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Back in the day I used to love Office's extensibility. With it you can add your own button that "does stuff" and it was just some VB code. Keep in mind I am a C++/Java/JS/TS dev but I loved the extensibility of tools that let you extend and customize with code. This was generally before HTML forms had the ability to copy-paste images and just be "uploaded" like you can in, say, confluence today. Before that you kinda had to publish things the hard way, safe the screen shot with a file name, add it carefully to your Post and then just keep messing with the HTML a bit.

So being an instructor of both a C++ and a Java class in the early 2000s I wanted a way to quickly publish course content for the students - complete with screenshots out of the IDE. LOTS of screenshots. So many pictures that it was eating a lot of my time to carefully save each and name the file, etc.. So what I did was build my own micro PHP CMS that supported a small REST API that lets you post the HTML and images together. I added a button to word that takes a Doc file and saves it as HTML, and then for all the related image files, it would go and automatically upload them to my custom CMS. So yeah, took me a good 12 hours during a couple weekends to get that working, but after that I was able to get articles posted up for the students very quickly, with thousands of pictures - because with word I was able to use screen shot tools in the clip board and then just PASTE them into the doc file.

I mean now days many wikis with a WYSIWYG mode now support native paste. But that was just one example of how awesome adding a bit of code to random stuff helped me.
Is supporting the article's position frowned upon?
An ecologist Willie Smit and his foundation worked on something called the village hub, which is very cool! It started with harvesting juice from sugar palm trees and then goes through a whole plethora process that makes use of it in wide varieties of ways. [1]

1. https://youtu.be/xtWp84htc18

Judging from comments from the rest of the thread, it looked like big palm oil plantation owners are doing this, not small time locals.
I wish there was some entrepreneurial, natural way to split up monopolies. Some section chief of a company has proof of monopolistic behaviour, he goes to court, and walks away as CEO of a "split-up" section. No damage to the companys structure, operation-ability from day one... For the shareholders, to bet on monopolies should always be a bad bet.
> Those people will be highly incentivized

not if we don't incentivize them - we just need a social media platform to not be an advertisement platform
https://www.darpa.mil/program/programming-computation-on-enc...
Show HN: RoboAdvisor offering Access Top Performing VC/PE/Hedge Funds
Currently, there are a myriad of investment funds (I.e. Hedge Funds, VC Funds, PE Funds, Ect) that are generating very strong and consistent returns, often 25% IRR or more.

However, the average investor will never have the ability to invest due to the lack of connections and fact that most have a min. check size - typically $1 M or more.

I have built an application that pools together smaller check sizes with a much smaller minimum and diversifies your investment across VC/Hedge/PE Funds in the top quartile of performance.

Previous comments have indicated a lack of access to big names funds (E.g. A16Z, Sequoia, Ect.) Actually, these funds are often not top performing because they have too much money, but rather smaller managers often with less than $1 B AUM.

Also, they have referenced Fund of Funds, this is different than Fund of Funds, because they indeed have reduced check sizes, but they are still out of reach for most accredited investors and intentionally try to minimize the amount of investors they have.

Look forward to your comments.
Remote work is a valuable asset for any startup to have. It not only offers several benefits for the company itself but also helps employees in multiple ways.
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Your home country Poland is primarily agricultural - at least compared to the BA - and has much lower demand for housing.

I suspect if you pick apart of the BA housing market you'll see some very large landlords with huge property portfolios. While they're not literally "feudal lords" they might as well be in terms of their self-serving influence on housing policy.

Perhaps not coincidentally, some of them are FAANGs.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/03/meet-silicon-valleys-...
A filter option would be great, yeah. Just eliminate a whole class of garbage apps.
But perfectly ripe for an OnlyFans fundraiser /s
We have to ditch the cognitive bias that “products” are what we should contribute.

Information exchange can take place when people use their imagination to create with raw materials. Stock stores with raw materials. Focus public governance on health, not public-private collusion.

Think like open-source; take computer, make it useful to you.

We’re circling last generations emotional model for packaging given their logistics capabilities.

IoT can act as a model here; smaller uni-task gadgets or general compute gadgets, needing less code.

The sunk cost fallacy at scale is how our system works now. That simply props up the ingenuity of those who got there first.

Why the ever loving hell do we need teachers with high education bills and masters degrees? Were we not able to reach reading for the thousand years before?

This social monolith building needs to billionaires is merely following a social monolith to kings and priests.

We move around atomically but pay a tax on our effort upwards. The result? Decades of inequality growth, deflation of buying power.

It’s not technical change we need but emotional; we don’t owe these people deference.

