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> Pascal's wager

Have you considered the inverse Pascal wager?

That is: the "true" God is a trickster (maybe Devil if you prefer) who has planted Pascal's Wager into our culture. The Trickster God sends people who believe in Pascal's Wager to hell, and sends those who understand this inverse to heaven (including Atheists who were unconvinced of Pascal's Wager). After all, what use does a Trickster God have of people who are so easily tricked?

Now, I'm personally religious. But this isn't here nor there. The point is that Pascal's Wager is an interesting thought experiment, but its often taught from only one point of view. Its not really built upon a strong philosophical foundation at all.

Ultimately, basing your faith on what amounts to a philosophical question from the 1600 without considering its counter-arguments (grown over the many centuries) is a bit of a folly. Of course there are counter arguments, Pascal's Wager is incredibly old.
Looks like you have to spell out the whole word terabit, or abbreviate it to Tb.
Social norms will change.

But the concept of social norms will not go away.

There will always be some norms that society deems taboo to violate.

Therefore, there will always be reputational risks to someone by having a long record of social behavior in the public domain.
> When the used laptop market turned into the used VCR market…

Meaning, it died? How did you handle the payments in those days?
Those revolutions evolved into garbage bullshit in all(?) of those countries, so we got off fairly easily since we didn't have to face an active, public military crackdown on US citizens across the US.
Ah, yes. pl/c was the culprit it seems more than some other known vulnerability, updated original accordingly.
>And also from selling the trading data to high frequency traders to front-run the Robinhood traders.

Where's your source on this because that is blatantly illegal- so I don't believe you.
"Perhaps the most important role of the PDF in the modern day is archival"

One of the reasons I am super picky about getting ebooks now in PDF is because it's pretty much the one format I feel confident I'll be able to read in a decade or two. Somewhere I have some old Microsoft Reader LIT ebooks from back in the day.
What do you base this on? I know plenty of people working multiple jobs and saving every dollar they can who still barely get by.
I left my job to become a consultant. I had some savings that were only going to last me a few months but I found a way to stretch that to 6 months, which is how long it took me to start getting consistent work. That was 5 years ago and I'm still consulting and loving it.

I've written about this: https://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-i-learned-to-get-consulting-l...
Super Bowl indicator to measure S&P 500 performance
That's not a bad idea.

From Facebook's perspective, dissatisfied users who delete their accounts are a sort of immune system response. The spread of contagious memes like "Facebook is a pointless, addictive time suck" are contained because those "infected" with them take themselves out of the population.

Rather than just deleting your Facebook account, if you spend some time using it to push articles and posts out onto your feed describing your position, then the memetic contagion can spread over Facebook. If enough people do that, it could hasten their collapse (unless they actually manage a heroic effort to successfully address the critics, not just a PR band-aid).
Look I know this is after the fact but it might help other people. You could just create one account and have the wedding planner log into the account. No sharing hassle involved.
One could argue that scratch-off games are inherently unfair, because the game provider already knows whether or not a ticket is a winner, and is hiding that information from the purchaser. The method of hiding could be imperfect. The odds calculations could have a flaw.

If you have any ambitions for cracking a lottery game, go for the small games in states with unsophisticated gaming regulators.

In any case, playing scratch-offs successfully requires research into the rules, which players hardly ever do. For instance, if the top prize for a scratch-off game has already been won, you should never play that game again. If it hasn't been won, you aggressively sell those tickets to other people, let them scratch, and then collect their non-winners for the second-chance drawing. You can't rely on the odds on the back of the ticket, you have to continually recheck the prizes won and recalculate the odds, and only play when expected value rises above ticket cost.

And that ignores completely the possibility that convenience store clerks are cherry-picking all the winners off the spool before you get the chance to play. It's just not worth it for anyone, unless they cheat in some way.
it's hard to know how to interpret all this data when the sources report such different values. in particular, i really wonder what to make of the fact that the bureau of labor reports median pay that is significantly higher than most of the values for average pay reported by other sources. if this were actually true, it would indicate a very wacky pay distribution.
> I am a JavaScript developer.

> (...)

> If your goal is to be average the social process is your guide. If you want to be more than that you have to be willing to step back from what is popular.

I had a good chuckle over this one.
Given the premise that cities have a fundamental advantage, what's the problem? Just wait a bit and liberals in cities will vastly outnumber rural conservatives, no?
I learned recently about RFC 7710 which specifies a DHCP (v4/v6) and RA option for "You're on a captive portal, here's the website you should visit before you get access": https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7710

Do any of the major implementations of captive portals support it?
Better title would be "Google plans to compete with Amazon". They are building a marketplace.

