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> As the global pandemic leaves us frozen in place, it’s impossible to imagine a future that resembles the past.

What if we never imagined the future? Is a future that is no more than the past any more than an eternal present?

> There will be no return to normalcy. Instead, we’ll need to create a new reality that’s resilient, anti-fragile and grounded in flexible, empathetic values as we re-enter the physical world with a new perspective.

Having re-watched The Perverts Guide to Ideology recently (having been given the time to do so by this mess most of us are currently in) I keep recalling the quote:

"We should draw a line of distinction within the very field of our dreams. Between those who are the right dreams pointing towards a dimension effectively beyond our existing society and the wrong dreams: the dreams which are just an idealized consumerist reflection, mirror image of our society."

Like so much else, is anything presented in articles such as this really change, or is it merely the reallocation of the now?

"How come it is easier for us to imagine the end of all life on earth – an asteroid hitting the planet – than a modest change in our economic order?"

Even within the heart of the current situation, has this idea really fractured, or been proved utterly correct?

"And, of course, we have a perfect name for fantasy realized. It’s called “nightmare”. Fantasy realized."

But if our fantasies are essentially the present moment, do we just have nightmare circling nightmare?
We'll split up votes per category in the future. This way tools that support multiple categories won't have a competitive advantage in the future.
> It’s 2020 and YouTube, as well as the rest of big tech, is continuing to remove content they don’t agree with from their platforms.

Bold of these folks to assume their little self-hosted hard disk will outlive YouTube. When an individual is in charge of keeping some resource online, it's a matter of when it disappears not if. I don't care how controversial your content is, it's more likely to be accessible by me in 10 years if you put it on YouTube versus your torrent or personal website.
I feel we are talking past each other. I apologize for missing your original point.
Yeah, that's the difficulty. In fits of scratching and waving my arms on camping trips of yore I too have felt the urge to just pour a trillion liters of pesticide over the world and kill all of the little flying bastards in one fell swoop (har har). Problem is, it's actually really difficult to imagine such a plentiful and prodigious species _not_ playing a major food chain role. They're everywhere, and things that eat bugs are everywhere; it would be really hard to imagine their absence not collapsing some part of the food chain.

The only thing that would make sense to me would be to introduce some "invasive species" that eats the mosquitoes, doesn't spread the malaria, and can still be eaten by most of the things that eat the mosquitoes. Still, introducing any invasive species is playing with fire; it's literally impossible to know all the consequences in advance.
I see confusion crop up here around the term government every now and then. In America, we have our 3 branches (executive, legislative, and judicial) and we call the collection of all 3 the "government" whereas in general I think Europe uses the word "state" for that.
What I'm saying is I appreciate intelligent discourse from the people I choose to surround myself with.

I'd love to hear from a credible left-leaning person about an example of intelligent discourse they had with a trump-supporter(not just a conservative, there's a difference).

This morning, I walked pass a Trump 2020 campaign flag with the slogan "No more bullshit." What kind of intelligence went into displaying that kind of message in public?
How this is different from this scenerio:

Think you send the money for mortgage payment from your brother account who doesnt has any financial relationship wrt that mortgage (by mistake).. Plus you pay for whole year in one transaction incl interest. Can you go back to bank (lets take Citi for simplicity) and ask for money back and telling that you will send for one month only with right account.
How will Citi react?
Sure, he explains it here. All his interviews on Closer to Truth are worth watching, but then I'm a fan of the show. I don't know if the idea was original to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUbANEalnzc
Stop Panicking About the Post Office
I'm a dev and have worked 7+ years remotely. What I've found that helps is to do voice conferences where the dev team has casual discussions on anything they want to share, maybe twice a month. It's very hard to gauge someone's personality or insecurities over chat alone. I worked on location with my boss for a year before going remote and that helped considerably because I knew how to communicate with him--that's what it boils down to--is knowing how to approach a team member to help them or ask for help, give them assignments, collaborate, etc. Having these "huddles" is also a good way to share what you're having trouble on and get advice.
You're either being deliberately emotional and obtuse, or you're trolling, because your argument is so absolutist that it becomes absurd.

It even works against itself, like so, to rephrase your own words: "If you can't shut down the economy and force all normal social activity to cease without getting people killed, then you're toast"

Since you obviously can't claim that your extreme insistence doesn't cause such a level of harm (and it would, directly or indirectly), somebody else could argue just as forcefully against your own idea because it will destroy their lives or lead to the death of some loved one. This is why I mentioned the very important question of balancing harms and outcomes. How can that be so hard to understand on a rational level?

