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It's not altruism, they're just getting ahead of changes in the law.

The EU announced[1] they were looking at banning single use plastics. It was after that announcement that lots of companies annoucned they were making changes. By getting ahead of the law they can brand it as doing something they didn't need to do. (Much like how UK phone companies announced they were "abolishing roaming charges" because they did it a few months before it was an enforced law.

They get to advertise their 'green' credentials while not moving themselves to an uncompetitive position in the long term.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/e1168020-627a-11e8-90c2-9563a0613...
Has anyone tried out the option of self-hosting Quilt registries? I really like the idea of Quilt, although I am worried that my network bandwidth would be an issue for 10-100GB datasets...
I was with you until

> But you'll be assuming that you're going to have a better idea in the future than the one your currently have.

"Ideas are cheap, execution is everything."
I can't even read this. The amount of corruption at every level in the US is astounding and we get an article about how the FBI wasted its time busting an unemployed loser and his buddies who tried to rip off McDonald's? McDonald's has been ripping us all off for decades and nobody believed that it was actually possible to win the million dollars except really stupid people! Fuck McDonald's, I mean this whole article just promotes their Monopoly game and tells you how people rigged the game to pick the winners. I'm still in total disbelief there ever were really any winners, so color me skeptical that the entire Daily Beast article isn't just more myth-making. But I guess it does stand to reason that if there's really major prizes to be won that someone would be there to try and maneuver and/or steal them.

What I'm most in disbelief about is that the FBI didn't get their own corrupt paws on the money somehow and get involved in the mess because John Ashcroft wasn't exactly Mother Theresa.

I do wonder how awesome the "Omega III supercomputer" would look by today's smartphone standards, however.
I would be interested to see if there is any bias toward state of residence for a school as widely known and respected as CalTech.
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I just came here to say 'Bring back the Razr'
There isn't "the" peace symbol. There is the V handsign, there is the dove, there are various flags such as the rainbow peace flag, and there's the one being discussed here which is a peace sign.

According to [1] the meaning of the upward symbol without the circle is:

"Name: unknown (the rune poems are contradictory). Phoneme: Z. Meaning: protection from enemies, defense of that which one loves."

On Wikipedia, the entry is "Algiz" (z-rune) ᛉ (U+16C9) [2] used in Proto-Germanic and Old English (Anglo Saxon) where it means "elk" or "moose". Old Norse has a version which goes the other way akin to ᛦ where it means "yew" (taxus baccata, a conifer). See Wikipedia for more info.

EDIT: Its been abused by the SS in WWII [3]

EDIT: Another source on Algiz rune [4].

[1] https://norse-mythology.org/runes/the-meanings-of-the-runes/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiz

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_insignia_of_the_Schutzst...

[4] http://www.runemaker.com/futhark/algiz.shtml
Nah. 1 billion dollars is 1/13000th of the American economy.
It would be best if we could decouple documentation from prosecution. The fact that it isn’t is how you end up with situations like that where people can’t talk about rape.
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One of my favorite parts of writing emulators is getting to mess with the internals of the console to change the way the games look or feel. Widescreen hacks, palette swaps, visual enhancements and/or deterioration.

Here are a few random examples I've collected while experimenting:

Playstation upscaling: https://svkt.org/~simias/mednafen/ffix-1xvs2x.gif

OpenGL debugging gone wild that turned Spyro into LSD dream emulator mode: https://svkt.org/~simias/mednafen/disco.webm

Metal Gear Solid without textures: https://svkt.org/~simias/mednafen/RetroArch-0131-170156.png

Crash Bandicoot in Wireframe: https://svkt.org/~simias/rustation/crash-wf.png

Metroid II "widescreen" hack: https://svkt.org/~simias/metroid-ws.webm

Super Mario Land with fixed background (and terrible audio): https://svkt.org/~simias/mario-warp.ogv

The possibilities are endless and it sometimes lets you discover some clever tricks the devs used to work around the limitations of the time, such as Spyro's skybox being made entirely out of non-textured polygons: https://svkt.org/~simias/rustation/spyro-moon-bg.png https://svkt.org/~simias/rustation/spyro-moon-bg-wf.png

A similar trick is used in Crash Team Racing and the Homeworld PC game (or was it Homeworld 2? I don't remember).
Gotta love Benin's flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin
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If their corporate taxes are lower than in your country (after calculating for what you have to pay according to the double taxation agreement the two countries have) then it's worth it opening your company there.

