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A profit opportunity requiring significant investment has led to fast and fantastic results that will benefit us all. But you want to punish the opportunists who've absorbed significant risk to bring us those results because you've decided their motivation isn't sufficiently pure.

I pray anyone of like mind is never in a position to enact such progress-killing madness and fear terribly that government is already full of them.

And besides, it is mind-numbingly complicated to calculate "at-cost" because as others have pointed out, that includes all of the dead-end R&D, ongoing legal exposure, interest on the loans used to cashflow operations at pharmaceutical giants, appropriate licensing of existing intellectual property that these vaccines are built on, and the million other ways money is spent to develop pharmaceuticals.
That theory would explain financial gains going up faster (eg the pie getting bigger, more return to capital), but not a stall in wages for workers. Worker productivity went up, but wages for workers did not.

~1970 is about when the % of workers in unions really started to fall in the US.
https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/

Not quite everywhere else... unless you are adding # of bombs + number of prisoners + number of murders... not sure that is a meaningful number though :)
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Reminds me of https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html

Especially some of those graphs about stuff like childhood obesity.

It would be nice if all problems in a society had a single, simple cause (bad people doing stuff!) and a single, simple solution (stop 'em!), but the world is a complex place

I did notice that the people hawking bitcoin didn't include any graphs about climate change..
The Nixon Shock was the culmination of several years of gradual collapse of the post-war economic system (including Bretton Woods). If you look carefully at the graphs on that page, a lot of them were trending upwards before 1971.
Gee,where have I seen this strategy of using private capital to subsidize a deliberately unprofitable business just long enough to drive all of its competitors out of business so they can form their own duo/monopoly before? VC yielded like this it isn’t creating innovation or anything of value, it’s perverting the spirit of capitalism.
Beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, with coroanvirus.

Every positive announcement raises my spirits slightly.
Totally irrelevant, the man's got a vested interest. Believe nothing short of an independent third-party audit from an auditor who doesn't walk out half way through like the last one did.

The reason I say this should be pretty obvious to anyone whose familiar with the inner working of a Ponzi scheme or other similar investment scam.

Bitfinex and Tether wanted to legitimize the use of Tethers, so they found one guy, Matuszewski, they knew was in a position to help them do so. They actually set aside a relatively tiny slice of capital (a few million out of 3 billion) and treated him the way they should be treating all customers but weren't. Then they let him loose on the talk circuits to tell the world of the sheer upstanding nature and legitimacy of Tether.

This is exactly the kind of stuff Madoff did.

Audit, or gtfo. (To Tether, Inc. not you of course)
The AGPL goes further than GPL in the requirement of providing source code, so in a way its more GPL than GPL itself and thus maybe "better".

On the prisoner's dilemma – I see two major dimensions in BSD/MIT vs GPL:

* Should a license enforce the giving back of code or should one be free to do so out of ones own will? Which is the most "free"? Enforced freedom or freedom to be free? (Which one is best really depends on how one defines and values "free")

* Does a long and complex license like the GPL help a project or is the simplicity and shortness of BSD/MIT better?

(Then there's the third type of license which is Apache, which is basically as open as BSD/MIT, but still as long and complex as GPL, to cover eg. patents in addition to intellectual property)
You're going to have to define "control" here and explain how it's exercised, other than Facebook being headquartered in a NATO country.

The Atlantic Council are listed as a "thinktank"?
As far as I know, none of the COVID19 vaccines have been tested on children under 12 or are currently planned on being given to children.

Additionally, it's not as if the average vaccine has a 0.005% chance of giving you narcolepsy. That figure was for the one vaccine in one country which appears to be the only example in most people's living memory of a vaccine possibly causing long-term side effects (it's not even proven the vaccine was the cause). 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.
How dare they act in a self-interested manner with no other regards.
Ya, I recognized that it guides you to the conclusion:

- read first three graphs... "oh, yes, that looks like a problem"

- scroll next 5 graphs... "oh, looks like lots of evidence correlates to that year... what happened that year?"

- scroll next 5 graphs ... "oh, wasn't it the gold standard that year?"

- scroll to the end.. read quote .. "is this a bitcoin quote? No, someone else... wait, but who is River Financial and why do they want me to care"
Some of these graphs are laughable and are candidates for "Spurious Correlations" [1]. Childhood obesity is not due to the US getting rid of the gold standard.

