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> Between 2015 and 2017, life expectancy fell year on year in the U.S., the longest sustained decline since 1915-18.

Correlation: World War One.

> Such "deaths of despair" coincided with decades of economic decline, particularly among those with low levels of education, loss of social safety nets, and falling wages and family incomes in the U.S., all of which are thought to have contributed to growing feelings of despair.

Yep. Corporations have determined, and figured out how, to pay most of us the absolute minimum necessary to enable us to come back to work the next day. Gig companies currently the most efficient at that.

And if you miss a day because of a sick kid or a dead car, or you had to suddenly choose between two conflicting "flexible schedule" jobs, a company, or its responsibility washing 3rd party labor contractor, might just find it more efficient to fire an "unreliable" worker, because we make more cheap workers every day.

Life in the worker's paradise.

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So for this to work out I am tether the company, you are an exchange that is in on the scam. So the initial denial of declining 15k USD doesn't even happen. What happens is I print a billion tether and use that to buy a bunch of btc from you. You willingly take tether despite knowing that tether is useless, because you know that this transaction will pump the value of btc and you benefit from that. We both benefit from btc going up. So it's in our best interest to keep the charade going.

The price of btc denominated in tether (BTC-USDT) goes up after our transaction. Now, arbitrage bots will look at this in crease in btc-usdt, and be mandated to buy btc with USD so that BTC-USDT and BTC-USD are in parity. Now bitcoin's price in dollars has gone up and people notice this, and news articles are printed and people get FOMO.

But at the root of this pump is a fraudulent transaction. I printed tether that I know is not worth one dollar each, and you played along with me and we exchanged tether for btc, and we caused btc to go up in price so that we both benefit. Whomever buys btc (i.e. retail investors) after I've pumped the price is in great danger of being scammed because there was no real money behind the initial tether transaction. You, the exchange, might be holding a lot of useless tether, but it doesn't matter because you've already profited from the price increase in btc via higher trade volume and usage of your platform plus all the publicity you get from a media that is always happy to report insane btc valuations.

So you don't do anything with the tether, you don't care about it as the exchange. It's unclear if the tether in these exchanges, which is a lot, will be redeemed for dollars at some point in the future by coming back to me, the Tether company, where I would use some of my profits from selling btc high to trade some of your tether for USD and help maintain the appearance that tether is fully backed by USD.
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Who's saying anything about banning anything? Neither the author of the article, nor I, am making a case for that. I merely think the idea that the media we engage with has some effect on us is not one we should dismiss out of hand just because we all have bad memories of Jack Thompson's crusade.
In Europe, Canada, Australia, etc everyone has access. Why doesn’t access drive up their cost? Clearly access isn’t what is driving up the costs in the USA.
Good point, I definitely didn't research his actual library.
Yes, because non-keyless cars are absolutely immune to theft?

I don't get this sort of argument because its just a new vector for a new form of convenience. Ideally there are multiple failsafes to prevent theft even in a keyless vehicle.
Another plausible explanation I’ve heard is that you had a massive influx of new consumers (baby boomers) entering the workforce. You almost can’t avoid inflation in that scenario.
Many of the states have balanced budget provisions in their constitutions (either originally or by amendment) and have growing debt.
How are they not VC in this context? They invested in startups with growth potential in exchange for equity. From investopedia[0]:

> A venture capitalist (VC) is an investor who provides capital to firms that exhibit high growth potential in exchange for an equity stake.

How does this not describe Murdoch and DeVos in this situation?

0: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/venturecapital.asp
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I guess this was all caused by IBM moving from iron core to semiconductor memory, depressing the wages of the vast wire-wrap profession.
Okay, so I went and looked up his "Open Letter to Intel" - https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ - and I get a kind of mixed message. He does say, as you note, "If I had suspected they might be building a spy engine, I certainly wouldn't have cooperated", but above that postscript, he says, "If nothing else, this bit of news reaffirms my view that the Berkeley license provides the maximum amount of freedom to potential users. If they want to publicize what they have done, fine. By all means, do so. If there are good reasons not to release the modfied code, that's fine with me, too." So I guess, "license is working as intended, but I don't like what you did with it"?
I think you're flirting with a no-true-scotsman argument. VC can mean everything from "seed fund" to "private equity" to "family funds". Giant investments at later stages are frequently from institutions that don't do early stage investments.

And Tim Draper, at least, invested in Theranos. Theranos isn't as much an indictment of Silicon Valley as news articles say, but it's still a bad look.
I love fun hacks like this!

