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Still waiting on that train from Mountain View to Cupertino. Meanwhile, there is an Audi in the garage that can take me there anytime I want and a bus to take me there when I don’t feel like driving. I still find it really hard to take a week’s worth of groceries for a family of six on a train. Even if BART did go exactly where I needed, when I needed, I’m not inclined to risk Hepatitis or theft.

I understand that some people actually like being around strangers. I don’t. I like being in a mode of transportation where I can control the destination, temperature, aroma, and music. I don’t have to worry about people asking me for money or potentially assaulting me either. I don’t have to keep an eye on my bag, nor wait on platforms in all sorts of weather.

Public transport definitely has value, but ascribing it as the best choice is a viewpoint based on limited experience. When I was in Zurich, I felt much differently. But Zurich and the Bay Area are vastly different. They don’t have Prop 47 for instance.
Tesla reportedly hit its Model 3 manufacturing goal hours after its deadline
This is reminiscent of the controversy over male and female circumcision (or "genital mutilation" as it's sometimes termed). Clearly some traditions and religions consider these practices to be not only acceptable but sometimes even necessary for religious or cultural reasons.

There are also some parallels to honor killings and "suttee", a practice among some in South and Southeast Asia in which a widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. Once again, both are traditional practices, with religious and/or cultural sanction.

Finally, many societies have practiced human sacrifice. Recently in the news there was a story about an ancient mass burial of sacrificed children being found (I believe it might have been in Brazil actually).

Most "modern", "enlightened" or "civilized" societies have tried to stamp out such practices, and this action has often not favorably viewed by the societies which are forced to stop their traditional practices.

There is definitely an ethical dilemma here for people who believe we should tolerate the practices of other cultures.
You should say yes to history instead. I can think of another drug that was also lionized among the intelligentsia of their time, both for its medicinal uses and its spiritual or creative benefits. That drug was opium.

"But I took it—and in an hour—oh, heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! That my pains had vanished was now a trifle in my eyes: this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me—in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea, a [Greek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach."

-Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, John De Quincey.

It sounds eerily a lot like the current push for psychedlica, and it originally started with upperclass knowledge workers then, too. But as the dangers of the drug became widely known, and it filtered downwards, it became regarded as a horror, and prohibition came not because the government was a killjoy and wanted to ruin people's recreational fun, but because the human toll was high and as it filtered down the criminal element took control.

The addict or user always glorifies the damn thing in the honeymoon phase, its after when the effects become known and widespread do we get the pushback. It's always the answer to everything that ails you till it isn't.
This is systematic manipulation of the market rate, which is far more insidious and bad than someone merely striking a bad deal for themself.
HFT aside, this also has interesting applications in distributed databases. Spanner, for instance, has consistency guarantees directly related to how synchronized the clocks are (keyword: TrueTime). It seems plausible that Huygens could make a significant improvement on performance of this kind of distributed database.

This looks like a very impressive result. NTP has been doing its thing well for years but a factor of 100 improvement on time accuracy would be amazing,
> This is what Taiwan's #1 online shopping portal looks like

I'm guessing that this opinion won't be popular here, but that is much better looking than things like Material Design. Except for the animated GIFs, I would prefer that shopping portal style without hesitation.
Unless you are the one to receive the tent assembled model 3. If past rushes are an indicator of the future to be I totally expect a large recall operation following this stunt
Why should we ruin universities just so businesses don't have to filter candidates, train recruits from a younger age, or have apprenticeships?

It’s not about should, it’s about reality. The corporations have already spoken. We can either accept reality for what it is or graduate a bunch of students with CS degrees that are saddled with debt that have a hard time finding a job. In the immortal words of Kosh, “Once the avalanche has started, the pebbles no longer have a vote”.

CS grads coming out of college are competing with foreign developers who were trained to get a job, have more experience and that will work for less.
I don't think the article answers amelius's question, which is not about how you would achieve that precision but how you would use it. On an OS that only supports recording timestamps up to microsecond accuracy, what is the point of synchronizing your clocks within nanoseconds of each other, even if you could?
Some unwanted behavior might occur in scenarios like the one you describe. Most probably, the change performed by one client will silently overwrite the other. If there is however a small gap between the operations, the earlier one will have a better chance of being picked up by Drive and detected by the other file system instance. In this lucky case there might be no data loss.

I would set the `sync_interval` configuration parameter to a low value to improve the chances of detecting changes as soon as they appear, but I would also try to make sure that only one client works on a certain file/directory at one time.

