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> I wouldn't trust a support page's definition of "opt-in"

The support page doesn't have any definition of "opt-in". It simply says that users need to click under "Turn your PC's idle time to cash" and then accept a "License and Services Agreement" before they can access the "Norton Crypto dashboard" and enable "mining during idle time". I would consider that opt-in given that the user has to perform multiple steps before they can even enable the miner, and given that there isn't any suggestion to enable this by default during the installation process. If you don't consider that "opt-in", then please explain.

There seems to be a mob here that has been misled to think that the cryptocurrency miner is enabled by default and runs on every Norton user's computer in the background, whereas in reality it IS installed by default (as in the binary takes up storage space on the user's hard drive), but can only be enabled with multiple steps including agreeing to a separate services agreement that is dedicated to the Norton Crypto product.

(I still think it's dumb to bundle a crypto miner with an anti-virus product. But all this talk about it running without the user's consent is nonsense.)
Sounds like something that could be done as a cron job, at least on Debian-based distros.

Update: It would be a script that checks the condition and then wakes you up.
It's a complicated question, for example I think the US/Canada border should be open, but overall I don't believe on open borders and think there should be enforced limits on immigration.

That said, I still believe in civil disobedience and in people behaving according to their conscience. Such behavior is a major defence against what would otherwise be psychopathy in government.

It shouldn't be based on whether I agree or disagree, and in general there should still be consequences for actions, but civil disobedience is still important
I've seen this myself as well and really can echo that it's all relative...funnily enough i think a lot of the OPs friends probably talk about material things because they're in just as much of a "keeping up with the joneses" mindset as well
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AWS drive speed has not changed much, neither is their network for the same instance and model.
I believe that the comment you're replying to is meaning to imply that remote learning mandates are primarily to protect the unvaccinated (who are at a considerably greater risk of death due to COVID complications).

That is to say: if there were more vaccinated people there would be less need for remote learning since the risk calculus would be very different.

(My science isn't strong enough to take a stance here, I'm merely providing my understanding of the comment you're replying to)
> In this talk Linus demonstrates that he believes git is a state-of-the-art SCM system, without being familiar with the actual state of the art.

I don't think that's very fair Perforce is mostly just a shitty subset of git's features that some people pretend is sufficient. You can use git almost the same as Perforce and have almost as bad of an experience as using Perforce directly.
Your comparison of Mac vs PC user experience reminds me of a criticism I read of Java's cross-platform GUI implementation. The critic compared Java GUIs to an episode of Star Trek where aliens had created a facsimile of a room and table of food, but when the Enterprise crew tried to eat the food they gagged on it. It turned out the aliens, working off of visual TV broadcasts, hadn't realized the food was supposed to taste like anything.
Their insight was great as well.

Most people today are familiar with Aristotle and Plato because the early Christian church embraced Neoplatonism's "perfect design" - but there was a very popular school of philosophy frequently overlooked because it was declared heretical.

The Epicureans not only were the first we know of in history to theorize that light was made up of tiny quantized parts moving quickly (the experiment showing this is what Einstein won his Nobel Prize for), they also thought the reason life existed was that out of chaos there were a great many worlds out in the void many which didn't have life at all and we just happened to be on a world with life.

They even thought that the first living creatures didn't have any senses at all, and through intermediary "freaks" eventually beings like us came to exist.

So there were ancient minds pondering quantized light, the anthropic principle, and evolution.

They just didn't have any ways to demonstrate who was actually right, and the group that eventually seized power declared much of what ended up being correct heretical and banned it.

They had BOTH insight and ingenuity. What they didn't have was the security or indispensability to protect those qualities from the masses who had neither.
And what harms a child more, in a rational compromising world: part of the family dead or losing revenue due to hard sickness, or staying away from school for a while?

This writer may not have children, im terrified to leave my toddler behind, am I selfish? What is this fake dichotomy...
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There have been large districts that have been open almost the entire time. The impact between those and other communities where schools have remained closed / virtual for nearly two years is minimal. My nieces went to a lower income Atlanta area public school. In March of 2020 when they switched to virtual leaning my niece was one of 6 children who ever logged in to do virtual assignments... from her entire grade!

Some districts simply weren't able to do virtual learning, and almost every parent their was an essential worker. They did a ton of outreach over the summer distributing Chromebooks getting people internet access etc but it still had a dismal turnout and had to go to modified in person in fall of 2020 for a couple weeks and then just full time regular school after a month or so. Even then they had a record number of non-returning students, and we are talking elementary school, first and 3rd grade. They can't find these kids, the official line is that they left the district, but there's no reason so many low income families would move in a single year.

