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Not sure what you mean, bonds and stocks are different liabilities and a state utility by definition cannot issue equity or the state would lose ownership. It means they must pay their bond coupons and therefore are very risk adverse and change resistant.

A security-emitting entity doesnt need to pay back the debt too much (it should but doesnt have to, via dividend) and therefore can afford to try things to raise returns for both shareholders and management and absorb failure.

The worst situation is when a state utility tries to innovate and fails: this leads to privatization which actually transforms it in a public companies (the words are weird: state companies are not directly publicly owned by the citizens, private companies on the public market can be). If a public market private company fails to innovate and just produces riskless cashflow forever, it becomes a good candidate for state private ownership.
The most baffling example is a candidate who admitted they didn't expect ML specific questions and hence hadn't prepared. I spent a minute figuring out if we were interviewing the right candidate.

My expectations are always evolving since this is a new role for us. The current guidelines are that candidates should have broad knowledge of ML fundamentals. We also work through a design challenge together where a candidate solves a business problem using ML.

I'm still figuring out the best ways to evaluate these.
Elite schools want people from the power class. A lot of this is explicitly baked into admissions. Over 40% of white students at Harvard are side-door admissions (legacy, donors, children of faculty, etc.). This is especially true for minority admissions. For the most part, Harvard won't admit lower-class African Americans; they'll select from a much smaller pool who have already moved into the power networks. That's important for maintaining power networks now that the DEI movement means minorities will likely e.g. serve on corporate boards.

There is some amount of meritocratic admissions as well, but you can't look at this as an accident.
"and by defining their opinion on the past rather than the current geopolitical environment"

Yeah, who cares about the bad stuff 3-5-10-20 years in the past! All those US wars and coups are not applicable since the USA has turned into a bright, shiny fairy now!

"If they've got to be under the thumb of some foreign power, they ought to choose the US over china or russia."

Yeah, the US holding a gun to your head and saying: You are either with us or against us. Many nations want to make their own independent sovereign choice. Your diplomats actually use this language when they feel they can push folks around.
He is the most fun bullshit artist.
Nope, I worked at two FAANG companies and with not a single Harvard or Stanford graduate. I hosted an intern from Stanford once who received a top of band return offer and rejected it for a "better option." I had one coworker from MIT who admitted he should have gone in finance instead. He later left for a prestigious hedge fund and 7 figure compensation. Most of my coworkers ended up here on H1-B visas from top schools in their home countries, but no network or strong family wealth here in the US. I always joked that Harvard graduates are above putting up with the semi-annual hoop jumping FAANG companies have for "performance reviews."
The relationship is complex and contingent, but generally the host country will be making a range of concessions to the US (e.g. ceding land, giving US troops a range of indemnities, agreeing to purchase weapons systems from the US).

It may not be profitable for "the US" as an abstract whole, but the US is not a unitary entity; it's very profitable for the largest lobbying organisations in the US (Lockheed etc.).
Presumably a bored photo editor, trying to think of "elite" images, typed in "oxford university graduation" into Getty Images and got these results: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/oxford-university-graduat...
I almost used the more PC term, 'executive recruiting'. But many/most people I know refer to them as 'headhunters'. At least some in the industry object to this term, but it is still widely used by people at large.
WTF???!! I use this everyday. I wish I downloaded it with youtube-dl or something. It helps me a lot when trying to focus and multi-task.

What is happening to Youtube? I can't even find related content on it anymore (try to watch some song or talk and all the recommendations are about some conspiracy rabbit hole it wants to take me into).

Why has no one competed with them so far in a meaningful way? You would think this would be right up Netflix's alley.
> The arrogance of Western medicine and science is astounding sometimes.

As opposed to what?
I'll check it out. I haven't tried Abbyy yet but have tried a few others, and none of them unfortunately came close to the capabilities of Adobe Acrobat. I don't like Adobe Acrobat because I primarily use Linux, but do keep a Windows VM or partition around to scan documents.
That's pretty cool, I like the lyrics.

The visuals remind me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U

...not so much the message though. :-)
DNA is like source code written one line at a time with a million branches each with a different engineer that merge once or twice after 20 years of random hacks whose merge conflict resolution is non deterministic and error prone yet amazingly produces syntax errors very rarely*.

I take umbrage with the idea this is a technology from millions of years in the future. It’s literally the background noise technology that just shows up if you do nothing for 16 billion quarters.

