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> Why on earth is it that it doesn't matter which party gets elected, you can't seem to get universal health care?

Because Republicans can tie-up such laws in committee to prevent it.

Obamacare is a huge improvement over what came before. It's rather absurd to complain it isn't enough.

> Pick California for example, it's a rich state with a massive homelessness problem. What do the homeless mostly suffer from? Addiction and mental health.

California spends a considerable amount on generous public health programs. A great many homeless have health insurance from the public programs in California now. Tearing down all barriers would leave California at risk of medical tourism draining public funds.
The TeX Live Guide–2022
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time
You don’t need Erlang especially if you’re not developing in Elixir professionally.
The magic phrase is “DNS-01” challenge. You place a DNS TXT record to validate control of the domain. There are lots of ACME clients that support a wide variety of DNS service providers. For example, I have a Home Assistant server which automatically issues certs using Gandi DNS and the HA Lets Encrypt support, all without being on the internet (except for the DNS entries)
An Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis for Cognitive Science (2022)
I just (couple of weeks ago) received my First Mac, a 2019 MacBook Pro to work with... and I really don't get the "HW good" meme...

The MacBook Pro HW is mediocre, at best.

The body is heavy. Boy, have anyone used and LG gram? But even my other work laptop (a Lenovo) wheight less and feel more balanced.

My model has only the usbc ports.. I don't even have an HDMI one.

My model has the infamous touchbar, and it sucks. A lot.
But even the keys... They seems empty, I don't have feedback from them...

And for the ginormous touchpad... I ended using a mouse because that "thing" it's awful to use.
I don't give a dime to the gestures... The problem is the lack of feedback! Not a click, a way to understand if you "did" something or not. It was so absurd that I though it was damaged.

I really don't get the "Mac HW is stellar" meme
Exactly. Not against commerce at all. Not for government regulation either. Just optimize the pedestrian traffic flow.
Meteor but built using a well-designed language.
> Ctrl-K to kill a line...

The text system also has a basic kill-yank separate from copy paste. So you can Ctrl-K to kill a line, then Ctrl-y to yank it out elsewhere in basically every text input in the OS.
I still think you're right, Reddit has a much higher signal to noise ratio than almost anywhere else on the internet. But there's absolutely money to made by paying off mods of larger subreddits to curate content in such a way that makes their brands look good.
Because of the externalities of flying, especially when compared to (electric) trains?
It’s just one of those things that if you want to, you can get used to it, but if you resist it you won’t. Like learning Vi or Emacs or BBEdit. There are tools you already learned to use, the Macintosh user interface is just another.

The alternative is what? Apple changes something millions of people are already used to, their existing customer base, to satisfy switchers specifically when most can easily adapt? Or you just don’t use a Macintosh. Now what Apple does need to do is bring proper contrast back and stop wasting everyone’s time with this minimalist nonsense; even the option in the Accessibility options is utter garbage.
I think a large part of why certain regions get get credit for things is because they are better at marketing themselves. Assuming what you say is true about Indias achievements, I would think that they should at least be recognised by their neighbours. If your achievements are only acknowledged by yourself, then racism probably isn't the cause.
Purely anecdotal but I've never heard an Indian person talking up their country and pointing to its achievements like you are, whereas people from my small country will not miss an opportunity to tell you how great we are and we claim credit for everything.
If this were a complete project what kind of compute resources would one need to run DALL-E 2? (In inference or train)
No need to feel sorry for them.

Unless you have financial independence, you're in the same class as them.
this is definitely not true at all. of course the scale and rate of emails coming from a specific ip/domain is used for spam detection.
Ah ok, I think one of the hardest things I've worked on is trying to defend/believe in my own good intentions. I had an ex who somewhat insinuated I was manipulating her and it almost broke me, because I started to believe it. The next day, I reflected and came to the belief (not answer) that if I can't defend my own good intentions, who the heck would? And have been working on this since, 7 or so years ago.

I guess I just think it's a really hard problem to definitively know whether I or someone else has such intentions and goals, so I often default to assuming that even if their or my behavior appears to be trying to manipulate, that underneath there may be something wanting mutual understanding, or actually, connection. I have seen so many conflicts resolve in my life when I have the courage to go deep enough to foster that connection. I got covid a few weeks ago and this woman called me weak and a baby and other things...then I found out a week later that she was struggling very hard with her relationship and broke up with her long-term boyfriend. So the name calling, which hurt and angered me in the moment, later revealed itself as stemming from deep pain she was feeling and maybe even the same language she was using towards herself as she struggled to make the decision.

So I just don't know how easy it is to figure out these intentions.
Yeah I've been surprised no one cares about this. It is great going forward from your cwd but hard to move back and where is home?
Frequent problems and breakage. Just last week one train couldn’t continue because of a stuck door. Another had no food because the water wasn’t running in the galley.

