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Few things I don't get from seeing twitter today and deciding to delete it for good.

1. What does unfollowing every white person show?

2. Why are there people with a lot of followers aka influencers working like hired goon going under every post on multiple high profile accounts calling for unfollow because someone said something controversial? Why are they mentioning people unrelated to this to get them to unfollow?

Why are all of them following each other? It's pretty much a mob...it seems.

What does telling companies to unfollow a person, de-platforming a person from the developer community show? I am deeply concerned about the first part. Seriously, asking companies to unfollow you on twitter? C'mon, I can't be the only one who finds that ridiculous.

I get retweeting on your profile once but few people I won't mention spent literally their weekend doing this. Is this modern-day ex-communication?

3. Am I becoming racist or this guide is actually shit [0][1]

0] https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1266258250489454599

1] https://tatianamac.com/posts/white-guyde/

Why are there separate guides for different genders and races?

Why are so many prominent figures retweeting this and telling to follow? (just check retweets and replies)

Why are they still following white people after retweeting this?

What's even the point? Can someone explain how does this solve the issues if any?

What will be solved if you stop tweeting for a week or so?

All I know is that I am separating myself from the usual "dev" community. Insane shit everywhere and people are truly showing their colors when they retweeting calls to kill human life - be it a cop or not. And if you don't agree, they are taking you down from dev platforms - woah.
Anecdotal but as half of a DINK couple who recently relocated to an exurban vacation property, our main reasons for being in an expensive city (office, culture, social gathering) have evaporated and I'd be surprised if they came back the way they were for years. Speaking as someone whose main desire in life was to live in a big city, the suburbs are looking pretty nice right about now (as, again anecdotally, they are for a good number of our friends in similar positions).
consumers get it cheaper than it should actually cost? restaurants get to sell more volume during covid, otherwise there's no way they'd have the volume to support staying open, and drivers are getting paid for something that normally wouldn't be a viable thing, I don't think many are leaving better opportunities, otherwise, they wouldn't do it...
Maybe the like the general idea of the company and their co-workers and want to change the company? I don't understand why you telling them what they can and cannot do.
Yes I did end up learning a lot more about USB bulk mode and the TI drivers so it wasn't all bad! But there probably were higher priorities...
>We are approaching a reckoning as a society where we need to understand the "true cost" of our choices.

the much scarier question is why investors apparently don't understand this rather simple fact and keep pumping ungodly sums of money into these ventures

says a lot about the level of general innovation in our society
Aren't most Dabbawala type services using family labour, i.e. an unpaid wife or child is doing the delivery?
They do not. The higher price for the SUV is a product of American market preferences for SUVs that have nothing to do with utility and everything to do with branding and self-image.
I would suspect it's a Hobbesian thing - we allow government to do things closer to a stage of nature (e.g. locking people up) and deny that pleasure to ourselves. As such because government employees by their nature do things with our consent that we can never do the potential for nuisance suits arises.

So if I grab someone off the street and handcuff them we can be almost 100% sure I'm committing a crime. If the police do the same thing we can be almost 100% sure they are not committing a crime.

Exceptions happen in both cases but it's not unreasonable (which isn't to say it's correct) to take make laws that take that into account.
That's probably on purpose so you make a donation.
"Okay this state had to pay a total of $200 million to the families of people who successfully sued for wrongful death."

What's the solution? If the state can't afford $200 million, and it can't raise taxes without legislature or voters, it has to either (a) borrow $200 million or (b) cut spending for something else by $200 million.

If you borrow $200 million, whoever's lending you $200 million will want some interest. If you make some sort of law that you can't charge interest for money you loan to states to make these payments, nobody will want to lend money to states in this situation.
I had been meaning to blog for a long time. But I always found setting up my own blog to be cumbersome. Last summer I heard about Substack and just started writing. They make it quite easy. I used to write whenever I felt like it and then I started to do it once a week. It's certainly become more of a habit now and I am always thinking about what to write next.

