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> The government should not be throwing people in prison for allegedly "spreading lies for personal or political gain"

Many people don't know that the Soviet constitution guaranteed freedom of speech[1] (Article 125[1]), provided it was "in conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system"

Same goes for other socialist governments: the People's Republic of China (Article 35[2]), the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Article 67[3]), the German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany, Article 9[4]), and so on.

Of course, the reality was and is lengthy imprisonment for "free speech" against the government or ruling class.

"Free speech, except for [exceptions that are nearly infinite in scope]" is a key feature of socialist governments, as is justifying the imprisonment of dissidents and undesirables as "fighting anti-democratic forces" and "preventing the spread of misinformation".

Moreover, socialist governments are very clear that they are democracies; it's often in the name (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), and also frequently appears in speeches, official documents, etc.

Their commitment to "democracy" isn't just words-on-paper, either! Voting is usually either mandatory or "strongly encouraged", although you can only vote for a Party-approved candidate, and the outcome of elections is basically pre-determined.

[1] https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons04....

[2] http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/...

[3] https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Peoples_Repub...

[4] https://www.cvce.eu/content/publication/1999/1/1/33cc8de2-3c...
Would you mind also trying just "cis"? That's the version that's sometimes used as a slur.
Caffeine from a soda.
Well, before HIV came along it was thought that humans were quite resistant to retroviruses...
Back in '96, I had a pretty serious craniotomy.

Took me a couple of months to learn to walk and chew gum at the same time, but I was pretty much 100% recovered, in five years.

One of best days of my life, was when my neurosurgeon said "I never want to see you again."

They did it the old-fashioned way. Scalpel and Black-and-Decker circular saw.
I notice a lot of devs try to deny the chaos of the world. It's almost like the code is where they go to hide from things that can't be cleanly and unambiguously expressed.

I don't know how they get away with that though. In the coding work that I do, I'm constantly dealing with rules that have exceptions on top of exceptions. I just need to special-case some things, because the alternative is not delivering what the business needs.
> IBM has never a company where engineers could rise to the same ranks as directors and higher with a solid IC track.

Never? Maybe if you’re talking the last 15-20 years, but IBM has been around a lot longer than that…

I personally know people who moved up the ranks there to director and above, so I can say with confidence you’re absolutely wrong.
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Depends on the bank. In Germany, N26's free account charges 0.49€ per instant SEPA transfer, and sometimes it's unavailable because the other bank (e.g. one used by many German doctors) only supports non-instant SEPA.

But yes, instant SEPA is often free and often available and very nice when both of those are true.
Also just because the GDP is low doesn't mean everyone is living below the poverty line. Even with a low GDP a king can still hoard most of the wealth and live in luxury. It's puzzling why the writer would assume an equal distribution of wealth in the age of kings and aristocrats of all things.
This would make a fun Jellyfin theme, ha
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Hmmm, kiiiiiinda. But if we declare equivalences without providing any justification, there's little substance:

We should look (up|down) to people who (do|don't) have X.

It's meaningless. In order to make this seem meaningful, you could dictate some premises, for example:

We should look up to people who have inherited wealth.

We should look down upon people who don't have high IQ.

What issue does this illuminate? By declaring unearned wealth and unearned IQ (or unearned musical talent) to be comparable, what can we learn? Are they, in fact, comparable in any meaningful way?

It seems an odd approach. The initial premises seem to illuminate the person who selects them, rather than illuminating any societal issue. What can we learn from your selection, other than that you seem to feel an affinity towards those with inherited wealth?

There is of course one apparent distinction between inherited wealth and inherited ability, be it musical or sporting or intelligence or what have you. Wealth tends to be accrued, while talent can only be recognised when it is shared.
Taxis only got that way because of the rules that created an artificial scarcity / monopoly on Taxi rides. Uber flouted those rules, and it was much better than a Taxi, so their lawyers cleaned up the mess later.
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I'm suffering from fatigue from all the political commercials in which every single Democrat apparently single-handedly reduced the price of insulin. As if government-mandated pricing were a good thing.

If something is overpriced, somebody should jump in and take advantage of a business opportunity. If nobody is jumping in, perhaps the item is not overpriced. Or perhaps there is some systemic issue preventing willing competitors from jumping in. Imagine if somebody tackled the real issue and it unclogged the plumbing for producers of all sorts of medicine beside insulin at the same time.

