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Highly disagree. Most people make their vaccination decisions, like most other decisions, based on highly biased information that they have obtained from others around them. There is little "cost-benefit" analysis being done when you aren't actually comparing the real costs and benefits, but rather an extremely skewed interpretation you hear from the bubble you're in.

Given that, regardless of the actual risk or visceral evidence provided, almost anything can be spun as a positive or negative with enough determination, and on the heels of a major anti-vax campaign with Covid, there would be sure to be major overlap between the two were a smallpox outbreak to occur right now.

The first vaccine hesitancy campaign literally was against the smallpox vaccine in Stockholm, so I don't see how you could say that there would be no hesitancy to it. History has already shown that to not be the case over and over again.
> Plug the leaking holes in the boat and worry about getting the sail replaced when you get to shore.

This is meaninglessly abstract. Anyone can offer trite platitudes. Concretely, how do we meet climate targets by the end of the century without China's participation? What additional burden does that put on the rest of the world, and how are we going to meet that when no one is on track to meet their current obligations?

> It's certainly easy to brush it off if you're not a murdered Uyghur.

1. No one is brushing anything off.

2. What's the Uyghur death toll, approximately?

3. I can similarly imply that you're being too cavalier about the people who will die of starvation, disease, and poverty, but I don't think these sorts of ad hominem are very productive.
The underlying journal article is paywalled but the authors state that their "model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected absent their ALDC status" [0]. If that's correct then the notion that most ALDC students do meet the high standards of non ALDC admits is false.

[0] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/713744?jou...
That is not representative of "the field". Your paper, from 2010, has 21 papers citing it on the link you provided. None support the paper conclusions. The highest cited one of those, from 2019, ([1] with 172 citations) uses Benford's Law exactly as it's commonly stated and used.

Here [2] is Google Scholar on Benford's Law. Of the 36,000 papers it pulled very, very few claim the law is not useful and valid. The vast majority (actually, every one of the first many pages) show how it's useful and demonstrate uses of it. If you want only recent papers, select from the left panel. Same result.

In fact, the first several pages of results contain many papers showing empirical validation of the usefulness of the law.

[1] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0475.2...

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=ben...
So, I was there and made this purchasing decision too. And if you remove doom from the benchmarks you linked it matches what I remember. Which is that the AMD 386-40's where faster in pretty much all cases than the Intel 486SX-20's. They were also slightly cheaper at the time. And that fact gave me a terrible time deciding which one to buy, but in the end I got the 486 because it had two huge advantages.

The first being that at the time, if one carefully selected the motherboard it was possible to overclock the 486SX-20's to 40Mhz and have a rock solid system. The second was the VLB was starting to be a thing. A 486 with a VLB graphics card was considerably faster than anything I would have been getting on the 386. And of course it was pretty clear that faster 486's could be plugged in, rather than requiring a motherboard upgrade. So IIRC, it was like an extra 15% difference in price to get a machine that was well over 2x faster.

So, I saved my pennies and borrowed some from my parents and got the 486SX. It was rock solid for the next couple years until I managed to get my hands on a DX2. That was also my first overclocking experience and by far the largest increase I've ever managed. That machine is also probably the fastest booting x86, I've ever owned because it was running MRBIOS. The boot time to DOS was entirely limited by the HD spin-up time, and with a much later DX4-100 upgrade was one of my longest running linux firewall/network servers i've ever used until it died in the mid 2000's in a heat event.

(well maybe the abit bp6 counts...)
I have often hired a trusted / skilled person to do software contracting and they in turn subcontracted some or all of the work out to someone they worked with. That situation seems t arise naturally, where lots of people want to hire person X, and so person X starts to say, "I don't have the time myself but I know someone I can work with I trust."

The skilled contractor can then handle excess demand when it exists. If I were looking for someone to be my "agent" the first place I would look would be successful individual contractors who are doing similar work. Many may need subcontractors.

Also, star cintractors already have a lot of the qualities of agents, and more importantly qualities that would be hard to find in agents if they existed: domain expertise, connections, reputation, communication skills, understanding of the work.
I was just testing with TIO, it looks like the version of `cal` on there is different to the common one. The ⎕SE.UCMD'Calendar 2021' version should work cross platform (as it doesn't rely on anything external).
One thing you can do is use dev tools (chrome dev tools) and throttle your bandwidth down to 3g. Build with that constraint and you should be good.
> Who determines the limits?

The limits are determined by society, usually through the vehicle of government.

> What if the determiner of the limits disagree with you?

Then I petition society to bend the collective opinion towards my own, or I change my opinion to be more in line with society.

