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Sci Hub has it apparently: https://sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net/10.1119/1.13627
Stoicism is hard to call a fad. It has persisted as an important philosophy for over two millennia.

Georgism is a distilled moral argument that is core to classical liberalism. Classical liberalism is centuries old, as is georgism.
> Unless you can carefully code, it's not worth pretending a script to be idempotent.

Just because you can't reach perfection doesn't mean it's useless to strive towards it.

Idempotency is a very useful property that more shell script writers should be made aware of, even if they only learn basic things like "mkdir -p" or "rf -f SOMEFILE"
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> echo "/dev/sda1 /mnt/dev ext4 defaults 0 0" | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

> If this is run again, you’ll end up having duplicate entries in your /etc/fstab

You could also just add a space in front of a command you don't to accidentally run later. This will not store it in .history
Ok you’re edgy we get it
That's not quite what deadweight loss is; deadweight loss is when you can produce apples for $1, but a tax induces you to have to sell them for $1.10, preventing everyone who would be able to buy them at $1.05 from getting apples.
Adam Smith’s definition of 'free market' wasn’t freedom from governments, it was freedom from rentiers.

Land is big deal. Value of land comes mostly from it's surrounding infrastructure. Taxing it is one of the least harmful taxes.
I wrote a small tool that's similar to fail2ban. I had it put the IPs into an ipset, and had my firewall rules static. Just had a rule to match the ipset.
I work at ConsenSys so I am definitely not claiming the alternatives are better.

https://moralis.io/ and https://www.alchemy.com/ are Infura alternatives

You can Google "metamask alternatives" if you want, there are lots. I won't vouch for any of them.
> But if we go to a land tax, don't you have similar problems? Can you really say that land that has a 20-story highrise condo on it has the same value as the same land with a house on it?

Yes, because we're talking about the land -- really, more like the geographic space than the literal land -- and not the buildings.

> Because if you're going to buy the land - no matter what you intend to do with it - you get the land with the existing building.

Okay. And?

> So, if you want to disentangle the price of the land from the price of the building

For property tax purposes I think it's already common to value both the land and the buildings and then sum them up for the total property value.
> There is NOTHING MORE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC than a Press that ...

Yeah, there is, there's a president trying to strong arm his way around a lost election.

> To claim that the Right is uniquely...

I'm not claiming anything about "the right", I'm talking about the republican party. To my eyes both parties in the US are "The Right". The democrats are generally conservative, business friendly, right-leaning moderates from what I can see.

And it's not a lie that Donald Trump refused to concede, that Donald Trump and his supporters attempted to get officials in other states to just "find" a few more votes, that Trump and his people launched a mass legal offensive with no evidence to show, that Trump whipped up a crowd and sent them to congress, none of these are lies. None of these are subjective, and none of these are about "The Press".

Whatever you think of the democrats, so far I've seen nothing along the lines of "attempted coup" come from their camp.

You seem to be living in some sort of denial with your 'both sides' stuff here.
That's usually a long time.

When you're talking about timelines as short as weeks, you're going to get a ton of people waiting. They might still go to a theater, even, but one with much cheaper tickets.

How many at 3 years specifically? I'm not sure, but it's a risk to be considered.
Land is already taxed, Georgism is already in play. If one is arguing for higher property (addition + land) tax then that’s another discussion.

The housing issue is a zoning issue, and consequently solely a political one, not a tax one.
I'm using the textbook definition of deadweight loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
People are acting like this is being implemented in consumer CPUs. I don't see any indication of that. This is likely for people who need powerful on-site compute, but can't afford (or don't yet need) the most powerful version of Intel CPUs. This is a way to shave down the price tag, by letting people buy the most powerful CPU, but restricting it down to what you actually need/can afford, so Intel can sell it to you at a subsidized discount.
llvm is there towards the bottom

https://opensource.apple.com/projects/
There is no federal sales tax. There are states that have income taxes, too.
Probably would have been bad optics to let the first one become space junk.
Chernobyl also.

You'll also find that mode in numerous "near miss" nuclear accidents, as well as power-plant disasters of other modalities, including the Vaijont and Banqiao dams. Denial of a not-yet-realised risk is a very common failure modality.

Charles Perrow's work in this area, specifically in the role of organisational dysfunction in disasters (Normal Accidents and The Next Catastrophe among other works) is highly recommended.
Or getting your organ harvested while in jail
Decentralization is not self-evidently valuable. It's a property of a system that has pros and cons, and the cons are significant.
I can immediately tell if an app or website is actually from the US because the translations, while „technically“ correct, just smell of American marketing copy.

Especially if the American marketing copy included words like „experience“.

