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Yes, I do work at Facebook. I'm not going to get into some protracted argument about whether that makes me a bad person, or already was, but I'd like to give you something to think about.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that we can neatly divide tech workers into good and bad. Likewise for companies. All categories are non-empty, and certain to remain so. What's the optimal assignment of workers to companies? Is it never beneficial for a good person to work at a bad company, perhaps making it less bad? Is it never harmful for a bad person to work at a good company, perhaps making it less good? Is it better to have all of the bad people concentrated at a few companies, or distributed throughout the industry?

Once you start thinking about it, I think you'll see that the Manichaean "entirely and immutably good or entirely and immutably bad" model just isn't very useful. Maybe we should talk about good vs. bad behaviors instead of demonizing (or for that matter idolizing) people - especially large groups of people in aggregate.
dude, how hard is this to understand? if a group of dudes with guns were to rock up to your house and say 'get out, this is our house now', you would not be able to do shit unless you somehow go john wick on them. the monopoly of violence and enforcement of rules within a territory (a state) is the foundation necessary for property rights.

just because we don't walk on all fours and smell urine for information doesn't mean that we would not revert back to aggression and dominance if you remove all manmade recourses for settling disputes and enforcing property rights. why on earth would you think people would respect ownership of goods when you can just take what you want through intimidation? all ordered systems are at the mercy of entropy and it takes effort (i.e. the state) to maintain such order. it only takes one person to step out of line in times of anarchy for others to realise that it makes no sense to cooperate and follow rules when there is no one to enforce them, sending the whole system back into chaos.
This article strikes me as a mish-mash of moderately interesting insights, and stuff that's completely off-base. But this bit stands out as worthy of further discussion:

While the Austrian American economist Joseph Schumpeter is best known for his 1942 paper describing his theory of “creative destruction,” the process of disrupting existing industries through business innovation or technological change, few people know about another prediction he made: He believed that innovation would gradually become an embedded process within large corporations. In many ways, Schumpeter predicted the internal innovation hubs of corporate giants like Amazon and SAP. With incumbents making innovation part of their established routines, he theorized, they would gradually squeeze out the traditional entrepreneur.

I have a ton of respect for Schumpeter, and am generally a big fan of his work. But I disagree with this somewhat. And the reason is that the advantages big companies have when it comes to innovation, are often largely offset by other aspects of being a big company. So yes, you have money, smart people, plenty of high end hardware or cloud resources, data, etc. Great... guess what you also have?

A stifling bureaucracy, 23 redundant layers of management approval, 12 competing teams each trying to stab the other in the back, arbitrary layoffs / shuffling of people between teams, executives playing favorites on choosing what projects to fund, nepotism, etc., etc. etc.

Example: I work for a Really Big Company (but not FAANG), and I routinely see us take - literally - weeks or months to make a decision that a startup could make in a day, because the founder could just say "do it" and that's the end of the story. Yes, yes, it's an anecdote, but this is hardly an unknown phenomenon. And I've seen this first-hand in plenty of other companies as well.

I would argue that startups can still disrupt things, but that they key to doing it is to focus on their natural advantage: speed.

See also: It's Not the Big That Eat the Small...It's the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business.[1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Its-That-Small-Fast-Slow/dp/006662054...
> sink money into subsidizing fares

This assumes there is no way to undercut Uber's costs. If Uber wants to be a 100 billion dollar company then someone could be happy with being a 100 million dollar company and aim for a much smaller market.

They don't need to win every city, just take a slice of the most profitable city from Uber. Suddenly your 10 million per year profit is costing Uber 10 times that as they can't undercut you and still be highly profitable.

After that either the small guy expands, or someone else aims for the 2nd most profitable city. Eventually, Uber is left with a monopoly on the least valuable markets and steady competition on all the profitable ones.

And that's assuming they can kill off Lyft, and all other significant players which already have network effects and cash on hand.
If it has an immobilizer? You can find immobilizer bypasses on sale online, who knows if they work, or you can create your own and disable it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ispXq4EMrsY#t=24m45s https://github.com/fjvva/ecu-tool/wiki (see also https://ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Adventures_in_Automotive_... and http://opengarages.org/handbook/ebook/)

So besides relaying the key, you can just hack via the CAN bus. There's also a trick to use a second ECU to bypass the immobilizer, but that's probably too time consuming.

