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> And not only are they telling us we can't sell part of our non-existent gold to our friends, we can't sell it to people ANYWHERE.

well they could, they'd just have to register with the government.

but in this case, registering with the government isn't so simple because that "opts in" to a ton of other regulations which are usually okay, if the group of people weren't also trying to tie membership into their nightclub with whoever currently bears the right to own a piece of the gold mine. Now the regulations for investments are completely incompatible with general merchant services, regulations for consumer goods.

The various governments have a chance to create a framework that works for both, but chooses to rely on the regulator for investments exclusively, or making it too expensive and irreconcilable to ask for clarification.
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Just finished HPMOR and loved every second of it. Truly an amazing piece of work, would definitely recommend. I do hope that i remember some of the methods of rationality mentioned in the book, but even beyond that it was just a plain good story.

If people are interestead in reading it, I would highly recommend the audio book/podcast, it's extremely well produced and features an insane amount of good voice acting [1]. Though I would definitely recommend _not_ listening to it in podcast player, and instead use one of the stitched together mp3s.

[1] https://hpmorpodcast.com/?page_id=56
Did Snowden work fully remote as an NSA contractor with classified data?
That's a good idea, thank you.
Lyft plans $650M debt offering, convertible to cash and/or stock
What are the economics behind this? What happens next?
I suspect at some point, if there is a larger adoption, this is going to lessen the need for work visas etc.
I've been told by a professional it's unhealthy to tell someone else how to feel, so let me instead offer a suggestion: take a deep breath and think differently about the situation, and seek out opportunities to still profit from manipulations sanctioned by the economic system.

For example, those of us who knew this was coming bought certain ETFs to front run the Fed and BlackRock, knowing they were going to begin purchasing them. Continue to seek out such opportunities in the future. The game is "rigged", so play along.

"When you can't change the direction of the wind, adjust your sails."
Then why pay $200k for a software engineer in the valley when the same talent can live outside of the bay area and can do with 1/3rd of the salary? The question I have is what portion of the $200k salary is 1) due to the raw talent of the individual 2) because they live in the bay area.
heh, no. And I think some of the humorous to me "bowling ball" like effects that I don't like in that scene are very much in the spirit of some hk movies. But I think the homage tries to add interest by being over the top, when a crowd of 10 actors with different bodies and approaches to doing the scene is going to be more interesting. But that isn't what the plot calls for.
People unhappy with USD can always use USDT, opportunistically printed in hundred million "dollars" equivalent per month by 3 semi-anonymous guys in non-extradition offshore and which was dropped like a hot potato by the only auditor company who even considered auditing this scam. There is only one small flaw in this plan - for some weird reason not many people are rushing to adopt this toilet paper "currency".
I think one important difference is that if you call a method, things fail when the method doesn't exist, or the wrong arguments are passed.

With message passing, the callee can decide not to respond to a message. Or to respond at a later time.

In a broader sense, I'd say the difference is between pressing a button on a robot that 'forces' it to walk, or asking said robot to please go and walk. In the former case, you're essentially reaching 'into' the robot's behavior via an exposed control. The caller is in charge. In the latter case you have no control and the callee, the robot, has the freedom to decide what to do and when to do it.
I liked Mere Christianity and I like C.S. Lewis's writing in general, but certain parts of Mere Christianity annoyed me because it felt manipulative. The most egregious example is Lewis's trilemma which seems constructed to win arguments, although I've never seen it win a single argument, not by a good faith argument but by putting someone on the spot and demanding that they to choose between three answers; Two of which will make them sound exceedingly rude and harm their standing in society.
The phrase "sick man of Europe" never seemed so apt. Our government has totally failed - hilariously late in imposing lockdown, never closed the borders, failed to reach their own testing targets, and mass deaths in care homes (which weren't even included in the official statistics until last week). Really is shameful.
Training people, both workers and management, how to work in such environments. Plus for many companies expanding the bandwidth and security for their entry points for the corporate network. This can include locking down connected equipment to block high data volume sites and activities; you cannot believe the number of people who try to stream across their vpn connection.

Not everyone wants to be remote, where I work they asked for volunteers for the first wave and had to turn people down for some groups. For these the separation of work and home is line they don't like to cross.
I want to know how to run a 24/7 company with senior employees spread around the world a few timezones apart.

I just don't think we have the communication tools to support productive collaboration between people who hardly ever meet.

