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This recent populist boomer bigotry is too much.

The boomers represent the biggest social change of any generation in centuries. The pill rock and roll women in the workplace divorce MLK JFK Malcom X etc.

Everything past them is an echo and Im not even sure it's on the right side of history.

Churchill drank 12 ounces a day that was normal before boomers. They are not heavy drinkers historically speaking.

And they did not have access to material goods like we do.

The ME generation is every generation from here on in so long as consumerism expands.
Apparently this just started yesterday. If someone's LastPass account has been successfully compromised since then, we might not hear about it until that person logs into another account and discovers funds missing.
To me, "social benefit" implies being able to make friends, real friends not token friends. In which case, then it would be worth going to the office. Granted, not all companies are good for that unfortunately.
This is very good, and applies to so many people from the Midwest. This describes, pleasantly and without vitriol, the attitudes (shaped by perspective) that many coastal folks with little exposure to the rest of the US have. These are the same folks who call the Midwest states "flyover states", implying "nobody who's anybody stops or lives there".

I've been asked by someone from Boston if we celebrated Independence Day in Texas, and have seen a UC Berkeley graduate become genuinely frightened by the sight of a Southern Living cookbook.

Being ignorant of places you haven't been to is understandable, but it seems a common pattern for those in the Midwest to see the coastal places as "special" and desirable to at least visit; whereas geographically ignorant Californians (the ones I'm most familiar with) generally view all the interior states as "lesser". Granted, this is a bit of a generalized judgement on my own part.
Unless you're Jussie Smollett :O
Between this, @tiahura's link, the couple of take-pill-at-home antivirals that seem to be poised to become a Real Thing, I'm almost starting to feel a little bit optimistic again. We might never end covid the way we ended polio, but maybe it can finally be reduced to where it's of no more consequence than your bog standard common cold?

Wouldn't that be something...
I think you may be improperly conflating address or pointer width with the data types used for integer or floating-point arithmetic—we had floats up to 80 bits with "16-bit" x86 processors. Nobody's moving backwards in terms of pointer size. And any history of the progression of bit widths is incomplete without mentioning the SIMD trend that PCs have been on since the mid-90s, starting with 64-bit integer vectors and culminating in today's 512-bit vector instructions that re-use those original 64-bit vector registers as mask registers.

I don't think there's any point at which PCs have ever abandoned 8-bit and 16-bit data types, or ever appeared to be on a trajectory to do so. We've just had some shifts over the years of what kinds of things we use narrower data types for.
1) Why is a therapist qualifying a narrative as misleading, or not? Is this productive therapy?

2) Why would a therapist confront a patient like this? Is the point of good therapy to say, "Ahah! You contradicted yourself. My diagnosis that you are eBPD is correct!"

3) Seems like the patient being qualified as an abuser and confronted by a person who's role is to help them, in this manner, would naturally retreat to a defensive posture.

So no, I don't see the point in trying to provide counterfactuals. Doesn't feel like productive therapy.

A good therapist is there to listen, without judgement.

Just my 2 cents tho. Obviously, feel free to disagree.
There are far more problems with fossil fuel than just destabilising the climate.

It also acidifies the oceans, it kills by air poisoning and just is generally bad and also nonrenewable.

We do need a paradigm shift in the way we utilise the earth’s resources.

That is why CCS gets a bad rap, it’s like the alcoholic parent saying they can continue drinking because there’s this new hangover drug and also a great skin remedy for your bruises.

I actually really support all the climate mitigation strategies and CCS is definitely an important one, but together with a strict ban on new coal and oil projects.
Natural gas seems an OK tradeoff for now if each new plant is tied directly to the shuttering of a coal or oil one.
> Because it turns out every crypto market is a negative-sum game.

[Citation needed]

You can't just hand wave and assume this to be true. If the world's major investors decide that crypto represents a store of value, then that's a positive-sum game for crypto. If stablecoins transacted on smart contract chains generate demand for Ethereum to pay for the network transaction fees, then that's a positive-sum game for crypto. If new enterprises start raising capital through DeFi and DAOs instead of traditional capital markets, that's a positive-sum game.
I live in Columbus, worked at Chase, and currently work at ScriptDrop (we coordinate prescription deliveries). I don’t have a CS degree, just a bootcamp. I haven’t encountered, or heard of anyone who has encountered, any of the issues you mention (I’ve never had a PTO request turned down or even questioned).

Small sample size, so maybe there are idiotic companies and managers out there, but they’re probably not as common as you suggest.

