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Insight into multiple companies' preparedness heading into a pandemic would make it easy to pick winners and losers
That's heavily assuming Congresspeople are successful at investing. Assuming insider trading is still illegal for Congresspeople, you will have a hard time picking between "people not insider trading, good at picking stocks though", "people not insider trading, bad at picking stocks", "people who are insider trading, and actually good at it", and "people who are insider trading, but still make terrible choices".

Good luck.
Big fan of Coscreen. Super helpful to be able to share documentation or reference materials as well as an IDE.

https://www.coscreen.co
I agree with this. There doesn't have to be One True Way, but within the scope of shared work it's useful if there's a sense of "around her we all..." especially if the multitude of ways compliment each other so that sum is greater than whole.

Where this gets hard for me, is in transitioning between teams, contributing to open source projects etc. The dialects can get kind of discordant. At least with Elixir, I find these differences are more palatable because the basic paradigm is consistent. In the "hybrid" languages, you get competing language models in the same code base.
Isn't peering a key part of how the Internet works? I can also see any company using Google Cloud Services would benefit with connecting to users in South America.
> There is basically almost no precedent to todays problem of misinformation spread, so historical examples are near useless.

I’m sorry but what?!?

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

The only difference these days is everybody has a printing press. So what you’re advocating for is removing someone’s first amendment right.
This is too dismissive of the many ways people get into accidents. I got t-boned by someone who blew past a stop sign on a residential road. Side curtain airbags prevented me from hitting my head on my side window.
Wikipedia says it's a derivative of Mortadella. It's different but you might see some family resemblance.
The downside is that you have to serve in the military.
Individuals have rights that come from God? Is that a grant written somewhere?
The notion of rights is completely abstract, a relatively recent concept in our particular society. It doesn't exist in nature. Individual humans and other animals have their bodies and minds, desires, ideas and skills, and that's more or less it. The rest are abstractions a la mode that come and go.
Now, I sure like to have my rights, but I have no illusions about them being god-given. If the society needs to dispense with that notion in order to survive, it will.
That's the website's problem, not jedberg's.

If they can come up with an unintrusive and frictionless way for me to support them financially, and I think their service is worth supporting, I'll do so.

The problem is that the advertising business model is forced upon users. It's like the sleazy salesman holding the service hostage, and the only way to use it is to agree to be exploited and manipulated.

To hell with that nonsense. Either come up with a business model that respects your users, or close up shop as far as I'm concerned.
> How do such people think that they are going to get away with this?

Many Americans think insider trading is l common than. If everyone is getting away with 70 mph, you can too. (Exhibit A: this thread.)

In reality, insider trading enforcement is effective. The SEC looks for unusually profitable trades ex post facto. Their verification is easier than the insider trading. Wall Street doesn’t insider trade because it’s stupid and there are lower-hanging fruit.
Do both, but definitely do the spam report via Gmail or your email provider because that dings the platform they use as well. Without a threat to their mailability, they'd have no incentive to keep their customers (the person spamming you) honest.
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Their best wasn’t very good. First thing is shut down flights from China. I mean it is a no brainier and I distinctly remember thinking wtf as we all waited and twiddled our thumbs because WHO said it wasn’t a pandemic yet. Yes we know it’s not a pandemic yet which happens to be the optimum time to act decisively so it doesn’t become one. Inexcusable.
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Wish I could upvote this more. Just thinking back on that time and hearing from my parents about multiple middle-aged male members of their church committing suicide during that time. There were more than just economic effects for so many yet once the stock market bounced up again, things were left ignored, left to simmer until we got the craziness of the past 4-5 years. One could say the lack of accountability after '08 set the stage.
> Destroying the welfare state doesn't imply the end of governments.

You might be right (nobody knows what the future holds) but that was certainly the vision May had (his .sig ended with "collapse of governments"), and it may be the vision that Bitcoin was written to promote.

Certainly a shift to a land-value tax and a pollution tax will be at least a very large dislocation. I hope it's less traumatic than the Thirty Years' War.
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The voted to pass the STOCK act, requiring disclosing these trades within ~30 days
I want a smart car. I just don't want the smarts determined by the manufacturer. I really want a car that can more or less run arbitrary software/features I want. I understand why companies do not want to provide that, because people can go the very wrong direction with it. But I'd like both my house and my car to be smart, and neither beholden to Apple or Google to do it.
It was becoming fairly obvious by February even to people outside of Congress (such as myself) that a global pandemic was likely impending. I didn't attend any secret briefings.

