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Whoa. As someone who used to "play around" with Line Rider back in the day, I had no idea that was actually possible. That end sequence was amazing! The music score on the ascent was a perfect match. I felt like I was watching the final scene of a James Bond movie or something.

I was just about to ask you what the last item was in the track (that meme) but realized I didn't actually read your blog post and just watched the video. WHOA. Major, major props for such a great post to accompany the video with. I'm sharing this with everyone my age that knows what Line Rider is :)
The New York times is not a professional news org. They do not, in fact, fact check, get statements, or give their subjects a chance to respond, at least not consistently.

When Nathaniel Popper wrote a hit piece substantially targeting me personally he (and NYT's fact checkers-- if they exist/were-involved at all) diligently avoided having any communication with anyone who could possibly contradict his narrative, including, of course, those he targeted. Not even the classic "email to an unmonitored mailbox 20 minutes before going to print to accompany a 'could not be reached for comment'" so often used in the industry and it isn't like he didn't know how to reach me.

The subsequent apology I got from a times board member was only a small consolation.

My experiences are not dissimilar to others I've talked to that have been the targets of hit pieces in the NYT.

In my view the NYT is a garbage venue that is callously indifferent to the truth at best.

At least coinbase knew this was coming, often NYT targets don't enjoy even that small piece of human decency.
That’s not accurate to say. A person may be accused of racism due to a misperception (or even fabrication) from another person’s perspective, and in such a case that’s not “an example of being racist”.

Anyone can accuse anyone of anything; that’s not sufficient to suggest that the accused must be guilty on some level.
So classic. https://youtu.be/0ds0wYpc1eM
Implicit bias is extremely hard to argue in the absence of other examples of racist behavior. In the court of public opinion, well. I think you're doing well as a baseline if the only arguments someone can make are about implicit bias. An accusation of implicit bias is far easier to defend against than one of racial abuse.
The definition of "eventually consistent" is somewhat vague in this respect, or at least easily misunderstood. When updates are streamed and applied sequentially, "eventual" is easily determined as the number of messages that the stream is behind. I'd say that this model is "deterministically consistent", because we know at which point the replicas will all agree with each other without having to perform a full comparison.
> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Cardinal Richelieu

There’s no need to lie in a hit piece. You can select your material, shade the truth and quote people who hate your subject on their opinions. Lying leaves you open to libel and slander too.
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He is probably correct though. Often times a company or person will do something that catches attention, this then provides an opportunity for a story on a subject that people are already aware of and drives interest.

If Coinbase had not published the prior memo, this article would likely have not been written. Was it written by someone with an axe to grind, I don't know (maybe) but the odds of the article being greenlit were definitely juiced due to coinbase garnering attention and most critically, divided attention via their publication.
That is a kind of strange thing to title a post hosted by the corporate blog itself.

1) If that's actually true, then both Mongo's marketing department and its technical writing staff have been doing a really, REALLY poor job for years.

2) "You don't know nuthin', dummy!" is not a great lead-in to correcting people's misconceptions.

It also appears to be the case that what I knew about MongoDB was actually true all along, and most of these "myths" are just Mongo trying to redefine the terms or problems to be something they're not. :-/
It not much of a rebuttal since I agree with it above. A lot of rain forest is burned to make room for crop agriculture, most which get used as feed to animal agriculture. It is generally a good recommendation to avoid food that is created by burning rain forest, and animal products derived from that is the worst offender.

Thus why I go for "the whole picture" approach. Locally produced food with markings for organic and sustainability is usually devoid of burned rain forest. Small producers tend to value sustainability more than large factory farms. Crops in season tend to involve less obscurity and less complex process which can hide ecological crimes. Animal farms with fewer animals tend to care more about individual animals health than larger farms that treat animals as items.

A big reason why organic crops has a rather complex picture comes from the issue that there exist no free lunch. Farmers that do not use chemical fertilizers derived from natural gas will instead use natural fertilizers. What that actually mean from a ecological perspective is that the chemical fertilizers produced from natural gas get put in the ground to produce animal feed, the animal feed get put into animals, and the rest product in form of manure get sold as a natural fertilizers which then is used to produce organic crops. Since organic farmers need to use more manure than non-organic farmers, and the output is lower, the total amount of carbon emissions per product can be argued as higher depending on how one count and attribute emissions. Still I generally prefer organic over non-organic because it does not directly put natural gas into the ground, and I find the cost in increase land use preferable over the other trade-offs.
Back in ~2012 I interviewed at a company that chose Mongo as its database, and my white boarding question was to implement joins in nosql as that was a recent problem they were solving. After doing the problem I asked innocently, “but all your data is relational - why use mongo at all?” And the CTO went red in the face and exploded, actually yelling at me about mongo’s many benefits (just not, ya know, anything a normal database provides). Needless to say I didn’t get the job!
If they identified relevant ads, I think more people would be fine with them. I actually turned off my AdBlock for Facebook as when setting up a new computer, I saw ads which I was actually interested in seeing (I do innovation contests and they showed me ads for those). And to this point I have left it off for Facebook as they continue to show ads for things I am interested in learning, purchasing, or doing. I probably click 1 in 3 Facebook ads now.

