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Is there not a spectrum of levels of accuracy/voracity in essays? Is it not valid to have a preference for authors alignments to parts of that spectrum?

Description of the world seems necessarily a compression of facts. I read this critique as stating more or less, "I find that PG tends to bias the data selected for the compression to support the conclusions he is inclined to promote".

I agree that essays have a wider allowable not-grounded-in-demonstrable-reality-ness compared to scientific papers but if an author seems to one to cherry pick, it seems reasonable for the one to declare that as a criticism of the author.

This is an important thing to know, especially since those compression statements are usually the premises the theses of the essays depend.
Yeah, I would argue it isn't. It's at least not a healthy democracy.
You are spot on on 10nm fab, it's why Apple shipped an update with split 14 and 10nm chips on different models, it wasn't large enough or cheap enough to update all models.

A notable thing about TSMC's 5nm is it is shipping in three months. Thats a massive gap and there is little proof that Intel 7nm is 'much' more than 5nm.

And thats before you consider other upsides seen in the TSMC chips such as cost, or the incredible power management tactics seen in the Ax series chips that are easily generations ahead of Intel.
You missed the part where they have been removing and covering their badges fairly consistently.
> and you can't credit things like social justice and equality as anything but conformist

As I'm sure you know, people like PG, and me, and the many, many other people who share many common beliefs with the progressive left, do not criticize social justice and equality. What we are finding extraordinarily problematic currently is the people on the progressive left who are the most vocal champions of social justice and equality, in particular their intolerance, deplatforming, certainty that their's is the only true view, etc.
This feels like having it both ways. "Innovation is morally neutral" and "harmful uses are the inevitable consequences of innovation" can't both be true.

I would prefer to say that the act of creating a possibility is different from the act of exercising that possibility in a particular way. But you seem to be saying that merely creating the possibility makes the use inevitable, and so the person who invents the tiny cameras or the image-recognition software is inescapably responsible for the use of that technology to target political dissidents.

I agree that once the invention has been made, it becomes harder to stop someone from using the invention in bad ways. But the moral responsibility is clearly with the person who makes bad use of technology, not with the person who invented it (assuming that the technology was not invented specifically for that purpose).
You know, I used to think that locking down certain websites to citizens of the country the website resides in was a bad thing.

Now with the advent of all these apparent "bots", "state actors", etc. etc. I'm starting to think it might not be a bad idea.

There's a bunch of "what-ifs" however like "what if the government starts removing content it doesn't like", "should you be able to be banned from the platform?", etc.
When really it's more like a SaaS product. You need to keep paying for the self-improvement, month after month, with your time...
> This decline came about as the western world became rich enough that eliminating the suffering of slaves was worth the inconvenience of replacing their labor.

This is just not true, and certainly not the view of most historians. This is an important claim, and you have not backed it up with evidence.

> It is not obvious that the Stanford prison experiment is a complete fraud.

I'm sorry, but this is quite a strange statement to me. Let me put it this way: if I cited the Stanford prison experiment in a university paper, the paper would be failed. The experiment is widely criticised, outright fraud has been found in a number of cases, and its results have not been replicated.

> The only ground I can stand on is that people such as Stephen Pinker getting cancelled is obviously ridiculous.

Again, Stephen Pinker is an extremely powerful individual.
He's a multi-millionaire, a Harvard professor, I don't think I could come up with a better example of someone with a large platform. If he's been "cancelled" then he's an example of how insignificant and ineffectual "cancel culture" really is.

(of course people looking into his association with Jeffrey Epstein is quite another thing, I certainly don't think that's a "cancelling")
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That's a very US-centric view. Twitter has a lot of non-US users as well. In fact, a Dutch right-wing politician was apparently targeted in this attack.[1] How would such a requirement help in this case?

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-cyber-netherlands...
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
On that note, I've heard many times dynamic typing advocates say (or write) "I've seldom wrote a bug that was a type error".

But a lot of the time, their language is simply unable to encode certain properties as types, so by definition they don't think of some classes of bugs they do write as "type errors". Maybe in a statically typed languages they would have been type errors indeed!

It's as if the tool you use sometimes reinforces your blind spots: "you don't know what you don't know".

PS: anecdote is probably irrelevant, but I've written plenty of dumb type errors with Python. Things that would have been caught by a test or an external tool, sure, or the type checker of a statically typed language could have caught for me for free, leaving the more relevant logic tests to me. I tend to write type errors left and right. Maybe I'm simply not a good Python programmer, of course!
Legally, no. Functionally, yes. Even though they no longer mail checks you need a bank account as well. And then the issue with getting in contact with you.

