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Somehow all I can think of here is Business Secrets of the Pharoahs, from the comedy Peep Show, which begins:

> The first thing to note when discussing the business secrets of the Pharaohs is an acknowledgement that their era was so completely different from our own that almost all cultural, political and, particularly, business parallels we draw between the two eras are bound, by their very nature, to be wrong.

> So then, as the critics and the nay sayers and the tall-poppy-chopper-downers ask with their probing questions and their knowing sneers and unfriendly voices: "Why use the Pharaohs as the basis for a business manual?"

> "Well," I would answer, "I think any 'business' that lasted for more than three thousand years, as did that of ancient Egypt, is probably worth studying!" (Even if in a strict, or indeed even vague sense, it wasn't really a business at all but a civilization, with no comparable notion of "business".)
If you want to go to an event, and don't have anyone interested to go with you. Don't miss out on the opportunity that you're interested in. It's perhaps something that people need to learn when they grow up, but you can have a great time just going by yourself.
Take yourself out on a date if no one else is going to ;)
We provide an open search route API :

https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}

You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:

<Url type="text/html" template="https://alternative-a.com/en/search">
<Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
<!-- other Params if you need them… -->
<Param name="view" value="list"/>
<Param name="sort" value='["reduction","DESC"]'/>
</Url>

Can you precise, why would you scrape Alternative?
Your answer will help us define the next priorities.
I don't agree with any of the posters in this thread advocating that India become a Hindu state.

But your viewpoint is also troubling for me. Do you not think there is an undercurrent of theocracy in Islam? Do you think that there is nothing wrong with the countries in that list? India is still far more diverse, liberal, accepting than any of those countries. You can't simultaneously think that India is horrible for minorities but these muslim majority countries are not.
I’d bet storing excess energy for a rainy day is cheaper than storing nuclear waste for many lifetimes.
It was previously handled via (Chrome-only) extension apis [1].

But that is deprecated in favor of regular web apps having access via a regular browser API. There is potential for it to become a web standard, if other browsers go along. It’s too early to tell.

Extensions are less secure. As we’ve seen they have too many permissions and ownership can be transferred. They were also inherently Chrome-only, though there seem to be some efforts to standardize api’s these days.

But if this new api goes through, it opens an interesting security... situation where the ownership of a web app gets transferred and it automatically updates, so now opening a file does something else.

This is true of automatic updates in general. Automatic updates are the cause of and solution to many problems.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/fileS...
Everyone is dragnetting. GDPR means nothing when it's government sanctioned collection. Germany for example has a known history of data center black boxes.
> Surveys show anywhere from 25% to upwards of 40% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs.

This number is meaningless without previous year trends. In my circles, everyone from 25-35 is simultaneously preparing to FIRE and no-one that's 35+ has actually changed jobs despite being 'financially independent'. Expressing intent to resign, and actually resigning are completely different things. (edit: to clarify, I mean changing jobs specifically in the context of making inroads toward the retire early portion of their goal. Changing jobs to increase compensation is as strong as ever)

Real Translation: Covid has made people miserable in their jobs. The only way people can keep going is idle fantasies about a nondescript future date where this suffering ends.

> Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths

IMO, over the last year, people have only dived deeper into their delusions and relative sense of privilege. Suddenly, having good health insurance, WFH 'flexibility' and a stable jobs are now being viewed as things to be grateful about rather than the norm for well educated and employable adults.

> "Hopefully we’ll see a lot more people in 2022 employed and stable because they're in jobs they actually like," she says.

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I am not an activist, and this is not a manifesto. I don't understand why you brought that up.

Anyways:

The fact that most modern countries have police is not evidence that police departments are necessary.

In addition, the article is about the American police, which are notorious for their history of racial profiling, cover-ups, and numbers of civilian shooting deaths every year. Does most modern countries having police mean this is justified behavior?

If you could, please provide a link to a survey or study indicating that people who live in "high-crime" areas want more police.

And even if they did, that doesn't change the reason for the widespread backlash against police in the United States. It's not simply people "demonizing" a profession (which again, people choose to work in).
In college I worked at two labs that did experiments with high magnetic fields. The first lab was very cool because the setup there used a 50-90 Tesla range and home made magnets along with a bank of capacitors they size of about six water coolers to pulse the magnets. The magnets themselves would melt pretty quickly but not before producing some spectacular results. The samples was cooled using a Helium-3 closed loop system that brought the temperature down to something like 0.4 K. The professor told me that if he put the magnet down with the axis in the vertical direction and pulsed it with an iron nail standing under the magnet that the nail would reach escape velocity and never come back down to earth. I don’t know if he ever actually attempted that experiment but IIRC the math checked out.

