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> > ... the parent comment ... just claimed that these types of drinks machines don't work that way.

> Really? And how do they work?

As you can see by earlier comments in the chain, they normally work by having separate containers of syrup for each type of drink that can be served, a single CO2 canister for carbonation, and being plumbed into the water mains. The drinks are mixed from those on demand. Soft drinks dispensed in pubs/bars work the same way, with one of those magic tap things on the end [1].

[1] http://www.cokepubandbar.co.uk/example-equipment.html

I already knew this before I posted my initial comment and someone corrected me, I had just forgotten and failed to join the dots. It's fairly common knowledge.

> How complicated do you think it is to have one ... one that just serves from a container

It's not complicated, it's just very inefficient, both in terms of getting those containers to the outlet, and in terms of staff swapping the containers all the time when they run out. That's why it's not normally done, so it would be a surprise if this one were any different.

> like a regular water dispenser THAT'S LITERALLY IN EVERY OFFICE around the world

Nowadays most office water machines are also plumbed in as it's far better for the environment. But the type you used to see typically had ~20L bottles on them, which wouldn't even serve 25 large US McDonalds drinks like the one shown in the picture (blimley those drinks are huge!). Hopefully it's obvious that it's not feasible for someone to come and change the water every 25 times someone uses the machine. The turnover of an office water cooler is typically tens or even hundreds of times less than a soda machine in a busy fast food outlet.

Those classic office water dispensers are also gravity fed, which is why the bottle is on top, and obviously that's not what's happening here. But I acknowledge it would be possible, in principle, to make a pumped version.

> No, if it's branded as a specific type of water, it's not tap water. You're reaching here for a conspiracy theory ...

You're showing a charming amount of faith in the Coca-Cola corporation here :-) Believing that they would sell tap water as Dasani is definitely not at conspiracy theory level.

That said, I never said I was 100% sure that they're doing that. Only that it would be extremely unusual for a machine like this to be connected to bottled water rather than mains. I'd love to see some evidence either way. Still, it would be so surprising that the burden of proof is really on the claim that it is using a bottled source.

> Also no, a business doesn't owe tap water to anyone, either. So it's absolutely irrelevant wrt these RFID chips.

I agree businesses don't owe tap water to non-customers. But most restaurants / take away outlets allow indefinite tap water to those that actually are paying customers, and I'd be pretty offended if I was at one that didn't (even if I didn't live in a country where it's a legal requirement). It would certainly be more surprising than a business that doesn't allow you indefinite amounts of e.g. Coca-Cola.
And it was an ipod as well
Holy crap, what do they even do with that money? I'd love to read more about this. They have 615,000 people living there, meaning they get 55,000 USD in gov revenue per person.

For comparison, the US gov got ~8,750 USD in rev per head in 2019.
Awesome, I appreciate you guys working so well with the (sometimes hostile) HN crowd. We'll make the switch next week. Best of luck!
You would think, but the stock price is still going up and they have a lot of cash on hand. I don't really understand why anyone does business with them, but they are likely to be around for a long time.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL?p=ORCL
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>The exponential growth required for compound interest to work is only possible in a shortage.

Compound interest doesn't need exponential growth. That money is not destroyed when you repay the loan, it's just the profit margin of the banks. If interest rates are above what can be repaid they will have to be lowered until they can be repaid. The 0% lower bound is good enough. It's when people withhold deposits and never use them to pay for anything (you know as dictated by the responsible citizen always earning more than he spends) that you need endless growth because debts must grow fast enough that past debts can be repaid even at 0% interest.

>I fear the day when companies realise that they'll make more money by starting a war, which would devastate governments and property.

Well, the problem is that it's true. The broken window fallacy isn't about doing something smart it's about doing something smarter than what is being done today.
I really like that line, "advice is a form of nostalgia." I think I already have internalized it a bit but I'm gonna try and be more mindful of that when I give advice!
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As someone with mild autism I don't want people celebrating it. We should support autistic people but I don't want people celebrating a condition that causes myself and others significant difficulties in life.

I'm worried that once we start "celebrating" autism, researchers will be scared to study it in fear of getting cancelled. This is important because there are studies that show, for example, that gut microbiome can affect autism symptoms. I might be downvoted for saying this but we should be trying to prevent autism, not celebrating it.

