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> I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack, and I think that an environment where someone can tap me on the shoulder when they need help leads to overall higher productivity, even if individual productivity suffers temporarily.

This comment right here made me angry and for reasons totally different from the discussion. Its about people who thinks they they are entitled to interrupt my workflow to solve their issues.
If they’ve got Google amenities I can see it but have you seen the side by side desks in open spaces sharing floors with salespeople that reflects most programmers work environments? Some places won’t even provide an ergonomic setup, and they have to compete against a setup developed at home over 2 years that works out much much better.
I am going to need a source to believe that the consumption of a country of 180M in 1960 is less than the consumption of a country of 330M in 2022.

Just looking at changes in life expectancy and the amount of resources consumed in the final years/months/days of life in 1960 vs 2022 would lead mento throw out the claim.
> I'm working on convincing myself that not all persuasive communication is bad!

No problem convincing my guys of this. We start with public health and
safety campaigns like the famous Stop. Look. Listen. that ran through
the 1970s with Darth Vader actor David Prowse here in the UK.

Prowse, who fell out with George Lucas, once said that Vader was not
his greatest work as a body actor by any means, but the Green Cross
Man, which is estimated to have saved 500,000 children's lives.

When I did influence work it was in a similar vein, directed towards
the kind of things you'd have no moral objection to, like stopping
kids from picking up cluster bombs or preventing rape as a weapon of
war.

There's plenty of for-good psyops work out there.

There's also what I'd call "Counter-Pysops", which is just
Intellectual Self-Defence. This can range from training people to spot
and deflect phishing or blackmail scams, all the way to message
analysis to spot and neutrally evaluate foreign psyops messages.
I believe you are being downvoted because you introduced a red-herring. A second argument in response to the first that isn't related.

Most people here would probably agree that Louis Vuitton should be investigated, but that wasn't the grandfathers point.
I highly recommend waiting until something bad happens before you use this example.
A view from Russian academia – Tatyana Deryugina
Yes, I would make even more money than I already do because I’d sell goods and services to them, and I could address unmet demand from our existing customers.

Surely even under the immigration is bad model, it wouldn’t apply to programmers who can do their work remotely. Our having a Beijing team hasn’t made me less employed.
I think this is an unfair comparison. There is a big difference between checking the work of multiple employees who might type stuff in wrong or credit card fraud compared to OP who has a fully integrated billing system provided by a very large and well-funded company who have failed to get some real basics right.

The MINIMUM most people would expect would be a notification either by email or on the dashboard to say that an invoice cannot be processed and at least that would highlight the problem. Even better, when you enable Stripe Tax, it should highlight the people who cannot be charged tax and likewise when you add a new customer who doesn't have the right info, it should notify you.

I find it really frustrating when a multi-billion dollar company cannot think of UX 101 and the customer has to do the heavy lifting.
> To simplify heavily, is SWIFT just an accepted and legal alternative to the hawala system?

No. To simplify heavily, Swift is the network on which the hawala system runs.

To transfer cash from a bank to another bank, one can :
* call the other bank
* send an email
* send a letter
* send a swift message

Since transfering cash is not as simple as it seems (trust is the key), using an established network with clear fields and backups is a good choice. Thus Swift.
I can only add my own experience with Russian/Soviet army which dates 30+ years back to mandatory military service. It was always the same. Widespread theft meant that not all trucks and tracked vehicles had batteries in them, so the starting them was always either by towing or jumper cables. Oil was so thick that to start in winter you would use blowtorches to heat engine oil sumps from beneath the trucks the night before. During the drills good part of the vehicles could not leave their dislocation areas, and longer marches meant that most part was lost along the way due to breakdowns, disorientation, miscommunications etc. I participated in the drill which required a relatively large unit (approx 10,000 troops in total) to arrive in area some 300 km away from the main base. Later I overheard officers talking that only 25% of the units arrived there on time. Mind you, those were not reserve units, they were supposed to be ready to repel NATO attack on the short notice, hence we had full staff on site and ammunition loaded. Sure later heads of the higher command rolled, but nothing really changed on the ground level.
So this does not surprise me at all.
I was under NDA for that stupid robot that was announced recently. Had to bite my tongue for 3 years until I could tell people about that silly secret project.
Your positive experience doesn't discount others' unpleasant one. Through meditation you can reach deep into the unconscious.

