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> Is that impersonal? Is it wrong in some way? It's my own very, very private way of keeping people in my life. I don't see it as not genuine or fake.

I agree with you, I do something like this on a much smaller scale to try and keep up with who I have and haven't spoken to recently. I have a lot going on and time seems to slip past me, I can easily go weeks without talking to people and it feel like no time at all. Making a deliberate effort to maintain those relationships doesn't seem like its fake to me.
Just out of curiosity, are there any Java web frameworks with reasonable stack depths? After working on .NET Core codebases for several years (which rarely have more than 4-5 calls within the framework itself) I was shocked to see stack dumps from a Spring application I've been working on. Three to four nested exceptions, with up to 100 nested calls (and sometimes more) within each one. If you don't have a smart IDE folding the less interesting parts (and copious amounts of amphetamine), it's simply unreadable.
Oh really? What gigantic global war was Russia fighting in 1932?
> Developed country with great logistics.

Please don't under-estimate our ability to fuck this up, probably by giving the distribution contracts to a crony.
The biggest and most common "loophole" being "we don't need all the physical infrastructure"

Amazon: we don't need to own retail stores or inventory

Airbnb: we don't need to own hotel properties and employ managers and housekeepers

Uber: we don't need to own cars and employ drivers

Are there any examples of tech disruptors that are really displacing classic competitors only on the basis of tax loopholes?
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So, have you stopped beating your wife?

See, I "just asked a question".
What? The bug was fixed months ago, and iPhone didn't need to do anything to be hacked.
“After a successful write of a new object or an overwrite of an existing object, any subsequent read request immediately receives the latest version of the object.” - being able to issue a read after a write has been the case in any system ever.

AWS solving a fabricated issue, and the crowd cheering it as progress. Have to love herd mentality.
It's a pretty crazy thing. An interesting question for libertarians is where did private property originate? Like, taking libertarian assumptions, once you own it, hypothetically you can expand your property profitably. But how did the first resources and land, which before private property were all used more or less collectively, become privately owned?
Not typical computer science courses, but the following video series really improved my understanding of how computers work.

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- CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter source code - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV58Zm8FuBL6OAv1Yu6A...
I think we can just generalize this advice in the following form and apply it to all countries:

Cut 1/3 of your economic activity.

Pretty sure if the whole globe did that we'd be ok.
Hospital workers are likely to be first. https://twitter.com/HSJEditor/status/1334042232182235139?s=2...
Is legal in Canada. I'm honestly surprised it wasn't applied here, because it's clear that tax should have been paid by analogy, even absent a direct law.
What would’ve been the right trade here. I believe if you’d purchased Slack a few days ago on the original announcement of interest, and then sold them after this announcement, but before there’s time for antitrust to take a look at this, you’d have paid massive taxes on short term gains.
How did the program try to get students to interact with each other and with faculty?
Partitioning.
on the related note, are you guys hiring analysts or traders? Shoot me an email if yes
Seems like the mRNA technique is pretty new and simply hasn't been used for anything else before.

The approval processes are still the same, just without the years-long idle cycles that usually slow things down. The end result will be good as any other vaccine you might get.
I hope you don't take this as too pedantic as we all make spelling errors, but you consistently wrote "then" instead of "than".
> It was talked about all over the place.

Really? Where can we read about it?

> E.g. see https://youtu.be/EczW2IWdnOM from June around the one hour mark.

What are you referring to, where exactly in there? I poked "around the one hour mark" and didn't stumble across it, but am not gonna watch the whole thing. It's over an hour of somebody talking at a camera.

Does an offhand comment buried in the middle of a 90-minute youtube ramble really strike you as appropriate notification of such an important requirement? Especially when this requirement doesn't appear anyplace where it can be read?
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I'm sure the UK is in the top twenty countries in the world for logistics infrastructure. It's easy to read news stories about your country messing things up, and quietly not read foreign-language media about poorer countries messing things up a lot more by comparison, and get a biased perspective.
> Wait... This doesn't scare anybody?

Not really. mRNA starts to degrade within minutes of injection, and lasts maybe at most a few days in your body. It cant turn back into DNA, so once its gone, it can no longer have any effect on you.

> Why has this not been approved before?

Its a relatively new technology that took a lot of work and money to make a stable, effective vaccine with. Its also relatively expensive to manufacture.

> Would an mRNA vaccine be approved under less pressing circumstances...?

