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By local law you can probably take it off and put it back when you’re gone.
Online voting is hard because people are trying to solve a wrong problem. Now anonymity in voting is needed because a vote has too much value for the politician who is being elected (four years of power), and too little value for the voter (choice between two bundles of promises that almost certainly will not be kept). Because of this asymmetry there is a large risk that with non-anonymous vote people with power will force large number of people to vote for them.

But if we could vote on individual laws and policies instead of people there would not be such difference, and people would be able to use their vote rationally. And if they make mistakes they will not be stuck with the mistake for four years.

Openness of the vote would also allow more flexibility in the way people delegate their vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy or trade support for issues to reach compromise https://voteflux.org/
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No True Scotsman wants piss water, of course, but Molson Coors takes in something like $10B of revenue yearly for it.
No wonder JFK got cancelled:

https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-k...

> "Finally, in a field where the United States and the Soviet Union have a special capacity--in the field of space--there is room for new cooperation ... I include among these possibilities a joint expedition to the moon. ... Surely we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two countries--indeed of all the world--cannot work together in the conquest of space, sending someday in this decade to the moon not the representatives of a single nation, but the representatives of all of our countries."

What would the 1963 equivalent of "Look up — for all mankind" have been?

(As for Khrushchev, en.wikipedia says he wasn't stoked on the idea, but in any case he got cancelled in 1964, the season after Kennedy.)

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jwS76QCLtA
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Watch this video. It is about the social impact of algorithms which are driven to maximize sales. They don't have a name for the syndrome.

I call it "The Doll House" syndrome. Back in my childhood the Barbie doll was "the thing". Of course, Barbie needed new dresses. And shoes. And a house. And a car. And a boyfriend. And other dolls. etc. All driven by social pressure based on advertising.

If you have kids, you MUST watch this video.

Presidents went into office with normal hair. They left office with grey hair. Mostly because the first thing they got in the morning was "The Daily Brief" which listed all of the world's troubles. All I got growing up was a newspaper and the 5pm news.

Now kids likely know about some dangerous world event before the President knows (e.g. China fighter jets overflying Taiwan). They wake up to violent news worldwide.

Added to that, they are in high school, where social pressure is everything.

And they have a long term prospect of a climate changed world with no jobs due to automation.

Do you wonder why kids are stressed?
I resonated with the post as I'm in a similar position but I'm really sad that typescript chose just to be a thin layer on top of javascript.

The sentiment mostly comes from having the JS ecosystem mostly being untyped and having to interact with it.

That being said I tried io-ts but found it undocumented, missing examples and hard to write. For future libraries/projects I'm looking to try again ReasonML, tried in the past but had to write too many bindings.
If you want to get all the cool items, you can wait till tomorrow for one of them to maybe show up as an offer, or you can buy boxes until they are offered to you. It might be the very next box!!
They're not trying to make a real argument, see the very last bit. It's a completely different talk with some words substituted.

(It stands for "higher kinded types", which is a feature Haskell is well-known for that Rust lacks.)
Generating proof validity is a trivial task. Generating new proofs is not.
Maybe you'll like bunkerchan, although sometimes it goes so anti idpol that becomes reactionary.
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> You are conflating two different things.

No, I'm not conflating anything. Your claim was hyperbolic and completely false, and I refuted it.

> [...] that doesn't mean C++ is best language for optimizing i.e code written in C++ provides best opportunities for optimization.

You're moving the goalpost.
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The reason Instagram's founders are no longer there is because they could not stomach being forced by facebook to publicly make these kinds of statements.
In your example if bar() returned an error your program still needlessly calls baz() correct? This is why exceptions are better.
Agree entirely.

To expand a bit for those outside of this space, a performance marketer is often called a direct response marketer. They measure the direct response to everything they do. The alternative is often called an awareness marketer. They tend to focus on creative that can create awareness.

2.) A b2b startup just turning on revenue and looking to show a profit typically needs to validate a really high return from marketing efforts. The salary of a marketing head isn’t free. Do the math off what it cost to acquire revenues and profits off that salary. (e.g. $120k/year to a contractor for this role is $10k/month to the company, that should buy you at least a 2X in profit (you really want to be at 4x in profit) if you are in b2b). Once you have something working you need budget to pour fuel on the fire and get it going.

3.) Disagree here. Plenty of information can be considered confidential by employers and may not be published.

