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I just don't understand this viewpoint as it completely ignores the history of humanity. "Cancel culture" has been used for many centuries to silence dissenters. Take a look at Galieleo as an example. He was excommunicated or "canceled" by religious organizations that held the primary means of power. He was even forced to recant his positions by these groups.

How is this any different than today?
I've tried to use VR on a treadmill and immediately regretted it every time.

It's too bad, because I would really like to be able to do virtual walking tours of places while on the treadmill, but as soon as the camera moves anywhere but where I'm looking at the time, I want to vomit.
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> This doesn't change the fundamental fact that a tax on every transaction disincentives B2B transactions

You can make the same argument about VAT. There is a cost on every transaction (split payment, money is frozen until you get a return). The incentive would be negligible comparing to other incentives for vertically integrated companies.

> progressive taxation isn't widely implemented for corporations, because it's very easy to circumvent by splitting up and increasing the number of legal entities

It's getting more popular and it's easy to draft a law that splitting companies, does not reduce the taxes (see GDPR)
https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/poland/corporate/taxes-on-corpo...

> sensible way around that is taxing the _ultimate beneficiary_ rather than the company itself (i.e. the owners as natural persons), which is what GP suggests with "sales tax and personal income tax on salaries and distributions".

It doesn't work in practice, because of tax heavens. Also, I can have a travel blog and a youtube channel when I review cars and clothes. Would I pay close to 0 in taxes.

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All taxes are bad, but given current global world, revenue tax seems to be better, hence the digital tax in EU.
"Diversity and inclusion" as a separate function is mostly an exercise in giving the rest of the company cover. In my experience the people in these orgs have very little power to do anything, they just recieve the complaints, empathize, and then nothing happens.

As an example, I went to our head of D&I with a complaint about HR violating human rights law in our jurisdiction. They said "oh that sucks" and I never spoke to them again. I could have gone to a tribunal and argued about it, but instead I ignored HR, and shortly after left the company because I kept having to fight them about what seemed like baseline "inclusion" stuff. The D&I staff were mostly busy making promotional materials about the few successful marginalized people at the organization, despite our terrible stats.
Time to bring back Parrot. It was not dead... it was resting!

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I was under the impression US cash apps like Zelle were far more popular than cryptocurrency: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-11/zelle-has...
Deliberately sabotaging people does not require that the sabotaged person be under-performing or low quality. That’s the point. If a BR prevents you from hiring an unqualified person to be a sacrificial lamb, then you just hire a qualified person that can get past the BR to be a sacrificial lamb. The existence of BRs is absolutely not a foolproof check on this.

You might ask “why would an HM fire someone who is qualified to do the job?” The answer is that Amazon requires that someone must be fired. If you were an HM, who would you rather fire: an existing qualified tenured team member who already knows the ins-and-outs of your team and system, or a new qualified person who would require extensive training and time to get up to the level of the tenured employee? You’re going to pick the new person, even if they are qualified.
> is one of the most militaristic states in the world

Just for fun? Or does Israel face real security concerns?
Simone Biles is an athletic miracle. Just like Serena Williams (won a tennis tournament while pregnant), Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Eliud Kipchoge, etc.
The Concorde actually had a pretty profitable final couple months when they cut prices down from ultra premium because it massively increased their utilization. Boom also seems to have plans for Pacific routes according to their website, so I assume they're planning their range accordingly.
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The true telos of a mathematics education is gaining a genuine understanding of the principles of mathematics. Pragmatic concerns of the nature you describe should be treated as secondary concerns in an educational environment.
The major flaw in our operating systems is that processes run by the user have access to everything the user has access to. This was fine back in the 80s, but today, you as a user can’t trust the code that you are running to do only what it says it’s doing.

If filesystem access permissions were invented today rather than 50 years ago, they would probably look a lot like permissions on iOS: user would need to affirmatively grant the process access to specific files or directories. No blanket read/write access to everything the user has. Same with networking. The user should have control over what kinds of inbound and outbound connections the process is making.
Yep. I'm curious what while happen when the NBA decides it doesn't want to license its video clips to Top Shots anymore.
How much of that money comes from them competing with European businesses that actually pay back to the community they’re earning money from servicing?
Developers are always tempted by the idea of the Big Rewrite That Will Finally Fix Everything. Language designers are no different.
> Should the U.S exist? Last I checked California used to be part of Mexico - why isn't it being returned to it's rightful owners?

