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I think this is awful.

I think what we see is that investing has become very hard. So people are desperate for anything that may show growth.

But I believe this is a kind of short-term bet against our future. Because we know the detrimental effects of cryptocurrencies.

I think this is all very cynical. Undermining our climate, evading taxes, money laundering. Coin base doesn’t do these things I hope but by supporting cryptocurrencies, it does indirectly.

I’m happy staying poor if that is better for the world long-term but that is probably very dumb of me.
There are cryptocurrency supporters who want to revolutionize the world's monetary systems, get governments out of currency manipulation, make international transfers easy and free, remove burden of entry for businesses, remove oppressive payment processors etc.

Then there are cryptocurrency supporters who are holding large amounts of it and just want the value to keep going up.

The latter category definitely does not want a government ban on trading/usage.
Isn't that typical of new 'things' ? Defining themselves against the norm only to reach for acceptance as proof of stability ?
Off-topic, but I've noticed that certain dithering patterns cause my monitor to fluctuate in brightness. Does anyone know what this could be?
>That said, one thing that boggles my mind is the fact that it seems to be currently valued at 100B$ which is roughly the market cap of Goldman Sachs

It makes more sense when you consider the insane fees they get away with charging due to lack of competition in the regulated US crypto space. In a mature exchange in the normal financial markets, one might expect to pay under 0.5bps (one bp is 1% of 1%). In overseas crypto exchanges, the fee will be around 5bps. In Coinbase, it's 20-50bps.
Related: I'm providing a JS implementation of Weizenbaum's ELIZA [1] on my website since 2005. Recently, Twitter decided that this is sensitive content, probably, because the page mentions that Weizenbaum's original program was written in MAD-SLIP on a IBM 7094. (I can't think of any other trigger.)

This tainting has apparently propagated to my account, which is linked to the site in the description. Now, tweets in context of my site (e.g., announcing a blog post) are randomly marked as sensitive content, as well. Last week, someone sent a Tweet thanking me for putting ELIZA on the web. A simple reply, "You are welcome.", was marked as sensitive content. (My site is up since April 1999 and there has never been any offensive or sensitive content. The same applies to any of my tweets.)

Also, there is no process to report such an erroneous tainting. A Tweet to TwitterSupport linking to said "You are welcome"-Tweet was tainted, as well, and doesn't show up in search results. (If not logged in, a direct link to this Tweet [2] results in "This is not available to you" on Safari, but is accessible using Firefox.)

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

[2] https://twitter.com/mass_werk/status/1378062262905286657
Looks good. However the sign up process takes far too many clicks to eventually get to "Select your subscription level" then I get:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Field 'tblUsers.UName' cannot be a zero-length string.

/-/db/registration.asp, line 136

Oh well I'll come back later
Because there’s a million aliases out there which alias « git checkout —- . » to something sensible and there is no real justification for breaking them: checkout can trivially delegate to restore.
I’m stuck on the second sentence of your argument. If the wealthy aren’t responsible for income inequality, then who is?

An action doesn’t have to be illegal for us to condone it. Do you like income inequality? No? Then let’s take measures to stop it.
Idiot people harrassing the town are, not the people renaming it.
it's a way of trading off (effectively) frequency response to gain signal to noise ratio at a lower bandwidth.

It is widely used everywhere, from audio ADC/DACs (sigma-delta modulators), and images naturally have dithering due to noise which makes them look pretty nice despite the limited bit depth of 8 bits.
How can you bemoan whataboutism when your entire argument was an ad hominem attack? Even though Russia's track record on liberal values is worse than America's, RT can print truthful things.
Perhaps inferring nefarious intent is unwarranted. However if you follow PG's Twitter stream a reasonably clear pattern does emerge.

- Denounce critics of happiness industry.

- Play-down the idea of minimum support framework. In general, play down community and governmental support infrastructure in favour of individual's agency.

- The current crop of rich people, by and large, earned it and their way of earning wealth is objectively better than earlier ones. So they not only deserve that wealth but also deserve the way it's been accumulated.

- In today's world anyone can be rich and so if you aren't rich then it's your problem.

- Tech will eat the world. Journalists who couldn't foresee Amazon and its ilk's rise are idiots who don't understand exponential curve.

I have dramatised the theme but it's not far off.

I won't judge if any of these are right or not because at the end of the day they are all opinions and he's entitled to have them based on his world view. Someone with a different world view and experience (such as me, for instance) will not agree with them and that's OK.

That said, based on the pattern above it's easy to see how can one assign intent to PG's posts.
I would say it depends on the person. I personally assume that how I did things in the past is no longer the state of the art and I always look towards younger engineers or outside resources to figure out the new best way, informing my decision based on mistakes of the past.

