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The rust compiler will help you avoid a lot of common runtime errors. It comes at a cost of extra development time. The Rust philosophy values code correctness over developer efficiency.

I'd rather pay a few dollars a month for the services I need than be targeted by ads that manipulate my emotions to purchase expensive things I don't want. I'm really happy the market has options for people like me.

The Department of Defense's budget is about Six Hundred and Fifty Billion Dollars. It appears too high for peace time. We have friendly relations with both neighboring states. We have huge natural defenses (oceans) to the east and west. We have the nuclear deterrent. We have a well armed population.

We don't need 355 deployable navy vessels. Improving education and health care of our citizens would do more to improve America's economic position than jostling for terrority in the Indian Ocean. Climate change is a bigger treat than terrorism.

There is no stabilization of the Japanese ethnic population in sight. With these trends I wonder how the island will change culturally in 100 or 200 years. I suspect we'll see them continue to open more and more to the west.

> some if not all these features are in vi as well

I'm not sure exactly which vim features are also in vi. Vim has been a daily use tool for me since about 2007.

Vim has really good Macro recording. Vim + Tmux is great for side by side code frames, and there are plugins for showing multiple buffers in one Vim instance. Remote file editing is good with SSH + Vim. Vim has multiple registries for yanking/putting. Vim has column editing functionality.

Almost anything Emacs does out of the box Vim can do with either a plugin or with an external program pairing. I prefer Vim's keybindings because there are less "chords" (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are copy and paste chords, they requiring pressing two buttons at the same time). Too many chords causing my pinky fingers to become tired. Vimscript is a surprisingly powerful language for dealing with text data, but it's cryptic the first decade you are exposed to it.

EDIT: I'm more interesting in the code people write than the way people write it, but I wanted to share some of my vim knowledge and point of view.

I'd pay a approximately $10 monthly fee for this if it was minimally biased and had wide coverage of all news stories. I'm unsure if enough people would to become profitable, but some market exists.

For some long running stories that I only tune into occasionally, such as the Muller Investigation, I do not have enough context to fully understand the newest headlines. The only place where full comprehensive coverage will be in one place is in a book, and while I often buy books of that genera it will not be released until after the topic is concluded. This seems to be a one-stop-shop for everything about a news topic.

I think you'll have more success if you find a niche to start with. Maybe US National Politics & Economics, which covers your two examples. Finding your zone and sticking to it can separate you from the mainstream news which follows hype much better than a startup organization can.

I think this type of project is a great candidate for Crowd Funding. Crowd Funding can give positive reinforcement for a product/market fit and to help attract journalism talent.

Most people do not think like that logically.

In addition, I believe the effective penalty for vehicular manslaughter is probably ten thousand times worse because of the psychological cost of being responsible for someone's death.

I'm unsure. Mindless anxious mind wandering (worry) often causes people to imagine worse situations and exaggerate their probably.

A vehicular manslaughter charge often leads to jail time. That's more likely to cause someone to lose their job.

I don't understand why people see the possibility of a drivers license suspension as being worse than the increased risk of vehicular manslaughter.

One is a few months of decreased mobility. The other is an entire life.

A lot of software, like Libre Office, neither track users, nor sells advertising space, nor charges users.

For important infrastructure pieces, like how businesses communicate with each other, we should strive for this level of privacy and availability.

"We don't collect or share personal information. That's our privacy policy in a nutshell." https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

I can't prove that DDG doesn't track users, but their entire brand is based on very hardline privacy policy. If they are secretly tracking, and they are caught, their brand value will be reduced to near zero.

DDG Search is a free competitor to Google Search that doesn't track. It's not that Google either tracks their users or charges their users. In addition, there is a whole range of tracking activities and we should have open and informed discussions about if some of them should become illegal, or if companies require simpler disclosures about their privacy policy.

I have low confidence in this answer, so I hope someone on the internet corrects me if I'm wrong.

