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>The bills may change before they’re introduced, and they’ll inevitably go through a political process that will water them down. But even if only a portion of what’s written gets passed, the tech giants will lose several advantages they’ve exploited in recent years.

Yeah that is the rub.

It's like in 1998
"we're gonna break up Microsoft!"

2002: "ok Microsoft will agree to make some some changes to their business but otherwise whatever"

Big tech is going to get bigger. Congress does not want to risk destabilizing the economy and and losing reelection as a result by being too hard on tech. These companies employ a lot of people and generate a lot of econ value even if there are a lot of reasons to complain about their business practices.
It may be juvenile but I've always gotten a kick out of listening to my brother tell people that his address is reefer_sutherland@xyz.com
Well, your question assumes that bitcoin is using energy and anybody thinking differently must be ridiculed.

Bitcoin isn’t using any energy, bitcoin is a marketplace where security of financial asset is represented in terms of energy expenditure.
Even if the author assumptions are true and valid, this is like saying mirroring RAID is a safe backup option :)

it is not. if you have 10 DB hosts with the same brand of nvme, and they fail under a workload, what good is it that you have 10 hot-hot failover hosts? you just bought yourself a few days, or hours if you are specially unlucky and using consumer grade.
Last time I used it there was faff around having to define __GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0
> Do you really expect the consumer to try to track down some person via their address

Product manufacturers track these unauthorized sellers and do pretty deep investigations into who they are to stop counterfeit / unauthorized distribution.

Source: I worked on software that tracked pricing and unauthorized sellers for 4 years.
GP said:

> meaningful complexity

Not, "the most complex". If an OS that can lock down DARPA self-flying helicopter software is not meaningful enough for you....
I've come around and landed more on the opinion that we're now enabling our jailors.

Light tech regulation was exactly the correct approach in the 1990s (and arguably the 2000s). It enabled mind-boggling rapid and stunning innovation.

... However, the massive corporate fortunes built by the winners of those times are now primarily enabling rent seeking.

Google and Facebook's other work is interesting in the same way that Bell Labs was interesting -- great for a few, but funded by taxing everyone (albeit via tracking and ad market control in this instance).

And they've learned from their predecessors' demises that part of their winnings need to be continually re-invested in buying startups that might threaten their dominance.

IMHO, everyone will be better off if Facebook, Google, and Amazon are shattered into small enough independent pieces that (1) "get bought" is no longer the startup win condition & (2) they have peer level competitors in all markets in which they participate.

Apple and Microsoft? Mandate open app stores and devices, if an owning user so chooses.

Thinking back to the 90s... if anyone has guaranteed revenue streams out 10 and 20 years these days, the market as a whole isn't competitive enough. That should be enough time for the entire playing field to upend itself.

At least, it used to be.
Where this loses me is: 1) I don't think "it's inconvenient" (that is, it empowers tyranny) is a compelling argument for or against the truth of something, and 2) I don't see how this, in fact, affects the practice or existence of tyranny one way or the other. The reason I think it matters is because I think it's harmful when people get really hung up on some set of rights that they believe are proven from a hypothetical argument (as the "state of nature" argument is—often this ends up being heavily centered around individual property rights, as in Locke) and draw a hard line between those and any other liberties that others might like to admit to the ranks of "rights". I don't really think I'm more or less able to defend against tyranny if rights "exist" (huh?) in a "state of nature" that doesn't actually reflect anything like the apparent "natural" state of humanity, which seems to have been communal and societal since, quite likely, before we were H. Sapiens yet.

My practical objection is, in particular:

> More, it means slavery without the right to contest it unless that right is provided by the State, which of course it wouldn't be.

You can contest whatever you want, if you're able. The hypothetical "source" (huh?) of your rights doesn't matter. You can make a moral argument against slavery even if "state of nature" reasoning about rights were 100% for-sure convincing-to-everyone proven to be wrong. It's irrelevant. If someone's contesting slavery and you convince them that the "natural rights" conception is bunk, they can... still contest slavery. It doesn't matter a bit. It's a label to convey that we're very serious about something and think others should take it very seriously, too, and so far as that goes it's useful and important.
It's one of my absolute favorites. And don't forget, this predates the Macintosh.

Imagine where we could be today if this was our starting point in the 70s.
Good thing I'm using Windows 7 Pro.

Cheers
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I have experience in DIY genetic engineering (have run a DIY home genetic engineering lab for almost 10 years now https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/biohackers-gene-e... )

What you can do and what you can do are different things. Genetic engineering and biological manipulation go as deep as software, and tacit knowledge about execution is non-trivial to the point where you WILL mess up experiments (so expect to repeat a lot).

