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Yes, but only if we go down the road of deconstructing these kinds of words --of which we have enough of already. It's bad enough as is. It's as if people have lost the ability to contextualize things.
I still don’t really get it sorry - why isn’t being a postdoctoral research assistant a valid career by itself?

I know people who don’t want to teach or lead a group or work in industry so they do postdoctoral RA work. That’s their career. Why’s that not seen as a valid thing to do in the US? People are saying ‘because you might not get tenure.’ Ok but not everyone wants that career.
Unfortunately the Democratic Party of the last 20+ years has come to measure their policy successes by their intentions rather than their effects.
> travel

Would electric train be feasible? Could even have entire train cars dedicated to solar panels and batteries.
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> The average family paid 100 for cable and on top kept buying dvds for 10-20 a pop.

Lol, no way in hell that was the average. That was the high end dream consumer that very few of the people I knew matched even back in cable’s heyday.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/680645/number-of-cable-s...

In my family we would rent lots of movies each week with an 2-3 times a week ritual trip to the video rental store to pick something out for $2 or so.

Movies we liked were bought when they went on sale at the cheap DVD trough at Walmart for $5.
Sort of, yeah, but with a heavy focus on businesses who want to offer custom domains to customers of their own apps. For example, how Shopify lets you connect your own domain to their platform (not a customer, just an example).

Also a different business model (pay a monthly rate for servers in however many regions you want) with some different benefits and trade offs. CloudFlare SSL for SAAS didn't publicly exist when I started this, and it's economics ($2 per domain) still don't make sense for a lot of apps.

In the future, I'll probably look at whatever CloudFlare will have a hard time offering under their business models, and do those so that people have options. Even just the same features but with different pricing models can be really useful to companies with different constraints and goals.
What says our consciousness is not just a long form electro-chemical reaction of deeply nested feedback loops programmed into millions of base pairs?
If that's the case and there is no cost, I still don't get how this is resistant to sophisticated and well-resourced sybil attacks. What's to stop someone from just firing up 10,000 nodes in the cloud?
(also depending on what you're doing, `bazel run <foo>` will invoke the binary directly, and `bazel build <foo>` will, if there's an output artifact, usually print its location)
> It feels like a real achievement

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but if people can pay money to skip something, then I don't think doing it is a public/social achievement. At best, it's a personal achievement, which could hold value for some people. But you're not really signaling anything publicly by going through a grind if someone else can pay to skip it.

This is also why I'm kind of skeptical of NFT games as being about "earning" something in-game, or about showing off status. Why should anyone care about or respect someone for having an asset in a game that can just be bought?
I spent some time with the Depot Lite paper, and it's wild how much much there are little hints (less strict) of many of the exact principles the are used in Nix. Turning software installations read-only after a few weeks was one that stuck out the most, along with the basic FHS adjustments.

I've read through a few if the Nix papers before, but they're probably worth revisiting by now after using Nix for a few years and experimenting with Guix a bit.

> I can geek out about package management all day.

Same! I've been fascinated with package management probably since I was about 12 or 13, when I first tried desktop Linux. Package managers are incredibly powerful systems tackling an equally incredibly tough problem space. Multi-language package managers (i.e., ports systems and Linux distro package managers) have always especially impressed me. (Imo even the 'bad' Linux distro package managers are pretty good, as much as I can be harsh on them in certain aspects when comparing them.)

Getting into Nix has made me think more deeply about the designs of the many language-specific package managers, since each one needs/gets a different treatment in Nixpkgs according to its unique properties. It's similarly provided an illuminating alternative to the container approach to traditional deployment troubles— one that conserves more of what is good about the traditional package management paradigms on Linux and elsewhere.

Have you looked at Michael Stapelberg's work on package management? I think it's the most exciting work on package management outside the Nix and Guix worlds: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-08-17-introducing-d...

