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Single payer on a state level is not tenable, so it is no surprise that it fails on the state level. It is simply numbers since states cannot prevent people from people who need healthcare moving in and people who help pay for it moving out.

Obama’s senate majority was not really a majority. Leiberman was basically yesteryear’s Manchin, and maybe there was a couple others, but either way, having 50 or 51 or 52 Democrats is not a clear path to victory that would make it reasonable to blame the Obama admin for anything.

Best way I can judge their performance/intentions is to note that ACA resulted in more healthcare for more people than any other legislation in recent decades.
command + ` (native) is the bind to swap through same-app-windows
1. Tech did not stop being cool for everyone, just you.

2. You are right that a lot of startups are working on stupid "problems", it frustrates me too. We don't need yet another social network / image sharing service / funny face manipulator software.

3. There are an insane number of real problems nobody is solving (yet) with software. People need to find those problems FIRST, not the other way around (have an idea not solving a real-world problem.)

4. In a sense, a lot of problems are solved, yes. For example, the world don't need "site builders" anymore, because of Wordpress and no-code tools.
There are more "nerdy", non-boring tech people, but you are correct, you won't find them at AirBnB, Facebook, or Amazon. So don't go there if you want to find it. There's a place in my town that uses drones to inspect Air Turbines - I can guarantee there are more interesting people there. Go into small, crazy businesses that exist to do cool tech. "Cool" people, in my experience, are pretty dull, at least for the societal definition of cool. Find the nerds and geeks, they are still out there, but they still aren't the cool, in group. They are weird and thorny and sometimes smell a little. But they have really fun ideas!
Let’s be real here, Republicans passed the law.

Public acceptance doesn’t matter in a Republic, not a Democracy.
I agree. Covid is not a crisis. For a vaxxed individual the risk looks very low. I’m happy to grab my boosters as needed and mask up during the winter. It doesn’t really matter. I would wager the virus will continue to grow less dangerous over time.

What’s utterly astonishing is what’s going on in Shanghai in spite of this.
I recall the news here (in Norway) covering a demonstration against Obama during the elections. They interviewed a woman who was in tears because she, apparently, really thought Obama would kill her kids if he got elected.

To me it seemed so utterly bizarre I had problems processing it.
As an addendum to this: if you absolutely must use cloud, stick with AWS. Using Azure is (IMO) a fucking miserable experience and their only advantage (InfiniBand) is better served by buying your own hardware. GCP and OCI might be fine if you are getting a lot of credits, but the skills will not be useful down the line - while AWS is expensive, you will at least learn a bunch of in-demand operational skills.
I hear that said a lot. I don’t think it stands.

A ec2 instance or other vps requires the exact same maintenance as a bare metal server. They are essentially the same except one is virtualised and the other isn’t.

The cloud actually requires more investment for large organisations. Previously you might of only had a handful of sysadmins but now you have a large dedicated platform team doing devops type work building your own abstractions/paas on top of your cloud.

The advantage the cloud has is flexibility. You don’t need to go through a lengthy process to acquire hardware. Likewise cloud services are disposable, no longer need something? Hit the delete button.

I think the more PaaS like services such as Heroku, Lambda, Fargate, Google Cloud Run do better realise the less maintenance story but not cloud generally.
I grew up in a city near a large swampy area and always had headaches. I went to college in an area closer to the mountains and my headaches stopped. If I go back home for more than a few days, the headaches come back.

It's a weird thing to experience.
My understanding was the raspberry pi was supposed to be the modern zx80: cheap above all else to make it easy for kids to get a computer.
>Neural networks that generate art?

Not very interesting. I'd be more interested in what an ape can come up with, since it's a lot closer to humans.

>Quantum computing making meaningful gains?

Nothing I can afford to fool with. I like to tinker. Plus, this will most likely be used to break cryptography, so it's a negative for me.

>Apple M1 chips are absolutely bonkers.