And if the data says I'm wrong, I trust it. I have no belief that I've already found the best solution.
Nice! Can you also write a book on "to solve inequality we just need to stop inequality and make everyone richer"?
Maybe get out of your place sometimes?
I don’t even understand how “MAD-SLIP” could be offensive.
It wasn't really as simple as that though. I set up a couple of apps on their free tier, and there is a Heroku way of doing this that was quite different from having access to a VM and installing and configuring things manually, which is what I was used to at the time.
You're welcome!

There is also a charming story (strangely under new/jazz) about why Mozart started composing fuges:

Wrote Mozart regard to his Fugue K394b :

[...] This fugue has been created expressly for my own Constance. For she will listen to nothing except fugues, particularly fugues by Händel and Bach, and upon hearing me play them, often by heart, she would ask me whether I had never written one; when I answered no, she would reproach me for not wishing to compose the most artistic and the loveliest thing that music had to offer, and never stopped asking me to compose one for her. [...] In time and if the right opportunity arises, I shall write five more and give them to Baron van Sviten [sic!], whom I know to possess a veritable treasure of good music.

[The 'sic!' was by Alfredo Casella.]

http://www.kunstderfuge.com/new/jazz.htm
> Someone who builds a company worth 100m didn't have to steal money from me (or anyone else) to do it.

Wage theft makes up the major part of all theft in the US [1]. At least some part of the value of companies is coming from this theft. As an example, look at Amazon and how they treat their warehouse and delivery workers. They're not just working them like this for the sake of it, but rather it's an example of concious wage theft in order to save money and, thus, increase the value of the company.

1: https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-...
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Yea, he rarely talks about anything other than chess..
> Coincidentally, AWS hasn't open-sourced anything that they use internally. Zilch. Nada.

Firecracker. s2n.

Not much, I agree
> passenger electric flight

There are unsolved physical limitations to that with no solution in the near horizon AFAIK, the energy density of batteries is simply to low (energy per kg) for airplanes to be efficient.

> from underserved regional airports sooner than you think, doing routes and speeds comparable to High Speed Rail (and with comparable efficiency) but much more granular and without massive infrastructure

I didn't understand that, is there a limitation for using normal jet fuel planes from regional airports?
After the post earlier about Adobe requiring online access to use their apps and charging cancellation fees I don't know why anyone would opt in to use Adobe, especially when there are already multiple open source frameworks for native cross-platform development.
so why's Elon Musk still there? /s

Jocking aside, perfection is enemy of the good.

Nobody is all those things, all the time, consistently, over a life time.

Being a leader in the real World is mostly about being in the political position of influencing the decision of the entity you lead, being it a small team of developers, the local sports team or a corporation.

Look at Steve Jobs, he was capable of being a terrible human being, but was also able to put a lot of money in investors' pockets and so they kept him.

Also, having no technical skill has never stopped anybody from being involved in technical roles. They simply end up working where the bar is lower or were management doesn't care.

If what you say was true, posts like this would not exist.

https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/17/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...
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by definition, an ad hominem attack is on the character or morals of a single individual. RT/Sputnik are large state run corporations.
The (IPv4) ACK packet is 40 bytes, smaller than the minimum frame data for Ethernet (46 bytes, gets padded).

Since TCP has exponential window sizing, it can ACK gigabytes in just one go, right? But we would need to know the latency (round trip time) to calculate the max bandwidth delay product (max data in flight).
I'm not familiar with Arnold or his various bread varieties, but sourdough is certainly not what I mean when I say "white bread". Neither is French bread, nor challah, nor any other reasonably flavorful bread made with white flour. The sandwiches under discussion are made with Wonder Bread or something much like it. It is that questionable taste that astounds me.
So, I'm saying: that stuff could have closures, too.
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I got hit with this a few years back. I signed up for Ps CC for a month (I thought) to create an anniversary gift for my wife. I used it ONCE. Tried to cancel and they told me I had in fact signed up for a year, and that if I didn't cancel now, they'd give me two months free.

I didn't want it at all! Anyway, I sucked it up, got on with the remainder of the year, because they wouldn't let me put the cancellation in early, had to do it X months before the end. Then life happened and I missed the deadline to cancel and got suckered for a second year!

Fuck Adobe and this practice is all I have to say, I stick strictly to Open Source options now. It may have been my fault for not reading the first time, but robbing me a second time by counting on me missing the cancellation because they wouldn't let me do it there and then is just scummy.
>Also, a few other EU countries (those that now have the highest vaccination rates) have already ordered vaccines on their own and there was no official reprove from EU. Another reason why it's silly to criticize Germany.

