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Actually that's the reason I posted this when I saw that gem at the bottom of his blog.

Naming is clearly a form of branding. Why Michael Crichton called it the Gell-Mann amnesia effect:

By the way, why is the effect named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann? Crichton explained

I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.

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It reminds me of why von Neumann told Shannon to call it entropy:

When Shannon first derived his famous formula for information, he asked von Neumann what he should call it and von Neumann replied “You should call it entropy for two reasons: first because that is what the formula is in statistical mechanises but second and more important, as nobody knows what entropy is, whenever you use the term you will always be at an advantage!

http://www.spatialcomplexity.info/what-von-neumann-said-to-s...
> (Remember that Nintendo device with an usb-c port that turned out not to comply to the spec?)

Someone needs to be the pedant and say this every time it comes up: It wasn't the Nintendo device that didn't respect the spec, it was knock-off docks and chargers that didn't respect the spec and damaged the Nintendo device [0]. I happen to think that Nintendo's engineers should have designed against some shenanigans by third parties (I do with my USB-C devices), but they weren't strictly wrong.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...
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I agree with the sentiment about UI designs today, and I think that those horrible lists of the BlackBerry were just as bad, for the very same reasons.

some of those list items took some action immediately, some opened further lists, and there was no differentiation visually, for example. some may call that "tool-like", but I call it "lacking important contextual information", and it's just as bad as other UIs which lack important cues.

> modern smartphone tries their best to be hostile toward their users no matter what

they definitely do not try to be hostile. I sense an attitude on this site lately which is probably best summed up as "everything new is stupid" and that is just as misguided as believing that modern smartphones are intentionally hostile.

MAYBE they're unintentionally hostile. Maybe, but I doubt it. Smartphones are imperfect, yes, and dark patterns DO exist, yes, and I can't recall ever seeing anything hostile in Android or iOS or iPadOS, ever. organized poorly? sure. oversimplified? yep! hostile? never.
> Does anybody use all of the new power of these incredible devices?

The old joke about Microsoft Word driving an upgrade treadmill (no matter how fast your computer gets, Word will still take 30 seconds to boot) still applies, except it's to web browsers. Welcome to the future, where every tweet will include its own multi-megabyte, cpu hungry javascript app.
Exactly.

But it is worth also remembering that Bostroms Simulation Argument is an argument for simulation, not the only one possible.

To me the original point I made was simply that non-determinism can't falsify simulation.

More broadly I believe simulation is unfalsifiable, because the impossibility of proving we have existence in time (our consciousness could exist for only a moment, and we can't tell, because we have access to the past only as memories which could be fake), or that a world outside ourselves exists (our sensory inputs could be fake) means we can say hardly anything about the scale or complexity of a theoretical simulation. Said another way: we don't know even how much of ourselves exists.

That opens the door to a vast set of possible simulation arguments, but also raises the question of whether there is a clear line between simulation and what reality is. E.g. you can imagine a similar set of possible conceptions of a physical reality. If physical reality is that our existence is mere fragmentary moments of parts of a mind, then that would mean any experience we might think we have one day of building simulations would themselves be illusory.

So it's not a given that we can meaningfully tell whether or not a simulation exists even if we one day believe we successfully build one, because the experience of building the simulation might well be the totality of the experience. There's no certainty said simulation ever exists.

Trying to nail down what we can actually infer about this is something we'll struggle with for a very long time.

Even defining in concrete terms what is simulation vs. simply an arrangement of physical reality is unclear (think Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where Earth was a computer)
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So the argument is most people couldn't afford luggage at all? No, I don't think so. Almost everyone had at least one suitcase.

It probably did cost more relative to wages, but so did everything.
Both times that the battery swelled up previously, the laptop was still under warranty. Apple wasn't going to hand me a new battery to install myself; I had no choice but to let them install it if I were to have it covered.

Now the laptop is out of warranty. If it were to fail now, I could in theory buy a battery replacement kit from iFixit, and muck around with adhesive removers and many delicate parts and hope I don't break anything else in the hours-long process: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Function+Ke...

That's a fairly user-hostile situation, though. There's a reason Apple doesn't advertise the battery as user-serviceable, in contrast to some other manufacturers.
> The market is evidently very confident about tether.

I don't see how that's a valid conclusion to draw. I would say in this case the "market" is completely codependent on Tether, and therefore are willing to overlook red flags until forced to via damage to pricing or legalities.
Under SH, there was a total information blockade, internet was not available, people simply could not know what is happening outside of Iraq except for what is provider by government sources.

Now internet is more or less available in Iraq.
"Well, Mikey Ouse on HackerNews vouched for him"
I miss Michael Crichton. His writing and imagination reinforced my interest in science and engineering and got me interested in studying biochem in undergrad. I should not have been reading his books in the third grade, but it was a defining period for me.

