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Too. Many. People.

The corporations do bad things because you give them money. Your lifestyles are horribly wasteful because you buy too much stuff that you don't need, and for the wrong reasons. Then you throw it away.

You buy new clothes not because you need them but because it makes you feel better about yourself and because you think the other monkeys will be impressed.

In turn, the other monkeys feel like they have to buy new clothing.

Then you throw it all out when fashion changes and you buy more.

The end result is that tonnes of clothing are discarded annually in my small neighbourhood.

I gather so much of this for my clothing bank that the homeless people don't want it any more. They are overwhelmed with clothing.

We run a clothing exchange for everyone and we still can't get rid of it. We try to ship it to other countries but they already have mountains of it. It has to be sent for industrial re-processing or put into landfills.

Your consumer goods last about one month after their already-short warranties expire and then you throw those out, too. Over 80% of what comes into my e-waste program is working or can be easily repaired. You don't even bother; you just throw it out.

Several groups in my neighbourhood have active campaigns against me because they feel like it is beneath their dignity to repair and recycle what they call "garbage". These people are defective monkeys who feel that they are better than others because they can afford to waste more and destroy the planet faster than everyone else.

Then you reproduce unrestrictedly and teach your little monkey babies the same ridiculously wasteful lifestyle. "You're a princess; you're a beautiful and unique snowflake; everything revolves around you. Go out and destroy the animals and pollute the oceans and kill the insects and wipe out the wetlands because you're worth it!"

No, you are monkeys who have gotten uppity. You have a few successes in technology, but you are actually horrible monsters who care only about themselves and maintaining your idiot social order by force.

You need to control your own numbers and stop the horrific waste of your idiot monkey lifestyles before you choke on your own exhaust and drown in your plastic refuse.
I really enjoyed the courses at: https://learnwatchmaking.com/
Yes, but so what? He has to deal directly with the owner of the company, heads of other departments, any HR issues, etc and I don't. He can keep his money and position.
but it is true? https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html
https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/tacking-downwind-faster-t...
> But isn't this more or less what happens with macOS?

They seem more aggressive with doing that than other vendors, when they do they signal for (years?) in advance, and I doubt they do that to the degree that it makes development "easy."
Mostly agree with his points, but there are definitely poorly understood sociological factors that influence whether countries develop novel technologies or not. E.g. US prior to WWII underperformed in science with respect to Europe. Probably outperformed in terms of technology. France is sort of the opposite: strong history of science, but not as technologically innovative as some of its neighbors.
If the vaccines are so fantastic at preventing hospitalizations and deaths, and they've been taken up by the vast majority of the elderly who are most at risk, then why are we still trying to slow the spread of an endemic respiratory virus?
What's not true about it? According to Wikipedia [1] there are a bunch of speed records for sailing faster than the wind by tacking downwind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_sailing
Some of these animals are like beings of a lost world. We don't know for sure, but who knows what kind of creatures live on the ocean's dark depths.
As a vaccinated person, I don't care if the unvaccinated get Covid. They made a choice, let them deal with the repercussions
Would you consider an "IBM compatible" PC from the late NeXT era that can natively run NeXTSTEP/i486 authentic? Seeing as that's the (one of) the kind of computer that NeXT sold the OS for.
With today's existing banking products, it is indeed basically impossible to keep 0% in cash, because you then couldn't pay your rent etc.

On the question of how much money you should keep in cash, I think it really depends on how much savings you have. Most experts recommend a rainy day/emergency fund worth 3-6 months of normal expenses. If you invest that rainy day/emergency funds in a Financial Choice account, it is important to choose an investment strategy with an appropriate risk/reward profile, and adjust the savings target to account for the additional risk from the investments. Betterment has a pretty good writeup on this idea https://www.betterment.com/resources/safety-net-funds-why-tr....
How do FANNG folks with free lunch, child care, massages, etc feel about WFH? The major tech companies have gone overboard on the benefits, would those remain if more people wfh? What if they went away entirely, would that influence wfh?
Well, yes. Might makes right, no question there.

The question is how far the powerful are willing to push the system in order to maintain their relative status (relative to each other, not to 'us') and how much the disenfranchised are willing to take.

If the powerful are careless, an angry mob will spice up the game. But of course that's just opportunity for other powerful entities to advance their relative status.
LeanChess – 288 byte chess program
> One American is emitting 15 Indians worth of carbon emissions.

15.5 / 1.82 = 8.5

So more like One American is emitting 9 Indian's worth of carbon emissions.

