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I think his points are valid. Speaking as someone who has spent the past 18 months doing my own thing.

> I also work full-time remotely. I built a community around myself, made new friends and regularly hang out with people I met at coffee shops, at startup meetups, old classmates, ex-coworkers (that may also be fully remote), etc. I hear it a lot, but this argument honestly falls flat on its face as long as you're not a weird hermit that only works from your house. In fact, that main reason I wanted to work remotely is because I get to meet people (particularly women, as I'm getting to an age where marriage is starting to become a priority) that I'm more interested in than in the myopic circles that are commonplace at large tech companies.

It shouldn't be controversial that if you decide upon a path in life where 8 hours of it you spend by yourself, you're going to meet less people than if you were working in a team at a company. Also, some people do not live in the same place they went to school and/or university for example (unlike you).

> Yes. Because it gives you the freedom to do whatever you want. And freedom is fun. I mean, passive income is basically free money -- I'm not sure I'm getting what author is saying here.

If you want to make money, you cannot do whatever you want, you have to do what earns you money. And sometimes what makes money is not what is fun.

> I don't see how working for your own business could ever become "just another job" -- you're acutely invested in the venture, your strategic decisions guide it's success (or failure). Working for a corporation is the definition of "autopilot" for most above-average employees (engineers or otherwise). This could not be more different when doing your own thing.

Passion can dissipate. Doubts will set in as you question yourself whether it's all really worth it. If you want to make money you will inevitably have to start doing things which you would rather not do (because you would rather do something else), and that's when you start to question the whole project, because if success is in doubt then why spend your time doing stuff you don't enjoy if you have the freedom to do something else [which is fun]?

That all sounds quite negative, so let me balance it out by saying I really enjoyed working autonomously, but if trying to create a business with a product I would definitely aim to do it with a cofounder or two. Consulting by oneself is fine though.
We should be getting rid of the notion of housing as a commodity. Pricing/rewarding building housing based on how well it houses people, unifying the tax credits for housing (that disproportionately go to the wealthy), building and maintaining public housing (without requiring it to be revenue neutral), rent control, increased tenant protects, and right of first refusal for tenants/tenant coops when a property sells.
Faster at populating the date grid? Or just a snappier UI in general?
The median home value in Riverside is $400,000. The US median home value is $250,000.
I used to use Hipmunk, but at this point, I’ve built up a lot of airline loyalty and often find booking directly with the carrier or through a credit card portal (if I’m using points) for personal travel gives me the best fare. All my business travel has to go through Concur anyway, so search tools like Hipmunk and Kayak don’t matter, no matter how nice the interface.

When I didn’t fly all the time, I didn’t care about loyalty. But I did 160,000 actual airline miles (far more FF miles earned) last year (most of them on one alliance, but enough to get lowest tier status on two others) last year and at this point, I’ll pay extra for Delta because I get auto-upgraded to Comfort+ at booking, I have a very good baggage allowance regardless of service class (assuming I’m main cabin and not basic economy, which I wouldn’t do anyway), I have a lounge membership, and I get frequent upgrades. At that point, my comfort and those benefits are way more important than saving a few dollars across airlines.

And that’s the problem with these types of services, I think. They cater to the occasional traveler who doesn’t travel enough to make a profit (unless you’re Google and you own the software everyone else has to license), whereas the frequent travelers are either booking through corporate tools or directly with one airline because they have loyalty — or both.

Catering to then majority of flyers who fly once a year, when margins are what they are on flights, is a tough business. It is interesting that Hipmunk's parent company got a piece of my $60k in travel last year (most of that was work, maybe $2500 was personal), because that’s where your percentages can matter.
Makes me wonder what kind of spine and RSI issues that generation will have in 20 years
> Blocking ad tracking means breaking the web.

So, this monster is "too big to fail"? All the more reason to kill it now before it gets even worse.
I wasn't conflating anything! I would be perfectly happy if all forms of advertising went away, targeted or otherwise. This wasn't a conversation about the reasons advertising was bad. I was just commenting that I don't think the internet would break if publishers stopped making money through advertising.
My bank cashed a check against my account where:

1. the payer name was not mine

2. the payer address was not mine (and was in another state)

3. the signature was that of another person

4. the checks were not issued by my bank

Jeez.
> Even "writing" was heavily criticized over memorization and oral story telling.

do you have articles to read about that ?
If it helps, remember that paradoxically the better you're doing the blunter the criticism will be. If this were some fledgling little podcast run by a nobody, it would feel cruel to criticise too harshly. But this is the freakin' Lex Fridman AI podcast, the untouchable juggernaut at the top of its game. What could I say that could possibly hurt something (and someone) so successful?

