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congrats - key insight. While this is clearly global, I strongly recommend resisting that temptation, and instead *hyper* focusing on one small region to service, and accepting requests from one country only (one set of laws, one currency, etc). From a requestor-marketing standpoint, you may also find big wins focusing on very narrow communities where you can market aggressively/deeply and build/defend your reputation, before moving on. For example, start with the Pakistani community in NYC first - completely nail that in the first 3-6 months, then go after other Pakistani communities around the US. Remember, Facebook started with a tiny number of colleges only.
My question - why do they keep property back there? Are rental yields in Pakistan very high?
> Creating an alternate reality of lies is a more direct path to tyranny.

Who has had greater success at this than the media? The two great narratives that undermined faith in the Democratic process in the past four years are A) Democrats claiming that there was evidence that Trump had colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 election[0], and was therefor not a legitimate president[1][2], and B) Trump claiming that the 2020 presidential election was rigged by Democrats, and therefor Biden was not a legitimate president.

Trump's lie was immediately panned as utter bullshit. Since, media have trumpeted the claim as evidence of insidious, anti-Democratic sentiment among all Republicans--in other words, the Anti-democratic claims made by Republicans were used a bludgeon against Republicans.

But the former claim (which was no less damaging to the legitimacy of our institutions) was, in the absence of any corroborating evidence whatsoever, was treated as a serious concern. At the time of the release of the Mueller report, half of the country believed the Russia-collusion conspiracy theory[4]. When the Mueller report revealed no evidence of collusion[3], the story was used as a bludgeon against Democrats, right? Of course not. It was memory-holed.

The fact that the media was able to weaponize both of these anti-democratic lies into a narrative that one party is somehow a danger to our institutions is emblematic of why they, the media are, in fact, the greatest threat to our society and our institutions.

[0]https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/schiff-russia-trump-c...
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...
[2]https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/13/politics/john-lewis-donald-tr...
[3]https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
[4]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-poll/des...
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Really, sometimes I wonder if Pfizer is paying journalists to publish this kind of FUD article.
That’s very depressing info, thanks
I'm not sure that any public pension systems in any way satisfy the definition of a Ponzi scheme. While public pension systems may be flawed, in no way are they fraudulent or otherwise non-transparent at the very least in democratic regimes.
>In real life it is not.

My grandparents never owned a car along with most of their generation.
It’s fun to do an’ all, but the lack of drivers really made the experience half-baked for me when I realized I couldn’t use any of the badger’s limbs.
To add to this: 87% of Chinese emissions are attributable to domestic consumption.
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Adding to the list - the way it treats namespaces.

"using Library1, Library2" at the top of a file makes it difficult to figure out where each function comes from. It's like "import *" in Python.
This is the problem I'm experiencing. The best I've found is fuboTV and it's not great. I don't have cable in my house. I'd be willing to pay NBC $100 for access to all of their live and on-demand olympic coverage (what's available through the website, etc.), but that's not even an option.
I mean, if you're being _very_ pedantic, it's not an export ban. It's just a non-export ban measure which has exactly the same effect as an export ban. If you think that's a useful distinction, well, okay, I suppose, but for practical purposes it was an export ban.
Or maybe wearing a freakin' mask and washing hands a little more frequently, like people freely and willingly do every flu season? Or once a vaccine was available, getting a little jab in the arm instead of starting mass disinformation campaigns to scare stupid people away from it?

Both ultra-simple and only slightly inconvenient actions, but both would have made a huge difference in the outcome and timescale of this whole mess. Of course humans can't be bothered to give a rat's ass about other humans (or even about themselves) if even the slightest inconvenience is involved. Nope. Humanity deserves what's coming. Humanity is a planetary cancer, and we've brought this all upon ourselves by our own actions.
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I did some business with Singapore which is pretty cutting edge with tech and has a nifty Singpass app that pulls everything a resident might need with regards to the gov’t - taxes, property, license, medical records, etc.

But then I learned that they passed the electronic signature act in 2010 and it only applies to some signatures - purchase orders, but not property leases, letters of intent but not company founding documents. Everything else needs to be on paper and often needs a company stamp.

The US, which I wouldn’t have considered that cutting edge, passed an electronic signature act 10 years earlier and it applies to pretty much everything.

It’s just one example, and yes, many Asian countries can’t let go of their paper copies and wet signatures, but still leave the US in the dust in other ways, but I thought it was fascinating where countries have challenges moving to more efficient processes.
If you care about limiting agricultural water usage, the first target to go after is dairy and animal ag, not almonds.

Almonds are on the high side compared to other plants but their water usage per calorie is much less than animal ag.

