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Robinhood implemented restrictions before any other platform though they were not the only ones to do so, held restrictions longer than any of their competitors, used restrictions (sell only) in a way that was unique to Robinhood and falsely made public claims (later to be retracted) that they had chosen to do some or all of this "for the public good."

I would not trust them with a single dollar.
Foxconn indirectly acquired a foundry in Malaysia after being outbid by China
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> administrative process and formalism is just a stratagem to make people feel like they have a say when they really don't. Almost everyone falls for it.

Democracy in a nutshell.
There was also an interesting 2019 event possibly involving Ebola but is still being kept under wraps for national security reasons.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...
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> The average C++ code base has as many segfaults than the average C code base.

any source for that ? I find segfaults utterly rare in C++ >= 11
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See how it goes to get infected with the virus? It didn't pass any clinical trial.
I'm not so sure: now that I'm 40 and have 3 kids I really love WFH. It saves a commute and lets me balance my life/work effectively.

However 21/22 year old me would have hated this! Working from an office was so much fun back then. Plus you'd meet girls at lunch and stuff. Fantastic time. Lots of work, lots of learning the soft skills and lots of laughing around and enjoying myself.

I hope that 24/7 WFH doesn't become a thing, but that we get a mix. Flexibility from both sides, whenever possible.
> In particular, Buffett prefers to reinvest profits in the companies he controls in order to improve their efficiency, expand their reach, create new products and services, and improve existing ones.

> In one of his famous letters to shareholders, Buffett said that perhaps Berkshire Hathaway might institute a dividend 10 or 20 years down the road. This was in 2018 when Buffett was 88.

This article just reiterates exactly what I said. Berkshire can do better than just giving money back to shareholder by investing the money in itself. The reason shareholders are ok with this is because the growth fuels the potential for larger future dividends. Even if the company grows until the heat death of the universe, the logic behind increasing the valuation of the company is that the ability of a company to give dividends has theoretically increased. You don't need to bet on actually receiving them. But the stock has value because if the company stops growing, the company will pay out instead.

If it were all about size, then a shrinking company would have negative value. This is obviously incorrect.
Could any experiment like this ever measure how the dark energy driven expansion of the universe affects gravitationally bound systems?

Of course I understand it's beyond any reasonable measurement capability --masses should be infinitesimal and the system be isolated from any other interactions, the question is about if it's theoretically possible. Like, "it's impossible because masses should be below the Planck mass"
Any demo that makes me sign up with an email is an instant no for me.
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All of those operating systems kernels were written in C (and ASM) not C++.
This has more to do with worldwide propaganda and less to do with changes in the US in particular, and with regard to changes, it probably has a lot more to do with post 9/11 military activity and demographic changes in ally countries than any one particular president or leadership. Also keep in mind their national pride and the propensity for Canadians and Europeans to shit on America as often as they can, which they have been doing for a century or longer.

The US has a lot of problems and has had a lot of problems for a long time. The country might not be capable of overcoming some of them, and that also might not be something new. But, going by the strict definition of democracy, it has never been a good model for democracy, by design. The US is a dictatorship of laws, a dictatorship where the dictators are dead. Maybe it was a good champion of liberty for a long time and faltering more brazenly in that role as of the last couple of decades, but that's not the same thing as being a model for democracy.
> Most 7-year olds can barely conceptualize fractions.

I've found the most extraordinary thing with my kids. If I ask them what is a third of 12, they'll scratch their heads. But if I ask them how they would divide 12 bits of chocolate between them and me, they'll give me an answer immediately.

It even works when there is a remainder.

Just teach fractions and division with chocolate.
> In the Rust example I can access static ref BUF from fn main() function, for example.

Only because in that simple example, BUF was defined directly in the main module.

In a more realistic exemple, BUF and tmpstr would belong to their own module, with only tmpstr being exported (and then accessible). See: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Although Persians are on the edge of the Roman Empire, so I don't think this is related to this discussion too much, it depends on what you consider "white". When I google "iranians" and go to images, I see people that, if I must classify them into a "race", I can most closely classify them as white(ish).

Here's an interesting (USA) article that illustrates this issue: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-census-middle-east-no...

Are people from Teheran, for example, "white, black, Asian, American Indian, or Native Hawaiian" (copy-pasted the choices from the article)? In my opinion, American obsession with race is silly.
Yes, many companies did that. In our company, we were allowed to take any device/desk to home.

In Switzerland, Gov asked companies to pay % of rent. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/court-decision_companies-must-p...

