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Many countries already use money internally such as the USD (outside the US) or Euro (outside the EU) for which they do not control the policy. Explicit agreements to use a common currency across nations and share control of the policy are relatively rare; no examples come to mind apart from the EU, and that hasn't always gone according to plan, as Greece can attest. But hard currency is still a fairly common basis for exchange between nation-states, and other countries' currencies are more likely to be adopted when they are governed by relatively immutable policies. Of course, if those policies change to be less immutable it can take time for the effects to manifest. The USD was relatively stable until recently, but other countries are probably reconsidering their dependence on it at this point given the increase in the supply over the past few years.

If Bitcoin does eventually become a common instrument of trade at this level it will fill the same niche currently occupied by gold and other precious metals.
Yes, it's sad to see how those have taken over the term so much
Here is a happy user. We use daily bot daily in all Product+Engineering teams and it helps us a lot to get organized and build small automations.

Considering that it includes a few small utilities, can you think of a way to integrate it with external video conferencing systems? I'm thinking about having utilities (pomodoro, stopwatch, meeting cost counter) during the meeting...

I'm also interested to see what moves forward as a general automation tool... any interesting related functionality in the roadmap?
Most tech companies give you a large grant when you join, say 16x that vest 1/4 per year so 4x per year. Then, every year after that they usually give you another 4 year grant but usually at about 1/4 the initial one so 1x per year. Thus, your total amount of stock vesting is in this example would be 4 for the first year, 5 for the second, 6 for the third, and 4 for the 4th.

This also gets more extreme with stock appreciation because the first grant being the largest is also the oldest so has the most time to appreciate in value. Me for example, the value of my vesting equity per year will drop 30% once I hit my cliff next year.
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It's a great movie from beginning to end, you won't get an argument from me here. ;-)

Also, you make a good point - I really love movies with complex villains. In recent times, I much enjoyed Blueberry where the final stand-off reveals the good-vs-evil narrative to be much more complex than the viewer was led to think all along. (Also, the special FX are GORGEOUS, as both characters are tripping balls on Ayahuasca.)

Very few - if any - people are purely good or purely evil. Reflecting this ambiguity in storytelling is not easy but IMHO very much worth it.
It's not that the alternatives are non-existent, it's that their cost (in dollars or some other parameter) have gone up a lot. For example, if you don't use Uber or Lyft in San Francisco, it takes a LOT longer to hail a taxi on the road than it used to.
Have they "partnered" with Soracom?
In that case we can probably include the cars made in Canada and Mexico as counting towards the US total.
Cool, thanks. This matches my experience with ambitious projects that actually succeed:

- Start with a really good engineer getting frustrated with existing stuff - but frustrated in a targeted way, and over a long period of time, not just a few weeks of grumpiness.

- Let them loose for a few weeks to sketch an alternative.

- Pause, and then the hardest part - smell whether this is going in the right direction. This just takes good taste!

- Make a decisive cut - either it's not working, or Let's Do It!

I can think of four or five ambitious projects I've been on or around that have really worked well, and they all seem to have worked in this way. I don't think I realized this clearly until this comment thread - thank you.
There's also plenty of "ghost" kanji which first appeared in a dictionary with no evidence for use and some which have been positively identified to a single source as a mistaken/sloppy handwritten attempt at a different real kanji character.
You don't give people enough credit. I know damn well that the "complicated" solution is at best a monumental waste of money but doing the same trivial CRUD shit for years on end is neither intellectually stimulating nor good for my career. Until "the business" finds a way to change that I will use every available opportunity for "resume-driven development". Really, I don't give a crap if the shareholders make money or not. I only care about my own paycheck.
Yes, entering into a contract limiting a jobsite to union workers is prohibited by right-to-work, ie. an abridgement of freedom of contract.

I am curious how this works with agency fees though - it shouldn't be legal to require union membership, but it might be legal to require agency fees paid to a union.
I suspect you'll find few restaurants opening up with the intention of opening as many locations as possible as quickly as they can be built, all providing food at under cost for years on end until the local restaurant scene is sufficiently disrupted that McDonalds buys them to make them go away.
Some people install RLS because they haven't heard about rust-analyzer. Anyway, debugging is out of scope, but try filing issues for any other problems you run into.
It’s f2.2 divided by 9.
Challenges are features like HDR and having four HDMI inputs.

