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Just finished working on the first iteration of a website for my mom. I didn’t want to deal with a full classical CMS and maintain Databases and such, especially as my experience with wordpress, PHP and typo3 has faded a little bit.

My mom’s website is basically a directory of old mansions in former eastern Prussia. Site is in German: https://gutshaeuser-ostpreussen.de

Anyhow Stack chosen:

Backend/CMS as a Service: https://prismic.io/ which is really great because it has an easy user interface that supports drafts, media, i18n (planning a polish version of the website) and defining custom types for pages which is great to force my mom to enter data consistently.

At first I used their SDK to simply query the data and rendered the Page while writing my own static site generator. Obviously very tedious. Since then I have moved away from that and landed on Nuxt which works well for me, because it allows me to iterate faster. Nuxt also supports rendering static pages https://nuxtjs.org/blog/going-full-static/. All of the JavaScript bits are basically progressive enhancements.

The page is then deployed via GitLab pages. Every time my mom changes a page, a webhook triggers a build of the Site.

What really eases my mind is the ability to simply backup all the data entered, as simple JSON files. So I don’t feel like there is any big vendor lock in with Prismic.
Further to this ; in Canada, we have to constantly, and directly, worry about the US corporate tax rate. If it drops too low, compared to our tax rate? Companies can VERY easily flee to the US, and with the FTA/NAFTA/whatever it's called now?

No issues with product across the border.

So even though many Canadians are in favour of a higher corporate tax rate, it would literally be deadly. We must compete, we must race to the bottom, else corporations will move South.
This comment is not very popular, especially in America, but Feynman was by and large a showman. His most celebrated publication is path integral approach. Dirac had a paper earlier (known as Dirac’s little paper), so did Norbert Wiener in a different context, on this approach. They didn’t pursue path integrals, as they could not (and still people can’t) make sense of them rigorously. Feynman looked up that paper and expanded on it.

He also drew useful diagrams, but you know ... :)
Yes I think the prevailing tone is one of ridicule
Distribution? There’s no evidence that it works yet
He was right about how a government can kill millions in order to achieve his goal.
Sounds like an indian company crap job offer.
In the article he's explicitly talking about an "investment thesis".

If I wrote articles like below I should explicitly state my investment.

"Why gold is a great investment"

"Why You should invest in Tesla"

"The Ark Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (NYSE: ARKX) is the future"

If your objective is to get your readers to do something that could financially benefit you then you should make that clear.

I noticed that some financial podcasts even have a disclaimer at the start of their podcast.

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Sorry I should have clarified in my original comment and said all articles shilling some coin
This. Made more terrifying by the idea that it's television that's supposedly creating the culture. I'd prefer not to live in a place where the culture was created by people optimizing for engagement and customer retention.
Corporations enjoy signficant benefits of being in the state, including, for example, a police force that protects them from attack, and a legal system that will resolve disputes they have both internally and with others.

They should pay reasonable (not low) taxes in any event, not subject to the caveat you identify.
That was something Flightgear offered with a custom build since a decade ago.
Maybe because Result is a monad, an Either monad to be precise.

Monads have been implemented in many languages without the developer even knowing, the best example IMHO are Javascript's Promise which are Continuation Monads.
I agree, what is going on is legalized corruption. Tax rates are too high, so no one is paying while lawmakers are getting compensated (in one form or another) for introducing and maintaining tax loopholes
I deliberately omit C# from my resume because while the language is fine, the kind of programs C# programmers tend to write are an AbstractAggravationFactoryPattern of misery.

This posting is extreme but any time I'm interviewing a Java/C# programmer I'm definitely watching to see if they've been brain damaged by the horrible aesthetics and loopy engineering cultures that those languages seem to have for whatever reason
That’s the same kind of nuance which makes the linked article’s claim of 1% tax paid a non story (at least in the context of talking about Netflix specifically).
You are blaming the wrong company. Qualcomm is the company that makes it hard to do alternative software platforms for mobile. Even apple still licenses their solutions (they are working on their own modem but have not shipped that yet). The issue is to get your hardware + software solution certified for use on mobile networks. That's very hard and it's not a very fair game. It requires a nod of approval from operators and intellectual property from Qualcomm.

Apple simply plays the FOMO factor. They do deals with operators. And the deal is typically "take it or leave it and watch your customers jump to your competitors". When they first did that, a few operators were smart enough to say yes. The rest has since learned to do as Apple says. But even so, Apple pays the Qualcomm tax.

The rest of the phone industry plays this game by just sharing a lot of components (Google's Android, Qualcomm's hardware, Samsung screens, Sony camera sensors, etc.). Google has tried to get into that market directly by buying Motorola at some point and by doing their Nexus and Pixel phones. But they never really became a dominant manufacturer. Google is a supplier of mostly software in this space.