But I guess simply dumpung some arrays of strings to some translation agency without any context works, since the European competitor is busy 75% of the time fighting local bureaucracy.
The last one is the scariest. No doubt this is all part of the "you will own nothing" movement, which some people are still dismissing as a mere conspiracy theory when there's tons of evidence for what is really happening.
I was not trying to imply that they stole from each other.

Kotlin may have been around longer, but it did not enjoy the early momentum and energy that was granted because of Apple's energetic adoption and marketing. JetBrains didn't have the early resources to dump into Kotlin at first like Apple gave to Swift. In fact, I would posit, that if Swift had not gotten a giant kick off from Apple, Google may have never felt so compelled to support Kotlin like they did. They may have been fine "just do it with Java, or you can use JetBrains stuff if you want" indifferent attitude that existed for much of the early life of Kotlin.

Both languages want to remain objecty. But have added "systems" features. And are more functional. And more asyncish. And more actorish. More saftey-ish. So on and so forth.
My understanding is that the resolution of commercially available satellite imagery is restricted by the US. I don't recall details, just passing references from the show "What on Earth?"
Sometimes you just don't have that choice.
When I was working with Julia I wanted it to just throw an error whenever a top level program was compiled to unstable types. I didn’t find a way to do it though :(
The Rationalist community in particular is very good at rationalizing.
Hacker News is supressing news on Epstein case. HN is run by (((them)))
Why was my post flagged?

I shared a journalist's substack blog, where they issue daily reports on the Mossad Maxwell case.

Why does that irk Hacker News such that my post is flagged?

HN is (((owned)))

PROOF: imgbb.com hosted screenshot of my post, flagged after just 17 upvotes

https://ibb.co/HXHFG8Q
> Nonsensical mask/distancing/sanitation protocols for people at low or no risk

I'm a teacher. I really don't want to catch COVID from a kid and bring it to my immunocompromised dad. So, irrespective of the risk to students (which is not high but I would not characterize it as low either), there are additionally risks to students' families and faculty.
I always hate those kind of policy discussions. They assume the world is a dead water. They make some policies and small changes follow, like throw a small rock into a pond. The reality is that if their proposed policy changes really get implemented, the change in the real world will be chain reactions. Not the changes you want to see will happen, lots of things will happen. People will change their behaviors. Developers, land owners, renters, factory builders, city planners will all change their behaviors, because of the inventive structure is changed.

In the end, this kind of armchair discussion is just a mind game for "rational thinking." What really matters is people who discover and develop new frontiers.
> There are no tax loopholes to evade land taxes.

Of course there is! You just lobby or bribe your politicians to value your land at a lower amount. They make up for it by valuing someone else’s land at a higher amount.

So much of the LVT discourse assumes perfect valuations, but if you reduce everything to these variable valuations then the politics will just start modifying the valuations. We’d have an entire book full of LVT modifiers, exceptions, and tax breaks in no time.
What exactly would you have done differently with regard to student health, student learning, and parent convenience?
That's the real reason it "won't work." Enormous vested interests oppose it.

Of course, an engaged and educated populace could overcome that.

Or an enlightened elite class who realized they could boost overall wealth and technological advancement with efficient fiscal policy... short run pain for elites in exchange for long run benefits (for them and everyone else).
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I've been a software programmer and architect by profession and passion for almost 2 decades. Worked in the gaming industry for a decade and moved to E-Commerce and now in Banking domain. I've always wanted to work on software directly impacting life or death situation for life. So I tried automating my Aquarium to make it self sustainable. Here are the results...
Maybe? Check the android release notes on the Jan 4th update.
> But it doesn't make the converse true.

It does work that way, though. Except it's not exactly 'better', but rather 'more economically productive', which may or may not be better depending on your value system and the specific cases that arise.

> For a rural example, a single house on several acres is much nicer than a ticky-tack suburban panopticon (or even worse a HOA).

Arguably nicer, yes, but the suburban hellscape is definitely a lot more economically productive.

> Economically it's hard to prevent the latter from occurring over time (eg parents die and kids want the most money possible, so they subdivide), but we shouldn't be encouraging it through policy.

This feels like an orthogonal issue to me, that US-style suburbia is bad. Though honestly the rural living you describe is probably no better. Oh sure, it's nice in some ways, but there's problems a plenty there too: it's more destructive for the environment per capita, and it causes problems with the intersection of the social contract and social services.

For an example of that last bit, look at the struggle with rural high speed internet. Arguably necessary for economic activity as well as educational purposes, but it's much more expensive to wire up and service super low density areas, and yet people in those areas have less money, not more. So you end up with either a) left to the free market, they have shit internet access, or b) people in urban and suburban areas subsidize them getting better internet, even though for most people there it's an explicit choice to have that lifestyle (as opposed to, say, the urban poor).