The safe approach is to start with practices that get you more in touch with the body, that get you to become more aware of the body. If you are grounded in the body, it's a lot easier to face whatever unpleasant emotions or sensations might come up.
Maybe meant to link to this:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yachtclubgames/mina-the...
the west hasn't sanctioned Iran in anywhere near the same way as the current Russian sanctions. When trumped tried to take back the deal, Europe somewhat ignored him.
Kudos to stack exchange. I just read about how ERP solution providers did stop their service. This is counter productive and I believe these companies use this conflict for very cheap advertising. Shame on you SAP, shame on you Salesforce. You should be yesterdays ERP systems since civil society should always make a better example than politics. Same is true for the Olympics.
This resonates a lot with me.
:active is completely different and never a suitable replacement for the checkbox hack: it only ever matches while the primary mouse button is being held down, and is keyboard-inaccessible; the checkbox hack is about toggling state on click or key stroke.
People don't change their beliefs so easily.

Nevertheless, it appears that many Russians know what is exactly happening. That's why they are actively sabotaging this war. Some are stalling their tanks, others surrender. This bloody war is completely unnecessary and will not end with Russia's victory. The world has changed and the attackers most likely will end being tried for war crimes in International Court. It is better to do nothing and remain alive and free.
Is chargeback feasible though, since the transactions are recorded on the Blockchain? But definitely believe that scamming / fraud has to be mitigated before crypto payments will be adopted by the masses
I agree on a lot of the things you said but I wonder if they are worth the cost, not just at an individual level but even as a society
To extend this, more useable time with family.

For many people with younger children (and therefore early evening bedtimes), having or not having a commute is not a difference of an hour or two of your day - it's the difference between spending time with your family during the week versus not at all. I've heard this from many friends (and some family) across different industries - hardly any have wanted to stick their heads above the parapet and single themselves out as being a problem.

I already empathised, but this whole thing has really thrown a light on what working parents (specifically those with primary care responsibilities like school pick-ups and drop-offs) in the workplace have been dealing with this whole entire time.

tldr; A great many people have had an increase of 150% of the time they care about the most by working from home - this proposal takes that away from them.
He dislikes monopolies and yet uses monopolies on distribution to expand the market share of Epic Games Store?
If your entire target market is enterprise then I suppose this route works well but if you want to hit smaller organisations it deviates a lot from what we're used to. GitHub, Slack, GSuite, they all provide prices and are successfully sold to small organisations and enterprises.

As a non-enterprise, there's no point in me signing up for a trial of a tool that may be orders of magnitude outside of my budget. A lot of my decision is based on the value proposition and I can't understand the value I might get if I don't know the price. If it's $10 a month and does what it says then I probably won't think about it, if it's $1,000 a month then that's quite a different decision process. I don't want to bother with a free tiral if I can't even see the price. Am I just booking to test drive a car I'll never be able to afford?
Most game are not priced at zero... And games are definitely not a regulated part of the software industry in America.

Also, your original statements are both phrased in a way that implies "all". You failed to qualify blanket statements by saying (e.g.) "some". So if you don't want to admit you're wrong, fine: You're doing a poor job of communicating your thoughts.

As to evidence of that, just count the number of replies you got that came to the same conclusion I did about an implied "all" versus an implied "some".

Not like it matters, anyway... The counter-example if games alone pretty much kills your whole argument about regulation being correlated with higher prices.

I think you are clearly a very smart person, and a very good programmer, who is suffering from the Dunning Krueger Effect in relation to the topic of Economics. Regulation can effect costs, but it's far from the only factor, and it's not even necessarily an important factor depending on the situation.
He's not out for annihilation, he's out there to push limits. The moment he'll be slapped for it he'll cry like a little bitch he is.
Some players would rather experience the whole game (what does this spell do? Is it cool?, etc.), instead of just focusing on one type of build and/or resorting to some type of guide or wiki to minmax their experience. I think RPG developers should always consider allowing players to respec (re-allocate their choices) mid-game, so they can always try out different builds without having to start from scratch.
amazing Little game and other games are also next level.

I will feature this in upcoming issue of https://proddducts.com
The Olympics should be better than this in my opinion.
The guy doesn't define what he regards as middle class numerically.

What is middle class in the US ?

How about looking at :

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...

How about saying any household with less income than 35K is not middle class. Also any household with more than 150K income is high income.

That still leaves more than half the US population. The US middle class isn't dying. Also note that ~20% of households are high income, and they are doing OK as well.

Of course the US could do better.

