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I don't think it's very common. But even if it is, common does not mean expensive.

> Property/casualty lines of business typically experience pure loss ratios well above 10%, approaching 70% or higher at times. Title insurers historically have loss ratios in the 5% to 10% range.

https://www.naic.org/documents/topics_title_insurance_brief....

Also, 2017 in Texas 6% loss ratio. Other states are better in that they don't charge as much for the policy. However, loss ratios are still very low.

https://www.texasobserver.org/entitled-to-profit-in-texas-ti...
The demand for shipping throughput is so high that it is cheaper to have the Chinese build new containers and have them filled and waiting at the docks than pay the extra time to have the empties loaded in the US then unloaded in China. This will change at some point, but until then there's no point in bringing the empties back. It's literally not worth the hassle.

Honestly, it might go on long enough that figuring how to smelt the containers might be viable given the high cost of metals.
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This is also why it's much more valuable to look at user metrics than actual feedback when making design decisions.

Individual pieces of feedback can be valuable, but if you let it do the driving then you can end up making changes that worsen your product. You become subject to the will of the most vocal critics at any given moment.
Yes exactly! We had a great time using Medium, Ghost, and Notion, and thought this approach is quite easy and familiar for most people
Facebook's recent "DNS problem" was a process for checking routing failover capacity on the backbone for maintenance ended up taking down the backbone links. As a result of the servers being disconnected from the backbone they pulled their BGP advertisements since they considered their location to be unhealthy (no connection to the backbone).

FB's problem was the lack of routing reachability on its backbone triggering the lack of routing reachability information being sent to the larger internet, this in turn caused problems for DNS not the other way around.
Stop spreading disinformation.
Looks very cool! Did you base it on an opensource editor or did you build it from scratch?

Asking because my startup has invested a lot into building our editor with SlateJS, so I'm always curious what other teams settle on.
Looks like they abandoned that approach in 2019 with bepuphysics2 - https://www.bepuentertainment.com/blog/2019/1/16/-but-gpus-a...
The solution is simple. Raise rates and let asset prices normalize, regardless of the consequences.

There will be pain in the short term, but you're creating opportunity for future generations.

Policy right now is all about pulling prosperity from the future into the present. IE higher valuation multiples today enrich current asset holders, but leave little growth for future asset holders

It used to be that the Fed was not too focused on asset valuations, and actually drove policy on the basis of their mandates. Unfortunately they're too cowardly to do that anymore.

It may be partly due to the short term focused political system in the US. China actually is explicitly acting to reduce property values to make homes more affordable for its people. Of course this triggered all sorts of second order effects like the evergrande situation. We will see if they follow through all the way, but so far they aren't backing down, despite what looks like an imminent systemic implosion of the property sector.

Sometimes people lose when they invest. That's how it's supposed to work. Removing that element creates mass amounts of moral hazard, which will end badly on its own at some point.
That video came out a few years before flex appeared I think at a time they were having a sort of “resource crunch” on the heels of growth spur following the GFC.
I got the impression, based on a blog post by Eric Lawrence [1], that Google's developer tooling was top-notch (except for devs working on open-source projects like Chromium). Did it get worse since 2017, or are you talking about a different kind of tooling?

[1]; https://textslashplain.com/2017/02/01/google-chrome-one-year...
end user and IT familiarity. sure you know Linux, most end users and a lot of IT folks don't.
that and corporate VPN security stuff. I know the company I work for uses FireEye (whatever that is) to make sure I'm up to no good or whatever it does. every time i bring up Linux I get the "VPN software" and "Security" as the biggest reasons why I need to just be happy with Win10 + WSL2 (which honestly isn't bad at all)
Suprised that WebKit is better, wonder why Blink is being used in VScode.
You can play Dota2 with bots, so technically a "single player" mode. It runs very smoothly on Linux. (There is a slight hiccup after the splash screen after hero selection, but the game hasn't started at that point, so it's not significant).
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You can credit whomever you like, but it seems quite unlikely. More likely is that the CEO is trying to get free advertising.
Cool tech demo; bad solution to the problem. There's already a standard api for notifications with wide browser support.
> but at some point courses of action have to be decided

And doing that is not the scientist's job. So scientists should not be filtering what they say because they want to encourage or discourage some course of action. They should just be telling the truth as best they know it.

