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I don't necessarily disagree, but one big problem is that there is no "adult world" on the internet. If you can't function without a school teacher and aren't ready for the "adult world," you can nonetheless get a Twitter or Facebook account just like anybody else, and interact with the adults, and maybe even fool some of them. It takes a while to sort out who's an insane asshole. The only way to tell is by listening for a while to what's coming out of their megaphone that unfortunately millions of other people can also hear. Finally you decide they're a metaphorical non-adult and, I guess, block or unfriend them, but meanwhile millions of other non-adults are like "Yesss, finally someone said what my lizard-brain has been thinking all along!!" That's not what happens with the guy on the sidewalk holding the sign.

Edit: Just noticed you said lizard and I said lizard. Any resemblance is entirely coincidental. I meant something about the basal ganglia or limbic system, whereas yours is an exotic & fantastical sci-fi scenario. Although interestingly if you consider all the venality and viciousness in national politics, and the fact that every politician has that same part of the brain, it's actually kind of true that lizard-men are running the government!
There are many millions of busses to drive, bags to load, passengers to drive around, trash bins to empty, and floors to be swept, vacuumed, and mopped. I think perhaps you underestimate the massive size of the unskilled job market.
> other languages have this problem too, so deal with it

This is the primary reason I try to avoid projects built with npm. Fucking dependency hell. If the project hasn't been actively maintained in the last 3 months your chances of getting it to work drop precipitously.
You are not listening. You don’t need round trips. The same way your SPA receives its initial data from the server, you can send it as HTML (hidden) and just use JS to switch between the views. And there is nothing special about “understanding layout” on the server, you can run the exact same rendering code in the server with node. I’m not going to bother mentioning streaming html / progressive rendering, SEO, caching, semantic content or accessibility since you obviously won’t care much for that.

We’ve been doing this on the web for over two decades now. Tell me about spaghetti architecture once you work on a real world project using React.
You seem bitter, which startup was yours?
> . I simply said there are still restrictions

But the point is that the fact that they are so extremely small and minimal restrictions on speech in the US, is not a good excuse to justify much larger restrictions.

If the existing restrictions of US law are so minimal, it makes no sense to bring it up, as any sort of justification for much larger restrictions.

It is just not relevant to anything, to mention that, because those restrictions are small, and are therefore not related to much larger restrictions.
The author is critical of Islam, but that is hardly "islamophobic": at no point in the article does the author indicate any fear of Islam, which is what the "-phobic" construction means. "-phobic" does not mean "says negative things about" and especially does not mean "disagrees with", despite the way it's frequently used.
David Foster Wallace predicted this in his novel Infinite Jest. Except they where static images inserted over a video phone, and the user had to keep their head positioned just right to make them work.
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Interesting that two of these (three if you count Unicorn Rides which is a note within Boosted) are hardware companies and both were a result of the recent tariff war with China.

I've always known startups are hard but it seems that hardware startups, even when they appear to be on a rocketship trajectory, are nigh impossible.
If it's truly a Sid Meier product, once you start, you'll keep doing one-more-page until it's suddenly sunrise :)
Except science is not static like religion, it changes with new discoveries and explanations.

And, at high school level, basic science is tested and experiments are repeated.

So at the very least, some people learn proper scientific thinking, while others just learn to repeat "facts".

In contrast, everything that religion is, is just memorization of some old ideas, and treating personal anecdotes and made up stories like they are statistically significant data.
Will the future of brain-computer interfaces be with tattoos?
Sixty Coinbase employees take buyout offer over “no politics” rule
Is there anything in the link that you dispute?
Social network moderators are almost always low-paid, low-power, low-profile employees. It's not a great job. It's a high-volume job, like an assembly line. The highly compensated Twitter and Facebook software engineers are not doing the content moderation. They don't have the time, and they would run away screaming if they had to do it for an hour. It's likely that a lot of this work is even outsourced.
> Instead the types allow Julia to dispatch your method call to the correct implementation for the type of your variable at runtime. This is Julia's secret sauce, and it's the main reason you'll hear about Julia programmers declaring about how composable Julia packages are. I can "reach into your package", and define the behaviour of your functions on my own custom types and then whenever anyone tries to call the function/method with one of my types, it'll just work. I don't need to author a pull request to your package or futz around with anything that you've wrote.

That's not a bug, that's a feature. Libraries are abstractions. I get an API and it encapsulates the behavior of the library. That is a nice thing. Being able to modify runtime behavior of internal libraries can lead to insane jumblygoo of code spathetti that would bring the finest programmers to their knees.

