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Power is the input for a machine that performs calculations which can be used to get money.
On a factory farm, power is the input for a machine that raises animals, which can be exchanged to money.

If your animal-raising machine is profitable, you absolutely want to put as much power into it as possible - raising more animals means more profit. Both machines can be optimized, but that just allows more production for the same energy use. There's no incentive to reduce energy consumption unless some other factor bounds the machine's capacity (for example lack of materials, hardware, labor)

Capitalism in general is a machine for consuming natural resources and converting them to profit as quickly as possible.
Your professor clearly knows nothing about legal work. Don't tell him that though, you'll just piss him off.

Thank him for his "wisdom" but make sure you do it in a convincing way. Finish the class, get your A, move on with your life. You don't need him to acknowledge he's wrong, you just need him to give you good marks.
This has bugged me for a long time.

My company complies with HITRUST. Many of the HITRUST controls are syntheses of controls found in NIST, ISO, and other organizations.

In some cases, I want to know where a HITRUST control comes from: But since I can't look at ISO without paying, I am blocked from understanding the provenance of some HITRUST controls.

I don't like that.
People adapting the standards adds more value than perception. If these standards are being paid for by governments, then of course they should be free. But it they aren't free, it means not everyone will adapt then, and lowers their value
The issue is that many of these researchers may never have taken Calculus.
Not only did you miss the point of the article, you must have missed where in these very comments the author replies to someone else who just barely skimmed the article.

I will copy/paste it for you.

"You could also read the article before commenting. It’s one thing when an extension could do something but its code can be inspected to verify that it doesn’t. It’s an entirely different thing if it delegates its privileges to a web service that could do anything and that nobody can inspect.

Note: I’m the author of this article. "
"Legendary lands and places are of various kinds and have only one characteristic in common: whether they depend on ancient legends whose origins are lost in the mists of time or whether they are an effect of a modern invention, they have created flows of belief.

The reality of these illusions is the subject of this book."
The people whose revenue is derived from the current system are far outnumbered by those who lose in the system.
Your written English is superb. It's indistinguishable from that of a literate native speaker.
> What happened to "newsweek"?

The internet happened, and it became The Daily Beast, and then it became a zombie publication with nothing in common with the old print edition.
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LibGen has a section for standards, but I’ve rarely found it useful.

A better hack is to approach your local standards body. BIS in India publishes the ISO standards mostly-as-is as adopted by Indian Law/Regulations. They don’t make it easily accessible on the Internet, but it’s available if you ask them for it.
My professor thinks otherwise

As for my personal opinion, I haven't reflected on it too much, but I think capacity implies a quantitative (edit: measurable may be a better word?) output, but not necessarily fungible.
Other than being a really interesting hack, this could have some value in writing cross-platform code.
Grain prices caused the arab spring. Expensive food has been toppling governments since the beginning of civilization
"if your chances at a career are gated behind criminal background checks that you're destined to fail"

That's a great point that I haven't seen discussed in the media. When I was young, only "Fortune 500" type companies could afford background checks, so you had a fighting chance at getting a decent job.

Now, anybody can buy a instant background check online, and you can get not just felony data, but misdemeanor data, and even "just arrests, not convictions". And it's dirt cheap to do so. So, job prospects are dim, and even simple stuff like renting an apartment is difficult as well.
You don't have it (on your own) but you try.

> BTC doesn't concentrate power, it tilts the balance in favor of a just system where value isn't plundered at a whim.

No, the value is "plundered" by a democratically elected government. You don't like it? Vote against it. Or work to fix your system of government if it's too broken for that. But don't try to make the policies you don't like impossible.

And yes, unlike BTC operates on the basis of one-person-one-vote, or somehow prevents concentration of wealth, it does not prevent concentration of power.
>The issue is the modern ad-based internet economy.

Bingo. I honestly think modern "journalism" has more in common with marketing and search engine optimisation than traditional journalism. That's the sort of high-level view I've adopted to explain this decline.

I wrote my first and only substack bit about this last year and have been in two minds whether or not to continue with it.

https://benlumen.substack.com/p/thank-god-i-never-went-into-...
I've heard of the Kolmogorov complexity connection, but I'm not sure I've seen it spelled out as explicitly as this before. Definitely very interesting!
You can believe that.
I believe that existing, inferior stores of value like the USD and EURO will be destroyed by the alternative (Bitcoin).
Energy usage is its biggest strength.