*unless you merge with a first cousin.
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If you open youtube.com in a private window, it does not auto-login as expected. Maybe, I am misunderstanding your question?
Whenever this comes up, I'm always puzzled about where the extra money is going. Is it just pure profit for the University?
ironically, there is a lot of overlap between the "buys hyper expensive wrist Tamagotchis", "owns a charity," and "donates to charities" Venn diagram.
I don't think this advice really applies anymore. 10 years ago when the equivalent car was a 1995 you could plausibly do something like this, buy the service manual and maintain it yourself. Sure you need the time to do it, but it keeps you from sinking 4x the cost of the car you just described into keeping it running over the next 5 years or so.

Anymore though, many engines just aren't end user serviceable. I'm running a 2007 that requires partially dropping the engine to change the spark plugs, forget replacing a head gasket or alternator.

Yeah don't buy that 70k Lexus, probably don't buy any new car, but that beater you describe is probably $2k for a reason, and the average buyer doesn't have the skill set to evaluate what that reason is, and could easily find themselves needing another $2k beater in a couple years.

Best to go upmarket a bit and get a somewhat more expensive used car, and have it inspected by a mechanic (preferably one you know and trust) before buying. Don't trust the dealer inspection!
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> Don’t tolerate intolerance. Don’t play games with bad governments.

the initial tolerance of the intolerance is due to the idea that by freely trading and allowing trade in such a (asymmetric) fashion, the less democratic country would democratize. Over time, the gov't would become more open and "westernize".

That is a miscalculation by the US administration (particularly clinton's, but i won't pin this onto any particular one, as it's a wide policy not decided by a single administration). Neither russia nor china had leadership that would see themselves removed from power - that is their primary prerogative as dictators. And any policy changes that those countries implement is first, and foremost, a policy to keep themselves in power. To the extend that their policies benefit the people, it's done for the express purpose of keeping themselves in power, and never a primary objective.

Therefore, it's clear now, that neither china nor russia would want to integrate themselves in to the west as allies and partners. They forever see the west as an adversary to which they must best - it's an imaginary threat, made real by the fact that democratizing means disposing of dictators.

This can only end one way. I hope it's the west that wins, because despite the woes and poor performance, it cannot be worse than the alternative.
It's almost as if the move away from merit-based acceptance (purely driven by test scores) in the name of equity has led to increased nepotism. Who could have saw that coming?
As an ex FAANG, nothing could be more true. TikTok is just continuing what Silicon Valley started, only they're better at it. Having seen what US tech companies have done with my data, I'd much rather it was in the hands of the Chinese.
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You also save money compared to shopping elsewhere which is really the major contributor to it being worth it.
You’ve clearly never lived paycheck to paycheck, so congratulations on your staggering privilege. You should meet some people who haven’t been as fortunate, you might be surprised how crazy tone deaf this comment is.
It's not just Russia and China. Most nations have realised that these large social networks have selective censoring and US tilted "fact-checking". Many, many nations are clamping down, banning, restricting or raising applicable laws to limit the damage of these social-media "services".
I believe hypercars are much worse for every practical point like reliability, noise, ... Performance is superior but won't work on most public road.
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One thing to do is to show your estimates as distribution curves instead of averages. It can be helpful to choose estimates from a Fibonacci scale. Set the pessimistic estimate high enough that it’ll rarely be missed.

Edit: I change the units based on how far out I’m estimating. If I’m estimating the next six weeks, I’ll use hours. If I’m estimating a roadmap I’ll use weeks. The numbers get large quickly (1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144). It’s rare you’ll find yourself planning farther than 2 years out (104 weeks).

As you work, keep updating the estimated time remaining. If the initial estimate for a task is an 8 (between 5 and 13), keep reporting 8 until your estimate falls below 8, then report 5 (between 3 and 8). Avoid reporting intermediate values like 7.
Good to know! I'm sure it varies by location, and it's also possible the quality that I'm getting at the no-name station is not as good.
I once worked in the head office of a mining company in an IT role. There was a guy wearing a hard-hat standing next to the stairs with a clipboard taking notes to see if people were holding on to the handrail or not (as per corporate safety regulations).

You see, there must be "one rule for everyone". The head-office suits can't be seen as discriminating against the plebs at the mine sites. It's a perception thing, people won't obey if it's "rules for thee, not for me".

So... I got a talking to by HR for a solid hour because I didn't hold the handrail when taking two steps down to the cafeteria.
The whole point of buying the beater is so you can eventually get the car you want. It doesn’t make sense to buy multiple intermediate vehicles to get there.

Remove the second transaction and the associated $800 sales tax and it’s basically a wash. Live in a state with sensible tax rates and it’s a no brainer.
"Highly coordinated" seems more like a drunk drive-by
PriceSmart, (Costco's Latin American cousin), does something similar too.

