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This argument is FUD. Until Epyc games had the courage to complain I could have asked you to name an example and you would not find anything that is not on Google Play with exception of maybe Free Software.

If this is not FUD do you have a source that shows that thousands of poor grandmas that have Android were forced to side load Farmville and if this happened what was the damage (except that some bilionaires made a few less millions)
EDIT: this was wrong, did research and you actually have to hold for a year

Original: Holding a year or not doesn't matter for donating appreciated assets, AIUI
The coordinate system changes from equirectangular to polar stereo. The poles just don't get good imagery from the MRO. I work extensively with HiRISE data which is collected from the same orbiter as the CTX data this map uses.
He didn't score the most points, but he got the most rebounds and assists.
It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of a private mega-project (i.e. office/residential skyscraper) in NYC versus any other urban metro in the rest of the world to compare it to these public works mega-project. Is it mostly more labor costs, general technical challenges, bad project management, general corruption, etc.?
That is literally their purpose. Don't want to go through the hassle of offshoring your entire IT / enginering or other division, and will be gone before the inevitable rot and overages kick in? Accenture will happily do that for you, and figure out how to abuse the H1b program enough to fill as many bodies with offshore people in your onshore location as you need to justify your realestate purchase.

I genuinely think accenture might be one of the most powerful companies in the world, just because of how many entire departments of so many major internaional corporations actually report to accenture management, not the parent company.
You're explaining your understanding of commercial consultancy, but are obviously (and you note at the end) not detailing your knowledge of systems integrators that don't always happen off-shore. For instance, many large companies in the valley have contracted engagements with Accenture as well as partnerships - especially Cloud. Any government work being done isn't offshore.

https://www.thestreet.com/tech/news/accenture072020
I’m searching now and I see multiple books on designing distributed systems. They’re probably worth looking at, but I haven’t read any of them so I can’t make a specific recommendation.

I’ve learned a lot from reading about the architecture of existing distributed systems e.g CouchDb, Git, and Bitcoin.
Wow: that is very early adoption! I'd say Linux, with Slackware, around 1994 (?). Git took me a bit longer for as I was a happy Mercurial user but once I saw the momentum shifting heavily towards Git I switched.
Nice! I will have fun reading through that. If you are a fan of SV then Dangerously Funny is a great YouTuber with some amusing Stardew Valley content - highly recommend; especially the videos where he bends the other inhabitants to his will :)
Any communities for collaborating on blockchain projects?
Are there any existing communities for collaborating on blockchain projects? If I've got project in mind where can I find people that might want to build it with me? Or where can I find people with great projects I can join?
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> What does "force of evil" mean anyway?

Yes, subjective. But here's my belief and how I believe it applies.

I believe evil is the abandonment of reason in any way. Instigation of force or coercion is an un-reason-able act no matter whether done by an individual or group of people.

Currently the US is engaged in numerous instigative forceful and coercive acts.

Further, much of what the US does would not be possible without people abandoning their own reasoning for the fallacy of authority. Here I do not mean appealing to authority, but instead `following orders` without consideration to one's own responsibility to also not instigate force/violence/coercion.

We could go down the path listing instigative acts of the US, but I believe most reasonable people know that the US is engaged in a number of these acts and would prefer it wasn't.
Often in telecoms, the root issue is they don't want people on payroll. They're trying to outsource everything possible - their vendors now provide managed services etc. Telecoms companies in Europe at least are just financing a range of contracts to keep things running.

Having to hire in more staff creates cost liabilities for them. They'd rather outsource things. That means they lose the skills in-house, and often end up needing consultants to help fill the gaps in their knowledge (after having lost their skilled people to the outsourcing companies, or other sectors).

Some telecoms companies have outsourced their development to Tech Mahindra and others already... And yes, in my personal view, they'd be far better hiring random software engineers and undoing the decline in control and understanding of their own business they've overseen.
Yes, I think your reading is correct. The article makes claims the paper does not about comparing Vertical vs. Horizontal wind turbines.
Today it appears to be @dhh's turn.

The responses to his post run the gamut but seem to be mostly a dog pile of ridiculousness - including Godwin's law.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009

> "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play"
Well, I think the question really is, how much real money its creator got for selling his shares. If the number approaches anything near 1 million, I still think the situation is completely ridiculous.
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Are you suggesting that far left politicians are less corrupt?
I absolutely love what you guys do.

One of the unfortunate things I run into on social media is this idiotic perception that KDE is bloated and cumbersome, then when you drill down into the argument, you often find that these same people haven't used it for 10-15 years.

