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The book Radical Markets proposes the following tax (to replace most other taxes), quote:

Every citizen and especially corporation would self-assess the value of assets they possess, pay a roughly 7% tax on these values and be required to sell the assets to anyone willing to purchase them at this self-assessed price.
Julia Computing exists to commercialize the Julia language which exists to solve precisely this kind of problem without resorting to a lower-level language. So, probably not.
I read an excellent book called The Idea Of The World, by Bernando Kastrup that reminds me of this. It made me consider idealism waay more seriously.
We do this with a lot of our stuff at my current employer. It's a good compromise in my experience.
Those same notes mention that the flight termination system was unencrypted. Now it's autonomous.
The FSF recognizes AGPL as a free software license.
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The point is the relative effect is has between people to counteract inequality. If Alice has a job, and Bob is unemployed and broke, Alice has infinity times the purchasing power of Bob. Bob may only need a tiny bit of purchasing power to start his economic engine and get ahead, but his battery is at 0% and he's screwed. The point is to get enough juice in the battery to start the engine. And yes, the cost might be some inflation, but predictions of inflation have lately failed: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970595276/bond-voyage
You don't have to literally say "fuck you" to the boss. I just told them I was quitting. The project was delayed another 6 months (which meant 18 total) and I was miserable, clearly I wasn't productive anymore. I was even honest about it when they asked my plan, "I have enough money and assets to last 2-4 years right now depending on how frugal I am. I'm going to sell or give away everything in my apartment, my lease is up next month, and I'll buy a ticket to Spain and start there." (I ended up getting another job instead, no regrets as it turned out well.)

I was nowhere near FIRE, but I had enough money I didn't have to stay in a bad or undesirable situation.
That's true, although seeking civility is not the issue here. We dropped that language years ago because it leads to wrong associations.

The issue is that we don't want the site to burn itself to a crisp (the well known default outcome of internet forums). If you've got a better idea how we can achieve that, I'd love to hear it.
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thanks, those are interesting games. I'll check out the MUCKs and see how they balance things (or maybe they just didn't care).

The game Neverwinter Nights(2001) introduced a powerful editor so that players can create their own world and join servers. But those servers have to be separated because of different scripts. It would be really fascinating if somehow we can have a connection center (thinking the Sigil city in Planescape) and players can join different "worlds" which maybe have completely different sets of rules (but have the same meta rules to make the connection possible).
>> Companies prefer hiring employees who have families, and mortgages to service, and who faithfully trot along on the consumerism treadmill. As Nassim Taleb points out, it’s the only way you can legally ‘own’ a person today.

> I really hope Taleb doesn't say this because it's really really stupid. You can call a situation bad without comparing it to chattel slavery.

https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
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I think this is outright foolish. So many spend all this time trying to make it, especially on this site. I’m no better, but I would like to know what it’s like on the other side before I make all the sacrifices to get there.

Say all these people say climbing Mount Everest is truly the most life changing thing they’ve ever done. Suddenly I start thinking maybe I should climb it too. I would love to hear stories to the contrary before I make the commitment.
Lightspeed Filter has this categorized as "security.proxy" which is right. Unfortunately there's nothing stopping people from setting up a sophisticated web proxy on repl or a similar free PaaS so that would make sense. The simple solution people jump to is just completely block repl.it
Actually it does. Wood is flexible in ways the most of your stronger materials are not. Iron works, but it is more expensive and doesn't really have any advantage until you are going tall (tall being about 6 floors, but consult an engineer for details)

There is a reason Japan traditionally used wood, it works well in general. The design for it parts of wood are not hard - I don't know Japanese history, but I'd guess they figured it out well B.C.
Extrapolating that to the actual culture is totally a miss.

That says to me that the culture of the company is based on hacking it together at the last minute. I've never come across a company with a slick recruitment process that wasn't technologically adept too.
i'll make that clearer, thanks for the tip! to answer immediately tho, it's a similar shape, https://?????.localhost.run, and it is printed out when you run the command.
I originally thought the typing didn't work at all, because the couple of times I tried pressing Win+. the emoji UI came up, and it said "Keep typing to find an emoji", but nothing happened when I typed.

Turns out the search only works when you have a text entry area selected elsewhere.
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Function coloring is bad because, as you say, the two function call types are massively different abstractions, while being almost interchangable. If two things are massively different, they shouldn't be interchangable.

Javascript handled async in probably the worst possible way. So now, effectively, everybody writes exclusively async functions, and calls them with await, regardless of whether it is necessary, because the introduction of an async call anywhere in the call stack will require every function in that stack to be changed to async in order to use the damn await keyword. And that change can have implications all over the codebase.

