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Because you only need to know one tool for every type of work you do. Except for inherently graphical tasks like drawing and diagramming.

When you use Emacs or Vim and live on the command line every project has the same workflow. You don't need to install 10 different IDEs and learn 10 different workflows for 10 different projects. You don't need to go through 117 layers of menus to apply compilation options because your IDE invokes the compiler for you. You don't need to use a mouse. No googling "how to X in PyCharm" 5 minutes after googling "How to X in Eclipse".
It’s #31 on that list.
Would be nice to be able to do whatever the hell you want, whenever you want. Billionaires play by their own rules, the rest of us plebs need to stay in our place.
Absolutely, Google has added to this world, not taken away from it. Being a potentially abusive company is a completely different matter, but it doesn't automatically invalidate the good things and I still consider it better off existing than not.

In any case, with Trump gone nobody will be around to fight Google if that's your desire.
Honest question: what is the difference between taking advantage of the system and taking advantage of the people that comprise the system?
You're underestimating the profit margin and the benefit of not having to do the work yourself.

Mowing lawns, I'll be busy for those $1k MRR. If I have a SaaS with optimized implementation and a halfway solid foundation, those $1k MRR might be equivalent to $950 gross profit. And I'll get those $950 even if I don't do a thing.

So those $950 are additive. I can still mow the lawn to turn them into $1950 monthly.
"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." -- Blaise Pascal
People can be irrational when it comes to their diets, but that doesn’t make them wrong. Some people care and some don’t.

Restaurants tend to take the strictest interpretation of a diet because that minimizes angry customers.
1. What would the rate have been without doing anything?

2. Do you have data showing how effective the lockdowns were? Did they have a problem with compliance?

Here’s a recent publication which could inform your opinion - note especially the part about employment forcing people to leave their houses to work:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

“ Latin American countries have long had some of the most scarring income inequalities in the world, and they are predicted to worsen. The informal labour market is huge, making up 54% of all work across the region (up to 70% in some countries, such as Peru). Informal workers have little access to social protection and have no choice but to continue to work daily to earn a living. The result is that their capability to follow quarantine and social distancing measures is limited. Informal workers also have less access to health care.”

…

“The increases in obesity and diabetes in Latin America are surely major contributors to the high mortality rates. In Mexico and Chile, more than 75% of the female population is overweight. Nutrient-poor and energy-dense processed foods are often the only type of food readily affordable to the most disadvantaged people.
Although some countries, including Brazil and Costa Rica, have a universal health-care system, most Latin American countries have large gaps in accessibility caused mainly by out-of-pocket health expenditure, which is 34% of total health spending.”
> Mutations aren't a serious concern. Because when viruses mutate it's the strains that are more infectious and less lethal that win out.

If only it worked that way! It doesn't, of course.

A random walk can lead anywhere in the adjacent landscape. That includes moving up in lethality without moving down in infectiousness. What you have written here is plausible-sounding nonsense; if it were true, the 1918 flu would never have occurred.

The good news is that influenza is almost pathologically mutation-prone, and coronaviruses are not.
Exposing Alleged Government Corruption on the Part of Govt Officials Worldwide
I think the open-sourcing is probably more feasible, as some companies that discontinue services do so because they're shutting down and, thus, may not have cash to offer mass refunds.
From the blog post...

> Additionally Nix is very hard to install. This is a stumbling block for a lot of people. Especially when using certain macOS systems you cannot even install nix at all. Luckily most of the nix problems, like the macOS issues will be solved with time.

Great choice
Sounds more like hazing than good leadership.
Proof of work provides the man hours equivalent of security for the cryptocurrency, much the way that a standing military provides the man hours equivalent of security for a centralized national currency.
This is an interesting license, but I'm not trying to force small businesses or hobbyists to only use GPL for their project.
The Danish mink mutation is the exception to the rule; that's why the government is taking extreme measures to contain it.
Well.... I'd go to NZ as well, given the chance.

In the upcoming world war, NZ will just be forgotten. It's even missing from many maps ;)
The meat (and dairy) industry receive massive subsidies from the the US federal government, and they have massive externalized costs. Some externalized costs are greenhouse gas emissions, downstream downstream pollution, reduced health outcomes in consumers, heavy fresh water usage. The meat & dairy industry received the majority of the benefit from the $867 billion farm bill passed in 2019.
> Why wouldn't we use them?

On an individual level: learning curve, company policy, integrations to dev ops flavor-of-the-week and the initial difficulty to extend the editor.