Also, I prefer working for a company that has demonstrated and tangible real-world value. Not every problem in the world is an algorithm away from being solved.
Not just Bay Area, pretty much any middle to big cities. Housing ownership dream is dead, cost of education has skyrocketed and healthcare is just a mess. That’s everywhere. The only thing on top of that we have got in Bay Area is increasing petty crime rates with no consequences. But that is on Bay Area residents for consistently electing egghead politicians.
Disclosure: used to be an actuary at an insurance company. I think the general rule is that your insurance will reliably cover the things that it explicitly says it covers, but that category may be narrower than you think, so you should read the policy and figure out what your policy does and does not cover.

For example, if you go to a doctor who's not in your health insurer's network, you're probably not covered. In some states, you can buy a "full coverage" (liability + comprehensive + collision) policy with a liability limit of $10k, so if you hit someone with your car and they have more than $10k in medical bills they can sue you for the balance. Your provider network and liability limit will both be spelled out explicitly in your policy documents, and neither concept is really that complicated, but if you don't know about them you could be in for a nasty surprise.

Of course, all of that creates a giant pain in the ass for consumers, and that begs the question, why doesn't anyone just make an insurance policy that covers everything the policyholder thinks is covered? And the answer is that nobody would buy it! It would be more expensive (usually much more expensive) than its competitors, and people are generally very price-sensitive in their insurance purchases, and no one would read the fine print to see what they're actually getting for their money.

P.S. The rabbit hole of stupid insurance regulation runs deep. Texas county mutuals are a fun example. Captive reinsurers are another.
There are some industrial processes that emit carbon, for which we don't have good alternatives (e.g. making cement, refining certain chemicals).

Being able to capture their CO2 output will likely be necessary, even in the presence of a 100% renewable electric grid - which makes this a technology worth pursuing.
The thing I really like about this article is that, at least in my mind, it really helped me clarify what I think of as "Bullshit Jobs". It's not so much "do you consider your job useless", but it's more along the lines of "Is your job set up to fulfill tasks that were, generally, arbitrarily designed by some gatekeeper?"

A great example of this is tax departments at large companies that look for tax avoidance strategies. On one hand, these strategies can save companies many millions of dollars, but on the other, they really produce nothing of value and are just a product of the complexities of a (human designed) tax system. Lots of regulatory compliance work also goes into this bucket. I wouldn't say all of it, because there are definitely regulations that do actually make companies safer/more transparent/etc., but anyone who has had to fill out a page after page after page "security questionnaire" knows at least half of it is bullshit that nobody is going to read in the first place. Sometimes I've been tempted to just add "Mickey Mouse" answers just to check if anyone sees it. Writing something that nobody ever reads seems like it's hard to believe that's anything else except bullshit.
Lots of people here recommending to switch to Keepass.

I have both Keepass and Lastpass, but the reason I didn't do away with Lastpass yet is basically that it seems to me that Keepass can't do proper form-filling like Lastpass can? I'm talking about: auto filling custom configurable fields, addresses, credit cards, etc.

Am I missing something, some addon/extension?

My current Keepass setup:

Keepass 2 with Keeweb for filling passwords in Firefox on PC and KeePassDX for filling passwords on Android. All Keepass DB files are synced using Syncthing, which works fine.
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In unvaccinated cases, persistent symptoms appear in ~20% of mild cases, 50% for hospitalized [0]. Vaccines prevent contracting the virus, but afaik similar rates for those that contract it.

Long COVID symptoms range across many body systems including pain, fatigue, brain fog, inability to stand, heart damage, tinnitus (one CEO to the point they committed suicide [1]), kidney, and pancreatic damage. More results are being found routinely.

Your attitude is quite callous. I hope that if you were on the receiving end of the stick, other people will not dismiss you the same way you've dismissed them.

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/media2.fairhealth.org/whitepaper/as...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/03/21/texas-ro...
Thought leadership smeadership.

A16z's goal is to make money, lots of it. Shouldn't confuse its purpose by giving it other goals.
Please do not take HN threads into flamewar like this. We ban accounts that do that, for what should be obvious reasons if you review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You can make your substantive points thoughtfully, so please do that instead.
I first started seeing these blog posts and Twitter threads documenting reasons for leaving SF at the start of the pandemic, and they tend to get a significant amount of engagement/comments/likes. I had never before seen anyone write such long and detailed reasons for something as routine and boring as moving cities. I can only imagine the reason for doing this is to increase their following on social media. Just stoking the rage-engagement machine.
Because it’s popular makes it an even bigger target.
I recently stumbled upon this blog by accident and impulsively bought the new version of the headset used here. Unfortunately turns out that the company (emotiv) made a turn from an open sdk to a closed one with high licensing fees, requirement for cloud connection etc... So be aware if you're also interested.
Waffle Street movie is a must watch for this situation. I won't spoil it but these large corporation announcements sound like an equality empathy booster and make for good PR.
Thanks! I think there are some good things here for sure. I think I'd have to really sit down and go over these to better understand the trade-offs but I wasn't aware of a few of these like the right to have 2 years off continuously for sick days.

