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You say it's about perspective.. And yet you at the same time write something like "how tiny and insignificant we all are, although we think different", then assuming it is not in fact all about perspective, but instead implying that one perspective is somehow more true than the other.

I think that when talking about significance - the perspective is in fact very important, if not the most important factor.

My life is very significant to me, yes. An electron in a transistor is not, and a distant galaxy is not either. This is not a delusion of grandeur or a misguided complex, it is simply a consequence of my perspective. If would be foolish for me to think that a galaxy is more significant than my life is, because I only have this perspective, I will not ever be able to truly shift my perspective (other than in a daydream) into being a galaxy. I am not a galaxy or an electron, I am a human. And yes I am significant.

Saying that my life is not significant would be an attempt by me to remove responsibility for my actual life and escape something I don't like in my life and hide behind some philosophical intellectualizations.
> tomorrow it can take $x out by levying a tax.

Taxes don’t take dollars out of circulation. The government spends those tax dollars immediately after collecting them.

The only way the monetary base can be decreased is by the central bank unwinding its balance sheet.
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An ex-customer here. I had two worse experiences by booking on Oyo.

I got stranded along with my family in the middle of Bangalore city only because I made a payment through the Oyo app and the hotel rejected check-in.

I called the Oyo customer care, talked to 4 different staff for 2 hours, nobody takes the responsibility, neither want to resolve the problem. They finally told me to find some other room myself, refunded my money, and left like nothing has happened ever.

Begged to the hotel owner, got a room for that day, and then booked another room on MakeMyTrip for the remaining two days. The hotel owner said that NO hotels in Bangalore will accept bookings from Oyo, and this has already been communicated with Oyo, but Oyo still accepts bookings and payments.

Oyo replaces the website/phone info of hotels on Google Maps with the Oyo website and number, and this makes hard to contact a hotel directly. So I always collect hotel card/number whenever I visit a hotel.

Uninstalled the Oyo app instantly. Never used Oyo since then.

Ensured that none of my colleagues, friends, and relatives are going to use Oyo again and get cheated.
I think they likely invested a lot to the modern UI stuff, like QtQuick. They also financed the initial PySide project to get LGPL licensed Python bindings for Qt (PyQt is GPL/commercial license only).

But indeed, in other areas such as non-Nokia mobile platforms they even blocked progress. It was only after Nokia let go that the Android port really took off and was mainlined for example.
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Right. I am somewhat clueless but this feels like the FED helping banks not people?
Teaching/academia being a job has nothing to do with the comment you replied to, and even if it were, I'm curious how would you replace academical research "with the internet"?
Your question for examples of severe deflation is a bit like questioning the social distancing measures against COVID-19: If the policies work, it looks like they are useless - after all, deflation never really happens, right?

The US had many deflational episodes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#/media/File:US_Histo...

But none since Bretton Woods.

The current deflational examples like Hong Kong and Japan are no hell holes because deflation was 0.1% (HK) or 2% (Japan) - because of monetary and fiscal interventions.
That would be much too complicated. Just imagine such a model with OpenCV or some of the other big C++ frameworks. Selling framework licenses is just an outdated business model. It would make more sense to release the Qt framework under BSD and make money with add-on services (as other companies actually do successfully).
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Revenue of what?
> to encourage success

Scammers, arbitrage stock-traders, and opioid drug marketers can also achieve success... On the other hand, some endeavors "succeed" by not-failing and being out of sight and out of mind, e.g. a plumbing installation. You don't think of your "daily plumbing success".

So, I'd say not success which should be encouraged, it is well-directed and well-applied effort.

PS - The plumbing example can well be adapted to nearly any pursuit, definitely including software.
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So... You probably need PostGIS if you’re writing a GIS/NIS style application or do analysis but not to show a few map pins on Google Maps.

I personally like it and don’t even feel like it’s very “heavy” like the article implies. Great performance even when running locally on my laptop in my dev environment and with tens of thousands of objects in the topology. :)
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> so I really don't understand how they have become such a massively successful billion dollar company.

Bullshit and Newspaper advertorials can go a long way in getting funding and then grabbing market.
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Inflation indices do include rent and real estate. Housing costs is the single largest component in CPI.

Equities have had a gigantic bull market since an incredible low after the financial crisis. Of course it costs significantly more to buy at the top of the market than at the bottom.
You're most likely not going to get a response from an email or a tweet. To get his attention, put in some legwork.

