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>If this cultural shift is a concern due to its effect on society and its norms, then Peterson would be a counter-productive solution, since this sort of person being considered an intellectual worth following is a step down from these very same norms. It's like putting out a house fire with a flamethrower. The problem is the breakdown in informed discourse.

Peterson DOES encourage informed discourse. Unlike some public figures that are wont to use strawman arguments and/or voice their opinions in an echo chamber, I've seen Peterson go on almost hostile interviews, keeping calm and giving accurate and measured answers to their questions whilst ignoring their jabs(see Cathy Newman or Vice interviews for example). And as was mentioned before, he's also known to change his opinion if he's convinced that he was wrong - now you show me another public figure that's willing to do that, not too many of those from what I've seen.

>The result is that the money and attention of people concerned about cultural shifts is then funneled into the pockets of people like Peterson or Shapiro or whomever, with some pretty unenviable results.

I can't speak about Shapiro since I haven't watched him or his stuff, but I have no problem with Peterson getting money or attention from his lectures, interviews, or books. I cannot find what harm his material can cause either.

>You end up in a situation where people talk of rediscovering traditional norms and opposing them to new norms, without actually understanding what the traditional norms are or engaging with them beyond vague social-media ready descriptions. What could have been effective or at least thoughtful conservatism paradoxically turns into a post-modern parody of itself, with plenty of references to the aesthetic aspect (flags, slogans, freedom of speech etc.) without the substance that originally generated those symbols. And this substance and world lying outside of the Petersons and Shapiros starts to shrink because they monopolize the attention of people who would have otherwise engaged with deeper material and applied it in productive ways.

I think it's healthy to be at least A LITTLE bit sceptical of new norms. Our society was pretty much the same for at least thousands of years and in a few decades we're changing things up very drastically. Are you that sure that it's not going to cause issues that can have dire consequences in the future? I'm not.

I'd like to reiterate again that I don't think Peterson is as conservative as you seem to be implying, he doesn't want everybody being under Sharia-like social rules of Christian propriety. He does seem to lean towards traditional family values, which I don't think is a bad thing. Otherwise he seems to champion personal freedom, especially against any form of tyranny.

With regards to him not understanding traditional norms I'd like to disagree. If you can show me some examples of where he does that please do.
You’re definitely right by that measure. There’s a famous hydro energy deal between the provinces of Newfoundland and Quebec in Canada where in the 1960s Newfoundland agreed to provide hydro power in a long term contract (80 years?) for what is now a fraction of its value. It’s viewed as an enormous boondoggle (“Churchill Falls”) but what most don’t realize is it was signed under the expectation that the coming wave of cheap, abundant nuclear would make hydro power uncompetitive.
Cool. Related question - how has been your experience working with firecracker VMs, and what led you to that decision? (I’ve been eyeing them for a while to get faster startup times for autoscaling).
> Protocols should also evolve...

This is why something like Delta Chat is a good thing. Almost everyone has email, so evolving email to include chat is a good thing. Also, it takes chat away from single entities.
I ordered quite a few items from etsy over the holidays and all by logging in with Google on my android phone
"yes, but:" the lines don't provide the same service along their path. Just because you can get from some point in Tokyo to NRT airport on 3 different services doesn't mean that these 3 services are competing on everything else. Same for the different lines and companies in other places.

I would actually consider this an odd example of "long-range" transport.
If it's slow due to being simpler, that simplicity will probably lead to fewer bugs, indeed.

If it's slow for other reasons, there'd be no clear correlation.
This is highly refined (I'm gonna stop just short of calling if "pure") FUD.

In practice nobody gets their utilities shut off except people who were intending to pay their bill and slip through the bureaucratic cracks (elderly with kids managing it is a common scenario) or the person paying the bill doesn't live there and stopped paying (e.g. landlord in foreclosure so they stopped paying). I can't speak for literally every municipality but there are defined timelines and it takes months to shut utilities off. By the time they get around to shutting off your water or electricity you've already missed god knows how many payments on your rent and been through the full eviction proceedings. I've also never seen a utility provider that won't accept minimum payments. Providing some sort of financial assistance services, payment plans and doing everything possible to not shut people's utilities off is generally a requirement of getting a government granted utility monopoly in the first place.

Anyone who has to choose between utilities and something else should choose the something else. Utilities tend to be incredibly forgiving and willing to work with you if your financial situation doesn't permit payment in full. In some jurisdictions the debt doesn't even get reported (they just keep trying to collect)
> The addition of Rust as dependency enables the inclusion of just 90 lines of Rust

My understanding is that this is just the beginning, and the whole reason it's only a small amount is precisely to do it in small steps, correctly, rather than re-writing the entire world in one go.
Fwiw, many water providers will continue services if any amount is paid in good faith. Also worth noting (at least in California): no water to the building means it is legally uninhabitable: you can be forced from the property.
The author doesn't explicitly mention turning off the mitigations for testing the exploit, but that might be the case here. The article is certainly vague enough to not know for sure.

