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After being on Oracle for 15 years, we recently finished moving to Postgres. It has been amazing. Postgres does so many things better than Oracle and this IN issue is just one of them. I wish we had moved off of Oracle years ago. I don't think there is any reason to choose Oracle over Postgres these days. I will certainly never use it again.
This is even scarier in the physical world. Just-in-time logistics means companies aren't warehousing inventories as large as they used to. In the case of major events (natural disasters, terrorist, etc.), there isn't enough reserve supply to go around.
This has been disabled in the latest testing release and will be opt-in in the future: https://community.ui.com/releases/UAP-USW-Firmware-4-0-69-10...
This is super interesting. I especially enjoyed being able to contrast the messages being sent to a younger audience and those sent to the older audience. The Conservative party seems to be customising their ads much more than the Labour party. Thanks!
Why some designs look messy, and others don’t
Wonder if there are more examples of this hiding, intentionally or not. I recently could not find the Trinity and Beyond [0] movie on DDG, because all hits were of some family vlog (though I still find it on Google first page).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_and_Beyond
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>“We are going to be shocked by the speed, the chaos, the bloodiness, and the friction of a future fight in which this will be playing out,

I think this article's focus is way off

It's more plausible that algorithmic warfare is going to make us unsure as to what is even happening. We are going to be lost, drowned, in conflicting plausible information to the point we won't even know what is going in nor who to believe
On Windows it's shit, because if you do music on Windows you depend much more on external driver quality. Only a few companies like RME get it right on Windows, the rest will always cause issues. Never had a problem with Ableton on OSX/macos, even with low budget class compliant interfaces like those cheap Behringers, there, all external hardware drivers are built on top of core audio.
> ... high-tax income into low-tax capital gains while maintaining a plausibly deniable investment cover story.

There are public swap-based ETFs (in Canada) formulated around this concept:

* https://www.pwlcapital.com/understanding-swap-based-etfs/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_return_swap
Wrestling. I've found that the people that fall short at each level leave the sport with a discipline and sense of accomplishment unlike any other sport.

While the unhealthy weight cuts aren't completely in the past, they have been addressed and greatly mitigated.
Any tips, strategies, ideas you have behind the "Bootstrapping Plan"?

I am personally trying to balance Paul's advice of "the number one thing not to do is other things" with being able to bootstrap for an indefinite period of time.
The best phrase of the whole piece: "hereditary meritocracy".

It's an oxymoron, but elegantly explained: “When you create a ‘meritocratic’ selection process where the production of merit is increasingly skewed by parental income, you end up with a hereditary meritocracy.” Sums up the situation pretty niceley. I can't speak for the US, but in Germany it's been this way for quite some time. The single most important factor in determining future achievements is the income of ones parents.

We start the "selection process" even earlier than in College. Kids after elementary school (at the age of ~10) go either to the Gymnasium (which gives you a university certification) or Realschule + Berufsschule (trade school). I know some elementary school teachers and hear horror stories of vindictive but resourceful parents suing schools, teachers and whole school-districts because their kids didn't get into a Gymnasium. This has lead to a situation where as much kids as possible get funneled to a Gymnasium, in order to avoid being sued by the parents.

Gymnasium education is being diluted so every idiot in the class can participate. And the young adults that achieve Abitur (Gym-degree) are utterly unprepared for any form of University-Level education, since self-organized learning and critical thinking skills are still somewhat important here. At the universities, the same game happens again, only it's a bit more complicated to influence positions there.
That isn't an official communication from Mozilla. That is "someone's" recollection of something "someone" said (or not) at some workshop:

"Fair warning: I don't speak for Mozilla. Everything I say here is a recording of my memories from that event. Nothing more. Nothing less."

(and yes, I noticed that the second "someone" is Mozilla's "Add-ons Policy Policer, Thunderbird Council Chair", but my point still stands: this is something "someone" said, not Mozilla's official position)
I had this exact situation come up with an engineer that I can only call brilliant, with the most conservative of overtones. He was more than that. Being a maker myself I gladly encouraged him to work when he wanted, sometimes that meant he'd work 48 hours straight and sleep for two days and show up Friday. His 3 days of work (as his peers would describe it), easily was double the quality and output of his closest colleague. I loved having him on my team.

Eventually, other people started asking to work 3 days a week, suggesting that they too would pull all-nighters in an effort to have 2 mid-week days off. I let a few experiments happen but sadly in most cases the result was less than 50% of what they had been previously able to accomplish.

This led to a new merit based working system when we placed emphasis on sprints and achieving. This too ended up failing because the interconnected dependandcies of sprints were always bottlenecked by the slowest operator.