There is only wealth in this country because we treat the most vulnerable like garbage.
I honestly think Apple will deliver this later this year with the new Air. There's a reason why iPads are so well liked and are so incredibly fast.
>So, I'd say mobs and counter-mobs are problematic but the root is permanent unaccountable powers that can ignore whatever material grievances different groups have.

I don't know that mobs are rational. Sometimes, I'm sure they will be pointing to a genuine injustice, but just as often as not, they're going to be a rampaging mob. I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this next claim, but I wonder that it's simply an accident when they get it "right."

Nonetheless, even the worst among us deserve representation and due process protections: which a mob cannot (and will not) give.
News is not news. It is entertainment. Pick your flavor and let them tell you how to feel.

It is designed to be addictive. Either by accident or deliberate is up for debate. I have my opinion on it but it is just that. They use your own feelings to manipulate you into watching/clicking for more. Facts matter little, feelings do in this segment of our world. Mr. Bernays should be proud of the monster he set loose upon us. Even the vaunted NPR does this. I noticed it years ago after a drive across the country and realizing they try to make it look like they were investigating things and not just reading something of one of the 4 or 5 news wires.
> Good luck writing billing software for that.

How often do you need to bill someone for events that took place 300 years ago?
Hi, author here. This is a good point. I also have an authenticator that I was not able to replace. However, I need it very infrequently (a few times a year) and never in a time-sensitive manner. So I can just afford to turn on my smartphone for a couple minutes whenever I need the authenticator, and then turn it back off.
The press needs to behave too. They need to report, not sensationalize. They need to be objective, not politically active. And when given the opportunity to sit before a president addressing a global crisis, and then granted the opportunity to ask questions they should not inject their bias and call him a racist. When subsequently shut down "you're a terrible reporter" the rest of the press should not claim they are being attacked.

It all boils down to defining the roles (on all sides) and then doing that job. It's when government, press, companies, or individuals make light of their responsibility that things fall appart.
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Language is a barrier to cultural union. It can be a blindfold to the rest of the world who are not invited into many parts of contemporary Hungarian culture. It can be a blindfold for its citizens, limiting exposure to external culture. Without shared language, it's harder for the Hungarian people to be influenced by the culture and politics of its neighbours.

Even on a more basic level, the fall of Index.hu is made a greater problem because there's no Hungarian-language media in neighbouring Austria or Slovakia.
I'd argue that while Apple serves those markets, it hasn't catered to them for a long time, and it would be fair to say that in many cases it's downright neglected them.

There's a whole lot of people who are in the 'pro user' market who are incredibly frustrated with Apple - slow on hardware refreshes, generally way behind on chip generations, and a focus on design over reliability or performance.

The thing that stops a lot of people from migrating away is a lack of better options.

Some are tied to the Apple Ecosystem, and so there's no legit way of running OSX on non-Apple hardware.

Others don't need to use Apple, but Microsoft in the Windows 10 era is arguably worse, and they still haven't figured out that they need to fire all those people who keep pushing user-unfriendly choices like changing defaults on already installed systems, pushing app store apps down people's throats, etc.

For those who could move to Linux - there's a lack of nicely designed hardware that has all the modern bells & whistles, and that doesn't have weird software quirks. Particularly in the mobile space, but also to an extent in the desktop space, too.

Even when you look at a PC builder like System76's systems, their laptops still look like something out of a catalogue from 10 years ago, with none of the clean aesthetic and polish of Apple, or even premium Windows laptops. The desktops are better on that front.

Sure, you could, like I have, run a modern Linux distro on say a Lenovo X1 Carbon, or a HP Spectre X360 if you want something that looks pretty decent and has good performance, but even they have weird hardware quirks. Sound, for instance, is amazingly frustrating, and something I have to mess around with regularly, sometimes multiple times a day. It makes me look like an incompetent idiot when I'm talking away on a conference call to discover that for some bizzare reason, between Firefox/Chrome/Chromium and the System sound settings - what was working just fine not 30 minutes ago has decided that it no longer wants to cooperate, and has switched, yet again to a profile I don't want and don't need.

