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> If you cannot 'trust the system' then nothing works - there is no avoiding it, everything breaks down.

Except trustless systems

> If you do not want to accept USD for reasons relating to 'trust' then there is no way to effectively exchange with the US economy

You may not be familiar with how some people pay with Tide :)

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are...

https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

From the article:

> male addicts whose need to feed their habits can foster a kind of innovative streak. “They are smart. They are creative.

This is the right attitude: not underestimating people, but realizing all humans are extremely smart and creative when push come to shove.

> Crypto solves absolutely nothing - there is not a single benefit to anything related to BTC, other than experimental value

Well, I'm retired. So are others. People buy stuff easily on the darknet. People can store value without fear of deflation. I see a lot benefits personally!

You may dislike that some shady people got crazy rich - but they seem to like it. Ultimately, if you never took any risk and made sure to always follow all the laws and the government recommendations (buy insurance! etc.), you have condemned yourself to be working class at best. There are different degrees of shiny - you can work at a FANG, but if you need to work, you are working class.

So be careful with what you say about them, as you may end up working for these people :)

> The 'way forward' is to build systems with integrity, because we depend on them - there is no avoiding the fact we need a credible Medical system, Justice system, Monetary system, Regulatory system etc

Sorry, but there is! When I need healthcare, I don't use the overpriced and bad quality US health system - I travel. For the monetary system, I may convert back some significant percentage in crypto before the next bullrun if I fear inflation. For the regulatory system, I shop around - it's likewise for everything: people adapt!

Just look at the flow of illegal immigrants demonstrating with their feet that they do not depend on the country they were born!

> The 'libertarian/trustless' notion behind BTC is without foundation, it's completely irrational.

Whenever I see lots of people engaging in a behavior I consider "irrational", I question my understanding of their situation, not their rationality :)

> If Argentinians want to trade with Americans then they have to qualify the value of that trade

You misunderstand the role of USD in Argentina or other places- local people use it as a store of value to trade with other local people. The US is not involved - except for printing the dollar bills. This is the process of dollarization, when something else is used instead of the local official currency.

In prisons, there is an official system in place, with grossly inflated prices - but cigarettes are used to trade.
> The 66-year-old said he was worried that less established authors were self-censoring by avoiding writing from certain viewpoints or including characters outside their immediate experiences.

Speaking as an occasional author, this is a true statement...
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I'd favor the kernel command line path over using a package, any ideas on which are needed to fix this particular exploit kit at hand?
I don't think we really disagree. My point is that the market won't function unless demand can adjust to prices. Right now there is no mechanism to allow it and the market can't possibly work.

If there were, as you say, it still might not work. But there were a lot of pictures of empty buildings with lots of lights on, etc. so there are inefficiencies. And if customers were automatically switching off (or simply reducing their own usage) as prices went up maybe prices would never have gotten so high. Ideally it would sort of be a fine-grained "rolling blackout" where priority is determined by what a customer chooses to purchase given all the variables that only the customer is aware of. That's a functioning market.

I agree that it may be completely impractical to make it work for electricity.
> The government can not and should not lift people out of poverty if those people refuse to work to better themselves.

At some point automation will leave us in a place where many, if not most, people’s labor is literally worthless because they’re not mechanics or engineers. Then what? Should those people starve even as we live in a time of abundance instead of scarcity? At what point does this concept of deservedness do more harm than good?
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Yes, that's exactly what auto-pay is. I'm in the US myself and in my experience, almost everyone advocates auto-pay. Some people may choose to pay early and some people may not be able to pay, but generally people in the US are recommended to set up auto-pay.
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Why not run a launchd script on boot that does the update? Does it need to be in the .bashrc?
I'd say this is horizontal integration, but they've built so much of a monolith and captured so much commerce, that it almost feels like a vertical stack.
I've built some calculator style apps. I didn't make money from them and it was solo.

I'd probably want someone with more sales background, a big network, and knowledge in the target domain. And of course with a similar level of commitment and determination.
The Vax had a polynomial evaluation instruction. It would barely be any more complicated to have such a thing produce the Calculus 101 derivative of a single variable polynomial.

Someone, somewhere, may well have done such a thing on some CISC machine.