The 90's were great. Michael Crichton, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, LeVar Burton, Mr. Wizard, Stephen Hawking, Lonnie Johnson (local engineer and inventor of Nerf and Super Soaker). We were also fresh off the 80's wave of sci-fi with Aliens, RoboCop, Terminator, etc. The future always felt like it was going to have infinite potential.

It's probably even better for kids now with YouTube. Derek Muller, et al. are killing it.
You can have positions in Microstrategy and Coinbase.

If Tether tanks -- there are definitely decent proxies out there.
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There is one scenario in which the 70 billion was at one time made-up money, but where it won't ever actually tank the crypto market:

1. Tether prints $1 billion with no backing.

2. Tether buys $1 billion of Bitcoin with the the fraudulent tokens.

3. Bitcoin triples in price.

4. Tether sells 1/3 of their position in exchange for hard currency, and holds that money in their reserves.

5. Tether now has 100% reserves backing the tokens they created, and is also holding $2 billion in Bitcoin. Maybe they sell the extra Bitcoin to diversify.

6. Rinse and repeat.

Under this scenario, what these guys did was to take a massive uncollateralized loan from ordinary consumers, use it to buy buy Bitcoin, and sell off the Bitcoin in order to pay back the loan. Basically an uncollateralized version of what most DeFi borrowers are doing right now, but at a massive scale.

As long as the price of Bitcoin is going up, the scheme a surefire way to make a lot of money. If the price of Bitcoin starts going down before they can cash out, then it can easily bankrupt them and crash the market—which is also a big risk with DeFi.

It could be that we are passed that point with Tether, though. With as much scrutiny as they are under right now, if Tether ever defaults, the people who run Tether are going to be wanted for criminal prosecution in dozens of countries. They will be running and hiding for the rest of their lives. I can't believe that a few more billion dollars in the bank is worth the risk—especially if they won't be able to access those billions.

If you look at the rate of issuance of Tether since June 1 of this year, it has flattened out dramatically.[0] Could it be that the people at Tether have realized that the jig is up, and are now just trying to get things in order so they can walk away clean? Maybe.

Or, it could be that they printed so much funny money last year that the amount of Bitcoin they need to sell is more than the market can accept without tanking the price of Bitcoin, given current market liquidity. Maybe they aren't generating more Tether for themselves because they figured out that whenever they try to sell the Bitcoin they need to sell in order to replenish their reserves, they crash the Bitcoin market. Maybe they're stuck.

Or it could be that Tether is fully backed, that they have never minted any Tether that didn't correspond to $$ in their bank account, and the reason that Tether's growth has slowed is only because people are now buying USDC and other stablecoins instead. (Not likely, in my opinion.)

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
What a weird definition. Which fields of human endeavour cannot be rendered symbolically?

If you are taking a very strict view of what it means to symbolize something (which i imagine you are if you think other fields cant be), then i wonder: do you consider geometric proofs math? Is euclid's elements with its prose proofs, math?
I've never held any coin but why can't it be true? The money is imaginary anyway and while you can talk about backing dollars with tanks and bomb at the end of the day is there are believers there is a market snd one market can outlive another. Saving depositors in regular banking is pure belief as well.
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I did find the text to be far too wide to read comfortably, even on a portrait monitor. I ended up reading the article in w3m in my terminal where I put it in a tmux pane next to another empty pane so I could adjust the width manually.
Eh. "you're defrauding your employer." - that gets into an opinion. There isn't a law for that. Like the FEDS tend to do -- they got real creative with "mail fraud" and "wire fraud". I was surprised to not see "racketeering" for the FEDS bs trifecta. Their money laundering charge I would say is 100% bs: creating an LLC isn't laundering -- but who cares! the jury wont understand anything.
>Hindenburg is the real deal.

Hindenburg is not the real deal. If you think Hindenburg is the real deal you should pay closer attention to their activities. They (he) are one of a number of noisy short sellers who try to drive stock prices with their tweets/reports. SEC should be doing things to these people.

That said, he is probably right about Tether. Tether should make every crypto speculator or holder very nervous.
> "The immediate benefit of switching from a liquid to solid electrolyte is that the energy density of the battery can increase. This is because instead of requiring large separators between the liquid cells, solid state batteries only require very thin barriers to prevent a short circuit."

This is BS. Modern separators are microns thin.
"Induce" is a tricky word; does it imply the target has agency? I think the line is drawn when you strip the target of agency. Does offering a large amount of money constitute stripping a target of agency? It may depend on how you feel about capitalism.
Really? Mine just eyeballed it with a ruler!
There was a wave of popularity in 2017 as well. I used to work on it full time back then, and enjoyed it a lot. The SQLProvider [0] and other type providers like it are super impressive!