> It's all fun and sexy to make limits until you are systematically excluded.

The whole point of societies, in the most general sense, is to improve the lives of it's members, in aggregate, over time. Or, as the Buddhists say, to reduce suffering. Systematic exclusion of antisocial and/or deleterious actors is an explicit design goal of functioning societies. To accomplish this goal societies must first acknowledge that the essential nature of their task is subjective, and requires moral judgment. This can produce bad outcomes, sure. But that possibility doesn't invalidate the approach. Laws can also be used to oppress, but we don't throw our hands up and say justice is impossible.
"Old" people are boring. They dont start Tesla companies either
I also identify with this 100%. It's probably a personality flaw of some sort.
I recently reinstalled Windows 10 and Ubuntu 21.10 (in that order) in EFI mode. I had assumed that grub was superfluous even in that situation: I figured the BIOS would see that there's an EFI partition with several operating systems and let me choose one.

Well, apparently it doesn't work that way. The BIOS still just lets me pick a disk (or flash memory, pxe, ...). And then grub takes over.

Hilariously, Ubuntu did not automatically set up an entry for the Windows 10 install (something that had always worked for legacy setups). Had to do it by hand. Really not something I would have wanted to spend time on.
A castle was mostly for garrisoning and strongholding an area. If it came down to a fight in your castle, it was already precarious for the defender.
"Rational self-interest" is a specific academic economics term.

https://thebusinessprofessor.com/en_US/economic-analysis-mon...
Grid trading bots are all over the place. If you look at the crypto-trading subreddits you'll see plenty of posts about how some guy downloaded a bot and makes $300-500/day off of it. These are the new scr1pt k1dd13s; there are turn-key solutions to automate trading and anyone can use them.
yeah I think this must be solved before any other secondary problems.

If taxpayers need President, then let their campaign funded only by taxpayer money. Same applies to Senate and everyone who is elected. Limited and equal amount to all sides and let them be as creative as possible. But never take corporation money
>But this doesn't force the user (i.e. caller) of div to handle a non-zero divisor at all, it forces the user of the return value to handle a potential missing value without any context for why it was missing.

Like I said think in terms of isomorphisms. Exceptions also force the caller to handle the code. There is no difference here.

None is isomorphic to a Null and an exception is isomorphic to a result type. If you want context. Do this:

type Result[Int] = Int | Exception[String]

def div(x: int, y: int) -> Result[Int]:
return x // y if y != 0 else Exception("Division by zero on line ${line}")

The structure of the code handling this type of div is identical to code handling an actual exception. The main difference is type safety. Exceptions compile with a possible runtime error, Result types do not.

Additionally your NonZero[Int] is not fully type safe. You have to think about long reaching consequences and precursors. Here you aren't thinking about the precursor. What generates this NonZero[Int]? Usually at some point you have some type casting function of the form:

Int -> NonZero[Int]

What then happens when I pass a zero? All you did is propagate the issue to somewhere else.

Math doesn't have the syntax to fully compose two functions with different codomains and domains. So strict math formalism is irrelevant here. You can switch some attributes to isomorphic concepts (like how mapping division by zero to an element in a set called "undefined" is equivalent to the operation actually being undefined) but in the end you have to invent something because math simply doesn't have any elegant formal syntax to cover this codomain and domain mismatch. Therefore strict adherence to the concept that a Int can never be inserted into a div function is unnecessarily pedantic. Literally every other mathematical operation covers all of Z in both domain and codmain except for division.
Wash trading is not just one thing, I give you that. But a frequent way of achieving wash trading is to buy and sell from yourself via multiple accounts. KYC/AML + Terms of Conditions specifying you can only own one account prevents that, as much as it can at least. Even if you are two different people just trading between you, AML laws will prevent that and surely Coinbase has the most basic checks in place to detect something that simple.
Don't be a jerk. How you treat people matters.

Why is that a productivity hack? Because medium-to-large-scale software development is all about communication. You don't initially know what your code is supposed to do. It isn't obvious; someone has to communicate that to you. You don't know how it's supposed to work with other code; someone has to communicate that to you. Being a jerk makes other people less willing to talk to you.
Maybe, but even if just a few don't pay, they will do other things. The attacks ransomware uses will become harder and harder to exploit. (already it is a lot harder than 20 years ago). More things will be invented to prevent them in the first place. Maybe formal proofs of all code? There are a lot of things that companies who aren't going to pay will start demanding of their vendors who they will pay.
I certainly self-report higher levels of satisfaction, lower levels of depression and anxiety when I dose with ice cream. I don't really do the micro part though. Full dose only. Let me know if you want to do a double blind study. We might face some study problems since I can certainly tell if I'm in the placebo group. If you can come up with a viable ice cream placebo I'm all ears.
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I'm for anything where there's competition in transaction(middleman) fees. So, I think as the market for "crypto" takes off, I can see this space being net positive.

