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This summer dealers have regularly been offering more than the traditional trade values. 1-2 year old used cars are even selling above MSRP when the vehicle was new.

This is due to the new car supply shortage which is one of the reasons used car pricing is (temporarily) cranked up. Agree worth is based on actual sell price vs. listings and valuation can't solely be based on listings. The challenge is right now many vehicles are selling at list price or above (but starting to cool off in the last few weeks).

In the past few months dealers have been making record revenue and profits in this sellers market by holding firm on asking price and negotiating less especially when they have added online purchase tools to their websites that use a one price model (eg you can't negotiate).

Our valuations are a work in progress but they already do leverage several variables tied to the overall market & supply so when used car prices normalize our valuations will adjust accordingly (and to your point lots of people who bought this summer could be underwater on their used cars a few years down the road).
He didn't get off to a good start in the interview - his initial explanation of hashes and safety vouchers was full of stuttering, and it's only through Joanna Stern's animations and explanations that you get what the intent is.

He tries to emphasize the distinction that this hash generation and comparison process only occurs when the file is about to be uploaded to iCloud, but I have to ask - who is manually choosing each individual photo that they want to upload to iCloud? Most people just toggle on the setting to automatically upload everything.

I would've liked to see questions in this interview about what type of security testing they have done regarding these features, both internally and in combination with NCMEC.

What I still don't get is why they do not allow the user to choose between this on-device hash generation and comparison, and the in-cloud scanning that other cloud providers are already doing.
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As stated in the paper, the amount of Hawking radiation coming off it is absolutely miniscule. The black-body temperature of the emissions is much much lower than the temperature if you just look into space.
I think its just more visible, its easy to upload to the internet and think im uploading to the internet, you don't think I am sharing this with law enforcement and Apples third parties.
"They're just getting rid of Alex Jones" the highbrow commentators said.

"Why are you being so weird about protecting Alex Jones?" they wondered in the direction of anyone with even a shred of perception.
The U.S. curtailing domestic oil and gas production while China moves ahead with "carbon-intensive" projects, and while the President Biden asks OPEC to increase oil production, amounts to unilateral economic disarmament. Even if you think a worldwide carbon tax is worth the cost, the U.S. adopting a grab-bag subsidies and restrictions on its own is not worth the cost to Americans. I never see cost benefit analyses done of things like banning natural gas hookups.
“State sponsored news” is generally seen as a bad thing(tm), so I don’t know how well that would work. There are good ones, for sure. Just that it’s not always a good thing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58094408

"The UK Football Policing Unit received 600 reports of racist comments sent to England's black players after the defeat and judged 207 to be criminal.

Of these, 123 were posted by people overseas, while 34 came from the UK."

//edit// Yes, criminally racist tweets. A higher bar than Twitter's.
Same for any other social media platform. I for sure wouldn't miss them. Not gonna happen, so.

I used to think we will figure out social media, after all we figured out mass media as well. I'm not sure anymore that I'll like the process of us figuring it out...
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I understand that it's a proper name and that in English I shouldn't read too much meaning into proper names. The Big Mac isn't all that big. The Nike Dunk didn't let me dunk basketballs as a kid, but it was a cool shoe. One of my favorites was the ole Six Dollar Burger that by the end was costing you more than $6.
Considering the height of my musical career was a one night only performance of "La Cucaracha" badly strummed out on the guitar in first grade, I'm not sure how good the concert will be. But perhaps the teddy bear would be better.
Exactly. It is basically delegating problem from one place to another thing which is quite opaque and hard to debug.

But again, it depends upon whom you ask. An infrastructure engineer or ops guys are more comfortable with infrastructure scaling your app whereas a developer is more comfortable with application scaling itself.
I spent many happy years using AIX at IBM then in banking in the 90s. Miss those days.
Pakistan is playing the double game again, supporting the Taliban whilst pretending to support the US
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People do blog about it and encourage others to work as "digital nomads".

There was a startup founder on HN circa 2017 that blogged about bouncing between Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore.

Working in Singapore on a tourist visa is particularly stupid because they will actually enforce their laws.
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"A bad word" ... is that really what is being discussed here?

How about "a sustained torrent of racist abuse". I can imagine some feeling unsafe in that situation. Can't you?
I wonder how on Earth did they get so much energy. They are active all day all night. I do sometimes wish that I do have that kind of energy after long work hours.
I have two PinePhones and a Librem 5. I mostly use my 3GB/32GB postmarketOS CE PinePhone, running Arch Linux ARM, as I do blog [0] and try to maintain an app list [1] and testing new features or apps on Arch is just way easier, than on Debian (PureOS, Mobian) or on postmarketOS. The PinePhone is slow, but works mostly fine, so does the Librem 5, which is a tad faster spec wise, but generally feels more smooth.

