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Just because you don’t like what he says doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand the principles of BTC.
My questions weren't angry

My point is that your claim that "it's good for business" to treat employees so well they don't benefit from advocating for themselves is clearly false in one of the largest tech companies.

If you don't understand that, your view of corporations is rosy-eyed
Author is fairly young.

This will destroy your back after even a short amount of time.
Yes. The idea is that all software is distributed as source code. The OS compiles the software itself.

To prevent software modification, we need a new CPU with two memory controllers, one for data and one for code. The code memory controller can only read, not write. A separate CPU runs the compiler and writes the code RAM.
Wait, then what did people do before the current system?
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The whole premise of the way streaming music is marketed and sold is all wrong. In the long term if you want good music to be created you have to put a little thought into how you’re nurturing the community of musicians on the local level who are doing the hard work of creating the product that Spotify and iTunes are selling.

From the point of view of a streaming service, it looks like this:

1) music is generated from bands via spontaneous generation

2) we throw that music up on a streaming site without context or support unless paid by major labels

3) profit

That’s not how it works. Good music is usually developed in some context- a community of musicians will develop in some major city in a location where the rent is not too high. They go to each other’s shows, they support each other, they learn from each other, they imitate each other and develop new sounds. Once in a while one group becomes popular enough that people outside of that community start to hear about them.

But, just as Facebook has become a news aggregator and should probably take that responsibility seriously, iTunes should take its responsibility seriously to the musical community that generates the product it sells. It could start recommending to people bands that are local to them- who they could go see live. It could tie in promoting live experiences of the bands a user is listening to. They could redistribute the streaming profits a little to give some financial support to smaller artists instead of the top 10 bands who play on a loop at Applebee’s. There are lots of ways that they could foster the growth of musical communities, and they aren’t doing it.

One good thing about the old music industry was that they would at least somewhat do this for struggling bands- they would identify talent, and develop and promote it. iTunes doesn’t do that. Spotify doesn’t do that. A lot of talent is going to wither on the vine without support.
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Destroying the evidence so blatantly was incompetent. A competent group of conspirators that has the resources to blackmail US Presidents would have done things much more smoothly, including an entirely realistic looking video of Epstein killing himself.
Slack Is Down?
Is slack down for the past hour and a half for all or it is just my sso?
This was not a chat tool. It was a security extension that one person used as their political soapbox.
Fragile, yes, but also beautiful. The Chinese "single product city" is something of a free-market wonder. I visited Dehua (a ceramics city) and spent the time fascinated at how anything related to ceramics production is cheap in that city. It is no one individual factory that achieves economy of scale, but rather the full city, and everyone in it benefits. Small producers can achieve globally competitive pricing on their goods without having to take delivery of truckloads of input materials.
You can do that with Facebook, too. In fact, Facebook does not know and has never known my phone number.

Or rather, I'm sure it does know because my friends have me in their contact lists and shared that with Facebook, but it's not tied to my account in any UI way. I didn't have to opt out because I never even opted in.
If you're looking to compare Bitcoin to something, it should be the (free banking) gold standard (before the Federal Reserve 'changed' it), which was similarly inflexible. In the era of the gold standard , there were depressions, but they were quite brief (usually a few months); there were no great depressions or great recessions
I swear someone took a class in how to write a misleading information package there, because they later claim about goods under 135 GBP being free from VAT... import VAT.

Because two section above they put it under supply VAT.
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I think the rise in BTC is also attributable to the fact that the Fed _hasn't_ been buying BTC, and therefore hasn't artificially propped up its price. The same can't be said for stocks, real estate, or anything else available on equity markets. Couple that with the fact that bitcoin has no 'intrinsic value' and therefore isn't capped at the top or bottom, and you've got an asset that:

1) May survive inflation intact.
2) Cannot really be overpriced (or underpriced) since it is not tied to anything except itself.

This makes for a pretty juicy opportunity for those who don't want to invest in assets the fed has been propping up. Of course there are downsides. The lack of intrinsic value means there is no real price cap at the top... or the bottom. Hence volatility. It can also simply be banned from being purchased with fiat currency.
> It’s open to anyone working for Alphabet (besides, if it works like a typical union, management).

This to me kind of highlights the disconnect of unions in software engineering. In many companies including Google, there are parallel IC and management tracks. There are ICs in leadership positions but just without any reports. Does that mean, e.g. an L7 staff engineer can unionize but not an L5 manager?

And then it leads to me wonder, why can't managers unionize in a typical union? Even at a big old-fashioned manufacturing company with a union, the managers are still individual people who are separate from the company itself. Presumably the reason is that they already have better conditions, they're highly paid, maybe they're already aligned with company itself because they have an ownership stake or some incentive bonus structure. All of those arguments apply to software engineers as well.