Solana fees are $0.00025 per transaction. And with Defi you can jump networks pretty easy. I think polygon network has low fees too.

As for the argument about oracle's(ignore the man behind the curtain), I think competition will will solve that too.

The problem long term is probably money laundering and other illegal activities.

or it could devolve into the singularity or some dystopian
techno-feudalism.

so, I would take a job but I'd probably rather work on some kind of DAO in my spare time.
As I said, in the median person's model of the world GPS satellites are tracking everyone's location. You're essentially assuming that when talking to someone, they will automatically trust me when I describe the details of the problem they have and trust me when I tell them how they can (partially) solve it. In reality, even people that acknowledge there is a problem still will not trust a solution from a random person - rather they will become defensive and engage the cognitive dissonance. People generally become convinced of problems and solutions either of their own volition or by social proof.

Articles condemning big tech are popular for a reason. Apple's anti-surveillance developments are popular for a reason. Movies about surveillance dystopias are popular for a reason. People like their autonomy while having a hard time imagining all the ways surveillance data can be abused. This narrative that surveillance subjects are fully informed willfully consenting participants is surveillance industry propaganda, and its ridiculousness becomes more apparent by the year.
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But why not just build a mass driver, then? It's a somewhat large horizontal structure, compared to a space elevator which is an absolutely humongous vertical structure. If you can reach 2 km/s on magnetic rails, you don't need anything else to launch from the Moon -- or even land on it.
> feel for the culture and social movement that's brewing there.

It might be slightly cool if they weren’t 99% either grifters or people who can’t actually do anything. Like, even basic programming that would actually make something real.

The current “culture” is literally just saying a lot of words and making absolutely zero point.

Sort of like Kanye said

“No one knows what it means, but it's provocative

Gets the people going”
What's wrong with lobbying? If you have a viewpoint that you feel isn't being heard, you're free to form a non-profit and have the government subsidize your quest to have them listen to you.

Remember that laws are hard to create and usually incredibly complex. Even something as simple as Net Neutrality isn't black and white in terms of winners and losers. What you perceive as "laws created for the convenience of corporations and select people at the cost of ordinary people" may not be as numerous as you may think.
Then you might like Zephyr OS, if you didn't hear about it yet!
I just checked and my camera, even if a close the cover and put it under a blanket, still doesn't return straight zeroes. As long as there is some "fuzz" there is something useful to generate randomness.

Also, it would be reasonable for the RNG to notice some source is returning input of no value (straight zeroes) and reject it.
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Money is such a poor tool, it's funny when some nerds pretend they're smarter because they use new techs, while they just forgot to implement all the plumbings that makes older concept work just well.

The intersection between tech enthusiasts and libertarians is way too large.
Huh. This might be less inane than you think.
Because the people making laws benefit from it. It’s the people that are hurt.

It’s also not clear what would happen if you somehow were able to make all campaign spending derived from public funds and make lobbying illegal. It would likely just increase direct corruption, but perhaps it would be less than you see now.

On the other hand, while only available to the wealthy, lobbying allows for a kind of direct democracy.
Are both running the same version of iOS?
You can also play the YouTube video with your eyes closed to get the audiobook version.
There is a meaningful difference between this kind of miner intervention and the kind of intervention that might be problematic in a centralized context.

Provided there is sufficient decentralization within a blockchain network (i.e. enough independent miners participating) no individual miner will be able to pursue a MEV strategy beyond a single block. The next block will be created by a different miner.

In addition, the right to include any transaction or to control the ordering of transactions depends on the miner winning the right to build the block via the consensus process (for instance, by being first to calculate the PoW). In a sufficiently decentralized network, it is unlikely that any one miner will have any certainty at all with regards to when they will actually be able to build a new block. Depending on the level of centralization, it is also the case that a particular miner will get to mine a new block infrequently at best.

So the worst that a particular miner can do will be to delay the inclusion of a transaction, because any other miner can choose to include the same transaction in a subsequent block. Excluding transactions is outright impossible without buying out the entire capacity of the network by paying massive gas fees to other miners.

And because there is no predicting when the power to choose the ordering or inclusion of transactions will be granted to a particular miner, any miner intervention strategy will need to be both opportunistic and somehow viable within the scope of only one block.

