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When I think of charity in my city, I have soup kitchen, run by church, adult day care run by another church, drug clinic run by church, habitat humanity branch, another church, probably a lot I am missing since I'm not a churchy person. I think there are some nonsecular like Kiwanis and Lions also.

This study shows religious tend to donate more to charity.

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Religious-Americans-Giv...

It turns out jerks are jerks, and the church bashing is unwarranted here.

Head First Design Patterns helped me. I'm not saying to go overboard with design patterns. But it helped me understand some ideas about Object Oriented design

I would say because software engineers often work in mission critical systems where risk is a factor, and his job as a guy finding flaws in risk models on wall street, gave him insight on that topic.

Like maybe some kinds of bugs are like tail end risk.

It was my understanding that Obama had actually dampened Bush's plans for missile defense in Europe, and instead was focused on shorter ranges that would come from Iran, and the redistribution of resources towards an "Asia Pivot".

Maybe he is defining Nation separate from State, like Tamils or Kurds are a Nation without a state.

I enjoyed your reversi game.

The eli5 is just a Reddit forum thing to keep jargon and length down, does not mean you have a 5 year old mind.

A question would be eli5 lambda calculus. Actually if there is an eli5 for that it would be fun to read.

Okay a good page that goes into depth is history of Venezuela oil Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oi...

The Chávez administration used high oil prices in the 2000s on his populist policies and to gain support from voters. The social works initiated by Chávez's government relied on oil products, the keystone of the Venezuelan economy, with Chávez's administration suffering from Dutch disease as a result.

When prices collapsed they had all eggs in one basket.

Now what was seized and not discussed in the wiki was oil platforms from foreign companies. Sometimes instead of Chavez paying a debt, he would seize the platform and "nationalize it" so this caused foreign companies to be wary of investing.

https://books.google.com/books?id=TFY_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&lpg=...

On to hyperinflation

To assuage the oil price decline which began back in June 2014 and continues through to today, President Maduro printed more currency,

It was not simply that they "nationalized oil" in my example, as the resources we're already state owned. You seem to not be serious with your comments.

Economists believe that hyperinflations are caused by large persistent government deficits financed primarily by money creation (rather than by borrowing or by increasing taxation). --wikipedia.

Eli5 Their economy was mostly oil, they seized assets of oil companies extracting it. People left then oil crashed and they had too many promises to pay for

In the post, Magglioca says that the bill of rights was not what people of the time thought a bill of rights looked like. Well I find it is not accurate to say that since many ideas were lifted from the English Bill of Rights 1689. No standing armies in peacetime, freedom of speech of parliament, peasants bearing arms, no cruel unusual punishment, no excessive bails, no taxes without parliament. I hope that I am missing something in translation, because it is unsettling that he would overlook this. The Virginian Bill of Rights mentioned in the story took from this as well. In other words, it set a standard.

I wonder about spider bites or something. Imagine sleeping on the forest floor with no covering, ants would crawl on you and stuff. Well, at least at picnics they do. A lot of bugs are nocturnal I think.

It makes an interesting point about focusing on quality instead of a check mark by someone who is not directly under the hood. (project manager in this case) Also it cautions against seeing the trees (p1 bug) and missing the forest (good software).

I do think project managers are needed for this large scale software though. So I'm wondering, what is the best way a project manager should manage development of Apple's software?

One thing I find healthy, is that many companies beyond Tesla are trying to build this technology. Even though the story thinks the data may be suspect at this point, the competition from a variety of sources gives us good chances for some breakthroughs occurring.

The book Moneyball talks about this. Well I thought it would be about baseball, but it was kind of about our ability to judge merit. It's hard even in a measurement driven sport like baseball. Sports are arguably the purist meritocracy, yet scouts were routinely missing on their evaluation of talent.

Is it merit based? I would say it's capital based.

I think that's standard. Writing is hard, I imagine political books are similar. Though I think the purpose of the Tribune was to allow athletes to control how they are heard.

I thought it was about passing variables into a class instead of an object, or some other Object Oriented technique I was unaware of...

I am glad I read this just now, I was jumping from hoop to hoop. and not only hoops but craft paradigms, reminds me of the Fred Brooks idea "There is no silver bullet".

Brooks argues that "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude [tenfold] improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." He also states that "we cannot expect ever to see two-fold gains every two years" in software development, as there is in hardware development (Moore's law)

from wikipedia

I do not think "they make your product look well thought out." is why.

I think the need is to read a clean, clear symbol instantly. Apple, Golden Arch, Handicap-Sign. Because of this, a lot of design majors learn this branding style. Readability is super important in mono-culture, so is clean interface.

Furthermore, vectors are used due to their ability to scale to any-size, and the standard tool, Illustrator, just more naturally makes this look than say a St Gaudans Buffalo Nickel design.

It's a typical copycat style that happens in design and art. Around 2005, I noticed flying bird silhouettes everywhere.