Pre-packaged experience is no different than “here’s your Bible, Timmy.”
Some history from Slate's article, "How Did Detroit Become Motor City?"[0] that speak to the points you make:

> everything built on a handful of enormous corporations

"Second, automotive executives in early-20th-century Detroit behaved a lot like Silicon Valley executives today: They regularly switched companies and launched spinoffs and startups. This culture of cross-pollination spread innovative manufacturing and design ideas among the Detroit manufacturers. Distant competitors couldn’t keep up with Motown’s research and development operations and eventually failed or sold themselves to Detroit."

> I don't think there was much of a scene of small, innovative companies that didn't depend on the enormous corporations to be in business

"The people who built the car’s parts eventually learned so much about automotive manufacturing that they went on to launch their own brands. Olds’ subcontractors included the Briscoe brothers, who helped build Buick, and machinist Henry Leland, who created Cadillac and Lincoln. The Dodge brothers also cut their teeth making parts for both Olds and Henry Ford. Ransom Olds, himself, eventually left Olds Motor Works to found the REO car company. A few other executives from Olds founded Chalmers and Hudson. William Durant, the man behind General Motors, was twice forced out of the company, forming Chevrolet and later Durant Motors while he was away. All of these ventures were based in or near Detroit."

[0] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/02/why-are-all-the-...
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That sounds exactly like the new autopilot system they describe in their USENIX paper.

Talk: https://eventsonair.withgoogle.com/events/autopilot-research...

Paper: https://research.google/pubs/pub49174/
Love this idea.

“ Google should be prevented from having their own WWW crawler too. The crawler should be made into it's own company and data should be purchased by Google and any other company that want to purchase it at the same costs.”

I know someone working on DOJ’s case vs G search, yet I haven’t heard any decent proposals to solve the problem. This is one. Simple and could spark a lot of innovation. (Probably has drawbacks that I haven’t considered yet.)
This might be the code that applies here.

27.404-3(a)(2): Generally, a contracting officer should grant the contractor's request [to assert copyright] when copyright protection will enhance the appropriate dissemination or use of the data unless the -

(iii): Data are of the type that the agency itself distributes to the public under an agency program; (ed: court cases are distributed to the public via Pacer)

ref: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/48/27.404-3
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If chrome didn't exist, I'd say that it's more likely than not that Firefox would have the majority of windows uses...
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Limit public posts. One can engage with individuals directly all they want, but there is a limit on the number of public posts one can make, and they are scrutinized for misinformation before going public. This will drive the creation of "discussion/topic groups" in an effort to get around the public posting scrutiny, but placing a limit on the size of a discussion/topic group halts that effort.

Such changes will be required by law. FaceBook is a controversy engine, and as such they will fight tooth and nail to maintain as much controversy generation capability as they can, because that is what drives engagement there. It is certainly not friends sharing their days.
I definitely wouldn’t mind limits on these like there are limits to how much alcohol you can drink when you’re already clearly too drunk.
Why should it depend on the pasta type? 100g penne is same as any other type.
Good luck measuring spaghetti in cups. 125g is 4.4oz
I went looking for this:

> A common misconception about effectiveness is that it’s about minimizing administrative (overhead) costs.

Thank you for that. While there are charities of dubious merit that do spend a lot on overhead, many others are effective precisely because they put effort into fundraising and infrastructure.

There are economies of scale. A charity operating solely with volunteers on a shoestring will be very limited. They can do more and better work with people who have trained to do it, and are working full time on it -- both in operations and in management.

We think of charities solely as labors of love, but they're doing important work that we all benefit from. Among other things, the world would be a more dangerous place if the desperately poor were even more desperate than they are. Paying people to do that is a net benefit.
Again, this is just thinking about the problem incorrectly. You think people are vain, reactionary, signaling-obsessed, shallow and gossipy because Facebook put a fucking ad system on their website?
Right, that is a bug. Thanks for the feedback.
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My own household is multiethnic and I can tell you that a clash of perspectives and beliefs is not always productive. Rarely did the differences in both sides of my family translate into some kind of enlightened synthesis of values. At worst it fostered tensions over what culture was superior. At best they just naturalized in one direction save the ethnic food. Your mileage may vary by culture: my grandmother and mother didn't get along but the former still was an otaku.

So in the academic sense sure you can say this is a good thing but now you're scapegoating the emotional integrity of families or the people within them for these conflicts. As far as the "diversity of thought" these experiences taught me... I resolve these conflicts by trying to seek concepts that are not tied to any culture or dissolve cultural distinctions, and draw power from that. That's a form of convergence, not divergence. I know some other multiethnic kids that just pick and choose whether they are e.g. German or Chinese when they are either both or neither.
Is the product similar to what Option Alpha is launching? [1]

[1] https://beta.optionalpha.com
Just wondering: why keep MySQL and not move to PostgreSQL?