The second lab where I worked used regular Helium (4 K temps) and only 5 T magnets to perform slow NMR measurements. We had a partnership with the chemistry department and the overall goal of the project was to grow a crystal that was able to become opaque or transparent by using a magnetic field at room temperatures. The idea was that with a crystal like that you could do signal switching for fiber optic networks without having to convert the signal from optical to electric and back, thus greatly increasing network speeds. The effort at the time was 50 years in the making and no solution was discovered yet but it was fun to grow my own crystals and see how they responded to sweeps of the magnetic field, movement in a constant field, and temperature changes. I also got to learn Origin C, a peculiar variant of C used by a statistical package the lab employed, played with a lot of liquid Nitrogen (great for cleaning dusty floors!), programmed a crystal growing box/PID controller, and even though I was only an undergrad, because it was a small department and lab I got to write a thesis and both the physics and chemistry departments gathered to see me present it (I was the only physics grad in my year despite a dozen the year before and after). The crux of the thesis was a new term we called “spin freezing”.

But the best part of the whole thing was when I was picking out the labs. Every professor had a pitch for why his research was the most exciting but the lab I spent the most time with told me “when I was your age I also went shopping for labs like you are and one of the professors told me he was studying quantum magnetism. So I thought to myself ‘that sounds like something that could impress girls at bars’ so I went to work there.” That reasoning made a lot of sense to me so I signed up for his lab right there and then.
>In a long statement last week, Mr. Buffett defended himself by pointing to his long advocacy for a fairer taxation system, and then he immediately told on himself by undermining the very idea of taxes in the same letter. “I believe the money will be of more use to society if disbursed philanthropically than if it is used to slightly reduce an ever-increasing U.S. debt.”

>In other words: I believe in higher income taxes on people like me, but I’m highly organized to avoid having income to report, and I don’t really believe in taxes because I think I should decide how these surplus resources are spent.

I really don't like this slant. If somebody truly believes in taxes, they would pay taxes they don't need to pay? Nonsense. It assumes so much and paints charitable contributions as... malicious? Or at least it implicitly assumes that Buffett's billions aren't deserved (in whatever sense the author thinks it means to deserve something), and should be assumed to be the property of the public.

Buffett's signed the Giving Pledge, and has given tremendous billions to charity, with many more billions to come. The charitable causes he supports aim to solve real problems that governments are often poorly suited to solve. Having a policy preference of a higher tax rate while minimizing the taxes you pay is not hypocrisy for either billionaires or middle class Joes.

Seems to me that throwing Buffett under the bus is equivalent to saying... "we don't care if you try to help the world. If you're a billionaire, you're evil." If that sort of opinion becomes popular, good luck getting billionaires to give to charity when they're just gonna get yelled at for it.
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Regarding your second point, I think it's good to know what interests you, but there's a lot of quality ideas out there that don't have hard tech components, and if they invent hard tech problems to keep their engineers interested, they're probably not going to last very long.

IMHO, the "all JavaScript tech stack, connected together by a cloud provider via tooling" pattern is probably among the faster ways to get an idea from inside someone's head and in front of customers, all of the longer term problems aside.

To me personally, the "challenge" comes from being able to do all of that quickly and seamlessly, basically solid execution becomes the fun part.

Oh, also I would love to make a bunch of money relatively quickly. :)
Having worked in everything from backend systems for sleepy banks to hedge funds to the hottest pre-IPO valley darlings, anecdotally you are dead wrong.

If there is any correlation at all it’s that the venture backed startups have a lower than average skill level.
he spends his time drinking and doing drugs, indulging in prostitutes, and splashing money around
It happened both with FTDI and PL2303 chips. FTDI bricked the clones, Prolific just made it hell to use them.
why do you even need AC in areas with moderate temperature? I get people in Arizona using it, but why would someone in e.g. New Hampshire need it, considering how much power it consumes?

Many over here (UK) both dry their clothes on lines, and wash their dishes in the sink rather than a dishwasher. Space is a big factor - I've seen walk-in closets in the US bigger than most UK bedrooms. Our houses are much smaller on average.
More on the author: https://trueties.org/trueties.org/about-robert-bryce.html

Someone really has it in for him: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anti-renewable-energy-fabrica...
I assume you are being ironic suggesting that putting solar cells into landfill is more problematic than disposing of spent nuclear fuel - and decommissioning old, radioactive installations.
> Malcolm Turnbull, a member of [Australia's] center-left Labor party.

