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i just watched the fitness+ segment. it was so targeted at upper/upper-middle class (white) people, it wasn't even funny (despite, as always, featuring a fair diversity of people). most americans simply don't have the time and mental space to carve out big chunks of time (not to mention living space) to devote $10/mo and a commitment to multiple apple devices that it requires. it's myopic, to say the least.

even though i like and almost exclusively use apple computing devices, i feel apple has jumped the shark as a lifestyle brand. the whole thing feels so fake and overproduced (reiterating this, as it's not the first time feeling this way). the tech and products are still interesting; the marketing and the branding are increasingly not.

fitness+ was a definite turn-off for me.
What's funny is there were versions of the JVM for Sparc way, way back in time (Java 1.1) that had so-called green threads which were multiple threads mapped to a single (or multiple) native threads.
If you live by a busy/noisy street as many apartments are, it's necessary. I grew up in the PNW in the suburbs and living more in the city in apartments the need for AC is much more real.
I have mixed expérience with this kind of company (even as private ones) where the consultancy part sucks the time and life of everyone, before - if you're lucky - some of the customer becomes dependant on your work enough that they buy you. But it's just my experience, I'm sure others managed to build companies out of side projects.
Healthcare in the United States is perfectly designed to take your every last penny in the last 6 months of your life. If Chuck Feeney isn't actually broke today, there is a fair chance that he will be on his death bed.
when I went to university in 1999 it was my dream to work at a company like microsoft, then google. then i realized that big tech is just a way for those in control of society to control us more efficiently. i feel for those who just want to put their head down and do the work. nobody thought they were going to CS school to enable the exploitation of less lucky others. but now we have facebook, amazon, palantir, google, microsoft et al doing whatever their doing, not with the benefit of society but for the benefit of society’s owners. as a tech person, that makes me extremely uncomfortable, and someone who hasn’t figured out even a personal route around the problem, much less a societal one. god bless us all.
After all, they were just following orders.
Though China's trajectory is to not need the USA.
This nuclear renaissance sounds interesting. I can't find record of it. Could you point me to some sources?

To be clear: to me it looks like a "nuclear renaissance" is a hypothetical concept. Like a goal that was never attempted due to public image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_renaissance
In the 1950's.
No it is NOT.

Trump Tower,
Trump Airlines.
Trump Taj Mahal

Oh wait.. NVM
I definitely was. I still use one now, more than 3 years after their business failure. I really wish someone would make something like the Pebble Time 2.
Absolutely a good comment. Tax the rich, replace philanthropy with Democracy. Pathetic that PP is getting downvotes.
Maybe it depends on what you mean by “passionate,” but I would say I’m passionate about customer service and about architecting and building scalable software systems. I cofounded a professional services firm, and it makes me happy to provide our clients a lot of value, and I do really enjoy thinking about scalable systems.
Choosing any one "the right entity" is the wrong strategy for truly robust preservation.

Redundancy in a variety of organizations & technical regimes best ensures durability against all risks. So the IA's efforts here should be encouraged, and those of every other project able to take on similar duties.

And if vaguely implying that the IA is inadequate, please at least hint at potential alternatives who are or could be doing the necessary work instead. Note that anyone concerned about IA's longevity can and should leverage IA's groundwork – such as by mirroring its collections elsewhere, as is fairly straightforward either via explicit coordination or even dark/uncoordinated scraping.
The right jeans and sneakers (and hoodie, and "tech pants", et c., et c.) can even help. There's definitely a techie look, and it's not the same as poor-people/low-class clothes (which some of the same categories of items can fall into, like jeans and sneakers).
This is a good turnaround of the previous statement. It is incorrect to assume there is only so much wealth, and subsequently, billionaires need to be taxed in order to maintain our standard of living. Most billionaires have created something entirely new, not hoarded some scarce resource from the rest of us.
There is a cost to long distance transmission which distorts those numbers, presumably.
A little bit OT, but I watched a Youtube video that mentioned that "hydrocarbon is inexhaustible". Is this true?
Hilarious. There's a car salesman joke in there.
Why would they give away the innovative features in trailers?
People lie on their resumes.

There's a huge surplus of people claiming skills they don't have. You'd be shocked at how many people who claim to be strong data scientists don't know SQL.

When I last hired for a technical position, I had half an hour for each candidate to decide whether to move forward with them. I wrote up seven questions that took fifteen minutes to answer. I also spent fifteen minutes talking about the job, the co-workers, and answering questions about the fit of the position.
Is Justin Timberlake a product of cumulative advantage? (2007)
5.3 seconds. I think you may have found a pathological case. Or we're just all on different pops (because I got .38 seconds when I did it again so obviously it was cached the second time).
Little as in what? You're being very vague. Do you want to use official Google Apps without the Google APIs? At least the OS is open source, but I can have a very functional device without needing gapps. Same with COS on their cloud platform. Apple is actively preventing users from even installing apps outside their app store.
I’m reading on hackers news that in SV engineers are making 200-400k, geez, suck it up, stay put and get paid, my friends
Thanks, quote much appreciated!
This is such an important point.

