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Most of the rich people I have known are actually better people than the average person. I guess the fact they have everything they want allows them to better focus on improving themselves and thinking about their actions than someone who barely have enough to survive. A starving dog is more dangerous than a well fed dog.

There are exceptions of course, some are psychopaths. But I have always been impressed by how nice the rich tend to be in person.

Now about the wealth distribution. In developed countries, the rich are usually not sitting on top of a mountain of gold, mountains of gold are not of much use anyways. Most of their wealth is actually in their businesses, buildings, etc... Businesses get people to work and produce things for people to use, buildings house people, etc... Only a fraction of it is actually used for their luxurious lifestyle, the rest runs the economy.

Now the question would be, wouldn't it be better if money went to the people instead of a few billionaires. Well, yes and no. Yes, for obvious reasons, concentrate wealth too much and that's how you get slavery. But also no, because too much equality is not always a good thing. We need some people with crazy money to do crazy stuff, Elon Musk comes to mind, no billionaire, no SpaceX to do what NASA failed to do.

While it is not about money, another interesting example is the discovery of the Hubble deep field. The director is awarded 10% of the telescope time to use as he sees fit. Kind of like a "telescope billionaire". Robert Williams, the then director, decided to use a substantial fraction of his time looking at an empty patch of sky, discovering many galaxies as a result. It was a bit crazy, and he couldn't have done that if he went through the usual procedures, and it payed of in the end.

That's why I think we need some inequality. Not too much, people deserve to live with a minimum of comfort, but not too little, we need to make large scale personal initiatives possible.
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Okay... so how is this issue currently handled? Say I create a new email account: lAsZlO@inopinatus.com and the mailbox is case sensitive.

Next I create a youtube account but as E-Mail address I enter laszlo@inopinatus.com and I am told to click the link in the confirmation E-Mail... that I never receive. Well I do not like youtube anyway so I head over to hackernews and create an account to write this comment. Oh no I can not because I typed my E-Mail address in lowercase again. So now I am wondering if there is some error so I open your homepage, search for the support page and file a bug report, typing my E-Mail address in lowercase into the E-Mail field. I never receive your response telling me to write my E-Mail address in the correct casing.
I come to the conclusion that my E-Mail account just does not work and create another one at a provider that is case insensitive. OR I figure out/am told that the case is important and will never forget it again.

So where exactly are services like youtube or hn that ask me for my E-Mail responsible for handling upper/lower case correctly?
The solution could still be: store both the hash for the canonicalized address and the hash of the exact address of which you know that it worked at some point in time. If the user enters the address later the matches the one but not the other issue a warning that should they not receive the E-Mail to double check their spelling.
Tech has "winner takes all" thing going.

Either regulate them as public service if you think "winner takes all" is valid.

OR

Make concrete rule to make sure winner doesnot take >50% of market.

This is the only solution I can think of.
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I am a loon, but my comment was a joke / ironic. I'm a tree lover. I love to sleep on a hammock suspended between two trees in the forest. I've heard of a person that fell of a tree while climbing and died, another reason for being careful with the trees.
A friend of mine had a 10 acre field in Vermont with bad soil. He did not mow it for a few years and the trees just took over. It took him years and a lot of hard work to clear it back to a field. Certainly in Vermont, the forests are voracious. They will quickly take over almost any open land. Obviously, different parts of the world have very different ecosystems, but in New England, I do not think replanting trees is needed.
In developed nations, I think families in poverty usually have a TV. The brilliance here is that a kid in a poor family can get started with just a single piece of hardware that's available cheaply.
Diversity and inclusion are really hard to do well. This is pretty much a chronic problem for this kind of stuff.

It's generally better to remove barriers and let people fill the gaps organically who desire to be there, but that tends to be slow, non-obvious and not very satisfying for SJW types who are often leading the way.

There can be exceptions, but it's just a challenging area.
Viruses.
Neat approach! This extension is proprietary (according to license on Firefox Addons site).

I Don't Care About Cookies and UBlock Origin are open source. Given that such an addon requires access to all sites, I have to trust a random french developer/company not to steal my banking credentials.

This is not intended to be hate and I will keep this in mind for the future as this is a good new approach.

I ask that you consider if your soon to be monetized features are compatible with open source.

Best of luck.
I don't live in Whitefish (nor Montana), but I love it - it's such a cool town!

What do you think about Bigfork as a place for future investment/growth?
The pi lets you work without google spying on you. That’s why I want this as an alternative to a Chromebook. My kids can learn computing without feeding data to google.
Tunnels in the US cost more than anywhere else
I'd expect that the ideal carbon-capture strategy is to grow a tree as quickly as possible (ie: a fast and easy growing wood like poplar, or maybe bamboo), and then probably bury the wood deep underground. If any bacteria eats the wood, the CO2 gasses should remain trapped there.

