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I think this article slightly misinterprets Buffett a bit. In the broader context of his values and beliefs, I think this "rule" is about focus.

Buffett (and Bill Gates) have cited focus as the single most important factor in their success.

See also Buffett's 25/5 rule (he did not give it this name).

Basically, Buffett's belief is that by not having extreme focus, you dilute your most important asset, time, to a degree that you are unable to accomplish something meaningful in any one area.

His views on time and focus are pretty well captured by the snowball metaphor (with apologies to those who have never lived in colder climates):

"Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill."

In other words, w.r.t. this discussion, it doesn't work to be changing hills with any frequency.
Thanks. It seems that Pelican is very restrictive in what content structures it allows. Do you know whether it can work with arbitrary JSON structures somehow?
> ... undocumented workers are fodder for exploitation

There are a number of good arguments for stopping undocumented workers but I don't think "keeping them from being exploited" is a very good one. Most undocumented workers in the US come from countries where their next best alternative is being exploited by cartels.

A much better solution is to overhaul our immigration system to make it effortless to get immigrants on the books and paying into our system while we deal with the much harder problem of finding them a forever home
You think a Google fucking Chromecast is better? Its entire reason for existing is to expand your advertising profile to include your watching habits. Its behavior in this area manifests in other ways, but it is the exact same thing.

How is that not obvious?

Ed: oh no did I offend the precious snowflakes by using a bad word? The flag button is probably what you were looking for, you incompetent buffoons thinking Google’s got your back on anything advertising or privacy related
Hugo is written in Go, hippy enough for me. It was my first experience with static websites, and I was surprised how smooth it is: easy installation, easy testing, easy deployment.
I upvoted based on the title. Usually I would frown on that, but the title itself is correct in my opinion. Correct enough
that regardless of the content of the article, the title should be discussed.
The Euro is the only currency in the same league. Although I don't see the red Sox dethroning the Yankees anytime soon
This is actually only true for the US, other mature markets (such as the UK) have not shown this pattern (look at FTSE 100 returns if you don't believe me). Additionally, sixty years ago, the UK markets were the largest in the world, and I suspect that an indexing strategy would have done well during the height of the British Empire.
They don't, that's the trick - they just insult those who vocally oppose their ideas.

But it's immediately obvious to any mildly intelligent, intellectually honest person that open borders are only possible for ultra-capitalist countries; imagine putting a billion people into the EU, and the countries are going to go bankrupt and collapse faster than you can say "public healthcare and free schooling".
This, and the built-in voice assistant, is why I have a blanket rule that the smart TV will never touch the internet.

If I want to stream things, that can go through the gaming PC that's right next to the TV.
I think they're referring to one example on Twitter (unfortunately, I can't find it again now) which was calling out a legitimate single-character typo fix. As someone who occasionally likes to report typos, I appreciate someone telling us they're appreciated :)
Siderea emits something of this caliber about every two months, and she isn't boring in between.
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Yes, agreed.

Intuitively, it makes sense that "statistically, it does", but if words have meaning, than "statistically" means literally there are statistics demonstrating the assertion, and so far, bupkis
> I keep seeing people who argue that TVs would be notably "more expensive" if they didn't come with ads.

Even if that were true, it ignores a very important question - where does that ad money come from?

Companies buy ads (to get you to spend money on something you don't need, or due to an arms race with their competitors, fighting over a limited market) with money the get from consumers, that pay more for their products.

All ads "contribute" to society is change in consumer behavior, that is ultimately paid by those same consumers. Even ignoring that behavior change, consumers are, on the whole, financially hurt, not helped, by ads.
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Just Devil's Advocate, but how would a pure search engine make money without doing what Google does? Let's suppose a hypothetical Google alternative just purely distributes clicks to organic results. Where does the money to pay for its operation come from?

Serious question.

I honestly believe that one of the flaws of the current form of the internet is the need for a search engine.
Hell, I'd bet most developers do something similar. E.g. you're working on a ticket that's estimated for three days and you finish it at lunch time on the third day. Do you immediately ask for more work or do you take it easy for the rest of the day?
It is a privilege! We should use our privilege to protect the privacy of those who can't be bothered!
I don't know who or why is downvoting you. You are advancing a perfectly rational discussion and shame on anyone who just disagrees by downvote.

What you describe is an easy trap to fall into, doubly so in a world of imperfect and insufficient data like finance. You very rarely know the full picture and everything you work with is basically stochastic. Yet this stochastic nature can be easily hidden behind copious numbers that seem to add up. However, I'd like to avoid blaming the tool for this. Just as a hammer cannot be blamed just because it enables plenty of "craftsmen" to cobble together rubbish constructions.