I don't want implicit behavior at runtime. I want explicit behavior in case of non-contractual externalities (wrong user input for e.g. at runtime). I want the program to fail so it can be patched.
My point is there is no such thing as a "$500K engineer" anywhere but SV (and maybe Seattle), and thus no such market exists elsewhere. Honestly even writing "$500K engineer" sounds so absurd to me because it's so far away from "normal"... I doubt anyone who lives within 500 miles of me doing software development as an individual contributor makes even half that. Maybe I'm badly misinformed though.

Believe it or not, there's plenty of smart, even brilliant people who do not live (and choose not to live) in California. I myself may not be FAANG-caliber, but I've known known a number of people who used to work where I do and now work for Amazon, Facebook, and Google. They moved to the west coast, but obviously prior to taking those jobs they were just as good and living in the Midwest working for a Midwest salary.

It's honestly rather shocking to me that people seemingly genuinely believe that there can't possibly exist smart engineers who live somewhere other than SV.
I can't run an ad blocker on the Instagram app, but I really don't mind much. I end up clicking on ads all the time there. They're usually super relevant.
Exactly. Being a Twitter employee is now a political force, in practice.
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Easy, because the blog post wasnt for you, it was for shareholders, advertisers and bot farms.
2000 years before Darwin the presocratics were proposing evolution. 'Islamic' scholars where merely conquered philosophers continuing the Greek research.
Sure, that is an absolutely sensible design decision. But for other cases completeness is vital. Consider for instance the trivial case of the map function over lists (constructed by :: and []), often abbreviated as * :

f * [ ] = [ ]

f * a::as = (f a)::(f * as)

Even if that is a nearly trivial case, it is easy to see that one could forget the first case, as all the interesting bits happen elsewhere. Now imagine, I would want to have a lazy reversal of lists, that I store as an alternative until I need to deconstruct it. I write that x~xs, meaning "x added to the end of xs".

Now I have to expand my map function as follows (because map does not care about ordering):

f * a~as = (f a) ~ (f * as)

If I miss that case (or method on Julia's case) my extension of the datatype is plain wrong.
@ardy42 I think you just proved my point. To presume to know anything about what goes on in the rarified power struggles at an intercontinental/global levels requires free speech and giving serious researchers/writers a viewable voice. There are plenty of wonderful investigative reporters (Whitney Webb is a stellar example right now for example) but the editorial employees of oligarch owned media have marching orders and objectives to meet, so voices like Whitney's are invisible in the 'mainstream media', except to be undermined if their work gets through to an audience.

We don't know anything about the political layers of the onion batting for control of the US democratically elected leadership, but we do have a daily torrent of candidate abuse, undermining and negativity from the two big corporate camps and zero coverage of anything else (Greens, Libertarians, candidates rejected by their party etc etc).
The person currently in power usually gets the worst of the abuse and second guessing as who-knows-who fights to depose and replace. (I'm a registered Dem in Cal FWIW, not arguing a political point here).
For something like hotel cleaning you also have to take into account the large grey market for labor. There are estimated to be around 10.5-12 million undocumented migrants in the US.

It's not a coincidence that there is a rotating crew of Russian speaking janitors who clean my office building and Spanish speaking landscapers outside my apartment. I'm not discounting that many of them are legal immigrants, just lower skilled and working their way on up. More power to them.

I can also see though how this situation is easily taken advantage of. Contracting firm hires undocumented workers for below market rates and is able to under bid for contracts. Big company fires their in house workers to save money and hires the contracting firm. Big company then gets the advantage of undocumented labor wages without the liability.
Most dynamic ad platforms are similar, I also got 100% fake traffic from testing out Facebook ads: https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/4smisl/facebook_...

I know it could be improved with better targeting, but by default it should not give you 100% fake clicks.
Seriously, you don't really seem to know what you're talking about.

You can do it either way, and your particular example is a really poor reason to have a SPA.

As multiple people are trying to tell you.
Reddit already has an 'honest' business model (awards) and people rage about that all day too.

I think mostly people just want the service but dont want to pay for it in any way.
Missing from that list is Grin Scooters / Grow Mobility (e-scooters for LATAM) which is probably one of the biggest failures out of all YC companies in terms of investment money raised.

