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This seems a bit off-topic, but is more interesting to me than the topic, so I'll roll with it. :)

I don't think the hacker ethic is necessarily about saving the world, and I while I can hypothesize a startup that aligns with a hacker ethic, I have not in practice seen any examples.

The hacker ethic is about gaining a deep functional understanding of a system, and then using that deep functional understanding to make that system do something unexpected or cool.

As soon as you bring money into the equation, it causes people to do all sorts of predictable and boring things. There are certainly people with hacker cred who have gotten rich, but the money was incidental to the hacking. For example, Woz has it because he designed computers he wanted to use and that happened to turn out to be very profitable.
I don’t need any of the scientific research to choose dark mode, just my own opinion for my own uses.

I can use my phone in bed at night without the brightness being crazy. Case closed.

Also, it looks cooler, especially since my phone has an OLED display (which should also mean lower battery consumption). Case closed even further.
You do know supermarkets (or chains) charge brands for their physical position?[0] Items close to eye height get more attention from shoppers, and as majority of people are right-handed, the shelves on the right-hand side[ß] are more likely to be used first.

ß: supermarkets have spent decades optimising the customer travel patterns inside their stores so they know very well which way majority of the traffic flows on any given aisle.

0: https://qz.com/807723/inside-the-secret-backroom-deals-big-b...
damn krunker is really not bad at all
By the way: where does the Jepsen name come from?

I have wondered more than once and my browsing and searching skills are failing me on this one.

Edit: The closest link I can find is "Call me maybe" but I am not able to find a causation or even a direct link or mention for now.
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I also have it enabled on my phone and laptops constantly. I also turn down the brightness quite a bit. It always looks wrong for the first few moments, and then it looks perfectly normal. Just like wearing tinted glasses.
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You’re absolutely right and there is proof of this: https://news.gallup.com/poll/5248/big-business.aspx

Scroll down to “In general, do you think there is too much, too little or about the right amount of government regulation of business and industry?“ Well over 2/3 of Americans thing there is the right amount of regulation of businesses, or that there should be even less.

Scroll further to: “ In your opinion, which of the following will be the biggest threat to the country in the future -- big business, big labor or big government?”

Just 26% say “big business” is the biggest threat, while a whopping 67% say “big government” is the biggest threat.
Thanks for your followup thoughts. Pleased the conversation has evolved to focus on architecture and performance rather than naming alone.

re: GitHub comment deletion - We determined we should engage when we have easier to reproduce results, so we moved quickly to share them. That's what this post and diligence is, and I've re-engaged on the issues thread in question [1] with fuller remarks + reproducible Colab notebooks.

[1] https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/issues/5920#issuecomment...
> If the government is allowed to break up a large corporation then where does it stop? Will they come after my small business next?

This is like the corporate / upper class version of the "everyone in America is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire" trope. Maybe American millionaires are temporarily embarrassed billionaires?

If you are not in the Fortune 100, the idea of anti-trust ever applying to your business should never cross your mind. It's absurd. If you are in the Fortune 100 and anti-trust comes up, ease your mind by going out on your favorite yacht.

In fact history shows that breakups often increase shareholder value in the long term, so just make sure you own some of all the shards and you'll probably get richer.

As far as the government messing with you: yes, they can, but it won't be with anti-trust. There are a million ways the government can mess with you without ever going there.
This is not what is happening with flask/uwsgi. There is a fixed number of threads and processes with flask. The threads are only parallel for io and the processes are parallel always.
I apologise then. I didn't mean to insult scientists. I was more trying to point out the difference between The Scientific Method and Academic Practice.

Especially in the social sciences, there's been a whole discussion recently about how our current system of evaluating and rewarding scientists is not benefitting Science. There's even been high-profile commentators disputing whether the social sciences are actually Science at all.

As you're a scientist I won't bother explaining this to you. I'm sure you're aware of the problems here.