The expectation that permaculture is actually the best carbon-capture strategy is... strange. Trees eventually die, and at that point: their captured carbon is eaten by bacteria, turned back into CO2 and released into the atmosphere. There is a degree of carbon-capture with natural forests, but they aren't explicitly designed for carbon capture.

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Now if you think there are other benefits of permaculture, then of course, that's to be discussed. Maybe it'd be more beneficial to the wildlife (more room for predators / prey to roam the lands), and possibly beneficial for other reasons in the long run.

But if we have a specific goal (ie: carbon capture), that's easily measured and easily quantified, then frankly... modern science is the best approach forward. We should measure various methodologies, and then compare them. And then incrementally engineer a solution over the years based on the target quantifier.
my guy, you literally made me laugh. how's this https://stackexchange.com/performance different from any so called workloads large organizations are running. you've your app servers, db servers, load balancers and failover servers. pretty standard setup. yet SO is running on bare-metal. resume driven development and everyone thinking they're google | fb has killed and made money in our industry
Dropped packets are often a symptom that the MTU value is set too high. That would be uncorrelated to congestion, though.
Jorge is in Spain it seems, where they have more density and cellular competition.
Not any system that consumes the database, just any system that needs to send email. Unless you are using the encryption for other fields as well, I suppose.
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I thought this strange as well. It makes me wonder if "proper English" is much closer to our various dialects than in these other high/low language pairs.
I believe you have to enable the list to block this in the settings
I don't quite follow. You're suggesting more trees in cities/towns?
An entry level Mac is the Mac Mini. They already have the development kits for ARM in a Mac Mini case, I assume they'll sell that as an actual Mac soon.
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"As an outsider to the US bunfight, your statement seems, based on what we see, pretty self-evident."

Trump supporters are in a very deep denial about just how terrible and harmful he is.
I've done operations stuff for ~25 years now. I've used AWS since it launched. I've done devops consulting for years.

I've yet to see an AWS deployment be competitive on cost with onprem or managed hosting. In fact, I used to make good money helping people cut costs by moving off AWS.

That includes paying more for devops, because AWS is incredibly complicated, and most people struggle to get it set up well.

There are valid reasons to pick AWS. Cost is not one of them.
Speaking of reading comprehension, perhaps a lawyer could chime in and help me out here: paragraph 14.1 of that agreement reads to me as "This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of a hypothetical State of California where, by assumption, no legislative proposals based on the UCITA ever become law, notwithstanding the laws of the actual State of California."

I know it doesn't exactly say that...but it doesn't clearly say anything else either, and presumably some actual body of laws has to apply no matter how California's laws evolve; I'm honestly curious what the actual intended result of this provision is.
Are you asking what the whole topic of the thread is? People trying to radically force everyone to be equal.
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I have a different issue with Google Meet.

I have observed in the last couple months that whenever I create a Google Calendar invite with others, Google has started inserting a Google Meet conference as the location to meet.

It was one thing to ask/offer this as an option if you'd like to use it, but now Google is positioning it as if you had chosen that. So if you left it empty, because you usually use some other understood method with your friends/colleagues, now your participants are confused and think you wanted to use Google Meet.

I think that's going too far to get people to adopt your product.
Sure, but that's true IRL too -- and is mostly moot if you enjoy scanning your highly-curated lists of Twitter handles to see what certain smart and/or interesting people have to say.
The nominal price of $0 absolutely is absurd, since every individual service has a separate pricing chart down to the ELB.
Or used notebook, 6 years old Dell Latitude E7440 costs $230. It is built like tank. Price of the latest model starts from $1600.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/latitude-14...
That's because you think a raw intelligence dossier complied by a top professional is the same thing as an ABSURD laptop story created to launder Russian military-hacked emails for political purposes in order to be 2020's equivalent of Wikileaks.

In your mind, it's all politics and you're just standing up for your side's dirty tricks against the other side's dirty tricks.

Except you are wrong. The laptop story is an obvious cover, and the dossier was never meant to be public. It was given to the FBI as a matter of national security (Steele was genuinely worried the US was about to elect a dangerously-compromised criminal) then leaked post-election because the FBI sat on it.

> Let me try one more time:

Not a single point you listed is anything beyond circumstantial evidence. There is "a" laptop. The contents have been been confirmed by anyone at the FBI or by Biden himself. You are relying on wikileaks-esk "drops" from political operatives seeking a Trump re-election. You are being fooled, but you are asking to be fooled.
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More likely he was discriminated because he was Jewish.
I feel silly for not having thought of this. Thanks for the suggestion. Just setup Thunderbird and i'm downloading my emails now using the offline sync feature. Appreciate the advice!
Great. It seems like you and your doctor both respected each other. As it should be.
uBlock is able to block cookie banners. But he is not able to reject cookie uses. And we (Ninja Cookie) are thinking you have to say you don't want to be tracked.

