Is it ridiculous to expect an economy, such as the US, to produce things of value?
The author of the post you are responding to has a valid point. Consumption alone isn't sustainable.
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The author of the post you are responding to has a valid point. Consumption alone isn't sustainable.
Point being, some businesses _are_ more equal than others because they have the money to lobby lawmakers. In an actual free market, the banks should fail.
However, it seems to me that the situation with SVB is a Democratic Socialist move. Again, my opinion, but it seems rather progressive. In history, Democratic Socialist programs have produced, arguably, valuable programs for the US. Unfortunately, mentioning "Socialist" is usually the point in which many will stop listening.
[wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_socialism#:~:text=D....)
[study on financial literacy from 2022](https://gflec.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/TIAA-Institute-...)
I see some correlation between SV remote working and COVID, but don't understand how mortgage backed securities play into this. Are you suggesting higher inflation on the way, lower property values, higher rates, and that it was intentional?
Deposits <$250k are FDIC insured. One could say those accounts didn't evaluate the institution that held their funds and didn't really need to. But were they aware of FDIC limits? IMHO, they should have been and likely were.
Depositors >$250k are well aware of FDIC and the risk associated with money in their bank. They really should think about the banks they work with and understand their risk profiles.
Subjective, but I understood how FDIC worked when I opened my first bank account that was no where close to 250k. If it was greater, I would optimize my holdings across different institutions and instruments.
Good question and of course, that's not likely. But then 50B in reserves isn't something you keep in a bank account, it's something you have rolled into several different financial instruments with varying levels of available liquidity.
E.g: Fiat over $500k in a single institution is likely not earning as much as it could and runs the risk of loss of access to funds for X amount of time if the bank fails, until reimbursement happens. But $100k each in 2 different banks leaves you with $300k to invest however you see fit and still have enough liquidity to move quickly on opportunities.
I'm not a lawyer, but my interpretation is that it may apply to credit bureaus and data brokers. As well, for better or worse, pretty directly affect FinTech.
But I digress, the implications of this bill could result in more unknown unknowns than I realize.
I can relate. Essentially, it's a journal. I find journalling to be very healthy for my mind and have journaled online and offline for most of my adult life. Though, I must admit, I don't do it everyday. Personally, I find doing something artistic daily to be the most fulfilling. Whether drawing, writing, playing music, or whatever, it allows me to reap the benefits of exercising those creative muscles.
The part about writing a few pages when you wake up is a good idea, IMO. Not that it needs to be a daily structured routine, but what you experience sleeping is a unique experience that is worth writing down, occasionally. I've reflected on earlier journals I wrote when I woke up and have been surprised to read something I almost didn't recognize as my own.
Interesting concept, I wonder if it works.
People will often watch something they dislike with more intensity than something they like. The number of dislikes isn't the reason they want to watch it, it's the idea the title or cover image brings to mind. And those ideas and images are curated by Google.
Take the number of dislikes out of visibility and you strip the noise away from the signal that makes them money; views.
And who knows, the user might end up watching something that they wouldn't normally due to dislikes and, surprise, they like it. More exposure, less echo chamber-like. Less potential influence over a viewer's opinion of the content.
This has probably been done, right?
Austin may have been the right guy to start the company, but IMHO, he should've handed it off to someone with a background in education a long time ago.
You are correct that schools like this (secondary/trade, not ISA, necessarily) do well during economic downturns, historically.
The trade off, in my mind, is that I didn't become a SWE in lambda. Engineering is far more broad than learning how to build a CRUD app. Since Lambda, my self appointed curriculum has been engineering fundamentals, design patters/language/etc. Knowing how to write a BST is a lot different than understanding the core concepts behind everyday algos.
I'm a Lambda grad (Full stack web, not DS) and at the end of the program, I was knowledgeable about a lot more than I understood; and that also includes being knowledgeable about a lot of my shortcomings that I was painfully unaware of before Lambda.
A year after Lambda working as a SWE and I am now finally starting to feel a sense of domain... I hesitate to call it expertise, so lets say domain 'comfort' when it comes to building and maintaining react or react-like FE applications and node BE apis. I've had a mentor at my company since I started and mentorship is necessary for anyone coming out of a bootcamp with no prior industry experience, IMO.
The expectations set within the bootcamp are reasonable, IMO. Instructors never made it seem like we were going to fully internalize everything we were being bombarded with. Practicing what you learn is crucial to turning any of the things taught into a skillset, and that is made very clear.
I imagine the outcomes are pretty good for those who get through the program, as well. They were great for me and most of my cohort peers that I keep in contact with. The ISA model, IMO, makes a lot of sense and I'd be surprised if Lambda couldn't make it work in the long run.
And that if we are to allow censorship, we are allowing the potential for disinformation campaigns.
IMO, the flaws in this argument are that it assumes a disinformation campaign is something the censor entity is controlling (specifically the US military, in the Agent Orange example). It also assumes disinformation is the only tactic available to a bad actor to manipulate the public.
To the spirit of the OP's point, though, I think we need to be wary of any corporation pledging to make the world a safer place by monitoring our communications.