This may be a cheesy analogy, but in some ways all software engineers in tech are already effectively the middle managers. They oversee the "assembly line" that generates the revenue for the business, which just happens to be software rather than people.
I've been doing this for years, my back is fine, and I'm 40. Cut this nonsense out.
> at least at the end of the day gold has actual uses

TBF gold doesn't really have uses outside of industrial societies.

Sure it's shiny so you can make pretty out of it (jewelry and other decorations), but for the most part it has properties: it's ridiculously stable, it's easy to work with, and it's rare enough that the supply is rather limited but not so rare that it's essentially nonexistent (unlike the platinum-group metals).

In economies which are static or very slow to grow (aka preindustrial) this makes it a convenient store of value, because it's a slowly but ever-increasing (to the approximation of your supply sinking with a ship) supply.
You'd just have to look at the global gold demand by industry [0].

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...
BTC has no intrinsic use as a commodity; its value is as much on faith as any fiat. Perhaps more so, since it lacks the force of a state to support it and defend its use as a currency.

Sure, some folks purchase narcotics and other folks send money to Venezuela with it, but the vast majority of BTC holdings are playing their part in a multi-level marketing scheme for tech nerds. Every schmo who pumps the price with their fractional purchases pads the value of the whales' holdings.
I love how this comment provides no info, for all we know you're 124!

EDIT: Assange is 49, which makes the GP 48, and the mystery of his age is now solved.
A business that creates garbage content with a business model that almost exclusively relies on another garbage company's ad platform.

I have very little sympathy for companies that run ads in the first place. This just seems like good news to me.
As long as there's not a bias favoring one group in the collection of samples, statistically significant is statistically significant. There's no such statistical thing as a "tool designed for landing pages", but instead tools that compare occurrences in different population.
Facebook is absolutely full to the brim with “crap content”. Crap content happens to be what drives engagement, so hosting crap content is a large part of Facebook’s business model.

You’re speaking with a pretty authoritative tone there as though you’re absolutely sure that Facebook has had a change of heart and only wants to host quality content, and there’s no other reason why the pages were removed. Do you have some sort of proof for that, or are you just speculating? If you’re speculating, don’t you think it would be a good idea to match the tone of your post to your true amount of confidence in what you’re saying, so as not to misinform people who might read your comment?
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> BTC/Gold is probably the best way to store wealth across time on a 10+ year time horizon without losing much "energy".

Bitcoin mining today uses as much electricity as the entirety of Portugal, talk about a lot of energy wasted on something literally useless.
The last paragraph ended up more preachy and patronising than I meant. All I meant was, I've certainly come across code from devs that followed rules too blindly.
They are all incredibly affordable, measured against the benefits to individuals and society.
> Before money we had to barter, which led to the double coincidence of wants problem

this is contested:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-...
Nothing like a reminder of how dependent you've become on Slack for communication (and archival of conversations) like an outage on the Monday after the holidays when you're not on your A-Game yourself.

"Let's see, I'll look up so and so's name with Sla.... shoot"

"Okay, I'll just find that thing I .... nevermind"
They indicate what they are comparing in the smallprint and they do get audited by people like AnandTech or Ars.

So far, every single time, they have been shown to be accurate.
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It's 1/10000th of their global revenues.
And 1/3000th of their US revenues.

Assuming a Zipf distribution for their clients spending, it easily place them in the top 1000 biggest spenders.

I wouldn't call it small.
I don't want to read their content, but why should I (or someone else) get to make the decision of what others choose to read? I see lots of stuff shared on Facebook that I just can't believe people are into, but they are really into it. Good for them for finding enjoyment in it. If I don't want to see that content, I can mute the person to clean up my feed.

If the content doesn't violate any rules and people want to read it, then it has a place. If it does violate rules, then communicate those clearly. Given that, I think that this is most likely not an issue of rules violation but of Facebook not wanting the content on their platform (and not wanting to actually justify that).
Can someone explain why a small union may or may not want to affiliate with a larger union organization?

Did Google workers have other options here?
This website is currently returning 500, so I'm unable to read the article. This is because it is configured as a server-side rendered website, as opposed to a static website which can be delivered by a CDN. I wish people would stop doing this. The core functionality of a web page (including "blog post" type content) should be entirely static assets delivered by a CDN. Auxiliary functionality can be delivered by a server, an the webpage should gracefully degrade when the server breaks down.
I hit this a couple of days ago when helping a friend set up their new DJ decks. The decks only supported FAT32 but would happily read a 128gb USB stick.

The article states that you can format as fat32 from the command line - this wasn't my experience. Disk Util (cli) saw my raw partition and started formatting it as FAT32, but seemed to fail about an hour in saying the disk was too big.

I ended up finding a random abandoned GUI utility which seemed to work, though it's extremely infuriating.
Naaah, Twitter always fails to load for me. It's more surprising if it loads from the first attempt.
I too have been surprised. I'm more surprised about physicians turning it down than nurses. I love nurses, we've got 15 on our payroll, they're kind and wonderfully exceptional people. But they operate heavily under various protocols outlined for them, and while they have more health knowledge than your random person when it comes to the nitty gritty details they are naïve.

