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I’m suspecting that the rich are going to start buying Bitcoin. The institutions have already started buying a lot of it.

Something has value, because a certain group of people believes it has value. These are the people voting for it. Then over time, this value becomes worth its weight in gold. Maybe it starts to provide other useful services. This is the weighing part of it.

Bitcoin can retain its minimal value threshold if a bunch of rich people and rich institutions all collectively buy into it, to establish a baseline support for it. Or a bunch of normal people collectively holding a few coins here and there.

The only other institutions that can mint money, which are internationally recognized, are sovereign countries.

I suspect that someone found a way to hack this process, and in turn create a new ability to store value. And in turn, created Bitcoin.

It’s like the Tulip mania, but slightly more useful.

The only way to make Bitcoin illegal is if all the major governments collectively ban and make illegal the usage of Bitcoin, and its mining process. This is the nuclear option.

What is the end goal? Who knows. Maybe these rich people want to go off somewhere and create a new country, and Bitcoin then becomes their sovereign currency, because they hold the majority shares in it.

Maybe they create a new man made island somewhere, and declare that to be their new country, and then move there to become citizens.

Or they create a rotating space station, and declare that sovereign. Like an Elysium.

Or they go to Mars, and declare the planet to be a new independent country, like Elon Musk.

Then they build an army and a military for defense, and to enforce their Bitcoin value, and get the nuclear weapons to protect themselves from other hostile nations. Now, they have a sovereign country, with a sovereign currency, and they are the super elite rich with all their ownership of Bitcoin.
If the blog post is about programming and it adopts a didactic style, i.e., telling the reader what to do, and it is obviously based on personal preferences -- either the author's or someone else's -- I react the same way. To me, these writings are only opinions.

The internet is absolutely loaded with programmers offering opinions or repeating the opinions of others but framing them as directives. Do this or don't do that. Or the more subtle: I like X and and you should, too. These authors can be argumentative if the opinions are challenged, as if one was disobeying a directive, or contradicting a fact, instead of disagreeing with an individual or group opinion.
My experience is similar to the author's, and I live in a not so well off area of Europe. I'd expect to receive dozens of offers per month if I lived in the US.

Most recruiters are just chasing quantitative metrics and don't really care about candidates being a good fit. If you have certain keywords in your resume, you are going to get bombarded with offers. One of the few negative aspects of the rise of remote working is that it has exacerbated this.
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You should probably add to the equation that in the past scenario the government is still systematically collecting information about your location, they just don't use it for contact tracing.
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Still not sure I buy it. I can extract a document representation from my relational data that matches your document store at read time. I can effectively choose my schema when I read, there’s no need to rewrite it at the storage layer.
MIT Study correlates adaptive cruise control, lane centering with accidents
Google gave me a 4-day exploding offer and it really did explode.
Well, it's an asymmetrical situation; you had to wait to get an initial response, but on the other hand, you can keep interviewing while the offer is on the table. I think the explosion timer is simply a response to the fact that it's not an exclusive relationship (yet), but the company cannot explore other options while the offer is out.

I am not even sure how to judge fairness; do you have a specific moral/ethical framework in mind?
Yeah, it lessens the risk of falling through those nets and is probably cheaper, per dollar dispensed, to administrate.
I offer open3ABox this way for the customers that have fewer technical abilities and don't want a cloud service.

They usually use the Windows version but don't do backups and if something fails it's a nightmare to support.
> The other reason my writing ends up being simple is the way I do it. I write the first draft fast, then spend days editing it, trying to get everything just right. Much of this editing is cutting, and that makes simple writing even simpler.

Related: There was a post here a few days ago, where the author described 2 styles of writing: Writing start to end, naturally evolving, and working out of sequence, with many edits. She focus of that article was the author preferring the former. This article's author prefers the latter.
Oof that's rough. Don't know if it can handle your topology but have you tried LTPowerCAD or TIs equivalent? They did the job when I was doing a boost converter design but I don't remember how capable they were for more complex tasks.
For sure, seem like they will treat lots of other things the same. What about comp? Promotions?
Is this the end of forests as we've known them?
Neat. Suggestion: it would be useful to have a text search so I can see if you have a particular emoji without having to squint at the whole list.
> From the point of view of safety smaller reactors that -can't- go into critical mass by the design

Man, any reactor is critical, by the definition.
We chose to use Electron both so that we could build faster coming from a web development background, and to leave the option open to being cross-platform in the future.

Even though its Electron, making it completely cross platform is non-trivial. A bunch of things are still platform specific (ex. the Windows menu bar works completely differently).
Weirdly enough, I often get the most done on side projects when I'm busiest.