Back in college, a group of students and I spent far too much time in some lab space that was on a separate LAN from the rest of the school network (Lab-LAN<->Lab-Router<->Campus-Router<->Internet which meant it bypassed the campus firewall which was nice). One of the regulars wrote a little chat client that abused ARP in some really creative ways to give us effectively an IRC type chat.

Specifically it took advantage the Hardware Address Length field and embedded the message in the Sender Hardware Address field. I can't recall why we didn't just embedded the message in a raw ethernet frame with its dest address set to broadcast... However, there was quite a lot of fun had with what was really a pretty simple hack!

For instance, there was the time we had a stack based buffer overflow which, after some work, one of the gals managed to get RCE with (we had basic stack protection and DEP, but she bypassed it with a ROP chain), which rapidly lead to shenanigans. There was the time some freshmen used it on the normal campus LAN and somehow triggered the shit out of the monitoring IT had in place.

Lots of fun, I'll have to see if I can't dig up the source code for it haha
Then why the hell call it open source and contribute code to society? Work as a freelancer and ask money for it.
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It didn’t, the user did. I assume the fake link led to a page saying “you have to update your zoom” and downloaded malware. The kind of thing new macOS versions try to avoid with the new gatekeeper. Maybe the guy used windows?
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It was posted here but asked Uniswap support and they confirmed that it's a scam. Don't transfer funds, be safe.
I think we need to look at the bigger picture though. Working class wages haven't kept pace but interest rates have gotten much lower making it "easier" to borrow money. In addition, because of increased productivity (in part because of out sourcing work which unions can't easily defend against), consumer goods are far cheaper than they used to be.

We've also seen a great domestic expansion in the upper middle class and a reduction in the lower class since then. More people are "middle class" than ever before with a larger percentage being "upper middle class". However, the middle class feels further away from the upper middle class in large part because there are simply many more upper middle class people than ever before (and more upper class for that matter).

I'm not trying to make a counter argument or anything but just trying to make an argument that we can't do an apples-to-apples comparison between today and 1971. Relative wages are less for a group of people, but consumer goods are relatively cheaper as well. Home prices are relatively higher but interest rates are far, far lower. The middle class has grown and poverty has been shrunk to record low levels (people often forget how many people were impoverished in this country not too long ago) but a lot of that growth has been in new upper middle class people.

We've seen union participation fall, yes - but have we asked "why" it has fallen?
The New Yorker author responded. I tend to agree with his response. Quoted below.

> Benedict - thanks for your tweet. I'm a fan of your newsletter. Although VC might have a specific and limited definition in your book - as a certain kind of professional - it has a pretty common use in the vernacular: People who invest in start-ups, at a variety of stages, in the hopes that company will prosper. You may not respect the people who invested in Theranos, and you might not consider them part of your industry, but they were VCs. They were acting like VCS. They were investing in a start up in the hopes the company - and their investment - might prosper. They were evaluating companies and making bets. And while I would never call you or anyone else 'lazy', I've always appreciated the intellectual rigor you've brought to your writing. If you'd like to engage, I'm absolutely willing to do so. Calling me an intern or lazy, however, seems beneath us all. (Besides! There are some great interns!)

Source https://twitter.com/cduhigg/status/1330894337090015232
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Wasn't my intent to dismiss it as anything like a repost, the WebAssembly target is all new, Kitten and StrongForth don't offer that.
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You mean for users not paying for Premium? They will almost certainly not do that, since fewer watches means fewer ad impressions, which means less revenue for them. Plus, they don't want to push away the users that spend all of their free time watching YouTube videos.
If it's true it's just terrible. The store is not that much of a complext software, yet they still decided to use these bloatware when they can just use their fine GPU and renderer natively.
I'm thinking it's more of the AVX instructions still being covered by patents. Some older comments [1] suggest that plain AVX will only lose its patent protection in 2031.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14528591
Maybe, but can you refactor a model superclass that's already in use by several subclasses? You have seven days, good luck.
Correlated only, the race to space (& moon) was essentially called off?

- feasability (putting a human in space, and on the moon) was demonstrated
- equivalence between Russia and America was set
- there was no big price left within reach at that point
- Apollo stopped around 72
- international cooperation started
People always underestimate the cost of regulations.

Even when good, the cost is big.

Health care is a good example. Keeping patient data private is a good thing.

However it’s also absolutely crushing in its impact in the industry.

Tiny projects can take months or years.

