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This not ad hominem. I didn't attack Greenwads character.

I'm putting the argument under scrutiny, not the one who argues. I attacked his writing style. He has horrible way to use vague arguments just like he does in this case.
> 31% of all donations, or $127.37 billion, went to Religious organizations. Much of these contributions can be attributed to people giving to their local place of worship.

aka club memberships, and advertising spend to push their preferences on other people.
We modified our code base to give us nested transactions using postgres savepoints, came in handy for automatically wrapping tests in transactions too (though you can opt-out per test)
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) are very good at this in my opinion.
the lack of bit intrinsics and unsigned integers was a show-stopping pain for a cancer genomics startup I worked at, where losing even a single bit here and there has huge performance cost in Apache Spark at the scale of genomic analyses over large datasets.
If second homes are being rented, then the supply of rentals will also increase.
>OTOH, if I could discover a way to make a lightbulb that lasts 1100 hours, for the same electricity and brightness, then consumers would buy that, and I would make money!

This will never happen with incandescent bulbs because the lifespan vs efficiency trade off is fundamental to how they work. More power means more heat which causes it to fail faster. However, this did end up happening eventually with the invention of LED bulbs and now many big companies formerly in the cartel (including Phillips) are in the process of shutting down or selling off their lighting division because it's no longer profitable to sell light bulbs when LEDs last so long.

>The British monopolies commission effectively colluded with them by first decided that there should be a single lifetime as a standard

Just as companies today agree on standards like USB or WiFi, back then they also agreed to a standard bulb life and efficiency. This means that one company's bulbs are interoperable with another's and you don't end up with a house full of mismatched bulbs.

>And I would happily pay an extra $5 in electricity for a bulb that reduced my need to change them.

This doesn't account for the extra greenhouse emissions and environmental effects of running inefficient bulbs. Also, long life bulbs were never banned, even when the cartel was active. You've always been able to buy them if you wish, most people didn't because they had a poor lumens/watt
One "trick" I usually use with Lambdas - add a main() method that allows you to run the Lambda as a regular command line app. If you authenticate locally with a test environment in AWS, you can pretty much test everything in your code easily that way.

You can use this in your local dev env and even in integration tests. I don't need to do this a lot but sometimes it helps when troubleshooting.

Also, you might actually be building a tool which can be used from the command line. I recently took an existing command line tool (written in Go) and ported it to Lambda to expose it as a chatbot.
So was the word "capitalism", that doesn't mean it's actually a dumb idea that won't work.
> Women initiate the conversation.

They have already indicated that they are interested in the man by swing "yes" on him.
Consumer price inflation measurement lags because the basket composition changes. True inflation is likely far higher than CPI inflation because of this market basket recomposition problem. BLS doesn't update the market basket instantaneously; it lags by about two or three years. Thus, when discontinuous shifts in consumer behavior aggressively drive spending out of certain areas (eg airfare, tuition, elective surgery, rent) and into other areas (eg autos, fuel, new construction, computers), those shifts are underrepresented because deflation of the former is weighted more heavily than inflation of the latter.

Any time there is price dispersion within the goods and services of the market basket, it's likely that the basket composition itself is changing too. CPI has no way of responding quickly to this change.
IMHO FSD cars (along with drones, secure programming languages/OSes, and distributed manufacturing) are a post-war technology. The economics don't make sense while we're at peace and locked into the Pax Americana economy. However, once folks start trying to kill each other, these technologies will give a very large survival advantage to those factions that adopt them. Imagine how useful not having to risk human lives on supply lines would be. And risk expectations get reset when things go from "nobody ever dies unnaturally" to "people are actively trying to kill you", which eliminates the biggest barrier to FSD adoption.

I think we'll get such a war within the next decade, so we may see FSD vehicles sooner than expected, just not in the way we want.
What if the US Army...
I would be a lot more inclined to believe anything they said in this article if they didn't show such blatant bias for sensationalist reporting.

> His previous work was mostly concerned with “growth hacking,” which is Silicon Valley jargon for finding underappreciated (or, less charitably, underhanded) ways of marketing something.

So anyone who put the term "growth hacking" on their resume will now get publicly discredited as being underhanded? If they tried just a little harder to stick to the facts, all of the other research they have done in their reporting would carry a bit more weight.
Did they say anything on their Twitter? It's protected now.
They wouldn't be swearing in their paper, they'd be accurately reporting a phrase that is the subject of a Supreme Court case. It's not about seeming adult, it's about treating readers as adults who are capable of reading some naughty words in reported speech without being scandalized.
>"When I worked in a studio, we would mix on $8k genelec monitors, some cheaper monitors, and also test the mix in our cars and on our phones."

