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> At some point of abusing workers, too many workers will quit

To be replaced by others, whose options are to remain unemployed, hungry, and homeless, or to submit to low wages and shitty conditions.

> and/or regulators will intervene.

Two responses to this:

1. Will they? Why are they not intervening now?

2. A fine is a price. If they save two million dollars, at the cost of a $200,000 fine, they just profited to the tune of $1.8 million dollars.

You say it yourself;

> To be clear, I'm not making arguments or seeking responses that hinge on Amazon being virtuous and trustworthy; I've been in/around business long enough to know that's futile and that incentives are ultimately what matter.

Their incentives are always about making money. If abusing their employees makes them money, they are incentivized to abuse their employees, as they are doing now. Giving them additional tools and blindly trusting that they won't is, frankly, insane.

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Where are people finding this weird mix of empathetic rationality, where a global corporation will find it in their best interest to treat employees well, despite repeatedly not doing so in the past? Do we apply this logic to repeated spouse-beaters? What's their incentive to beat their spouses?
My biggest worry is that these political fights will lead to a degradation in the quality of Free software products, a slowdown in code and software contributions from developers and coders and a general malaise in the whole Free software movement as the idealogical battles are fought out. I can only see the winners in the long run being those people or organisations that seek to gain from the FSF's weakness.
Bitcoin cannot be stopped by a government. The crypto math makes it so valuable to lock in your wealth.
Right, I think a problem with a lot of these discussions is that people are using (at least) three different conceptions of what "value" means.

- value based on intrinsic utility (gold/oil)

- value based on potential future utility (stocks)

- value based on extrinsic utility (USD/coordination)

The issue, of course, is that people disagree which category Bitcoin (and other cryptos) belong to. The other problem is that a singular thing doesn't necessarily only belong to one category. For example, I put gold in the intrinsic category, but it probably belongs in the extrinsic category too, as gold is used as a medium of exchange that is not directly tied to its intrinsic properties, but merely has intrinsic properties that are useful in that regard (fairly scarce, not varnishing, etc).
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The only reason I've found to avoid it is that 1 time in 10, coffee before a long ride means that I'll urgently need to pee every few miles -- way more often than I can find a legal place to do so.
I was diagnosed with high BP very early in my life (23-24 yo). The doctor said it is okay to have everything in moderation but asked me to not touch energy drinks.
> Truths can be devastatingly harmful with no discernible benefit.

I completely and utterly disagree with this statement, but I want to try to see how you personally parse this out, so give me an example where this might be the case, if you would.
Crypto threads here are almost always full of people who can't be bothered to do even a cursory search or find out how things actually work. The tech itself is almost never discussed, and you'll never find a novel perspective here for a very simple reason -- the people who push the envelope in this area are not posting here.
Yeah they are more like interns who don't want to upset the boss. Got to walk a fine line in here if you want to be sitting at the "cool kids" table
Ah, so they were asking for it?
"for what makes people either join or leave a religion."

This is a very American kind of statement.

In this world, most people don't 'join' religions - they are born into them, and they are usually a part of the social fabric.

In the New World we have this notion that Religions are a bunch of competing ideas, that you can join or unjoin this or that.

Joining/unjoining kinds of religions are so fundamentally different things that they probably need different words.

Catholicism is so different from Evangelicalism that they probably should not be put in the same boat.

Catholicism in many ways is more similar to Judaism than Evangelicalism.

Anglicans (Church of England), Catholics (Church of Latin world), Presbyterians (Church of Scotland), Methodists (Church of Some Germans) and Judaism ('Church' of Jews) - should almost be thought of in cultural or ethnic terms as much as religious.

The Church has always been a cultural and community centre as much as any place of mere belief.

The notion that we treat it almost in terms of 'belief' is a constant fallacy which causes us to often miss the point.

Finally - religious fervour moved out of the Church in the last century into left/right wing politics. It's just taking a different form now.
Very cool, that's what I was looking for a while.
Can you give me an example? The things that spring to mind for me are generally built on the back of (usually more than one) existing financial system, for example settlement layers at the very least (Visa / Mastercard).
I always drive with the speed limiter in the city and mostly with cruise control on highways. I can easily imagine keeping the speed exactly at the limit, without having to stare at the speedo.

Most people are amazed I just relax around speed cameras. "Careful! You need to slow down. Oh, you are already at or below the speed limit."