Will Amazon strike back and expand to general search?
Probably goes to show that tech bubbles are real - perhaps for every developer/engineer working at big tech or in startups there are several working at SMBs or in other industries on unsexy line of business stuff for mediocre or low wages?

I've certainly applied for jobs at a few non-tech places (or at least places were they don't identify themselves as tech even when it's pretty central) in non-coastal states and discovered that even asking for $80k or more can be asking for much more than current leads or senior devs/engineers are being paid. Has lead to some awkward phone interviews. At some of them there also seems to be a sort of naive thing going on where they don't feel comfortable paying developer "engineers" the same or more than their "real" (mechanical, civil, chemical, aerospace, etc.) engineers when they're hiring someone to "just" work on web-based line-of-business type stuff.

(Somewhat related, I'm very very done with job ads/recruitments that don't somehow indicate competitive compensation up front. So many places sort of understand that they don't pay well, but feel like it's somehow justified because employees are supposed to put the business first or something stupid, and still seem to think they can find decent employees. Which, given that wages in many places don't seem like they've changed much over the last few years, they probably are at least finding minimum viable employees at their rates.)
All the things you mention are forms of luck, yes. And there's no way to control for them outside of some nightmarish eugenics scenario. It's a fact of life that people are different, and will excel in different facets of their lives to different degrees.

In a free market system there will always be winners, losers, and a lot of us in the middle. That's a result of the system BEING an equal playing field, talent and money are correlated. It'll never be the case that we all go into the workforce on equal footing, because we all start out in different places, with different genetics, and different upbringings. That doesn't mean someone from a poor upbringing can't work hard and raise their market value (thus making more), but it means that not everyone is going to be a millionaire.
A little off topic, but Racket is definitely used by Naughty Dog in their games. Here's a talk they did a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
A comparison API. So for example I could enter '12345' and a unit, and it could return an interesting fact like 'That distance is like climbing Mount Everest twice!'
Thanks. I'd probably be up for it.
“Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitude. Luck is the residue of design.” -- Branch Rickey
"Until we find them, however, it’s probably better for us to delete the ones we use today."

This is a really dangerous, reactionary notion. If there's something inherent in our social formations that are translating themselves into our public spaces and we are unhappy with, let's work to change them together. This is a thoughtful piece and I think there are great reasons to delete your posts from long ago because, well, people change! Other commenters here have made good supporting arguments for this.

But we must be very, very careful not to demonize tools where their users need to be taken into consideration: unless there is something specific about facebook, unique among other social networks, that is toxic (this may be the case!) then we need to be wary of these arguments because they are very easy to apply to all social media which, imo, is a copout.
Embrace and extend.
I would have to set up a company, free-lancing as non-Swiss (and non-EU) citizen is very difficult. Admin costs can be very high, bookkeepers charge 150-180$/hour. Also, it's difficult to be able to offer competitive rates when living in one of the most expensive countries in the world.
Maybe I should rethink how informal I speak at work. Or how formal I speak to my friends.

I absolutely think there are people where there's a huge gap and others where it's hardly noticeable ;)
you put a sticker on the front camera of your phone?
It's most likely that they're using lower(password) everywhere, except someone forgot to use that on the account deletion page and no one noticed.
Forget scratch offs. What if I told you that the lottery system was actually not breached. Every time you look for a flaw, the system has all indications of not being susceptible. Understand?

And yet someone won 3 out of 20 times and it multiples to a staggeringly unbelievable probability.

You will keep suspecting that you were wrong, long after you make a conclusion. Do you understand? The stronger the evidence on both sides, the less ability you have to remove doubt, EVER!!!
I was initially skeptical of the idea of "Tech Support: Error Unknown" but Giguere's (OP author) description intrigued me for two reasons.

First, the game narrative is novel and might appeal to industry types who only indirectly interact with CSR teams (i.e. not people who staff CSR or support but who familiar with or work in an industry that requires support). "Tech Support: Error Unknown" has the potential to create a myth structure around tech support and that is just hands down cool. :) But, the title really should move out of the realm of genericism. It should be evocative like "Tech Support Nightmares", "Bug not a Feature", or just "Error Unknown".

Second, wow what a novel idea for a game. I wonder if the procedural "adversary"/interlocutor/chatter function were abstracted if a different algorithm could be used. For example, the algorithm for "Error Unknown" would be suitable for his game but a different algorithm might be better suited for actually simulating training for companies that need to train CSR reps.

That could lead to a secondary (or primary) market of companies looking for ways to assess or train their reps.