Many manufacturers (inc. Toyota) also allow bypassing immobilizers and other features using TechStream and a maintenance tool. If they claim you have to buy a new ECU if you lose your master keys, call bullshit: https://attachments.priuschat.com/attachment-files/2015/10/9...
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> Freedom to drive everywhere and park for free is at odds with other freedoms

It's not. People want to create a narrative that there is a tension between them, one or the other. (Urbanists hate cars because they hate cars, so they want to define every argument as requiring a hatred of cars to make any progress on anything else, to suit their religious beliefs. Every blog post on StrongTowns is a good example of this).

But you can always do both well, we just choose not to.

Chicago Loop, while not perfect or ideal, is a great example of how an urban environment could look that serves all well. It is dense, highly walkable, highly transit oriented. But it also still has a strong network of freeways and has an entire underground network of roads and tunnels for cars to pour into/out of (where they can peacefully exist just a few feet above/below walkability and transit, without ever hurting any of it). As those cars electrify, all noise and pollution problems are slowly but steadily disappearing.

In many ways, it is the closest to an American city ideal. Which I would define as a place where it is 100% convenient to use any transportation method you wish, at any time you wish, with as few-to-no restrictions as possible.
There are text based browsers which can be used for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_web_browser
controller? in which context?

xml-rpc will not be a bottle neck. There are very few commands being passed back and forth between the Lisp core and the platform port. Basically only on keypresses, or if the Lisp core itself initiates it.

With regard to changing root, I have no idea what it means myself either, as I am not a Linux user, but from what I understand, it is necessary to get any Guix pack to work, I don't think it is a huge security risk. Then again, I am also not a Linux user, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in.

Thanks for the well wishes!
Then everyone including the cleaners,anyone using facebook as a user, investors, goverment officials and every American as the government officials are decided by them. Include the press for promoting them through stories or by setting the discussion points for each election.

Shame on everyone.
Every run of the mill garage door opener using rotating keys or nonces to prevent replay attacks. I assume any fob design worth its salt would implement something similar.
Hopelessly juvenile article covering a hopelessly juvenile "conference" for a hopelessly juvenile technology.

So, it all lines up for me.
To get rid of the randomness you have to have prepared the result of every decision that is currently attributed to randomness in a big lookup table.
That compensation would come at the expense of research grants. This is not the same world as commercial development.
Comparable dataset of what, exactly? Of Facebook's internal user data?

Think about how much data Amazon has about all the suppliers and products they've sold over the last twenty years. Should they be forced to hand it over to anyone who wants it just because of the fact that its size and exclusivity makes it very valuable?

What about the governments databases on everything under the sun? Should all of that be public?

Maybe the answer to the above questions is yes, I don't know, but I don't think it's axiomatic.
I keep on trying to love duckduckgo but find that often even typing the exact title of an article I'm looking for, it's not on the first page of results...
As software developers are paid to write code. And yet I couldn't begin to tell you the difference between Node and Angular.
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> It wasn't preserved because of any beneficial effects (which weren't a concern at all). It was preserved because initial conditions were so and so.

This again. This is basic logic.

a imply b imply c imply d

Does c imply d?
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A lot of people don't do their job perfectly.
Actually there was an interesting study done to show that most people in the office environment on average do 4 hours of work (actual work) and the rest is breaks, distractions, chit chat, bathroom breaks etc. I have found the 4 hour figure to be much too generous, I’d say on average people work less than 4 hours (maybe closer to 3) the other 5 are a total waste.

When I first started freelancing hourly, it was a sobering feeling to see how little of my time was actually billable for actual work. It takes random screen grabbing software to make you realize that most of the time you are not working. Of course those days have long passed for me but I’m always left to remember just how wasteful office workplaces are and how much time people waste away in their life. More than half of their working life is a total waste. Tell me, how does that make you feel? :)
The point the rest of us are making is that even when you opt out, which google supposedly supports, it still bubbles the results based on your profile.

This is shady, at best. It probably contributes to the US’ current political instability (different propaganda / news in red states), and is also probably an unauthorized use of personal information in places like Europe that have laws about such things.
How about your living relatives? This wasn't so long ago.
I read about brain plasticity. So maybe, before the holes are repaired, brain might be able to rewire itself thus avoid the holes altogether.

Just a guess.
By using reactjs you are supporting their R&D. It improves their attractiveness for top researchers.
Those are all good questions!

- "Controller" is just for the sake if this article, to distinguish the part that this project (or any other power-user browser for that matter) is about. It's everything that it not the GUI or the renderer.