Sadly, on both devices, the battery life is not what it should be. On the PinePhone, active use trashes the battery (no surprise if you have knowledge of ARM SoCs), but it lasts pretty long if you don't use it too much. With the Librem 5, active use is better, but as long as Purism don't implement a standby mode, 8-11 hours is all you get until you need to find an electrical outlet.

P.S.: I also have the Gigaset hardware that the Volla Phone is derived from, and run Ubuntu Touch on it. It's fine, but it does not run a mainline kernel, so it's a different kind of Linux phone and does not really compare 1:1 to Librem 5 and PinePhone.

[0] https://linmob.net
[1] https://linmobapps.frama.io
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It did indeed as the commands were horrible to try to piece together otherwise. Probably the best interactive help I've ever used from the console.
Ah, missed that part- thanks for pointing it out! Given the absence of a heater element, I'd guess the idea is to spin-dry the clothes before hanging them on a drying line.
I get your point. You can view history from several viewpoints or with certain political filters.

However, when you have academic historians, across the political spectrum, saying the 1619 Project has little resemblance to actual historical study, they should get you alarm bells ringing.

If someone has a rigorous, evidence based viewpoint that’s cool. Flimsy analysis and force fitting history into a particular narrative is not.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians...
reminds me of the parable of the man on the roof in a flood waiting for god to save him saying no to the people who pass by offering a lift.

what if this is a part of the "ridiculing and ignoring of racists"?
The problem with bad frugality is that it can be really hard to detect - especially when it comes to things that affect your health.

Saving money now on regular checkups, which leads to a health emergency later is an obvious one. But what about spending money on ergonomics, PPE, diet, exercise, etc. It can be hard to quantify the long term risk/benefit.
> I didn’t think the new goal would become “no one can ever die of this”. Had I known that, I wouldn’t have said this would be over soon.

Which place, specifically, do you think has gone with this kind of thinking? Because in all countries I know of outside of East Asia, this virus has been allowed to kill many more people than virtually any other infectious disease in the last 10 years.
> penny pincher for not wanting to spend thousands of pennies

Yes, literally, the dictionary meaning of a "penny pincher" is one who does not want to part with his pennies.

The author of the article, on the other hand, seems to call people "penny pinchers" if they do not adopt rules of thumb but instead painstakingly analyze all alternatives. Sure, paralysis by analysis can be bad or there is nothing wrong with focusing one's cognitive energies sparingly etc, but there is very little in the article about penny pinching.

You preferences may say "it is more important for me to save seven bucks in this context." That does not compel other people to enjoy your preferences.

In my life, I have been in groups where if a few people consumed some relatively more expensive food or drinks, they are responsible enough to take care of that.

Also, when you go out with a large group, you do tip the wait staff generously, right?
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Do you believe it has any role in this?
Amazing project. Love the custom artwork and background color!
I would say the opposite:

Be wary of doing in infrastructure what could be done with a little bit of code.

Maintaining a dozen bits of pieces written consistently in one programming language may be cheaper than maintaining complicated infrastructure with various components each requiring separate competencies.

As with everything, tradeoffs are usually involved. Be suspicious of people claiming otherwise.
Adding a couple of gears and a chain to make it like an exercise bike would have made it so much better.
The tone of your last sentence is not compatible with you apparent lack of information (best case) or omission (worst case) about these companies juridically categorizing themselves as platforms, as opposed to publishers, so they are not just "their website enforcing its own rules"? [1]

[1] While the First Amendment generally does not apply to private companies, the Supreme Court has held it “does not disable the government from taking steps to ensure that private interests not restrict . . . the free flow of information and ideas.” which is precisely what they are obscenely doing.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-1588...
It might be worth considering a change of framing: Instead of helping researchers find a company to commercialize their research (solution looking for a problem), give companies a way to find researchers who can help them solve their problems (problem looking for a solution).
This isn't about governments anyway, but if we're going to go that way, the government should protect its citizens, especially those from marginalized communities.
That's not really what NATO is for and it'd depend a lot on what the actual events looked like. If it's frameable as armed violent uprising/terrorism being controlled then it's much less likely to pull explicit foreign intervention and the prototypical '2A to protect against a tyrannical government usage' will almost definitely fit that bill.
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> But then you stop and think wait a second, this person is alone and wearing a mask. Isn't that odd? In fact it seems downright ridiculous. Why would anyone wear a mask in their car when they are alone?

