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the thing is those 4000 cpus are really 3000 ones. intels laptops are always 1 gen ahead. amds laptop is always one gen behind. its kinda annoying. granted zen 2 (or 3000) was a good architecture so it should compete nicely but I would expect intel to actually be more efficient still because its newer.
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I wonder if you noticed any of these recent frontpage submissions and just didn't associate them with the CCC: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Do_Men_Stupefy_Themselves...
You really shouldn’t support DNT, it’s a useless “standard” that’s half-deprecated (Safari is removing support in 2020) and will potentially introduce significant bias into your customer’s data.
I think the NES PPU:CPU clocks are 3:1 for NTSC and 16:5 for PAL. The exact speeds are integer ratios of the color subcarrier frequency. The master clock runs at 6x the color subcarrier frequency, which gives you 12 different hues in the color palette.
I had the exact same experience, except that I had to do a self-review.

Preface:

In November of that year the org REALLY needed some important work done in a language that I didn't develop in. It was a super large update to a legacy PERL app that had NO TESTS WHATSOEVER. If it wasn't done by a deadline they would have lost their largest contract and very likely have been out of business. Did I mention that this org was part of a fortune 500 company?

Since I was the ONLY developer left at the company who had any idea how things worked they pleaded with me to help them. Sensing opportunity, I rose to the occasion for a month of 60 to 80 hour weeks.

I pulled off the release that would have been the nail in their coffin had it failed.

A couple of months later we had to do self-reviews. It was my first one because for an unknown reason I hadn't received one the year prior.

I was really proud that I'd pulled off the impossible so I gave myself a couple of fives in areas like "works hard" and "teamwork" or something.

Then I had my official review with the C level exec of development, since they still hadn't replaced the director who was my former manager.

He told me that we had to change the fives, because even though they existed the company felt you had to do something reeeeally awesome to get a five.

Then he said fours were not impossible to get, but almost impossible to get, and since he was too busy running the company to really give me a review he'd give me the benefit of a doubt and reset the fives to threes.

Next he knocked a couple of other stats down to twos, saying that I had too many threes.

Then, he said unfortunately my average score was pretty much dead on the company average and that I only qualified for an average 2% raise.

Aaaaand at that moment I realized that performance reviews were nothing more than a dog an pony show for HR to justify giving you a minimum raise, or documenting why you should be fired.

I also realized that there was absolutely no reason to break my neck for them again, and the only way I was gong to improve my situation was to find another job.

Which I did. Securing myself a 40% raise doing 1/2 the work in 25% of the knowledge domain.
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Which is partially my point -- Thiel's "principle" was that less wealthy people don't have the same access, so he ponied up some of his billions of dollars to hire a lawyer that famously sues independent journalists and other non-wealthy people. Even in the Gawker case, he didn't limit his suit to Gawker, but he also sued the $60k/yr journalists writing for the site.

I guess one way to prove your point about lack of access to the legal system for average people is to be an astounding hypocrite and sue some of those people, but I don't feel like that's the common legacy of that whole episode.

You can read Mike Masnick's opinions here: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161103/11502935958/heres...
Couldn't you work 6 hours "for the man", and then work on a project of your own choosing, for whatever reason you wanted? (a side project, the next unicorn, some spare cash, something OSS, something for charity, or just because)
US agriculture is also heavily subsidized
Weinstein isn't remotely a single digit millionaire.
Since Europe is Russia's biggest trading partner, sanctions could be a lot worse. But that would also heavily influence the daily lives of a lot of Russians. Since Europe accounts for 46% of Russian exports.

I think you grossly underestimate the impact that heavy sanctions could have on the daily lives of Russians. The sanctions were NOT targetting the Russian people, but at making the lives of the responsibles less comfortable ( eg. the leaders/rich people).

And while Russia likes to publicly partner with China, they seem to forget that China literally does nothing for them (economically).

Edit ( since you adjusted your post):

Source:

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/coun... ( trade )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea ( population of Crimea)

> This sound to me as a Russian a complete nonsense. An average Russian couldn't have hated Russia more for what it is, let alone opting to jump into the "warm embrace of the fatherland" once they got out.

I've only mentioned the spoken language in Crimea, not about the sentiment. Do not change my words, none of your last assumptions are correct and i don't even know Pravda ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit 2: I reread my comment, i did add "in theory" there, as I did not know much about the exact situation. I do agree, it could have been more clear.

