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>If you think the court system can't stop authoritarianism then what's the point of our system? We literally have the president being able to do EO, how is this any different?

It is not that different. The federal encroachment and the power creep of the executive branch are real issues.
or maybe "TOP 10 SECRETS 0 PERSON KNEW ABOUT"

This is a funny and shitty idea for a programming language while at the same time retaining something inspiring about it OTOH, really worth my time
My guess is our food choices are something we can more immediately control.

> but I can’t help feel we should focus on the bigger, more high value targets first?

I don't buy this line of thinking as it makes the assumption that a society can't tackle or talk about multiple issues at once.
But it is impossible to bypass the store for any normal person.

Think about it, you are a normal person who wants to continue to use an application and for some reason the dev has been kicked out of the store (this often happens and the devs often have no idea why or how). You would be frustrated no?

Not to mention the mental stress of the poor devs which are subject to inhuman automated responses, neglect, and abuse by Apple/Google. Apple/Google is essentially shutting down small businesses arbitrarily and remorselessly. The only way action happens is if the dev somehow gets enough attention on sites like this that Apple is forced to act.

These tech monopolies have MORE than enough money for a customer/creator/dev service department - they just don't care, or, perhaps, maliciously use the lack of one to control their platform: "Oops sorry, you have been talking to our super-smart infallible AI, we don't know why its acting this way, but we are sure its right! You have one week to fix the issues - have a nice day!"
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In practice, the decision-makers within a major party would look at which option would benefit them more than the other major party, and then a commitment to introduce that system would be added to their party platform, with it being implemented the next time they win an election.

For example, if the Democrats were afraid that the Green party would split their vote, they might support RCV. Therefore, arguably, the best strategy for bringing about voting reform might be to vote for the Green party, even if you don't support any other Green party policies, or any Democrat policies.
That’s more representative of how the market has imploded.

There were 900M CDs sold in the US in 2000. This year that number will be less than 25M
Unlock form in multiple ways (easy to google).
Convert to acroforms using Acrobat Pro using the extract function.

https://imgur.com/a/3mAi3l0

Will remove XFA "capabilities", but otherwise works...
Very nice of the NSA to provide. BTW, anyone who downloaded this pdf has voluntarily provided their IP address to them
These networks seem to have abandoned whatever sense of decency they had in the early years of the Georgetown set.

We haven't had anything like a Marshall Plan or a Berlin Airlift for some time now.
What does apple not allow outside it’s platform? How would they even control
that?
Democratic regression measured by the methodology of one NGO - the Freedom House and the Economist. Their methodologies do not have ground truth - so like school rankings they are completely made up.

I can have a measurement, equally plausible to many, that democracy has gone up. These are also left-leaning organizations and there facts almost always target countries with governments of the opposite ideological bent -

"And then are the states that remain democratic but have been deteriorating in quality, including the world’s four largest democracies – the United States, India, Indonesia, and Brazil – and the largest democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, Poland. 12 In 2019, India suffered one of the steepest declines on the 100-point Freedom House scale (4 points). Since 2012, India has declined by 5 points, Indonesia by 7, Brazil by 6, Poland 9, and the U.S. 7 points."

There is no scientific basis to assert that Freedom has actually gone down in these countries. Just like more coverage of murders and crime on the evening news makes us think that crime has gone up, greater coverage of so-called illiberal events makes us think that democracy is in danger.

Lacking data, I would go with the earlier in the graph of Democracy trending up and not down (null hypothesis).
Really! the articles where the main point - just whish I had had the nerve to use the $25 diy modem Steve Garcia for one project instead of paying £300 for an answer and £600 for an answer originate.
As an actual game developer I can say that I am very happy to see this happening, and I know for a fact that this is the case of a very large number of devs.
Just a few months ago Apple was happy to explain to everyone that they secured more than 80% of mobile markets profits. Hiding that by citinng some nebolous market share of questionable market definition is perhaps not a good idea.
Wouldn't that be the record companies though? I have heard Kanye is trying to get more money for artists but not really sure. I am puzzled why blockchain+streaming for music hasn't taken off. Artists would maintain rights and profits from what I can tell
It should be mandatory to allow installing arbitrary apps, which has recently become nigh impossible, at least I couldn't find any way to distribute my rejected app.
The most underrated thing we might get with multiple app stores:

Devs do not need anymore XCode or a Mac to develop for iOS since Apple couldn't enforce any specific runtime or proprietary tool-chains anymore. I have an extra Macbook lying around here just for that reason.

