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I am not loud about that because I don't care anymore because none of the devices on the market suit my needs, and I gave up on that ever changing.
I think my case is more common than any loud opinions out there.
I hope no one thinks that we have 100.00000% reliable processes to avoid a nuclear war, taking both positive and negative human factors into account.
Eventually the current setup will fail us if we don't develop into a more civilized society where pointing armed nukes at each other is not needed.
Somewhere within that gap is a decent system where poor people don't starve but are still incentivized to improve their situation.
I also don't really see how having children relates to any of this.
On the other hand, automation will probably force us into a welfare state one way or another.
Maybe it would seem that way for someone who's religiously following what Moxie says, but that's sort of like complaining of hearing "you should charge more" too often if you're religiously following patio11.
I also think he made a valid point in his most recent post, and mentioning Telegram added valuable context to his argument.
As much as the mental overhead of expecting a sales tax on checkout annoys me, I'll suffer through it so that everyone has a constant reminder that the government is taking its cut.
The crypto money supply is predetermined, but demand is not, often driven by events outside of the blockchain. Supply needs to actively balance demand if the price is to stay stable.
For a stable price you'd need a crypto that adjusts mining difficulty in response to changes in the amount of demand (or something like that? My understanding of crypto currencies is only surface level).
However, the USD-to-Crypto price is something outside of the blockchain, so as far as my understanding goes you can't really use that as an input because you can't get undisputable information on the price, because the entirety of undisputable information should exist in the blockchain.
I guess you could try to use transaction volume as an input but that seems like a bad metric because it's a) gameable and 2) does not necessarily correlate with external demand for the crypto currency.
There's a difference between "me" and "we". "We", the majority, could, if we cared. "I", alone or even in a sizeable minority group, can't make a difference, regardless of how much I care.
People can certainly be very self centered, but a big part of this _collective_ culture of either caring or not caring for various things has been manufactured entirely artificially by governments and corporations alike.
That's the point of my pessimism – modifying your own behaviour does not make any difference. Even if millions of people boycotted iPhones that would still be a smaller loss for Apple than changing how they're doing things, because doing things right is suicidally expensive when most of your customers don't care. An even smaller loss would be doing some marketing to make most of boycotters ambivalent enough to forget the whole thing.
Using Apple just as an example, could be any company or government.
Unfortunately, I don't see this changing within our culture of mindless consumerism and a governance system based on what is essentially legalized bribery ("lobbying").
Access the RPC call as httpSerbice.getFoo() and make it return a Future/Promise, or even a special subtype of those. 100% obvious what it does.
You're going to be calling REST methods the same exact way anyway - you have to pass around the result of that restful http.get call somehow.
They're mostly either partisan drivel, or bland statements of fact that don't explain why this news is good/bad/important.
The ability to do the latter in a neutral manner is what's valuable – to me, at least, – and I don't see it here.
This is like, the main way to make insurance affordable.
There are tens of millions of people in the US that really want <X> to change, for a lot of <X>. However, without acting as a unified group they don't matter because they're dwarfed by equally disorganized and apathetic people who don't care. There are many examples from around the world of people getting what they want when they are numerous and well organized. Don't even need to look far, NRA is an example of this collective power (to some extent) in the US itself.
There is a social engineering solution to this somewhere, just like the current situation is a result of deliberate social engineering, not some inevitable evolution of democracy.
MS Edge 16 was released two weeks ago, and already supports the latest CSS Grid spec (allegedly, I haven't tried it myself).
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As for the remaining 21%, depending on your target audience you might not care enough about UC Browser for Android, Samsung Internet, Opera Mini, Android Browser, and even IE11, which btw is no longer the default browser for Windows (Edge is).
Especially if you're building a new product, by the time it becomes big enough that browser compatibility starts to matter, it will probably be a non-issue for CSS grid.
I've shown very clearly that a temp drop in prices does not support your narrative. And that the prices are now back to an all time high.
You can stop pretending that you opinion is based on facts now, not fooling anyone.
I would love a portal to that universe in which Vancouver housing prices are dropping.
There was a short drop due to uncertainty around the tax and the elections / new government, but it is over, and it was tiny compared to insane price increases that immediately preceded it.
I don't know why you keep saying things that aren't true and yet can be checked online in under a minute.
10-14% of buyers SELF REPORTED as foreign, across METRO VANCOUVER, not some fancy neighbourhoods. That's the base minimum possible percentage of foreign buyers.
Then the 15% tax was introduced and dropped foreign purchases down to to 3-4%. Do you really think the ~8% stopped buying? No, they just used one of the trivially available loopholes like sending in their astronaut family or buying through a trust company. And many buyers were doing that even before the tax was introduced.
Also obvious is that increasing demand on one type of housing puts upwards pressure on the prices of other types of housing because they are (in part) substitute goods.
Just look at Vancouver where incomeless foreign students are buying supermansions.
Personal or commercial projects that demonstrate relevant skills. Bonus points if I can see the source.
Having a mentor really helps to prioritize your learning efforts in the right spots, both before and after getting the job.
For one example, I don't think it's a given that the green line (velocity vs % type-checked) should have a negative slope. Maybe in some cases, for some projects or some people, but certainly not universally. At least part of it would have been positive on almost all projects that I've worked on, and I'm not doing rocket science.
Then, the combined chart just looks at the amount of bug-free output, completely ignoring the amount of bug-ridden output. That latter part doesn't just get discarded, it needs fixing, and bugs that were only discovered in production are expensive to discover, debug and fix.
This is in addition to pretty much every other top level comment in this thread, a lot of which bring up important points that are unaccounted for even conceptually in the charts.
class MyButton extends MyBaseComponent {
// Render a buttonClass MyBaseComponent extends React.Component {
// Include error handling lifecycle hook here
}I'm not sure how I feel about this change, but at least there's an escape hatch.