Lets see who is correct in 10 years?
There are plenty of products where scarcity is intentionally created, though. Disney DVDs are a prime example.
I don’t think it was the case on PS4/XB1, but on PS5 I can choose to play a game while it updates. Did last night with Sackboy.
Getting a visa isn't that easy, one reason salaries haven't gone up as much as they could have. I'd absolutely love to work in the US, but realistically it's a multi-year plan that could be scuppered by a visa lottery, HR policies around visa sponsorship, or an administration that decides it doesn't like my nationality any more.

If you don't already have family in the US, getting in is a real arse.
Israel sells the gas, although Israel is small it provides energy also to the west bank and Gaza so about 13 million people altogether. A lot of energy goes into desalination and now with electric cars growing in sales it will increase the local demand even more. So I don't think Israel will have any spare production, the cable is more for backup purposes for extreme cases
And on a similar note, when comparing overall spending on the military, the perception of the size of the US military is inflated because in China and many other countries there's a draft, so they pay their soldiers next to nothing while the US has to pay theirs a prevailing wage, which is somewhere around the highest in the world.
"We would not always want to live in those societies recommended to us by utopias, because they often resemble dictatorships that impose happiness on their citizens at the cost of their freedom. For example, [Thomas] More’s Utopia preaches freedom of speech and thought as well as religious tolerance, but limits them to believers and excludes atheists, who are barred from public office, while it warns that 'if someone takes the license to wander far from his own district and is caught without the pass issued by the supreme magistrate … he is severely punished; if he dares to do so a second time, he is condemned to slavery.' Moreover, utopias have the quality, as literary works, of being somewhat repetitive, because in wishing for a perfect society, we always end up by making a copy of the same model."
Why should Lebanon accept rulings from the international community when Israel has ignored almost every single one since 1948?! The core of the issue is the 30 square kilometers Shebaa Farms area which Israel occupied in 1967. Syria and Lebanon claims that it is Lebanese territory and Lebanon wants it back. Israel claims that it was Syrian territory that it occupied and subsequently annexed in 1980.

Regardless of whether the Shebaa Farms area is Syrian or Lebanese territory, it clearly isn't Israeli territory. https://pij.org/articles/9/understanding-the-shebaa-farms-di...
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I think you'd be better off starting with a simpler formalism for this, like Linear Temporal Logic. That's a good pick because there's a straightforward mapping to Büchi automata. This will give you some more intuition on model checking in general, but TLA+ is much more complex than LTL.

(The most popular model checker for TLA+, TLC, is a brute forcer that represents the state space as a directed graph. Lamport talks about it a bit in Specifying Systems.)
Why use PGP when there are such better alternatives these days? Signal springs to mind immediately. PGP is clunky in every way. I know I can readily communicate with almost every one of my workmates securely using Signal or WhatsApp. None of them would have anything other than a passing idea of what PGP was, or how to use it.

20 years ago when there was no better solution, PGP was great. But I think it's probably had its time in the spotlight and now the world has moved on, when it comes to using it to secure email.

I think the solution is that if you want to communicate in a secure manner, don't use email.
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"get incarcerated for increasingly severe crimes"

I'm guessing at least partly due to the "gladiator school" aspect.
That's how it's packaged prior to trimming and lead forming, which looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CfEN5R13w4
Generation yes but I don't remember a whole lot of fidelity updates occurring to my xbox 360 or my xbox one past the first couple years is what I was trying to say. Where as my NVIDIA cards get regular tweaks and improvements for much longer. I'm mainly a PC gamer though so I could be wrong here.
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You've typed exactly what I was going to type, except I only use it for 3 providers.
> MIPS certainly was good at embedded

As far as I understand, it's not that MIPS is the best at embedded, it's just that it's cheaper to sell as the license cost is non-existing and good support already exists in kernels and so on.
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Years ago I worked for an ISP & managed hosting company as third line support. 1st and 2nd line support were pretty good, and would handle a lot of the cases that came through.

Generally by the time it'd reach us, it was something requiring more in depth troubleshooting.

They introduced a metric to measure ticket performance. The rough idea was "faster it's resolved, the better" (reasonable measure, if you're also tracking customer satisfaction), combined with "fewer interactions with customer the better" which was an absolutely stupid way to measure performance.

