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A percentage of Wall Street firms are crony capitalism based theft. What percent do you think that is?

Here is a case of the banking industry/WallStreet selling out the American citizens. Congress won't hold them accountable, because congress sells out American citizens.
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I believe Japan Post offers(ed?) this service. They had the best FX exchange rates, as well.
They aren't building anything. They are storing data to S3, B2, and Internet Archive [1]. The fact that they are storing to multiple providers means that the costs should be higher than yourself just storing on one provider. That is before taking into consideration that the dividends on the trust need to meet the cost. The return on $10 needs to cover the costs of storing in S3 and B2.

https://www.permanent.org/digital-archives/maintaining-acces...
I think the comments about suicide are a bit of a red herring.

There are many reasons why death rates increase with economic hardship and I do not think this is a significant one. More significant are changes to factors which are already leading causes of death (cancer and heart disease). In the short term, examples are how many treatable cancers are not being found or how many people are skipping other medical procedures. In the long term, how many life-years would have been saved with tax money which is lost. Even with socialized medicine, countries have budgets which need to balanced, and not every procedure is available to everyone who could benefit.

This study [1] estimated 260,000 extra deaths from treatable cancers from 2008 to 2010 in the OECD. One should ask how will this scale when additional diseases are considered and how the current economic impact will compare.

I'm not saying that I know what the correct choice is here, and perhaps we will never know, but it isn't as simple as saving lives vs suicide.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Some of the most fun I've ever had coding has been creating "complex" SQL queries. The syntax is something that can only be overcome with memorization, but it becomes second-nature fairly quickly.

Until I started thinking about SQL as manipulating sets it never "clicked". Once it did, though, a whole world of applications filled with mismatched procedural thinking mapped on to SQL was revealed to me, and my own work became much easier.
I don't know if it's a class thing so much as an aspiration thing. In my diverse community, which could be broadly characterized as "middle -class/upper middle class black, lower-middle class/middle class white," it was the people who put on airs who had the biggest problems with me getting higher marks than them. There was also a transition; when I was younger, I got the most guff from the ghetto-fabulous black kids and got along relatively well with the white kids. Starting in middle school and intensifying in high school, the black kids seemed to chill and the hostility and ostracization from the white kids grew. I attribute this to the changing social dynamics: while the black kids who weren't getting the best-of-the-best scores had already been tracked into standard classes and could read the writing on the wall in terms of how academia was going to treat them going forward, the mediocre, insecure, and would-be upwardly-mobile white kids were becoming aware of the precariousness of their situation. They'd been boosted beyond their natural ability by savvy parents and a system set up to do so. An aloof black kid waltzing into class and getting by with little effort was threatening. God forbid he learn to study.
While you're not wrong, there are plenty of inactive voters, I sincerely doubt they'd vote in any way that isn't already highly consistent with how votes are already allotted. Say there are 40% of inactive voters (the number is much higher in the US) and you get them all to vote somehow. I'm willing to bet those votes don't dramatically shift election outcomes in any significant way (beyond ~1%). Sure, that'd help in close races, but not much else.
Is there a server-side filter that would kill these mails before they get sent to the device?
If consumer buying power drops too low relative to production, you enter the downward cycle seen in 1929.

Where consumer earnings come from in the future is crucially connected to how society decides who owns the robots.
Lawsuits claim banks prioritized loans to large businesses. JPMorgan disputes those allegations, claiming it processed loans fairly. By fairly it means it put all the small business loans in one large FIFO queue, and all the large business loans in a separate much shorter FIFO queue. Effectively prioritizing large business loans.
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This is the wrong way to think about it. Rates are nearly negative, so 2% is practically 10, 100X the rates banks can earn otherwise. It's basically free money shoveled into banks, a massive boon.
Everyone knows Electron apps are slow. For you to argue that it's "fast enough" but not acknowledge the common understanding, or that you're stating an opinion against accepted fact, comes across as bad faith.

Now you're pulling the "I don't want to argue / this is a flame war" but it's not. Also, after that, you still take shots (every point you bring up comes from a lack of experience). Do you want to argue, or not? Sounds like you do.

So, if you do, make sure you have some experience with (objectively) faster tools and bring some data with you if you're going to defend the unpopular position.
Wouldn't that money better spent on archive.com?

This site will only cares to people who know about it and care enough to use it, while archive.org fossilize every site out there, from simplistic 10 line html file to wordpress sites to news websites.
>programming languages are very poor at bridging the difference between the SQL domain and the language domain

Depends a lot on the language. I've lost countless hours to things like JOOQ trying to figure out how to get it to do what I want, or express the query in its quirky not-quite-right DSL, plus dealing with mappings, pojos, auto-generation, and so on.

