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Facebook is not a tech company it's a (social) media company, Google is not a tech company, it's an information search company, Apple is not a tech company it's a consumer electronics company, Amazon is not a tech company, it's a retail company.

You can say this about any tech company, it's just where you draw the line of what "tech" is.
I'm clearly not grasping the full context here. Sorry for the snide remark
Well it’s a +63% relative increase. Not so tiny.
Maybe Webiny (https://www.webiny.com, https://www.webiny.com/docs) could be the solution you're looking for! ;)

It's designed to make serverless application development as easy as possible.

For example, with the built-in scaffolds (https://www.webiny.com/docs/how-to-guides/scaffolding/introd...), you can pretty quickly provision a new React application, GraphQL API, or even a full-stack application. Once that's up, further development is as easy as simply starting a new watch session with the "webiny watch" command (https://www.webiny.com/docs/how-to-guides/use-watch-command/). It will make sure that all of the changes that you perform, both on application and cloud infrastructure code level, are automatically deployed into the cloud for you. In a way, this mimics the good-old local development experience.

And there's a lot more, but I'd probably pollute the thread. :)

If you're interested, feel free to ping me, here or maybe via our community Slack (https://www.webiny.com/slack). I'd be glad to assist with any questions / feedback you might have.

@vixalien

P.S. Disclaimer: I work at Webiny :)
xmlstarlet is really nothing like jq, as a language. But yes, I use it because it is the best commandline xml processor I'd found. That's the only similarity to jq.

Is this the yq? https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/ It does contain an 'xq', as a literal wrapper for jq, piping output into it after transcoding XML to JSON using xmltodict https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict (which explodes xml into separate JSON data structures).

This is a bash one-liner! But TBF it really is a 'jq for xml'. I think it would be horrible for some things, but you could also do a lot of useful things painlessly.
> will just lead to a debt crisis down the road

Reduced El Salvadorian immigration will lead to a debt crisis?
I am shocked that a website designed to help people invade others’ privacy didn’t have good privacy controls in place.
> Why Western allied nations in particular?

Simple: Western nations are a somewhat coherent cultural sphere.

Adding in India (with its current war against Twitter and anything that dares criticize Modi), the Arabian and other dominant-Muslim countries (women's rights, LGBT, democracy) or Russia/China (which are essentially dictatorships) into consideration would add way too much illiberality to be acceptable.
In Silicon Valley, criminal prosecutors see no evil
It gets filled with all kinds of content, of which racism and other far-right talk is merely the most visible part because it's in the spotlight. But it's not just far right that's getting "deplatformed". Even politically, there are plenty of leftist groups that were wiped out from e.g. Facebook during the recent purges. All those people also have to look for other platforms.
When humans started to enact laws that limited harm and sought not to add to it, and fought wars to reduce enemies and not make them, that's when the first legitimate governments were formed. Thousands of years ago we found this out. If you are making things worst, go away. No one wants you around. That's all you have to do.

There's a big backdrop among the Saudis, like 9/11, and Pinochet, like the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's okay to devolve back into an animal when dealing with barbarians, with trial by ordeal and wager of battle, and then return back into a lawful human. Rules only work if people follow them.
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> To warm up a skeptical public, Bukele has promised every citizen $30 in bitcoin if they sign up for a government digital wallet. Ahead of the launch, El Salvador bought 400 bitcoins, Bukele said, helping drive the currency price above $52,000 for the first time since May.

> In the early hours of Tuesday the wallet had not appeared on Apple Inc., Google and Huawei’s app download platforms, however, prompting a series of tweets from Bukele, including one with a red-faced “angry” emoticon.

The involvement of a government-issued wallet gives this story an even stranger dimension. First, it's not clear how the government will identify those eligible to receive the $30 bitcoin deposit. Second, why would the government be involved at all in developing a wallet? There are plenty to choose from now, so what features exactly were missing in those? Finally, what government in its right mind would hitch its fortunes to the vagaries of a walled-garden App Store based in the US, a country clearly hostile to the Salvadoran experiment?
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It can lead to anxiety and panic attacks due to the high levels of THC relative to the past.
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> It wasn't really the media doing that.

[1] - https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/06/covid-la...

[2] - https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/coronavirus-lab-theo...

[3] - https://www.politifact.com/li-meng-yan-fact-check/
> Wouldn't inflation hurt people with a lot of cash savings, the most?

Almost no one with a vast amount of wealth keeps their wealth in cash.

> Also, Wouldn't people with a lot of debt welcome inflation. Don't poor people tend to have the most amount of debt relative to their networth?

