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In my area, I'd say about 50% of the storefronts in any shopping area are brown-papered.

The other side of this, is that larger business are taking advantage of the small business' desperation, to buy them at rapacious prices, or coerce them into really bad deals.

Meaning that some of the small businesses that "survive" this downturn, have just postponed death.
Because it won't be expensive.

Visa does something like $11 trillion in volume per year. Why does anybody use that if visa takes 1-2%?

1% of 11 trillion is 110 billion. With that amount of fee revenue you'd be able to secure the Bitcoin network 12,000 times over.

So Bitcoin's security is able to grow by 1,000x and still cut prices relative to current popular providers by 12x.

That's cheap, not expensive, and that will lead to demand over time.
This is a weird headline.

"Regulated as a public utility" means, economically, that prices/profits are set by law -- that there's only one electricity provider but they can't jack up prices because there's no competition.

That makes no sense when applied to Google.

The type of remedy appropriate for what the author describes (Google favoring their own products in search) is relatively simple. That Google, Amazon, and others -- anybody who runs any kind of search mechanism, store, etc. -- are not allowed to give their own products preferential priority.

Public utilities are a super-weird and unhelpful analogy.
Have you used the modern web? We might not be building apps with "performance criticial tasks", but the modern web would benefit immensely from anything that improves baseline performance.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. Everything you referenced is an architecture problem, not a JavaScript problem. You can write slow apps in JavaScript+React, you can write slow apps in Rust. Unless milliseconds matter (doubtful in browser-land) you won't get the kind of performance you want for free just by switching languages.
Perhaps libraries doesn't really apply to SQL per se, but instead you have tooling, ecosystem, DB engines, ORMs, extensions etc, that all speak SQL and would be hard to do without.
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This is meaningless. If Wechat is really banned Tencent (or a shell company owned by Tencent) will just spring up another app with a different name that connects to the same data centers and put it on the App Store. Wechat is pretty much the RPC-equivalence of Facebook+Whatsapp with Paypal integrated, used by pretty much everyone on the mainland as well as RPC who are overseas but still want or need to be part of the social networks, or just anyone that wants or needs to do business with people in China.

If people actually believe enforcing a ban like this will in any way hurt Tencent or CCP then that is just ridiculous. This will only accelerate the already growing Anti-American sentiment in China. And the new Wechat app with a different name will be out maybe in a week or something.

Wechat is a very different case as compared to TikTok with vastly different use cases and user groups. The reasons behind why people use the two apps are fundamentally different.
And those options tend to work for a while, and then three releases down they get silently discontinued.
Most of the Servo team got fired :(
Craft? Science? Different cultures in knowledge-based activities
I don't care whether global mean temperature rises one or two Kelvin in the next 30 or 50 years. The discussion around that is a fatal distraction. I care whether humans will be able to live here in hundred and life in general exist in five hundred years. Hence I don't care about the minutiae of the models. It is quite difficult to predict how much influence decreasing albedo has on the rate by which the temperature increases, same for thawing permafrost in Siberia releasing an unknown amount of Methane. It is not difficult however to realize that those are positive feedback effects. There is no life possible on Venus. Now, earth is a bit further away from the sun, so won't reach the same temperature, but it doesn't take lead to melt to kill all life as we know it.
The western world has just spent decades engaged in a vast project of regulating fewer things "as a public utility." http://www.oecd.org/economy/growth/15172081.pdf. Public utility regulation is hard and often doesn't work very well. Any case for extending public utility regulation into new areas should tackle and overcome those trends to explain why such regulation is warranted in the new space accounting for all the reasons why we have been trying to reduce the amount of such regulation.
There are so many recruitment agencies in this town that I am not disadvantaged by not working with them.

Their behavior wasn't ethical. They didn't approach me. I found their job posting and approached them.
MS has always held that system calls are not guaranteed ABI stable. So any application doing this is subject to breakage at any time. That said I wouldn't be surprised if they are doing something not to dissimilar to this for those processes in kernel mode to emulate for things that are out of support and have no living vendor.

That said if you look at the list linked above some are "stable" meaning that MS probably knows this happens and kept those specific ones stable. But the rule still applies... never do direct system calls on NT.
I don't particularly care for the CEO, seems like an activist weirdo if I'm being honest(embodies idealism in an unproductive way).
It seems like a prudent business decision on the agency's part, to be honest, rather than some kind of underhanded anti-employee move.
This seems to be an exaggeration though to say that we basically have the technology. We have the ability to build a ship that would survive 300,000 one megaton nuclear explosions for 200 years, for a reasonable amount of money? What if this paper spacecraft is actually beyond the realm of material science?
US space program was mostly privately developed, in any case.