This case looks like a good area for future improvement. Thank you for addressing the issue!
I may not add much in the discussion, but thanks for the holistic point of view in the comment, I quite needed it.
afaik Rogan is not alt right
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Bloomberg's chart of Tesla Model 3 production[1] shows very low production rates in early June, around 1000. Maybe they saved some parts up for end of quarter. Let's see what happens over the next month.

A well-run production line produces about the same number of units per week. Tesla's weekly numbers are all over the place. Their cost per unit has to be very high, because the cost of running the plant is roughly constant as the output varies.

Eventually Tesla ought to get their plant debugged, but if they're doing assembly in a tent, that's in the future.

They also seem to be having trouble at the battery plant in Nevada, which is strange. That's a relatively simple product, and it's one they've built before.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/
I haven't personally used rclone so far. I will look into it and see how it compares to GCSF.
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out if you are serious or if you are masterfully trolling everyone.
Because my experience matches the results decribed in all the studies that report similar results.

It’s not like it’s possible to have a placebo effect here. I was an isolated depressed, angry young man at 24 who had never had a relationship and all of my interpersonal relationships were completely toxic and was afraid of being touched, working at a minimum wage job.

Within three years of using ecstasy, I had hundreds of friends, learned how to DJ, was promoting parties, networked my way into a well paying it job, had a long term relationship, and eventually was djing for crowds of 1000+ people.

I’m not sure how I’d have gotten from a to b without using mdma and acid. I still had some work to do to integrate all of that and learn how to do it while sober but man, just being able to experience happiness and love and having open conversations with people amd talk about my feelings and just being hugged by strangers was so instantaneously life changing for me it was almost miraculous.

That said— I did mdma waaaay too much and don’t recommend doing it as much as I did. I think I got everything valuable I was going to get out of it the first 4 or 5 times. Everything after than that was just partying.
BTW, it's trivial to build a WWVB receiver nowadays, and a Rubidium standard only costs 200 USD.
Hmm, so minimum wages don't exist and when the cost of living rises wages never adapt to accommodate it. I think these concepts are far more linked than you suggest.

>Wage is compensation for labor and follows all of the normal market rules of supply and demand. //

It only follows those rules because those able to influence it have brought in that regime -- USA has been wetting its corporate pants over the idea that the hierarchy of wages might be broken by communism for some time. (Not to say communism is good, just it amuses me how they had to demonise communists - coming over here with their egalitarianism, trying to treat everyone as a person, embodying the maxim of 'being created equal' - in order to maintain capitalism and keep the peons/proles in their place. I digress.

Wages can reflect a person's worth to the owners of a company (they're worth X, because they bring us X+Y leading to profit) ...

OR they can reflect that people are "equal before God" and that one person's time is worth the same as another.

But, my time is worth more than their's -- well great, you can benefit society all the more.

But, no-one will work unless you use greed, selfishness, subjugation of others to motivate them ... well let's just keep mass murdering each other every 50 years or so we can keep the corporate masters in the style they're accustomed too.
OpenBSD in Amsterdam: VMs on vmd(8) servers
My interpreta is that in many other countries there is a sense of collectivism in that everyone takes care of children and collaborates a little bit. If you see a kid, you don’t think something must be wrong, you lend assistance to their parents by being an impromptu guardian and help the kid achieve their means.

Whereas in the US the modus operandi is “Well it’s not my kid what do I care? Their parents must be terrible people for not standing right next to them”

For example, as a 7 year old in eastern-ish europe, I would walk 1km to school on my own every morning. The worst that ever happened was when me and a friend decided that umbrellas arr the perfect snow shovel.
> Per the terms of the sale, Ken Williams was given a verbal promise by CUC management that Serra[sic] and the other studios wrapped up in the purchase would retain their independence.

That does not make sense to me, though I may be missing something. It's either a "verbal [only] promise" or in the "terms", no?
You have to factor survivorship bias into that argument. There are obviously some well built cars from the 90s that are doing great at 300k+ miles, but those are the outliers. The poorly built cars from the 90s simply aren't on the road anymore to compare against. Therefore the 90s cars you still see all seem incredibly well built.

Meanwhile a higher percentage of new cars are lasting to those higher mileage ranges. Here[1] is the first Google result on the issue from 2015 that says that average age of cars on the road is up despite new cars sales also being up. Those stats would also seem to dispute your last point about repair costs. For repair costs to really be up enough to counteract the savings from longer lifespans, the entire auto market would have to be functioning irrationally to keep cars on the road past the break even point. That is certainly possible, but it is unlikely that could sustain itself as long as this older car trend has been occurring.