4.) Initially true but Agencies add value as you increase spending. They likely have negotiated better ad rates than your single startup can manage so you’ll save on spend by going through them. Also, don’t discount the creative they can do. Nearly all big companies have struck a working partnership with an agency over creative works the agency designed. There is value here but don’t expect them to figure out your initial strategy. Also, avoid agencies that don’t have good ad spend like the plague. Recently spoke to one that bragged about an average 1.2X return on Capital to their customers in top line revenue from advertising. For every dollar we would spend they would likely bring us $1.20 in revenue. That’s horrible. I can do better with direct mail.
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What normally happens in most of Europe is _all_ vehicle classes are voided following an offence (including, therefore, the AM class the Ami falls in).
It also helps that the Netherlands is very very flat. Those kids look like they're having a great time.
New Elixir thread -> nickjj pointing out the superiority of Python or Ruby. Lol!
Go does indeed use the tedious approach. Rust and Zig have nicer syntax for it.

But personally, I prefer even Go's "tedious" approach to (unchecked) exceptions, simply because it's too easy to miss an error case otherwise.

I also find that knowing where errors occur is important information, so I don't really mind having it add an extra line or two. (But the more minimal Rust/Zig syntax is nicer.)

(This attitude comes from having once worked on a python server application, which involved a lot, "oh shit, that throws" whackamole.)
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> but if their ads are less effective without privacy invasive user-tracking, then so be it, they’re less effective

For end advertisers IDFA is not about effectiveness, it's about measuring: we've spent $N on ads at platform X and got Y installs/purchases. Then they can tag those customers with source X and track lifetime value per source.

Without analytics like that we are back to times of TV and newspaper and billboard ads, and small business just may not afford that.

I think that's the point of original quote. I am not a big fan of Facebook and Instagram, but their ad targeting is indeed best on the market. I understand Apple just want to redirect that cash stream into it's own pocket (see "Apple own search engine" leak couple of weeks ago).
I'm in the same place as you. I love using Elixir, but like you it doesn't feel very general purpose to me. I mostly just write Phoenix apps with it though. I went through Dave Thomas' book and it did feel like a mostly general purpose language when going through that, but of course those examples were chosen intentionally. It makes me think I just need to try more often. I'm so productive and fast with Ruby however that I always reach for that for scripts. I really need to buckle down and make myself write a non-trivial CLI tool in Elixir.

Part of what I suspect might make it feel less general purpose is that unless you spend time really learning the internals then it seems somewhat mysterious and constraining. The immutability for example (which most of the time I love) made it a nightmare when I was trying to process and transform deeply nested JSON. I tried a few times in Elixir and just bailed to Ruby where I could directly mutate stuff 5 levels down with ease and efficiency. The code seemed way more straight forward and readable.

How do people deal with things like deeply nested JSON in Elixir? Is there a way to make use of actors to avoid some of the pain points?
I applied for an architecture role once. It sounded interesting in email. Once I got to the phone screen part, they gave me a huge sales pitch, then told me I'd be working in Word and Powerpoint all day. "This is not a hands on position."

Uh, no thanks. That's not architecture.
Stuff often leaks out of landfills and into the environment.

As an above comment said, landfills can be done correctly so this doesn't happen, but often aren't.
I agree with this belief, as well as not letting perfect be the enemy of better, as in this case: I can choose Apple over FB while still not liking Apple.

The problem is it's really hard to hold these apparently contradictory positions in your head at the same time. We love binary distinctions on single dimension axes because our brains are more efficiently with this paradigm. In truth the world at any degree of scale does not work this way and we've got to do a better job developing more nuanced personal positions.
I would guess the tech reporters have different policies than the Hollywood reporters...
Wrong link.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-fortnite-sued-trick...

> U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers announced a ruling yesterday which stated that Fortnite had convinced minors to spend money in game without parental consent. This ruling keeps Epic on the hook for its misleading business practices.
Well you're right, I misremembered. Also I just looked it up and I think it was actually a Panda and not a Punto (only owned it for a short time around 2009 and it was already close to worthless when I bought it). Still, I think it doesn't change the point much: at 500kg you're closer to a small car than to the lightweight moped for which these exceptions were made...
That’s exactly what this advice is for. You don’t need to be reminded to be strong or work hard when you feel strong and want to work hard.
I’m really frustrated with actions coming from circle and the ability to SSH in.

Also the Act project to run locally is a joke. Everything runs in the node image.

