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It's not me I'm enquiring about, or the history of China and Britain.

I'm advocating investing in peace.

You seem to be saying the bad guys were bent on taking over the world, so the good guys were justified in going to war to stop them.

If it were that simple, war would be inevitable, and killing all the bad guys would fix the problem once and for all.

But the history of conflict is more complicated than that, and you know it. That's why you declined to state the facts you know about Hong Kong, which was a part of a sovereign nation that was invaded by foreign powers and held hostage.

I'm not saying the suppression of freedom in Hong Kong is 2021 is a good thing. If you put it in to context, it is a tit for a 100 year old tat, that was proceeded by the Opium Wars, which I'm happy to discuss with you further, but we'd achieve more by talking about peace.

How do we put an end to infinite rounds of tit for tat that escalate into violence and destruction?

We started off talking about Vietnam, which today is a Communist nation that hosts tourists from all over the western world, as charmingly and enthusiastically as its former coloniser, France.

How can that be?

Why isn't Vietnam full of retribution for the deaths and mayhem wrought on it by foreign powers?

If we investigate that, and have the courage to re-think history back to the point where we invaded that country to kill communists so as to promote freedom, what might we learn?

I don't know the answer, because we haven't done the investigation, which would cost a few million and take a few years. Those millions haven't been allocated by any western nation, but their collective budgets for war is in the trillions every year.

Why is that? If we start with that question, we'll be on the way to developing tools for peace.

What even are "tools for peace"?

You might be interested to ask Chuck Feeney. He's no communist. He's an American businessman who made billions out of Duty Free Shopping in Hong Kong. Chuck invented the whole category of Duty Free Shopping at airports, an art he pioneered and mastered.

What did he do with those billions? Well, he didn't buy any Mazerattis, Ferraris, Teslas, penthouses, yachts, movie studios or rocket ships. Those things didn't interest him. The guy was more interested in a different form of happiness, and so he spent the fruits of capitalism chasing peace.

https://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/insights/insights-boo...

https://layingfoundationsforchange.org/region/viet-nam/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2020/09/15/exclus...
Also on slashdot :

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/09/19/2220252/whats-t...
On Couchsurfing we did. The problem was that it was ultimately under the control of a small group of people, and they sold out.
Theoretically it's a false dichotomy, but there are limit resources shared between the two, eg. Cooperation with the chinese government
People expect content for free because advertising has allowed it. It didn't start that way.
Everything is correct what you said.
I am not cricizing CS, despite how my parent comment looks, I am just saying I clearly wasn't the target audience
Some time ago, some people believed they needed a glass of wine, a ten course meal, and a charming beauty to whom to read poems, and that those backwards peasants in the fields could understand none of these needs, and only needed to get whipped regularly, just in case.

So I'm all for dictating that everyone need everything.
Just the one I am currently reading.
I have to wonder what a fly.io acquisition would look like.
I do pretty good drawing stuff that makes me happy to draw and giving it away for free, with a Patreon tip jar. There are better artists than me who are also doing this, there are worse artists than me doing this, and there are artists who work a lot harder than my lazy self doing this. Or artists who work a lot harder than my lazy self grinding out immense amounts of work in the animation/effects/game asset mines, and getting a salary.

Admittedly I am also fifty years old, and got good enough for people to pay me for drawing stuff about twenty five years ago.

The fact that every social media platform likes to hide posts that take people off their sites to places they could give me money hasn’t been making it easier, but I do okay. My audience of people who are enough like me that “stuff I draw to make me happy” fills a lot of otherwise-unfulfilled desires is slowly growing.
And actually, re: "The only real, pragmatic usecases are fueling ransomware, drugs and illicit cross-border transactions", arguably, will all the KYC checks needed now along with all the coin tracking software being developed to track the blockchain, that's not longer the case.
What's the current spirit like? I've been not participating in CS2 or similar systems for the last decade or so.
That's a great, and deep, question.
There are plenty, but the most notable one is A Perfect Mess, by Freedman and Abrahamson.

The idea was quite good - mess is chaos, but chaos was not always bad. If you have a pile of stuff on the floor, it's efficient to take stuff from the pile and put it back in. Organizing is sort of like overarchitecture.

They used the book as proof of concept. The book was unplanned, there was probably no editing. It was just a dump of ideas and not organized in a coherent fashion.

So in a sense, it disproved the thesis that mess is a better state. It's a good book, but just really hard to read.
Ofc stuff like this is allowed but when I have a clever idea for a useful app its painfully made clear that it would never get passed the guidelines.
Also your parents have to not suck. My ‘greatest generation’ grandmother took care of me a lot when I was a kid, and my children’s two boomer grandmothers really can’t be bothered. Yet another anti-boomer trope, but so real in my life.
Yes but what pushes the knife further into the gut is how apple claims it has a strict app review process to protect iOS users when they have obviously done a poor job here. They were quick to catch epic games bypassing their payment system but can't catch a very obvious scam that made it to their top 10 grossing app list.
Yeah but If you goof you make nose contact first and you have a really bad day
I think that’s a bad idea because I don’t want people to think watching video on a computer is okay.

