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> In reality, the number of levels of indirection between you or me as ordinary people who vote in elections and Ursula von der Leyen as the most powerful person in the EU government removes any meaningful requirement for her to either achieve a popular mandate before taking office or accept any meaningful personal accountability for her performance while in office.

In my country (France) there is exactly one level of indirection between me and Ursula von der Leyen: the President (currently Emmanuel Macron). Of course my voice is only one among 60 million French citizens, and 450 million EU citizens. And yet since I personally voted for Macron and IIRC Macron is the one who proposed Ursula von der Leyen, the line is pretty straight... In the UK there would be two levels: you elect your MPs, that then chose the Prime Minister, that then chose the European Commission President and Commissioners.

But I understand what you say. I had heard about Ursula von der Leyen as Germany defense minister before she became President of the European Commission (but that's only because I pay some attention to European defense affairs), yet when I cast my vote for Macron, I wasn't quite expecting to be voting for her.

I would prefer for the head of the European Commission to be elected by European MPs, but that would give too much power to the EU, a big no no for many EU members (including UK, at least while it was part of the EU). Notice the irony in that it's usually the political parties that criticize the EU the most for being undemocratic, that are the ones that oppose it becoming more democratic the most. It's disingenuous, yet logical, because a more democratic EU would have more power, so if you are anti-EU you don't want that.

As things stand the European Commission is only doing what the European Council is asking them to do. Which is somewhat ok (as in democratic), but lend itself more to shenanigans between states. If the European Commission was instead bound to the European Parliament, it would care less of the member states, and more of European citizens...

> And more generally, European Commissioner is infamous for being a role you give a national politician who is still in favour with the leadership but perhaps has lost popular support. Just look at the past roles of the people who get nominated to these positions by their respective governments. There's an incredible number of ex-representatives, and often not ex- by choice but because the electorate chose not to re-elect them.

In France it's usually perceived as a promotion. Our previous representative (Pierre Moscovici) was rather popular, and the current one (Thierry Breton) isn't even a politician: he was the CEO of Atos (a competitor of IBM I would say). Although he was minister once, from 2005 until 2007, so he is not a complete newbie in politics. Isn't it somewhat ironic that left-leaning France is sending a successful CEO to the European Commission, while UK is (was) recycling failing politicians?
E.g., running a small e-mail service was a popular side business that provided a predictable amount of extra for many developers around the globe. And customers were generally fine with a small charge per month – that is, until GMail effectively put an end to this.
How did you get your first 100 customers ?
Which was fine, because SolarWind told it's customers to ignore and whitelist all Antivirus warnings on their compromised downloads. It's always someone else's fault. Biggest blunder of the decade.
Or have time, patience, and energy to follow through on an interest.
Aka throw the RFC out of the window and implement a broken system because Google did that?
I assume you can pipe in almost and video you want (with framerate, resolution, and color constraints) through whatever interface the Super FX uses?
Great to hear your success. I've been in a similar price range and recently updated my pricing from $10.99 to $23.99 a month.

While MRR has jumped, be careful with churn, trial conversion rate, and even chargebacks.

Where people love the service and see the value, moving up market means new issues. Also LTV is better but not dramatically as people may let the lower cost subscription ride longer out of laziness or whatever.

I like your idea, and could use it. I could see highlighting use cases and making tiers for those. "Personal", "Marketer", and "Developer" come to mind.

I say dev as I can't test my onboarding easily as Stripe doesn't honor gmail's + extension and testing is a pain without new email accounts.

Hope that is useful.

GL
In most of these large charity set ups, the bulk of the money is spent on management expenses.

It's the unwritten rule of all large organizations.
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The OP literally chose to make it a contest, complaining MacKenzie wasn’t doing as much as him percentage wise.
On the plus side: 75 years without a world war, so that's nice.
I remember working at a place that had sun-diffusing window shades with a grid of small holes in them.

Walking from the elevators to my cubicle (I was only a summer intern, and hence had a cube, not an office) in the morning, I was greeted by an interesting interference pattern: there would be a counter grid of "dark spots", which unlike physical spots appeared large when one was far and got smaller as one approached...
Additionally, they could take advantage of email signature - the hotmail growth hack method.
Oh! I didn't know that. In that case, sorry for mischaracterization.
> If you ignore the ridiculous amount of bugs

It has some open world jank, which is inconvenient but pretty much part of the genre even for experienced behemoths like Rockstar, but so far I haven't seen any wide-spread reports of actually game-breaking stuff.

When talking about "ridiculous amounts of bugs", in an open-world game, much worse offenders come to mind that have been doing so for literally decades and are somehow still held in somewhat high regard regardless of that, like a Bethesda.
I’m 100% with you. We’ve implemented a GraphQL gateway to our REST APIs at my company, and IMO it’s been a tremendous waste of time. Tonnes of complexity, performance issues, time writing the server, monitoring problems when calls are no longer to simple endpoints, etc., for almost no tangible gain.

