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Our current coins in regular circulation are basically worthless in terms of metal content. On the other hand, US Mint-produced $50 gold eagles contain ~$1,800 of gold.

Political opinions aside, it seems obvious to me that the value of the metal content of US coinage is unrelated to the face value.
Congress is where new laws are enacted.

If a law was broken, it's be a judicial branch / trial. The topic of discussion here is what future laws should be.
I will go through the bgpd.conf docs later today, to try to understand the protocol better.

I wish there were an online BGP simulation GUI, rather than the prospect of spinning up a VM lab with a bunch of virtual switches and OpenBSD VMs.
which would mean that FB committed illegal acts

The SEC will make extremely vague allegations that Facebook misled investors by not disclosing some of these reports. Facebook will settle to avoid further reputational damage, paying large fines without admitting wrongdoing. This woman will then buy an island to vacation on and a G650 to get there with. That is how 99% of these things play out.

I personally don’t believe that Facebook has done anything illegal here. That is not to say I don't think they have done anything wrong - their business, like many others, is morally bankrupt in some ways. But there is no codified responsibility for Facebook to do anything to cure the ills of social media. You don’t see casinos being successfully sued for causing suicides, bankruptcies, divorces, financial crimes, etc., but it happens every day. That’s because there is no law against being in a scummy business. Investors in such businesses know (or should know) what they are supporting.
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They shouldn't. If FB has a proper PMA culture in place, you figure out why the processes in place didn't work that allowed this kind of change to happen, so more testing, etc. Should be a blameless exercise.
Can you be more specific? Outside of residential internet connectivity, it's pretty easy to find an business ISP or transit provider or peer that's willing to push full BGP tables in my experience...
Maybe gambling is a better analog. Last time I checked gambling was pretty tightly regulated.
That is a very good counter point. I haven't read this facebook story yet, but I am willing to assume for argument that describes what happened. I guess it would depend for me on whether people saw sex-slavery content and decided to amplify it, vs an algorithm that finds and promotes "engaging" things without being very smart about what they are.
> Firefox will respond by unloading memory-heavy but not actively used tabs.

A dropped tab cannot always be reloaded to the same content. No thanks, I'd rather get more RAM or swap space for paging.

The tabbing feature of "close all pages to the right of this one" is almost good enough for me.

What I would like is some UI where all the tabs are compactly shown as rows in a table. Here, you could select tabs and move them up or down, delete them, or farm them off to their own window.
Is it possible that they're making lots of internal improvements and not upstreaming them?
What's with the "instead"? There is more than one person.

Ironically perhaps, doing something about climate change, re-organizing cities to deprioritize cars and encourage walking, would also mitigate cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease, by reducing carcinogenic PM2.5 in the air, and improving people's level of fitness.
> I think a lot of people are choosing to ignore that a lot of companies have done things in the past that were not illegal at the time of action. (...)

The definition of what represents good and evil does not come from what's passed as legislation, nor does the negative influence on society as a whole of a business.

Legislation is also a moot point given that these mega-corporations actively lobby law-makers into not passing any inconvenient legislation.
6GB is ample memory if you're not loading tons of tabs. I run Firefox on Raspberry Pi model 1s and while you have to limit yourself to a tab or two and have plenty of patience it does still work.

What doesn't work is trying to compile the browser on the Pi. The build process has some really gigantic source files that cause the compiler to choke.
Well, this kinda pisses on the work whose progress report is posted here...
Love this. Thanks for posting.
We have a high-end NAS and all devices (laptops, desktops, tablets and phones) back up to that. That NAS then backs up to the cloud overnight, every night. We're also getting a second NAS which will do an offsite mirror of the first in a remote location.

Setting this up is simple: the NAS manufacturer has an app for every OS. Install it on each device and follow the instructions. It's similarly simple to set up the cloud backup; just open the app on the NAS and enter the cloud storage credentials (it works with almost every provider).

Once this is set up there's no effort required.
> This is a second Reformation, and all the seriously-worded editorials about the dangers of FB misinformation are just priests annoyed that regular people can now read the Bible in the vernacular. Everything old is new again.

