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>enjoying significant subsidies from the UK government

Those subsidies don't seem to be enough to save it when the infrastructure is crumbling and everyone is moving abroad for jobs. Also, many countries don't need subsidies, they need opportunities. Subsidies are like paying a crackehead to buy more drugs instead of getting him a home, warm meal, a shower and schooling for job applications.

>money they likely wouldn't get from Dublin

They would get it from the EU then, and probably a lot more, as the UK gov is now struggling financially to stay solvent. The EU can very generous if you can play the game right. Just look at Poland 20 years ago and Poland today, the difference EU funds and the EU open market made, is night and day. It has also benefiter the Republic of Ireland. I doubt they would have been in the same state today without EU membership. For all its faults, the EU has been a force for good many times. Another English speaking region joining the EU could be a mutual benefit.
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> But, sprawl is only a problem because of commutes.

I agree to an extent.

To be completely fair it is less efficient than densely packed cities in terms of energy and cost of providing services like sewage/garbage disposal.

That being said I see it as a tradeoff like any other and believe people should have the right to choose how they live as long as they bear the costs of that.
“The basic trick of LunaH-Map, which I’ll explain in a moment, is that if the ground that the cosmic ray struck contains hydrogen, any upward-going particles will be slower on average than if there’s no hydrogen there. Most lunar soil has no hydrogen, as determined by various missions to the moon. But lunar soil that contains water ice in it will have plenty of hydrogen, since water is hydrogen and oxygen (H2O). So if you can detect particles of certain speeds as you pass over a certain part of the Moon, you can tell whether there’s water ice embedded in the soil.

To explain all this, I need to tell you why particle speeds are sensitive to the presence of hydrogen, and which types of particles are best to measure.”
This is quite cool.
I've always used some of these colors when doing initial mockups.
Square corners versus rounded corners is objective?
IOW, both Wikipedia and Journalism can be a lot like Santa Claus — there is a lot of "evidence" of his existence, it is just that exactly zero of it is good, i.e., grounded in objective reality. But it makes a nice story, towards which most people seem to gravitate.
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Big record labels are absolutely uninterested in this. They get their cut and that's it. Small labels don't matter.

Festival headliners, and other big big big artists in general have managers, make a shitton of money, have a lot of other problems on tours besides ticketing anyway, plus they have guest lists, so in the end they don't care.

Those few artists that are big and care, well, they care to solve the problem for their own situation, for their fans, and don't really want to solve the general problem.

Because in general it's not their problem. :/

Oh and LiveNation is a public company, it has a nice business moat, so it's like a successful unicorn.
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I have to say I had the same experience with IntelliJ when developing for Android in 2013-15 or so. This year when trialing CLion I was very positively surprised by the evolution of their platform, it's easily the most usable environment for C++ development I have used.

I have experience from pure VIM, VSCode, Visual Studio for Windows, the reliable refactoring features alone are worth the price. With VSCode I would find the refactoring support not reliable and the intellisense features also might just stop working randomly depending on the project.

Prompted me to move to WebStorm also for web development, and I must say I have been very positively surprised there also.

Seems they have made some important strides in the past years, can highly recommend testing their environments out.
I think a typical hedge fund won't accept less than $100k. For a lot of brand-name funds, the minimum is $1M or higher. Many of them won't accept new investors at all, or when they do, it's for very large amounts of money. For example, Citadel is $10m+. Millenium is $25m+.
Decentralized ledgers are very different because they reuse existing trust relationships - that’s why they’re so much more efficient and safe to use.

This is an important point to understand because when cryptocurrency salespeople use those experiments as examples of real-world adoption they don’t spell out the connection — fully aware that if the Fed sets up a distributed ledger, it won’t have a step which involves making Bitcoin holders wealthy.

> My home state passed a law allowing me to pay taxes in bitcoin as well,

Do they actually accept bitcoin or do they just convert it into hard currency first? For example, when Colorado did this they implemented it by using PayPal and converting to USD at the time of the transaction so it’s like paying with a credit card including the single vendor charging a processing fee.

> there was the Ecuador thing.

Yes. Specifically the one where people protested against it, most people never use it, and the country has lost most of the money it put in? You were going to mention that, right?

https://nayibtracker.com/
Something else to think about is the way different resistors and other components have been graded over the decades.

For instance there were manufacturing approaches where a target value was produced for a large number of components, but the manufacturing tolerance was a very wide +/- 20%.

The parts were then graded individually into the 1%, 5%, 10% and 20% bins, marked and priced accordingly.

