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Hello guys,

I don't know if it's right place to ask this, but do you guys have any other resources that I can learn how to write great essays.

Because I have started to write essays at our startups blog which is called www.jooseph.com . It is basically playlists for learning. This resources would be really helpful for me to create a list for how to write great essay and also teach myself to how write great essays. Thanks in advance
Are you watching projects like Janet language? For me, JVM is a nonstarter in any capacity, but I welcome that PLT circles are learning from Clojure's design choices and that other lisps are increasingly feasible.

It's not clojure, but it's clojure-ish enough that it can be pleasantly productive for little scripting tasks and smaller problems.
Not in the circles I run in. If somebody said that in a meeting it would be so weird I'd probably question it because, and particularly in our environment, I'm pretty sure it would confuse everyone.
Integrapp?

I'll stick to coding maybe ...
>As per my last email

As a native English speaker, if I encounter this phrase I take it to suggest I am not paying attention.
> "Defecator, may everything turn out okay so that you can leave this place"

I guess they had shit-bandits back then too.
Strong disagree there. Sure, quality varies. I thought "The Two Kinds of Moderate", which is very recent, was excellent.
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This has been happening since women went to work after WWII. When you double the size of the workforce and keep the population the same, you will have a productivity boom at first, but then eventually things will come back into equilibrium and the cost of labour is half (since the availability of workers is double) of what it used to be. Looking at history in the macro this is exactly what happened: economic boom in 50's, followed by gradual decrease in labour wages starting from the 70's until today.

I'm not disparaging women working, I'm just saying wage stagnation is an unforeseen side effect. If 1 of every working couple decided to stop working, our economy would crash, but wage rates would increase dramatically.
Start?

You already have to disconnect form the network to be able to use the "offline account" option in the installer (last I checked, which was like a couple of months ago).

So this has been going on for a while.

Edit (merge the other comment I deleted):

To clarify, this was a Home Edition. I understand that the Pro edition doesn't behave this way.
The quote about DNS seems wrong to me

""Consider a situation where I can view DNS traffic (e.g. company network), and I send a link to the company health portal, with #:~:text=cancer," he wrote. "On certain page layouts, I might be able [to] tell if the employee has cancer by looking for lower-on-the-page resources being requested.""

I thought DNS requests just get the domain, not the hash and not even the page requested.

But lets play along. How would sending a link tell you anything apart from if a user clicked said link? How would links to existing anchors example.com#h3-subtitle be any different?
It's not explicitly mentioned in the article, but the fact that presumably installing from the same disc will somehow produce different behaviour at different times (is it phoning home during the install, to decide what to do?) is rather disturbing.
Sure, I agree, but Thiel hardly needs the money from a self-help book. He seems to have chosen the book format in order to access the market that you described, though I feel like he’s smart enough to have put out a more significant product. IIRC he went on an interview tour promoting the book, so I think it was mostly to get his ideas out there.

In any case, it’s actually just an edited collection of lecture notes from his class on startups. Thus the length and repetitiveness. That’s fine and I wouldn’t expect an undergraduate course to deliver some radical new brilliant theory, but some people have certainly received it that way...
Check out https://www.themattressunderground.com/. It is a site for people who nerd out on mattress construction going so far as to assemble their own from layers, but their forum has a user curated list of small local manufacturers for almost every metropolitan area. The smaller manufacturers are not necessarily cheap, but the good ones do a better job of using higher quality materials and understanding your specific needs.
If nobody knows what is required to get 70% correct and their expectation (based on past experiences) is at 10%, then if they want to succeed, they'll work as hard as they can regardless.

Maybe the test is extremely long and challenging and basically no one will even score 50%.

That is actually the reality of capitalism. Basically no one becomes a billionaire and almost none of them could have planned for it.

You don't need to keep multimillionaires working; after a certain point, they add no new value. Just look at Facebook, after Mark Zuckerberg became billionaire, it was all negative-sum games. It would have been better if he had just retired to Hawaii and let someone else have a go. Why keep the guy under this illusion that he is still playing a fair game? He is not playing the same game as he was playing when he was in his Harvard dorm room... And even that game was way easier than the game that 99.9% of people alive today are actually playing.
Inbound shipping is definitely part of cogs for every company I’ve been part of, but agree on to customer shipping, returns and hosting.
They've already started. We've been replacing Dell laptops at work these past couple months and it was nearly impossible to fully boot Windows without signing in via a Microsoft account. The whole process just felt ridiculous, especially on a computer clearly intended for a business.
> All it takes is one expensive long-lasting serious illness and they'll be out on the street with the other people who "made poor choices."