Luet also looks interesting, but I've not really played with it yet. Its approach seems to be to add more package-like granularity to existing container systems: https://github.com/mudler/luet
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> There are only three major industries that are difficult to electrify: cement, steel and air travel.

Why isn’t agriculture difficult to electrify?
> a postdoc is just delaying the inevitable transition to an industrial job

I don’t understand why - are postdoctoral jobs age-limited or something? Why can’t you keep doing them?
Well, it means you don't need to do things with Unicode casefolding tables in the middle of your not-eating-data fs code.
Ten years ago. Seems like I was there near the recent trough.
Cog Dis is part of the human condition. There is no significantly populated place in the US where there is a lack of Cog Dis about at least some political policies
Because companies like John Deer can make a ton of money electrifying it
> Imagine if you had the option of buying a piece of gold or a piece of land with good irrigation and good soil.

Why imagine? Both of these things can be purchased in the real world. And yet we see that some people purchase farmland, and others purchase bars of gold. Why is that?

Turns out, people called economists have been pondering such questions for hundreds of years and have developed quite sophisticated and nuanced theories about how humans create, assign, and transact value.

Anyways, thanks for the lesson on “cashflow” but you might want to pick up an economics textbook, you might learn something.
It has clearly sparked a wonderful discussion even if you personally don’t like the submission.
Seems like you have the generations mixed up. Boomers are born 1946-1964.

JFK, MLK, and Malcom X were not Boomers, they were all born during the Greatest and Silent Generation. Most of the Boomers were children when those men died.

Rock and Roll was invented before most of them were born.

The birth control pill first became available to their mothers before half the generation was/wasn’t conceived.

Divorce law changed before many of them could be married so they were more likely the to be the first generation to have divorced parents.
Hated/Loved doing the exams to get my FCAS. It allowed me to explore my mental capacity. It teaches you how to learn fast, how to memorize, how to be quick at solving problems.

It has been a while, but after getting involved with the exam question writing/grading part, I felt the CAS was too entrenched in their processes. I stopped paying my dues since I did not plan to sign any acturial statement anyway.

I now do data engineering for other actuaries and maintain our tech stack. Think rating engine and ML in production. Code is mostly on github now, we have peer reviews, deploy to kubernetes. It is really is no different than SWE, except we know a lot more about the business side.

Life is great work wise.
“Of course we won’t be able to capture and store 37 gigatons”

A lot of current figures across many industries would have seemed ludicrous 100 years ago. I’m not sure anything is impossible anymore.
> If you can drink tap water and breathe the air

Flint would like a word…
Here's an honest question. Is it called depression when your mental state accurately reflects your situation. I suspect for many people, life really is bad, and they feel commensurately bad as well. Is that depression? Or is depression when you feel worse than you "should" given your actual state?

I generally have no hope for my own future, i have no real sense of happiness in any meaningful way, i am trapped in my circumstances, with no way out. I generally feel bad all the time. I don't think i'm depressed however, because i believe my mental state more or less depicts my actual situation.
I like open source, but I think society wanting things for free (and thinking they deserve things for free) can have adverse side effects.
I mean, these probably weren't that hard. I was able to solve all of them with just a standard calculator that could do sqrt.
This is ignoring the reality that people are paying to get rid of this gameplay. I do understand why people like boring games, I've sunk my own share of time into therapeutic experiences like Animal Crossing, and even a few pure idle games. I've grinded out 100% soul collections in old Castlevania games. That kind of repetitive action and optimization can be personally rewarding and emotionally satisfying. And I've no doubt that some players of these games genuinely enjoy the minute-to-minute process of chopping logs.

But you're just kidding yourself if you say that's the primary thing going on here. If people enjoyed the grind, they wouldn't pay to remove it. The difference between grinding in a game like Castlevania and grinding in a game like Runescape is that there's not a Castlevania real-world monetary economy based entirely around shortening the game.

