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I think corporations should get absurdly large.

You know, I’m saying things without substantiating them. No offense, but anti-Corp is cool these days. Virtue signaling without thinking on one’s own.
That's a $1k headphone though.
Many years ago, when I was a little kid in dark 90s,my dad was picking up some cargo from the country's largest dairy company at the time. So we end up walking through the narrow passages of the production line and eventually end up at the account sitting in front of her very modern PC with a vertical screen!It wasn't even tilted,it was made that way! I looked at it and it looked so impressive. It took many years for me to see again someone using a monitor like that.
But they did have a rough patch under Ballmer.
See, this is a classic example. You need BSL3 facilities if you want to have a hundred people have it. But the alternative is 27 million people getting it in planes, boats, and buses - none of which are BSL3. That part is okay.

Quite the example of the asymmetry. If you engage with the problem you have to operate absolutely perfectly. Way better not to engage with it and kill a few hundred thousand people. After all, no one can blame you for that part.

And of course it's not going to get the vaccine 'approved' quicker because yeah, 'approval' is also subject to the same people. But it will let us know if it works and whether it hurts.
They were always busy workers, but used too many buzzwords. The boss was too gossipy, a real queen bee type. They were pretty good at crosspollinating ideas, but the cubicles felt like cells. They liked to keep the workers in the dark most of the time. They did all feel like members of one big family, though.

I know, you're going to downvote me. I have no regrets.
You yourself just said, in this thread:

> A fair comparison would be the data of today in EU with the data from 1 or 2 months ago in those countries (per capita).

Using absolute counts, Switzerland handled the virus better than Germany on many metrics despite losing a larger percentage of its people just because it's smaller. Alternatively, the UK handled it better than the EU if we ignore populations, while India supposedly handled it worse than the EU.

It's silly to do so because the country's handling of the pandemic through policies and societal responses have an impact on the people in that country (or multinational union). They should be measured based on how well they managed to protect their people. I don't really know how to relate to the logic that a less populous country or bloc deserves less criticism even if they hypothetically lose half of their population to a virus, just because they had fewer absolute deaths than a country with a far larger population.
Function should be obvious - the vast majority in fulfillment centers and logistics and customer service.
That's not what national total wealth refers to. It refers to the wealth of all citizens.

> National net wealth, also known as national net worth, is the total sum of the value of a nation's assets minus its liabilities. It refers to the total value of net wealth possessed by the citizens of a nation at a set point in time.

Given that multi-national corporations exist, it seems obvious that companies will have greater wealth than nations.
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The obvious argument is the adage that "If a company's only goal is to grow at any cost it is not a company. It's a cancer."
Secondary item is that a company of this scale has the ends and means to ward off any competitor and eventually set the wages for an industry. Companies scaling to this size is evidence that the taxation system is too lax and allows money to be funneled out of the loop.

Think of it like a pool pump that has sprung a leak. It keeps sucking in but not pupping out into the pool, Amazon is amassing this money by NOT spending it on the economy. Eventually your pool will be stuck at the lowest line of the pump inlet.
Finish what? Where do you draw the line of “work for today”? I don’t think motivated devs want to go home at 2pm.

Speaking as a dev, the best way to motivate me is to give me some head cracking challenge, trust (no reporting) and autonomy (don’t tell me how to do my work).
> "...instructions like prefetch..."

Things like that already exist, e.g. for x86: https://c9x.me/x86/html/file_module_x86_id_252.html

> "...some form of parallelism (so that pipelines can be created with machine code and not just heuristics)..."

Not sure exactly what is meant by this. Either the answer is the hardware already automatically maximizes parallelization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superscalar_processor) or the answer is that there's no way to physically rewire a chip on the fly.

> "...since it is probably easier and better to branch predict in software than in hardware..."

Been tried, doesn't seem to have been that successful IIRC. A cursory Google shows that x86 had (and dropped) branch hint prefixes for instructions and the Cell's SPUs had branch hint instructions as well. Various languages also allow exposing branch prediction hints to the compiler, e.g.: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely
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So by your math the price declined on Tuesday and Wednesday because this is driven by retail investors and they were net sellers?

