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The Eastern Bloc kind of tried, you can see how it went.

Saying it being a half-success would be a complement.

If a Union's citizen could've choose in between Union's kindergarten, and an American one, he wouldn't need to choose, though some people say daycare wasn't as bad in Western countries of the bloc.

I would still admit, Union's secondary education was a rare somewhat half-success story, and it only looks so good if you compares it to USA, but not so much other Western bloc countries.

China tried mass housing along Union's model, and it failed miserably (though this failure could've probably been called a success by standard of places like California.) It took it to adopt capitalist real estate model to get where it is now, and even today, Beijing has no viable recipe how to house 60% of population that got to stay behind in the industrialisation drive.

The bling-bling Chinese 1st tier cities most Westerners get to see only represent how 5% of China population live, and even they get to house most of its citizens in rather gloomy "bedroom district" type suburbs which most outsiders lauding "Chinese housing model" never see.

The quality of housing in China drops with inverse square root of a distance from nearest 1st tier city, and from downtown to suburb.

> Why haven't we better stardized housing, education, and food to scale?

In other words, some most essential living needs are hardest one to scale, and mostly not for physical, but for social, and organisational reasons.
No because it's not a friendship between two people; it's a working relationship between two entities.

Be thankful you reached an agreement to get paid for work from the company that provides you a living; however, there is no loyalty beyond the work that you promised to do once the contract is signed.

At the end of the day, you are two entities mutually benefiting from a working relationship. Beyond the work, there is no loyalty nor should there be any expectation of one from either side.

The company's purpose is to make money for its stakeholders. If you are a hinderance to that purpose, then you'll be cut. The company won't proactively look for another position for you no matter how many years of experience you have with them or how you stuck up for them to disgruntled workers. They don't hear or care about that. If you can't bring them profit, then you are gone.

Of course, there will be individuals who stick up for you or find a position for you at the company, but that is a human being and not an abstract entity (aka the company).
Well deserved. Just in case you were not aware of the variants of LZ[iv] for dictionary based (or sliding window based) lossless compression -> https://tinyurl.com/y3h76c4j
> with each release the menus and options are becoming more convoluted. But there is a certain consistency across all Apple devices which does make it easy.

Honest question, how do you add more features + abilities to an OS without adding more menus in more places?
The first two are already covered by online banks. People would still need banking even if cryptocurrency somehow got common. Gold would likely not change - there's still trade based around it and currencies are not bound to hold price anymore really.
A pathogen as deadly as the plague and as mysterious or intractable to medicine as the plague was in the 1200's released into a connected world such as ours would have an astonishing impact.
Our family participates all the time in our local Buy Nothing. So far, we’ve obtained: baby toys, instruments, baby clothes, tchotkes for the house, kitchen utensils, and even a hunk of elk meat. And anything we post seems to disappear within moments. It’s saved us literally hundreds of dollars and I can’t recommend it more. I tell my wife all the time that it is maybe the only nice thing I have ever gotten out of Facebook!!
Well Signal has put itself as a high privacy option, we are open, check out our code. Well we can check the client code but we dont know what you are running on the server.

FB, Google etc never claimed to be open source with their infrastructure.

So if WhatsApp cant be trusted as to what happens on the server, right now neither can Signal.

Can Signal show that what they are running on the server is the same as whats on Github? Are we just trusting them because we have been trusting them all along?
We went to Surfaces in my house for a while. They're by and large fine, but Windows 10 is sufficiently painful and hard to use that I'm bringing the family back to macs just to stop having to do so much tech support.
What perplexes me more is not the patents (since they are public information), but the NDAs. They could've kept the underlying technology and manufacturing process patented, while at the same time selling mass quantities of the displays to everyone who wants to buy some and freely publishing all the information on how to drive them (which actually turns out to be not that difficult.) I bet that would actually get them more profit than the situation today.

That has not stopped the more creative and resourceful individuals, however:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14124086

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVZCEuoccE
The amount of energy spent does not depend on number of transactions nor how much is needed to secure the blockchain, it's purely determined by how much miners are willing to spend, which is mostly determined by the bitcoin price. So, if you would expect the amount of energy spent on mining to scale with any variable, it would be trading price and price alone.
The fish rots from the head.

They need to terminate the CEO and everyone else who has been involved in firing the employee in question. It is not that the CEO was not informed about that kind of "action" and did not decide not to overrule it.
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I predict more and more blockchains in the future won't have extraneous speculative tokens (like ETH) since BTC has remained dominant for more than a decade. There are simply less and less reasons to buy or hold ETH when sidechains like Rootstock replicate the technology used on Ethereum...but without needing to use another less dominant less liquid asset.
>In the long term, Bitcoin mining accelerates the development of abundant and cheap energy, which is not fossil fuels.

