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You can do that with Gold.

Yes, we had gold as a monetary standard for quite some time.

1) Currency is not supposed to be a hard store of value. It's there to grease the economy, not for you to hold large quantities. If you want to store value there are plenty of ways to do that.

Money is supposed to be sound. Your notion that currency should not be a hard store of value is a new one, an idea created to support fiat. From first principles, money is a store of energy (creative work, physical work), which is then utilized for efficient exchange of goods and services. Money is not a tool for "greasing the economy", this was only possible when governments confiscated gold and declared all money to be paper that they controlled. Furthermore, buying stocks/houses/gold etc. is indeed a way of escaping USD into assets. However, someone else has to be willing to take that USD. It will still exist, and whoever holds it will be losing value over time. It is a problem when your base asset becomes toxic and no one wants it.

2) Inflexible currency i.e. 'hard money' makes no sense, and that's why nobody uses it.

We used gold and other rare metals for thousands of years. It was literally the global standard for trade.

3) You say 'inflation is coming' - well if we have such bad currency, why hasn't inflation already taken root in the last 20 years? It really has not.

The USD's buying power has fallen dramatically over time. Inflation has been very visible in home prices and stock prices.

https://howmuch.net/articles/rise-and-fall-dollar
That go is running their own stuff instead of embracing existing standards. Symbol servers and split dwarf thus is not likely to be supported.
Yes but YouTube is similarly such a good resource for learning that avoiding it does a disservice. I've seen the best explanations for topics that I struggled to understand at the time and they were explained so well that teachers should learn from it to.

With YouTube the answer is moderation and it has to be taught by parents, by education institutions and so on. This is also valid for grown ups. One can look for information on YouTube but veer onto temptation's path and sink a lot of time that gets taken from something else. But a bit of meandering into wherever it takes us and in moderation is great for discovering new things.
Right, I didn't add any context in my first comment, but the point is that DDT and mosquito control were an important component of disease control in the United States, regardless of whether polio is relevant to the discussion or not.
> hundreds of thousands of deaths caused each year by malaria.

I might be missing something..there are people dying of malaria in Florida?

Or you're saying that doing the test in Florida will help to get this technology to places where malaria is common?

Put another way, are there in potential benefits for the people living in the testing sites?
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Just apply as a solo founder.

Maybe you will meet someone at YC.

Or even better, talk to the people at YC.

They probably have seen this before and have insight into what is likely to work and not to work.

Probably the mot important question is how are sales?
If only there was a link to the study so we could see how it was setup.
> Really?

Yes. I do not doubt given the choice that many people would choose to dedicate a year to daily cold water swimming and filmmaking.

> And we have no idea about the financial arrangements.

Maybe it could be anything. But the story as presented in the movie is: a burnt-out white guy (who lives in an ocean-view villa in South Africa) spends every day filming an octopus.

> I don’t need all my characters to be fully self-aware or without flaws to find them engaging.

I'm not talking about all characters and I don't understand why you are.

> I didn’t assume you had an agenda. Why did you assume that?

Because I made what I thought was a relatively small and reasonable observation. Your response (instead of engaging with that point perhaps by arguing that My Octopus Teacher is improved by the fact that the main character seems like an out of touch "What's a banana cost? Ten dollars?" rich guy) was to bring in wild hyperbole about applying this specific observation to every one in every thing couched in the extremely broad statement "Any popular documentary is the result of privilege somewhere along the line."

> I meant “what’s the goal” as in “what’s the point”

To craft a more resonant/engaging story

> “why is that important to you”

Because I like engaging stories that feel fully thought out.
I'm am curious how it feels scummy, especially in the information age with the world's knowledge available at your fingertips. Seriously, it's 4 clicks, to select the word Calendly, right click, and search Google.

Not to make it personly, but eg, you spent zero space in your comment defining the meaning of the word "scummy". Adding a definition of the word scummy would, from an abstract angle, raise the information content of your comment. It doesn't seem scummy (at least to me) that you assumed all readers would know what that word means, even considering that readers here may not have English as their first language, and thus might NOT know what the word means. At some level, we just accept that people know things, sometimes unevenly, and it's not at all 'scummy' to withhold 'known' information.

