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> Java has a worst model of exception mixing weird typechecking rules + error handling not forcing to recover the exception.

Unless you have a specific complaint about Java's model (which I'd love to read), I strongly suspect that your beef is with a few standard Java library functions misusing checked exceptions than a statement against exceptions in general.

The combination of runtime and checked exceptions offers the most complete solution to the difficult problem of handling errors, with the compiler guaranteeing that error paths are always handled.
A lot of what the author said is negated by the fact banks build into their loans that the rate can not drop below zero and that is before their spread (profit) is added to the rate. What is correct is the rate cannot continually go down further but it will actually make banks even more profitable because they essentially have built in floors to the loan at zero. Meanwhile the bank may borrow below zero. As for the effect on the overall economy, it does mean that actions taking interest rates negative will be mostly ineffective should they be used. However the fed has been slowly crawling back to a better balance sheet with QT and higher rates over the last few years and even though there have been 3 cuts in a row last year the fed is still better prepared than say 3 years ago.
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Thanks for putting this together! I've wondered before if Kittyhawk and other flying car companies count as climate-saving organizations. Flying small personal aircraft will always use vastly more energy per mile than vehicles that can roll along the ground - and even if there are no emissions in flight, the energy cost and likely emissions of making the batteries and equipment will be non-negligible.
Doubling the minimum wage does not cause costs to double. This is a very flawed analysis- the minimum wage doesn't affect the entire population (less than half!) so raising that wage only raises the costs of things a small, proportional factor, if at all.

I find we tend to apply microeconomic theorems to macroeconomic activities far too often.
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Looking forward to the day AI is used to generate billions of books and then compare them to every new release by a human. Then the patent/copyright trolls come out and sue human authors for copyright infringement because their awful AI book that is 50% gibberish has all the same elements and character names as the human author's book
Probably not. If they were just lonely guys looking to get off, there are already plenty of options, commercial and free. Ones that they either reject or already use.
When I was younger, I worked a job at a car wash. There was only one thing I really did all day long- vacuum cars and wipe them down.

This got repetitive quickly, and the managers got really upset whenever you slacked off in the lulls. Groups of more than three people chatting while we had "downtime" were more or less immediately disbanded. Checking your phone, even to text your family, was a big no-no on company time. There was no such thing as a "smoke break" (I don't smoke, but man a five-minute break occasionally would've been really nice.)

I hated that job. I dealt with a bout of depression because of that job. The turnover there- among people who were talented- was exceptionally high (I lasted about two months before I found a better job) because the job was so menial- and the managers so demeaning- that all joy in working was lost fairly regularly.

It would've been better than staying at home and playing games all day long, but I'm sure that I could've done something more productive, without pay than I did with pay.
The Berne Convention isn't that precise. For example, consider that collections of information are copyrightable in most of Europe and not copyrightable in the US.
Wouldn't be the first time Google did something illegal or unethical or tried to keep it secret, like secretly trying to build a censored search for China, firing labor organizers, etc.
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Why are the same people commenting here as on all the other platforms you've posted this? Is this an upvoting ring?
>Women have wildly different tastes in men. It's men who rate women 1-10 and who exhibit consensus in their tastes.

This is borderline misandrist nonsense. Whether men or women explicitly rate members of the other sex on a scale in private doesn't change that

1. Males and females both have preferences which in aggregate assign some uneven value and therefore rank to potential mates

2. Beauty standards may vary by individual but you simply cannot deny that there are universal traits that make ratings between individuals rather consistent.
I never said there wasn't but the definition of western medicine is scientific research meaning that it is the primary method on how such treatments are developed. Scientific research on eastern medicine is not only minuscule in number but backwards in creation.

By backwards I mean that treatments are made up adhoc based off of the faulty chi logic then tried adhoc on people without rigorous double blind experiments. Only in modern times are we actually running true scientific experiments on the treatments to verify them. This is basically like the FDA allowing some random person to distribute drugs touting some miracle cure only to run experimental tests after the drug is released. More than likely most eastern medicine treatments will fail tests as this majority failure rate is already what happens in western medicine during clinical trials.
Every kind of food processing or pre-processing is essentially not necessary. That doesn't mean that people will stop doing it. But we're concentrating on the packaging, not on what is bought and sliced cheese can be sold just fine without 'spacers' especially when it is old... (It is the younger cheeses that tend to stick)

So, it is simple: replace plastic with paper. Done. Ditto for almost everything else packaged in plastic. Besides, the plastic that ends up getting burned releases very poisonous compounds into the eco-system (dioxins).
This makes a lot of sense. It's essentially giving up some "niceness" that React gives to make it faster and closer to the metal. That sounds like a critique, but that's what this whole thread is about, and one way to approach something I've also given a lot of thought.