The only exception was Germany. There is ongoing discussion that Remote workers should pay a (*5% tax*) for having flexibility/option to work from home.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/deutsche-bank-proposes-a-5pe...
You must have missed the 420 memos where clearly bizarre fuckery around "meme stocks" was supported by Robinhood suspending trading of them, resulting in a mass migration from RH to Fidelity and others.

You probably shouldn't talk condescendingly about things you clearly are so behind on.
Or option A + B: Invest in more geothermal - they already have a lot -, and use bitcoin mining when demand is low to help offset the cost. If mining makes it cost-effective to increase sources like geothermal past the point where it covers the base load so it reduces the need for peaker plants, that might be worthwhile (though of course the other option is to invest in storage)

But the potential geothermal output for El Salvador is huge.
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> They will literally have more money in their pockets.

That's a big if. Bitcoin transfer fees might be cheaper, but you need to add the cost of converting dollars to bitcoin, plus the volatility of the coin, plus any fees from intermediaries and Lightning nodes.

> Good things happen when people have more money in their pockets

High amount of remittances are not a cause, but a symptom of underlying problems. Would you be as cavalier about the effects of this on ES economy if it was, say, Western Union saying they'd reduce 10% their transfer fees?

It's always the same thing with Bitcoin, apparently it's such a great technology that it can change anything despite the fact that the only "new" thing it can do is to be decentralized. Somehow the argument always ends up being that decreased transfer fees will revolutionize everything (despite the fact that transfer fees might not be lower, and that we've had continuously decreasing transfer fees for years and yet that didn't seem to bring any revolution).
The problem is: we're not a 'model' of a republic. We've set aside many of those values in favor of a different and incompatible set, some democratic and many authoritarian.

We have professional police, slavery dressed up as prisons, fiat currency, income taxes, a standing army, no meaningful access to trial by jury for most people in most situations, closed borders, rampant eminent domain to build freeways... it's hard to recognize this state as any serious resemblance to a properly functioning republic.

But I think your overall point, and suggestions, are basically sound and, hopefully, the kind of direction we'll take increasingly seriously as our current state falters.
Huh? The poll shows that 17% of people think that it is a good model for democracy in recent years, but Biden's confidence among those people is 75%.
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Different thing. "I told you so" is a smug, nasty statement. It wins no friends, and closes the ears of those most in need of it.

A postmortem is a clinical, reasoned, and scientific review. Everyone is on board, and agrees to abide by the results.

I worked for a Japanese company, for a long time. I made some colossal mistakes, during my tenure, and was told "That was, indeed, a mistake. We expect you to mitigate it, and not repeat it." Often, I would actually get more trust and responsibility, afterwards.
Is this annoying? Do you still want it if there's nothing in it you want to engage with?

Or are you saying you want to read it, but take no related actions on it?

I would absolutely love to be automatically unsubscribed from everything I don't engage with.

I get tons of kinda-sorta-legit marketing emails due to a very old generic gmail address, and people being bad (or lazy) at entering addresses everywhere.

(Also tons of actual email meant for other people, but that's another story)
Agreed, all the horror stories I’ve heard have been from sellers, not buyers. What am I missing?
This sounds a bit like it could be the prodromal phase in psychosis. I would take this seriously.
The US Senate pre-17A was more akin to the EU upper house, the Council of the EU.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01402382.2016.11...

Same with Germany’s upper house, the Bundesrat, today.
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Ex-Amazon here. The joke hits too close to be funny. Plenty of people would also do on-call or other work from home in the evenings or early mornings.
Third member of U.S. FDA advisory panel resigns over Alzheimer’s drug approval
They published it waay too early. The quality is abysmal.
I hope this isn't intel trying to take away momentum from RISC-V by buying a big player and having them work on something else.

I hope this marks a change in course for intel into other non-x86 architectures.
>Folks pass the bar

So give up the hazing. We all know the job's not that hard.
I wonder about this - some have felt this under President $FOO but $FOO still had to concede to a loss or term limits. I feel like actual change of power is important, and the US still has this while a lot of the world is losing it
No - I’ve never been able to nap.
Ed Snowden warned us about long-lasting surveillance in March 2020[1].

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2020/04/08/watch-are-we-vesting-too...
> republic implies strong federalism and democratic does not

This is, in essence, a substantial portion of what is asserted in The Federalist Papers, an 85-part series of letters and treatises written and distributed in 1788 by three proponents of adoption of the US Constitution.
> For example, in software development, "keep it simple" often directly conflicts with "dont repeat yourself" as it takes increased complexity to achieve reuse of code.