Also they are not accessible. Strollers are inconvenient to bring - wheelchairs are a nightmare.
Ooh, strong point!
This is the clean version without analytics: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
I guess my point is, LE exists, I'm using it already, why would I switch?

Assuming there is a reason to switch, the switch back is not without cost. Ergo, either way, I'm not using this. Then again I don't use GCP for the same reason.

My bigger point is that logical or not, my perception appears to be common. And that may hurt Google's ability to get traction with unique services in the future.

No one cares about Google's CA, but perhaps this perception issue is a real problem?
The OTFS Interview: Implications of a 6G Candidate Technology
I'm glad to hear Ardour is working well for you. I honestly had assumed it wouldn't be making much income, though I now realize that was based on just about no information (the sole data point I had was that it worked poorly for me when I attempted a trial on macOS about two years ago). I'm glad to hear I was mistaken about that.

I wasn't aware that VCV Rack was actually profitable either, nor that there's a mixture of libre and paid modules available for it. I'd vaguely considered that as a business model for OSS audio stuff in years past but didn't think it was likely to work in practice. Apparently I may be wrong about that - do you know if anyone's actually making decent income selling closed modules for VCV Rack?

You make a good point about running sclang as a standalone process to firewall the GPL from the rest of a product. Somehow that hadn't occurred to me, but it seems like it would work.

Overall - thanks for the rebuttal. You make a strong case that open source audio software is more compatible with commercial sales than I thought, and I appreciate you taking the time to do it.
Something else happened around 2010 -- we elected a black president. Frankly that made a lot of people lose their minds. I think there's a lot of folks out there who don't mind black people exactly, but absolutely abhor the idea that a black person might be in a position of power over them. Witness the commentary from the far right on the new Supreme Court Justice: "Your children and your grandchildren are going to have to take orders from people like her." (Among a pet-store's worth of other dog whistles. Source: https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-ketan...)
There's a ton to unpack here. Some select responses:

> ... but many of them have been devastating for the mental health and education of children, who desperately need to play with one another and go to school ...

I see this repeated a lot and pretty much every time I see it, it is implied that teachers (and, by extension, their families) are expendable. Sure children need socialization (to varying degrees) but someone has to supervise in-school learning. Those teachers are at higher risk than the children are of complications from COVID and their families might be even higher risk. I take exception to this devaluation.

This belies a dark truth of people in general: many people (if not most people) absolutely do not give a fuck about people they don't know if it even mildly inconveniences them.

> Of course, the American culture war and the decline of cross-party cooperation predates social media’s arrival.

Yes it does. Can you spot the trend [1]?

> The ideological distance between the two parties began increasing faster in the 1990s. Fox News and the 1994 “Republican Revolution” converted the GOP into a more combative party.

It goes back further than that: White evangenlical institutions were weaponzed to deliberately foment a culture war because of white supremacy and racism. Consider abortion [2]:

> In 1970, a poll conducted by the Baptist Sunday School Board found that 70 percent of Southern Baptist pastors supported abortion to protect the mental or physical health of the mother, 64 percent supported abortion in cases of fetal deformity and 71 percent in cases of rape.

> Three years later, a poll conducted by the Baptist Standard newsjournal found that 90 percent of Texas Baptists believed their state’s abortion laws were too restrictive.

What changed? It's a deep topic but in summary, Brown v Board of Education ended racial segregation in schools. Mississippi tried to get around this with private schools for K-12 education (where the white enrollment in public schools in Holmes County dropped to zero). In 1970, Green v Kennedy prevented such academies from receiving full tax exempt status. Fears of misagenation caused Bob Jones University (under duress) to admit a token handful of (married) black students. Starting in the mid-70s, efforts were made to motivate voters around abortion, which proved successful in the 1978 midterms and probably helped Reagan defeat Carter in 1980 when Carter refused to consider a constitutional amendment banned abortion.

And the rest is history.

But we see this culture war continue to this day as Republicans have been incredibly successful creating wedge issues to motivate their base around trans rights, gay marriage, critical race theory and the like.

[1]: https://theweek.com/speedreads/454162/rise-filibuster-madden...

[2]: https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/how-south...
I saw him once on a whim at a New Years Eve gig without knowing anything about him, and was very impressed how good of a live show he puts on. Very fun and even a bit goofy, yet also having a careful mastery over both the instruments and the DJ setup.
>Other countries got mad because this time the population of the country Russia invaded was white

This is one of the weirdest memes around at the moment. Are they more white than Chechens? Literal Caucasians who are close enough to Ukraine for refugees to end up there? According to the US government's standard categories, people in Syria are white too. And Palestinians.
It sounds like a consultancy? I think you'll have a tough time raising capital as consultancies rarely sell for the sort of multiples that VC investors want to see. They want a compelling story that's going to yield a 100x return.

