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That Keynes bloke didn't figure into his calculations that one of the main reasons we will never achieve a 15 hour working week is because of human greed.

Along with large population of people who do not have enough income to live decently, and are therefore subject to "the grind", there are also many many examples where the person is making/has made lots, but still works for more. This is human greed. I think the average greedy person would rather make 2-3 times as much in a week, rather than buying their time back.

It starts at human need for low income, and then ends up as human greed, as income gets higher.

Although it would be nice, I'm not sure there will ever be a world where we all kick back and relax to enjoy the benefits of past generations. Some would call that forward progress. As you say, it seems the other way around and we are making things worse. Perhaps our individualistic quest for an easy life is contributing to that.
And the difference is that if you don’t like a policy at a company, you don’t have to work there. A bit harder to escape a country. But most often in these cases, people want benefits but they want someone else to pay for them.
It was FaceTime and there was a patent issue.
Forcing Arch model on eveyone is a perfect way for Linux to forever stay minority platform. There's a reason why most people do not run rolling distros.

Might be nice for hardcore fans, but good luck supporting anything there.
Pre-insustrial cultures were homogenic societies.

You can have functioning anarchist societies with traditional values or with same minded -istas and -ists. Not with people with different goals and values. I don't think anarchism works in a modern heterogenic society.

Only with a organized government you can have Mormonistas, and Trumpistas living in the same neighbourhood with a Lesbian couple. Anarchism can't protect minorities against the will of the people. Government can.
>In my country (but I guess it's the same in most, except perhaps some Nordic countries) bars, pubs and discos only reduce seating or close indoor spaces when forced to by law, in spite of the evidence that they cause lots of outbreaks.

>The government recommended remote work whenever possible but many companies just ignored it in spite of having many workers that could perfectly work remotely, and just implement it when forced by law.

I believe an anarchist response to this would be these examples are not so much cases of people (generally speaking) going against expert advice out of choice, more that it is a few individuals in positions of power (pub landlords, business owners) exerting their will (for personal gain) on many other people who are not in a position to push back. Employees who heed expert advice risk their job security and healthcare in doing so. By removing hierarchies and power we may well see better outcomes than we do at present. That is, the behavior you are seeing is the effect of a political system and it is not necessarily true that these same behaviors will exist by changing to a different political system. If Anarchism in practice would not entirely end the behavior, it removes the innate incentivization of the behavior
What sort of "root cause" analysis goes for the human nature of a founders? Yikes, are we that overly-focused on the individual?

Let my say the obvious, all those non-VC companies are publicly held. So let me get to the heart of the matter, if you have investors, they will demand returns on their investment. And if you don't have investors, you will have to compete externally (e.g. users) and internally (e.g. salaries) with those that do.
If snaps are yet another Canonical technology that they want to succeed despite their users' wishes, then forcing Snap versions of most common apps will come sooner or later, regardless of an app's original release or build model.
If you’re an aunt or uncle and want to take time off to help care for your nieces and nephews, you should be able to.

That's a great angle. Absolutely agreed, caring for young children is basically a second job.
Yeah, there's more than a whiff of entitlement to that phrasing.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend looking at fpm for packaging. Unless you're doing something weird or need an obscure format, it is the tool you want.

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
In all modern implementations that I know of, pointers are effectively ints. But the formal definition of the C language takes great care in not saying that, allowing for implementation to chose how to implement pointers. In some older systems, for example in 16-bit MS-DOS with "high memory", pointers were not really ints, but pairs of ints (called the segment and the offset, if I recall correctly) whose mapping to memory positions was overlapping, i.e., non unique, you could have very different representations for the same memory position. I guess the gcc port to MSDOS by DJ Delorie had to deal with these issues somehow.

But it is possible to imagine completely exotic CPU architectures, where there is a separate type of register that can only be used for pointers and it is impossible to convert to int; you could still write C compilers for that architecture and be 100% conforming to the standard.
"the capacity for doing harm is only very large when you have highly centralised power structures"

I don't think this is true. Look at the Mongols. A few nomadic tribes got together and conquered most of Asia. They created a highly centralized power center by force but they didn't start out with one.
I think you’ve nailed it.

It’s something that’s possible, but very difficult and it requires a lot of additional work to keep it going and progress the friendship.
In "The Hacker Crackdown" there is a quote from Gail Thackeray:

Fifteen percent of the populace will never steal. Fifteen percent will steal most anything not nailed down. The battle is for the hearts and minds of the remaining seventy percent.

Never mind whether its 15%, there is a minority of people who will steal, or perform other antisocial acts, if they think they can get away with it. If the majority of people see this happen without consequences then they will behave in the same way, partly because under those circumstances theft is a reasonable choice, and partly because of herd instinct.

