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Thank you for the decent explanation. You are certainly correct in your assesment. However, I was commenting on Andreesen's caricature of voters 'on the right'. While true that most voters support regulation, right-leaning voters are more likely not to support much at all, so they are entirely self consistent. When restricting yourself to only one 'side', then it's quite misleading to claim that right-leaning voters are siding with the kinds of people who enable regulatory capture.

Your explanation explains why regulatory capture may arise out of an interplay between right-leaning politicians and their constituents. Regulatory capture in your view arises when right-leaning politicians succumb to voters (not necessarily right-leaning ones) desire for regulation. However, this is an emergent phenomenon, not a tenet of right-leaning thought.
Source was the article on the HN homepage yesterday, I thought most have seen it, but for those who missed it, here it is.

* Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

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I've said multiple times now that I think the ACLU did the right thing in the Skokie case. I don't know why you keep thinking I want a "political-driven legal group" (nor why you imply the defense of civil rights isn't "political").
The borders have all but shutdown, preventing migrant workers from working on the farms

H-2A workers in the country are being extended. There are over 250K legal H-2A Visa holders alone.
The difference is that it doesn't play well with large parts of the existing Python ecosystem. Concurrency is a pain if you are writing a library or trying to integrate with existing code. Python async is powerful, but:

(1) it's undersupported (e.g. you can in theory download s3 files using async botocore, but in practice it is hard to use because of strict botocore version dependencies)

(2) it isn't natural - once you're in the event loop it makes sense, but using an event loop alongside normal python code is confusing at best.

(3) it got introduced too late. The best async primitives are only available in pretty recent versions of python3.

The difference with go is that it go has these primitives built in from the beginning and using them doesn't introduce interoperability problems.
There seems to be a lot more cronyism in governments that don't do a lot of useful things. I'm sure there's favoritism in South Korea but at the same time their industrial policy is first rate.
Those people protesting don't go to protest parties every weekend. It's not a substitute for sportsball. The fact that they don't usually protest is a clue that they're not actually doing whatever they want.

With a little empathy, that behavior makes sense. They'd rather take what they consider an indefinite but small risk of dying to gather in protest instead of taking a definite looming risk of losing everything, failing their families, and losing all self-respect.

But I understand that many people here haven't thought about that. And the news doesn't present it that way.
It's scary to me that our country is being manipulated.

Covid19 does not need to be politicalize. We're in troubled times I don't believe we need people going against experts (science/doctors/etc...).
No amount of pandemics can smoosh buildings closer.
1. Isn't an infinite universe consistent with observations?

2. Yes, real numbers, much like complex numbers, were "invented". But complex numbers lay hidden, waiting to be discovered, as the algebraic closure of the reals, and similarly, the reals can be discovered from the "simpler" ideas of ordered field and Dedekind-completeness.

3. That's the weird thing about mathematics --- when you invent things, you leave a world of discoveries for others to make, and sometimes those discoveries are that your invention has inside it a perfect mirror image of another invention.

4. Once you leave classical logic, you suddenly have a lot more room for invention, because there are several competing definitions of "real number", and none is definitively better.
Mad props to this dude. As an urban dweller, mortified by my rooster’s first crow, I just grab him in the evening and stick him in a cardboard box covered with a couple of blankets in the kitchen. Crows around 9am, much more convenient and the neighbors can’t hear him before I let him back out.
Are the houses going to get closer to work and stores?
Cars in wrecks need repairs and/or replacements, both of which are taxed.
False. It's all gone by now: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/federal-governments-350b-small...

I do agree it's not enough though. Take it up with your representative.
Yes, zoom supports that.

Slight issue in Toronto has been cellular system overloading and calls not being completed. But once on, no problem.

I can’t blame the providers though. How could they have predicted that people would use the service they’re paying for?
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I have the official AMD design handbooks still with me. It's been in the basement for over 30 years. I remember calling AMD and requesting the handbooks when doing my master's in CS as my major was microprogramming. The ALU (the 2901 described here) came with a whole family of chips - essentially everything you need to make a CPU.
There are two problems: rapidly ballooning income and wealth inequality, and ladder pulling. That explains everything. Why are schools bad? Because we disproportionally fund schools for rich people's kids, and there isn't money or regulatory freedom to innovate there. Why is transportation bad? Because rich people have drivers and private jets, and there isn't money or regulatory freedom to innovate there. Etc etc etc.

