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Is this some kind of gotcha? What's bad about telling employees not to use these words when they give an impression of being anti competitive?

Not a lawyer but holding should always be fine. No trading is happening therefore it's not insider trading.

Absolutely, or similarly in response to a detailed blog post or product release: "Actually this could never work because [reason I just thought of]"

What are you referring to exactly

Japan has better WLB than the US? Are you sure? This sounds very anecdotal.

> Americans are increasingly worked to the bone. There seems to be no end to stories about people working 3 job, never having vacation, sometimes not even weekends.

My counter: I don't know a single person working like this

Can anyone from SF vouch for this? I went there recently and it seemed fine, not sure if I just got lucky.

> Well, that is simply not true.

I think it's true, for example catch [1] requires IO. Do you mean with unsafePerformIO, or something else?

1: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.16.0.0/docs/Contr...

Not OP but yeah, it tends to take a day or two after the API break for the devs to put out a new release.

Of course this is understandable though! YouTube is the one breaking the API and the devs react really quickly which is great.

On newpipe you can disable a lot of YouTube features, it might get you part of the way. For example you can disable related/suggested videos and the 'popular' tab, then you can only see things through search or links.

Understandable, I see that the comments here haven't been great so it's probably a good call.

Hi Dang, this article has been used as a strawman in many places ("eat the bugs, live in the pod") but I think the article itself has some good insight, e. g. it's true that there has been a shift from owning to renting/borrowing many things (Uber, Airbnb, Zipcar etc). It's good for us to consider the ways that that's good and bad.

> if you're using legitimate funds to infringe upon the human rights of others, the government has every right to stop you from doing that.

They have a right in what sense? I've never heard of a government doing that. The fact that they had to use an emergency order to do so suggests that they do not have the right.

In what sense are the truckers 'using money' to infringe on rights? The money doesn't seem critical to the movement to me. You can just as easily say they are 'using food' and mandate that they should be starved.

As TFA says, you arrest them and give them due process, and hold the state accountable for any mistakes in the process.

Are you suggesting an 'eye for an eye' penal code? e. g. you would suggest punishing an arsonist by burning their house down?

(Of course not but I guess anything is ok when you disagree with the protest to begin with)

Yeah, you could just as well say "the world owes Warren Buffett 100B in goods and services". Yes, Delta owes it in a sense but it's really just a statement of how many outstanding points there are.

Agreed in general but for bots it anecdotally seems to be the case. For example Massan was blatantly viewbotting for a long time but he wasn't banned for several months at least (I don't remember the time).

Twitch famously does not ban people for botting unless they have evidence that the streamer themselves ordered the bots.

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-handle-view-follow-b...

I think to rephrase the parent comment, the issue is that you're making an argument from hipocrisy. You're saying that free-market people should be ok with this but (it sounds like) you also don't subscribe to the free-market view, which means that what you said isn't enough to justify it according to your values.

Maybe it would be different if you said "as a supporter of the free market, I believe that Spotify was correct and in their rights to do this".

What's bad for the community? If people are building things with AWS I prefer that they're productive with it. If this helps developer productivity then that seems like a win.

You said that it will act as a funnel for AWS services, you mean that it will encourage people to use AWS? If people feels that it gives them value then I don't see the issue. Although I don't think this would be a major factor in choosing a cloud provider (anyway I can ask any questions on SO).

It's interesting that you seem to think this is a bad thing. If you can't buy a house when no one wants one, when do you consider it permissible to buy one?

Ah, that all makes sense. Thanks for the answer, and great article!

I understand that, but at some point someone will call toRGB. It seems like for any function that calls toRGB, we have a choice of using the existential type for this e.g.

    someFunc :: SomeColor -> ...
    someFunc (SomeColor color) = ... (toRGB color) ...

vs having these functions accept an RGB instead of a SomeColor e.g.

    someFunc :: RGB -> ...
    someFunc color = ... color ...

Then of course the caller would have to do the conversion

    someFunc (CMYToRGB color)

The article gives the following motivating example

    data AliceBlue = AliceBlue

    instance IsColor AliceBlue where
      toRGB = const $ RGB 0xF0 0xF8 0xFF

My question is: can't we do away with the IsColor class and write:

    aliceBlue = RGB 0xF0 0xF8 0xFF

I suppose we could imagine writing things that aren't RGB values, like CMY? Then my question is: how can we decide between writing a conversion layer (e.g. no type class, and past some boundary we deal with RGB values only, and the caller is expected to convert it) vs using the typeclass everywhere. I would tend to opt for the former but I'm curious to hear about the tradeoffs.

Many things are not zero-sum, for example if I help you and you help me we will both be better off than before. Sites like stackoverflow make programmers more productive in aggregate; we would be worse off without them.

If you can't understand why someone would decide to offer their help for free then at least try to be thankful.

I thought the same about the ordering but on the other hand this order matches what you would write in the imperative case i. e.

    for xs in xss:
        for x in xs:
            ...

> MS Paint IDE is a program that can read a normal image file saved with MS Paint

I'm curious is it reading the image or using something about the way MS paint stores its data?

There's a duplicate of this comment below, also by a new account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27489313

Is this account real?

I'm begging you to stop commenting this on every single success story

Wow, thanks for the answer Austen! Very cool to see that you're around to answer questions.

I find it surprising that they sell their ISAs (it seems to be true based on a quick look at this https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135134/lambda-school-st...). Doesn't this look bad to prospective students? It implies that they don't think that they'll pay off. Is there a good faith explanation for this?

There's also https://www.metaculus.com/ (which does not require an application)