Depends on how high the corporate taxes are in your country. If it's worth it, the big advantage is that everything can be done online.
OpenBSD's filesystem restriction utility is starting to be implemented in the base system. This first large commit from Theo de Raadt is intended to give an example of the intended usage of unveil(2).
All other Amiga "accelerators" from back in the day, tell, (by setting a pin low or high or something) the original CPU to stay quiet and off.
Maybe the bad idea is insisting in having a classical physics pictorical interpretation when there's no reason why there should be one. At some point having just Maths is the more reasonable outlook.
Oh man, you just gave me a flashback to the buffer underrun days in the mid 90s. Even moving the mouse in Windows 95 could cause a bad burn and render a (then expensive) CD-R useless. I’m glad that was short lived.
I think at least in Europe the Switch will be much bigger than VR just because of the space requirement.

Here you are lucky if you have a large flat let alone a whole room to use for VR and this is even more true in the younger groups (say less than 30 years old) that might typically buy the new high-tech gadget.

For example, many Millenials are sharing flats and if your roommate wants to watch TV you can just pick up your Switch and go play somewhere else. How many people will have the space required for VR?
This is true most of the time, but if it's necessary to keep the ads flowing, I think most ad-supported sites will update very quickly.
As much as I love smartphones, the razr was such a great phone. I miss smaller phones in my pocket. I still have my Razr. Do they still make those size SIM cards anymore?
Your formulation doesn't work well if games are allowed to be infinite, because standard propositional logic doesn't handle formulae of infinite length.

There is something called the Axiom of Determinacy which states that all two-player games of perfect information have a winning strategy for one player. This axiom applies to games of any length, including all types of uncountable infinities. The Axioms of Choice and Determinancy are incompatible; if one of them is true, the other can be proven false.

I don't know if this is related to what GP was talking about, but it reminded me.
There are VHDL or Verilog implementations of Amiga gfx/audio (see Minimig) but I wouldn't be surprised if the Apollo people want to do their own. After all, the (spiritual) successor, Natami, was to be compatible but greatly enhanced in the chipset front.
When I was born in 1988 the hospital gave the wrong baby to my mother to bring home. She realized pretty quickly and they corrected the mistake. I’m sure this doesn’t happen much anymore, but had she not realized she probably wouldn’t have ever known. Obviously that mixup would affect my dad too.
The Boston Dynamics robots don’t have the computational AI equivalence of even a fruit fly - and not even that by many orders of magnitude. Dogs use their intelligence for an awful lot more than just walking around objects.

Dogs have complex social hierarchies and social behaviour, a wide range of emotional responses, they communicate, participate in group tactical hunting activities requiring planning and executing coordinated attacks, they exhibit sexual behaviour, they can learn to respond to audible and visual commands. They are also vastly more agile than the Boston dynamics robots, able to climb three dimensional environments, jump through gaps and swim, and they can practice and independently choose to learn to do these things entirely autonomously.
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Hi Erik, thanks for the mention! Glad you had such a positive experience. Definitely think the market has improved for sellers in recent years - we are seeing more and more deals with competitive bidding and multiple buyers involved.

Completely agree regarding getting financial and technical affairs in order. However and wherever you try to sell, this element is essential. Expect a broker/M&A firm to do a lot of the legal legwork for you but you still need a reliable and practical attorney.
I can see using their service for things I just want to try out (eg VR glasses, game console) or which I need for a specific project (eg 3d printer, high end camera, all sorts of tools).

This is not a novel concept, there are already companies serving these markets. I don't think it's ridiculous to try to become the default option for all of them at the same time.
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...Jews and Asians have no ambition beyond a comfy middle class lifestyle?
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My mom just recently got a Alcatel GO FLIP which is one of the first phones with KaiOS. I messed around with it a little and was very impressed by the OS. If you're wanting to get a dumbphone, but not go back 20 years in technological advancement, check out KaiOS phones.
Or for the Sarbanes Oxley rules. We often run into headaches at my office because our second check signer is a general manager based in Canada 75% of the time which ends up holding up any checks over $1k.
Even if there were open RISC-V designs out there you'd need a way to make sure it's actually the design that's etched on the chip. It seems like a hard problem to solve. Even FPGAs (and their closed source toolchains) could be backdoored.
> This sort of attitude was even pretty commonly stated in the media only a few decades ago.

So not today? A few decades ago? We are talking about western society today, not in the past.

> Please retract that accusation of lying and apologise immediately.

Why would I retract a correct statement and apologise for being honest and truthful? Why are you asking me to apologize when your response actually backed up my assertion?
You mean like the free version not tied to O365 that they have already released? https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat...

Multi Accounts, sure, but that is simple and easy for them to implement.
yeah partner or raise a bunch of funding -- that gets you into the circles necessary to get seen as a potential takeover target.
I am not sure over 300,000 women a year in the US is 'almost no'. That sure looks like many to me. With an estimate of somewhere in the 7-12,000 a year having children as a result. And something like 1 in 6 having been raped in their life time. Yes those are estimates, but still a significant number.

