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You assume this is the only way, and it is true if you take as an axiom that everybody is equal and has equal right to be represented, to access the platforms and to participate in a public discussion. This is not however what leftist culture warriors think, and unfortunately for people who disagree with them, they now are controlling most of the Big Tech platforms and most of the corporate press. As the result, the values which they disagree with are and going to be suppressed, and they are absolutely OK with it - moreover, they consider it vital and necessary.

They do not want to learn to engage anybody they disagree with, and as long as they control most of the platforms, along with the academia, the education sector, the entertainment sector, serious part of the government institutions and significant part of the corporate boards - there is no reason for them to engage anyone, as soon as they can just suppress and deplatform whoever they like. Might makes right, at least for them.

Of course, there's no technology on Earth - at least not yet - to make dissenting voices completely silent. But that's not the point. The point is to make them orders of magnitude weaker, so they would not be able to influence anything. You can talk to your friends in your kitchen, if you want, while your opponents will have an access to billions strong audience. You can set up your puny webserver (provided your ISP and your DNS provider do not deplatform you, and your bank does not deny you access to payment systems) - and you'll be competing with the combined powers of Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and such. Do you think they would feel compelled to "engage" you, to evolve and change their ways to account for your existence - or would they just crush you like a tiny insect, and not even notice it?
And yet, those places in Asia and Africa are much less of a problem for the environment than we are in Europe and the USA.

Raw population numbers are not the biggest concern. Consumption and excessive luxury, wasteful production practices and burying all of these under the rug are the root of all these problems
Note also that the 'mul' instruction is described in the Arm docs the article links to as an "alias" of madd. That is, the CPU itself has no pure multiply-only insn at all, only a multiply-and-add. When you write 'mul' in assembly, the assembler turns it into a 'madd' where the register to add is XZR (the reads-as-zero register).

There are a fair number of insns in the A64 instruction set that make use of this trick to provide one flexible instruction that as a special case provides useful simpler functionality under an alias. (Register-to-register 'mov' being an alias of 'orr' is another.)
I think most of the companies are selling the vaccine quite cheaply.
Moderna and Pfizer are asking for 15-20 $ / person for vaccine that has value of thousands of euros.

Which, as Eliezer notes, is part of the problem. That together with flexible delivery schedules in agreements mean that companies have little extra resources and incentives to invest in fast vaccine production.

For more discussion, see https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/02/ma...
I really don't understand what the fuss is about: twice a year the clocks change, mostly automatically, and sometimes i even forget it happened. You just wake up, and go about your day. Zero impact from DST. Once a year you're lucky and have one hour longer to sleep, once a year you're out of luck and get one hour less to sleep. No big deal.

Much easier than having to rethink, reschedule, and renegotiate all times at some (rondom) moment in the year.
You are the one who talks about behavior. I was talking about beliefs.

There is a difference between behavior, which can be modified, even though biology plays a huge role there (see heritability of alcoholism, even in adopted children who grew up in dry homes), and belief.

I can definitely pretend that I believe in a particular deity, or Critical Race Theory for that purpose, if I am intimidated enough by my peers to be afraid to tell the truth. That is behavior and it is modifiable at will. But I cannot really start believing it sincerely.

Beliefs, especially in people over 30, are pretty fixed. There are interesting exceptions, but most people who do a 180 in their political beliefs do so in early life.
And my point is we’re not necessarily under counting.

Doing online advertising produces much less CO2 than say running a steel mill.
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There you go, now that you played the antisemite card and insulted a stranger let him know: how you can have hortodox Jews that are also antisionists? How would that work in that brilliant mind of yours?

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Bitcoin is closer to a deity for which people sacrifice their electricity as an offering. Meanwhile Americans are merely fulfilling their selfish desires. Bitcoin can work with 1 KW of power just as well as it can work with 1 TW of power.
Beauty is purely a human construct. No humans, no beauty.
We've witnessed hundreds of statues destroyed last year, from Abraham Lincoln to Cervantes. So we know the answer - if it's the right people doing blowing up, nothing happens, you have one statue left and you are forced to apologize for putting it up in the first place.
Fixed income is different than stocks. 10% no matter what is sometimes what you want instead of: Maybe 15% or maybe -10% a year.
All companies shoud benefit from future projections. It's just that other companies are growing much slower.
As someone working in it-consulting for some big companies in germany, i can't confirm. It's usually the other way around - if a company grows too fast, they're tempted to make some smart engineer a manager. usually they will have a hard time coming from a very detailed world into the high level business world. besides being good problem-analysts, they are confronted with politics, strategy, leadership, ... - so all the skills that really matter at ceo level.