If you then specified the lowest-cost 20% parts, none of them were actually any closer than 10% to their nominal value.
To some extent we can support them ourselves (as I do with my Canon).
It can can be easily set with an IP/hostname and "just works". When
it's not in use, it's unplugged. The main support issues are probably
physical, right? Newer printers tend to break too easily. And yes,
some academics are too dumb to fix a paper jam or change a toner
cartridge. Hasn't it always been so?
One criteria that's fairly defining of a cult, by my definition, is major operational secrecy. People who join don't know what the higher-ups are doing. Indeed, they often don't know the fundamental doctrines of the cult! E.g. people who join Scientology don't get the whole "God is a space alien" package dropped on them until they're many, many $10,000s down the hole already.

Now, let's take Catholicism, probably the major faith most often accused of cult-like behaviour. It certainly has some of the most political structure and (pardon the pun) orthodoxy of the major religions. But Catholicism is also extremely open. There are no fees to join. There are no mandatory payments. There are no doctrinal secrets. They're entirely open about everything they believe, up front. You don't get whacked with some dark secret ten years in. They also don't really attempt to control most, let alone all, domains of of members' lives. They go about careers, etc. as they see fit. They're also tolerant of internal criticism and dissent; you've got some Cardinals in favour of gay marriage, and some of the loudest voices about the systematic sex abuse problem (one of the biggest reasons one might call them a cult) are coming from adherent Catholics, who aren't automatically excommunicated or given other traditionally cult-like handling for their dissent.

Such difference seems very significant to me. And I'm an atheist and decidedly anti-religious, for what it's worth.
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Has anyone significant said no to the World Cup situation?
This was a good read! I read it on Kindle and didn't pay attention to how long it was. It's immersive!
Thank you for at least trying to price your units at a reasonable cost. I keep seeing these things at prices over a hundred thousand and it blows my mind. It's completely divorced from the idea that originally seemed to inspire the movement, to buy less house, minimize their 'stuff' to just the important things and pay off everything early.

I wish you luck in your endeavors and hope that if I ever get a place where I can actually afford one I am able to get a unit like this one.
Yeah, two dimensions there: useful time at high power, and cornering ability / agility.

Time isn’t a huge concern to me at least. Typical sports cars get maybe 50-100 miles on a tank of gas at a track day, and breaks are nice anyway. Even spirited driving on mountain roads isn’t nearly that tough; you can’t use 500hp all that often.

But that weight…. Ugh. I’m interested to see the new Tesla roadster, but it’s probably still >4000lbs. And weight just takes the fun out of anything.
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Theres a difference between utilities (water/power/garbage/internet/cell service) and subscriptions, which are almost always optional.

That said, you haul your own water and run off-grid electricity if you really wanted to.
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FWIW, the inverse square root function wasn't popularized by Carmack. Most people shared it because they were amused by the confused comments surrounding it, and how it demonstrated an extremely vertical slice of optimization.

Treating anyone like a rockstar is a bad idea, but Carmacks and Wozniaks deserve the praise more than the Zuckerbergs and Jobs' out there.
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FWIW: I'm sure that heating and cooling my 3rd floor office negates some of my impact from telecommuting. I also have extra equipment in the office, and at home, that goes mostly unused.

I've been working ~90% remote for about 8 years. It works for me, because I'm disciplined and honest, and because I have a job that can be performed remotely. It also works for me because I've been able to find good ways to have facetime with the people I work with; but I'm normally shy and prefer to work in isolation.

Not every job can be performed remotely. Even jobs that can be performed remotely need facetime for helping people early in their careers start. Some people, unfortunately, aren't disciplined enough to work remotely.

Other people are extreme extroverts and really, really need to be around a large group of people for most of their day. A good friend of mine, who works in a hospital, used to love his job until he was assigned work-at-home work. He hates it now, just because he's a major extrovert.

There's another post in this thread from someone who lives in a small city apartment and commutes by train a few stops to their office. That's also environmentally friendly.
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Yes, there are some inefficiencies with sprawl. There are also mental health issues with dense cities.
I didn't "know them personally" but I interacted with them on a few dozen occasions.
Back in 1964 Arthur C. Clarke predicted [1] that by the year 2000 cities as we know them would no longer exist. We would live in a world of instant communication where we could contact anyone on Earth without leaving our home. This technology would make it possible for many people to conduct business without having to be present at a specific physical location. Today, we know the technology Clarke was talking about as the Internet. And while his technological predictions could not have been more correct, he severely underestimated the pace of social progress.

Despite modern office jobs being done entirely on a computer, most workers are still expected to get up in the morning, battle the daily commute, and physically congregate at the office to work. Companies have given innumerable arguments for why this must be so, and until recently there wasn’t an empirical way to test any of them.

