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In a country like Russia, being wealthy is almost certainly the same as being corrupt.

But in a country like the US, people can become wealthy without wealth extraction. Michael Jordan is a billionaire. Tom Brady is not yet, but he will become one at some point. Are they guilty of wealth extraction?

Robert Langer, the MIT professor and one of the Moderna cofounder, is also a billionaire. I got a Moderna shot, did Robert Langer "extract" wealth from me?

> And if anybody, billionaire or otherwise, believes a capitalist free market system allocates resources/wealth perfectly correctly to those who provide the most value and deserve it the most, then they are wrong,

You are saying, those who are naive are wrong.

But that goes against one of the most important principles of the US and Western word (and hopefully a principle for the rest of the world too): the presumption of innocence. I choose to subscribe to this principle.

If Bezos extracted wealth from his position, then I'd like to see him being prosecuted for that, I'd like to see a court of law decide that he is guilty, and to see that he gets his just punishment.

Gates went through that. It was determined that Microsoft abused their monopoly power, in a court of law.

Various states and the Federal DoJ have started working on a case against Google and some other Big Techs that they are violating the anti-trust laws. If it turns out to be so, let them be punished.

What you are advocating is instead a declaration of the impotence of the justice system. Lot of people are becoming rich by being bad, there's nothing we can do about that, so let's pass some laws to take them down from their pedestals.

There are a few things wrong with this. One is that you implicitly renounce the principle of the presumption of innocence. The second is that you are treating an effect rather than the cause. The third is that you'll hurt innocents in the way (like Michael Jordan or Tom Brady).

But the most important is that you subscribe to a message of hate. Bernie Sandert's "hate the rich" message is not that different from Trump's "hate the immigrants" (which is the true meaning of "MAGA") message.

Hate is a very cheap way to get votes. And hate begets hate.
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Can you back up that claim?

Just so we are clear, to my understanding, I believe your claim is equivalent to:

Take 2 (2 * n in order to account for variations in individual instruments) instruments as close to identical as possible. Tune both instruments. Digitally record the sound profile of each one. Place one in a silent chamber. Place the other in a chamber with a music source. Ensures all other parameters of the chambers are equal (temperature, humidity, sunlight, etc.). After x amount of time, take the instruments from the chambers. Digitally record the sound profile of each one a second time. The outcome you claim is that the delta for the instrument in the music chamber is noticeably different to the delta of the instrument in the quiet chamber.

Furthermore you claim that this effect is known among guitar players.

I suggest that in addition to the effect being highly improbable, no person exists with actual knowledge of such a phenomenon, only with belief about it and anecdotal evidence that does not account for other parameters. I suggest that all anecdotal evidence can be explained by a combination of:

- survivorship bias (good sounding instruments are taken care of and survive longer)

- differences in maintenance, environmental conditions, source materials, construction technique

- differences in use (being constantly properly tensioned and calibrated compared to wood working unconstrained)

- observer bias (a beloved or famed instrument will be favoured)

I suggest that good sounding instruments are not left unplayed yet properly cared for and therefore no one has ever observed such a phenomenon. Chances are, any cared for instrument will also be played, therefore what people have observed is the difference between pampered instruments and neglected instruments.

If you actually have any evidence, please back up your claim.
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Some of these megafan donations are probably fakes, the streamer sending themselves money with an alt in the hope that real people follow. The platform has little incentive to stop that sort of thing.
It was fun seeing the "take turns on double newlines" rule occasionally broken for normal conversational interrupts, like their HAHAHA's interleaving with your message to let you know they're already laughing along, or OOOOOH to let you know you can stop explaining something because they just got it, or waitwaitwait to get you to go back and expound on an earlier point before you continue.
I've been enjoying Unciv on my phone recently. It's a FOSS port of Sid Maier's Civilization V.

https://github.com/yairm210/UnCiv
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> Significantly increasing the price of a natural resource would have severe impacts on impoverished communities while having no effect at all on wealthy people and companies; is this intentional?

Not with tiered pricing. The poor don't use any more water than the middle-class.
While your criticism of the US _feels_ on point, I don't think it's really valid. Are you an agriculture expert or some sort of scientist with specialty knowledge?

Some super quick research:

* Israel has fewer than 10 million people. California has just under 40 million (4x)

* Israel Agriculture exports $2B. California $20B (10x)
* California has extensive regulations around water, including the use of recycled water [1]

* Here is an article from the USDA, specifically about California's irrigation [2], state provided grants to switch to more efficient irrigation is one topic, among many, that they cover.

[1] http://agwaterstewards.org/practices/use_of_municipal_recycl...