That said, you can still do some fun stuff. I would recommend trying to do something very small but actually novel. For example, if you've done a GFP transformation into E.coli, try to get the GFP transformation working in a new organism (maybe a yogurt bacteria). Keep it small though, and keep it single cellular, or else you are putting yourself into the pit of despair.

Also check out the Poly project (https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly). We're basically building (decent) open-source software for doing synthetic biology. Since you're a software developer, doing code reviews and reading our mega-comments (like https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly/blob/prime/transformat...) might help you understand some more of the fundamental engineering problems we synthetic biologists are encountering. Also, in code reviews, if you don't understand something, a practicing synthetic biologist will explain it to you so that we can improve our docs.
Amazon claims it doesn't have liability if those Twinkie's cause harm like the grocery store would.
I agree with your theory. I find the company I work at really interesting, I think it had the opportunity to have engineers as managers, but over time, more and more engineers decided not to become managers, and as that happened, more managers were hired from outside sources, which tended to be non-engineering managers (or managers who hadn't done actual software work for decades). I would not be surprised if this is a common issue.

Apple takes the approach of essentially forcing their best engineers to become managers.

[0] https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio...
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The YouTube channel 3blue1brown has a good "Essence of calculus" [1] and "Differential equations, a tourist's guide" [2] series that I enjoyed a lot as someone who took calc in college but hasn't used it since.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDNPOjrT6KVl...
From what I've heard about Salvador, investors who plan to mine cryptocurrencies in El Salvador should include an armed to the teeth private army in their projected expenses, or else their mining equipment would soon change owners.
I'd love to read a good article talking about how inventory acquisition and management works at divergent super market chains... I suspect a lot of the interesting details are considered trade secrets though.
If you can afford a one off 1 second of latency for your SQL queries, then using logical replication with pgbouncer seems way easier :

- setup logical replication between the old and the new server (limitations exist on what is replicated, read the docs)

- PAUSE the pgbouncer (virtual) database. Your app will hang, but not disconnect from pgbouncer

- Copy the sequences from the old to new server. Sequences are not replicated with logical replication

- RESUME the pgbouncer virtual database.

You're done. If everything is automated, your app will see a temporary increase of the SQL latency. But they will keep their TCP connections, so virtually no outage.
I predict that GitHub will be going down again or at least have a degraded service this month.
Lots of websites in India also offer payment via bank account, including amazon.in. The benefit from my POV was the same as you describe. I don't want random websites to have my credit card info and I don't want to deal with paypal.

Paying by bank account doesn't mean handing over bank account info. But the merchant just redirects to your bank as part of the payment flow. The bank knows how much money the merchant wants and you authorize it for that one transaction. Bank redirects back to the merchant who confirms the payment was successful.

They can't make any further charges at a later date.
> German is disliked by more countries than French hence French won.

French has also been a traditional common language or diplomacy and international relations. It's probably got more inertia going for it in those circles than German would.
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I'll be honest. I kinda lost track of windows, android, iOS versions at some point. And I think that's probably ok... I use it, it works, there ya go.

Most everything I do really isn't OS dependent.

I do fondly remember the days when OS upgrades was a huge change. I'll always fondly think of the Rolling Stone's "Start Me Up" and trying out OS/2 and various Linux flavors and so on. I used to spend HOURS customizing my OS. (I am amused to see my son do this with his phone).

But now my OS is really just "set dark theme" and roll on.

Productivity wise, that's probably good.
WOW now the key picker degree comes with a pharmaceutics commercial major in vaccines.
The 2x1 are coming to your neighborhood universities.
> I also find this interesting. I checked Wayback Machine to see if that date has changed and it was the same all the way back in Sept 2020.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/nx0jja/windows_1...
> Finally, inflation forces the middle class to invest instead of save, to stay afloat and build up a retirement nest egg. Investments typically must go through approved channels, e.g. "the stock market" which disproportionately favors the already wealthy, e.g. CEOs, investment managers, hedge funds.

If only there was some common investment vehicle, a 'shelter,' if you will, that could shelter you from inflation while simultaneously sheltering you from the elements?
> Right to fix also doesn't cover warranties, as you will loose your warranty when doing it yourself.

The Magnussen-Moss warranty act of 1975 states (IANAL) that a repair cannot void the warranty unless the manufacturer can prove that your repair caused the damage in question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
Amazon doesn't want to be liable for ANYTHING, they just want to sell stuff and make money any way they can.

The business/GOP view of the world is that responsibility is for individuals not corporations. Freeing corporations so they can do whatever they want without fear.
Nor free. The download button says a 2-week trial is included.

