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I don't think Dogecoin is scared of losing access to the discount window!

They are more like a public utility that is private, but has some amount of government oversight. Controlling the ability to create money is pretty impressive and they can cut people off from that, so that is a lot of power. They can't arrest people or criminally charge people like the SEC can though.
Went looking for the press labeling Jordan Peterson a fascist. I found this article, associating him with intellectual foundations of fascism but not outright calling him one. This is the article Peterson flipped out about on Twitter, saying he would "slap" the author.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and...

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/97594153761910784...

If this happens frequently, surely you could link to a few more instances? I can't find any others.
Yes! This true for people with physical disabilities in general. While the law says companies must make "reasonable accommodation", that still leaves many people unsupported. Working from home, where they don't have to deal with office equipment, layout, and furniture tuned for the "average" person is a huge boost to productivity.
Indeed.

Nowadays small groups of coordinated people can cause a lot of chaos in internet.
and then you divide it by # of employees and get something kind of low.
I think there’s a bit of selection bias here. There’s no evidence he wouldn’t have been fired for his actions if he didn’t publicly apologize. Many people are fired for the same actions, we just don’t hear about it.
Not a lawyer, but as far as I understand there's no threshold or legal distinction between direct and indirect. It's all direct.

There's the angle of "how much $ can I extract" that comes into play, which is based on damages incurred from infringement. If you're not making money or preventing the patent holder from making money, you're not worth harassing.
It's called Survivorship bias. Before coming here, I too thought the same. That the stories were exaggerated, that those experiences were outliers and a minority. But then I saw my team's L6 SDE get put on Focus within a year of joining and leave. If they had caused Sev1s or broken something critical, then perhaps justified. But no such thing.

This place puts you in the middle of the ocean when you don't know how to swim. You either sink or swim.
But they do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Police
Credit cards are also easy to get... I had around 22k to 30k in credit card debt by the end of my senior year. Part of that was building a business, but part was bootstrapping a business while living minimally... I learned a lot from that exp and in the end it worked out, but the ease to which I got those cards should terrify most people.

My parents helped me with school a little bit, and I was before the recent increases, so I think I graduated with maybe 25k in debt for 5 years of college. I paid it off quick as I had an amazing job out of college and sold the business I built.

I've watched my sister who is 13 years younger have a lot more debt and facing a really long march to pay it off. It is doable as she has a masters in a great field with great pay, but it is still a many year process...
Now that the Trump movement has run it's course it's kinda jarring to see how little a popular uprising can accomplish when it's entirely described and disseminated via meme.

Even Trump's most obvious, easy to execute plans failed. Memes couldn't even build a functional wall let alone fix healthcare or even repeal what exists, even with a majority in all branches of government. Memes aren't necessarily a bad way of disseminating information, the ideas they spread are necessarily intellectually reduced and ineffective in implementation.
> but we don’t know

In this case, he admitted to being a sexual predator.
inherited the labor of the ancestors

Bingo. They didn't do shit to deserve it, they didn't work hard, and there's an entire industry of smart, morally ambiguous people dedicated to helping them hide it and keep it, and (as Abigail Disney discusses) convincing them that they deserve it, that poor people would simply waste it.

granting a portion of the population to essentially become dead weight, with entitlement to being able to live off the fruits of other peoples labor won't end well
Well, there they are, doing just that.

Once you get to a certain amount of wealth, you don't need to do anything. Smart trades? None of that's needed. I'm a tiny little part of it; I work full-time, but once my personal wealth reached about six times my salary, it made more money each year than I did. Six times [0]. That is pennies in the big scheme of things. There's nothing smart about my trades; dull funds and diversity. Piketty was on to something; Bill Gates made more money from being rich than he ever did from Microsoft. Maybe he deserved all his riches from Microsoft, but does he now also deserve to sit back, do nothing, and perpetually watch his wealth grow more and more obscenely by taking a part of the wealth generated by people actually working? How about his Grandchildren? Do they deserve that? Young was right; meritocracy is what we've got, and this is what it does - the rich shall inherit the earth.

Also, you seems to be applying that there is a fixed pie wealth.

I disagree. I made no such "application", as you put it. Implying, I guess you mean, but I still disagree. There is not a fixed pie wealth. Every day, a lot of people are creating more and more wealth, and the very wealthy every day sit back and rake in a nice helping of it for themselves. As I also do, and I'm not remotely near very wealthy.

Rob the rich and give to the poor is also a terrible strategy.

How about "make them at least pay taxes like the poor schlubs generating the wealth they're perpetually helping themselves to?" Is that a better strategy? How about "alter the system a bit so that labour pays better than simply being rich, or at least benefits the labourer ahead of the rich?" That one probably sounds like batshit crazy communist land.