So yes, I believe that human society does need a system of laws backed by enforcement. I don't need to believe that its everyone else who needs to be controlled and I alone am moral, I just need to believe that there are some people who need to be controlled.
> It’s selfish of them to be resentful.

I tend to agree. The it's all about me attitude has become so ingrained in western society that the greater-good is utterly discounted.

The most prominent covid related example of this is mask wearing. An unreasonably high number of people have decided that wearing a mask as a societal benefit isn't as important as their slight inconvenience.
Benevolent anarchism does not scale. The more pluralistic a population, the more differences of opinion and disagreement on principles. The rule of law is one way to cast multiple subjective experiences into a single objective framework.
> There are surprisingly many people who think that "anarchists" simply want to see the world burn and are promoting a society where their children are as likely to be murdered while out playing as not.

Indeed. Anarchists clearly do not want to see the world burn, they just redefine "world" to be the few blocks that surround their home. And children are clearly safe when one subscribes to the correct private security service. If children are murdered, that’s obviously a violation of the contract with the security service that must be settled through arbitration.
It’s always up to individuals how how work they are willing to take on and the business to decide if that’s worth their continued employment. Wally is an archetype that’s going to exist whatever the office hours are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(Dilbert)
How do you know that you areas good as other developers? How do you know that you haven’t missed something from getting other’s perspectives? In other words, without interacting with other people, how do you know what you don’t know? If you don’t have Internet, how do you know where the industry is and that you are following best practices of the ecosystem you are involved in?

As far as “original decisions”. How do you know that your “original decisions” are the best ones? How do you know that you are reinventing the wheel by taking advantage of the experience of the broader community that has already solved the problem you are trying to solve?

A senior developer could just be someone who outlasted everyone else at a company - that is the definition of an expert beginner.

I was a “senior developer” in 2008 working at the same company for nine years with two other “senior developers” who were self taught. I was also spending a non insignificant amount of time doing VB6 six years after it had been abandoned by MS, Perl and didn’t use source control.

I also “learned how to be independent”. That was actually a detriment when I first worked at a large company with a team and didn’t have the social skills to get my ideas adopted by the rest of the team, didn’t have the lack of ego to listen to others, and got PIPd for not being a team player.
Might be a violation of ToS
Christianity: Be ashamed of your naked body at all times.
There is a world of difference between believing that you, yourself, are capable of behaving reasonably without instructions, and believing the same for every single other person.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purely

> wholly, exclusively. a selection based purely on merit

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> A popular misconception is that circumstantial evidence is less valid or less important than direct evidence

because you know ... knowing that a person's phone was in the vicinity at a specific time in a specific area is as strong as a video of person A killing person B.

Such a common "misconception".

Furthermore, we know that people get wrongly convicted. We know this because they get exonerated down the road. It's also a tautology. "It's ok to use circumstantial evidence to get convictions because the legal system currently uses circumstantial evidence to get convictions".

Some of us don't want to go to jail because we happened to be driving through the wrong place at the wrong time.
Most applications on Macs start up instantaneously these days. 5 seconds is 50 times the limit for "instantaneous" feel. [1]

All of the raging discussions in this thread would be totally absent if Canonical had taken the time to make apps installed with snaps fast. Unfortunately, these days, the "make it work, make it right, make it fast" mantra seems to stop at the "make it work". At least the 20.04 release seems to be at that stage.

Congratulations, you just got a bunch of users who are going to avoid updates even more because you are going to make everything slower with your shiny new release.

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[1] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
The principle of voluntary association addresses these issues. If your needs and wants were actually considered, you would be more willing to pay taxes.
Having a semi-private conversation about someone else's deeds can't constitute "a lot more" by any reasonable measure.

BTW the whole downvoting crowd only confirms me in my opinions :)
I read this book for a public API project I was working on. At the time I had done several Rest APIs but for internal use. When it came time for a public API, you really need to up your game. A public API says a lot about a company. It's essentially marketing and sales plus a way to interact with your company programmatically. This book covers all your basics of Rest API design.

Another topic to read up on intent API design (intent resources). If you stick to nouns as your resources, you will encounter issues with naming APIs that have several steps or are really executions of business processes/procedures. With intent resources, you can continue to use the noun paradigm for naming your APIs but still be able to have complicated APIs (more than just simple CRUD).
Official US Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems [pdf]
Systems built on mistrust of human nature (i.e. checks and balances) can take more.

The amount he hasn't been able to do in that position is testament to that. Imagine if the US had been an anarchy instead and he'd amassed enough same-thinking folk to take it over?
They are indeed directly democratically run militias, but that is exactly how anarchists would run a militia.