Or maybe, just maybe, the purchases market makers required to cover those massive call option bets got released when options expired?
That's so foreign to me I just have to ask why.
I'm frankly worried about how the whole Zoomification of education will affect this budding generation. The only thing Zooming can emulate is the lecture experience. Everything else, joking, teasing, playing, running, flirting, passing notes...the quintessential 'kid' experience is lost. Why? Because of a virus that doesn't kill kids. Vaccinate the teachers and get back to how things were.
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It depends heavily on context. I don't think the benefit of sentinels are only rarely encountered; not in my experience. But if you start out with the assumption that sentinels are always worse than pointer+size tuples, either for performance or ergonomics, then you're less likely to conceive of or recognize solutions where sentinels are better.

I tend to agree that occasions when sentinels are the better option are firmly in the minority. Although I'm a little uneasy saying that because it assumes we can construct a singular, meaningful solution space and enumerate occasions where one approach is preferable than the other. IME that's not a very profitable way to approach things. (I want to make a comment about the problematic, fuzzy concept of "string" in computer science and the dynamic of how people conceive of problem and solution spaces in various languages and domains, but that's a rabbit hole I won't be able to climb out of.)
Yeah, I think end of day would be sufficient at least for now.

Maybe someone with more knowledge of the situation will correct me though. I think there can be counterparty risk issues (eg during the 2008 crash) that are removed by immediate clearing/settlement.
I held on to my Q10 for a long time. That feeling of being able to type text with one hand because of the physical keyboard was so awesome. Alas, I finally had to drop it when an application I basically couldn't live without stopped supporting BB platform and I needed the latest version of that App.
Clearly the CEO should have no formal business training, regardless of their prior work.
> Most people have no idea what AWS is

Actually no. Most people I know even not in Tech, know Amazon has this 'cloud' business. Whether they know it is called AWS or not, is different.
a larger organization... like a corporation?
This is from 2020, it's the second month of 2021 right now, maybe try mentioning 2020 in parenthesis of your title.
For some applications, people don't settle for wireless either. Probably mostly for latency or battery issues. I use wireless for listening to podcasts, and wired for playing (performing not recorded) music.
I'm surprised they aren't trying to light all three and then shutting down whatever doesn't light as needed for the landing burn.

Both of the failed landing have looked like propellant flow problems rather than true engine problems but even so I'd love the chance to get it "right" by getting it "wrong" in that the wrong engines fired up but it didn't hit the ground too hard.
> It's fairly well known that above the ~$100 price level, headphone sound quality differences mostly disappear once equalized properly [0].

This depends on your definition of "mostly disappear". If you mean, ignoring, soundstage, imaging, distortion, and other parameters that affect sound, then yes, but even a non-audiophile could easily discern the difference between an open-back vs. a closed-back headphone with identical magnitude response (by your definition, the differences between these two headphones should have mostly disappeared).

From linear signal analysis, magnitude adjustments do not provide enough degrees of freedom (and thus are not sufficient) to transform any response into another response. And this is true for practical sound signals not just theoretical concoctions.

Take a look at any headphone review at rtings.com where they try to capture other parameters in addition to magnitude response. They test for phase response (related to imaging), PRTF (pinna-related transfer function --- related to soundstage), and harmonic distortion. These would not automatically match between headphones that were modified by gain adjustments to have identical magnitude response.
I’ll respectfully ask for more than a hint instead of blindly taking your word as fact. What I need is a source that backs up the statistics you just dropped. Unless of course you pulled both directly out of your rear end.

Go ahead, I’ll wait.
"fund smart people and let them do what they want" - well, that's not exactly how it worked - for example, while Korolov was mostly able to get the resources he needed in the 1950s, in the early 1940s he did his engineering work on bomber design from a prison labor camp (which is a bit far from "let them do what they want" or "give them control") after losing most of his teeth from malnutrition during forced labor in a gold mine. This probably provided a perspective for him of what the limits of "do what you want" are in reality.
I've been using the TD Ameritrade app (formerly "thinkorswim") since 2008, on an iPhone 3G, without issue.
Feel free to email me for further discussion. I have the impression you don't understand my definition of free will compared to your own definition. I will express here that the idea of making a conclusion by the past in history isn't fair or even comparable to what I could argue against people doing under the belief that people have free will. Anyway I'm not convinced by what you've expressed against my views and would appreciate a longer discussion by email if you're up to it. I fundamentally think it's morally wrong to keep someone in the dark from reality by deceiving them about their will or life outcome and especially if that person is homeless or suicidal for example.
> Corporations should never be allowed to get this large.

