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Sovereignty is a slippery abstraction. What we’re talking about here is doing violence against someone on a boat who has directly harmed no one, whose only crime is crossing an invisible line and perhaps stealing some food.

Now, I’m not going to get down in to the weeds about fishing property rights, but it looks like you’re trying to climb up this abstraction layer (“territorial sovereignty”) to justify violence against the peaceful.

If indeed they are stealing from someone under the law, I don’t think violent action via a national military is in any way whatsoever a proportionate response. You seem to be advocating for collective guilt because there are so many, and collective guilt or group punishment is a violation of human rights.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

This story surfaces every few years.

"Eat bugs, they're good for you"

"Eat bugs, they're high in protein"

"Eat bugs, look, this high status person with a PhD eats them."

Please ignore this story and don't eat the bugs
Huh? There are approximately zero amateur pilots that own jet aircraft -- they cost too much.

Certainly not enough to help keep alive the market for diesel pickup trucks.
I still have hope, because we have two different mentalities at play.

The individual still thinks in terms of "I'm an above-average driver, I'm better than a silly bleep-bloop box." They'll resist self-driving en masse if it's not 1000% perfect.

Insurers, however, will see self-drivers as predictable, never drunk, always following the speed limit, and in aggregate preferrable to humans. They will be able to see "3% better" as meaningful even if it's not perfect, and price accordingly. Eventually, you'll pay a rapidly increasing penalty rate for having a steering wheel. This is where the avalanche comes from.

I also figure self-driving could unlock new features-- in particular I'm imagining the only way we get road speeds much over 120kph is self-driving, as the human response time becomes a limiting factor. And of course the in-dashboard wet bar. This will feed back into the consumer market even if it's only closed markets at first: why can't I go 250kph on the highways considering the self-driving airport shuttle does?
I honestly think they were compromised from the very beginning, with their mission of "defending every civil right... except the 2nd amendment, we don't like that one."

But they still fought lots of commendable battles, sticking up for people that nobody else would. I think that's what they've lost... they would be scared to stick up for somebody that might get the wrong people upset with them.
ohhhhhh yes. I wrote "will" but I should have wrote "would"; I don't believe its inevitable by any means.

> $8B estimates for the Rockaway Beach Branch

That one still makes my blood boil. There's plenty of reasons why it might be low benefit, but it certainly shouldn't be anywhere near as high cost.
In Germany, this would probably end badly for the owner of the car doing the filming in a public space and the vandal would probably walk free with his/ her legal fees getting paid by the owner of the car, if the vandal would caught at all. It is illegal to monitor a public space and violates personality rights.

A reasonable judge might perhaps give the owner of the car a hefty fine for violating personal rights and order the vandal to pay for the damage. IANAL. Either way, I don't see it as a winning strategy to film anything in a public space in Germany, it will get you in trouble and will most likely not solve anything.

I think vandalism is the kind of thing that cannot be excused in adults. Certainly damaging anybody's car on purpose is something only a complete idiot would do.
you can only apply so much power thru the tires before adhesion is lost, we are close to that limit now
So does that mean that you can sue Apple if an app fails at any of these?

Of course not, because lying for Apple is common business practice nowadays.
Doesn't this falsely equate "simpler" to "fewer axioms"? If you let each axiom be as complex as possible, what have you simplified?
Edit: placeholder

(Decided it was unfair to throw a large org under the bus without being able spend a few hours to defend the claim.)
A man converted a World War II-era navy airplane into a 300-square-foot RV
What a bizarre answer to a specific question, but thanks for trying
They do need full control to keep their platform safe.

Are they managing to keep it safe is independent of that claim and we can ask why are those getting through.
Over what time period was the 24.85% measured? This seems like it would do better during time periods where stock prices are volatile and/or not increasing, so if the returns were measured over the last year, then results could be misleading.
Kai-Fu Lee and David Siegel talked about AI in April 2019 and mentioned:

> It's neither artificial nor intelligent

Quote is at 3:40 (topic starts around 3:05) in the YouTube video linked at the end of the article:

https://www.twosigma.com/articles/ai-past-and-future-a-conve...
>Despite the sad loss of the ACLU as an institution that cares about civil liberties, we can remain hopeful due to other organizations like FIRE.

You're just going to leave it there? What/who is FIRE? This isn't one of those unique words easily discovered during a web search.
Bitcoin makes scamming so much more lucrative . So many pple have been scammed such as fake apps and giveaway scams.
The world is much bigger than the US and Eurozone, maybe try travelling a bit once covid dies down.