(I think what I may be saying is that while yes, there are Open Source projects that overcome these same sorts of problems, I don't think it's tools or process that are the reason they work. I suspect the psychology of volunteer work - performed and received - lets people overlook some pain points that they don't in a more mercenary setting)
If the big tech companies embraced this, one of the big side-effects would be easing of the Bay Area housing crunch. If tech workers did not have to commute to work, they could move to other areas where the housing prices are cheaper while still working for the tech companies. As the demand eases on the housing, prices will fall.
Shameless plug, I'm pretty bad at drawing on the computer, which is one of the reasons I launched https://collabuml.com/
I agree with that wholeheartedly. I find it interesting that governments don't see Google as direct competitor for power at this point.

It's also fairly weird that such data gathering corps are considered individuals in the same way one person with a camera is.
Nice work! With a bit more you are almost to a Second Life style editing experience. I got 60fps when I used it, according to the meter. I am curious though what makes this a HoloLens simulator as opposed to a WebGL VR demo? Given the high price of HoloeLens from a consumer device perspective, getting an open source VR platform that's compatible with HoloLens APIs and possibly apps would be a big win.
Thank you for the link, I'm really interested in this topic. However I can't figure out how to access those slides. Do you have to be enrolled?
Is it possible they keep it around as a pet project for developers whom they wish to keep on staff?
that's why you shouldn't use _either_ of those as repositories of information ... they're great for the ephemeral discussions, but once consensus is reached, you should have other ways of tracking that, whether it's: github/devops/jira issues and tickets, or some kanban board somewhere, or design documents, or a wiki. The discussion itself shouldn't be the artifact that records the decision.
Why did it have to be better? It just had to be created and evangelized to a specific group (and likely because it was by a specific company). I don't think it has anything to do with "better" in one way or the other.

Developers are constantly looking for new languages to fiddle with without any objective reasoning.
I hope this opens up more remote opportunities in Canada. Also, the whole of Americas.
I look forward to the geographic decentralization this enables. People can move to places that best suit their lifestyle, whether that is low or medium or high density. They can forego commutes. They can have lower costs of living. They can potentially even move away from rigid work hours to a lifestyle that allows them more time and involvement with family.

This move also allows employees to choose locations that better suit their politics. I've always found it highly dangerous to have large tech platforms, which are defacto digital public squares (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Medium, etc.), aggregate in just one or two cities that all share the same culture and politics. This is a risk especially because these platforms have increasingly taken steps to ramp up their censorship. If diversity actually matters to these companies, the diversity of thought introduced by decentralized geographic distribution will be a benefit to society.
> More CS, engineering and science students, IMHO, should dabble in math department courses beyond the the usual "required" sequence for their majors

That was absolutely not allowed at my faculty (admittely computational linguistics, but I would have massively benefited from math courses). No courses other than the predefined ones, no matter how relevant. Now I have to learn so much afterwards, it's not even funny.
I made this once and maybe the proportions were wrong, but it was much too gingery for me. Also, I also felt bad using so much ginger for such little yield.

I prefer the British posset, which is made by heating heavy cream and adding sugar and lemon juice. You could even add spices and ginger to possett.
If you want to clarify your thinking, you should consider these key questions:

1) Why is violence bad? What is it we're trying to prevent when we seek to prevent violence?

2) Are there instances of speech, which in specific contexts can, cause the same negative outcomes that we try to prevent when we seek to prevent violence?

3) Is it really true that physical violence is inescapable, while abusive speech only causes harm if the listener lets it?

Let go of left/right talking points, shallow pattern-matching, and groupism, and deeply consider these questions.
Err. The kid is awake for 16 hours a day. He is applying for jobs in 15 of those hours. This one hour is extra money for him. Also, it is at the same rate as as his full time job pre covid.

There are just not enough new people hiring in India right now. So any extra little money helps.

To your question, who in the world is willing to teach for that low, think of it as his first teaching gig. Through this, he is discovering a new market for himself.
Not my personal opinion, but the answer I often see in response to this is where else are they supposed to go with their skillset?
> According to the dictionary, an "engineer" is a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.

That's exactly the point. Programmers write programs. They don't design engines, machines, or public works. Programmers are excluded from the very definition you're quoting.

If you want to expand the definition to include the application of scientific methods to solve a problem, so that it includes someone that creates a Javascript single page web app, there's no way to exclude those other professions. Programs are not machines by any conventional use of the term.
Sure, it's not our fault as remote workers that in-person workers are suffering right now. I, for one remote worker, did not feel that anyone was accusing me of causing this inequality, but hey, if you really feel the need to get defensive about something nobody is accusing you of, then I'll be happy to say explicitly say that I'm not accusing remote workers of causing this inequality. Can we actually talk about real problems now?

