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> You must comply with that policy, which might require you to return the software with the entire device on which the software is installed for a refund or credit, if any.

I wonder what they mean by "device." Device as in the hard drive or device as in the entire computer? Surely having to return the entire computer defeats the point of Windows' refund policy?
That’s right, though that’s quite limited. And you can use other blockchains than Ethereum, Tezos (a proof of stake blockchain with smart contracts) has NFTs platforms too and doesn’t have the high gas fee issue.
That’s why Elon’s in it with Starlink. From Elon’s perspective, if Starlink merely breaks even, it will be more than worth it as it has drastically increased launch demand, enabling high flight rate reusable rockets.
isn't that exactly what the second video on that page shows?
Well, the CPI is exclusively about consumer prices. It's not about savings vehicles like stocks.

But you are right. Wealth inequality is the cost of this form of monetary policy.
I work a lot with contractors in a different industry (construction/real estate) and I can't say this is true. Even mercenaries want to take pride in a job well done, and if you build a long-term project with them, they'll want to see it succeed. Being in it for the money does not have to mean not caring about what you're working on.
Thank you for the correction. I knew that tibbles were essentially just data frames with an extra class attribute, but for some reason I didn't realize this was also true of data.table. I think assumed that data.table's reference semantics couldn't be implemented on top of the existing data frame class, but I guess I'm wrong about that. Unfortunately it's too late for me to edit my original comment.
Fortunately science is not about being able to dance with people in a conversation or showmanship of any sort - it's about making falsifiable hypotheses and then carrying out experiments to test them. It requires a lot of tedious work where you have to convince your peers that your ideas are solid and worthy of publication. If someone fails to do that, maybe, just maybe, the reason is not a vast conspiracy against this person because his ideas are too powerful and academia too stupid to see the truth, but rather the ideas could just be wrong.
Please keep going, Rust is awesome and one of the few language projects trying to push the efficient frontier and not just rolling a new permutation of the trade-off dice.
It would only take blowing up one satellite to let the world know they're serious about it, at which point SpaceX would almost certainly be forced to comply with China's demands, if only because SpaceX would have to acknowledge that the debris from even a handful of destroyed satellites would cause serious danger to the operations of the rest of the constellation.
One of the many ways
I believe he might be referring to flash loans, essentially the borrowed money is returned to you within the same transaction that borrowed it + interest.
Any issues with snow etc?
> I imagine systemic racism would still exist, but at least the robots are making decisions consistently.

We program our robots with our prejudices[1]. If you don't control the machines, you can't change their programming. It's entirely possible that such prejudices are cemented through machines that cannot be influenced or changed except through actions of their owners.

What happens when the owners of these machines are indifferent towards, or outright supportive of, prejudice? History is rife with owners of companies, industries and governments exploiting and furthering prejudice for their own benefit.

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/publications/jud...
Given that the ocean is saltwater and thus not potable, I'd expect the glass of water to have roughly the same value by the ocean and in the desert.

What defines the glass of water's price is how easy it is to get potable water where you are - in both your contexts, that's largely defined by whether there is civilization nearby.

Either way, the glass of water still has intrinsic value - it will help humans and animals stay alive when drunk.

Fiat currency has almost no such practical value (toilet paper and textile applications are two I've seen elsewhere in this thread, which is true for paper money but not cryptocurrencies).

That's the point of the phrase "intrinsic value."

It's not an _objective_ value, where the price is strictly-defined or inherent to the object. It's intrinsic, meaning that all participants in the economic system have a use other than trade for the item in question.
Same goes for insurance companies: just letting providers overbill would not solve the problem.

I'm sure the overbilling and weaponized opaqueness are plausibly deniable, but I'm just as sure that providers don't mind one bit when they work, just as an insurance company doesn't mind when they discover an excuse to deny coverage. Providers are not "making ends meet," they are testing the limits of how far they can exploit the blank checks they have been written. They are not solely responsible for this mess, but they have a full share of moral and systemic culpability.
Maybe I know nothing, but it quite common that the technically superior solution don't get a lot of adoption and eventually dies.
Fiat money, by definition, has value because the government says so. It's backed by police military. Government can run the money printing machine whenever they please. You can work hard all your life placing your savings in a bank account but the purchasing power will be a lot less in the future because of inflation. Bitcoin is fixed supply and Ethereum could even be deflationary in the future.
We need orbiting space cities and space ships that travel with civilizations on them to distant stars. Trillions of humans exploring the universe!!!
If you dig a little deeper you might find your brain does make that kind of connection subconsciously.

