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>Hmm...maybe it’s time to try some alternatives to democracy.

>What if we chose councilors from a pool at random?

"I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University."

—William F. Buckley, Jr., 1963 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nf_bu-kBr4 )
And if they each had to buy their own health care they would pay much more than $7800/yr. Negotiating premiums with carriers is easier as part of a group of EEs than as an individual.
This is a solved problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDc_5zpBj7s
How does your quote or anything else in the study contradict my statement?
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The only way PoW crypto is superceded is if someone finally implements PoS. There is a lot of hope in ethereum "moving to" proof of stake, but I think a move will never happen. Miners will not allow it. It'll be a fork.

Then, if it has to be forked why not start from scratch with something better? I imagine/hope many people are working on better crypto protocols at the moment.
I'm so happy that other people start to notice this dynamic.

Why are we not yet fully running on renewables? Why don't we have trillions of dollars pouring into solar panels and wind turbines and pumped storage hydroelectricity and battery storage?

The answer is there's not enough demand for excess electricity to create and keep excess electricity. I read about new pumped storage hydroelectricity installation closed due to lack of demand. There are too few ways to turn excess electricity into money. If we are going to have fully renewable energy in the future, we need to produce way more energy than we need so when conditions are bad for power generation we still have enough. And for that we need incentives. We are struggling to create artificial, law based incentives on global scale.

Cryptos are currently the best way we have to organically create those incentives. There were already instances of crypto miners selling energy they contracted, back to the grid, when price of energy briefly exceeded the gain they could have by burning that energy to mine.

When prices of crypto rise again in few years and hardware hashrate plateaus we may reach a point when miners will be building/buying new windmill and solar panel installations on mass scale, because their costs will be dominated by the energy costs and the cheapest energy will be excess energy renewables produce.

We don't lack resources to reach the green future, we lack incentives, and if we are lucky meteoric rise of price of crypto can provide those.

EDIT: And the post is flagged into oblivion. I'm no longer happy because interesting observation got silenced. Well I guess see you all in few years.

EDIT2: .... and now it's unflagged. :-) A hot topic.
We'd like to go to war with China now that the right people are positioned to profit from it. US doing a land war still requires public support so now it's ok to drum up.
This is a joke, right? You can’t convert Bitcoin back into energy no matter how you look at it.
I thought the article is bad. But what you said is also not true. It sounds like you are complaining about the high energy use of Bitcoin. Crypto does not have to use a lot of energy to work, it just happens that bitcoin uses a proof of work algorithm.
> We don't know if it's true, there's still no evidence even today.

I have edited my comment to reflect that.

> Motivation affects how we react to a theory with no evidence, when coming from Tom Cotton vs. a former CDC director.

There's another fallacy for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
The last POSIX came out in 2017, and it's a constantly evolving standard. It's also widely supported and Linux isn't even the most standards compliant.
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Not exactly the sign of a healthy economy when the government has to make up for the lack of economic opportunities by taking my taxes and giving them to poor people, is it?

I am more interested in why they publish these articles? Who are they trying to sell these ideas to, exactly? Certainly not the poor.
Donald Trump would have used any present ambiguity to spin it into a conspiracy myth, like he has demonstrated e.g. in the last US election [1]. Unsurprisingly this practise doesn't really create a climate in which curiosity and open speculation will thrive.

Understandably, there are few researchers who would like their scientific speculation to become part the often colourful narratives Donald Trump and his followers tell each others.

Edit: edited to reduce snarkiness and polemic phrases

[1] For an example of Trump trying to find "material" that he can use for the stories he tells his following, see this transcript of Trumps call to the Georgia election official at the bottom of the page: https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-tr...
Redistribution of wealth is pretty much the solution that’s been bandied about. And it’s the method by which many low inequality countries achieve low inequality.
Most likely accidental if it was premeditated all out global bio-weapon war would happen.

Just like assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand brought domino effect and caused First World war the same would happen now.
What’s your proposal? We have more unproductive people than productive people. We have more lazier people than dilligent people. We have more stupid people than smart people. Even free education doesn’t fix it because people are free not to study.
Why Do Mirrors Flip Left & Right (but not up & down)? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4dOPxKgrY
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How are you defining lazier, diligent, unproductive?
Interestingly, the US manufacturing output today is the greatest it has ever been. Jobs get lost mostly due to automation. This a good thing: Do more with less and focus on higher-value activities.
>Our results suggest that investors do not discriminate against female or Asian entrepreneurs when evaluating unsolicited pitch emails...

