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It’s great to see Matt Levine chime in, he often has an incredible well thought out and informed view that is also just incredibly funny to read. That said I am disappointed that he latched on the the entirely imagined idea that this was “profit va safety” which isn’t in any way supported by anything and is just baseless speculation cooked up by spectators.

It’s even directly contrary to the statements from the board and the new CEO, and there is no reason to believe they would lie and keep it hidden if this was in fact their reasoning.

> it became apparent that the dependencies I was relying on—or considering for use—simply didn't meet the necessary standards

Basically didn’t he just raise money with promises of features, then go to the underlying libs authors with a “you should do all these features for free, so I can argue why all the money I got for them was with it” while doing shit-all himself?

So, basically he’s rounding off his attempt at fundraising on trying to get someone else to do the actual work for free with a “I’m sorry, but I’m keeping the money and not delivering anything”?

> What was left to do?

> Integration with a low-level HTTP library ready for the task.

You mean literally all the actual work to make the product do anything useful…

No one took issue with requests, just being a thin usability interface on top of other peoples work, because it was free and open source and didn’t raise funds to provide the claimed functionality. But the second you start raising funds and don’t want to spend a single dollar on the people who do all of the real work, your a pos, and deserve all the criticism. The second you take the money but bail on the project because others won’t do the work for free for you, you become a con-man.

Probably not going to generate more ethanol than you already get in your morning cup of orange juice

> These mRNA fragments are also heavily engineered in a way sashimi mRNA isn’t.

Could you point to the difference you believe is important? What on earth is “heavily engineered” supposed to mean in the context of mRNA?

> In my template for radical reform of those laws I would like it if any IP is owned by its original creator for up to twenty years from the point of first publication

I’ve always said that I find it wrong that someone who dedicated their life to finding a cure for a life threatening desease is told: “You get 20 years to turn a profit, then it’s a free for all” yet if someone draws a cute mouse we say: “You get your lifetime, plus 75 years of exclusivity then it’s a gray zone case of which derivatives you own and what you can sue for” (looking at Winnie the Pooh’s red shirt).

You’d think that drawings and written content would be ranked lower than literally curing life threatening deseases and saving lives, when it comes to how long we give the inventors and creators to monetize their creations.

They can’t be skipped because the players who will skip them are the ones who need them and will then complain about the game as a result bringing down the average score and hurting the games financials.

> The guy is on video eating skin off his goddam toes while lecturing CS. If that dude or any of his followers are antidiversity, they need to look themself in the mirror.

He is a white male who’s in power despite eating toe gunk, while also supporting an environment hostile to woman. He’s in no way a good representation of diversity simply because he’s odd.

It’s not a negotiation if the law dictates that you have to sign and that you are forced to accept a significant discount, which seems to be the core of the case:

> once HHS unilaterally selects a drug for inclusion in the program, its manufacturer is compelled to sign an ‘agreement’ promising to sell the drug to Medicare beneficiaries at whatever ‘fair’ price the agency dictates, which must represent at least a 25% to 60% discount,” the complaint says, calling it “tantamount to extortion.”

> “We are just normal people,” Mr. Coutts told the Sun, “so we’d like to sell it and make something back on it.”

The normal people approach to vandalism is to just paint it over and continue your life. These people are gamblers who are spending 250k on a lottery ticket that might not pay out.

If I say someone had many of something, then I know for certain that they must have either an even amount or an odd amount. Same goes for few.

Because it isn’t similar to this case at all.

That’s an odd use of notation. Typically P(A|B) is used to denote probabilities of outcomes.

> It's been almost 3 years since I created PlantUML [1] and got a lot of fun

I assume you meant to write that you created collabUML 3 years ago, and not accidentally take credit for creating PlantUML itself, which is 14 years old and was created by Arnaud Roques in 2009.

> In finance or medicine, it's often illegal[0] to delete customer information before the end of an expiration period (minimum several years).

There are also laws that require you to delete customer information. For instance patient data in situations where consent is withdrawn. So either way you can’t rely on “it’s often”. And on the flip side of things the legal requirements you are referring to are typically the audit requirements, which are still better served using audit tables, since it’s not enough to have a “current data” and “data that is currently not active”, since you need logs of who changed the data when, and you can easily run into situations where something is soft deleted, then restored, then soft deleted again.

You’d think that this was the way to carry out a typical crypto scam yes. But then we have cases where the shell cracks like FTX and we can see inside and it turns out the scams are completely devoid of any sophistication. FTT wasn’t a clever pump’n’dump scheme, it was just straight up not backed because user funds where working to cover Alamedas leveraged positions.

> Silent phone usage doesn't impact the class, it impacts the individual using the phone.

