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I am always motivated to start a side-project to generate some extra income, but then I decide my time is better spent studying for job interviews. Eventually, I get sick of leetcode and go back to working on my side projects. It's a vicious cycle.
I guess the taxpayers are also the people who buy stuff from China so by and large they're just subsidizing themselves?

Given how ubiquitous ordering stuff from China is these days I'm not really sure the first impression of this being some good deal is accurate.

In fact subsidizing transport to a degree might probably have a progressive effect because low wage earners are more likely to order cheaper foreign goods.
That does sound all economically right to me, why the downvotes?
Hasn't gone anywhere. Your kernel might not have support for it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/firewi...
OSS has won the cloud. This makes sense as companies gain a lot by collaborating on Server Technology, and don't lose much.

OSS has won mobile (kind of). Android makes sense as multiple companies can collaborate on the same OS and put their own layers on top.

Basically FOSS has excelled in every field except the desktop. This is because:

- Hardware is tightly controlled by a lot of PC manufacturers, which aren't all that interested in supporting a different OS.

- Apple and Microsoft which have developed their OS's for decades, gaining private experience in GUI design and user experience, which doesn't seem to be as popular in Open-Source desktop OS's.

- Majority of people don't even know you can change the OS.

I think until manufacturers start releasing desktop computers with FOSS preinstalled, like Android phones... FOSS has not won
Instead of mindless downvoting which always happens here, would someone speak up as to how gen alpha and beyond looks anymore promising than millenials?
It's a very reasonable question, and the answer is the USPS should not do this.

The Postal Union predates the UN by at least 50 years, the notion that each nation would honour each other's mail predates commerce as we understand it and doesn't make sense.

This program should have been abolished decades ago.
Anything that kills US-based H1B sweatshops and de-facto indentured servitude is a good thing in my book. And I say this as a former H1B. Either use it properly (for highly skilled immigration only), or shut it down entirely. You don't get to first abuse the system and then tell me what to think about it.
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Practical resource constraints are a function of knowledge, and knowledge is not, and never will be, zero-sum. Anything that we do that limits cooperation amongst humans in the generation of knowledge is a de facto creation of a resource constraint.

Immigration, and skilled immigration in particular, is part of that. Limiting immigration due to some imaginary idea of limited resources is inherently a self fulfilling prophecy.
I'm in the same boat but the problem with that approach is the technology stack and/or the problem the project solves become obsolete in the meantime.
Those who experience wealth inequality or are otherwise economically disadvantaged in their own country may view national economic activity in the same way they view the stock market: with apathy. Having a job at all is the priority for many.
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Great that works for you, but your argument sounds akin to asking why someone couldn't score high on the exam when you did. Different people, different motivations. I relate more to the OP than you. Just saying "be disciplined" doesn't help. This isn't the army, it's a voluntary side project I want to do when I can be watching Netflix.
I do think there is something to this. Not just that they spend allot of money consistently but consistently stick with a project to see it to completion. In organizations that I have seen lack of progress they jump from one fire to the next. This means that they work on A for a few months and then suddenly drop it to work on B because B is higher priority. Only to later realize that A was more important and switch back. DARPA having a large budget also allows them to see through projects to the end.
Tell them what? Those developers already know that Apple is known for removing support for aging technologies way ahead of the curve. They also know that being willing to move fast and break backwards compatibility is what makes Apple, Apple. It's a major point of the article:

>There’s a whole book to be written about the “deal” a company makes to [...] promise compatibility. The reward of success is extremely high, but it is almost a Faustian bargain because you will absolutely cede the right to innovate

No one said that there weren't downsides to Apple's approach. The downsides are well known. And, as a user I'm slightly annoyed about the loss of 32-bit support. But if 32 bit support and backward compatibility is important, there's plenty of options including Windows, Linux or dual-booting MacOS versions [0].

Personally, I'm willing to suffer the short term pain of lost backward compatibility because I'm excited about the future of computing. As a user and developer I've already lived through 16->32->64 bit transitions (and similar disruptions). They suck at the time, but they're ultimately worth it. You can't stop progress.

[0] https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/dual-boot-mac...
GDP is not a proxy for wealth inequality. For instance, Canada has much lower inequality than the US [1] (0.32 vs 0.47) and saw a much greater percentage of its country materialize through immigration, but still saw a greater increase in GDP over the same time period.