They research/test the products before selling them so that they comply with their quality standards. So once products are on the shelves its likely that they are good.

This make buying decisions easier. Which is a much better shopping experience than having to read a dozen product reviews while shopping online.
thanks, I had gotten things mixed up in my head.

though, I still don't see how FTL has to cause paradoxes. What if a wormhole connects you to your destination's past, specifically the 4.3 years ago? There's no causality paradox because both points are in each other's light cones. Earthicans can watch you live by telescope.

...oh. that would imply that you'd see Earth 4.3 years in the future by telescope, while stepping back into the wormhole would either take you into the future (not closed timelike) or to the past (where a Centaurian could shoot themself.) I see.
C64 was very similar to the earlier Atari 800, just much cheaper in terms of price and construction, and (reportedly) sold below cost to drive the minor players out of the business. Nobody cross-shopped a CP/M or IBM PC with a Commodore.

Note the article is from the trailing edge, and the other 8-bit systems pretty much almost dead at that point, and the C64 was just barely still selling for another year or so on cheap fumes.

(Never was even aware of C128, so no comment on that.)
I believe it's profitable for Lockheed, etc., but isn't that at the expense of the American taxpayers? And doesn't the foreign location usually make money from the base being there?
I have the same impulse and also wish to keep a grip on it. Partly, this is from watching the bad example of my boss, who is always making slightly inappropriate jokes in meetings. His behavior communicates insecurity, immaturity, and poor boundaries. To this end, I’ve found that if I can manage to maintain a feeling of being solidly “in my own skin”, then I’m less compelled to joke sarcastically on the proceedings.
This makes sense as graduate school gets more and more competitive. Getting a tenure track position nowadays often requires being among the best students of a top graduate program. Even just getting into a PhD program can be difficult depending on the subject.

If your parents have graduate degrees or are professors its likely that graduate school was on your radar much earlier in life. You probably had more time to consider what steps you'd need to take to get there. You're also probably more likely to be interested in graduate school at all, since many people don't even view it as an option for themselves at all.
I’ve always had a gut feeling that Costco’s customers represent a broader swath of socioeconomic diversity than most other stores. Don’t know how true that is and would love to learn if there’s real data behind it.
I have a separate question regarding generics.

I know a medication for a rare disease, which typically costs more than 6 figures, is having its patent expiring soon.

I would love for generic drug makers (ones in India for example?) to come in and start making the drug for cheaper so it is more affordable for families.

However, because it is a rare disease, I don't know if a drug maker would normally be incentivised to do this. But given the sky high costs of the drug pre patent expiration, I think there might be enough demand there for makers to make decent profit.

Say I wanted to give them a nudge, or maybe I get some people who I know are ready to pay for it if they make them, showing to the generic makers the demand is there. Does anyone know how I should go about this or if it's possible? Then again I don't know how regulations and stuff work but just hypothetically.
If you’re in germany, use the mytaxi (freenow) app and pay in the app.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/free-now/id357852748?l=en
Wow, yep, and that jogged my memory, my dad and I also went to one or two at the War Memorial Auditorium! That’s wild.
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> People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia

Even if your system was pure Meritocracy that'd make 16th century Anglos proud, you'd still expect it to eventually come to this (smart people have smart kids, dumb people have dumb kids)
> some of the programs you literally entered in machine code! How did people ever find the time?!

IIRC there was a program in BASIC you had to run to start the machine language prompt. Entering lines basically involved typing a series of numbers and their checksum. If you entered the line without errors, a bell sound would play. Otherwise you would hear a buzzing sound.

I knew how to touch type and would just treat the number row on the keyboard as the home row. It was actually faster to transcribe the machine code due to the checksum feature compared to BASIC code.

Looking back on it, I wish they would have just had the program listings in assembly language instead of machine code. That would have made it easier to follow along.
Yes, I meant Abandonware, thanks. Sorry about that.

Hmm... I could have sworn it was legal; but it looks like it's only legal once the copyright expires and nothing prior like failure to support...

Even then, all they have to do is do what Nintendo did with the e-shop.

That said, I think there is legal grounds to take these kinds of scenarios into court to attempt to get the laws changed. Maybe not in past decades, but the current situation with digital goods basically requires that abandonware be legal; lest we are just going to roll over and give in to these companies that only care about profits solely and only.

Yes, profits are important; but so is repaying your fanbase for their loyalty. They might not be able to keep these games running forever, but that shouldn't stop people from being able to do it for themselves.

That's my nickels worth on this matter.
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People on here pretending like unelected rich elite influencing politics via NGOs by meeting with elected government officials in Davos every year isn't a big deal or anything to worry about, and that Uber's behavior as well as the behavior of corrupt world leaders who enabled Uber, is justified because Taxi companies and labor unions are also corrupt.