They raised $70M as Grin and then $150M after the merger with Yellow. I think at Demo Day they were trying to raise at a $100M cap with just an idea / pre-launch. After raising an insane amount of money in a matter of moths, they expanded extremely quickly to dozens of cities in several countries in LATAM while having bad unit economics ("land-grab"). There are likely interesting learning lessons there.
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When I find a project that is a handful of .c files and a Makefile they almost always compile and run. Sometimes with warnings because the features used in the code are depreciated but usually without too much fanfare.
Yeah. That’s another good example of abusing a market position to limit options to incumbents. I’d love to have LE style domain validate code signing certificates.
The objection you and others are making to TFA is that you can't choose to be apolitical, because everything is political. Your contribution is to propose that people might claim things are apolitical to prevent people from realizing the truth about how political they actually are.

Your appeal to newspeak is pretty pointless, as it applies only inasmuch as it does to anyone who might claim that something is its opposite, for example the slogans "the personal is political" and "silence is violence".

Sure, if you accept lies like that, you may lose the ability to think about the true nature of those things.

But you haven't really contributed anything to the conversation. You're just saying "ah, but what if they're /lying/! To /trick us/!"
Ah! So this explains why trying to use a Raspberry Pi 3 to stream a live webcam feed over the network was so slow for me, it was all using software encoding.
I'm not saying they are right. But Oracle has a tradition of thinking they are _very_ important and others would be daft not to cater to them.
This is why I keep my camera on, so that whoever is talking sees me nodding away whilst they talk and when they go "any questions" you can pause and say "None from me". It's also why you always unmute yourself when someone joins the call - yes, we can hear you, yes your mic is fine, no you're not muted, it's just no one is replying becuase they're all muted and causedoing something else because we haven't started yet.

It feels like people really haven't put any thought into how to handle video conferences.
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Unofficial implementation of ICDAR 2019 paper : TableNet: Deep Learning model for end-to-end Table detection and Tabular data extraction from Scanned Document Images.
I believe the essence of what you are saying is that Julia is great for explorative programming, while Python et al are better suited for slightly more structured, more productionized programming.

I personally use Mathematica for this purpose and find it indispensable. I wonder if the PL designers should focus more on this class of languages, instead of features for production languages (like fancy type systems).
If it's all scrapers, why would somebody build a scraper that bothers to click ads? And if you wanted to scrape Reddit, why not use their public API instead?
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We launched our solution about 5 months ago and have acquired a good amount of interest and early adopters.

We built this after spending a few years as b2b SaaS account executives at multiple companies. We saw that buyers face a number of challenges as they go through the sales process and evaluate a solution.

So, we built a buyer enablement tool for the sales tech stack for organizations of any size.
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But who's playing the viola?
When a person gives nature human-like qualities it always seems to upset some people. Consider that the people that are most concerned at our poor treatment of environment probably do so in part because they see nature as an extension of themselves and give nature human-like emotions despite knowing it's definitely not "real".

The purpose of educators and writers giving animals etc. human qualities is intentional - it makes people more focused and concerned about losing nature and preventing the possible collapse of the environment's food chains, not about intentionally miseducating the public.
Yes it's based off european languages; it was designed in a time when removing barriers from neighboring countries in a culturally very fragmented continent was perceived of higher practical value than creating a pan-human language; intercontinental travel wasn't yet as commonplace as now, yet many european countries had different cultures living within the boundaries of the same states and usually members of the majority culture were privileged as a result; there was hope (espero in esperanto) that people could forget about differences among them and see what they have in common.

Today we can be tempted to frame it as european chauvinism, but that's just because of our expanded horizons as a global society. People who believes in esperanto in the early days would likely share the same feeling now
Also relevant is the end of the story:

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2019/11/tropane-alkaloids-cau...

tl;dr: they stopped everything, figured out the source of the problem, and put testing in place to prevent recurrence.
chuckles in german

Edit: to add value to the conversation: in germany I find googles estimates on long car trips quite accurate. And I'm actually a very erratic driver, sometimes taking every hole in traffic I can to get ahead, just slowing down to speed limit+20km/h where there is a speed trap, sometimes just cruising 80km/h on open autobahn getting overtaken by cargo trucks
One should be wary of promoting the idea that these companies will create a valid and trustworthy tiered system of validity in news media. News media already has serious problems that are generally ignored, go unrecognized, or become part of false partisan narratives. Indicating that they are to be trusted and this other class shouldn't be might sound fine at first, but the fight will be at the line drawn between the two.

