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Did I place it before the early middle ages? Whoops! Not my intention. The schism took place in 1054 officially, however it was very much in the works before that. Thanks for pointing out my comment read as such. I use the term dark ages purely because that is the term the greatest amount of people will be familiar with, and I am referring to the period roughly between 1330 to enlightenment period.

If you really think this, then all I have to say to you is you must read the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence and Constitution with quite the set of blinders on my friend. For example, consider this quotation from John Jay in Federalist No 2: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1329146-it-has-often-given-...

> the intellectual elite who were the thought leaders shaping our model of government were largely members of the Enlightenment faction that started the whole idea of anti-religious secular liberalism.

Really going to need a citation on this. Besides that point, the Enlightenment being anti-religious is a myth in of itself as well. Most standard taught US history on the events that took place basically from the split of the One Catholic Church, through the dark ages, and up to just before the founding of this country is woefully inaccurate. We are pretty good at documenting things that occurred on this continent roughly mid 1700s on.

The comment is not fitting to the article, but I wanted to respond to it anyways because I found it interesting and it's not something talked about here much, for obvious reasons.

The problem is going to escape many on the left, including most people here as well, as many people here are mostly agnostic/atheistic/anti-faith and believe having faith is somehow anti-intellectual. The reality of the situation is the US was founded, both socially and politically on Judeo-Christian principles of morality, and the nuclear family and it is undeniable the evidence to support this in our laws and constitution.

We have seen more upheaval and social change in the last 10-15 years than the previous 50 all in the name of "progress" (never mind it is those very people who subscribe to that "progress" that are leading the way in unhappiness, depression, low marriage rate, low birth rate, and suicide).

There are positions now being held by major political frontrunners that are simply not compatible with any person of faith, or any sort of compromise with the opposite political party. There is simply no compromise to be had. The biggest elephant in the room is abortion. My two favorite writers on this subject are Caitlin Flanagan for a left-side perspective, and Alexandra Descantis for a right-side perspective. Both write very thoughtfully on this issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-democrats-purged-... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2019/11/16/an_honest_abort...

Many people call America a Christian nation. I know this will get downvoted to hell here. I consider myself a well traveled man, and I will quote one famous professor I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture of that rings especially true to me: "The only country in the world that doesn't know America is a Christian nation is America."

The most realistic founding story so far is Bezos explanation for how he founded Amazon.

It was always a business-first mindset in an area of high growth.

That one short video filmed in 1997 should be a masterclass by itself.

In my thinking, I think of an endpoint as something at either end of the communication channel (NATS in this case) where it is effectively terminal. Usually this is where the application logic lies. Dereck Collison (creator of NATS) brings this up in many of his talks about NATS, but I think the source of his thinking might come from “End-to-End Arguments in System Design” by Saltzer, Reed, & Clark.

The core of it is this point:

"Functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level."

That is, in order get that message redundancy or exactly once delivery, or message persistence, you pay a high cost, and you may be better off delegating to the endpoints.

This blog provides a good overview

https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/11/14/end-to-end-arguments-in-...

Here is the original paper

http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...

NATS is an amazing project, I just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight it for those first hearing about it in this comment. It's so brilliantly simple, yet changed the way I design distributed systems. I handle almost anything in regards to the standard messaging guarantees that a Kafka-like system offers at the endpoints now. As a result, systems are much simpler, and diagnosability of bugs or edge cases are much more straightforward.

Everything is an art. Science is an art. Even "pure mathematics" can be artful and beautiful. There is beauty in all the miracle of the application of human creation, thought, and skill. There is beauty in process, in discovery, of discovery, etc.

And this is all so beautifully meta as well, because this too, is a philosophical statement.

Two things:

- I buy them Apple devices. n=4 here, but it really seems when my family (mom, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and older brother who is borderline tech illiterate) made the switch from Android to iOS devices or even PC to Mac, they just had less of an issue with this. It's anecdotal, I am not a diehard Apple fanboy, but take it for what it is.

- I tell them to always close any and all popups. Point blank, carte blanche, doesn't matter how sincere it seems, or if it even is legitimate, just close it. If there's something she ends up not being able to do eventually she just calls me.

Did you tell them to all turn off their phones and remove their batteries, too?

