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> So Woody Allen went from being an adored auteur to someone who not only was declared guilty of a horrible crime in public opinion, but also people felt entitled to declare his cinema was never good to begin with

To enjoy entertainment of anyone not a saint makes you a bad person. And I want to state emphatically for the record I am a good person. I believe in all the right things, and disbelieve all the wrong ones. When those things change next year or tomorrow, I too will change and forget that I ever believed otherwise.
Well this mob rule has ensured some of the best working conditions in the world for the Nordic countries. While having very flexible industries, with less labor conflicts than most countries. Why is it okay for an individual to get what is theirs, but not a collective?
I think your assumptions about OPs arguments are correct. I think a more charitable way of looking at it though is that one must confront what loudest people with a following are doing with a public issue, because regardless of who is or is not the 'true' representative, the loud ones with the followings are going to end up (have ended up?) defining it.

Perhaps a better take than to limit arguing on the point of what is actually 'free speech absolutism' would be to argue that those to whom the OP refers are not actually representatives are are bad faith actors? After such one can define it, or, better yet, come up with a new set of terms not yet defined out of bounds.
Why tax? There's a money printer. What's a few billion more on the yearly interest payments to the Fed?
Scholars use the modern Mandarin reading of the Chinese characters in question, because the Xiongnu did not leave behind their own name. Even the affiliation of the Xiongnu language is unclear, with competing hypotheses. For similar groups where we do have an endonym or at least some non-Chinese name (e.g. the Khitan or the Tabgač), then that non-Chinese name is used.
also, modern WP and WP from 10 years ago are very different beasts. Now most of the risk is in plugins, and if you're careful about plugins - it all works okay, without security issues.
Sorry you're in that situation :(.

There's always risk when making big changes, and relationships are probably the toughest change to make, since it tends to be a permanent one, but for some people, it's also the one they need most.

Sounds like it wasn't in your case, but unfortunately it can be hard to know for certain until you make the change, which sucks. I do wish that sometimes I could set a savepoint like in video games, try something different for a while, then be able to go back to the checkpoint if I'm not happy with the change. I'm sure I'd make more changes in my own life if I had the ability to do that.
The topic here specifically is his love life. If a person I personally knew was accused of half of what Feynman has been, I'd have second thoughts about inviting them over for dinner.

If you're going to argue for a gradient of perspective while assessing the character of a person there are better examples than Feynman.
> I used to leech Mp3's with the best of them, trawling through blogs enmasse before music was consolidated by giant aggregators

That's not the only alternative. I've never done that.

> Its very intersting how my music taste has evolved over the years, the more genres and types i was exposed to, the more i discovered.

I couldn't agree more! But streaming services (or old-school radio) doesn't work well for me when it comes to discovering new music. I get that plenty of people find that a great path and more power to them.

But for me, streaming services are like radio you pay for, and music radio has never been a thing of value to me at any point in my life.

And, financially speaking, "radio you pay for" makes no sense to me. If I'm paying money, I want to have the music available to listen to any time I want, on any device I want -- not just when a DJ decides it's time to play it, or only when I have an internet connection.

But don't get me wrong -- I am not saying that streaming services are stupid and shouldn't exist. I'm just saying that they don't provide value to me, personally.
This isn't really great logic. Lofting concrete chunks over populated areas isn't exactly "everything worked out" or "safe" even if everyone happens to survive.
I spent short time looking and found that most papers are very outdated or don't have relevant info (no measurements of overhead) on that page. Give specific paper and citation or we finish this discussion.
> The initial reason why we have Leetcode today is that Google originally determined through their interview research that the smartest candidates were the ones who were best at algorithms. ... It’s funny that people have lost that intent and are now creating derivatives around that, ie thinking code reviews are a good replacement.

Have you considered that what's actually happened is people are finally realizing that they don't want to optimize for the characteristics that Google is optimizing for?

Setting aside the question of whether "smart"s are something that can be sought out without a more specific definition, the average business doesn't need "smart" programmers. They need programmers who are predictable, who reliably produce good-enough software, who communicate well in speech and in writing and who work well on a team. Algorithmic ability provides essentially zero signal for these capabilities, so it's not so much that people have lost the intent that they're realizing that the process they cargo culted isn't appropriate for their hiring needs.
It feels like the time when the West was flooded with cheap plastic from China - because it was cheap.
> They also claim that Tesla is paying a below average wage.

It's hard to understand this. Why take the job if you don't like the pay? Taking the job at a certain wage and then striking seems the wrong way to go about things. Can anyone who knows the system explain this a little more?
Folks already ventured the idea in Henry George’s own time and after then.