We can't really seriously say that everyone playing Runescape enjoyed the grind if there was enough demand for gameplay automation to make botting a reliable income source.
Americans were under saving for years. At least they are learning they need SOME savings
Thank you for articulating something sane.

The article is pure "Management/Leadership Speak" nonsense complete with contrived/farfetched analogies and blaming of Engineering/Engineers for actually delivering something but which may have been "Strategically Wrong" because somebody else made that decision. Engineers are told to "Execute" and not "Strategize" (which means everything and nothing).

Given the responsibility, most Engineers are fully capable of Strategizing/Prioritizing/Executing on an Idea/Customer requirements so this insidious idea that Engineers are incapable of "Higher Managerial Functions" needs to die.
I just plugged in numbers until I got it to be .44. I tried 2, 3, and 4, and then found the answer without needing to simplify
> The only thing this narrative will accomplish is failure. Nobody will support significant sacrifice to combat climate change. Luckily they don't have to.

This gets even more true when you start talking about the developing world. I'm sure Africans are going to stay poor to help deal with a problem largely created by the Europeans and Americans that have been abusing that continent for centuries. There is not a "fuck you" big enough.

I call the approach in this article "abstinence-based environmental solutions" by analogy with "abstinence-based" sex education, and it will be about as successful as trying to shame teenagers into not having sex.

This approach to sex education results teens hiding their sexuality, not using condoms or birth control, and getting more STDs and teen pregnancies. The analogous approach to fixing environmental problems will get us a lot of fake "greenwashing" and a continuation of the current CO2 growth trajectory.

Attempting to force austerity on us will result in a massive populist backlash and the election (or installation) of explicitly anti-environmental quasi-fascist or economic libertarian leaders.
Why do so many people head to Joshua Tree to do shrooms?
That's hilarious.

I recently moved to Idaho, the other I state. People occasionally call it Iowa multiple times in the same conversation! Similar to that Ohio/Iowa shirt, there's also an excellent one sold at the hipster grocery stores in Boise that has the outline of Idaho with some lovely drawings of a farmer working a field of (presumably) potatoes... IOWA is printed across it in huge, bold letters. The Idaho<>Iowa confusion must extend past my circle of friends and coworkers.

That being said, I'll freely admit I don't know where Des Moines is inside Iowa's confines.
That's fine then.

It should be this easy for a company or recruiter:

- SDE 1 makes $X-Y

- SDE 2 makes $Y-Z

- SDE 3 makes $Z-A

- Sr Software Engineer makes $A-B

- Principal Engineer makes $B-C

For someone of your experience we'd typically be looking at an SDE 2 or SDE 3 role, but that can change as we move through the interview process. We'll let you know as we move through the process if we decide to change the level that we're evaluating you for.

--

Just, like, be transparent and honest with candidates. It's really really not hard.
Maybe, the insurer would still needs a claims-handling staff overhead to verify a claim made is valid. And perhaps also an underwriting team to assess the risk before the start of a policy. The DAO could replace the paperwork/emails, but I imagine that is only a small expense.
Well, it’s not easy to understand the full list of responsibilities for the PM ppl, but from my point of view at apple the most important and valuable asset is access to VP+ folks. PMs and designers have the most of it.
> as a smoker

No argument. Vaping replacing cigarettes is almost invariably a good thing.

The problem is that "vaping" was how Big Tobacco got around the fact that cigarettes are "uncool". And the vaping companies explicitly targeted underage teens with the marketing apparatus. And it worked.

> I think it's sad there's no middle ground

This is solely due to the fact that Big Tobacco are malicious actors and will push the boundaries of legality on all fronts to increase their profits.

In addition, the "middle ground" is an unstable point. We know from experience that nothing short of force of law would create "smoke-free" bars, clubs, etc. Any leeway always tipped back into full-on "smoking preferred".