You declare bankruptcy, your assets are divided up among your creditors and you start over again. That's why bankruptcy exists. Several (most?) states even let one keep one's home. Maybe we need a law to prevent landlords from refusing to let based on prior bankruptcy — would have to think that through. Bankruptcy is not (or at least should not be) the end of the world.
Why is it called "Chez" scheme?
Not a physicist, but I thought it seemed fishy as well. I’m curious how they plan to sustain a reaction, since their setup didn’t seem to be useful for more than a single shot…
Its true. But still, hating on bilionaires is just ineffecient
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Just a minor correction. The ex-date is not necessarily the date it is paid. It is the day after holders of the security are entitled to the dividend. The actual pay date comes later. The important thing is that the price of the security adjusts on the ex-date because the money has now been allocated.
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No you don't : source just set up a dozen win10 PCs
You want to read Umberto Eco's seminal "How to write a thesis". Not quite the same as an essay. But it does contain tons of good stuff on writing.
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Now that’s science
Sorry if I was unclear. By “mathematical” I meant looking for an underlying rule, a universal applicable to all particulars - which is essentially what the original essay is looking for.

Borges absolutely was extremely specific and analytical, but that’s not what I meant.
The install experience is so much cleaner if you don't let it near a network.
There are some issues with the HTML as well: https://twitter.com/simevidas/status/1230846370543755264.
As a bonus it produces helium, which we've been running low on right? Break out the party balloons!
No, you don’t. Local installs are the smallest option on the screen, but they’re still an option.
What a clickbait title. That's not what the word "bullying" means. Microsoft is nudging people, maybe forcing them. But definitely not bullying...
I've slept on a 150 dollar Ikea for years and I've slept on a leesa. Maybe these conspiracy theories are true, but the Leesa is much more comfortable than the cheap Ikea. Ikea also has more expensive substantial mattress options, but it looks like they approach the same price range anyway. So what's your real suggestion then? Sleep on the floor in a sleeping bag?
This language is supposed to represent a clear and discussed idea for people to implement and unify around. As soon as the clarity on the meaning is lost, yes it becomes a slimy conformist tool for passing the buck, hiding in the shade of the CEO's bird wing.

Whether or not people are awake to what these words are meant to mean, they still have an impact. Mission statements and company wide training getting you to repeat the words they wish you to say, has an impact on you.

Disrupting and breaking things gives lower rungs of the organization license (when misused) to interrupt progress and deflect technical debt. The further you get from what it is supposed to mean, it can be applied more broadly and in a less targeted fashion, undermining it's original purpose but still having an effect.

Those broad and diluted changes in behaviour that stems from these annoyingly 'untouchable' and 'business speak' words can be beneficial. Were you to need to skip the investment in making proper technically complete products and instead needed to move quickly and could tolerate accruing technical debt, then "installing" the words disruption and breaking things and other buzzwords changes how people talk to each other, how they think in English whilst at work and how they behave when they are unable to guide their own actions past or around certain words.

Railing against buzzwords isn't going to disappear them, taking them out of your conscious perception is only going to make them stronger in directing the flow of business by amplifying the effect of the new wave of words you can't say whilst everyone around you focuses on 'stupidity' instead of 'alignment' (for example). In that case building large systems with less technical debt and more single-purpose easy-to-maintain pieces is much easier when you don't care how 'disruptive' people are and instead care when they are stupid enough to introduce technical debt.

Another day, another past set of cultural tools erased and new ones installed. Say hi to the new boss, same as the old one. It's amazing watching the internet and culture at large walk in conformist lockstep.
I'm based in the UK. This has been going on for a good while outside the US. Back in mid November last year I struggled to get past the requirement to create an online account when rebuilding a friend's laptop after a hard disk failure.

I scratched my head for a good bit thinking that I'd missed the old pathway that let you skip the online account step, but it turned out that the installer's behaviour had actually been altered.

After some more dome scratching I eventually discovering that disabling the built-in wifi module (no wired LAN connection was made) caused the installer to let me create a local account instead.

Quite bloody annoying.

Footnote: this was an install from a bootable USB stick where I'd "burned" the full Windows 10 ISO image.
> First milestone is demonstrating the reactions, which should be easy.

They haven’t even demonstrated the reaction? What’s all the talk about results being “billions” of times better than expected?
The Hydrogen Boron reaction is real and well-known to be a way to do fusion without lots of stray neutrons. The sticking point has always been that it's more difficult to cause that reaction than deuterium/tritium or deuterium/deuterium.
In "But I think we can aim...", "but" is a conjunction, not a preposition

Also, his writing is fine: simple but clear and effective.

"Many of his sentences are phrases" — literally every sentence in this essay is a complete sentence. What are you talking about?
> it removed abilities to administrate the OS in a meaningful way

What do you mean by that? I moved last year from macOS to Windows 10 for my personal machine, and I don't see what administrative features I could be missing.
Production costs may be liw, but you have to factor returns into the equation. It is very misleading to judge only by production costs. Not saying it is not a racket, but would need more input.
Good luck to their marketing and sales team. It's gonna be a fun game to convince people to do so when you have perfectly equivalent and usable, totally free, and now cute open source OS/distros.