For some weird reason (laziness?) no one is going back to see why in these cases the idea was repealed.
a) DOJ states that asylees/refugees are no different to US citizens with respect to export control laws.

b) US government issues security clearances not SpaceX so it is their call whether a candidate is suitable or not. And given that they are filing a lawsuit we can assume this is not an issue.

c) The issues raised by the DOJ do not relate specifically to security clearances.
You've obviously never built a house in California. They're complaining about 6-8 month turnarounds to review a rocket permit.

That's well below the typical turnaround time for new house construction around here. Heck, I've heard of generator permits taking longer than that.

To be clear how absurd that is, a generator permit is one that gets you permission to pour a concrete pad, place a store-bought residential generator on it, and then trench and run electrical lines between it and an existing electrical panel.

I empathize with SpaceX, but there are similar issues with far larger economic impact throughout all layers of the US government. Ever hear the story about the access road in Marin that they needed to build for Golden Gate Bridge maintenance? It took longer to permit and cost more to build than the bridge (inflation adjusted).
See, clearance in Europe doesn't require citizenship. It does make it a lot easier so.
That’s probably what inspired those building codes…
Developer time is of course, free.
There's no reasonable minimum wage. A minimum wage that would be appropriate for restaurants is nonsensical for electricians.

The swedish model basically sets minimum wage by sector. Much more tailored to the employers and employees.
And he as a billionaire lives in a tax favorable nation for him, where federal agencies don't receive proper funding in part due to low taxes on people with wealth like him, resulting in lower funding for legally required regulation of his own industries?
Its a free market for labor.
I do want to add, I know Newton, Iowa--the town this article takes place in--and they do not have any mass shooting or gang violence. There is drug use, but barely any drug-related violence (unless you count alcohol, I guess).

I know you are talking about police in general, not this specific town, but I wanted to make clear that none of those are a daily reality in Newton.
Thanks for sharing, now the last paragraph really got my attention: What exactly is the problem with (co-)owning as a woman with children, no eligibility for parental leave?
While moving is certainly not costless, keep in mind that this grandma moving and selling has just had a huge windfall.
Virtual labels and niche genres are Bandcamp's bread and butter. No better place for dark jazz and dark ambient, good for synthwave and noise.
In manufacturing? What do you think happens when an employee doesn’t show up to the line because of high PTO or low working hours? Magic fairies run the assembly process for free?

Manufacturing does not work like software engineering. There is an extremely direct link between people showing up to the job and parts rolling off the line. The workers aren’t watching YouTube for half the day.
You're describing extortion.

It's one thing to discourage people from engaging with a business because of their labour practices, it's another thing entirely to actively prevent them from doing so.
I meant that in the fundamental sense, that I can do whatever I want and nobody can stop me, as long as I have the most physical - in the sense of physics - power. The only thing that I can not do is force others to do things I want them to do, they can always decide to refuse and die. Poisons are just molecular bullets. Betrayal, manipulation, and propaganda, not sure how they would achieve anything if I have enough power.
"mine"

That critique would be fair if I was talking about my one WordPress site but I'm talking about hundreds, maybe even a thousand if you count sites I've built that came and went. It's a pretty decent sample size (IMHO) both for the number of instances but also the time period (10+ years). And it's also not 300 clone sites, each one was built unique, and each has their own mix of plugins & themes.
I honestly like the Wordpress developer model. I’ve written themes and plugins. I’ve learned how to write tests for both. I like how they released the “wp-cli” so I can manage Wordpress outside the web GUI. It sometimes does feel a little janky in a lot of ways but it offers a lot of value as a framework.

Wordpress gets a lot of undue hate, imo. It just works, at least for me and my workloads. I worry I’ll encounter some legendary source of friction that turns many devs off to Wordpress but so far I haven’t. YMMV.
I like the concept, but I think the problem here is that governments have the means and resources to go after folks building and distributing browsers, apps, etc.

The decentralized nature of the technologies mentioned contributes substantially to their resilience. Re-centralizing them opens new avenues of attack and new targets to silence and corrupt for the state.
Why didn't the restaurant just have the police come and remove the trespassers?
Meanwhile, in the US, train workers are banned from strike for horrible work conditions and no paid sick leave.
Are secondary strikes legal in Sweden?
They don't pay taxes, since they aren't profitable. Their core business (launching Falcon9 etc) is highly profitable, but is a small B billion business. OTOH their new businesses (Starlink and Starship) require $10B+ investments.
> It needs to be supported by the big players too. A self-hosted option isn't enough.

But the way WebauthN works, it should be possible for any platform to offer this functionality. I believe 1password already offers cross-platform. But it's not self-hosted which is what I need.
Please read the link I posted.

