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He’s the other half of Berkshire Hathaway —- Warren Buffet’s company.
> Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here?

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Please provide links and direct quotes for evidence that the news organizations I linked to published news with a bias "in support of his continued incarceration and punishment."
Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don't get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place. If China tried to extradite a U.S. citizen acting within the U.S. who published leaked information allegedly in violation of Chinese law, we'd laugh them out of the courtroom, and rightly so.

Adding insult to injury, publishing leaked military secrets is not even illegal in the U.S. due to the first amendment right to a free press. When the New York Times publishes leaked classified information, there's no trial or extradition. In the U.S., those who will have legitimate access to classified information first sign legally binding agreements not to disseminate it, and those who violate that agreement can be prosecuted.

And in this case, that already happened: Manning served 7 years in jail for leaking the very information that Assange is being extradited over. With the leaker found and prosecuted, convicted, and sentence served, the U.S. Department of Justice should congratulate itself on a job well-done and move on to other things. It's absurd that they continue to pursue the publisher of the information almost a decade later.
I don't know what you've been reading, but there's a mountain of criticism of populism – including Trump's flavour of it – and then some.

Speaking purely for myself, I would rather criticise my "own side" (i.e the left in my case) than the "other side". I feel it's considerably more constructive and helpful. It's also exceedingly vexing to see someone make bad arguments for a position you broadly agree with.
Civilian journalism.
I'm absolutely serious when I say that the second illustration of the "suites" bares a striking resemblance to the layout of the county jail I briefly stayed in in Anderson, Indiana. There a few differences I'll note:

1. The rooms in the jail were larger, but I did have a roommate, so I'm not sure which has the larger amount of personal space.

2. In jail, at least there were windows.

3. In jail, I only had to share the toilet with one other person. The dorm has eight people, and one pooper and shower? I'll take jail, thanks.

4. Jail didn't have a fridge and kitchen sink, however.
8 people and one bathroom. WTF! Lotta people gonna be shitting in bags
Now, put it in a case like [1] this with USB pass-through and slap a "Property of McDonalds IT" sticker on it and I'm guessing you could keep it there for longer...

[1] https://www.allelectronics.com/item/actx-1620/16-vac-20-va-w...
In BigQuery, all UPDATE queries require a WHERE. "WHERE TRUE" is the recommended workaround if you really want to set a value everywhere. Makes a lot of sense!
All good points. The age of firms is definitely fat tailed. Further, it is hard to count firm survival (mergers don’t obviously destroy firms, is IBM the same company it was, etc). Also what a firm is has changed over time (legally, structurally, etc).

It would be interesting to see how many family generation changes family firms can survive. Obviously there are very old firms (some of which are closely tied to the gov: the British Royals, Aramco) but I would guess you have a step-like survival function.

Private firms (public or not) can and do build long-lived infrastructure. High voltage power lines are an example (maybe not a great example since they are heavily regulated). Expensive infrastructure has a long-term financing problem because DCF with any reasonable discount rate will essentially turn all earnings 30 years from now into nothing. The persistence of some government that will recognize the debt (or persist some legal entity that will receive the cash flow to service it) makes possible long-term financing. One solution is to make infrastructure cheap but that is hard (and maybe only possible in software).
Gotta disagree. I've taken many interstate trips across the U.S. and must have used the bathroom in a truck/travel stop dozens upon dozens of times; I've never once seen a disaster. (No doubt due to heroic efforts by the staff, but still.) 99% of the time they have all three of soap, water, and clean surfaces. Much better luck than with auto-oriented gas stations, which often are as you describe.
Why do games need skill or thought to be worthwhile? Quite often they're social spaces for my (8yo) son to play with his school friends, or meditative experiences when he's tired, or just silly jokes that he wants to show us - including some he makes himself. He can tell good games from bad, can recognise (and ditch) pay-to-win games really fast. It's a big place with its own culture and rules, and too interesting to write off.
The NYC law doesn’t actually accomplish much though. The last time I lived in NYC, probably 4 years ago, I was in a $3k/month studio and my legally mandated window faced into the interior well of the building, maybe 50x50’ wide and probably 40 stories deep. No plants, only the palest hint of sunlight.
We once built a service like that as a joke on a Twilio hackathon. I've solved my robocall problem by enabling Do Not Disturb mode. Only people that call twice with the same phone number within one hour go through. My friends know and if someone else calls and it's urgent they will retry. But it nicely keeps all those robots away, because they usually randomize numbers.
"The US is a country with rule of law"

You accuse the other of presenting subjective opinion as fact, do you think this stament is any different?

US jailed an environmental activist for embarrasing an oil company abroad:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/energy-environme...

You chance of going to jail is inversely proportional to how wealthy you are:

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/a...

