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> Do they tie the progressive line on "Make the police accountable and maybe not spend mountains of money on buying them tanks tanks and maybe not let them literally get away with murder?"

If you’re asking “do black Americans want police reform”, then probably yes considering 90+% of all Americans favor police reform of some kind. So to answer your other question:

> Or is that not a 'progressive' line? (In which case, why the hell haven't we gotten it yet?)

Not uniquely, no. Why we haven’t gotten it yet: probably because our politics are broken by intense partisanship among other things. Frankly this isn’t a corporate issue (beyond some shallow virtue signaling), so it just doesn’t become a legislative priority.

> I think the likely explanation for this conundrum is that people don't support <whatever strawman of the week is used to attack a caricature of a position>.

This is a well-documented dodge. Leftists have been very clear that they want the police abolished. The media tried to make that message more palatable in advance of the recent presidential election by suggesting it was a euphemism for moderate police reform, and leftist activists clarified that they literally want to abolish the police. This is very explicitly not a caricature.
Finnaly I made it, TikTok like app for NSFW short videos
I know that there are already some similar apps, but I think they have pure UI and cant play video with sound as user scrolls (btw it was the hardest part).
My stack is Angular + NestJS + Prisma + MySQL. Planning to add Tensorflow for recommender system.
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Load the Tether fud. It’s like clockwork every time Bitcoin goes down haha. WSJ does their overlords’ bidding. Now we are comparing it to pre civil war money. They are running out of angles.
It also shows basically nothing else whatsoever. I could be literally anything.
> Why do you need a blockchain?

Because of the following reasons:

* it has to be distributed and federated

* no one entity should control the data

* it has to be tamper-proof

> You even mention in the writeup that this behavior exists in other countries already - which means it already can be achieved without this technology.

Yes, the system exists. But it does not have the attributes mentioned above because those systems are controlled by single entity.

> Heck, in the US there are already educational institutions that charge a portion of future salary rather than a tuition.

Yes, I know. But I am trying to make this universal, a platform for everyone to use. My vision is that government will start funding education using equity rather than debt. That will promote life-long learning and reskilling without putting students into debt. That is a win-win for everyone.

> You spend a huge amount of time describing the merits of this approach and (as far as I can tell) zero time describing what your software actually does, even when digging into the page that contains additional details.

At the core the platform acts as a ledger that maintains records of monetary and non-monetary transactions between various stakeholders in education. The stakeholders are government, education institutions, students, businesses and policymakers. The non-monetary transaction is education "service" provided by education institution to students. That record is maintained by the platform to connect students to each education institution and its staff. And the monetary transactions are funding and grants received by education institutions from government for providing education per student; this indirect government funding of student education acts as investment in that student which the student pays back as dividend rather than loan-repayments. That way the students are not in debt but are still obliged to payback via auto-deduction from their income. This whole system is automated and handled by the proposed platform.
Think of this platform as a distributed ledger that maintains connections between various stakeholders in education, and what those connections are used for. And based on that information the students are funded for education. And when the students start generating income, then a small percentage of that income is autodeducted and distributed automatically to those involved in that students education.
For once, I think this is a good initiative from google.

Most websites are over-bloated and this is a good incentive to move the web in the right direction.
I wrote something similar a few years back that gained a small amount of attention on GitHub: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Web_Educati...
"Vast majority" might be an overstatement, but if you work an 8-hour day, commute for an hour each way, and take an hour for lunch (which, let's face it, is often with co-workers and involves work talk), that's 11 hours doing things that you probably wouldn't be doing if you didn't have to work. If we assume 8 hours of sleep, that's only 5 waking, non-work-related hours.

It's... pretty lame, honestly. All these modern conveniences and we're working more than ever these days (in the US, at least).

Also not really sure where all these "comfy tech jobs" are; every tech job I've worked in the past 15+ years often has people working ~10 hour days. I'm not aware of many people in tech who work 9-5 and that's it.
(no company is going to assign budget to something that's clearly useless)

A bit naive to think that companies are 100% efficient and don’t make mistakes. Companies aren’t robots, they’re a collection of people, people make mistakes.

I’ve seen executives in the past identify an issue and hire someone to solve that problem, executive didn’t understand the problem, person left the company position wasn’t filled again.
Sounds like a rehash of Soupy Sales' "Green Pieces of Paper" scandal.

Soupy Sales’ ‘Green Pieces of Paper’ Scandal.
Scandal erupted when children's TV host Soupy Sales asked his young viewers to send him 'little green pieces of paper.'

