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The law once mandated that you hire the services of a licensed electrician to replace a lightbulb. Imagine if the same laws where applied to tech. Need to update Microsoft office? No way arround it you need to hire the services of a licensed IT professional! You might get electrocuted in the process not being a professional. So it all makes sense.

To understand that you need to understand “if”, “or” and assignment expressions. You think this is hard to understand, and that’s fair, but the hard point here isn’t the assignment expression, it’s the short circuiting or-statement. You’d have the same issues with debugging “if f() or g():...”

So are you arguing that the language should not have short-circuit or-statements?

That just seems like you are sacrificing tons of usability only to slightly improve on the expectations of those who are just starting python, like the first 1-2weeks of trying to learn it.

When you go from 100 corporations. Each having infrastructure teams of 50+ people to one provider running the same thing with 20 people from that pool the wages go down. While there certainly are well paid individuals behind Azure or AWS, they are rare compared to “the people on the floor”, and those people used to be able to rise to senior specialist in companies before, now they just order services from the big players.

Now don’t get me wrong there will always be avenues for the most talented players, but the crisis will come when the 45 out of the 50 strong infrastructure team at every larger corporation are no longer needed, and the last 5 will end up doing work that’s completely unrelated to their prior expertise.

As a listerne og the Starup podcast almost since the begining that would be such a wonderful “end” to the tale. “And they bought by a giant and everyone lived happily ever after”. Also from a Historical point of view it’s such a great line of podcasts chronicaling first hand the actual struggles from inception to exit.

Docker, cloud hosted VM from templates, vagrant, Azure, AWS, it doesn’t really matter much to me. The important thing to me is that I no longer have any need for anyone else doing company wide infrastructure. We have several department heads engaged in a battle about who’s going to “own” our “cloud infrastructure” they seem Oblivious to the fact that the only thing we need from them is to negotiate an Azure or AWS subscription and after that they will loose any utility.

A lot of talented people are going to find them self in a problematic situation because the area in which their talents lie is only going to be handled by low wage jobs at google, Azure and Amazon. Even big companies won’t bother setting up their own hardware because the people are costly even if they have slight savings on private hardware.

So.... they aren’t going to stop steeling tips, just limit how much they steal? And they are claiming that it was an algorithmic glitch that cause them to steal a drivers tip that one time... yet they aren’t going to stop it all together just limit it.

They need to come out and say “all tips goes to the driver” or they are going to dies in distrust. No-one wants to buy from or work for a company that downright steals tips from its employees.

As a patient, you don’t care if the drug costs 25$ with 20 covered by insurance or 2005$ with 2000$ covered by insurance. That is what he means. List price doesn’t matter to insured patients.

Let’s say we do this, and you create a state funded company that creates cheap insulin, let’s say they can sell it for 25$ in Walmart. What then happens is that to sell that drug to the insurance companies they negotiate with the Phamacy Benefits Managers they will say to them:”We want a 66% rebate!!” They’ll say errr? At what price? The PBM will say:”we don’t care, insurance covers the price”. So that company ends up putting a list price at 74 but providing a 66% rebate to the PBM so they still get their profit... but then the next year the PBM comes back saying “well, we are going to need a bigger rebate because the competitors where willing to raise their prices even more and thus giving us bigger rebates”

You essentially have a party who’s getting every company to compete on who is willing to sell at the highest list price who’s driving negotiations against the producers who only stand to gain by higher prices.

The American system is rotten to the core.

If a ship is sinking it’s perfectly logical to first save the ship and then criticize the crew afterwards. Calling someone a hypocrite because they critique the captain but didn’t let the ship sink seems kind of odd.

They did more than just “a little reddit/facebook”, there where more posters in busses/metros/buildings than for any other single movie everywhere. They went big on all types of add spending, in addition to pushing it on their own platform.

Sounds like he was too focused on inventing and forgot the production/sales aspect. He literally had the product and had thousands of people emailing him directly ready to buy! And he still complains that he couldn’t sell.

He should have realized his personal shortcomings and partnered with someone who had the qualities he lacked.

An interesting thought for the future is if wasm will make other languages viable on the web. It would be interesting to see if anything else picks up steam as a serious competitor to JavaScript.

That sounds nothing like politics. Politics would be if you promotions depended on how Well your manager likes you.

