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I guarantee you if you take the alcohol out of beer, alcoholics will stop drinking beer. Just like if you take the nicotine out of cigarettes, nicotine addicts will stop smoking cigarettes.

That's the point. The problem isn't nicotine, the problem is cigarettes.
I think there is merit to his argument in the sense that we don’t know what will happen.

We didn't anticipate any schmuck having a global platform and their fellow schmucks being able to vote. Seriously, our founding fathers did not anticipate this when only literate land owners could vote, and our ideology is based on that.

It is accurate that we don't have a society that factors in the ramifications of that either, only our brainwashing of the free speech ideology.

His conclusion may not be the accurate one, but we can acknowledge that neither extreme of restricted speech or completely hands off of technology is the answer for our future.
OLED has compromises that make it unacceptable for some professional work. The main issue with it is the lack of brightness (i.e. nits) required for true HDR, compared to miniLED and LCD.
I wrote a sort-of adjacent library for Go at one point. I’m a bit stuck trying to figure out exactly what to do on 2.0 but it has a lot of Kaitai like features including an expression language for transforming things (on master version) and it supports writing structures out.

https://github.com/go-restruct/restruct
I recommend picking up litter while you walk (or run, aka plogging). I recently passed my 1,300th day in a row picking up at least one piece of litter per day. Since the pandemic, more like 20 or 30 since there's so much more litter.

You'll be surprised at how much you learn about your world and community. The goal isn't to fix the world as only one person, but to raise awareness and humility. Lots more. I ended up on TV a couple times for it https://joshuaspodek.com/im-on-tv-again-for-plogging and approached by politicians.

I don't use gloves, but you can. In Manhattan I carry it to the next wastebasket I pass, but you could also bring a bag.
> If we hit the saturation point for tall apartment buildings, the land is less valuable (since you can't extract as much value from it), decreasing the land value taxes (and thus, incentive to leave homes).

The problem here is that you're assuming we can just reduce government revenues that way. That would imply a corresponding reduction in government spending, or else the government would have to increase the rate to account for the reduced land value.

Which is why people would be forced out of single family homes. The amount of government services required by the occupants of a twelve story building would have to be financed by a tax that collects the same money from the owner of a single family home. The latter would be forced out by that amount of tax.
I had to source check you on that. To be honest, I never really looked into it and thought the numbers were sensationalized:

"Bitcoin uses as much energy as the whole of Switzerland, a new online tool from the University of Cambridge shows."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48853230

Anyway, the BTC-enthusiast argument to that is "Well, if BTC replace banks, imagine how much money that would save."

That argument holds some ground - think of all the armored cars, shipping containers, and facilities that serve to move and store cash and gold, as well as all the labor involved in maintaining the system.

Of course, BTC is not going to replace cash/gold fully in the near future, if ever, and the cost is absurd. Nor is there a solution to this, as transaction demand will just continue driving up price.

The environmental argument is one that I concede.
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I just wanna go forward with this and would like your opinion.
I think of it more like the EDR display has a gamut that is a superset of the gamut of a regular display when they are at the same brightness.
I can tell you have never experienced this problem before but it might surprise you to know that many counties not under international sanctions have big issues to send money to other countries
Genuinely not my intent. This topic is bound to be controversial, but it also seems to be worth discussing for the people who are willing to take a little heat for their opinions.
I seem to recall the entire index was on one system and it showed off how fast and powerful a single Alpha system could be. There were still many markets in the early 90s that were highly constrained by chip and system performance.

The guy who coded Alta Vista gave a talk at Stanford that I was able to sit in on. The most interesting story was when a person contacted him and begged him to remove something from the index because his boss was going to see it the next morning. He wrote a filter just to take care of this guy. It was fun stuff back then.
It's best to start with epistemology, epistemology is the foundation for all works in philosophy, which an understanding of is necessary for not only a good rigor but to know what is possible to know, so you don't your waste time.

Like others I recommend going through Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates--they are valuable in themselves but it will further allow you to see the motivation for the later works I'm going to recommend.

In the same way, Descartes is necessary, at least a general idea of his works. Read a bit about the exchanges between Hume and Berkeley to finally reach Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Not only is the Critique a cornerstone of all philosophy but it shows you how philosophy should be conducted--carefully, rigorously, and by finding the limits of the scope of a subject so it may be necessarily true knowledge; this is what 'Critique' traditionally means, the limit of the scope.

That being said my interest in formal philosophy (I've always been interested in epistemology) at all came from "The Life You Can Save" by Peter Singer. I ended up disagreeing with the argument Singer advocates for but he provides both the argument and the counter-argument. With the fairness being so remarkable, the book remains invaluable in one's philosophical journey, and at the very least a great introduction to the philosophy of morals/ethics
For those that don't follow US IP cases, here's some general info.