The author has clearly not spent a lot of time in normal mode around people who have to wear their mask for their full shift. Yes, those people forget. Not us keyboard warriors who put it on twice a day for a few minutes.
Say it's a great tragedy and if only people had more firearms at hand thins would be different?
Twitter has to do no such thing. You agreed to a TOS when you signed up. You violated it. Goodbye.

Assholes shouldn't sign up for Twitter knowing they'll be kicked off.
I think you have not understood my comment, and just keyword matched and copy-pasted a tangentially related rant.
I haven't seen any counterargument yet to what I said so far. I do get it, Apple's does whatever they want anyways, it's their decision, but at least they should own up to what they chose.
> Calling them “big tech” jobs is almost as misleading as claiming that the construction workers and electricians who built the data enter were “big tech” construction workers.

I'm confused by this statement. If not constructor workers employed by "big tech", what exactly would a "big tech constructor worker" be?
This is an active area of research in the cognitive science world.

First, 'bias' is defined with respect to an ideal rational actor with perfect information and infinite computing power. The reasons for this are mostly historical (rational animal, Homo economicus, etc), but it also serves as a useful baseline 'ideal observer' model to compare human behavior against.

In the 1950s, Herbert Simon coined the term 'bounded rationality' to describe rationality within a set of computational bounds. For example, if we have finite working memory and limited computing time, but were still trying to make optimal decisions within those bounds, what behavior would we see? In this case, decision making turns from unconstrained to constrained optimization. What may LOOK like a 'bias', with its connotation of sub-optimality, may actually be optimal behavior given constraints.

More recently, people like Gerd Gigerenzer suggested that human decision making is largely composed of heuristics and tricks that enable 'fast and frugal' responses to scenarios. They don't need to be perfect, just good enough - and 'cheap' enough with respect to time that they are worth developing. This is probably true to a certain extent, but to me it's scientifically unsatisfying, as there is no general principle (except for 'cognitive miserliness') to explain behavior - and specifically, there is no longer a way to specify 'normative' or expected behavior in any given situation.

More recently still, there is a trend to revive Simon's perspective under the name 'Resource Rationality'. Tom Griffiths is one of the active researchers in this field. The idea is the similar to Simon's - we have limited 'cognitive resources' and strive to be rational. Griffiths and others have attempted to show that many behaviors that are traditionally called 'cognitive biases' are actually predicted if we are behaving optimally but with constrained cognitive resources.

From the resource rationality perspective, a cognitive bias is a way that a solution to unconstrained optimization differs from a solution to a corresponding constrained optimization problem. Roughly speaking, any combination of limitation on (memory, computation, time, energy, information) will produce a 'bias', and different scenarios we encounter push up against these boundaries in different ways, leading to a plethora of 'biases'.
Come on, the main thesis of the project is claiming 1619 is the true founding. And the project writer secretly removed it and denied she said it.

> In September 2020, lead 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones criticized conservatives for their depiction of the project, arguing that it "does not argue that 1619 is our true founding".[12] Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf responded on Twitter by citing statements from Hannah-Jones arguing that 1619 was the nation's true founding.[12] Philip Magness said in a Quillette essay that the claim that the project aimed to "reframe the country's history, understanding 1619 as our true founding" had been removed from the opening text of project's page on the New York Times' site without an accompanying correction notice.

A simple reading of its Wikipedia page can get those information.
Do you mean automatically? Because every site I can think of already allows this to be done manually via blocking.
Maybe they wouldn't be as budget constrained if they were easier to invite places? I can't invite my teetotaling and vegetarian friends out to many of the casual things I enjoy, and their purity issues create a self-imposed artificial constraint on their life opportunities. Someone with an actual medical issue learns to adapt to life and live it, where someone with a purity constraint selects for oppotunities where they can impose it on others. Not all vegetarians/non-drinkers, etc, but often it's a control ritual that could be satisfied psychologiclaly in other more productive ways. Also, if someone is struggling financially, adding a social purity constraint to their lives seems like a self sabotaging substitute where they are choosing for luck and opportunity to pass them over instead of accepting their circumstances and changing them. As though they can afford purity, without considering what it costs.

Dining out isn't about the food, it's about company and companionship, and I don't eat with anyone I'm not willing to pick up the entire tab for, because the pleasure of their company is well worth it. If their company is not worth that, I'd say that's the definition of wasted time.
Nobody can "do their own research" and still have time to live, unless that's their whole job. This used to be the stated job of journalism, but that profession is now largely dead in ad or benefactor driven news agencies. Independent commentators, journalists, and writers are the only ones that have any hope of being trusted. They cannot institutionalize character and integrity. Glenn Greenwald and the intercept are the clearest examples.