Definitely go the c-corp route. You'll have an easier time closing deals since your customers don't have to issue 1099s and can just pay your invoices. And if you ever do find someone willing to invest, the stock issuance is so much easier than dealing with LLC operating agreements.
This is an excellent article - thanks for sharing. This decline of shared common reality and social trust has been both frightening and frustrating for me.
> Homebrew ... is the only thing not making me pull my hair out

oh you just wait, sweet summer child
"Concern troll" is another popular one.
That's the one. Thanks for the correction. Forgot my keyboard, which has a ctrl key in place of the caps, so I've stopped mapping it.
I am not someone with a high-paying job, so I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I do want to give you a big hug for being such an empathetic human being.

Empathy and emotional intelligence are very important skills and you will probably benefit greatly from growing them into strengths. By developing these areas, you'll probably experience less guilt in general, but more importantly, you'll become a real gift to the world in ways you wouldn't have imagined. :)
> It was so absurd that I though[t] it was damaged.

If you’re not getting haptic feedback, it is damaged.
There's a video of the conference presentation of this paper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNPblJup5ko
When I looked at what map finds, there were only connections with two or three transfers. That doesn't sound like a comfortable night.
What a coincidence, everything that the author is complaining about I have an third party application to make up for

- Window management (Magnet)

- Command-tab (Contexts)

I guess this means corporate-enforced macOS (no downloading of unapproved apps) would be a nightmare for users.
Much of this seems fair: are you using good examples and story problems? Māori jury pools seems a bit esoteric, especially in the UK.

Some examples used in math are extremely specific to certain background. For example, “The Josephus Problem” could probably have a more universally applicable name.

At the same time, just because you’re acknowledging some math education deals with social issues doesn’t mean you can throw out rigorous scholarships.

One of my professors specialized in the history of mathematics. It was popular to claim much of mathematics came from Egypt, not Greece. He did a very comprehensive survey of Egytian mathematics. A very common complain among Egyptian mathematicians was “almost everything in this field comes from the Greeks.”
Nordhaus's work is absolutely panned as being basically literally insane by actual scientists. He based a large parts of his analysis on ideas like "well x% (something like 75%+) of GDP happens indoors so that won't be affected by any way by climate change".
Where can I see the rate limits?
Medicate, medicate, medicate.

The alternative (for me) was meditating literally all day in a monastery but that isn't sustainable unless you are a monk.

Try all of the ones out there. It will be horrible but once you find the right one, you will know. I had to go through Adderall (made me anxious), Ritalin (made me aggressive), Strattera (have you thought of RULING THE WORLD oh and by the way you now leak semen) until I finally begged to be put on Modafinil (god tier everything is perfect now. Try it with grapefruit juice!)
I agree 100%. So if my Initial reaction to a _standard_ service is "no way", then what chance do they have for a unique future service offering? The cert issuer is not the issue - the (general?) opinion of Google maybe is...

And that's before we take customer service into the equation.
I think of it as TV tropes-style note-taking
I just spec'd out the System 76 Galago Pro to match that of the Clevo equivalent that's linked elsewhere in this thread (L143MU), and the System 76 came to $1032, while the Clevo is listed at €1,026.90 (or $1,116.89), so when you say "huge markup" it must be in reference to something else. That said, I don't have any real skin in this game.
Sounds less like a startup and more like a dev agency or consultancy. Those are worthy pursuits. I run one myself, doing very high 6-figures with very little overhead (15% maybe). It’s a great lifestyle, very little risk.

My advice would be to scale fast. Hire subcontractors and productize your offering as quickly as you can. Never do hourly work, retainers only. Come up with a subscription product you can offer. Hire a tax accountant immediately and press them on ways you can lower your taxable income. Have a plan for when your income greatly exceeds what you ever thought it would be.

You’re on track to true independence. You never have to work for somebody ever again. You got this.
Now that computers have more than 4MB of memory, can we get seconds on taskbar?
I appreciate you both bringing him up. I had forgotten about his work and may dig more into his book. I had learned of him from the Tim Ferriss podcast, perhaps this episode: https://tim.blog/2020/06/09/jim-dethmer-transcript/
It's not because the book says Science, it's because you trust the teacher who chose the book to be more competent in the area for you than you are and that the book itself is convincing.

> If you are weighing them against sources, if you are looking for mistakes, if you are evaluating that information against a wider context and you can accept there are absolutely going to be mistakes - now we are in a realm of trust.

You're being ridiculous. You yourself have neither the competence nor time and energy to do this for 99% of the subjects int he world. You have to trust experts.

> As a simple question: How do you know that expert isn't lying to you? How do you know they aren't wrong? Is the fact in question even (currently) determinable?