USA has refused to extradite Warren Martin Anderson, a CEO facing manslaughter charges in India for 16,000 deaths in the Bhopal Disaster

In UK criminals kill ~650 people a year, the US police kills over 1200 people a year.
Your point is good, but the profane is inappropriate.
It's certainly not as severe as legal-blindness, but colorblind-friendliness is essentially standard now in board games. The yellow cards have a triangle, the red cards have a star, etc.
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They clearly forgot to count the windows..
Oculus no longer exists. It's Meta, which is The Facebook company.
I mean, they aren't wrong. It's just not stunning in the way they perhaps meant it to be.
In this case it's simple, just don't take the money.
That's a pretty common building code across the US for typical residential units. Hotels and the like get around it by offering multiple avenues of escape in the event of an emergency.
I am wondering if other professions that uses keyboard contact a lot are using this? especially wondering about novelists.
Your previous-discussion comment ("If you tag 'because of brexit' onto literally any headline it's instant click fodder at the moment") looks much more like cruising discussions elbowing in Brexit.

Neither person you replied to in this discussion mentioned Brexit in recent comments on other discussions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28917605
There could be wallpapers for this. AFAIK https://www.erfurt-tapeten.com/en/ produced one which had this as a side effect of thermal insulation. Or still produces. The 'wavies' raved about it a while ago :-)

Can't remember the product name anymore, unfortunately.
We could probably invent an IMAP extension for that. Once Dovecot supports it, plenty of open source webmail solutions can then also support it.
The solution to this is for someone else to offer a more compelling vision of the future that is also practical and achievable.

Take Elon Musk for example. His vision of the future is more compelling than anything I hear any politician of any political party in the USA (or most other nations) putting forward. I find the standard issue right-wing vision of the future repugnant and the standard issue left-wing vision completely impractical and divorced from reality. (Aspects of it are repugnant too, but much less so than the right.)

What other non-billionaire visions of the future does humanity have? Xi Jinping's smile-or-die panopticon? Putin's theocratic mafia state?

The billionaires are leading humanity by default because they're on balance the only class of people offering practical workable visions of the future that are at least incrementally better than the present.
Are such laws necessary? if you want to not live there, don't.
The bequest isn't anywhere even close to covering the entire cost of the building, which is what blows my mind.
I remember sitting in my dorm room in FT (at UCSB) and watching the Tea Fire flames jump closer and closer. Fire is a huge threat in the area, even that close to the coast. This seems like insanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Fire?wprov=sfla1
Polish grammar is very complex.
The key witness against Assange is a convicted pedophile and sociopath who was being paid by the US government. He has since admitted that his testimony was false.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/06/27/assange-prosecution-...
No, macOS has an executable called `command` so that it is available even on shells that don't implement the builtin
Simplified timeline:

- they'll never prosecute him

- case gets dropped

- case gets re-opened

- they'll never arrest him

- Assange is arrested

- they'll never extradite him

- Assange flees to embassy and stays there for 7 years

- They'll never turn him over the police

- Assange is turned over to the police

- They'll never extradite him

- If they'll extradite him and he'll be acquitted...

Sure.

Really, if Assange is extradited to the United States he will be convicted and while he is in jail there will be many new reasons found to keep him in jail, in as uncomfortable a way as possible. The US is pretty vengeful, especially against those who make their wrong-doings plain as day. Fortunately at least in a US jail he'll be safe from suicide. Oh, wait.
> May I ask how you demonstrated how good you were to the hirer?

I had done some small personal projects and two websites, which I highlighted on my resume. I also had spoken at a few Meetups, so I had an "Appearances" section on my resume as well.

Ultimately, the place that hired me was one of 4 actual interview I went on (with maybe 75 applications sent). They assigned me a takehome assignment. I later found out I was the only candidate who successfully completed it.

> I hope you're liking your work in web development

Yeah! It's fun using my brain to make a living, and most importantly, I work a lot less than I had to before, for a lot more money.

They gave me a take home assignment and I did it. I later found out I was the only applicant who successfully completed it.
> The author didn’t have to reach for Icelandic since “microscope” is already from Greek with the same construction small/watching.

Is it really from Greek, through? My understanding is that it was coined in some non-Greek language from Greek roots, which isn't quite the same thing. Google translate gives "smásjá" as Icelandic for microscope, which looks like it might be a compound using the languages "native" vocabulary ("smá sjá" translates as "little see").
I'm German. My government fails in many ways regarding digital services and solutions. Almost always it ends embarrassing. They waste a lot of tax money to pay contractors, who only pretend to have good solutions. Sometimes there is corruption involved.

Germany has the CCC, the people there are competent in these regards.

Why does our government not listen more often? Why does our burocracy fail so often?

