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Twitter ha a bunch of stupid, arbitrary rules. If you make a tweet comment that violates twitter's rules and are forced to verify your phone, all future tweets will be demoted to the bottom of comments where few people will see them. This is permanent and no way to ever fix it.
Low pricing is not a moat.
In my first paragraph I mentioned that if it was not possible to make this situation happen then at least not work towards it. Everyone should be able to put 10% of a salary away into savings to work on getting the freedom to do this.

If we assume a tech skill set, more and more jobs are becoming fully remote, making location not so much of an issue.

As for survivorship bias, I feel like you are somewhat right. I actually got into this type of work due to getting fired, so I was already at a low point with not much to lose.

As for empthay, that's exactly what I have and why I made this comment. I'm for the most part totally anonymous here. I don't have many posts or any kind of reputation. I put the time into making the comment because I truly belive that people can benefit from the change in mindset. I have nothing to gain, all I want to do is help people find the kind of freedom from oppressive working situations that I found.

We have all had struggles in our career, and some more than others, but the ones that succeed over the long term usually have the ability to self evaluate and look internally, rather than give an excuse why they can't do something.
Absolutely, working from home is only one possible form of the remote work, and probably the most boring one. Working from a park, or a caffe, or a local hub, or some hotel anywhere in the world are all much nicer options, but quite impossible these days.
Due to limited memory, I think most compression algos have a window of "stuff they've seen recently" which they use to detect duplicates. If the duplicate is of something too far back, it's fallen out of the window and been forgotten.
> False Assumption #1: Geographic Location Doesn't Matter

I can't find it, but maybe somebody from Microsoft can, but they (Microsoft) actually found building distance made a difference in productivity. This was in a research paper that I read, but for the life of me, I can't find it. I should also add a disclaimer that, this research paper was done before remote work became more of a norm and we had less technical options.

> Night owl behavior is actually the exception, not the norm.

I'm currently not tracking hours that people work with my developer analytics solution, but I think if would be flawed to just take into consideration when a pull request is authored to gauge behaviour.

If you look at the pull request information for vscode (my goto project for good data points) at:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=wind...

you can see that for some pull requests, there can still be quite a bit of work from when a Pull request is authored to when it get's merged.
Compression formats have to be small themselves, so they make tradeoffs on what data they can point at to make copies of. Most formats prioritize recent data, since that tends to be the most similar.
The only true Facebook crisis is if Fuckerberg is unhappy.
No, that’s not how it works.

If I have received a message I can report that message.
> Late in the article the author discusses the way QE has been regressive, disproportionately impacting the rich. What makes anyone so confident that other forms of injecting money into the economy won't get siphoned the same way?

What the hell are you talking about? This isn't nearly as complicated as you think. It's been readily demonstrated that the consumption multiplier effect on unemployment transfers and bottom-up stimulus generally is far stronger than what can be accomplished with alternatives. This is intuitively obvious: give dollars to people who place the highest value on a marginal dollar (because they're using it for essentials) and you'll maximize consumption; give it to people at the other end and you'll maximize hoarding and wealth extraction.
The 'window size' dictates how far back the algorithm can look for redundant data. If you set it too high, people without enough core memory might not be able to decompress your archive.
>Landmines work by the same principle. Many killed by landmines are children.

That makes no sense to me. Children being killed by landmines is an example of a lack of fire control. If the land mine had fire control it could detect enemy soldiers then children wouldn't have to die.
I don’t know. Have you seen the locations of some academic conferences?
Cool, so you’re insulting the developers of open source software. No good deed goes unpunished I suppose.

Developers impose the license. If they don’t want it used by corporations freely it’s trivial for them to say so. You’re implying that the developers are encouraging dickish behavior by doing what they want with their software.
Part of why I prefer debian
Has the pandemic led to a long-term erosion of the right to dissent?
Exactly. I recently saw a near by forest tourist area closed off with threat of $143 fine. I thought damn I have that cash I could literally go for a private picnic in the woods worst case is $143. I can afford that. Then I realized that mentality must exist to a greater extent with the rich. Park where they want and just pay the ticket. Ignore rules and for anything and perhaps just pay a fine.
Exactly this. I’m also afraid that it sets a flag somewhere that “this person has been banned at some point” which will affect something down the line.
Compression is generally CPU bound for most of the typical algorithms (LZMA, zlib/deflate) unless your drive is very very slow (<10 MB/s). There are some quite fast algorithms where this could make sense, basically using something like LZ4 as a proxy for compress-ability. This is the approach some tools use when you tell them to "compress, but only if it makes sense".
No, narrow-hipped perhaps. Just look at those awful, awful chairs. Nothing whatsoever that admits a human being will sit in them. No, its hunky-dory goofy thinking that leads to 'it looks like a chair, so it must be a chair'. Only an artist could think that.

