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> Please enlighten me. Given for instance the enormeous amount, 6.4 trillion, is spend by the US on wars the last 20 year. That's about 888 million per day, everyday over the last 20 year. And who benefitted? You tell me.

The Great Leap Forward killed millions of people. Same in Cambodia. It was based on an ideology that the government will provide everything for you. But your loyalty will determine if you live or die. Even in the case when one was loyal, death could still happen in these brutal regimes.

I agree with you in spirit that we shouldn’t be spending anything on war. Non-interventionism was when America prospered the most. If you just let the free market work and don’t get involved in costly wars, people become productive and there are plenty of jobs.

Your narrow view that those in authority will reward you for loyalty will change one day. Trust me. I just hope on that day, you are willing to do what is necessary when nobody in power will defend you.
Reading code is more important than writing it, but I'm not convinced that two ways to phrase the same conditional assignment is a bad thing. Or, rather, it might not be a bad thing that there are two ways to phrase the same conditional assignment.

See what I did there? Same meaning, different order of clauses. Emphasis ended up on different parts of the sentence! This is a very powerful out-of-band signaling path to control how the reader interprets the literal words, and being used to Perl where we also have it, it is weird to not have it in other languages.

Sometimes the actual predicate is the important/interesting bit, in which case putting it first makes sense: `if (user_is_underaged) return;`. Sometimes the predicate is not as interesting as the expression it's conditioning: `say "message" if debug_mode;`.
Here’s a NASA paper on the propeller arrangement:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201600...

Apparently the small propellers’ primary function is “to act as a high-lift device [1]” rather than to generate thrust.

They allow the wings to have a higher aspect ratio (i.e., be ‘long and skinny’) for reduced drag. Without them, such a wing would give undesirable low-speed handling characteristics and a higher stall speed.

Also, their speed can be varied independently and quickly by computer to compensate for turbulence and wind gusts.

Looks like quite an interesting design that plays to the strengths of electric motors.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-lift_device
Yes, but the author makes more efforts describing him as just bad person then as lousy scientist which is certainly ad hominem.
May be a complete digression but it's much easier for me to believe the virus escaped from Wuhan Virology Institute than made the jump from a fish market.
If I may: "I designed my blog as a video game interface." It's not really a game for anyone except maybe for you.
Bad URL - gives "page not found". Looks like the correct URL is:

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly-corona...

(I removed the "%E2%80%AC" at the end.)

Please re-post with correct URL.
But I can do things faster using MVC on server, ES6 + jQuery on front end, VS having to use something like Angular.

It also looks and feels better.
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Some of Bach is very soothing, especially the Mass in B Minor, like this Donna Nobis Pacem from it: https://youtu.be/v8yOP9EUIY8
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That would transform browsers into operating systems.
I think line anxiety might be another one. Unless it’s just me. If I feel that a function or a file is just irregularly long compared to the others, I find myself asking if I need to break this thing up to be more abstract
In Finland:

https://www.tyosuojelu.fi/web/en/employment-relationship/rig...

https://www.tyosuojelu.fi/web/en/employment-relationship/rig...

Take a screenshot while the employee is reading his/her personal email and the union takes you to court faster than you can say a cat :)
I agree with you, but I disagree that the solution for it is "You can only invest in these ventures if you have X net worth". Having more money does not necessarily imply one is less foolish, and it disqualifies those who are capable of properly evaluating an opportunity but are not high net worth individuals.
It's hard to see beyond the image that has been carefully constructed (as all public figures require), but in the 12 years since moving to Japan I have done nothing but gain more and more respect for the man. He's had to deal with exceptionally difficult politics and he largely seems to have been successful all the while not seeming to be intruding on the democratically elected government. I hope his legacy will continue, but I suspect he will be an incredibly hard act to follow.
T480. It was on sale for $750 at the time.
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I love it! It's really cool. I wish I had one.

But you shouldn't care what I think. You should care about what your target customer is prepared to pay you for, at
least until you can lead a happy retirement with your runway.

Much love, and best of luck!
Does this get you off the hook in the US? I'm pretty sure I'd be soon talking with a collections agency if I did only that with my subscriptions.
The vision of Open UI is "interoperability" but it doesn't explain what exactly is supposed to interoperate.

To support that vague vision, Open UI identifies four goals, and all of them are silly.

1) Document component names as they exist today

2) A common language for describing UIs and design systems

3) Eventual browser standards for web app components

4) Converging designer processes and developer workflows

#1 and #2 seem like two sides of the same coin, but they don't directly solve any "interoperability" problem. Agreeing to use the same name for "button" or "switch" would hardly solve this problem from the vision statement: "Untold amounts of human effort are exhausted globally every day on rebuilding identical components for web apps."

