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> I did not remark China becoming more authoritarian under his rule.

Xi greatly suppressed political dissent, online and off. There was a burgeoning, very interesting online debate about democracy and governance, full of thoughtful ideas, brilliant satire, and more. AFAIK, that's mostly gone. You can read about it here:

http://chinadigitaltimes.net/

He also arrested and otherwise suppressed many political opponents, at least in large part under the guise of an 'anti-corruption' campaign.

He's also revived Communist ideology and a Mao-ish cult of personality for himself. In contrast, Deng Xiaopeng avoided it - my understanding is that he even was cremated and had his ashes scattered at sea so there would be no shrine to him.

Finally, he has helped create an intense wave of nationalism.

(I will say, in fairness, that cults of personality and nationalism are trendy in other countries too, such as the U.S. I don't know how everyone forgot the evil that those things lead to.)
Bake it into the protocol that each connection is regularly confirming the other party's active and passive security measures, and that if one of these tests fails the connection is severed.
> I know someone who just got fired in this round at Tesla. ... They offered only 2 weeks of severance.

Fired or layed off? I've never experienced either, but I always thought severance pay was exclusive to the latter.
It sounds like you "have nothing to lose/hide" now but consider the cases where others will be or already are in a position to lose big from the actions of malevolent actors.
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In this case sure. But not in all cases. And remember, you’re reading a journalistic retelling of only these cherry-picked events, crafted as an emotionally poignant and compelling narrative. Interpet that aspect of this article as you will.
> Why not? Because open source is about the source, not about the binary.

If you have the platform and the source, but you can't run the program, then I wouldn't consider it "open source". At least not in the usual sense of FOSS. It's not just about the source; it's about the freedom to study and modify the source, produce improved versions of the original binary, and distribute that binary and the source that created it.

The division between game and platform is lower in the stack than the engine.

> The source is a product in its own right, and valuable in its own right, whether or not it can be compiled into a working program.

I agree with that statement, but it's a different argument than you were making before.
Successful groups are diverse. If groups become gratuitously homogeneous there arises a lack of variance in approach. This lack of variance:

- Reduces ability to catch errors. Linus: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". But this does not work if everyone looks at things in the same way.

- Makes it easier for undesirable decision cascades to form: One or two people have an idea, and the other members in the group copy their decision, because they always agree. Smart well-weighted decisions are the product of disagreement.

- Stifles innovation. Do you really want your tech company to be all Stanford graduates? Where everyone knows the exact same algorithms, because they sat in the exact same classes, by the exact same professors for decades?

- Is inefficient in regards to Pareto optimality: It is impossible to hire someone that knows all. Hiring for diverse skill sets comes close. Hiring people with homogeneous skill sets is an expensive uphill battle, that relies on small random mutations.

- Reduces the motivation of your top performers. The really desirable job candidates don't always like working in a drone factory, where everybody dresses the same, there is no challenging of their ideas, and, for instance, women all have inferior roles.
I believe we already have an answer for this - which is that most of the benefits of psilocybin on depression (and most other things) rely on the patient being conscious so that they are able to have a 'mystical-type experience.'

In almost all psilocybin studies, the effect is mediated by the degree to which the participant has a 'mystical-type experience.'

I don't imagine this could be experienced while unconscious, and so assuming that's correct, then it would be substantially less effective if someone was unconscious.

I would expect a small anti-depressant effect of psilocybin alone, possibly related to the serotonin 2A receptor and it's impact on well-being. But, to be very clear - the active experience of a 'mystical trip' is what causes a reduction in depression.

See:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/026988111773127...

'Determinants of enduring effects were psilocybin-occasioned mystical-type experience'

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/026988111667551...

'The psilocybin-induced mystical experience mediated the therapeutic effect of psilocybin on anxiety and depression.'
Me too, but mostly because a couple of the book bundles had 50 or so titles. I've bought a lot more game bundles than book bundles.
Nope, the effect is mediated by the psilocybin induced mystical experience, which I don't believe could be experienced while unconscious. See my comment above.
Companies often acquire other companies for the purpose of running them into the ground. They take a few of the best workers and assets,kick everyone else out, move the office, and it's almost as if the company never existed in the first place. It's the purchasing company that sets the rules, and they typically want their acquisition to assimilate into the borg collective. There would probably be a very different outcome is Humble Bundle bought IGN.
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I was looking through today's GOG sales and I saw they've started to introduce DRM on some of their titles, so buyer beware, they're starting to go downhill too.

https://www.gog.com/game/aliens_versus_predator_classic_2000
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You've made its argument yourself.

