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Living in debt living paycheck to paycheck to payoff those huge liabilities.

I doubt that would be thr average price if car financing wasn't expanding to much longer lengths than 3-5 years.
To concur: We have been living with private, decentralized social credit scores of varying sizes for most of our social history. Imagine you are asked for a $1000 loan from: a family member/a good friend/an acquaintance/a total stranger. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with being selective.

These only get scary when they are centralized. You can live without Airbnb. A government-mandated no-sleep list would be life changing.
Never use Airbnb
Or a general “nDWW”

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It's the difference between refusing service because of an inherent aspect of someone (like their sexual orientation) and refusing service because someone is choosing to actively broadcast their highly inflammatory opinions.
There's nothing seriously insulting in that post. Calling out biased Apple defenders for their misleading claims isn't an insult no matter how much some would want it.
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I really hope you're correct. It feels a lot like the debate between phonics and whole language to me, where how we teach makes it difficult for the average student to learn. People here are discussing Bloom's Taxonomy and higher levels of learning, but many students struggle with even the most basic concepts.
I thought so too, but the fact that I am 'charging' for the product makes me somehow more responsible? Like if someone was selling the Cookbook

Do you happen to know the "kind" of lawyer I need to speak to?

BTW I got into computers the same way, just playing with them and making them do fun things, like opening and closing the CD non stop :)

EDIT: actually people are selling the cookbook on amazon: https://www.amazon.de/s?k=anarchist+cookbook without any disclaimer or anything, and it can literally kill people, maybe I am overthinking this
Mental health is just one aspect of life, but issues in just this one aspect can cause death.
Surprised nobody is mentioning climate change. Young people are supposed to be contributing and centering their lives around a kind of societal structure which is increasingly seen as doomed. The constant acceleration of capital is bumping up against the material finitude of an increasingly depleted Earth.

Conservatives have a vision of the doomed future, built around walls and hoarding resources against impending scarcity. But liberals don't really have a good answer outside of "bring the super-rich to heel and use their resources to invest in mitigations," a view which is anathema to politicians who depend on the super-rich to continue holding power.

People are depressed because there doesn't seem to be a future.
> True -- but by the same token, it was possible to "work your way through college". This is largely impossible now.

It can be done, if you are willing to do Community College and then head to a state university to finish up. We asked our friend's daughter, who was choosing which college to attend about going to a local state university. She replied, "what do I tell my friends?" as in it was beneath her. Which was funny as both her parents went to state universities.
I would rephrase the question... what InfoSec jobs doesn't involve spending writing documentation?

pentesting? 20% finding the low hanging fruit, 80% writing and explaining your findings.

forensics? 10% finding how they did it, 90% writing and explaining your findings.

malware/policy/security/cloud security analyst? 100% writing and explaining your findings.

the list goes on and on... you are basically and a slave for word processing software, thats why totally understand OP quitting infosec.
When it comes to my personal laptop, I also, typically, blindly trust the keys coming from developers because I don't have time for that. Not so much if I have to deploy a system into environment that several orders of magnitude more expensive than my laptop...

With systems like Python, I'd imagine that a solution to web of trust would be that some group of developers would organize a curated set of packages. So, for the cases where you need better security assurances, you'd use that. I mean, of course there's no guaranteed solution for the web of trust, but, in practical terms, something like that would be good enough for regulators.

There's already stuff like NumFOCUS. They don't particularly focus on the technical side of things, or endorsing more secure practices, but, in principle, they could. Maybe there will also be others once we have been bitten more times by some security breaches.
Yep, Qt uses a very similar syntax.
Thorium is great; it's closer to a virtual tabletop for starship RPGs than a standalone game, built around creating interactive narratives. That sets it apart from the more straightforward game-style bridge sims, like Artemis[1] and EmptyEpsilon[2], which have scriptable scenarios with narrative elements but have more fundamentally game-focused mechanics.