Oil is refined into many different byproducts. Some of the byproducts are used in manufacturing, and other byproducts are used in energy generation.

The problem is that there is no feedback for when we fail to hire top talent.

How would I know that during a round of interviews I failed to give an offer to Top Talent? What can I do if someone I think is Top Talent gets another offer we cannot match?

Sure, I can try my best to work against those very costly situations, but I never know how good someone is going to be until they are hired, so I don't have enough data to determine if I'm failing to hire the best.

I can, and we do, determine which candidates we hired that we really like and talk to them about why they choose the company and try to appeal to and find more candidates like them.

We do exit interviews, which is reviewed in the post mortem. Failure is defined as a hire that lasts less than one year.

I'm a software engineer that's been involved in hiring decisions in the past.

When we make a bad hire we do a post-mortem just like we would for a critical production bug. We adjust the interview process or evaluation criteria every time a bad hire is made.

We also give the same interview for every role. We spend 80% of the time asking the same questions, and leave 20% of the time for the free flow conversation and interviewee questions.

> Everyone worships something.

I don’t think someone following the tenets of Buddhism would worship anything. Correct if me I’m wrong.

You'd want to flag the 95 or 99 percentile instead of the top 50 percent.

Sometimes? If I see a person in their 20s or 30s that have other status items (expensive clothes/accessories) but a $50 smartphone I assume something isn't quite right.

> Did data ownership ever work like that in the physical world?

Insider trading is a crime in which someone takes an action based on data they had no right to. (Trading on corporate secrets, or data that belongs to the corporation and not the individual profiting.)

If a student finds a copy of the answers to a test, even if the student finds the data in a completely legitimate way, it is considered academically dishonest for the student to take the test after learning this information.

In many games learning certain information is considered cheating. For example, in Poker it is cheating to know another players cards expect after a player folds and chooses to show their cards.

Until very recently it was illegal to make a copy of "Happy Birthday" in the form of a live performance at restaurants in the United States.

Yes, in the real world data has owners and it can be illegal/restricted to provide copies of the data or to perform certain actions with the data.

I'm not even upset that Facebook is lobbying for their own self interest. I just wish such a blatant attempt would have a lower chance of success.

This is black and white thinking. No one is entirely bad, no one is entirely good. Very bad people are capable of making very good things. Very good people are capable of making very bad things.

I did say my history lesson was oversimplified. The question of _how_ Americans avoided paying taxes is always interesting, not just during this time period.

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." -- The 3rd Amendment

The early revolutionary war history overly simplified is something like this. Britain increases taxes on America. America stops paying taxes. Britain increases military presence to force America to pay taxes. America fought against the British military.

During the increased British military presence in America the British goverment did terrible things, including living in civilians homes and eating their food. This is what the parent comment meant when he said "The American revolution was started because citizens did not want the government in their homes." Ultimately, the British goverment was in American homes to help the tax collection effort, so your idea of early Americans caring a lot about taxation is also true.

I don't want TV or movies often (About 150 hrs a year total consumption), but when I do I actively suppress the skeptic inside in order to enjoy the narrative and special effects.

I wonder to what degree the decrease in smoking rates is caused by education and health awareness and to what degree the decrease in smoking rates is caused by making it inconvenient and socially discouraged to be a smoker.

> Conscious choices were made by university administrators, trustees, and boards to hollow-out and undercut the professorial class, even as they have massively expanded their own bureaucratic and administrative class, gone on building sprees, and spent lavishly on student amenities.

This was the worst part about paying for college. So much of what I was buying had little direct impact on my education.

I think you misunderstand Brasess' Paradox. It is when adding to a system decreases the efficiency of the system by adjusting the Nash equilibrium to be further from the optimal system wide solution. "Reducing congestion increases congestion" is a not a logical statement.

My comment left the possibility of Brasess' Paradox open in the specific Detroit case, but practically speaking commuter trains are used by most major cities worldwide as part of a comprehensive transportation system. For many cities rail is among the most efficient subsystems of their transportation system.