However, on the other hand, in a dynamic language with just enough support to move the result of your queries into a map of key/value, I feel no friction at all. I'm using little more than a simple jdbc wrapper in Clojure and even after months on the project, I'm still just continuously stoked with seamless the whole thing is.
Slow carbs instead fast carbs.
Consume way less sugar.
Eat way more veggies.

Honestly if you can afford it, just start shopping at farmers markets and buy local seasonal veggies.

> Without context, we may not even be talking about the same thing.

I hear you. But maybe this is also because of the brainwashing of the American mind by advertising and corporate-funded biased studies. I've found that in the US it is hard not to buy 'processed food', because nearly everything is processed. I also believe processed foods are why average American life expectancy is so low.
I've read that SSDs can't be used to replace HDDs for long-term archival use: if you leave them powered off for too long, the data degrades. I can store data long-term on a regular HDD and stick in a closet or safe-deposit box and then get it out after a few years, plug it in, and read it just fine.
It’s a tough market because there’s really no inventory. At least some produce can be kept in storage for a little while. When the flowers are ready they either need to be sold or they go bad.

Then of course all the “regulars” have stopped buying. In big cities like NYC the big office buildings usually all have fresh flowers deferred weekly for the lobby but that’s all stopped. Weddings, galas and other events are all canceled.
> milking Tsarist legacy

I call it "preserving tradition."
How?

India had some of the cheapest plans in the world, and the indian telecom market is famous for having the lowest if not among the lowest ARPU rates in the world.

Do you have a source or reference point for this?
Bailout?

It's not a bailout. Prices were negative! We'd literally be _getting paid_ to take oil and put it into our reserve. It's literally the easiest financial decision on the planet.

The fact that Pelosi blocked it demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of basic finance.
So there are tools that autoformat as you type?

let longVariableName = "hello " + this.name;

magically becomes

const longVariableName = `hello ${this.name}`;

without visually flagging it, just autocorrects as I type?

And... I can just quickly swap settings for different clients? Because one has eslint block any PRs that don't have "prefer template" rules followed but another client doesn't like that style, and don't want that style in their code because it conflicts with existing style.
Does the compiler guarantee constant time? If not, it's still useless for cryptography. If it does, then it becomes useless for regular work because plain bigint will kick it's ass on performance, especially when doing division.

This is an efficiency hack for fpga.
The UK Post Office did offer banking. Not sure if it survived Thatcher..
> and don't think it's any less "snappy" than a native app.

I have tried to adopt vs code multiple times and just end up going back to (n)vim, where opening a file is instantaneous and I never have latency when typing, etc.

However I do find Jetbrains' products like CLion/Goland are pretty nice.
Bank charging 2% on this flow is criminal, in the sense that interest rates are nearly negative, so 2% is practically 10, 100X the rates banks can earn otherwise. It's basically free money shoveled into banks, a massive boon.
It's not that hard. Just assume control of some bankrupt bank or even contract out the backend, and put terminals in post offices. When Bank of America merged with a few others, they actually operated several of the old banks at once for awhile.

Medicare uses the latter model for claims processing -- big insurance companies bid on processing, subrogation, etc.
Which ORMs are bad for queries? Most popular ORMs these days expose most of sql in a language-specific DSL (and some allow you to splice in bits of raw sql in a semi-structured way as an escape hatch). Sure, you still need to learn to "think in sql", to use these effectively, but the ORM has not been the problem for a long time in most languages.
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Aren't these robots so expensive only because they are sold in low volumes?

It seems to me that if mass produced, they should at lesat cost less than entry-level cars, since they are a similar size/weight and simpler, so less than 15k.

And it also feels like they should cost a similar amount to premium versions of appliances like dishwashers/washing machines/etc., so in the 1-5k range.
> How on earth would voting actually solve something like this?

The solution is not voting directly, although voting is part of the solution.

The solution is to form and fund a political action body, equivalent to the NRA or MADD or NAACP; define its remit broadly enough to cover all important aspects of the problem but narrowly enough it can draw members from across the political spectrum and won't be impossible to satisfy; recruit lots and lots of members; hire some competent lobbyists; issue candidate endorsements at every election and THEN vote.