Saying "look as SpaceX" isn't much of a "government failed" as much as "Boeing failed miserably and lobbied hard to cover their failures".

That said - the government can be a facilitator without being the operator, and it shouldn't be the operator in this case.
> IR pills can be broken in half, XR cannot

You can always take the XR pill apart and split it into blank capsules. Or you can just dump a little out and take it without the capsule.
I think people like yourself value “data” too much. The value of financial data is that it can be used to target financial products: if you’re a bank why would you cut in a middleman on that? Look to any financial services company trying to make money through “data” and you’ll see they have direct relationships with advertisers that integrate directly into their product through “recommendations”. This is very well established and very very profitable — see nerdwallet, CreditKarma etc.
How far can you extend this?

* you don't have the right to drive (I think this widely affirmed in the courts)

* you don't have the right to use public transport (after all, if they can ban planes, why not trains or buses?)

* you don't have the right to bike (after all, if motor vehicles are regulated, why not all vehicles?)

* you don't have the right to walk on interstates
For the top of the top who can play offers from multiple FAANGs against each other, ya it's possible. For the normal to above average devs is where the cost of living vs high income dilemma becomes interesting.

An interesting analogy is how many people uprooted and moved to LA in time's past to become movie stars, and how many succeeded.

Times are changing though and you can now apply to some major tech companies remotely, more will follow as Cali is now the hardest hit state and the desire to move their cools off.
It can be used as a conscientiousness signal.
The economy is a ecosystem. If one species goes extinct it can destroy the balance and throw everything into chaos.

My company and most of my friends at other tech companies have had paycuts, layoffs, or furloughs.
Well... your current employer might let you go or freeze your upward mobility if they find out you are looking at other jobs.

I've even seen this internally. If I want to go to another team, why would my manager use their budget or political influence to promote me when they can use it on someone who is staying on their team.
Or.. free markets for the capital holders, patronage for the workers.

I don't mean to be malicious or anti-capitalist, but this seems like another example where companies want free markets when it involves taxes or costly regulation. But they oppose free markets when it causes labor costs to go up or reduces barriers to entry. It's a logical position for a corporation to hold but there is no ideological justification.
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> I don't see how the actions of India create legal precedence in Belarus?

It's a precedent for the world ignoring such actions.
Isn't this still exactly market forces, though? In your example, Google is just driving up the market price for somebody who works on self-driving cars. In what way is it a deviation from market principles?
Great point and apologies.

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Isn’t it all js/html? Who would pay for it when electron is free.
>> The optimal solution is for management to not let high-productivity talent from leaving - increase their comp to whatever offers they might get in the open market.

>> Investment bank and management consulting figured this out a long time ago.

That only works if your business makes piles of money, like investment banks. Or FAANG.

The rest of us have a % of money to spend on talent.
Firebase has a email verify feature You should use that so spam emails can be blocked from using your service.
> - ownership of the product and process

I work at FAMANG, and I feel ownership over my product and process. I set priorities for it, I set how work will get done on it, my team collectively determines what kind of processes we follow, and my manager just sanity checks that things are on-track.

> - less red tape and politics

Red tape, sure, politics, there's no guarantee of less politics in a smaller company. If anything, when politics happens, you don't even have the chance to keep your head down and avoid it.

> - good work life balance

There are hundreds of thousands of FAMANG engineers who have good work-life balance. There are many who don't, but there's an pretty big upside to working at a firm/on a project, where you aren't just an expensive cost center (non-eng-firms who generally don't give two damns about their engineers), and where you firm/project isn't default-dead (startup).

> location other than Silicon Valley

Large branch offices exist. Not in the mid-west, but the software jobs in the mid-west tend to be of the 'expensive cost center' variety.

> boss who pays attention to engineer needs and wants

Why would you think you can't find this at FAMANG?
You literally explained Fogg Behavior Model with your example. Yet, you stated in your original comment that you do not "generally" agree with these models. Have you even read about FBM before disagreeing with it?
I wanted to say I dont think Googles dominance would be such an issue if they were forced to stop collecting personal data to target ads. IMHO they are already in decline in terms of relevant (to the user) search results.
Turns out, things can be viewed differently from different contexts. It's both a comment AND a tactic.
More like, those that helped foster ChromeOS victory, should not lament that competition dies.

If it wasn't for iOS, I bet job offers for Web would have changed already for Chrome developers.
I feel like people tell themselves the opposite so they can justify continuing to run the SV rat race.