Not necessarily. The poorest households hold less than their fair share of mortgage debt, but they hold more than their share of consumer debt. The bottom half of households by wealth hold almost 54% of consumer debt. Consumer debt includes credit cards, student loans and car loans. That distribution isn’t a surprise, either [0]. If you rely on debt for every day purchases (credit card revolving debt), higher prices don't help you out. If you have inflation in the form of home valuations and you own a home (perhaps w/ a mortgage), you're better off in that regard

> Isn't their a student debt crisis, that can be helped out by inflation.

Inflation doesn't necessarily mean your salary goes up. Salaries for low wage workers is fairly sticky.

> The only people I really see getting hurt by inflation are those hoarding cash, which there is a ton of ways to put that money to work. You can buy fractional stocks for less then a dollar.

If you're on a fixed salary, or your salary doesn't go up by at least the inflation amount you're worse off. And if you have a large percentage of your income go to pay for every day living expenses, you're also worse off.

The dollar value is predictable until it's not. There are plenty of examples of hyperinflation that turned a country on its head.

[0] https://www.barrons.com/articles/rich-borrow-mortgates-consu...
People take bad decision using Chrome.
Doesn't seem particularly useful, but who cares!

Let's see what happens. I suspect someone in the government was long BTC. In any case, this won't change anything.
They are using lightning wallets. So no on chain settling. No (extra) trees were harmed for hamburgers (though obviously opening and closing of channels and initial mining it self is energy intensive).
Your experience does not match research on the job market generally. Multiple studies show increased responses to resumes with "whitened" names. This is, of course, at odds with the white victimhood narrative that unqualified minorities are taking jobs, when it is in fact the opposite which is occurring.

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
> But it will be and soon, and once it is the left will embrace it like they did with prenatal vitamins. Embryo genediting and embryo selection works just fine, and the databases required to find polygene traits are beeing created, the techniques required beeing researched.

https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection is a good overview of how practical this is today, IME. TL;DR: Selection is barely worth it at reasonable valuations of IQ points, but will be massively worth it in the future due to improvements in models and the ongoing reduction in price of polygenetic screenings. I believe this was last updated in 2016, though.

https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-editing for the babies of the "far future", or maybe 25 years from now.
tech make it possible.
Down 1.6 million the first day. Good luck
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Why shouldn't it be legal?

When you think a bit better about it, it's about the same as regular web browsing. Just automated or scripted.

I don't think there is much that can be done to fully prevent it either, so.
Did Joe Rogan literally buy and eat something from a package that says "horse dewormer" on it? You willingly ignored the salient parts of the comment you responded to (ironically providing more evidence of the very phenomenon that they're trying to discuss).
> Interesting that this is pointed out, since I noticed they linked to this article, describing these sorts of jobs being a "teenage rite of passage" to be a myth.

The hyperlink's text claims it is a myth, but the linked article does not refute the idea that working this kind of job is considered by our culture to be a significant growth step for teenagers.
Can Netflix exist without tech? No.

Can Netflix compete just on its tech? No.

Both can be true at the same time.
There's a third category that you're missing, and it's where the definition gets real blurry.

There are companies that effectively use technology to outcompete (or "disrupt") incumbent companies in a market. Amazon in retail, Netflix in media, Craigslist for classifieds, Uber for taxis, etc.

It seems as if many existing companies, like Cadbury's perhaps, aren't able to effectively re-work their business models with the new possibilities available via tech. Thus they're "non-tech" companies even if they do make some modest use of technology, but ultimately their business model predates tech.

"Tech" companies in this space are the ones creating or adopting brand new business models in an existing space enabled by technology. This is the "software eating the world" part of the tech market.
I’d be skeptical about using a government wallet as well, though it could potentially make initial disbursements easier.
If no one is a tech company, what IS a tech company? We have the habit of getting into pedantic esoteric arguments that are meaningless. I can't accept that Netflix is a "Television company" because they don't sell TVs. They are a content provider and license holder. However there are billions of content providers and license holders.

Also let's say that a mega rich person starts investing in 15Billion / year on content like Netflix, but at the same time does it by creating Blockbuster like stores where people can walk in and rent said content. That's not a Tech company is it?

There IS a reason these companies born out of the SV are tech companies. Flagging as this is just a click bait puff.
Because bitcoin is by far the most scalable decentralized censorship resistant cryptocurrency. That isn’t a popular opinion here but it’s true. Improvements to the protocol are slow and often boring. The kind of thing that countries want in a cryptocurrency.
I speak as an outside observer here in the U. S., but my understanding is that the whole Australian vaccine deal was handled poorly by the government. This has been explained to me that the isolation of an island continent bought Australia some time, which the government took to mean "sit on our thumbs until forced to do otherwise".