Are they implying that investors do discriminate against non-Asian males? Why write it the other way around.
If bitcoin would be fully powered by renewables, do you still think its energy consumption would be a problem?
Yes, they specifically mention "adjustments" due to changes in the way the Census collects data. They don't explain what those adjustments were and why they were needed. It all feels very much like adjusting the axis on a graph to make a big slope look smaller or to take small slope and make it look like a hockey stick. Smells very much like manipulating data to get the results you want.
Aluminium and BTC are not at all similar. Aluminium is a useful commodity. It's used to build things people need and want, and to wrap falafel rolls. BTC is a currency with no value in and of itself.
Here's a copy of the article: https://smallpdf.com/shared#st=355d9816-1cd2-405a-984c-353e4...
There's also 'bossnapping': https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-bossnapping-idUSBR...

I'm not sure I'd characterize this as anything reasonable. At what point does this warrant self defense by the people stuck?
I took logic in college too. I didn't say that motivation affects whether something is true or not, just how much skepticism we apply to it. It's perfectly normal and good that we believe things experts say (when we ourselves do not have expertise) over a guy shouting on a street corner.
Not the energy consumption in itself, but the amount of heat and physical electronic waste generated certainly is.
Argument for PoW breaks down once PoS is proven battle tested for years. Ethereum will lead the way proving this.
Exactly, and they'd get shittier insurance.
I don't understand why many people care so much about income inequality. Live has been improving for everyone for centuries. Why does it matter if some have more than others if everyone has more material wealth and, more importantly, more opportunities than ever before?
How much of the energy used by a processor is dissipated as heat? If it's a significant amount, perhaps it could be recovered in some way?
And you can have more than one motorcycle!
Yeah, sure go look for it more than a year later. That's how it works best.

China and WHO spit in the face of the world. And world smiled back and greeted them.
It's a pretty loaded question, I'm not sure you'd even have wide agreement on what Unix is.
Are we talking about kernels? The general design philosophy? The broader ecosystem?

For example, the failure of Unix like systems to deliver anything interesting in the GUI/PC space.
One may say that's a Unix failure, but it may make more sense to say it's a failure of open source software. It's certainly not as if the kernel design or the OS philosophy is what hindered developing useful GUI software. And then you have to ask if OS X counts as a Unix or not. Does Android?

Speaking in very broad philosophical terms disregarding practical concerns, I really love the Lisp Machine/Genera [0] model. Today somewhat represented by Emacs. Most modern OSes operate under a black box model. They're just runtimes for siloed software. On Linux, the kernel, window managers and pretty much everything might be open source. But even for a highly technical power user these things are as impenetrable and unchangeable as, say, Windows proprietary software. I don't think there's even that many fundamental disagreements between Windows and Unix. Most divergences are best explained by Microsoft's relentless end-user orientation.

In the Emacs model there's very little delineation between anything really. Not just system vs "user space", but between "user space" packages themselves. Everything is just code running in the same environment. The system is an IDE unto itself. One may say Emacs isn't a real operating system (it's not) and perhaps Genera wouldn't be either by modern standards. But I'm not sure that's all there is to it. Most modern programming languages tend to replicate the siloed model too. Even highly dynamic non-OO languages like JavaScript pretty much went with a blackbox library model. It does seem like a general computing principle, rather than something that's only relevant at a given level.

There are severe practical limitations, but I don't think it's a super niche thing with no appeal. I'd say no-code tools, app builders, website creators etc play into something similar. Or how people love using Excel for all sorts of back office stuff. Every few years some vaporware makes a lot of noise promising everybody will be able to create great software with their tool. There's certainly a need for malleability.

[0] Don't take my word on what Lisp Machines were exactly. I don't have any direct experience with them. If what I read about them is wrong, substitute for just Emacs and the comment still stands.
A buddy of mine has an ostomy pouch and Amazon won't stop sending him job offers. Apparently they love employees who pee and or poop in bags...
Speaking of assemblers, I visited NASA Huntsville in the late 70s and watched a small group of women in a clean room string tiny ferrite toroids on wires.

They were still assembling core memory at that time.

So, NASA was loading hand assembled code into hand assembled memory.

They were doing it the old fashioned way - but the memory was rad hard, which was one of the reasons for staying with that technology.
Another garbage analysis from WSJ.
I see you're somewhat bitter about this topic. Is that a good way to present your argument though?

It seems to me that this kind of sentiment ("I've experienced hardships or know people who did, so why does this group deserve better?") is quite prevalent here in germany as well.

I think this is a common trope among richer countries at least, and probably one of the most effective strategies or rhetoric patterns to stall social progress.

Sometimes I'm catching myself thinking along similar lines, and when I do, I'll try to step back and try to examine why I'm having these thoughts, and if there's actually an argument against having changes like this. Is there any disadvantage for me, or for anyone really?
> The Posse Comitatus Act … is binding … we used to take this extremely seriously.