They did masks, plexiglass, spacing and all the other stuff to start with, but it made instruction nearly impossible and they had so many problems with students bringing contraband including guns to school that they basically removed anything COVID related and had to ban book bags and made lunch free for everyone and no outside food without written persmission for allergies. They sent letters pleading for parents to please remind children not to bring guns or drugs to school. Delta 8 gummies have been a major problem. Again this is a school of about 1200 students that only goes to 3rd grade.

I think those on the outside of low income communities are really under estimating how a certain segment of the population is being drastically negatively impacted. Despite my families commitment to public education by nieces were sent to private school. There are still issues in their public schools and if you go to Walmart or just ride around their are school age children everywhere all day long even though full time in person instruction has been going on since Fall of 2020.

Like I'm not even sure how some communities will recover. This is an area that already had around 70% graduation rate now the pace of instruction is significantly reduced and 2nd grade is basically a repeat of 1st grade.
That may be the case for LA, I'm not familiar enough with their situation to speak to it, but it isn't the case generally. There are lots of rail lines in the US and globally that have not come anywhere close to maxing track capacity. One such example is BART in SF, which could just add more cars to existing trains and see 60% increase in capacity [1]. The tracks and stations support trains up to 10 cars long, but very few are actually that long enough because they don't have enough cars in the fleet.

[1] https://www.bart.gov/about/projects/cars/faq
The web3 solution is significantly easier than webauthn, if what I read in the above article is to be believed.
Up is expensive and rather unpleasant for those walking nearby on the surface. Down is even more expensive.

Don't forget that no matter how many lanes you add to a highway heading into a city, eventually that highway ends up... in the city. Too many cars in a city makes for a loud and dangerous-to-navigate environment for those who live there.
>Americans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults.

That's almost an improvement! Usually we accept more harm to children in exchange for less mild annoyance to adults.
> Worship your family, friends, love ones, health, music, doing things that make you feel alive

Precisely this. Perhaps these friends continue to spend time with OP because they bring something enriching to their lives? I have some money and I don't look down on my friends who have less, but I also don't value it beyond being a tool. To me, money is a necessary evil and I'd rather do without. I value the richness of spirit in my friends.
I thought it was brilliant.

He said the way our brain works we can’t comprehend nothingness easily. It’s hard to deal with death. He said he’s not religious. In the end he finds himself romanticizing the idea of an afterlife (even though he doesn’t think it’ll happen)
What's the "big difference" that you take issue with?

IMO it's just as good an argument that children and their activities don't affect adults and covid mortality, so by extension opening schools shouldn't be a problem.

Sure, closing schools may "slow the spread", but what does that matter among a population that is ultimately very safe from the effects of covid?
To be fair, the purpose of referencing the Google Scholar citation was not to support the claim that econometricians predicted no decline in manufacturing, it was to refute your claim that:

"Econometricians are unlikely to have made predictions about NAFTA."

I don't know why you would have made such a claim since it should be fairly obvious that econometricians made numerous predictions of all sorts.

I will respect your stance on the issue, you are obviously very informed on the subject and seem passionate about it and that deserves respect, but I'm more sympathetic to OP's point of view that econometricians have not produced much in the way of a consensus on any kind of prediction. Whether we look at the 90s at NAFTA, or the rise of China or other third world countries, or Brexit, or even less global topics and instead pick more local and focused subjects such as the minimum wage, rent control, tax policy... you can basically pick any position on such topics and you won't find anything close to a consensus on it.
Bundling software like this is a malware move. I don't care if they give you the option to not install it, it's no better than the installers that add malware toolbars to your browser if you don't catch the 8th level of dropdowns you need to navigate to not install it.

When I install a pdf reader, I expect a pdf reader and nothing else. When I install anti virus software, that's the only thing I want.
> It seems to me that the widely accepted practice of market stimulation by interest rate intervention has the cost of destroying price discovery. Also, that it is a primary cause of wealth inequality.

Those claims deserve an explanation and empirical evidence.

Measuring price discovery itself is a bit awkward. You could say that poor quality price discovery would result in more price volatility, and that increased costs of price discovery would result in lower liquidity. Unfortunately, both of those things have many other causal factors. How would you untangle the causes to isolate the effects of interest rate intervention?

Making the leap to saying it's the primary cause of wealth inequality is absurd. So long as society uses a market economy, or allows any form of individual wealth aggregation, wealth is likely to follow a log-normal distribution.
> The UK is pretty culturally diverse.