Still a lot though.
Choosing Shopify email personalisation software
I sometimes think 'race' is nothing more than a fantastical vanity construct. Really its tribalism. Furthermore, I find it hard as well to comprehend how it holds weight in the medical industry. Race is not real science. Race is entertainment science. AI is mostly entertainment science.
OK, I'll forfit 100% of my rights to eradicate CP from my country. Then lets say these measures are effective and CP is removed in all but name from the country. Now what do we do with the thousands of people and billions or of dollars that is being funneled into the effort? Well history shows us this answer. None of those people or authorizes are suddenly going to say well that's a wrap. Lay us off and take the budget to a more meaningful use. Nope, instead they double down and start looking for other "infringements" to justify their funding and their jobs. Ever increasing in the pettiness of the trespass until powerful sociopath realizes they can now repurpose this agency an their resources for their own power gain to remove opponents and silence opposition.

Perhaps even worse. They move on to some ML based detection that uploads suspected CP that is not in the database. Most people have no idea how bad a false accusation can destroy their lives. Even if you are 100% innocent there is already a formal government case against you. At the very least you will be compelled to hire a very expensive attorney to handle the matter for you. After all you cant risk a budget attorney with a huge caseload to handle this potential life sentence case. Not to mention that during this time you will possible be locked out of accounts,finances, put on leave from employment, banned from hiring, banned from assistance programs. Perhaps even posted in the media as a sex offender.
The most efficient heat engine is not the most efficient method of converting fuel to transportation though, is it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse

Whether we should include Mars as a distination for transport, or indeed incrementally faster broadband as good uses for energy are up for debate. But Elon does, so here we are. Light 'er up and let the hippies argue amongst themselves!

SpaceX may have the absolute bee's knees in rocket engine, but that assumes that leaving the atmosphere is what we need to do, and need to do now. People are mumbling 'mass transit' and 'intercontinental travel' with respect to Starship for crying out loud. It's completely insane.
Climbing up the value chain starts from the bottom.

Japanese cars were once considered low quality "rice cups". Japan just kept shamelessly borrowing the best ideas from best foreign manufacturers, while simultaneously fixing their weaknesses.
> But the power and potential disruption of cryptocurrency is the anonymity.

Depends on the ones you use. Certainly the privacy coins like Monero are the ones that do better than most of the other coins out there.
In cold winters I used to wear a scarf around my mouth while running, which was magnitudes more restricting to breathing than any mask.

I guess most people who complain do it "out of principle" because they want to see themselves as the type of person who cannot be forced to do anything by authorities. Weirdly other believes are really authotarian.

Are you really free when you don't use your own head but reflexively do/don't do something just because you like/dislike the person which says it?
Hey, the crypto industry has Ted Cruz in its corner, so that's, uh, okay, well, never mind.
> when the Delta variant results in 1000x the viral load in the nose/mouth

can you provide a reference for this?
I agree, to an extent. Just there is basically no world where splitting a forty line function into five files is less code. And sometimes, having less to hold in your head helps compartmentalize it. So you may make the specific function easier, at the expense of the entire project. :(
Why can't you serve a vegan meal for a dinner party?
And the journey to not being able to trust big tech smartphones just like you can't trust big tech social media has been completed.

Guess I'm gonna have to buy a semi terrible privacy focused smart device with phone capabilities in the near future.
>There seems to be a naive belief that it can never happen here, just because it never has.

What do you mean it never has? FDR literally stole everybody's gold in 1933 and got away with it.
I agree very much with this. Many of us rely on facial expressions - both sending and receiving - to improve communication. Its a big loss for some of us and I look forward to masks going away.
Some of those games were certainly not low effort, though. The Jedi Knight games for example. I spent a few months of my spare time modding Jedi Knight Academy and from familiarizing myself with the code base I can tell you they put a lot of effort into it. And while it's based on id Tech 3 it very much has its own feel.
> underground economies benefit oppressed people when governments turn tyrannical

They also benefit the rich and powerful by enabling tax evasion and graft. Pyongyang, Tehran and Caracas make regular use of illicit trade and money laundering to facilitate upward wealth transfer.

Yours is a legitimate point. It's an argument for curtailing the power of law and government. That's fine. We can debate that. But until America decides it doesn't want to collect taxes anymore, the reporting is sort of required.
So we'll update the vaccinations annually like we do with influenza. We can't hope to prevent covid from mutating, it's a game of whack-a-mole that requires a totalitarian state to win at.
It is going to be an interpreter, so the “host runtime” including the GC will be of the host LISP program.
This seems rather an odd argument to me.
Kythc gets to reverse engineer Taylor machines but Taylor cannot reverse engineer Kytch?

I’m all on the side of right to repair but surely reverse engineering ought to be permissible for all sides?
But how long do red widgets last compared to the green widgets? Since red widgets have been so woefully under performing compared to the green widgets, has anyone seriously looked at the red widget for long term viability or is this just flash in the pan type performance? Just to beat up the analogy further.
That is interesting. I haven't met anyone who thinks privacy erosion is a good thing. We don't need to frame it as digital vs physical anymore. There is no distinction as it relates to personal privacy.
I think it's just very poorly worded. Sailboats can go faster than the true wind speed, like in the America's Cup, and typically do it do it going upwind. The addition of tacking is not wrong, it is zigzagging upwind, but just very oddly worded.
Supply Chains in a Volatile World
Expanding Secrets Infrastructure to AWS Lambda
Maybe the next four words of the title provide the required clarification?

“Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine”
Every cloud infrastructure holder is required for doing that. Closing an eye does not take a duty away. You must be actively pursuing that. Encryption would start flood of new laws

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2011-title18/USCO...
Well, since Talking About Statistics Is Hard, you have to look at the exact phrasing from the website: it "ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account". So, each of those billion accounts has a 1:1T chance of false positive. If I remember my stat 101 correctly, that should translate to a 1:1000 chance of having at least 1 false positive on the planet during any given year. (And remember, even a false positive just means that a human reviews your photos, not that you get reported to the police.)
You should, because you can still get Covid from one of those unvaccinated people - and you might die from it, or spread it to someone else who might die from it.
Cryptography is more widely used than cryptocurrency. That people don't understand they're using it doesn't change the fact that "threatens the cryptography industry" is more scary than "threatens the cryptocurrency industry" especially since cryptocurrency relies on cryptography so it would be directly threatened as a consequence.
Well, do you only wear one while grocery shopping? how much time do you spent outside of your home?
As someone who has been sorely disappointed by much of how crypto has developed since it's early days and is somewhat a crypto pessimist, I'm extremely disturbed that something which could outright kill US Crypto is being rammed into a infrastructure spending bill. If you want to ban crypto, fine, that's a position which could be taken, debated, and discussed. But it should be done separately and given sufficient time for public feedback. Stuffing it into this bill is asinine to the nth degree.
If you use a webclient, it doesn't matter, you trust the server no matter what you use. Ots cli has the advantage of being auditable once, and remain on your computer.
Agree.

I want to see smiles. I can't even tell if someone is laughing at my jokes. Tones are muffled.

They're awful.

And eventually I will just stop.

My time is finite. Eventually I will just experience life how I want to, and stop living indefinitely for some other vague, "we're all in this together" goal.
> AML has been completely ineffective; there's absolutely zero evidence to show it's reduced drug usage or terrorism, drug gangs now are richer than ever before.

AML is not itself an anti-drug-trafficking or anti-terrorism law. It’s a law designed to make money laundering more difficult by requiring banks to keep and submit more information on large transactions. Normal American citizens also launder and embezzle money, and AML laws have arguably been pretty effective against the baseline petty financial crime that defined American upper class finance during the previous century.

Besides, the assertion that drug traffickers are “richer than before” needs substantiation and clarification. They can be “richer” than before in terms of cash on hand (particularly outside of USD), but it doesn’t mean all that much if they can’t wash it back into legitimate looking finances. But I don’t even necessarily believe that first half.

Finally, AML is a set of US laws. If you want to claim that the US is an authoritarian government, go ahead; just don’t contort your argument through some abstract Bad Guy. They don’t have access to your bank records.
Don't worry, it's just two weeks to flatten the curve.
Plenty of info on this circulating on news sites.

https://www.google.com/search?q=delta+1000x+viral+load
The Delta variant came out of India, so the US course of action is of little concern here.

Also, from the very beginning it has been stated that, like almost all respiratory illnesses, covid will become more contagious and less severe over time. Now that it has happened, everyone is pointing fingers.
> Just have everybody stay at home simulataneously for 2 or 3 months.

You probably wrote this half-jokingly, but actually… this is exactly what Australia tried last year and … well it’s still trying.
the unvaccinated are filling up hospitals -- would it be ethical to kick out an unvaccinated covid patient and give priority to vaccinated patients (regardless of illness of injury)?

some people cannot get vaccinated
To that same argument, saying there is no evidence that it has reduced black market behavior is the exact same concept that would drive 'There's no evidence that it hasn't reduced bad actors".

AML isn't like the war on drugs because that's a silly pointless war, it's more like traffic laws. Are they still broken? All of the time.

Would you rather drive on roads without them?

It's that simple, AML makes the job harder to do which is known to be effective at making harder to do, or at least introduces fear of doing.
Half of the modern web stack is there because it makes development <INSERT POSITIVE ADJECTIVE> to work with. The problem isn't SASS per se, it's that we have half a dozen tools with overlapping functionality because we can't nest CSS selectors (or some other, fairly trivial benefit) with no clear, overwhelming winner out of the lot of them so we have to know all of them. And then we have highbrowed discussions over which one is better for a particular project (hint: it doesn't really matter).

