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> not just things the left and right disagree on.

Yes, but the objectively false statements that the left and right don't disagree on are not politics.

Politics is pretty much what's left that we disagree on, that can't be settled objectively in other domains. And is an expression of people's values, like what's the right way to live a good life, is there even more than one, who's gonna get the rare exclusive things in life that we can't all get (e.g. apartments with views on Central Park or your local equivalent).

There's enough variation in these values that we can't agree on these things and they conflict. Hence, politics.
He’s just being nice. In reality, what he’s really saying is that Rupert Murdoch is dumb money. Seeing the success of VC and trying to copy it, but only doing it at the most superficial of levels.

To be fair, in recent years, a lot of dumb money has entered into the VC scene. Again, mostly from traditional incumbents attempting to emulate without understanding the bigger picture.
Pi is not exactly speed daemon. I do not see much point in running containers in it. I'd rather assembler cluster and consider each Pi as a container.
My journey building a B2G micro-SaaS that burned up in the 2020 dumpster fire
Admittedly it's been a while since I've been on a jail broken iPhone, but AFAIK custom ROM support is almost completely missing from iPhones. The jailbreaking ecosystem there is more comparable to Xposed tweaks and root access on an Android device. Custom ROMs are far more extensive with their own software and theming frameworks, perspectives on usability and performance, and often completely different OSs (that are not Android) thanks in part to GSIs these days.
Not alternatively. Leaving the gold standard may have been one proximate cause, while the desire of the government to have simple tools to provide short term economic relief in the face of complex socio-economic problems is one ultimate goal.
Not specifically happening in 1971, but one could argue this is the start of the Information Age and subsequent "digital divide"
Because it's not as simple a model as "access vs. cost". It's access vs. quality vs. cost.

Canada's HAQ index in 2015 was 87.6 vs. 81.3 for the US. However, Canada spent about $27B US on R&D vs. $495B for the US. On a per capita basis, the US outspends most the world on medical R&D. That drives the US total healthcare costs up while helping to drive down the healthcare quality costs elsewhere. To a certain extent, the US subsidizes the healthcare costs through much of the world, effectively allowing them to optimize for a 2 parameter model while the U.S. must still deal with a 3 parameter model.
It's because of their loyal customer base. The culture they've developed since the very beginning has set them up as almost too big to fail. Without that "cult"ure you don't get to set up their type of vertical integration.
A lot of people focusing on the fact that it's kind of a toy, but isn't that the point? I have a GameShell (gameboy-shaped Linux computer also made by Clockworkpi) and the best part about it is the vibrant and active community that continues to hack on OS images and programs (and of course games!) to this day. I don't use it every day, but it's very high quality, was super fun to build, and has only gotten better with time.

I trust these people to make a great device that works well, gets support, is fully open source, and is super fun to play with.
Security isn't a binary state. It's more layered like an onion. There are a lot of layers that even a small startup can do... that many don't.
APIs codify the concept of "Standing on the shoulders of giants", but substitute "giants" for "$X". The social consequences of that substitution are still being worked out today.
Thanks! I can definitely sympathize with your point about people "retreating into ignorant bliss in response." Not so easy to admit that in many ways we already live in the 'Man in the High Castle' timeline!
If you don't mind, why exactly? You're worried the care will get screwed up? Or you worry that someone will steal that data and charge more for insurance?

I'm just wondering about why exactly the paradigm doesn't totally work here. I get that we don't want medical devices failing, but that's different than charting. And I get it that we don't want everyone to have your data. But risking that someone does a data copy vs. reducing healthcare costs seems perhaps a risk worth taking (and it's not like the insurance companies who actually charge us money don't already have it).
The A340 I flew also had the toilets downstairs on the cargo level. A stair would lead to a small hallway with 7 toilets. I quite liked the arrangement.
US dollars clearly do have value though. It's foolish to claim otherwise.
The biggest reason for the wage drop is the trade with China. The US and China started trading in 1971:
https://apjjf.org/2013/11/24/Dong-Wang/3958/article.html

As with any economic question, it's usually not due to one reason. The combination of energy price and workforce age comes into play. But the biggest trigger of all was the trade with China. That put a serious pressure to job competition, and led to significant wage stagnation in the US. On the other hand the 1% benefited a lot from the trade.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_...
there’s an inflection point in the immigration rate to the usa right at that time. would have a depressing effect on wages, but not on productivity.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...
Didn't the OPEC oil crisis drive the price of oil higher? But then you say that the problem is that oil prices saw a massive decline. So which is it?

