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> In response to Xi’s speech, Taiwan’s presidential office said most Taiwanese reject that model and argued that developments in Hong Kong show how “one country, two systems” can turn on a dime.

> On Sunday, at an event marking the same revolution, Tsai called on the Taiwanese people to renew their commitment “that the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China should not be subordinate to each other.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/10/taiwan-china...

Tsai has not made this one country position part of her administration, and her speech a couple of days ago made that even more explicit.
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Doesn't that obviously fall under entrapment?
They aren't banning generators, they are just banning generators which generate emissions - including oxides of nitrogen (NOx), reactive organic gases (ROG), and particulate matter (PM). It likely means selling an engine without a catalytic converter will be restricted.
You're using that number incorrectly.

It's like that classic Pirates vs Global Average Temperature chart[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2012/03/23/true-f...
I have seen a few new cool club ideas that might help fill this void.

In Kansas City there is a dog club (your dog is the member), but it features a bar, workspace, food, events: barkdogbar.com. You drop off your dog to play with the others and can socialize with others, work, etc.

In Chicago - there is guild row (guild row.co) (disclosure: my cousin is a cofounder). This social club is centered around making things.
maybe jpmorgan and friends are also due for some regulation :)
1) I think a self balancing counter mechanism to improve this (if surveillance efforts continues) is make a rule people have to be informed they were under surveillance or gov hacked 5 years after the fact. With explanation.

This time length shouldn't compromise most investigations. It would raise awareness to over reach, so if a small handful get this it's probably well focused but if ~5% of the country start getting letters, people realise the overreach, it will become discussed and create push back politically.

Shining light on things is often the best solution to government issues.

2) Secondly, I'm seeing strange commentary on this thread and other locations a heap about Australian repression and tyranny type comments. And while there are privacy issues and there has been police overreach in the protests/quarrantine, comments seem way off the mark. I'm not sure if it bots/paid players trying to drive agenda or really skewed views. Some of the language is very properganda like and I've seen many posts on other platforms showing things out date or context clearly aimed to drive emotion. So I'd say fact check and consider context before getting too worked up about Australian issues of late. It's still a great country and not the run for the hills situation some people seem to be pushing.
Pretty sure the primary conversation isn't about now, but the future and more about what your kids inherit. I don't think the 50x metric will stand the test of time, but wish you all the best.
You seem to be saying electronic controls are bad. Why?
Why is it a conflict of interest? He’s not running the SEC.
I recall that at the start of 2020, people were posting predictions for the next decade, and one guy predicted Bitcoin would reach $100k. In fact, he predicted it would reach $100k by the end of the year, IIRC. I take the opposite view; crypto mania will fizzle out in the next few years, leading to a corresponding decline in BTC and ETH prices. People bought crypto without belief in its intrinsic value or any intention of using it to buy goods, but rather because they hoped it's price would increase - the very definition of speculation.
Do Florida and Victoria have similar age structure? Immigration patterns?
They really put the M in FAANG!
I hope they don’t release an API the way they released an API for GPT-3.
There are videos that show what they mean by "details glued to image coordinates" in StyleGAN2: https://nvlabs-fi-cdn.nvidia.com/stylegan3/videos/
Because it's in JPMorgan's best interest to not have bitcoin be a thing.
Why, it's almost like said authority ought to do less, and order less, doesn't it? Like people should be asked, rather than told? The nerve!
Presumably because a decentralized finance system would strip incumbents like JPMorgan of their advantage (eg. regulatory capture).
The intent was to illustrate that complexities of a system of simple components can be pretty difficult. Automata theory has more appropriate examples perhaps.
> My Dad immediately jumped to the conclusion that encrypted communications the police can't read is obviously a bad thing.

Then I think the problem here is your dad, not the media. Your dad's lack of clear thinking or otherwise is his responsibility.

You can't run around in square circles claiming that it's all the media's fault for your dad's supposed wrongthink. There are two possibilities:

1. Your dad is a dumb, unsophisticated, unthinking lump who has no ideas of his own and who is easy for the evil Media to manipulate.

2. This is his genuine opinion.

Either way, he gets to take responsibility for himself. And you get to respect him enough to engage with his point of view rather than invoking The Media as a pantomime villain.
Singapore hit 85%, opened up, and immediately experienced an explosion in cases. Australia will either have to accept the same outcome or continue lockdowns and quarantines to suppress outbreaks indefinitely.
> Loyalty to a company is foolish, because the company has no loyalty to you.

Note, this is not necessarily true. For example, Japan's conglomerates are largely based on long-term loyalty.