It looks like rust managed to avoid that tomfoolery by not introducing such a stupid rule.
Also keep in mind all the data is in a single datacenter, so if something like OVH happens to backblaze, you'll probably lose the data

I mainly only use them for backups instead of production data

EDIT: As of 2019 there are multiple datacenters, but it doesn't seem like the data is stored redundantly across them
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That's a positive way of looking at it, thanks!
Hey, I'm interested in what you're doing. I've been trying to do the same for music generation, but I don't have enough compute resources. Is there a way to get in touch? My email hncomments5@gmail.com
Whether talking about FIRE or just "f-you money", it means having enough money to amply take care of your responsibilities regardless of your situation, with enough of a runway to find another source of income.

There may be situations (and professions) where burning one bridge burns all bridges and your only option after all that will be change your line of work, or take a huge pay cut. Ideally, you always make your choices about ongoing costs in a way that you aren't tying yourself to some high level of income and thus eliminating all sense of "f-you" options.

During my six months of unemployment, my unemployment payments covered my required expenses, for most months - all responsibilities, same food as when I was employed. Due to the pandemic, we didn't spend as much on travel, and certain forms of entertainment, but we spent more on others. That's just because my life and my spending is designed that way.

This is all a roundabout way of saying "avoid lifestyle inflation" which very commonly occurs where every raise is accompanied by spending more and more money. Getting a car to signal your raise. Moving into a more expensive house/neighborhood. We certainly spend money on things we enjoy, but in general there's a law of diminishing returns, and lots of spending fails to bring the joy we think it will.

So yes, "f-you money" should be defined by you as having more than enough to say "no" to a bad situation, while still being able to comfortably care for your family, and to avoid imposing painful restrictions on their lives while you seek new income.
I had a second round with the CEO of a small startup on zoom. 5 times in a 45 minute interview he said "Sorry hold that thought, just responding to a customer email real quick"

It was tempting to tell him that we should just wrap this up if he had more important things to do.
Because by poisoning your brain you go into an addictive cycle and are very likely to harm others via crime and or violence in order to get more.

As a society we have to control all negative behaviours - including drug addicts that are willing to harm innocents in order to get their next fix.
Plenty of medium-sized cities where you can rent your own 1 bedroom for ~$500

https://www.apartments.com/omaha-ne/?so=2

https://www.apartments.com/greensboro-nc/?so=2

https://www.apartments.com/jackson-ms/1-bedrooms/?so=2

https://www.apartments.com/tulsa-ok/1-bedrooms/?so=2
Why would we want to give money to people who won't work? And how would it be a benefit to those whose money would be used?

Welfare attempts to uplift people, but UBI is never ending and would come to be seen as a right, not a gift. Welfare makes people and communities stronger, UBI would not.
Same here, and I'm also a bit terrified by the popularity of Tailwind. It makes me wonder if I'd have to resign from nice project one day because it is stuck in the framework. I think that more projects in Tailwind might mean less space for skilled CSS people.

I believe that Tailwind is a trap for people that don't like CSS, because if they one day come to a project with regular CSS there will be a lot of unlearning before they will start working at full-pace.

I might be biased because I love CSS and I find it the easiest thing in web-dev, especially now - without IE in the way and with flexbox + grid fellas, not to mention components. It gave me a lot of guidelines how to think about abstractions and how to build them. This translated nicely to other aspects of programming.
Donating money is an act of self-expression. Do learn about effective altruism, cost-effectiveness, impact, etc. but know that it will ultimately reflect your values. Donate to African wildlife if you're fascinated by lions and zebras.

I donate to Wikipedia and the archive.org. I practice rational ignorance: I estimate that the costs of learning more about effective charity are far above the costs of doing it wrong. Maybe Wikipedia uses the money to create more and more small-fry side-projects (Wiki-maps, wiki-this, wiki-that). Maybe it funds Wikifeet, which is thoroughly weird. I don't care -- Wikipedia is one of the greatest accomplishments of H. sapiens sapiens.

(Malaria is still a big problem, and it's so cheaply improved upon -- if that touches your heart, go for it!)
If you want you can resubmit this to one of the filter systems for recategorization.
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One of my favorite reddit shower thoughts:

"Wikipedia built the biggest modern information hub using nothing but nerds' need to correct each other."
Very cool paper. Your observations in V.B.4 are pretty well understood in circuit design. If you've not heard of it, you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_effort. Turns out the optimum scaling for propagation delay is e (natural log constant), but I don't know if I ever learned anything about the optimum for area.

Now that everyone is using finfet processes, the layout part is pretty easy to solve because transistor widths have to be a certain number of fins and the layout is extremely regular.

