll call you when something comes in"

This has lead to times before where we go dead around the same time every year and you spend 2 months being paid to independently upskill. Come the busy November-February period its really obvious who spent their time wisely and who goofed off.
Do you happen to be using a lot of trait bounds? I had a small library that was slow due to this, and was able to refactor from ~3 minute builds to ~6 seconds by grouping the trait bounds into marker traits.

There is a compiler flag you can use to list where time is being spent and it showed all my time was spent dealing with those trait bounds.

There is an open issue to make that not necessary.

If your time is spent linking, you can swap the lld linker in
https://www.qt.io/licensing/
Commercial, GPL or LGPLv3 are available, which means they are going after embedded customers who typically don't want to open up their hardware (TVs, Cars, etc). Anybody else is free to reap the benefits, even for developing a commercial app on desktop (granted, that's a tough enough market to crack already these days).
Improving public internet infrastructure is an excellent idea, but if you're expecting game devs to rely on that solution, you're asking them to please defer being successful at their goal until we've finished boiling the ocean.

We should anticipate some will say no thank you and strike out forging their own waterways.
This is consistent with what I was taught, but I interpreted the goalposts here a little differently. Of course kings of Spain wanted economic development but probably not for the sake of it, but to build up their own power. Most political regimes want development in this sense and in the East, PLC, Muscovy and the Ottomans all had some kind of pro-economic policies (even if in the PLC it was mostly maintaining low taxation and duties on everything). If they were successful it's another matter, I understand it as a question of motivation. [for the OP's argument anyway]

In this sense there were not many countries ran mostly, primarily to build wealth on a large scale, and not only for the purposes of the social circle controlling the government -- with some wider ideology (which I believe was more the case for Spain than for France) or not. In fact this is, to mind, in that period, equivalent to the dominance of a merchant class.
Pedestrian and cyclist deaths in the US are at a thirty year high: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-traffic-fatalities/pe...

But at the end of the day it's a cultural thing— this is the same America that rejects any form of common sense gun control because liberty is more important than kids not shooting themselves in their own homes.
You've quoted me out of context. I was referring to handwriting. Besides, I would bet dropping the accent is more common than including it.
Anyone can buy a router and start an intranet.

Building a shipment company which can reach everyone in a country is a substantial capital investment, which I suspect is higher than that for a nationwide private network, though which is higher is irrelevant to the argument.

The roads, which the trucks require, are subsidized by the government.

In other words, I don't see the differences you're claiming.

Net neutrality, as an argument, applies to Internet; I've never seen a claim that it should apply to private networks, even those which use IP/TCP/UDP.
No. They've completely gamed the system, so technically most people aren't 'defaulting' they're just paying almost nothing, forever [1].

1: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans/in...
They should use RSS; Youtube, Medium and most blogs already generate RSS feeds for their content.
I took that part of my comment out, I thought it wasn't relevant. But since we're here: I am unlikely to meet people like myself (or those who I would friend) in an urban core. More likely, I will end up friends with people I work with remotely or the parents of my kids' friends. And quite honestly, on a Friday or Saturday night, I'd rather be working on my workbench on a project alone after the kids are asleep.

I prefer to take my chances in a rural area, and having to bootstrap community, versus tolerating an urban lifestyle.
It doesn't really seem to be circumventing NN any more than a VPN.

I see no reason people shouldn't allowed to build interconnects not connected to the wider internet and charge for their use.
Parents can also be used to stifle competition.

I am not convinced the no patent world advances any slower than the patented and heavily litigated world.
Hey @agustif, (one of) CashNotify maker here. Thanks for the mention!

This indeed looks similar to what we do since 2016 (https://cashnotify.com/).
However, $2 for that app is unbeatable. I hope it'll be sustainable.

CashNotify is more pricey, but you can add multiple Stripe and PayPal accounts. It's also a bit more "visual", supports both macOS and Windows, and it's notarized ;)

Anyway, best of luck to Stas!
What would this look like from a practical standpoint, though? Dividends are a taxable event because you're giving someone money. In a buyback, the value of the stock simply goes up, which isn't a taxable event. How do you determine the cost basis on something like that? If there's a stock buyback over the course of 6 months, how do you determine which proportion of the price increase is due to the buyback, as opposed to inflation or normal growth?
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It's worth noting that it gets used for different things in different countries. In Ireland, it's actually a dating app more than a hookup app, for example.