If a government mandates the sale of an item below the cost of production, they drive out all producers and that product disappears from the market. That is, unless they create some government subsidy or other graft to compensate the government-appointed winners. Any way you slice it, it is a recipe for disaster.

If parties are allowed to compete fairly with each other, somebody will offer a cheaper price. This is already the case with AWS. Consumers may decide that the cheaper product is somehow inferior, but that is not a problem that lawmakers should interfere in.
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Some context on the term:

> This is the lingo used in the compiler's source code, in the PRs and in the issues on GitHub.

> When you have to infer the T from a MappedType<T>, you are inverting the action of the MappedType. There is a dedicated part in the compiler for doing that.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/1elj65m/comment...
In the past, more than today, a lot of material benefits to people were provided via baked in social relations and other ways of life, and not via monetary exchange. For example, paying someone to take care of your kids is not something that happened when extended families lived with each. This was not included in past (or today's gdp). Similarly, if you grow part of your own food, then that's not included in the gdp.

Past estimates of GDP largely only account for monetary exchanges, and not for stuff like the above. So they grossly underestimate how "wealthy" people were. I have seen several recent papers that try to correct for this.
Sergey is still down in the trenches quite a bit. He regularly pair-programs with folks on the Gemini team and ran an AI paper review for a while.
This is so neat. I love science.
I phrase it this way only because I do not have enough knowledge to be certain. I've read the comments that you sent, but to be certain it requires much more in-depth investigation which I don't want to do simply because I have no plans on interacting with C# in any forceable future.

I only tried to explain how some people who are not directly involved with C# might see the language.
>Example, Bush vs Gore was decided by the courts, not by recount.

That whole event was triggered by the "hanging chad" nonsense found in the poorly designed paper ballots that led to ambiguity.

>Now replace Bush with Trump, have a blatant steal, work a lawsuit up to supreme court, have supreme court decide the same way.

If you cannot trust the law then a speedy result works in your favor. If you have a quick electronic result plus have a risk limiting audit done the night of the election as standard practice it makes it harder to challenge the result. In a paper only ballot by definition will take longer and leaves the door open for every election to be challenged.
They are. I work for a big enterprise… we probably have $25M of iOS devices. Apple is a huge supplier, through the channel.

Mac is growing as well, probably 20% yoy for my place. They probably have the best security and compliance story in the business.

They have a model that prints money. Getting deeper means sales teams skimming 20%.
And while we're at it we can take money, resources, etc from people who have the highest carbon emissions to solve global warming, right?

Right?
It's very likely much much safer & more effective to boost BDNF, neurogenesis, etc, by doing exercise, eating healthily, sleeping healthily, learning new things, etc...
If you are an (embedded) system developer or want to contribute to e.g. the Python VM, then yes; if you are a web or mobile app developer, then probably not.
The problem is if you forget the fake details you can't recover the account. I was born around 1900 for my old yahoo groups email, but I forgot when exactly and so I got emails for a group I no longer cared about until (not sure what died, yahoo groups or the list)
There are a bunch of comments saying that Google is just like any other big tech company and that the exciting engineering bit has gone. My experience is only from the last 2.5 years, but I've got a slightly different take.

Engineering from >10 years ago seems like it was a wild west. Some truly stunning pieces of technology, strung together with duct tape. Everything had its own configuration language, workflow engine, monitoring solution, etc. Deployments were infrequent, unreliable, and sometimes even done from a dev's machine. I don't want to disparage engineers who worked there during that time, the systems were amazing, but everything around the edge seemed pretty disparate, and I suspect gave rise to the "promo project" style development meme.

Nowadays we've got Boq/Pod, the P2020 suite, Rollouts, the automated job sizing technologies, even BCID. None of these are perfect by any means, but the convergence is a really good thing. I switched team, PA, and discipline 6 months ago, and it was dead easy to get up and running because I already knew the majority of the tech, and most of that tech is pretty mature and capable.

Maybe Google has become more like other tech companies (although I doubt they have this level of convergence), but I think people glorify the old days at Google and miss that a lot of bad engineering was done. Just one example, but I suspect Google has some of the best internal security of any software company on the planet, and that's a very good thing, but it most certainly didn't have that back in the day.
* measuring things

* sockets, it’s how data flows across a network above layer 4

* test automation, I mean actually writing that automation capability and not using some tool

* file system automation cross-os

* hashing

* certificates

* IPv6

* anything that increases data/application portability/privacy
I believe that disabling core isolation and bitlocker will also give a 2-3% gain as well. Not worth it though for the security loss.
The AI generated images here are too glossy and shallow DoF. Very easy to tell.
Sounds like you ran into a bad "not invented here" culture, which can seriously slow down a product. Even worse, they are often so passionate about the tech that they can scare management into agreement with their priorities. Kudos to you for having the backbone to stand up and fix it!! Also: I am no fan of Spring ;) -- I just have ptsd from the early xml config days. If it were already in place though, I'd roll with it.
Easier to just start drinking mineral water.

