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How would you define “stable” so that no Latin American currency matches? MXN has been 3-7% inflation for 20 years. CLP had a big swing with the global financial crises and more recently but is otherwise around 5%. COP has been under 10% for 20 years, mostly around 5%. I think what you’re saying just doesn’t fit the facts.

The claim that they’re all at different stages on a 0-Bolívares journey is unfalsifiable. You can always say it’s going to happen later.

The car market is global. Colombia imports about half of its cars. A rise in import prices is going to increase domestic demand and prices as well. And the cause of the shortage is the global computer chip shortage, and Colombia imports those.

None of your anecdotes about inflation are unique to Latan America or Colombia. Everywhere has seen car prices spike and everywhere people update prices every year. And just look at the charts if you want some data. The point you dismissed about only sanctioned countries have worse inflation seems correct.
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Just their services revenue alone is bigger than annual revenues of several large tech companies (non-FAANGM). It's incredible how huge Apple is!
Having worked with these folks back in Chrome, it's been great seeing this project continue to be successful. Great job!
Yes, you will "fairly" lose all your money to games designed to be as addictive as possible. Sure the odds are regulated and posted but they are always against you and the advertising around them makes it seem like you can't lose.
I don’t get it - at this point vaccinations are available for anyone school aged.

There’s no more need for masks. Vaccinate if you want, or don’t. If you get sick, or not, that’s on you.

It’s the same deal with a lot of other illnesses- you vaccinate or take the risk. It’s been this way for decades in schools.

Disclosure: triple vaxx’d moderna
Completely agree. I used to have sympathy for these victims. Not anymore. Not after actually interacting with them and getting literally banned from a group for trying to warn about risks. One guy literally sold his car in order to buy scammy shitcoins.
This is nothing but revisionist history.

Many Apple products in particular OSX was pretty bad during Jobs era.
Huxley seems to be more right in the long term, since Orwellian oppression is very visible, people work to fix it and eventually do. Not so for Huxly-an dystopia.
I worked on the Y2K project for a large infrastructure company in the UK.

I was getting paid £50/hour to write VB code and maintain an Access database for the change control system that the COBOL devs used. They were getting paid around £500/hour, because most of them had been hauled out of retirement, to actually change the COBOL code. There were ~1000 people in the building I was in, around half of them devs, around half of those the COBOL guys. The project lasted ~2 years. So, back of envelope maths: 500x250x40x(52-4)x2=£480,000,000. That was just to pay the COBOL devs to amend the codebase for just the billing system.

So yeah, at least 3 or 4 orders of magnitude, I'd say.
Is tax evasion worst than trading on unofficial channels? I guess it depends on the jurisdiction doesn't it?
Give Lighthouse CI a shot.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci
Yeah but those were exceptions. I’m talking about constant new bugs in operating system or software.
Please name one business that is successful thanks to the value created by cryptocurrency that is not a crypto exchange or related MSB.

Overstock doesn’t use crypto, they use Coinbase who gives overstock good old American greenbacks. Like most of the world accepting crypto they don’t actually - it would be impossible due to the massive forex risk. They rely on third party MSBs like Coinbase and Bitpay to liquidate incoming crypto.

I’m thinking of the crowd with a list as long as their arm of ideas including replacing Ticketmaster, supply chain management, voting, all the other broad ideas.
Well, I think technological progress is driven by human ingenuity and not work.

I don't think work should be the entrance fee to society. You're saying that if I don't work then bad things should happen to me. I should starve (since I can't hunt nor grow vegetables) and I should not have a computer or even electricity. I.e. I should be punished. I don't see how that improves my life or society.

I think these ideas rub you the wrong way because your identity is tied to your work. If people see work as a problem rather than a solution then your status would evaporate. The guy working part-time as a dog walker and sleeps through most of it would be on an equal footing to you who work XX hours per week and earns $YYYk dollars per year.
I'm uncomfortable letting organisations have control over the software that runs on my hardware. (Or, really, any hardware I'm compelled to use.)

Suppose the course I've been studying for the past three years now uses $VideoService, but $VideoService uses remote attestation and gates the videos behind a retinal scan, ten distinct fingerprints, the last year's GPS history and the entire contents of my hard drive?¹ If I could spoof the traffic to $VideoService, I could get the video anyway, but every request is signed by the secure enclave. (I can't get the video off somebody else, because it uses the webcam to identify when a camera-like object is pointed at the screen. They can't bypass that, because of the remote attestation.)

If I don't have ten fingers, and I'm required to scan ten fingerprints to continue, and I can't send fake data because my computer has betrayed me, what recourse is there?