> for many problems, it's not enough to delegate this to individuals, the decision has to be taken on a collective level.

First, I think the problems for which a collective decision has to be made are much rarer than many people think. Governments have gotten their fingers into all kinds of pies that they don't actually need to be in, but where government intervention serves a special interest.

Second, there isn't just one collective level. There are many of them. As a general rule, you want people who are going to bear the costs and reap the benefits in a particular area to be involved in collective decisions about that area, but you don't want people involved who aren't. That generally means pushing collective decisions down to the lowest possible collective level. But again, our political system very often doesn't do that.

Third, when it comes to collective policy decisions, scientists have no special expertise; they are just citizens like everyone else. Scientists who believe some kind of action is required because of something they found in their scientific research still are only seeing that one narrow viewpoint of their research; that doesn't give them any special ability to see the big picture or to take other interests or factors into account.

> What this article also argues against is tactics that specifically target this unavoidable amount of uncertainty with the interest of delaying action.

Uncertainty can be used either way: it can be used to try to delay action, or to try to motivate it (we don't know whether X will be a problem, but if it is, it will be huge, so we can't take a chance on not doing something about it). Both can be issues.
Except soldering everything on can give you HUGE performance boosts. Like, laptops come with soldered-on RAM that you can't get in a DIMM configuration because the soldered on stuff is so fast it needs a fast path to the CPU, which DIMM slots can't provide. And now with Apple building all system RAM directly into the chip die, it's just a whole new ballgame.

So you can either go modular and have a slow PC, or you can have decent performance and just accept that everything is going to be soldered on and irreplaceable.
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I have done C++ for 15 years, its the only choice in the HFT domain I used to work in. There is nothing that can replace it right now because of its performance, the quality of the compilers and the available library eco-system. But that does not mean that some of C++ corners are not inexcusably obtuse. Co-routines is a new one.
Isn't the Metaverse(tm) really just 2nd Life given a second life?
Or Salvor's boyfriend who says his propulsor doesn't work and gently floats away, feet away from several people equipped with functioning propulsors, including Salvor.

The lava floor strongly reminded me of Galaxy Quest's chompers. Come on, Apple.
>But from this side of the Atlantic it looks rather as if Trump's Republican party strongly prioritises getting and keeping power over basic democratic principles

Only if your definition of "trump's republican party" is excessively reductionist. Which speaks to my point - your point of view lacks nuance, likely because the guardian (and any of the outlets unilaterally labeled as "reliable/authoritative", enforced by tech censorship) is not an unbiased source on the matter. Particularly when they are still referring to jan 6th as some coordinated "attack" (sans guns?) rather than a riot.

When all right leaning sources have been preemptively defined as unreliable then naturally the only possibility is that anyone right of center is misinformed; but this is a toxic manufactured consensus which is at odds with the views and values of about half the country. Indeed you would think that this half is merely some crazed racist minority if your views on the US are informed by a steady stream of blatantly agendad left leaning sources. The logic is effectively circular, and left leaning journalistic interpretations are being paraded as objective facts. Jan 6th is an excellent example.
Really liked this one on Bezier curves: http://jamie-wong.com/post/bezier-curves/
AWS Lightsail instances are pretty affordable ($10/mo and up)
The LA Times covered this is an article about his tweets, but in a nutshell: the problem is the shipping companies. They wouldn't pick up empty containers coming back to the ports, so the containers were stuck in the container storage yards outside the ports. Because these storage yards were full, trucking companies couldn't pick up new (full) containers with rigs on location; they had to bring in new rigs. But their aren't enough drivers right now due to COVID and trucking being a generally crappy low-paying job.

The first incentive implemented was to start fining the shipping companies for sitting on their (full) containers. However, this is an indirect incentive, intended to motivate the shipping companies to solve the container lifecycle problem in a market-efficient manner. If this incentive doesn't work, the next incentive will more directly address the problem: shipping companies will be fined for empty containers left at the container storage facilities.
Gaze upon the forest and not on a single tree.
It maybe also benefits a setup where the story is told/sung in small chunks over several days, so you don't forget what happened in the previous episode?
How is this a "closer" analogy? I motivated mine.

