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The blame should be on whoever decided a junior engineer should be given permission to delete the production database on day one. One time at my first job my boss accidentally deleted a staging database, and even he said he never should have had permission to do that.
The incessant celebration of Sparta in the culture of the West is truly abhorrent. What of Sparta was worth celebrating? Their child soldiers, mass enslavement, hunting of other men, mindless wars, ......

They produced no literature, goods, art or bequeathed anything to posterity other than their notoriety as a brutal martial society even that is being questioned. The messy Romans were far better and interesting through their start as a monarchy, transitioning through republic and empire to end as a theological autocracy.

The nearest thing to Spart might be Genghis Khan's Mongols. They Mongols were true nomads whose capital was a tent city. They left no trace of Empire but were secular and bequeathed many important technologies to the world - none of which were their invention. They neither created anything on their own nor built any civilizations but their fame for conquest and administration.

What did the Spartans accomplish?

Edit: Quite a few folks downthread are chiding me for being unaware of the Mongol's contribution to our present society. First, I am comparing them favorably to the Spartans. Second, I have actually been to Ulan Bataar and worked in their cultural institutions preserving Mongol "artefacts" . I have also studied with Mongol teachers and count Mongols as friends. I counsel those counselling me based on books they have read or secondary/tertiary source material on the internet to reconsider their assumptions. Your advice might be well intentioned but off the mark.

The Mongols were tremendous administrators. They were also ruthless nomads who loathed cities, civilization and all its trappings. There is no sign of Genghis' Khan's empire anywhere on this planet. Why? His court was a tent just like his city was a tent city. He also sacked Baghdad and almost every city they came upon including killing the men and raping millions of women and burning their libraries. Yes, they imported postal systems, bureaucracy, paper and whatever else to the world but they also killed 50-100MM people and burned down cities across the middle east for no reason because they did not like them. The descendants of Genghis Khan like Taimur Lame single handedly destroyed vast swaths of Persia, Georgia, Iraq and laid waste to Northern India raising mountains of skulls along the way.

You can keep your postal systems and secular courts, I would like to get some of the cities they sacked and their libraries back.
> His work will be discussed long after we’ve become worm farmers.

Perhaps, but likely as a footnote to the footnote that was NFT mania, not as an artist in his own right.
Why are we pretending that the term master is specific to one race? Some group of every race out there has been enslaved at one point or another. In fact, at certain points in history, black masters have had (gasp) white slaves!
On the other hand I’ve only ever regretted one upgrade, the first Mojave beta.
Apparently the latest version 7.8 runs natively on Apple Silicon.
Melting the entire Greenland ice sheet would cause a 7.2 m sea level rise globally. So the questions will it melt and how fast are quite ... interesting.
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I need to hire a lawyer just to figure out if I can use this thing or not. The opening of https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/LICENSE.t... mentions 4 separate licenses.

And is it just me or does this part mean absolutely nothing:

> We promise that we will not enforce the copyleft provisions in AGPL v3.0 against you if your application (a) does not
link to Focalboard directly, but exclusively uses Focalboard's Admin Tools and Configuration Files, and
(b) you have not modified, added to or adapted the source code of Focalboard in a way that results in the creation of
a “modified version” or “work based on” Focalboard as these terms are defined in the AGPL v3.0 license.
> But in terms of actually being able to get things done as a desktop workstation, and software I can run natively on it, I could replicate almost exactly the same setup starting from a bare bones debian bullseye (testing) install, then adding xorg and xfce4 and customizing xfce4.

Which is great until they change how it all works. Something as simple as setting up a keyboard layout that applies for any login manager - first it was in xorg.conf, then it was in some HAL XML file, then it was a udev rule file, god knows where you can do it now. Connecting to the network - first it was ifconfig, then it was iwconfig, now it's some dbus NetworkManager incantation that doesn't work. Sound - first you learn a bunch of OSS commands, then everything gets switched to ALSA, then everything gets switched to PulseAudio and blows your eardrums...

FreeBSD may not be as "just works", but they don't keep changing everything. I'd far rather have a system that stays understandable, even if that means configuration is a little more manual.
I just updated to version 7.8 from version 7.7 and it looks fine so far. I haven't seen any freezes in the five minutes that I have been using it.

This makes me realise how much of a pain it has been to use in the past weeks or so. Now that it is back to normal snappy it is such a pleasure to work with again.
"With the printing money, there has to be a limit."

Banks do it every time they lend, so that can't be the limiting factor can it.

You're looking at the system incorrectly. Try it this way.

To spend you have to have two things - liquidity to complete the purchase and something available to buy.