Out of all that stuff, Qualcomm is the one that has the keys to the ecosystem. You need 4G/5G compatibility, which they provide via their hardware and software. And you need to get your solution certified. Without that you have an interesting device that does not talk to a mobile network. Even if you manage to build your own version of that (which is hard, but e.g. Apple is doing it), you still need to get it certified and then after you succeed with that, you need to license a lot of patents from Qualcomm to actually ship it. The price of entry to the market is very high. Long story short, there are not a lot of alternatives in the market and a few that have issues being allowed in mainstream markets like the US for IP licensing reasons.
I'm skeptical of that. I don't think women in their 20's don't have kids because of a physical cost - they forgo because of a financial cost and social cost.

Before having kids people want a family structure and to be able to provide for a child's needs. Those two things are intertwined. At the same time if you have those things by the time your fifty you don't have kids because you're fifty - and honestly you're either thinking about retirement or death, not kids.

So for most people who aren't prodigies of one sort or another there's a windows from 30 to 40'ish where if they set things up straight kid or kids seem realistic. If you had to tack on the price of an artificial womb I think the window would get marginally smaller not larger.
This happens with other papers as well. It's always the opinion pieces that get shared because they press people's buttons. Then everyone piles on with 'Oh this isn't journalism' obviously! of course it's not, it's usually not written by a journalist and it's not meant to be journalism. I can understand how people that didn't grow up with the print editions can get confused though as I've noticed that Apple News puts lots of opinion pieces in my 'news' feed and because of the diversity of sources it's not always easy to tell as there are no strong visual clues and each outlet's conventions for opinion pieces are different and I think they call them something different in America, I forget the word, (editorial?).
So it would be fine if only corporations would pay taxes? Get rid of all income tax, sales tax, etc...
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Sharp has very nice screens but beyond that it's HMD garbage and bricks easily if you root it. Good hardware is worthless if the software sucks or even if the phone is obscure (meaning no support, no mods).
React Date Range Picker
Main Features
Pick method - an option of configuring the component to be date picker, range picker, or ranges picker.
Days amount tab - an option of selecting a number of days backward from the current date immediately by choosing a number.
Colors palette - an option of determining the component's color (can be disabled removed).
Language - English and Hebrew support.
Select all button - an option of selecting all of the current board's dates. Whether viewing dates, months, or years.
Boards number - an option of configuring components to be in one board or two boards.
https://github.com/almogtavor/date-range-picker
Corporate taxes allow governments some level over control over corporate policy by incentivizing certain behaviors through deductions/credits etc. Also, dropping the corporate tax rate to 0 would probably be politically impossible, even an identical amount was then taxed on the individuals who benefit.
I have a serious collection of film cameras. I will never ruin the original design. If you have disposable digital camera that you love, go for this "personalisation". But why not focus on taking better pictures? This screams to much "hipster" for my taste.
> Musk is also hoping for scientific breakthrough. When the breakthrough is not there, he says it will be there in 2 years.

Yes, a lot of what he says is nonsense, like Holmes. But the difference is he also delivered big time on some of what he said. I assume many people are aware of his pie in the sky hopes for the future, but that is different from Holmes claiming she already had a technological breakthrough and succeeded in something all the other scientists with decades more experience knew wasn’t possible, and yet not providing any evidence.
That's a great summary and refresher, thank you.
Oneplus 3t, the banking app that I use works flawlessly, but netflix can't seem to work, tried to download it separately but it doesn't seem to work.
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Cripples the mind but greases the wheels.

COBOL is from a different time and family of what we ( mainstream ) understand today as "programing languages". How many "crimes" are committed today writing business rules in Java or C#, etc?

Dijkstra's statement, like anything else has a time and context and I hope something solid from the COBOL family existed today.
And that can be accomplished with a simple MUA like Sylpheed or Thunderbird with 1/5 of the resources.
I definitely assume the worst of a person if I hear that they primarily develop in Node since the first thing I think of is this:

var isEven = require('is-even');

786,000 monthly downloads btw and only one direct dependency.
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Browser bookmarks save position when there is a position to be saved, which is represented in the form of IDs being pointed to by links with a fragment.

Any other scenario doesn't even ensure that the content will continue to exist, let alone have the same structure.
Some languages written in c/q/j, pure css/js, is often only a few hundred lines of a project, I do not use a database, or rarely encounter the need for a database, sqlite/kdb is very easy. You can try my website, https://flashlo.com. The back-end code is probably no more than a hundred lines, and the front end is a single page. I don't like vdom. They cover up a lot of details about how things run.
+1 for OnePlus. I started years back on the 2, upgraded more recently to the 6T. Will take a lot of convincing for me to even think about anyone else.

