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> Anyone else trying this would be nailed to the wall, Elon pulls it off. That alone is quite a skill.

PT Barnum, Elon Musk, Edison.

More people pull it off than you'd think. Its an age old strategy of simply never admitting mistakes and hoping the American population ignores the mistakes.

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Its what we like to call a "conman", you know... people who are really good at "confidence games" (what "conman" stands for in short). You hit people with a lot of confidence, and people then give you money.

It works on small scales, it works on large scales. This isn't an attribute you should be praising. This is just how humans work, and people who abuse other humans with this tactic are immoral.
Well, I'd be okay with people smoking cigarettes if non-smokers literally never had to breathe in their second-hand smoke. So, if someone without any children lived in a single-family home (as opposed to an apartment building or complex) and never left for long enough to need a smoke break while out in public—I'd say sure, go ahead and smoke, that's none of my business.

How many people does that describe? How many people can truly predict they will never want kids? How many people never need to go out during the day, now and forever in the future?
Visa?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/23/visa-buys-cryptopunk-nft-for...
While both alcohol and weed can give you altered reality experience, tobacco can not. Tobacco smokers are a major annoyance and a nuisance to the public, on top of killing themselves slowly, so if the tobacco cigarrets would've been strictly illegal and you coldn't smoke in public I can't imagine people willing to organize into small secret clubs to smoke a few cigs a day in a place you have to go to.
Dock is hiring React Engineers to change how companies work together (remote)
> Even if it's not, the FBI surely has carrots and sticks they can use to force participation.

But some agencies will resist anyhow because they are anti-Fed. Many rural areas have a giant mistrust of the Federal gov't. Incentives will just make them double-down. You know, the Culture Wars.

To get near 100% compliance would require both a strongly-worded law and strong enforcement.
tezos.com :)
Those homes that can be hauled from A to B in the US are not the only type of home available, they are just the cheapest option to get a home. They are called (if the speaker is kind) "mobile homes", or (if the speaker is derogatory) "trailers", leading to the insult "trailer trash" for the people living there. People living in these mobile homes are typically poor, and the low cost of these homes is all they can afford.[&]

Moving up a step is American style 2"x4" framed houses. These are typically built on a concrete foundation, but the structure is formed by inexpensive lumber. This system was designed to go up fast and cheaply, substituting more cheap lumber rather than any sophisticated carpentry [$]. This cheapness offers a home to more people, at the expense of craftsmanship and (probably) longevity. The cheap construction allows people to build enormous homes if they have the means, displaying wealth through sheer size rather than higher quality construction (the resulting homes are mockingly called a "McMansion", a joke pointing out that a big McDonalds hamburger is still... McDonalds quality. A blog making fun of these McMansions can be found here: https://mcmansionhell.com/

However, if you don't want a cheaply constructed home, you don't have to have one! You can find a builder that will build a home to your specifications. This will of course be more expensive, as you aren't tying into the continent sized supply chain for the cheaper construction, but if you prefer quality work, you can certainly make that tradeoff.[-]

In any event, it is usually the land under the home that truly appreciates, not the structure itself. This dynamic broadens the wealth divide between mobile home owners and owners of the second and third type of house. Mobile homes are often placed in "trailer parks", where the owner of the home rents a space to park their trailer, meaning they don't participate in any land value appreciation (and in fact will see their rent go up if the land appreciates).

Still, the focus on cost, and the several levels of price-point allow more people to be housed. The fundamental question is "is it better for a person to have a low quality house, or no house at all?" It seems that Austria has chosen the second, while the US chooses the first.

[&] When I loaded this page searching Montana (a remote, low population, low income state), I see some listings between $20-30 thousand USD. This is incredibly inexpensive, and affordable by basically anyone with a job in the US. https://www.zillow.com/mt/mobile/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pag...

[$] Notice all the focus on cost and speed on this technical manual for the system https://www.civilengineeringx.com/bdac/Stud-Wall-Constructio...

[-] This reference specifies a ~$300,000 USD cost for a timber framed house, quite a bit more than the mobile home variety!
Not even remotely. But I love what I do for a living.
Just give it time.
How many actual veterans of the post-911 wars do you know? If the answer is "zero" maybe sit down.

I interviewed 23 or so of them [1]. Operation Code has about 6,000 members AFAIK. There's one guy whom I encouraged a lot; he worked at Amazon for awhile and just recently accepted a job at Google in New York. He thanked me for the help, which really made my day.

Is this typical? No, of course not, but then, you won't see NPR doing a story about them, either. I did have one interviewee who was having a really hard time, living with his wife and four (!) kids in a homeless shelter. Generally the other vets go out of their way to help these poor guys, and sometimes they get civilian jobs on military bases.