GitHub has the repo for all the packer scripts open sourced I just haven’t had time to make Dockerfiles from them. They really should offer that in an official capacity.
> Let’s stop entertaining false dichotomies

Agreed. That’s the spirit of what I meant. I sincerely thank you for synthesising it thusly.
Saying that there's racism against whites, especially in SV, is shortsighted at best, malicious at worst.

No, you're not discriminated as a white dude in STEM. You're in fact the most privileged of the privileged. Stfu.

- another white dude in STEM
You’re probably just noticing how rigged the system is and declaring defeat without ever trying.

Do your civic duties!!! First off, learn how your local, state, and federal governments work. You’re not powerless if you go to their public hearings-be polite and well informed, write your representatives, and do anything and everything else you can do. It’s actually quite a lot. Right now much of these meetings and representatives hear from only the most limited view sets. The world actually still has most of its power in democracies and democratic republican governments.

If we threw money at this problem we could definitely find and implement ways to get ourselves off oil and counter or mitigate what’s already happened. But that won’t happen without the political will to do it.

There will of course always be ill informed youths because there will always be ill informed people. Don’t be one of them. Look for ways to make the world better yourself and ignore or fight (better) the bullies.
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-fortnite-sued-trick...

Was this also an ”out of court settlement”
Nope, the question mark operator is syntax sugar for the "if error, return it" dance.

(Cf. https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2018/error-hand...)
I guess this is the crux: are they providing a platform and marketing, or are the gate-keeping rent seekers between the developer and their customers?
As a developer, I have no desire for Apple to market my software for me. Fortunately for me, Apple has never chosen to highlight and market my software for me. Unfortunately for me, they’re still taking 30% of the revenue for distribution alone, and there’s absolutely no way that’s fair, given that I can self distribute on every other platform for about 4%.

I already have a cloud footprint as my apps depend on it. The bulk of that 4% is in payment processing. The rest is just background noise on my hosting bills.
Anyone that didn't have free, onsite lunch had the chore 'provide self with lunch'.

I'm pretty sure that free onsite lunch is rather exceptional. People that don't like to cook can still buy lunch or whatever.
I stand with Apple!

I deleted my FB account years ago, never used Instagram.
Unfortunately I am forced to use WhatsUp because of my family :( .

I think it is time to put a stop at this selling user data business.
Selling user data and ads is not an Apple business, so I trust Apple vs Google, where the majority of their revenue comes from ads.
These companies have significant influence over government. This has lead to public transit being gutted and most people being forced to own a car. Car companies invented the concept of "jay walking" to banish people from public streets.

People in our current oligarchical capitalist society have little choice but to engage with it. It's not a moral decision that most people can make. Individuals and corporations are compelled to ignore negative externalities.

We could have public transit and cycling, use reusable glass containers, have more locally based economies, and also have better, more fulfilling lives than now. But we don't. And we are bringing cataclysmic damage to our planet and ourselves in the process.
I think we are focusing at 2 different parts of the same beast called "Developers". You are concerned about lootboxes and I agree there should be better laws about lootbox === gambling.

I seen case of good developers that have free games (they are passionate and use Patreon to get some money) and I see this developers creating Win,Linux, Mac and Android versions but no iOS version. So then you have the iOS users looking at all this plartforms that are supported but he is excluded, what do you think? Could there be a way that would make everyone happy(but maybe less money from some rich gy yacht?).

If a judge deciders that is OK iOS is locked down this means OSX,Windows and Android can be legally completely locked-down , in the future, do we want this?

A bit offtopic, I am trying to keep away from Apple related topics, but sometimes there is one comment that I need to respond to correct something and then a threads starts, I will try not to get as involved next time, I feel we are 2 groups that are in a way "paranoid" that 2 different bad things will happen , some think that everything will get more and more locked and DRMed and others are afraid that competition will destroy apples garden.
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> He is able to confer with his lawyers when he needs to from the dock

Is he? Also it was suggested he hadn't received relevant papers in prison, and now isn't allowed them in court either.

His ability to be personally informed are greatly reduced as a result of all of this, which seems beyond "petty", and rather a purposeful attempt to minimise his ability to be involved with the defence.
Silly question: what plastics cannot be recycled?

