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Yeah I know a few trekkies who hated The Expanse, but love ST Discovery. I watched half of season 1 of STD and had to switch it off. I've never hated a TV show so much as STD.

The Expanse on the other hand is the best SciFi since Battlestar Galactica.

Edit - to expand on why I hate STD so much, it's the completely unlikeable characters. I just couldn't root for a single one of them.
It would be 4 weeks because Sales told the customer that A, B, and C were already part of the product.
Haha, a catch-22. That is true to an extent I think.
Definitely! We want to reduce cellular download size as well. In the particular case of Dropbox, their download size is around 100mb right now. I just did a quick test by deleting the duplicate localizations in their Frameworks and zipping the .app which reduced compressed size by ~17mb (17%) so these optimizations would help significantly. This is one of the reasons I prefer to just measure install size. It's difficult to reason about all the combinations, but by reducing install size you're always on the right track to an overall smaller app.

In my experience working on large apps like Airbnb we try to get ahead of the problem even before approaching the cellular limit, since a smaller size helps acquire and keep users, and we want to avoid architecture decisions that would become a problem down the road.

It's not too rare for one of these low hanging fruit optimizations to be accidentally introduced in a large company, with testing on every PR you can catch them before they‘re introduced. Binary size is definitely what changes most often at these large companies and that's why our continuous monitoring lets developers know exactly the granular binary size affect of a PR. With a lot of code, things like exposing Swift functions to Obj-C which introduce new metadata can frequently be mistakenly added. For enterprise companies we also track the biggest modules in their binary, so eng managers can get a better understanding of where the size is coming from.
Citadel is large enough I think she'd be obligated to pick up the phone regardless.
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VME bus 68xxx and 88xxx servers remained popular through the 90's as well.
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There is a fork called Florence that shows exactly the type of stuff you get when non-developers fork together (that's their own pun, sorry). It has been for years new and they never released any useful code, almost the way of Glimpse.
So it's becoming Big Red instead of Blue Hat? That's encouraging.
Instant is a bug not a feature. If I want to transfer a big number like 10k, its good to take a while to settle in case there was fraud or a mistake. The last thing I want is to leave my phone unlocked and someone can empty my account immediately with instant settlement.
Perfect example - Newt Gingrich got a 4.5 million dollar book deal from Murdoch right before Congress was to hear about allowing Murdoch to purchase the Fox network.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/12/23/g...
That is the case with all essential jobs, isn't it? Logistics, retail, medical, emergency services, infrastructure. All remained open, all had to show up in person. Amazon is, in the big picture, still far from the biggest one in that field.
Even in Korea, they are way past prime though. I recall up to the early to mid 2000s you could literally find multiple PC Bangs in the same building (on different floors, etc.). Nowadays I'd say you'd be lucky to find one per block/neighborhood, if even that. And those that are still around seem much more sparsely populated.
That's the real issue. Going to school might be required by law, but there should not be a requirement to enter a contract with an arbitrary company in order to successfully participate in the school.

If such a contract is required, it should be between the school and the vendor only, not imposing additional conditions on the student. Including accessibility or the need to have a particular third-party operating system with its own EULA.

After all, the student doesn't need to enter a contract with the caterng company to eat a school lunch.

That's where ideology comes in useful: if the school cannot provide that, it should be forced to create such a system. Given how many schools are there, the resource investment per school should not be that big.
Agree that relative to the cost in lives and global GDP leaders have drastically under invested in production and distribution of vaccines. Arguments about what ethical and incentive policies should be will continue forever. Certainly though we shouldn't be blocked at this point by availability of a few machines, shipping and inventory tracking, etc. Especially in the US we have really wasted 9-10 months to work on public health in general and vaccine delivery in particular. History will not be kind
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> Yes, sure, but it's a clear conflict of interest for government official.

"Yellen has requested an ethics waiver to hold the meeting, a Treasury spokeswoman said, confirming a Reuters report."

I don't see it as a clear conflict of interest that needs recusal out the gate. How much is that $700,000 to Yellen? The payments are done. What other speaking engagements has she made and how much did they account for? I remember when Tom Wheeler was put in to lead the FCC, and people were very much against him because of his ties to the industry, but by the time he was done, people had turned around on him.

So, here you have a case where someone isn't hiding something, is asking for a waiver, and being up front about this, and you are calling this open corruption.

Really? Open corruption? This means they've actively done something wrong, or corrupt, and I don't see that here.

Should this be looked at and watched? Sure.