Excel is an incredible enabler, and unfortunately it is indiscriminate in that it also enables people to do the wrong thing. The solution here is education I feel.

There's also a flipside I often encounter by the way: analysis paralysis. Data analysis - whether we talk about sexy data science with python, Julia, etc on huge cloud server clusters, or good old boring pivot tables in excel - means that a lot of stuff can now be analyzed in minute detail. I've seen so many efforts get bogged down in a depth first search of fractal-like problems because one can find new and surprising things no matter how deep they dig.

Again I think the issue is not the tools, but the practitioners who still have plenty of learning to do in producing concise results that are easy to digest. I consider this a form of art.
please don't buy such tv full of ads.
Believe it? You likely still need a backup browser for things like your example, but the attitude of "There's nothing I can do" annoys me. It's like the non-techies who are suspicious of Google yet refuse to try Firefox with DuckDuckGo.
Something will be done about it regardless of whether it is planned or unplanned.

The government can't just keep giving corporations a free ride using free fiat credit and expect the currency to retain its value and reputation. The only thing holding the value of the world's currencies right now is coercion by governments.

But the system always seems to open up opportunities for contrarians and dissidents to make a profit by going against the flow. The stronger the coercive force is, the higher the risk, the bigger the opportunity - There will always be people willing to take risks, no matter how big because the rewards are always proportional.
Born in a remote Indian village, studied in towns, worked for a decade in the US and now living in a tier-1 Indian city for the last 6-7 years. Never in my life I observed any kind of bias against christians or muslims at workplace.

Coming to the cast issues, there was a post here last week on the same topic. I extended the discussion to a WhatsApp group of 70+ colleagues/friends who come from different backgrounds. I wanted to validate if I am the odd one, who has almost never observed cast based issues either. After two days of long discussion, we came to a conclusion that we tend to show more affinity to the people who speak our native language or/and come from same regional roots, than our cast and religion.

Not denying that that the later doesn't exist at all, I feel this whole topic is too exaggerated.

Disclaimer: My experience is limited to 20 years of while collar profession (only).
>I didn’t fully understand this as a developer, but it become crystal clear as a product manager.

20 years, I still dont understand how most developers dont understand. I guess that is the difference between a developer mindset and product manager mindset.

And hence why lots of startups failed.
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I fully agree with you.

I chose to argue the way I did, because it is much easier to start at that end of the spectrum. If highly skilled highly productive employees who contributed massively to the company's bottom line cannot extract a fair share of the value in exchange for their work, then it's easy to convince someone that less skilled labor has these problems, too.
> "it is about a political/world leader and his wife"

Boris Johnson's bout with COVID-19 didn't make the HN front page despite being headline news elsewhere. Why would this be different?
About $0.20/kWh here. Works out to $600 a year I think
> Like em or hate em, spreadsheets are here to stay.

Bold predicion!
> Outside of a few notorious coastal metros, the multiplier hasn’t changed all that much.

Interesting you put it like that. I looked at the same graphic and thought "ah, apart from the sparesly-populated central areas, the multiplier has changed radically, similarly to the pattern in the UK".

At the end of the day, the conclusion is that the pattern is commonly reflected in (sub)urban areas and not in rural areas - and neither of those facts is more important than the other.
I bought a Samsung smart TV in 2014. I then went abroad for a few years, and came back in 2016.

Unfortunately, in the meantime, the whole smart hub stopped working. The answer was the update the smart hub. Unfortunately, you have to update the smart hub through the smart hub which doesn’t work.

Samsung support was useless. I now have a “dumb” TV with a separate Apple TV and it’s much, much better.
You cant even get qualified as HDR below 400, and 400 is already ... a bit meaningless. Hollywood and TV authors content for 1000, and theres a mighty disconnect between these first few generations and what the content requires.

To make this worse, my several year old U2414Hs can reach 280 at 100%. Those are inexpensive, standard, 1080p IPS office monitors, that have rather good color consistency for being low $2xx each... and also like 5 years old.
I think it's a lot simpler than that.

People get in trouble because you can't say 1/10 in IEEE floating point, any more than you can say 1/3 in decimal floating point with a finite number of digits.

Back in the day IBM realized people would cut checks for the wrong amount if you used binary floating point so they put decimal floating point in COBOL. Everybody else cuts checks for the wrong amount.

When you try to teach the "non-professional programmer" to (say) make a digital twin of their workgroup with contemporary languages such as Python one of the many things that make them give up in despair is

0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3

is false. It was said that Viscalc used decimal FP because of the fear of this but the market didn't care.

