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It's a good question and not easy to answer in general as there a lot of different types of hackerspaces.

Some hackerspaces are more a kind of makerspace and provide expensive, large or complicated hardware like industrial laser cutters, 3D printers, embroidery machines and (electronics) workshops with soldering irons, electronic parts etc.

Other hackerspaces are focusing more on the social side and offer a space to hang out, meet and discuss with beverages (I guess mostly mate and beer). There can be talks, workshops or competitions (like CTFs) and so on.

Also providing services to the public, like repair cafes and holiday programs for kids can be a way to further engage in society to share technical knowledge.

hackerspaces.org has also extensive explanations on theory of hackerspaces: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Theory
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> Big bold claims also require some proof. It's a decentralized protocol that can't be controlled by anyone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHash.io
> "It's a big deal, because every 1% of reflectance you get translates to 10 watts per metre squared less heat from the Sun," he explained.

In the apartment I rent there's a huge 1.5x1.5m ceiling window for letting the sun in. In addition to huge 2m-high windows. The number of buildings not suitable for the present-day climate is astonishing.
I went into this thinking sex surrogates were fine. I came out less convinced somehow.

* It's weird that some people aren't comfortable talking to doctors and therapists but are ok with sex surrogates

* It's much weirder to me that a couple would rather do this than just try to learn things together

* Some of this seemed to be about occupational therapy and learning how to live your life again. But it seems like most of these surrogates aren't trained in any way. They're just willing to have sex with people. And some of them have no hope of being independently capable, like the guy who was totally paralyzed.

My bullshit detector says that even if everyone in this article is being entirely honest, there's going to be a lot of this that is just normal prostitution with people who aren't viewing themselves as a charitable tour guide of sexual confidence but are instead willing to fuck for cash.
How would you like this privacy invading bill wrapped? Child abuse or terrorism?
You're right, it is the CO2 emissions, but they're effectively unavoidable. We do not have enough renewable energy sources built right now to support even the current load. Additional load means dirty power plants stay online longer as we wait for enough green energy sources to come online.

Even if all the miners were running on entirely green energy, there's an opportunity cost. That green energy could be used to power homes and we could shut down coal power plants. I don't care that you bought 9,000 solar panels to power your mining farm, because that's 9,000 solar panels that could have been hooked up to the grid.

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade. I find cryptocurrencies interesting and would like for them to exist, but we're in a terrible position to be pissing away electricity right now. In the scheme of ways to use electricity, Bitcoin is a pretty frivolous use too. The electricity consumption is just so outsized compared to the actual physical gain (and I'm not talking about money made from speculating).

If I were the ruler of the world, I'd give it a transaction tax that was proportional to the percentage of load generation that isn't renewable. If 40% of our energy is still dirty, then there's a 40% transaction tax. If we can get that down to 5%, then there's only a 5% tax. I don't see a reason to ban them, we just need to cut power consumption and thus CO2 emissions wherever we can.
Unregulated prostitution always turns into a safe haven for violent and coercive human trafficking. And we don't know what kind of regulation would effectively prevent this, but what examples exist of legalized prostitution at the medium-to-large scale are far from encouraging. Banning prostitution outright might not be the best possible policy, but it's far from the worst.
How do you make a better goodreads that is sustainable when Amazon will always make it free as a way to sell more books on Amazon? It is pretty easy to make a X that is better than the status quo. How will you compete with the big guys financially? People want everything for free.
>But inability to pay should not preclude you from seeking treatment.

That's the sticky bit if you think about it. Not all, but many women and men get into sex work due to lack of other options, with all that in context it would seem that there is a suggestion that you have a human right to sleep with disadvantaged women or men at government expense. If no disadvantaged people exist then I presume it would be the governments role to create them. This quickly descends into madness.
I'd like to share a video I prepared on Kelly betting: https://youtu.be/6xhjbgREGDA
This is how it's supposed to work.

Basketball teams do not pick the shortest, weakest players just so they can prove random internet commenters they are the best at turning regular unfit humans into Michael Jordan. They can just pick Michael Jordan.
The recommendations generally seem reasonable.

