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What do you mean by "merge" them? Have two employees (more accurately, 4 part-time 29.5-hour employees doing the work of 3 full-time 40-hour employees) share benefits: "You get health insurance this month and I get it next month, you can contribute to your 401k this month and I can next month" kind of thing? Or prohibit you from hiring more than 3 'unnecessary' part-time employees?

I'm abundantly familiar with the sort of antics that are involved. For another example, my wife used to work in childcare. To cover 8 classrooms Monday to Friday from 7:30 to 5:30 with at least one lead and one aide, plus two floaters (900 hours per week) they employed approximately 36 part-time workers (several were high school/college study programs working 16 or 24 hours per week) and no full-time workers. You're suggesting that they should be mandated to instead hire 24 full-time workers and pay benefits?

In actuality, every teacher and aide except the owners used to be mandated to work no more than 29.5 hours per week. You often had short stints of working from after nap time at 2pm to 5:30pm just so that you could make hours (which sucked when she was driving 30 minutes at 16mpg to make $10.75/hour with gas at $4/gallon). Some people got scheduled mornings, some got afternoons, but you didn't dare come in for a full day because then they'd have to give benefits. It was amazing how paranoid and irate the front office would get at 5:31pm when couple parents were late for pick-up and they had to keep staff around for more than their scheduled hours. If anyone hit more than 30 hours, they'd shuffle the schedule so they were no longer working afternoon shifts that might go long, and this was all complicated by frequently requested shift trades among the underpaid and underemployed people involved; you weren't allowed to cover for anyone if you'd gone over 30 hours in any of the previous 4 weeks. And it was a nightmare for anyone who tried to have a second job that might need you between 7:30 and 5:30, you wouldn't know for sure until Friday night what you'd be asked to work Monday morning. And they weren't just turning screws in a factory, this also had negative effects on the kids they were teaching when they'd wake up from nap time to find a relative stranger watching them.

Given the demographic, they much preferred shuffling around colorful magnets on a calendar to spreadsheets or databases, and there was a lot of shuffling indeed. But I'd hate to imagine what it would be like to code an automated time clock for that byzantine system...it would be generous to call it a game.
It wasn't even that their goal was to be a "free speech platform," they existed specifically as a platform for radical conservatives (only).

If they cared about free speech, they wouldn't have aligned with any specific ideology.
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One possible cause of confusion in terms of a hash (#) being called pound (£) in the US was that (as I recall even in the mid-1980s) in many cases with ASCII/EBCDIC character set terminals and printers the same number code displayed as a # in the US but as a £ (pound) in the UK (eg ISO646 vs BS4730, or EBCDIC 297 vs 37).

So when cross-Atlantic conversations occurred the US would hear/read us in the UK refer to (they thought) # by the name pound, when we thought we were describing the actual pound (£) character that we were seeing on our end.
I'd put myself in the "very intrigued by the idea of crypto but extremely skeptical in practice" camp. I do agree with him that it's largely a Ponzi scheme that will absolutely continue its cycle of boom and bust, but his "money" argument feels exceedingly weak.

I very rarely hear the bitcoin crowd claiming anything around bitcoin as money, but more like gold; a store of value that is admittedly difficult to move around. You can't pay your taxes in any asset that isn't money. The government isn't going to take a bar of gold (or if they will, I certainly don't know how to give it to them), and they definitely won't take your Micky Mantle baseball card or Rembrandt painting unless you've gotten so far down the hole that they've got people liquidating those things to wring the money out of them to pay your debt. There are a lot of things that represent monetary value that definitively aren't money and can't be used as such, but that doesn't negate their value.
And also: the dog has to be on a leash, which is a physical link between two objects, one of type 'dog' and one of type 'man' to avoid accidental one-to-many relationships between an instance of 'dog' and multiple instances of 'man' (as in 'mankind'). You are not allowed to put multiple leashes on the same dog. And you are also not allowed to claim that a dog that is sans leash is yours..

Enterprising folks are already offering their dogs for rent.

Insert rust joke about the borrow checker here...

Even more enterprising folks are researching whether walking cats is permitted and whether small rodents can be typecast to the class of 'dog'.
Wish there was something like this for Linux too. Rust system programing on Linux consist of dealing with a dumpster fire of badly implemented and incomplete wrapper crates for the kernel interfaces.
> The true future of free speech is through federated platforms/services similar to how email servers were back 20-25 years ago.

Isn't the whole problem for Parler that no major providers will host their servers? How would federation help? You need a full P2P layer, fully decentralized, routed over Tor to prevent blocking by ISPs.
> Why does this matter? Legally, I don't think it does. I don't see any good reason why AWS shouldn't be allowed to selectively enforce their ToS.