If you don't see the difference between those that come up with the idea of banding together then almost immediately after everyone agrees go against everyone vs the rest which many of went their separate ways later once it became obvious "banding together" was a bad idea from the start I don't think anything I say will convince you.

>The EU deal was done with messed up priorities.

That's exactly my point.
>>Imagine buying shares on the NYSE and next week you’re in prison!! So that is sensible I think.

If you give your neighbour some money and he goes and buys a gun with it and kills someone, you can be held liable in that scenario(depending on the intent, on how well you knew what he was going to do etc etc etc).

If you give a company money(investment) and they go and destroy the Amazon illegaly.....your hands are clean?

I mean, obviously I understand what you mean. I own some shares myself. But there has to be some middle ground between "100% responsibily, straight to jail" and "give money to people who do bad things, have 0 responsibility".
I had the same, they wanted me to pay the rest of the year (after 2 or 3 years?). Problem is, that is against Dutch law, after an initial year, one is only allowed to prolong a contract by 1 month at a time. I reminded the person on the phone (who only spoke English, so imagine what happens when you are not as fluent in it as I) that they broke Dutch law, I told that to 3 other persons and they finally told me: Ok, we'll cancel. Finally.

Edit: I had to call them, because the website indeed only showed me these options where I had to pay the rest of the year. Email didn't help, they offered me some discount for the rest of the year. Very strange as a Dutch person, it has become so normal to not worry about this (I really like this law, a nice example of citizens before companies.)
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I wonder if things would have turned out the same if your mother hadn't cared about you. My theory is that love from parents and family growing up is hugely important for a happy life.

Hard to optimise through political solutions, unfortunately. Just handing out money probably won't help so much, like you observed. Generous parental leave rules might be useful.
How many people become Jobs or Musk anyway? You need a lot of stars to align in order to get to this level. What matters is how most of the population is doing, not some very extreme people on the edge of the bell curve.

I also don't think being poor is the end of the world, there are many poor people who manage to change their position within one generation, like poor new immigrants, and many middle class who fall back to poverty like many black families. Money doesn't solve inherent problem in the family and community.
What I describe is specifically shown on mobile and internet plans.

Regarding your linked youtube video (which as far as I can tell from skimming, is basically ranting about how ISPs penny-pinch on backhaul capacity and then fail to meet their advertised plan speeds during peak hours), I would encourage you to look at something closer to the present than from 4 years ago. All ISPs now report on minimum speeds during defined peak hours. I believe this is mandated by the ACCC. See the following URL:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/12/nbn-typical-evening-speed...

A typical ISP plan choice page [1] lists the following information:

1) Monthly price (e.g. "$79/mo")

2) Minimum total cost of the contract (e.g. "$158 if cancelled within the first month")

3) Typical evening speed (e.g. "48 Mbit between 7pm and 11pm" on a 50Mbit plan), which will change depending on which address you enter and thus which technology option you get (namely, if you are on FTTN you will see lower typical speeds reported than a FTTH address, especially for higher speed plans)

This was introduced specifically in response to this issue, where peak-hours congestion was a common complaint amongst consumers.

ISPs are also increasingly publishing their CVC graphs for each point of interconnect. This lets you see a historical utilisation of the network.

[1]: https://www.telstra.com.au/internet/nbn as an example
Generally I agree, but pulling a credit report makes sense in their case - financial services, presumably regulated, with an employee who will be placed in a position of trust and responsibility.

I do think everyone should be given the chance to contextualize and explain things, though; going through a rough patch and defaulting on a couple of credit cards is different from habitually refusing to pay legitimate bills, for example, and absent some other negative indicator shouldn't be disqualifying.
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The essay is just a collection of incorrect notions pushed all over the place by the intellectuals and media. The author failed to even try to look himself on the real data and went with templates that were proven wrong again and again.

Few points:
1. "The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer." - author does not understand the difference between statistical categories and real flesh and blood people. If he did, he would have known that real people move between statistical categories over time, which makes absolute sense: you start career with no experience and debt to pay if you have a college degree, then over years you gain skills that allow you to get better pay. There is no "rich" and "poor" when judging statistical categories, because in this sense there always be newly graduated people starting their careers at lower payed jobs. That's how the world works, you can't get Staff Software Engineer position in Google without proving that you're at least have skill for Junior.

2. "Most people don't have the safety net or mental bandwidth to even consider entrepreneurship." - Entrepreneurship is tough and definitely not for all. But, not having money at first was never a problem. Reading some history of big companies you may see that they often started on campus or in garage. Therefore main prerequisite is mental toughness, and building of something people want.

