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> ...now the same people and institutions are asking for the head of individuals like Phillip DeFranco.

I'm fairly lefty, and haven't heard of this Phillip DeFranco before. Surely if I consult my biased google bubble, it will show me the dirt on him? Well, not really:

> “Hey, writer here,” Roose responded. “This collage is just a sample from his viewing history. Some far-right, some not.” [1]

And reading the original NYT article... they aren't asking for anybody's head. And this is where it gets really interesting from a free speech perspective. Phillip got offended because he was in a collage of somebody's viewing history. He might have been a step along somebody's slippery slope, whose politics are/were too extreme for his comfort -- or it might just be correlation without causation. The article didn't dig into Phillip and denounce him.

In fact, the thrust of the NYT article is that YouTube's recommendations take folks from moderate content, and send them on a spiral to more extreme content.

You're free to describe all of that as 'asking for heads,' but that really doesn't seem to be the case here.

[1] https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/youtuber-philip-defran...
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As far as I can tell, students are not counted as in the labor force. Therefore, as more people pursue advanced degrees and other training later in life, labor force participation drops. Is this a bad thing? Hard to say.
Ofc, but what better way to make the masses conscious than making them part of it. Also, why do you need the government to limit you before you do something?

- Do you need the government to start issuing flight hour quotas before you start flying less?
- Do you need the government to ban short flights before you start using alternative transport methods more?
- Do you need the government to impose a high meat tax before you start consuming less?

You can do both, you can start doing your part AND push for political action. Saying "this is meaningless" is just a justification to not do anything yourself and put the blame on someone else. An excuse for inactivity.
If it has an open source license, it is 100% truly "free and open source". That's a good thing, not a bad thing! There's nothing magic about foundations or volunteer organizations that make some things more open sourcey than others. That's the beauty of it, the lifetime of the code isn't bound to the lifetime of whoever made it, for whatever reason they chose to make it or stop making it. It's just the license, not who wrote the software, and not why they wrote it. Everyone gets the benefit of their labors regardless.

Volunteer communities and nonprofits are no silver bullet either- they're great when they exist and function well, but they don't always, and are highly dependent on who's involved, how much, and why. If there's a big, strong, vibrant community behind something, that's a good sign for whatever that thing is, but very few projects rise to that level of centrality in people's lives. There's also no shortage of projects without funding which have terrible or nonexistent communities surrounding them. Usually good communities arise during the long tail of maturity, like years or decades after whatever it is has reached a plateau of collective usefulness. Good software leads to good communities, sometimes, eventually, but it generally doesn't go the other direction. Something has to be great for years before it becomes that critical and that supported of a piece of infrastructure. That's why it's good that open source is only a factor of the license, not who made it, not who maintains it, not why they maintain it, and not how it's funded. That's literally what is special about it and makes open source a useful and good thing.
OTOH, one can argue that one who's critical is also the most helpful or caring lol.

My comments that expose some 'against the system' stuff always end up getting downvoted tho(actually, at first they get some ups, but then are slowly shot down), so my view always was a "techie" thing... Ppl that would like some adjustments but most aren't radicals.

Another possibility is since here there's more informed ppl from very different places, a lot will make sure to point out weird stuff in American debate, since we all end up getting exposed to it but from a different vantage point.
There's also a scientific backstop in medicine to counter balance unethical commercial interests from causing unbounded harm.

It is possible (even more likely) to have experts with legitimate opinions that are scientifically valid and have measurable outcomes that also correspond to commercial interests. Ie. "it helps people and makes money".

That model has worked for over a century. Yes, it's under attack by unethical people (more than in the past?), but I'm not sure what the alternative would be.
The syntax is heavily inspired by Ruby.
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This requires nuance and discussion, but things like the following are generally not productive and not protected by free speech.

Defamation against private individual (including libel and slander)
Child pornography
Blackmail
Incitement to imminent violence
Solicitations to commit crimes

I think any discussion concerning "ideas" is fair game. It gets murky when dealing with individuals. None of the things on the list above are an "idea."
I came here to say this too. Here's me thinking that the Coyote's are the "bitcoin is freedom" crowd and it pulls a full 180.

As if bitcoin and Libra can't be the same side of the co(i)n.
It's an anecdotal comment that treats "MBA" as some sort of discernible bucket. Don't call it a striking figure when it's a guess based on a single qualitative observation.
I don't think that's true. Remember that there was a massive post-war boom in population and construction starting in the 50s and extending for several decades until the land got used up in cities. Chances are if you were old enough to rent an apartment or buy a house in the 70s, it was built within the last 20 years.
I don't think one can honestly look at employers paying employee's health insurance premium and honestly count that as compensation to the person per se. It's more of a capital expenditure bound to the position in need of being filled by a warm body.