This article gives a nice introduction into the work of cognitive linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. https://theconversation.com/how-did-white-become-a-metaphor-.... The language constructs we use embed positive and negative associations with the words used to describe black or white things, low or high concepts.

But I have to admit my bewilderment with the default branch name change too. I've seen older uses of the word master to mean original source of truth or master of students -- or padawan.

I believe it's better to live in a time where we think more seriously about the words we choose to use than in one we don't. Language is fluid and always changing anyway.
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Both sides had chemical weapons in World War II; neither side used them. Yet WWII was a total war.

That is, MAD or something MAD-like can restrain use of particular weapons, even in a total war.
> caging people you don't like or don't look like you

This is such a toxic, false statement. It denies reality: people are getting jailed for their actions. Due process is still in effect, you understand; and if anything, far fewer people are jailed than probably should be due to overcrowding, high costs, etc. Recidivism rates are very high.

Pretending that people are being jailed because of the color of their skin is ridiculous, especially considering that in many cities the jury, lawyers, judge, clerks, etc. are also of the same skin color. People are being jailed for committing crimes; and yes, these crimes are being disproportionately committed by some groups - as statistics have consistently shown for decades.

Statements like yours throw the entire justice system under the bus. You essentially call into question the entire appartatus that remains to protect normal folks in the burnt out husks of cities like Baltimore and Detroit.

> Karens' across the country feel that they need to control everyone and everything

Karen is an anti-white slur. "Karen" expects people to follow the rules and to be pro-social, and gets mad when they do not; this used to simply be good, mutual enforcement behaviour that everyone engaged in to keep people honest and to fight corruption. Stereotyping middleaged white women who simply want the process to be observed as written is offensive, and as sexist/racist as any other single term you could use these days.
Good point.

Some people online like to imply that paying for advice means you can blindly trust it. It's always a good idea to DYOR regardless.

Something that you get with communities like HN and Reddit is being able to read replies to comments pointing out bad advice.
While I didn't learn anything useful from the article, TIL the idiom "old chestnut". What an excellent expression!
Rare earth elements actually aren't that rare. For example, neodymium makes up over 30 ppm of Earth's crust. That's more common than lead, cobalt, tin, thorium, tungsten, molybdenum, and quite a few other elements with large-scale industrial applications.

The difficult part of producing rare-earth elements is separating them from everything else. Tiny pieces of spacecraft dust scattered over a large area don't make very high grade ore...
The luck part is that you could have made the same prediction about lots of different companies that didn’t increase as much as Tesla. I think it’s reasonable to take credit for predicting the direction of the stock, but 10xing your money in a single year is lucky.
> he wants to be proud of his work.

This. A thousand times this. A sense of professional pride is absolutely critical in becoming good at your craft, regardless of what that craft might be.
I talked to a guy a few weeks ago. He needed help with his art related NFT project. Basically he was looking for a CTO because he had no idea whether his developers were doing a good job (and, I'd also add, what he built wasn't necessarily what he needed to build).

I have a pretty good understanding of block chain technologies but didn't hear about NFTs before, so like you, I started to challenge his ideas. Partly to understand what he was building. Because at first I tried to find real and practical applications for the platform that somehow connect to physical things, works of art.

But what he said was pretty interesting. The guy had a background in art management and, I think, trade. He said that art collection has always been about being able to say that you have the original piece. And that it's not rational anyway, not even for physical works of art, like paintings. It's not that you like the actual picture on the actual canvas so much that you want to buy it for say $1M and if you just had a copy you'd notice the difference and that wouldn't give you as much pleasure. It's simply about having the original. And also collecting related originals.

Now it's easy to trace it back to real, actual scarcity, where indeed there weren't many e.g. paintings (or books, etc.) and there was a big difference between the paintings of different artists (both in style and quality) and you had no way of looking at these other than having the originals probably.

I guess the big question here is whether this phenomenon is strong enough on its own to transfer to purely digital assets or whether this is really rooted and tied to that original scarcity that we kept changing the story around. (I.e. while it's not about being able to enjoy and look at the piece anymore, now it's tied to the knowledge that that specific piece of canvas was painted on by that specific very talented guy X hundred years ago, and he was standing in front, etc.)

One hint might be those 'limited edition' sport cards that some people seem to collect, as well as 'limited edition' e.g. CD or vinyl albums from the past millenium. (I never understood those, but I had a friend who did get a very obvious joy out of being able to buy those. For me, these were always just delivery mediums and I only cared about the music.)

