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This is certainly how things ought to work, but it's far from clear that it does.

A reporter on an international affairs beat can't possibly dismiss sources as broad as the State Department or CIA - which makes it very possible to rotate through mouthpieces as they're proven unreliable. (And that's usually when clear dishonesty is found, not just plausibly-mistaken claims.) And anonymity is usually protected even when a source is found to having knowingly mislead journalists, which means a dishonest source is only burned for a single reporter or outlet and can go seek out a new audience. Multiply the number of mid-level employees at a major government body by the number of reputable news orgs and this starts to look completely sustainable.

It's something (reputable) news accountability groups have been upset about for years, but no one seems to have solved it. Conventional wisdom appears to be that publications are scared they'll lose source access completely if they start unmasking dishonest USG sources.

https://fair.org/home/should-media-expose-sources-who-lied-t...
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I think Fiverr came before Uber if I'm not mistaken.
You should find a registrar that does not engage in this behavior. I use gandi.net. I pay almost twice as much as the cheapest registrars charge but I never have to worry about how they are going to treat me.
If uber/lyft are pure efficiency plays, then why do they have their own programs to finance the purchase of new cars just so people can drive for uber/lyft?

By the same token, but much harder to substantiate, why are people buying property just to rent it out with airbnb?

The negative externalities are there. You just have to know where to look.
Actually, I'd add that this is more related to the importance of the individual or company as a node in the country's economic network.

The larger the impact on the network in terms of either magnitude or volume of souls owned, the greater the ability to get away with actions that forward individual gain over general good.

Shareholders and directors of many corporations do get prosecuted.

The disincentive for the government is always going to be the effect of removing an important node from a network. Especially when the government and people gain from the stability of the network, even if certain negatives happen.

Not to say the way we treat corporations isn't really horrible. It is. Adam Smith would roll in his grave if he knew we were justifying our corporatocracy on his writings.

I'm simply pointing out that large nodes are always treated differently because it is logical to do so. If 3 people do something and you take them out, the economy keeps up exactly the same.

But take out the head of a company that owns... er... hires 100,000 souls? Or maybe the company only hires 300 souls, but they are developing nuclear bombs, or maybe developing a new gene editing tech, or green fuel? Then we have magnitude instead of volume. You got yourself political backlash if you remove these nodes.
Did you report it? If not, do you understand you are complicit in the problem?
Citizens United gave them the constitutional right of free speech granted to citizens. The problem is that we let the corporations have it both ways. There are no easy answers but if I am a corporation of 1 person and commit manslaughter do you think it would be handled the same as Uber?
And that is going to put a crimp in their IPO plans.

This sort of corporate malfeasance, pursuit of product in the face of a clear and present danger to the public, is the sort of thing plaintiff attorneys use to drain sad corporations of all their capital to operate.
I think for this to happen, there would need to be demonstrations of the safety aspects of using nuclear weapons.

Can you imagine trying to justify this project to the public? It would be a nightmare: "Nuclear explosions planned outside Los Angeles"... it would likely trigger a mini-freakout.
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It's not any kind of socialism. I know in American parlance "socialism" somehow means anything to do with government, but this is not how the rest of the world thinks of the word, and the word "socialism" has its correct interpretation right in it.

If it's a private entity capturing the state's revenues, that's anything but social. It's the opposite. It should be called what it is: lemon corporatism.

And it's sadly nothing new.
If you want a taste of the book prior to a purchase, you might explore a list of Steven's tips he has historically published on twitter[1]. The positive response to many of them likely put validity to the thought of publishing a book of them together.

[1]: https://twitter.com/i/moments/879086180909764608?lang=en
This was the same reaction my fiancée had. While I consider the original Blade Runner the best sci-fi movie of all time (followed closely by the original Alien in which the doomed ship Nostromo feels like it departed Blade Runner earth), I do think 2049 is right up there and didn't disappoint my insanely high expectations for the film.
No, they really wouldn't. About yearly for an individual? How many of these incidents would the cops even be involved? I doubt most instances of vehicles being damaged the cops ever get more involved than a report filed days later to satisfy insurance.
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Most of the top-tier publications actually do make a point of hiring people with subject-specific expertise. I first noticed this when The New York Times' lead medical correspondent was identified as Lawrence K. Altman M.D., because he really had earned a medical degree before heading into journalism.

In my own journalistic travels, I've worked alongside legal reporters who graduated from Harvard Law School, Wall Street reporters who earned certification as Chartered Financial Analysts, tech reporters who majored in computer science at Stanford, etc. That doesn't make them instantly right about everything. But it does mean they have the training to parse conflicting claims.