One thing your analysis didn't include, which actually ends up being quite significant, is the extra capacitance caused by the wires between transistors. This changes the sizing requirements substantially.

I've done some custom logic cell design, and I always had to use a lot of trial and error, though generally I was concerned more with speed than area. I'm not sure exactly what the development process is at my current employer, but it seems like its a lot of manual work. I'm guessing they set area targets based on experience and attempt to maximize speed where possible.

Ultimately, everything gets placed and routed by a computer anyways!
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“It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes“

Removing the simile reduces the meaning of “sentimental archaism”. Similes clarify meaning. That’s what all imagery is for.
Is this wrong? Am I misunderstanding anything? I'm genuinely curious.
You may be interested in [fac](http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/~roundyd/fac/introducin...)

It's a build-system in Rust with some really cool features (and an even simpler syntax).
WebEx is by far the worst and least reliably video service I’ve used (compared to Cisco jabber, jitsi, google meet, etc.)
This is not contradictory. If you want to compare two solutions, you need to have a number for both. So in itself a number you assign to nuclear energy is useless (for the purpose of demonstrating that nuclear is either terrible or bad as an energy production source), unless you contrast it with the equivalent for the alternative.

Humans make a lot of stupid decisions rooted in gut feeling and prejudice all the time. A small subset of these decisions involve long-term industrial strategy at a national level or the life of millions of people. For these decisions we ought to do better.
I bought <beer>@<computer>.kz but it doesn't work, the forwarder doesn't have SMTPUTF8 support sadly.

The QA engineer in my couldn't not try that one :)
This made sense 30 years ago when we needed humans. Now we don't really need that many humans. "Work harder" is stupid advice when there is no work.
There's no way you could classify Greenwald as only having written meta-commentary on journalism unless you've never read anything else by him in his entire storied career.
Glad to hear it! I'd agree, our power users are product managers + founders.
4 years ago by nathan

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/next-meeting/id1017470484?mt=1...
The hypocrisy is that to even get to the point where you have a 24 / 48 hour exploding offer, you (the candidate) had to often wait weeks to get a response to the application, phone screen, on-site, decision.

So I don’t buy this fairness argument. If we’re talking about fairness, the process would be super quick, and then I would get a week to think about a decision that will affect YEARS of my life. To say nothing of things like asking previous salary, salary expectations, etc. Everyone knows why it’s done. If you wanted to be fair, the salary would simply be posted with the criteria that would influence it up or down. There is a reason unions and public sector jobs do this.

Companies have access to far more market salary data than I do. It’s not close to fair.

My job is far more influential to me than the company. It’s 100% of my income and yet I’m only one of many for the company. This should be taken into consideration.
In a tepid defense of the anonymous company… I would probably also interpret someone in the situation doing a coding exercise as a sign they are interested in a position.
No, it's not both. Open source is a business model. AGPL is a free software license. Look at Wikipedia, or ask the license holder, the FSF.
> Companies prefer hiring employees who have families, and mortgages to service, and who faithfully trot along on the consumerism treadmill. As Nassim Taleb points out, it’s the only way you can legally ‘own’ a person today.

I discussed this the other day with a friend of mine who already has years' worth of fuck you money(I have months at best).

We were complaining that the worst people to work with are those who can't afford to lose employment(usually due to their financial situation), because over time they gradually evolve into these yes-men who will do anything to save their ass - even if it means making everyone else's job harder in the process.

All intelligent, talented people. It's just that they've been conned into living a lifestyle which shepherds them into such a position.

I've been putting off getting a mortgage because I don't want to join this crowd, but real estate prices are not getting any lower, so I might end up with one soon anyway.

And to think I'm actually in the privileged, 30% group of those who can afford any housing.
What you need is a function of what you have come to expect.

Electricity. Wifi. Fast internet. Air conditioning. Running water. Access to nutritious food and good medicine. Some of those are needs, others are not. The ones which are directly maintaining you in good health are needs.

Don't sacrifice your needs (8 hours of sleep a day, for example) for your wants (a shiny new iPhone or bigger apartment) over the years.

It's not black and white. As we give more and more UBI, we rebalance the power dynamic between employers and employees. It starts to obviate the need for minimum wage laws and unions, because people can start to ask for 30 hour work weeks, time off to raise their own kids, study a new career, contribute to science and open source software and so on. They'll be able to take more entrepreneurial risks, too. A society with UBI would have a lot more people contributing to gift economies.
It is impressive, but not working also opens you up to any living arrangement without work location being a factor.
I build a simple homepage for inventors/creative people/engineers/crafters
I have written about this a couple of times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26216669

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14466887

The Scientific American article cites actual published research but distorts it in the retelling.
Whatever happened to Samsan Tech, they had a really impressive year and then just disappeared off the face of the earth.
Talk about a waste of electricity!
Especially for a small company, the biggest reason for an exploding offer is there might be a second-best candidate in the wings. The longer it takes the first candidate to make up their mind, the longer the company has to hold off the second candidate.
> It's sane to be skeptical of things that could potentially poison you.