The final result was the eventual departure of my most prized teammate, and mostly due to peer pressure. I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.
Yes table in article and cropped here on Twitter, which might have spurred this post: https://twitter.com/justindross/status/1193737152997183488?s...

Their returns have been as good or better in the last 10 years even after doubling the fund size
It is funny how people think the Internet started in 1995. I was using the Arpanet for email in 1980. And my colleagues had been using it for several years at that time.
> I think its still best to focus our political willpower on accelerating the transition to electric vehicles.

Electric vehicles, for the near term, remain a toy of rich people. Apartments will NOT have electrified parking lots, outside of a select few spaces. Tesla's "Supercharger" requires 150 kW of power-delivery per parking space. (Average american household uses ~30 kW-hrs per day, or roughly 1.25 kW on the average).

The real solution is public transportation. Electrifying public transportation (ex: monorail, trams, electric busses, etc. etc.) forces the ENTIRE car-less class to go electric. We're talking about 20%+ of America will be "forced into electric" if public transit were upgraded.

Pushing more Americans onto public transit will only make those numbers better. Tax incentives to Amtrak / Busses and other such programs should make public transit more popular.
> the destruction of national cultures and ethnicities

The very same thing could have been phrased as tearing down barriers between people and reaching understanding.

> their sinister plan

That also makes your comment sound sinister and very biased.
Thanks! Yeah it's nice to be able to perform that kind of analysis - stay tuned for daily updates!
The point is you don't have to use the desktop. E.g you lie in bed in the dark, not sleeping yet and a task comes to mind. You just say "Alexa, set a reminder for...", instead of turning on the light, reaching for your phone or a scrap of paper to note it down, etc.

People use it for the convenience.

Though, I'd also be vary of having an always listening gadget in my room.
There's no Moore's law for ship speeds. If there were, then in the century since tea clippers we'd have ships somehow zipping across the sea at a decent fraction of the speed of light, somehow using less power than the baseline.

In fact that probably would have already made the case for speed restrictions, as every multi-thousand-knot container ship created its own tsunami. There have long been speed restrictions on canals at a few miles an hour to avoid erosion.
I wonder if you could start the blocks small and then grow them over time. If you have half an our reserved somewhere, maybe people won't schedule a meeting against it. Then make it an hour, after a month and hour and a half, etc.

Or just block out the four hours you need by filling it up with loads of fake important-sounding half-hour meetings.
FYI Travis left already & I'm pretty sure he isn't a millennial either.
Notarization costs nothing.

But it's $99/year to be a part of the Apple Developer program which covers all platforms.
You can do that, but a more powerful laser will max out the readings even at maximum occlusion, and it's another mechanical device which can fail.

It's a game of cat and mouse.
It's possibly the only piece of software I look forward to using. Everything is right about it. I'm currently remastering a bunch of old albums for digital distribution, so I've been using it a ton. I don't know why every UI isn't required by law to have drag up/down to mean zoom on a timeline/scrollbar type control.
I remember all of these things, too. I also remember trying to explain to my great grandmother, who was born in the 19th century, how it was that my brother and I were able to control what was happening on the TV screen.

And that's all I'm going to reflect on for now, lest I become tempted to burn a week's worth of evenings reading Ray Kurzweil.
> One of the most interesting things we've discovered from working on Y Combinator is that founders are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting millions of dollars. So if you want to get millions of dollars, put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating.

Oh, boy. Why can't we have a world where I can pursue my interests without the fear of loosing something. I guess if people read Bertrand Russell [0] instead of Paul Graham, the world would be a better place.

[0] http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
The Paris MOU and Port State Inspection changed the status quo here forever.

If an Open Registry (the technical name for a "Flag of Convenience") doesn't enforce rules the Port States (mostly economically important countries with a coastline) care about that flag essentially labels you as likely non-compliant - and whether you are or not it's a world of pain because those Port States care.

So most of the famous Flags of Convenience cleaned their acts up. It just made too much financial sense.

You can try mumbling about how Port State Control isn't fair, but the people who think it is have guns and money and you don't. In this case (and many previously) this works in our favour.
This was heartbreaking to read. I don't understand how anyone can defend not being able to run software on their own devices, unless it was approved by Apple.
Do you have any comments about the specifics of the Mercury News article? Are they making stuff up for clicks? You personally haven't seen your neighbors misbehaving, but it's not like they're just going to brag about it to you, are they?

Do you have any first-hand knowledge of police misbehaving?

You mean other than the time I got pulled over in some shithole town in NJ because that's just what the local police did there to raise revenue?

The Interstate used to end right at that point, it went down to a normal 4-lane road. The local pigs would have a car working that area, pulling people over. When they finished writing a ticket for one car, they'd get back on the road, going the other direction (they only worked about a 1 mile stretch). Within 30 seconds their lights would be flashing and they'd pull another car over.