People started to sell TAILS on usb keys for $10, if someone packs Linux Mint, eOS or similar for $5 .. in a web app world, linux + firefox is probably invisible to the average user.
> Microsoft is nudging people, maybe forcing them.

Right, and the bigger student in the cafeteria was just nudging people, sometimes forcing them, to give up their lunch money.
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Oh. I misunderstood. In that case, we agree.
Looked into NIT a little, and as I understand it, it could basically be a linear function where Y=0 when X (income) is, for the sake of example, $40,000 yearly. Then anyone over that pays increasing income tax while anyone below receives increasing amount of money from the government instead?

Apart from whether linear actually makes sense or not in the real world.
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Just as bad is forcing you to set up a pin number on top of your password in order to log in. It wouldn't let me not pick a pin during a recent installation so I had to set one up, finish installing and then remove it in the settings somewhere. Very odd. I don't even mind it being offered as an option, maybe some people prefer an alphanumeric pin...
"Escorts" is a term for high-end sex workers.
The author isn’t using a basket of goods approach because he’s not even attempting to keep the basket the same. The author isn’t looking at what it costs to “provide middle class security” he is looking at what people actually spend.
The personal hosting the meeting thinks it's not useless, so flatly disagreeing without a rationale is useless.
This is neat. Set your locale to English for parsers to work:

LANG=en jc df
Surely not the enterprise and server version?
Seriously wanted to, but most recent reviews in Amazon many said after a couple years it's unusable :(
Wow, nano has come a long way from when it was yet another pico (or at least that's how we used it in uni, clearly there's more to it).

Also vi being POSIX is awesome, I didn't know that! :)
I believe many unions of film-making workers demands its members’ names to be always followed by the group’s names zero exceptions, to protect itself and their rights.

Show businesses was/is one of industries that unions worked.
“ This cascading avalanche of reactions is an essential step toward the ultimate goal: reaping far more energy from the reaction than you put in. The extraordinary early results lead HB11 to believe the company "stands a high chance of reaching the goal of net energy gain well ahead of other groups."

Its a great read, but it sounds like its still a net energy loss.. one more brick on the road though.
>At its peak, Bulgaria supplied 40% of the computers in COMECON. The electronics industry employed 300,000 workers, and it generated 8 billion rubles a year. [0]

That's on top of a population of just under 9 million and a working age population of 6 million [1], so 5% of the workforce was involved in the production of computer hardware alone.

It seems there was a very large bet on the computer industry from the communist party. Jumping around wikipedia [2] it also seems that pretty much all the computers were clones of western computers and several years behind the west in terms of technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_i...

[1] https://www.populationpyramid.net/bulgaria/1985/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_i...
Which distribution of Windows 10? I'm thinking it's only the Home version.

I just setup Windows 10 Pro for my brother in-law yesterday and had no problem choosing a local account.
Indeed. The biquadratics aren't particularly smooth, and don't support inflections naturally. See https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2018/12/21/new-spline.htm... for more on this.
I think even malicious dictators are OK. They don't last forever and they give the system a good cleanup.
They're already there. The ThinkPad I bought in December didn't have the local account option available.

It's currently in "trick the user" mode: it has you connect to wifi to download the latest security updates, then remembers the network and automatically tries to have you create an account a step or two later.

I avoided it by rebooting, going into the bios, disabling wifi, and then resuming setup - only when it couldn't connect would it allow a local account. Just rebooting to restart initial setup doesn't work, it remembers the network.
Take an example with only two fireflies. Their clocks won't be at the same point at first, of course.

So one lights up... and the instinct is for the other firefly to try and light up at the same time. How?

Since it was going to light up later than the first fly, it shortens its cycle a little bit and lights up a little sooner.

Repeat that cycle a few times and soon enough, the second fly has 'caught up' and is flashing when the first one does.

Add more fireflies, and its just more of the same. When a nearby firefly lights up, the ones close by speed up a little. Eventually, they all converge on the 'fastest' time.
It was bought on credit, so I had no oop costs for the trial. I was having sleeping problems and wanted something that would unreservedly improve my rest. It did improve it, which, as anyone who's gone an extended period sleep-deprived will tell you, skews your feelings a bit. However, it didn't solve all of my problems, which meant I couldn't justify going into debt for it. Put another way: if I'm going to spend $2k on a mattress, the enhanced sleep quality should at least net me $1k+ in productivity gains. I wasn't seeing that, so it had to go back.

