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> Many of the people who live in remote parts of Alaska have a rugged individualist mentality and a dislike for the idea of subsidies, but tend to get quiet when theirs are mentioned.

To be blunt, that's often true of rural culture in general these days.

The simple fact is that providing services to such communities is incredibly inefficient due to a lack of economies of scale. Without government subsidies, they would simply be unable to get services without paying exorbitant rates. That's not the market being immoral or whatever, it's literally just that the cost of providing the service is so high (same reason such communities often have fewer local government services as well).

They don't want to come to grips with the hypocrisy of claiming independence while actually actively choosing a highly subsidized lifestyle, and most other people are unwilling to call out the behavior because it's seen as bullying in some fashion.
Right. You've described the performance impact: a ton of relocations hurts startup time, and the modified memory reduces sharing, costing additional memory. If startup time does not matter and memory is free, sure, it has no costs.
How much tax does the USPS pay? None. No income tax, no property tax, they don't even pay parking tickets. But for some reason, they've been losing money for decades. (yes, even before the whole pension debacle)

UPS on the other hand pays income tax, pays property tax, pays higher wages, fully funds their pension plan, and does not have access to the same zero or low interest treasury loans that the USPS does and still makes a profit AND delivers more parcels every year than the USPS.
The market can be effective, and it can be especially effective for people with money.

However, it should be noted that some people, possibly even MANY people...do not have money or have limited money that must be allocated to stop death in one form or another. The market does not have a solution for them because they are not participants in the market. Yet they exist as a rather defined part of objective reality.

Privatization is charming and all, but it is not an end all, be all to the ills of mankind.
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Article says that the Wayfair ordeal was a Qanon conspiracy. How was that attributed to them?
Thanks! Our matching system issues an identical grant from the fund of the matching company. It goes out in the same grant cycle as the employee grant so they go together.

We haven't yet encountered any charity that prefers to receive cryptoassets.

We have lots of dreams about thoughtful integrations with HR software, but we want the experience to be excellent, and we want to keep the experience of our existing app excellent. We'll be balancing those priorities as we grow.
ESR has his own problems, unfortunately.
So they have to turn a profit in the literal sense.
He retweeted a video wherein a man yelled white power.
In addition, the same notation is often overloaded in new domains, where the association with the prior domain is metaphorical, or even simply allegorical.

As a novice programmer, it took years to get out of the habit of using non-descriptive single-letter variable and function names. It’s a terrible habit, and makes code incomprehensible — and programmers know it.

Math, as taught to kids, is full of single-letter variable names (or worse, as you point out, using non-Roman letters and other symbols) that are devoid of any hints to the uninitiated of what their meaning might be.

I wonder what it would be like if math were taught with descriptive names — starting with the basics, for functions and variables, and used those names consistently.

Would it be more verbose? Absolutely — but I’m pretty sure it would also be a huge kindness to learners.
You don't need the personal attacks, and in this case, I suspect that you definition of spam is anything marketing, while ny definition is anything that is sent in bulk to large number of people, or is uninteresting to me:

"irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients."

A non-trivial percentage of "first class" mail is actually spam. The difference is in quality of service (delivery times for first class is significantly faster in some circumstances then marketing).

I do agree that that there is value in daily mail delivery, but my point is that the value needs to be enhanced, rather then just continue in what it is today. Cut service where it doesn't make sense (go to every other day), encourage people to use email, which is way less wasteful, and less harmful for the environment, focus on rural routes.
Keeping image/video/audio data out of process actually sounds kinda reasonable to me :-).

I think the really compelling example is cross-origin script loading. I can't imagine a realistic way to keep the script data out of process but let it be used with low overhead.
I just don't get why VictoriaMetrics doesn't get more visibility.

Maybe they need a PR person.
Difficulties, if any, perceived or real, arising in connection with notation, are usually incomparably smaller than those presented with the subject itself. (Personally, I only wish mathematical notation were better integrated with software in general and programming languages in particular.)
I think he's talking about Trump. Or do you suspect Obama is a White Supremacist, as well as not having been born in the United States?
Why should we listen to you? Most people don’t experience the change they advocate for.

Removing money from politics is a good thing but I’m wary of outright saying certain people don’t matter. That doesn’t lead anywhere good.
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USPS is self supporting? It doesn't seem like it.

According to this report by they feds they've been operating at a loss for most years since 2008. $2.1B loss in 2018.

https://www.prc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/FY%202018%20...
When I saw that Jeff Bezos increased his wealth by $13 billion in a single day recently, when 28 million Americans are facing potential eviction, I just thought...we have kings again.
> Personally, I find superchargers "too quick", as I tend to stop for lunch with my family when I supercharge, and I find myself having to rush to finish lunch so I can get the car out…

Pumping gas, I usually do not have time to even squeegee all the windows; I've never wanted to stop for lunch while getting gas.
Isn't it obvious?

