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> We've invented machines that can do basically everything it takes to support human life.

We have? We have machines that can do everything it takes to grow food, prepare it, ship it where it's needed, with no humans? We have machines that can build houses, cars, bicycles, and other forms of transportation, with no humans? We have machines that can make our clothes and all other necessary items with no humans? We have machines that can fix all our crumbling infrastructure with no humans?

I think you are drastically underestimating the amount of human work that is needed just to keep the basic functions of society working. Let alone to provide all the nice to have things that we all want.
This. Amazon maybe has thousands of developers working in various departments. The departments can be totally different from each other, have different culture, values whatever. Even in very small companies I have seen this effect.
I'm not seeing anything in what you said that would prove WSL2 is not Linux. Saying WSL2 is Linux does _not_, in fact, imply that Linux is WSL2, and there have never been any claims to that by anyone within or outside of Microsoft.

What you just said equates to "A Motorcycle with a side-car attached can't be called a motorcycle because to call it a motorcycle implies all motorcycles have side-cars", which makes absolutely no sense.
Re: “move somewhere better”; this is a flawed argument I’ve seen repeated a bunch. Some people just like where they live and don’t want to move to a bigger place. Bigger does not necessarily mean better. Cities provide more options for entertainment, more people to socially interact with, more unique opportunities (by the draw of the city population for these opportunities), etc.

“Move somewhere better” is naive, because where they live isn’t necessarily bad; just may not be conducive to full-time remote work.
There's a few places in my travels where I've picked black boogers... big cities in Nepal, India, and Venezuela.
As someone not from Seattle, the drama around that tax was quite ridiculous. The idea of a "head tax" is utterly nonsensical in that it's an incentive to NOT hire people, which is the entire point that companies are pulled into cities. Jobs. Jobs are one of the things cities care most about more than anything. A head tax actively disincentives hiring of new workers. A head tax can maybe make sense if you have permanently low unemployment and companies can't hire enough people, but that's not Seattle's problem.
Which is why IOS should default to sending JPG or PNG to/between any non-bespoke Apple product until such a time that HEIC is universally common. That should be transparent to both the end-user as well as the receiving end.

One can moan about the test site not being more robust/careful but it is Apple/Samsung that are using the new, non-standard format and expecting others to accomodate in short order.
Uploading images from my iPhone to Google Drive results in HEIC files that I have to manually convert as well.
I miss Telegram's stickers like crazy. I'm going to try to contribute art once they get the feature out.
A joke with no punchline
Your site always surfaces to the top of Google when I'm searching for the randomest things in history. Love it!
By the way, you might know that in California, shopping centers may have to allow people to engage in some expressive activity on their private property, even when they don't endorse the speakers' message:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...

(I don't mean to suggest that this provides some kind of obvious solution to Internet content moderation disputes.)
There are lots of jobs people don't enjoy. Who's going to do those?

If they raise the salaries and start getting applicants, who's going to buy the much more expensive produce? They'd have to increase the amount of ubi, and there you have inflation.
Why should ad companies be forced to subsidize the spread of bullshit and hateful content?

If someone wants to spread bullshit and hate, let them do it on their own dime, or find someone wanting to do spread it.
It’s common for exam proctors to require you clear all programs from your calculator. I think the reason for banning native programs is that it was trivial to spoof the memory clearing in a way that was difficult to detect.
People get a UBI regardless of whether or not they work, that's the 'U' part. So any money you get from working is additional money on top of the UBI. It would be taxed, but it's still more money. It's not like other benefits where once you start earning your own money, you lose the benefit, and thus have to make a choice between not working to keep the benefit and working 40 hours a week to make similar or marginally more money.

Or, maybe you're taking that into account already, and are worried about an uncanny valley in between "not working" and "working" where a significant number of people simply don't work because that first rung in the "working" ladder isn't rewarding enough to start climbing the ladder, so they're incentivized to never work. If so, that's certainly a concern, but that would also be an indicator of a failed system that needed to be revised. It goes without saying that any implementation of a UBI system would have to be designed such that that didn't happen, but that's not an intrinsic quality of UBI systems.

Tax increases themselves would have to be progressive (as our current tax system supposedly is and always has been) to avoid creating these sorts of discontinuities that would disincentivize people from working. Any functional UBI system would have to take that into account, otherwise it's a failed implementation.
Wyoming would still be empty. People would still not commute. But - they would still want to visit family and old friends, so not be too far from an airport or a highway, and they still need a good internet connection. Also, living somewhere cheaper is nice, but most still want access to concerts, culture, museums, libraries and so on. I agree there are many questions, but the last twenty years have unproportionally favourited a few megacities (and areas) where people are still miserable because the costs are even higher than the high incomes. Also, it would be great to bring more college graduates into the country, that would help against the political divide we have currently. Who knows how it will turn out, right? But a try it is definitely worth.
I don't think there is a strict definition, but there certainly would be a threshold in the bracket where taxes > UBI, but what is your point?