Huh? The Ohio National Guard was putting bullets into 13 unarmed students as long ago as 1970.

That ship has sailed.
"Rich-people money shuffling" is the most succinct description of what investment banks actually do.
> Live has been improving for everyone for centuries.

Not true. Life for the poor in the west has been getting worse.
If a claim is made and no evidence is provided, then should anyone give it much credibility?

The news prints these stories then they become the truth in the minds of many people.
That's your choice, but it might be useful for you to know:

I checked some private healthcare insurance where I live, and the difference in cost between these plans was in fact only $800.
This is just silly pseudoscience, new-age BS if you ask me.

The only scientifically proven way of knowing if someone is a liar is to examine the shape and bumps of their skull.
Medicare costs $750b. Medicaid $597b

That's $1347b a year. The US population is 330m, that's $4000 per person.

The NHS in England costs £147b, or $200b. England's population is 56m.

So the NHS in England, which costs the government 13% less than the cost of medicare/medicaid, manages to cover the entire population.

My understanding is that medicare at least has extra charges for those who are covered too?
How about competing for the labour by offering better wages and conditions?

Competition is good isn’t it? All you have to do to hire people is offer a decent deal.

It’s not as if unemployment insurance is going to compete back.
I am not an Ada expert, but I came up with this. Please notice that the idea here is not to have the compiler do proper dimensional analysis but simply to avoid the default operator overloading of "*" for the Distance type that also returns a Distance value.

Nothing very high-level, as we need to explicitly manipulate the single-component records, but it does the job.

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Main is
type Distance is record
Value : Float;
end record;

type Area is record
Value : Float;
end record;

function "*" (Left, Right : Distance) return Area is
begin
return (Value => Left.Value * Right.Value);
end "*";

D1 : constant Distance := (Value => 10.0);

D2 : constant Distance := (Value => 20.0);

-- D3 : constant Distance := D1 * D2;
-- Does not compile. GNAT returns the following error:
-- main.adb:21:33: expected type "Distance" defined at line 4
-- main.adb:21:33: found type "Area" defined at line 8

A : constant Area := D1 * D2;
begin
Put_Line ("Area A is " & Float'Image(A.Value));
end Main;*
The tangible hard money equivalent is gold. It is also a battery one can store value across time. Yes, the raw energy that went in to feed the miners was lost via heat etc but the brunt of it was stored.
My question would be why don’t they do a cursory ‘bg’ check on who these people are before replying?

With so much scamming and the different phishing attacks, do you respond to random inquiries? That would seem rather naive, if true.
It's almost as if the news media is made up, perhaps even "fake."
The article seems a reasonable summary of the situation so far. I'm not sure the Chinese have been as helpful as they could be in terms of access to patients, blood samples and so forth which makes it tricky to find that much.
Did you reduce your employee wages each by $7800, at that time, or have you declined to give pay increases of $7800?
> Why write it the other way around.

Maybe that's how the hypothesis under test was phrased?
More detail on the SORTL instruction: https://www.share.org/blog/peeking-under-the-hood-of-sort-ac...
In that case, everything is a battery. Just radiate heat into space and call the night sky "a battery".
not so much anti-digital as ante-digital. Mechanical turing-complete computers were a new tech and part of the story involves "obsolete" team of "human computers" getting a start on programming in FORTRAN
I'm skeptic but the timing and wording is suspect, at least in my eyes.

I'm trying to find the right words but I'm found wanting.

It feels like a political play as a sort of non-threatening reminder of who's boss. I cant help but think the ulterior motive, especially in these tough economic times, might yet be more sinister than the downcast eyes of Macron. That being said, I do respect Macron and his vision for the EU, just wish he'd keep his policies in the EU and France and let go of Africa.

France still has undue influence in African politics till this day - so its hard to explain their timing and reasons, a few decades too late. Rwanda has moved on to become a real power in continental politics especially on development and the EAC. Not to mention that Kagame is super well respected as statesman (and feared).

It's a hypothesis though and nothing more.
Obviously not. It's some random wild animal population of an unknown species, living near a bat cave in rural China.
Interesting that he's arguing in this article that taxes are a successful way to shrink inequalities, yet is also pushing for lower taxes.
The whole thing is written from the assumption that investors discriminate against women and nonwhites, and that the purpose of research is to confirm this pre-existing belief, rather than find out the objective truth.

> [..] future research on investor biases should focus on networks and in-person interactions.