> When it comes to costs/salaries, I reckon it'd highly depend on the region/job market/sector.

I do want to bring this conversation back to make sure we're still talking about tech workers per my original comment.

> I'll say this much, our justice systems in western Europe (with the exception of the UK) are based on civil law you could find more about this on Wikipedia to find sources

Thanks for the link. I really like the common law approach myself. It's interesting that you noted that common law was based on strict contract interpretations (which I think you noted in a negative context since one was considered reasonable but the other wasn't) but then at the same time common law tends to be more predictable (according to the article) versus civil law since case precedence acts as law. I guess it depends on your interpretation of reasonable. As an American I'd want the law to be applied equally no matter who you are, but that's my culture and lens. I also like that it's flexible and, again noted by the article, able to cope with social changes better. With respect to contracts I think I prefer to enforce what was written - how else do you know what the contract is then?
Of course, the people who live in Cupertino all hate Apple because they’re retirees and hate the traffic, think male tech employees will molest their children and hire prostitutes[1], cell phones will give them cancer, tech employees are too poor due to not yet being millionaires, etc.

* actual quote from current city council member
I feel going from a CS PhD to working as a standard software engineer is probably a waste of the person’s time, while also resulting in lower pay.

It’s not like other fields where your area of research might be very different from what you get employed for; in CS, your area of research probably has a startup that could use your domain skills. Eg: a CS Security PhD can find gainful employment on the security teams of any of the big software giants doing work that’s not too dissimilar from their research.
Ethereum also pays dividends in the form of staking rewards.

About 7% today, and most likely going to 10%+ post-merge. That makes the yield on Ethereum significantly higher than the majority of stocks in developed markets.
yes that would be true. Unfortunately log4j doesn't get configuration exclusively from config files on the server where it's running. this doesn't look like no access to full RCE like the first few rounds. But this might let an attacker turn a small exploit into a big exploit.
> On one hand, these strategies can save companies many millions of dollars, but on the other, they really produce nothing of value and are just a product of the complexities of a (human designed) tax system

Businesses that spend less money on taxes can spend more money on expenses, such as payroll and higher quality materials and land, or it can allow them to sell products/services at a lower price, providing a competitive advantage.

But they are a product of a human designed tax system, which may or may not be bullshit. There is no single clear, correct way to implement taxes.
I assume the USAF either does or has replaced them. But without them, we would not have had the Hubble this whole time.
https://archive.is/0Eaav
Not sure what you mean by shifting goal posts.

I posed an entirely hypothetical proposition that, if this technology could achieve net zero emissions in a more efficient manner (obviously implied), that there would still be many people who hate on it because it would enable fossil fuels to live on, despite the fact that, in that scenario, we would have solved climate change and allows fossil fuels to continue to prosper.

The fact that the technology would be more cost effective was obviously implied. Is it logical that I would imply that a less cost effective technology would be cheaper? No, so why interpret it that way? Does the syntax of what somebody writes always 100% accurately convey their thoughts? No, but its pretty easy for humans to interpret the meaning.

Anyway, I edited the comment for clarity. All the replies debating carbon capture technology have pretty obviously nothing to do with my original comment, and I question how somebody could interpret it in that way. The entire preposition and thrust of the comment was about the hypothetical, nothing to do with specific merits of a technology (very clearly, and obviously)
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Such games are online games where other players are part of the game challenge. Some players want to play those game so much that they are willing to spend insane amounts of money on this game. But if the only users of the game were those players the game wouldn't be as fun for them. So the game needs to incentivise players that that don't want to play it that much or at all.

Most of the games manage this by offering free version of the game to anyone willing to play. It's not as good as the version paid consumers get but it's something.

The game mentioned in the article went the step further, not only does it offer some entertainment for people for free, but pays them out of profits gained from the paying players.

