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Frankly, this kind of hubris is dangerous. The point here is not that financial instruments are 'fake' wealth or 'nothing more' than the value that people put on real assets, that is the entire crux of the matter. You literally require expertise in higher maths to understand the valuations. And even those with that understanding sometimes fail to manage the risk. The guys who literally wrote the book on modern finance bought the global financial system to its knees b/c of their mismanagement [0].

The systemic risks that these insanely complex valuations pose to the economy are real and matter. I'm talking about food, housing, education, infrastructure, health care ... real things the matter for long term growth. This concept needs to be thoroughly appreciated. The notional values here are important b/c they are powerful indicator of the impact of default on the real economy [1]. The impact is in fact so great, that the Fed is willing to print trillions and trillions of $$$ to save financial systems from their failure. But a maxim of economics is that "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." And right now our government is literally feeding the capitalists while watching millions of people go w/o food, housing, health care. It's egregious injustice and insult to people of Enlightenment everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475366
I like the idea of using it as a tool to mitigate writers block. Say you're writing a school paper and you've done your research but you can't seem to keep your train of thought flowing. With gpt3 you could have it generate a sentence prompt based on your previous writing, or maybe you have it write your conclusion for you that summarizes your thoughts from the paper. There are lots of possibilities in that arena.
The more interesting question is what will you buy for million dollars in old age.

Some common answers might be:

* healthcare, always expensive

* things for your kids, including education, housing, access to jobs

* random consumer spending including holidays or travel

* charity

Presuming you were able to actually afford saving $400/mo while living reasonably comfortably which is definitely not a given and not quite as common as expected by some.

And presuming you're not altogether unlucky in your strategy, which can happen.

You will have probably also accrued still useful assets to pass on or use. Or lost them.
To be honest, there is probably a power law graph in play here when it comes to how many people are infective and infect others. If we can vaccinate / prevent spread in the demographics that are prone to mixing a lot / threaten spread, we can quickly curb it and then focus on people who are less likely to contract it / spread it around.
At this point, I'm inclined to think that the only benefit VC-funded companies provide to the consumer is by subsidizing the price of the service. Uber, WeWork, DoorDash etc are all piling up losses by undercutting competitors to gain market share. That cannot last. At some point, the other shoe will drop.

Be ready to jump ship if the benefits no longer exceed the costs (lock-in, bad business practices, sale of personal information), etc.
AI startup that raised $100M hid its problems behind Covid-19
> You could never trust the other person (or the person who fooled them) to not mix some less valuable metal on with their coins

Another major problem was people taking shavings from the edge of coins and trying to pass them off as unaltered; it's the reason many coins have some kind of pattern imprinted around the edge.
> Lufthansa was on the verge of bankruptcy and agreed to a €9 billion bailout from the German government. In an effort to save the company, the German government told Lufthansa that they don’t need to obey EU consumer protection law, and that they don’t need to issue refunds.

It's so sad to see capitalism getting killed by bureaucrats out of self interest.
Strongly disagree that the CLI is intuitive. It’s very easy to kick off unintended actions or back oneself into a corner while doing things that seem reasonable. It’s like using Git in that it’s very hard to do well without a good understanding of the fundamentals, which feel almost nothing like managing disks normally. Lots of things require multiple steps that aren’t obviously related and you’d better not screw them up.

It’s way at the far end of the “must RTFM to use safely, and then probably brush up on it again before actually doing anything unless you use it daily” spectrum of intuitiveness.

I like my ZFS mass storage volumes for my home server. I worry I’ll screw them up and/or burn an hour googling and reading the manual every time I have to touch them, though.
Obviously nobody will force you to get the vaccine. A lot of people will be ready to take the minimal amount of risk. I assume you are not forced to work from home while taking care of kids at the same time :)
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How difficult would it be for a maker type to cobble together a portable vim editor using one of these?
I can't speak for OP, but consider: the very strong scientific consensus is that the earth is warming and that warming is caused by human activity; the best-case study I've seen showed 75% consensus among Americans and that's sharply up over previous years.

The gap between scientific consensus and common belief has been driven by "regular" misinformation campaigns: promotions of conspiracy theories, manufactured doubt, cherry-picking of claims.

Why worry about the novel when the basics are still working?
Given that most newspapers have a pay wall, the half-screen pay-fence doesn't seem so egregious to me.