Wealth inequality is a symptom of government policy, nothing more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
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In FY 2019 the USPS lost $3.4 billion excluding all Congressionally mandated expenditures[1]. In 2018 they lost almost $2 billion, also excluding mandatory expenditures. The USPS's precarious financial situation is not artificial, it's the result of a long term decline in mail volume as correspondence increasingly shifts to electronic systems.

A nit: The postal service wasn't actually created in the Constitution. Congress is merely authorized to do so.

[1] https://about.usps.com/what/financials/10k-reports/fy2019.pd... Page 18, labeled "Controllable loss".
"No, this was by design"

No, it was not 'designed' to fund Chinese competition and outsource massive numbers of manufacturing jobs over there. This was a side-effect of the program gone obviously and terribly awry.

The original program is ancient and really was a matter of national courtesy in delivering other nation's international mail.

EDIT, FYI:

"The Treaty of Bern was signed on October 9, 1874, establishing what was then known as the General Postal Union.

The treaty provided that:

There should be a uniform flat rate to mail a letter anywhere in the world
Postal authorities should give equal treatment to foreign and domestic mail
Each country should retain all money it has collected for international postage."

The current practice of giving China free postage was established 150 years ago, not in some modern trade strategy, and it was a means of simplifying postage and not having to worry about balancing accounts (i.e. host nation keeps the fee). This kind of economic reciprocity is basically unheard of in anything else, but it makes sense for a strategic industry that's not necessarily very expensive.

For shipping goods, obviously, it makes no sense.

I challenge anyone to explain how an agreement made in 1874 for critical international communications, that has unexpectedly given China a massive trade advantage in developing industries, was part of any plan. The argument that the terms may have been advanced due to helping places like Africa with trade just don't hold in the current context. The US government subsidisation of Chinese e-commerce doesn't really make any sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union
He mentions Roam twice in the article, and links to a demo with interop between Roam and his project.
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I enjoyed the film, but it was not what I expected going in. (To be honest, the Ted Nelson scene is one of the few I remember from the movie. Though I do recall he wandered around the National Radio Quiet Zone to meet some eccentric folks, and he also went to the room at UCLA where one of the first ARPANET messages was sent to SRI.)

I would ultimately like to see a well-made, intelligently crafted documentary (or even documentary mini-series) about the actual creation of the Internet that does emphasize that it's not some arcane subject that only wizards can understand (though it should portray the people who invented this stuff ex nihilo as the geniuses that they are).

I do agree with Ted about copy-paste though. ;)

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Not even American but just consider the following. Rising wages (basic supply and demand) lead to an increase in the fertility rate as people feel more financially secure to have children.

And before you say that it will go to remote work: big tech has been dying and trying to outsource everything as it is still cheaper than legal immigration. There might be bigger incentives if wages do rise, but they have pretty much been there all the time
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> Rising wages (basic supply and demand) lead to an increase in the fertility rate as people feel more financially secure to have children.

That's actually the opposite of what happens. As a country develops, wages go up and fertility goes down. Check out this chart of GDP per capita vs fertility rates. [2] It's a well known and extremely strong effect.

Fun and very poignant quote: In a 1974 UN population conference in Bucharest, Karan Singh, a former minister of population in India, illustrated this trend by stating "Development is the best contraceptive." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility#/media/Fi...
Wow imagine if you could exploit mail rates between various countries with some kind of international mail pricing arbitrage

~~ Charles Ponzi

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Astronomy is one of the few places amateurs still regularly make significant contributions. The Planetary Society has a grant program specifically meant to give financial support to amateurs and professionals doing work in this field.

> The world's professional sky surveys alone cannot handle the burden of finding and tracking the estimated 10 million NEOs larger than 20 meters, the size of the asteroid that hit Chelyabinsk, Russia and caused city-wide damage. That's where our Shoemaker grant winners come in. They find new NEOs, track and measure existing ones, and contribute to the field of asteroid science by determining characteristics like spin rates and whether one asteroid is actually a binary pair.

$440,000 across 62 grants to date.

https://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/neo-grants/
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This doesn’t make sense. Technical ability to correct light and color didn’t fall from the sky. It was created by people who probably didn’t think as much as they did about one direction as they did about another. The origin is a lack of diversity or close minded thinking where the preferences started one way and became established as technical limitations.