Unfortunately, it’s often difficult to tell whether an argument holds water without running an experiment since ideas that sound great on paper can spectacularly fail in practice. However, the pandemic presented a unique scenario where it was no longer safe to continue following these practices resulting in a forced experiment of mass remote work across the world. We now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that remote work was possible all along, and a recent study shows that there is no loss of productivity associated with it. It would appear that the main barrier to remote work was the desire to stick with the familiar. Now that this valuable experiment has been run we shouldn’t simply discard the results. Office workers should demand the ability to continue working remotely. There is no longer any justification to keep up the daily commute.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT_8-pjuctM&t=294
I think I understand what you're suggesting, but keep in mind that in the Wikipedia example the database is largely static (the server decides when to update), while a messaging app needs to support users updating the DB. There are a lot of leakage scenarios that need to be taken into account (like no push notifications).

Spiral has a video[1] where they dive into some of the details.

[1] https://youtu.be/T7RDEEJ5vQg
Doesn’t support Tesla unfortunately
That's why I'm so optimistic about our ability to solve climate change. Solving climate change is more more a way to be profitable.
Because people don't actually care about the environment, the vast majority just say they do - until it's inconvenient to them.
Company bought it for me
Well, we're certainly not Fortune 500 scale, so it works for us.
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Given the broad (though admittedly shallow) impact this had in Scotland, and how long it was perpetuated, perhaps the hoax itself deserves an article? The people who learned false stuff about him aren't going to unlearn it because the article was deleted. There needs to be something to set the record straight.
The Youtube algorithm recommended a "top ten" list awhile ago about things the youtuber hated about van life. I had been watching quite a feel tiny homes videos, mostly out of curiousity about how people made efficient use of their space more than a desire to move into a small home.

In any case, it's a pretty honest breakdown of the challenges of van life, from someone who seemed to be making bank on the whole trend. Interestingly, going back and looking at the titles of subsequent videos, it sounds like it's becoming more of a struggle for her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4QQTfIvzv4
The Sony Wega 3 looks really interesting, though probably not at that price. Definitely a tech idea worth exploring further. :)
As for watches, I tend towards cheap timex windup watches. They tell time well enough, I can read the dial with my distance glasses on, and I don't feel too bad when something happens and they inevitably get broken.
Combining the downsides of owning and renting is such a cool business model!
And lets put the comments on the blockchain.

Everything is better with blockchainTM
> Everyone benefits, including people that love the city life.

That's what I've been saying, but I'm met with an attitude that doesn't accept anything short of what I see as a human pile-up with only the very rich owning real estate.
Subscriptions should have required operational costs (cloud, map updates, content updates)

- OR - (inclusive or)

Subscriptions should be sub-to-own. Unlock a feature for the same price as it would have been on the original purchase. This smooths out purchase price, so it may be worth it for some consumers.
That seems like an unfortunate choice of vehicle to commute many hours per week alone in, unless maybe you work in construction and need to haul things to the site (in which case spending more on transportation seems worthwhile as a core part of the job function.)
The problem with traceability systems comes down to interfacing between the various nodes. Interoperability is probably the largest obstacle on the road to provide a full farm-to-table product tracking.

Probably not so much of a problem for the fully vertically integrated companies - especially those that also build or control their electronic systems, but large parts of agriculture still consists of independent actors on each node.

IIRC, the argument was that blockchain does not explicitly "solve" the problem, but rather that interoperability between blockchain-based systems will be easier than between those using completely different standards.

And of course, then you have the problem that food can travel around the globe many times before ending up on the table. Which again means more trust.
“The issue here is that making money by holding onto assets you can’t fundamentally make money by holding is hard.”

They can make plenty of money through volume (fees), while holding the crypto 1:1. Sounds relatively easy to me.

That’s the baffling thing about FTX/Alameda. FTX on its own could be a nice profitable business, yet it seems they got greedy by lending customer funds to the hedge fund-y sister company.
Basically what YC has been touting for years, focus on problems not solutions.
He thinks black people are dumber due to genetics. (a 15 point lower iq)
>Both Adobe and the consumer come out ahead in a world where the consumer doesn’t have to pirate software.

You left out the option of "Purchase the full software package for a single flat cost equal to 1 year's subscription fee today". Taken from the brief period when companies offered offline packages.

The truth is that a lot of users don't need the latest and greatest. They need the software to do a few things, and if that software is 5 years old it doesn't matter.

Software companies don't like this, so they instead switched to a subscription model that forces users to constantly upgrade despite not needing anything new. It's a truly scummy business model.
Imagine that the govt and the police actually treated the blockchain record as the infallible final source of truth, without any ifs and buts, without any traditional database on the side overriding what the blockchain says.

