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I almost really liked Offworld Trading Company, but I feel 1. there aren't enough ways to win as an underdog, and 2. the devs punted on the end-game.

The outcome is too momentum-based. Once a player builds a solid early game lead, there is pretty much no way to stop them. There aren't really any offense tactics besides monopolizing resources, which pretty much has to happen early on. The various "black market" sabotages are pretty weak and expensive. None of them will stop a late game player with momentum. It feels like your starting position and the decisions you make in the first 1-2 minutes of the game pre-determine the outcome 30 minutes later--which is boring.

The stock trading system (which is ultimately the only way to win) is simplistic and just not a satisfying way to end the game. You're sitting there trading, making tons of money, doing everything right, then suddenly Game Over--someone had more money and decided to buy you out, which you can't defend against, even if you pre-buy all your own stock. You get a warning a few seconds before it happens (the red percentage number next to your opponent) but there's literally nothing you can do to stop them.
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> That just seems like the same old mistake of thinking that wealth is zero-sum.

The mistake is actually thinking that wealth is never zero-sum. Although the myth is so pervasive among HN circles, it's almost like an old wive's tale and extremely hard to combat at this point. It's also just a very incorrect generalization.

Anyone who's had more than a rudimentary brush with economics should have no trouble understanding why that is.

To give a few reasons why that statement is usually either outright false or a gross oversimplification to the point of being useless:

1. Whether something is zero-sum or not depends on the period of time you're looking at. Always. When you say something is or isn't zero-sum, you need to specify what time period you're referring to. Good place to start is here.

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/glossary/short-run-long-r...

In this particular case, I'd consider the COVID-19 lockdowns to still be short-run. And it isn't particularly evident if the wealth during this time has increased, is zero-sum or negative-sum

2. Many things that traditionally generate or store wealth for the people are indeed zero-sum. Desirable land within a certain zip-code, for example. Or in an area with high economic activity, e.g. downtown of a city. These things are both explicitly zero-sum (although it doesn't directly transfer 1:1 as wealth). Their valuation may grow in the long-run, which, if sold, and transferred to other economic activities by their owners, would make the wealth a net gain.

3. Market Cap/Valuation is not wealth. When sellers/buyers are large enough, the price of a stock does not directly transform into the same amount of wealth. You can't take AMZN and sell off all of its stock at its current price.

4. Pertaining to the current situation, it isn't really clear if companies that are hiring more and generating more wealth right now is compensating for the country-wide loss of jobs from the pandemic. Not even economists can predict with good accuracy whether this is going to result in a net wealth gain when all is said and done. However, this is evidence of a wealth transfer, because the surplus labor generated by extra AMZN workers goes directly to its largest shareholders, e.g. Bezos.

(Note, that you can have a positive-sum wealth generation and a wealth transfer at the same time)

> Then there was also the whole CARES act this year

5. Printing money does not generate wealth.
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Simply a general mistrust of big centralized government doesn't sound so negative.
That seems like a bit of a leading question but that is scary. Though the fact that so many Republicans don't believe the DNC hacks is scary too.

"Tampered with tallies" might be misinterpreted by those with poor comprehension.

Very interesting so thanks!
For what it's worth the majority of the Windows CE games were terrible and the logo on a game served as a warning to stay away.

In particular, the 3D games had a much worse frame rate than the non-Windows CE games, the tomb raider games being a nearly unplayable slideshow.
Not sure I agree with this. Most fruit trees need 2 of them and wind or bees/insects. If we spray insecticide or anti-fungal on the fruit tree, which many people do, then we reduce the bees, and get no fruit. The insecticide seems to be the unnatural addition that impacts the ecosystem.

I would argue for reduced use of insecticide.
I'd add PS2's DVD playback capability as another contributing factor to the Dreamcast's demise. Was kind of a big deal at the time.
is the data market a bubble ?
The car issue is tempting as an argument clincher. My problem is the army - a lot of their trucks and so forth are not computer controlled this-generation-of-toyota-abstraction but have stayed inefficient but repairable trucks. Because they both need to have trucks that are repairable and also all the computer understands is nice paved roads. Which is what armies don't do.

But yes, mostly I am not an army.
I remember that some games had a windows ce logo during the boot.
which no code platforms have you had success with? I saw AWS got in the game with honeycode.
A significant difference is Norway was only hunting minke whales which are still in the least concern category. Japan however was hunting actually threatened Sperm whales and Fin Whales.

Further, they where doing it under the auspices of research far from Japan vs Norway which was more brazen, but also more local.

PS: Alaskan whale hunting by Inuit also largely gets a free pass.
Hierarchical or not, keep in mind Valve was making an enormous amount of money the whole time. Steam is, by far, their most profitable business.