Planar makes incredible and also expensive displays for the commercial market. They offer a "luxury living" solution but the smallest is 100".

https://www.planar.com/markets/luxury-living/
They falsely advertise such shows here too: bring your fancy custom matched lingerie to a "Horse Dressage" event and they'll kick you both out.
Iirc this is a spin-off of a German research institute, which most likely provided the funding for the groundwork... Productizing is then left to private enterprises

German news article about it: https://www.golem.de/news/k-lens-one-erstes-lichtfeldobjekti...
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If anyone's looking to participate in a large (on the order of 100 participants or more) hackathon in the near future, this advice is 100% on the money. No matter how demonstrably useful your product is, something with better UX will win 9 times out of 10, even if the idea behind the good UX is inherently flawed and the application isn't even functional beyond the wireframe level (no one will fuzz test it).

I came away from this thinking hackathons were a complete and total waste of time, but at the same time while I've not once won a prize at a hackathon despite participating in several, I have my current job because of connections I gained during one.
Many regions in the US have been hit hard by globalization and manufacturing job loss. The choice isn't necessarily viewed as union vs non-union, but unemployment vs non-union. It seems they are choosing the jobs.

They are competing against other parts of the world in terms of labor supply. I don't know how you overcome that without either demonstrably higher productivity or protectionism.
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> Bold move for a declining country like the UK

Agreed

Not sure why the UK regulators are even concerned about the Giphy deal, it's small time... like, compared to the Nvidia + Arm deal.

> Meta could probably just pull out of the UK entirely without any serious bottom line impact.

Not sure about that, but there are plenty of options. Meta probably needs data-centers in the UK, but those could in theory move to Ireland at great expense, probably at far more expense than the Giphy deal was worth. Then comes the issue of Facebook employees in the UK, and to what extent their jobs contribute to the UK economy, and what impact that would have for those jobs to move to another country. I'm not sure regulating Facebooks' small-time deals like Giphy is worth the potential risk of losing Facebook in the UK.

Another potential way forward would be to sell Giphy, then create new Giphy-like business unit. I'd argue this is perhaps the least expensive way forward, costing more than it was to buy Giphy, yet much less than the cost of moving UK operations out.
It's just that no one got around to that yet, also a login screen without disk encryption does not mean much. For reference, there's a drive encryption[1] implementation on alpha status, but it needs to be merged and reworked into the system.

[1] https://github.com/axeld/driveencryption
If the device has not easily removable battery, it starts to be impossible to tell when it collects the data and shares it. Many devices are useful in the local network only, but still they want all-time internet access without real need.
Using direct 5G links make it also harder to filter traffic. I don't know, I just don't like the idea that all information must be collected by any means.
OT: I am wondering about the 9:05 time. Is this a new thing to start meetings after the full hour? During the pandemic I noticed that many meeting are organized without any break in between. So at my company we tried to set the default end of meetings to X:25 and X:50 but it doesn't seem to help much (as everybody is used to running meetings to the full hour).

So I am wondering if setting the start to X:05 might help?
> And then a sizable portion of those would not understand the math to be able to understand the measurements they would be making.

There's a sizable portion of so-called scientists that neither know nor understand math either [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1xfa8p/medical_paper_...
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My takeaway from this is: you think your company is great.
No other information was transferred to me in this article.

I learned nothing about FIO, libnfs, NFS, or your patch.

No feature comparison with other efforts.
No benchmark comparison with other efforts.

I wasted my time here.
I've got a New 3DS in my backpack. I love the 3D effects in Fire Emblem.
Damn! This search gave me the fun. I felt again like in 2003 when searching for free movies give me an actual movie rather than "WHERE I CAN WATCH THIS MOVIE?"-site
Freedom of association broadly implies both the freedom to associate with whom you choose, and the freedom to refuse to associate with whom you choose. If the law requires you to associate with people, that's a restriction on freedom (and yes, this argument extends to things like civil rights and anti-discrimination laws, but the consensus seems to be that discrimination based on protected classes trumps freedom of association, although this can get murky in some situations, e.g. private golf clubs or where religious freedom gets involved).

So it absolutely limits freedom of association by preventing organizations from choosing whom they associate with. Requiring you to employ someone can hardly be seen as a "freedom". Whether such a restriction is ethical or not, and whether such a restriction is constitutional or not are two different questions (and those two questions, and the question of whether it is a restriction on freedom of association may have different answers!).
Yes, but you've got the framing wrong: The issue is that employees who don't join the union are essentially "benefit freeloaders." The union employs people to negotiates wages and benefits and manage the union itself on behalf of all the employees, even those who aren't paying union dues. If everyone can opt out of paying for the union, then the union can't sustain itself.