Also, a much more minor issue, but when everything is a POST to a single endpoint, debugging network calls in Chrome/whatever dev tools is more of a pain in the ass. It’s a lot easy browsing through GET /users/124, DELETE /messages/456, etc., and instantly see what’s happening, than having every call be POST /graphql, and have to read through all the giant post bodies to figure out what’s going on.

IMO GraphQL is no better than all the other multitude of RPC frameworks that everyone eventually realizes are a snake pits of unnecessary complexity when compared to REST. It’s just newer, so people don’t hate it as much YET.
"Similarly I believe giving money to random people is primarily making you yourself feel good" -> I don't think this is true.

Parting ways with my money was an incredibly painful experience internally. It went against every value I grew up with.

I'm also scared to get to close with the people I give money to. I'm too afraid to become too emotionally involved in their problems to be able to reap any rewards of feeling good.

I haven't "bragged" about it to anyone either, the only people that knows are are the recipients, readers here, and my wife.

I do what I do because I think life is unfair and I don't feel I deserve the money I have.

>> I prefer to give to organizations that are focused and organized

I have a hard time donating to an organization when I personally know someone who could use a bit of extra money. Hard to look at them in the eye kinda thing.
I don’t disagree: I tend to find REST + openapi codegen a more compelling developer experience then yet another query DSL.
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> 5 years after acquisition

Similar timeline with the Vine acquisition and subsequent dismemberment, except Twitter announced Vine's discontinuation after 4 years rather than 5.

> and NOT retire the technical debt?

I would be surprised if this were the honest reason, at least more surprised than I'd be were it any other web giant, mostly because Twitter seems to have a mature grasp on why an average tenure of 2 years is insane for an engineering job and attempts to avoid the problems you mentioned. I reckon Twitter had motivations that simply don't scan well with people who enjoy using a product of yours and don't want to see it quashed.
Ditto! I can also listen to a podcast or have a video playing in the background and still write code. Definitely can’t do that when trying to write English.
We got free Poken at a conference. I was a bit of a snob for a day or so, & didn't really know or trust the controlling entity, but I decided to try it. It was really fun! Easy to use.

I think Bump happened a year or two latter, which was also fun. But it felt far more intermediated, like it was pulling down much more data. Looking at who in the area also bumped at just that instant to triangulate who to put in contact with each other.

I remember back in the 90's wear(able)-comp(uting) world, PANs were going to be a thing. Personal Area Networks. Your skin itself would be a low-baud rate modem, so you could shake hands & transmit your contact information. Definitely pre-covid. ;)

I really think Project Eddystone has many of the answers for how we ought to make ourselves visible to the world. It was mainly focused on commercialized entities, and people are scared of the internet, but I think there's still great potential. Alternatively, it seems weird that NFC, which is much more tightly coupled, 1:1, "safe", is so under-utilized. I'm not sure if there are good open standards for data-exchange over it. Meanwhile proprietary AirDrop and FastShare/Nearby Sharing are some of the few, tightly controlled offerings for offering files. All these manners of tech needs some champions to drive good protocols, enable more interesting futures. Sorry, I think I'm repeating myself again. Thanks for the fun comments dcsan.
There were a few system breaking bugs in Big Sur beta and also a security breaking one that circumvent the firewall/sandbox for apps.

It looks like 11.1 that's in RC now, address the known bugs, I'm actually impressed at how fast they fix the bugs.

If Apple now focus on stability, like Microsoft is doing with Windows 10, I think MacOS can grow significantly, especially together with their new custom silicon.
It is astonishing that you have to state this manifestly evident fact.
The problem is the future. Automation is undoubtedly going to be the key technology in the future. You want to have as healthy of a tech industry as possible to not miss the point when the balance starts shifting heavily towards automation. You can't expect to always be able to buy from China/the US.
Pretty plausible. It would be hard to put off that cash infusion.
I had an idea in a similar vein after reading the article and I would be interested in getting your thoughts.

As I see it, the problem statement is as follows:

1) individuals are subjected to vast amounts of political persuasion in their daily lives. This persuasion can be purchased by the highest bidder to subtly influence public opinion in a way that is counter to it's own interest. Ultimately, this can weaken the marketplace of ideas, rational discourse, and consensus.

My idea is an app, forum, or social group which pairs individuals to discuss issues in a manner that builds consensus.
Users would identify their position on issues as well as how strongly they hold that position. They would then be offered the opportunity to discuss and issue which they care deeply about with someone who is indifferent.