- there are several private US lawyers whose goal in life is to earn $10,000/day. They have figured out that one way is to engage in mass patent or copyright lawsuits. (Another famous one is to represent dead celebrities. There's a documentary online.)

Prenda Law was a similar example back in the day:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/prenda-law-porn-...

- but in this case there is a legitimate need for a copyright lawyer to represent photographers against the large rights aggregators, who claim copyright ownership on everything they can find to convert it into a revenue stream. (The online music industry works the same way. If your work is not registered in their particular database, they just keep the revenue until you make them do a database insert with your works and payment address.)

- the problem is that this lawyer didn't approach it in an organized fashion, including contacting the actual owners

- this is not patent trolling, as frequently reported in the press, which is concerned with "defending" one or two patents by the owner. This is when a lawyer acting as a third-party does litigation regarding masses of IP for the primary purpose of generating fees, not actually to represent a client who came forward. And that's what the suspension is about.
So to actually comment on the article instead of just ranting how bitcoin is either amazing or terrible:

> I’m still trying to piece together what exactly how much control governments really lose under Bitcoin

Can't you just compare it to the gold standard? Seems like we have a lot of history we could look at where gov could not print money how it pleased.

> The enforcement of debt and the ability to track money seem, to me, like some of its most important properties. If I can’t tell how much Bitcoin someone has, how can they be made financially responsible in court?

Seems fairly easy to me - you ask them how much money they have, they tell you. If they lie, you throw them in jail. Its really no different than how we handle people who keep there money in the form of gold bars under the bed, or in offshore bank accounts. Sure you can sometimes get away with shinanigans, but its not a new problem.

> I’m also interested in what a world with a fixed amount of currency really looks like. I would imagine “inflating away” debtors obligations through fiat would not really be on the table.

It would look like the gold standard. inflating away debt with fiat in a major way is pretty uncommon anyway and usually ends badly (Germany tried that and we ended up with WWII!)

> 65% hashrate by china, 51%attack, etc

It should be noted that a 51% attack is generally something noticeable. Its not a secret attack. So that reduces risk somewhat. Also i thought 51% attacks were actually closer to only needing 33%.

> Energy, environment

Yeah, i agree with author on these points. Ethereum is doing some interesting stuff here.
I can read much faster than 2x the speed of a YouTube video...
I never was admin of a NNTP server, but I don't think it's true about scaling or moderation.

From what I know when you're admin, you decide which groups you allow on your server. The controversial stuff is really on groups starting with "alt." which are as I understand created ad-hoc. "alt.binaries" for example is where it's mostly pirated stuff is at. I saw many servers that had restricted list of groups, and "alt.binaries" was often restricted, partially because it might be pirated, partially to reduce disk footprint.

As for moderation. Once you have server you can moderate and send messages that will remove offending content from any group. Because it is decentralized it is really up to admins of other NNTP servers to decide whether they will respect your moderation messages or not.
As many mentioned, getting into philosophy tends to be best done as an active activity with others due to the value of discussion.

Your specific question, as also mentioned by others, seems to be more about psychology than philosophy. I think in order to really advise further, you need to answer for everyone in this thread what you mean by "philosophy" here :)
Banks use way less energy per customer
Not really. If you only eliminated the zoning restrictions then the incentive to build much taller than average buildings would be reduced, and the taxes that had to be collected from owners of smaller buildings wouldn't change or could in fact be reduced as the new taller buildings pick up more of the tax burden.
Dave Cutler for the win. That guy was and still is the real deal.
For me the point at which DEC screwed up was in not embracing Unix+, around 1985. If they had done so, then there wouldn't have been a time when everyone had to buy Sun hardware to run Unix. There would instead have been a choice, and many DEC shops would never have converted to Sun. Commentators saying, as the article does, that it was all about the rise of the PC are wrong. PCs were useless toys at that time. Of course DEC may have done down later just as Sun did, in the X86-64 take over.

+I know: Ultrix, blah blah...but seriously no Ultrix wasn't embracing.
What also helps a lot is blocking like 10-20 top karma users because most of them earn their karma by reposting other's posts. [1] is where you can find an up to date list of those users. [2] is one of the few LPTs about this.

However, I believe Reddit has since changed something so you can't easily block people anymore. So you probably have to use RES.

