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> Conscription may be politically unpopular, but pretending that automation will be a solution to declining army enlistment anytime soon is pretty out of touch with reality

Sorry, not saying automation is the solution. If China bombs Guam, yes, we'll need conscription.

But conscription is far from "probable." I'm simply arguing that Congress pumping godawful quantities of money into automation is more likely than POTUS enacting a draft.
Here are the financial reports https://tab.gladly.io/financials/
The name may imply that, but actually that's the whole plan: stuff people in houses and then they're off the street!

It gets called cutesy names like "Housing First" to dupe people into supporting it.
Hell no.

Theoretical computer science taught to undergraduates is completely practical for a programmer. You might use SQL and other tools that choose algorithms for you every day but run-of-the-mill applications (say updating a React UI) sometimes run into O(N^2) problems that are covered in the algorithms class. Computer architecture is practical. The world would be a better place if more programmers took a compilers class.

If you are faced with l33tcode as a programmer a dose of those ideas won't hurt.
The nuanced answer is critically examining where the money goes and making value judgments based on how effective the programs are relative to their expenses. Then possibly funding alternative programs instead of the ones that aren't cost effective. "Cost effective" sounds awfully inhumane but it's a very real and valid concern because there's only so much money to go around.
I will be convinced that Twitter is heading in the right direction when then re-enable Trump’s account. I am not a fan of his, but it is simply outrageous that he was blocked on all social media. I am not a fan of Biden either but I would be outraged if he was canceled just the same.
This is a great response and yes something I didn't really think about with the original idea.

Considering actual, real world hardware as you point out, it is not a very good idea.
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Thank you — we wanted the design to communicate that Radiopaper is offering something quite different. "A breath of fresh air" is exactly what we hoped for!
Because a 1% chance of turning the company around is better than a guaranteed slow bleed to insolvency.
> Yeah, but how are those uneducated investors supposed to learn?

By being presented with learning material on how trading works, instead of trying to hide reality behind a pretty GUI? That'd be my choice.

For example on TDAmeritrade you only get a cash account by default, no margin or option trading. You can upgrade and there are multiple levels of margin upgrades in increasing steps of risk. To do an upgrade you have to at least read some material and answer some questions and check boxes. Sure you could lie through it, but at least they make it clear you're signing up for ever increasing risk at every level.

When I first read that RobinHood was allowing people margin and option trading without even telling customers that those are enabled and what it means, I always felt it can only end badly.
You are mistaken. Other brokers also sold order flow [1] but not all.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paymentoforderflow.asp
Just use Clerky or Stripe or Gusto. Lawyers tend to be absurd wastes of money. (Source: am currently in biglaw--not that you'd need to hire such a firm for this, but rule still applies)
and hope they pass it down the chain?

write to their privacy officer, contact details can be found here: red.com/legal
The Hodne family of New York haven't covered themselves in glory...
One way or another, we're all going to be footing the bill. The method here would make that bill way smaller than anything else I've seen.
Please take a look at levels.fyi if you don't believe there are $200K offers available (caveat: I can only speak for US+Canada).

I'm an above-average-skill but ADHD / below-average-work-ethic software dev in Canada who just finished interviews and my highest offer was $150K USD. I only prepped algorithms for 1-2 months but have a feeling if I spent 4 months prepping, I'd be able to break into the mid to high 200K USD range. And this is well below what a lot of people are making in the U.S. according to levels.fyi and teamblind.com

I don't say this to make you feel bad, and I even agree that the average is of course lower (glassdoor says the U.S. average for software engineers is ~$108K USD though I suspect older data-points bring it down from the real figure).

But I think >70% of U.S.-based software engineers with >5 years of experience are capable of breaking into 200K USD if they spent 3-6 months preparing (depending on their degree of natural talent and abilities to learn, problem-solve, and retain information).

Of course, chasing TC is also not a fun treadmill to be on, so if you're comfortable, you should do what makes you happy :)

The point of this is to say that these numbers are very, very real, and even attainable for the majority of devs who set their sights on them, and it's kind of silly to scoff at them as you put it. The only important skills required are ambition, dedication, perseverance, and good research skills (which are among the most critical skills for software engineers anyway) to be able to navigate negotiations and the market.
You're right. I didn't realize they had a SQLWindows tool that wasn't associated with Microsoft. Microsoft used to be real aggressive with their trademark on Windows.

> SQLWindows was one of the first GUI development tools for Microsoft Windows.
I don't have to pay more for my house insurance if I make more money either.

So what?
The Boltzmann brain hypothesis suggests that it would be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously and briefly form in a void (complete with a memory of having existed in our universe) rather than for the universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.