The actual cause of inequality is people who control pay, unsurprisingly deciding to pay themselves vastly more than people who don't have the power to control their own pay. There's a reasonable argument to be said that the work of those who determine the pay is more valuable than their workers, but I don't think that we can argue that the proportions are justified. If workers are essential enough to risk their lives, then can we agree that they're essential enough to be participate in the American dream by being able to own their own homes and cars?
A friend at Google says Bay Area and NYC salaries are higher than at other offices.
> If I spend 3 hours looking for a tarantula and it wins, that is a cost of 3 hours compared to many games were losing a battle cost only a minute or two.

Why just the tarantula, then? If you see a rare beetle on a stump, you can re-interpret trying to catch it as a "battle" with a "winner" and a "loser".
> We aren't allowed to sell people something that doesn't exist?

Seems reasonable to me
"evolution would ameliorate most or all of the problem" is a funny way of saying that "a lot of people are going to die younger (or have fewer children) because of this". That's the only way evolution works.
Presentations always seemed to me like one of those things that can be done without a meeting at all.
I thought Karens were the ones ratting people out for people getting illegal haircuts.
I think you'll get something different for each. The purpose of mine is to explore the Rust programming language, but more specifically on the RISC-V architecture. Rust "recently" became out-of-the-box for RISC-V, which has opened up many more avenues for exploration.

As a note, I believe os.phil-opp.com is using the AMD/Intel architecture.
Yes, I see that eye roll. This is a stereotype that comes up regularly specifically because it is such a prolific problem.

I guarantee that a single iPhone purchase and a single big screen TV purchase are not the only poor purchasing decisions being made here.

Yes, lets consider a $2/hour raise. That gets wiped out with a daily trip to take-out instead of regular meals at home, or even by a 750/mo car payment.

Compare it to burning calories. It's much easier to not eat that 500 calorie hamburger than it is to run 5 miles.

Our society should be giving our kids financial literacy instead of bombarding them with advertisements.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher.
IQAir AirVisual Pro works offline. It's expensive though.
I am having a very hard time staying motivated in the current context. Kids at home yelling at each other, other coworkers distracted, work tasks badly defined without the ability to verbally hash things out, emotional / mental health stress due to the current scenario.

I don't feel like the current scenario is indicative of a well structured WFH setup, even though we've been doing it for 2 months now.

In short I hope companies don't use this interlude to evaluate WFH productivity, because I think it isn't the best representative.
Neko Atsume is on Play Store and App Store. Animal Crossing on Switch is being sold and trending worldwide to the point Financial Times had a short article on bank interest rate in the game as well
I would be willing to accept a lockup period roughly equivalent to the time it takes to clear a check, maybe one week.
Thanks! Glad it could serve some purpose!
Shameful yes, absolutely incredible that we are living in a time, that the UK gov is THIS inept and uncaring. I'm actually astonished.
I'll add a few that I enjoy

Flying Witch - A witch goes to live in the countryside with her relatives as part of her training. Lovely world-building.

Girls' Last Tour - Two girls on a journey through a gigantic post-apocalyptic city. The setting is quite bleak but the story mostly focuses on how the main characters are finding joy in their world.

Aria - The daily lives of apprentice gondoliers in Neo-Venezia, a replica of Venice built on a terraformed Mars.

The manga and anime for all of these are available legally in English. Unfortunately you may have to jump through some hoops if you want to acquire their OSTs, which is a shame because they're all excellent.
It is different when you plan for it and when you are forced to do it.

I actually always wanted to work from home full time and have already worked for 2 years on a contract working fully from home (showing up at the office once per two or three months).

If I knew I would not be at a significant disadvantage searching for WFH contracts vs being available in a major city center I would gladly move outside city. I have three kids and I need to take into account that once I move outside city it might not be possible to move back.
Yikes. My Silicon Valley home price is likely to suffer.
I've found David Gerard's periodic updates to be useful (on this and other cryptocurrency nonsense/scams/etc). His latest one about Telegram is: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/04/14/news-cooking... Link to the "telegram" tag on his blog: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/tag/telegram/
Any big name ones allow it? Twitter is the largest that I know of.
Wasn't TON using proof of stake?
In my experience, "Being able to be productive while not in The Zone" is a job skill like any other that can/should be learned and improved with practice. I used to be like that, where if you said peep to me while I was focused, I snapped out of it and couldn't work my way back up to productivity easily. This is kind of a "junior developer" problem that IMHO developers just need to overcome with practice. Having a kid helped me a lot. Suddenly there were distractions all day, and I was forced to learn how to be productive in 30 minute spurts.