HIPPA terrifies so many IT people. Driving away top developers.
USD is required to pay US taxes; that gives it a baseline reference point.
You didn't seem to get much of a reaction, probably because of your recommendations to go with proven (read: old & boring) tech, but I appreciate it. Front-end churn is real and, coupled with rapidly evolving and ever-abstracting containerization approaches, staying on top of it is a full-time job, best done as an employee.
The annoying thing is that it should be that portable - docker is modular enough that you should be able to replace containerd/runc with a jail-based version and everything just works, and the OCI image format outright talks about features to make the system OS-agnostic. It's just that nobody's bothered to actually implement it:(
It depends on how you feel about the word "should."

At core, there are two different philosophies at play here.

On one side, you see copyleft licenses. These licenses impose a requirement on anyone who uses/modifies the source code. This requirement is for the purpose of ensuring that all versions of the source code are available for all potential users of the code. They do this by requiring source modifications to be licensed similarly and made available.

On the other side, you see permissive licenses, such as BSD or MIT licenses. These impose no requirement upon users/modifiers of the code, other than preserving the copyright notice on the copyrighted code. Derived works need not share a similar license, nor do modifications need to be made available.

Both categories of license allow downstream users of the code to do whatever they wish with it in that neither restricts usage of the code. Copyleft licenses include a requirement to share and share alike. This imposes additional legal burdens on some usages of the code - it doesn't prevent it outright, but it forces certain actions as a condition for certain usages of the code. Permissive open source licenses impose no such burden.

Both allow users to improve and modify the software on their devices. Neither prevents sharing those improvements with others. One requires sharing those improvements with others.

So, I'll conclude by restating my initial point: it depends on what your definition of "should" is. One interpretation of should is normative - you believe in this thing and you believe that it is well and good that requirements to act in accordance with this belief are imposed upon others. The other interpretation is that an acceptable license does not restrict such behavior, but also does not enforce it either.
https://feross.org/npm-install-funding/
> And energy is a massive component in the price of almost everything we consume.

This includes healthcare, day care, college costs. Even if only indirectly.
Fun article!

I really don't like that diagram. The folks doing serverless work at University of Wisconsin-Madison generally do a good job, but they really whiffed on that one.

I don't think there's a reasonable sense in which KVM/Qemu moves more functionality to the guest kernel than KVM/Firecracker does. Both depend on the guest kernel for VM setup (KVM), low-level virtualization operations (KVM), and doing the actual IO below their paravirtualized device drivers. On the other end, Linux containers don't have a guest kernel (unless you use some kind of library OS). So those boxes should collapse together. If you look at it one way, gVisor is a guest kernel, which depends on the host kernel in fundamentally similar ways to what Firecracker or Qemu do.
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I think that can be counted as part of a trend: the end of the era when the US tried to do big things (outside the military).

This era's beginning could maybe be dated to the late 1800s and the railroads.
Actively preventing someone from saving a third person is murder. Even if there is risk involved.
That's assuming that before everything was not a competition. It was, and it was often violent.

Programming just became mainstream and it more accurately represents society as a whole.
Kindof like Qt? They have it set up so you can use it under the LGPL terms, but if you pay them, you can negotiate a proprietary license (for example: if you wanted to statically link[a]).

[a]: The LGPL allows proprietary usage, but only when the LGPL library is dynamically linked in. The reason being that if it’s a separate binary file (.so, .dll, etc.), the user can replace it with their own version. If you statically link it (embed it in the program binary), the full GPL kicks in (IIRC).
Unexpectedly, a 1970 law that increased transparency in congress ended up benefiting powerful special interest groups.

http://congressionalresearch.org/Citations.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmurUJMBJA
Not an expert but I would say yes. The springs will fail eventually but if they're high enough quality they should last for tens of years at-least...

Depending on how heavily they're loaded however you might get some connectivity issues with vibrations...
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Link to the article in English instead of the tweet in German:

https://www.soyacincau.com/2020/11/18/kfc-autonomous-5g-rest...
Bitcoin advocates focus on the limited supply when comparing to the USD, and forget that bitcoin also has very limited utility as a currency. I don't want to transact in something so volatile, nor something with such high transaction cost or latency.
Random thought: since the US dollar hasn't been backed by a physical asset in decades, does it really make sense to prosecute a person(s) for "stealing money." Stealing implies you have taken something of value and requisitioned it for ones self, but since money has no actual value was it really stolen?

Especially in the digital age, the numbers you see in your bank account are just 0s and 1s sitting dormant in some server farm.
> If you don't send tens of thousands of identical mails per day you should be fine.

