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This seems the wrong approach; it creates extra work for the operators of the registry, and indeed the notice says that the operators are willing to give valuable professional services for free to those large users who are consuming the common resource.

Why not just say that if use of the registry exceeds the (very generous) threshold, a bill will be issued and the money can be split between providing more resources for the registry and some sort of bonus for the maintainers? The firms abusing the resource (albeit negligently rather than maliciously) control vast wealth and yet none of them have put their hand in the pocket because they don't wish other large firms to free ride upon their generosity.

Perhaps the objection will be that it's supposed to be a completely free registry for anyone and charging would go against the spirit of the whole thing. Nonsense. They are taking something for nothing while operating their own commercial services on wholly different principles. It's fine to impose commercial terms on commercial users. Part of why they are using the public registry rather than setting up their own is to advertise and socialize to the benefit of their commercial operation.

The 'tragedy of the commons' is often portrayed as a problem of human nature, in which everyone taking a little bit gradually erodes the whole without it really being anyone's fault, and thus justifying the establishment of market mechanisms instead (there's an interesting historical background to this idea showing that it's a somewhat reactionary concept, but let's skip over that). What we're seeing here is not the result of too many small users gradually overwhelming the whole, but a small number of large users blithely exploiting it. Make them pay, and if they whine about it just cut off their access - in other words, treat them as they treat others.
While not a right-click, 1Blocker for macOS Safari does indeed a support "block this element" feature with their extension.
How do I use this thing?
For context, OP changed his comment, but I was replying to his previous comment to point out his hypocrisy.
> The rest of the capital to fund development

The article mentions "...high rates of borrowing on weekend nights as evidence that loans are marketed and taken in moments of inebriated revelry."

Assuming that's true, and considering all the data these fintech operations are collecting, surely they can't believe they're funding development rather than consumption.
It is exactly printing money, just the amounts are so large they just skip the paper and ink
I don't think that's whats happening. Basically, in a repo you have one party posting a treasury bond as collateral and being lent the equivalent amount of cash. There's an interest rate you're charged on the cash, and potentially a "haircut" on the amount of cash relative to the value of the bond that a bank might take if they decide the other party is a risk and they want more collateral posted.

What you're describing is an increase in "haircuts" in these transactions between banks, but I haven't heard anyone report that has been happening. It has been, more simply, that too many people are showing up with bonds and want cash and too few people are showing up with cash and want to lend it. So the interest rate has risen
I don't go to conferences to be seen. I go to conferences to see friends and if I'm lucky make new ones. Friends from all over the world, and from previous jobs, show up the conference. I could care less about "being seen".
I'm not exactly sure what you think the threats are, but it doesn't matter. This is a very correct sentiment! Well said.
The higher end makers are probably glad the price curve is flattening. They can make a bit more profit and still be minimally more expensive than the cheap competition.
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Storing all commit origins at the scale of github is the expensive part.
Doesn't seem to be available for Safari.
To bake a pie, you must first invent the universe.
I hear a lot about AVX-512 being really good.

Is there any software that's commonly used that has a measurable performance boost with it? Or is it more specialised stuff?
Large companies always use the government - when they can - to kneecap their competition. It's the very rare exception of a corporation that won't stoop to that level of behavior. There's practically an unlimited number of excuses a company can come up with to rationalize proceeding (with using the government as a leveling club).

It's exactly what many of Microsoft's peers did in the 1990s. They waged a large, persistent campaign across years to convince the government to pursue and break up Microsoft. Larry Ellison went so far as to basically purchase trash from a cleaning company to get at info related to lobbyists supporting Microsoft's position.[1] Some of it was spot on, Microsoft was doing what they claimed; some of it was nothing more than ugly, base envy, jealousy, greed.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/diving-bills-trash-161599
Aren't there more people who are able to vote and rent in SF/LA/BayArea, than who have property there?

To me it seems the problem is that the braindead NIMBYs successfully co-opted the locals with property, thanks to the property tax boogeyman.
I solve this with a catchall domain which is in my profile. It says "email me at {anything}@jedberg.net". Gmail quickly learned that emails actually addressed to {anything} are spam (although to be fair Gmail's filters are pretty good in general).

