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In the run up to the 2008 financial crash, banks, property developers, landlords and others were making a ton of money. I was a student, so was not making any money. Then in 2008 all of that came crashing down and many of these companies got bailed out using public money. I graduated and had to pay an added bailout tax.

So, while they were all benefiting and making money I didn't see any of that money (privatise the profit), sure some of it got paid out in taxes, but clearly not enough, since:

When their businesses started to fail, I, who didn't make any profits from them, had to pay extra in taxes to save these companies. (socialise the losses)

They only saw upside and no downside, I only saw downside and no upside.

Sure, they paid taxes while they were profited, but my life didn't change much before vs after the crash, in terms of what the government was providing. So the government provided the same to me when they were supposedly earning extra in taxes as they provided when they needed me to pay extra in taxes to bail out the companies. That doesn't sound like the taxes paid by the companies really made much difference (and that difference was easily wiped out by the bailouts anyway). Same goes for any jobs created: would have been cheaper to use the bailout money to pay these people directly (pre crash) than to give them job and let them wreck the economy, and then we have to bail them out anyway.
You may not be the target audience though, the target audience are probably people that aren't yet "bough into" the google ecosystem. So they are unaware of this axing policy. Anyone logging into chromium, using gmail and google calendar and an android device is already "theirs".

What they want is to increase the share of people that are in the MS ecosystem (and presumably also OSX ecosystem, but that's mostly a status signaling thing, so the strategy there is probably different).
I'm not russian but curious how this can get published in Moscow Times. I thought Putin owns the whole media and any newspaper printing things like this will have immediate consequences. No?

I'm also not sure what really Navalny is thinking. Yes, some people came out in protest but crowds were small and there is nothing they can do. In modern times, armies are very effective at squatching protests. When you have nukes, no country will do anything against you except to cry little about human rights and move on. I don't see how Navalny can win here at all. His best bet was to get asylum and run whatever remote campaign he can run but it would be just sideshow anyway.
Yeah, I pretty much ignore my bank balance and autopay my bills and mortgage and never have to think much about money. By the apparent standards of SV techs I'm well below the poverty line. I find it difficult to empathize with them.
He was one of the big names in the Perl world back in the 2000s. Wrote some books (including the wonderful Perl Cookbook) and I remember having a course at work given by the Tom Chritstiansen Perl consultancy.
I agree with your broader point- one shouldn't tell others that their life isn't worth living. But I'm afraid maybe you're downplaying the struggles a poor Bangladeshi have to go through.

I currently live in Bangladesh. And my father made a off-handed comment few days ago about how there isn't many "thin" people in our village anymore. When he grew up in 60s, a big chunk of our village people didn't have two meals regularly, people dying of hunger wasn't so uncommon. Just two days ago a doctor friend told me hundreds of people die in his hospital every week due to lack of proper equipment. I have several times witnessed the heartbreaking scene in pharmacies where people ask for the price of a medicine, and then turn away without buying anything after hearing the price.

Overpopulation at least partly contributes to this, if not the biggest contributor. It may not be a global problem, but it definitely is a problem for a country like Bangladesh (and maybe India too). I'm not saying this people's life is worthless, but I would definitely not want a new generation of people to go through this.

Population control here is not just the pragmatic and necessary option, it's also the most humane thing to do.
interesting. Steamspy no longer works, but its last report in 2016 said it had 25 million sales (at the time it was roughly on par with minecraft sales). Since then, the concurrent player count has more than doubled, but its very difficult to get information about sales.
> Can't go wrong with lead acid OPzS...

I can't wait for some of the more stable, non-toxic chemistries run through redox flow batteries to become more marketable. For a shelter, I don't care how big the system is, and if all I have to replace is a pump (and I'm trying to figure out if I can use magneto-hydrodynamic pumps to even extend the life of that component) and what evaporates away, the lifespan of the battery is far longer than what we are used to. I'm also interested in nickel-iron chemistries getting hammered out.
The self hosted runner is definitely using some .net stuff, you get a load of .net related errors if you try and run it on a non-glibc container (e.g alpine w/musl).

shudder
‘ In general, the demon sets some threshold of performance (wins or losses) over a given time period that will tell it whether or not to stop. There’s no unique best gambling strategy, but some are better than others. ’

Can someone explain this in a simple way?
"that's not my job" x 1B
The reason you spend money as soon as you get it when you're poor is 1) because when you're poor you accumulate debts, both formal and informal, and 2) when you're poor you know other people who are poor and who need things.