Plus CUDA shows what can happen even when alternatives are available (OpenCL for example) you just have to use the hardware / software integration to be sufficiently ahead and establish a virtuous circle.
> The income used to accumulate the assets left at death was taxed when it was received; the earnings on the assets were taxed year after year
Neither of these are necessarily true. Although, an estate tax is probably a poor place to catch this. Typically, the real wealth isn't even directly owned by a human being anyways, but rather beneficial trusts, etc.
I did. But recently found out that Wikipedia has been blacklisting URLs of Right Wing Indian news and opinion portals. Not going to donate to any website that curbs freedom of expression.
Germany has some recycling plants with modern sorting machines, almost entirely automated, it’s quite impressive to see it working.

https://youtu.be/I_fUpP-hq3A

I was checking for details a few days ago, they announce on their website 53% of their input recycled, and 47% used for “energy recovery” (which is newspeak to say they burn it for the cement and steel industry).

I was surprised by the fact that they burn so much but 47% is apparently considered very good.
Right. It's like sitting down in a café with your whole day of work ahead of you, a nice cup of coffee and some thinking, engineering and time. Except the day is perhaps 400,000 man-hours long, for all the things V wants to be. Every new project is nice when it's greenfield, but V is something else. V seems to be perpetually on the cusp of greater things. And it has done all the things that projects do when they are there, and will continue to do the things that projects do when they are there. (Like stability guarantees!) That does not make it a great thing, but it stays enjoyable to hack on because you get to be part of a thing that exists. And it's on the cusp! As long as V never gets good, and the author keeps claiming things are around the corner, it will always be on this cusp. And coding it will never be too complicated, because V doesn't do any of that fancy stuff. Well, it already does, but not yet. "It does but not yet" is exactly what makes you the happiest, because you simultaneously get to be part of the avant garde, and not have to know how to do it. I bet the author loves it. It's no fun when people point out that it doesn't yet, because it will, it will because all these people here are busily plugging away and adding all the things it already has, which is significantly easier than adding the things it hasn't. It's even worse when people say it won't, because if it won't, then it never did. Unfortunately, for the people you need to make it work, that kind of "It does but not yet" is not fun. It makes me bristle. This Sisyphus, reader, would rather throw himself down the mountain. You, too, can feel the nausea if you sit with it.
This is good, because transportation costs can be easily accounted in the final price of the product. Paying higher costs make people more honest about how much they want to spend for the privilege of buying small bottles of a product.
You'll need to hire an auditor who will do an assessment. Usually pages and pages of questionnaires and high fees, the auditor will do everything remote. I've only dealt with PCI-DSS but I assume it's similar. Questions like who has physical access to your servers, how often you change your wifi password, if you have antivirus software installed on your production servers. It's a huge time sink. I'd wait for at least the second or third request. Having the report is no guarantee that more companies will approach you.
Good for him & communities. Only few people are real monks. I admire for his detachment with Money.

Not sure word “broke” is the right adjective here. If consciously someone donated their money to charity they need to be celebrated as a “winner” or overpoweing materialistic “money”? Something amazing. “Broke” means very negative. I don’t know. I could be wrong.
Yes. You can see the D700 in use here: https://youtu.be/h73EYcyszf8?t=679
It's a pity politics is so polarizing in the US that this seems necessary. I guess it is a bit of an all hands on deck situation, but it makes me wonder what history has in store. Generally, all hands on deck situations precede disasters.

I think were witnessing FPTP democracy ripping itself apart by being stuck in a local maximum. The question is how much we are going to lose before we regain and hopefully surpass this local maximum.
“What many don't know is that [Mark Benioff] donation was to complete a match of $125M offered by Chuck Feeney (who does not have his name on a building anywhere on the campus, AFAIK).”

“I wonder if I ever will have the strength to do what he has done.”

“I’ve long argued for massive estate tax rates on large estates in order to incentivize behavior like this.”

“This is a role model I can actually appreciate.“

“I humbly encourage everyone to make giving a larger part of your life.”

Those are quotes from the current top 5 comments in this thread — plenty of celebration of Chuck Feeney’s awesomeness.
It feels like there's a new JDK every five minutes these days
Yeah, heaven forbid anyone pay attention to integrity and ethics when hiring. It's worked out well for wall st!
This should probably be titled "why I like LR parsers".