I'm not sure how you can fix branding perceptions that are based on fallacious experiences that weren't updated in the last decade, but I think some manner of user evangelism can also help!
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There are probably a few like you - but what if there are those of us who find the challenge of optimization itself satisfying?

At least you had enough tact to not accuse people of doing it wrong :p
Regarding the risk - I don't think this characterization is doing the issue justice. It's really about decades of building up a manufacturing capacity with suppliers, etc. to get to a position where wind turbines are now competitive because of this manufacturing capacity.

For an alternative to develop, it is not enough that it is slightly better. And both turbines driven by kites and vertical turbines are known tech, with known problems. They are likely not slightly better. Early wind pioneers knew about vertical turbines. They have some nice properties. But also some not so nice ones.

And this paper does not study vertical vs. horizontal as far as I can tell from a cursory look. It studies what happens with vertical turbines in a small farm.
Non-ionizing, but still there are concerns including melatonin disruption as indirect cause of increased cancer rates living near power lines.
What part? Its a law on the books and it all went down at the Stanley Mosk courthouse on the third floor. I was also late to roll call and I had to take a Bird scooter a quarter-mile from Chinatown because parking at the court is like $40/day.
If providers would take the money they'd normally fight municipal broadband with and instead fight for access to the "last mile" they'd come out way ahead - offload a cost center to the municipality, get better access and speed, and be able to differentiate on services.
There are extremely good consultants. And there are extremely good offshore teams.

These people do not come cheaper than onshore or inhouse hires.

That's the easy way to know whether or not dealing with the new consultants / offshore team is going to go well, or be an awful long term experience.
They dated for a long time before then and she actively had to meet with him in a work context for the famous BillG reviews. She's done interviews talking about how it was managed and how she wanted to be seen as still pulling her weight.
Should I implement email verification during sign up?
I'm working on a new app, and wonder if we should verify user email address during sign up. I notice some app allow user to sign up with a fake email address e.g. abc@abc.abc, but some doesn't. What's the pro and con for allowing fake email address? Thanks
Does this model consider the disparities in costs, rates, and growth potential as dictated by race? I say this not to be divisive but because revelations about such disparities over the past few years are a real and substantial concern, such that spending, borrowing, employment, and other such decisions might be altered to account for these realities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/realestate/blacks-minorit...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/lenders-deny-mortgages-for-b...

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensatio...
That's globalization and, in the "intellectual property" area: 1) the ability to record & duplicate things in the first place—being able to play the piano tolerably well is worth basically nothing now, socially or commercially, which wasn't the case before radio & recorded music became common, for example, and 2) ever-decreasing costs of duplication.

Vonnegut treated of this in more than one of his books. He seemed to regard the effect as likely more socially destructive than it was net-beneficial.
Here is a book that describes various 'corrupt' schemes: Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Taskforce

Here is a pdf the report: https://www.ceic.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_client/centre...
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Any huge, old, unaccountable organization is going to suck, government or corporation.

The key is being accountable to the end user. Local governments with rational and active voters and corporations with energetic competitors usually do very well.
This will always be my favorite Buzz video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y-Pc0cz-9o
I am not defeatist. I am realist / pragmatic and I am looking after myself an my family. It is not in my job description to wage political crusade about China. I buy whatever makes financial sense for me. I am way more concerned about the way FAANG and the likes manage to affect my life.

The only reason we have non-local is because of the international trade and your own big corporations moving production and sometimes even research facilities overseas. If you not happy about the non-local situation go to fat cats who sold your country for an extra buck in profits and bought politicians to let them do it and convince them that they're wrong.
The funny thing about dogecoin is that it was designed to be inflationary, so it's basically guaranteed to lose you money in the long run.
Surely no-one believes the CIA always behaves ethically. Especially after the post-9/11 kidnap, torture and murder rampage. Perhaps you meant a lot of people question if the CIA ever behaves ethically.
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It's not abusive if it benefits its users.
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I used to work at Accenture. I was quite literally the ivy league educated white face they used to interact with clients, so they didn't have to have clients interacting with their h1bs. Though it took a while to figure that out. We were pushed to ship to the letter of the contract, because they understood that that would create bugs that their offshore QA wouldn't catch. That meant that there would be an ability to sell support contracts after the initial contract completed to keep the code running, and would make it easier to sell the client on rewriting from scratch when the next iteration of whatever framework or product line we were integrating against came out in a few years.
This maybe true for you but I know that I get a sense of satisfaction from releasing free software and knowing that people around the world are benefitting from it.
Not everyone seems financial riches as the end goal of their efforts.

