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You're right. The problem isn't the corporations, it's the system that allows them to exist.

We need a system that prices items based on actual costs: scarcity of raw materials, labor, pollution, and difficulty of recycling/reuse.

Currently capitalism only prices in scarcity of raw materials and labor, and even those it does a pretty shitty job of. Whether the state controls industry or not is ancillary to the need for pricing actual costs into things, which capitalism is completely incapable of.

What's really needed is complete transparency in primary production, such that if I buy a TV, I can see all the manufacturers/shippers, all the inputs to production, and all the workers and what they are paid in order to make that TV. Then the individual can decide between the TV that takes a liter of oil to produce or a TV that used solar energy for 60% of its production.

I'm sick of people pretending that capitalism is "democracy through spending." We don't have the information needed to make it democracy through spending. The market pricing system obscures all useful information and aggregates it into a completely useless number.
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This is great. it takes a lot of effort to build a nice UI. someone building out a data-centric product could use this and focus on their backend business logic/processing.
> SIMD instructions don't usually get used by normal compilers without very specific loops

Compilers are smart. Even Java's JIT will generate SIMD instructions pretty well
I just made my own private office in my home. Easily done with cost savings of remote work.

I suspect you mean private office at HQ, or alike. To which I'd say... that'd be a hell of a lot better than tradition or open office layout. But you'd still lose most of the remote benefits for what I suspect is little gain.
A couple hundred kcal per day for 10 years is about 200lb.
Four hours a day? You need to do something about that ASAP, don't just wait for retirement, have a shorter term plan.
I support Eich, but I don't like the idea of Brave. I want a neutral browser. Brave is not neutral, since it comes bundled with software that blocks ads and some crypto crap. I want to block ads, but I want to do it my way and to be in control.
From the article:

”Do you think Brian Chesky of Airbnb heard that strategy from a friend? Hell, do you even think that freeriding off of Craigslist was their reason for success?”

Yes, freeriding off of Craigslist was the reason for their early success, without which their later success was not possible. Having a good model means absolutely nothing without some ability to market it, especially in the marketplace space. Initial momentum is what causes these businesses to either succeed or fail.

The idea of using free ways to get your startup initial momentum is absolutely not BS.
> What does it (DRM) limit you from doing, in particular?

How about:

- Using the fast forward function in media playback software to skip over advertisements.

- Ripping DVD and Blu-Ray movies for use with a media server.

- Playing movies and games from other countries (region locking.)

- Recording or streaming console gameplay (e.g. HDCP on PS3, disabling the share function in certain PS4 games.)

- Running certain software, even some single-player games, if you are not connected to the internet ("always-on DRM.")
> And? Why are audits targeted to a type of organization a problem?

> If doctors started forming non-profits to do financial engineering to get tax-exempt status, I'd sure as hell hope that the IRS would devote a bit more scrutiny than usual to practitioners of that profession.

> Political groups started doing financial engineering to get tax-exempt status. The IRS started auditing them a bit more closely. I don't see the issue.

The country's inspector general deemed it unlawful. Given the report that came out from the investigation, there seems to be more to the audits than neutral scrutiny that is not performed on the basis of ideology.
> should he go for a drive

Almost every modern car has similar tracking capabilities to cell phones. And they're jam-packed full of microcontrollers running proprietary firmware, and computers running proprietary software.
One way to maximize revenue would be for every tax payer to be audited every year.

Things like that is what I think about when I hear some of the hardline comments here.
Your resume on your website says you work for Apple: http://archive.is/aALeV Did you mean to say that you worked for neither Google nor Apple? Because it appears that in answer to the question, “I’m guessing that you work for Google (or Apple)?” you answered, “Neither.”
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No no, it's all self consistent. Safe computers are a fiction. Computers running GNU Hurd are a fiction. It fits.
And then proceeded to exceed that 5% tax rate as it built the society we all live in today. Only since the 80s have things gotten really perverse and has this extremist libretarianism gotten any real traction.
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In a lot of states, a cyclist riding at night without a rear light is also breaking the law and at fault.
I am a western educated mainlander who reads both Chinese and Western new. Here is my answer to your question.

The Chinese population is huge so it is hard to lump them all in one basket, but here are the different types of people that I encounter.

