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> Don't you realize that this judgment is best left to the outsiders? Humans are notoriously prone to misjudging themselves. We have all kinds of biases that allow us to see ourselves other than we really are.

This is a good question. How do I know if my judgement and ethical compass is really better?

Over time, I developed two scales to measure this.

1. Does my ethical standard get work done? Does it lift all boats? Does it inspire a majority of people? Do these inspired people feel safe to speak up? If yes, I know I'm navigating something right.

2. Do the majority of equal-level peers (not my reports) approve of my decision-making? Are they happy about working with me? Do they feel like if they work with me, they will see success themselves? Do they feel safe to verbalize this? If yes, I know I'm on the right path

3. Do the vast majority of managers recognize what I am doing? Are they able to distinguish my style from others and are able to appreciate the outcome? If yes, I'm on the right path.

The ethical compass didn't just come by reading books. It came from constantly trying to do good, constantly trying to be reasonable and constantly pivoting when I sense I'm going astray. It took me 15 years to do this.

An example of a case where my ethical compass saved me - recently, my own manager tried to roadblock my growth to the next level. I couldn't tell why. In my mind, a manager would want their reports to grow to their full potential. This manager tried to string me along, stole credit behind my back. He gave me bullshit answers to why I am not at the next level. Me countering didn't appear to work because in his narcissitic world, all the work doesn't count. It hurt me but I had my ethical compass to rely on.

So, I first validated my work, approach to work and thoughts with peers. I collected evidence of my work and talked with skip. He was aligned with my thought process and happy with my work.

Since I now had validation that I was not doing the wrong things, I spent 3 months collecting evidence against the manager, by documenting his lies and his credit-steals.

Showed this to the skip. He didn't like what the manager was doing. Ultimately the manager had to quit because his lies were exposed.

I learned something from this episode. I validated my ethical compass. I tweaked the ethical compass a bit with my learnings on how to tackle self-serving assholes.

Most importantly, I am left feeling very satisfied and comfortable, knowing that my ethical compass continues to help me get ahead.
Sure but then they mostly aren’t keeling over three years after retiring.
A new element like canvas, except that model should be allowed to only draw 3d scenes? At this point they should just implement the w3c X3D specificiation into the browser with an integrated renderer (like SVG), so that we do not have to rely on x3dom anymore. Since SVG is not blocked, I do not see why X3D would be blocked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D

https://www.x3dom.org/
I already pay more income tax because I don't have dependents. A good portion (most?) of my property taxes go to schools I will never utilize. If anything, not having children is an altruistic choice that should be rewarded with lower taxes. Perhaps it will if carbon taxes ever become a thing.
What are you responding to? I really am having trouble parsing your reply.

What was never set up as a savings account?

My comment was pointing out the absurdity of taxing a specific group of people more because in their old age they will become a greater burden on the state than another group. Consequently forcing them into becoming dependent on the state by reducing their ability to save and invest for themselves. It's a vicious cycle and the original commenter doesn't seem to recognize the absurdity of that position. In the OP's proposal, I'd have higher tax rates because I've not yet had children. But once I do have children, what, do I get it all back? Or am I just forced to suck up the unnecessarily reduced income for the past 20 years? What if my children (god forbid) don't survive to adulthood themselves. Will I start getting taxed more again due to this tragedy? Of course, this already happens now as you lose a dependent for tax purposes.

The position is absurdist unless the objective is to further reinforce dependence on the state.

I'll point out that the OP suggests increasing taxes on the childless over what they are already taxed now. Which suggests a greater swing than just the loss of a dependent on your taxes in the case of the death of your children. Adding insult to injury, as it were, for my last question.
> could we have had an autonomous rail system by now?

We already have autonomous rail systems. Its called positive train control and was fully implemented like a year or two ago (mandated in 2009, but you know how government works, lol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control

The train conductor has become more-and-more automated to remove the chance of human error. It works with a system of very reliable sensors that indicate where every train engine is on the rails.

Given the huge amount of cargo any particular train has, I don't think there's any intent on cutting the last two humans (the conductor + engineer) out of their job. Their salary costs are miniscule compared to the safety value they deliver, even if the job of driving a train has been almost entirely automated away by now.
They can't add functionality to a device that I don't own.
As well as cookies between restarts, so eg. you don’t have to login to google inside your google container.
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To say nothing of regionally adjusted poverty rates. The Bay Area is filled with highly educated who live as paupers compared to those in less expensive housing markets. Economic insecurity is known to be the cause of declining birth rates. We are increasingly urban and educated population. One can sort of “do the math.” Hard to raise a family paying $3200 a month to rent a small studio in the “trendyloin.”
Yep, and the downside of having a kid is very low. Basically, if one decide to go with public education system, the expense is low. And one has the choice to divorce or engage less with the child if he does not want to be with them. Although morally that's quite bad behavior.

