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Congress services the elites/corporations who abhor free speech where people can complain publicly about bad products, talk the truth about our brutalizing small countries around the world "spreading democracy" (because this impacts the extremely profitable defense industry), etc. Since this is a Greenwald post, I will chime in on how both he and Matt Taibbi spread the truth about our duopoly democrat/republican political party (I purposely chose the singular, not plural "parties").
Inflation isn't high at all.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA
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I don't know any more about camera motors than what I just read [1], but yes, the quartz crystals keep the motors running at the exact same speed. This kept the film camera and the magnetic tape recorder synchronized.

A semi-related thing that I find interesting is the clapperboard that film makers use at the start of each scene they record. I had assumed this was a cliche tradition, but it's an effective way to synchronize the film and audio. You can see on the film the frame where the clapper closes and easily synchronize this with the sudden loud noise in the audio.

[1] https://www.filmmaking.net/filmmakers-faq/130/what-is-crysta...
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Metallica had nothing to do with what your issue is then. Not a single thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compact_discs_sold_wit...
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I don't believe that it does.

However, I do think that knowingly lying to obtain something of value is in many instances fraud.

I am not a lawyer.
> has everybody forgotten the massive protests over the police killing peope last year?

Just because that was the most vocal faction doesn't mean they are the only faction, or even the majority.
I remember this article being posted on HN. My response was basically: What prevents a single individual from taking all the free stuff and using it in a wasteful manner?

E.g. you get a car for free, only use it for one trip, scrap it and get another car for the next trip.
I think most HRVs have condensation drains, so I doubt that avoiding condensation is the major consideration.

I would guess it’s more of a geometric consideration. A square cross-current heat exchanger can have each port on a different side, so the whole perimeter is used. A counter-current exchanger would have two ports on each of two sides and no ports in the other sides, leading to a rather more complicated and larger arrangement.
Paywalls have been discussed over and over, enough to have its own FAQ entry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=paywalls%20by:dang&dateRange=a...
yes but I doubt they copied without permission

more likely explanation is the author simulated a different universe to 2018, watched some hulu, and then wrote down the story for free publication on the web
Did you read my comment wherein I specifically reject the notion that we need to perpetuate in Prison Industrial Complex? It's an incredible burden on our civilization and must be dismantled.

I think the problem is you have people who grow up in violence and only know violence. If we have a society that successfully educated people, kept people from falling through the cracks and provided them with opportunities, violence wouldn't be necessary. But for how many generations has our society failed people? How many generations have the failed, neglected people in our society grown up only knowing violence as something to be respected? Two? Three? Four generations? The question in my mind is whether even violence will deter people, which I am not certain of. But certainly prison doesn't deter anybody.

The only real answer, obviously, is education. But education is almost beyond repair at this time.
You don't think setting a reminder in your calendar for 2 years from now would suffice?
"Umm, sorry your honor this is not collusion, just the invisible hand of the free market guiding me when and when not to accept a ride."

What are some legal precedents of independent contractors of similar scale being found guilty of collusion? I'm thinking one-man operations of plumbers, landscapers, handy-men, etc. Have they ever even colluded successfully?
The sequel to this, "To destroy the Earth"[0], is also very good.

0: https://qntm.org/destro
> ERCOT has more stringent regulations on winterization

Those are voluntary though.

It was inevitable that someone would say the problem was that it wasn't deregulated enough, but let's at least stick to what's known. "Instead of taking any regulatory action, we ended up getting guidelines that were unenforceable and largely ignored in [power companies’] rush for profits," https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-power-grid-fai...
> has a lot of the same update issues as a static linked binary, only less efficient.

I think this is an insightful comment. Obviously there are other reasons to use docker, but too often (cough...Python...cough) I see virtualization used for exactly that.
The Venera program was profoundly significant:

1965: First landing on another planet (crash)

1967: First spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere.

1970: First spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's surface.

It's amazing they did all this in the 60s and 70s.
I think the general user will be more efficient with the Advantage 2. You basically get ~4-6 more reachable keys per hand depending on hand size.

With this extra space there's no problem putting all 4 arrow keys, \|, Delete, `~, and Esc all within home row reach.
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I read the book when it came out so perhaps my memory is faulty, but I was pretty sure they tried different mechanisms for prompting the lucid dream.