Well, first off, it's not necessarily the case that AWS's contract with Twitter is the same as AWS's contract with Parler.

But more importantly, whether or not a company chooses to enforce violations of contracts with third parties has no bearing on whether it can enforce violation of contract against you. The best you can argue is I think equitable estoppel: by not enforcing it on others, maybe they gave you a reasonable impression that your conduct wasn't violating. But AWS has a clause that says effectively "we don't waive any rights by not enforcing terms against you", and furthermore, AWS and Parler were already in communication about Parler's issues complying with the terms, which destroys any equitable estoppel claim.
My personal opinion: I don't think Parler is about political left vs political right. There are plenty of folks on the political right who also don't want to be associated with QAnon, insurrection, death threats, and the other stuff that went on in the Parler posts. Don't fall into the trap of boxing this just into 50% vs 50%.

The reality of the US is: 33.7% of Americans didn't even vote in 2020, 34% voted "left", 31% voted "right" (the rest of the votes went to third party candidates). Those who voted on the right are further subdivided into even smaller groups. One of those smaller groups on the political right side includes extremists who attacked the capitol.

Distaste for Parler, due to the actions of some of those extremists who were using it actually crossed political boundaries: folks who didn't vote, folks on the "left" and even folks on the "right". The shunning of Parler isn't about "soft power" on the left its about the fact that a small group of people managed to do something so reprehensible that a LOT more than just 50% of people felt that association with them was tainting.
The capitol stuff was organised on Facebook, not Parler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776225

What about the Summer violence from BLM? Dozens of people died, with Twitter being used as a communications hub to attack specific individuals.
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I feel like if some religious nut has to make a gay wedding cake then Amazon has to serve websites for their political enemies. This is a moral statement and not a legal one.
The year Tesla started manufacturing Model 3s got Elon back to the ground from dreaming about special cars, like the new Roadster: to get to a huge company and deliver on sustainability, they have to focus on cheap cars in huge volume, and can't afford many fun projects (except things like Tesla Tequila, that they can mostly outsource :) )
If you switch showdead on you can see for yourself. And if you think that comment passes muster feel free to vouch for it.
Everything should be documented. We have a binder with checklists that walk you through gaining access to everything the other partner might need in the event of death (email accounts, domain registrar, bank and brokerage accounts, auto/home/life insurance, ongoing recurring bills of all sorts). Bitwarden databases are exported to paper, 3 hole punched, and put in the binder on a schedule. Both partners get setup with each other's 2FA OTP tokens. Have options? Agreement goes in the binder. Own real estate? Deeds, land trusts, LLC agreements, etc related to this go in the binder. If in doubt, print it out.

Either one of us can assume responsibility for the entire estate in about an hour or so, the only delay would be a life insurance benefit payout. If you have assets that your partner might not know how to facilitate liquidity for, or when to, pay someone you trust to manage that. Your gift to your family is when you leave the world, they can continue on without fumbling to wrap up loose ends.

https://getyourshittogether.org/checklist/
> I find cryptographic signatures fascinating in that they didn't exist 50 years ago.

Very new, I think you could even say almost all of computer science pre-dates them.
I recall when I first got internet access in the early 90ies, via a text terminal. I had access to both Gopher, and the WWW, via Lynx or some other text-based browser. I thought the WWW stuff looked very disorganized and ugly compared to the more nicely-organized and hierarchical Gopher, and wasn't really sure the 'web' thing would catch on.

I try and keep that in mind when I feel too tempted to get into the predictions game.

I wouldn't get into Bitcoin either, though.
Dell-controlled VMWare is listed under "major sponsors and funders". I wonder if Let's Encrypt got a discount on that server. Good for them!
No, that's not the argument. That argument is that the global bitcoin network is slow as shit, and it would take 5 entire months just to process 140 million US citizens' taxes. Meaning that it's not really viable, unless some technological breakthrough happens.
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They do, and also a physical volume knob that you can find and turn without looking at it.

When I had a rental Renault that had everything on a touchscreen I thought "cool, looks modern!" when I looked at it stationary. And then totally hated it after 5 minutes of driving because it is so much worse to use on the road than the BMW system with actual buttons and the controller you can use blindly.
> while being still allowed to live in air-conditioned palaces in the middle of the desert.

Nobody needs permission to live comfortably where they're at. It is far more sustainable to live in a warm climate, with electric cooling (keeping in mind electricity comes from cleaner sources like nuclear and solar) vs living in a cold climate with gas heating.
I wholeheartedly believe the attack on the capitol is the result of racism and hatred being spewed unchecked on Twitter and Facebook (and other smaller platforms). The loudness and accessibility of it worked to recruit susceptible people building a small group of angry people into a movement.

