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> by your definition there is no large scale democracy in existence

Take a look at Chiapas or Rojava. They are large-scale governance systems that most people would agree fit the definition of a democracy, if only because local assemblies and women's assemblies have a lot of power. They both have some forms of representation but nothing similar to what we have here in terms of accountability. You can for example watch "Viva Zapata" documentary about autonomy in Chiapas.

Also, if it hypothetically did not exist yet, would it be a reason to give another meaning to the word? If we can admit a God does not exist, should we call an AI a God because its ways are ineffable?

> Most people would consider a representative democracy to be a democracy.

In some places, most people would consider vaccines a trojan horse of the Illuminati and homosexuality to be a sin. Does the majority always have to be right? Isn't the tyranny of the majority precisely one of the problems with our pretend-democracies? To be fair, tyranny of the majority would be better than the current tyranny of the minority elite elected by the majority (of people who have a right to vote, which is not everyone) in a process that resembles more reality TV shows than a political argument.
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Well, in the West we came up with these nice concepts of the separation of power, checks and balances, democracy.

But as neither nationalization of a large tech company such as Facebook nor giving it a monopoly over information seems desirable, why don’t we just agree that it should stay out of this completely.
I don't think causality has been demonstrated, no?
Exactly. China has never opposed a strong, healthy and positive US. It's the US that's getting increasingly poisonous over China, to maintain its hegemony. A change of political mindset could really see the world with two great countries with different but competitive systems that could learn from each other and see each other's shortcomings.
What about your workflow causes console.log statements to litter the code but not debugger statements? There are fewer of them?
Product managers, tech managers, people in marketing and finance are not being evaluated anywhere near as ridiculously as software engineers are. Let every applicant work through problems that require them to train several hundred hours prior to interviewing and never use again on the job. What's that - - you already did them twenty years ago to get into b-school and therefore should be exempt? You don't say..
Yup... it’s like asking your doctor to draw the Krebs cycle from memory.
You could go for a realism factor and adopt MIL-STD-1553 or ARINC 429.
What if your colleagues are condescending, rude and actively trying to sabotage you?

Cooperative work needs some form of positive bond, trust and feeling of being part of a team that looks out for each other. It doesn't need to reach 'social club' levels.

Truth is, you either have a cooperative unit or have smaller cooperative factions within the team that are competing or adversarial.

You don't want the second type of nonsense at your workplace.

Maybe you've not seen it in practice and that's why it doesn't make sense to you.
I find a lot more things that I like in rust over Cxx; I like the trait system over Cxx's whole virtual functions and interfaces. I like algebraic types and forced enumeration of cases, I like immutable by default without the need to write const everywhere, and I certainly prefer cargo over anything I have seen in Cxx ecosystem.
Nothing like a warm cup of suffocating existential angst to start the day!
I think it's a little bit of a trap to fall into to believe that since Rust:

1. provides some unique benefits in terms of safety, and

2. is hard to program and requires rigor

that all that rigor is "worth it", and that it makes you a better programmer to put up with it.

Don't get me wrong, Rust's tradeoffs are valuable for some use-cases, but there are many, many use-cases where a GC'd language will work just fine, and it doesn't make you less professional for choosing a higher level tool which you can be more productive in if you don't have performance or memory constraints.

I also think, as the author alludes to, that many programmers get their first exposure to algebraic types and the elimination of NPE's through Rust, and get the false impression that the benefits of these features are somehow related to the additional complexity required by Rust. But these features are not related. Languages like Swift have shown us that you can get many of the benefits of Rust in terms of providing an "if it compiles it works" experience without many of the challenges Rust imposes on the programmer.
Reminds how in one of my previous jobs I was the only engineer out there with a work-issued phone. This wasn't some early-phase startup with 10 people on board - rather an unicorn getting ready for the IPO. I actually got into argument with my boss a few days before I started, as I did not want to install stuff on my personal phone (it wasn't spyware, but still). It's really an "achievement" when I think about this now - they've managed to burn my goodwill and demoralize me even before I started. Why should I care about this job if you start by invading my privacy from day minus one?

Going to the office on my first day I was 50% convinced it will be also the last. I wasn't much worried about this perspective; I'm in really good spot career wise. Ultimately they've agreed to give me a work phone. However, this situation left a pretty bad taste. Turned out there were other culture problems in that place (who knew!) and I did not stay there very long.

