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> After WW2 India adopted a diliberatly socialst agenda, often called Indian Socialism the was all about top down managment of all markets with heavy government guidence and intervention.

Yes, and with tremendous success (literacy exploded, and starvation plummeted), but such movement is long dea and now. For the past 30 years Indian economic policies have been heavily inspired by the western “neoliberal” trend (which is itself heavily inspired by Hayek's work) . And looking back how China where in 1980 and how they are now is quite telling. Five-years plans really add up in the long run…

But if you don't like the comparison with India (which, now I realize, is pretty ill-advised in this period of nationalist tensions between both countries …), you could do the same with most Western countries and still be astonished how China went and how stagnant we have been.

> And this great plan also didn't lead to much improvment for the actual people, it was primarly about the production of military equipment.

You are mixing up periods: here you are referring to the cold war era (with the arm race with the US) but that wasn't the case at all pre WWII (and they didn't really started the war with stockpiles of new weapons to say the least…).
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There's an argument that files can generally just, not be visible for specific processes using the same tooling that protects other files, but none of the kernels make this particularly easy as far as I can tell.
That's not really a counterpoint. You had a rare situation and would have taken money from anywhere I guess
The comment said "(extremely rare) instances of stroke", not ICU admissions.
Arduino —
Makes me happy whenever I look at it and feels like I can build anything with it.
iPad —
I read all my books there. Without books I don’t know if I exist.
Car —
A car that I love and makes me feel happy and confident every time I turn the key. It’s patrol safari.
As someone who casually contributes to various projects, I do find Phabricator a block.

GitLab/GitHub are ubiquitous (let's face it, learning one of them is learning both of them), so contributing to any project that uses either (or a clone) is simple.

Something dramatically different with custom tooling and flows is a barrier of entry, that might discourage one from jumping in.
Just to clarify, the Danish mobile payment system (cleverly named: MobilePay) is based on debit cards, not bank to bank transfer.

The system that was designed to do bank to bank, without the card systems being involved failed horribly. It was late to market and the launch has horrible mismanaged and covered in unnecessary secrecy. MobilePay had already launched and crabbed a large share of the market, the secrecy was completely pointless and I believe it was partly to blame for the massive failure of the solution.
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KYC (Know Your Customer) laws are not exactly unique to the US.

The money industry tends to be heavily regulated, and self-regulated (PCI DSS) for a reason. Crime happens there because that's literally where the money is.

I'm doing my part, though. I pay with cash whenever I can. In Germany that's easy (often the only option e.g. in restaurants). In Sweden, not so much. And then there are countries in between.
I did not said more transparent. I said harder to deal with and harder to solve.

Those are fundamentally different things.
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Thanks. Your last paragraph is the main argument from my point of view.

Without corresponding court cases, the assessment by the legal services is only based on best effort anyway. They therefore do not want to let themselves out on the branches and tend to come to conservative assessments. And they already have enough work to do and the importance for the firm is also limited, which explains the long processing time well.
I got one of these $25 kits in a physics class that gives you the eyeball version of the fancy digital spectrometer: https://shop.sciencefirst.com/starlab/kits/5800-cardboard-sp...
It's always hilarious how broken the American banking system is that you need to pay over $1000/year worth of tooling to receive recurring payments from patrons.

In the EU, you would just open a deposit-only checking account and paste its IBAN (International Bank Account Number) on your website, telling people to setup a recurring payment through their online banking and put their e-mail address or some other ID number in the message field so you can link it back to their account. All that for the price of a checking account, which wouldn't be much more than 10€/month. It's a bit of a barebones system; you wouldn't use it to handle 1000+ subscribers because the linking-back-to-their-account step would be manual. If you're on the scale of 10-100 subscribers with monthly or yearly payments, it works great. Several podcasts I listen to take donations like this.
Lots of real transactions have pressure applied. But more importantly there are always externalities, and it's basically impossible to make those entirely voluntary; there are far too many to evaluate manually.

Many businesses have a positive or neutral effect on almost everyone. And many others have a negative effect on almost everyone they touch, outside of the parties directly involved in a deal.
US is currently the laughing stock of the world, look at the COVID-19 rate, it is going up after months of mismanagement by trump.

not many countries have problems like that, you can pretty much count on such countries on one hand - US, india and brazil.
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If you modify a file from both ends then a program may not know how to merge the changes.
Resume parser – how does it work?
Counterexamples: John Lennon, Sting, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Phil Collins, Lou Reed...
The modern web makes me want to throw up (2016)
Yes, and this lead to the assumption that neanderthals thought ahead about which bones to use for various tasks.