One of them was embedding LEDs in a sleep mask. When their waves showed they were in REM sleep, the experimenters would flash the LEDs as a prompt to the dreamer to interact. They would respond either with a prepared eye left/right pattern or by clenching their fist. I don't recall asking them to do higher level thinking, such as simple subtraction problems, though.
I wasn't aware Metallica ever rootkit'd anybody? I already knew about the Sony incident that you linked.
Bitcoin has no earnings so I don't know how that could possibly work in the case of the bitcoin bubble.
Metallica lobbied and was publicly the face of anti-piracy sentiment, and are therefore very much responsible for my issues AND their own, in this scenario.
That's not quite comparable though.

More like storming in and demanding "either you give me root access to all systems, and the building to myself, and a promotion, or i quit!"

It's a grey area, and I agree there are cases that are not de facto resignations.

But Gebru's demands were absolutely not of the compromising kind. She was effectively demanding dictator powers.

And if "i can't do my job if i can't run the company". Well... I guess you can't do you job, then, according to yourself.
They maybe did an 180, but they did not undo what they did, the effects are visible today and they are at fault. No, people cannot just let something go in such circumstances.
>“Our Better Together global learning curriculum is part of a learning plan to help build an inclusive workplace.”

It seems to be excluding one specific group, though.
Get onto an adventurous interstellar travel and explore deep space objects.
PoS doesn’t work for money. It works as system of value transfer for the wealthy at best. Ask the millions of stranded wallets that can’t move funds because of fees. The other arguments around centralisation are moot then, if you can’t actually use the system.
You've mentioned three items that have experienced specific inflation at higher than the general rate of inflation (but even then mostly not at rates anywhere in the remote neighborhood that would qualify as hyperinflation [> +50%/month] even if they were the rate of general inflation.)

So,yeah, when even the rapidly inflating segments aren't anywhere close to hyperinflation, it's pretty clearly not general hyperinflation.

And stagnant wages are a completely unrelated issue to hyperinflation, though obviously wage increases mitigate and wage stagnation or decline exacerbates the effect of whatever inflation there is on wage earners.
Swift has unfortunately no choice but to solve this problem if it is to be used to build native software for Apple platforms.
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The reason it’s on the front page of HN and making noise on Twitter is because many people do consider it blatant racism.
By the color of your comment I think it is not self-centered, a lot of people agree with that.
I should clarify: I mean physical payments with a merchant in person here. If I want to use a digital wallet at an in-person merchant, my only options are to use products by Apple or Google (or possibly both Samsung and Google). If I'm working on software for a non-Android or iOS phone? It's just not an option, not without (what I can only assume are) hugely expensive business deals with banks and card issuers.

A digital currency issued by a central bank, if sufficiently standardized, could lower the barrier to entry here such that it's feasible for developers who don't make billions of dollars in revenue to participate.

(Now, I also think the way credit card payments work right now in general is silly and unsafe, but that's only tangentially related here. Still, I think a digital currency could probably do it better. :)
Sure, a library has to handle errors differently than an application using that library.

The library should "back off" by aborting anything it is doing and indicating failure without crashing or exiting the process (a return value indicating an error, setting the "errno" variable, making an error pointer provided by the caller point to an error object/struct, ...). Of course, the other side of the coin is that caller (the application or another library) has to actually check for that error indication, and determine what to do about it.
The point is that efforts to prevent piracy, pushed by Metallica and obviously the recording companies at large, can be harmful, and it's possible to want to support artists but to prefer that they don't take measures which actively hurt consumers.

This is the same community that really hates ebook lending, and it's very much the same set of consumer-limiting control over intellectual property that curtails piracy but also makes things really inconvenient for the legitimate customer. I'm surprised but also not that people aren't able to think about this as more than a (false) dichotomy.
> I guess I just don’t want the government telling a private company what it can and cannot do, and what speech it must allow or disallow. Ever.

I think you may have overstated your case, because I doubt you are opposed to anti-discrimination laws that require companies to employ people regardless of their religious views. For example, companies are forced to allow Muslims to wear head coverings at work. I doubt you are opposed to that.

An interesting question in America now is whether political views should be protected as civil rights just like religious views. That would protect people from being fired from their jobs or banned from private places because of their political views.

For those who oppose that idea: how is religion so different from politics?
"By Friday, when Ercot declared that the emergency had ended, 14.4 million still lacked reliable access to public water supplies, and the crisis had already cost the state $50 billion in damages, according to Accuweather. The cost of power on Monday alone was $10 billion, according to estimates from Wood Mackenzie."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-20/texas-bla...
Isn’t a handheld radio an “amateur” radio? Or is there a nuanced distinction between the two?