Insert standardization XKCD. It's been tried. And even so, you can still use the "standard" coredump tool to analyze a Go program's coredump with decent success.

Unfortunately, this is not true. Although the equality operators are a favorite bikeshedding topic, the largest source of errors in JS code bases are type errors. Using a "non-sane" equality check, such as those with type coercion would actually mask or alleviate these source of bugs you mention.

Then again, even if we had sound statistics backing our policy, the facts would be dismissed in favor of the ideology backing the social policy.

If the Alonzo Church model and Turing model of computing are computationally equivalent, then does it really matter? I may not be understanding correctly.

In this case, the heart defect was congenital, not due to atherosclerosis

Small aside about memory in humans: I am reminded of a story told during a lecture of a transplant recipient receiving a heart transplant and was interviewed after the successful surgery about what they would like to eat now that they had a new heart (previously, was on a really restricted diet due to heart condition).

The person responded with "Kentucky fried chicken" on a whim.

It was later explained that they don't know why they felt compelled to say KFC since they never been to one in their life. Later on, they find information about the donor and how they died (motorcycle accident -- be safe on your bikes please kids). The donor was a pretty husky guy, and loved Kentucky fried chicken.

Now could have this just been sheer coincidence or chance? Most likely. Is this scientifically verifiable? Of course not, not with current means. But for some reason I've always had a strange suspicion that there was more to memory than just storage in our brains, but that they are also somehow part of us as well.

Can you elaborate on why it is a really bad idea?

What if this is medicine working as intended?

"Frail older patients" wasn't even a word in anyone's vernacular 50 years ago, you just died if you were in that state. This is a result of us pushing the boundaries of what current modern medicine is capable of doing. Now there are more people living longer that, quite frankly, wouldn't have in earlier environments. In a way we are bypassing selection for "strong older people"

This type of thinking is what gives us more solar and wind farms and less nuclear plants.

There's no room for moderates in today's political climate. "You are either completely on board or you are against me" so the current zeitgeist goes. Essentially you have to align your beliefs and talking points with /r/politics and /r/enlightenedcentrism, or you are just closeted alt right.

Go the language is simple, but the infrastructure around Go is where it shines, especially around tooling and runtime (especially now that versioning has been finally figured out).

There are some great pieces of tech that really push the boundaries forward in areas of scheduling and garbage collection.

Go also forces you to think about your data (data oriented design) versus designing objects, hierarchies and relationships, which I have come to really enjoy these days having left behind my days of architecting for the "enterprise"

Unfortunately, it is either cheap or quality. And news flash, as someone who just recently built a new home, even the "expensive" stuff is hardly "quality" these days. We are paying more for homes with cheaper, younger, less treated wood that rots and warps faster (partially thanks to over-regulation). Majority of what is being thrown up in my city are 450-700k+ McMansions that are "stick built" and will almost assuredly have a host of problems in the near term.

Quality is just so rare these days. Everything is built to be replaced in 5-10 years.

American homes are a sham. My grandmother's home back in Greece is 180 years old at this point and I fully expect it to outlast my current home.

Already been said a few times, but just feel like I had to add again for added emphasis. Extreme Ownership is the best book on Leadership I have ever read. Changed my thinking forever.

You mistakenly assume I mean strictly from a moral perspective. Assume a cost:benefit analysis, where the factors are, depending on the person, some combination of morality, desire to not face consequences (legal system, job, family), and perceived risk:reward ratio.

Most people don't like to intentionally break the law.

I don't mean this offensively, but I had to roll my eyes at this one. This is the exact type of question I would expect from a tech startup focused board.

> The business model of social media companies is powered by engagement

This is the business model of many companies and industries, including advertising and marketing, legacy media companies, and gaming.

The std lib is not the paragon of go virtue as some people make it out to be. The maintainers have been frank with some of the mistakes and things they'd do differently now but because they place the Go 1 promise above everything else (a good thing), it has some patterns not many would recommend these days, error handling among them.

That's a really unfair characterization of Go's error handling, and something only really novice Go developers do.

https://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/27/dont-just-check-errors-ha...

Distributed bot and scraper networks. Thousands of IPs geographically dispersed throughout the world. There is only so much you can do with rate limiting.

I’d take him back in a heartbeat over De Blasio. Bloomberg strikes me as a man that can learn from mistakes.