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Use GitHub's 'releases' feature to release versions of the application with the web app precompiled?
Is this American culture where people mostly die in hospitals, with “palliative care” prolonging their suffering? In Europe and elsewhere, people mostly die at home. It is unpleasant and traumatic, like everything there is about death, but still, I believe, infinitely better than what he describes in this post.
How did you get the idea that the majority are the cesspool from that?

In my experience, the majority is "I don't have any interest in arguing." Leaving the cesspool to those few who do want to argue.
Renting is not banned, people can rent out the single unit they own.
Both ____a and ____er are the N-word and should not be said by non-black people
> I live in an up and coming suburb of Detroit and every new apartment / condo building is incredibly skewed towards the high end.

>new

And what happens to the old units? They are sold and rented to the non-super wealthy.

I also live in south east michigan and my neighborhood is undergoing gentrification, they are tearing down 1000 sq ft homes and replacing them with 3500 sq ft homes.

What is the problem? I couldn't fit my large family(and renters) in a 1000 sq foot home.
an extremely insular immigration policy is a huge part of why this is happening.
On the other hand, while worker protections had their use a century ago, they have increased cost of labour by a lot, making many low skilled workers unemployable (the very people they were supposed to protect). I've talked to many gig workers and they all told me that without these jobs, they would have nothing. Sure, we can start imposing strong "protections" on the gig economy, but these jobs would just disappear and those workers would be out of jobs again. No one plans a career on doing gigs their whole life, but for many it's a better source of revenue than just being unemployed and they feel less stuck in unemployment and more accomplished than they used to, which is better for moral and making them want to improve their skills/get back in the labour force.
That still incentivises having children later. Lost growth compounds over a career, so delaying it would still make sense. It would then hurt those who choose children earlier.
Why can't they leave? Lots of us have and have continued to lead successful lives. I've been off and on Facebook for a number of years, but left last year and have absolutely no desire, or need, to subscribe again.
It's effective because there's a measure of truth in there, especially in California. Prop 13 will limit taxes on existing housing stock, so cities and counties will levy fees on new developments to make up for it. Additionally, the cost of labor in much of California is such that just building any structure is extremely expensive (to the extent that only luxury units will make any money for the developer).
>government creates zoning laws that cause prices to skyrocket

>person wants more government

I've been confused about this perspective, can you break down the thought train you have?
It isn't doing it quietly, it's running around yelling in the streets banging pots and pans. Outside the bay area I have never had an Uber driver that did not drive as their full-time job. (Actually my most strange memory of San Jose was being driven by a dad going to pick up his son from school.) But what's someone to do if their other option is not to work at all?

My mom used to work two jobs in the early 2000s, and it was always a struggle because so many retail jobs (or at least retail managers) will intentionally randomize schedules, such that even if you are working 30h/week you can't hold another position because in any given week the schedules are likely to overlap. The gig economy is a weaponized response to this variability IMO.
This is entirely wrong. We don't build nearly enough housing in NYC and that's why our rents are so high.
How many engineers vs managers are there in your company at that level and at the levels above it?

It's rare to see a big tech company with as many engineers as managers at the Director compensation level, for example.
TLDR: The government is deeply involved in housing and development, as the government controls what can be built and where. This is an effort to loosen government controls by limiting local governments ability to restrict housing development near transit hubs. Specifically, the state government is attempting to restrict local governments' ability to create limits on housing density in certain areas.
Good customer support agents are highly valued by many tech companies where support is a key value-add to their solution. Three of the companies I have worked for paid very well for top-tier CX employees.

Just like some developers are treated by their companies as an expense, other companies highly value developers and pay them well. This is the same with customer support, and good support agents who are feeling mistreated find higher-end jobs.

Good waiters at restaurants work at high-end establishments and make good salaries. In a free society, people flow towards better jobs that are a better match for their skillset.

You don't need to feel that you live in a digital hellscape populated by slaves, as the author proposes. The person driving your Uber likely chose that to make money, rather than all the other ways they could have made money, because they prefer it.

There is a popular theme lately being promoted by educated, well-off people that society is being destroyed by mobile apps, Facebook, on-demand food-delivery service, etc. It's really not. Go enjoy your day and stop getting yourself worked up.
That’s great. Thank you for sharing.

Seems a rather cryptic way to go about things with your health on the line.
This is changing as income stagnates and loans remain cheap and too easy to get.

Our whole fiscal policy is about printing money through home ownership. It’s creating all sorts of bad behaviors.
Complacency seems to fit, but it doesn't sound interesting enough for people to read a story.
Choosing not to use Facebook is in no way analogous to choosing not to use gasoline or electricity.
I don't think it about people. In my old town a bunch of offices closed and moved to big city. They didn't hire new people. (probably also a way to get rid of old people which didn't want to commute 1 hour to the city)

Also : why must it be 4 million city? Shouldn't it a 500k also enough?