They may want to re-check the source for that one. Turnbull is a member of the center-right Liberal Party.
> If I'm following this right, the only evidence for Bitcoin being mostly based on renewable energy is because people believe it's uneconomical to not be renewable, and not based on any actual attempt to figure out what energy types are actually being used by large mining groups?

Nope, sounds like you didn't look at the references I linked at all. If you want to follow something right, try reading the references, or at least casually skimming them. https://coinshares.com/insights/beware-of-lazy-research-bitc... is one of the sources for the percentages cited in the Harvard Business Review article explaining their methodology (in 02018). It's the polar opposite of what you're saying.

It's also true that there are fundamental economic reasons that Bitcoin mining is mostly done with renewable energy; it's not just a weird coincidence. But it's not just a theoretical prediction.

> retail prices are only vaguely correlated with production prices. Many places subsidize the crap out of energy prices

Yeah, that does happen. Also, outright theft happens; the cheapest energy is energy that you steal. But it turns out that unprofitable subsidies and stolen energy aren't very scalable, because places where the government pays for most of the energy ① tend to have strict oversight of industrial-scale operations, ② don't generate much electricity in the first place, and ③ tend to consider entrepreneurs criminals by default because they increase wealth inequality, so they shut them down when they get found out. When Bitcoin mining (or, say, Litecoin mining) starts to scale up in such places, as it did here in Argentina some years back, the energy subsidies have a way of evaporating.

> I'll also note that there was a story a few weeks back about a coal powered plant being recommissioned solely for mining bitcoin

No, that was gas; my comments on it are https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27450889.

You're right that there are a variety of unusual circumstances that can make fossil-fueled Bitcoin mining profitable at small scales in one or another place, so it's easy to find anecdotes of it. But it's not the majority of the network.
Nuclear is vastly more efficient than wind and solar, requiring much less copper, concrete, and ground space for the same amount of available energy. Plus this is entirely controllable production, requiring only minimal hydro power for production smoothing (French nukes can ramp up from 0 to 100% or the reverse in 10 minutes), while wind and solar produce whenever they want, and therefore require either storage (no technology exists at scale, particularly nothing that could be massively available and producing in the next couple of decades) or backup production (usually gas, which is really bad from a CO2 point of view).

That's why Germany's Energiewende is going into the wall: it's already much more expensive than planned, and will require humongous additional investment, so far for very limited impact on absolute emissions. Remember that what counts for the climate are absolute emissions, not relative proportions of low-carbon and high-carbon production!
To be fair, IRC user counts have fallen 50% in 5 years.The biggest driver being the relative collapse of IRCNet and Quakenet from 50-60k users to 10-15k users, which is likely driven by the migration of the gamer and casual userbase to Discord. Freenode held on because techies were more suspicous of going to a closed platform, but even they're not going to split between Libera, OFTC, some not getting the message about Freenode, Discord and Matrix.
Presumably because you already know about the association. The ”about” page doesn’t even mention it. The only hint is the footer.
Its all there in the name. We're resources, to be marshalled and managed by HR for the benefit and protection of the company. HR doesn't care a whit about us employees beyond the extent of any liability we might leverage into suing the company for.
ftdi? usb-to-serial?
People keep saying this, and companies keep trying it, and it keeps not working very well. You try to cheap out with remote developers, and you get what you pay for. Sometimes it works, because the guy who sowed has already done the up and out to another company by the time it's time to reap.
Anthing to do with this? https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ev8y/freenode-open-source-...
Are there more “Good Politicians” than good billionaires?

Trying to make being a billionaire impossible(which is what the author of the article seems to have as a goal) will end up giving more power to politicians to try to pick winners and losers more so than the current system.
Of course can good abstractions and tools help to make software possible that were practically impossible before. But there is also a tendency to add abstraction layers of questionable value. An Electron-based UI to copy a disk image to an usb stick comes to my mind, e.g. Certainly it is possible to create a GUI for a file to disk copy operation without two JavaScript engines, an html/css renderer, lot's of network code, etc. This is just a silly example, I know. But this happens all the time. That phenomenon isn't even new. Anybody, remember when the first end-user internet providers would all distribute their own software to dial in? In my experience, most problems with the internet access at that time could be fixed by getting rid of that software and entering the phone number and dial-in credentials in their corresponding Windows dialog windows.
Ubiquitous spyware in everything we interact with, in order to make ads, on average, 5% more efficient—juuuuust enough more efficient that having a stream of massive-scale spyware data is necessary to compete in the ad sales market. Totally a good trade-off, making all the world's computing adversarial so ads work slightly better.
I've heard it described as the best course in the program. I won't have room to take it unfortunately. I went full ML spec and my last two courses will be Video Game Design (Been dying to take that) and Graduate Algorithms (Required)
He has a kink for public himulation.
WOuld not be surprised - he's reported piracy issues in past. FYI I've ordered all books by emailing directly to an email on the website. He replies with "send paypal to xx if you want digital only, send xxx if you want me to mail you a hardcopy". clunky relative to an amazon order but it gets the job done
Professional Dumpster Cleaning Is Highly Beneficial, Here Is Why
Without professional cleaning, it only gets worse till you are prompted to replace the dumpsters. This is especially problematic for Commercial Dumpsters in Surrey as customers and visitors will only smell unpleasant odor wafting while entering and exiting the building.
India has been a secular state for 70 years, and it is not becoming Islamic. We can stay secular or become a Hindu theocratic state. Becoming an Islamic theocratic state is not at all a possibility.