Almost always when you ask them why they joined up, "college benefits" heads the list. OC was instrumental in making code schools eligible for GI benefits, and from what I can tell, those things really work. One guy said he had a friend who was getting job offers before he even finished the 12 weeks.

[1] https://operationcode.org/podcast
There is widespread use of non judicial punishments by police officers. Police regularly punch, kick, or otherwise cause pain on people with no repercussions or reporting. People engaged in constitutionally protected activities are often subjected to intimidation and brutality with no recourse. Oddly Americans widely believe the myth that they are free. It’s weird. You aren’t free if you can’t safely exercise your rights to police officers.

People can be arrested solely for resisting arrest. Police routinely yell “stop resisting” in order to justify use of force. Police rarely arrest other police even for clearly criminal acts like domestic violence. There is a serious policing problem in the U.S.

https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224?lang=...
This isn't about conspiracy theorists. This is about legitimate independent news being demonetized. Pay attention please.
Oh, when will American Exceptionalism finally die already?

In The Netherlands, our government even setup a 'Whistleblowers house / safehaven' to 'encourage' whistleblowers.

You still get treated like shit, be blackholed, unable to find work, your taxes scrutinized etc.

It is really a deep psychological thing : you acted against 'the group'. Whatever words are spoken or laws are enacted, this is what counts. Has nothing to do with the US.
It's obvious now that such a test should exist, but hindsight is 20/20. Does the law actually require that?
Well, this is how I learned Manolescu left UCLA and is now at Stanford
what does complicated or easy having to do with forcing users submit a video selfie? reddit gave every user a crypto wallet in their app, just like that so why does this need KYC?
Once the ERs slow down can people who didn’t get the shot have jobs or leave their homes? Many on the Left say no.
This is true of surface streets: on freeways, even the older “Autopilot” is pretty good: I’ve driven on-ramp to off-ramp like 60 miles without a disengagement.
IPFS pinning is only meaningful so long as a node keeps the item pinned. IPFS is basically a CDN, it's not magic online storage forever. Once the last node pinning an NFT goes offline the NFT goes offline and the token is more worthless than before.
The car title is analogous to owning the copyright or trademark on an image - something that actually confers meaningful legal power over it.

The NFT is more like a car enthusiast club issuing stickers or badges to its members.
I remember looking at the figures ages ago for a different country and if you netted everything out smoking saved the government money.

For example here is something from the UK from the IEA:

https://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2017/08/smoking-and-dri...

The Smoking and the Public Purse report argues that the government spends £3.6bn treating smoking-related diseases on the NHS and up to £1bn collecting cigarette butts and extinguishing smoking-related house fires.

The government saves £9.8bn annually in pension, healthcare and other benefit payments due to premature mortality, the IEA said.

Meanwhile, the government brings in £9.5bn a year in duty paid on tobacco, the IEA said. Suggesting this means smoking produces a net saving to public finances of £14.7bn a year, at current rates of consumption.

I think people just assume automatically smokers are a drain on the healthcare system but I wouldn't assume this without having a deep look at the figures.
> the US mythologizes the individual

Well, part of this mythology is that the true individual often takes the less-traveled harder road.
Rather, it should be an encouragement to start your own corp. COVID relief funds were given even to 1-person consultancies. You don't need to be rich.
There are efforts in that direction: https://leanprover.github.io/theorem_proving_in_lean4/
Lilith and Modula-2
Market: 2, Me: 0
It's an article and not a power-point slide. There's nothing wrong with the format.

The outline you gave is more appropriate for slide-deck talks where the audience is captive and they're apt to be unconscious during the middle.
Back in the 1950s there were the ABC, NBC and CBS TV networks (no monopoly) but none of them were interested in anything new, different, or radical.

Youtube appears to be post-scarcity at the moment but if there was any real scrutiny or unbundling it would appear otherwise. My estimate is that a fair price for online video is somewhere around 10 cents an hour with some additional storage cost that matters if you have storing a huge amount of unwatched videos. (e.g. another 10 cents per hour a month at AWS prices, which are high.)

So far as ad revenue goes I think advertisers don't want to be next to things that are hateful or controversial. They don't want to be associated with white people who hate black people, black people who hate white people, people who hate themselves and everybody else like WheatWaffles, etc.
> Americans widely believe the myth that they are free. It’s weird. You aren’t free if you can’t safely exercise your rights to police officers.

By more meaningful measurements, Americans enjoy quite a lot of freedom. By your definition, essentially nobody in the world does.
> Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store's listing - not the title.

???? Did I miss the part where Google announced they were adding searchable metadata at the same time they eliminated adding this info to the title?