I make my own San Pellegrino clone with RO water which has a fair bit of magnesium in it and it is far more pleasant way to get it than a supplement.
It would not matter when you have verification of paper ballots by the voters + risk limiting audits. The voters keep the machines honest and the machines keep the humans honest. Thats the ideal system. Two way verification.
I honestly think the static graph was much better in the similar way Vulkan/DX12 are better than OpenGL/DX9. It is harder to program, but gives more explicit control of important things. E.g. who would use PyTorch if they new that for optimal performance they'd need to record CUDA graphs?
You're wrong on all accounts here:

1. Banks are also allowed to charge fees for SEPA transfers, with some limitations.

2. It does care about currencies, in that it only supports one: the E stands for Euro, and all SEPA transfers, in the four rails it provides, are in Euros, including transfers from and to countries that are not in the euro zone.

3. And SEPA isn't limited to the European Union, as it has 36 states participating in the scheme, more than the EU's 27.
The issue is there's a huge disparity in the fees for certain payment methods.

Some cards cost merchants much more than others, but they are contractually forbidden from differentiating their prices based on that. It's anticompetitive. Lots of "buy now pay later" schemes work similarly, when afterpay was (or is) a big thing they charge 7% and forbid the merchant from including that cost in their prices.

If the consumer had to bear the cost of their payment choice, no problem, but the reality is consumers with low fee payments are paying slightly more than they should for everything and those with high fee payments pay less than they should for everything.
That strikes me as such a strange statement, I’ve always considered it to be among the most impressive OSS projects out there. It tackles enormous complexity, works everywhere, and has a trove of a million hidden features. For example, I use it to headless play streams from CLI.
That is a valid criticism but it seems like a criticism of Britain's health care system. When people and organizations can have access to free ambulances and healthcare and the costs are paid for by others, the demand goes way up.
How much JS do you actually need?
15k is a lot of code for a static page.

HN is an app/forum and only has 5k of js.
> There's no calvinist influence.

You traded the Calvinist influence for the Roman Catholic influence in Spain. I'm sure there are tradeoffs involved. For instance, Dutch people tend to be very direct and matter-of-fact in their criticism of anything, which has benefits w/r/t efficiency and public order. Kind of hard to pull that off in a Catholic country.
You also need it for cash, but there fraud takes different form, and need different mitigations.
I like to look at things from first principles. Karma if you will. What u plant is what grows.

Debit card interchange fee in America is so low!

Credit card interchange fee is so high.

I think it’s because u are making a “deal with the devil” when u do credit. Buying stuff with other peoples money.

So naturally the “devil” charges a high price for his service.

If you want to do business with people buying on credit, you have to pay more. I think the universe is telling us we should quit with all the credit cards!
I believe the Visa merchant agreement never forbade cash discounts, only credit card surcharges. I'm not sure, but the current rules are different due to a legal settlement.

In the US, not only does Visa now allow cash discounts and minimum price thresholds up to US$10, but they also allow, in most states, credit card surcharges (sometimes subject to specific state-law legal requirements).

Visa still officially disallows minimum price thresholds outside the US and certain related territories like Guam, and credit card surcharges outside the US - but I nevertheless see them plenty often here in Germany in small shops. I think the permission to offer cash discounts is global.
I don't see any of that.

Quote?
Oh no however will I cope
Im always surprised these things are not calculated into the salary. For a startup, if you can get a very competent dev willing to take a salary cut it seems worth considering. They would bring sanity to the crap one writes when awake for 30 hours+
Ah, OK. Basically many terminal emulators allow you to create text that is clickable, with the click going to an arbitrary URL. That could be a URL on the internet, but there are more interesting possibilities: e.g. you click on a line number in your terminal and it opens in your editor / IDE at that line number.

