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I have two recommendations that I don't see mentioned by anyone else yet:

1. An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead, 1911 available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41568

It not specifically about history, but I found it nice how it builds up concepts from first principles, e.g. "We had problem X, so we invented math concept Y to help with problem X, and then extended the idea concept Z that handles more general class of problems."

2. Mathematics 1001: Absolutely Everything That Matters About Mathematics in 1001 Bite-Sized Explanations Hardcover by Richard Elwes, 2010. (non free)

This one doesn't go into any details on any topics, but it gives you a bird's eye overview of many topics and based on the "sampling" I did for the few concepts that I know, I found the bite-size explanations to be fairly good (i.e. mathematician explains things in plain language, and not science journalist simplistic analogy).
Yes. My point is that it is a category mistake to make the analogy between the two types of cutoffs. Just because a line can be drawn on the content of speech does not mean that a line can be drawn between money and speech.
> it'd suck to lose your home that you're supposed to own because your neighborhood got pricey

This would imply that the value goes up (location, location, location). That would cause property taxes to increase and may drive people out that can't afford to stay.
twitter took that "vibe" and Eternal September-ed the idea for many people. IRC was already suffering from "if you're not from the right network you're nobody" and fragmentation of user experience with services etc; which didn't help either.

When I reminisce about IRC im usually thinking about the few channels I actually used, which were in my case smaller groups of geek tangentially spawned from a larger channel (everybody met on #slashdot but had other channels for real discussion). That kind of small group text chat is doable on discord now.
There’s actually oversupply and prices are pretty good right now - relatively speaking of course.
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Direct link to comment with the list of extensions in question: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/500-c...
Billionaires aren't buying any election.

Bloomberg will spend a considerable amount of money, but will not get very far. It's a lot of money to burn. But it won't net him anything.

Trump, to the extent that one can consider him a billionaire, did not spend his way into winning. Like it or not, he crafted a message that resonated with many voters while also receiving a substantial amount of of free air time in the form of endless ridicule from national pundits.
Hear, hear - celebrate learning, not membership in the "in-the-know" crowd.
> Does all art I enjoy have to hang on my wall?

No but I think "would I hang this on my wall?" is a fairly good metric for "do I like this". I've been in situations where I lied and said "I like this art" because I felt socially obligated. My argument is that there's a distinction between "what I say I like" and "what I actually like".

> I no longer see any reason to continue this conversation; youre just trying to attack me.

I'm not trying to attack you. I'm sorry it came off that way.
the majority of the miles I drive are highway so for me "3 words" covers a large percentage of my usage. This is likely true of most people as well.
> The author of this website is basically stuck using whatever version of Frontpage supports the markup of his website.

But at least getting it done largely depends only on them, and it's not too hard. I have friends who swear by ProTracker and still use it, even though it's thirty years old and the platform it's running on has been dead for more than twenty. They don't have an Amiga but it's trivial to get it running in an emulator today.

You can run Windows 98 in a browser, and your web editor in it. It's certainly less complicated than hosting a WebObjects application today.
They're saying that if the value goes up you can have to pay increased property taxes that you now can't afford.
This actually feels like the future. So much stuff comes out that's like "ok, that's cool", but it's really not that fast or great, and yes I know this isn't close to out, but even the demo is like wow! And the medical applications! It's nice to be genuinely excited once in awhile!
I don't think your facts are correct.

Farenheit 9/11 was released 4 months prior to the 2004 election and is thus outside the 60 day window and not prohibited by Mcain-Feingold.

I would have wholeheartedly supported that movie being blocked as electioneering inside the 60 day window.

Edit: Specifically, Citizens United was prohibited for paying to show or advertise within 30 days of the democratic primaries.

> The United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that §203 of BCRA applied and prohibited Citizens United from advertising the film Hillary: The Movie in broadcasts or paying to have it shown on television within 30 days of the 2008 Democratic primaries. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Why don't you fill us in on what those reasons might be instead of making strawman arguments?
You are supposing the reason why things don't change is because people like cheap goods.

Where is the evidence that cheap goods require worker abuse? Or that the reason people don't oppose it is cheap goods?

Higher wages come out of profits in a competitive market, they don't automatically drive prices up.

I also doubt many people are out in the streets demanding the abolition of minimum wage so they can spend less at walmart.
MSVC in C mode is essentially C89 plus extensions needed to compile C++/C99-isms present in Windows SDK and DDK headers. And Microsoft seems to be mostly interested in whether the compiler is able to build NT kernel and drivers and nothing much else.
And you can't leave the Bay Area as the transfer has to be in the same county in most cases.
Signal works great. The one big barrier to more uptake is a feature that many non-nerdy users seem to use: group video chat. You can one-on-one video chat, but not with a group. The moment that's there I imagine huge amount of people would be interested to move away from messenger/Skype.

