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If the going wage of an employee with some skill is X and you decide to pay some arbitrary amount above X, how do you fill your ranks? What's a fair system? You have 10 equally qualified people going for 1 job.

One way is to make decisions based on non-economical conditions, such as attractiveness or familial connection.

Another way is lottery, which I admit is more fair, but it's still not fair to those that are willing to do the job for a lower wage than someone who got the job. It's okay to compete for a job by promising to work harder, but somehow negotiating a lower salary is unacceptable?

And the other big problem with paying above market wages is that it often introduces a middle man. Since you're swamped with applications, you hire a firm to sort everything out. The firm takes a cut as well and normally ends up bringing down the employees wage to the market wage. On the extreme, if the job is so lucrative, the middle man requires payment or a portion perpetual of the salary for the job placement. This happens in cruise lines:

> Long hours and subsistence wages are part of their contracts, as is the threat of being fired without notice or cause. Yet people from some of the world's poorest nations are so eager for work that some pay middlemen the equivalent of a month's wages to get these jobs, a fee that violates international law.

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/24/us/sovereign-islands-spec...
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I grew up reading physics from Mir Titles. Really effective in teaching.

Here is a great resource for Books. https://mirtitles.org/
They didn't make for good home computers. In college in 1991-1992, I was an operator for VAX/VMS mainframes, and some HP and DEC minicomputers. I wanted something to play around with at home, so I bought some surplus stuff that the school was auctioning. I can't remember exactly what I got, but it was a rack-mount DEC machine that weighed 100lbs or so, along with a similar-sized hard drive unit (that only held about 8MB).

The thing needed a 220V outlet, sounded like a jet turbine, and probably drew a few thousand watts. And it was less powerful than the i386 desktop I had (running early Linux).

It's a neat idea, but not practical or pleasant.
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Or that their tiny bubble doesn’t know enough about the real world to be careful with things like this.
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Currently they laptops are based on clevo devices with lots of work added on top. But they stated that laptops will be the next step after desktops. Just don't hold your breath as it gets a lot harder at that form factor
True.

Then at least we had in both cases humans for whom there is God that they will ultimately share similar cultures ("do not kill when not needed", "may share similar feelings",...)

With aliens this is a whole different perspective. I am personally not excited to find out how our worlds may or may not be compatible.
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In any case such a tool may warn the user against its potential echo chamber effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_%28media%29
>I'm surprised that not everyone has figured this out.

has this just not been obvious from the start?
Is the person who assembled your phone or sewed your T-shirt exploited? Whether or not it is exploitation, it is capitalism, and it has worked this way since the beginning.
> Gab would like to use Stripe or Paypal because they are trusted payment providers, but those networks felt they'd stop being trusted payment providers if they let Gab stay on.

That's an extreme simplification that borders on deceptive. No one is going to stop using Paypal and Stripe because they support a platform. Maybe if they were processing payments for ISIS, but Alex Jones isn't ISIS.

No, Paypal and Stripe were given orders from above and this is them carrying out those orders.

> I'm glad our internet is enough of a distributed commons that many platforms are broadly accessible -- but nobody owes you an audience at the most popular ones.

This would only make sense if there wasn't an active campaign to shut out smaller platforms in order to control the ecosystem. What is the point of making a sound if no one is around to hear it?

