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You realize your argument is a strawman, right?

Essentially, excess profits can only go into one a a few places:

- retained earnings (cash in the company's bank account)

- reinvest in the company (either capex or opex)

- paid out as dividends (giving cash to shareholders)

- buy back shares (again, giving cash to shareholders, but in a different form)

- pay off debt (giving cash back to bondholders)

- spend more on labor (hire more workers, or pay workers more)

Realistically, there is nothing in this list that can increase or decrease "usefulness" without another variable. Poorly run companies don't reinvest in the right things (or at the right times). Poorly run companies buy back shares when they are expensive, or pay out dividends when they should be building the balance sheet or reinvesting into the company. And paying workers more only makes sense if it increases output (maybe happy workers make better shopping websites).

To use one wealthy person as an example, Jeff Bezos' billions are somewhat illusory. They give him control of the firm (which, is probably better served in his hands than yours or mine). He can't spend those shares. He can sell them for cash, or give them away to charity, but he cannot spend them in current form. He has chosen to invest them in charities, and more obviously, Blue Origin. But really, he first reinvested potential earnings back into Amazon, at a time when almost everyone thought he was stupid. His investing took awhile, but it created the largest, most capable retail firm in history. So the results of his "investing" seem to have been pretty impressive. I'm not sure about you, but I din't have the kind of foresight to make the decision (otherwise I would have owned Amazon stock back then!) And personally, I like the idea of being able to buy a TV without having to hop into a car and be stuck in traffic for 20 minutes or more. SO the benefit to me is I saved at least 20 minutes when I bought a TV.

You don't have to like this - nobody needs to "like" this. But picking on wealthy people because they've made money is definitely not a productive use of anyone's output.
>If you copy a quote from Google Books you still have to attribute the original author.

Mostly because if you don't do so, that's a plagiarism issue which the law mostly doesn't concern itself with except insofar as an attributed quote, unless the length is truly excessive, is likely to be seen as Fair Use while an unattributed quote, especially if it's more than a minimal snip, is not. (IANAL, etc.)
Switch back to content based ads, which is what we had prior to the internet. If you have a car related product, advertise on car related websites. Don't try to advertise to a car person visiting a Jazz music site.

I think going back to content based advertising will greatly improve the quality of content on the internet.

The way it works now, the most valuable content is the cheapest content that can get valuable eyes to look at it, which leads to clickbait and low effort content.

If advertisers can only make ad decisions based on the content, quality content will be more valuable.
"But it can be much more efficient to run business logic in the database as stored procedures."

But this is not code, this SQL or equivalent, if SQL was known to be better than code to do busines logic everyone would do that.
Age is going to be another credential, based on signatures that browser will be allowed to present. Spiders will have their signatures, which cannot be copied, eg think how SSL client certs work. Now, are sites going to require age credentials? sounds like a GDPR v2 cookies story.
I love it, but the game doesn't work for me! No response when I click Yes or No, or using the keyboard y and n. Just the clock ticking down. Chrome Version 91.0.4472.114 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10 Enterprise.
I'd say that if your MVP did not convince at least one prospect to sign at least a pilot with you than no additional number of engineers will fix that. You risk to end up with a feature rich product nobody buys minus your house.
> Basic immediate context (what you're doing, not who you are) works better for both advertisers and willing consumers than personally invasive intrusion does

How are you quantifying this?
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Yes, there are plenty of products out there that I would like to discover. But these are one in a hundred. I'd gladly sacrifice the few valuable ones. In fact I already do this, because I use adblockers and pi-hole as much as I possibly can.

I'm not completely against marketing. I pretty often buy things advertised in podcasts, stuff that obviously paid for product placement in specific places. But those are ads that fit the medium, usually they're very related to the topic at hand. This is not at all the case with all random bullshit that shows up on Facebook and YouTube. Those are most often than not ads full of toxic subtleties like unreasonable standards of living, body image and success.
This is what confuses many people, especially with solar and battery storage. "I've got 400 watts of solar feeding into my 400AH of batteries with a 3000w inverter"
Most people will have no idea how much usable power they get and how much energy storage they need to meet their needs. (this example is mostly from an RV perspective)
Even the Admiral Kuznetsov, intended to sail solo, would completely ruin any type of 'siege' attempt.
Despite what most people think, children are unable to effectively learn if they are not encouraged to in their homes. Most people rush to blame the schools and educators but in reality, most of the time its the parents that are to blame for their children's inability to do well in school.