1) People fueled by Chinese nationalistic sentiments, they believe that the Chinese way of development is superior. They believe the model has a long term vision and it makes decisions faster than western liberal democracies. They know about the Tiananmen square, but they think the government did a good thing by sacrificing a small number of people to achieve a long period of economic prosperity and stability. There are a significant portion of educated Chinese elites who believes in this, partially because they are usually the beneficiaries of the development mode, partially because they are only receiving news and entertainments from the Chinese media, which is quite a bubble in itself. People who do not benefit from this development model also fall into this category due to a self defensive mechanism. They can't change their country easily, and it slowly becomes a Stockholm syndrome. They have to justify why they are ruled by a legitimate government. In the western media, these kind of people are much over represented because they are usually the loudest. If they spread their rhetoric, they don't have to bear the consequences.

2) People who are pro democracy, they are much more skeptic of the Chinese government, but they can't speak out in anyway for the fear of retribution. They are severely under represented in the westerm media. There are government tentacles everywhere in the world to report you if you speak out against your government.

3) People whose political interest is completely paralyzed. Due to the constant bombarding of useless rhetoric shown in mainland media. They know it is probably not true, but they can't change it, so they might as well focus on their economic interest and learn how to navigate within the system, which is still full of opportunities. I would say this is probably the majority.
They prefer the speed of Chrome. So give them that, with huge corporate backing, and privacy features and you have a good chance at taking some stuff away from Chrome.
If only you could appreciate that it was

* founded by wealthy landowners interested in protecting their interests

* that 5% tax wasn't going towards US infrastructure

* 200+ years have passed since, and we've gone past horse-drawn carriages
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Are you actually retired?
In my case it was very specific, I've read my resume and overall she thought it was good. My gripe was that she reaches out with positions that seems junior (e.g.: 2/3 years of experience) but I have 7 years of experience. She said to list myself as a Senior Software Engineer; I've listed Software Engineer because it's not a distinction I care for but since I made this change I've been contacted by recruiters with roles that are in line with my seniority (and this was only a week or two ago)
I have had a couple of managers over the years who had dreams of writing a book, and with the exception of one, they were all mostly wrong about the secrets of their success. They didn't have any awareness of how their team and especially their leads supported them. Responses varied from humor to hurt feelings.

Ask the people who work for them why the team was successful. They'll probably have very different opinions.
And yet, we've been in a state for decades where a $1 increase in IRS budget results in more than $1 in income, yet their budget has continued to be cut.

I'm all for closing down those well-known loopholes, but that doesn't mean there won't be loopholes, or just people/companies not paying what they owe.

At this stage, those of us that ARE paying our taxes are the ones being taken advantage of.
This is an amazing story. Thanks for sharing.

A movie I haven't yet seen mentioned in this thread is 180 Degrees South [0] which looks at a man following in the steps of Yvon, Doug Thompson, Lito Tejada-Flores, and Dick Dorworth who climbed the first American ascent of Fitz Roy after driving to Patagonia from Ventura, CA.

Dorworth is one of my favorite authors who's memoir, titled Night Driving, includes the story of the drive to Patagonia. I have read and re-read Night Driving countless times and I'm sure will continue to do so.

Dorworth's story, Climbing to Freedom [1], fully encompasses everything I love about being in the mountains.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_Degrees_South:_Conquerors_...

[1] https://sustainableplay.com/climbing-to-freedom/
Elizabeth Warren has set this up as the core paradigm in her campaign.

She posits that greed and corruption have overtaken the American government's purpose, especially in the last 25 years. Money, through lobbying and other forms of influence, now dictates who the government works for. It works for large corporations, pharmaceuticals and the oil industry (for example) rather than America's citizens and workers--specifically with access to healthcare, a living wage and a clean planet.
Yeah, my ego is at stake here. Sure.

Anyway, yes, any race longer than a marathon is basically niche when analyzed based on the prize pool, media exposure, number of professional and recreational practicioners.

Seeing the rise of US skill in football (soccer), we in Croatia like to joke that the only reason we can win a world championship here and there in waterpolo, handball etc., is because americans still don’t find the sport interesting.
I haven't read the comments, but a lot of the organizations you mentioned have made much more pointed statements elsewhere. The CEO of Blue Origin said that the "FAA’s proposed regulations will stifle the innovation that will lead to safer designs and operations". The head of the CSF testified that "Most current or prospective FAA space licensees have determined that the NPRM [notice of proposed rulemaking], in some ways, are worse than today’s obsolete rules."

Part of the problem is that the new rules are ~600 pages, and some of the details of the rules are contained in the 1,000 pages of supporting documents. A larger company like ULA may have an army of lawyers on staff to quickly figure out the changes and start figuring out how they need to adapt, while it would be more onerous and slower for some of the smaller companies.
I wouldn't trust anyone crazy enough to build this contraption to evaluate how safe it is. I mean, it's probably fine for him, but you wouldn't want your [stereotypical poor driver of choice] to be driving it on a wet day.
You have a few valid points, but seem to be missing a few things, as well.

