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> Capitalism has lifted far more people out of poverty than charity. Its not even close.

This is not the argument. Islam does not prohibit all capitalistic practices, as a matter of fact, it's generally pro free market. All it does is it places some boundaries on unethical, immoral, and parasitic practices. Interest is one of those prohibited things. Everything else that is not prohibited goes. Furthermore, Islam pushes people to work and to be self sufficient and not rely on charity. https://sunnah.com/riyadussalihin:296

> Society should not remain poor and underdeveloped just to adhere to your religious beliefs

Strawman argument. The Islamic world during the Islamic Golden Age was prosperous and ahead of everyone in all facets of life, while the rest of the world was in the so called Dark Ages.

> Instead of being paid in cash, the lender is paid in equity that ideally becomes more valuable than the original loan amount.

The difference is in the contract. In an interest bearing loan, the lender is contractually owed a profit. This is not the case in a proper risk sharing model, where the investor is willing to accept a loss. Risk is shared proportionally among both parties. A borrower who defaults will have the lender come after him not just for the principal, but also for the accrued interest, with the full support of the law.

Incidentally, the Quran addresses your very claim that interest is the same as trade: https://quran.com/2/275.

It is very clear that interest is *not* the same as trading and ethical investments.

Renting a house or car is not an interest bearing transaction as I explain in another post here. One main difference is that a rented asset is consumed (e.g. subject to wear and tear), whereas "rented" money isn't. And since you're asking, yes I didn't take on a mortgage, nor opened a savings account (to be fair, the bank opened one for me, and I had to contact them repeatedly to close it).

Furthermore, we have narrations that there will come a time where even people who do not consume interest will be affected by it. We live in those times today, even dealing with fiat currency causes individuals to be affected by interest because it's money printed at will to cover the government's debts:

* https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/12/142

* https://sunnah.com/mishkat:2818

> I'm still waiting for the name of a society that operated without debt or interest.

All throughout Islamic history until the fall of the Ottoman empire and the subsequent colonization by the West, which pushed its financial institutions in Arabia.
The solution isn't to (a) ignore the technical proposal and ignore the context, or (b) to ignore the context, and only focus on the technical proposal.

The problem is that nobody is bringing these two together. Don't just focus on context without reading the actual proposal. Your comment says nothing about the technical proposal.
That makes sense, I'd try it before rolling my own. If I do charge, it'll be a recurring subscription.

I found it! Look at the end of this post. I submitted the form but didn't hear back though. If you find anything let me know, I'd love to connect with fellow extension builders.

https://blog.lipsurf.com/part-ii-after-3-years-of-work-chrom...
It was way before microservices, etc.

It was not way before microservices at Google. But it was before there was much general knowledge about them.

Sadly the internal lessons learned by Google have not seeped into the outside world. Here are examples.

1. What I just said about how to make requests traceable through the whole system without excess load.

2. Every service should keep statistics and respond at a standard URL. Build a monitoring system which has scrapes of that operational data as a major input.

3. Your alerting system should supports rules like, "Don't fire alert X if alert Y is already firing." That is, if you're failing to save data, don't bother waking up the SRE for every service that is failing because you have a backend data problem. Send them an email for the morning, but don't page people who can't do anything useful anyways.

4. Every service stood up in multiple data centers with transparent failover. At Google the rule was n+2/n+1. Meaning that your service had to globally be in at least 2 more data centers than it needed for normal load, and in every region it had to be in at least one extra data center. With the result that if any data center goes out, no service should be interrupted, and if any 2 data centers go out the only externally visible consequence should be that requests might get slow.

Now compare that to what people usually do with Docker and Kubernetes. I just have to shake my head. They're buzzword compliant but are failing to do any of what they need to do make a distributed system operationally tractable. And then people wonder why their "scalable system" regularly falls over and nobody can fix it.
Great read. I wonder if the make -j modification wasn’t scaling things across all cores because it was using the physical core count (number of cores) versus the logical core count (number of core threads).