They are also extremely selective when it comes to hiring (they are fairly small but get applicants from literally all over). So that some approach worked for Valve won't necessary work for RandomCo Inc where software is viewed as a cost center, simply because they can't attract the same caliber of talent.
Yeah that’s the issue: “star” doesn’t have clearly defined semantics, so everyone uses them in their own way. In addition to bookmarking, I do star for gratitude because having repos with stars is very advantageous for contributors. I really appreciate getting stars on many levels.
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Twitter banned political ads this year, Facebook didn't. It was probably the most important social media policy of the year (with Trump's tweet warnings)

The media may be biased by their history with FB, but they deserve an huge part of this reputation.
Banks reference?
Speaking personally, I started out as an avid Skeptic Magazine reader and conspiracy doubter, but became interested in conspiracies after watching those inclined to believe in them accurately predict in real time (including in HN comments) that Jeffrey Epstein would die in prison before he would be allowed to come to trial or testify against the numerous wealthy & powerful people with whom he was associated. The media then proceeded to immediately circle the wagons and insist that anything other than 'it was a lone suicide' was 'baseless conspiracy theory.'

I imagine for most conspiracy theorists it's a similar process. They see some evidence of our society's widespread institutional corruption and the mass deception which is deployed to protect it, and begin looking for the truth in alternative avenues. Unfortunately it is then very easy to exit the first hall of mirrors into another one, like QAnon.
I think you should have at least some small amount of Canadian taxation and representation. You could probably use a Canadian consolate or benefit from or be adversally affected by some legislation passed in Canada (and of course in the USA.) Anyway I think it makes sense to pay taxes and vote in the country of residence, not in the one of citizenship.
Austrian citizenship is quite easy to lose: by acquiring another, which is in almost all cases seen by Austrian law as incompatible with the Austrian one. As you say, dual citizenship is usually only possible if jus sanguinius applies.

Source: https://www.wien.gv.at/amtshelfer/dokumente/urkunden/staatsb...
Well good products don't need very much advertising.
I used to own a company in the UK, which was bought by Apple and part of the purchase agreement was that I and the other company partner[] move to Cupertino.

Owning a company meant actually submitting forms to the Inland Revenue (the UK equivalent of the IRS) every year, and it was sufficiently a hassle that we paid an accountant to do it.

Fast forward to a few years after the move to the US, and the IR are still sending me forms every year to fill out about my income in the UK. Eventually I tire of this yearly ritual, so I just drew a diagonal line over every single page of the return, put a big fat '0' in the last entry, and in the comments at the end I wrote

"I live in the US. I have lived in the US for the past 5 years. I do not have any immediate plans to return to the UK, so this is a waste of your time and mine. Please. Stop."

I wasn't actually expecting it to stop... But a month or few later I got a letter from them saying that they took note of my comments, would stop sending me yearly forms, warning me that if I returned to live in the UK, they would expect me to notify them "perhaps more politely". At which point I sort of felt guilty letting the frustration spill out onto the form...

[] Before we were bought, we travelled yearly to the US (in part to see Apple). Most times, in the Bay Area, we stayed in Sausalito just over the bay from San Francisco, and caught a ferry to SF in the morning. String in the sunlight on a ferry with a Danish pastry is an excellent way to commute, and we typically stayed in 'Hotel Sausalito' (interesting fact: a converted brothel).

Early on in this series of yearly events we arrive (for Java-one this time), and John (not his real name) walks into the reception and proclaims "I am John <name> and this is my partner <my name>". They booked us into a single room with a queen bed. Both being owners we generally shared a room on these trips (small company finances can be brutal), but never actually a bed. The hotel didn't have any two-bed rooms left, and there'd been a mix-up with the booking, but eventually they gave us another room for 1/2 the price, which was an acceptable compromise :)
How do you raise $200M with only $10k in revenue? That is, if your A round was $10M, your B round was $60M, and your C round was $130M (I'm just making up numbers here), how was it that none of the investors ever needed to see any material revenues?
This is a mainstream American, one might even suggest evangelical POV of Christianity.

Theologians, especially non American, drastically believe that the American Church has perverted heaven and evolution.
Youre right I should probably not make a direct comparison only with India. There's plenty of other examples.

The reason I used India is that those houses full of millions in cash/rupees. It's basically as shameless just through much more sophisticated layers of indirection.

Like starting a network AI infosec contractor for DoD and making millions while your product sucks, but your team has some gov connections and knows how to fill out the right forms.

It's still far from the rampant corruption in India.

But I'd love for someone to read all 6000 pages and list out where its going, then reverse the authors to the receiver of the money. But MOST importantly whether the money went to anything close
Seems to have happened with "momentarily". Used to mean "for a moment" but now most people use it to mean "in a moment".

I remember being amused the first time a flight attendant said "we'll be taking off momentarily".
The “recipe” itself (the ingredients, the steps) isn’t copyrightable but the surrounding text of a “recipe” can be considered copyrightable.