You say an hour is terrible and talk about an average. Average for whom and where? I live in Sweden, 30km outside of Gothenburg. It's a nice 15 minute walk through a wooded area and along a stream, then a 25 minute ride with the commuter train. On the train I read the latest articles while listening to music or play on the Switch. Once in Gothenburg it's a ten minute walk from the station to the office.

The office isn't terrible and has a lot of good things going for it, including a beautiful rooftop terrace. It's also quite social, filled with people who very passionately share my interests and with whom I play magic over lunch.

The main issue is that it's very busy and I often need peace and quiet. Even when I had my own office and could think uninterrupted it still wasn't as good as being home. It's the comfort of being home, with all my things and a beautiful house in a peaceful neighbourhood with a large garden at the edge of the forest. It would be unreasonable to expect an office in the busy downtown area to be able to compete with that. Also, when I need to think at home I often do household chores, and then they're done and i can spend my whole evening playing with my kids or spending time with my wife.
Yeah, it's important for pessimists and pessimistic realists to have a place to talk about these things without the ever-pervasive prescription to hopium that seems to be tacked onto the end of every.single.article.

There can be an acceptance that things are too far gone for most people to impact positively, and that many people have consigned themselves to this. IMO as long as they aren't going out into public and trying to attack environmentalists who are trying to make changes, it's a good and healthy thing for people to have a community of like-minded individuals to talk with.
A good manager is one who can maintain a decent relationship and get results with the team composed of mere humans. Pretty much all of whom are imperfect in 100 different ways. Some of those ways match the theme of this article and thread, but it doesn't matter. A manager who can only function if everyone in their team is completely typical in every way, should be replaced by someone more qualified and capable.
There's also the more traditional Ergodox-like Gergo that is mostly a normal QWERTY board with some ergonomic improvements.

https://www.gboards.ca/category/gergo
> "Slamming hands in drawers hurts; one should not do it."

This is a fact and don't think this is what the author is trying to say.
I guess he's more focused on the kind of theories which people throw around as some sort of self-evident truth, when in fact it's a personal truth which they learned through trial and error.

But I guess there's a point in learning from some of these "self-evident" truths (this is more rare though)
It's not semantic bullshit. It depends on what value you substitute for "child" when you think about it. It's different when you're thinking 5yo vs. 15yo.

If anything, being outraged at calling parental controls censorship is what's bullshit. "Censorship is bad and protecting children is good, therefore parental controls are not censorship". We could instead call spade a spade, and then talk about when its use is justified.
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I really appreciate the post, I have a much better understanding.

I don't use configs in this way, or if I did, I would not be inclined to call them configs. I can certainly appreciate the problem of processing of JSON objects in many different contexts. I was more referring to a UX concept of providing a configuration interface—short of something like emacs that gives full functionality, simpler and easily debuggable is emphatically better.
Um, how about - pay per hour of program running without crashing.

Shouldn't I get payed for the work my software does, without interruption, day after day after day?
I regularly see consistent 80 - 90 MB/s from Steam downloads. CDNs are powerful things.
> The idea of using free ways to get your startup initial momentum is absolutely not BS.

Agree, and that's also not what I said :-)
Raptor Talos/Blackbird is a niche, expensive revival, but a revival nonetheless :)
https://talktotransformer.com/
> also an insincere definition of DRM

I have no idea what you mean by that. I really need you to elaborate, because it sounds like a perfect description of DRM. It's there to stop you from playing/copying files, and nothing else.
Disney College Program is very competitive and there are many applicants who don't get accepted. The application requires an essay and a very robust background. It's by no means an option for people whose only alternative would be flipping burgers.

Disney's not exactly selecting for traditional geniuses -- they look primarily for image, work ethic, and complete starry-eyed devotion to the brand. There are plenty of people like this and Disney imports thousands of them to Orlando each year.

It's not so bad if you're doing it for a semester or two when you wouldn't expect to be making money anyway, but you have to be willing to essentially sign your life away to the Mouse for the duration of the program. The pay is minimal, the hours are long and grueling, and the work is physically and emotionally difficult. Disney expects complete control of your schedule and missing more than a shift or two is basically not an option. It's not for the faint of heart.
> not my enemy

But we have an adversial relationship.

If they are successful, they take our money, and get it for nothing.

So if they win, I lose.

Compared to a company, who's trying to create new useful products and services.

Everyone wins with this interaction.