[1] - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/07/29/new-car-sale...
Alfa had a mishap like that in the nineties and for thirty years sales dropped because “all alfa rust” even when the problem was long resolved, even when the actual model went out of production
I don't really want anything to do with connecting the Kindle to the internet. Mine has never been off airplane mode and books are transferred by USB so xray isn't very useful to me. Also it means I can't simply scan over the notes to see catch up.
The South West seems to be full of interesting sites. Last time I was in Cornwall we went for a walk to visit a stone circle. It’s fascinating to think that people like us at one point thought it important enough to create these circles, but we have no idea why.
It's starting to sound like the first chapter in the old testament haha
I’ve only spent a small amount of time reading about the motivations of flat earthers, but IIRC, the best I could come up with was TPTB hiding the truth from the populace. It seemed like a lot of effort to me for little benefit, but there are areas where I think we would all benefit from odd things the government has done. The others are mostly the same - distrust in government - something the left seems to be embracing whilst out of power.

In many of those cases, flat earth, birther, sovereign citizen - there is no obvious impact to me except maybe some
Minor annoyance. I could see an argument for anti-vaxxers potentially being dangerous, but people should have control over what goes into their own bodies - and from what I know about them, it’s not the vaccine that’s largely a concern, but the other stuff which may or may not come with it.

Charity (and charitable interpretation) is a big portion of it. In many cases people have fears that aren’t being addressed and want to protect themselves and their families. In some cases there may be mental health issues that predispose certain types of thinking. But ultimately, we’re all humans with differing priorities. If another group is making a good faith attempt at pursuing their priorities, treating eahcother fairly and with respect should be the default.

If someone threatens to harm me or my family based on our differing beliefs, affiliations, or priorities, it only makes forward progress difficult. Based on my own family, I prefer to think communication is a more likely issue than 50% of the population being wrong and stupid.
I'd still prefer that to reverse engineering an APL program. Been there, done that. In the end, I did a clean room reverse engineering, which was way simpler.
There's a big difference in active and passive screen time. I got into computers in the early 90s and back then there was always a certain hands on aspect to it. From installing RAM to clearing drive space or making custom boot disks... Games actually thought me a lot!

Now... Not so much. Much of the hardware is locked, nevermind the software. So kids get to thinking they can't make anything, that it's a primarily passive experience.

To me, that's the big problem, to become passionate about passiveness.

For the record my 5 year old runs KDE on a fanless laptop. It's been great for him to learn letters at school
I didn’t word the hypothetical that well. A better way to think about it would be a brand new iPhone 5 that to you looked and felt like an iPhone 5, but magically appeared like an iPhone X to everyone else. The “fashion effect” is the zero sum feeling someone has from having the latest version of a product. The actually dimensions / screen size and screen to body ratio of the iPhone X are actually technical improvements.

My argument is people would not pay that much for an iPhone 5 that looked like an X to other people and hence conferred its status. If people really were willing to pay close to the price of the X in such a situation it would be an argument that the fashion effect plays a significant role. I don’t deny it has some influence, only that technical improvements are the main influence of prices.

If you are still willing to pay more than 41% of the price of an iPhone X for an iPhone 5 that everyone thought was a X, I think that would make you pretty unusual. Used versions of the iPhone 5 seem to be going for under $100 on eBay. Even assuming a discount for new vs used, that would mean you value the iPhone 5 about $200-300 more than a typical eBay buyer.

In response to your Android hypothetical I would argue that Android phones have advanced more rapidly than iPhones over the past 5+ years, and that there is some system lock in. Also I don’t really want to get into the quality debate in this area, though I would note that Android phones exhibit year over year price depreciation similar to iPhones.
This is not supported by, at least, this chart, comparing the US and Guatemala:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Now, it may still be true that pedestrians or child pedestrians are killed at a higher rate (per capita, per car, and/or per mile driven) in the US than in Guatemala (or other countries that are not "rich"). However, for that possibility to be plausible, there would need to be at least a credible, substantive explanation.
The other thing I don't understand is that this paper argues against hardware timestamping on the grounds that users won't want to buy expensive hardware, and that Huygens is for "standard hardware ... in current data centers". Expensive, niche hardware is normal for the HFT folks that care about nanosecond precision.
Sigh.