And they aren't just militias, they also run civil society.
RMS has been doing things that people in the open source community disagreed with for a long time. His latest offence also had the effect of bringing all/many_of those previous slights to the attention of the "crowd" (because social media) and that amplified the message of criticism against him.
It's not fully compatible. It's okay. Better than being the odd sms user out for group chats, but not excellent.
I agree. Are there any major disadvantages to that, aside from size and having to wait for each application to update its own dependancies?
If your software auto-updates, then you no longer own your device. Anti-features, spying can be pushed onto it from above and you have no choice but to accept it.

I like auto-updates. I almost always turn them on. But being able to turn them off is an important bargaining chip, to pressure devs to behave. I'm not excited about giving that up.
Security of never guaranteed.
Agreed. Simple and clean, with an approach that makes for consistency.
They do have index finger models, probably not on Amazon US and not yet as perfect as Slimblade
Love to call the people not receiving the benefits “entitled”.
American taxpayers will in effect be paying the patent owner, in the form of a tax expenditure: Section 8 of the settlement agreement, at page 7, seems to position the patent owner to take a tax deduction for the purported value of the license that it "gave" to GNOME.
I agree.

For example, recently I went back to a cheap 5 year old Logitech keyboard because my expensive Magic keyboard got stuck keys. It didn't even last 2 years of use. The Logitech one still works flawlessly.

I removed the key cap but the problem was in the switch itself.
> You want App A and B installed at the same time but the two versions of tensorflow are neither forward nor backward compatible.

And that's the exact problem. Instead of solving it in the proper way you end up with kludge-on-kludge to paper this over.

Backwards compatibility is a great good, you let it go only if you absolutely have to rather than because you can upgrade stuff so easily.

> The two pythons will fight with each other for who gets to be "python3"

An even clearer case, obviously python 3.8 should be backwards compatible with 3.7.
Not true anymore for "modern" Hackintosh with OpenCore or Clover. Of course you need to set some parameters correctly, but it is way, waaay more easy and stabile than in the old days.
Superrationality
I guess just to provide a counterpoint, I can't remember having had any issues with flatpak on Pop!, including both open-source apps and proprietary ones like Spotify.
I apologize for not being clear enough. "has anyone heard of Kleiman? Legit question." By this I mean what substantive proof exists that Kleiman was interested with the underlying technologies that bitcoin incorporates?

> He was getting interviewed by US TV stations so he had some reputation in the security industry.
The field is pretty vast. This is like saying because I've made websites, I can somehow fix your laptop. (I probably could but I couldn't come up with a solution fast and well thought out.) Satoshi was clearly meticulous about this, if you've read enough of their posts, it's clear as day.

> And btw who heard of Jeff Bezos before Amazon? Nobody.
A lot of top talent is in hedge funds. So, I'm sure many people were looking. It is fair to say I choose a weak logical argument but the point is still valid (hopefully the added clarity to my intent pushes us deeper into our actual points).

> You can not judge somebody just by looking at their past. People change and evolve.
Sure, this applies if we're trying to gauge someone's character but this doesn't apply in the expertise required to be Satoshi. Terry Tao (expert mathematician) isn't going to just randomly come up with the next bulletproof SHA function. It's out of his scope. Bitcoin is out of the scope of Kleiman's skillset. I have seen zero evidence to the contrary, other than a false narrative (perpetuated by 'news') that him and CSW created Bitcoin. Even the court has thrown out numerous dated evidence [1,2].

Being a computer forensics specialist doesn't easily port to creating a blend of PGP, Hashcash, eCash, bitgold, etc. Satoshi was an expert at this stuff. What evidence shows that Kleiman did anything? Even in the Kleiman/CSW court cases, there isn't evidence that's been produced by either party. That's the court of law. Please don't avoid this point, no evidence exists to tie Kleiman even to the ideas of digital cash. I haven't seen any and I looked into it heavily, maintaining an open mind. I got no dog in the fight, just a sizable curiosity to this mysterious character.

[1] - https://decrypt.co/21995/us-judge-throws-out-craig-wrights-l...
[2] - http://blockchaingrade.org/experts-dissect-craig-wrights-sat...
The allusion one can stick in footnote. Sticking Checkhov's style in a footnote is harder than putting Baby in a corner.
I'm a working parent but I understand the frustration. People see from their own point of view. What non parents see is that I am no longer pulling the same weight I pulled last year. Someone has to pick up the slack or the schedule has to slip. Both of these are frustrating to the hard driving employee who is bound to notice that I'm not doing as much as I used to.