To do this, I imagine you will have to do certain things manually. I guess you can't just have functions that return a vdom, because, as you say, the absence of a property doesn't mean the library will delete it for you. So do you keep the previous vdom? Patch it manually and then send it off to update the elements? ... I guess it's a minor detail. Doesn't matter.

Interesting approach, thanks for sharing! I will definitely spend some time looking into it. Encouraging that it seems to be working out for you :)
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So do several religions. As well as mafioso or cartels.

I think of these groups as "states-in-waiting." Should their regional government grow too corrupt or too weak, they fill the void.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-net-worth-of-the-Catholic-...

[2] https://fox13now.com/2018/05/30/mormonleaks-lds-church-contr...

[3] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2660520/joaquin-el-chapo-guzma...
Milk in glass bottles. Meat is wrapped in paper. Eggs go in a a paper carton. Cheese is tricky, most markets still wrap cut cheese in plastic, so I have to buy it from an actual cheese shop that uses waxed paper. Consequently I don’t eat much cheese.
Low wage labor and UBI are actually two sides of the same coin. The less that low wage labor is available, the more that UBI would become necessary to support the economy. The more that low wage labor is available, the less that UBI becomes seen as a necessity. The more that UBI is offered, the less that individuals would seek low wage labor. The less that individuals seek low wage labor, the tighter the employment market for such service, which motivates employers to seek higher productivity and automation rather than increase wages, which furthers the cycle above.
Health care is not tied to employment in Canada, for one.
That's not how my old car (Mondeo 97) works.
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I understand your point, I think. c++ has an inefficient build system, and over time projects can end up with very suboptimal build systems. it's definitely worth spending time to pick the low-hanging fruit like in your example, or if possible, to choose a language that builds faster.

still, even twenty minutes is a long time to wait and see if your latest change actually works. in the foreseeable future, there will be complex projects that take a long time to build. you will eventually have to touch things that everything else depends on and recompile most of the code. people that work on these projects can always benefit from faster desktop-class hardware.
You're absolutely right, I'm 27 - turning 28 in February. Do you care to comment on what gave you this impression, and, more specifically, why you feel it has any relevance on what I wrote?

I understand that I made a pretty broad statement, but anecdotally, there are so many different instances of boomers denigrating choices of later generations across many different buckets of choices - social, technological, moral, cultural, political, psycho-sexual; and as I've lived my life, we've seen rapid chances in societal behaviors that just make me feel that as every successive generation comes into existence, you just get that bit-flip for that dimension of the 'collective consciousness' (not woo-woo collective consciousness, but just the aggregated set of behaviors and interactions manifested by the people that exist today, that came to pass based on the pre-existing cc from their parents and those that influenced them, etc).

Psychologically, it's funny, because there is this commonly cited concept of 'teenage/adolescent rebellion' where, despite the love and adoration you feel for your parents, there develops a kind of rift in response to the rules imposed vs. what you immediately want to do/desire to explore the world without the parental control structure that was imposed previously. Perhaps the generational shifts that are seen are a consequence of this - maybe not, I'm just thinking out loud here. But yeah it is an interesting topic.

Care to comment further on what gave you this impression? I'm intrigued.
That or all the people working multiple of these mcjobs. If one job were enough for every American to at least provide for their basic needs and some reasonable leisures then I might be impressed by low unemployment.
Since employment is tied to not starving, I'd say its worth a fair amount.
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"The market" is not some all-powerful, benevolent force that will always achieve the best outcome for humanity or society as a whole. Markets are disproportionately controlled by the current holders of wealth (and therefore power), who will naturally tend to seek their own advantage at the expense of others. And so some kinds of regulation are often appropriate to protect the less powerful participants.
Last I heard, there were serious concerns that these cleanup devices would wind up absolutely devastating ocean ecosystems that naturally form in the same places that plastic piles up: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/ocean-cl...