Can they not just be broken down into simpler hydrocarbons and reformulated? Cannot most plastics be melted into simpler products ala preciousplastic.com ?
To add on to what other commenters have pointed out with `?`, there's also the interesting [fehler crate](https://github.com/withoutboats/fehler), which lets you write code that _looks_ like it uses exceptions.

It wouldn't make the examples that already use `?` any clearer, but it does reduce noise around the happy path.
Friend of mine did weekly classes, and labeled the classes as "Tantra", but the only interpersonal interaction was a ~5m eye gaze with the teacher sometime during ~1-2 hour class. So I don't have any clue what terms to use to find it on the 'net.
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Datadog can give organizations this functionality. You can pull in traces/spans, logs, metrics, and fully correlate across all of those different sources. Specifically for this blog post I would focus on APM + Log Management

(Full Disclosure: I work at Datadog)
> "oh shit, that throws" whackamole

You don't have that problem in languages that support checked exceptions.
If you don't need to support access from arbitrary IPs, IP whitelisting is another good additional layer over SSH. Keeps the SSH scanners out, and also significantly raises the bar for a determined attacker.
It’s not that simple. Newsom has accomplished little of his agenda and it’s not because of “the right,” which hardly exists in California. The Democrats in California torpedoed the latest housing bill, which merely attempted to legalize duplexes statewide, evoking the apocalyptic destruction of single family neighborhoods as it’s result.

The world is also not as simple as “left” and “right,” and I’ve found that it’s unwise to tell someone else what it’s like from their POV. We should instead speak for ourselves, and be genuinely interested and curious why others think the way they do.
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It's not about being able to speed, it's about the government forcibly taking your control of your personal property away. In that way, it's an infringement of your basic human rights, and it's done basically because you're thought to be too incompetent to follow the rules, too stupid to be able to differentiate good from bad. And while that's merely insulting, what's actually dangerous about is that it's taking people's agency away at the same time that it's empowering the government to arbitrarily justify any further measures because "people die".

You mentioned free speech, so here's an analogy: Even with free speech, there are certain things you're not allowed to say, and most people agree that's reasonable. Imagine someone is bullied into suicide by hate speech, and we have the technology to implant people with chips that make it impossible for them to say these things.

Would you argue in the same way that "if it is technically preventable without impeding the lawful usage, why is it assumed that the killing or maiming of even one extra person is okay?"

In any case it should be clear that that would be a rather extremist position.
Yet the representatives who are going to pass laws are the same people who grilled Zuckerberg for Twitter’s practices.

Do you really trust their competence? All the laws being passed and all we got was shitty pop ups on every website saying “we use cookies”. Of course we also got the DMCA....
Huh, I managed to get AptX working using just a small patch for BlueZ, but I guess that would work too.
That same comment applies to overclocking: it's not the late 90's or even early 2000s anymore, almost every cpu/ram combination can be overclocked quite a bit without ever pushing things into unsafe territory. And you're still going to void your manufacturer's warranty if you do it because you are going to decrease the lifetime of your components, in the exact same way paying more for Tesla to unlock this _also_ suggests you have the money to pay for the increased maintenance cost over the lifetime of the vehicle that comes with actually using that feature.
There are schemes that allow proof a vote was counted without revealing the vote.

It’s far better than the clusterfuck we have today where up to 5% of ballots get “lost”.
Nope, it returns an error if bar returns an error - immediately. It's essentially shorthand for `if x.is_none() return X;`
Great comment -- thank you!

Positioning, messaging, and onboarding are all really important to startups and need attention. But they shouldn't be the focal point right away. In my experience, positioning/messaging are more of an iterative process of evolution & refinement over time (via experimentation). Spending 80% of your time on this at the start will not solve the immediate problem of leads/demand.

From a strategic perspective, the focus at the start should be on organic performance, targeting the bottom of the funnel. Put most of your chips on what will drive leads, that are ready to buy, at the lowest investment possible.

Once the sales team is struggling to keep up, you can look at moving up the funnel and reprioritizing.

Edit: Not all niches are the same, so this is more of a generalization.
They weren't engineers. It was shows attempt to humanize the algorithm.

I agree it was cringy but the shows intent wasn't bad.
Yes, tailgating, exactly. I'm mostly talking about narrow roads where you need to slow down and maybe go a bit outside of the paved area to let another car pass in the opposite direction; these are common in the hills of Tuscany and overtaking is impossible. My approach if I'm not in a hurry and there is just one car behind me is to slow down to 10 km/h until the tailgater gets the message.