What nonpublic information about a publicly traded company do you think they received?
If you started with 4 doors, where 3 of them had goats, wouldn't you have a 1/4 chance of picking the car the first time and a 1/3 chance of picking the car the second time?
Leaders rarely want the nuance. 99% the answer is always "it depends" or you have to ask follow-up scoping questions. They just want to be handed a decision without the color or limitations. Sometimes that leads to future uncomfortable conversations where they assumed they would get Capability X but you only gave a "yes" or "no" because that's the preferred level of detail, leaving the rest to assumption.
It's been a while since I actively thought about the Monty Hall problem, I thought I understood it intuitively back then. I thought it became one of those "oh yeah, that's unintuitive, but once it clicks it's fine" things for me.

I thought through it again, and I'm angry now.

At least I'm not alone (got this link from the article):
https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131827/http://www.decisi...
> The stock market didn’t start to decline until Mid March so by definition the majority of “betting men” were still not sure the pandemic would have as far reaching of effects they did.

Indeed, there is a bell curve of "wait-and-see-what-the-others-do".

https://www.epsilontheory.com/sheep-logic/
Ye, that is just a ridiculous excuse. I agree that the option too be tempted should also be removed.
Most traders suck at trading, if a congress person with no financial history starts beating the market, I’d bet a lot that they’re cheating.
I must say, I find this response a bit odd. Just for reference, a billionaire US presidential candidate last year said[0]:

> I could teach anybody—even people in this room so no offense intended—to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.

I've seen this kind of attitude toward lower-status occupations from fellow engineers and other educated professional types, and I find it distasteful. Unlike some other occupations which also provoke a "sanctimonious attitude" (such as, say, education, despite almost all of us having extensive experience with it as a consumer or product or something), farming seems like a blind spot for almost all educated professionals. I know I'm profoundly ignorant of how all of the different types of food I eat are produced. Everything I learn about the field - and I'm not naturally interested in it - makes me feel even more uninformed about all of the factors that go into producing and distributing food. That indicates to me that farmers, whom we depend on, absolutely deserve some respect and deference. When a common sentiment among this class is that farming can be reduced to simply putting some dirt over a hole with a seed inside, knowing an actual farmer is probably pretty valuable, even if that farmer isn't representative of farmers as a whole. Farming seems to be one of the few occupations where this "sanctimonious attitude" seems justifiable.

[0]https://www.newsweek.com/mike-bloombergs-elitist-farming-com...
> You may not recognize the increased sinophobia in the west but it is part of a well funded centralized effort to demonize and increase the potential for kinetic warfare between western countries and China.

Is it? It’s clearly geopolitical, but the claim that it’s intended to lead to kinetic warfare seems like something you don’t have evidence for.
Unfortunately in some places they did it when they already knew it was untrue but continued anyway "to prevent panic and shortage of masks supply". Then they turned 180 and made masks obligatory, even outside at all times, which is another extreme.
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Here's a handy thing you can do with .iex.exs:

Have you ever tried to debug something in iex, but database calls and other log messages keep stomping all over your prompt? You can stop them temporarily calling the function

Logger.remove_backend(:console)

You can start the log message again by typing

Logger.add_backend(:console)

That's a lot of typing though. Here's where .iex.exs comes in handy. You can include the following code in your .iex.exs file:

defmodule Clog do
def stop do
Logger.remove_backend(:console)
end

def start do
Logger.add_backend(:console)
end
end

and then from within your iex session, type

Clog.stop

to stop the log message flow and

Clog.start

to start it up again.

You can call your module whatever you'd like. I just called mine "Clog" because the log messages were always clogging up my console. I hope this helps.
> As I remember those times, they didn't go after people for simply downloading music, they were going after the people who were actively distributing music on file sharing services.

As I remember, at least some cases were complete BS. Some people hardly knew what file sharing was.
> Isn't that nice? All the surrounding code that isn't doing bit-banging still interoperates with this just fine, so you can do your bit-banging to talk to a memory controller and then... return a freshly allocated chunk of RAM to the rest of the high level code which has whizzy generic types and whatever.

It's fine, but it's such a tiny fraction of what matters when producing a product that I wouldn't base my language choice on how good the language's support for that kind of thing is. I don't know exactly how e.g. Singularity or MirageOS do their bit-banging - for all I know they might even use a little bit of C or Rust to bridge the gap - but that bit-banging is such a miniscule proportion of what's important to an OS implementation (much less to an actual product built on that OS) that it shouldn't move the needle on language choice. I've never seen anyone put a genuine effort into running general-purpose language x on bare-metal hardware y and have it fail - it's always "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".
That's why I like GraphQL, where you have a typed schema (including nullability) and get the documentation for free.
Publishing news articles.