Yes! When i was producing an album a year, i'd write in monitor headphones, master on bookshelf monitors + a smallish subwoofer, then computer speakers, my car stereo, and a friend's street comp A car stereo. It's the only way to be sure that my ears in the "studio" weren't being biased by the overall quality of the sound damping and accoustics of the room.

And objectively, i know that CDs are "pure". I also really can't hear the difference between a mastered 96khz 24 bit raw audio file, FLAC, or ~300ABR Mp3. And before it's mentioned, i have much better hearing than anyone i know, even if i have lost the ability to distinguish words when someone talks to me off-axis. the other night i heard my nearest neighbor playing music, and no one else could, here. Neighbor is like 1/4 mile away, from inside their house to inside my house. I brought my tascam to the back door and recorded[0]. Sure enough, the recording has a high noise floor but you can see the bass hits.

I still prefer live electronica shows where the DJ has pennies taped to their stylus, but i watch DJs on twitch using laptops and DJ-I digital turntables. All this to say, i've never made fun of someone spending thousands on pre-amps, amps, speakers, decks, whatever. If someone likes the way a Marantz sounds, or a Pioneer, or JBL or klipsch speakers - it doesn't affect me at all.

We're not using skippy CD players and realaudio/56kbit mp3s anymore!
> It is definitely important to note that that these loans can be discharged in bankruptcy. But as far as I know, isn't this less stringent than typical student loans, which can't be discharged in bankruptcy? Is the point here that there was a population of Lambda students who weren't aware they could discharge their loan, and this contract prevision was preventing them from doing so? Or was the school deliberately making that process more difficult? The article makes none of that entirely clear.

It makes it quite clear. The loan has always been dischargeable in bankruptcy. However, they had a provision in their contract stating otherwise, which was deceptive.
The "competing pkg-manager" issue is still unsolved.

Rarely does it makes sense to manage libraries centrally in a distro if all the developers of the language ecosystem use their own package manager.

I develop java and I never even had the idea to get dependencies through my distro.
If there is zero buy in from the devs, all the work of integrating the central managed lib classpath is on the port/package maintainer.

I think most of npm/mvncentral/cargo/pypi/go+git/cpan/rubyforge don't have distro packages.

The work is very valuable for the user facing applications, but I have trouble seeing it continue apart from essentially treating it like statically linked binaries and automate more based on that.
Being used to Go, I must say the lack of colorless, always implicitly async functions everywhere is probably the main thing I miss whenever I write in a different language.

It really is liberating, when you can write plain, straightforward, imperative, blocking code, and spawn almost-free async tasks wherever you might want to.

Having experienced a plethora of more-or-less functional monadic approaches, python with its GIL, Rusts async approach (for which I understand the trade-offs were necessary) it makes life so much easier.

People bash Go for staying in the Stone age with respect to some features, but this is why I always really feel like going back to the stone age when writing in other programming languages.
I work for a large bank. Banking is "essential", so ALL employees are "essential".

Fwiw, I'm a software engineer and I've been working remotely. I have NO need to travel.
because most of them are clearly fearmongering by ms, apple et al, scaring you into staying subscribed to their particular product. If they abuse their own warning systems, why should we respect them?
"The contextualization engine compares the content being shared with that from authoritative sources and provides articles or other media results that are sufficiently related."

How are these authoritative sources chosen? This sounds like it would be rife for manipulation. Plus, just relying on an appeal to authority as the validation of the information will not weed out mistakes or errors in the content.

What are the standards for these other media results it will provide? News articles, blogs, studies, etc. Some might be better than others depending on the topic. The news and journalists are supposed to be the old school contextual engine. How do we see an automated version being any better quality?
No, wire gantry would be very much ok for this solution.

You don't need wires to be that rigid for that.
Sam Stephenson, works at Basecamp, specifically on Hotwired at the moment I think
Good idea for specific things, where you already know how you want the implementation to be like. Otherwise you can't really control the overall code quality. Small chunk issues that are definite done/not done, and easy to check if it's fixed or not. Price depending on what you think your own implementation time would be * how much you value getting the contribution.
Funny that when you started with "this is a technical crowd" I thought you will continue with "we don't need to be reminded to upgrade".
I mean... is what you said advocation to keep this cycle going? That's where whataboutism leads to. Justification to just swing the pendulum the other direction.

I don't agree with any of it happening to either side of the political spectrum. At some point the shit has to stop.
My only complaint about that book is the title - by the time I'd got to it I was nodding along to things I'd figured out long before or nitpicking things that were "merely" right enough to be useful. Maybe I was already solidly expert, but I feel like for most things programming the knowledge available is so broad that there will be some significant gaps between experts; in any case, I wish I had picked it up ten years prior.
Do you mean in terms of granting DC and Puerto Rico statehood, or reallocating representatives based on population?
Religious affiliation is protected but that doesn't mean every action taken based on a religious belief is protected. For example, if the individual started wearing the t-shirt the day after a heated religious debate in the office with an individual that identifies as non-binary, that could be perceived as targeted harassment.
Depends on geography.

