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> This is hilarious. America is one of the most morally confused countries in the world right now. We literally popularized the idea of moral relativism.

Yet, we're one of the few that can say that if your country was brutally attacked you are allowed to respond with force.

> Talk to a college student they can’t even say that rape, cannibalism, etc are
absolutely wrong. Why step into any conflict if you can’t state with 100% absolute confidence that something is immoral or evil?

Talk to an American to find out what they think of what's coming out of Academia
1. You learn about those and not the ones who successfully hide and keep a low profile

2. Proper security takes time and effort, so there is less time to devote to actual business, which means they are less likely to be successful at a scale that makes them widely known
A rich civilisation (possibly in the millions), leaving absolutely no trace in any shape or form? Maybe time to apply Occam's Razor.

On the other hand, a green north Africa is well established. And it turns out that the Ancient Egyptians might have descended from hunter-gatherers who were driven towards the nile as the grasslands gave way to desert. For all of which there is archaeological evidence.
I dont think any of it is that complicated. It is just that bonds pay so much more than any short other short term opportunities. When there are better opportunities elsewhere, that will change.
The Mongols conquered an awful lot of places, but only with Russia are they used to explain "ingrained culture". Nobody's going to have a seminar about, say, Iran, and say that a large part of the way they are today is because of the Ilkhanate, and even the least-hinged China commentator isn't going to start invoking the Yuan and their permeating influence.
That tells you wattage but not transfer speed - e.g. most 100W power USB-C cables are USB2.0 (yes, Apple ones too).

To you have a matrix - charging speed and capability.
Something that didn't occur to me until reading this is that the Russia-Ukraine war is giving Western allies an opportunity to test weapons and strategies on a real battlefield. That must surely be anxiety inducing for China that has no such opportunity.

I'm surprised Russia and China are allies, considering Russia kicked the hornet's nest and will make annexation of Taiwan harder.
The last point I never understand. E.g. take Redis if it were licenced in that way: where is the line where it counts as a service? Directly exposing a Redis port? Putting a REST API over the top of it and selling a cache as a service? Making a paid for JWT invalidation service that's basically a small application layer of Redis? Or something else?
Everything I see seems very one-sided. I listened to a podcast about gas stoves and the marketing behind them. It mentioned in passing that before the gas stoves people were using wood burning stoves, but never mentioned that a gas stove is a significant improvement over a wood stove. Not only does it burn cleaner, but it also allows someone to control the temperature much easier. It was a better stove in every way. They also seemed to gloss over the shortcomings of the standard electric stovetop everyone knows and hates. Gas is easier to cook with than a normal electric (coil) stove. They also just assume everyone is just going to know to move to induction (without really bringing it up), but it also has it's shortcomings... price, not all pans work, and if you're unlucky, some buzzing while you cook. Awareness is another big issue with induction. My sister has a gas stove and can't cook on electric without cursing the whole time. I mentioned induction and she had no idea what I was talking about. When these hit pieces on gas come out, if they fail to educate on induction, they aren't going to win over die hard gas users, as they have all used old electrics stoves by now and know that they didn't like it. When I was last looking to buy a home, the realtor even pointed out a gas stove as a selling feature for a home, which it is for many people.

There is no perfect stove, and gas was an improvement and the clean option when it came out... yet all these stories paint it as purely a marketing move with 0 redeeming qualities. I can't take these people seriously when they aren't honest about the situation.

All that said, I have a traditional electric stove right now and hate it, to the point of not using it. I plan to replace it with induction and will hope for the best. I don't have a big investment in cookware currently, but already know I'll have to throw out/donate at least 1 or 2 pans (one is my favorite one and I'm not excited about losing it).

I always find it interesting when the climate activists pick causes that people are really passionate about, as it serves to put up walls to action, rather than getting people on board.
There's some overlap with 'how you raise a good citizen', but we're also aligned somewhat already by our shared evolutionary history (and even then there are still major problems so if anything that suggests a lot of caution).