Relative to the US? lol, no: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...

> But even if it wasn’t, what would that have to do with policing standards and procedures?

Notice anything about the ordering of that list? It almost looks as if cultural homogeneity shares some connection to high trust societies...

> ...you need adjust at least some of your priors lest you lend yourself to cultural myopia...

Take your own advice, the statistics are so lopsided that even the self deluded find it impossible to spin them - and instead fallback to a weak "thats racist!" defense.
What gives you that impression? Do you suggest the article should have started with a detailed explanation of what the Omicron variant is?
It's the same in the financial sector, you can't just push code without a review.

However, the review process is far from perfect and can create a false sense of security.

To review a piece of code, that code should ideally be small in scope. For larger pieces it's rather common that the reviewer don't have enough time to do a good job.

If there were better incentives for doing a review, then it would greatly improve the situation.

But i haven't seen that yet.
Mortality rates are going down because of the vaccine and natural immunity. I wouldn't hold my breath on any ground breaking therapeutics, we have plenty as it stands today.
There could be, but nobody is forced to follow it. If you use my website with Google SSO and Google deletes your account, you cannot sign into my site even if I do not want to follow the banlist.
My issue with EUCs is the complete lack of options in the case of power cutting for any reason, whether it be overheating or low battery charge or a resistor burning out.

Leaning back is not an option once the motor stops pushing the wheel towards you - it’ll roll and then tumble to a stop much more quickly than air resistance slows you down, so you’ll fly off the front.

I’d like for there to be a magic solution to this problem since the size of an EUC is very attractive. Rolling to a safe stop on my electric scooter is preferable in the meantime.
SaaS feels like a huge scam, not sure that is the direction I’d go on that argument.

I miss buying Photoshop on a disc and it was yours forever.
Perhaps a solution is to put a detailed description of what is under the hood into the owner's manual (photos, block diagram, schematics, ...)?

After all, the main reason for opening the hood is probably curiosity, to have a look. Sate the curiosity in advance and the need to open the hood, and the associated risk, goes away.
It’s probably running a process that’s connecting to internet services such as mine craft or league of legends out of working hours. I’ve found that disabling internet connectivity at the WiFi router from 12:00 midnight until the morning can be effective to prevent wasteful background processing over night.
> The pro-science stance is very numbers-focused, but ignores hard-to-quantify things that really do matter.

To me it feels like the numbers are focused on one metric: deaths from covid (per capita).

It seems obvious that that is what we should be focusing on. But I think most humans accept some risk of death in everyday choices. For example, driving to meet your friends to have dinner or "watch the game" or whatever brings some risk of death that "staying home alone" wouldn't.

For two years now, people have been in various states of behavioral modification to avoid "deaths from covid". During that time, children have suffered reduced learning; businesses have died or been killed; single people have gotten increasingly depressed; the country has increased anxiety. None of those things show up in "deaths from covid".

I don't know what the right answer is. But I do think that I personally am ready to "get back to normal" as much as possible.
As a user, you can load a third-party kext on macOS without Apple's blessing, even on the M1, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops to do that. I'm not even sure the thing needs to be signed with a developer ID certificate, but that would probably reduce the number of warnings to click through.

Though Apple is now moving towards more of a microkernel architecture, where entire classes of what used to be kernel extensions are now userspace processes. VPN services, network filters/firewalls, some but not all device drivers, etc.
Listened to "Tuesdays with Morrie" [0] over the break, which is a series of interviews and reflections by the author as he interacts with his professor dying of ALS. That and "When Breath becomes Air" [1] are both pretty astounding long-form explorations on impending death.

Hard topic, but I suppose that's the nature of it.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morri...

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-bec...
Cars don't have an individual latency advantage. If you want to travel somewhere during rush hour, you still have an hour of latency, even if the trip would ordinarily be 15 minutes.

What they do have an advantage on is not having to synchronize with a schedule. If you need to travel 15 minutes by light rail, but the train only comes around once an hour, then missing the train adds an hour to your trip. It doesn't matter if the train never breaks down and has separated right-of-way - running on time is useless if you're not.

The way you work around that is by running more trains so that they can come more frequently. My rule of thumb is that if a transit line has a frequency of 15 minutes or less, I don't need to worry about the schedule because the time spent waiting for the train or bus is less than the time of the overall trip.

However, this is expensive; it only makes economic sense if you actually have that many riders that need to travel along that line. In other words, demand needs to be aggregated. The problem is that cars work the opposite way: they exist specifically to segregate demand. This occurs both directly and indirectly. The direct effect is the ability to immediately depart, which I already mentioned; but the indirect effect is the result of all the infrastructure that cars need in order to work at all. Things like wide highways and parking lots spread out where people need to go and make it far more dangerous to walk from a train or bus stop to your final destination.