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/

>In January 1965 on his morning children’s show, the performer Soupy Sales suggested to his young viewers that they find the wallets of their sleeping fathers and take out “some of those funny green pieces of paper with all those nice pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Hamilton, and send them along to your old pal, Soupy, care of WNEW, New York.”

>“Hey kids, last night was New Year’s Eve, and your mother and dad were out having a great time. They are probably still sleeping and what I want you to do is tiptoe in their bedroom and go in your mom’s pocketbook and your dad’s pants, which are probably on the floor. You’ll see a lot of green pieces of paper with pictures of guys in beards. Put them in an envelope and send them to me at Soupy Sales, Channel 5, New York, New York. And you know what I’m going to send you? A post card from Puerto Rico!”

>The most famous single gag comes on New Year’s Day 1965. Mr. Sales tells kids to go into their parents’ wallets and to send him “those little green pieces of paper.”It’s become a cult thing to say you sent $10, $20, he says, but if that had been true, he would have had enough money to buy the building. He received only a few dollars, and a week’s suspension.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/soupy-sales-new-years-day-jo...

>Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 1993, the comedian claimed he received only $1 and some Monopoly money. But that same year, he told an audience at the Brokerage Comedy Club in Bellmore, N.Y., that he received $80,000. One woman in attendance shouted, "I want my dollar back!" To which Sales responded, "That's my ride home." He also recalled a 28-year-old woman who sent in a dollar with the message, "I've seen your show, and you should go to Puerto Rico."

>You can watch the 1993 comment from the comedy club below.

SOUPY SALES: Green Pieces of Paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=a-OGy3Kh7yM&...
Gotta agree here. Only Americans think University and brains are directly correlated.
If the question is rephrased to something like “if your company/product ceased to exist, would the world be better off, worse off, or no different?”

In my case, it would be no different (beyond a handful of job losses which are insignificant in the grand scheme). That, to me, is a bullshit job. Meaningless time consumption.
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Interesting approach, but what about more modern alternatives like webp and avif? I know that jpeg has its advantages but the current the lack of support is a problem, that time will solve.
Graeber's weakness of not being a bean counter (and maybe at a deeper level also not a "systems" thinker) was also his incredible advantage: to be able to sense and interpret the current "reality" of much of the western world but not be transfixed by it but rather place it the context of the far more diverse historical human experience. Have not read Bullshit Jobs but was deeply impressed by Debt and his debunking of centuries of ossified, self-serving dogma. The current low signal to noise cacophony around cryptocurrencies is just another validation of how deeply illiterate we are (collectively) about fairly fundamental aspects of how our societies function, even something like money that all of us handle daily and most of us think quite important. This is not just the confusion of the "common man", until 2008 all mainstream, Nobel prize winning, economists did not think the private banking system was important in economic development - being just "an intermediary" that can be factored out of the "equations".

In the many comments to this post (which in itself is a good thing - may it inspire some smart cookies to carry Graeber's torch) the discussion quickly degenerates in the "markets versus state" caricature in a manifestation of the same inadequate interpretation framework. "Markets" existed since the first three-way encounter and exchange of some goods and associated exchange rates. However corporates (expressing the enforceable interest of an industrious subset of humanity) and states (purportedly expressing the interest of "all", at least within a "nation") did not. Markets have no morality: its an information technology that can facilitate trade in slaves, human organs, human labor or human personalities (=adtech), or nuclear and chemical (=CO2) waste. Who is the gatekeeper of the morality of what and how is produced and traded? Oligopolistic corporate interests corrupting puppet state entities? Entrenched autocracies with the organized private sector simply a puppet satellite constellation? We need to get to a better level of discourse before we hit terminal planetary and societal boundaries and that, my friends, is no bullshit job.
It's not an image problem, shopping there is a terrible experience. The stores are always a mess and the employees are unhelpful. There always seems to be long lines at the front end. They do have a good selection of products, but I avoid shopping there whenever I can because it's so unpleasant.
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> This narrative structure, repeated in various ways over the course of this collection, isn’t just frustrating from a literary point of view. The perspectives of these influential writers, like so many before them, are ultimately absorbed and parroted by influential policy makers, setting the terms of our political discourse.

If SF can't start holding people accountable and electing people with real solutions, no amount of meta-narrative structure analysis will save it. People need to get real about who exactly has been causing the problems, and it's not the stories or books that create reality.
Have you read his claim?