That UBI is therefore worthless for everyone, because some people won't get it, in effect?

There are many variations, but one benefit of continuing its issuance even if someone is in a high tax bracket is unemployment - one of many services that could go away if UBI were in place.

If I make $200k, and lose my job, I don't apply for unemployment - I just get the UBI for that month to pay for expenses.
Payroll taxes are always borne by the worker. They may not make the payments, but when I hire people, I set aside an all-in budget, and their salary is whatever is left after benefits and taxes. If the payroll tax goes up, it means their raise is smaller.

That's how every business works. All per employee costs are borne by the employee one way or another.
Do you know any online resources for this?
Turn on the sound!
I'm certainly not arguing against public housing. It can be an incredible good, and in almost all Western countries is considered a right.

However, we've been down this road before. Cramming people - especially homeless people, frequently with mental health concerns, polydrug use, and severe behavioral issues; into a giant cube isn't how you solve homelessness.

These people need their own homes, in neighborhoods with services that support them, integrated into the community.

Disastrous efforts to ghettoise the poor in small under-serviced apartments in the 1960s lead to social problems that persist to this day in both Europe and the US. I believe the're generally termed 'the projects' in America.

My comment was a sarcastic reaction to the ahistorical and ludicrously reductive lack of insight or thought in the original proposal.
> But, what about areas that lag behind? Rural america that is too poor to afford robot trucks.

The robot trucks are cheaper than the humans that operate the non-robot trucks, so your argument doesn't make much sense here.
My friend (not working at Amazon) was oncall in France in 2019.
These employees do not have employment contracts and do not have hours that are set by a contract.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by taking the thread even further into flamewar. That helps nothing. Especially not generic flamewar topics like Nazi Germany.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you use it on the SAT? Otherwise, I don't think this would be relevant for 99% of the people who own a TI calculator. (I appreciate you sharing it here anyways: just saying that it's not a replacement for most people.)
I think tensions with Japan would be much lower. In Taiwan right now, popular opinion of Japan is super high. Although the historical grievances against Japan are of course deep, I think the PRC government has played a strong role in ensuring that its population never forgives Japan and keeps the feeling of victimization fresh. See also the huge number of populist anti-Japan war dramas being produced in Mainland China.
I think that we often get hung up on the what-ifs of censorship while misinformation is doing damage right this second.

The problem is that people don't evaluate 2 narratives equally based on the information in them. If that was the case, you would just have to make sure that for every bogus report there is a reliable report, but once misinformation takes hold it takes a lot more than that to dislodge. The analogy I think of is that when presented with a table full of junk food, its hard to get people to pay attention to the veggie platter.

This study[1] indicates more success could be had with a new narrative that doesn't just refute the misinformation, but crafts a new narrative with additional information that can dislodge the other one, like a flank attack instead a head on one. Anecdotally I've seen that work and I've also been guilty of the lazy head on approach and seen it fail.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170912134904.h...
And most women want successful men.

(You can think that that's a bad thing, but your thoughts won't change it.)
> They would easily work from their homes and close to their families in their countries

But what if they wouldn't? For people from some countries, getting to live in the West is a major benefit on its own. (I have to say I'm a bit afraid that the WFH shift will make immigration way more difficult than it is now.)
>Be upfront and as precise as possible with what a position entails. "Working alongside smart and passionate people" is lazy hiring.

I understand that this person was coming straight out of school, but the onus is on the applicant to figure out more about the job during the interview process.
As someone who came from a similar environment (MSFT during the stack ranking days), the forced attrition and manager's arbitrarily blackballing employees are the ingredients of the toxic stew. If a manager hates your guts, there's really nothing you can do, even if you are great at your job.
You know, I thought that about FAT32. But apparently neither Windows nor Mac OS X can see a FAT32 partition on an SD card if it's not the primary partition (at, least, not in an obvious way).
Scope Bitmap in JWT (and OAuth)
I want to caveat this a bit. The OS does trust the extension of any file (at least MacOS/Windows). If you change a .png to a .docx, the OS will launch the handler associated with .docx files. If you change a .png to a .jpg, the OS will launch the handler for .jpg files. Chances are that program is the same for .jpg as it would have been for .png. When that program launches, reads the file, it probably looks at the file signature and then appropriately parses the rest of the image data.