That insurance, in short, is not yours. It is your employer's investment in keeping the occupant of that position a healthy working cog/gear. You just happen to be filling it at the moment.

I really wish we as a society would do a better job at framing these arrangements correctly. You (the employee) never have control of any capital with which to shop around for the best deal. Your employer does. Framing it as belonging to the employee just distorts the picture of what is going where to the point that we can't really say what we're measuring down the road.
I don't deny that QBism says things, but they don't seem so interesting to me. At least not as much as I expected when I approached the subject some time ago. I'm a fan of Jaynes and his work on information theory and statistical mechanics and I very much like the Bayesian angle here but it can be applied exactly the same (even better, I'd say) in a "realist" setting.

I think the problems in QM may not be problems after all if we could understand the physics better. Standard QM also consists in doing "as if" the quantum state represented physical reality: we (should) know that QM cannot be right and it's just an approximation to something else (QFT or whatever unification with GR) and even the way we apply QM cannot be right because it's also full of approximations (isolated systems do not exist, etc.). The "problems" that QBism "solves" may be artifacts due to those approximations and not fundamental problems. I find that all the (highly-speculative) physical theories trying to explain why things are "as if" QM was true are more promising than the metaphysical proposals of QBism or MWI (and as much as the MWI is metaphysical at least it seems better defined!).

I lack the time and patience to read the thousands of pages that Fuchs has written on the subject and I don't expect you to explain them to me either. So long, and thanks for all the fish^H^H^H^H discussion.
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Comparing AWS and MinIO with Presto on the TPC-H Benchmark
Even the 3000G series is zen+ 12nm.
The desktop APUs and laptop lag behind. Which is unfortunate because that is where a lot of the market is.
We've had two recessions since the start of the Great Moderation... what is it demonstrating?

I'd agree that recessions aren't necessary in theory, under assumptions that everyone can act perfectly, but that's pretty academic.
Just to be clear, are you advocating for censorship on a platform (i.e. Facebook) level, or a governmental level as well?
Slackers exist whether there is a union or not. Whether it's an overburdened manager ignoring an employee, a nepotism hire, or an employee who gets lost in the payroll system and becomes their own manager, corporate waste is a very real thing.
The public key fingerprints that need checking are important because they get introduced in 3DH, which is an AKE. Like 'tptacek mentioned.
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As a child I thoroughly enjoyed reading Gerald Durrell's books about his childhood in Corfu. All a wonderful read, both for his interest in zoology and the various characters that show up. I highly recommend My Family and Other Animals as a starter. At some point his older brother gives him a copy of this Fabre book and I remembered the reference immediately.
I've always wondered why the FCC is regulating the content of amateur radio transmissions as opposed to merely the spectrum used. With the way regulations are set up, there's little to do on amateur radio than....talk about amateur radio. A bit stifling as far as potential innovations go. I've had several great ideas for amateur radio applications that are effectively useless without some method of privacy.

There's not a compelling reason I can think of for the FCC doing anything more than regulating bandwidth, power, and duration of radio spectrum signals. On that premise, what couldn't they do with encrypted signals? It's not like abusers honestly identify themselves at the required intervals anyway. They could still triangulate abusers and issue fines. The only thing they wouldn't be able to do is tell users to watch their mouth.

As far as one of the stated purposes being emergency management, I can't help but wonder if reserved frequencies (ala CB channel 9) are sufficient.
Must be a geographical issue. I’m very active on next door and I’ve never seen such behavior. Sure there are a few spats like recently about fireworks but I’ve never witnessed anything “racist” or “classist”. I understand this is anecdotal, my experience might not match others.
I can highly recommend the curiousmarc AGC restoration series on youtube, which also feature Ken.
The atmosphere of open denigration of others certainly seems to be contributing to the rash of violent alt-right and white-supremacist incidents we're seeing yes.

Do I 'blame' 4chan? Not in any absolute sense, especially as he did his live broadcast to 8chan. But I'm willing to say that I think participation in these online communities contributed, yes.
If you do Python, why not use the insanely popular Python web framework Django? It will do all of what you're describing.
Because without that no-encryption rule, the ham bands would quickly turn into a commercialized free-for-all. The required openness prevents that particular class of abuse without ambiguity.
This isn't true. A few examples.

If you have to resort to extreme examples, then it shows the weakness of your position. Those examples are mostly illegal. It's not "censorship" in the context of Free Speech if one is counteracting illegal activity. The serious societal problems come in when there is censorship on an ideological basis.

This idea that "free speech" means everyone has to agree to let everything appear on the internet is false.

