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The tragedy of the commons[0] seems to be the extended concept

> a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource through their collective action.

The "tragedy of mass tourism" would be the "1st world problem" equivalent, imo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
So in the same time they should condemn democracy and freedom, as they're having exactly the same effect. It is much easier for police in authoritarian countries to prevent crimes and find perpetrators.

But if they don't condemn democracy and freedom, they should also not condemn encryption. The ability to communicate privately, or saying things outside the consensus anonymously, is an important tool for citizens to protect democracy.

The Interpol job is to protect the law under the settings of democracy and freedom, not to try to change those settings in order to make their job easier.
If they happen to be lucky enough to use the cherry picked features from OpenJDK (cause they are now using it, but only the parts/packages they care about), not taking advantage of newer JVM bytecodes and ideally written in a Java 7 style.
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What's there for me to presume? You stated your presumption quite clearly:

"... private (corporate-owned and fair game) property. Presumably his office is in the latter category."
>I think there's a potential irony here in that the author would probably be fine with stoner teens wandering in, in that they'd more likely be kindred spirits in their railing against the evils of The System.

I doubt it - some unknown dudebro passed out on your carpet in a pool of their bodily fluids seems like too much to deal with at 3am for a poor reporter with writer's block.
I think they do factor nicely, in the design space. Those highly optimized solutions don't appear out of the blue, but from the set of more or less explicit constraints encoded in optimizing software. We can move forward with treating a complex part as an atomic unit, something just fabricated to computer-generated design, and iterate on the set of properties we're interested in.

(Whether that's ultimately a good approach, I don't know. I haven't thought about this too deeply yet.)
Is it just me or the narrator has the same weird accent as the character Barry Kripke in the Big Bang Theory tv show ?
> > Does that mean that people like me have to be reeducated and/or forced to see the error of their ways?
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> Most likely - it's simply the march of progress. As horses were mostly outlawed/discouraged from cities, I suspect cars will be too.

I think I will pass. If you outlaw driving in cities without a good alternative, I will just not live in a city anymore. But let me guess: you want to outlaw that too...
In economics there is a distinction between private goods, public goods, club goods, and common resources. The view from the tower would be a common resource. The canonical example is a village commons where everyone could graze their sheep, as long as no one abused the grazing area.
Isn't that what Chef for?
In that quote the CEO's describing operating cash flow, a GAAP measure. Nothing about it is unconventional. And it includes real-world depreciation to a large degree since maintenance costs are part of operating expenditures. The problem is the article's author omitted discussing profit per se, not that the CEO's goal is having positive operating cash flow.
500 years of foundation? I guess the history of the Mesoamericans who lived there prior to their genocide by the Europeans isn't available?
Availability of Graphicscore as PCIe only on Dell machines will be more inaccessible than expensive GPUs.

Only mass market open hardware based on RISC-V or at-least affordable ARM based hardware like Jetson Nano but with actual training capabilities can address this issue.

To put it blunt, we need openAI for hardware & not just software stack.
Wow, that’s actually really moving! I wonder how close the star got to being shredded in the process. The gravitational forces must have been pretty powerful.
You can do encryption with a pen, paper, and a calculator. The genie is out of the bottle at this point.
You need complex ventilation anyway. Imagine a fire breaks out.
Here's an absolutely insane guy's channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCti7FZiCHC5fhvgN_Ns_5ew

He digs wells by hand. Very scary videos.
I agree it's not 100% perfect, and things do slip through the cracks; including in cases of big tech companies that move too fast compared to legislation and so can get away with what is essentially large-scale fraud, tax evasion, privacy violations, etc.

But the idea is if the market itself cannot solve the problem and it's causing significant harm to society then legislation is supposed to step in to prevent the behaviour deemed harmful.
Yes, that’s what I was thinking.

I can’t disagree that users tolerate ads, since advertising is the model of plenty successful websites. It’s just that, like bundled OS crapware, the user experience is better without it.
If it was that easy there would only be one company in the world, and it would do everything.

The issue with competition, you see, is that someone has to lose, and it sure as hell isn't going to be the winner - until it is.
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I will throw in here that apartments in Germany I have seen or lived in are mostly nicer and have better construction quality than apartment complexes in even nice and high priced US regions (E.g., Texas, California). Hardly slums.
Cool. I didn't realize people collected them.

I remember in the early 80's the transition from all-analog to LCD display boxes, which allowed more precise FM tuning, and programming for copying tapes or an alarm clock.

And that the #1 item in terms of interest and sales volume at a lot of consumer electronics retailers was the boombox.

