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There is a reasonable argument that we do have inflation, it’s just being shown in assets prices, not commodity prices. Things like education, housing, stocks, art, startup valuations, and more have signs of inflation even if oil and food prices don’t.
I think what gets mixed up often in this debate is what the government can or cannot prevent us from saying (free speech) vs what we "can" or "can't" say on an online medium like twitter or a publication, etc.

We (the public at large) need to have a discussion about when a private entity like facebook, twitter, etc, become so big that they essentially -are- public discourse. A lot of people treat these private entities like they're public. But they are not. As long as they follow US law, twitter can do whatever it wants. Yet people are shocked when twitter starts hiding tweets, or when facebook chooses to do nothing at all.

"Cancel culture" has nothing to do with the government, nor free speech. Free Speech does not protect you from criticisms or ridicule by other citizens, regardless if you think that's correct or not.

I don't know what the solution here is to cancel culture, other than speaking with your wallet. I fully blame twitter for conditioning people to only digest things in 140 characters or less, which makes discussing contentious topics very difficult or straight up impossible. I blame controversy-averse businesses that have no spine, and dismiss employees over some people angrily tweeting, who will move onto something else in a few weeks anyway.

I also blame people who specifically look for these things in order to "destroy" someone, as if someone can never change their opinion. I think cancel culture has absolutely nothing to do with ending sexism, etc, because all it does is train people to be private with their thoughts. If you view someone being sexist, etc, as "being sick", then the "doctors" are telling them to go die alone, instead of tending to them. How does that achieve equality?

I specifically limit a lot of what I potentially talk about online because it's not worth someone digging through it looking for 1 or 2 out of context sentences and making a stink about it.
There is research, and it's pretty intuitive. Create stability. Reduce income inequality. Focus spending on social programs. Help people out of addiction, crime, give them a network, healthcare, education and jobs. People who cannot work need funding. Enough to live a dignified life. People are happy when they don't have to worry. People who are happy with the system doesn't really commit crime.
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Still blows my mind how people believe giving government more power is the answer to any problem. Sorry to hear that democracy is being attacked in this way. Best of luck to you.
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Congrats on your launch and front page mention! Must have been a lot of hard work, I can relate. Best of luck!
I personally learn better through coherent code examples rather than math notation / jargon. Manning's excellent "Data Science Bookcamp: Five Python Projects" teaches data science basics using code, not greek symbols. Also, the projects themselves are pretty cool and challenging, but doable. https://www.manning.com/books/data-science-bookcamp
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> You're not wrong, but the big difference is who the oligarchs answer to. For instance most big French news outlet belong to various rich people, but they're all somewhat independent and are not watchdogs for the authorities.

Oligarchs don't answer to anyone, they just have their own interests - which in Hungary they express by aligning with the government, while elsewhere it's fine to align with one side like the media in the US do. It's not like the quality of papers like the oligarch-owned WaPo is any better, they just had to settle a major defamation lawsuit due to their "progressive" propaganda.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-washington-post-to-pa...
Thanks for the summary.

If the company was created recently, how can they have brand or IP ownership over Manjaro that was pre-existing?

For example, for the Manjaro brand, to me it looks like that a trademark should not worth much as the brand was already existing and in use for this specific purpose for a long time before.

Maybe the community should just accumulate the proof of the existence of Manjaro before 2019 just in case that the company wants to limit rights on Manjaro?
I had this exact thing happen with the purchase of a Nest Protect from Amazon. Nest packaging complete with "Inspected" sticker on the box and a First Alert detector inside.

I no longer shop at Amazon.
I think I have seen it written as "23:59:60" during a leap second. In Unix time, you could code it as the previous second but +1 billion nanoseconds, or as the next second but -1 billion nanoseconds (if you use this option, the number of nanoseconds must be a signed type).
Your barely legible english is pretty much making OP's point.
Video version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJowTOkZVo
Do I have too many blockers running, because there's no article here?

Answer: Yes
I bought one of these after they were discontinued as a refurb. It was a great semi-portable computer—I'd take it with a cheap flat panel display, keyboard and mouse to band rehearsals and gigs to do recordings. Absolutely silent. At the refurb price it was a pretty good deal. I sold it for not much less than I paid for it to help fund my first PowerBook.
I have a team of 14 engineers in Pakistan. It wasn't always easy to do this and now I always feel at odds with hiring where everyone else is hiring or paying a premium for a western passport developer when I know I can get killer talent elsewhere.

I feel the talent we have now has the ability to crush, kill, and destroy the talent in Silicon Valley "engineers" at a fraction of the price in terms of output to input ratio. We've done work on crazy levels of core infrastructure and are scaling.

The "catch" is that we have to do over-documentation, lots of screenshots, and consistent routine communications. My CTO and cofounder speaks 4 languages.