[1] https://www.karmalb.com
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/bdvas9/205990561_...
I was a distance freestyler when I was young and a butterflyer when I was in college.
[Disclaimer: Work at Hasura]

One small clarification about this point:

"So, what you need to do to use Hasura is to first lay out all the tables in Postgres, and then map those table schemas to GraphQL schema. Any changes to the schema would then need to be applied first to the Postgres instance, and then brought back to Hasura"

This is partially true (you need to define DB tables), but it leaves the sense that if you make DB schema changes, you need to run a second step for the GQL schema to reflect this.

If you change existing tables, nothing has to be done. If you add a new table, you have to press the "track/track all" button to expose it via GQL. And if you made join-tables or new FK relationships, you need to press "track relationships".

For the most part, Hasura is meant to just stay synced to your DB schema (database-first development).

"You set the GraphQL schema directly. Any changes are done within the GraphQL schema itself, and the database figures out how to serve that best."

This is where I'd say the approaches differ, Dgraph being GQL-Schema first and Hasura being Database-Schema first.

Not to say that one is inherently better than the other, they're both entirely valid approaches and Dgraph is a solid product.
That would explain why my mother got bad allergies on her skin after handling cashews (seeds and all) from our backyard. Thanks for the info, I will look more into it.
I strongly disagree with the recommendation to start with the Socratic dialogues.

OP wants to "develop a personal philosophy." So they will want to learn the state of the art of philosophy. Starting with Plato to learn philosophy is like starting with Archimedes to learn physics. They would be much better off getting a lay of the land from a modern writer. In fact, just as you don't read original research papers to learn physics, I wouldn't recommend OP even read the primary works of any influential philosophers until they've gotten an overview of philosophical thought writ large, a general outline of the specific philosopher's thinking and how it changed over time, and how the philosopher's thinking influenced others. Wikipedia would be a great place to start.

There is simply too much philosophy for any lay person to read thoughtfully in their spare time. And philosophy isn't like math or science, where a small kernel of knowledge and consensus among scholars slowly grew over time. It's more like sculptors shaping clay into pots. Subsequent sculptors may immitate past artists in certain ways, and certain long term trends may emerge, but there is a distinct lack of consensus on almost everything in philosophy.

In my opinion, the reason for this is that philosophy as a means of understanding ourselves and our world beyond what science can tell us is essentially futile. In Plato's time, there was no delineation between science, philosophy and mathematics. The word "philosophy" meant "love of wisdom" in Greek. A philosopher was just someone who wanted to discover knowledge of any kind. Over time, philosophers systematized certain areas of knowledge, giving us math, logic, and science. The areas of knowledge that we were able to systematize are no longer considered to be philosophy. Philosophy today, almost by definition, is the study of problems that have resisted all attempts at systematic understanding for two thousand years. It has no wisdom for us. If you want wisdom, look to math and science.
Saying that it's weird (which it is - I have a really hard time thinking of other languages that do this) and then pointing out that there are good reasons why it's that way, and linking an article explaining them, and then explicitly saying, "this isn't a fault, my comfort zones are a product of what I already know," isn't exactly complaining. It's possibly the most measured, non-partisan response to the whole lisp-1 vs lisp-2 thing I've ever seen.
Minor nit, but what you're describing is loss of color depth. Gamut is how saturated the colors get, which doesn't change much in this scenario.
Starships of Future Past
It makes sense if humans are rational and have good judgement.

I don't believe they do in general, and without having a bigger understanding of a lot of things, a lot of individuals are prone to magical, conspiratorial thinking, lacking in rigour.

For VW, you have very smart people, very self aware (i.e. able to read their own data), probably smart enough to snoop out what the law is, backed by an institution with integrity.

It's a classical case Whistleblowing type findings of the good kind.

'Random Employee Bob' may have access to a treasure trove of data they think is 'evidence' when in reality it's nothing of the sort.

Case and point: Manning with the cable leaks. Manning did not know what was on the cables, and turns out, there was nothing damming in them.

The other leak at the time - the video showing the deaths of freelance journalists probably isn't 'evidence' either. It's a shocking video, but the military misidentifying armed, unknown, unregistered individuals in a war-zone, moving towards friendly forces ... is a tragedy but probably not a crime. Though that leak is more contentious.

There are a lot of confused people in the world, who misconstrue their ideology for the more commonly agreed upon versions of what is right and wrong, and vast numbers of individuals in the press who are as much suited to narrative as they are to truth.

If you hop onto OAN right now, you'll see a delightfully despicable and shocking number of individual 'whistleblowers' who have 'evidence' that the election was 'stolen' by nefarious parties, and millions of people reading it believing that it's true.

