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There was a proposal in Chicago to put a cap on how quickly your taxes could go up relative to what you originally paid for your house. The motive was explicitly to protect homeowners in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

I assume there would be limited capacity for abuse just so long as the break only applies to your primary residence.
Or better yet, mmap in a read-write-thread?
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Alright so I'm actually pretty confused here- I was under the impression that the constitutional protections of all citizens have been suspended 100 miles from all borders including airports in the united states. Therefore violating constitutional rights is in fact perfectly legal. Is this incorrect? (I might have just been exposed to so many ways my rights have been suspended that I no longer know what rights I can even legally defend anymore.)
One could say the same about VC-backed startups.
I have heard of security researchers setting up their laptops such that the default boot option will take you to a pretty vanilla-looking Ubuntu install with office apps and the like but when they reboot to do real work they log into a hardened Debian (or equivalent) install on an encrypted volume that even tech savvy CBP agents would have a hard time recognizing existed. This is great for a laptop... I wish there were cell phones that had an option like this. Perhaps the Librem 5 could support this at some point?
It works if you assume (1) yeah they can hide, they are never seen by accident, (2) they are disclosing themselves, but intentionally taking it slow.
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Not according to the french wiktionary [1].

There is a Catalan word guix however, where it means chalk. [2]

[1] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/geek

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guix
I have scoliosis and my one hand also sometimes falls asleep when I'm lying on my one side. Good tip on getting a wrist splint, I'll try that out, thanks.
I think this dismissal really ignores a very crucial difference. Unlike magazines or even TV for that matter, the new social media has personalized and detailed information on individuals and can tailor their content and design to target every person individually.

IMO, that is a substantial and qualitative difference that makes the new “distraction” mediums far more effective and dangerous.
The user manual says 'geeks':

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Introd...
I don't understand this overreaction. Ads are there, so what, they don't even make noise or tend to cover parts of the screen like they used to.
Even if they had finished and shipped that game 2 years ago without a single bug and all the promised features it would’ve not been the right game for everybody. This is IMO part of the very concept from the very start. Space games are not for everybody. Even good ones.

I wonder how many of the people who dislike Star Citizen as a game actually like space games?

Even with FPS elements, mining, trading and dogfights, space is a huge place and it takes a certain type of person to enjoy flying around in a ship for longer than a minute.
Capitalism can have many forms. It’s worth and necessary to think about how to implement it.
Nothing is ever always a good idea. Real estate is a good investment when the fortunes of the area are on the rise.

A $30k house in 1980 is NYC could be worth $3M today. The same house in Cleveland is probably less than $250k. (Mostly inflation) Even in that situation, the Cleveland house may still have been a good value based on having a fixed expense vs dealing with landlords.

Likewise, when economic policy shifted to favor the south, lots of owners of swampland in Florida and other places became very rich.
They literally tell you to put your hands on the wheel and pay attention every time you don't, and sometimes even when you do. So yes, they push the idea that awareness is required.
> Arguably, if it wasn't for the weed-smoking twitter troll, those established car companies would still not be investing in EVs.

I think Tesla made EVs cooler or made them look like an actual option, but it isn't true that other car makers just ignored EV options. They produced them for decades, there just was no public interest. VW for example had a new electric model at least once every decade for over 50 years now (a golf each in the 70s, 80s and 90s, a EV bus in the 70s etc.), there just wasn't much mainstream interest.
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A big diff between Tesla and Hyundai is that Hyundai spends billions marketing and Tesla spends its CEO for it.
And I’d bet if that did happen, which I think is extremely unlikely, the global economy would benefit greatly by people finding new uses for their time (not all of which would be productive), as opposed to funneling data and ad money towards Facebook.
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I don't think that's true about the gaming computers. I'm playing with fine with a GTX 970, which is a midrange enthusiast card from 2014. Not stable 60 fps or anything impressive, but it runs. And the framerates are trending upward with new updates, not down.

The $20,000+ backers do strike me as crazy, yeah. But on the other hand, it's not a total waste like Clash of Clans where you're just throwing money into a pit with no hope that anything useful will come of it. These are people supporting a game that would never have gotten made through the traditional publisher model.

And like the Forbes article says, maybe it will never get finished on the crowdfunded model either. But I don't think that's a forgone conclusion.