[2] https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/05/26/california-farmer...
It became a competitive game and you are not willing to be in the top tier of players. It is a holy grail for game companies: "How to mix having uncompetitive fun in a game while allowing competition".
Fish perhaps?
yep, you want perf? Don't mutex then yield, do spin and check your cpu heat sink.

:)
History of binder is more involved and has its seeds on BeOS IIRC.
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This was a more ethnically homogenous era for the German nations.

West Germany is a reasonable control group.
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Hmm, good point, though over here in Helsinki tap water is extremely clean. https://www.hsy.fi/en/water-and-sewers/quality-of-drinking-w...
But it's incredibly hit-driven and while the biggest hits rake in billions, the majority of games make a loss, especially indie games.

The market is becoming incredibly tough with so much high-quality entertainment available for very little money via Game Pass, PS Plus, Steam sales, indie bundles, etc. And that's ignoring the F2P side of things.
A friend of mine bought me a fountain pen for my birthday. I expected to have it sit in my standard pile of pens, but no. I love that thing. I'd never have bought a fountain pen otherwise.

I've since purchased an inexpensive Muji pen. It comes with garbage ink, but I replaced that with a refillable cartridge and Parker ink. It's now my second favorite pen. (I say this simply to indicate that it doesn't have to be an expensive fountain pen.)
Yeah, it's like saying "we'll fetch your beer... in 15 minutes" to patron at the pub. Entertainment and leisure is about instant gratification and companies don't seem to get that. The people who absolutely get that though are gambling equipment manufacturers - the UX is extremely smooth and polished, so that people don't fall off the hook.
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Usually such laws target consumer VPNs but I don't have more insights on this specific case
The last 14 years have been an absolute disaster for the UK unless you're not just rich but upper class. Those at the top pine for the Victorian or even feudal era.
> like taking a cruise but in the sky

Minus the lift v. float economics. That would strike at some combination of affordability and availability of attractions.
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> Ideally? the mistakes wouldn't have happened.

I am not fine with calling it a mistake when almost everyone who pointed issues out upfront was marginalized, factchecked™, downvoted and/or vilified.
When you say "is already deployed" are you saying that you have a heat pump already and that it is set to run based on when the excess electricity is available?

How much is left after that usage?

If you fit an EV charger for future use you could allow access to friends/neighbours at the specific times until you need it yourself.
That's encouraging if you think of it as a funnel optimization problem.

What can I do for the $100 per year set? T shirts or other swag? Signed merch?

What can I do for the $10 per year set? Stickers?
> So sure, you can be self-sufficient on 100 $1K a year fans, but to get there, you need 5,000 $100 / year fans (which needs 100,000 listeners), and not doing anything for them is leaving money on the table.

And probably more importantly, losing people out of the funnel: after all, most people don't go from 0 to $1k/year fan in an instant; they'll try out the free service, upgrade to being a $100/year fan, and from there upgrade to being a $1k/year fan. The pitch of this article, it seemed to me, isn't to get rid of the lower tiers, but to add an extra tier on the top.
The article laments the death of manuals, but that's because every game has an in-game tutorial-ish start that slowly teaches the mechanics. And given that every AAA game now has completely overloaded controls, you almost have to. I think you can add this to your list.
Corpos naturally have split personalities, but it wasn't "Google's plan". Mid-level people proposed it and high-level people blocked it.

What's not often said clearly is that corpos don't want social justice which might come at the cost of rancor, they want "DEI PR" that they can charge to the marketing budget.

In other words, they want the low-hanging fruit they can get by having recruiters source employees from more places, and artists and photographers draw multicolored graphics, and asking people to be less cruel when all other tradeoffs are neutral,and if that makes the world more fair, that's great.

But they management won't allow anything that risks disrupting the moneymaking operations, regardless of long term potential benefits (which almost certainly don't exist -- racism exists because it works, locally, for economic and social benefits, not because people are moustache-twirling comic-book supervillains).

This is why free markets alone can't solve injustice, and broader social movements are the tool that works.
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> The investigation concluded that Tim Hortons’ continual and vast collection of location information was not proportional to the benefits Tim Hortons may have hoped to gain from better targeted promotion of its coffee and other products.

Is that the standard for privacy these days in Canada? It would have been OK if the benefits to the business were proportional?
A good read for some additional context on caste discrimination in the American tech industry: https://www.wired.com/story/trapped-in-silicon-valleys-hidde...
Makes sense. You can't focus on just the true fans, because at first, you don't have any. First you focus on just getting listeners, then on fans who are willing to pay something, and only once that group gets big enough, does it make sense to focus on the $1000/y "true" fans.