When I look at the graph of oil prices between 1970 and 2020, I see it jumping around between $20 and $160, but they are always higher than they were in 1970. What exactly are you saying is the problem with oil prices? Are they too high or too low?
Okay, so where does the server run? Because the only reason I'm using Disqus is because I don't have "a server" that backs my website, it's just static hosting. If I need to set up my own server just to get comments, that's not a "drop in replacement", that's a costly (especially the hours spent on maintenance) replacement.
The logical implication of that chart is that the CPI overestimates "real inflation". Most people who dislike the CPI argue the exact opposite of that. Could you share the source of that chart?
> Turn off the news.

Related: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
> How much are people actually changing the temperature?

In some cases, a fair bit.

On the other hand and friend and I did a back of the envelope calculation and worked out he could manually change the temperature in his house for about 100 years and still spend less time than he had already spent working on his somewhat homebrew solution (this was a while ago).
I've also mentioned the cutter polio vaccine and the 1976 swine flu vaccine which seems to have caused an uptick of GBS.

> There have been tens of billions of vaccines given during this time period and this is the only example where there may have been long term side effects.

No, there are other examples, the other two I just mentioned are from memory, I suspect if I go research I will find more (I don't have the time). You know what else is common to those other two cases? They were rushed (pandemrix wasn't AFAIK).

SARS-Cov-2 vaccines were all rushed, and the safety protocols used to confidently ascertain those billions of vaccines were NOT followed - The standard is to wait 2-4 years to see that there's no ADE or other issues.

I am pro-vaccination. I don't understand why it is hard to acknowledge and discuss the risk profile of vaccines - they re not risk free. Excuse me if I don't automatically think a rushed vaccine is perfectly safe.
What are the chances of mistaking an AWACS for a tanker or vice versa?
Was this not also the beginning of the Fed holding down interest rates? Gold is one part of it, but rates have declined fairly steadily since then.
There are ways to combat that. For example, some clear processes and documentation. This will help many other issues in organizations as well. Someone can have security as part of their KPI. That will put a focus on it.
I've basically banned it for family unity, so why not?
By some peoples' standards, I'm a young un', but I can distinctly recall being 100% remote in 2000, working on adding real-time to the Linux kernel. We were using BitKeeper, and had no central office. We'd meet at each others' homes as needed, but otherwise just worked from our home offices (it was at this point I moved out of a house I rented with two other guys still in college (I had just graduated), and got my own 2 bedroom apartment to have a home office).

Now that I've been reminded of how much more productive and happy I can be working from home, I'm working on making 100% work from home a reality.
This is so cynical, yeah plenty of people have jobs that look like this, but if you look hard enough, there are tons of corners of the internet where people (communities!) are doing weird and fun things with code.
> HIPPA terrifies so many IT people. Driving away top developers.

I've worked in healthcare tech stacks. It's like saying the GDPR is driving away top developers. Not true in the slightest. The problems with making money in healthcare are business related, not developer related. HIPAA is just another set of rules to abide by when creating systems.
yeah, after reading that thread I have no idea what Benedict Evans thinks a VC is and isn't.

Does anyone understand this?
It's just capitalism.
Like read ONE(1) book please for the love of god.

Concentrating a lot of wealth in the hands of few people who then have complete power over what human endeavor gets funded, and potentially given insane financial advantages over more virtuous competition, to obtain monopolistic positions.

It turns out : this is bad, empirically.
Of course any analysis a priori would have also netted this result.
Snapchat will pay creator to post on Spotlight – it newly launched built in-app
For many newcomers starting out, the Rails CRUD generators are good enough to generate their entire admin area. And Rails comes with sane security defaults.

I agree that GraphQL + React will be pretty and work well. But for one-man start-ups, the focus is usually on "looks good enough and kinda works".

So I believe I'd go with Bootstrap & Glyphicons, just to get results faster.
If anything, this is a reason why you need multiple temperature sensors.
It's about 0% for me.
A fairly simple explanation that for some reason I don't see a lot of is the drop in union membership density around this time period. Such a drop would decrease bargaining power and therefore decrease the rate of wage increase
The people and government organizations that opposed challenge trials are preventing the participants in challenge trails from saving people who actually did die from Covid.
Flew from Seattle to Frankfurt last year in economy select which was current us first class seats. Had just enough internet to docs and a small amount of slack (1 active convo). Got so much work done reviewing docs and COEs while watching a movie on the pull out tv (bulkhead) aka laptop dual monitor. Would do again. Solstice so light the entire flight over the artic
API with NestJS #19. Using RabbitMQ to communicate with microservices
The shipping container was the self driving truck of the 20th century. That one invention eventually put so many people out of work, it’s difficult to fathom.

We live in Brooklyn near the water. The entire coastline from Red Hook to Greenpoint was once dedicated to the loading, unloading, and storage of pre-shipping container cargo. This industry employed many thousands of people. It was a dangerous job but it sustained families, and it was a bootstrap to a career in the shipping industry. (There are analogies in textiles and meatpacking, in this same city).

