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The Maginot Line worked exactly as (ultimately, but not initially[*] --- the plan changed mid-construction) intended. The intent was to force Germany through Belgium.

Note that the role of a fortification is not only to help defend against an attack, but also to try to discourage an attack against it in the first place (instead forcing the enemy to attack through a different point; makes the attacks more predictable, which translates to higher concentrations of defensive forces --- bonus points if there are natural choke points or such).

Ultimately, Germany was left with two options for an advance, so France had to guess which one. What happened was that France guessed wrong (IIRC, they didn't at all expect a German armored assault through the rough terrain & forests near Ardennes), and the rest, as they say, is history.

[*] The initial plan was to fortify the Belgian border, too, but this was adapted to a "France helping Belgium defend against Germany" plan, after Belgium's protests that it would simply get "sacrificed" if the Maginot line was fully reinforced in the north. I've a sneaking suspicion that France wasn't quite ready to honor this quasi-defensive-plan, but that's a different topic.
There's one scene or so in each one of his books that's just too much for me. I just don't need to donate brainspace to that sort of thing. (Use of Weapons has one, Song of Stone too.)

I like 80% of his work, 15% is a pointless depressing slog, and the other 5% is just too much for me.
One thing I was kind of surprised about while reading through this massively humbling post: if there’s a bit flip in a value in a closed DB the value just changes?

Like, there’s no checksum or error correction in an SQLite DB?
That sounds a lot like some of the promises of hololens. Maybe this segment requires the deep pockets, partners and platform integration that only a giant like microsoft can bring.
I see a business in t-shirts with a special print to grow a "fat sixpack".
It’s untrue. My comment is fact, which is easily verifiable on isolated inspection.
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The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene (2016)
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> I haven't ever heard trickle down proponents suggest we give the money to the working class.

Because that would require taking from some people and giving to others through government, which is a very inefficient way to do it.
But wages have stayed the same while housing, medicine, college, have gotten massively more expensive and & via inflation everything else is somewhat more expensive.

I honestly find it absurd to suggest that we're somehow 'richer' while most young people have no hope of a stable life.

Technology has made us much more productive but all that added value has been captured by the ultrarich
>Any tax cuts are trickle down?

No, just the ones that benefit the massively wealthy individuals and corporations.

>So the Democrat's push to reinstate the SALT tax credit (cut) are trickle down also?

Irrelevant.

>Are tax cuts in any bracket trickle down?

You have asked this question already.

>When the GOP raises taxes [for the massively wealthy corporations and individuals] - do they implode?

Almost certainly.

Any further questions?
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I've seen this number given before but I have literally never seen someone get a sunburn through a t-shirt. I've seen plenty of people with awful, terrible, red, peeling burns that required a trip to urgent care on their arms, and their torso is completely fine because they had a tshirt on. Is SPF 7 really all that's required? I usually use SPF30 sunscreen but it seems like that's overkill by a significant amount.

edit: UPF vs SPF is a distinction I hadn't made before I guess. Is the difference in effectiveness that large? Does traditional sunscreen offer UVB protection also, but it's not advertised?
Paying them only to avoid the PR disaster is fine. Kinda what PR disasters are “for”
might be my personal selection bias, but I see it rarely being pushed as the solution. If you think about it, the right order of operations is to consider higher income taxes only a decade after you instituted ultra high wealth taxes and seen the effects on concentrations of wealth. You only need higher marginal income taxes if there is too much 'flow' to the ultra concentrated wealth bucket (and does active harm if you don't have an effective 'drain' to the ultra concentrated wealth bucket)
Exactly. Often people want the perception of reliability.

For many services, it makes more sense to make it reliable than not. For other services, it makes more sense to think about the engineering of the solution in the field.

Example: McDonald’s product images on kiosks are apparently in S3 and not cached locally. Seems like a dumb idea to me, but I wouldn’t try to build a more reliable cloud storage backend to control that risk.
>It's not a golden ticket to sit on your ass and switch off your brain

Buy $5 mil in S&P and that's exactly what you can do. Comfortably.

The fact that you can mix work with wealth and earn a higher return is proof of little more than you can mix work with wealth.

If you have wealth that is.
A subset of this can be explained relatively simply:

A permutation on n elements is a way to reorder lists of length n. One way to represent it is how it reorders 1, 2, …, n, but this doesn’t show you much structure.

It turns out that one can group a permutation into independent cycles. One reason this is useful is because you might want to ask about applying the same permutation repeatedly and cycles are a way to do that.