They are, but at the end of the day, my Mac still does the same shiz it did before the M1, the fan's just don't come on. Don't get me wrong, I hate fan whirr, but it's not the same as say when average / affordable hard drives went from 40M to 540M overnight.
Qt is too much expensive and closed-source.
As a side note, you can't just easily replace ChromeOS with Linux like you'd do on most Windows laptops.
Yields are factually decreasing. As just mentioned, because natural disasters are broader, more intense and more frequent as the result of climate warming; that's why I pay attention to say "climate dereliction that the IPCC scientists prefer to "climate warming".

Furthermore, our pollution (plastic, pesticide s, fertilizers, synthetic materials of all kinds, oil spills, etc etc) is destroying the fertile soils, depleting them from its biodiversity. The ratio living creatures of all sizes per ounce of soil is decreasing. Intensive agriculture of cereals for example with Monsanto seeds and pesticides leads to a 80% loss of " life" inside the soil.

To make that worse, the climate warming destroys biodiversity because it rises far too fast for the Nature to adapt. A forest can move one meter per year in direction of the climate best adapted: the seeds on the less adapted climate die but the seeds on the better side grow. The natural climate cycles varies by a few degrees per 10 000 years (in a global average). The human impact will soon have risen the average temperature of 2ºC in 200 years.

Otherwise, yes, the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is making the forests rise faster in many places. But it is far from compensating the emissions. And the huge fires in Australia, USA and Siberia, plus the going Amazon forest ecocide have emitted an immense tonnage of CO2.
> US' own actions show that their supposed concern about the Xinjiang prisoners is wholly disingenuous point scoring

OK, and? Is that a reason to not support this concern and investigation?
> Each of these machines was orders of magnitude more capable than the previous one - you don't have that anymore nowadays.

As you mention, computers can become "orders of magnitude more capable" simply by shrinking to a smaller form factor. We're about to have smartphones that are fully usable as computers, or smart watches that you can run free OS's and homebrew applications on.

> Then in the late 90s there was the Internet, with the promise that you could connect to anyone around the world and the potential to really bring the world together.

There's still plenty of projects trying to do that kind of thing. Big Tech social media is only the most popular part of the Internet, you're mostly free to ignore it if you like.

> Ok, those couldn't land again, but technological progress has been more of a crawl there (with an unnecessary detour into a dead end called "Space Shuttle").

The Space Shuttle was not a dead end, it had all sorts of cool capabilities that we're only now getting back with the SpaceX Starship. And rockets that land again are a big deal because they radically change the equation of how much it costs to launch things into space.
What killed the fun for me that these days I have the feeling I am fighting tech rather than use it and enjoy it. Fighting includes, fighting how some Genius at a company decided I have to absolutely use the product way X and nothing else, but also just fighting crashes and bugs all the time.
Its also racist to make people held accountable for their ancestors. This is what the Nazis did to the Jews, and the US teached germany the hard way that it is not right. How comes you didn't learn that lesson?

Germany got the Nürnberger Trials, the US (clarification: politicians) was never held accountable for anything.
I have been doing some covert market testing of IoT devices that are pay-up-front and offer privacy as a feature. Nobody is biting. The market doesn't seem to mind surveillance if they get a discount.
Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981
> And if you support out present system, you should acknowledge that things are exactly as they should be.

Why exactly? Are you suggesting that we do exactly nothing? Why can't we try to push our countries to be better citizens of the world?

I don't think we should accept atrocities. If outrage and anger didn't matter and if there actually was no way to change the economic order of the world Taiwan would have been invaded already.
It’s pretty hard to generalize this without qualifiers. Electricity can be the most expensive problem, but it requires carefully planned control of the other factors - e.g large scale with highly automated servers, network, and meat-reducing control planes to become true. Otherwise factors such as people and under-utilization can especially dominate smaller and/or less efficient facilities.