- XML-RPC: we were asking ourselves the same question, and the answer could only come out of real-world use. The happy result: no, it's not gonna be a bottlenext, it's very smooth! In the end, XML-RPC is only a medium to send "GUI"-related queries, it's never a tight loop or anything.

- The user namespace: this is only for the Guix pack. It allows the executable to do some filesystem name translations so that it can find it's own executables and libraries. If you are worried this would be an issue, you can simply extract the archive to `/`, it will only use two folders: `/bin` and `/gnu/store`.
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Keeping the safety drivers in the beginning, scaling up, and getting a year or more worth of actual real world use, before slowly scaling back the drivers is what I'd call a very responsible choice.

IMHO, to do less would be reckless showboating that could do unimaginable damage to the AV industry, as well as end up endangering lives.

In the tech industry, we don't like to wait, we like moving fast, taking risks, shipping MVPs, learning by shipping, etc. And for the next great Camera filter app, perhaps that makes sense, but not for cars, planes, or medical equipment.
make sure to completely kill any running zombie instances of the program, copy it to your disk and try running it again.

(e.g. search in activity monitor for "cocoa-webkit" and "next", and make sure there are no processes with that name)
It seems that most people are going:

- Twitter
- Pillowfort
- Wordpress
- Mastodon

depends a lot on what the user was into posting.

I'm also seeing quite a few more people operating on multiple sites at once now, even SFW blogs. So they'll post Tumblr, Pillowfort, and Wordpress at the same time so their former users can still see them.
The content is interesting, but if the author is reading - gray text on white is an awful color scheme - impossible for some people to read and difficult for everyone. I had to copy/paste the content into another editor to get through it.
>2) comparisons to the same experiment run against e.g. Bing or DuckDuckGo.

Isn't DDG mostly Bing results these days anyways? (unless you're searching in Russian)
An oft-repeated adage in the self-driving engineering circles is "the last 10% is 90% of the work"
This is why I love investing. So, I’m getting downvoted, but I understand where it’s coming from. Either Wells hate, non diversification, or financials / financial crisis. Or all 3.

But, for me anyway, investing is about being rational. Do you really think you’re in a better position working at a nonprofitable startup (like a lot of us are), or owning 8 million worth of a company that nets 20 billion a year?

Im not trying to be snarky. Im being dead serious. People read things that go against the crowd and they follow the herd. Being contrarian doesnt make one right—being right makes one right.
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> However the author himself states in the introduction that Bell's inequality and related theorems very strongly suggest that his theory is not correct.

It's widely believed that Bell's theorem and other no-go theorems preclude a local, hidden variable interpretation of QM. The author merely mentions that he can reconcile existing results with this local, hidden variable interpretation via "superdeterminism".
No, you're a fundamentalist if you stick to an ideology (e.g. trickle-down) in spite of all evidence suggesting it is highly flawed.

> It's impossible to have a discussion about anything if some things are not taken as axiomatic.

You mean you personally find it impossible to have a discussion with someone who disagrees with you on the axioms of economics because it means you can't frame the argument in your own terms, which would be that there is no alternative to what you are espousing.
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The lack of free will doesn't eliminate consciousness and intelligence. We're veering into deconstructionism here.

Yes, everything is largely deterministic (quantum effects have impact, and may or may not be deterministic, but that impact is still bound by the laws of physics), and the universe will someday reach maximum entropy. On the scale of the universe and its lifespan, morality obviously doesn't exist.

I've been reading some of your responses to various other people, so I'll respond to some of the ideas your arguing in general, rather than just specifically what you've type in this comment.

We'll skip through the causal chain of the universe to get to modern humanity with laws. It may be pre-determined and automatic that we would become such that we dislike the things that we make laws about. But it is still causal that creating these laws prevents some people from doing actions that they otherwise would without repercussions.