Sure you might be able to sock away an extra $10k/yr but the valley is gonna eat most of your raise and leave you miserable if you don't drink the kool-aid.
This doesn't seem like an argument you can make since A) modern capitalist companies have only been around for 400 or so years B) 'big' companies since then have not lasted more than 200 years at the very high end.

There is literally not enough data to make the point you are trying to make. All evidence available, which isn't much, shows big companies are destined to fail if they keep expanding.
> Never underestimate how much better a person's life can be by working for an AANG instead of working for you

FTFY.
You learn a lot about people (managers, founders, etc.) by how they handle their employees leaving the company. Looking over my career up to this point, the conversations I've had when leaving a company are ones that I still remember vividly, whereas I've forgotten a lot of other details about these places I worked for years.

I think back fondly about the managers that genuinely wished me well at those exciting but scary junctions, even if I had my frustrations with them while I worked there. And if I'm being honest I still hold grudges against the ones that tried to make me feel bad and acted like I was betraying them for taking another job that I felt was the right decision for me at the time.

Even from a purely self-interest perspective, it seems to me that it's in every manager's interest not to try to guilt employees that are leaving or talk negatively about them. It's the last chance you have to leave a good impression, it costs you nothing at that point, and you never know when you may cross paths again, or the employee that left may be friends with someone you want to hire in the future and warn them not to join you, etc.
Do they pay as much for an Alaska-based dev as for a SV-based dev though? I'd be surprised if that was standing policy outside of a few smaller companies (Basecamp is fairly famous for paying SV salaries to all remote employees)
I used to be a pro, but blocking out distractions (the easiest, most "fun" activity) helped me do more.

I know you didn't ask for advice, but if I were to give you just 1 bit of it, it's to block distractions in the browser (or unplug wifi) and put your phone in another room.

Then you'd get bored for a while, and then you'd take the easy work-related actions despite not being motivated.
I mean, I get what you're saying, but I don't think it's that controversial to point out that facing serious consequences from the US DOJ put a serious check on the actions of Microsoft and held them back from employing their embrace, extend, extinguish model on the web.
When it comes to public transport the public-private distinction becomes artificial, public transport is national infrastructure. To the traveller it makes no difference if the bus belongs to the city council or if the city contracts bus company X for transportation.
The exact opposite privacy thing is happening with Signal. They use your phone number because your phone links it to your contacts, which Signal uses as its "buddy list". By repurposing your contacts as a buddy list, Signal avoids storing any of that information itself. Virtually every other competing service stores a plaintext buddy list serverside, where it can be subpoena'd and NSL'd. The data in that buddy list is of equal value to state-level adversaries as the contents of the messages themselves.

I think --- I have no special knowledge here --- that nobody wants to do away with phone numbers more than Signal itself. That's what the "secure value storage" drama is about: using SGX to optionally vouchsafe an encrypted contact database, which would allow Signal to operate with opaque identifiers rather than contacts.
I feel the same way about being a dumbass for staying in los angeles lol. Here I am getting low 100k and some linkedin recruiter tells me about a 400k job. Wait WHAT?!

Man I'd happily take up one of those Google jobs, but being an embedded software guy, I'm not even sure what they'd want me for. It seems like a lot of silicon valley companies are a great place if you're a web dev, or use C#/Java all the time.
Probably depends on your age. Did you grow up with Pluto being a planet? Having to learn about it in all levels of schooling as a planet? Seeing images of all the planets and Pluto is included?

Or did you grow up afterwards and learn from elementary school that Pluto is not a planet so people who still insist that Pluto is a planet seem anachronistic?

It would be like Hydrogen being removed from the periodic table and being told that from now on Hydrogen is no longer considered an element. Would you still try to say that you feel that Hydrogen really is an element, even though you are wrong and Hydrogen is not an element and never should have been included on the Periodic Table in the first place?
It really depends on the perspective. If we're considering this a zero-sum situation, we have to conclude that your situation is good for developers in general because it will cause all developer/engineer salaries to rise to meet the (possibly inflated) salaries that the market has deemed required to recruit talent.

On the other hand, does it mean that some employers won't have money to hire talent? And will that result in some businesses failing? And is that ultimately bad for developers? I don't know, but it feels like it's such a big system that it will balance itself if that is the case.
yes S3 is the one exception cause its global
I upvoted both your comment and parent.

9 years at a FAANG and I'd willingly trade plenty of my money and golden handcuffs for a workplace that was more productive, creative, with better communication, and so on.