¹: exaggeration; no real-world company has quite these requirements, to my knowledge
Rarely? When I'm on a trip (Colombia, Macedonia, Valle) I'll do so over beers to chat things over with other pilots; when it's more casual or local flying, I'm doing it for the experience and the joy, not the retrospective analysis.
Try looking at places in the world where people actually followed the mandates versus places that didn't. How come Taiwan, which has cases of Omicrom right now, is not seeing exponential spread?
Brave New World had the Falklands. Where are the Falklands?
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That's a little bit of an exaggerated / intentionally misconstrue-able way to say the truth, isn't it?

They approve apps to be sold/distributed on their platform based on rules about what those apps do or are allowed to do, and whether they comply with local laws.

You're leaning towards making it sound like they decide what messaging apps you're allowed to use based on what you plan to say (content wise) on them.
> Well, they decided all of their phones

Announced but not (yet) implemented.

> analyze your locally-stored photographs for child photography

Nope. Only the ones on iCloud.

> and upload questionable photos to the cloud for human review

Also a misrepresentation.

> or content that they disagree with (e.g. pornography).

True. And yes, I should have a wank to whatever I please. Legality permitting.

It is so easy to criticise Apple. So many angles to attack them on. So don't misconstrue facts. There's really no need.
Microsoft's web products run on more than Edge.
All of our problems go away?! Which demographic do you think this policy will affect the most, for example, in California[0]?

[0]: https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/#ethnicity-gender-age
So, all from a few years old memory and its a complex interwoven mess.

Lets start with tape has two types of head positioning commands, locate and space. Locate is absolute (and mt calls it seek), and space is relative. Mt is generally using space (although one can read the current position with tell then do relative space) for all the commands that aren't "seek". Hence the mt commands are things like "fsf" which is forward space file (mark), or "bsf" for back space file (mark). At some point in the past someone thought that each "file" would fit in a tape block, but then reality hit because there are limits on how large the blocks can actually be (in linux its generally the number of scatter gather entries that can fit in a page reliably). So there are filemarks, which are like "special" tape blocks without any data in them. Instead if you attempt to read over a filemark the drive returns a soft error telling you that you just tried to read a filemark. There are also "fsr" for forward space records with are just the individual blocks forming a "file".

So back to seeking. If you man st, you will notice that each tape drive gets a bunch of /dev/st* aliases, which control the close behavior/etc, as well as some ioctls that match the mt commands. The two important close behaviors to remember are that if the tape is at EOD due to the last command being a write it will write a filemark, then rewind the tape unless a /dev/stXn device is being used, in which case it will leave the head position just past the FM (this is actually a bit more complex too because IIRC there may be two filemarks at EOD, and the tape position gets left between them).

This allows one to do something like "for (x in *.txt); do cat $x >> /dev/st0n; done" and write a bunch of files separated by filemarks (at the default blocking size which will be slow (probably 10k), replace the cat with tar to control blocking/etc). Or if you want to read the previous file `mt -f /dev/st0n bsf 2` to back space 2 filemarks.

Now, the actual data format on tape is going to be dictated by the backup utility used to write it. Some never use filemarks, some do but as a volume separator (eg tar), old ones actually put FM's between files, but that tends to be slow because it kills read perf because it takes the drive out of streaming mode whenever you either read over the filemark (not the part on man st about reading a filemark).

Now you can pick which file to read via
"mt -f /dev/st0 rewind; mt -f /dev/st0n fsf X; cat /dev/st0n > restore.file"

There are also tape partition control commands, and tape set marks and various other options which may/may not apply to a given type of tape. Noticeably there are also density flags on the special file (some unix'es) and via mt. LTO for example doesn't have settable densities because its fixed by the physical tape in the drive. Some drives STK T10K/IBM TS11X0/3592 can upgrade the tape density/capacity when used in a newer drive.

That got long...
Stuff like "Give me 1btc and I'll send you 3btc back!!!" works better with bitcoin (even if only marginally) because the occasional mark who might actually fall for it has heard so many confusing stories about something called bitcoin making some people rich for reasons that certainly did not make any sense at all to them.

Now they hear another of those stories that don't make any sense at all. But this time with a peculiar tweak, they might perhaps be the protagonist themselves! Two wrongs don't make one right, so far so good. But what about two utterly confusing?
> China will continue to grow and get very close to the size of the American economy.

Given that they are hitting a demographic cliff in a few years, it is not so guaranteed anymore. It will be an interesting next couple of decades for China.

> This year they grew at 8.5 %

A lot of that is real estate, the same real estate that speculators are banking on will sell to poor farmers for a million dollars when they re-locate to cities (and the same farmers who aren't having that many kids anymore...).
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As someone who did it for 10 years... Python is fine, PHP and arguably Go are the annoying ones :)

PL is like art theory & art criticism... You think more about individual aspects, and as long as something's happening, great. Ex: concurrency is super hard, and where python got to with async/await is surprisingly principled for a dyn lang. In contrast, Go's initial interfaces mess was almost an intentional snubbing that unsurprisingly had to get revisited.