All of these get used in a lot of fun ways for live events beyond their design, too. Thorium's "family tree" comes from interactive events at planetariums, and EmptyEpsilon, being open-source with an HTTP API and game-master screen for directly manipulating live game state and pretending to be ships, became a popular front-end for European LARPs.[3]

1: https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/

2: https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/

3: https://www.odysseuslarp.com/blog/steering-the-starship-empt...
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Fortitude and coping skills are learned through adversity (sometimes with the help of parents or a therapist, most often with a lot of hopefully lower cost failure), but suffering you cannot grow from is unnecessary and not of value. With that said, social media is an unnecessary toxin children and teens are exposed to. You wouldn’t let them bathe in PFAS, and social media is similar: ubiquitous but also toxic with extended exposure.
> It's not that the US won't have social credit scores... they just will be privatized and opaque.

We already have a social credit score and it's privatized now. It's background checks.

From the story:

> While she does not have a criminal record, her boyfriend does, she said, telling Motherboard it was “a white collar charge,” though she did not go into specifics.

I find it a bit odd to let private companies do background checks when this really seems more of a function of government where as a society we can have input and reform the process.
The difference being that those cables would still work with other non Apple devices, contrary to what happens with lighting.
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This misses out on the culture problem.

A lot of high schools teach kids they must go to college. Kids feel like failures to consider the route of skilled trades. Many schools have removed the hands on classes that prep people to be comfortable working with tools and their hands. So, kids have less prep to go out there. There is a culture element to this.

> You first have to do 6-12 months in a state-approved trade school (costs $15-20K on average in CA).

This isn't everywhere. Many other states have a much simpler setup to get into trades. Sometimes there is a trade school (and sometimes the industry covers the cost). Sometimes you start a job and learn on the job. You take certification tests along the way. What you describe for CA isn't everywhere.
> We have eliminated social roles and duties and obligations that used to apply to young people. In many cases we have replaced those personal obligations (e.g. to take care of elders) with abstract government funded systems. And maybe those changes aren’t all conducive to the well being of young people.

Wait, are you trying to say that kids these days don't work hard enough?
Being a good neighbor is a fundamental part of being a man of good character and maintaining a working society.

Taking care of a neighbor is none of my business because other peoples' lives are none of my business.

Being a good neighbor and taking care of a neighbor are two very different things.
Yeah I cackled. Quite literally the skinner "am I out of touch" / "no it's the children who are wrong" meme.
Brits are certainly not paragons of sound judgment, but arresting people who are making a public show of harassing women is one case where they are making a perfectly good judgment.
For convenience, Airbnb lets you send/share the itinerary with other guests via their platform. That's not literally every customer's relationship status, but it would be trivial to use that to ban known associates of bad actors.
This phenomenon is probably not unique to the USA.
if we know how to save our consciousness (the program runs inside our brain) into quantum entanglement device, all can live forever in matrix, and we probably don't even need a body device anymore.
The trap to avoid is memorizing openings!

It takes a ton of time and brainpower, and doesn't make you a better player once you're outside your memorized moves..
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Pretty much this. Essentially, the bottom two tiers serve as the fundamental basis that ought to be robust and sturdy, but frequently end up being the place where students' academic progress comes to a halt.
> So what has changed since the 1950s?

Income inequality has increased greatly from it's low in the 1950s. This means more people make less than X% of the median wage.

Housing has become much more expensive versus average wages.

Minimum wage has not increased with inflation.

Fallback jobs that require little training and can be done by most people have become fewer and fewer. The remaining jobs have less of a path upwards.

The top Federal tax bracket was 90% in the 1950s and it's under 40% now.

Etc. etc.
How has their stability been? Last time I tried a vultr $5 node they had periodic network problems and it would see really high packet loss for 10-20 seconds every couple hours, as well as some unexpected outages.
It doesn't take many expensive cars to really skew the average. The median is a lot lower than $50K.
Don't worry, we'll simply reduce the standards.
There’s no science that says that. Talk like this only gives fuel to climate change deniers.
In some European countries, people don't have credit scores, but when they're applying for a mortgage, they also need a collateral which costs about the same as the house or apartment they're trying to buy.