Edit Source: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence
Advertising is the psychological manipulation of your vulnerable mammal brain with the intent of tricking you into doing something which you wouldn't do absent that advert, and doing so for your detriment and for the advertiser's gain. I recognise exceptions, but I would say 95% of advertising falls into this description. In the end, it's about tricking you into making poor choices, bad for you, bad for others, bad for the planet and general society. Make you consume more, and make bad lifestyle choices.

In this sense of "manipulation", it's an attack on my freedoms. Everywhere I go, whether I want it or not, I am assaulted by posters, videos, TV ads, Web ads, outdoors, sound speakers, and all other varieties of advertising. Whether I consent to it or not, I have people subtly implanting ideas on my brain. Ideas that I'm fat, ugly, that all the fun is happening somewhere else, that other families are all happy and wonderful, and that all of my yearnings and insecurities are solvable by having a Coke or whatever. It's insidious. They make people feel bad about their body, insecure about their families and love lives, all to make you drink sugary crap that will most likely harm your health. All of this bombardment of my vulnerable primitive mammal brain, I stress, happens without my consent.

EDIT: I don't know if I was eloquent enough to communicate well my feelings about this. It's early, forgive me. :p
Go is my daily driver. With that said, I love Rust. I even tried to switch my team to Rust for a short while, and used it as my main personal language for ~8Mo or so. My decisions to stick with Go were mainly the following:

1. For work, my team just wasn't going to switch to Rust. From a Python shop, Go has enough pushback. Which tells you a lot about my shop lol. I'm still holding out for Rust on a future project that I think can't be Go, and has to be Rust.

2. For work and home, Go just feels easier and faster in mental overhead with the exception of one thing[1]. Which ultimately means if I need to blindly program my way through a vague feature description, and then find out it's way different than they said, it's easier to refactor and retroactively fix a bad design in Go than Rust.

3. For work and home, Rust had a terrible dev UX when cross compiling HTTPS. I was trying to cross compile my HTTPS Rust binary, an easy task in Go, and in Rust it was a massive headache. In Go it's an afterthought. This will improve in time I'm sure, but the easiest solution in Rust was to not do it, compile on the platform it's running on.

[1]: As said, I find Go to have less overhead than Rust; Except, for any type of optional value. Go's lack of enum types and Rust's Option<> is a huge blow for me. I absolutely love Option in Rust.
> and that it is therefore an anti-Christian sign.

Various Christian church segments, including ones related to protestantism, were pro-peace/anti-war/anti-violence such as the Quakers in the USA [1] See also the Wikipedia entry peace churches [2].

I happen to know the peace movement in The Netherlands (with Nijmegen being an important center) was entwined with the hippie movement, and consisted of religious Christians. Not solely though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_movement#Historic_peace_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_churches
The DARE officers that came to my elementary school down south in the 90s called it a “broken cross” and a likely gang symbol.
ivy league educations are obviously a very scarce good. is it really so wrong to want to limit the amount of unambitious professionals they matriculate?

i was a smart enough kid that i probably could have done well academically at an ivy league school, but the whole time i was in college i knew i had no loftier goals than just getting a nice job as a software engineer and enjoying my time after work. there are hundreds of good state schools that do a great job preparing you for this kind of life if you put in the work. a spot at a school like MIT would honestly have been wasted on me, even though i was likely "smart enough" to be there.
> a small 5# process cheese cooker.

Things like this make me wish I had a more rural lifestyle and had the space for stuff like this. Cooking is great and all, you can do an awful lot with just tools you can store in a kitchen. But experimenting with ingredients, and man, tools is a whole 'nother level.

YouTube channels like Alex French Guy Cooking where he makes his own mozzarella, worked with other YouTube makers to create the best pasta roller ever made, a massive, amazing meat tenderizing mallet, and just the YouTube makers in general almost have me wanting to rent my one bedroom condo out so I can go live out in the sticks and buy cheap tools like a small 5# process cheese cooker, tear off my shirt and Hulk-transform into a mad scientist.
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> What do you mean by "extra money"?

In my original comment I'm suggesting that employers needing to pay out the salary of parents as they go on leave because they've had a child produces perverse incentives, and suggesting that things would be better off if the state was obligated to pay for that salary instead.

This "Elterngeld" policy you've linked to describes something entirely different, at least in some countries. That Wikipedia article seems to conflate many different types of policies.

In e.g. France this just seems to be an allowance system unrelated to however the French handle paid paternity and maternity leave (I'm not familiar with if/how they do that). According to the news article on the BBC which Wikipedia links to the German system is something similar.

> Also, are you against employer-mandated leave too?