It incentivises stealing electricity because you can't beat free.
I don't know if I'd read that much into it. It's possible that the employee was asked to resign for severance instead of getting fired outright, and Github just wants to make sure they're being accurate. After all, the rest of the post makes it pretty clear they acknowledge their mistake.
Are you sure about that? Chinese phones use Chine app stores because Google products are banned in China, but outside of China 99% of apps are installed through the Play Store.

Why would iOS be any different?
previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25812655
Absolutely unfortunate situation but quite pleased with how GitHub has promptly responded to this situation.
IOT - so if she uses some chipped sneaker to count steps, she is in violation. Now that is a law that nobody can follow in modern times.
Ring a door bell at a neighbour - you are in violation.
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Let me get this straight: A Github employee used the them "Nazi" in an appropriate context. Other employees, who many not be targets of Nazis, took "offense" at this, and got this employee fired.

I'd say that Microsoft should fire all of GitHub management for this -- as well as the other employees who stirred the pot.
The Verge seems to, again, not be an unbiased news source.

The religion of the employee being fired does not seem to actually be part of the story, just an interesting bit of irony being hyped up to sell the story: he was fired for saying Nazi, and Github's HR is not above the mistakes of any other HR, as in, following policy with zero tolerance.

Most likely, in the employee contract, there is a list of words they may not utter while employed. On that list, most likely, is either "Nazi" directly, or "any terms that would be associated with white nationalism" indirectly.

This is independent of the employee being Jewish, or there actually being Nazis at the rally (there were, this doesn't seem to be up for debate).

The reason I mention these very important distinction is I've seen language by others elsewhere online claiming, somehow, Github has become part of the MAGA bullshit storm. It hasn't, Github made a typical HR mistake at a very inopportune time: don't make this some political argument to score fictional points in a game that has no rules.

The whole thing just sounds bizarre, and I don't think the whole story is being told, or will ever be told.
Doesn't matter that he's Jewish. You shouldn't get fired for this.

These censorious companies are way too sensitive for this. I don't get how these are the same people who promote entrepreneurship and taking huge risks in business and tech but the second someone says a word that hurts their feelings they should be fired.
I agree with your comment, I don't think we say different things. In particular, cherry-picking something you said:

> The economics of a few people developing high performance languages that everyone can use just makes too much sense

I agree: high performance is the job of a _few_ people. It doesn't hurt to know basics for it for everybody else, but even then... that's just one area out of many a dev could dive into. Maybe security or virtualisation or OS programming or whatever would be just as useful or more. My point is that we can't pick a random subfield of software engineering and say "everybody should be skilled at that"
This depends on the service supporting it though, and not all of them do (e.g. AWS).
Interesting idea but is your site curated for some items or just 100% autogenerated/crowd sourced? For example, you have listed the Thinkpad X220 which is a 10 year old laptop. Furthermore I also noticed the Magic mouse and is that really considered buy it for life(in terms of repairable)? Speaking as someone who has purchased and accidentally destroyed multiple Magic Keyboards by liquid spills, I love their products but would never consider them "buy it for life" from a repair perspective.
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If someone figures out a way to do it, then sure. Mining ensures that no one in the system is able to get a new monetary unit below the market price as well as making tampering with past transactions uneconomical. Ultimately it's a very elegant solution to what was a long-standing problem.

The system pays for itself via transaction fees, which are used to "lock" the transaction history in a completely decentralised way.
Wasn't there a similar, but different euphemism used in the Google vs the histrionic AI researcher? I try to remember, but can't. Yet.
> Ye quite worthless graphs without explaination. Also the sentiment and the amount of comments should just be two lines not colorcoded bars. xyy-plot.

You can kind of infer that blue means bad and yellow means good with some background info:

Facebook: yellower > quote bluer, starting around 2017 (coincides with a lot of criticism of disinformation spreading there/Cambridge Analytica).

MSFT: bluer -> yellower, guessing this is linked to them being less hostile to open source, etc.

Amazon: yellower -> quite bluer

Google: yellower -> bluer

> How do you even measure sentiment? The amount of curse words?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
You may have missed the fact that bitcoin went up in price by a lot recently. Whenever that happens, bitcoin mining usually becomes a lot more attractive for a while.
I agree that it's a weird detail to include, but the alternative would be:

"GitHub admits fault in firing of employee who said 'Nazi'"

...which, while true, would give people a negative impression of the employee if they only read the headline.

