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Right? As I was reading GP, all I could think is that there are a million other instances of an issue having two interested but opposed parties, one being larger than the other, and in advanced pluralistic democracies, we generally find ways to balance the two interests that don’t involve completely hosing one party. I recognize that the Electoral College was developed in a context where people were very concerned about tyranny of the majority, but it’s a drastic solution to a not altogether exceptional problem.

It’s unfortunate that it’s third party, but conda has the unquestionable advantage of being the only Python-centric packaging system that has a reasonable shared binary library story

I guess you'd have to see historical margins to make any sort of reasonable projections, but I think GP is saying that they've so increased their unit margin on the ride-hailing to near zero that it's dishonest to say they're running it a massive loss and have no route to profitability.

I live in lower Manhattan, and there have been many shootings within a mile of me in the past year, even a few within two blocks of me, but because the per-capita numbers are so low, I'm pretty unconcerned about being shot, and so it doesn't really bother that I'm near the shootings. I don't really see how standardizing by (people * area) does you any good in capturing public safety, or even perceived public safety

I’m not aware of any evidence that that’s actually the motivation behind preventing deflation. Just about every economist will tell you that deflation is undesirable because it incentives hoarding accumulated currency rather than investing it in productive capital because of the decreasing value of production relative to currency.

Why was upkeep that expensive? Would you be maintaining the entire estate as a perfectly manicured garden?

If anything, the "best and brightest" folks in Hertz management who drafted the policies that both the phone assistant and the person behind the counter had to try to navigate (and who both acknowledged the policies they were struggling against were dumb) are the ones who failed big time here, not the every men that GP is insulting.

In what sense was Martin "doing the right thing" by hoarding documents seemingly for its own sake/to satisfy some tick? I don't think it's fair to the others you listed to lump Martin in with them.

What would the power law effect look like here? 0.1% of branded retweets being worth $20,000?

Can you expand on point 4? Conda-forge releases perfectly fine tensorflow-gpu builds, with the caveat that they don’t ship stubs or the actual NVIDIA driver with them so it’s not truly standalone, but the same can be said of pytorch or really any GPU-enabled package.

It shouldn't bother you if you have a long investment horizon, like the average retail trader.

If you're a market maker or broker, it is illegal for you or any part of your firm that you have informed to front run client orders, plain and simple.

Well, the Javits Center is still standing

Thorsten Ball very recently gave an interview on Software Engineering Radio [1] where he discusses the books and the language and his thinking on each.

[1] https://www.se-radio.net/2019/05/365-thorsten-ball-on-buildi...

It'd be amazing if there were an open smart device protocol (maybe there is one?) that was widely implemented. There's no reason turning on the lights in your room or changing what Spotify is playing on your speakers needs to be tied to your Amazon/Google/whatever account.

Yes, but you’re still free to turn around and sell Linux as part of a SaaS offering as Amazon does. It saves you from someone surreptitiously forking your project and selling the fork without contributing back improvements to the public, but it doesn’t totally sidestep the issues in the article.

Sure, but in this case e.g. GPL vs BSD is only marginally relevant (any modification needs to be GPL in the GPL case) to the particular case of selling OSS software as SaaS since either license lets you package and sell the bare software.

I don't see this. Are you saying the author has a bone to pick with Amazon in particular or that he has a stake in seeing OSS-based cloud services become non-OSS because he has money at stake in selling those services? None of the proposed licenses significantly curtail the possibility of having internal deployments of software or linking against the software in commercial software.

I don't think it's that hard to understand. To some degree, Amazon's behavior is exploiting an idealism that has given us software such as Linux that we're all benefitting from today, and it's easy to see why a starry-eyed engineer would want to carry on that legacy and create a project such as Redis with a permissive license.

What you say ("The whole point of choosing a permissive license is that you want others to have the right to profit off of your work and give you nothing in return.") is obvious in hindsight, and should go without saying if you start a project with the express intent of commercializing it. However, in many cases, it's not the obvious decision for reasons related to the project's genesis (e.g. Spark or Mesos being student projects), and in others, it's not the route taken because of an idealistic impulse that I think would be really unfortunate to see squashed.

I still do that if I come across one when I'm thirsty. This is the first I've heard of their dangers!

You don’t think the Soviet economy would have collapsed much earlier than it did had it taken no signals at all into account? There are signals other than price that give you a sense of demand

I googled "Firestone Ford" before reading to the end of the sentence and seeing your link, and amazingly, the first result is a woman named "Martha Firestone Ford" [1], whose name comes from the same business relationship that produced the debacle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Firestone_Ford#Family

How is that an effective repercussion without them also telling you that they're giving you a lower rating for that reason? Do they expect you to somehow intuit over time based on meticulously checking your score after each ride and doing the math?

This feels like a circular argument. Not everyone needs HTTP/2 support (especially for internal services for enterprise applications).

Things that you might expect to be invalid, are valid. A zero byte array deserialised as a protobuf message is a perfectly valid message. All the strings are "" (not null), the bools false, and the ints 0.

How does this work? How do you make, say, all fields but the second null? Do you just send a messages that's (after encoding) as long as the first two fields, where the first field is 0x00 and the second contains whatever data you want?

Wow, I've walked by that block so many times and never would have guessed it was the work of IM Pei

It's by no means a constant, permeating stink. Sure, there are some neighborhoods with open air food markets that can be smelly, or some that are downwind of waste processing centers (most of East Williamsburg), or smelly because of wastewater (parts of East New York and Canarsie), but for 95% of the city, you're not going to smell anything unpleasant unless you're leaning in to sniff trash bags.

Do people find that time spent in motion or moving between tasks is ever the determining factor of how quickly or effectively you can prepare a meal in the context of a home kitchen? Granted, I've rarely cooked for more than ~4 people, I've never stopped and thought "wow, if only the cupboard with x in it were a few feet closer to the stove, I could have cut three minutes off my prep work."

It's unclear to me how Taylorism could have been applied in a transformative way to kitchen layout.

It grew by 10x, but I doubt Lyft's infrastructure or day-to-day engineering costs have grown anywhere near that much. That said, I have no idea what Lyft could spend $600MM on researching.

Wasn't Milo's book literally titled "Dangerous"?