I do think the author expected too much, and that Tindr is no substitute for real world socializing... which is sad, because that kind of socializing doesn't happen much these days in the US after a person leaves school. Unless you meet someone at work or at a bar, there generally aren't a lot of social groups to become part of.
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Haha, nice pun there!
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panic at unexpected input is not ideal, but when you encounter bad software from a C/C++ programmer that bad input could be an ACE instead.
Why is the cost of living relevant when you’re talking about debt levels? The point is simply that our debt levels aren’t that unmanageable, and we could achieve something very close to the Swedish student loan system by simply automatically enrolling people in repayment plans we already have.

Moreover, American cost of living is the same in Sweden as in the US (the GDP per capita in nominal dollars is identical to the figure in purchasing-power-adjusted dollars). You may need a car, but housing is cheaper in most of the country.

As to healthcare, making comparisons is difficult. 2/3 of college graduates have employer subsidized healthcare. For those people, you need to look at the median employee premium portion, which is $2,200/year. (There are also out-of-pocket costs, mostly for drugs, but the US figure of about $1,000 is not much different than the Swedish figure of $800 on that front).

The employee premium paid by the typical college graduate is much less than the extra taxes that same person would pay in Sweden. The median college graduate earns $51,000 in the US to start. The median employee premium of $2,200 is 4.4% of that. The tax differential is almost certainly higher than that. (In Sweden, all of that is taxed at 30% county tax, no federal. In the US, the first $12,000 is tax free, and the rest is taxed at 10-12% federal, plus maybe 4-5% state and local, plus 7.65% FICA).
It is taxed the same as dividends, just deferred until the outstanding equity is sold, no?
Naw. It's just the same age old issue of someone writing the design specs with the illusion it will be followed. Instead of designing it so that they can't not be followed.
Highly ironic given how the commissioners bash google on privacy
It has yet to be proven, yes Rust catches more bugs than other language but is it worth the slow compile time? I'm not sure.
Large US corporations have been buying back their own stock in record amounts, while investors have been cashing out of US stocks at a record pace, recent data shows: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/investors-bail-on-st... -- money is not being plowed back into IPOs, secondary offerings, etc.

According to orthodox economic theory, large US corporations must be buying back stock with earned profits and new debt[a] because they don't have better uses for that money. Rational executives and company boards looking out mainly for shareholders must have concluded that buying back shares at current prices is a better use of money than investing, you know, in the business.

Maybe.

In reality, executives and directors could very well be authorizing stock buy-backs to keep share prices up so their stock options remain in-the-money for as long as possible. If that's the case, the buybacks are meant more for the benefit of executives and directors than for the benefit of the business or its shareholders.

[a] Corporate debt to GDP is now at an all-time high: https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2018/11/29/Photos/NS/M...
If you are actually paying them to learn, which is the key issue here, then they shouldn't complain and i'd have a hard time believing they would.

So the solution is to make it clear you pay them to learn.
I would say no. The ideal B2B product may look "easy to make", but making is only part of it.
No it's not as investors will have to pay taxes on any gains when they sell there stock which should happen in proportion to the buyback all else being equal. Buybacks just allow them to defer realizing those gains and paying taxes on them until they finally decide to sell.
I empathize and don't have any clear solution. One thing that has helped is actually setting a schedule and following up on it. If Tuesday mornings have two hours booked then you can actually just ask if that was followed any time you follow up with that person. It sort of hacks the categories by turning those moments into clearly work tasks with boxes that need to be ticked.
Reduce pressure. When I don't have 7 customer deadlines I'm much more inclined to spend the hour daily I'm meant to on training.

Reward learning with career advancement.

Send your people on relevant training courses out of the office as often as is useful/practical.

Oh and if you have timesheets make sure you can "bill" to training!
“There's an old saying on the Internet — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
these firms are disgusting
Or the Chicago expressway. You get the convenience of skipping local roads (and a higher likelihood of getting shot than driving through Baghdad, but that's a digression), but it costs $5-6 to use the road.