Which is okay, but licensing is enough of a hassle when restic etc. exist that I'm not going to bother with that for my systems. A design goal of restic (sorry I'm just familiar with that one, not affiliated with it) is also recoverability: if your repository gets horribly corrupted or you can't run the software easily anymore then the author wanted to be able to recover things still. One of the early talks (at a local CCC) explains how to decrypt things manually in a few minutes -- obviously he knows what he's doing and will be faster than me, but still. Having closed source software as an alternative to that... I dunno.
> Mindless browsing is like a walk through the woods, just looking for what is happening, navigating a huge amount of information that is hardly important at the moment – oh, the cherry tree is blooming – but could be important later.

Your instinct points to the right direction; mild distraction is actually conducive to insight generation. But we have co-evolved with outside and can have a very intuitive grasp on the hierarchy of information; to dynamically tell apart what is noise what is signal in any moment. In contrast, apps are engineered by an army of experts to hijack those intuitions as a side-channel attack on our attentional heuristics. Browsing becomes mindless because we are oversaturated in our attentional system through the every trick available to keep us engaged and click on ads. E.g. red notification buttons vs. ripe fruit.
Glad you like it! The attendee experience can be seen in all those block images we have throughout landing page. It is a little confusing since I imagine you were expecting another video.
So you've never heard of competitive addressing, then.

Instead of PO BOX 1234, Anytown, ST USA you use Street Address of Post Office, Unit # PO BOX Number, Anytown ST USA.

In addition to giving you a "real" street address, it works for any services unable to otherwise deliver to a PO BOX like UPS, Fedex or DHL, because as long as they deliver during business hours, the post office will sign for your package.

I use this to great effect as package theft is so rampant in my area. It does add a one day delay since the package is signed for by my post office and not delivered into my po box until the next day. And I've had to call and complain to Amazon a few times until they stopped trying to use their vans to deliver to that address. The drivers rarely read the instructions that say "You must deliver during business hours as this is a post office." When Amazon actually ships via USPS to my po box I get the packages same day as delivery so it's the best of all scenarios. Really I don't know why people have a such hate on for the post office. I love it.

https://postalpro.usps.com/mailing/competitivepoboxes

But yeah most likely a process server will leave the post office frustrated. I'm not sure if that's a bug or a feature. :-)
I met one of the thalidomide babies once, he was a PI for a research project I worked on. He was a relatively tall man, and had tiny arms that would have looked fine on a 2 year old.

Stopping stuff like that seems like a reasonable thing for the FDA to do, even at the cost of it taking longer to approve drugs.
I don’t expect consumers to track down fake Ball lids and Apple chargers. I expect Ball and Apple to do that.
Running my .NET nanoFramework for 8 years on a battery
Hey, I have this really bad. Around 7-8pm I feel like I want someone to pull on my legs hard and they get an antsy feeling where I cannot keep them still. When I then go to bed, my legs kick and jerk , my wife has complained about me actually kicking her in the shins and drawing blood from my toenails.

I have heard of medication, such as Dopamine agonists, but got concerned they might have other side effects.

May I ask what your Dr has prescribed to you>?
If you're curious, The Secret Life of Groceries is a good (and interesting) read.

One tl; dr thing is that the supermarkets are a _supplier_ to both end customers and those with products to sell. They supply shelf space and customer reach, in the very literal sense that companies bid for things like endcap placement (the end of the aisle being better than being in the aisle, since everyone making an orbit through, say, the deli section will pass your goods).
Well, no company has any incentive to do this until they start having hiring problems due to their strategy over in HR.

And as far as I can tell, Stripe has an endless amount of candidates lining up to get in. So, they’re unlikely to ever implement this. Same with basically any company that is out there.
You think that centralizing the global economy around a metal that has limited intrinsic value, limited supply, relatively high density, random allocation below out earth’s surface, and extremely high storage costs is a good thing for poor people?
What could be the benefit of dragging OO into this?
Yep. Mirroring happily mirrors mistakes very well, and very quickly.
Funnily enough, some politicians care about their jobs.
It's not even remotely close. FAANG total revenue is $275 billion [1].

National health expenditures are $3.8 trillion [2].

You'd have to tax FAANG on revenue at a rate of over 1000% for this to be true.

1. https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/tr...

2. https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
Stores are constrained by the limits of physical space, it's exactly the same thing as an Amazon "first page" except at least with Amazon you have the option to visit the second page. In a physical store anything that would have been relegated to the second page is simply unavailable.
Seems like they set a high market cap to carve out head room for Walmart.
You probably have a good firewall, don't you?
Worse than that. A drain on public resources for something that does not work. This drug is very expensive.
As a life long Linux fan I hold the position that the reason they started moving to Linux is all the MS engineers realized how much easier it was to use Linux when MS first started rolling out Azure and that's why they put in WSL.