As for the height of actors, good directors and cinematographers know how to deal with them through the right kind of shots and angles, even without any assistance from CGI. The ones who struggle likely don’t have as much creativity or ability as we might tend to assume.
Are you really not allowed to scrutinize sensitive topics?

You honestly can't say "Can we talk about appropriateness of the word blacklist? It doesn't seem as harmful as other terms."

What company do you work for?
What really surprises me is that, while most Americans seem to agree it's not okay to discriminate based on the colour of someone's skin (because skin colour is something we can't control), they're quite happy to discriminate based on the country of somebody's birth. People have just as little control over their country of birth as they do over their skin colour.
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Yelp was severely impacted by "the shutdown". I'm surprised that they cannot capitalize on this data and start a hedge fund or similar -- or at least sell it to a hedge fund in exchange for keeping them afloat a while longer.
You think a government can make inequality go away? Please give us one example
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No they're not. The reason it's so cheap is that the UPU forced the U.S. to offer these rates. As a result, the U.S. threatened to leave the UPU so that the USPS could adjust the rates to be more equitable.
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If anything technology has exacerbated the destruction of the middle class
>The broader issue is that the US birth rate is 1.77 births per woman -- and falling, which is below the replacement rate.

Have you considered that the causation may be in the reverse?

The article pokes fun at skeptics of women in the workforce in the 60's and 70's. Yet real wages have remained stagnant since then, and given that divorce rates are significantly higher when the woman is the higher earner, it's not insane to suggest that falling (who am I kidding, fallen) family formation rates are due to those couples now having trouble forming in the first place.

Elizabeth Warren's Two-Income Trap is required reading here.
Control-F “Economics matters for birth rates” for various citations backing a thesis that increasing wealth correlates with higher birth rates.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/half-a-million-fewer-chil...
Interesting. In 1997 I had a thinkpad running Windows 95 and I went weeks between reboots. It was rock solid.
Oh, sorry, hadn't seen the other story.
No, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft so it is abandonware. It is still closed source and piracy to copy without permission but Microsoft does not care about it because it is too old to sue over.
A lot of Robert C Martins pieces are just variations on his strong belief that ill-defined concepts like "craftsmanship" and "clean code" (which are basically just whatever his opinions are on any given day) is how to reduce defects and increase quality, not built-in safety and better tools, and if you think built-in safety and better tools are desirable, you're not a Real Programmer (tm).

I'm not the only one who is skeptical of this toxic, holier-than-thou and dangerous attitude.

Removing braces from if statements is a great example of another dangerous thing he advocates for no justifiable reason

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3202...

Which caused the big OSX/iOS SSL bug in 2014, see https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html

This link and thread on hackernews is good too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15440848

>The current state of software safety discussion resembles the state of medical safety discussion 2, 3 decades ago (yeah, software is really really behind time).
>
>Back then, too, the thoughts on medical safety also were divided into 2 schools: the professionalism and the process oriented. The former school argues more or less what Uncle Bob argues: blame the damned and * who made the mistakes; be more careful, damn it.
>
>But of course, that stupidity fell out of favor. After all, when mistakes kill, people are serious about it. After a while, serious people realize that blaming and clamoring for care backfires big time. That's when they applied, you know, science and statistic to safety.
>
>So, tools are upgraded: better color coded medicine boxes, for example, or checklists in surgery. But it's more. They figured out what trainings and processes provide high impacts and do them rigorously. Nurses are taught (I am not kidding you) how to question doctors when weird things happen; identity verification (ever notice why nurses ask your birthday like a thousand times a day?) got extremely serious; etc.
>
>My take: give it a few more years, and software, too, probably will follow the same path. We needs more data, though.
Read into the chabahar/ gwadar battle. While China has a smaller stake in chabahar India has a huge one. Lower prices may effect development of those ports and gas supply.
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> Right. I would say they will go to the countries where other smart people are, which turn out to be wealthy countries

Yes, I elides that step. (not in order): Canada, UK, France, Germany, Singapore, possibly Australia. Not a huge change, except improvement in quality of life.
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People talk all the time about ascendant technologies and industries riding economies of scale, such is happening with wind / solar / batteries / EVs.

But people don't talk about the fact that the opposite can occur with industries.

Petroleum has ridden huge economies of scale to the point their refining facilities are massive, their transport ships are massive... and there is bloat.