Who knows if Google will then offer Android Studio for iOS or Facebook a real React Native. Good times ahead and I cross my fingers. You don't have to like Epic, Spotify or Tinder but if they're successful developers in particular will benefit due to a richer iOS dev ecosystem.
Several wardrobes :-)
>And now others are insisting that Apple should not have that control (even when they themselves are doing the same thing).

Exactly Apple organized developers, giving the developers a collective power to rival Apple's unilateral dictatorship...sure Apple could call their bluff like they always do with any one single developer, except if these developers collectively withdraw from the Apple ecosystem in mass, Apple would lose developers/market share/market cap.

Now if only consumers would collectively organize against big tech in the same fashion, big tech wouldn't seem so big, and consumer could begin to dictate how these platforms collect use their data.
A national public cloud then. Paid by taxpayers for taxpayers. As a nation we are thousand of times wealthier than Youtube.
Maybe I am nitpicking, but which of these skills would not be relevant for a non-programmer? Or for that matter, which of these skills would not matter or be important to a regular, non-coding person in general?
And skiing in Andora.
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We are building an interactive video format for teaching and learning how to code. The main benefit is that students can pause the video and edit the code whenever they want.

We think this is needed is because over 70% of people who are trying to learn to code today use videos. But since videos aren’t interactive, students end up mirroring the instructors’ code line-by-line in their local code editors. This is time consuming, and it often causes problems with local dev environment setup.

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The Scrimba format also opens the way for other features that can further enhance the learning experience, like searching inside videos, in-video hyperlinks, audiovisual code feedback from teachers, remote pair programming between students, and more. The more we work with the format, the more of these opportunities we see. So we have decided to use the format as the backbone for an online coding school as we continue to improve it.

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Here’s a link to the course: https://scrimba.com/learn/frontend

Fun fact: Scrimba is built entirely in Imba, a programming language that our CTO has created. It’s a Ruby-inspired language that compiles to JavaScript, and it excels at creating high-performant web apps. The first version of Scrimba was created because Sindre wanted a better way to teach Imba. You can learn more about Imba here: https://www.imba.io/
Would an antimatter black hole shrink when absorbing regular matter, or is the mass of the photons from the annihilation process the same as the mass of the annihilated particles? How would that work? Would annihilation even happen under such extreme conditions?
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That's likely a holdover from when mysql had a better replication story than postgresql. I think enterprises will come around.
And E) That the charges are not politically motivated.

If they they are (as everyone knows they are), then the UK-US extradition treaty is very clear that the extradition request has to be denied:[1]

> extradition shall not be granted if the competent authority of the Requested State determines that the request was politically motivated.

But in order to determine any of these issues, surely the testimony given over the past weeks is relevant. The judge has effectively said that it is irrelevant.

1. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I'm not saying to not write any micro-tests at all, just that most of them are not needed - use your judgement of course. Don't bother writing tests for things that your type system and compiler already protect you from.

I do find that off-by-one errors are much harder to make, in both static and dynamic languages, when you use the collection looping and manipulation constructs that almost every language has now, instead of C-style triple-statement for loops.
Same problem on Edge chromium.
>Okay I'll let people getting evicted during this time know that at least we didn't have "authoritarianism."

So you assume that states wouldn't follow CDC recommendations? It seems to be for you it is not an issue of laws. It is just there is your tribe that you support and CDC is a part of it, and a tribe you don't support (those evil red states). And of course you would like CDC to take power away from them no matter how much people support their own state government.
I would also say that cold places are also a good option relatively speaking as they aren't very forgiving if you can't provide yourself with a warm home through the winter. This is why rampant poverty such as tent cities tend to migrate to cities with warmer or at least moderate climates. Norway, Iceland, Canada, etc.
Absolutely. I wish there are case studies about how Pgsql managed to be on the top and innovate so effectively for so long.

I love this db. Its the database for the rest of us and the database for everyone else.
Ahahahahahahahahaha. I am always appalled by the level of entitlement these companies think they have. Guess what, this is Apple's market and they can choose the rules. Cry away.
Agreed with sibling. References would be great (I'd love to view them).
to be fair both wars were started in europe
Everyone controls 100% of what happens on their own platform.

