triangleman

Even so, the blame is not with the "stupid", especially when stupid seems to be a catch-all definition for all kinds of reasonable behavior, including acting in one's own interest, and not having all the information available before making a decision. Sorry, I cannot support elitism, and I don't have a better definition on-hand of what I'm seeing here, so let's call it even with "stupidity" ok? I blame the thieves and grifters.

Let me get this straight. Thieves and grifters are not the problem, none of your business in fact, it's the rubes who fall for their sophisticated schemes?

Like Madoff? The subprime lending/NINJA loans? In my opinion both of those things would have been harder if everyone was doing more due diligence. Moral hazard took away some of the incentive to do that.

Is that so? The designers of toxic recommender systems on social media are stupid? The bundling of thousands of mortgages into "AAA" bonds was done by stupid people? The lab in Wuhan where they were collecting bats was staffed by stupid people? Ok maybe that last one is fair.

Couldn't developers have easily ported their Windows games to Windows CE?

There is a relatively simple root cause of the financial crisis, it's called moral hazard:

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

Now, how exactly to solve the problem is a complex question, so I suppose in that respect it's hard to think productively about it.

I'm getting back into collecting and I think that's what I'm going to use for mobile play. And to think just a few years ago I was encoding with LAME...

No one in this thread has mentioned that YouTube recommendations have dramatically changed in 2017, from the heavy conspiracy/sensational/lies videos to something much more "toned down" and IMO rather annoying. It's driving everyone to the mainstream, or perhaps into the mainstream of two camps. At least before, flat earth did not fit into the mainstream of anything.

You could use a greasemonkey-style script to modify youtube.

Youtube changed their recommendation algorithm sometime in 2017 and stopped recommending the more egregious conspiracy videos. Their recs are now rather bland and mainstream.

What are your feelings about AAC 128kbps?

Wow, so this is rust compiled to JS? Or I guess WASM which is a subset of JS? Is this the future of the web?

Also I noticed the base64/deflate URL fragment storing the entire text content, à la flems.io ... nice!

Indeed there is nothing new under the sun:

2 Samuel 15:1-6

  Now it came about after this that Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men as runners before him. Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.” Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king.” Moreover, Absalom would say, “Oh that one would appoint me judge in the land, then every man who has any suit or cause could come to me and I would give him justice.” And when a man came near to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.

>Or, this was fun, my first gov't job the guy had stored passwords on a sticky underneath the keyboard (I changed them all).

Nothing wrong with writing passwords down. Or at least it's the least wrong thing you could do among all things mentioned here.

Yeah my bad, I meant 100 gallons per day, or 3000 gallons per month.

Well then I'd say the rules ought to be changed and if you pump more than 100 gallons per month, you should pay a little more.

The loan situation can be attributed to Nixon closing the gold window and the US having the world's reserve currency anyway. Money is cheap these days. It will not be forever.

Indeed the first securities were sold via auction under a buttonwood tree, and I don't think any government agents were on hand to facilitate it, but I could be wrong.

You seem to have made 2 claims:

1) The "market" (for what, you don't say) was created by government policy hundreds of years ago (but not thousands of yeas ago?)

2) The market needs constant interference in order to not destroy itself (and again you seem to be referring to a great range of economic activity, perhaps all of it, but not all of it because you're also saying it would destroy "much else")

Do you have evidence to support either of these claims, other than begging the question? Would you like to modify them so that they are more specific?

Don't miss the "Legal Changes" section of that article. The bubble and subsequent bust, it turns out, was caused by government meddling (at the behest of powerful economic interests, mind you).

Still they ought to pay their fair share

I mean look at the MDN page on cache control itself: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...

Now click away and click back. There will be a request and a 304. That's what I'm used to, not an instantaneous non-request.

OK So the Expires header is set to 15 minutes in the future. I think this is the secret sauce. I've never seen this before but I plan on trying it out heavily in the future. You don't even need to wait for a 304 content not modified, there's simply no request at all. So cool!

edit: It seems like Expires is a bit older than cache-control, so not as relevant as I thought. I'm not seeing the 365 day cache control header you listed, it's anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes.

It's just weird to see a browser totally trust a cache and not even verify using "etag" or otherwise. I'll probably have to do a lot of trial and error to get this to happen but I really like it, because it feels so fast.

Aaron Sorkin needs to make a sequel to Steve Jobs immediately, where Tim Cook leaves him in the dust and changes the world with truly groundbreaking innovation.

Castanhas do Pará (Brazil nuts) are not that expensive in Brazil are they? I'm seeing R$50/kg on an ecommerce site, that's like like $5/lb. I'll try to get a better price quote tomorrow. You can't have too many of them anyway, it can cause quite a movement of the bowels.

Caju nuts I'm assuming are expensive because they are mostly exported. It's probably the same as arabica coffee in Colombia, it's too good to consume domestically.

Caju fruit you're probably right, does not travel well. Same as açaí, that won't go far without refrigeration or freezing.

If you're like me and were expecting the history of the digital.com domain, it's here:

https://digital.com/about/#section-5

Now my question is, how did they make the site so fast? Checking my Firefox dev tools I'm seeing it's not even being requested on subsequent page views, just the cached version. How'd they do that?

confirmation bias, availability heuristic

What if you fixed the lottery with a PRNG where if you knew the IV then you would know the output, but then someone forgot to set the IV or some other human error, leading to the PRNG simply incrementing numbers from 5?

Overtakes, not takes over.

This looks great, and way more capable than simply "prototyping and testing" as you put it on your web site.

How did you get sqlite3 to index JSON? I don't see anything in the product that does that. I'm searching through your source code now but I don't see anything specific.