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"And as always, even if you have identified a bubble, trading profitably on this is subject to the efficient market hypothesis."

Timing is hard in the short run, certainly. However, if you believe you have identified a true bubble, it seems wise to scrutinize long term commitments requiring outsized returns from the underlying asset? Practically, this would mean not tying your career to bubble technologies; not settling down into a bubble-priced home-cum-retirement nest egg; etc.
Price of a day trip is much less if you're local. Higher prices are for tourists, but they include smaller groups and more comfortable buses.
Its magic when you say embed Au angsrtom scale layering in an Si structure in order to control the wave plane? Any decent E&M research lab can pull out many examples of magic then…
This extension apparently simulates clicks on blocked ads. I'm not comfortable doing that.

First of all I don't see the point. I don't click on ads, so there is no profile that advertisers can extract from that.

Having an extension that simulates clicks would only link to my supposed profile shit that I don't want, plus in my experience from when I worked in the ads industry, the user profile often gets compiled from better signals, like actual searches, apps used, websites visited, articles being read, or data freely provided by the user himself, like age, sex or location.

Clicks on ads are misleading because the ads themselves are misleading. It's not a good signal unless it leads to a conversion and a click is just part of the funnel and not a conversion. In fact the only really useful signal is that the user clicks on ads, in general, or in other words you're inviting publishers to serve you more ads.

Also this "fighting back" attitude is not very constructive. If you hate the direction of this industry, consider paying for shit that you consume, instead of pushing for extensions that will inevitably get banned (due to this being essentially fraud) and that are pushing more and more publishers towards native apps and towards DRM, because the open web is a risky platform due to these extensions.

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For protecting my privacy, besides Firefox's built-in trackers blocking and uBlock Origin, I also use and recommend Privacy Badger ... this is a neat extension that automatically learns about trackers that follow you around the web; it can brake some websites, but it's the best at bypassing protections against ad/tracker blocking.
> Write blog posts. Use RSS. Use micro.blog. Use Mastodon. Use Pleroma. Use whatever you want, as long as it isn’t manipulating you with algorithms or selling access to your data to advertisers

RSS doesn't really count, that's more one-way than social, but the userbase of all these is less than Twitter's.

Mastodon seems like the most ready to be an alternative but doesn't have the user-base. I can't even make an account without being manually approved or using a third-party server...

I mainly use Twitter for contacting customer support etc. as it's easier and more direct than going through other channels.

I'll stick with Twitter
Could someone identify which year model this was? I think that it'll be useful for some users that are worried about their macs.
The Irish Times do something similar with the view from their Dublin Office. Only difference being they use it as a measure of economic growth.
Wikipedia is routinely manipulated to promote corporations and individuals. It's no surprise that some of the people engaged in this sort of practice are paid to work exclusively. In fact, I peronally know a case where congress promoters had among their marketing strategy creating and maintaining wikipedia pages that helped them promote their event.
When an ad slips through? You might wanna update/augment those filter lists.

That was the best thing about some of the addons to the old adblock plus addon - you could keep your own list, and the average user was entirely unaware of the extent that they were doing so.
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seem to remember reading that by now, internet companies have created more value than was destroyed in the dot com crash.

Maybe people are just speculating wildly because they stakes are high - maybe that's not even wrong behavior?

Also interested in the "giant penises" description of high building. Isn't it simply space efficient to build high rather than flat? At least if space is restricted, like on Manhattan Island, it makes sense. Maybe not so much if you are located in a desert with unlimited space in all directions.

Also, there is a signalling aspect to marketing. Being able to afford expensive marketing (including huge building, expensive ads) proves that you have at least some kind of success so that you were able to come up with the money.
This is nice but it's disappointing that Apple's browser improvements are influenced by the cadence of WWDC conferences.
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+1 for laptops as home servers. Built in KVM and UPS, small form factor, generally optimised to have a small heat and power footprint. Have done this quite successfully for 20 years, each laptop lasting about 5 years as a small homeserver or router, having already been used as a laptop for 2 years prior.
Yup. There are plenty of signs for a general economic recession in the US, but tech specifically doesn't seem overvalued in comparison, and we're in a state of anything but irrational exuberance in terms of attitudes towards the tech industry and unprofitable startups.
Good feature but the three month window they grant is way too short. Winding up someone’s affairs after they have died often takes longer. A year would make more sense.
The idea is to sell the book. It's not free contents
As an individual, I want "convenience and ease of use". But I'm not blind to the fact that you're going to get shafted because my negotiating position - as an individual - is poor. So I 100% want an organization like mozilla, that does have at least some influence (but let's not get too hopeful here), to prioritize also the longer term benefits you describe as "philosophy".

Otherwise you're basically giving in to eternal serfdom; letting large corporations dictate the terms, knowing that individuals will never be able to extract the long-term compromises needed for a good deal. It's basic negotiating 101 that the party holding all the cards is going to get most of the value.
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There are analysis strategies oriented around identifying and trading reversals based purely on price movement. For understandable reasons it's often regarded as forest medicine by fundamental traders, but there's a bunch of people using it everyday profitably. It is more art than science though.
In principle or practice? There a large number of secondary product compounds produced by microorganisms that have never been synthetically synthesised, but in theory they all could be.