The other thing here is that there's a difference between information amount, and information value - and there's an unappreciated value in NOT having something. The principle of "less is more" holds here. Calendly or this clone doesn't explain everything. It doesn't talk about what a Computer is, or what the Internet is or the history of APIs.
Maybe once you've started to perceive the meta-patterns between psych experiments, you've taken too many tests to be a good subject.
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I wonder what percentage of the 200M are not aware that they have accidentally subscribed to it. I've turned off prime a few times only to log back in and find it has been applied, I don't doubt I clicked something, but I certainly didn't intend to add prime. The patterns going through as non-prime are more redshift than dark.
Hmm, on my iPhone, I swipe down from the top right corner and tap on the moon icon to turn do not disturb on or off. Maybe it's not that Windows Phone was so great but that Android is not so good?
I still use it to sync folders to my iPad (from Documents Readdle).
Since walled gardens don't leave much options open, it's basically either that or a cloud provider -- and no free cloud plan has enough space to store these folders.

So FTP wins easily this one. It's free with unlimited storage, always has been, always will be.
"free" like not guilty until proven otherwise
Edward Thorp used the Kelly Criterion for success in blackjack strategies and later the stock market. He has articles on his statistical methods.

http://www.edwardothorp.com/articles/
Being found guilty of misleading cinduct hurts trust in their brand.

Because it's easy to switch search engines, public relations are a key economic moat.

Although now, Android being so entrenched makes a deeper moat.
However, as google can't help itself from increasingly screwing users, it creates space for new entrants.
That honestly sounds more complicated. FTP isn't that difficult of a protocol, especially if you only need to support one known client, you can take all sort of shortcuts.

If you deploy an existing FTP server, and _then_ integrate with it at the filesystem level you now have two components, and your sysadmin requirements grow. Now you gotta administrate an FTP server that's probably written for classic UNIX single server usage, gotta handle filesystem permissions, gotta somehow hook up your distributed locks to the filesystem, sanitize filenames for your chosen filesystem.

Honestly filesystems suck, there's so many gotchas from a security perspective, when all you really want is to pipe binary data in this side, and out the other side.

I implemented an IRC bot in a few hours in javascript one day. Those classic IETF text based protocols are actually really fun and easy to implement, especially in a language that makes strings safe and easy (i.e. not C).

I could easily see figuring out all the deployment concerns around integrating with an existing FTP server end up taking way longer than just integrating the subset needed for this use case.
Resistors are so dirt cheap nowadays it's not generally cost effective to make 1% resistors by selecting from a process which makes 5% ones. It's much cheaper to just tune the process so you always get 1% without needing to do the selection. And when you get to higher precisions you have a trimmable design where you adjust the resistance with a laser to get it in spec.
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> It's flowery language. Some people are dumb, some people are geniuses, and most people are just mediocre. It's not fair, but that is the way life is.

What you are dismissing as "flowery language" appears to be a different epistemology from yours. I cannot reconcile "there is a wide range in between" with these concrete categories you are giving.

If you believe in these categories wholeheartedly, then it makes sense to figure out the true category a person is in. It is wholly consistent to believe that you cannot ever know with complete certainty the true category someone is in, but that there is some underlying truth. You can imagine measurements that provide information about those categories (no one seriously believes a test could directly detect such a thing, however).

I am confident that I understand the appeal of that worldview. It certainly is tidy (maybe this is the bluntness you speak of)! But I have a different take on education, and the purpose of education. I do not see myself arguing in bad faith. If you can express your worldview without so heavily relying on [ad hoc] dichotomies and categories, then I will respond to that.
> Well Java is arguably one of the most IDE-reliant mainstream languages. It's completely unusable and unergonomic without the myriad of constant code generation and fixing as you write.

True, but with IntelliJ 99% of what you wrote is auto-configured.

Eclipse needs a bit of hand-holding, but almost everything you described is due to project configuration.

> Some genius java logging library, I can only guess.

That's your problem, you're assuming that Java is dumb and its libraries are dumb. They're not. I'm reasonably sure that <<all>> mainstream Java logging libraries log to console by default.

The previous engineer must have been a marvel of a developer to manage to screw even that up.

What I'd say is: Java, especially older enterprise code, had a ton of over-engineered patterns. These are slowly fading away, except for Spring, and even Spring's simpler these days. Java also tends to have some low quality and a ton of average but unmotivated working devs on Java projects. So yeah, there's that ecosystem problem.

But for example, if you'd start a new project and you approach Java with an open mind, it's one of the most powerful and flexible techs available. And it's much more modern than the stereotypes imply.
I think so, yes.

Or maybe instead of "Luckily, I had time and savings to figure things out." something just slightly more verbose like "I have been extremely fortunate in my life to have the time and savings to figure things out"
White roofs are great -- just like snow, the high albedo means a lot of the heat energy is reflected not absorbed.

