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> If that's true, then it's fundamentally broken (assuming interest bearing loans of course). You will never have a sustainable economic system that is based on interest bearing loans

Yes we should all switch the current economic system which has been the root cause of societal development. And we should switch to a fairy-tail system which you describe but miraculously does not and has not ever existed. One where people will lend out money for free! Why don't you start us off? I'd like a free loan please.

> Not true. There are moral alternatives. If you want to start a business, pitch your idea to investors who are willing to put in money in exchange for a portion of the company.

This is hilarious because its just another form of lending which in fact does yield interest. How do you think the investors will track ownership of the company? Shares which appreciate aka big bad interest.

> There are alternatives that don't involve interest. You see it all the time in the auto industry where they have 0% loans.

There are strings attached to those loans and the average auto loan absolutely has a non-zero interest rate. We are currently experiencing a massive auto loan bubble. Handing out low interest loans indiscriminately is irresponsible and the cause of massive economic damage throughout history.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/33065/zero-percent-financing-a...

> Raise capital in an ethical way.

I think you are confused. The government is "taking out the loan" by issuing bonds and paying an interest rate to the bond buyers. So which side is unethical? The lender or the borrower?

> Great empires were built without interest.

Like which?

At the end of the day, nobody is going to lend money without financial incentive. Why accept the risk? If you disagree then ask yourself why aren't you loaning out YOUR money for free? I will happily accept a free loan.
Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a “reality czar.”

This is about as Unamerican an idea as I could possibly imagine. The main stream media and political parties have realized their grip over the mindspace of Americans is slipping away and they are scared. As such they are willing to apply a heavy hand to get Americans back in line - only listening to the "truth", or the truth as they see it.

Incredible.
The best engineers don’t do much work. They are excellent at delivering the software needed to solve a problem fast and without problems. The worst engineers are always super busy. Fighting fires, starting new fires, rewriting code that doesn’t require rewriting, introducing new shiny tech that will break things in new busy work creating ways etc. etc.
I am not an expert but this seems different from the short selling we're talking about. In short selling of a stock, the stock is borrowed and sold immediately for profit. There is no productive action the short seller engages in to recover the stock, they just rebuy it on the open market, or not at all if the company has gone bankrupt.

If you are really stretching it, they can produce research that shows the stock should be worth less in this time, without committing any crime- which means it is based entirely on public information the market already has. Bashing a company could be considered a productive activity we are incentivizing from a certain point of view. But their incentives are all towards tearing down the underlying security.

In the agricultural example, the person selling the futures to their goods has to actually produce the goods. While someone might be borrowing the stock to resell it, ultimately the end farmer has to produce new value to deliver on their future contract. Otherwise, they would just sell futures to their crops, and then take their money to do nothing! But this is exactly what someone who short sells a stock does. They take the money, and they just sit around waiting for the stock to drop, no doubt resisting the urge to make it drop themselves through legally gray methods to increase their profits.
Would be really cool to have all my local systems have little local disk, but instead share a NAS. But still a very niche use case
Reduced poverty for who? For criminals perhaps. It made honest people poor and crooks rich. The world was better before when the dishonest people were poor and people knew the meaning of honour. The people whom this system currently serves will surely run it all into the ground when they realize that they have no operating values and therefore anything goes...

We will soon learn what it means to have a society devoid of values or social contracts.

Good luck with your forever improving world.
All of them are at fault. The broker, DTCC and the hedge funds. The market is not functioning as a free market or "it is rigged" for various reasons.

The CEO of the biggest brokerage company says he has halted the "buy" side because it wanted to protect his clients(hedge funds) and his money and it will resume the trading when the prices reaches $17. If you dig deeper you may find that the DTCC/clearinghouses may have a vested interest in a specific position as their investors may be invested in that position (i.e. short).

Of course there might have been just a risk management issue and no collusion but in practice and in essence as well this was just a way to save the hedge funds(the client)'s money and ripoff the retailers(the product).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RH4XKP55fM
Good list, but type guards are just as unsafe as type assertions. I wrote a blog post about this: https://fnune.com/typescript/2019/02/27/typescript-series-2-...

TypeScript will believe what you tell it in a type guard's signature without looking at the body of the function further than "does it return a boolean".
Is there any specific translation you'd recommend?
You are confusing a whole lot of concepts here, and at times it seems you are arguing against yourself(?).

First you argue against great concentrations of capital also being great concentrations of power, in this "yes, but no" sentence:

>Money is a form of power, it is not equivalent to power.

This sentence seems to mean absolutely nothing. "not equivalent to power" is some sort of vague semantic argument about what power "is", that is not interesting to the discussion.