Does that mean there is outright "corruption" here? No.
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The post was sarcasm that flew over your head. You can’t even get a PhD in software architecture because the entire field is a sham title created by industry. There is no theory or science behind “software architecture”

Either way you are wrong about math. All decisions can be mathematically modeled. It’s called a conditional expression, and you use it to model/calculate decisions when you program.
Do people with gambling addictions really deserve a public record of all their behaviour to exist for people (including coworkers, family, and future employers) to read for all time, including your descendants?
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Official open-source implementation: https://www.deepspeed.ai/
Generally super capacitors don't have quite the same oomph as a regular electrolytic capacitor in charge/discharge. They lie somewhere between electrolytic and modern Lithium chemistries. Still can be super dangerous...
for long-running daemon/server programs where reliability is a key priority, I have had a lot of success building in "partial" restarts into the design, which means that periodically the program exits the main event loop and enters it again.

clearly there are circumstances where this is not an option, but for distributed systems that can handle the short-term loss of a given node it works very well. one important thing is to add is some randomized jitter to the periodic restarts to spread out when nodes are offline.

in practice this remedies a wide range of seldom-encountered problems. for instance, I have a program that pulls data from an http apis, and last week its connection to one of the remote servers became hung up somehow, resulting in no new data being pulled from that server. this problem had never happened before in 6 months since the program was deployed. rather than track down the very rare condition that was behind this I just added periodic "partial" restarts to the program, and now it will be able to recover from this if it ever happened again, and many other sorts of problems like slowing increasing memory fragmentation.

for a chat server or other server with client connections, obviously those would need to be maintained across the partial restart, but that seems like it would be pretty easy to do. while there is nothing dramatically different from my approach to what you did with actual, full periodic restarts, the partial restart approach does allow special handling for application-specific issues like that.
Well is it about time, or culture? I mean Bergmann Schaefer was always good, wasnt it. Anyhow I am curious what book exactly from Mir did you read? Also one of my co-students was from Russia (he was from a gifted program) and what a bit shocked me that for them to learn mechanics the study Landau-Lifshitz vol 1 at age 14.
It's probably corrupt. But even if it's not, people recuse themselves for far less all the time. The fact that she is refusing to do so is, quite honestly, disgusting.
> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

As usual, inexperience in leadership at the government level showing
Adding here because I can't reply to my own link

If you're a motivated research reading this interested in answering this empirically, I'd suggest trying to find organizations that both pay this level of fees and have to disclose it to the public when they do (I'm hoping this might be the case for public companies under SEC regs, but that's just a hope)
What's even more pernicious is expectation of future payments. Even if Yellen had never taken any money from Citadel or even if it was 7 years ago, how do we know her decision-making isn't affected by the prospect of making $400k per speech after retiring, as Obama did - from Citadel! - a few months after giving up the presidency.
> "I continue to be befuddled by the apparently common habit of using agricultural euphemisms to refer to illicit financial transactions. “Don’t call bribes chickens,” I suggested a while ago, after U.S. prosecutors charged someone with doing that. If your business has nothing to do with chickens, then when prosecutors see winking references to chickens in your email, they are going to know that you mean bribes, and a jury is going to agree. Much better to say “success fees,” so you have some argument that you were doing somehow legitimate transactions."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-01/insura...

Don't call your bribes 'success fees', call them 'speaking fees'.
Hi OP, I'm glad you're tackling this space. But I am not willing to install social network software until I can see some screenshots of what the UI looks like. I need to know what to expect, and what my users can expect.
I just use Google Docs these days. I don't use most of the features of MS Office/LibreOffice anyways.
Perhaps. Cynicism is highly valuable -- a smell test. But cynicism is not conclusory. Others have responded noting examples and rationales as to why paid speeches are not necessarily bribes.

I'll also note that you include a citation about the Clinton's speaking fees, you don't cite anything to support or argue that Clinton speeches led to the repeal of Glass-Steagall, despite your implicit connection there. I write this as no Clinton fan BTW, in part for this repeal.

It's easy to get angry over the nebulous concept of creeping corruption in our political systems. This is because getting into the nitty-gritty details and actually determining which particular speech is a bribe and which is not is difficult and boring. In the long term, I suggest that this sort of anger can lead to a political apathy which is damaging to a functioning democracy.

