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> That sounds like an argument made up retroactively to try to justify something. Seriously?

If the latest console game rises from $79.99 to $80.00 it's a trivial increase, I agree. A hundredth of a percentage point.

But if a loaf of bread rises from $0.99 to $1.00 it's increased by an entire 1% - resulting in a noticeable impact on food price inflation. And when your inflation rate is around 0%-2% before, even a quarter of a percentage point is pretty noticeable to inflation-watchers.

IMHO we should do it anyway, though.
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I would argue that a large part of the value proposition of Harvard is it's brand name. Its a sort of veblen good that is intrinsically tied to a person when they attain it.

But yes, most technical knowledge is not very valuable in and of itself, especially in the information age.
I can't seem to find this. Is it Harvard Extension School or actual Harvard?

(Not to diminish the extension school; I have a credit from it and I was satisfied at the quality of instruction, but the admissions is definitely not the same as Harvard admission)
I feel the worst kind of meetings are those without an agenda. The best kind of meetings have an agenda sent out well in advance.
Thats something else, i never saw a Game on a READING-list. And my teacher never told, so now you go to that Apple Lc2 and play some FlightSimulator, 2 good landings or you have to-do it as homework.
Yes, intent matters.
The immune system remembers. Some people's better than others. It'll all be OK.
Then I'd have to ask how you measure progress? Are you referring to a moral/social sense of improving?

Right now, We're not just emitting co2, we're emitting more this year than last year.

And the amount more is rising as well.

Any actual measure of co2E emissions shows this problem is bad, its getting worse and its getting worse faster over time.
Dark red nail polisher works like a charm to (semi)permanently turn bright blue LEDs into dim red ones.
They replaced an iMac for me for free, without question.

(The problem was dirt “smudges” under the screen.
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The melt value of a copper penny (1982 or prior) is worth more than the face value. However, it's illegal to melt down legal tender currency. AND, fun fact, it's illegal to leave the US with more than $5 worth of pennies, so you can't drive to Canada with a bag of pennies and melt them there.

So some people are now starting to hoard copper pennies, waiting for the day when pennies are no longer legal tender, and then...they'll make a modest profit, I guess.
Exactly. I see the all or nothing, now or never argument being made very often. The 'all now, all together' is quite unlikely to happen so that leaves resigning to a 'never gonna happen' defeatism. Instead every little bit still counts, and we need to speed up contributing them to our efforts.
> If Bill Gates saved even one African child's life,how many people can say the same, even in Africa or the "global south"?

While Bill Gates saved numerous people in poor countries (not only Africa) he doesn't do nearly enough to start important conversations on racial issues /s

Really, fuck the guy who wrote this article. Bill Gates is untouchable. But not many are and they can be scared into not getting involved with sensitive issues for the fear of being attacked in this matter. This kind of shit journalism is actively scaring people from making a difference, as small as they can.
One thing to keep in mind is RRSP is a tax shelter at time of contribution. You avoid paying income tax now, but you still need to pay income tax on withdrawals during retirement. For pretty much everyone their "salary" will be lower in retirement since things like houses are paid off and expenses are just lower, so you'll pay a lower marginal rate overall (plus you get the income tax back so you have more capital to build from)

Another thread pointed out it's a max contribution of 18% of last year's income (which is then limited to 27k), so you need to make around $150k CDN to make the max contribution.

TFSA works the other way. It's a tax shelter for growth. You've already paid income tax on the capital, but don't pay any tax on gains you manage to make when you withdraw. If you withdraw below the contribution limit you can top it back off as well, so a TFSA is a good place to save things like house and car down payments (though it's even better if you have enough money to just leave it alone).
You are right, data is private and confidential when it is ingested to the cloud and/or stored in the cloud, not when processed. Encryption of "data-in-use" is the 3rd leg in data protection of sensitive data, and it became possible with hw capabilities in new CPU chipsets, from AMD and Intel, as it has to be hardware based (better security and performance).
Trivial inter-state mobility is a big obstacle for states doing grand social programs individually.

If a state provided universal healthcare for residents, it'd quickly be overwhelmed with "hard cases" from other states where coverage is a problem. Which would drive up costs, and taxes, and drive productive/healthy people out.

See the current inter-state shipping of homeless people, especially those who suffer mental illness, that is often done via bus tickets paid for by local governments looking to shed those people.
Nothing classified

Things like the SPN-41 are definitely far out of production (those cards are literally through-hole construction with discrete components and DIPs for ICs), Possibly SPS-48/49, lots of combat systems equipment, etc. There are tons of things like that where the contracts to build them ran out decades ago.