#4 is so vague that I literally have no idea what it means.

As for #3, we already have have browser standards for web app components. What would Open UI deliver?

My best guess is that Open UI is laying the groundwork for built-in standardized web components like std-switch https://github.com/tkent-google/std-switch and std-toast.
https://github.com/jackbsteinberg/std-toast

In that case, I think the vision statement should say:

"Open UI will develop new web components that we hope will one day become built-in standard browser features. To do that, we're going to scrutinize popular UI design systems, looking for cowpaths to pave."
Any hope of select multiple not be a usability disaster? It is has been almost 10 years since I have used the native widget on that one.
> Where the current taxi regulations fail, and thus should not be replicated, is that it artificially lowers supply via the so-called medallion system

Many cities regulate restaurants like this too, by rationing liquor licenses.
It’s sad that the likelihood of legal encrypted Ham is decreasing. This would be such a fun and useful platform to start spinning up services on.
(I work on Multicore OCaml)

Multicore OCaml separates the notion of concurrency (overlapped execution) and parallelism (simultaneous execution). You can have one without the other but also have both. The main principle that we're going for is that the compiler should expose just enough support for concurrency and parallelism such that interesting features can live outside the compiler as libraries. This permits the library evolution not to be tied with the language evolution but also permits diversity of libraries beyond what the language developers can aim to achieve. That said, we will build and maintain a few core libraries for concurrency and parallelism.

For concurrency, Multicore OCaml exposes effect handlers [1,2,3] which allows you to build generators, async/await, coroutines, etc as library functions (as opposed to primitives natively supported by the compiler). For example, have a look at aeio [4] which permits the construction of scalable asynchronous I/O in direct-style (no callbacks). aeio is also discussed in [1]. We also plan to extend Lwt to support parallelism.

For parallelism, the compiler exposes Domains, which are a wrapper over OS-threads [5]. Domains expose a low-level API that is not suitable for end user consumption. On top of domains, we support channels with bounded buffers [6] (similar to channels in Go, Mvars in GHC Haskell) as well as software transactional memory (STM) that supports shared memory and message passing concurrency and which can take advantage of hardware transactional memory [7].

[1] Concurrent System Programming with Effect Handlers: http://kcsrk.info/papers/system_effects_feb_18.pdf

[2] CUFP effects tutorial: https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-effects-tutorial

[3] Effects Examples: https://github.com/kayceesrk/effects-examples

[4] Aeio: Asynchronous Effect-based IO https://github.com/kayceesrk/ocaml-aeio

[5] Domains: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/ocaml-multicore/blob/para...

[6] domainslib: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/domainslib

[7] Reagents: https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/reagents
I'm always amused at the lengths we, as a western society, must now go to because everyone refuses to wear a mask. A lot of the problems described in this article would not be problems with some simple tweaks. Sick? Stay the fuck at home! Not symptomatic? Wear a mask and carry on. Surely Fortune 500 companies that require in person collaborations are able to produce some company issued N95's and hand sanitizer and get on with it.
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use Unicorn Blocker - I dont see any at all with it
Here's a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers and startups: https://free-for.dev
The new rework was pretty awful too, made it much harder to find stuff.
What about a web UI component library written in HTML and CSS, because not everybody is using JS frameworks?
Also even if browsers did implement standard UI elements no one would use them. Its the same situation we have today where everyone re implements the browser default inputs because they are too basic and not flexible enough and work different on every browser.
Can it remove a file from the repo history? It's a GDPR feature that makes git hard to use for data.
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CCPA

EDIT: I guess it's not CCPA, but a separate law https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Is Sam putting his money where his mouth is on this? Is he putting his time and effort there as well? Genuine questions. Even just putting together an obvious and simple historical timeline correlating increased scientific funding with improved standards of living would help. How come something as simple as that is not being brought forward instead? Is it possible that putting effort into proving this assertion might end up disproving it instead? We cannot know until better and more legitimate proof is attempted to be found.

Proof > Opinion
There is some difference. The most marked difference is between dual core, and quad core. There are quite a few youtube videos out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eMh-SZQuWM
If you consider that there's really no such thing as "Chinese pronunciation" -- Chinese is a writing system for a group of spoken languages such as Mandarin, Shanghainese, Cantonese -- then it makes sense that people are used to read the characters in the spoken language they are most familiar with. In fact Chinese speakers do this even for Japanese and Korean names that aren't originally written in Kanji/Hanja.