Citizens of Turkey, Lebanon, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Venezuela, Iran, Belarus, for example, all have their savings being stolen through inflation to greater or lesser extents.
Trading $100 vs $1000 vs $1M vs $1B worth of these ETFs.
Sometimes being a resource for developers, as someone who could be asked, can be valuable. Anyway, good luck with your studies!
I held them up for years and years as an example of an actually principled organization in an age where every other institution was compromising their stated beliefs in favor of genuflection to fashionable slogans. Like you, I stopped doing this a few years ago : (

To their relative credit, they do seem to be struggling with it in a way that very few other orgs are, and you occasionally see them take principled action.
Not, by this metric, if they live in the same repo as the code. When they don't, they have the same problem as any strongly coupled systems maintained across multiple repos, or you are paying the cost of keeping the two uncoupled.
Or Anti-Defamation League.
Oh, I see. I just looked at what rebalancing is. Thank you, that is very interesting
Obviously you don't just resort to violence. First you threaten violence and if THEY are incompetent they won't heed the warning, forcing the violence
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I think theres probably an interesting full book here examining exactly how and why "cause based" orgs become all end up looking the same once they cross a certain threshold.
Power, influence and money seem to be a magnet for more of itself, so it fundamentally shifts the guiding principal of each org as it grows bigger.

Like why do no-profits and charities seem to corrupt their aim at a greater speed than for profit businesses?
If you want to play the grown-up card, ok: the grown-up thing to do with half a mil would have it be in the hands of a registered investment advisor at a reputable and insured institution, who is actively growing that money for you using reasonable investment principles based on your investment horizon, goals, and comfort level; and not pissing it away on the latest hype cycle. But that is only because I lived through the silver boom & bust, the mortgage bond scam, the junk bond scam, the S&L scam, the first commercial online investment platforms, the dot com bubble, the second mortgage collapse... and Bitcoin* is more of the same.

* I said "Bitcoin" and not "cryptocurrency" intentionally. Because the jury is still own on the latter, but the former most certainly will not be the CC of the future IMHO due to its massive privacy shortcomings, among other things.
"fire org" and "fire civil liberties" both return the correct result in the first ranking. It really isn't that difficult
I am the polar opposite of this and I am going rather well with it. Which means: I am happy with what I am doing, I am happy with the money it produces, I am happy with the way customers interact with me.

And quite frankly it would very likely bore me to focus one one thing only. I am not on this planet to get bored with my life or hunt for some mythical sunlit uplands by betting all my time and energy onto one thing, unable to keep a healthy distance riding it into a ditch because I want it to suceed too much. I want the things I create to be objectively good. For this I have to be able to keep a distance to them. Making them the sole center of my life would prevent me from that.

Apart from that I am easily the most productive person in my social environment, parts of which are of the "only focusing on one thing"-crowd. However I don't think my approach works for everyone. There are types who need these context switches and there are types who need that focus.
According to [1], it costs United about $15,000 an hour to run their 787. Of that, $7,371 finances the plane ("ac cost"), $786 for maintenance ("mx"), $5,259 for fuel, and $1,335 for crew. I'm assuming industry average utilization of roughly ~4000 hours a year of flight time so that works out to about $3 million in maintenance and $28 million in loan repayments per year.

Thing is, you have to keep the 787 flying - they're not designed to be parked for weeks or months at a time. Normally that'd be a problem for a business jet since they're little more than toys for rich people but the 787 is up to 20% more fuel efficient than comparable older models. As long as its set up for cargo, the owner can just rent it out and have someone else cover the majority of the maintenance burden. It wouldn't be profitable, but if you need (or want) a brand new commercial jet, it's an easy way to subsidize that cost.

[1] https://www.planestats.com/bhsw_2014sep
> "The Woke" as you call them, the extremely active, extremely online and extremist faction are an absolutely miniscule number of people, who are neither violent, nor particularly intolerant. The fearmongering about them is completely overblown

Do you think it might be possible, at all, that those who fear the woke might know some things about which you are unaware? Incidents, details or facts that, if you yourself knew them, would change your mind? Yes, no...?
This might get shut down, but I have never gotten an answer from the biologists I've discussed with that if random mutations introduce change in the genome, and natural selection prunes the non beneficient alterations, where does the complexity in the genome come from?

We must then confer that either the genome is not complex, or complexity can appear from randomness. Neither of which are good.
That’s a different argument than cost.
And Elon supported this explicitly.

https://twitter.com/panoparker/status/1318157559266762752?s=...
They could not. Rent price on NiceHash is a market price. Even if it is not, when you'd try to buy the remaining 44% you'd have to turn to the market. Do you know what happens to the market price of something when you try to buy half of the worldwide supply?
It is laughable to suggest that history does not change. Even studying history at the equivalent of high school had me comparing secondary sources from the 1960s, to the 1990s, to just a couple years prior. History, or rather our interpretation of it, is constantly evolving.