People unconcerned with this stuff are probably the same folks who think Klaus Schwab is a benign leader of the WEF which is just some benign global humanitarian organization, and that when Schwaab talks about penetrating government cabinets, and people owning nothing by 2030 and liking it, it's just a conspiracy.

This is one of the major problems with the world - tech overlords and globalists have everyone brainwashed into thinking this dystopian shit is normal, and that we should accept it, or that it's necessary to build a "sustainable" future - whatever that means. Sounds to me like the rich and powerful will do whatever they can to become more rich and powerful, damn the costs. Their purported ends justify their means, no matter how violent, destructive, unethical or immoral.

Edit: I just thought more about this. This article literally painted a scene at one point where the effing POTUS, supposedly the most powerful person in the world, was being spoken to like a child by the CEO of a corporation, and then changed policy on the spot after being bullied around at a secretive conference that I won't even get into the sketchiness of. If this isn't concerning, I don't know what is.
True, that said, it made it to the front page... and while not everything on the front page is super interesting, it does give it a bit weight on the dice roll fun.
Ubisoft actually sells some DRM‐free games on GOG—the first Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry 1 and 2, Rayman Origins (but not Rayman Legends).

If you have disk space to spare, I would recommend downloading GOG’s offline installers as a backup. The risk of the service disappearing or games you’ve bought being removed seems pretty low, but DRM‐free offline installers are just as good as the classic “physical copy,” provided you actually saved them!
The flash you linked to the datasheet for is over a decade old. Any SSD built from it would fall short of adequate by an order of magnitude in every important metric. The per-die capacity of typical current-generation NAND flash is 16x larger, the interface speeds are 8x higher, erase blocks are 24x larger, program latency can be 5-10x higher. And most importantly, all mainstream SSDs now use flash that stores three or four bits per physical memory cell, rather than one.

So using that flash, you could build something that is recognizably an SSD. But it would be almost entirely useless: too expensive and too small and slow for production use, and too far removed from the current state of the art to serve as a research platform for the most important challenges the SSD industry has been dealing with for the past several generations (error correction strategies for TLC/QLC, and SLC caching).
+1 for APU2. I've written about my experience with it (+ NixOS) here: https://skogsbrus.xyz/blog/2022/06/12/router

As the other commenter said though - max speed is 1gbps. And approx 200mbit/s over wifi with 5ghz and the same network card I used.
I had no idea anyone thought this was outdated. We certainly never stopped doing it. I think it is a timeless failsafe.
You usually see men hanging with other men, and women with other women.

There are 2 pictures shown.

If you went to a campus and captured 2 such pictures of people at random, it would be completely common for both pictures to end up like the ones in the article.
Shouldn't a company which could collect location data of sensitive populations, opposition politicians, etc, not have a standard operating procedure to make sure un-audited+un-reviewed access is not possible? Shouldn't companies with user-generated "content" have a way to remotely lock down and wipe laptops which are seized or stolen? even when law enforcement or state actors involved: what will we say when uber's florida or texas office is raided in an effort to get a list of people seeking transportation to certain types of healthcare? what about in states where "aiding and abetting" certain types of healthcare is itself treated as a criminal act? what about in places which imprison or persecute queer people?

I don't think the lying and the misdirection and the "prediction" based on reading news reports or political rumors are ethical or even particularly smart, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a company storing mountains of user data which does not have a lockout plan like this that they will be willing to use against law enforcement in certain scenarios or by default.

btw, this was originally reported in 2018: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/11/16878284/uber-secret-tool...
I am from eastern Europe and right now Russia is invading a democratic country to install its own government, tortures and massacres everyone left and right.
I thought it was a story about EVs bursting into flames after being repossessed. Pretty confusing headline without context.
I think that your point 2 is a positive when taken in isolation, but with negative consequences for wider society - it did drive other firms out of business.

I also don't know how many markets uber entered were actually monopolies. London certainly wasn't, though the minicab firms there were dodgy as hell. It will have increased standards of service in that market longer term, even as it unfairly competed.

Are cab monopolies a US thing?
somehow hackernews is full of saints who never check out soft porn on tiktok .
> Taxi Drivers in Switzerland typically earn around 40,700 CHF per year and Uber drivers make roughly the same if working full-time, more if they are working more than 40-hours a week.

You’re forgetting that one of these two person needs to pay for a car, car taxes, fuel and insurance by themself.
That looks like what a bunch of stupid kids might do in a cave today. Humans haven't changed.
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