What bothers me is that they clearly have the data to allow for very specific queries, but there's no way to make them.
Another fun limitation - apparently for my Pixel phone to remember I prefer my temperature in Celsius, Google also needs "Web & App Activity" tracking. In other words Google wants my whole location history when using Google apps just to remember my preferred units.
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- consoles, I am against their locking too , there is less complains about them so far since people can jailbreak them and their mostly media/enterteiment devices, but again I don't agree with the locks on consoles either

- monopoly, duopoly is not that important, you can have 3 big actors in a market that are cooperating against the users for their own interests, so the market share is irrelevant and the abuse/damage is relevant. Is Apple not allowing say 10 million users to install some app because of political reasons or 50 million users to install a game because some other policy reason? This people were affected , for example Joe did not know when he bought his iPhone that Apple can block his favorite game , or some app , is friend Bob has Android and he side loaded it, Joe is pissed now and feels tricked because on the box it was not printed that Apple can abuse his trust like this.
Many schools, including Princeton, did not require an SAT or ACT score last year. And they say they will not require it this year either.
It could, but the results might not be what you expect.

Maybe you want to preserve the bass of interstitial music or program audio jingles or environmental effects or something. Doing the processing after the mixing means it affects the whole mix. Doing it at the input means you can tailor each element.

Worse, because bass has an outsize effect on the total energy in an audio signal, if there's any sort of dynamic range compression while the bass is still included, the presence of the bass triggers that compression to happen. Later on when the bass is removed, the remaining audio has inexplicable fluctuations in its volume, which can sound super uncomfortable.

This "program level bouncing around in response to a signal which is not part of the program audio" effect can also come from side-chain compression, and arguably filtering after compressing may be a form thereof. Once in a while it's done to great artistic effect in music, but in talk settings it's almost always horrible and disorienting.
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Multiple redundant servers? I'm way out of my depth here, but if a spof is your main problem, perhaps you just need some redundancy?
I believe Microsoft Flight Simulator does this (and it has VR support). It gets a bit tiring to see the same trees on every place on earth, though.
I agree with you. I went to a top school in order to improve my life prospects as well.

However as a civilization it's important that a school like the one I'm hypothesizing exists because selection bias is not really sustainable, nor does it help those who genuinely want to improve but are otherwise not particularly able.

I also imagine if a "performance school" actually existed its influence would extend far beyond traditional education. It would prove that there's some means in which people can learn optimally. Presumably that mechanism would spread to all industries and we all would be better for it.
I am in the Japanese timezone. I am working with people in central Europe, East Canada and Silicon Valley. Have worked in such a way for years.

The secret is just: no meetings. Meetings should be exceptional. If you have discussions in a timezone, record it for those who can't attend. Prefer async, prefer written communication.

Have lots of one-on-one communication.

90% of the meetings I have ever attended were counter-productive anyway and were just there because a middle manager wanted to feel useful by wasting devs time. If you are having a meeting where one person is doing most of the talking it can be done async. Feedback can be given async. Demos can be done async.

Some conversations need realtime, but most of these can happen one-on-one, recorded for people who are in a different TZ.

Yes, that's a different way of working, but it is not too hard, we have the tools and it makes sense. The only obstacle is a culture of the useless meeting. Kill it, embrace the async world. Keep realtime communication for meaningful 1-on-1.
May be I've written something that really does not make any sense. I should have understand the blog in the first place.
Having thousand NPC objects around is no problem at all. The rendering part is the only thing critical/numerous enough that you may have to optimize to such a low level.
It is totally detectable, unless it truly is a one off tweak. But that is almost never what happens. Maybe a great vocal will get a tweak to save otherwise great take, and that is fine. Good thing.

But then the whole production sees similar things all over the place and it gets cleaned right up technically. Time, levels, the works right?

And the energy is diminished, could be lost.

Like fashion, this will all cycle in and out. Young people hear the humanity in music made prior to these and other tools and it appeals.

Little things, like a change in tempo, small vocal errors, inconsistency, all add up in a track.

I bet some time from now, could be as little as a decade, maybe two, we will look back at all this and chuckle.

Like you say, there is nothing technically wrong with any of this tech. And it could all be used very differently from how it is today too.

Recently, I have been going back through great live shows. Fantastic! And I still get that tingle from the realization someone delivered it live, to a crowd. And yeah, not so perfect, but oh so very human too.
> It makes sense to group people for education based on ability

Ability to do what exactly? Your premise is based on this idea of "performance" as if it that is easily measurable or is some innate quality of a person. Performance is a function of the system itself though.

Speaking from the perspective of someone in the United States: I didn't "perform well enough" in middle school and so got ignored by staff and counselors in high school, so then "underperformed" there as well.

I got lucky and had a peer mentor me and help me figure out the importance of education. I went to community college and transferred to a top tier public university and went on to get a Master's degree, and now I am a high earning, tax paying, productive member of society. Could just be another "underperformer", but I lucked out and received someone else's empathy.