That sounds like a physical fast lane to me. Pay more, get a faster, more direct route.
Not every small town is like whatever place you were obviously abused in. I couldn't imagine having to move back to the city. It's exciting and fun to visit the city, but the indifference people display to each other is taxing on my soul. The drug addicts over-dosing, people with mental health issues wandering, the rent being too-damn-high, etc...

People actually care about strangers, and go out of their way to be friendly to you here. Also, every company I've worked with recently is embracing remote work.
Arguably, licensing revenue was a drop in the bucket for Nokia and they had a lot more to lose with the liability that came from commercial customers. It was a hard move to (at least partially) undo for the Qt Company.
I understand that perspective to an extent, but I really want to double down here because I think it's important. :-)

> but in practice I think using unwrap or panicking in libraries is usually wrong

Very strongly disagree. I've created dozens of Rust libraries, and probably all of them have dozens of code paths that can panic. Other core libraries do the same. Just a simple slice access, e.g., `slice[i]`, is a line of code that could panic. (Since it's just a shorter way of writing `slice.get(i).unwrap()`.) I don't think we should be giving advice that runs contrary to how important libraries actually work. A lot of people learn to code by reading others' code, and when we give advice like "don't use unwrap/expect," they get confused when they see that virtually every widely used piece of Rust code violates it.

The key here is really that one shouldn't panic unless the panic itself is indicative of a bug somewhere. Blanket advice like "don't use unwrap/panic in libraries" is bad because---as I argued in the Clippy issue I posted in a sibling comment---it's effectively a prohibition against runtime invariants themselves. As a programmer, you insert a panic when you've failed (for any number of reasons) to capture the invariant in the type system. Blanket advice saying that one shouldn't use unwrap/expect in these circumstances leads one toward a path of much more complex APIs with error types that are never constructed unless there is a bug in the code. (It's likely that actually adding all of those error types will be so annoying that it's plausible the programmer will give up on Rust.)

> As an example it’s quite easy to fall astray of taking your perspective to say read a packet off the network, and panic on malformed data. I know you’d agree that would be a inappropriate time to use panic, as that would crash any upstream program with trivial DOS exploits. But this is easy to do if you say have an API that takes a value, translates it to something else and panics on invalid inputs.

I think this is a reflection of error handling being hard. It's just as easy to code a program with the mistaken assumption that a particular file path will always point to a valid and readable file. It takes a bit of learning to understand which things you can rely on never happening and which you can't. In the mean time, I don't think we should be giving advice that is very easy to misinterpret into a conclusion that just isn't tenable. Personally, I think it's much easier to talk about end user behavior. If there's a panic, then it's a bug that ought to be fixed. If you follow that, it's hard to go wrong.

You could rephrase it with, "If there's a reachable code path that panics, then the code path should be removed." You could then talk about what "reachable" means, i.e., code paths that are determine based on data that the program doesn't control vs code paths that are enforced for all inputs to the program.
Put a bit more "N" in their NFC. They can be tuned to work from millimeters to meters.
It is dangerous and very pathetic to see these opinions solely because the populace that is dying are mostly white.

Though, this is what we asked for, and no one cared to stop it. It's obviously a massively multi-faceted problem, but one of the bigger parts is: along the way we lost the idea of what our local community is. We instead replaced it with social media, and listened/espoused the opinions of people on the other side of the country who had never lived outside of a city.
Then the law may need to be changed, there are significant disadvantages of ensuring net neutrality.
The statement "if it compiles it works" is a feeling you get from small programs in very safe languages, but we all know it isn't true, and saying stuff like that immediately causes experienced programmers to think you are naive. It isn't good language PR to say it or anything like it.
I couldn't agree more. I'd love to live in deep rural but I really need at least 10 mbit/s duplex reliable (rare downtime, low ping/jitter) internet connection (at a reasonable price), Amazon/eBay/etc delivery and a train to get me to the city in no longer than a couple of hours on any day I need. Once these are available I'm movin'
Yes it is. Another big red flag is micro managing. Managers that want to control even the amount of coffee you drink or how many times you go to the bathroom, if you go out too much etc. Super annoying;
I'm currently a frontend engineer. I told my team lead a while back that I'd like to transition to the server side, especially since our server team is woefully understaffed and our frontend team is overstaffed.

He told me "Sure but you'll need to learn all that stuff on your own time". So I never did it because I'm interested in doing other things at home.
I ditched macOS, Linux, and chose Windows for development work