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> You may not sell, license, rent

He's giving it away, no money changing hands.

> or otherwise transfer Promotional credit

Is what he has "promotional" credit? He says he has credit... is there a difference? If there is, then that quote doesn't apply. If they are the same thing, and it's used on his account?

If there is no "sale" or "transfer", then yes... it is clear: He's fine to use it as he wishes.
Windows 10 marks the end of 'pay once, use forever' software
The official government pay scales are orderly and consistent--consistently lower than private sector pay. They also contain a lot of hidden benefits.

Once you cross into contracting, there is no pay scale. The pay rules are largely set by the contracts. And there are thousands of contracts, all different.

The pay rates in these contracts are not necessarily connected in any way to current market rates, or indeed any portion of reality. They might just be numbers made up to sound plausible.

If you have a clearance as an employee of a contractor, and don't get extra pay for having it, you just leave. It's pretty common for the government to give your company $90 for every hour you work, then it turns around and gives you $45 of that. They keep the rest, sometimes for doing literally nothing except paying you your salary in their own name. This gives the company a lot of wiggle room on pay, because you seldom know how much they are actually charging the government for your work, unless your hobby is reading thousands of pages of government contracts. And never mind if you're an employee of a subcontractor.

Right now, I'm probably at around 70% of equivalent Silicon Valley pay, and 120% of same-region private-sector jobs. I want to move cities and get back to the private sector, but I don't want to go all the way to California.
and language locale (Accept-Language and navigator.languages).
Yes. There is. Several, in fact.

It shouldn't surprise you that in practical terms, nobody outside of tech cares enough to use them.
Premixed Soylent makes a lot of sense. Ideally, I'd like to see them enter the convenience store market; highway rest stops, for example, are a place where it's very hard to get something nutritionally trustworthy, so in that context I'd choose Soylent every time, and would pay a premium for it.

In the meantime, I hope they keep the powder around for awhile. I find it very useful to pack a few bags while travelling to patch over logistics problems, and premixed soylent can't do that because it's too heavy to take in your luggage.
YMMV? I have much more business engagement on Twitter than Facebook. FB could disappear tomorrow for all my business cared, but I would certainly notice Twitter not being around.
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It was meant to be a bit of a joke in that they're trying to be forgotten :) But obviously the sarcasm didn't make it through...
Also virtualization - VMWare started out as the dominant player, but then Xen came out, which first led to AWS becoming dominant but now results in a number of cloud hosting and VPS providers, many of which are more cost-effective than AWS.

And PCs - it started out as a decentralized market between Apple, Commodore, Tandy, Atari, Osborne, etc, but then centralized under IBM before being decentralized again with IBM clones like Dell, Compaq, etc. That in turn forced the centralization of the OS market under Microsoft (driving out Apple, CP/M, Acorn, Atari) and microprocessors under Intel (driving out Motorola and MOS technologies).

I think it's more accurate to say that the point of centralization moves up and down the value chain based on technological developments, market deals, and corporate strategy. When things get too centralized, a savvy entrepreneur will come in as a small-time complement, then find a way to encourage competition and commoditize his complements, riding the wave to a very prosperous monopoly. When competition becomes too intense in those markets, the bigger players will start eating the smaller players, and eventually the market consolidates.
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They could have killed the confusion early by either renaming the init (or the project), or keeping the daemons in a different place from the Systemd init code.

But instead they lump more and more into a single tree.

You can't just grab the Resolved code to look at it, you have to grab the whole Systemd ball and then extract the portion related to Resolved.

And will Resolved even function without Systemd sitting as the init?
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It only seems messed up because you know about pointers, which are an implementation detail. In an object-oriented language it makes perfect sense. I assume Smalltalk did something similar.
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> the same way that car manufacturers can no longer sell cars directly to the public (and have to go through dealerships)

Isn't this universally considered a BAD thing (see Tesla)?
I appreciate a good chef as much as the next guy. The problem is that good chefs cost good money. Its simply not sustainable to eat from a gourmet chef every day, or even every week. Typically, people are going to go to a fast-food joint and that ain't too healthy or sustainable either.

The Soylent guy is claiming that his kitchen is "too costly", and yet eats out all the time. The contradiction is obvious.
Yes, if he bought $8,000 in AWS credits then he can use it as he wants, but I doubt this kind soul is trying to just throw out $8k.

This is very very likely promotional credit. They hand it out like candy.