We should be seeking to build a system that works for a variety of learner's, a variety of life situations, and a variety of subjects. We certainly have the technology and we understand that it isn't as simple as "high performers" and "low performers".
I'm proposing it and saying it would be a better remedy than whatever regulatory-capture-ripe "reform" they're proposing is.

I actually like house brands of stuff, when compared to the thousands of gensym brands. The problem isn't marketplace companies privileging their own brands - it's with singular companies owning the marketplace to begin with.

Humans are creatures of habit, and the way to make it so we aren't in the habit of just buying everything from $Amazon is to replace that with the habit of buying things through non-affiliated aggregators. I'd rather have one familiar UI showing me (Amazon Basics, Zoro Select, HDX, etc), than multiple UIs each showing me the same "competing" gensym brands.
This sounds like a bug to me, not nefarious intent.
one take is that it legitimized the subject in the eyes of prudish english/american audiences. I doubt that most of her clients are disabled either.
Some interesting psychology here:

> In one study, each participant was given $25 and asked to place even-money bets on a coin that would land heads 60% of the time. Participants had 30 minutes to play, so could place about 300 bets, and the prizes were capped at $250.

> Remarkably, 28% of the participants went bust, and the average payout was just $91. Only 21% of the participants reached the maximum. 18 of the 61 participants bet everything on one toss, while two-thirds gambled on tails at some stage in the experiment.
If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend reading Fortune's Formula.
This is a very valid argument. You have implicitly invested effort (in form of lists) in Goodreads, and wouldn't want to lose them. It's another reason why a challenger can't rely on book tracking as the primary feature to drive adoption.
Last week we lost a bid for a government contract. That's nothing unusual but I almost laughed when they described how they reached that conclusion. They weighted price against quality at a ratio of 80 to 20. I mean: really?
I think we can still have intellectual property rights even in this context. Some things are worth working on at a national level, like the vaccine, but that doesn't have to be an argument in abolishing all IP rights. We don't have to nationalize pop music for instance, heck it doesn't even make sense to do this.
Smaller businesses get eaten up, resulting in a bigger Amazon with greater monopoly powers, that harms consumers with shittier goods and less choice.
Wagner's Ring cycle was my go-to background music for studying for finals in college.
Do you think there is not enough demand for software engineering? I find it more likely that these barriers are in place because of political incompetence (expensive US schools) or as a legacy (stupid high school system, no support and motivation for above average students).
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Do you have a link of the email correspondence?
At current prices why do they care if it's cheap? Coal seems to make sense for a bitcoin miner
I understand that women tend to make choices that cause them to earn less money. However, as a society, we benefit hugely from people making these choices for which we do not properly compensate them to the tune of $1.2 billion a year.

> For 2018 (the most recent data available), the dollar value of women’s unpaid work in the U.S. was equal to 86% of all the economic activity recorded in the state of New York. In other years—say, the late 1990s and late 2000s—the value of women’s unpaid work even surpassed New York state GDP. And keep in mind this value is at the low end of the possible range because we use the federal minimum wage and not, for example, higher state minimum wages let alone market wages that correspond to the specific work being done.

> The UNDP Women and Development Report of 1995 conducted a time-use study that analyzed the amount of time women and men spend on paid and unpaid household and community work in thirty-one countries across the world, including countries classified as 'industrial, 'developing' and 'transition economies.'[12] They found that in almost every country studied women worked longer hours than men but received fewer economic rewards. The study found that in both the 'developing' and 'industrialized world', men received the "lion's share of income and recognition" for their economic inputs, while women's work remained "unpaid, unrecognized, and undervalued."[12]

The fact that we don't pay as much for the things women tend to do is the problem. We've created a world where if you choose to spend your life sitting in a cubicle, you can support yourself. But if you spend your life caring for the people around you, you cannot, your labor still has value, it's simply not compensated. This is a really bad incentive scheme. We want parents to spend time with their children, not just because children with present parents perform better, but because of course we do. We want smart, capable people to become social workers and teachers and pediatricians without sabotaging their finances. To put another way, the world would be made worse, if 20% of the people who are currently working in their homes, decided to become software engineers instead. The world would become better if 20% of software engineers decided they'd rather contribute to their homes and communities.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2020/03/calculating-the-valu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unpaid_work#Gender_and_unpaid_...
Yeah the best schools education wise are not the best schools for like prospects. Thats just how it is and most folks dont care about the education bit
Personally I think absolute number of admitted students is a more useful metric, since you can't really control how many people apply, and your capacity is more or less fixed.

