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People always forget about UI/UX and ecosystem.

You could argue that we had cellphones for ages, why would someone need an iPhone? You could also argue that an android has the same functionality as an iPhone, again why would someone need an iPhone?

The new "category" of software is about how people relate to software, not the software itself. IKEA created a new category of furniture, or it did not?

I think Uber created a new category of service, but we always had taxis and gps; Slack didn't necessarily create new software, but in my opinion it put chat apps on the general public's mind and it kinda became the go-to name, same as AWS or IBM. That's worth something.
You might want to try Azure Pipelines. It uses a dual model of Microsoft-hosted build agents running several OSes including macOS, and self-hosted build agents running on infrastructure of your choosing. The team I lead uses for Windows-, Linux-, and macOS-based builds, Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted build agents.
Do people under 25 even use Facebook? I mean... most of them see it as another LinkedIn for sharing Granny Photos.

I was on Bumble a little late at night... kinda mindlessly swiping... girl looked cute... little familiar... swipe... Instantly realize as it chimes with "boom" that it was my boss. Nope nope nope, delete the whole thing and never return. They all have a problem around showing you co-workers, and it'd be so easy to just be like, "Cool, never show me people who work here, or never show me people I know on Facebook / LinkedIn." Wouldn't catch everything, but it'd catch a lot of it. Ha, and... the bigger problem I guess is that I don't really trust any of these sites to link them to Facebook or LinkedIn. They all seem fundamentally scammy and spammy.

But... I've had some fun with Bumble. Just... yeah I don't even trust it with my Spotify playlists.
Humans are not good at general purpose computation. Your linked article states the brain achieves 1 exaflops, and cites http://people.uwplatt.edu/~yangq/csse411/csse411-materials/s... for this number. That document states the value with no citation or rationale.

I can do far less than 0.0001 single precision floating point operations per second, so whatever the context for "1 exaflops" is, it isn't general purpose computation.

EDIT: this seems sort of like saying that throwing a brick through a window achieves many exaflops because simulating the physics in real time would require that performance. I'd like to read more about this value and how someone came up with it, but googling just gives me that same scienceabc article and stuff referencing it.
"don't debate test coverage, code design, etc. and just get the job done because meeting requirements is all that matters"

I would say:

"Don't debate test coverage, code design, etc., unless they are relevant to meeting the customer's requirements."

Now, many times, these things are very relevant to meeting the requirements! Without tests, the odds of your code actually meeting the requirements is very low. Instead of finding and fixing problems with the code before it gets to customers, you get to fix it after you give it to customers and it fails, and you've probably just lost those customers.

To the "code design" point, I think that is covered in the "Models" section. Modeling the problem correctly leads very straightforwardly to getting the right design.
The Myers-Briggs categories are more neutrally named than those of the "Big Five".

SENSING VS INTUITION is called OPENNESS in the Big Five.
THINKING VS. FEELING is called AGREEABLENESS
JUDGING VS. PERCEIVING is called CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

So people who rate as SENSING, THINKING, and PERCEIVING in the Myers Briggs scale would be rated as "low" in openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness in the Big Five.

Seems pretty clear why the Big Five would never catch on in popular culture. Oh, and the fifth category is "Neuroticism". Not exactly a neutral label either.
Definitely an issue in our case. This is centurylink and their subscriber IP network is dog dookie (qwest handles the core out here and seems ok). My $32K quote included a loop to a public exchange in the local metro area where I could pick up internet from a huge list of providers.
But a economic and geographical bloc as big as the EU has enough clout to have real enforcement power.

The EU gave us the double-Irish and the Dutch-sandwich and other tax evasion schemes used by large corporations. They want the exact opposite of “real enforcement power”.
don't forget a huge part of their user base is in developing countries. How dating plays into that is going to be interesting.
I worked for CollabNet from 2005-2010.

When I left, I bought my stock options.

I got a friendly letter in the mail a few years later telling me that the company had been restructured, and that my shares are now worthless.

If I'm getting shares as a part of equity, then I'll consider that as part of my comp package...however, if they're stock options, I generally completely disregard them: I haven't yet met a startup to change my mind.
Yeah, as a German, I doubt our ability to place fancy surveillance stuff or other military projects onto the seabed.
Yep, that's potentially a huge difference.

If you can't open the car, you probably can't pop the hood latch to get a jump-start, which makes the difference between a tow and a simple drive to a store. And "stuck alone at the trailhead with a dead battery" is nothing new to hikers, but being able to spend the night in the car if you have to makes it a lot more pleasant.
I grew up on an island in the Baltic. Cable lines to main land snapped by anchor dragging was a surprisingly common occurrence. Other marine shenanigans included drunken sailors beaching their ships because they forgot to turn around the island. And ofcause a ton of illegal fishing.