On the surface this feels like a neat observation, but I think it's very poor because it completely ignores the incentive structures. Those publishing the vernacular during the times of the printing press had no incentive to publish the craziest possible stuff because of an algorithm that artificially promoted scrolls based on the number of things people said about them, positive or negative. The "strongly-worded editorials" are completely justified in criticizing this system as a deliverer of news over traditional journalism.
Another interesting what-if: what if Wozniak remained at Apple after 1985? How would the company have proceeded, especially after Jobs was removed- if he was?
It won't enter the money supply. If there's an effect on inflation, it will be from the borrowing and spending (already authorized by Congress) that the $1 trillion coin allows to proceed.
I agree that there's an awkward emphasis on how FB prioritizes security and privacy but nothing is deceptive here. Had the audit bug not subsequently cut off access to internal tools and remote regions it would be easy to revert. Had there not been a global outage nobody would have known that the process for getting access in an emergency was too slow.

Huge events like this always have many factors that have to line up just right. To insist that the one and only true cause was a bug in the auditing system is reductive.
That is because once you understand the economy, you understand that is all built upon Smoke, Mirrors, Lies and Deceit on top of a foundation of sand....
> To ensure reliable operation, our DNS servers disable those BGP advertisements if they themselves can not speak to our data centers, since this is an indication of an unhealthy network connection.

No, it's (clearly) not a guaranteed indication of that. Logic fail. Infrastructure tools at that scale need to handle all possible causes of test failures. "Is the internet down or only the few sites I'm testing?" is a classic network monitoring script issue.
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The promise of "proof of stake eventually" is just greenwashing.
yeah, that's better put.

The usefulness of it, to me, is how the bind/flatmap can be generic over type constructors, but type constructors aren't a clojure concept. It's a static typing thing.

To have an interface for monads, you need to have HKT don't you? To declare the type of bind?

It could be useful otherwise. It would just seem like a slightly different thing.
It doesn't have any impact on inflation beyond what's already happening, I think is a better way of phrasing things.

The coin doesn't go into circulation, it just lets the member banks of the Federal Reserve have an asset (dollars) to borrow against and fund their current operations. This does have an impact on inflation, but it's not the same as dumping USD one trillion in bills into general circulation.
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Because none of it would enter the economy.

To summarize -- Congress has authorized a certain amount of spending, but they have also passed a law limiting the amount of money that the Treasury department can borrow. So ... how is the executive supposed to pay the bills?

tl;dr: Creating the trillion dollar coin does not commit to any spending not already authorized by Congress.
And that's something that you can implement without creating a huge single point of failure. This was pure hubris, whether it emanated from engineering or elsewhere.

Of course, if the employee was indeed a ninja, your guards wouldn't be able to do much, but in all other cases, it will suffice.

We all derided the company that made "smart" pet feeders that wouldn't maintain a cache of the feeding schedule, but rather phone home to check; when their servers were down, pets went without food. It's not difficult to think of an scenario like this.
Aren't the biggest costs from bandwidth, not storage? I'm sure they would love to reduce data transmission by 20% for browsers that support it.
Performance degradation is noticeable with DEBUG level in production.
That's absolutely no fun at all!

I've dropped Apple pretty hard (to the point where I've gone back to a flip phone - my objections to Android are significant as well), and I've accepted that if I want to use computers, it's probably best to use weird configurations that are often broken, because it discourages me from spending too much time on them.

I mean, I feel like even using x86 Linux boxes is lazy. :/ This box, currently, is an ODroid N2+ that's working fine. I've got a Raspberry Pi 4 over on the other side of my office (the "solar shed" posted yesterday, for some reason), and I've made that into a nice little desktop too. Still working on Spotify support, and I was actually quite surprised to find out that I can watch something on YouTube today...

My laptop is a PineBook Pro running a custom kernel (I really should push the sleep/resume patches I wrote for the sound card upstream... one of these days...).

Unsupported hacks are fun! They're challenging, and also reduce my dependence on computers, because odds are good that one or more simply don't work at any given moment.

And it's not just computers. The closest thing I have to a "daily driver" (other than the family car, which my wife and kids have priority for) is a 2005 Ural - sidecar motorcycle, evolution on a late 1930s BMW, quite literally the most vile handling thing you'll ever encounter on the road. It works, I work on it, I get places eventually, just no longer at the speed limit.

Anyway, the very insanity of bare metal Linux on the M1 actually appeals an awful lot to me.
I've found this site to be pretty fair when rating media bias. It lists all the three sites as having liberal bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

Also I want to point out Vice gave a known murderer a national interview for him to push his fake narrative. Meanwhile there was an actual video and pictures of the killing that completely blew away any notion this was anything other that a murder. Michael Reinoehl hide behind a wall, came out behind two people, and shot one in cold blood. The two people were simply walking. The video and pictures of the killing were available online before Vice decided to give him an interview.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7g8vb/man-linked-to-killing...
An admirable goal. Except this is Apple you're dealing with.

