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> I can't disagree more.

I'll disagree with your disagreement :)

Part of this is having played Myst in the 2010s (rather than in its heyday) and comparing it to its successors, but I enjoyed The Witness much more than Myst.

Myst falls down in the same way as many adventure-style games I've played, in that it has too few puzzles.
Each one is self-contained, without much relation to any of the other puzzles in the game, and is dropped in your lap, fully-formed and fully-complex.

As a result, there's a lot of guess-and-check and you can kind of muddle through some of them without any understanding.
As a result of that, while each of the puzzles has its own internal consistency, the whole thing feels very arbitrary.

In comparison, because The Witness has so many (over 600) puzzles, it is able to ease you into full understanding of their logic.
You acquire a mastery of each individual mechanic over a series of puzzles, and nothing feels arbitrary or forced.
Because all of them are the same kind of puzzle, it can combine mechanics with delightfully cohesive results.
I really enjoy this kind of game design, it's the "show, don't tell" of progression (while Myst felt more "don't tell, but don't show either").

I will say that Myst is better at world-building than The Witness (despite The Witness feeling much more consistent).
But I'd rather play a really good walking-simulator and a separate really good puzzle game than a half-baked adventure game combining the two.

(All of this isn't to say you shouldn't try Myst if you haven't. I'd recommend RealMyst for that.)
Absolutely nothing about the USA is in danger of falling apart. These conspiracy theories would die by themselves in a month or two.

Lets be clear about what's happening here: Google/Facebook and the like are becoming targets of anti-trust regulatory lawsuits (privacy, data-gathering, monopolistic behavior, etc). This is just an attempt to build goodwill with the incoming administration so they can call in a favor later. It's as simple as that.
People putting up money they can afford to lose just don't care about the risk, but that risk-free attitude is somehow getting into mainstream investing advice.
Is it possible a new domain rank high on Google?
I also wonder how often the UI is used vs the command line.
Maybe it is dumb to subsidize entrepreneurs without guarantee they will be paying taxes after.
Do you believe Google staff (or their outsourced contractors) can and should pre-judge the outcomes of US court cases?

Editing to make this a bit clearer:

As a matter of principle, do you believe Google staff (or their outsourced contractors) can and should pre-judge the outcomes of US court cases? I ask about principles because it's very easy to focus on the specific details of these particular cases, and the fact it's your political enemy pursuing them. But that may not be true next time, and certainly won't be true every time.
This is a fantastic comment, much more valuable than the linked article, and more clear and the concise than the Wikipedia article. Maybe the better blogpost out there is the one you write based on this comment? You're most of the way there ...
Storing hydrogen underground is demonstrated, practical, and very cheap.
If law enforcement has your device via warrant or confiscation at a border, then this vulnerability is very much in play.
The whole reason for the distro family to exist is for security patches.
The state of Texas is suing other states in the supreme court and alledging fraud.

Youtube's new policy basically is saying that the state of Texas is not allowed to discuss the supreme court case on their platform.
Are you trying to make the point that YouTube is a special interest site and not a platform? Or are you trying to make the point that YouTube should have its cake and eat it too by being protected as a platform, and at the same time play the role of a curator and publisher?
Elon acknowledges market externalities in that interview to justify government intrusion in the free market to price in the cost of carbon and pollution.

But he doesn’t seem to realize there are other externalities to price in: worker health, education, etc

One of the reasons CA developed as a hot bed of activity was the college system here which provided a ready supply of educated skilled workforce. That’s been supplemented in recent years with people moving here but the genesis started with the great colleges.

Once you admit there are negative externalities that the government has to force companies to “price in” to meet human goals (eg slowing climate change) you can’t just turn around and be a hyper libertarian on every other issue.

Musk is smart enough to extend his reasoning from the environment to other factors.

Indeed environmental regulations are slowing down Gigaberlin, if he were to whine about government required environmental impact reports, he’d be a hypocrite for example.
>Or, framed differently, California is looking for deep pockets to bail out their failing budget rather than adjust their policy to match what they can afford.

You mean the budget that included tax abatement and subsidies for his factories and the people who buy his cars?
Seems to me that you could do both. Inline the minimal set that makes the front page renderable, and then background-load the full css to warm the cache for when the user clicks on a link.
Why do you still pay taxes in California? Do you have a residence there?
If curious see also

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477011 (a bit)

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1335740 (even less, but good)
Without going into the details too much, the person held the founders (us) responsible for their financial loss. They made some anonymous death threats online first but we didn’t take it very seriously.

I’m sure judges and politicians are at higher risk of retribution, no doubt about it. I only argue we’re not immune as engineers and tech founders. Someone who’s deeply disturbed can direct their blame on anyone remotely involved in their life.
What? No. Factual videos are not what this is talking about.
If you look at Apple's apple, you will notice that it is already bitten. It was not the snake, but Eve.
> I really wanted them to make refrigerator magnets. They wisely ignored that bit of advice.

