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Well said.

> The moat protecting the market share of the big RPA companies is created by the mature deployment systems that enable large enterprises to run hundreds or thousands of automated processes

This is completely incorrect. Managing processes and bots is the absolute easiest thing they do, because it's entirely under their control and a solved problem.

The actual moat is legacy compatibility -- how broad a tech stack does your RPA engine cover?

Microsoft Active Accessibility? Excel? Excel + VBScript? Legacy Windows native? VB6? Early Java with custom UI grid classes?

The point the author should be making is that Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have zero interest in eating UiPath's lunch. It's expensive (in people-time-dollars) and custom per customer. And ultimately, it's a long-tail game.

Microsoft's play is to trivially link together new deployments or migrations (i.e. to O365), then continue adding customers as more migrate to them.

Why pay to chase the customer, when they're already running towards you?

(FWIW, I think UiPath realizes this, which is why most of their new products / features are pivoting to become an Appian-esque rapid app platform. AA and BP? Less clueful)
To quote Mazarin, "One must not ask of a general, 'Is he skillful?', but rather, 'Is he lucky?'". I think what Mazarin was probably getting at was that the best generals will always have others claiming that their success was due to luck.
> Everyone consumes, and rich people consume less than poor people relative to their wealth.

But that's irrelevant metric. The nature only cares about absolute amount of consumption, and in absolute numbers, rich consume significantly more than poor.

The fact that rich could have consumed a lot more according to our own measure of "wealth" doesn't make them less morally culpable, since this is not tracked by nature at all.

I realized I should also add, it's not just direct consumption, investment can cause emissions too. Investment often means building infrastructure, which nature counts as consumption regardless whether the investment is then recouped or not (if it's not, then it's a waste). Investment also drives consumption in other ways, often directly through advertising or people just realizing they "need" a new service or product that they didn't need before.

Even savings (richer people just keeping money in assets) are not immune from not having a side-effect on consumption. As assets prices rise, this sends the market wrong signals and the result can be for example building far more housing that is needed, again resulting in additional consumption of resources.
Losing Clinton
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Wittgenstein came to the same conclusion.

Whereof one cannot speak, one must remain silent.

And he’s just paraphrasing the Buddhists/Taoists (and a bunch of other lesser known religious orders) who had that same insight a few thousand years earlier.

Most people aren’t interested in silence though. The mud keeps humans entertained and hungry. Those humans build the societies we live in, monks living in silence in monasteries do not.
You are right that HM have little influence, you "hire for Amazon", not for any specific team.

And with the process changes in the US (and EU), candidates are now given the option of picking the team they want to join (which can be different from the interview-HM's team).
I do agree with both of these, but then the question becomes “so then what DO we do?”

The options would seem to be:

- Openly state what the goals and metrics are, know that they’ll be gamed, shrug and just keep going.

- Don’t tell anyone your goals and metrics so they can’t become gamified, breed a culture of distrust where people are afraid they aren’t doing the right thing because they don’t know how they’re being evaluated. Of course, people could always guess what the metrics are and then all the upside goes away.

- Set qualitative goals that are evaluated on an “I mean what I mean, you know what I mean, right?” kind of basis. This can work optimally when a team is small, driven and tight-knit, but usually explodes when you try to scale it.

It’s not the responsibility of these philosophers to provide solutions, merely pointing out flaws is important enough. But for those of us trying to learn from those philosophies and then build things, we then have to figure out something to do.
NIST provides recommendations a guidelines. But no one is blue teaming.
This does not stand up to scrutiny at all, for any kind of investing. There have not been so many VC/hedge/PE funds in history that the top ones would arise through chance.
The painful thing is there seems to be a large body of people on SO who are trying their hardest to fit any question into the scope of a previously asked question and then marking it duplicate/downvoting it. Some tags are worse than others on this about this, but I have one or two which are painfully policed by people who seem to want no question to be answered at all, ever.
Haha. I didn't really know much about programming at that time, so I got programs from lenshell to host scrambler or to fade my text.
What's your beef with W3schools? IMO the code examples work, and the explanations are relatively short and to the point. MDN is harder to read for new learners as everything is documented like an API.
Perfect argument.

Care to elaborate as to your reasoning?
> If I have a tedious but active chore, I need to bring a notepad along with me to capture all the ideas

I find I'm quite mentally creative when doing tasks such as cutting the grass, which I don't find tedious, but instead require a sort of process-control mental activity. I actually enjoy cutting the grass for its physical side combined with the opportunity to get a good looking result from a task that takes about an hour. Hoovering doesn't inspire the same mental creativity.
Oh will check that out, thanks!
At least one of the emails [0] shows Fauci had evidence of a possible lab leak in January 2020. If the virus' genome is inconsistent with evolutionary theory, that's a major red flag - and very early on in the pandemic.