Also consider that almonds flourish in the mediterranean type of climate that California has, whereas dairy and beef (and their feed crops) can be raised almost anywhere.
I can’t even possibly pitch the name alone to anyone but few preteens. Even teenagers won’t be interested.
Point taken on what-about-ism. I find that I do that perhaps too often. But these connections keep jumping into my mind. I wonder if people get mad about one thing, but not the other. I wonder what the commonalities are, what the differences are. I grant that it can lead to tangents, but I guess I find value in it. For example, in this case, does society cut the mooching rich more slack than the mooching poor? It seems that many of us aspire to be rich, and that many consider the poor to be lazy. Our system seems to have a lot of bias built into it. I wondered if I was seeing that in your comment, and threw my reply out there. Maybe I should have worded it differently?

Anyways, back to the guy in the article, lots of other taxpayers are happy to support local food kitchens, that's why we have them. He didn't "take" the coffee, they gave it to him.

I understand that you disagree. Other people feel different. That's politics.
Without birth grows or immigration issue resolved there would be no edge
If you don't have car centric living then the way you buy groceries changes, for example. You don't load up on weekly groceries. You buy smaller amounts every few days on your way back from work. For one thing, grocery stores, etc. now locate themselves near public transport, as opposed to a 20-30 minute drive away from the closest place anyone lives.

And when it comes to moving furniture, etc. you rent a car. Or even better, since you don't have to buy a single car to use over many years to justify its expense, when you want to move furniture you can rent a van. When you want to take your kids for a camping adventure requiring offroading you can rent an AWD. If you need to go a 100 miles all on proper roads you can rent an EV and save on gas.
> It all makes sense if nobody owns a home computer, and when the mobile phone is the dominant form of Internet connectivity.

It did feel more advanced at the time, because phones were ubiquitous. Interestingly the rest of the world is now heading in that direction.
Municipalities and non profit co ops will not voluntarily pursue bankruptcy to re-negotiate or default on these debts (which will also impact their credit rating in the debt market for future issuances). They'll have to be forced into it if outside support isn't provided.
That's your take. Business' take is that they are more than willing to invest the time to find nuanced subtle differences between countries regulatory environments so that they can exploit them for monetary gain. The UK REACH and EU REACH regulations apply to production process - not to the finished exportable product. Hence TSMC in this case would only need to implement REACH within the country it has chosen as its production base. Between the choice of the UK or EU - this would mean it is still only "one thing" to take care of. Unless it ever intended to open production bases in both territories - in which case the territory with the "older" version of REACH would almost certainly win any "ease of doing business" test - so probably the UK at some future date once EU REACH Version 2 materialises (and assuming the UK doesn't blindly copy-paste it again).
I for one can't wait until they start fitting the Detroit police force with their cyborg exoskeletons...
Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections.

Several outlets have been caught scrubbing past headlines that were proven false, but that's more an indictment on them.
> I’ve had a lot of frustration with the Julia community being unwilling to see faults in the language.

How about just moving on? It's not like there is a lack of languages and tools out there.
I don't know how much the BBC paid Discovery for the rights, but France.tv had to do the same and has the right to up to three simultaneous TV broadcasts, and what seems to be all sports streaming online (with an awful UI, but that's another matter). Eurosport/Discovery also broadcasts in France, like in the rest of Europe.
I cannot understand what your items 1, 2, 3 mean (item 4 means you didn't find the plugin FindInFiles). Please file an issue in the Github, so we can talk.
I think that's just true about everything. You spend a ton of money deploying something, you're not going to rush to spend a ton of money deploying every incremental change.
Well, there's a lot of people who sound pretty angry about marketing, so it suggests to me that those people are emotional about it for some reason. Maybe it IS the case for them that they cannot control their spending and fall for every marketing message that comes along and overspend their money every month. In this case, I can see why those people like that would be emotional about marketing and hate marketing so much.

I've never had any issue with marketing because I am very, very careful with my money and don't spend it unless I absolutely need it. Even then, I review all options - which company to purchase from, what are the alternatives, before I make a purchase. Shopping around has saved me so much money.

And yes, companies are marketing 'to make money.' Of course they are. Is trying to make money immoral? Is everyone supposed to work for free? How else are companies, made up of people trying to get a salary to pay their rent or mortgage, kids education, etc, supposed to make money? There's a lot of bitterness in your message, but what I'd like to hear is what you think the alternative is. I really want to know. How should companies proceed, in order to sell their products or services, so that their employees, like you yourself, can get paid?