I expect it is the same for most of the humanities.
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It is sad that in 2021 we are still using heavyweight js libraries for displaying mathematical notation, instead W3C specification - MathML.
Maybe when people start remixing your tracks. When your creative work spawns more creativity, then you've truly effected change into the world.
so is this person going to become another gayle mcdowell with a book that will be mandatory reading for engineers in a few years? the top skills engineers need to master is saying “no” and negotiating your compensation
A fantastic list. I find #11 to be especially critical to one's career growth:

> How to give up your baby, that project that you built into something great, so you can do something else

This is the only way to really scale oneself, while growing others in the process. Hanging on to a project indefinitely can rob you of an opportunity to tackle bigger, more challenging problems. It's so easy to get stuck on a comfortable track, feeling like (and probably being) an indispensable subject matter expert, while the bigger fish get away, often without being aware of them or having the necessary bandwidth to even consider their existence. This, in my mind, is one of the big differences between a senior and a staff engineer (where such distinctions exist).

I highly recommend this article on "giving away your Legos": https://review.firstround.com/give-away-your-legos-and-other.... Have shared it with many senior engineers that were looking to grow to the next level.

Oh, and +1 to the author's book "The Manager's Path". Best one I've seen for anyone looking to go down that road.
Manchester is full of them. Majority of junctions on the M60, the motorway circling the city, have roundabouts after you come off / before you get on.

In fact, there are two roundabouts in Worsley/Walkden. Though those cause a huge amount of traffic in rush hour.

Pretty much any journey I take in the UK involves at least one and could be upwards of 10 to 20 for longer distance drives.
The Wii U Virtual Console games only run on the Wii U.
Thanks! Yep, agreed, my point was more that things like shadow DOM, SVG and lifecyle events need to be integrated at the vDOM/DOM level to work, so a framework could not implement it on top of something like million currently. It'd be great if million could support such use-cases so that people like me didn't write their own DOM diffing/patching.
this looks interesting, and I think would be perfect for the kind of stuff I deal with. Unfortunately, the pricing looks less interesting (about $100 for a 1000 page pdf, if I'm reading it right, although possibly I could attempt to break the pdf up into pages which have the math). There was an older solution for this which costs about $200 as a whole.

Stuff like this exists, and is possibly pretty reasonable monetarily, but not being in the U.S., exchange rates hit me hard.

I've bookmarked this and will look into this more, though, thanks!
Good thing that India doesn’t use this logic (Indian Ocean)
No one is saying that every single employee at the bottom is being exploited - just that exploitation is rational for those in power, because there's no particular incentive for them to completely avoid it.

They shouldn't do it too much, or then society responds in various ways (unions, legislation, etc.), so in that sense it's much like shareholder value. The company owners cannot write themselves a bonus equal to the entire profits of the company, or the shareholders will get mad. But they can certainly write themselves generous bonuses nonetheless. They don't have to completely maximize shareholder value, or completely minimize exploitation; they just have to do enough.
Based on your review and the other replies in this thread I bought the book - I hate to say this, but, in my honest opinion, it was mostly a dull, arrogant and self-aggrandizing book. (Side-Note: I lost my mother at a somewhat young age to cancer and am no complete stranger to death and the process of dying).
When you say "then walk into the center", you do realize you are talking about a (edit) 20-30 minute walk one-way. A car could cut that in 2 minutes.

In my lifetime I was a driver in a city where it took exactly 5 minutes door-to-door from my home to ANY location in the city (at night). During the day it was maybe 8 minutes.

Then some years went by.

I now live in a city where at night it's 20 minutes, and during the day it's 45-60 minutes.

From 5/8 minutes to 20/45-60 minutes.

It's the same city.

Things change, I get it. It just feels like things are getting worse and worse and yeah, it elicits serious questions like "is this going to be my last car, ever?" etc. :)
>The big question is what can a nation do to stop this?

Thats why navies exist.

You send a handful of frigates and bombers there and start sinking ships.
I think that over time the things these companies need to be successful, vertical integration across concepts like web, mobile, e-commerce, logistics, shipping, personal shopper, curbside pickup, etc etc... Is all going to be fragmented and broken up into it's component pieces. Instacart started the trend in a big way and Shopify is also part of this "disaggregation" framework...
> sometimes people are trading their lives away for only basic sustenance and no job security.

And they're still not being exploited. You're describing people that cannot fend for themselves. Also not everyone you're describing is only receiving basic sustenance. A lot of people in this situation live reasonably middle class lives.
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I think the disconnect here is that Google engineers are much more likely to answer the low volume of technical "nerd-snipey" questions from other developers than the high volume of non-technical questions they'd get from the general public for something like Gmail.
I'm hoping that it's self-correcting. The right has (belatedly) starting using this lunacy against the left. I guess the best we can hope for is that the illiberal masses on one side act as a counterweight against the illiberal masses on the other until they rediscover the purpose of the liberalism. In the meanwhile, for anyone who wasn't stupid enough to forget, the best you can do is try and stay out of the way.