If you want to see where it's at, it's open to everyone until the 8th. https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-is-free-to-fly-for-a-we...
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Indeed, early access games have a similar problem where certain developers get a lot of initial capital for an incomplete game and then slow down the development process for one reason or another, sometimes even completely abandoning the state of the game at a point that is no where near the vision they pitched to players. It's understandably getting harder for people to put trust into up-and-coming projects.
On which Panasonic pulled the brakes.
So the bank predicted 2-3 billion in 2018, and instead it's 1.5B in 2019. The CEO of a company is optimistic about his company, and the bank is pessimistic about the company. Truth ended up somewhere in the middle, I don't see anything noteworthy about this.
Tesla needs to get their story straight. They're trying to talk out of both sides out of their mouth, and using whichever statement is convenient at different places.
My hunch is that if this is a problem then Amazon will soon provide a turnkey solution for its vendors. It would be a great competitive advantage to prevent the tax headaches.
Ah, understood, thanks. Sorry about that.
Agreed, Musk/Tesla/SpaceX set very ambitious targets and then scramble like mad to meet them or almost meet them. This means they're always pushing the limit, and hence you get an endless parade of 'Tesla are going to go bankrupt' stories. In a way they are kind of right, Musk is pushing Tesla so hard that they teeter on the edge of disaster quite often. I wouldn't quite say bankruptcy, but they teeter on the edge of a serious loss of confidence quite often. I think this is kinda deliberate, a tactic of shoot for the stars or just dont bother. I wouldn't invest, but its great to watch whats being acheived from the sidelines.

I think people have forgotten what innovation looks like. Innovation, from the outside, looks like a huge gamble, and thats because it is. Tesla is a series of huge gambles, and the people pointing out 'hey what Tesla are doing could go terribly wrong' have a point. But they are also missing the point.

Thankfully I think Tesla have enough cars on the road now that if they do strike disaster, there will be enough momentum to have some sort of Tesla remnant to keep the fleet running. But the progress would stop.
I think most browsers don't include referrer information when clicking a link on a HTTPS site which leads to a HTTP site, but other than that I believe the information is kept by default.

Site owners can however tell browsers how much information they should include in the "referer" header via the "Referrer-Policy" response header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re....
The funniest example of a game from Kickstarter would be Elite: Dangerous - a spacesim by a well-known author without most of the features Roberts tries to deliver.
I'm glad this distinction got teased out. I find that it rarely does.

When people discuss the merits of Diversity (capital D), the implication is that they are referring to the value of bringing in people from a variety of walks of life that might bring with them a variety and breadth of unique/disparate experiences to bear and to share. That is not often the case. People want to SEE photographic diversity. Unfortunately, varieties of experiences do not always correlate with varieties of skin color or ethnicity (though, they certainly can).

For example, my undergrad institution (a private, competitive engineering school) had a diversity policy that manifested itself in the student body. We had very few "under-represented minorities." The ones we did have were overwhelmingly international and wealthy.

It's important to point out that these folks DID bring diversity to the cohort, but it was because they were international, not because they had a certain color of skin. Their wealth actually made them the opposite of diverse economically-speaking. Still, they would always get photographed for the website, brochures, and other marketing material... The brochure would make you think that our school was a bustling melting pot of kids from Philadelphia, Compton, or the south side of Chicago when in fact these folks were kids of Latin American oligarchs and African quasi-royalty.

The school needed ACTUAL kids from the south side of Chicago to be able to REALLY check the economic diversity box (and poor white trash like me, of course).

In short, economic diversity is no less important than racial diversity. At least for issues where the sharing of experiences and perspectives is the goal, I think it represents a higher bar than brochure-diversity.
Right. And today, instead, churn is accepted. "Leadership" blames staff for being unmotivated, etc.

Put another way, Ford understood that to get what he wanted he'd have to consider the fate and faith of his employees. Do you think that's how Bezos thinks?
What makes it the funniest example?
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And Tesla raised half of it already by early Q2. Doesn't sound to far of, does it?
> If all companies offered $.02 per hour, with little change in purchasing power, basically everyone would elect not to work

Yes, this seems obvious.

> And you can't look at economics in a vacuum

Agreed, as long as we acknowledge that we shouldn't use this truism as an excuse to sweep away every argument about economics.

Overall, I don't see how you've contradicted my point, which was that when Ford increased bottom wages, it worked as long as other competitors for its labor market did not increase their bottom wage in kind. It seems like you're just making a case against low minimum wage in general.
There are *-compat[1] packages for backward compatibility. You are welcome to support them, if you really need them.

[1]: https://pkgs.org/download/-compat
Yep! They changed that in version 1.1.0[1], released back in October.

[1] https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/releases/tag/1.1.0
Mindfulness of body sensation (nama-rupa) is the first foundation of mindfulness in the satipattana sutta. There's 3 more... :) mindfulness of feelings, states of mind and conditioned/causal phenomena
Their own tweets about what they're going to release and their actual actions, their own characterization of the information, their choices not to release some information.