[0] It's ridiculous, but it's true. I don't do calls, I don't do puts, most of it is in dull index funds and a big chunk of the rest is in slightly less dull fund offerings from Baillie Gifford and the like. Once you get some capital, it will happily act like a leech on society, siphoning off wealth generated by other people's work into your own pocket. I ride on the very, very long tail of this system set up to benefit the rich; I only hope that I die before their endless squeeze catches up with me as well.
Same thing that gave me the kick to go over to Linux. Unfortunately I had a no-boot issue updating Fedora last week and had to do a complete re-install... at least I'm not paying for Fedora.
But I really love Julia! I was seduced by the idea of "like octave, but with fast loops", which is exactly what I need and the interpreter pretty much lives to that ambition. Also I love the examples with single-letter greek variables, the "f.(x)" notation, everything. And the fact that it feels like a well thought out language for numerical computing, cleaner and more beautiful than matlab/octave, and not an ugly kludge like numpy.

The multiple dispatch and oo features are some unfortunate warts, but I can live with those. Following your analogy, I love bikes and Julia is an electrically assisted bike. Sure, I would prefer if it was lighter and without the stupid motor, but it's still a bike. Not like numpy which is a horse carriage.

> You and I have nothing in common in this entire world.

for one, I 100% agree with your views on variable naming elsewhere on this thread ;)
Check out Thompson Sampling and multi-armed bandit problems for how this can work out in real life. (I tend to think this approach is much better than genetic algorithms...)

Each 'bandit' is a random boolean outcome, governed by some hidden success probability. Thompson Sampling trades of exploration and exploitation. If there's no successes ever, then all bandits are equally bad, and you just keep exploring randomly until you find some success (or give up). If you do have some success, you can try to exploit it.

For a problem with continuous parameters, you can discretize the parameter space by binning, and then choose randomly within a bin for each trial. 'Exploiting' a particular bin might lead to breaking it into more bins for finer resolution.
This rate seems high. They're pushing 1 out of 3 people (30%) out of their workforce every 5 years. Is that sustainable over the course of, say, 20 years?

1-2 percent, I could understand. But I would think the labor force simply isn't large enough for this to work, long term, at this high rate.
The spike in there is really weird. I'm wonder if that's spectre mitigations causing the bulk of the slowdown. If that's the case I'd be curious to know if disabling them helps and if popular Linux distributions show similar performance loss.
If you read the article, even before anything gets to court, their life/career is destroyed because of this mob.

Proving/disproving isn’t even on the table. This is an irrational mob gaining moral superiority over others.
That is basically just a rephrasing of, "This is an awfully nice store you got here. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it."
Okay! Thanks for the clarification.

I was imagining React as like a library akin to Flask and that it could only work with Node and not Deno. But I understand now that this is the wrong way to think about it.
It's actually possible, columns are simple Go interfaces and can be re-defined and defined for specific types. You can easily build implementation of columns that actually load data from disk or even a remote server (RDBMS, S3, ..?) and retain the indexing capability.

On the flip side, you could actually fit more data in-memory than with non-columnar methods, since the storage is column-by-column, it compresses very well. For example boolean values are stored as bitmaps in this implementation, strings could be stored in a hash map so there's only one string of a type that kept in memory, even if you have millions of rows.
ya, compound interest, long term returns of the stock market, 401k fees, etc
Anyone go dig up the public apology from last year? No wonder it isn't linked, it literally is him saying he preyed on women, and pressured them into sex, with alcohol involved, verbatim, I'm not trying to stretch it.

Turning that around into his own personal trauma narrative from the consequences of those actions is really hitting the wrong nerve for me here. Sure, apologize, learn and grow, people can change, but maybe don't write a post what you learned from a large public backlash, is that the backlash was the problem.
You talk to a lawyer, not the internet. Do not ask HN, or Reddit, or any other community of random folks for legal advice.
The raw source is LinkedIn. It's one of the comments on the following post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-grewal-288978b4_grabbing...

Neel Kashkari: The right pronunciation is pon-zi.

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Some of the ideas in the article make a lot of sense in the context of AR, specifically the parts about on-device Siri and Spatial
Audio.

However…I’m sorry, the article as a whole just leaves me with the taste of Apple butt-licking.

So many of these parts of this “metaverse” are typical recurring revenue and ecosystem lock-in encouragements.

Find My: Let’s sell some high profit margin trackers and keychains.

SharePlay: let’s sell more TV+ subscriptions.

Universal Control: platform lock-in: make you question using a Windows desktop instead of an iMac if you already own an iPad.

Spatial Audio: sell more headphones

Notes features: sell more News+ subscriptions, more vendor lock-in.