Saying people should just change platforms is like saying people should just change internet companies. Sure, HughesNet might be an alternative to the only worthwhile provider in my area, but you can't say with a straight face that the experience is comparable. You're dismissing the problems other people face in getting their voices heard because it doesn't directly affect you. It's easy to take the high road with the deplatforming debate but only if you ignore the bigger picture.
Few thoughts: For me personally, I experience a lot of ego depletion during the day. But having kids tends to do that. There's no way I can write at the end of the day, I'm just way to mentally tired. Also as someone who both codes and writes, writing is far more emotionally taxing. Coding is problem solving - there is usually a clear path to follow and I generally know when I've solved a problem. Writing for me is unclear and amorphous. There is almost never a road map, and I never really know when I've "finished." Finally, I think that lark/owl stereotypes are overblown. Up through college, I was absolutely an owl and did my best work from 10pm to 2am. Once I entered the workforce, I was forced into becoming a lark and after a painful transition, loved mornings and did my best work from 6am to 10am. 18 years later, I'm still a "lark" but from time to time, I have to pull late nights and my "owl" tendencies come back quite easily for short periods of time. But I need 8-9 hours of sleep... I can't do both lark and owl at the same time. I think studies show that the vast majority of people are in the middle - neither larks nor owls, and for those people, I believe you can train yourself to be whichever one you want.
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There are a couple of things that are important. First, (and it's a bit of a catch 22), because the trains are almost never late, they always stop at the same platform according to the schedule. When passengers go to catch a train, they always know ahead of time what platform to go to. This massively reduces people rushing about to catch the train.

On the platforms, there are indications where the doors will be when the train stops. The trains always stop in exactly the same place. Waiting passengers line up on the platform just in front of where the doors will be. They often paint a box on the pavement to show where to line up and people stand in those boxes -- moving down the platform to an box that isn't too full.

When the train stops, waiting passengers move to either side of the door. They wait until all passengers have exited the train before trying to board the train themselves. Japan is a rule following culture. You can't grow up here without having that drilled into your head. People then find it common sense to wait for their turn rather than trying to get on the train early.

People on the train line up in front of the doors. People who are not getting off the train move into the centre of the cars. Again: rule following culture, common sense, etc.

Finally, Japan is not particularly litigious. If you try to get on/off the train when the doors are closing, it doesn't stop closing for you. It closes hard. I swear they even open it a bit and then slam it shut on you again on purpose. It hurts. Basically, it's your penalty for being a dumb ass ;-) You literally can not hold the door open. It will keep crashing shut on you until you get out of the way.

The last point I can think about at the moment is that they keep track of statistics and set the schedules based on data, not hope. I was at the train station the other day and noticed that one of the train's schedule ran 1 minute later during rush hour than when it was not so busy. This is to accommodate the passengers getting on and off, presumably. That's the precision of their schedules -- 1 minute makes a difference to them. In the UK, the train isn't even officially late unless it is more than 10 minutes late and I think that's 90% of their problem.
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I've got a pretty big problem with the speech too!

I don't understand how people can claim on one hand that Instagram/Facebook/Whatever is making people more superficial while at the same time claim that people encouraging each other to be violently racist has no effect at all.
On paper, at least.

Marketing's probably up there.
Playing devil's advocate, I've found the feature useful for meme pages and university groups. However, I think they should add another tap to the process as it's too easy to send accidental invites on mobile.
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I enjoyed using it in college during my programming language theory course. However, I thought it was meant to be more of an academic/teaching language. Why should a company use it over Haskell or Clojure?
You should at least try to come up with an alternative headline that conveys to the average reader what is happening here, because "labeling data for machine learning" is not something that works either.

"Poor Kenyans are training A.I. for big tech"
Although not nearly as specific or targeted, Stack Exchange runs a number of sites (interpersonal relationships, parenting, workplace) that usually have much higher quality questions and answers due to their strong moderation. I agree that there’s a void to be filled between Reddit and SE in terms of amount (and quality) of moderation, but both options are much less intrusive than Facebook and allow you to remain anonymous.
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You can't undo screws, remove a connector, and put the screws back? Granted it's harder now that they've purposefully made it ridiculously hard so you take it to their repair centers but it's not like replacing a screen or battery required a PhD before...
You are mistaking "good faith" for satisfying others' entitlement

The spirit of your complaint here is "there should be a reasonably easy path for me to widely distribute my message without getting the rug pulled out from under me". There is exactly one way to distribute your message, and whether it is easy or hard is up to you. That is: satisfy the requirements of every platform you build on top of, and fill in the rest by creating your own infrastructure and audience.

I believe in common spaces, and like I said I am glad that if you drill down far enough you will find distributed* protocols that aren't opinionated about your content. Feel free to start there and build an ecosystem and audience - that is how the world discovers who wants to participate in a particular kind of dialogue.

