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But even if we should privatize, shouldn't it be done by Congress? Shouldn't the executive branch by responsible for enforcing the law that the legislative branch writes?
So where are you proposing the consensus be placed? A lot (I'd argue most) applications need consensus for them to be stable and reliable in the long term, so either you place it in the datastore or in the logic processing. Where else would you place it?
Hi. Maybe offer yearly or multi-year plans, possibly with a discount, to mitigate seasonality and make your revenue more predictable, so you can forecast and make decisions.

Maybe you can also have a feature that allows someone with purchase power to buy an app for multiple users at once, so you increase the average amount of a "buy decision".

Maybe a feature with a cart-like experience: I want to buy app A, app B, app C for user a, user b, user c.

Maybe a feature with bundles and packs that are geared towards a particular function. Similar to a LAMP/WAMP stack for web development, you can have (App A + App Z + App D) for $n.

Maybe a feature to transfer access rights for an application to someone else. I buy an app that I don't like anymore, can I barter? I give you that app, and you give me something else, like access to another app.

Maybe a feature for "App of the day". I connect and I have ephemeral access to an app for that day. It'll help discovery. If I don't like it, I just "stop" the app, and it'll give me access to another app that I can use for the remainder of the day. It exposes me to more applications and increases the likelihood of a collision?

You could then get data on apps I like and recommend to me applications I might like, with something completely different from time to time to pop the bubble.

Also, congrats!
Huh, now I can reply here, but I couldn't earlier. Fyi I'd replied over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133273 .
Depending on how you measure externalities, it probably is
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> I don't know Azure but do know AWS. PITR restores are not in seconds but in hours and you lose data.

You're talking about something different. I mean that if the node running Postgres goes down, your storage is simply connected to a new node (all this behind the scenes, of course).

> Quick feedback my side - $150/month to try something and then $500/month in production is not unreasonable for I think a fair number of use cases

$150/m just to play is way too much - IMO, $50/m would be much more reasonable. I also believe that $500/m for a tiny, single instance without HA is too much.
This is too general an argument. Why did people work in factories where they'd lock the door during the day? Or where there were machines that sometimes ripped people's arms off? Why did this spur regulations on workplace conditions?
Just throw a surgical mask over the P100's exhaust. You'll get to keep wearing a mask that actually protects you, while appeasing people who don't understand that a P100 wearer probably does not have corona...

At least that's my plan for when exhaust valve restrictions come to my area.
TSP - Tri Sodium Phosphate

It was an effective cleaner and an even more effective fertilizer that fed toxic algae blooms in aquatic environments. Not the best choice unless you don’t have anything else.
Their sample size is 950 Americans. That's too low even for a county.
To be fair, it takes about 4 paragraphs for the author to get to that point.
Got any sources for that claim? The transition in Israel, for example, resulted in what can only be described as a national joke.
CBS Sunday Morning did a recent segment about this issue [1]. In the video, it's mentioned the FCC estimated ~23M Americans are without broadband internet. Microsoft did another study, and estimates ~162M Americans don't have broadband internet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hWXrHmbu-w
> ... we have realised that it is worth taking an economic hit in order to preserve health.

Have we realized this? I think you'd find a sizable chunk of the country that disagrees. And I also think it's still too soon to say.

> That, after all, is what money is for.

Money that we don't have. We can keep conjuring money out of thin air if we want, but the effects of infinitely deepening debt seem negative in every case study I've ever read (to say the least).
I don't know whether it's the same in the US, but here in Germany, the good old taxis have a special obligation that disallows them to decline a rider based on where he wants to go, as long as that target is within the geographic area for which a particular taxi is licensed. The idea is that taxis are part of public transport and thus should have a certain reliability for customers, regardless of how lucrative a particular ride happens to be.

I find it laughable to hear that Uber, the arch-enemy of the taxi business, attempts to (secretly, because obviously the customer isn't informed about drivers not seeing the target locations beforehand) rebuild this particular property of the system it aims to replace. And it's doubly laughable that they now stumble over that exact attempt, which they now can't actually continue, because in order to have the necessary authority over drivers they would need to make them official employees.
With 5G it may not be all that different from employers paying employee phone bills
Oh, yes? I missed that. My bad..
I'm not sure what alternative you're proposing given that she did in fact live in a college town? Some kind of "no students allowed" subdivision? Keep in mind the FHA requirements.
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Yep. And if what you have is an Abelian Group, then you also get distributed computation as well (thanks to commutativity).
Them shutting down is a perfectly acceptable outcome.

California has essentially told them "You're doing an illegal thing".
They're response is essentially "Oh yeah? Well then, we'll stop doing the illegal thing!"