CISC as a general approach lost out to RISC historically for specific reasons, but it's fun to think about.
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I generally think of ideas relating to games, mostly because that is what I generally do. I think there are a lot of classic game ideas that could be brought up to speed, and a lot of new game ideas that could be reduced to increase casual popularity (think: battle royal games like pubg, dayz, which then translate to 2d games that can support large casual player bases).

I also had an idea of a platform to fight against the idea of scalping and ultimately give artists higher proceeds from ticket sales (though does not have to be restricted to concerts, think PS5 release type events as well), but I have not many insights in to the industry and am pretty comfortable at my day job for now. I think it could work because it would be possible to start small (do things that don't scale) but also eventually lead to a general system of handling ticketing and selling... but who am I kidding, I'll probably never do it :)
There's an extra layer of nuance missing in your reply. 3 of the 5 factors boil down to "op made good decisions and worked hard" AS A TEENAGER. OP's formula won't work for a 30-year old who is trying to work equally hard and making equally good decisions... if they are saddled with poor educational qualifications, kids to take care of, and/or a criminal history. At which point, we as a society are faced with 2 options:

1. We can tell them it's their own fault for not making great decisions when they were teenagers, and therefore, they deserve to remain stuck in a poverty trap for the rest of their lives

2. Or, we can acknowledge that they are now in a situation where hard work alone is unlikely to solve their problems. And we can provide them with the tools they need to help themselves, and also become more valuable assets to society. For example, subsidized/free college or job training. Free/subsidized childcare. Safe living environments. Better access to healthcare. Better public transit so they can actually get to work. Etc
A lot of people switched to remove work due to coronavirus and now they need a laptop, so the demand is extremely high for laptops and it's components. It's much easier to do almost any work on a laptop than on smartphone.
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Is reading comprehension in the gutter, or are people more resistant to emails full of badly-structured fluff?
> well it has been claimed that they want to direct the news rather than tell it, as in they want to push what they think is right and that moral imperative is more important that presenting the facts.

This is what the corporate press has always done. There has never been a time where wealthy papers were paying journalists to follow the story and would print whatever they found. These are just nice stories people tell themselves.

What's mostly happening right now is a combination of a changing of the guard, with a new generation valuing other moral absolutes than the previous one; and more access to the internals of papers because of freer accesa to information (and misinformation) from social media.
I’ve done this, plugged into iTunes, waved a magic wand and all other possible methods. At best it magically frees 10gbs or so.
They ran diagnostics and this had to be uploaded through iTunes as well, waiting too long for the results.
My phone entered a boot loop when out of memory despite me using less than half of my phone.
Lastly, “On my iPhone” has 10gbs that can’t be located anywhere, I deleted all downloads etc.
Not a huge deal but it’s a hell of a bug.
When I have too much time I’ll have to do a factory reset but I can’t risk it yet.
Offloaded many apps, don’t use them too much so not a problem.
It must be due to iCloud or just temp files that refuse to leave.
I didn't expect that tweet to get so much attention. I plan to write more about what exactly happened when my accounts are re-activated.

But to clear a couple of things up:

1. I've since learned that the reason this happened could be due to an unusual confluence of events including Apple Card, autopay, and the online Apple Store.

2. The disabling of iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts is actually an Apple Card policy for overdue accounts, and they have a team dedicated to handling these account de-activation issues. (I think this is absurd, which is why I am drawing attention to it.)
You're free to your opinion.
Don’t take a simple tweet as a final word, that’s how misinformation spreads
This is one of those rare cases where I can say "It's 2021, and we know that's not true now." C and C++ can not be secure at scale without unreasonable amounts of effort. It can't be secure at any non-trivial scale through sheer discipline alone.

40 years ago, the case could be made. But C and C++ are not new languages, and the fact that just barely shy of no one can demonstrate the existence of secure C or C++ code bases without staggering levels of effort put into that process is data now, not just anecdote.

(And let me emphasize the effort as my yardstick. Writing truly secure code is arguably something nobody has ever done at scale in any language... but C and C++ are certainly unique in the sheer level of effort it takes poured in to them to even match what a number of other languages come with out of the box, let alone exceed them. If you aren't using some very high quality and fairly expensive tools like Coverity on a routine basis, you aren't even close.)
Puppet on every minor update?
| that's an insane dynamic to create in

What do you think Twitter would have looked like in 1956 when James Baldwin published Giovanni's Room?