The * is that of course central censorship exists at the Telecom and government levels. I (directly) support distributed private protocols to ensure that people can choose to find the information they want as easily as possible. But doing so emphatically doesn't and shouldn't guarantee you an audience.
So, I've never taken two full time jobs in a traditional sense. But, when I was starting my consultancy I took on two full time projects. The ONLY reason this worked was that I was able to control meeting days, hours and set expectations accordingly. So as a consultant, yes I was working two 35hr weeks (sometimes more) but I had control over the work schedule (mostly) and had the ability to say no to certain demands without harm. And there was never an expectation I was "only" working on company Y since they knew I was running an agency. I distinctly never called myself a freelancer even when it was just me starting it out, because then they just treat you like an employee they don't have to give benefits too.

So that all said, could you pull it off for a year? Yea, you probably could, but the personal toll it will take on you will be high and the chances of you upsetting one or both is pretty high since you won't control your schedule or meeting times etc. And what happens when the remote employer has an emergent issue and you are at your other full time position, you cannot ethically use employer #1's equipment, network or bandwidth to benefit employer #2. In fact it is generally a terminating offense if you did so without their knowledge and blessing.

My recommendation is don't do it as an FTE. And even as a consultant it took a major tool on me the first couple years I had to do that while I was hiring people. But I had to build up the reserves to hire people, so it was the cost of wanting to be in business for myself.
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I agree with your rephrasing that housing cannot both outpace inflation and remain affordable indefinitely, but I disagree that it is identical in content to the article's core argument.

Now I'm just picking nits I suppose.
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"1. ((...)) LISP used to be superior to everything else but modern languages have caught up in most areas. LISP still has a few special tricks ((...)) but these are rarely needed in everyday programming."
and
"3. ((...)) You will get awesome results very fast and can do things that would be really hard in other languages."
can both be true?
“Gab would like to use Stripe or Paypal because they are trusted payment providers, but those networks felt they'd stop being trusted payment providers if they let Gab stay on.”

No. Surely not. Those networks felt they’d stop being cool or PC or untargetted by hordes of angry people, or something. But being seen as a trusted payment provider? That’s not threatened in the least, except by kicking people off. So he’s right. They did the one thing that hurt their image in the one place that matters for them.

That’s not to say that businesses should only care about the bottom line, but you’ve definitely got this backward.
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I would consider a new name.

Ace/ACE is maybe the most overused name or acronym out there. There are over a dozen entries in the Wikipedia disambiguation page in the computing subsection alone. And that doesn't count other domains and non-public projects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_(disambiguation)
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There is an overwhelming consensus among people who study the subject that protectionism has a negative effect on economic growth and economic welfare [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Even interventionist economists like Paul Krugman strongly agree, and they have tried to explain why free trade is a good thing to an ignorant public. It is shameful that so many people feel obligated to opine strongly on a subject which they don't understand, causing bad policies to be enacted.

Protectionism makes society worse off. The policy you are proposing would make the world poorer.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/upshot/economists-actuall...

[2] https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2004/09/...

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117691

[4] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/free-trade

[5] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/import-duties

[6] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/trade-within-europe
Intellectual life only became professionalised in the 20th century. So no, that's not the implication.

Marx was funded by Engels, whose father owned a factory in Manchester. Darwin was funded by his parents.

Thankfully, scholars no longer need to depend upon the wealth of their parents and connections.
Deflation is the critical component of human progress. Economic cycles and interest rates can make it difficult to see the long term, underlying trends. This becomes very destructive when governments pursue policies which pretend otherwise.

I'm generalizing a great deal without providing examples, because it is such a large topic and economics is filled with misleading theories. In the simplest example, when prices are flat or declining, if you want to do well financially you have to be more productive, produce more and/or better products. When prices just go straight up, borrowing money and buying assets is "profitable."