Thinking thru the factors, many seem obvious, but are often forgotten/ignored when comparing rental or IaaS costs.:

Space is a fixed cost driven by market rates and maximum Server Capital Costs i.e. floor space. Failing to fill the room increases your cost/server efficiency. Pretty common to run out of thermal/power before you run out space, as equipment efficiency increases through the lifespan of the facility.

Server and Power costs scale together, carry a minimum cost for keeping machines on, and vary based on utilization. Again if the servers aren’t doing work, your efficiency ratio will drop. Larger space typically have pre negotiated power commitments too - failing to consume that carries fiscal penalties. Servers unit costs are fairly cheap, storage not so much. Full utilization throughout capital/lease lifespan is the goal - anything less increases relative cost/server.

Network costs scale with Server Costs, and vary again by utilization - minimum invest rules apply, all servers need at least one network port, as well as upstream Core/TOR/Miniswitch gear. The network gear lifespan is typically longer than servers, but shorter than facilities. It usually incurs annual support/maintenance charges too. Bandwidth charges are variable as expected.

People costs scale with a step-function and numbers driven by minimum coverage requirements, task complexities, and level of human toil. Performing any task on a device by-hand is expensive in most markets - touches on tickets, change management, task time etc. Fully burdened S+R in Western cultures is typically ~2x the salary - a $80K employee probably costs around $150K by the time all the workplace costs, taxes, and benefits are paid. Network folk are typically premium resources compared to DC Ops. Sustainable 24x7 coverage looks like a staff of 3-4 people.
You may have a focus on tech that is too narrow. Especially if you are mostly interested in ad-supported social media driven by Silicon Valley VCs.

Tech is still cool. I'm not young, so I don't think that age is a factor.

Just this morning I while waiting for a call to start we were talking about the tech behind the Russian drone on the news today. I have always had a passing interest in 'Long Range Fixed Wing FPV), which is pretty amazing tech. That is something that is accessible to the modern equivalent of "Tom's Hardware lurker". Commercially, remote operations (including industrial) is cool.

The accessibility of microcontrollers is pretty cool. The languages are a bit old, but how easy it is to do stuff is interesting. Real Time Operating Systems are still cool to tinker with - especially if you pair it to accessible electronics.

Agritech is pretty cool. As consumers, we don't see it much, but what farmers can do with so few workers is astounding.

Energy grids sound boring, but are pretty cool. As we generate more renewable energy and have to match it with substaintial demand, such as EV delivery vehicles, is not a boring problem.

I have customers that do pretty cool stuff at the nanometre scale. X-ray crystallography, CCDs that can detect a single photon of light. I've seen systems that are build to cool to, and operate at millikelvin.

There is so much cool tech! Getting a scrollable feed on a smartphone is a bit _meh_. You need to broaden your definition of 'tech'.
Indeed an interesting topic. The demand for dollars largely stem from the ability to use them. When doing international trade you want to be paid in a currency you know is fairly stable and exchangeable to other goods and services with relative ease.

When sovereigns in developing countries issue bonds they tend to need to do it in USD to get any takers; else the risk of their inflating the value of their currency away is just to great.

As US dominance decreases it's currency will face competition from e.g. the yuan. Ray Dalio writes about this in his "The Changing World Order".
> They don't see what they have to gain by releasing the code, but they worry that it may create issues if they do.

If they don't gain/loose anything but we gain something, I see a net positive for society.
Sorry, but if it doesn’t have ublock origin, it’s not privacy friendly enough.

Please make sure that this extension works, if any (and including advanced functionality such as disabling link auditing, which is no longer an option in safari).
I would say a pretty good portion, enough that it is becoming more common that if IT either has a dedicated Mac person or they use Mac themselves... a new hire will likely just have a trackpad on their desk when they start. At least that has been my experience in recent years.

But even if not, I know I have had conversations many times of people being frustrated with something (especially if they primarily use their Mac as a desktop) and a trackpad (and gestures) largely fixing it.

