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Somehow these social media giants from X would be allowed to collect crazy amount of data on their users, but Y’s would be deemed illegal.

Could unironically be answered “Yes, and?” in a rational discussion about geopolitical issues, especially one without a globalist (or specifically western) bent.

I’ve gone ahead and done that in response to the GP just now.
isn't this what governments ought to exist to do? "promote the General Welfare" is within the first 30 words of the Preamble.
Lol, first I didn't say the UN, which is ridiculous. And second if you think the Philippines has as much say in if China takes over the South China Sea as the US has, then you are under a severe misunderstanding of how the world works.

Also it's ridiculous to think the UN has any real say in these things.
One of the two of you is an expert in this field.

It ain't you.
A little more thinking may be in order, since the whole point of TFA is that supplementing doesn't seem to do much good.
This is kind of interesting but it sounds like the perpetual worry of the perfectionist developer. Of course you end up with tech tech, you develop new things when you could improve existing things, you deploy something that could be iterated but you don't.

The truth is that the world is a complex place and you don't always know whether you can keep your existing customers by improving what you already have or get new customers to decrease the risk of declining income. It is hard to measure what is acceptable tech debt and what is worth addressing.

In one sense, the proof is in the income. If you can help customers with an 80% OK product then you just need to live with the dodgy 20% bit.

I agree with the danger of big customers though! If you ever think something is a way to avoid hard decisions, pivots and annoying some of your customers, then it is too good to be true ;-)
If someone goes to grad school, especially if they had 2-3 years of full-time work mixed in there, they can easily be pushing 30. I basically did a career change at about that age into the computer field as a product manager.
Not that hard. We do studies on the effect of second-hand smoke, alcohol, exercise, and lots of other things which are no easier to control.
Determing aspects such as whether or not the allegations actually amount to a crime both in the US and UK is a pre-requisite for justifying extradition, and as such essential.
I hate to be that guy but did you actually read the comment? It said "after". So not the moment he signed in, 15 minutes after where to all intents and purposes that should have been impossible.

After all, we can sign people up in 20 milliseconds, I don't see why marking an account as in the process of deletion should be so hard.
"'Wild West' mentality"

You mean like genocide? Because that's probably the most important 'mentality' developed in the Wild West. Unless of course we're talking about the Hollywood version of the Wild West.

This article is a pile of American exceptionalist BS.
Ah yes, the trend of outdated car manufacturers seeking miracles via acquisition continues.
I've been enough on the insides of these kind of decisions in the past to know that it's very much lawyer and PR-driven, and that the right thing to do from those perspectives is to terminate the relationship as quickly as possible. If you give lots of lead time then you're just creating a festering sore for yourself and giving the other party time to mobilize against you. It's better for it to be a fait accompli with minimal notice given, so that the other party immediately focuses on moving on rather than trying to mobilize to reverse the decision.

It's definitely not good for the company caught on the receiving end of such a decision, of course, but the hosting company is optimizing for themselves, as all companies are inherently selfish. And given how much racist garbage Ruqqus is hosting, I don't think Heroku cares too much about any hardship incurred.
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One stupid example off the top of my head:

A teacher that needs a list of all the students scheduled to be in their 5:00 class.

There's literally millions of similar examples. Software where none of the users know about the other users would be fairly rare in my world (I've worked on internal business tools most of my career).
ooh good one, I'll add that to my snippet
This reads like the scientific version of a stereotype.

Maybe kind of interesting, but extremely prone to misinterpetation, over-generalization, and potentially prejudice.
I recently learned that one reason(not the siongle or main one) Japan and the West is "forgetting" about Japan atrocities in Asia is because "democracies" don't want people to sympathize with communists, so we have a media full of information about what germans did but almost nothing about Japan.

I am convinced that things are not great under communism in China but what does have West to offer ? you are free to call the president an idiot, and you sometimes can protest without fear but if you are the wrong race or poor the West is offering is less and less appealing , especially now that the Internet can show exactly the reality without a media/Holywood filter on top.
This is basic nonsense. Design your scripts and provision your environments. _You_ can stop writing bash scripts. I find them eminently useful and I control/provision the environments they run in. If you are not in control then do what you are told. Most people would puke if I told them that a lot of csh is alive and well in sci-prod environments but that is the way it are. You _do_ tailor your environment bc that is the way *nix was designed. Controlling people and peoples habits is faang land.
Keep converging and building.

I have been experimenting with combinations of huggin, camunda, airflow and others to try and achieve an integrated workflow/state/process management.