If you want to prove that an organic compound has come from a living system you look for carbon isotope enrichment or depletion - more C12 and less C13 than found in the environment.
Disabling JS in your browser is like cutting off your leg because one of your toes hurts. It might solve the toe problem, but it's not an ideal solution.
It's the way manning sells the books.
If you want to read quietly, you have to purchase the book
The only book of Pinker's I found useful was his guide to writing called "A Sense of Style." This columnist could really benefit from giving it a thorough read.
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What would be, in your opinion, a down-to-earth approach to presenting information?
Coders aren't safe because they don't have hard skills like management ability.
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Yeah but FF blocks ads, trackers, analytics and social media buttons. Basically half of the shitty internet. That saves some time I would think.
Sorry, I only just remembered what the issue with this solution was. Absolute symlink components in the path will "escape" the root. So it actually doesn't help overall -- you still need to verify after you've done the open. My kernel patchset for RESOLVE_IN_ROOT will scope absolute paths too -- so you definitely could combine it with /proc/$pid/root but that's not enough by itself.
They did not break Threema's encryption. They simply extracted the database from the unlocked iPhone of the target person.
a social network whose branding is broken isn't a very good social network. i think that everytime i rediscover mastodon and realize that it's still not being used by anyone i consider interesting
Looks like OpenBSD awk still uses yacc, like other copies of bwk‘s one true awk https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/awk/#d...
> we have to make Chrome the new IE fast.

Microsoft has literally done that already: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/
I think he is using bird's-eye view distances, as opposed to bus travel distances. Roads are rarely directly straight between stops in London
Yes but with governments playing with things like margin requirements, tax policies or income verification it is a moving target. House prices here are unsustainable in the long term, but prices can stay unsustainable for longer than you can stay solvent betting on crash.
> If you sold one of your TODO notes for $170,000 frankly I think that'd be a fair judgement to make.

Other than the fact that people spend stupid money on stupid things [1], I'm not sure what your point is

> You know you can do that with a database right? Literally, a database

Yes, and this is a generic solution that applies to any kind of asset, and then software like 0x can plug in to trade said assets. Generic cases are always more complex than specific cases

> trying to introduce complexity and inefficiency into the US government

Well actually I'm trying to do nothing of the sort: As I said, it was an example of asset trading of something with intrinsic value, and not a valid use-case

> I already trust the government to allow me to drive my car. Why on earth does this need to be decentralized?

It has nothing to do with trusting the government, or driving a car. It has to do with transferring ownership information of an asset with intrinsic value between 2 parties, ensuring payment without relying on (possibly expensive) escrow

You seem to be conflating a number of examples that I made to explain specific points to be a proposition of things that should actually be done

[1] https://mentalfloss.com/article/54308/9-most-pointlessly-exp...
Currently the SP500 is around 11% overvalued, on the log chart from 1970 - which is pretty decent, considering there were much much higher levels (100%+).

https://imgur.com/a/fykBcNa

Also check out this: https://www.leggmason.com/en-us/advisor-resources/main/us-ec...
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In a previous life when I was at MIT, I took a course from Gerry Sussman called Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics [1]. There was one lecture where he taught us Scheme, which is a simple enough language that it can be taught in a lecture. After class I went to his office to ask him a few questions, and I told him I was interested in functional programming.

He printed out some scheme file from his computer and handed it to me. It was a derivation of the Y combinator. He patiently walked me through it and answered my uninformed questions. He was always so enthusiastic about teaching, and his explanations were more like an exuberant performance than a traditional lecture.

Fueled by his contagious passion, I've since learned quite a bit about functional programming and have given many talks on various related topics. My focus is on type systems and machine-checked proofs, which strangely enough Gerry Sussman seemed to loathe. I wish I had spent more time picking his brain while I was there.

If there's one professor I miss from MIT, it's Gerry. He's so knowledgeable about so many different topics, from physics, to formal logic, to neuroscience, to AI, to programming language theory. For some topics, there are certain magic words you can say that will get him going in such a way that you'll wish you'd brought popcorn.

[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/sicm-html/bo...
AppleCare sends laptops to FedEx in Memphis for repair by FedEx employees. They've forgotten thermal paste on repairs to logic boards that led to system crashes once the computer kicks into gear.
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Last time I checked Google didn't sell weed, didn't produce porn and didn't write books. You wouldn't, but I would, thanks to your moral standards I can't do business, because US with your legacy regulations on Internet allowed Google became sheriff of the internet.
Have you tried navigating to `about:profiles`? That’s how I switch between profiles. Works just fine IMO.
In the current late stage of a cheap debt infused bull market it appears to be more sane to predict a crash and hence discourage people form investing in it altogether (or at least be extremely cautious) rather than speculating on where exactly the market top will occur.