There was basically no discussion of PEGs or parser combinators, just a footnote that he doesn't care for them.

Which is fine! LR parsing is a great approach, he's committed significant amounts of his life energy to working with them.

I think PEGs are great, though, I'd recommend them to any developer as the default tool for munging structured data. Nearly any mess of regular expressions can be improved with PEGs.

There are unsolved problems in the PEG world, particularly with error recovery. But not insoluble problems by any means.

I'm not quite ready to show my work on PEGs but I can say I've gotten pretty far with the approach. It's noteworthy that he starts with recursive descent, notes that PEGs and combinators (same same basically) generalize recursive descent, and then just kinda walks away from that whole line of inquiry!

But hey, I'm a parsing nerd. I'm glad Laurence Tratt has pushed the state of the art in LR, just like I'm glad Terrence Parr has done the same for LL. I'm working in a similar space with PEG, and have a long way to go.
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Yes, the unhelpful part of these simplistic examples is that they show Comparative Advantage as a property that arises from the ether. It just happens to be that my island has easily accessible bananas and yours has easily accessible coconuts or whatever. But modern trade is more often about complex products where comparative advantage isn't a byproduct of the natural world but a created situation. So we're left with the question: Where does comparative advantage come from? And the answer is that it comes from lots of different factors but sometimes, in some cases, one of those factors is protectionism. And that complicates the whole thing. It could be that your island has a CA in computer chips and mine has a CA in McDonald's toys. It could also be that the inhabitants of my island don't like that scenario and think they might be happier if they had the CA in computer chips and yours had the CA in McDonald's toys. So what can I do to make that the case?

These toy examples are useful as an introduction but basically irrelevant to modern political debates around economics, we need to move past discussing trade like we do in "Econ 101."
Not to defend the op, since I think they're taking a particularly hard line, but qualifying candidates based on their previous work is just something that happens.

I've personally been disqualified because I've worked at a legal, but "vice" based company - I've seen others not hired because their previous company was too "legacy", even though they did very similar work.

It's not necessarily right, but companies use the signals available for them - even if they're not 100% agreeable to everyone.
This would hurt family owned businesses. Under such a system, within a family, everyone would keep their money to themselves. Let's say your dad wants to open a restaurant, so you donate $1 million, and the business does well, but then he unexpectedly dies and the his net worth is assessed at $5 million. Now you are out $1 million due to the tax. pretty bad deal.
There are a few companies claiming progress in chemical recycling. eg.:

https://quantafuel.com/ | https://newsweb.oslobors.no/message/513575

80% (by weight) recovery into high quality liquids (eg.: nafta). They claim the majority of the energy used by the process comes from the remaining 20%.

The acceptable input is mostly PP and PE, the two most commonly used plastics (at least for packaging). A special catalysator is used to remove additives like chlorine.
is it really off topic to ask about past employment and ethical opinions of the work they did?

companies don’t just hire for talent. they hire for character too.

i don’t think companies expect hiring managers to hire people based on skill alone and put aside any character concerns they have about the hire.
Your city might have an app for reporting issues to the city.
https://www.sandiego.gov/get-it-done has it for example.
On the other hand, it's hard not to feel like the American's reaction is the result of propaganda and a distraction from the fact that, today, he lives in a dilapidated trailer park and has no access to healthcare.
It is impressive that he and his wife cleaned themselves out and live frugally.
Utter garbage get that pol crap off of HN
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I think the main problem is that exploitative business-models and platform economies have not been fully analyzed/modeled yet by economists, so we can hardly expect governments to do something about the problem with new competition laws etc.
yeah, I think that it a more nuanced and accurate description. It is about having the lowest opportunity costs. I guess an individual or country could have both an absolute and comparative advantage if you can only do one thing and do it well.
Rust Belt cities use electricity, too.
Alternately they may own the business and calls the shots as they feel. I've personally found the most brilliant technologists often have very deeply held beliefs about ethical use of tech. If you want a cog to churn out code for your CRUD app, sure go for an amoral person who crank out 1k lines/hour. You want breakthroughs and brilliance, find somebody who thinks deeply enough about tech to have a moral perspective on the work.
> And Scott's point is that non-selective criticism is dumb

That's a reasonable point to make, but... I don't think I saw Scott making it. Are you sure that was Scott's point, or is it yours?

> criticizing your dog, full stop, as you say, is a terrible strategy

I guess this depends on our definition of "criticising" and it's intent. If you're sitting at home, shouting at your dog, I'm not sure that's particularly productive. If you're having a conversation with a peer, and expressing your frustration at your dog chewing carpet, you may perhaps combine forces to arrive at some solutions to your carpet problems.