Conventional wisdom is that ordinary people aren't fazed by this but personally I think this is one of about ten ways that "computers don't compute" that are like Phillip Zimbardo's broken window or Vaughn's "normalization of deviance" that make people think "computers are for geeks".

If you believe there is some limit of what people can hold in their head at once and that people aren't going to function at that limit when they're learning, it is a real problem. You need to understand your problem, the essentials of programming, the details of your programming language, and the broken number system that was passed down by an unresponsive and out-of-touch "elite".
A little off-topic, but maybe someone can answer this. I sometimes use Excel when I want to see a CSV file formatted nicely, but apparently Excel has bad support for CSV files, opening them unparsed (e.g. each line of the CSV taking up a single cell.) Apparently you have to use the "Import CSV" wizard. When building apps that export CSVs, many times customers have had issues with special characters appearing weirdly, so I've needed to format the files using some sort of DOS character set.

Apple Numbers and Quick Look opens CSV files without any issues whatsoever.

Why is CSV support in Excel so poor?
>I would argue that as long as you are working, you have a real job.

If you're working nights in a warehouse while you finish your degree that will get you into an industry with nearly six figure starting salaries then I would argue that you're not "working yet" you're just a student with income.
It's a statement about reality. It can be true or false. Racist/ not-racist is not a category of reality, it's an attribute of human intentions and actions.
There are specs for in-stream video advertising [0], as in, the provider injects a 'commercial break' into whatever you're streaming. These cannot be ad-blocked.

[0] https://www.spotx.tv/resources/blog/spotxer/server-side-ad-i...
I wrote my own using nodejs. It's nowhere near complete enough for anyone else to use, but I'm enjoying building features as I need them. Thanks to covid, I just host it on my local network so I can browse on my phone since we are home all the time.
https://github.com/schwartzworld/rss
I'm not saying that any of these problems aren't real. Many applications on Windows and some on MacOS disregard theme settings as well. That's not a security issue though, and it's fixable.
Do you expect confrontation? Could there possibly be ways to mitigate this risk, like voting in groups?

A body cam sounds kinda lame. Also some municipalities have laws against recording around the polling place or documenting your vote. California, for example.
http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/state-law-documenting-your-v...
> You'd expect the application to run as your user and have full access to the home directory. Many applications expect to have this access. This is what it means to have user space applications. Flatpak is not about fixing or changing this.

I as an user could at least expect a sandbox that protects a rogue application from modifying or even reading critical files without user consent: .config of other applications, .ssh/, shell configs (profile, rc). A web browser may require create-write access to ~/Downloads but not arbitrary read or write access anywhere else with the exception of save-as/upload explicitly requested by the user*, and that could be done by the OS file selection dialog giving back the filename + a token. And so on.

Perhaps it could even be abstracted to a common "profile" for application classes, and go even further than that and have stuff like raw USB/Bluetooth not authorized by the browser but by the OS/sandbox layer (to prevent attackers exploiting a browser bug).
ACR sourced data sells like hot cakes in the alternative data world. You can literally know what an individual (“anonymized”) person watches and when.
The share prices reflect implied probabilities. You’re not required to hold them until expiry.
In my experience this is the simplest way. The only mod I’d suggest is to put positional arguments into an array so you can put flags anywhere but this will work fine for 99% of scripts.
I've had a privileged life.

The biggest issue I've faced is stubbing my toe. Being obligated to think and care about such things I've determined that stubbed toes are the most important concept of our time.

Those of us with privileged lives should feel obligated to think beyond our bubbles and look at the real issues affecting people who are less privileged.
> Good work is still highly valued, it's just that the value is not paid to the worker, but to the company owning the work. If you increase a company's profit by $500k annually through setting up a new automation system, you'll still only get your $40k internship salary. And the company will pocket the remaining $460k, to be paid out to the owners as profits.

People are paid what it costs to replace them, not the profit they generate. The less replaceable you are, the more of the profit you get.

Price (pay) is the intersection of supply and demand, and nothing else.

That is why factory workers in the US got outsourced. That is why when deciding what you are going to sell for the rest of your life, you should go for something that few others are able to sell.

And everyone does this, it’s not some evil business plan. No one pays $5 more for the same loaf of bread. Everyone I know pays the least amount they have to. Creating a floor for that is the government’s job, not an individual business (and it can’t anyway, since it has to compete).
Intriguing.

Could you elaborate on your statements about tech market caps being dependent on reserve bank printing money?

