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Who cares? The framing of this issue is strange to me. I know what my values are, I know which side I'm on, I know what I fight for.

If you're looking for new philosophies or perspectives, I strongly suggest two things:

1. fiction

2. history

I don't think day-to-day news coverage can ever be written at a level where it might affect your fundamental values; among many other problems, it is typically written in a hurry, with a lack of context, and so it lacks long-term perspective.

In terms of books that have changed my perspective on some subject, here are some important ones I've read over the last year:

Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp...

Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes

https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-State-Corruption-Threatens-Se...

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, by Andrew J. Bacevich

https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Power-American-Exceptionalism-...

The Emergence of China: From Confucius to the Empire, by E. Bruce Brooks and A. Taeko Brooks

https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-China-Confucius-Ancient-Con...

Azar Nafisi's book is both a true life action story, and it's also an intellectual journey, a consideration of how authoritarianism slowly takes over.

Sarah Chayes book is remarkably ambitious, not only did I suddenly see corruption as a global issue, but she connects it to religious extremism and then reviews the corruption of the Catholic Church in the 1400s and how that lead to Martin Luther and that era's own explosion of religious extremism.

Andrew J. Bacevich's book is a sober look at all the things the USA probably cannot do, even though it has the worlds most powerful military

The Brooks book about China was eye opening for me. I previously knew nothing about the Warring States period, or the intense intellectual debate that occurred over the meaning of the state and the duties of the leader to the people. I wish more Westerners knew this story.

Should I expect this kind of writing from the daily newspaper? Absolutely not. It's ridiculous. It's a category error. That's now what the daily newspaper is for. That's certainly not what the 24 hour news cycle is for.

Sometimes I want actionable news I can use, which is partly a matter of knowing which candidates might have the best chances of advancing my goals. Especially during primary races, day-to-day political news is useful to me when it gives me the information I need to decide who of many candidates I should donate money to.

But when I want new perspectives and philosophies? I turn to books.
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It's easy: you are the process making your decisions. All determinism means is that your existence was predetermined (i.e. computable in advance, if you had the true omniscience and nigh-omnipotence-levels of compute power to do so); “your actions are predetermined” from there just means that your actions are a result of you, rather than randomness.

If you are within the universe, then determinism doesn't prevent free will in the slightest. It only screens off free will if you believe that free will can only come from an external-to-the-universe supernatural spirit (and ignore that you haven't explained how that has free will).

Non-determinism only gives you free will if you further believe that that random noise somehow gives rise to this supernatural spirit, or allows it to affect the world. For a physicalist, non-determinism actually weakens free will (though not by much).

Remember: all non-determinism can be modelled as determinism plus random input. You can factor out all non-deterministic effects as an extra input bitstream (or… probably real-stream if the universe is continuous) fed into a deterministic process.

From that point of view, non-determinism doesn't really harm free will all that much. All it means is that you're affected by another thing you don't know about, but that's already the case in every conversation you have with another human, deterministic or no.
> Nuclear waste isn't really waste.

In which case why are a number of other proponents in this thread suggesting the best solution is to bury it?
The next step is to ask yourself -why- journalists are asking loaded questions and pushing certain narratives. I don't believe it's coincidence, or just that they're just not very good at their jobs. There's economic, political, and social power to be gained for them and their ideology if they push these narratives.
> Nuclear power is more expensive per KWh than renewables.

You state this as fact but it seems to actually be pretty contentious. Wikipedia lists [0] many studies and the estimated costs of nuclear vs. renewables vary pretty wildly.

Of the global studies that considered nuclear, OECD NEA and IPCC both list nuclear as cheaper than solar and similar to onshore wind, while Lazard is quite favourable towards renewables.

Of the regional studies, on the positive side, France found nuclear cheaper than anything but hydro and Japan (pre-Fukushima) found it about half the price of solar or wind.

Of the regional studies, on the negative side, the UK found it marginally more expensive than solar, much more expensive than onshore wind and much marginally less expensive than offshore wind and the US EIA found it to be one of the most expensive options there were.

So the estimates vary pretty wildly, it's not an accepted fact that nuclear is more expensive than renewables.

Personally, I trust France, as they actually have large-scale nuclear power.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
It taught me to count 1 2 3 4 over and over and over.

And then I had to unlearn that so that no one else heard it.
You joke, but a lot of BTC advocates would probably be satisfied if we still had a gold-backed dollar. A paper note backed by BTC is at least marginally better than a paper note backed by nothing.
This is very cool!