> Anthropologists are not qualified to... Anthropologists however are trained to... ... a bullshit job is defined as ...

I am not qualified to do X. However I am qualified to do Y. Ah! Y enables me to do X. So let me do X.

The first sentence there is a lie to massage the impact of the later ones. He literally defined what a "Bullshit Job" is, he wrote a book about it. The conceptual scheme of the entire book is his. He wrote the surveys; he defined the topic.

The idea that he is just a passive receiver of a coherent theory of jobs is false; and this is just a rhetorical gambit to disguise the fact that, no, he is the major architect of this idea and of the whole project.

And this becomes more blindingly obvious when other people attempt to repeat a survey asking whether their job is "bullshit" and find only 5% of people saying so.
JPEG 2000 is ancient. It is nearly as old as JPEG itself, it long since missed it's change to become relevant. Today it is a legacy format and should be mostly ignored. It has its own types of artefacts, which in some cases are even worse for image quality than those of JPEG.

JPEG has introduced multiple new formats since JPEG 2000, all of which are better, such as JPEG XR and JPEG XL.
I think it's worth pointing out the difference between "it didn't work" and "it could never work" though, the latter of which seems more like what people mean with BS jobs.

I know a fair number of people in consulting who have seen how the sausage is made, and they don't see how it's useful in any normal way. It's useful for certain parties in a firm, but it's not useful in a general sense of delivering what it says on the tin.
Download the Packet Tracer application from Cisco.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_Tracer

It won’t get you a CCNP it will really help you towards a CCNA.
This is an incorrect understanding of the 1776 compromise.

The original "compromise" is that each State gets at least 1 seat in the House, and equal representation in the Senate (2 seats). That is separate to the 3/5ths "compromise" related to the voting franchise.

The house of representatives was always supposed to grow with the population. This changed in 1929 due to an Act of Congress to limit the total to 435. Unsurprisingly, it was done because a Republican Congress would lose representatives otherwise. [1]

What has happened is that by artificially limiting the size of the House to 435 representatives, areas of greater population density are now under-represented.

In a rough approximation:

1. The House is supposed to represent the people

2. The Senate is supposed to represent the States

3. The POTUS is supposed to represent the nation to other nations.

Due to the now unrepresentative nature of the House, the people are under-represented in that balance.

The fix would be to expand the House membership, effectively by using the minimum size of a seat (eg the smallest State is guaranteed at least 1 seat in the House and seats cannot cross state lines).

That size could be used to determine the number of seats in total.

Based on that, the number of seats would be somewhere around (US population / Wyoming) = (328m/578k) = 567 seats.
> I liked and appreciated the changes but it always perplexed me why it took a story in the NYT to get them to come about.

Because no one likes seeing their dirty laundry aired in public, and reputational harm can make it harder to hire new and retain existing talent.
This is like asking, "What if there is no more database technology tomorrow morning, will your project survive?"

I am using blockchain just as a distributed, federated and tamperproof database. Nothing else.

You could ask "What if cryptocurrencies do not exists tomorrow?" That is a valid question. But that I don't think applies as easily to database technologies.
I started a new project in Python in late 2019. Coming from a C++/Java background I elected from the start to use type checking and data classes heavily.

The project has now scaled to multiple developers and many thousands of lines of code. If I compare my experiences this time around with past experiences in Python, I feel those early choices are paying big dividends in terms of code readability and correctness.

In particular:

The ergonomics of data classes is great (IMO). They avoid a lot of boiler plate, integrate well with type checking and auto completion, and provide clear context to anyone reading the code.

I’ve found Mypy a bit flaky (sometimes it misses errors it seemingly should catch) and some things that cannot be expressed in the type system to be pain points but overall having type annotations present and enforced helps document code, works well with IDE auto completion, and occasionally picks up errors that would have been otherwise missed.

In particular I’ve found it’s picked up a lot of errors around missing None checks (nullability). These seem to be particularly easy to miss in unit tests.

I’ve also found that PyCharm’s built in code code checking has often been able to pick up and highlight problems which it would have otherwise missed thanks to having type annotations. Having early feedback on problems is nice productivity boost.

One hint if you do use Mypy make sure to enable check-untuned-defs. You’ll get much better coverage.
"In his book, Mr Graeber relied heavily on surveys of British and Dutch workers that asked participants whether their job made a meaningful contribution to the world. This seems a high bar to clear"

It is not at all, in fact it's pretty basic. Every nurse, farmer, firefighter, garbage man etc. can answer "yes" in good conscience.