[1] http://archive.is/9VFmh
The Romans weren't particularly brutal given their time- being beaten by the Celts and being beaten by the Romans would be a similar experience. What the Germans and Japanese did was of a scale and brutality that had not been inflicted in 'civilized' warfare for centuries. And neo-nazis are a thing now, and they're not nice. When I last donned a lorica and hefted a scutum the most political thing we debated was whether Keens looked enough like caligae to be allowed on the field.

Time also plays a factor in these things- I've never known anyone who fought the Romans. If I had a great-uncle Camulos telling me what bastards they were, maybe I'd write an article lambasting Great Battles of Caesar.

I graduated 10 years before you, so no idea how history is taught now.
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A disclaimer on your battery life: that is doing literally nothing with the 2080. Effectively turning it off and carrying it around as an extra cost/weight for nothing.

Because the moment you use that 2080, your battery life will be South of 3 hours with a 100% charge and a factory new battery. You'll also have a jet engine fan and a leg burning device.

Which is the point.
The same thing that happens to an gas car your car would lose power and you would roll to a stop. This actually happened to me on my motorcycle I was going high speed on a windy road and just had passed 2 cars and moved in front of them and my engine died. It’s not fun but shutting the car off at any moment should be no different then any car breaking down.
Do we know this?
I don't mean this to say that the women's liberation movement was a bad thing because it was not, but that started in the early 70s and had the effect of rapidly inflating the supply of educated potential white collar employees.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. That laptop was verified by no one. The media wasn't even allowed to access it.

Yet the story was able to spread like wildfire through the US.

I don't know if it was authentic or the origins of it, and no credible media source was able to verify it. Frankly, the story of where it came from was absurd.

So did that story help bad actors or good actors? I would say bad actors because the people pushing the story seem to be playing fast and loose with verifiable facts and truth.

This is tearing the US apart by the seams. We are now in a situation where the president is openly attempting a coup on the popular vote, and using massive amounts of unverified information that is mostly false to push his agenda of destroying democracy.
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A lot of charts with no context, but my main takeaways are that the US is not in record debt, in fact it was well over 100% GDP in WWII and under that now. Based on the news you'd think US is over spending by records numbers. The numbers are records but as a percentage of GDP they are not. Another surprise is the S&P PE ratio. I thought it was really high now, but actually 2008 was the high point by about twice as much. Again, no context in the article, but these were my takeaways. All the other charts are saddening. Maybe the point is sow fear uncertainly and despair to pump bitcoin?
The author obviously wants you to believe that it was the abandonment of the gold standard, but there are several other theories that have more credence with mainstream economists.

The early 70's was the start of a horrible period of stagflation: stagnation coupled with inflation. Some do blame the loss of the gold standard, but the leading theory is the OPEC oil crisis. Others blame market regulations, the EPA was passed in 1970; the late 60s and early 70s saw many financial and environmental regulations passed.

I like the oil price theory. The period of growth was a period of massive decline in the price of energy. We've since had 50 years of stagnation in energy prices. But that looks to be breaking now. If solar energy & battery prices continue to decline the way they have been, we could see energy prices decline at a rate reminiscent of Moore's law.

And energy is a massive component in the price of almost everything we consume.
> I'm with Musk on this, the only way we survive is to get the hell off Earth

And as a plan, I think that's basically completely stupid. Even our worst case climate change projections give us an Earth that is incredibly more habitable than any extraterrestrial environment. The worst conditions you can find on this entire planet today are more habitable than the best you can find elsewhere in our star system.

Think of what it would take to have a self-sustaining Mars colony, for instance. If we have the ability to do that, then surely it would be a lot easier to do that same thing here on Earth at a fraction of the cost and risk. Why not just do that instead?
Indoor skydiving in a wind tunnel. In itself it must be the
least useful skill I've ever acquired, but the improvement in body
awareness may benefit other activities. There's also the theory that
learning anything new reduces the risk of dementia. It's a great
feeling and I'd be doing it every week were it not for tunnel time
being hugely expensive.
I don't think they are, I think they are using jszip in some sort of client side context and bundling it up with browserify or webpack which is bringing in some dependencies that are based off of node (like readable-streams)
I wasn't making any assumptions about your nationality; it seems irrelevant regarding the truth or falsity of an idea. Like different countries responding to COVID: truth doesn't really care how special the US/Sweden/Japan/wherever thinks they are.