Looks like they have been working on it for a few years now. Here's a video from 2019 where someone from Stripe is giving a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDocEZ4f5ow.
It seems like Schadenfreude or sour grapes.

Chat is a slightly more dynamic market than email for user acquisition, but it's still damn hard to get new users. Who but a bunch of rubes would use a previously nonprofit service that was publicly obliterated?

Or is the end goal a new, commercial brand strategy? No one in tech with any sense will use them.
I'd imagine it's for creators/sellers moreso than buyers/customers.
Regardless of whatever wording you have included in your employment agreements, your statements on the matter indicate that you are surveilling your employees without their knowledge. Your public comment to that effect could actually be used in court to throw out whatever wording you have in your agreement, as your statement nullifies the assumption that your employees have read the agreement (you don't believe any of them have, and you believe the wording that is there is vague enough that they are unware of any actual surveillance -- this is damning as it is exactly what a prosecutor would have to prove in this case, and you have openly admitted it). Don't worry I already archived the original thread and included it in my report to the FBI.

When your employees bring a WFH device into their home, and your spyware collects metadata on their keystrokes, you are in violation of federal wiretapping law as you are collecting metadata from within their private home network and exfiltrating it through connections not initiated by the employee and without their consent or notification.

By law you must indicate to your employees that you collect metadata on their keystrokes (under privacy laws, this is still just private information in aggregate). Every time one of your employees enters private information or logs into their bank on their WFH device, and you log your metadata on these keypresses, you are committing another felony. Even the DoD has to provide a warning every time you log into a DoD system describing the surveillance being used on the device.

Depending on your employees' locations, this may also be a GDPR violation.

There are also numerous export control laws governing surveillance software that you may or may not be in violation of depending on your location. This is why obtaining this kind of software is difficult, especially in the EU.

People like you should be afraid, not your employees.
Also add something like: I am at least 15 years old or something. That is the age requirement for many gyms.

Also, a Report button is highly recommended for anything involving user generated content.
> For those downvoting, this is accurate according to his current lawsuit(s) against him

While the claims in the lawsuit may eventually be proven, the fact that something has been alleged in a lawsuit is not even remotely similar to substantive evidence that it is true.
Rent control is the norm in our most expensive rental markets.
I thought the nominal point of crypto was to get out from under the oppressive bootheel of the banks
Purpose of this one is to get you to click to a sponsored ad.
If we're emulating the universe, we should be situating the nuclear plant at least a million km away.
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My point is even with that money my income isn’t that high compared to software engineers.
Even simpler, there are systems that use a physical token.

To proceed into a section of track, the train driver/guard must physically possess an object, typically handed over at a station just before the section, and returned just after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)
The double hash ones were meant to indicate that the channel wasn't "run" by anyone officially affiliated with the free software with that name. This isn't always consistent since there's no mechanism to determine who is officially affiliated with most free software. Additionally the status can change over time making some channels with double octothorpes official without renaming them.
LOL waffle post. The name of a website has nothing to do with the quality of the content.
I've been waiting for a service like this. I suspect we're on the precipice of a new Internet split, where one can be accessed with identity and the other is anonymous as we know it now. In some arenas, like comment sections, I welcome removing anonymity [1]. In other arenas I wonder if it will be used to divide populations online in some futuristic dystopian manner. For instance, only citizens of the United States with Good Credit and Good Social Score are allowed to read the Financial Times.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
Use Libera if and only if you want to communicate with the people who used Freenode. (Actually, if you want to communicate with the people who currently use Libera; there are people who use Libera who never used IRC before, and a some old Freenode users who have followed their communities elsewhere.)
What I want is an app that counts reps/sets for me. I.e., point phone camera at self, the apps starts counting down (using a voice), and stops when I'm done. It should auto-detect the exercise.
The question I have is whether "cryptocurrencies" are fundamentally flawed because they are not linked into the fiat money system or whether it just a few examples that fail either due to their politics, proof-of-work or some other variable?

As far as I understand it, the only reason that real money has real value is because it is backed by banks and we trust the banks. We trust the banks because they make money by providing us the stability so it is a win-win.
I'm not saying that strategy shouldn't be used. Obviously one should have a goal to not act in a way such that in the future their positions will be untenable.

