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I purchased a G5 tower for cheap, on a whim, from my local university surplus store. There was a strange sign that said "may leak". I was really confused as to why they were talking about memory leaks W.R.T. hardware. Only once I got home and opened up the case did I realize that they meant leaking of the liquid cooling system... I have yet to repair the cooling and boot up the system. Any tips/guides for doing so?

I ended up using another second-hand Mac Mini G4 for PowerPC testing. Much less hassle but also much slower. LLVM builds take ages.
For someone who is very badly overweight, cutting calories is still a very good step. My first 100 lbs lost were from doing exactly that. After you get down to merely overweight from terribly obese is when you really need to start caring more about being active and attempting to work exercise into the routine as well. At least from my experience, cutting calories is something that beginners can fairly easily wrap their heads around that actually shows results (provided they are actually counting properly).

A couple years after deciding that it's time to get serious about taking care of my body and I'm very close to reaching a healthy weight, and additionally have become reasonably strong due to a weight training regimen. But I wouldn't be here if I hadn't seen the results of calorie counting and taken the next step after the benefits of that started slowing down.
I get where you are coming from. And generally I would agree with you. But for something like this, what was considered was, as far as I can tell, something that would violate international law and/or possibly be considered a war crime, depending on exactly what would have been done in the hypothetical situation where this was acted upon.

I can't see any legitimate argument for the government considering violating serious international laws.
Good.

Does it make a better work for a lot of people? Does it give a lot of people freedom? Does it give a lot of people more access to their basic human rights?

Then bring on wealth transfer.

Watching out for the rich and their tax rates is possibly the very last item on my list of priorities for "how to structure the world".
"Strong likelihood" only in cases of extreme dehydration. Many wrestlers/ boxers will drop >5 lbs in one day with no longer term impact. The majority of that being water weight they gain right back again.
Money represents value created. If you simply hand out money, say in the form of BI, without it being in exchange for value created, you are simply deflating the value of money. This will cause inflation. And you'll end up back where yo started - the recipients of BI have more money but its buying power has been reduced, canceling each other out.

I'm with the parent comment. There is so much work to be done in this world - we should first try to tackle those before taking the BI shortcut.
> The idea is...

I hope this is satirical. One could just as easily state that pro-regulation ideology is anti-competition ideology. The idea is to create a regulatory burden so large that only big companies can afford to comply, or lobby to get favorable regulations. "It's basically a religion... to align with the interest of" politicians and bureaucrats.
> Most people believed that fat is converted to energy or heat, which violates the law of conservation of mass. We suspect this misconception is caused by the “energy in/energy out” mantra...

I would not call it a misconception but simplification. Otherwise it is a very surprising article.
> Any system in production is soft real-time by that definition.

Most systems don't fit in that definition because they don't have deadlines in the first place. A site like Hacker News is not soft real-time; the faster it loads the better, but there's not a set number of seconds after which a user would give up.

A video streaming service, or most API with response time guarantees, would be soft real-time systems. There is a deadline, but it doesn't need to be respected 100% of the time, as users can live with a few dropped frames or out-of-spec responses.

> There's really nothing special about Erlang that makes it amenable to "pretty quick" responses.

It's not about "pretty quick" but about predictable, reliable response times. The key feature is the preemptive scheduling. Processes can only block a given scheduler for a very short time; all functions in the language that can take a long time to execute are built to yield to the scheduler periodically. So you don't get a slow request because some other request decided to turn a huge map into a string, or run an expensive loop, or block waiting for I/O, or run a GC, etc.

This is of course a tradeoff between throughput and latency, because all the yielding and checking comes at a cost. Go is a bit in the middle ground, it also uses lightweight processes, but does not yield as much so a hot loop can block for some time (but also runs faster as a result).
I agree that we should stop paying people to do nothing: Right now that's the super-rich who might be getting another tax cut for Christmas.

We have so much idle capital that is currently only being used to take over the competition rather than for innovation and investment. Am I alone in seeing the general public and local communities have more of a stake in what infrastructure and things we need, and should be more economically involved?
But it doesn't need to scale. It needs to be as big as the area it services.
This could a bit tangential to Sam's core point, but there is a lot of value that can be added to society that ends up reducing GDP (especially true when we talk about things governments should be doing), so I am not sure aligning everyone to maximize that singular metric is necessarily the best thing one could do.

More directly relevant to the core point is the short-term/long-term question: as also evident in the stock market, it is not clear that the companies controlled by shareholders are better focused on the long term than the ones where founders have majority control.
> It's stunning that anyone who has witnessed per asset class appreciation (consider wages an asset class as well) since the GFC could believe what you said.