Given that, its no surprise that in a city where the majority of children of the majority demographic are born into single-parent households, those children are unable to do well academically.
Some brokerage accounts do come with API access. People have used Interactive Brokers to build trading bots for a long time now and there is also https://alpaca.markets/ which is developer-focused.
OOooo, that's a nice trick! I'm totally gonna use that in a few places in my current setup. A little shocked at myself for never havin' thought of usin' the immutable bit in that specific way. Seems so very sensible and logical now that I see it. :)
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This is interesting, and I'd love to learn more about your experience using it and what you were using it for.
If you are successful, then next I suggest you will be following in the steps of vendors offering online reference checks, e.g xref, checkster.

You will need all sorts of fraud detection, e.g multiple reviewers all coming from the same ip, and your customers will pay for that security.
Depends on the game. Flight and driving games are vastly better with a gamepad (let alone proper joysticks or steering wheels) than with a keyboard and mouse IMO.
It’s not “storage capacity”, it’s “energy storage capacity”. Think of it like “sources of power”. Source 1 is nuclear, Source 2 is Hydro, Source 3 is Energy Storage.

What are our power sources available to the grid today? Nuclear, Hydro, Energy Storage.

What are the capacities?

Nuclear capacity is 1 GW

Hydro capacity is 1 GW

Energy storage capacity is 2 GW
The videos on the site show people playing Doom Eternal (FPS), Crusader Kings III (4x strategy game), Balder's Gate (top down RPG), and Disco Elysium (point-and-click adventure game). It looks playable to me.

Plus it natively supports "mouse" controls via a few input methods: thumb touch screens and tilt-o-whorl. And if neither of those work, you can use a bluetooth mouse/keyboard.
I think the issue is that there isn’t a transparent option to pay directly. Why not say “opt out of tracking and pay $5/mo, or allow ad tracking” and see what people choose?
For DB that you can't run locally how do you do? or the CI/CD, there are a millions of example where people don't run the DB locally.
Only if it’s running on a separate computer and you’re passing your own mouse movements through that computer. I think it’s still typical for the ML aimbots to run on the same computer?
Some argue linking real identities to online accounts will reduce, well, all negative activity.

Facebook, Weibo and other smaller platforms around the world prove that's not going to happen.

(Too) Many people are still going to be trash even with their actual identity out in the open.

So just leave the Internet be, for the love of everything.
> You can map all the real numbers to the interval 0 <= x < 1.

Even easier use a well-established function such as arctan to map the reals bijectively to the interval -π/2 < x < π/2, and then scale and shift the interval to 0 < x < 1.
Thanks! Well, I just needed to present some static information, so, no scripts needed :-)
Perhaps the answer is a lot of these services are less vital and desired as their MAU figures lead everyone to believe.

If someone really wants or needs something, they'll find a way to pay for it (directly or indirectly) if access cannot be had any other way. Everything else is "nice to have" until the cost or friction gets a little higher than zero.

The fact that people are increasingly unwilling to "pay for" things like FB seems to suggest these services are not actually _that_ vital despite their high usage figures.
I agree with the sentiment, but even with that many people get "ugradeitis" when they hit the trails and see all the cool looking expensive bikes. It's crazy to see how many high end mountain bikes here in Southern Orange County CA.
Would it not have been easier to just choose people at random from California’s population? Then it would have been actually universal.
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Targeting larger pools should reduce per impression costs, because FB has more options for where and when to place your ad. Smaller groups have fewer opportunities, so if you want to show your ad to them specifically, you have to pay more.
I'm glad they're trying to work on offering these people services to help them get safe housing, rather than just kicking them off the land to be homeless somewhere else. Obviously homelessness has too many thorny side-issues for there ever to be a clean solution, but this seems to be a pretty okay one.

I'm not surprised these people are unable to afford housing in the center of the Silicon Valley (even if it's the "area they grew up in"), though.
exactly! the CTO that replaced me, sure thinks he is cool. but i know the code base hasnt changed much and i discovered my SU ssh keys were still working 5 years later. but i bet he got a lot less equity then i walked from.
I always had positive connotations of Smalltalk. Seemed it was talked about as if it was OOP “done right” before Java messed things up. That’s just me though.
All of this is of course patently false. Be aware worik and others will try to keep you from joining markets under dubious pretenses like protecting you or caring about your individual financial sanity. Don't listen to anh of them. Don't gamble more than you can afford to lose and you shall be fine.
500 - 1500 million

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
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I'm speaking in the context of tact. When someone is being tactless, they are communicating to achieve a goal without regard for the social implications of said communication.

The tactlessness has no relationship with the underlying honesty of the goal, though it makes the communication itself less honest.
> The second you put your schema on the wire, that schema can now never change. That's just such an insane commitment to make.

If you change your schema, you can just write a sql expression to convert between schemas 'at runtime'. Like if you have a table with first name and last name and then you decide you really just need the name on the frontend, just change your SELECT statement to concat the two columns, or vice versa.
Where there isn't an available crystal structure, Alphafold can be used to create initial structures for simulation via folding@home, replacing older homology modeling techniques.