What I'm saying is I don't find it useful to reduce complex real life positions or strategies into specific game terms like "ladder" or "ladder breaker" or "outpost" or whatever.
3rd-tier (considered nationally, not regionally) city in the Midwest checking in, here. For one thing, starting salaries around here were already pushing that for mid-level and better devs before the pandemic. There are definitely small, crappy shops in tech stacks that tend to pay worse (ahem, PHP) shooting well under that, but starting salaries for new grads at places that actually both have and make money (mostly bigger companies or hotshot startups) were creeping to around 6-figures even before the pandemic. Anyone offering much lower than that was already bidding on the bottom-of-the-barrel, especially if their benefits suck (bad benefits and low pay tend to go hand-in-hand, so...). Local firms have been bidding up local talent fast since, oh, 2012 I'd say, as there were more seats to be filled than there were good local developers.

Remote work has definitely been a factor. A half-decent experienced developer can easily land jobs that outbid the local market, and I'm not even talking major West Coast places with interview processes resembling torture. A lot of local devs have been slow to realize just how much money they're leaving on the table without even needing to move or practice leetcode for six months and submit to multiple day-long grueling interviews, but I have to assume that's changing fast with the pandemic pushing remote work into the zeitgeist. I'd imagine local firms are seeing some serious remote competition for their best developers, and losing a lot of them. That's going to mean rising salaries, or that their dev teams get somewhat worse.

Basically I think the only thing keeping salaries as low as they were was that a high percentage of local developers weren't looking for new opportunities often enough, local or remote. Now that everyone's been prompted to pop their heads up and take a look around, it'd be very surprising to me if salaries didn't shoot way up. There's been a plain market mis-match locally, to begin with, suppressed only by not enough developers realizing how much more they could make by switching jobs, and add remote work competition to that, and there's going to be a lot of upward pressure on salaries.
Sure they can adjust output. Some are not licensed to do so, but that's more a paperwork hindrance than any actual physical reason. They can ramp about as fast as other generators using a steam cycle, like ccgt or coal. There are some situations like when you're at the end of the fuel cycle if you ramp down quickly you might have trouble starting quickly again due to Xe poisoning. But, if there was a reason to, the control system can be designed to provide sufficient excess reactivity to power through events like that (e.g. naval reactors).

That being said, since most of the cost of a nuclear power plant is the capital cost, every time you're not generating at full power is time you're generating less revenue to cover the capital costs. So even in a hypothetical lowest cost zero carbon system with very high penetration of variable renewables (solar, wind), the nuclear plants would be mostly running flat out.
You don’t have to sell your house to feel richer.
Oh yeah that's totally fair. I was hosting a meeting the other day and one of my participants wanted to share their screen, and I still haven't found where to do that. I just made them host. Their UI is hot garbage.
Agreed. Ideally I’d want flexibility to decide when to WFH and then still have a nice office to come into when I feel social, or need to collaborate.
> First, so much media has fallen down when it comes to character development.

That's the handy thing about essentialism, you don't need an individual character when you have pre-packaged narratives about their race, gender, etc. Rather than a complex character, we get a canned Black character or a canned White character or a canned Female character or a canned Male character. What do you need to know about a person that you can't infer from their immutable characteristics? (:
Some people claim they solve this by creating a day-long team meeting and having everybody sit in it with their microphones off and cameras off if they want, creating a kind of oral Slack for quick questions and conversations. Personally, I couldn't stand that. My team tried it for one day, and it was so unpopular, it was never mentioned again. I could only do it if I had a private home office that I never used for anything but my job. WFH has to enable boundaries between work life and home life without creating boundaries between coworkers, and that hasn't been solved yet.
Exactly! So why are we talking as if we've solved all the potential hazardous problems now?
Nuclear plants can adjust output, but not quickly. As reaction rates change the composition of the core itself changes, which further modifies reaction rates. Ramping up to full power might take a plant 12 hours. While this is fine for dealing with seasonal variation in demand, or compensating for another plant going down for maintenance, it can't deal with the short term spikes in demand that happen throughout any given day. There are some designs that can ramp up faster, but they are uncommon at least in the US. All plants can decrease output quickly (critical for safety) but without that quick ramp up its still not suitable for dealing with short term dips.

That being said, fuel represents only a tiny fraction of the cost of nuclear power, so it's fine to run a nuclear reactor at close to max power 24/7 and just use excess power for tasks like water desalination or simply vent off steam instead of passing it through the turbines when demand is lower.
Not if they are black though, isn't it?! Then the execution is summary and pretty much live on-street.
Those are some seriously amazing photos on the example IDs. I'd kill to have anything half as good on mine.
"why should they care the software is motivating when people already clean toilets, deal with retail customers, and mop floors without any of those being exciting either?"

Efficient. I'm not looking to enterprise software to provide personal affirmation in life, but if it takes me 5 minutes of staring at loading screens to do something I ought to have been able to do in 15 seconds, that's that much lost productivity, and it multiplies over days, months, years, and across employees.