If not, seems like a clearly anti-consumer move.
Factorio science packs kind of make sense though. E.g. military science packs are made of bullets, grenades and walls, and you spend them to get better bullets and grenades and such. It's like an abstraction of spending some capacity to experiment on improving designs.
ah so that's why my app got denied an update
CS50 from Harvard on https://edx.org used to teach Computer Science using C and still might do so.
How many upper-middle class people do you know who smoke cigarettes?
> Instantly? I’ve come to expect that from Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, etc.

International, fee-less, instant payments? With the amount of ecommerce that happens over WhatsApp and Instagram these days, Meta stands a very good chance with USDP to cut out the middle-men (all of the legacy financial infrastructure) and take the product straight to the consumers. Sure, Meta could partner with PayPal, but Novi is a better, if ambitious, bet.
Doesn't seem like they've forgotten him https://cpj.org/tags/julianassange/

They seem to be fighting his corner, they're just not designating him specifically as a journalist.

I think demanding too much moral purity from campaigners is damaging. The perfect is very much the enemy of the good.
From a individual perspective, if you are in the US and all of your friends are in the US and are able to get PayPal accounts, and you don't personally use WhatsApp and see it as just another messaging service, the practical answer to your question, for you, personally, is no.

However, thinking of this only in terms of this this will affect you is short-sighted, and apes other hot takes that went down in Internet history (HN on DropBox, /. on the iPod). The broader context for this (as discussed in other threads here) is what makes it interesting. Similarly, from a product POV, Twitter doesn't look like much - it's the users that are on there that makes it interesting.
I've grown tired of ineffective policies to regulate the police. The penalty for lying under oath should be a prison sentence for perjury, not a stint on the Brady list. The penalty for excessive force should be a prison sentence for assault, not an internal affairs investigation with a month of vacation. Any use of force causing any injury at all should at least be presented to a grand jury, where impartial jurors, pulled from the public that these police are supposed to serve, can determine the reasonableness of the force used and can move to indict if necessary.

We don't need any more laws, programs, investigations, or data trackers. We already have enough of those to go by....we just need prosecutors that will put cops in prison.
There are four options for Facebook to add payments:

1. Their own Paypal-like system

2. Partner with a Paypal

3. Their own cryptocurrency (ie Libra)

4. Partner with a cryptocurrency

Do I have that right? And for some reason #4 allows them to be global and not face antitrust concerns in the USA.
It's not about how they do it but about what are the consequences.
G100UL is available now. 110LL will likely be phased-out.
The Portuguese model has been wildly successful.
I don't trust the FBI with the way its been politicized and used as just the political police for the left. I am glad that police organizations are resisting this.
With all respect, you forgot about keywords. Don’t you like it when classes, functions, ifs and fors do stand out?

But yeah, modern semantic coloring (args/members/vars/globals/upvalues/…) looks like a catastrophic oil spill.
> Seems like a Microsoft issue to me.

except that any app could do this, and it just happens to be Teams that did.
That site is using Sponsor Block:

https://sponsor.ajay.app/
DeFi is much more transparent than traditional finance.
> If you think in absolutes you can never accept new information.

Never? Sounds a mite like absolute thinking.
Those freedoms impact on others. It's well known that passive smoking is a major problem[1].

If they want to smoke away from everyone else (and that means everyone), fine. If they want to hang out in a group of consensual smokers, then fine. But they don't, they sit around in bars and blow smoke in your face or smoke walking down a street so that you either have to pass them or walk through the smoke.

This is leaving alone the impacts on the environment every time one of them flicks a cigarette into a drain, and impacts on healthcare and taxation every time I have to pay for their healthcare (universal healthcare).

To be clear, I'm pro universal healthcare.

Australia and New Zealand have done a superb job of reducing the amount of tobacco smoke. The difference between going to a bar/cafe in Australia and one in Croatia/Serbia is substantial (not singling them out, I've just visited).

I don't know whether this plan will work, and I understand the concerns around personal freedom, I'm just not sure whether protecting the 'rights of smokers' is the right hill to die on.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...
Value is subjective, and most people are idiots.

An asset in one person's hands will be destroyed by incompetence in another person's hands.

Nobody will ever admit they can't do something, but my experience tells me something different.

If you disagree, try this... Next time you need something painted, ask random people if they know how to paint. Offer the job to the first person that says "Yes, I can paint."

My guess is that you will be very disappointed with the result... Same thing goes for plumbing. If anyone is interested, I've got some video of a plumbing job I had it go back and fix. I had to pull the whole thing out... Honestly I just pulled on it a little and it just fell apart.

Do you think that guy would ever say he didn't know what he was doing? No, but people are idiots and stupid... <End Rant>

I used to have a different outlook about the noble nature of humanity, but then I moved to Pine Bluff Arkansas. It's filled with hopeless people stuck in a cycle of crime, drugs, and ignorance. The people there don't know anything different, so they think they are doing a good job.