Yes, though these almost certainly were approved faster than other vaccines would be because of the pressing nature of things.
Didn't Amazon also avoid collecting sales tax in the US until recently? I think they didn't have to collect sales tax on any cross-state transactions (tax is owed at the point of delivery). Whereas brick and mortar stores almost never make transactions with their customers across state borders.

According to Wikipedia [0] they only had to collect sales tax in all states since 2017 after some "Amazon laws" were introduced? That sounds later than I expected.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax
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Humans not having property seems to be the premise on which this whole society is built. Why else wod people work at eg Walmart? Because they really like greeting people and stacking shelves?
I figured out how to deal with cognitive dissonance people are feeling about this years ago.

I would rather make a calendar invite / use <insert your fav software> and remember to call <valued loved one or friend> and feel bad about having to do that...

Then forget to call and feel worse about forgetting.
Anti-money laundering regulations are a good thing to me. I want this, even though it means I had to get a passport made for my 4-year old son so that the bank could see he actually existed and his account total of $50 was not being used by some ukrainian oligarch.

I also think it's ok to put in some speed bumps and force a tiny bit of due diligence before allowing people to gamble away their savings. I'm assuming there is a different risk profile to trading Kazakstani stocks as compared to German stocks, and I think people should be made aware of what they are getting into.
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> Heck, converting from a "bare metal" install to a hypervisor is a matter of checking a box & rebooting.

Can't the same be said with Linux too? Major distros has Linux with KVM kernel module built-in. I never had to do anything rocket science to run KVM, for example.
> I just don't think an opinion poll on a tech board is going to yield an accurate prediction of what to expect.

I'm pretty sure they were hoping to be answered by someone heavily schooled in mRNA vaccines and/or a practitioner involved in the trials for this particular vaccine. On this particular "tech board", there's a reasonable chance of getting a response from those kinds of experts.
The only potential long-term risk I wonder about is antibody dependent enhancement [1] for future variants of the virus. But, that has nothing to do with whether the vaccine uses mRNA or an attenuated virus. Those involved in making a vaccine are very much aware of this issue and design vaccines to avoid it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...
Long functions usually do several different things. If you split them into functions by the function (ha), and name those functions accordingly, you will have short and readable functions.
My point was to be a counterpoint to what you were saying, which is why I focused on the reasons why being a stickler for legacy browser support isn't a great policy either.

To me, it's meaningless to say something like "X is important." Important to whom, for what end, relative to what? Nothing is important in a vacuum, when there's limited resources you're always choosing between several "important" things.

Supporting old browsers is a tradeoff, not just for saving developer time, but also for the user. For instance, do you care about internationalization? A lot of browser internationalization APIs don't work or exist in old browsers. Sure, you can make them work by bloating the payload that you send to a user on an antiquated browser. So what's more important to your users - accessibility for an old browser, or accessibility for a spotty internet connection, or accessibility to people who speak different languages?

My point about web apps is that it's often impractical to support extremely old browsers because they often lack the APIs, the users, nor the OEM support that make web apps worthwhile.
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>Wait... This doesn't scare anybody?

Not particularly, the UK has just concluded their approval of this vaccine and the EU and US are also reviewing it, so if there is something wrong they will most likely find it. There are enough different vaccines in development that there isn't much incentive to ignore faults if they show up.

>Why has this not been approved before?

I think it is new technology, which arrival has been accelerated by the enormous investments in vaccine technology over the past year.

>Would an mRNA vaccine be approved under less pressing circumstances...?

Can't really comment on this because I don't know much about it, but I would guess that they would have never reached the approval state without the pandemic and the huge need for parallel development of vaccines. I think that at all times there are a bunch of technological developments that are on the cusp of being ready for broad adoption that are just waiting for some boost in funding that propels them to maturity. Progress happens very quick when the whole world has a need for the development of something.
> once its gone, it can no longer have any effect on you.

If this is true, then how does it provide protection against COVID19 for more than a few days?
Can't think of any, but it's still fair to say that tax loopholes (and lack of other regulations that the established competitors are subject to, e.g. Taxi licenses) provide an additional advantage...
If they are interested in cooking you can buy them a top pepper mill from Kickstarter. Maybe for the next Christmas though.