And when they grow into high school, they'll actively drive the parents out of their social circles.

Finally in college, you are free...
Sure, but why not Mitochondrial DNA? It just struck me as weird to gender it.

I will hold my tongue on the romance point.
The hobbiest websites will not go away. Open source existed long before the internet.

What you are left with is the hobbiest websites or the mega brands that want to funnel you into their ecosystem. To offer anything that cost resources that you are willing to spend you must be a megabrand using this as a loss leader opportunity.

I don't think we want that world. We may think we do but look at what happened in Mr. Robot.
Why breed USA brand tax cattle state property objects, when mass suicide produces better culture.
There are no children in my immediate family, it will stop with my generation. In my extended family of 8 first cousins none of the 4 males have children.

My social circle has quite a few children. One couple had children then met several other couples through childbirth classes and added them to the group.
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They do are mostly consumption devices though. And passive ones at that. I use my phone for according, that's one active use. I really can't use it for planning hikes, but i guess i could (it just that after 4 days without sun, i'm always happy to have a map with me, so i'll have to plot the hike on the map anyway). I guess i could have two activ use. I use it to get alert when a combo high tide+wind+temperature+nothing in my schedule, but really, i coded this on my PC, run it through my server and just use my phone company API to receive a text message, so that's passive too.

Research on wikipedia when i'm not sure about a name or something? Its consumption, but active consumption.

All my other uses are passive or are about communication, and takes 80% of my time on the phone.

Please xplain to me other uses? I guess i could use it for photography, but i don't really care.
While I agree that Apple should fix their WebGL implementation, this doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

I have noticed a lot shopping sites now have 3D models of products that you are buying, I feel like this element would be a great match for those situations.
He's got a solid book [1] with some insight into his decisions. He's an interesting guy- definitely worth a read.

[1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/557242/mind-and-mat...
The labor saving advantages of carrying 100 people on the same vehicle are so enormous that there is little motivation if any to quit paying conductors and engineers.
Sure, and every parent had a child. Just weird to gender it.
We could have possibly automated some existing rail, but I am not altogether certain that doing so would have lead to any significant improvements in cost or efficiency.

Actually laying the infrastructure for mass transit via rail is an entirely different league of cost from what has been dumped into self driving cars.

We have a hard enough time agreeing on how to do light rail transit in places that want it, and then actually getting it done.
There are lots of sports that don't involve being hit in the head, people can do those instead.
You can get head impact from watching?
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> The reason I have come to that conclusion is that politics is tribal, if you want to be part of a group, you have to have exactly the right beliefs, you cannot have an opinion other than the ones shared by the group, if you think a bit differently than the group, but agree with them on a large degree of things and are willing to work with them, the group will reject you. They do not want free thinkers, they want foot soldiers for their culture war.

If a group is like that, then they're right - I'm not part of their tribe.
You can just embed the paypal payment in a web view inside the app. I currently do that for example for rooted users because many of them have hacked the IAP to auto approve. It's very doable
Reiterating without adding detail
> Google [...] would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office.

Sample size of 1 here: Google approved my working remotely in a small town outside a major city at the same compensation as working in the office in that major city. So no pay cut.

I think there's a game of telephone going on with the facts in these articles:

"could see different changes in pay" -> could lose money" -> "would reduce pay"
as a single person, living far from family, and basically friendless, I'm recognizing there is probably a big market for having someone to fall back on. I used to have my now ex girlfriend as an emergency contact, but rn I have no one who I would miss me or likely to come help me if I were, say, hospitalized. I'd feel far more comfortable if I had someone on retainer to fill this risk gap.
I don't see how Allbirds can have any sort of moat keeping out competitors even in the medium term. Shoes are notoriously easy to duplicate. See for instance the many, many near-perfect Croc copies.
Uncertain why my comment triggered others. Google and you'd find stories. Do not take every other ban an attack against democracy.
For me, it’s the lack of polish and full corporate productivity suite.

There are _zero_ effective replacements for a multitude of things I need, although I would be perfectly happy with a fully standard implementation of Remote Desktop (and no, Remmina still lacks the authentication and virtual desktop workspace support I need). Edge and Teams betas are coming close to providing around half of what I need, but not all there yet (I work at Microsoft).

I am, however, pretty happy with Linux for personal use and development work - I even bought a new laptop exclusively for it: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/08/26/1400

I am running Elementary on it, which is (by far) the best distro for my needs (and habits): https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/08/16/1200

However, all my personal stuff (mail, photos, music) still lives on a Mac, and I don’t see that changing as for “civilians” (as a friend puts it), the lack of even half-baked e-mail and calendaring, let alone the kind of creature comforts you get from the Mac App Store (and the Windows one) make Linux a no-go unless they just want to browse Facebook and read webmail.