Between the two of us, one has a degree in economics from one of the top universities in the US and is posting under an established, identifiable handle. The other is posting from a brand-new throwaway account.

I'm willing to accept that I might be wrong about things sometimes, but when a random, anonymous person on the Internet says they're "stunned" by me paraphrasing an established economic principle, I'm going to be pretty unconvinced unless they present some compelling evidence and solid analysis.

As for the rest of your comment, even if one takes your statements about the current state of the world at face value, it doesn't leave you anywhere. You can't generalize entire economy of the last ten years and assume that it reflects the effects of quantitative easing (and no other confounding factors).

I don't really want to litigate the post-2008 economy here, because that's pretty off-topic. In the context of the orginal statement - the claim that "basic income would be better than EQ because QE primarily benefits the rich" - yes, it's pretty clear that that goes against a rather straightforward and established body of both economic theory and empirical research.
This piece seems incredibly negative. My first ever Mac was the dual 2.5GHz G5 and I loved it - sure, it was huge, but it was also powerful (for the time, and for a good while thereafter) and looked amazing. Yes, mine did make a weird chirping noise periodically and I think it did eventually become a bit unreliable, but that was after quite a few years. I have nothing but fond memories of that machine.
> Who in the world is the government to not allow people to engage in risk taking behavior so long as the risk is mutually appreciated? If anything

Because the government and taxpayers are the ones who have to foot the bill for the ensuing aftermath. Yes, there is a limit to which the government can regulate personal risk. But the event described sounds big enough to go beyond issues of personal risk and into realms in which the government is expected to be liable and responsible.

I didn't find your anecdote to be particularly convincing. It sounds like you had a great night of entertainment when visiting a developing country. But it also sounds like it might have involved folks putting themselves in dangerous situations for others' entertainment? At some point, isn't it an unhealthy situation when a developing country's people (presumably poor people) are happy to throw themselves in dangerous situations because the reward of tourist money is so alluring? As entertaining as the show may have been, it doesn't sound like a great long-term arrangement for that country. And it doesn't seem worth having deregulation for in the U.S.
It helps in other non-measurable ways too.
If you know you're going to go for a run in 2-3 hours, you're going to not eat an entire pizza for lunch, for example.
I used to own one -- it was a fantastically designed machine, but holy cow was it a good space heater. I had a south-facing second story bedroom and during the summer, using my PowerMac, man, it was toasty in there.
It doesn't rust.
Well to be technically correct, Google’s capchas are checking if one is able to train their self-driving algorithms the same way as majority of remaining humans forced to do the same:)
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I don't always think internal strife is a bad thing, nor that internal strife is at higher levels now than in the past. We had a civil war, and after that was the end of slavery and the gilded age. too much harmony stifles innovation

I'd also disagree with the passage at the end of the article. George Washington was about as mercenary and capitalistic as they come. The revolution against Britain was started by the wealthy merchant class who calculated the npv of continued relations with Britain vs independence and found that independence was more profitable. Rockefeller was obsessed with money (recorded every penny he ever spent). The Bay Area economy was created as a result of ambitious young people literally taking part in a gold rush. It is disappointing that the romantic, politicized and intellectually lazy notions put forth in that final passage get any credence
You are right about the laws influencing child labor, however they are not a sufficient condition. There also needs to be a corresponding increase in returns to child education over and above returns from labor in order for child labor to vanish. For example: India has very strong laws, however child labor still exists.
Costco is not a warehouse job. It's a fancy, high end grocery store made to look like a warehouse.
Having to refresh coffee lake again before we see cannon lake doesn't exactly bode well for those of us waiting for any reason at all to upgrade from haswell (or even sandy bridge). Core count went up with coffee lake, but ipc has been flat for years now and thermal loads have gone up while oc headroom has gone down.
Even for TDMA networks you need some surprisingly precise idea of where the user is (more precise than which is used for call routing) for the radio interface to actually work. This has to do with the need to compensate for speed of light to retain synchronisation of the radio interface framing (for GSM-like TDMA this is mostly relevant for rural areas and gets you precision of ~250m, but it has to be significantly more precise for CDMA) and with planing of handovers.