Ultimately I'm pessimistic. I don't think normal people will ever truly understand and accept autistic people, merely tolerate them. This notion of celebration is just feel-good, wishful thinking. What'll actually happen is we'll pressure normal people into putting up a facade of acceptance. But privately, I think normal people will still want to avoid autistic people when possible. Will autistic people get invited to social events more often? Will normal people want to date them more? I don't think so.
Isn't that the point though? That violating the restrictions has negative return taking the fine into account?
"People [...] are less likely to become infected with the coronavirus if they have relatively high levels of virus-blocking antibodies..."

This seems self-evident, really - 'virus-blockers help block the virus' hardly seems newsworthy. IF they'd worked out the 'threshold of protection' mentioned at the end, that might be more interesting, but this article seems like it should be a footnote in that larger piece (when it comes) rather than something worth reporting on its own.
Maybe they meant 18%.
>You aren't equal (as in indistinguishably, truly equal) without both.

If you live in the country the law is the same for everyone. No? Don't know what the obligations are. I'm not the "you" , clearly you're super knowledgable, go for it.

> But a nice attempt to frame the conversation. [Do they send you on courses?]
Errr thanks?

Humanity has tried the whole "jews living under arab rule" before and it sucked. You can bash the israelis all you want but they're doing a much better job than anything a palestinian/arab rule would do to jews.
That's a horribly outdated version linked in that video sadly, and that one no longer runs on recent macOS (because it's not notarized).

Just in case anyone wants to try it, please grab latest build here instead : https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/releases

Or if you want an installer with auto updates, get it here : https://aerialscreensaver.github.io

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>Not only does encryption during data recovery make everything much more difficult, but should you pass away, your family members might not have the skills required to access the data

Uh, trust me, that's a good thing.
In those cases the best solution would be to use a query builder library like JOOQ, I still wouldn't be willing to recommend someone in that position builds the query by concatenating strings together
That's why they love those kind of things. Layers and layers of laws and regulations.
> Being in the same space physically I think speeds up a lot of things. In small teams and esp. at early stage startups your whole day is a meeting where things are discussed and resolved spontaneously.

I do not understand how people can get work done in an environment like this. I've had similar experiences and "the whole day is a meeting" only served me for unnecessary interruptions, useless workplace banter and unsatisfactory results.
My approach is 6 years old and I use Time Capsule. The best ever solution for me. You set it up and you don't case anymore. It's Apple specific unfortunately. Don't know if there is a similar solution for Windows.
Yes. Starry Night was the best.

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You are arguing a different point, the post said that black men and black women are the most imprisoned groups. Black men are more imprisoned than white men, yes, but white men are more imprisoned than black women.

Womens issues and black issues are completely different, don't just mix them up randomly like this.
The failure belongs to the selfish individuals who are ignoring the lockdown because it offends their personal convenience. If everyone did the right thing by isolating, engaging with contact tracing and getting tested for possible exposures, etc. voluntarily then there would be no need for enforcement.

Given that we know people are ignoring lockdown, it would be a failing of the government NOT to do something about it given the grave consequences to both individuals and the security of the nation as a whole.

>why did you have to use military to coerce people

The ADF are not there in a military capacity. They are assisting regular law enforcement with a labor shortage due to the scale of the outbreak.

And again, it is not coercive for police officers to enforce the law, including public health directives. Unless you consider all law enforcement to be coercive, in which case I no longer have any time for your opinions and would encourage you to expatriate yourself to a country with a more "relaxed" legal system as soon as you can. I hear Mogadishu is nice this time of year.
I know at least 30 people who went to his school. Absolutely none of them are remotely like him. It is a schtick in that you can absolutely see him choosing to lean into it. And it's not ultra-poshness (in fact it's the opposite of posh), it's a form of dishonesty.
> What country are you in where they're building giant sheds to hide cows from the sky?

Not GP, but in the Netherlands we have all that. Tiny country, huge meat exporter. In recent years there is more political attention to change the horrible system, but nitrate emissions on nature, threats for disease are more prominent motives. Animal well-being maybe comes third in that. We have a "Partij voor de Dieren" political party (Party for the Animals) with seats in parliament.
I suspect if you want a HW architecture for running array operations you'll end up with something like a vector machine (e.g. ARM SVE(2) ) or a GPU rather than a VLIW CPU?
This seems self-contradictory. If you were eager to learn and explore different ideas, surely you would have just ignored the warnings?

