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Of course that was fair.

All of the tricks Buffet jumped through to get his taxes that low were intended to encourage that behavior, whatever it was. So his reinvestment of profits in the company, investments in clean energy, contributions to charity, profit losses due to forgiving debts owed by people in disaster zones...whatever it all was.

Someone making laws figured all of that was "fair."

If someone followed the given rules, dealt fairly and openly with others and made 1 billion dollars they did it fairly. The huge amount of money does not make it unfair in any way.

See, my definition of "fair" is followed the law and didn't deceive others. Obviously yours doesn't agree which kind of proves my point, doesn't it.
> set a "transaction" price / hidden tax on less trustworthy or less "wanted" persons or company's. Like when you want to buy liquor/a gun/give to a church you pay 5% transaction costs, but when you pay your rent the transaction costs are 0%.

That is what happens already today, you just don't notice it as a consumer as the vendor pays the CC bill.
So when will chat apps finally adapt to using TOR or I2P or Scuttlebut or any protocol that can not so easily be blocked?
> But I don't trust WhatsApp enough to share my whole contacts list with them.

Trouble is, you don't have to. Your friends have already shared /their/ contact lists.

You're already a node in the network, even if you've never logged in.
Ha ha look at me I am on Hacker News I don't like Electron because I am so smart ha ha.
Money in the government coffers is spent and used by the government. Again, a good thing (as far as government spending can be called a good thing, of course).
Interesting article but with some factual imprecisions: 1. A bit nit-picky but the Beta distribution has support [0, 1]. So the distribution in the graph is not a Beta. It's probably a shifted and scaled Beta. 2. The probability density can be arbitrarily high, which means that the log of the density can't have an upper bound at 0. Probability is bounded at 1 but probability density isn't. The fact that none of the example distributions passes zero is a mere coincident. I'm surprised to see this beginner's mistake in an otherwise insightful article.
Deeply sad that this makes no sound on my iPhone cos my kids would find this hilarious.
Great work!

The important parts:

> cotton masks, surgical masks, and N95 masks all have a protective effect with respect to the transmission of infective droplets/aerosols of SARS-CoV-2 and that the protective efficiency was higher when masks were worn by a virus spreader. Importantly, medical masks (surgical masks and even N95 masks) were not able to completely block the transmission of virus droplets/aerosols even when completely sealed.
sometimes you gotta learn the hard way =D
In this case, "profit" being an accurate euphemism for "avoid GDPR fines".
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This is awesome, but nmap doesn't seem to work, or am I doing it wrong? downloaded apk-tools-static and installed apk using that, and then nmap.
PHP lets you get things done. You don't have to choose another language.
In a way I feel like quality vs quantity is a false dichotomy. What's important is deliberate practice, which can be deficient in either.

Is it worth doing 100 reps in the gym if they're all with bad form? It's better to solve the same problem in 5 ways or 5 different problems once?
"Quantity leads to quality."

The analogy of being graded on quantity in an art class tends to make me imagine I'd just line up a ton of canvases and slop paint on them all at once to be the top of the class, or create pots in only their crudest acceptable form.

That is, quantity does not lead to quality by itself. The student must be trying to learn something new with each new piece. Quantity iterates the feedback loop. The student still must be able to identify mistakes or areas where improvement is needed. Doing that means paying attention to quality.

So it's not really about ignoring quantity or quality for the sake of the other, but finding a good balance.
Is there a reliable way to view flash files without a browser then? I'm concerned about loosing the ability to occasionally view some flash (games etc) after Chrome removes Flash support this december. And people (I have quite a number of friends who do) already have to use old Windows systems with Internet Explorer to use the Flash app to apply to the US DV lottery (Chrome just offers to save it instead of running it).
> Let’s say Google uses monopoly power in the ad market to squeeze advertisers. It’s hard to translate that into direct harm to consumers.

Almost as if what harms the ad industry is good for consumers ...

Also, "direct harm to consumers" is about the lowest bar you can set. It would be way more responsible to take some preventative action, before the harm to consumers occurs.
> If I can't run it on a desktop computer, big fat meh.

This is where Apple Silicon and the convergence of macOS and iPadOS sounds useful. Still not convinced it makes up for the losses though.
Symfony supports YAML files too since... almost forever.
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It’s all conjecture mixed with a bit of ‘if it doesn’t help it doesn’t hurt’. Whatever you want but don’t pretend there’s any evidence when there isn’t. Because there isn’t.
That, and Adobe Lightroom. I tried to switch and had a mixture of Darktable, RawTherapee, RapidPhotoDownloader and digiKam running. It was unpleasant and years behind Lightroom, unfortunately. Even more unfortunate is that I have a stand-alone license for Lightroom 5, but my camera is too new for it (no support for its RAWs).
What the hell

There is no way i would eat something linke that.
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Hmmm 60km/h winds are not exactly common and I'd like to see independent testing before I'm willing to accept you can get 1kw out of it even at that speed. It isn't impossible... wind speed and turbine size have an exponential relationship to power generated.