Same experience though, people have either heard of it and rave about it, or ask who makes it.
Faster both in terms of querying and in terms of doing the kind of analysis you want and getting the answers you need.

Of course, happy to acknowledge that different tools might work better in different scenarios. For example, I suspect that speed of querying is really just due to the data being in memory so if you can configure Spatialite or PostGIS to do the same, I certainly wouldn't be surprised if you say you can do even better.

But for one-off analyses, it's common to spend a lot of time just getting your data into the right shape, doing various manipulations, perhaps even wrangling the geometries. For that, working entirely within SQL is frustrating as heck. For example, I did an analysis on flight paths over heavily populated areas once, which involved turning infrequent point locations with gaps in the data into a smooth interpolated flight path. That's easy if you have numpy and scipy at your disposal, otherwise it's not. Another analysis involved estimating housing prices in neighborhoods without any recent sales, from prices in adjacent neighborhoods with sales, and again it's easy to code up an algorithm to fill the gaps or to run a geostatistical analysis that can impute the missing values, but not if all you have is SQL, or if you have to constantly do roundtrips between database and code.

I mention all this not to start an argument, but simply because when I first started doing GIS work, I was very confused about what the right tools and workflow were, and once I embraced projections (vs. working directly with spheroids) and in-memory analysis in Python, my productivity went way up. If other people find themselves in the same scenario, they owe it to themselves to try out both approaches to see what works best for them.
Actually it is a theater adaptation, but aired on TV. I remember that time. The Leningrad TV made plenty of similar TV-plays for children featuring actors from Leningrad theaters.

I find it funny that such production is compared with Jackson’s trilogy now.
Yes. The second version is "pythonic" and follows the principle of least surprise.

The first version is certainly cleaner, but introduces, effectively, a new DSL sublanguage.
I find it interesting how the article seems to reference the Bing Maps division as though it isn’t part of Microsoft. There hasn’t been some sort of spin-out that I should be aware of, has there?
I worked as a full-stack developer up until 7 years ago. Evaluating different options for my new website, I ended up just using what I'm familiar with: raw, vanilla PHP, HTML, CSS, and JS. Eliminates the need for any faff like server management on my part; PHP-enabled hosting is cheap and easy. No frameworks, just PHP. Not that novel, I know.

There's a stark difference in research and production in terms of output, for me. If I wanna get stuff done I have to think less in terms of the newest, coolest thing and just use the right tool for the job.

Edit: Wrote some details on the design and implementation [1]

[1] https://hypertele.fi/ec997be8c5933e87
> won’t change until someone offers a retail solution for everyday small businesses and individuals to enjoy the same level of “tAx PlAnNiNg.”

Couple of years back when I heard about tax havens, I had an idea why not create a service for individuals/small business people who can use it to open offshore bank accounts and use the same loopholes to save/ minimize taxes legally.

Ofcourse I did not have the motivation to do all the research needed for this service but I still wonder if there is such a service for the little guy.
I think Matthew is doing great work. I have a lotmof respect for what he does and how he goes about it. I find that many things he says are good ways to make pleasant to read (and legible) documents. But:

Please do use Arial. I find it better than about 95% of the choices done by "people that care about typography". Or even better, let other people that care about how their web experience looks chose for themselves. I had the habit of not allowing websites to use their own fonts, but since about 5 years this has led to so much breakage because apparently I HAVE to download 700kb of fonts to render the site properly.

Even though browsers have started rendering web fonts OKish the last couple of years, I still encounter sites daily where I would prefer a monospaced font to whatever abomination the site is using. A bad choice of font is worse than an ok font that make a minuscule group think "this guy doesnt care about typography".

... And don't get me started on ligature abuse...

Edit: for some reason though, people seem to produce better in-print material than web material. Maybe the tooling is better, or people just think it through better.
Is there a webring for Substack newsletters/pages?
> The UK withdrew from the Erasmus scheme as part of Brexit seemingly for no other reason than to discourage cultural integration.

I think it was because of two reasons. First, the sort of people who go on Erasmus and Interrail tend to be the sort of people who could have afforded it anyway - it is a subsidy for the well to do.

And secondly, far fewer people go from the UK to other countries, than come from other countries to come here, so it is a financial drain.

You could argue that it was a good idea for soft power reasons for the UK to do, but it doesn't seem to have built up a lot of European good will so far and perhaps the government has reasoned that the money is better spent elsewhere.
I'd love to switch to WebOS OSE for a 2-in-1 laptop I'm letting my kid use (it's a fanless Intel core m3 laptop with detachable keyboard).