But right now, even those cities bled people. Moving to big cities.
How are they not good? The reason we have rules is that breaking the rules has costs to society. When the value of breaking the rule is worth more to you than the cost to society, it's a net beneficial transaction on both sides to let you do it in exchange for a premium.

The only way it's a problem is when the value is set wrong, so that you're only paying $100 but causing $1000 in damage. But that's not the fault of the premise of pricing damage, it's the general problem with corruption or government inefficiency. And the alternative is that the corruption causes you to be able to do $1000 in damage and pay nothing because the whole thing is swept under the table -- at least this way it's happening in the open and the public can evaluate whether the price is appropriate.
Uber is making life of Uber drivers better, by giving them the option to be an Uber driver and providing customers and rules of engagement. It creates new means of earning a living, instead of taking it away. What is even the question? It is not the best job in the world, but surely beats no job at all.
It reveals how he thought about his code, and he didn't have the presence to "compute" what it would be in digits.
You don't need "code" or a "bios master password" - if there is no end-user-set firmware password, you can just go into the menu and change "Secure Boot" to "no."

(If there is a user-set firmware password, and you don't know it, you're not the end user and you can't change how someone else's computer boots up. That's been true for decades: setting a firmware password and maintaining sufficient control of the machine to prevent it from being opened is the standard way to prevent someone from booting your computer into a live CD and messing with it.)
They should tear down the Fed Mint building behind that Safeway and turn it into housing. I don't even believe that branch does anything other than print proofs. A waste of space, but it's not happening during this presidency for sure.
This is quite an interesting take, your state government is fighting local governments?

This is truly another dimension of the More/Less government dichotomy they teach you in school.

Btw, it seems the local governments are quite Anti growth? Am I understanding that correctly?
So we should never talk about the possibility of failure? I think breeding a naive mentality is as bad if not worse than breeding a loser mentality.
Not all funding is equal. For example compare investments in the Space Launch System vs. Falcon Heavy.

Investments in ITER are also fairly inefficient due to the political strings attached. Countries get concessions in exchange for funding, which makes it logistically far from optimal. It's also a slow-moving behemoth which makes it difficult to incorporate newer technologies as they appear, e.g. improved superconductors.

I think it would at least be a good idea to throw some more money at smaller projects that can iterate faster than ITER.

Also, past funding is not necessarily equal to current-day funding. Materials sciences and computing have advanced, so we can build on technologies that simply didn't exist back then. One example is simulation of plasma instabilities.
You see this right now, where Trump’s support in the ballot box is stronger than his support in polling which is stronger than his support in the media, because when a point of view becomes socially unacceptable, people only express it in private.
> The person driving your Uber likely chose that to make money, rather than all the other ways they could have made money, because they prefer it.

or didn't perceive the other ways, or didn't have resources for other ways, or wasn't approved for the subset of other ways that they both perceived and had resources for
Anecdotally, I notice a large improvement in my mood within a week when I start exercising after not having done so in a while.

This has happened to me on multiple occasions.
There are two things that must happen before any movement will occur on this front. Bringing the abuses to even more exposure can help both occur.

1) Reign in qualified immunity for both law enforcement, prosecutors, and politicians.

2) End the influence of the Police and Sheriff public employee unions over politicians. People carp constantly about corporate influence don't understand the level the public sector employee unions have; go look at California's prison and even education problems for a refresher.
If the current way we structure our economy and society is failing large swaths of people, gigs might be a good stop gap, but how many people can be gigified before the whole thing breaks? What is the acceptable percent of people for whom it is ok that they will never have healthcare?
It's surprising to me, since I have heard, that Japan is very, very densely populated.
Good point. I was focusing on the "... Normalization of Deviance" part when I wrote that.
A land tax is different from a property tax. A land tax taxes only the unimproved land. A property tax taxes the improvements as well.