It also does seem odd that this requires licensing. Why is that? And if you were not licensed how would they even identify you or track you down?
> on September 10, 2008, the Earth has been destroyed

https://qntm.org/board

Did I miss something there?
Let me guess, you also don’t like police.
Isn't the page file on disk? Can't you just force shutdown and then boot an alternative OS that ignores the file permissions and read it?
This is an area I've been interested in learning more about for a while (not for prepping, just learning). Are there any good resources for getting started with ham radio? I've been looking for a guide that can explain the math and physics behind it along with the electronics.
I was kind of wondering when the "it's still too regulated" people would show up and start telling lies that are easily refuted. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blackout/cali...
Sorry but no, this rate of package theft is not the norm around the globe and law abiding citizens should not have to take such measures. Government needs to find a solution.

And no, people are not this naive. Don't belittle them. That's just victim blaming.
I had to do this recently and went with the terminal method. It's just downloading the newer install app and running it, really quite simple.
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Indeed - it was just recommended to me over on Reddit to try it out as the backend for my “rust as a scripting language” shebang header for faster first-time compiles.

https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/self-compiling-rust-code/
If the AI ethics team is a small team subservient to the AI practitioners, and they don't have the ability to raise concerns about small and apparently well-known problems, how could they ever hope to raise concerns about big problems?

And whether I work in the field or not is irrelevant (though, as it happens, I was fighting with deep learning GPU drivers just yesterday). The whole problem is the idea that nobody has the right to direct the AI beyond the people who are running the AI, that if practitioners have been "looking at" a specific concern, then it's illegitimate for anyone else to ask questions.
I am wondering if this is a satire? Sentences such as the below do not seem serious to me.

"Totalitarian states

Not an extinction scenario or a global catastrophe in the familiar sense, a global takeover by a ruthless totalitarian state could irreversibly mire the world in endless enslavement and crushing brutality. Current disintegration of liberal democracies around the world, as well as the rapid advances in surveillance and data management technologies make this a direction of growing promise."

https://www.appliedeschatology.com/research
Both Forth and Lisp (and Basic, and every other interpreted language) -- implement symbol lookup at runtime, that is, take an arbitrary text string like 'something', 'something else', 'FUNC1', 'bob', etc. -- and look up an address for that value, then CALL that address (make that function happen).

Modern programmers might understand this as a hash lookup, or a key/value lookup... The key is the function/functionality name (symbol, string, call it whatever you will), and the value is an integer, which is the address in memory that will be called to implement the functionality.

Forth doesn't hide anything from the programmer.

Lisp hides its implementation of its list structure (memory, dynamic memory allocation, dynamic memory deletion, etc.) as well as any and all stacks -- from the programmer.

Now lisp might have API's where that information is accessible to the programmer -- (in theory, any language can have an API which allows access to any and all memory, by definition this allows any language to play with all parts of the machine), but the way LISP was originally implemented, the programmer no longer has to deal with this, much in the same way that in Java/.NET, the programmer doesn't have to deal with deallocating memory for objects when they go out of scope...

But all interpreted languages, one way or another, boil down to 'look up a symbol/string/"key" -- representing a function name -- then call/goto/invoke that function in memory... sort of like a key/value lookup (or even just a variable name that gives you back an address -- a pointer in compiled languages), and then you just CALL (preserving where you came from (to later RET)) to that address"...

So in some ways similar, in some ways different...
> They also get additional payments in fractions of a bitcoin for transactions and this is in addition to the costs I wrote above?

Yeah, the basic design of bitcoin is for the block rewards to dominate early on with no/low transaction fees, but transaction fees to gradually take over as the main reward for miners maintaining the network.
It has a crop-margins feature for reading PDFs that (for most documents) makes the text size slightly larger than it would be printed on letter sized paper. It's pretty seamless. For two column documents there's a "quarters" reading mode.

It's not a great experience for a PDF with no margins and a complicated layout (like some magazines.)
My memory is that girls bullied by emotional tactics: mocking, scorn, ostracizing, back-stabbing. Boys were more likely physical, though name-calling was also pretty common.
It would still need to download the firmware image on the computer running AC2 if it hadn't been downloaded before of course.
Or maybe just engage the statement on its merits instead of trying to create a strawman.
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If this happens more the closer people get in social status (friends) then it suggests that bullying (as defined here) is a tool of social competition.
"literal act of violence" was what the person you replied to replied to.