Its from the things that would be great to have but i cannot justify the cost.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mannkitchen/mannkitchen...
There is a first time for everything. mRNA is a developing technology, BioNTech was researching it for fighting cancer. When the Covid crisis struck, a lot of companies were focusing their efforts on a vaccine. In contrast to what many claim, vaccines are not making companies rich, so research in this field is rather slow. The pressing circumstances, as you phrased it, caused several companies in applying mRNA technology for the SARS-Cov-2 vaccination. Otherwise they might not have pushed in that direction quickly.
The requirements for approval are the same ones as for any other vaccine, they have to run through the same procedures and tests.
Tedious?

Naked short selling is fraud.
I will message them in their preferred communication platform. Which in my country is usually Whatsapp or perhaps Facebook.
True, there may be a serious tendency of overweighing small probabilities and underweighing large ones in play here.
Living next to an Airbnb sucks. In certain cases, our laws put the good of the community ahead of an individual's potential profits.
Previously, update-then-read was not guaranteed to be consistent. Now it is consistent.
You must pay taxes in USD. BTC and USD are really not comparable.
I recently developed my own app to solve the same problem, I call the Personal CRM a “PRM” (link here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prim-relationship-manager/id14...)

The privacy comments elsewhere in the thread resonated with me, but I think self hosting is too large a barrier for most users.

I decided to build Prim by leveraging iCloud’s local/cloud CoreData storage. This approach ensures I never have access to user’s data - it stays completely within the Apple ecosystem.

I have also taken a mobile-first approach, I think that focus reduced some of the installation and maintenance barriers for users. With the iOS app there’s no deployment or setup cost for users. Personal interactions (chat) and data (contacts, calendars) are already managed through our phones, so the iOS app also seems to be a natural fit for other reasons.

I hope to see more products/projects where the users data, monetization, and developer incentives align. It’s great to see an open source PRM project that matches those incentives.
Neat. A nice option would be to have presets for oblique projections for the 3D representations, making them axis-aligned for horizontal figures.
How do people here feel about these changes?

I've the initial impression that this will be a good step for reducing the drift of user content into other websites and spaces where messages or user data may end up outside of the context for which it was generated.
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What a ridiculous statement. Do you think the entire spectrum of all questions possible to ask are equal in value?
This may be the first vaccine but as I understood it mRNA based therapies have been in use for over a decade, according to this:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/12/01/...

I guess something's gotta be first and in the absence of any prevailing pandemic there's not as much incentive to develop vaccines as opposed to say cancer treatments.
Carmack is talking about removing the function call altogether in the code. It has nothing to do with the inline keyword.
I'm just asking, if there is the freedom of association.. why isn't there a freedom of dissociation ? Why force together people that would prefer to be separate ? Isn't this a violation of individual liberty ? (serious question)
> I just don't think an opinion poll on a tech board is going to yield an accurate prediction of what to expect.

Part of your answer, which I'm paraphrasing to "I don't know, talk to the experts", is already a good answer. But I was hoping that there was an expert lurking around that might be able to explain the risks or link to some evidence.
The way to go, IMO, is having Android emulation on your device for backwards compatibility.

SailfishOS has this, and doesn't do tracking.

PureOS and Purism One implement some FOSS techniques and rebrand them. I believe Nextcloud does this as well. Not sure why projects don't clearly mention what they're based upon, especially when its a lot like original.
In most of the big airbnb markets, it is assessed via Property Taxes.

City taxes may make up a portion, but if you break down where the money goes, it usually is schools, and emergency responders, not per se utilities, easements or roads.
No, we didn't try retrying (well actually if the job failed because of a 404 it would retry the whole job based on exponential backoff). When we encountered the error we simply added the delay as it was an easy config change to our SQS queues and doesn't meaningfully affect our use case.
The mRNA itself isn't doing the protection - it's training your immune system to do that for you (in a safe way).
The audacity of asking for a bailout while planning the IPO.
What are they claiming is motivating this change?
I think it’s more complicated than that. While it does lead to higher rents, it also leads to more visitors and tourists who spend more at local establishments. Those places hire local people.

So there is an argument to be made that it helps with jobs, higher pay, and retail establishments in the area as well.
After going with Android Wear and seeing how they made everything worse with WearOS, I switched to a Garmin Fenix 2 years ago.

It's the best thing if you're sporting an Android phone. 3rd party apps are mostly weather apps and apps mimicking features of more expensive Garmin watches to be used on cheaper models. And don't expect apps to talk to the apps on your phone - you mostly have to enter all details into the Garmin apps again (using the Connect software on your phone).