[0] https://fsprojects.github.io/SQLProvider/
I agree, but "them and everyone else too..."
Soooo, how do we buy his books now?
I mean both will significantly kill people in an accident.
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I think this can be a great tool to vet sources. I've often found that looking for subjects I am an expert on lets me understand how much nuance and understanding someone is putting into presenting some work.

I've found this to be extremely important because many of the tough (and popular) topics we discuss today are extremely complex. But if people are only going into the basics and don't talk to experts about the complexity and nuance they will frequently make extremely bad conclusions. Science communicators are supposed to be taking the complex and nuanced topics that experts understand and distill it into something more palpable for the common (or even a bit nerdy) audience. But I do find that a lot of our extremely popular YouTube pop-sci channels or information based comedy shows (and even news) often don't actually seek out discussions with experts for clarity, even if they appear to or have the budget for it. It has really limited my source list of these channels and shows, but I also think it has really helped.
Oooo that's a fantastic article.

> Plus, wages have barely kept up with inflation, which is compounded by the fact that more education (and thus more student debt) is required on average to get those same inflation-adjusted wages. In other words, on an inflation-adjusted and education-cost-adjusted basis, median wages have decreased.

is a pretty compelling take.
It might be insider trading in some countries, but it isn't in America. It's perfectly legal to trade on information you found out through your own research and didn't tell anybody about.
React only re-renders a component if the state changes, the props change, or a parent component re-renders. In my app, I only have one component where I needed to break out of the vdom, and none of the parent tree ever re-rendered (except when navigating to a new page, which correctly tears down the component), so it was as simple as just one useRef to grab a reference and one useEffect to pass it to my other code after the component rendered.
Tide ads don’t show every single stain their product could remove. Beer ads don’t show every type of person with a working esophagus. They’re trying to get black people to buy Pixel phones. Let’s not overthink this.
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I think parent was asking about how long the virtual W "exists" for in the decay, but the virtual W is virtual so I don't think it has a "lifetime," but maybe I'm not thinking about this correctly.
I'm fine with a higher minimum wage, but if you have to worry about what the minimum wage is, you're already in trouble. In a healthy market for anything, that thing is not sold for the absolute minimum that can possibly cover costs. Labor should be valued at more than the government-mandated minimum wage. Not least because when there's a competition for labor, employers care more about working conditions and whether their middle managers are jerks or not.

Healthcare and child care (including education that is not done via video) do seem like things we need to be universally available. It's odd to me that we make healthcare your employer's responsibility to provide.
Tether is pervasive in DeFi. You could borrow Tether through a smart contract, exchange for another stable or asset. Pay the interest until it collapses in the future and, buy back worthless Tether cheap to pay off loan and get collateral back.
Once more, I did not "forgot to check the publishing date".
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I spent a while working on a generalized version control system when I graduated two years ago. It was called Saga [1]. Saga - get it? The name was the best bit.

It allowed you to specify a “file representation format,” and then used some messy 2d-and-above longest-common subsequence matching algo [3] I can up with to diff the files, and merge them if you wanted. It was a lovely learning experience I tried to pass off as a startup, and got two of my friends involved as cofounders.

From there, we tried to focus (generalized version control is really hard… technically and otherwise), and pivoted to version control for Excel spreadsheets. At one point we had branching and merging working for XLSX files. But as we began to discover what version of Excel customers used, things got a lot less fun. That + lack of interest led to another pivot.

Anyways, for the past 1 year (just passed!) we’ve been building Mito [3] with our learnings from all those spreadsheet folks we spent time above. Mito is effectively a spreadsheet within your Python environment. It’s absolutely still getting off the ground, but we’re pretty proud of the value we’re delivering to users currently!

[1] https://github.com/saga-vcs/saga

[2] https://github.com/saga-vcs/saga/blob/master/saga/base_file/...

[3] https://trymito.io/hn
Never thought about this, but I guess you might be on the hook for fraud if you violated an agreement for profit. That is, an employee violating an NDA for profit might be considered committing fraud against their employer. It's strange - Tether seems shady but I don't think Hindenburg's offer is on firm ethical or legal ground. What if Hindenberg offered $1M for access to a private list of donors to a [prominent abortion rights organization]?

But now that I think about it, why doesn't every successful private contract enforcement action end in a public prosecution for fraud?
Starkey is not exactly a quality company and I would be more than happy to see them put out of business. They tried to shaft their employees out of retirement money, they inflated their donation numbers, and a former executive was sent to prison for all kids of fraud.
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Christ this may as well be numerology.
git can support different diff/merge tools. I just wish more of gits configuration could be added to the repo itself. As it is, if you needed a custom merge tool (like UnityYamlMerge) you need each user to configure it separately.