We like to take the example of democracy and elections as a way of explaining our stance: many people complain that their opinion is never heard, or even that their voice cannot change the final outcome. But how can anyone expect an opinion to be heard, and taken into account, if it is not stated?
No, should I have? The microphone was inside the car.
AI that mistook a bald head for a soccer ball
How much better would the world be if the Netflix engineering team tackled real-world problems instead of making sure we can all binge watch Stranger Things? Such a smart group of people.
That's a pretty big exaggeration considering the 4GB Raspberry Pi 4B typically sells for $55-60. This adds a keyboard and case for $10-15 on top of that.
I was going to point out that xnnpack was basically created by a single guy who also created qnnpack, and how amazing it is for the work of a single guy to have so much impact, then I realized he posted it! Congratz dude!
> I saw a great quote

I recall that being in Matt Levine’s Money Stuff (I did a search for it, however I didn’t find it.)
The northeast in general is slowly evolving into suburb/exurb and forest. Farms are mostly no longer economically viable. That said, those "takeover" trees are often junk trees or invasive species. Nice hardwoods take time to establish.

You can accelerate mature forest creation by planting native and more late cycle trees to prime the pump. I have a buddy who inherited ~50 acres in central NY after college. It had limited road frontage and sale value, so he basically pays the taxes by leasing ~10 acres to a farmer, and spent about $15k planting black walnut, oak, etc. It probably
One thing we really like about where we’re living now (peninsula) is there are a lot of mixed race couples with kids and our kids feel this is totally normal.

We’re considering moving but worried that our kids will have a tough time fitting in, especially given how divided our country is.

For other mixed race parents looking to move, do you have similar concerns?
Which is why you don't use js. Freenet is more than enough to distribute source code with a mailing list and signed files using plain text.
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And New Zealand. And somehow Australia just reported their first day with no new cases in 6 months.
Is having a registered LLC in the US counts as US-based?
I attended the Stanford Linear Accelerator Homebrew Computer meetup where the two Steves introduced the Apple I computer motherboard 44 years ago. The spirit of homebrew computing has ebbed and waned over the intervening decades. The Raspberry Pi series is a worthy descendent of this tradition.
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I would guess that's pretty accurate. Either renters decamping somewhere cheaper/nicer/less crowded for the duration. Or people who were toying with moving out and switching those plans into high gear.
Or your router isn't responding correctly to traffic controls or the ISP isn't sending them correctly? I know with one provider I had in the deep past the allowable packet size was smaller than what most devices default to and they weren't correctly sending the maximum size their routers supported in the appropriate ICMP requests. Eventually I figured out that I could force my router to a smaller allowed packet size and that at least decreased packet loss substantially going upstream, even if whatever misconfiguration of the ISP was still confusing and eating downstream packets.
> "who has time for that?"

Given how many hours of daily television are consumed by your average 1st-world person, just about everyone.
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Pure functions (with no side effects or state mutation) is pretty core to functional programming.
I've done it, both relatively recently with a laptop connected to the TV and with a Spectrum +2A in the Good Old Days. It's pretty bad, and fortunately I am not and was not a child in a troubled household, or one of two children who both need to use the same TV to get their schoolwork done.
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That doesn't mean that a handful of people with jail-broken cars are going to be able to get together and prove a manufacturing defect.

If there were 2000 cars that were jailbroken, and they all crashed in the same way due to the jailbreak.. don't you think they'd figure out that the jailbreak was the problem? It's not that hard to tell if the software has been changed from stock.

If they all failed differently, and had different accidents in different scenarios, you're going to have a hard time proving a manufacturer defect.
Chatbots are the wrong metaphor. Having a series of successfully refining queries is useful. Pretending that this happens through a dialogue with an intelligent interlocutor is false and misleading given the current level of technology. And hopefully it stays that way. As a biological human, I'm absolutely not looking forward having silicon & iron competition.
Ask HN: Are Raspberry Pi devices free of hardware spyware (Intel ME/AMD PSP)?
Are they truly secure devices if booted with the correct OS?
"I don't believe he is a racist."

Then you are being willfully ignorant.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-r...

"He has strong opinions and no fear of hiding them. "

He has utterly moronic and harmful opinions that he irresponsibly broadcasts. His irrational opposition to masks has killed a lot of people.

"Accusations of racism are mostly political play."

It is the opposite, there is ample evidence of Trump's racism but his supporters like to make implausible denials of it. You may as well claim that Hitler wasn't anti-semitic.