I don't remember which business book it was -- one of those MBA type studies of successful businesses -- but one of the key take-a-ways that always stuck with me was that the most successful companies are the ones that are loyal to their employees, and have earned that loyalty. If any employee believes you'll have their back for the rest of their careers, then they'll act very differently, then if an employee feels that their job is just a "job", even if it is a good one.
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If Jamie doesn't like it, I like it even more. At a first approximation, whatever is bad for JPMorgans and Goldman Sachs' of the world, has a high probability of being good for the rest of us.
It's not only MFA, the whole authentication system is broken. And then small details like your skype password is now your microsoft password, so if you forget/change skype password on a separate linux machine or whatever ...

My kids learnt some new words when I had to setup microsoft accounts and family account or whatever it's called so I could buy minecraft bedrock edition for them to play with their friends (in addition to the java versions I already paid for).
It’s not a security. Bitcoin makes banks obsolete. Private Bankers and Central Bankers are quaking in their boots over Bitcoin. It undoes their damage. They are not longer needed.
The real question is who Coinbase does their fiat banking with...
Then his attempts to stop crypto seem perfectly logical. Where’s the conflict?
This hits home. I've been working remotely ever since we moved away from LA, largely because the traffic situation there was just unbearable. I don't even know how people with kids do it, since it takes hours to drive a few miles on each side of the work day, how do you drop off/pick up kids from daycare? I realize it's incredibly privileged position to be in but I actually don't know how we'd fit office-based work into our lives again with two kids under 5 -- I guess you have to pay for a nanny and accept that you get to see your kids on the weekends.
> This is also disingenuous. For decades before Apple entered the scene, distributed package management was the norm and perfectly functional (while also completely free and transparent to maintain).

Could you point me to this sandboxed/containerized packaging system for third party applications with capability-based entitlements that existed decades prior?

AFAIK the only widespread Linux system which has this today is Android. Microsoft added one in Windows 8. Both those happened after the App Store.
Because JPM is a middleman, crypto removes middle man. Like all the car dealerships use legal means to prevent Tesla to sell cars directly to consumers without local shops.
Your comment seems substantially misinformed or inapplicable.

WebAssembly has no truck with JIT. Just-In-Time compilation is all about not performing optimisation ahead of time, but only doing it when the code in question is used, and guiding the optimisation by how the code is being used. In WebAssembly, the conversion from the binary .wasm format to machine code is a comparatively lightweight process with no real optimisation of this form: rather, such optimisations must be done as part of producing that .wasm blob (in regular compilation possibly with profile-guided optimisation to go even further than JIT can).

So instead, when you’re using something like Rust (as distinct from, say, compiling CPython or V8 to WASM), what you’ve got is a fairly small amount of what you’d probably call runtime code (allocator, panic mechanism, str, Vec<_>, some other parts of the std crate), probably something like 25KB (or with a little care and compromise, more like 5KB) except when Unicode tables are required, compiled from WASM byte code to similarly-sized (though I don’t know the real ratio) machine code faster than it can be downloaded. That’s code memory usage; for the data memory usage, well, your Rust/WASM will normally blow your JavaScript out of the water there with much more efficient packing of data into memory, even if you’ve got a fair bit of overallocation.

The fact of the matter is that the runtime parts which can be shared for JavaScript are actually not all that large, and routinely dwarfed by included libraries (React, &c.). WebAssembly is by no means knee-capped on memory footprint; rather, so long as you’re using it in a sane way (Rust, standard WASM optimisation and code-shrinking techniques, that kind of thing), there’s a pebble in the way that you’ll notice if you’re a beetle, but if you’re even rabbit-sized you probably won’t even notice it.

As regards pbadenski’s comment: WebAssembly does not run in the JavaScript virtual machine, it’s a completely separate thing that is merely able to call and be called from JavaScript via a foreign function interface. The backing memory buffer may also be accessed from JavaScript, but that’s immaterial in the consideration.
I really like Lisp. I also have the impression that the people talking about Lisp a lot are writing far more prose than code. There are maybe 10 exceptions to this, those being Nikodemus, Shirakumo, Stylewarning, Christian Schafmeister, Borodust, and some others. It's a really cool group -- everyone is super nice and very productive and generally helpful.

That said, there's a nostalgia for this language that I wish we could do away with. If people would just shut up and write Lisp and so we can have a healthier library ecosystem, or just shut up and not, I think we'd be in a better place. If it's so productive, where's all the fruits of that productivity (outside of the list of people I mentioned?)

Also FFS, and I rant about this once every 4 months, LispWorks pricing structure just makes me angry every time I think about it -- and I've heard all the excuses, some make more sense than others, but they do nothing to make me less angry.
The military serves the tax payer by preserving their sovereignty.

It's nice that they allow civilian use of GPS, but it doesn't follow that they need to. It's perfectly acceptable to say that a civilian organization, government or otherwise, is responsible for providing satellite-based location services for civilian use.

