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Facebook's revenue up 35% year over year: -26% (P/E ~16)

Amazon's revenue up 15% year over year: +12% (P/E 60+)

I don't get the stock market. Facebook can simply turn on billions in revenue whenever they want still with WhatsApp, which has north of 2 billion MAU, and has not been monetized at all yet. Facebook is a reverse meme stock.
I'm not sure if its DDG, but the tech company Pipedream should consider rebranding or improving their SEO. A quick Internet search did not yield the results I expected...
Location: Nairobi,Kenya

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: React js, react native, C, Python, Php laravel.. Code igniter , Java, HTML, CSS, Git, MySQL..... And open to learn new technologies

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Email: lebu.a.7@gmail.com

Graduated with a certificate on MIT from Emobilis Training institute then pursued a diploma in computer science and am currently continuing with my bachelors degree. Am open to full-time or internship remote jobs that would help me build my experience. I have no professional experience but i have worked on personal projects as well as group projects from our schools Google Developer Student Club

I would love to work in an organisational level so i can be able to contribute my skills
In Canada we'd have to convert Big Mac to the cost of how many Tim's double-doubles for it to make sense.
I remember when Facebook Platform came out. The super early version where you could embed your app on Facebook and engage with the social graph.

I thought dang, this is smart. They’ll basically own the next level up the stack from the browser: they’ll own the “social chrome” of every application on the web.

Although it devolved into spam, Facebook was a hot spot of weird social games for a while there. And every web dev was learning how to build Facebook apps. We wondered if we’d even really need a domain for much more than a landing page, if 99% of our engagement was going to come through Facebooks.

And then they killed it because they wanted to own the entire experience inside Facebook. It became not a walled garden, but a walled flower pot.

It always seemed short sighted to me. Yes, they lost control allowing third party apps in their frame. But didn’t they want to be a Microsoft and not a WordPerfect?

Looking back, I wonder if it was a missed opportunity. They have to go try to be the metaverse because social never became a platform.
My computer warns me before executing an unsigned program but that doesn't mean I can't do it or that it's not useful.
Watching math professors working problems on the blackboard I am constantly amazed at how rapid they are. They have the training advantage that when they make a mistake, which is not uncommon, someone in the class will immediately point it out.
Did you happen to sample Japan?

I ask because I didn't get around to it; there's just too much good food in Japan and I wasn't there long enough.

But I did have a Wendy's burger, and I can tell you: it's not the same burger you get in the States. It's much better. For a given ingredient, it will be inadequate in the US, in Japan, they are all food, like you might get from a bistro.

That made me curious about McDs, but not curious enough to blow an entire precious meal on it.
I would imagine a preprocessor (not the C++ one) would be used before re-implementing C++. :)

Not having to use one could be a use case, though IMO I don’t know if that’s compelling enough…
>Also, what's the point of gigabit internet if I can't watch a measly 50Mbps stream?

Just because your connection is "gigabit" doesn't mean everything in between is gigabit

Nor does it mean that you haven't happened to have a hit a very busy sending server[farm|datacenter]
Lets hope!
So, you’re complaining that Apple gave users a choice not to be tracked?
Yeah - the EPC is a joke. It's just a tick box exercise. It doesn't take much effort to get a good enough rating to let.

High energy costs could be an incredibly powerful tool to drive changes in the UK housing stock. It's only when energy is expensive that the payback time starts to make sense. That would need sensible and cohesive policy decisions from people with a good understanding of high efficiency housing. Clearly we don't have that.
To share the work, share the decisions
> Restricting kids from the mobile games is like restricting kids from drinking vodka you have in your bar. Everyone should do it. Those things are not games they are whale seeking mind fucking drugs that no child should have to try and deal with.

Absolutely. I work in the industry so I know exactly the monetization culture there. It is so deeply rooted that there is way to avoid that, at least on Android. I think Apple is slightly better but maybe not really. I'm sad that the whole industry got trained in that mindset :(

> Couple days ago 8year olds class had a bring your parent to school day so I did a presentation mentioning a game I hacked with a debugger as an ice breaker. Forget what I actually do for next 20 minutes all I was asked is how to hack Minecraft, how to hack some online game I don't know :o and not get caught. Blew my mind, teacher was looking sideways at me :)

This is really very good experience :) I guess it's also very proud of your children to have a cool parent.
We are not discussing if shipyards should build ships for billionaires, obviously there's nothing wrong with that.
>Personally, I predict that they'll need to either give up on service revenue growth, or roll back on these changes.

There is no need to give up on service revenue. Before 2016, my expectation of future Apple Services was growth from AppleCare and iCloud. Today, Apple put $10 per devices to services revenue for OS, Map and other Software. Apple could hike the price and move those to services. For example iPhone price hike but with 2 years AppleCare by default.