Their size really did get ridiculous - carrying one around was a workout.
I'm saying we should spend the money on needy people, and let services used primarily by wealthier people pay for themselves.
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To those downvoting grandparent: parent refers to a serious economic theory based in that idea.
I thought his answer to the second to last question was interesting. Basically that the automation storyline is vastly overdone. That automation taking away jobs has been happening for 200 years, and the rate of job loss is probably slowing if anything because the jobs that could be taken away from automation were automated away long ago.

I never thought to question the assumption of automation being the huge story it’s been predicted to be.
Don’t waste your time and everyone else’s time spending nearly a paragraph with a bad faith disclaimer. It’s super annoying to read so many arguments with “assuming you’re acting in good faith” bullshit.
The most expensive and desirable locations in the U.S. are mostly apartments/condos, not single family detached homes. Take New York or San Francisco for example -- hardly slums by most measures (yes there is homelessness, but that's partly a byproduct of just how high the cost of living is).

There's nothing about affluence that requires single family detached homes, that's just a fantasy that's been marketed to us for the past hundred years, and at a huge cost in terms of walkability, time/money/land wasted on traffic and parking, traffic fatalities, etc.
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The United States was still installing lead pipes until 1930-1986:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2509614/#__sec4...
Archived version of the link for the $64.99 tattoo design sheet:
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The NHS is a shitshow now "thanks" to decades of neoliberals gutting it. If you want to see a decent healthcare system go to Germany.
Yup, there is no need to involve deep learning if you have an efficient algorithmic solution pinned down. Too often people try to use AI as a substitute for thought on the normal, tractable problems.
I'm not sure that I agree with the author on Elon Musk's tunneling ambitions. Far more people are betting against him on Tesla and SpaceX without much success.

One thing lost in the debate is if the costs are lowered it will also increase the number of cities where a subway is possible financially. I see cities spending huge money on dedicated bus lanes. The bus companies adore it but I'm pretty certain that the return on investment is abysmal.

They tried to implement it locally and the grass roots groups put up such a huge fight the politicians withdrew support for it.

As far as the cost of the stations I wonder if anyone has given thought to using 3D concrete printing? Admittedly it would be easier if you excavated from the surface as opposed to widening a tunnel but I still think it has the possibility of losing costs.

https://all3dp.com/2/concrete-3d-printing-how-to-do-it-and-a...
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Nobody made anything really. Everything you "own" was made by someone else or at least the raw materials were not created by you. What's the justification for any kind of ownership?
I had the Crown pictured in that article. Used it to rock Crazy Train on the bus. Then I got tired of carrying it around and it just sat in my room for the rest of high school.

I like how they all had some kind of "turbo bass" switch - like a kid carrying around a boombox would ever not want turbo bass. The worst is when you accidentally turned it off and didn't realize for hours or sometimes days.
I'd be very interested in seeing if it can extract the bass line in any of the tracks of Ride the lighting album by Metallica
You're right, it's related. But I think it's a special case in which the commons is, from the very beginning, way too small to satisfy all the people interested in it, and one that doesn't have an intrinsic value, so not using it is just as bad as exhausting it (if there's a nice skyline, but no one ever experiences it, it may as well not exist at all).

Tourism is an interesting case. Many aspects of it are an example of the "it's only interesting if very few people are doing it". My go-to example is the leaning tower of Pisa. The first photo of a person leaning on the tower was interesting. But everyone and their dog repeating this is just pathetic.[0]

As for problems of tourism, I think most of them are self-inflicted, and it's not as much a tragedy of the commons as the issue of runaway externalities. Tourism today is mostly about living through artificial, fake experiences, specially created to handle and make money off the masses. But it's just the collateral damage that becomes a problem.

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[0] - https://www.tes.com/lessons/tXRD6CgSpPDS9A/art-scale-claes-o...
Looks a lot like it. Its sad really. I had a lot of respect for him, but that's getting harder to admit out loud in public.
I don't think there is a traditional way of writing distributed apps. The whole field is extremely young(/aka immature), and the ways are still being discovered. The actor model is just one way, but it lines up fairly nicely with what Joe Armstrong was doing with Erlang. I think they both deserve high marks.
"Which is ironic, because he seems to be on the richer end of it (eg a white westerner who can afford intercontinental travel, on a job with a healthy work/life balance)"

Which means they're exactly the sort of person who SHOULD be protesting the system. It's easy to criticize when you're not on the inside.

I suggested an article to a colleague of mine. He was recently complaining about stale wage growth, and the article I suggested was showing reasons for of wage growth stagnation. He simply dismissed it by saying "yeah, but the person who wrote it is probably on $200k". End of story, point invalidated by privilege...