But when I look I just find shops with distorted work life balance, pointless whiteboard coding interviews, egotistical pseudo-feudal lord bosses with an illusion of hierarchical dominance, and a bunch of 25 year olds insisting on the merits of the latest JS framework flavor of the month.

Want experienced engineering talent (well, maybe they don't)? Money is not the only factor. Smaller companies are shorter on cash, but there are plenty of other things at work that smaller companies can control for...
There’s no proof it stops even 2%. Anyone with a week’s preparation could defeat it. Yet the innocent will be punished every day.

Remember the German pilot who crashed on purpose? Good thing they had ids on everyone.
The one that always surprises me is NextDoor. Given the much greater chance that you will literally run into someone on NextDoor in real life, and the fact that NextDoor accounts show your actual identity, you would expect discussion to be more civil there than on other social media.

But, holy cow, every time I go on there, it is a hot mess of angry people screaming at each other. I have to assume those people just don't go outside at all?
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Were you a Bitcoin user? Yes, then you won't be a buyer this time around. I will not be putting money in, but I will happily make the bags of others lighter. Of another hype bubble materializes, I will be extracting more of the free money Bitcoin Network printed.

In the states, using crypto is a taxable event. Until that is changed, they can only be stores of value, not currency, as I have no interest in recording every transaction with the IRS. I don't see a differentiation within cryptos coming from USG, so the crypto ecosystem can only be one or the other?
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I really fail to see the distinction. If someone is willing to pay 600k for something, then the value of that thing on the market is 600k. That is what a market is.
For most bad actors, a small amount of work is all that's needed to block them from a new platform like this.

1. Use email verification / captchas

2. Block mailinator/throwaway account addresses

3. Use something like Cloudflare/Akamai to protect against egregious bad actors

4. Add some other level of social validation like a major OAuth provider

5. Simple pattern matching - as the author noted, these are rarely sophisticated, and once you put even a small barrier up, they usually trickle down. You can even go further and just limit the features your product has specifically to hurt their use case, or you can actively shadow ban the users yourself, so they don't know their links aren't working.
In the instance that LordKano reached out to them, they were acting as an agent of the company he was applying to, not the company he currently worked for (even if they had an ongoing relationship with that company). By discarding a qualified applicant, they unethically prioritized their relationship with another client over the company they were supposed to be acting as an agent of in that instance.
Yew already seems to out perform most other frontend frameworks and view libraries[0]. More importantly it does this while still paying the serialising cost when moving from WASM to JS and back. This cost is set to go away when WASM to JS interop improves and will make Yew even faster.

0: https://github.com/DenisKolodin/todomvc-perf-comparison
I don't see why it's unfortunate if there's an equally good tool that is more egalitarian.

Congress could give the Fed the power to, rather than just buy bonds (or whatever it is they do) introduce money to the economy simply by giving everyone money.

I understand that it is not exactly true that the rich are getting free money for nothing. But the whole reason we're talking about this here is that someone pointed out that all the new money supply from the Fed is finding its way straight to people and corporations that don't have anything better to do with it than buy assets, the prices of which continue to grow as a result, even while the GDP rate is plummeting.

Lastly, I'm totally open to the idea that someone will come along and explain to me why my idea for how the Fed should give everyone money is just not workable. If that happens, I'll be happy to have learned something useful. But it's definitely not clear to me, a priori, why it wouldn't work if it wouldn't.
I guess I'll be the one to say it. No, I am much more likely to be hit by a bus than hired by any high-caliber tech company. I'd say stroke or heart attack top the list for me - probably will happen before 40 too.
I've been wondering about that.

Is it because all heavy elements present when Earth formed sank to the center?

That would make sense, but I've assumed that since we can mine gold, that's not what happened. If all the gold fell from the sky, that would explain things.
Where does 4 MB come from?

The average block size right now is 1.2 MB (the 0.2 MB because of SegWit). Assuming SegWit adoption increases to 100%, we get 1.6 MB.

The average fee on a transaction would need to rise $7.47 to match the post-halving's new, lower, security budget.

The average value of a transaction would need to double to make an average transaction fee of $14 (the current average fee of $6.50 + an increase of $7.50 to cover the loss of the security subsidy) economical.

But the doubling of value flows would make the current $security budget less adequate, so even less suitable for reserve currency usage.

And if the price increases, as Bitcoin investors hope it will, value flows would increase further, requiring an even larger security budget and average transaction fee.

At some point's further utilization and appreciation will be arrested by the diseconomies of scale caused by rising fees.
The article is a little thin on the finding being useful to do something with it. Because if what they describe is the case, then planes flying around have been self-protecting against coronal discharge already.