If an attacker came to your house, kicked your ass until you give your private key, and then transferred the land to themselves on the blockchain — the land would be fully legally theirs now! It's a valid transaction, and the courts can't reverse it — there's one source of truth, and it's cryptographically unchangeable without the private key. That's what the blockchain says, and the police will evict you from your own house.

(and then to prevent that you build enough off-chain trust systems, escrows, and side databases on top, and courts gain ability to dictate changes, and the actual blockchain becomes an irrelevant implementation detail).
Resizing the image of the guitar to fill the space was "correct" over showing the whole image. In the context of someone selling something, seeing the whole image before clicking through would be important, versus potentially having the object of the photo being cropped out entirely.

There were several where the text between the two appeared to be different, but resolved to the same during compare.
Pretty much all the numbers can be explained as being the closest number to the geometric mean of the previous and following number. Once you have chosen to round the second number in E3 to 22, 47 is the closest to splitting 22 and 100 evenly. The exception is 33 in the E6 series, that should be 32 when splitting 22 and 47, most of the other "errors" in E12 and E24 are there because 33 pushes the other numbers upwards.
Things have been going very pear-shaped in the UK for at least 6 years now.
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Regardless, it's kind of assumed that $100k worth of "flex" comes with a pretty high minimum amount of any given quality. My complaint would still stand if it had 1000hp and manual windows and seats.
Most young children want to know everything, it's the attention span to make it through an explanation of prime numbers that would be rare.
My first introduction to them was "IM The Supervisor" two decades ago, and still to this day, they keep releasing absolute bangers.

I quite like their recent "Head of NASA" album, but my favourite one is "Legend of the Black Shawarma".
Since we're talking about Twitter, let me point out the Titanic didn't immediately sink when she struck the iceberg. Things can appear fine for some time before they catastrophically fail. Software is no exception.

Twitter is no longer positioned to add any new services or abilities. The Twitter we had is the best Twitter will ever be. Maybe that's enough. More likely is people have left who are key to maintaining operational excellence. Like the Titanic, their absence may not be noticed for some time.

My initial takeaway from this disaster isn't you can let 80% of your engineers go and you'll be just fine. Though I'm quite happy for my competitors to draw that conclusion!
You may be able to simulate a magnet perfectly, but that doesn't make magnetism. In the same way, you may be able to simulate a mind perfectly, but that doesn't make consciousness.

With consciousness, it's about experiencing sensations, what things feel like from the inside, not about any behaviour on the outside.
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This would appear to go into a much more fundamental questions about our society.

Currently, when we see recession, we can increase government spending. This is usually done in infrastructure – we give people a job, and in return we get infrastructure, nice!

But if we agree that infrastructure does not provide that amount of value we either need to figure other large scale projects that 1) provide value and 2) requires a lot of manual labor or we need to not found money distribution in work (an alternative could be UBI here).
Let's not underhype it, either: It seems you are underestimating the impact that Doom had on PC gaming when it came out. Using BSP trees to perform zero overdraw rendering definitely was not something that had been done before on consumer level hardware and it can definitely be argued that applying them this way for Doom was a stroke of genius.
Have you tried using a wrist pad?
This is the main disadvantage of remote work IMO. All those little things you think of while writing a solution gets lost in the "I'll do that later" sphere. In comparison, in-person programming in a team provides no excuse. Even if we say we'll do it later, it's not on one person to remember it. The thought gets thrown in the air and caught by someone else on the team. When I'm working alone, the thought gets thrown up but unless I catch it (which I never do), it floats away.
This seems like another case of deprecating language based on an individual or cohort realizing something that a reasonable person would have already assumed.
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Is there anything comparable which doesn't require a smartphone? On the laptop and runs Linux?

I don't trust the large closed hardware blobs on my smartphone.

ps: does anything technically prevent berty from being used as an application on a computer?
Interesting how some colors are so close from each other, especially "Chartreuse" and "Lawngreen" (on my middle-end monitors, at least).
That's one option.

The larger problem to solve is the sheer volume of legacy apps that people are afraid to touch due to "they're working, don't touch it!" or their source, team, etc aren't available anymore. Putting authN/Z, IP restrictions, etc in front without modifying them is powerful.

Then you can do the same for IoT devices in seconds.
Then you're just trusting Github, and they don't have a perfect track record on neutrality:

https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2022/04/19/github-suspendi...
My son (4) loves that too, but his brothers didn't care at the same age. It depends so much on the personality. I also got a little bit addicted to it recently ;-)