KISS and DRY are different paradigms, i.e. come from different schools of programming.
The senate is rather like the House of Lords 200 years ago. Many countries have pseudo-democratic or undemocratic upper houses, but they’ve generally been neutered to some extent over time. The US hasn’t done this (no Parliament act, say).
I’d say the problem is more in the two party system. If you think about all the opinions one can have about how a country should be run, it’s plain weird to only have two choices.
Hm. What do you think of the taxes on top of the costs for fuel/gas, then? And how they relate to the 'peanuts' for some metro?
Thankfully, no ransom. That fire doesn't need more fuel.
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Yeah, it's pretty baffling. Some screenshots of the product in action would go a long way. It doesn't help that the content keeps appearing and disappearing when I scroll the page, and sometimes stays disappeared until I scroll all the way up and then slowly down. It's an infuriating page to try to read, I don't understand what's wrong with just having a page of content that the user can scroll through. Why does this have to mess with the scroll behaviour and hide content when people are trying to read it?
On a purely systemic note, the first-past-the-post US voting system would benefit immensely from ranked voting, which in most forms makes it impossible to waste your vote if you choose a minor candidate.

As an Australian, I also think mandatory voting would fix other problems with the US electoral system, like perceived voter fraud (since most of the population votes, to cast a vote as someone else is harder and more easily detected), access to polling places (since it's a more obvious and immediate injustice to fine someone for not voting at a polling place with a three hour line than to merely deny them a vote), and the election of presidents who didn't have anything close to a majority of the population voting for them. Mandatory voting is much more controversial than ranked voting when I bring it up with Americans, though, and a less important fix.
For what is worth, I have chronic sleep issues (not quite insomnia) and exercise helps, caffeine makes little difference and attempting to follow sleep hygiene worsens my quality of life too much.
You were using C++ >= 11 in 90s/00s?
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> I have to agree. The US is a two party system, ...

I agree with the first part of your analysis, but the rest seems a bit off.

Firstly, the fact that the US is effectively a two party system comes from the fact that your electoral systems is based on district representatives. This winner-takes-all approach will by nature lead to a two-party system, same as it has in the UK.

Secondly, you do not have to assume dark motives ("... badly wants to become an autocracy...") to arrive at extremism within the parties: This is a natural result of gerrymandering and segregation, where safe districts leads to candidates that pander to there single-party base only.

Compare this with most of continental Europe, where you have proportional representation. Here multi-party systems prevail, and as you indicate in the start of your analysis, this does indeed appear to lead to a "better" democracy in the sense that it can handle multi-dimensional shifts in voter attitude much better than entrenched two-party systems.
In my experience working in an insurance claims department, we overlooked a lot of fraud, intentionally. Usually, only the large, extremely obvious cases with plenty of evidence were pursued. I believe a lot of the soft fraud involving slightly inflated claims went undetected.

Part of this is because you have to pay the salaries of the investigators, so there is a cost of detection. It's not worth recovering an amount that is less than the cost of an investigation. Secondly, a company will lose customers if it has a reputation for having too many false positives or a default stance of mistrust of their policyholders.
Okay but that's not what they're saying, is it? If that was the plan, surely there would be a mention of said plan while they're announcing plans. Would be a bit weird to only announce "we're gonna turn heat into heat+money" but not "and also reduce our climate impact whenever possible".
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What has Google done that is so great or dangerous with GPT-3?

Its like having access to an infinite army of 15 year olds who can read and write pretty decently but have no clue how ignorant they are. But but its infinite. So what? Take a bunch of ignorant 15 year olds and get some actual work done in the real world and keep tabs on how much energy it takes.

People are full of shit when it comes to threat perception these days. Default position is anything and everything new and not understood is a threat. Sort of like watching chimps in a tree jabbering about shadows.

As for this notion of catastrophic disinformation. It doesn't matter how much disinformation or propaganda one chimp does if the entire chimp troupe is also busy pumping out disinformation and propaganda. It all cancels each other out - https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3061712
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Yes. It's so much better if you disable their JS completely, you can do that with umatrix.
> Uh what's the next adjective after "extreme"?

Yeah, seriously. What's my 6 AM to 2 PM schedule? Extremer?
Oh right, Gatsby.
You have taken a completely different 2 key lessons from agile than I would have picked.

I think mine are closer to the agile manifesto, but perhaps yours are closer to how agile is actually practiced in most places.

Problem 1: you want to ensure that you build the right thing.

Solution 1: you should get feedback from end users as frequently as possible.

Problem 2: you want to be using work processes that are appropriate for your team and task.