1- Create a website: http://IhaveaCOVIDsolution.com ,
On the website, outline your idea, why it would work, put a personal video of a story etc..
2-Email the website to everyone who knows Bill. Track if he opens it for free with Email Tracking, Scheduling, Templates & Attachment Tracking.
3-If he doesn't open it, tweet it to him.
4-A week later, follow up on your email
5-Find where many of his followers (on Twitter) hang out, which hashtags do many use. Post your website and use that hashtag. Or, tweet each of them individually.
6-Find posts on Quora about Covid-19 solutions, post your idea (for free) and post your website.
7-A week later follow up again with Bill. Also, reach out to other Gates foundation Execs. Reach out to Melinda or Microsoft execs(ex-Msft friends also) and get ignored (will toughen you up). Maybe 1 of them will want a phone call.
Find Bill's address, write him a hand-written letter and send the website URL as well.

At some point, he will either:

Answer, quick email from him. Best case a phone call.
His publicist will say "Thanks, Bill will look at your ideas." You'll never hear from them again

Maybe he won't answer, but at some point you'll get someone to respond and perhaps become a client to your solution.
There are some things really neat in the switf example that they compare to python, like the literal range similar to ruby's, the fact that "+" is a function like in lisp, although I'm really not fan of the CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent().

But the python example doesn't make me trust the rest of the article. It is clearly a swift example, translated verbatim to python.

Idiomatic Python would be this:

import time
for it in range(15):
start = time.time()
total = sum((it,) * 3000)
end = time.time()
print(end - start, total)

Which is shorter, and way faster.

Now of course, Python is slower than swift (although a numpy version would not be, but I get it's not relevant in general purpose machine learning). But misrepresenting a language is not a good way to make a point.
[Sorry for the late reply.]

> If the data is clear enough, you can still pull a signal out of the noise.

It is theoretically possible, but very difficult. Unless you use a lot of people in the trial, but then you must ensure that the measurements are done in a consistent way.

> in my version it's a general hospital and they give the treatment to everyone that has this diagnosis

Does it include pregnant women and babies with less than 1 year? Does it include people with more than 90 years? Does it include people that goes to the hospital in an ambulance because they are almost dying, like a hearth attack? Does it include someone that had one of the lungs removed and is under a chemotherapy treatment?

What about people that can't sign the form for the experimental treatment? Just signing a form is a selection of people that is not toooooooooooooooooooo bad.

What about asymptomatic people? Does your are has the same policy to test everyone/someone/noone than the region you are comparing with? What about the effects of temperature or humidity?

What about diet? Poor people may have a bad diet, with a low amount of vitamins and that can affect the illness. Some countries drink a lot of milk and some very few, some countries add vitamins to the milk.

What about the median income? If the city has a few hospitals, there will be one closer to the poor area and other closer to the rich one. Some people has health plan that include one hospital(s) but not other hospital(s). How does it affect the selection of people in the hospital? Different countries have a different definition of poor.

Some hospital are famous and get more of the strange/difficult cases after the standard hospitals give up or realize it is a complex case.

I may be missing other factor, or overestimating some of them, but it is very difficult to be sure that you know all the things that change the cure rate and that you can correct the result.
I work on side projects if it's something that interests me. Otherwise, I try not to make programming my life. I have other interests in politics, film, etc. that I would also prefer to pursue.
On top of that, WebEx quality is way worse than zoom
>> The Qt Company is proud to be committed to its customers, open source, and the Qt governance model.

Bull.

From January (eg ~2.5 months ago) they've stopped people being able to download the Open Source Windows, macOS, and Linux versions of Qt without first signing up for a "Qt Account".

eg you're now required to be tracked / able to be spammed / (etc) for even the OSS version of Qt.

That's not how companies "committed to Open Source" do things. :(

The crap they're reported as wanting to do now, is right in line with their demonstrated anti-OSS direction.
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At a glance the article doesn't seem to mention military motivations which are probably gonna be the driving force of lunar exploration.
Given the US has been involved in a war for decades that's a rather broad brush
If things were really different over the
past decade than any other

I did not state that. I only stated that FED-money doubled in 2010-2020 and the value of money halfed.

I said nothing about any other decade.

Maybe the same happened in 2000-2010 or any other decade, maybe not. It is not part of my statement.
Get Refactoring UI (https://refactoringui.com/book/)! I LOVE this book. It teaches you a bunch of rules, and has a component library with examples of things that look good.
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We can’t print more gold.
Even in the U.S. I’m not sure where this myth of SWE being the most well paid industry comes from. Try many finance jobs and big law, also medicine in certain specializations. They all pay much better than 95% of all software engineering jobs. It’s also well known that to be an incredibly high paid SWE, you need to be at a large public tech company. That means you’re making a huge bet on their stock - the folks making bank there do so because their equity has appreciated massively. I think one reason for the pervasiveness of this myth is that engineers talk about the fact that they are paid well. Folks in other industries are much quieter about it.
Zoom tends to just work more reliably than other solutions in my experience.
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For everything font related I've enjoyed this site/book - lot's of explanations and opionated in a good way: https://practicaltypography.com/ there is also a chapter on layout/ui.