Edit: Okay, I can see that if his approach is to use it on his own account, but for someone else's purposes, then it's probably fine. I don't think they even have any system to transfer AWS credits

Edit2: Then again I would be wary of publicly announcing that I'm actively trying to use my AWS credits for other people even though I'm not technically "transferring" them...
The debate in law is usually about what the words mean rather than what words appear in the contract. (Of course there are always issues where contracts have been lost, etc)
The author has clearly framed these as personal opinions, which as we all know, everyone is entitled to.
Thats kind of what happens when you don't ever adjust it in 50 years and it's a fixed dollar amount.
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Taxing gas will hurt a lot of people and wouldn't stimulate the economy since people will just stay home instead of travel.

And I don't recall that many people that can afford electric car such as Tesla. Nissan Leaf might be cheaper but it still a 100 miles range IIRC. You're basically asking poor people to buy two car. One for daily travel and one to travel say from LA to LV just to play some casino games.

edit:

I think what she and California is doing now is a much better way, mandate it.
That economic analysis is flawed because you're ignoring the externalities of burning gasoline (health costs, climate change). Only if there were high enough taxes on gasoline to mitigate those effects, then you could accurately do that sort of dollar-cost analysis.
"Perhaps" and "so far" are sort of the keywords here.

It was probably a combination of things at the time, but the important question is now, nine years on, is there a better way for Twitter to use its position?

Innovator's dilemma.
This is because so many people decide to sue them for silly reasons. They need protection from big government.
Well, if you are hacked, you're not liable for the fraudulent charges anyway (in the U.S.... mileage may vary elsewhere). Your CC company will charge it back, in the unlikely event that Amazon didn't take care of it on their own initiative (which they almost certainly would... as another poster noted, they have a good reputation in that area).

I interpreted "doing something silly" as "firing up 10,000 instances and forgetting to shut them back down", rather than fraud.
"The stock price need not matter at all to the company"

Tell that to the employees holding options. Those options are likely worthless if the stock price goes down.
If he does the computations and simply gives the results as a donation is that transferring?
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>Sounds good, but how much CO2 production do those precursors imply? I've seen too many over-enthusiastic write-ups for bio-solar technologies that don't include the carbon cost of the inputs.

from the article:

"Normally, algae convert carbon dioxide during photosynthesis into biomass or sugars."

The issue with these technologies isn't CO2 balance (that balance is great - CO2 is input, hydrocarbons is output), the issue is productization, i.e. reaching the technological stage which would be able to attract massive investment. With cheap oil [i.e. with major costs of oil externalized in today's society and economy] these technologies face uphill battle. (compare - if Big Oil wants pipeline or drill somewhere, the government uses all its ultimate power, like eminent domain domestically or aircraft carriers internationally, to make it happen and push it through public interests here or there, if you want a pond for algae ...)
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It's sometimes painful trying to even approach standardizing on a given framework of tools... I've been using babel + browserify and leaning on whatever shims it provides... I mean, even if I limit myself to lodash/underscore, bluebird, and jQuery, I've got a lot of overlapping bits in there... swap jQuery for react and my composition becomes a lot better, but even then I'm using either the ugly method invocation, or creating derived classes (which makes me feel dirty for some reason).

Look at even a modest node.js project, and dig into your node_modules tree, it's amazing how many different modules wind up in your codebase to do the exact same thing(s). Ramda, lodash, underscore all in there, and hopefully not all leaking into your client-side.

Hell, I'm working on a project now that has both jQueryUI and Bootstrap components in play... and a dozen or so extensions/modules for each of them.... It's pretty ugly pretty quickly. And I don't think the likes of Component or Polymer are all that better in practice. The more that starts to be in the box, and the better people understand it the better in a lot of ways.
> I think that smaller languages have the potential to be easier to implement

> Citation needed

Uh huh.
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So no mention of the Phillip K Dick short story that's being referenced either in the article itself or HN?
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Before mounting your US judicial high horse please remember that the US claims universal jurisdiction more than any other country in the world. As a US corporation please keep this in mind before you denigrate this judicial practices of foreign jurisdictions.
That probably won't happen to the bottles, since they can make them sterile. When you mix it yourself you let microbes from the air get in.
Unlike China, France has a democratically elected government. If the french do not like the censorship actions that their government requires of google, they are free to elect an alternative administration.

It is disingenuous to assume that all societies have the same ultra-liberal, privacy-be-damned, perspective, as appears to be prevalent in the anglo-saxon world, and it is healthy that some democratically elected governments should question Google's hegemony. It certainly doesn't appear to be the case that America's federal administration has anything but sycophantic praise for everything that Silicon Valley does.
Does cloud mining make sense?
Even if amazon manages to get all of this approved. Does anyone really want to listen to that annoying hum of drones flying over head all day?
Not in technical disussions: in these you only get to have arguments.