YouTube doesn’t do this and should be targeting the ads better based on video topic.
It is also possible that someone(s) at Coinbase, having complained about what they perceived as poor treatment back in 2019 and been blown off, decided to go to the NYT after Coinbase made lots of noise about "not being political."
TBH, this blog post from CB sounded like something you’d hear from the Trump campaign. Everything’s fine, we’re making lotsa money, it’s all fake news...
You'd hit big problems almost immediately, eg. your initial C compiler would be K&R, you'd eventually have to be able to bootstrap a C89 capable compiler.

That's without having any TCP/IP support and extremely limited storage space for source code and compiled binaries by today's standards.

I considered attempting this once starting from AT&T SVR4 - even though it had TCP/IP with the right addon package and a C compiler - gcc had dropped SVR4 support a long time ago.

There's probably another couple of hundred obstacles along the way as well...
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I have some LEAPS on AAPL as a test but really it's because I didn't want to hold shares any longer and it was a good bet as AAPL pulled back hard.
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Sure, but I for one was not talking about this story as a marker of the general prevalence of racism, and whether or not it's a representative sample of such. I read you as impugning the integrity and consistency of individual stories in isolation, which is legitimate as well, it just requires more evidence than you presented.
> If you have been accused of racism that's because somebody has an example of you being racist.

If only that were true.
Susan Flower's allegations ultimately led to the firing of Uber's CEO
What you’ve said and what I’ve said are not in conflict. Coinbase clearly states that they believe there to be three complaints and that they’re generally in the clear.

My point about reading between the lines is that the explicit, specific repetition of the claim and the way they’re saying it implies that the NYT is going to allege there were more complaints.

So then: what of the missing complaints? What Coinbase is saying, essentially, is that whatever else is alleged either didn’t happen (eg, the NYT is outright lying), or that they weren’t really complaints.

That’s what I’m getting at. It’s highly unlikely that the NYT is lying. I would be shocked if they did not verify in some way that the complaints alleged were indeed made to Coinbase. And I also do not think that Coinbase would accuse the NYT of lying either. It’s not a particularly defensible position.

So - that’s the reading between the lines. To me, the most plausible explanation is that the NYT will allege multiple complaints, and Coinbase is trying to say “no those don’t count.”
It is odd to me that they would preemptively go loud on this, drawing attention to a story that might not even get that much traction.

It's hard for me to imagine an NYT story getting less traction than a Coinbase post, though. So is this really drawing attention to the story? Maybe this is just drawing more attention to Coinbase's version of the story, rather than the NYT's version.

Basically, if you're going to end up publishing a counterargument to an upcoming news story, why not publish the rebuttal first? Maybe the tradition of waiting for a bad newspaper article, then immediately publishing a rebuttal, is an artifact of the olden days when there were no corporate blogs and social media, when there was no way to bring attention to a pre-rebuttal.
There's that unfounded HN hatred for Bitcoin we've all come to know and love!
I'm fairly certain Coinbase is a leading target for Bill Ackman's SPAC ($PSTH), so this is interesting timing for all here. Coinbase is likely particularly sensitive to negative stories and possible regulatory action right now.
Meh I guess I don’t care as long as it’s not related to fraud or skimming or improper accounting.
Couldn't agree more. When comparing my options, I usually discard the options that hide their prices if at least one has a published theirs. I don't even bother contacting them. I don't have the time.
Didn't he state support for BLM publicly on Twitter though?

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/12686223771826216...
> employees who walked out, "forcing" his hand

> No one was asking for a political statement

Pick one
It depends on the third party and who is paying them to investigate. If coinbase is the one paying, the third party is unlikely to be unbiased.
The New York Times is one of the most respected news organizations in the world, so if they're not a "professional news org", then who is?

Also, do you elaborate on your struggle with the NYT elsewhere? I'm interested, but you haven't given us much information at all.
> The modern, codified game more or less resembling what we have today was invented in England.