Fun to hear about tidbits like this. I often have “genius” marketing gimmicks for other people. Turns out while all successful startups will have external marketing successes that people will think were key to their success, their internal qualities are the real causative and what ends up being their famous marketing tricks are just symptoms and arbitrary.
That depends on reciprocal tax agreements. [1] He will have to file in both states, but what he pays will depend on several factors. He will likely get tax credits in California, but I am not a tax attorney or a CPA. Elon could probably give some indication on how much he is saving if he is saving anything at all.

[1] - https://www.optimataxrelief.com/live-work-pay-taxes/
Material UI is ... well. It just is. It's mediocre at best, and hilariously bad at worst:

- Insufficient contrast everywhere https://grumpy.website/post/0TEJkwzPA

- Inconsistent use of their own guidelines: https://grumpy.website/post/0Ra93yy33 (references the old design of the site, but the new one is just as bad)

- Bad physical metaphors: https://grumpy.website/post/0UnXYXhD9

- Or the hilarious story where they needed a user study involving 600 people to tell them that if a text field doesn't look like a text field, people won't be able to tell it's a text field: https://medium.com/google-design/the-evolution-of-material-d...

And that's just off the top of my head.

But all of that could be forgiven if Google bothered or cared. They don't.
There are many examples out of there of people ending up in some weird conspiracy theory rabbit hole, and often it starts with some youtube video, or post on facebook. Mothers who have lost sons, wives who have lost husbands. They have seen them turn into crazy people

(examples: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/14/qanon-f... )

If those videos are not as present on youtube to begin with, perhaps fewer people end up down these rabbit holes. Of course it won't do anything to convince people who are already falling down the hole.
Of course, South Africa (and the surrounding countries, and quite frankly much of Africa below the Sahara that I have visited) is gorgeous and unparalleled in almost all aspects.

If it wasn't for the lack of a high trust society, I would actually look into moving to Cape Town myself.
This is modern book burning.

To combat establishment elites in either side we need more freedom, not less.
I bet it will extend to fully cover one side of the aisle, but not cross over to the other.
You’re right, people can make their own decisions. The justice warriors should not coddle people’s minds by shaping a narrative according to their own opinions of what radical/right/wrong mean.

Unless...they’re a publication in which case they need to be regulated and taxed accordingly.
> Will this include all videos talking of the Russia collusion?

All of them? I highly doubt it.
One thing that really lacks from Pareto’s thoughts on this, imho, probably because of his historical context, is the fact that population tends to expand. Even if it might be true that elites often simply get replaced by new sets of people who will in turn become elites, it’s also true that sometimes (particularly in the last couple of centuries) such new elites can end up being larger - sometimes as a result of demographic factors (population underneath grows, so elites have to scale up as well to ensure their management), sometimes of ideological factors (e.g. a government goes from centralism to federalism, generating a lot of new intermediate roles). Which is a good thing.

Pareto’s insights too often end up being used as a call for passive cynicism. IMHO they should be seen more as a statement of possibility: elites do fall, and if you really work to ensure that fall maybe you can be the next in line, because some elite will always appear at some point and this time it might be large enough to include you.
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I don't know the specifics, but I believe the parent comment is alluding to business specific taxes, not the capital gains tax you probably pay as a no-longer-california-resident.
Few reasons to leave California - https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2020/09/12/leaving-the-ba...
> We're talking about election fraud allegations which are the subject of ongoing court cases for god's sake.

Except we're not. Guiliani said in one of the few courts that asked for an oral argument that it wasn't a fraud case[1]. Fraud requires specific proof which he/they do not have.

This is PR/fund raising disguised as comical legal filings.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/politics/trump-giulian...
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Yeah I didn't mean to say exercise isn't important, it is. Just that it simply isn't in most people's time budget.
I have nothing to upload because I'm not a content creator. I think that it's wrong for YouTube to be silencing people this way and I hope there's some way to influence YouTube without abandoning it - because the vast majority of people won't.
People have and are still being harvested for their organs right now. [0]

If someone can see a way to profit off “undesirable” people and get away with it, they will.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade
Why do we allow the political class to have so much control of what is said and shared?
in France you can get fined or go to jail for saying fascist stuff, works pretty well.
Is there any article or video out there that outlines a compelling case of how massive election fraud could have even occurred ?

I do believe some election fraud happened, how could it not with 150MM voters in this past election. But I have yet to read a single article that could outline any explanation for how democrats stole 8MM votes so Trump lost, but did not change down-ballot votes so that they also lost house seats and other smaller elections (that matter for re-districting etc).
Disappointed that this didn't include the extended downtimes during the February/March crash and rebound.
It's one of those products that is "sold" not "bought".
As a silly concept, I approve.