> Amusingly, this method is still working on an up to date Linux

This may refer to the whole thing working, or just the KASLR bypass part.
I am following https://www.o-boot.com/en/ with interest. They claim to have solved the buckling issues by using a roman arch-like structure.

The idea sounds relatively sound to me. One could construct a sphere out of aerogel cones, and the external pressure would reinforce it. Not sure how practical it would be to build such a thing, though.

At some point, since volume grows slower than volume, I expect you can make the envelope relatively thick without sacrificing density. That's also the idea behind Cloud nine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_%28tensegrity_spher...
I'm a British immigrant to Bucharest, nearly 4 years, and I live in a slightly smaller version of the housing in your images, a 4-floor 1986 block in the south of the city, adjacent to Vacaresti park.

In London, this type of housing might be depressing, but here it is normal -- and when you take away 'neighbor envy', it's hard to express the difference it makes to one's own sense that you've reached some equilibrium in your environment and your life.

The TV ads here might be full of people in detached houses, but that kind of residence is very rare in this country - at least in cities like Bucharest and Cluj.

In short, Bucharest folk are used to it, and practically no-one in the US is. For them, it's 'the projects'.
I judge Soviet quality off of the 20 or so Mosins I’ve shot. Sounds very similar to their cameras, but at least the rifles are more fun.
Human-only perspective? That is assuming we can thrive if not not without an ecosystem.
Check out type-driven development (there are books on using Idris for this) -- it blew my mind! You do what you're talking about to encode business logic that's checked at compile time.
Live coding a vi for CP/M, from scratch (2019)
According to the USGS, 37% of gold is used in electronics. So gold is also a part of productive assets, and its use in electronics is only increasing.

Bitcoin by contrast isn't a productive asset, has no fundamental property like gold does, that exists outside of its original purpose, and its maintenance requires constant usage of energy just to jog in place. Switch off the BTC network, and value goes to zero, which isn't true for gold.
It's nothing yet except for a statement of intention: we aspire to become the next SpaceX and hope to raise the interest of investors that can't access SpaceX stock. There is no talk about the engines, it's quite clear that the Rutherford won't cut it (Electron already uses 9 of them). So they have to either buy or develop an engine, expensive in time or money.

The mega-constellation sweet spot argument is not really convincing, if you have a reusable mega rocket with a relightable second stage (like SpaceX plans), you can hit multiple planes in a single launch. The 8 ton class is probably just the largest they can afford to plan at this stage.
Never been poor, but happened to have a car that was unreliable AF. It's anxiety inducing to say the least when every time you start it feels like a roll of the dice. Especially when others are with you.
That’s like saying ignition doesn’t matter for an internal combustion engine because it isn’t surfaced to the user.
Define "move" here. I move domains between registrars every now and then and I never have written anything on paper to do so.
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> Berkshire is part of the market, thus it cannot outperform the market forever. In fact you expect reversion to the mean -- companies that outperform then underperform and vice versa. Why is there reversion to the mean? Because the special techniques discovered by the company are copied and disseminated, key people are poached, ideas that used to work reliably stop working, etc. So these social constraints kick in long before mathematical constraints, but even if in theory you can overcome the social constraints, you can never overcome mathematical constraints, and thus Berkshire and all other investment holding companies must eventually stop overperforming, and most only eek out a few years of net overperformance.

Understood. Thank you!

Now I wonder why brekshire investors keep holding the stock. Shouldn't the stock crash and burn. What is their logic ? Sunk cost bias?
Yes. Or Elm. It'd advise that approach, as starting with Haskell is quite a big step. The https://haskellbook.com is a great start though for anyone that wants to be guided through the basics.
Eh, I somewhat agree, but when it comes to engineering, there are more engineering fields than software. Civil engineers, for example, are one of the top 3 (my opinion obviously) of disciplines that can have a significant good impact on the environment. Bio, chem and even mechanical engineers can have a good sized impact as well. Software engineers... yea, not so much.

For example, when it came to the ozone layer, it was chemical engineers that led to alternatives to the aerosols of the time that allowed the Montreal pact to even be feasible. The ozone is still on track for full healing in 2060 because of that.

I just think tech folks in general have a hubris problem. To "solve poverty and gov control on currency", 37 megatons of extra co2 gets pumped in the air: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption. Let alone all the companies claiming to make the world a better place by harvesting private data and controlling what content the public is allowed to see or agree with.