Arguably Scotland but we're used to England stealing our inventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_Game#Queens_Park_F...
Line rider is full of bugs. Very fun and useful bugs. Going fast enough or at the right angle or nearby something or ... will let you clip through things, accelerate uphill, spin instead of moving, etc.

LR is basically a sandbox of broken physics.
You misread (I think). I believe they meant an example of an event that can be interpreted as racist, even if it wasn't. Thus the proper reaction is to supply an alternative explanation.
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I was trying to type out some kind of rebuttal, but yeah, just use Postgres with jsonb if you really need "document" behavior. Mongo is so fraught with issues that given the alternatives that exist now (CouchDB, Postgres with JsonB, etc) just avoid it.
When I had to come up with a company name back when I was doing freelancing, I chose Entropy Fueled Productions on a rationale quite similar to what was expressed in this article. Then I got to find out very few people know the word 'entropy' much less know how to spell it, and 'fueled' always gets mangled over the phone...
They walked out because he wouldn't say, in private, that black people's lives mattered. It was simply outrageous to see that in this age. Do you really think it is political to say that a human's life is important, in private?
So not promoting people because they are black is now enough to get called raciest? I guess that's exactly how Kamala Harris has made it to where she is.
that's exactly what they do though. The entire 'systemic racism' story is complete and utter bullshit and it's been on the NYT front page for the entire summer of BLM riots.

It's just another left wing propaganda machine just like WaPo and CNN. They use 'white supremacy' conspiracy to scare people into voting for whoever they want. And if you disagree with them you're automatically 'racist'.
Have you heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?
"Hit piece" is in and of itself a framing that clearly has a bias toward one side. Was the reporting from multiple outlets on Theranos a series of hit pieces? They were all negative, but that doesn't mean they were wrong.

Coinbase has preemptively presented their side of the story in an effort to make us all say "oh, yeah, that's the hit piece we were warned about," but we haven't actually seen the other side of the story yet.
I suspect part of the motivation is to scoop the reporter's own story as a passive aggressive reprisal. It also serves to reduce the chance of future reporters on negative topics to talk directly to Coinbase since they've already showed they're willing to break stories before they publish.
> society is systematically racist, and as a white person you benefit from this. So all whites are profiting from racism already

American society, certainly. Some white Europeans are a bit miffed at being lumped in with America’s problems. Europe has race/diversity problems of its own, but not on the same scale as the US’s.
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“Some of the tests found bugs - they were meant to - and we fixed them. There remain some differences of opinion with Jepsen about MongoDB's defaults, but..”

It’s just a difference of like, opinions, man. Oh and in 6 months they can claim “that version of MongoDb was version 4.2.6, we’re on version 6.11.42, that’s an oooold version they did that report on”. It’s the always the same tactics.
Yes, after employees walked out.
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Ah, good to know context, thanks!
> Eventual consistency is a consistency model used in distributed computing to achieve high availability that informally guarantees that, if no new updates are made to a given data item, eventually all accesses to that item will return the last updated value. [1]

That is literally the definition of eventual consistency. How you achieve it doesn't matter to being eventually consistent, just that it is.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
I've worked with some Lambda grads who I considered worthwhile hires. They had previous degrees that had prepared them for the type of critical reasoning that makes a good programmer.
Announcing a policy where you’re saying “we’re above politics and we’ll pay you to leave if you’re not” is quite definitely not an example of “trying to not get involved”
Well now I'm definitely not going to miss this story.
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Its non-sense to ask someone to say the lives of any race "matter". It might be a great catch phrase for a movement but what an absolutely stupid thing to demand a person state. Unless a person is actively KILLING people based on their race, to ask them to state that their lives matter is, again, just stupid.

I want you to say the lives of Japanese people matter. Say it, why won't you say it? You must hate Japanese people apparently...
There are plenty of ways a work culture can make you utterly miserable yet you can't do anything about it. Perhaps you aren't confident enough, or things haven't yet reached the 'tipping point', or other options just aren't available to you for political reasons, lack of openings on other teams, lack of skills...

I think it's bigger than just "it's your problem, you own it". There are factors beyond your control.
The thing about speaking truth to power is that there are two components to the statement. It isn't met only by attacking a group perceived to be affiliated with "power"-- it also has to involve the truth.
Is this any different from the comment style:

a = 1 # set variable a to 1
a += 1 # add 1 to a

?

