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I moved a few years ago. I toyed around with Linux before, but what pushed me over the edge is losing a bunch of work one day after Windows decided to reboot behind my back, when I locked the PC and walked away. I was like, "Lol, I don't control this computer, huh?"

To my surprise (still), I've lived in Linux comfortably for years now. It's, hands down, a superior OS for programming (unless you're married to Visual Studio [the IDE, not Code]), but being able to live in it otherwise so well is still surprising, from gaming to interpolation on videos with mpv + SVP (which, pretty strangely, is free for Linux but costed me a subscription on Windows! https://www.svp-team.com/get/). FreeOffice (https://www.freeoffice.com/en/) has a clone suite of Microsoft Office that works with all the formats (plus, Microsoft Office is on the web now, anyway, right?), and preferring roguelike and indie games (which are reliably native) over AAA games enough to make do with running the odd AAA on Proton when available has been key for me. If I was really into AAA games or doing audio editing or something, I'd probably've gone back and made do with WSL2.

To save you time if you try switching, the best distro for a Windows refugee (or non-server, end user generally, in my strong opinion) is Manjaro with KDE. KDE's the most featureful, powerful, and Windows-like DE, and Manjaro's most Windows 10-like in that you're getting new updates all the time, indefinitely, which are pretty close to bleeding edge but held back for a margin of safety (as opposed to Ubuntu, where you're stuck with old stuff unless you mess with PPAs or install the new version of the OS every few years -- however, in edge cases like CUDA development, you might want to have older packages, since Ubuntu kind of dictates the pacing of outside development given its marketshare). It also benefits from the insanely-detailed Arch Wiki (since it's Arch-based) and has the AUR, which has every package ever, and it has GUI tools for kernel rollbacks and driver stuff, AND the Manjaro forums are amazingly helpful.
They tried that in Russia (!)... and quickly reverted it.

“On Tuesday, July 1, 2014, the Russian State Duma voted to end the widely unpopular permanent "summer time" in Russia. President Vladimir Putin signed the law on July 22, 2014.”

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/russia-abandons-perman...
The sun doesn't care what arbitrary numbers you assign to points in time.

Just change all of the school and office start times when you make the switch and you get the exact result you want. Numbers are arbitrary labels for points in time. You can just assign different labels.
Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses [1]

> The spike protein is a focused target of COVID-19, a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. A 12-nt insertion at S1/S2 in the spike coding sequence yields a furin cleavage site, which raised controversy views on origin of the virus. Here we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of coronavirus spike proteins and mapped furin recognition motif on the tree. Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.

Not "just plain luck" but a relatively rare recombination event that can occur in nature with co-infection. I have no problem with the lab hypothesis but I expect to see clear signs of a recent lineage recombination in the full SARS-CoV-2 genome. The lab theory requires not only a lab leak but the active suppression of the sequence(s) of the viral isolate(s) used in the hypothetical gain-of-function experiment.

Wuhan is no more unlikely than the mainland near Hong Kong where SARS-1 emerged. Any major city center in China that is accessible from Kunming, Yunnan [2] is a likely outbreak hotspot.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming#Transport
Thank you for a concrete example. I think you will agree though, that the outcome you describe isn't inevitable or most-likely.

Over time you will likely figure out a good life-work-philanthropy balance. Much of the conversation within EA is about self-care and long-term planning. If giving 70% of your income to charity works for you, that's magnificent. But if you realize you need to give less and take more care of yourself so you don't burn out, that's the appropriate decision.

I gave 50% one year but it didn't work out long term. I've been giving 10% for almost a decade and intend to ramp up to 20% in the future. My wife does 10% too - it works out well for us.
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The virologist "bat lady" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengli

SARS leaks https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/sars-escaped-bei...

Leaked cables https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-depar...

US coronavirus research collaboration https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4

Wuhan Institute of Virology employees are cited in a huge number of Coronavirus research papers. Some research may be done elsewhere but AFAIK it's the only lab in the world doing lots of work with SARS and relatives. The "batwoman" researcher who works at WIV is somewhat famous for gathering thousands of bat viruses from caves across China.

In addition RATg13, the closest related virus to COVID, wasn't published by the lab until after the pandemic outbreak. Even though the sample was supposedly collected years ago. If they're sitting on random unpublished coronavirus genomes doesn't it seem likely that COVID was one of these?