Or perhaps the code wasn’t modified to spread the work across all processor core groups (a Windows thing to support more than 64 logical cores).

https://bitsum.com/general/the-64-core-threshold-processor-g...
This is similar to Numpy. You operate on Python objects that describe the Numpy structure, but the actual memory is stored in C objects, not Python objects.
Can that conclusion be any more mealy-mouthed?
In my experience the only thing it sometimes successfully incentivizes is getting preferential treatment at a bar/restaurant...not saying that's a good thing, just a personal observation
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Ssh, your real world observation is getting in the way of the narrative. Can't have that.
If you're going to all that effort you might as well adapt the stories, or storyline, to the local culture.
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When you develop compilers, you generally have a three-way tradeoff that you can't get all three of simultaneously: runtime speed, generated code size, and compile time. For what's effectively a peephole pass, the main balance question is if the increase in runtime speed is going to be worth the extra time compiling the code. If patterns don't crop up very frequently, and the resulting code has only marginal speedups, then it's not going to be worth slowing everyone's compile time for that speedup.

In the context of LLVM IR, there's a subtle issue which is even more important. LLVM IR is sufficiently divorced from actual hardware instructions to be a good basis for a cost model. I believe Souper is largely using instruction count as its cost model [1], which is going to really fall down when you handle i1 values, since most processors aren't capable of doing arithmetic on i1 values natively, and converting the result of a comparison instruction into one that can be reasoned about with boolean circuits can involve several extra instructions.

[1] Regehr's original blog post on the matter says instructions are cost 1, constants and phis cost 0, and selects and div/rem cost 3. sexts/zexts/truncs aren't explicitly modeled, and so also presumably cost 0. So it's mostly instruction cost.
If only... except it’s funded and managed by Rebekah Mercer.
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Colo facility or your transit provider doesn’t have a brand name it has to protect. You can look at gab, 4chan, tpb etc for counter examples. I’m actually fairly certain they would be fine on oracle, tencent or alibaba too
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It depends on what you are trying to achieve. My goal was to spend less time reading news and more time coding and building. I tried automated time trackers but they didn't work for me. I came to the realization that wasting time was an automatic action, not something I thought about in the moment. So looking at metrics later on just highlighted a problem I already knew I had.

There are two things I did that have had a big positive impact. I use a website blocker - I use Inmotion.app, which also has some other bells and whistles and that was very helpful.

Another thing that helped was tracking my time in a spreadsheet in 15 minute intervals. I color code the time - green for coding and building, red for 'unproductive', purple for necessities - family, working out, meditation etc. I don't make entries every 15 minutes, just whenever I remember but the sheet is open in front of me all the time. This has finally brought the discipline I sometimes lacked.

There is a power to looking back over the last x blocks of 15 minutes and coloring them red. It makes me want to make my day as green as possible and I find myself competing with myself - I highly recommend it.
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Cargo Cult Agile is a thing. A simple Google search will give you lots of perspectives on how many people have suffered because of the same :)
It’s remotely possible oreilly.com has one of the oldest continually existing images... they already had a shelf or two of books when Navigator launched.
Jeff Bezos isn't reviewing or approving articles in the Washington Post. It's as independent from its ownership as any media organization.
PHS '99 here! I stuck around and ended at Netscout. Funnily enough, I was on a slack call earlier today with one user from monkey.org trying to figure out some bit of code from _another_ user on monkey.org :) tbf, the code was quite readable, but it wasn't in a language that I'm strong in.
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According to a LinkedIn page, monkey.org is "The international house of primates, founded in 1995, offering services to a diversity of denizens across the globe. Headquartered around the world, we bring the brains and the brawn to many startup businesses and their associated acts around the globe."
I think you've got it. Data is shared by passing a pointer to it, so the data doesn't need to be copied to different spots in memory (or if it is it's an efficient block copy not millions of tiny copies).
Well a real free speech platform should apply strict automatic moderating rules to political threads and basically tease out the best arguments from all sides,
I think many of these cities will inevitably death spiral. Easy to forget Detroit used to be the tippy top of tier 1 cities.
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> Because the reality is, if the users didn’t like the post or comment, they simply downvoted it until it was buried.

Exactly. And the problem was the users did like it. Lin Wood called for the VP's execution just days before a real mob took the capitol chanting "Hang Mike Pence!". And it was hugely popular and shared everywhere. And that's a problem that needs to be fixed, not celebrated. Major thought leaders across the platform were fanning the flames, not engaging in moderation.

Maybe it's true that Parler had a scheme for moderation. But it was objectively a complete failure.
Yeah dodge my question and start another front, very tactical.
There is no culture of customer service at all in Europe from what I've heard, with apathetic to downright rude waitstaff being the norm. There's a chance it wouldn't be that way if there were tips.
If you send $120 and provide a username do you get signed up? Or do you have to get an invite or something?
but what matters is free speech... if we can no longer have it hosted in the US for the Internet, it doesn't really matter where the free speech is hosted (also, maybe we can host free speech for Russia in the US?).
Sympathizing with people trying to literally block the constitutional duty of congress engaging in carrying out the most fundamental aspect of a democracy?