But i did not say that they wanted to join Russia. I suggested ( or meant to) that there was a chance and that i did not know about the sentiment there.
Designing to Reveal the Nature of the Universe: Jonathan Blow, Marc Bosch[video]
Congress has (and always has had) a significantly more political focus than DEFCON - there's some very good talks on technology and ethics in there.
How would you fix the ratings issue? That's a common issue with ratings systems in general (that they reflect popularity instead of quality).
This is a game Design talk that covers the relation of Game Design and mathematics. Jonathan Blow is the creator of Braid and The Witness, and Marc Bosch the creator of Miegakure (a puzzle game about exploring and understanding the fourth dimension).

Here's the quote about the talk from the Youtube summary.

> We present a game design aesthetic that values looking for systems that express these truths in the cleanest possible way. We explain how this is different from more-traditional combinatoric design techniques; we show examples from our games and describe a method for applying the aesthetic in general.

One of the points of their aesthetic is to make a narrow enough search space often only making one possible way to solve the search space. You begin the game with a small enough search space that it's easy to learn the rule. When you introduce a new mechanic you enlarge the search space, but your mechanic should be found out by being the only way to solve the puzzle.

It seems Jonathon Blow and Marc like to introduce the mechanic in by their aesthetic, because the User makes the satisfying logical discovery themselves. When the search space is too large or it's just some random combination or the user stumbles upon the solution without learning why it works it makes for a bad user experience it will either be too dull or frustrating.

I watched this quite along time ago and saw it on hacker news before as well, but just shared it with a coworker looking to create puzzle games and thought I'd share here as well because it's a very interesting talk.
> Public easements to public beaches are quite normal.

Except this particular beach happens to be a very abnormal one. This issue was resolved years ago, and Khosla won: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/04/27/martins-beach-appeal.... In 2016, the California Court of Appeals held that, because Khosla's property dates from a Mexican land grant, and the state never reserved an easement, there is no public easement on Khosla's property. In 2019, the same court rejected the alternate theory that an easement had been created by the property owner "dedicating the easement to public use." See: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-26/billionai...

As you recognize, the "public easement" theory is what applies here. But California lost on that theory. There is no easement here. California has been attempting to keep the beach open using unrelated regulatory powers. (Basically, there is no public easement, but through our powers to regulate what can be built on the beach, we can keep you from building anything to keep the public out.)

If it wasn't for the wildly misleading reporting, everyone would recognize this as overreach and abuse by the State.
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It is an interesting point about the timezone/culture difference. I wonder if Softbank's VC investments in Japan have done any better?
Does anybody know of any non-scammy ways to turn visa gift cards into cash/crypto? I’d love to do something irresponsible with mine, like gamble at a bitcoin casino or something.
> Sure, but now we're back to the issue that it's unclear what constraints `unsafe` code actually has to hold

The Rust Nomicon actually documents these constraints for each 'unsafe' operation. Code that can ensure that these constraints hold can be regarded as 'safe' and rely on an unsafe{ } block. Code that can't, should be marked unsafe and document its own constraints in turn.

> You may think you have a safe interface, only to find out later you're relying on internal details

If you're relying on internal details, you're most likely doing it wrong, even by the standards of 'unsafe'. There are ways to nail down these details where required, at which point they're not even "internal" details anymore, but this has to be opted-into explicitly, for sensible reasons.

> It's only marked `unsafe` because it can break other pieces of "safe" code that it doesn't use, but it itself is 100% safe. You could just as easily argue the "other code" should be the `unsafe` code, since it's what will actually break if you use it incorrectly.

No, "other code" should not be marked unsafe because this would mean that relying on slices is inherently unsafe. Which is silly; the whole point of a "slice" type, contrasted with its "raw parts", is in the guarantees it provides. This is why slice::from_raw_parts is unsafe: not because if what it does, but what it states about the result.

> Which is just incorrect - memory safety issues are likely to be due to the "safe" code surrounding your unsafe code

This is a matter of how you assign "blame" for a memory safety error. It's definitely true however, that the memory unsafe operations play a key role, and I assume that's the point that these docs are making. I agree that people shouldn't be creating faulty abstractions around "unsafe" blocks, but the reason we can even identify this as an issue is because we have "unsafe" blocks in the first place!
Yes, that naming scheme annoys me as well.
> Things go up and down in the short term but in the long term things have reliably gone up.

And yet, recent articles have warned that millennials may need to save more than prior generations, because people are predicting weaker economic growth over the next ~50 years or so than the previous.
Hogan had plenty of access to the legal system. He'd even settled with Gawker before Thiel's interference.

Gawker was a muckraking institution with little of worth. But Hogan had settled for 0.005% of what he asked of Gawker with the other involved party, and was amenable to taking an ownership share of the Gawker empire.

Don't paint Thiel in some white knight suit just helping embattled people "fight the power".
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To the extent that my children depend on me to eat, yes, its bad for their livelihood.