As someone else said, Mac as long had a fantastic trackpad experience. Partially hardware for sure, but software is a major part of that. So they leaned into that and using a trackpad as a desktop initially felt like a really weird idea. But the ability to use the same control setup regardless of how I am using my laptop is awesome.

I personally use a Mac Keyboard and Magic Trackpad. And I got https://www.twelvesouth.com/products/magicbridge from TwelveSouth that basically just turns it into one single piece.

I would be completely lost if it wasn't for the trackpad. I tried the magic mouse and... it worked but it wasn't the same.
Yeah the conservative movement’s history of actions against sex education (and contraceptives)
There's a distinction between something like gaming or a mom-'n-pop restaurant vs. business software or building your own house. The first category still exists much more than the second; I think the difference is whether taste is the dominant feature of the product.

Indie games aren't being regulated out of existence, and they don't need much scale to survive, compared to something like a five-and-dime shop; they're almost purely about taste.

Building your own house is partly about taste, but there are a ton of physical constraints and different specialized skills involved in making it work (plus the regulatory concerns), so generally taste takes a back-seat, and the beautiful houses are old ones that were grandfathered-in.

An independent restaurant is somewhere in between; you have to meet health department standards, and you have to make money in order to keep it open, but past a minimum bar of safety and comfort, your customers care mainly about the food and atmosphere and are willing to pay for it. If it were all about scale, McDonald's would be the only thing left.
Photosensitive migraine made me appreciate comprehensive dark-mode UIs. Even just a browser loading some web page and flashing an all-white document body for a moment (before applying the dark-mode stylesheet?) can feel like assault sometimes.
Have there been at least one verified report about american comment far, BTW? There's been dozens about Russian and Chinese over the last 15 years.
> i ve never seen one.

Really? At least the Walmart here stopped selling PC laptops and only sells chromebooks now.
I think the biggest problem is cult of personality. Instead of discussing actual issues we focus on elevating or disparaging people. In your example - what is the chance that 'your' politician X is always right?
I like GTK, but the falloff in developer experience since 4.0 is really pathetic. Then there's a lot of petty changes I hate too, but that's a discussuon for another time. Word on the street is that KDE's maintainers plan to fork an older version of Qt for their desktop, but I guess only time will tell...

Edit: The KDE bit is wrong, I still stand by the first portion though.
Sure, you deliberately placed the goal posts as such that they exactly put the US on the moral high ground.
We’ve reached the point where people who wanted to vaccinated have and those who don’t won’t. Considering that there seems to be boosters every so often it feels like it will be seasonal like the flu.
I think it's real and it makes sense. Look at the post. It reads borderline iamverysmart. He says people who work way harder making making less money but clearly has something going on with his own brain to assume that. I know someone whose worked hard their entire life and they run a small CNC shop. They're a multi millionaire. I know people who are software developers who bust their ass 12-16 hours a day for half of my own salary at the same company. The OPs issue is 100% their own issue and they have to work through it. Superiority complex is strong.
Hard disagree, it's easier now to build cool stuff out. You can download Unity and get something nice going within a couple of months. But it's on you to find what you want to do here, if you're waiting for some form of guide to point you in the right direction, you'll be waiting for a while.

I'm in the process of combining my two hobbies, my love of music, and my love of game design. Here's a music visualizer I'm working on.
https://youtu.be/2dv2cjJIh2s
That's a good way of thinking about it. Reminds me of when Alan Kay asks "Are ideas like matter? [bumps his fists together] Or are they more like light? [Overlaps his hands]" (roughly paraphrasing there).

The ability to entertain multiple, seemingly contradictory thoughts at once is a good skill I think.
Because they tie their own sense of success to others' opinions about them.
This might have been true 23 years ago but since then it became free software.
We noticed that our RTXs, although considered gaming cards, are comparable (if not better) in performance to Tesla V100

You don't buy Tesla cards because you care about maximizing operations pr second, you buy them because you care about operations pr KWh.
Modern Deterrence Theory: Research Trends, Policy Debates, and Controversies
"bay area socially liberal"?