From the graph in the article, that is also in decline, but not as sharp (except the outlier of this year, which is caused by other factors).
I assume the effort, time and money required to get to "enough value to enough number of users" will require you to answer the "ways to monetise" question for a VC or even yourself before you start.
There are a lot of ways that I use to practice my public speaking skills.

Do this consistently:

> Having a great posture helps me.

> I always practice during my free time.

> I tend to compose a lot of phrases in my mind.

> Talking to myself in front of a mirror.

> Clear your throat

> Always have an idea about the topic or listen

Doing these tasks tremendously improved my speaking skills.
I wouldn’t choose S3 bucket notifications again
Russ is totally right. Pretending the linker is embedding “random data” is just trolling.
I'm really curious if/how New Horizons authenticates the singals and commands it recieves. Is it possible that because the only way to communicate with it is with the Deep Space Network they don't need to worry about a bad actor sending signals?
The C spirit I'm referring to is the raw, verbose and low-level-ish nature of writing code in C. For high-performance/low-latency Java apps it is absolutely crucial to have this level of control over code and resulting instructions emitted by the compiler. On the other hand - if you don't care about it and want to focus on domain-level stuff you absolutely can. This is what I find the most appealing about Java.
There's a lot of may, should, and could's in there.
Postmodern can do the right thing if you use prepared queries. See `defprepared`.
It's not entirely inaccurate. There is a trend for top tier universities to pick Black students mostly from prep & private schools for some reason.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976894

Excerpt: "tiny fraction" of low-income black American teenagers who attend private schools "produces about half of low-income black students at Ivy League colleges."

Anecdotally, looking at who attended Ivies where I grew up, this seems to be true.

I think they worry that Black students from actually Black, and often poor, school districts will not jive well with so many silver spoon swallowers. They want people more accustomed to bougie New England & NYC culture.
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> Also, compared to python it is fast, but not compared to C or Rust.

It is comparably fast. Much more close to them than to python.
> math might be an exception

Yeah, it is, but there's no Nobel for math.

We have the Fields Medal and Clay prizes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

Grigori Perelman declined both ... thug life!
To be honest it makes sense for it. It means if something (a library, browser API etc.) has no type, you can write an interface for it and hint for it, without depending on anything else.

You can think about the structural type as a hash check on a type. If the hash matches, chances are it's the type you want. Collisions are possible, but highly unlikely, hence why in practice it works great (and we still have instanceof and tagged types).
Not sure about the other stores, but that's not always true for walmart, which has at least some goods on consignment.

https://blog.softwareag.com/in-future-retailers-may-be-missi...
Did you miss this...

- me: criminal activity not a majority of btc use and severely overstated overall, and it enables surveillance, aka intelligence gathering for LEO/IC if properly utilized.

- 30 year veteran, ex-deputy director of the CIA:

“However, based on our research and discussions with industry experts, I have confidence in two conclusions:
• The broad generalizations about the use of Bitcoin in illicit finance are significantly overstated.
• The blockchain ledger on which Bitcoin transac- tions are recorded is an underutilized forensic tool that can be used more widely by law enforcement and the intelligence community to identify and dis- rupt illicit activities. Put simply, blockchain analysis is a highly effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool.”

“ All of this together suggests a broader point—that the illicit use of cryptocurrencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, as a share of total market activity, is cer- tainly not higher than it is in the traditional banking system and is most likely less”

Quite literally does say something/anything like what I said.
Those are pretty strong assertions with no statistics to back them up. It doesn’t reflect the ecosystem I work in.

I think you underestimate the number of huge companies that see major benefit from large teams working large development efforts.
Capitalism has lots of opportunities for smart people to create wealth. It's hard to just be a "worker" or "researcher", but if you are smart and determined you should be able to create a business that makes the whole world richer.

I do agree though there is a lot of wasted talent and effort.
It's very rational to want the treatment of humans to be held to a high standard when you yourself are a human.
Ok, but then you are advocating that they default on their loans and destroy their credit rating.

...which eliminates their ability to borrow money for several years. And that can have severe impacts on the trade that exists today as creditors scramble to seize Turkish assets held in foreign banks/ports/contracts.

It's a much much more destructive move than what you're describing.
> If I were a teenager trying to get into a top school these days, my anxiety would be through the roof.

If I knew a teenager in this situation, I'd emphasize that there is a large "quasi-random" component to admission to these types of school.

What I mean is that the number of incredibly talented applicants _rejected_ by Princeton and Harvard is probably as large as the number of admissions.

I know someone who is _tenured_ in the physics department @ a HYPS school. He was an undergrad (and grad student) @ Harvard. He once told me that if he applied as an undergraduate today, he'd probably have a 50/50 shot at getting in.