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> Friedman has been called many things but inconsistent or unprincipled we’re not among them.

Yes they were, for example Friedman said that free market policies enable 'freedom' and socialist ones do lend themselves to authoritarianism, while conveniently ignoring the fact that in almost all places where his vision was put as fully into motion as possible, (70/80s Latin America), it had to be accompanied by severe state oppression. His policies could not be enacted via truly democratic means and in that sense they were no different than the 'socialist' ones he was so critical of.

He even admitted this later, essentially saying that you need a huge crisis of some sort, so that an economic 'shock therapy' could be enacted in order to bring about his vision of free markets.
Yeah, the shadows seem to match. And as the OP was posted March 9, they could be indeed be stolen images.
THIS!

The playgrounds my kids played in when they were little were a thousand times cooler than the crappy playgrounds I had growing up
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I find interesting though that the Rust code that generates a larger binary is about as complex and lengthy as the C code, while the Rust code which generates a smaller binary is clearly clunky and nobody would ever use it.

Of course it is a toy example and I imagine in most real-world examples the size of the binary is a moot point.
I'd bet $50 you're their second choice but their first choice hasn't given them a firm yes yet, so they're keeping you in reserve. I'd carry on looking in that situation.
As an example, this is why Russia has rushed to finish GLONASS, (GPS was disrupted for them in 2008) & why China and the EU are working towards the same goal.
Access to the global object is not at all restricted in strict mode. The changes in strict mode related to the global object are:
- can’t define implicit global variables (you need to be explicit)
- “this” doesn’t refer to the global object

The problem is that different host environment have different names for the global object. That’s what make it hard to write code that works independent of the host environment and that’s what globalThis is aiming to fix.
I'm afraid the link to the article has died or isn't available otherwise, here's the archive.org version https://web.archive.org/web/20180430120502/http://time.com/5...
They’re mostly just leasing, not owning.
One of the points has since been removed from reality: jemalloc was removed and the default allocator switched to system in 1.32 (January 2019)[0].

[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/RELEASES.md#co...
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No one could do what they ask in 3-5 hours. At this point they are not testing your ability, they are testing your commitment.
The Google docs usage is limited to 250 docs/day: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/qu...

The README.md says that UDS can store ~710kb per doc.

:shrug:
The point is that a fully open economy is not necessarily the optimal strategy for a developing country.

Of course this is just one aspect of development and there is no silver bullet.
Those who succeeded used protectionism and controlled opening of their economy as part of a broader strategy, governance, and culture.
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"...because he believes that motivated actors will be able to synthesize smallpox in the next 20 years, and that the world needs to be ready..."

So the essence is "we are doing it first, becuase otherwise others will be doing it first"... So the race who will come first there continues... No (further) comment...
I don't understand something from this article:

"Our margins had declined and our revenue growth had stalled. ... I was becoming increasingly worried about our team and our turnover numbers. We are a people business and in some divisions we were losing 30 to 40% of our teammates within a year.

My HR staff suggested that we re-think our recruiting and training – which made sense – but I thought that we could do more. I thought we needed to reconsider how we supported and paid our team. For our entry level jobs – where turnover was the highest – we paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour (or less than $16,000 per year).

...

I took my concerns to my team. After many tough conversations, it became clear that we could not simply raise wages and hit our budget."

This just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Recruiting and especially training has a very real cost for non-trivial jobs. Why would they pay minimum wage when they seem to be acknowledging that not paying minimum wage would increase their profits? This is something companies learned in the early 20th century. Henry Ford was the first employer to institute a higher minimum wage for his employees (doubling the average pay of the time). He didn't do it because he was a nice guy, he did it because he found that increasing the minimum wage reduced turnover which meant less spent on training and a general increase in productivity and profits. The same reason he would also go on to standardize what we now consider the normal 8 hour work day / 40 hour work week.

This seems very much like a story of a very poorly managed company. A minimum wage is appropriate when it's appropriate. When you're losing 30-40% of your employees, likely in meaningful part due to wage, and it's costing substantial amounts to replace and retrain for their roles - it's not appropriate. It seriously seems like at times that MBAs should be relabeled to masters of business annihilation because that's invariably where these incredibly myopic views on labor:costs:revenue seem to come from.

---

edit: confirmed. Here [1] is their board. And indeed it's just an MBA pack.

[1] - https://www.carecentrix.com/about-us
I should have said left-wing academia I guess but it’s sort of tautological.
China’s lunar rover finds proof the moon has a mantle
You don't need to trust them. It's easy to measure the radiation levels yourself.
Singapore: Don't make us choose because we will choose China.
> I think the growth of flat-earth and anti-vax believers are two examples that disprove your statement

What growth are you talking about? Is there an actual research, that indicates that number of flat-earthers have grown compared to previous decades?