I don't get why this isn't a routine for all drivers.
The pressure to bailout is lessened when the assets are owned by an intermediary institution. It took until the third covid free money bill for the multiemployer pension fund to get nearly a hundred billion of dollars with no strings attached. Meanwhile housing has been bailed out several times since those funds started ailing.
Can you set this up as a calendar?
As I’ve mentioned before¹, hardware people can’t write software.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21656747
I know, that's what I'm saying. We were talking about stars and then you said I should look into Watches instead, but what I was saying is that I don't like watches because you get emails. Customizing which emails doesn't help with that. Apologies if I was confused about something.
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The motive of the Minds letting humans be in places or do stuff just because they think it's fun isn't uncommon. No Culture ship needs a crew to run things, but they'll have them anyways, listen to them, let them "help" build new ships, because they like doing so. But they don't have to and if it gets dangerous they'll not bother and just act, confident in their superiority. Minds are almost without exception perfectly nice and respectful about it (much more than we are to our pets, which is key to it being an Utopia), but the dynamic is nevertheless there.

> I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. ‘We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too. Never forget I have had the chance to compare and contrast the ways of dying.’

Gods that really love and respect their "subjects" and creators though, so they'll not do any of the terrible things they totally could do without any chance of stopping them, but rather support them and their whims as far as they think is safe.

SC is a bit special because non-Culture civs don't necessarily play well with AIs, and somewhat open how much Minds engineer the situations that occur. And in that SC is explained as somewhat of an outlet for those for that the utopia doesn't quite work - but it wouldn't exist if the Minds didn't think it was good to have.
I'm just trying to understand your position better:

Would you say that false information harms you personally?
We've known that caffeine increases aerobic capacity for half a century now. I don't see what new information this study is bringing to the table. If you take caffeine and your aerobic capacity increases, then you will either do more work, or perform at a lower percentage of your lactate threshold. In both cases, you metabolize more fat.
I am looking to use one of these but then setup as a family calendar. Any suggestions.
> Why the binary approach?

It has nothing to do with a binary approach. The anti-masks arguments were very much a red-herring argument really being all about on anti-hoarding and anti-panic arguments from unprepared institutions (despite hoarding taxpayers dollars for years). A couple of month earlier, just mentioning the damn thing was enough to get you banned from social media. I was even arguing about the difference between test positivity rate and actual cases (including asymptomatic ones) early on, especially wrt. seasonal flu numbers, being treated like a complete fool (and still am).

The amount of layers upon layers upon layers of ass covering about all this has been staggering.
Efficient decentralized exchanges are not easy to build but an increasing number exist with the aim of solving the centralization issue (overreaching regulation attempts will push this into hyperdrive).

We can't act like a 12 year old invention should arrive with drop in decentralized replacements for every component of the legacy financial system...this is all being built from scratch as we criticize its shortcomings.
Handwriting recognition when you can watch the person write (stroke order and timing) is actually a very different problem from recognizing handwriting from an image without that data, which is much harder. Though these days statistical learning techniques similar to those used in machine translation are getting pretty darn good at it.
A few months ago I had a jar of medlar jelly shipped over from the UK via Amazon. It was not cheap but very tasty; the flavor reminded me a bit of quince jelly, another pretty rare item in the US. I'd like to have it again sometime, maybe for a special occasion.

The rest of my medieval foods bucket list includes purslane and sorrel. It looks like I'll have to grow both of them from seeds as I have no hope of buying them from a store anytime soon.
infuriating.

cannot comprehend why this service is unable to stay up despite the need for such a service as an alternative to whatsapp.

what happened to the $60M in funding?
Our current economic model assumes and requires growth. Shrinking populations and economies create social unrest as the population feels a tangible reduction in opportunities that creates personal anxiety. That individual angst becomes social angst and often leads to the more dangerous patterns of resentment and violence towards other humans, societies or competitors.
The base eink display doesn't take common image formats natively. Instead images need to be dithered and encoded in a specific format to convey the greyscale or color map. The backend architecture is likely used to convert an html rending into the EPD binary format.
For whatever is worth, I had similar experience. The thing, calories deficit means you are passive, tired, irritable, have problem to focus. So you are less effective at work too. How bad the irritability is for others I understood only when someone else was dieting and turned into someone constantly angry.

In addition, if you diet only, it is very easy to cause yourself annemia or other health issue. It happened to me and it actually affects life a lot. Most of sources talk about what you should not eat, but very little about how to recognize you are missing something or overdoing it.
This issue is pretty much global. It's the same story here in Sweden. As far as root cause goes, I think people are fucking more than they are building. Solutions? It's not easy, and the most effective ones are not going to be popular. We're eventually gonna have to try to make people have fewer babies, I say we start now so that we don't have to do anything so drastic in a couple of decades.

It's annoying now when housing is expensive, but when food prices start climbing were gonna have a real problem.
> Proof of Work/Stake only matter if Bitcoin is actually being used as a trustless and anonymous payment system for regular transactions, which is ironically the task that (among most other cryptocurrencies on the market) it's perhaps least suited for technologically.

