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Thank you for explaining profits to me. I'm glad you did so long after I went to business school, because your description of this situation is mostly wrong.

> WaPo is misusing the term. Profits are revenues after expenses and the numbers in that graph are not taking certain expenses into account.

"Profit" is not a defined term. It's shorthand for something else, usually gross profit, operating profit, or net income.

For 2018, AMZN had gross profit of $93B, operating profit of $12B, and net income of $11.6B. The WaPo numbers in the graph use one of the latter two figures, so the graph is absolutely correct. It is NOT revenue in the graph, and their profits have absolutely gone up.

Do you honestly think an edited and widely read paper like WaPo is going to make an incredibly basic accounting mistake in their business section?

> In your example the gains were in fact taxed.

No, they weren't. Most of Amazon's shares are not held by employees. Taxing employees is not solving the core issue that everyone is upset about, which is that Amazon (taken either as an entity or as its owners, most of whom are not employees) is paying close to 0% taxes. Period. That's it.

No one is arguing whether the activity surrounding Amazon generates tax revenue. That's outside the scope of the argument.
I played a lot of FPS games in my time and I have never heard that term. When did that start?

Are you suggesting that “boomer” simply means “old” now?
> First off, they are more motor-hyperactive, they move, fidget, get out of their chairs: their very neurochemistry develops differently, making them less adept at "sit still and write notes" aspect of school.

Right. And instead of changing school to adapt to kids (e.g., less sitting in chairs, more free play), we change kids to adapt to school (e.g., medicate, discipline, hold back).

Our approach is completely backwards.
Every year from all people in the US aged between 75 and 85 about 5% dies. 85 and up it’s about 13%. A lot of things are deadly to old people, a tenth of that is a minor part and it is certainly debatable whether asking these people to live in isolation for a year is worth that 10% less chance of dying.

Compare also the 480000 US deaths yearly from tobacco, which could be prevented much easier than corona.

But anyway, it is impossible to debate weighing these statistics and measures in a civil manner so I’ll excuse myself and you can just echo around with your fellow lockdown fans.
> What’s the opposite of “delightful”?

Unpleasant?
I think it should work where each robocall costs $5. But the carrier that delivers it is insuring against the person it's delivered to.

So for example.

I get a robo-call, I report it and my carrier pays me $5.

They then can collect that $5 from the carrier that delivered that call to them, who can collect it from the carrier that routed it to them who can collect it from the end user. And if at some point you can't collect you're stuck paying the $5.
Apple's love for native apps began - if I remember correctly - with the popularity of jailbroken devices and third party app stores like Cydia that could unleash the full potential of iPhone 1

As someone who developed a couple of the first round of web apps for the original iPhone, while waiting for the first SDK, I can tell you that this it not true.

To someone evaluating it from the outside using a list of release dates, it may seem logical. But an SDK isn't invented overnight.
"alarm" is a low-battery alarm, while "error" indicates an overflow error.
I just watched that Facebook F8 talk Araq gave up on quickly. It is a very high-level software engineering management sort of talk which actually becomes pretty clear pretty quickly. While at FB they may be engineers, at many other companies they could almost have been MBAs. I take Araq's comments as simply a lack of interest in discussion at that level, and his need to make said comments just an explanation to the conversor there and hardly worth making a big deal over.

In any event, even if you radically disagree with Araq's personal communication style, I think you should still give Nim a try. Many people do not like Linus Torvalds' communication style and still use Linux with great joy...
For those wondering, this entire account consists of argument about Covid.

Make of that what you will.

Edit: I do not normally go snooping through account history, however, for a new account that is arguing about Covid, I make exceptions.
Pray tell, what's "st"? It's not googlable.
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> but Jobs' reasoning was purely business model.

It is always difficult to try and second guess decisions which were made by other people behind closed doors. Particularly when you know the end outcome where the people who made the choices wouldn't have.

When Jobs wrote that memo, the iPhone wasn't remotely dominant. It had tiny market share on and Windows Mobile and Android were both very big threats to the iPhone. There could easily be an alternative history where Adobe wrote a really effective version of Flash and Apple was left out in the cold.

Fast forward 10 years and it all looks obvious, but I don't think it was a slam dunk back then.
Yes, my parents are boomers. What I object to is the derogatory use of that term. Sorry if I misinterpreted your intent.
To move file around I use CopyWebpackPlugin or whatever other CLI tool called from npm scripts.