Until a16z starts investing seriously in lobbying to end federal corruption, establish a far more progressive tax code (that also considers wealth) and to aggressively prosecute monopolies, I have to assume they're just greenwashing.
I’m in Munich with skyrocketing prices. And you are wrong about your halfway intelligent capitalist. You see, doing nothing will end in more money earned anyway while doing nothing. So halfway intelligent capitalist can build couple hotels elsewhere. If this halfway intelligent capitalist builds apartment building, it will generate more rent from the new building, but less in total. That is not good for him and he will not build. And zoning laws is an argument to cover ugly truth.
It looks like a note-taking app with file attachments. Are there any docs or detailed description?
Sadly, every human attempt at creating a successful system of allocating capital begins to decay as time passes.

With all respect to Andreesen, it is unlikely any of these problems will be solved before the entire post-WWII system collapses.

Climate change, sovereign debt levels, permanent-QE...

Honestly 6 months ago, even those who see doom around every corner weren't really talking about a pandemic.

The problem is, the problems are outpacing the solutions.

This here, written 16 years ago, is still true:

"Consequently, for thousands of years, uncountable coronations, revolutions, coups, appointments, elections, assassinations, and regime changes have occurred. Kings, prime ministers, princes, presidents, secretaries-general, and dictators have found themselves in and out of power. Unexpected changes have removed even powerful rulers. (See the box “Suddenly out of Power,” on page 5.) Still, competent and enduring leadership has proved elusive."

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2004800#h=5:0-7:728
Anyone know if they plan to support Presto?
Yes, this seems like a relatively fundamental flaw. Even if the confidence of these statistical tests is something like p=0.000005, throwing enough experiments onto them almost ensures you get a false positive.
Look at the unemployment rate. What else validation do you need? You can't just ask people to stay locked in their homes and assume everything would be ok.
I agree with most of the things besides 50% of infected population, in Czech 250+ branches (that's at least 5000 people) of Lidl they had only 4 confirmed infected until now, in Globus supermarket chain out of 5000 workers only 2. yes, Czechia is enforcing mandatory masks (although like 90% of population wear only cloth masks due to lack of access to medical masks and respirators) but still you would expect, if it would be that contagious through surfaces and other ways as some scare, there would be much more infected in these busiest businesses right now
$28 would work better than $29... the main point still holds.
I've had a similar experience, though I have no idea if the runners I'm seeing makes up for less activity throughout the day, gyms being closed, etc. It's possible that the 4% of people who go to the gym regularly are now running outside, and everyone else is even less active.

Also, heart disease and type-2 diabetes are years in the making, and a month of moderate exercise and better eating won't make up for it overnight. Not to mention added stress.
What if the problems we face today are harder than the problems people faced from before roughly 1980?

What if we're comparing apples to oranges when we say people in the past had more ambition? People would build an entire suburb in the 1950s without filing an Environmental Report to the EPA because didn't even exist. (An environmental report for those who do not know is a massive piece of legal documentation that shows how a prospective development will effect the natural landscape.)

Perhaps Singapore is building gleaming skyscrapers because they've taken the baton from us and have no "baggage" per se.
Also, are the people running new runners, or people who would otherwise be going to gyms?
It doesn't need to be, but if you have your own interests in mind (economic, anti-US, others?), then why not? Since the rise of mass social media we've learned it's pretty easy to mindfuck a bunch of rubes, and if you get caught, the rubes will double down because nobody's ego will ever take the hit of realizing they're the rube.
This seems like a low effort illogical argument to push an anti car agenda? Obviously the economic benefit of cars is far greater than $40M a day for CA. Everything we do involves risk, whether it is driving or flying or simply leaving the house. With risk comes the chance of injury and death. We still decide to go about our lives because there is immense benefit in that. So I don’t see why this is a problem.
Cool article! But why do you need a database _and_ a message queue? I would think a message queue is the main thing, and a database is only necessary if you want long term persistence. Or you could just use a database as a message queue.
We actually do use libc++'s test suite, which has found several bugs, but not this one (apparently because they don't yet have std::boyer_moore_searcher).
There’s 2 projects. One is my take on a code editor and the other is a minimal inventory management system and even though I can gt through with just building one for Mac and the other for just Windows. I’d still prefer going with. Cross platform approach
> People with no children will have higher time preference -- they prefer today's consumption over investment in the future.

I don't think that's required, or requires blaming antinatalism. I don't have children, but I recognize that others will, so I'm motivated to address long term problems for the sake of future lives.