I'm saying that technology is _bad_. I'm saying that losing your job is bad, and if your boss replacing you with a machine is what causes that you're right to be upset.
I reached six months alcohol free in January. I didn't have a problem but once I turned 23 I found my body just seemed to no longer tolerate alcohol and decided just to try not drinking for a while.

To be honest, my life hasn't really changed as a result (socially), but I definitely feel healthier, have a clearer head and my skin has never been better.

Friends from college that kept drinking 4-5 times a week (2-7 drinks per outing), especially women, appear to have aged years more than me.
I think you misunderstood the above poster. Diving stock by US GDP at best needs to be defended with a real argument, not taken as the word of investment divinity. Maybe there is an argument there, but "The number was big and then it was not big!" is a weak one.

What is the GDP? It's goods/services/stocks/and government spending. So you are (sort of) trying to figure out the ratio of stocks to the other things. Maybe intuitively we feel that investment should not be too much higher than the actual payoffs (goods/services) we are producing right now. But what exactly, is too high? The number is bigger than before... so what?
I work for myself as a mobile and wed dev so I have my clients who pay my bills and several apps I'm working on in parallel.
I am not much more social, but I don't strive to be a social butterfly anyway; I have my family, a few friends, work and a few hobbies. I am not suffering of loneliness these days and am content with my introverted type. What I was pointing out earlier is that absolute isolation is not good even for introverts, we need some social exchange.
Higher savings lead to higher investment lead to lower interest rates lead to higher asset prices, sure.

However, the rest of your theory falls apart. Corporate profits have simultaneously been increasing, GDP is increasing, the claim that business is harder isn't reflected in the data.

Also, low interest rates aren't enough to account for a significant portion of the asset price increase. We had low interest rates in 2008 coincide with decreasing asset values.
I've worked primarily with Norwegians for most of my working like, but have also worked in projects in Sweden, Denmark and Finland - I've never come across this mythical 6-hour workday?
Well he’s not wrong. We’re all dead at the end.

What is your impression of mortality?
It's not really an answer, though, is it?

While I appreciate your argument and your intention, you don't make your case strongly enough, nor do you make it all rigorously enough, and most importantly you lean too heavily into a false binary as rhetorical device (we all know it is a false binary, by playing this game in your headline you are deliberately not answering the question you proposed).

First of all, the way that I see it, you invite the immediate question of "which RPC?" as there are many conflicting standards (and it does not help the discussion that the one you suggest isn't even a well recognized cross-platform standard such as gRPC or SOAP). So rather than pick between two directly competing standards as your headline suggests, you simply open Pandora's Box with "but there's a third option, and it's full of more options".

Beyond that though, one particular thing to point out is that both REST and GraphQL themselves are responses to RPC, and you neither take that into account nor address it:

1. Much early REST advocacy was an intentional rejection of the growing influence of RPC standards like SOAP (and its extended WS-* family).

2. GraphQL itself is heavily RPC influenced (in mutators especially, but it drives several parts of the language/engines), while trying to also avoid the mistakes of things like SOAP and some of the over-correction away from RPC of things like REST. It tries to hit a sweet spot between REST, RPC, and query language. Whether you think it succeeds or not as an RPC language (or hitting that sweet spot anywhere near close to your own heart), it fits the basic definition of an RPC language, and so your "third option" isn't even an exclusive-or, but a complicated overlap in the Venn diagram.

Anyway, I hope the criticism helps you explore your arguments further, and maybe helps push you to be a better writer.
This is definitely not true. It's extremely rare for a term sheet to be pulled.
That doesn't guarantee this Roku channel will have those translations.
Forgive me if I misunderstood, but it sounds like you are simply questioning the word "earnestly" in my comment? And not implying agreement with the snark laden comment to which I was responding?
When Goodreads started out, Facebook's API was much more open. After you authorized Goodreads they'd have all of your Facebook friends and would proceed to spam them asking them to signup for Goodreads. The openness of Facebook's API was probably very critical to their early growth.

These days though, the FB API has been locked down and basically can't be used for growing your userbase anymore. Any new startups in this space won't have the social graph advantage that Goodreads did. Sad.
I thought that was just because I was getting older.

(A couple of people 5 years older than me say the same thing.)
When has crypto shown to be a more stable investment than stocks or bonds?
4) Get better friends (better being not a moral judgement, but better for your needs)

Some people like to socialize over drinks, others don't really like it and some only want to do that on special occasions or rarely. Its like anything else. E.g. some people obsess over board games, some people like board games now and then, and some people really hate board games. If your friend group is based mostly around board games and you dont want to play board games anymore, in the long term, its probably best to find some non-board game obsessed friends. Same goes for drinking.
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Indeed. Square and Stripe are tough to avoid if you want to do payments, and I'm not terribly happy that my current company pays money to HackerRank (also GitLab, I think). Other than that, I've done a pretty good job avoiding KV.
Indeed. Perhaps no one has said that to his face till now?
> If you are a middle class person and have a lawn in front of your house, would you allow the random people to use the lawn for chilling/sleeping/picnic or whatever?