Thank you? That's what you were asked to do in the first place?

If they aren't interested in operating legally, then pivot or disband the company.
No, the Apple analogy is entirely accurate. Apple is in the music business. But it's not in the business of making music, it's in the business of selling music. Apple is in the music business in the same vein that a record shop is in the music business.

Uber is in the personal transportation business, at a broader high level. It's in the business of operating a market for rides. Just like how a record store doesn't actually compose and record the music it sells, Uber isn't in the business of actually driving people around. That task is fulfilled by independent workers, who use the platform Uber and Lyft operate to find customers.

Can you point out in said SEC filings where Uber says, "our company's primary business is operating motor vehicles to transport customers"? As in, actually driving their own cars? Because from what I've read they're very careful about describing their business as operating a marketplace for drivers to conduct their own businesses.
Hmm, interesting. I have this view that two things are prime determiners of a good life as a kid:

* Things to explore and do by yourself

* Lots of other kids to do these things with

But I don't know. I'm not a parent. I wonder if there are studies that show what happens. For what it's worth, this could just be personal bias. I grew up separately in the country when I was very young and then in a Barcelona-style superblock when I was a teenager, and enjoyed both experiences.
What you are seeing is the very evolved version, the later-war version of this battle. Early in the war it was much more primitive. There were incidents of ships literally hunting their own propellers. Only once procedures and training evolved did the real cat-and-mouse game become even possible.
The GOP is clearly intent on tearing down USPS but I've never actually understood the rationale for it - USPS has traditionally been self-funded and (without unreasonable financial burdens involving pre-paying pensions) would continue to be a revenue source rather than sink today. Mail is also a bit of an assumed service in the US so I don't know why there is a lack of understanding that privatization would lead to a lack in service quality in rural areas (where the GOP shows the strongest).

I do understand it's part of the whole "government small enough you can drown it in a bathtub" philosophy but it seems like a really silly service to go after. It provides clear societal benefits - has an insanely high quality of service (just look at CanadaPost and offerings in Europe) extremely low cost for use and is integral to a lot of social services (taxes, voting, census etc...) there are much bigger government boogie men to go after than USPS.
Yup, we see all of those. As well as the occasional assassin bug.
The problem I have is they're attempting to sound authoritative via way of medical and scientific expertise while in fact having none, in addition to having a financial interest in pushing supplements. It severely impugns the credibility of the book.

>Do you think the medical industry is forward-thinking or adverse to new ways of thinking in general?

Both. It's so vast that sweeping generalizations don't really apply.

>... but there are many cases of people outside or peripheral to a domain without qualifications that make a huge impact on a particular area and lead the way for more research ...

Sure, but an ND with ties to the supplement industry ain't that.

>... and we are all aware of the medical establishment's lack of proper training when it comes to nutrition.

You could even argue the medically-recommended low-fat diet craze was one of the largest health disasters in modern history. Unfortunately it doesn't make this guy any more correct or rigorous in his opinions.

Please understand this isn't a personal attack. I take supplements and aggressively fast every day precisely because I largely believe in the mitochondrial theory of aging. For all I know, everything in the book could be factually correct and not misconstrued. It doesn't change the fact the author is presenting themselves as a medical expert.
So Uber driver’s are too dumb to realize they’re being paid unfair wages? Why would anyone work for such a company if they have better alternatives?
All it needs is something for calls and something for MMS. Every other "app" would just be a Windows application. Windows application developers would be developing apps for it, but continuing to do what they do.
While I am not going to argue that valuations are wholly rational (and specifically the fact that valuations increase with investment size), it is also true that having more capital may make the company able to accomplish more, and thus raise the expected exit value for the investor. If so, that provides a rational basis for increasing the valuation of the company when giving it more capital. (Present valuation being the discounted future valuation)
FYI: https://storybook.js.org/ eats 100% of my CPU when I'm on the website!
How cloud-native application testing is different from testing on-prem software
I've also seen several Search Console issues that displayed a "Last Crawled" date months or years in the past. They had long since gone outdated. In some cases the entire website had been replaced by that point.
Worrying about performance of small collections is premature optimization.

Using maps or sets nowadays is mostly for clarity, as they are used to solve certain kind of problems.
Yes, yes. The interesting part is performing the transformations manually without tooling.
I've had Uber drivers pick me up and refuse to go to the part of the city I wanted to go to... complete pain in the ass (and also racist in this specific case). Uber offered me $5 for my trouble each time, which is... very Uber.
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Except that there are infinite such non-bottlenecks, and all the effort you spend on there is effort not spent on the real bottlenecks.

In other words, all engineering is time- and cost-constrained. Anybody can build a good chair for $10,000 or a good PC for $100,000. Doesn't mean it's good engineering.
To some extent, they are right.
To their customers, they pretty much are a (more convenient) taxi company.