So, this is activism on your part. Thanks for confirming that.
For the rest of their life because someone has an idee fixe? It hardly seems proportionate. The person with the idee fixe will have to suck it up, sunshine. If they _really_ don't want the vaccine, then they should immunoisolate to prevent infecting those cannot get vaccinated.
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I generally use(d) link shorteners on messengers like Facebook just so that the link doesn't take all the conversation space and the previous lines can still be visible.
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When you quote an article (good read though) verbatim, you ought to mark your text as a quote. It was a bit surprising to read verbatim your second paragraph while reading the article.
> Deplatforming seems to work if it's goal is to simply limit the spread of a message.

Deplatforming seems to work if it's goal is to simply limit free speech and control the narrative. There fixed that for you.

> Alex Jones has just as big of a viewership as when he was on Youtube?

Alex Jones got his youtube viewership from his radio show, he’s still quite active. All this did was prove those that believed him that he’s correct. It will still spread as it did before youtube.

> Are there just as many people who know what Trump was talking about last week, now that he's gone from Twitter?

And how many people you think are upset by this? Do you think that the left can just shut someone like Trump off from the every platform and everything’s just gonna be hunky dory? This one action alone is one of the major contributing factors to this anti vax movement. The left blew the divide up.
Can someone who has access tell us why the price is so high? It seems cruel to make a medical treatment so expensive. You know some people will do anything to help loved ones overcome Alzheimer's, no matter the cost. If the high cost is avoidable, then it's predatory exploitation of inelastic demand.
That property is true of game theory problems, of which iterated prisoners dilemmas are a subset. And yes, game theory is the appropriate field to deal with those issues, however that does not necessarily mean that any solutions exist or are trivial for a specific problem.

Compare to a lot of engineering models being reduced to "just calculus"
For the stuff I work on, if the user's browser can't handle it then it's 99% sure they are not my target market in the first place. Of course YMMV.
Yes, I couldn't get it either. The whole world was watching China in horror fight with the virus and at the same time the planes traveled easily to and from China for a long time as if nothing was happening. As if someone really wanted to invite the inevitable.
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I'm concerned how a 2009 work (crunch) could infringe on a 2010 patent (#20110115806), which was before the US switched from first-to-invent to first-to-file.
It's a 1/2 chance at the point where you're considering the switch.

If you start the game with the intention of switching, you have a 2/3 chance of being successful because the winning strategy is to miss the car on your first pick.
I have a harder time empathizing because I can see how the QA guy is literally trying to project what he's been given as mandate. And maybe the DB guy has the expertise to know better? Especially if there are company standards, there is value in that. Does the Devops team really need to have to support 'yet another db' when they've been building tools and support for a standard?

I guess it depends on context.
There's a lot of great arguments presented in the article for why we shouldn't go "balls to the wall on experimentation". The drug costs $56k a year, can cause some severe brain bleeding and swelling, and requires regular MRIs which can put quite a strain (and cost) on the system. These are some significant negatives for a drug that hasn't been proven to be effective at all.
Ah, so you believe China has no geopolitical aims of its own other than defending itself from being dismantled.

This explains the black and white narrative of the US as aggressor and China as victim that you tell.
> To be a good X you must follow the rules. To be a great X you must have followed the rules so well as to learn why they’re there and when they should be broken.

In my experience slavishly following the "rules" or "best practices" can actually be worse than never following them. Not understanding when it's good to deviate usually means of a lack of understanding of why the "rules" or "best practices" exist in the first place. So much attention is spent following the letter of the rule rather than what problems it was meant to solve.

Look no further than modern day "Agile" vs the actual Agile Manifesto
> * doesn't need a microcontroller,

Really?
Someone made an unemployment claim for my grandma, who has been dead for a decade (and was a stay-at-home [grand]mother since the Korean War before then). Why did the states have zero common sense verifications that the claim was in the name of a citizen who is still alive?
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I want to make sure people can live comfortably on the money they can earn in 20 hr/week. If want to work 60 hr/week for 15 years and then retire early good for them. I just want to make 20 hr/week the norm.
Unfortunately, this sort of experimentation will simply lead to much quackery. As it stands, there is no cure for dementia. Allowing every company to market their own "treatment" does not make the situation better. It only allows the companies with the slickest marketing to exploit the elderly (and their families who desperately want to feel they did "all they could"). All the while, real dementia research (controlled, scientific research) may actually slow down as people leave clinical trials because they already bought some medicine.
In a sane situation, you usually have a "product manager" or someone who owns the feature set and the priorities. (If you don't, if the engineers have to answer to multiple people with conflicting desires and demands, that's the first problem.)