As one gets more senior in their development career, their days will get more and more punctuated with meetings. You start gradually moving from the "maker" to "manager" schedule. So your reality will be a day with a handful of 1 hour time slots available for deep work. In my view you just need to deal with this reality and learn how to be productive in it.
That idea also comes back in Diaspora. That book contains some nice things, like mind-grafts, procreation/creation in a non-biological society etc. Loved that book. I also like Ted Chiangs books. I.e. the idea from story of your life (a language that treats time flow differently), also "Understand" [0] is nice: What happens we we actually increase our thinking capacity. I mean that is hard to comprehend without a nice story, for a puny brain like mine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understand_(story)
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“We will drive you to your requested shopping destination after this brief targeted advertisement for laundry detergent.”
Agree. I don't think restaurant delivery is crying out for central planning. It's overhead that would be better spent in any number of ways.
And comma.ai the Palm?
I know how Live works, I've owned it for way too long now. I'm talking in relation to features Logic has lifted from Live, if you are just starting out and don't really know what's going on, it's a very hard ask to spend double on base Ableton (3x? for Suite) vs Logic especially when Logic comes with more stuff.
Are you kidding? Traveling economically by air is one of the worst travel experiences you can have. If you're going to do it weekly, then it needs to be relatively cheap to make it worthwhile. Don't forget, too, that if this does become the norm, companies will start decreasing comp to make up for not having to pay people to live in high CoL areas. In terms of comfort, I'd rather stand on a BART train than fly for an hour.

I don't think flying weekly to an office scales up as well as you think it might.
The first link here is more aptly Japan and China. And, to make this really circular, Ireland also is one of the largest holders of US debt.
I work for another pretty well-known company and management just asked us how we were feeling about a future were we could chose to have a designated desk in the office or not. This is crazy, our wildest dreams are being answered.
Every grocery store I’ve heard of is getting $2 an hour extra per paycheck. That’s $320 extra per month, before taxes, if you’re working full time.

That’s unlikely to cover the cost of getting tested for COVID-19, let alone any treatment or deductibles. Not sure how that qualifies as “significant.”
That only works if companies allow for 100% WFH.
Or for another reason:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779
For me that was 'The Infinite Book' by John D. Barrow. I read it at a very young age and changed my brain completely.
given the current demonstration of half the population's response to a worldwide-pandemic, there is going to be zero done about CO2 levels or climate-change in general, people are just going to watch the atmosphere boil off over centuries while the 1% move higher into their penthouses and crank the a/c
Inequality is only bad for low-income earners if you've been convinced that the economy is a zero-sum game. Nobody actually believes this, it just makes good copy for purposes of rabble-rousing.

If you think that wealth inequality is, itself, a bad thing, then ask yourself a simple question: If you create a software company that employs 200 employees making a median income of 125K, is that a good thing? But how can it be, when it has exacerbated wealth inequality?

In my humble opinion, inequality is bad only in the minds of people who want to fund their political wishlists with other people's money, and need to spin a narrative where not taking other people's money is morally wrong.
https://archive.md/BhlFN
>> But for a person trying to make a living with 1-on-1 lessons, that's pretty brutal.

Well, for now, he is looking at this as side/fun income. if he asks, I will pay him more. But ask he has to.

Also, all along I was not able to pay market rates. So, I could not entertain idea of hiring a tutor. Only Because of covid crisis, I was able to hire for so low.
Diaspora includes a few examples of this as well. Mathematical discoveries can only be made in the "mines", and people install these mods to make them better at mining, after working through some of the beginner steps unaltered to see if they'd like it. There's also a mod that explicitly prevents you from ever uninstalling it; I don't remember what else it even did, it seemed to spread like a slow virus through the artistic communities in the simulation.
I live in Portland, though; people live here because they love Portland, not because of the tech scene.
Given the mechanics, seeing mining as the main game isn't unreasonable. Most progression hinges on it. Unfortunately I find the fighting part not well done and quite punishing given how bad the gameplay of the fighting is.

All the fighting in the mines also makes it clearly not a experience that fits the type of game we are discussing here.
Or equipment. Am I now liable for preventing my home network from being hacked?
This is most probably a phishing attack.
I don't want to moralize too much, but I think it's a mistake to generalize this much about a person based solely on your knowledge of a book they've enjoyed.
If you think that the groceries are going to continue to show up on shelves in a world where nobody has to work, reality is going to hand you a very nasty surprise. If we're going to give stuff to everybody, somebody has to make the stuff. Merely redistributing money isn't going to solve that problem.
I could see companies not going 100% remote but maybe having 1 day a week in the office. You might not be able to work from anywhere, but it would allow expansion into areas that aren't a soul crushing commute 5 days a week.