I feel sad for people who don't have privilege to just quite and find another job when their employer makes unreasonable demands like the one here though.
Interesting, but I fear they'll be too small and buried by too much sediment. Unless he burries a hundred of them in the same location, it will probably never be found, or if found, just an insignificant oddity.
Yeah, but most of those with living memory of ww2 are dead now. I'm sure having huge graveyards around everywhere plus unexploded ordnance may keep it in the national psyche, but idk I'm just an American.
It's funny you think that, because black folks in America have been saying for years that they deserve a cut of what was stolen from them, and the response is "we have ours, go pound sand."
I trust the experts here in the FDA and the CDC. These are people that have been working their entire lives in vaccines and vaccine approval. They understand the medicine, the understand the policy.. if there's anything that most people here could think of, the odds are astronomically low that they haven't considered it.

It is very encouraging that this appears to be a science led decision.

Unsure why I've been downvoted, but if you've worked in FAANG level tech and with scientific staff of the CDC/FDA, you would not think that the caliber of people on either side was much different. There are a very, very large number of Moderna and Pfizer/Biontech doses going out at this point. The bigger risk is 501Y.V2 and company evolving to escape the vaccine, and that is not going to be fixed by a week long pause in J&J/Jannsen to identify the source and treatment for the errant platelet response.
This thread is predictable degenerating into "Whatever my pet peeve is, is going to be the fall of western civilization"
> But this does not change the initial point about informed consent and rape being rape.

I think it does. "Rape being rape" relies on the word having a precise meaning where all things in the category share essential characteristics that allow you to make moral judgements based on category membership.

But "rape", like all heavily contested political words with high moral weight, is definitely not such a word. It has a canonical example value (unfortunately I feel I have to be specific here: a stranger dragging a fighting women into the bushes and sticking his penis in her until he cums), but has a range of meanings that varies fairly drastically across conversational contexts (e.g. we talking ethics/morality? Law? Descriptiveness?), geography (e.g. is drunk sex rape? Depends on jurisdiction. What counts as a "minor"?), time and even subcultures.
Poor choice of words.

Sorry about that.
Technology rapidly increases the potential to gather and evaluate information about employees, increasing all sorts of pressure first on the lower caste of society, increasingly also for HN-type jobs.

We need strong limits on employee surveillance, including transparency to the employee what information has been gathered and a fundamental understanding that people can act 'normal' during their workday: Having an occasional random break, an extra 2 minutes in the bathroom or a short private conversation with a coworker.
I offer a counter to this: NA and its more famous cousin AA are faith-based, not evidence-based.
Propaganda presumes lies. Official position is just that: official position. Kremlin believes that Ukraine is preparing to war. There are reports about Ukraine forces gathering up, so those beliefs probably are justified.
1) safer for those stuck in consumption patterns, yes. And safer on a whole by reducing the number of new consumers. An endorsement and social acceptance via legality is the wrong way I think. Legality would likely push people on the "I think it's bad for me, but I'm tempted to try, and since it's legal it should be ok safe" to the wrong side.

2) Those worst humans would still exist, still try to make money out of the drug business. They would undercut prices, do things that ethics otherwise hinder, etc. They will do this by, as today, move drugs outside of the system to avoid taxes, cut the stuff with other substances, etc.

I think the 2) is such a strange argument. Following the 2) argument, are "the worst humans" expected to just stop being the worst humans?

Look at cigarettes. It's legal today, but there are still scum exploiting the situation by black market selling probably dangerous tobacco that doesn't go through QA and regulatory checks etc.
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That's what I used to believe, that a totalitarian regime can never compete with a free society. The USSR tried and failed. But China is something different. They are extremely competent. And they are past their copy cat phase. I don't believe they have a creativity issue.

I think the free society model is failing given how easy to dissipate false information, especially the kind that get people riled up against each other. It's not a surprise the US feels so divided today despite all the progress made in civil rights.
Our enemies/adversaries know that. They know our weak spot. And they made it their strength. China found a way to do it without compromising other aspects of its society too much.
Uh..

Can we get a new a trade deal with the US which enforces democratic and labor rights? Otherwise please embargo them for the sake of humanity, shift industry back to Europe and forget about them.