I stumbled up it while browsing https://htdp.org/2019-02-24/ and discovering Matthew Butterick
1. Because most people fail a lot in a lot of things.

2. Because failure often doesn't depend on you, and extremely often is at least partially dependent on external factors and context.

3. Because it's not that useful (psychologically) as opposed to other engagement approahces.

4. Because it can and will be misused to punish those who are disfavorable to the punishing establishment.

and last but not least:

5. Because the social systems which need to be in place in order to punish failure, and the ethos necessary for the punishers and for legitimization of the punishers' concrete acts, are themselves repressive to the general populace and make life a worse experience for everyone.
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Maybe the worst part: once you know how to beat Myst, you can start over and beat it again in 5 minutes. Either way, the ending is pretty lame.
I can’t force other people not to use changes, which means I will always need the latest version of rustc installed if I want to be able to build a relatively complete selection of the corpus of Rust code, which in turn makes it very difficult if not impossible for rust software to be distributed in typical OS package managers.

I.e., imagine how Debian or Ubuntu could package things if the definition of C++ changed every six weeks, given that the compiler version should change as little as possible during a major OS version cycle? This is a major blocker holding Rust back from mainstream adoption, IMO.
>It's inhumane to oversee a system with the capability to feed and house its entire population and refuse to do so for procedural reasons. (Welfare gap, Section 8 waiting lists)

>The system does not dole out failure meritocratically, therefore the existence of a total failure state will mean earnest and reasonably industrious individuals will still fail by chance alone. (Rust belt)

>The official sanctioning of a failure state is the impetus for a black market safety net, where failure is precluded at the cost of rule of law. (Drug-dealing, prostitution, gang-controlled ghettoes)

It's a hole in the ship's hull.
Just look at other essetial, widely used frameworks like OpenCV, Skia, Chromium, LibreOffice, just to name a few. In each such open source project a couple of companies are involved who can affort to dedicate a couple of developers to work on the open source frameworks they're using but which are not their income. This is a "coopetition" among companies and everyone benefits from it. In the case of Qt it's restricted because The Company sells licences of work which was done by others (companies and private people) for free.
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"For the purposes of this blog, we will narrowly define blockchains as a Byzantine-fault tolerant consensus protocol"

I don't think this is a useful definition. Blockchains are about trust and control, not Byzantine fault tolerance.
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Among a few tidbits, this seems interesting:

> ...the 40-year-old mainframes that process those claims are being overloaded...

As usual, executives/gov. administrators just want the techies to "just get in there and fix it"! As if, decades of insufficient attention (and funds) to computing infrastructure can be fixed in a 2-week sprint of COBOL devs by the wave of a senior leader's hand. Pffft. Wait until issues start happening to real-live infrastructure, like bridges and roads...oh wait, that's right. /s
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I mainly write about things that are on my mind or stuff that I struggle with.

* People Who Are Obsessed With Success and Prestige - https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/obsessed-with-success-and-...

* I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money - https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/making-money-out-of-every-...

* Where Are All the Fun Software Engineer Jobs? - https://www.bennettnotes.com/post/where-are-all-the-exciting...
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Right, individual targeting before the Internet was basically limited to mail. But a billboard is still targeted to a population! There are different ads on billboard in Times Square versus a rural stretch of Nevada interstate for a reason.

You can control which sites you’re paying to run your ad on the Internet, just like anywhere else. The idea that internet advertising must be wholly indiscriminate without spying on and targeting individuals is absurd.
> The kind of inflation we have right now mostly affects the stock market

Annualized S&P 500 Return with Dividends Reinvested from april 2010 to april 2020 are 9.694% [0] which is entirely in line with historical returns [1]. I wouldn't call that inflation.

[0]: https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#Performance
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Gold gets used in electronics, so real world demand is up, and it's actually fairly hard to extract. This is being made harder by environmental protections that are making it illegal in many places to do things that are more efficient but come at a high environmental cost.

I wish we would actively foster panning for gold. It's environmentally friendly. It's "blue collar" work that doesn't require a college degree, spiffy resume and do forth and it doesn't take much gold per year to potentially support someone who otherwise might be homeless or flipping burgers (or both).
I needed triggering behavior that the restrictions on their Stacked ROI mode(s) didn't let me rig up.

