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> As for unfalsifiable, you claim there are dog whistles in every second sentence SA writes, and dog whistles are, by definition, unfalsifiable. You can claim anyone can see it if they look critically enough because if someone suggests they have looked critically and found nothing, you can simply claim they didn't do it right and mosey on. Dog whistles are also, by the way, fundamentally incompatible with the principle of good faith you claim to want to prosper. It's an interesting conceit, I'll give you that.

I don't know what a "dog whistle" is or what it's used for. I explained exactly what I meant by "coded" and I made a point about emotionally charged language by rewriting quoted texts to demonstrate good writing vs bad writing.

It's all clearly stated in all my posts. You are welcome to actually quote me and demonstrate directly instead of mis-directing and mis-characterizing what I said / wrote as being a "dog whistle".
I find it is hard to start an online company, especially if you do not already have a large network.
What happens is you build something, and then.. nothing. I sometimes wonder just what percentage is luck, reaching that right person at the right time.
(I launched my product on producthunt today so I'm very aware of the need for an audience )
I think I understand that you’ve pivoted to selling a resume builder for data science workers.

It seems to me from your story that you could use some slightly more hard-nosed business sense. I won’t pretend I know what you should do, but I do have a few reactions to your story and situation.

Building out a data science/ML jobs site that is trusted by ML workers is a good idea, and could be really valuable. One downside; it’s such a large and competitive market that you will be competing with well-financed groups. But, it has a lot to recommend it, not least that these workers are extraordinarily valuable to corporations right now.

I get that you want to aim at workers first for cultural reasons.

What I would do, immediately, as in today, would be to reboot your recruiting business and start getting set up with corporations who are hiring ML workers as a recruiter.

The problem you have right now is that you are charging the side of the two-sided ML jobs market that has no money; the workers. You should charge the side that is willing to pay up to seven figures for good ML workers.

Now, how do you keep your culture and values? There are lots of possibilities — you could keep charging the $10, but offer to forward the candidate to companies that match the resumé. You could make a ‘transparency pledge’ to the workers, as well as do revenue sharing with them.

You could build out the site into a trusted sort of glassdoor for ML workers where people (that you have vetted, I’d suggest) can anonymously tell others (and most importantly, you) which companies are good and which are bad.

At any rate, I’d strongly urge you to think about hitching up your economics to the side of the market that can get tens of millions of dollars of value out of the people you’re working so hard to help — keep helping the people you want to; getting them a job is a lot more help than prettying up their resume.

And, congrats on the sale! It feels good when someone wants what you’re selling :)
No, it's worse at flat management companies like Valve. Since you don't have anyone in charge, and everybody works on what they want, there is no objective measure of whether or not you're doing well. Everything comes down to politics, from bonuses, to who gets laid off during downsizing, being very good at your job isn't enough. That's how it's been at the flat management company I worked at, and how it seems everyone who's worked at one describes it.
What does this mean for PHP on Azure App Service plans? Are they just going to use a different version?
Yes, home to world's smartest people https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4799326/day-at-genius-cam...
Completely disagree. Shame is a very potent society shaping factor. Without it humans wouldn't be as civilized.

So we should just use shame appropriately.
Only if there's some possible connection to the while public.

It's highly likely that whoever is buying art forgeries is spending money they defrauded from the public, so I'd rather those funds get redistributed to an artist and laborers.

Also, the harm, as a percentage of victims' net worth, is trivial compared to crimes the authorities don't help solve.
Because FB doesn't support that. Either you build it in and it runs some code when your app starts or you can't use it.

I would vote for "not use it" but others want Facebook integration supported and happily share information on all their users to Facebook ...

P.S. I believe part of this is also Apple, who don't like runtime loading of code, as that makes their verification harder, but I'm no iOS dev or user.
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What Are the Main Reasons Advisors Are Interested in Advising?
Hi there,

I'm looking to bring on an advisor at my new company. The purpose? To help us refine our product (media) in accordance to a certain market that his business, also media, has succeeded in.

However, when approaching this advisor (founder of a company), I want to talk in his interests and therefore need to understand better the range of benefits for advisors.

For an advisor who already has their own successful company, while a percentage of ownership might be nice - capital isn't something they need. And therefore, locking in their time (e.g. a call once per month), for capital, doesn't seem something they would take (I know I wouldn't). I am aware there are other benefits and incentives for being an advisor, but it would be good to have a clear understanding of those.

Can anyone advise, in relation to advisors who already have enough capital to not sell their time?

Thanks,
Oliver
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It's a good point, I just wish I learned that lesson a bit quicker. I guess some lessons you have to learn the hard way.
I am not saying that money is the end all be all.