Read: the results contradicted our hypothesis, so rather than update our hypothesis, let's shift the focus of research in hopes that we find evidence to support it.
There is now an enhanced edition of the game for the Spectrum 128 (and of course emulators thereof). It takes higher-res graphics from other editions of the original game, for more capable computers, and has other improvements.

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Not sure they actually want a war with a real power, see how much they tucked their tails when Russia put it’s foot down in Syria. They just want to find someone with enough money to play brinksmanship with them so they can continue to line their pockets.
For you. Premiums and deductible options on the open market are different between individuals. A 20 year old is going to pay a good deal less than a 50 year old.

And it's not "my choice." That's mathematically how you evaluate different alternatives. All other things being equal, would you not value a house with a pool higher than one that doesn't?
You compete with other people for scarce resources, so relative wealth matters. Real estate and the stock market spring to mind, but political influence is probably the most pernicious place where this applies.
You could also download it with Ninite. Nothing downloaded with Ninite will install the sponsored versions of software.
Because it‘s good for business for left-wing politicians. If they didn‘t stir the shit up by means of data skewed in their favor, we‘d all be living more satisfying lives.
Posse Comitatus does not apply to the National Guard.
>>And in a way, aluminum is a battery. Of course, while traditional batteries start and end with energy directly, aluminum’s battery is economic, converting energy to value. And that value can be re-used elsewhere (even converted back into energy!)

To the authors latter point, Aluminum isn't just 'like' an energy battery - it IS in fact a very energy dense battery. Aluminum alloys are used to liberate large amounts of Hydrogen at the point of use, which can be used in fuel cells. This is currently used as an air independant energy source for some underwater vehicles. The oxidized byproduct (which is about 8X less dense than the Al3 alloy itself) can be re-smelted to "recharge" the Al3+ battery. Apple actually developed a very low-Carbon aluminum smelting process, so the total cycle is very clean as long as renewable energy is used in the smelting process.
I completely agree. Especially now with the significant asset inflation we’re experiencing.
From omission it seems they reply less to black and white men. But these groups are large, however, sadly I don’t think it’d be easy to test on feigned education/class, so we won’t know what causes the bias.
I think his angle here is "we've done enough" to address income inequality, let's stop worrying about it and keep the gravy train flowing to the 1% of the 1%.
You could make a case that the dragon book held back compiler development by popularizing a number of second or third rate methods. Many old mainfrsme compilers used techniques a little too advanced to make it into the books.
Possibly that animal was Homo sapiens, whose curiosity led to gathering a particularly virulent sample from the lungs of a dying miner, culturing it further in a lab.
All true. And thankfully avoidable in 2021. I just bought a new car, from a large chain dealer, 95% by SMS.
Guess you had to be there to get it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One of the biggest hurdles in the manufacturing of dirty bombs is that they are made from highly active sources.
You can more or less safely manipulate a plutonium ball to manufacture a conventional a-bomb. But you just can't do it with highly active sources like cesium-137 without a significant amount of shielding during assembly and transportation.
With this kind of source, acute radiation poisoning is a matter of hours, even minutes.
Ah, just as I was contemplating giving up on the tangled mess that my own register allocation code is evolving into...
Inspiring read. Thanks!
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I think all these approaches for code-generation have been around for a while and are interesting for web-agencies but as soon as you need to have more finer grained control they lose their initial benefits.

SwiftUI has really shined in this regard where instead of offering a visual canvas and code-generation behind the scenes it does both things [1]. It has code and preview side-by-side so you can write code and see the preview but also change the preview and do a tiny bit of code generation for you. Making the whole coding experience much more interactive and fun. In this "in-between" world the code on the left becomes like an actual UI widget in Figma - instead of modifying and learning the ways the auto-layout widget works, you can just modify the code on the left. With proper TypeScript definitions I can imagine the widget automatically generating based on the props (or something fun like that).

To me this is what's missing in webdev, someting in between like SwiftUI. DevTools cannot do this - for instance dragging DOM elements around cannot be persisted because, well, JS kicks in can change everything when you page reload. But we have stuff like React that shifts the paradigm to make it more like SwiftUI hence for React-like frameworks this world should be possible.

I explain some of my dreams in this thread: https://twitter.com/lmatteis/status/1375557621789384705 and also here https://twitter.com/lmatteis/status/1375551822740488198

1. https://twitter.com/lmatteis/status/1376146147975303171/phot...
I think that argument would be more compelling if everyone had adequate food, shelter, and medical care.

Yes, we have high average wealth. Yes, even people in poverty have access to technology that was unavailable to the richest people on the planet a century ago. But none of that really matters when you don’t have enough money to feed your kids and you can’t afford to see a doctor about that nagging pain that’s threatening your ability to string together multiple <$10/hr jobs.