Your conclusion seems most likely in my book.
Except inflation is actually significantly higher the basket is just poorly assembled and exclude major drivers like food gas real rent and most importantly medical costs
Like the BBC?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49594264
See, for example, https://www.carbonbrief.org/exclusive-bbc-issues-internal-gu...

Even when reporting on a report, it's possible to emphasize certain aspects, or misleadingly paraphrase its conclusions. I haven't looked at the original report to tell whether that has happened here.
The plain language is clear. The courts have always taken to heart that part of the role of government is to "promote the general Welfare". As a result, they respect that there is a balance between the right enshrined in the second amendment and the general welfare clause, which can have a common sense interpretation to protect the people of the United States from unnecessary harm.

This is reasonable as a principle of justice, but it means that we are prevented from achieving consensus on the bounds of Congress's and the several state's power to regulate the keeping and bearing of arms unless we amend the constitution to make those boundaries clear. My approach above is a bit scorched earth, but I think there's a consensus to be found between the anti-gun people and the reasonable-gun-control people that might exclude the gun rights absolutists, but result in some sensible middle ground.
they understand it perfectly well.
I mean they put in $2b in the last round, that's not exactly chump change!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-m-a-softbank/softb...
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I thought Burger King. As in, they couldn't afford to eat anywhere else.
I think this article really misses the point that Burry was making, which is that if the indexs see a sell off they won't find the liquidity in the market to cash out their positions and will drive the market down.

This article seems to focus on all of the upsides of indexing, which are all true. However, those upsides don't negate the risk that is being pointed to.
I found them a bit unusual, but they work quiet well.
Perhaps a better analogy is that your company is giving you a Dell/HP/Apple laptop, not a clevo or ibuypower (or even an inspiron vs a latitude)
Actually, I found that it is not as drastic as 5x on this site. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2156/does-a-missio...
The Free Dictionary lists "Bankruptcy" as the meaning within the banking industry:

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BK
I'm not sure I would do that, but I would expect them to fix their service it if it is costing them noticeably.

AFAIK they did not say you shouldn't park underground nor did they explain their various failure modes and how to avoid them.
Disagree.

Need requirements to define what you want to achieve, before there is any point in discussing models, notations, etc.
> What's the limit - 30% 40%, 50%, 60%?

I'd wager at least 90 percent. Passive investing is generally designed to track active investor activity without effort, so it shouldn't add much inertia to the system. If Dave thinks IBM is overvalued and Under Armor is overvalued, the act of buying and selling will shift those numbers, and the index investors, instead of taking the opposite trade and undoing that flow of information, hold their portfolio.

IMO, the real challenge is active investors competing for access to that 10 percent of active invested money. There's no shortage of people happy to manage money under the 'heads I win, tails you lose' fee structure, and one hopes that the same people fighting over a smaller pool of cash would (more strongly than status quo) favor people who can actually produce results.
There's no real evidence of this. I could argue that bright, blinding lights actually help conceal criminals by the sheer lighting difference.
Mainly thinking about this: http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/
For the health of the mother it’s wise to space pregnancies apart, by 18 months according to the WHO. There’s increased risk for a lot of things for closely spaced pregnancies, so the condoms are a pretty good idea.
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> ensuring such facts will get progressively less accurate and timely as instant answers take over

I think your worry about this overblown. If Google doesn't do a good job with these, then that's an opportunity for somebody to do a better job.

If you are stuck on an ad-supported model from the days of the dot-com boom, then I'm not sure you have a place in the current ecosystem where a lot of searches are started with a voice query and the user expects a short, definitive answer. The ever increasing number of searches that result in no clicks is surely influenced by the rise of Google Assistant, Amazon Echo, Siri, etc...
Poor behavior by delivery drivers happens across all carriers, USPS included.

If your package is damaged, I would recommend contacting Amazon customer service and let them know. Based on the way they do scans and metrics, they know who the delivery driver was and it will reflect in the delivery driver's customer satisfaction score.

If there are enough compliants against a given delivery driver, they will probably not remain a delivery driver for long. Amazon wants to keep customers happy at all costs and will quickly sack employees and contractors who fail to meet their standards.
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This ties in nicely with chiplets: https://semiengineering.com/the-chiplet-race-begins/ - a way to integrate dies in a package, where the dies can use specialized processes for different functions - e.g. analog or digital or memory or accelerators or CPUs or networking etc. This would make it easier to iterate memory/CPU/GPU/FPGA/accelerator designs at different rates, and reduce development costs (don't need to support/have IP for every function, just an accelerated set of operations on an optimized process within each chiplet). But it will need progress on inter-chiplet PHY/interface standardization.
> remote vs distributed)?