ShazamKit: data mine advertising info. Yes, Apple has ad platforms, and with each passing day their business model creeps closer and closer to Google’s (e.g.,
When they inevitably drop Yelp in favor of their own review system, or if they launch their own search engine)

(Apple can still mine data and use it to sell you things and understand what you’re likely to buy even if they “respect” your privacy and leave all the data on-device. They can still get you to click an affiliate link or buy an app without leaving the realm of on-device ML.

And remember that Apple’s marketing is not the same as their documented privacy policy.
Sounds like another round of thought-crime and obsessive reactions to stamp it out, a la McCarthyism, etc.

Reminds me of a great ST:TNG episode "The Drumhead" with Jean Simmons as an admiral, who goes on a conspiracy witchhunt. Not until the proceedings go off the rails does anyone have the confidence to resist.

It is a bit of a different category since it is regarding organizations or government, but I believe the angry, obsessive mob angle is the same.
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I think you are right.

And it really bothers me because sometimes I see something really unfair, and it is hard to not say anything, but it is not real life and you only need a handful of anonymous people with enough time on their hands to make your life hell. Just because you're not anonymous.

I almost regret being my real me online. We always had trolls, but this is something else.

I almost deleted this comment before sending it. That's the level of self-censorship because what for? What's the point of sharing my opinion here? Is it worth it? Probably not!
The unifying thread in all given examples is that Meme Activism is good at short-term and superficial victories, but poor at long-term, meaningful ones.

It's great at getting a bunch of likes while harassing someone like Yang into shutting up, but did that action actually have any meaningful impact on how Israel acts, or how US politicians act toward Israel (not what they SAY, notice, but what they DO)? Probably not.

It's great at getting fame and money for the Kony people, but had no actual impact on the situation in question.

Slogans like Build the Wall and Lock Her Up served their purpose, which was to build an electoral base for Trump, not to actually accomplish those things.

I'm actually more sympathetic to Trump here, because he's a salesman using sales tactics to make a sale. The others clothe themselves in high-minded morality while in reality being exactly the same thing.
'De-fund the police' was DOA. It sounded catchy and initially went viral, but then the inevitable confusion arose as to if they meant literal defunding or just re-allocating, and also the left painted itself into a corner of having to reconcile defudnding with not being soft on crime or condoning criminality .
Windows usually does it automatically as part of a maintenance routine. Unless you were writing and deleting lots of files causing fragmentation, there isnt usually much to gain with manual runs.
1809 is the first build that shipped with the mitigations, so that explains why there are a lot of performance problems around that time.
I wildly disagree with that statement. To suggest that money, political capital and many other things besides popular support are irrelevant, is disingenuous to say the least.
Not OP, but I went to Ubuntu at first, but since it didn't like my Lenovo Yoga's tablet mode and screen rotation I gave up fighting it and went to Fedora. Works perfect out of box, I only had to change a few personal preferences to get it how I like it (changing touchpad so tap-to-click works, and using two finger tap for right click instead of lower right)
It’s barely into the first section. Just admit that you’re commenting in bad faith and don’t try to defend yourself by feigning special distaste for “self-pity”. Have some integrity internet people.
I didn't say that Timnit shouldn't be fired.
How does AWS advance the state of the art with undocumented services that frequently fail? I'm not a big fan of Azure, but at least they document their services.
Windows has gone to shit

I feel the same way and it makes me sad.

I've kept a death-grip on Windows 7 in hopes there would be a Windows 11 one day despite all the naive "last version ever" messaging. Now it's been announced, and I pray it's more than just a paint job. My asks are simple: more stability, better performance, and axed telemetry.
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Of course UBI will create new money - how else are you going to finance it? Giving each adult American $1000 per month would cost at least $2.5 trillion. Let's assume that UBI replaces all other Social Security spending - that's currently $1.2T, so you are still $1.3T short. You cannot collect that much in new taxes.

Even assuming that you somehow manage to finance UBI with tax raises alone think about what you'll be doing: you would be moving money from the rich to the poor, which sounds good in theory, until you realize that rich people and corporations keep their money in financial assets. Now, the reason why all the FED money printing so far caused only mild inflation is because the money flew to financial markets. If you use taxes to redirect it to common people then you are doubly screwing them: you are crashing stock markets, ruining their 401(k) savings, and at the same time causing price inflation of everyday things.
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I honestly have become so dependent on some of these that I don't know how I would code without them.
> But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point

Not really. If you take Google to court, and Google tells the judge "yo, he was connecting from a Malaysian ISP for like 2 years straight", the judge is probably gonna say "okay, yeah, I can see why you thought he was a resident of Malaysia".
Why bother?