The way GPS is operated is very unusual. The military doesn't provide satphone service to people around the world; are you arguing that they should?
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> I’ve been hearing my whole life that some high percentage of Americans have almost no savings and are one missed paycheck from problems.

I've known many people like that who had high incomes. They simply spent all that was in their pocket. If they had less in their pocket, they spent less. If they got a bonus, they'd buy a ski boat. If they needed some cash, they'd sell the boat.
I don't think it's particularly unique to Australia. I've seen the same thing happening in the UK as well.

I'm currently residing in Australia and it's the same conversation as the UK, no one takes liberty seriously. The inherent trust that the it only affects people that have "done something wrong", of course that's a very nebulous concept.

The US seems to be last place where a significant portion of the population value their liberty and where the worm tongue promises of the state are taken with a healthy bucket of sodium.
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Ah! I see. Thank you, I missed this part of the story.
No, it’s because it’s free with Exchange, and also because this can’t happen (even if you screw up and lose access to all of your global administrator accounts somehow, you can contact Microsoft and prove you own the domain name to get back in).
I see you have no Oracle products on your critical path? If so, you would think Microsoft was only middle of the road this way.
At this point I am interested in pretty much anyone's perspective other than his. He bashes crypto, he makes money, his company builds something using crypto, he makes money. Just like his bank he is too big to fail and serves no one's interest but his own.
Post tension should not decrease the lifespan, if anything in some applications it could increase the lifespan since there can be smaller or less cracks, which is easier to maintain. Maintenance is the main requirement to get 100+ years in a normal environment.
I've been running GPU passthrough setups for years now. It's takes a bit longer when buying hardware and on first-time setup, but is working flawlessly since. I can't imagine going back to not having separate VMs for untrusted software (like mods) or snapshots. I'd highly recommend the switch.
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That's because 'protesting' is illegal lmao.
The groundhog effect. I tried working remotely almost a decade ago and realized I hated it because of that. As soon as covid started I knew I was going to hate it. Not sure everyone else is feeling the same, and it scares me.
How do you figure? I've heard this before but I don't get it. If bitcoin is to be treated like currency, well, that would be in their wheelhouse right? And if bitcoin is to be treated as a speculative asset, that would also be in their wheelhouse?

My interpretation is that bitcoin is not "for the man", and therefor "the man" will not like or want it. But "the man" would trade in gilded gizzards if that would make them money.

What am I missing?
While it faceplanted on so many other levels, I thought Google Plus' Circles feature was an interesting way to try and produce and consume content by interest from a single account.
The Rx industry knows if it can make it synthetically the rules totally change, as with the dangerously potent fentanyl. The head of NIDA showed in brain studies that cocaine and Ritalin were indistinguishable.
No synthetic cannabis, so it depends
Technically, those Amazon jobs are median wage jobs in the US. And in large parts of the US you can easily live a decent no-frills life on the $36-37k Amazon is paying. Restaurant jobs vary widely. In my city, a good server gets paid much more than an Amazon warehouse worker. The erratic restaurant shutdowns or partial shutdowns over the last 18 months made it impossible for restaurant workers to get reliable hours, which forced restaurants to change the way they do staffing and that dynamic has created an equilibrium that is difficult to get out of.
I hope to see a day when the essentials of human survival and living well are completely open sourced, and companies compete on producing the products from open sourced designs and processess.

Perhaps that will bring in the elusive utopia.
I switched to Pop as my daily driver and really, its fine. No issue.
Have you seen Coinbase’s margins? They’re taking a bigger cut than any traditional financial actor, and the similar pricing from shops like Gemini suggest that the rest of the crypto industry is, also, rife with middlemen.
Am I reading the conclussion correctly? It is not worth to rise minimum wages because people aren't more likely to work, UBI wouldn't result in people quitting their job, and no amount of immigration will affect salaries.

How is this worth a Nobel? Evidence is weak, you can't extrapolate it to other latitudes, and scope is very reduced.

People Do stop working when they have a minimum income, in some populations: immigrants rigging benefits, like having many children and not having to work; In the country I live, many people are content with earning just enough to live, and if they earn more than that, they quit their job until they are starving again, this is not an exageration.

UBI: Universal basic income
The poorer/richer argument only makes sense in the context of a specific consumption basket. If your main goal in life is to buy as many bananas as you can (for example), then you would measure the house appreciation in bananas. Can you get more bananas for your house now (at $1M - 250k) than you could when you got it? Then you're "richer", otherwise you're not.