Thinking poor people like being poor because they value what's really important - friends and family - is like poverty version of the "magical negro" trope. Poor people value friends and family because they need each other to survive. People with no money problems don't need anyone.

edit: I honestly believe in a harsher version of this, in that for me the difference between friend and acquaintance is that a friend has sacrificed their comfort or safety for yours when they didn't have to. A friend is an acquaintance that has been tested by your bad circumstances and passed. If you're wealthy, you are rarely in truly bad circumstances, so when they happen, you might find yourself surrounded by acquaintances. Poor people know who to trust because they've had to trust them before.
I do not think this reflects reality. Companies declare bankrupcies when their negative cash flow exceeds their cash reserves and they cannot put off creditors any further. Until then, they are a going concern. Alternatively, they declare bankrupcy when it will best help their owners. Assets and liabilities do not play much into the calculus. Just my observation from decades of startups and small companies and reading the news.
Having a C backend does not solve the hard issues. Because of undefined behavior in the C specification, sometimes there just is no way to write down a particular expression in a portable manner in C without treading through undefined territory. This may not be as big of a deal for boring application code, but we're talking about cryptographic code here, which needs to work hard to avoid memory corruption, integer overflows, timing side channels, etc.
> BigInt is a built-in object that provides a way to represent whole numbers larger than 2^53 - 1, which is the largest number JavaScript can reliably represent with the Number primitive and represented by the Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER constant.

Isn't this wrong? JavaScript's Number type can represent some integers vastly greater than this. [0] What's special about Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER, if I understand correctly, is that it's the smallest integer such that (Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER + 1) is not guaranteed to be represented faithfully by the Number type.

Given the topic, I don't think I'm being pedantic.

edit On second thought, I could well be mistaken. The definition of JavaScript's Number type might be such that no guarantees are made about which integers greater than Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER can be represented exactly.

edit 2 Nope, Number.MAX_VALUE is defined to be an integer. [0] Which is to say, the largest whole number that can be represented is Number.MAX_VALUE, not Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER. Of course, it's not the case that Number is guaranteed to be able to exactly represent all non-negative integers less than Number.MAX_VALUE, but that isn't the same thing. The article appears to get this wrong.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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>> That’s the drop-off you experience at the lower price levels - there’s nothing between “This is a tiny but acceptable apartment” and “Slum apartments in stab-ville”.

>I don't think this is true, and why would it be? Unless you're in an area where the housing market is cliffed for some legislative or regulatory reason. But most places, no, I've not seen this. You might have to put effort in to find nicer places on a budget, research areas, etc. but isn't that true of any purchase?

The thing that I've noticed is that yes the sweet spot exists but the supply is always more limited. You have higher availability on living because it is so expensive that not everyone can afford it(or think it is worth it). And the cheap in not so good areas (not necessarily dangerous but gives e.g. longer commutes and has less services and so on) have a higher supply because of that. The sweet spot in good location and a good price is going to have all houses and/or apartments taken. Then the surprise happens, since supply is limited at this sweet spot the prices tend to rise so you get that cliff mentioned in the article.
Yeah but emissions are only one part of the equation - logging a forest will produce more net atmospheric carbon than taking a long-haul plane trip, even though cutting down trees doesn't emit anything.

The biggest carbon sink is the ocean, so doing things that damage the ocean (like dumping trash into a river) are more of a concern.

There's also other environmental concerns than CO2 and climate change. Damaging jungle and ocean ecosystems creates other effects that we need to be concerned about (not least biodiversity losses from loss of habitat and population).
When was the last time a shareholder made decisions like what led to this bankruptcy?
It took a tsunami on an unmaintained nuclear power plant to cause Fukushima.

It took the russians lifting off _every single security mechanism_ to cause Chernobyl.

The ojer major incidents like Three Mile Island are just "well, security measures have failed, we didn't have enough fallbacks. It's broken now. Light irradiation around but nothing major".

So, no, nuclear power doesn't stop for anything but the absolute worst conditions. As for the "doing even worse" part, two can play that game: hydro is renewable and yet killed hundreds of thousands. Oh no, stop hydro!
Nice work, Perl.com team! And, a very helpful incident report we can all learn from.
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Depends on the culture. For instance, it wasn't used at all in the ex-USSR back in the day.
Apple has an opt-in for telemetry every major iOS update.
Am I missing something or is the work required to write an interpreter comparable to the work involved in a drop-dead-simple compiler, that even without any optimizations is guaranteed to be faster? The wasm instruction set maps very well over the x86_64 instructions, you already need to build a decoder for the input binary, so with a bit more glue code and address space setup you can execute wasm directly. More complex functions and instructions can fallback to the precompiled versions that you have to write anyway.

But again, there might be complexity I'm missing.
Because of prior arrangements, not because of blocking.

I'm glad that you now acknowledge that "there is only one argument" is not so, that is definitely progress.
> is not an engineering problem, it's a political problem

That's a political choice, and it doesn't have to be that way. You think it's a hard political problem because we'd have to make very hard choices (reducing quality of life) with the currently deployed technical solutions.

