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> Which then makes you wonder: do we really need that much technological progress?

Spoken like someone who takes all of the technological progress of the last centuries for granted. And I don't intend that as a personal attack. Many, many people think like you do, because they can't even begin to imagine a life without the fruits of progress. As for myself, I'm eternally thankful for that progress, for without it, I wouldn't be alive today (appendicitis), neither would my wife (also appendicitis), and probably neither would my two children (historically, most children died within a few years after birth). I'm also extremely thankful for not having to fear death from starvation (thanks to agricultural progress) or from bacterial infections (thanks to antibiotics).

> But if we are just developing it without real purpose [...]

That "if"-condition is doing a lot of work in your sentence. Kind of like saying "if technological progress wouldn't be bringing all the immense benefits it is bringing, it wouldn't be so great".
Agreed, but I'd argue that the US's imperialism is fairly well-known. The British managed to avoid that via shrewd and destructive campaigns of divide-and-conquer that stacked the odds against future democracies.
That's true for a lot of IEEE-754. 1/0 is defined in it in a useful way. Just as 1/3 is defined in a useful way that is not equivalent to its mathematical property.
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This is exactly right. You can't become a music buff by following a predefined map, or at least that wouldn't be a very satisfying journey.

Speaking as a music fan, former producer and DJ I say that the secret is to follow your instincts. Find some things you do like, can be anything even if you currently only like a few things. Explore from here. Explore the artist's catalogue, find similar artists, look at related genres or the genre's roots / DNA. Spotify and YouTube algorithms are great at finding related content so just fall down a recommendation hole and see here it takes you. You can quickly make some interesting transitions into other genres even like this. Don't overthink it but see which things make you hungry to explore further.

Don't seek to be a buff. Seek to explore your taste, follow your gut, follow your feelings and see where it takes you. You'll naturally end up knowing a lot but it's not about knowing, it's about the joy and fulfilment of music and nothing more.
I disagree. http://localroger.com/k5host/pitv.html

I have re read that dozens of times. It's a striking and powerful vision of a possible future.
Free markets are also free of monopolies, and generally expect the actors how have good “information” about the market.

This simply isn’t true for the labour market, ignoring the monopoly aspect for the moment, workers don’t have good market information.

Worker pay is usually heavily obfuscated by employers so it’s almost impossible for an individual worker to accurately gauge how much they can demand.

Addition workers have very limited time and resources to spend on gather information on the labour market. How are they supposed to discover better paying jobs, or better industries without constantly job hunting?

Compare this to companies who in comparison have a huge amount data. At a minimum they know the wages of all their employees, they also have the resources to be constantly surveying the labour market and adjusting to it.

All of this compounds to produce a heavily skewed labour market, that skews in the favour of employers.
> they suffered and overcame in WW2

Were they the only ones who suffered?
The stock market recovery is not due to the government "buying the stock market" because they never did that.

If you look at winners and losers in the stock market, followed the Q2 earnings season and saw what companies were facing, it seems clear to me that our economy faced a transition rather than a crash. There are huge winners in this market. Home Depot, Target, and other major retailers all announced record breaking income this past quarter. People are still shopping. Tech has lead the charge due to WFH and the shift to online. There are many more factors in this economic shift than could be explained by the Fed's money printing.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/distinctive-features#:~:text=Wh....

That's the first article that shows for googling [covid-19 vascular disease].

Basically my understanding of the current understanding is that COVID-19 is better thought of as a disease that can cause blood clots, particularly in several organ systems, particularly in the lungs -- you start getting blood clots in your lungs and consequently can't breathe very well.
I read it the same way, with the sentiment of "People will be more upset if you delay telling them bad news."

e.g.

"We got a letter for past-due rent yesterday, and I'm telling you now"

vs.

"We've been getting letters for past-due rent the last few months, and I'm telling you now."
The only real reason to own a stock is so you can sell it to someone else for a higher price in the future.
It would be a lot easier for statists if humans were merely cogs to plug into machines to advance the state, and spent all their free time at home doing nothing.
The closest thing to absurdly big monitors would probably be digital signage, since you can get 55+ inch screens that have proper DVI inputs.
God damn it. I've been searching for a way to loaf of my very high IQ my whole life. I wish someone had told me this 30 years ago lol. Join the civil service.

And no, high iq is not particularly useful in other areas, not when I don't have the ability to work hard on anything except what I'm actually interested in. So formal education was painful.
This is extremely interesting. Could the webbrowser of the future be the one which sways the nagging boxes away, and lets you access actual content? How would we reach that? (or, as more probable: this is the end of the webbrowser, it will die of a million cuts, and all smart TVs are on specific apps, all mobiles run on apps, and the one simple-to-use website that will remain forever will be... HackerNews).