To their drivers?
They are a shittier taxi company that doesn't provide cars, yet still charges drivers 25% of fares in exchange for legal protection against taxi laws and customers/brand.
For decades, I used the dishwasher exclusively to wash my dishes, but once the pandemic began, I started washing my dishes by hand and have been doing so ever since.

I used to hate washing dishes by hand, because I found touching the leftover food and grease to be really gross, but since the pandemic I started using nitrile gloves when washing dishes by hand, and then since the leftover food was no longer touching my skin I didn't find it gross any longer.

In fact, I was surprised to find that washing dishes became sort of a meditative experience for me, when I took a break from whatever I was involved in in my day-to-day life, and for 10 minutes or so focused on just doing the dishes. So I almost started to enjoy washing dishes by hand, and only rarely run my dishwasher any more. Really, the only time I run the dishwasher now is when I'm too exhausted to do the dishes by hand, instead of every single time.

It's also nice not to have to wait for hours for the dishes to be washed and dried, and not to waste so much electricity to just do a handful of dishes.
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Go 1.15 improved converting small integer values to interfaces
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And getting a true technical resource on the phone at AWS requires an enterprise support contract, which starts at an additional $15,000 / month.
> These are all only true in safe rust. A hypervisor has to do low level things like translate memory addresses, move stack pointers around, etc. Nearly all the buggy C code, if implemented in Rust, would be wrapped in 'unsafe' and would be just as buggy.

> I recommend everyone interested in Rust to take a look at how the standard library Vec is implemented[1]. The code is littered with `unsafe` - There is just no way to avoid it and do something useful at the same time.

I think Vec is a somewhat extreme example in terms of unsafe. It requires to be able to realloc, or allocate a new buffer and move all elements; those operations do not fit into Rusts safe memory and lifetime model. If you are writing some form of container like Vec or Hashmap, I would agree with you; Rust doesn't offer much help in preventing those memory bugs.

However, there is tons of other code than can be written in safe rust. Parsing binary data formats in particular is an area that can result in buggy C code and can be solved in Safe Rust. If you were referring only to the buggy code in qemu, that may very well be true. However, I would suspect there large swaths of code that don't do anything particularly interesting, but do allocate and free which Safe Rust might help with.

> This isn't really a shortcoming of the language, but of modern computers. It is fundamentally an unsafe operation to read or write memory, to communicate with a disk, etc. Every computer program is fundamentally unsafe. Rust does a fantastic job of making this explicit and controlling it as much as possible, but the idea that Rust code is bug free for free is just wrong.

If you trust the standard library to abide by Rust's memory invariants, you totally do unsafe operations without letting program state go into an undefined state. I don't think I have ever had a Rust program using only safe rust (in the main source code) segfault and that is simply no where close to true for C programs I have worked on and other tools I have used.

The feature that I like best about the safe vs unsafe Rust is that if I only use well established libraries and only write safe rust, I can almost completely ensure my code won't segfault (even if I am incompetent). Panics are still a problem, but they are more manageable.
Your first two sentences directly contradict each other. There is in fact a lot of market demand for non-fully-detached-single-family-housing that the market is not allowed to satisfy solely because of the zoning legislation. If you actually let the market decide then you will see more density (and cheaper housing options on the lower end).
From your point of view.
That's a bit broad i think, talking about pure speed of your task you are right, talking about energy consumption then it's not always the case. Or small but often repeated task should be optimized no mater if they are bottlenecks, when the system grows they will become bottlenecks, optimize like a Vulcan is what my boss once said...be logical and nothing else (my interpretation)
> Also, creating a hash isn't free.

Hmmm... I argue that the hash is nearly free actually.

An unordered_map traversal is probably DDR4 latency bound. That's ~50-nanoseconds (200 clock ticks) per access. What's the CPU going to do in that time?

Well, spending 10 to 20 clock ticks on a typical hash algorithm is fine. Then it will wait the other 180 clock ticks for RAM. If you got hyperthreading, maybe the CPU will go to another thread and do meaningful work while waiting for RAM... but... I think you get the gist.

Even IF the hash were free, the CPU is waiting for RAM anyway. So you got plenty of time to make that hash worthwhile. Even an integer division/modulo operator (worst case ~80 clock ticks) can fit in there while waiting for RAM, with plenty of room to spare.

I guess if everything was in L1 cache, the story is a bit different. A lot of "depends", depends on the data, the access frequency, etc. etc.
Money you can pay taxes with is the specialised kind of money: “state money”.