We should continue to search for the reservoir animal and continue to pressure China to provide blood tests from researchers at the Wuhan lab. Without either exculpatory evidence for the Wuhan lab or clear evidence that it was a reservoir animal, the Wuhan lab leak theory should not be dismissed

Fauci was still saying [1] a reservoir animal was the most likely cause of the jump to humans a few days ago, despite having contrary evidence before almost anyone else.

I don't know why he isn't qualifying that more, but it's hard to see how it's not politics.

[0]https://twitter.com/JamesCTobias/status/1399811395043004418/...

[1]https://youtu.be/ilt_NcaIIRk?t=143
Whenever I see "passionate about x," I read it as "passionate about making money by pretending to care about x."
I believe they are still trying to what is being described here:

https://developer.harmonyos.com/en/docs/documentation/doc-gu...

And I can see that there are actually multiple supported kernels and a kernel abstraction layer.

Nonetheless it will be interesting how far this will be taken. I do believe they are serious about updating existing phones.

And that there are iot devices coming out with hardware similar to the development board I linked to and are running some form of this os.
Interesting. I've hardly heard of any of those companies - are they mostly non-US?
No conjectures in math are called theorems and they are based off of made up assumptions called axioms. Whether the axiom is true from an observational standpoint is irrelevant to math.

For example euclidean geometry is observably not true. Einsteins General relativity shows that the observable geometry of our universe is not euclidean. Yet the field of euclidean geometry is still intensely studied and a valid mathematical field.

I should be getting paid for this.
And how does this apply to modern investment funds who have to regularly provide client reports and make disclosures?
Simple answer, it's impossible that all people choose the wrong investment even if you just choose by chance. It like playing the lottery, why do some people win? Because not all can lose all the time. And as soon you reach a certain wealth level it's easier to keep that level than to reach it in the first place, unless you are in idiot.
How is Amazon in Europe?
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I wonder if an equivalent to the AeroPress could be made out of metal or glass or ceramic. I'd pay for that. I'd pay a lot for that.

It seems crazy that the best coffee maker in the world is only available in plastic.
Apple developers grow App Store ecosystem billings and sales by 24 percent in 2
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1) goto firefox.com
2) scroll to bottom, where most companies put contact info
3) click 'contact'
or!
'file a bug'
OR!
There's a bunch of social media links.
> skewed/unfounded criticisms of our Prime Minister

reverse phycology? If all criticism you see is unfounded, you might erroneously start to believe all critics are biased - a kind of false-flag strategy.
It feels like the author here is accidentally right for all the wrong reasons. The central premise — that being constantly on digital devices prevents the boredom that ultimately inspires us to do something better — is pretty trivial to be honest.

But by framing it in moralistic language, it comes off as insultingly trite. For conversations like this I find it helpful to bring the focus to your personal experience. Say “this is what I did and how it affected me” and not “you have to do these things to be happy”. The former allows the reader to make an inference and decide for themselves if your experience sounds compelling, the latter is a command with no authority.
Don’t see how any of it’s untrue. You just interpreted this in a way that would be untrue.

Rather than “lower the bar” an HM can just request 1 more headcount for SDE1 than they truly need.
>U.S. divisions at this point run largely rural versus urban.

I think you're trying to point out actual points of cultural tension, which I'd argue are largely superficial and mostly political. But I think OP was trying to say that the US is culturally diverse based on geography. And I think OP is right, the culture of Atlanta is very different than the culture of NYC which is very different than the culture of San Francisco or LA.

Similarly the culture of Montana or Wyoming is very different than the culture of the rural south.

I grew up in what most people would consider the rural south (a small town in Kentucky), and even the difference between various regions in the south are pretty stark... Just take for example this article; Kentucky, know for their bourbon, and I grew up in a dry county (couldn't sell alcohol at all). Prohibition laws stuck around decades after federal prohibition ended for largely religious reasons.
The correct claim should be:

"we can say with 95% confidence that another planet with intelligent life will have a circumference no more than 20% greater than that of the Earth".

The author shouldn't have added "such as our nearest neighbour" as that just adds confusion.

The fact that this prediction is not 100% accurate when considering Earth's countries does not invalidate the argument. I see a lot of people doing this: showing one practical example where it doesn't work and calling it BS.