It's a shame because mechanical and electronic engineers developed light bulbs (LED) that used a quarter of the power compared to traditional (incandescent).

It's also mechanical engineers that are developing better renewable energy generation.

So yes, engineers can help the environment. Most here are just the wrong kind of engineer that can actually do more than hold a glittery poster board saying, "I'm upset".

I switched out of dev to work in the concrete industry so I can do my part in cutting unnecessary co2 emissions.
Oh that's right, it never was. But anyway, the phone still always has everything right?
I like perl, but the temple you build with it becomes very complicated. Sadly the fortress of TCL has won me over.
I think advertising has a role but it’s amplifying an existing cultural value rather than creating one. A culture which conceives of itself as capitalist naturally encourages thinking of wealth as your score and at least in the U.S. we lack much counter pressure pushing other values as equally important. Even things like religions which discourage this have been distorted to fit, as anyone who’s ever seen a prosperity gospel believer try to talk their way around the clear meaning of the needle’s eye parable can attest.

I think this comes back to basic primate social dynamics. We evolved tracking our social standing relative to others and wealth is pretty easy to compare. Advertising exacerbates that tendency but I don’t think there’s any way to get rid of it with standard issue humans.
I agree that there is probably some other genre that would describe it better, but I think it wouldn't be unfair by any means to describe GTA as a third-person shooter.
Wouldn't San Marino have served the purpose, or even the Vatican?
>My rental deposit is held in escrow by some third party; I've never heard of anyone not getting their deposit back when they move (unless they did something to deserve it e.g. trashing the place).

This is only a relatively recent thing in the UK, introduced about 10 years ago, to tackle the problem described in the original post of landlords running off with tenants deposits.

When I was a student ~10 years ago, just before compulsory deposit protection was introduced, it was very common for landlords to invent or wildly exaggerate damages to keep the £1000+ deposit, especially because they thought that students would be a push-over.
> to avoid the regulation that would have helped stop this

Actually it was the regulators themselves who were responsible: the Public Utility Commission of Texas - the government organization that is explicitly set up to prohibit price gouging - deliberately set the price to the highest possible price for the entirety of the storm.
Commercial customers like factories and empty offices cutting usage can still make a serious impact.
I've had a Fed 2 rangefinder with a 50mm Industar lens I bought in Russia 10 years ago, I still use it from time to time. It's been a great camera, but film's getting too expensive to develop. I recently put the lens on a mirrorless Sony. Aside from the lack of auto-focus/aperture it's a still solid.
> It's switching to next tab in everything, not only Safari.

So where's the consistency? I thought all shortcuts were supposed to use Cmd as the modifier and Ctrl was only for complicated shortcuts. But switching tabs in a browser is one of the most common shortcut. So why is it Ctrl?

You can't say because "everything" else uses Ctrl in this context. Because then they should fix the mouse issue also. The crux of my problem is that shortcuts randomly use Ctrl or Cmd, there is no predictability or consistency.

But I do recognise that keyboard shortcuts rely on familiarity and tradition more than consistency and logic, so this isn't a major deal for me.

The bigger issues are the other stuff. External monitor support is as good as broken. Full screen apps are as good as unusable. OS updates regularly break critical features like Settings and Fingerprinter. And on and on. I really never had these sorts of bugs in my entire life using Windows.
> I’m not quite sure why it works this way.

It works this way because people are, rationally, more interested in their own physical safety than they are in the feelings of strangers.

Anecdote: I was in San Francisco a few years back. There were homeless folks everywhere. Some were nice, even chatty. We felt at ease even when walking through areas that were full of homeless folks. But a couple of days into our trip, a homeless dude accosted a coworker on the sidewalk. He shouted violent threats, shoved my coworker, and told him not to come back. When I asked my coworker what set the guy off, he said that he had absolutely no idea.

That experience changed how I interacted with homeless folks for the remainder of the trip. I made no eye contact. I avoided areas with groups of homeless folks. I did not respond when spoken to. Is that fair to the average homeless person, who is perfectly normal, just down on their luck? To be perfectly honest, I do not care. My physical safety comes before your feelings. Full stop.
That would be interesting to know more about. What's the point of paying the speed hit of spectre (and meltdown?) mitigations if they are ineffective?
> It's actually well understood that privatisation for platform industries is bad, privatisation for businesses running on top of platforms is good.

Cite?

I have lived in two countries, one with privatized market based grid and have not yet had one power failure, one with nationalized grid and producers grid that had daily 8 hours power outages for weeks on end to the point where year on year per capita electricity usage (an important measure for development) was going down.