This could yield a high persuasion return for time invested, and help build consensus. This could have an effect similar to door to door campaigning, but with the ability to target politically active individuals who a with high impact topics. One thing that I find particularly attractive, is that it would focus the discussion on individual issues, opposed to platforms or parties.

What do you think?
what do you mean

you watch the video and then you do your homework

you just learned math via youtube video (and your homework)
I wonder what they will do? Threaten to move their headquarters to the Bahamas or some other shell state?
In the US hate speech is protected as free speech, but you can’t swear on air...

Also, protection of hate speech was the reason that enabled a substantial chunk of trump voters, so i wouldn’t be that quick to point a dystopian finger at the EU
I admit I'm one of those PC players, but out of curiosity I looked at reviews of PS4 and (ignoring the purposefully over-exaggerated pictures/videos) frankly it doesn't seem as bad either. Well, the crashes are bad, but they surely will fix it. I don't know what these people expected on 7 year old consoles. My previous PC is exactly 7 year old (it was beefy back in 2013) but I wasn't even thinking to play the game on it. It is just barely meeting the minimum requirements.
Cloudformation is the best tool for aws infra-as-a-code. Nothing is even close to it. It rolls back, no leftovers on delete, fast parallel ops, full control of resource properties. Yes, some things can be better, but above is priceless. 10yrs experience here.
very interesting stuff, thanks for sharing
And also a strong proponent of effective giving. The charities he gives to (generally malaria-focused ones) can save a healthy human life for less than $5,000 on average. https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
very cool stuff, thanks for sharing
I remember in 2015 when Meerkat launched. I liked it and everybody thought it would be the next big thing. People were starting to do very creative things with it.

But Meerkat was not to be. You see Twitter had bought a competitor for $86 million that had yet to launch called Periscope.

Meerkat spread quickly through the use of Twitter. But when Twitter launched Periscope (which I always thought was the inferior product) and cut off Meerkat's Twitter access in effect torpedoing it. Twitter bought a previous short video startup previously (can't remember the name) only to kill it too.

I would have liked to see what Meerkat might have been.
This outage seems to have lasted for about 2.5 hours. Probably this was fixed by rolling back whatever caused it. (I don't think the rollout was finished before they resolved it; my mail server sends a lot of emails to Gmail addresses, and even at peak I was only seeing maybe about 1/3 mails be rejected.)

There is no way that putting in a hardcored hack like that would have been faster. Making the change is, of course, fast.

But then you need to review it (and this is a super risky change, so the review can't be rubber stamped). Build a production build and run all your qualification tests. (Hope you found all the tests that depend on permanent errors being signalled properly). And then roll it out globally, which again is a risky operation, but with the additional problem that rolling restarts simply can't be done faster than a certain speed since you can only restart so many processes at once while still continuing to serve traffic.

The kind of thing you describe simply can't be done by changing the SMTP server, in 2.5 hours. The best you could get is if there was some kind of abuse or security related articulation point in the system, with fast pushes as required by the problem domain but still with the sufficient power to either prevent the requests from reaching the SMTP server at all, or intercept and change the response.

As a trivial example, something like blocking the SMTP port with a firewall rule could have been viable. Though it has the cost of degrading performance for everyone rather than just the affected requests.
You got one answer, but I'd also suggest that someone might play a game out of spite. They might play it to check their experience ("maybe I was in a bad mood the first time"). Maybe all the coverage in the media made them feel like they needed to give the game a second chance. Maybe they wanted to see if the path or play style they chose was just a bad fit. Maybe they wanted to ensure they had enough data to back up their critique.

As someone who has spent years in the games industry, I strongly encourage you to take your players seriously and don't just assume you know better.
yes, because a face shield exists to protect eyes from spray, rather than inhaling passive particles/saliva droplets.

A face shield without a mask is worse than just a mask.
>They also knew about how bad the game runs on PS4

If by "they" you mean investors, I'm not sure if that's correct.

>CD Projekt joint-CEO Adam Kaciński has praised Cyberpunk 2077's performance on PS4 and Xbox One in an investor call.

>Speaking earlier this week on Wednesday (and transcribed by Seeking Alpha), Kaciński said that Cyberpunk 2077's performance on the base PS4 and Xbox One consoles is "surprisingly good, I would say, for such a huge world." The CEO went on to say that although the performance on these base consoles is lower than their "pro" counterparts (the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X), it's still surprisingly good.

https://www.gamesradar.com/cyberpunk-2077-runs-surprisingly-...
Listening to music with lyrics is already hard for me when I'm writing code, but listening to a podcast is unthinkable--what kind of podcast? Don't you get distracted by the people talking?
> she's helping more people than you are

While sacrificing absolutely nothing. She could give so much more and still sacrifice nothing.
Makes total sense. If your grammar is wrong, the compiler will catch you.