As an example, when you, or anyone, try to get a job, the resume is an advertisement for your services. People respond to employment advertising. But what you are doing is marketing yourself. So are you and others including myself all professional liars, by your own definition? Or are we just an amateur liars?

But again, what do you think companies should do to let others know that they might have a solution for some people's problems? What should they do?
>the Japanese are so hostile to foreigners/immigrants that it's borderline xenophobia.

That's not been my experience over the previous six years I've lived here. Initially I had a company sponsor me for a work visa but I've now got two relatively straightforward paths towards PR if I want it. Locals have been very accommodating and have bent over backwards to help me integrate into this society - that even includes the older generations.
> "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."

A long time ago, someone characterised chess as a DOS on the mind.
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> If you're an enthusiast of said product, you're doing no one any favors by being hostile.

Ah i see you must be too blind to see others have tried not being hostile, failed and get called out as having "social disability".

> Which does nothing for someone who couldn't get it to run on any of the hardware they tried it on.

Sure:

1. People have to help you here no matter what even if you're being very rude.
2. Certainly "it does not work on my machines" to "it does not work on anything" is a very reasonable stretch!

> I'm just saying, it's sadly very common, does nothing to help anybody, and leaves people with a negative opinion of their community.

if someone could just not leave other people with a negative opinion of him/her/themselves lol

> > keep on venting about social disability bullshit

> I don't even know what this means, but have a suspicion that if I did I would have a low opinion of you as a person for saying it.

seriously? lmfao, that phrase goes for you too, shut up and get your shit together.

as for the "does not help anybody" bit, yeah clearly venting like you do helps a heck lot to everybody.

A lot of people have been frustrated about the thing does not work for them (yes including me myself) but why does OP get the hate he/she/they get? If you can't figure that out yourself, you should probably do something else instead of keep posting here.
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What it being 1.0 means is that the API is stable. There might still be bugs in the implementation (no software is perfect), but once it's reached 1.0, it's hoped that the API is good enough and will not have to change for quite some time. If you look at these release notes for 1.0.0, they were all API changes.
Correct. The bar isn't "we never make mistakes". They are human, everybody messes up. The question is, what happens when you do? Issuing a correction is the best standard we can hope for.
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Thank you for the feedback... Yes currently it is only available for Pakistani migrants..
Surprisingly well, I think. I haven't heard any updates in a couple months (and I don't see it on her blog) but it sounded like Alyssa Rosenzweig had hammered out an early compiler and started working on a graphics driver itself.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-4.html

At the launch there were various pronouncements that "it'll never happen, Apple will have locked it down so hard it'll never go anywhere" and the more optimistic "there should be a start in a couple years" and at this point I wouldn't be surprised if there was something alpha or pre-alpha grade that you can toy around with by the end of the year (my words not hers - I have no relation to any of the Asahi Linux efforts).
Most people pronounce the spanish Vicente as "Beethenteh" in castellano but you can definitely ignore the "th" sound and pronounce it like an S, it's your name after all, you make the rules! In some spanish languages there's no "th" sound (e.g. Catalan) so it's really not an issue.

It will definitely be much easier for spaniards to pronounce the english version of Vincent than the french. We probably have the worst french pronounciation in Europe despite the fact that we're neighbours! I always chuckle with how some people pronounce croissant: "curasan" (an attempt to transliterate as "cruasan", I believe).
I've driven the PCH and I get it but it just doesn't seem worth it with all the other cons it has.

I'd prefer living in some low col anywhere else over renting a closet sized apartment for thousands and putting up with the ever increasing homeless/drug problems SF has.

All those things you listed exist in plenty of other more affordable places. I think people have just been sold this false idea that only CA has this stuff.
> value in having places where people can congregate to smoke and drink

Call them home. Why do you think other people should be subject to the dangerous conditions you're imposing on them? Not just patrons but also workers.
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The only way we get to the future is if sufficient people stop rewarding the unnecessary middlemen. I am just trying to do my part.
Threema could get on Matrix and it would be awesome - or federate with it. Maybe Wire as well. Such excellent apps.

However finding connections just by numbers is really a killer feature
> we also spend some time messing with strace and GDB

Yes, and if I had learned about these a couple months ago it would have saved me ~8 hours tracking a bug down. So, thank you.
Siemens was good 30 years ago. More recently, they seem a little bit too tied up with politics, hiring ex politicians, getting caught bribing (e.g. in Greece). It's not a pretty sight IMO and I wouldn't want to work there.
That's what a programmer mid-way to maturity would do.

