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> Capitalism is just [...] armies, and mercenaries.

That was not borderline word salad. But you seem to finally have recognized that there's an incentive structure to Capitalism that can and does create negative results.

> It's an observation that has few useful implications in our modern world today

A few of the points I listed are still alive and well today.

> You could even go so far as to argue that because socialist economies [...] voluntarily refuse it.

Not sure what the point of going into a what about discussion about the former Stalinist regimes? Anyway, those regimes were/are in practice state-Capitalist and the same incentives apply, along with the ones that comes with authoritarianism.
In that case, why not make suggestions to make the government service better and more efficient instead?
Children, Technology and the Difficulty of Finding a Balance
What a great idea!

Are there two separate donations or does it add the company's name after the donor's name? Some way to notify recipients about the low cost of managing a charitable donation match program with your service would be great.

Have you encountered any charitable foundations which prefer to receive cryptoassets? Red Cross and UNICEF accept cryptocurrency donations for the children, for example.

Do you have integration with other onboarding and HR/benefits tools on your roadmap? As a potential employee, I would like to work for a place that matches charitable donations, so mentioning as much in job descriptions would be helpful.
I think the dismissal of EU does not sound properly justified - and the author writes off home grown innovation too easily in EU markets just because they are not “capable of chasing scale”. The bias is pretty clear for monopoly establishing practices one way or another. Interesting article otherwise.
This is cool. Two things

- You should lock the viewport on iOS so it doesn’t zoom when tapping the buttons.

- Set the text so it isn’t selectable. A few times it selected a bunch of text rather than just tapping what I wanted.

Cool game
This is not a language problem, but a compiler problem also. gccgo uses registers like C.
This is the critical piece. It's provided as a government service to absolutely _everyone_, for a low price. Like you said, the fact that you can send a letter to any US state or territory for the same price, and it gets there in a few days, is a miracle, and arguably one of the remaining functioning bits of American government. What happens to people in small towns who rely on the mail for prescriptions? Or important paperwork? "Sorry, ma'am, but since the post office was privatized, we'll need an extra $30 to deliver your insulin. But if you subscribe to our Super Shipper Preferred program, you can save 10%..." Imagine losing all connection to the outside world because your city wasn't deemed profitable enough. That's some Gilded Age hell right there.
Just anecdote, but I probably mail about 100+ packages a year through USPS, about 40% to international addresses. Never had one fail to deliver. I always use USPS to ship, because it is reliable and the fees are reasonable.

Also receive lots of documents, periodicals, and packages through USPS, never had a problem there either, always in the mailbox or right at the front door. Of course I'd like to skip the junk mail.

USPS seems technically up-to-date as well, more or less. I can schedule pickups on-line, as well as buy and print postage. No complaints.
It’s probably not fair, but I give her a lot of credit for stepping up when Moscone and Milk were gunned down. Yea that was a long time ago and this is unrelated. Doesn’t excuse it; I just try to remember what she has done for SF as a whole.
in your use case it probably isn’t worth it. if you get a bigger project where you are using webpack and npm already, maybe it would be.
> Since the Go compiler is so primitive...

That doesn't sound like Go's compiler is primitive, a primitive compiler wouldn't attempt the inlining at all. This sounds like a performance optimization which isn't something that a primitive compiler would attempt.
Hospitals are increasingly soliciting donations from patients
It is the wrong perspective to only view public services as businesses.
There could be a model where you just define what "bad" is in concrete terms and fire people who are not up to a relatively high standard; yet you aren't required to fire the the "bottom people" if they are good enough. I believe this is what FAANGs are doing.
I would argue that it's not only ambiguous but harmful to use the word "free" to describe libre software at this point.

So many people have "Free means it steals your data" beaten into their heads at this point.

This is of course referring to the general population. I would assume that people on HN have no issues with Libre-Free vs Beer-Free.
This is also why the Windows 10 May 2020 update is v2004 instead of v2003 to avoid issues with old software thinking it is running on Windows Server 2003. [1]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2019/11/27/windows_10_2004/
> why does it have exclusivity for letter service?

It doesn't have exclusivity for letter service. UPS, FedEx, and DHL (among others) will carry letters across the country for you.

Yes, it's going to cost ~$10 to roughly match the service speed of a USPS first-class stamp. But it's available.
This is a great point. One reason why college is so popular is because it’s a low risk way of improving your profile.