Since they provide zero means or support for other OS compatibility... so even if you still get everything running as it should, it's still an unsupported (by Apple) hack (due to lack of Apple's code and documentation).

Compare this to where people make a LineageOS release for their mobile device. Still unsupported by the manufacturer, but GPL requirements often mean there's still device code to work with, if not at least the device ROM being released that images can be used to boot another OS.

Apple is still one of the only hardware companies who have gone out of their way to prevent Linux from being run on their hardware. As such, I cannot see why open source advocates would continue to try to get any distro running on Apple hardware, the allure of their devices be damned.
"Wasn't YC founded by white dudes?"

One of the four founders of YC is a woman, Jessica Livingston, wife of Paul Graham. They were all white, but that does not prove anything.
"Refocusing" implies he was not focused on his personal life prior and things happened which necessitated him to step away and pay more attention to it. There's no scenario in which it's a good thing.
Ten years ago I was at Infinite Loop, when Apple held a special event in memory of Steve. Everybody was wearing sunglasses to hide their tears, even Tim and Jony. I remember Jonys speech quite vividly as it showed how truly close they were. He joked about how he would never unpack his bags upon arriving at a hotel because Steve would call him and say the hotel is shit so they had to move immediately after checking in.
I think it’s those human connections he made that made him so great. Lots of people have their Steve Jobs story. I don’t know of many other people that make that kind of connection with people on such a deep level.
Thanks Apple for posting this and thanks for remembering and celebrating him. I’m no longer an employee, but always a fan. May your best inventions be in your future.
When phone companies came into existence, that's exactly what they did -- they amplified such conversations by making it easier for people to have phone calls and talk at a distance of each other.

They also got amplified whenever long distance calls got cheaper (as the overall volume of conversations increased).
Things like this will win fans: https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimiza...
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It's also much harder to slide a napkin into a payphone on a string and pull it back out to bankrupt the phone company.
Having a separate testing instance of the internet might not be practical. How exactly would you test such a change? Simulating the effect of router commands is a very daunting challenge.
It's not the best use of statistics that I've ever seen by a long shot, but I just wanted to point out that your claim that it was "bullshit madeup" was inaccurate flamebait.

He didn't say which subset of universities he saw that statistic for. The group of "most liberal universities in the country" includes what, all of the most wealthy and important ones? It's certainly a reasonable subset to consider. The 98% figure is pretty close here (for the group as a whole, not just one like you claim).

You need stronger evidence to attack someone like that, and you don't have it, partially because we don't even know what exactly the scope of the claim was. You could certainly criticize the vagueness of the statement without being toxic.
I really do not think that logs belong in any sort of database. Perhaps there is something I have not thought of?

Structured logs (of course structured) in a simple text file. Rotate the files if your antiquated system cannot handle big files or if you wildly successful crypto currency scam generates many many gigabytes a time period.....

`grep` is your friend!
Exactly right. This is already authorized spending.
The testimony in front of congress and the reaction is just making me feel even more like this was a calculated move or internal sabotage.
The vast majority of what you could call disinformation is directly downstream of mainstream media sources. FB is a platform: the content has to come from somewhere, and it’s usually downstream of these news companies. Should FB be banning Fox and MSNBC? What’s the expectation here?
Good to see someone debunking the deeply flawed Cambridge Index. "Data is currently provided by four mining pools for the latest period." [0]

There are hundreds of pools and the ones they pick have a stronger China workload. Then, they extrapolate from that limited source of data.

Given that China just turned off everything and hardware moved globally (a lot to the US), it effectively invalidates everything they have been doing.

[0] https://cbeci.org/mining_map/methodology
As someone who has studied this fairly extensively, I believe this comment to be factually correct.

It also didn't hurt Rockefeller in the slightest. To the contrary, he actually became far wealthier post-breakup, possibly because all former business units became more efficient in the light of open competition.

Many of them live on today, such as Texaco, Chevron, and Mobil.

https://historyincharts.com/the-legacy-of-the-breakup-of-sta...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Standard-Oil

In general, trustbusting almost never actually works as planned, but it always seems like a good idea -- a desperate solution, perhaps the only possible solution -- at the time.

The only thing that tends to work is upstart competition driven by new technology that blindsides the older company.

