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The number of executive orders has decreased every president since Bill Clinton.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1125024/us-presidents-ex...

Being typed would make it harder, not easier for a JS dev. Syntax is a very surface-level difference and is basically a rounding error in cases like this after the very initial stages.

If I were to try to make the argument for you, I'd point to some of Elixir's more powerful abstractions like protocols and macros as a reason Elixir might be harder for JS devs. In reality, though, I found it very straightforward to learn as a JS dev, and that was back in 2016 when the documentation was much worse.

It depends a lot on the way you write JavaScript. If you work with React, like FP and make everything you can immutable, you’ll probably find it easy.

If you write JavaScript like it’s Java and really lean into OO, then Elixir will be more alien and force you to learn some new patterns.

Here's Claude's response to your question:

I aim to discuss this topic factually while noting that views vary significantly among San Francisco residents. Some common political positions that would generally be considered far-left in the U.S. context include support for:

- Housing as a human right and strict rent control policies

- Universal basic income and significantly higher taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations

- Complete defunding or abolition of police departments

- Immediate and dramatic action on climate change, including bans on private vehicles

I’ve lived in SF, Mountain View and also the east bay and I’ve worked at a billion dollar company that did indeed support some very left-wing causes.

Despite having grown up in a light blue state, the difference in politics was very noticeable when I got to SF/SV. This isn’t a value judgement, just my observation.

> "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content." - like people being in Texas makes them more objective?!

The FB office in Austin, Texas is a moderately left-leaning area. Their office in Silicon Valley is about the most extreme left-wing place in the country. At the very least, teams at their Texas offices will have more overlap with the median voter than the ones in California. If their Texas offices were in rural rancher country, then I'd agree with your concern that it would just be swapping one bias for another.

Ads in and of themselves don't mean a browser isn't privacy-focused. In fact the most privacy focused one I can think of, Duckduckgo, is monetized by ads. All of Duckduckgo is. They're just not personalized.

That's because in NYC, you'll get run over if you're not assertive.

> We won't re-teach linear algebra to a developer applicant but we will pay a tech writer to go to school nights/weekends to get a degree in engineering (me, I did that).

Do you consider developer applicants who learned linear algebra on their own or through a product like Math Academy?

Google, MS and other large tech companies do.

I think they punish companies to a considerable degree. It's just that since legal costs on both sides are non-trivial, not much makes it to the harmed consumers.

Why are you trying so hard to market your 9 year-old's project on multiple aggregators and leaning on his age to do it?

As a parent, is fame really something you want for him?

At the hardware level, I think the answer is that 3 is closer to e than 2 is.

For a software emulation of ternary, I have no idea.

I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time!

Congrats to you and everyone else who made it happen!

That's the key thing I missed. It's nowhere near the deal it was but it's still clearly ahead of DO.

I was basing it off of the transfer per instance. Using DO, that transfer limit is pooled, so if you need a lot of bandwidth, the best option was to get a lot of $5/month droplets, which each came with 1TB/month.

Looking at their pricing just now, it looks like it's $6/month for that droplet, which changes things a bit. Now, as long as you're willing to get droplets purely for the bandwidth allotment, DO's bandwidth costs $6/TB. That's more than almost every Hetzner option listed by the OP, but not all of them.

It's now more expensive for bandwidth than Digital Ocean, completely destroying what was its value proposition previously.

Few things in this world can stop kids from finding a way to play their favorite video games.

It's a bit difficult to tell from your comment what you meant by "Not that it matters much in a car-centric country". Do you mean that Austria is "car-centric"? Or that it isn't?

I grew up in America, Colorado to be more specific, and rode a bicycle all over my neighborhood (where there wasn't that much traffic) as a 7-12 year-old. Later, I biked to work in Chia-yi, Taiwan, where there was a bit more car traffic and then still later I did so from Mountain View to Palo Alto, when there was still more. In all cases, I found it very useful to be familiar with traffic rules!

There's a pragprog book currently in beta on A/B testing: https://pragprog.com/titles/abtestprac/next-level-a-b-testin...

> "This part is a real shame because the US doesn't have vehicles like the Toyota Hilux"

Yes! That was the first and only truck (or any car) I've ever owned! It was just called the "Toyota Pickup" in the US but it's the same model that was named "Hilux" in many other countries.

I used it to drive ladder racks and paint around Denver while I was in the house painting business to pay my way through college. It had almost 200k miles on it when I gave it to my dad after I graduated and decided to move abroad. To the best of my knowledge, he's still driving it and when I last asked him about it several years ago, it had well over half a million miles on it.

At least for autos made in the 90s, Toyota's quality was unmatched. My dad is a former plane mechanic and has undoubtedly extended its life, but I had no idea what I was doing and that pickup seemed virtually impervious to normal wear and tear. It's a shame it was discontinued in the US.

Yes. WeChat bootstrapped off of QQ accounts, which were basically like Yahoo or MSN messenger + pages for desktop users.

> "I highly doubt any new reactor (that's not already in the planning phase) will come online in the US within the next 10 years."

That's a reasonable prediction. The US has essentially regulated new nuclear power plants out of existence over the past generation. That doesn't mean that there's anything about the technology that means it takes a decade to build, though. It's just a policy failure.

Is that including people who immigrated or only those who grew up there? Your link [0] mentions "residents" throughout, which implies that it's counting Chinese people who moved to Singapore as adults. I've known a decent number of Singaporeans, including many ethnically Chinese Singaporeans I met while working in Beijing, and I've never met a single person who grew up there and can't read English.

If adult immigrants are included, then I strongly agree with the later part of your comment! There's no reason the US shouldn't similarly be included in the list as it has tens of millions of Spanish-speaking residents who immigrated as adults. Canada, Australia and New Zealand should probably be included too, if Singapore is.

It's somewhat ridiculous that Singapore is included in the English proficiency index given that is English is one of its four official languages. Not only that, but it's also the privileged official language that all children must use in school. The other official languages are widespread but not universal.

Early in their careers, even exceptional people face obstacles from gate-keepers. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there have been Germans of similar temperament, credentials and talent as Carmack or Luckey but who struggled much longer to stand out to a sufficient degree that they could get great job opportunities or funding in a that much more credentialist environment.

I like to imagine that such people would have found a way to emigrate and make their impact abroad. Either way, the cost to Germany itself (and Europe generally) has been immense.

You're saying this to someone who twice took a 24-hour train from Beijing to Hong Kong to buy an Apple computer for 27% less due to HK not having an additional electronics tax.

A lot of my friends in Taiwan used to buy macs in HK for the same reason.

I am outside of North America and have been for about 3/4 of my adult life.

The issue with adding VAT to prices on a forum with people living in a lot of different places is that VAT rates vary greatly from place to place.

To get an idea what an Apple product costs, it's more helpful to look at the price charged prior to taxes, tax deductions, educational discounts and other factors that will depend entirely on the specific cases of each reader.

I see solar power + batteries + electric vehicles as a big win for the environment, which explains how we arrived at different conclusions.

Yes. China has also opened more coal power plants than the rest of the world combined over the past couple of years.

It should be clear from these three examples that some regulatory environments are more conducive to rapidly building infrastructure than others.

> Nuclear plants take at least 10 years to be build.

False.

Some are built in under 5 years and many are currently being built on those timelines: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-app...