Edit: And the only way to sway those nagging boxes away is to have a code of conduct, which is how appstores can impose a no-nagging experience.
This should be the highest rated comment!
> Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job.

> Companies will always push for lower wages wherever they can

but it's not just megacorp tho.

minimum wage will lower employment from small business significantly; i.e. small shop owner will get by with one less garcon to pay the other one more.

and if you think that can be resolved just by ample unemployment benefits, look no further than the Dublin heroin epidemic.

maybe two tier of minimum hourly wage + progressive hour cap could work: x$/month minimum wage for part time capped at 20 hour/week, x+50%/month for full time workers.

but it's a thorny issue where in the fight between drones and megacorp it's easy to incur in collateral damage around the middle.
I've used the older T420/30/X220/30 series laptops, and they are generally regarded to be well built modular machines that can last for a long time and can be upgraded with minimal fuss. They had 2 non-soldered RAM slots, removable storage, easily swappable batteries. If anyone is looking for cheap refurbished laptops, these are usually the go to suggestions for them.

I think the among the newer Thinkpads, only T480 has these capabilities, except the swappable batteries.
It's interesting to see Apple prototypes with serial numbers on them crop up all over the place…
Having worked for a thriving competitor of those brands, I can tell you that the app was not the major factor of success for the company. Our infra, at the time, was retarded, the code quality was mediocre, and we witnessed major downtimes, fun times. You have to come at the right time (for vc money), organize operations efficiently (recruit drivers + passengers) and make some lobbying to not be banned outright, while managing angriness from drivers, and unhappy clients. This is the hard part. The tech is basic !
i'm generally in favor of state-level control of such things, but i'd be remiss not to point out that that's a great way to further entrench inequality across america.

i mean, if $15/hour is a little more than subsistence level in rural north dakota or the hills of west virginia, so be it. maybe it means they can buy a laptop for the kids, but it won't be mansions and teslas everywhere.

current labor markets are profoundly unfair, and a little imperfect leveling of the field is fine, while we work on fixing the decades of extractive policies that got us here in the first place.
This isn't actually true. Alternatives include bonds, commodities, credit, real estate, etc. At least some of these are less overvalued (look at Hertz bonds vs stock for example). What does seem to be true is that a lot of people aren't considering anything other than equities.
Please substantiate your claim with a source. I'm pretty sure the US is responsible for more, although I don't have the numbers at hand. It is a much longer-lasting empire that used the Soviet Union as an excuse to knock over any neocolonial country, such as Iran, that even thought about taking money from the profits of international companies and spending it on its own citizens.
Interesting that means people don't read the unit of measurement, just the number 500>2.
As if we nerds didn't already have enough advantages over the general population. /jk

srsly this is a great idea and a great price point; I'd buy it
Rockin' dem downvotes from people who know Woz only from fictional books and movies.

Woz is a deity-like figure to my peeps (not because of Apple) and he says what he wants, when he wants to. Need something kept secret? Use the Cone Of Silence to tell it to a real businessy-marketing-greaseball. Want your cool new tech (even the OG Samsung smartphones!) to get it's name out there, be certain it truly is cool and only then, show it to Woz! https://youtu.be/AWQKNxuGqg4
A slight wrinkle I have found is contractors that discover how profitable you are, can often "feel" screwed over after the deal is struck and the project is on motion despite their position being profitable and exactly what they bargained for.
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> but they still run arbitrary programs (namely, any game).

They run authorized programs, not arbitrary programs.
Awesome project! Google is definitely fading out for sure. I know many businesses and developers are tired of it. Looking forward to seeing what other inventions will give Google some competition.
Ah, good to know; thanks. I’m disappointed they’re aiming for unused rather than a regular entry, but it’s definitely better than unregistered.
I don't understand this. Under what circumstances are you proposing that we'd be able to open back up? What's different now (or could have been) than it was when you claim we should be been locking down the first time? Certainly no amount of locking down would completely eradicate the virus, so what's the exit strategy?
It's not a problem in the sense that it's unsolved.

It's a problem in the sense that it takes a rack of machinery that consumes a huge amount of power and doesn't fit well in a mobile, battery powered, form factor.

Given that flies do this on uW, obviously there's an approach that is workable, but there's a long path to discovery of what we really need that has to happen.

Kind of like how back in the 90s, everyone KNEW you had to use 64bit floats in neural networks to get anything that worked, and now we have carved all that down to the minimum number of bits to make a problem tractable.
Not sure how this is going to fly inside the EU. Simply relocate from Riga to Berlin and get 1400€? Or do you have to become a German citizen? Wouldn't that be against the spirit of the EU?

I mean there are a lot of arguments PRO UBI. My favourite is that we are steering towards an ever more automated world. Maybe in 50 years from now a factory only contains half a dozen of people while the output remains the same or increases, meaning there is a heavy imbalance between available work and available workers. I believe Bill Gates proposes to tax the use of robots to compensate for it.