Epic is a monopolist.
There's quite a lot of grey area between "legally mandated to make it easy" and "legally mandated to not make it impossibly difficult."
Ah, okay. Now I begin to see their goals.

I've been trying to wrap my head around why Epic would shoulder-tackle Apple in the space of app stores, when they have their own app store. Naively, I've been thinking that any ruling adverse to Apple here also impacts Epic's business model---if the government caps app store revenue cuts at, say, 10%, that's a slice off the top of what Epic can charge developers going through its store, too.

But Epic is a game publisher first, app store owner second. A fair and regulated market is a win for them, because it decreases the barriers to competition in the app store space while, on average, probably diminishing store owner cuts, which benefits developers, of which Epic is one. So a more regulated market is a net positive for them.
That interview measures nothing.

The interviewer should have explained what he wanted and meant by the "3 sum closest". Especially with ESL candidates, I can't expect them to have the same names for some common problems.

The best interviews, however, typically starts with a problem the candidate has never seen. Because I consider that asking relevant questions to figure out a problem is an important skill.
All of this depends on how the market is defined. If we use iPhone users as the market, then Apple is clearly a monopoly. If we use smartphones or computing devices, then Apple is not. Time will tell, and lots of lawyers are going to get paid a lot of money to argue this one out.
When people talk about Apple having a monopoly they're referring to Apple having complete control over the sale of iOS software. There is no one else in that market. Apple has 100% market share.
Or they will take the resources from others via conflict. This has been the historical trend.
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I don't disagree that DropBox is a bad example. It is a feature not a product. Maybe better is PowerBI vs Tableau.

But to your point, what should be wildly obvious is that "the market" optimizes for far more than what product is "better", and that "better" (for whatever value of) is often low on the priority, whether it should be or not. It's very often the case that someone in power makes a decision along the lines of "why are we paying for Tableau when we can get this PowerBI thing which Microsoft tells me does the same thing for free". And suddenly, you're trying to learn PowerBI. You can find any number of examples where 'better' things were not what the market picked to survive.
- With camera if you have some high vantage point which sees the whole field, it may help reduce the cost by needing only a single camera, if you can scan and zoom in the area. Maybe infrared/thermal camera is also helpful if the attacks happen at night. The human infrared signature is easily identifiable at night : a human sized blob of the right temperature.

- If you don't have a high vantage point, you can try using a balloon anchored via a rope (hydrogen (cheap but illegal) or helium).

- (If you like the technological challenge) Quadcopter drone with ardupilot at random intervals : goes up, snap a picture, goes down and land and wait on the ground to preserve battery. You can also have it land on a base station to recharge automatically. Probably hard to do when weather is not nice.

- Maybe there are some unused at night road to access the area that are likely to be used by the aggressors. Either positioning a camera there, or car counting device / induction loop may be a good bet.

If there are multiple access point, you probably can incentivize the intruders to use the easy way-in but discreetly controlled by for example putting barb-wires, electric fence everywhere, warning signs, fake camera boxes, (airsoft motion activated landmines ?), cheap radar motion detector coupled to sound alarm, ...

Usually if there are significant visible signs that the property is well monitored, intruders will pick another easier farm.
Sure. Which is true of all people. You don’t have to be rich to flee violence.

I guess my question relates more to the idea that the US has a “business friendly” economic regime and any change to that status quo is going to cause the very rich to leave. I’m sure a few will move to Monaco (as suggested by the other poster) but I’m not super convinced there are a bunch of viable alternative places to live.
You forget that this entire trove of research on Indian-American hiring policies is coming out of the woodworks because of that one case.
It is the highest value target.

Livestock agriculture is the leading driver of climate change AND biodiversity loss. It emits more GHG than all forms of transportation combined. Additionally, if we would let nature reclaim the land that's currently used for livestock agriculture, it has the potential to capture >100% of the CO2 emissions until 2050.