I'm not sure I understand that. Am I against employers getting to decide if and when you go on leave?

Yeah I can't see how that's a good idea, especially in the context of paternity or maternity leave. It should be up to the state to set that policy, and then you should have a right to make use of it. Your employer shouldn't be mandating anything.

But that topic is entirely unrelated to my original comment, which is how you fund the leave once it happens.

> In Germany, the employer doesn't cover
> any significant percentage.

So in Germany the Elterngeld is all you're getting? Given the money caps mentioned in the Wikipedia article that seems rather low, around 25K/yr.

But in in case, I was referring to Sweden and Norway which according to that article have some system based on a percentage of salary, although I see now that that could mean that 80% is all you're getting, instead of the employer paying the remaining 20%. I don't know which it is.

In any case, I feel all of this is getting lost in the weeds, and not at all discussing what I think is the interesting point I brought up, namely that if there's countries that run their policies as I was suggesting, have there been studies of how that impacted workplace discrimination when it comes to companies e.g. being more reluctant to hire women they think might get pregnant soon?
Because the fans of the PC spun up so much in turbo mode,

That's interesting, because 286s and 386s normally didn't even have heatsinks. Did they wire the turbo button to the fan of the PSU?

IIRC, heatsinks were showing up on low-frequency 486s and heat sinks with fans on 486s >= 50MHz. I think (but may misremember) that most 486 fans were also always running at the same speed.

(Not contesting your statement, just wondering what weird beast your first PC was ;).)
I don't know if this is still true, but I imagine it is because of the latency inherent in modern computers - a JIT-ed emulator is kind of "jittery".

Old school computer are pretty slow, but they react faster than our modern computers.

There was this comparison of "time to first character" or something like that - when you press a button, how long is it until you see a character on screen? IIRC old school computers like Apple II and Amigas won over Intel Core i* monsters.

edit: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-latency-problem-why-modern-gamin...
for the noob like me, how does this compare to setting a permissions or ownership bit on a folder?
Is there a formal proof of that yet? (Not being sarcastic, genuinely curious)
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I mean, what he said IS tecnically correct. You can easily fit a 256-bit key in a 128GB micro SD.

Sure, there will be a lot of space left, but what he said is technically correct :D
For that particular point, yes, a demonstration would suffice.
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Thomas from FE International here, thanks for the mention! Most SaaS deals are being done with cash buyers at the moment so generally no need to work with a buyer who needs external financing (e.g. SBA). I know there are some firms who push SBA on most of their deals, but it's a slow process and unpredictable in comparison to a cash buyer, of which there are many.

Also wanted to clarify that we do not literally share buyer lists with others in the space. I expect there is some crossover, particularly from regular industry commentators but not as much as you might think. Our on and offline presence is on a completely different scale to the others.

At FE we have over 30,000 investors in our network and not that many overlap with other firms in the industry as we only specialize in SaaS, e-commerce and content businesses, so have a highly targeted audience. Our buyers like working with us because we are well-known for only listing high quality, vetted businesses and follow a very consistent process each time. Serious buyers like a predictable process and that's what we provide.
The interesting story for me here (and I've been following it for years) is not that people have built an accelerator for the Amiga. It's that the Apollo folks have built out an advanced modern 680x0-compatible core. Given that NXP/Freescale have stopped producing new Coldfire architecture MCU and MPUs and the 68k series itself is dead years ago, this is really great. It's good work, and benefits not just the Amiga community (and other classic 68k machines like the Atari ST) but anybody who wants to continue to experiment and work with the 68k architecture, or upgrade any kind of legacy system.

I also understood that there was work happening on a from-scratch system that could run as an Amiga and potentially Atari ST compatible as well and would not require legacy hardware at all. I'd pay money for that.

That said, I doubt they could get away with licensing it for $$ in quantities, I suspect that they'd run into legal problems at that point. But who knows?
India has a huge instinctive reaction against population control strategies, especially ones funded by the West. They tried your idea in the 1970s and it lead to lots of forced sterilizations by the government/police. See https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790 for a small view of the problem.
Nothing of what you are saying is something blockchain technology addresses.
If you're talking about the A600 version that sits on top of the original 68k, it's disabled and never used for anything.
Imagine if the lottery produced only White and Asian males being accepted. The meltdown and tears that a even a less than 0.01% event would cause prevents the lottery concept. I personally agree that a lottery is a valid suggestion but I don't think it would ever happen, at least completely random without "supervision"
0.06% of ACT takers scored perfectly in 2013. A smaller percentage get a perfect score on the SAT. I don't think the problem is the test is too easy.

The problem is there are 400 million people in the USA, and the 1-2% of entering freshmen across the country having high scores mostly apply to the same few schools.