In this physics thought experiment, a Boltzmann brain is a fully formed brain, complete with memories of a full human life in our universe, that arises due to extremely rare random fluctuations out of a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. Theoretically, over an extremely large but not infinite amount of time, by sheer chance, atoms in a void could spontaneously come together in such a way as to assemble a functioning human brain. Like any brain in such circumstances (the hostile vacuum of space with no blood supply or body), it would almost immediately stop functioning and begin to deteriorate.

By one calculation, a Boltzmann brain would appear as a quantum fluctuation in the vacuum after a time interval of 10^10^50 years. This fluctuation can occur even in a true Minkowski vacuum (a flat spacetime vacuum lacking vacuum energy). Quantum mechanics heavily favors smaller fluctuations that "borrow" the least amount of energy from the vacuum. Typically, a quantum Boltzmann brain would suddenly appear from the vacuum (alongside an equivalent amount of virtual antimatter), remain only long enough to have a single coherent thought or observation, and then disappear into the vacuum as suddenly as it appeared. Such a brain is completely self-contained, and can never radiate energy out to infinity.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
I like that--sell it for a dollar to someone you trust, with a written contract to the sale, have them press the ok button, then have them sell it back to you with a written contract for a dollar.
Pro tip: Ask your realtor who they recommend. Every serious realtor has a small group (1-3 max) mortgage brokers who they they have vetted. They periodically refresh their list if someone isn't getting it done for their clients as expected. There are lots of mortgage brokers out there, the realtors know who is good and who isn't because they work with them every day.

Also FWIW: Even here in small town America, lenders are dealing with tens of millions in volume every day. You will build a relationship with them over time, not on. any single deal.
Get them a copy of K&R C.
Is this still true? Nobody goes to Blockbuster to rent videos. Videos are streamed to you on a plethora of devices. Does the video rental regulations apply to YouTube sharing your video selections? PornHub? Netflix?
I just... think you should reconsider your stance on this. If you made a mistake in a public repo and someone else caught it (via scan of your repo or otherwise), it's a pretty bad look to be anything but grateful at that point, PR benefits for the bot aside.
If you like reading fiction, anyway. Like many of the works of this time, all of it is smart sounding writing, none of it has anything to do with scientific knowledge.
Unity.

It's "cool" and relevant.

The coding part is C# so a nice language and environment.

You don't really need to understand all the low level stuff, you can write some scripts and just press play!

There are heaps of official and community tutorials.
API Quite well documented too.

Its not just code. There is a big editor to learn and become good at. Your kids may decided they like other aspects. Modeling, Lighting, Effects, Audio, UI, VR even?

I think there is plenty of Unity employment around, not just in games but all kinds of "multi media" businesses.

Jay
>> It's truly laughable if you don't think boomers had a clear advantage in comparison to Millennials, Gen X, etc;

Baby boom generation started in what, 1946?

In 1946 almost half the houses in the US didn't have full indoor plumbing. That's some era of prosperity to be born into.

I'm not of that generation, but my parents were. My mom and her brother were driving tractors and operating other heavy machinery on a farm when they were still in elementary school. That was how a large part of the baby boomers grew up.

You kids have no idea. Now get off my lawn.
Housing unskilled labor in one of the most expensive areas of the US for real estate is as far from "cost effective" as it gets. I think there's a real case to be made that if you want to spend $1B on these disadvantaged persons that offering them housing along with free trade school in Alabama or something could be better for everyone. It's not like after they get back on their feet it's going to do them any favors to be stuck breaking into one of the most brutal housing areas of the US on whatever entry-level salary they'll be on. Of course if they want to stay in SF living on the street, they ought not be forced to leave -- it's a free country.

Note: I've been homeless twice. Both times I wanted to get out of it my step A has literally been "find lowest cost of living place in the country with low unemployment and work in day-labor agencies until I have enough for rent." It's worked both times, and relatively straightforward. It would not have worked in SF.
Have read several times over and lost decades and some mental health to religious dogma. It's a massive waste of time IMO. Plenty of other batshit crazy 'sacred' texts out too if that's your fancy. Don't let true believers pressure you into anything you don't want to do or not do. Their mental gymnastics and manipulation techniques are legend.

Anyway, just because stuff is old doesn't mean it's true or even useful for anything except archeology. And sure may be there's a nugget of truth ("everything is meaningless") yet even a broken clock is right twice a day. Signal to noise ratio is still comparable to useful calories in a pile of manure.

Get the Cliff Notes and read some critical analysis _first_ if you really cannot stay away.
just as dumb as all of the other 'definitely not a train' startups, but what makes this one particularly funny is that switzerland already has the best freight rail system in the world.
IMO the only real downside of waiting till 18 is that your insurance rates are gonna be sky-high for the first few years regardless of your age when that happens. If you've held a license for 2 years with no accidents then your rates are gonna be cheaper, regardless of whether you actually drove anywhere.