Theres too many coincidences for me. I would bet money that it's a lab leak
> UI redesigns of desktop operating systems are usually opposite of exciting these days. ... Here's an opinion: desktop UIs are mature. They serve their purpose outstandingly well.

I couldn't agree more. Your points are exactly why I've remained a happy Linux Mint user for nearly a decade. I don't dread OS or desktop environment updates, precisely because I know my chosen desktop environment will mostly remain the same (if not exactly the same).
> How your language differs from its competitors as far as usage.

Yes! I'm always tempted to ask "How is this different or better than XYZ lang?"

I don't have the time/inclination to learn every new fangled language that comes by, so it would be nice to have an easy way to understand what scenarios any given language is best suited for.

For example, every time I read about Go, I'm left wondering: How is this better than C or Java? Presumably it's better in some ways I'm not perceiving, otherwise why would it be built and used?
> If your goal is to build houses

Which is the goal of Habitat for Humanity, correct?

> if it's to recruit lifetime donors

Which is not the goal of Habitat for Humanity, right? It's only a means to an end. The end is building homes for people. If that end can be accomplished by a means more efficient than "recruit lifetime donors", shouldn't it be done that way?
Github might need to take down something like that from any developer regardless of country, because of other export laws, concerning nuclear technology. But I don't think that would result in punishment of the developer's country. But IANAL and the rules are complex.
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Developing a nuclear bomb isn't the same as developing an actually useful nuclear weapon: you still have to develop a rocket to deliver it somewhere else than your test site.
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Honest question, if the sanctions are causing misery and the people basically have to choose between death and poverty, will it not just cause more resentment? Wouldn't the people eventually become so angry at the Western World that they support Nuclear proliferation for, at best, defense/power and, at worst, revenge?
A good start might be to contact your representatives, see what their thoughts on Iran are, and make your case. If they aren't interested, check out the opposition.

Other than that, I'm not sure.
I disagree with this. The summer time is much, much better for my mental health. I am stuck working all day and the time of day when I want to and can enjoy daylight is after 5pm. Hence, the summer hours are much better.
I wish I could. I went to a physical therapist to learn it, and unfortunately I have no idea who else teaches these kinds of exercises.

Given the nature that they're physical, explaining them over text could lead to problems and I don't want to recommend something that could injure someone due to a misunderstanding.

As an overall concept, muscle building works by finding the sore muscles, holding them in spot where they are sore, but holding in spot in a soft way, not a tense way, and then counting slowly to 10. Then give 5 to 10 seconds of relax, then do again, 10 times at first. It only takes a few weeks doing exercises every other day for the muscle strength to build.

Headaches by definition are caused by tense / sore muscles, so learning the right exercises will remove headaches. However, sinus headaches, migraines, and cluster headaches are different. Also, if you have mattress or pillow problems, muscle building exercises are like walking up a high altitude mountain; it's not going to help as much as you're like. It may help to start with your mattress, if applicable, and then learn muscle building exercises.

Posture problems, like having your head too far forward, is caused by using the incorrect muscles which then strengthens the incorrect ones and weakens the correct ones. (Usually neck and upper back muscles.) By muscle building the weak ones, your posture will naturally fix itself.

When working on shoulder and upper back muscles I do muscle building exercises with my arms with 5 lb weights.

When it comes to headaches, I do a series of neck muscle building exercises.

Oh also, chiropractors are pseudo-science. If you feel like you need a chiropractor, what for 99% of the people out there actually need is muscle building exercises. The muscles hold up the spine, so even with a messed up spine muscle building exercises help more than just about anything else, often completely removing pain.
The point of paying off loans at this point is so that when the whole system breaks down and people are looking for someone other than themselves to hold the bag, you have no business relations with anyone and nobody with a reason to point at you. Folks who are deeply entangled in the financial system will have a lot of potential enemies if the system fails to supply the expected standard of living to everyone. Folks who are basically self-sufficient with no major financial commitments can ride it out in obscurity.

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be / For loan oft loses both itself and friend." -- Polonius, from Hamlet
LOL A criminal fine. Is there anything more insane than nobody being personally responsible for committing a crime. Like an institution woke up and developed cognition.
The problem with that internment was not the part where the government labeled first generation immigrants as Japanese.
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Thanks for pointing this out. Off to learn more about this.
I never said it was a sole source, but it is a large source (I thought the largest source). Do you have the breakdown of funding sources?