I just wish we'd settle on one, _finally_ solidify the web layer and get on with doing productive work.
You may find most people are actually short the dollar (< 0%) on a net basis. That is, most people hold significantly more dollar-denominated debt than they do assets.
If your argument is that governments should not regulate cryptocurrency because the point of cryptocurrency is to evade government regulation, you should expect cryptocurrency to become illegal rather than regulated.
If you got vaccinated you did your part. And now you're being asked to wear a mask so you lessen the chance of spreading a disease to people who didn't get vaccinated and could get very sick because of that personal choice. They made their choice and that's fine - but why should the vaccinated (who put an experimental molecule into their bodies for the greater good) now have to carry the burden for them?
> I still fail to see why people are so vehemently opposed to masks.

For me the sense of suffocation is strong and despite dozens of hours in one I have not grown accustomed to it, or even more tolerant of it. It's bad enough that while I'm willing to mask up for an emergency, as a permanent thing I would rather accept a bit more risk of a terrible disease or death. The size of the acceptable risk for me has only grown over time.

Given the number of people who insist on wearing a mask in a way that gives nobody any protection, I'm not alone in this.
I got pretty into watches during the pandemic. It's definitely one of those expensive hobbies.
The fan blades are an airfoil, which have a minimum speed to create the lifting effect.
Hell, I'll almost certainly fail, but I've at least got some ideas to try out to (sloooowly) turn the ship around, for that rate. "Keep on truckin'" clearly isn't working.
The highest rates of mutation have been observed in the immunocompromised, many of whom can't get vaccinated. Add to that the fact that vaccines don't terminate the spread by any means, and there are vast reservoirs of animals and people in the Global South who will never be vaccinated all at once, and the idea that mutations can be prevented by mass vaccination quickly comes into focus as a scientific fairy tale.

It would be nice if Covid was a slow-moving target like smallpox. It isn't.
If you think the crypto-market moves on news, then you have missed on some sweet gains. The news effect is getting reduced since every single time it proves that it doesn't matter.

Bitcoin price is lead mainly by retail demand. Speculators are quick to panic on the way down, but the return of retail demand end up in a new bubble. This is mostly the byproduct of lack of faith on the foundations of the price. These effects are less felt now that the market has matured.

Of course this is purely my opinion and observation. So take that with a bag of salt.
> My experience was that the AA “methods” are just a vehicle for the true healing, which comes from the people

I can believe that, and I'll happily grant that's an extremely valuable spect of it, given how much social isolation is an exacerbating factor in addiction and relapse.

> Respectfully, I don’t think you have any idea what you’re talking about. Spend some time in a few AA meetings, maybe a meeting in a prison, and reconsider your hypothesis.

That's not respectful at all, regardless of the reality of my knowledge of the topic. I've been very close with people who went to AA, including one who lost his life after several years in it. I've been close with others with other substance addictions, including at least one who ended up in prison. Though I wasn't understanding of it at the time, in retrospect I can recognise what was powering their addictions. These techniques would have helped those people the way they helped me. It's been demonstrated by at least one prominent researcher, Dr Gabor Mate - https://drgabormate.com/topic/addiction/
Breathing is noticeably harder. There's probably some low grade physiological stress when you use a mask. I don't know how people who wear them long term feel comfortable with that.
Over-exposed individuals, collectively, serve as a population where the virus can thrive and mutate over time.

Eventually, a mutation may allow partial or large bypass against current vaccines -- then it is everyone's problem.

In the short term, increasing ICU loads result in less ICU space for others (e.g., those in a car accident). They also drive up group insurance costs, which we'll end up seeing in our premiums in coming years.
Rush to buy before regulatiob kicks in? I mean the whole crypto rallies until now were not because of government help . Until recently banks would close your account if you bought cryptos
There are children who can't get vaccinated and people with immune issues that also can't get vaccinated. Neither of these people are responsible but together they are millions of folks who could potentially be put in danger.
We've known the consequences since at least the 70s. Industry has done everything they could to cover it up and propagandize the population into believing otherwise.
> Individual action won’t solve this problem

This is true. But if large portions of the electorate start living like GP, they'll have no problem with voting for carbon taxes and other measures that'll cost money. They won't be swayed by talking heads on TV shouting "environmental Marxism!".
From the hip:

#1 half life of carbon already in the atmosphere means it'll continue to cause warming.

#2 natural processes, like thawing tundra, are now in positive feedback loop where warming causes more warming.

My takeaway has been that we'll need to be carbon negative asap to have any chance of reigning in warming.
> It just turned every outing into a chore

I’ve been in countries with outdoor mask mandates almost since the start of this thing, and I don’t really understand this. How has it become a chore? Don’t you just pick up a mask from a pack or a reusable one as you leave your home? I haven’t noticed any difference in sense of smell, albeit my sense of smell is very keen.

But again, what’s the chore here? It just feels like habit
Masks are back for whom?