Arguably, the user has been trained to think that renaming between image format converts between the two because of the image processing program correctly parsing and displaying the image, rather than displaying a message that the user opened a .jpg file but it was really a .png.
> trade

That's income, even if it's not denominated in dollars.

Presumably they also own land and a house, which is wealth.

The point behind the UBI concept that it does it's thing even if you have no income because you love somewhere where you can't farm your own food and have your own land with your own house in it.
But YouTube is not deciding on the credibility of the video. They are simply saying that in this emergency, in the interests of public safety, they will not allow videos that contradict World Health Organization information and policy guidelines. And they removed a video that violated that policy. It's a very narrowly defined exception to their normally open platform. I don't see what is scary or sinister about that.
>It is a much different scenario if an artifact is destroyed either intentionally or unintentionally.

I'd forgotten to respond to this earlier but it's been bugging me, so I'd like to note that a significant amount stolen art is never recovered. In some cases prominent and expensive artworks have been destroyed by the thieves when they couldn't move the art in an attempt to destroy the evidence. Stolen art is sometimes destroyed either intentionally or unintentionally.
> Amazon has forced attrition

Do you know how they implement it? Is it the old Microsoft model with obligatory bell curve distribution of performance reviews?
Is 50% of total comp realistic? I find it hard to believe that someone would be paid $250k in the Bay Area and work with someone at the same level in Boise getting paid $125k. I can buy $250k vs $200k or something similar.
>>Every experiment in UBI says otherwise. Direct cash grants usually lead people to do more work, because now they can do the work they enjoy.

But probably less "meaningful" work, in however society defines meaningful.

>>Also, look around groups of wealthy people. The ones who don't have to work anymore. Sure, some of them live a life of leisure, but many of them still work, because they get bored otherwise.

This is due to earning a return matching their effort. At some point, if enough income is withheld at that level, what's the point? Or, they will leave en-mass to countries more willing to employ entrepreneur muscle. These aren't anecdotes. Look at emigration from USSR, China, Venezuela or others of their scientists, professors, doctors, lawyers, financiers, etc.
I'm not surprised. Parents have ultimate authority over things affecting their children.

If Mom says no, why should Grandma be allowed to publically(!) post photos, for the whole world to see?

Edit: keep in mind that at least in my country you need permission from the person depicted when publishing a photo of him (with exceptions for important events, important people and so on).

And parents act in stead of the child, legally. When the parents say "no", legally the child has said no.
> What is it about tech culture that people within it refuse to admit the level of abuse-by-design that happens at these companies?

The Amazon example is extreme, but a lot of tech workers fit the stereotype of people who don't have a lot else to do.

I spend 100+ hours at my computer a week, so if you want long hours, I can live with that.

I am up at 1AM anyway, so if you need something done at that time, sure. I just need to switch to my remote desktop.

I have colleagues and friends who will log in on weekends or evenings out of boredom to do work. No pressure to do it, but they just want something to do.

I fill my time with internet commenting and various online contests, but if they need help at 9PM, I am fine with jumping on the VPN to help and have done that a few times myself.

Amazon still has problems beyond the long hours and the 3AM calls, but there are people ok with those things or at least ok enough with them to not put up a fuss.
I was asking more specifically why Civ 6 was worse than its predecessors, but I appreciate your answering. I see that there are now many comments detailing the shortcomings of 6.
Yeah, I wasn't sure. I was looking at a Dart MySQL connection pool implementation, and that's what's done.

socket.listen(onData, onDone: onSocketDone);

onSocketDone() {
_closed = true;
}

write(Buffer buffer) {
if (_closed)
throw StateError('Cannot write to socket, it is closed');

...write
}

onData(RawSocketEvent event) {
if (event == RawSocketEvent.READ_CLOSED) {
_closed = true;
}

// Other events handled as well, READ, CLOSED, WRITE
}

But I don't know what's going on under the hood there.
Not on school-owned devices :-/

(but for something like school app/site passwords, though best practice it may not be, "written on a sheet of paper, kept in a drawer" is in fact totally fine)
Has this been tried, or at least discussed? I often contemplate the vast CPU resources even just in a small radius around me, doing nothing most of the time.
Thank you for this post.

When I first started using RabbitMQ I experienced just about everything you described.

I felt incredibly stupid when a customer would have issues with a queue being stuck or messages that were being dropped, and having no clue on why this was happening.

> It's nearly impossible to get RabbitMQ working correctly within few months.

This is so true. You can get it running in 10 minutes, but it takes weeks of banging your head against the wall and angry customers before you have it running right.
The parent comment said they sent a tweet a week before, and they had something in their faq but it doesn't say how long before that was done.

Generally, when I've worked at places that were not startups a week to get something pushed in to fix something was not reliably enough time.