If you really think there's a chance, i am willing to bet on it. Free money for me.
Ok, I might finally understand you now. It appears you're agreeing with me that Instagram is losing market share, but you're adding the caveat that this wouldn't be the case if it operated as a stand-alone company. We're agreeing that as a stand-alone company it would take longer to develop features and it would cost it more money to do so, but your argument is that the features would have a better PMF.

The part we're disagreeing on is the root cause of the fact that Snapchat and Tik Tok managed to out-innovate Facebook (which is very similar to the root cause of what Facebook initially out-innovated Google). You're thinking that it's because Facebook was focused for too long on milking the platform, and I agree with that, but I don't think it's the root cause. The root cause in my opinion is that Facebook became a public company, and now it needs to chase quarterly results or the stock price will fall and its top talent will leave. The same thing happened with Google back in the day. If you were to spin off Instagram, it would still be a public company and it would still have the same boundary conditions on innovation that it has today - quarterly results.

In other words, my thesis is very simple - once a company goes public, you cannot expect it to be a leader in innovation anymore [1][2]. But don't cry for public companies - when one door closes, another one opens; public companies can very well continue to grow by acquiring innovation and market share, which is what happened with Facebook and countless other examples. But... M&A becomes easier when you have a balance sheet with a lot of zeroes on it. If you were to break up Facebook, the individual companies would have a smaller M&A budget, and that would weaken their sharpest weapon they have at this time.

[1] I interviewed at Facebook pre-IPO and met about a dozen of their top PM stakeholders back at the time, including the current CPO. As you would expect, the strength of that talent was just insanely good. Of those people, only Chris Cox is still there, but even he decided to leave for a while. At the end of the day, people are too motivated by money, and it hurts in two ways: those who have it are no longer working as hard, and those who don't have it can make more of it at pre-IPO companies.

[2] Google deserves a lot of praise for trying to escape that fate with with their efforts with X - Vaymo may or may not end up generating cash, but either way, my hat's off to them. Even so, X highlights another problem with innovation at a megacorp - unless your idea has a clear potential of being a 100 billion dollar company, it's not worth pursuing it since it won't make enough of a difference for someone with AdWords on their balance sheet. In contrast, there's plenty of VC to be raised as a startup seemingly trying to become a 1 billion dollar company and then eventually discovering that it can go further than that.
Disregarding chip shortage, this sounds like a reasonable outcome after the pandemic anyway. Somewhere, all that money that was lost needs to be recuperated - partly in inflation.
Yup, Google using its powerful position to make it seem like the generic owner of things when it is not. See also the sites: doc.new, docs.new, document.new, sheet.new, sheets.new, spreadsheet.new, slide.new, slides.new, deck.new, presentation.new, form.new, forms.new, site.new, sites.new, website.new, and probably others.
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I was surprised to find a while back that Google's now ancient "Nexus 7" tablet is allegedly able to run a mainline Linux kernel!

Unfortunately the one I built and "flashed" to it never booted and I lack the soldering skills to build the modified headphone connector/serial TTL cable thing it needs, so it sits in my drawer unused

I really wish we could get to a better upstream ecosystem with ARM devices but it just never seems to happen
Yes, that's a good point! However, the biggest risk to employer is the employee using those systems to try out a new employer and then resigning just after the sabbatical.
Houses are bigger. I think this is the main contributing factor.
> They can always kill the free tier like they did for Google Apps for Your Domain's free tier (to which I'm still grandfathered into).

So they didn't kill it if they grandfathered everyone in? I'm also on a grandfathered free Google Apps, and i'm happy not having to pay for it.