I used to commute that stretch of road daily, so I saw this happen constantly. Constantly. Constantly. For years and years. Finally they finished the Interstate and bypassed the town.

This was the early 1980s. That's what used to happen in the open in NJ. Far worse were other shithole towns in NJ that had a reputation for having police control the stoplights as you went thru town. They'd flip the light red, pull you over, arrest you, take you to court right then. "What you got there now, Seth", said the judge to the arresting police officer. That one I heard second hand, from a friend of mine, a person I "actually knew". Nothing an on-the-spot fine payment couldn't take care of.

Simple petty graft. Done out in the open. For years. Just off an Interstate.

Experiences like that give the entire justice system a bad name. Everyone knows what's going on, nobody does anything about it, even if they're not personally profiting from the corruption.

It's that pesky blue wall of silence, elaborated in detail at the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence

I lived in NYC in 1970. Was the stuff documented by the Knapp Commission made up?
Was all of that stuff contemporaneously reported on TV and in the newspapers made up for ratings and circulation? Did I have to personally experience it before I was allowed to believe it?

Unfortunately, one bad interaction with police negates 100 good interactions. Just like one bad meal at a restaurant can negate the 100 good meals you've previously had there. That's simple human nature.
You've missed the point.

If they've no interest in going "to market" in the EU, why lie about European visitors being valued?

What you've said isn't inaccurate, it's just not relevant to the message that Europeans are shown.
It gives quite an insight into the ethics of big business, or lack thereof.
Lessons from Hitler’s Rise (2017)
Less for the calling she does, but moreso to handout to local companies that dread calling LD, or have to get a dialing PIN from someone else just to call one.

E.g. retail shops, clinics, utilities, etc.

Some local friends may be paying 20cpm to call her.

I once had a small telecom refuse to accept my 1-800 number...
Note that RenTec also runs two other funds that are larger than the Medallion Fund, but both under perform the index.

On a completely unrelated note, if I were interested in creating a fund that appeared to have market beating returns for decades and I wasn't concerned about the legal consequences, here's one way I might do it:

I would create fund A and B and seed them with some initial capital. For fund A, I would create a machine learning model that took in lots of opaque parameters and hire a team of very smart mathematicians and computer scientists to optimize this model to perform profitable trades. In order to easily generate alpha, I would subtlety feed in some parameters that were correlated to the future market moving actions of fund B. Since I also run fund B, I uniquely have this information.

I would use the performance of fund A to woo outside investors into investing their money into fund B. In order to prevent fund A from overtaking fund B in asset value and thus diminishing the value of the subtle signals, I would close the fund to the public when it got sufficiently large and periodically distribute its assets to its investors.

In order to avoid any of my employees from eventually figuring out what's going on and reporting me, I'd incentivize them to avoid looking too closely by requiring that they invest a large part of their income into the fund with a long vesting date. I'd also require them to sign a long term non-compete so that they cannot work anywhere else in the financial industry if they leave.
True but only if you're using just RHEL. Usually adding just one word will disambiguate the multiple uses of a word or acronym. RHEL weapon vs RHEL OS for example.
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I don't think "If you can just avoid dying, you get rich" has proven true. I've invested in startups (including YC ones) that followed this to a tee. They never found product-market fit, they could have been going forever, investors forgot about them. Some are still going, some managed to get acquired, some closed shop.

It's really a false dichotomy, only a small fraction of the companies that avoid dying manage to explode. You just don't hear about the rest.
BBC Radio Programme about Terry Davis / TempleOS
I lived through the entire 90s and I'm not sure I actually remember using the internet at all in that timeframe. The earliest I can definitively pin my internet usage is 2000 or 2001, and the warm, fuzzy nostalgia period I remember is finding and playing online Flash games in the 2001-2004-ish time frame.

Of course, until we got broadband internet (mid-noughts), connecting to the internet was rather more annoying, and as such, computer time was mostly playing local computer games instead of browsing the internet.
They are being sued for back taxes to the tune of $6.8 billion. So this may not be as legit as it seems.
Thanks, wasn't aware of the change being regarded as anything official. Looks like it could be considered as such these days. :)
Direct download: https://traffic.bloomberg.fm/BLM3980613543.mp3
You can have sovereign states with relatively free flowing immigration. And you can also have non-sovereign states with restricted immigration. And you can even have states with internally imposed restrictions to resettlement.

