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This is the de facto complaint of open source software, and initially I thought the entitlement can really only be explained by laziness, after all why don't people just bother to read the source code and contribute the feature they want?

But then I realized its way way more rudimentary than that. A substantial amount of software developers struggle w/ interpersonal communication skills, and so often what may have been intended as a polite feature suggestion came across as entitlement, if not bewilderment that a feature doesn't exist through a poor choice of words combined with a lack of empathy that we see everywhere throughout the internet anyway.

I'd like to see an implementation of Google maps with a 1983 toolchain

Realistically, even if I tried to explain it in layman terms, none of those points would convince my girlfriend to stop using TikTok.

Deeply unsettling to imagine that the US statistics aren't trustworthy.

On a more general level this kind of predatory behavior seems to the natural progression for internet conglomerates who specialize in connecting aggregate eyeballs / wallets to distributed vendors. It's not just delivery either, eBay, Amazon, AirBnb etc, they all absolutely squeeze vendors and there is no appeal process whatsoever if anything goes wrong with your account.

I wish there was a better way. It's quite sad to see how the internet has these seemingly intrinsic highways to organizational psychopathy built into it.

We had an R0 greater than 1 for a long enough period that if the response wasn't on point, we'd be in a similar position to the US.

One aspect that's missed is our testing rate - 500,000+ tests performed so far with a 1.2% positive rate. That's half of South Korea's.

None of this is to blow my Aussie horn. Whilst I'm proud to live in a country that handled this crisis well, I can't help but feel frustration at many of the remarks that Trump has said, particulary comments such as "can you really believe the numbers coming out of these countries?" it's just baffling considering that the AU-US alliance is unshakeable and there is no reason to mistrust our figures.

All stats sourced here: https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...

I'm from Australia where our government is slowly easing restrictions because our daily case count has been in the single digits for multiple consecutive days now, and even then it is very gradual. Reopening resturants and bars is still very far on the horizon.

In the US, even with full lockdown restrictions for several weeks now, the daily death count has hovered at 2,000 for almost two infection cycles (first >2k death day was Apr 7th).

If 'full' lockdown only achieves stabilisation of the death rate, how is easing restrictions, which as far as I can see only rationally relies on the still-shaky evidence from serology studies, what exactly is the plan?

I genuinely ask this in a state of disbelief at the current "end lockdown" narrative circulating in the US. Here in AUS/NZ the Gov didn't fuck around; we locked down, had brutally strict measures for 6 weeks now, and at this point nobody is rushing to re-open (except for a few regional cities that haven't even had cases), while the US has been at 2,000 deaths a day.

Why would losing 500% of California's 2019 GDP be impossible? It's difficult to imagine, sure, but that's just 5x $2.7T.

The sheer number of n'th order effects of this crisis might just mean that most of the economic pain is in the long, fat tail spanning decades into the future.

Amortize that cost as irreversible economic damage and it might be implausible, sure, but not inconceivable.

So by your reasoning, a large asteroid discovered to hit earth a month from now would be a white swan event, because we always knew it could happen.

Hopefully I'll be able to get an expedited apt before they close it completely. This was a dream job at the tail end of a 6mo+ process.

I was just finalising some documents before booking an interview at the Melbourne consulate for an E3 work visa.

I have no idea what to do now.

Burger.com would be the brand

A search engine that produces results you would find interesting/helpful/engaging most of the time. It should heavily penalize SEO optimized, clickbaity listicle trash. Content that was created organically as part of a conversation should rank very highly if it's relevant to the query, as well as blog posts from obscure but highly relevant and informed sources.

Google died when they stopped being well informed librarians and started being aggressive salespeople. It's time for a new search engine to step in specifically catered to the curious.

This is specific to software development, where every incremental change to the work is by definition modular. Unlike artwork or music where no individual brush strokes or chords could feasibly exist in a vacuum.

Look, should a CSS snippet copywriteable? What about a complex SQL query?

Imo, no singular LOC is unique in the way that a newly developed drug is unique or a song is unique. If devs can agree on that, why should that extend to an arbitrarily long combination of LOCs?

Even if it's somehow copyrightable, why should the rights of that LOC extend to the person claiming theirs has been breached? It's a bold claim to say that you are the first dev in the world to have ever created a particular piece of functionality.

