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We use Discord exclusively at my day job.

We have a few bots we've integrated with things (deployment, stats, etc).

We use it for all our voice/video calls.

Edit: We've got roles setup well for things like contractors, devs, marketing, etc, so it's easy to lock down different conversations in channels.

It's been fantastic.

The only thing I'm not a huge fan of is the (IMO) poor implementation of threaded discussions.

Edit: it definitely has issues with connectivity from time-to-time too, but not bad overall.

TBH, I'm not sure why companies use Slack (I use it for other organizations, so have experience with it too, but not extensive).
Makes you wonder, though, to what extent there are market opportunities in identifying weak product chains like that, preparing to look like a viable alternative, and then staging a marketing campaign based on drawing public attention to the risk and pushing demand for second source contracts.
Hence the keyword "trying".
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Who is buying your influence in 2021?
The highway near my house runs at 70 and goes up to 80 in parts. Grants are conditional but also optional and that matters.

In general yes, the Fed does have an important part in what are basically non-capitalist practices - foodstamps, WIC, social security, etc etc. There are also state programs that are non-fed and also occupy a similar role.

None of that disagrees with the basic assertion - the Fed does not fund states general revenue. States are supposed to manage their own budgets and collect their own income. The fed is not an endless income stream.

Nobody is saying the fed shouldn't assist states with the vaccine. The states shouldn't however be entirely dependent on the fed for that help - they are supposed to be functional on their own. If the state is not functional without the fed then the state has screwed up.
Why open yourself up to a lawsuit though? If you say something that can't be solidly proven now you have to deal with lawyers
That's my point - the thing that makes bitcoin "scarce" is not that there is a fundamental limit to the number of bitcoin-like tokens that exist, it's just that there's inertia against creating more.

I don't mean "if we collectively wanted to" to suggest that people will just up and choose to do so tomorrow, only to say that it's that lack of collective will, rather than true scarcity, that restricts the number of bitcoins.
HA! I was thinking the same thing. Sorry such a late response.

In the situation of the movie though... it would get really complicated real fast.

But yes, specific instances. Though its not like the cops can say 11:59am. Nope next case is for 12:00pm. And now another case for 12:01pm. This is where the judge's judgement will be used.

I'm sure in the exact scenario of the movie this will end up in the supreme court.
Those graphs are really misleading. All of the services look severly affected [0], though the number of reports differs significantly from service to service.

Slack: 16167 reports.
Zoom: 224 reports.
Google: 220 reports.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/KeIlwuV.png
Over the course of the last year I have been working on building a personal zettlekasten. I started in Notion, making several relational databases. However, after experiencing some down time, I decided to switch to Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/) it's a much, much better program, does not have slowdown issues on my mac, is fully cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and has a sync system that works pretty seamlessly. Not to mention that the files are all plain markdown and stored locally.
Does it? Don't you think their users might be leaning on it more heavily this year due to working from home?
It does yes. This is why for example message history data export is a paid feature. Its a requirement for certain types of compliance.
Probably due to their build bots and employees not being able to communicate through Slack..

( joking, but.. )
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> Everybody is an entrepreneur. If you have nothing, you sell your body and work hours. But that's just a contract like every other contract.

This is a fake world. In the real world there is history, capital and labor, and politics which is an expression of the unavoidable, built-in antagonism between the two. We don't all own an equal share of the means of production and just sit around issuing contracts to each other all day.

Do you understand that the econ 101 libertarian world of homo economicus rational agents is fake and we live instead in the real world with its institutions and conflicts?
semi-related: The origin of the word "dither" as explained by this wonderful little wikipedia page[1] is worth reading about.

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I forget the exact keybind but in Cities Skylines you can just give yourself a bunch of money and just play
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More people trading it.

Less liquid investments tend to be a lot more volatile, because there are fewer people with orders in the order book and fewer people paying attention to take advantage of market inefficiencies. With some altcoins you can cause a 10x increase in price with a few thousand dollars. Why? Because with a few thousand dollars, you've bought up all the supply in the order book, become the monopoly provider, and can name your price for anyone that comes around after you wanting to buy.

With more participants, there's going to be someone out there that undercuts your 10x ask and offers a more reasonable price.