I read your link but I don't understand the point that the Brookings institution is trying to make about the context of the quote. I'm open minded, but miss the point they are making; perhaps because it's a transcribed interview.

Nevertheless: quotes are nice because they distill an idea down to an elemental form. They might be wise or they might be dumb, but the simple idea expressed in the phrase (regardless of who uttered it, or what they meant at the time) seems wise to me as we consider the tradeoffs between a walled garden vis-a-vis privacy.
I'm aware of the submission guidelines. I still don't see why this is even interesting.
A traditional trial requires you to wait for the pandemic to spread in order to get enough positive people in your trial for significance. It's effectively like "challenging" random people in the public in the hopes that some of them are in your treatment group.
> I'm so used to bytes being a fundamental primitive in programming languages

Sorry to hijack the question, but tangentially, this actually used to be very unusual.

The B language, C's predecessor, did not have a char data type. Or int, either. Only a single type -- a 16 bit word then.

At the time, most computers used word addressing exclusively, so you couldn't directly access bytes, only words.

This is also why some early computers could easily be e.g. 36 bit machines, like the PDP-10.

C was, thus, an extension of B(CPL) to allow both words and bytes, or "char"s, using the PDP-11's brand new byte addressing. (among other additions like structs)
Nothing, these charts are just the result of picking the wrong deflator. This chart shows what happens when you use the (correct) GDP deflator: https://worthwhile.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451688169e20134878d...
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I’m no lawyer, but from my perspective a more accurate headline would be “Disney owes iconic Star Wars book author 4 years of overdue royalties”.
I’m not sure if they still does it, but as recently as 2017 the Vatican operated/backed a tech accelerator[1]. It included seed funding, demo days, etc.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/40424655/inside-the-vaticans-tec...
I addressed that in a different comment (I think we submitted comments at roughly the same time).

I completely agree that preventative healthcare is lacking, partly due to the system and partly due to culture. If the OP had originally said "preventative healthcare" I wouldn't have much to disagree on, but they used a blanket statement implying only the wealthy have access to healthcare in general.

The US also gives free preventative healthcare to many subsets of the population
Looking at economic graphs is hard because it’s laggy. The problems that lead to 2008 were a gradual accumulation through the preceding 10-20 years.
I have this too, and refer to it as carcolepsy.
What is inside a Lava Lamp?
Didn't the Powell memo happen in 1971 as well?
Can't even imagine what current economic recovery would look like if we had a Balanced Budget Amendment under President Ross Perot in '95.
Sort of related: Is there any measure for cost-to-innovate out there?

I’m also curious whether there was a ton of low hanging fruit for innovating/organizing/sciences that we plucked. The “first 90% is easier than the second 90%” kind of thing.
Like the BSL? The Business Source License: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/
Another read in a similar vein today: https://www.theverge.com/21571690/oomba-startup-work-environ...

I think (and hope) this era of unfettered partying and bro-culture capitalism is finally coming to an end (with the WeWork debacle and even a bit of Theranos finally permeating the public view). And of course, Rona forcing everyone from line engineers to hedge fund managers to take stock of their lives (and finances).
I wonder what happened with "havetheyfaked.me" I wanted to gemerate some fake lookalikes and nos it justo redirects to thispersondoesnotexist
If you think VC is deforming wait till next year - when liquidity for select few and austerity for rest of us kicks in.
> getting a duplicate immobilizer chip is hard and usually requires an inside man in a dealer network

Unless you talk to the car's ECUs over the diagnostic port and read out the secret values for creating a duplicate or outright patch out the immobilizer check in the firmware. There's usually no auth on this and it's just obscurity, which I expect to already be broken and exploited by tools available on the black market.
Yes, we narrowly averted disaster. Did you know that amendment required a supermajority to raise taxes?
This thing is extremely divisive on VC twitter: https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1330889261479043075...
Disney can delay any relief until the end of time.
Edit : They did this with the Winnie the Pooh right holders.

Would be nice if they just paid him what he's owed.

Leaning towards cancelling my Disney + , aside from the Simpsons( first 10 seasons) , Original SW trilogy and The Last Jedi there's not much good content. Might stay until Soul comes out next month.

Only need to watch those 4 Star Wars movies once a year
I'm normally asleep before take off and sleep the whole flight. My wife and daughter normally just park me up against the window for the duration.