Code should be treated like trade secrets - the protection of the creator is in the meticulous seperation of end product from recipe. SaaSs already do this, the entire front end is publicly visible code, which line-for-line, rarely accounts for more than a small % of the backend logic.

That's the gotcha. If bitcoin hits $1M by 2030, the people reading your comment from the 2030 repost of this thread will have a good snicker.

Bitcoin's entire value, literally all of it, is just an index for how widely and strongly felt HODLology is across the globe. The sale of a bitcoin is a cult member leaving, the purchase is a baptism, however transiently intended the purchase is, because the purchase represents the new recruits own belief in HODLology.

This is not strictly true, its just exceedingly rare.

Aussie here. Our Prime Minister just hopped over to Hawaii[0] whilst bushfires[1] just an hour's drive away from Sydney[2] are toxifying the air to the point of being declared a public health emergency[3]... barely two weeks into bushfire season, with the most intense fires around late Jan/early Feb.

To top it all off, the Government is refusing to grant the firefighters additional resources to actually contain the fires[5].

[0] https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/prime-minister-scott-mo...

[1] https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/

[2] https://twitter.com/healthy_climate/status/12042163739597250...

[3] https://www.9news.com.au/world/nsw-news-sydney-bushfire-smok...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/10/sydne...

[5] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/australia-bushfires-c...

VeraCrypt has a hidden volume mode where an inner encrypted volume is stored within the contents of an outer hidden volume, and the inner volume is indistinguishable from random data when the outer volume is decrypted for plausible deniability.

Anyone who loves the scooters enough will buy one on Amazon for $350 because it pays for itself quickly. I did. Great for getting around a 1-5 mile radius.

At best the rental micromobility economy is transient until all the people who find electric scooters genuinely useful buy their own. It often ends up costing as much as an Uber to get anywhere anyway

Cold Arctic water currents cool equatorial water, so when those currents are warmer equatorial water becomes too hot.

Which leads to more light-absorbing ocean being exposed, raising ocean temperatures. Then microscopic phytoplankton, nature's primary co2 -> oxygen converters die out further raising co2 levels, eventually leading light-reflecting upper atmospheric clouds to form with progressively lower surface areas.

Climate change is going to be a hell of a way to put "feedback loops" in the global cultural dictionary.

It's interesting how the first paragraph in particular reads like a deflection of the original question, somewhat akin to a middle manager avoiding exposing their lack of domain expertise in response to a technical question by giving a vague answer.

There were heaps of semantic pathways the network could have chosen such as guessing what a borrower is, or maybe even weighing the significance of "borrower" more than rust in the original question because it has no clue what rust+borrower is; but it instead picked the safer option of deflection. Fascinating stuff.

I think that's more of an emergent behavior of modern languages being much more accessible to the "masses". If you can write enterprise code in C, it's likely you're an experienced developer. The same isn't true for Python since it's relatively easy to be able to write something useful.

The part that struck out to me was when OP said "Too many failures and destructive thoughts."

No amount of market research/planning/mvp asap will address that.

Or even "can you fix my printer?"

Go on forums where people who use a platform/API/SaaS post implicit feature requests

Off the top of my mind:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/c/selling-on-amazon/... https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/bd-p/tools-apps-db

Imo, whatever annoying tradeoffs a commercialized web brought with it, it was wholly worth it for giving literally anybody the ability to learn anything they are curious about.

1080p Harvard compsci lectures[0] available for free would have been a pipe dream in 1995.

[0] https://youtu.be/e9Eds2Rc_x8

Do you mean crawling without cookies or the legal case?

Linkedin tried to argue that if they put data behind a login wall, then it no longer falls under the wide umbrella of "public data" and so it's "theirs". Previous cases already established that if a crawler can see the data without any session cookies then its okay. This ruling extended that to any data that can reasonably be accessed by any member of the public.

There will probably be more cases like this as the upper bound of what "public data" means; At what point does publicly aggregated data stop being public data? And do attempts that companies make to prevent that data from being captured (ip limiting, captchas, login walls) count as immoral/illegal, since they are restricting the public from accessing a public good?

No language war intended, just curious how something I see as a wheel could be improved.