I've also been told by family that in some Asian countries you have to pay to get it on Android/iPhone, but maybe that's a copycat that is just using the name...
Yep. Put your finger on the corner of the output coupling cap on a 50 Watt S-band PA. It will turn your skin black from the charring, but doesn't penetrate into the live tissue. Just don't leave it on too long.

Could probably gives non-permanent tattoos with this method.
Canada (or any westminster system) has no absolute guarantee of free speech. Parliamentary democracy is based on the principle of absolute parliamentary sovereignty. The political system is incomparable. Parliament is not even anywhere near the same thing as Congress (or vice versa). The Congress of the United States and the Congress of the individual states are completely subject to a higher law. There is nothing similar in Canadian politics. Even the Canadian constitution is another Act of Parliament, no special consideration required. That is to say, the Canadian Constitution (as expressed in the Constitution act of 1982) is such because parliament says it is so. On the other hand, the Constitution of the United States of America exists because it says it does, and Congress is subject to it and cannot change it on its own.

In order to amend the Canadian constitution, Parliament must amend it. On the other hand, Congress can become subject to changes in the constitution even without its consent, as was seen in the passage of the most recent amendment.

In the 1980s a university student decided to change the constitution against Congress's wishes and was able to do so, by getting the states to change the laws to which Congress is subject. Try doing that in Canada.
Customer VCL development too, how cool was that.
It's unfortunate he doesn't list the POSIX system interface, which has personally become an absolute boon:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

You can search it using duckduckgo with !posix, too.

Something else I've found infinitely useful when digging into musl libc or doing assembly programming, is the SYSV x64 ABI: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/x86_64-SysV-psABI.p...
You want to displace retired people on fixed income because you like to have young and diverse neighbours?

It is more than selfish. This is bigotry against the elderly.
Seattle has implemented this with their "democracy vouchers" program that has had some seemingly positive results so far.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/do-seattles-d...
If you're using MacOS as your desktop, you don't need Pushbullet, because iMessage can remote control your iPhone for sending and receiving SMS messages. You can also make and receive phone calls via Facetime too.

Add to that things like universal copy/paste or the ability to quickly resume some activity from your phone, like opening the active web page, or the usually seamless mirroring of your screen via Airplay, etc.

It does lock you into Apple's ecosystem but the experience is much better than Pushbullet, or anything else.

Yes I did use Pushbullet when I was an Android user. I was one of their first users. I don't miss it.

I stopped using Pushbullet even before I moved to iPhone b/c it's a potential privacy leak and security problem. It's bad enough that we have to trust the phone maker, with something like Pushbullet you give all control of your phone to a third party. Yes they claim the ability to do e2e encryption, but talk is cheap and I've never heard of an independent audit.
I used Corona around that time - and from what I recall, projects did build locally; the only exception being that if you wanted to build an iOS version, you had to do so on a Mac with XCode installed. I also recall having to set up the Android dev environment in order to build for Android. I know that later they had where you could build on their servers, but what I recall (and I admit, it's been a while), local building was there back then.
> It's crazy to me that we allow politicians to run targeted ad campaigns.

No more so than anyone else running targeted ad campaigns. How can you argue that targeted ads for a politician are evil but not think the same way about targeted ads for, say, highly addictive junk food, optimizing ad spend for those most likely to overeat? Either you approve of targeting or you don't. I've never seen any argument for treating political ads specially.

> Without campaign finance regulation majority of the billions donated to campaigns is going directly into pockets of Google, Facebook and cable monopolies. We're letting billionaires buy the election.

People made the same arguments decades ago, except without the "Google" and "Facebook" parts. The world didn't end. Why would it now?
> But it's probably worth remembering that DNSSEC is a PKI over which the USG and its Five Eyes partnership has enormous, outsized influence; they have de facto custody over the most important TLDs on the Internet, a demonstrated willingness to intervene in DNS for policy goals, and, unlike a suborned CA, the TLDs cannot be revoked when the IC abuses them.

You're off base.

DNSSEC is not any more nebulous than the existing structure and control mechanism with regards to domain names. It (mostly) is adding cryptographic under-pinnings to the responses. The control remains the same (registrar level).
Lots of states have regimes where you can defer (often interest-free) the amount of property tax increase above a certain limit to time of sale. This may be a better way to handle it than what California does.

