nabdab

Sounds like you would give consent if asked, and I applaud you for that. Myself I gladly donate blood for free to help others. I don’t however feel that either of those willful good deeds should be viewed as arguments supporting that people should have their blood extracted or data sold without consent.

> It would have been trivial to review these for required sections in advance

Absolutely. It is trivial! And the company making the submission is expected to do that. Which I think is very reasonable, considering that they know the requirements and make the actual submission in the first place.

It’s silly to want the reviewers to take on an additional burden in the process just because this one company made a dumb mistake which as you say would have been trivial for them to review and catch.

Sounds like standard bureaucracy.

They didn’t submit the required information in the required form. SF wants startups to behave, that doesn’t mean that behaving startups get to ignore the standard procedures or get exceptions from requirements.

And apparently tons of entities throughout the county just went on with budget increases to the tune of 4.4 million from one year to the next and no one anywhere asked any questions... it seems almost unbelievable that everyone just didn’t notice or noticed without questioning any of the numbers. It might have been caused by a single error but the effects and shortfalls where widespread and significant.

That’s not how funding works. If you believe the product is worth exactly what you pay that’s not funding, that’s buying. Funding is the belief that at some point the ownership will be worth the wait given the investment.

I love jupytext, but i feel like it’s a patch on a problem that should have just been solved. Just change jupyter to work directly in the genereres file format and skip the “pair files” hassle.

Sounds like a bad apology from someone who got caught passing of others work as their own. Yes plagiarism is wrong, and no it’s not the entirety of academia that is wrong because you can’t get by without talent through just copying other people’s work.

She’s pragmatic and has to somehow capitalize on her success. And the very reason everyone owns so much crap is because this is the way you can easily do that. Selling cheap shit to the masses. She was never preaching an end to consumerism or actual social change. She just had a cute pitch for a role that could provide her fame so she could get a payday.

No doubt tons of fans of hers will fill their houses with her crap-ware and the irony will be lost on them. But what does it matter? They’ll buy it because they want to express their alignment with her image through their spending. Just like they bought an exercise bike because they wanted to seem fit. And then they threw it out because she told them it was what they should do and they listened and now she’s saying buy tuning forks and they’ll listen.

> and at the time the woman (perhaps plural) didn’t want to really participate.

AFAIK, the sexual interactions where consensual as they occurred. But the two woman withdrew consent after the fact as they learned he hadn’t been wearing a condom (and they discovered he’d been with both of them).

I remember fondly those early days with PHP before it dawned on me how many peculiarities it had. However to be fair these steps came only after you’d managed to set up the server which was non-trivial on its own.

These days I feel like python/flask does it simpler. True you need to define a function and use a decorator, but saves you having to set up the server before getting started on site itself.

Would you like to expand on your view? I’ve used terraform a lot and never had any issues with the tooling. But then again it’s just a pretty simple CLI/config setup? Do you mean you’re looking for graphical interfaces to write config files?

Well written review. Yet I’m left with the most important question unanswered. Is the game fun to play?

I get the strange feeling that the answer is a hard no. And that this price was ordered which is why it goes on like one long excuse for why different people might have different opinions of it.

> Data is so cheap that it should be actually free, unlike counterfeit nike shoes.

This really depends on the data. In pharma the right 50 bytes of data can be worth billions. Not all data is personal product preferences for add targeting.