Keep in mind as well that Ethereum blocks occur less than once every 15 seconds.
The article agrees with you that there is interesting math and good art in crypto. But disagrees about why it's being done.
That is news to me I have never heard of this mentioned.
Wow, this takes Google's influence to a whole new level.
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We get the choice between two candidates, both of whom will act in corporate interests, most of the time. Even magical, all knowing, voters that perfectly optimize the selection won't fix the issue.
I don't think we could really describe living in the woods as hiking.
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But you can't do micro transactions on the blockchain - or rather, everyone can't do microtransactions on the blockchain because it's fundamentally anti-scalable and has to transmit every transaction to every full node.

(LN does not solve this unless you re-centralise on a common broker with whom you have a channel!)

This doesn't solve any of the other problems such as microfraud or friction either.
The canonical way to get around the inevitable inefficiency of decentralization at scale is to quietly re-add centralization (ReFi?) and bury it under technical neologisms and benchmarks.

"Look how fast and innovative $cryptocurrency is! I totally didn't just reinvent a centralized payment settlement system."
I've never seen that, ever. There are, however, daily calls to unperson people in the crypto space -- just like what S. Diehl is doing here by claiming it is essentially a 'collective delusion worthy of punishment'.
Alternative: share email over UUCP with your friends, only run uucico once a day. You can edit your outgoing mail spool until uucico picks it up!

(For bonus modern security and convenience, use NNCP for this; possibly have packets delivered by an urchin with a thumb drive.)
Somehow this seems like it ought to be an xkcd comic.
I don't know much about his work but I know he sometimes makes remarks that are paranoid, contradictory, and nonsensical when properly analyzed. This indicates to me that he either knows that such remarks drive a lot of engagement on social media or he doesn't. Either way, I think people should stop paying attention to whatever he's saying since it is often neither insightful nor productive in any meaningful way.
One problem with this strategy is that the sort of workforce you will attract to a make work project is much different than with an exciting new technology.

If you're essentially telling your workers that what they're doing isn't very important, why would they bust their butts and make major sacrifices in their lives to do it (as SpaceX employees do)?
Our experiences are fairly rare from what I've seen. Undoubtedly the door is open, but the weight of that door is still far too high and I would not give tech points in the category of meritocracy for that. Also worth mentioning that 300k is FAANG level compensation, and those salaries are fairly rare and not indicative of where most people with less-than-prestigious backgrounds end up (another commenter posted what I think is a fairly accurate average tale). Not to mention those salaries are often geo-centric.
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Or Mars, but what's nice is that you generally only have to look up what that "other planet" is once every few months or so, and you'll know it for a good long while. Right now it's Jupiter.

Venus is actually surprisingly far from the sun right now, although still clearly the evening star.
It's not the same when the recipient is not bought into the same delayed concept.
If I remember correctly, crypto.com launched late 2019/early 2020 so unlikely it's part of the report.
But why does it make them rich? Because enough consumers want a surveillance state. The market wants a surveillance state.
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I got interested in the show Alter Ego on Fox and wanted to catch up on what I'd missed. Fox let me watch one episode before registering (and paying?) but I was able to watch it all on Youtube.

Odds are better that you find anything on Youtube than any place else unless it is a Chinese TV series that shouldn't be obscure but practically is. (Like how I had to get a bootleg of Three Kingdoms from Singapore.)
Why no one in the US brings up this to the political agenda?

Rational people talk about it enough that eventually all their friends beg them to stop talking about it. Perhaps you meant to ask why this is never mentioned on popular commercial news media? Or perhaps you meant to ask why no politician affiliated with Democrat or Republican ever mention it? Those would have been perceptive questions.
The experience is pretty much the same except for depending on how secure the facility is.

Look for? Mostly costs.Unless you have some regulation requirements.

Savings is going to be heavily dependent on what you do with the stuff there. If you have legacy stuff or huge full server usage (looking at you accounting systems) a colo can be a lifesaver. If you are 100% wiz bang 2.0 or whatever there is probably little reason to have a colo at all.

Just make sure there is some provision for the fact that its not a one time cost and servers need replaced ever 5 years or so and parts need replaced. You don't want the "computers don't have moving parts why should we replace them" conversation when a critical server is on its last legs at 10years old or more.
PHP has declined but its by no means a dead or dying tech. Pay should be good in the good companies (Slack? MessageBird? I am sure there are some big names I dont follow the PHP world that much).
What I am saying is that even declining tech can provide stable income for decades.
Perl is a different story though. I dont know if the Perl people can still get jobs writing Perl.
Haha, you're all so fucking angry you don't have breathless useful idiots like Wu, Scoble, Kelly, Swisher, or Shirky dominating the tech press anymore. It's precious!
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