The point that I'm driving the long way around to is that it's a bit cheeky to go from a 14% vaccination rate, due to government cockups, to "get vaccinated or get used to subsistence farming".
Similar Point: "Hedge" and "Edge" share a lot of letters and semantics. If you are really good at dealing with tail risk (Pandemics, perhaps...) this not only allows you to rugged-ize and preserve your internals structures and practices in extreme circumstances but also potentially massively outcompete your competitors.

For a modern information-centric company, what does that mean? Get the technology right. Pay some smart people to get your internals ship-shape and reproducible, for example.
This was only part of your comment, but I’m very happy with my Apple TV purchase (especially now with the “fixed” remote). The hardware has always been sufficiently fast which enables app devs to present the best version of their UIs. Though this isn’t a silver bullet (see the Prime Video app), the same APIs many devs are used to on iOS do enable a delightful experience (insofar as delightful = objectively better than the experiences on alternative hardware).

(Woof, so many caveats here!)
If you know in advance that Primate vs. Human confusions are going to be a potential issue that upset a lot of people (say, because it already happened with a similar system at another company) there are certainly ways of trying to ensure that same confusion doesn't happen.

Ways to actually fix the problem:

1. Probe the decision boundary between these two classes in your training and test sets. I.E. look for the humans closest to being misclassified as primates. You could probably quickly get a sense if you are near/at risk of making this misclassification. You may also possibly find 1 or 2 mislabeled examples that are throwing things off and can be corrected.

2. Boost your training set by labeling more unlabeled images that are near this decision boundary.

So my point was just: this was an issue that could have been anticipated because it has already happened before. It is unfortunate that this issue came up when there are things you can do (such as the steps above), which I believe could have totally squashed this issue with enough iteration.

I can't know for sure that this is not what the Facebook team did. If they did take care to try and avoid this harmful model confusion, then I would be very surprised given my experience with deep learning and computer vision.

At a minimum, it would have been pretty trivial and a low impact to users to remove the primate class if they didn't have the time/bandwidth to really investigate this more thoroughly as I've described.

You can try to argue "hey no one should get upset about this confusion because computer vision is hard and mistakes happen", but I don't think that's a very solid argument either given the long and relatively recent history of racists misclassifying a particular subset of humans as primates.
That is not what the study showed. They controlled for health and exercise.

In fact, the study they cited which also showed an increase in stroke risk actually showed cannabis users exercised more.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?author=T+Parekh&au...
How are they getting around the very long wait times and large fees for transaction confirmations? I'm guessing the "government digital wallet" is just an account on a government service that changes values in a (centralized) database while holding a bunch of btc under the hood? Or maybe there are private bank options that do the same?
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Building new cities has to be explored at some point if we assume population growth.
My opinion that belongs to me is as follows. This is how it goes. The next thing I'm going to say is my opinion.

The C interop and name-spaces (also in gawk) is a bridge too far for me. By the time you need one of those, it's time to look for another language. Awk is just not enough of a language to write serious programs in. And I really like awk. It has enabled great scripting not only for log files, but also for dictionaries, back in the day when it was still hard to load one in memory.

That is my opinion, it is mine, and belongs to me and I own it, and what it is too.
I think that many of the commenters are pointing out that this study is poorly done in some key areas, which make any kind of conclusions based on it of little value.
no worries, this stuff happened over a decade ago. I can sometimes barely remember the details :)
I used to read a lot of writing like this and still do (tech strategy newsletters--Stratechery, Benedict Evans, etc)

The hazard of reading stuff like this is that it makes the world seem much more orderly and predictable than it is. Case in point: Zoom. "Videoconferencing is a commodity". "Distribution is all that matters". And all of a sudden, someone does this "commodity" a lot better, without the pre-existing network/distribution/brand of someone like Skype, Google, etc. How do they explain this? How does it make sense that a team can work heads-down without any clear distribution advantage and just grind, and build a large, meaningful company by making a better product?

It's the same deal with Yamaha Motorcycles. Read their story. Bootstrapped from a "nobody" brand in the US, stiff competition against Harley-Davidson and their ilk. They just got better and better, gradually improving year after year, until they're taken seriously by hardcore enthusiasts and are one of the leading motorcycle companies in the US. How do you explain this success in terms of moats, 2x2 matrices, SWOT analysis, competitive positioning, etc? Sometimes a company wins because they just want it more badly and are willing to push their people harder, and outwork/out-deliver the competition.