When the programmer finally reaches enlightenment they see that static types have their own burden, and Lisp or Smalltalk or Forth or Erlang, can be the final step, not some gateway drug to static types. Heck, C and C++ ain't bad themselves.
Mmm but this is a professional environment. It's like DUI for ordinary folk vs DUI for a school bus driver, isn't it? I thought the latter is whole lot easier to punish.
I know somebody who was highly skilled who spent years trying to get permanent residency in the USA, but gave up, moved to Canada, and got it almost immediately.
So many homes these days had at one point been wired for cable or satellite. The antenna uses the same cabling and often has one or two big splitters to run to each room. Its pretty trivial to change the "source" side of that to the antenna and disconnect unused rooms.
If your side "owns a mistake" and the other side doubles down on a lie, that's not the same thing. You can't both sides that.
> Or more likely tether isn’t backed by anything at all.

In order to believe this, you have to believe that Leticia James got the data from the NYAG subpoenas, and then ignored the fact that Tether has no backing.

So no, not "more likely".
>There's no TCO so writing recursive algorithms from old FP papers is hard.

Why write "recursive algorithms from old FP papers"? As an exercize, or is there a business need?
>I sometimes wonder if Japan's work culture that demands long hours from workers

Japan is placed somewhere in the upper middle among OECD countries when it comes to average working hours per year and the percentage of workers working more than 60 hours per week.
TBH, Windows shouldn't even be in the business of having any opinion on uncommon software.

If they want to collect data sets for virus protection, go ahead.

If they want to hash installed files from common software to detect divergences for virus protection, go ahead.

But having any kind of notification that an install is uncommon? We call it a general purpose computer because we want to use it for general purposes: which is to say, uncommon purposes.

This feels like ape'ing Apple without thinking it through.
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All languages have problems. Don't take my post to mean "don't use Julia" - the very first words of the post is that it's my favorite language. Also do note that the webpage is built with Julia. Not a coincidence.

But even good systems need critique, otherwise there can be no improvement or growth.
Didn't stop Intel or TSMC from building in Phoenix...where there is literally no water and they are having one of the worst droughts ever.
Is your point that running ads is equivalent to the deceptive practices described in the original article? If so, can you make that a little more explicitly than your three-word argument ending in "etc"?

It seems to me, on its face, that this argument is laughable. The entire premise of concerns about disinfo is that disinfo is (by definition) deliberately deceptive, typically--as in the cases mentioned in the article--deceptive in posture (claiming to be opinion rather than paid propaganda) and origin (claiming to be from organic sources, like real voters, rather than sock-puppets controlled by political actors).

This criticism is, of course, not applicable to paid advertisements that disclose their source.
> I was told I was making stuff up and/or this is in 'best interest' of users

This is the sensation I get too. "Why don't you just use regedit/gpedit/etc." (this approach is hilariously insufficient)

Some days I feel like giving up on tech because of how the corporate PR machines have ruined large swathes of the community. It is getting harder and harder to find actual answers to questions like "how do I remove the windows defender binaries from my PC?"

If the TI approach stops working, I am moving to linux and I am taking our product's platform along for the ride too.
What do you mean? What I said is a compliment
Of course the CO² impact per kwh is higher in Germany. The country started two world wars and the winning factions understandably weren't overly eager to see Germany building nuclear proliferation capabilities. For the first 10 years after WW2 any kind of nuclear research was forbidden. For the same reason Germany was also forbidden to have an army in the first years after 1945. That's why nuclear never played a big role in Germany and critical parts of nuclear infrastructure (like fuel rod recycling) are still done in other countries (mostly France).
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Computers are far stronger than humans and win every game. They cannot be artificially weakened as they do not play like weaker humans, but rather make a mixture of incredibly strong moves and random mistakes. As such, it would be a tournament of trying to lose the best game against a computer, which is not an accurate simulation of what human-human chess is like.
> that is not my gripe. I could care less about NYT being slanted but real travesty is the 'omission', omission of important news stories, omission of events of consequence etc.

1) The mainstream news media is under enormous economic pressure, because the internet kneecapped their economic model: people got used to getting things for free (including bread and butter stuff like classified ads), and "engaging" crap (e.g. ideological hot takes) can be produced far more cheaply than valuable journalism (and is far more "viral"). That means the media often literally doesn't have the resources to even cover the number of stories they used to, let alone everything they arguably should.

2) It's important to be specific about what stories you think are being omitted. Are they actual stories of import, or ideological smears that happen to tickle your biases? We can't know unless they're specified.
It comes from the halting problem. People can be more careful writing code, but it is impossible to be certain about all the things code will or won't do. Even very simple programs can have flaws that get found and fixed years later. It happens all the time.

We need to be open and honest about the possibility that our code may act in ways we don't foresee.
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