Wealth _is_ power in the sense that you can use money to affect change in the world. Wealth is the simplest and most flexible form of power, because it can be directed at anyone or any organization, and transformed into other forms of power. And it even grows by itself!

You then talk about the market cap of Amazon. Why?
The market cap, while also representing a sum of money, is not really relevant to the discussion.
You even seem to realize this yourself, but you do not really explain the reason for bringing it up.

Are you trying to say that competition exists and therefore everything is good?

That would be fine if it weren't for the fact that the companies you mentioned do not compete in the same markets.
They share some markets, e.g. AWS vs GCP, but you offer no evidence that this market is healthy.

Competition is key if you want a healthy market, as is aligning corporate goals with societal ones. You could even argue that competition for customer business is the main mechanism for achieving alignment.

If you allow any one business to get too much power, competition will weaken.
Excessive power can come in the form of excessive capital concentration. It can also come in the form of other bargaining chips that come with excessive capital concentration, such as: control over resources used by direct competitors in a market, e.g. the marketplace itself; the ability to create jobs, politicians love jobs; the ability to invade a new market by subsidizing a new department with capital from elsewhere in the organization; or even an information asymmetry created by a huge data collection operation.

Amazon exhibits all these forms of power and more.
Some of the other companies you mentioned exhibit these as well.
It would be in the interest of society to break up monopolies and other concentrations of power that are actively impeding competition in the way that Amazon is.

These ideas aren't new, developed nations typically create institutions to maintain healthy competition.
In the US, the federal trade comission and the DOJ are tasked with keeping competition healthy by enforcing antitrust law.
They used to be a lot more active than they are now, e.g. when they broke up Bell. I wonder what has made them slip...
I think the full syllabary is larger. The cuneiform block in unicode is ~1000 characters*.

(The article says "instead it uses between 600 and 1,000 characters impressed on clay to spell words", which is kind of ambigious on whether there's 600-1000 characters in the syllabary or 600-1000 per tablet, but 1000 characters would be consistant with the number of unicode codepoints)
And now that we have a much more full picture of exactly what has been going on with the numbers of Failures to Deliver (since December), and better understanding of hedging strategies and income generating strategies (selling covered calls, buying protective calls with cash reserved for exercise), it appears that there isn't really any fraud here, no evidence of widespread naked shorting, no evidence of rolling of naked shorts in danger of hitting failure to deliver limits (which the SEC actually does actively pursue enforcement of and considers to be sham transactions).

My key takeaways here are that there was probably a little fraud (maybe someone found a bug in some broker that let them do some sort of infinite shares glitch), maybe a little rolling of shorts (but not by anyone big), and probably a lot of writing of covered calls by the likes of Fidelity and Blackrock as a way to get income generation while at the same time acting as a limit sell order (albeit one that you can't take down). Coupled with some early botched PR and celebrity pumping etc, and even my own speculation, this feels almost Q-like in it's explosive growth and conspiracy-theory oriented thinking.

After everything I've seen this week I think I actually have the highest faith I've had in a long time in our financial system.
I though they pump it with fuel shortly before start?
To produce the vaccine so fast that had to be done.

The issues European production partners (one in Belgium I think) are suffering with the AstraZeneca vaccine are similar to those already solved at the UK production sites months ago because of the risk taken to start production early.

Each production facility can have unique issues that effect yield that simply need time to resolve.

Maybe AstraZeneca over promised, but it feels like risks to production yield were not properly assessed by those in charge of ensuring vaccine supply in the EU.
Let’s be clear are you sending routed orders in this case?

Are you suggesting that limit orders are filling but at a different price than expected or not filling at all?

The reason Nanex is important is that they’ve made bank on proving that risk systems and broker latency don’t matter when enforcing reg nms.

Neither does order volume. If you can accurately track execution to the point where you can see slippage (not on the broker report cards) you can make money on that info.

None of that is to say different brokers don’t have different slippage just that in aggregate if you can accurately calculate it you a) have no business trading through a retail broker (and you know it) and b) there is money to be made in compliance that doesn’t take on trade risk.
I think a better way of phrasing this would be "While Wells, Huxley and Orwell invented totalitarian worlds, the Soviet writer was living in one." Of course Western society had flaws, and that was part of the point of Wells, Huxley, and Orwell writing their dystopias, but Zamyatin was living in the sort of society British authors could only imagine in their dystopias.
Of course it is. Whole law is just cronyism for Rupert Murdoch. He owns the Australian government.