I agree that many cryptocurrencies are not suited for this... but some are, and of those, Cardano is proof-of-stake from launch, has ~50 billion USD market cap, 20s to 1 minute confirmations (up to 10 for complete irreversibility, but one confirmation is really reliable already), an amazing community, relatively low fees (about $0.20 USD right now but hopefully decreasing in the future), ability to support 1 million transactions/s without fee increasing, and extremely high decentralization.

I agree that many cryptocurrencies aren't suited to real use at scale as a transaction layer, but I think the hype about the power of this when done right is very fair.
I agree that taking action is very important for fixing problems.

Managing emotional stress is an important part of maintaining a pregnancy. My sister-in-law was also doing other therapeutic interventions. I think the final piece of her puzzle was letting go of needing to perform.

I think doing nothing special would have been more appropriate for the coronavirus: aggressive ventilation killed a lot of patients in New York. Fever hospitals [0] would have saved a lot of lives.

Problems are easier to solve when they are correctly understood.

[0] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Lets-bring-back-Britains...
Sounds like work. Running hackernews is already a lot of work. Not every good idea rises to the level of someone taking the time to actually do it right away. Updating the bookmarklet would probably be easier and superior at this point thanks to the authors work.
The book starts at a point in time, and then gives two story lines. One back in time (Roman numerals) and one forward in time (Arabic numerals). Those two are alternating and equal, no one is superior to the other or just a "descriptive passage".

Once you understand it, the whole organization becomes very clear and no problem. If you don't know that, you'll struggle.

I love UoW, it's my favorite book (ahead of the superb Excession), but I haven't read all of the Culture novels.

Consider Phlebas is a terrible beginning (that I also endured), and the much-recommended Player of Games wasn't my cup of tea, either, though it's not bad.
I’m not sure he represents you, or even free software. He represents, in this instance, the FSF, an organisation he himself set up. It’s now one of many promotors of open software (broadly speaking), and frankly quite a fringe one. I’m an Emacs user, and despite that, FSF’s articles fill me with cringe.

I think your argument would apply in its entirety if he was representing some kind of umbrella organisation for FOSS, but that’s not the case. It would also then be reasonable for members of such an umbrella to pressure the FSF into who should be on its board. But it is not the case.

Perhaps this argument shows that we need such an organisation, with RMS not heading it.
Anecdotal, but I find the exact opposite to be the case. The more alert and "strong" I feel during intense training, the less likely I am to let my form slip. When you're dog tired and slouching over, that's when the injuries happen.
I have the 6” Onyx Boox and it definitely runs a weird distribution of Android. I wouldn’t be surprised if you can get root or even bootloader, but I haven’t needed it.

That said, if I buy one in the 10” range, it seems that Onyx hasn’t released modifications to GPL code so Remarkable might be a more ethical choice.
The ongoing First Contact series by pseudonym Ralts Bloodthorne [1] is a space opera that could be considered optimistic in the sense of "humanity shall overcome". There is an active Discord community around it, lots of fans.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/f94rak/oc_pthok_eats_a...
Yeah LEDs themselves last for a long time, but the integrated ac-dc transformers still fail over time whether due to poorly made parts, soldering flaws or cheaply made power inrush circuits causing local voltage variances to destroy sensitive components.
Recordings are great, and powerful (and I'm very familiar with multitracking - it works for a studio setting, but not so much live ensemble performance which is what I was referring to). But, to someone versed in both sheet music and improvisation, the written form can be freer (leaves more up to you), yet also more precise (knowing the specific harmonies desired rather than whatever happened in the recorded take). It can also be more convenient and efficient for focused practice. You can also take in more visually in a score and see the overall form of something in a glance, whereas with a recording you have to experience it over time and store the model fully in your head.

This is really a "yes and" situation - improvisation and "playing by ear" are great, and have always been part of music (the original "classical" musicians improvised, a tradition we've sadly mostly lost). Improvisation is even more dependent on theory than written music (many folks who "read music" don't actually understand the theory behind it). But being able to read and write is just a super convenient tool, and it addresses use cases that other tools (including recordings) don't.

As with regular writing, it lets you give persistent form and structure to your thoughts. This enables sharing, reviewing, and coordinating in a way categorically different than recordings (books still have value despite the existence of podcasts). This doesn't mean you're "not a musician" if you can't read sheet music, any more than a classical musician who doesn't improvise "isn't a musician" - I'm not trying to gatekeep in any fashion. I'm just saying that both of these dimensions are valuable, and ultimately, complementary.
Your link cripples the back button.
I agree. Whenever I decide to lose weight, I've always found that turning both the knobs(diet & exercise) at the same time in the beginning is overwhelming and doesn't work for me. I have to get into a routine for one of the two first before focussing my attention on the other. Usually, it's exercise first. Wonder if other people have same exeperience
Pretty common in France too: the tree is néflier, the fruit is nèfle.
Disappointed too as I could find this with a simple Wikipedia search...
You have no idea about me or my background. Stop trying to tell ME what I have experienced.

