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Everyone needs types. Here's one of my favorite quotes:

> "Dynamic typing" The belief that you can't explain to a computer why your code works, but you can keep track of it all in your head.

— Chris Martin (https://chris-martin.org/2015/dynamic-typing)
I don't know about all but I certainly do and I guess some other people, including you, maybe, do too! :) ;p xx
It's funny that you mention MQTT, as the spec requires strings (including topic names) to be encoded in UTF-8: http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/mqtt/v3.1.1/cos02/mqtt-v3.1....

Granted, ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so as long as you control all the publishers and enforce the ASCII-only rule, you should be ok. But if some day you need to integrate third-party systems and they use characters outside of ASCII...
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Very interesting thanks for pointing out re:dom. I took a look at their benchmarks and some vdom implementations compare very well to re:dom. I was pleased to see elm’s performance. So it seems like it can be done well when you want it.
https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...
I think downvoting should cost something. Maybe not a whole point, but something.

If shutting someone else up (and let's not mince words here... that is exactly what you are doing) isn't worth even a token cost to you, maybe you should reconsider whether shutting them up is truly justified in the first place.
Worse is subjective, I accept.

Battery life vs speed vs reliability. Different people cut it different ways.

I think the issue was that everyone got the one solution without Apple telling them. So for a lot of people, it was perceived as worse.
I generally am a fan of strongtowns, but I found the analysis from Yglesias more satisfying: https://www.slowboring.com/p/roads-and-bridges

The gist is: the rescue plan includes some pork, but throws a lot of money at problems that are tractable by throwing money at them.

He also shows that our roads and bridges aren’t that bad: and luckily more money is going into electric vehicles ($147B vs $115B).

Yeah, a lot of this money will end up in the hands of entrenched players and there’s no transit/road use reforms, but there’s some good stuff in there beyond the evocative “roads and bridges” soundbyte.
I feel like our Congress is too small given the size of the country. Individuals in Congress wield incredible amounts of power and they leverage that power into personal gain.

If Congress were 4,350 or even 43,500 members strong, I suspect that we'd see a large reduction in wasteful spending / bribes because individual Congresspeople would wield less than 10th or 100th of the power they do now. People wouldn't be adding a billion here or a billion there to get that one more vote they need to get the bill passed.
The author is not talking about traditional donation-based altruism, but about the 'effective altruism' (EA) movement, which is definitely interested in evaluating the effectiveness of different interventions. The comments you make probably place you squarely in agreement with the EA Camp. Give Directly (a UBI style setup) is in fact one of the charities recommended by Give Well (an EA organization).
I recently started reading Nadia Eghbal's book, "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" [0]. One point she makes early on is that attracting lots of people to open source projects isn't all that hard; but managing lots of potentially low quality contributions is really hard. See "Hacktoberfest" for an example. [1]

If you pay $X for someone to "resolve" the issue, when they submit a patch that doesn't work, or doesn't follow the style guide, or doesn't fit the software architecture, or is otherwise unsatisfactory, how much time are you going to spend fixing/massaging/arguing? Will it be worth it to answer the jilted contributor who keeps sending "I want my $50!!!!" emails?

Nadia also has a quick 10-minute presentation on some ways you can use money to help open source, but without actually paying for bug fixes. [2]

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0578675862
[1] https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjAinwgvQqc
Ah right, only the second half of the comment I was replying to exists. Oops.
I think I'll wait to panick until there is something that doesn't talk about COVID-19 being a US biological weapon...
https://www.hatchbox.io/ is a good option for Rails projects.
The business was software products, built to order, delivered on CD-R media, starting in 2005. The company grew pretty well, doubling in size every 20 months, eventually to be acquired by a large defense contractor. The website probably wasn't needed at all. Getting customers was simple: look for a SBIR contract that is interesting, then bid for it. Analytics software would have angered the customers enough to kill the business, and it may have been prohibited by contract or by law.

I've seen other software and mostly-software businesses where analytics software was out of the question. One example was a company that made an underwater device. Another example was a company that made an OS that got used in military equipment. (add analytics software if you want to live in prison) Not everything is on the internet.
I was a bit surprised by this but I guess I didn't thoroughly read the plan. Strong Towns issue is that this plan is ambitious in "size, not vision". Where fixing roads also means expanding the number of lanes.
Linux doesn't. It'd be nice if all OS's did but until then, you have to do it in your own app. Why only as a backend? Why not just compiled into applications that use it like any other library?
> 2. Assumed to be more efficient than the individual joining the altruistic organization. Somehow the cap on good you can do is limited to marginal income, not about joining an organization and actually attempting to move the cause forward (whether through managerial efficiency, STEM work, or more).