Will less popular media outlets be flagged as illegitimate? What if a site pushes a conspiracy theory that's actually well-backed but is considered harmful by one of these companies? Even assuming good faith, look at the coronavirus filtering and compare it to what the "trusted" media sources and CDC were saying back in January and February regarding masks. If you were to independently say, "hey, what they're saying about mask efficacy doesn't make much sense. Everyone should wear some kind of mouth covering just in case", would you be flagged as dangerous misinformation? Because that position would be correct and warranted but also fly in the face of the cited authorities and experts (who were curated in a biased way to begin with, ignoring Chinese scientists' recommendations and the experiences of East Asian countries with other pandemics). Remember, in January and February, those in the US and often EU were being told that masks didn't really protect you, could even increase your risk, and to specifically not purchase and wear them. This was always an inconsistent narrative, of course, because the point of this misinformation was to reserve stock for healthcare professionals because masks do work and healthcare professionals needed them.

We need better systems for addressing misinformation than placing the burden on platforms who will inevitably work in their own interest and attempt to automate processes that should be manually (and expensively) done on an individual basis.
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A lot of the information here looks like it’s direct from airlines.

Obviously they have no benefit from touting the safety of air travel.

Right?

end sarcasm
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> while being slightly confused why Robinhood doesn't offer greater verification.

It sounds like the bigger confusion is that Robinhood doesn't have a way to cancel withdrawals in flight. At least one of the customers caught the transaction with time to cancel, and couldn't reach a human in time to do that.
> Plus, homeless people aren’t all older white guys....

> when heroes focus on petty criminals because it encourages the over-policing of impoverished neighborhoods, particularly Black ones....

> United States has “hick” or “white trash” stereotypes ... however, any negative class-based stereotypes also impact them [people of color] a great deal

As a person of colour, I am not a fan of this trope where white writers[1] will make everything even vaguely demeaning about the downtrodden, somehow related to minorities.

All of the examples, given were of white people. Can bad representations of white people not simply remain encapsulated to them?

Saying that everything related to the impoverished must by some means also relate to people of colour is not only clearly wrong, but the classism that the author is ranting against.

Lastly, the author is wrong where she writes

> White supremacists are natural villains but shouldn’t be glorified even a little, which limits their effectiveness as a fictional threat...

The critical success of Lovecraft Country which features villainous racist wizards, puts this to shame, as does the success of Watchmen before it which shed light on the Bombing of Tusla (aka Black Wall Street Massacre) that a whole generation of children likely did not learn about before.

In other examples, comic book villains have historically been associated with America's enemy du'jour. Hydra is no less dramatic or effective in fiction, simply because they are Nazis.

[1] The author, Chris Winkle, is a white woman.
Hi Peter,

I understand that E-3 visas for Australians are easier to obtain than other types of visas. In your experience, does this mean startups will welcome applications from Australians where the job advert does not mention visa sponsorship? Or should we only apply for jobs mentioning H-1B etc?

Thank you very much for your time.
There are millions of real tweets like this though. "++ [tweet]" "Thread. [tweets]" [downward pointing finger emoji, tweet]
Chrome does this now.
Not at all. However, the fact that they're now doing so during a pandemic whereas they weren't before suggests that it's not entirely voluntary.
For a singular transaction, a thief might limit themselves to something well under $10k. If a thief makes multiple withdrawals totaling $16k, which is over the FDIC insured amount, would a bank really just compensate you for that?

Wouldn't that be out of the graciousness of the bank (or PR)?
It depends on why productivity is increasing. Generally speaking, the employer is pushing productivity increases (implementing better processes like assembly lines, buying equipment that lets an employee do more, etc). If the employer is pushing the increases, they need some incentive to do that.

Often that incentive is making goods cheaper, so they're more competitive. That's a huge generalization, but it makes the point that there's nothing wrong with productivity gains outpacing wages.
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Yes, this would be my next point.

Twitter is absolutely a community, it's just buckling under the weight of its scale. The problem we're facing right now, to me, is that Twitter and Facebook have built communities that they are incapable of moderating effectively because of their scale, but they ask us to give them time to manage this difficult problem and we give it to them, absorbing more damage while they make billions. How much time do they need? They've all been around for over a decade. It's time to start demanding results.

These platforms aren't required to exist. If they can't prevent their services from causing damage to societies across the world, then they should be required to fix that. If they can't fix it, then they should be shut down.
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It's an EU directive.
Do you have any thoughts on the financial impact of self-hosting vs using something like Google Ads? I'd assume you mostly made that choice for ethical reasons, right?

I noticed that my ad blocker doesn't block your ads, and like you mentioned, they don't interrupt the browsing experience. They're almost like those in a high-quality paper magazine!
Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam lived not in the same period of time.