I'd rather have credit scores, tbh.
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I would hope much more than that.
Lol. They weren't carving granite though, it was some very soft volcanic rock.
> While this might appear to be a consumer-hostile move from Apple, there are reasons the company might want a certification process. Obviously, Apple stands to make some money from charging for the certified parts and technology, but consumers will also have more confidence in buying products they know are guaranteed to work seamlessly with the iPhone.

> Despite all of the praise USB-C gets for its universal connector, there are a lot of problems with it too. It is nearly impossible to tell what capabilities a cable might have just by looking at it, which could potentially damage a product if connected in an unexpected way.

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https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/smart-office/using-the...

> Some cables could carry 100W and handle 10Gbps, while others might be limited to 60W and 5Gbps or even 480Mbps.

> The idea is to stop 100W of power from being pushed down a cable that can't handle it. This could, at worse, result in fires.

> One problem with E-Mark is that it's not as widely supported as it should be. While a quality charger shouldn't try to push 60W or even 100W down an unsuitable cable, I've seen it happen.

> And unless you're aware of it, you'd have no idea that it was unsafe.

> Then there's the issue of cables that claim to have the E-Mark which do not have the E-Mark. Unless you have a tool that can read the E-Mark, you have to take the manufacturer's word for it.

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I'm going to contend this isn't so much subverting EU rules but rather trying to ensure that Apple won't get blamed when someone uses a cable that can't handle the power when plugged in given that there's not a good standard out there for this and no enforcement of the "ok, there's something - try this..."
He's right tho
"Hacker's Delight" book was really useful for me even though I already had a good grasp on bitwise operators. I sat down with a pencil and went through the bit matrix transpose example and it really opened my eyes to how much interesting stuff can be done this way. I think the key to understanding is to visualize the bitwise operations.

Most of it is pattern recognition and learning common idioms, like multiplying by 0x01010101..., extracting substrings of bits ((x >> y) & z), thinking of values as sets of integers and so on.

Also bitwise manipulations lend themselves well to function composition, so try to keep an eye out for that. For example, if you have a fast function that checks if any byte is zero, you can generalize it to any value by applying xor beforehand. Similarly, the fast bit matrix transpose (which absolutely terrified me) is simply applying the least number of "shift a subset of bits" operations such that each bit travels the required distance.
I wouldn't call most of what you're talking about "cultural" I'd put it down to relativity and zero-sum (to most players) rat-races.

No medicaid; but also health care was far simpler and cheaper. That meant some died, yes, but less of a constant weight of "because I don't have a better job I won't be protected like those higher income people are."

No student loans; less need for them. Almost nobody went to college - but they got jobs anyway.

Not having to take out a bunch of debt to go to college to do a job that doesn't require specialized knowledge is a materially better prospect even in a pure economic sense than having to do a bunch more work to get a mostly-unrelated credential for squarely-lower-middle-to-middle-class-jobs. It's simply lower personal cost.

You had much lower costs because the frontier was much more accessible and growing cheaply, too. Fewer people in the country. More un- or barely-developed land in growing areas. Less competition for more resources = lower personal cost. Materially better.

We also have new forms of peer-to-peer mass communication so any relative advantage someone has today is magnified and amplified. None of your old buddies were hopping on private jets and traveling across the world doing influencer stuff and able to shove it in your face constantly back then. We've coupled increasing inequality with increasing visibility of that inequality. I don't think you have to pull in broad cultural things beyond just (failing) keeping up with the Joneses.
Among all the accepted threats to humanity's future, AI is one of the least founded at this point. We all grew up with this cautionary fiction. But unless you know something everyone else doesn't, the near term existential threat of AI is relatively low.
I don't own one of them but... https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/xpeng-flying-car-gitex-du...