With that said, learning Vim is a good way to get exposure to a very different type of user experience in software. Plus, you may see an increase in productivity. I don't see that increase, but I at least gave it a fair shake 10 years ago.
There's an article that makes the rounds now and again on HN about a engineer who wrote a widely used opensource tool and then didn't get past the Google interview process. FAANGs are still more interested in seeing if you can solve the Knapsack Problem then seeing that you can write good, maintainable code.
This looks like a great resource. I always wanted to know how CPython is implemented.
Sometimes I need to edit a 10GB text file. Good luck with anything other than vim.
> I doubt he can use the favorable taxation

countries like Malta and Cyprus have plenty schemes under which they attract HNWI's like him. I'm surprised about Cyprus considering Schmidt is from the US which is an odd choice since it's usually Russians and Russian companies that launder their money through Cyprus.

Malta is much more popular among expat Brits and native English speakers and also (still) has a cleaner reputation compared to Cyprus.

Both jurisdictions fill a void that opened when Switzerland agreed to hand over data on US citizens to the USA. Technically Cyprus/Malta too shares data but while the Swiss banking is a lot cleaner now than it was 20 years ago and certainly lot of things are now impossible that places like Nevada, New Mexico etc still allow.

Both Cyprus/Malta have no shortage of crooks dressed as lawyers, accountants, notaries and bankers that will help him bypass the tax-men if he wants to but I strongly doubt that is the reason simply because he has better chances doing that at home. The US is now the biggest tax-haven in the world. It sounds more personal than this.

Maybe he is planning to do business with wealthy Russians (unlikely) maybe he watched Mama-Mia and is now obsessed with the idea of falling in love on a Greek island, or maybe he wants to live in a city that is politically divided as much as his home planet. (Nicosia) /s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...
Mission ISRO – The definitive audio story of how India's space journey began
I guess I agree the word "must" is maybe too far, but I'd hardly go so far as to say it satisfies the requirements for "dogmatic BS".
I solved this problem a few years ago, and applied to YC and was rejected. I struggled with how to make money from it, but have decided that it's not relevant anymore, and will work on cleaning it up and releasing it. Try as the govt will, they have already lost the fight on encryption. It's possible to build apps that use encryption where the govt can never force you to backdoor the app. If they really want to force backdoor then they must be going after the device manufactures.
Re. "short", I am the opposite - I am ordering the "largest". I appreciate the thought they appear to have put into the sizes and your associated explanation but I think using numbers (1-4?) would have been more intuitive but I guess then it would be less distinctly Starbucks?
I can't think of a rural area that is more than 2 hours drive from a city large enough to take thousands of doses.

They should be able to put out a general announcement and get thousands to get the vaccine if they need to. A lot of people who can get off work on short notice if there is an emergency. Obviously not everyone, but thousands can be redirected to someone else on short notice. Of course this requires emergency shipments to those who should have got the original, but the breakdown would require that anyway.

I don't know what the thawing protocol is though - this is a real concern that needs to be handled. I assume those who deal with the logistics have plans and backup plans that account for all of the above.
The only way to make money on drop shipping - like most “make money on the internet”schemes - is to sell courses teaching others how to set up
Drop shipping.
Sadly not. SQL (or, at least, T-SQL and Postgres) can implement a cyclic tag system, GLSL can run the Game of Life and OCL supports an ad hoc, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
You're painting in broad strokes and getting some flak for it, but there's definitely some truth to this. The context surrounding the story is extremely relevant.

The Workers in the Vineyard is a story being told by Jesus within the larger story of the Gospels. It is a parable. It's not a beast fable with some clearcut moral. The whole story itself is intended as a metaphor for salvation and heaven.

He's not even indirect about it this time, he makes it clear from the beginning:

> For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard..."

The workers object because (surprise) this actually is unfair in a landscape of mortal human struggles. It's jarringly so. It defies common sense and notions of fairness. In that confusion, Jesus is trying to make a point about just how incomprehensible the generosity of the godhead is. He's saying it breaks your prior notions and that salvation doesn't map to time and money.

There's literally no other point being made by the parable, and it's a total error to try to divine another message.
Thanks to Unity Mod Manager and Harmony (C# Monkey patching Framework), unity games even get mods pretty much for free without the devs doing anything to support them.
I have seen some companies that call have pre-loaded Caller ID. Why don’t Apple or Google provide a service that guarantees that the Contact tracing service always calls with a Caller ID, and Apple/Google could even mark it as verified. I think many businesses would pay for this service as it saves money on having to contact existing customers and reduces fraud.
It seems to be working here in New Zealand - we have an ongoing problem getting people to use the Covid app, but that just makes it easier, doesn't replace calling people on phones

Of course it helps to get the actual rate so close to 0 that the contact tracers are not overloaded
Do you need to? Both VSCode and IntelliJ have remote coding capabilities.
I use terminal Vim mainly because of tmux and all of the benefits that come along with using it.