Most musicians don't get boatloads of cash or to perform in stadiums but instead the appreciation of a handful of people who enjoy their music.

It does depend on your motivation for writing the code as well. If you are coding to solve someone else's problem and feel no benefit from it then indeed money is typically expected.
Yeah, I think this is right: concurrency issues have to be solved by using data structures with concurrency semantics (software transactional memory or atomic refs/ints) and can’t really be solved by something like async/await. Go making you use channels to express asynchronous execution here is a feature, not a bug.

async/await and friends (generators, callback-passing, etc.) all provide some clues that are sometimes useful for solving concurrency problems, but they aren’t able to make unsafe programs safe.
I think a lot of the hand-wringing about this forgets that books are very cheap to produce. A single annual bonus for a FAANG software developer could easily cover the full upfront cost of several books, including a decent sized advance for the author (not GRRM or JK Rowling obviously, but a normal author).

A book that sells 5k copies probably isn't making money, but it also isn't losing a large amount unless they gave the author an unusually large advance.
You ask as if this isn't already happening. See Facebook, Signal, some banks, power and electricty companies (telcoin, electroneum) Also many of the blockchain/crypto projects are themselves companies of various sizes, building real-world business involved with the crypto they're producing.

What happens is that people use tokens with varying degrees of de/centralization, and occasionally prefer them over the currencies of their own countries.

What happens to these people, and speculators, varies, and depends on the level of centralization, whether the central control is used in a manipulative way, and finally whether the crypto in question has economics grounded in real-world use cases which will drive demand independent of speculation.
Why not just use a font that works everywhere instead of reinventing the wheel? It's gone from stupid to annoying to tiresome over the years opening documents created in Windows on other platforms and having proprietary font problems.

If the web can do it, why can't Microsoft?
Agree the tax calculations are a little bit off. Also, only lets you take the individual standard deduction (12k vs 24k for married filing jointly)
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> they were arguably highly responsible for the turmoil that led to increased regulation via SOX, and now they make much of their revenue on SOX compliance.

No. Andersen Consulting started as a division within Arthur Andersen in the 1950s, but became a separate BU in 1989 and in effect a separate company by the late 90s. The split came about because AC's business (technology & business consulting) made much more money than AA's business (auditing).

The Enron debacle took down AA in late 2001 because AA was Enron's auditor. AC (actually Accenture by that point) wasn't involved.
Donating assets to charity is not a realization event under US tax law. This is why donor-advised funds are a thing - this rule applies to publicly traded securities, which means you can donate appreciated stock to a DAF and have the fund distribute cash to charity on your behalf, avoiding the capital gains you would incur if you normally sold appreciated stock and donated the proceeds.
The problem with that is that those agencies also lie all the time. You can't have your cake and eat it too with a just trust us attitude and also make stuff up when it's convenient.
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All the conditions for rapid micro-evolution are in place: huge sample size (all humans on earth) and high selection pressure (everyone getting immunized). 17 mutations! Isn't that a lot ? Plus 3 in the spike protein which is what the vaccine targets right?

Evidently this is not as big of a concern as for drug resistance: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
>No, its not. It, by definition, favors the status quo.

It, by definition, does not favor the status quo. Staying silent on a topic may be against the status quo, or it may be for it. That by definition makes this neutral.

>No, prohibiting pushing isn’t neutrality, its favoring the current state.

No it's not as explained above. Pushing may be for or against the status quo, and prohibiting pushing by this logic means neutrality. The status quo may be under threat by staying silent, or the status quo may not change by staying silent. That is neutrality.

You're essentially creating a non-falsifiable here by just assuming that "silence = for status quo".

>Yes, the a particular scope is being excluded.

Except nothing is out of scope, just time and place. You still have unlimited scope outside of work.

>That’s the excluded scope.

That's not a scope. You're company is not limiting your scope, you agreed to be there, during business hours, to conduct business.

>Sure, if the conservative position is not the status quo and the progressive one is; your preventing both (and others) from being heard, adversely impacting all that are not the status quo.

Yes, which in the long run means no one side is being heard or pushed over others... True neutrality.

>To the extent your “alternative” is true, its not an alternative, just a specific case of what I initially described.