I suppose I shouldn't say totally irreplaceable, the government will contract with someone to go back and build new ones if they have to in order to outfit, but the process to do so would be so cost prohibitive it would be smarter to just create a whole new system. Imagine systems where the entire worldwide demand is less than 25 systems (one each for the CVNs and LHD/LHAs), all of them were built in the 1980s/1990s, and all of them were essentially hand built then. Nobody can profitably keep a production line open for them, even spares are built and provided with the systems at delivery.

So if you need a new one, you're kind of screwed. You either have to go back and pay a huge premium and hope the original company (if it exists, and sometimes it doesn't) can replicate their decades old work and build you a new one, or you have to contract to develop a new system. Kind of a catch-22 -- both are prohibitively expensive.

We had systems on my first boat in the 90s that had been built in the 60s and continually refurbished and upgraded since, no new ones had been built since the 70s and 80s. You can tell by the serial numbers.
Fair enough. That part is good. I just hate the “look at me, I’m so quirky I use an ugly monospace font. It’s like a typewriter, get it?”
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I assume you are referring to the Democrat controlled US House passing a resolution with bipartisan support and a 398-17 vote which condemns BDS[1].

BDS is still allowed to operate and the condemnation has no state-actionable consequences against BDS. And there are members of the US congress who openly support BDS.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/politics/house-israel-...
I think China and post American-war Vietnam both provide examples; each of them internally decided to make significant reforms in the direction of a market economy.

Ultimately what matters is incentives, and I do wonder what kind of utopian scheme you could come up designing specifically for that...
I've been thinking about this in regard to AWS. The encryption at rest for most things is completely transparent so the only thing your really protected against is someone walking into a data center and grabbing your drive somehow. Or improperly disposed drives. Maybe some kind of hypervisor or SAN exploit but I don't know much about that.

AWS seems to have turned part of the cloud operating model they are supposed to be responsible for back onto the user and no one questions it.
Not the poster but I imagine false positives as one specific cost to excessive monitoring unless there’s an underlying condition or history that necessitates it. One of the reasons in the US they raised the recommended age for mammograms.
Same is true in Alberta. You don't even have to live together in Canada, just be able to prove you lived together for 1 year somewhere.

I met my girl in Australia and between working on a farm together for a year and then a "short" visitor visa (6 months) in Canada we met that 1+ year requirement. Didn't hurt that I do IT remotely.

My understanding is that it was originally set up to allow gay couples to apply, as most countries didn't/still don't have gay marriage laws on the books. However only offering it to one group would be discriminatory, so everyone can use it, in theory. In my apartment building there is at least one other couple, a Scottish guy and Canadian girl, who did the same.

Plus, as the parent mentions, regular marriage is on the decline in N. America too.

That said, common law still carries weight in things like inheritance, and if you split they can petition for your property and money, just like in a divorce. They just have fewer/more limited rights to things, and there is a 2-year window to file after splitting, while a divorce decree can be far more encompassing and longer lasting.
That's writing off a lot of the educational benefits of a university. YouTube lectures don't recreate the college educational experience. You don't get the group sections with the TA, office hours, personal feedback on your assignments, a group of students studying the same thing who you can work with, undergrad research experience, personal tutoring from graduate students (which undergrads at some elite universities like Harvard and Oxbridge get through their dorms), etc.

Most people don't pay much to attend Harvard anyways. Only the rich pay anything near full tuition. It's probably cheaper for the average family than most state colleges.
RC servos do not have encoders so you would have to calibrate them. Using off-the-shelf servos with encoders is much easier.
I see this exact same thing. Let’s take Splunk into consideration. Administrating splunk, all of our feeds into splunk, and trying to keep us from overrunning our quotas is about 1 full time person, and half a full-time person worth of DevOps work yearly. That’s in addition to the subscription costs we pay to Splunk directly.

Every piece of software requires in-house support; even pagerduty and their ilk require management time to set up schedules, adding and removing people. It’s not a lot of time, about .1 to .2 of a person’s time for all of our pageable employees, but a manager’s or leader’s time is not cheap.
I do prefix+12RandomLetters@blahblah and every potential sender gets it's own random address. Then I use filters to move mail to predefined folders. What's left is spam.

If a mail comes in from an unknown sender to known address I know that the address is compromised.

Ideally I would like to plug my password manager to generate an address and automatically add email filters in place.

Although I was thinking about a service that would just give randomalphanumeric@example.com for all its users, so they would be on the same host and no connection between addresses could be implied. It could or even should be receive only.
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A friend of mine in college was an international student from China. He was from a city I had never heard of and it boasted a population of 7 million people.
The XTS/XEX modes would be a proper way to implement this. They use the same concept of xoring an address based tweak into the message.