Which gives you the obvious limit - spending stops when you run out of things to buy available for sale in the denomination at a price worth paying.

So it stops automatically - largely because the pejorative "printing money" line has nothing to do with the control mechanism in the system. Money is a dynamic thing. Systemically it pops into being and disappears as required.

"printing money" is just the accounting counterparty of "saving money". If you want to stop it or reduce it, simply delete everybody's monetary savings. That will cause all national debt to disappear by accounting identity.
What do you need a guide for? You install the nvidia driver through the normal package manager and it works, same as on Linux.
I think people are just confused. Like, I didn’t know if who Beeple was and after seeing their work I can say it’s pretty offensive. So why is it worth anything? Is it because it’s a great work of art or did somebody with too much money take a gamble on Vaporware?
So it’s like: MIT for compiled application, AGPL if you build it yourself, or you can pay for less strict licensing. Seems similar to the model used e.g. by Qt

https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/blob/main/LICENSE.t...

EDIT: Use of dual licensing for open source software was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677481
An awesome take away from the comment you replied to may be: why call it white privilege? It’s seems better to call it majority privilege. It’s more accurate, more general, less inflammatory, less targeted, less convoluted. It seems better in every way. Focusing on whiteness just serves to entrench people (as anytime you call someone’s intrinsic traits harmful, you tend to offend). Why don’t we just call it majority privilege?
Sounds like fun! Ill check it out.
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Of course there's unaccountable and possibly foreign money bankrolling a bunch of rightwing writers. That's what 21st century media is these days.
Seconding this. I would vote matrix personally.
Wow... bastille is a pretty capable container manager!
There's a historically accurate novel about a Spartan boy's coming-of-age. "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield - a very good read and widely celebrated classic.
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"We promise that we will not enforce the copyleft provisions in AGPL v3.0 against you if [....]"

Does a promise like this actually stand up in a license file / in court? Is this sentence actually meaningful?
One day, IKEA chooses to change their kitchen countertop depth from 28 inch to 29 inch. Supposedly 28 is a nazi number, since 2 and 8 can become B and H, which could mean Blood and Honor, i.e. a nazi reference. Thus, IKEA, issues a press release where they emphasize their inclusive policies and awareness. Since they don't want to cause further trama for their Jewish customers, they're making this change. You happen to know a good number of Jewish friends and ask them what they think. They all think this is crazy, and have never thought about a number being offensive in that way. However, there is one Jew on the internet who has had now published a blog post about being relieved. A lot of non-Jewish carpenters, shop-assistants and handymen debate online on Handymen News and conclude that maybe this doesn't prevent nazi violence today but "it's the least we can do". Why would somebody hold 28 inch so deerly? Unless they're a little bit nazi of course. Also, they agree that any non-Jew really doesn't have a right to speak on the matter, since they can't fully understand what it's like to be a Jew. With IKEA's change, more and more furniture companies follow suit and with the attention, pretty much every company starts to decide to remodel their kitchens, since they obviously don't want to be perceived as promoting nazi ideas. People keep saying that nobody would judge you if you keep your 28 inch kitchen countertop, but you suspect that's gonna be less and less true, as both homes and offices get renovated around you. Also, a lot of people claim that the 29 inch depth is just better, so what's there to complain about? And, if you're building a new kitchen, how hard is it to just mount a 29 inch rather than the 28 one. Turns out there's an adapter for the old shelves too. So what's there to complain about? You feel a little annoyed, but replace your countertop with a 29 inch version and move on.
"An elite group of Substack Pro staffers, handpicked by editors, have been given the resources to write full time."

This seems pretty disingenuous. AFAICT, everyone who was given an advance by Substack was already famous enough to basically be guaranteed to get a lot of subscribers the instant they signed up. (And some of them regretted taking the advance, since they could have made more by just using the regular deal.) I haven't heard of any unknowns, or even lesser-knowns, who got such a deal, which fits with the obvious business incentives where you only give advances when they're positive expected-value for the company. You aren't "picking" who makes it when you cut a deal with someone like Andrew Sullivan; Sullivan has already made it because he's been nationally famous for decades.
I highly recommend you check out a biography of Genghis Khan. I think you will find that you hold a few misconceptions about the Mongol Empire, as I did when I read more about him abs what he did. For example, the Mongol empire hosted the very first theological debate and was itself run as a sort of modern corporation. The Soviet Union did quite a bit to mar it all up.
Not including potential repair costs either
Uncle Sam wakes up tomorrow and says:

"Compliance measures on crypto-currency are expensive. We'll be charging a 3% compliance tax on all crypto-currency holdings, and we'll do this via any US-registered crypto-brokers charging a withholding tax unless you can prove it's double-taxation; also any failure to pay this is tax evasion and will be prosecuted as such"

you'll see some hard forks. Also this is a _great_ idea as it increases tax revenue, increases investment in US bonds and stocks, _and_ it suddenly swells the value of US Govt gold reserves.
Pure strain ressentiment.
Wikipedia says

> Spartan women also enjoyed considerably more rights and equality with men than elsewhere in classical antiquity.
What's a bit weird is that the front page has a pie chart as animated logo, yet that chart type isn't supported by the lib yet ...
All else being equal, given that you turned $100 into $100K, you're much more likely to have $100K that you can afford to lose.

Saying that the history of your investing shouldn't impact your choices is saying that your total wealth shouldn't affect your choices.

But if I borrowed $100K against my home and it gets foreclosed and I'm homeless, that's very different from if I gambled $100 and got $100K whose loss will be no worse for me than losing the original $100.
> It seems overly convenient to gerrymander the definition of strife so that it excludes anything that might contradict your thesis.

No, I would say it's convenient to set up a strawman. I wasn't talking about overall death rates changing, of course they change with time, I was talking about social cohesion.

>One could argue this, but again, the facts don't support the proposition. While it may be true that average and even median wealth has increased, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest has never been greater-

One could argue this, but the facts don't support the proposition. We've gone from a situation in which most people had a subsistence lifestyle -- barely above starvation and at the minimum levels of income necessary to avoid dying -- to one in which there is a middle class. You'd have to have a very peculiar definition of inequality to say that it has gone up. It certainly hasn't been decreasing monotonically, but it has gone down over secular timeframes. Perhaps for the first time in history, the majority of the world's population are no longer classified as "poor", and large numbers contain surplus wealth and earn surplus income. More importantly, there is much more equality in terms of political power and ability to influence change, which is what leads to chronic political violence and the age of social revolution, which basically started with Rousseau and has led to a flood of political violence, even if overall deathrates are lower due to things like penicillin and emergency services. That political violence started when the power of the monarchy weakened and was challenged by a rising middle class. Those early revolutionaries, from Robespierre on, were members of the middle class, eager to topple the group ahead of them. In previous eras, there would be no middle class and so no revolution. Also the power of the gun and the printing press shifted more power downward, thus creating the chaos that allows revolutionary movements like the Khmer Rouge, or communists, or Latin American revolutionaries to launch revolts. None of that would have been possible if we had previous levels of inequality and there was no middle class. The more closer in power people are, the more viable it is for one group to overthrow another, and the more revolutions follow. Then history is rewritten by the victors that it was the oppressed rising up due to terrible conditions, rather than the no. 2 knocking off no. 1. But we don't need to be so naive about history. It is the people at the bottom who are first to be murdered by the revolutionaries, whether the genocide of peasants in the Vendee during the French revolution, or the genocide of Ukrainain farmers in the Soviet Revolution, or the murder of 40 million Chinese peasant farmers right after Mao's revolution, or the murder of farmers by the Khmer Rouge. We know it is no. 2 knocking off no. 1, with the poor suffering and not being any better off after no. 2 and no 1. switch places. Then, they switch again. Revolutions are enabled by too much equality between the middle and upper classes.
Why is this worth $85mil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprematist_Composition

Honestly looks like a piece of shit to me, something my child could do. Value of art doesn't have to do with skill.
The Expectant Father – was split up in such a way that once a month, I was reading the relevant chapter to keep up with my partner's pregnancy and all the things I need to/should know along the way. Was well worth it for me... there were many things in there that I wouldn't have otherwise been aware of that I think have made the journey a lot smoother (and less mysterious) for me.

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each – a compilation of Japanese poetry from ~800 years ago. The variety of poems in this were a great read and although the English translations can't replicate the originals perfectly, the translator's notes that go with them in the edition I own described the original techniques and wordplay used and it a lot of it is thoroughly impressive.
As a geologist: we are not concerned about the change, we are concerned about the rate of change. The fastest is the change, the largest number of groups of organisms will be exinct.
Because in practice, compilers are expected to do more than the language standard requires of them, and this resulting behavior is very dangerous.
This is a very silly article. Writers like Matt Yglesias have been upfront that Substack paid him an upfront salary to hedge his payment in the first year. And, it is pretty clear if you look at the subscriber numbers he is bringing in way more revenue than he is being paid.

The author is arguing against a straw man that doesn't really exist.