It's easier to do more stuff when you're already doing a lot. When you don't have to do anything, then it's hard to do any one thing (for me, at least).
If you're on MacOS, open 'Audio MIDI Setup' and look at 'Built-in Microphone'. You can tick the 'Mute' box next to 'Master' and your microphone is now muted independently of Teams, WebEx, or whatever.

It's not a physical switch, but it's a good second safeguard. Teams is even polite enough to tell remind you that you're muted because it can detect this.

A slightly folded post-it note also works well as a camera cover that's easy to remove and easy to replace if you lose it. I also find that when I'm about to join a call and my video's dark pink (rather than black), it's a good reminder I have my 'shutter' in place and haven't noticed, despite it being physically in front of my face.
This was basically my experience on both sides of the process (with a major exception when I interviewed for my current job). I learned from both. On the interviewer side, I sat down and wrote out a framework for how to do a good interview since nobody ever gave me one and I was initially flying blind. (What am I looking for in the person who will do the role? How should I break up the time to check and validate those things?) On the interviewee side, I basically just decided any hiring manager that tries to make you feel bad/stupid almost certainly isn't worth working for. I complete those interviews and try to use them as a learning experience, and I try to exhibit grace in the face of rudeness, then I just move on with my life. It's not always pleasant and required some self-control, but I figure it's a good skill to have on its own.
Still a good day.
I would generally consider it to be a heaping teaspoon.

Teaspoon where you have a bit of a pyramid on top
> The candidate has been preparing for weeks for an assessment that has nothing to do with their actual job, and is being assigned multiple take-home challenges that take 4-8 hours of their time, etc.

Take homes are usually pretty fun, I don't mind building yet another carwash react-express-postgres for someone. Leetcode is a whole different story. My ability to solve DP and graph questions deteriorates if I don't practice it constantly! Truly the biggest waste of time is being expected to be a solid leetcoder
In our case it wasn't the point. It was more about the plug and play (literally, since it was a background music service) vs "install and then keep it running all the time". We had a local competitor and funny enough they pitched themselves with saying "you don't need any special hardware". I.e. they didn't get that it was indeed a feature.

But it was an interesting read.
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You're saying about 'US propaganda' and 'the leash', which pretty much explains clearly why your perspective is a bit distorted, but let me mention a couple of facts:

1. Cost of building the pipe on the sea bed, potential ecological issues and costs of maintenance are much higher than putting it on land. It was quite a lot of effort to do that.

2. Bypassing Ukraine and Poland decreases the political costs of Russian aggression towards these countries, of course it's a good thing from Russian or German perspective, but there's no doubt it increases the probability of military conflict in Eastern Europe. Obviously, as you mentioned, the fact that these countries can no longer influence the German-Russian natural gas transit is the biggest advantage for Russia.

3. It was Russia that seized a part of Ukrainian territory recently, not the other way around, and natural gas was always used as one of the means of Russian influence in the region. In that context saying that Poland and Ukraine are hostile towards Russia introduces a bit of distortion. Why shouldn't they be? Is it not enough reason? This is what will be worse because of that pipe.

4. It is going to increase western Europe dependency on Russian natural gas , if you increase supply that's what happens. Natural gas is the obvious choice to balance the renewables in the grid. Even some German politicians recently mentioned that it may tie German and Russian energy sectors too much.

5. It all plays nicely with German policy to phase out the Nuclear as they will in fact become a major natural gas hub in Europe. It is against the climate and may jeopardise efforts to slow down global warming. They want the same policy for whole European Union.

6. The fact that from Russian perspective there are clear geopolitical benefits doesn't mean that western european companies cannot make money on it. I don't think that potential to destabilize any region or benefit from global warming was ever concern to the oil and gas companies or investment banks. Of cour

7. The list of German and Austrian politicians that received personal benefits out of that project is quite long: https://euobserver.com/foreign/151123
If it was just an economic project, would that be necessary?
According to a web page I found from 5-minute googling[1]:

Depth of Field[mm] = (2 * u^2 * N * c )/ f^2

where:

u = distance to object[mm], N = f number(focal length divided by effective aperture diameter), c = diameter of acceptable circle of confusion[mm], f = focal length[mm]

Assume Sony A7M4 with Milvus 2/100: let u, N, c, f = (160mm, f/22, 4um, 100mm): DoF = 0.396mm ~ 1/3rd of a penny thick

The answer is no, not possible without focus stacking. But focus stacking is a SLR technique anyway, so the part that he's flexing his fancy camera a bit is true.