Nearly 80% of App Store revenue are from Gaming. There is no reason why Apple cant separate Game into a different Store and continue to charge 30% off it. That would have protected 80% of App Store revenue alone. EPIC wouldn't be happy, but I am sure most people couldn't care less. Gaming are not the fabric of our modern society ( I am sure there will be people who disagree ).

Then it is the Apps and Services. Which is not only just a revenue problem but a power play problem. Why does Apple get to dictate which business it is allowed on their platform when it holds 60%+ of usage in US / UK market. I have an app for my restaurant, but Apple refuse to host it. While QSR next door get to use Apps and customer are flying in. Under which law does Apple gets to discriminate small business? May be that is fine by US standards, I can assure you this wont fly in EUR. And where are business and developers going to complain? And how is Apple responding? If you watch every speech, interview or answer Tim Cook gave, it is obvious he ( representing Apple ) doesn't think they have a problem at all. And the biggest problem in the world is not understanding there is a problem.

It is sad those who were on Steve Jobs side are all gone. Phil Schiller, Katie Cotton, Jony Ive, Scott Forstall, Bob Mansfield, Ron Johnson. And only Tim Cook and Eddy Cue left. There may be not of people with high intellect at Apple, but very little with intuition.

“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion,” - Steve Jobs
If the person asking me to help them couldn't figure it out, why would I have a better chance?
Huh. It looks fine now. Did you change anything?
Same, I'm aware of this, but unless you can hear the difference between 120kbps and 60kbps 144p is worth its efficiency
Ask HN: How to find good engineers as a startup in an empty job market?
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Certainly there can be dangers when government funds research, and especially when it's the military arm. But (democratic) governments at least have a purported interest in the public good, whereas other funding sources (i.e., private industry) do not. Whatever conflicts of interest government can create in science, private industry only magnifies them. And governments are more likely to fund basic research, which serves as a solid foundation for applied research that private industry tends to be more interested in. It's also ludicrous to suggest that government funding "crowds out" private science. Grants aren't "free money" -- you have to justify your costs and, you know, do the actual work. You have to provide status reports to demonstrate that you are doing the work. Government grants aren't welfare.

There's certainly a debate that can be had with regard to how government funds science. How are grants determined? Which departments are the primary funders of research? How "equitably" are grant dollars spread out (i.e., is it a few large grants, or many small ones)? It's important to see this as part of the discussion regarding the health of a democracy. But public funding is absolutely a major force for good when it comes to scientific research. The idea that it turns it into some weird scientific "priesthood" is completely LUDICROUS.
1. finish college

2. moved to a 1st world country and get a job with 1st world salary

3. go remote and move back with close to previous first world salary.
It's called a multisig wallet. There are companies that do this as a service for you and ensure if you lose your phone or wallet you can recover your funds. This will be a standard feature that Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc provide in the future. You'll see.
Quite true, although I wouldn't say that they nationalist the train companies willingly or that it was planned, it was a result of them going bust.
I think the point is that the leaks are only hunted and fixed if it is economically beneficial and not environmental beneficial.
This is something that the consumer has no direct control over.
Leaks are not required to provide me gas. It's just an unfortunate side effect that can be addressed and drastically reduced if prioritized.
My one and only experience with shopping at Aldi was nearly rotten fruit, off-brand cardboard-tasting cereal and stale chips. The price is hard to beat, but I feel too much like a raccoon digging in a dumpster.
The price of insulin had been regulated in Canada for a very long time, which has been net positive. The WaPo article that this typically unreasoning Reason.com author is railing against doesn't propose price controls for just anything, where price controls could limit supply, but only in cases where economists agree they would work as an alternative to an even worse market failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure?wprov=sfla1
But is there a perception that they are? I mean, in my home country, the stereotypes about mathematicians usually involve them being out-of-touch with the material world, so to speak.
Any non technical person can learn to use a cold hardware wallet like a Trezor or Ledger these days. Anyone that can put a combination into a home vault can use one.

I am not aware of anyone who has tried a modern hardware wallet that still argues that crypto self custody is above the abilities of anyone technical enough to use traditional online banking.

Once they use a pen to write down the 24 word backup then they can simply write it down a second time, or a third. Store a copy in a safety deposit box or anywhere resistant to theft or fire. Easy.

Anyone that can store paper stock certificates can do this only with these the copies are valid.
Slackware 96 was also my first distro on an extremely obsolete 386SX/33 with only 16mb of RAM using X11 & TWM.
About "personal carbon footprint".

Life is not an Avengers movie. You and I are not superheroes that can save the world. What you or I do in our personal lives have, by any remotely realistic measure, exactly zero impact on the problem.

Thinking otherwise is to me - and I wish I had a less negative term for it - a form of "Delusion of grandeur". It's harmless in a sense, except that people could use the effort they spend to actually improve things for themselves and people around them.

