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Aladdin was obviously not intended to be racist and was probably made by people with good intentions. The same could be said of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Song of the South. But 1992 was a dramatically more racist and reactionary era than 2021, and the 1992 film really is unacceptably racist to show to children.

It is impossible to ignore that Jasmine/Aladdin both have light skin, European faces, and American accents, whereas Jafar and all the hostile guards or street merchants are grotesque Arab caricatures. Seriously - the only Arab “accents” come from bad guys, they tend to have huge hooked or bulbous noses and very dark skin, and they’re all psychotically violent. Most of the references to Arab culture are superficial and rely on stereotypes for cheap laughs (watch the opening scene with the merchant again).
Why? The MacBooks aren't competing against their previous iterations (since you can't buy them anymore), but against their non-Apple competition.

When you'll be buying a new laptop, you won't be choosing between a 2018 MacBook and a 2021 MacBook, but between 2021 MacBook and offerings from Lenovo, Dell, Microsoft and others.
They didn't killed FLOSS. It is pretty much alive :)

But things are sadly repeating somewhat:

Projects like GNOME lost their company backing (SUN & Nokia) and no laptop major manufacturer started shipping their systems with Linux. FLOSS must be available to be consumed by people and not just for professionals. Until recently, Lenovo and Dell allow at least professionals to buy laptops which run with Linux :)

On the other side information technology capitalism is probably the worst of all. First they lure in people in, then the apply incompatible APIs and force the others in with the group effect. It still works for developers with Cloud APIs an user with Zoom or just simply Apples devices.

I understand that this makes people sad. Signal is now really catching up with WhatsApp. When big IT is providing some new shiny device (well working AR-Glasses or a transplant which replaces your Apple Watch?) the broad majority of people will just by it, even when it uses permanent internet connection to the cloud - instead of working autonomic. On the other hand, using Linux is comfortable and enlightening and I'm happty that some people care about stuff like Signal :)
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You got me excited about Java having pattern matching, but all I could find was a proposal.
Curious. I don’t have a traditional calculator to hand, but tools like Rust, Python and Wolfram|Alpha are all turning 10e50 into 1e51.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Normalized... agrees with my memory that in normalised form the coefficient should be at least one and less than ten.
You still have to send your old passport in. Somebody who has stolen your passport can renew it. That's a fairly minimal consequence for all the trouble.
I highly recommend analysis by Lyn Alden. She looks at the situation with an engineer's approach without pushing any political agenda. She looks at several options and provides the justification that "this time is different"; also lists other potential scenarios that could happen and things to look for to determine which one is developing.

https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/ is a recent public article. She has a couple of more recent updates in her premium research section, but the main thesis stayed the same.

EDIT: Her more recent public article on the subject: https://www.lynalden.com/february-2021-newsletter/
Don't forget Weimar Germany was under the thumb of the truly punitive economic features of the Treaty of Versailles. French PM Clemenceau insisted on punishing Germany for starting WW1. The Marshall Plan after WW2 was a largely successful effort to avoid repeating that, for the west anyway.

John Maynard Keynes more-or-less predicted the Weimar meltdown in his 1920 book The Economic Consequences of the Peace. https://www.worldcat.org/title/economic-consequences-of-the-... Still worth reading.

Since Weimar the western world has developed various negative-feedback loops (using the lingo of control theory) to interrupt hyperinflation. Some of that comes from Keynes's own work. Those loops are big and clunky, but so far they work. The US Federal Reserve manages many of those loops, and has the dual mission of keeping inflation low and employment high.

It might be a good idea to learn more about all this before investing your kids' college money according to this hyperinflation fear.
Concentration camps in China are apparently fine, but god forbid if someone makes an "edgy" joke.
The movies that came out a few years ago are great. My daughter liked them (at least until something else came along and stole her attention). Great songs and a quirky humor where they break the third wall again and again in true Muppet Show style.
Assume you are right, the way it is being implemented is by threatening doctors to pull the trigger. Humans are too stupid to implement this without horrifying consequences.

In the Netherlands a ‘hilarious’ scene occurred when a doctor showed up and killed a patient who was screaming not wanting to die in front of their family. Apparently the patient was not in a mental state to decide not to die after previously being in the state wanting to. Ha
First, I never mentioned the EU.

If I didn’t include the intelligence caveat, one could point out lower tax countries with less opportunity, such as how Somalia is the anarcho capitalists dream. Even if the US and Switzerland are more economically free than many other more socialist western nations, intelligent demographics is makes or breaks that effect.