Storing some of this stuff might be valid for diagnostics and network planning, but it is mostly stored as part of government required (meta)data retention policies. Whether telcos really have to store this kind of data is somewhat questionable and certainly jurisdiction-specific, but usually they just dump all signalisation traffic somewhere and are done with it with the expectation that it is simpler and cheaper to store all of it than to design (which involves legal analysis) and implement some kind of filtering mechanism.
PLATO was also the place where Notes first took off, which was a predecessor to USENET, which is the predecessor to the WWW.
I've lost 16kg this year, which I attribute to 3 things:

1. being fairly strict with calorie intake - though I have gone over my limit a whole bunch of times

2. upping my running game - 80km+ most months

3. being diagnosed asthmatic (after 40 years of merely "you've got shitty lungs, sorry") and prescribed a morning+night inhaler

Dieting isn't new to me, I've been a fat bastard all my adult life. Previous attempts at losing weight have involved doing (1)+(2) and each time I lost weight and got faster. But with the diagnosis at the start of this year, and despite a higher calorie allowance, I've smashed my PBs at various distances - multiple times - and lost more weight (NB. because I started higher; I'm not at a record low, yet). So it seems pretty intuitive to me that "I'm better at breathing" has played a hell of a part.
I'm pretty aghast at the ignorance of the survey participants and how they failed to admit it.

From doctors, this should not happen.
Can someone actually explain what Sam wants to do here? I've read the post 4 times and I still can't see an y sort of plan, numbers, etc to actually critique,

Which is odd because he specifically ask you to give feedback but never follows through on presenting the actual idea.

He does motivate why he thinks a share of the GDP is so he gets the why, but never actually gets into the what, and how.

I mean the GDP isn't just something you can siphon off money from and give it to someone as it's not a thing that anyone owns.

So if you want to give out a portion of the GDP, I think what he really means is pay a universal income that is locked to GDP growth, but he never really says this.
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This is remarkably short of specifics, justification, or data for such a massive undertaking. Sam, you'll make a fine politician. The lack of rigor doesn't bother you, though?
You might be surprised to learn how many people get into jobs like drug dealing because it's the career option in their community that pays better than minimum wage.

Crime also tends to correlate negatively with wealth redistribution, not positively. Correlation != causation, natch, but it's also the case that if your causative claim were true, then one would expect the correlation to be positive rather than negative.
That's not even close to true, because increasing the minimum wage 1) only affects people who have jobs 2) will cause some of those people to lose their jobs. $1000/m basic income is a vastly better solution because everyone at the bottom will be helped.
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You do not need a Federal Firearms License nor registration as a Special Occupation Taxpayer to purchase fully automatic weapons that had been registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record prior to 1986. All of the other items you mentioned are legal to purchase or privately manufacture as long as you comply with the National Firearms Act by registering and paying a tax on them (usually $200). I don't think there is any weapon which is outright illegal for a civilian to own federally in the United States except a nuclear weapon as plutonium and enriched uranium are restricted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Machetes work just as well, if that is all you have (see Rwanda). I imagine rocks and sticks could be used if your civilization has not got to the universal machete ownership level.
I don't mind laptops being used in meetings, so long as their use is relevant to the meeting. But I find it highly distracting when somebody is pounding away on a keyboard while paying no attention to what the rest of us in the room are trying to accomplish.
It's easier to eat less caloric dense foods than both.

I love stuffing myself full of food, and I suspect others enjoy this too.
Knock yourself out with as many carrots as you can have.
Eat a full pound or two of cauliflower.
This is a stupid article, and reading it will only make you stupider.

First, it is undoubtably true that human brains are better suited to being human than AIs would be. That is irrelevant to the question of whether AIs will be better at the task of creating better technologies.

Second, it is absolutely false that improvement is incremental. Consider the game of Go. For a long time, computers sucked at Go. Then we came up with Monte Carlo search about a decade ago and suddenly we were at strong amateur. Then deep learning was applied, and Alpha-Go jumped to able to beat any human in the world, and has continued to improve.

Third, linear progress is not the history of technology. The history of technology is exponential progress over and over again on everything from how far a steam ship could travel without refueling to the number of operations per second a CPU can carry out.

Fourth it is wrong that intelligent things can't be part of creating greater intelligence. As a trivial example, good teachers can turn out students who are in a position to be better than their teachers are. Or look at the history of science.

But on a more relevant level, the task itself is clearly possible. If we have a computer program that is able to design better hardware, it can be improved by simply moving it to better hardware. But it is capable of designing that hardware. This creates a feedback loop which should shorten the cycles in Moore's law, resulting in very few years in a truly superior AI capability.
"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" covers a lot of that material and convinced me to start saving and investing in the stock market (through ETFs mostly).
He's putting forward a vague political plan because he wants to be a politician.
There is many paths to the same place! Don’t be so narrow minded in thinking yours is the only one or the better one...everybody needs different things in life!

I went straight into startups after school...and boy was it though! Even when we made money we would invest it straight back into the business...I lived mostly poor all my twenties...no car, vacations, apartment (I lived at the office most of those years), etc.