100 Million people have benefitted from Bitcoin and it's censorship resistant network.

If you can't figure out why this trillion dollar network has value, I can honestly say I am jealous of your financial and anglo centric privilege and hope you never acquire any Bitcoin, you obviously don't deserve it.
The Jacobian, Geometrically
That's like a Linux User Group meeting to talk about anything but an OS Kernel.
Shakeins: Non-Intrusive Aspects for Middleware Frameworks (2006) [pdf]
But you said Epstein, Maxwell, etc. have confirmed as much. I think you’re right, but I don’t think we have any clear evidence of it yet in public. All I’ve seen is evidence that there were cameras.
Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
Visionect place & play is great if you can swing the price.
Virtual Reality: The Comprehensive Guide for Not-for-Profits
How is the stylus input on the Note Air? Does it seem good enough for drawing?
Your link isn't working for me, but this video confirms that muç-molla is indeed the same fruit as medlar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpgCdAXb-Xo
"At some point these links were simply automatically marked dead whenever submitted."

Practically speaking, it sounds like the links are blacklisted.
I only learnt the (arguably) "real meaning" of the Jacobian once I studied differential geometry. I haven't seen this explained anywhere. I took a stab at an elementary exposition (with animations) of this view of the Jacobian as the object that tells us how to map tangents from one space to another!
Tesla Wants Your Bitcoin Without the Downside
The labour theory of value? You seem just to be bringing out 1800's economic theory and trying to apply it directly to 2021 bitcoin.

Theory that has been replaced, I should note, by neoclassical and Keynesian economics.
I’m just saying pro-China guys good at flagging posts which criticize China. This doesn’t mean overall HN has a pro-China bias. You see posts praising China how did they achieve something about tech/production/organization etc with same flamewar comments under but nobody flags them and they reach first page, stay there as much as other non flagged posts.
There are a million ways to tax rentals that make it impossible for landlords to pass the bill onto the renter.
Is it "totalitarian" for members of a society to socially castigate people who knowingly associated with child sex traffickers?
> speak and write

Read and write.
Steer through the Suez Canal [interactive]
Yes, excellent point. Notation can be a great aid to understanding. I should give this a try more often.
How is Bitcoin making the world a better place? Be specific.

Improving the lives of 100 million people by giving them a way to save money without a government agency. If you can't figure out why that has value, you're probably are a beneficiary of anglo centric privilege, and in that case I hope you NEVER buy any BTC.

> I had to look this one up.

Remember it. It won't be the last time someone says this to you
If the rich and powerful can exploit the real justice system based on hard evidence, they can also exploit the mob justice system based on speculation to destroy their enemies. If this is normalized, then people like Epstein would have more ammunition that they can use for blackmail.

>He obtained that with the help of people like Alan Dershowitz and Steven Pinker, both from Harvard.

These two people offered Epstein specialized services that let him off easy. I don't see the same clear connection to wrongdoing in this case. All Epstein got from it was an office and a web page thanking him for the large donation. If that's wrong, then Mcdonald's is also wrong for providing him calories required to operate.
A decentralized peer-to-peer cash system as a movement against the (banking) elite has become a centralized and 'propagandized' "story of value" for the (banking) elite.

Satoshi Nakamoto has great dreams, but basic human greed has struck again.
Yeah that’s pretty brutal.
Yup, he talks about how working at a bank feels safe but it's because you can't see what the risks even are, so that's a disadvantage.
> I find it strange that even people at a prominent firm like Union Square Ventures are perpetuating such misconceptions.

Remember, their goal is to make money. As we’ve seen over and over again, there’s a strong financial interest in doing whatever is needed to make their holdings profitable and most will say anything short of legally actionable misrepresentations.
Because I think ad retargeting conglomerates are stupid too but they still use the JVM and I’ll work for san organization or project involved in that which uses Java
Please Lord save me from this ridiculous clickbait headline.
I'm not convinced either. At some point Banks tell us that there are similar higly advanced cultures in the galaxy with similar or superior utopias.

But while most of them keep for themselves and have the good taste to sublimate once they reach a certain technological level, the Culture is special as it sticks around and actively interferes with other civilizations.

This of course makes for more interesting stories and it is not necessarily a flaw, but it is certainly contentious (especially Special Circumstances) even in-universe and has spawned factions and splinter civilizations.
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