Now, with all that said, Yellen should probably recuse herself given the recency and amount of these talks. Independent of whether or not she was actually corrupt, it's a bad look.
TFA covers that - OpenHarmony is a completely different OS than the "Harmony 2.0" Huawei is touting. Kind of like how Windows CE and Windows NT don't share any code. OpenHarmony has a different kernel and is by no means a full phone OS.
12.5% payroll tax as well.

Also, about half of your medical plan (which is compensation), is a hidden tax (e.g. cross subsidy).
Bernie Madoff went to jail because he ripped off very rich people, and, even more importantly, humiliated and betrayed them.

I suspect, if the victims of his schemes had just been a bunch of plebes like us, then he would be sunning on the Riviera, right now.
The problem is that SSB isn’t really private. Anything you share in an offline circle of friends becomes public if any member of the group ever connects to a pub server. There is encrypted messaging, but IIRC last time I tried to use it, the threads maxed out at eight people in the client. There are seven people in my immediate family, so I hit limits very quickly.
Yes I have issues with anxiety and depression. I've been on meds for it for a little over 5 years now.

I've done therapy with mixed success. I just haven't found a therapist that I click with.

The big thing is that I have to be mindful of what my triggers are and avoid them. A big one for me is stress and uncertainty about what will go wrong next. So I have to be cognizant of that when I'm looking for a job. I avoid rolls where I have to do production support, and especially on call rotations. I did that for 10 years and it just wore me down to nothing. I've also learned that I need to avoid early stage start ups due to the financial instability causing stress.

Thankfully my last 2 jobs have been good for me from a stability point.
> to invest in a game streaming platform (ie Netflix for games)

Like what, OnLive, which is dead? And Stadia, which is a massive failure which Google will shutter in the coming years?
"This time it's different!" is also the rallying cry for people trying to time the peak ;-)
To clarify, those stats from Citadel show retail flow in GME that Citadel Securities saw.

The main takeaway is that the flow was, essentially, net 0. So retail (or the bit of retail flow that Citadel saw, anyway) wasn't buying GME more than selling, in aggregate.
And the remaining 40% are not a candy countries either: Cuba, China, Russia. The only standout is Australia.

Then, the whole of world's refining, and relevant battery chemical industry is in China.
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> I don't think she's the same case as, e.g., someone who was employed by an investment bank for a long time, takes a federal position for a year or two, then goes back to working in banking.

True. Yellen clearly prefers public sector work.

However, I think there's a false dichotomy being presented. There's no inherent conflict between working in the public sector and being corrupt. The list of corrupt politicians is endless. Why not do what you love and cash in? Best of both worlds, from the corrupt politician's perspective.
That doesn't address their point. There really is a steady stream of 'promising new breakthroughs' in battery technology that never go anywhere. I made the same observation independently, years ago.
Absolutely agree. They can cry me a river about these issues.

>Initial findings showed that 73 percent of mechanical, electrical and plumbing components observed failed to conform with the developers’ drawings, and that almost a quarter “presented actual life safety issues,” Mr. Slinin wrote.

Was rather eye opening, though. Even in such high dollar construction corners get cut left and right (not saying the drawings were perfect, of course things are found to be unconstructable, in conflict, or value-engineering solutions are proposed), and however did that pass inspection, I wonder?
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That's not at all how I feel, Season 5 is the best of all of them IMO. 4 was definitely a let down but 5 has been fantastic.
Sorry but you can't call something that has sounds in space hard sci-fi. Overall they do a good job but to me no sounds in a vacuum is a key marker of hard sci-fi.
A lot of the core criticism of civilian nuclear power was correct in retrospect.

As it stands it is an extension of the military production line for nuclear arms and removing itself from that has been very costly & timely with no end in sight. Things like solar power simply do not come with that baggage.

Then on the other side of the equation, much of the points of criticism for power sources like solar or wind have been done away with or mitigated. Their efficiency has gone up along with the grid's ability to handle such sources.

Many of the choices now we have were sub-optimal decades ago but environmentalists invested when investment meant losing money. I'm still a fan of nuclear power but credit has to be given here.
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React really is best used for larger applications.

If we're going the very simple here, then you could just use plain old JavaScript...
>Yellen is not out of politics and also no, why would that be a problem?

She was when she made those speaking fees. Do you know she planned to reenter politics? Did Reagan or Bill Clinton have plans to reenter politics after their presidencies?

>We often pay bills after recieving service. Quite normal.

Except we agree to those bills beforehand. This would require that these payments be guaranteed years before they are made. Often times the leadership of these companies changes so that expands the list of people who need to be involved in this conspiracy. When the number of people involved in a conspiracy go up, the likelihood of that conspiracy being revealed goes up.