If Free Speech applies to the Internet, then it means precisely that everyone has to agree to let everything appear on the Internet. In 2019, saying that people can have Free Speech, just not on the Internet, is like saying people can have Free Speech, just not with mechanized printing. In 2019, publishing has to include the Internet, and suppressing publishing on an ideological basis is suppressing the principle of Free Speech.
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This is a great KPBS piece from 3 years ago.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/jul/08/sheep-counting-anza-bo...

This is a great KQED piece from 2 years ago.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11550455/volunteers-brave-extremes...

Edit: I'm happy to share and am available for further questions, but for anyone planning to visit the any parts of the Southern California desert during the summer, please please don't plan to go all out on your first visit. Please take a measured approach. For example: an overnight car-camping trip before you attempt a backpacking trip. When you're new to the summer-desert, plan on carrying one-gallon-per-person of water for a hike of any length, even if it's less than a mile; it can save your life if you unexpectedly get heat exhaustion when it's over 115F.

Edit II: To volunteer, e-mail AB.Sheepcount AT parks.ca.gov -- express your interest in the 2020 census and they'll put you on the mailing list. If you'd like more information, reply to this comment and we'll work out how to chat directly.
Possibly, GFI mechanisms are good, but they're not as good as a true ground since they take time to activate and require a minimum current draw to trigger (you can still be injured or killed below that current draw)
The links don't work for trashed messages. They lead to a page that says "the requested conversation has been deleted" and links to the inbox.
I'm not sure if there are enough oysters to be caught and cocktails to be mixed for all those budding oyster fishermen and barkeepers - I mean seriously those bankers are quite useless anywhere outside their finance bubble.

Anyway, strip clubs and coke dealers are already worried about customers breaking away. [1]

Source:

1: https://www.der-postillon.com/2019/07/deutsche-bank-18000.ht...
> Unions will also cap wages for the highest earners.

its okay if the average moves up, and transparency increases on stock options and the liquidity preferences of preferred shareholders. this is only currently relevant to non-public companies, and this article was about startups so thats fitting
Agreed, and they should also ditch all Apple products.
Part of the plan was to connect Venice to the remaining Mediterranean via a canal.
Hey, just wanted to chime in Crypto101 was the ~first book I read on crypto and it was really well written. Kudos for your work.
Not what I claimed, I'm not saying I have a solution here, or that anyone should be empowered to arbitrate. Merely that the idealist position is also pretty wrongheaded.
Thanks, I hate this handwaving going around. People simply don't want to compromise their lifestyle.

The China emits 29% of the global CO2 emissions, a country of 1.4 billion people where most of our goods are manufactured.

The US emits almost 15%, half of china, with less than a fourth of the population were most of the goods are imported. This lifestyle is not sustainable.
preposterous!

i wonder how many people who welcome this idea as a work thing, actually had to pay someone's salary some point in their carreer...
It’s better to look at prime age participation rate (25-54): https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip.... Among men it’s down from 91.8% to 88.5% since 1996.
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Hi there,
I'm doing some market research (US) and struggling with being able to find good data sets or websites to offer a detailed view of Total Addressable Market (TAM) in specific verticals. Any suggestions / resources?
> minimal GUI which had stuff like sliders, and most importantly knobs which general GUIs typically don't provide.

They don't provide knobs because they're a bad idea for input. Holding mousedown while drawing an invisible arc with the cursor is an awkward way to change a value. Sliders are generally better but still not great on interfaces with cursors (they're better on touchscreens). Skeuomorphism can be a useful visual design cue but it needs to be secondary to the input capabilities of the device.

Up and down arrow buttons(or plus/minus, or whatever makes sense for the value) are very compact and operable with a variety of input methods. Buttons need a way display the value but there are many options including putting them in the center of a ring of numbers like a knob would use.
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Oh. So, Free as in Memory, I suppose.
They're not fictional possessions--millions of people have them, in the real world. They can be transacted, and exchanged for real-world goods and services.
I remember seeing a couple places with their outlets installed this way several years ago and seeking out the reasoning at that time. I never liked the way wall warts fall out of "upside down" sockets, though, so when I had to install a bunch of outlets recently I put them all on their sides with the neutral leg "up".
The NHS charges by time, not by money. People 'pay' by waiting. Rich people waiting the same time as poor people pay more in money terms because their time is more valuable. The queue is managed via clinical need as assessed by professionals.

That breaks when people can pay in real money. Since the system is supply constrained all that does is reserve scarce medical resources for those with money rather than those with the most need. It allows rich people to jump the queue - just like the 'VIP' lane at a theme park.

