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Trump acknowledged the dangers privately and publicly downplayed them (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/trump-bob-woodwar...)

Republican lawmakers received dire warnings about coronavirus and sold stock while telling people we were going to be ok (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/senators-...)

Fox News calls it hoax and then lies about calling it a hoax (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/04/sean-hannity...)

The American healthcare system has its own issues but the main problem is republicans and conservatives.
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that's a shit-ton of clicks compared to a pair of up/down buttons.
This is one of the kindness stories that I like. How about you? What's your favorite kindness story?
A lot of protocols don't end up using Ethernet as the physical layer, even ones you still use today.

Qemu (and I think Docker too?) use SLIRP internally for access between VMs which is ultimately an IP layer bridge.

On the WAN side (at least at one point, I could be out of date here) they didn't use Ethernet, but instead IP layer routing as well, on top of stuff like PPP and SONET.
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I remember when I built my Minimoog clone in highschool I had to not only etch and drill a board for the midi2cv convertor, but also one for a parallel port PIC programmer to program the PIC it required. I think the parts for the two together would be around $100 adjusting for 15 years of inflation (of course, that was dwarfed by the parts cost for the synth).
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> Our roots in the intelligence community and defense sector introduced us to unique demands that many companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere did not address: security, stability, and transparency

The absolute laughability of anything around Palantir being associated with "transparency".

Or perhaps their "demands" around transparency were "we want nothing to do with it".
And has offices for Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, Raytheon, United Launch Alliance, Boeing, Intelsat, etc
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If it is not meaningful in any language, then we would not expect it to obey Zipf's Law, however it has been shown that it does (as mentioned by an earlier commenter).

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6085/has-it-bee...
This is not advice any startup should ever listen to.

The most successful and lucrative form of marketing, by far, is re-marketing.

That is where you take someone who signed up but is not currently a customer and you target Facebook/Google ads specifically at that email address. I've seen conversion rates as high as 30% and it's typically pretty affordable.

It's such a critical part of marketing that many companies will take a loss on the initial "here is our product, please join" ads just so they can follow up with re-marketing in the weeks/months to come. And because people re-use their email addresses across websites you can target them on Quora, Reddit etc as well.

You can't do any of this without their email.
There was also a discussion of mail chutes in old buildings a while ago, and many suffered from blockages (or being non-operational, as in your case). I could see someone finally clearing out a blockage during a renovation, then dropping the old letters in the mail. But the original article was a card written between families, so probably not in an office building. The flea-market theory from the article seems the most plausible.
Rich people only pay long term capital gains. Bezos salary is like $79k. Others have income of $1.
It's been a while, and I was never a state tax guy (fed/intl for me). I imagine the theory is based on how states divvy up income between them.

Imagine you move from CA to CO, and in 2021 you live entirely in CO. Well, CO is going to say anything you earned during 2021 is fully theirs to tax. So if you sell $10M of stock, they'll want their 4%. But if CA says they want 13% of your $10M, on the grounds that you "earned" it while living in CA, then that's not fair to you.
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For those interested in more information about performance was achieved, Stephan Lavavej gave a talk about this very subject during CppCon 2019 [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P_kbF0EbZM
FWIW there is also absl::from_chars, with some included benchmarks and results at the bottom of the benchmark code.

https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/master/absl/string...

ETA: I adapted the benchmark in the blog to use absl::from_chars and it's more than twice as fast as strtod.
If you want everything about WWI the "Pandora Box" book by Jörn Leonhard is the thing.
yeah, for me the "late game takes longer" isn't just stuff I have to do on my turns, but the computer simulation of turns starts grinding and grinding so I'm just sitting waiting for them for too long.
10 years ago I scraped a representative slice of all /. postings from the fall of every year. It was apparent that the rate of new UIDs was falling and that the bulk of the posting was done by a limited and shrinking cohort in the range of 100K to 400K. Mobile boosted the prevalence of AC posts but that didn't compensate for the drop off. I ran a regression out and predicted they'd be dead by 2023. Looks like they're on track.
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IP addresses sharing a route have a common prefix. This is not true of MAC addresses. They are allocated essentially randomly. If you wanted to route solely using MAC addresses, every router in the world would need a lookup table containing every MAC address, route aggregation would be impossible

That's not /the/ reason why a MAC address is involved. It's because that's the address for a physical device at a lower layer in the stack. As others mention, IP is media-independent, it cannot depend on a lower tier addressing scheme without becoming fused to that medium
The biggest problem in user-facing software right now is that product managers assume they + an algorithm can figure out what you want based on behavior, and that you shouldn't have any direct input in that. The best you'll usually see is an "i don't like this" button.