In reality global problems are solved on the global level. Things like carbon taxes, technical innovation etc.
Well no one's arguing that targeted ads are not effective. This is just an example of how well it works, so upvoting it may not be the best way to bolster your side of the fight.
Nice! Sounds like the course and book aren't delivering what you want. Agree with your points about the summaries and mining doge. Bizarre. I found your reflections in these posts much more engaging than the main post for this thread.

Highly recommend the MIT video course on blockchains: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63UUkfL0onkxF6M...

And for a deep dive into any specific project, it there's an episode of the Zero Knowledge podcast about a project it's worth listening to.
One thing to realize is that technology is not bad—it's the shitty apps and the social media superficialities that are bad. So if you can pre-load the "good stuff" (educational stuff, documentaries, wikipedia, etc.) then you're biasing their device time toward useful stuff.

Here is a comment with detailed instructions for how to setup Kolibri and Kiwix, which are really useful educational software that works on localhost (or local network): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137100 The idea is after installing these locally, you could turn off the internet connection.
I believe new keywords are not backwards-compatible as they will invalidate any code using that as an identifier.
In Rust: https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx
In Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto

Either it analyzes the given SQL to determine the in/out types of each SQL query, or it calls the database describe feature at compile-time.
Sunak is the likely winner isn't he; it's in the ordinary progression of things. But there are competent, non-corrupt people in the party who are in the running, like Tom Tugendhat, who is obviously the stalking horse but has more of a chance if the contest becomes truly divisive. I'd sleep much better if either of them were in the job, but I am more comfortable with the idea of a Tugendhat Cabinet.

It's important to internalise that Boris is not a clown. That is the wrong way to look at him, not least because clowning requires empathy.
I hope you're right, but the current Labour Party are more right wing than the party has ever been, indeed right of the tory party of 15 to 20 years ago, and they've been purging the left since Starmer took over. I think we've missed our chance to take these things back into public ownership.

The British political system incentivises short-termism - our politicians largely see no point in implementing a policy that will benefit the entire country in 10 years time when someone else may be in charge, hence the sell-off in the first place. In an ideal world we'd have gone the same route as Norway [0], and could possibly have still done so if Corbyn had won. Now though, that ship has sailed and we've sold short-term selfish thinking to the public, have a "left" party that is almost indistinguishable from the right, and all of them are pushing populism above all else.

[0] https://www.lovemoney.com/news/85476/norway-oil-reserves-nor...
>but only because Disney+ isn't available in Cyprus

That's not [always] the vendor's fault (sometimes it is - often enough, however, it's varying levels of government interference)

Also: VPNs are a thing
Ok, so that explains how they fit in the refrigerator. Though it's still confusing why you would buy 5 pizzas and put them in the fridge. Is it common around there to buy pizza in advanced and reheat it? Or were they just leftovers, and I was thinking too much about it?
It adds a lot of extra complexity and failure points? Fits.

Where the analogy falls apart is in the low transaction capacity of most existing blockchain-based currencies. Microservices' greatest asset is that of scaling in a way monolithic structures can't.
I think you will be hard pressed to assign a positive spin on the treatment of livestock as it stands today. The best take one could reach for is perhaps that it's a necessary evil for feeding the planet right now.

> at least we provide a quick and painless death

Without trying to sound like I'm on a pulpit, "quick and painless" is not how I would describe sow stalls. The prevalence of ag-gag laws speaks to this.

This is a subject that I don't have a good answer to, and I eat meat too, but I think we should at least call a spade a spade to start.
> Central banks were created because without them, finance was subject to wild, terrifying, ruinous boom/bust cycles.

Let's see how that is working out:

Federal Reserve created in 1913
Roaring 1920's -> 1929 Crash/Great Depression
1960's Nifty Fifty -> 1973-1974 Crash/recession
1980's bubble -> 1987 Crash and early 1990's recession
Dot Com bubble -> 2000-2003 Crash/recession
Housing Bubble -> 2008 Crash/GFC
Everything Bubble -> ???

At least since the 1987 crash, artificially low interest rates from Central Banks and more recently outright money printing/QE enhanced or outright created the bubbles and busts. Even when viewed in the most favorable light their supposed moderating function seems to be horribly broken.
Even in my older demographic (i.e. those of us who got in when you still needed edu addresses or shortly thereafter) which is supposedly more the core audience for Facebook this days, I don't see people "rage quitting." But I do see essentially everyone in my circles (including myself) having dialed down usage a lot.
Major upgrades in Rails has been complicated & time consuming in the past. Loosely coupled libraries mitigates the work of upgrades.
nice idea: why don't you write a browser extension that would work for ANY web site? So whenever we browse, we can see how many people are reading that URL or domain, but decide to talk?

