GATTACA

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

Mayor’s claim doesn’t seem any more credible than Watson’s. Mayor might wind up being right, but not due to any deeper insight. It will happen, or it won’t. My opinion is we will do it as long as we don’t destroy ourselves first.

He’s also conflating the migration with protecting the earth. I don’t think there are very many credible people saying we should protect the planet as we can migrate to an exoplanet.

Protecting the planet is worthwhile, regardless of whether we can flee it.

What do you consider non-trivial?

I transfer money to Africa on a regular basis, and I don’t have these same issues other than the difference between published exchange rate and realized, which is about 1-1.5%. Transfer fees are minimal.

I transfer about $3,000 per month, but no I could go up to at least $10K without issue. Occasionally it can have a bit of a delay, but normally it closes in less than a minute, and I get email and text updates on the status, no calls needed.

It is trivial when you are transferring from a Western country to an African country using services like Transferwise, Worldremit, etc but I consider transferring money from Africa to a western country non-trivial. I have personally experienced this when parents are trying to pay for tuition fees, upkeep allowance, etc. This is one of the great advantages I see Libra bringing.

so parent use actual money to buy libra, transfer it and their children exchange libra back to actual money again?

i wonder how much money is actually left after the whole transaction

Generally speaking, in this context "non-trivial" means more than $10,000 - $15,000 at once. 10 is where various paper-trail requirements start to kick in (at least in the United States) and things start to get a little more complicated.

Which service, something like transferwise?

I recently tried helping someone transfer $10k from US to different country. Only after signing up, filling in all the details, and going through the entire process, was there an error message that showed a Max of $800 could be transferred.

I then just advised to use their local bank's wire transfer, which they had to visit in person at the local branch, as they had originally intended.

Nowhere in my Google searches and Transferwise articles did I see any limitations upfront. Nor did I figure out how to raise these limits after searching post-filling-out-everything.

Very disappointed to say the least. But if anyone knows if I can raise the limit, would be happy to try this again.

Is this some account specific limit or a country specific limit?

+1 transferwise

Wave?

This is not new. They’ve been eying this tax for quite some time. It’s due to the difficulty in fighting over the gas tax. It is extremely flawed, but politically expedient. At some point it may make sense due to electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, but the day that it makes true sense, not just political, is still far in the future.

I would say it depends on your goals. If performance is your primary concern, then go with rust, one of rust’s primary focuses is performance.

I don’t think of Haskell as the best language for command line dev, but I’m far from expert in either language.

I recently installed Mattermost open source, but will likely move to something else. This is a trial for me, but the lack of google authentication in the free version, and particularly that it is only available on the enterprise version with opaque pricing, which will likely be unaffordable for me at this point, is pretty much a deal breaker.

I understand you need to have different features for the different packages, but I think this is a feature that should be available for smaller businesses. The g suite is affordable for small businesses and startups, and I doubt it is particularly difficult to implement, so I suggest including it at a lower price point.

For me it’s not even worth continuing the trial without it.

The fact that you could operate the mongo instance, but not the DB is definitely a cultural issue, or more likely a managerial issue. Definitely NOT a DB issue. I’ve worked at places where we could manage the DB ourselves, and other places where we couldn’t eve talk to the DBAs without beuraucracy. It’s all about the management in those scenarios. And the company results were as you would expect.

Sure - I’m not claiming that as a database issue at all. It’s just a side addendum to note that sometimes technical decisions can have a political aspect.

This article really captures the risks of a rebuild. I’ve been through a number of them, all but 1 abject failures. The one success was driven by the executive understanding that the company would fail without a rebounds, and it was still 6 months late, resulted in one of the cofounders being fired, an extremely painful rollout, and the company still failed, due to other problems.

My firm belief is that when you need a rebuild, you are already well into a fail state as a company. Not to stay there can be no recovery, but it is an indication of some deep problems for the company, beyond anything the engineering department alone can resolve... and if the rebuild is not coming from the executive leadership, it is an even bigger issue as it will more likely lead to bigger problems than it will solve.

My suspicion is the statistic is too vague to be meaningful. I would bet that the key here is the average person in LA commutes every day, but I suspect the person in Jakarta does not commute in a way that is easily measured for the purpose of this statistic.

Very possibly. They perhaps simply don't have the numbers. But regardless, for anyone who has travelled, the assertion that LA is

> the most congested city in the world

is simply laughable.