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lol you got downvoted.... I can't imagine what kind of person wouldn't agree with this statement. Falling for Communism in 1917 is one thing, but falling for it with access to a 20th century history book... well that's a mental disorder.
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But the problem is systemic and it needs to be named directly. Skirting around the edges of the problem, trying to be indirect, will not be effective.
> Here's a practical, measurable definition of "organic": Less pesticide residue on produce.

Most organic produce probably has more pesticide residue than non-organic produce. Definitely more toxic residue than non-organic produce, as it turns out that agrichemical firms want to optimize their pesticides to minimize human harm as opposed to "natural" pesticides that rely on being toxic to everything.
I feel like banks and students should get a choice. A couple of assertions:

A) Interest represents risk as well as the time-value of money

B) A non-dischargeable loan is risk free to the lender.

Given those, there should be two products:

1) Offering a loan dischargeable in bankruptcy, at whatever rate the market will bear.

2) Offering a non-dischargeable loan, with interest capped at the current rate for a 10-Year Treasury Note.

If there's no risk, a bank doesn't get to add it in, and the money is cheap enough that the student can pay it back.

If there's risk, a bank gets to charge whatever they can, and a student has recourse to bankruptcy.
It's listed under known issues:

> The model loves blue clothing. Not quite sure what the answer is yet, but I'll be on the lookout for a solution!
The rationale is here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25443.

>Now that we have the cmd/go "go doc" CLI for getting documentation, does it make sense for x/tools/cmd/godoc to also have CLI support?

>I propose we delete x/tools/cmd/godoc's CLI support and keep it being a web-only tool. Users who want CLI support can use "go doc". Both are shipped with Go releases.

It's a deduplication of code and effort.
I'm a former Arch user who's been using NixOS as my daily-driver at home for about a year now, and I've really enjoyed it, even above Arch (which I'm also a big fan of).

The biggest gain over Arch for me is the safety net it gives you in making configuration changes. Once I've got the machine working, that state can be booted to for as long as I care to keep its pointer around. This means things like kernel upgrades are no longer the anxiety-inducing problem they used to be on Arch for me; if an upgrade fails, I can quickly reboot to the previous state without having to do anything special.

As a result of this, I no longer need to put off kernel upgrades when I'm trying to get something time-sensitive done! To be fair, I was running the ZFS-enabled Arch kernel, which was the cause of most of my problems. However, using the ZFS kernel on NixOS has been anything _but_ problematic; it just works, and keeps working!

Nix/NixOS also makes setting up a new machine just the way I like it a joy. If I move to another machine, need to build a new one, or need to re-image the current one for any reason, my configuration (stored in source control) follows me around without me having to remember all the one-off tweaks I did to make, say, hibernation work correctly.

I haven't yet mastered building packages since I don't find myself needing to compile things from source all that often, but I can certainly feel the pain of learning how to do so; it still feels like quite a mountain to climb before I'd really know what I was doing.
Sincerely, I feel depressed reading that the government is away things to people (as the money ultimately will leave my pocket for that); or that a new drug may solve many problems (as I feel I'll have to do my own research to evaluate these claims now); or that a dog had cancer and lots of people were worried about it; or that Snapchat is getting praised for anything.
Seem to recall belgium is on a list of countries security cleared brits are not supposed to go to. Presumably the relationship between UK and Belgian inteligence is really bad for some reason.

Unreliably, there is a post with a list here, but it is famously true.
https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/countries-that-req...
So is reading your own journal. And yet people write them.

Despite privacy issues, I still think that things sticking around "forever" on the Internet is a good default. Link rot is already a huge problem when you're trying to reference something you read in the past, and that's without auto-expiry.
it’s very reasonable to take out a loan for an income producing asset (like education), as long as the expected return is greater than the cost of the loan.

but those sensible loans have also normalized loans for non-income producing assets, and that’s where it’s better to be able to pay up-front (unless you get an interest rate below inflation or the fed rate).
As you can run Nix on top of any Linux system you can use it wherever you want it.

Some time ago I was having a dependency-hell problem with a C++ program that used particular library versions which were available in Fedora (dev machine) but not Ubuntu (target) - plus there were no static versions of the library to compile the program as a static binary.

So I used nix to build the package for me. It also did not have the right version of one library, but I was able to "fork" the library for my build alone in the same configuration file. Then I was able to nix-copy-closure my program to a remote host, and it copied all dependencies over (and nothing more) and I was able to run it under Ubuntu.

Nix is great. I think it is the more proper solution to the problem people have been trying to fix with Docker.
Do we, as a society want to let the free market decide what education is valuable and what education is not?

Giving lenders a lifetime claim on the maximum wage garnishment is undeniably one of the most backwards ways to decide we don't want to let them pick which educations to fund. But if we want lenders to decide what educations are worth funding, and incentivize them to do so, what factors can they consider?

You might find, for instance, that women get denied such loans more often - perhaps because of the degrees they pursue, or perhaps because they tend to get paid less. Is that fair?