(Again, Elementary comes closest and flatpacks are _nearly_ there, but the core apps aren’t ready yet.)
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And that they themselves took advantage of, even the childless were children
Artificial intelligence just located new craters on Mars in 5 seconds
I do not, but I do live in a major metropolitan area and I work in tech. I think it would be fair to draw some parallels.
>They have that right they can choose to not develop on Apples platform.

This is the EXACT same choice you or Apple/Google the company not to use electricity, nobody comes with guns and forces you to connect your stuff to the electric grid. I can be a business but not make a mobile app for iOS and Google Store because I think this companies are evil, I am "forced" similarly on how I have to use electricity.
“Among childless adults ages 55 and older, 85.2% were White alone; 79.0% were non-Hispanic White; 9.2% were Black alone; 3.4% were Asian alone; 2.2% were all other races or reported multiple races; and 6.5% were Hispanic”

This is a significant disparity based on race
Nice anecdote! That's the kind of thing I wonder about.
"Huh. Must be a rule about usury and credit card interest."

"Oh, Korean, as in Korea."
I confess I have a reflexive skepticism to the idea that Tesla's achievements (and struggles) in car manufacturing would translate to any kind of lead in chip design and manufacturing. How long did it take Apple from planning to rollout for M1? And the Tesla chip seems to be making bigger revolution-sized claims?
The Mac App Store gives a hint at what would happen if there was any choice. The amount of software actually available for the Mac is far, far greater than what’s listed in the store. Furthermore, while some quality and notable apps are still in the Mac App Store, many well-known apps are not there. The number of lousy apps is also extremely high every time I go to search or just look at the front page, to the point where Apple does itself no favors by even drawing attention to most of the apps on that store (and it gives the impression that “most” Mac software must be like this).

If they simply listed all major Mac apps, e.g. linking to their web sites or download links or whatever, they would hugely increase the value of the Mac platform and bring enough direct benefit to developers to be worth some kind of fee (and of course Apple gets $99/year anyway). Instead, they tried to port the same clueless, greedy, review-burdened scheme to that store, layering completely unnecessary requirements on top (like poorly-thought-out sandboxing). And since developers had a choice, they mostly said No.
How about asking older people (having had children/childless) what they think about their own situation ?
It is really unreasonable to compare Tesla's photoshop mocks with hardware already deployed in the field today. Google already has a TPUv4 cluster that can train ResNet-50 in 13 seconds, which is ridiculous. Until Tesla publishes actual MLPerf benchmarks, you can assume that their ASIC game is at least as far behind Google's as their self-driving game is behind Waymo's: 5 years at a minimum.

https://github.com/mlcommons/training_results_v1.0/tree/mast...
Ah, come on, they really haven't. They just have taken old hardware out of their testing matrix, so if it doesn't work, they don't want to fix it. Most likely stuff will run fine.
>Microsoft has admitted to gaming Hackernews

This is interesting. Where did you see that?
I think there are places that are invested in them. If you have an in-house software stack (possibly in assembly or with significant parts written in assembly) and years of expertise and familiarity, moving to ARM is maybe not worth the investment.

I don't know what "Legacy" means to NXP, exactly. They're probably not making new, compatible cores. But if you're buying more than a few hundred per year you're likely to be able to do it for a while yet. Microchip, I know, use the phrase "customer-driven obsolescence", which means that as long as people are buying the chips they will keep making them. They still have a few 5V programmable logic devices that are maybe 25 years old but still available in onesies, and some from that series that I've heard they make as a sort of "print on demand" system if you buy the 500 or however many are in one batch. In general obsolescence in embedded hardware is very different to PC software, especially the kind that's normally discussed here.
That's a fair point, but I don't find Rust really harder to use than Go for small hobby projects. Swift is nice as a language but has a huge lack of libraries.
> In addition to the obvious time zone constraints, I think payroll taxes and such are a major regulatory boundary that you need to cross in addition to having "all your shit together" as one of the top comments puts it.

This can be annoying even across state boundaries, let alone internationally, for smaller companies that aren't already operating in several states. Consider also things like group health insurance, which are often geographically bound (sometimes even to a single city).
Child tax deductions don’t even come close to canceling out the lost revenue of a potential future taxpayer over their lifetime. Especially given today’s near zero interest rate environment.

Look at it this way, properly incentivizing children would mean that the average couple with two kids would pay zero net taxes over their life. With zero rates a non taxpayer who reproduces at replacement has the same equivalent fiscal value as a childless full taxpayer.
That largely comes down to out-of-control housing cost, which does owe to policy. Can't move up if you can't move in to where the economic growth is.
> Was it you who set the goalpost wherein Magic is only about tournament-level play and not a casual game?