That's offset by teen driver education being a fucking racket though. The entire thing is just a scheme to extract a grand from mommy and daddy.

Wait till you're 18 and suddenly the need for that course and the hours of supervised driving will vanish. Pass the driving test and the written and boom, there's your license.
This world where EULA's (and other one-sided "agreements") are treated just like contracts: Meeting of the minds between two equal-power parties, mutually understood and negotiated--needs to die. These things are take-it-or-leave-it law, unchangeable, non-negotiable, and dictated by some corporate counsel 1000 miles away. They should be all thrown out due to being unconscionable. If the US Supreme Court wasn't entirely captured by corporate interests this crap would have been scrapped long ago.
That sounds like a world in which I would like to live in, too :) Thank you for sharing your very nuanced/balanced view :)
The claims of WMD’s in Iraq were never credible. There were huge protests about it at the time. The rationale behind the Afghanistan war had a little more logic to it, but it was still always doomed to failure (as has been proved out): the easiest way to turn everyone against you is to invade them.

In foresight, not just in hindsight, both these wars were utterly pointless and morally abhorrent.

If western countries want to reduce Islamist extremism, we might want to start by examining our relationship with Saudi Arabia (who seem to be the ones funding and pushing a lot of it, and who we seem happy to trade with)
That's a huge part of the problem, farming shouldn't be heavily mechanized in the way we do it. Monocrops, pesticides, fungicides, and huge feed lots all have terrible environmental costs. Even aside of Climate Change, soil erosion is a massive problem.
> Far more people are skeptical of things like journalism

I’ve spent a lot of time looking into that kind of skepticism. It turns out, the vast majority of people who say they are "skeptical" of journalism adhere to far right, conspiracy-laden fringe news sites that create fake news and cast doubt on science. It’s safe to say that the entire "skeptical of journalism" meme can be traced to a handful of billionaires who have used dark money networks to go after journalists who have dared to investigate and publicize their malfeasance. These billionaires use the far right blogosphere and fringe news sites to encourage public mistrust of journalists for this reason. Sites known to do this include the Gateway Pundit, Newsmax, OANN, Breitbart, Fox, and most notably, the NaturalNews disinformation and propaganda network run by Mike Adams.
Thanks for taking a look! For now there are two ways to find an interlocutor:

1. Send a message to someone you already know, using their email address.

2. Comment on or start a conversation with someone whose post you find interesting.

We expect to add more features around discovering both users and conversations in the future.
The website says its secure and private, but your privacy policy contradicts it. Seems like you don’t collect usage data, but the ad providers do. Is it right to make such a privacy claim?

Privacy Policy: https://tab.gladly.io/privacy/

“Ad targeting, selection, and delivery: When you use our Services, third parties that provide advertising, to the Services, may collect or receive information about you including through the use of cookies. These third parties may use your information to provide you with advertising that is based on your interests and to measure and analyze ad performance, on our Services or other websites or platforms, and combine it with information collected across different websites, online services, and other devices. These third parties' use of your information will be based on their own privacy policies. You can opt out of interest-based targeted advertising for some advertising partners here.”
When you're in a hole you want to get out of, it's usually a good idea to stop digging. The "spewing even more manufactured crap into the atmosphere" solution to climate change doesn't really pass the smell test.
I vaguely remember an old post from here showing someone hacking up Bluetooth to give SBC codec better quality, and it only being available on Linux (or maybe it was Linux+Android?)

I’ll try to dig it up and edit it in here, as I think it was a great hack
I dunno. I’m early millennial and, due largely to money reasons, I’ve done the following myself in past 12 months:

- re-graded slope of dirt in back yard (by hand, oof), trenched and added irrigation (to code), and seeded a successful lawn

- rebuilt upper valve train on my minivan (5 failed hydronic lifters)

- reframed my garage, which had massive termite damage and wall was 1.5” out of plumb, roof sagging badly

- wired new 60A circuit for EV charger (to code)

- excavated (by hand) and replaced 10’+ section of sewer lateral

- rebuilt washing machine pump, added dynamat sound deadening so quiet when on calls in garage

- re-heeled my wife’s shoes

- designed / built custom bunk/loft/desk for my sons’ shared room (Baltic birch, flat packable, surprisingly beautiful)

- re-roofed and reflashed chimney to fix leak (then re-drywalled 1/5 living room ceiling, skip trowel texture)

- abs so on…

Not trying to humble brag, but I hadn’t done a single of those tasks before (except framing, drywall, electrical, plumbing, which I taught myself in last decade). Push comes to shove, people can get a book from the library.
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Employer social security contributions is a big one.
In the USA it's around 5-10% of a worker's salary.
In Spain it's around 40%.