Of course the situation is not binary; there are things that should be censored. I would like our law enforcement to use any tool at their disposal to stop human trafficking. Murder is not cool, AT&T should help LE look into those as well. Politician Y is trolling the internet with lies; we actually have a toolset for that and it's called journalism. Understanding that journalism/media is actually part of the problem here doesn't mean AT&T can do a better job.
I'll read your future-brainwave-transmission tutorials, anytime, even if they run the risk of causing minor insanity!
Tools exist, for analysts and engineers (MS Access comes to mind for the analyst, python for the engineer), that would rectify the problem. And I think it's a fair assumption to say that those tools would be readily available.
Kinda sounds like a management issue, as well. No one ever said "hey you know XLS doesn't support all of this data"?
What a mess.
Comparing:
- Reading the source code of HashMap vs reading the API.
to
- Reading HN comments vs source articles.
...is not a fair comparison, IMO. Well what is, then? Ok, glad you asked!
Reading HN comments vs source articles is more like:
- Reading the book vs reading the reviews on Amazon about the book.
Comments on an article are not the API docs to the article. Going with your analogy, the API docs of an article would be something like the spec for how a concept fits into a perspective of a topic (...this sounds so confusing...but, just work with me for a minute, please :D). Unlike something like HashMap, articles are almost always going to be less objective and more subjective. When something is subjective, you could think of it like everyone designs their own API docs; the protocol with which you interact with a concept can be designed by yourself.
The problem with not designing your own protocols (perspectives) for interacting with a concept is that you could be missing an arbitrary 3% of information or the information that your gleaned could be of a completely different taxonomy (or unforeseen perspective dependancies, maybe deps that you don't agree with) than what you would have designed if you had read the article.
This matters because when your perspective is guided by the perspectives of others, you miss out on a lot of opportunities to make connections across topics throughout time. Maybe the cryptographic inventions the author describe connect with another detail in an article about DIY satellite programming or some voting machine vulnerability that inspires you to do something bold (whatever, who knows, that's the point); changing the course of your life.
As a species, I think (super opinionated part) we will advance further if as many of us as possible are actively 'reading the books' and 'forming the opinions'. I don't think the amount of value someone can bring to the world is strictly correlated with their IQ. So everyone can bring value to a discussion or a body of work or whatever, if they think critically about it and develop their own opinions based on their own unique perspectives.
First - the article talks about the message delivery via push notification. The push notification is, essentially, a JSON object.
The relevant notification for push/delete would be something like:
notificationType: 2
docid {
backendDocId: "com.zhiliaoapp.musically"
}
pm uninstall -k --user 0 [package name]
Fourth - Kinda makes everything else a moot point, google play apps are served by google clouds (the author mentions this as well), so even if google couldn't remove the app from the phone, it could essentially cut the cords to the APIs and render the app useless. [2]
1 - https://jimcofer.com/2019/02/18/uninstalling-android-apps-vi...
2 - https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/dynamic-deliver...
Final thoughts: The author touches on this, but I don't think anyone really knows the answer. Google can remove TikTok, but will they (they haven't yet, right? lol)?
EDIT: formatting and final thought
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time; brilliant.
Is this open source? If so, I would love to contribute.
Technologies: React, Redux, Next.js, Postgres, GraphQL/Apollo/Prisma, Python, Node.js, Express, HTML/Sass
Résumé: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hVZHbI1Ll6Sk3bmO-xmiaHBW-n... Email: frankie.martinez@gmail.com
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People don't want to pay for apps with money, they "just want them". So they pay with their data. The problem here isn't with the transaction, the problem is people are in the dark with what they are actually paying with.
Companies are allowed to do this. Their TOS protects them.
MoviePass just set the price for your data; an abstract possession that people are barely beginning to value as an actual possession of theirs. The going price for tracking your purchasing behaviors before and after attending a movie is the cost of however many movies you can see in a month minus $10.
Facebook paid with a social networking platform to connect you to an unimaginable number of people you probably wouldn't be connected with otherwise. For that, you gave them your history and your super-ego.
Google gave you a map, an email, a phone number, and a bunch of productivity tools. For that you gave them everything.
The value of your data is holding steady or going up, depending on your perspective.
Also, MoviePass took a step in the right direction towards disclosure of intent when their CEO opened his mouth about it. Their TOS is typical, but the CEO is more transparent than most. They should be the brave first company to make their intention transparent.
> They have a long-term strategic objective to become a world power. > Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats
O RLY? Funny, last I checked, China was a world power. Shit, China rivals the US as a world power.
> Most Americans have not heard of all of these companies. > Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat
Surprise surprise! Well, most American's haven't heard of Acxiom either. It's always surprising how much other people don't know, isn't it?
And, FWIW, I bet more people have heard about ZTE than half the organizations that contribute to Mark Warner's campaigns. New companies entering our markets from China have to play by the same rules our own companies do, how is this any different. If it is different, why? How does this matter in the discussion of Chinese intelligence gathering. More importantly, who cares?
The fear-mongerers care, that's who.
Facebook, google, instagram, etc etc.
Most of the discussion today about crypto developments is centered around bitcoin. But just because something utilizes a blockchain doesn't mean it has anything to do with bitcoin. Bitcoin was the first popular application built on top of a blockchain, and arguably the most radical.