That's about the gist of this article. Cool new bone sampling tech and an obvious assumption.

Sorry but that was a bit anti-climactic to me. :)
The reference manual https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#3.3.8 seems to specify that "nil" and "false" values are ignored, so it behaves similarly to C#'s using.
> people committed to free speech

That's quite a euphemism for Stormfront!

> the deplatforming left

Maybe I have a different viewpoint because my grandfather spent some years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, but I just see organizations like Stormfront as completely wrong and to be crushed by any legal means.

The endless association of free speech with white supremacy is tiring.

The First Amendment gives a corporation paying to print hateful lies made up on the spot a massive advantage over an honest and thoughtful individual who has spent considerable time and effort to discover the truth.

Now America is facing an epidemic but has a full-time virus misinformation news network. As a result, at least 80,000 Americans have died unnecessarily, and this number grows every day. https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/faster-response-prevente...

What will the final death toll be? How many would have been preventable if Americans hadn't been told a pack of lies?

The First Amendment needs to be completely overhauled to deal with this exploit that is destroying the system. Not to patch this terrible security breach "because the Founders" is like refusing to fix a zero-day exploit in Linux "because Linus".
The comment states pretty clearly that fresh PhDs looking for jobs in the humanities enjoy the advantage of "something" over the "nothing" that fresh BAs get. That isn't a difference of 10x -- it's much better.

In the terms of your first comment, the suggestion is that fresh bachelors trying to work in humanities don't get jobs. MIT was not mentioned.
I got assigned an American Express card to pay for expenses when I got a job with British Gas about 20 years ago. It was a bit of a pain because it often wasn't accepted. There was definitely some sweet deal for BG to use Amex as, as has been said above 90% of Europe were using Visa/Maestro
It is to inform Product Owner. Quickly estimate with "trivial", "small", "medium", "big" and move on. Wrong estimate should not hurt. Managers are not allowed.
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I don't understand Hacker News. Tim Bray's post on Break Up Google was buried and not visible on HN's front page. The next day this on Visa-MasterCard post shows up on the top with a "forget Google" comment. Why?

Is this a result from the community or the algorithm?

HN seems to have changed a lot in the last few years.
When/if China tries to take Taiwan the systemic suppression of Taiwan's existence and independence to the Chinese people may have played a part in what the public is willing to support. These kinds of things add up and have real effects.

If or when China tries to take Taiwan, it will solely be because the US (implicitly or explicitly) withdraws its guarantee that it will use the power of its military to keep Taiwan independent. How the public in the US or anywhere else feels about it, will have no bearing on it whatsoever.

yet in countries with real authoritarian governments where the people are at serious risk, where Uigers are put in camps and sterilized (https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c) Apple just 'follows local laws'. This is not a principled position.

This would be a good argument, if any action of Apple's directly facilitated the oppression of the Uiger or anybody else in China. Selling e.g. surveillance technology is not equivalent to banning apps or removing an Emoji flag.

What can they do? I'm not sure, but they can start with not being complicit in the oppressive laws of authoritarian countries.

But no matter what Apple decides to do, the outcome will be the same: People living in China will not have access to apps which are illegal in China.

Maybe it's too much to ask for western companies to support human rights everywhere even when there aren't government sanctions to force them, but I wish they did.

I think it's crucial to distinguish between those companies who are actively aiding authoritarian regimes by selling them instruments of oppression, and those who are simply not doing anything to thwart those regimes.
No. Fuck conscription. It's just a modern form of time-limited slavery, with indoctrination and abuse on top. It has no place in the modern world. I totally support people who flee a country to escape it.
I'm not sure about the other Nordics countries, but Denmark still have its own card solution "Dankort". It's not nearly as popular as it once was, and I would say that most cards are now dual-branded as VISA/Dankort, where the card will work as a VISA card, if Dankort isn't supported.

Our politicians and banks probably don't see it this way, but having a local alternative can help keep MasterCard and VISA in check. If they become to expensive or unreasonable most people already have a competitor in their wallet, one for whom fees are strictly controlled.
I wouldn't just have amex and cash in Sweden. My experience is that most places don't accept amex, and soon most places won't accept cash either.
No, that's our experience too. We're excited by the changes, eager for each new release, and enjoy being able to write solid code without the language getting in the way (much). When 8.0 drops we'll probably have cake.