Yes, the U.S. is also a colonial state. Not all states owe their existence to colonialism and occupation, but the U.S. is definitely one of them. We committed a genocide on an unimaginable scale, and took all the line of the people whose territory this was rightfully theirs. Not a good example of states to emulate.

> How about West Europe? Maybe it should be dismantled and have all it's assets transferred to Africa?

Its colonial territories in Africa should have been, and were, transferred to Africa.
I've always viewed work as means to an end, and that end is getting paid to take care of my family. I've made some good friends, but I've also been forced to tolerate some people I would rather not be around.

I also find that communicating through multiple remote channels is freeing. People aren't reading my body language to misinterpret what I'm saying. Requests and plans are more concrete and documented. People have to be more thoughtful about what they are asking for.
I think you're hinting at a Broken Window Fallacy [1] here. I disagree that these cybercrimes are a net positive for the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The moral and educational formation of children is the right of parents. Your authoritarian attack on the family isn't representative of most people's views.

And if everyone pulled their kids out of public school, virtually all of those children would be better off, with very few exceptions. Punting one's offspring to daycare and public schools so that both parents can work is the real tragedy of the commons.
Which means they find some senior technical person to actually be part of the announcement, to give it more credibility. They're reading off a C-suite script, yes, but they are putting their names to it.
They do that on desktop as well, and I hate them for it. For anyone who's never noticed it, try googling "backpack" and then "backpacker".
I apologize if my comment upset you or was offensive to you in any way. I only meant to notice that your comment paints a picture of all such projects being awful, and this may not be a faithful representation of reality.

If you didn't mean to paint such a picture, I'm sorry for misunderstanding.
Boom is bringing to the table that the technology has advenced in the last 50 years and even the Concorde might have succeeded, if a second iteration had made it to the market. Also, partially the Concorde failed because Boeing opposed it. They were working on their own supersonic plane but were a few years behind. Unfortunately, they were so successful in blocking the Concorde, that their own project failed as the market had become convinced that supersonic flight doesn't work out.
There's clearly a market for it. It's just that the market is probably a very different size if a one way trans-Atlantic ticket is $5K vs. if it's $20K.
Interesting comment about the XWB. The hype-driving is obviously necessary - nothing is ever more than ~5 years away, because that is the limit of VC/consumer patience.
Is your screenshot showing the default setting, when you first checked it?
Then basically you says its boil down to matter of subjective preference. So you don't like it, fine fair enough then don't be surprised that other people may like it.
I read an article (or maybe a biography author interview on NPR) about how pretty much all of his double-meanings/literary references came from the honors English curriculum from his time in school (probably pre-80's Dylan).

However, now when I try to google for it I just find pages and pages of results about whether he deserved the Nobel prize or not.
I see two scenarios for ES2042 (possibly both).

0. It will end up completely unnoticed, because everyone is using any language you like and compiles to web assembly, which is the defacto standard for more than a decade.

1. It's like a new C++, because of the many TC39 stage 3 proposals that has been added over the years without the possibility to ever fix the language in order to not fork the web.
Quite the contrary, blocking software due to some misguided US-specific regulations is quite common on GitHub, see youtube-dl.
it makes me sick to see everyone thinking that this is proof of cancel culture - LOOK THE DIVERSITY GUY WAS HOISTED BY HIS OWN DIVERSITY PETARD!

NO. The people calling for this are not progressives - look them up - Simon Wiesenthal Center and Stop Antisemitism are conservative zionist organizations who equate anti-zionism with anti-semitism. As far as I can tell Kamau Bobb's post was anti-zionist, NOT anti-semitic at all. If you read the passages you will see.

This is a cancellation by the original proponents of cancellation: conservatives supporting an entrenched power structure.
Criticism of Israel's apartheid policies isn't antisemitism. It's such nonsense how the two have been conflated in recent years.
This is how it works now, yes it's extreme.
But if you say something demeaning over women or blacks the response is much much worse. Here the guy just got transferred to another cushy job with big pay, not even fired. Jews are fair game unfortunately
Because the argument has validity.

If Israel weren't Jewish, nobody would care about it. You can go line by line describing Israel and its so-called "atrocities" and I'll show you countries that are far more appropriately accused of those types of atrocities... yet those other countries never make it into the international news cycle.