Don't get me wrong. I think that smoking bans have damaged social scenes as well as music scenes. There seems to be something integral between those and smoking. However, I'm also practical enough to realize that externalized costs were always going to be taken advantage of without laws placing restraints on them.
Direct power yes. Political? Well the answer is different.
Probability and statistics is applicable everywhere. But the actuarial route is overly specialised for the insurance industry.

The ideal data science degree would be computer science and statistics combined. Drop compilers, formal methods, etc. Keep databases, PL, AI/ML, data structures & algos. From stats you get probability, inference, survival analysis, stochastic processes, design of experiments, etc. Throw in some operations research (optimisation) while you’re at it. Comp Sci, Financial Math, Statistics all do the same mathematical track anyway: LA, Calc, Real analysis, Discrete math. I would include a good course covering advanced probability so something based on measure theory.

Now you have a general Data Science background to apply in any field.
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I don't believe a single anecdotal tweet for each of the author's point qualifies as objective evidence to support their claims.
Yes you are right to say people are referring to things portrayed as bad but I dont know why people given up critical thinking to a democratically elected representative. Democracy seems to be the ultimate con trick besides Royalty and Religion. The latter two were enough and now we have govt's taking 3rd place, but another way to look at it is its convenient for Royalty and Religion to let Govt exist as it takes some slack and responsibility off of them.
Perhaps, though he gets more credit for that than he should. Nothing meaningfully changed as a result.
They are being unreasonable, though.

They had a moat that let them gouge consumers for years, but the moat dried up and now they're throwing a tantrum because they can't continue their outdated and overpriced business model.
As an example, I recently wanted to watch The West Wing. I pay for Netflix and Hulu already, but the show is only on HBO Max. OK, fine, I guess I'll pay for a month of HBO like I've done before to watch Game of Thrones.

Ok, uh, what's it called now? HBO Go? HBO Now? Oh, HBO Max, ok. I live in Japan now, so I'm region-blocked, great. Time to open the VPN. HBO already seems to know that server #1243 is a VPN, but server #849 works OK for now.

Ok, time to create an account. "Account with that email already exists"? Ok, so let's log in using my old HBO Go credentials. Looks like there's some kind of account migration problem and the account is stuck in the "account verification" phase but I can't get it to send me a new verification email. There's a little pop-up chat window for the support team, let's try it. Three separate support agents and thirty minutes later, I have a working verification email. But my payment information is out of date. OK, let's update it. HTTP 505 error. Wonderful.

Ok, that's enough: Type "West Wing season 1 episode 1" into Google. Thirty seconds later I'm watching in full HD and there's popcorn in the microwave.
Solutioning means “inventing potential solutions,” not actually solving things.
At least for the years I played CCP managed to create keep inflation under control and markets functioning pretty well. I think the percent of players who were either buying or selling ISK was fairly low, less than 15% is my guess but there are a lot of different ways to play the game so my experience may not be representative.
I've used some really low price printers, a prusa and then some 10k ultimaker S5 printer. The low price ones can be hit or miss and may require more maintenance every now and then. They might not print as well as a prusa. I've had a prusa for a good year so far and have had to do no maintenance on it. It's basically set and forget and it prints great everytime. The 10k ultimaker had a few extra features like a humidity controller spool holder (which I don't think did much) and some proprietary nozzles. The 10k printer is very much set and forget but it also can break and error out and you have no idea what is wrong. The proprietary nozzles are like $120 each. I'd say the 10k price tag isn't worth it. I've used it in a university environment and I'd rather the school bought 10 prusas than one 10k ultimaker. That way, we'd have more students using them.
Interestingly, what I have heard is that the CCP wants to 'de-Koreanize' its pop idols and wants less make up and plastic surgery in their idols and instead wants to emphasize maleness in its idols. In other words the Chinese government perceives their own "idols" as not being masculine enough --and thus it's not only Hollywood but popular culture in China (and east Asia in general).
That gave me a good laugh. I used to live right near the Walker Art Center. Lake Calhoun was about two miles away, so yes, that was more like thirty minutes. Seemed shorter, though.
>>>Did you witness lgbtq or people of certain skin colors being run out of town or receiving some sort of prejudice?