All in all I am not convinced, though. If more money becomes circulated the prices will naturally rise. If you can expect everyone to have at least 1400€ from the get-go then businesses will adjust their pricing accordingly. So the whole thing might result in a net zero.

I also believe the entire premise is wrong that the only thing that separates me from the Bezos, the Gates and the Musks of this world is money. When there are many more factors are at play and most of them can probably not be solved by having more money.
That's what everyone says, but it's based on conventional monetary policy. We have modern methods now and we know the government won't let you starve, won't let you be kicked out, and won't let you receive no money.

If you don't use the stock market as your savings account, that's reasonable for your risk tolerance but the truth is that people have cottoned on to the true risk and they've adjusted their behaviour to match their tolerance.
And that is why it will fail.

Fairness is not about everyone getting the same amount just for existing, for that in itself is not fair. Real fairness is everyone playing against the same rules and being treated the same under the law. Sadly governments and politicians are too corrupt to implement real fairness and have decided instead for the populist way out while keeping their insane advantage intact.
Absolutely not. Tens of thousands of Indians fought and died (not counting the Bengal famine which killed millions, but may or may not have been a result of malfeasance. Resource extraction from the colonies helped them fight as well.
I disagree simply because expenditures are completely different for more socialist countries. Eg. Total healthcare expenditure per capita is well below the USA in Australia. Less than half in fact.
https://onthewards.org/the-inside-scoop-part-one-a-compariso...

So that's $4500 a year more the average US citizen has in total expenditure that isn't some type of luxury good or indicator of a better life. It's just survival.

I mean Australia beats the USA by any quality of life index out there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where-to-be-born_Index
The drinking and smoking age is 18. You can definitely get cigs and booze before your 18th birthday if you're crafty, but I've never seen a shop outwardly sell these and bribe cops, nor are cigs and booze trafficked by cartels— this just sounds ridiculous.

Source: I grew up in Mexico. It's definitely more lax than the USA, but it's not the Wild West.
This is exactly what happened with Alien Blue.
>The problem is that anything besides regulated capitalism with some social features built in has utterly failed. And when it fails, it fails HARD.

Would you say that every country on the planet is either "capitalism with some social features built in" or is currently failing hard? And if all those systems are capitalistic, what specifically pushes UBI over the edge into being something that isn't capitalism? From an implementation perspective, UBI is simply an adjustment of the income tax rate including allowing that rate to be negative. It has nothing to do with ownership, markets, or many of the other mainstays of capitalism.
A circuit workout maximizes efficiency. Machines isolate muscle groups. Similar results can be achieved with free weights, but that requires paying attention to form, which is difficult at exertion limits. It is difficult to break form on a machine. Hence, machines can enable you to overtrain but they are also excellent at preventing injuries.

If you regularly lift truly heavy weight, you need a squat rack and a rubber floor capable of sustaining equipment drops.

Going from a dedicated machine to another dedicated machine is faster than reconfiguring a universal machine like a Bowflex. Pace matters in a workout. Rests are regulated.

I own variable weight equipment. Someone sold me a set of Turbobells, which scale from 5 to 60 pounds per hand. It is a great system similar to Bowflex Selectech. My workouts require using 3 progressively heavier weights. It is a common body building technique.

So, for my arms I need 10, 12.5, and 15 pounds. Some exercises are 15, 17.5, and 20 pounds. My legs are stronger, so I use 35, 40, and 45 pounds. If I didn't have an adjustable set, this would be a lot of free weights and good luck finding fractional sizes in a store.

Gyms usually have good air flow, at least at the gyms where I am a member. Many have amenities like swimming pool, whirlpool, massage chairs and so on.

Dropping weights at a gym is annoyance. Doing so in an apartment above neighbors is evictable.

People whose goal is to lose weight do not need a gym.

Completing my workout with a set of dedicated weights at 2am when I have the gym to myself is at least 20 minutes faster than with my adjustable weights. So, using a gym also saves time.

Costs to replicate a gym:
1. 8x4 1" gym mat - about $150, weighs over 100lb - just looked into this last week. 6x3' horse stall mats are decent also.
2. Free weights - a few hundred all-in
3. 8' Mirror - not cheap and yes they are necessary
4. Adjustable bench - over $100
5. Gym-like variable height adjustable treadmills are not cheap

All of this takes space to store. If you do not have excess space, that adds to setup and teardown time.
What produces capital?
Those investments were made in a country which was unstable so I don’t see how these companies are owed anything back.
I would push back against this. There is definitely a pretty steep learning curve, but once you are over it you really start to reap the benefits of being able to rapidly add niche functionality that exactly fits your workflows.
? I don’t know if you’ve lived in any British colony, but tons of people despise the British Empire to this day
This is an extremely difficult prediction to make.
> a lot of these commands actually take parameters that would be difficult to provide by mouse.