If anything, the problem is that they weren't deplatformed early enough.
This is crazy, it proves the censorship and corruption runs deeper than just some tech CEOs.
side project != side business.

I have tons of side projects that I have built over the years, without any goal of making money. Just for the hell of it, plenty I'm sure I would have made money if I put in the time to sell/market.
Why invent a new framework when there are plenty of great options available already? React, Vue, Angular and other JS frameworks - just pick one, and expose a REST API on your backend.
> Most of our lab gear is 80s and 90s-vintage gear we've fixed up. You'd be amazed what a little analogue electronics knowledge can do here; people will throw out a device rather than replace the belts or motor brushes. We'll get used and broken gear at a fraction of of the cost of new and certified refurb machinery.

(...)

> BTW, readers, do you think that there is an audience for a blog that talks about the details of rebuilding old equipment like this? I'm not big on video, so it would mostly be long form writing with lots of images

I see a business spin: sell shovels for the upcoming biotech boom. Get equipment on the cheap, fix it, reseller it with a warranty.
You mean, that one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)

Then it would be 90 ms -> 81 ms, not 90 ms -> 9 ms. The way I see it, at least. With proper decimation, 90% of what was there remains. ("removal of a tenth", as wikipedia puts it).
> he was saying that their tech rep at Amazon gave no hints that they were in danger of being shut down

And I wouldn't expect them to do so! They're a tech rep, not a legal rep.
They can't sell ads next to terroristic threats or other forms of extremism. So they would absolutely need to moderate even without political pressure.
I find this to be such an arbitrary standard.

It's a form of visual entertainment no different from visiting the cinema or a theatre; of course one is to pay for it.

They make expenses housing these paintings just as a cinema does, and have the right to charge to recuperate this.

In fact, I see no reason why musea should even be allowed to be non-profit. — is a cinema ever non profit?

There seems to be a rather arbitrary mentality that some entertainment should be free, in particular whatever entertainment “the cultural establishment” has arbitrarily declared to be “intellectual”, often for no other reason than that it's old.

Wishing to see a famous painting with one's own eyes is no different from wanting to see a famous singer perform live. — a man should pay for it if he wish to do so.
I recently bought a Solokey after researching YubiKey alternatives (the usb-c version seemed overpriced).

I assumed your company was much larger than a side project, so great work! I’ve been recommending it to friends.

My only feedback is that I’d love to have some kind of waterproof casing beyond the silicone cover that I could put on it - I keep it on my key ring and living in the UK my pockets do get wet in the rain.
For a big car maker volume and the efficiencies you get from that is a big deal right?

That would seem at odds with a one off limited edition.
What do you mean by "new type"? You can transfer it, you can trade it, you have a known rate of generation. The implementation details don't change anything from the treasury PoV. (Which is mostly about market impact, legality of transfers, etc.)
It's not society not being okay with they are doing that makes it intersting.

It's that the subjects of multiple anti-trust probes and companies known for on the down colluding in the past happened to be the ones pulling the plug.

You can argue it was "everyone" having a problem with it, but keep in mind that the Valley is not "everyone". That's the funny thing about conspiracies. Everyone whose in on it flatly denies it, even when it is obvious.

Not saying there was one mind. Just pointing out that assuming "management in the Valley" who have go/no-go on firing customers equates to "everyone" not being okay with it. It does not build confidence to many when unilateral decisions by execs shape the landscape for everyone else. Also yes, some of that population who aren't okay with that likely buy in to more conspirarial thought as well. Doesn't change the facts of the matter.
Join local interest groups. Even if they're only online. Creative hobbies, foods, sports, religious/philanthropic groups.

Be proactive, even/especially if you're an introvert and it feels awkwardly forward. Most extroverts have already formed their fill of friendships by their 30s so you can't rely on them to initiate anymore. And people are more socially flexible/accepting than you may think, and welcoming of human interaction.

Give more leeway for who you consider "friend" material than you would in younger years. It's easier to find someone who's generally cool to hang out with but only has a couple interests in common, than someone who shares your exact set of interests but is easy to get along with. E.g., neighbors are a good place to start. Even if all you have to talk about is the neighborhood, if they're not a colossal asshole, they'd probably be a cool person to grab a bite to eat with once a month.

Don't plan for attachment. Expect that you might just grab lunch a couple times with someone, and they or you might move, have a kid, turn out to be a colossal asshole, etc., and the friendship drops in priority. If you get really invested early on, you'll get burnt out quickly by this.

