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> What value is there in asking taxpayers to pay for an increase the supply when there's already too much supply?

When "taxpayers" refuse to subsidize non-taxpayers, they run the risk of those non-taxpayers murdering them; the "value" is that it directly prevents death and revolt.

Some people just simply don't agree that people should have to die simply because there are too many people, either because they're (directly or indirectly) worried about revolt or because they're "good people" who think people have a right to life, dignity, and happiness.

But some people don't: either because they lie to themselves about what the ramifications of their decisions will be (or are simply ignorant to it), or because they believe in destiny -- that god, for example, wants some people to live and others to die.
> and a quarter of his country remains unimmunized

Another ignorant author who does not know that natural immunity exists outside of vaccines... I.e those who recovered from COVID.
> It's always nice seeing countries look to support their artists in building their cultural heritage.

we are all artists in that way.

I don't play or paint, but in my country I take care of some vineyard a couple of centuries old, at my expenses.

Of course I also enjoy the wine made from them and make no money out of it, I lose a little bit every year.

Should I be included in those that "build the cultural heritage" of my country, given that my country is the world's largest producer of wine?

Or am I simply adding a few thousand liters of wine to an already massive production, basically adding almost nothing to our "cultural heritage"?
Just a heads up, I'm vaccinated and currently have covid. I was sick for days, barely able to smell, was freezing cold, had headaches — all as you describe. So.. not sure it will help you.
Cant you just not log in ? I do that now and only get irrelevant stuff
> it’s 1200x900? Some wires must be crossed somewhere

1200x900 in XO-1 is tft pixels not RGB pixels like XGA. In the simplest 1d layout, a 1x1 resolution RGB display is actually 1x3 tft pixels. That's why I'm saying apples to apples comparison.
> It serves no real purpose

Oh common. You may not like it, but DRM was invented for a reason.
Yes, the thin laptop style usually.
>the only way to comply with the license would be to significantly alter their security model to include an owner override.

Damn imagine the horror.
Implementing social security in the first place took massive social upheaval. UBI as a thought experiment is never going to happen, it would take a massive political movement or economic apocalypse.
Also: when the client makes sub-optimal decisions you can take solace in the fact that you won't be around to deal with the consequences. And if it causes you to bill more hours - it's a bonus!
It's a very half baked paywall, The Atlantic limits you to one or two articles a month before they want you to subscribe or use some other trivial workaround such as incognito
So what is the difference and why does my modern Swedish house, with heat recovery ventilation and east-south facing windows consumes more energy to heat?
No, we had no tools to eradicate it in the first place.
They know in general, but they don't know exactly which check they tripped and why. That makes it harder to hunt down the detected part.
Earthship are very low density unfortunately.

Good at reducing the environmental and economical impact of the house itself but now you have to drive a car instead of living car-free in a walkable city.
"This seems a bit defeatist. Have you ever inquired what qualities you're missing that are expected from a senior level dev?"

Speed. When facing lots of context switching and new stuff, I'm slower to implement because I want to have an in-depth understanding.

I filled the role of a senior dev and even a tech lead for one year each. It was a system that I became an expert in. Then they outsourced it and I had to start all over. I was pretty fast here since I knew it well. Mostly politics for why I didn't get promoted there.

On the next team I was on, I was told that they wanted more speed too. I think this was mostly that they didn't count points for security work, and that was what I did for close to 50% of my work. When I left for my current team, multiple tech leads and senior devs asked where I was going. They were shocked that it was a midlevel position and most said they thought I was already a senior dev.

Now I'm on a team with constant context switching and tech stack switching. I'm slow enough that they gave me a bad rating last year. So maybe I am a defeatist at this point. There's really no point in trying the same stuff when it's gotten me nowhere before.
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Hey :)
Well done on the first repair at least! That's a good point about needing time/a replacement in the interim. I suppose there are some things which can sit on a bench for a while waiting for time/parts, but appliances tend to be pretty important. You could wait 5 days for a part which _might_ fix the problem, or have a new machine installed tomorrow.
There is also TRIZ for Software Engineering. Darrell Mann has worked on applying TRIZ to the Software domain. There is also a book [1] from him, which is not easy to read if you are not familiar with TRIZ.

[1]: https://store.systematic-innovation.com/systematic-software-...
In the US, it is usually an ambush. I think that union shops can negotiate something like what you describe.

Here's an old Dilbert comic, that summarizes it: https://dilbert.com/strip/2002-04-25
The worst crime was comrades in Wuhan denying any such outbreak is possible just before a Party meeting.
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Or you will be fast out project if you ever side with the wrong "persons"(oh and don't forget the regular 6months reorg ).