And it's not just internet: most infrastructure and services are harder to deliver in rural areas, and you can end up in shitty situations because of that. Even if you accept that it's fine for adults consenting to it, what about kids who grow up with fewer opportunities?
You're right it won't do much good, but it is nice to see a country take a principled stand and actually practice what they preach and be the change they want to see.
> Go ahead and call up visa and ask for their source code.

Visa's source code is incidental to the value it provides me.

> Go ask robinhood if you can use an old version of their app.

The version of the Robinhood app I'm using is incidental to the value it provides me. Their value is actually pretty strongly correlated with their ability to evolve their codebase in response to market demands without being burdened with backwards compatibility.

> People lose their passwords all the time.

Yep, and then they recover them, which isn't possible with a lost private key.

> crypto is a wild place but we can absolutely create a culture that moves things in the right direction

That crypto and decentralization is "the right direction" is absolutely not self-evident. Can you substantiate that position?
Without the ability to sue people who break the rules that create the artificial scarcity, how do you keep it scarce?

And yeah, when it comes to NFT's for some random jpeg... That's pretty useless. But that's all that can be done with them right now because there's infrastructure available to connect the NFT with whatever supposedly valuable side-effect it's supposed to go with. That'll take time. But when it's ready, the side effects won't be some random jpeg, they'll be things that you can touch. It'll be obvious that continuing to support the people who do whatever-the-thing-is is a good idea, and that's why we'll value the associated token.

> It doesn’t give you insight into the circumstances around it. You still have to take whatever people say at face value,

That's the missing supporting infrastructure I'm talking about. If a bridge washes out because of a storm, and somebody repairs it and mints an NFT of the before/after photos, that's just an image. But with a supporting web of trust, complete with verifiers who inspect the bridge afterward and put "yeah that's a good job, and this is the only NFT for it" on the blockchain... now you've got something more.
Sounds like a despotate, residents are fucked if one of the officials make a wrong decision.
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I think later start times are good. On the other hand, if the typical student needs to get to care synchronized with the parents' work schedule, that's not going to get them more sleep.
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I submit things and they don’t get upvoted as much as I would like, doesn’t mean it is a conspiracy.
I was surprised as well, but maybe it was the change in volume that made the change. In that, traffic used to completely suck, where it's hard to have severe crashes in traffic jammed rush hours. Then traffic basically disappeared, so people became used to higher speeds and being lackadaisical with their focus. Then start adding back some traffic but not enough for stop and go traffic. I'm just guessing there though.

I have been somewhat miffed that my rates didn't see an ounce of movement downwards. I already average less than 10,000 miles a year on a 2015 car, which has probably plummeted to easily less than 5,000 miles for each of the past two years, and yet my rates have still been ridiculous with no accidents.

It's interesting (read frustrating) that if you even get a simple traffic ticket your premiums immediately go up because the insurance's "numbers" tell them you're more likely to need a payout, but then when you literally don't drive your car, their "numbers" suddenly don't tell them that you're statistically far less likely to need them.
I worked at Sears in 92 and was tasked with evaluating Easel for the Promotional Marketing System, Steve Marchi's group. I recommended no. Sears went full in. I quit to write games, then to grad school. Easel and PMS went on for years. Eventually all my friends there quit. You gave me PTSD :)
Sure, the depth was not calculated or tested in hardware. But its not because buffers did not have a z-coordinate.
This is interesting from the external perspective, but let me provide the internal one: Employees are prohibited from so much as _thinking_ open source for anything not directly managed or maintained by Apple. Swift is one thing, but suppose on your own time, you had OSS interests. It was made abundantly clear to we lowly SWEs that _any_ perceived OSS participation - so much as commenting on a GitHub issue - without approval would be cause for immediate termination. Said approval requires the unanimous approval of multiple SVPs, including Federighi and Schiller themselves. IIRC the number of Apple employees given such arrangements was in the low 50s last I checked.
Isn't a trade off for some efficiency worth things like living wages, safety, and quality standards at scale?
> If I understand correctly, the point of this article (one of several) is just to establish that a land tax would constitute a large amount of money.

We could make a land value tax constitute any amount we’d like.

Just take the value you want it to produce, divide by the assessed value of all of the land, and you have your tax rate.

That’s not an interesting question, though. The interesting part is whether or not that’s reasonable or fair, and to explore who wins and loses.
I mean, like, congratulations to whomever it is that actually worked to try to make the worlds most vast & advanced computer empire seem like anything other than a insular, dark, consumer-supplying fixer.