Sure furniture could be pretty. But it has to, at root, function for humans.
Yep, did so the day I was able to. I was pretty bummed not to get into the beta, especially after torturing myself by periodically checking /r/Starlink which was just wall-to-wall posts of people celebrating their invites. Just glad to have a spot in line at this point.
Disagree.

Every ecommerce company and retailer looks at payment fees as money left on the table.

The more money Stripe take on, the more they need to return to investors, and so the more pressure to make margin. That is the opportunity for the future.

I too doubt it would come from a bank, nor from Visa and Mastercard... but could another exist? Yes!

If it came from a big player, I'd be looking at Shopify.
Can we not use AMP?

* https://news.yahoo.com/news/were-going-to-lose-fast-us-air-f...
Are you ready to spend your bitcoins buying cheap lands?
Hi guys! I've been testing my idea of selling low price lands by crypto currency.

There is a plenty of cheap lands around the world in equivalent to $5-25/sq.m. The question is mostly addressed to crypto currency owners. Are you guys ready to spent your bitcoins for that? Do you see that kind of service useful for you?

If so, I need to know if you guys are ready to pay first, receiving a contract that obliges the company to acquire and transfer the agreed property to your ownership. The service takes care about all legal details, you just need to provide all required personal data.

That should be a very fast way to change your crypto for a stable real estate object you can after sell for classical money or even use.

Thanks for reading. Waiting for your comments!
Think about how much complexity Stripe abstracts away from you as its user. In the US it might seem "simple" in that it's just cards, but each network/acquirer behaves differently enough that even that isn't easy. Now incorporate payment methods that aren't cards -- which are way more popular than cards in other parts of the world. Then think about decoupling the payment method from the geo. And then decouple the pay-in from the pay-out. We're not even talking about their other products at this point, and already it's a pretty complex business.

The fact that we can think "what's so hard about that?" is declaring Stripe's moat without even knowing you did it.
No, ketchup is shear-thinning, meaning it’s less solid when under stress.
There's another reason (that is actually written in the whitepaper): governments are made up of people. The people who recognize how powerful Bitcoin is can make more money from buying/mining it than attacking it. This game theory also works when governments are fighting eachother. Many people suspect that governments will have to get into Bitcoin mining in the future, as it will be part of national security.
blacklist was never intended to mean black people, but undesired people

it doesn't reinforce the idea that black is bad and white is good, it was modelled around the idea that black is bad and white is good.

Because for humans black (dark) is bad and white (light) is good.

Black cats were considered a symbol of bad luck because they were invisible in the dark, not because they resembled black people.
> and "deadly”

Hit us with those stats on people killed by touching 48volt systems. Compare that with people killed by AC at home.
> I've changed the URL to its home page.

It was bad idea, as there are no release notes on LeoCAD home page.

Please, @dang, revert news URL back!

UPD: Or at least replace it with link to "Version History" page.[0]

[0] https://www.leocad.org/docs/history.html
I've often though, instead of speeding tickets we could just have speeding fees. Monitor cars, and charge a measured rate per-mile by speed. Pay for everything, for get road taxes!
Whilst what you say isn't bereft of truth, your phrasing conjours up a shadowy cabal - which in turn makes me wonder if you're deep down one of several potential conspiracy rabbit holes yourself.

If you don't want to give this impression you would benefit from modifying your tone.
A good ugly hack is to reverse the filenames before sorting them, which has the side effect of grouping all the same file extensions together.
Rust replaces uses of C in many ways that C++ never could so I think the comparison is apt. There isn't extensive use of C++ in the embedded world nor is it used much for writing kernel drivers, but Rust is making big inroads into both of those arenas.
BC has not been doing the quantity of testing that WA has, but it had been contact tracing all cases, and in the summer when cases were in the single to low double digits per day, the majority of cases were traced to travel, from the US and from elsewhere in Canada. For a number of weeks there was not significant community spread. You don't need to test the whole population to know that; if case that are found can be contact traced to a travel event, that is sufficient to demonstrate lack of significant community transmission. Of course many of these imported cases did transmit the virus to others locally, but the point was that the sequence of transmission could be traced back to a specific border crossing. As opposed to community spread, where the original source of introduction is unknown. This is based on evidence presented at the time in briefings from the BC public health officer. Do you have any basis for the claim that only a "small single digit percentage of cases" were imported from the US during the summer?

Certainly community spread has worsened significantly since then, but that's kind of my point; it was never realistic to essentially eradicate the virus and then open back up here, as NZ did, because there would always be a baseline number of imported cases ready to spark a new outbreak.
This would seem to be a strict improvement over antipersonnel landmines along every dimension, while providing the same necessary function of area denial.