For the statistically inclined, you could look at this as an application of the central limit theorem. One random variable (the price you're asking for an asset) could be all over the place. A million random variables (each a market participant) added together tend toward a normal distribution with the sample mean converging to the population mean.
"black start" for GCP would be something to see. Since the global root keys for Cloud KMS are kept on physical encrypted keys locked safes, accessible to only a few core personnel, that would be interesting, akin to a missile silo launch.
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People have created hundreds of “bitcoin-like” tokens. Go look at coinmarketcap.com. They aren’t fungible with Bitcoin though. It seems Bitcoin has maintained much higher demand due to its first mover advantage and network effects. The other coins don’t seem to offer a compelling reason to pay the very high costs of having everyone switch over.

I think it is sort of similar to why gold stands alone among the precious metals as the biggest one that people hold onto purely as a token.

I don’t really know what the long term picture is though. Or whether Bitcoin and friends are a “good thing” at all.
Hes afforded almost no whistleblower protections since he was a contractor.

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2016/09/busting-myth-of-whistl...

The espionage act under which he'd be charged doesn't allow a public good defense to be used in court.

https://www.justiceinitiative.org/voices/why-snowden-won-t-g...

What you're asking for structurally can't happen in the US legal system.
I use this and it's amazing. There's also another visualizer program by the same person to do custom visualizers that works on the RGB stuff in your case, connecting to RGB over a network port.

https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/KeyboardVisualizer

I had a great time pointing my camera at my computer for a meeting, and letting everyone realize their voice was controlling the RGB (with a slight delay for zoom of course).

I'm even thinking about making my own visualizer to do things like show me my kubernetes cluster health on my RGB :)

One thing to note, the corsair RGB fans and strips can be tricky - you have to tell it how many LEDs are on each strip manually, and otherwise it will just look all black and won't warn you. That was a couple hours of debugging there!
Late 2300s were the golden years for Starfleet and the Federation. Sad to see they went downhill later on.
> You'd have to convince the whole ecosystem - miners, exchanges, wallets, buyers, sellers, etc. - to switch over. It's the same network effect that protects Microsoft or Google or Facebook or even Nike: changing peoples' behavior is hard, and in general beyond the resources of new entrants unless the incumbent really screws up.

Quite a few projects have tried exactly this, and none of them have succeeded. What makes you think your attempt would succeed?
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The Prius Effect, but for cloud costs
I spent so many hours on Pharaoh and Cleopatra growing up.

There was a game released in 2015 very similar to these style games called Lethis: Path of Progress. I never got into it, but maybe other fans of Sierra games will

https://store.steampowered.com/app/359230/Lethis__Path_of_Pr...
> I think the big things that prevent it from being adopted more for professional use is the lack of a threading model

They do have a threading model now (if you are talking about replying to a message in a channel and having your reply clearly show what you are responding to). If you are talking about 1-on-1 chats with other people in your same server then yes, that is still lacking IMHO in discord. The whole "you have to be friends" to start a chat (or maybe that's just for a on-the-fly group) is annoying.
Here is the list of services that we use https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/tech-stack/

This includes many proprietary ones, we generally choose the product that will work best for us, considering the benefits of open source, but not excluding proprietary software.

Mattermost is not part of the single application that GitLab is. There is a good integration between with GitLab and our Omnibus installer allows you to easily install it. But it is a separate application from a separate company.
PACE = Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency

If you haven't been able to justify testing your PACE plan with your bosses lately, now's a great time to go ask again.
A state of art network like GPT-3 fails to appeal to human emotions
and sounds artificial, so as a wedge-issue(the actual term for thing like 'Shiri Scissors') generator it wouldn't produce anything on
the scale of human trolls(who actually understand psychology), besides the reputation of new user posting
auto-generated trolling content will not be taken as seriously.
A real troll would construct a narrative that is believable and appealing to a wide audience, without any controversial content:
the controversy would comes from implications and analysis of statements in detail,
i.e. the 'obviously controversial' parts are bad trolling
that would detract from the position advanced:
An AI trained to produce controversial content wouldn't understand
such subtlety and produce directly inflammatory content.
> each person needs 2 doses

That's not quite true. You need 2 for full effectiveness, but it's not like missing the second dose leaves you with no benefit at all. In fact, it's far from clear, from a global perspective, that having twice as many people with less-than-full-effectiveness would not better than half as many people with full effectiveness.
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Its a fair view to have, but Microstrategy did disclose the plan to shareholders and offered to buy them out with a premium to the market before buying. So you had the chance to get out if you didn't agree with the decision.
I continue to be impressed by GitLab's operations and documentation! While, yes, others may have similar backup plans, as an outsider, it feels like GitLab's handbook seems cooler even if only for their publishing, and making public of their practices and processes. I'll caveat that I'm not really a fan of zoom/slack/hangouts (I'm an unashamed fanboy of matrix and its numerous clients), but gitlab's approach is still really neat! Kudos to gitlab!
I believe USD printing would 'deflate' your savings. But English as a third language so maybe I'm wrong...
In what companies?
which tool did they use to communicate during the outage?
Display technology has historically improved/changed at a slower rate than signal generation technology. Additionally display technology was significantly higher and slower to decrease cost than most signal generators such as VCRs/DVRs/game consoles/etc. Thus beyond minor commodity signal generation such as a TV receiver it makes sense to separate the two at a component level.