Now, the warehouses have been converted into housing, coffee shops, art centers, and the like. The working class job is the service industry (waiting, serving coffee, delivering food), and it’s a very different culture from the working class job of the 60s.

I’m not at all saying the technological innovation was a bad thing. But it did have a huge impact on the local economies of every seaport in the world (Bay Area included, for those that live there).

If you’re interested in learning more, there’s an 8-part audio documentary on shipping containers. You can listen to episode 7 about automation here: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/AfzxGaUKuceh4W9W7
Many, many, many, more of "the 99%" benefited than the theoretical benefit of opening the US to competition did to "the 1%". https://ourworldindata.org/exports/share-of-population-livin...
Merck is currently testing two vaccine candidates (Sanofi is too actually). They started development later and took more time but when all will be said and done, I fully expect them to have shipped more vaccines than Moderna and Pfizer: mRNA-based vaccines have never been produced at scale and the logistic involved seems rather complexe.

Merck and Sanofi are developing vaccines based on existing vectors. They can reach true mass production as soon as they get approved. It's the same thing for Johnson and Johnson actually. AstraZeneca has what I would call a true headstart however.
It does not matter in the sense that it does create fertile ground for disruption by enabling bubbles of people to form and ostracize each other.

It does matter in the sense that what is built on lies, besides being immoral, is unproductive, as it will always come back to bite everyone.
Reduced transportation and shipping costs means lower cost of basically all material goods, including the material cost of building housing. And in that kind of economy, I think overall wages will be higher in terms of actual purchasing power. Not only would almost everything be cheaper, real wages would probably increase due to overall increased demand.

But I agree that health insurance, day care, and college would not get magically fixed by lower energy cost. I believe those costs have risen for other reasons.

Also I am not totally convinced by grandparent's theory that energy cost is what caused the decoupling of wages from productivity. Maybe.
Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Employee Groups
I think SWIG (the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator, www.swig.org) may be what you're looking for. It can create interface code for calling language X from language Y. I'm not sure it covers all the most popular 20 languages, but it covers a lot.
Fun article, but it's not like fools parting from their money is a new thing
> but since money has no actual value was it really stolen?

I assume you wouldn't mind sending me your bank account details via email to prove your belief that "money has no value?"
I thought that too with my Switch: use cartridges when I can, but it got frustrating swapping them out when it was docked. So I started doing digital only purchases onto a 256 GB microSD card, and it’s so much better (IMO). I haven’t noticed a difference in load time either.

It doesn’t help that game updates go onto the SD card, not the cartridge. So updates to the whole game basically make your cartridge a DRM dongle.
Many graphs don't adjust for inflation or really show the pattern at 1971. Some show 50-60s and other 80s. It also doesn't account for the momentum of human markets. If you make a change that's bad, it can take decades for the consequences to really hit.

We know what happened, the problem is in social science. The biggest subject is whether or not there's an actual problem here. I don't think there's a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_force_in_the_United_Stat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_A...

The overall participation rate is still more or less 60% and as women other other minority earned the right to join the workforce. This has been fantastic for our society. Every egalitarian society has benefitted greatly.

But now there's 20% less men working. What are they doing? Worse yet, this is a competition. So as talented women joined the workforce, they displaced less talented men. That's great for the economy. Worse yet, supply vs demand occurs. Supply of labour went up, demand more or less stayed the same. This means wages stagnate or lower. Minimum wage is increased but this only sets wages to stagnate while increasing unemployment.

In terms of society, this is fantastic. We have gained much more talent from minority groups. We don't have discrimination any more relatively speaking. Overall this is great news.

However there's a human cost. From the page, 72% of black women having kids outside marriage. Is it because the father is not there or involved or is it because marriage is not a consideration? Marriage is at historic lows. So is birth in general.

Now lets say there's a problem as per OP's assertion. What's the fix? Remove civil rights? Hell no. That's not the fix.

What if the problem is deeper than this? John Keynes said like 100 years ago that we will be down to a 10 hour work week about right now. Yet here we are working 40+ hours.

One of the last graphs on that page hits on this. Doctors barely increased whereas "administrators" has greatly increased. Moreso occurring in the 1990s but it's telling of the problem. We have people working too much and we have left no room for everyone else. Civil rights increased supply but the same amount of jobs are needed because of productivity increased. So now we have >50% of our society pretending to work. They have a job that does nothing.

We need to reduce the supply of labour. We need to go down to like 10-20 hour weeks.
It's not capitalism, it's simple game theory and the economic system under consideration is quite irrelevant.