For example, in Canada, housing is up 30% YoY. Trudeau's Federal government recently said that even a 10% correction in housing would be unacceptable.

In practice, Canadian housing isn't housing - it's a 30% (or better) government bond that you get to live in or rent out. That's a 30% return guaranteed by a sovereign state that will gladly destroy everything else in the country to prop up housing. There is no investment like it anywhere else in the world, which is why Canada is seeing the largest real estate bubble in the world.

The best part? You can sell your principle residence completely tax free. Not a penny in tax paid from capital appreciation.
Or you can just stop speeding
It's a lot more clever than that.

Because the music has the exact inverse transform applied it before it's cut to the master, you don't lose any signal, just noise.
Good points all around. Since work is so vital to our everyday survival, and as pointed out, often health insurance, it should be much harder or with much better reason to fire someone than what currently exists today(which, in most states is nothing). I by no means intended to advocate for chiseling out special protections for bigots or antagonists.
https://archive.is/qfOwC
Yeah, I think people conflate seeing people drive erratically or doing dumb things in cars with an inability to operate a car in a way that ultimately prevents deaths. Humans are incredibly good at that in the bigger picture for reasons that are currently impossible to replicate with a computer.

Criticize human driving all you want, but even the worst of us can typically manage to get from point a to point b... Somehow.
I would add to the reasons for "Use wired headphones or speakers" is that many (all? not sure) combination "bluetooth headphones with mic" hardware will bottleneck at the bluetooth link. You end up sounding like you're on an old landline (and incoming audio is equally low-fi).

I ended up using my bluetooth headphones just for incoming audio; and a dedicated mic on my desk for my speech. It improved both my voice and everyone elses' dramatically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles#Han...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles#Hea...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40951060/how-to-make-a2d...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/44sxms/bluetoo...
Except that declaring bankruptcy has actual consequences for people with no assets.
The big problem with Spotify is that they're primarily controlled by the labels with their licensing agreements. All of the majors also own portions of shares within the service.

People also don't realise that I heart Radio is Clearchannel rebranded. The closest thing to an actual independent streaming service I'd say we have right now is Beatport or Bandcamp.

The situation that Spotify finds itself in, along with Roku, is that they are still at the mercy of who supplies them their content. Until they diversify and provide exclusive content of their own that keeps people subscribed (ala Netflix), they're doomed once labels and studios want to me-too and spin off their own services. Disney used to primarily have deals with Netflix, now they've split that off into Disney+. Netflix is able to maintain because of their content. I doubt Spotify will. Nor will Roku.

So even if you have the impression that they're not 'connected to' a big tech company, they're definitely at the mercy of if not already somehow owned by.
Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke
I don't know what Basecamp's books look like, I don't have the clairvoyance to know what they will look like in the future..

humor a speculative question for a moment: would the "better deal" have been to give employees the option of how they'd like to receive their fringe benefits versus a one-size-fits-all edict, so that those with less tolerance for the volatility of profit sharing can enjoy a bit of stability with such fringe benefits if profits decline?

Especially after, as another commenter mentioned: the tax implication of cash payout?
In addition, in printed news at least, the article writer rarely gets to write the headline.
I have. Some keys:

- Lists.

- Checkins for accountability.

- Distinguish work space from other space.

- Develop routine around work start and end times. Block off heads down work as opposed to meeting time.

- Use the time flexibility that remote gives me to my advantage — if I want to start later and work later that’s fine. But keep routine.

In other words, all the same stuff as before. An office just gives you a sociotechnical system in which doing all of the above is easier.
> it works great.

It does not work great.

The problem is dirt, which sounds like a minor issue, but it renders the concept almost completely useless.

A stylus pushes dirt out of the groove as the record turns. A laser cannot do so, and it's virtually impossible to fully clean a record.

The only remaining advantage is that a laser turntable does not wear out the disc, and it's an incredibly minor advantage, compared to simply playing a record once on a traditional player, and recording the output.
The Oscars exist to burnish the Hollywood machine against film festivals. They only recognize small/niche films has needed to maintain a veneer of integrity.
You were caught putting deceptive language in your contracts.

Honestly, the California website claims this was "deceptive" but to me that seems like an exaggeration. Lambda claimed this thing wasn't dischargeable in bankruptcy, the state of California says actually it is. Okay, fine. It doesn't mean Lambda was doing something malicious. It's not like California makes it extremely transparent and clear what the rules are for starting a new sort of educational financing. When you do something new that's covered unclearly by California regulations it is no surprise to have this sort of issue.