The promises of gulp (streams) fell short pretty quickly and we were just left with verbose spaghetti code that was no better than just a bash script. I went into gulp head first and honestly I’m glad that Webpack can deal with most of what I did back then, especially when paired with other reasonable CLI tools.
Yes exactly -- so to measure just by what happens to us in the north -- particularly when we're causing the problems -- is basically genocidal.
If you can trace it to the actual robocaller. (As opposed to, say, a front corporation with no assets.)
Unless you want to try out Rocket. That one STILL requires nightly...
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That the police were called suggests sabotage as a motive, although that might just be procedural.
That’s interesting, that overt discrimination on the basis of a protected characteristic (sex, race) is allowed in these cases, even by public institutions. How is it not challenged in the courts under the various civil rights acts and nondiscrimination laws of states?

However, if we are going to solve a problem (eg non biodegradeable plastic) we must do it upstream (eg taxing non biodegradeable plastic and nudging corporations into switching to biodegradeable materials), rather than expend tons of effort downstream (eg banning plastic bags, straws and blaming individuals).

Same here... if we are going to be doing something about girls in STEM as a society, I’d rather do it upstream — earlier in life — because otherwise trying to fiddle around the edges later is just a bandaid.

PS: as an aside, I found the expression “it’s the boys getting the shaft right now” a bit ironic, given the origins of the phrase https://www.etymonline.com/word/shaft
That doesn't strike me as a very useful explanation here. Shame has long been a part of American discourse. For example, you could look at the attitude toward divorce. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was hugely shameful to get divorced. In the 1960s and 1970s, the divorce rate spiked to something like 5x the earlier rate.

Was that because outraged moralist scolds just pushed marriage too hard, ending the use of shame generally? Not at all. The rising legal freedom and economic prosperity of women, a change that had been ongoing since the suffragettes, finally allowed women to survive on their own. A measure of independence from the shamers was what made the difference. But at the same time, the Moral Majority increased their social power. The use of shame certainly continued.

For example, a lot of the post-Nixon reforms were built on shared moral standards and shame. An obvious example is presidential candidates publishing their tax returns. It was never a law, but it would have been shameful for a person wanting to run the government to conceal their financial interests.

Even now you still see shame being effective. Trump uses it extensively on the right, for example. Today he's trying to shame a governor into quitting. And as Campbell and Manning would surely agree, it's still effective on the left, even if it takes very different targets than it would have in 1950.

I think what's changed is not the amount or effectiveness of the shame, but changes in who people feel accountable to. Political polarization is one part of that. Rising inequality [1] is another; the 2008 financial crisis made it clear that the ultra-rich were basically unaccountable no matter the damage they caused.

And a big one comes from technology. At least from the age of Hearst through the 1990s, getting heard on a national scale required a fair bit of capital. Newspapers, magazines, radio, TV: all of them required significant, long-lived organizations. And the bigger the audience, the more capital was at stake. That drove a sort of natural centrism. But between cable and dropping production costs, that changed. The 1990s saw the introduction of reality TV, which eventually gave us both Trump and Paris Hilton. The Internet drove that further.

Now that the capital required to be heard on a national scale is approximately $0, it's very easy for people to build niche audiences. And with a sufficiently large niche audience, there's little material incentive to care what other people think. Now anybody can be a reality TV star all on their own, just as long as they keep getting people to smash that like button. In that light, we can look at Trump as the first influencer president.

[1] https://datatrekresearch.com/us-income-inequality-latest-dat...
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A railway that will be bankrupt in days, and will have to forever live off tax payer funding, running a route between two cities nobody wants is not a success.

That is, unless your definition of success is any mile of track laid, regardless of how it's used? That's a weird definition of success, if I may say so.

As-is, people will need to drive 2.5 hours from SF to Merced, wait for a train, take a 1.5 hour train ride to Bakersfield, then rent a car and drive another 1.5 hours from Bakersfield to LA.

All that saves about 1 hour of travel time (at the most!)... but requires renting a car, gas, etc.

Basically, this thing is completely useless. Finally the government realized this and cancelled the entire project.

Yet, the California Tax Payers that voted for the $30 Billion Bond Measure will continue to pay the extra taxes for decades to come...
Is there any reasons to prefer BIGINT instead of UUID (other than the very few % of performance, which may never be a problem)?

I just find instagram's ID complex (custom epoch, mandatory use of RETURNING) while Ulid is elegant (easy to generate and use).

For me the biggest selling point was the interoperability with other kinds of UIDs, if later your requirements change.

Also, note that (at least in Rust) Ulid are implemented as u128, so are pretty fast.
If you care for your own health but not for the health of the people in the community you live in, then this makes perfect sense.

If you're 39 and in good health, but want to prevent community outbreak that'll inevitably lead to more susceptible people catching the virus and dying, you should probably get vaccinated.
Going by https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2020/ , 75% are running the annual conference, 12.6% grants open to _anyone_, and 3.8% maintaining a central registry primarily staffed by volunteers, and I imagine paying for quite a sizeable set of origin servers at this stage.