Those that take interactive strings, maybe - but for those that take buffer positions or regions, which seems to me like a plurality if not majority, I would love to be able to invoke a command and then click+drag somewhere I want to apply, rather than having to set the point there and pop it back when done.

Or the other way around, select a region, right-click to get a choice of commands that work on regions - this could even be auto-generated by looking at the keymap stack for commands that work on regions.
>Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top.

I don't know what problem the US has with it then, they've already assimilated, Hollywood would be jealous
Actually it's the opposite, and the difference between the two is because the river bed has changed over the time naturally and by human engineering. To quote Wikipedia: "Serbia holds the opinion that the thalweg of the Danube valley and the centre line of the river represents the international border between the two countries. Croatia disagrees and claims that the international border lies along the boundaries of the cadastral municipalities located along the river—departing from the course at several points—reflecting the course of the Danube which existed in the 19th century before meandering and hydraulic engineering works altered its course."
Rate that allows the employee to live without government assistance like food stamps and Medicaid. Otherwise the government is just subsidizing the company.
Breaking news: Poison that was found to be killing animals is now, after some time, indeed still killing animals.

...I mean what did they expect, it's still a poison after all...
This reminds me of the Xerox machine in the Soviet Embassy. Xerox embedded a small camera that recorded every photocopied document on microfilm and recovered the microfilm for the CIA whenever they serviced the machine.
No, having a problem with republicans as a group just because on average they are more callous or bigoted, that is bigotry.

Suppose that black people are, on average, more homophobic than white people[1]. I have a problem with homophobia and homophobic people, not black people as a group, because I can differentiate between the group and the individual.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia_in_ethnic_minority_...
> And look at any developing nation: everyone is hooked to Coca-Cola.

Everyone (more or less) is outside a few liberal, urban, health-focused pockets of the US, too. Or to sweet tea, or some other sugary caffeine drink. Unless you intended "developing nation" to cover those parts of the US, as well :-)

[EDIT] Not sure what rubbed people the wrong way about this, but if it's the qualifiers then it's my understanding that both "liberal" and "urban" are, independently or together, correlated with smaller waistlines and healthier lifestyles, in the US. Almost certainly including consumption of sugary drinks (indeed, this seems to peak in the "deep red" South, in the US, from what I can find). If that's wrong I'd be interested to know about it.
I think it's more correct to say that the Marxist (well, labour theory of value) perspective is not that the employer is incentivized as such, but they _have_ to. That the capitalist market _requires_ it or it doesn't work, business won't survive. It's intrinsic to the profit / wage-labour model, even if you switch to something like cooperatives or state ownership.

The theory is that surplus value (which can become profit, or be reinvested, etc) exists only through paying the worker less (on aggregate) than the aggregate amount that the worker provides through their labour.

The mainstream economics answer to this is to say that the labour theory of value is bunk and that prices are defined purely by market forces. But this kind of misses the bigger picture of what Marx was getting at rather by getting lost in the weeds about price definitions and really is a critique of Ricardo more than Marx.

Despite using the term "exploitation" which has moral overtones in English, Marx really isn't casting a moral judgement here. It's a technical description. But he does believe that this phenomenon leads to structural inequality and injustice and that the only resolution is some other kind of property ownership or method of production. Though he was famously vague on what that alternative would be, and people far less intelligent than him were left to fill in the blanks with some rather awful alternatives.
Sorry, you are correct. I fixed my comment. What I meant was the carbon-carbon double bonds replace a hydrogen atom that would otherwise be there, so the bond can be easily broken when interacting with other molecules (because the carbon-carbon bond is electron rich).
Including a Breakout clone, of course ;)
The calculation above is putting an upper limit on the number of murderers (probably, that's discounting groups of participants in murders, but I'm fine with that as serial murderers are far more common than murder groups)
One alternative thought based entirely on my own experience: late at night when both parties are exhausted sometimes isn't the best time to work out a thorny issue. I agree letting things fester isn't great in general - but I find that my mind and emotions are often in a better state after some rest.

There are also, as the article suggests, some disagreements just not worth chasing to the bottom.
C++ interop with C++ can be a pain. E.g. even with the same version of the same compiler, GCC can have different options enabled that affect the layout of some types.
> In my opinion, such crippling should be illegal.

But I want that, as a consumer. For example: part of the benefit, perhaps one of the greatest benefits, is knowing that everyone using the device is subject to the same constraints. This makes cheating in online games on consoles much harder on consoles. It still happens, but it's much harder.

Why should it be illegal to sell me a device that limits the use of arbitrary code? I _want_ that in the product I'm buying.