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What is ideological? Your responses indicates you have no understanding of nuance or magnitude in policy.

Was it an all or nothing situation? No, not at all. So either you're being intentionally misleading, or lack critical thinking. The option in front of politicians wasn't do these bills in this exact form or nothing at all. Why act like it was? It's a false premise.

Is it due to a bias in trying to justify the inflationary result?

And you seem to lack understanding of the consequence of high inflation, which inevitably will be higher unemployment, hurting those you sought to help. Study any history of the relationship between monetary policy, inflation, and unemployment and it's pretty obvious.
> the city. If you can yell loudly, literally thousands of people can hear you.

and roughly 1/3 of them will yell at you to shut up, half of the remaining will just silently wish it, with the remaining not noticing
You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned Social Security-- that's where the rescue efforts need to be concentrated.

Student debt problems are entirely self-inflicted. Students taking the loans made their own decisions. Social Security users have been paying for decades (not taking, as the student loan recipients were). Social Security users, especially those who have not yet started collecting, have worked decades to get their benefits back.

If students get their loans paid off before Social Security is fixed, it's a certain sign of corruption. (Votes for money.)

Use your votes to make government effective. Vote for politicians that pledge to fix Social Security.
Aaaaand apparently, many also lack even the most basic level of clue about how many gaping holes there are in that net and how many people fall through that net.
Yes, it's in core. And was only upgraded from a very outdated version fairly recently ( in terms of its lifetime) - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/06/29/updating-jquery-v...
I kind of succeeded in changing my job in a 2 weeks - a month at most. A few times. It probably depends on the exact field you are in.
Python support doesn't seem too unlikely, as they already support it (and several other languages) for Pages builds.
I agree quantitive easing is problematic.

Also agree that production isn’t zero-sum. But those with capital can extract value from production through investments, making capital accrual a compounding advantage.
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"He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Faberge egg—intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start."

That's what computer science in the 1970s and the 1980s was all about. Clever algorithms. Especially at MIT. Read the classic HAKMEM from 1972.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM
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Are you really being honest when you say you don't see this as bad? I couldn't help but peer into your comment history and notice you also talk about emptiness and loneliness. This, I think, is the price to pay for constant access to billions of possible thoughts, pictures and memes at all times.

Why is it that you think you need that?
As someone intimately familiar with the space Yodlee is often not mentioned for a few reasons. But their ability to handle the long tail of accounts is the biggest reason it’s often not considered. When you’re trying to maximize the ability for people to access your service (and require a bank account or related information to do so) there is really no comparison to plaid. Further, plaid long had a better developer experience than yodlee and for some amount of time was much cheaper (thanks to enterprise discounts in exchange for prominence in leading apps)in a few cases.

People likely aren’t familiar with yodlee and maybe it’s an indication they’re not aware of the space. But for those who are - I’d not have mentioned it either, they barely touch plaid on many facets.

Edit: I know in one particular instance we “considered” yodlee at what is now considered a big consumer banking unicorn. But in no way was actually considered. It was used as a negotiation tool.
I started my career at NASA. I'm working on an asteroid mining startup. I'm well aware of the vastness of space :)

The GP said 400 years. That's the time since the age of exploration until now. That's a vast era of time, and exponential technology development goes both ways.
The classic terms are sufficient. Upper, middle and lower class are all inherently relative terms. Everyone cannot be "upper class," or middle, or lower.
Assignment is not necessarily mutation. Every language, including functional ones can assign values to names. You have unlocked +1 reductionist pedantry.
>but a mere 25 years ago, most people had no cell phone, no mobile phone, and never, ever suffered mishap as a result.

But that just isn't true. Being able to use a mobile radio to summon emergency services earlier has statistically significant association with improved outcomes [0]. It isn't just about what happens to you, it's about what you can do for others you come across in emergencies. 25 years ago, I'd need to drive a minimum of 15-30 minutes to the nearest house and hope I was able to use their landline (or break in I guess?), or maybe there would be an open service station within that distance (often not). People died (still do) or suffer serious injury getting lost in the woods very close to home. I nearly did once in the 90s, cross country skiing and being foolish. I went out in the afternoon on a gray, gray overcast day, zero shadows, fresh snow, and as a skier since a child I felt overly confident and didn't take a normal fanny pack even with light (back then of course lamps were a lot crappier pre-LED), water or whatever. It got dark fast, by this point about 15°F, and I got completely, utterly confused. I knew I should be close and indeed reconstructing afterwards (finding my own tracks later in the week) I was within 1/2 mile or so. But it was a half mile through old forest without that clear trails. Fortunately I had had some outdoor training and recognized this was genuine trouble, I didn't try to go back in the woods but crossed a frozen swamp and broke for a farm field, and then from there to an actual house whose light I could see and use as a guide about a mile and a half away. Even if no one was home there'd at least be a road I could follow, fortunately there was someone and I could beg to use their landline and call a friend. But there were directions of travel I could have gone there with no one, and no road, for 6+ miles of mountainy forest. And if one succumbs to panic, it's easy to end up spending hours going in circles, or even without because sense of direction is hard with zero markers, no stars or the like. Or are fine, but fall and break a leg or something. This happens. People die. I and friends worked as First Responders and later mountain rescue volunteers of various levels. It's all well and good to say "well you should never do that" but humans are imperfect, even experienced ones. Having access to quite accurate near term weather forecasts alone is just massive, a boon a lot of us don't stop to appreciate.