Um, if you say so. None are in the Bay Area is that helps.

Most of the writers (almost 90%) live or work in the countries that are covered (so are outside the US and EU).
I also don't know anyone who died from covid. However, any event that overloads hospitals to the extreme that care has to be rationed is absolutely a crisis. This happened all over the country.

We can debate what the appropriate responses to this crisis should have been but it was unarguably a crisis. Pretending otherwise is simply delusional.
No I think that’s the dangerous part. It used to be hard to hold radical fringe opinions. If you openly identified as a Klansman you would likely get shunned in most communities. Your exchange of social power for your idiotic beliefs was made open and clear.

Now it’s very easy to find a large safe space to discuss these beliefs and organize without social ridicule. And by doing so, it becomes easier for others to join in.

We have lost the power of the shun. Cancelling is the awkward and unwieldy big brother version. It’s not nearly as effective.
> I am sure you are aware that there were no suspected crimes needed for detainment in Gitmo and the US government said: "It Can Indefinitely Detain Anyone — Even U.S. Citizens".

My point was that didn't happen. If we were putting people there solely for their religion and ethnicity, it'd be much more than a thousand. It would be millions... like in Xinjiang.

> No, not as an individual and I will concede that to you. But as a government, MOST certainly yes.

I'm not a government. You called me hypocritical.

In any case, democracies are necessarily hypocritical. They change leaders pretty often, and different leaders tend to have different beliefs.
DDG has been recently under attack due to tampering of search results [1]. Hope they don’t involve politics in their browser!

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-p...
> Correlation doesn't imply causation

Yes, that's what I said. ;p

From gp:
> There is a pretty simple correlation between growth in government spending and a reduced ability of businesses to have a positive impact in their community.

Oh really? I'm somewhat familiar with German companies and the extreme regulation and worker-focused rules they endure as a good comparison to American businesses which I am intimately familiar with. My takeaway is that while it's much much harder to operate and innovate in Germany, the citizens are better off in immeasurable ways. Spectra, pendula, all that...
Talk about outcomes. Show us outcomes from all the Like/Click/View/Follower chasing free speech that has happened on social media?

Did it stop the war in Iraq?
Did it stop the financial collapse?
Did it stop outsourcing?
Did it reduce inequality?
Did the culture wars achieve anything?
Did it do anything to tech monopolies?

Sure ppl are fed up but they haven't produced any solutions or outcomes in a single complex problem of the last 2 decades by jabbering about it.

Free speech is as over rated as Elon Musk.

Hard problems don't get solved through pandering. And social media is only fir for propping up the best panderers as long as everything is built on top of collecting Likes and Followers.
I think it's a bit more sophisticated looking. I'm wondering if it's from. This is the finest I could find on a quick aliexpress turret camera search and looks quite different.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002956968928.html?spm=a2...

It looks a bit more professional, maybe not like a Wescam but anyway: https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/wescam-mx-series
The insanity of an emotionally out of control mob of people pretending it's not a radically greater moral crime to torture millions of innocent people, than it is to torture a thousand people.

It's the scale difference between the US blowing up a wedding party by accident as a moral crime and Russia raping and murdering their way through Bucha or Mariupol. The emotionalist mob would proclaim they're the same thing.
I don't get this. Why did you reserve '-h' for highlight in the first example ? And then you chose the long option form "-h/--help" to say the problem is now fixed. It seems an entirely artificial problem made by an originally bad choice. And has nothing to do with lack of double hyphens.

"go -h" is same as "go help".
If you're at a point with your side where any criticism is taken as treachery, you're not really on the same side. Some even think the intention of the 100 flowers campaign was to weed out people who didn't exactly align with Mao (i.e. it was "bad faith" to begin with). Also, the campaign was open to all, not just members of the CCP (Mao's "side" in this context). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign#Debat...
As you get older you realize tech isn't the solution to your problems, so you're less likely to think it'll be a solution to other people's problems.