Smh
This is grand larceny thousands of times over. An appropriate minimum penalty is fifteen years in prison for Bezos and anyone else in on the conspiracy.
If it's selective then it's not cargo culting.
Not as much because you are still paying the overhead of doubt shipping across the internet and through the browser.
> I'm interested in knowing how you think a real "free speech" platform can actually work, however. We have message boards that do this and they are just toxic cesspools. The idea of an online "public square" that isn't that sounds impossible. How many public squares are reaching millions of people instantly?

I'd like to know the answer to this, too. I wonder if the reason why they turn into toxic cesspools is precisely because the only people who use free speech platforms are the people who were kicked off the others.

If you accept that this is plausible, then is it feasible that the more reasonable folks that just want to talk about politics in a less divisive manner (or maybe not even politics at all!) might help bring down the temperatures if everyone was swimming in the same pool instead of just a few extreme viewpoints forced to move into the same swamp? (NIMBY!)

This would also be in keeping with that classically liberal axiom, "The remedy is more speech, not enforced silence." (Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, the Democratic justice who is credited with creating the "Right to Privacy" in 1890: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Brandeis)
Time to time I feel a need going back to the good old days and recently ran into some really old stuff from my childhood.

While browsing my archives I found a mandelbrot set drawer I wrote around 1998 or so in C for DOS.

I decided to give it a twist and revise my memories about 16 bit real mode assembly so I rewrote it from scratch.

Also added mouse support for zooming in and out and wrapped it in a bootloader because why not....

Are you guys like me enjoying these ancient environments?
open link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00205
I don't tip my plumber, but he gets my business--and I pay the bill without negotiation--on account of doing a great job.
If Bezos knew about this then he should be held responsible for theft on a massive scale. At some point, the legal system has to stop protecting worker exploitation. These types of things should be criminal matters.
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Yeah, looks this would be an alternative to setting up a development environment with Docker or a VM or whatever.
Why do some jobs in the service industry have tips, and others do not?

I've yet to find someone who pays tips for excellent customer service in the big mall stores. I'm sure they exist, but almost no one does it, and this is acceptable. Why?
> If it switched to fixed hourly pay, they'd be taking a pay cut since there is no way their hourly pay would be $30/hr.

Why not? I live in a country with no tipping culture and we have no problem paying service industry workers this much.
Did anybody figure out how they plan on making money out of this?
A virtualenv (venv) does not install its own copy of Python. Instead, when you create the venv it puts symlinks for the calling python in the <venv>/bin directory. When you activate the venv the <venv>/bin is added to the front of your PATH so that any "python" commands use the symlink'ed version of Python corresponding to your venv.
Yes, actually, you can. (A well-endowed manufacturer can produce this equipment.) But it takes coordination, leadership, unlimited funding, and federal authority to step across red tape and corporate veils and IP to get things done. I was involved with some of this stuff. I know first hand how uncoordinated and un-led much of it was. We needed technocrats on private jets flying around the country tooling up production and solving every supply chain bottleneck like they were Elon trying to squeeze out luxury car production at the end of a quarter.

And vaccine production ABSOLUTELY could've been parallelized with approval. In fact, it was. They were stockpiling doses before approval. But the effort was at least an order of magnitude smaller than it ought to have been.

We constantly make excuses for this lack of effort. We shouldn't. We know what is possible. We can read history books.
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Hmm, I think it’s called “Time Remembered”? I believe that’s the one with their take on Danny Boy, my favorite interpretation of it (narrowly beating the King’s Singers).
> It would have been reasonable to expect to have access to the same platforms as those companies.

Wait, which of those companies is using the publicly offered terms of any public cloud vendor?
Good sir, don't believe what you "have heard". Go to Europe and sit down at a Michelin starred restaurant in Italy. Then you will learn what exceptional service means.
Does anyone know a good way for asdf to inform which versions are installed in container?

I feel like I keep having to hack together ways to do the same thing when building containers for apps build with asdf. (Github actions, dockerfile, heroku, etc)
It's about consistency and intent -- these observations do not extend to conspiracy tier thinking.