That being said, i can't agree with the statement that sw engineers make the best CEOs. But i tend to agree that a basic knowledge of IT/Software/Hardware is a must.
Seems to just say that software is currently a better industry by market cap than others.
Thinking on a hacker perspective, it makes more sense because he can reach wider audience.
All of these "reasons for optimism" trends in the US (and, to a big extent, Europe as well) are to be ignored, since the US is simply moving production of everything outside the country on an unprecedented scale. Every farm that gets released in the mid-west is likely made up by another swath of Amazon rain-forest burned down in Brazil . Even in internal production, every increase in productivity is met with an increase in the push to get people to consume more, so there are no real gains to be had in the current system.
Do you think this will reduce jobs? I think it would do the opposite
Noon is the only easily measurable time point in the day that is always (approximately) 24 hours apart. Also, sunrise and sunset are always symmetrical to noon, even when the day length varies considerably. For setting up a time system, noon consequentially is the correct reference point. But yes, your day rhythm will vary relative to that across the year, but there will differences according to local (like latitude) and personal environments which will make sunrise not a good reference point for a time system.
20 miles is doable with an eBike or speed pedelec. Probably not as environment-friendly as a normal bike, but probably beats a car. And it’s healthier.
Sure they are, the original contract was that the blockchain asset was authoritative. If you buy that asset then you obviously share that view. If the asset has limited transferability, well you agreed to that. It was in the code for you to test for, if not read.
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I have a strong suspicion that firearm deaths are related to crime which is related to wealth inequality. Of which US does extremely badly compared to most developed countries.

People become criminals when there's few other options
What do you think the other 4/5 of people are doing for AR/VR?
Most of the time I just want to get tipsy or drunk with my friends and I don't really care how many hours have the grapes been grazing the sun. If it's ok taste, isn't too unhealthy and gets the job done, it works for me. And I'm pretty sure that's everyone who buys 2€ wine
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It's from https://mapologies.wordpress.com/ , which has a load of other, even better maps. Awesome stuff!
Ignorance. Had they actually applied those "backward Islamic values", they'd be much more advanced. See: Islamic Golden Age.
Until recently, China had been importing a vast amount of the world's trashed plastic, ostensibly for recycling, but likely simply dumping a good part of it.

The global economy doesn't allow for simple answers to the sources of trash and waste. China (and India) are massive exporters of goods, only a fraction of their manufacturing is consumed internally. And of course, the biggest importers are the US and Europe.
Having 16 hours of sunlight in the summer means the sun is going to be up too early. Both 3:30 am and 4:30 am are way too early for the sun, but such is life. Either way, the sun is up well into the evening, so it's not as if much changed with an hour moved. Except the sleep disturbance; for some, it's no big deal; for others it takes weeks to recover.
Media also tends to forget that Israel actively sends new settlers every year to invade Palestinian homes, burn centuries old olive tree fields, block access to water (while conveniently promoting retarded water purification trinkets).
https://youtu.be/eQcFTK3Or0A?t=306 for some actual examples.
How do you know that this was in response to you? Isn't it more likely that it was in response to another person?
> why wouldn't they use one of the techniques that successful discussion forums employ to filter out spam, extremism, and other noise?

They have done.

Removing comments will reduce some engagement, but as pointed out they've come to the conclusion that the sort of engagement lost is of low value to the majority of their target audience and comes with a cost (in terms of moderation effort) that isn't worth, to them, any residual "good" value the comments sections have.

>HN being an obvious example

I think a key difference between HN and news pages like those in the enquirer in this matter is that their comments area is more of an afterthought to start with where much of the purpose of many visiting HN, good sub-reddits, and do forth is for the comments. This means removing them would be much more sufficient a loss. It also means that for a greater part community moderation works, reducing more costly (for the need site) central effort (it is still needed, of course but the cost/benefit balance is very different).
You make a good point. A lot of people aren't aware of this, but more people die in Mexico every year as a result of cartel violence than have died in the entire history of the Israel Palestine conflict. If Israel were really the big bad oppressive force that people claim it to be, especially with their industrialized military and the asymmetry of the two forces, wouldn't we expect that the death toll would be much higher?
The leftist narrative is that it's only sexism if it affects women. Otherwise, thins are fine. That's why you don't see calls for having same representation in fields such as construction, firefighting, nursing, teaching, etc.
Well its PGs perspective whose opinion is not accepted or valued world wide, Indian government doesn't consider you a startup any more after crossing certain age and revenue. Also a lot of companies will not recognise you as a startup(for offers) after you cross certain threshold. Stripe is far from that threshold.
That's almost like someone in the 18th century saying steam engines were the past, because Hero of Alexandria built them in 1AD [0]. Nothing new to see here, Mr. Watt.