It's also meaningful that he is Jewish and asked his coworkers to beware of Nazis because he has more reason than a non-Jewish person to be afraid of Nazis.
Id be very surprised if that was in the employee contract
"forcing evil-mode"?! Spacemacs asks if you want to use "evil", "holy", or "hybrid" mode early in the process.
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>100% Nazis were there

That's great that github acknowledges that employees are free to talk about their concerns of bigotry, but calling everyone outside of your party a nazi is just as bigoted. Tone it down.
It is a bit odd that we don't know whats running on Signals server. We are just trusting them not to do wrong at the moment because they arent WhatsApp.
This all highlights is a lot of choices and “do this don’t do that” kind of things I don’t like about the Linux Desktop environment, I don’t want to think about these kinds of things in my usage of a desktop. It’s a summation of everything I find lacking in the Linux desktop community
It seems that a single employee took offense at it, while hundreds of other employees spoke in support of the man who was fired.
Alpine is great as a docker _host_ too.
For the past several years, my experience of Instagram (as a non-user) has been that occasionally I'll click on a link that leads there, and I'm met with a page that asks me to attach a phone number to my account. There is no option to log out (it seems to be an evercookie) and no option to refuse. So I leave, not willing to give them a phone number and not wanting to bother with an incognito window. If it's important, I'll ask the person who posted the link to repost the content somewhere else.
Agree or disagree with him, it's refreshing to see a CEO taking a direct and absolute stance on a subject like this and not some wishy washy corporate doublespeak.
> It should be pretty easy to tell what ratio of hits had JS disabled. If it’s more than a tiny minority, I’d do something.

You can't expect normal people to browse with JS disabled, because by definition of "normal" they have not enough technical knowledge to do it, and to deal with the issues it causes on the modern web.

> I have plenty of things to talk to users about without getting them into whatever this is

This is the real answer to the question, "why is my computer so slow"? Regular people still mostly think "it's viruses", but it's not viruses - just web developers making websites with no consideration of end-user performance.

> If you want to persuade developers to do things differently, bad mouthing their tech choices is a really bad strategy.

I think this is a viable (even if not most efficient) strategy, because the current standard practice came from praising these choices. Counterbalancing the cargo cult through pointing out the trade-offs being implicitly made is a good idea, IMO.
Super interesting thought. Seems like it would make a good book. Something like Sapiens, looking through history but with a focus on why nation states arose and fell, and then extrapolating. The EU is a great modern case study. The topic of [Federation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation) is a good starting point to, because to get to world like that would involve several steps of federation, or some all-encompassing treaties.
I’d use it for sure! Price of wood is ridiculous
A yubikey doesn't replace a password.
This is a worthwhile read and a great breakdown: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/12/psychopathy-origins-totali...
I might not agree what you have to say, but I’ll defend your legal right to say it; consistent with Supreme Court rulings and doctrines.

I won’t defend you creating a discriminative or hostile atmosphere at work, partly because I just don’t want to deal with political topics at work.
His "doom-style engine" video is closer to BUILD than DOOM - it recursively chases through convex sectors rather than using a BSP tree.

I particularly love his older stuff, where the tech choices were just plain _weird_ because that's all he had lying around and needed to make stuff work.
I just tried it with no issues. Maybe they meant to sign up and use it as a developer you have to have something traceable by the CCP?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25810942
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ok, but I can't help but think there must be some relatively negligible energy cost per transaction that nonetheless might be not so negligible when total number of transactions added together - what that energy cost is I wouldn't be able to say.
This whole situation is a great example of why you should avoid politics / politically charged statements in the workplace all around. No one's mind about anything was fundamentally changed. People got upset and stressed out and wasted a bunch of time. People had their employment status impacted. It was just an overall negative episode. When people say something that is problematic or borderline, the response should be "end the thread" and everyone moves on with their work.
I'll never install Windows 10, went from dual boot (Win7+Linux) to full Linux system + VirtualBox with Win7 because some of my work softwares won't play along with Wine.
I don't think to change in the nearest future, everytime I open a tech site, it always has news about bugs and problems with the "new" update. Use your time with useful things, not solving around stupid bugs, installing and uninstalling stuff just because Microsoft doesn't care about their customers being betatesters.
"Unfortunately, choosing a Linux configuration good for a certain purpose and for certain hardware frequently requires either a lot of experience or the wasting of much time with trying various variants."

This is why I stay with windows for my dev machines and either use WSL or ssh to a linux box. All my machines at home have WSL2 installed and I use it as my default shell, I never open powershell/cmd, they may as well not be on my machine, for all my development needs and use all the linux tools that I would be using if I was on a native linux desktop.

I can be up and running on a windows dev machine in the time it takes me to download VScode and open it, or I can spend weeks trying to get a linux environment to the same place. With my setup I still have all my linux toolset that I would use on a linux desktop, but I don't have to contend with all the issues of getting a linux desktop environment running.