But saying the Middle Class is dying is not correct.
A case history analysis of software error cause-effect relationships
I think it's reasonable to expect either (1) support to be at least as responsive and competent as sales or (2) compensation or refunds for poor service.

This works for any honest business. If you want a custom offering with hand holding, go with 1. If you want a scalable and streamlined unisize business which allows itself to make mistakes in order to build huge things for the masses, go with 2 and accept the losses.

I really dislike the middle ground compromise of having useless conversations with L1 reps who are either incompetent or whose hands are tied. "We've escalated this issue to super-serious, an expert will reach out to you within the next decade".
And as many have pointed out, which is really clear from the article. Losing assets is a very significant part of the tally. Which makes me think this is a case of not understanding what the numbers are talking about.

Hence the title such as "Direct losses from military action". Of course these numbers are very different compared to when stuff doesn't get blown up. Not to mention the stuff that is intended to be blown up.

As for running costs, although less obviously different, as you mention, are not a surprise to be orders of magnitude larger during war. Logistics is expensive. War is expensive.
I wonder if they are related. Maybe the Bandcamp founders are Putin supporters. Dead giveaway will be if they do a Bandcamp Friday Russia fundraiser.
> libertarian on social issues

I'm not from the US but looking from far away the left seems quite authoritarian on social issues, it's just a different kind of authoritarianism.

> authoritarian on economic issues

This is quite strange from an Europe prospective. In Europe the Democrats would be classified as economically center right, free market and all that.
TLDR;

Every major school or lineage originating from Sanathana Dharma insists on the importance of a guru's guidance and/or initiation. Yet people decide to ignore it and think Apps can/should replace a guru.

Going it alone comes with its risks, there are many who have done it having taken extreme plunges, some throwing away their last piece of clothing (or their kingdoms) to erase themselves of the memory & attachment to their past.

Bringing it into our narrow world view trivialises this seeking, yes it is not the same, few people have true seeking to understand/experience reality.
You mean Vuze (back then it was called Azureus).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuze
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/people-are-realizing-that-...

https://www.treehugger.com/more-trees-than-there-were-years-...

Resources aren’t used per person, and having more working people gives us more brainpower, the only thing that can invent ways to use less of them.

It was probably the worst when we’d just invented industrialization, yes; we were still nearly Malthusian but also had horribly polluting wood and coal fires everywhere. Technology improvements have let us move away from that.
The point I'm making is I'm not sure they're viewing it through that lens, but rather GP is dismissing the article because the author is Christian and _some_ of them are known to be against meditation. It does not segue that all Christians are against it. GP seems to be the biased one here with a preconceived opinion.
Because as soon as one person in the team is remote, the whole team needs to organise around that. Think of a 5 person team where 1 is remote and the others aren't. Your daily standup ? can't do that quickly at your desk, you need to find a room and setup visio. Going on lunch and discussing about your project ? Too bad. Got an idea you ran by a colleague at the coffee machine ? Now you need to setup a call or get everything in writing for the 4th dude. A state of the project on a whiteboard in the office ? No, you need to use Jira.

The only option here is either having a member of the team always one step behind, or changing the entire organisation of the team to revolve around that guy. People who prefer "in-office" work would rather make the effort of commuting so that they do not have to deal with that. So they expect the other people in their team to do the same, otherwise there is little to no point.
An interesting perspective. Based on this and other sources, it seems there is no way Ukraine's resistance lasts more than a few weeks at best. On the other hand, it's totally unclear what Russia thinks it will achieve in the long run. This can turn into a scenario like Afghanistan, with the difference that Russia's GDP is over 10x smaller than the US, and crumbling under sanctions.
Nice one I think the website title need some update.
In my experience, types which prove certain properties are usually a lot simpler than the tests verifying the same (at least tests which actually have a good chance of catching transgressions, instead of just checking a single hard-coded input). So more expressive type systems bring me a higher level of satisfaction, because they lead to simpler code than the code I'd need to write if I needed to test the same things. They also provide valuable documentation. On the other end of the spectrum, when I look at untyped Python code, I feel completely lost and find myself scouring the documentation for information that should be obvious from function definitions, but is instead specified in prose 3 links away from documentation of the function I was interested in.
Poor React developers, is an issue tracker of an open source web framework really the best place to do this kind of thing?

If they want to support Ukraine, they should do something better than spamming this repo with nonsense issues

EDIT: Just pasted some of the comments into a translator, and it doesn't seem they all want to support Ukraine
> “Communism” equals the original sin and “communists” is basically a slur for about a century now.