Obviously, as tools cell phones have other risks. It's possible to get overconfident with them and take risks that negate the benefits. People have died due to silly things like literally stepping backwards over a cliff trying to get the perfect selfie. And there are other negative effects as this article talks about. Nevertheless, it's wrong to claim everything was fine back in "the good old days" when life expectancy was significantly lower [1]. You don't have to have a fancy smart phone to have a basic comms, GPS and map, but that doesn't negate how valuable those can be.

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0: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22142669/

1: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...
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What's even funnier is, it's actually true.
Cool I'll look into it, thank you.
Not surprised. The way I see it, Google is trying so hard to monetize search that they have left behind any pretense of information retrieval.
It is far more empathetic and fair to acknowledge people's genetic disadvantages and adjust expectations accordingly, than to demand everyone competes at the same level.

Which is why women have their own sports leagues instead of being forced to compete with men.

It is you that is injecting the idea of "inferiority". Women and children cannot compete athletically with men, and that's okay. I don't think that you would try to suggest that women's and under 18's football leagues were the result of "society being controlled by people who have concluded that these groups are genetically inferior".
I have just made a playlist on Youtube (and I am using uBLock ...). So not live feeds.

E.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgIWGM60z4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuX8Ew3OyJk

There are plenty. The bridge in the 2nd one is my favorite.
Something like games these by Jane McGonigal

https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/

> I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real problems. I’ve been making ARGs since 2001 — and you can watch trailers for a dozen of my favorite ARGs below.

> Many of my games challenge players to tackle real-world problems at a planetary-scale: hunger, poverty, climate change, or global peace, for example (see: EVOKE, World Without Oil, Superstruct)
It shouldn't be normal....unless we live in a world where the feeling of our daily infrastructure of life is dependent upon smartphones.

Which it is.
My theory has been because they are still largely used as a communication device, which was the primary function of a phone. Text messaging/messaging apps in general are a core feature literally 100% of users need.

Also because these devices started as phones of course.
Less effectively.
This is correct. I have a large media library and I wasn't sure how rotted it was. Test decoding won't catch every error, but it identified albums where there has clearly been a bitflip in a song (at which point I can try to find a lossless copy of that song to replace it).

Once I'm happy with the state of the library, I use automedia to add on par2 files to avoid this going forward.

Verification is for libraries that have no existing hashes or parity, essentially.
I wrote the article. I am 19. Trust me I really love to do things like these which have chances to promote a good behavior. For the same reasons, I am off of Instagram for a year now (believe it or not, I think this would be really difficult for the current generation).
Always impressed by people like you who can do the impossible work of getting a game to the point of launching something.
I am thinking the same, and in a midst of self experiment where I ensure I get a decent dose of just seeing the world in bright daylight. Week into it and my sleep feels pretty solid. Easy to avoid daylight when working indoors all day.
Reddit did that to my account 4 days ago with a "3 day suspension". No reason. No justification. Just "fuck off for 3 days". No responses either on the appeals.

I'm the owner/head mod for a VERY popular subreddit. I gave it a very hard thought about systematically destroying that sub.

It would make 200k people very sad, but in the end, its reddit's community that relies on *my* free labor to deal with pornspam and ilk. And, it would be me deplatforming 200k people that would likely go elsewhere.

I didn't do it. Coolers heads have prevailed... for now. I'm still the mod. Nothing's changed. But I've equipped the sub with a few alts. If they do that suspension again, then I will respond in kind.