Opposing corruption isn't only a Silicon Valley concern, but it's always struck me that the Silicon Valley community could have a lot of political power if there was a collective will to grasp it: SV regularly gambles tens of millions of dollars on uncertain returns, and the median SV worker has much more disposable income than the median NRA member.
With negative prices, it's literally the dumbest financial decision not to take the oil - whatever the quantity we're talking about.
Practically speaking, I would wait until things improve with the pandemic and economy. Phone it in, do the minimum. A lot of people are doing this now, I think. The lock down, isolation, etc. is very bad mentally. No one will blame you for being less productive. Worst case: you get laid off and collect unemployment?
> A chart published by the NYT:

Do you have a link to the source?
Post Bank formed from Deutsche Bank. Which was made infamous for loaning Donald Trump loads of money on highly questionable terms.
Can you say any ways life changed due to the 1918 pandemic? Do most people even know about more recent ones? (1958?)

People are terrible at adjusting, we keep asking for (our definition of) "normal"
When you look at SQL from a logical/set-based perspective, it is by no means unintuitive. Basically, all you do is join all the tables you need and then filter out everything you don't need and maybe do an aggregation here and there.
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10% of the capacity at what was NEGATIVE $30 per barrel is still a lot of extra money for doing literally nothing.

Anyone not filling any available storage is a huge idiot.
Where does the money currently come from? Currently, it's paid to companies by consumers, which pay workers, which in turn, consume things.

So an alternate path would be money is paid to companies by consumers, which are taxed, the tax money is redistributed to consumers again.

It seems a bit circular, but so does the first one.
What incentive does bank have to actually do due diligence, when the loans are all guaranteed by government?
People are working on cheaper arms and we should soon have ones for under $10K. Ex: Pieter Abbeel from UC Berkeley https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/04/09/meet-blue-the-low-cost-...

https://github.com/berkeleyopenarms
Masks tell me who is taking this thing seriously, and who might not be.
Banks do that for many programs. For many different services, banks function as a less efficient and more expensive bureaucracy than the government itself.
Doesn't fit on the screen?
> Perhaps the early founders get out with a bunch of money, and maybe that's the point
I don't think that's what they are saying. Even if he is still the best, there is interest to be found in music past Bach. Otherwise, why did anyone bother continuing to make music?
Theoretically it's possible to have a not-buggy vim. It's not fair to exclude everyone who is able to configure a more performant editor just because you can't.

Your claim that "in the actual world it doesn't exist" is just not true. Thousands of lifetime vim/emacs users are scratching their heads.
I am enraged that Bernie Sanders was denied this opportunity. In my humble opinion, it's still better to write in and vote for him than for Trump or Biden. A tax on those making more than 5 million? Is that a sick joke? What wealthy person got there with a salaried job? Tax investments. Tax asset holding groups. Tax anything but jobs and homes, you monsters!
Businesses are not a charity - according to reported Q1 earnings last week they're losing million of dollars everyday just keeping the lights on.

They've lost far more even with the fees they collected from this program.

As someone said above - doctors are not working for free, why should bank employees?
Paqing idlewords.
-That inherent right may, however, be repealed by Congress and state legislatures (not that I can see THAT happen).

To amend our Constitution, two sessions of Parliament -with an election inbetween- must ratify the change proposed at two thirds majority.

That being said, long-standing consensus on Article 100 is that any power-that-be attempts to mess with §100 at their own peril.
We have this in Ireland!

https://www.anpost.com/Money
Yes, keep C clean and add all the cruft to another language derived from C. We could call the new language C++.
What issues are there with the privacy policies? Did I miss something?
In an ideal world applicants should be able to shop around and get the lowest rate. Is this not happening due to the rush of just getting in the application?
Cloth masks can definitely help though. They are good at one thing in particular, reducing spread and velocity of air movement from your face. If you breath, cough, or sneeze, the transmission distance is highly reduced. You still have virus escaping, but it cannot travel as far.
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It’s a shame how the ruins have been left filthy and unattended.
A Phoenician king’s tomb from multiple millenia BCE is littered with cans of soda and plastic bottles.

When I brought friends from Europe to see Lebanon, we saw, I kid you not, the tour guide throwing an empty plastic water bottle down the crater that held sarcophagi.
I don't think that counts as a formatting issue. Yes, if your clients have hard rules about different coding styles at that level then it's not a technology problem (nor is it likely solvable with technology). I assumed we were talking about formatting issues like tabs-vs-spaces, in which case yes every single project could be different but auto-fixed.
It's probably not at the same level of granularity that Google is trying to accomplish here, but I believe that power-hungry commercial systems have tried to move to when power is cheapest for many years now.

Aluminum Foundries in particular are extremely power intensive and have been run during off-peak times (or are built in areas with cheap plentiful electricity like nearby hydro-electric dams).

Still, i'd love to see this concept made a lot easier for the average consumer. Many people already have smart thermostats, why can't that talk to my power generation company and allow me to over heat/cool when the impact is lowest? Why can't my dish washer run automatically when it would impact the world the least? Why can't my EV automatically charge when power is most available?