What I gained was invaluable expierence and network...way beyond what you can learn in a very well defined (and confined) role at a established company.

Now at age 37 I work as a lead at on of the big 3, responsible for billions of dollars. Pulling in a high 6 figures annual compensation and also well on my way to be able to retire at 40. And I just started saving money 2-3 years ago for the first time in my life.

I have a family, own a house, go surfing in summer and snowboarding in the winter...I picked all this up in the last 6 years...I guess you could say my life plan was more of a exponential one...where the first 10 years didn’t seem to lead anywhere worth going...I always believed that doing good work would eventually pay off...and eventually it did and the grind payed off and the exponential curve started.

I be honest, I needed it that way...the linear approach to life has never been my thing...but that’s just me...people should be true to themselves when it comes to life planning!
No, but turning the thermostat down a bit can be (though worse in summer). You can use up a lot of energy just keeping warm.
Walking is very underrated as exercise. People think they have to go to the gym or run a marathon for it to count.
In fact, if you're overweight, running could shoot your HR way up (+190). Try walking.
But the issue is this: hypothetically, let's say on Nov 12 I fled from country X and put my life savings (let's call it $5800) into one bitcoin valued at that. I put it in a hardware wallet, I transferred it electronically to another wallet, or perhaps I wrote the private key down someplace. Then, on Nov 27 my wealth is suddenly $9700. That's great. But how can I be sure it won't be down to $3000?

At least jewelry and watches are a relatively stable store of wealth.

There's a 'no one knows' stigma hanging around the cryptocurrencies. It's risky enough risking an escape from Syria, without adding a risk that traders are going to suddenly sell en-masse before you withdraw the funds.
okay - thanks. Years ago someone told me a story of the ants saving us from a wood death, and I never checked it out, but recounted it just the other day. Fungi seems more reasonable on reflection.
Just checking the references in this article. The offshore tax claim seems to be referenced to "Guido Fawkes" (https://order-order.com/ "Guido Fawkes Blog of plots, rumours and conspiracy") which seems to be a collection of conspiracy articles about all kinds of stuffs, written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Staines
From a public policy standpoint, I'd rather provide some assistance to people working part-time or for low wages than to provide 100% assistance to someone who is entirely unemployed.

Unfortunately many attempts to regulate the workplace result in fewer jobs and thus more people who need 100% support. One example of this is the effort to raise the minimum wage which, not surprising at all, has resulted in more incentive to eliminate or automate low-end jobs. Advocates for a $15 minimum in the fast food industry, for example, should be prepared for a net reduction in jobs in that industry as automation is rolled out or business models are modified to adjust to the higher labor costs.

I'm not saying that all labor regulations are bad but I am saying that the second-order effects of many regulations can make the overall labor situation worse.
>>Training videos need chapters, timeline bookmarks, student commenting, chats, student & teacher interaction, etc. The AWS Media Services doesn't have the metadata infrastructure for that. You'd have to custom build a lot of extra code on top of it for a

Yeah, I'd want to put all of that in the client, which is not just a branding exercise but is also a branding exercise, so .. I dunno that I want to give Amazon all the business logic. There is still plenty of scope here, for abstracting away the value into the "very nice client app/front-end that makes people tell their friends.."
So... Which investments specifically?
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I believe it is a business problem. A developer with not much knowledge of Go To Market thing. I would suggest you get a freelance Growth Hacker in revenue sharing or equity basis. Focus on target audience, do some digital marketing(which would cost zero like extensive blogging, super SEO, social media, go to gaming community and promote it), ask people in your network to buy it, etc. Try this and work on the feedback which you are already doing it. Am sure you will get to that 700 units to stay in business. Thanks.
Couldn't agree more XD so funny.
That's just subscriber sharing links. Lots of papers do this. There's a bit of a 'free-trial' mixed in there but the important bit is giving subscribers the ability to share links guilt-free.
“I’m going to go to the middle of the room and improvise some poetry, just say whatever I’m moved to say in the moment, maybe riff on some motifs I’ve adopted or invented on previous such occasions. Want to stand next to me and do that too, at the same time? What? You don’t? Why not? Just be loose. Oh, some music is coming on. Just sing whatever pops into your head. Sing it confidently. No one’s listening.”
He's not really trying to teach you poker or even how to write a poker program but rather how to solve problems by programming.
Your publication cost are roughly linear; your content creation costs are more or less constant with an increase in number of readers. I would assume that your content creation costs are vastly lower than the Guardian's which is why you can get away with fewer readers. You wouldn't be able to produce content like the Guardian on your budget, though.