Honestly, I have no idea, but that call was definitely interesting.
I believe it is a bit pretentious. The word philosophy lends extra weight to what is otherwise random speculations. Many philosophers in fact claim that science is a just sub field of philosophy and that philosophy is “above” it.

I highly disagree with this.

A statement made on the basis of logic or science has more weight then any sort of random speculation made in “aesthetics” yet philosophy places them on equal grounds. There is a clear error in hierarchy here similar to the phylum based nomenclature in biology.
again, what about the second video on that page showing animations?
The last video seems to show the fabric operating as a display:
https://obj.shine.cn/files/2021/03/11/d1a7a108-37b8-422b-966...
Thanks, discord’s article is fascinating.
This proposal starts looking weird as soon as you go into detail because it ties one persons rights to redress in court with the due process accorded to their opponent - because any due process would start only if a takedown (a) happens and (b) is appealed.

I.e. if user A makes a post that defames you, you complain, it gets taken down, user A makes an appeal according to the new "230+ process" and gets it restored - then you'd have no redress in court because the provider followed the due process. (in any case, due process would be about the process of evaluating whether the post meets some editorial criteria, but the criteria themselves can be absolutely arbitrarily set by the platform; if they decide to ban the posts which contain the letter "a", that's compatible with due process, as long as they look in the appeal and point out that yup, there was an "a" in it so the ban was appropriate; and if they decide to ban only posts which they're absolutely required by other laws and leave everything else, that still fits due process).

In the opposite scenario, user A makes a post that might defame you but it gets immediately taken down by an automated algorithm; user A complains but gets auto-rejected without due process - so then you'd have a right to redress in court, but for what? The post got taken down.

And if you had in mind right to redress in court for the person making the post, they don't have any valid claim pre-230, during 230 and in your proposed scenario either way.
people determined and chose that precious metals had value through trade. same way people are determining Bitcoin's value now. Okay if Earth has a fixed quantity, what is it? Yeah you don't know. What's Bitcoin's limit? 21 million, defined by code.
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This is why I switched to being a consultant.

I have several clients willing to pay my full rate for as many hours as I want to work but they pay me every month on retainer for a small minimum I know pays the bills, and to make sure they have access to my experience when they really need it even if the minimum hours are not always used every month.

If I choose to work a 30 hour week I am paid for 30 hours. Likewise for a 60 hour week.

Lawyers figured out this structure ages ago and I feel like more engineers would benefit from doing the same.
OK, now do Australia, China, Mongolia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Korea. Being isolated is an advantage, but the key to success appears to be sealing the border early and having an enforced quarantine period upon entering the country. Essentially all countries that successfully controlled COVID did this.

The purpose of this is to keep cases to a very low number, which allows test/trace/isolate to not be overwhelmed. If there are a lot of tracers and they don't have much work to do, they can be very thorough and you get few leaks.

When you do get leaks, targeted lockdowns work to suppress clusters while test/trace swarms in.

Lockdowns, quarantines, and mask mandates that are not actually enforced are much less useful than ones with teeth. There will always be a segment of the population that doesn't want to cooperate, and if they are not forced to comply, clusters will form among these populations, overwhelm test/trace, and then spread to the general population.
Stamp collecting used to be a big thing, with people willing to spend substantial sums for rare stamps. This value only existed insofar as people had an interest in owning a rare stamp; today, few indeed really see monetary value in a small sticky paper from 1930’s Lithuania or depicting an airplane upside down due to a printing accident. The value existed only because buyer & seller agreed there was value.

Ditto Bitcoin, but without the physical novelty. Bitcoin is useful as you say, but only insofar as owner & buyer decide to impute value on that conceptual medium, and don’t get bored and decide to use some other construct.

If nobody is willing to buy your Bitcoin, it’s worthless - and an ethereal construct requiring a large network of supporting cooperators (blockchain management) can see such imputed value disappear real quick.

... which is demonstrated perfectly by the fact you use Monero, not Bitcoin.
But is it really any more or less intrinsic than gold? Gold can be used for jewelry and electronics, Bitcoin can be used for trustless transactions, and rapidly moving value across borders.

Gold bullion represents the work it took to bring it out of the earth and refine it, Bitcoin represents the equipment and electricity it took to mine the next block.

I at least can see that proof of work is closer to gold than proof of stake in this regard, you can quantify the value of obtaining the thing against the actual cost of obtaining it.

However they do adjust the process to try and keep a steady rate, gold is of course something that mining more of varies greatly in terms of success based on the terrain and equipment and all that jazz.
How does 230 address hypocrisy? Or are you just airing a personal grudge?
> That's the employer's problem.