That is, if your property tax was $10,000 last year when you bought, and would increase to $12,000 this year, the state would give you an indefinite, interest free loan for $1500 or whatever secured by the property.
Sometimes "A little copying is better than a little dependency."
> "My parents have a (crappy) wireless internet provider. During most evenings and weekend, they're lucky to get even 0.5Mbps."

Sounds like my experience on Three UK here in London. Just awful! Vodafone and O2 are at least 20X faster at peak times despite Three actually having a significantly stronger 4G signal at my flat. Absolute joke of a network. I'm so angry that I was basically tricked into a 12 month contract with them.
Never underestimate the power of a good night's sleep.

I found that sometimes the forceful reading everything top to bottom and getting focused and trying hard... Well a good night's sleep and a mind wandering in the shower sorts a lot of it out naturally.
Californians seem like people who would care about co2 and emissions, the only good solution is to build higher and denser, instead of long drives.
Marco, DavidI, DrBob42, Cary Jensen, Nick Hodges, Treehouse Guy, Ray Konopka all a blast from the past :)
https://archive.md/gjlhN
Well obviously one or the other needs to go first. Why do you think the first one was chosen because it has the greater honor? If it was the other way round, wouldn't it look just as patriarchal to you ("Ladies first" and all that)? And are you sure they didn't flip a coin to see which parental gender would go first?
Sure, that is the best case scenario. Apple using it's own servers would have several advantages including they would presumably be able to tune/seed the cached content based on superior knowledge of consumption. They also wouldn't be competing for the same limited CDN space as others.

Not to be flippant, but I recognized your name and when I visited your bio I see you now work at Netflix. You could probably find an excellent answer as to why Apple would choose to start its own program rather than rely on existing CDN colocation by asking your internal team why Netflix does the same. My guess, without inside knowledge, is it is a combination of price and performance.
Politicians often work in the interests of their donors, not just their voters. It's a way to adjust the system so that the voters are also the donors.
Are Apple credible to offer this? The AppStore loads slowly if at all a lot of the time on my Mac. And isn’t exactly spritely on my phone either.
Phone number is convenient to find people and uniquely identify them with a standard info that you have anyway for most friends. If not for the phone-based account I'd have missed that many friends do already have signal.
>these will typically never have a cert so important that it can't be easily revoked

I think this is specifically addressed with the introduction of TLS Delegated Credentials[1]. This allows the CDN edge to use a very short lived credential in the place of the certificate's private key.

It's already supported in evergreen browsers and in certificate profiles from commercial CAs like Digicert.

1. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-subcerts-06
Of course. Which nullifies any argument about whether it is Yes-in-my-back-yard or yes-in-your-back-yard. You only get to make that distinction if you're talking about your own literal back yard.
I don't think they place much trust in any of it. Which is the way media should be consumed. The blatant bias and lack of integrity of media was pretty stark in the runup to the 2016 election, and has only become worse after it.

Litmus test for you: do you believe that "both sides" comment by Trump was referring to neo-nazis? If you do, you've been lied to, and you need to read the full transcript. If you read it, you will see that he was referring to people for and against taking down the statues, and condemned the nazis immediately thereafter.

To this day the articles have not been retracted, and are routinely used by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to attack the president. They know full well it's a lie, but keep using it anyway.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1110531572275396609.html

And this is just one example. You wouldn't believe how quickly Yang would become a depraved maniac and literally Hitler if he had any chance of winning the nomination, instead of the "preferred" candidate. Don't believe me? Watch some interviews with Trump before he ran - they're still on YouTube. Beloved public persona, national icon, can do no wrong.
> And your plan for achieving that number is - what precisely?

Ease up on the zoning laws. Many zoning laws in that same metro area prohibit high density housing. The same high density housing that is most profitable and reduces the cost of housing.
Break things down.

I'd start by getting an overview of the problem - in this case it's probably chapter names in a book.

Then for each module, break down what you'd like to learn further into sections that take < 2 hours to complete thoroughly.

After each 2 hour module, write down your key takeaways of the trickiest part you learn and pause.

Then, when you're ready, resume for the next intense chunk.

You can re-read your highlights at the end of the day to help absorb more deeply.

I've also found the Cornell Notetaking method (http://lsc.cornell.edu/study-skills/cornell-note-taking-syst...) to be a helpful guide.

It includes the "summarizing" step and a recommended structure for organizing notes both as you're reading/watching and when you're solidifying this knowledge.
> I don't know a single long time home owner that is NIMBY because they want their house's value to rise. They're NIMBY because they want their neighborhood to stay the same.