I'm frankly tired of being a digital serf with unknown automated punishment mechanisms.
Interesting, of course I grew up in a time where you couldn't have a phone with you (economically) while on a trip with the family. My concern was if something happened how would I reach help. Not what was going on with the world. Different perspective to be sure.
Bright, direct light seems to be a major component, which is not what most people think of being in the "woods." See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306477
So disco Elysium is many things. Playing it was the first time I was extremely anxious about paying rent. One of the main ways you make money is collecting broken bottles.
Mind sharing your routine? Dealing w/ similar issues and been meaning to try this sort of thing for a while after a few friends have recommended it…
OP: On both phone calls I asked to speak to a supervisor. In both cases the agent promptly hung up on me.

I know little about EBay but if caller just immediately demanded a supervisor and did not accept any other result, the agent hanging up on them might be the logical result. Any large organization has to have standard procedures and "I'm escalating immediately before I get my result" can't be allowed in this situation 'cause everyone would do it.
No no, life is much better with FOMO. Keeping up with the Jones used to be a local thing. Now its global, and that's so much better. /s
That seems really unhealthy. By your own admission, you are obsessed with it.
It's now abnormal to not have a phone handy. I was once reading a paperback book in a restaurant while waiting for my meal, and some woman approached me and started talking about ebooks. If you're sitting someplace in public and not looking at a phone, it's suspicious behavior.
Some peolpe have selfish tendency defficiency.
I'm sure there would still be ways to bring the entire process to halt(for example, spawn thousands of threads with infinite loop). My point is just because a bad developer wrote bad code doesn't mean that a tradeoff chosen for a language design is necessarily bad.
China would literally just nuke Taiwan and it's over. What do you mean not easily?
I've been working on some free/libre open source software for 22 years designed to help people survive poverty and related conditions, such as homelessness, disability, illness, relationship abuse, emergencies, etc. It's called the Free Life Planner (FLP). The goal of FLP is to help people get on top of every security, such as food, water, financial, emotional, cyberphysical, etc etc. Its website is here: https://github.com/aindilis/free-life-planner I really need to rewrite the introduction to the FLP GitHub page since it doesn't explain the concept well enough, although the following use case does explain it more: https://frdcsa.org/~andrewdo/writings/homeless-story.html If anyone is interested in collaborating that would be fantastic, there's already a Vagrant image of FLP (but it's heavily redacted and out of date) available here: https://app.vagrantup.com/aindilis We're also working on finishing the installer for both FLP and the middleware that it runs on top of, called FRDCSA ( https://frdcsa.org ). The installer for FRDCSA when fixed up will be available here: https://github.com/aindilis/frdcsa-installer I would love to see a free/libre open source video game that used the tech involved.
Yeah, a brand-new, zero feedback account selling used consumer electronics screams fence, unfortunately for those who are doing it legitimately.
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”

- Alan Watts
yes, but they are very expensive.
I feel similarly, that's why I use a smart home hub with local control (Hubitat).

With Tidbyt our default pipeline uses our cloud, but the hardware is fully unlocked for you to flash your own firmware.
Parent likely searched without hard quotes; leading to the bad results.
excellent analysis, to which I could not agree more. We are in the end, evolved biological beings, susceptible to impulses which have generally served us well in the past but not need to overcome if we are to have a future. At the moment, the path to that future is stubbornly unclear.

Do you have an idea as to what could / should be done?
> I'd even argue that, between PowerShell's kinda-guessable commands and parameter names (as contrasted to bash/linux) and ubiquitous --help, PS makes it easier (relatively) to discover a solution on your own.

Yeah, if I'm trying to find something out on Unix-y world I have the escalation tree of

1. Tab Completion shows summaries

2. Still not clear? --help will usually print out an overview

3. Really still not clear? "man" to the rescue.
How do you suggest removing the barriers you describe? It's sensible and easy to remove barriers to trying out for the chess team, but removing all differences in time, energy and socioeconomic status seems much harder, and much easier to veer into a society that is overly prescriptive at nearly even level of humanity.
Depends the type of job! For the little story I had a job at a small startup 50+ people. We were like 20 people at the tech and we had 20 sellers. The whole company was in the same floor open space one big room. Sellers loved to chat all the time, be loud, cut each other in what they were doing… A big contract closed on the phone? They had a small belt to be ringed! At some point it was so noisy that even with headphones we couldn’t concentrate. Of course the tech part of room was quite silent. One time we asked them how can they ever focus with this noise and be productive?? They said that for them it’s like giving them the smile, being chatty being part of the job, the adrenaline rush to make it seems like the next big deal is right there on the next call.
I can't tell how many layers of irony this comment contains.
I couldn't agree more, and think the comparison to sports is particularly apt. No one reaches for "marginalization" when trying to explain why various sports leagues do not follow the general population with regards to ethnic composition. Also no one seems to be upset when genetic and cultural factors are offered as an explanation. Go figure.
There are a few projects that take inspiration from PowerShell, but they haven't got mass adoption. I have hopes that Nushell will be a success when it gets to 1.0:

https://www.nushell.sh/
In this community we tend to overestimate just how much knowledge is found on the internet because essentially everything to do with tech happens here. In the bigger picture, even if you restrict yourself to only intellectual knowledge, there are entire fields that are extremely poorly documented on the internet. Either information isn't there at all, or the information that is readily accessible is plain wrong.