Usually we use CPI as a proxy for it. However, most people when evaluating houses ignore the implied rent paid; owning a house means not having to pay rent - and that has a specific price on it, depending on your local rental market. So in a relative sense, you owning that house makes you richer relative to the people that did not own a house (who did not get the same nominal appreciation at all and are much worse off), and leaves you at the same place with other people owning the house. You're unlikely to be worse off (on a relative standing) than if you hadn't gotten the house. So I'm not sure richer/poorer makes sense without considering the alternatives (i.e. renting & investing)
Question for folks who work at large technology companies:

In the peasant world, some of us use various combinations of software to go through our logs and monitor errors - 500 and others, as part of our day-to-day. There are products built around this like rollbar, sentry, logrocket etc. Typically we'd encounter these routinely and fix them, or reach out to the users independently if we're unsure of the specific use-case that's leading to the crash.

How does this kind of thing work at large corporations? I imagine there are hundreds of different web applications, and there's a separate devops team, possibly for each of them.

How do the developers in places like FAANG, Microsoft, etc. stay notified about these kinds of crashes? What is the average volume of 500/internal server errors at scale? Is it considered normal to have hundreds/thousands of these a day, thereby creating a needle in a haystack kind of problem?
They’re the main ones pushing all these laws in. I am disgusted at Labor for their part but the core responsibility is 100% with the current Government.

Just look at what’s happening now - in the last few days - Morrison and Joyce claimed they’re going to bring a bill to outlaw anonymous posting on social media sites - for the sole reason that some people were talking about a rumour that the just departed NSW deputy Premier was allegedly having an affair with Joyce’s daughter… That’s just an insane basis for legislation!
Mu. They won't sustain it, it's not an interesting discussion.
In my experience, the great majority of perceptible slowness comes from badly-written JavaScript and running too much code, generally not even code that touches the DOM, though certainly touching the DOM too much in bad ways (and structuring the DOM in bad ways) often contributes to it.

Certainly the web as a platform is slower than a precisely-built thing honed for speed for a particular use case, but speaking generally the web is only perceptibly slow when you write bad code (or are waiting for the network). Which is admittedly rather common.
His opinions are overrated imho.I don't think bitcoin will be worthless but I think there are far better investments though.
> When designing an app that shapes its user experience off of a social graph, how do you ensure the user ends up with the optimal graph to get the most value out of your product/service?

This is the heart of what's wrong. Nobody running these companies gives a flying fuck if the users get the most value out of their service. They want the service to get the most value out of the users.
I think you are right if your goal is to always climb to higher positions, especially to get to the very top of management.

But some of us just want to be normal devs for most of our careers, so I don't care if I piss some % of my coworkers with some political stance, even if that means hindering my chances to get "promotions". I don't even _want_ to get any promotions.

And it's also very hard for me to make friends outside of work, which I guess it's true for almost everyone who is 30+ in the western world
“I look forward to going back home but I guess it was a nice break from everything.”

I'll bet he's married
Several years ago, the discussion around cryptocurrency often centered on the valuable uses it could have. Now that it's been around for quite some time, how are people using it, in terms of useful functionality?

I know very little about the subject, but my initial thoughts lead to things like ransonware payments, money laundering, etc. Certainly there are other useful ways that people regularly use cryptocurrency. What are they?
All that stuff sounds great until you have kids, then you want to find ways to be home as much as possible. At least, that was my experience.

I was lucky - I bought a house in the suburbs of my hometown and moved back. Told my company I was moving out of Toronto during the second lockdown last year, they didn't even question it.

Now my biggest distraction is my 2yo running in because he doesn't understand that dad works, yet. Sometimes he might be having a tantrum in the kitchen/living room and it makes it a bit difficult to concentrate...nowhere near as bad as the constant barrage of irrelevant noise from an open office.

I will never commute again.
His opinion on things his job depends on failing should be taken with a grain of salt. Like a horse drawn carriage salesmen telling you cars are useless.
Microsoft makes little children cry. In the endless stream of fuckups with their account management they managed to delete all of the Minecraft worlds my son had built. This was two years ago. He was 8 at the time. His passion for Minecraft has significantly waned after that.

Microsoft is the same shitty, incompetent, abusive, predatory company that I remember from the nineties and will likely never change.
Shall we call their boombox a Boomer box?
Oh wow! A prediction that bitcoin will go to zero! What an original thought!
There is no benign version, it will be simply wrong initially, and then very shortly coopted to be used for control.
Yes, the AAT is what would be described as "regime officials" by the nightly news when it is reporting on a foreign country.
I think it would be more accurate to say he prefers to be able to choose the extent to which the two are commingled - I largely consume my twitter feed for content, keep up with my relationships via assorted more private methods, and haven't had a facebook account in years because its forced commingling made it largely useless to me for either purpose.

Other people may, of course, have different preferences, but I do understand his irritation.