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Value produced is a function of multiple inputs. One of those inputs might be called "labor". Another one of those inputs might be called "capital". Perhaps there are also other inputs, but I don't want to address them in this comment. We can speak of, "if the amount of labor is increased by some marginal amount, what is the marginal increase in the value produced". We can also speak of "if the amount of capital is increased by some marginal amount, what is the marginal increase in the value produced".

If we fix some baseline combination of quantities of "labor" and "capital", and compare it to some later combination where both have been increased, there are a number of possible differences to take.

There are V(l_0, c_0) , V(l_0 + dl, c_0), V(l_0, c_0 + dc), V(l_0 + dl, c_0 + dc).

One could call V(l_0 + dl, c_0) - V(l_0, c_0) "the contribution from additional labor", and V(l_0, c_0 + dc) - V(l_0, c_0) "the contribution from additional capital",
or one might call V(l_0 + dl, c_0 + dc) - V(L_0, c_0 + dc) "the contribution from additional labor" and V(l_0 + dl, c_0 + dc) - V(l_0 + dl, c_0) "the contribution from additional capital".

In a linear approximation, these two ways of assigning quantities to these names for quantities, could be the same. But I wouldn't really expect them to be the same in practice, at least for large values of dl and dc. (note: I am using "dl" and "dc" instead of \Delta l and \Delta c, because it is more convenient to type. I don't mean to suggest that the changes are extremely small or infinitesimal, as might be suggested by using the letter d instead of \Delta.)

As such, I think that "the additional value that an additional amount of capital is able to produce" is a meaningful value if "quantity of labor" is held constant, and that "the additional value that an additional amount of labor is about to produce" is a meaningful value if "amount of capital" is held constant.

When both values are changed, then how much to attribute the increase in value produced to, is I think inherently somewhat ambiguous, but also not a completely meaningless question.

Given the four values V(l_0, c_0) , V(l_0 + dl, c_0), V(l_0, c_0 + dc), V(l_0 + dl, c_0 + dc), assuming that all four of the differences I mentioned previously are non-negative, then clearly the additional value from either cannot reasonably be said to be more than V(l_0 + dl, c_0 + dc) - V(l_0, c_0).
Nor, I think, can the value attributed to the change along one axis, be reasonably estimated as less than the minimum of the differences along that axis.
Also, I think probably a more reasonable upper bound on either contribution, is the maximum of the two differences for the respective axis.

Now, maybe your goal is to talk about the deserts, rather than causes? But if we are talking about what things are causally responsible for how much of something is produced, I think it's pretty clear that this analysis in terms of differences of these 4 terms, is on the right track.
> Is it? I doubt that.

The 350W tdp? Its in the article. There's a table of each pro sku and their TDP.
Because most small caliber ammo is made in production runs. Something like 30-06 might get ran for 1 day a year. Now add up all those different odd calibers and think of the time to switch out dies in presses, feeds for power, feeds for the projectile and you're talking about real numbers of lost productivity where they could be cranking out .223 and .308 the entire time instead.

Also, other shooters will shoot the common rounds like .223, when it's cost goes up or it's unavailable, they move to these other rounds increasing their costs.
> You automate all the recurring things (this is built into Gnucash

Is it? When I last looked at GnuCash (which, admittedly, was like 7 years ago) you could not setup automatic categorization of transactions. You couldn't say, while going through imported transactions, "Every transaction where the payee is utility company should come from the Utilities account". The idea was that GnuCash was using some kind of Bayesian scheme to learn how to categorize your transactions automatically, but you had to input your transactions manually 3 or 4 times before it started working. Which, for me, seemed like a huge waste of time since 90% of my transactions could be automatically categorized by simple keyword matching against the payee or description.
These are self-descrived "high-quality". I don't think any of these libraries are noteworthy, let alone adopted to any degree of significance.
Bandcamp was literally about paying for stuff.
Added a quick domain check to avoid the issue that you've mentioned :)
Note these are not the same as "murder hornets" (Vespa mandarinia) we heard about often in the news back during the pandemic, these are a close cousin called Vespa Velutina.
Or bandwidth.
I wrote Ruby for 10 years and Elixir for about 4.

The Ruby version is a bit awkward because it has to make compromises with existing syntax … however, I have already been able to make use of it. My Ruby code these days have gotten a lot more functional, and the type of code I write these days (devops tooling, not Rails code) involves complex transformation or parsing, which makes this useful.

I have not tried this with flow control (with :ok and :error tuples) … but I can tell you the missing half missing from this picture are function clauses. (How that would work with being able to redefine functions, I have no idea; just saying though ….)

Pattern matching comes all the way from logic programming (Prolog). It should not be surprising that this really shines when working with complex logic.
How about: less drama?