WTF is that attitude? The overwhelming majority of voices you can hear are those in a position of privilege, even in the age of the Internet. A long-form article like this one isn't going to come out of rando ne'er-do-well xchan channel.

Speak out from a non-privileged position: Pfft, work harder slacker

Speak out from a position of privilege: Pfft, your words mean nothing from that ivory tower.

Zero sum. That is not the way forward.
I think the GP is drawing a distinction between private and personal property. If you outlaw private property (e.g. things owned in absentee by entities, usually to seek rent, like landlording) then you are not outlawing people owning the places in which they work or sleep.

It is only when you outlaw personal property (e.g. your clothes, your home) that you encounter the problematic scenario that you suggest.

When Marx says he wants to abolish private property (i.e. the means of production), he does not mean to abolish personal property. I think this nuance is often ignored or unknown, which is unfortunate.
Cough cough. Seems someone has not really looked at the reality of the field.

Erlang is right there, i advise a look :)
Expensive and desirable locations - sure, but we are speaking of mass society, of everyone - everyone in the U.S. is dependent on cars, not just people in "expensive and desirable locations". These actually have less of that dependence.

This idea have been marketed and for a good reason, it was good way to save U.S. population from Soviet nuclear threat - in a way Coomies could neither counter, nor replicate on their side - when Commies launch their nukes, it's much better if most people find themselves in separate houses with large tracts of land and little combustible materials, and good basements to protect from fallout, and in a few days, can emerge from there and drive their cars in whichever direction civil defense points as safer.
well, so long as they don't mistakenly break into Jeff's actually-occupied house and accidentally traumatize his wife and kids, I suppose he'd be pretty chill about it.
Yeah, I'd really love to see pictures of a car seat that has enough "internal damage" to be dangerous, without that damage being visible when you take the cover off.
They didn't found a city called Havana, that's all.
Oh wow. I never noticed. I thought authagraph just stretched out the seas to make the map rectangular. I can see now they are different.

I found Hajime Narukawa's website and he actually has a several posts explaining various dymaxion technologies. Link confirmed!

http://narukawa-lab.jp/archives/dymaxion-map/
It's probably because when faced between paying X for continuous support (where X is a big number) and "we will keep around a few computers for when it's a problem in 20 years", most companies are going to go with the later.

Even if it would make financial sense long term, how likely is it that the person making the decision will be there in 20 years to deal with the mess?
On the other hand, it will look much better on their next quarter results.
How is it inconsistent? S, ss and ß all have distinct pronunciations.
I think perhaps it's a stretch to say he's the most influential journalist ever here.

He's a divisive character and seems to have been a divisive character amongst those that knew and interacted with him, as well as the general public.

What's happened to him was all too predictable. The US was offended by him, so one way or another they were going to get their hands on him. They tried all the usual tricks - deny it, get their allies to do their dirty work while also denying it. And now they have him. I expect him to turn up dead or otherwise just disappear.
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I don't totally understand what you're trying to say, but again: some people enjoy black coffee, smoking, and alcohol just on their own.

Yes, social factors increase usage of all these things and people will force themselves to do it, but that's not universal.

I also love the flavor of smoking tobacco products (including cigarettes), although I only smoke a few times a year for social, health, and convenience reasons.
Julian Assange has offered humanity a lot more than what humanity can offer him at anytime. I wonder why the hell would someone get jailed for revealing the truth.
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Please tell me if I am wrong, but I get the feeling that you conflate the idea of "bad programming and design of a system" with the actor model in general.

You can do just as badly with an object oriented model as you can with the actor model. Bad applications will be bad.
> What if the energy comes from solar?

The energy source is an orthogonal topic. Public transport is far easier to convert to renewable sources because the number of stakeholders is usually in the single digits.

> Also, even a tesla is not 2500kg

A model X is 2500kg, a model S is 2100 kg.

> many people with family rarely drive with a single occupant.

For Europe, the average is 1.4 people per car: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/occupancy...

> Also, have you looked at the energy consumption of light or suburban rail?

Yes, and I've even linked a source showing that energy used per passenger mile is 8 times higher with cars :)

Edit: That light rail is more efficient also makes sense if you look at weight and capacity of trains: The local commuter trains around here have a weight of about 105t, so about 50 teslas. But they fit up to 500 people. Power is 2400kW - you can transport 500 people for the power equivalent of 10 Tesla model S. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_423
Scott Alexander wrote up a review of this book on Slatestarcodex. At over 11'000 words it's pretty hefty and goes quite in-depth.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...
Yes, that's correct, thank you for helping explain things! :)
Struggling to remember, but aren't the 45 degree bends on a circuit board something to do with etching them consistently? In a lot of electronics the board is optimised for RFI, or trying to have the lowest inductance (necessary for passing high frequencies). The grid pattern is optimised for cheap assembly.