The chances of people not knowing what MIT is or their reputation going down is very low. And that’s a big reason why people want to go there.
Converting Moloch from Sith to Jedi with Daniel Schmachtenberger [video]
I rarely give recommendations on anything software-related, but if you are an AMP-hater who also appreciates text-only websites, try using links to view some AMP sites. In almost every case I have seen, the result is quite good.
> can all agree that there are certain things which are provably not facts?

In the abstract, sure, presuming your interlocutor shares a common enough epistemic framework, but good rhetoricians can craft slippery arguments.

Instead of "anthropogenic climate change is bollocks and climatologists are all paid-off liars," how about "climate change models have been shown to have errors". The first statement itself is bollocks, but that latter is true (if also misleading).

It is unlikely but possible the moon is made of cheese.
Cheese is delicious on crackers.
If astronauts ate moon-cheese, it would be delicious on crackers.
You may want it to be an active experience, but it will only be an active experience for those who choose to actively participate. Some students just don't learn that way and likely won't actively participate even if they show up to class. Those who want to actively participate will show up to class even if they have the option not to. There are other forms of getting feedback and interacting with students. Email and office hours for example. Also, I disagree that textbooks are faster. Maybe they are if you are an expert in the topic, but if you are not (and hence taking a course on it) in my experience the average lecture is still easier and quicker to learn from than reading the textbook (except for exceptionally well written textbooks).

I was one of those students who didn't learn by actively participating and I always felt like I had trouble learning in class. The school I did my PhD in started using online tools for some of the courses and I found that I learned way better when I watched the online lectures. A big issue I always had in class is when the lecturer explains something that is obvious to me in great detail, or just speaks slowly in general I find myself daydreaming and once I snap out of it I may have fallen behind and not be able to follow the rest of the lecture well. Online lectures at 2x speed are way more interesting for me and I almost never daydream. If I feel tired I can pause for a couple of minutes and stand up and stretch or walk around the room. If I miss a detail I can go back and replay it again. I would still attend office hours and email the professors though. What I learned from the online lectures also stuck with me much longer.

At the end of the day, students are paying an enourmous amount of money to learn, and I feel it shouldn't matter if the way they learn it by not showing up to class. Especially if they learn it better by not showing up to class.
Yeah I was playing devils advocate I guess, I do agree with you. The best equipped people to investigate the false alarms is probably the fire department itself, and they are already the ones doing the investigating.
LuaJIT Compiler Technical Documentation [pdf]
It's not totally true that attackers have found ways bypass mitigations. In many cases the attackers require entirely new capabilities, or separate vulnerabilities, to get around a mitigation. And in some cases it makes an attack statistically unlikely, even if it may succeed.

Lots of mitigations do suck, and are a huge waste of time and effort, but quite a few are very significant. It's very rare that a bypass is a surprised except when the mitigation is poorly thought out. Good mitigations start with a threat model.

An example is ASLR. Once in a while ASLR is pronounced 'dead' because an attacker with capabilities that ASLR does not try to defend against can bypass ASLR. For example, the attacker has arbitrary compute on the system with ASLR. No one who built ASLR was surprised by this.
> The question is why USPS enjoys a state sanctioned monopoly on paper mail specifically.

I'm curious -- can you link to more detail about this? I've never had trouble sending paper mail through UPS or FedEx. What does the monopoly cover, specifically?
still not a country! :)
Of course they can have whatever opinion they want. But what demonstrate the big danger of billionaires is that they have the resources to fund any number of think tanks, lobbyists, ONGs, TV shows, newspapers, and what not to sway legislation to their particular, minority view.
Do you have a citation for the assertion that this portion of their business is not profitable and being "exploited"?

I'm genuinely curious.
This is if you got through the list brokers or other senders. EDDM doesn't allow for any type of block period.
That said, it still costs sender money.

But if are in a 50 unit building and you see those big stacks of advertising being plonked into the mailroom, that's what those are.
Nvidia’s Rarely Seen Co-Founder Speaks
> spec, which to date still has big issues and screams "just use a proper statically typed language"

I think this statement is unfair.

I don't think there is a widely used statically typed language that is nearly as expressive and simple as spec. Also the opt-in nature of it retains the advantages of dynamic typing.
This looks like a similar approach to TLA+ but, it looks more similar to a markup language that is domain specific.

I think that he has a good idea for the most part and if you did formalize this notation there is a good chance that someone in the computer science domain would eventually program something that could interpret it. Lisp comes to mind.
Seems this is an open issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=765284
It seems to me that the problem lies not in the fact that our information is unreliable, but that the social contract has broken down. If you want to foster an environment where honestly is viable, you have to start from the very foundations of society.
Most libertarians (including myself) think it's a bad idea to have governments 'compete' with private companies for a variety of reasons, including:

- It's unlikely that the government will regulate itself and its competitors fairly, and it's generally unlikely that the government will hold itself to account (as it often does for private entities).