Got them to fuck up our internet upgrade because it threatened his cable tv business. Now he's getting them to steal from Facebook and Google to subsidise his many newspapers. If that doesn't work hell probably just get them to subsidise them directly.
You nailed it. The best engineers I have ever worked with never worked much. The bad engineers were always super busy trying (and failing) to fix the problems they put in the software in the first place.
Considering the American South was largely populated by Scots-Irish, you might be surprised. These are the people African slaves and their descendans learned English from.

Its so strange to me that people basically avoid recognizing that most African Americans simply speak a Southern dialect that has been able to persist outside the South because of de facto segregation.
> I don't want to manage.

Sweet Jesus and all the saints, neither do I.
So hire more people to get through the backlog faster. These are problems money can solve and Apple has plenty. (Disclaimer: I’m an Apple fanboy, use their products almost exclusively, but I still think it’s ridiculous all the shit apps that get through)
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> This is every air quality device in the industry.

I did not have much exposure to many. Previous to the Honneywell we had the "boiler" kind of humidifier, the one that uses two graphite electrodes submerged into water tank. Not many consumables, except that this does not work much, unless one keeps it right at their noses (as pictured on the box :). The electrodes develop some grime eventually which further decreases 'efficiency', but can be cleaned somewhat.

As for the ultrasonic one we use now, there does not seem to be any consumables as such. Maybe the ultrasonic element itself. In three years of seasonal use I can notice some either corrosion or build up on the black ring of the element, but not much difference from that.

There is some kind of filter ring, made of hard plastic, filled with small beads. But as I said in the 3 years we had no reasons to change it. Clean it, yes, but not replace it like with Honneywell.

Cleaning the thing is a drag as always. Two usual problems: the reddish mold above the waterline and inside the "gorge" and nozzle. Also the limescale, though a moderate one. We fill it with just the cold tap water, which is not too bad here.
Exactly, this is the real issue here unfortunately.
Ok fine, but in your original post you don't provide any dates, and you assert that:

> It had a name, and that name was "Cadabra".

Now you're saying something different. So it's one thing or another. Maybe just clarify the "when" of these things as you remember them. Not having a go at you.
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Yes, logically that makes sense. I have tried to EQ my old K701s but they can't really match my JVC HA-SZ2000s for pure bass. Years ago, I was seduced by the flat curve thinking it would give me the best sound rendering - the way the mixing engineer intended it. Since then, I have found that I actually enjoy having a colored response, and that there is some value in that as well. Don't get me wrong, I like & use flat sound signature headphones sometimes - for classical and jazz music. But that is not my usual jam.
> In fact, this problem is probably more prevalent in greenfield over-engineered solutions than old legacy-ridden ones.

Yup. In that context, it is usually called Second System Syndrome (when discussing the person that is laboring under it's influence while in the act of designing) or Second System Effect (when discussing the resulting system):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Does it use Nasa's pica heat shield. Nasa could have upgraded shuttle too to use their own tech so the shield tech is not material argument.

The boosters were recovered.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/about/star/shuttle_110...
there used to be (sadly not anymore) a very active forum on fuckyou.com and it was mostly populated by people that had just randomly typed it in one day.
You sound like you're defining "development" when you talk about the difference between the future and present values of something. But I guess if the people actually doing the development pay interest to the people they got money from to do the development then it is... interest to some degree? Of course that results in less net development (due to the interest paid) but am I at least describing it in a way you recognize as accurate?
That brings me back. I worked on it way back when. The IMS stack works over WiFi too; it could probably work with any generic SIP provider and hook into the native phone app.
Middle class (75% of the US), white (73% of the US), and 'old' (median of 40 vs the US median of 39).
Even without its basis in the history of COM, the I-prefix for interfaces types in .NET makes sense because interfaces-types are very structurally and semantically different to "a type's interface" - so having some way to quickly distinguish them at-a-glance is necessary.

I started off in .NET and when I was using Java it wasn't immediately obvious what types were interfaces or not (e.g. "List" is an interface in Java, and also especially when the interface suggests what the implementation is).

C# can be described as a considerably better Java - but I wish they didn't inherit Java's interfaces vs. classes model and instead had something that enables some form of structural-typing: something like TypeScript's interfaces or Swift's protocols.
I interviewed a very senior architect astronaut who literally couldn’t write code to compute the average of a list of numbers.

Wasn’t that they got hung up on the details of whether the average of ints should be an int, float, or double, or how to handle overflow, but just couldn’t get started at all.

After that, I stopped shying away from wanting to see code from even senior technical candidates.