I'm not Jewish. I'm not religious.

But the singling out of Israel by political/antisemitic forces has not escaped my notice.
I thought it was the UN that decided the country should be split into two states, where one would have a Jewish majority and the other would have an Arab majority. When did people rebel against imposing a majority-rule democracy?

Last time I checked Israel just changed the prime minister after having an election, while Palestine had its last election in 2006 and chose a party that literally killed its opponents.
"Damore emailed his memo to the organisers of Google’s diversity meetings in early July. When there was no response, he started sending the document to Google’s internal mailing lists and forums, eager for a reaction."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...
That is an absurd argument.

Replace "Jew" with "Krogan..."

The blog post took aim at Jewish people, not the policies of Israeli government.

Even it's title "If I were a Jew" is problematic.

https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Krogan
You’re correct that there isn’t a lot of competition.
It helps some if they've ever actually claimed to have changed.
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I believe this is due to historical reasons, in particular due to the Bourbaki and the French school of mathematics where abstraction was heavily prized. On the contrary mathematics in the Soviet Union had more of a focus on intuition and geometric grounding for mathematics, however history played its course and mathematics is taught more towards the Bourbaki style these days, however it did bring out gems like [1] which give an opposite, albeit extreme, view of how mathematics should be taught.

[1]: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/arnold.html
I took it as a reference to his lyrics, for which "AP English" would make a pretty good tongue-in-cheek categorization of the style & content. Same with the text he writes for the back of his album covers. It's not the kind of thing I'd expect someone without exposure to and some affinity for that kind of thing (literature and poetry, that is) to invent spontaneously.
He was using company resources to respond to a company request for him to provide feedback to a company event.

When the company asks you "tell me what you think about the content of our diversity training, we promise your response is confidential and we are interested in hearing what you have to say", and you respond with an evidence based argument that the diversity training is incorrect, then this is a very different situation from the head of diversity making public comments on a blog. Remember Damore was a non-management developer.

If you are going to fire people for their views, which is what apparently Google has no problem doing, then the Damore situation is much less justifiable than this situation and the person with the offending views was not even fired.
> Maybe ban yachts first?

Maybe ban population growth that consumes planet’s resources like mold?
Of course not.

I was seeing how far people would go with Damore, and it really saddens me how much my comment was upvoted. People here are the type of people I work with... they all hold these views?

Of course, now that I've clarified, I expect the Damore-types to downvoted my comment, it peaked at +5.
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The article says that the bad water theory is unlikely because it's easier and cheaper to boil water than to make alcoholic beverages.
I read the blog post and while the author's tone was a little bit harsh, I really doubt it can be called anti-semitic.

I guess that's why they re-assigned him and he wasn't fired. You probably don't want a "head of diversity" to be controversial in that way.
all the users sharing they are in the "top X%" on SO shows how much the "gamification" took over and was fully embraced by the users.
On HN, I never read comments on Reddit where users write "I have X karma points" or comments on Twitter with people writing "I have X number of followers".
> The things in your first paragraph are all useful, but not killer apps (IMO). Just nice conveniences.

Agreed. A killer app is something you use daily.

That said, I can't wait for the furniture testing app. That would be very useful.
I don't necessarily agree with their decision to put it behind a button that isn't obvious, but I can see why they made that decision. Every additional step required to set up a chat makes actually getting to a chat more tedious.

All of the encrypted messaging apps have to deal with the fundamental problem of deferring trust verification to something else, somewhere else, and that work has to go somewhere, sometime. It seems Signal has decided that (1) it shouldn't be centralized, like through Keybase, and (2) verification of identity on first contact is less of a risk than MITM, and the fact that it's possible and people do it is enough of a general deterrence. It'll stop anyone who wants to be stealthy.
It also seems like there's more publicity recently when one happens, both from the victims and the ransom holders.

I wonder what percentage of the ransom demands remain private and unknown.
Airbus pledged to supply to tools and spare parts for Concorde until the late 2000s, so yes.

(Of course they stopped supplying them in 2003 when the service was retired after the crash).
You're getting it wrong. He sent mail to the GCC mailing list.

And even if he had sent it to RMS, how would the failure be described as Lattner's choice to "not follow up with RMS"? How could it be accurately described as anything other than the opposite: RMS not following up with Lattner?
> Sure, but Americans aren't randomly attacked when abroad or out doing normal things, like getting food out or drinks.

