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A tracker to monitor football club performance based on their players’ World Cup performances.

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To be completely honest, it’s a bit naive to assume that congress people represent their constituents first. It is commonly known, and backed up by evidence, that they will back their financial backers first and foremost.

It is unclear who the backers in this case are. But when in doubt, follow the money

For almost all the controversial content I have seen on X, the community notes do work pretty well to fact check. It’s not perfect, but the best solution we have seen from a major social media site.

1. “Just because they have power let’s give them more power.” This is a bad argument

2. There certainly are situations where you can refuse. And some one needs to ask you explicitly for it right now. Won’t be true when your face is a government id

3. This is simply not true. When push comes to shove, the feds will win every time

1. People don’t trust the government and are wary of giving it more power

2. You’re missing that your face is different than a piece of paper. You can choose to refuse to show ID in some cases. You could keep your face covered, but that has ramifications you might not desire

3. The Feds are worse because they are already much more powerful than any state government.

It’s really not hard to see where the fear is. This might be one of the most obtuse comments I have seen on here

The billing unit is the piece of work completed. Like ‘build a CRM’ or ‘add a particular feature to a Shopify store’.

Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your response and experience.

What do you mean by ‘well implemented contingency thinking’?

"I have people skills. I talk to the customers so the engineers don't have to."

I think most businesses fall into this so called middle class already. Perhaps this group could be labeled The Silent Majority of businesses given how these folks get up and do their work everyday without particularly expecting to escape the grind or becoming billionaires.

I see this in my extended family where almost everyone runs this kind of business and is so for several decades. They make much more money than if they worked for someone else, but none of them are going to break the $100M mark

I think it's too much to expect staging to match the load and access patterns of your prod system.

I find staging to be very useful. In various teams I have been a part of, I have seen the following productive use cases for staging

1. Extended development environment - If you use a micro-services or serverless architecture, it becomes really useful to do end-to-end tests of your code on staging. Docker helps locally, but unless you have a $4,000 laptop, the dev experience becomes very poor.

2. User acceptance testing - Generally performed by QAs, PMs or some other businessy folks. This becomes very important for teams that serve a small number of customer who write big checks.

3. Legacy enterprise teams - Very large corporations in which software does not drive revenue directly, but high quality software drives a competitive advantage. Insurance companies are an example. These folks have a much lower tolerance for shipping software that doesn't work exactly right for customers.

I am curios, why do you think it's impossible?

I think we can establish that the database is the biggest culprit in making this difficult.

As an independent developer, I have seen several teams that either back sync the prod db into the staging db OR capture known edge cases through diligent use of fixtures.

I am not trying to counter your point necessarily, but just trying to understand your POV. Very possible that, in my limited experience, I haven't come across all the problems around this domain.

This is a good move even if it took a long time to come.

This might be on you and the company you work for. Many companies have remote work baked into their culture and from my experience, the quality of communication tends to be quite high

Honesty is the best policy in a society that has rule of law. People who are able to manipulate their way to success have skills and perspective that allow them to be successful at manipulation. They would be successful if they chose an honest path too.

To answer your question directly- it is harder than it looks

I don’t see how the west is undertaking this process. The west has adopted and successfully implemented classical liberalism and set up flourishing liberal economies. In order to support these economies and the form of government they prop up, the west needs a constantly increasing growth and workers. Given that birth rates are falling and westerners (read white folks) are not moving in search of work as much as they used to domestically and internationally, the west needs to attract workers from outside the west.

These workers allow the economies to grow and in turn demand they be treated as first class citizens.

I am not sure how this is “dismantling culture”

They are children. Do children have no special protections in India? Is interrogation much better?

This tactic of defending the government by trying to distract from this heinous set of events by arguing semantics is not new, but doesn’t deserve to be HN.

They were children. Do children have no special protections in India? Is interrogation much better?

Not sure if you are a pedant who cares to an inappropriate degree about the proper use of words, or more likely, trying to distract from this heinous set of events by arguing semantics.

I am a bit hesitant to engage with this comment. I am not sure whether it comes a lack of understanding of what Nationalism actually means, in which case education will consist of reading history, or wether you understand what it means and think it is appropriate to turn a secular country into a Hindu nation and disenfranchise hundreds of millions of non Hindus.

Jail in India means being held involuntarily at the police station. Usually, but not necessarily, in cells. They were locked up

Were they free to go? Did they have parents or lawyers present? Was any adult on their side present?

They had the same liberties and agency they would have had if they were behind bars. Zero, to be precise.

Which particular laws would you use in this case? Are there no protections for free speech in India?

Or is it rather that implied negative speech against the government is not protected by the law?

Certainly, strong arming Muslim children by law enforcement is largely protected by the law and what seems like the majority of the public.

As another commentator mentioned, these kids aren’t free to leave. As you said, there aren’t any lawyers or parents present. Not sure how you aren’t classifying their situation as locked-up.

They have no liberty or agency, and putting them in a cell will not change their predicament in the slightest.

They are locked up

I agree, though real economic progress doesn't seem like a priority for the government as can be witnessed by the slowdown and silly policies like demonetization.

One example is looking at the coverage The Hindu gave the BJP, RSS, and Modi before he came power and after. Before they were critical of BJP when it warranted, but since they came into power the coverage has been fawning.

This sort of comparision can be made across the spectrum of the news media. They are smarter than outright jailing journalists.

The dream of open source isn't any closer to being realized than it has ever been. Open source enthusiasts tend to overlook the fact that most people don't want control. Control is difficult to handle and requires a lot more energy and effort than ceding the control to another entity.

This isn't strictly a terrible thing. Anyone who has chosen to share their life with a partner gets that it is a lot easier if you divide up control of different aspects of your life among each other.

The problem is - as a society in general, and as tech consumers in particular, who should we cede the control to and how should the controllers be held accountable?

These are the same problems societies have faced for millennia, and now that newly emerging tech can operate at the scale of society in a couple of years, it is unreasonable to expect that billions of people adopt the libertarian mindset when it comes to tech alone.

This harkens to some of the points some other commenters have made in this thread. Earning $7/hour in 1970 for a welding job is equivalent of $95k/year in 2019 money.

Similarly, getting a start and sticking it out is just as difficult for women today as it was in the pre-war era. The post war period has been ingrained as the normal baseline in our collective imaginations, though it is anything but normal.

I am willing to wager that Rosie the Riveter isn't the norm for the US and if she or your aunt was trying to make it as a welder, they both will not find the supportive environment that existed post-war

I suspect the top 0.1% would realize that they are the cream of the crop and wouldn't be so easy or cheap to fly out by "throwing some Euros".

If there was any price differential between the best welders in these two countries, it would be rendered nil by the cost of flying and housing a team.

Correlation does not mean causation. Restaurants close all the time for myriad of different reasons. Do you have any data that can actually support a causal link here?

It is simply untrue that the overall utilization of the infrastructure is low. Streetcars on King and Queen are usually jam-packed, unless you are in the far east and west ends. The bike lanes running east west on King, Adellaide, and other streets are very heavily used.

And it's true that most people who were driving won't trade in their cars for bikes, for various reasons. I am not sure how that factors in at all here.