I'm glad there's the bare minimum of sticks to try to rub together to give the impression Apple gives the faintest most minimal flying fuck about any compute other than Apple computing, that they see any value in a bigger computing ecosystem. Apple is not at all a company that gives any impressions that they care about anyone but those that fall within the light of their empire. When presented with challenges about what restraints they impose on computing, the default response seems to be, there are other platforms available for anyone who cares about choice or empowerment: here in Apple-land, our vassals are secure, served adequately. Trust us. All else is tertiary at best.

I still think the impression being given off here is pretty radically fantastically unrealistic. As far as I have heard, one of the primary terms of employment at Apple is that you basically have to give up yourself wholly to Apple. Your blog has to die, your personal open source projects are all dead now, you are now, wholly Apple, and anything you do must be Apple's. This is just the opening terms of un-openness that greet you if you want to join Apple. Almost nothing about this company speaks to collaboration or cooperation or general betterment of computing. Apple thrives off the futility of computing. Their whole essence is that of savior, making software for their following that serves them well, amid a world of grayer concerns and wider difficulty. The idea that open computing could be competitive, could be helpful in the planet: it's antithetical to the premise of the High Consumerism that is Apples most core being.
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> I agree with this, artificial scarcity is a lousy way to get anything done. The end-game of economics ought to be to eliminate scarcity

How do you have an economy without scarcity? What are the substantial differences between artificial and natural scarcity?
Stuff gets flagged because it's off topic or "uninteresting". I've had it happen to me too, and its upsetting, but it's not some conspiracy against specific things, it's more benevolent dictatorship to keep the site the way it is (above the fray to some extent)
In my undergrad, we used an updated version of LC-3 (called LC-4, reasonably enough) for our intro architecture course. LC-4 came with a number of "quality of life" improvements. The simplest ones were just extra arithmetic and logical instructions; if I recall correctly, LC-3 only implemented implements an ADD instruction (as well as a variant for adding an immediate value, which meant doing multiplication required manually writing a loop. Additionally, in both ISAs, branching is done using a specialized "NZP" module, where sign result of the most recent operation (negative, zero, or positive) done by the ALU would be saved, and then branching would be done based on which conditions were expected (e.g. "branch if the last result was positive" or "branch if the last result was negative or zero" (which incidentally resulted in an instruction code identical to jumping but with one less bit available to specify the destination, as well as making the selection of the NOP binary representation easy). However, LC-4 added provided direct comparison instructions that wrote directly to the NZP module without having to write to a register, which helped avoid having to write to memory as much when doing an algorithm that requires more than just a few variables.
Okay. Does that interrupt their point though? It seems like what would happen with a land tax in this case is that if an area got rezoned to allow buildings 20x the height, the land value would skyrocket and thus so too would the land tax. That would then incentivize actually building a really tall building on that land, which is probably what you want (both in the sense of what land tax proponents want, and what you'd want if you just did that rezone).
Those protocols are theater, and have no demonstrable effect on reducing transmission.
Prediction. Very few of the comments to this post will talk about the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (which the post is about).

Many of the comments will talk about how it's not Dart (the language) and the derivative comments about Dart the language anyway.

We talk about what we want to talk about I guess.
What a wild story! It's a two-part series, so kinda long, but definitely worth listening. The interviews and the stories really bring to life the Wired article[1] from the year before.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-underground-videogame-hacke...
GPT-3 is very capable of humor, even better than humans are. It's not really that it finds it funny, but more that it's mimicking a conversational pattern. Sarcasm, silliness, snarkiness, it's all there. Gopher seems to also be trained on books and the internet, so it wouldn't be so surprising.
WHAT?? I'm over 50, and after 30+ years of voting and paying attention, have realized that politicians are by and large the lowest, sleaziest, most power-hungry and amoral creatures that can still perhaps be called human. I don't believe a word they say, and think that legislatures should be in session 90 days a year to figure things out and generally get their shit done, and the rest of the time they should have to live with the results of their decisions like the rest of us have to do.
Yes, but a pure land tax behaves differently from a property tax. A land tax punishes 'unproductive use' of in-demand space much harder, and doesn't provide a disincentive for investing in building improvements.
Once you've done away with scarcity, you don't need an economy. After that it's gay luxury space communism for all.

And I'd say scarcity is artificial if making more of it requires you to break somebody's rules.
Agree

I look at decentralization as a direction for some values.

I have some idea what those values are but still exploring. Could be
"separate of risk compared to current centralization". Could be "take back control and responsibility of xxx management". But "web3" or decentralization provides me a great opportunity to think, rethink, and ACT based on thinking results.

We will have limitations, bugs, issues on probably every product made for "web3/decentralization". It's fine to criticize those flaws.

But I think we should separate "criticize product flaws" from "criticize value/direction". Mixing both together makes conversation harder to continue for me.
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