We could push along the R&D levels tech that's already researched, just not deployed (renewables and storage for their intermittent production like li-ion utility scale batteries), and research more some stuff that's barely researched (next gen nuclear, fusion).

Having palatable tech solutions would mean not making unpalatable political choices.
There’s also a difference in the way people handle money once they improve their financial situation. They tend to be cautious, and save money instead of spending it. There are exceptions, of course.
Parachutes cannot open at 15000 feet on earth - the air pressure is not there.

Why do they open at an air pressure equivalent of 120000 on Mars?

And even if they did open, they would only be able to carry a miniscule weight.

You realise that in a pure vacuum, a feather drops as quickly as a ball bearing?
Have you tried Elixir?

I've not learned its Erlang base, so I can't tell my Erlang from my Elixir, but... in Elixir you can Enum.at(list,n), which with:

at = &(Enum.at(list,&1)

Could simplify into:

at.(n)

If that doesn't suit I'm sure some equally simple such thing could create exactly what you're after. (As I understand it, various kinds of metaprogramming are an intended base element of the language itself.)
Competition on public transport is limited by the fact that you often need a cohesive network to get from A to B via C & D. If multiple companies cooperate on crossover ticketing and align their schedules, yes, it can work. Even more likely to work is a model where a central authority opens tenders for specific services, and transport companies can compete on that.

Then again, I don't think it's viable to build subway tracks and tunnels to compete. Even if you have space under the earth, there may not be space for more stations, and good station locations are important too.
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I can't believe what Rockstar did here. I and 3 friends stop playing GTA V cause of the unbelievable stupid loading times.
The downfall of building an entire testing system based on a proprietary technology. Other things can also go wrong, like manufacturer refusing to develop a test on it because it is not profitable, priority in developing a test could cause delay.
Heh, I had a similar story but just a decade later. Was not allowed to take the graphics elective in University even though it was a part of the official syllabus. The reason being that it was difficult to get a good grade in this subject in the finals.

Indian society and the love for meaningless numbers on a sheet of paper, name a better duo.
Florida got it right, and the lockdown states got it wrong – Washington Times
8:9 is also a sweet spot, where you divide a 16:9 vertically to display two windows. No more awkward monitor rotations !
Climate change requires also a few technical problems to be solved. Jobs in the IT area are usually included in the chain.

Though, I also think joining a climate movement is very important.
The bug is more devious than that. The code looks linear at a glance and the culprit is that sscanf is actually O(N) on the length of the string. How many people would expect that?
you know "free loaders" aren't why most people are homeless right?
You have to ask yourself, why did Bill Gates short Tesla?
> It was such a senseless destruction. People miss AIM, people miss MSN Messenger and just a couple years later it turned out instant messaging platforms were worth billions.

> It's still insane to me these corporations shut down perfectly viable platforms that were still used by millions. The short sightedness and pettiness of these directors is something of legend, I hope there's a chapter about this in new management textbooks, but who knows.

It's not short sightedness. It was perfectly reasonnable to close these plateforms (in so much as they were closed - Microsoft folded MSN into the Lync and Skype brands and rather successfully sold it to pro users). They were never going to make money with them as they were. You are just missing that modern instant messassing plateforms have little in common with AIM and MSN.

If you look at what is valuable today, you have on one side WeChat and Whatsapp who took over the mobile space and are extremely valuable in emerging countries where text messaging became the main point of entry for conducting business and mobile payments. On the other side, you have Slack which use is centered around chat rooms and collaboration rather than direct messaging and whose popularity grew mainly on the shifting habits of a generation used to communicate via text, habits taken on smartphones. Then again, Microsoft was quick to reuse the infrastructure they already had to launch Teams which is very successful.

So, unless you could foresee the emergence of a mobile first world, it completely made sense to pivot these services towards paying customers.
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> wind isn't capable of base load supply.

I'm sorry, but really: Citation required on that claim.

There's plenty of counter positions[1][2][3] which say that if you assume 'base load' is a genuine thing, that renewables, including wind, are capable of meeting all our power generation needs - through a mix of energy sources, and also energy storage.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-12/renewable-ene...

[2] https://theconversation.com/renewable-energy-can-provide-bas...

[3] https://www.energymatters.com.au/renewable-news/baseload-ene...
I still have my Fed-4L rangefinder, (which was closely modelled on a Leica). It was my first proper camera as teenager in the late 1970s and it was just fabulous.

I was never happy with switching to SLR and I now use a Fuji X-Pro1 which brought back the love of photography that my wonderful affordable Fed-4L first instilled in me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FED_(camera)
> I had enough to keep a squalid roof over my head and three square meals a week.