The talent has to be managed.

Within 12 months of being with us, a Pakistani developer has massively increased their value.

We also don't bring anyone into core leadership team onshore unless they speak at least 2 languages or more or they have a serious edge in terms of talent.

The developers who complain about Indian and Pakistani developers are usually:

- Unilingual

- have been over-resourced in every position they've ever been in

- poorly travelled

- are used to working with onshore talent that has context

- find the time difference to be abhorrent

Right now, our core "mission critical" team speaks 4 languages.

I fully hope to add 10-20 languages as we expand. I'm hoping for Turkish, Arabic, Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Spanish, and Portuguese in that order...

You cannot expect someone who has 10-14 times less electricity/capita to suddenly have the context of an American. It takes time.

We pay for the entire floor of a building in Pakistan, have cameras, etc... remote now is a core part of our tech biz.
> In the past, the way the independent-minded protected themselves was to congregate in a handful of places

> That may not work this time though,

Ah yes, the classic, "things used to be so much better" argument. Which yeah, if you ignore things like McCarthyism then it probably seems that way. I'm curious how many black, female professor feel that they would have faced less intolerance in American universities before the intolerance wave of the 1980s.

I personally see tolerance as a trade-off in a lot of scenarios. Tolerating discrimination necessarily infringes on the freedoms and well-being of the victims. And tolerating anti-discrimination infringes on the freedoms of the aggressors. Both groups cannot be equally free in such a matter, because the freedom of one is at the expense of another.
I see both cancel culture and Trump's strange presidency as part of the same problem - the one that PG is talking about.

The rise of dogmatic orthodoxy and the inability to have a civilised dicussion where the participants disagree yet respect each other.
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There are at least 2 others. Reread and see if you can find them.

Also, being state run doesn't mean you aren't innovative. It's a different game but still requires innovation. Companies don't grow and grow and grow without any innovation at all.
The messed up question I was referring to, and I think bloaf was referring to, is a later one, the second one involving random answers:

> Assuming that every question in this 20-question test has only 1 right answer and you choose to guess the answer of each question randomly, then in terms of the number of correctly-guessed answers, approximately 68% of them will fall between:

> A. 2.2 and 5.8

> B. 0.8 and 7.2

> C. 6.8 and 12.5

> D. 7 and 13

> E. None of the above

Another messed up question was the one early on asking whether the dot product operator is "associative/commutative on addition" or not. That's not a thing that actually means something.
The E-2 is a great and really the best option for entrepreneurs if you have home-country money to invest in the U.S. company and an E-2 can be used for new U.S. companies with no employees - yet. If for example your citizenship is French, then requirements for an E-2 are as follows: the U.S. company needs to be at least 50% owned by French-owned companies or French citizens (who also are not U.S. citizens or green card holders), a substantial amount of money from French-owned companies or French citizens needs to be invested in the U.S. company, a substantial amount of money needs to be spent by the U.S. company in the U.S. on business expenses, and the U.S. company needs to have a strong/clear business plan that shows likely job growth (the hiring of U.S. workers or green card holders) over time.
Exactly like in Portugal, except for the religious leaders.
Can you please share pics / pattern?
Possibly. I saw an article when I clicked the link.
As a society, we visited this topic quite some time ago and it was the 18th amendment. It was an incredibly political moment for our country.
> the more your job benefits your community and the planet the less you will get paid, and vice versa

It's not _completely_ crazy - if both jobs paid the same, most people would take one that benefits society.

The magnitude of the difference is crazy though.
Your comment was very helpful. Some questions if your comfortable answering:

How did you change your mindset? Books, articles, techniques?

I currently employ THC to help with my baseline anxiety but that has been going downhill for me recently. May give CBD oil a shot. Do you just vape it?

When you say Wim Hof Method, do you include the cold therapy or just the breathing?

I wonder how much does lack of healthy relationships (romantic or otherwise) plays a role? That has been my biggest problem.
Overhyped is not the same thing as bad. I program in common lisp, it is by far my favorite environment for developing. I also think just about every blog post and reddit comment by someone who has just discovered lisp greatly overstates its advantages.
Hi Peter,

I'm an Indian citizen who's working with a startup in the Bay Area.

I'm applying for EB-3 (the company is applying) and EB-1 (through another law firm) simultaneously. Are there any concerns with timing?
Again, they are different approaches. Ruby derives heavily from Larry Wall's Perl, where multiple ways to do things was a feature. (Wall is a linguist and Perl reflects this) The way you manage this with a team is enforcing a "house style". This is how we did it when I worked at a Perl shop, it's how we do it at the Ruby shop I work at now, and it's how other teams manage their language's sprawling featuresets.