And if your numbers are correct, you're already making $500k/y from $100 fans by the time you can make $100k/y from the $1000 fans. So the middle is still more lucrative, even if the top is growing.
> You’ll notice when someone asks for a deeper explanation of ambiguous dehumanization they tend to not respond.

That sounds like a strange method of just confirming what you already believe.
"Javascript" is slowest probably because node pushes the writes to a thread instead of printing directly from the main process like PHP.

Python cheats, and it's still slow as heck even while cheating (buffers the output at 8192 chunks instead of issuing 1 byte writes).

write(1, "1", 1) loop in C pushes 6.38MiB/s on my PC. :)
I've got 1938 problems but proving that the subspace L of the unitary space R_n has an orthogonal basis consisting of the eigenvectors of the transformation φ ain't one.
It never bothered me, until one time I was was carefully crafting a message to a manager on slack. I was doing a few other things at the same time, so I wrote it in fits and starts over 10 mins or so, but I never finished writing it because she messaged me something along the lines of "hey, what is it? You keep typing and then stopping. That normally means people are afraid to tell me something. Whatever it is, you can just tell me."

Until then it didn't even occur to me she might be "watching me type." Such a creepy, distracting, "feature".
The same works in person too.

You make your own “serendipity”.

Some just win a small lottery at times, and don’t even realize it.
This kind of fan driven art transform artists into dancing monkeys.
I mean, there is nothing wrong in that - but makes art bland and utilitarian.
It changes thinking from expressing oneself, pushing boundaries, to what can I do to make my fans continue to pay $5. The soul somehow gets lost.

Many artists cannot fit themselves into such regime and end up giving up. I guess that's how humans work.
> I know the "best" way to stop this kind of privacy violation is good consumer protection and privacy laws

I agree such laws are necessary, but I'm not sure they're the best of the various solutions. Technical measures might be more robust, such as fine-grain permissions in mobile operating systems. I'd rather it not be possible to collect my data in the first place, than trust that some developer (in whichever jurisdiction) isn't breaking the law.

An advantage of the web is that hostile code is more easily tamed than in native apps, but in itself this observation doesn't do the user much good. Apps are pushed in part because of their superior capabilities for user-hostile functionality.

Similarly, Free and Open Source software is rarely this user-hostile, as few people have the nerve to publish their user-hostile code for all to see. Again though there's a sort of collective-action problem: if only the abstemious few like Stallman insist on not using proprietary software, things don't improve.
What if you spin up a VPS based in India and install OpenVPN/Wireguard on it? Surely they can’t demand logs of a box you operate yourself?
They won’t compete with rail, but last mile logistics especially to remote or austere regions, absolutely.

I believe someone else mentioned wind turbines, which is a great idea.
If you can predict future market behavior, then you can get rich by taking shorts/longs on your position. There's always some investors willing to take the opposite position.

Good luck.
Writing a new “call the compiler like so” line is pretty easy — pretty flexible, I’d say. Let’s say a new compiler came along tomorrow, where all the options have plus signs instead of minus signs (“+O +DPREPROCESSOR_DEFINITION”), I’d have an easier time adding a single line to a script than I would writing a toolchain file for CMake, or more likely, having to look at the CMake source code. That is a not unreasonable, but still quite pathological example. But it’s a window into the annoying world of manipulating compiler commands via the indirect mechanism of CMake. If you have very precise requirements, especially regarding order of arguments on the command line (a common issue with cl but to a lesser extent other compilers also), then using CMake can be like performing surgery with chopsticks. If you have simpler needs, it can be like eating sticky food with chopsticks — i.e., a convenient way to keep your hands clean. It seems like I just disagree with how steep the slippery slope is between those two points.

As for editors and whatnot, I’ve worked on teams where people used Visual Studio, vim, CLion, VS Code, via these scripts. Most with full IDE integration, some without (some people don’t use it). The easiest pathway is to generate compile_commands.json — ironically, this is already something extremely close to the script, so it’s trivial to automatically generate from the script.

I was just saying as a postscript that I meant something different by freestanding. I agree that it’s totally orthogonal to your argument and mine.
Since we're talking about roguelikes, Brogue[0] is awesome as well.

[0]: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE
I dislike the usage of the term "frozen account". Skipping the rethoric, they have seized your assets for the duration of their unavailability, and later decided to give them back. By all accounts, it is analagous to a theft which at a later date was given back.

It is dishonest of banks to use this term. Their starting statement should be "we have taken your entire banking account at $BANK, and will hold these assets until we find reason to give them back".
I don’t think scale is preventing the effective policy from being implemented, but the political process that selects the wrong policy.
Especially if the terms of service are 147 pages of 6pt text containing nothing remotely concerning privacy, with a link buried in there somewhere to their privacy policy that then has some disingenuous weasel wording on page 14 which might imply that the "legitimate reason" they have for scraping your data is to sell it to third parties.
> Javascript is slowest at around 200KiB/s:

I get around 1.56MiB/s with that code. PHP gets 4.04MiB/s. Python gets 4.35MiB/s.