In other words, cars cheat - they don't make your commute better, they make anyone who does not own a car have a worse one.
The board game “The Campaign for North Africa” famously models the differences (along with requiring the Italian player to carry extra water for pasta).

It’s possible nobody has ever actually finished a play through.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Campaign_for_North_Afric...
What frustrates me with how-to guides such as this one is the lack of followable detail, the vagaries and lack of conciseness.

Take this phrase:

> I heated the iron hydroxide strongly to convert it into iron oxide.

What does this mean? What is "strongly"? Is 'strongly' putting it in the microwave for five minutes?
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Or that the same text said Abraham was totally down with child sacrifice until he was stopped last second.
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You're the one that claimed Perforce was better than git and could do this "without conflict or even awareness of the other person", so why don't you explain how git is worse? (I've never used Perforce and am genuinely curious what clever kinds of things it can do around merges, but more detail than "it's state-of-the-art and git is not" would be useful)
It's been on the table since early summer in the Bay Area too. I have no idea what this dude is on about. There are more concerts and events than I remember there being in 2019 and they are frequently sold out.
Classic symptoms of sugar addiction. I've found it takes around three weeks without sugar to reset this, then the sugar cravings hacking the system disappear.
It would certainly be worse. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs allows the truly rich to achieve stability and control over external events, situations, and outcomes. Rich people can afford to not do things that directly or indirectly contribute to depressive symptoms. This doesn’t mean they aren’t just as depressed as a poor person with depression, but the poor person has no assets with which to edify themselves.
> It make me incredibly narcissistic and allowed my brain to think in a very "the universe is on my side" kind of way, and I was open to a lot of magical thinking and woo woo after the trip.

That's why it takes a sufficiently mature (in terms of rationality, emotional intelligence and moral values) mind for a trip to be actually safe. One can reach it sooner or later or never but I would consider 25 (when your prefrontal cortex development actually peaks and you have already have gained your fair amount of general experience) a reasonable mean and recommend avoiding psychoactive substances (unless a competent professional decides the opposite and is going to supervise) if you are significantly younger, no matter how legal in your state they are.

BTW the universe actually is on your side. The moment it's not you're dead.

> I made a lot of goofy choices with too much idealism and gusto and not much of a plan and it set my life and career back when it didn't work out.

Why do you believe that's bad? I would say a life without goofiness is a horror. A world without idealism is hell. Some choices setting your life and career back occasionally are inevitable and can actually bring immense value you just don't (immediately or ever) consciously recognize. My life/choices has always been a disaster but prepared me to and at some moment "has put" me in a specific place where I have met my soulmate who turnt my life in a paradise (long proven sustainable and, arguably, even antifragile).

> I am not the center of the universe

Well, you can't prove you aren't and numerous philosophers (and some Everett interpretation enthusiasts) would say you are. And this doesn't mean you have to be a jerk.
no, it's a waste of time trying to get a smoker to quit. i quit pretty much on a whim, when by chance my mind turned in a direction that was open to thinking of myself as someone who doesn't smoke. maybe you can foster that kind of openess, but certainly not by trying to "get" them to quit.
I'm fascinated by this kind of response from other parents. My kids don't really mind the masks. It's just not a big deal to them. I mean, I obviously hope we can go back to normal before too much longer, but the mask itself isn't actively harming them.

On the other hand, not being able to interact with classmates during school-from-home last year... that had a big effect on their social lives. But now, they see and hang out with their friends (and frenemies) every day. There's a mask on their face -- not a big deal.
Maybe you're thinking of FJCVTZS, which is intended to accelerate a common operation in JavaScript engines? That's not unique to M1, though; rather added to a relatively recent ARM ISA revision. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25422168

I think there may be other optimizations related to Apple's reference counting and type tagging models for Objective-C and Swift.
> Remember that the context of this discussion is achieving parallelism by not waiting - instead, you create promises in parallel, pass them on, and attach handlers at some later point, e.g. after collecting them in a Promise.all().

Aren't "await Promise.all(...)" and "Promise.all(...).then(...)" more or less equivalent? (I'm less familiar with how JavaScript handles it under the hood.) In one case the callback executes once the promise completes, in another case execution of code after the await resumes once the promise completes. The article was about only awaiting once you actually need the data, whether you do it with continuation passing or async/await seems like an unimportant detail.