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Yeah. Windows NT and commodity x86 killed Unix workstations. That's where the software support was. I'm actually not sure to what degree Linux "workstations" became a big deal. You have Linux clients but most of the software ran on back-end servers.
Inflation is a tax on capital held in monetary form. It is not a tax on capital held as the earning power of an ongoing business. If I hold $1M of cash, I care about inflation eroding that over decades. If I hold $1M worth of DCF of Coca-Cola's future profit streams, inflation does not concern me for that portion of my capital.
The compiler is not beholden to the standard library but the standard. So all modern compilers come with a bit of knowledge of how standard library functions like memcpy are supposed to behave and as long as the visible effect is the same it's allowed to do anything it wants. So instead of calling the function memcpy for a size of 4, it can e.g. just use a mov instruction to move the value from a float to an integer register. [1] It does additional analysis on how the values are used and maybe it doesn't even need to move the value at all, but that's the gist of it.

[1] https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/x4P7jE
Ever watched formula 1?

I'll bet you're thinking of British Leyland, which behaved a bit like Boeing currently does. But much, much worse, and at every level.

British companies that are aware they can fail produce quality just fine. It's a fairly simple tale.
The first code i wrote that ever really did anything was on the ZX Spectrum in BASIC when I was 7 or 8.

It took as input a name and I'd coded a series of conditionals for all my family members and it had brief silly conversations with them personalised to whomever entered their name.
GGP comment (apexalpha) proposes that would could tax revenues instead of what we are currently doing.

GP comment (me) points out that the proposed change is not a good idea.

P comment (riknox) points out we can always address that problem by doing what we currently do already (VAT).

I agree, we can solve the problem of the proposed change by continuing to do what we are already doing :-)
It's actually Next-Sun....the original classes were NX, for NeXT
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Judging from the manpage and a quick look at the code, the only thing for which systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved interact is to get the DNS servers pushed over DHCP, which it does over the D-Bus interface that falls under the interface stability promise[1].

[1] https://systemd.io/PORTABILITY_AND_STABILITY/
can we please stop using the word hack everywhere?
How do I scrape AliExpress, Amazon, Google Maps, or any website?
I think we are in violent agreement :-)
Why would you trust 3rd party solutions when windows already has solutions such as QuickAssist/RDP?

QuickAssist is design to fit the exact niche teamviewer was providing by helpign with support.

RDP may be a bit more of a faffle to setup, but I have global permanent access for about 60 quid. Mainly by setting up a VPN via wireguard.
This has been on my mind for quite a while: is there a way to set up saving structures like those of Big Corp to poor people - i.e. find a way for the people least able to pay tax to pay less of it.

Would you mind chatting about your expertise here? Do you think there is any feasible way of generalizing these tax avoidance structures so that Joe and Jane can reap some of those sweet sweet loophole benefits as well?
> build more affordable rental units

Try saying that to r/NZ
For me, it was simple, I started waking up at 6:30am every morning. My sleep schedule is finally consistent after decades of struggling with it. I track my tasks and hours meticulously, and I'm more productive than ever. This didn't come overnight and I have been struggling with productivity for years. However, it finally feels like everything is clicking into place.

Look up the idea of a Keystone habit. For me, it's waking up early. When I force myself to wake up early, it's really hard not to be productive. It's weird to wake up early to mindlessly watch YouTube (my big vice). Pick a simple habit and stick to it. A habit that will make all of your other habits easier.
Because they act as a stand alone entity, and they may make and keep profit that doesn’t get dispersed to the employees.
This is so great!

Would you know of any resources to build a little led circuit like that on a breadborad, with standard components, that could be powered by a Pi?

In smaller dimensions of course, but even 4*4 would be interesting for educational purposes. The things I found online all used pre-built led boards which is less interesting I think.
Empirically, no it does not.

It causes companies to seek loopholes, yes. They'll incorporate in Ireland for example, but they'll continue to operate wherever they need to.
Not all the benefits.

Threads also introduce security bugs and possible instability (one thread crash brings the whole thing down).
Sure, it is included, but underrepresented. When people with six figure salaries are paying 30-50% of their income on rent, the rent figure should be the primary driver of the CPI.
I'd never claim nobody picks a job because they love it above all else, just that the lower-end the job, the less likely that happens. On the other hand very few of the people I heard saying "not for the world" ever properly tested their resolve.

I think you choose to see the tip of the pyramid in this particular "cameraman" case. You pick the few with the better conditions, rather than the many, many with the worse ones. It's pretty much a certainty that most cameramen in the world do not have upper middle class incomes, good benefits, or unions on their side yet their job is just as targeted by automation as the ones you think of. The couple or truckers I know making $200+k a year are also the exception rather than the rule.