> "I'll be honest, I don't understand how anyone who builds real machines in real life can seriously consider a machine built with such a narrowly defined goal (produce paper-clips) that also possesses the kind of capabilities you're imagining as a side effect (a lot smarter than us, game over)."

The specific bit of this was that paperclips just happen to satisfy its reward function really well (vs. it being narrowly constrained to make paperclips intentionally). The example is meant to be about how you can get an unanticipated result when you don't know what the intelligence is solving for. A human looks at that and thinks 'that's a dumb goal', but the point of the alignment problem is that that isn't some universal truth, a different intelligence would not get that shared understanding for free. Humans have a lot of baked in baseline wants and even then like you said we're ourselves not perfectly aligned.

> "It seems to me that you want to have it both ways... a machine that is so smart and strategic that there is no way any human intelligence could ever outsmart or outplay it"

Imagine a chimp or ant trying to outsmart or out play a human - and this difference is smaller than the difference we're talking about here. To simplify it further imagine a regular human brain unconstrained by biological energy limitations scaled up to run a billion times faster. It thinks faster than you - there isn't a competition there you're essentially standing still.
Getting back into the "maker"/"tinker" groove.

Modifying and calibrating my 3d printer(s), chasing speed while maintaining print quality.

Using CAD more seriously, trying to challenge myself with more complex projects and models. Current project is to make a CoreXY Plotter from an old 3d printer I just disassembled.

Wanting to get/make a CNC Mill/Router to finally have the ability to work on some bigger "cooler" projects. ex. I have a custom PC case model that I've been working on, and can't wait to build for the upcoming rig upgrade.
If you make natural looking logs, it’s a factor of 2.7 or so.
>Naturally one could avoid saving anything for 39 years and then plop down a $600,000 lump sum in the final second and you would be in the exact same place as someone who slowly amassed $600,000 over the span of 40 years

Sure, they could for example win the Powerball.
It’s very easy to imagine a green Sahara. Where do you think all the oil in the Middle East came from.
Is that pertinent to whether or not China is currently communist in anything but name only? No.
script language development is not a great example for packaging patterns when you compare to the OS itself.

what is the constructive way forward? treat script language development and its packaging in a different way than OS base setup.
Impending volcanic eruption threatens town and geothermal power plant in Iceland
I can imagine a green Sahara, as I could imagine a civilization. What I can't imagine is a civilization that exists without leaving any archaeological trace of itself.
Having built CI/CD pipelines in CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Concourse, Semaphore, and GitHub Actions, I'm not entirely sure what this offers, other than being FOSS. That's not to say that it being FOSS is not valuable – for some users it most certainly is – but that I can't see another way that this would be valuable.

The config language is nice, but honestly I've never been bothered by YAML for pipelines. I want my pipelines to be declarative anyway. I'm a little disappointed that Cicada didn't go with one of the existing options such as Jsonnet, Cue, Dhall, etc.

Lastly, there's a feature I've always found useful and in many cases necessary, that many CI systems don't have – enforced serial execution. When you're doing continuous delivery it's often critical to make sure that only one release is going out at a time and that the version being released strictly increases. I've seen outages because of release jobs racing and an unintended downgrade happening. This requires CI system support to achieve. Last time I checked, Jenkins, Concourse, and GitHub Actions all provided mechanisms for this, Semaphore may have as well. Circle and GitLab did not (the former after endless discussion with our account manager over it!) and I found it hard to trust the platforms as a result. Cicada does not appear to have this, which is a shame. It suggests to me a lack of hands-on production experience with continuous delivery. Arguably this is not a CD system, but there's no reason why a CI system shouldn't be CD as well, it's not until a much larger team/product size that a dedicated CD system becomes truly necessary and they take a lot of work to set up well.
no rebase, which for me is perfectly ok as I agree with the creator of Fossil wrt rebase.

But it's definitely missing git's rebase :)
Yes, bouncers can go on absurd power trips for no reason and get a kick out of flexing on the peons.

And yes, it is possible to quickly assess someones P(an issue) after a career of observing tens of thousands of people and whether or not they were an issue.