Two subtle but important features of these modes are:

1. the tweak is xored both before and after the permutation

2. the tweak is derived from a secret and the address in a secure way

(I don't know if AMD chose such a secure mode, or used some insecure homebrew tweaking scheme)
Full benefits could phase in over time. You could get increasing discounts on public services until you reach full state membership. This would be no different than out of state school fees.
> all have serious carbon dioxide reduction targets

They will drop their targets the moment the competition intensifies and threatens their profits. Voluntary commitments do not work. We have learned it the hard way over the last 30 years. Paris accord is a primary example of that.
> I have added this capability to every commercial web property I've worked on.

I tried doing email validation the modern way: if '@' in emailfield then return True else 'email address needs an @'. The user gets a confirmation email anyway, and the sign-up process was literally name, email, tick a box that you read the privacy policy, and click continue, so they can just re-do that if they typo'd the address.

Iirc the boss decided to set requirements for a regex that I was to implement instead. Or maybe he made the regex and I tweaked it saying "this won't match .amsterdam domains", not sure anymore.
Consumer electronics are usually a letdown. The solution should be to buy fewer of them.

Many of these consumer electronics don't actually save you time, but instead save you impulse control. There's nothing wrong with traditional headphones, except you have to think about putting them on, and wrapping up their cord when you take them off. This doesn't actually take time to do, mind you, but instead requires the consumer to exercise some impulse control, or to ignore some inconvenience.

We're a long way away from something like the invention of the washing machine, which saved countless women hundreds of hours a year. Prior to a washing machine, you'd be stuck next to the laundry for the duration of the laundry. Laboring the entire time. The washing machine automated a monotonous task, and allowed women to do nearly anything else while the laundry was going. It was an enormous game changer.

Compare that to something like Google Home. What does it do? It prevents you from having to type in your phone? It's not as if the voice prompt takes a meaningfully different time than typing a query into a phone. And for that matter, it's not as if walking over to a traditional computer and typing in your query takes a significantly greater time than either alternative. No, what the Google Home does is prevent you from having to think about switching your task, and that's about it.

Are AirPods any different? Corded headphones don't prevent you from doing anything, they just require a small amount more impulse control: to wrap them carefully every time. And in exchange, you get a product that is: expensive, has a short shelf live (due to using a battery), and apparently sometimes has reliability issues.
It is a fact that edX courses are developed separately and with a different target audience in mind. The material is demonstrably different. They are a nice resource, but they are not an argument that Harvard classes are "worth $20"
A global pandemic doesn't sound like "any reason".
Coal is used to generate 40% of electricity in the world.

We’re still building them globally to help give electricity to 7 billion people.

All these little ideas to save a fractional percent is like the drunk looking for his keys under the light.

Decade after decade of using coal like this is a much bigger problem.
The problem with checks and balances is that partisanship is paralyzing. If each side deems their causes good and the opponent evil that must be stopped, nothing happens. Some mechanism is required to build cooperation. Patriotism used to serve that role in the US but it’s not functioning since it too is becoming political.
Pull request management, code reviews, CI flows, github actions, github does have many features that other git clients don't, certainly not a self hosted git or SVN repositories, and those features save a lot of time just in the ease of initial setup.
The Supreme Court has ruled ideas like this unconstitutional.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-18-mn-38325...
Oh, I wasn’t trying to be insulting. I think it’s a sign of 1) how legitimately hard “basic” math stuff is for a lot of people, and yeah, fractions seem to be the earliest point at which a lot of (even actually, truly smart!) people stop really “getting it”, 2) people not getting why they should care, and never being sufficiently motivated to care—frankly a lot of math comes off not just as pointless, but like mathematicians are trolling the mere normals, as commonly presented, and 3) “math people” largely not getting that math beyond basic arithmetic actually doesn’t matter very much for a huge portion of jobs and lives, and that they’re failing as a field to communicate the ways in which it could.

You might guess from the above that I’m pretty firmly in the camp that thinks “k-12 math just isn’t mathy enough and that’s why it’s bad” is dangerously wrong. You’d be right about that.
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5g also doesn't beat my wifi. My wife and I slashed our data plans during COVID.
> We need to stop using technology to tear apart the social fabric of society.

Yes, we need to start using it to weave a new fabric. And universities are some of the best places to try this.
Many technologies needed to solve the climate crisis are nowhere near ready
Missing: gains in time to market.
That's not true is it? Most modern CPUs dynamically scale in response to load, and pull more or less power to do that.
For smaller organizations, the "plus" could outweigh the "minus."