I don't have a great solution. This is hard on everyone but in completely different ways. I'd be happy to compensate for my lower output with a pay cut to be given to those who are pulling the load for me. It would take away some guilt at not putting out what I'm used to. But I would need that pay cut to come with an understanding that it's an exchange for less responsibility.
Let's leave aside whether Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are related because I think we're both in agreement they're not.

My point is that what the "unsupported hypothesis" is depends on your cultural viewpoint. It could be that "not descended from Chinese" is the unsupported hypothesis if you grew up in an environment where most things you experience are descended from Chinese.

Or as another example, if we got into a discussion about whether the sun will rise tomorrow, it's expected that I would have to prove that sun won't rise tomorrow instead of proving that the sun will rise tomorrow. There's no evidence either way until tomorrow arrives. But our baseline assumption is that the sun will rise tomorrow because that's what it's done every prior day. Our null hypothesis are informed by everyday experience, and that's very much a part of our cultural background.
it's good to hear that your wife got rid of CTS, but generally the problem in the carpal area is one of pressure -- there is a bundle of nerves, tendons, blood vessels, etc., that go through the wrist. It's common for compression to cause problems. My wrist doctor advised me to avoid any pressure at all, because you can feel comfortable (e.g. with a pillowy surface) while still doing damage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anarchist_communitie...
> Besides, if Spotify users reject it, they can always switch to PPA or something else. It's their choice.

This is not what happens. The vast majority of users don't know or care why something is slow. They'll just say "Ugh, Linux is slow, I'm going back to Windows."
The let me tell you more tactic is intentional. Longer sales copy tends to sell more. That is, the length of the sales copy is positively correlated with the conversion rate.
Some of the people in the article do strike me as just resentful whiners, but some of them have quite reasonable points that the company isn't working as hard to take care of their needs. Being at home taking care of your kids in virtual school isn't a vacation - but neither is being at home alone, unable to go hang out with a single friend or family member.
It matters a lot if the authority is big enough that a random militia cannot topple them. A lone village can be raided with impunity, id the village is a part of a big country then soldiers will move in to protect them.
Vegas Pro 18 pulled from Steam, all existing copies nuked with DRM check
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcvX0P1b5g

It’s Adam Back. Watch this video and you’ll likely be convinced.
There are lots of talks about that aspect on the debian MLs as well. They argue on whether they should have machines to redo the training of models that are considered open-source, if that should be part of the "build" process.

I think it is also worth noticing that we are going that way but there are a lot of actors with a lot of processing power. Notice how, two years after one model breaks records, there are ways to make it run with 1000x less power. We are bruteforcing the problem but I am having doubts that raw power is going to matter a lot in a few years.

Also a cat detectors is pretty usable at 99%, not everybody needs 99.99%.

More than processing power, the real power in distributed training lies in the variety of situations. A thousand users may have a hard time having more computing power than Facebook's TPU farm but it will be easier for them to have a larger dataset.
Measuring our capacity for anarchist living in a cutthroat capitalist society is sort of like comparing an apple with a black hole.

You can come up with some vague emotional colors where they can seem similar, I mean they both exist, can be represented on paper starting with base geometrical shapes, but further analysis of their composition and parts reveals a lot of differences.

It’s not a given that bars and salons are a normal feature of a non-tiered trade society where finding efficiency has generally meant extreme division of labor (at the cost of labor market resiliency IMO).

Would we have loans and leases on bars and salons if society isn’t being reminded by media and their neighbors trading fiat currency “is the way”?

Would we have the same economic dread foisted upon us?

Why not brew communally, or otherwise, like in a maker space and share knowledge of the processes and experiences we enjoy individually rather than fetishize dead relatives more limited view of sound fiscal policies, and social pecking order?

Why do I need to care that somehow through some Machiavellian mind game there’s a monetary flow back to some investor across the world in me?

Dead people lacking an eother ignorant of, or severely lacking strong evidence, for things like economic success is coupled to skill (when obviously we can also see social governance prop up failed elites).

A PhD in physics means putting forth an idea that the world works a way it would given the absence of human existence.

Please explain then how PhDs in economics should be given the same esteem since they rely on a heavily indoctrinated by media, human society abiding social norms of police states that have only existed for a couple hundred years?

Where’s the free market when we’ve been willing to send in men with guns to protect the way since the beginning of the nation (Whiskey Rebellion?)

Can we do better without the coercion? We don’t know cause it’s always been there.
So users are less important than their employees? Doesn't sound like sound business plan.
At that point, how does the definition of anarchy vary from the definition of democracy?
The north had slaves too ( just not that many ). So using your logic, the north wasn't a free market either then.

Once again, you are confusing what "free market" means.

"In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by the open market and by consumers."

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