1: https://damienfournier.co/dof-the-simplified-formula-to-unde...
Yep - it’s the vague stuff that contains a frontier. Frontiers are scary and difficult to navigate. But that’s where the value is, and at the end of the day you can participate in figuring out where the tracks will get laid instead of slaving away at the construction site.
(you) > There is basically no argumentation happening here and most statements are just thrown out as truths. Yes, it might be quick and easy to read through, but it's not very good writing.

After reading this I would expect a solid argument from you that "it's not very good writing" because "There is basically no argumentation happening" and "most statements are just thrown out as truths".

(you) > Notice how he's arguing against

So... is argumentation happening or not?

(pg) > When you write in a fancy way to impress people, you're making them do extra work just so you can seem cool.

(you) > Notice how he's arguing against "write in a fancy way to impress people" and not "write in a fancy way".

He is definitely taking for granted here that everyone who is writing in a "fancy way" is doing so to impress people. At the very least, he seems to be suggesting that this is often the case. There is no question whatsoever though, that this is happening at least some of the time.

(you) > Most authors write in a "fancy" way to invoke a feeling in the reader. They don't add random words to "seem cool"

"Most"? According to what? Do you have anything more to support this assertion than he had to support his? Are you really in a position to be critiquing him about this?

(pg) > It's too much to hope that writing could ever be pure ideas. You might not even want it to be. But for most writers, most of the time, that's the goal to aim for. The gap between most writing and pure ideas is not filled with poetry.

(you) > What is evening happening in this paragraph? First he's questioning whether it's possible for "writing to ever be pure ideas" without explaining what that's even supposed to mean.

There's a fair amount of implicit logic here, but i'd say the general idea is something along the lines of:

- The purpose of writing (for "most writers, most of the time") is to communicate ideas.
- Care ought to be taken in preventing the medium (text) from inhibiting this communication.
- Simple writing can be understood by a more broad audience
- Therefore, simple writing will help these writers towards their end of communicating these ideas to a broader audience

(you) > Then he says that most people aim for that.

No, he said "for most writers, most of the time, that's the goal to aim for". He is saying that they ought to be aiming for that. If they already were doing so, then it would go without saying.

(you) > And somehow the solution is "not filled with poetry"

Again, I think you are misunderstanding what he is trying to say. Building on my previous explanation, I'd say he is contrasting his ideal of simple writing with poetry, which is often cryptic.

Circling back to my initial statement, I'd suggest you worry about your own arguments before criticizing those of others.
Then don't enforce it and charge for it.

As for your second point it's just so far off topic I won't warrant it with a response. I never even insinuated that the US is a model country.
Not that I love Duolingo, but isn't that copyright infringement? Are this "notes" simply copied from the app?
I don't think what you're talking about applies to the particular criticism leveled in the post.

The company gave him 72 hours to accept an offer. To me, that's a red flag right there.

And then they started pestering him (well before the 72 hour time limit) to accept the offer. If this had just been HR or the recruiter, I'd find it annoying, but perhaps not a big red flag.

But the VP and hiring manager were calling him. To me this says that they are pushy people who don't respect boundaries (not even the boundaries they themselves lay out!). I would be very worried about those attitudes from my boss-to-be and boss's-boss-to-be when it comes to project scheduling and deadlines.

Even if this doesn't reflect company culture as a whole, it certainly reflects the behavior of the people who would be in my direct reporting chain, and that's not the type of people I want to work for.
The "deathgrip" is the red flag here
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Wouldn't you then find the satellites by looking for star occultation?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...

So it appears 18 months is max for currently for refusing to decrypt a drive, but it is under active court cases at the moment.

The important thing is that you are wrong, you can clearly be forced to surrender something you know.

Edit: The important part is not that you are wrong, but that the courts can put you in jail for refusing to disclose something you know.
I think what you're paying for is someone to sync your calenders for you.

Similar to ring camera. You're just paying someone to make your cctv camera available to you over thr internet instead of you setting it up yourself.

I personally hate these services but some people would pay $/month for this convince.
SRE at one place is the same as any other. I'd only do it to experience
another part of the country. You're on the back nine of life after all. You
won't appreciate the change of scenery when you're 60.
I thought that piece was actually hard to read. Roughly the same size paragraphs, and many. No headings. Only simple words. Unsuitable to scanning back and forth. It forced me to read it and then I got bored.
Was modernas process less efficient, and why they went with 100ug? I know they say 50ug works too. But that’s vs the 30ug for Pfizer.
MongoDB is not a key-value store. It's a document database.
companies apparently have no issue rescinding offers, so I wonder whether it is really illegal to give verbal offers to n candidates and then rescind n-1 of them.
There is research on how to do interviews. So if they don't know how to interview, it is clear the company isn't big on doing things in the best way.