As a blogging platform, please don't do this. It breaks all SEO, microformats, RSS feed discovery, rel=me ties, and much, much more.

HTML is great. Please use it for your websites.

source: runs a open-web friendly microblogging platform
I worked at a big UK company that had a APR process but after all the scores for the year where worked out - there where levelling meetings where more senior mangers / hr fiddled the figures to hit the desired pay quanta.

OH and to get a cat 1 rating (the best) the suggested level was world expert several patents in own name etc
If you report on the state of Texas alleging fraud, that's fine I believe. But if your video alleges it, you will be taken down. Big difference.

This election fraud nonsense is social contagion.
It's the spirit of the First Amendment that people are concerned about wrt silencing of particular perspectives. Of course YT is privately owned so the First Amendment doesn't literally apply.
Debian, Ubuntu handled those side by side for a while, surprised RH didn’t.
Youtube does. They pay for the servers, and thus any sensible person who believes in capitalism and freedom of speech would support that they get to decide what content goes on their servers.
Texas v. is a great case to put in front of a bunch of originalists. You should definitely brace yourself for a ruling that state courts illegally changed election rules because the constitution solely grants that power to the legislatures of the states.

Edit: if they do the states in question will probably call special legislative sessions to repair the defect.
>Is HN turning into a liberal censorship site? If this was always the case, my apologies. I thought HN valued curiosity and truth...

Years ago, yes. Not so anymore. Last year they flagged/removed all submissions of a NYT op-ed (written by an Indian guy) that blamed rich white liberals for the SFBA housing crisis. Tells you all you need to know about the HN echo chamber
I think it should be mentioned that "risker" in this context generally means "a diversified, growth-focused, stock portfolio", and not "all in bets on a few stocks picked from /r/wallstreetbets".
For what it's worth, I downvoted you for the tone of your post, and for the allegation that I live in in Silicon Valley ("[...] proof that SV is full of assclowns"), when I don't even live in the US.
>> ... is this something we would want Google doing? They have said themselves that they intend to manipulate elections in the US and this is exactly how they would do it.

??
> Most useful article I've read probably this year.

Agreed.

I didn't really care about the should you / shouldn't you raise money part and the whole first principles thing, but the middle half of the article gave me a lot of things to think about and I am guessing I will be checking out the other content on this site for the next while.
Society can only function if those with opposing views at least agree on ground rules to debate on. Unchecked expression of view with no option for rebuttal from the other side will only destroy society. We have cases were US Senate candidates don't even show up for pre-election debates.
I mean, historically it did worked. Suppresion actually works to suppress viewpoints. Just like with any power, violence tends to work too.
They are not making a decision or "fact checking". We have seen where that goes. They have made a decision not to host content on the topic.
Thanks for the question.

I'm saying it should be easy to solve for the richest country in the World given the sheer amount of resources it possess.

It looks impossible for the same exact country, because the society there doesn't like the solution.

Or to be more precise, they don't like being told that if other have solved it, they should just copy what the others have done.

Looks like that if you try to teach America something, the knee jerk reaction is always "X is of course underestimating something, the problem is hard, the solution can't be that easy and if X is proposing it is obviously wrong, or X would be richer then us"

Other countries have solved it, so it is solvable.

Solvable doesn't even mean it will disappear in this case, it means the situation can drammatically improve just by tuning a few knobs.

Like wearing and not wearing a mask, keeping or not keeping social distance, etc. you put all of these precautions together and you magically have much better chances of avoiding the contagion.

It is that simple.

Why it isn't in the US?

Because they don't want to solve it.

It would be as easy as reading the Wikipedia page on homelessness in Japan, for example

I'm taking Japan as an example because it was struggling with the problem, then they changed approach to it and have radically improved the condition of homeless people and reduce their number.

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

> At the beginning of the 1990s, the homeless in Japan were viewed as a nuisance. The government tried to get rid of the people on streets because of "beautification programmes". Only in 1997 did Tokyo at last acknowledge the existence of homeless group representatives and start listening to their issues.

> I'll be honest, it seems like english is your second language and you're struggling to connect a few different ideas

I could write it in Italian, French, Spanish and even in bad German, but that would make it harder for people to follow.

The best I can do is my confusing English, sorry.
I follow politics pretty closely and this is literally the first time I've heard that anyone was alleging Russia actually hacked voting machines or switched votes. I had only heard about social media disinformation and social media disinformation campaigns.