The number of nurses who think that the mRNA vaccines permanently alter your DNA would surprise you.

My hope is that after the roll out and the number of serious adverse events is shown to be miniscule, people will be less reluctant to take the vaccine.
SimCity as I knew and loved it is completely dead. The last entry to the franchise was a mobile game released in 2014. I can't see the series being much of a cash cow for EA anymore.
I'm not about to trade off a bank for ledge indexing service. BTC is the digital Tulip craze.
Yes, I also had to go through weighing and getting a receipt (but it was still free), and dropped off the foam right in front of the densifier. I've never been through that transfer station before, it's probably just covid rearrangement.
I'd say that super talented, smart, and ambitious describe a finer gradation of employee than the simple good/bad in the earlier comments. It's just my opinion, but, as in most occupations, you don't have to be the cream of the crop to be a good employee.
I had a look at what shared.com is.
I salute Facebook for banning you and wish for the entire world to permaban you.
The hypothesis is that its value will stabilize eventually. Many are using it as a store of value to resist government induced inflation.
It is – it dates back to 2006. But before 2019, the spec was proprietary and patent-encumbered. And the Linux kernel didn't include a good driver for it until 5.7, released in May of last year[0].

[0]: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.7#New_exFAT_file_system
>Certainly it's not actual use of BTC

You have to drop the idea that scarce/finite assets can, should or need to be used as "currency".

Currencies are necessarily able to be increased in supply easily.

Even though there are debates about the actual description of central banks expanding their balance sheets as literal "money printing", this is mostly a debate about where this liquidity flows. For the wealthy and corporations who can borrow at extremely low rates, of course this means they have access to this "printing" and will then inject this liquidity into assets.

>The gains can be explained by nothing else than mania and speculation.

Sure, sort of.

But finite assets are doing their job if they rise in price (in reference to fiat currency units of account) as fiat quantities increase, and the people who have access to this fiat look for a place to put it.

This is literally the use case of Bitcoin, and so it is absolutely "being used".

But since the expansion of BTC has no flexibility (strict supply schedule regardless of economic conditions or price), unlike gold mining or central bank open market operations, it makes BTC very volatile both on the way up and on the way down.

But long term (so far) it is doing its job (of absorbing expanding fiat liquidity and supply).
#hugops
>Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time

>Bitcoin was less volatile than AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility)

Not sure what you are smoking. Bitcoin literally just went between about 27k and 34k today. That's about a 20% swing.

Ethereum had a 60% swing.

Not volatile at all! Nope, nope, nope not at all.
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Much smaller scale, but I got kicked off Adsense after running for over 10 years. No guidance, no feedback, etc. Even our direct Adsense rep said she had no input with the policy teams. They kept about 1.5mm in revenue.

It is hard being wholly dependent on a large company (Google, Facebook, etc.), but not much choice you have either when riding that wave on their product.
> Slack is still up, just not usable.

I.e., it's down.

(And if you're saying that according to the legal blah blah blah of the SLA that this isn't technically "down", then there might as well not be an SLA.)
Since HTTP GET requests are specified as not having any significant side-effects, I'd blame your app as well.
> Why shouldn't employees expect, and get, better working conditions?

Are employees complaining/concerned about working conditions here?

I'm trying to imagine how Google would be a terrible or dangerous place to work.. especially after working from home for ~10 months now.
Tricks that work for airborne yeasts don't necessarily work for microbes that like digestive tracts.
Not sure I understand you. If most of the US is vaccinated, do you think the US will have to continue lockdown simply because most of Africa hasn’t yet gotten the vaccine? Substitute whatever country you are worried about.

I fully suspect that once the older folks and health care get vaccinated, at some point ICUs will start clearing out and lockdowns will start coming off.
I think one might reasonably say that a company like Google is already stifling with its bureaucracy. The problem is that the existing bureaucracy protects the company and managers and not the workers
This is awesome! I wanted to make something like this too after Mixer shut down and I didn't have good options anymore to stream low latency gameplay to friends. But I was too lazy to do it properly.

I ended up with this hack: https://i.imgur.com/jDeMxly.png

Redirect the "Record" button of obs to make ffmpeg output to an http endpoint, which is a small server that just forwards any bytes it receives to connected consumers. They can then play it back with

ffplay -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -framedrop -strict experimental https://stream.server/lawl

I've found that most of the latency is actually coming from the player. I.e. VLC has way more latency, even if you tell it to not buffer. TCP is a bit of an issue since ffplay doesn't speed up playback when it falls behind, but it mostly works and you can just restart ffplay if you fall behind too far. When it works (good network conditions) it also achieves sub second latency.

Will definitely have to give this a try over my hack.