Solution 2: teams should be able to modify their own work processes.
My vote is that these aren't bursts, so much as constant directional radiation that we infrequently intersect.
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Often I read it but take not actions. Or just look up related things without following links.

Good newsletters often have lots of valuable content in the email. Sometimes there are interesting links, sometimes there aren't. If I don't want it anymore I'll unsubscribe.

It feels a lot like why we can't have nice things. If people just hit "Spam" instead of unsubscribing than this overly-cautious defense of senders becomes necessary. Luckily GMail at least has started pushing the unsubscribe feature somewhat, so maybe that will help out. But for now I am being punished because a lot of people mark things that they asked for as spam.
I chose the Netherlands for a variety of reasons, but I guess ultimately it is a question of what values you think are best suited to create a functional society. For me, a life that was less centered on car travel and had a political system that was more robust to new problems is what I wanted the most.
I thought Gmail routed images through their servers to avoid pixel tracking?
Reminds me of the "zero one infinity rule"[0] rule for programming. Roughly stated it says that software should be designed around 3 cases: 0/no instance of a situation, 1/single instance, or an infinite/limitless instances.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule
That’s my biggest issue with “sharing” economy companies. They are asking people to take on enormous risks -buying homes and cars - and then just algorithmically delist them when a problem occurs with no liability.
I'm a fan of ranked choice voting, but I feel the need to add that the de facto 2 party system in the US functions similarly to political bloc majority government formation in European democracies. The difference is the US names the coalitions rather than the individual parties themselves. If you look at either US party you see very different voting trends on platform between different regions, you see sub parties (like justice Democrats or tea party) and a constant shift in platform to keep these groups appeased, very similar in effect to the process of compromise by which majority governments are formed in European democracies. IMO this is a symptom of majority rule and will occur regardless whether you name the parties or name the coalitions. What you wind up with is 2 blocs made up of diverse interests with enough overlapping or converging interest forming through negotiation.
I wanted to reply "Aha! You must be from ..." — and stopped, realizing how wide the choice is :(
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This seems to be a prime case of being misled that anything under 8 hours is bad. If you have no issues, 6.5 hours is a perfect amount with similar health outcomes to 8 hours across meta-analyses and all the Pop sleep science telling you that you need more is just adding needless sleep anxiety to your life in this case.
> What makes you say sheep dogs like to herd?

Because they do. That's what they were bred for. This has nothing to do with human race analogies. Dog breeds influence behavioral traits heavily. I'm not convinced you know anything about dogs.
>Regardless of whether NSCC acted independently or under secret pressure from Citadel, what could Robinhood have done differently? If they didn't have the billions in the bank to control their destiny, what other options do they have? If the clearing house cuts off Robinhood's trade settlement, what are the realistic alternatives?

What is integrity?
> Anyone with chronic insomnia can tell you none of that really works.

True, but that is a self-fulfilling definition. For most people, that advice will work. For the minority for whom it does not work, they have chronic insomnia. It does not invalidate the advice, it just means that some people are out of the norm and need something else.

That being said, I agree with you. We all would be healthier if we'd just sleep when tired, eat when hungry. But that isn't how our society rolls.
What are you asking actually? We are questioning their “whiteness” from modern perspective of course. But I wonder something else. Why didn’t you attack the original author with that question? It’s the same. Or it works only in one way - when white people are attacked. White lives matter is racist, but Black lives matter is fair game. Someone saying the ridiculous lie that Roman nobility was racially diverse is ok, but pointing out this as a lie is met with “what white means actually”. And, of course, downvotes for everything. Because democracy works for the most vocal. What does it mean black actually? Why only their lives matter? Why they need special treatment, if there is no definition of White/Black?
"Flexible location" also opens up a bunch of potential tax issues if people are spending a lot of time working from another state or another country. (Surprisingly, the former can be a bigger issue than the latter assuming visa limits are being observed.)
One positive effect of morning exercise may sinply lie in the associated tendency towards increased exposure to natural (i.e. more intense) light in the morning hours [I don't have a quote at hand, but Prof. Andrew Huberman speaks about the effects of calibrating one's circadian rhythm by morning light exposure in his YouTube podcast.]
Hm. If exam is not measuring competence adequately, the exams validity is lacking, ergo, exam should be redesigned for better validity. Open-book exams with good validity exist, as do tests allowing scientific calculators and formula sheets. Admittedly, that is harder, but... what is "cheating" in the age of information anyway?
I'd rather be the guy that sells the mops. These people won't respect you until you take their money.