On the desktop side is no better - the few companies selling desktops, are mostly selling overpriced garbage aimed at Windows users, so you need to go through a Custom PC Builder using enthusiast equipment, which means spending half your time trying to find out if the 50W of RGB LEDs that the damn device comes with can be switched off (Answer: Probably not, unless you run Windows, or are willing to pull out a soldering iron. Which makes for a great discussion if you need warranty support on something).
Another poster mentioned that this order negates claims of qualified immunity. You're correct, this is already a protected right; I believe the order makes it so no officer can claim they made some kind of reasonable mistake and thus can't be held personally liable.
did paul graham really just imply that himself and his fellow silicon valley millionaires would have been abolitionists if they were alive during slavery
Totally agree though 7nm brings them to UVL which will make that step much easier. But they will still be at least a year behind.
It helps a lot with refactoring and many other things even early in the project.

For example I‘m using TypeScript with a GraphQL code generator. Now let‘s assume I add a new value to a GraphQL enum. I run codegen, then fix everything until the compiler is happy. Afterwards, all places where this enum was ever touched will take it into account correctly, including mappings, translations, all switch statements, conditions, lists where some of the other values are mentioned and so on.

This is something that‘s not possible in a dynamic language and it‘s not even possible in Java, really.

I rely on this daily.
I think this answer is quite different from your original post in that it doesn't deny the value of the experiences lived under the influence.

I think it's very important for those experiences to be examined while sober, just like experiences lived under any other kind of altered state, even "natural" ones - say while extremely angry.

As SuoDuanDao said in his response, I think there's a question of "barriers" going down while under MDMA. Sure, there are things you do under its influence that you wouldn't have done sober. Maybe things that you would never have done. But isn't that the point? It allows you to try things you wouldn't have tried otherwise and see the effects. Of course, sober reflexion is required. But this allows you to have a different perspective on what is possible.

Something I see often mentioned in discussions around MDMA is its effects on social anxiety. Some people find it difficult to be open. I for one am fairly taciturn, don't talk much. For such people seeing what is possible may allow them to rethink why they do or don't do certain things in their day to day lives and maybe adapt their actions.
That is what I tell everyone struggling with unknown health issues: There are no diseases, only symptoms.
I tend to think that the outcome of removing zoning in the US would be very case-by-case. In a desirable urban neighborhood with height restrictions and a historical building commission, it might be possible to add a lot more density and storefronts without zoning. On the other end, I don't think a developer would add a story to a suburban olive garden along a busy road. If anything it might be cheaper to build sprawl without zoning.
Super valid point.
It would be interesting to come up with the "tech" archetypes.

The coder with a thousand faces, a modern day adaptation of Joseph Campbell[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
It's resurgence does not though.
Very valid.
I think on the engineering side it's different. the interview process is the gatekeeping and FAANG companies are totally open to interviewing anyone who thinks they can get through the process. Your ability to climb into Sr leadership might be impacted, if that's the direction you want to go, but you can absolutely prove yourself in engineering.

Also, I like your point about CSU. I do a lot of hiring in the Boston area, and we have so many "second-tier" schools who produce absolutely excellent SEs. It might be trickle-down because of MIT here. Don't get me wrong, definitely hire MIT, but we also cherry-pick from Northeastern, WPI (my favorite), etc. with equally as good results.
My intention was to be self-deprecating.

(or, rather, I was trying to acknowledge that I know I am part of the demographic commonly held as responsible for "cancelling" people. Personally I find it impossible to use the word without a massive heap of irony)
It's not proprietary. Clojure is under the EPL 1.0 (Eclipse Public License), which is intended to be a business-friendly copy-left license.
This is a chart from before GPT-3: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/turing-nlg-a-1...
This is the kind of ethical and competent journalism that we are fighting for? The article is not spell checked, parts of it are gibberish, and Orban's quote is politically editorialized to fit the narrative of good guys fighting bad guys for democracy!(as if you need to editorialize Orban to make him look bad..)

The Polish Prime Minister's quote is completely butchered to the point of being gibberish:

"Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hailed the “whole architecture of supervision” as a success." - this sounds like he's happy with the idea of supervision, which the article promptly contradicts a few paragraphs later. Here's a better writeup of what he said, from a polish news site(https://www.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C686607%2Ceur-160-bln-polan...):

"In his view, the conclusions of the summit are a great success from the financial point of view and the whole architecture of supervision over budget funds."

"The Polish PM pointed out that in the deal adopted on Tuesday there is no direct linking between the rule of law and the allocation of EU funds as earlier proposed."

OK, now it's obvious what he means - he's happy that the conclusions of the summit went his way and the architecture of supervision was scaled down or eliminated.