Video (movies) should be enjoyed on a big screen with a good screen.

These platforms should give creators a way to prohibit viewing on small screens, Linux, etc.
As an American who has lived abroad for a significant number of years and returned recently, it becomes abundantly clear, that if we only measure by the amount of time spent bitching, moaning, and fighting, Americans hate each other more than anything else on this planet. Disease, war, famine, injustice, genocide, plague? None will garner as much sincere unflagging burning rage as what those other fuckers did or said, or would do or say, because hate, hate, hate, hate. It's worse than football teams or some rivalry with the neighboring state. At this point, people are literally killing themselves and others to own the other side. And maybe both sides are enjoying this thrill a little too much.
The primary motivation of most creators is to make money. What is PeerTube paying per view? 0$?

Why would any creator spend all that time and money making content to give away for free? Do you give away your daily work for free? They can easily use something like Patreon or one of the many pay-only tube sites if they're giving up on ads and asking for donations/subscriptions/etc.

I mean, I'm not against the idea, it just seems to fundamentally misunderstand why creators choose youtube. If Youtube paid $0/1000 views... the majority of the top 1000 creators would be gone overnight.
Yes it'll be helpful for you and your clients, until everyone does it, at which point hand-written becomes meaningless. At that point it's both no longer helpful for you to drive commercial results, but also it means anyone who wasn't using it in a commercial way, will now have lost the signalling power of handwriting because the reader can no longer differentiate between someone writing a handwritten letter, and someone sending a digital letter through a handwriting middleman service.

In other words, a bit of a race to the bottom.

As for your appraisal company, I'm not familiar with it. I am familiar with the Dutch appraisal companies, which spam the shit out of municipalities with automated legal objection letters, overwhelming the paralegal capacity, and they make money off of a combination of upfront legal fees (paid not by the homeowner, but by the municipality, as 'everyone deserves access to the law' here) and savings on the property taxes. It's really approaching spam and has blackmail elements, as if the municipality doesn't respond within a legal timelimit, there can be fines or moneys awarded on-top.

All of this is great for the individual owners who use the service, but terrible for the municipality and thereby for society. After all, the municipality is now doing a lot of unnecessary work responding to automated and entirely free (spamlike) appraisal objections. Of course the municipality's budget is paid for by the tax payers. So everyone is in the end paying for this nonsense, in the form of higher tax rates.

Not only that, but in the Netherlands it's lead to a system where the appraisal values are severely distorted downwards, and compensated with higher property taxes. Instead of taxing 1% of $1 million market value, they'll simply appraise it at $600k and set the property tax at 1.6666%. Nobody can reasonably argue the $1m home is worth less than $600k, so the municipality is freed from these appraisal spam companies, and is still raking in the same tax revenue. But these unnaturally low appraisals are distorting other things (e.g. the national wealth taxes which are based on these undervalued municipal appraisals) and it's all not pretty.

None of this is good for society and I'm pretty disappointed that we're now seeing tech move further into the field of spam, even in a physical sense.
In previous talks Netflix has mentioned that due to serving so many 1000s of people from each box, that they basically do 0 caching in memory, all of the system memory is needed for buffers that are enroute to users, and they purposely avoid keeping any buffer cache beyond what is needed for sendfile()
A competitive team sport in a chamber taking advantage of the lunar gravity was a very minor part of the world building of a moon base in The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov, honestly I thought he spent too long explaining it but you may enjoy it keeping in mind he only had the science of 1972 to work with. :)
I like that they let users disable uploads.

How do you get rid of the giant left column, other than zooming way in?
Here's the first Google hit: https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-difference-between-qual...
This seems like a really big counterpoint to the corner stone of Apple's "30% is reasonable" take - that the App Store is a safe and curated experience.

It's one thing for a one off app to slip through, but to have it make its way to the top charts with so many positive reviews is a really, really bad look.
> out of 25 people, one is causing 64% of the problems while the worst four besides that one are responsible for just an additional 16%

Also, if you have any influence over which 20 people you spend time with, they're probably the 20 out of 25 who are not those five.
and dont forget those who cant work anymore because of (most serious versions of) long covid.
I've been using Freenet for 12 years and have not run into CSAM involuntarily, and of course also not voluntarily!

So I don't know how you get the impression that "public servers are off limits"?

It is possible that CSAM exists in certain forums on Freenet which might indicate the specific goal of sharing CSAM by their name.