It's high time to regulate this industry before said colossal impacts.
that cell phone bills are not expensive because they've been deflationary is an odd leap to make because it's just not enough information to make that determination.

you could just as easily say that costs went from extortionary to merely exhorbitant. there's no way to pin it down without some comparative information.

if they've indeed been deflationary, my guess (and it's only a guess) is that capital expenditures (like building/upgrading cell sites) are slowing down now that increased capacity and speed are not the great differentiators that they once were, and a trickle of that cost savings is reaching the consumer (without diminishing returns to shareholders of course).
I suspect that at some point there will be a backlash in the form of someone or some people with nothing to lose becoming violent in the face of an effective death sentence in the form of unaffordable healthcare.

"Ultima ratio regum" is an appalling way to enforce fairness, but it doesn't seem to me that greed in general will stop short of a true class war or an external threat ala a World War.

Also to be clear I am definitely not advocating this route, I'm trying to figure out what anyone can do to prevent it and thus far I am at a loss.
And you won't get far with source modifications if you can't run the program.
Please read 'A Prevalent Misconception About Sample Size, Statistical Significance, and Clinical Importance'

http://www.joponline.org/doi/abs/10.1902/jop.1972.43.3.181?j...
travel might still be cheaper, no?
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Just want to point out that Bob's Red Mill is an example of literal socialism, i.e., the workers own the means of production. And it's working.

http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2010/02/...
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Come on... you're quoting "unionfacts.com" as an unbiased site about unions (sorry, "big labor")?!?

There is NOTHING objective about that site. It's run by a company for the express purpose of conveying "corporate messaging", funded by, among others, Walmart.
Yes, and also:

'Classic psychedelic use is associated with reduced psychological distress and suicidality in the United States adult population.'

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25586402
He worked for 2 years. I am not sure what severance is based on. Also, with this article, Tesla pretty much trashed every employee they fired by publicly saying they are bad performers. Imagine finding a job now that you have been labelled a poor performer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_capacity#Channel_capac...

Technology may help, and the technological effects mentioned in the articles do happen but there is a fundamental limit
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I am not sure of the difference between firing and laying off. Manager basically said that today is last day, bring in your equipment etc
Wow, the discomfort is intense. How much is that from being video recorded w/o consent?
I'm trying to figure out what anyone can do to prevent it and thus far I am at a loss.

You quietly find another path and make these insanely expensive drugs vastly less relevant. The real challenge is effectively spreading the word. Something truly disruptive in this area seems to be about the most offensive thing a human being can do.
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It's not totally dissolving anger that the Stoics were concerned about--it's limiting reactions that do not employ foresight and use only the fuel of anger to drive them.
This. If I were told I had to VPN from a brick laptop into a VM, both widows machines, with heavily restricted permissions, I would have cut the interview short.
I couldnt care less as long as the codebase has a decent structure. And decent structure often increase lines of code.
I'd be more optimistic. Tools are better today. Machines are faster. Re-inventing the wheel isn't nearly as costly or involved as it had been. Look at how much has already been re-done and re-tooled in JavaScript. The same process is being replayed in Rust, Go, and Clojure as we speak.

As for the C machines, Moore's law already has a foot in the grave. Ten years ago, we would have just assembly-optimized any inner-loop bottlenecks and assumed that in a few more months Intel would get us the rest of the way there. Now I'm seeing more and more being pushed off into GPUs and custom ASICs. With clock speeds topped-out, the mainframe approach of pushing more into the hardware grows increasingly attractive.

That, and so much is written in other garbage-collected languages today that LISP-friendly hardware could benefit Python/C#/Java/PHP programs as much as it would LISP ones.
I would give joke answer with random number. There is no way I would give you honest answer to that question, if would indeed wanted to see some of my colleges fired. You are testing interviewer personality, not the company there.

Without other information, 50% may mean a lot of bad colleges or arrogant self-aggrandizing interviewer.
I don’t think I would call it the “purpose” of an acquisition. “Intent,” perhaps, or “acceptable worst-case scenario,” but not “purpose,” unless of course the purpose was merely to eliminate a future competitive threat (which seems doubtful in this case).
Eh, I don't disagree, I was just trying to distinguish between property existing and objects existing. But maybe force defines existence all the way down.
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I think that's not really fair, only a few bundles a year are actually labeled "Humble Indie Bundle", and those do usually fit the bill and check all three boxes.

