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Your use case doesn't have to be everyone else's.
As opposed to Kotlin or Scala, Java is a great choice for performance-sensitive applications because there's (almost) no syntactic sugar that produces throw-away objects and induces unnecessary memory pressure.
It works and it's easy to test.

When I started machinist shop it took me wayyy longer to profit from that shop than dropshipping.

Testing is easier and cheaper. Just don't buy bullshit course from idiots.

It takes special type of person to crack dropshipping. If you know how conversion rates work, you've basic math, design, and copyrighting skills and you know how statistics work, you can make good money.

That said, don't go crazy with greed or you'll blow up your merchant processing account - that's a huge problem to recover from.

You don't want bunch of angry customers and if you are totally unempathic to them, you'll lose in long run.
Agreed. I should have included political will as part of the infrastructure. I was highlighting how the Fed is geared in such a way that makes it very difficult for it to automatically deliver support to anything other than large institutions/finance etc given the patchy nature of US benefit systems. If political class deemed it necessary it would exist but they don’t so it doesn't.
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If you're on my Facebook feed (which you likely aren't) then you'll see a bunch of people basically saying, "I'm going to live my life and do what I want. Enjoy your quarantine." There's a non-trivial segment of the US population that are ignoring the quarantine and openly flaunting their behavior.
PROJECTION’s. Not aliens. NYT isn’t reporting the reality of what these are. And nobody is. It’s impossible to argue with people who won’t take the description of the objects at face value. Bouncing around like a ping pong ball at super sonic speed and then hovering over the water isn’t something any object with mass can do.
It's simple. But it's expensive and it's not necessarily foolproof in a serious crash.
What do you mean by ”verify” in this context? Are you looking for a formal proof?

Do you have any examples of aspects that could make the obscurantism of Nock necessary?
Yes, I'm not disputing the article. I'm summarizing it and pointing out some caveats for people who aren't familiar with how this works.
Obviously this is the case wrt. the newest process nodes, but there's plenty of older technology that's perfectly usable for some applications. Even preferable in some cases e.g. for analog devices.
One of my good friends follows a strategy like this by simply buying puts against SPX. He is very bearish on the market in general, and has missed out on a lot of growth in the last decade, but in his case it did “finally pay off” recently.

As with any other strategy, though, it’s not really valid to compare just the recent months, you’d have to evaluate his total return over say the last ten years, and I don’t know how that stacks up.
Seems that'd be an argument for x86, not against it. Especially now when AMD is quite competitive.

> starting sometime around 2020

That prediction hasn't proven wrong yet, but it's looking increasingly unlikely. If the Mac were a bigger part of their revenues, they'd probably be further along in the transition though.
> This can be solved not by changing how plastic is used but simply by pressuring those governments to implement trash collection.

Or both.
Dear god those charts are useless. Different scales all lined up next to each other, no clue as to the value of the bottom of the y axis, no clue as to what the baseline or the peak numbers are, no ability to actually inspect the data... Who are they hiring to do this nonsense at NYT?
Recursive RegEx has always been confusing to me.

https://www.rexegg.com/regex-recursion.html
The shutdown wouldn't happen if the coronavirus wasn't spreading. It's the indirect cause, remove it and the hospitals aren't shut down.
And I already said there’s no point encrypting /root. “Root” isn’t a user you should be using day to day so the root home directory should be mostly empty.

Thus if an attacker has root access then it’s literally everything else apart from /root that you need to be worried about. Hence why I discuss disk encryption.
Shipping source maps allows for better error-reporting instrumentation, and can also be a great help if you need to debug an issue you're not able to reproduce in a local or staging environment.
I wonder if these threads are less busy on months (like this one) where the 1st is a Friday. For many of us, when this is posted it's already the weekend.
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My main issue was when making code modifications. If I wanted to add an argument to a function I would have to find and fix tens of calls to that function in order to convince the compiler to infer the type that I wanted so I could use its error messages to find and fix the rest of the calls. In hindsight, I should've written annotations by hand for functions I had to modify.
It sounds like two people have some difficult circumstances to work with one another in and are handling it quite well. I don't think it needs to be 'dealt with'. Unless you're their manager or have a close personal relationship you should under no circumstances get involved.
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It's not even partially ready, but that's not the point - it was more credibly possible when it was acquired by Google then it was when it was initially funded by the public.
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> No block can be copyrighted without logical contradictions, because blocks used for re-assembling a source file block are re-used for re-assembly of other source file blocks. It is undecidable who would have copyright on a block, which has several meanings. Everyone would have copyright on everything.