3. "It's less a tutorial or analysis and more a thinly veiled attempt to ease concerns about wealth inequality." - PG correctly pointed out that individuals become wealthy by creating giant amount of new wealth and then capturing some small part of it. For example Amazon, you use it everyday, it has the best pricing, so get immense value from it. Bezos captures some part of the value that Amazon created for all consumers.

4. "basic needs" - It's often a tactic of demagogues to hide behind undefined terms to push their vision. Having a fridge or microwave is a basic need? Is having a car or 2 cars also a basic need? Both of these would have been considered luxuries 50 years ago, and still people were living without them. The point is that setting arbitrary standards imposed by third-parties is not basic needs. In this case, you could define anything as basic need and always have 15-20% of people that don't meet your arbitrary standard.

5. "a small minority of people" - And again, PG provided an approach that will work for every individual. If you create something immensely valuable, and capture some small fraction of it, you get rich. If you do not create, then you don't become rich. But, that is not the problem of society that you yourself did not create anything.

As is usual with such types of articles, the author positions himself on some moral high ground. He claims that his aim is to help the poor, but since the author did not create big amount of wealth and he could not donate large sums to philantropy (which wealth individuals do a lot), then the only approach is to steal money from people who created it with hard work, and give to people who did not work, did not create wealth and likely will never do.
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Maybe the US is but if you have proper education nothing stops you from migrating to switzerland. Dont like german? No worries french and italian are options too.
I must say that as a Swedish citizen this wasn't a problem until quite recently. We have the SJW movement here now too, but I've never throught about it coming from the US.
A friend of mine stayed over in Canada for a couple of years, and he said everyone was very easily offended and politically correct.

The worst is when people intentionally misinterpret what you say to start an argument, kills me inside when someone pulls that trick. I remember a year or so ago I was seeing a VERY leftist girl that kept doing that. Ended up walking out on it all.
Reads the same as Netflix. Individuals empowered to make decisions and execute, at all levels of the organization.

With higher responsibility also comes the risk of exposing the company to situations that a more practised individual would know to avoid. It'd be interesting to hear about how these companies mitigate risk from their armies of ambitious underlings.
There is something nagging at me - it is something deep. It is that there has to be a set of values, a set of cultural red lines that we do not cross.

Every branch of the military will happily tick pretty much all of those "do it now, don't let anything stop you" boxes.

But every branch of the military has in place very deep redlines (sometimes expressed as rules of engagement, sometimes as "honour") - because they know the horrors of crossing those lines, with a "get it done at any cost attitude".)

Most humans have that ability to get things done, they just tend to work for organisations that don't reward it. And so the onus is on management (as ever). Build a culture that rewards innovation - but has some set of values that accepts some lines cannot be crossed.

Yes there is danger in retreating from the edge of chaos - but then we all live in Ming China. That is a better problem than going too far over the eve of chaos.

it's hard, for companies as well as societies.
The term "ad hominem" had changed beyond it's literal Latin translation, but I guess I can swap it to "your entire argument was an association fallacy."
Based on his podcasts he was for many years a quant at Thiel Capitol. Assuming he's wealthy is giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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If a banned Wikipedia editor was responsible for 56% of the content of your Wikipedia page, would you not be concerned?
What they don't mention in the news stories that say "Crypto now uses more electricity than Denmark" is that Youtube still uses more electricity than crypto, or all the electricity used by traditional payment processors and banks.

Youtube could be considered more wasteful than crypto (depending who you ask) and it is never mentioned when people talk about "wasteful electricity usage".

The conspiratorial part of me wonders why that would be? Is it because it is actually a threat to large payment processors that if crypto were to succeed would make them obsolete in the future?

I think that there is a lot of problems with the current crypto market, the electricity usage while concerning isn't the biggest issue with these electronic currencies.
Isn't it literally the government's job to legalize theft and pick the winners and losers? One of the government's main tools in regulating the outcomes of a country is tax policy and if you want to call that theft, sure, go ahead. It doesn't make it the wrong course of action to take. You even lay out a remarkably cohesive argument for that 'theft' in your statement: if wealth provides an excess of agency for the wealthy, the only way to optimize for maximal opportunity (or maximal innovation if you'd prefer that framing) is to reallocate opportunity capital from the hyper-rich to the general population. The way you get more entrepreneurialism is not by increasing the payout for 'winning' the startup lottery, it's by letting more people play.
a) it totally can
b) proof work uses as much electricity as proof of work needs, the internet cry-for-help crowd likes to recite made up numbers
but the business volume is _much_ lower, and GS deals with an inordinate amount of more lucrative things (SPACs, IPOs, etc).