This is a very US perspective I think. Here in Germany there are many that think communism is fairer than capitalism (although perhaps unrealistic to attain). Insulting something/someone by saying something is communist or someone is a commy is not really something that happens here (except perhaps in politics).

[Edit] Just to add some perspective:

Communist parties in european parliament

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

Even large european countries have communist parties, some even voted into office (such as france, spain) and in the case of Spain even in the ruling coalition.

Implying this is a western view neglects to realize how much US vs. Soviet propaganda has shaped the US population.
For me the mixed model works best, some days at the office, some at home.

I am infinitely more productive when it comes to coding working from home. The constant office interruptions made it impossible to concentrate for any length of time.

On the other hand, any in person meeting felt equally more productive than the zoom ones. Same goes for discussing issues, explaining them out loud to other people etc. without having to set a meeting.

So, for me, the _preparation_ for work is best done in an on site environment, the actual work I do better from home (where I actually also have the much better setup and equipment than at the office)
Unfortunately (for me), "USD and EUR transfer options open to use" does not equal "you can send or receive USD or EUR to your account in a Russian bank".

In the past week I myself and many people I know were not able to receive a USD wire from US to their accounts in different Russian banks, none of which are even in the list of sanctioned entities (Tinkoff and Avangard banks are the most common example). In all these cases the transfer was declined by a US bank, probably due to compliance considerations. Sending USD or EUR outside doesn't work either, and in some cases you cannot even exchange the remaining USD on your account to RUB. The options are indeed available in the bank's web or mobile application, but clicking 'Send' just gives you a 'something went wrong' error and that's it.

It is true that Putin might be not noticing any inconvenience, just as most employees of state-owned companies (who happen to be the core Putin supporters), but people who rely on international payments for living (who happen to be the least loyal to Putin part of the population) are being severely hit by the sanctions and have spent the last week in the state of permanent panic trying to figure out what are the remaining options they have and how they'll pay their expenses in a month from now.
I would say that the easiest build are turtle build instead of raw damage (slam+block/ironclad, poison+block/silent, power+block/defect). Then you have the Watcher. I love mantra, stance and scry deck. But her raw easiest build is Pressure Point. You want a deck as small as possible (5 cards is enough) and mostly made of Pressure Points. Like you can have nothing else than 5 Pressure Points and it can close the run.
Sounds like something that would be better solved by a browser extension than having every website with a dark mode also implement a toggle.
Azure seems to be mostly used by Microsoft partners and companies that have an unhealthy dependency on Microsoft ( at least on the French market). The majority of companies ( and engineers) are on AWS, some on GCP ( mostly startups, either for the credits, ML or k8s goodies).

As for serverless, that's why we have Knative now. Developing for it makes your "serverless" portable between providers ( many implement it, worse case scenario you can run it yourself on any k8s anywhere).
Too bad that FF with enhanced tracking protection on reports that the user wants a light color scheme instead of reporting no preference.
VSCode is Electron-based and it's quite efficient and not such a memory hog.
> All these profits come from something that was built - in person - in pre pandemic work organisation, so we know that this was was successful.

This is very true.

It is also true that these built products were operated in a remote work environment - meaningful, and significantly enhanced profits were extracted when operating these assets remotely vs operating them in person. Sample size is small of course and time will tell.

Stadia, not a great example, build in person - launched and operated remotely. Was its failure due to it being poorly built or poorly operated? Fellow owner and former user of the service, I didnt think it was that bad technically, but understand I am in the significant minority on that one.
There's the idea that the world is a simulation. I believe it is, but not in the "Matrix" kind of way - more that everything you perceive and experience is a "model" of the outside world that your brain has constructed from the various input signals.

You only see a partial reconstruction, a projection of the outside world, literally Plato's cave (the cave being the skull). Sometimes things come in from outside (what you see etc) but most activity is internal.
Wait for Digital Services Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/digital-services-act-ensuring-safe...
Because Russia is trying to murder him.
You might not want everyone to know where the current head of government resides because it basically would put a target marker on him.
Again, fair comment.
Frankly, I'm still figuring out what this would be worth to smaller organisations.
ARGOS really scales by AWS Account / Azure Subscription / GCP Project right now and I'm currently charging "for each...".

I know what Enterprises are paying for ARGOS and some larger SMB, but not clear on what value smaller orgs or even startups assign to this problem.