As the other reply said, virtually any activity can be deadly in some context and it's impossible to promise it can't possibly be. This was the case before COVID and it's the case now too. I assume you participated in normal social and economic activity before the pandemic, thus you could also call yourself a hypocrite in cherry picking your starting point for moral outrage.
Uh oh you said the T word. mash downvote button

Hacker news becoming same shithole reddit is.
I believe polite people call us "contrarians" while everyone else calls us "assholes". But yeah I get it, I truly enjoy taking opposite sides of arguments against people that are passionately arguing their position for much the same reasons you have described above.
>It really forces you to improve your debate skills when you have to defend an impossible position.

I've been on the opposite of this debate. I don't know how much it compares to being on the wrong side of the debate, but I'd still say it noticeably honed my debate skills and it's humbling once you realize that you don't actually learn that much in school about how we can actually prove the earth is round and how to explain some of the discrepancies flat earthers use as arguments.
Why would some point of existence or meaning lead specifically to Christianity?
Seems more like a "DO SOMETHING" rant to me...
The trouble is physicists who work in foundational QM who still utters phrases like "But the vista of all these parallel histories is deeply unsettling, and like many other physicists I would prefer a single history." and then they get dragged down into complicated alternative frameworks instead of the simple one they don't like. Einstein wasn't and will not be the only one to go down that path.

Over and over again it has been shown you need to calculate all the possible histories to arrive at the probability of a specific history to be realized. And if you need to calculate those histories to match the universe, chances are high the universe as well has to calculate them.
If Covid-19 isn’t dramatically increasing homeless deaths in SF, then what is?
Would this work if there are weeds or big fishes in the water?

The foil would get damaged pretty quickly, before actually killing most of the fish it comes into contact with.

The concept is very very old and well known. So there must be practical reasons why this was not commercialized.
I use Ublock on Safari as my only extension and it always worked great but, as of about a month ago, most of the time now I have to hit Disable Extensions, then reload the page, in order to watch a video. If I don't, I just get a black screen soon as the page loads (not the entire screen, just where the video should be). Every several videos, with Ublock enabled, it lets me watch it like normal while blocking ads.
I think you're right. Google sent out a developer survey recently with a lot of questions including Epic & Unreal, and stand out questions included "would you still use the Google Play Store and Android if it was no longer owned & run by Google" and "would you pay a fee to use the App Store". So I think Google is already preparing for a future where hardware, software & app store divisions are all split up into separate companies.

I don't think Apple is prepared for that future. I can imagine Google & Amazon making app stores that run on iOS, but I can't see Apple making an App Store For Android.

(Imagine if Google could also have an iOS App Store, and you could buy software once on Google Play Android, and the same purchase also ran on iOS devices via Google Play For iOS. Would you keep buying software from Apple?)
Historically, no.

If Epic can't get an indie title as an exclusive, they're not interested in having the game on their store.

ref. https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivit...
I was looking at the top floor height by accident, the last 200 feet or so are a tower. It's a common cheat in the fight to be the world's tallest building, build pretty tall then slap a bunch of floors or a tower on top that people can't get into.

https://qz.com/122356/44-out-of-72-of-the-worlds-tallest-bui...
> if they're deeply willing to ignore those facts & reason, what will they ignore on your project?

And yet there are & have been brilliant engineers with uncommon beliefs, e.g. Terry Davis.
> All this is to say that rational questions and arguments miss the point entirely. These are not rational beliefs, nor even really beliefs. They are more like identities, firmly established and fiercely defended. Their existence is not a happy one, either. It seemed to me that they were commonly the product of deep personal and social tragedy.

This seems to me to be the chief problem of social media. We live in a post-truth world that is more intensely tribal than ever before. Reason, and the ability to form consensus, seem to be dying or dead already. That worries me rather a lot, as it is the foundation of democratic society, and without it I’m not sure how long democratic society can continue.

In the authors description of the flat earth ers he says:

> ...you operate from a position where your worldview is driven by your identity, not from what can be scientifically or objectively observed, or what the experts tell you.

We can sit here and scoff at the tiny minority of fringe conspiracy theorists out there, but my observation is that people have taken this same approach to mainstream politics, deciding on an identity that aligns them to one side or the other, and then losing all ability to see that it is possible for their side to get something wrong, or the other side to get something right.
For what it’s worth, GiveWell recommends the Against Malaria Foundation:

https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf
Sounds like you should operate your own infrastructure.
But things eat mosquitos. I’m not sure where I stand on this issue but the targeted sterilization isn’t really addressing the concern.
Pay the Patreon accounts of the content creators directly to let them get the maximum benefit.
Piratebay did a good job of self-replicating itself and outlives many others.
Tor? Freenet? Maybe Peertube over Tor?
I heard that it exist on Linux. It must be very lucrative.
You can use an adblocker and still pay for premium.