The gross salary a worker sees is after these, so not representative of what it actually costs to hire them.
Ah I'll check those out. By chance do you know if they have some sort of ad-hoc lawyer available if needed (kind of like how some tax prep software has accountants available)?
I understand the sentiment but you should be judging the PR, not the source. Ask yourself: would you have happily accepted the same PR that the bot sent if it came from a human?

By all means, I am not against having bots identify themselves properly, my point is that "effort from bot PR is ~0", "it advertises their platform" are simply not the right reasons to judge this situation by.
Maybe is roughly working on this for all of your assets.

Not much on their website yet but there's a high-level roadmap, discord, and newsletter. They're in testing with beta customers atm. Josh also built Baremetrics which does a great job of slicing and rearranging business data streams into useful insights.

https://maybe.co/
I am inclined to agree with you, but tech has two peculiar distinctions:

First, tech changes so fast that we end up having many "mini-careers" instead of a long one.

Second, ageism is still a thing: unless your work is so noteworthy that companies hire you for the PR (or to avoid that a competitor hires you for similar reasons), companies think there is not that much of a difference between someone with 5-7 years of experience vs 12-15.
Mind Uploading - AKA Whole Brain Emulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading
Several years back Google started naming the alley ways in my neighborhood as if they were streets. Either all of the car services use Google maps, or other map services made the same decision. This is obvious as drivers are constantly being routed through alleys in my neighborhood for rideshares/deliveries/etc. As a side benefit to this, you can tell if your driver is clueless by watching them go through the alleys to find you or make the obvious decision to not go down an alley.

Several attempts at reporting this to Gmaps has gone ignored.
No downside, except for you know dying or being maimed. True we aren't in a war atm. But given how Russia is acting it's not unlikely we might be at some point.
I think it would, since they say it would remove CO2 from the oceans.
You don't have to license the software. Copyright law only regulates copying and redistribution, not use. Just because they say "this software is licensed, not sold" doesn't mean they're right (even if they are the software makers themselves)
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I was never successful in getting both mic and HQ audio working with BT on PulseAudio. Configuring to use A2DP gives the most fulfilling sound quality while nullifying the mic, thus becoming a huge deal-breaker for me. Does PipeWire incorporate any wizardry to overcome this and let me have simultaneous access to both mic and high quality audio? I have a JBL Everest Elite 700 and I am running on Ubuntu 21.10.
> Even Bill Gates, as smart as he is, benefited from lots of luck.

Luck ... read as rich parents.

Bill Gates had parents who had connections with extremely important people in multi-national companies.

Bill Gates had access to a computer as a child (via his expensive private academy) back when computers were ferociously expensive.

Bill Gates had parents who could cut a check for $50,000 (in the 1970s) on the whim of their child.

Bill Gates had the ability to drop out of Harvard knowing that he could always go back or to somewhere else because his parents could pay for it.

The child of a steelworker, for example, has no ability to take any of these chances because if they fail there is no recovery. If you get into Harvard, you will go the full four years. Even if your business idea is great, your parents will not cut a $50K check as that would pay for your college (and a house and a car and college for your siblings and still have about $25K left over) at the time. Even including the adults around you, none of the people around you have access to those expensive "computers". And your parents certainly don't have access to the senior executives of US Steel, for example.

The "leeway to fail" is a big deal in allowing you to roll the dice to make "luck".
Nothing quite as hopeful as knowing the vast majority of humanity was made destined for an eternal lake of fire, and for rejecting an invisible god. Someone who must be followed and known and loved above all else, yet without any of the five senses. (OT and a few select NT witnesses notwithstanding.) And they have the balls to call non-believers the blind ones!
I work for a company that does this kind of product for banks. We spend a huge amount of time integrating our solution into traditional banks contexts. There for sure is a lot of overhead. But being inside banks also gives you better data access.
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old Melbourne saying: "Is it the truth, or did you read it in the Herald Sun?"..

like any Murdoch rag it sometimes might put out a news article to keep up appearances, but there is usually a better source..
You are starting that the article is misinformation, but what exactly is wrong?

If you are just prepared to smear something you don't like, but can't say there are errors, you are the one misinforming people.

Make an argument, find an error, show something tangible, do some research. Shouting 'this is right wing!' isn't it - it's just attempting to play to the crowd.
Drones and intelligent missiles are going to reshape warfare. It's not just Russia that will be vulnerable.

Imagine an army of 100k small, fast kamikaze drones that carry enough explosive to destroy anything short of an MBT. What could do you about swarm after swarm of those?

The country that perfects anti-drone technology using lasers that can shoot down drones fast will win the next war. Building drones is easy, defending against them will be hard.
I guess there are companies that have tried to let people pay instead of showing ads but I guess that the conversation rates have been so low that the company did not achieve the same revenue than via ads.

Having said that. What do you think about a regulation that companies are required to offer a pay-for-no-ads option which gives users an option that is priced at 10% above the expected value of their ad revenues?