No NYT article is in the top 20 Google results for that phrase. And it's a straw man in the context of Google firing Margaret Mitchell.
We do have uncaused causes, but they are not God. They are fundamental processes such as radioactive decay, which occur in any particular interval of time with a certain probability, but have no cause. Sorry, Aquinas.
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Email remains underrated in terms of decentralized notions.
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Does anyone else notice that a lot of this stuff is just rehashed forms of things from decades prior?

Someone tried making a computer like this decades ago.

Ex-Machina had a plot device like this too, to make the robot’s transistor based brain.
qntm is getting a lot of love on hackernews today. They deserve it though, really interesting stuff and a perfect source for procrastination since I have so much else I should be doing...
I'm sorry if it was confusing.
But I was not using the law to argue she was ineligible for unemployment. Or that legally she "voluntarily quit".(though there is at least an argument she did) Only that Google's or Jeff Dean's use of word resigned was not an easily verifiable lie.

I used the term Gebru firing because I think either description is equally accurate. It was a firing in the sense Google did not want her to work there anymore. It was also a resignation in sense she didn't want to work there anymore.

You're arguing that it's a bold faced law to describe a letter of resignation as such if there is not a specific date. You haven't shown this is true in California law much less English. And if it's true in any sense it's not a lie.

If I went to my boss and said "I don't wanna work here anywhere, I'll check my calendar to find a convenient last day". And they respond with don't bother go home you'll get your two weeks.

You're argument is if someone described that event to someone else as me resigning they'd be a big ol liar?

That doesn't seem right to me.
I don't think the headline is supported by the contents of the article.

The headline implies that Coca-Cola is taking some affirmative action to make people watch these videos.

But reading the article and the linked tweets, it seems like:

- Coca-Cola pays for LinkedIn Learning, an educational platform

- LinkedIn Learning has a variety of paid and free content

- one of the free pieces of content Robin DiAngelo's presentation with the "Be less white" phrase -- that is, anyone can watch this at https://www.linkedin.com/learning/confronting-racism-with-ro...

- Coca-Cola says: "The video circulating on social media is from a publicly available LinkedIn Learning series and is not a focus of our company’s curriculum"

It's not clear from Coca-Cola's statement whether this means Coca-Cola has encouraged or required its employees to watch this video. Perhaps you could infer from the lack of a denial that they are requiring people to watch it, but IMO, that doesn't merit the certainty expressed in the headline.
> During an argument I think it actually benefits all participants to stick to a consistent viewpoint and defend it as strongly as possible to make sure that its strengths and weaknesses are fairly represented.

My feeling is that a "debate" format — under which we can include online comments and replies — is actually one of the worst ways of informing people, and vastly inferior to other educational methods. I was serious when I said "go offline and read a good book".

Debates almost invariably become a show. It's about entertainment, about "scoring points", winning and losing. But the biggest loser is always the truth, which becomes lost in the back and forth. Debates encourage taking sides. They encourage the mistaken view that there are only 2 sides to every subject.

You can try very hard to avoid these pitfalls, but it's important to note that they come with the territory. Debates inevitably fall into these pits without very hard work. It's just not a great format for information and education. But a lot of people enjoy them immensely, which is why they happen, regardless of value.
The 1st Amendment only limits what Congress can do, it doesn’t say anything about what public or private companies have to do with respect to freedom of speech: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

IANAL, but I guess if Congress makes a law forcing Twitter or Facebook to abridge US citizens’ freedom of speech, then Congress would be violating the 1st amendment. Is that what you meant?
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I find the historical dietary evidence pretty convincing that eating meat regular or even daily is, in fact, healthy.

Ancient writers even documented that societies where meat was a major dietary component were healthier and lived longer - Herodotus’s “long lived Ethiopians”, to name one of the countless examples.

What we need to end is massive, industrialized farming, not meat consumption. It’s bad for the environment whether you’re growing vegetables or animals and it creates a fragile system subject to severe, devastating supply shocks and also externalities like this.
I tend to agree. Dynamic linking is only a win on space when 1) you have multiple programs running which share the same library, 2) they're not all identical programs which would share code, and 3) the programs use a significant fraction of what's in each dynamic library they load.

With static linking, you get to prune at the function level at link time. DLLs can't do that.
Doesn't congress "investigate" all kinds of stuff where the investigations go nowhere?

Aren't most congressional investigations just opportunities for congresspeople to read statements directed at their supporters?

I'm just confused by all of these investigations. I want to hear about the proportion of investigations that elicited information that subsequently induced congress to write and pass new laws. Can anyone point me in that direction?