There's also some cognitive dissonance in recognizing that the future world faces existential risks like climate change, but then choosing to have children (who will have to live under those risks!).
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His title is a take on Slavoy Zizek's A perverts guide to ... series. Zizek is a scholar of Lacan, and thus uses the definitions of Lacan. As this talk leans heavily on the works of Zizek in other fields it is safe to assume it uses lacanian definitions as well.
Agreed. Let's start by building a new nation. I propose we rewrite the Declaration of Independence so as to strike out the myths and update it with what science has learned since.

And let's set out with a more ambitious dream than simply providing the opportunity to have a home. A nation not explicitly designed to take care of our needs, such as housing, is inefficient by design.

Myth 1: Independence.
Reality: Interdependence and autonomy.
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I'm quite sympathetic to a lot of what's in that blog post but... A16Z directly invests gobs of capital, and, indirectly, shapes the outlook of other VCs who follow their investment decisions, and they plow way more money into software/bitcoin than physical companies. Why? Because they are really good at what they do, and they realize that building physical stuff is really hard, and they'd rather invest in areas that have better returns.

I remember during the Theranos saga, Marc Andreessen kept defending Elizabeth Holmes over and over (he deleted most of those tweets unfortunately) - yet he was smart enough to not put any of his own or A16Z's money into Theranos. Words are cheap: let's see A16Z actually lead the way into investing in physical goods before we praise them too much.
Apparently the death rate (general) in South Africa has dropped as a result of lockdown
This wasn't because of regulatory overhead, it was because they had created regional monopolies for the airlines. It's exactly like insurance (or prescription drugs, if you're thinking internationally) is now, and that industry wages a life and death fight every time that"deregulation" comes up. It's corporate welfare created by federal corruption.
IANA virologist but my understanding is that a spillover event that infects a large number of people (as would have happened at the seafood market) is considered unlikely, although this depends on your opinion of how sanitary the market was—reports vary.

Of course this doesn’t mean that the virus escaped from the lab, it could well be that a pangolin vendor got the coronavirus and spread it at the Huanan market.
Many European cities actually have very wide streets—they just choose to cede space for bikes, trams, buses, and wider sidewalks, instead of dedicating 100% of the streets to single-occupancy cars and car storage like we do.

An example—Overtoom in Amsterdam: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3620058,4.8722503,3a,75y,96....
It is not really progressive to allow biological males to play with and in many cases dominate biological female competition.

This is an example of how the ACLU has lost its way in the weeds of questionable progressive crusades.
I sympathise, but you don’t need one world government, just agreement and consensus between governments. That’s hard work though, it requires sacrifice and compromise, and recent history (Trump protectionism, Brexit) is against compromise or sacrifice.
As a salaried employee I find it insulting, demeaning, and even distracting when I'm forced to record hours, not even mentioning what being spied on would do to me (thankfully I've never had to deal with the latter situation). Gladly, my current workplace doesn't have any such procedures. My previous one was fairly stringent on hour-recording even when working at the office.

I am not a child nor an inmate, and can therefore be trusted not to try and game the system to do as little work as I can possibly get away with. I shoot for eight hours. If things go past nine hours without a specific source of pressing urgency, I don't feel uncomfortable asserting my work-life balance. If I really get into the zone and have a super-productive day I don't feel uncomfortable logging off after seven hours.

Whereas if I'm on a clock, I'm watching the clock, constantly. I have trouble entering a deep-work headspace. I feel guilty and second-guess myself every time I stand up for a minute. I'll subconsciously space out at my desk more often because "I'm putting in the hours".

Everybody's different, I just wanted to add a data point. I'm somewhat ADD and if I'm forced to be either completely on and tracking the minutes or completely off, instead of jumping back and forth like I naturally do, my productivity tanks.
>> an accident still could have happened

That's the whole point. "Strict control and containment measures" don't 100% guarantee avoidance of an accident. As well, it's possible when the Americans weren't around, adherence may have slacked off a bit.

Existence of strong controls wouldn't be sufficient evidence to designate the claim as False even had it come from an independent evaluator. But it's much worse that Facebook is employing biased "fact-checkers" to decide what's true or false.
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Well, the thing about building is that when a people achieve comfort and are well-fed and happy, there's very little incentive to build. Countries get old. They get middle-aged and a little tired or complacent.

It really does happen. The question is how you keep on renewing a country and a people when things are going "just fine".

There is really something to the idea that strife / disaster / starting with nothing causes you to yearn to be better and invest in things that you wouldn't do when you've already made it. You raise kids in wealth and they rarely have the same drive as their up-from-bootstraps parents. And maybe nature's checks-and-balances on this is that eventually those people who struggled through adversity and built things get comfortable. They stop wanting to invest, and instead want to extract. It gets hard to get people to be willing to sacrifice like they did when they were young.