And why do you think, that there is a relationships between flat-earth nuts and social media, as opposed to, say, HIV, cancer and other diseases and social media? Social media made you more aware about flat-earthers than before, but it didn't turn you into one.
Email addresses aren't relevant, because they're not authenticated unless DKIM/SPF etc are in place. It's the IP addresses that matter.
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If compiler speed is your problem, then you're not doing development right.

Tweaking the code until it produces something which looks right (and/or passes the tests) as the primary means of achieving correct operation is guaranteed to produce poor quality code.

The only way to produce correct and reliable code is to do that by design and deliberation. Tests merely check a tiny part of the input vector space; they are safety against brain farts and gross errors. If you build code carefully, you spend most of the time thinking and compilation is something which happens not too often.

Having a slow compiler teaches to be careful; rapid-fire hack-compile-test-fix-compile-test-fix cycle positively encourages sloppiness.

Another reason why compilation can be slow is simple bloat, indicative of poor architecture or poor design or use of inappropriate tools. If you need to write 200 KLOC and most of that code is variations on the same theme, you needed to start by finding or designing a DSL which takes the repetitiveness out or doing some other form of meta-programming.
This. I have never seen a programming language brag about being inaccessible and having bad documentation.
Risks have been carefully measured and assessed for most incidents. You can read up on the numbers elsewhere.

Doesn't mean you want to be living next to a nuclear power plant.
And it gives no comfort to people who have their health significantly affected because of the actions or inactions of nuclear power plant operators and governments.

And you are speculating on reasons of your countrymen you probably have no clue about. Did you talk to any of them ?
> They've been advertising for full-time jobs and as part of the application process, are requiring candidates to raise funds and get signups. Assessment for the roles will take into account these candidates' success in raising money. The founders recently confirmed to me that they don't actually have the funds to pay for these employees: those will be raised by the candidates themselves during the recruitment process.

A baffling choice by these founders.
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I don't support trickle down economics, but it's not the case that money in banks is just sitting around in a vault. The banks actually do stuff with the money. For example it's loaned out to real world businesses.
I wonder if the white house is willing to listen to Alex Jones, Assange, and Snowden about their stories..
Not Google, but similar company and can confirm. If you spend 5x the amount of time we suggest, it’s obvious and the expectations scale a lot, lot higher than if you just spent 5 hours.
Depression is increasing among Americans reaching middle age
My first guess was that you have to climb back down to the ground between each section being removed, for safety reasons (don't get hit by a swinging section of crane). But in that case you'd still have to climb to remove the last two bolts, so it doesn't really save anything.
You just need enough redundancy/error correction.

Back in the day there were systems to back up to VHS tapes and those were way more lossy than YouTube https://youtu.be/TUS0Zv2APjU
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...

"Electricity produced from natural gas has the lowest risk of the 11 technologies (five
conventional, six non-conventional) It is a factor of about two lower than the next highest,
nuclear power Third is a non-conventional system, ocean thermal, which can convert the
temperature differences of ocean layers into electricity. Most other non-conventional systems
have far higher risk. However, the highest of all are coal and oil, with risk about 400 times
that of natural gas."
tools.ietf.org (and only that site) seems to be down for me at present, failing in the TLS handshake, PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR.

Here’s another URL for the content: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8594.txt
Arguments happen on twitter because you have lots of different communities that frequently accidentally collide. It's fascinating. Basically as it turns out communities on the internet work calmly when they're homogenous - this is the beauty of reddit. When communities interact you get chaos, because suddenly you're confronted with thousands of people you disagree with. On reddit that's called brigading and can get you banned, but on twitter it's built into the platform.

The result is that on reddit you get isolated communities - some of which are thoroughly toxic and churn out some of the worst of humanity. Twitter doesn't create that isolated groupthink environment but instead it is just a constant warfare between communities.

What I don't understand thouhg, is why twitter thinks its a good idea to give away the one thing that makes their platform differentiated.
In the age of GitHub pages, Netlify and who knows how many other unlimited bandwidth web hosts - how on earth do people still manage to get their sites slashdotted?
> The problem isn't that this guy streamed what he was doing on facebook, it's the fact that he did it in the first place?

The Las Vegas shooter we're told had no motive, but there's a public sense that each massacre is trying to "out do" a previous kill count. With Facebook being the go to place when one occurs, it's instant fame and notoriety for the perpetrator. For this reason our government and media took the immediate response of "de-naming" the killer, but with instant global online platforms this is after the horse has bolted. This approach of involving platforms directly is to neuter the draw of instant notoriety. To remove fame (or widespread publicity if there is an agenda) from being another contributing factor.
Money for luxury things doesn't do nearly as much as money for necessities, because luxury things are optional. The person with the money can easily decide to postpone the purchase and save the money instead. Or spend the money abroad, which doesn't do much for the local economy.