That's a hopelessly naive, almost sovcit-level take on law. The lawyers and judges will not give an iota of a fuck for this argument. The facts are, someone uploaded a copyrighted work to the system. Someone else downloaded it out of the system.

The classic "What Colour are your bits" is relevant here:

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
This report from 2018 explains how they outperformed the S&P 500 over the 10 years to that point:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-22/how-fund-betting-e...
> And x86 CPUs still are required to support 16-bit devices from 35 years ago.

I heard somewhere that this year Intel was going to begin to phase out support for BIOS, which would allow Intel to eliminate CPUs booting up in "real mode".

I think as long as plain PCI is something supported, some sort of 16-bit support has to be in the firmware because of option ROMs. Though I'm not sure UEFI couldn't service those with some sort of emulation layer (may as well, UEFI's already complex enough).
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Yeah, I mean, if you have it solved, then that's great. I just tend to see a lot of comments in some communities I'm in to the tune of "I spent $2000 setting up my store, lots of traffic, no sales, please help". It's often touted as a get-rich-quick scheme when in fact it takes a lot of hard work and an understanding of how to sell.
And what about the other months? From what I understand the strategy bleeds money until an event like this. In such a scenario you cannot really deploy that much capital.
This is actually the perfect time to launch a competitor, since SoundCloud recently announced it is no longer free for artists. You now need to pay if you want to publish more than 15 tracks. I would link to a public announcement but I don't think they made any, they just emailed artists directly.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/e51gwn...
On a somewhat related note - the absolute death toll number isn't super useful either. I was shocked to learn a couple days ago that it seems pretty consistent around the world that 50% of that toll is from people in nursing homes. I did a quick search and found a study that found median/mean stay in a nursing home until death is 5/13 months. I'm not even examining the numbers closely, but that would suggest a huge number of people dying that are in absolutely precarious health. A death toll number does not convey that at all.
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This is the kind of work I would like to see the best minds of my generation to work on.

I am not saying that I am one of the best minds of my generation, but I couldn't work for ad-network companies. I took consulting gigs only when I was trying to gain some big data exposure, and was in that field only for three years over three different occasions.

I would like to see more and more people to stop working for ad-tech companies.
Purism phones aren’t as polished as other phones, but it’s amazing that they exist. We need to support them until they get to version 2-3 and have everything slick and polished
I know people in at least one of the companies you mentioned, and things look very different on the inside. They succeeded despite of the language, not because of it.
The problem is not the lack of extensions, but the fact you changed existing URLs. So now every existing URL looks like a dead link, which google does not like. Make sure you 301 any existing URLs to the new ones (should be fairly easy since it’s an obvious structure of extension to no extension)
Intel (and AMD's) problems have nothing to do with any supposed "technical debt" imposed by x86.

Also, the x86 instruction set gets upgraded with practically every single generation of Intel and AMD processor.
TBH, it's nothing to do with those lazy petitions. This happened because the CA's AG chose to be a good guy, leveraged his power and put a lot of effort into fighting the bad guys. I'm sure he's been offered fat kickbacks and received thinly veiled treats. After this stunt he won't be offered a high ranked corporate position to scheme shady things and won't be able to buy yachts and helicopters left and right. That's basically the price he's paid. I think attributing this win to some "voices" would be dishonest.
In what IDE? I used vim and had to setup merlin/ocaml-lsp to deal with that project.
This is an extension of 'the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain liquid'. You could make money in the long run if you have the funds to get there. If we consider that this and the 2008 crisis were black swan events, then we could expect them to occur perhaps once a decade, which from now could be up to 20 years for the next one. By the end of that 20 year period the amount you have remaining to bet on the black swan event would be severely limited by the preceding 2 decades.
It's how C# does it. You can always put in a leading newline and strip it via an API call, or put the """ at the start of the next line.
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IAsyncOperation is pretty flexible. I don’t think it will be technically hard, though perhaps picking the best fit model will be a time consuming process.
> western immigrants – expats, as they prefer to be known

Made me chuckle.
It's a huge shift in behavior. Outside of Covid-19 context something like this could have been a huge red flag. I'm sure people at amazon are working near as hard as anyone to respond to all of these changes. This was flagged and resolved by them in a day. I'm sure there are a lot of latent checks and balances that are there to catch things but when context changes need to be updated. In emergency times often the squeaky wheel gets the grease and I have no doubt Amazon is relying on customer feedback to point out less common problems that have arisen due to all the change.
You don't even have to be a genius -- everyone expected the market to collapse, ~10 years of a low not-QE-but-definitely-actually-QE federal funds rate means a lot of companies and banks with access to that credit were over extending themselves.