"Moreover, asylees’ and refugees’ permission to live and work in the United States does not expire, and they stand on equal footing with U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents under export control laws"
Surprisingly I actually do know a lot of cops. They do use the language you're talking about, they view non-cops as too weak and cowardly to do what is "necessary," the violence that they do. They also tend to be fairly unsophisticated sure but they understand what they're part of. And plenty of them are smart, and those tend to be officers in my experience.

But I simply reject the premise that any of this is caused by lack of education and can be corrected by shifting the selection criteria. You need a certain amount of moral flexibility and malice to stay a cop for long, and that will be just as true of college graduates. Policing attracts all kinds of people as it is, but it only retains the ones it can mold into a particular nasty usefulness.
What sort of security clearance is necessary to work at below average wages on a non-union assembly line? Or moderating what little hate speech still warrants attention on Ex-Twitter? Or digging tunnels under Las Vegas? Or installing solar batteries? Or servicing Teslas or charging stations? Or cleaning debris under mandate in the Boca Chica nature preserves bordering SpaceX’s “definitely not a launch pad” launch pad? Or working directly on Falcon rockets for that matter, since they aren’t exactly secret or weaponized?
but we have no proof beyond this grayscale 16x16 image that clearly shows a black shape in the middle
I have no regret, only a slight loss at the sense of self. All of that energy does not come for "free." You must pay the piper so to speak. You only have a few surges like that in your lifetime, so far I'm on like #7 or something and I feel I don't have it in me to do too many more, at least at that intensity. Kind of like a cat that gets 9 lives. In my 20s I was a bit foolish on what I chose to invest those 9 lives in. Luckily, as I've gotten older I'm much smarter and I have chosen wisely.
In actual practice, I mostly see Natural Law cited as an excuse for homophobia, used in a manner which is transparently reasoning backwards from conclusions. I imagine that actual philosophers might occasionally make better use of it, but I am put off the idea.
> if you dont want either of those things, where does the money come from?

I don't see a problem with higher use fees for frequent funding new hires. I can't imagine SpaceX would, either. Plenty of regulators charge application fees without getting compromised.
Does little old lady own her house? If yes, what's the problem with taxing the increase in value of her property caused by the environment becoming more desirable? All in all she's neither losing nor gaining anything.
There are plenty of people in the USA who live in apartments today. Building more apartments is outlawed in many areas due to land use rules. If people truly won’t live in the apartments, land use rules can be abolished and developers and builders won’t build those homes because they’ll find them unsaleable in the marketplace.
> property taxes and electric bill charge me an extra fee for credit card payment (which I prefer since it is push and also rewards)

Precisely why credit cards are a hidden parasite on overall economic activity. They incentivize customers to use to get rewards and then take a ~4% cut of the payment from the merchant. So that's why merchants charge you extra fee they need to make up that 4% cost somewhere and it's either fees or raising prices even though you might not realize it.
Go.com [pdf]
But every role requires being a US person due to ITAR regulations.
Absolutely. People act like we can't or shouldn't seek both technological and social advancement. Social advancement is the key difference between a dystopian and a utopian technologically advanced future.
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ITAR is comolex, and a pain in the ass, sure. But it does not, by any means, make it illegal for non-US citizens to get ITAR equipment or information. Because US citizens outside the US also fall under ITAR restrictions. You over simplified that topic a lot.

Edit: Thinking of it, getting ITAR stuff to people and places ourside the US is the point of ITAR.
Looks like someone knows what they are talking about, except maybe for

> anyone who tells you that they can tell the difference is a liar

I tried jarred once and there was a distinct difference. Maybe it had gone bad, I don't know, but it was enough for me to swear it off. Besides, roux is part of the process that I thoroughly enjoy.

> The tomatoes add nothing to the dish but sour flavors and wetter rice.

We grew up on Cajun food, but my dad (who was already the black sheep) would add tomatoes to everything. I do this as well, so I might be a bit of a heretic. The only meat mixing we do is with the sausage.
I see a blue skeleton holding some kind of scepter in its left hand.
What does it matter? We have a money printer.
Such research is actually why we started building our note-taking app[1] around digital notecards.

When I was in university I was reading a lot of this literature, and came to the same conclusion as many of the researchers – the problem seems to be that typists just type too fast, and default to writing down everything a lecturer says instead of synthesizing/summarizing information as they go (which requires actual understanding).

So we developed our (short-form digital notecard) format in the hopes that it would encourage users to slow down a bit and actually think about the notes they were making, and compartmentalize them as they went. We haven't actually done any studies ourselves, so I have no idea if it actually helps our average user, but for me personally it has made me take better notes.

Mildly tangential but this is also why we have decided not to add any LLM features to our app yet – although very tempting to add the hot new thing, I personally feel that outsourcing your thinking to an LLM (in the case of a PKM system / "second brain") will almost certainly be a net negative for most people.