Of course, I'm sure you don't feel untouchable, but maybe there is a certain cold comfort in knowing that inconsiderate criticism is a hallmark of becoming an institution. Keep up the good work, man.
Because they don’t have real competition and what it does do (corporate travel management) it actually does well (in the backend). It’s front end and mobile app are pretty shit, however.

It does have some competition when it comes to expenses: Expensify, Netsuite, Salesforce and homegrown stuff come into mind.
First I thought, this can't be right, DOS didn't have multitasking. But then again, a DOS program adding a timer interrupt could have hogged enough CPU I guess.
If all the cars come out on the same day of the year, it doesn't matter if it's only once a year, the roads have to be ready for it.
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You mean you liked the criteria by which Hipmunk sorted flights, e.g., by accounting for layover time rather than just by price? If so, not that Kayak has a "Best" sort (which didn't exist when Hipmunk appeared) that's now the default.
Murdoch could’ve spiked the Theranos story that led to its collapse and cost him millions, but he didn’t.
On the other hand, this suggests there are low-hanging fruit in those areas.

The trick is to find one that will produce money for you as a researcher/investor even if it's an unpopular opinion (i.e. not reliant on investment / cooperation from mainstream players).

Suggestions?

Related, what's the best way to short cancel-culture-heavy endeavors? Seems like it predicts a much higher chance of failure in the long term.
> The US has had plenty of moral lapses in its military adventures, but one suspects that the powers of the past 500 years would have been far more willing to obliterate entire nations without concern for civilians.

Simply not true. There was a reason why european wars were fought in the fields and not in cities/population centers in the past. Also, past powers tended to conquer nations/cities in order to subjugate the population for exploitation. After all, humans were valuable resources back then. It is very rare that a military/government/nation would simply choose to exterminate the inhabitants of a continent ( 100 or so native nations that were wiped out ) or set entire cities full of civilians ablaze ( dresden, tokyo ) and nuke two civilian cities ( hiroshima, nagasaki ).

Pretty much the US and our side kick britain are the only ones to be guilty of the first two. We are still the only ones guilty of the 3rd.

But precedents being set, your assertion is likely to be truer in the future. I suspect that in the next 500 years, powers would be more willing to obliterate entire nations without concern for civilians, especially if technology and automation make humans a less valuable commodity.
If you find that necessary, feel free to do that, but do it as a conscious choice.

I've worked in datacenters that hosted VPS providers, that had Verizon and Centurylink/L3 as their cross connects. Here's a nice list of Tier1 internet providers, these guys are going to do the bulk of transit for most data centers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network#List_of_Tier_1_...

There's still going to be direct connect at the various peering points, so in this case, you'll get a direct connect from your provider to say google, but that's already in a TLS connection and google already has your IP address or probably your specific street address as does your VPN provider. So I'm not sure what the point is. You'll get the same thing for amazon and netfilx and facebook but again, all TLS and I don't know that you're gaining much since you've already got a positive ID on you with the tracking these days. If, in fact, they don't have a positive id, They'll have one pretty quickly and perhaps tag you to a VPN IP which they will know is a VPN because the positive tracking has matched you with your CC and your real address as well as all the other people connecting through said VPN from geographically disparate locations. Basically if you sign into a single account over your VPN, then the cats out of the back and if you don't then the cat is PROBABLY out of the bag.

I check out these VPS providers that pop up here and there but there's never a mention of their transit, they are just using whatever the datacenter has, and most of them have the same backbone providers as the last mile. So, while this may be necessary for some people, You'll often see people make this decision thinking it grants the privacy when it doesn't really change that part of their situation.

I think it can be a dangerous part of discussion since it's not clear to most people what's actually happening.
The scientific method deplatforms. It is skeptical. It is observational. It is experimental. It refines and eliminates failed hypotheses. It is not fair to all viewpoints.

For example, the scientific method deplatformed geocentrism.
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Its available in ports and works fine https://www.freshports.org/net/wireguard/
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Neither does BB'98
Sure. Just saying that the BEAM lends itself to parallelism rather excellently. Conceptually you are correct but in practice -- in the BEAM at least -- those ideas can be converged.
Yeah but climate science is complicated by the fact that it is overwhelmingly political.

You could say the same thing about geocentrism, germs [1], fat vs sugars, etc. - which all turned out to be false, given time and scrutiny.

Scientists have to learn the science to understand it, and that means encountering it from all perspectives. As new generations of people learn, they all have to go through it all again.