I also really don't think it is a difficult concept to understand that when choosing what to release and what you don't release you can greatly influence what is "true".

Let's say I was a military organization and I released some information that I killed 12 terrorists.... but I didn't say that I killed 200 civilians doing so. I could use your same argument "point out something I said that wasn't true"... but obviously I wasn't telling the whole story.
That is possible, I guess, but they've done really badly as a purveyor of used cars in the past. It doesn't exactly seem like a profit center for them.
One of my pet peeves is when someone complains to me about being bored, as if their inability to occupy themselves is my fault and its my job to entertain them. My wife learned this about me early on (I'm an extreme introvert and can happily retreat into my own skull and stay there for hours at a time).

Don't come to me and simply say "I'm bored." What am I supposed to do with that? If you have an idea of something you'd like to do that involves me, by all means just tell me.

Otherwise, leave me alone.
Eh, I chucked them $50 or whatever it was for what was clearly a 10+ year project (at the time I gave them my money). I've had fun playing the modules already released but if they never deliver a full game I can think of worse things I've spend $50 on.

I've always seen crowd funding as chucking a little money at an idea that interests you, if it works then cool, if not then it wasn't (and shouldn't ever be) an amount I'm going to lose sleep over.

As for the people spending thousands of dollars on promised future digital shiny things? I just don't understand it, why are you paying money for virtual things that don't exist yet in a game that doesn't even exist yet? But then I've never understood the (reasonably) recent trend for paying hundreds/thousands of dollars on cosmetic items for games that you're actually playing so maybe I'm missing something.
> there are two types of minimum wage workers - teenagers looking for summer money, and adults making a living -, and you can help the latter if you don't mind screwing the former.

when you put it like this, it seems obvious to say that the right move is to screw over the teenagers who are much less likely to be supporting a family or themselves.

I'm not sure this is great in the long run though. imo, having some kind of part time job is very important in highschool. for a lot of teens, it might be the first time they are exposed to an environment that has no inherent reason to make things work for them. until we finally get luxury space communism, this is a really important experience to have early in life.
Ya sure, go nuts on the other thread. It’s not critical to trading. I normally fprintf all sorts of time stamps, log level info, and handle formatting over there.

Just make sure you put it on another core to protect your cache.

But if you want mmap, you do you.
Can you point me to an example of a successful local forum? There's Craigslist for buying/selling items and the local subreddit for discussions, but both of those encompass the wider area of the city as opposed to the neighborhood.
That is simply not true, we have been making great progress in protein design in the last years. I recommend you take a look at this Nature review by Baker one of the biggest names in the field:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19946.pdf?origin=ppub
> clearly was not paying attention at the time of the crash.

This is the fundamental point that I'm disagreeing with though. As far as I know, Tesla has a very crude system for determining driver attentiveness. They rely ONLY on steering wheel torque, which is an extremely unreliable indicator. They don't do any sort of head or eye tracking. So when Tesla claims a driver wasn't paying attention, all it really means is "we're not sure if their hands were on the wheel".

My car uses the same method, and I constantly get warnings to place my hands on the wheel even when they're both already on the wheel. It's possible to have your hands on the wheel without applying any torque, and that's where this system fails.
They did a talk at FOSDEM this year, one of the contributors pronounced it 'Gix'
Do we get a new one to learn in engineering school, next to the Challenger disaster, the Therac-25, and the Hyatt Regency bridge?
>How is there no mention of the strength of organized labor during that period in the article or any of these comments?

For the same reason why luddites were and still are depicted as crusaders against technology: it's a convenient narrative for some.
It started out in a pathological state, and it's been getting worse ever since. The specific pathology is one of excessive scope. The game is trying to do and be far too much, even with the level of funding they've gotten. They seem to want to do Eve Online, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, and Halo, but all in one game.

Eve Online alone took fifteen years to get where it's gotten, and probably spent much more than $300 million to do it over that time period. That's just for one of the three things Star Citizen is trying to be. By the way, it's a lot cheaper to build out a game like this when you do it gradually. Doing anything fast is generally more expensive than doing it slow, because you need a bigger team and there is consequently more coordination overhead and risk. You also run less risk of building the wrong thing when you take it slow, because you have an established player base that's telling you what it wants.
Changing loot boxes to try to get ahead of EU gambling legislation is truly an enlightened and pro-consumer action.