I have always been obsessed about the stock market so that's what I started writing about: https://playingfordoubles.substack.com/

It's been a fun journey. It's fun to go back in time and have a diary of what I was thinking re: investment ideas and investment philosophy, and how things played out.

To answer your questions more directly
1) Process -- i try to have a list of topics and a date I want to publish by. I try to do my writing in 2 or 3 sittings. I dont write everyday.

2) I think I answered above.

3) At first it was a personal commitment to myself, then i started telling a few people about it, and now i guess its a combination of seeing more people reading the articles and also not wanting to lose my habit of writing every week.

4) Struggles - it's been a big time commitment. Also, yes, it's a bit odd to put yourself out there but now I actually use it to my advantage - since I write about stocks, if I dont feel comfortable writing about something, I probably shouldn't be investing that way!
> But generally, they are activists, taking aim at those they accuse of misusing power. They do so in very public ways, such as hijacking websites or forcing them offline.

Not sure about that.
Ok, we've linked to that from https://debian-handbook.info/2020/debian-handbook-for-debian.... Thanks!
Dozens of employees. Put in PTO. Facebook has 44k+ Employees. There are protests going on across the US/World. If anything the news should be how few employees are part of this.
"We are burning money like hay but we need these 20 people to be maintaining our Kubernetes clusters. THIS IS THE WAY."
Thanks a lot for the reply. I'll include it some time soon in the article update
I’m not talking about complexity to use but rather architectural complexity. Rather than being a simple fs driver, it (in the ZFS model) consumes raw devices then re-exposes them as software-defined volumes optionally with a file system api already exposed or as software defined block devices that can then be formatted with another filesystem.

It basically upends the entire separation of layers and requires a completely different approach to use.
In terms of linux documentation, generally, I have two recommendations. One, install Arch Linux in a VM and mess around with it a bit. Not because I particularly like it, or use it for any production purposes. But because the Arch wiki is such a wealth of information on individual daemons and subsystems.

Secondly, make use of the Arch wiki. By knowing at least the basics of how Arch is organized, you can better discern what technical reference material is unique to specific quirks of arch, and what is general to the same daemons running on debian or centos (postfix or dovecot, for instance).

examples of generically useful reference:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Time_Protocol_d...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd
I'm fully okay with having officers flee the occupation if they've given themselves reasons to fear a legitimately ruinous suit.
The ship moves to the left in this image, longways. The ghostly fields surrounding the ship both provide reactionless drive and protect the ship from most incoming laser and missile fire. Forcefields of course work by writers fiat, but in the stories it works out that a "down the throat" or "up the tailpipe" missile shot is a killshot.

This has the effect of making "crossing the T" as in olden sailing days (giving a broadside to the nose) is still effective in 3D space combat.

https://images.app.goo.gl/PMn9wgpV682Xa3fM7
Slide 5 “The College Addiction” talks about the addictive nature of Facebook.

Using the word addiction must have been a sound sales pitch in the early days. An expression that has quickly been replaced by technical terms like ‘engagement’ and ‘retention’.
The physical world building is so much better than everything else on TV that I almost hated the plot because I would have very much enjoyed ten seasons of just the Roci freelancing around in the solar system.
So you're saying the most likely interpretation of the situation is that the minneapolis county medical examiner is like a communist secret police executioner?
So cool to see computer archeology happening already.

Here is a quick glance of the game: https://youtu.be/63G9PrLLo_U

I love the tron-esque music :)
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I would argue this is actually fortunate. While financialization absolutely causes fragility of individual companies, it makes the aggregate more stable, as it's also easier to prop up (or pick apart) Hertz with minimal interruption of actual rental car service.

At the end of the day, for most companies, too much debt relative to cash flows is just a sign of overextension. And aggressive "real" business practices is hardly something that companies were immune to prior to financialization.
I actually started to use the free api user and I was able to get access to: 1. real-time, 2. hourly 3. nowcast, 4. daily and replace completely my DarkSky subscription.
All four endpoints are available on the free plan
I'm not getting what all this noise about cobalt is anyway.