This site has various maps of average wind speeds at 30m: https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data?category=residenti...

Parts of the bay are are in the 5-5.5 range, which is only around 18km/h. That isn't a huge amount of power - assuming you could get permission to put up a 30m tall pole (LOL not a chance).

If you live in the sticks and if your location happens to have good average wind speeds this can be useful but as I noted: wind generation is not linear scaling like solar. You get exponentially more energy as you scale up wind. Solar is probably a much better fit for almost everyone at the residential and small commercial level. Solar is basically not sensitive to height at all. Solar can be deployed at small but useful scales and expanded over time.
And just some clarification. This is only the first ARM Arch to get promoted to Tier-1. The idea is to first get this one to Tier-1 as it's the most obvious to do, and other ARM platforms will follow shortly. For example Apple ARM Archs I expect to soon follow.
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The clue is in the name Public Relations. If "massaging" the truth to make it appear better than it is, and changing focus from the real problematic things to positive things isn't the job I don't know what is.

You can call it hyperbole and good marketing, but then it also goes to the extent of PR after oil spills, tailings damns wiping out villages and poisoning or risking the health of your own workforce, like for example Dupont and C8.

It's hard not to be cynical about PR because you cannot do it effectively without creating / propagating a distorted view of the truth.

But then again, the reason it still essentially needs to exist is because there is no universal truth, no universal sense of good or bad. So for example, do I forgive nuclear power and GM food companies from trying to influence public discourse on the safety of their work? Of course, it's essential in a world where they are competing against lots of unwarranted negative attention, much of it baseless as far as the science goes.

Anyway in spite of my ranting and bias, really I'd conclude it's a necessary evil, and the majority of the industry is innocuous and just trying to showcase the work and values of their clients...

Also newspaper editors are a huge part to blame, when these days loads of press releases make it to print almost unedited (and as has happened to myself and others I know, the bits they changed were even more wrong - including in national level newspaper)... Fact checking claims and sources is so lacking, especially in fast modern news cycle.

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Well, my method so far has been to at least be familiar with some of the theoretical stuff and then try to figure out how to apply it in depth when the opportunity to do so arises. Not sure if there are references where you can directly jump to the applied bit.
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Such as Optimus Maximus, for example?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj7GYU-wedo
Where are state/local taxes remotely comparable to federal taxes? This reeks of crocodile tears. If this is your attitude.... cry more, bitch, we're coming for your cash that you stole from us.
I'm quite sure they'd be happy to have you submit patches to add better support.
Update: Plenty of good responses and you're all more correct than my post, thanks everybody. I'll try to comment on all of you.

XML indeed works for both document and data-centric applications. In practice, I mostly see data dumps from tables, and config files. Marked up documents are rare for me, and mostly in html or recently markdown. Maybe this is one of the thing that differs between jobs

All of XML, JSON, TOML,YAML only solve the first part of the job. You will need a way to put the parsed data in the data structures of your application. I will respectfully disagree about the triviality however: XML was one of the first to make this trivial. Before XML, it wasn't.

Choosing a format is forcing that preference on other ITers. If I choose, say YAML, then everybody who uses my application will be forced to learn YAML. Every format is basically easy, but has a few edge cases. Hence, it is a good practice to limit the number of formats, even if this requires compromising on a lesser format. That's why I'd like to see TOML and YAML disappear in a world that already has XML and JSON. Now clearly a world where you only have to learn XML+JSON+TOML+YAML is a lot better than the 90's world where you'd see a bigger variety of less well thought out formats every day.

There are good reasons for leaving advanced possibilities out of JSON. Part of XMLs demise was the over-complication. There is a lifecycle here: You learn X because it is easy. It isn't perfect, so you fix it up a bit to X2, X3, etc... Each fix makes the learning curve harder for beginners. One day, someone looks at X99, rightfully declares it a mess and starts a new easy Y. Now you as an X-er try to tell the Y-ers why they are wrong, and indeed they slowly grow Y2,Y3.... While the X99 and Y99 camp have a loud discussion, Z appears. One of the harder parts of an ITer's responsibility is recognizing when to invest in Y and Z even if they are still clearly inferior to X.
I cannot upvote this person enough.
Such clear expression, and insistence on their right. Love everything about this thread, even if we'll never know whether this was actually what made the difference.