Three meals a week sound pretty miserable. I assume that's a typo :)
You may have missed the point, so I'll state it explicitly: almost all people lack empathy, it's just more than some have the self-control not to stab homeless people to death.

Sympathy, gratuity, and freeloading are somewhere off in the distance.

I hope you're not trying to slip in some duplicitous language to accuse me of being freeloader. What does it have to do with anything?
That we can say the install bundle is 50 gigs with a straight face though? I remember not long ago games that were 8 gigs caused mayhem.

I suppose devs dont care about that as long as their QA allows it.
I'm an Android user whose phone supports microSD. I never take the card out of my phone -- it's a PITA, requires an ejector tool I always manage to misplace, and I think I'm only supposed to do it with the phone powered off -- but I do plug my phone into a computer to move files on and off of it. I do this with a USB-C cable.
I see Google also axing small winners in order to have people working on big bets. Undermining and then axing Orkut and then trying to create Google+ never made sense to me. A lot of non-brazilians non-indians (that didn’t use or even knew Orkut) defended the decision at the time, but I think history showed it was a bad bet.
Perl's pretty much dead, I haven't written any perl all month
Isn't Project Loom going to solve that problem for Clojure?
Airships and hydrogen... Nothing could go wrong with that combo! ;)
Do the janitors and admin staff hold shares? Ie do they benefit from the companies profits and do they have power over the board and executive teams?

If not the shareholders, someone in control of the company should be held accountable to avoid a "company in trouble? oh well, just shut it down, debt go poof, start again elsewhere, pocket the profits" situation or a situation where the company does something like damaging the environment. Too often do companies also get gutted to avoid paying out in lawsuits. There should always be people to go after. Probably it should be the board and executive team, rather than "I bought a single share" people. Ideally someone with skin in the game (so either being a shareholder, or maybe high salaries are sufficient too).
The fact that it's unique/monopolized doesn't mean that competition is hampered. The building (or land parcel) at 100 1st Ave does not provide a service that is ubiquitously needed by almost the entire populace.

If anything, this strengthens the argument. You can buy/rent/... a different parcel nearby, and this only affects you and your planned use of the building. But you can't switch to a different road network, and this affects everyone in their daily life.

That said, I also agree with the sibling post that this is also a problem, just of a different kind.
> What is a systemic disadvantage for non-white students but racism?

Parental income or education could be a systemic disadvantage that is not racist. Or a lack of role models. Or different amount of support by families.
What approach would you recommend for beginners?
> How can you provide value without skills?

This means that you can't model it as a liquid market.

> Do you... quit your job before you look for a new one?

I don't, because I don't work such long hours that I don't have the capacity to do anything after work. Some people have multiple jobs just to cover rent and food; adding a third (looking for new jobs) isn't always possible.

> Loan sharks don't _destroy_ value from an economic perspective. Nor does advertising.

Then economics is wrong. Wasting people's lives and attention is destroying value. Keeping people in debt, causing suffering… you're not extracting as much value out of people as they're losing. They're net negative.
The Hindenburg took about 100 hours from Frankfurt to Lakehurst.
Very handy. But you can use your Apple Watch for sudo which is even better: [0]

[0] https://github.com/insidegui/pam-watchid
I usually just open up a *scratch* buffer in emacs, and use ctrl-J to evaluate expressions.

I think my most common use case is for math (e.g. adding values that I extracted via some emacs keyboard macros).
> forcefully expropriates

heh
My dad works in public health, including in Bangladesh, I’m well aware of the issues. (That said, I think the anti-natalism of the international development field is under appreciated as a double-edged sword, as countries like South Korea and Singapore are beginning to find out.)

My point isn’t in disagreement with yours. Of course being poor is worse than being richer. My point is that even in Bangladesh, the level of prosperity is sufficient to exceed the threshold for humans to find life “worthwhile.”
> If you want to know how people truly are, become actually poor, filthy, and seem depressed, then you will know their nature.

I guess it’s just that so many poor, dirty people act mentally unhinged and (potentially) dangerous that you start to assume that about all of them.

I find that I try to avoid them right up until they force me to interact with them and I find out they’re one of the (relatively) normal ones. Then I’m perfectly happy to buy them a sandwich (or two, if I’m going to buy you breakfast might as well have a decent one).

I’m not quite sure why it works this way.
I suspect he is not actually that smart - his interview with 60 minutes, for example, made him seem childish and foolish. These incidents just haven't been widely publicized. But the way Musk's name gets casually mentioned in tv shows reminds me of Trump.
Probably meant in the Indian context. Even today, the gaming/animation industry is pretty small here, it was probably non-existent way back in 2001.