If you are running a start up and you're using this to fuck over your very first employees' salary then please take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror. You are decieving the very people you are hiring to make your business a success. Are you really cut out for this kind of work if you deliberately fucked over your first and likely some of the most important employees in your business? Just to save a tiny fraction of some VC's money?

With respect, I think if this is you then you may as well shut the startup now and save everyone the time and pain and money that will inevitably come later (either due to failure stemming from your questionable ethics and questionable business acumen evident from your hiring practices, or when your employees/engineers #1-10 realised you conned them and they leave for someone else and leave you in the lurch at some critical point). It's not going to be a great experience for anyone.
That's an old article, and Musk has since updated his estimates and dates, and was explicit that they would target burst builds before ramping full-time [1]. But that's beside the point - the question is, what is the source of skepticism of the ability to execute at all (not by a particular target date)? We can go back and forth on dates and numbers all day, but that's not my question.

[1] https://bgr.com/2018/04/17/elon-musk-model-3-production-6000...
If podcasts are more your speed, I'd recommend Bloomberg's Odd Lots with Dan Wang, which talks about China's 2025 plan.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/this-is-c...
We should start banning importation of products containing stolen technologies. And companies that use stolen technologies and their CEOs should be banned from Western markets.
Yes, and then pay the toilet cleaners even more, raise prices again, and so on. A virtuous upward cycle which would eventually bring their lives more in line with everyone else's.
I haven't use OneDrive, but I think it is similar to the Backup and Sync app for Google Drive, which targets a different purpose than this project.
That's only for American sales so no reason why they can't ramp production and just export to other markets.
We use 120 which seems to work fine even on small screens of about 11 inches.
Well, if the client is the "end user", then sure. But consider the benefits that the worker gets.
Not at the moment. I would like to add this feature in an upcoming version.
Yes, why should physics just be "fundamental"? I think advances in tech, AI will help physicians explore complex systems.
> Suddenly, you would say, "yes these two pieces of meat are both equally delicious!"

What ? I don't put values on things based on how they taste.

That's why I'd pick up the breast chicken. I still think the chicken lives matter as much as human. I am sad we are causing them unnecessary sufferings (most of the time) but I am still going to eat them over a humane forearm (unless I am trapped in the Andes after a plane crash or something).
Narcissism Over Ideology: Revealed versus Stated Terrorist Preferences
I think the reason he does it this way is to avoid reaching the same local maximum competitors are already stuck in - you can’t out-compete incumbents with more of the same but a little better. It is arrogant in many ways but there is a reason behind it, it’s not just hubris, and crucially it requires finding the right frustrated talented people and listening to them, it would be a mistake to think he comes up with all the ideas.

I disagree that he’s not good at managing people, he just has very different success criteria, which do not highly rate the welfare of his workers. I think like Jobs, Bezos and many other successful business leaders he’s good at finding talented people, selling them a dream, and wringing every last ounce of life out of them in service of his dreams, then finding someone else to keep it going. A lot of people will be broken along the way, a lot of people will produce their best work.
The feeling is a little less fun, but still better than a normal keyboard.

Disclosure: I’m not the one you responded to
> all-powerful

You're forgetting that the Abrahamic conception of God also includes infinite knowledge, infinite wisdom, and infinite benevolence in addition to omnipotence. If one ignores the logical problems that entails, then it's not hard to see how the will of such a being is, by definition, morally correct.
Those same people could shoot down drones to steal the packages. When you have humans in the equation things tend to get messy, it’s just a matter of time.
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You were likely down-voted for the snark with which you addressed the points.
Garden-variety political flamewar will get you banned here. Please don't post like this, regardless of your politics.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this again.

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Yes, I self limit to between 80 and 90 characters. Diffs can get hairy once you start routinely going over 100 characters. Also, it helps force me to limit complexity in my subroutines. In my opinion, using 120 characters is a smell that you're trying to do too much in a single line.
People seem to have fun with things like this, so I can see this drastically increasing the contribution volume.
They timed production to maximize federal tax credits for US consumers.
With my current 1440p screen the only way I can keep two files open side to side without going blind is to limit myself to 80 characters, the screen linked in the article is 1080p and they propose to keep three files open at 120 column width? That won't really work for me.

But maybe I'm getting old. :)
Yeah, Dutch too, that's correct. But almost nowhere else
endurant?
> her esposal of Chavista policies

Source? (Genuinely curious.)