I also wish Giguere the best of luck and will be interested to try his new game when it's available.
Where do I share photo albums and keep up with friends?
Query your AWS database from your serverless application
duckduck.com isn't owned by DDG. Don't shorten a URL, people will think it's real, I tried it. :(

duckduckgo.com/lite has WONDERFUL ad highlighting, this is what I think should be the legal minimum for it. Not just for transparency, but for safety and security.

Google continues to allow advertisers to display a fake URL on the search page, but actually send you somewhere else, leading to things like this, last week: http://www.zdnet.com/article/scammers-tricked-google-into-po...
>and probably bad for you. But they have a $5bn company and I don’t. That is far more value creation than simple armchair criticism.

Not necessarily. It's not value creation when you are creating a bubble and letting people do things they probably shouldn't be doing.

Did it end up to be "value creation" when banks were allowing people to buy houses with 0% down and variable interest rates?

Because from what I hear other people saying about Robinhood, they are making money from interest on margin trading. Meaning they are encouraging their users to be trading on margin and then act like "trading is free, see no commissions!". Yeah that's great until you have millions of people invested long on margin and then the market tanks and they end up losing more than they even had.

So yeah, not too sure about the value creation here...
HTC Vive Pro headset to be priced at $800 / €879, preorders starting today
I would like to share my experience here because I think it was creepy on their part.

I only had <50 friends after 2015 on my facebook account. So, I would get notifications 1-2 times every week, "X is new to facebook, Since he is new to facebook, You should introduce him to more friends", Problem is,

1. I have no clue who X is! Sometimes I found that X lived in the same city that I lived in, Sometimes there was no visible co-relation.
2. X was automatically added to my friends list without my permission!

On several occassions, There were some people who were added as my friend but I couldn't find them on my friends list. The only way I figured they were my friends was when I received a notification and then visited their profile.

On 5-10 occassions every month, facebook will randomly send friend requests to people I don't even know and then some day I am just browsing and I get a notification that "Y has accepted your friend request" and I just couldn't recall sending friend request to that person.

So, Yeah, They were literally forcing me to be friends with people I don't even know, presumably, because I never clicked on ads and if I have less friends, That just means there is little activity in my circle and there is little information they can collect about me, IDK.

Whenever this happened, I usually took a screenshot, It probably doesn't do a solid job of proving my claim but it's something.

And before someone here starts running down a list of possible things that might have happened, Like someone hacked into my account, apps that had access to my account etc. I just want to say, I was a member of official 2600 magzine group, I posted all of this multiple times there and they did helped me a lot to prevent me from a lot of ways that someone might be accessing my account. I followed everything and it 6 months later it still didn't stop.
Sent out a challenge on Hacker News. Met for coffee in London. Went from there!
That's not 100% true as of the Godot 3.0 release, though. They are trying to make PBR 3D a 1st class citizen of the engine and they're doing a very good job.
I like the review author's approach of writing his own version of the task before reading, then looking for its closest match among the presented styles.
Interesting - I wonder if that inspired GNU Stow (similar tool I often see used for managing dotfiles)
> They've taken essentially a complete loss on this entire project

It's a genius financial and strategical move, predicated by having a lucky monster success elsewhere in the company that required a quick influx of resources (Fortnite). They can effectively write off a failed game over the next 5 years, and reduce their tax burden as a result. They then act as a "benevolent" actor to the gaming development community by giving away assets that have no financial incentive to them. So they get a nice influx of resources and get to advertise to a new pool in the same breadth. That's a win-win.

EDIT: I should also note - I was a benefactor of shifting my payment from Paragon to Fortnite. Given that it had no variable cost to give me $20 worth of skins in Fortnite, that's a pretty solid user acquisition strategy.
Apple reportedly developing microLED displays for its mobile devices
I think the best thing it's for is sending a message to Facebook. They surely have statistics on post deletion. It's one thing to just stop using Facebook or delete your account using their (hard to find) mechanism. It's another to systematically delete, post-by-post, your contribution.
What do you mean by asset flip? (And how would this encourage this)
You keep saying this as if it isn't beside the point. Creating illegal content by extracting specific digits of pi or rearranging specific pixels of normal images is completely different than taking already-illegal content and uploading it to somewhere it can never be deleted without compromising a lot of other stuff.

Your arguments seem to be of the nature of "information is information; you can't suppress it and you can't make it illegal" but that's not really what this discussion is about.
I suppose there will be a major markdown from this coming from the black market. It's not like a new TV in that it can be easily explained away. I can't imagine trying to bluff where I got >$1Bn worth of radioactive material.

I would also think the lack of accounting and paper trail would limit it's uses.