So you can happily reproduce the statements of facts and the process. You can’t include someone’s anecdotes about how their grandfather liked to make the dish for New Year’s Eve.
The point wasn't that it works out in their favor if they make a ton of trips but not if they make a smaller number. Those figures were approximately a best-case cost for the rental and worst-case cost for mileage-induced depreciation at any point in the depreciation parameter space. If they only added 10k miles then they'd incur $5k or more in rental fees and $1.7k or less in mileage-induced depreciation by the above math.

I did misplace a zero though for what it's worth. A budget rental would only cost $500 or so over 10k miles, not $5k, if they're making the entire trip in a single day and returning it to the same place they picked it up. If that's the case the budget rental would probably be worth it financially (unless they were planning to hold the Tesla for awhile so that it hits a more favorable point in the depreciation curve), and if not then the extra rental fees are likely such that especially counting gas vs supercharging it's approximately a wash one way or the other.
What is the current "flawed" definition, and what would be a 'non-flawed' definition?
> This whitepaper provides an introduction to and overview of seL4. We explain what seL4 is (and is not) and explore its defining features. We explain what makes seL4 uniquely qualified as the operating-system kernel of choice for security- and safety-critical systems, and generally embedded and cyber-physical systems. In particular,we explain seL4’s assurance story, its security- and safety-relevant features, and its benchmark-setting performance. We also discuss typical usage scenarios, including incremental cyber retrofit of legacy systems.
If you prefer formalism, the cybernetics literature should appeal. I prefer the Systems Dynamics approach, because it's formal enough to avoid woo, but informal enough to avoid avoidance.

But it's a mistake to create the general conclusion, from this blogpost, that a program aiming to describe, catalogue and comprehend phenomena across many fields in common terms is a fool's errand. It's been an ongoing program of research for most of a century now.
Coke? Nike? Disney movies? Apple products?
According to google, the average salary in Kazakhstan is 212894 KZT/month, which is $500. How much does an American worker making $500/month have to pay to the IRS for SS and Medicare?
Might thought exactly. I wonder if GitHub would change Star to Thanks.

Unstar however would become “No thanks”
At least there's universal healthcare in the middle of a global pandemic, unfortunately there's a push to remodel it after the U.S. private insurance model, but also a string opposition to that idea.
IIRC the Dreamcast and the Naomi arcade system are very similar. The arcade systems have about twice the ram, and can run from rom cartridges as well as optical media (read once on boot into a dedicated disc cache), and there's some variants with interesting I/O, but there wasn't a difference in compute or GPU capabilities.
> Games consoles are about as far removed from a constrained device as you could possibly get.

It seems to me that you are always ignore low-end devices and very old devices.

If we are talking about an PS5 then yes, this and similar devices are not very constrained, even a full blown Kubuntu might run on some.

But, again there are low-end gaming devices with a tiny black and white screen for 10 dollars and old gaming hardware with very tight constrains. The N64 is certainly one of those constrained old gaming devices.
I do that sometimes. I sent an email recently to thank the author of XLD [0], an excellent piece of software hosted on Sourceforge, where I don’t have an account. I wouldn’t say it’s about low effort, so much as not taxing the recipient: with an email a person may feel more compelled to reply than with an opened and immediately closed issue.

[0] https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
Tiny nitpick: a method, or technique, would be the correct word. It's certainly not a technology.
Small correction. You pay it on the gain on your assets. It is, for example, any increase on your house value that matters, not the value itself.
I'm curious how you define culture that you call if over-rated.

To me, culture is the individual accountability and focus on results that you describe, plus humility, freedom to take initiative, mentorship, empathy, perseverance, personal growth, conflict resolution... and this absolutely is defined by the people you choose to work with and behavior of the leadership.

I used to be in your camp and think culture was a ridiculous thing to focus on, now I'm in the camp where I believe it's the most important part of successful teams.
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But i think this is apples and oranges - C maps pointers and memory allocation in a very direct robust manner, even Python allows you to dis back to see the stack.

But this hard-line-to-underlying reality is unlikely to exist looking at how this months k8s will configure last years AWS route53.

It just works 80% of the time is a disaster, 98% of the time might be bearable. is it above 99%?
I, very fortunately, landed a small NGO as my first dev job out of boot camp. We're a team of 3 with full autonomy over how we structure ourselves and the tools we use. Also, the bureaucracy is little to none.

Based on what I've read here, other sites, friends and colleagues, I should have changed jobs at least a couple of times by now but I've been here almost 4 years now and don't regret it. If you've found a place that you find fulfilling then I don't think I need to follow conventional advice. The downsides are less exposure to different project types and not working with a bigger team of experienced devs. I need to compensate for this by putting in extra effort on my side but I still think I've made the right choice for now.

I think if I ended up in a commercial dev job, I would have started looking at other options as well. It makes a real difference when you see you work being used for a greater good.