A cycle is the part of a permutation that can be described as a (circular) list where each element is transformed into the one following it. For example we might write the cycle (1257) to indicate the permutation that takes 1 to 2, 2 to 5, 5 to 7, and 7 to 1. It turns out that any permutation of a finite set can be written as a product of disjoint cycles (apart from the choice of which order to write down the cycles and the first element of each cycle).

Another question is what happens if you “change your view” when applying a permutation. That is, instead of applying p to reorder some list, first apply a permutation q, then p, then undo q. For example instead of modifying p to make it work on a list backwards you could reverse the list, then apply p, then unreverse it.

It turns out that this operation cannot change the ‘shape’ of p. That is, it can change the numbers in the cycle but if p was a 3-cycle, two 5-cycles, and a 1-cycle (an n-cycle is a cycle with n elements) then the combination [q, p, undo_q] will also be a 3-cycle, two 5-cycles, and a 1-cycle. Furthermore, there always exists a a to transform between any two cycles with the same shape.

Now notice that the elements of Young’s lattice – partitions of integers (ways to find a multi set of numbers that add up to a given total) – correspond to the different possible shapes of permutations.
Are you arguing that the wealth class today isn’t politicking to maintain power and wealth either to a corporation or themselves?
Not your own, but if somebody else is paying, take full advantage
I assume it goes overseas.
Moving assets is labor.

Just like making computers copy data over the Internet is labor.
Why we use Indexes in Database?
Could the low inequality be a cause for rapid wealth expansion?
By "some of us", do you mean "some of us Liberty University grads"?
Given the instability of ribose even in plain pH 7 water, and the indiscriminate results of abiotic carbohydrate synthesis processes, I find the RNA-first hypothesis unlikely.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2368016
I do not doubt things just to doubt them however. Doubt has to be reasonable.
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> give a million hungry people $20 each, and see $20M return to the economy the next day as they spend it on food.

That’s not a return, the economy doesn’t work that way.
Trickle down was never about monetary wealth .

It’s about quality of life .

It does trickle down considering that nurses are taking overseas trips to Europe every 2 months and 800$ purses can be bought for 5$ and the only thing which makes it noticeable is a small hologram which nobody will check .

Of course people only look at yachts and mansions because when everything becomes equal the stuff which separates the rich from the rest of us tends to shine brighter and get all the attention.

Of course if you want everybody to be a millionaire then trickle down failed , but in the past experiments which tried to make monetary wealth equal for everybody caused a situation where quality of life collapsed for everybody….and being all equally as miserable is not such a great result and the number in the bank account being all equal won’t provide any consolation
Great! Unfortunately, where I live, this item is out of stock for the next few months
> Where do you think that money goes? You don’t earn returns on money that isn’t doing anything.

Yes you do? That’s what assets are.
The fact that iOS plays nicely with apps that ask to prevent screenshotting is a foundational bug. Does such an ability exist on stock Android? Either way, it’s best practice to root & jailbreak.
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500px at some point started to use the right-click-blocker even on Creative Commons licensed images (!) — I quit the site over this. IIRC they eventually dropped the option to select a CC license entirely :/
Some cognitive scientists are saying that smartphones are extensions of our mind/body now, so taking them away is like taking away the artificial limb of an amputee - it makes you feel incapacitated.

Some go further, and say that taking away smartphones from prisoners for example could be classified as psychological torture.
You can argue the point but when you say

> This line of argument seems suspiciously pro-capital

it seems like you think only one side has any moral contribution to make. This isn’t Russia in the 1920’s
The Economics of Pinball (2009)
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Dystopian controls are all over Chicago and they are failing to do anything but steal black liberty away back to digital slavery where master watches your every move.
Three tech giants control half of advertising outside China
Also the trickle down proponents, however middle-class, think of themselves as wealthy and have the misconception that it’d be their money being reallocated.
>and also an earlier stage, when only RNA replication existed, but RNA did not perform any useful function for its host living being, but it was only a virus that was replicated using energy and molecular components from its host.

And in this stage, where there is no DNA, what molecule carried the genetic information of these host organisms?

>Because any memory molecule, like RNA, needs an already existing living being for its first replication

No, it doesn't.
RNA is capable of folding into complex catalytic machineries same as polypeptide chains (aka. proteins). An RNA synthetase itself composed of RNA is absolutely probable.
Aren't tax cuts for the wealthy the same thing as trickle-down?

Good thing politicians haven't done the wealthy any tax favors since the 1980's...
This looks great - I have been looking for a decent online "IDE" for scratching that game development itch for a little while.