The above may or may not be good, but it is a signal.
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I see language as a personal choice, and while I wouldn't run perl today (I'm partial to Python, myself), I think there stack is fairly simple - tried & true language (however quirky it may be), no virtualization, simple metal hardware stack, and yet they serve an incredible number of users. In that sense, I'm sure hiring Larry was a no-brainer.

They are no FB, but they're bigger than almost anything else on the web [0]. I doubt most people will build anything bigger in their careers. I certainly won't.

A huge caveat might be app features. Clearly running something like travelocity could require more pieces, and something like a BI app in a fortune 100 company would have many more connectors to data sources. But in general, they've done pretty well using only newer versions of what worked way back in 1999, and to me, that's just incredible.

[0] - https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/
Really? Yes, sometimes you catch them an interviewer on a bad day or something, and often people are just cargo culting what they're familiar with, but if their interview process is a complete mess their company likely is too.

Once I interviewed somewhere and their engineers seemed very burnt out, an interviewer I was scheduled to meet with had left the company, and two of the interview rounds seemed like they had no idea what to ask me. I ran away screaming as fast as I could.

Another time I interviewed by a company who was recently acquired and missed my scheduled interview time (twice!) so I decided to withdraw. My friend working there left the company a year later, saying that it was a complete mess there.

Otoh a friend accepted an offer at a company because of their interview process - it was extremely well thought out and designed to be respectful of candidates and test what really mattered. Those values and mindset carried over to her experience at the company.
IME you'll hit it around $500,000 USD ARR. But again, situations vary. I've worked projects where hours long scheduled downtime at the weekend was acceptable. So easy!
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The only problem with salt to taste is that you need to be taught how to salt.

An additional issue with salting to a specific amount is when you're reducing a sauce. The saltiness of the final dish will depend both on the amount of salt you add and the amount of liquid that boiled off
https://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/modern7z/

windows-only, though (and 3rd-party)...
> ship with an extension to control this firewall. Adding this capability to X.org (or any X11 implementation) could be done without throwing X11 away

Nothing is thrown away -> xserver is there for exactly this reason. Adding the extension for a system with bad abstraction is not too wise, but if you wanted to understand it, you would have done so already based on the video.

> Having a unified way to decide which programs get to see which events would be lost in a transition to Wayland

Why would it be lost? There is a core protocol that absolutely specifies it.

> This wasn't the case before with X11, where screen capture was handled by the X server.

And when you had only one player in the whole game.. which is pretty contradictory to your last sentence.

> I wonder why the server still has them, then.

Backward compatibility. Show me any desktop app that uses eg. xmotif or something. And with xwayland even these 30 years old apps can be run.

I didn’t address these things because basically everything has a solution under wayland nowadays. Please have a look at the wayland-protocol repo and see for yourself the state of it. Also, wayland is a display manager, just because the X server was a monolith, it had no place to eg. manage clipboard. Actually, Wayland is the one that fulfills the UNIX philosophy of do one thing (although I don’t find the UNIX philosophy a good thing in every case)

> It's not 100% compatible -- things still break. Distros are up-front about this

Such is life, I really can’t say anything else to this.

> So now if I want to go and build a window manager, I have to go and re-implement a whole crap-ton of extensions myself that the X server used to do for me?

No, you just use wlroots that implemented the “crap-ton” of extensions for you already, and be on your way.
That reminds me when I was still in high school and got to school by bus.

I was around 16 and used to carry a binder with my full name on its back in my hand because it was a bit too large for my backpack.

One day, I got a letter by a guy whose name I didn’t know. He saw me on the bus and thought I was cute, so he decided to look me up and somehow found out my current address. He couldn’t have used the phone boom because my family wasn’t listed, so he must’ve googled me. Luckily, the guy didn’t have any bad intentions but it was very scary nevertheless.
We've been working on this product for two months. Three of us are engineers.

We have a much larger vision for this product, becoming an all-in-one work platform, starting with Slack and GitHub integrations. We're still working out what that will look like. But it's a going to take a lot longer than two months to build.
The big icons make way more sense and more things have icons, the ".." line is more natural than the dedicated "dir up" button, the "create archive" dialog is more organized and its options more discoverable...

And when you run an executable from it, it (I think) unzips the whole archive, not just the file, so DLLs etc. can be loaded properly. Just saves some effort and thinking when you need it and doesn't make a difference when you don't
> Don't really know what I should think about this to be honest...

Ultimately, piracy is the only remaining option. Because the company has decided it's going to brand you a pirate anyway.

It costs maybe 11$/mo to hire a seedbox running plex that can store whatever media you would want to watch. While it's not next-day or same-day in most cases, in my experience it covers basically everything you would want to watch, along with collaborative watching, which is a perk netflix does not have.