There exists a gap in the enterprise space between all these tools.. and it has been further exacerbated by the disruption introduced to many industries by covid. There is a real opportunity for small and medium businesses to be able to access tooling that is beyond what a base line Zap, etc can accomplish.

Would be happy to connect offline.
Very true. Unfortunately, too many people ignore this, or don't realize this, and instead lionize VCs like they're some class of better humans or something. Quite sickening, really.
That's the only evidence that's publicly known at the moment. And, given the extraordinary lengths that the USA has gone to to persecute Assange, it would take a high bar before I'd believe the government at this point.

What Assange is actually guilty of is running Wikileaks with the explicit purpose of making it hard for interest groups within the government to conduct "business as usual" against the interests of both the world and the American public.

On the positive side, Wikileaks helped convince the USA to get out of Iraq, and helped cause the Arab Spring uprisings that removed several dictatorships. On the downside, Wikileaks has become a pawn used by foreign espionage groups attempting to manipulate the US public. See the DNC email dumps which appear to be the work of Russian hackers attempting to manipulate the US election.

Go ahead and charge him with what he actually did, and convince the world that on the balance it does more harm than good. But don't manipulate governments around the world to pursue him by dishonest means.
> Academic study, showing leftist bias

says rightwing mouthpieces.
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What's surprising is that until that moment and a certain other moment which I've linked to enough about the source of funds YC was strictly speaking 'the good guys'. After that they turned into 'just like the rest, possibly worse'.

That said, if you want to do a funded start-up and you're in the United States nothing will come close to beating YC for effectiveness, even today.
So while I learned to program BASIC at 10 or so on a Commodore PET, there were plenty of adults who were also learning BASIC for the first time in that same wave of early home computers. I had a friend whose dad (an optometrist) was very into programming their TI 99/4A. And I'm pretty sure my high school computer science teacher hadn't been programming a lot longer than I had (although he was a good teacher).

So in a lot of ways, learning programming as an adult is a tradition that is as old as home computers. You're never too old to learn something new.
As someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post. It seems like a term that someone came up with, but it's never caught on.

I've typically heard of us referred to as the Western US (as opposed to the West Coast).
Probably minimum supported iOS version for the AR features.
Is "NO" Nitric Oxyde in this context?
> So, he's saying that SPAs are bad and we should invest in a Chrome-only feature or future feature that might make it through standards? This makes no sense to me.

That was my own conclusion, at first I thought "whoa, <portal>? never heard about it but looks cool", I proceeded to search for `HTMLPortalElement` and then I got to a W3C page saying "Draft" and I was like "what? a yet to be standardized feature? thanks, but no thanks, I'll might check it back in 2 years".
well, for a start there's no jury. A magistrate, who is already clearly showing bias and a tendency to read verdicts from a laptop rather than actually decide them, is the sole arbiter of whether he gets extradited or not.
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I doubt that has much to do with verbal IQ, though. When I was a kid I also had trouble finding words, so I made a lifelong habit of learning them. As a result it made me an excellent writer and reader, but still didn't improve my speaking.

If you're feeling verbally blocked it's probably more likely that your problem is some form of social anxiety. (That was mine.) If you become much more talkative when drunk, for instance, then the problem is inhibition.

You can meet plenty of garrulous people who can talk circles around you, but it doesn't mean they're necessarily bright.
Check out the startups working at incubators like Greentown Labs: https://greentownlabs.com/.

Not all these companies will make it. There's a risk associated with working on these problems that is not always countered by the rapid revenue growth associated with a well-funded tech company. Having worked at a company that was briefly situated at Greentown, I will say there is an energy associated with working there. It made my optimistic that people are actually working hard on these problems, and we have a chance at solving some of them within my lifetime.
Maybe this will be the push for Tesla to fix it then.

In the mean time, I would love the option of an index that is literally just "the largest companies", without all these exclusion criteria. I wonder how it would fare against indexes with lots of exclusion criteria.
DLT labs. They are providing Blockchain solutions check out Walmart logistics they have built for their transport partners.
As a senior in HS it was the very first year our school had programming as a class and it was only for Turbo Pascal so I learned the basics of programming through that. It didn't really stick though (at least consciously) and a few years later I ended up self teaching myself PHP then Ruby then JS through necessity/curiosity.

The very next year they changed it to C++ and I wonder how things would have turned out differently had I been a year younger.
> You force your opponent to operate in the tiny amount of air space that you've given them, and constrain them to talk about things that you've chosen so you probably know more about them.

That's a good way to repel people from ever engaging with you and instead find ways to work around you. Moreover, you can't actually "constrain" the discussion unless it's deliberately structured that way (like what lawyers do in a court).