Spotify sidesteps some of this by just giving you a bunch of different algorithms feeding different playlists, so at least there are options, but I miss having settings to tweak to gain more control, or to point it in the right direction better.
After several management shakeups, the editors went off onto some weird tangents with video segments, allowing off-topic posts, and paid content masquerading as stories.

That's when I quit. Why did you stop?
"Residency" is based on what fraction of your time you spend in the state. It's easier to make a case that you're not a resident if you can say "Wait a minute, I haven't even set foot in the state of California in the last 2 years!" It's not that it's a hard & fast rule or loophole, it's that the law is one of those things that includes some discretion & wiggle-room, and you're less likely to be on the wrong side of the FTB & court's interpretation of it if there are facts you can point to that clearly suggest "not a resident".
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The general argument is that Remote is the new Silicon Valley, and therefore it doesn't matter as much where you live. I would say the collective talent of software developers distributed around the world rivals, if not exceeds, Silicon Valley talent. The question remaining is, can remote-first companies out-maneuver the centralized Silicon Valley entities?
> This is very much a research technique and not an operational kind of thing.

It's very much an operational kind of thing if you are trying to troubleshoot a thorny issue with your app in production.
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For me the OSI tends to come up at work to talk about scope or areas of control. People will say "that happens in layer 3" (for instance) as shorthand, not as a referent that corresponds to any actual thing.
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Does the T14 get the same battery life as this system? If so, I might have to look into that (or the inevitable X1 Carbon version).
“What do you mean you won’t pay me? Your requirement said postmarked by $date!”
I think a huge element of it is that comment boards like this are hugely impersonal compared to forums back in the day. There's very little room for socialization, so we don't socialize on these platforms, we proselytize, and sometimes it looks like socializing :)
Wearing a mask is disgusting. Make a suggestion if you like but god help the politician who pushes for permanent compulsion.
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Stanford expert blast Covid lockdown We quarantined the healthy exposed the sick
on a side note, I wish if there was a company like LEGO but for providing components for building DIY electronic gadgets especially small size home robots which gets some particular work done. for instance DIY wifi locks for doors, automated food dispenser for pets etc.
If you would put next hops MAC address in the routing table and the device fails and needs to be replaced, all the routing tables would need to be rewritten, because MACs are supposed to be unique. You couldn’t just take a spare device, configure it accordingly and be done with it.
It's the logical result of where we are going as a society.

World of Warcraft may not have started out as a Skinner Box. But they realized what they had and used it to their advantage. The result is that all games today are casino-ified. Lootboxes, microtransactions, abstracted currency, etc. It all comes from Vegas.

TikTok and apps like Robinhood are the bleeding edge of this.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/06/17/20-y...

Turning the stock market into a slick slot machine with all the same feedback and nudges. It's sickening, but not surprising.
Look into DDC; a lot of monitors can be controlled through that and it doesn't require any extra hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel
Yeah, I mean, I could understand something coming through customs. But this particular package was something manufactured and shipped in Texas.

I did recently have a rather long wait for a book that was shipped from, aaah... I think it was either Germany or England. I think it took about a month and a half to arrive.

Of course I understand that COVID has had a major impact, but the one from Texas still annoys me. I mean, c'mon... over two months from TX to NC? Give me a break. :-(
It has to be both - many people don't have a mobile phone, and a landline can't easily do the same, but may have a wifi-only device.
Yup. Today I have internet access faster than the LAN I used in the 90s and I routinely remotely run apps on my office desktop computer, reading my email, etc. from home. It works perfectly fine for anything not too graphically intensive, and it's way faster than starting a remote desktop session (which I use at times, too).

On a local network, it's not significantly slower to run most apps through X11 forwarding than running them locally, and I use this extensively. The only daily application that's too slow is a browser, but Firefox (and before it, Mozilla did it too, and before it Netscape) automatically opens calls to the browser in the existing local window anyway (and there's always some pre-existing Firefox window open), even when running on some markedly different system (POSIX for the win).

When I used MacOS more regularly, Quartz always was the first application I installed.

When I see the comments from philistines unable to understand the obvious superiority of the one true Unix way, I always think of this Dilbert comic : https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24
Trust the process

Anything worthwhile takes time and persistence - you need to think long term and trust your decisions, even if in the short term you don't see the results.