This user behavior has been guided by two past trends: A. in the transition from analog to digital TV signals many display makers separated the TV receiver function; B. by the time makers integrated VCRs the world had moved on to DVD which made the integrated VCR a waste product that could not be disposed of without refreshing the display.

Are the signal generation components of "Smart TVs" similar to the analog TV tuner, slow to change and nearly always needed, or are they like the VCR which was integrated right at a signal generator change?

On the other hand, I suspect that displays are adding more general computing for the purpose of scaling, color representations, decryption, etc even without the components that provide "smart" functions. As a result scaling them to include smart functions as software functions is low hanging fruit. I wonder if display computation architecture is common enough to support a user/hobbyist controlled OS.

http://linuxgizmos.com/linux-continues-advance-in-smart-tv-m...
The only really effective way to change someone's mind is to make them believe they came up with the conclusions themselves
LOL! Nice, yeah mine is directly related to Slack being down. A lot of text messages right now.
Before the establishment of the Fed in 1913, you had the Panic of 1893, which caused a depression until ~1897; before that the Depression of 1882-1885; and before that the Long Depression of 1873 to ~1878.
Cities Skylines has an infinite money checkbox if I recall correctly. You'll still have to properly design the city so the people move there and build but game money won't be an obstacle.

Edit: found it, it is the built-in unlimited money mod https://steamcommunity.com/app/255710/discussions/0/61170136...
Where to? Off planet seems to be the only place where the US doesn't have its fingers in.
I don't think he was making a value judgment. These are just groups of people Facebook is actively trying to keep off their site. His point is that his companies aren't part of those groups. Based on quick (not even remotely thorough) look at shared.com, I tend to agree. It's just a bunch of buzzfeed-level listicles, but I didn't find anything scammy or harmful.

Perhaps Facebook is trying to raise the "quality" of what is shared on their platform (not just the ethics), but if that is the case I haven't heard anything about it. Facebook is absolutely stuffed to the gills with this kind of commodity-grade filler content.

Based on what he posted, my guess is that the author delegated too much editorial control in his mini media empire and one of the sites in his network published some pretty objectionable content. If I were a betting man, I'd say it was COVID/vaccine related.
There may well have been a bigger delta in usage from Sunday Jan 3 to Monday Jan 4 2021, than for any particular pair of days in March-April 2020.

Of course 2020 saw an increase, but it was smeared over a week or a month rather than being a big jump in a single day after everyone's holidays.
The problem with these conspiracy theory is it stirs up the pre conceived notion that the big evil CCP can kidnap anyone, and people will generally remember it. but when Jack Ma eventually shows up there isn't going to be another story that clears up the conspiracy so people are left with this false idea but based on inaccurate events.

I've seen the west do this countless times with their reporting on China, make up a piece without any evidence, but later when the story is proven false, nothing is said.
I don't follow. You're saying that America has always been this way, yet the problem is not the system itself, but the specific people in power today?
It's just due diligence. Think of what you have access to if you have "god mode" on corporate chat: HR, the CFO's DMs, private messages between other coworkers, and so on. Most won't fall for this temptation, but even those with strong anti-spying morals can be weakened by circumstances. Best to remove the temptation by design.
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This was going to be my question too basically.

Hoping to see OP answer this and in particular what I would like to see them comment on is how they divide their codebase between these two languages. Which parts are being implemented in which of those languages and why.

Personally a huge proponent of Rust.
> It's fascinating how people assign value to an asset created out of nothing that will never show revenue.

The USD is created out of nothing currently and does not show revenue (if anything, the US government only creates massive debts that will have to be paid in the future thru massive taxes hikes, or inflation, or both). The only reason why the USD has any value is because it's the single piece of paper that is authorized as a currency in the US, and that people 'trust' it somehow (especially outside of the US). The day the trust is gone, it will be worth absolutely nothing.
It is “right-sized” if it happens so rarely that it realistically causes no problems.