In most fields of endeavour markets and specialisation work better than trying to do something yourself. If someone wants a boat, they can build their own boat, and they might find this fulfilling, but if they want a good boat they'd generally be much better off working to earn money and buying a boat with that money rather than building the boat themselves. (And if they're actually the rare person who's skills are more suited to boat building than any other field of endeavour, then the best-paying job they end up getting will be in boat-building).
Funded by the Gates foundation. Yeah I’m with you.
I expect there will be a lot of skeptical reaction to this, so I'll just encourage readers to read through the whole article (and subsequent articles, if you find this one intriguing), with an open mind.

Specifically, the most important TLDR is that we are not actually suffering from an infrastructure crisis because we spend less on infrastructure than we did in the past, but because we have so much to maintain that even a historic massive capital program like the American Jobs plan is nowhere near enough to fix the maintenance backlog. The money for maintenance should be coming from local revenue that the infrastructure is generating, but most of our infrastructure is in rural and sparse suburban areas and generating little to no return on the investment, so local governments can't afford to maintain it all.

If we want to truly fix American infrastructure, we should be looking to triage our maintenance backlog, let go of old infrastructure that doesn't generate a positive return, and consolidate our investments around projects that generate more in tax revenue (over time) than the amortized capital cost of the infrastructure AND its ongoing lifetime maintenance.
These are both Adenovirus vectored vaccines. My theory is that plain Adenovirus also causes clots, but likewise at percentages so low you would never see them in data. Unless you infected millions of people with the same strain, like these vaccines do.

There's studies dating back many years showing that adenoviruses can cause clots and thrombocytopenia in rodents.

The lesson might end up being, surprisingly, that mRNA vaccines are both safer and more effective than traditional vaccines
Scott Sumner has an interesting argument that it's not a bubble.

Similar for the so called 'tech bubble' around the start of the millennium: if you bought all the tech stocks back then and held them until today, you would have made an OK return.

(Of course, many companies have gone out of business, but there were a few outsized winners to make up for it.

Any individual tech stock was extremely risky, but the overall sentiment that 'tech is the future' was right on the money.

If anything, it's not the high valuations of the 'dot-com bubble' that seem off, but the low valuations of the bust.
This is complete FUD pseudoscience, and the fact that it has 7 upvotes in 7 minutes suggests to me something malicious. The author [0] of this is a quack anti-vaxxer, and the publisher is no better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bart_Classen
Sure. I'm not saying make a new law then punish. I'm saying they should be punished based on the existing law that said prices had to be published. Similar to punishing someone for tax evasion even though the specific technique they used wasn't explicitly enumerated in the law.
I'm more upset about the various things that we were basically lied to about, or things that are contradictory.

Stuff like "you have to go to college to get a good job", when there are many high paying trades that don't require college. Or your employer saying they don't outsource or lay off and then they turn around and do both. Or we believe we have rights under the justice system, but if you are subjected to the system you soon realize that all these people (cop, DA, judge) work together and will cover up for each other's mistakes and misconduct (ie the very people we think protect our rights will violate them as soon as they think you are the 'other side'). The list goes on and on.

There are limits and trade-offs that constrain our lives. The reality of many situations is not what we were socially conditioned to believe. Many of us built dreams on these beliefs only to realize that it they are not possible or highly unlikely. So I guess it's not directly about the money, but money does help immensely with what I so want - freedoms.
Who cares? Are they making music?

If you don’t like some particular piece of music, just say so, but you’re pigeonholing a lot of people, and it makes you look like you’re saying “they’re wearing bellbottoms! This isn’t art!”
Agreed - this is clearly misinformation and IMO it should be removed.
I had to close 5 popups just to read the first line of text.
I recently started using DigitalOcean's new app platform. It's new and still has some kinks, but they've integrated all of Heroku's open source build packs, so migrated from Heroku (if that's what you're doing) is pretty painless.

https://digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/
Which is a useless metric because the energy usage doesn't scale with the number of transactions.
That is not what irony means. And you are still pushing the discussion further from the actual thread. Why? Can't you argue the point at hand instead of serving those "his opinion is valid", "we don't know if he wanted a discussion", and other "he has a right to make a bad choice" non-arguments?
I've worked in tech for over 30 years, have used Signal since it was called TextSecure and just encrypted SMS messages, and my scam detector is still going off as a result of their decision to cram some cryptocurrency bullshit into the app.
If the last few decades tell us anything, it’s once you’re large and have a lot employees, you’re above any regulation that would put you out of business. Slaps on the wrist are the worst you can expect.
Not a good sign when the first page has a typo: “A wealth of knowledge has been published on a class of RNA binding proteins shown to participating in causing a number of neurological diseases”
From the paper: "The vaccine could be a bioweapon and even
more dangerous than the original infection"
Forgive my vagueness- I wasn't complaining that banks don't launder money - only that the original links didn't support that thesis. You have rectified that.