- The government is likely to set up barriers to entry, to prevent competition. This is the case for the postal service, which has a monopoly on first-class mail.

- The government is likely to subsidize its 'option', either directly or indirectly, such as by having the government 'sole-source' services from its 'competitor'.
I agree that this is pretty normal for any company, though I do wish that there was a bit better balance of risk and reward between the employee and the employer. For instance, if an employer that laid off an employee for anything other than an ethical violation were required to pay out one month of income for every year the employee worked for the company, it would force them to weigh the costs and benefits a bit more.

This is the kind of situation where it would be good to have a union. In the tech industry, it might have to be a different kind of union than exists elsewhere (for instance, I think most of us wouldn't want to do technical work in an environment where people who aren't good at their job can only be fired in reverse order of seniority).

The way I see it, people aren't entitled to good jobs for life from private companies, but neither are companies entitled to a cheap and disposable workforce. There's probably some place we could meet in the middle that has stronger protections for workers than are currently in place in the U.S. (I don't know enough about what protections exist in other countries to comment.)
Hobby projects are served very well by js. Commercial ones not so much. Big teams with a mix of Personalities mean you get lots of errors and problems organising code. Typescript makes that a little more manageable.
Functionally...? Especially in the context here of tech policy.
i do care about people. myself included. why do i, paying insane urban rent, subsidize a farmer who already gets my tax dollars to grow too much corn? it costs probably $10 to deliver a letter to his farm. he pays ¢42. i pay the rest. his letter should be $10. mine should be a penny. you know - the actual cost of delivery, paid by the actual person.

fuck the post office.
You are not. I will say, the general consensus seems to be negative, but I wouldn't say it's disliked by all.
Fair point - but the perception is that marketing is a majority of the mail even if it's not a majority of the revenue. And since you can't get out of EDDM mailings you are stuck with these. It wouldn't be that hard to red dot or something your box so the carrier knew you didn't want the junk mail.
Small side note:

Android's "versionCode" is an ever-increasing number, you must submit a higher versionCode than your previous build.

CFBundleVersion can be set back to 0 with each CFBundleShortVersionString change.

Normally I just set both to a build number on whatever CI I use (for something like a cordova cross-platform app) and then increase CFBundleShortVersionString & versionName using the tag name (or a custom version name I give a release).
They also tend to have ways to override those heuristics (e.g., `__attribute__((noinline))` in GCC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff

I'm speechless.
The USPS has already lost a fair amount of business to email and overnight package services. It is interesting that the reason we cannot “opt out” of junk mail is because it would cause financial harm to the USPS.
As for banking and check cashing businesses, why do we think it is appropriate for the government to actively compete in those businesses? What if they decide to set up a technology consulting business? A supermarket? Where do you draw the line?

If you want universal postal service to rural areas (not profitable markets), then simply provide it and understand it has a cost like the military and education (as noted above)?
The Sherman anti-trust act is very very rarely ever used in prosecution.
Same with modern ZynAddSubFX. I personally have no issues with this model, I'd rather pay for libre software then equivalent proprietary. That being said, if I were to try using this I would probably build it.
Fair point - I was responding to the comment that USPS was / wasn't a spam delivery service. The perception is that (even through revenue is relatively low) the USPS does spam.

And with EDDM you cannot get out of this spam blast.
But they are quite different. There are languages that are tightly coupled, but not true of all (like Go). You could write all your applications in the Go Language, but use a transpiler.

And as other comments call out, it is important to not conflate the two. A language issue is one that can't be easily fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. Compiler optimizations can be made (and is done all the time) without breaking the language.
Hey, yeah, sorry, I've been meaning all day to go back and fix that. Really wasn't right.

Just struck a nerve that reminded me of some leaders at a previous gig who made things a little less sensible.

I apologise, and you definitely don't deserve it :-(
Even the libertarian theoretical argument for the illegitimacy of the state depends on a mode of analysis that is incompatible with with things that US libertarians advocate for in practice, such as private property.
I think being stuck at home in a ball of anxiety is a fair response to the current pandemic and general situation. Be kind to yourself - this is a rational response.