There is multithousand year old history on the effect of subsidies. They hurt at least as much as they help.
>"Elsewhere we have documented a pattern we label "erring on the side of least drama." By this we mean that scientists often have a tendency to avoid dramatic findings, because drama is associated with emotion, feelings, irrationality, and even femininity, qualities that have traditionally been viewed as at odds with scientific rationality. We have shown that in several domains related to climate change, scientists' estimates of various threats - CO2 emissions, Arctic Sea ice loss, Sea level rise - have tended to be low relative to actual outcomes. Scientists considered such underestimates to be "conservative" because they are conservative with respect to the question of when to sound an alarm or how loudly to sound it. (It is of course not conservative when viewed in terms of giving people adequate time to prepare.) The history recounted here is consistent with this finding: That WAIS assessments underestimated the threat of rapid ice sheet disintegration, because most of the scientists who participated were more comfortable with an estimate that they viewed as "Conservative" than with one that was not." (Discerning Experts, 2019. Michael Oppenheimer, Naomi Oreskes, Dale Jamieson, Keynyn Brysse, Jessica O'Reilly, Matthew Shindell, and Milena Wazeck)
"I need you to..." is far better IMHO than "would you like to..." if there really is an expectation.
Safari is only available on Apple devices hence the low market share.
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There certainly is a cultural component -- you'll see it if you live in San Diego and travel to the rest of the country.
It's not all b.s. but it's hard to sort the good from the bad. It's impossible to test out theories so you have to try lots of possibilities and hope for the best.
There are 2 basics that are part of every successful projects: hard work and luck. Anything else you have to evaluate and decide whether it's worth the risk in time and resources.
>C# and .NET are VM/bytecode I think and like 1/4th the speed of C.

You never mention you want natively compiled languages but just compiled languages.
Reminds me of that one story during the Korean war when a British unit was being completely overrun by an entire division; which when asked for a status report, the general in charge of it said that things were just "a bit sticky." Apparently this caused enough of a miscommunication between American forces that it led to them having to hold out longer before finally being evacuated
I've tried exactly that. Most of what I got back was questioned looks followed by something like, "you mean where do I work?" Maybe I'm around different people.
I just used my name when launching our app. Since it didn't take off it worked out just fine. The plan was always to incorporate if we started making money, so we saved when the app went nowhere.
If you already have people paying you money and this app will be a part of that, its probably time to think of incorporating.
> Do you think Musk copied that strategy from the business school he never went to.

Elon Musk did his undergrad at Wharton.

I guess the statement might be true if you mean "business school" to strictly mean a graduate MBA program. But Musk definitely took business classes that would have been nearly identical to those taken by MBAs.
Every use case you’ve given are minority use cases or power users. I’d say less than 5% of subscribers do the above and most do not use a lot of upstream bandwidth. Most phones do the backups at night when most people are sleeping.
So the sources for, say, Paint or Edge are versioned within the Windows repository?
It's really hard to take some of these execs seriously. They don't think tried-and-true principles of management apply to them anymore.
Thank you for the example. However, it appears that the governor reversed course just yesterday: https://news.yahoo.com/alaska-governor-reverses-course-contr...

I've noticed this is a frequent occurance--one faction will try to score political points by appearing to take an action, only to capitulate at the end when fewer people are looking.
This is part of WeWork's expansion plan. People aren't going to switch fo full remote work overnight. As companies sprawl from the top 100 cities to the top 500, WeWork's additional locations will address this so that employee who commutes an hour can now just walk/drive 15 min to their nearest WeWork.
While I agree that there's a whiff of IBM trying to offload responsibility for older tech, I think some credit has to be given to projects which pre-dated the current industry attitudes towards open source. A lot of things had to happen (probably including people of a certain generation/era passing the torch) before companies felt comfortable with the idea that they could open source their tech, and still have a competitive advantage over anyone else who would use it.

In the late 80s/early 90s when POWER appeared, and RISC fever was in full swing, if someone, as a VP or C-suite level decision maker at a mega-corp like IBM, declared "let's just release all the IP of our high performance processor design to anyone who wants it!", they would have their coworkers and superiors questioning their sanity, at very, very least.
> including luajit

Well, a fork of luajit. LuaJIT proper has been abandoned for months…
IRS budget cuts seem to be thrown around a lot, but to me this is just a symptom of the real problem -- a tax code that is way too complex. Years of congress pandering to special interests, fixing minor issues with pages of new tax rules and no implementation accountability (implementation and enforcement is dumped on IRS) brought US tax code to a state that can overwhelm any staffing levels.

Simplifying tax code will go much further than trying to staff up IRS. My 2c.
Well, this is the same site that has been providing Dev Channel builds for months now. Microsoft has a diverse set of domains and often uses project-specific domains.