As any NBA fan knows, this is the de facto motto of Philadelphia 76ers - a team that was in a very bad spot some years ago and hired a general manager with a long term vision. They went through the "process" of rebuilding - based on rational, long term decisions - which is not what sport franchises usually want to do. In 3 painful years, they went from a mediocre team with no future to a team build to compete for the championship for the next decade. Here is the resignation letter from Sam Hinkie (the said general manager) - https://www.espn.com/pdf/2016/0406/nba_hinkie_redact.pdf - he left at the moment when the foundations for the future were in place. It's pure gold - it feels like reading Warren Buffett letters.

PS. Here is a funny video of one of the best Phili (and NBA) players who calls himslef the Process -> https://twitter.com/SBNation/status/915208453760614402.

PS2. Here is short excerpt from Sam Hinkie letter - you really should read it:

To begin, let’s stand on the shoulders of Charlie Munger, a giant to me. He is a man that’s been
thinking about thinking longer than I’ve been alive. Let’s start with him and his approach. His two-part
technique is:

1. First, what are the factors that really govern the interests involved, rationally considered?

2. Second, what are the subconscious influences where the brain at a subconscious level is
automatically doing these things—which by and large are useful, but which often malfunctions?

To do this requires you to divorce process from outcome. You can be right for the wrong reasons. In
our business, you’re often lionized for it. You can be wrong for the right reasons. This may well prove to be
Joel Embiid. There is signal everywhere that Joel is unique, from the practice gyms in Lawrence, Kansas to
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania to Doha, Qatar where he does something awe inspiring far too regularly. We
remain hopeful (and optimistic) about his long-term playing career, but we don’t yet know exactly how it
will turn out. The decision to draft Joel third, though, still looks to me to be the correct one in hindsight
given the underlying reasoning. But to call something that could be wrong (“failed draft pick”) right (“good
decision”) makes all of our heads hurt, mine included.
I didn't say anything about taxes and FWIW I agree with you. I meant it more of a "and now I'm coming here to raise your cost of living and tell you how to do things" sort of way.

Kinda funny (in a sad sort of way) that in a thread about California people assume that "I've made my money, screw you" is about dodging taxes because that implies things about where the Overton window is in CA and is illustrative about why people might not like a bunch of Californians with enough money to matter (the last part being key) showing up over a couple decades.
Ah that makes sense, sounds like it's just a cover your ass element, especially if you accidentally left some other loose end about.
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> you target Facebook/Google ads specifically at that email address

That is scummy as hell and might even get you in trouble when it comes to the GDPR if you're operating in the EU.

If I sign up for your web service the last thing I want is Facebook/Google knowing that fact.
Perhaps one of the 6 principles of persuasion?

From a google search:

Theses 6 principles are reciprocity, consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity.
That was a surprisingly great review, thanks. I do regret that the Apple-style half-sized up and down arrows are so common.
Wearing a mask is not being quarantined.

You've yet to explain why the government can have the power to compel women to wear clothing over their chest, no power to compel men to do so, and no power to compel either gender to wear a mask.

Your argument for it boils down to "That's just the way things are."

Things change.
interesting! This same mechanic is used in the "A Game of Thrones" board game, and really adds unique strategic depth there.
We normally try to tax income or consumption for a reason, because taxing capital is incredibly damaging.

And we could seize all of Bezos net worth, and it would only cover a few weeks of federal spending. Of course we could push it closer to 2 months including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett, but what do we do when we run out of billionaires in a couple years?
It is. Nuclear plants don't emit pollution. They don't emit carbon. They have tiny land-use requirements (especially compared to wind and solar), as does nuclear waste (for example, all of the nuclear waste generated in US since inception of nuclear power, would fit in an area the size of a single football field). There's nothing else like it.
I like it. The next step is piping result forward.

1.2 + 2 | double | abs => result
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So you are saying they are way overpaid?
One option and something I am using for my startup is to use Clearbit Risk (https://clearbit.com/risk).

It's an API where you give it the user's email address and they tell you if they think it's real or not. I have it such that if it's not risky I bypass the "verify email" step.

Not sure how long the API will be around and it's pretty slow but for now at least it's free.
It wouldn't surprise me if people with active netflix accounts tried to login into that page which is why they changed how it works, also like with any A/B testing it's not always clear what user behaviour they were seeking to change or reinforce, and it's usually more than one.