Much like with steam engines in ancient Rome, the technological and economical context at the turn of 20th century wasn't right for the mass adoption of electric cars. Technological environment stayed wrong until the turn of 21th century, and the economical environment stayed wrong until Tesla single-handedly dragged the market, kicking and screaming, into accepting electric cars as a viable product.

Similarly, we had VR since at least the 90s, but the technological environment was bad then. It's right now, and it's the Oculus Quest line that made a pivotal change in the market acceptance.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile
Let's meet in the middle and have exactly two kids and no replacements if one of them dies.
It doesnt have to be. Overall productivity is increasing (or at least has been for the last decades). So only the product of work hours times productivity determines if salaries get much lower or not. (Of course if from one day to the next you work only 50% then your claim is true)
I'm sorry for sounding curmudgeonly, but grammatical mistakes in UI are a real turn-off for me.

When the first message that greets me is "Welcome to use Java Tools", my initial impression (rightly or wrongly) is that this won't be a very good extension.
Was that actually a thing? I’ve only ever heard parent/child. Frankly, using gendered terms here just sounds bizarre.
A lot of the time, that is only achieved by outsourcing production and other high-environmental tole activities to the third world. I am extremely skeptical of most countries claiming to have achieved this.
Such vessels with visible rear engines are being phased out by narcotrafficants because it's easy for the police to stop them through shooting
Was it just because, or to prevent use by the enemy
>bad manager are you if your employees work no better than a team of strangers far far away.

I agree.

But I also am certain that unicorns are usually still not built when everything goes perfect.

That's what makes them unicorns.
Not if you're serving things dynamically from a web server, then it happens on the fly, every request.
House prices not necessarily. House prices are driven by demand and by ability to borrow. If everyone takes a pay cut, everyone can pay less and house prices should go down. The only reason house prices have gone so silly recently is insanely cheap credit has let everyone bid against each other to drive house prices up.
With a self-driving car, the desired outcome is to save lives. With an autonomous weapon, the desired outcome is to kill. Having a human inefficiency in the loop means you can have mercy and refrain from killing.

I don't think the problem is with AIs acurrately identifying friends and enemies. You can't solve that 100% anyway, but if it can aid humans and prevent mistakes, all the better. The problem is when you start to build absolutely relentless border drones that can one-shot the enemy, without any possibility for mercy or negotiation.
As soon as everyone agrees to build more nuclear power... We're not anywhere near ready to use anti-matter, but the next best thing faces extreme opposition for some reason.

Hydrogen is pretty much a solved problem too. Most of the critics are just stuck in 2010 or earlier.
> at its default level, compresses not only more than gzip level 9, but also at more than 10x the speed

I could also call that a wilful misrepresentation, since gzip level 9 is very slow compared to the default setting and IMO isn't worth the extra execution time.

Also, nobody mentions that gzip is already installed everywhere. zstd is fairly new, and it's not installed by default on any of the machines I use.

I mean, I'm sure there are some exotic screw drivers that work better than Torx. But I can get Torx screws and drivers in every hardware store and everyone already has compatible bits so why not use whatever works?
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I agree banks have very little incentive. I was thinking of legislation, even if the US is unlikely to enact it. I just wanted to point out it's not an inherently unsolvable problem.
Magento is perhaps the most refined eCommerce platform introduced in 2008 for online business owners. Built on open source technology and written in PHP, it allows the users to have access to free, flexible, and simple-to-use software. It makes use of several other PHP frameworks such as Symfony and Laminas.
At the same time Azure was started under Ballmer, which was important in Microsoft's reinvention and repositioning.
Wasn't "PHP the go to web language"?

I'm pretty sure Ruby has never matched its popularity for web. Maybe it did for sysadmin kinds of tasks.

Or do you mean that those using PHP just didn't get into YC?
Aesthetically, I'd offer a counterpoint that incredibly high aspect ratio white carbon wings are quite beautiful, relative to monolithic concrete blocks. They are also approachable in the landscape (I love mountain biking beneath them).

I agree with your point that nimbyism shouldn't be a relevant factor in new build decisions though. The real issue is not whether you would want to live next to a new nuclear reactor, but whether you would want to live next to one in the process of being decommissioned at minimum cost contracts (or pay for the same, which is not being factored in to operating expenses). Or, live next to one of the wholly inadequate storage facilities for the hottest waste which we still have little idea what to do with.
Same here. IMO only one day already heavily improves life quality. Its not 50% in switzerland, but common enough that most jobs would accept.
I live in Italy, and this area (like pretty much the entirety of Southern Europe) is a winemaking region. I can buy decent wines for less than 2 Euros a bottle - and I mean PDO or PGT stuff, the crappy no-brand wine is even much much less.