This is a lazy, cop-out answer.
I am now enjoying my 12 hour enforced break from Twitter.
Governments love inflation because they want their citizens to do productive work instead of swimming in literal gold like in a scrooge mcduck vault.
So Docker is a zero cost solution now?
That looks to me like it was 4500 BTC not $4500... (or in this case, WBTC which are approx the same price as BTC). Or am I reading this wrong?
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Which means there's as many "legitimate" chains as there are ways to define a majority, and as blockchain entries increasingly denote external assets things are about to get very messy. In the end disagreements will probably be adjudicated by traditional governments based on regular contract law (in the best cases) or individual physical force (in the not-exactly-so-formal ones), and after a few instances of that maybe we can be done with the whole foolishness.
> durability and cost will be a huge factor in investment or adoltion

Depends - fashion products often have high cost and low durability.
It's not America. America is the only truly free country. Only 15 counties in the world allow you to even own land if you're not from a specific religious group, ethnicity, or born in the country.

And guess what they're all western democracies.
In the general scheme of things you're right that many jobs are near linear, but I think for the intended audience of TFA (people likely to be scammed by the salary system and made to work longer than 40-hour weeks without overtime pay) it's a valid generalization.

The jobs that actually are linear actually do tend to get paid by the hour and often even have 1.5x pay for overtime, and the fact that salaried workers don't get that is precisely where the scam is.
I tried it and was locked for violating the rule against posting people’s “personal information.” I just appealed the account lock...
The hourly price swings of Bitcoin is far too erratic to use it for mom and pop retailers to price and sell basic goods, or say, a Tesla. The price of an item has to be set in a stable currency, like the good old dollar, and only at the moment of purchase can the conversion between bitcoin and USD can be made. In this sense Bitcoin can never be a real currency for day to day staples - it takes 10 minutes to complete a blockchain transaction, and prices have to be quoted in something else. Of course middlemen who assume the price risk can offer immediate conversion, but at a high cost per transaction.
The sanitizers and cleaning part certainly didn't hurt. And people continue to go through the motions but it seems increasingly the view that it really didn't matter much, especially to the point where people were sanitizing all their grocery purchases or leaving their Amazon deliveries in the garage for 3 days.

I was at an event just over a year ago where we weren't handshaking and surfaces were being wiped down but otherwise we were taking zero precautions which was pretty much the norm at the time. So, basically, we weren't taking any meaningful precautions.
It's amazing that the million dollar webpage is still up. Unlike most of the links there, I guess.
Dishy will actually intentionally heat up to melt snow. I’ve seen YouTube videos of it melting a good amount of snow per hour and service remaining stable.
You seem to be saying that we don't know it's happening. And yet that you do. That combination seems improbable.
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Your not salaried then ie no fixed hours
Man, Italian tribunals already have enough of a backlog with all sorts of shit, Lenovo deserve the scorn for trying to abuse the process.
I'd really love if the US stopped sending foreign aid to apartheid states
True, but logic like this leads inevitably to large scale gun confiscation or prohibition.

That’s a fine perspective to have, but it completely contradicts the people here who are saying no one is demanding prohibition.
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Sounds like the next iteration of "Lies, damned lies and scans":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0O6UXrOZJo

>On the scale of things too horrible to contemplate, "document-altering scanner" is right up there with "flesh-eating bacteria". Since 2006, Xerox scancopiers literally are making stuff up. They, for example, replace digits with others in scans.
... except for the 5200's non-centering joysticks. Those essentially broke the platform.
Starlink should make tons of money soon.

These launch costs are investments.
>If nothing is done, leave.

Left a low paying "VP" job because of this. If leadership just wants to squeeze people and work them to death, that's not good leadership.
My son is a member of the T430 cult, which is what I'm typing this on. After upgrades, I've been fairly happy with it. I've been purchasing X1 Carbons for customers of mine and that's been a really good experience as well.

I'd be happy to see Lenovo impose this high-end manufacturing quality across all of it's lines.
If you don't have a lot of money to invest, it's far better to put that cash into developing yourself. That can be as simple as reading books such as The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen or The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand, or following an interest you already have (mine are things like machining, chemistry, structural engineering, neon art).

If you have a business idea, one of the best books I've read is The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed by Alberto Savoia. Making stuff is a lot easier than learning whether or not you're on the right track without spending everything you have.

The last thing I'd suggest is to be concerned with history and America's oncoming fascist trainwreck. Peikoff wrote The Ominous Parallels forty years ago, and his words are every bit as chilling as they are prescient.