Once again I will ask is there any evidence for this conspiracy beyond these circumstantial connections?
Freedom from chemical trespass is also a lost common.

https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/chem...

I think almost all organisms have a little bit of Teflon chemicals now...
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Those are all entertainers with broad appeal. What if you had an audience of millionaires with a broad age range, all with an interest in finance? And you wanted to entertain them? 2 Chainz might not be the best choice.

For that audience, a top economist could be a good choice for the same money.
Yes, I mentioned in another comment (at the time of your comment) that I planned on doing a more comprehensive writeup at a later date. If what you're saying is my claims are unverifiable, you're correct. I generally don't publish any of my research unless there's a way to keep my lights on. The good news is, I should be able to soon.
Does a tech speaker have the ability to influence legislation or rule in a hearing about the company that is paying them to speak?

If so, and if they don't recuse themselves, there would indeed be a problem. Fortunately, tech speakers don't have anywhere near that kind of direct power.

If company y pays the manager in charge of purchasing at company x $600,000 to speak, then they bid on contracts with company x, there would also be a problem.
>Here is a challenge for you.

Here is a challenge for you: participate in discussions for a whole week without changing the subject as soon as your claims are called into question. You began with the Great Barrington Declaration; you cannot simply Gish gallop on Hacker News.
> ...there is no facebook replacement

Facebook itself probably doesn't believe this.
I'm less concerned with tools like Zoom and Teams than I am with the shocking degree of lock-in that textbook publishers are doing lately. [1]

It's not enough just to charge nosebleed prices for the text itself, although they still do that. Now, in a lot of cases, you have to buy an "access code", likewise priced to induce epistaxis, in order to submit homework and assignments for grading. By the sound of it, you increasingly can't even participate in the education you're already paying for, without paying a lot extra for what looks to be more or less pure rent-seeking - and rent-seeking that depresses the used textbook market, besides.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01/why-st...
I was only answering your question, but why can't it be both? Companies like to have celebrities talk to their employees, and rich companies have to pay well.

Citadel probably paid way more for their employees to listen than for her to speak, in terms of wages.
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By Redditors who have wasted money following investment advice from other Redditors, yes. Specifically it's claimed that after Citadel gave a failing hedge fund lots of money to exit their position, the hedge fund lied about exiting its position and actually didn't start exiting its position until a different division of Citadel asked Robinhood to stop GME buys the following day.

Focus on Yellen's speaking fee is simply trying to explain away in advance why many people given access to data which could prove it either way and tasked with investigating will conclude this baseless conspiracy theory is a baseless conspiracy theory.
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I don't know, seems to me that speaking fees are inherently corrupt. You shouldn't have to pay someone for the privilege of giving them a platform.

Public figures don't get paid for TV or newspaper interviews, journalistic ethics explicitly forbids it, because paying people for being the source of information is seen as inherently corrupting.

Presidents have a 200k/yr lifetime pension that's pegged to inflation, plus a $1 million/yr travel budget and a fully funded and staffed personal office. Bill Clinton has been paid over $20 million by the US government since he left office through these programs. While in office presidents earn 400k, with all their living expenses paid for separately, meaning they get about 1.6 million dollars per four-year term straight into their savings accounts. Many of them make millions from sales of their memoirs alone. There is no reason for them to be demanding additional millions in exchange for giving a ten minute pep talk to a hedge fund except as a backdoor for corruption.
While this is an interesting read, without any concrete references just saying "archeologists" does not make it convincing. The article links to a dig site and asserts that slaves would not be treated as well. It is unclear if this is speculation or a quote. Still fun.
Wow this guy sounds like an asshole.
There's been plenty of articles about it:

Jessica — not her real name — has spent well over $15,000 on Amazon this year, buying everything from Halloween decorations to a queen-size inflatable mattress. She's purchased over 700 products, including three vacuum cleaners, six desk chairs, and no fewer than 26 pairs of earbuds. And even though most of the products are cheaply made, she’s given each a 5-star review. The twentysomething who lives on the East Coast isn’t a bad judge of quality — the companies that sell these products on Amazon reimburse her for the purchases.

Third-party sellers know what it takes to make it on Amazon: Get good reviews and a high search ranking. But attracting genuine customers is tough, so some sellers use a reliable cheat — bribes. Because of Amazon’s vast scale, inscrutable algorithms, and capricious enforcement of its own rules, unscrupulous sellers and paid shills largely get away with it.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/her-amazon...