Please try to do as the author suggested: plot your own data against many world statistics... you will see that while yes, some of those statistics fail for you (e.g. you might be 90% taller than everyone else) when taken all together, they should all indicate you're pretty close to the middle in the majority of them... and knowing this, hopefully you can see how, yes, this prediction by the author might be BS, but given what we know, it's the only prediction we can make which has a good chance of being true.
Unfortunately the dark mode now seems to be more like a dark blue mode. It looks very cheap, almost as if it's caused by a badly adjusted screen.

I tried fixing it with the css grayscale attribute in userchrome.css but ran into performance problems.

... open for any ideas on how to make the blue go away.
You joke, but for a high enough price, I’m sure you can find someone willing to sell. ISIS didn’t manufacture their own missiles or guns.
I’d probably get fucked over if I mention names which would be required. Not very nice people.
I’m rather happy with my el cheapo Denon receiver (no idea about the model but like 220 euro new 5 years ago) and a pair of Wharfedale Diamonds 10.1 .
A eulogy indeed. I used AIM from middle school (~1998) to its shutdown. One of my friends, who got me into computers in the first place really, was a typical AOL script kiddie. He would phish accounts and use progs and all the other miscreant stuff that went on back then. I thought it was so cool, and I wouldn't be who I am today without him or AIM/AOL.

Our only means of communication after high school remained AIM. He killed himself in 2016, and I'd just stare at his name in the offline list sometimes. Now AIM is permanently in the offline list too. RIP
Can we just remove this? It's an abstract for this guys motivational book. We get that taking your hand off your penis allowed you to do something with your life. Good content for other teenagers maybe?
That's a hell of a network latency to contend with.
> However, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the group drinking a six pack of 90-calorie light beer over the course of a day is healthier than people like me drinking a six pack of Dr. Pepper in the same timeframe

Dr. Pepper is tasty, but it and Coke are dependent on Phosphoric Acid to be able to deliver that much sugar to you. This along to caffeine mean it's dehydrating you and robbing you of nutrients, not hydrating you. It's really best if you can limit this to a single or find a replacement (Kroger has a seltzer with the Dr. flavor that satisfies my addiction nicely)

Ignoring the alcohol, the first near beer or light beer actually helps hydrate you and provides nutrients.

But the quantity of either is what quickly becomes the problem (2nd hand anecdote). Many alcoholics start with with the 1 beer a day after work which turns into a 12 pack a day after work (as suggested by this top 10%). And once an addict develops a tolerance to beer, they escalate in the top 10% rapidly; that vodka soda become an evening thing, then a morning an evening thing.
> And if you mis-scan a page accidentally (some of the book margins are super tight), then you have to restart the entire scan - there's no delete page button!

Sounds like you need a license for Adobe Acrobat Pro or some other application that will let you reshuffle/insert pages.
That's exactly the kind of site Stack Overflow replaced, namely ExpertSexchange.
Drug prohibition is about changing addiction from being an easy choice backed by marketing (I'll take a pack of Marlboros, please) to a challenging choice that does not present itself in ordinary life. It may not stop the majority of people from getting it, if they want it - but it does reduce the number of people to whom it occurs to want it.
Yeah I've very often had something of substance to contribute but lacked the "merit" (or points or whatever). I wonder how common that is and how it could be handled - i.e. differentiating against spam
For analytic philosophy, where should one go, specific philosophers, or...?
> I'm also in the top 7%. That's down from 12% or so from five years ago.

Isn't being in the top 7% up, not down, from being only in the top 12%?
Thank you, missed that.
If the parents of the children have to leave the country, the children are not going to stay back.

A child cannot sponsor their parents for immigration benefits until they reach the age of 21.

Anchor babies is a talking point to stir up controversy, and cause fear of immigrants.
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Every time I've tried a Moka I burn it.

I've tried it all, and the only thing that I'm happy with is the Aeropress. If that isn't the perfect cup of coffee, I don't know what is.
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>> If you are up for a challenge, I'd be happy to work on a Prolog version of
the Scheme interpreter with you!

Oh gosh, don't do that to me :) I just finished submitting my second paper and I
have to write my thesis, plus another couple of side projects already and a hell
of a lot of work on my Louise ILP system. Maybe we can talk about this again
after March 2022? When I should be finished with my thesis?

Note however I may not be the best person for this job. I'm serious when I say
I'm "impure". I mean that I'm not very interested in declarative purity. For me
it's more like an ideal goal than something I absolutely feel I need. I suppose
I've become all too comfortable with Prolog's er pragrmatic hacks, that I don't
feel I need them gone.