Overall it's a positive thing indeed, but as consultant/contractor, you will never be immune to politics and company hierarchy.
More excess deaths have occurred post-vaccine and vaccine adoption is not correlated with a reduction in excess death at the national level.

https://www.usmortality.com/excess-absolute
An alternative is to get a good pad controller. You get a lot out of this beyond just playability (such as knobs — physical knobs are great for experimentation and fast, dynamic changes to things like filters), but it's still something that can be played like a piano in terms of expressiveness. But it's also something that will easily fit on your desk, and the grid layout lends itself to quickly memorizing chord patterns.

I would agree that regardless of the type of music you make (including techno and related genres, which are among my favourites), having a playable instrument will make a big difference to your production. A huge part of this is just happy accidents. The synth part at around 0:40 in this track [1] came about with just pad mashing. A standard part of my process is to record the audio output of whatever noodling I'm doing on a pad controller, pick out the good parts, and loop them. It's way more fun than drawing notes!

[1] https://soundcloud.com/the-track-club/requiem-for-the-voicel...
> But it is something I do for me, my family and my employer. Not something I do for society

I'd say that this is exactly the definition of doing it for society!
This very much mirrors my experience.

I would like to add, that for people with little professional experience, working in a consultancy can accelerate the rate at which work experience is gained (by working on different projects, perhaps at different clients and with different technologies). This also expects a lot of commitment and willingness to learn (as pointed out in the article).

As an added benefit, one has the chance to look at the inner workings of a lot of different companies if one doesn't want to stay in consulting forever.
Maliciously freezing accounts is a result of bad regulation. Overbearing regulation that on one hand encourage companies to be extremely risk-averse and prone to many false positives, and on the other hand not enough consumer-focused regulation that would allow consumers recourse in case things go wrong (false positive or outright malicious theft of funds).

Both can be resolved without blockchain.
> I mean the amount of clips I see on the youtubes of people breaking walls make me cringe. A wall should break you, not the other way around, :D

Why? I think calculating heat loss, noise levels, wireless signals, fire resistance, ecological cost, etc would be decent metrics to judge the merits of a wall.

But if you are living in civilization, I do not see why the wall withstanding the impact of a body is something I should care about. Also, there is almost always an external envelope of exterior siding plus plywood sheathing that I have never seen penetrated by an individual without tools.
Small in comparison with a typical single family homes that goes >150 sqm in my area. I completely agree with you, 99 sqm is more than enough for a 4 people family.
It’s not unsustainable in Ohio. I bought my washer from a guy with a basement full of washers who was obviously repairing with parts from other machines.

Then we posted our broken washer for free and somebody came and took it. It was obviously going to be repaired and resold or used for parts.
Basically iCloud plus AWS S3.
Every so often I dump old ones into S3, zip them and put them in the glacier instant retrieval tier. Super easy to use (drag and drop) and cheap as hell. I pay less than a dollar per month right now.

You’ll obviously need to leave keys, instructions etc for your next of kin. Or put a hard drive in a safe deposit box.
Another heads up, fully vaccinated as well but Delta reseted my smell and taste.
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Insulation under the home, and skirted around it. You may be thinking of a Frost Protected Shallow Foundation[1]. A nice alternative to excavating in order to get below the frost line. I dream of doing this as part of a self built small passive house project.

[1]: https://www.greenbuildingsolutions.org/blog/frost-protected-...
But unvaccinated people carry a higher load of virus, on average, and therefore pass it on to more people, on average.
Why do we create system architecture diagrams anyway?
It's not the same though. Recovered patients can become reinfected. They can have long term effects all over the body. And finally, it will take millions of deaths to get there.
No it's not right to call it UBI because it's not universal, and in that regard I would point out that the government is not calling it UBI, but merely "basic income": https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/080b9-minister-catherine...

Most governments (including the Irish government) have supported artists to some degree in the past, through grants, etc. I think the main difference is that this is intended to be broader support and not tied to specific projects.
I've played a few times and got just over 95,000 on my recent attempt. Feels like there's a tipping point after the first few minutes (which occasionally trip you up) where the lasers/balls give you a bit of an edge until the bricks eventually get up around the 200 range.
> In 1989 my grandparents built a home ... and carefully vapor-sealed the entire house

In the upper Midwest there were a number of homes built this way in the 80s/90s. 10-15 years later they all had black mold (nasty health hazard) growing in the walls because moisture couldn't escape from the house. All homes are now required to have air-to-air heat exchangers for this reason.
I suppose an art subsidy with no selection criteria whatsoever is open to anyone, so it's close to UBI at least.
While I agree with almost all his points — especially you have to keep learning — there are of course trade offs with consulting. In my opinion (as someone who's been running their own consulting company for only 5 months), the major challenges are non-technical. Yes — consulting can be very lucrative but there's a whole other side to running a consulting company: sales & marketing. Without building a proper sales pipeline, you will experience the feast or famine, the constant up and downs.
I think the earth is flat AMA
If you're on Android, then NewPipe completely fixes that problem, blocks adverts and supports background and popup window playing.