Having a unionized workplace is a bit like having a democratic government – in the U.S., we're born and become citizens of the U.S. government and all that comes with that. We can't "opt out" unless we move out of the country and renounce our citizenship. We still have to pay taxes and we get all the benefits of our government (safety, education, roads, etc.) even if we don't want to – you can't just not pay taxes, right?

If you don't want to join a union workplace, just find a non-union workplace. If you don't want to join a new union, vote against it and find another job if they accept the union? That's more choice than you get with being a citizen of a country where you pay taxes! (And usually, union dues are less than the negotiated benefit/wage increases anyway.)
In charge? In charge of what?

The most relevant thought leaders in the crypto world are people who have no intention of "owning it", meaning being at the helm of an organization.

They are the so called hodlers and traders, like Microstrategy CEO.

People like Vitalik Buterin would deserve to be in charge because they seem genuinely interested in providing soltions, but he seems very ineffective because he's in search of a problem.
Oh yes same here.

I wrote a code generator that wrote all the code in the end. Now I maintain a shitty code generator.

You can’t win.

I think you eventually run out of fucks. I have.
I did a research paper back in college on the homestead strike and haymarket riots. Strange to see Pinkerton is still around and unchanged.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had always visible scrollbars again? Although maybe this time with a better way to tell how big they are so that we don't have to use weird margin and padding hacks and take a random guess at how the OS renders them.
It's north vs south cultural conflict again - New England is very pro-union and are losing out as jobs have flown to the south and gloablly.
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> Capitalism had a similar experience in the Great Depression, was changed by it, but the name remained.

Unfortunately a lot of those New Deal changes were reverted since then. For one, the minimum wage was supposed to be a living wage one could raise a family on.
I find the term "half-life" in this context misleading, possibly because I am coming from a nuclear science background where half lives are stable because they are the probabilistic result of nuclear decay. The chance of a given atom decaying doesn't change no mater how many you have or what you do.

With CO2, the absorption probability is flexible and can depend on how much CO2 is in the atmosphere (as well as a large number of other factors.) To me this makes "half-life" a poor metaphor for CO2 absorption.
It is kind of disappointing that it doesn't seem to map any of the folds in the garment, the individual fingers, or other details. It also seems to get the depth around the knob by the right elbow quite wrong. All-in-all, no apparent order-of-magnitude (if any?) improvement over single image "AI" algorithms that have been shown before.
No Tengwar, either.
Yes, at least in Safari on iOS. If you properly mark it muted it will autoplay when asked.

I believe the user can change the setting to "Never Autoplay" instead of "Stop Media with Sound" but the default only affects with sound.
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I never said vanish. Transportation makes up a massive proportion of fossil fuel use and many states in the US are outright banning the use of fossil fuels for transportation within the next decade. So I don't think I'm reaching when I say that in the next 30 years fossil fuel use will disappear for transportation.
Great idea and totally agree. Even someone who has been de-googling for awhile cannot step away from YT and PeerTube just isn't the same thing at all.
> "omg panic!! code red!!" based on the least realistic models in the IPCC reports,

You mean articles like this Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'? [0]

Because that specific quote, "code red" is not BBC editorialization. It is a direct quote from UN Secretary-General António Guterres [1]

> Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 report is a code red for humanity. The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse‑gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.

People accuse you ave being a skeptic not because you are saying "hey, we should consider this...", it's because, as exemplified by this exact comment, you are deliberately misrepresenting your position to make it seem more legitimate. "Code red" is not based on the "least realistic" models, they are based on our current pathway, that was what made the most recent IPCC report so alarming.

Climate change poses an extremely serious, near term threat to our very way of life. I know that this can be hard to accept, but it is important to, at the very least, not silence those who are pointing this out.

0. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58130705

1. https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sgsm20847.doc.htm
You might be surprised to know the NSA has already cloned versions of Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter onto US classified networks so IC and DoD agents can use them to publish and exchange classified information the same way influencers use normal social media. I can't remember what they call the Tumblr clone, but the Twitter one is eChirp and the Facebook one is called Tapioca.