Queue jumping in the UK was always frowned upon. The ultimate social faux-pas. That seems to be weakening in recent years and the 'time as money' system is weakening with it.
wow thank you for this! Honestly I've always looked at it as a whole and as a result every time I want to dive in it scares and overwhelms me.

I'll try to plan my learning by breaking the process into different stages.
The community argument isn't actually compelling. It creates "ghost-like" relationships, where you don't really know someone anymore and haven't for years, but act like you're still best friends, with occasional empty comments or likes. It's like eating cotton candy for dinner and acting like you have the energy a good steak would have given you. Many of them don't have email though, and phone chats are often difficult to coordinate. I think occasional visits is probably the best way to keep in touch with people you don't live near and thus see regularly. And if neither of you can manage to schedule that, then maybe there's no real connection there after all.
Wow that flipped my world view.
> You (the employee) never have control of any capital with which to shop around for the best deal.

You can always choose which career you want to pursue, at least in theory...
MBAs are appreciated everywhere that requires pricing, managing, product market fit, positioning, finance, analytics skillset. Basically everywhere that wants to make money, including Bay Area.
It's not 2014 any more.
The SPLC has done good work in the past, but they've published outright falsehoods recently. They've even had to retract, apologize, and pay a legal settlement. Much of their activity of late seems to be about political expedience and tribe, less about principle.
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Eh, I'll get to it later.
Why do people still care about his opinion?
I don't agree. Go read the news articles from 2009-2011. The "gig economy" was almost always quite descriptive, about the class of precarious workers forced by the recession to take up piece-meal worker. Only a few CEOs and sycophants waxed poetically about it, and even they stressed that it was mostly a way to make extra cash, not a job replacement.
Thanks for the response. 100% agree that when gig jobs started picking up, a lot of people were very hopeful about it, especially journalists. But I think a lot of the hope was only on the naive underemployed person side, not on the gig employer side, where the business models can only work with extremely cheap labor (if they work at all).
I'm not sure that's a big difference. I doubt investors were very keen to hold Greek drachma debt in a similar way that they aren't keen on weak African currencies.
MeetUp has potential... but the fact that it requires one paid account to start groups is probably whats holding it back. Otherwise, I love it
The quotation gives "The Gig Economy" active voice. The author is saying those who enacted the economic model had the intention of creating those well paying jobs. They obviously never had any intention like that. That statement is revisionist.
Do you broadcast your HAM radio password unencrypted before you login to HAM? Do you broadcast your bank account information and SSN over HAM? No you don’t on HAM, but if you use HTTP you do.
I've seen services that "clone" your favorite jeans. But it's incredibly expensive to make one-off jeans. The last time I bought jeans I picked up 7 identically-cut pairs at once in a few different washes and colors, for exactly the reason you describe. I've done the same with shirts (even in the same color, just to get double the longevity for that particular style).

What would be more helpful would be true measurements for each piece. For example, very few pants list the leg opening measurement, which is a crucial sizing clue.
This sounds like some non-engineer talk that ends up fucking the team up 1 year later as there code starts breaking everywhere, the code becomes very difficult to refactor, new hires start to struggle ramping up, etc.

I agree that sometimes people can be too focused on perfection in code reviews but consistency, modularity, and other seemingly unimportant things are crucial in maintaining hygiene for your project
Post war boom had the European and Japanese economy offline, and Chinese economy nonexistent. So no globalization threat. It is very unrealistic to compare to it or expect that condition again (unless we are talking about 100% tariffs coming back)
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Doesn't the existing Tarsnap package work?
I am not "advocating for censorship", I am "advocating" for the freedom to determine what content is hosted on a computer you own.

A computer owned by the government is a different story since government property is paid for by the tax-payer, so it should not be able to act unilaterally in matters of removing content.
Is anything known about AMD's mobile plans? I looked into a high-end AMD laptop today, and their mobile stuff seems mid-range at best, with TDP of 15W and integrated graphics. The only high-end thing out there seems to be gaming machines with desktop-class everything. I'd love to be proven wrong, as I'm kinda in the market for a laptop and I've kinda had it with Intel and especially Nvidia and their lack of cooperation with Wayland. I'd love to buy a high-end AMD laptop with dedicated graphics.
So much of this is subjective. For example, I find break/continue to be far clearer than anonymous functions and map/filter (because you can skip/bail early and for single conditions).

Generally for code review, I find the best strategy isn't "this could be better", and _definitely_ not "I would have done this differently". Currently, I think it's "this gets the job done (is tested, passes acceptance tests), isn't overly clever, and looks like most of our other code". Anything more than that should either be a larger refactoring/rearchitecting job, or threatens to quagmire you in a tarpit of subjectivity.