Calling the tech "still fundamentally a commodity" bothers me not because I'm a technologist, but because it's horribly hand-wavey and imprecise. It sounds precise, but what...exactly...does this mean? As other commenters have pointed out, sure, a commodity that cost oh, 100 billion dollars and a decade to build, isn't easily duplicated, and meaningfully contributes to the user experience? I heard someone describe gold as a "6000-year bubble" last week in the context of the "crypto bubble". Same idea--"a commodity that nobody else has, took a decade to build, and over 100 billion dollars". Some "commodity".

As a CEO, I increasingly find all this strategy stuff noise. All that matters is delighting your customers. You do that and charge a reasonable price, you're going to succeed. It might take a while, and of course you need decent sales/marketing execution, but overall, just focus on keeping customers happy, and you'll get there.
Algorand is not proof of work. Its a variation of PoS with very interesting use of VRF functions.
It'll still have to be consideration when some country tries to put in draconian restrictions on crypto (i.e. math)
Sure, I’d start here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

I think the the internet and technology is the equivalent to the railroads and industrialization in the 19th century. You also have the currency issues with silver and gold standards which may play out similarly to some of the crypto issues of today.

I’ve worked in a large enterprise for a long time, going from project to project that essentially automated away some semi-professional human work with automation at a 50-90% savings. Over 15 years, there’s about 35% fewer people doing 50% more work.

That trend is only speeding up. I don’t see how the current model of using cheap money to prop up real estate is a sustainable economic model.

Take with appropriate grain of salt. I’m not an economist, and my understanding is that of a layman.
Yeah that's a fair point that I didn't consider; you're probably right.

Unfortunately, workers are still shooting themselves in the foot by doing this. Having emotional outbursts is always the wrong move and it's one that might haunt you well into your professional future.
> You're committing fallacy number 2 here. Wind power and hydro is a thing.

Wind is certainly a thing. Its not perfectly reliable, even over large areas (ex: a hurricane on the East Coast would shut down turbines due to too much wind... over a large area). But wind is at least part of the answer to the duck curve.

And Hydro is great, but has a peculiar weakness, especially in the context of California's drought conditions. California has the problem of water-shortages as well, which means that hydro-plants are in "water management mode" rather than energy-management.

That is to say: Hydro serves two masters: energy management AND water management. If you're using the dam as water-management, you're not necessarily getting the electricity you want at the right times.

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I'm not convinced that anything aside from peaker plants really solve the duck curve frankly.

Storage will get there eventually. But not today: there needs to be more research and development into storage technologies before we have something large enough. (Either that, or we need to solve the West's water issues, so that hydro plants can be more into energy-management mode rather than the more pressing water-management issues)
Specifically, Toyota was responsible for developing the Kanban methodology.
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No. For the first decade plus of its existence, Netflix was a DVD by mail rental service and there, its technology was a key differentiator. You paid a subscription depending on how many DVDs you wanted to have out at a time, Netflix mailed them to you in red envelopes, and you mailed them back in the same envelope. The ingenious part was that there was a website where you entered in all of the DVDs you wanted and Netflix would mail them to you as they either became available or in order of priority (the original Netflix queue).

Yes, you could be pedantic and call a lot of that logistics, but the lack of physical stores, the website, the queue and rating and recommendation system (the Netflix recommendation algorithm was a huge part of its appeal, even after the streaming stuff, until Netflix got sued for accidentally outing someone with the algo), were all tech.

Netflix has ALWAYS been a hybrid tech and content company. Always. But it started out very much more on disrupting the video store model the same way Amazon disrupted brick and mortar bookstores.
I don't know the exact law in El Salvador, but in general "legal tender" does not imply an obligation to accept as payment in stores, it just means that most debts are discharged if the debtor offers (tenders) to settle the debt using a 'legal tender'.

So, for instance, if your plumber did some work for you and sends you an invoice afterwards then that debt is discharged if you offer to settle it using a 'legal tender'.

However, shopping in a store is usually not the same because payments do not settle an existing debt.

Again, I'm not sure exactly what El Salvador's new law entails.
I frequently buy organic produce and it is consistently more expensive. I am willing and able to pay for it but even in rich Western countries organic farming is a tiny niche.
The "problems" you've listed have been very clearly debated for the past 5 years. You can find answers. Youre just repeating talking points.
URL should be https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

(Apple's site just updated)
Sounds like therapy would be very useful then. If you’re having to self-medicate to maintain sanity, the substances are only a crutch. Speaking from personal experience.
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> You stop playing God and pretending that the concept of global "community standards" means anything at all in a world with 7 billion people and hundreds of thousands of disparate interests-based communities, each with their own disparate community standards.

I think you're confusing the Internet with YouTube. The Internet has no global content standard, but this is not the world that YouTube lives in. It lives in the world of ad-supported services which has been repeatedly very clear about its minimum expectations regarding community standards. See: https://www.google.com/search?q=adpocalypse