You can argue that perhaps discussing the plight of billionaires amongst peers (or even random folk on the internet) is equivalent to sitting at home shouting at your dog, but I think that's a debate for a different day.

Point being: I doubt many "criticising" the billionaires/dogs are expecting them to listen. They're discussing problems (and potential solutions?) in a more general sense by criticising a system/event that exists/occurs.

> do you just think that billionaires are evil

Are you proposing that dogs chewing carpets are evil? I presume not, but I presume you still want to save your carpet.

Billionaires are not necessarily "evil" in intent in the absolute sense. What I am proposing is that their existence is a problem needing solving in and of itself.

The existence of billionaires (or anyone who holds more economic resources than are needed to be content... I think that stands somewhere around the ~$150k mark according to some studies... certainly far short of whatever number of millions/pa leads to billion-level assets) necessitates that those resources have been withheld from someone who has less than are needed to be content (in many cases, to survive).

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It may be worth noting that Feeney has gone about solving this exact problem (the existence of billionaires), albeit in a very individual way (making 1 billionaire no longer a non-billionaire). Which is quite an remarkable and laudable achievement, even if that billionaire was himself.

(and that's before we get into the very far-reaching, and—in my own experience—enormously positive impact, of his philanthropy)
The article describes someone exploiting an unfair advantage and then says they are "worse off" when they are situationally forced to stop that exploitation.

This is a horrible perspective.
Exploiting another person's need to survive in order to gain unlimited labour is akin to slavery.

Serious question: Is there an ethics course for popular economics?
I got no problem with a bit of healthy stereotyping, what annoys me that many times it is stereotyping from an American point view, which is only true for the US and many times wrong and ignorant in general. Then this American way of viewing the world is trickling to the rest of the world via culture and it is just plain wrong or nonsensical. Especially when it comes to the way Americans view groups of people like whites includes middle easterners, hispanics must be some Mexican or DR/PR, Italians are mafia or guidos, all this kind of stuff which is very US oriented but has no relation to reality, even in the US itself.
Why should your kid have dominion over mine just because you became a billionaire? No society is truly free. That's antithetical the the idea of a society.
> You chose to 1) Use one that has legislation protecting it so as to make your analogy worthless and 2) use veterans specifically as if you deserve to have a title protected like people putting their life on the line.

First off you're a liar. The legislation only extends to people who used it for profit so you can legally call yourself a veteran. You lied to my face or you don't know what you're talking about. Pick one.

Second when does using veterans as an example make me low? It doesn't I just used it as an example to show how it's WRONG. get it? Probably not, people like you are incapable of knowing the difference.

You're twisting it. I never said you called me racist but what you're doing is similar. You're calling out something as insensitive when it is in no way insensitive. I could have use doctor but I chose not to because veterans were the first thing that came to my mind as wrong to impersonate. They have a term for people like you who go around starting wars for infractions that aren't even infractions: Social Justice Warriors. Get off your high horse.

>And I'm ok with being called vile by someone with obviously incredibly poor judgement.

It is vile. You're accusing me of something evil and wrong. People who don't take the time to read into what's truly going on end up burning the witch in a witch hunt. Your words are deceptive and have the possibility of stringing along a mob in this manner.
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Hah.

As an American living in Ireland 8 years now....

Yup.
I mean, I believe that there should be a Hippocratic Oath in software, but I'm not sure where your particular cutoff bar stands. My view of software is against the mainstream: most programmers should dedicate their time to build tools for scientists, to solve actual problems and advance our species. Current tech is mostly trash, useless and nobody needs it.
Can you please explain how you setup nomachine to use your Android tablet as a second monitor
Hydrocarbons are fossil fuels, basically. They are not inexhaustible.
It wouldn't be. Forcing the producers to pay for their externalities will also make some products like bottled water cost-prohibitive to sell in glass bottles and reduce demand or increase packaging sizes to more is bought in reusable plastic carboys, etc. "Reduce" is more important than reuse or recycle and while there is an obvious need for cheap bottled water, probably at least 80% of plastic disposable water bottles do not need to be sold in that way.
Virtue should be paying your goddamn taxes, and donating the rest to the government (i.e. destroying it, to offset other inflationary measures the people elect to enact).

Anything else is either an affront to democracy, or at best is is morally neutral. E.g. what this guy did is morally neutral, and only good relative to the Carnegie knockoffs trying to launder their reputation.
I've not read in detail yet and am wondering how Apple's service works with rowing machines. I have one and have long wanted some sort of gamification (literally, a flying/driving/etc. game) that is tied to how fast I row.
So they install one at Disney World. The Buena Vista district is privately run there. I think they even negotiated for nukes, when it was established. There are quite a few behemoth organizations that could pull it off, if the economics look ok.