Hell, if they cannot keep a vaccination key secret I'm glad we have no nuclear weapons under our own administration.
that would only mean real bitcoins will hold a premium over "promise of a bitcoin" held by banks.
It has in the US, in the sense that a small minority of white people ruled the majority of white and black people. Just like a small percent of males perpetrate the majority of crimes whose victims are men and women. But people prefer oversimplification, so somehow they transform the above into "white = bad", "male = bad" etc.
Anything that looks like it is attached to wall or just hidden from eyes, will have a lot more chances to avoid being stolen/reported.

When i see one of the usb outlets with exposed screws in public the only thing that comes to mind is to partially disassemble the oulet and power the device from it leaving the device inside. There is much less of a chance that someone will report a partially malfunctioning USB outlet than someone snatching a free power brick.

Never done anything like that with a public outlet, did something similiar with my personal hardware.

Regarding size, Lichee Pi [0] comes to mind.

[0] https://www.licheepizero.us/
Not require. But without a requirement, vendors are making their own choices. Some have gone with one-time programmable fuses to store the keys. Once programmed, only images signed with that key can be used. Otherwise, the device is a brick. Those vendors deserve to burn in hell (in my opinion as an embedded engineer that has implemented secure boot on a variety of platforms).
Just because something is morally/ethically sound doesn't mean it's legal. The part of 'choosing the break the law to expose things for the public good' that makes it heroic is 'choosing the face the consequences of breaking the law'.
It's crazy that they still sold that many, considering that it's not sold in Germany, one of the biggest markets in the world for them.
Only to add it later on once they capture enough additional users.
Indeed, those greedy administrators that accepted money from Munger should be let go.
One point where he talks about domestication starts at 1:54:16 (half a minute earlier he goes over the decrease in brain size):

1. https://youtu.be/YJF01_ztxwY?t=6856
> "The-most-important-thing-is-getting-your-first-100000-dollars. Work-multiple-jobs-skip-meals-do-what-you-have-to-that's-the-investing-entry-fee-to-wealth"

Could you share the background for this?
Seems like Go might be able to fit your bill. AFAICT the designers of Go has gone out of their way to avoid adding cruft to the language.

Yes it has GC. What is it that you want to build though? Will GC be in the way? If so, I would consider Rust instead.

C is simple, true – but in many cases it seems like that fact pushes the complexity up to higher layers instead.

C still has it’s place in embedded. And our best kernels are currently written in C. Outside of those domains I don’t see much reasons to start a greenfield project in C.
We have exactly this problem (and have tried to solve it in various ways) and launched Secoda internally at PartnerStack a few days ago.

Excited to see it roll-out in the org and build a solid data knowledge base.
From my point-of-view as a former firefighter, I would say this:

A building meant to house 4500 students, with only two entrances? There's a word for that: deathtrap.

Building this is setting UCSB up to be the site of the next Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire[1], Station Nightclub fire[2], or Hamlet Chicken Processing Plant fire[3].

At a first glance, based only on the information provided in the article, I'd say that there is basically NOTHING good about this idea. But I'll allow that there are other details that could change the dynamic. Still, the weight of history suggests the importance of taking a somewhat skeptical position towards any measure of hand-waving when it comes to fire safety. At the moment, color me skeptical.

Edit: Let me add this... the linked article doesn't go into any real details about the fire safety aspects of this, so there's a lot of info we don't have without digging into other sources. One of those details would be the presence of a sprinkler system. IF local building codes require sprinklers in dormitories and this building is properly sprinklered, that would assuage some of my concerns, as a working sprinkler system is basically the single most important thing you can have to save lives in the event of a fire.[4]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plan...

[4]: https://nfsa.org/2020/12/15/sprinkler-saves-proof-that-fire-...
A key witness against Assange is a convicted pedophile and sociopath who was being paid by the US government and offered immunity in exchange for his testimony. He has since admitted that his testimony was false.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/06/27/assange-prosecution-...
At some point they ran out of that part, so they gave people refurbs. They didn't have the fr-CA keyboard in Germany, so I got upgraded from a 2012 mid-specced MacBook to a 2017 top-specced one for the price of a battery change.

Then I got two more battery swaps when my keyboard failed.
Humans are tribal. This is enables cooperation and has some other pro-social effects, but it also means there is an out-group. Looking at history, over a long enough time horizon, the probability of minority genocide in a society approaches one.

People today like to pretend we have overcome this, that we have ascended - reborn like the New Soviet Man. This will have grave consequences, and their children will curse them for it.
> You have to pick one, or give in on both and find a happy medium between the two.

I'd say Pascal is simple, and has fewer foot guns than C. It might be too simple - but one can do a lot with freepascal/Lazarus.

Or go with Ada. Also somewhat simple, I'd say.
I'm going to depart from the norm here... And announce I'd actually like to live in that building.

I really value communal shared space, and very few types of housing provide it - usually dedicating 90%+ of space to individuals to live a gloomy existence mostly alone requiring Netflix for company.