The average American also makes more than the average European - not only in SF. In more economically free European countries this is not the case though, but these are few. Except for the highly regulated (thus inefficient) American Heath insurance market, having a regular job is a better deal there.
Good native English speakers are pretty expensive.
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I would watch the shit out of a TV show that really told the story of the British Raj, in all its racist, bloodthirsty, brutal "glory".
> Then nobody can tamper with the image, since the LUKS key is derived from the TPM...

How do you avoid root having access to it?
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As someone from Denmark I gotta tell ya, that guy is 100% authentically Swedish. I'm pretty sure the Norwegians will back me up on this. :)
> Literally the only people actually being offended are - who...?

Those who have been the target of persecution, slavery, police and other systemic discrimination up to outright genocides for hundreds to thousands of years.

It's not that hard to have fun without having to step on other people's toes, or to recognize that what was acceptable 50 years ago is not acceptable today, because society has progressed.
Germany here. We're fine being mocked for being white, thank you very much. Even my neighbors from Gambia, Spain or Columbia are fine with that as a reminder for our shitty history, to keep the remembering alive to never repeat that shit.
No one said concentration camps in China were fine

The price for doing anything about the concentration camps in China is higher than anyone is willing to pay, whereas the price of putting warnings on tv shows is negligible
Was he really wrong?

If I gift money to an extremely over leveraged banks to save them and, with puckered sphincters (they just saw the abyss), they hold onto it then we won’t “see inflation”. It’s there, but it’s latent inflation.

If I demolish wages by exporting jobs overseas, that will have a deflationary effect to counter the effect of inflation.

If I replace cocoa butter with food wax, I hide inflation.

If I don’t include price of housing in the CPI [1], I manipulate inflation.

Schiff’s theory is sound. But, like the GME debacle proved, it’s like shoring a doomed company. Can you stay solvent long enough to prove your point?

[1] I know and understand the argument why houses it arent included. I just reject the argument completely as flawed.
I hate to say this but after reading the whole article I feel I like I wasted my time. The article is way too long and reads more like a novel than an informative piece. Unfortunately, the article does not contain any new or interesting revelations or insights, nor does it go into more depth on individual aspects that its title might promise.

Its conclusion can probably summarized as "We don't really know yet, probably population, health standards and living conditions, government policy and communication, maybe T-Cells, definitely poor data".
The poor would soon learn their one shot out of poverty is keeping their job and throwing their UBI income straight into the stock market. This would propel the prices of equities to even greater stratospheric heights, and as the investor class gets richer eventually the prices of all commodities rise to capture this easy money flowing around. So now the poor have more money but it still buys less or equal to what it did before, so it’s a wash.

Meanwhile anyone who isn’t putting all their UBI into stocks and is instead using it to live and pay bills will fall behind and be comparatively poorer to everyone else. It will happen.
Although COVID isn't quite this, a virus that effectively kills off those in rich countries and leaves the poor mostly intact could be regarded as a global public good, an essential leveller to chip away the hegemony of wealthy nations.

And wouldn't that just be a delightful end to the tyranny of modern imperialism?
Why do we still have borders? Is it a form of learned helplessness? As a European travelling freely inside the Schengen zone is one of the most amazing things and you can argue it has stopped war among those countries. What is the problem of not extending it to the entire world? Does anyone know? Also, it seems that tons of resources are wasted maintaining them when they could be used for increasing prosperity for everyone instead.
So, abortions for anyone who wants one, right? Birth control for anyone who needs it? Trans people allowed to participate in sports?

Stop pretending the right has no interest in controlling people's lives.
Debates are all fine.

What has changed is Debates + Algo amplification of one side or the other - using pseudo signals like the Like Count or Follower Count.

That changes the story. Its not a debate anymore. Its a mindless game of count accumulation. Given enough time and energy you can find enough misguided people in the world to validate whatever you believe.
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Can we just forget about GraphQL completely instead?
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Thank you for the detailed answer. I'm looking forward to that blog post. One more question for now (a variant of something I asked before): How do you know a use is a last use? For example:

foo = (list1 list2) -> {
mutate_last list1
}

The use of list1 in the mutate_last call is the only, and hence the last, use of list1. So mutate_last can mutate it in place. Right?