I'm delighted to have found a job that's mission-focused enough that this nonsense doesn't come close to touching the people doing real work in the way it (stochastically) can at places with more slack, like Google. We pay a tax, in the form of HR playing masturbatory language games with each other, but I've never once had to care about it.
Don't have the time to create an account right now, its probably a lot of work to delay account creation but might probably worth considering.
Free edible insects in the wellness chamber on Aisle X! Get 'em while they're hot!
The imported to China Communist Party could do with a battle axe to the heads of aged over 35 card carrying cadres.
Also common in several parts of NJ, notably driving up US1 between Phila and NYC.
i agree, very important
I think hybrid is a false compromise which will be worse than wfh or fully in office but it will serve its purpose to management as a step towards fully back in the office.
> FreeBSD Ports sometimes shows me a text menu for configuring package options, while pkgsrc just uses text configuration and tries to make it so you don’t need to reconfigure packages. I’m the kind of person who prefers text configuration, but I can see how others wouldn’t.

Posting because it took me way too long to run into this on my own: make config-recursive lets you get all the ncurses per-port menus out of the way at once. Not a full fix, but it does take a rough edge off of the default port config/building experience.

e: Real lovers of text config could also use Poudriere to build their own packages since it takes per-port config options files. I think you can do something similar with portmaster as well.

ee: now I think about it, the choices from the ncurses menus just get stored in /var/db/ports, so you could probably edit it directly as text if you felt like it.
And yet, so many amazing emulator projects have been sued out of existence. Remember Bleem, the Windows program that played contemporary Playstation games? Bleem actually won the court case, but the legal costs forced them out of business.

And then there was the time Sony sued Connectix for their emulator. Sony got an injuction, and while Connectix won in appeal, they also ran out of money and closed.

Nintendo, on the other hand, focuses less on suing emualator developers and more on suing distributors of ROMS for old, unavailable titles, like LoveROM.
It’s probably reasonable for an organization to choose not to conflate the civil liberties they stand for with amendments. In an ideal world the people would happily eliminate or modify laws that do harm, and of the existing US civil liberties, the 2nd amendment is likely the most debatable on whether it is a net win for liberty.
I've run into some bugs because of composition, something about <a> tags nesting breaking everything, but only in release mode (minified etc.). Not fun to hunt down. I don't remember the details, but I've also seen warnings about other semantic stuff that's enforced (it at least complained about) by the framework.

Technically you could make everything a div or a text element, but most frameworks you use come with certain expectations: the closer you are to using semantic tags, the less likely you'll be to violate those external expectations.

If you're not using any frameworks, I don't see why you wouldn't use semantic tags by default. Sure, you can override the onclick if an anchor with no href and call preventDefault, but why not just use a button instead?
The Thinkpad T40 series was notorious for this, the chassis is relatively flexible, so the GPU would eventually let go of the mainboard.
Generally the answer is regulation. So I suspect that is quite likely the answer here. Although since they are an MSB in at least the US they answer could just as easily be crypto fever.

For a centralized entity settlement and clearing aren’t hard. You have a money pile and a debt facility in both countries, then you wire money to net settle once in a while.
One of WordPress' primary strengths is that it's extensible and does not do anything big by default. One of its weaknesses is that its so easy to use. No difficult configuration is necessary and most web hosts have an auto-installer for it that configures it with default settings. The web host I work for does have a plugin that fixes a lot of these things (caching, wp-cron, basic security issues, etc) but it's not a panacea. There just isn't one.
The problem is that Apple is lying about what they are doing... and therefor, they should probably be targeted by dozens of class action lawsuits.
That’s the purpose of the app; that doesn’t explain the role of crypto in this. TransferWise offers that without crypto.
For me, habit mostly.

In the .NET eco-system I can do C#, but I have to think about it, and hit Google more than I'd like. VB.NET I am 100% fluent in, and for my own personal utilities (I am not a for-hire programmer) it's completely adequate. Porting stuff to Linux is a bit of a no-no though without using Mono.

I would never actively write anything in VB6 though unless I was targeting an old 16 bit Windows platform. VB6 and VB.NET (2017) are miles apart as languages.

I am not oblivious to the situation, and I do know that at some point I'll have to make the effort to switch to C# as my 1st choice.

I also don't get why I have to end my code lines with semi-colons, when there are perfectly good CRLFs directly after?
The company could put their money where their mouth is.

Are you truly being honest about keeping them on? Write up a contract that guarantees them X years of employment, at Y severance per month if terminated early.

More realistically, you should consider that the ones resigning have a better read on the situation than you do.