Worst-case scenario was that I didn't like any of the replacements and just purchased a new unit later, preferably at a discount. So it just made sense.
The web version [0] does not work for me. It shows a blank page. Browser is Firefox 68.5.0esr (64-bit).

This is the error I get:

"SyntaxError: invalid regexp group index.46eed2a4.js:1:1"

[0] https://app.learnobit.com/
tldr; Among mainstream OSs I'm most happy with Windows today

For the last few years I've been using Windows 10 rather than macOS. In general Windows seems mid-to-long-term more stable than macOS. But maybe that's because I'm used to treating macOS like a nicer Linux while they've been locking down many Linux-like abilities (kernel modules, tracing/debugging, etc). But there's also been the macOS filesystem and permissions model changes that have made upgrading a pain.

I do have a Microsoft account but I don't do anything with it. I don't use any Microsoft products that are not included in the base install. I tried Hyper-V for a while but it was painful to configure so I've been using VMWare with more success.

Generally speaking, it seems like Microsoft is looking further than a year from now -- getting design and quality right compared to macOS which no longer seems to have any particular direction. It's not just in their software; I've been seriously impressed by build quality and pricing on the Surface line of tablets and laptops. I actually mistook a Surface book for a 2015 macbook pro. In contrast, I really don't want to gamble with post-2015 Apple hardware.

And although I do a lot of development on my laptop, I'm trying to move to developing in the cloud or a home-server because compiling kills my battery. Windows enables this use-case fine. To be fair, macOS would too.

I haven't had any issues with unwanted ads. The only ads I'm aware of are the lock-screen backgrounds that show different places around the world... I don't really consider them an ad though.
What makes it worse is when their account set up is broken. For an interview yesterday, I attempted to install and get an account for Skype. The back end broke, and when I tried to do create a general Microsoft account to confirm it was the back end, I was banned from using my email because of "suspicious activity".

To make it more fun, their "Technical Support" chat failed as well, so I was unable to get a human to even talk through this.

That would be even worse if that prevented me from installing or using Windows.
> Sometimes it means telling them something they knew unconsciously but had never put into words. In fact those may be the more valuable insights, because they tend to be more fundamental.

I now know what I subconsciously already knew. I like readings that are Useful
Hmm... since Javascript does everything nowadays, including reading and rendering PDF files which can be binary, I suppose writing a program to decode QTVR files is possible.

How about a VRML parser and renderer? Haha, the 90's is calling... http://www.agocg.ac.uk/train/vrml2rep/part1/guide3.htm
I last installed Win10 a few months ago and it was not, until I unplugged the Ethernet cable and went back a couple steps to get it to re-assess things.
Google is scaring Microsoft Edge users with security warning
When my work computer just used a MS account I had 0 issues, when i was forced to put it on the domain and have an AD account etc I have had nothing but issues. Intrusive sys-admins are more annoying these days trying to control and lock things down in a more connected world.
Hmm, what about letting another car in front of you? I think trying to solve this with pure data will end up like the chat bots that seem real for two sentences and then fail disastrously when you try to actually converse.
It would be awesome to know what experiments they've done, or if this is all simulation
Why do see a need to conflate both things? Microsoft forcing users to use an online account is already quite bad. No need to change the definition of what bullying is to communicate that message.
What did bankers do before Liars Poker? If Liars poker didn't reflect reality, why did he write it?
For me, the browser has way more baggage as a runtime than Java ever could. I've only ever found working on top of the JVM a massive boon, and I don't feel at any point I've had to have a deep understanding of different garbage collectors etc. The most complicated thing I've ever needed to do is increase the maximum heap size. In exchange for that I get access to an enormous ecosystem of industrial strength code for free.
For example pretty much everything regarding update settings. You get mandatory diagnostic information in exchange. Really bad deal.
Of course it works on chrome ... Do people not test their apps on firefox anymore?
This reads like a type of ICF which normally has a stream of pellets being fed in after the initial pellet has reached a hot enough temperature to sustain the fusion reaction.
All fusion produces helium, though. I don't think anyone is looking into fusing heavier atoms.
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The current government had a massive banking drive where it almost forced the rural poor to open bank accounts. This was followed by demonetization of currency notes, which, as harmful as it was to the economy, "normalized" the idea of transacting digitally.

A bulk of transactions still happen via cash but digital payments, especially UPI, are seeing increasingly wider adoption. There has been a lot of innovation in this space just to make customer-merchant transactions easier.

For example, this product from PayTM basically acts as a confirmation box for UPI transactions.

https://business.paytm.com/blog/introducing-paytm-sound-box-...

Something like this reduces the trust deficit in rural areas about digital banking products.

It's going to take a long while, but technologically, it's a solved problem. I can't see any utility that crypto brings to the table except for decentralization which most consumers don't care about anyway.