Yes, they are. The US State Department issues travel advisories over such issues. It’s safer to travel in many places as a Canadian rather than American.
This seems like a good method if you actually had the power to fully follow through and incredibly naive If it fails: it’s like if a king were to go against the church without even having the people or nobles on their side.
It is not just Excel, there are a lot of systems that export CSV. Many of them are broken.

Examples:

- double quotes in text fields

- using the wrong decimal separator, should it be "," or "."

- using the wrong column separator, should be "," or ";"
I take your point here, but bristle a little bit on the "bog-standard", given the truly amazing engineering that goes into modern airliners
The big difference is that Python doesn't allow very much static analysis.

Consider the expression "a.b.c". Where are the function calls? In other words, which of the ".{name}" return a value from some namespace and which call code? (I'm not asking about which functions are called. I'm just asking about where functions are called.)

Java semantics, including the type system and the required declarations, tell you where the function calls are. One consequence is that they're always in the same place.

That's simply not possible in Python because the answer isn't known until the expression is evaluated AND the answer can change every time the expression is evaluated.
If we imprison the lower class, we can get them to work for free. There's no downside for the upper class. Cracking down on white collar crime is rife with downsides for the upper class, so we defund the IRS, EPA, etc
If an artist makes prints another dozen of a printed physical work, asks the factory that made a sculpture to produce another one, ... you would have competing originals too (indeed replacing damaged/destroyed prints sometimes happens, the newly printed taking the place of the destroyed one - otherwise it is considered bad taste for an artist to actually do that). Or an installation piece that everyone could copy by following the setup instructions, but is just "original" if the installer has the artists permission to do so. Or an art film that's sold as a single DVD: surely the physical DVD is not the art piece, but the film is, even though the film on DVD is clearly a copy of a file on the artists computer.
Sometimes in art it really comes down to whatever the artist declares to be an original work. (With an NFT you even get a clear order which one was first if you are worried about repeated minting)

Not that I'm a big fan of NFTs or anything, but they really are not that different from what already happens in art.

(There's also NFTs that are images generated by code that takes where in the blockchain it was added into account - that image has not existed before the NFT was minted)
Also I think holding shift while right-clicking will show the context menu even if the site hijacks right click. (And for some sites, I'm pretty happy with a custom context menu, so it's good to have both available.)
>> Israel is an apartheid state

Definition of apartheid: "a rigid former policy of segregating and economically and politically oppressing the nonwhite population"

Arabs and Jews are both white but I am guess that in your analogy you are referring to segregation of those groups, correct me if I misinterpreted your specific version of propaganda.

In apartheid South Africa, whites and blacks didn't live in the same areas and blacks couldn't vote.

Taking a look at the countries around Israel, in Egypt there used to be 100,000 Jews, they were mostly forced out by president Nasser, there are less than 20 left today.

There are no Jews in Saudi Arabia. During the Gulf War when US military forces were stationed there, the Saudis allowed Christian worship services but prohibited Jewish worship services for the military personnel, Jews had to hold services in ships offshore.

There are no Jews in Jordan. There are less than 20 Jews in Syria. There are around 100 Jews in Lebanon.

There are 1,900,000 Arabs in Israel, that is around 20% of the population. They have full voting rights, around 16% of the parliament in Israel are Arabs. They enjoy full civil rights.

Describing Israel as an apartheid state is anti-Jewish, and it is ridiculous.
This isn't as crazy as it sounds. Benefits:

- You're confining the noise to the takeoff zone rather than the entire flight path.

- You're in a vacuum (mostly in LEO) which massively reduces drag and is way more fuel efficient.

- Reentry and landing require no fuel with good planning. Space Shuttle was a glider.

Down sides:

- Atmospheric reentry dissipates a LOT of energy over a short time which introduces risk and complexity.

- You expend a lot of energy getting into orbit or your trajectory which also introduces risk and complexity

- Vacuum has far greater depressurization risks than 35,000ft
Ha ha, no not that one. The one that scared me was "Attack of the Monster Plants": https://lostinspace.fandom.com/wiki/Attack_of_the_Monster_Pl...
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I know it’s a meme that edits to Wikipedia are fraught with editor politics and reversion of good faith changes made by users, but that hasn’t been the case for me lately. If you have something to add or improve, don’t let anything hold you back!