What is the primary purpose of the X-Client-Data header if not for some unplanned future-proofing?

Masquerading about it does not add to credibility
How well do people do on estimates like this compared to estimates about other subjects?
Because it kind of seems like a lot of the respondents are just plain innumerate.
For instance, on the open borders question, the plurality of both party respondents
answered that members of the opposing party had the most extreme possible view.
That's obviously not going to be true on average for anything resembling a normal distribution
no matter how polarized you think the parties are.
Also, I bet respondents were confused about the meaning of "open borders."
I've encountered people who somehow think that
current (or pre 2016) US immigration policies qualify as "open borders"
which would make the estimate that most democrats support "open borders" much closer to accurate.
At their size, they sure seem like it.

What happens when AWS and Azure design their own silicon, outstrip other hosting providers, and then become the only hosts on the internet?

Are they common carriers then?
gzip probably would have been fine for that case even without parquet?
Not arguing one way or other, but for many, say, restaurant workers, this practice is the norm in states that allow it (I believe that would be most states). The amount the owner is required to pay a worker is pretty low, as long as they have enough tips to hit the standard minimum wage.
Trading was halted by brokers at a critical time. If trading was done via the blockchain nobody could pull shenanigans like that.
Activating the venv is completely optional. I never do it, but some people seem to like it.
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Could it be Mr. Musk? :)
> The default state of the world is wasted motion. This means that there is a constant fight against entropy...

That's an interesting way of phrasing things, and in this context, it reveals a sort of innate natural paradox that I find really fascinating. The author here uses "motion" both to describe natural, universal entropy ("wasted motion"), and the more productive or meaningful sort motion that is the result of deliberate, intentional human action. The thing which I find so interesting here, is that the "useful motion" which goes into building the clever hacks that the author talks about - that motion can only be judged as effective by the evaluating the degree to which it reduces the wasteful motion/ natural entropy that was present previously. Ie, meaningful and "useful" motion can only exist in opposition to the more common natural, wasted motion.

It reminds me of one the logions from an early gnostic text[1], that I had always found a bit confusing due to it's apparent insistence that "motion and rest" is key to what makes human beings special. I had mentally wrote off that saying, thinking it was either a relic of old school dualistic / karmic morality or that it was a simple "obey the sabbath" type of thing - but I'm now seeing the connection between human intellect and this sort of paradoxical type of "motion-which-reduces-motion" the author describes - and in that context "rest" could mean the the time spent introspecting, evaluating, and pivoting based on results.

To give another example that I picked up from reading "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch, our human intellect is surprisingly unique and powerful exactly because it allows us to force the universe into states that would not otherwise arise on their own, even to the extent that we can build states which are otherwise impossible to arise in environments controlled by unchecked natural entropy. One example he gave to support this is the fact that absolute coldest place that we know of in the universe, is not in some far off galaxy - it's in a university lab that was designed and built specifically to maintain incredibly low temperatures for quantum computing research purposes.

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It's interesting that I got -4 on most of my replies in this thread, I'm wondering if they're the same 5 IDs.
For anyone who never saw one: the original color was closer (but not the same!) to "IBM PC beige"; the cases yellowed due to sunlight, age, and (given the era), nicotine. The open base that shows the inside shows a color closer to the original.
I was just using my browser in half-screen mode on reddit and I got this: https://i.imgur.com/z5Sb7Mj.png ... my screen is a bad resolution ~37in TV...
You should definitely check out Julia then. There are a few parts of the language that use C/C++ libraries (blas and mpfr are the main ones), but 95% of the time, your stack will be Julia all the way down.
The first time I felt like there was real potential for a blockchain, outside of digital currencies, was with DNS + PKI systems. Pretty much identity for websites. I thought it was a much sexier alternative to the current way DNS works and how certificate authorities work. Now does it scale as well? Does it work well for light clients? And is it the right system when you know people will make mistakes and lose keys?
> And it was just one site, and its users just moved on to Gab and such.

Is this intentionally ironic? Or did you not actually know that Gab was completely deplatformed in exactly the same way, and it almost killed them by knocking them offline for months, just when they hit a big growth curve. Interesting, actually, that the timing was so similar, as well as some of the same players.
Thanks for the reply! It makes sense to tell the customers upfront that it's a bot so that their expectations are also aligned.

What questions do you ask on the bot before redirecting to human? Can you share the link to your website so that I may try it out myself. Thanks!
Not sure how you got that from my post.