The standard link that started it is https://gist.github.com/egmontkob/eb114294efbcd5adb1944c9f3c..., but if you do internet searches for terms like `terminal hyperlinks ripgrep` or `terminal hyperlinks ls` or `terminal hyperlinks delta` you'll find more.
The money alone is good enough. I can probably just retire with all those money and stocks. Let alone tons of techs and a shiny CV. Kudos for starting from a height most people can't reach for life. I guess you are going to start another company eventually?
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It’s an appropriate dismissal as the article itself is surprisingly shallow.
Or how many different rails and protocols there are, and how many of those you need to support if you actually want to serve most customers.
> That's what you think I said?

Yeah I think that usually "most of" means "a majority of" and "originated" means "was created."

> I don't know what this is supposed to mean, all I said was that lua didn't have them until 2003.

Well, I guess I apologize for assuming that that was supposed to be relevant.

> I can't even follow what you're saying, you're all over the place.

This submission is about a tool for creating a specific genre of art. Some works of art are created in an iterative process where the artist repeatedly evaluates and perturbs the work to make it more to their liking. Some ways of working make this easier than others. Almost every work in the genre has been created in a specific way. This submission's content is a part of the same tradition that includes the tools that have been used to create the vast majority of works in the genre. If someone who knows nothing about any of this insists that almost all of the artists are doing everything wrong, well, the base rate for that person being correct is not great.

> Are you really trying to say every video game ever made uses coroutines?

No. I gave specific examples of games in this genre that are known based on reverse-engineering to not use coroutines.

I will venture to avoid spending my time writing words for low-literacy audiences from now on.
The on-premise compute (server) market doesn't offer anything unique for Apple to contribute; they are themselves, purportedly, continuing to use quite a bit of white-box and third-party branded compute, with Linux as one of the OSes. (Disclaimer: I have not stepped into an Apple-owned data center anytime within the last six years, so any of this may be subject to change, which itself might be very interesting!)

As for the on-premise workstation market, this is long rumored to be shrinking, leaving the Dell-HP-Lenovo (DHL) triad to the spoils for Linux or Windows on commercial PCs. That dominance yields when remote / BYOD enters the fray (as Microsoft 365 and Google Docs run nearly anywhere).
I'm not a fan of this approach because candidates may see it as a "cheap" way to do actual work without being payed.
It's way more fresh than lots of other scents.

Much human effort has been spent eliminating unpleasant odors.
I’ve gotten ocular migraines since I was about 13, and one day a decade or so ago I noticed one was about to come on and randomly googled something that brought me to magnesium deficiency and migraines. I didn’t give it much thought and just ran out to the corner health food spot and they happened to have a liquid magnesium supplement made by the German company Floradix. I took it and while I still got the ocular migraine, it passed pretty quickly.

I’ve been taking a magnesium supplement pretty much daily since then. The only time I really get an ocular migraine these days is if I’ve run out of supplements and go a week or so without them.

I remember telling a doctor friend of mine about it early on and they were very dismissive about it. Glad people are researching it, I do feel it’s helped in my case.
Yes! It’s sad how ignorant of IBM and US technology industry history some of these comments are. Then again, I suppose every generation does a lot of its own “this time we’re different” myth making. Not everyone has the wisdom to see the broader context.
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Traditional surface roads in cities:

* Take surface space that can be better used for walkable densification, or are already taken by roads.

* Produce significant atmospheric and noise pollution, even from EVs.

* Conflict at cross-traffic, especially so for dense road networks like grids.

* Have to navigate around building geography, so for example can't support high speed turns.

* Conflict with pedestrians so are limited in speed and have to support frequent stopping points.

* Have no central routing and control for journeys so suffer unbounded traffic, even where additional vehicles lower capacity.

* Are hard to add to existing developments that need additional capacity.

* Don't have out-of-line stations for on- and off-boarding.

Add to this the differences you've already mentioned, like uniform taxies rather than mixed private cars, a comparative ease of automation, and being additive to existing network capacity rather than conflicting with it.
Thanks - we've LLMified the title.
Financialized retirement (public or private) is pretty obviously a major part of the problem.
"Bad engineering" in adhoc ways tends to mean new ideas are being explored. Sophisticated deployments, logistics, procedures, tends to mean you're optimizing or extending existing system.

That's not to disparage the latter. making things work at scale is hard engineering. But when people praise the glory days, it may be a preference for working on new ideas in small projects.
You okay? From your other comments on HN you don't seem so grumpy or rude.

I hope your weekend treats you better than you deserve.
First of all, everything here I either have personal experience with or googled it. No AI. Second of all, there is no plagiarism claims against internet comments. Come on. I am not “claiming” anything. Openly admitting that I found information only. Take away my internet degree.