About a month after it came out, we were getting chewed out for our "conversion score" being low. Too many interactions with customers, and tickets taking a while to handle. No shit, we're the top tier of support. If it got to us it was bound to take time to resolve, and almost certainly involved a lot of customer interaction.

One of the engineers in the team managed to dig up how to get a "conversion" rate report up for any support engineer, though not the code that generated the figures, and very quickly realised that the way to get 100% conversion rate was just to resolve and immediately re-open the ticket as soon as you picked it up. We all promptly started doing that, and they stopped chewing us out.

If you incentivise the wrong behaviour, you're going to get results you likely don't want.
Bitwarden also hosts and syncs all your stuff so on the free-tier so you get that as well. Self-hosting is optional if you want to, by default it's already a cloud tool. It already has feature parity with all the paid alternatives as far as I can tell.
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We used to play connect 4 like this in high school, it’s frustratingly difficult to remember the game state but it’s easy to play (you just call out the column). You can easily forget the board position if you think too long about a move and as the game progresses it becomes more difficult to keep track of the game state. But it’s a lot of fun, I can imagine it becomes a lot easier over time especially when they are so experienced in chess.
I mean they still got hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.
I once removed 4 lines of code.

The change, annualized, was somewhere around $12M in profit.

I'm still pretty proud of making -$3M/LOC!
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> 3. version control

I think this is provided through either OneDrive/SharePoint or some other offboard solution. Do you really want Excel to have a native version control system? Seems like other solutions would always do this better.
Sometimes even, the standard is split into different norms. For example, the EV charging cable is defined in EC 62196-{1..6}. Which in turn address other standards. So you finally need to by at least 10 PDFs to understand the darn thing..
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100 MW for 10 msec is 1 MWh

100 MW for 100 h is 10 GWh

It helps to use proper units, doesn't it?

Large-scale battery storage is completely asinine when PES is far superior.
> after it was suppressed for many decades by the statistics mandarinate, clearly qualifies.

I have heard Pearl make this claim but have never seen his evidence for it.

As a counterexample: Don Rubin is a statistician who has a well-known framework for causal inference who has been at the top of the field for a very long time. Rubin has published widely and very well on causal inference.

Is there good evidence for the topic actually being suppressed by anyone within the statistics profession? There is work on causal inference going back to RA Fisher. If anyone has tried to suppress it, I'm not sure they have been very effective.
That can be circumvented using the standard trick:

https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/119002/7319
Pumped-water storage is a big thing elsewhere, but afaik Texas doesn't have any big mountains to make this convenient.

(also, these dams have failed before to great misfortune downstream)
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There is a middle ground between hobbyist and large stakeholders that ends in the worst spot.

As you point out those are legal requirements, and a small/middle size company would need to know them before entering a field or hitting some legally bound clients. The paying upfront makes it difficult to do pure discovery to even know how hard are the requirements to implement.

I saw that at a small company where we could have been interested in applying for a standard, as a nice to have to bring more business. But the cost of paying for the doc, go through it to then perhaps realize it’s not worth it, brought enough friction that it was delayed to oblivion.
All right upon closer reading you are correct. I seem to have missed the point of the article. There are some good points that the author brings up.

However I still think the title could be better. There are lots of things that applications "can" do. I put more trust into random applications that run on my system.
Really the only time a future developer will care about the old code is when there's a bug in the current code. (Or maybe an edge case like a request to "make it work like it used to in v1.0").

Looking at history via "blame" is useful to see why a bug was introduced (was it fixing another bug, and if so, is your fix going to break that bug again?), and how long it's existed for.

Leaving old code commented out doesn't help either with of those things. Unless maybe it's accompanied by lots of comments and date stamps, in which case you've not only re-invented a very crappy, half-baked version control system, but also made the code hard to read and work with.
One of the biggest impediments caused by the C++ standards committee is the tight scope of the standard. Anything outside of the language/library spec is entirely outside the realm of standardization.

So any tooling improvements (dependency management, build process) are not able to be made to the language. Fractured solutions harm adoption, languages with good dependency management and good build processes have one solution they push on everyone.
> that's just silly

Right? Wouldn't it be more readable to use just 'true' or 'false' instead of the comparisons, or is that not a feature in some languages? I don't understand what might be gained from the extra comparison, besides confusion.

if (my_conditional || true) { etc }
Of course people can claim that these dare "anonymous data" when there are not in fact so.