A claim like "US president who spreads more white supremacist propaganda" needs to be substantiated with specific evidences.
A stable job invariably means you're underpaid -- usually substantially. I might get a 10% raise at a job if I'm amazing at my job, but if I left that job for a new company I might get 30%+ more.
This Yahoo article is just a copy of that one: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-7-000-qa...

And the NBC website doesn't have an impossible-to-opt-out GDPR popup
>While I suppose I can respect that Stallman has principles and sticks to them, he can afford to do so only because of his position, and he doesn't seem to realize the privilege that affords him.

He only has the position, what you call his privilege, because of his principles.

>he refuses to use Google Docs to read the deposition, so he asks someone else to use Google Docs to download it for him.

Sounds similar to tikotiparisuddha. Stallman seems very enlightened. He has pure principles regarding the four freedoms, but does not tyrannically demand you obey them. You are welcome to give up your freedom, even though he never will.
Oh no. The RTX GPU would encode to H.265, I'm sorry for the bad wording. If you stick to H.264, x264 is gonna win against most stuff, except for maybe some exotic high-end broadcasting hardware/FPGA stuff.
>but smoke detectors aren’t programmed in Rust, Typesscript, React, don’t run in a K8S cluster, aren’t serverless, so I think I have some technical advantages.

Smoke detectors don't require a subscription fee, or for me to sit through advertising. Smoke detectors won't stop working on a bad connection or a botched update. Smoke detectors won't spy on me and sell my data.

Is your app actually, testably, provably better at detecting fires than smoke detectors? Will you have the endorsement of fire departments? Will my homeowners' insurance be affected by using this app?
> Mathematical notation presumably mostly makes perfect sense to the kind of people who deal with mathematical notation all day long.

Maybe the overuse of opaque names leads to self-selection of who becomes a mathematician?

Single-letter non-descriptive variable and functions names would “make sense” to programmers who use it all day long too — but that alone doesn’t make it a good idea.
IP addresses are recycled.
The Roman Catholic Church had a prominent role in the Spanish colonization of the Americas:

- How Bishop Diego de Landa collected every Mayan codex and then did a massive book burning with all of them.

- The Our Lady of Guadalupe apparition, which was used to convert natives to Christianity.

Another aspect that is missing is the Spanish caste system, where there was a racial hierarchy where indians and blacks had a lower social status.

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

And finally, other aspects are missing, such as the economic systems put in place by the Spanish:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomienda

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacienda

Also, how the Spanish Phillipines were governed by the Viceroy of New Spain.
Acronyms vs. Surname?
I think if we had a real UBI, then doing away with services like the USPS and public schools would be okay.

These services were designed to help make things affordable to people who could not afford the private version.

Maybe instead we should have just made sure everybody could afford the private version, by directly giving them money!
“Caring about companies more than people” is empty rhetoric. People care about companies and competition because companies create the things people want and need. Indeed, lots of people believe that schools, for example, should be subject to competition. Places like Sweden have school competition via vouchers.
>So food is really important and vital. Should the government be in charge of growing and distributing food?

It already is. The Food and Drug Administration exists. There are countless laws that dictate everything from how crops are. grown to how animals are treated to how products are labeled. Moreover, the government purchases enormous quantities of food and distributes it for the military as well as being involved in everything from food stamps to the famed "welfare cheese" strategic food reserve issues.

Now, it's true that the government isn't in control of literally every aspect of food distribution, but they definitely do things to ensure a stable food supply for the country at reasonable prices. (And then there are the billions and billions in farmer subsidies etc.)
Those people have been hired on. They’re blocked by their managers. It’s incredibly frustrating.
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You didn't refute it technically.

Are you saying the compression shrinks the data down to 2% on average?

If the compression only makes the data 10 times smaller (I think I'm being generous with that ratio), it's still 5 times larger than the others.
I did some video editing in Blender a few years ago. I was surprised how solid and featured it was compared to other actual video editing suits on linux at the time.
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It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns, and not hide behind cowardly cries of "free speech." Twitter has taken too much time to do this, but recently they've been doing it more. Even Reddit, notorious for powering and consciously allowing hate campaigns, has cracked down more.

It's also been interesting that the proponents of allowing these campaigns to continue say that stopping them will indeed lead to totalitarian censorship of "free speech."