I didn't see in the article anything about how long they have been aware of the problem, perhaps they became aware of the problem just before the testing was scheduled to start. I guess that is a problem with their QA system, but at any rate I can think of lots of ways that they could have a problem for a week (or even longer really), not be able to fix it in their particular system, and have to notify people.

Of course I agree they did a lousy job of notifying people.
The robots, obviously! /s
Non-citizens don't get UBI, so it would fall to immigrants.

That's in fact the biggest issue with UBI -- it creates a de-facto class system.
Silk Road, rather than Pirate Bay, but otherwise, yes.
I’ve been working on a project to allow anyone to get paid for their time. It requires they have some knowledge that someone else is willing to pay for but it might help. Free for hosts. BuyTime.co

Hope your friend finds success!
"And a single city with guns would be able to topple Rome with modern weaponry?"

I don't know how that's relevant to anything I said. My point is about culture. Nonviolent protest requires you to be protesting an amenable authority. There have been plenty of examples in history of authorities that will just spill as much blood as it takes. To my eye, the only constraint on China doing that is their fear that people might stop paying into their economy.

Bear in mind that if China decided to roll into Hong Kong and simply kill everybody there, it would only increase the current Chinese government's death toll against their own people by somewhere between 16% to 40%. It wouldn't even double it! This is the government that brought you the "Great Leap Forward" in which they killed 18-45 million of their own people. This is a government being credibly accused of engaging in ethnic cleansing.

Are you sure advising "nonviolent protest" against that is a good idea?

"one of the bet they have to make is that the international community would not sit idlely while many HKers get killed."

That is not something I'd advise anyone to bet their lives on.
Well, with the population of Wyoming being 578K, 250K would be enough to turn the tide politically and pass some much needed environmental legislation there. :)
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Must be why all those small businesses that got affected (like the long-running local Bartell Drugs chain [0]) were protesting on the streets against this tax once it was implemented (shortly before it was repealed).

Writing off the opposition as solely "pro-amazon shills" is exactly what gets those bs laws passed in the first place. I wonder how much money was wasted on all of this, given that it was repealed shortly after. Seems to be very in-line with how wastefully Seattle City Council has been running things.

0. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/enough-is-e...
A perfect example of the XY problem.

The solution is to stop using iPhones and use something that interfaces with her better.

Big physical buttons is a good start.
> That is to say those figures did not promote public health opinions that undermined a global cooperative effort in a time of crisis.

I think the figures running the Inquisition and the counter-reformation at the time of Galileo might have disagreed. Remember the 30 Years War was also ongoing from 1618-1648 during the whole time, a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict that engulfed all of Europe and resulted in 8 million deaths.

Bucking the authority of the Church/inquisition at that time was seen as a serious issue against social order in a way that’s hard for us to understand from a modern perspective.

BTW, I strongly disagree with the this video, but really not sure if YouTube removing it is the right way to do this or will be effective in suppressing virus truthers.
I don't think UBI is meant to supply a cushy life. You may be able to afford a modest apartment and food, but what about a car? A nice bicycle? A nice phone? Books? Money to actually go out instead of eating soylent? Saving for buying a house or land?

Many people who "go off the reservation" and travel/live mobile tend to settle down after a while.
what's wrong with the other 3/4? Unless I was at major risk from Covid, I'd never do it unless it was tested for many years. No, I'm not anti-vaccine
I've never understood how their Apple TV apps (Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, etc.) are so bad.

If the Prime TV app was better I'd honestly probably cancel Netflix. But as-is I avoid using it completely.

Then I interviewed for a mobile position at Amazon. Now I understand. A Facebook iOS recruiter laughed at my experience.
The weird thing is, all of Google and FB's global offices are in city centres, with the exception of the ones in SV. I never really got that, myself.
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I found the free content on every-layout.dev to be extraordinarily helpful and useful. I was glad to pay for the "book" with the non-free portions of their work. YMMV.
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Direct from yangs site (https://www.yang2020.com/policies/value-added-tax/)

> This VAT would vary based on the good to which it's applied, with staples having a lower rate or being excluded, and luxury goods having a higher rate.

That's the beauty of a VAT. It can be tuned to reach the desired result.
Exactly. There's no such thing as totally "free shipping" or "free returns" either. One way or another, the customer is paying for it.
Sweden is pitched as as some kind of example of handling the pandemic correctly, when their numbers[1] don't look good at all. From their numbers[2] 44% of people diagnosed ends up dead, implying they are way under tested or they have ridiculously deadly strain (I think it is the former). Because of that the most reliable indicator from them is number of deaths.

Now compare number of deaths with countries that reacted quickly, for example: South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and others.

[1] https://covidgraph.com/

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/