Python is unique in that it is one of the few languages to really hold "only one way to do things" as a pillar. I think it makes writing code more brainless and leaves less room for nuance and artistry, plus it forces you into weird syntax corners that you have no other way of getting out of. The python syntax for so many things is such a mess, I still cannot recall off the top of my head what the correct way is to do different kinds of iterations over a dictionary without looking it up. (And whenever I had to I remember hating it)

I've worked professionally in Python and it's not a bad language. (In fact I use it or its derivatives in a lot of personal projects.) It just so happens that I don't understand why people hold it up as this paragon of virtue, when it's literally just another tool, with another tired opinion.

> and the worst part is nobody tells you "this is the preferred way"

That's on your manager/team lead. In a good shop they'll tell you the preferred way.
> ... when given the opportunity to sit before a president addressing a global crisis, and then granted the opportunity to ask questions they should not inject their bias and call him a racist.

Look - I know it's hard to say this and remove the judgement from the statement, and I certainly do have my own judgement in play here, but, empirically speaking, President Donald Trump is racist. Or at the very least someone who consistently makes racist statements over time. And at that point what's the difference?

So w/regards to that I think reporters should have been saying that more, tbh. Let's review the facts:

1. Trump's comments about The Central Park 5, back in the day.
2. Trump's pivotal role in racist birther conspiracy theories about former President Obama.
3. Trump's racist language about Mexicans / Latinos, U.S. judges who happen to be Latino, his coded racist dog-whistle language about cities like Baltimore, Chicago, etc.
4. "Very fine people."
5. Every single thing he's done since the murder of George Floyd.

And I'm sure there's more.
It feels like you are really reaching to find an alternative explanation, when the original expansion feels pretty clear.
It's insane how we got here, but its not surprising.

Since 2016 political speech especially conservative views are being seen more and more not like a politician stances but an all encompassing bigoted ideology regardless of the data and proof behind such stances.

While I personally haven't lived long enough to see a swing in the rights direction I feel like the left condemnation of everything on the right it's going to easily bite them in the butt eventually.

I bet its happened this way in the past.
I'm sure they did start stacking as soon as they got the images. From a statistical perspective, 100 hr is roughly 3x better than 10 hr.
It happened to me when I bought a new motherboard from Amazon (shipped and sold by Amazon, not Amazon Warehouse nor fulfilled by Amazon). I opened the motherboard box and inside was a 10-year old motherboard.

I knew this was a possibility when buying from Amazon Warehouse but didn't expect it when buying new directly from Amazon.
If it's not a conspiracy theory, what is it?
But here an internal component was swapped. The serial number on the product was unchanged.

I've never seen a receipt list any serial number, let alone serial numbers of multiple internal components.
The victim isn't Amazon, it's the next customer who buys the returned product--which wasn't even necessarily labeled as such.

Now if Amazon included a guide with returned products, instructing customers what to evidence of fraud or tampering to look for? That would be a different story.
> lack of familiarity with unsigned and how it is supported by the tools

Do you mean this: "x <= to_unsigned(25, x'length);" ? Some tools, like Synopsys, allow "x <= 25;" here, but other tools, like ModelSim, do not. The VHDL-2008 standard does not allow "x <= 25;".

> Inconsistent Boolean expressions

Do you mean because I wrote "if rst ..." but later "if c = '0'..."? Come on, you're not nitpicking, you're trying to find issues where there are none. Fixating on such anal-retentive details does not make you a "Sr designer", it makes you a bad engineer.
>The thing that Mars has to offer that Antarctica does not is "backup solution for humankind". An asteroid impact can make earth uninhabitable.

I've actually come around to strongly agreeing with the "backup solution for humanity" thing, but I think "asteroid/whatever making earth uninhabitable" is one of the least compelling and direct threats. I now believe the single biggest thing having humanity out amongst the stars would bring is some level of guaranteed diversity and resistance to dystopia. There remains no indication that FTL will ever be possible, and while that's generally treated as an obstacle and bad thing for interstellar humanity, it also has some silver linings. It will always be fundamentally hard for many kinds of potential dystopia to coordinate in a uniform way if comms have a minimum time in the minutes, days, months or years and direct physical travel time ranges from months to years/centuries to "essentially never the energy cost is so high".

If humanity was "out there", yeah it'd provide some redundancy against certain kinds of biosphere ending events. But I think the biggest thing it'd provide redundancy for would be human failures and/or the failures of our creations. Falling into locally optimal controlling regimes that are hard/impossible to escape from internally, runaway technological singularities that go bad (be they information, bioengineered or whatever), etc. A lot of what could happen is very hard or impossible to predict, but the speed of light and rocket equation are both less so. And it's also less likely that the same thing would go wrong simultaneously everywhere, so at least everyone else would be able to observe what had happened. Space level distance also inherently fights the kind of uniformization that we're seeing on Earth, far enough apart there is no way to keep everything sync'd.
Great point. This could be changed or clarified at any moment.
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But it's nuanced and more than can be defined on a page with vast sub cultures and groups all lobbying for power.