A close friend of mine is a black Muslim, Marine Corps officer, and Afghanistan veteran. Likes to date white women (who doesn't?). He used to live/work predominantly in Ohio, also a bit in Texas I think. He got SOOOO tired of butthurt white guys harassing him at bars and such that he resigned his commission. Why was he fighting for this country to be treated this way at home? He then joined the New Zealand military for a few years, and now lives there permanently (presumably as a NZ citizen).
try it. use their best practices and be amazed how much mental energy it saves.
There is a valid conversation to be had about whether art needs to be edifying. However, I think we're talking about an entirely different level of exploitation when we talk about making something so unpleasant that people are willing to pay to get rid of it.

Millions of hours of pointless content gets uploaded to Youtube, but if people choose to watch it, fine. That's a conversation about edification and people choosing to waste their own time. What we have here instead is a system where people are signaling with real money that the experience is unpleasant for them. We're not talking about deciding what's best for people against their will or forcing art to have emotional/intellectual value, we're talking about building an experience that's monetized around players openly signaling that they dislike what we're doing to them.

Not that the deeper conversation you bring up about addiction or "junk-food" stimulation doesn't have value, but I think exploiting pay-to-skip mechanics is a more obvious form of exploitation that's just on another level of harmful. The comparison here isn't giving people junk food or hooking them on useless Youtube videos -- the comparison is the ads that roll in front of those videos. It's giving someone a meal and putting something gross in it, and then forcing them to pay you to remove it or to pick it out themselves. It's taking something that people want, and then breaking it or obscuring it, making it so cumbersome to get at that valuable core that the act of playing the game is no longer satisfying to the player.
"fair" and "deserving" have the same problems. It's just adding unnecessary moral dimensions. What's fair is whatever both parties mutually agreed to. If you agreed to be paid $X and employer pays you $X, then that's fair. Whether they might have possibly agreed to pay you $X + %10 or $X + 20% or whatever is irrelevant. What they're paying other people is also irrelevant. You saw the number, you said "ok" and that's that.

If you were theoretically willing to pay $5 for a gallon of milk and you walked into a store and they were selling it for $2, I'm sure you wouldn't insist they take the extra money. It's the store's job to figure out how much to charge for milk. It's your job to figure out how much you're willing to charge for your labor.
>this watershed model if it became popular

Please God, No! :-)

Let it disappear along with this article.
Shrinking consumption isn't going to happen. Most of this world hasn't even industrialized.

Tech is the solution.
Also worth adding that wealth doesn't need to mean owning more material possessions. Wealth can take the form of knowledge, opportunities, increased quality of life, etc. Think educational wealth, mental wealth, spiritual wealth, etc.

Less can also be more. How wealthy is an elderly person who requires multiple prescription drugs, nurse/home-care, etc.? Sure they might have acquired money during their life to pay for these things, but that also means they are dependent (read: not free) on a lot of things too. Dependency is a sort of anti-wealth.
The state of that industry is absolutely incredible to me. Throughout the whole home purchase process all I can see is people trying to cover their ass and do the absolute minimum amount of work possible. I understand that they want to avoid getting sued, but the whole process (sell side agency, brokerage, buy side agency, title, home insurance, financing, escrow, whatever) is just agonizing every step of the way. I see a great opportunity for a vertically integrated agency that could own as much of the process as possible and lower the fees, but only admit "easy" clients who don't have any custom needs.
Alternative hypothesis: without the need to appease corporate ad sponsors or billionaire owners, the publication is free to explore seemingly "fringe" ideas and topics.
Bitcoin being the "dominant" cryptocurrency doesn't seem to change any of the parent commenters points, right? Those regarding intrinsic vs extrinsic value?