There were 13 Humble Indie Bundles since 2010 and 94 other types of bundles (not counting the Weekly Bundles). And those other types often include audiobooks, ebooks, comics etc. that one could claim are at least indie, or some indie games sprinkled in with the AAA titles.

There was also extremely commercial stuff such as the 2K bundles, but hey, it's always labeled as such.
They haven't really been caught on anything. These aren't ad measurement results saying they did reach more people than exist, this is a reach estimation service. It's a technically complex problem that needs to take an arbitrary targeting spec with boat loads of dimensionality and return a reach estimate in 100s of milliseconds. It's based on a sampling method, of course. The reach estimation tool is a planning tool for approximations and nothing more. That's why advertisers aren't making a big fuss.
Mergers rarely work out.

Even then, Sprint would somehow end up running the merged entity due to SoftBank ownership (?) so they’ll have more spectrum but the same everything else.

This might sort of work if T-Mobile gets to run the thing.
So which textbooks do you want to start with?

I pick "PC INTERN: system programming", 1992.

https://www.amazon.de/PC-Intern-Programming-Encyclopedia-Dev...
> Because of the cronyism with regulators

Whereas of course banks, Wall Street, corporations in general have _never_ been accused of being a little too cozy with their regulators, right?
> wacky about static typing

No more wacky than the claims people make about dynamic types, e.g.

"You can't have refactoring with dynamic types"

Refactoring was invented on Smalltalk. etc.
I believe they hired him under the impression of doing actual Scheme for the browser, but then they did the old corporate bait-and-switch on him:

"The immediate concern at Netscape was it must look like Java. People have done Algol-like syntaxes for Lisp but I didn't have time to take a Scheme core so I ended up doing it all directly and that meant I could make the same mistakes that others make."

http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2009/11/coders-at-work-br...
Well this thread is depressing, if you're not wanting to interact with other people for fun then what is the point exactly? No one ever says they wished they did more work on their deathbed.
On the other hand, apparently electro-convulsive therapy still has an antidepressant effect even when patients are anesthetized for the treatment. So it's not like this is a dumb question to ask categorically.
I don't think the Atlantic piece is suggesting that at all. The article is making the point that the delicate power balances behind the Chinese Communist Party is very complex, and that the soundbites we hear from our Western media (or any media for that matter) probably do not capture the full extent of the power dynamics, wheeling and dealing, and inner workings of the Chinese Communist Party.
I have 1 major issue with Steam, you cannot share individual games in your library and play a different one yourself. If you have 200 games in your library and want to share one with your kids, you cannot play any other game at same time.

Interested to see what other criticisms you have.
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> I think this overall is good for consumers, and good for business

It's an oligopoly in a market that does not expand much anymore. So the only way what you write can be true is if the combination is going to be awful bad for business for the other two telcos. Is that what you mean?
In the blog post[1], on which Casper PoC4[2] is based, Vitalik writes:

> Accountable safety is what brings us this idea of “economic finality”: if two conflicting hashes get finalized (ie. a fork), then we have mathematical proof that a large set of validators must have violated some slashing condition, and we can submit evidence of this to the blockchain and penalize them.

Why would the validators, who decide what goes into blocks, willingly include a proof that they have cheated?

As far as I can see, these proofs must be communicated out-of-band (not through the blockchain) by nodes, since no validator would ever incriminate itself by including a proof that it has cheated.

How do nodes coordinate this, and come to agreement on which chain is the right one?

[1] https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/minimal-slashing-conditio...

[2] https://github.com/ethereum/pyethereum/pull/809
Microsoft is a for-profit company. They build up reputation to use it. They have no reason to just amass it.

When they open-source software that is specifically to try to get the dev/tech community somewhat back onto their side. Which is the customer group that complains the loudest about their data collection and which has the only real chance of wandering off to the competition.
People with MBAs have a very different mindset from auto workers. When you've had "this is an optimal system" drilled into your head at school by people you've been told are very smart and you should look up to, you're probably going to think it's a good system. Especially when you know that the probability of harsh financial consequences for yourself and your family from this policy is essentially zero.