If your English grammar is wrong, I will catch you.

Make progress.
SLA of less than 99,5%... Or if there is multiple issues even sub 99%... That really is a joke...
The guy was genuinely curious and you go ahead and respond like this. Step back for a bit. What did your comment actually accomplish?
Let me rephrase. Someone advertises to you because they expect something in return. Coca-Cola advertises to you because they expect you to buy coke. If you're too poor to buy coke, you're not useful to them.

Joe's political campaign advertises to you because they want you to hate Bob, or be scared of those other guys, or whatever. This will help put Joe in charge, which is good for Joe and potentially bad for you, but it doesn't necessarily come out of your pocket. It comes out of the pockets of Joe and his friends. That might be taxpayer money, but you might not be the taxpayer paying for it. It might be private money from religious people who want gay marriage to be illegal. You pay for it with freedom, but not with money.

My point wasn't that there's a free lunch here. My point was that there are other mechanisms at play, costs of advertising that don't translate directly into cost of goods and services you buy.
The fire in Far Cry 2 is easily some of the most immersive and fun in any game even to date. It was a shame they toned down the systemic nature of the games after Far Cry 2. They are still very fun and exciting games, just fewer auxiliary systems to play with like this.

Star Citizen are doing some cool things with fire propagation too, with precomputed windflow variables to make the simulations consistent but still systemic and dynamic in a multiplayer environment.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/17...
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"I'm not."
My hope is that major cloud providers standardize the price around these collaborations with open source. If Azure and GCP did the same thing, why pay them differently?
That was definitely a scripted sound cue, a pretty fun moment for sure!
Being an RPG doesn't nullify this criticism if combat is a primary game mechanic. Deus Ex is an action RPG, and they did combat (both stealth and gunplay) much better than Cyberpunk.
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Got a bachelor in Nanotechnology and a master in high frequency electronics, when it was time to hit the job market I realized there was none for someone like me.

Started to teach myself programming, started with CS50, got a job. More as an engineer then sw-developer, taught myself python and machine learning in my free time. Transitioned to lead a project with big AI focus also was the lead dev. Switched companies a couple of times since then but still today I try to do a online course or to read a book, article etc.

I guess I will always feel like I need to fill the academic gap of not studying CS in university.

Also a course I think is amazing that will give you good knowledge of one of the most popular frontend frameworks and some background knowledge in databases and backend.

https://fullstackopen.com/en/
Not much point in lionizing VC culture if y'all keep workin there
How do you downvote comments? Sweeping statements like this are political in nature and should be banned.
What seems to be lacking in many articles of this type is a detailed explanation of the exact paths plastic takes to get into the ocean.

Some paths I've heard of include: ships dumping waste directly into the ocean; landfills that are improperly sealed; waste blown and/or spilled out of out of open containers, trucks, and barges; waste blown or washed (from where?) into storm drains and rivers; etc.. Moreover, most of the great pacific garbage patch apparently consists of fishing nets.

It seems like tracking the waste flow and disrupting some of those paths might be a good idea.
> This idea that only the courts should limit or punish crimes pops up here once in a while and I've always found it bizarre.

Isn't that the entire point of a court? to have a monopoly on punishing crimes so that people aren't unfairly punished on the basis of gossip or false allegation and so that society doesn't sink into a cycle of vengence where one group punishes the other group for their punishment, and so forth.

That said, punishing a crime is different from refusing to do business with someone because you don't like them. I think the objection is that payment processors are an oligopoly which gives them too much power to behave arbitrarily. If you live in a city and one grocery store doesn't do business with you, that's fine go somewhere else. If there is only one grocery store, then that's akin to starving someone and it should require the evidentiary standard of wrong doing a court would have.
This guy seems to like it[0]. I think having the option to get paid for ignoring ads is pretty neat, but that's just me. I still like firefox because I'm used to it and I already have a cool CSS file ([1] if you don't know).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/n7lYxXrzbjk

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
>They also concluded that console gamers should request a refund from CDPR as soon as possible.

Refunds are actually up to the seller in question. They clarified how there's no refund arrangement with CDPR and Microsoft/Sony and that all refunds are subject to normal Microsoft/Sony refund policies. Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are failing to get their games refunded.
In my experience it's a lot easier to write performant, scaleable, and secure GraphQL API's than REST API's.

Rest is a constant struggle between complexity, functionality and authorisation.

The more flexible a REST API becomes, the more it becomes like GraphQL minus the standardisation.

I wrote a blog [1] on writing GraphQL API's in TypeScript. It focuses particularly on authorisation and relations.

[1] https://dev.to/nickkelly314/writing-a-graphql-typescript-ser...
Good catch, the root of the word Underestimate is estimation and it shall not be confused with Underrate.