Regarding the article title, I'm not sure what was the problem. The Jacobin is a leftist newspaper, so critiques of capitalism are to be expected. If you dislike the style of the title, I can appreciate that, everyone has their own tastes. But there is also a quick summary of the thesis of the article, in case the title was too unclear:

> The inclusion of more women at the top of oppressive power structures shouldn’t be confused with women’s liberation. We need a radical, socialist feminism, not a repackaged version of Sheryl Sandberg’s corporate-friendly "lean-in" brand.
I agree with your points and overall sentiment, I'm simply rebutting the initial statement in your parent comment,

> crypto currencies are a good solution for one thing only: electronic currencies.

You contradict yourself by stating above you believe there's only one valid use case for blockchain, but in your most recent comment you obviously admit there are several valid use cases (though admittedly a limited number). Maybe your initial comment was meant for emphasis and not literally that you believe there is only one use case, but be careful using quantifiable verbiage or hard numbers to portray emphasis without explicitly stating that's what you're doing, your credibility gets called into question when doing so.
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> you'll feel guilty because there's something more important you should be doing. (Me? I'm currently procrastinating on an investor update, an H1B application and two performance reviews.) You'll spend more time writing emails than writing code. You end up bogged down in organizational issues...

Somewhere out there in the world is someone incredibly excited to do just that. They aren't necessarily an "ideas" person but wrangling org just get's the heart racing. It's a shame that they're as hard to find as good ideas are
Letgo and FB Marketplace are gaining momentum imo. Probably still depends a lot on region and product.
The question is: Can we do better? A natural monopoly is a good thing. It just means that the natural monopoly needs to build its own redundancy. Cloudflare total failure isn't common.
What about Design?
I suspect the wet coffee grounds are still in the pod. (also fyi, the pods are aluminum).
One of the early stated goals of OpenAI was to advance AI but do so safely. Can you imagine if scammers and "bad actors" got access to GPT-3? You could create such sophisticated and targeted scams. Things could get extremely ugly fast. The choice to limit access to this seems to be completely in line with their original values.
> I’m actually having more trouble parsing your second sentence than the sentence in question.

An easy shortcut to apparent wisdom is to juxtapose apparently contradictory statements, and let your audience seek the meaning within. The harder it is to find meaning, the wiser you appear -- but if it's clearly meaningless, you're exposed as a fool. (see what I did there?)

An example of true wisdom taking the same format, which is paraphrased from a Buddhist text: "a fool thinks he is wise, but a wise man knows that he is a fool". A.k.a the Dunning-Kreuger effect.
Really? I've been able to find everything I need in the Elixir ecosystem from auth to background jobs and one of if not the best GraphQL server implementations out there. Do you mind sharing which libraries you found missing or incomplete?
That’s like 4 SV devs working a year.

And just in salaries, not including payroll taxes, office space, admins, QAs, etc.

850k sounds eminently reasonable for such an undertaking in such a short period of time.
2020 is the end of the flintstoning startup. Atrium, ScaleFactor, etc. you can't just do things manually, grow sales fast, and then magically "AI it all away" when you have customers. It's either automated or it's not, customers know.
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I've been burned by BTRFS too many times to trust it.

At work, our servers will get into a state where they just hang for a span from minutes to hours while BTRFS does "something". I'm not one of the admins though, so I don't know the exact details. I just know that this is a vendor-supported configuration and the vendor has been unable to tell us why this happens or offer any solution that makes it not happen. Our answer to this issue has been to rebuild servers with ext4 when things get bad. This has happened on multiple servers hosting different applications - the only commonality seems to be that write-heavy loads get it into this state. Servers that just have their OS on BTRFS but do all of their work on NFS volumes are fine.

At home, I once rebooted my OpenSuse Tumbleweed laptop and ended up with a BTRFS filesystem that couldn't be mounted RW. Fortunately I was able to mount it RO after booting off installation media and copy my data off, but I couldn't get the filesystem back into a state where it could be mounted RW. I ended up reinstalling. I never did figure out the root cause, but I suspect that some BTRFS-related process was running when I rebooted.

On the flip side, ZFS has never let me down in this way, but to be fair I've never subjected it to the same use-cases. Unfortunately, the inability to resize/reshape the filesystem is an issue for me. I believe that it's being worked on, but I don't think that work is production-ready yet.
I don’t know specifics about the UK version, but most of those costs likely weren’t on the app proper. They did run a field test, for example.

For comparison, the German version cost millions, too. That included multi-language support, setting up help lines, security evaluation, load testing millions of concurrent users and, IIRC, connecting to quite a few of different hospital computer systems.

Add in time pressure, and costs go up. Germany did get a quality system, judging by what the spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said (paraphrasing: ‘we have the unfamiliar problem that there is so little to complain about’. They never endorse stuff, so that’s about as endorsing as their statements can get)
I don't think that Europe was pandemic-ready, or that it thought it was. Rather, like everyone else apparently, it thought that it would not happen.