This stuff is really obvious for those of us who have been in technology a few decades but I can understand why people in other areas are led to believe ideas which aren't very logical.
That's because running #0 copper gauge is expensive. You use the inverter to go from 24 (or 12)V to 110 or 240, run your standard wiring and then wherever you need power you step back down again. It's far more cost effective that way, and much safer as well because the connections do not carry nearly as much current. Even a small resistance will cause a lot of heat at currents in the 10's or even 100's of amps.
> Nobody in this conversation is interested in building gulags or putting the undesirables in them.

For now. That will be step 2
> sleep, aside from any resetting, is also responsible for memory formation

When my son was little, he had to memorize the 13 colonies of the United States for History class. He was getting frustrated that he just couldn't remember them all. I told him to just read through the list again right before he went to bed. He did so and came home from school that day to tell me, "It worked!".
Or gets plugged into an outlet at a campground.
A friend told me a story from the early 80s. He had double majored in CS and Accounting. He was interviewing and the guy told him programming was doomed. EVERY thing he needed he could do with this new fancy spreadsheet. LOL

When I went to school I had to learn assembly language. Even then C was a good replacement for it, but I still see jobs for people who can program assembly. WTF...
As you pointed out, one of the issues is special interests.

But in a rational world, it is obvious that people will use whatever tools at their disposal to improve their chances.

So by definition, any sentient and rational society will have lobbying - anywhere in the universe.

So this is not a bug but a feature. In theory these lobby groups will be dragged to a stale mate by counter lobby groups, but practically the more unethical group will win just because of operational flexibility.

I don’t see any way this worst case out come doesn’t come to pass because of these very issues.

The collective action problem can’t be solved.
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Why would reducing biodiversity cause humans to go extinct? It isn't made clear in the article.

Wouldn't it just cause certain creatures to be more dominant?
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A while ago I found a generator that took an image and a text and tried to use a genetic algorithm to evolve a QR code that looked like (a 2-bit dither of) the image. Unfortunately I’ve since lost the link, but I was quite impressed that it managed to generate a QR code for my then-employer’s URL that looked like their logo. Impressive what’s possible with a lot of error correction.
Which is why it would be great if people stopped linking to them all the time. I've called XKCD the smart persons reaction gif, and just like reaction gifs they are 'fun' in small doses but get extremely annoying in larger doses.
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I lived in Macau for 7 years, which was handed over to China in 1999, but doesn't get fully turned over to China for 49 years after that. There were no Great Firewall issues, but the biggest concern for me living over there was quite simply air pollution. My youngest child was born there, and we left when she was 8 months old to live in Indonesia. I was just looking at the air quality index for Asia before reading this [1]. China is in the high 100s to 300s, and even in rural areas it is not what you would expect. I am in Nyack, NY now where the index is 28 or thereabouts. The air quality in China is a deal breaker for me, even though I find China beautiful. I grew up in Brooklyn, and the air at its worst was no where near China's. I've heard anecdotal comparisons these levels of air quality being equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.

[1] https://aqicn.org/map/#@g/16.3424/114.6094/3z
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Just because a certain principle can be used destructively does not mean the principle itself is flawed.
I think it's underappreciated just how much human labour goes into annotating data fro autonomous vehicles. Scale is a fast growing start-up, with 35 employees and around 10,000 contractors, many based out of India and Africa, who do data annotation for Cruise, Zoox, Lyft, and Nutonomy among others.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/07/scale-whose-army-of-humans...
Here's what Verity Stob has to say about vcses of that era: "Thus the workflow was: connect to the archive, check out and lock a good selection of vital files, edit them a bit, then depart for two weeks in Corfu without releasing locks, secure in the knowledge that, short of guessing your password, any progress on the project by colleagues was effectively prevented. Marvellous.". :-)
This is the Gazelle you are talking about? https://system76.com/laptops/gazelle

With the circa-2009 Acer plastic look? Big plastic air fins, feet that stick out the bottom to stop it sliding into t bad properly, huge (huge) bezel around the screen?

The Oryx looks much more modern - are you sure you aren't talking about that? https://system76.com/laptops/oryx
Larger discussion from 21 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18364518