I am saying that the intellectually honest reason is that “I have the money to spend on doing things I don’t want to do myself”. Not, “Because I make $50/hour, for 8 hours a day, my time is worth $50 and every hour I get back in my life is worth $50/hour”.
And everything was already working for me fine before that. Admittedly I do also have every Facebook domain blocked through NextDNS.
By 2025 CO2 levels will be higher than at any time in the last 3.3M years
Is this a Deja Vu https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097459 ?
It's using e2e during transmission. On your local device, it is plaintext.

They make a copies of that plaintext database for backup purposes:

One on google drive (not mandatory, but it IIRC by default), which is still plaintext but not accessible to yourself.

One on your local SD card (if you ask for it), which is encrypted with a key that's on your phone but was sent down from FB servers. If you switch your phone, and try to restore that database, it will contact FB servers to retrieve the key.

> if that's the case then facebook can't "give you" the key, because they don't have it, it's supposed to be on your phone and only there..

Regardless of the backup encryption, e2e doesn't mean that they don't have the key; it just means that it leaves one phone encrypted and enters the other encrypted without being decrypted along the way -- unlike, e.g. regular email, which is usually encrypted in transit by TLS, but gets decrypted and re-encrypted at every stop along the way.
I really wish somewhere would run an actual trial on this. We've had dozens of sub-trials (not universal, not instead of other benefits, not very long or cancelled before end date etc). Then we would KNOW. Until then, everything is just speculation.
Solar panels, and EV's are pocket change to the property tax breaks given to people holding tens/hundreds of millions in property in the name of preservation.

I would love to have huge ranch on some of the most prime lakefront property in texas 15 mins from downtown Austin and pay a tiny fraction of what my neighbors do for a tiny fraction of the land.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tax-day-farms-owne...

I'm all for greespace preservation, but if someone is getting an exception for not developing their land, then it should be open to the public as green space.

edit: (and I should point out the property valuation of the dell ranch in that article is way out of wack with the fact that adjacent housing subdivisions are having their 1/4 acre lots valued in the 200k range for taxing purposes. So turning it into a subdivision would put the just the land value in excess of a billion $ for taxing purposes.)
The largest cohort with these premium services take the free trial and then immediately cancel. Then you have to earn them back.
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What is so scary about there being a market for a flat fee service allowing you to listen to any song you want, any time you want?

The act of listening to music doesnt require a vast server infrastructure. Thats why people could still listen to music they had stored offline during the outage.
Another well known UK conman/forgery 'mastermind', was John Drewe, who met and manipulated a struggling artist, John Myatt:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3S2kkGQow

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/18/magazine/a-20th-century-m...

>'His unorthodox formula of emulsion and K-Y Jelly was fast-drying, allowing him to paint quickly, if obsessively. "I took no trouble technically," he says. "There was a negligence to everything I did."

Even so, his pictures were passing as genuine and selling for tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. He was enjoying a financial success he could never have approached by painting Myatts. Perhaps no other forger of his or any other time has worked so prodigiously and in so many styles...'
If you read his 10 year post he mentions the drop in subscribers is due to his neglecting much needed maintainence and feature additions while working on other commitments (such as The Great Slate). Having made the requisite upgrades and so on, he is now, presumably, able to devote more time to these issues.
Forget about cutting taxes, MMT holds that we can in theory institute a regressive UBI program that gives cash to people == to their effective income tax (thereby zeroing it out). The only limit, per MMT, is real resource scarcity.

Now skip the extra step, and have bondholders just get paid back directly by the money printer.
The blank page without context gives no clues as to what words might make interesting searches. Maybe put a list or word cloud of key words off to the side to suggest ideas?
I don't know if I'd cite England and Australia as safe societies
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Yahoo finance has charts and all sorts of data. I think you can setup alerts. I believe they have APIs to access it too.
I was a Gentoo user about 5 years ago. With Gentoo you can have both, if you only use stable packages you shouldn't broke your system. But if you are using bleeding edge packages thinks can break.
The Concorde B was a bandaid on a massive gaping wound.
Putting industrial waste onto food, bad, bad idea. Look into the amount of contaminants in former steel mill sites.
This is neither untethered nor RCE.
Quibi has the problem that other platforms like it have: thinking celebrities are the right way to entice people. Luminary Podcasts has the same issue.

Majority of gen Z / millennial folks that I know, don't care about Trevor Noah or any of the late night comedians. They care more about famous YouTubers and TikTok stars.
Wonder if it was due to an expired or revoked certificate?

Maybe the mass revocation of EV certs happening ~today is the trigger?
Not just paintings but any art really. You could likely expand that to anything creative.