An example of that: France bought a huge stockpile of face masks in 2009-2010 because of the swine flu pandemic. Since then they expired and were not replace, hence no masks available in 2020.

They thought it was not needed and governments/politicians have problems thinking long term and justifying expenses that may not be needed or needed once every 50 years to their constituents.

This might change for as long as this pandemic remains in living memory, then I'm sure we'll go back to complacency.
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Not that would work for a CDN use case as far as I know. The cloud providers are notorious for high egress costs.
> Out of the ashes of World War Two came pioneering long-term institutions such as the World Health Organisation, the European Union and welfare states.

Comparing the length of the existence of those organizations to how long many cathedrals took to build (some decades, but some centuries to complete), I don't understand how they're considered "long-term" institutions. It seems like if we want to look at institutions that have been successful long-term institutions, we would want to look at (1) secular governments such as the Roman Republic/Empire (which arguably lasted from the republic's founding in 509 BC until 1453), or Ancient Egyptian or Chinese societies (each of which also lasted through various dynasties as a continuous organization for thousands of years) and (2) various religious groups such as the Catholic/Orthodox Christian Churches which have existed as centralized institutions for a couple millenia.
> Did they figure something else out that nobody saw?

I may not have a full scope of the history, but my own experience with DDoS protection was quite different. Whilst providers offered anti ddos protection through GRE tunnels and dedicated machines behind DDoS appliances and a heavy null route hand, Cloudflare had a simple few-click solution that worked at the web application level making things a lot easier and, also, allowing for features like caching, and thus, CDN benefit from a global network. Further, they've maximized performance on their machines, and as a result, Cloudflare is wicked fast.

Cloudflare does what it does really well and has built additional services on their global network that make a lot of a sense and provide a lot of value.

Hats off to CF.
Once a vaccine is widely available, I don't care. Losing some antivaxers is a gain to society anyway.
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I personally don't have a strong opinion here but do feel like most people lose track of the global picture yet get fixated on individual problems. I think this happens because we don't have a measure of the impact of our activity, we just vaguely feel like some actions are "good" and some "bad".

Corny example, recycling is considered "good", yet still has a net negative impact, but for most people it's enough to feel good and stop worrying.

Very few things are strictly necessary, but many are definitely unnecessary: perverted maximisation of profits, planned obsolescence, avoidable food waste etc. Tech example: avoidable software bloat causing global increase in energy consumption.
There is a really interesting ongoing project to find the seed used for the default world and server icons:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbR8ZY1Nsm8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7f9tMslVE

Part 2 covers most of the efforts to reverse-engineer the seed.
But we do realize that sooner or later a model even more powerful will be released to the public, right?

And as far as protecting democracy, I assure you that the geopolitical enemies of your nation either have similar models, or will have them very soon. There is very significant investment on ML models for text manipulation going on behind closed doors, funded by States.
What I mean is, where you seem to see Marxist ideas re-entering the sphere of public debate in the United States circa 2020 as evidence of some sort of vast generational conspiracy to subvert the US and replace its current government with some kind of Stalinist totalitarianism, I see Marxist ideas re-entering the sphere of public debate in the United States circa 2020 as a totally unsurprising and if anything long delayed response to the mounting evidence that four straight decades of untrammeled capitalism on the Reaganite model has had catastrophic results for almost everyone in the United States, to say nothing of the rest of the world.

What I don't see is any need to assume that, because Marx's critique of capital is serving as a source for those developing a modern critique of capital, Stalinism must necessarily follow. I think that's really where we disagree, and I'll admit, I feel no nearer understanding the wellspring of your fear now than I did when I started this conversation.

Your experience is of course what it is, and I can see how it would influence anyone's perspective. What I don't see is what makes events in Bangladesh 25 years ago a reliable predictor of events in the United States today.

Or, for that matter, what makes Newsmax's claims of BLM being some kind of secret Gramscian Stalinist underground a reliable predictor of anything. Conservatives in this country have been slandering their opponents with that kind of stuff for going on a century at this point, and - pace Tailgunner Joe, of whose claims I disposed in an earlier comment - it has never yet proven true. That stuff's pretty toothless at this point, even with somebody like me who's old enough to remember when the Soviet Union, and state communism in general, was still a going concern on a meaningful scale. The kids just aren't listening any more, and I see no reason why they should be.
They do blame you though, most people won't be aware of the real issue, when cloudflare went down, the trending things on twitter were #spotifydown and #applemusic
When you start a problem killing hundreds and save tens, do you think we should focus on the tens?
Stay away from this company. They outsource everything and messed up my books for a few months before they stopped doing them at all. Customer service was TERRIBLE, no refund for their mistakes and not doing what they said they would

(edit) they went out of business, good, we don't want companies and leaders like them
DOesn't this mean that the only people at risk are the people who don't get vaccinated?

