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Why should they? Corporations are licensed sociopaths. That's by design, it's not a bug, we get a lot of value out of the regulated sociopathy.

If you're against regulation yet expect companies to work towards the higher social good regardless of profit motive, prepare to be disappointed on both counts.

Respectfully, if you're going to play the "I'm a back-end systems guy but I can learn this front-end JS stuff" card, you can't choke on some SQL queries.

We're all here stroking our gray beards about how kids these days don't even understand the tools they're using, and then you turn around and say "i dunno, the ORM handled it for me"?

SQL hasn't appreciably changed in 40 years. I'll take your word that you really know your C/Unix stuff, and I get that gamedev is it's own niche, but I'd expect most senior devs to have developed a rock-solid grasp of SQL just by osmosis over their years.

Norway's doing something very similar to Venezuela as far as nationalized oil going to the public purse, and it's working out great for them.

When social-democratic countries screw up due to authoritarianism and corruption, it's 'because socialism'. When capitalist countries screw up the same way, and there have been a lot of them, it's because of the corruption.

Yeah, but they're new, and there's still a culture of food preservation that we lost here at some point.

US fish buying: Buy a pleasant-looking filet off a bed of ice, get it into refrigeration asap

China fish buying: Bring a plastic bag, put live fish in bag of water, transfer to a short-term tank at home. It's actually superior, you can't get any fresher than "I killed this fish 5 seconds ago".

And then there's all the salted food around spring festival. Plain cabbage has never been so appealing.

I'm not sure what that even means, knights have moved the same way for thousands of years and we're just discovering how internet society works in real time.

Having the hyper-free-speech internet that we created turned against us in ways that more authoritarian countries are immune to is a huge slap in the face. We need to figure out a way to handle this.

Why not both?

If she were a dude with an unfitted black tee, it seems a lot less likely that she'd be accused of being 'fake'.

So, is that confirmation on 'unwilling'?

It's outrageous to the extent we're completely unprepared and maybe unwilling to deal with it.

Radio Free Europe was at least just using the airwaves. These efforts are using US corporations against the US.

If you want to get conspiratorial about it, SpaceX is a huge threat to both the Russian space launch industry and to Boeing/Lockheed.

More seriously, in the 2017 conservative pathology, the Russian government are 'good guys' and American businessmen who quit Trump's economic council are 'bad guys'.

We're coming up on a full decade of people saying hyperinflation is "just around the corner".

How many years can it be around the corner?

Sure it is. Both in larger program design and in affording several different ways to accomplish the subscripting into the giant nd-array Vec<f64>. Maybe Rust should also provide language support for the ndarray type, but lack of such isn't a barrier to being as-good/better than existing langauges.

If you're doing linear algebra on big matrices, putting them on the stack is most likely madness. It sounds like the author is interested in Rust for the 'expressive' type system enforcing logical invariants about his matrices, which isn't why Rust built their expressive type system.

If the author wanted to write his own, he could very easily write an nd-array-alike wrapping a really long double[] in Rust, right?

From the author: You can work around it by using a Vec (arbitrary sized sequence/list) but then your matrix is allocated on the heap not the stack, meaning slower operations. Plus that means you cannot use Rust wonderful type system to check that you multiply matrices with compatible dimensions, say a 2×2 matrix with a 2×1 matrix, without jumping through hoops.

So he thought of that, then decided not to go that way, even though that's how it's done in C/Fortran underneath every single linear algebra library in the world, and his conclusion is that rust sucks?

I'm finding it a little hard to believe that there are real-world linear algebra problems where allocation is the bottleneck and doing it all on the stack is the answer.

Floating points compress poorly, though.

I get where you're coming from but you don't seem to get that other people have different priorities.

The set of people living in the burbs with families are generally living for their kids first and themselves a distant second. Consuming more interesting culture is great and all but it's still just consumption. Even if you're producing art or music, that's something for people with a lot of time for it unless they're doing it professionally. (and lots of great music has been created by bored suburban kids, FWIW).

Chain restaurants?? We cook at home. Occasionally hit up our local pub in our cultural wasteland suburb.

People with kids and responsibilities have different concerns from those who don't. Whether what I ate or what entertainment I consume are fashionable enough doesn't even hit the radar -- I'm happy if I can eat anything in peace or get any downtime whatsoever for entertainment. You'll be there one day.

Cultural wasteland?

Wait till you have kids. Turns out it doesn't matter whether you can see a post-alt-rock band in a small venue, it's past bedtime anyways, and spongebob on youtube works everywhere.

But in Putin's Russia, the operating principle is "l'etat c'est moi".

It's not some idealized state vs an idealized private sector -- it was very personal and personalized all the way through.

Are you aware of how we got there the first time?

It's not just the stigma that labor's gotten, it's the language that's infiltrated our thoughts.

Giving a generous maternity leave is "leaving value on the table". Evading taxes via the double-irish or contractor/employee loopholes is "creating shareholder value".

It's like Gordon Gekko and George Orwell collaborated.

At the end of the day, a salesperson not making quota is going to be fired. The best salesperson in the world could maybe buy themselves an extra year, at best. But eventually, if they're so great, where are the numbers? And their next job search isn't gonna look so great. They can't solve a problem on a whiteboard to make up for the fact that their prior business was a bad fit for the market, or whatever.

A salesperson who is making quota and running way over it into big bonuses is by definition earning their money.

Sometimes people are in the right place at the right time, of course, but in general it's hard to say a sales person is overpaid unless they're completely useless and failing to earn their base pay.

The idea is lots and lots of low orbit satellites with cell-phone-like handoffs as they zip across the horizon. LEO is only 200 miles high or so, which is ~1ms for light to travel if they can make it work.

Existing satellite internet goes out to geosynchronous orbit which is much, much farther away.

That's different, the SC isn't an executive body.

An executive changing policy and then throwing up their hands, "I have no choice, it's the policy!" is dishonest and doesn't fool anybody.

It's better than if they had reverse engineered the policy. Do it or don't do it, but either way, stand by your actions and get outta here with the mealy mouthed BS. IMHO.

In addition to the clarification of intentions, military spending is in fact 54% of federal discretionary spending.

Entitlement programs like SS and Medicare/Medicaid are raised on a separate tax (you can see it on your paystub), and have zero discretion in how they're spent. It's determined by statute and is automatic, not part of the budget process, and the money never really mixes with the rest of the federal budget.

If you take those out, and take out interest payments which we also don't have much choice in, military spending is 54% of the money that's actually at issue when Congress makes budget decisions.

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Statistically, a lot of items from the test could be very highly correlated with demographics.

And it doesn't have to be intentional. Goldman MD with yacht and golf club membership signs off on test that selects for people like him. "Hey, I like me, and I succeeded here, right?"

I did some nodejs work the other month, pinch-hitting in a product crunch, we're using grunt.

`grunt test`.. ooh, so pretty and creative! `grunt test > test.out`, wtf, why is my file full of control character bullshit?

Well, there's an argument to be made that captains of industry shouldn't own newspapers, full stop. That argument can be made without evidence, and there's some credence to it.

So, if the WaPo doesn't criticize Bezos, it's because they're owned by him, but if they do, it's because of a 'reverse submarine'?

Quite the box they're in there.

Let me throw occam's razor out there -- unless Bezos and/or Amazon PR people leaned on the WaPo to write this story, then it's exactly what it looks like, a random writer with a critical thought piece about Amazon.

The takeaway is that the math used in econ obscures the truth while lending a fake gravitas to pure opinion.

At least sociology is honest that they're going pure opinion.

He calls that bubble every single year. He was bound to be right eventually.