Being able to split projects up by sessions, persisting everything and seamlessly jumping between varying layouts of terminals and code editing is something I haven't been able to reproduce with any other editor (even if it has a built in terminal).
Ah, I see what you are saying. Possibly, though early on the people that had the worst outcomes were those that were aggressively treated with ventilators.
> Did Microsoft follow up your research with some Postgresql patches?

Yes. I had committed them to the development branch before starting to write the post. There's a second post describing the concrete improvements that were committed:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...

There's more to do, of course, but in my opinion this addresses the biggest issues.

> What is the MS policy/plans for enhancing Postgresql? On one hand MS sells competitor (Sql Server), on the other profits from Postgresql managed instances. How does it work out for Postgresql?

A few colleagues and I, all with a pre-MS history of contributing to Postgres, spend the majority of our time developing / maintaining open source Postgres. There's resulting features / patches in PG13 (released) and PG14 (in development). Committed work includes, spilling hash-joins, collation versioning, faster recovery / replication, connection scalability improvements among others.
Not to mention the condescension in calling them, right off the bat, “a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change”.

Habit and sticking with something that works are, like, good things most of the time!
because of my own work history and experience, when I see this I hear "build a Rails app". but I am curious, what do other people that agree with this feel like is their go-to for something like that?
Ok, accepting it can go both ways. Why would you want one small portion of the country deciding the direction of the country instead of each state having an equal say? Isn't an equal say more fair for all states?
I have a dual citizenship.

From .gov site:
"U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one nationality or another. A U.S. citizen may naturalize in a foreign state without any risk to his or her U.S. citizenship. However, persons who acquire a foreign nationality after age 18 by applying for it may relinquish their U.S. nationality if they wish to do so. In order to relinquish U.S. nationality by virtue of naturalization as a citizen of a foreign state, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign nationality voluntarily and with the intention to relinquish U.S. nationality. Intent may be shown by the person’s statements and conduct."

Link to source:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega....
To continue this... I don't think the flu vaccine is nearly 90% effective. I am pretty sure the flu vaccines hover around 60-70% effective. A 90% effective vaccine would stop the spread drastically to the point where it might just stop it wholesale. in addition the virus envelope is so fragile that it won't stay in the environment for more than a few days compared to something like the norovirus that can last for a long time on surfaces(iirc) because of a lack of a fragile lipid enclosure.
This scenario is several steps too hypothetical for me.

If you have 10^1000+1 coins, how did you accurately ascertain that exactly 1 coin was biased and the others were not?

And if you have been able to do that, well enough to state it as fact, why do you now need to do this statistical test?
I'm not usually a fan of repeat-the-comment's-argument-but-replace-it-with-analagous-terms-type comments, I thought it was at least a decent comparison, especially considering that phones and cars are pretty general-purpose devices.
He should be forced to abide by the laws while he lives or does business here. But if he wants to live in a new place by a new set of laws in the future, I'm not sure what's wrong with that.

It seems more like you regret the laws in the US during the decades he was here, and you are hoping future changes in the law will retroactively address your concerns. But I see no moral basis for that stance.

If we want to change the law, we should be forced to consider the effects on the future, and whether those laws will negatively impact the wealth created in the future. If we start going back and seizing wealth from the past, that will give us a false sense that the laws are working, until the old money runs out and we look around and don't see anyone creating new wealth.
As do many others. I was shopping a VW Golf R. Apparently there's a motor at the base of the windshield with an offset weight. So it adds vibration.

I can somewhat understand doing this for people who expect v6 noises from v4 turbos. But not providing the ability to turn it off seems silly.
For me, I've been using Emacs for 20 years. It comes down to two things:

1. I never have to move my hands from home row. Pretty much anything I need to do, I can do in Emacs (including file browsing, PDF viewing, web browsing, music playing, git, shell stuff, etc), and faster, because I can rebind keys at will. Emacs is just too darn flexible.
2. Anything good from other editors will eventually make it into emacs. The first thing that comes to my mind is snippets which I think came from TextMate. Again, emacs is just too darn adaptable and flexible.

That said, I don't recommend non-programmers or even new programmers learn emacs. It's a steep learning curve, it's just I've already climbed it, and now I delve even deeper to learn more about it whenever I can. I just don't have the technical investment in any other editor, and it's highly unlikely that any other editor, IDE, etc will ever have enough advantage to switch.