I also never really heard many assertions that any of this was significant enough to have likely swayed the election.
...radicalizization meaning choosing to believe differently than you?
To clarify - I should have said: “it’s hard to take AOSP seriously as an open phone platform”
Who decides that the videos in Russia are factual, while the videos in the US are not?
Nope. It basically fuels the Streisand effect, both for what is really true, and for what some people believe to be the hidden truth. This kind of censorship has the opposite effect of what it claims to do.

The real truth stands up to all scrutiny, and that scrutiny is an essential part in arriving at the truth.
>Nothing in comparison to what states offered.

For the factories, maybe.

What about the rebate to car purchasers for many years, making California Tesla's biggest market? That is substantial.
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According to Semiaccurate the new Contact Over Active Gate (COAG) feature ended up causing just as many problems as moving to cobalt.

The original article is here:

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/08/02/intel-guts-10nm-to-g...

It's paywalled but Charlie later published something else referring to that article as talking about COAG problems so I don't feel bad sharing the info at this point.

https://semiaccurate.com/2020/08/13/intel-talks-about-10nm-s...
Remember the controversy around "YouTube Heroes"? The arbiters of truth are going to be volunteers and activists. And, the process is going to be completely opaque with no appeals process. I guarantee it.
probably sales and property taxes

FWIW, broadly speaking, I'd rather see wealth taxes and estate taxes than income taxes. Income taxes disincentivize work, whereas wealth taxes penalize idleness.
I'm pretty anti-censorship; specifically I believe that sunshine/debate is the best disinfectant. However, we aren't having a healthy debate right now because the election fraud conspiratorialists are shouting their message without regard for the rebuttals. I think there's something to be said for bringing the volume down to manageable levels so that we can actually have a debate. That said, I'm not remotely convinced that there's any kind of evidence that will convince these people that there wasn't election fraud--it feels like arguing with flat-earthers or blank-slaters or whomever--which isn't so much to vindicate 'censorship' (in general or in particular) as it is to express sadness at the state of our collective intellectual and political well-being.
Supreme Court is going to be in agreement with that really.
Apologies, this was very poorly worded. I edited that post many times and those parenthesis lost their meanings. Wet cerumen is 50% lipid and dry cerumen is 20% lipid.

If you want demographics, I've found online that: "dry earwax is very common (80-95 per cent) among East Asians, but is lower (30-50 per cent) in southern Asia, Pacific Islands, Central Asia and Asia Minor, and in Native North Americans and Inuit peoples of Asian ancestry. It's very uncommon among Europeans and Africans (0-3 per cent)". http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/04/14/4213402.ht...
Doesn't this just feed into people's fears about conspiracies? I can't understand why people are signing off on this. Let the Like/Dislike button do its job.
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Step 1 is getting a job at an investment bank where you have direct access to the markets and enough political clout to keep it all "legal".

Also realize that any genius loophole you find will have already been discovered and exploited by other banks. If you want to get a feel for what this is like watch The Big Short.
I'm right there with ya. Kiddo is very young and I can't justify shelling out even 3 extra nanny hours per week for fitness. I try to incorporate/papoose him for as much as I can but there's a lot of stuff I can't do with him attached. Couple that with winters increasing level of difficulty in getting walks in (still trying to figure out how long he can be exposed to the elements before it qualifies as child abuse).

I don't have any advice here; just commiserating. Keep on trucking.
Fascism and disallowing lying are the same thing.
The term 'persistent data structure' goes back to papers by Tarjan, et al in the 80s but the path copying technique is much older. My favorite technique from one of those papers, the in-place v2 trick, is an alternative to path copying that achieves amortized O(1) space per update as opposed to O(depth) space per update for path copying; this only gives you partial persistence (linear history like an MVCC database system, not branching history like a purely functional data structure or Git) but often that's all you need. (There's also an extension of the trick to full persistence but it's not very practical.)

> I’m not a Clojure expert, but I believe you could trace a direct line to Clojure’s core immutable data structures from Okasaki’s doctoral thesis.

I believe the direct inspiration for Clojure's persistent vectors and maps are Bagwell's papers on HAMTs, which weren't so much a new data structure as an example of data structure engineering. Okasaki's thesis has several contributions but its main theme is how you can apply amortization in the purely functional setting if you have laziness or memoization, which is in a very different direction.
Wow, refreshing. To me, the most interesting part here is the incentive. It sounds like they ultimately just wanted to rise to the standard once it was made exhaustively clear. The important part here probably being that, by including peers, they know the feedback is coming from the right place, which is disarming.
Far-right aka everybody who's not a democrat.
> They are understood to have had an anaphylactoid reaction, which tends to involve a skin rash, breathlessness and sometimes a drop in blood pressure. This is not the same as anaphylaxis which can be fatal.

From the BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122

As someone who carries an epi-pen after experiencing anaphylaxis that distinction makes a big difference to what we're talking about here.