That’s just not true. You decided to attend class, you are taking up a seat. You count toward the outcome for the class and what you do and don’t do affects the class as a total. If you decide to half ass it, that affects the class. At the end of the year if every student fails. A teacher can’t just go: “but that’s not a problem with the class, that’s an individual problem for each student, the class was perfect they all individually just weren’t good enough”

It sounds a bit like you would like to reserve the privilege of parking in disabled parking but don’t want to be identified by the blue badge as someone disabled.

Sorry, but that’s just not something that the system should be designed to cater for. You either accept the badge and the privilege or you don’t, demanding that anyone must be able to park in disabled parking without a badge because they might secretly be disabled but not want to signal it seems beyond absurd.

The golden age of board games seems to have started around 1995 with the release of settlers of Catan, and has only gotten more golden since then. We’re probably in the diamond age of board games by now.

I really doubt the claim that this is independent of the phrasing of the question.

I assume strongly that if you phrase the question as “how might your life be worse or better” people will also thing of negative alternatives.

The thing is when you only ask “how might your life be different” people will pull on what they have already thought about and most people have plans and dreams for improvements already in their mind.

Might not grasp the full context here, but it’s trivial to lazily import modules in your own code. I know every beginners guide will advice you not to do that, but that’s just because it’s an easy footgun for new programmers. If you have some cli tool that only needs scipy for certain sub commands you can just move it to those subcommand calls so it’s loaded when needed instead of up front.

Your misrepresenting the actual content of the guide.

> As for false rape accusations… I think this is one of those things that gets talked about so much that it seems more common than it is

Yes, I fully agree. The fraternities have a ton more true rape cases than they have false allegations. Which might also be a reason the the crackdown on fraternity culture.

> This spirit of self-organization, slightly transgressive but organized fun taught students how to organize things like the 2000s tech revolution.

Looking from the other side of the “party” that very same culture of no consequences and unchecked toxic masculinity probably also fueled the rampant problems with SA that’s been exposed widely across tech during the #metoo movement.

> These lyrics always bothered me for their apparent vacuousness. Christ was born on Christmas Day – well, yeah. Christmas just is the day that Christ was born, right?

Isn’t the reason that the church makes such a big deal of repeating this whole “Christmas day is when Jesus was born” and “Jesus was born on Christmas Day” due to exactly the point that it wasn’t the day he was born.

The church moved the celebration to better match the pagan celebrations, so they needed to push this lie a lot to get people on board with the fact that they moved the birthday to make the sales pitch for Christianity better match the pagan traditions.

You would have though that the god of all existence could have timed the birth of his divine child a bit better, but I guess we all know that it’s easy to sometimes miss deadlines and be off by a month or so. Also the biology of virgin pregnancies, though unexplored scientifically likely followed the biology of regular pregnancies, so there might be a bit of uncertainty on the exact time of arrival even if god did impregnate Mary with the intention that she’d give birth around what is today Christmas Day.

> who wasn't a major contributor or decision maker for it.

Per definition an executive is a major contributor and decision maker.

Trust me, I harbor no hate towards the people who every year scream that Christian’s are being suppressed and that “the establishment” is trying to kill Christmas. I just think it’s hilarious. Christmas is probably the biggest religious event celebrated across the world. But we are supposed to believe that some evil “they” are mindlessly working year after year to kill it off. Christmas starts mid October these days and lasts until mid January, every tv show, website and store makes a big deal of making it clear that they are part of the celebration, it’s not exactly dying. But if ever an, excuse the language, “old fart” hears anyone saying “happy holidays” they start going on a rant about how they’re being oppressed and how some nameless “they” are trying to kill Christmas. Typically these are the same old farts who get extremely offended if they say merry Christmas to someone Jewish who answers back “and a happy Hanukkah” because they feel like every religious should celebrate their narrow view of the world.

That’s the spirit. Get it all out your system, and look, HN now has the christmas banner up, just like it always has, on Christmas Day. But you sure got a good bit of raging before that didn’t you. Next year maybe you can start complaining already in early November that people are “killing Christmas” because it hasn’t yet changed!

Those to examples are not at all comparable. The problem with having to keep completely separate facilities for products made with, and products made without sesame is a real problem. And if the law requires that food that is not labeled to have sesame mustn’t be baked in the same oven as products without, then it seems like the easy choice to deliberately add a bit and label it, rather than having to buy new ovens.

> Software can be so exciting and fun, and this “careerist” perspective really sucks the joy out of it.

This reminds me of people arguing that scientists miss life’s beauty because they attempt to analysis it. You can enjoy the wonders of programming while still being mindful of your career progression, one does not preclude the other.

That explains it. Obviously the did nothing write.

“Judge, when we illegally marketed this drug to make a fortune while knowing it was actually hurting the patients, we were in fact doing nothing wrong because you see, it’s difficult to set up a drone testing field in California!”

It’s like the Chewbacca defense.