You've got to respect and address any alternative framing that your "opponent" is operating under, they're not going to comply with an arbitrary framing of an argument that you provide, just because.
I'm curious to know how you handle relationships and communicate that in a beginner-friendly way.
It sounds like they're talking about the Rockies to me as well. I think the thought is perhaps everything between California and Oklahoma = Midwest.
Immutability doesn't mean no one can implement a Haskell extension that allows safely describing and composing operations that use mutability on the inside.

Of course on current hardware with current compiler Haskell programs tend to be slower, and also tend to be more correct compared to C/C++ (maybe even compared to let's say C++20).
So the same as every other ad network then? Only half joking.

Our niche SaaS sees 90% of Google Ad spend going to India, Russia and South America unless we create a short-list of countries to specifically target. And Google is full of dark-patterns around your targeted countries, by default it selects "people in, or interested in, your targeted locations" unless you drill down and find an obscure setting to change this. Then you only need to deal with the domestic and/or more sophisticated ad fraudsters, which will still probably end up as the majority of the spend.
Lot longer than 15 years. There were ISA SCSI controllers that had micro-controllers which could be programmed at some level. The symbios SCRIPTS come to mind which were common on the 53Cxx controllers.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/96635/Lsi-Symbios-Sym8953u...

This has continued on raid/fibre/nvmeof/etc boards.
I was on onboard with plenty of pop music stars having a similar sound (90% of everything is crap, pop music included), but taylor swift does at least have a somewhat unique style.
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I work at a company that grew from a few hundred to a few thousand people in a few years' time, and there was an identical mindset and identical problems over that growth period. I started during that growth period, and 10 years later, we're still digging ourselves out of those mistakes.

One reason for this was how heavily we prioritized first mover advantage. We pushed extremely hard to get into new markets, and while strategically this worked out extremely well for us, it meant that later development was hamstrung by earlier decisions. Any iteration on old features almost always meant rebuilding it entirely, and we've only just started to get to a place where previous efforts to do this are now paying off in increased velocity.

I think there's an argument that this could be good, since you're only improving features when there's some other value you can ship. However, I think it's short-sighted, because it means prioritizing small iterations has an unnecessarily large cost, simply because that cost wasn't paid down slowly over time. While I do think prioritizing new markets early on was a good call, that mindset bit us in the ass in a big way when we tried to ship a very flashy new feature later in our growth cycle that crashed and burned because of tech debt, and it took us over a year to fix everything to release it. If we had taken a mindset of building for the long term five years ago, which was already years after we'd gotten to a comfortable place in revenue and marketshare, we would probably have paid off most of the major tech debt by now.

I honestly don't know how a company can get past the addiction to shipping, at least not during its growth period. It can be strategically necessary, and I imagine in only a two-year period at the early stages of a company, like what's in this article, it's impossible to avoid. But leaders must have in the back of their heads the idea that they will need to start tipping the scales toward standardization, building to last, and building infrastructure as well as features sooner than they'd probably like to avoid larger problems in the future. And I suspect the only way leaders will really take that seriously is if they've gone through it before.

EDIT: Clarified a few points.
Uhh, ashoka wasn't called kind and peaceful for his kalinga conquest, but how he transformed afterwards.

Unless you also think of nelson mandela as a terrorist?
Think it's more that there are lots of less sophisticated investors in on TSLA. Inclusion in the SP500 does not usually send a stock to the moon because it's already priced in.
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Replace us? Isn’t it enough to just enslave us, feed us scraps and tell us what to do? Lot’s of startups are working on that. (It’s called the gig economy.) :P

Footnote: I’m not this critical of the gig economy, just couldn’t resist the opportunity for some gallows humor. :)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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Yes it is political because they were political. It is because of them India's history education starts and ends with Mughals. Even Mughal's contampories like Marathas, Sikhs, Vijay Nagar, Ahoms kingdoms etc don't find any place in the history books?

Do you think these omissions from Indians History books are happen-stances:

- Dutch came to India before English but they were crushed by Vijay Nagar Empire.[1]

- Ahoms ruled the North-East part of India for 600 years and Mughals never succeed in defeating them. [2]

- Marathas were ruling the India when British invaded yet history books show Mughals as last rulers of India.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marthanda_Varma#Battle_of_Cola...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahom_kingdom

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire
Yeah, me being right certainly is a can of worms, but continue with your propaganda.
Most people believe so, but not all.