With a land tax two adjacent properties of equal size would be taxed the same, even if one is an eight story apartment building and the other is a parking lot. This strongly incentivizes improving the land to its highest and best use. Under a traditional property tax system erecting that building results in a large increase in property tax (as the value of the structure is now taxed) which dampens the motivation to build. Under California's prop 13, the parking lot probably has a tax valuation from decades ago and thus is taxed even less, further reducing the benefits to redeveloping the property.
Doh, my reading balked at the embedded add. Yes, p being a prime actually inverts the statement successfully. My bad.
The more frustrating thing about those machines is that there are two Secure Boot root keys in the MS program, one for Microsoft products (e.g., Windows) and one for everyone else, including both third-party hardware drivers and third-party OSes like Linux distros. But on the ARM Surface devices, Microsoft built them so all of the UEFI binaries were signed by the MS-themselves key, so even if you got an MS-signed key like this article is talking about, it wouldn't let you boot a non-Windows kernel.
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We’re getting nowhere with this. This entire thread was about STEM vs other majors, and you were singling out philosophy. You can’t just decouple yourself and your arguments from the context of the conversation and claim i’m straw-manning you. And again, you have a severe misconception that none of these “bullshit majors” are useful, and that somehow a lack of consensus on everything invalidates competing ideas. And come on, “torture people” is bringing your argument to absurity. You’re basically arguing that individuality is a bad thing now. I can’t change your perspective, but suffice to say it’s short sighted.
> It seems what people want is for builders to actively destroy the apartment after they build it so that it will be rented at a lower price.

What some people want is subsidized building of units in exchange for rent limits.
Do you mean the example of 1 not being a prime, or the example in the article of Z[root -5] not having unique factorization? You could certainly discover the former, but not the latter as far as I can see. The idea is that the principle should guide you on what the 'right' set of definitions are, so that your theory detects interesting theorems and isn't riddled with edge cases. You might make an analogy to programming, finding good primitive data types and interfaces so that you can implement elegant and efficient algorithms and well structured modules.

Perhaps the key insight of the 'too simple to be simple' principle is that we want the definition to impose both existence & uniqueness of something. In this case proper divisors (divisors strictly less than the number itself e.g. the proper divisors of 6 are 1,2, & 3).

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Let me give a concrete example of how it might be used.

- Uniqueness is captured algebraically here by the notion of a 'subsingleton' set: a subset where any pair of elements are equal. This can happen if (1) the subset has only a single element, or (2) the subset has NO elements (in which case the uniqueness requirement is vacuously true).

- Existence is captured by the notion of a 'singleton' set: a subset with exactly 1 element: any two elements belonging to the set are unique, AND such an element exists.

First lets apply this to the definition of the regular primes: the set of proper divisors of 1 is the empty set. The set of proper divisors of any other prime is the singleton set {1}. Thus the naive definition says 'proper divisors of primes form a subsingleton': it asserts they are unique, but not that they exist. The more sophisticated definition of the primes (which excludes 1) asserts the proper divisors of primes form a singleton: uniqueness and existence.

Now lets try to apply it (somewhat informally) to the fictional example of even numbers and 'even primes'. Examples:

2 is an even prime,
4 = 2*2 not an even prime
6 is an even prime,
8 = 4*2 is not,
10 is even prime,
30 is an even prime is as well, and so on.

Here I have uniqueness of proper divisors (they form a subsingleton), but only because existence of proper divisors fails for every even prime (not just 2)!

Now what happens if we try and factor 60?

60 = 2*30
60 = 6*10

It not great surprise that uniqueness of prime factorization fails as well (one of several problems with this informal example). The principle didn't help me find this example, it suggests that if I use the above notion of an 'even prime', i'm not going to get a good set of theorems.
could there be an adjacent sphere of expanding matter? a "parallel universe" or universes, not in the sci-fi alternate dimension sense, but in the "physically adjacent big bangs in space" sense where the light has simply never reached us yet, but could one day
> complain when I dropped whatsapp and say that they wouldn't be able to get hold of me

This blows my mind. I mean having Whatsapp implies one has a phone which implies one can receive SMS messages or God forbid, a phone call.
People can do those discussions and information sharing without Facebook. e.g. They would have their own blog and read feeds from friends from RSS reader. Maybe they think it's easier to do that with Facebook.
Yes at least for me it is a problem. I want to see those opinion.
Developing additional agricultural land on a large scale is incompatible with the carbon intensity reductions necessary to avoid incinerating the planet.
Looking at consumption per capita ignores the low population and birth rate (below replacement in the US since 1970). We're told having fewer children is the best thing we can do for the environment (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-...), so it's hardly fair to then assign blame with per-capita numbers.
The other cool beyond-Senior role I’ve seen is “roaming fixer.” Take your pick form the engineering org’s hardest problems, conscript your pick of regular engineers into your service for a few months, go solve it. When you’re done, pick another one.
> Bitcoin cost of 51 percent attack is ~400k for 1 hour. ETH is 90k for 1 hour.

Seems not wildly different to me and nearly the same order of magnitude, and you are also admitting that 51% is a concern for Bitcoin, so it sounds like we're agreeing now!

> POS uses few users to validate transactions.

The "few" can be quite a large number, and those same validators are by definition very invested.
because it's not working for your original employeer
8 is not prime
Nicely done.

https://xkcd.com/208/
>they all told me that without these jobs, they would have nothing.