If you don't want to set up a catchall, a good second alternative is plus addressing. Put foo+hn@bar.com. Almost all of the spammers will drop the plus address but real senders will use it.
As I said: the goal of new tactical rifle regulation would be to address spree shooters (who do not generally acquire weapons illegally) and proliferation. I don't believe you can address organized crime by starving it of weaponry.
Like I said, this also appears to be the result of you not validating things in your direct experience and instead relying on dogma.
This is an example of false skepticism, rather than True skepticism.
More info if you're open-minded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kzZdps9PG4
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This is great for bitcoin.
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Hypothetical. The post I replied to used "I" and "you", so I used "you" and "I". That said, I genuinely don't know how much my data is worth…
Increasing consumer wealth is precisely why we have climate change. One would need to also implement large taxes/bans on co2 and other non-renewables and pollutants. At best this would be a net-zero situation. More likely it would reduce the lower to middle class’s wealth in real terms. Less airline flights, leisure cruises, manufactured goods, imported foods, not more.
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Well, not really, let's say we want to heat a room to 25 degrees Celsius. If we are converting 100% of the electricity used to heat, it will take X energy. If we use the energy for computing instead, and use the waste heat to heat the room, it will take maybe a little more energy. But the thing is, the computing is valuable, and with the money we can gain by "renting" the computing, we can buy more electricity, so we come out on top.

Now, like someone else commented, if you really want to heat an environment, the traditional resistance heating is not the best solution. With a heat pump, you can cheat, and get an efficiency of over 100% (because instead of using the energy to heat the room, you are using the energy to take heat from somewhere else and also put it in the room).
In principle, I agree, but in the US, a blanket requirement for licensure of all firearms is unconstitutional. It is, on the other hand, unclear that licensure of tactical rifles would be.
LOL. That's a shame. I like children, so I guess I'll just have to stay locked in this naively blissful void that I've been mischaracterizing as a 'brain' my whole life.
BeagleBone is dual-core A15 vs Jetson Quad A53 so that is a big difference there is processing power as well.
The FSF is his life’s work, and he is getting close to retirement age.

I could see the decision as having been at least somewhat voluntary if he wants to keep the FSF’s mission relevant (GNOME and the SFC were threatening to break ties).
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Ahh unfortunately I don't have an iOS device. Is it on MacOS too? I have a Macbook for work
Which is of course irrational; motor vehicle licensure is far more powerfully coercive and has more public policy goals than firearms licensure.

The political psychology point is well taken, of course; the problem with all gun control proposals in the US is that they're perceived, with some validity, to be a slippery slope towards universal confiscation, the same way abortion regulation is perceived as a slippery slope to a universal ban.

But in the airless vacuum of a message board we should be able to discuss the proposals on their merits without being chained to partisan political analyses.
I used to self-medicate with pot too and after a break-up with a girl, alcohol. I've since learned coping skills and to enjoy 'the little things' that actually aren't so little. It's so cliche but the most important quality for happiness, creativity, and learning is to have the heart of a child. It's important to balance that with discipline of course but the foundation is 'beginner's mind'.

First time was in October 2017, I flew to Colombia after getting a 'scholarship'. They let me do a 10-day retreat with 3 ceremonies (plus 2 sweat lodges and 2 san pedro ceremonies) for $400 instead of the $2K+ that most centers charge. I would not have been able to afford it otherwise. Before going, I had already gone 4 months without drinking, smoking, meat, or sex though. I was all-in on this transformation and saw this plant medicine as a way to reach the deepest parts of my psyche to do a 'reboot' of sorts. That's what I got from it.

The 2nd and 3rd retreats were in upstate NY through a girl I know who has pure intentions and good connections. She runs a center that is donation-based and is basically a commune. I couldn't live there but it's nice to know I can always go there if I find myself at a crossroads again.

Quitting pot was difficult, it's everywhere these days. Ultimately, my grandma's death put everything into perspective for me. I listened to the Steve Jobs Stanford speech recently and everything he said echoes what I realized in the last few months.

Do you journal? Do you have access to a steam room/sauna? Sweating the THC out of your body is a good start. Meditation and fitness can help curb your anxiety. I didn't go looking for ayahuasca or bufo, they both kinda found me. It's a long story, so I'll spare you.
My understanding is that repo trades are 1-day loans collateralized by government bonds. So I don't see how the government is taking any risk here or why it is problematic.
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If the aim is to keep spam at bay you could also use another public identifier that doesn't readily allow spam like f.e. Twitter, Facebook or keybase
> Do you trust their judgment on this?

More or less.

> Will you always?

Hard to say. I can at least see the possibility that the answer is no.

> Like other similar happenings, the side you agree with may not always be the side making the choices.