While you're considering other options, maybe also consider joining a smaller dev team where you have more autonomy and less red tape.
Isn't this essentially exactly what they for some period said of every new ethnic or religious group in the US going back to before it was even an independent country?

Catholics, Jews, Irish, Chinese, Russians, Muslims, Mexicans, and Italians have all had or are having their time of being seen an existential foreign threat, irredeemably incompatible and insidiously perverting the pure culture (at least by some), and that's just off the top of my head.
Tangential: My workplace uses StatStrip POC glucometers, which run WinCE.

Even though the devices are fairly recent (early 2010s), you can tell the design elements are that of early 2000s PocketPC PDAs. The proportions and maybe even the connector are reminiscent of a Compaq iPaq.

On initial start up, the start menu and desktop can be invoked before the Glucometer application starts up. I always hope that maybe Solitaire or some other mundane application didn’t get cleared out by the OEM when the firmware was created.
How would working at a top law firm do anything “beautiful” or meaningful in the world anyway? You’ll basically be some oligarchs lackey
C) Unchanged for decades - that wording predates speech recognition or neural networks being more than research curiosities. The big surprise was how quickly the possibility of a double meaning became possible.
Very little discussion here or in the article on why use these in favor of traditional sails. Looking at America’s Cup, the trend one would expect would be foils supplemented by motor and more traditional sails. I’m sure these are easier to deploy, but consider that an America’s cup boat can do 40 knots in a 12 knot breeze. Sure that’s without cargo and on a highly optimized design with hard working crew, but it does prove the remarkable efficiency of a traditional wing.
Maybe rebranding GitHub Sponsors as not just a means of giving money but one-off "thank you" messages would be a decent approach to encouraging gratitude in open source.
Reminds me very much of Walter Lippmann's work, Public opinion, part of a time of his debate with Dewey on democracy's functions. This was in 1922 and he already emphasised the role of the media in validating existing worldviews in a sense. There's much to benefit from Lippmann's insights, one of which is this concept of psuedostructures we all construct and caricatures in those pseudostructures.

Philosphize This episode:
https://youtu.be/6QJYsSJGR8I

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)
Did some new NPC software update go out recently where populism is now supposed to mean "pull the ladder up"? Im seeing this all over the place now.
> I'm really curious why the Chinese don't have the same level of resentment over the British given how barbaric they treated them in the 1800s.

Not sure how did you get the impression that Chinese don't have the same level of sentiment towards Britain?

I suggest you google what happened in Nanjing and the 731 unit. And see for yourself why they evoked stronger mental reactions.

But still, like I expressed elsewhere, to question people's feeling based on hypothetical political motive is such a CCP way of thinking. I have to say that a lot of people have lost the battle against CCP.
Depends what you're doing with it, but I have to think it mostly is a bubble. Maybe if you have a really simple question that already fits what can be measured, or you're trying to surveil someone in particular, but for stuff like AI just doesn't make sense to me.
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Banks moved a skeletal staff to EU offices already a long time ago, and no one else.

As far as regulated business goes, it was clear from the start pretty much that there will be no passporting. The extent of other regulatory burdens remains unclear.

The point is, unless some highly unexpected new regulation comes in, it looks like banks at least kept the business and decision making in London, and only moved enough operational staff to EU to support operations there.

Funds for sure seem to have stay put in London, some moved but this is definitely a minority.
Maybe the FAA shouldn't have sent two warnings then and instead sent a small fine? Because that went from being warned to life-ruining.
Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts
So how well does these sails point into wind and how do control lift angle?
Does this mean you support bicameral?

In your future perfect PR world: Still bicameral? PR just for House? Replace House & Senate with a parliament?

Or do you still want to preserve the vetocracy with a Senate (House of Lords)?

What do state, county, city governments look like?
>I don't understand how this can be the top comment.

Know the audience. Think of the most unnecessarily difficult people to work with in a given tech workplace - they make up about 75% of the users here. The other 25% are broken into aspiring entrepreneurs, reasonable ICs and Reddit migrants who are still trying to find their feet.

>Do away with most management? And then what? 30,000 employees all steer the ship in the right direction by sheer "individual accountability and focus on results"? Well that gave me a good laugh.

Same crowd will balk at any suggestion around deriving accountability quantitatively. These rugged individualist coder wolves just need to be unleashed to let their genius flow, man.

>Culture is overrated? That's literally the only thing that prevents work from becoming a sterile factory.

See above. Why would the most unnecessarily difficult people to work with want a workplace that promotes working with others?
Or other kinds of batteries than automotive grade lithium-ion, such as sodium sulphate molten salt, or pumped water storage.
It’s always fascinating to apply data/results like from this paper to help evaluate the hypothesis that machine learning/AI is mostly just a rough “lookup table” or memorization.