Same advice applies to rekindling old friendships. Check back in with people you knew from college who were cool but you lost touch with. Maybe they live in the area and would like to catch up, and maybe they happen to still be a cool person and have a new interest which matches a new interest of yours.
>If what users on, say Twitter say constitute it “saying something” then perhaps it should remove the standard disclaimer of how the opinions expressed thereon are that of their users, and not their own, and be held personally liable for what is posted on there.

Why? Hacker News, or Twitter, can say things for itself, and it can also host other people's opinions. There is no collision there. Twitter has Free Speech rights, and is responsible for, whatever it says itself. Twitter also has the Free Speech right to support, or not, anything it likes since it is in no way quasi-governmental. It doesn't owe anyone a soap box. And there is no reason it should be held liable for what users say, the users who say those things should be held liable.

>When it suit these platforms, they claim that the opinions are of their users and not their own

The law, and common sense as well is clear. Words of their users are not, in fact, theirs. The only thing regular law gives them is protection from not being completely perfect in their attempts at exercising their own Free Speech vs other people on their own property, rather than having to use Common Carrier all-or-nothing. But they could ban whomever they liked regardless.

>yet when it otherwise suit them, they claim ownership.

Specify. They own their own words and their own resources, and necessarily users must offer them at least a limited non-exclusive license for reproduction due to copyright. That is a fair tradeoff offer for what their users gain, and everyone may accept, or not.

Which ones "claim ownership" of other people's words and how? They don't need any ownership for bans, because nobody is entitled to their support.
An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders a fourth of a beer. The bartender stops them, pours two beers and says, “You guys should know your limits.”
Agreed! If the information in this article is even slightly interesting to you, then you owe it to yourself to spend some time with Digital Combat Simulator. In there you can get first-hand experience with the Harrier and the F/A 18 discussed in the article. You will spend a lot of time with the cockpits and start to develop your own affinity for things in the cockpit, and develop your own ideas about what you like and what you don't.

Do a Google Images search for "DCS FA18 cockpit" or "DCS Harrier cockpit" and you'll see that the real life photos are pretty much indistinguishable from the screenshots, if you take the word "DCS" out of the search term. Every switch and gauge are faithfully simulated, and you can use the real-life operating manuals to operate these simulators.

There's a lot of overlap with a lot of the things I love about computer systems. It's fun to learn, and to operate systems, and to feel that feeling of mastery as you gain confidence in making the machines do your bidding. Those types of feelings are much the same (and different) between operating computers and operating aircraft systems. To a large extent these modern planes feels a lot like operating a big flying computer, at least in the simulators. This is also true of things like the Cessna G1000 glass cockpit in Flight Sim 2020.
I'm flabbergasted that MFDs haven't made more inroads in automotive and computer input device applications. We even have decent HUDs in cars now, but no MFDs. I'm convinced a good MFD would be far superior to the typical touchscreen crap - if Tesla had a MFD and a HUD instead of the giant TV screen, I would have bought one by now.
Glenn Greenwald reports that the planning was actually done mostly on Facebook and Youtube, not Parler: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/how-silicon-valley-in-a-sho...
On Tesla cars both motors are physically connected to the gearbox/axles with no clutch. They are doing careful tuning of the motor inverter controls to minimize energy use from motors that aren't under active load. Tesla refers to this as "Torque Sleep"

I imagine the process is basically tuning for the inverter output that minimizes power consumed as well as drag on the axle when the motor is not supplying active torque, or at least supplying less active torque than the other axle.
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> If you disagree with these people, say that to them

That doesn't seem to be working in a post-truth world. Not sure what the solution is, but this isn't nearly enough.
Proper time management, allocate the time and then do it at the allocated time. Don't think about your energy level, it's all mental. Sit in your work area, promise to do nothing else or the work you have decided to do.
This is true with one important exception: you can not refuse business on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.

Refusing business based on political ideology is not only allowed but seems to be encouraged!
I would buy that. Speaking of generalizations, can we just all agree that all HR people are bad people and a pox upon this land?
It was slow compared to similarly priced luxury sport vehicles of the day. Compared to ordinary sedans and the like it was perfectly fine, although obviously far more expensive.

They definitely needed to iterate on the design a few times. The gull wing doors were super cool, but also highly failure prone. The engine desperately needed a turbocharger which was in the works when DMC folded. The electrics were typical British 80s fire hazards. One good thing is that unlike many cars of the era it is not plagued with blistering or peeling paint.
Agreed. But section 230 protection needs to be removed - these social media companies are publishers and should be held responsible for their content.