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> Function block diagrams do not support recursion.

As someone not familiar with this, why not? Can't you just draw a line from output to input?

Unrelated, but you should really pronounce this "funky-town"; you're never gonna get a name that fun in this field again.

Do you have an example? This seems like dogwhistling without a concrete understanding of what you think their "latest message" is. Unless that latest message is, literally, the phrase "Black Lives Matter", which can easily stand on its own, it's difficult to see what issues you have with them.

Have you adjusted the crime rates for racial profiling?

The race of the murderer has nothing to do with the shockingly low conviction rate for police offers that commit murder.

For a variety of reasons, the black community feels this pain disproportionately.

I wouldn't write off BLM as having such a simple message; you clearly did not grasp it. "Black lives matter" means just that; not "pigs are racist".

Presumably they will have software allowing you to search their private archive. Why would Google want to be this software?

Perhaps. However, calichoochoo implied this at least true of one more office, as it "continues to make the wrong large decisions by putting their offices in the middle of nowhere, miles from any real place, surrounded by acres of parking". This seems to only apply to mountain view.

FWIW I agree; I can't think of a place I'd like to work less than the bay area. There's no good option for living there, let alone commuting.

For such apparently intelligent people, such dimwitted use of a centrally managed communications.

Not to mention bad taste, it seems.

This seems to be a mountain view exception.

What is the error in 1+'1'? It seems like it would just be '11'.

Unless, of course, you're implying it converts javascript into a strongly typed language, which would be amazing.

Disabling exceptions has solved this. There are no need for exceptions in the kernel, and the cost is high.

Such over-engineering does not smack of interesting material for a site called "hacker news". This is great material in itself, especially considering the context of education here.

Right, I'm not disputing that there are obvious biological differences. Why do you think that the statistical difference between men and women at intellectual performance (for which I haven't seen numbers, but I'm not disputing) is due entirely to biological differences? It seems foolish to reject environmental influences off-hand.

What do you mean by "obviously biological"?

According to your link, since 2011 1 in 20 people has stopped reading altogether. That seems fairly dramatic to me.

Hah—ironically, it's expensive enough it should be advising you to go with a cheaper option.

Right. I wouldn't use that; while I can totally understand why you linked the shops you did, they also aren't qualitatively much different than the shops I do appreciate. So I'd rather not automate away my taste until, you know, it's my taste.

> With all the AI being thrown around, can't someone build a "tastefulness" filter?

It turns out taste varies.

Perhaps because they would like to call into code written in Go.

IIRC one "infrastructure-scale" battery idea is compressing hydrogen into salt domes. While I can't speak to the intersection of the article and this idea, people can clearly store hydrogen in massive amounts.

Well, the hope would be that it would allow read-write-read sql transactions, which to my understanding will never be implemented in Spanner.

Any chance that Google Cloud will ever expose access to F1?

Could you specifically address his concerns for those not in-the-know about ML?

...because adoption is such a riotous success these days?

Yea, but they can't actually end Uber. That would make it obvious to the consumer Apple can't give them what they want.

> I don't see how, under capitalism, its even possible for an abusive company to maintain a strong position.

Network effects. Together everyone hates it; individually, there is nowhere else for people to go without losing the majority of your social network. Facebook has people; its software is utterly irrelevant to why people use it.

Because there are open source alternatives. Nobody uses them. Nobody used google plus, and that was a realistic replacement.

I'd argue Facebook's purchase and integration of other products is what made them inferior.... How exactly does facebook owning instagram and facebook help the consumer? They didn't need to buy it to integrate it into feeds, and that's not how most people consumed instagram anyway.

Hell, the main benefit I see to instagram is that their geotagging improved immensely.

In this case, it's hard to see the problem with facebook being broken up. Who, exactly, loses?

A very good point.