Is the problem "cancel culture" (a nebulous term which means little) or simply the result of giving everyone on earth a place to complain?
I combat this problem with a combination of LeechBlock NG (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/leechblock-ng/) and hckrnews.com. The former prevents me from visiting Hacker News before 8 o'clock. The latter records every link that made it to the front page so that the possibility of FOMO is properly addressed.
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That's a pretty melodramatic way of describing someone needing to find a new publisher or self-publish.

Previously, they may not have been able to disseminate their ideas at all or may have actually been jailed or killed to contain their ideas.

How would even prevent someone from being "cancelled" without taking away publishers' freedom of expression?
I'm curious if you could get from an 80% solution to a 90% solution by just adding some markup to say things like, "This node should be to the left of this other one?"

Often I use invisible subgraphs to accomplish this sort of thing in GraphViz, but the markup for doing so is complicated and non-obvious.
The same reason funding police departments on ticket revenues is bad. It incentives overzealous enforcement, where it's not so much about preventing people from breaking the law, but instead figuring out what you can pin on them.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. One has to be crazy to allow a business direct access to you primary checking account.
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Not defending Xiaomi in general, but it's worth mentioning that the stock calculator in MIUI (at least when I last used it) was much more than just a traditional calculator. It had all kinds of sophisticated functionality that goes beyond our arithmetic, such as currency conversion, which obviously requires network and an api that might very well be third party and require a privacy policy.

So while I assume they're tracking users, I don't think the calculator having a privacy policy is as shocking as it initially sounds.
There is a huge survivorship bias in people's theories of what it takes to succeed economically. Working hard improves your odds, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient for success. Luck plays a huge role, starting with who your parents are.

Nonetheless, the ranks of the successful are chock-full of people who worked hard and who think that they can draw a straight line between their hard work and their success, and that if they can do it, so can anyone. If you are such a person, I urge you to read this:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2009/10/travelogue-beauty-and-de...
I don't have a US credit score because I never had a credit card in my life and always bought everything with money I knew I had (including my little home).

That never fails to completely throw financial institutions for a loop; they can't conceptualize it.

Ironically it means that if I was to apply for a credit card it would be very difficult to get it.
Maybe as a society we shouldn't focus too much on what those under the drinking age think of as offensive. If they are your target audience, sure, you'll need to pander, but for most, it really is only as consequential as you make it.

I honestly don't think our norms have changed much, which is backed up in a few studies. I think, more than anything else, we've decided that outrage is worth attention. Thanks ad revenue.
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When he said send in the military to do "an overwhelming show of force".

The military isn't going to walk through the crowd picking out the few people smashing windows or throwing bottles. That would not be an OVERWHELMING SHOW OF FORCE. They would march on the crowds, and almost inevitably use lethal force on them. Even if the target is only the ones throwing bottles or smashing windows, the military cannot and would not make that distinction in the moment.

We don't have to imagine what it would be like, it's happened before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
No matter what delimiters we use, we still have either a data sanitization problem or a data escaping problem. I've worked with a wire protocol that used the ASCII record delimiters, but with binary data so you also had to use binary escape (0x1b) and set the eighth bit on the following byte.
Assuming you're the author, your Twitter link is broken.
> - To what extend is this fixed by the mitigations which the kernel provides [0] for the Intel bugs? What do I have to add to my kernel command line?

You can test your (linux/bsd) system with the following:

https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker

A shell script to tell if your system is vulnerable against the several "speculative execution" CVEs that were made public since 2018.
The same is true for a HackerNews comment.
I agree that the internet age has made context more difficult, due to the sheer barrage of information it subjects us to.

But the above quote constitutes three medium-length paragraphs, and I suspect a couple of good editors could have synthesized that down further (possibly to the author's chagrin, but not to his detriment, if it was done properly). I do not believe we are that far gone.
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"In 1979, Les Blank took a detour to film German filmmaker Werner Herzog honoring a vow he made to Errol Morris that he (Herzog) would eat his shoe if Morris ever actually made one of his films he was forever talking about. Stung to action, Morris directed Gates of Heaven and Herzog, true to his word, returned to Berkeley to consume one of his desert boots at the UC Theater. Blank's film documents Herzog's strongly expressed belief that people must have the gutts to attempt what they dream of."

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