See how insane it sounds? Because it's not like the US is a shining beacon of democracy and worker rights. Sure it's better than China but by how much compared to say Scandinavia? It's all degrees. An Amazon worker looks like someone working under slave-like conditions from where I'm sitting.
Rust sounds like a pretty promising language. Considering in the future everything will run in garbage collected VMs written in C++ anyway ;)
Keep in mind it's just one issue in one distribution.

Hardly worth a story. Worst that could happen is somebody finds Ubuntu doesn't work, and discovers there's actually a lot of alternatives to it.
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This might be true at places that are hiring out of a boot camp or something, but as a hiring manager myself, I can say that this is 100% not true at any company I've worked for.
> but the action taken -- essentially do nothing -- was clearly the wrong move

What was the right move then? Please detail. Would it be an “attaque à outrance” with an unready French army and an embryonic BEF against fortified German positions, with neatly inferior air forces, not enough siege artillery to break the Siegried line, a flimsy logistic branch, and following a totally hurried plan due to an uncooperative Belgium which screwed up all pre-war planning? And all that within a nation which already suffered humongous and material human losses barely 20 years before and could not really afford the same thing again, neither from a political nor a practical perspective if it was to handle a long war.

No, I argue that even with hindsight, globally, the right call was made: there was absolutely no way to save a Poland which happily sacrificed every opportunity to get military allies less than 1,500km away during the whole interwar period; the only playable hand was to bet on a long, tracted war where the French and the British could economically strangle Germany like they did in 1918 and free Poland afterwards – implicating, on the ground, turtling behind the border defenses long enough for the blockade to do its job. Problem: (i) Belgium royally screwing up the plan, (ii) USSR joining the waltz, (iii) the incredibly lucky strike of the Germans in the Ardennes.

Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.
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Rust is for the true Scotsman.
My beef with the leetcode interviews is that, IMO, they're in no way reflective of what you're actually going to do, and yet the interviewer often acts like it's a perfect barometer. One misstep or quibble and you're out.

I remember when a former colleague wanted my input on his interview question which was basically, "Write the algorithm for product recommendations." (eg, like Netflix's movie recommender.) Despite repeated warnings, he went ahead with that question only to come back and admit, "Yeah, that wasn't at all good." Imagine what the poor guy or gal on the other side of the table had to go through.

I don't know what the right answer is to interviewing, but my take is that I would prefer to work with someone who I can get along with, have real human conversations, and become good collaborators -- even if they're not ace coders. That measurement seems glaringly missing from too many interviews.
The point about programming languages is fairly irrelevant; the truth is that basically all layouts are bad for programmers, since they inevitably put special characters at the margins, which are hard to reach. I have a short pinkie so it's extra hard for me.

The answer is to use a meta key to add a layer dedicated to those - CapsLock is great for that. I did that last year [0], although I now wish I had that meta-key available on the right side too (I don't want to mess with the traditional Ctrl and Alt, too many programs have shortcuts hard-bound to those). With that extra layer, you can go to town and use the home row for the stuff you really need in your preferred language(s).

As for simple text layouts, I never warmed to Dvorak but picked up Colemak very quickly, and now I just can't look back.

[0] http://blog.pythonaro.com/2020/06/better-access-to-special-c...
It is their territory. Occupied by Russia. Ilegally. Period.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Node.red yet, something this reminds me on and could see evolving as a competitor to.
I love the idea of trolling future generations and have thought about a couple methods in the past.

Yet, it makes me think: are we being trolled by past generations? What inexplicable wonders of archeology might just be someone thinking "whoever finds this will be so confused they'll go crazy".
Won't ever work for most severe food allergies (e.g. peanuts) right? From what I understand, immunotherapy has not been found to be safe/effective for these allergies.
Yeah, the problem though is that we have a Tragedy of the Commons situation on our hands. There is a non-negligible portion of the population that wants to have its cake and eat it too – reduce the risk that they will suffer health consequences from COVID-19 by letting everyone else get the vaccine, but not getting the vax themselves, therefore putting their risk from vax at zero.
You can't learn any language by StackOverflow, but some languages are more forgiving to people who don't actually know them.

If you don't really know Rust and in particular understand the borrow checker and how it works (and why it exists), you are going to have a bad time.