Here's Orban's highly editorialized quote:

"But Orban told reporters he had “thwarted and repelled” efforts to tie disbursement of funds to democratic values."

Only two of those words are actually attributed to him! The rest of the description("tie disbursement of funds to democratic values") is not Orban's interpretation of events, but Reuters'!

Here's a hungarian article(https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-govt-eur-3-bn-funding-brussels...):

"Hungary and Poland thwarted the attempt to have others decide on the funds they are entitled to, the prime minister said in a regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Radio"

That's a bit too neutral for Reuters, it doesn't make it sound like this a fight between "good" and "bad" guys. Of course, they could have just used any of Orban's other unhinged quotes:

"The outcome of the recent European Union summit on the bloc’s 2021-2027 budget and its pandemic recovery package in Brussels can be interpreted as the Hungarian and Polish forces having “repelled the international attack of the liberal brigades”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday."

(note how, while the quote is editorialized, the editorial is a passive, neutral, factual description of the events).

It's not like you can't make Orban sound like a lunatic by just quoting him straight up. From the same article:

"These are typically countries that are pro-immigration and hate us because we don’t allow them to enforce their migration policy and because Hungary stops migrants”, he said, adding that they were backed by US financier George Soros."

I agree that good journalism is sorely needed, but it's not obvious that we're getting much of it in our "real" democracies either.
This is a good question. The short answer is that having a browser would've gone against my objective of reducing phone usage in general. Plus, I wanted to recycle a dumbphone from a relative, instead of looking for/buying a "less dumb phone".
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This is true of all airplanes, not just the 737. They're so expensive that they all need to be in use continuously.
Unfortunately I actually LOLd when I got to that point in the essay. It was not a surprise.

If being an SV founder or VC requires nonconformism, it's a very mainstream kind of nonconformism which has been part of the culture since the 1940s. (By some accounts, even earlier.)

IMO you cannot seriously claim to be a nonconformist if you unquestioningly accept and promote the framing of a game and a set of rules which have been in place for decades now.

Real nonconformists will be asking why the Internet seems to have been turned into the plaything of a handful of gigantic stagnant bureaucracies, why the VC system seems determined to generate more of these bureaucracies, and whether maybe there are more creative and performant options.
Apparently a whole lot when it comes to a corrupt federal police force - from made up charges to family being targeted. The list goes on.
I'm not educated in the economics of reserve currencies [1] so would be interested to hear what informed minds think. If we look at the top 5 reserve currencies in the world today (USD 62%, EUR 20%, JPY 6%, GBP 4%, CNY 2%), the USD is entirely dominant but it also means that any perturbations to it might destabilize the global economy.

What is the alternative?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency
This happened to me buying a Yamaha MG06 Compact Stereo Mixer from Amazon Warehouse.

The one I received had clear indications that it had been in use for a long time, dust grime and wear—-it was gross.

In this case it appeared the person returned the same model for a new one. It was a good trick that Amazon resolved without feedback on my pointing this out when I returned it.

I bought it brand new after that.

Previous to this, I had ordered something else from amazon warehouse, again a “like new” item for a steep discount and it was as described. A great deal.
>I don't totally understand the economics of how those work in NYC. Just sheer density and throughput?

People like bodegas, they are everywhere and like someone else said: tax evasion. Bodegas love cash, and you learn to carry it otherwise you are going to have to meet a $5 - $10 min (which they aren't supposed to be doing, but do)
> can a country where the government lies to its citizens, and withholds information from the press, and actively seeks to discredit news sources critical of it be considered a democracy?

Doesn't this describe every country?
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I'm sorry to hear that, as someone who has had a very close family member succumb and pass away due to alcoholism, the worst feeling for me was that there is nothing you can do unless the person wants to change.

However, all substances are ultimately out there for people to try to enjoy responsibly, in the right company. As long as you understand that what you say and do under the influence isn't necessarily genuine you should be able to relax enough and let your guard down to enjoy it. Again, the company you're in matters a lot, as well as the fact that you're not excused from your actions if not sober.

It's like when watching porn, you realise that's not how real sex looks like. If you did, you would acquire some very unhealthy preconceptions. But one can still enjoy it responsibly.
> Last I checked, opposition to "cancel culture" and censorship is about as mainstream a position as there is

Not at all. I am 40. My father and one of my brothers share that position with me, but every single one of my friends and acquaintances from universities and workplaces, in the USA and in the European country in which I grew up, if they make their position clear on social media, it is in line with the progressive left and thus implicitly at least supportive of "cancel culture" and censorship.