Anecdotes are not data, but all I can say is that most definitely every nationalised grid does not run better than every privatized grid, and without some data to back your claim I am skeptical.
> Is this a terrible coding practice?

Nope. I have been versioning everything from C# to SQL for more than a decade and it saved me many, many times. With Subversion too, which is far less evolved and modern than Git.

The advantage of mastering a complex tool like git and mantaining a central repository is the increased granularity of commits/branches and clarity of versioning, but if the "snapshot here and there" approach works for you, then use it.
Freeloading isn't related to homelessness in many cases (perhaps most), but it is very related to what I replied to.
Not to mention: an iphone (or any smartphone really) is a really efficient investment. I'm not sure, but for a few hundred dollars you have a very good device already.

Compare that to my own growing up, and we had separate costs for a TV, a radio, we would save up for a walkman or CD player, internet started off as dial-up at the library, then a PC. We'd buy CD's with games and things like Encarta, we'd record or rent films on a video recorder, etc etc etc. And all of those things had to be shared.

Now, with a smartphone, you have all of the above and then some - at a one time investment. Each of those individual devices back then cost the same as a single decent smartphone does nowadays.

I really don't see the issue. I mean I kinda get the objections, because for some reason smartphones are still considered luxury items (but only if you're poor), but it's such an empowering tool (and a source of distraction, which is something everyone needs).
I fondly remember my time learning Haskell in uni. Some of the most brain expanding stuff I did during that period. Of course, when the time came to actually use it to build my thesis work (data mining collaboration patterns in open source software), I fumbled around with Haskell for months trying to get something done, and then "in anger" wrote the whole thing in Python.

I've since gone on to do most of my career in Python and haven't looked back. But something deep inside of me certainly misses Haskell. And try as I may to let old bygones be bygones, I keep trying to figure out a good use for it. I certainly wonder whether there's a niche for convex optimization problems where I'd otherwise use `cvxopt` in Python, or something in Julia, or even (if I was feeling particularly exotic), something in Prolog.

Basically, what I'm trying to get at is whether there's something that Haskell's enormously powerful compiler could do so much better than other languages that it would be reason enough to write service code in it. Anyone more experienced in HS have thoughts on this? I know Facebook uses it in production.
The part about cars is pretty spot on, I'm upper middle class and I've been able to save so much money by getting rid of my car. On the low end you're going to hit 300 to 500 dollars a month for the privilege of driving.

The problem here is America simply isn't built for public transit. But since cars are a status symbol, people still go down to Toyota, or Honda and as long as they can make that first down payment they get to drive a new car. I was talking to a rather brash car salesman and he laughed about how he can tell who's going to get their car repoed.

Cars are the single biggest reason why so many people can't get ahead. You also have a gargantuan maze of cascading consequences when you really can't afford a car. You don't have insurance because you can't afford it, you get in an accident and lose your license. As the article states that doesn't stop you from needing to drive. Then you get pulled over and risk getting arrested.

I'm very lucky in that I don't need to drive a car, even when you can afford one driving to work every day can be a truly hellish experience.
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The system will notice changes and disable certain features. I noticed my Apple Pay stopped working after a restore and there are additional settings that can turn off Apple Pay. Such as allowing boot from an external drive.
Re: Russel conjugations - there was no "spin" to anything I said, I stated facts that were neutral - yes, that neutrality which is certainly a better light than you're appearing to believe Ted Cruz deserves (which has nothing to do with my own perception of him - it's your own belief or reaction you're applying to the facts). There is a difference - and if you read the examples at Google for searching "what is russell conjugation" - https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/ - then none of them fit what I said because I was just listing fact, so my points still stand and I wasn't using any fallacies or bad faith arguments. I won't analysis the conversation further because it'll become inflammatory. I'd love for you to show exactly where I am applying bias to the facts I listed.
Why does the hydrogen need to be liquid? Airships are weight not volume constrained, so you could probably just store it as gas. You could make it buoyancy neutral by compressing it (at 13 atm it has the same density as air at 1 atm), or carrying oxygen as well (which would also make the fuel cells more efficient that just using hydrogen + air).

In some ways hydrogen is an ideal fuel for airships, because although the energy density is very low, the specific energy is very high — much higher than batteries, and 2-3 times hydrocarbon fuels.
I believe that AI should fundamentally be used as a tool to supplement our own productivity. It's foolish to think that AI powered by our current machine learning algorithms will be a be-all-end-all to replace thousands of jobs when it can't even generalize the simplest of concepts. I really hope we choose to use AI to make us more productive, rather than to replace us in the workplace.
Yes, use this on my Linux machine. Works seamlessly.
Github disables secrets for actions triggered from pr's. But users can commit an action that runs on their pr.