There are things where you can't trust "the EU" (whatever this is supposed to be, the Parliament? The Commission? The countries?) and there are things where you can and absolutely should.

Generalizations are propaganda, and this is what you do here.
The primary value of bitlocker is to defend against theft, not the NSA.
Your coworker is "full of it" for the following reasons:

- Storage is always encrypted on Apple Silicon Macs.[1]

- You can enable FileVault, but all FileVault does on Apple Silicon is add the user's password as an additional key[2]. There is not an additional performance hit with FileVault.

1. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-ove...

2. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/volume-encryption-w...
Eh, I've worked with a whole lot of incredibly intelligent, talented people in the federal government. If there's a problem they have with wages, it's more that they can't retain the best people any more, but it wasn't so much of a problem 20 years ago before Silicon Valley salaries skyrocketed so quickly. The security of the civil service and a guaranteed pension used to make up for the slightly lower pay, but it doesn't make up for 1/3 the pay. Given it takes a literal act of Congress to change the pay bands and Congress won't even fund the existing budget they already passed, they simply can't adjust at the speed of industry.

But they probably will eventually add a compensating bonus for critical work the way they had to do with medical doctors. Physicians that work directly for DoD make an enormous bonus compared to others in the same pay grade but different career field because otherwise they wouldn't be able to hire anyone. They react slowly but eventually react.

What you're talking about, though, is a problem with procurement procedures. It's far easier to get through Congress than any change in operational budget that involves increased pay for federal employees, even if the outcome is otherwise identical. And it frankly makes sense to a large extent. Even if they have to pay way more for a private workforce, they only have to justify it for a several year project. Hire the same number of civil servants and you're committing to employing them for the next 30 years. They need to know they'll consistently have work for them to do. They can't just institute mass layoffs and hiring spurs on the other side the way industry can.
There's no real way to measure productivity to start with. There's no logic underpinning any of this. It's all instinct and bias, and nobody want to say that out loud.
I just turned up my example to make my point.

If we don't care about the employees, who does?

If we care only under certain circumstances, where is the limit?

Union busting, unpaid overtime, forced labor?
Do you have any evidence that isn't true? How often do truly new problems come up? Nearly every problem I see is after someone gets an an algorithm named after them.
I think the more canonical way would be

assert(!someObj || someObj.data);

Which seems fine as it is.
Interesting, thanks for the correction
Yup, IRC they were using Go to write to flat file on a server. The file was acting as queue for that process.
If you're wealthier but your standard of living is dropping that can point to many things, but one big one is a labor shortage.
No, you're already on the same list for posting a comment that mentions that country.
Not confident in this space, either, but it seems like the loan is the loophole. So maybe using an asset as collateral counts as realizing capital gains?

(And, yes, of course: establish a sensible annual exclusion, so no one accuses me of trying to demolish second mortgages for middle-class families, or whatever.)

What (good-faith) second-order drawbacks might this have? I'm genuinely curious about whether this would be a feasible idea.
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> Without the unions spooking the management drones, you get things like Walmart and McD's going and outsourcing what was previously done via payroll to State benefit programs.

Part of the blame there lies with the government allowing corporations to offload their labor costs onto it. That's one of many ways in which the government gives handouts to corporations which is the literal antithesis of the market economy.
Can jokes not be made anymore?

Only if that is the caliber of humor we can expect from you in the future.
And a fat lot good it did for Russia losing massive amounts of equipment to high tech solutions.
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> At the same time, it's really hard even for Elixir to beat a lot of the productivity benefits of Ruby

Can you give an example or explain what you mean?
* at the margins, which is what we're talking about really. I wouldn't go so far as to say you can't measure productivity at all. You could probably tell if I just up and stopped working.
The Japanese speaking parts of Twitter is (still) quite nice, I am getting good value from it.

I imagine there are still many communities that aren't completely ruined yet, your mileage may vary.
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It depends if you are talking about Okta's "Workforce Identity cloud" which is their flagship product under the Okta name and serves businesses needing an IDP to manage their employees. Or if you are looking for "Customer Identity cloud" aka Auth0 alternatives which is primarily for authenticating a businesses end-users/customers.
It's a good point, but the entire program would have to be written this way (you can't use the standard library, or any other dependencies).

What if there were tools to inspect and debug the coroutine state? That's an area we're exploring now.
Specifically, the way ammo factories work is sorta analogous to a home reloading setup... they setup a production line with a particular caliber, they run a batch, they take it apart and set up the next caliber, run a batch etc. It is not like they are churning everything out constantly, it is discrete batches for the smaller stuff. While I'm sure the big military calibers have dedicated lines, during a crisis they will shift additional lines (or all their lines) over to the military calibers and they won't be running your rando 22-250 or .25-06 or whatever at all.