Their incentive is clicks, Rudy Giuliani's is his pardon, or $20K/day. Which is why I implied 'crazy' incentives ...
Such a wicked coincidence
Now you go to jail... I miss the old days, it was an innocent time. When I was in high school I worked as a telemarketer and we had old vt100 terminals and a classic sunOS system. Root password was easy to guess (root). I would subtly alter peoples names and the scripts..... It went on for a year and was always entertaining to listen to the reactions.
My daughter's favorite sweatshirt is a bit of corporate swag from Data General, which she stole from me, which I myself stole from my father who worked there beginning in the 70s and then also for EMC another decade after they acquired DG. You want a tragic tale, Data General is a tragic tale.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
This is unfortunately pretty amateurish and circular.

> However, these were not real property rights, because the King or other political body almost always reserved the power to trample peoples’ property rights when it was politically expedient. In the Middle Ages “property rights” were thought to reside ultimately in the King or the sovereign.

No, the sovereign owned the property (i.e. had allodial title) and rights to its use were granted in fealty. These rights were not ownership rights, which is probably what the author meant by "not real property rights", and the King could "trample" these rights because he owned the property.

> Tort law makes no sense without property rights. If you do not own yourself or some property how can you claim to have been harmed.

Huh? This begs the question. We can recognize other sorts of rights, like the right not to be physically harmed. "Ownership" is unnecessary, and the argument is circular.

> You cannot buy a farm and then build a house next to your neighbor’s pig sty and then sue them for nuisance.

Actually, you can, and you may win. You might have to pay them to move their pig farm, though. This is almost exactly what happened in Spur Industries. v. Del E. Webb involving the building of Sun City, Arizona. [0]

Property rights, like all rights, are defined and enforced by a society according to whatever source of law it recognizes. The Romans required landowners to maintain the roads and to enclose their neighboring land lest someone drive their animal over it; we largely do neither.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_Industries,_Inc._v._Del_E....
How long ago were these samples collected? Surely not the sample collection that happened only a few weeks ago?
> Cisco Systems got its start by running bootleg versions of the TOPS-10
> operating system on its very first routers

AFAIK, TOPS-10 only ran on 36-bit PDP-10 hardware. And the only PDP-10 clones I know of were made by Foonly and some even more obscure companies, all of which folded pretty quickly in the 80s.

I can't imagine Cisco doing a PDP-10 clone, or even emulating one. The networking software on TOPS-10 wasn't much to write home about, either.
It doesn’t matter to the device OEM when the customer demands a refund because the device stopped working, even though the root cause is the ISP hijacking the DNS request and the device OEM has nothing to do with it. Easier to work around this apparently common ISP practice.
Lessons in Humility from Teaching in the Mojave Desert
> Hardly. The finance bros came from traditional finance based on fiat. That's where the majority of bilking still goes on.

I don't think that's a substantiated claim, but even if it were true, the lack of regulation in the *coin sphere made a fertile breeding ground for scammers from wherever they originated.

> but what matters to me is being able to send and receive money myself.

Yourself and billions of computing hours that could be doing stuff like protein folding or climate modelling.

> And unlike other currencies this one doesn't require the energy expenditures of a full standing army or the diplomatic trades to enter into protection with someone who has one. Seen through that lens bitcoin is absolutely green.

Are you suggesting that if not for fiat money then there would be no need for standing armies? Like we'd all just join hands: Russia would hand back Crimea, Pakistan and India would grant Kashmir independence, Iran and Saudi Arabia would realise they practice essentially the same religion, and the former states of Yugoslavia would hold the world's largest pancake breakfast? If not, then you can not attribute the environmental impact of maintaining militaries to fiat.
What about XFCE do you like and make it a much better experience for you than Macos?
I have read the book simultaneously with Nathaniel Fick's book to get two versions and styles. Funny thing, Fick's story about a picture in a news outlet changes: sometimes it's his girlfriend, and sometimes it's his mom who tells him something along the lines of "Thank god you're not involved in that" about a photograph of Marines going on a mission to Pakistan.

>how the individuals within those groups behave and why that are very pertinent to tech and management in general.

One anecdote is Staff Sergeant Eric Kocher talking about Gunnery Sgt. Ray 'Casey Kasem' Griego being a nightmare when he was helping "Encino Man", but great when his job was training them for the second tour. This is a reminder that a person in different contexts can act differently and have different "performances". Similar to "Wartime Churchill vs. Peacetime PM Churchill"
There’s a subreddit for this, and accompanying app: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness
You'd hope that we're finished with working around all the CPU bugs now, but yeah, it's not necessarily trivial, and the longer the fork exists, the harder it will be to backport patches. But I can see how you can build a business maintaining a Linux LTS (there are businesses offering Rails LTS, Microsoft offers updates for Windows XP if you pay), so there's some precedent here.