I'm not sure about the credentials of the specific Bloomberg reporters on this one. But Bloomberg does have budget and resources to hire subject experts to report on complex subjects.
I've never experienced this in my 5 or 6 years of using them (not definitively saying it doesn't happen). I frequently search for domains and then come back at a later date to purchase them for the exact price they were originally listed at.
I once saw Tree of Life, totally on a whim, no knowledge at all, bought a ticket when passing the cinema during an evening walk.

I left the movie in the middle. I thought it so bad, but fascinatingly bad. Well at home I found out it was directed by same director as The Thin Red Line, one of my favorite movies. Since then I have been puzzled, I really should give Tree of Life another chance.
"It doesn’t take any graphic design talent to add a colored rectangle to your UI" - Adam & Steve.

Sums up my entire opinion about minimalism and graphic design. Minimal color, minimal shapes... minimal talent for maximum effect. It's not worth $80 to learn the right spot where to put a rectangle.
> What does “global level peace” mean?

I've often read that we're at an extended level of peace between major powers that is basically unprecedented. While we still have too much violent conflict all over the place, it's nonetheless _different_ from previous eras. That said, I'm not a student of history.

> True, but that hardly makes them exceptional.
(RE: boomers and population)

Not exceptional in the sense of being special, but yes, exceptional in the sense that the economic burdens of previous generations are easier to shoulder when each person has less to shoulder per capita. Ditto my statement about the extended middle class - I'm not saying Boomers are special people who did things differently, I'm saying their opportunities and perspectives are not representational of previous generations, so their interactions with other generations (past and future) may not be either.

Exceptional in the sense of "being an exception", not in the sense of "being an exception through virtue"
Wow. Thanks for the update. From TP"s site:

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We're the team behind Standard Treasury and the Silicon Valley Bank API Banking Platform which forms the backend for Stripe Atlas - we're the experts in this space.
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Arguably the whole Moore's Law era proceeded at that clip, and it's given us the iPhone, GPS, various starts at ""AI"", etc.

The real problem with returning to the space race was that it was fundamentally a public sector project. People seem to forget that it was the state that put a man on the moon. In 2018 the key question for such projects would be not "how can we benefit humanity" but "who gets to keep the profit"?
If migrants want to come to the USA they should do it legally at a port of entry or embassy. Illegal crossings must be stopped, by any and all means necessary. Immigration with out assimilation is an invasion. If the migrants do not contain these vile groups you mention then why can't they apply legally and have their cases determined by the Judaical system in place. We can't just have the entire population of Central America show up and expect a hand out. America has many internal groups that need help long before we can give it to illegal outsiders.
I think yours is the sophisticated view of progress rather than the naive "great man" theory. I subscribed to the "great man" theory that the great man pushed society's progress. Now I think that it is society's progress that creates the great man.

We are taught to think that there was something special or even superhuman about newton, turing, etc. But the reality is that they were one of many highly intelligent people working on the same problems created by society's progress. Even if they didn't succeed or achieve, someone else would have. But humans have an innate myth making imperative and a desire to hero worship so we create heros. But reality and history is far more complicated than the idealized myths we create. Without newton, we'd still have calculus ( leibniz, et al ). Without turing, we'd still have computer science ( Church, et al ).
This is a small price, just a warning shot. Think of Canadian NGOs, businesses in China, multi-billion $$ contracts etc etc.

Huawei is China's line in the sand and we are living in interesting times. (This is just business, USA would also send the equivalent of aircraft carriers for AAPL, Intel etc.)
Serious question:
Is there an emerging cross platform workflow language to just write stuff to run on any cloud/container hosting setup?

The idea would be to be portable, avoid vendor lock-in and take advantage price differences or quickly route around a system failure in one of the providers.
Amazon... I can only speculate what’s going on there. Maybe the resulting price pressure turns the screws on suppliers?

Scammers looking for places to scam, which Amazon provides by relying on customer ratings to police its suppliers, which clearly doesn't work.

Most of the recent SV business models only work in a hypothetical place where everyone is good and altruistic.

Look at self-driving cars. There are thousands of words written about how self-driving cars will create a transportation utopia with clean, efficient transportation for all.

None of the startups address what happens when someone refuses to get out of a self-driving car. Or when a self-driving car arrives at my door and it's full of barf. Or some homeless guy decides to set up camp in there. Or it gets all graffiti tagged.

Think about how people treat current modes of public transportation. Now imagine how miscreants will treat them with more privacy, and no chance of human intervention.
It might help to use "costs" rather than "losses"?