As is, I think most people ignore them.
"So to say that we can't understand all of this in terms of neuro, or even chemistry, or even physics is wrong and a false dichotomy."

Since we are not omniscient, we can't understand it in terms of this. Certainly not now, possibly not ever.

It's not even clear that you could hypothetically attempt to understand the human mind in terms of physics without invasively doing all sorts of horrific things to human test subjects.
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Alpha was the reason DEC was for sale. It was a very cool speedy architecture, but it took too long to emerge from the DEC management swamp.

Bitsavers has a series of memos showing how the Alpha predecessor Prism went down in flames when DEC decided to quick-fix its technology hole with MIPS.

Alpha was a kind of illicit skunk works leftover from that failed project. If DEC had pushed it out the door a couple of years earlier - not likely, but possible with a push - it might have eaten the rest of the industry.
> "Technical debt is the burden that implementation choices may place on future development"

True, provided we understand that those choices are not always conscious. I more commonly use the term looking back: some code technically works and at least minimally satisfies current use cases, but is hard to read and therefore hard to maintain or extend and bug-prone, so it needs to be refactored, improved, and/or modernized.

Before the term "technical debt" existed, it could be hard for developers to convince management of the need to clean up existing code. It sounded like just some thing that crazy programmers wanted to do - spend time and money for something that delivered nothing new. Now managers can understand the need to pay off "technical debt."
Why did you travel to both Iran and Iraq? Are you in the CIA?
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I'd argue the opposite.

You need more, as being visible to upper management might not be enough in a future where actual work output might get emphasized over personal appearances.

As managing your own underlings by their work performance is arguably harder then managing them by metrics like "she's always 9-5 at her desk" and "I do like his choice of tie and suit".
I'm not intending to give health advice but the health benefits of walking are pretty well established and commonly accepted by doctors. I encourage you to do the research if you are skeptical or talk to your doctor.
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Cloud services and license support is the top bucket, unclear what all the entails.

They own a LOT of business oriented very pricey software (Netsuite etc)...
You got it exactly backwards. Speculation on housing beats productive work so interest rates have to be dropped lower and lower until productive work beats speculation and then speculation dies instantly in a crash.

The obvious answer is to just have 100% capital gains taxes on land and let people deduct inflation.
Long ago, I listened to his advice and bought a Nikon D40 (6 Megapixels) instead of a D40X (10 Megapixels). His argument was that the sensors were the same physical size, so the light gathering per pixel would be less, and thus images would have more noise in the D40X.

I never owned a D40X, but I loved the heck out of that D40. I got a lot of great night time shots with it, and it worked very well indoors without flash. I used it so much, I actually wore out the shutter.
To learn yourself, also go over the execution plan when running a query and Google absolutely everything it tells you, and look through the MSSQL documentation at what it all means. It won't lead you to what you don't know, but it will fill in everything you're a bit cloudy on.

One of my favorites to get the very basics is Select Star, especially because you work with real and meaningful data: https://selectstarsql.com/

Use the Index, Luke has also really helped me make queries that don't waste a ton of time:
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Microsoft also has a bunch of paid training classes for MSSQL, if you or your boss don't mind ponying up some $$$. MSSQL is an amazing tool, and it's worth it to really learn how to use it well.

Good luck!
The "trigger" terminology was developed when treating people who survived battlefield traumas.

Could you cite a source or sources on this?

Is the origin of a term or practice at all relevant to a broader or more evolved understanding of its applicability? Or a reason to specifically deny it to other domains?

Your're aware that TFA discusses content rather than trigger warnings?
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I feel you man.

I mean, I like working from home, I like the extra time in the morning for sports, and in the evening to cook. But I also experience disadvantages from it... I really like being amongst others, which isn't the same via Slack.

Also, I dislike having my house as both my chill place and my work place. I feel it doesn't really work. I already have a different room to work in, but I still feel 'locked up' at my house somehow.
It's impossible they earned more than $1B from europeans, since Amazon's entire international retail business still hasn't turned a profit overall.
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idk, I've been using tailwind for the past 4 months on a large and complex project, and I haven't had to override a single class. There were a few instances in which I needed to write custom css to handle certain scenarios, but that is roughly 100-200 lines of css.