It's not like there's anything all that complicated about the basic tech model of "loosely synchronized, eventually consistent live data feed algorithmically sorted with the ability to follow and group sources." Where these services earn their valuations is in sheer scale of the user base combined with the backend telemetry and machine learning services that drive user profiling and personalized ads, but government institutional use would not want or need those features. As far as I know, eChirp and Tapioca are maintained by volunteers and functionally equivalent to Twitter and Facebook if you stripped out the features built for serving personalized ads and maximizing reader engagement.
As written this "rule" simply allows Twitter to selectively delete videos and images that don't support the narrative they are currently pushing. Next time we have some "peaceful protesters" burning down cities, there won't be any video on Twitter to let people see what is actually happening. Videos of massive demonstrations against lockdowns and other government mandates will certainly be down the memory hole. You can be certain that curated NYT videos and images will remain, whether or not that video is filled with images of private individuals who have not offered their consent. Twitter is making a large gamble that people won't leave the platform in droves as all they are left with is a whitewashed, Twitter/government approved message. Perhaps they ought to look at what happened to Digg.
Performance is what I wonder about. The idea sounds good, but what crypto scheme can perform encryption of a signature both securely and fast enough to keep up with every pointer pushed on the stack?

What's the trade-off?
I believe you're referring to Amazon Sidewalk. It's more for their own devices like cameras and not for TV ad tracking (at least for now.)

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/
Because most people who use Reddit on a semi-regular basis use their old desktop UI (old.reddit.com), which doesn’t have the dark patterns found on their newer / mobile site. It’s a much more usable site for the few communities I still have left on Reddit. It’s also much better supported by the individual subreddits via style sheets (most didn’t bother updating layouts when Reddit introduced a new UI because all the power users who would have updated them kept using the old interface).
https://partners.amazonaws.com/fr/partners/001E000001In3e0IA....

Maybe it doesn't count as partner, maybe it does.
This guy must go to parties with Good Will Hunting.
When I was a kid, I loved the Mathemagic book [1] IIRC this was one of the tricks described in the book.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mathemagic-Raymond-Blum/dp/0806983558
I think you're preaching to the choir here. I'm not defending workaholism, just pointing out that commoditized code makes wage-work development a race to the bottom. Working hard isn't a "virtue", it's just something that business owners can amplify in an effort to pit workers against each other, especially for online software that doesn't require geographic proximity. Imagine the same long hours but at 10% the current wages.

Manufacturing has gone through the whole outsourcing-to-reshoring rollercoaster, and that's only just starting to touch coding. Give it 10-20 years and it'll be much worse for American devs as domestic competition increases and the rest of the world catches up, all while the advertising bubble bursts and climate refugeeism increases.

I'm not glorifying back-breaking labor, I'm worrying about our future.

Japan is a perfect case in point... that's the kind of society I'd like to avoid, feudalism with perfunctory "pick your favorite lord" days. But as wealth increasingly concentrates in fewer and fewer hands and democracy crumbles, I think that sort of dystopia is unavoidable. Japan got to that point even with deeply entrenched racism and xenophobia, where labor immigration isn't a big part of their workforce... and they still developed those problems. In a society like ours, where capital is free to hire work from basically anyone and anywhere, it's going to be even more amplified.

Bad time to have kids.
Myspace was for young online people. I was on Myspace. It was tough to even convince half of my friends during that time that being online was fun, let alone being on a social network that didn't really facilitate communication.

Digg was for nerds and nerd-adjacent people. Not sure why you'd even mention it in the same breath as Twitter.

Twitter's scale is so massive, the social graph so varied, that a true replacement is probably years away. It's not impossible for a competitor to take over, of course. Just unlikely.
Being able to afford rent for an office space is pretty tough for most people who can barely afford rent on their apartment while holding a fulltime job. Musk is the son of an emerald miner.
This year has already seen an increased union presence and several high profile strikes.

I think it is far-fetched to say that all of this has occurred without unions whatsoever.

Just like Lenin's "reserve army" of the unemployed keeping workers motivated to keep working, so too does the "reserve threat" from labor organization motivate many of the 20th century improvements in labor conditions.
People are glad to have the income and extant economical benefits of these jobs*, not the jobs themselves.
Where does it end? This capital flight problem has been discussed since Smith (well, at least). The reality is that there will always be somewhere labor-cheaper for capital to move to. Meanwhile laborers (being physical beings) can’t be globetrotting wizards like digital money can be.

The South-East might be cheap enough today. Until somewhere else bids lower…