In particular, you don't set up a few thousand roboguns and then leave them there when the conflict is over, which is responsible for most of the civilian deaths you're referring to, including those of children.
If you venmo someone with the word Cuban in the message, it locks both accounts.
Lol, yeah. You get to skip so many meetings as a contractor.
Nope. The shit is a result of decisions at the top. I have no beef with people who work for local government offices.
Telegram secret chat keys are never uploaded anywhere.

Encryption is literally not E2EE if the private keys are uploaded to some random third party, maybe even without your knowledge (you have no idea what your contacts have done).
I heard he also came up with "A mars a day helps you work rest and play"
Exactly, also there was this bank that went bankrupt in the 1800s and everyone lost their money too!!!!! You can't trust the system!
> There’s no bar or restaurant to get together with friends, no club/rec level sports to play, etc.

Not having these kinds of things available for long periods of time can cause people who relied upon them for an outlet to become depressed, which almost always hurts productivity
To be fair, that correlation would probably cut both ways. For example, the people who don't decide to try things for themselves being more susceptible to being swayed by propaganda.

Interesting to look at, as you said. I assume that different personality types evolved because that made us more robust as a species.
Seriously? Unless Europe is "most of the world", I think you're quite mistaken.

Join me in rural Brazil, for example!
When the main arguments against nuclear power are around cost, it's entirely reasonable to point out costs and inconveniences around alternative power generation sources, which for renewables are mostly around land use, rare and bad to mine materials used in construction, pollution around them and potential recycling, and the lack of stability. All those bring costs up, and some are outright ignored when arguing nuclear is too expensive.
Shopify already has a first party processor, but they are not available to non-shopify customers.
I don't understand this comment. You can run arbitrary code in AWS lambda, you can just run "tar". Why did you need to reimplement it?
How much is starlink? Hope its cheap, so i can move on from mobile data
Great. Tell legislatures to (a) act faster when there's an emergency, or (b) enact better safety nets that automatically kick in when an emergency arises.

The fact that central banks can act quickly isn't a sign that what they're doing is wrong on the monetary side, but rather that the fiscal side of things needs to get its act together.
Why? If you have scale and the cost base that enables you to sustain the pricing profitably in can be very, very difficult for competitors to enter your market.
The workflow I use on my personal repo (for stuff I can't/won't publish) doesn't even use a default branch, just feature branches and branches named after hostnames.
> I do not understand what this is supposed to mean or demonstrate.

Parent said 'Stating "there is no way to refute or evaluate philosophy" while then going on to do the same seems incongruent'. I was just refuting this. It's essentially the same argument as "everything is philosophy" or "everything is politics", technically true but only in a vacuous sense.

> That something is "overloaded" (amphiboly)

I don't mean this. If I say "automorphism", I mean one thing and one thing only, because formal languages allow us to have precise definitions. Natural language doesn't have that. Words like 'truth', 'beauty', 'justice' are vague, imprecise meshes of meaning, so much that making precise statements about them is extremely problematic even conceptually.

> Formalization isn't magic. To formalize something, you have to get to a place where you have a clear enough and correct enough understanding so that you can express it in that language.

I completely agree. One of the major contributions of philosophy is that it attempts to untangle the mess. I have already said that I find this useful and productive. I'm not bashing philosophers, here.

> And in any case, philosophers do employ formalization when they think it useful. It isn't always. Frankly, even mathematicians, practitioners of the most formal of sciences, don't use formal methods to express their _reasoning_ in most cases.

I don't think these two cases are even remotely comparable. Mathematicians certainly do write informally when they write proofs, but that's only a way of communicating the result to another human. Any proof could be, given enough time, be rewritten completely formally, for example in a way that could be checked by a machine. If it can't, then it's wrong.

Formalization employed by philosophers is essentially just a writing device they are using in order to prove a point. The subtext "we could break this down to a deduction tree, but it's too boring to actually do that" that underlies a mathematical proof is completely missing.

Many authors have written literature using mathematical notation. It doesn't make their books math, for the same reason.
I switched jobs during the pandemic and my productivity has been incredible. I was doing great WFH in my last role but my current employer has much better support for this environment.

I won’t claim that any single tool is a miracle but I have found Clockwise combined with Google Calendar to make coordinating with others a breeze. The automatic status management in Slack when you’re in “focus time” or a meeting is great for signaling to others whether their question is better suited for a public channel over DMs.

For me at least, productivity when WFH comes from having a proper environment (noise cancelling headphones and an office are a life saver when your partner is watching the screaming toddler) and working in an organization that embraces distributed teams.