The consequence is every contributor needs to know enough about every file type in the repo to know if a custom merge tool should be add/updated. You might get surprised with a merge conflict in a filetype you never touched if you happen to be the one merging down feature branches.

Hopefully some of this stuff and default client githooks are fixed one day. Seems easy enough to add a "suggested project config" to git.
I wouldn't waste my time.
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I've got a product similar to these and they're great. You can have a normal conversation and it didn't take me long to realize their eavesdropping potential. My Surface headphones also have a feature that more or less acts as a hearing aid.
Indeed ultra high energy photons "decay" by interacting with the CMB.
If a drug company can slightly change a drug to keep away generics what is wrong with changing a few pixels? That wouldn't help the obscenity charge though.
It's not, but tortious interference is a thing
Given how deep FTX is into USDT, it's rather unlikely they'd survive a Tether implosion, and your short position will there will evaporate in a puff of smoke.
My parents used several handed down iPhones for 6+ years each. I see no reason Google didn’t buy similarly good batteries.
A crash in the corporate paper they hold, which would destroy the rest of the economy even more. Tether would be a footnote to that event.
Isn't that absurd? Cryptocurrencies were supposed to be fully decentralized, and not require trusting anybody.

This one depends on financial hacks done by a single private company. It seems like beenz.com, only with a different tech stack.
Electronic rights excluded, if Penguin is still selling previously printed books and delivering royalties as agreed, does the author have recourse?
Yeah this is probably the best explanation. Elsewhere on the page you can see examples of photos of lighter skin-toned individuals, and when viewed holistically – both photos and copy – this particular section is actually trying to communicate that the camera can capture well _darker_ skin tones. But I guess it's rude to specifically say it that way, and more "inclusive" to simply say "all people".
As I said, I think it's probably his real name. But it's a cool name for sure; his name would be right at home in a cyberpunk novel.
Well usually banks have huge audit requirements and are covered in regulation to avoid this happening (after learning what happens when you have entirely unregulated financial institutions)
At any time they could implement a new feature in iPhone to do anything, yes that's true, and yes they could be flat out lying that this is how it's implemented. They could be lying about the whole thing. If they'd implemented it on their servers, they could still have taken that code and later put it on their phones and run it on whatever photos they liked.

Come on, now you're really going off the rails. What we're discussing here is the system Apple has said they have implemented and described. Anything beyond that is hearsay and accusation, for which some evidence would be appreciated. If you're just going to believe whatever you want to, and damn the evidence or what anyone says, go ahead. There's nothing much more to say.
> if Tether collapses, Bitcoin is going to get hurt as well.

That's one theory. Another is that the only way out of Tether will be BTC and the pressure will likely push BTC up, at least for a while.
Right. What most people need to learn is "algebra of sets," essentially.
As someone that has a huge bet on DCO - for you, as a contributor, is DCO better?
It may be counterintuitive, but the best thing that could happen to Bitcoin would be for Tether to collapse in a cloud of dust. Tether is continually cited as a large risk factor to Bitcoin by people who have gotten past the "it's not real money" objection.

But I think it's worth considering what happens if the collapse never comes. If government investigation, findings of wrongdoing, admission of lies, and punishment aren't enough to shake Tether users out of their trees, then what would, exactly?

Ethereum allowed a claw-back of funds lost fair and square to a defective contract. Where is Ethereum now? Oh yeah, near an all-time high and a market cap approaching half a trillion dollars.

What non-users don't get is the fanatical level of devotion by users. It waxes and wanes with the Bitcoin halving cycle, but always comes back stronger than before.

If Tether did somehow implode and users left in droves, something else would come along to take its place and within a year or two and the entire Bitcoin ecosystem would come roaring back stronger than ever.
Not sure it’s that simple. Facebook has enough money to build 51 datacenters in the US, and 27 datacenters in the EU. Possible facebook’s competitors, on the other hand…
What do you mean FTX is deep in USDT?
One problem is that a stolen iPhone is a >$1000 crime, in fact it passes the $950 threshold to be a felony in California[1]. Police don't have the resources to deal with every stolen phone.

When iPhones were new, my cousin was a police officer in a high school. Every time a kid stole an iPhone it was a felony on their juvenile record, and no one wanted that.

[1] https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def...
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The danger is that the smart contract you borrow from becomes insolvent and you lose your collateral. This becomes way more likely if Tether/crypto is crashing. Some of them are more prone to that than others, I'm sure, but all of them require collateral > the amount you borrow, so the risk is large.