I have run into all the same problems as the parent of this and more, I have tried different desktop environments including Gnome, KDE, Mate, Cinnaman, and XFCE. I have moved between xorg and wayland more times then I care to count, each ended up giving a different set of problems.

At the end of the day, I want to spend my time being productive and getting work done, not fighting with my OS to get the basics running. I love linux but it's just not ready to replace windows on the desktop.
No, it truly is completely independent.
To your point, some farms will swap the coin they are mining in real time on the fly (given some baking period to see a real price difference) based on profitability and are continually selling on exchanges to capture current rate.
Yep. WW2 legacy resulted in two major additions to the foundations of new Germany: spying on citizens is highly regulated, freedom of speech does not exist for certain types of speech.
Second yubikey ;)
From some long-ago SIGGRAPH presentations, I recall it as "Physically Based Rendering Toolkit".
>They are each respectively at the top of their hash domains

This doesn't matter much for ETH because its mining algorithm dissuades ASIC production. So there are some (large) number of GPUs out in the world not mining ETH that can in theory be used to attack Ethereum. The same can't really be said for Bitcoin because ASICs serve no other purpose besides mining.
Docker and occasionally periodic sluggishness that includes my pointer skipping on some websites. Also, despite a faster CPU and an SSD at only 14% utilization things like emacs and Sublime seem more sluggish in terms of I/O.

I would probably benefit from a reinstall of Big Sur: this machine has gone through 3 OS upgrades.

What I really appreciate on Linux tho is workspace ordering and switching. Which I don’t think you can customize to the degree you can on Linux anymore in Big Sur.
Is it not ironic that democrats are pro union and pro immigration? Unions are extraordinarily anti immigration. Yet here we are...
> You could increase the block size

It's not that simple. As I recall the last time a block size change was proposed it fractured the entire community and produced a splinter "currency".
You don't but any good password manager should have an option to migrate away from it quickly.
Did the fired employee do this?
Even if Bitcoin only gets to be the reserve currency of all digital currencies in the future, the petrodollar that oils the defi machinery, that's enough of a use case to drive valuation.

People like to ask Bitcoin investors if they really think it will be the last and optimal digital currency. And no, that's not likely. But that reasoning must be applied to each and every other coin as well, including Ethereum, and that is doubly likely for them. One could easily imagine a future coin that does what they do, only better.
What specifically does it point to, though? I don't see what would have been different here if the employee were a gentile.
It felt a bit like doublespeak when the author claimed ETH was more vulnerable to a 51% attack because it (intentionally) aims to make ASIC mining difficult — the whole point of making ASIC mining difficult is that Bitcoin is centralized and vulnerable to 51% attacks because there are very few miners (because capital expenditure to become a miner is high). If the few miners collaborate to cheat you, they can get away with it.

That being said, it's not even true anymore that ETH is GPU-only; despite attempting ASIC-resistance, there are now ASIC miners for ETH too, although unlike with Bitcoin, Ethereum is still able to be mined with GPUs.

The complaints that ETH has little real-world utility and is mostly speculation-driven felt similarly nonsensical compared to Bitcoin. What real-world utility does Bitcoin have? The whole thing is HODL-driven speculation on an inherently-useless deflationary asset.

(Unlike the author, who claims to have no stake in the debate a breath before admitting he's long BTC and doesn't own ETH — by definition, a stake — I truly have no stake in this debate, and currently own neither BTC nor ETH.)
How is it that an SDR is being praised for a $1K price-point, but I can buy an FM/AM radio for single-digit $ - yet I pay $1,000 for a cell phone today and it doesnt have a native FM/AM radio on it?

People keep saying "just use data" - which is what I think to be a fn bullshit response. give me a device that has actual FM/AM capabilities natively.

Seriously - the most high-tech wireless device in my pocket MUST include the *least* complex wifi capabilities which is over 100 years old by *DEFAULT*

Assume you are out if signal range - there are FEW places out of FM/AM range...
Lots of typos and grammatical problems in the text make it untrustworthy for me. Plus, using "FB Groups" does not seem like a good idea as it alienates people who don't have a FB account or those who don't want to join groups out of privacy concerns.
Notions of "convergent evolution" and "degrees of freedom" fatally undermine your argument.

Culture has overwhelmingly more degrees of freedom than biology, which is constrained by needs to survive and also reproduce. Culture can sustain things like Scientology, Anime, and Froot Loops, in some places even simultaneously. Similarly, convergent evolution occurs only where environmental forces, such as a precise ecological niche, drive development into a very narrow range of possibilities with radically limited degrees of freedom.

In the total absence of any such constraints, the only viable explanation for detailed similarity across vast distances and dizzying time spans is common heritage.
Instead of character attacking him, can you present real arguments backed by data? This line of argumentation is not constructive.