When it comes to a monopolist, the one thing that we can say historically is that, "This too shall pass."
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Precisely. If there is really no effect on inflation, as the ending quote claims, then why bother making it so small?
I would ban algorithmic targeted media -- ie no personalized feed based on an "engagement" algorithm, for social media just see a chronological feed of posts from the people you follow. This is the most addictive and radicalizing part of social media - and the most lucrative. Much like the nicotine in Big Tobacco's case.
I literally run a company that builds products on elixir and my elixir code has touched millions during the pandemic, and I'm about 80% sure I'd fail an interview for an elixir developer job if it asked anything about macros, protocols, etc.

Because I simply don't understand them (and haven't had the time to play around with them at a "Learn this language" level, as opposed to "build this feature we needed yesterday.") But I've also preferred not to do magical things and instead be explicit. But then again, I'm not building something like Ecto or Phoenix.
Maybe read RFC4271 instead if you're looking to learn about the protocol rather than just about this implementation, just be aware there are many extension RFCs (see the list at the top of the link).

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4271
Microsoft also announced their own AirTable clone last year called "Lists" which should be available to all 365 users as of last summer.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-list...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/an...

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/19/microsoft-launches-lists-a...
Congress mandate the spending, that’s their job. The executive is then legally required to implement the spending Congress mandates in its budgets. That’s it’s job. the executive is not allowed to not spend what Congress tells it to spend.

But Congress at the same time wants to have a silly law that tries to prohibit the executive from doing what it’s required to do in our system of government.

So in that case minting a coin actually seems to be what is required of the executive. It’s the only legal route out. This is all a farce.
You can read it that way.

I read it as "fiat currency is more resilient in certain scenarios".
> And blogs were (and are) relatively great! What's the difference? Blogs could not be shoved in your face by manipulating your "timeline" based on commercial considerations of "engagement".

The real difference is that there were far fewer people using the internet then and the average person using the blogosphere was more intelligent and thoughtful than the average person using FB.

You might not feel this way, but reverting back to blogs puts a considerable impediment in the way of most people for sharing their own thoughts with their friends and peers.
I am happy to look at things from both sides. When I asked who are the rightwing authoritarians, I wanted answers that I could use to look things up.

As for Hitler, I believe he was left wing for the following reasons:

He pushed socialist programs like universal health care, welfare, government job creation, etc..

He was anti-established religion, including Christianity. He said that when he was done with Judaism, Christianity would be next.

His beliefs on eugenics and racial superiority had far more in common with other leftists of his time. The American counterparts on the left, for instance, including the founders of planned parenthood, wanted to prevent minorities from reproducing,

Hitler used the public education system to indoctrinate the youth into his ideology, a similar tactic of the left in the U.S. Hitler also encouraged/forced mothers to go to work, further undermining the nuclear family.

Hitler made gun control laws stricter. Hitler also supported abortions.

The only counter argument I've heard is Hitler was a fascist which is obviously right-wing. I don't buy this argument at all. Fascism seems like it could apply to either the right or the left equally.
What about the idea that it acts as a balancing weight to the perverse incentives for countries to debase their currency? Radically if the relationship to taxation was more of a voluntary customer relationship it could lead to better outcomes, ignoring how many more problems it might bring. Thoughts?
someone i knew died after covid complications after a kidney transplant. i believe he was un-vaccinated as well. It makes sense since transplants of any kind leave the patient severely immunocompromised, if they met some family friends or something during this time, the consequences could be grave.
Man, you could delete random 200 documents I worked on at least 3 months ago and I would only notice if I followed a broken link...
> I often see it as written rules (laws) and unwritten rules (ethics).

I think this is a very dangerous line to walk. A common phrase in law is "the law often allows what honor forbids" and that is because there is a difference between the law and ethics and IMO that is a good thing.

Is it ethical to eat all the cookies in the cookie jar and leave none for anyone else? No. Should it be illegal? No.
I can have a landline if I want. There is no law that I have to get a mobile number.
I can’t speak for Gecko or Blink/Chromium, but I don’t think this would be difficult to implement in a WebKit browser as long as some limits are involved.

Just save the tab’s contents in a webarchive file, then when restoring load that webarchive and inject some JavaScript that makes any kind of interaction aside from scrolling load the page’s live counterpart (with a confirmation prompt, perhaps).

This would also come with the advantage of the cached version showing up in browser history for “free”, so if you inadvertently go to the live page undoing it is as easy as hitting the back button, and if you decide you want to preserve the cached state indefinitely all the browser has to do is copy the webarchive file out of temporary storage to wherever the user indicates.
Another industry in need of carbon taxes. Stuff like bitcoin would be a lot more palatable if its users paid for the externalities they saddle upon everyone else from their carbon usage.