Rust in general has a learning curve, but once you do learn it there is a payoff. If Rust code compiles (and if you didn't use 'unsafe'), you can be pretty damn sure it is free of a long list of potential bugs including concurrency bugs, buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences, alignment problems, double-free, use-after-free, stack smashing, most memory leaks, and so on. The runtime cost of that assurance is less in Rust than in any other language I know, and sometimes the safety of Rust actually lets you do things in higher performing ways that would be dangerous to code in C. In C/C++ you have to knit your own straightjacket, and yours may not be as well thought out or efficient as the one the Rust compiler issues you.

I've really started to appreciate Rust's safety. If the code compiles there can still be bugs, but they're going to be higher up at the logic/algorithm level instead of the annoying sorts of bugs that constantly crop up in C/C++.
Something microkernels like seL4 do really well.

Something Linux sucks at.
Vaccines for tetanus don't cause lockjaw. Vaccines for measles don't give you bumps all over your body. Most vaccines, except for those that used to work by actually infecting you with a related virus, do not cause the same symptoms as the diseases they treat.
No, the miniscule strides made towards a more equitable society are not the issue. We laser focused on the generation of profit for the few at the expense of everything and everyone else. Where do you get your news? OAN?
Manages to be both extremely sweet and extremely pessimistic at the same time.

I wouldn't put even money on the chances that homo sapiens will go back to pre-modern times within ten thousand years. However, the probability of some civilization-ending event within that time (nukes, viruses, aliens, a giant asteroid) are certainly not zero either.
By the same token, I think your post lacks empathy for OP.

OP perhaps doesn't have the constraints you have.

As an aside--

Do you really expect A. someone who has never met you and who has B. written a comment online before you arrived to reply... to know your life conditions or to tailor it to every possible human life outcome?

That is, because you've had children, does every comment online now need to ensure its content is in alignment with your perspective? That sounds like a failure to empathize, on your part.

For example, if I write something... do I need to make sure it's prepared in a way that 100% of people can relate to it, throughout time & space? Such as fathers of children, amputees, astronauts, etc?
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It took me two hours to compile the esp32 fork of rustc on a 2015 macbook pro. Not ideal, but it works just fine.
Taking on CCP or any powerful entity ideologically is above the pay grade of corporate entities, so no surprises there. However the US government should put pressure on these entities and put sanctions when appropriate. You can't keep empowering authoritarian governments at your own expense.
"on the ground" as in military service or are you living/visiting?
> a very long essay / dissertation just to say 'I love rust'.

I think you nailed it.
This is not software. So do you believe the government should be transparent or not? If anything you should blame the media, not the government.
I can't understand how some smart people still sympathize Russia and say it acts only for defense. Russia has made the first annexation in Europe since WW2 and effectively control another part of Ukraine.

Right now it looks like Russian logic is that every free person in the world is a potential threat to Russia. Because threat is anything that you don't control.
Yes, they are very complacent. Perhaps a single strong leader could be the source of inspiration, the catalyst to a stronger European continent. Right now, the people are not inspired by any of the current "leaders".
I can't recall the source (SciAm?), but I recall reading an article claiming that the longest impact humans can make is 16 million years. And that refers to radioactive isotopes. We do not have the technology to make anything that can last longer than that.

(I can't even figure out how to phrase the question to google for the article.)
Here, risk management should be a personal decision. In this case, the right set of actions might be to grant people freedom, and let market forces rule.

I think some people would choose the J&J vaccine if it meant getting vaccinated faster. Some people would choose Moderna / Pfizer, later.

It really depends on things like whether or not you can work from home, how depressing it is not interacting with people, or how concerned you are about the risk of long COVID19. That's not something we can answer for anyone centrally.

From a public health perspective, vaccinating people now with Johnson is an obvious win.
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This statement is wrong. Rust has many advantages over C++. Knowing c++ doesn’t make these advantages disappear. It’s like saying you know assembly language and can write 100% bug free code in assembly so C++ has no advantage over it.

Realistically, both languages have advantages and disadvantages.
That burp at the end reminded me of Earthbound (SNES). Sweet.
"Up until this point in history, the stock market has never been negative over the course of a ten-year timespan"
that's true if you ignore inflation.

In real dollar terms, accounting for inflation, you have to wait nearly 20 years--but only 4 times in the last 140 years.

https://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjusted-s-p-500
What happened to the wisdom of "don't believe what you read on the internet"? There used to be a general skepticism that existed alongside the internet when I was a kid. I think people still remember this for the most part and the war on 'misinformation' is essentially a battle of opinions and ideas, no facts.