Matt Mullenweg on why he prefers distributed > https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_mullenweg_why_working_from_ho...
I was more talking about the "dark" data they collect from our surfing over the internet =P Not great, but it could potentially help with this one particular case.
You're being downvoted, but you're not wrong. Amazon's deliver is terrible for me as well, never had a problem with UPS or FedEx (USPS is slightly less reliable, but still WAY better than Amazon).
I think this gets a lot right, but it's poorly reasoned.

For example, the author talks about a "massive labor supply shock", but doesn't really address why this massive increase in labor supply wasn't offset by an equivalent increase in demand for labor. That's crucial. Otherwise, the labor supply shock would not put downward pressure on wages.

He also mentions the effect of floating exchange rates but doesn't bother to write even a single sentence on why that's directly relevant (maybe because it increases global competition driving down wages and driving up expected profits? I honestly don't know).

The author also conflates asset inflation with consumer inflation, implying that moderate consumer inflation somehow helps the rich at the expense of everyone else, when in fact, it's just the opposite.

In general, I would say that monetary stimulus does increase inequality, but fiscal stimulus can have the opposite effect.

However, the author mysteriously doesn't question why governments have preferred monetary stimulus over fiscal stimulus. That would be far more revealing.

This analysis is superficial at best. It gets enough right to be mildly interesting, but misses some pretty key points.

Nice to have a reminder why I don't waste my time reading financial analysis newsletters.
I wrote a similar script that supports any type of record update, not just A, 7 different public IP providers over multiple methods, config via file / env variables / cli arguments, and both DigitalOcean + CloudFlare individually or simultaneously. I use it across my entire fleet of servers, even servers with static public IPs so that I can snapshot them to new boxes and have all my DNS records update automatically.

https://github.com/pirate/bash-utils/blob/master/dns.sh

Helper script to update a DNS record on multiple providers.

Usage:
./dns.sh --domain=domain.example.com [--get|--set=value] [...options]

Options:

[domain] The DNS domain you want to get or set (required)

--domain=example.com Same as passing [domain] directly as an argument
-t=|--type=A The DNS record type, e.g. A, CNAME, etc. (A default)

-g|--get Get the record value (the default)
-s=|--set=value Set the record value, e.g. 123.235.324.234 or the
special value 'pubip' to use current public ip

-l=|--ttl=n Set the record TTL to n seconds (overrides api default)
-p=|--proxied Set the record to be proxied through CDN (Cloudflare only)
-a=|--api=cf,do List of DNS providers to use, e.g. all (default) or cf,do
-r=|--refresh=n Run continusouly every n seconds in a loop
-w=|--timeout=n Wait n seconds before aborting and retrying

-c=|--config=file Path to a dotenv-formatted config file to load
-e=|--config-prefix=X Load config vars with prefix X e.g. X_VERBOSE=1

...
Technically they were anyway, since XNU/OSX were on PowerPC ;P
Didn't Facebook originally start as a "reductionistic" way for nerds around Mark to connect with "secret crushes" at Harvard? Didn't YouTube start as a dating site at UIUC as well, for pretty much the same reasons?
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Tethered drones are quite interesting. I fly one for our company but we have yet to get much interest in getting it adopted by first responders or LEO.

The "unlimited power" comes with some major asterisk from my experience although it is with a different system.

* Tethered power works great when plugged into a stable AC source, generators can be less than ideal.
* Weather conditions limit your altitude even more so, higher wind requires more power to stay up.
* The tether often works against a lot of the stabilization systems built into the drones, so flying them can be a handful under certain conditions
* The tether can get bound up on the spool
* The higher you go the heavier the tether is

Overall though, it's awesome technology with interesting potential. I have kept ours in the air for over 3 hours continuously and only landed so I could take a break.
That might have worked but college students already used FB as a defacto dating app and facebook still grew to be a monopoly without that feature. Now that facebook is out of favor with young people this might be a good way to increase engagement with older single people.
You're exactly right, I think, as to the reason most people are attracted to Myers-Briggs.

That said, it's odd that the narrative persists of M-B having been discredited, when, as the article mentions but doesn't explore, the opposite is true. Myers-Briggs traits strongly correlate with the categories in the FFA, which is the dominant model in psychology, as the article states. But this doesn't even include the cross-correlations between the 4 MB traits and the 4 main FFA traits (minus neuroticism)

Myers-Briggs is in fact basically identical to FFA but in a different eigenbasis, and minus the "neuroticism" dimension. This information is available in every major source on MB vs FFA, including just on Wikipedia. And yet, the "MB as horoscope" idea continues, despite having been scientifically discredited, so to speak.

the mapping is roughly this:
E/I <=> Extroversion
N/S <=> Openness
F/T <=> Agreeableness
J/P <=> Conscientiousness

But it is fun to make fun of the MB-scale (and its enthusiasts) as a horoscope and it's also fun to USE its categories as horoscopes, and the first meme feeds off the second, so both persist.
Agreed. Burry seems to be getting a lot of responses but almost none of them seem to have actually listened to what he said (or even read the article). There is real risk from the index-matching synthetic techniques that these funds are using.
What if my index fund is actually just buying and holding the underlying stock as opposed to just a price tracking entity? In that case not taker for my fund = no taker for the underlying stock right? Will this not have the liquidity risk that Bury mentions?
" the idea is more that the exceptional growth of the past few decades has likely overshot what is sustainable."