One question though if the author is here, looking at the documentation for javascript, it seems very short. Is it all "backwards compatible" (wrong term I know) with microcode? I.e. does the API reference apply as-is to javascript without any other changes? Or perhaps there are new documentation changes pending?
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No, parent was right, your comment lacks all substance. It supposes that 'the rich' simply hoard wealth like a mythical dragon in a cave, scrooge mcducking through it while the poor, tired masses starve to death. The truth is that they conserve their wealth by investing it, which means that money recirculates into the economy to provide for the continued prosperity of others. If they just sat on their money they'd actually lose out as their money becomes less valuable through inflation. The one objection that truly matters in this scenario (and it's one you haven't raised) is that some people get a bailout when their investments fail, and others don't. That's the real problem. As long as intelligence is normally distributed and there is pressure against all to regress to the mean then malinvestment will occur and ultimately result in 'the rich' becoming 'not rich'. If, however, someone puts their finger on the scale and effectively ensures that the stupid-rich (literally) can't lose then the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Solution: Stop doing that.
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Learning about nominative determinism is commonly one's first peek behind the curtain.
iOS has the same bug. That feature should be removed out of respect for the users.
What is observed is more or less the opposite of what its proponents say would be observed.
It depends what missiles.

Israel handily destroys syrian pantsir systems with f-16s or loitering munitions, and turkish made drones 'damaged' two pantsir systems in the 2020 nagorno karabakh war.

I don't think we've seen the results for longer range systems like the S-300 but I'm not sure russia wants to see the results either.
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Why not just program people to go to work, eat, spend and sleep? Just disable the ability of having creative thoughts and create a new thinker class where only children of the elites will not have an implant.
That's fairly normal for database systems. E.g. in postgres it's also an optional thing that needs to be enabled, and afaik MySQL doesn't have it either (it has an explicit "calculate a checksum for this data" command, which e.g. can be used to verify replication or backups, but no live checksumming)
> Cue Pikachu face when the economy doesn't improve.

It was never about the "economy". It has always been about pumping up the profit-generating machinery. It used to be that profit-generating machinery had real meatspace jobs backing it, and real machines and factories to feed. But now, given that machinery is now fully virtualized, first in the stock market, then in financial instruments, then tech, now in the unholy marriage of finance and technology and crypto currencies, I think the money'd elites would consider everything "working as intended". The stock market is generating record profits, therefore nothing is broken.
Great, all the campaign funds should be auditable on the blockchain for full transparency.
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That’s because you are looking at the money, but you can’t eat money, you can’t dress yourself with money, you can use money as shelter.

You “pour money” at Amazon and lower prices come out the end. Note that I put “pour money” because no one has never suggested actually giving money, just taking less.
It doesn't make open source function as free labor for billion dollar companies. Look at the top contributors to OSI and look up that time a Facebook lawyer badmouthed anything but the most liberal licenses at FOSDEM.
I hope it doesn't allow the person that takes over the desktop to blank out the users desktop / image.
> By the way, with the `area` control (widget), you can actually make your app look like anything you want. It lets you do arbitrary painting of vertex graphics while providing keyboard and mouse event listener support to let the user interact with the user-interface, so the sky is the limit.

wait wait wait, what? wow. This sounds soo damn good. THANK YOU!!!!
Theoretically data wise that works, since people closer to the equator are less likely to be obese. But the reason for this is more to do with economics.
Ok, strange. Thank you :)
Why? The language related work takes place elsewhere.

The term “core team” is just a misnomer.
A CEO is doing very hard labor. It isn't easy figuring out that the future will be and positioning the company to be there. Everyone would like the salary of a CEO, few would actually like that work (it isn't as easy as it sound), and even fewer are good at it. Many companies have failed after a bad CEO took over, or improved greatly when a good one took over. If a good CEO wants millions to do the job they are well worth it. (Yes I know Steve Jobs took $1 - but that doesn't change the point)

Note that figuring out who is a good CEO is left as an exercise to the reader. (meaning I don't think anyone knows how to tell in advance)
I would add that gabions being "loose" have an additional usefulness as they are very flexible and allowing differential land movements (which are often the cause of cracks and instabilities in more rigid structures) and are thus a good anti-sismic structure.

About duration, at least here (Italy) they are usually considered in the 100 years duration range, not unlike many other kinds of structures.

The inherent draining is the clearest advantage when compared to other solutions (make sure to use some geotextile behind them to "filter" small particles) , though - to be fair - they do need more space than other kind of walls and they rapidly become unusable when you go over 3-4-5 meters height.
> More wealth, more wealth disparity... almost universally.

How so? Why would you assume that the distribution of wealth is correlated to the total stock? In reality this actually doesn't have to be the case at all. Aside from direct means of wealth redistribution, the are ways of setting up an economic system such that wealth inequality is reduced.

> Many or most people have no wealth, depending on your semantics of "wealth."