Someone could make a frame by frame reproduction of a Kubrick film, or cover a Bowie song as faithfully to the original as possible. There is some value in the execution, the talent needed to pull it off. There's so much more value in the idea, the situation that led to its development, the blood, sweat and tears.

It just so happens that in fine art there is scarcity and that drives the price up.
Side interest.
Some of the write-in comments were interesting such as "there are some limits such as financing the entire world's output" and "this will make it impossible to sell more bonds". I would be interested to see a debate between a mainstream and MMT economist, to hear how a MMT supporter would address these critiques.
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Actually, there's a really good example that disproves this in this video on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Teacher pay is highly variable. Teachers are usually paid above median for their local community.
I felt similarly. I have enjoyed most of their scripted comedy and drama, but I was surprised that they ended after two weeks (10 episodes.) I was expecting to be drawn into some of these shows over months and be hooked on several stories so I’d continue my trial. Releasing only ~90 minutes of programming per title, and not having many new titles, made it easy to let my trial expire.
> to be fair it does seem mostly people with an older SDK version based on the comments.

No, I don’t think there’s any “to be fair” in that, unless those SDKs have been officially EOL’d. Even then it shouldn't take down the whole app, Facebook should just break.

That this only happens with some SDKs certainly makes the problem less severe than last time, but only relatively.
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I was referring to annual income like the article, not the house price.
The article mentioned that as their happy annual income, which is what I was referencing.
OH. Pop!_OS is awesome. Thanks a lot!
I think parent would accept that, were it applied equally to all.
Word for Mac is almost the perfect evolution of the UI.

It has the menu bar, which every Mac app has since it's a fixed and global UI element. It has the ribbon which is good for many users and makes many tasks easily accessible.

I'm not sure how you'd make this compromise on Windows without making a mess of things, but on the Mac it works very well.
I actually went to the post office today (couple of hours ago) and tried to use the national postal carrier's app to get my pickup code. The application just kept crashing. I showed it to the man at the counter and he said that others had had the same issue, although he didn't specify if it was earlier the same day or way back. I wonder if it was the same issue.
It would be interesting to have a discussion about some of the Austrian critiques of MMT or UBI on this site. I often see mischaracterizations and generalizations of those views here.
No one thinks he was good. He and his cronies did immeasurable damage to US prestige and treasury.

But he wasn't openly in league with hostile powers, wasn't blatantly corrupt, and didn't utterly meltdown when faced with a crisis. Arguably, this is because Chaney and other Neo-Cons were calling the shots, but things seemed mostly stable.

Trump is all of those negatives but without the veneer of good faith and competency.
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> And then you end up with explanations like "Gravity is like a deformation of a rubber sheet".

If you haven't read Eistein's "Relativity : the Special and General Theory", I strongly recommend you do.

It's a book aimed at laypeople, that requires only a basic (1st undergrad semester) understanding of calculus and vectors (not vector calculus, not linear algebra, just vectors). Yet, it's precise and correct, sacrificing conciseness to get easiness to understand - like every teaching book should.

So, no. It's perfectly possible to explain it without the bad analogies.
I am also the same, I have a complete block on how to find things, they just aren't where I remember even though as others have pointed out its 12 years since the ribbon appeared.
- learn to break things, git affords you a place to do this (XR will for the masses in domains we haven't considered this idea yet. I'm largely all in on the HL2 right now)

- try out as many projects as you can, specifically the k8s ecosystem as this is where most efforts are orbiting

- learn bash, it's an automation super power. Keyboard shortcuts too, make lots of scripts, aliases. People perceive wizardry when you move around code / computer at 2-5-20x the speed they do. Also, use the mouse as little as possible

- learn people skills (lots here), there are many discussions here you can find by search. Also consider business (startup ideas around iteration and get-to-market-fast ). Most elite devs keep the biz context in mind and that's part of what makes them special.

- keep all you things in something like GitHub, it becomes a bit of a library or archive for projects, and also I a resume / portfolio

* This all depends on the elite type of dev you are referring to
"this will make it impossible to sell more bonds"

Forget about actually cutting taxes directly, MMT holds that we can in theory institute a regressive UBI program that gives cash to people == to their effective income tax (thereby zeroing it out). The only limit, per MMT, is real resource scarcity.

In this implementation, the bonds are still being paid back via taxes, but those taxes are coming from the Fed's printing of money.
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Why would WhatsApp want to make it hard to stay on their platform?
That is now the how manyth time this happened?

Like wtf. they have so many resources how is it possible that even with that they can't make their sdk error resilient.
I thought this was a pretty interesting little event in the climbing world and was interested in peoples' thoughts related to the tech aspect.

Nick Wilder's post essentially covers everything with related links, but this all blew up from a blog post: https://www.melaninbasecamp.com/around-the-bonfire/2020/7/6/...