For example, if the "beancounter" calculation says that the SaaS tool is "not worth it," but bringing it in might significantly project the brand, then it may be worth it, in a big way.

Same with advertising, but advertising is a bit easier to measure (after the fact, as opposed to before). Brand value is really difficult to measure in any kind of empirical manner.

But a bug reporting tool, if exposed to customers, is a very important branding surface.

Error handling/reporting is a huge deal that is often neglected by tech folks. For many of us, a console print or log entry may be quite sufficient, but for an end user, they may need a lot more HI.

I've encountered some ghastly bug reporting tools that were obviously designed by techs, for techs.
Those decisions are great! The choice of an ugly mono space font isn’t, and isn’t relevant to those design goals.

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Datacenter grade stuff won't sleep as conservatively as a desktop grade CPU.
The main flipside is that you also have to play by the publisher's rules, so length, deadlines, and (importantly) price. You probably can't set a lower price or give away digital copies like you can if you self-publish which may work against a desire to use the book for exposure/reputation/etc.
FWIW, if you’re building a paging system, you’re doing it wrong. There’s open source projects which can do HA paging for you.

It requires a higher touch than pagerduty, but pagerduty isn’t 100% labor free either.
>There was resistance when Canada dropped the $1 bill in favour of a Loonie (a $1 coin with the image of a loon on it). People bitched about having too much change in there pocket, pockets became too heavy, etc. I do however see more coins in tip & donation jars now then I ever saw paper money.

Sounds like you know why that is, because people don't want to be stuck carrying around big coins.

>Side note: If you drop the penny, for the love of $diety change your sales tax structure so that it's a multiple of 5. 5%, 10%, 15%, etc... Since Canada changed but left the taxes the same (14% in Ontario IIRC) there seems to be a lot of rounding-off in favour of companies instead of consumers. $0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.

Over the billions of dollars spent in a state per quarter, you are either seriously screwing consumers, or seriously reducing state government revenue. I'd really hate my 6% sales tax to be raised to 10% so that we could kill a coin I don't even use (last paid cash probably a year ago).
Now I just picture someone passing away quietly only to be found weeks or even months later in a still immaculately clean house.
Not only that but the actual college experience can be very valuable too. There’s a reason why people find it hard to make friends after college. It’s about the last time you will be spending a lot of time, physically, with a bunch of people your age.

You can get some of that at work, depending on the company, but in a very limited way. You can make friends with co-workers, but you probably shouldn’t go partying with them for example. You probably shouldn’t date someone you met at work, but dating someone you met in one of your classes is more natural.
I fail to see a reason why code reviews, in a professional environment, would go that way if the environment is not screwed up.
Accountants often work by reaching the same number in two different ways, effectively performing a parity check. It spurs from double-entry, the foundation on which accounting is built.
Back when I worked in IT (15+ years ago), I went onsite to a bank that used some seemingly-random /20 subnet for their internal network.

Turns out that they had some piece of hardware that came with a "hard-coded" IP address (from Japan) and instead of figuring out how to change it, they just used that entire subnet as their internal range.

It took me several hours to figure this out as I was working on their Cisco equipment and trying to add sane firewall rules...
I see you mastered in not reading articles.
As feedback, this comment took forever to get to the point. It would really benefit readers if you just started with: ‘Contrarian point of view - we don’t need these devices in society because we have an abundance of human labour for that and there are far bigger problems in society to be solved.’ It’s best to get your conclusion out there early rather than relying on the reader to find it.

You don’t really provide much of an argument for not using or developing a device like this other than there’s an abundance of human labour. What about if this device became much cheaper than human labour?

To your other point about other problems to be solved, if we only ever worked on the problems pivotal to humankind (e.g. global warming) then a lot of things that are useful but not pivotal to human existence would never have been invented.
A research paper the prototype is based on - https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00500

An idea ingenious in its simplicity, really - make a beep and watch for a spike in WiFi traffic. If there's a persistent correlation between the two, then someone's relaying audio to the Internet.
I was going to post the same.
Sorry, here's your cloud fees back.
> And if it is encrypted, does it really matter who is listening?

If your argument here is “who cares if we can trust the hardware if the encryption works” I’d encourage you to think about how you know that the encryption “works” if you can’t trust the hardware. A lot of the encryption is out of necessity far removed from the end user, it’s not exactly PGP over email. And everything is never encrypted, the operations of mobile networks require a lot of extra metadata about the operations that is still sensitive even if you completely disregard the traffic over the network.