The situation for auto workers is very different on both points.
Whoever allowed that decision to be made should be ashamed of themselves and embarrassed. Safari really is the new IE.
Oftentimes what the website says, what the sales team is selling, and what the engineering team is doing are three different things
Even so, somebody needs to do it. What's the use of HN points if you never spend them?

PS> musl libc is beautiful.
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That's really interesting. The Economist ran a story earlier about how aggressive Musk's finances are and how there was weird finance going on and that Musk was simultaneously trying to keep things afloat, keep on a super aggressive schedule and keep control.

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21709061-entrepreneu...

Perhaps the wheels are starting to come off. Even if they do, it's been amazing what has been achieved.
After 15 years of software development, watching Casey's videos changed how I code. His approach feels right. He's amazing, I'm very grateful for his series.
According to the author's definition, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have a Nakamoto coefficient of 1 and a Geni value of ~0.92, meaning that they are equally centralized and brittle.

How is the proposed metric any useful in measuring and comparing decentralization of blockchains?
I thing the difference you are thinking of is when someone is being made redundant versus being fired. Being fired implies the employee failed in some way. Being made redundant implies the company changed in such a way that the employee is no longer needed.

Being made redundant tends to be the situation that attracts a severance package of any significance. Depending entirely on the country and state of course.
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Actually, you can (I assume you use Family Sharing). Either you or your kids Steam client needs to go "offline" and you'll be able to play games from same collection simultaneously.
People in solitary confinement go crazy, quite literally. Humans need contact with other humans - that however does not mean wild parties every evening.

Happy loners tend to have few friends/colleagues/family they talk with. That is not nearly the same as no social life at all.
I've had the same concerns but I think--this is all my thoughts, no official sanction--Interview Cake started by catering to people who had interviews coming up, and so it didn't look like they will need more than a year's access. Neither would they need the material after they got the job. But I think @gameguy43 will see your comment and hopefully take it up with his team. I'd love to have eternal access, but then the 1-time charge might be bumped up too. Who knows?
You can totally screenshot anything anyway you like on windows. The only difference is that windows has separate utility for this instead of a shortkey
With respect, when it comes to vehicles, I think I would actually refuse the Ferrari. It’s too expensive to get insurance or to have work done on it. Parking it at my house makes it an attractive nuisance and increases the likelihood that my home may be burglarized.

Most importantly, I am old enough to know that my personality is such that I would be strongly tempted to drive that vehicle too fast and in an unsafe manner.

There’s a whole host of things wrong with this analogy.
The youtube playlists are also very well organized if you are looking for a single topic.
This is assuming that the game opts into family sharing, or else you don't get to share nil.

I've been using Steam as the main means of communication with a lot of people, but these days the chat client is slow, outdated, lacking in basic features and tends to insert annoying redirections before shared links (or remove them outright when you're using a shady site like, I dunno, Google Docs). Hence I'm trying to figure out how to get everyone to migrate to discord.
It depends if you think it would stop other funding of drug development.
If your employer who apparently fires people randomly asked you in a survey if you are happy about your company, would you answer honestly?
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The crisis narrative is, roughly "somebody will do something bad like pollute the earth".

Well, that's a bit vague. Speaking of the future of the earth and unspecified miracles is a matter of scripture. The thinking is, if we can't fit a crisis about artificial intelligence into a crisis narrative, then we have some other unspecified crisis, a newsroom crisis.

In other words, the crisis is that you can't fit one crisis you expected into a crisis narrative because the crisis isn't arriving on time. It's either too late or the data is wrong or the Russians hacked us or some other unforeseen catastrophe is interfering...or the monster artificial intelligence with a robot army is actually a water-based computer.

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Sure, there may be legitimate concerns. But ask me about them. Talk to me. If you’re willing to hire someone, then you’re presumably willing to trust them enough to believe something of what they might tell you.

Don’t tell me that I’ve got a great resume and that you’re looking for someone who is just exactly like me but five years younger, and then ask if I know anyone who is looking.
This sort of behaviour is quite common in companies, so I can't help wondering if it is true that studies have shown a significant percentage of Silicon Valley CEO's and company executives are psychopaths.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/21/apparently-psychopaths-make-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/15/silicon-v...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201...
Absolutely not a dumb question to ask, thanks for noting that. In fact, a really good question to ask, as like some other commenters noted that would actually be nice and convenient if it was the case. I just wanted to make sure the information was available on what we know, as I think research has already found the answer, to anyone who viewed the thread.
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