But if it were to be posted into non-CSAM forums then the community's web of trust would flag it as spam and thus make it disappear. So you're unlikely to just run into CSAM involuntarily.

Also, IMHO saying "public / private servers" in the context of Freenet is wrong because Freenet is not organized into "servers". Basically the whole of Freenet is connected into one big public network.

And it addresses files, not machines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28588336

"Private" happens in terms of a file being "private" if you don't share the link to it with anyone.

(A separate Freenet network which is fully private would be possible if every participant configures his instance to not connect to the outside. But one participant disobeying that and it is not private anymore, so it's unlikely that such networks exist.)
The episode focused only on the downsides of this idea, not the upsides. And of course they chose the worst possible implementation to make the plot more juicy. With this attitude you can make any technology look bad.

If 20% of people cause 80% of the trouble and this idea fixes that, then perhaps there is some merit in the idea even if you consider the downsides.
hopefully this fails.
> What I want to know is why aren't wages going up?

Who says they aren't? Every business around here has a banner about hiring, usually listing a $1,000 bonus, and hourly wages are shown at least 20% higher than they were pre-pandemic.

Amazon is pretty desperate to hire, with $3,000 bonuses, and talk of nation-wide $18/hr minimums.

https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-hire-125000-workers-...

It seems that still isn't quite enough. But perhaps with the end of summer vacation, that picture may soon change.
Customers ( homeowners?) having a potentially risk free/ no downside transaction shouldn't have any relationship to whether they are interested in unsolicited mail or should receive one.

It is a ultimately zero sum game I would think, if this improves your open rate in the short term, everyone from political campaigns to the local deli, will start doing the same and everyone would stop opening hand written mails, and yours(and everyone's) open rate will be back to the same, and we will no longer be able to open by grandmother's Christmas cards .
So much of Etruscan 'artifacts' look like a sham.
Of course it wouldn’t be anything legal, most likely just to do with the free supply of hardware as you suggested!
The article raises a very good question: does financial literacy make a difference?

We all know not to eat junk food or buy stuff on credit..

Perhaps, we should make it harder to get credit, take loans, etc.

And could make we should make it easier to save for retirement, maybe a monthly contribution should be the default.

IMO payday loans or quick loans should be regulated to have limited interest. And if issued to someone the bank didn't verify as having credit worthiness the loan should be forfeited without being repayment. Or something like that.

There's too much predatory lending today. Certainly the barrier to taking such loans could be higher.

I think that's more effective than education.
I mean, radio and TV were free OTA for decades. I don't know what you want to call the "start" of content, but ad-supported free models have been around for a very long time.
Linus and co founded Floatplane, which is explicitly another platform competing with YouTube. It isn't very successful, but they certainly did it.

https://www.floatplane.com/
It would definitely be safer to discuss that topic on Freenet than on Weibo or WeChat. China requires websites to be licensed,* so the typical self-hosting route isn't viable.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
¿Cual?
> At Fahd's sentencing hearing, Judge Robert S. Lasnik said he committed a "terrible cybercrime over an extended period"

Does anyone else picture the old, wrinkly, bribed, tech-illiterate judge who probably made this decision in their head while they read this?
High voltage transmission losses are a few percent.

We don't need to make a mess in Yellowstone, but 'massive energy loss by resistance' is just wrong.
Wasnt't that Twitch? They talk about Floatplane on YT often enough.
The people who put up the paywall also had no intention of hosting; they were just looking for free money. They're the same kind of people you're complaining about, just orders of magnitude worse.
I tried to use it once around 2005 while studying my PhD in the UK. I needed to stay in London for a couple of days but was rejected and couldn't find a bed. I ended up going into a Hostel (hostelworld) at that time. It didn't work for me (maybe because of my nationality?).
Popular tuna species are no longer endangered, surprising scientists
It's more than just a different way of thinking. There's an intuition gap caused by human bias. We bias towards one way of thinking and moving out of that bias is extremely hard.
> China made a lot of mistakes and also kept other countries in the dark for way too long no matter the origin. It can also serve as a warning against authoritarian models of rule.

It's typical CYA stuff from corrupt institutions that cannot abide transparency. For some, the appearance of having made a mistake or having been incompetent is so uncomfortable that they will stonewall all possible investigations to avoid looking like they've made mistakes. Even when those mistakes were just that--mistakes.
“A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.”
It doesn’t invalidate the rest of the piece
That makes sense. My point was just that in general Amazon is a trusted brand.
Childcare can definitely be made much more efficient. Here in Quebec we have 7$/day and 8.5$/day childcare, the total budget is 2.5 billion dollars for an 8.6 million people population.
> everyone from political campaigns to the local deli, will start doing the same

It is definitely a matter of time until this stops working. From a quick google of "handwritten letters" here's what I got:

• https://www.handwrytten.com/

• https://www.scribeless.co/

• https://roboquill.io/

• https://handwrittenmail.com/

• https://letterfriend.com/
How did they got through apple review process? Heck the review process is super strict that I’m being very careful for iOS app but these guys seems to know the way around it
> How do you know for sure that everything you have ordered isn't counterfeit? The counterfeits have gotten extremely good.