Further, if you consider human experience to be part and parcel with human knowledge, the internet starts to look like a rather hollow shell. Just because you can read huge portions of the body of human literature doesn't mean you're in a position to understand what those authors were saying, and the more you isolate yourself from the physical world the more detached you'll be from their experiences.

This isn't to downplay how much knowledge there is to be found here. It's just that to say that it has "literally all" knowledge or conveys "literally god-like powers" is over the top. I'd normally leave such hyperbole alone, but in a thread that is glorifying smartphones as the savior of mankind I feel it's important to point out that what we have in a smartphone isn't all that it's being made out to be.
I work with a guy who is a real, fully diagnosed celiac sufferer. The gluten-free fad has had serious consequences for him. Some restaurants don't take him seriously, claim gluten-free food when it isn't, and he gets seriously ill when that happens. He doesn't eat out so much any more because it's not worth the risk.
yup.. down.. even the blog.pinboard.in goes to a default Apache landing page
> I believe that simplicity is a must for any system that invites participation from all of society and just voting against someone is a lot simpler than ranking, or quadratic votes or whatever.

It's a pity there isn't an example of what a ballot paper would look like under the proposed system, but I'm imagining that next to each candidate there would be three boxes representing: approve, neutral, disapprove.

I suppose that's easier than a ranking system, because there might be lots of candidates that most voters haven't heard of (or don't have a strong opinion of) and it can be hard to put them into an exhaustive ranking.

The temptation, though, will always be to approve of the one candidate you like, and disapprove of all the rest (and candidates will encourage their supporters to do this), so the system will quickly devolve into plurality-style voting anyway, except the votes will be harder to count because there will be 3^n different ways of marking the ballot, rather than just n (where n is the number of candidates).

In any case, this looks a lot like Score Voting, with possible scores of 0, 1 or 2 (which I think is mathematically the same as -1, 0, and 1). Again this has the problem that you can't just count the number of votes in each sorted pile, and instead have to have n different running tallies, with no checksum at the end to make sure the tallies all total to the number of votes cast, for example.

This isn't a problem for a computer algorithm, but anything that encourages people to outsource their democracy to a piece of firmware, commissioned and maintained by one ruling party, is just asking for trouble. Even if the firmware works as claimed, you still introduce the problem that FUD can be used to attack a legitimate result.

Don't get me wrong, though, I'm not against voting reform, and I'm definitely not a fan of FPTP. I think in some jurisdictions RCV is an improvement (if it's the only reform that has familiarity and momentum behind it), and in others it makes more sense to push for Approval Voting, which is simpler to count than RCV. In fact, Approval Voting is a lot like Score Voting with only approve and disapprove options.
One reason why you shouldn't post full resolution pictures online...
You are the one projecting here. I don’t feel like I’m personally under those expectations, but I definitely see that in other people’s lives. Try to use less inflammatory language on this forum.
You're right, what I'm curious about is how difficult it'd be to sneak a malicious command into some VSCode extension update trough these production dependencies, and how far, say, an rm -rf <allthethings> could reach from the trusted project root directory from which it is executed.

I'm not a VSCode user myself, but it's pretty much the same story with nvim.

edit: I suppose what I'm really getting at, is that, depending on what their security measures look like, the VSCode extension store might be giving some false sense of security.
> purely utilitarian device

You're absolutely right kid. Sincerely. I look forward to the day when
the real utility shines through again. And I come from a time (as a
now well bearded computer nerd) when it was all utility and coolness.

But we're in some weird in-between days [1] where motivations have
gotten distorted, ideals have got lost, and the utility just isn't
enough any more to stave of the wrongness.

FWIW I'm an optimist and beleieve we'll make it through and take back
tech, but right now we need to take a long look at this.

[1] The fancy word is "interregnum" - a period "caught between two
times, one world that is already dead, and the other waiting to be
born."
Amusingly, I got banned from eBay Partner Network (e.g. affiliate links) after my hobby site got a little traction in a HN comment. Banned within hours; they responded to my emails, only enough to say the ban was being upheld.

So as a regular reminder, be wary of relying on the good graces of a giant corporation for your monetization!