Moreover, while supermegaultra performance tuning may be expensive, many performance improvements can be had for much less than the cost of time they are losing people, and many others can be obtained relatively cheaply if they are simply something that is kept in mind at all parts of the design process rather than completely ignored until it can't possibly be ignored any more. To a large degree, I'm not asking for these companies to make a moon shot to make me slightly happier... I'm asking for them to pick the freaking low-hanging fruit that is right in front of them, and, ideally, to do so on an ongoing basis. Computers are pretty fast nowadays, you don't really have to try that hard to put something on the screen in less than 30 seconds.
Publicly traded organizations can have any kind of private investment. I wonder, though, if there is regulation around how much of the public org’s capital can be put in private stock purchases…
> He was the only player to defeat Anand, an obvious sign of computer assistance.

Ok this is a bit much. This was a celebrities simultaneously against the grandmaster match, and this guy is a serious player who competed when he was young, and likely plays regularly for fun and practice. Given this was an exhibition fundraiser, and the guy had nothing to prove (already runs a very successful brokerage and hedge fund, India’s youngest billionaire and all) why make an accusation of cheating?
The vast majority in Sweden pays nothing like "65% tax rate + 25% vat", though. To get to that tax rate you need to earn far above average.

Someone who is single with no child earning 167% of an average wage pays ~35% income tax and social security contributions [1].

The effective VAT also for most ends up far lower as a proportion of income, as most people don't spend anywhere near their whole income on VAT-rated products. For starters, you can't spend what you've already paid in tax. As such the VAT rate has a relatively low impact on total tax paid - the difference between the UK vat rate when I moved here (at the time 17.5%) and the Norwegian VAT rate of 25% added up to only about 1 percentage point difference in total taxation for me.

[1] Source: OECD Taxing Wages 2021
Just a warning to those planning to do this: you are taking an incredible risk with your future that I think is undervalued. Circumstances beyond your control can make your plans financially unviable and by retiring so early you have absolutely no room for error. All it takes is one change in health or a regulation for your whole plan to be instantly invalidated.

For those that have the ability and the desire to retire: congratulations! Please be careful!
Your state would eventually fail, but the core decentralized blockchain lives on.
That's actually a whole different user flow -- you leave the notification to enter a separate system of controls with esoteric commands, over just typing what you want to happen..

"Stop" - forever until I want you back

"Stop this week" - self-explanatory

"Not during work hours" - also ^

"Consolidate weekly" - get a digest

"I don't care" - make better suggestions

So many contextual pieces to make better notifications are right there... and though a toggle button appears to be 'easier' the cognitive dissonance is less the conversational environment of SMS.
Yeah, there's a lot of math behind distance shooting. Tons of variables to consider.
They have supported it on desktop Safari for years, so it really is just a political decision for them at this point.
Was it massive? My impression was that it was exactly what you'd expect - basically a nothingburger, a few interesting tidbits, most of the sensational stuff was taken out of context and/or already known and/or flatly misrepresented.

What are some things that we should have taken away from the Fauci emails that the broader left/centrist medias missed?
SMS messages are probably 1000x to 100 000x more expensive to send than push notifications.
For now ;D
East Asia.

If you are looking to fill a position coming with a decent pay, I'm all ears :)
I’ve worked my whole career in the UK (7 years software eng, plus a bit in other jobs). Sounds from your comment like you’ve had better experiences in other countries. Is that right? Which ones, and how?
For one, Tulips had one boom and one bust, whereas crypto has had at least four cycles. It's more like the dot com. There is some real, high-value innovation surrounded by lots of cargo-culting grifters, and in the end there will be a few big winners, and a lot of losers.
I'm surprised that they are not providing PAdES signatures here at the same time, do you think this is a direction they will be moving in?

Also surprised they are not leaning more heavily into the existing identity solutions in the countries they are already operating in, like the Netherlands and the Nordics. Maybe hard to differantiate from existing competitors?
I was using Android and the experience was not good. Disconnects every time I put my phone in my pocket.
It's the "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" culture. People still trust authorities with their information and believe that nobody cares what kind of illnesses they have or what kind of porn they are into or how their body looks like or what they talked about with mates.
I agree. Most criminals are not very bright, and in the case of large organized crime, you still need to be able to communicate with employees that aren't very bright. Custom stenography comes at a cost to your organization in terms of troubleshooting and reliability...

The drug dealers are probably just using whatever encrypted app they hear works well, which is why there was that big successful sting using an FBI controlled app recently.