How does an error code make it easier to look up an error? The workflow is either “get error, google it”, or “get errorcode google it”. In both cases the docs will be the top hit.

If we where talking 20 years ago I might agree, but I really can’t see the argument with todays tooling.

What’s immoral here? You know someone who can’t work so you let him rent your phone so he can work. I mean it’s not respecting the law, but it’s no more immoral than companies renting out cars, houses, or tools used by others to earn a living.

I seem to remember that the store did transfer the costs to the customer in Denmark at least, Maybe 12 years ago. It led to an oproar by consumers faces with paying ~4cent per transaction, and some stores not allowing card payment on purchases less than ~3$.

There was quite a reaction against it, but in the end I assume they dropped this because they say usage numbers drop, though that is just speculation.

This seems borderline scientific fraud. They are showing that participants get better at a test when they practice the test. They use this to make outlandish claims about the test-training app which is sold by a company previously fined for making fraudulent claims around their braintraining apps.

True, 1 d0nt get h0w anyone c0uld f1nd that an0ying 1n a font, when c0ntext make5 it readily apparent that they are letters.

It also locks you out after that neighbor you don’t like intentionally types a wrong code five times, because you where playing loud Music yesterday until 21:00, which isn’t against the rules but he/she doesn’t like it.

Extremely smart.

Are you asking how a child is different from a dog?

It’s cruel to exterminate a million humans because they annoy you, yet substitute humans for ants and suddenly it’s not cruel. The subject matters and what is cruel to animals is not necessarily cruel to humans. and vice versa. Put a chain around the neck of your child, drag it to a local field and give it snacks until it learns to roll around on command and the difference should be blatantly obvious.

Where’s the joke in that? You buy the installation on a 30 year fixed loan and reducere your power Bill tomorrow.

To compare, what is the “break even” point of buying a property and renting it out?

It sounds like an extremely lowball price, so either google wanted more control of ther collaboration or Fossil needed cash and wanted to kill the dept anyway.

Hah, that’s just golden. “We have this amazing feature X however we have to charge you a lot already because the server load of feature X is extremely high.... also feature X is not available yet”

SSPL is basically trying to say we are open source unless you make money, in which case pay us or you need to be open source(not the kind of open source we are, the actual kind). And at the end of the day it just means that they aren’t open source anymore, they are a proprietary shop who lets hobbyist see their source code.

True. It also seems rather odd to be mad at HR for not being able to find the person who posted anonymously about you on the app you specifically went on due to it being anonoumous.

I mean it sucks that the world has racists, bigots, homophobes and all tons of other sorts of rubbish people. But you can’t really fault a company for the fact that they manage to get hired as long as they are dealt with when they are actually discovered.

Where they supposed to ban every employee from making any kind of anonymous comments online after this case?

> Showing that something is done purposefully and knowingly instead of negligently and recklessly is hard.

That goes for murders just as well, it’s not an argument against fake news or murder being criminal.

It’s not impossible to prove intent.

Also there are plenty of gullible friendly souls online and if even 1 person writes him “hey, I can help you out” he’s established a possible payday.

Scammers just throw stuff out there and see if anyone bites. Asking “but why would he tweet it, why would he post to Reddit, why would he email me? Etc” all come down to: because it works.

You can’t blame the voters for trump or for brexit. They voted their hearts as they should. It was the job of Hillary and the remain campaign to push their message and educate the people on what their choices could lead to. They failed. That’s not the fault of the voters. I doubt a single sole intentionally voted with malicious intent, and you can’t fault someone for voting what they honestly believe is best, even if they are misinformed.

We do know when some things are true, and when observing the world we can talk about truth under certain assumptions. As in “it’s True the sun didn’t explode yesterday, assuming we aren’t all living in a simulated reality run by aliens in a different solar system billions of years from now the exact day after the sun exploded, or similar possible scenarios”

And while everyone loves to run in circles around the argument “but how can you know with certainty” the fact is that I am as certain that this assumption holds as I am that it provides no value at all to continually question if reality is really real, you’d have to take that as an assumption to ever have any kind of value adding discussion.

The people who insist we can’t know if anything is definately true must agree that they can’t know if that assertion is definitely true, so they sort of kill their own argument axiomatically.