But.. the ultra-white paint, on a roof? Perhaps it will be ultra-white on the first few days. Rain, pollution, dust, smog, and a myriad of other particulates (esp. in an urban setting) will quickly render it off-white, and bring it on par with existing finishes.
And it would be a million people if it were Python. That doesn't make it a good idea to encourage submissions to the kernel in Python. There is much more to kernel programming than the programming language. C might be inconvenient and lacking expressive power, but if people can't handle pointers and goto, what mess are they going to make with different address spaces and interrupts?
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Yes epubs aren't books. I think you really nailed it there. E-ink display devices would have a way lower refresh rates from what we are used to and are as such probably really bad at or unable to play video.
It's not like we're snapping our fingers and making an irreversible change to the whole planet. We can and have been testing this process in isolated cases and if anything unexpected happens we can stop the process and reintroduce the species, but we actually do have a pretty good understanding of ecosystems.

Mother nature does not have your best interests at heart, and decisions that affect the lives of millions should not be made based off short maxims.
> tried to blame it partly on the Go compiler producing more bloated code over time

Where? The argument is _precisely_ that the growth is occurring in non-code areas.

> partly on a mystical "dark area" which you don't understand

The _observation_ is that the growth is happening in an area of the file that's not accounted for in the symtable. That's what makes it "dark". It's not mythical: it's _there_ and you can observe it just as well as anyone else.

> you mentioned superlinear growth only in the comment section

it's in the reported measurements.

> and you didn't actually gather data or do experiments to prove or disprove any of the things you're claiming as a cause

The analysis is stating observations and reporting that the size is increasingly due to non-accounted data. That observation is substantiated by measurements. There's no claim of cause in the text!
Was going to post the same. Huge omission. Turns out they were founded in the same year, interestingly.
The digital version is delayed, the station is supposed to delay the analog feed an equal amount so that the transition isn't noticeable. In the early HD radios it was common for it to be way out of sync, but I haven't noticed it much in a long while.
Another thing I noticed in the revised blog post on a second skim, regarding this claim:

> Every time, 70% of a couple hundred megabytes are copied around for no good reason and someone needs to pay ingress/egress networking costs for these file copies.

That 70% includes the ELF/DWARF metadata that is easily removed from the binary using strip. It's true that the DWARF info in particular has gotten larger in recent releases, because we've included more information to make debuggers work better. I don't think it has grown quite as rapidly as the table indicates - I think some of the rows already have some of the debug metadata removed in "Raw size".

Regardless, I would hope that anyone sensitive to networking costs at this level would be shipping around stripped binaries, so the growth in accurate DWARF info should not be relevant to this post at all.

That is, the right comparison is to the "Stripped" column in the big table. If you subtract out the strippable overheads and you take the "Dark + pclntab" as an accurate representation of Go-specific overhead (debatable but not today), then the situation has actually improved markedly since Go 1.12, which would have been current in April 2019 when the first post was written.

Whereas in Go 1.12 the measured "actual program" was only about 40% of the stripped binary, in Go 1.16 that fraction has risen to closer to 55%.

This is a marked-up copy of the table from the dr-knz.net revised post that at time of writing has not yet made it to cockroachlabs.com: https://swtch.com/tmp/cockroach-blog.png

I think the numbers in the table may be suspect in other ways, so I am NOT claiming that from Go 1.12 to Go 1.16 there has actually been a 15% reduction in "Go metadata overhead". I honestly don't know one way or the other without spending a lot more time looking into this.

But supposing we accept for sake of argument that the byte counts in the table are valid, they do not support the text or the title of the post. In fact, they tell the opposite story: the stripped CockroachDB binary in question has gotten smaller since April 2019, and less of the binary is occupied by what the post calls "non-useful" or "Go-internal" bytes.
(That we know of.)
Is this what https://earth2.io is doing?
Ah, great. Paper with an emissivity graph: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01161

Without that you can't really judge the news article.
Seriously. Full Kelly betting involves the use of significant leverage. The correct Kelly bet on the S&P index would be long 2.5x your total wealth.
What exactly you propose should be done? Affero GPL simply didn't work. People use GPL when they want specifically to contribute to Free Software or BSD/MIT-style when they don't particularly care about using the code in proprietary product. What is your solution to AWS-style free rider problem in SaaS?
As a website owner, my question is how extensively can Google punish me for asking them not to use my site as part of their analysis?
In 10-15 years when this bubble bursts doctors will make a lot of money fixing the broken bones from the mob of people rushing to say they told you so.

It seems ridiculous on its face and it doesn’t seem to be stopping. It feels like the entire financial/monetary system is on really shaky foundations when so much wealth is created out of something with no actual utility. We are way past the point of the shoe shine boy giving stock tips now. How much longer it goes seems like it will increase how hard the crash eventually is.

But then again, I bought a helio ocean over the original iPhone so...
Totally agree. The magic of life, and human life in particular, is the local defiance of the second law of thermodynamics.