You limit yourself in some ways if you consider state money to be the only money. It ties you to your state: which is OK when you agree with your state, but sucks when you don’t. It ties you to the state’s economy (the problem these novel/local currencies attempt to solve). It ties you into statecraft, international relations, and the horror show that is global currency exchange. It invites the state into every transaction you make. It invokes your state’s monopoly on violence, with every transaction you make.

All these have their uses, but they are also a burden sometimes.
Ya but clicking that doesn't even work. And I rarely go on Twitter so I don't know why they would do it intentionally.
They're not measuring externalities with the Postal Service.
I would agree that Congress should be the group doing this, but executive powers have grown to the point that this type of action seems possible. I think Obama's quote aptly captured the reality of the situation:

>"I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward."

I am staunchly opposed to the continuous growth of these powers, but each party seems to support them when their guy is president, and Congress seems unwilling to take action.
Outcomes are roughly binary though
Rust isn't nearly popular enough to be referred to as "the new normal" in any field or context. One would have to be in a very closed off bubble to think it is. If they haven't made some big strides with having it certified for use there are entire industries where you can't even use it and get certification, if I understand correctly.
> Tony Hoare's famous maxim "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Actually that was Donald Knuth - it's an urban legend that it's an urban legend that it was originally Knuth. Hoare was quoting Knuth, but Knuth forgot he said it, and re-mis-attributed the quote to Hoare.
That’s a horrible law. What if it’s a female driver and a sketchy rider? Or worse, her abusive ex?
For existing Google-branded locks, typing a passcode into the device still works https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9233966?co=GENI... It looks like you can change your passcode by doing a factory reset of the lock.
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I have two projects that I consider to have nearly-perfect code. Both are their third iterations, and I think they're stable at this point.

Kinda goes:
1) Make a bad solution exploring the problem
2) Explore a good idea for how to solve the now-understood problem
3) Mature the good idea through usage.
Usually there are only a handful percents of overall users who actually create content compared to "read-only" users. There is nothing special about wikipedia, the same thing applies for sites like youtube,reddit, etc.
The same will apply for MDN as well, so if you haven't contributed there, this doesn't mean that nobody will.
They do, but then the neighbors complain about the noise and all of the kids on their lawns and pass town ordinances outlawing it.
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WSJ, I believe
They interfere with the browser shortcuts, like Ctrl-N. Besides, still no auctex or similar.

I was literally thinking of making a custom chromium browser with my own shortcuts to solve this problem.
What happens if there’s a solar event? Are governments ready?
Spare me the puerile libertarian arguments for a privatized postal service. There is no good reason for it to be privatized and many Americans lives will be negatively affected by such a change.

1) There are already private mail carriers (FedEx, UPS, et al.). They do not have an obligation to deliver mail in a timely manner anywhere in the continental US and overseas territories. This is fine if you are a city dweller, but private mail carriers notoriously do not guarantee "last mile" delivery. This will cut off many isolated rural communities for whom the USPS is a lifeline to the outside world.

2) USPS receives no tax dollars for their services. They are completely self-sustaining. A Republican congress forced an insane burden for the USPS to pre-fund 75 years worth of pension obligations: there are future postal workers who have not been born yet that the post office must plan pensions for. No other government entity has such an obligation - this is the only reason the USPS is in a financial problem and it is a manufactured crisis. There is no "small government" argument here since your tax dollars don't fund them.

3) The USO pledge states that the USPS must offer affordable rates to customers. Privatized companies have a market incentive to keep prices low, yes, but in practice there is no way that there won't be price collusion/fixing if a handful of private carriers become market dominant. Antitrust is laughably weak in the US right now.

4) DeJoy is using the manufactured crisis from pension obligations as a canard for slashing worker benefits and overpay to the bone. He is intentionally gutting the USPS so the Republicans can point at it and whine about how socialized enterprises don't work as well as private ones. This is why all mail is so delayed right now: postal workers rely on overtime to ensure that all mail is delivered in a timely manner.
No.

It's really an issue of not being sure at first what needs to be flexible & data-driven vs handled in code. If make everything data driven, then it becomes this horrible mess where your input is basically a program and your actual code ends up being a terrible interpreter.

I tend to just build things bottom-up, and start with a small bit of functionality, then when I have enough small bits, I bolt them together and decide what I need to abstract at that point, do refactoring on the smaller bits and provide data to them from the caller. Then repeat that continuously until I have all of the functionality I need.

It might be different for other people, but I need to have working code before I can it abstract.
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> or you need to be living in a tent on BLM public land with your only expenses being food and a phone bill.

Can you actually [legally] do this?
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Barkeeper's Friend is definitely not for hands though!
Is the 747 the only plane that uses floppy disks or are there newer ones that do have the same?
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