...the issue is the community, and (especially) the pool of applicants we get. It may be different where you are, but around here you advertise for a "senior backend dev", and you get a bunch of people with solid experience in, mostly, Python showing up, with maybe a sprinkling of .NET and Java. (Two of the biggest IT employers in town use Python, which skews things a bit, I know.) But you advertise for a "senior PHP dev", and you get all sorts, but (so far) no one we'd consider hiring. (Let me put it this way: The next time one of the "PHP devs" we shortlist turns out to have ever written a functioning unit test will be the first time. And these are people with years of experience, applying for a senior role...)
> and can't even claim it back on expenses...

This is ridiculous, how on earth a serious university have come to that?. If you need a laptop or an external disk you need to also buy it yourself?
And yet none speak for punternet. Even wikipedia doesn't mention it here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Punter

Yet, in the 300 baud days, before PC clones became numerous, when the C64 was the most sold PC on the planet, PunterBBS, and PunterNET was worldwide.

I ran such a BBS, on a C64 with two of these:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1571

At the time, punternet offered everything fidonet did. But... time passes....
You could say something similar about Firefox then.
I think no/low code stuff has its place. For example, our product guy can build our landing page using Webflow and doesn't need to bug the devs, who can focus on actually coding our product.

Would we consider a no code product to build the fundamental pieces or our actual product? Likely not based on the tools I've tried over the years.

Wish it wasn't so though. The disconnect/handover from design to implementation is still a bottleneck. Tools like Figma offer ways to export CSS, etc. but that's not really the main pain. The real time sync is in coordination, iteration, time spent on designs that change out from underneath you, etc.
"disingenuous"

I disagree.

Firstly, I explicitly wrote 'NATO members' in all cases except Serbia, where it was NATO.

Secondly, the driving force behind NATO is the US and it's mostly the US who bombs or invade other countries and it's the US who puts its military bases in the new NATO members. NATO expansion de facto means the expansion of American military infrastructure.

Thirdly, NATO members feel that they are protected from the retaliation when they attack other countries individually. Do you think Turkey would've been that agressive, invading Syria, if it didn't know that NATO will protect it from a certain Syrian ally?
foreign apps or websites?

99.9% of them are US apps and websites. you don't need to ban india apps in China as I've never heard any of them, you don't need to ban india website as the india infrastructure won't be able to serve requests from a country like China anyway.
That's what I meant, yeah.

My experience is Google tailors results aggressively, and does so using a wide number of fingerprinting techniques. I've demonstrated to my own satisfaction that using an incognito window will not give you "clean" or "average" results.
I don't disagree, but when you link a paper, I think you should disclose that you're the sole author.
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All the control and all the autonomy I would say. There is nothing I would be responsible for where I can make own decision and have them right or wrong.

In the teams where I liked to work, I felt control over order in which I do tasks and general shape of something I was responsible for. So I could make my own decisions, decisions that would be really mine.

So when there was mess or something was late, it was my fault. I was not due to other people forcing me do things their way and I did not had to fight about every single detail, just because college happen to be anxious or control freak.
Can you give a better explanation?
Receipts from the app store go to my gmail account.

I bought my iMac on the Apple store, and the receipt was also sent to my personal account.
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'culture'
The fact that you don't even reference a popular youtube content creators to support your stupid argument shows its value.

Also, both last links are from a cherry-picking entertainment and blog sites, not news sites that actually have editors and the desire to check sources.
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I'm a developer at Overleaf.

If you have a lot of files or some large files it can slow things down a lot. The git server is something that's due for a revamp, but as it stands the best thing you can do for now is separate out your LaTeX content and other project assets into different repositories. (We usually see these kind of problems when people have a bunch of non-document stuff in their Overleaf project)
There is still some websites on SVN but I started moving them to git. The only one missing are the one from unmaintained project that I should import in git and then archive.
Because they're one of the few businesses that have figured out how to make it work there. Look, just because penguins thrive in the Antarctic does not mean they are making it difficult for other species to live there. Sometimes an environment is just harsh.
And doesn't seem to suffer from it.
The problem is that this crank doctor from France used exactly this treatment (Zinc+HCQ) in a crappy study and proclaimed it as hugely successful.

This was then picked up by a crowd of "right wing deplorables" up to and including the orange man in the white house.

The scientific establishment can not allow this bunch of clowns to turn out right, thus further inquiry is being suppressed.

Call it a conspiracy theory, but that's exactly how human egos have played a role in the history of science.
Clickbaity title. They weren't "just furloughed", they were just notified of a pending furlough five weeks from now.