I got this link from a Twitter thread last fall: https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1179861389575245824 The Ocean Cleanup folks responded (there's a link in the thread), and the author who raised concerns responded in turn (also linked). To my eye, it seems like there are some pretty wide open scientific questions about the impacted ecosystems, and I'm not at all convinced that the Ocean Cleanup folks have demonstrated sufficient care about those uncertainties and concerns.
I don't think we need a full ban. The problem is plastic is so damn effective and sooo damn cheap. And that countries in certain parts of the world basically dump straight into the ocean. If all the plastics just go to landfill, they're really not a problem. We have sufficient unused terra firma to store millennia worth of plastic. Space is not an issue, collection is. And that's pretty hard to solve in the long tail of developing nations.
I know there's going to be a hoard of people who show up and provide countless documents and studies indicating that "nobody needs these stimulants it's just a fad". However, as someone who's been diagnosed by multiple neuropsychologists I can, with near 100% certainty, say that I'm three times as productive and steady (able to keep a consistent train of thought and tasks) while using Adderall and generally attribute my horrible GPA in college to a late ADHD diagnosis at age 20.

I've talked to my primary care doc and he's shared stories of patients in their thirties brought to tears after seeing what they could have been capable of by "giving in" to the use of stimulants day-to-day or at work.

In our industry the medical use of stimulants has no reason to be stigmatized.
Bathtubs aren't a novel cultural formation. Bathtubs also don't kill people on purpose because of beliefs they've recently adopted.

Personally I think it is reasonable that we talk more about incel killings than bathtub killings.

The problem is not that incels pose an objective risk to my safety or yours but that their presence signals some kind of pretty serious systemic dysfunction. How does an ideology like that take hold on any kind of scale, is a question worth trying to answer.
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Unemployment is defined as the percentage of people employed of those who WANT to work.

It does not count those taking time off.

That would be the UNDERemployment rate.
If you don't have a car, and the bus runs infrequently, I bet many people spend an hour getting somewhere.

Anecdote, not data, but

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/low-pay-long-p...

You could argue the person in the story should get jobs closer to home, but it is probably more common than you think.
The computing industry is quite unique in that we are so arrogant that we tend to tell everybody else how they should be doing their job, and then add insult to injury by blaming the users for the systems shortcomings.
I've overheard forms of this many times from C/VP-level execs facing internal debate:
"We're not running a democracy here".

It is interesting that we only see it in government. Most companies are dictatorships. Some might have a board of directors that is responsible for voting in it's own members, kind of like a tribal elders system.

It's interesting to see these different forms of decision making producing different advantages and disadvantages.
we have a problem world wide

When US Fed pours money in to unwind mortgage positions over a 30 year period(fall 2008 till fall 2038) barriers arise for job movement in form of high costs of rent or homeownership.

Its not going away and its going to get worse.
Yeah but you don't get invited on an international book tour for obvious ideas like that.
Anecdotally, this is not true.

Due to how many North American cities are designed with urban sprawl and separation of living areas (suburbs) and productive areas (industrial/office zoning laws) it should actually be the norm to have a lengthy commute to work.

Hell, I live in a suburb with quite good public transport and it would take me almost 30 minutes to go to the grocery store by bus.

When I was a teenager and had no car, it took me about an hour to get to my minimum wage job by bus due to transfers. Once I could afford a car (because I lived with mum and dad and could save) that commute got cut to 20 minutes.
what about cigarette butts?

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/cigar...
How about eating fish?
Even the lowest wage bracket of jobs has kept up with price inflation overall.
Of course having a low-paying job is A LOT better than not having a job at all. You can ignore other ill-intended comments that are throwing straw-men at you.

Subjective opinion: jobs promote financial independence, mainly independence from the government. When the majority is not handcuffs and forced to give their votes to socialists to secure their welfare benefits (which, ironically, furthers their dependence on corrupted government and tightens handcuffs), democracy and sane vote prevail.
I'm not. I'm supplementing my main point to address things that you have brought up. The actual goalpost hasn't moved. See:

- Why would you care about other people not liking it, if you like it.

- If you don't like it (i.e. it's someone else's), surely you have better things to care about with your time than what someone else thinks of a car that you didn't buy?

- Most people don't have the time or money to give a crap about what people think of their car, more than they do about things like fuel-efficiency and repair costs, so if your main concern is that other people don't like your car, you're very likely well-off enough to stand to donate that money to people who are actually worse off.

The first two are just two parts of the same argument, the third point was used to augment the second. You're the one who was moving the goalposts. See:

- The initial discussion was about the person buying the car (Your claim was originally "People buy Teslas because they get harassed less at traffic lights")

- I responded to that and you moved the goalposts to "People drive cars that they didn't buy" (Which is a valid point, hence why I responded, but not the subject of the original argument, because we were talking about the owner of the car).

Please don't move the goalposts and then accuse me of doing that?
I never said bad people never made good art.