It's a little bit of an oddity in the modern JIT supply-chain era but this is effectively still an industry that runs on a large buffered inventory. Or at least, relies on customers to buffer inventory sufficient to their needs when it's actually available.

> Yes, at the beginning of a panic it seems like you're clever because there's still .25-06 and .17 HMR on store shelves, but the secret is that these cartridges are always more expensive than their more standard counterparts.

I will disagree with this slightly because it's all a question of how fast demand spikes and how quickly you burn through the inventory buffers. We actually saw during the pandemic that sometimes less popular calibers are cheaper than the in-demand ones (eg: 38sp/357 Mag/sometimes even 44 Mag could be cheaper than 9mm), but it's only because there just isn't much demand for them. Once that buffer burns through, it's done, and they won't be making more for a while, and it will come in at a much higher price.

There are a few calibers that ride the line, 40 S+W is an interesting one because there is a fairly decent constant level of demand for it from LEO usage (it is, famously, the FBI caliber), so it gets produced, but there's also not a lot of retail demand for it. Sometimes this means it crosses over and is cheaper than 9mm.

A lot of guns can swap between 9mm and 40S+W if you change the barrel (and sometimes different mags), and often you can get police-surplus 40S+W guns significantly cheaper than the 9mm equivalents. The price difference often means you can get a used 40S+W Glock or SIG, plus a replacement 9mm barrel, for roughly the same price of the used 9mm version of the gun. Nice little bit of market inefficiency there. But that's a pro purchase for shortages because 40S+W really doesn't get hit bad like 9mm does, you can pretty much always find it and sometimes it will indeed be cheaper than 9mm.

38sp and 357 can have the same thing, although not as often or as much. The other wildcard used to be 7.62x39, during shortages you could always rely on Brown Bear or Wolf being churned out by the case-load, but, obviously Russia being a belligerent here (and Ukraine having a decent amount of AKs and other combloc weapons) has changed the math. Probably permanently, unfortunately - can't really see the US racing to open up imports of russian ammo even after things settle down.
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He’s both stealing from his employees and paying them at the exact same time?
Another security breach? I know about the Lactus?(sp) one a few months or years ago
Yeah, Anderson over in Accounts has the same concerns but seemed to make the new arrangement work without missing our Q1 KPIs.
Theres no labor shortage, companies have been reaping record profits and not paying it out to employees. Thats why the standard of living is dropping. Its basic economics
So put a cost of living adjustment on it.
and that the leads from both of the other teams are on the change control board eagerly waiting for your change to come before them so they can find the least-obvious-but-still-patently-obvious excuses to make your request look unprepared to the govvies who pay them in lieu of having any expertise so "new table" requests can be shot down with lowbrow questions like "But have we thought about the security implications?!?"
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Well, you don't have to be a genius to realize that extensive usage in Ukraine + potential wars in Palestine & Taiwan + low production (actual&capacity) = shortage.

As for the article, it focuses on mergers and the free reign of finance capital over this field. The notion of production of goods within the sphere of (modern, financialized) marketplace is unceremoniously dismissed:

> the government has allowed Wall Street to determine who owns, builds, and profits from defense spending ... the consequence ... are predictable. Higher prices, worse quality, lower output.

So, apparently the author wants the US government to reign in private capital in favor of stronger state control of the economy - so that the US can prevent Taiwan from being integrated into a state where private capital is strongly reigned in by state control of the economy.

Similarly, he want the government to reign in Wall Street for winning the war in Ukraine, after which Wall Street will run roughshod there in the reconstruction bonanza.
Isn’t every programming language simply a spec? C and C++ are infamous for just being a spec, with lots of undefined portions resulting in undefined behavior. And if every programming language is a spec, should we inhibit the flexibility of what you can do in them? (I think the answer here is no, but maybe there’s a good reason for limiting what you can do)

Edit: Additionally, it takes very little to define a specification that leads to emergent behavior. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s been awhile, but all you need for a turing machine is a way to store and read memory, and move the tape (instruction pointer) if I remember right. If that’s correct, you can come up with an infinitely complex machine with 3 instructions (provided you have an infinite amount of tape).
Yes. Walmart has a big impact on local economies. Especially small rural communities. Tractors had a similar impact on agricultural workers when they started displacing labor.

If you calculate what impact Walmart has had on the average standard of living, would you claim that it has driven it lower? There are obviously going to be some people and segments that aren't able to adapt quickly, but that is the case with anything...and even those individuals are going to benefit from goods being available at lower prices.
I have been a contractor for more than 30 years - well before Obamacare existed - and I always had insurance, why was it not possible for you before Obamacare?
1. This particular article is on an anti-monopoly blog, not a war-hawk blog. It may be an attempt to pander to war-hawks to engage with antitrust law in the US, but I thought I'd point it out.