To not do so is to promote faith, not science.

Plus if denialism is wrong, then there should be nothing to worry about anyway. Assuming scientists are scientific, they will consider it, consider other evidence, and come to the correct conclusion.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/532074/how-promoting-han...
Is PostScript used beyond page description? I'm really curious :)
Serialized novels did.
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> I know what most people’s heuristics is when they face this uncertainty: think about ten years from now and figure out where you want to be. And do the thing now that gives you more options to get there. I wish it was as simple as most people claim. Looking back to the twenty-year-old me and the person I’ve now become, I see almost no similarities, interests, or passion. I was a completely different person back then and the only thing that has stuck with me after all these years is my love of soccer. How do people predict the future? Clearly, I’m no good at it.

This is actually the primary focus of a book I just read [1]. The author's primary thesis in this book is that that there are some very interesting reasons why we completely suck at imagining what a future life will be like.

This isn't really a book recommendation - the author took a single idea and chewed it in 20 different ways to make a larger book. However, if this is something you are struggling with right now, you might benefit from it a little.

[1] Stumbling on happiness - https://www.amazon.com/Stumbling-Happiness-Daniel-Gilbert/dp...
>A mind like Orson Welles will never be compelled to make the Citizen Kane of games.

How would you know something like that?
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I'm curious: is the "skill" per device? Or does being decent on the PC spell death for any chances when I switch to my phone?
From a UX perspective there's one great service that the banks provide and that is identity managament.

In my opinion this is the main reason why things like cryptocurrencies have not taken off, and that is because their identity & fraud management truly sucks.

There's no person to talk to when you loose your access keys or forget a pin/password.

It's extremely hard to automate all that purely in software, and the very few that have succeeded in managing it(i.e. apple & google) have leveraged their hardware infrastructure plus partnerships with telecom providers and all their physical braches.

Yes old-school banks are inconvenient, can be hell to deal with, however it's very hard to scale fraud when you need to physically show up in person at a branch and I feel like this factor is very underappreciated.
Fun to see this, I just finished implementing a stack-based language of my own design this weekend.

The language is called UnoScript, inspired by the UNO card game. UNO has a natural stack built-in (thinking of the draw and discard piles) so there's a really natural connection. Link here if you're curious: https://github.com/berlinquin/UnoScript
Absolutely. It's impossible to bring yourself to take risks and leave your comfort zone if the outside world is a terrifying and malicious place.
So now if you lose your phone you also lose your wallet and are really screwed. It’s better to hedge your risk and keep important stufd in different places. It might increase the chance of losing something but mitigates the risk of losing everything. I think most people would prefer to mitigate the big risk instead of the small ones.
This is serious nonsense! Julia is way nicer than Python. If Python was faster than Julia, I would still have picked Julia, unless I really needed the performance.

With Julia I get first class meta programming. I get awesome multiple dispatch. I get environments and package system really well integrated. I get awesome integration with the shell. Better module system. More natural syntax for arrays. Much better system for closures. Better named functions.

REPL programming in Julia is just light years ahead of anything in Python. The OOP design of Python really kills the REPL experience.

Unless you are a very skilled C++ programmer, Julia is going to outperform you as the program gets larger. C++ programmers are going to get themselves tangled up when trying to run multi-threaded code, running on multiple machines on GPUs and specialized hardware. Julia does this effortlessly.

C++ cannot do JIT, hence as soon as you deal with complicated machine learning algorithms with custom kernels, C++ is going to tie itself into a knot.

Why do you think large Astronomy projects like Celeste and the next major climate models are built in Julia and not C++? Because developers realized that when you need to run massive calculations on super computers on hundreds of thousands of cores, C++ is going to get in the way.

As for libraries and tools. All the Python tools I have tried to match my Julia tools have just sucked. Julia tools often excel over much older Python tools.

Library development moves much faster on Julia than Python. It is not hamstrung by relying on complicated C++ code based. Also Julia libraries integrate very well, while Python libraries are often their own deserted island. That means a few Julia libraries can do what must be accomplished with dozens of Python libraries.
They and Expedia/Priceline were super super early into the game
People have been saying this same shit for a decade and yet here we are in 2020 and still "the legacy manufacturers will be catching up ANY DAY NOW, just need a LITTLE more time."
> can't track the effectiveness of TV, radio, and newspaper ads

Sure you can. "Use check-out code 'newspaper1' to get 5% off any purcahse!" or something.
"and I know that working alone can make you lonely. ... If I work on my own business alone, I won’t have co-workers until I hire them."