While this web site seems targeted at someone trying to build IoT products from WebOS, I wonder if anyone has already done some work to write down what steps are needed to get WebOS-the-environment running on any modern GNU/Linux base (eg. Ubuntu or Debian)?
> The fact that there is not a third choice is maddening

Even more so because Windows Phone was actually a pretty nice OS with some really interesting ideas. It just came far too late.
Then advocate to remove every form of regressive taxation that takes away poorest already limited wealth.

Abolish sales tax, and punitive fines at the very least, theses are highly regressive in nature.

Though i suspect quite a few don't believe the poor should have more wealth but rather that the government should just get bigger.
It's a mechanism designed to reduce economic inequality

Income inequality. Totally different thing; really wealthy people can play all sorts of games with income, so it’s not relevant to them. And that’s the way they like this debate framed: ignore their enormous piles of wealth and instead focus on the earnings distribution of ordinary people.

If anything, it just stops you getting anywhere near to joining their ranks on an honest wage.
Well, one problem is this just encourages companies to collect and never disburse funds to employers or shareholders. Companies in some cases are holding onto hundreds of billions in cash offshore.

Your idea would make that money free to keep out of the economy and out of employee's hands.
Any examples of the big time deliveries? Except the stock prices and cryptocoins? I think his first big time delivery of something revolutionary is about to be StarLink.
Here's my take.

If you could cache all the inputs that go into a pure function, you'd never need to invalidate the cache. Your cache becomes just a lazily-created tabulation of your function - which is fixed, as a map is just another representation of a mathematical function.

So cache invalidation happens only where your cache key isn't containing all the parameters of the cached computation - your cache isn't a mathematical function. Now the problem is, in real world, it's almost impossible to fully capture all the parameters of a computation in a way that gives you a usable cache (one that trades time/CPU for memory). So we need to track the possible changes in the "hidden state", and invalidate a cache entry if we detect such state. That's where all the complexity sits.

For instance, take a problem of a function countWords(file), that counts words in a file. How would we cache its results? If we key by file name, the cache will be wrong when the file gets changed. Keying by the hash of file contents is out of the question, because hashing is at least O(n) with respect to file size, just as countWords(), so we gain nothing. Keying by file name + modification date will fail if the clock changes, or file gets updated faster than the time resolution we're using. Not to mention, we'll have false positives if the date changes but the contents stay the same.

But assuming that the filesystem is sane and nobody messes with the clock, what else could happen? The definition of what a "word" is can change, making the entire cache bad. We may have found a bug in countWords(), updated the code, and now the cached results are also bad. The contents of the cache may have been changed externally (e.g. if shared by multiple functions, or multiple processes using countWords(), with different definition of "word" or with partially deployed bugfix). The code of the cache itself may have been updated to fix a storage bug there. Etc.

At some point you have to decide, which of those issues you care about and which you ignore - and for those you care about, how to monitor for changes, propagate them to the cache, and do it fast enough that none of the cache users will see invalid data in between detection and propagation. That's how cache invalidation is hard.
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One aspect I haven’t seen mentioned in the comments or in the article: double taxation. One of the drawbacks of structuring a business as a c-corp is that you have double taxation: once, at the corporate rate then again at the individual income tax rate if the corporation distributed earnings to shareholders. An advantage of that, however, is that if you’re investing for the future, double taxation can be more efficient. If my business makes $100 before taxes, I can reinvest about $80 for future growth if it’s a c-Corp but if it’s a pass-through entity (like an LLC or S-Corp designated as a pass-through), I may only be able to invest $60 because I pay ordinary income rates on earnings.

Put another way: in the steady-state, corporate shareholders end up paying big taxes because distributions are taxed once again at ordinary income rates.
It sounds like you're expecting this to be an alternative Smartphone OS you can flash onto a existing smartphone.
While for sure it CAN be one if some people get behind it, I didn't read anywhere that this is a main goal of this open-source project...
Canada has a lower corporate tax rate than the US, at least prior to the Trump tax cuts.
Most of my experience is in C++ and C#. I adore C#... but I agree: it’s as though developers have difficulty getting to the task at hand when using it.

Maybe it’s because attempting even simple abstractions in C++ can foot-gun yourself in some esoteric way? In comparison, the cost to build unnecessary abstractions is lower in C# so many live on.
His books are not good overall? Not much substance? Well, based on relevant ratings on Amazon, the absolute majority of Michio's readers strongly disagree with you. Your mention of Feynman etc. is ridiculous, considering that you have previously talked about comparison with "the average schmuck". Why are you suddenly changing the topic of the conversation?
I never wrote, and will never write, in my resume that I have a good amount of experience writing COBOL for AS400 :)
Steve Sailer on the same theme: https://www.takimag.com/article/the-whip-hand/
I see quite a few people driving Teslas, and as I understand, SpaceX has successfully launched a few times.