For one, consider that we attempt to constrain the price of labor upward to cover the cost of living. By having a large workforce that is not necessarily subject to these constraints (minimum wage, employer health plan, payroll taxes, etc.) Uber fails to meet the CoL for a large slice of its workforce, which then has to lean on society to make up the balance.
Most people are greedy.

They only want more for less.

The overlap between people who:

* pretend to be upset about ever-shrinking middle class, and

* sort by lowest price and buy an obvious knockoff from an online marketplace third-party seller that takes three weeks to arrive from Shenzhen in order to save 52¢ on an item...

...is almost 100%.

They don't realize that their own cheapassedness caused the shrinking.

You aren't in the twilight zone, 3rd-world business models are creeping into the rest of the world because they worked so well in the 3rd-world.

Except in the 3rd-world the models maximized profit for businesses while consumers had no choice due to pre-existing poverty and in what is left of the non-3rd-world they are maximizing profit for businesses while appealing to rabid cheapassed consumers.
I think to be fair, if you paid me $100 million never to work again, period, I'd probably consider it. I'm pretty sure I could invest it well enough that my descendants would have to spend fairly minimal effort to never have to work again.
An idealized market requires full awareness of all of the costs. A key factor in "externalizing" costs is hiding those external costs from the consumer.

E.g. a perfect market would notice the increased quality variance of goods and services and would require the price to go down proportionally so the total cost is the same. But consumers don't all see it at the same time, so every company has a chance to hoodwink every consumer by pushing additional costs onto them without their initial knowledge.

The key innovation of money is the ability to accurately evaluate the value of goods and services; by pushing all of these extra external costs onto the consumer we're basically going back to bartering.

Every additional variable that the consumer is required to consider during a purchase decision is additional cognitive load. That's why people pay so much for free/fixed shipping costs: it reduces the number of variables you have to keep in your head by 1. It's also why I think that adding tax after the listed price (like the US does it) is terrible: it puts more cognitive load on the consumer. Consumers today are attacked with dozens of potential hidden external costs around every corner, it's like a DOS attack on the consumer's brain and inhibits their decision making ability.
They clearly don't, and obviously don't understand why it exists. Nothing interesting would be possible without it. Nobody on Earth would be a C-level executive if they had criminal liability for all their employees. I sometimes think that people that want to end it have never been in charge of anything nontrivial and have no idea how terrible the consequences of ending it would be.
I believe that was a reference to James Clapper's perjury: https://abcnews.go.com/US/americas-top-spy-james-clapper-mad...
Those are not my recollections. Yes, we GenXers had "oh, what will we do with them" articles, but the tone and acrimony were different, and faded quickly once GenXers hit 30, whereas the Millenials are definitely into their 30s and the tone is only getting more bitter, not less. YMMV, of course.
Appreciate the feedback, love and loyalty :)
Even this isn't true, though. 15,000 miles is 15 months of driving. I would bet a lot of people hit "something" that often, with a more serious incident every 5-10 years.
A lot of us don't want kids early (if at all) and don't want the displeasure of spending $12k/yr in interest with $7k/yr in property taxes that rise $100-200/mo every year.

source: Millennial trying to sell his house to go back to having less "stuff." And more liberty to go and do whatever I want.

Maybe it comes from the majority of us going through our parents divorcing, or seeing our families livelihoods destroyed in the 2001 and 2008 recession. Maybe it's FOMO. Who knows. I noticed that when I did move to a cheaper COL city I had far more millennial friends with kids and houses. So, maybe it's just that, the unaffordability of where a lot of us are living leading to later children and thus lack of interest in house life.
Have you watched the documentary "Boxes?"

https://imdb.com/title/tt1263704/

I think you really knock Kubrick without giving proper respect to his work ethic. And sure, luck is when preparation meets opportunity, but Stanley had the preparation part in spades, in a way that even many other successful "titans" probably do not.
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This is really great! I used to work at another music startup where we did something similar. I've been using OnSong (mobile app) to organize my songs for live performances, but I love that this is focused on creation. Excited to try it out.
Cycling in Prague?! Good luck. Mostly cities on the North European Plain minus Poland. Maybe few cities in France and Spain. I get chills on the thought of cycling in London or in more busy large Italian cities.
The A or !A thing never fails. But it's more a hack to work around other people having poor communication skills. It's also good advice to pay attention to the question being asked of you, and actually answer it. So if someone asks you, "Are we releasing this week? Or was it next week?", don't reflexively answer "yes" or "no".
Looks really nice! A few years ago I started working on a vaguely similar tool because I was playing in a band and we needed a better way to collaborate on chord sheets.