So basically gamers that earn money in that game provide meaningful service for paying players by working as opponents for them that enhace their entertainment. It's less bulshity job than many real ones.
Not sure if it adds or detracts from your theory, but coins were sometimes clipped to change their value. I’ve got a silver one that had the edge clipped off to alter its value.
Ah. I see, that’s fair. You aren’t beating up on me, it’s better for me to find out about an error than not at all. Thank you for explaining the problem.
I contribute so that friends can find my house. I hope everyone reads OSM data and updates their maps. Too many people put my address in GPS and end up several miles away.
Do NOT follow through with this plan. 1U servers are incredibly loud and you will regret it every day. Plus, like others have said, any old 1U server on eBay is going to be much, much slower than anything modern. You'd be better off building a little silent desktop with an AMD in it.
Cyberattack on one of Norway’s largest media companies shuts down presses
Proactive vs reactive bonus logic.

If you're proactive, people are generally happy and not really a huge flight risk so the bonus just keeps them from even entertaining external offers even though they're hearing rumors of people leaving for X% more.

If you're reactive, well they're probably already gone and you need to give them a huge counter offer to stay, many folks believe in the "never accept a counter" rule so again, you lost your employee.
Are you aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink ?
Clockwork Orange, Rat Utopia as other examples?

I dont care to a certain extent because it will end with war OR sickness and poverty, if people are not forced to live within their means and make the best of what they are given.

I'd like to see euthanisia become legal so we dont have to be experimented on by scientists who have the audacity to think its acceptable, just like I dont agree with Govt who have the audacity to think they can control our lives through legislation and all that.

In the 70's there was a Eugenicist movement in the West which lost out to the current thinking, but here in the UK the NHS was performing medical operations like tying the tubes of woman after 1/2/3 kids to stop their from having more.
Obviously there is the female contraceptive pill which has helped reduce number sizes. This is eye watering!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_c...

You could say the Eugenicist movement has become more persuasive today. We have also had to have our health impaired to make us more docile and to reduce our breeding abilities whilst also increasing the risk of cancer, to the point that something like 50% of the UK population will get cancer in their lifetime here in the UK. TF the NHS is free! I bet Josef Mengele is kicking himself for being too obvious!

Inflation is also stalking the planet right now, its getting more expensive to live, now whilst various central banks can print monkey tokens to keep the natives happy, inventing an excuse or two to print more like Quantative Easing helps keep people in the game and Govt's can invent bureaucracy to keep people busier.

I'm also aware that in the West its been cheaper to offshore some jobs to parts of the world with lower labour costs. That last point may or may not also entail poorer working conditions like we see with Foxconn and Apple.

Now its also clear that we have a form of global communism imposed on us by global business giants under the guise of global capitalism only its not a govt but a board doing the communism bit limiting our choices of what we can spend money on. What govt would want to distance themselves from domains previously under their control like telecoms spying?

But in all of this, there is a new entrant, artificial intelligence, chipping away at the middle class jobs and some working class manual labour jobs which has opened up a new angle of attack that previously hadnt existed in human history.

Now its doing three things, its improving quality like we see with robots building German cars and its also forcing Govt to get creative with their bureaucracy which is why the security services "hack" via these global entities with court orders. Muddying the waters to keep us busy. Bread and Circuses been going on since Roman times and all that.

Its also discovering new attack vectors for all sorts of areas of life, but its also undermining the pillars of society authority namely the State and religion.
This is certainly true among some managers, and is also how you wind up with useless project managers and "scrum masters" who can't actually do anything except send an email or slack.
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I mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but when my office reopened (very briefly due to bad timing wrt government advise) it was about 25% full (the maximum then allowed in this country by government guidelines). I don't think, had the capacity limit not existed, that everyone would have come in, but I also think your 5% estimate is very much on the low side.
Tokamak Energy makes breakthrough in efficient powering of nuclear fusion
How does one make outgoing calls without a voice-enabled number?
This probably depends a lot on your industry. In my industry, every product I've worked on took multiple years to ship. It wouldn't be unreasonable to want to find sr engineers who had been through the whole cycle from early planning to post launch support.

Out of curiosity, what product does your company make? What kind of moat do they have if anything you do can be replicated in under a year by a competitor?
How much would you offer for this sort of thing?
Not nginx, but I run haproxy, which serves the reverse proxy role.

I use it instead of Google's own ingress because it gives you better control over load balancing and can react faster to deployments.
But they aren't they related? There's clearly some dilution of value between an original and a forgery. I'm positing that NFTs are even more divorced from "originality" than forgeries – by a factor terrible enough to make them worthless.

But I'm not good enough to disentangle the mystery of originality and put the problem in concrete terms.
Did the SEC give Axie Infinity a no-action letter? How do they get around the securities laws thing?
There is a show called "Undercover Boss" that does this.
Similarly, I like to say something along the lines of "lies by omission are still lies".