I think we at least can say we have them... :D
Did you even read the article? You're arguing a complete strawman. You can be materially better off while still feeling life is worse than it used to be.
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Global warming was supposed to kill me 20 years ago.
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It would help if you did not give easily verifiable facts to reveal the inaccuracy of your recall. You may have been using Doom in 1994 but you certainly were not using Quake. If this is an accurate memory, what year is it from?
Faster you do something, more you rely on your instincts, and instincts alone do not further your game -- or anything you strive to be good at really -- you need to be mindfully thinking it through.

It might be beneficial to spice things up, but this is in general not a good advice.
> No, the trolley problem is actually a good parallel to real ethical dilemmas

Its not, because it is a deliverate simplification which removes uncertainty of outcomes and uncertainty in the probability of outcomes, both actual and perceived through subconscious rationalization.

It is a good illustration of one of the many dimensions of problems that exist in real life ethical dilemmas, but is not, in general, a good parallel for them.
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Interesting. So what stocks does Elad buy now?
Much of the planet? Really? I can understand writing off Phoenix, AZ or parts of South East Asia and the Middle East.
This is true, but there are a lot more hours available now than then. Global supply chains mean a modern "legion" can draw from the labor of 8 billion people. Those workers live longer lives, and far far fewer of them are working in agriculture just to keep themselves fed. This is before factoring in their productivity -- an hour of 2023 globalized labor is presumably many times more productive than an hour of 500 BCE Roman labor.
I frequently hear this comment about spaced repetition, but I’m not sure how it would be different than modern education. In physics, we started with unit analysis, but it continued being a factor throughout the course. Then we learned kinematic, which didn’t disappear once we went into dynamics and both were constantly used with electrostatics. Similarly, in language courses, you start with a single conjugation in present indicative. You build out from there, but the present tense would still show up on every assignment, even after you’ve gone through pluperfect subjunctive. Needless to say, algebra courses freely called back to basic arithmetic and calculus called back to algebra.

I feel like I must be attacking a straw man here, as you’re not the only individual I’ve met who found spaced repetition revelatory, but I’m still not sure what I’m missing.
Wouldn't the grade level be defined by the median student?
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If anything, some parts of the planet will become more habitable. Like Canada.

(Not a dig on Canada; Canada's lovely - from May to October)
> The logic here is absolutely astounding. People _killing themselves_ is not an indicator that life is worse?

This is not the claim.

The word “objective” does a lot of important heavy lifting here, and there are strong arguments to be made that subjective experience has gotten significantly worse, while most “objective” factors have continued to improve as the world modernizes.

The trouble is that evolutionary psychology is such that the major changes to how humans live and communicate leave us in an environment that looks less and less like the environment we evolved in.

This is why there is so much interest in the impact of social media. There is evidence that even among those who are in an objectively “good” circumstance when defining “good” based on safety, financial security and other commons measures, individuals are just as susceptible to the negativity and distorted reality that dominates modern social life.
NGL this seems like an Ender's Game scenario waiting to happen
More like to 40, worn down to absolute nothing.
Not if the obesity epidemic is as bad as feared
Hmm, glad to know my Google isn't defective then.
China and the US depend too much on eachother to fight a large scale war.

Russia's geopolitical ambitions has currently been limited to forcefully annexing Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Odessa from Ukraine. They will most likely get Donetsk and Luhansk and fail at permanently annexing the other regions.

Neither will lead to a large scale global war.
I haven't see a lot of job postings for those. It's either a dedicated security professional, or a software engineer.

I once worked for company making a security product. The other software engineers knew almost nothing about security or secure coding practices. It was never a requirement for the company to hire people with security skills, nor did security skills even get taught! I tend to think that's the norm in the industry, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
How much better it is, is not a measure of time. It may be a hugely improved product, and it may also be replicated in a few years. They also are not making many of them yet. Let's see it scale. (which maybe it will, but they dont deserve credit for something they have not done yet.)