Again saddling somebody with a lifetime of debt (that will never, realistically, get repaid) because of an idealistic choice they made as a teenager feels like one of the most idiotic solutions possible to this problem. It encourages constant tuition creep because there's always more money to throw at it.

But there is a lot of risk in letting a small cabal of lenders (as would inevitably emerge if it hasn't already) decide exactly who gets to have what educations.
You mean if Verizon can run anything any longer. Verizon would probably nuke Flickr if they still had it.
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It really depends on how much you are dependent on third parties that don't update. I've been stalled at 3.5 then 4.5 waiting on my dependencies in the past.
So is the University of Oregon in Portland or Eugene?
But also a consequence of having to float on top of non-free/uncontrollable base libraries. The only reason Nix works so well on Linux is because it can be in control of everything down to the kernel. For (presumably) this reason, nixpkgs will tend to only work well for one macos release at a time. There were also no pre-built binary packages for macos last I checked, so, having to build everything, if one dependency has a slightly flaky build procedure, it spells trouble.
Absolutely. I'm planning to move into full-time freelancing work next year, and health care is the most unsettling part of this move. It's the most unpredictable aspect of moving into a full-time freelancing role.
Sure; I’m mostly fine with ponying up... my biggest issue is I don’t see much out there even worth paying (especially with my macbook; most things seem to have an equivalent or better OSS alternative, especially if you’re not constrained to the gui [where OSS is usually ugly as sin]). Even in games, the only mobile game I’ve ever thought to pick up was King of Dragon Pass, and that was just because I already knew it’d work well on a phone

As long as that budget isn’t comprised of a single photoshop license, I’m interested to know what you’ve thought was worth grabbing.
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Is there a simple text transcript of the full interview anywhere?
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It kills the browser on my old tablet, presumably from using too much memory (as the same browser version on my smartphone has no issue with it).
Another fascinating thing about NixOS is their system of automated integration tests for the whole distribution. You can quite easily set up declarative virtual machines with Nix expressions, and the test suites use this in very cool ways.

Graham Christensen mentions some of these tests here: https://grahamc.com/blog/an-epyc-nixos-build-farm

> The NixOS release process is novel in that package updates happen automatically as an entire cohesive set. We of course test that specific software compiles properly, but we are also able to perform fully automatic integration tests. We test that the operating system can boot, desktop environments work, and even server tests like validating that our MySQL server replication is still working. These tests happen automatically on every release and is a unique benefit to the Nix build system being applied to an operating system.

> These tests use QEMU and KVM, and spawn one or more virtual machines running NixOS.

He goes on to describe

(1) the KDE desktop test that boots a real graphical environment and uses scripted OCR to detect activity;

(2) the MySQL replication test that verifies correct replication between three separate MySQL servers on three separate virtual machines; and

(3) a BitTorrent test that starts four virtual machines—namely one tracker with Apache serving a torrent file, one NAT router with UPnP (!), two peers of which one is routed through the NAT—and verifies the full process of peer 1 downloading from the seeder and peer 2 downloading from peer 1.

Those tests can all run automatically on a build server for every commit to the package tree... it's quite something!

The whole BitTorrent test is a 116-line Nix expression that's eminently pleasant to read: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/49a6964a4250d98644da61...
Count number of days spent golfing.
In theory, sure, sounds good. But the facts on the ground matter more than theory.

The first fact is that there is precious little voter fraud of the type that can be stopped by voter ID laws. Did you hear about the woman from Texas who was recently convicted and sentenced to prison for it? You know why it was in the news? Because it's that rare.

So whatever the costs of more stringent restrictions at the ballot box are, they have to be borne by some pretty slim benefits. And the costs are pretty severe. Thousands of the Native Americans in North Dakota don't have the kind of residential address required by the law, passed by Republicans shortly after a Democrat one her Senate race by 3,000 votes with strong Native American support.

And for many of the ones who do have a residential address, the address the state has on record for them is off by enough to theoretically trigger the provisions of the law, making it unlawful to cast their ballots. I.e., their actual address doesn't match what the government thinks it is, so either they illegally provide the matching address or legally provide the correct address and get their ballot rejected.

Some sort of voter registration obviously makes sense, but do you think this particular law is a good one? Further, do you think it was passed with good intentions?
Solution: Reduce the amount of debt available. Cheap and easy school loans are what pushed up tuitions. They're not going to decline until the easy money disappears.
Would be cool if you didn't have to use your mouse so much. Kept having to click the next box to select it.
I would say that many millennials made a decision based on information that perhaps wasn't true, and perhaps was given even in bad faith.

Source: am a millennial and experienced the huge pressure to go to college, especially an expensive one.
Why ANYONE would sit down with this proud misandrist is beyond me.

Here she is being a jerk to the Pod Save America guys for no reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izdFyZn_7zI

Also, Kara Swisher is an absolutely horrid interviewer.

She is combative for no reason, nasty to no end and a shit stirrer with no real aim.

She has no basis in reality no grip of technicals and has the one goal of "attacking" anything that is not just like her.
It says "IO Voltages: Both 3.3 V or 5 V supported" under the features tab.
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I've never been sure what to make of this argument.