Weirder is big ideas take literal decades to come out. Ex: mypy is types from 50 years ago, while stuff like pandas suggests we still need basics like dependent/row types for typing any data science code, which is not a new idea either. But with OSS, it's become more about academic hubris / ivory tower vs an indictment of pythonistas for whether those happen.

It's a pretty fun time in PL for folks who do care: easy to start free frameworks with global reach and not worry about funding/sustainability, so a lot of playing in areas like synthesis and data.
I mean, if you look at the base rates of how makers and engineers dress, she's about as far as it can get from the mean. However, if you were at burning man or the DNA lounge, she'd fit right in with a bunch of other hackers and attendees.
Doubly interesting because the root of the discussion was the claim that, “This means we will soon enough have a situation where a corporation controls the primary medium of communication of the citizens” yet the complaint is this corporation obeys the laws of the citizens’ government!

I think there are compelling arguments for making Apple open up which apps can access their SDKs natively, but I think most instances of its implementation will be driven by adversarial governments and bad for user freedoms.
Nearly everyone carries an internet connected camera microphone tracking device everywhere.
Until you’re really rich. Many wealthy people have personal chefs who cook, clean, and stock their fridge daily with ready to eat stuff that’s nutritious.
Gab is not allowed on the App Store.
I think it was a mistake to allow just about anyone behind the wheel of a car. It results in upwards of 1 million deaths per year, that's more than malaria. And that's not including deaths attributed to air pollution.
> There are countless examples of chemical waste sites around the country which were promised to be leak proof and safe, but the chemical industry was totally lying

The CSB has only been around since like 1998 vs the much older NRC. The NRC is also much more safety oriented. There's only been 1 civilian nuclear death in the US and it was in 1964. The nuclear navy has never had a serious incident. I think in total there have been 7 total civilian nuclear incidents in the US, ever, and most have been minor, hurt no one, and were a long time ago.

> After all, it's the concentration of nuclear material that makes them dangerous

That's not exactly true. Exposure to high does of ionizing radiation makes it dangerous. That can be mitigated by securing material, which can be done by keeping it in one place. The NRC is very much in favor of long term storage solutions, as are all nuclear safety experts. Most favor deep underground salt formations vs. the Nevada site though.
Because sometimes rockets explode.

Not a stupid question, though.
I’m sorry but this is utter nonsense. Clinton is not a populist, she part of the establishment, her method of subversion was and is through the institutions themselves, i.e using the media, and the deep state to do the work not the people. Her power base is not the common man or woman.

As to the republican governors, you seem to have confused me with a republican, I am not a supporter of either side of the uniparty coin. I am an actual anti-establishment type, not one that is only anti-establishment when my "tribe" is not in power, or when the "other side" of the uniparty is in power. I am anti-estblishment 24/7, no matter if it is republican or democrat

I was no fan of Trump, never voted for him infact (nor Clinton or biden, or obama, or bush, or ....)
the supply of bitcoin is mathematically guaranteed, also much harder to steal
Thanks for the kind words! Mainly, I don't really want to deal with pull requests at the moment. Also, I want a dogfooded readme and so having an additional Github readme would be a bit of trouble.
Most of the astronaut and pilot training on this, btw, is to completely ignore what our internal intuition is and use instruments and direct math - for the reason you’re talking about, but also because especially at the astronaut level ALL intuition related to speed, direction, etc. is generally wrong. for pilots it’s often only mostly wrong, but using intuition and flying IFR is not going to work for long.

For an astronaut in orbit, going ‘up’ means accelerating. Going ‘down’ means slowing down. Going sideways (in the way we typically think of it) involves changing velocity in least 2 vectors twice, etc.
I think if we're supposed to treat the position against vaccination being effective as "not stupid", we ought to hear reasons why that is.
They are not mutually exclusive? If you look at China, both are sort of happening at the same place in the same place.
The books are using "the future" to describe their present times.
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No it is not and no we are not. You are advocating the sacrifice of lives which are not your own, which is unequivocally reprehensible.
Good question.

I believe that it's common for kids to wear masks during flu season in some countries. They probably have some relevant data.

I think there's a belief that strict adherence to vaccination and masks would get us to a place where we won't need masks all the time, and kids can resume their usual immune-system adventures. That might be less realistic than we might want. I don't know.
So, we essentially have mandates to "treat" with no corresponding agreement on defining any mandates to "prevent". Prevention mandates could be a tapestry of options and defined within specific contextual and cultural boundaries. But having nothing on the "prevent" tilts the scale entirely to obligatory treatment and clearly feels imbalanced.
Most banks/CUs/payment processors automatically have insurance for these types of bad actors, even if it takes months to claw back your identity. Credit reporting typically takes much longer to fix but GP was referring to their bank.
I agree!