That said, it's certainly an interesting challenge :)

>> The problem isn't that relational programming in Prolog isn't possible. The
problem is that it requires enough work and non-standard techniques that in
practice people don't do it.

I hope I don't misunderstand what you mean by relational programming. I think
you mean pure logic programming, _not_ like implemented in Prolog, but as it's
described, say, in Lloyd? Then yes, I agree. It is often infinitely easier to
use Prolog's impure facilities, like the dynamic db and so on, to complete a
complex piece of code. I guess the quintessential example is findall/3 and
friends- impossible to implement in pure Prolog, without a dynamic db (er, far
as I know).

In general, I find myself resorting to using impure features when I can't find
an efficient way to write a program without them. For instance, sometimes I want
to use random access data structures, over linked lists (so, Prolog "terms"
with setarg/3 arg/3, rather than list traversal). Othertimes it's just so much
easier to bang together a findall/3 with an arg/3 counter, than write yet
another recursive skeleton with 4 accumulators- and an interface predicate to
hide them.

To be honest, a purely declarative language that took those impure but
convenient hacks away would take me some time to get used to. I don't know that
I want to give those conveniences up. They're there for a reason- a tradeoff
of purity for efficiency and usability. I, personally, find that tradeoff
balanced and while I'm not against going the other way (sacrificing efficiency
and ease of use for purity), as a research goal, I'm not going to go out of my
way to try and achieve that.

>> I'd also be delighted to write a paper about it with you! :)

I am very flatterred :) But I'm letting you down, ain't I? I'll bring up Markus
Triska again, as someone I understand to be a dedicated Prolog programmer, also
dedicated to declarativey purity. Maybe he'be up to it.

Thank you for the recommended reading on minikanren's search!
Even recent music history is steeped in racism. Its not imagining racism to notice that some peoples views and tastes 'just happen' to only include white people.
>I don't know what we will do.

i know some czechs making a daily commute over the border in order to work installing solar panels (in germany).

so there's that
You'll never capture all of the value you create.

But in the case of StackOverflow it really must be a large schism. SO really did help the world. Count me++.
I totally relate to this. The Internet is so addictive it's easy to just switch away from getting useful work done. I can't turn off the whole Internet for the house or my family would string me up, but I may try something more localized. Here I am on HN commenting...

This also makes me want to put a lock on the refrigerator that can only be unlocked by running a certain distance on a treadmill. LOL. I have to create artificial grit, I don't have an overabundance of the natural kind.
For many years, SO has been an invaluable resource for me.

At one time, I used it daily.

I have about twice as many questions as I have answers. Been on the site for a long time; maybe close to ten years.

I've learned to ask very good questions, but lately, I've mostly been answering my own questions. I visit it maybe once a week (or less), these days. It used to be multiple times per day.

I would hope that this will help SO to have a renaissance. We'll see.
Look over there, we're not a monopoly. The new monopoly playbook is "look what I'm doing for SMBs". Similar to racketeering.
> I do understand the venal emotions of mankind.

Thank you, this is now my new catchphrase!
I used to listen to every episode of that while taking walks around Berkeley. I totally forgot about it until I saw this comment!
> but I think MSFT also gets their own messaging wrong.

Or, is it possible MSFT knows that when selling to "enterprise", it works a lot better to say you've got a better version of "thing they know", instead of a brand new thing that will replace "thing they know".
If I wanted to use nixpkgs on macOS instead of my dotfiles manager (yadm) and Brewfile – I hear you can do that – would I have to expect missing software (vs. homebrew)? Just about how much pain should I expect, being completely new to NixOS?
I am not an expert, but in the US I believe that children may have citizenship by birth, but the parents may still be on a visa for some time. But most parents aren't going to leave their kids behind.

The situation is improved when a green card (permanent residency) is obtained. Then employment is not required to remain in the country.
All that being said, just using the new UI out of the box actually looks great to me too: https://i.imgur.com/WUaiRUV.png

I never wanted a carbon copy of Chrome, just something that looked good, so I'm glad to see Firefox provide a nicer default experience and add its own unique style. It's actually pretty similar to MaterialFox anyway, aside from the "floating" tab style and slightly higher vertical space usage.
To be fair, you can throw a rock anywhere in Italy and hit a cafe.
The circle jerk of companies buying other companies never ends. Soon we will be left with only Facebook, Amazon, Disney, Microsoft and Apple.