That's just 100% incorrect. All that needs to happen for you to start receiving problems is for the SPAM Screening Monoculture of Brightworks, Symantec, etc. to latch on to your domain and/or IP and then you're out of the inbox on all major email address providers. Note: users on the major services using "Junk" as their delete button is a signal to these screening companies.
How does one drive out all of your competitors from a low barrier to entry business and expect to win the endgame?
I think this may just be the greater shift to programming and digital tools. This makes it more important to have fewer employees who are responsible for the productivity gains of large groups of workers.

I think the specific inflection point is a bit manufactured, but I the theme over these decades is tech.

I love tech because it allows for near zero marginal cost of distribution and one person to reach many. But I think it’s harsh on “analog workers” where it’s about lots of people instead of clever tech.
It's spelled "HIPAA."
Where does the `@sql` decorator come from? If it's not adding attributes that are django specific, then you lose most of django's functionality built around models: automatic admin, user model, etc...
A lot of translation IP has emerged and Google may have been getting lawyers letter and degrading it's translations instead of paying $$
I think (one of) the big win(s) with k8s is testing in namespaces at a pace that doesn't really slow you down. If you think you'd want to do end2end against an environment entirely built by code, k8s is a really good building block.

If you think a one man band and his ruby app can probably go pretty far with self-discipline, but if I'm choosing to do any sort of IaC I'd probably recommend looking at k8s as a) a faster solution, b) a more versatile solution and c) largely vendor agnostic solution.

Point being, I'd probably recommend folks learn to use k8s before they invest time learning lambda, EC2, or ECS, but if you're a small team and you already have lambda, EC2, or ECS, and it's working for you, then it's hard to argue for change.
Can you provide more detail? I’ve definitely wondered about how general-purpose an inflation correction mechanism can be.

When I see rising rents, corrected for inflation, I always wonder if maybe rent should be a more significant part of the correction, until it’s flat-ish after the correction. But then food, another universal necessity, wouldn’t be flat. Choosing the right deflator, if I’m using the word correctly, seems really hard.
And who decides the “controls” and what is false information?
That's after it was amended. The original proposal did have a 3/5ths majority requirement:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-joint-res...
Right on schedule, the apologist shows up to play their favorite trick: mixing the rich people back in to the average to hide the problems. Nice try.
Just a single data point warning: I've had nothing but bad experiences with blacklisted, shared IPs from SES. Everything gets flagged as spam.
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People who eat unnatural and unhealthy diets are more likely to suffer health problems? What's next? People who drink soda all day more likely to develop teeth problems?

It's so sad that there are so many deluded vegans rationalizing their unnatural and unhealthy diets just so that they could hold onto their source of virtue signal points.

Vegans can virtue signal all they want, but there are a lot more animal parts in a bowl of salad than on a plate of steak.

https://www.rd.com/list/foods-secretly-contain-insects/
That wouldn't do much, because the JIT would still be producing Intel code, no?
Plenty of alternatives to social media for leaks. Can't imagine leaks are even taken seriously anymore with the flood of misinformation online.
But that would create a permanent premise when using open source code.

If the code contributions are huge (complete framework or big library) then maybe.
Another justification for purchasing disks, I guess. A much more solid 'ownership' model for games, the loading speed's about the same (since most things are installed to SSD, instead of read from the disk), can purchase second-hand... yup. Disks for me, thanks.
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One can argue that strong money places limits on the finance sector and non productive speculative investment.
Is it okay to touch base with you directly? I would love to hear your feedback and how we can help. Nothing to sell.

- PM for DO Kubernetes.
Not wrong, I don't think, except that raising energy costs wouldn't help more :)
For something searchable, see “Baumol’s cost disease.”
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I think you’re looking at the red line, which is the point. The red and black lines diverge, but the blue and black lines don’t, and the argument is that the blue line is a more accurate version of the red one.
I'm OK with the "Move Fast & Break Shit" crowd staying far from my medical history thankyouverymuch.
I'm a programmer, I understand all those things well, but I struggle to use git beyond pull, commit, push.

Every time I do something more than that I end up needing to google error messages, and usually end up copying my changes to a temp directory, doing a hard reset, and starting over.
LeetCode practice history compared to one or two interview coding rounds is a much smoother prediction of candidate's ability. Right now coding interviews are somewhat a gamble.
That's true which is why this is not how you present that data. This feels like it was created by a technical trader who was looking for signals without an understanding of the underlying data.