Your mind is built for empathy and understanding the sort of ways that an individual might lie or deceive you, and what might corrupt them. Institutions are like alien structures, which have their own mechanisms for corruption, which are far less intuitive, and much easier to hide behind layers of arbitrary bureaucracy and methodology.

Ultimately, you cannot show a source is reliable, but you can show if one isn't. Sources that are up front about their biases and publicly admit errors get bonus points. Trust individuals, not institutions if for no other reason than because personal bias is the only form that you can intuit.
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You're laughing but "appliances as a service" exists. Someone legit is using a coffee maker and a washing machine on subscription.
Freeing people from the tedium of ordinary housework (as can still be witnessed in parts of Mexico, Philippines, etc.) allows for innovation.

Half the population alive would likely not been born or survived to adulthood if we had followed a steampunkish model of industrialization and progress.

We'd probably have more pollution as well.
It's hard to say anything without knowing your situation in detail, but to me you sound more like you're just deeply lost rather than your life is messed up beyond repair. If you really focus and put your heart, soul and effort into something you can make astounding progress in just a few years, so mid-thirties does not sound too old in that regard.

You seem to have a felt sense of wasting your life by continuing to live it like this. That would imply that on some level you know that there's something you could and should be doing instead that you would be satisfied with, and your emotional systems are trying to signal to you that you're not doing that now. I would suggest you work on these crude signals and try to articulate the vision that's embedded in them into words to bring it into a form more comprehensible to yourself.

Here's a few questions: what would a properly lived life look like? What would you need? What could you do in your (lowly, confusing) situation to help yourself if you decided to do things properly, and humbly started to grab the opportunities that are presented to you right now, no matter how small and beneath you they might appear to you?
https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043503951-Wh...

> Vilifying, humiliating, harassing, promoting identity based attacks against, promoting hatred against, or threatening violence against marginalized or vulnerable groups.

The carve-out is the phrase "marginalized or vulnerable".
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>You do not decide for us what we wish to consume.

Except that they very much do. "You should not decide" would be better phrased.
Yes, that's why packaging is more complicated as soon as you use more than your own language.

Go solves only one problem, albeit very well.
I think a a mega backdoor Roth gets you to similar limits.
I'd still like to see some solid evidence on exactly when the virus started spreading outside of China. Some estimates say it was in the US as early December 2019. I say that to mean timelines are very important if we're going to look back and do post-hoc analysis.

While I certainly don't mind the blame-all-the-US-politicians game, there are several points of failure. The CCP is most to blame because of the lack of disseminated information (that we now know they had) and attempts to suppress people communicating about it. The media largely ignored it for many of the same reasons that politicians did. Then the internet mobs, conspiracy theorists, and social media sites acting on behalf of political organizations didn't help either. It's death by 1000 paper cuts.
I read the article as a guide for my own behaviour, rather than as a template to judge others.

Definitely true one should not judge when you see someone insisting on paying their fair share. You never know the details of their personal lives.
A generator + second hand industrial washing machine will cost less than $1000 together, and will probably be enough to wash clothes of hundreds of people in a day.

That's more usefulness than any of these space toilets NGOs splurge millions of bucks on.
Not peer reviewed, not published, anonymous authors.

This is a fake meta-analysis.

The most important study that weighted in IVM favor was bogus and was retracted some days ago.
One of aphorisms of Kozma Prutkov[1] was this: "Throwing pebbles into the water, look at the ripples they form on the surface. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement."

I believe, that throwing pebbles into black hole, and watching the ripples they form would be very amusing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozma_Prutkov
Before posting a question like this, why not take a few seconds to see if any NGOs are working on expanding access to electricity? I think you'll find there are quite a few.

And why work so hard to find a negative angle on this story? There's plenty of actual bad stuff happening in the world for you to criticize.
maybe i'm not aware of the curriculum, but propaganda seems like something that would be addressed in any conversation about news literacy? seems to be the very definition of news literacy -- knowing when to weed through reporting and look deeper. also, cherry picked reporting is an insignificant problem compared to knowing how to think critically about reporting. knowing how to think critically about the news would (ideally) fix this problem!
> And fix the moderator system so "first to register controls the sub" is no longer the case

Why do you consider that a problem? As a heavy user of reddit, I don't consider that a problem at all. I would be interested to hear what problems you think exist with that system and what other solutions exist.

I'd be pretty pissed if I created a subreddit, put effort into growing it, and someone could just come along and steal it.