The fact that it is predetermined and automatic doesn't change the causality. If anything, it enforces it. You don't remove the cause-effect of everything in the middle of the chain just because the end was known from the start.
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Yeah, we'd have to go through all sorts of books and documents on mechanics and electronics to whiteout (Doh! doing it again!!!) reference to those terms.
It's to make them relatable
That would allow some pretty rampant gaming of SEO, wouldn't it?
But why close it? I never close Emacs.
Don't they use React for their UI?
Planned economies need not be communist, and no, but I was attempting (probably poorly) to draw attention to the ridiculousness of the argument that being pro-economic growth requires believing in trickle down economics.
Even of the ones who are, a lot of are turned off by the UI
Can you tell me what you mean by flood-fill ? I'm looking at different strategies for sync'ing activity between domains, and ActivityPub / IPFS seem like a lot of conceptual overhead. I'd rather just rsync directories on my friends' servers.
I can tell you with certainty that this is not the norm in psychology research. You will not publish empirical articles in such a manner for any journal anyone cares about. Chapters are time consuming affairs that usually the result of an invitation from a reputable figure in the field. They will not accept a copy paste of another chapter. Usually, the editor will have requests to tailor your chapter under some theme.
This Cornell professor is most likely publishing in no-name journals and books that are pay to play....just like the 1,001 spam messages in my inbox offer to me as an active researcher. That Cornell has allowed this man to continue is beyond me, but it would not be tolerate in my department.
I admit I despise these articles. They take the odd case and write a story, but leaves the public thinking this is typical in science. IT IS NOT.
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Sometimes, CTRL-F the text of the link highlights it, so pressing ESC and then enter would select the link.

Only allows one to not move a mouse sometimes.
By working as a contributer for an Opensource project, you can learn to communicate, design, develop and explain a project.

After that you can work in a small time.
Yes, it is theoretically possible, though I don't even think animal models have been tested for this. Major problems cited are: blood supply for the uterus may be difficult, there may be too little room around organs in males, necessary hormones may be unsafe for the fetus/carrier.

Essentially, it's likely possible, but even womb transplantation into women is highly experimental and may prove to be unsafe, without the added limitations of male anatomy and hormones.
> First off, I've seen some people suggest that type erasure is a problem because it leads to a loss of type safety. This isn't really true.

I'd argue it's the opposite.

Giving your programs the ability to access reified types at runtime weaken the robustness of your code, because you can second guess the compiler and introduce crashing code, such as incorrect type casts.

Reification also comes at a cost: performance, more problematic interoperability (Scala could notoriously not be ported to .net because it was not possible to make its type system work properly on a reified platform).

Contrary to popular belief, Java's choice of erasure was not dictated by backward compatibility concerns but because erasure is a sound approach for type system representation.
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It's not creeping me out, it's disgusting me. When I want to look for django reinhardt, I can look for "django music" or whatever, if I want the framework "django web framework" should do the trick. Oh, and and when I add a + before I word I want that word to show up, if there are no results with that word, show me no results.

I'm fine with others having the option of personalized search, I'm not fine with me not having it.
I think you've answered your own question.

There wouldn't be any point, and it would be totally fine.
Yes, because if they had to flip a coin they would buy fewer companies, which would lead to less market consolidation.
I highly recommend the 2017 book "Why We Sleep" [1]. Written by a doctor, starting at page 335 he calls exactly for ensuring hospital patients can sleep, why this is so critical for recovery, and how many things in hospitals currently work against this. (The book covers so much ground, including other reforms like school time starts, why society doesn't value sleep because sleep-deprived people don't perceive their substandard performance, and so on.)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
Since when has it been the case that the far-right are never drug dealers, ransomers, scammers, or money launderers?

I thoroughly enjoyed this piece precisely because she did describe the dystopian soup of all of the above that decentralisation and distribution has given us. If anything you should have walked away from this article with the realisation that, thanks to it all, we can no longer truly organize ourselves into such narrow little boxes of prejudice.

I'm guessing you didn't make it to the end of the article? I'll save you a tap on the back-button, and quote the part that I think you did yourself a disservice by missing:

"But it’s also the case that no amount of mathematics can delete human prejudice, and no ledger can logic away human cruelty. If the crypto community hasn’t realized that yet, it soon will."

This is probably the wisest thing I've ever heard anyone say, ever, who has had even the slightest contact with crypto-culture.
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I really enjoyed this video, and was impressed by a few things that Sam said, like being able to stay highly productive for 8 hours straight.

Also interesting to hear about his "take a year off", and what this means in Silicon Valley where your "status" is so important.

In fact, I recently stepped down from the startup I founded, and just yesterday I was at a business party, and several people were asking me about my startup and I was updating them on the new situation; it was a bit awkward.

In any case, I'd be curious to hear from Sam what's new with the "new cities" project. When it was launched I tried to get involved, and it seems it's not doing much, or it is but very quietly.