Ideally, I think most policy should be made at a lower level than the sovereign state in a democratic society. Administration from remote cities seems to create distrust. Best also to keep the army at a different level from the level that needs to respond most effectively to economic upset. This is the opposite direction than we have been trending in for the last several decades but I think it can change quickly.
Apple is a trillion dollar company. It can easily support running 32-bit indefinitely, perhaps with a download for 32-bit libraries libraries and/or with some sort of containerization. As a platform holder it has the responsibility to do so. Failing to do that is a clear abdication.

It is clear from the post that Apple's platforms are hostile towards any sort of digital executable art.
This just in: equity grant does not assist those with already high levels of representation.
Hang in there, man.
Happens all the time, I don't have links right now but i've seen several instances of individual or companies publishing tonnes of content right after something bad happened (crime or other) to try to push the bad news away from the front page.
The data protection laws introduced last year are failing us – and our children
The Leviathan knows best, all hail the Leviathan.
Somebody posted a French example recently.

EDIT: There have also been suggestions that the current UK Prime Minister has done this.
From the part about Octopart:

> The distributors want to prevent the transparency that comes from having prices online.

Some manufacturers are worse, they don't publish datasheets (looking at you, Intel VDSL chipset department, laptop keyboard manufacturers, Broadcom). It's almost as if there are companies that want to lock out anyone not a multi-million company to tinker with their products...
You're double counting here. Almost all of Bezos's net worth is Amazon stock.
Correct. As long as your bottleneck is the CPU.
>You do assume that.

The quote you pasted is about axiomatic reasoning not being able to conclude that "being correct is enough". Not that the people I mention didn't use any logical reasoning / axiomatic induction at all. As I wrote, they used some, but combined with ignoring some necessary steps (either because they didn't occur to them, or because of an implicit bias).

>I don't think myself or people as perfectly rational.

No, but some people do. In anycase, I wasn't talking about people who "think themselves as perfectly rational". I was talking about people who think that their reasoning that "truth trumps delivery" came in a perfectly rational way (whether they consider themselves otherwise rational in their other ideas/behavior or not).

>Tailoring everything to the other person and being kind can lend into being straight up manipulative.

Or it might not. It's how you use it. One can also use the truth manipulatively (e.g. to hurt the other, invoke some inferiority complex and numerous other ways), in cases when a little white lie would not have had the desired effect on the other.
It's piling on a bit, but having worked in tech at Nike, this kind of thing is unsurprising. Huge, bloated company with a _really_ bad clique problem.
Taking pictures and sharing them with friends is not a generational thing. It has been a cornerstone of human culture since the concept of photography was invented.

Are we not allowed to enjoy what we see anymore?
> just go the amateur route?

But how do you even go the amateur route? You still won't be able to distribute what you make.

A big part of my childhood was making games, and sharing them on shareware sites in the mid 90s. It sucks that kids today aren't going to be able to do that. There was no way I could afford $100 as a 10 year old.
Fortunately, for privacy-conscious people this is not a huge problem as we're usually running Google apps in a separate workspace already. It sure is a problem for mobile users though as ads in general are a huge battery drain.
Yes^. RenTech and lots of other funds routinely source non-financial data to back out nonpublic information. It's not illegal and it's not unique to them. Examples are things like real estate documents, weather data, public activities of executives, satellite imagery, credit card transactions (Second Measure), DNS data, location data (Thasus, Foursquare), etc...
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It sorta exists but is difficult and doesn’t support all of QT yet.
I do wonder if pg would write that again in 2019. We've seen many startups die while charging forward before finding product/market fit. Talking to customers comes before typing.
If there's evidence of an individual threatening to kill a law enforcement officer I have a hard time believe they won't be arrested, unless the investigating officer(s) or prosecutor(s) don't feel it's credible for one reason or another.

Are the events you listed connected to these groups specifically?

I don't have a problem with the government monitoring groups that are protesting to make sure no violence occurs, but I do have a problem with the US military performing law enforcement actions on American soil. Posse Comitatus exists for a reason.
-- the French aristocrats before the Revolution.

I'm not saying we're gonna see heads rolling anytime soon, just that people tend to forget until they don't.
Uber's Kalanick sells 21% of his stake after share lockup expires
There is a rumor they're working with Valve on this.
> Seriously, ors are bad so union two queries as a cheaper alternative?

They should be equivalent, letting you choose the notation that expresses the problem cleanly. If relations were sets of tuples, boolean expressions could be rewritten safely as straightforward set arithmetic and vice versa.

But SQL relations (tables) are bags of tuples (rows), which breaks that equivalence.
I think individual users can still disable the checks (how else can you develop software if you can't execute what you compile?)
well... that paints an entirely different picture than the one in the article which is a bunch of smiling old ladies, men and adolescents. None of them look like they're about to go Rambo, unless it's a gross misrepresentation of the majority of those there.