When you zoom out, the law is the law.
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> but the one I picked was one of the good ones where the name means something.

As someone who went both to an average university and one ranked 3rd in the country, I can tell you: The name doesn't mean much in the engineering discipline. Certainly, a CS degree from CMU will likely get you into more interviews, and they probably earn more in the long run, but the person who got his BS in CS from an average state school with a good GPA will almost certainly get a job within a year. Very few exceptions. With bootcamps, I expect that percentage is a lot lower.

As a data point, I work in a top tech company and while people from big name schools are slightly overrepresented, the majority of folks are not from big name schools. Certainly plenty of people from my average state school here have senior positions.
Whoa, super cool work! I can see Coprocessorjs being really useful.

I love seeing modern dev for 68k Macs. The toolbox can be a pain at first, but it's not so bad once you internalize all the different managers you have to remember. MacApp supposedly helps do a lot of the work for you, but I haven't gotten around to doing much with it yet—it's more fun implementing my own abstractions like an async task manager.
CockroachDB has always had a reputation of being slow, 10x-20x slower than the same operation being made in Postgres, with this and the issues about binary size, was a GC language like Go the right choice for CK? Would you have pick something else today if starting a new?
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Yes, parents getting destroyed by a criminally unbalanced system must somehow navigate evil patterns by multi-billion dollar criminal monopolies. What a genius insight, please blame more victims.
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Recently, there has been discussion on Google's FLoC trial, and what developers can do you combat it. A lot of discussion is on the opt-out HTTP header, Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=(), which will disable FLoC for that website.

I think this is a weak response, and would be more interested in getting fewer people to use Chrome in the first place. I have seen people say they are either going to block Chrome entirely from their site, or put a banner up, encouraging people to try something else. I would consider the latter approach, and have done a small amount of research into reliably detecting Chrome, so that I could put a banner on my site. The results are not encouraging.

The problem is that Chrome-based browsers are very difficult to distinguish from Google Chrome itself. User agents are misleading (and Chrome is about to remove them anyway), and all the Javascript feature-detection methods I could find no longer work. Worse still, the situation is like this by design: Brave, for example, is deliberately indistinguishable from Chrome to minimise browser fingerprinting.

So, is there a reasonably reliable way to detect Google Chrome?
i know nothing happened in the review and fraud for years, i don't know if it's too expensive to fix - your bullshit against mine. (also, too expensive for amazon? what?)

as to your goalposts, poor service is literally bad for customers/consumers, so i don't even know what to say except that you're quite likely incapable of letting go of your beliefs, because logic can't reconcile the dissonance.
Most of the time it's as a result of the kid getting to their class the first time, realizing the teacher is garbage, and realizing "oh I have to teach myself all this crap" as the load up videos from extremely talented indians about calculus...
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Ok so then I’m really confused. I thought it said annotations were having to be strings versus objects. If this isn’t the what’s called annotations in other languages, then what is the actual issue that pydantic has? The python type hints are I guess objects, but they’re standalone non-instantiated.. unless pydantic does some crazy stuff. Their main home page doesn’t show anything out of the ordinary here? What’s the actual issue?
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Yeah, but if you do know Maven, it scales down to small projects. The configuration for a simple project is trivial.

So just use Maven and save anyone coming after you a bunch of trouble when they have to extend your project ;-)
The logic you use about prostitution can be used for anything that harms someone. So I'm not really sure what your point is. Should we ban all things that harm people? Mining, construction, gambling, drinking, tobacco, etc. etc. etc.

> Do we want to have even more of the political-bureaucratic machine responsible in telling us what is acceptable and what is not?

What's your answer to this?
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It's great that your tastes are similar enough to those of your friends' that that works for you. But I doubt that that is universal.

Recommendations could be so much more helpful if they were done by an algorithm similar to what Netflix used to have - Cinematch. Then even people without friends could get good recommendations.
You are talking about Bitcoin, I thought the article was about cryptocurrencies. (And the comment you replied to said 'Crypto')
> The lack of apps is what hurt it

Not sure the market would react the same.

Many people are fighting phone addiction. Rich people want their kids off the grid. Lacking apps could be a feature in a more mature market.

Rich people could display wealth (better the children not be seen with a crappy phone) with a great UX, while at the same time being exempt from the dopamine addiction. Now that we know what we pretty much do on a phone, we could create a phone with all main apps hard-coded and it would fulfill the necessary needs.
> It is important to understand how a tool works at a practical level.

There needs to be a term for "This page you're reading is bogus horseshit theory, do not try to apply it practically".
That's probably what they thought back then, too. We don't know what we don't know; this isn't some scifi story where we can make mistakes and still get a happy ending.