I'm sure the two of you can come up with new adventurous things to do and the will to do so now you've identified the problem.
Would these private letter carriers subject themselves to the necessary regulation and government scrutiny necessary to ensure that, for instance, a legally sufficient equivalent to USPS certified mail is available throughout the United States and its possessions? That election mail and other official business is conducted with sufficient speed, caution, and security? Would FedEx be willing to accept the liability and public relations exposure of being directly involved in determining the outcome of a US presidential election?

Or is it more likely that the private carriers would expect and demand a rump Post Office to carry the mail they find unprofitable?
The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available
> Is Amazon going to run ships around the Great Lakes to deliver mail to vessels moving between ports?

No, because using planes to deliver to regional distribution centers is much more efficient.

> Is FedEx going to send a truck an a four-hour round-trip to deliver a single letter to someone on an indian reservation for 50¢?

The USPS does not deliver mail directly to the majority of reservation residents. Most have to fetch their mail at the closest office, which could be upwards of 1 hr away from them. This is because most reservation residences don't actually have an address (which also prevents them from registering to vote, which is another related issue).

> Is UPS going to charter bush planes to deliver mail to remote outposts in Alaska, Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands?

The USPS doesn't either. The USPS's Alaska Bypass has a minimum order weight of 1000 lbs, it's designed for retailers. The USPS does not serve normal consumers in very rural areas with standard mail features.
It sounds like you personally have a beef with your mail carrier(s) and/or your local post office. Which is fine, but that doesn't mean the entire system is broken. My experience has been overwhelmingly positive, and it's a little selfish of you to celebrate the destruction of a government program that a lot of people who don't make FAANG salaries depend on for medication and bill paying. Seriously, where is the compassion?
> The socioeconomic situation in the U.S. is so poor that some of the top things public schools offer their attendees is food, water, shelter, and socialization. The people benefiting from these aspects have 0% of attending private schools.

They would have a >>0% chance of attending private schools if they were each given their share of the public school budget.

I am not convinced that would be a good thing — my big concern is that a lot of 'private schools' would pop up which would just hoover up the vouchers, much as one sees with for-profit higher education.
I don’t know too many billionaires who can have me arrested and incarcerated for the rest of my life.
Even marketing mail sent through first class that's presorted will only get you about 30 letters for $15 at $0.46 per letter [0], so still not sure what the original author is talking about regarding 'hundreds'.

[0] https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm
That's an interesting point.

I hadn't tested the startup times of the upx binary before, so I just did by running `time $binary_name --help`. For my binary, this should print a simple help message and quit.

Big: 0.04s user 0.01s system 101% cpu 0.054 total

Med: 0.04s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.048 total

Sm : 0.14s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 0.163 total

So you're right - it makes execution time take about 3x as long. However, in my case, 3x slower is a fine trade off to make.
This might not be great for a sporty-sport, but I think that for a video game this would actually be an advantage. This kind of a rating inflation would mean that long-term players would see some numerical progress without really doing much better.
How? How can a billionaire prevent competition without siccing the government on them through tariffs, regulatory hurdles, licenses, etc...
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Because it's simpler. C has no concept of nested functions. If it instead allowed users to write the statements of 'main' at the top level, it would complicate the rules for scoping. For example, can an inner function access the outer function's variables? Or jump to its labels? Simpler just to say: all statements live in a function; functions don't nest; and execution starts at main.
Promoting alternative energy is not equal to dismantling a public service used by every single person in the US that would almost certainly be worse, or more expensive if privatized.

I’ll take the bait and offer you my position on green energy. My employer performs alternative energy work, so that part would make me feel good, but I don’t have a strong left position on energy. I’m fine with nuclear, natural gas, wind, solar, and hydro for generating electricity. I believe reducing the amount of coal we use is generally a good thing. That about sums it up.
true, thanks for pointing that out!
> Yes? I think lots of government agencies that deliver services to paying customers are expected to cover their expenses.

The big-ticket items I pay for as a taxpayer include schools (via local taxes), defense, retirees, and healthcare. None of those cover their expenses, and basically everything else combined is a tiny minority of government expenditure.

(I believe we should more fully fund the non-defense parts of the budget, but let's not pretend they net out in the in-years.)
Haven't finished reading it, but I was not surprised that the Koch family is behind this special interest group.

The family has been fucking the US and world long before Trump was elected. They have a history of funding fake climate change science in order to push favorable legislation for the O&G industry.

Anything that might benefit society (healthcare, social support, ...), they have fought against or funded a PAC to do their dirty work.
There are no assets (other than a helpfile) inside the binary. This is (compiled) 35 MB of Golang.
What is your problem with the USPS? You've been refuted several times in this thread, but you keep repeating blatant falsehoods.