The side that's in favor of keeping foreign agitprop off of the site is a side that I'm likely to continue to agree with. It's not like the actors being blocked are good-faith "valid counter voices". They are illegitimate because of their methodology, not because of their viewpoint. (An organized campaign of people lying about who they're working for, trying to advocate positions that they don't actually believe, in order to mess with the minds of voters of another country... yeah, let's block that, no matter which viewpoint they've chosen to "advocate".)

Could Twitter move on to viewpoint blocking? Yes, they could. Would I have a problem with it if they did? Absolutely.

Disclaimer: I don't actually use Twitter, and I may not know what I'm talking about.
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That case was one of the reasons that Adobe and Microsoft switched to a subscription-based model for their software suites.
It's hilarious/sad that I got downvoted for saying that...
> That's a myopic and emotionally charged way of looking at it.

sure is emotionally charged, but I don't know that it is myopic. I have thought many many years about the contents of a technical interview. Taking a step back from the argument I recall decades ago noticing that, I believe it was the bureau of labor statics, software programmers are considered "unskilled technical labor." I was initially offended by this. I have now come to the realization that this is generally true. Skill is not required to make software, nearly anyone can do it. Leading back to the argument though, what makes someone good at being a software developer is not technical skills. It is general competency, critical thinking, and being a good communicator.

> Had someone asked me to implement a JSON parser in brainfuck - I would have got up and left. More generally - if someone asks me to use a _specific_ language in an interview; it's not someplace aware enough to know that 99% of the time the language is unimportant and not somewhere I want to work.

to be fair that wasn't the exact request. It was more along the lines of "using whatever (approved) language you'd like, implement x with that assumption that your base language can only loop and increment." x in this case was something like do division. Which I know is possible, but also something I would never need to do and as such the solution wasn't immediately available to my brain.

> With all that being said - technical interviews are not "the worst thing ever". They serve a vitally important task of ensuring I work with competent and personable people.

was definitely hyperbole, but my point is that a technical interview doesn't serve the purpose that you lay out for them being vitally important. A non-technical interview is far better and easier to evaluate a persons competency, problem solving, communication, and "personable people".

Point being an entry level person with competency and problem solving skills can be taught technical skills very quickly and/or learn as they go. Non-entry level, well, their resume should tell you they have the technical skills assuming their references check out. So I really think we should stop wasting time and talent on "technical interviews"
What is the asset banks are so worried their counterparties have on their balance sheets that they need a Fed repo operation?

Couldn't be stuff like a $500m personal loan to a startup CEO, secured by said CEOs stock in a private company that has negative cash flow and no real assets, which he also happens to control? Surely there is no reason to doubt the quality of collateral like that.

But more seriously, legit question is what do the banks know about each other that the financial press hasn't reported yet?

Personally I think the Fed is keeping interest rates down to defuse a massive geopolitical conflict that is closer to blowing than anyone realizes, but that doesn't explain why banks are worried about getting stiffed by each other.
>it can also lead to a shallow and avoidant approach to life if you get carried away with it.

There is nothing wrong with taking this approach, while you get yourself back on track. I've gone through this myself. Became an "asshole" in some peoples' eyes - "Why should I attend that social event? What am I going to get out of it? Nah, pass". They've gotten over it. So have I.

Truly though, who gives a shit, if that is what you need. Like OP said, it's your life. Do what you need to do for you. If you keep investing in things that suck the life out of you endlessly, it's going to drag you to a dark place, which is no good for anyone.

I trust selfish people more than I trust "selfless" people. Simply because selfish people are less likely to snap, and take out all of their repressed frustration at a seemingly random time.

It's taken me a while, but now I have a more diplomatic approach to extending my personal energy to benefit those around me, or invest in projects, work, etc.

You are right. It requires balance. However, you should not be afraid to tip the scales the other way for a while, so that you can refactor your priorities.
You can explore the data here: https://electricinsights.co.uk

You can even split wind into onshore and offshore, although the data is patchy.

Wind varies, but from a quick look offshore hasn't gone to zero over the past year and neither has onshore.
I don't really support that view, I just explained what's usually the common explanation / motivation for politicians of smaller countries.

The real motivation is probably simply the fact that radical politicians rarely get to the point where they can decide about US trade agreements and so on. And even if they do, realpolitik usually gets in the way of saying fuck you to forever-copyrights.

> It seems unambiguous that they'll be at an advantage, not the other way around.

Sure, they might gain some export advantage, but then countries can simply refuse/tax/toll their products.