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> Watching this fight I wonder "Who is in charge of governing California?"

The same people vote on the proposition who vote for the government. I don't like the things California tends to vote for but it is nothing short of enlightened to allow people a mechanism to directly overrule the legislature.

If the people don't like the government's labour law, who are the government to object? I can't for the life of me see why the people can't choose how they work. It is the one thing I think they are qualified to comment on.
Not clear to me how much Watt the device produces.
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Yeah I tried switching to Apple Music and it just doesn't feel as good.

The radio feature is nowhere near as good - recommendations are not great and you can't save stations (or queue up radios - they immediately start)

Search isn't very good, the UI is clunky, sharing playlists is confusing.

The only thing that might be going for it is being able to add our own music. I'm trying to persevere with it but I don't see any real value to switching.
With Apple Music, I believe you can say:

"Hey Siri, play X".

Can you do this with Spotify? Or do you have to always say "on Spotify" for every request ever?
When are you working on side projects? What works for you?
Costs are zero. The ransomware platform runs as a server somewhere, and whether they get one ransom payment or 1000 their costs are the same. The gangs that do the hacking operate on commission, they attempt to phish multiple targets (hundreds, more?) at a time. Again, the cost of one payment is sufficient to justify the entire endeavour.

As long as even one victim will pay, then there is no incentive to stop hacking.

This dynamic is covered in the literature on K&R. https://rusi.org/publication/occasional-papers/closing-gap-a...
Also willing to help:

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https://twitter.com/adarsh611/status/1319168214786396160?s=2...

https://twitter.com/harshilmathur/status/1319182412719423488...
The interaction mechanism is quite well done - it provides very different (and appropriate) mechanisms for laptop/phone. Though I wish we could tap on the bongos directly instead of using the seperate buttons on an Android phone.
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I’m sympathetic to both sides here.

Obviously we cannot indefinitely build larger accelerators, and if it turns out that there is no support to go at least one size bigger, then perhaps our best hope is to find more effective ways to use the existing ones we have.

As a random example to illustrate what I mean: https://www.google.nl/amp/s/phys.org/news/2018-07-plasma-siz...

Maybe stopping here will force more thinking along these lines? I hope so, anyway.
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Unix vs Multix.

Plan 9 and GNU Herd vs Linux.

Spring vs EJB.

Rest vs Soap vs CORBA.

C vs Algol.

It's easier to do something simple and iterate on it than to do something perfect from the start.
"Lua, Julia, Erlang"

For most CRUD web development, using Lua/Julia/Erlang has a heavy cost upfront of learning, finding developers and many other issues like hosting etc. PHP works out of the box on most servers and has a mature ecosytem. So this is why I cannot just get into Lua or Julia because it is much better than PHP. It is all about cost vs benefit analysis. Sure, if I am building something like whatsapp, I should probably learn Erlang over PHP but if I am building yet another CRUD App (which most web apps are even in 2020), I am totally ok with PHP since that gives me the quickest and most mature way to get started.

People who care too much about languages remind me of the "If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" situation. Not every application has to be built in Julia/Lua/Rust whatever.
Emacs's Org mode has this functionality in its own Agenda features. See also the third-party package org-ql, which provides similar tools, like views (saved searches) and alternative query languages.

As Bob Newell (linked in the article) notes, Emacs and Org seem to carry this torch today. There may still be a few tricks unique to Lotus Agenda and such tools, but Org mostly surpasses them, and its flexibility and extensibility go far beyond what Lotus Agenda and its primitive macro language could do.
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annotation programming I think.
Have you tried October CMS? It really gets back to the basics and is awesome for rapid application development. Disclaimer, I'm the lead maintainer
(Disclaimer: I know absolutely no PHP whatsoever.)

> The second and third 'static' indicate late static binding, meaning they refer to the class being called, rather than the class defining this method.

Wait, so they're using "static" to mean the binding is happening later? Isn't that essentially less static than binding against the class being defined?
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There is a 30-day evaluation license for Saxon-EE which can be used for non-production work, https://www.saxonica.com/download/download.xml

There is also Exselt http://exselt.net (appears to be down at the moment), I don't think this is Open Source, but it was freely available for download previously.
cant play bongos and piano at the same time
Thanks for speaking to these guys in the tone that they deserve.
There definitely are outdoor restaurants and bars even in winter. Most add insulation / heating. In NYC for example, several outdoor rooftop bars add tents and heaters. The biergarten at the Standard hotel is covered and operates year round.
This is why capitalism needs to die. Humans are insanely bad at valuing long-term investments.
Go Works for Me
It sounds mostly like it's a patent infringement on the website, not the actual products. The article is not exactly great, so it's not clear if they can't just sell laptops over the phone?
That's me.