I have been migrating all my projects to PostgreSQL because of personal believes (most of the time) and haven’t had any issues so I’m just wondering on the thought process.
What had that got to do with anything?

Is Matrix a social network?
There has to be a word for this kind of nit-picking. It's usually done by way of extrapolating to the limit as a counter-example, as if there is anything that is perfectly good or bad. I guess faulty generalization? I've certainly been guilty of it in the past but I do try to catch myself and talk more about where tradeoffs intersect or how one might extrapolate.

In this case we're not in a position to adjust our biology, so maybe lab-grown meat has more benefit than to sate the ethics of those that would otherwise avoid it on the same grounds.
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If there's suddently a lot more fraud and scams on the services they use, they'll probably be annoyed. Though they probably won't blame Apple if that's your point. It's still a worse user experience.
The other points have their merit, but this one is the most prevalent one. Things are hard to name because they're made and used without knowing exactly the one thing they're meant to be doing. Often times there's no meaningful motivation such as 'so I can deduplicate this piece of code' which looks the same, but be in different contexts and in future be changed for different reasons.
I can't say my "day-to-day machine", because that is (unfortunately) windows 10 - due to my day job. However, after work, i spend nearly as many hours on my personal machine which is linux...and that machine runs Fedora 32 for the last several months (I recently switched over from 2 or so years of Linux Mint usage). When i started with Fedora 32 i started running KDE (and KDE is typically not a choice i tend to make for my DE)...Mind you, i had not run KDE for almost a decade because it used to be too heavy and slow to run for whatever old machines that i used as my personal laptops. But lately, KDE seems to be lighter...i won't go as far to say as light as, say, xfce (and to be fair i have not conducted any fair test between xfce and kde); but KDE nowadays is certainly way better than it used to be.
In reality, I think this concern is overblown.

If you need more typesetting control than what Markdown allows, dropping down to HTML is always an option.

To the second point, while it's possible that content could render differently if you change renderers, I would presume the folks at Mozilla are aware of this and won't do it unless it's absolutely necessary.

Do we actually know which renderer MDN is using? I don't see this mentioned in the post. I would argue that although alternate implementations exist, Gruber's `markdown.pl` is Markdown (whatever it does, warts and all) and deviating from it is generally a bad idea if you can avoid it.
It's most likely in reference to the battery life not hardware life.
The semiconductor industry, which is where the name came from, sure was. Scroll to Santa Clara: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Cal...
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Is it known what mechanism triggers the cleaning process at the cellular level? Is there some molecule/hormone that says "I'm asleep now, go clean up the mess", and does it happen in the entire brain simultaneously or is it done in phases in different parts of the brain?
"Manhattan" was about DirectX, not the XBox. (That's why DirectX had the weird weird radioactive logos, even before the XBox was an idea.)

It wasn't about consoles but gaming in general. Programming Games for DOS required a lot of assembly knowledge (at least, if you wanted something fluid) and deviation from industry norms only increased development cost (thinking things like High res support necessitating VESA code, to say nothing of sound support in DOS.)

Devs hated dealing with all this extra work, extra compatibility, extra libraries (old gamers may recall MILES or DMX setup screens in some titles.) The libraries for Windows 3.1 were... not at all up to the task.

Thus, DirectX was created. Not so much to create a console competitor, as to show PCs as superior to consoles overall.

Which, when one thinks about it, may explain why Eric/etc were not big fans of the XBox; in some ways it conceded defeat on a level.
You just described the real issue with prop 13. Partially occupied and investment properties by individuals.

The insanely low real estate tax increases over time make California real estate investments more appealing to small scale investors. Especially overseas.
>This calls for huge latency problems

It doesn't mean there is 100ms of latency, it just means that 100ms of audio is buffered so that you have ~100ms of leeway about when you app's audio thread is scheduled. Changes to the audio stream such, as stop/start/volume control, can be achieved with much lower latency using buffer rewriting or by applying changes lower down the stack where the buffers are smaller, or both. By default PulseAudio will buffer ~2000ms of audio from clients [1]

[1] https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/structpa...
Why does it take an MBA to do that work?
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If your reluctance to use VSCode on Mac is related to terminal lag, check out this post for a fix.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/105446#issuecomme...