On the downside you're not signed in, so might not be appropriate if you rely on a global history.
My question is why bother with learning a special 'synthesis' application?

Why can't folks make good sounding music from just code?

One of my favourite genres is EDM, but surely whatever Flume does in Ableton could be done in pure code?

This is like authoring a web page in Macromedia Dreamweaver vs. HTML/CSS in vim.
Personally i think a lot of people do threads because it's easier to write. Also you can take days or weeks of writing threads in public, updating them with new information, without appearing to do "stealth" edits, or adding "Update <date>:" to each added section.

For readers twitter threads are pretty crap tho, that's why I really like to use thread reader app.
What's cultural and what's profitable don't always overlap, so the question is which you want to preserve.

If I single out musicians - where I am on the west of Ireland, the cultural impact largely comes from street buskers and trad sessions in small pubs - not the profitable acts filling a stadium once every 5 years.

Given that the local scene is a honeypot for tourists, where as stage tours breezing through town probably extract more than they bring, it might actually be an overall profitable investment - even if the individual artists aren't.
Au contraire, my dear Watson.

Without under-slab insulation, the heat emanating from the ground below the house escapes very quickly. This heat we don't generate. It occurs naturally. This is about using the naturally escaping heat to keep the ground under the house from freezing, about raising the frost depth.

This technique is especially interesting for holiday homes not permanently heated in northern climates. It's fairly standard in Scandinavia, up and coming in the Baltics, but less known in the US.

In the US, it's usually called FPFS or frost protected shallow foundations. [0]

[0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/frost-...
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At least when you think of objects moving slower than light there can't be reversing of casuality. But relativity allows for that, we just drop the faster than light solutions usually as non-physical.

Recently there's been an interesting paper about what happens when we don't drop these solutions: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02780

Imagine the Andromeda fleet can move faster than light. When you look at it from Earth POV suddenly it manifests near Earth out of nothing. Looks very similar to quantum mechanics indeterminism - if alien general decided to send the fleet it's there, if he didn't - it's not there, and there's no local cause for it appearing suddenly.

What the paper above explores is - starting from relativity including faster-than-light objects and trying to prevent paradoxes they derive quantum mechanics.
In Australia, of those in hospital or ICU with covid, more than half are unvaccinated. 92% of the country are vaccinated, so the remainder accounts for half of hospitalisations. That’s a massive difference. Vaccines help, they are not perfect, but they help.
While this neglects a lot of science, it’s not wrong to say we have an administration who’s worked very hard to keep this country divided.
I assume that it's a reference to synchronous replication, where transactions have to be successfully propagated to standby servers before they're considered committed by the primary. Postgres offers low-level features (PREPARE TRANSACTION and COMMIT PREPARED) that would be needed to implement it, but not a complete out-of-the-box solution. The Postgres documentation on HA https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/high-availability.ht... is also excellent and does a very nice job of clarifying potential solutions in this general area.
Reply to self: of course, the prime example is counting. If you have five breads, you can sell three, and have two breads left after that.

Similarly, If you have five apples, you can sell three, and have two apples left after that.

You didn’t have to learn separate addition tables for breads, apples, etc.

Instead you learned that all such problems essentially are the same, and you learned how to manipulate the equivalence classes of those (which are called 5, 3, and 2)
My Yugo SKS is pretty solid (better than the Chinese ones, but arguably not as nice as the original Russian ones though...).
Anecdata story time. My friends and I went skiing this past weekend. My friends very much subscribe to legacy media/political narratives and repeat back what they hear from NPR, CNN, and "hot" takes from social media influencers. (I've tried to get them to read/listen to Manufacturing Consent or Hate INC and I try not to be obnoxious about it since they're friends)

On this ski trip I heard them talk about how they're ready to go back to normal. They are fed up with unvaccinated people but very interestingly they said... Screw them, they've made their choice so let them live and die if they get COVID. They weren't articulating an authoritarian policy prescription of making it painful/miserable for the unvaccinated like I have heard them say before. Now, their network of people (friends, family, coworkers) have mostly all had it and even the unvaccinated unhealthy people got through it.