This is required because there is no money to pay them with fees frozen because travel is frozen, and Pelosi hasn't appropriated replacement funding.
It's a grocery list app, how much customer support do they have to do!? Feels like they just really really want to have my email.
> The claim is largely that voters started to care more about politicians implementing their favorite policies than being the recipient of trickle-down graft.

For me graft is a more acceptable in good times. When things are booming it doesn't matter too much if a little extra is skimmed to one side.

When things seem dire, you want someone that will actually fix the problems you are worried about. So graft goes out of fashion.
I wonder if this could be done intentionally. It's cheaper to make a view popular with a niche, disliked group than to make the opposite view popular with a large voting bloc
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You get to be the Sherlock Holmes of a digital mystery.
Yes this is a good point! Same story with Finland.

It's interesting that it uses card tracks to move the money, but the identification and recipient is not based on card numbers, so the card stays anynomous for the recipient.

Mastercard and visa have recently been very open to this kind of methods, and also issuing virtual one-time-use cards. These new use cases for their network are quite healthy to the payments ecosystem.
Which Australian state borders are open / when will they reopen?
1) Hard for me to say since I don't know the formula of the scoring system you're talking about. But in general, if the problem goes away when doing the calculation on paper it would also go away when using symbolic math since the methods are identical.

An expression is a tree. A tree can grow arbitrarily large and therefore an expression can grow arbitrarily large. It's a problem in theory but not in practice. You can try for yourself in SymPy. It is very hard to come up with an expressions so complicated that they become difficult for the system to handle.

2) No. Assuming you are using tf-idf for scoring, your calculation involves numbers with infinite decimal expansions that cannot be expressed as rationals. However, you get arbitrarily precise by using very large integers in the numerator and denominator.

That is in contrast with floats whose precision is fixed at either 32 or 64 bit.
On the other hand, the 'everything is a file' paradigm does sometimes cause issues where you can make kernels crash by doing unexpected things with them.

- macOS could once easily be panicked by calling something like fpathconf() on a message queue.

- If you want to have fun, try calling revoke(2) on character devices that are not TTYs. I remember fixing a bug in FreeBSD once, where you could make the system panic by calling that function on /dev/bpf.
>I didn't make the argument/correction that you think I made.

I think he/she did. I think you just don't realize how transparent your attempt at emotional 'Framing'[1] was.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)
Western intellectuals and liberals don't listen to logic in matters concerning enemies of the US government. A purely emotional response, always.
Tangentially related: for my own small projects I use Artemis for bug/issue tracking (my reasoning is at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-06-14-artemis.html ).

It uses maildir files in a hidden directory, which can be tracked like any other files; e.g. when committing a bug fix we can also commit the closing of the associated issue. I've also configured Emacs to make using it even smoother (opening issues/comments in a derivative of message-mode for syntax highlighting, with a C-c C-c binding to save and stage; I've partially finished a derivative of tabulated-list-mode for browsing issues interactively).
I had the exact same experience myself. I'm from a former Eastern Bloc country.

I had to go have my adenoids removed, and it was done with just a local anesthetic - actually, if I remember correctly I was given an injection beforehand which made me sort of woozy, but not very. I didn't get belted down to a lazy-chair, but I did sit on the lap of a beefy nurse who kinda held me down and made sure I didn't squirm too much. My dad was a doctor and was present throughout.

I live in the UK now and when I say that this sort of operation was done with just a local or nothing at all, people don't believe me.
Assuming you run kubelet/Docker on bare metal, containers will of course run on bare metal as well.

A container is just a collection of namespaces.
> What would you learn in a BSc Software Engineering that's not in a BSc Computer Science course that's not going to become redundant after a couple years

Industrial economy, ethics, engineering professionalism, development methodology seem rather universal. Then, depending on specialization you could pick up anything from signal theory to control engineering to human anatomy.

> and couldn't be covered in a module?

That's a pair of very, very narrowly placed goalposts. Of course you could cover anything in a module and call it computer science, but where would you go then if you have a legitimate interest in computer science and not a bunch of courses that really have nothing to do with it?
I found that testers in particular find agile off putting and some avoid working at such companies if they can. I am not sure why testers specifically end up disliking that.

I think that agile ignores human psychology. First, in management theory, intrising motivation happen when one has autonomy, mastery and purpose. Imo, plus accountability. Agile removes that from individual, but has some rhetoric that places it on the "team". But team is not person, it is set of people.

Second, it kind of assumes that people are socially perfect and everyone is kinda the same and its answer to any social human problem is "that is team dynamic or bad individual". It does not help to deal with predictable human imperfections, emotions and conflicts.
"at least some credibility in the world again."

Might have to go back about 80 years.
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