The financial system is cyclical -- funds like Berkshire Hathaway were starting to sit on more and more cash since last year. Even if you did nothing but follow their movements you would have been tipped off to the upcoming downturn. The consensus was that a crash was overdue, the question was just what was going to cause/trigger it.

Also, disregard when pundits, government figures and central bankers say that this crash happened to an economy that was "doing great just a few months ago" -- it's just like 2008, the problems were there, they were just uncovered by COVID-19. Years of cheap loans, lax regulation, and lack of financial prudence means over-leveraged companies were taking risks they shouldn't have been, and all it took was one or two months of projected lost revenues for liquidity to implode. We're not even talking about restaurants who might run super tight margins here, we're talking about huge banks, institutions and large companies. Take the airlines for example, years of record profit and a clear view of what 9-11/H1N1/Ebola did to travel, yet no rainy day fund.

And the risk COVID-19 caused was absolutely not unknown. We've had SARS, MERS, H1N1, Ebola all come through, businesses have had plenty of chances to consider insuring themselves or making themselves resilient -- there's just less and less incentive to be fiscally responsible with free-flowing credit.
I've had a few dropshipping businesses over the years. Here is my experience:

Margins are tight. You need to have enough money in the bank or credit to cover loss. This will happen, especially if you are buying anything overseas.

All suppliers need to be vetted and checked out. Companies will lie to you, just to get your business.

Counterfeits are rampant. If you have a supplier that will sell you something name brand for 1/3 the cost, it's 99% a fake. This will result in: possible lawsuits (if they are in China, our laws don't apply, so the law will go after you), lost shipments at the border (you will most likely eat the cost for this), and losing customer's trust.

On top of this, it's so easy for your dropshipping company to steal your customers from under you.

Creating your own product/service is the best way to have a long-lasting business and you really won't get rich quickly with any dropship business.
Haha I thought of the sovcit angle too and edited it in before reading this. But yeah, I absolutely agree. Throwing weird technicalities around thinking it somehow absolves you of all legal responsibility is completely asinine.
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Yes, Taleb's entire life work is premised on the fact that people's mental models of probability distributions are not fat-tailed enough to match reality. He believes that such strategies should be positive in expectation (aka, should make money over the long run).
You're much more likely to find level-headed business-friendly arguments in the opinion pages of the Financial Times than the WSJ. After News Corp bought it, its editorial section has become raggy. It's sad, because their regular news section is generally high quality (but with the same statist, status-quoist POV that the NYT and Washington Post have.)
If you're comparing plastic to the alternatives, for instance plastic bottles vs glass bottles, I think plastic often comes out worse. Glass is more inert, and when thrown into the ocean gets weathered away into sand in fairly short order.
VSTAX's 10 year return since 2010 was 11.29% annually (191% total return).
That means Universa could've lost around 23% every year until 2020, gain 4144% in 6 months and still beat the index (according to my naive arithmetic at least).
(0.77^10) * 4244% = 311% -> 211% total return
I'm not sure they meant any language. It sounds like they're advocating for using a non-Java language that compiles to bytecode to be run on the JVM. E.g. Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Jython, JRuby etc.

The goal of the JVM is "write once, run anywhere". v8 achieves the same, but for languages that compile to Javascript. E.g. Dart, Elm, Typescript, CoffeeScript, ClojureScript etc.

I think the real choice to be made is ecosystem. There are languages to suit every programming style in either camp. The availability and quality of packages in the Java ecosystem is higher IMO (use Spring and it just works).

Node has non-blocking I/O by default; it's possible to implement the same in Java, but you have to make a conscious decision to do so. Java has threads, but Node has workers. Java can have a longer startup time and is better suited for servers with high uptime, Node starts up quick and is easier to use in on demand situations etc.

I don't really know why you would, but there is RingoJS if you want to run Javascript on the JVM for some reason.
he's just pointing out that nobody writes the flu as the cause of death on a death certificate. The CDC simply releases estimates, while we've been tracking the severity of COVID-19 deaths by asking clinicians to write the cause of death as COVID-19 on the death certificate if they tested positive.

Patient has flu and dies of a stroke? Flu can increase the chance of stroke by 50% but the cause of death was the stroke, not the flu. Same thing happens to covid-19? They died of covid-19.

The point is that the data collection methods are so different there's no possible way you can really look at the numbers and tell if one kills more than the other.
This is why people don't understand hedging. Some people will get it but for the majority it will never, ever compute.
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