Separately, I'm not a fan of arguments from evolutionary environments for this sort of thing. It didn't have telephone poles, but we still blame a pedestrian and not the pole or the pole installer if a pedestrian walks into it. Evolutionary arguments are almost always problematic when used in these ways.
What a shocking thing to say. Feigning uncertainty was a favorite tool of the Nazi propagandist Joseph Geobbels, you know.
I went through something similar and this brings up some very bad memories. Facebook is way too lenient about taking away control of pages. Saddens me to know years later that things still have not changed.

You're going to have to reach someone who works at Facebook. Going through official channels can be an exercise in extreme frustration. It shouldn't be that way at all but it hasn't been a priority for them to do better.
He also said "We use the POWER that we have to limit the spread of that misinformation." These are extremely hostile and dangerous words from a US Official, no?

Who are you to determine what are/are not lies and what is/isn't truth? You are obviously following one narrative, but is there not another or other narratives? Is everyone that goes against the "mainstream narrative" automatically wrong, even if there have been world renowned medical experts and other science stating other facts that have been completely de-platformed by these "mainstream media outlets".

Do you think it's healthy that the "mainstream media" is owned by a few powerful funds and small groups of people comprised of board members of the very same medical and pharmaceutical companies? And those very same Super-PACS fund the politicians that get there? There is much cross-over, and lots of potential for conflicts of interests, no? To put your complete trust in one opinion, group, party or sources doesn't seem so healthy or sane to me - but to each their own.

You will not tell me what is misinformation or not. I prefer to hear from all experts of all sides myself. Personally, I'm a free thinker - but if you prefer to be spoon-fed what to and what not to think, this is your choice.

I have read history, I'm aware of the former Communist, Nazi, Authoritarian and Dictatorship regimes - all which started with the control of the media, suppression of free thinkers, speech, intellectuals and controlling ONE NARRATIVE and this is exactly how things start - and how they end or ended...well, wars (Civil and globally) and millions of deaths. Power corrupts, just like water is wet.
Well, I'm guessing irony is lost on that group so I'll concede the point. Reminds me of the Rick & Morty sign for "peace among worlds".
Try reversing the Canadian flag (CA) and you get the Ascension Island Flag (AC). Great article, but completely misses the point.
> you never blame yourself for buying Apple

I do, latest macs have terrible linux compatibility for now, with apple not doing much to help in providing support for it (M1)

They keep fixing and breaking their keyboards, the latest macs are better in this aspect but until even 2 yrs ago, they used to break quite frequently

Apple making it so hard to develop ios apps on a non apple device, definitely brings additional pain, I don’t want to use apple for my computer.

Saying it as someone who really enjoys using the iphone.

I get why people like macbooks so much, but saying “You never blame yourself for buying Apple” is untrue

For me, that would stand for thinkpads and even then primarily for the older ones.
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No, that's not the story. The story is that there is a social network for women who have excluded non-women. They have done this because on many occasions, biological males have joined their platform and have threatened their users.

They have chosen an imperfect solution to validate that their users are who they say they are, sure, but they have resorted to this measure to try to keep this space as their own.
> Also, these customers are likely unprofitable to monetize.

I don't see why you think this would be the case. A friend of mine lives down in Gilroy, CA (south of the San Jose) in a veritable mansion. He and his wife have done very well for themselves. Because they chose land over some SF row house their only internet access is a spotty 4G connection that really acts like a spotty 2G connection much of the time. No ISP is willing to run a landline out where he lives and WISPs aren't much better than the 4G. He's definitely not the only monied person with shitty Internet access.

Lost 2G users don't necessarily have 2G (or equivalent) connections all the time. There's plenty of places or times where 4G gets congested and performs terribly even when the end users have high end devices and nominally good connections. A lost sale because someone couldn't complete a form because of poor coverage on the subway is a lost sale.

Mobile Internet should never be expected to be some fixed value for any user. Someone with a brand new iPhone on a network with great 5G coverage can still be standing behind a lamppost or something and get 2G levels of network performance. Since an overwhelming percentage of web traffic is from mobile it doesn't make sense to not degrade gracefully in poor network conditions or just minimize resource use.
> Vaccines do not stop the spread of Covid. Vaccines do not stop you from getting Covid.

The vaccines still reduce the likelihood of infection and thus slow the spread of Covid. It's true their effectiveness against Omicron is reduced compared to prior variants.
No, the dying tribe never went to these extensive lengths and exhibited this level of disgust toward the web or email during its initial rise.
what if the launch goes wrong and suddently you have a nuclear waste going all over the place.
Anyway I think the resources and overall cost to put this amount of material in space would be... astronomical.
> Now granted our schools are, frankly, criminally underfunded.

They’re not, they’re one of the best funded schools in the world.