I normally wake with bit of a fright when the wheels touch down for landing though.
There's definitely still a divergence, starting in .. 1975?
You are correct that there is no fixed price. However, you might be assuming that the US Dollar has a fixed price too. The US Dollar is fixed at the price of the US Dollar, which is of course only a relative value.

Likewise, a Bitcoin is worth what a Bitcoin is worth.

The difference between the two, what the OP is pointing out above you, is that Bitcoin currency has a limited supply and so can't be devalued. Relative to each other, a Bitcoin will increase its value to the USD because the supply of the latter is always increasing.
Would increases in computers and automation have anything to do with it?

And have wages really gone down? As a whole, we're richer than ever. We own more possessions, have bigger houses, spend more money on luxuries, etc.
I would also like to know more about this, it's never been an issue for me personally but I contracted with a quite a few other freelancers who said it was rarely an issue in practise. I think you can keep freelancers long-term but they have to be willing to pay into a pension fund themselves if more than X amount of their income comes from a single client.
It could be related to the increase in both parents working. No mother at home to provide nutritious meals. And both parents working is due to the already explained economic factors.
Testament to what capitalism can do.
It was really that 1940-1969 was the exceptional period in US economic growth. We had war manufacturing that transitioned into the only major world economy unincumbered with getting their factories blown up, fueled with inexpensive fossil-fuel energy, before large-scale automation/IT took hold.

This, plus powerful unions, provided a unique period where real wage growth for the bottom quartile improved.
Sending via SES and WorkMail ALL of my emails are flagged as spam, including replies to the original sender and things as benign as accepting meeting requests. We use it primarily for inbound, so not as big a deal but definitely going to move soon.
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IIRC Amazon AWS is already offering ARM based MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and they appear to perform pretty well.
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I think 3x as expensive is still worth it for long haul flight. One business seat space equal to about 3 economy seat space and you also got lounge access and priority checkin.
make a large donation to one of mark's favorite charities. at the gala, have a casual discussion about the challenges of moderating a large social media platform.
The US was forced to stop paying gold for its international debts in 1971, otherwise it would have not enough gold to continue. But this had little consequence because gold was not really the basis in the international currency system since the Breton Woods agreement in which the US forced everyone in the capitalist world to use the dollar as the basis for currency transaction. The Breton Woods agreement was the necessary step for things like the Marshall Plan and the IMF. In summary, the Breton Woods agreement was the piece of financial sorcery used to revive the capitalist world destroyed by WW2.
Is `GPG –refresh-keys` secure and where is this documented?
Absolutely it happened, but it was uncommon. My dad had a Teletype at home in the 1970s, with a 110-baud acoustic coupler. Later upgraded to an ADM-3A and speed went to 300-baud.

I credit this for sparking some interest in programming, as I was able to use these to play around with small FORTRAN and BASIC programs.
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It's more like WTF happened between 1945 and 1971. I think that was an ahistorical period of low income inequality, and now we're back to "normal" such as it is.
The guy who wrote a program, not a library. GPL in a kernel doesn't contaminate the way it does in a library.
I don't see how 1971 is significant for any of these graphs. Looks like 1979 is when productivity / compensation really start to diverge. What happened in 1979?
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Immobilizer chip is probably only required to start driving.

I can't imagine any car would stop if it lost signal with immobilizer chip- that would be a safety problem. That is how relay attacks work- signal is required only for a brief period.
Not only that, but the war on drugs was started in 1971 as well.
ouch....that includes funding for postdocs, grad students etc?
That's a fantastic idea. I actually looked into it because I really didn't want to use Python to create the output PDFs. I have experience making C bindings in Go, but had issues with Objective C (I also don't know Obj-C). If you are able to remove the Python dependency with a CGo please open a PR! Thanks for the feedback too...
> And isn’t this the same feross that spammed everyone’s npm begging for money?

Source?
Usually just GDP divided by hours worked.

It is always super sketchy.
Are you saying it makes it easier or harder? The VIN is right there on the windshield and a lot of people leave their keys within 15 feet of the outside/sidewalk/common areas.
Those inflation graphs are rather misleading. Plotting cumulative inflation or CPI index on a linear graph gives you an exponential curve. By choosing the scale, you can make the "corner" appear wherever you want.