Most of your property tax (depending on state) is going to schools, not roads. For example, my school tax is about $3700 per year, while county tax is about $500 and local income tax is maybe $500. The county and local taxes support courts, parks, police, fire, public transport, etc. Yes, some does go to road maintenance, especially projects like bike lane and crosswalk programs, but that is relatively little. I pay about $400 per year in gas taxes, $90 in registration, and $90-120 in tolls each year (pre covid). Federal road money comes from a federal gas tax (not sure if there are other sources added since that was a big issue a decade ago).

Enforcement of the odometer reading might be tricky, especially at the state level for states without periodic inspections. It could work though. The reason I mentioned tires is because they are a consumable part and have treadwear ratings for how long they should last. It would be self-enforcing, to a degree, at the consumer level. Enforcement would be at the manufacturer or distributor level to collect the tax.
Why is it advancing? Isnt it just giving what rightfully theirs?
I love the idea, but competence isn't the right word here. Competence doesn't have an intrinsic ethical dimension. It's not unethical to sincerely try and fail, while the author does ascribe a pretty clear ethical dimension to moral incompetence.

I think humility is the better idea here. The examples of moral incompetence all center around egoism. Moral competence seems to follow from removing oneself and focusing on outcomes over personal validation. It's a call for helpers to serve and be humble.

I've had this thought before many times. Having gone down this path a bit, I would caution the author: deciding "I'm going to solve a big problem" is at once incredibly important (to get to the solution) and deeply arrogant (what, _you're_ gonna solve poverty?). Don't let the necessity for arrogance get in the way of your willingness to do good.
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And touchscreen all-in-one desktops. Touchscreen external monitors are not as popular, which is unfortunate since I use them and want higher resolution ones.

Every screen I have is a touch screen. Laptops, all-in-ones, external screens, on Windows and Linux.
Maybe that's how SARS-CoV-2 will end up - people will get it as kids and become immunized.
I had a Starbucks problem before the pandemic also, but the solution was just to buy a few bags of grounds (Caribou Coffee Medium Roast is the best tasting I've found so far) and a pourover (I'm sure whole beans and a grinder is better, and I might upgrade to that eventually, just haven't yet).

My wife and I have gone through about 6 bags this year (we only drink one large mug in the morning). So that's $66, or about $7 a month for both of us.

Whenever we're properly past the pandemic I can see the Starbucks problem coming back a bit, because part of that was having a place to go to in the morning to be around people and get some writing done before work.

I'm mainly a coffee + a little half and half, so my drinks don't usually have a ton of calories.
It would be a fun hack to pwm it so that it looks dark but still lets enough light through to capture an image.
Saying that "you don't need to use FB/Twitter, you can write your own blog" is like saying in 1789 "You don't need to be allowed to distribute your pamphlets in front of Faneuil Hall in Boston, you can exercise your free speech on the top of a mountain in Colorado."

Sure, if free speech is only about speaking, then someone can speak just as well on a mountaintop as they can in downtown Boston. But speech also has an element of being heard.

When the First Amendment was ratified, speech in a public square was the commonplace way of getting a message out to the world. Now, that commonplace medium is controlled by private corporations that don't fall under the jurisdiction of the First Amendment. If "free speech" continues to be important, then we need to create additional protections for speech in these virtual public squares where people can be heard, not just for speech in Internet wastelands that are the digital equivalent of an ice floe in Antarctica.
I'm not yrimaxi, and I'm very much in the EA camp, but I suspect a lot of people bounce off the implication that there isn't really such a thing as supererogation.

A lot of EA messaging tries to work around this by trying to avoid guilt trips or demanding that you do everything you possibly can, since asking too much is a good way to end up with nothing. See Giving What We Can and similar.

But a lot of the justifications for this kind of approach can very easily imply a much higher bar than anyone can meet. Taking global health as an example- millions of preventable deaths a year, and if you work yourself to the bone for years, you can only hope to partially mitigate it.

Even if the messaging says, "hey, just do what you can sustainably and don't worry about being perfect, because that's way better than nothing," the logic behind it is based on nothing more than observations of actions and their consequences. There's not a specific threshold where your job is actually done, and 'failure' to meet the impossible bar generally means mass death.