Some degree of protection is warranted. Trademarks, results of R&D, songs/tracks. The problem is that the patent process is largely useless, because where it matters it's not used (eg. for the pharma sector the FDA can and does grant exclusivity regardless of patents), and where it doesn't matter it's misused (fast moving tech, it's just used for fucking with the other market participants); the creative arts IP regulation is completely captured by the rent-seeking incumbents (Disney, the big 4 music "labels" and so on).

The whole IP protection should be reformed, and it should be decided based on how hard it was to innovate versus how hard it is to copy the result of that innovation. (This means coming up with a new iOS/Android programming thing in a year, gets you at best 6-12 months of protection, whereas if you spend 10 years researching a new steelmaking technique, maybe you should do get 5-10 years of protection, because it's trivial to copy the process and it takes a long time to get the fruits of your innovation in that sector compared to the mobile app dev sector.) And for creative stuff holding the IP should be taxed, and the longer you hold it the more you should pay for it based on how much you made from it in the previous years. Of course FRAND should be mandatory (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing) so anyone can use and build on top of IP, be it green steelmaking or new medicine, or just a fucking one-click pay-and-order solution for your webshop.
Background: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/02/npm_abandons_settle...
That's such a myopic, small way to see the world. Human dignity is the priority, if our economy doesn't work for that then we change the economy, we don't give up on dignity.
And if the carbon taxes or whatever else are revenue-neutral?

Some things (eg flights) would get much more expensive, whereas more efficient modes of transit (trains) would get relatively cheaper, and also be subsidized by the fliers.
Side topic: There is an abundance of Magenta/Purple colors in today's design from Stripe to GraphQL to Lyft... what gives? Why are designers obsessed with trends? I could give many many more examples if needed. Everywhere I see magenta/purple gradients.
My point was purely that this is the financial market playing their usual games again.
It seems to me that the issue is that there has been an increase in supply, because of the massive deficit. This means that there are more US Treasuries for sale than there are buyers. They could sell more by letting the interest rate rise, but that would have major negative effects if a large increase is required.
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I'm an expert. The correct answer is to not log any PII data. Logging obvious PII because it might be useful in some hypothetical future sounds like plain incompetence. If you really need to log PII, log it separately and set clear policies about how this data is stored, how it's replicated, who can access it. If you need to log some PII IDs in common logs, use some fuzzy hashing: good enough for logs, not good enough to restore the original PII.
You know, on that lisp nerd's site, yes, you kind of do have to follow their rules.
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Edwin (with Stripe) did just re-enable our account, I don't think we will use it, but its nice to not be banned!
I agree that we'll probably need capture, but just want to inject a concern I have with seeing capture as salvation:

Any capture/sequestration tech that produces marketable byproducts may have a big leg up on any tech that has to depend on large purely-altruistic investments.

Technology tends to get more efficient with time/investment/scale.

If any capture/sequestration processes achieve profitability (maybe even just marginal profitability after an initial capital investment), it may not be straightforward to turn them back off .
There is a good chance you aren't being paid enough to sit at that desk all day.
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It's not just jobs and homes (poorer people). It's everyone. Everyone is chasing the jonses and is convinced they don't have enough. I'd like a fifth car. And a bigger house. And more vacations.

I'm not saying I, personally, favor those things over what it will cost to limit climate change. But I think society as a whole doesn't have the stomach for it, and it's not just those living on the margins.
Speaking of craving attention- here's my TEDx talk on the same issue:

Protecting our creativity from the side-effects of technology

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNjVmcVF68
It's bad because you are using your heightened position (having lots of capital) to negotiate a relationship with someone in a weakened position (in need of capital) and profiting from it. This same logic applies to landlords/tenants, and to business owners/workers. Throughout history, it also applies to King/Serf, Master/Slave, etc.

This is somewhat the basis of Marxist thought. There is lots of material about this, if you want to learn more. The goal of Marxism is to eliminate this dichotomy, and create a single class of people.
Why? False advertising isn't.
She doesn't answer either. She tends to just leave it somewhere and the ringer is usually off because it has to be at school.
I really like the idea of using uBlock Origin to block distractions. I've used it quite a bit to block minor annoying website features like sticky menus or marketing popups. I might start using it more extensively to block actual content.
On one hand, my body is probably fucked from laying in bed for 18 hours a day, every single day, a year.

On the other hand, moving about is exhausting and hurts so why would I want to do it? I fully plan on killing myself before 30 so it's not like I'll see the knock-on effects.