As for the PyCon expenditure, it's certainly the kind of thing I'd never attend, but there can be no doubt the existence of the conference has strengthened and grown Python's user base, and it is open to everyone should they wish to attend. Meanwhile, $97k annual to operate a package registry with literally millions of downloads per month that tens of thousands of companies depend on sounds like an amazing bargain to me.
No.

My state has been doing those things, and has just been digging itself deeper onto the hole. It's hard to imagine them trying any harder.

Most importantly, we've been waiving environmental regulations, either overtly or through lack of enforcement. Our courts have already forbidden the government from implementing statewide public health policy during the COVID crisis. Our state motto is "Open for Business." Bars and restaurants are in full swing throughout a large portion of the state.

If our drinking water becomes toxic, we're kind of screwed.

The two biggies are wages and taxes because those things affect the bottom line in an immediate and measurable way. Everything else is a smoke screen.
> I recall my students used their Chromebook to play this bubble game where their bubbles had to chase and eat other students' bubbles: very benign and strategic, and they used area-numbers from the bubbles to strategize.

Agar.io?
Scout groups are mixed all over the world, it really doesn't make much difference - the only thing I noticed moving from a mixed one to an older all-boys one is that the boys one was much much more violent but that was mostly due to the leaders not stopping it.
Fair point, although yourself gave me the wrong impression initially. karax doesn't support stateful components indeed.
This is what I’ve always said. I was just looking for scholarships in computer science, and I was surprised at the amount of women only scholarships I found. Society in general has less sympathy for men, and this is a pretty hard truth i’ve discovered.
Exactly right.

Our folk wisdom metaphors for QA/Test and change management are wrong. Sure, given enough thrust, even pigs can fly. But polish a turd and it's still a turd. [1]

JIRAs turrible implementation isn't even as bad as the CRM, ERP, enterprise products of yore. Turrible, sure. But I've seen worse. Much worse.

[1] I was a QA Manager for a while. Someday I may publish (explain) the play books my teams used for shrink wrapped releases. (Spoiler: I replaced a lot of heavy weight CRUD based mgmt with lightest weight artifacts. Like just printing all the bugs, taped to the wall, and using approval voting to prioritorize.) Until then, Bryzek's new "testing in production" strategy is the only QA/Test workflow that seems directionally correct in our new agile SaaS world.

https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/Michael-Bryzek-testing-in-pro...
Nim has multiple memory management strategies with very different trade-offs.

ORC provides performance comparable to Rust but without having to write the boilerplate.

https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/gc

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/08/introducing-orc.html
It is very relevant. Another browser with e.g. push notifications in the appstore would be the equivalent of stadia displacing appstore games - but for 99% of all of appstore.
Really looking forward to see how the EU respond here with Turkey vs, say, China or Google or FB. It's just interesting to me how values change depending on whom you're talking to.
Yeah it is also used for anyone who is even a few years older.
You can't have any stable integration standard when systemd's scope is ever increasing, or paper it over with marketing. Even stuff like home directories now Must Be Improved.

It isn't comparable with typical rewriting of industry-standard by newbies.
Anybody that hasn't tried it yet just go on and buy Hades. It's a really great game that hooks you in.
You don't add ARIA tags to the UI - you use UI elements which are already accessible. You should never, ever make a button out of a div. The JavaScript community needs to grow up and stop chasing shiny things, because they're leaving huge numbers of people behind in their wake.
>They rely on the initial boost they got from GPL software

You mean BSD? That's how Darwin is licensed.
Isn't this literally the explicit goal of the girls/women in stem and education movement?

UNESCO [1], World Bank [2], Unicef [3] have specific goal programs here.

[1] http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/priority-areas...

[2] https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/girlseducation

[3] https://www.unicef.org/education/girls-education
I said GDP and GDP growth, and if two countries are competing on GDP, the mechanism by which they compete is growth.

I know you've seen my book recommendation in the thread here; it's about the incentives behind growth, and how de-growth can work and still encourage human flourishing. Rather than just reacting negatively, why not look it up?
I think what the other post might be missing is that the gamers of the 90s/early 2000's are gen y aka millenials and often called or treated as boomers.
I agree with the spirit of this, but there are some deeply broken aspects to this idea. First, you need to define what a society is. A large component of that definition is going to come down to some semblance of shared expectations. Those shared expectations are your duty.

At the risk of being guilty of the same hyperbole I'm criticizing: While it's true that a society saying you shouldn't murder your neighbor is ostensibly "less free" than one that allows you to determine for yourself whether or not that's a commitment you want to endorse, the resulting society is in many ways much more free in a pragmatic sense.
I'm on mobile, but I'm certain Odersky was brutalized for "Pimp my library" or Pimp my Classes or something like that some years back.

I can appreciate your perspective a little more from your clarifying it. I stand by my original point that this is something NOT to be handled in public.