That's not the issue. If you own property that's completely encircled by other properties, you're entitled to an easement through a neighboring property. Conversely, if you own a parcel of land that participates in the blockade of another parcel, you very well might be required to let the owners of that other parcel to walk on your lawn to get to their property. You'll probably want to maintain a walkway, because if their daily use turns your lawn to mud, you'll probably be liable for any injuries they sustain.

https://patch.com/california/napavalley/4-types-easements
When I worked in manufacturing with heavy machinery I was taught that the best type of machine is one that functions regardless of it's condition. If you ever walk around any old tractor shows you can see that style of engineering throughout all those old pieces of equipment.
So what happens when someone tries to make tractors like the ones the farmers want? Does big-tractor put a hit out on you? (srsly I wouldnt be suprised)
>...a type of attitude that I think is prevalent in the modern American HR culture; that the corporation is always "on top," and that the employee/job applicant is always in a subservient position, in some way.

I note this attitude as well. Where do you think it comes from?
Private/restricted social networks do not work as businesses. They are antagonistic to both viral growth and hit content.

Many, many have tried.
> Taken at face values, the luminosity evolution of SN is significant enough to question the very existence of dark energy. When the luminosity evolution of SN is properly taken into account, the team found that the evidence for the existence of dark energy simply goes away

Cosmology is great because there's still so much in flux. There are so many fundamental things that are still in active research. I find it all very exciting.
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Just some personal recommendations:

23C3: Body Hacking, Hacker Spaces, Mining AOL Search Queries

24C3: Design Noir, Dining Cryptographers, A Spotter's Guide to AACS Keys

25C3: Blinkenlights Stereoscope, Running Your Own GSM Network, Messing Around with Garage Doors

26C3: Weaponizing Cultural Viruses, Playing with the Built City, Cybernetic Cannibalism, Homewreckery

27C3: Data Analysis in Terabit Ethernet Traffic, Console Hacking 2010, A Short Political History of Acoustics, OMG WTF PDF

...my archive has a hole in it here...

33C3: Edible Soft Robotics, Saving the World with (Vegan) Science

34C3: Free Electron Lasers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16028723
It's exactly what I do, but I suspect that the spirit of this 6 hour initiative isn't necessarily in line with what you're alluding to but rather the idea that working less hours is better for all of us. Correct me if I'm wrong about this.
Main point is to do something to increase the cost of this kind of advertisement or decrease the effectiveness.

Decreasing effectiveness is kinda hard, so for short term putting on a trash can I guess, for the long run littering the street can be better option (can maybe push city to increase fines etc for this kind of advertisement)
The quite detailed root cause (technical and even economical) was already known after the first crash.

So if that's "capitalism" working that it needed a second one, I actually don't like "capitalism" very much.
The documentary was Romanian and unfortunately doesn't have English subs. The name escapes me right now...
On 42K/yr pre (crazy) tax? Tell me more about how that works.
I don't think it should be assumed that less time at work is necessarily preferable. What will people do with all their additional spare time? Sure, they might spend their days learning art, history, philosophy. They might take up writing poetry, painting or learning the piano. Or, they might vegetate in front of the TV, take up drinking as a hobby, argue with strangers online and slowly decay into existential nihilism.

The devil will make work for idle hands.
1) something being legal, is not the same as being a reputational risk. If you get a reputation of quitting your job with no notice, well generally that's totally legal, but it will eventually get harder to get a job, all else being equal. However...
2) I think everyone knows that Softbank just had a very hard time, so I think this is both understandable (if things calm down for them then a year from now no one will hold this against t hem), and also the least of their worries (if I were looking for VC's right now, Softbank would not be at the top of my list regardless of whether I had heard this or not).
Interest rates were substantially higher prior to the 2000 and 20008 bear markets though.
The number of hours you volunteer to put into working for yourself is, frankly, completely irrelevant to the issue of hours demanded by a boss from their employees, who surely have things in their life they'd rather be doing with their time. Using the former as a way to argue that the latter should be kept high is an uncharitable mentality.
It makes sense for the local optimisation of the individual to go for the walmart society - after all their single choice won't make a difference to anything other than their bottom line

It makes sense for people as a whole to optimise as a society and have the locally produced society

That's where we can choose an economic system that ensures that we optimise in general rather than individually, so we avoid the prisoner's dilemma type problems.
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