Granted we must always be vigilant against social pressure going too far. For example, the mob that formed to find the Boston marathon bomber over-zealously targeted the wrong people, risking their lives. We must learn from things like this.

But to jump from banning hate campaigns on private platforms, to total censorship, is an impressively intellectually dishonest juggling act.
I should have been clearer, I didn't mean 100% national coverage, I meant at whatever service area they choose, they need to cover 100% of what USPS covers now. For example, if they choose to cover a given ZIP code, they don't get to decide certain cul-de-sacs in that ZIP code are outside their coverage area.

And we absolutely do place similar requirements on new entrants in monopoly enterprises. I'm thinking about things like 911 service on cell phones/VOIP phones. Basically, we all need the "new mail" to work pretty much like the old mail it's replacing. It's in nobody's interest for an inferior system to eat all the profit and drive the existing system into collapse.
You've heard those stories where the odds in a lotto get lopsided right?

Well sometimes a lotto game ends up with a flaw that allows an arbitrage opportunity - you can fill out every combination and walk away with a few hundred thousand or a few million. A small group of people spend incredible efforts, seemingly irrationally, to fill out every possible lotto combo...

Now imagine that lottery is for president of the United States.

Effectively if you can intercept and alter ballots, you only have to change the 'right precincts' to flip an election.
> USPS would have an easier time hiring the right people if they weren't hamstrung by billionaires weakening their foundations

True. Intentional dismantling of an organization that can’t protect itself seems slightly out of bounds. However, that’s exactly what you would do in the private sector.

But regardless, people are driven by incentive. Appealing to humans with the notion of doing good but not being paid market price (through monetary or other tangible means) is ensuring that you will not attract top talent. You can trace it all the way back down through the evolutionary rabbit hole: incentive = security = procreation = genes that carry on.

That’s our basic human programming.

We should ensure access to a level playing field but we shouldn’t ignore our basic nature when constructing it.
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This sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Maybe you're right. I felt the over-confident claim that it would fail to make it cross the line.

If we discourage people from trying 1/100 or even 1/1000 chances because it's overwhelmingly likely they fail, we miss out on the massive upside offered by these risks.
They (and every other recent cannonball) retrofitted aftermarket fuel tanks to their trunk.
I think we can find quite a few examples, though, of things that are privatized but are horribly inefficient in the US (and are done much better in other countries). Healthcare is the primary example that comes to mind.

And I'm honestly not sure where all the USPS hate comes from: I think they actually provide pretty damn great service[0], at a pretty damn great price. Their financial struggles are mainly due to Congress heaping unreasonable financial obligations on them (obligations that companies like FedEx or UPS would never have). I don't think I could say they're objectively superior to the private couriers, but they're not objectively inferior either.

You mention education, and the issues there mainly boil down to lack of funding. The US spends a pittance per student compared to countries with much better public education. You could say ok, well, that's just proof that the government can't manage education well. And I guess that's maybe not false, but consider that a big reason why education isn't funded properly in the US is because of people (like Betsey DeVos) who want to kill public education, not because they truly believe the private sector can do it better, but because doing so will enrich their cronies. Regardless, you could flip it around and say that the US's public education is amazing considering how under attack its very existence is.

> the tort system, which is partly under private control

Not sure I understand what you mean. In a civil trial, you still have the same lawyers represent you, and you get the same public-servant judges, etc. The state's word is final when a judgment is rendered.

And in fact we do know what happens in civil matters when we try to privatize it: arbitration (often binding, because god forbid we disallow that), which is hardly a paragon of fairness or equality.

> ... is far more fair than the criminal justice system that is under public control

I don't think this is an argument about public vs. private, though. Yes, in a criminal trial, the prosecution has many, many tools available to them that a plaintiff in a civil trial wouldn't have, in the form of whatever law enforcement apparatus is at hand to help gather evidence and find witness testimony (and perhaps other nefarious things that they're in a unique position to get away with). But there's really no other option; you just can't treat criminal cases in the same way you treat civil cases.

There's a ton of inequality in our judicial system, but that has nothing to do with the public-sector private-sector dichotomy. In a civil matter, the state is a mostly-disinterested party, while in a criminal matter, the state has an inherent interest.

> which is why killer cops never go to prison but their victims get million dollar damage payments

No, that's because criminal proceedings have a much higher evidentiary standard. Which is how it should be, because the result of a criminal proceeding can deprive someone of their freedom or life.