Or rather, you can still have "personal opinions" but without arguments backing them are of no use to anybody and you might as well not state them.
> To perform well for idiomatic code you may need to know about idiom.

To enforce idioms you include them in the language. This makes the language easier but less simple. It also means people will use exactly one idiom instead of lots of variants. This improves performance and makes it more predictable.

To perform well for idiomatic code you must know about idiom and have consensus about it and teach it to everybody.
CAFE is a farce, as it it forces manufacturers to design and build cars that no one buys. It's the wrong metric.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Average_Fuel_Economy...

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

> The CAFE achieved by a given fleet of vehicles in a given model year is the production-weighted harmonic mean fuel economy, expressed in miles per U.S. gallon (mpg), of a manufacturer's fleet of current model year passenger cars or light trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 8,500 pounds (3,856 kg) or less (but also including medium-duty passenger vehicles—such as large sport-utility vehicles and passenger vans—with GVWR up to 10,000 pounds), produced for sale in the United States. "

(Bonus points for the stupidity of using "harmonic mean of mpg" instead of a simple "gpm")

Also, CA has to work around Federal pre-emption

> Through EPCA and EISA, U.S. law (49 U.S. Code § 32919) also requires that "a State ... may not adopt or enforce a law or regulation related to fuel economy standards or average fuel economy standards".
I got around it via Google and it's a pretty good article.
Merely refining oil into gasoline already has an efficiency of less than 90%.
$0.10/hour? You think health insurance for a 2000 hour/year worker is $200?

I think it is closer to $2-$3 per hour.
> One for daily travel and one to travel say from LA to LV just to play some casino games.

There are other ways to get a vehicle for a road trip, besides buying one.

There are also many plugin-hybrids now: 0 gaws for local driving, and a gas tank for long dries.
No love for Captain Sisko?
I've been getting into bonsai also. If anyone reading this wants to do a meetup, it'd be fun to get together with tech bonsai people in Portland.
That was awkward
This is why I don't understand why people think these countries are overstepping. It's not like they're forcing total outsiders to do their bidding. Google set up offices all over the place, and, surprise! Now they're beholden to the local authorities.

If you only want to be subject to the authority of one jurisdiction, make sure your company doesn't have a presence anywhere else. That's not a guarantee, but it helps a lot.
> Since conventional automakers don't seem to be willing to aggressively pursue EVs on their own, this seems like a reasonable approach.

There are EV and plug-in hybrid options across many price ranges and car shapes.
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>I have no idea what this super vague paragraph means.

I think this thread serves as a good example. Someone wrote a blog post saying "I'm having trouble finding a job."

Look at the top comment, it's basically saying "You don't know what the fuck you are talking about, get out of here. Clearly you're doing something wrong, but I'm not going to try to actually address this problem or help you. Shoo now, you're ruining our perfect view of the tech sector."
What I want is adblock/ublock/ghostery for my phone... I swear it's worse than the popover/under ads in the 90's if you happen to click on the wrong clickbait article from your phone.

For that matter, just make browsers not allow an iframe within another iframe... that should reduce a lot of the problems with ad/tracking networks. What's really annoying are the ads that block content, but have the weird /A logo that you can click to report that the ad is used to block content...WTH.

The problem is the funding for the biggest browser is from an ad company, and a lot of the funding from one of the other largest is as well.
I know the feeling, one of my favourite tree just died in spring; it was all fine during the winter, and just died like that. 5 years of work, and p00f!
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"Also, world's first web site[1] still works in modern browsers".

... and half the links on it are broken. That's one of the things I don't like on the web, content slowly disappear, links are unidirectional, etc.

[1] http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Productisation inherently has to overcome the fundamental energy density problem: with photosynthesis, you've got an upper limit of about 300W/m2 that you can ever capture. To get energetically useful amounts of fuel out, that means you need acres of the stuff. Not impossible, but a right pain to keep your chosen strain dominant in the sort of volumes that area implies.
Can you give some examples? I'm not aware of any protocols that fit the storage+identity+sharing triad I mentioned above (except the one I'm working on).
Looks like two tier internet doesn't matter any more. All hail the PR gods.
I agree on what it actually is, mine was a comment on how it is used. I've seen P/E used many times in SV referring to valuation/revenue.
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