There are definitely lots of 'tells' that someone is restricting their visibility, most obviously disabled JS. And I'm acutely aware that those things mark a person as interesting to corporate tracking, in the same way that searching for Tor and Tails flags people for government tracking. But it's hard for me to believe that the tradeoff isn't worth it.

First, because automated surveillance happens in bulk: not standing out from the crowd is no longer proof against observation. (The Panopticon metaphor is if anything behind the times; that only created the fear of constant visibility, not the reality of it.)

Second, because it's not clear to me that corporations take more interest in obfuscated users. Not only do they take more effort and overhead to fingerprint, they're quite likely to be worse business prospects. Using a VPN tells governments you're up to something interesting, but using uBlock tells ad networks that... I hate ads and am unlikely to click on them. In general, I expect that obfuscation signals that someone is a bad target for advertising and provides minimal information about their value as a customer service recipient.

That said, I've been expecting for years now that somebody will get cute and start profiling privacy-aware users for separate targeting. If they've got JS disabled and Firefox up to date and sending DNT, maybe it'd be more profitable to replace tracked JS ads with text-only TripleByte ads or something?
GitHub having issues again
What’s the state of freelance and entrepreneurship in countries where there is a socialized healthcare system? I think this would be easy to look up for places like Canada, UK, France etc?
For those curious, the methodology is on slide 3 here: https://www.slideshare.net/upwork/freelancing-in-america-201...

I am genuinely surprised. 7% in 5 years is really not that much, especially given the constant media articles talking about the massive proliferation of the "gig economy."

Yet another example of the difference between reality and reporting.
What frameworks treat HTML as an output format, and what is the input? When I see samples of React code, all the HTML (in the form of JSX) is still handwritten, just combined dynamically.
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it actually doesn't because you can actually make a rule, and then the application will falollow it from that point on with no more notifications. The rule can include wild cards for parts of the hostname, or the IP address, or the port, or both
His statement is particularly hyperbolic given that no one has shown a working side channel attack on a Ryzen CPU that relied on SMT. The article is littered with repetitions of suspicion, but there hasn't been any relevant code or results published anywhere to my knowledge.
Kara Swisher is a terrible interviewer. She was terrible here [1], and she was terrible in this interview. You have an hour with Elon Musk and you ask what BFR means again (knowing the answer) and don't know that they attempt to catch fairings? Why does she always look like she did not do her research? Why do I never learn anything new if she interviews?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsixsRI-Sz4
> "This is the main reason we released the exploit -- to show how reproducible it is," Brumley told us, "and help to kill off the SMT trend in chips."

Maybe what we should be killing off instead is exporting everything to the cloud and running untrusted native code willy nilly.
> Billions of people who can access and contribute to Google Map's place information via its website

This is both good and bad for Google Maps. Scammers have polluted Google Maps with bad locksmith entries: https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/78-very-quickly-to-the...
The variance is more important than the EV.

An individual human is N=1. It's a single trial. You only live once. ;)

An example would be taking out a mortgage. The highest EV is generally mortgaging yourself to the hilt. But in various circumstances, you'll then lose everything.

Oh, and during the period you've basically given yourself a guaranteed annual cost you can't discharge without potentially taking huge losses on a house. (In the student loan example, you stay for the period, or you get no fancy bit of paper at all).
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> bankruptcy would be a start?

Yes. This is the start and the end. Bankruptcy will stop lenders from making predatory loans. It puts risk on both sides.

Tuition costs will naturally (and quickly) drop. Because there will be fewer people able to pay a crazy loan fueled price without a crazy loan given to them.
How many Go versions is it going to take for that slide viewer to work on mobile?
I can see this being very useful while on foot or using Find My Friends. Obviously it is much less important while use the map for driving directions.
It "fundamentally works", but it's so crappy that it doesn't work in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooking#Cookware

You are not crazy.
Did you miss the last twenty years of Distrowatch?
> I think I would follow your preferences and focus on new research and development (like cancer research, or cheaper drugs/prosthetics, etc.).

This very quickly devolves into pop-sci clickbait. Cancer gets solved roughly 3 times a week, along with Alzheimer's and every other scary sounding disease. And our battery capacity somehow goes up by an order of magnitude a few times a month. And so on.

Journalism is just broken in the internet age. Clickbait is more profitable than reality. Anger inducing clickbait is the most profitable of all.
> Lenders [...] should not be absolved of blame or have less outrage directed at them.

I was with you until this point.

What part do you blame them for? The federal loan guarantees were created for the express purpose of allowing people who otherwise couldn't get the loans to get them. The lenders are doing exactly what they're supposed to, and would be expected.

Lenders should be in the position of determining risk, but it's not their fault federal policy means they don't need to. They're not the ones raising the costs of higher education, they're just facilitating them as intended and expected.

If your outrage is directed at the lenders, you're barking up the wrong tree. Put the lenders back in the business of evaluating risk (like they do for home, auto, business, and other loans) and they'll do that.
I don’t want lenders at all. Higher education is a public good in the same way k-12 is. I’m in favor of free higher education for qualified people.