I used CouchDB (and PouchDB) to get a nice real-time sync for editing the documents, and together with a good service worker setup it made the whole app work great offline, which was very useful in our rehearsing room's basement (it was actually inside of a nuclear shelter within a Stockholm subway station).

The other fun feature I made was a Web Audio synthesizer that would play the chords for very quickly checking the harmony. You can see a demo in this short video, unfortunately the app is not online anymore.

https://www.instagram.com/p/8oGx7HKukq/

I also had a feature where you could upload an MP3 for a song and then put in sync points with the chord sheet so you could hear the song while also seeing exactly which chord it's currently on...
It's exactly what you can imagine. I'd instead recommend gandi.net. It's a few bucks more but they take their motto to heart.
Well, Linode fails at basic security, so...
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> The whole generations thing was made up by the Boomers in ad agencies trying to sell more products through demographic targeting. Just as many other Boomers were fascinated by astrology/horoscopes and "Ages", they latched on to a lot of weird pseudo-science that stuck and says a lot more about them anything else.

And yet you're making copious use of those labels and assign traits and actions to the subsets of people labeled thus. So what is it now – made-up or real?
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Good to see someone doing this in the correct order
Any chance of a physical book being released? I still prefer to do my reading old school!
I'm a long time happy DO user, this is exciting.

I've been managing multiple docker apps (using docker-compose) on DO for years. Is there a guide I can use to transition my apps from docker-compose to k8s? I've dabbled in k8s, but am not an expert at all.

Any suggestions?
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I don’t think we should lean on the negative impacts progress has on social contracts, since this is one of the primary arguments the alt-right uses to justify their position. Social contracts always change, especially so when a country is composed of an ever increasing portion of immigrants, asylum seekers, and migrants. Despite the blood, sweat, and tears, being open to social change ensures society doesn’t get locked into a local minimum via well intended but ultimately misplaced concern.
This ^^ just price the bandwith DO throughs with the instances at AWS prices. Plus I know exactly what my bill will be next month :)
No one age group ("generation") voted Trump into office/power. You can't blame GenX, Boomers, GenY, or Millenials specifically for the current political climate. You can't even blame "Conservatives" specifically -- if Trump had only won the Conservative vote he'd have lost the election.

The world is complicated. Reductionism is great for story-telling, but these stories should not be confused for anything other than an approximation, like a map is only an approximation of the territory.
Gen X here.

We are trying. Voting for progressive policies and people to grow the middle class. But we are a small voting block.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

--Upton Sinclair

Welcome to The Jungle, baby.
Looks like there's still a lot of work left on that front. I was trying to get some context for the 15000 miles number.
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The USA doesn't have to worry about the guillotines, we are armed to the tooth where I'm from.

A simple fact is that all 7 billion people can't live like upper middle class Americans, it's impossible. Why not have one place in the world that a huge number of people sit at the top?

I guess the major difference is I see myself as an American Citizen and not a Global Citizen.
I think this explains the “theory of patches”:

https://jneem.github.io/merging/
Star Trek definitely influenced me into electrical engineering, along with much SciFi of the 70’s.
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Buying a house and settling down with your wife, kids and dogs is a death sentence. It literally means "I will [most likely] die here". Something to avoid.
https://www.terraform.io/
This is a bit of a misrepresentation. The only flash that never had ECC was NOR. Some embedded systems had NOR, but I'd be incredibly rare to find a consumer SSD with NOR.

When designing a NAND memory product, you aim for some max allowed error rate. You choose the error correction algorithm based on that target. Error rates for NAND products are precisely what the designer intended.

Because SSDs are so large and there is such a large number of them, errors can still occur (at a known rate). FTLs should take that into account. Critical data structures can add checksum redundancy which can reduce the error rate for those to an even lower value, which is usually necessary anyway since power disturbances during erase or program can cause programming errors.

There are of course a number of patterns that increase error rates that FTLs have to be programmed to prevent. Encrypting is the first important step, since it makes the data unlikely to be uniform. The second is mitigating read disturb.
> These mechanical components exhibit wear proportional to their use

Actually the spindle isn't touching anything any more, because the spindle/rotor (one part) is supported by a fluid bearing; it basically floats on a thin layer of oil. If the spindle touches the bearing at, essentially any speed that isn't zero, the bearing surfaces are damaged instantly and the resulting burrs and debris will degrade and lock up the bearing very quickly.

I believe the only rolling-element/contact bearing used in modern disks is the pivot bearing of the arm assembly.
I noticed that most of the DATA numbers were negative. I swapped the signs on all the numbers, and that saved about 250 characters. That would have added up when lots of machines still had 16KB of RAM.