Kidney beans can potentially poison you. Salad can potentially poison you. Nutmeg can potentially poison you.

It's fine to be skeptical, yes. But if they have strong merits, abstaining solely based on their potential downsides is irrational.

Taking a stance of weighing the upsides and downsides and deciding that the upsides aren't worth it is fine. Saying "there are downsides" and using that as a basis for rejection is just silly, as that's true of basically everything you'll ever interact with.
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It's much easier to buy industrial [1] and high endurance [2] microSD cards now. SanDisk/WD started selling them to the public due to the popularity of dashcams that record continuously. No more buying cards on digikey from a manufacturer you'd never heard of for 10x the price.

I haven't seen reports of these particular cards being counterfeited yet, but still... you probably shouldn't buy them from Amazon...

[1] https://www.westerndigital.com/products/commercial-removable...

[2] https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/memory-cards/sandis...
Because no one likes RXjs
Only because entry level now includes folks who did a coding bootcamp or a couple of Coursera courses. Every college CS graduate I have known was juggling multiple full-time offers months before graduation.
For me personally, webex simply isn't a contender based on the lack of a working linux client. Zoom ... just works. Others, even that horrible Teams, works, on linux.

Webex doesn't.

Then there's the UI. And the complexity of connecting to meetings, especially if you are on the road, and trying to do this on a phone, with one hand. Where they ask you for the 3000 digit meeting code. And sometimes a password.

I know, on paper, it might be better than the alternatives. But, in practice, it is nearly unusable.

Just my opinion.
Thanks for clearing. I'm not familiar with Julia' Syntax but I don't doubt its pros over Python.
I see why I got unvoted, I think my question was more if Rust (as a metal language) could really help make simulation techs like Julia better than the standards. I don't know.
Only on paper. Taxes on the average income would increase by a compensating $1000/month making it essentially invisible to them and balanced in the government books. It's only on the rich and the poor where the effects would be noticeable.

In practice, it would have a similar impact on the books as a program that gave $1000/month to just the poor people. Giving the money to everybody and then taxing it back from most makes it seem much larger but makes it a wash in practice.
I have said nothing about what I can or cannot imagine or understand. I specifically said YMMV to indicate that I acknowledge experiences will differ across fields.

I find your tone to be uncivil and I do not wish to continue this discussion with you.
*Mexico proceeds to build a wall to keep the flow of American stoners running across the border.*
There are many people entering the industry that can already demonstrate their skills well, and interview in a way that shows that even if they are technically entry-level, they likely won't stay there for very long.

This probably contributes to a very competitive situation for traditional entry-level "actually I need to learn this job once I get there" candidates.
It's the standard behavior. If you do something to modify or override it of course it won't work, but that's like changing the keyboard to Dvorak and saying that pressing the g key gives an i instead so you can't count on getting a g when you press the g key.
PG tends to write in a, “take it or leave it” style, you get used to it. He’s never, to my eyes, seemed interested in convincing you via flashy argument

PG's "responses" are a good contrast, if you're curious what "pg trying to persuade the reader" sounds like. http://paulgraham.com/kedrosky.html
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To add to what Arkhaine_kupo said: In Southeast Asia, you can find cinnamon used in beef dishes, such as in beef rendang found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Typically a 2-3 sticks of cinnamon are thrown in, along with coconut milk, curry leaves, and more.

Cinnamon is also added to chicken or mutton, such as in varuval (Malaysian dish adapted from a South Indian one).

Over in China (and also in Chinese communities in Southeast Asia): There's the Chinese five-spices, used a lot in BBQ pork. It typically has cinnamon and cloves along with star anises and two other spices.

If you have more questions about any of this, let me know!
> I've got a healthy savings account, but I couldn't say FU to my boss because I'm not sure how that would affect me getting another job.

You don't have to literally say "FUCK YOU!" to your boss and storm out - sure, that _might_ effect your future job prospects (but then again, maybe not). Instead you can say "I would prefer not to" and give 2 weeks notice. Doubtful that would effect your future job prospects. If you're worried about your current boss giving you a good reference there are other people (co-workers, previous managers) who can do that if s/he is unlikely to do so.
>the value of physical “originals” vs digital “originals” starts to blur.

People have been spouting this for decades but it still isn't remotely sane. Until you no longer need to exist in teh physical world there will ALWAYS be a bright line between the two.

Shed your corporeal form and then we can talk.