I know most of those things are possible, but they sure as hell aren't easy, and IMO they won't truly have an impact until they're on by default and don't require the user to do much of anything.

These things seem like they are easily doable, but we just need the different industries to work together to come up with ways to have all of this stuff interoperate.
Henry Rollins uses a great food analogy:

Listening to the music you know and love is like carbohydrates, discovering new stuff is the protein(the meat).
A lot of the world still runs on C99, and a lot of (toy or academic) compilers are written for C0 (a simple, small, safe C subset). Even when a new C version gains more features you can still develop against C99, C0, or whatever version you prefer.
It’s so extra in its absurdism that I’d rather believe in sinister intent than systemic stupidity.

The delivery address is the smallest possible font hidden behind screens. The endless dinging etc makes no sense. I feel like people designing apps have never actually used them. Or maybe it’s all designed to make one so frustrated as to question the nature of reality.
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I don't think dying patients love bugs, either.
“Xi Jingping consolidated power by rallying people around the flag of anti-corruption. Same with Putin. Obviously, neither of those people is anywhere close to non-corrupt.“

So did trump with the talk of “deep state” and the “swamp”. It’s always the same playbook.
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Yes, SQL's biggest fault is that it's not very composable. Complex queries end up being long and repetitive, and the order of the parts of a query is totally unintuitive (it should go something like: FROM, GROUP BY, SELECT, ORDER BY rather than SELECT, FROM, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, which makes autocompletion hard).
To all those who are simply saying voting is the answer, no that’s too simplistic and ignores the root of the problem. When the real difference between both parties is down to nothing and they’re both representing the monied and corporate interests, and when their immense power (funded by those interests) prevents alternatives you don’t really have anyone you can vote for who represents you, instead of the money. That’s the core of our issue in this country.

If you don’t understand this just look deeper at the bailout and how they voted for it when they could’ve changed it. It contains all kinds of loot for those interests and things that are easy to say no to. It was drafted by the Republicans who control the Senate and the Democrats who control the house could’ve stripped out the controversial parts like the Mnuchin slush fund and passed the uncontroversial parts like the paycheck protection program. They could’ve stripped out the $170 billion real estate tax break. Etc. and passed those in the house that they control. Then forced the Republicans to go on the record as refusing to pass paycheck protection unless they get a slush fund and billionaire tax break. That’s politics. But they didn’t because the powers in the Democrat party wanted those things too. Which is also why they didn’t do an on the record vote for it.

Another simple recent example is to look at the funding in the Democrat primary. Over $1 billion was spent in a panic against a social democrat who wants people to have health care. It’s an incredible figure. That wasn’t money from people that was money from the extremely wealthy and corporate interests.

The solutions are:

1. Abolish the senate. It’s wholly undemocratic. This is the hardest but in time it may be whittled down to more of a ceremonial function like in most other countries that have two chambers. Meanwhile implement instant run off voting for Senators.

2. Implement STV with multi member districts for the House so that we have more proportional representation and voting for other outsider candidates becomes feasible.

3. Increase the size of the house to 650 members to improve representation.

4. Solve the money in politics problem. Perhaps public financing of elections is right. Perhaps tighter controls of campaign financing are possible and other anti corruption measures to prevent lobbyists passing money to officials.

5. Instant run off for election of the president.

Two organizations that you may find good places to start are:

https://www.fairvote.org/

https://represent.us/

PS: I will also add you do need to let your feelings be known to your representative. Call your local representative to express it. More people should do this because it can have an impact and tells them that people are watching. (We all like to complain about our representatives but how many of us ever express our issues to them?)

And at some point later there may be more protests and demonstrations after what has happened. Be prepared to join them. Big change has always required this.
Depends on opinion; some also really like the O'Reilly book.
"Banks earned origination fees of 5% on loans of up to $350,000; 3% on loans between $350,000 and $2 million; and 1% on loans between $2 million and $10 million. That means they earned $17,500 for processing a $350,000 loan, compared with $100,000 for a $10 million loan."

This seems ludicrously high for what is effectively clerical work -- checking some boxes, ensuring a company meets various criteria -- and money distribution. I get that smaller orgs are likely harder to check out (less income history, poorer quality financial records), but is the $350,000th dollar really 200 basis points more effort for a bank than the $350,001st?

It's not as if they're being compensated for risk-taking. It's not on the bank balance sheet; this is government money. They're getting 5% just for doling it out. Unreal.
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How is scalability easy to bolt on? Most companies end up rewriting their entires stack, multiple times.
That key word appears nowhere in the quote.