Do you also claim that banks are the biggest thieves?
I would like if we could at least start having a conversation about something like:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
Wow, that soundcloud sample is amazing. I wonder how long it took to produce it or if it could be produced in real time?
I used to be all about the Strong Towns ethos, but now that I’m older I’ve run to the type of suburb they decry.

A nice SFH, big yard, garage filled with tools, good schools, and quiet winding streets all tucked almost a mile from commercial business. After a couple decades of high density living I couldn’t be happier.
You don’t like the aesthetic. It would be art if it was high definition? What are you trying to say?
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This is a good point. You might enjoy Lee Drutman's book, "Breaking the Two Party Doom Loop," where one of his key observations is that fixing the size of the House has distorted representation in Congress and contributed to hyper partisanship. He recommends increasing the size to 700 representatives (IIRC) based on the "Wyoming Principle," the idea that every state gets at least 1 representative in the house and thus each representative should be representing approximately the population of the least populous state.
They can still slowly disable or hide the ability to opt-out later

Look at the removal of subdomain like "www." in displayed URL
I disagree with you on the trains part.

Where do you live? There are parts of the country where trains are a must for everyday commuters, and intercity commuters. NYC, Boston, DC, etc...

Do you realize that the north-east corridor is already profitable, and it is used a lot. (NYC, D.C. and Boston part). Its profits go to subsidize other routes.

That corridor needs a high-speed portion, but there has always been political oppositions to it, and this bill doesn't do much, or hasn't specified anything.

Seems like a Obama 'shovel ready' infra plan 2.0, it didn't accomplish anything meaningful and lasting to the country. This looks the same.
Realistically, I copy all sorts of commands from all sorts of sites. Some fool has a blog saying "Run `kubectl blahblah -o yaml`" and I copy `kubectl blahblah -o yaml` but he can then inject nonsense in it so when I paste it something else runs.

Fortunately, my terminal emulator doesn't run on paste.
How else do you suppose they pay for their crimes?
> I suspect the size of the particles and number is very very low

The number is indeed low, though the size can be anything from a molecule to full-sized planet.

On the other hand, 16 million years is a very very long time, and 17 km/s (the current velocity of Voyager 2) is a respectable velocity.

Even small particles will take the "new" right off something at that velocity. By comparison, the velocity of a 5.56 mm rifle bullet is only about 1 km/s.
There's a lot of truth in the article, but i do disagree with the section stating that everything must pay for itself. Maybe i misread that, but government shouldn't be run like a business.

Jon Oliver talked about debt last week (1) and how infrastructure is paid for. But if I've learned anything in my life, it's that our government is mostly show, and most of these decisions are made behind closed doors, everything else is just posturing for their base.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq_E3HquRJY
I am concerned that most current anti-trust law was written for standard oil and others dealing with monopolies in fungible commodities.

The problem is we are getting walled gardens of 2-4 companies in many domains (voice assistant, mobile phones, cloud providers, IOT platforms, App Stores, consoles). Each company can be framed as both a double digit participant in the segment and a monopoly on their own platform. In each of these there is competition, however there is often little incentive to take a different path, and instead adopt a duopoly position.

I really think they need much broader definitions of anti-trust, including use of a non-dominate platform to unfairly compete in a different area.
The fact Apple lost the court case suggests it ultimately wasn't "here, let me fix your out of warranty phone".
I'm not sure I understand what net suffering is. It seems to me that every person born increases total suffering, but net?

What do you "net" it against? I guess you can equate "increase net suffering" to a concept of "increasing the average intensity of suffering per unit time across all people". But you can't net my pleasure against your suffering, can you?

Or say I spend 80 years of a perfect life, and then die of Alzheimers or a particularly painful cancer. Did I accumulate a "balance" that can be counted against someone else's relatively miserable life? Or did my illness and death mean that my average is really no better than someone whose life sucked but died suddenly of a heart attack?

If someone has great achievements and suffers from chronic mental illness that gives them huge ups and downs, can their suffering and pleasure be compared to someone who has neither? Which increased/decreased net suffering for the world or population?
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But you also spent more time setting this up, and need to spend some time and effort maintaining this.

Years ago I told one of my coworkers that I brought in my bike to the repair shop to replace the tire for €15. "€15? You can just do that yourself?" Sure, but I'd spend 30 minutes mucking about and and getting my hands dirty. It's not like I got a stash of money to burn, but I'd rather just pay the €15.
Wouldn't giving states more legislative power and reducing specifically federal government be a solution?