Trust in a brand isn't based on what I got, it's based on what I think I got.
Sure this app is kind of creepy but making it illegal for a parent to demand it? Hey great, instead of my wonderful parents paying for my college I'm going to report them to the cops, and send them to jail! That will show them! Of course now there's nobody to cover my college tuition but whatever.

You are a mini-tyrant in training. Thinking the world's problems can all be fixed by making something illegal. Encouraging the government to interfere in intra-family relations. Never actually thinking about how any of these policies would play out. Insanity.
> “If it saved one kid, if it supported one caregiver, if it supported one family, I’ll take it,” he said. “That’s the bottom line.”

The road to a totalitarian state is probably paved with this kind of save the kids shit.
Radiative losses from the Earth system will increase a bit.

The Sun hits the Earth with more than 100 petawatts of radiation, all the time.
There are a number of prominent YouTubers who advertise their own alternative platforms fairly regularly, if "indirectly". There are also videos about LTT's own video service Floatplane on YouTube [0]

I'm guessing that either there's some clause in the YouTube partner/adsense program saying you can't just redirect your viewers elsewhere or you can't upload videos with the sole purpose of saying "go here for more videos".

That said, I'd be interested to see the details of what GP was talking about, because I believe it exists, I just wonder what the exacts are.

[0] https://youtu.be/oOOOfZWXPu4
> I wonder what the theoretical limit is for the number of people that can retain a secret actually is, with modern technology and all.

Yeah, it's an interesting question. How would you model it?
What is the probability that an arbitrary person leaks a secret?

Also I would assume that the more devious the secret the harder it is to keep.
It could be illegal in some states. For example, if it records people in a private setting who did not consent, like relatives.

I absolutely hate the mandatory use of laptops and such below high school level. I think our local district is starting it in 5th or 6th grade. Granted the school also whitelists what snacks are allowed, down to what brand of chips, and completely disallows things like meat and cheese...
From your web site, I guess you're Mexican? From growing up there, I know the US has pervasive racism against Mexicans; what's the UK attitude like?
It shouldn't be that hard to track conversion rates?,

You could run A/B tests on randomized populations, to see relative performance of conventional methods to yours, keeping other factors like packaging, contents of the leter same ?

You could even probably track basis demographic/ economic groups given that you are tracking home value, you have both property tax and location data with which to control for.

Whether you should do is a different question
Oops, thanks, will fix!
That worker's hourly wage is a small fraction of the cost of just running the gas station at that hour of day. It costs money to run the lights, the refrigerators, and the gas pumps. The owner of the property doesn't charge less rent when the gas station is closed. Property taxes are still due.

If the labor cost of the graveyard shift doubled the total cost of operations for that shift would increase only marginally. That gas station is only going to shut down for that shift if there's a significant change in costs. A small increase is completely covered by a single late night or early morning fill-up.
You've never used a microcontroller. They are usually shipped with a partial libc that binds fd 0/1 to a USART. Sometimes POSIX threads can be mapped to FreeRTOS calls.

Most of the defines can have a null implementation and the core will still work. They just need to be defined.
- space is overrated - the last time that people lost interest was 40 years ago, the new generations missed that, and now they are about to lose interest again. humans are made by earth , for earth. real progress requires post-humans, genetically modified

- we don't want flying cars, it was a brainfart of sci-fi of the 60s, a linear combination of what was cool at the time, planes and cars. we dont want faster planes either - people happily spend the majority of their trip in airport waiting lines and getting to/from the airport

- we instead want our 140 characters because we are informational creatures. We are basically an entity living inside a brain with extra legs. it doesn't matter if we can't travel across the world if we can 'travel' instead. The real world doesn't matter much when our basic needs are covered, instead we get our rewards swimming in the sea of information and ideas. Therefore there are 2 worthy goals for humanity now: longevity or brain computer interfaces. either fullfills the ultimate desire of a conscious mind: to 'live' forever.
Isn't that how Apple justifies their ridiculous 30% cut? The herculean effort they make to keep the app store safe?

Turns out they just give scammers a platform to defraud the vulnerable at scale.
Tripe is also another slang word for bullshit.
I do, but I'm already using trackma
I don't see what the problem there is. The entire goal of a school is to track the students and profile them into a set of grades and test scores.
Or decentralize towards content-centric services.
Thanks, it's good to hear my perception matches reality!