My hope is the new Windows is now just the Linux kernel that runs an emulator for windows.

EDIT: For clarification this is mostly meant humorously, but there is some hope there. Because dream big right.
Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be the last Windows version ever? As in it was going to be evergreen? Did I imagine that?

Edit: Yeah I didn't imagine it

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
Stephen Wolfram says yes.
there is an analogous experience at physical stores, though. the proximity of items to entryways, cashiers, etc matters for sales. also, which height shelf a product is put on also matters. some at eye level, for example, and others at children's eye level, make certain products more prominent. if you are trying to place a product at a store, how much it would cost you depends greatly on where in the store it is placed.
Sadly, support is starting to slip in major applications. For example you can't install Python 3.9 on Windows 7.
So how many nurses need an iPhone to exempt Apple? Or would something like a COVID tracking app make it a digital electronic product found in a medical setting?
Windows definitely needs improving. I tried the Gnome 40 desktop recently and it's much more polished, consistent and refined.
Is it just me or does it feel like they've been more tightly lipped about Windows 11 than they have about previous upcoming Windows releases?
If you want to opine on a country at least learn its name: "El Salvador".
The other consensus algorithms all follow the same consolidation logic of capitalism. Specifically, power consolidates year after year similar to banks, media companies, communication companies, etc. It looks to me like the PoS systems algorithmically codify this logic, and since the consolidation exists digitally, I would have a hard time coming up with a plan to break up the PoS oligopolies. The reason why the digital consolidation hurts people in the PoS system comes form the fact that consolidation of money in PoS directly relates to consolidation of actual voting power in those systems.

PoW on the other hand will lead to consolidation around inexpensive energy: volcanoes in El Salvador, hydro in some northern countries, solar somewhere else, etc. However, those places will have some abstract voting power in the Bitcoin world, but exchanges, people, node operators, and businesses also have abstract voting power to balance against the cheap energy locations.

I should mention that the upside of all of this is that we can now choose the option to have accessible digital banking around the world, and people who print money will have less of an impact on world affairs.
Or perhaps a concentrated effort by the donors to neuter the agency that is "in the way", no? This whole "the rotten government is so bloated and ineffectual" song is getting a little old.

Hmm, why doesn't the IRS have the manpower to audit the top 1% anymore? It's the weirdest thing.
Borg does have a GUI: https://vorta.borgbase.com/

Although it's subjective if you find it nice or not.
Those same people did not have large rainy-day funds pre-1970's either. Poor people have always spent most of their money.
I think you're thinking of the Edge browser
I don't believe this is true in all cases. Maybe for some products, but at least other commenters here are confirming that some manufacturers refund the grocer for any unsold product. (So, Safeway only pays for the inventory that gets sold.) Seems risk-free for grocers on the products they have those sorts of deals with.
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> There is little doubt that the system will be called Windows 11, but it may still not be so.

For some reason my gut says it won't be called Windows 11. I have a feeling it will be called something confusing or unappealing. Love MS products but they always fell short with branding.
My intuition is the opposite of what you're saying. Inflation devalues debt and savings while increasing the nominal value of wages. The guy with hundreds of thousands in savings and bonds loses from inflation; the guy with $80,000 left on his mortgage working as a senior sales associate at Home Depot benefits from it. How does this siphon money from the people to the benefit of rich elites?
Thanks for the reminder. Yeah I definitely called that out in my comment. But my point still stands a lot of this comment thread has a, charitably put it, strongly male point of view.
I'm a fairly pro-Apple guy, love my Apple products. Had an Android user try and argue with me "so much for Apple security". Taking a pragmatic approach to this, it's hard to blame Apple for following the gag order / law, albeit corrupt law. They apparently only gave up meta data. It would be interesting to know exactly what they got or didn't (the DOJ).
I live over on the East Coast. I'd say that I look average, but its also about the profile and how you sell yourself.

(This is pure speculation based on my experiences) Out here I've noticed that Tinder and Bumble are just terrible to use, Hinge though seems to be the sweet spot. The problem I see with Tinder and Hinge is with the swiping, it turns it into a game of sorts where you're playing whose post attractive based on the number of points (matches) you get. With how Hinge is setup, I get fewer matches, but of those matches, I end up going on first dates much more often.

I also found that it's about playing the algorithm a bit and making sure your profile is setup right, think of it in terms conversion rate (from being in the "This person liked you" section to matching with someone). Before I started having success I went through probably 10+ iterations and tweaks to my profile to see what worked and what didn't. I also found that sometimes the algorithm just said F you and pushed me down to the bottom of the stack. In that case delete your profile and recreate it, I've had to do this once.