Comments should explain the why, not the what. `\d # digit` yes that is what it says, but why a digit? What is your ^, what is (?:) what is $, why is (?:[^\ ]) "rest of URL" [I know the answers to these, the person the comments are intending to help probably doesn't]. Where's the explanation of what it's supposed to be doing with a limited subset of URLs?

# match basic URLs such as:
# http://example.org
# https://www.example.org
# Must have no surrounding spaces, no spaces in the text.

^(?:http)(?:s)?(?:\:\/\/)(?:www\.)?(?:[^\ ]*)$

It's much clearer to me from the one-line regex that it matches "http://////////" and that's probably an error. I don't know why it's clearer, maybe because I'm used to looking at

https://www.example.org/path/

instead of

https
://
www.
example.org/path/
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Install privacy pass on their computers. It won't eliminate the captchas completely but will decrease the number of times they'll see them. I believe cloudflair gives you 30 passes for each captcha solved.
Another data point. I always get Zomato or snapchat ad on youtube, even if I haven't searched anything remotely related. Many friends of mine also confirm the same.
We didn't accuse anyone of being racist. Just sharing our disappointment. When that disappointment is so widespread that the NYT is writing an article on your company, it's more than a coincidence, no?
Google definitely sucks now. Seeing as how worse results = more page clicks to find the content you want = more ads served there isn't much incentive to fix it.

Here was some good discussion on a similar topic:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25051710
If you want to tell your boss you're storing the data, but plan to quit before anyone tries to actually use said data before seed funding runs out, mongodb is the perfect choice.

The nice thing is, there is an API compatible version of mongodb distributed with most Unix systems, installed by default in /dev/null. I applaud the authors of mongodb for achieving this level of market penetration in such a short time, defying years of experience from the real world.
> I'm skeptical a laser can defend against supersonic antiship missiles and ICBMs.

I don't think lasers are meant to counter high-end threats like hypersonic missiles or MRBM/ICBM reentry vehicles. Not yet, at least. That can be done with SAMs - trading a $Xmm missile for a $Ymm missile is acceptable. (Trading that missile for a $Zk drone is not)

> these lasers probably can't fire frequently enough to defend against those.

This comes down to "dwell time to kill" and "duty cycle". Assuming 1s and 10%, you've got 6 kills/minute steady state. (Or 9 kills against a swarm incoming at 200kph with an engagement range of 5km) If the laser could do 50% for 2 minutes before taking 10 to cool down, though, it could handle 45 in that same scenario. And considering that commercial fiber lasers have duty cycles in the 50+% range sustained, I don't think this is unreasonable.
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> underscore the fundamental truths of whatever the NYT

I wouldn't ever use the words truth and NYT - especially when it comes to cultural topics. And also geopolitical topics. Or anything of national significance. Or war. You get the idea.

> Otherwise... why bother dignifying it with such a response?

Why is the NYT writing a hit piece on coinbase? For what reason and what ends? When it comes to propaganda, it always helps to get out in front of the "story". I'm guessing that's what coinbase is doing.

I have my own ideas, like everyone else. It's highly likely that both the NYTimes and coinbase are lying or exaggerating or twisting the truth. Certainly neither side is offering any "fundamental truth".
Their PR agency is asleep at the wheel; there's no way this doesn't amplify the story
As a complete non-physicist (whatever that means), I feel uncomfortable about this quote in general (or the thinking related to it) for some reason:

"Instead of studying a natural phenomenon, and subsequently discovering a law of nature, one could first design a new law and then reverse engineer a system that actually displays the phenomena described by the law."

I throw that in the bucket of virtual particles, massless things, string theory and all that other untestable mess (which again, I admit to knowing little about)

But it all looks so...backwards
I get it. If you don't want your company to be involved in political issues whats the problem? (Other than the NYT coming after you apparently).
To be fair, The Times is notorious for crafty implication. For the casual reader, these implications can ring far louder than the actual facts, without the piece being false, per se.
Everyone who has read this and then reads the NYT story will do the latter with the former in mind. As much as possible, they're anticipating what the story will reveal and getting their objections on the record so that a reader can't help but view the story's assertions in light of the responses they've already read.

Moreover, getting in front of this means adopting a stance of openness and transparency that, in itself, seems quite laudible. As a PR strategy, this is good work, especially for a company that's already raised its profile on these topics earlier in the year.

Whether it's cynical PR strategy or sincere crisis management is left for the reader to decide.
> If you have been accused of racism that's because somebody has an example of you being racist

> any other person in the news accused of racism

You’re kind of proving the point by claiming it’s always so clear cut.