[1] https://supernotes.app
I've been deploying WordPress for 10+ years and would agree. WordPress is much safer and mature, it's the plugins and sometimes the themes that are the problem now. But we monitor, and patch. No big deal.
proof is overrated when you want to believe
If there's one cartel that should get a pass surely it should be a country-wide labor cartel, right?
> for real progress a complete overhaul of the electoral process is needed.

Does not look like an achievable first step.
This is the result of telling everybody that they will be screwed and unemployable if they get a humanities degree: a bunch of people who aren’t technical at all have struggled through STEM degrees out of fear. Oops, there goes that signal.

They don’t need more time behind the keyboard, we as a society need to figure out how to provide middle class lifestyles to people who aren’t good behind the keyboard.

I mean we’re talking about careers that will start building generational wealth, it is not surprising that people will do whatever they need to get in.
Yes those serve videos but I'm talking about something like YouTube. Prime Video, for example, is in the AppleTV category.
Patlabor is one of my favorite anime, as it follows the de-idealization of giant robots from Grendizer to Gundam to technology on the edge of the quotidian.

I did not recognize the fanservice tropes when I saw it the first time and the second time I realized those tropes were a lot older than I knew. (Like the scene where two women compete over their bust size and then over their ability to hold their liquor) Despite that, it's just great. I wish they'd make an anime remake and not just a live action like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Generation:_Patlabor
This is pretty cool. Thanks so much for sharing!!
You actually can just offer a (not very large) amount of money and get access. The fees aren't even that large and they are public see [1] for example. The startup costs for an HFT would be comparable to a restaurant buildout, it's really not a capital intensive business.

[1]: https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/Wireless_Connectivity_Fees_a...
A referral from a trusted internal employee is what you leverage your network for. After that, you still go through interviews but you're at the head of the pack and already have a relationship internally through the person who referred you. All that should be left is process to check the boxes in the HR system and salary negotiation. There could always be exceptions like failing a background check or like getting too abrasive in social media and HR thinking you could present reputational risk etc.
Somewhat offtopic, does anyone have a link to a page that describes which extensions/tools I should be using with VSCode to author Python code?

Edited to add: when you read various recommendations, they're all discrete and don't have the overall context. e.g. I installed the VSCode suggested extensions, but then read a comment that I should really be using Ruff. OK, that's good, but if I have extensions X, Y, and Z, should I add extensions A, B, and C?
"copyright 2010 /dev/finance inc", the company name before they became Stripe. So this is historic?
Sorry, shouldn’t have said hire from but rather “contract” from.

Right now I run an engineering team from brasil but it’s on a contractor basis through a brasil company. Fantastic results. Incredible developer community. Deep desire to build proper code.

Almost all Python developers in Brasil go to yearly pilgrimages to Python Brasil or Python Nordeste or other developer conferences. Much higher participation in the “community” aspect of programming than anything I saw in the US or other countries.
It's literally impossible to "keep it."

The landlord charges what they believe they can charge.

That's set by market rates in your local area (or cartels like RealPage [0] et al.).

And that's set to homogenize returns with national rental alternatives.

And that's set by alternative options to invest of capital.

If you +5% to the costs of operating rental property, by removing a deduction, rents are going to go up.

And focusing on commercial mortgage interest deductions is ridiculous, as they're accounted for in the exact same way as every other business: expenses deducted from income.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
Being frustrated with the quality of someone's work is understandable.

With a bit of practice it's possible to give the same feedback, but in a way that will encourage and teach, instead of what this was.
That's not what ITAR says so.
I find the downvotes for the above post to be quite distateful. I see nothing wrong with it and historically simply disagreeing (or agreeing) with a post is a poor reason to vote.

I will add an anecdote to this post. I was talking with a close friend of mine’s father who owned a contruction company. I was fairly anti union at the time, and I made some comment about unions assuming he’d be anti union as well. His response was that he loved unions. He had 2 different unions onsite, and said they both provided access to the best workers. He was happy to have the unions for his business.

Now I realize that unions for him were acting like a filter, with the best construction workers likely being attracted to the higher pay and better conditions. But it was an interesting take on things for a young mind. I simply couldn’t fathom a world where a capitalist would embrace union activity.
You’re welcome. I am not a Beatles expert so I appreciated the insight and perspective from this expert.
That was sand, not concrete.
I absolutely love this, and it nails genre really well. I think it’s optimised for English, right? The result of trying to get it to speak Spanish is pretty funny!

An attempt at norteño/gaucho/polka:
https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/28aeb4a7-cf41-4efc-9519-3a10...

Reggaeton:
https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/1afbbb7a-9987-4e17-89af-1805...