(It was not a standard question for senior roles; I got a strong whiff of “this guy might be entirely full of it; let’s have a look-see”.)
They're probably spending a ton on marketing and datacenter growth. You'd slow down those if you wanted to make more profit. Right now they're trying to grow as fast as possible and are okay losing money in the short term.
Thank you too. Luckily Lamictal and a little of Prozac plus therapy is doing magic. It was sad when they said in my face just they wouldn’t wait and believe I can‘t change.
May not be archivy directly. But for example if the web pages use static assets like google fonts, jquery, they will send external requests thus leaking the presence of the self hosted server. Or may be some javascript plugin that phones home.
Seems much closer to an Apple 2 than S100 type systems.
It's a poor design carried over from legacy JavaScript, but there are clear differences at the language level. While not the only one, the biggest one to me is this kind of code:

const x = {};

x.foo // returns undefined

const y = { foo: undefined };

y.foo // also undefined

Basically a member not being provided will return undefined, whereas `null` had to actually be set. Hence I think the tendency for checking for the absence of something via `undefined`, while expressing the deletion of something with `null`. Sure, you can assert more specific types in TypeScript to step around that, or you can do something less intuitive like checking for `keyof` to detect absence; but this is both straightforward and presents less issues when interfacing with inputs from non-typescript-using users.
There are reasons why terms like 10x engineer, Rockstar engineer, Ninja engineers are thrown about in the industry.

Google paid Anthony Levandowski $120 Million to lead their autonomous car project, before he went to Uber and the legal troubles. Uber was paying him more than Google.

Facebook paid $16 Billion for What's App, which only had around 50 engineers at the time. Facebook was buying the IP and the productive software engineering members of the team.

There are countless other examples.

No amount of management process can create productive software engineers. That's why companies recruit productive software engineers from other companies. That's why companies buy other companies that has productive software engineers with proven products.

Productive Software Engineers are exceptional. Their work are worth Trillions of dollars and generates Billions of dollars in revenue every year.
I hope all the patents expire soon and that good products at good prices follow quickly. The standard was released in 2006, but I'm not sure how close to that release date the last relevant patent involved was issued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet#10GBASE-T

"10GBASE-T, or IEEE 802.3an-2006, is a standard released in 2006 to provide 10 Gbit/s connections over unshielded or shielded twisted pair cables, over distances up to 100 metres (330 ft)."
Not headphones but our home sound system is a Marantz system from 1983 which we inherited from a grandparent. The speakers would probably be massively outclassed by modern floor speakers (sound quality wise) but they are perfectly adequate for our needs. It even has an aux input so we can play music off our phones.

AFAIK the turntable and cassette player have had some minor repairs but nothing else has needed maintenance since purchase.

I'm also currently listening to music through a pair of HD202s I bought in 2007 which have copped endless abuse.
If you eliminate the credit risk between brokers, you lower the capital requirements for brokerages. But you create other problems. I don't have any opinions about it; I would just form my opinions by reading whatever 'JumpCrisscross says, so I refer you there.
Not a primary source, but: https://stu2b50.dev/posts/why-robinhood-d3580b

> Brokers cannot use client money to satisfy their clearing fund obligation. So whether or not the accounts had a settled balance didn't matter - as you can see from the other brokers which halted buys and did not have "instant transfers".
There are plenty of studies of "embodied carbon". IMO the solution is not tracking but taxation.
It's not like corporations really have a better track record. Quite a few of the colonisation efforts were done by corporations or under private management (not "nations"). Corporations hid and obscured facts about asbestos, smoking, climate change, etc. for decades. Various corporations are not exactly well known for their excellent treatment of people in various less well-off regions (Shell in Nigeria, Dole in South-Africa, etc.), abuse of monopoly positions has a long history, and when corporations really screw things up it's up to the nations to provide some sort of relief (1930s, 2008, housing crisis in various countries).

"Illegal not to subscribe to the state TV channel" seem like small fries.
SpaceX Starship boosters are refueled after they land themselves using a pump.

Shuttle solid rocket boosters have their shells fished out of the ocean by a boat. Then they return to the factory to be broken into sections and filled with a solid propellent.

Different tech.
> "anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, 9/11 truthers"

You should also call them nazis, you know, just to strengthen your argument.
This isn't a fault of TypeScript, but any language. Trying to predict the future, trying to predict and eliminate technical debt, in a rapidly developing product.
On the other hand, most of the time I'm willing to put in a little effort to express the desired types, since it dramatically improves the intellisense suggestions, making code edits / refactors much less of a mental burden.

But yeah, sometimes you hit a wall and need to do something unsafe.
> Italy was one of the most ravaged parts of the Western Roman Empire, it has less historical continuity than Spain or France. Only Britain does worse.

Well, Erdogan would probably be okay with pardoning Dante.
The SpaceX rockets don't fly anywhere near people. Nobody is underneath any part of their flight path or within any possible destruction radii.