So you're running for office?, what's your tagline: "Vote for me, because they got it wrong. I'll fix the economy so that relative to expectations it underperforms like I believe it should."?

Wall Street with not donate to your campaign. No one will vote for you.

I'm not disagreeing with you. Simply pointing out We The People have a history of not supporting such things.
Because the only connecting they are doing is consumers to advertisers.

We've already seen what social media connected to advertising does to election security, do you really think its a good idea to test it on your love life?
I've got to say that the beginning of your post reminded me of this so much: http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

In all seriousness, coming from a Mediterranean country to the UK, the summers can be quite annoying with the light starting a little after 4am and if you don't have a good set of blinds it can get very disruptive.

Your solution (ugly as it maybe ;) ) it's actually quite good as it does not require a lot of effort or DIY that a landlord could object to.
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Then Skype got bought by eBay shortly thereafter for gobs of money, in the somewhat blind hope that synergies would develop between eBay, PayPal, and Skype. Never quite panned out that way.

Btw, although I've seen little difference between HipChat and Slack in my day-to-day, the switch from Skype to HipChat was a profound improvement. Messages sent on Skype could and would frequently vanish into the ether, and/or arrive in the conversation thread way out of order. Imagine troubleshooting production issues under those conditions!...
> Do you really think Facebook brand is universally tarnished in some way

I can only report on what I see, and my non-tech friends seem even more anti-Facebook than my tech friends. I'm sure there are plenty of users in the world who still love Facebook, but the company has definitely gone past the tipping point of "only techies hate it, and for obscure reasons".
I'd get depressed if I was put into a bucket.
Any engineer worth their salt knows that they have 100 things to work on and this guy's corner case didn't make the cut. Easier for them to ban him and work on a new feature that generates revenue for thousands of users.
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Finland still doesn't require identification for prepaid SIM cards.
I would recommend signing up for the Amazon TextTrace delivery notifications. There is a prompt to sign up whenever you place an order.

The notifications will send you a text message to your mobile phone or a push notification to the Amazon app on your smartphone as soon as your shipment gets delivered.
The idea of "notation" falling into this hierarchy is really fascinating to me. Typically, if starting a new project, I will select a language from those that I am already familiar with based on my comfort in the language and the performance characteristics of the problem.

The idea of the language you're using to solve the problem being one of the things you're developing is an exciting and scary thought. Exciting because you can immediately implement any ideas you have into the new language, scary because stack overflow won't save you if you paint yourself into a corner.

In modern times, I can think of two languages that seem to have been built to provide solutions in specific problem domains: Go and Jai. Go is a fantastic language in certain problem domains, and I wish I had more excuses to use it. Jai isn't available publicly yet, but the creator of the language builds games for a living, has built (and shipped) multiple successful games, and he's building the language so that games can unchain themselves from C++.

I believe the article of the linked article is correct that this should be part of more engineers' toolkits. It may feel like it's easier to just use keep using C++ (or whatever) but what feels easy now doesn't protect you from the inevitable problems of the future.
> Side note, to drive the point home: it's easier to boost objects out of the Solar System, from Earth, than to send them into the Sun.

Around 2x easier:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3612/calculating-s...

(Given the tyranny of rocket equation, it actually means much smaller rocket.)
Well they also have a significant share of invested funds ($5.3 trillion under management!), it would be really weird if they didn't have a significant share of many companies.
> In case of a default, what would happen to all the companies who could on WeWork operating for their office to remain functional?

Giant rate hike.
I believe index funds are a good investment strategy, but at the same time we shouldn’t get defensive when people criticize them, and call a thoughtful critique “silly”. In fact I would like to hear more intelligent criticism of index funds, and thoughts around preparing for a hypothetical world in which index funds were overrated, not less.

How might we notice that index funds were becoming overrated? Perhaps the rise of hedge funds which consistently outperformed index funds? Is that happening?

What should we do if index funds became overrated? Move our money into a medium-size number of stocks, like 30 of them, to essentially do our own index selection? Or moving out of stocks entirely?

Thinking about questions like this without attacking criticism as “silly” is IMO a better way to minimize risk.