The project is doing a sort of frameless capture off a conventional sensor, so I was hoping to use Stacked ROI as a sort of threshold trigger for selective updates, but (for entirely good technical reasons) there are ordering, size, and number limitations on how the regions can be configured.
> This is inaccurate. If the government pumps $x into the economy today, tomorrow it can take $x out by levying a tax.

It is true that the statement is inaccurate, but the way to reverse is by destroying money (e.g., burning it).
The Qt Company (QTCOM). They're publicly traded, so they have to publish yearly financial statements.

Their employee count has also doubled, which is why they're not making any profits despite the revenue growth.

Edit: Ah, you're pointing out that only 25% of their revenue is commercial licenses, while most of their revenue is consulting. I don't know if that's really such a big deal.
I had an internship in an investment company, the devs were in the same open space as the traders… At least it calmed down once the market were closed.
If you do, it shouldn't be:

>Failure shouln't be hunger and homelessness...
Rust isn't meant to be functional but rather a redesigned C++, even if it draws a lot of inspiration from OCaml and friends.

So I can see why they went with something different for error handling.
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Some companies write code that's public, and then, while it might still suck, there is at least some motivation for improving it, and a better chance of it being paletable.
>How exactly does one overcome these kinds of challenges if not through grassroots organized movements?

Don't work for them, don't buy their products, spread the word. It's not easy but nothing worth doing is.
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If you know enough about their business model to state that it doesn't work, then you know the answer to that question. So why do you ask, what are you trying to say?
Printing money is not the same thing as creating resources. Resources are the backbone of wealth! No resources, no wealth. All resources begin with human activity. No activity, no resources. Reduced activity, reduced resources, reduced wealth. Even hunter gathers had to hunt and had to gather.
A richer world (both from more people and more economic activity) increases demand for things like jewelery, more use for gold (booming semiconductors) increases demand too.

There's then the perception that in bad times gold is a "safe bet". Low returns in savings accounts too.
Hearing about Myst and CD-ROMs reminds me of my trouble with the sequel, Riven:

Riven came on multiple CDs. When you moved from area to area you had to swap the discs in your PC. I got part way through the game and it said "Please insert disc 5". I couldn't see any disc 5 and wondered if this was some kind of clever, 4th wall breaking puzzle.

Well, turns out the jewel case would open up an extra door and the 5th disc was there. It wasn't supposed to be a puzzle, it was just unexpected...
How would unions help anything? Modern examples (such as teachers unions) seem to reward mediocrity and encourage paying into failing pensions
https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=pio

https://github.com/SWI-Prolog/swipl-devel/blob/master/librar...

this (I assume) is the library(pio) mentioned in the github issue
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I completely agree. There are alot of new graduates looking at the world saying "I'm screwed". No you're not! I've survived the dot com bust as a DBA, and both recent oil busts while working in energy. You too, will be great if you're reading this. We need more hope, more love, more encouragement right now. Be a part of the solution instead of more doom and gloom (and criticism).
Hi there!
A few days ago I launched the COVID-19 timeline application: https://covid-gauss.site. I was curious about the actual timeline structure and a little annoyed by people in the media saying that the whole thing would last for months without any grounds for this kind of thesis.

I am not a scientist. This is a simple approximation to the Gaussian curve (so one of the possible mathematical models) and for now - nothing more. But for many countries such as Italy, Spain, Germany, the US, etc, the curve seems to be more accurate as the days go by.

I know the app is not perfect, updates will come. I surely need to make the model more stable.

Two days ago I heard in the media that in Germany couple hundred people died and more than 4000 got infected. That's bad. But if you look at the curve, you will see that for the day that was the exact estimate, 20000 more infections will come (resulting in 140000 total cases) and the whole party will end in 4 weeks. And that's a slightly different perspective.

Estimates are made for each country separately.

What do you think?

https://covid-gauss.site/

~ etp.

PS. The code is open sourced and can be found here: https://github.com/eatthatpie/covid-gauss. Please keep in mind that some parts of the code are still a bit messy. ;)
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“Know” is perhaps strong, but there are studies pointing that way.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

https://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_le-coronavirus-pourr...
C++ only changes every 3 years. It’s hardly comparable to Rust’s every-six-weeks churn.
Just have a look with what they earn money. The other stuff is just holding on to an illusion.
I am reading it correctly that the article is suggesting to install the earthdistance extension instead of PostGIS when needing distances between points. Why not go for PostGIS instead then?