For example the buy now vs add to cart only on the Amazon one might have been looking at more than just how many products are sold, they might were also been trying to see if they can say reduce impulse buys that result in returns without lowering purchases that do not, in fact the reason they've kept the buy now might be because it actually reduced the return rate as people interacted less with the site and didn't buy additional items that they returned later.
The goal is probably getting away from the high taxes but still remain in a place with low humidity, mild weather, access to nice mountains, and a socially liberal government.
A production caddy config can be three lines or so.

It's a lot easier for simple things.

Being a single go binary means it "comes with" tls code (for better or worse). Makes it trivial to run a modern proxy on an old distro (say running some old application server that only speaks http, or worse, ancient ssl).

Uprades are quite easy too (drop in a new binary).

It can do many of the things nginx or apache can do, simpler, with less config (less to tune, less to audit).
There may be a 10 year retroactive wealth tax coming soon and that is sure to scare a lot of wealthy people away.
The reason for that is because IP is not 'integrated' with layer-2 tech like Ethernet. In fact, for a very long time Ethernet was only really used on local networks. Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) [1] is a completely separate data link layer technology with no real concept of MAC addresses, because there can only be two devices on the bus.

Most of the very expensive 'multilayer' switches [2] do a form of this where they associate a next-hop IP with a MAC address entry and store that in the TCAM or data layer. It's not used as much because Cisco has a ton of patents on this type of technology, and also because general purpose hardware has gotten quick enough that it's not as important as it was ~15 years ago...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilayer_switch#Layer-3_swit...
On the other hand, it's probably easier to write Lua for nginx?
Even if it's not automatically generated, Crunchbase is (or was?) a crowdsourced wiki, and one of the worst ones at that, with next to no quality control and moderation.
If you think emergent behaviors are "invisible" and "metaphysical", this suggests a modeling deficiency on your part rather than anything interesting about the real world.

> This "the market" you refer to is an abstraction of the behavior of real markets

The market isn't an abstraction at all - it's a handle for the emergent behavior of the sum total of all economic activity.
I assure you Bezos pays sales tax and property tax on all the buildings he owns. The state of Washington doesn't even have an income tax.
Looking at the data our machines are sending over the network is perfectly legitimate activity. Companies should not be able to protect their software from us. We need to be able to see everything they are doing.
Reddit has regressed in this area. It now appears like an email is required for signup (even though you can leave it empty and click next). It probably deters people from creating accounts.
For me the reliability has taken a nosedive over the last couple of years. Lately it's started capitalizing random words for no reason. I can just have a random sentence and it will Decide half of it is Proper nouns.
I wish they pay more attention to real issues and potentials. e.g. The Refinement design is half-baked -- Can't refine module methods, can't DRYly reuse monkey patch code as refinements...
> Why not just copy sections of the Bible if it's just a sample of work?

It would probably be a bad idea to juxtapose religious text with the borderline alchemical pictures in the manuscript. People are/were a superstitious lot. Also, you wouldn't want to risk angering the church. Aesthetically it would also be a bad fit, because this (probably?) isn't a Bible. For the type of content on display here, it probably wouldn't do to remind the client of Sin during the pitch.

> [why] produce such a large volume when several pages would have sufficed?

Here's a similar volume of pages with no meaning but to showcase the capability for presenting a particular type of content: https://www.squarespace.com/templates Only instead of Photography, Online Stores, Blogs the categories are Herbal, Astronomical, Balneological, etc.

> Why?

I think we can be fairly certain that whoever produced the Voynich Manuscript was at least a little hmmm... eccentric? We should probably be moderate about how much sense we expect to make from it.
Good point about openssl!

> Nginx is also 4x older.

I know, but the GP claimed Caddy's plugin ecosystem was an advantage over Nginx, which just isn't true.

> I think he was referring to a REST/JSON API that isn't unix-specific.

Got it, thanks. Though I wonder how many people actually need a REST API for config reloads given practically everyone runs servers on Linux.
I've started uses separate email addresses on my personal domain for each account I create, and so far I like this approach. I hope some company solves the problem of making domain registration as accessible as phone numbers are today so the average person can reap the benefits
I'm not talking about Musketmen. I'm talking about stacks, with Musketmen as a specific midgame example.

The death-ball stack is the premier tactic in Civ4. I just chose Musketmen since its the mid-game. But it could very well be Swordmen, Knights, Infantry, or Tanks.

Collateral damage units were too weak in Civ4 with not enough movement to really be useful outside of defending cities (at least before Bombers). If you entered combat on the open battlefield, the side with the bigger deathstack won.

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The entirety of Civ4 tactics in my experience, was won and lost on the size of the deathstack of your primary military unit.
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