But more importantly, most of the cheap extraction oil is gone. The current economies of scale were keeping shale/tar sands extraction with terrible EROEI profitable. But a contraction in demand makes those unable to be used. A compression in demand will make refineries less profitable, and tankers less profitable.

And this is a cycle of destruction, just like economies of scale boosting rising technologies is an enhancing feedback cycle.

Oil and Gas is going to be rocky fall down a steep mountain.
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Writing as a non-American. All if this is horrible, but it is not just the horror of US. In my former Eastern European country, that has never ever had a sizable non-white community, people are reading these books, picking up on Twitter fights and apologizing for jokes they told on tv ten years ago. Writing a book with no mention of it being based on a particular society thus assuming the situation to be the same in Helsinki, Rome and Minneapolis, now _that’s_ racist.
and if you don't want to go that extreme, just using a different virtual desktop can work wonders.

Ironically one of my todos is to hack my xfce to swap out panels (and maybe somehow browser profiles?) when changing to certain named workspaces. So I could have my 'coding' workspace with a panel of work-only applications ready to go, only work-related bookmarks in the browser, etc.

The idea of logging out and in as another user seems to have just a bit too much friction for my tastes, but maybe I should just embrace it.
> since you seem to be Japanese

I'm not

> how would you rate companies like Toshiba or Sharp on this scale

Successful. Because they survived transition from electrical->electronics->semiconductors. Although Sharp may be coming to the end of it's life now because of their LCD tech.
>The trouble is that we are subsidizing the shipment of items from China.

I don't see any problem if taxpayer is the one is paying cheaper price as the end result. It's not like Chinese are charging full rate and sending for dirt cheap and booking mega profits like that.

And if a student can order cheaper pen and paper from china or a mechanic can order cheaper nut bolts and screwdriver from china, what's the harm?
> one would expect that French would get this right

They do get it right, it's just called Comté ;) (really - the Comté area is not very far away from Gruyères)

Personally I prefer Comté for eating and Gruyère for cooking.
Why is continuous growth even a goal? There's a physical reality that at some point it must stop. We should plan for that. GDP growth is just a number. We should focus on quality of life.

(Notwithstanding transitionary points like "but this other country is still growing and will displace things," and "but who will take care of those decaying cities," etc)
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Because their "expected" future profit margins are significantly lower than Apple's.

Caveat: "Expected" does not mean fact. But it is understandable why investors believe this.
As someone who benefited from it, will you go back to your home country? If not, you shouldn't ask for it to be scrapped.
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Thanks for mentioning keycloak, I didn't know it existed. I wonder how it stacks up against auth0 or AWS cognito.
(like a 10year old kid)

...encourage it to "grow-up" and mature.
Stocks are valued by their earnings largely.

A stock’s price is theoretically the current value of a long term stream of income adjusted by the risk factor around its growth (positive or negative).

Revenue is interesting but only to the extent that it indicates earnings. This is because any two people can create two companies with a billion dollars in revenue but it is much more difficult to build one with a billion in earnings.
Reading up on this years ago, some people will cash their paychecks at payday loans. I suspected some of my friends did and I think I tried once and was aghast at the fees and went elsewhere.

My understanding is many people don't have a bank account, many banks require you to have an account to cash a check, or they just don't have branches in those neighborhoods. A recent AP article[1] cites 6.5% lacking bank accounts, 16.9% of Black households, and 14% of Hispanic households. Some reasons for not having a bank account are lack of money, unfamiliarity with how banking works, and distrust of institutions. The number of households without bank accounts is dropping, though.

[1] https://apnews.com/8b2b93d4e9474c418853e0f20e79aaa8
I wrote this elsewhere, but I'm sure such prices require a certain amount of demand to keep the scale of production high enough.

But if demand falls that saudi oil can handle all the demand, and the Saudis know that wind/solar/EV is going to kill off oil so they better make money while they can (which is why they sold off Aramco), then they will sell what they can to keep it under what is profitable for the US alternative sources.
There were a truckload of articles on this published over the last several years, even during the Obama administration, on how this "international China shipping" being cheaper than "domestic shipping" destroyed small businesses and was also responsible for hundreds (likely thousands) of American deaths thanks to cheap fentayl shipments.

This was the most nonsensical self-destructive American policy that strangely never caught much mainstream media attention.
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