Except if I call this function like:

big_list = [ ... ]
foo big_list big_list
print big_list

Then mutating in place will be incorrect. So how do you tell inside foo whether the call is the last use of the object referenced by list1? Heroic interprocedural pointer analysis? A uniqueness type system? Something else?
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Advocating for euthanasia is advocating for the government to force doctors to take someone’s life even against the doctor’s will. It’s an interesting form of violence.
Reply: There is a version on Youtube with English subs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpicB7YI3B8
Perhaps T might describe a transition?
Actually I don't think so. They have been very careful not to include any copyrighted material in the repository. For example, all game assets are not included. I believe the decompiled code itself can not be copyright protected by nintendo since the decompilation is written from "scratch"... Although I am not fully sure how the law are in regards to that.
Get a fixed rate mortgage and buy some property
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Musician here. I don’t think it’s easier to get recognition now. Not at all.

The barrier to entry is too low. The competition, outside of mega pop and hip hop acts and the like, is functionally infinite.

Before, there were all these hurdles and gatekeepers sure, but this meant if you were stubborn and lucky and talented you had a halfway decent shot at getting somewhere.

Now it is closer to absolute random.
Would be interesting to see covid deaths per country in relationship to how many carry risk factors (age, obecity, etc.) in each country.
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I'm really curious about this possibility. How would we prove or disprove this?
> You can only know my vote if you have a way to associate an address with an identity.

A secret ballot makes it impossible to verify votes even with collusion between the voter and interested party. That makes vote-purchasing infeasible, since I could take money to vote for you and still defect at the secret ballot box.

A cryptographically-secure secret ballot in this threat model would need to provide the voter with a valid zero-knowledge proof for their actual vote and an imposter zero-knowledge proof for their alternative vote. Something like "if I input A into the system, then it counted vote X; if I input B then it counted vote Y," with A/B remaining private to the voter.
I must have missed that, thanks.
I compare CH to Norway - 0.19% wealth tax in Zürich vs 1.8% in Norway, 0% capital gains tax in CH vs 20% in NO, 8% VAT in Zürich vs 25% in NO, zero natural resources in CH, massive amounts of oil in NO. After that, there is a manyfold greater chance for someone in CH to make a better wage and to save up a million $. Economic freedom is lifting the tide on which all boats sail.
> So long as companies deal with errors reasonably it's all good.

We all eagerly await this utopia.

Or maybe expecting that is silly, given the many years of empirical evidence?
Never forget who is advocating for more censorship in the west.
Uh, wat? Parler's directly competing with Twitter.

Why are you commenting when you have no idea what you're talking about?
I am assuming you read the article in detail and simply forgot that they listed the actual examples:

> a multitude of caricatured national costumes as part of a performance of It’s a Small World After All, including as a Chinese person with exaggerated front teeth and a long braid.

> Peter Sellers appears in a segment titled A Gypsy’s Violin wearing a black headscarf with gilded trimmings, a red vest and a large red satin belt, and singing in a heavy accent

It seems like almost everyone interested in a good faith discussion would agree that these two examples are offensive stereotypes that don’t really belong in a children’s show. Considering the episode’s aren’t being removed I can’t imagine why anyone would object to this in good faith.

Unfortunately there are a ton of people who are fully aware that these stereotypes are offensive but, in bad faith, pretend that they are innocuous jokes and that this is just a moral panic. Although HN rules prevent me from accusing anyone of bad faith, I will suggest that someone who doesn’t have a problem with Apu from the Simpsons is someone who affirmatively supports using racist stereotypes.

There are more examples here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Muppets/comments/lnwse2/muppet_show...
As if today's extremely successful entertainment didn't build exactly on the "something for everybody" idea. Take the insanely popular movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe as an example. Has mainstream media really changed in this regard?
FAANG are good to have on your resume, undoubtedly, but nothing is "for life" in tech.

There was a time when IBM and HP were great brands to have on your resume - today, their reputations are much reduced.
I don’t buy it. People were saying the same thing 15+ years ago and I’ve owned several cars from the 2000s, 2 of them for over a decade. 2 Toyotas and a BMW, all had water pumps and bearings wear out. The water pump has plastic but the plastic’s life is longer than the bearings in the pump. Water pumps, wheel or u-joint bearings, and emission sensors were the only issues.
I had that conversation a while back about wars. We were discussing Napoleonic history, and then the conversation shifted to WW2. For the Brits (and most of the Germans) in the discussion it was all fine. But the Dutch, Danes and French were all "too soon".