Even so - if you can solve these problems and make good money while doing so, why wouldn’t you want to?
I don't really know if a chargeback would work here, but the basis would be "I agreed to pay X and LinkedIn charged me Y", not "LinkedIn did not deliver the services advertised".
I have never clicked on a Ad from linkedin purposely. The thing is, everytime I go to check my profile (which is on the left top part of the screen - I'm dextrous) I end up clicking on a Ad with the palm of my hand (smartphone).
Being a JVM friendly tool, it would be great to unlock other JVM syntaxes to allow scripting in any lanugage.. Jython for Python, Quercus for PHP, JRuby for Ruby, etc.
It is obvious why these people suck up to VC's. It's where the easy money is.

Banks are super risk adverse (in business 3+ years, with client base and revenue, and collateral).. Versus some shit VCs who'll encourage to "disrupt" (eg: dismiss legal or safety regulations to extract quick profit) with a 1 out of 10 chance of a startup hitting the hockey stick growth.

Lie with the dogs, and you get fleas. I'll leave it to the reader to decide who the dogs and fleas are.
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> So in Feb 14 2019 your users would have seen the content you intended. However in Sep 07 2020, your users are being asked to support independent Journalism instead.

Can you believe it? Yesterday, I tried to walk out of the grocery store with a head of lettuce for free, and they instead were more interested in making me pay money to support the grocery and agricultural business!
Definitely worth a shot - you should find the early parts of "The Captain and The Enemy" strangely familiar.

I do find the suffocating catholic guilt themes a bit depressing (read "The Ministry of Fear" or "Brighton Rock" for prime examples), but they're extraordinary nonetheless.

(Edit) As you probably know, "Greenes" House and "The Greene Field" were named for his father.
A "welfare check" is just police stopping by and asking if everything's okay. The CPS aren't involved.
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> It's unfortunate that exposure to UV is so harmful,

This is an extremely popular simplification. The scientific jury is still out on this one, as it seems that paradoxically people with constant exposure to sunlight are less likely to get skin cancer as compared to those that get sporadic exposure.
The early settlers of North American were in some sense selected by personality. It must have taken a certain sort of risk-taking personality to give up everything and climb aboard a crowded rickety passenger ship for a month-long journey to a vast and mostly uninhabited land. The people who arrived in America and decided to take it one step further by moving away from the crowded cities of the east into the vast and dangerous interior of the continent must have been a special breed.

You can still see some of these early mountain towns today--some are practically unchanged from what they looked like 100 years ago.
I have updated my comment to include the original sources. I included the tweets because I first I learned from them.
I hadn't heard of the term either until moving to Utah, I noticed quite a few orgs/business with the term intermountain in it, like intermountain healthcare. But when I was living in the midwest we just referred to the mountain region as "out west".
> With respect to the US, this answer is incomplete. The theory of letting the market decide only works when there is a free market. Most places I’ve lived has only had a single choice for ISP effectively making them monopolies.

Furthermore, even in places where you do have some sort of choice for internet service, it is almost certainly limited to choosing between a cable monopoly and a phone monopoly as your ISP.
Came here for this. Have my upvote.
I find it's pretty easy to frame the debate, generally, though. When they bring up off-topic points, you say "There's plenty of room to discuss those issues you brought up, but I'm still interested in your thoughts on my original question."

Now, you become an annoying ass when you try to turn every discussion into a debate, and try to win every time. Don't do that. Sometimes it's better to let other people win or just feel heard. But if you want to win, that's how you do it.
Aren't there already elixirc hooks which have been in place for a while now? Are there new ones as of recently?
There is no non environmentally damaging solution, really, and there probably never will be.

Steps in the right direction are all we can ever take.

Asteroid mining might be a bit of a solution to this resource extraction problem, but not really.
I live in a mountain town and it's literally 'Wild West': http://northwesttraveladvisor.com/northwest-vacation/western...
Hand shapes for typing are far from standardized or recognisable. Nowhere near the accuracy a laser beam break gives you. (The projection LED is separate from the detection laser, which is much lower power)
Yeah I don't really agree. I have both software engineering and law degrees and would love to do something on the nexus tech/law/security but there are very few jobs where deep knowledge of several is a real plus. It's at best an 'oh that's nice' level thing. I'm open to jobs in the south of The Netherlands, eastern Belgium or western Germany if anyone is looking :)
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Right, but they would've been partially educated by the USSR's educational system, some of which would have outlived the USSR itself.
We help our own, and destroy and torture with great pleasure and no remorse everything else, including animals, whole ecosystems, and other human beings we decide, for some reason or another, are "aliens".

The moment we give another human community a special name is the first step towards abomination.

Being territorial and aggressive towards others is a trait we share with other species, but we are also superpredators and conquerors and will not rest until there is no more "others".