Edit: If you’re considering a switch to an org that does remote right, feel free to hit me up for a quick chat.
I'm ready for the high speed it provides
This unnecessarily others the people on that side of the conflict. They are desperate because their credible and civilized protests of apparent apartheid, let alone global recognition of their claim to sovereignty, are ignored.
I don't understand this argument, it's okay for an "open source project" to abandon their server repo with no explanation and if it's compromised and leaking metadata to third parties it's fine?

People are killed over metadata.
Let’s keep in mind that not doing nuclear is subjecting you and your family (and subsequent generations) to the long term issue of ever-increasing CO2 output. While waiting for workable battery tech at 3% avg y/y improvement - which means a looong wait for truly reliable at-scale FF displacement. The promise of renewables is great, but planning for a battery miracle in the short term is no plan at all. IF we appropriately monetize the cost of going deeper into fossil fuels every day (which is what the globe is doing right now, still), I think the risk of nuclear is put in a better context. So it seems to me we’re talking about the global risks of continuing on current track or localized risk of nuclear plant accident. Out of 440 operable on-grid plants, how many accidents have you heard of that would have impacted you or your family?

I don’t think “no-risk” exists for any power gen tech, fwiw. There are always going to be trade-offs.
I’m a little dubious about that stat. I’ve had a carport space, but it had no power and was hundreds of yards away from my (upstairs) apartment. It’s not an impossible problem but it’ll take a ton of installations approved by property managers and that work has barely started.
I know that as a fact here in the UK with certain agencies that I will leave Unnamed. I've essentially been told as much by people I've worked with. This is obviously a special case that I don't really have a solution for. I guess this is all part of the greater brain drain from the world to the first movers in the tech space. This will constantly keep home counties from developing when all the skilled workers leave the country.
Children not being in school is another major difference.
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> either due to quality or objectionable content

You kinda piqued my interest here: Which one has what objectionable content?
The problem isn't that it's possible to un-overload natural language - it's that the overloading is unconscious. In reality there are different meta-languages of relationships and assumptions built into natural language at every level of use and sophistication.

Formalisation will not fix this. It's just as likely to bake the unconscious assumptions into a formal language as to remove them.

Philosophy done well can un-overload those assumptions, but done badly it can also provide rhetorical frameworks for perpetuating assumptions that should really be questioned.
Depends on how they're used. I can think of 20 ideas right now for where I'd find ubiquitous displays useful - from walls changing colors (in lieu of repainting) or even displaying images (with head tracking it becomes a single-player holodeck), through infinite whiteboards, being able to read or work on digital stuff in arbitrary locations, to subtle status displays on blended items...

Hell, I'd love to have the wall above the wardrobe display a few lines of text from a book, so I can read it while cleaning the living room, with my little kid not being able to see it (due to differences of eye level) and thus not becoming distracted from independent play (or helping in cleaning) by an active computer screen.

And that's just personal use; there's even more potential application in shared spaces, in industrial use, in healthcare, ...

But if these screens are to be controlled by corporations, sneak ads everywhere and otherwise not interoperate with each other, and with every device there is? Then I don't want that to exist.
Shucks, why draw the line at just land? I know a guy who'll give you a great price on an NFT of the Brooklyn Bridge.
It's a modern reliving of the myth of the Tower of Babel.
Didn't Slovenia have a looser grip on economic activities and private ownership than the other republics?
Yeah, it’s a real gotcha.

Not surprised the Borg don’t get it. Right now I have my uncle nearby and he knows at least how to use a computer.

Things are going to get real fun when he leaves and my 75yr mom is on her own with the tech.
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My guess is that "best" describes the ease and frequency of sighting rainbows. Businger explains this is because orographic precipitation, climate, and clear line of sight due to terrain, make it highly likely to spot a rainbow at least twice a day (early morning and an hour or so before sunset), when the sun is 38 degrees above the horizon on either side of the island. This means you should be able to sight a rainbow closer to the windward side of the island in the morning, and another rainbow closer to the leeward side in the late afternoon. When you take all of these factors into account (more are described in the article), Businger's claim isn't so far off. Given the right conditions, is there anywhere else in the world where you can spot at least two different rainbows every day like clockwork?
We pull gold out of the ground when it is economical to do so. That is to say when the exchange of gold to currency is favorable for extraction, which can also be conveyed to mean that when there isn't enough gold to the demand of currency for gold.
> It seems like software industry needs a bonus system for people who are eager to lean into their work

No, no we don’t. I like working just as much as the next person, but I prefer my evaluation to be based on me and my peers working 40 hours, as opposed to me working 40 and them working 60.