Switch to LiFePO4 already, they're much safer and have more cycles in them. Yes, a bit less energy density, and have to switch BMS chips but still.
On some systems, less can automatically detect gzip compression via lesspipe: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
Interesting. You're right about the gap between civil and criminal law, but I can't think of any examples of someone going after civil liability for something that happened in the past under the legal reasoning that a law passed after the act makes the act one a person can be liable for. Can you give an example?
If you have the risk tolerance for it, I would strongly advocate for using a margin account and purchasing stock in companies you trust and understand instead of holding onto someone else's interpretation of the same idea (i.e. ETNs and other higher-order derivatives). Put another way, if you don't have the stomach for a margin account, you absolutely should not be putting any substantial amount of money into these kinds of derivatives either. It's arguably even more risky.

Sure, 5%+ APY interest sucks, but so does being completely wiped-out over something you have zero visibility into. At least with a margin account you can look into your assets and control your risk in a very direct and immediate way.

I personally run a 50/50 leverage ratio with my margin account (i.e. 2x). I review this status on a weekly basis and will make decisions based on high/low water marks (45/55%). I've previously held ETNs and other derivatives when I was still learning the ropes... Margin accounts are 10x less stressful for me by comparison. It's literally just a normal portfolio that I would otherwise be perfectly comfortable with, but tuned slightly for a longer-term investment horizon. The fees are negligible to me with dividend income and the bigger strategic picture at play.
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Aside from your first point, this seems like less an unfair comparison than just an unfavorable one.
Agreed. They could have gotten their point across while still redacting her personal information. Publishing that information is what makes it cross the line to doxxing.
So much for regression tests.
man of culture i see
Professor tactlessly provides pseudo-advice for toppling the Washington Monument
Thanks for the kind words, but you'll find that I'm not always right ;)
Fee is greater than profitability? They make a loss?
The urgency in that correction slip is amusing (Imperative! Urgent! A ghost word!), considering how inconsequential of a mistake it is.

What's the absolute worst case caused by a ghost word like dord - someone accidentally uses it in a paper?
If the move to the centralized kitchens and turn burgers into a commodity product, then I can see Uber being highly profitable. Costs can fall.
I mostly agree, however if you go too far on the other edge it does not help either.
> "Whenever I play with the kid I think he is pretty normal, except for that he is a lot smarter than anyone else. Like a smart boy stuck in a smaller childs body."

Classic sign of Asperger's syndrome. The rules for interacting with adults are clearly spelled out and consistent, requiring no intuition, unlike the rules for interacting with peers on the playground. So the child will seek out adults who take an interest in his school topics or special interests.
Please clarify: Are you against the practice of controlled digital lending of books scanned from physical copies in general, or do you merely have issues with the 3 months of unrestricted lending?
If your main claim is that VC interests are not fully aligned with founders or employees, sure, probably, but I don't seen any party having claim to some moral upper ground.

If you're talking about SV style VC backed startups, It's not evident at all to me that VCs are seeking higher risk than founders seeking VC financing or early employees seeking significant equity stakes. Furthermore, they only dedicate a large part their lives to the if it looks like it's heading towards a big payoff, otherwise that dedication is limited to a few years at best.
Erasing virtual machines to support virtual protest. Now that is very virtual.
When you slice a Moebius pizza, you can tell your friend he's getting a half, and slice it down the middle of the strip. Or else promise a third, and slice it a third of the way from the edge.

Either way, your friend isn't getting anything; in the first case, you end up with one pizza with a double twist; in the second, the piece your friend ought to be getting is a chain link connected to yours.
I think the more pertinent focus is to ask: was Intel created naturally or artificially? To that, we must look at its effects on human civilization, including the compounding network effects on the Valley. I see its merits as natural and therefore, per Aristotle, necessary. So I can't consider a parallel universe where Intel is not a wealth creation signal which causes the venture capital industry to grow to the point where now every cosmopolis has some sort of VC Fund.
>unworkable business model

That's not the right conclusion. The model is fine - you just jack up the price by 5 bucks and you're done. Lose some customers, but remainder is likely break even.