People who are short on necessities will immediately buy them when they get the money for them, because they are necessities. Money for the poor is an extremely reliable way to stimulate the economy, much more so than money for the rich.
99% of the robocalls I see nowadays are using forged caller ID.

Having the provider drop them is analogous to having ISPs drop packets with forged source IPs.
> an ongoing spiritual battle against Satan and all his demons who are continuously attempting to overthrow the kingdom of God, mostly by tempting the people of the surrounding lands into sin or by allowing their opponents to prevail

Sure, but that's all make-believe; snails are real.
Huawei Threat Is the Nuclear Option to Halt China’s Rise
Don't you think the medium used to communicate ideas determine how fast and far they spread ?

Sure I can go down in the streets, shout my hate speech at the top of my lungs, put propaganda flyers in random mailboxes, &c ... Or I can upload a video to all video hosting websites and reach more people a single day than I could do in a lifetime of organic propaganda.

It's like saying internet didn't reshape the world because we could already send data over long distance before, yeah sure if you consider that a boat going from EU to US with hand written letters is just as good as our current 60 Tbps ocean internet cable.

Also, don't forget that the Nazis were elected to power and were the official government, it's much easier to use propaganda when you're in that kind of position.
I agree with the recommendation to keep looking for a job (since this is a promising low-likelihood opportunity); there are other likely scenarios:

- They hope to find someone better and/or cheaper, and they can afford to wait. Presumably benign.

- The advertised position isn't certain; factions within the company might not want to spend money for a new employee (or for someone else's employee in particular).
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> The banks actually do stuff with the money. For example it's loaned out to real world businesses.

Traditional loan business is not the core business of banks any more, at least not where the big profits come from.
I remembered seeing the same images a year ago, so I used Google Images to find what I assumed to be the same images. I didn't know the OP is a photographer, I assumed it was just another clickbait blog, as is common these days. I updated my original post to remove the accusation.
Never noticed that, thank you for pointing it out. There is a lot of evidence for Michaelangelo dissecting corpses with the tacit approval of the church, it made his art stand out substantially because of his knowledge of the muscles and bones underlying the skin and the fabric.
He must have used secret CSI technology to "uncrop" the picture larger than the one he supposedly "stole".
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300km/h and 300km range means 1hr endurance. That means it probably cannot be used at all for paid flights in the USA. Reserves required are greater than that (enough fuel to fly to destination, to alternate, and then 45 mins).
By intentionally serving it from a computer that’s essentially from the 70’s
These tests are being used as a pre-filter to avoid the expense of bringing someone into the office.
You have absolutely nothing to base that guess on though? What if Apple made the CPU to usually peak at, say, 2GHz and only go up to 2.5 under very special circumstances? What if the author has a, say, iPhone Xs, and the Xs's CPU is limited to never exceed 2.3GHz while the same CPU in the Xs Max reaches 2.5GHz? Or any number of other factors which I couldn't even start guessing at because the CPUs in smartphones and the software and firmware which controls them is an extremely complicated matter which I'd bet neither of us has any first-hand experience with.
> When a solar farm on 10 acres of land can produce more energy than a coal plant on the same 10 acres

This is energetically impossible, I'm afraid. Even if you count the area of the plant plus the area of its corresponding mine and the transport links between them. Because the energy density of coal is so incredibly high.

On the other hand, now that Drax has switched to burning wood, you might get more energy efficiency from the same (huge) area of woodland by direct solar farming instead. Annoyingly I can't find any numbers, other than an estimate that if Drax was limited to domestic wood (rather than importing it from the US, using oil-fired shipping) it would consume every tree in the UK within a year.
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I don’t follow your argument, are you saying that if we just “reorient” our society away from violence by not using violence to punish criminals, they will stop committing crimes?

Yes I agree we should strive for a society were fewer crimes are committed, , but I don’t see how that somehow implies that we should abolish prisons. We only imprison people who actually commit crimes.

Besides, prisons have many uses, apart from curing the criminal. The first is to stop blood feuds, if society does not punish crime then relatives of the victim will, and this leads to never ending spirals of violence. Crime victims generally are more concerned with justice than rehabilitation.

Another important reason is to keep criminals off the streets. No matter what happens once they get out, we can be sure that the streets are safe from them while they’re in prison. And since most violent criminals are young men, if we put them away until their testosterone has calmed down about in their thirties, they should be much safer to have around.