If you miss the timing of the crash all of these gains will have disappeared anyway. Downturns often happen too fast for normal people to react to in time to save their gains.

It's most likely time to buy again directly after a crash or significant pullback has happened and valuations have come down to a more rational level.

No one can predict a market under the current circumstances (federal reserves keeping rates artificially low, pumping new funny money into the market over a period of 5-10 years).
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My faith in the "free world" dwindles day by day. Seems like "academic freedom", "free speech" and the like are only catchphrases for a higher purpose.

The white man does indeed speak with forked tongue.[1]

[1]https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/07/beware-those-who-spe...
I have no problem about people selling books. Put free snippets of the book (or the whole thing) online, or don't. Either is fine. But putting the text online and making it hard to read is just stupid.
"kubectl cp" has had security bugs in the past[1] that are very in-line with what I just outlined (I didn't know this beforehand -- but I would've guessed it was vulnerable if they hadn't seen this issue before). In fact the fix in [1] doesn't look entirely complete to me -- it seems to me you could further mess with the output.

I agree that we should use security in depth (and all of those kernel facilities are great), but actually joining the container itself is not a good idea -- you need to treat it as the enemy. I am not in favour of implementing them all in userspace, this is why I'm working on new kernel facilities to restrict path resolution.

[1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75037
Yes. I own a very overprice home, but I have avoided joining the masses and becoming a part-time landlord (the great Australian dream it seems).
Hmm, I'm using straight-line distances (pythagorean of the northing/easting difference). Maybe he's using "real world" distances somehow? That might explain some of the discrepancies. Although I'd expect the straight-line numbers to be lower, on the whole, because, as you say, the roads are rarely straight.
Agree. Strange choice for a headline that comes across as quite western slanted. To whom would they pay rent exactly - long dead kings and princes? When the families have been living there continuously for 700 years, who's the landlord?
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"because sucking you into the ecosystem is just that profitable."

Nevertheless, they offer good products. I'm not sure the negativity is really warranted.

I've yet to hear about a case of anybody being hurt by Google collecting data to them and serving ads?
> Was it really just to become the world's most comprehensive search engine? Hell no, it was to get people into the ecosystem and to stay there, and be content with doing so.

>Chrome is the same thing. Why would a for-profit company develop a web browser more or less unprompted and give it away for free? To draw people into the system and get them comfortable with staying there.

I think you're giving them too much credit, bordering on a conspiracy theory. There's no way they knew all of this would happen and that they would now be in the position to dictate the plug-ins we use.

I'm not saying they didn't want that and they are not happy to be in this position.

What I'm saying is that their initial plan with Gmail/maps/chrome was to gather more data and give themselves the competitive advantage in the ad selling business. If you remember, when most of these products started they looked nothing like each other, quite telling that there was no central plan to create an ecosystem.

The ecosystem idea started much later, with the failed attempts to make social network and with the not-so-failed Google Now which is when they finally started bringing all the data they had together.

Surely they took advantage of their position eventually and managed both to create an ecosystem and to successfully lock people in, but that doesn't mean that they planned it since 2003.
Ah, 10% of the first section of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, with amateur typography. Sort of like Greenspun's tenth rule, but for math.
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It was a bit of both as I see it. Tab-groups developer quit soon after rewriting the add-on to fit the multi-processing update (which was announced several years in advance I believe, and was anticipated nonetheless), and then right after Mozilla announced the depreciation of XUL in favor of WebExtensions in a year's time, forcing another rewrite and wouldn't be fully functional until the replacement API's are developed.

Besides, that replacement API's haven't even now been fully developed points all the same to Mozilla forcing WebExtensions much too quick, as waiting more would have fixed this problem from occurring.
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Mandatory toe dip. I’m in the mining game and stories about metals commodity shortage like these come around all the time and it’s laughable.

You here about the popular ones (rare earth, lithium etc) but there are plenty of others. (We just finished going through a vanadium shortage apparently).

It’s so bad all it takes for an exploration company to get a substantial bump in share price is to mention it. During the great lithium shortage, the amount of companies who had a large bump for just mentioning that they would be investigating old core samples for lithium was ridiculous.

Argh.
Japan has made a huge discovery of rare earth minerals off their coast. The only question is if they can figure out a way to economically harvest them.

https://www.sciencealert.com/japan-discovered-a-rare-earth-m...
May sound like a bad poetry but US exports of liquid gas are the only thing that guarantees freedom and democracy in countries from Baltic to Ukraine and more general in Central Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
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The best part of the article is the point on the graph marked "This point occurs in weeks not months". This is 100% true.
Flattr is micro-payments, and is fantastic!

AWS became successful party because of the "micropayments for servers" style hourly model.

Micropayments are most certainly a limitation of the current financial system: Pulling together all the disparate banks of the world to cooperate to create a global API to facilitate payment for <$1 amounts? Don't assume that all problems are technical: This would be near impossible, where cryptocurrencies are doing this right now.
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