The USA has already made it. In its own mind. So most people are not desperate to have high taxes, high effort, low potential of immediate reward -- the kind of thing that builds things that last beyond your children.

Now it's either 15% returns or it's not worth it. Or vote out anyone who proposes something that costs a lot. And only when we see other countries whose people had to struggle from nothing do we realize that standing still sometimes equals going backwards in the global race. It's how you end up landing at La Guardia, trying to take a subway, and wondering how your capital of prosperity could have gotten so bad without anyone noticing.

I don't know how exactly to incentivize a contented culture to be willing to sacrifice. I am sure, though, that social media and polarization and targeted outrage of special interests against any potential idea doesn't help. It's a real puzzle how we're going to get out of this funk and not be passed on the highway by lots of others.
Without knowing what your product is or what your market is, my default comment is that you could probably change it to 38, 98, and 198 and increase total revenue while ridding yourself of a small number of customers that eat up a lot of customer service time.

The 6-month pricing seems unnecessarily manipulative.
IIRC, in the later (non-Fleming) books, MI6 forces Bond to trade his PPK for an HK VP70 after a critical misfire.

Also, in the same book, it is revealed that Bond keeps a Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum revolver(!) in the glove box of his modified Saab 900(!!)
No.

For one, this situation has nothing to do with cars, so there's no obvious lesson about cars to be drawn from it. Accidents are relatively rare, and when you frame the headline, as another commenter did, as $1 per person-day, it's a lot less impressive.

It's also not viable in a lot of places. Mass transit and living close to work, shopping, and services, is only viable in certain urban centers. NYC, DC, Boston, maybe Chicago are good. LA, not so much (but improving), Dallas, hah! And if you live in a suburb our outside the city? Car.

What will change is habits around traveling. Maybe there will be more working from home (or maybe not). Maybe cities aren't as desirable (or they still are). Maybe there's a broader economic reshuffle. Oil is incredibly cheap right now. Those are the factors that will drive car use over the next few years, not a dollar figure that is, not surprisingly, on the order of what I pay for car insurance. If a $1000 annual insurance bill doesn't keep people out of their cars, why would this headline?
The irony is that getting in a car is far more deadly than Covid.
The issue is that there's no spatial component to WeChat. For whatever reason, it feels different when you have an avatar in a world with some freedom to move around. Another thing is that WeChat doesn't provide you much of an activity itself, unlike the ones attached to games.
I'd learn Scheme before CL or Clojure. Way smaller; lets you focus on the idea of Lisp instead of a specific (bloated, warty) Lisp dialect.
See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 which concludes that it was a naturally evolved virus based on DNA sequencing.
I tried something like this to run 1U servers in my office.

It didn't work :(
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Stay-Home Orders: Your Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic (ACLU-Texas): https://www.aclutx.org/en/know-your-rights/stay-home-orders-...

How to Think About the Right to Privacy and Using Location Data to Fight COVID-19 (by Jay Stanley of the ACLU) : https://www.justsecurity.org/69444/how-to-think-about-the-ri...

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> temp.a[dat[i]] = i; // This is what I'd meant

I see.

> struct blob temp1 = x; // Allowed initial value

With, I presume, a eye toward further producing:

x.a[dat[i]] = i;
y.a[dat[i]] = i;

?

> Compilers may replace an automatic object whose address is not observable with two objects,

That makes sense.

> do a sign-extending load from `x` and/or `y`

I assume you mean zero-extending; otherwise `x=255` would result in `result=-1`, which is clearly wrong.

> Should a compiler be required to initialize "result" in that situation, or should programmers be required to allow for the possibility that if they don't initialize an automatic object it might behave somewhat strangely?

Of course not. Result (assuming mode&3 == 0) is undefined, and behaviour characteristic of the environment is that result (aka eg eax) can hold any (say) 32-bit value (whether that's 0..FFFF'FFFF or -8000'0000..7FFF'FFFF depends on what operations are applied, but `int` suggests the latter).

None of this involves that the compiler infering objective (and frequently false) properties of the input program (such as "this loop will terminate" or "p != NULL"), though.
Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies
Thank ideologues.
Surprised, no one mentioned GUNDB, which does very similar thing and supports real time operation.

Gundb: https://gun.eco
Because rich people have huge market stakes in the status quo. That's how you get billions in oil company subsidies and token garbage for wind, solar, battery research, etc. It is pure corruption.