It does not contain additives, it's just plain wine. I do not drink often so I use it mostly for cooking, but it would be definitely drinkable, and it's probably something that would cost 10 times as much on the other side of the ocean.

Also, wineries sell directly to customers, so if you are really keen into drinking a lot of wine you can just go there, fill several demijohns and then bottle it yourself. My father (and his father, and my mother's father, and everyone else over a certain age) has done this every year for their entire life.
My guess: the same as with all other big tech companies, which also tend to have similarly skewed split between engineering and non-engineering. I.e. mostly sales, marketing, legal, and management. Software engineering scales up well, all that other stuff doesn't.
According to official records, the Spanish Inquisition tried 150 000 people, and only 2% resulted in death sentences, so that's 3 000 executions over 350 years of history.

According to Aztec records, for the consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, 84 000 people were sacrificed IN FOUR DAYS.

You can't even begin to compare the numbers. Many historians agree that the reason a small number of Spanish soldiers could conquer the big Aztec empire is because they could forge alliances with the neighbouring tribes that were completely fed up with them. The Aztec were the Nazis of their time.
Are you really unaware of the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the apartheid established there?

Is it unthinkable that at least some Palestinians would resort to defending themselves after their homes were stolen and while being under constant threat of extermination?

You’re right that it doesn’t compare. Colonisers have always been far more brutal than any response they received.
It's not necessarily less work per person, it's less time per person. That matters in cases where coverage is needed ( medical personnel, police, fire department, secretaries, phone support, hospitality, etc.) but in others where only the output matters ( like software engineering, lawyers, marketing, even factories in some cases etc. ), there have been multiple studies around the subject and they all claim that fewer work hours increase productivity.
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> “The only red lines are that we want to see a true reduction of working hours and no loss of salary or jobs.”

And there it is. (The proposal is the government pays a fraction of this for a few years before sticking the companies with this.)

It's basically just a minimum wage law but written the other way.

This always sticks the bill with the only person actually paying to begin with, the business owner. If society thinks people should be paid more perhaps it should mandate paying more for the company's products to compensate for making them pay their employees more per hour.
> You're admittedly talking about a difference in compression rate of 13MB in a 1400MB package, and a 5s difference in writing a 1400MB file to disk.

> Come on, let's be honest here: that's nitpicking.

I agree on the compression size (13 megabytes is really not very much difference) but the decompression speed improvement really is remarkable. It's an order of magnitude of difference! Amortize that over every time you make a webrequest that has to decompress data, it makes a huge difference.

I'm mostly in the "gzip is good enough" camp, but a speed improvement of 10x is not nitpicking.
I etched a few boards while in college, including one while I was in Australia preparing for a solar car race. Eventually the solar car team found a local PCB manufacturer excited to sponsor us, though. It was pretty great getting 1-2 day turn around on boards as a college student. I tried to keep everything standard 2 layer to make it easy to manufacture.

The sponsor kept saying, "Come on, give us a challenge. We specialize in heavy copper!" So... I designed a 40-pole 4-turn brushless motor stator meant to do 7KW+, with each phase consisting of 3 parallel traces to minimize eddy current losses. 32 layers of 8oz copper, 90%+ copper fill. We also pushed it to the physical limits of chemical etching in terms of trace spacing.

They tried their darnedest to manufacture it. They had to program their mills to peck drill for the first time. The plate was so heavy that it damaged several conveyor belts on the line. They managed to get me a 16 layer prototype, and we actually drove the car for a couple hours on it (but with an appropriately reduced torque limit due to the increased resistance). They couldn't get all the kinks out of the full stackup before our race deadline, but they eventually produced a 6oz 28 layer stackup that was pretty much perfect. I still have it as a momento. I think it weighs maybe 15lb.
There's a Donald Duck cartoon by Carl Barks called The Golden Helmet that deals with the discovery of America by the Vikings, and then Don Rosa made a follow up that brings up the Celtic theory, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Helmet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Charts_of_Columbus
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In terms of actual hardware, a general-purpose multiply+adder is actually just a multiplier with one extra row for the addend. NxN multipliers are implemented as an N-row addition (of one multiplicand shifted and masked by the bits of the other). One more row is very cheap compared to running two operations through an ALU that only has separate multiply and add hardware.

In general, outwith ALUs as well as in, it is very cheap to fold any (reasonable) number of additions and subtractions, even ones with constant left/right shifts/rotates to the addends and subtrahends, into multipliers.