> What's also interesting is that node crashes after about a minute

I believe this is because `while(1)` runs so fast that there is no "idle" time for V8 to actually run GC. V8 is a strange beast, and this is just a guess of mine.

The following code shouldn't crash, give it a try:

node -e 'function write() {process.stdout.write("1"); process.nextTick(write)} write()' | pv > /dev/null

It's slower for me though, giving me 1.18MiB/s.

More examples with Babashka and Clojure:

bb -e "(while true (print \"1\"))" | pv > /dev/null

513KiB/s

clj -e "(while true (print \"1\"))" | pv > /dev/null

3.02MiB/s

clj -e "(require '[clojure.java.io :refer [copy]]) (while true (copy \"1\" *out*))" | pv > /dev/null

3.53MiB/s

clj -e "(while true (.println System/out \"1\"))" | pv > /dev/null

5.06MiB/s

Versions: PHP 8.1.6, Python 3.10.4, NodeJS v18.3.0, Babashka v0.8.1, Clojure 1.11.1.1105
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This is a python command line tool, and I'm going to reimplement this as a vscode extention.

any adivce?
I would love to live in a world where no racial violence has happened since the 1950s.
I would feel so awful if I thought I was interacting with a normal human and they didn't tell me they were categorizing my DMs to them in organized groups like 'web dev beginners' and automating their responses to me.
Because people with XX chromosomes who use supplementary testosterone have a distinct medical profile, whether or not they chose it voluntarily.

It would be weird, in fact, to wonder about trans women, hormones aren't that fungible.

We could also compare the East German athletes with bodybuilders if we wanted, of both sexes and any gender. Turns out they die early as well.

Also, if you're going to go wading into these waters online: the spelling trans men is preferred over transmen.

Edit to add: Trans men includes Buck Angel, so let's not pretend there's an arbitrary limit on testosterone use there. Much like cis men, some trans men want muscles much larger than any normal amount of testosterone will produce.
> Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2

Both of these are good examples of control schemes that are so complicated that it basically precludes me from playing anything else until I'm done with them. Otherwise, muscle memory will screw me to the point of frustration. I hate this part of modern games.
Do you think Germany should use more cash or less?
Perhaps different approaches to caching?

I'm reminded of this StackOverflow question, Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/9371238/
> I was very excited because I liked so much Simcity 2000. So, I played to the 3000, not as much, but enough to get the following opinion: it was a very good game, with the same spirit as its predecessors, but a little bit less fun than the 2000.

I spent thousands of hours playing SimCity 2000. I can't speak for 3000 (never played any), but I got 4 soon after it came out. I spent a few hundred hours trying to figure it out, but ended up liking 2000 better. The complicated mechanics in 4 destroyed much of the fun.

It was awkward when my dad needed an example of civil engineering when talking to someone, and asked if they ever heard of SimCity. It happened more than once.
They're also working on their own hardware.

Wildly admirable project.
>I don't know on which planet the author lives but my experience is a bit different

Different country or socioeconomic situation perhaps? Don't think I've bought a physical game from a store in the last 10+ years.
I did the same test, but added a rust and bash version. My results:

Rust: 21.9MiB/s

Bash: 282KiB/s

PHP: 2.35MiB/s

Python: 2.30MiB/s

Node: 943KiB/s

In my case, node did not crash after about two minutes. I find it interesting that PHP and Python are comparable for me but not you, but I'm sure there's a plethora of reasons to explain that. I'm not surprised rust is vastly faster and bash vastly slower, I just thought it interesting to compare since I use those languages a lot.

Rust:

fn main() {
loop {
print!("1");
}
}

Bash (no discernible difference between echo and printf):

while :; do printf "1"; done | pv > /dev/null
Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.
This is phenomenal! I have been toying with similar ideas, and I am so glad you are the same person behind Wave Function Collapse [1] . The fact that you have lifted the technique into a programming language is immensely powerful. Where do you want to go with it?

What research or other projects have been impactful on this work?

From the author, 40 minutes of the algorithm running through examples. [2]

Past stories about Wave Function Collapse [3]

[1] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

Youtube videos of WFC https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wave+function+c...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOQTr2Xmlz0

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
What version of node are you using? It seems to run indefinitely on 14.19.3 that comes with Ubuntu 20.04.
I also build one, be kind to me too corepo.org. ;P
Interestingly, I think most creators are already doing this intuitively without any analysis telling them to.