Asking whether the job is "useful" is pretty meaningless though, even utterly meaningless jobs are useful to someone.
...also, thanks!
Just because parts of a job are not as efficient as they might be, does not mean the job itself is “bullshit”.
Harvard School of Public Health has a guide for the general pubic:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/processed-foods...

Unprocessed or minimally processed foods

Unprocessed foods include the natural edible food parts of plants and animals. Minimally processed foods have been slightly altered for the main purpose of preservation but which does not substantially change the nutritional content of the food. Examples include cleaning and removing inedible or unwanted parts, grinding, refrigeration, pasteurization, fermentation, freezing, and vacuum-packaging. This allows the food to be stored for a greater amount of time and remain safe to eat. Many fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, meats, and milk fall into this category.

Processed culinary ingredients

Food ingredients derived from a minimally processed food by pressing, refining, grinding, or milling. They are typically not eaten on their own but used to prepare minimally processed foods. Examples include oils from plants, seeds, and nuts, or flour and pastas formed from whole grains.

Processed foods

Foods from either of the two previous groups that have added salt, sugar, or fats. Some canned fruits and vegetables, some cheeses, freshly made bread, and canned fish are examples. These foods usually are made from at least 2-3 ingredients and can be readily eaten without further preparation.

Ultra-processed foods

Also commonly referred to as “highly processed foods,” these are foods from the prior group that go beyond the incorporation of salt, sweeteners, or fat to include artificial colors and flavors and preservatives that promote shelf stability, preserve texture, and increase palatability. Several processing steps using multiple ingredients comprise the ultra-processed food. It is speculated that these foods are designed to specifically increase cravings so that people will overeat them and purchase more. They are typically ready-to-eat with minimal additional preparation. Not all but some of these foods tend to be low in fiber and nutrients. Examples are sugary drinks, cookies, some crackers, chips, and breakfast cereals, some frozen dinners, and luncheon meats. These foods may partially if not completely replace minimally processed foods in some people’s diets. One study using data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that ultra-processed foods comprised about 60% of total calories in the U.S. diet. [4] An association has been suggested between the increasing sales of ultra-processed foods and the rise in obesity. [3]

My rule of thumb is that "processed food" is the food cooked in one's kitchen, made from base ingredients with added salt, fat or sugar. "Ultra processed food" is the stuff that is not normally made in a kitchen, but in a factory.
I posted a link above to a paper that quoted some of the things that Bonzai Buddy said, and they were pretty creepy and pushy, but it didn't mention that he asked for credit card numbers or green pieces of paper, like Soupy Sales did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27403600

https://dis.ijs.si/Mezi/pedagosko/Abonzi.pdf

>This guy just keeps on telling you to order, order, order. “Don’t you want to send me to school, so I can learn 500 new jokes?” Fine, but at a cost of $19.95??? Voice recognition module: $15, 250 facts vol. 1 & 2: $10 each, entertainment center module to play multimedia content: $30, ... Bonzi is also supposed to tell stories. He does not. At least not unless you order another expansion pack. The entire package would cost about $150 to upgrade Bonzi totally. So much for Bonzi being freeware ...
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Ah yes, the JBIG2 fiasco!

JBIG2 is a format for storing black and white documents in a highly compressed way. It works by detecting each letter in the document, and then replacing it with a pointer to the reference version of that letter, up to a certain threshold. Basically compression via OCR.

Of course, this means that when a distorted letter is too close to the reference version of another letter, it will get replaced with a clean version of that incorrect one. So even though a human could easily recognize that something was off with that letter in the original image, the JBIG2-compressed image has no such clue!

What’s really bad is that JBIG2 compression was built into certain Xerox machines that were used by archivists to digitize important documents for years until someone noticed the discrepancies. JBIG2 was promptly banned for archival purposes, but there might still be a ton of documents with these kind of invisible errors in our archives! :-)
To be fair a lot of this is because Google can't execute properly.

Office 365 just destroys Google Docs, everything MSFT offer just integrated well, is priced well.

Chrome OS + Android + Docs could have been the productivity Windows PC killer if they'd executed it with vision.
At this stage that statement is not ideological battle but a cold rational observation, confirmed many times by events in 2020/2021.
I don't think the possibility of failure informs whether it's bullshit work. Someone might be assigned the task of writing a report that no one will ever read, and they still might fail to even submit the file.
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