I bought Lightroom 3 times (1/3/5?) and used it a bunch, but not professionally. I've got tons of old images in it, from that era, I open it a couple of times a year to find stuff. I've moved on, I don't do DSLR/RAW images anymore.

This version doesn't run on Catalina, and the only upgrade that would keep the develop settings is O(10)/mo. So I'm looking for something that can do the cataloging, and something that can do the processing should I ever do that again.

I have 0 hope that anything will take the develop settings in lightroom and use/improve them, but that would be perfect. (I've got one image in particular that's just at the edge of acceptable quality on LR3 that got dramatically better on LR5)
It's interesting people keep saying this. I see Rust as being much closer to C than it is to C++. Rust is safer C with the bare minimum of added advanced features.
It uses jQuery extensively. The frontend developer in me wants to make a fork written in typescript using react and redux toolkit to manage keystrokes. Then I realize it is just a fun toy.
Good for you but I don't hire language developers for my company. I hire developers who care about solving problems, no disrespect meant to you. Today it's PHP, tomorrow we could do Golang etc etc. Who cares. When I interview a developer, I pay attention to the fact if they are too obsessed with a certain language instead of real problem solving. My 2 cents.
Working fine here - iPhone 7 running iOS 14.1
While not free, Paul M Jones book Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP has really helped me get control of a large old codebase.

https://leanpub.com/mlaphp

It gives examples and goes bit by bit through the process of organizing code.

I'm using its suggestions along with a static checker called Phan, which I chose because it attempts to "prove incorrectness rather than correctness."

https://github.com/phan/phan
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They're encouraging piracy. This should be illegal!
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Are you productive in any of the following?
C#, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, Typescript (or even Haskell)

If not, you're just proving my original point. It's hard to see the problems of a language if you are only productive in that language. I can start pointing out flaws in PHP, and you can claim that those flaws don't matter. Until you increase the number of languages in your repertoire, our discussion about the flaws of PHP won't be constructive.
You have to take it out of silent mode.
The developers care.
> the log of the density can't have an upper bound at 0

I don't think he claims that. He even shows charts where positive log-densities appear.
UCS-2 was standardized in 1990 and likely was already shipping in implementations before that date.

UTF-16 was an hack on top when they realized that UCS-2 wasn't enough.
I agree with other posters - the issue isn't that Apple doesn't better support your business model, it's that you aren't honest about it in the app description.

Also, even in the app you don't have a clear statement saying that you must purchase a subscription to use it. I spent 5 minutes thinking I was missing an "X" in the top corner or some kind of "dismiss" action that would let me use basic functionality before buying.
Django wasn’t inspired by Ruby on Rails. They are roughly the same age, but Django was made public a little later than Rails was.
Yes this is an area where Zig fundamentally doesn't solve the same problems that C had. Zig can't check that you're not dangerously wrecking an invariant while Rust can do that, or in the worst case simply cause a program exit with a panic rather than random memory corruptions like Zig would cause.
Even Adobe's own Flash updater is begging you to uninstall it now days.
To me, yes. I avoid Electron like the plague. I know others feel the same way, so think of it as community service.

Javascript-on-desktop arguments are probably already taking up gigabytes of space in the HN database, so I'll just say it's for all the usual reasons.
FWIW when I asked about doing something on IRC (splitting a stream, process one, and overlay it over the existing one at 20%), they were quite helpful.

It was: `split[a][b];[b]lut3d=${path}[c];[a][c]blend=all_mode=overlay:all_opacity=${opacity}`
When presented with this kind of “simple advice”, I always like to think the counter examples.

Quantity is great, unless you are trying to change a paradigm. Iterative learning gets you trapped in local minima, so be sure to aim for quality once in a while.

I would also not take that “experiment” that seriously, because the requirements where obviously different, each class optimized as needed. “Quality” is an abstract concept, and most of the time you are better of saving the time than spending it on “Quality”.
That's a really good insight.
Totally worked with sound on mobile Opera, Firefox and Chrome (Android 10)
Additional literature on the topic[0]. The finding is that any payment at all is sufficient for the operation to continue. This makes sense for ransomware was well since the marginal cost of hacking additional targets is effectively zero.

The major ransomware operations are targeted and the hackers do research the victims. They use spear phishing, so they need to know their victim. Unless the ban is universal and consistent so that hackers can modify their behaviour before they hack a target, there is no point in doing it. The US treasury announcement about not paying ransoms is just such a pointless terrible idea.

[0] https://rusi.org/publication/occasional-papers/closing-gap-a...