I also never had to do it when I was using Emotion, and I used that for 2 years.
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Oracle has made substantial push into the hyperscale cloud space in the last 2 years. Even though they lag quite a bit behind AWS/Azure/GCP, they are far from irrelevant. (Revenue grew approximately 26% year over year in 2019) While Oracle DB is still dominant (At the end of 2019, Oracle was the leader in DBMS revenue ($15.15 billion) and market share (27.5%)) in large enterprises, Oracle will retain a place in the industry. (430,000 customers in 175 countries and revenue of $39 billion for fiscal year 2020)
In my experience, reasons like "spontaneity" and "dynamism" are used to cast lack of vision, poor planning and management, and amateurish execution in a positive light. YMMV.
Just my personal take. The real challenge for me has been keeping the primary stakeholder for small remote projects engaged and communicating routinely.

I have been getting jobs where I am the only programmer for years, and one person is funding the project out of their pocket. Which means my income is limited, but also is low-stress and affords me a lot of freedom in terms of things like technical decisions.

One issue is that the sponsor usually realizes within a few weeks that I don't really need new feature ideas every few days to keep busy. So they tend to be busy with their own jobs or life and migrate towards checking in once or twice a week.

Which is usually fine, but I do find myself wishing sometimes that they would just glance at the Discord every two days. When they get busy, that can sometimes coincide with times that I have done a deployment for them to check out or have a lot to discuss. Then I am sending them an email asking them to look at the Discord.
well, they need to move to the cloud fast

but they are already kind of there, they own NetSuite which is the number 1 cloud ERP

they also own Oracle ERP which is another top 5 cloud ERP

they own peoplesoft/jd edwards and all their clients

they next to SAP, own the enterprise apps market
and unlike SAP, they seem to be serious about competing with AWS ans Azure, Oracle OCI, see to get niece reviews

So how long will it take for Oracle to be irrelevant, if OCI and NetSuite continue to move in the right directions, for as long as people have money
I agree on all points except this one:

> Don’t assume you’ll make this much money forever.

There is a 90% chance that your salary will increase by 10% per year, on average, during your career.

On average means that sometimes your company will find a lousy excuse not to give you a raise on a given year (you know if it's your fault or not. If in doubt: it's not your fault, they are just being cheap, and you are letting them get away with it).

When this happens, you need to look elsewhere for a better paid job (which are also, on average, more interesting than worse paid ones).

Given that you apply this advice, and barring any black swan event such as the dot-com bubble bursting, you should be able to earn more and more as time passes.

Use this to your advantage!
But the specific animal does make a difference, if you ask nearly anyone. And yes, that is massively hypocritical. That is my entire point.
I don’t think there’s a realistic situation where reading the name “J.K. Rowling” should ever cause someone to lose their shit a lá PTSD.
I'm actually a proponent of GDPR and not a lawyer.

I'm pro consumer protection so I might be biased. On the other hand it's an easy to read legislation https://gdpr-info.eu/
The debate requires so e nuance, where Chrome and Safari are at both ends of the extreme. The Chrome team seems tk have the resources to churn out one API (proposal and implementation) after the other, some of them are obviously made just for Google products. Safari on the other end does not even seem to care for very prominent APIs that have been standardized with Mozillas Support.

Somewhere in the middle lies Mozilla. They need to stay competitive to chrome, but also want good privacy and most importantly lack the resourcing to just implement all of Googles whims. You don't just implement a Bluetooth API into your browser that works on Windows, mac and Linux!
They are probably going to last really long considering the impact they made before FAANG took off. Many of their customers are governments and quasi-government companies (think bank and telecom) so I actually think they are going to last a lot longer than we want.
There is a big difference between saying "Rates can stay this low" when they are 12% during a time when the government was not printing money, nor in the housing market so mortgage has to actually be profitable for the lenders

and a time when the fed is literally printing money and giving it away for 0% interest to institutions with the sole purpose of driving up costs so consumer confidence does not collapse...

I will not say rates cant not stay this low, but doing so is highly irresponsible and will cause massive problems in the 10 year time frame.. The longer the fed keep the money printing brrrrrring the worse off we are all going to be very soon
Comparatively I can see that. I just didn't think people were very open about it.
I do know my company recently partnered with a resourcing company for neurodiverse contractors. I think it's mostly a marketing ploy because I don't see them hiring/promoting anyone as an employee who is noticeably neurodiverse. It seems deceptive to me, almost like segregating them. Not to mention they tend not to be very receptive of different thought patterns and opinions in my experience.