You don't. That's a risk you take in trusting them. They can and occasionally to betray you.
think about what the PM of antispam at Gmail is optimizing for. their job is to provide defense against adversarial spammers.

anything trivial for you to do to get into someone's inbox can also be trivial for spammers. they'll have a bot that do it 1000 times a day. Gmail can't stop spam altogether so the general strategy is to try to make it as painful and expensive as possible to deter the marginal spammers.

any sort of spam at scale is easier to detect. that's why most marginal spam happens with new IP. similar issue in the past with hacked Gmail accounts. this is where google is cracking down harder and why you're running into these issues.
I wish the article had expanded a little more into the political aspect of the past 10 years: Occupy had a passing mention, but deserves a deeper analysis.

The populist movements of Occupy Wallstreet and its more effective mirror image - the Tea Party - were a direct result of distrust of the "system" (i.e. government, politicians and corporate America) in the aftermath of the great recession where people observed large-scale foreclosures, while the government was pouring billions to bail-out corporations and, justice wasn't seen to be done regarding those who precipitated the crisis.

Social media didn't help,but IMO, trust in institutions was severely eroded and a lot of people felt left behind by the unevenly-distributed "recovery", which splintered people into self-reinforcing ideological echo-chambers.

The third act was the Trump presidency, and I have nothing to say which hasn't been said before about polarization in that era.
I think the issue with crediting should be acknowledged but not tried to be "corrected". And by "acknowledged" I mean if you are an adult you should know crediting is not accurate, and it's kinda just culture. Even modern crediting is not accurate.

I would compare it to Christopher Columbus "discovering" America. You should know what most say/think/assume, and what's reality (America was inhabited, bad deeds done, Amerigo was first to America?...).
In Missouri the civil war was a vicious neighbor vs neighbor affair.
That's actually a really good point. Though sometimes words are of acknowledgement are equally important. Likely not here though. I'm sure they'd rather take the money ;-)

Side note: I'm actually so proud that my company, Datto, has also been sponsoring Let's Encrypt for many years, and that I was the one to suggest it. It's not platinum, but it's still $50k per year.
That's great. Except:

> The TSA PreCheck® Application Program is only open to U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals and lawful permanent residents. [...] Global Entry, NEXUS, and SENTRI allow some foreign citizens to apply.

So I guess screw those other people, right?
That's not an accurate history; npm started around 2010 and didn't become a company until 2014. Perhaps it was all part of a master plan to build the perfect trojan unicorn, but I invite you to look at some of the 2010-era code and blog posts to judge for yourself: https://github.com/npm/cli/tree/e790c85a https://blog.izs.me/2010/11/10-cool-things-you-probably-didn...

You can read and/or listen to issacs talk about the actual history here: https://changelog.com/founderstalk/61

In the early days of node, the ability to have tiny nested modules without opening the gates to dependency hell was such a profoundly new and exciting capability that the community didn't need any convincing to (over-)embrace it. As with microservices today or CORBA in the 90s, moving your design's complexity from its nodes to its edges is a powerful way to convince yourself that you've made it simpler.
Curious, have you owned an apple watch? I’ve had exactly zero problems with connectivity, never even occurred to me until now.
I hope they find latent diffusion works for this, without it this will probably be too expensive for private parties to train on big collections.
It's the DNS-01 challenge[1]. This reduces the challenge to using some DNS provider with an API supported by a client[2] / [3], as well as the server needing to be able to reach the LE-API. We use this with the CNAME delegation into an irrelevant zone everywhere to get wildcard certificates for our LBs ( meaning: the _acme_challenge.example.com record is just a CNAME for _acme_challenge.dont.ever.use.this.example.com, and the servers just have credentials to modify records in the zone <dont.ever.use.this.example.com>)

1: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#dns-01-challen...

2: https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/using.html#dns-...

3: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/dnsapi
The good things:

1) You have industry connections which can be very valuable in the right scenario. Your best bet is to be a business cofounder. But, I wouldn’t give 50% for a business cofounder until they can demonstrate their value in $$ terms by signing contracts with customer.

The bad things:

1) You don’t know what you want to build

2) Doing grunt work is a very different reality from executive leadership. You might be in for a real wake up if to decide to do this.

3) Product market fit doesn’t care about how much money your startup has. Getting there is the hard part. Everything else is useless until you get there.

4) You don’t have a product or idea, why register a company? To seem legit or raise money?

5) Will SWE join your startup in this hot market? It’s going to be a tough sell. Money talks at the end of the day.

You are not a product or engineering guy. You are a business guy. That might not be enough. Just my 2 cents.
Build something practical with real target. It's the start.

The rest is of course, history.
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Yeah, but... given there are other ACME providers, why would I choose one from the a company with googles reputation for sunsetting products?
A more interesting table would be the percent of electrified vs not passenger service miles delivered. The rail networks has a lot of quiet or disused track.