Japanese speakers used to do this to Chinese exonyms also, but generally don't anymore; nowadays they tend to take the characters (sometimes with the writing slightly changed) and annotate the reading (furikana) with the native pronunciation using Katakana.
"It's compiled to bytecode and executed on internal VM"

What does it take a byte code interpreter to be a VM?
Gold (GL hosted) and Ultimate (self hosted) are available to educational institutions and open source projects. Check the pricing FAQ’s. This has been a thing since Microsoft acquired GitHub.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2018/06/05/gitlab-ultimate-and...
Git tracks changes in logic (software).

Tracking changes in Data is simply called a database...
>do you think it makes any difference to the victims of that harm whether you know that you are causing that harm, or are consoling yourself with ideological contrivances

No, it makes no difference at all as far as I can tell, except in the probably irrelevant sense that my dislike of justifying my piracy might have some small influence upon others.

I made my initial comment mainly because I wished to explore the question of how much anti-copyright rhetoric is actually based on selfish ulterior motives rather than on principled ideology.
I'm almost ready to publish something like that, finishing up the documentation tonight hopefully.
Are all 1800 SBA certified lenders going to independently develop their own loan servicing platform? Seems like a waste of time/energy.

You might want to reach out to existing loan origination/servicing software vendors. They could already have a solution in the works that would save you considerable amount of time and money.
How does Pachyderm deal with GDPR requests. Is it possible to remove a file not just from the present but also from the history? It would be no use to delete a file on GPDR request from the current version while still keeping it around in past commits.
"screw copyright" = "screw a large fraction of content creators"
The world has been a cooking timebomb and COVID is a fuse. We're about to see layers of bullshit blown away, and believe me, our society is caked in it - in advertising, in politics, in entertainment, in industry. Nothing feels genuine anymore. Race to the bottom dollar with MBA style, soul sucking optimization throughout.

A cleansing fire, perhaps; a deserved reminder that our reality is one of a stone's throw from death. A necessary lesson for an angry but complacent society that has grown fat and weak with comfort and convenience.

I struggle to otherwise explain the near total global failure to deal with a pandemic which was evident as early as January.
I really love this tool - We use it to backport commits from master to our older release branches on the Kibana project. I can't emphasize enough how many hours this saves us every week.

It creates a PR for each backport you make and label them "backport", so you can easily see them all here: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+...
Yes also hopeful. I _HATE_ Meetup. Our meetup pre-dates them existing but we tried listing on their site and got an immediate and sustained boost in numbers.

Their attempt to own your meetup is really frustrating. The fact I can't even format the emails they send to my subscribers is awful.

Hopefully this will improve with a more focused owner.
Probably not necessarily, since content creators who are already rich don't really see their lives much affected by piracy. But content creators who are not rich need to sell product in order to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads, so in that case yes, as far as I can tell, there is a moral harm.
They were bad laws that deserved and earned open defiance. All people care about is getting from Point A to Point B in a quick, reliable and safe manner. People don’t care if the driver has an expensive medallion that makes them a member of a government-sanctioned mafia, if the driver of the car is willing to fulfill the passenger’s request in exchange for money.

When you make the request for a private car to take you somewhere, you’re putting your life in the driver’s hands for the duration of the ride. The medallion and privileges don’t make a difference, but they can make the difference in the availability of cars in your vicinity.
Transparency can be a double-edged sword. For a healthy board in a healthy company this would be fine, for one which is already in difficulty it could make the situation worse as the frank conversation that could previously take place at board meetings would be driven underground.

Take for example a company that's at a critical point. Board needs to decide to a)cut costs by laying off some staff b)seek a buyer c)tough it out as some big clients are close to signing next quarter and will pull it through to profitability.

If the board conversation around this topic was public the big clients will probably pull out as they will doubt the supplier's long-term viability, key staff may leave rather than wait to see if they get cut and any buyer will be looking for a firesale.

So basically all the options (in this example) turn bad if the conversation is public.
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It's fairly easy to cache folders in Github actions, we use it for node_modules, the refreshed when the package.json file changes.

See [1] actions/cache for more details.

[1] https://github.com/actions/cache
I mean, Ross just needed to lay down some groove. He was getting the hang of it at the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzcKlgy_a4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p3Rx0t0jiw
So, people who ARE doing it are replying on this thread.

People who don't need 15 FTEs, or even one FTE to take pretty large volumes of payments from many countries in the world.

Another reply is talking about $40 million turnover without a FTE.

The latest revenue figures I can find for meetup is $15 million.

So it begs the question, are you the incompetent and inexperienced one for needing to overengineer, or are we, for doing it cheaply?
Really? What is the rate of test refusal Shane Reustle?
Git - (Chiefly British Slang)
An unpleasant, contemptible, or frustratingly obtuse person.

https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=git

Dolt - A stupid person; a dunce.

https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=dolt
I enjoy this a lot and from time to time I recharge my batteries to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFunvF0mDw
1. Develop a solution with catchy name.