However, I recently switched to an iPhone and bought an Apple Watch and it's so much better if you are more into smart watches instead of a fitness tracker with smart features. Yes, the battery has to be recharged as often as I do. And yes, it's a touchscreen that's utterly useless in a downpour or when swimming. But apart from that, and I don't say this easily, I get more from the Apple Watch than from my Garmin then-top-of-the-line model.
As far as I know, if you run for more than a few seconds Lambda’s cost will _really_ not worth it. One should prefer ECS or Batch.
But crypto proponents describe use cases, not inner workings. Use cases for telecom were obvious much earlier that the internet itself, thousands of years of lost messages and messengers.
Lets hope it's not not like our pandemic preparedness, that was highly regarded and turned out to be rotten.
I remember everyone in the West saying: "vaccine can't be rushed like that!".
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But do you feel comfortable listening to Britney Spears and Katy Perry in public?
I thought we had worked out in 2010-2012 that the CAP theorem, consistency, availability and partition tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem#History) made this impossible?

Where is the mistake.
Many thanks for that. Very thought provoking.

> through expansion "horseback formal methods"

I haven’t heard this terminology before. Any references you can recommend to learn more?
So just like Hangouts supports video? :-)
> As part of our efforts to comply with new privacy rules in Europe
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I’m confused. This is available already for more than a year (maybe 2).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...
Warnings against using unofficial installers
The RNA is only a recipe for how to string amino acids together, they already float around in the cell (they are small, simple molecules, like bricks for a house to confusingly change the metaphor). Only a piece of DNA is copied at a time into RNA, like you would load only one program into memory and not the entire harddrive. The mechanism for where to start and stop is farily simple in simpler organisms - you look for a start and termination sequence ("codon") (like ASCII control characters). In more complex organisms like multicellulars, this is more complicated.
There are also other types of RNA that do other things.
Scotland seems to be using the Army to help plan the logistics side of things - don't know if this applies to the rest of the UK (I hope it does!):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-in-scotland-a...
I just gave an example, I didn't mean to say it was the exclusive source of info. Every discussion I've seen of what the layout would actually be was always "roughly 10mm^2, pending finalization of the harness". Also, it was talked about many times on the slack. Look, I have no dog in this fight. All I meant to say was that this was not some sudden last minute change of plans. Could things have been communicated more clearly? Sure. But that's par for the course for an alpha program like this.
11 nines of reliability. I don't know anything else promising that (unclear if they actually reach it)
Was it after Slack started using Chime as the backend for their calls implementation?
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/slack-expands-amazon-partnersh...
Good Point. In the democracy too some chosen leader is making decision for others, the change in the startrek world would be the individual has an option to not follow the leader, simply because it would be possible.
This documentation talks about it in brief: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/whitepapers/life-of-re.... You can read the spanner paper for more detail: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

The simple answer is that there are round trips required between datacenters when you have a quorum that spans data centers. Additionally, one replica of a split is the leader, and the leader holds write locks. So already you have to talk to the leader replica, even if it's out of the DC you're in. Getting the write lock overlaps with the transaction commit though. So for your example if we say the leader is in Canada and the client is in Australia, and we're doing a write to row 'Foo' without first reading (a so called blind write):

Client (Australia) -> Leader (Canada): Take a write write lock on 'Foo' and try to commit transaction

Leader -> other replicas: Start commit, timestamp 123

Other replicas -> Leader: Ready for commit

Leader waits for majority ready for commit and for timestamp 123 to be before the current truetime interval

Leader -> Other replicas: Commit transaction, and in parallel replies to client.

Of course there are things you can do to mitigate this depending on your needs, but there's no free lunch. If you have a client in Australia and a client in Canada writing to the same data you're going to pay for round trips for transactions.
I would guess write times are slightly up to cover the cost of the new replication completion guarantees.
Commercial real estate is a giant bubble waiting to pop

Their contracts are absurd and they are not willing to negotiate. Because they own to bigger fish on the supposed idea that some big companies will pay however they're asking for it (I can't find the thread explaining this in r/nyc right now, sorry)

I believe it's the same thing with malls. Can't say I'm sorry.

Amazon got to be their size because the other retailers dismissed digital. That's why.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273925
Jumping up and down in the file while hitting f12 is not good for readability and creates a significant overhead when reading the code. C# finally introduced local functions in a recent version, which will hopefully remind other enterprise-y languages and IDEs that humans are programmed to read lines on a page in order.
The slide at 1:02:49 has "standardized harness" in bold red. It's up for a few minutes and the presenter discussed the harness and reasoning for a good minute or so.