Then there’s of course the deterring effect of a potential prison sentence. I for one believe that if crime goes unpunished then we’d see more of it, not less.

I’m not saying that the american prison system isn’t terrible, but that is no reason not to have prisons at all.
> Why not talk to the coal plant owner directly?

Well, merely talking to them isn't going to achieve any change, so the plan is to tax them?
Yes, coal is worse, no, a 1% failure rate is NOT acceptable.
That is just a simple fact.
Driver behaviour on the Autobahn is not some accident. Germany has the most expensive drivers licence in the world due to the number of lessions you have to take to even be allowed to take the exams, with most people opting in to even more lessons to pass the exams. To pass the practical exam you have to drive pretty much perfectly (a small number of people never pass). So everybody knows how to drive correctly and has it drilled into them at least once in their life how important that is. Obviously with routine some things slip, but nobody wants to get rear-ended by a car going 120 mph on the Autobahn either.
Google could use this whenever they launch a new service!
I believe that rust now defaults to the system's malloc implementation instead of bundling jemalloc, so that bit is no longer necessary:

#![feature(alloc_system)]
extern crate alloc_system;

As for the part that removes libstd it's how you'd generally do it for a bare metal program (i.e. bootloader/OS) since you can't really use it without an OS unless you manually reimplement all sorts of primitives (memory allocations being the most obvious one).

Now if you do use libstd it's true that it's significantly larger that libc, but it's also vastly more powerful. You don't have anything like String, Vec or iterators in libc for instance, just a bunch of relatively low-level functions and wrappers around syscalls. It's also a fixed cost, so obviously for a simple Hello World there's a massive overhead but for a more complex application it should be less noticeable.

I mean when you think about it even the C Hello World is ridiculously bloated. If you were to write the equivalent program in assembly without any dependency on the libc you could probably get a binary that would be significantly smaller (and most of its size would really be the ELF metadata).
I bought and use JetBrains CLion (C++ IDE) precisely for these reasons. I only use VSCode for HTML/JS/CSS and as a markdown editor. For plain editing I just use VIM. For medium-scale projects, VSCode tends to take enormous amounts of resources.
1% is not a point of view. It is a fact.
Your last paragraph is pretty funny. YEs I do actually expect that a campaigner for closing prisons can actually present an argument for it, and the same goes for a lengthy article that purports to change my mind on the issue.
Having spent some time studying time keeping in computers, I've come to the conclusion that nothing needs to be changed. In particular, UTC is exactly what it should be and should be left as it is. However, there are some things that need to be added:

* Every standard library needs properly implemented and properly documented functions for converting between UTC and TAI.

* NTP should (at least optionally) tell the user TAI and UTC (like GPS already does).

* When mounting a legacy file system there should be an option to specify whether timestamps should be interpreted as TAI or UTC.

* New filesystems should have a field that specifies TAI or UTC. It would probably be a single bit for the whole filesystem rather than per timestamp.

* The CLOCK_UTC proposal should be implemented, with tv_nsec in the range 1000000000 to 1999999999 during a leap second.
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I'm not actually trolling. I'm interested in reading an article like this. I've seen people talk about them and looked for them but not seen one. The ones I've seen are just boring.

Sorry if you thought it was a troll. It sounded like you knew an actual source that I could check out rather than just rumours.
It makes sense to have different requirements for VTOL. So what would it take to make that happen?
Typed racket isn't slow (as far as scripting languages go). Maybe you're thinking of Racket's "contract" system?

AFAIK typed racket does type-checking during compilation (via raco); the resulting code is no slower than normal Racket, although I'm not sure if it's faster either.

The contract system is different; it works on normal, untyped Racket code and performs checks at runtime; similar to using Python decorators to check the input and output of a function. This slows things down, so it's recommended to only check things at module boundaries. For example:

#lang racket
(require racket/contract)
(require racket/match)
(provide factorial)

(define/contract (factorial n)
(-> exact-nonnegative-integer?
exact-nonnegative-integer?)
(fact n))

(define (fact n)
(match n
[0 1]
[_ (* n (fact (- n 1)))]))

This module exposes the `factorial` function, which checks (at runtime) whether its argument and return value are non-negative integers (i.e. 0, 1, 2, ...). The actual calculation is done by the `fact` function, which is private and doesn't do any checks. If we don't separate the checks from the calculation, we would end up running the checks on every recursive call, which would slow things down a lot.

As far as I'm aware, Racket's gradual typing is done by contracts at the interface between typed and untyped code. Hence it's not that typed racket is slow, it's that passing untyped values into typed functions can be slow, if we want accurate blame information for errors.
I had not considered that initial life, which created enzymes and oxygen would inhibit subsequent biological genesis. This seems to contribute to the Fermi Paradox.