Also, what does it mean that tech companies are not subject to the same market forces as everyone else? They are in direct competition with the next software firm - they seem to want to overcome this by building a pervasive tech ecosystem that forces users to be dependent on their software.
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Yes. A lot of.
I value the work the designer put into it. But you have to also consider all the variables:
1. This is not a one and done deal. If he had a single client paying that for 80 icons, of course it wouldn't be fair. But since it's a product that is created once and sold multiple times, the price shouldn't be decided by the hours of work or craft put into it.
2. These icons are minimalistic. There certainly is a craft behind this design choice, but compared to more realistic icon depictions (comparing to macOS icons for example), it takes far less effort to design these.
3. A lot of them have already been established. If you can simply take a pre-existing pattern and adapt it to your style, there's not much for you to do. Official logos of other companies and adaptions of app icons.

Don't take this the wrong way. I'm happy for the designer to have been so successful. I'm merely pointing out that the price is relatively steep in comparison with other icon kits of the same craft. But good for him that he was so bold to go with the price and get rewarded for it!
Whooooahh! That's great!
I was as well, until I saw the Linus Tech Tips review of it: the drivers are (were?) missing support for some Titan optimizations -- the Titan RTX significantly beat the 3090 for a few benchmarks.

If the card doesn't have these optimizations, I would expect that an actual 30 series Titan is coming at some point... But the marketing has been really confusing, so who the hell knows.
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We typically use "household" numbers because you only pay rent once per household, not twice. You typically have only one set of expensive appliances per household, not 2 (or N), etc etc.

That being said, this is a common (worthy) criticism, and there are 2 data points one can respond with:

1. Household size has actually fallen -> https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/1307408040686235650

2. You can compute the "individualized" growth by accounting for dual incomes, and the outcome is still largely the same -> https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/1307408040686235650

3. You can also just ignore dual-income households and observe what the reality looks like for single-income households alone, again similar outcome -> https://twitter.com/Mark_J_Perry/status/1307408040686235650
You're right, I checked Plasma (Kubuntu) and it doesn't show the same "Sandboxed" indicator for Flathub. This is more of a GNOME issue, even a serious one if it existed for an whole 2 years.
The distribution can recompile dependent packages if required without requiring the upstream program to release a new version no matter how the libraries are linked.
I really don't think it's going to be an issue, but I've heard that the ACLU has an app for recording/streaming police interaction. Perhaps that could be a good starting point, and you wouldn't (or shouldn't) have to buy any extra equipment.
Because people equate capitalism with America, and "fuck everyone, get money" is literally required by law there. In 1919 Henry Ford was sued by minority share holders because he wanted to increase wages. "The Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford could not lower consumer prices and raise employee salaries." Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

If you want to claim that America reached "hyper-capitalism" and stopped representing capitalistic ideals 100 years ago, then sure what you are saying makes sense . But I think most people equates capitalism with america.
> Well, the sandbox is a lie.

It's not though. And for Teams filesystem access is serverely restricted only allowing access to xdg-downloads.
How is it a redefinition or unhelpful?

Being born with privilege of any kind is luck. Even if you’re a hard worker, the chance of being very successful varies dramatically based on your initial state.

I’d argue it is helpful to frame luck in this way so you’re less likely to buy into the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” narrative.
> You may be right, and perhaps it would be better to relax the requirements, letting them flow from the critical software (PII, risk to life and limb) downwards.

agreed, I think this would achieve a lot of the positive downstream effects without placing an undue burden on developers of less critical commercial software. to go back to the desktop app example, it probably needs to authenticate serials for authorized users. you could write a small self-contained auth server and have it certified, while continuing to ship your behemoth desktop app that can't be fully evaluated.
China may want to replace the US as a reserve currency...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/21/dollar-global-reserve-c...

But wanting and doing are different things.

Part of the dollar's status as a reserve currency is not just what you can buy with dollars (which is a lot more than RMB right now), but the fact that it is backed by a political, economic and military institutional framework which has been by and large consistent for more than 150 years.

Maybe we should hold off on declaring the USD dead till the day China stops throwing random teenagers in black site jails with no access to outside counsel or due process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7s3GK9T09c

In short, imagine you wake up tomorrow and find yourself in the 0.001%. Now as yourself, does that 0.001% version of yourself want to live in Hong Kong/Beijing/Taipei or NYC/LA/SF.

Obvious. At least if you want to be able to, you know, talk about stuff openly. And really, really rich people, well they tend to have a lot of opinions...
every use case where you haven't proven it isn't.

human conscious thought is local and single-threaded. it takes a lot of experience and training to be able to intuitively reason about non-local multi-threaded computation. if you're smart and humble you can try to simplify the problem by making individual messages independent from each other by e.g. employing redundancy but you still have to be aware that it's even a problem to begin with.