I personally would rather not glorify those people nor do I go out of my way to take in their art.

I don't feel like I'm missing much.

If I find out art I like was made by a bad person I don't clutch my pearls.
>>We have governments for reasons.

How Authoritarian of you, what other area's of life should the governments of the world control for everyone denying them their human right of choice?

It is sad to me that as civilization "advances" more and more people want to go back to a time where people were subjects of their government, instead of free people. I know it has only been a few hundred years of human civilization where people have had any kind of freedom, why are we so willing to give all of that up?

The types of invasive regulations that will require increasing food costs, as well as lowering shelf life for every day people will cause massive problems for not only the poor but the middle class as well.

What is next mandatory vegan artisanal organic diet to save the climate? Each meal having to be hand picked by a local farmer that day.
1. You are talking about partial functions, that is a separate concern.

2. Behold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_space . Topologies define continuinity, and here is a discrete topology.

3. With e.g. probability measures / expected values, which unify "discrete" and "continuous" statistics, you'll notice that there's lots of rules that are trivially obeyed in the discrete case, but take some care in the "continuous" case. For example, not ever set can have a measure in the latter but can in the former. This directly relates to discrete things being trivial to deem continuous. It's also a useful to define coarser topologies / event sigma-algebras in the finite case to better understand the issues are the unavoidable in the infinite cases. We only make the discrete discontinuous in that last "artificial" exercise.
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If your life circumstances sucks, good mental health still means you won't blame it on women and/or do something horrifically violent to people unrelated to the causes of your problems. Instead, you'll turn toward fixing the problems.

I will also note that the perception of having enough money is not very closely related to the amount of money you have. I have known people who are happy living on quite modest salaries, and people who feel like they're barely getting by on $500k/year. That's something therapists (and financial advisors) can definitely help with.
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Or there's a sizable minority attached to this subject with legitimate concerns but an opinion which runs very counter to what is socially acceptable on Reddit. If you start paying attention, you can already tell which articles on Reddit are likely to be locked for this reason. Reddit is practically designed to amplify dogma into an echo chamber - that goes for how power among mods and admins is distributed and how the voting algorithm determines comment ordering and visibility.

Incels are the new nerds. They're safe targets for ridicule, even though their lot ultimately sucks for reasons not entirely within their control. Telling someone who has trouble dating to learn to date is like telling a socially awkward, uncoordinated teenager to just "learn to play sports".
Usually, when I reach a stage like this it means I need to take a break long enough to feel healthy enough to work or meet with a psych to deal with a relapse of depression.

One thing I definitely did wrong was not taking a 4-6month break after college to really decide what I wanted to do and de-stress. After leaving a FAANG about two years after graduation I did this out of desperation and cannot describe the positive effect on my work ethic and mental state after basically not doing anything productive for 5-6months.

This might be a common trait with those who have ADHD but I usually find that the only way to de-stress is to simply remove all forms of taxing sensory input or work for at least 3-4 weeks.
> to take a bus for an hour to get to your four-hour shift at a stressful minimum wage job, where your manager is abusive and the workplace is unsafe, your mental health may suffer

Your statement sounds like what would be typically written in an attention grabbing first paragraph of a news article in order to draw people in w/o providing any context as far as how common all or even most of those items you listed even exist. It is not realistic in any way at scale common sense says that. You are highlighting almost certainly an outlier not what is typical to make your point.

Let's take a look in particular into 'suffering just so your family isn't hungry'.

- Riding a bus for an hour in itself isn't suffering.
- Four hour shift isn't suffering
- Stressful minimum wage job? Any job can be stressful having a job pay more does not make it less stressful.
- Manager is abusive. Abusive? This sounds like some characterization for impact to make a point. How realistic is it that the vast majority of jobs have people who are 'abusive' managers (as opposed to a percentage of them let's call it 10% arbitrarily).

- Workplace is unsafe? Where? In the US? You think 'all' or 'most' workplaces are unsafe? Or there are perhaps a percentage that are unsafe?

- Your mental health may suffer. Sure ok that one is fine. But maybe you are in the position that you are in the first place because of your mental health.
Yes, it is. As opposed to starving or being a freeloader.
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Hah, that's a good point! I mainly work with CentOS and Ubuntu, but also sometimes Debian, RHEL and SLES. Not only do firewalls, init systems etc differ between distros, they also vary between versions - I often have to consult personal cheatsheets or Google.
This is a thread about Paris, yet all you rabid haters, who are obsessed with hating Israel, made it about Israel.

@dang -- remove these evil people from Hacker News