In the beginning I mostly did it to get rid of iOS YouTube ads. Now I just keep it to support channels as well. Not everyone has a patreon and I don‘t want to pay every channel membership.

The family premium plan is really fairly priced I feel like.
It's easy to explain -- just not to people whose salary whose salary depends on not understanding it, who keep shaking their heads as the predictable results of the boat they won't rock roll in.

> people want some understanding of what's happening, but they're not getting it from the media, they're not getting it from the intellectual classes, they're certainly not getting it from the government

[..]

> it's happening all over and I think you can trace a good deal of it to the effect of neo-liberalism. It had a goal remember: the goal of neo-liberalism was to transfer decisions away from the public to the hands of private power and to atomize the population.

-- Noam Chomsky, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCeqySVhCE&t=20m55s

> the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making. And I think that, in itself, leads to a good deal of political lethargy and stupidity. It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

-- Erich Fromm, https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll...
> Shall we get some US Congressman to nominate those bloggers who investigated Wirecard?

Sure, go for it. You're welcome to call for such a thing. Or do you think zee germans would try to stop you?
In a different fashion, I found myself physically surrounded by YECs at a job many years ago. It was a surreal experience. They definitely aren't idiots, many were among the best I've seen at technical work.

But like you said in (2), they start with different assumptions. Their logic is totally sound if you agree with the assumptions. I spent some time reading and watching YEC material to have a better understanding of their positions. While there were certainly some really stupid arguments, most were sound but based on either an assumption of the existence of God (unprovable either way) and some implications of that, or a flawed understanding of physics/chemistry/biology. The latter were the only arguments that could be refuted because they were the only ones where you could point out the specific flaw in reasoning.

Until you find the difference in assumptions, you can't effectively argue against their position. And, then, only by talking about the assumptions and not the conclusions/implications.
Sweden’s disease expert says just wearing face masks could be ‘very dangerous’
So, they are idiots. If no logic can change their minds then isn’t dismissing them as idiots the best course of action?
It's more common than you think.

Dustin, from Smarter Every Day, has millions of subscribes and keeps his backup copies on old hard drives loosely placed into plastic containers. He also causally tosses them around.

He's hardly and idiot but...

Here's the video where Linus sets him up a 160tb server to replace his old "backup solution".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWSrIiR1tY
I did not pay a lot of attention to this. In my mind flat earthers were an odd group of people participating for fun in an elaborate make believe. Sort of like watching WWE together with beers pretending those are real fights.

I mean, contrary to a popular parable, people knew that the earth is round for a very long time and Eratosthenes made an estimate of earth radius 2200 years ago.
Event "product market fit" feels like a sugar-coated way to say that no one is interested in purchasing your product.

I don't have a startup, but if I did I would view every single step in the process of creating one, both technical and non-technical, as an opportunity to test the market viability of your product.

I'm honestly surprised at the abundance of non-product-viability issues that were cited as determining factors. Maybe this reality is hard to face?
Honestly direct sales does seem to be where this might be headed.

Between safe, secure payment technologies such as (heh) Apple Pay and and safe, secure login systems such as (heh) Login with Apple, then really its super easy to not worry too much about the signup friction.
That's one hell of a read...
> why would they ever recommend it to anyone?

It is not a matter of recommending Linux or *BSD or anything else. It is just a matter of refusing to give in to closed software on the grounds of "convenience".

I don't go around telling people what type of software they should use, but I do expect technical people and the common developer to understand what a terrible trade-off they are making when they choose proprietary desktop. I feel hard to sympathize with those that complain about the abuse and developer hostility from Apple. They sold their souls to the devil for cheap and are now trying to bargain their way out of it?
I found this to be a "lite" version of the various filters and lenses discussed in:

Herman/Chomsky's "Five Filters" from Manufacturing Consent

https://chomsky.info/consent01/

Parenti's Inventing Reality

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/673719.Inventing_Reality
I've looked into both some time ago, and while both are great languages the tools around ocaml are atrocious.
Perhaps in the tech bubble it might by common knowledge. Out of it most people don't know.

I wonder if Jobs was nearly as charitable... edit, google says nope:

> He bought an Alfa Romeo car for one of his girlfriends, Tina, and paid off Laurene's student loans. He also kept two cars- a Porsche and a large silver Mercedes-- for himself.