Countries either. Why did we allow it?
Another thing I find interesting is that Amazon's main business is so common that there's a single word for it: retail. They're just yet another middleman between distributors and consumers. Not long ago, a lot of the business world thought Walmart was the indisputable retail king. Amazon proved there's still room for growth in retail.

Will this simple thing called retail produce yet more trillion dollar companies, or is it running out of gas? Will there be an Amazon killer? History suggests yes.
I dispute that premise. I'd hardly call America "unified" at the present moment; we are in such a state of disunity that many are refusing to accept election results. Pervasive as Amazon, Google, et al. may be, they are still much easier to escape than the United States government.
Cardano is a ghost chain, always behind the curve, and still enjoys a startlingly high market capitalization. It may have been a contender in years past, but not anymore.
“The initial data from Astra and Oxford last month appeared positive but raised concern over how much protection the shot would offer after the trials produced two different results from two dosing regimens. The partners said their vaccine was 90% effective when a half-dose was given before a full-dose booster, and that two full doses showed an efficacy of 62%.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/astra-vac...

Turks also find that the Sinovac vaccine is %91 effective when others reported less.

I guess it depends on the variant, on what do you understand by “protected” or on how much you want it to work.
even if it's only the for the satisfaction of a few people who care, why not? it's not expensive to pardon dead people, and it has few practical consequences.
Driving while on them is safer probably.[1]

[1] https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/news/20140129/drivers-with-ad...
I get it, that I won't really get it, without studying it. But it would be nice, to know what important numbers roughly mean, without that amount of work.
I completely agree with you. I once use JSdoc instead of Typescript for a small project. Typing works as good as Typescript on VS Code.
Being pro too large to fail corps has always been suspicious.
I fear this will only encourage the frankly absurd number of ads that have been on Youtube videos lately.
I think you pass the point of not having to work somewhere prior to 130B net worth.

I'm worried about what happens to Amazon with Bezos gone. A good outcome would be something like Apple and Tim Cook. A bad one would be Microsoft and Ballmer, it will take a while to see which type this ends up being.

Either way losing Bezos as CEO is a bummer.
Maybe I'm just pessimistic but I doubt that will happen until there is a clear existential crisis for humanity.

It will always be a matter of "us vs them" it's just a matter of who is "us" or "them"
A for-profit corporation seems like a terrible candidate for such a position.
Moreover, Politicians are largely corrupt and in pretty much every country, they have a bad rep. Why should they rally up the public to support them?
Books like that should be preserved by the local historical society. Not saying that the library shouldn’t, just that there are often other places to look to find information like this.
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I don't get the comparison here tbh. The valuation of of AMZN is based on assets + future time-discounted dividends. While, those wealth figures for Saudi Arabia are just assets. After all Saudi Aramco, which is mostly state owned, is worth about 1T.
For your reference, these are the issues to subscribe to if you're interested in following the discussion as it's taking place:

https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/12

https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/issues/93
For a long enough voyage that significant language drift may happen, then I think some accommodations for the arts will be necessary, including creating movies or other entertainment. The old Netflix library will become less and less relevant to the voyagers -- how will someone who was born on a ship just like their parents and grandparents find any entertainment in an episode of Seinfeld or Friends when they can't relate to anything in the show?

But by the time such a voyage is possible, content creation will likely be entirely virtual, so wouldn't need much room on the ship.
Anecdotally I have heard that Amazon as a company does delegation very effectively. Individual departments have complete autonomy over their own business decisions, and this applies on the engineering side as well.

I do agree that the shitstorm over warehouse workers, automation, unionization etc. is only going to get a lot worse over the next few years, and Jassy may even find handling that becoming his primary job.
That's a pretty narrow definition of a government. I hardly think that's been the case for most of history and I don't think that's actually the case in the majority of nations to date, even at the surface.
Shure SM58 / SM57 End of Thread.

There are SM58/57 mics being handed down to grandchildren.
I've tried:

Ubuntu Touch
Mobian (phosh)
PostmarketOS (sxmo, phosh)
Manjaro (Phosh, Plasma and Lomiri)

And multiple release versions of each; using multiple different sdcards as well as the on-board memory.

The only OS that doesn't exhibit the reboot/black-screen issues for me is the one used to allow flashing of the device over USB.

The factory test software works, all of the different OS variants; so if there is a hardware issue the factory test software isn't able to detect it. Notably, I've left the test software running without issue.