Look, I know camera operators who are expected to process and edit the material and get paid their weight in gold. Most others are "just" camera operators and get paid barely middle class salaries.

The jobs that get automated are these second type because it's easier to train an algorithm or another human to do them than for many other jobs. It also means there's less room to be choosy. And people also learn to love what they do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955651
They're not the solution to well-sliced data processing, but I can't see how they would hurt the performance.
The problem isn't "who's not paying taxes", the problem is "taxes". In the USA we pay extraordinary taxes for extraordinarily small returns. If the US government was on charity navigator, it would have a no-star rating.

This money is best left to the distributed wisdom of thousands of companies in millions of individuals who will look after every dollar and see to it's use rather than waste.

When I see headlines like this I'm not upset by them I'm sort of thankful they are not fueling reckless spending.
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Read "The Princes of the Yen", by Richard Werner. He coined (no pun intended) the term QE and his analysis of the Japanese, European and American government/central banks monetary interventionism is spot on.

There's a documentary based on his book, which may be a quick introduction to the content (although I'd still recommend the book): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-IZZxyb1GI
Are we just adding prefixes to words for fun?
NT killed the workstation market.

Once you saw the applications ported to NT (CAD, GIS, 3D graphics), people realized they could run them on much cheaper PC's. You would be able to buy 4 Pentium II's running NT for what a single Sun/SGI would cost. Hell you could buy two PC workstations for what a graphics upgrade cost on the SGI machine.
You are better with processes per core, with no threads.
Na, you're both wrong, GP for assuming he knows how a billionaire views a million dollars and you for your weak rebuttal that his home proves he doesn't value money.

You both need to stop speculating about Bill Gates.
Naively did not realise using cloudflare as a cdn meant subjecting users to cookies. I don't have a consent banner... Does Netlify?
In practice this amounts to a regressive tax system.
The Chinese Yuan is on its way to supplanting the US Dollar as a reserve currency in some regions, particularly Africa.

https://qz.com/africa/1291372/chinas-yuan-gets-support-from-...
I'm not saying there should be no auto-renew, only that it should be opt-in. Auto-renew as an available option makes all kinds of sense.
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> Is there a mechanism to group some goroutines onto a single CPU thread to avoid locking?

Python's GIL comes to mind :p
> an exhaust fan blowing out of an open window to prevent outside air from entering—one of the “negative pressure” rooms that I’d heard about

Negative pressure will pull in outside air, which is what you want, instead of letting your contaminated air leak into adjacent rooms.

In “clean” rooms you want positive pressure, with a filtered intake, to keep contaminated air out.
As someone who started learning Rust a few days ago I find its compiler errors incredibly helpful!

I don’t quite understand the author‘s complaint either - the error message in the example (like most others) does state quite precisely what went wrong and how to fix it (By default, variables in Rust are immutable. To fix this error, add the keyword
`mut` after the keyword `let` when declaring the variable.).

I wonder what the author is wishing for?
This is true. Low interest only helps if someone is buying up assets using cheaper credit or if companies are accessing cheaper credit for expansion, production etc. It does not help the people who are saving up in the bank.

The common person is forced to move their money to riskier and riskier financial instruments putting more and more money into the equity market - which again benefits companies and puts more money into the pockets of the rich.

If not equity, the ordinary person could try and buy assets such as houses which will become marginally cheaper - but risk going into even greater debt.
Abstraction != does not exist
Are those labor minimums union rules or are they imposed by government regulation?
Walmart drops inventory robots from its stores
Why should small companies get subsidized, below market rate programmers?

It’s already pretty expensive in legal fees to sponsor an h1b, so really small companies are already suffering due to big firms.

Software is an industry where size isn’t as important as other industries. A five dev company can do great things and as such can afford market salaries.
I'd be interested in reading deeper. Do you have references countering the marketing claims?
I admire the proposed simplicity (and agree that setting the levels can largely mitigate any concerns of regressive nature [especially as compared to today]).

My concern under a sales-tax only system is that politicians also like to be seen as aiding employment and a sales-tax only system does not seem as supportive of employment as today's system where employment expenses are offset in part by their tax deductibility. No one goes out and employs someone for $100 to save $20 on taxes (still -$80), but I still employ more people when it costs me $80 than when it costs me $100 to do so. In that regard a VAT is superior to a straight sales-tax.
The problem is that his likely payout on that lawsuit would be about 30 bucks.
Where is that money going then?
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You may be in interested in the domain of litigation finance then: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/17/this-young-litigation-fina...

Not quite the same thing as what you mentioned, but by creating financing that evaluates cases by their potential for a payoff, this should seed the kind of marketplace you mentioned.
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The existence of markets isn't being contested. If that's what you mean then sure. Markets exist. We can both move on with our days now.
Btw. there are parts in the standards library which are not suited for learning rust by understanding it.