Which is just sad. What a waste.
The infohashes are there but there are No seeders on the torrents.
Totally correct. This article is on the "totally idealistic" side, and I think it's important to know what is ideal as a benchmark when working in non-ideal situations.

Executives and clients like to see timelines and total project estimates. I wrote an article* about this. The idea is that you do some rough planning, applying the principles of Agile story point estimation, and extrapolating a rough/relative timeline.

Relative timelines with non-specific dates are useful for getting an idea of the scope and possible time of a project. Helps determine what should be built first, prerequisites, and what other teams might need to be involved (and at what stage). Also useful to get the product managers or executives thinking a bit more deeply about the project and perhaps reconsidering it, or reducing scope if it looks like it will be larger or take longer than expected.

Once a project is kicked off, after a few sprints the initial plan can be updated based on the actual velocity of the team.

* https://jonpurdy.com/pm-framework/how-to-quickly-plan-and-es...
To summarize, would you say you were a great troll? I apologize if I interpreted it that way...
If you consider the current leadership of the United States to be "centrist", then you and I have irreconciably different definitions of "center".

It has has a history of veering more and more wildly to each side. The previous leader was an exciting cipher when elected -- he turned out to be centrist, but was only elected because a lot of people imagined he was more to the left than he turned out to be. And at that, he was completely stymied in his progressive platform by an extremely right-wing legislature -- which turned out to be so popular that their party repeatedly increased their power in the legislature. Before him, the country elected a clear idiot, and then re-elected him after starting a war on clearly false provocation.

People were more likely to appeal to Eisenhower's approach in the 20th century, but in the 21st, the extremes have better access to mass media, making them better able to cast the center as extremist and shifting the Overton window. I see this only increasing. It's possible that it won't succeed this November, but even if it doesn't, I don't believe that the trend will change.
Just a note about Docker performance on Linux vs. others: this is likely because Docker on Linux runs without virtualization as more or less a normal subprocess in a separate cgroups namespace. Windows and macOS must use a virtualization layer (e.g. VirtualBox) to run any Docker process, which for obvious reasons is going to be much less performant.
No More postman just use cUrl and vim
Yep, that's what marketing is (having studied several subjects in it as part of my business degree back in the 90s).

Marketing is not just a synonym for advertising and promotions, etc.

Marketing is about finding/building/reaching a market for a product. It involves both identifying/creating a market, and identifying/creating a product for that market.

Advertising/promotions is just a small (though expensive) part of it, but it's the part that the world sees, so laypeople can easily think that's all it is.
Author is not making a statement regarding longevity of storage. It sounds like the issue is more around Google's behaviors emphasizing profitability above all else and removal of content that doesn't fit neatly into their commercial narratives.

Google may have the technically superior implementation but they're straight up amoral. To some people that may be a worse problem than how long their personal hard drive will last.
It doesn't. But trying to convince them to abandon Christian literalism would require an alternative that satisfies this need for purpose.
Because they come to the discussion wearing a filter that tells them that some things are Truth and other things are Heresy: notably, that stories from their culture are True and cannot even be compared to stories from other cultures, because that is Heresy.
Being nominated is essentially meaningless; it means you have the support of at least one person, other than themself, from this group:

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Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states

Members of The International Court of Justice in The Hague and The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague

Members of l’Institut de Droit International

Members of the international board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes

Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Members of the main board of directors or its equivalent of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Current and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee

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It's also prohibited to reveal nominations for 50 years; so if someone is trumpeting a nomination they are either lying for propaganda purposes or someone involved is breaking the rules for propaganda purposes, and the only thing it proves is that the people involved have no respect for the prize.
It directly implies that if we prefer dying later to dying sooner (in almost all cases) that older peoples lives would have statistically less value. Which is anathema to many Americans. The only way around it is to say you are indifferent to when death is for people, which is also anathema to a lot of people. It’s a paradox of our ethical system.
Thought occurred to me, but I imagine heat dispersion would be cost-prohibitive vs terrestrial options.

I suppose {sat -> orbital DC -> sat} (latency) or {sat -> orbital DC processing -> ground} (transmission bandwidth) are the primary use cases? Maybe security?
Reddit reports 18% reduction in hate content after banning nearly 7k subreddits
Deep Learning Model Helps Detect Location of Coughing Sounds in Real Time
I'm listening my music the same way I did 10 years ago and nobody can stop me.

Download, transfer to device, plug in headphone jack, press play.

It's very convenient actually.
aka sleep sort