The transparent llamas certainly had nothing to do with events in Denmark and Belgium -_-.
I find controlling on the device you're supposed to be looking with utterly frustrating - how are the controls? I'm all for supporting android games that are games, and not skinner boxes with "Angry Birdz" written on the side.
I'm a recent switcher. I got a Mac mini and installed my own 32GB RAM kit after delivery. I wish it played nicer with my Alienware 34" monitor (i dont know which side is to blame) but I know I don't miss Linux.
I would love to be able to include pictures and diagrams in comments. If it was in a text format like HTML or JSON it would source control nicely. The IDE could then display and allow editing them.
I think it proves most Americans are either ignorant or villainous. Or both. Which sounds smarmy but then, what other explanation might there possibly be?
Yep, Tesla looks like a nice investment target at this point. They have now proven that they can ship stuff that people want in volume with the model 3 and they have several other products planned that have the potential to be at least as disruptive. They require capital investment to make that happen. That's why they are raising capital.
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It's definitely not trivial to do. I have the Guix system installed on my mid 2013 MBP. I installed the mainline Linux kernel and drivers along with the proprietary Broadcom wireless module. Everything seems to be running fine.
One grey area that I approve of is referral links, if they're obviously presented as such.

For example if you read a tutorial on how to build a weather station and the author provides referral links to a component on Amazon, I'm happy to use those links.

Referral systems are open to abuse though, like the myriad of ultra specific comparison websites with tenuous "expert" reviews.
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I've used emoji and other astral planes characters in git commits and variable identifiers and haven't seen a tool break yet.
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This is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of HPC folks, so it's surprising to me that there isn't an "unofficial official" way to get non-free Nvidia drivers given Guix's aims at reproducible builds for HPC.
"and always misses his projected dates."

Fixed that for you.
To jimmaswell:

Ads wouldn't be there unless they work for the advertiser.
Think of all of the time and dollars wasted on unnecessary college educations because employers required it (even the most junior role requiring a 4 year degree to check the box) but wages are still stagnant or sliding back.
I love ripgrep, btw, great work.

I was pondering this some more in the shower, the mmap for rg case is also sort of naturally cache oblivious, copies will consume hardware cache for the write and while there is a ton of hardware for cache on modern hardware, it’s a noticeable cost on some tests. If you’re searching through something big, then it’d be like doubling hardware cache which is probably really noticeable on smaller devices.

The small files case is interesting, copying the data is faster than patching up the page table tree, I bet there is a strong correlation to the hardware cache size vs the average file size in that case. The files probably need to be N pages in size for it to be worth it, might be an interesting heuristic to use.
Is there a post where it's covered why Sublime Merge implements things like packfile reading on its own, rather than using git's own plumbing? E.g. in this case presumably keeping a "git cat-file --batch" would do the trick.

I contribute to git.git, and it would be interesting to know if there's inherent issues stopping you from doing that, or if it's implementation problems in some cases (e.g. missing plumbing commands or features). There's definitely interest from upstream in reviewing patches / helping if there's missing or inadequate plumbing.

You'd get upstream features for free as they come along. E.g. presumably you haven't implemented the new MIDX format, but that speeds up pack file access by a lot for some use-cases, and presumably the boring bits of low-level git operations aren't much of a selling point in and of themselves.

Aside from whether you'd use "git" itself, such a trick of using a slave process you'd talk to over IPC of some sort would cover some of the issues you wrote about, e.g. issue with sharing global state with libraries like Breakpad.
> I can be idle for an hour or so. But it would be incredibly boring and also why?

Because that is your recovery time, which can be pretty valuable.

If you take part in physical sports/pastimes (for instance I run) you'll know the value of periodicity in training programs: rest days each week, and easy weeks every 3/4/5 (this can vary a lot depending on training program). Training actually does damage, the rest periods allow the body a bit of time to put itself back together better and if you skip them you risk an over-training related injury.

I consider a bit of downtime during the day to have a similar effect on my mind. Sleep of course is the longer rest periods. In sports, it is important to take some full time off now and then too: don't jump into training for one event immediately after the last. For the mental wellness equivalent, this is what proper holidays are for.

The anxiety affects us the same: we feel that by doing nothing for a while we are letting go, wasting time, undoing some good, etc. But really we are doing ourselves some good by not running our bodies at approaching 100% too constantly.
I heard from a friend of mine who's into board game that the same is happening with Cool Mini or Not, hogging the KS space for board games with huge goals and expensive figurines and leaving little breathable space for other companies or people trying to get their games on the market or even just being visible.

CMN is using KS to bootstrap their products to the detriment of other smaller dev who can't even test the water and see if the product could be made.
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I thought it was "Alpha testing".