It's either a competitive game, and therefore comparable to other competitive games and sports, that can cost you similar amounts, or it's a casual game, where you are not after 100% efficiency.

> I like how you say "almost competitive decks."

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/decks/budget/standard#paper

Help yourself. Most of those decks are underpowered when compared to tier-1 competitive decks, but can definitely steal games. None of them are anywhere close $200, and that's at standard-legal prices. Rotated cards are effectively $0.

> We'd use rules like "all commons"

https://magic.wizards.com/en/game-info/gameplay/formats/paup...

> And like, a draft game is fun but at a cost of 4 boosters per player, that's not pocket change

If you're going to the store to draft, you're paying $12-$15 for a tournament that's going to last several hours, played in the exact same format they're playing at the Pro Tour, and with prizes. That's the price of a movie ticket.

I understand that's still a lot to many people, but it's a far cry from "only the rich can compete". The prices are high and they could be lower, but they're not marginally higher than those of many other sports/games/activities.

Also, there's online play. If you're good at the game, you actually NET money.
Given that trades are often in the thousands of shares, they sound like they're about on par to me.

The main difference sounds psychological: "free" trades (with an asterisk) sound like they're designed to encourage people to trade quickly and without much thought. Which can be expensive come tax time, and doesn't encourage the kind of informed feedback that is supposed to keep markets honest.
Not as cool but if you really want to run System 7.5 on an e-ink display you can already run a Mac emulator on an ebook reader today.

https://imgur.com/a/kJRCR
True.

I've been using an old version of Waterfox until recently, when I finally had to change to a modern browser. Looking at the alternatives, I chose Firefox as the least bad of the available options. On the plus side, this means that uBlock/uMatrix is an option for me now.
Poor people with kids also qualify for a lot more government benefits than poor people without kids.

Although a lot of those benefits punish the parents for being married, i.e. if you want to maximize benefits it's better to be unmarried and maybe also not living together.
> Don't expect it to beat Apple M1 anytime soon.

Who cares. The software for this one is better (:
I recognize about 4 levels of software freedom: MIT, LGPL, GPL, APGL. Other licenses can also fall into these level categories.

Special licenses like 'everyone except Amazon' seems 'for the people', but really it isn't, AGPL is. The reason people want these special licenses is because they want their cake (popularity like MIT) and eat it too (make it not free in personally selected ways).
Well they literally have God helping them out. Many in the Bay Area or other expensive urban areas do not.
> I have to assume Windows 11 basically only exists because of pressure from OEMs

Maybe partly, but I suspect that is only a small piece of the puzzle.

OSX and Android being at version 11 might make Windows 10 look old to the clueless (and there are a lot of clueless out there), and not having bumped up a version in over half a decade is something disreputable marketers (i.e. most marketers) could use to cast shade on it to make it look old-hat.

It also frees them from IE11 a bit more. There were promises to support IE versions for as long as any OS version that was release with them included, so IE11 will need to be supported (not in online apps, it is already deprecated in many including Office365, but at least receive security updates) as long as Win10 if they are to keep their word. Win10 will be around for quite some time so they still have a bit of that ball & chain, but Win11 means they have some sort of exit strategy for the legacy browser other than simply saying “fuck it, people can try sue us if they really care about IE”.

I'm sure there are other considerations that an officially clean dividing line (even though the difference between this and the usual Win10 feature updates may not be huge) makes better too, from marketing perspectives if not technical ones.
I think HN needs to update their algorithm. If there is a large number of upvotes and flags, flags should count as votes from some point on. More people need to see this post and discussion needs to happen instead of pushing it off the front page in less than an hour.
I got Proton running quite nicely on my Lenovo (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/08/26/1400), but I agree with all your points (see my other comments in this thread).
Please don't spread misinformation that is easily debunked by wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#Mechanism

HEPA is actually twice as efficient at removing <0.01 micron particles than 0.3 micron.
I'm thinking more of a busy shipping area, and the essential mission is only to provide a surface exclusion zone, which a submarine could take advantage of as it (say) enters / leaves a harbor. The sonar's job is to broadcast a "your (say) Coast Guard Auxiliary moving exclusion zone is right here" signal to the sub's passive listening equipment. The CG Auxiliary guys up top don't even know if a real submarine is in the area - vs. a practice mission, or maybe the Navy is sailing a cheap decoy past some Russian fishing boat that's lingering where it ain't welcome.

(From exDM69's comment, I'll figure that the active sonar's power needs to be dialed way down. The theory that a sub's fancy listening gear could get a good fix on a sonar signal that's too weak to give a usable reflection seems hand-wave plausible to a landlubber.)