Shared space should be 'tiered' - Ie. Personal space, space shared with near neighbors, space shared with a wider neighborhood, and everyone's space. And that's exactly what this development provides.

If I were the university running this place, I would make 'room swaps' super easy to enable people to move near their friends and to allow communities of like-minded people to form.
There’s a podcast I love — the Magnus Archives. Highly recommended. Spoilers for that, but …

A character aligned with an entity that feeds off loneliness at one point describes a failed attempt to architect an apartment complex, designed to maximize loneliness and associated despair (prior to a sacrifice of the residents). Life imitating art, I guess.
so is the speed of writing code really a big issue for you?
What does that mean? How does that work? This is really vague.
It's literally the same company, why would it be prevented?
We are the universes own entropy minimization function.
And are the product of a local equilibrium.
I’ve been looking into the Uni Keyboard[0] for my foray into steno! It’s pretty wild how much more accessible steno has gotten for hobbyists.

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stenokeyboards/the-uni
Software breaks itself simply by being unmaintained. If people were serious about Xorg, it would see more activity.
Whether or not it is a joke probably depends on how you label the axis along which you distribute these topics. :)

Observe that as you move from one side to the other (math to biology and onwards), you are essentially dragging along a good portion of the stuff as prerequisites you have to know a bit about.

By the time you reach something like immunobiology you can pretty much build a house out of the textbooks and go live in it. :)
Perhaps profane words are appropriate and suited to naming a profane architectural concept.
> In the sense that the far right is a taint, he was tainted; in the sense that it's an entire set of political beliefs, he didn't fit neatly into that box.

> He was also openly gay

you can be gay and be far-right. those are not somehow mutually exclusive. another example off the top of my head: Milo Yiannopoulos and Dave Rubin are both openly gay and far-right.

> This kind of black-and-white thinking

no. the issue here is doublespeak and misdefining commonly used words. like on that wikipedia page i linked to his far-right views are laid out in detail, yet it also notes that he asserted that these far-right ideas are not far-right.

i mean, unless you're arguing that islamophobia and anti-immigration aren't right-wing?
Kudos to this architect for standing up to this, but my question is, why does standing up to completely obvious monstrosities like this take any courage at all?

Perhaps this is nothing new and just exactly what "The Emperor's New Clothes" is all about. That is, any non-affiliated person could easily say "You want to house 4,500 students in a windowless prison because some billionaire gave you about 14% of the financing?" but somehow the administrators in charge of this are pushing, pushing, pushing.

I think I'm just a little depressed thinking of all the recent cases that seem to me like they should be easy, clear cut moral questions where assumably smart, good people throw out their morals in a heartbeat because $.
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Oh I agree with you. I certainly didn't have a roommate in school any longer than I needed to and, yes, I have somewhat mixed feelings about having multi-person rooms as a design goal as opposed to a space tradeoff (which I think it more commonly is.

And certainly no windows is awful. Every now and then I've had a hotel room that wasn't windowless but effectively got no natural light. Not a fan.
And an app store. It obviously needs some kind of login.
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I use a pin code or thumbprint to unlock my iPad and login to Apples store

I can root it and install alternative store

What alternative software can I run on Occulus?

That and all the extra engineering for managing users for business reasons not technical wastes real resources to prop up a technology company that isn’t interested in novel discovery, but servicing contemporary business obligations

If they’re so smart and capable of pulling useful metadata off unstructured data, why do they need me to maintain a specific profile?

Really kind of feels like they rely on having concrete data and the meta part is marketing
Right. The author mentions McDonald's as a site: I'd assume Starbucks or another coffee shop is probably a better one, since more people bring laptops there to work. Does a wall charger last more than a day plugged in at a Starbucks location before getting stolen or, at the very least, removed during cleaning?
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What do you mean specifically? Do you have any examples?
Echoing the command also lets you see that shell escaping, parameter expansion etc. works as you expected. I do the same when writing a one-off loop, too.
Yes, for sure. Much more fun than going to the gym or doing boring exercises at home. Main use would be cardio and stuff like squats etc, not weight lifting. Although Carmack said (in his FB Connect keynote yesterday) that they will soon be fitness apps that incorporate weights as well.
But that would be socialism /s
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The part I don't get is that the total project will cost over 1.5 billion USD and Charlie Munger, the value investor, will get his building and name on it for only 200 million. The art of the deal for him for sure. But the school is screwing themselves and the students for such a measly donation in terms of the totality of the deal.
I can't recall many stories about an actual Robin Hood. I'd expect a jury to be much more likely to cut him a break than a typical bank robber. I don't think I could vote to acquit, but I might be tempted to convict on a lesser charge if available. But I wonder if what he did with the money would even reach the jury before they decided.