We were left wondering when it won't be "too soon"? 2045? When the last veteran dies? The last person alive at the time? It's interesting - when does this become acceptable?
Not sure any of those will protect you. US equities should perform ok — IMO they’re already inflated because that’s where most of the “extra” money supply is sitting on the sidelines. Commodities futures (namely food) are probably your best play.

This has happened before — 90s Japan is what the US has in store for the 20s. The same collection of factors (high valuations after decades of rapid growth, a declining birth rate and an aging population) are present in the US. The main difference being there is no “safe haven” currency; the US is still a superpower and a declining US economy will hurt the global economy and set the stage for China to take over as the sole global superpower.
He also shorted Tesla
perhaps Indian arts can tell that story. it's not like they lack experience with making film. I'd be surprised if there isn't anything?
Not really, everybody just has a different idea of what speech should be curtailed. When a group is in power they curtail what they don’t like. Used to be the flag burners and Dixie Chicks on the outs, now it’s Alex Jones.

The important point is, no group when in power ever says “you know, maybe we should knock this off.” They only ever get that idea when they’re not in power anymore.
On the contrary, not refilming Mulan would have saved Disney quite a bit of money and some respect from the fans of the original movie.
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The engine is PW4000-112. It's the largest commercial PW engine. It has 112 inch, shroudless, hollow titanium fan blades,
A lot of things will probably beat it at performance, but not at lot of them will beat at GTX 1060 as well as Core i5 performance using only 26.5W of power while doing it.

The performance of the M1 is remarkable, but the real killer feature is they managed to push that much performance while reducing power consumption.
Do you have any evidence for this claim? The actual concrete performance numbers for the M1 and Zen3 don't agree with you at all:

M1: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16252/latency-m1_575px.png

Zen3: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/lat-5950.png

If anything the M1's ram has _higher_ latency than the Zen3.

(Can't reply to the sibling comment but Intel's numbers are even better: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16214/lat-10900.png)
Just watch wealth being transferred upwards, as always.

I'm considering real estate, but don't have enough money for the downpayment, and in a crash, I will lose my job like everyone else and not be able to make my payments.
No it isn't. It's advocating for removing penalities for ending someone's life in certain specific circumstances. Whether doctors make that choice will be up to them.
It's got to be something demographic / socio economic.

The fact that the one place in Africa that got hit hard also happens to be the most industrialized/westernized place can't be a coincidence.

That leaves a lot of options though. Diet? Obesity? Social habits? Ability to travel internationally? Pollution of some sort? Plastics? Could be anything
> The article is way too long and reads more like a novel than an informative piece

That is what is expected from the New Yorker
I think the risk is now all the data in your passport app is online?

The old one for Canada was a fillable pdf, which seems more secure?

But then again, I assume they just optically scan it and it sits in a database anyways? Maybe it doesn’t matter. I just talked myself out of any concern.
The show also emphasized the guest stars, who even for me are often a generation out of recognizing, so there's no way my young children have any idea who they are. If they were modern celebrities your kids might have more patience for them.
Sure, how would you like to get in touch? You have a discord, right? I actually was looking at your project and was thinking of opening a simple PR. (same username)

I have some more examples git-annex repos:

This is an annex repo I made of this popular abandonware website:

https://github.com/unqueued/repo.macintoshgarden.org-fileset

And some podcasts

https://github.com/unqueued/radiolab-fileset

https://github.com/unqueued/ratholeradio-archive

What's cool is that people can use standard pull requests to add files to the repo. And the repo itself is small, but it can represent huge filesets. Datalad has some really fascinating medical imaging data repos that are massive (https://www.datalad.org/datasets.html).

If you wanna see a really good example of a repo with versioned binary files, check this out the git annex repo of previous git-annex binary releases:

https://downloads.kitenet.net/.git/

You can just use standard git workflows to see previous revisions of a file (well, previous hashes) but it is really easy to hook into.
Note that Tom's Guide is not the same thing as Tom's Hardware despite the same owner. It's where all the clickbait and low quality content of Future plc goes.
Singapore also does not have a capital gains tax and much more than other countries respects the natural right to ownership. If you with force go against the natural right to life, liberty, and property, you are punished with inefficiency.
Considering Yellen has basically stated (and has a history of doing), she would rather do too much and deal with inflation rather than not do enough.

So my take away is that we'll see inflation above 3% in the next two years.
You should write headlines for CNN.

How does the fact that 2019 had a much much less deadly flu season fit into your narrative? And 2020 magically did away with the flu, eradicating this awful virus, plus reduced heart attacks massively.
As far as I can tell the update supports the article's conclusion?