The car without a parking sensor still gets you anywhere you want to go.

This one only drives in straight lines, it's incapable of changing direction.

There is a difference between "has a use case" and "fully-featured DAW". A wheelbarrow has use cases. It's not a car (and not a fully-featured one, at that).

The decision to support non-12 tone equal temperament from the get-go, but not something a simple as a goddamned waltz (or 6/8 beat, think Addams Family theme, or House Of The Rising Sun, or...) is perplexing. Tells me the DAW makers don't have their priorities straight.

May I ask you about what experience with audio production you have that you base your opinion/analogies on? I've been producing music[1] for about 15 years, and used DAWs from Cakewalk 6 to Cubase to Ableton. My opinions are based on this experience.

[1] https://soundcloud.com/romwell
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Don’t discount 35-65 (or beyond) either.
At the time federation was not that special. E-Mail was federated and Jabber/XMPP was federated too. So it was expected, that the successor (as which Wave was marketed) of e-mail was federated too.

The real time aspects, on the other hand, were pretty amazing at the time. From todays perspective the reverse might be true ;-)
IE Mode is only available in Edge on Windows.
Nice :)

So, router seems to be pronounced with "UK" selected as "rooter", with "US" selected as "rauter".
I can't see why anyone would use it outside of their corporate day job. but if those enterprises can now support linux, because they only support edge (or IE mode on edge) this is pretty neat
Oldies but goldies: Have you played Portal 1 and 2? Amazing story and voice actors. Lots of humor. Tricky puzzles. Loads of fun.
I think it's more a generational thing. If Gen X grew up on arcades and the Atari (guessing), and Millennials on games like Quake or NES games, then Gen Z grew up on Minecraft and Gen Alpha on Roblox.

Until VR technology gets better I probably don't think kids will grow up on it because I can't imagine headsets being safe to use for extended periods of time if you're under 10 years old.
I read a recent interview from mark zuck about the metaverse and someone asked him a similar question. He had an actually really insightful answer.

1) Most american adults watch several hours of TV per day. alternatively, many play a few hours of video games. (The actual per-person-per-day numbers are very high compared to the average 2hr/week i watch tv but whatever). Most of TV and Video Games are about ignoring reality for entertainment in a fake world already. thats a few hours people can dedicate.

2) The metaverse can be more than traditional video game type entertainment. WFH has turned the office as a destination into a keyboard/monitor as a destination. You can use VR to have a much more immersive/focused work destination than either office or WFH desk. Thats 8+ hours a day you can spend in metaverse.

(I have tried the Oculus workrooms and if the virtual screen resolution was higher then i'd personally work in it.)
Downscaling doesn't bother me as much for some reason. Icons scaled to 125% or 150% from their 1x size look more blurry than the 2x version of the same icon scaled down. It also looks better to me if the system uses integer scaling to blow up the 1x icon to 200% size first, then scale down from there.
The Metaverse that will make the most $ is Porn
>> soldered-to-the-motherboard, everything-utterly-encrypted approach is that it's almost impossible to do data recovery

>Well, that's kind of the point.

Not that I don't appreciate a security-minded platform, it just seems overkill for 99% of the people who'll purchase them, and do nothing but cause heartache when the internal SSD fails. And fail they do. it's rare, but I've had several SSDs (Toshiba and Crucial, if it matters) fail within 1-2 years of moderate usage. No warning there was an issue, the drives just disappeared one day and I was left looking for backups.
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> However, simply being accessible is not akin to authorization.

That’s a hard argument to push unless the judge is unbelievably biased. If the website is up and running on the expected domain, functions correctly and has no indication it’s a private beta, it’s hard to assume bad faith from the unintended users.

IIRC, the idea was tested in the early days of dial up systems and a system that was setup to not require authentication that had a “Welcome to this computer” banner was considered open enough the intruders were not considered intruders.