You're certainly right that it'd be hard to find Rich Hickey making an ass out of himself. I can't see myself arguing that anyhow. I guess I don't really think Araq made an ass out of himself in making that comment, especially with the context of the conversation. I think there is a lot of pretentious attitudes in front-end circles, and it's certainly very irritating to listen to people talk so highly of these things as if they are pristine towers of brilliance when it's JUST a webpage.
> The elephant in the room is that Boys’ academic underperformance is tied to class

Can you explain this?
The ISS is actually a TIE fighter?!
Frankly, I’m more interested on where is the next Austin. Articles like these should have that level of foresight to make for good analysis.
At least in Canada, discrimination is considered the denial of something, but anything that improves someone's condition on the basis of race is fine.

[Race] may not own houses. -- Illegal.
[Race] is given extra help to own houses. -- Legal
There is a strange double standard in our society which posits that it is totally reasonable for women, people of color, people of different sexual orientations, etc. to all deserve their own 'safe spaces' to be around people of their intersectional group only; but the moment that males want this, or white people, or straight people, it's exclusionary and offensive. Nobody can defend this effectively without resorting to rhetoric that essentially just attacks people in the latter groups for things that are not their fault individually, and the entire mechanism that works to prevent them from having their own spaces seems fundamentally vengeful.

There is very much a need for boys to have a space to be boys: where they can let their boisterousness out, where they can act a little crazy, or just act closer to their true selves etc. without having to worry about how they're perceived by the girls. As soon as puberty kicks in, all co-ed events are affected by sexual dynamics; it's been a standard in every human society to provide plenty of contexts for boys where that is removed from the mix as much as possible in order to get better / different behaviour from the young cadre.
Previous discussion was interesting, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17534950
Politics is the general relativity of human relations. There is no absolute frame of reference.
The high level story is that men were doing better in society, so feminists tried to change that but they overcompensated which lead to boys starting to do worse.

It should also be mentioned that young men are now doing worse than young women in the workplace. That's because this is a generational thing. When millenials are 50, then 50 year old men will do worse than 50 year old women.

How specifically was this accomplished? Well many small actions were taken. So it's hard to pinpoint which one exactly it is. Women are favored both with explicit policies to favor them, as well as by being given more consideration when policies are designed ("How will this affect women"). Hence I don't think there is one big thing that needs fixing, rather it's many small things. And doing so will take a long time, decades possibly.
My workplace uses Monday.com and some folks like it but I personally find it clunky and underwhelming. In my opinion, it tries to do too many things and doesn't do any one thing particularly well. If you are just wanting a kanban board, you are better off sticking with Trello. If you are wanting bug tracking, feature requests, etc, you are better off with things like GitHub Issues and other specialized tools. YMMV of course.
Am I the only one who has never had an issue with Jira? Sure, there are some things that could be better. But, overall, I find I'm content with Jira.

My belief from seeing many organizations struggle with Jira is they have process issues that need to be addressed outside of Jira. Jira is simply the place where their process becomes visualized and put into place - so it gets blamed for the breakdowns.

Reading through this list, I can picture exactly why this user is having these complaints. Some of these a definitely UX frustrations, but many of these seem to be fundamental process issues or contradictions. For example, the website claims "missing easy setup" - while also listing a bunch of things that demonstrate the complexity of their Jira setup.

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tldr: If you're having the issues the author lists, you should probably check your process. Jira is doing you the favor of highlighting where it's broken.
That could work, though I’d suggest that requiring the recipient to have to report it doesn’t go far enough, especially when they registered on the do not call list a damn decade ago! How about if a robocall is delivered to someone on the do not call list, every carrier in the whole chain is automatically fined?
Individualism and the concept of negative rights are only a few hundred years old, and they're not universally regarded as progress.
Rocket 0.5 (which is coming soon) will compile on stable. Alternatively, you can the master git branch directly. Very few libraries still require nightly. Most of them have moved or are moving to stable.
From the issue thread:

> If there is some hard data somewhere we've missed that shows we would gain more market share by implementing [SSB] than other projects then that would sure be useful though!

This is a rare opportunity for everyone on HN disappointed about this removal (myself included) to put together a convincing argument with data about how important PWA desktop integration could be. The pessimist in me thinks there's just going to be more derision and complaints without action though. Hoping to be proven wrong.
It seems to me that the best hope is to teach the average person how computers work.

Teach students how to use Linux/BSD, solder, what a web request is, how to run a server, etc. If we do these things, then people can return to setting up their own services, instead of walled gardens.
Why would coronavirus vaccines be any more problematic than any other vaccine? If powers that be want to slip special gunk in the coronavirus vaccine, they can just as easily do that for flu shots or any other mandatory vaccine out there.