The poster seems to have privacy issues with anonymous data, so for the sake of the discussion we ought to consider actual anonymous data, and my question is therefore because to me the very definition of anonymous data means that there cannot be privacy issues. As such, the point the poster makes appears contradictory.
This is also an argument for a gold standard. What is a society to do when collective debt can help? For example: existential war, economic turmoil. Do you contend that governments should never spend on credit? I contend that printing money may sometimes be a good idea.

What society would undertake moonshots like DARPA... or going to the moon... if it could not invest with debt collateralized on a future generation's produce?
Lithium, iron, phosphorus, and oxygen are all pretty abundant and cheap. The economies of scale and better processes need to kick in (even more) to make them cheaper. Say, steel was very expensive until the Bessemer process became widespread.

Gravity batteries are very low-density, and flywheels are prone to dangerous catastrophic failures. They also need mechanical generators which aren't free. I'm suspect that chemical batteries are the future.
That's what my parents did. When they built their lake cottage it was cheaper to tie in sewer and water, but the cost to tie in to the power grid was going to be over $30k at which point, they were cheaper to install a full solar system. So they did.
What talent are you looking for, though?

FAANG companies and many companies are okay with generalists (eg. can code on a whiteboard), but if you're looking for specialist expertise (eg. computer vision, control engineering, operations research) it's a lot trickier and not always only a matter of compensation.
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I LOVE the idea!! (as long as you don't become the next FB and sell-off everything you can collect:) it's a very useful tool to find more good reads and

1) are you planning to introduce passwords?

2) what are your thoughts on adding privacy settings?

2a) perhaps I want my account to be visible to only a few people, and not to everyone

2b) perhaps I like reading 'naughty' books that I don't want visible to everyone, but only selected people

3) any chance you can have a (simple comment section a-la HN) where we can 'debate'/argue/comment/discuss a book? (as you mentioned)

EDIT:

1) Who is paying for all that?

2) Add a privacy policy please (with the right content), and how are you treating GDPR?
What part of your belief system is violated if the nation state lost power over currencies? Democracy will still prevail in the alternative I am suggesting, it will just be defanged from a certain viewpoint.

I suggest reading the history of money. The current system is an aberration. Historically, with gold as the currency/gold standard, nation states couldn't inflate money away.
The enforcement and form of securities laws is beyond me, but I think Ben’s point is that Michelle went to prison for a crime she didn’t know she was committing and had checked [citation needed] with PwC. I agree it’s not arbitrary, but it does seem a bit unfair.
"Kuo is looking forward to the Apple Glasses integrating with the long-rumored Apple Car, which is likely several years away."

Oh, gotta think about that.
I don't disagree that metrics can cause problems - but they could also helpful when working on difficult problems. I don't know of one that exists but there are times that a really tough nut lands on my desk and I can't bring back a solution for a few weeks A good metric would highlight the fact that, a week in, while I may have no solution to the problem, progress is being made.

Right now our metric is basically - talk to the developer and try and see if he's BSing you and goofing off, that's super subjective and very vulnerable to personal biases, but, it is a metric - it's just not an objective metric.

I don't know what it is - I've never seen evidence of a good one out there - but I don't begrudge managers trying to find new objective measures for productivity. I'd be quite excited to see one myself.
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If you don't have any concurrency or nondeterminism in your spec, then you'll probably want different tools. It's not that TLA+ is bad at modeling single-threaded algorithms, it's just that makes a lot of design decisions around representing concurrency, and there's an opportunity cost to that. I'd consider a code-level formal verification language, like Liquid Haskell or Dafny.
I must admit to not following recent XMR development much the last couple years and last recall after Maxwell wrote bulletproofs that it was intended to be implemented. I did check and see that it had been re-written and implemented by another in a different custom-tailored way. I do pay the XMR guys respect for doing their thing and branching their way. No disrespect, I should have generally said that the Bitcoin core devs have paved work for them. No, I did not mean core devs are writing all XMR code.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066.pdf
You don't need it, but plenty of devs prefer it. Our shop switched from Python to Rust. We almost went Go, but in general the language didn't feel like it was solving enough problems over Python.

Rust gives us a nice type system and performance, in an enjoyable package.

We certainly don't need it (well, maybe in a single service), but it's our choice. The decision was largely Go vs Rust, but again, Go just didn't offer enough to us.

I agree though, a GC doesn't prevent us. Ours was a language choice, not a performance/GC choice.