It's like Clubhouse around a URL.
I vote for the political party that thinks China is a problem, instead of the other one, but it does nothing. China is more powerful than the West at this point, so we're not calling the shots. They produce the equivalent of the French Navy each year, and have for over a decade, plus they dominate industry, AI, etc, etc.
I remember that someone in Go core team (Ian?) said Go 1.18 is Go 2.
That means Go 2 is back compatible with Go 1.
True, but then why not limit oneself to exactly that subset of the language that one considers non-advanced and relatively dumb, rather than let someone else make that call?
AWS documentation in this topic is lacking.

I purchased programming-aws-lambda from here https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-aws-la...

Highly recommend.
> What’s So Hard About Understanding Consciousness?

It's the same kind of hard that stands in the way of programs debugging themselves.
The great thing about living in a democracy is that you can join these parties and change them from within or you can create your own party. There doesn't have to be single green party, if you believe that nuclear power should be considered green you have plenty of options to make it reality. Beyond direct involvement You can protest, you can campaign for it.

For some reason, in countries with strong democracies and pathways for impact the youth tends not to vote. It's beyond my why they think that they are powerless.
I don't think the delivery person has any influence on your produce - at least in the UK, pickers and delivery people are separate jobs, and I can't imagine it any different in any efficient organization. (Also nobody I knows tips for delivered groceries in the UK - the delivery charge is supposed to pay for the delivery. This might be different in the US like all things tipping.)
Correct about the re-up (good catch!), but not about the headline, which at the time that it was originally posted here was "Ship fight: row erupts over wreck in US waters identified as Captain Cook’s Endeavour"[1].

(Note the use of the word "identified" in OP's title, not "confirmed" as in the original version of the article that you linked to.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20220203024757/https://www.thegu...
Flutter for Windows Desktop Apps
They're Burning Books in Tennessee
As if there are alternatives to capitalism that don't have exploiters and exploited. Happens everywhere.
So in the context of a functioning society, bitcoin is useful for driving up electricity costs and sending money to criminals?
No, I don't, because "an average printer problem" usually translates to

"I bought these ink/toner cartridges from one website, and the sledge they go into from another one, and I managed to wedge them into the printer somehow even though now the hatch no longer closes properly and it makes funny noises when I start it, but the light is slighly more orange than last time, so that's a good sign, but it cannot fetch paper from the tray now, could you have a look at it? Because you're so good with the tech stuff..."

Sorry, but my proficiency in software engineering doesn't exactly qualify me for handling things like hatches, hinges, tiny gears, levers, springs and plastic boxes that don't fit well together.
NIST Researchers Resurrect a Technique for Detecting Transistor Defects
Yes, but the problem is that there's still nothing in the node ecosystem that's as complete as Rails. Fine, express.js isn't going to do the job. Neither is anything else.
It's good that we're getting alternatives, but they'll have to be regulated.

And once we do that, cryptocurrencies doesn't gain us much compared to traditional banking.

I do appreciate the optimism, though!
I like the model he created to "detect" the warehouses, but it's much easier to see the corporations via the state corporation agency. There is also the idea that They wouldn't have pure warehouses for everything and are direct white labeled direct from manufacturers.
Story time.

Citicorp and Travelers group merged in 1998, officially violating Glass-Steagall. Robert Rubin, former chairman of Goldman Sachs, was Treasury Secretary at the time. Once the repeal was passed 1999, he resigned from treasury and joined Citi the same fuckin year as a consultant and director. Between 1999 and 2009, he made ~$120 million.

For more on the influence and corruption of the financial services industry see Inside Job. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
Worth noting that water in Scotland was never privatised - domestic properties pay for it (and waster water treatment) by fixed charges linked to council tax band:

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

"Scottish Water has been ranked the best UK water company and utility for customer service"
It wouldn't play to a TV via AirPlay? Or via cable?
I did (on my phone, fwiw), and it only showed 12, and not their big ones.
Bitcoin does. The math is simple. No government in the world can debase the value of Bitcoin whose total supply is < 21 million and no central bank can print more.
People don't want to run anything on their own. FTFY.
You want companies to use your personal information to manipulate you into buying products you don’t need?
That entire website is a staple of bad economics.

The charts you linked are beyond meaningless.
Here is the most specific I could find: "non-prescription drugs": https://www.statista.com/statistics/187253/us-consumer-price...
Maybe to take these one-by-one

- Where does this end in societies governed by the rule of law? Who can decide to opt-out or in?

- That can also be achieved by mandating banks to offer accounts (as some countries have). So I put that down to a political failure.

- Valid(ish). But also other stores of value exist and governments have many options for coercion, in the end, nothing will be safe.

- Could be used like that, but so can normal money and incentives

Generally, I'd say using crypto as fallback in broken political systems/societies relies on having at least somewhere working parts of society that can keep suppling/cooperating (or indeed from the outside).
The point is that they could still produce the exact same thing, and just _plug their leaks_, and everybody would be better off.
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