After skimming through Melissa's proposal, it appears that she put a lot of work into what should have really just been a suggestion for a feature.

To me, her proposal looked like someone who was new in tech trying to get something in her portfolio. However, the interesting aspect of this story, in my opinion, is the question of how should the show-runners of these relatively small websites be open to accepting feedback/suggestions but also not get accused of stealing IP.

Obviously the suggestion of it being a race related incident made it blow up more than it likely would have but it's still something that I worry about myself when it comes to someone giving me advice for my own personal projects.
>If we are the rich west, why can't we just take care of everyone?

What does it mean to "take care of everyone"? That their "basic needs" are met? What do you define as basic needs? I will assume that this will include at least food, housing, and clothing. Is it acceptable to provide everyone with rice? Potatoes? Do we have to provide them meat? Is it acceptable to offer them housing somewhere in the country or does it have to be near where they currently are? If the latter then how do you determine who gets displaced further away?

Now the answer is likely going to be "we give them money, so they can decide". The problem with this answer is that life doesn't cost the same everywhere in the US. $1,000 a month is enough to live on in some areas, whereas others $1,000 will barely get you a living space and nothing else. Obviously you can't give people in more expensive areas more money, because then everyone would want to be in the expensive areas.

So, how much should we give people?

When answering that question keep in mind that there are 330 million people living in the US. If you give everyone $1,000 a month it will cost you $4 trillion. US tax revenues in 2019 amounted to $3.5 trillion.[0]

To put this into perspective: US mandatory spending in 2019 was $2.7 trillion.[1] This is stuff like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans programs etc. You can't just renege on all of these obligations, because the government gave people guarantees on them - that's what they paid taxes for. It's unlikely people would accept less money than what they were promised. Not to mention that you probably couldn't cut Medicare and Medicaid anyway. That's already a trillion gone from the budget.

You probably also can't cut much from discretionary spending. You'd be cutting the military and basically every other non-social service the government does. Stuff like NASA and environmental research etc.

Ultimately, just $1,000 a month per person would require an enormous budget increase to the tune of >$2 trillion a year. Keep in mind that the US budget deficit is already at $1 trillion a year. You'd have a deficit of $3 trillion or require an enormous tax increase (almost doubling tax revenue). And it still hinges on there being no reduction in productivity.

If you then want public healthcare too, then it gets even more expensive. Medicaid covers 64.1 million people[2] at the cost of $409 billion.[1] Getting rid of Medicare and Medicaid and replacing it with healthcare for everyone would add up to an extra cost of ~$1.3 trillion, assuming that the healthcare costs for everyone else is about the same per person as it is for people on Medicaid.

"A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking real money."

[0] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56325

[2] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...
Intel's x86_64 and AMD's amd64 are RISC underneath. Does that make everything in the mainstream RISC, just that most of it isn't exposed to the user? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-h...
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Not just art. For example, hundred dollar bills.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, the initial jurisdiction (state vs federal) issue started with Murphy, a murder case. When the Murphy jurisdiction issue began to achieve significant legal traction, McGirt adopted the same strategy. The SCOTUS reviewed the Murphy case with only 8 Justices, didn't issue a decision (they probably voted 4:4 in conference), and used the McGirt case (with 9 Justices) to decide the jurisdiction issue.
The links in my comment provide a lot more info, it's a remarkable narrative. If the initial Murphy attorney had not first been a geologist (and then a mineral rights litigator) the whole situation probably would never have surfaced.
Great question. This is THE show stopper for UBI as presented by any proponent today.

The only way to implement it is by stopping the runaway rent inflation by implementing a counter-force to rent price increases. One such technique is battle tested Land Value Tax which was responsible for massive successes of Asian Tiger economies such as Singapore.

This problem has been understood more than 100 years ago by then popular economics movement following economist Henry George who almost made it to mayor of New York and whose book (Progress and Poverty) coined the term Progressives (in the original anti-trust meaning).

They realized that after you curb the ever inflating rent prices, people can finally be freed up of all excess income being eaten away by land monopoly (city landlords) and other monopoly businesses of that era.

Once you have the money necessary to fund UBI through Land Value Tax for example (which is able to raise more than current tax system with ZERO negative impact to the economy), you then realize that the main problem you were designing UBI for (massive rents eating away your paycheck) went away. So as a government you then reinvest the so to be UBI money into eg. infrastructure, such as city development, roads and networks so that private business can thrive on top of that. Congrats you've now become the economy #1 in the world (this is how asian tigers got so successful).

The only country successfully implementing this at scale today seems to be China, although more so for their expansion in Africa than domestically
(eg. acquiring prime city land by helping constructing subway systems in key metro areas).