Also holding onto this material would be expensive and potentially dangerous (especially if it was being looked for), which I imagine would lead them to take a lower than market price.
It's really funny when people bring up things people said or did 10 years ago as way to knock them down a peg. If anything, it should show that a person has the capacity to change and mature if they are no longer acting the embarrassing way. It does bother me that people are expected to behave perfectly their entire lives in order to be a leader. It creates a situation that caters to psychopaths.
This is not for web. Check out: http://lcui.org/
If you go deep enough everything is luck. Your intelligence, height, and even your work ethic are just a product of your genetics and your environment.

It seems to me that if someone who was literally identical to me was put into an identical situation they would act the exact same way which means our actions are deterministic and only depend on the boundary conditions. Anyway, this is all a little off topic but it's interesting that even if you got where you are by working hard you are still lucky to be a person who was in the right conditions (genetically and environmentally) to be someone who works hard.
> We might finally stop pretending they are perfect humans.

This is good thing. Once everyone will be embarased by his history,

> We probably will stop caring about online privacy.

This would be bad, I would rather this to happen: "We probably will stop pretending of being perfect and become more honest."
How do I reach you? Feel free to contact me at alex@skillfully.se

Full disclosure: I'm interested in pitching you some AI / dev services, but I'm happy to do the intro regardless!
Yea, the margins went from out-of-this-world to terrible as the price of new laptops came down. We used paypal and a few other (way worse) credit card processors. We also accepted checks and money orders by mail.

Edit: Another interesting tidbit. We were such a large paypal customer at the time that we were invited into their IPO. Bear Stearns (I think) called us 5 times trying to get us to buy in...but it was right after the .com crash and we chickened out. We would have doubled our money that day ;(
It doesn't require Make but xmake http://xmake.io/.
It's pretty self-explanitory by reading the build scripts why it needs it.
Most of the tech improvements came well before population growth curve flattening. It's quite clear that we develop realistic technology that we need. It's also true that if we didn't naturally (i.e., without force) reduce population growth by now that we'd be in trouble (there would be no getting off the planet fast enough to prevent collapse), but the tech came first, not the other way around.
> I really wish more companies opened up their assets (or even the game code) upon the closure of a game they've written off.

Or just old games in general. Many rewrites of old games are hampered by the lack of assets.
Could be. For me, the video didn't even appear. Just a blank space on the page -- is that a components of this feature?
recently on HN: #deleteUber had no lasting effect
Reminds me of when I try to unsubscribe to a random newsletter. If it seems tedious to do so, even in the slightest, I don’t even bother googling or looking through the source’s website and ultimately move on. Wonder if this is what fb is trying to do.
Horizon 2020 – European Commission
That is just not true. While there may be people out there with a pathological obsession with having the "best", it isn't the norm. Unless your sample consists entirely of urban teenagers :P

Most people I meet (across all classes mind you) are scrappy and pretty selective about what they buy.
Firefox's 'master password' system can be easy bypassed using brute force
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to use this as default search engine on Firefox. Has anyone solved this?

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-lite/ ?
The U.S. Acid Rain Program begun in 1995—the best example yet of how the cap-and-trade idea can work—saw allowance prices drop from more than $1,500 to less than $1 based on changes first proposed by the Bush administration. And acid rain may be less but it has not gone away.

The article indicates a reduction in acid rain. It furthermore indicates that much of problems with cap and trade stem from poor execution. Anything will fail if it is poorly executed, written to allow loopholes, or is poorly regulated. I think the problem is poor governance and a populace that allows such to happen. It can work.
> The new term, wT is the amount of one’s paycheck. w represents the importance of the paycheck. The higher it is, the more pay you get. w is multiplied by the talent parameter T to implement a meritocratic idea: the more talented you are, the fatter the paycheck you get.

Perhaps I misunderstand the situation, but it seems like the author is baking meritocracy directly into the model: if you have high talent then you automatically get a higher paycheck. By increasing the paycheck importance or simply reducing the event probability towards 0, this model will always produce a perfect meritocracy.

So on the one hand we have random events that have a chance to double or halve capital, but somehow a persons paycheck is a constant over their life, nobody is ever between jobs, and paycheck is entirely deterministic. I think the author really missed the opportunity to link paychecks to the random events (but paychecks would otherwise persist between events).
Comparing Deep Learning Frameworks: A Rosetta Stone Approach
That opening visualization is the most compelling I've seen this year.
10 Facts on State of Electricity in Africa
I haven't been able to create a Twitter account for over a year now. Home IP.

(Not giving Twitter my phone number)

I think it's deliberate b/c bots seem to be exempt from this phone number requirement.