For someone outside EA, it is very easy to go from that observation to "these people are telling me I am basically a mass murderer for not helping, and even if I help, I'll still in practice be a mass murderer because I'll help suboptimally, gee thanks."

Even if very few identifying with the EA community would endorse that phrasing or the implied moral judgment, I can see how people could end up feeling that way. Not sure what to do about it.
> Just because the Federal Gov of the US does this does not mean that the states have to as well.

Yes it does: the Federal government currently allows states to choose between permanent Standard Time and Standard/Daylight switch at the point specified in federal law, it also dictates the timezones in the US and their boundaries. So, e.g., California has a choice between permanent PST and PST/PDT switches (it has chosen the latter), and Arizona between permanent MST and MST/MDT switches (they’ve chosen the former).

If the feds get rid of the option for DST switching and the option to chose permanent standard time in favor of mandating permanent daylight time with no other options, then, yes, the states have to do it.

Now, if they replace the daylight switch option with a permanent daylight option, that would be a different story. And if they just added a permanent daylight option, that would be an even more different story. And the text isn’t up for HR 69. But I suspect its straight “permanent DST is the only option” rule.
Ah, that’s a fair point and I can definitely see that working out.
Hmm, what is mamba? I thought I was at least sort of up to date with the various python dependency managers, but that one is new to me.

Relatedly, I have a grand vision of having as part of my development environment a jupyter notebook always at hand, in which to explore data as necessary, whip up scripts, accumulate little helper functions, etc. Basically, any time I have that "hm, I wonder..." itch, I'd like to be able to quickly whip up a solution in my notebook. I'm a skilled developer in terms of larger systems, but have a weakness when it comes to very early stage "throwaway" scripts to answer ad-hoc questions.

I spent a few days trying to set up jupyterlab in an "ideal" way, so that I could have easy access to python libraries within my notebook, and also a reproducible environment since I plan to push my working directory to GitHub and would like to sync across different machines. I got confused by virtualenv vs venv, and tried conda to install libraries, but ran into various problems. Oh, and part of it was trying to have nbdev (from the fastai folks) as part of this toolkit.

Anyone have a setup like this that they use and want to share? Part of me wants to just throw in the towel and learn R and RStudio, since I've heard its ggplot is the best plotting library anyway.
> replace them with who

Someone who aligns with your views - like yourself.
14 employees plus the employee with the stolen credentials were present for at least one of the felonies committed.

There should be at least 15 conspiracy charges in addition to the CFAA violation charge.
I personally full supported Obama's sanctions on Iran. They had a purpose (Stop Iran's nuclear program) that made sense and was achievable.

And they achieved it. All European countries and united nations and Obama administration confirmed that Iran was committed to the nuclear deal.Even current and former Israel generals wrote letters to show support for Obama's deal with Iran which stopped Iranian nuclear program.

What the current administration wants is much much more than that [0]. They are basically telling the Islamic Republic to shoot itself in the head. Or face sanctions.

Of course they pick sanctions.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/5/21/mike-pompeo-speech-...
How does education get off of the treadmill?

The answer may be surprising: pay teaching faculty better and give them proper job security. Students see only the textbook, but there's the other half, the slides that come with the textbook that contingent faculty will use for their lectures. If teaching faculty were to stay in any one place for more than three years they would prepare their own lecture materials instead on relying on the readymade pap.

Students would have to push for proper teaching. Unfortunately, in these times of elite overproduction they are more interested in their GPA to get into medical school.
I see no reason to believe that US sanctions on Iran are intended to cause a revolt by the Iranian people. AFAIK, the US has imposed sanctions on numerous countries since WWII and not in a single instance has it lead to a revolution in America's favour.

Another possibility is that the US simply wants to isolate its geopolitical enemies and impoverish them. As it has been doing with Cuba since Batista was overthrown.

I'm not convinced US foreign policy were rational, but a possible rational explanation for US sanctions is to make an example of countries that refuse US dominance. Similar to how a gang running a protection racket punishes those who refuse to pay protection money.

Regardless of why US foreign policy has deemed it necessary to starve the Iranian people, it will not lead to a revolution in America's favour. The Shah is not coming back. It will just lead to more death of Iranians.
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