But if you have a product manager (and they're doing their job), then all you have to do is tell them the truth. Let them figure out which features are priority, or will lead to the most revenue, or whatever. That's their job.

I was in an Extreme Programming estimating session one time. A particular story came up for our consideration, and several people groaned. Nobody wanted us to do the story, because it was going to be a bear to implement. I said "Just tell them the truth. They'll figure out why this is a bad idea." We estimated six months, and they decided that they didn't want the feature at that price.
I'm curious if this would work on a network with a captive portal enabled. It would be quite useful for connecting smart devices by hooking up a router on the raspberry's ethernet port.
I don't think these changes at Apple will ruin your use case at all. From what I've read, will load images privately, which means it'll probably hide IP (as they've mentioned) and details about browser etc. It'll still need to load the image. If you were to create a specific image for every sent email, you can still see whether that image was accessed by Apple. Unless they create something like a CDN to cache every image people receive, even if they don't open the email, you'll still be able to see whether an email was opened. You just won't be able to see from where, or from which browser, which seems unnecessary in your use case.

To me this seems like the only actual negative impact could be on LE, who sometimes use this technology to find missing persons.

Edit: I was wrong, upon further reading they do get the images for every email, even ones that weren't opened. Seems wasteful (the majority of my email never gets opened), but it's a great implementation. Guess it's time to give Apple Mail another try.
I noticed that the physical constants might be outdated. As I understand it, the Planck constant is now considered to be a defined quantity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_constant#Understanding_...
At my last job, my boss was very guilty of "At ____, we found x to always cause us problems", but he never really connected that "x" was a problem because of the context surrounding it, not inherently. We went through this really awful process of:

Manager either demands or rejects an idea based on a totally different company -> I spend days/weeks proof of concepting/documenting/testing/validating for or against his mandate -> He says something like "oh, great!", and then continues to spread the mantra that x would never work for us because of previous experience.

It was really tiring. Having to constantly document why a piece of technology for a startup in a totally different industry would yield totally different results than when he'd used it at a top 5 company with insane scale and a 500 person engineering team. Especially because most of his understanding was just overhearing people say certain things, so he just said them too, but didn't really know why.
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And, just like that, donating your body to science has new meaning.
Is this even true, given a track record of fabricating fake news for unstated purposes of some countries in the west?
This man sent to jail. How many politicians were sent to jail for covid insider trading? What about the billions Jeff Bezos fleeced in taxes? It's the rich man's world, where justice is only onto the poor.
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And in software engineering, the answer is almost always "it depends".
Congres have explicitly exemped themselves from the insider trading laws.
Also: often good knowledge allows to see similiarities in other domains - feels like mastery/intuition/domain inteligence :) - it allows to instantly grasp new concepts in new domains. Works like isomorphism in math.
In my career I've found this to be a huge huge huge red flag as well. If you can only build software one way, you don't really understand how to build it. If moving to a new employer means replicating a previous employer's practices exactly, I don't think you really lack the knowledge or reflectiveness to understand what was good or bad about it.
There's a simple solution here. Don't use them. I've had bad experiences with AirBnB and Hotels.com. I don't use either now.

They're rarely cheaper than using a hotel anyway...
That book is full of such incredibly pragmatic tools for dealing with children ina respectful way without giving up on your own values.
Did republicans (us) or conservatives (uk) actually succeed in making a bigger than party-typical dent to the social safety net system or popular support for it? Brexit was more aligned to defend the social safety net (from fictional threats, granted).
Yeah, I misread the bit about about higher order functions (or they edited the article).
That's why the bosses should get familiar with remote working, too. They should experience it first before they feel. Currently they're scared from "nowhere". Instead if they look at the result delivered they will get to know how to improve the situation.

Please, remote managing, instead of getting scared.
Three additional pizza slices automatically appear in my mind when you mention this. I found it more difficult to explain why the multiplication of two negative numbers gives a positive one.
I wonder if highlighting the naked domain (example.com) would be useful.
Absolutely, I love this technique when the ask is clearly more complicated than they realize. I say let's schedule an hour to write out a spec, my calendar is open. Similar technique is to say yes I can do that but let's do it together on a screen share call and you can guide me through it. It's always a positive outcome -- either they withdraw the request or we collaborate positively together to make it happen and appropriately prioritize.
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