For instance the author says "That’s right -- Substack is taking an editorial stance, paying writers who fit that stance" as some sort of gotcha. However, literally anyone can sign up for a Substack so while they do perhaps promote certain authors it is hardly an editorial stance. It is like comparing the editorial decisions of Netflix (a closed environment - where they greenlight/buy all productions) to YouTube (where they sponsor some videos - but largely depend on independent creators). There is a real distinction from the two - which the author ignores - and also assumes the Netflix/newspaper model is inherently insidious without any justification.
Obviously I can’t stay here. I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to about running a free newsletter because all the best options like Ghost require a pretty steep monthly payment -- essentially, they expect me to charge my subscribers, which I don’t want to do.

Somebody wants something for free, doesn't like other things about that something. Will do "research" on this and publish said research using other methods that person wants to promote.
The respect, if not endorsement, for their uniquely ruthless ethos accomplished a lot over the centuries. Morale might not be quantified in the records, but it certainly had effects in the rise and fall of civilizations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe#Modern_use
Some of them did, but recent evidence is showing that European Neanderthals were older than we thought they were, which reduces the interbreeding a bit.

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-neanderthals-europe-earlier-th...
Some of them even turn into contributors, eventually.
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By the way, the same author has written a fair amount about the Mongols

https://acoup.blog/?s=mongols

mostly but not exclusively pointing out that George R. R. Martin was not really familiar with them in using them as an inspiration for the Dothraki.

He says that the Mongols did have their own creativity and art (beyond the "conquest and administration" stuff). You might want to check that out, as it seems like our modern outsider cultural impressions of Mongols can be as limited as our impressions of Spartans!
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By what measure? I’d argue that the majority of countries in the world are “less tolerant on average” than France, and the vast majority of societies in human history have been less tolerant than modern France. Thus, France is actually incredibly tolerant in the grand scheme. What’s your yardstick in leveling such accusations?
That whole paragraph is pretty nonsensical. To me it sounds like "we promise not to enforce this license if you comply with the license".
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Because at least Verona is a research language. It is meant for proving concepts, not for writing code for production. I haven't looked into checked c, but one can have multiple research projects in similar directions in order to explore the entire space of possibilities.
I had a free app on the Mac App Store with no ads. Last time I checked, it had an average of 60 downloads per day. Not much, but I guess it was valuable to some people. I still use it almost daily.

After a couple of years I decided it didn’t make sense to keep paying $100 to Apple every year just to host a small free app.
There's no arbitrage in what sense?

The article I read that called it arbitrage described it like this:

"[Hedge funds] borrow Bitcoin, deposit the coins with GBTC in exchange for shares that are more valuable than the coins they bought, and they pocket that profit by selling the marked-up shares after a six-month lockup period expires."

Unlike an ETF though, the shares can't be destroyed. And suddenly the premium went away, so probably some of the people who were counting on it to remain have quit now.
Oh look they appeared. https://baserow.io/docs/guides/demo-environment

Thank you!
Is there a painting you think is worth 85 million?
True, but a third-party program shouldn’t really be able to do this, at least not easily.
I partially agree with both of you, but I think the depths of "people who haven’t bought in yet" are larger than generally estimated: we're at an inflection point where corporate financials will start to think "well, we should own some bitcoins too" and there will be a bit of domino effect there as people try to emulate their "betters".

But I think things will crash way before we run out of coins to mine.
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Your impression of the Mongols is very wrong. They were exceptionally advanced in a number of things, including religious tolerance and syncretism and military strategy. They left immense “traces of empire”, the largest being the exchange of ideas during the peaceful era of Pax Mongolia.

Judging a historical civilization by how much it has affected the present is also a bit myopic.
That looks like inverse density.
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I can't think of any professional UGC platform that hasn't developed some version of a preferred partner program at some point. Microsoft paid app developers to develop Windows Phone apps, YouTube was paying creators to onboard onto their platform, Mixer famously paid Ninja a ridiculous amount of money to defect from Twitch etc. It's an absolutely standard growth tactic.

Different partner programs differ in the degree that they're open about the details of the program but, in general, they almost never list who the exact recipients are and quite often come with quite onerous NDA requirements even to be considered. I know for a fact that there was at least 1 YouTube program that was handing out check sizes up to $100K USD that I've never seen any reporting about in public sources but was quite well known within a specific YT vertical.

How unethical this is is up to you to personally determine but I don't think substack has done anything that is outside the norm of pretty much every other company of that plays in this same space.
I didn't notice until now this is 3 years old. I wonder what ended up happening; I hope he/she is okay.
Really? Even if they come here and kill us I still think its worth answering