2. ONLY and only after it’s finished, start looking for problem that fits that solution.

3. Realize there is none.

4. ?????

5. Profit!

Gee I wonder why our economy is so ineffective..
I think each just pulls from the system account.
No, it's bullshit.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-one-generation-takin...

> There’s been a lot of finger pointing in the past few days over who isn’t taking the coronavirus seriously. Some have pointed to millennials out at bars or brunch, saying they are not taking recommendations to stay home and avoid crowds to prevent the spread of the virus. Others have gotten frustrated with baby boomers stubbornly carrying on with their weekly gatherings and travel plans. (President Trump asked Americans to avoid unnecessary travel in new national guidelines Monday.)

> But when you look at recent polls, there just isn’t any evidence that one age group is more concerned than another about the spread of the disease. And furthermore, there doesn’t seem to be an age gap in people’s willingness to adopt preventive measures.
I'm surprised nobody mentions Brian Eno. He was a pioneer in ambient music and contributed to a lot of other genres. Look him up if you never heard of him.
I learned about the British meaning from reading the Harry Potter books.
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being free is a huge plus; but more equally or even importantly, it's a better product.
Expect to see more outbreaks and lockdowns in the future, as China has already quietly reopened its wet markets, and unbelievably, they've even resumed selling bats:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163761/Chinese-mar...

The article also features photos of cages stuffed with cats and dogs waiting to be slowly tortured to death with blowtorches (many Chinese believe the more the animal suffers before death, the better the meat will taste) NSFL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bgMmAFN2rs
> "Are you suggesting gitlab ci isn't docker?"

Sorry, I'm honestly not familiar with Gitlab CI. I was just originally mentioning how the use of Docker in Github Actions allowed for amazing flexibility, which I thought was cool.

What makes Gitlab CI a better or more polished API than Github Actions? At first glance they look very similar
Yes, these scratch my itch when im in the right mood. I also find Boards of Canada quite relaxing even though it is a dark nostalgic type with beats. I think repetition in general has different trance inducing effects on ones mood
In the video they tout the X-57 as a contribution to the “urban air mobility market”, arguing that small aircraft can decrease commute times and avoid congestion. This seems very backwards to me. Cars are already very inefficient in their use of space, since they require large amounts of space around them when they are moving at speed. I expect this issue to be significantly worse for aircraft, with the speed they are moving at, the safety distances needed to avoid crashes, and the volume of air they are disturbing around them. While they can potentially make use of the vertical dimension for more space, they still have to move through the surface layer for take-off and landing and will want to stay close to the ground for short trips. And they potentially add a lot of noise to an already noisy urban environment.

I’m all for ambitious research projects pushing the boundaries of electric flight, and there’s probably reasonable use cases for planes like the X-57. But a sustainable urban transport future looks much more like buses and bicycles rather than small electric aircraft.
> it's proposing the exact opposite: to make the common components customizable enough that each design system / UI toolkit can use them rather than rolling their own.

Honestly, that just sounds like re-implementation with extra steps and an extra layer of wrapper/bridge nonsense. If I am going to completely redesign and customize the provided controls, I might as well roll my own. It would be way quicker and easy to maintain than a mountain of hacks on top of each other.
I don’t know anything about the payments software, but most mom and pop websites in America aren’t hurt by not selling to people in those places, or at least not hurt enough to be worth a FTE.
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GM also, unfortunately, has been hammered on demand for their core business - vehicles - right now. They have surplus manufacturing space and human resources and that may continue for anywhere from a few months to the rest of this year (before perhaps slowly recovering from late 2020 through 2021). It fits quite well in terms of context. The medtech companies need to keep their resources focused on producing medical devices, they are unlikely to have the vast manufacturing capability slack that GM is seeing (some of them may have a bit of increased slack as we turn down elective procedures, delay equipment purchases). The ideal is perhaps to have GM (Ford, etc) working with such companies who can help guide them properly in the medtech manufacturing space, utilizing the best of what both bring to the table. Ford is working with GE, GM is working with Ventec.

An interesting Bloomberg article on it:

http://archive.is/SLUlj

Here is the key response to the parent's questions:

"They asked Barra’s team what they needed to make ventilators. GM needed a ventilator-making partner with an established product and a medical sales force."

"For his part, Ventec CEO Chris Kiple said that he needed a partner with mass-manufacturing expertise, factories and a workforce to produce on a huge scale to help cities like New York as patients overwhelm hospitals."