If you have a building and charge for entry, but there is no access control at the door, no ticket sales and no indication you need to pay to enter, can you complain someone wandered into the building without paying?
I went to work for a US bank in London as a sysadmin in 1994 and pretty much the first thing they did was have BT install 2x ISDN channels in my flat. It was incredible speed with what felt like almost no latency back then. What a treat! Moved to USA (also to work for that US bank) and it was like "ISD what???"
I'm looking to do this- I'm going to move out of state, and having a counter-party buying my house that is likely to offer maximum flexibility as I'm looking for another house elsewhere is valuable.
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I like the term "scaffold". It intuitively conveys that this is something quickly and easily started and which can stand on its own, but at the same time is fundamentally incomplete and a stepping stone towards something more permanent of greater value.
I've also been eagerly awaiting a feature that'd notify me if I ever showed up in a stranger's photos (at concerts, travelling, etc). I know FB has the technology but the feature apparently never materialized.

There's a lot of useful stuff you can do when people stop abusing that stuff.
It's a Run Book Script.
For me a metaverse would be a collection of objects overlayed on our physical world.
We use it at GitHub, indeed I just updated the version we use for development this morning! Great project.
The problem with the Flatpak version is it's almost impossible to install the plugin ublock origin.
A system for alerting based on time-series data, with its own rule language. The language (along with many others) required authors have demonstrated they can adhere to the style guide by going through a process to obtain readability.

https://sre.google/sre-book/practical-alerting/
100% agree. Institutional investors are setting themselves up to be landed barons that will seek perpetual rent from working people who can no longer afford housing as the supply has shrunk and housing prices skyrocket. Oh and if these institutions fail they get bailed out by govt(they are too big to fail!). Imagine if these 7000 houses were offered to buyers, this would allow so many families opportunities to homeownership, this whole scenario makes me mad as hell and I hope this practice will be banned in the future.
AP is not profitable at all right now. I am not sure what you mean.
Have you heard of the lightning network?
I think the challenge is you'd expect a company like Google to have more of the setup be automated. If replication and monitoring are such universally good ideas, then why don't they come out of the box?
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Do you really think workplace norms should never adjust for their employees? I think a balance between doing the bare minimum to avoid bankruptcy and squeezing employees for every last drop of productivity is needed and I don't see how listening to employee demands is somehow wrong in that context.
Depends what the problem you’re trying to solve is. In my experience the vast majority of business problems do not need that kind of reliability, and if they do they don’t need it deployed in such a Byzantian way.
2nd Life is still out there. I say s someone who was invited to (and attended) a 2nd Life based event during lockdown. I also was invited to a bunch of similar virtual events on the 100 competitors that seemed to spring up.
Office 365 in browser sucks. What IE only apps were people desperately waiting for? There really isn't a reason to switch for most people, its a lot of pain for not much benefit. A better question is what do they gain?
I feel bad for anyone who tries to get English pronunciation "correct".

I'm Canadian. My family is of Scottish, Irish, and English descent. I am painfully aware of how many dialects, exceptions to words, weird pronunciations, and accents affect what should be the same word.

My wife is Russian and is fluent in English from having lived here in Canada since she was a child.

We regularly get into arguments about how something is pronounced. Most of the time, we find that it's commonly said one way here in this part of Canada, but has 1 different pronunciation in a different part of Canada and 3 more pronunciations back in the UK or Australia.

Since Canada is very multi-cultural and there are real Scottish, Irish, Indian, Australian, etc speakers everywhere here, who can say what is the right way to say a word in English?

Can we really say that the word is supposed to be X when I have 5 people in the room, all with legitimate other ways to say it that are true for their version of English? Who is right? Does it matter who is right? How much should we care about correct pronunciation at all? It's not even a pedantic discussion anymore for me, it's a legitimate and real confusion day-to-day.

As an example, I went to the above linked "youglish" site and it gave a suggestion for "courage". Some semi-British, possibly Eastern US sounding person said "coo-rah-dg" but here in my part of Canada, I would say it as "cur-ah-dg". They sound rather different and in passing, you might even think I'm saying a different word than "courage". Both are right, but here is a website that will cause someone to tell me my pronunciation is wrong.

I feel like English is too broken and disparate in its many acceptable spoken variations to have a site like this ever work without stoking further arguments.
Yes there is, it's now unanimously pronounced "gif".