To me the real injustice is that California does not allow ISAs. Students are not idiots incapable of making deals for themselves, and the big ripoff in education right now isn't ISAs at coding schools, it's taking out a regular student loan to get a worthless degree at a mediocre university. All of this argument about "catching Lambda's deception" is a distraction from the real problems with education.
What3words is a clever bit of research that should never have been spun into a company.

It's just an implementation of a discrete global grid.

I don't think it is live anymore but there used to be a parody called What3fucks, you can probably guess what type of words it used
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The primary feature of the real estate market is that the prices change so slowly that margin calls take years to happen. People are trading houses on 400%-2000% (4x-20x) leverage. Whereas with the stock market and other asset classes, you can't generally get that much leverage, and when you do the risk of getting margin called is perpetual and instant.

So although housing prices don't necessarily increase faster than the S&P500, and that there are many local variables in play, the same 7% increase YoY can really be a 140% increase YoY, while you are also renting out the home for more cashflow.

Liquidity of the housing market has vastly improved over the last 5 years, mostly due to new kinds of lenders and underwriters in the market, with the current year being even more liquid than ever.

The downsides of real estate haven't gone away. Like maintenance and physical presence needed, which is difficult for an individual as the portfolio expands. The physical presence demand - or the need to make it economical for there to be someone else maintaining the property - means that it is difficult to come up with the downpayment for real estate in areas you would actually like to live in, but are fully capable of renting in. So the barriers of entry stay where they are.
Here is a easy wizard for staking eth2 https://launchpad.ethereum.org/en/
No, anecdotally a lot of people struggle. It is an intensive experience and places different pressure on a person than soloing does. For me it works great, for many people it works great, but not for everybody.
Uh... you probably want to complete that paragraph with a "and still I have achieved XYZ in life", otherwise you're just an anonymous commenter :-\
Spotify is starting to do this with podcasts.
A percentage doesn't make sense, because cheap apps and expensive apps require exactly the same effort for hosting them, and there is no risk involved.

So the fact that these competitors use the same pricing model and the same price has a bad smell.
It's less of a problem because you can opt out of buying a home by renting. This is what happened back in the 00s and I know a lot of people that rented to opt out of the purchase market. Speaking personally, I rented a 3 bedroom home in Los Gatos for $2k/month, which was "valued" at around $1 million.

The difference this time is its on top of huge increases in home prices and rents. So I think you wouldn't see that large of a correction after this particular run-up, because before it both rent and purchase prices were already extremely high.

Ultimately I see it as only a minor problem on top of the huge problem of the basic affordability of shelter.
So I just bought an ID.4 this weekend after seeing on HN on Friday that it launched in the US. I also test drove a Tesla Y just to double check Saturday morning before doing so.

Tesla Y is for sure faster and the better drive. It's also like 10-15k more expensive and that's not even before VW's rebates. The interior was weird -- tiny headrests, tiny mirrors, and really poor back visibility. A giant screen in middle and nothing else wasn't particularly great, and I don't have CarPlay (I know Tesla has a lot of functionality in their system, but I'd personally rather drive it all from my phone to have a more continuous experience in car and out of car). On that screen was a 'video game'-ified representation of what Autopilot was seeing... not only distracting, but kept being wrong while I was stopped at a red light staring at it as it missed the cars in front of me and kept rapidly alternating what direction the incoming lane was going to turn. And that's driving the car? Scary!

I don't care about being faster, the ID.4 is plenty fast. I also don't really care about 250mi versus 350mi range or whatever right now.. all are inconvenient for a super long trip. I just recently drove from SF to near Canada... that was a very long multi-day drive and I would for sure not want to have multiple 35m+ stops in addition to the long drive. Until the technology gets WAYYY better I'll just rent ICE cars for a very long drive. Until then 250mi is plenty to get around the Bay Area knowing I can just plugin at home overnight to recharge.

VW has build a Electrify America charging network from a 2B settlement for their diesel emissions standards. If they're smart they'll capitalize on this and win much more in the long run by becoming Exxon AND a car company... their network isn't exclusive to their cars.

With everyone coming online in the next couple years, Tesla is going to have very real competition. I don't think the areas that they're better at are quite as make/break for car decision making as they claim to be. Elon Musk himself certainly doesn't help as a very divisive figure (and was part of the reason I didn't want a Tesla).
nobody can confidently say one way or the other. both could crash. at least with the stocks you probably aren’t doing it on margin so you won’t lose the principle and can wait it out. with the house you can lose all the payments and the house if you can’t cover the mortgage.