I've even tried turning off all the hardware dip switches.
The block diagram helped! Great summary. Did some additional readings as I forgot all about PCH and came across south bridge / north bridge which were familiar sounding. As I understand, please correct me, summarizing parts what you wrote. So 16 lanes for GPU and the 4 (usually to PCH), which can be thought of as an extension? I'm not sure the right term but I guess this provides bus sharing through some mechanism so it does not affect the GPU lanes.
And pay. With the discussion in other threads about whether corporations should be able to compete with nations, is Amazon's wealth-distribution better or worse than various nations?
> It's very clear that the users going down with the ship are not the same users who pumped it up for massive profits in the first place.

Same as every pump and dump ever.
Yes, I do believe that's the reason the story was related.
Indeed. These are some of the best vaccines ever invented[1].

Look at the two charts[2] in this paper from the UK's JCVI. They show the number of severe incidents (severe COVID or death). The linear or exponential growth curves are for people on the placebos. The almost flat lines are for people on the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, respectively.

Oh, after just the initial dose, not the booster!

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-par...

[2] https://www.cas.mhra.gov.uk/ViewandAcknowledgment/ViewAttach...
You really think it’s a big factor? I suspect there’s just a very different culture and ethos there.

And Musk also has Tesla (including solar), Open AI, Boring, Neuralink, and lots of tweeting...
If he buys a house in SV, he may end up bankrupt
How does this compare to Guix/Nix?
> However, I don't use a lot of apps from the AppStore

I don't have any from AppStore, besides those that are factory installed and as I wrote previously, after resume from suspend my keyboard and mouse werent' working I was thinking that this macbook just died (and it was only 1 week old).

Thank god I found out that it needed only simple block of notarization server to make this stupid "security" stop usability.

BTW. You could try to see what happens when you are far from WiFi (with poor connectivity) and try to wakup laptop from sleep - the same, keyboard and touchpad don't respond for 1-2 minutes.
As a true lover of the physical keyboard, I tried to love the KeyOne. It was okay; the way the OS handled the screen ratio was a bit wonky, and the camera was pretty lackluster. The device itself was a midranger - it chugged from time to time. Ultimately I sold it because I really wanted a better camera.

As productive as I once was on a BB, I think the physical keyboard days are done.
> Today, we employ 1.3 million talented, dedicated people

All those creating the value. Many of them having poor working conditions and living off social welfare programs. One guy at the top skimming everything. Is he really worth all those billions? Could he survive on a little less and share with those doing the work? Or is his contribution really more than all those million combined..?
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Fair point,I was commenting from European point of view,where tech companies are often invisible,apart from maybe Google or Apple with their ads plastered all over the place.I reckon an average American is more likely to tell what Oracle or AWS is just purely because of the amount of ads they've been exposed to, compared to an average European
Apple and Microsoft are arguably much better off today with their new leaders than they might've been. I don't see your point?

I think Facebook, too, could use a new face at the top as a matter of fact.
Cloud Computing is uniquely an Amazon invention the way smartphones are uniquely an Apple invention.

Which is to say there’s a sense in which you’re right and a sense in which this is an absurd statement..
So Google Cloud is still losing money. Anyone know if Azure is profitable?
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Could also lead to things working other way. People on route would have more static language and the origin with larger population could have more divergent. English already have examples of this type of divergence.
The author wants society to be more compassionate and less exploitative. That's all.

Why?

To make life more enjoyable and less challenging for everybody.

Imagine a world in which the resources of e.g. Facebook were dedicated towards increasing happiness and usefulness through connecting people to sources of emotional satisfaction, rather than increasing shareholder wealth through targeted advertising.

How?

The author doesn't say.

The challenge is to think of an economic system in which vendors can act selfishly but consumers benefit virtuously. One example is the car industry. Before Henry Ford brought mass transit and higher wages to society, individuals had less freedom, fewer choices, and more dependency on feudal overlords.

The problem so far with the digital economy is that it hasn't yielded the same transition in society, at least, not so obviously. In many ways it's the opposite. More engagement leads to more frustration and unhappiness.

The rise of surveillance capitalism is negative for personal development because it is based on an economic model of exploitation i.e. spying to make ads sell more stuff. To change this, advertising would have to change so that the KPI are not just clicks and conversions and blind revenue. The KPI should be consumer satisfaction and personal development, and societal development. That's not impossible. It just hasn't been done yet.