There are two things going on here that makes this more complicated that meets the eye. For one, as you have pointed out, lowering the price of labor increases the number of things people would be willing to hire someone to do, thereby increasing the number of jobs. However, it's also true that by removing the protections for one specific form of labor but not all, gig economy companies will have a competitive advantage over classical employment companies and put them out of business. So, the gig economy is reducing the number of "classical" jobs.

These effects point in opposite directions, and without being able to put numbers on them there's no way judge which wins out. Measured in terms of "money paid to low-skill workers," the reduction in everybody's wages might or might not be offset by the increased number of jobs, an increase which has been attenuated by the gig economy replacing some of the old economy.
You assume that uber drivers are ignorant. I assume that people know how to live their own lives. They had the resources to acquire a car and a driver's license. There are many, many worse jobs out there than driving a car.
Housing is a basic necessity, using it as an investment allocates scarce finite resources to you when you don't need it while consuming limited supply thus reducing the available stock for those that do.

The business of buying and selling houses on the flip isn't particularly bad (though it's often predatory and rent seekish) but hoarding property to either rent or just squat to take advantage of the appreciation said hoarding does to drive up prices is evil. Especially when you consider how the entire perverse and unsustainable economic model of endlessly and perpetually rising property values against inflation causes substantive suffering while governments will bend over to preserve it since the landlords are the wealthy interests they want to appease to stay in power.

There are much less amoral, much more productive, and much less predatory ways to grow wealth. Whenever anyone looks at residential property as an infinite profit machine it is a failure of the society to produce productive & positive investment options for that wealth.
Interesting tactic. I have started telling people that I have joined the technological wing of the Amish and that Facebook was built by the devil. It gets very little push-back compared to listing more concrete reasons, complete with examples, of Facebook's actual documented behaviour. Doing that gets me nowhere fast, but if I use exaggerated nonsense people seem to just go along with it while nodding sagely.
> For instance, Uber seeks to ride to a mega IPO on the backs of its slave drivers.

Note that a "slave driver" is a kind of overseer that makes the slaves work harder. "Drivers who are slaves" might work better here.
Voat seems to have four distinct kinds of groups, populated by two distinct kinds of people.

The groups are:

1. Groups that were kicked off Reddit for hate or questionable sex, went to voat, and got shut down there, too, or are still there but get very little activity.

An example of one that got shut down would be /v/jailbait.

An example of one that just gets very little activity would be /v/coontown. It goes months between posts.

2. Questionable sex groups that are somewhat active. /v/loli is an example.

3. Groups on neutral topics that get regular posts, like /v/technology or /v/funny or /v/science.

4. Hate groups with regular posts. (I assume these exist. I've never actually seen one, because I only go to voat when some disucssion elsewhere points to it, and that has never taken me to an active hate group).

The two kinds of people are:

1. People who came there for the hate groups.

2. People who came there for the sex groups.

The people who came there for the hate groups also post in the neutral groups, so the comments in /v/technology or /v/funny are full of hate stuff. The hate people seem to stay out of the sex groups.

I can't tell if the sex people also post in the neutral groups. My guess is that they probably do not.

The Voat groups for things like science and technology have nothing that sets them apart from the corresponding Reddit groups except the hate comments.

Sex is much easier to compartmentalize than hate. If you like something that most would find unacceptable sexually, there is no reason for that to come up when you participate in, say, a technology or science discussion. You can go to Voat for those sex groups that aren't allowed on Reddit, but stay on Reddit for everything else.

Hate group people, on the other hand, are more likely to let it leak out, and so get banned from neutral topic Reddit groups, and so have to go somewhere like Voat for those topics.
He (Alex Petrov) is also writing a book for O'Reilly on the database internals: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44647144-database-intern...
It seems to me that the ultimate point of this essay is the exact opposite of that.
Hmm I feel like Billionaires are an easy target. And while the narrative is easy to sell, I doubt it’s the real answer. My belief is that wrong kind of complexity created the current state. Take Healthcare,
Manufactured scarcity of doctors, lawsuits, layers of insurance, pharmacy benefits managers, mergers of hospitals all lead to the present dysfunctional state. Did few billionaires profit off of it sure, but the blame lies on overly complex system of intermediary agents all bleeding the system. The answer might as well be Medicare for All.
Not sure how this is related to healthcare. I'm from France where everybody has healthcare and the gig economy is still huge. In the US you could either go single payer like France or full private/free market but obligatory like in Switzerland or the Netherlands. Either way, this is not related to the gig economy. The US has a problem where an oligopoly of insurances are trying to keep a bad status quo.