In 1999ish I was approached by two chaps that I worked with and one of whom I worked for (he was my boss.) Would I fancy being the Managing Director of a new company thing they'd dreamed up? Nothing too grand, first customer was where we worked already etc etc. Times have changed a bit now and we have some customers that most people in the UK have heard of.

Our triumvirate has worked out really well over the years. We will never set the world on fire but our little business keeps us and our 20 odd staff pretty comfortable. Three directors has worked out very well for us. Two stops one being a twat for example!

My advice is that you might consider finding and attracting a few allies but you must position them carefully. Fill in the bits that you are shit at. For example, if you can't be arsed with accounts then get someone in who will and pay them properly with shares if they are an early appointment and you can't give them readies now.
One of my guilty pleasures is finding someone on the web saying something foolish and engaging them in debate. Rather than cancel these guys, wouldn't it be better to have a few well-prepared opponents attend and do the same? (Isn't that how science is supposed to work?)
Are networking effects a product or a feature?
This exact scenario happened in Hawaii, a small regional market for local (inter-island) flights. There were 2 airlines (Hawaiian and Aloha) competing on price and service, but it was essentially a duopoly with moderate and almost identical prices. Then both started expanding their routes to the mainland US, got overextended when the next downturn hit and declared bankruptcy one after the other (they kept flying at the same prices while restructuring). One potential acquirer was Mesa Air, but they only looked at the books and started a 3rd competing airline (called Go) with $5 fares. So they started a price war, and Aloha never recovered and shut down (as they probably intended), but Go had only small jets and somehow Hawaiian kept them away from the good gates, so nobody liked them at the regular price. Now only Hawaiian is left, but at 50-100% more of the old equilibrium price. An archipelago like Hawaii needs air connections, but with too many players or too much price war, it's not sustainable.
> Plus if denialism is wrong, then there should be nothing to worry about anyway.

I don't follow the logic of that. If denialism is wrong, but it's influencing society and policy, how is that not something to worry about?
A broken or missing keyfob likely won't even impact a vehicle's trade-in value. The vehicle will go to auction, and it will be sold by an independent dealer with one set of keys, or they'll pick up a used keyfob on a secondary market for $50 and re-pair the set.
Bill Gates Urges Lawmakers to Raise Taxes on America’s Billionaires
Should say "Carriers". 'Coz all the carriers they tried did.
> Do you really think a PS5 game will be that much more enjoyable than a PS2 game

Can be, absolutely.

I played Read Dead Redemption 2 last year. There's a wild west cowboy outlaw game in there somewhere with a storyline that you can finish, but what completely blew my mind is how stunningly beautiful it is, how beautiful the world you're riding around in is, and how ugly human encroachment on nature is. Because as time progresses in the game, the frontier moves a little bit further, more trees are felled, more clearings made, more houses built, more railway tracks are laid, more humans, more civilization, more stinking cities.

You absolutely could not make a game like that on a PS2. You need a 4K screen and hi-res textures and HDR lighting to really make the world pretty, to really make you care about that world.

I played Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Switch as well. It's also an open-world game, and because it has infinite draw distance, they've managed to craft a world where no matter where you stand, you can see something interesting in the distance. I have never played a game that made me be so excited to explore and to get sidetracked as that game. The actual gameplay is also expertly bite-sized, so it doesn't matter if you play for 15 minutes or 15 hours, you still have the same sense of progression.

You absolutely could not make a game like that on a GameCube. You need hardware enough to do a seamless open world with infinite draw distance and no loading screens, otherwise the experience just doesn't work, just wouldn't be able to show you all it has to offer all at once.
Na.. gaming is intensive.

Sometimes I just want to sit back, relax, let my brain go to zombie mode after work :P

Not decide, and clicky stuff
Abstract:

Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to ask if our inability to effectively address mass surveillance constitutes a failure of our field. I believe that it does. I call for a community-wide effort to develop more effective means to resist mass surveillance. I plead for a reinvention of our disciplinary culture to attend not only to puzzles and math, but, also, to the societal implications of our work.
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For me it's because google flights is more responsive and faster with search results compared to kayak.
> this is exactly the kind of traditionally left leaning activism

> ensuring pursuit of severely one sided science for decades

More like a government level effort, not some random left leaning activism infesting science. So this is the social and economic policy they want.
Teleport often pops up in my search for replacing a home built rbac system that powers 30k machines.
Must say it rings some warning bells when there no price info available, not sure I would even want to know.
Thanks for this opinion, was wondering how the GP was able to justify such a corporate-philic line of thinking
Russians hacked Ukrainian firm linked to the impeachment inquiry