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programmers are introduced to CS history, it's just mostly irrelevant or poorly contextualized so there are no useful lessons

This has been going on forever. That just means the people that "worked it out" were shitty teachers and/or bad at spreading their work.

That's not true. Significant amounts of lobbying and palm greasing happen in person, explicitly off of cell phones. It's not a coincidence that all of the companies that receive massive amounts of federal government money have headquarters around DC.

What neighborhoods are there where rich people reside who have no more social or political influence than people living in The Projects?

Compared to this one? Nearly all of them. The neighborhoods in Mountain View are filled with affluent people that have no connection to federal politicians and no influence over the FBI at all.

The navy was in a conflict with illiterate goat herders?

Rust and Go pull in some stuff from functional programming (first class functions) but are not really designed around functional programming as the way to get things done.

Most go programming I've seen is like python where you are slinging around maps that are getting modified all over the place. Very antithetical to functional programming.

didn't dark sky used to show these uncertainty ranges?

When the towers were first built, one of the design questions was whether or not they could survive being hit by a 747

no, it was a 707 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE8d94qGPo&t=232s

It's not difficult, it's reckless bordering on incompetence. The shared kernel is just way to much attack space and shared resources to make it tenable in the face of adversaries.

candidates != qualified candidates

A shit ton of people apply to FAANG companies because of the money on the table despite having no professional experience as a software engineer nor writing any code.

Not everyone is selling a product nor do they care about catering to the lowest common denominator.

no it's not

"identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."

I love these idiom screw-ups. One of my coworkers once tried to use an English idiom and it came out, "let's not beat a horse to death."

Those are based on the assumption that votes are equal. There are a lot of people I just don't have any interest in hearing from.

No automated system is going to fix eternal September style problems. And before you suggest that I could simply follow the groups I'm interested in, that's still not the same thing because the people in those groups will still be engaging with/distracted by the people I'm not following.

Right, and GPL is making all of us open source devs rich. I can't fathom getting into open source and then getting mad when people use your tools to great success.

hyper programmable middleware to stitch together multiple vendor solutions

well if that doesn't stir excitement I don't know what does!

My guess is that they would reset your isolation duration

You do know that quarantine isn't supposed to be a punishment, right? Resetting your isolation duration is punitive and has zero relationship to your ability to spread covid.

"democratize" is double-speak for "closed source".

So how would a scientist prove conclusively that other humans are conscious and self-aware and not just very advanced automata that behave in ways which mimic consciousness and self-awareness?

That's not the topic we're discussing but this isn't meaningfully different from the "are we in a simulation" question.

This particular question is about animals understanding the difference accidents and not, which is a super interesting question because they can't communicate. This is something you can construct experiments around and observe different behaviors.

Selling unsecured credit default swaps.

Main reason being this: Most schools teach basic nutrition, i.e that eating less/more food than you need, can/will result in losing/gaining weight. In this day and age, it is common knowledge that eating junk and being sedentary will cause obesity. And even if there are groups of people that don't know this, obesity has hit all socioeconomic classes - not only poor people.

They do teach what can lead to weight gain, but they've stopped putting emphasis on how unhealthy it was. In the 80-90s when I was in high-school we had our BMI measured in front of the rest of class. If you came in overweight the teach just stated matter-of-fact that you were overweight and that it could lead to health problems.

That is absolutely unheard of today. Parents now complain if their child's doctor mentions that the child is overweight because of "body shaming". The reason obesity is a problem today is because convincing people to lose weight somehow became an attack on their identity.

Financial literacy means not losing your paycheck to payday lenders, pawn shops, etc. Knowing how to invest when you have spare money is only a tiny portion of it.

Dollar stores survive entirely on financial illiteracy. Everything at them costs more per unit than at regular stores but people think they are getting a good deal because it's only $1.

got charged an overdraft and then a convenience fee for an account below minimum balance and then and then and then and it all turned out to be way worse than just paying for a single financial service.

That's a fun anecdote but it falls right into the illiteracy problem. There are tons of normal banks now that allow you to opt out of overdraft (all of them might now might even be legally required to offer that as an option).

You've inadvertently just shown why financially illiterate people end up way worse off (someone using a payday lender because of a story they heard from their uncle from a bank 20 years ago).

Arrested for what? "Climate activist" seems like emotional manipulation.

Between the mass pollution tainting our world, impending global warming and increased civil unrest, I figure the odds that my animal reaches 70 are not very high.

You are living in approximately the safest time ever. The Internet has just made civil unrest visible when it would just be page 3 in a newspaper before that you wouldn't care about.

People living in the 80s in the US were in a war-zone by today's standard. Lead was in the paint and the gas not long before that.

If the global internet goes down and stays down

It doesn't take anything this drastic. All it takes is the country you are in deciding to cut off access. This has happened in various unstable countries many times over the last decade so it's not unprecedented.

The very time you would need something more stable than a currency is the time when the local telecom infrastructure would mean you can't transfer bitcoin.

So? It would be even higher if it grew at the same rate as a typical Google SWE's comp did from 2010 to 2020. Some industries are doing really well.

It only costs them a single lookup

Except that as we keep trying to point out, 90% of EV charging occurs overnight at home

Most people don't buy vehicles for 90% of the use-cases. They buy something that does everything they normally expect a car to do, which includes a long road trip every year or so. Maybe driving to a favorite campground 200 miles away, etc.

The reason people keep bringing these scenarios up is due to the fact that electric cars are terrible for these cases. Nobody is suggesting they can't be used for daily commutes.

Right now electric cars are for people who can afford to also own an ICE or rent an ICE for road trips (or who don't like road trips at all).

"or Ubers"