Some recommended reading:

https://blog.yeticheese.com/eating-local-has-tiny-environmen...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6392/987

Edit: This seaweed won't even start solving this problem.
its not a property of molten aluminum to freeze in 6 hours, it depends on the thermal insulation.

what I proposed was to have a secondary sealed thermal bath of aluminum which gets molten during cheap power and which returns heat during expensive power to maintain the temperature of the primary (work) batch of aluminum so that the work batch doesn't freeze

the heat can be transfered with an appropriate working fluid.

since the secondary thermal bath aluminum doesn't need to satisfy client demands (specific alloy etc) the alloy can be chosen so as to have a suitable melting point for such a setup
Yea and Google doesn't do the same sh*t as Apple? Looking at it this way, it is impossible to avoid abusive and increasingly vague and restrictive store policies..

You think there is a chance in hell Apple and Google are not going to continue the trend of restricting devs and taking bigger profit shares for the "privilege" of being in the store? Its only going to get worse. Good for them for standing up.
He does not claim to be dispassionate, only to relay the facts.

As above, please name a 'fairer' source.

You probably cannot, because this is not an impartial, and certainly not 'public', process.
At least in the US, this figure is closer to half. The point is not the market share they control but that they also control and set the rates to the marketplace within. To quote Senator Warren:

>If you run a platform where others come to sell, then you don’t get to sell your own items on the platform because you have two comparative advantages. One, you’ve sucked up information about every buyer and every seller before you’ve made a decision about what you’re going to sell. And second, you have the capacity — because you run the platform — to prefer your product over anyone else’s product. It gives an enormous comparative advantage to the platform.
This looks great. I briefly self-hosted 'wwwsqldesigner' but it barely worked well enough and needed project-specific hacks. Also didn't route the lines as nice as these screenshots.

The $5/mo Pro plan says "Up to 50 team members"

Just to clarify, that means $5 per person who can share within their 50 person team, right?

The free plan seems quite reasonable/generous 100 diagrams/5 members. It says "Purchase Now" though instead of "Sign Up"
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Or happiness. I met my wife on Tinder several years ago, and we know other couples who met the same way.
That seems really high. I have the fanciest hearing aids that Costco sells (rechargeable, Bluetooth, optional external microphone) and I spent under $5K on it.
What’s the point of thousands of unit tests running quickly if they don’t give you any confidence that the system continues to meet acceptance criteria?
Works fine on 3 different versions of Firefox.
Epic has a share of the PC games software market.
I don't believe monopolies are illegal.

It's using an advantage in one area to force concessions in an unrelated area that I believe is illegal.

For example, Microsoft had an effective monopoly over PC operating systems.

That was unfortunate, but not illegal.

It was when they used that monopoly to disadvantage a rival browser maker --- Netscape -- that they broke anti-trust law.

I'm most interested in seeing what happens over Apple's decisions to force app providers to use Apple Sign-in if the offer any other 3rd party SSO.

As a developer, I may have valid security concerns regarding Apple Sign-in.

So their app store dominance seems unrelated to SSO infrastructure. And I don't fully understand how they can force me to use it if I decide to support Google or Facebook SSO in my app.

So I do wonder if that is an anti-trust violation.
>it will be directed towards any form of dissident.

no it won't, this is just the typical American freakout. I'm German, here anti-semitism and hate speech are not only not propagated by private platforms (which is not censorship by the way), but banned (which is censorship). Our right wing party is diminished and unlike the US, we're not governed by complete lunatics.

There is no automatic mechanism by which stopping hate-speech somehow stops 'any form of dissent' in a democratic state of law and I'm tired of hearing the same argument again and again without any evidence for it. The US is alone among all democratic nations on this planet in their tolerance of bigotry. The UK, the oldest democracy on this planet, does not tolerate any of it either.
Is there something that makes this a battle worth fighting? Good luck.
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Regardless what you think of Tik Tok, realize that if people controlled the installations on their phones they way they did on their desktops, I don't think the government would make the threat it is. The choke point of a single app store enables lots of things.
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I'm not sure where you came across this - but in Sweden it's a judge which rules on an extradition based on the extradition treaty between the US & Sweden.

There's precedent in the Swedish court system which has previously denied extradition on espionage charges.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/18/would-sweden-ever-extra...
A thing of note - this "near constant war" has always been fought against weaker nations, which the US military industrial complex has been able to outproduce utterly.
China is a completely different kind of adversary and has historically proved that it can match the US - again I refer you to the Korean war, where China was able to check and drive back the US forces.
You dont feel it yourself? I dont have the stamina of a computer.
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