Not only might your run into some but trivial edge case complexity which add the user of the standard library you don't have to know about at all but you will also run into a bunch of unstable nightly and as such often but that well documented thinks, some of which might never get stabilized.

So if you start learning rust this can lead to unnecessary confusion.

Btw. one of the reasons I like rust is that for a lot of the (more hidden) complexity you get away without knowing it and (important) if you don't get away with it you run into a compiler error. Which is in difference to C++ where a bunch of the (more hidden) complexity has quite a high potential to screw you up if you run into it without knowing about it.
That's hard and I hope they can achieve this strategy!
The main purpose of Linuxulator is to run software that's not available natively, which basically means closed-source software, eg. Steam, or native Chrome, or Eagle. Pretty much none of it depends on systemd.

What you would need systemd for is virtual machines - and that case is better handled by just running Linux under bhyve(8).
Economies or scale... How about just power? These companies have too many people in their pocket. When you have enough power you can get away with this. These companies, even if not paying taxes directly, are huge contributors of economy. You threaten them, and they threaten you back. Do you want them to take their 10,000 jobs somewhere else? It's not tax laws and enforcing them, just rather just too much power on too few people's hands.
Take the case of me, a German citizen living in Germany, owning Apple stock. The German government taxes me on the capital gains - fair enough.

But with your model the US government and the government of California would receive no taxes beyond those owed by the employees.
I love this idea. Also, it doesn't have to be actual USD. Pay them in premium access to your product. I believe this will also build loyalty with your users.
Aren't there non-HDCP splitters around that only allow unprotected content through? (I don't know, but I had thought so)
I wish cloudfare could allow removing this cookie. I'm willing to pay for that feature.
German fighter escorted a US bomber to safety in World War II
They don't make use of it in a way a person does. They use it to make more income, not for food, housing, fun, etc.
I never shut down my 486 Linux box in the 90’s, either. It had 6+ months uptime under 1.x series kernels.
That is a very charitable interpretation of the original intention of corporations. For all intents and purposes, the earliest corporations were the shipping companies in Holland and England of the 16- and 1700s that were made to distribute the risk of colonial trading operations. Chartering and regulation came much later, when the various governmental structures of the time recognized the vast profits that were being made and decided to use their standing armies to get some of that money for themselves. The earliest corporate law is only from ~1798, almost 2 centuries after the founding of the VOC.

The original intention of corporations was to make more money for their owners and that is pretty much still the case. Chartering and regulation were introduced later, to curb the worst excesses of human greed. Arguably, this very discussion thread and the push by governments to curtail tax evasion is proof of that ongoing process.
> What changed for Sun was Oracle buying them

SUN were basically forced to sell or face bankruptcy in a year or so. Their market was already gone by then. They were completely uncompetitive against Redhat and commodity x86, and they knew it - hence the big opensource push, which was too little too late, and the overall feel of confusion they were projecting. There was just no reason left to buy SUN for anyone but the most hardcore Solaris geek.

In hindsight, they should have tried to pivot to services, instead of focusing on releasing free software in the hope it would drive hardware sales.
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There's a big company in California that that occupies SGI's former offices and they run on Linux workstations.

Another one does the same in Sun's former offices.
Might be that you got flagged for using it from a "business IP".
Yes I also recall seeing them in Clarks but unused
You should read https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/white-collar-crime...

Some excerpts (it's a great, long piece. Read it all):

"In 2017, researchers estimated that fraud by America’s largest corporations cost Americans up to $360 billion annually between 1996 and 2004. That’s roughly two decades’ worth of street crime every single year."

"Even though auditing millionaires and billionaires is one of the most cost-effective government activities imaginable—an independent report estimated in 2014 that it yielded up to $4,545 in recovered revenue per hour of staff time—the IRS investigated the returns of just 3 percent of American millionaires in 2017."

"It is, as one of those high-priced lawyers might say, improbable that these demographic and economic facts exert no influence whatsoever on judges' rulings. In a 2012 review of sentencing data in Florida, researchers found that “high-status” white collar criminals, such as doctors scamming Medicaid, were 98.7 percent less likely to receive prison terms than welfare fraudsters. A 2015 study found that judges showed increasing mercy as fraud offenders moved up the income scale: Criminals who stole more than $400 million got sentences that were less than half of the minimum recommended by federal guidelines. Criminals who stole $5,000 or less served sentences well over the minimum."

"The only thing that consistently worked was to combine them— warnings from government agencies, surveillance of the worst actors, harsher punishments for repeat offenders and, yes, at the top of the ladder, criminal prosecutions for corporations that refused to shape up.