I tend to use VSCode and/or Sublime Text myself
Agreed. Entrepreneurs always see opportunity in disruption, because you can always rebuild something better. Just don't @ me too hard for pointing out that the disruption is real and will affect the ecosystem (including startups!) as it is today.
No. But when it's not explicitly mentioned as support, it can appear as an implicit contradiction to readers. We also want the discussion about an article to build on what the article proposes, and explicitly tying comments to the article help with that.
Purely anecdotal and unscientific, but a few years ago I watched a documentary in which a TV team followed identical twins. One of them only ate pasta-based meals for a month, the other only ate potato-based meals (if I remember correctly, they made sure that both meals where basically the same, modulo potato/pasta). They checked blood results, BMI, etc. before and after the diet. The potato-eating twin gained a few kilos and had generally worse blood results than the pasta-eating twin, who kept her weight. Interestingly, the potato-eating twin hated potatoes after 4 weeks of eating them and had to force herself to touch them at the end, while the pasta-eating twin still liked pasta.
Yes, yes I would. I'm pretty sure that Win32 will be supported in 30 years, without much maintenance effort, compared to whatever new hotness that is popular today.
Does go-lang not have "official" repos, including clones of popular repos, to avoid deps on personal repos?

Or is this an "unofficial but popular" library?
The first example is clearly using Republicans as the victim. If anything that's the opposite of what you're claiming he's pushing. He could have chosen other framing (like "conservatives" as perpetrators) if he wanted to prey on emotions by connecting these two examples. His framing of those two examples, if anything, seems chosen to counter-balance each other.
Fair points. The whatsapp backend and protocol may have changed significantly to essentially just be a clone of open whisper systems.

The front end, however, remains significantly better on WhatsApp than on Signal.

I continue to use both daily, and as much as I loathe Facebook, I still prefer the UX on WhatsApp way more than Signal. That they look similar is more down to the fact that messengers today all look the same (look at facebook messenger, iMessage) than that WhatsApp has taken Signal's front end. If anything, Signal is slowly trying to emulate WhatsApp features, in a more privacy-preserving way, which understandably takes time.
It's just a vectorised image of Yukimura from Samurai Warriors[1]. This image to be specific[2]. Don't think there was a designer, just a developer making a logo using a character they like (or maybe it was random image search). Pretty common in open source.

[1] https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Yukimura_Sanada

[2] https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dynastywarriors/images/9/9...
I much prefer this approach (finding the script directory and explicitly using it) over changing into the directory of the script. It makes it much easier to use paths relative to the working directory when you want to.
For some value of “solved”, yes. I live in 3DS-land myself, but since 3DS is not universal, credit card info is still at risk. I had a fraudulent purchase against my card recently. The bank returned the money, but at the moment, I am fighting a bill for import duty on the Gucci scarf the crook purchased on my card. :-/ I had no idea, until now, that they may charge €350 for a scarf.
express.co.uk as a source?
Yeah, of all the times Apple may have won via marketing, this seems like the weakest case. This is more like, Step 1 - Start with a truly world beating product. Step 2 - Just don't screw up the messaging too badly.
Distributed systems engineers sure seem to love their Three Letter Acronyms (TLA)
It's worth noting that it wasn't a 100% dismissal of the findings. From Retraction Watch:

But the findings haven’t disappeared — the authors have replaced the paper with a new version, which softens its earlier claims.

https://retractionwatch.com/2018/06/13/does-the-mediterranea...
I kinda blocked out the other parts of Oceans and Ritchie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9qAhXfNAU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xVmyBUWB0-A

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1kBwsv8PM
Taste is not something you can buy, which is why it's so valuable. Faking taste with bling is just a way to de-value the real thing.
I think what you describe seems entirely reasonable. Though more so for software than hardware; that way a single exploit can't take down our whole government.
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Bit of background here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33238925

Origins of the term is disputed.
In conclusion - PG is clearly dismissive of certain academic writing on ‘whiteness’.

There is absolutely nothing to suggest that he denies the existence of white supremacy.

That just isn’t implied by the link.
This reminds me of https://opensafely.org/, which analyses NHS medical data for research purposes by asking Doctors to run queries on their patient databases and send back only summaries, e.g. "How many of your patients with HIV also had Covid19" https://github.com/opensafely/hiv-research
Or, worse, your kid is that kid that sees it as "Oh, I can open this, I must be a grown up then"
The added benefit is that it allows for a crude zoning. Untrusted devices go on ISP's router, trusted devices behind my own. This isn't perfect, but it does work.
Some gamers have more money than time.
Software engineering might be considered as expert, well anything beyond intro falls in intermediate/expert but nice point to single them out!
No, but Facebook will deliberately "optimise for engagement", regardless of whether the engagement is positive or negative for the user or society, because ads.

Facebook wasn't the cesspit it is today when your news feed actually showed you your friends updates in chronological order.

Hell, it was better still even before the GD news feed even existed.
If it was indeed in-production, I'd never in a million years have had access rights to delete the stack. Those are gated just the way one would imagine they should be.

The service stack for the region (and not an entire region itself) looked like prod, but wasn't. It made me feel like shit anyway.
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