There are arguments that humans will mismanage anything past a certain point of comprehension, I think 1.2 trillion dollars definitely falls into that category, I don't care how smart you are.

Regardless I agree that a big issue is not enough heads are making these decisions.
I've joked with friends, that if I someday get some free time I want to start a movement to get The Congressional Appointment Amendment ratified. Did you know that at one point it was only 1 state away from ratification?

And had it been ratified, we would have around 6,000 representatives in the house today!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Am...

Care to join my movement?
> “When you take something that obviously doesn’t belong to you,” Captain Rivarde said, “that would be theft.”

And yet when the mistake is in the bank's favour, not a peep. Funny how that works.
I'm glad that you enjoy your heavily subsidized new lifestyle. It's really hard to argue against receiving far more in public benefits than you pay in taxes.

That's the point of Strong Towns: not that there's anything wrong with single family houses in and of themselves, but that the way our economy is structured right now, they usually don't pay for themselves.
Crows are insanely intelligent, hold grudges, and remember people for years.
Early Screenshots of BitBank (Now Coinbase)
I'm not bullish on Coinbase, but the upside case is the market cap of Visa, Mastercard, Ant Financial, Paypal, Square, Stripe, Payment Processors, Bank, Asset Managers, etc -- not just the NYSE.

Again, I don't think this will ever happen, ever. But NYSE isn't a great comparison.
I don't know but if you want to communicate with birds it may help to immitate their vocalization structure. "Speech to birdsong conversion" http://www.windytan.com/2021/03/speech-to-birdsong-conversio...
Unfortunately, there just weren’t other options at the time. And you don’t find out that you can’t withdraw until you tried and failed for a few days straight.
Some observations:

1. Armstrong was so concerned about privacy that he used a throwaway, but ended up giving his identity away anyway.

2. Those responses! The negativity on Bitcoin has been there from the start on HN especially for some reason.

3. That whole payment angle has not worked out the way most people thought. Most enthusiasts in 2012 saw Bitcoin as a PayPal replacement. Instead, Bitcoin has taking its own path, confounding the predictions of skeptics, professional economists, and enthusiasts alike.
The VeChain Blockchain Project
I'm always surprised this guy isn't more well known. If we're indeed living in a second Gilded Age, it's hard to imagine a writer more due for a renaissance.
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But that’s not true really. It only appears true because many people who live in a suburb work in a city center and thus count towards that city center’s output and tax revenue.
In much the same sense that you could abandon your house when you have termites: you're not solving the problem, you're just avoiding it in an incredibly inefficient manner.
Similar thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26795505
Strong Towns agrees with you, and the author points this out in the article, but with specific terminology. Infrastructure is capital investment that needs to generate a return so that it can pay for consumption of public goods. Ie. a road is not really valuable in and of itself, whereas a school or hospital is.

From the article:

> We need to be obsessive about this, particularly at the local level, because we need to improve our quality of life. Many things that are in the American Jobs Plan are not infrastructure, but rather consumption. Still, they are worthy of our spending. If we want the resources to do them, not just in a one-time blowout but in an ongoing manner, then we need a real financial return on our infrastructure investments.

> If we want to spend $10 billion establishing a Civilian Climate Corps, we have to make our investments in infrastructure financially productive.

> If we want to spend $100 billion on public schools and $12 billion on community colleges, we need our infrastructure investments to have a positive return on investment.

> If we want to spend $25 billion on child care, $400 billion on care for the aging and people with disabilities, and expand long-term care under Medicaid, we can’t make infrastructure investments that make our cities poorer.

> If we want to spend $15 billion eliminating racial and gender inequities, $40 billion on job training, and $48 billion on workforce development and worker protection, then we can’t allow our federal infrastructure investments to continue to induce, everywhere across this continent, the American version of the Chinese Ghost City.
This article implies that an enterprising AG can easily bring the entire house of cards down.

One needs to find a medium-level salesperson with dirt (drugs etc) tap the phone, and then just listen to the tap as they discuss all sorts of collusion which could be revealed via public filing of the case. Then it would be a matter of public record
There are a hundred reasons to use this script and your responses merely lack imagination:

* Ancient script written by people at the company no longer here that may encode a bunch of assumptions and lots of dead code

* Personal script that is not to the level of full production

* Run untrusted script in a constrained environment to see at what stage it does something ugly - this will bypass obfuscation based on adding lots of dead code

That's like 3 things I already thought of while writing this comment. In like the 90 s it took me to compose this. These ostentatiously dramatic comments of yours aren't that interesting. Hopefully coming generations of engineers will look at your comments and be like "I wish I wasn't like that".
While I agree thar Congress should be somewhat larger, there is the problem that rhe bigger it is, the bigger the internal power differentials will be, which increases high-corruption-risk influence points.