Source: former folding@home researcher.
Amazing. If the hardware is good, this will leave no gaming use case that is not best covered by PC
Do legitimate companies actually put products on there? Whenever I check that its like craigslist but with more spam and likely stolen products. craigslist seems to have much better moderation.
You have completely missed one of the the key points of the thread.

Seeding the random number generator with the current time, measured in seconds, removes any element of randomness from the password generator. It makes it straightforward to produce a list of every password that this software has ever generated, or will generate in the future.
About $1.2 billion per launch.

https://www.space.com/11358-nasa-space-shuttle-program-cost-...

There's some room for argument, but on the order of 1,000x the stated SpaceX Super Heavy booster.

Even if that turns out to be vastly optimistic (not ... unheard of in rocket surgery), it's all but certain that costs will be 100x lower than the Shuttle. Even a 10x factor would be utterly transformational.

I'm not an uncriticle Musk fan, but he's repeatedly delivered on promises I thought were tots redic initially (long-range EVs, reusable boosters, powered return boosters). He's had a few missed deliveries (hyperloop and Boring Co. both seem infeasible, and Mars colonisation still strikes me as a very long shot within 50 years), but we're indisputably closer to those possibilities than before he came on the scene. Credit to engineering teams, there's also something to be said for vision and force of will.
And that must and is changing. Green transport is predicated upon a green grid.

Additionally, a “wasteful” process, like electrolysis of water to make hydrogen, can be usefully inserted at onsite wind generation sites for when the grid isn’t requiring/buying vs sitting idle. When you see large wind turbines stopped and you know that there is a constant stream of wind at 50m above that ridge line it’s simply because the grid is not buying atm. I’m positing that aluminum air batteries are viable for aviation for the same reason.
I would argue that the efficient market hypothesis is problematic at best and I also disagree with the characterization of our users as 'dumb money'. We are in fact quite lucky to have some very smart users with us. There are many ways you can use Coinrule, not all of them must be entirely short-term oriented!

That said, it's absolutely your good right to disagree with our value proposition.
For me, there are 2 things:

1. I want more honesty and transparency in products and services. I'm tired of being sold something to "Connect with friends and the world around you" that are actually just a front to collect as much information about me as possible to for advertisers.

I'm not even opposed to targeted ads, but at this point have to assume that if a product is capable of collecting ever bit of data it can and selling it, it will. Even privacy policies and user agreements are meaningless because they all contain text of the effect that the provider can change the terms at any time.

I just want companies to be honest about what they are actually doing and what the cost to me really is.

2. I want ads to back the hell off.

I don't mean they need to go away entirely. There are times when I _want_ to learn about different products and find new things to solve problems I have.

But I'm tired of them them pushing to get as in my face as possible, of them beating me over the head with problems I don't have, and of them trying to manipulate me into giving them money instead of helping me find things that will actually help me.

It's as if product discovery isn't profitable; like companies are afraid to be honest about their products. So instead of making better products, they entire market just makes different colored cheap boxes with nothing inside and uses ads to manipulate as many people into buying them before they figure it out.

I block ads guilt free because at this point I honestly don't feel like I can trust any company that participates in this racket.

Personally though, I'm might just be willing to give up on products that depend on ad revenue. While I admit I do use some services based on ad-tech, I'm pretty quick to leave any site that complains about my ad-blocker and don't really feel like I'm missing anything. I could probably be convinced to leave most these other services behind if they started making a worse experience of it.
> GF5 is the 3rd smallest finite field (GF2 and GF3 are smaller)

There is also a field of 4 elements, since 4 is a power of a prime.
>> The pilots aren't inventing anything on each flight. If they fly the airplane exactly the same way every time, that's a good thing. Writing new programs is not like that.

I have an intern writing and app for internal use. He's using Python, tkinter, and one pip-install package for talking on modbus. Deployment to our hand full of users is easy. Low number of dependencies. It's going really well. A few days ago he said "I really would have liked to use ZZYXX-web-whatever for the GUI instead of tkinter". I said "you users don't give a fuck about that but keeping dependencies easy to manage is important". Users don't actually care about dependencies either, but they do care when it negatively affects getting the thing up and running (or slows development or...). His main gripe with tkinter was actually a lack of familiarity. I said "dude, a large part of your job is going to be learning. Get used to it."

