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I imagine that the whistleblowers get paid from the proceeds of fines levied due to the whistleblowing.

Further I think these are things that are generally harder to decentralize. I'm not sure how much marginal value there is doing so.

Paradoxically, sometimes the only way you can get enough information to make the "right" choice is to make a choice in the first place. If it isn't a one-time choice, the downside is generally minimal.

Your assertion is essentially that an example of reading and writing from/to a file descriptor shows all needed for all aspects of a networked application. I think that is absurd. And unless you have a multithreaded multiuser shell there is not even a really way to empirically test your program without going through absurd hoops. And in fact if you run an old enough version of Haskell, or non-ghc it might not be multithreaded/evented.

Your indinctment that the reason people aren't using your language of choice as lazy is ironically lazy. There are plenty of practical reasons for using different languages and tools.

Your still missing the point. It's not that it was possible to do so. It's that you could quickly write web services idomatically that did so by default. Your example shows a simple hello world and doesn't speak to the point being made. I am sure you can get a more relevant example going in Scotty, but it appears that it didn't show up until 2012.

Some trains are very automated. And there is autopilot/autolanding for jets, BUT the pilot has to engage them, and they can't be used in all circumstances. That is to say that they are about as automated as the Tesla Autopilot. Once you get on the highway, the car can keep course and maintain the appropriate speed.

This is a long way off from the world of "Enter the destination from my garage, take a nap, and wake up an hour later at my destination," of "Full Autonomy." There is a distinct inflection point of utility where Autonomous vehicles require you to be paying attention to take over in emergency, and the point at which that is no longer required.

Yes, you could potentially "solve the problem." Unless there is a test or a treatment that is easy and effictive enough to use empirically it is much harder to diagnose that person. Physicians have to balance quality of life improvement for patients along with treatment. There may be a trade-off between efficacy rate of treatments and the likelihood of adequate compliance. People may not change their diets or take their meds appropriately to improve their health for example.

If you can't rely on the patient you might never find the solution. You may just be better off at improving their quality of life even if it doesn't ultimately solve their underlying condition.

> I'm sure the Gang would concur.

I'm pretty sure this is the case. I think that the ideas are great in producing a vocabulary for classes of structures within software architecture the way people creating a car can talk about gears, rotors, pistons, gaskets.

Whether or not you have the right rotor/gears/gasket/piston is up to the specific case. And sure some of those things may become like carburetors, and may become largely obsolete. But there is definitely a value in having a consistent vocabulary for things like "That box that controls the air-fuel-ratio mixture before it goes into the cylinder."

Maven/Ivy/SBT/Gradle/etc. Are a lot older than NPM. They solved a problem that wasn't well solved before. They're certainly not perfect, but I'm not sure NPM would be where it is today if we as developers hadn't learned from what came before it.

Sure they could be better, but there is a very large community relying on them, and the community is largely pre-complied code with different requirements from node.

There are a couple of reasons to actively prevent autofill passwords. The only one I have seen for login autofill prevention is when the password is actually a generated token (ala yubikey,etc) and a password manager won't do the right thing by default.

There are regulatory bodies that require regular challenge of user identity for approving items as sort of a signature mechanism. This is another time where active thwarting the password manager makes sense. Whether or not the regulation makes sense is an entirely different issue.

Cyptyn plynyt here.

I'm not sure there is a great way to really measure this type of data. Granted I don't think Alexa is a good point to argue if something is top 3 or top 5. It at leasts provides some sort of indication of overall measurement error. We can probably say it is at least in the top 10 which is probably meaningful enough for the discussion at hand.

Nurses, quite frequently yes. Physician reimbursement can be incredibly complicated depending on type of work.

I don't think that was the implication. The original post just said that the democrats and independents split the vote (spoiler effect). There was no implication as to which was the spoiler.

Cheddar, hah I think you mean 'merican cheese

It lasts as about the same. You can get the UHT most places i've been to, but it is not particular popular. The problem is more about purchasable quantity. 1/2 gallon (~2 liters) is the smallest "normal" size for Milk, you can definitely buy pints, and liters as well. The cost-per-unit definitely goes up below 1/2 gallon.

I think the methodology here is off. It may not be that People in Florida and Alabama are looking for abortion prices. It could be people in Georgia price shopping neighboring states, then looking for taxis to get across the border.

If nobody knows about them were they really runaway hits?

I am saying that these aren't the best numbers we have. They just aren't sufficient to make absolute conclusions from. If all accidents happen while turning and autopilot never turns then autopilot would never make driving safer.

You'd really have to look at the number of accidents per mile where people were driving in a single lane on the highway, not the overall number of traffic accidents.

The actual problem is that autopilot doesn't remove the driver from the situation enough. It gives people the illusion that they can hand off driving to the computer, but in reality they still need to be doing 90% of what they would be doing anyway. They have to stay engaged in the act of driving. Giving people the illusion that they don't have to stay engaged is where I think the problem is. Until the car is driving itself entirely, I'm not sure there's much to be gained.

Yeah. Modifying adjectives to match the case / gender always got me.

Compound words are common too in English. They're really just treated as new words, there isn't a real reason to syntactically split them. German does have some more comical examples though. My favorite was an archaic german book we had in highschool that for "typing" used the word, "schreibmachineschreiben" which is literally "write-machine-writing." It looks like the modern word is "Tippen."

All nouns in German are capitalized, not just proper nouns as in English.

For example:

"Das Mädchen trägt ein blau Hemd" becomes "The girl is wearing a blue shirt."

Mädchen -> girl, Hemd -> shirt both get downcased.

(Note: my translation might be a little off. I haven't used german in a good 15 years)

The comments in the article link to this: https://github.com/HQarroum/awesome-iot

This was my understanding too. All parts of the world pay a "Licensing Fee" to the Irish company worth almost all of the profit on the good/service, and now all income is made in Ireland.

> I think the sentiment the author is sharing is that a lot of women feel social pressures to appear outwardly successful, popular, etc, and this creates a very difficult situation where its perceived that asking a question that might make you sound stupid causes you to lose social status.

This is something i see my wife have constantly forced upon her by her mother. My wife wasn't allowed to do her own hair until senior year of High School, because she "Didn't do it right." My mother-in-law(MIL) would re-do homework that wasn't perfect. Essays that expressed opinions not 100% in-line with her opinion were re-written.

My wife is smart in her own right. She's smarter than me. She has her MS in Statistics. She's really good at what she does, but she has a hard time with confidence and asserting herself. She's been told she's not doing it right her whole life. I think some of the stress and lack of enjoyment at work stems from this. She should probably push back more often than she does. To be fair she has also had a few interactions customers who were outright sexist and make me want to punch somebody in the face.

Now, we let my daughter dress herself most days (She understands there times my wife picks her clothes and doesn't fight it). She may be wearing a purple, shirt, striped pants, and a polka dot skirt (honestly most of the time things don't clash THAT much). My MIL is horrified. "All of the other kids will laugh at her." No they won't, they're in preschool. All of the girls love whatever she is wearing. The boys don't even notice. We were talking her preschool teacher the other day and she told us "She'll be princesses with the girls one minute, and rough-housing playing ninja turtles with the boys the next." I couldn't be more proud.

Now that's not to rant against my MIL. My mother and father are crazy too in their own ways. As is everybody my family and that makes everything fun.

It sounds like the requirement is citizenship. Citizenship isn't exactly happenstance of birth location.

Very small rocks

It has to go analog at some point.