It’s much easier not trying for anything like that. You can live a comfortable life without ever trying to make waves. Leave politics to the psychopaths.
At low level is not related to WireGuard in any way.
The wintun project only exposes a virtual network interface to Windows systems, a clean and proper signed windows driver. That side project to Wireguard was created because the native windows virtual interface is too basic for "advanced vpns" and the former windows TUN driver (OpenVPN side project TUN driver for windows) used by everyone was clunky and old.

YG uses it own crypto and routing, wintun is used here only to expose the virtual network interface on Windows.
The bartender. But seriously, different places have different rules - hang out in a club that welcomes you !
> In place of a well-reasoned argument, political activists can lean on pithy memes to demonstrate their political allegiances. But when people use memes as a shortcut, they sacrifice the process of testing and inspecting their opinions. Insight comes from challenging ideas, and memes allow people to skirt this process. As Plato wrote in The Republic, “opinions divorced from knowledge are ugly things.”

Getting the nuance stripped out of the debate robs the debate of meaning.
People also want to drive drunk.
You don't really have to do anything special with React's lifecycle in order to publish changes... you just call forceUpdate on a component to trigger itself and its children to re-render. The trick is avoiding rendering the parts of that tree which won't actually change. Redux solves this through immutability which allows for reference comparison ("if this component's props didn't change then the object will === the previous one, and we can skip it"). MobX does it by automatically wiring highly granular pub/sub relations between individual variables and the components that reference them.

Additionally, events aren't sufficient on their own because you need the state to actually be stored somewhere, for next time. Events don't hold state, they only pass a transient signal. And if you're manually both a) publishing an event and b) updating the corresponding state, you risk missing a case and having those two get out of sync (not to mention you'll be writing a whole lot of boilerplate logic). It'll also be really hard to change multiple pieces of state at once without having things temporarily disagree. I've worked on a project where this is basically what was done, and it was a nightmare of inconsistent intermediary states and race-conditions.

To put it differently: "state X changed" is a special case of "X happened" that needs quite a few special considerations in practice, and that's why state management abstractions are built atop the more general idea
Looks promising, thanks for the info!
That’s a claim that needs some scientific evidence to back up.
Yes. All of those. I also disable the various iTunes and Creative Cloud 'helpers'
Monopoly conglomerates want your money, not your life. It's going to be governments cutting people off. For example, Pakistan cutting your cell service if you don't get vaccinated. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-covid-vaccine-punjab-t...
There is an assumption being used by these companies, and Twitter generally, that I disagree with: "Once someone has behaved in a certain way, they can never be trusted not to behave in that way again".
I'm dying to know if this post is satire.
FYI, in most states, for most jobs, in most situations, you can be fired for pretty much any reason or no reason at all. If you are interested in workers' rights, please support collective action for labor and politicians that support workers' rights.
I agree that what Stallman said was misrepresented, and perhaps the later stages of the "cancelling" were more manufactured, but the initial anger that popped up on various MIT mailing lists felt very organic to me. A bit mob-like, definitely driven moreso by emotion than a good-faith reading of what Stallman said, and probably amplified by people who disagreed feeling afraid to speak out. But I wouldn't describe any of it as manufactured.
In my experience it depends on drivers. I bought a PC, I think it was 2017 too. Nvidia drivers were unstable and I was getting BSoD every few days. But at some point they fixed it. It was quite stable since then, no issues either.

That said, I'm trying to be careful to my Windows setup, avoiding installing anything that could tinker with kernel or deep OS integration. Basically it's clean Windows with simple software, no antiviruses, firewalls, registry cleaners, etc. May be it's getting slower with time, but it's barely noticeable.
Like so many things, this is something that has existed forever but now it has a new fashionable name and people treat it like it was just invented.
asm-dom: A minimal WebAssembly virtual DOM to build C++ SPA
Wait no, that repo was an experiment that I'll be rebasing and finally building a real ECS based on the columnar storage library.
Almost certainly. Several of the worst benchmarks (Win32 App launch, UWP App launch, and Explorer stress test) all start increasing in the 2018 H1/H2 releases. That matches the timeline for the Spectre/Meltdown fixes, and those are the benchmarks that I'd expect would be most effected.

17134 = 2018 H1 (1803)

17763 = 2018 H2 (1809)
I do not appreciate or even care for social media callouts, but personally I thought it was “nice to hear” a politician apologize for shamelessly defending Israeli apartheid for once.

I sympathize with Americans who are unfamiliar with foreign politics, so I am not saying this to fight or shame anybody, but this was not just a twitter event. It was more a result of the study released by Human Rights Watch days earlier than it was a result of social media shaming. This event held important historical significance far beyond Twitter.
Spandex talking about well-tailored suits? Isn't that stretching it a little bit?
It sounds like life would be significantly better without sports. 5200 vs 4850 is $350. That is the difference of a month of rent in Buffalo for your room, snow tires on your car that year or not, text books or not.