Again, this is not a fact of nature. It's not in the biological nature of most people to be poor. Poverty is a result of a badly functioning society and can be alleviated.
They pay a much higher rate, with a few well-publicized exceptions.

And if you think you can tax a rich person at 90% without all their money disappearing into tax havens, I have a bridge to sell you
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When Bald Eagles were more endangered, they had school presentations where they'd bring in one for the kids to see. The one I met had been severely injured and was cared for by a gentleman working for the US Forest Service (iirc) and they had a reasonable set of accommodations for each other, eagle wasn't happy about havin just one use-able wing but he understood this person helped him and this was what they did. Go see school gymnasiums full of loud kids.

The eagle's big "trick" was long range, high accuracy defecation. Given prompting (or just at whim) he'd turn around and nail a basketball backboard across the court with a shot of shit. Full court. Perfect ballistic arc. Big weighty splat.

He was obviously proud of the ability (who wouldn't be?) and appreciated the celebration and merriment it caused. Birds don't think much like we do, but some things are universal.
* raises hand :)
Imagine simping for job-destroying billionaire psychopaths.
Probably we also have backpressure as a information receivers and the tube obviously does not care about that.
Ransomware was a viable business model before cryptocurrency. The beginning of the winlocker boom slightly predates cryptocurrencies, ransomware was already the hottest thing on cybercrime forums before cryptocurrency appeared.

Crypto as in cryptography? Maybe.
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Yeah, people should pay for their externalities. Currently, emissions are not priced and everybody who is using a lot of power is stealing quality of life from future generations and the global poor. BTC mining is just one of those operations that is resistant to a carbon tax since the price of BTC and therefore the mining rewards can just rise to compensate.
So the entire earth is supposed to be middle class? Interesting how this would leave 100% of the power to the elite bureaucrats
re-read my comment - I accurately states what you wrote. You're objecting to something I never said, and splitting a hair that doesn't matter.
I don't have an official answer but I can chime in a little. The military do have training aircraft but will always keep armed aircraft in the skies to protect the country from domestic threats. Every single week one of them is called down to intercept a general aviation aircraft that didn't read NOTAMs and violated a TFR. We only hear about those because the communication is on ATC frequencies. I'm sure there are many other things they do that we don't hear about.
When someone makes a bad-faith argument, should one go to great lengths to refute it? Perhaps sometimes. Other times, it is better to dismiss it as nonsense and get on with one's day.

"Trickle-down economics" is an extremely bad-faith argument, essentially boiling down to "rich people pay slightly less rich people to tell poor people it's better for The Economy if they stay poor". That it was ever given credence in the first place reflects very badly on the economics profession (or, as I would reframe it, shows that economics as a subject has been wholly captured by elites).
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Adoption as what? To do anything useful with Crypto you still need to change it to a real currency on a bank account.
Headbands need to make a comeback. Then all will be in balance.
From what I’ve seen about Government IT it’s probably a good thing it’s on AWS.

Why shouldn’t Government IT be using the same tools regular companies use for IT?
As I sit here by the beach in Phuket, I dread returning to the Netherlands.

Nature, sun, water, and good food all encourage me to be active. I’m way, way healthier than one month ago at home.

Regardless of the mechanisms at play, life in a warm coastal area is undoubtedly better for some (all?) humans than dark cold wet featureless environments.
Swedish people are educated, aspire to healthy lifestyle and can afford good food. Article, imho speaks about survival mechanisms which aren't so visible/ so active/useful in times where food and protection from cold are abundant.
> I talk to someone on the desktop client, yet my phone, work laptop and tablet will ring on every message.

ime the desktop will pickup the message a few seconds before any of the mobile clients does and mark it as read, hence surpressing any notifications on the latter.

ofc chat notifications don't make any sounds on my systems to begin with.
>Surely the return on that is earned income?

No. Why would it be?

Those layers of abstraction cut out the risk such that in many cases cash is the riskier instrument.
The issue is that the async await keywords are part of the standard language but then you are forced to pick an non-standard runtime.

Your Go example is not quite comparable:

Go: (Lang, libs)

- You can mix and match any libraries.

Rust: (Lang, runtime, libs)

- Now you can only choose the libraries for your runtime. This dilutes the time investment of crate developers and the utility of Cargo crates, as you want a general async thing but it is tied to a specific runtime.

I think the Rust team should of included a solid zero config runtime but allow it to be replaced.
> If, however, someone puts their finger on the scale and effectively ensures that the stupid-rich (literally) can't lose then the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Solution: Stop doing that.

When we get to the point money is easily converted in political power, you can see not only the finger tipping the scale, but a whole foot firmly planted there. Good luck convincing the rich, who actually convinced themselves they earned their money fairly, to stop doing it.