Many architectural decisions in software are completely arbitrary and don't matter nearly as much as some people think. That's not to say all such decisions, but really a lot are not a big deal. In those cases KISS trumps most preferences and big ideas. IMHO of course.
I pay $49.99/month for gigabit in Colorado.
So each one of California's 39M residents gets $0.89 as part of their Universal Basic Income plan?
I wonder if anyone has invented a "storage heat pump" for air conditioning purposes.
You make room for the 5,000...and word spreads and soon you have 10,000 more. Unfortunately with the homeless crisis we have the ones that try to support them more just end up with more of them. It's really a never ending battle...
I don't understand. With pounding sand, don't contractors get tried with military tribunal if they interfere with field activities of the army? Like, SWAT team in the house, with "give us source code or we're going to the court with charges of treason now"? I'd assume Capt. is correct in attempting to fix immediately, and somebody who'd oppose him should be investigated, right? By CID or FBI? Because contractors can't likely make fixes more ASAP than operators in the field?

Or is it the purchasers who're procuring the equipment which "needs to be shipped and fixed properly"? Are we fighting wars in a manner "wait a minute, dear enemy, I'll just fix this small issue in a gusto, and we'll continue"?

Just curious.
Except that's not how the ads work. They're all being bid in real time, by both people using FB tools (small biz) and 3rd parties.

Whoever submits the highest bid wins that ad impression. Less information will mean people bid less, and the targeted ad prices will revert to their less targeted peers from a price perspective.
There was a recent demo of one that didn't. With modern hardware you can run Yolo on an RPi 4 with an 8$ capture card and a Teensy as USB HID for like 50$, you could definitely charge 200$ for it as a cheating appliance.

BRB I'm gonna ask for VC funding (just joking)
Because not everything that happens on Linux is Linux's fault, any more than every thing that goes wrong on Windows is Microsoft's fault? Sometimes it's user error, sometimes it's faulty hardware, sometimes it is the operating system. You don't just lay blame on the operating system for everything that's not working though (although I do see a lot of people do exactly that, despite it not being logical).

As an example; Many folks commenting above appear to have never experienced a problem with hard drives spinning down during a backup, or it causing a remount at a different mount point. This leads to thinking it might not be an operating system issue, but rather something strange about that specific external hard drive.
Unfortunately my experience with Geforce Now was deeply deeply underwhelming when played from a current-gen maxed out Macbook Pro w/ a wired Gigabit connection and 1050Mbps/75Mbps Internet service. It was a horrible lag-fest and felt like the game I was playing was being rendered as a flip-book.

Coming from previously having a top-of-the-line ($6k+) gaming PC a decade ago that still does "okay" on most titles at 1080P to trying to game via GeForce Now from my Macbook was a shockingly bad experience. I'm very interested in the SteamDeck specifically because it allows me to use local hardware to run the game without requiring me to build another $6k+ gaming PC which I might get to use one day a month.
@pavpanchekha: thank you indeed for this great post and great references. I took ML and ran into CH, Ultrafilters but never really got my head around it. Reading with interest!
Maine does a lot more state and local govt work than most states.
that is special relatively , not general
Man, imagine you were a kid getting one of these for the first time, like a Nintendo or Apple. I can't imagine the magical feeling. I really can't.
The only reason libel and violent threat are taken seriously is because people go to so much trouble in preventing them. If libel were made legal, people would think harder about the truthfulness of what they read/hear for example.
> Secular lines of reasoning results in science and all of the progress that has come with it

Unless you have some unknown faith by which 'progress' is good, I fail to see how you can come to that conclusion. Especially when various secular lines of reasonings reject 'progress' as a useful metric, or even a desirable thing at all.

> it is when we are fearful that we reach out into the void looking for someone to help us.

That is not true. A benevolent God is a requirement of Christianity being true. It is not a requirement of deism, which is simply the belief that there is a divine. You're conflating two things. IMO, that there is a divine is incredibly obvious. Christianity requires more of a stretch.
And lifelong. No one changes the direction of his life for a 5 year UBI test.
Because nobody chose them.
You can create your own 'bundles' of coins and rebalance them using Coinrule. Some of our template strategies have been backtested (see here for a few of them: https://help.coinrule.com/en/collections/2700051-template-ru...).

That said, we are also going to add other asset classes in the future and this will allow users to get in and out of ETFs easily.
RCN: $44/m 1gbps/50mbps down/up

Comcast: $70/m 1gbps/30mbps down/up

Chicago

Both are copper. RCN is slowly rolling out fiber but I think it’ll still be asymmetric.
Having tried both, my preference is definitely for the Index. The controllers alone are a substantial step up, not to mention the graphics, tracking, and pretty much everything else.

The Quest is nice because it's cheaper and self-contained, but that's about all it has going for it.
How much of that money for internet access goes to facebook? How are they supposed to develop and maintain their website from zero money they get from you paying for internet access? How are you going to put all your content online if they don't invest in developing and maintaining their services?