2. TFA specifically addresses your point about supply & demand. It's not that supply is lagging demand it's that it's lagging demand by a large amount. The article uses the (slightly wrong[1]) example of orders for the Stinger missile replacements estimated to take 5 years.

3. The general thesis of BIG is that the level of M&As we have now are anti-competitive and harmful to workers, consumers, and the US Economy as a whole, but in the post-Regan era the government has been either supportive or complacent. This article is an attempt to show further evidence of this, using the GAO's authority as an example of the first half and the DOD's response as an example of the second.

1: The linked article is about replacing the Stinger missile with a new short-range SAM, not about just building more Stinger missiles as the sentence linking it implies. It is true, however, that in the interim we have no new stock of either Stingers or their proposed replacement.
If you have used OMEMO or OpenPGP to encrypt your messages, the content of your messages is secure, provided you have verified the public keys of your contacts. If you didn't verify the keys, you should do it now and check that no suspicious keys have been injected.
This is in my opinion one of the best Ancient Egyption researcher/YouTubers around. He touches on a lot of the questions and contraversies around Ancient Egypt without involving aliens or any of the ususal nonsense. This is some of his original work and I thought very interesting.

> A map of pyramid casing stones proves how it was constructed.

> It’s the most popular question in ancient history: how were the large pyramids of Egypt built? Many concepts have been suggested for thousands of years, all the way back to Herodotus in Ancient Greece. But while there are many ways the pyramid could have been built, the actual method is the one everybody wants to find.

> Proposed solutions cite indirect evidence, combined with thought exercises that range from reasonable to hilariously impractical. There is virtually zero consensus on how to approach the problem, or even define the parameters of what was possible.

> The goal of this video is to use direct evidence from the pyramid of Khafre to get us closer to the actual solution. The pattern is laid out for everyone to see - and anyone approaching the building question seriously needs to address the evidence presented here.
There is undoubtedly a lot of power in recent machines, but I think a lot of these processes are single core and serial: e.g. performance penalty from CPU security mitigations -> performance penalty to decrypt files off disk -> performance penalty to virus scan every file as it is read
> ruby has just RubyMine which doesn't have a community edition and also isn't very good

I have a great deal of sympathy for RubyMine (and shudder at working for the CLion team, whew) because Ruby isn't doing the IDE author any favors. Given:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v16.5.0-ee/lib/g...

- what types are client_email and private_key? they are whatever type they're called with lolol

- the symbol Google::Auth::ServiceAccountCredentials just materializes; was it required in some containing context and thus is in scope by _this_ required file? are those symbols visible in every context from one of the various Gemfile lines? a hard-core rubyist knows

- where did the symbol StringIO come from? well, from require 'stringio' obviously, which is on .. err, which line exactly? I guess that lends weight to the 'this file is obviously running as a child context of some other file' theory

I think half of it is the culture of Rubyists and half of it is "productivity hacks" of "if it runs, then it must be correct"

I also recognize that I'm very clearly a static typing snob, and firmly in the camp of "please import symbols you use," but that doesn't stop me from having a great deal of sympathy for anyone who has to implement an IDE for such a monkey-patch friendly language
How could any verification actually work without being faked itself?
Don't look up Azure AD security issues if you think Okta is bad.
When property like this goes underwater, it starts the clock for how long people can wait things out while staying solvent.

The exponential rise in property prices have helped people stay calm but I think there’s a lot more pain ahead.
My work laptop is the lowest performance pc I've ever used, largely due to Windows defender and whatever interactions it has with other software.

Sure it streams videos and so on (so cpu performance is OK), but basic stuff like "opening a word doc" or "launching Explorer" takes 10s of seconds.

I'm back to waking up my pc and going to get a coffee for 15 minutes so it might be ready to use when I return.
> both ideologies have failed miserably.

I think it's a mistake to view the two parties as representing two distinct ideologies, and further to believe either parties rhetoric about what constitutes their ideology.

Most of the game of US politics is to see how many terrible/unpopular deeds you can perpetrate against the public on behalf of the moneyed interests (not voters) that supported your campaign without losing votes to the opposition.

Wedge issues and propaganda keep people voting on party lines for candidates that only occasionally act in the majority interest of their own voters, let alone the interests of the greater public.
There's also Solaris for PowerPC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23341721

https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/05/28/powerpc-solaris-on-the-r...
Listen, "Open"AI went from being research and openness to "for profit" using money specifically for the former. They are not to be trusted after this.
You do what you have to do, but as a user, I like to know how things will break and what my options will be. I was curious how it worked, and took a peek at the first file that seemed it might reveal something interesting.