[0] Two nice things the USPS does that the private couriers don't: pick up mail and packages from my building for free, and keep a key to my condo building so I don't have to be available to let them in.
I think the point people are missing is that you don't need more gold medals. Rather, the people "hiring" athletes need to recognize that for many purposes the difference between gold and silver and bronze and first and second runner up to bronze is trivial and possibly arbitrary, especially in situations where outcomes are not nearly as easily quantified as in an athletic competition.
By following the digital trail - https://www.insider.com/wayfair-human-trafficking-conspiracy...
I thought it worked. It was his way of demonstrating one of his own requirements:

(Preservation of quality, I) Every "natural" concept in 𝑋
X should be easily expressible using the notation.

So, if he is going to commit to his idea of the notation-to concept-isomorphism, it would have been weirder if he did NOT introduce the notion of the inverse map.
there is no such thing as a free lunch
See? It's not so hard.
That’s the libertarian answer to every free market failure.

If it failed, it wasn’t really a free market. This debate tactic effectively creates an unfalsifiable position.
Most likely will see a lot of lifestyle business founders, unlikely to find companies that will blitzscale and go on to become unicorns in this lot.
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Getting rid of public schools would just make things even more unequal. Poor parents would be simply unable to pay enough for decent education for their kids.
>you have conveniently left out why victims obtain judgements in civil courts when cops are not convicted in criminal courts

The primary issue is qualified immunity, coupled with the DA needing to rely on cops to do their jobs, leading to a massive conflict of interest. Unless the exact circumstances in one case occurred previously (and it was explicitly ruled illegal), a cop is let off due to the way qualified immunity works.

If a cop faced the same criminal trial as a regular citizen, they would very likely go to jail as most cases that go to trial result in a conviction.
When there's competition to foster. Unfortunately, the pendulum has been swinging towards market concentration, duopolies, and even monopolies.

See: Health insurance industry

Also see: Internet service providers

Also also see: Publishing
Thanks! I was already wondering if they actually respecified TLS for UDP for this...
USPS has a mandate to serve everyone no matter where how remote. No private commercial company can do that.
I just tried it and it won't build my existing Go packages that include x86 assembly files. So I conclude that it does indeed break compatibility with asm, which certainly is one way to change the calling convention.
I found the idea of (ab)using mathematical notation to talk about mathematical notation to be entertaining and got the sense that he was kinda just having fun for himself. I also got the impression that he was potentially nerd sniped. The rest of the post beside the `Notation` function was definitely a good informative read.
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Literally no one else on earth can ship first class mail aside from the USPS. It is a federal crime. The USPS has a government enforced monopoly on the delivery of mail which is why UPS can only deliver packages.
What has Qanon ever said that can be remotely considered hateful?

Who determines what is hateful?
What a silly idea, that a free market would be better and more efficient delivering mail than the government which loses billions a year? Fedex delivers anywhere you want - I'm sure they would love to deliver mail too with their network as would UPS etc. and you know how reliable they are as opposed to USPS.
It's certainly still possible for big companies to be bloated. Sometimes they have both necessary headcount expansion and the unnecessary kind.
This part: By posting content to Medium, you give us a nonexclusive license to publish it on Medium Services.

It's unclear to me to what extent this license goes.
Time series database performance is not only about the reads.
The average person isn’t capable enough to judge information for themselves; we need people in power to curate what is seen.
Do you have any comparisons to other services? I’ve most often seen UPS route things bizarrely and I’ve had several packages delivered a day or two late.
Oh my, you seem to be right. My mistake.
> How is privatizing the Post Office "reactionary"? The origins of the USPS are in a pre-Revolutionary grant from the British Crown. It's always been a public service.

It isn't; the reactionary comment is a more general one about the relationship between self-labeled libertarians and political positions that are disguisable within the libertarian framework.

Being anti-postage and anti-national ID for disenfranchisement purposes are good examples of this; reactionary groups encourage normalizing these views under the auspices of libertarianism.

"Worse politics" is in that context; wealthy people have a (correctly!) estimated interest in lots of political positions that less monied people find unpalatable (cf. voter suppression, maintaining systems of wealth and power that stem from racism). (Right-)libertarianism provides a ideological veneer for these positions.
Correct, I meant turnover. My mistake.
This doesn't work. You can cut prices and lose money until the upstart firms go out of business, but you cannot raise them afterwards or guess what will happen?
I believe it’s a reference to the Private Express Statutes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes ). I don’t remember the law requiring flat rates, but the rates are regulated and effectively required to be more than the post office’s. FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc. can’t legally compete with the post office on price.
Da, tovarisch ! We will apply the same reasoning to ban those pesky capitalists spewing lies about our country of workers and farmers, we will ban their "free speech" media hating us and our progress towards Communist future. Turn up those short wave jammers, our citizens don't need to listen to BBC, Radio Liberty, Voice of America and Deutche Welle from Koln.
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