This is a big deal and a milestone. My friends want to go back to normal. They are finally willing to let people make their own risk assessment and they are finally willing to let people die in order to go back to normal.

They want it so much they are even willing to forego hostilities to the 'other' group of unvaccinated people. That's huge! At least, in my opinion.
I think the draconian measures that China put in place make it very clear I could never have been eliminated. Not to mention the animal reservoirs (mink, domesticated pets, livestock).

Sure we could have maintained a lockdown for years to keep infection rates minimized, but that’s not a long term solution nor a process that will lead to elimination.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29969798
> Is the author really unaware of the horror stories of Venmo and PayPal freezing customer accounts?

Can as example coinbase do the same?

> want a return to serfdom

From my point of view serfdom is the (block)chain. Only people with enough stake or those who pays are in control.
I feel that corporations have much more access to EU institutions than commoners.

And you can expect the the EU will also increase surveillance of its citizens. Tracking isn't needed for advertising and only the largest players will benefit if the industry remains unregulated.

It might also disallow anonymous usage for large platforms (> 45 million users). That is a huge step back for a free internet and only helps the large players that want to sell their bad identity platforms.

The state cannot shield users against abuse, anonymity mitigates data leaks very effectively. For people putting themselves out there other rules apply.

That said, the parliament is at least thinking about defending anonymity now. That would be a huge improvement. But I only believe it when it is done. Empty promises are numerous and cheap.
Isn't exactly the same true for vaccinated people just with a difference probability?
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Or American politicians telling their constituents that masks and vaccines don’t work.
When I was a kid, it was "obvious" to me that dark green and light green were two completely different colors, and it frustrated me to no end that people wouldn't agree with me, yet insist that pink and red were different colors.
Oh, sorry, I was actually agreeing with most of your points.

The strategic quoting was supposed to show that the only thing I disagreed with was that I find the name "Web 3.0" about as silly as its predecessor.
This is just the most basic consequence of relativity. It's not a "delightful quirk". It's literally the first thing you learn when you study the theory.
Not quite the same thing, but I'll be joining a consultancy firm soon hoping I'll get more exposure to different techs.
The most import thing you'll ever know about humans: they are not actually rational.

Most of the time they act under emotional and / or subjective prerrogatives - not actual facts nor rational cost/benefits prerrogatives- commiting themselves to apparently rational actions within the rationality established by the emotional / subjective prerrogatives.

Sometimes, under certains circumstances - some predectible, some not - they act within rational constrains, but many of these are usually some cognitive bias in motion, not actual rational thought.
Honestly all of the refunds I’ve done on Xbox have been completely painless.
This strategy is shameless expediency on the behalf of "society" -- really just mob rule wrapped in good intentions. Get vaccinated for yourself or your family or for society - your choice. Don't force others to assume risk for your own benefit. Convince people not coerce them.
About point 2, when you factor in all the free time you have spend on learning new stuff, then the salary isn't really that great.

The only way to be a consultant and not working for free is to be self employed and using some time between projects to learn.
Yes, I think we're on the same page here. Your main point was, that you can not rely on the rich to use their money to benefit others and I totally agree.
Sure, but then that is a "political" decision at government level, not your "free" choice.

It is clear that the (good) trend is towards mandating "better" insulation (and thus less energy consumption) but it is not like a government can say "ok, starting tomorrow all new houses must be passive", as that translates to "ok, starting from tomorrow price of all new houses will increase by 30%".

They are introducing - little by little - minimal requirements, and introducing in parallel some (BTW badly implemented at least here in Italy) economic incentives to better existing houses but it will take many years before they can impose "only passive" houses, and in any case, "new houses" are such a trifling percentage of existing buildings that they won't make a dent in the overall energy consumption, it is much more effective, given the amount to slightly better the much larger amount of existing buildings.

Also it is not as easy as it seems, for the last 10-20 years a number of houses have been built in the (at the time) energy classes A-B-C without mechanical ventilation/heat exchangers, with - let's call them "not fully tested" - construction methods and now that they are aging they show the problems emerging (humidity/mould, maintenance of windows, decay of insulation packets/facades, etc.), as often happens with new technologies.
This was roughly 19 years ago and my department was not in any way involved with the networking.

Sure, in an ideal world that would be possible - but we didn't even have access to the switches. So either it's trying to hunt down the other department in another building who /might/ solve that riddle in an unspecified amount of time... or just do it :)
When I encounter a site that does this, I block it from setting cookies. In Chrome, it's 4 clicks: padlock icon -> "Cookies" -> "Block" -> "Done". I've only seen one site that tests for this; for the rest, it permanently disables the paywall.