I think the author may be wrong here, and actually the pattern is how it is for very complex reasons.
Thank you for helping explain things! :)
Shipping is a plentiful resource, lots of shipowners are not on good terms with the U.S. Treasury already and 6 months is not that much time. Doubt that rule has much effect: the invisible hand helps communists just as good even if they hate it.
I don't have many unused houses, however my family does have a tiny summer cottage that we don't use in the winter since it's not insulated and so on.

Coming to it in the spring and finding that some kids decided to have a party in there and almost burned it down wasn't exactly a nice feeling. I certainly hope that it doesn't happen to anyone else, including mr Bezos, however much you may disagree with his business practices.
It seems like it, but how much power do we have to help?
That's because there is a deeper agenda than just "protecting children". If you read the Edward Snowden book (permanent record) then you'll note that he talks about what the NSA/CIA is actually doing with their signals intelligence programs. It isn't about national security, it is about espionage on a global scale. They want information on what foreign governments, journalists, domestic organizations (not just terrorist groups as they claim) and corporations are doing. For domestic citizens, they want to know if you are a threat to the United States or violating laws.

The second strong end-to-end encryption is implemented, the whole system simply fails to operate. Instead of having a massive data collection system, you now have to go back to more traditional methods that require much more effort to implement - like hacking a target's computer directly. If that happens then the USA will lose its edge in terms of obtaining critical information and that will be a treat to their global dominance....hence the reason they mention national security. Of course, you can't just come out and say this is the reason so they mask it in "fighting sexual exploitation" etc.

The truth is end-to-end encryption and fighting sexual exploitation are not mutually exclusive. We can have both.
It's not like this BS is new BS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_wars

Everyone who wants to know knows or is a newbie.

However, if newbies come into the discussion faster than they can be brought up to speed there's a risk of an "Eternal September" effect diluting common sense, so you're basically right about how we should all be explaining it to our friends and family and whatnot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
If objective reality is non-existent, workers cannot objective claim to be underpaid, overworked and unfairly treated. Citizens cannot objectively claim they are taxed unfairly and their rights and freedom is being infringed upon. It appears to be an anti-intellectual campaign designed to convince people they do not have the capacity to think critically or independently.
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Direct link to Delft University of Technology version, home of both authors. This misses the 5 stars out of 5 quality rating.
Very high power lasers fire for a fraction of a second. If there is enough energy it should vaporize a spot and cause a massive shock wave that could also take out the surrounding rock. It could be more of a laser hammer.
No. Poor people want capital. Any rich asshole who criticize capitalism (not corporatism or state capitalism) is utterly despised by the poor -- and rightly so.
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What about a vm inside another vm?
Are they not aware that could equally condemn walls as having 4 off them at night protects predators equally? /s
Heh, yeah. It wasn't this bad in 2008 when I first got here... though I suspect it's more of a language issue.

C++ tends to prompt a discussion of a poorer quality. Every second person is an senior expert that feels obliged to teach everyone else the true ways of the language. Hence all the focus on irrelevant minor fluff like here. Especially evident when compared to C threads, where nitpicks are of a far better quality and actually relevant.
This would be a very neat effect in a horror movie, like a monster running out of the shadows toward the viewer, and would probably work well as the colors are often desaturated in the darker scenes.
It's not particularly insightful or correct. It is absolutely true that our traditional NATO allies (except maybe Turkey) cheapen out on defense spending in reliance on U.S. protection. Their leaders admit that themselves: https://apnews.com/0229dd7556264040810d9e7f96f3aa0a/France%2...

> In a speech to French ambassadors in Paris, Macron said “Europe cannot rely on the United States only for its security. It’s up to us to meet our responsibilities and guarantee our security, and therefore European sovereignty.”

Nobody has decided that "human life can ... be more peaceful" without military superiority. Now that Trump has given Europeans reason to be skeptical about America's commitment, there is already a push to build up Europe's military forces. Macron will increase defense spending by 35% over six years, reversing a decade of decline: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-defence/france-com...

https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/29/eu-countries-increase-mi...

Ukraine is not a particularly good counter-example of that theory. First, Trump is the first U.S. President to exhibit some isolationist tendencies since Carter. But European disinvestment in defense has been going on since the USSR collapsed. Second, Ukraine is a former USSR country with a complicated history with Russia. It's not indicative of whether the U.S. would come to the defense of a real U.S. ally.
They didn't mention the Roman concrete that gets STRONGER with exposure to seawater: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/04/why-roman-co...