Exactly, and it proves my point. The net of it all is neutral. QED.
Just as a heads-up, this privacy policy is not legal in the EU because it doesn't fulfill even the primary requirements (say what you process, for what purpose, stored for how long), but also this huge template (28 minutes estimated reading time) is not helpful to anyone -- it's just an enumeration of every possible method of data tracking -- so I'm not sure why you would even use this when it's not legal anyway. It's more helpful for users to just write a short, custom notice with a bit of required boilerplate at the bottom (e.g. 'you have the right to complain go your local authority' needs to be in each of them), then it's both informative and legal.

Edit: somehow ctrl+f privacy gave me 0 hits (maybe I started typing before the page loaded fully? Not sure, but I did look), just noticed when actually starting to read the comments that something similar is also the top comment, sorry for being (at least partially) redundant.
Your response was well-reasoned and thought out, and I certainly wasn't TRYING to imply it was mostly unions.

But having done work in the past to do detailed analysis for the WMATA (they run the DC metro system) on various understaffing issues, the unions do contribute to issues with operations and maintenance. I will not and cannot comment on their issues with construction of the Silver Line.

But as far as maintenance, the unions (they do the same for BART by the way) constrain hiring the proper number of maintenance techs, so that the employed techs get large quantities of overtime pay. A single person working 12 hours a day ends up costing the same as two people working 8 hour days, but is definitely not going to be able to keep up with repairs, resulting in the constant broken escalators and elevators and out of commission tracks that have plagued WMATA increasingly since the late 2000's.

Reducing the quantity of workers when negotiating with an entrenched union is very, very difficult to do. They tend to want to keep the same quantity, or very slowly increase the quantity. This is very well documented behavior that is covered extensively in the book "The Machine That Changed the World", which was the first book documenting Toyota's journey with LEAN manufacturing, and then talking about the challenges GM faced with their unions when trying to implement these same practices.

All that being said, you were correct to poke holes in my statement and you added to the conversation significantly, so thank you for that.
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Large stations are not just unnecessarily expensive, they usually take longer to walk through. Looks nice on opening day, and then a hundred thousand people waste an extra 2 minutes every single day forever.
Look at sales tax only, since that’s what’s being discussed.
"Earlier this year, Nestlé spun off its North American bottled-water group to two private equity firms for $4.3 billion."

"If the order is upheld and goes into force, Nestlé face fines up to $1,000 per day or ten-times that amount if a drought is declared."

Interesting article, but a pretty transparently toothless punishment.
I have ADHD.

A common version of ADHD happens when the person brain doesn't produce enough dopamine, so the person in question keeps seeking more, so people with ADHD often have addictive behaviour, even to stuff people didn't considered addicting at all.

But this variation of ADHD also can make the person a high performer, often the best dopamine kicks come from doing interesting work, for example coders doing new stuff or fixing really bizarre bugs, or a CEO having to navigate the company through a very tricky situation.

There is some resaeerch trying to figure out if it has a link to hunter genes (ie: people with this variation would be more inclined to hunt, and be persistant during hunting, at same time switching targets if necessary, but these adaptations make the person poor in following schedules, thus a poor farmer)
Wow, I just finished reading Carrying the Fire three days ago. Good writer and a great ambassador for the space program.
>If I had to wager I'd always bet on national security agency of any powerful country lying, I don't see how anyone could come to another conclusion given their history.

Let's not pretend the FSB and MSS don't also lie constantly. That you're more familiar with the CIA lying is a testament to the free press of the US, not the other way around.

The point of the previous post is that it could easily be another security agency.
You're ignoring opportunity cost which was the whole point here. You didn't say how much Apple was getting.

If Spotify charges $10 and pays Apple $3 then Spotify makes $7 and Apple makes $3.

If Apple enters the market and charges $10 then consider a user that would have otherwise went to Spotify. Spotify makes $0 and Apple makes $10 from the subscription but loses $3 from what they would have been paid from Spotify so Apple makes $7.

Apple has lots of advantages stemming from their control of the platform but "not having to pay the 30% fee" isn't one of them.
Judging from all the comments here people don’t know what they want. They claim to want fair but then they make a bunch of unfair exceptions for poor people. They claim to want to tax the wealthy but not unless it’s full of exceptions that ultimately benefit the wealthy.

> are leaps and bounds better than a sales tax.

Define better. What should be the goal of taxation in only a numerical and objective way? From most of these comments the answer is something about land and wealth but void of any mention of taxable assets or specifically how to unfairly punish only certain persons.
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The people who define it differently than you also use reason -- just a different line of reasoning. This is the entire issue with the phrase to begin with, there's no universal definition of what it means. It assumes a shared value system.

Almost everyone who fights anyone else believes that they are right and has a reason for it.