This is hardly some exotic, untested concept. When it comes to every other form of crime, law enforcement agencies are perfectly comfortable cracking down on offenses at every level. This is the country that invented three-strikes laws and “broken windows” policing. When it comes to street gangs and drug distribution networks, the criminal justice system has no problem simplifying complex criminal liability questions into four simple words: You should have known. "
In isolation, no. You could instead spend your time optimizing something else that's currently slower and speed that up instead.
> in vim I generally accidentally activate a command I don't understand and get broken out of flow while I figure out wtf just happened

This doesn't happen to me very often anymore but when it does I’m grateful for multiple undo, I’d be scared to use an editor without it.
He's talking about functor from OCaml and SML which are basically a function in the module level. So a module which take other modules as arguments and produce a new module.
>>Retail plans to have a free market exchange, say of healthcare providers, say, in the affordable care act, also have lots of central planning and government regulation.

What??? How in any way in a Centrally planned market a "free market exchange"?

Nothing in ACA is a free market, NOTHING. and NOTHING in ACA had a goal or desire to create a free market exchange, it was expressly anti-free market with the goal to be one step closer to Single Payer

>How are you going to get everyone to agree on the same way of informing a price?

I am not sure you understand what a free market is, or would look like if your are asking this question.
I love discogs and have used it to find a huge amount of new (or new to me) music over the past 10 or so years. I would love to see a discogs streaming service so you can much more easily find this that collaborators have done. I use Spotify currently but find a lot of the user generated playlists on discogs to be higher quality
What do yall think about VMware on AWS?
And why is it wrong? Either they sell and/or operate in the US - so US sales tax is paid and their US employees/owners pay their tax - or they do not, no reason to pay tax there.
Could you elaborate? Reading up on it it's not clear what you mean.
Because we'd all become companies, and nobody would pay taxes.
i'm always a skeptic of muddling too much with nature (as opposed to just getting out of natures way and letting it do it's thing) Maybe its because I've read too much science fiction, but the first scenario that pops into my head is that we engineer some super plankton that grows out of control and smothers the ocean, not letting light filter down, and basically killing all ocean life. Kinda like a green ice-9 if you will...
It's unpopular in some circles to praise Bezos, but during this pandemic, I sure am glad that they had built such an expansive and performant logistics supply chain to help people get the goods they needed without having to go to the (often closed) malls.

That's a 2020 benefit to an entire society that arose from 25 years of effort to grow in a sustainable way.
What do yall think about VMware on AWS? Looks like a neat solution to “polycloud”.
Yep agree. Queenstown is gorgeous though! But that tourist premium will apply. Maybe one of those towns near Queenstown I should consider..
> If the modeling doesn’t include the potential for dramatic unknowns that can DO happen, then the model is no good.

Why do you think it didn't? It took a major news event breaking at the exact right time (too early, and people would realize it was meaningless, too late, and it wouldn't have time to get out). And even with that, Trump barely eked out a win. That seems unlikely-but-not-impossible, which seems to match with 538's estimations.
I hate to break it to the author but no, you do not have that "right".
Hahahaha. Fair enough.
I want the whole thing to come down. To me, that's preferable to a process silently crashing. Worse still, Linux's OOM killer can kill anything it wants. This is all fine if your processes are truly independent, but if they're not then you've not really gained much by using processes.
The Two Cultures of Mathematics (2000) [pdf]
It'd have been little different if there were a dozen of these companies, instead of a near-monopoly?
US taxes us on capital gains. OP is asking why the same money is taxed twice. You have simply restated the scenario what OP is asking about. The question is why are corporations taxed , not, what would happen if corporations are not taxed.
That sounds like more of a reason to tax them, not less.
Most organizations are not Google or Facebook or Uber, so setting up a P2P network of registries is ghoulish overkill. Any image registry with a HA setup (e.g. API pods in Kubernetes and backing storage in Ceph or a NetApp cluster or whatever) is probably enough.

Source: I've implemented a federating image registry for use at $dayjob (https://github.com/sapcc/keppel). Before doing so, I evaluated the landscape and also looked at Kraken briefly.
Okay, and how's the internet out there, in the more rural parts of Norway?

But yeah the bigger issue is that often even in urban or suburban areas, the internet is still bad.
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That cookie can be disabled on Cloudflare's Enterprise plan [0] (which, to be fair, starts at like $60k a year).

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Don't rent and housing purchase prices follow each other, roughly ?
> outside of the US, where cars also exist, there never was a white flight.

Outside of the US economic circumstances in the 1950s and 1960 were very different and living in the suburbs and commuting to your job was not a possible option for economic reasons. Also, "slav flight" or whatever your European equivalent is just doesn't have that ring to it. There's plenty of segregation outside the US. It's just mostly between groups of similar skin tones.