I'm filled with so many conflicting ideas. How can we help the best of us soar without the dregs of society grabbing their ankles and pulling them down to drown in the cesspool that we keep digging deeper?

Where is the escape hatch? I just realized I'm asking "Who is John Galt?"
I don't get this. What's so incredibly outrageous about enabling a game to be played while driving? Why on earth would Elon give two hoots wether or not his games are being played while driving? I think tesla just decided that disabling the game feature while the car is in motion is not necessary because why can't the passenger play. There's nothing outrageous about Tersla not nannying the driver. Anyway, there are infinite ways a driver can distract himself just using the touchscreen alone.
because they are not only putting themselves at risk but they affect everyone around them.
German courts seem to be a lot like Florida people. Does this mean that the employer now has effectively full control of the person's home? The employer could require substantial changes to comply with workplace safety. Does the employer get to now have access to the home at will to ensure no clutter is about causing a safety violation?

Maybe this mindset is a typical European court mindset. Anything possible that might be slightly related to work or where someone mentioned work, work is liable. Even if die in the arms of a prostitute while, clearly not working or engaged in work sanctioned activities, but still on business travel.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=d3669d9d-8498...
Yup, the amount of actual wealth in the crypto space is, in my estimation, less than 10% of what it's touted to be. Maxis are "true believers" but they're a hyper minority compared to the speculative crypto bros trying to rope in greater fools.
And they should have a right to while giving up the benefits of federal support. It appears that non-participation here is costless.
Like he said in TFA: the zk-proof only shows they have control of some funds, it doesn't say anything about the origin of those funds, much less about present and future obligations.
Whether the law is well intentioned or not, it discriminates against those born after a certain year.

If it is truly necessary to ban people born after 2007 from smoking for their entire lives, this law should not create two groups, it should ban all people smoking at any age.
I’d now be worried that 911 won’t work with other dialers either. Calls to 911 should probably always be handled by some first-party dialer since it’s not reasonable for everyone to test if their specific installation will be able to call 911.
Could you explain how the "3 computer" works? For example, how would it interact with dual-booting Windows+Linux.

That aside, I really want to express my gratitude for your decision to consider Purchasing Power Parity. I do well by the standards of my country+age, but turning that salary into USD is incredibly difficult and that's necessary to buy anything more than the bare necessities like housing+food. So in my case, it makes a difference. I plan to purchase soon.
>The FBI can't just arbitrarily order state and local police to participate in their programs.

In practice the federal government has a huge amount of influence over what states do because they are one of the most important sources of funding of many state programs, and they can and do set conditions for getting that money.

Police departments get billions of dollars of resources from the feds. There are already conditions to getting it, requiring that police report when someone is shot as a condition of federal funding is absolutely something that could be done without any new law or regulation.
The problem here is how tobacco smokers are affecting people around them. Passive smoke consumption is very dangerous, and the smokers tend to ingore any regulations for smoking. Take public bus stops for example, if someone starts smoking while waiting for the bus you usually don't want to start a scene by asking them to stop, and you wouldn't call the police on them, because it's really stupid to bother the cops for such a tiny thing they wouldn't even catch in time.
The workplace can be really affected too. Offices may be free of smoke now, but have you ever been a construciton worker? And hell, even living next to a smoker is really uncomfortable, if you live in an apartment building it's always a nuisance when they smoke and it gets sucked into your place if you have a window open. I just really don't want smokers anywhere near me, but the reality is - they are all over the place, and when you try to limit the places they can partake in their habit or complain they always act like they're the victim and their rights are getting violated.
Exactly. Another textbook example is the language describing meat as coming from pork with “no hormones added” even though it’s unlawful to add hormones to pork grown for human consumption. Sure, it’s a fact; but the choice to include it is made to provide a marketing boost over competing brands that might not have the language on the packaging.
Then take away any federal participation in their budgets and equipment, and let's find out just how committed they are to their anti-Fed ideology.
The Madelung Rules
Sometimes the journey is its own destination.
Absolutely NOT! It's waaay better to have huge multinational corporation dictate what's right and what's wrong and what's good and what's bad! And they do it for you my friend! For FREE!
I recently changed my manager and I just realized that, for the first time in my live, I should not be myself in my job. I am still learning how to do this, but it's not easy.

It turns out I'm just way too different form my manager, we have fundamental differences in our points of view and for a lot of stuff we just can't agree. I am trying to share a little as I can from my personal life and try to have the "drank the company's Coolaid" attitude with him, because that's how much different we are. I recently found out he's even an anti-vaxxer. I hope they replace him soon.
Yes. I'm not making a case that test gets around that problem, just that in the cases where you want to test something about a file, such as existence, emptiness/non-emptiness, etc, test is the more versatile (and more standard) choice.