That -3.36 is a result of VC money pushing to companies to go head to head in a race to the bottom that isn't capped to zero. That simple fact distorts everything.

It's _NOT_ a problem with the model of sticking a burger on a bicycle. Look at the bike couriers in NYC - physically this can work and there are probably a fair number of people willing to pay +5.
> Defending or promoting violence of any kind is repugnant, doubly so when it's directed toward impoverished communities.

Turns out when you do this endlessly, as many Police departments have done for our entire lifetimes, people eventually get desperate and resorts to more "loud" means to get their point across.

If you want it to stop, listen. If you create an environment where extrajudicial murder is simply looked at as "the cost of doing business" you're going to get a world where riots become "the cost of doing business"
That's right, I use React when I have to.
Narratives trump facts
I think the key point is similar but slightly different. Traditional restaurants are not a good model for making food for delivery. The dishes are not created to be stored before eaten, it is higher cost because it is an experience to eat in the restaurant, and they are spread all over the place with customers also all over the place.

Traditional delivery services have optimized for all these things for a long time, for example pizza delivery.
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The percentages aren't particularly relevant to me, because I live off advances, not royalties. Sales are still meaningful, because they help determine what advance I get next time, but in my case the idea that I'm getting a cut of each one is basically just symbolic – I've already been paid. Just one of many reasons I could never have had the same career without my "legacy" publisher.

(I should note that your percentages are way off, by the way – in the US I "get" 25% of the cover price for digital and between 7.5% and 25% for physical depending on the edition.)
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For better or worse economies of scale with increasingly large upfront costs and low unit cost are what sustainably drive dominance and thus lead to a "monoculture" as a better strategy until they squander it sufficiently to be overtaken.

The truism is a bit off as well given the difference between "defacto standard" and "monoculture".

Of course not all monocultures are equal as well - commerical monopoly vertical intergrated, horizontal like ARM style designs made by others, open standards used by all, etc.
It also less effective when one isn't shutting down a production line. The underlying business doesn't need new code shipped constantly - just the NOC employees to be paying attention. Facebook makes the same revenue on a day when half their employees walk off.
I like everything I read today great work !!
the argument is that there shouldn't be police forces as we know them today -- that the whole issue of crime and punishment should be handled completely differently, with communities organizing themselves to prevent malicious activity. typically this argument goes along with the idea of abolishing prisons as well, and ending incarceration as punishment for crimes.

it's not a completely ridiculous idea -- there have been many societies throughout history that didn't have formal professional police forces, but still had functioning legal systems. it's also particularly appealing in the US because the police and prison systems here have such severe problems and seemingly cannot be reformed.

(unclear whether it could actually work at a large scale in the modern world, but I can see some of the appeal.)

police and prison abolition have also just become buzzwords, so sometimes people just use them to express frustration, or to describe what are really reforms.
I don't condone anything. It is simply a definition that is used. I found this that explains it way better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
> When did losing money become acceptable and the new normal for publicly traded companies?

It's when big investors decided they'd better keep a selected few companies on life support while they kill fair competition with their suicidal price dumping, and then milk the monopolies they inevitably become.

They don't lay off because they're on their deathbeds, they do so because of automation and optimization. No need for that many mechanical turks.
> If anything shouldn't they be glad about idiots with more money than sense investing poorly like that?

Outside of pure business, some of these companies are creating negative externalities that impact other industries and society at large:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-coronavirus-london

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22418725

Giving some companies too much money isn't just handing them a gun that they might shoot themselves in the foot with; it's giving them a rocket launcher armed with a cluster bomb.
Right, then you can optimize the delivery with routes to several customers as well. And they can make food that handles delivery better etc. But that is not what is happening now.
Wait I see how Arch Linux is the first recommendation, what's the second exactly?