There's lots of people who move into a neighborhood near a airport, landfill, etc, and who over some time living there decide the airport is a big problem because it's holding property values down.
I hadn't heard of the Rule of Three, but it parallels my own heuristic. The first time, I write the code to do the thing I need. The second time I encounter a similar thing, if I can't find the right abstraction to unify them, I go ahead and repeat myself, writing a second, similar round of code that does what it needs.

If I encounter it a third time, then I've got enough data points to make a good guess about what the right abstraction will be. If I've done a good job so far, it shouldn't be too difficult to refactor it. (Strong, static typing helps.)

This is, of course, just a heuristic, and it's not all-or-nothing. I'll take my best guess about what the right abstraction is going to be, and I'll try to get it right the first time. The second round also presents opportunities to take two points and extrapolate a line.

It all comes down to experience: not just with the system, but with the domain that the system is about, and with the way systems change and grow. No one rule of thumb ever encapsulates all that.
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on my vertical monitor it's still usable.
Tech doesn't need a location, it should branch out, away from stupid policies that drive housing prices up
You should always respect people who was there first. When money talks, bs takes the bus: new tenants are needed to support bankrupt pension system anyway.

Even international law admits that.

High cost of real estate should force many people to sell their homes and leave to cheaper places.
Although recently in the Bay Area construction costs have skyrocketed so much that in the last 5 years my home replacement cost (for insurance) has about doubled causing the land value to actually drop.
There's resistance to change but economics are far more important and explain the consistent opposition across the state. It's not as simple as sell your house and make a profit, then find something nicer. If your neighbors sell first to the developer of the N-story apartment building it can drop the value of houses around it. Also, buying a house in California resets your property taxes to current property value (a legacy of Prop 13).

I suspect it will be hard to solving the housing problem without unwinding Prop 13 and some of the other issues that make it harder for people to sell homes.
That’s just table stakes for a generic retail store Just because I drive a car wouldn’t make me a car business.

I think of tech businesses primarily as those that develop novel technology and secondarily as those who use technology in a novel and unexpected way. In both cases technology is the differentiation.

The only novelty of this business is its message and while that might make a perfectly respectable business (I am not part of the target market so I can not judge) there’s no “tech” in their business plan. Think of it more like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein: the clothes are made in the same factories by the same workers; the only differentiation is market positioning. Nobody would criticize them as not being “business” or even “clothes business” but their differentiator is marketing.
If you think media organizations, any media organization, don’t have an agenda and a biased point of view, it’s likely that you only read media that agrees with your worldview.

If you believe that every media organization has an agenda and a biased point of view, you may be listening to people on the internet who wear tinfoil hats and agree with your worldview.

I've worked in over a dozen newsrooms from coast to coast, in big markets and small. I know how they operate.

A big part of the problem is that the people consuming the product don't know the difference between news and opinion. Many newspaper readers don't know the Opinion section is not the same as the National section. And I've heard more than once people who don't know the difference between Wendy Williams and their local news.

There are problems on the production side of the media, but the problem is just as big on the consumer side.
DRY like anything can be properly used or misused. For example, you can normalize a database so much that any basic query comes with a massive overhead (recursion). There is a middle ground between "religion" (pure DRY) and "chaos" (no DRY).
Doesn't it break net neutrality ?
In the similar topic, I'm trying to find maps optimised for a small maximum number of items (8 or 16) indexed by integers.
Curiously I failed to find discussions about this topic..
But std::map seems very badly fit for this kind of map.
NIMBY could also be more properly called "I want to control property I don't own"
Sometimes a little copying is better than 3 levels of complexity to create 3 different types of object.

It's fine to hone your craft as you work by making use of abstractions that make sense at a larger scale of using that abstraction. I forgive you. But at 3+ levels in the class hierarchy to accomplish that unification of 3 different types, I have to object strenuously that you are straining purpose.
The first statement is completely false, of course.

The second is simply vacuous.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11606296
Slow charging still works fine overnight, even if you slow charge on the street, instead of on your own property. Of course it would be nice if every parking spot came with rapid charging, but it's not like that's the only solution.

At the moment, policy in Amsterdam is that if you own an electric car, you get a charging point in your street. I don't know how fast those are, but they don't have to be fast. They're still useful for overnight charging, especially if the city continues to add more when more people get electric cars. I don't understand the argument that this is not in any way a solution. It is.
It's subjective, of course, but when I worked in NYC, I was able to commute from an area with a density more like 2,000 per sq mi. Maybe an hour each way. That's what I think of as "not full".

I believe I looked for something like that in the BA and it doesn't really exist.
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