So my point is that for a study like this, there's lots of room for playing statistical games in order to achieve a more "sensational" result that is more publishable and more likely to get cited. We know this happens and we know this is especially rife in this area of study. So I have become much more sceptical of social-science studies showing broad generalised results about a subject applying to the whole human race. Especially if those studies contravene some commonly-held view about the subject. My default position has moved from "well, they know what they're doing so there must be something to it", to "I'm going to assume that they p-hacked their way to a sensational result until I have evidence to prove otherwise".

I might be wrong in taking that stance. I will change it if I have better evidence.
"Autonomous Zone" is a reference to this book by Hakim Bey:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone

It's an interesting read..

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/hakim-bey-t-a-z-the-...
> "Fixed costs are a small fraction of pay."

Across all employee types in the US, the estimate is that wages are ~70% of the costs and the the other ~30% are benefits and other fixed costs: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm. If that's small, I'd like to see your definition of large.

As another datapoint, though this site is likely a bit biased (they're selling consulting services), they provide an estimated breakdown for a $100k/year tech employee that comes to about 46% burden rate (i.e. for every dollar paid to the employee there's an extra 46 cents in cost): https://telegraphhillsoftware.com/hiring-technical-employees...
Or Web Services, Commerce (Whole Foods, Amazon.com), Media (Alexa, Ring, Fire TV, Amazon Studios)

Amazon has so many different components in their conglomerate that there are many ways to draw lines.
No, of them forcing anybody off their platform.

>The comment is referring to the fact that companies trying to sell goods online are given a choice to either forego 40% of potential revenues or work with Amazon. This gives Amazon an enormous amount of leverage over suppliers.

Antitrust law (at least in the US) is conducted on the basis of harm to consumers. If Amazon's negotiating power with suppliers results in better prices/outcomes for consumers, then there's not necessarily anything wrong with that. As a producer, nobody is obligated to buy what you're selling.

http://sites.middlebury.edu/econ0450f10/files/2010/08/bastia... is a nice argument why laws should try to benefit consumers, not producers.
Yeah, we have a union at work and can confirm we're allowed to move chairs, monitors... actually I can't imagine any work our employer would stop us doing unless there is a health and safety, ethical or PR issue
> the Antifas are asking for protection money from businesses within the zone

That's one of the most hilarious and absurd things I've ever heard. All of my antifa friends are the most wonderful, gentle nerds. They're gardeners, organizers, history buffs, parents, writers, table-top gamers. It's so bizarre (and shitty) that the public conception of "antifa" became twisted into this nonsensical cartoon of looters and pillagers (and mafiosi now, apparently).
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Most people don't get their news from cable news. Fox has a near monopoly on conservatives, and even they they capture a relatively small audience.

fox's highest rated show is 4.8 million viewers.

ABC and NBC each get 10 million viewers for nightly news, cbs gets 6 million viewers. CNN and MSNBC have lower ratings, but there are a alot of mainstream-to-liberal sources of news to choose from. Liberals tend to like John Oliver and the Daily Show over fox news.

And the 11 O'clock local news still tends to get a lot of views, I think more than all of those others put together.
> But blocking IO isn't one of those situations, so you can just use threads.

Threads and async are not mutually exclusive. If your system resources aren't heavily loaded, it doesn't matter, just choose the library you find most appropriate. But threads require more system overhead, and eventually adding more threads will reduce performance. So if it's critical to thoroughly maximize system resources, and your system cannot handle more threads, you need async (and threads).
Even though I personally think no knock warrants are unjustified and should be banned. I don't think it's reasonable to say it's a wanton disregard for life when so many judges and police departments disagree.

But I guess time will tell if they get charged and convicted.
Nah, that only makes the labor market less dynamic. It might protect the workers that already have a job, but it will definitely hurt those who don't.
It’s not that rust wasn’t a good fit. It’s that writing a regex engine from scratch in rust to be integrated into their c++ code base wasn’t the right choice for them when compared against integrating an existing c++ solution.
These arguments of “monopolies are OK because China does it” are slippery slopes to authoritarianism.
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