The rest of us will be fine, right?
That zfs needs so much RAM is a myth that can be easily refuted. Start a Linux VM with hardly any RAM and let zfs run on it. Works great. There are also sources for this since years: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/3s7vrd/so_you_...
>any vaccine delivered and touted by the current administration will be met with extreme skepticism

That would be the most unfortunate irrational, anti-science behaviour that people could have, especially given the criticism of the same administration as anti-scientific.
Right now they are saying that 95% had a substantial immune response. But we do not know whether it is substantial enough and lasting enough. Imagine that it is both for less than 70% of vaccinated. 5/6*0.7<0.6 (and yes, 0.7 is to prove a point).
> an increase in major Cloudflare customers and presumably, revenue. Even ISPs like T-Mobile faced issues due to the Cloudflare outage!

Careful about this methodology. Some services at my org were impacted despite not being direct CloudFlare customers. They had external dependencies that used CloudFlare.
I was experiencing that on Safari, then switched to Chrome and it now shows 4K.
Whilst the classic Nespresso machines have potential recycling issues, the vertuo line of machines/pods are more favourable.

I was recently given a second-hand Nespresso vertuo machine and I'm very happy with the re-use options.

There are stainless steel refillable pods as well as single-use film lids to apply to emptied pods.

I'm giving the film lids a go first as the stainless steel pods are quite pricey (around £20 each).

I'm able to re-use the pods that came with the machine, refilling with the large supply of ground coffee that I receive as gifts and would otherwise use in a cafetiere.

My stash of bagged pre-ground coffee produces excellent results in the vertuo machine with a good crema on top as good as most coffee shops that I've been to.

With some freshly-ground good quality coffee, a re-usable vertuo pod or two and a vertuo machine you can make barista-quality coffee with zero non-degradable waste.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23882224
Twitter’s Direct Messages Is a Bigger Headache Than the Bitcoin Scam
he's probably talking about the wirecard scandal, where the german SEC equivalent didn't bother investigating wirecard despite the warnings, and instead went after journalists and short sellers.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869480 There's also some discussion about german corruption in the comments as well.
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That's what I'm saying, it's the 11M that's not reasonable...
Google Maps now shows cycling routes using docked bike-sharing schemes
I'm not sure about Oxford but for Moderna a billion doses a year is accurate[1].

[1]: https://cen.acs.org/business/outsourcing/Moderna-picks-Lonza...
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Last year I bought a new headset - the Arctis Pro Wireless and it's been one of the best purchases in a long time - especially since I end up being on a lot of calls and I cannot sit still to save my life.
Yes I did read it

> not too uncommon to get both a German guard and exit.

The solution here is more non-German nodes not to shit on the Germans that are already hosting lots.

Maybe there is a language barrier at play here but just seems bizarre how aggressively “the German” is being singled out:

>the German will give itself as many powers as it can to spy on its own citizens and those abroad.
The more people that use anything other than Cloudflare, the better. I had this conversation with people back in ~2010 about Facebook and they all ignored it. They will again, but this time the consequences of centralization will be even worse.

It won't just be one single website that goes shitty with blockages and manipulation and censorship. It won't even be just the web. When Cloudflare achieves their goal of deep packet inspection at every peering and transit point it'll be the end of the internet as we knew it and the slow transition to just another cut apart "China-net (tm)".
That’s why I say realistically. You could do a $50 billion blitz campaign to promote/provide masks, and you could increase usage, but the holdouts now are the ones that are difficult to convince.

Schools are a particular problem. Getting kids to consistently and correctly wear masks is hard. Getting kids to follow social distancing rules is hard too.

Bringing a bunch of poorly compliant people together to sit in the same room with 25 other people is gonna be a big challenge.
That’s a little misleading though because the percentage of people who install the country’s contact tracing app is driven much more by the quality of the people than the quality of the app. So this app might be garbage, I don’t think this statistic says much one way or the other.
Parallax, maybe, but no wind = no swirling dust or shifting sands, no?
Whether firmware can be updated or not, how will any of these charges ever be found and replaced/repaired?

What are the logistics of executing such a recall successfully, such that people aren’t vulnerable?
I imagine the implementation could look similar to how cell phones can use other carriers networks (for 911) when they don't have signal from their own carrier.