Monopolies of all kinds are bad. Including monopolies of government.
GitLab suprised me, always tough is was from the US.
No, it's extremely inconvenient that we can't straightforwardly compare public opinion in authoritarian countries with non-authoritarian ones. FWIW the consensus in political science is that the Trump white house has substantially increased levels of misinformation (though there has been a decent amount under previous administrations), and that his popularity is genuine and enduring, though balanced by a larger genuine and enduring unpopularity.

I didn't intend to recommend a book - the link is just a graph of Trump's approval polls over time - but I thank you for yours. I'm not a particularly big fan of 'official narratives', not least because I study issue frames and so many of them are self-serving.
The list of tools I mentioned is not exact. Some may have been created later.
Hypothetically you can just throw the full Disney torrent, plus the full Star Wars torrent on Plex and you've got almost everything of value from Disney right there. All you need to do it download the newest Mandalorian weekly.

I'd never condone piracy, but hypothetically that's what I'd do.

And if someone were hypothetically worried about getting copyright infringement notices on their home IP, a put.io subscription could be valuable.
Unless the people is willingly supporting corruption, a corrupt state cannot be democratic, by construction.

You're just looking for a fight. Go for a fresh air walk outside instead.
AWS Network Firewall Unlikely to Capture Enterprises (Partners)
If I lose the keys to my home, I can break the lock or if required break the door and get into my house so why I can't reset and reconfigure my iPhone?
Too bad no one eats KFC anymore.
How do these services make money?

edit: thanks for the replies!
Move fast and break things is a really unfortunate name. In my experience, the process of continous deployment, and the automation and defintion of processes to do it well bring more stability than the "move slow and keep things stable" environments. When you deploy once a month (or less!) you view deployment as a one off thing. When you deploy every day or every week. You view releases as a regular part of development. That change in mentality is critical to stable releases.
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To add to that list: abstract syntax trees.

It would take a pretty monumental effort to build, but I think a huge step forward could be made with a VCS that has knowledge of code structure, and the relationships between source files.

Large scale refactoring is such a fragile affair with git. Conceptually though, it should be possible to cleanly and concisely represent such operations as renaming functions, reordering arguments, widening type parameters, etc.

Stability of the programming language in question is of course highly desirable, if you were to build such a system. The pace of change of Go would be much more conducive to success than that of JavaScript (or TypeScript).
Evans is distinguishing between people who are full-time VCs, and anyone who has ever written a check to a business that doesn't have revenue yet.
Does prioritizing work truly make one's life more meaningful? Does being productive for a company (less abstractly, for someone else, whoever owns the capital) really give life purpose?

Work that is not benefitting your community and strengthening the bonds between others is worth putting off for a ten minute phone call with those who love you.
Indeed.

And another good trick used is showing exponential growth on a linear scale and managing the time domain to make 1971 look like an inflection point.
> It is very simple to not deal with these tech companies.

You may find it easy, and well done if so.

Every step you have listed there is quite hard, even if you let some through (Apple in my case). Some of the things you are cutting out are very good, and that’s how they get you.
In the age of work from home, I don't see New York surviving.
I agree, diversifying energy sources seems to be the best policy. We've been sending radioactive materials into space for a long time (pu-batteries), albeit quite small amounts. -- Perhaps we should be "smurfing" fuel to the space station.
Snap to Pay $1M a Day to Creators for Spotlight Videos
I've said it once, I'll say it again: I'm NOT into cars that are connected to the internet, and apparently bluetooth is about as bad. I don't want some 0-day meaning some hacker can disable my brake line when I'm barrelling down the highway at full speed, and I don't want someone hacking into my car in the parking lot. I don't like smart garage door openers for the same reason: Hackers can just walk in with the right exploit, with no trace when they leave.
An opportunity for improvement is not necessarily transforming into improvement. Can you read?
Something that surprises me is that nobody ever talks about efficiency, as a trait of a particular piece of regulation.

The goal of a regulation, like a project constraint, is to enforce some outcome. This is often a good thing. However, not all implementations of the "code" of that regulation are going to be equal. There's a huge gap between the desired outcome and the way it's articulated as law; there's a ton of wiggle-room there. And that can make a huge difference in how burdensome a regulation is to actually adhere to. And that can have a huge economic impact.

The left talks about how important regulations are, and the right talks about how inefficient they are, and both of these things can be true at the same time.

What would it look like to ask ourselves how regulations could be "refactored" to achieve the same goal in a more efficient way? Maybe the assumption is that too much political capitol would be required to actually put such changes into action. Though, we should at least be asking ourselves this question when drafting new law.

Why isn't there a whole field around "regulation engineering" (not actually suggesting this name, but it gets my point across), including best-practices, case-studies, etc?
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