As is any social movement, I think there are some problems inherent with it, like the inability to criticize aspects of the movement without being considered a racist.
Honduras? Obama was friendly to Zelaya and condemned the coup.
Aliens absconded with the DNA records obviously. Connect the dots people!
The idea that you can be independently minded as a quant or at a startup is absurd.

If you don't parrot the same bullshit as everyone else as a startup employee, you get fired without feedback because you aren't a "good culture fit." You have two choices: conform, or work somewhere else.
I have heard multiple times that its rather slow, but haven’t seen any benchmarks. Would make sense, as a dynamically typed, garbage collected language Clojure is not the greatest fit to implement a database in.
The question is, are the things you gain worth it?
The next H-1B lottery will take place in March 2021. The proclamation suspended the issuance of new H-1B visas; the lottery hasn't been affected and those in the U.S. seeking to change their status to H-1B or extend their H-1B status haven't been affected.
>And this is sidetracking. Even in the original trolley problem you don't know what is or isn't going to happen.

Indeed. The premise of the problem is that you believe that a certain action will cause a certain effect and the actual effects of your actions do not matter as it's an ethical and not mechanical, medical or engineering problem.

>In my eyes there is rarely any way to act apolitical.

It is understood. I just wanted to make you aware that in some other people eyes it's bonkers.
No, the next customer will just return it as well.

It's a mild inconvenience, the customer is hardly the victim. I'm for regulation of bad corporate actors, but punishing for mediocre customer service is going too far.
> But that is not how software is done. I want outcomes not masses. I need creativity to work on tools expressed through software not cheaper developers.

Fully agree, but the people making the decisions at large corps are not developers, and are just as focused on costs as the Indian outsourcing firms pushing low cost devs. And in turn, those people are pushed by the board to make cost reductions, and board members understand this even less.

As a developer and architect, I've had this discussion many times over my years working in the enterprise space, and it always ended with me throwing my hands up and giving up.
Datomic learning curve is relatively steep, like many higher level and more abstract things in Clojure ecosystem in general, and you should know how to cook it for sure.
After figuring out all why's and how's it works like a charm.

However, I indeed find Datomic Cloud version unnecessarily complex for most applications. Probably it is still a good corporate sales product for Cognitect.. Datomic On-premise version is much more friendly for small-medium-somewhat-larger use cases. Cloud version is also an AWS thing, so locks you in there, which is also not good.
One thing I've never understood is why all the indexes have transaction last. One of the selling points of Datomic is that it supports as-of queries, but using the EAVT or AEVT indexes requires it to scan all historic values of that attribute, right?

In most situations this is probably fine, but if you have data that changes frequently it seems like this could slow queries down compared to an EATV or AETV index.

It's also likely that the people who made Datomic are both smarter about this stuff than me and put more thought into it than I have, so I'd love to know what the reasoning behind the choice of index is.

(PS @dang it would be nice to have (2014) in the title)
Strictly speaking, it wouldn't. One of the interesting things the aviation industry deals with is a need for traceability of the metrology all the way back to NIST standards. That extra test, certification, and paperwork has a price. Compare the harbor freight example with this one: https://forneyonline.com/feeler-gauge-set-26-leaves-0015-to-...
How are you applying for EB-1?
I've anecdotally heard that it's possible to go from a TN -> Green Card. Light googling is pretty mixed on the subject; one side takes the stance that it's strictly not possible and the other says it is, but a risk.

Can you comment on your take? Is it possible to do this, what are the risks, and would you recommend it vs. trying for the H1B lottery?
We would have to analyze the actual distribution of that spend. When this is done, we see wealthier places have higher spending per capita because public schools in the US are funded primarily by property taxes.
>The victim isn't Amazon, it's the next customer who buys the returned product--which wasn't even necessarily labeled as such.

Not saying that I'd want this to happen to me, but assuming Amazon made it right I'd say that I was just inconvenienced and they were the victim.
I'm glad they spent that $50 million on research rather than on next year's football program. Seems to be a decision most big state colleges would not make.
> I am not aware of any hosted SQL technology which is capable of magically interleaving large aggregate queries with live transactions and not having one or both impacted in some way. At the end of the day, you still have to go to disk on writes, and this must be serialized against reads for basic consistency reasons.

I do sometimes wonder if dirty reads are what the business folks actually want.

Not necessarily unconstrained dirty reads. But if it were possible to say, "The statistics in your reports may only be accurate to (say) +/- x%," would that be good enough?

Going really philosophical, might they even make better decisions if they had less precision to work with? There are certainly plenty of studies that suggest that that's basically how it works when people are managing their investments.