Edit: Ooh, I just remembered this one: I'm not a big user of TRAMP, even though it's awesome, but it's even more awesome than I realized. A couple of weeks back, I was test-compiling and running our codebase on a new version of the OS, using a remote machine via ssh (forgot the -Y). I quickly found myself missing the M-g n and M-g p for moving through compile warnings and errors, so I loaded a remote edit session on my local emacs and without even thinking just ran a compile. To my wonder, it just Did What I Meant, and ran the compile on the remote machine, no special setup required! I mean, it was utterly seamless. It's this sort of thing that keeps me learning emacs and just marveling at how awesome it is!
Biggest problem with IDEs is they are a big in-your-face hurricane of features that is often too much.

As a newbie you want to create a single-line Hello World program but the goddamn IDE wants you to create a workspace, and then within that workspace create a project, and within that project create a bunch of infests and manifests and resources and XML files, and pretty soon you're lost.
No. There isn't the ability to deliver more supplies than needed - at least not through the end of 2021. Until then every dose is urgently needed by several people only one of who can get it.
Why engineers should talk openly about salary
This forum isnt the place to be posting this type of information, it will not be well received.
> commercial use restriction with an open source license

Any licence which explicitly forbids commercial use is by definition not a Free Software licence or an Open Source licence.

Or do you mean something like the AGPLv3, which isn't explicitly anti-commercial but which has strong terms that scare off many companies?
You need a coach or a lot of discipline to learn how to safely clean. Deadlifts are still great. The previous comment about football teams takes other things into consideration. Like it's difficult to have great form for so many players and cleans are a power exercise. You'll see a lot of football players do trap-bar deadlifts because it's safer.
The question, then, is why we bothered effectively handing Page and Brin free startup funds without claiming any IP or equity stake in the resulting products, then act surprised when they don't want to pay taxes on the money they made.
Outperforming indeed.
On the other hand devs in corporation usualy have no spending budget. Going thru official management ask and procurement process is a real PITA. The last thing a dev wants is drowning in a red tape swamp.

I do sometimes pay for software with my own cash. However that is mostly limited to personal productivity tools because I can't transfer licenses to the company.
There would still be things to establish with regards to this new type of relationship.
Who is responsible for repairs? How about recycling? How about insurance? How about upgrades?
If as a customer I am no longer an owner of the device, I believe some of these should no longer be my responsability.
I stopped reading immediately after this: The endless war between Vim and Emacs users has continued ad nauseam over the years. "It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change."
> and comparably healthy

Every plant-based meat I'm aware of has been processed to hell and back, so I'm dubious of the claims that they are healthier.
you can do all of that in `unsafe` blocks
I love that extension so much.
It's long overdue that all the social costs of meat consumption are priced into those goods and/or that we subsidise plant based alternatives so that the ecological benefits are reflected at the counter. I'm pessimistic it's going to happen though.
I think it took about 13 years for Beanie Babies to rise and fall, but it was really only on the market for about 6 of those years.
They arguably could do this by making the meat come from ecologically better solutions (silvopasture, savory method, etc.). Imagine if both the meat and plant choices were both better.

The counter-argument is it that all burgers would monetarily expensive, but factory meat is also expensive just in forms of unaccounted externalities.
Congrats on putting something out there! It's a very hard step to take.

Makes me think of a side project I've been poking at off and on for a little while. I had the same idea you did of having a single text file to store a bunch of notes. (which was inspired by a comment from someone who said they've been managing notes for years using a single txt file through Windows Notepad or something along that line) Though mine is more inspired by trying to do that while also giving the capability to do Zettelkasten-style note management versus sticky notes.

The only reason I haven't completed mine is because I got "stuck" trying to code a parser that could in-place patch the AST and visual representation of the text instead of re-parsing an entire note on every character change. (at least for me, this has been extremely hard to figure out how to do correctly. Feels like an infinite number of corner cases to figure out somehow. Especially since I'm self-limiting to a pure plain text representation of everything, because I want the file to be grep-able and not lock someone into a specific UI) I find modern-day delays in UI interactions unacceptable, so I want to make something where even if you were to put an entire novel into a note with a bunch of different special elements in it that would need to be parsed, (and considering I want to offer the capability to turn a piece of text into a "comment" which is a clickable link to another note so if you ARE writing a novel you can still leave notes for yourself on things to improve) there would be zero delays when actively typing.
It appears that there is some github action declared for doing builds, and it's running, but I haven't been able to figure out where the results are.

Here's a clue: https://github.com/zonetti/zonote/actions/runs/354550703
You're high if you think science has nothing to do with politics.
My grocery bill decreased when I started eating exclusively plant based foods. In most meals the most expensive item on the plate is the meat.
Discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24298235