These things can both be true.

[And keep in mind a false-positive matters not-one-bit-at-all, whereas a false-negative is (quite literally) an issue.]
Maybe its time to make a charter real quick to keep future revenue. I wonder what the process is.
It's scary that someone somewhere at google can decide what to do with larger amounts of money than many governments of sovereign countries. Who exactly decided to pay 19B to apple? What is their decision making process? Do they vote on it or what?
I agree with the video. Culture plays a huge role in countries’ trajectories even if people like to deny it because of fears of racism or being accused as one.

It doesn’t take much to observe that Russian culture is largely accepting of bullying, dog-eat-dog mentality, and cheating to get ahead…Putin and the leadership is a reflection of that.

I live in a country known for cybercrime of a different kind (Nigeria) and will never deny that culture plays a part. Our local culture is largely accepting of corruption and cheating to get ahead, which is one of the reasons many engage in crime.

Don’t get me wrong…I’ve worked with and continue to work with some wonderful Russians. But, it doesn’t change the fact that the culture needs reforms for the good of the country.

Of course, I’m not in support of profiling. I’ll never like to be profiled as a cyber criminal because I’m from Nigeria, but I’ll never deny that our culture has a big issue with rationalizing corruption and theft and needs reform to make us better-behaved.
Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero
I'd love to see a presentation like this about the US, in which it is casually mentioned in this lecture, that the US is engages in imperialism in a different way.

Its not even that I disagree per se. I simply would love to know more about how this thinking evolves within our allies (presumably, Finland is considered an ally to the US)

That would be a very interesting lecture. If anyone has something like this, send the link my way!
Sure, why not? In this age who can tell what work even is anymore, and even less so games.

Given how much time and money is invested in things like Euro Truck and Farming Simulator, I have been silently awaiting the era where people pilot (real world) drones doing real world work, and pays for the privilege.

That's when it has gone full circle. I hope I'm still around to comment on it. I also hope pensions still exist so I don't need to take part.
Rosebud?
> if a corporation can't find any opportunities for use of capital..., it should be distributed to shareholders

A ways down the article says:

"The firm spent $1.1 billion to repurchase shares, bringing the nine-month total to approximately $7 billion."

So they are returning some of that to shareholders.
It’s rigged.

Both sides have a say on paper.

But the company gets to pick 2, but then you only get to pick from the 2 they suggested.

You don’t have a real choice. It’s just rigged to make it sound like you do.
> any explosion of the caldera volcano that would blow the island out of existence would thrown artifacts far out to sea instead of burying them.

Modern Santorini has a crescent shape because of the "missing middle" part.

But there is also a site called Akrotiri, which is still on land, and was buried in volcanic ash. It is a bit like Pompei, only about twice as old:

> The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine frescoes and many objects and artworks. Akrotiri has been excavated since 1967 after earlier excavations on Santorini.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrotiri_(prehistoric_city)

There are many artefacts there, pottery and others.

It's quite possible that other settlements were blown into the water and not buried.
> Why wouldn't you choose a job that's fun?

Most people I know never had a real choice, and those who did had to exercise it around the age of 18, with no real insight into what they were getting into.

> Those workplaces are not rare at all!

What makes you think that?
I think it's pedantic argument. Obviously he meant that his bet is the future is something and willing to work for it. No need to scratch your head. 10x is not maths 10x and no one thinks it is literally 10.0x.
Quick napkin math based on simple google searches:

Most tech workers will be paying 9.3% in CA State Income tax, let's assume they move to Texas with a $150k job. That's $13,950 fewer taxes paid on income to CA.

Moving to Texas they'll pay about an average $2263 more in property Taxes to TX. Probably a bit more realistically so let's say $4000 since they'll probably be buying property that's above the average price. That's still around a $10k/year raise, with lower cost of living and lower crime, and that's assuming they didn't negotiate a raise which is unlikely.
> mediator, who the contractor got to pick

Mediation is not binding. Arbitrators are picked by both sides.
It is entirely possible for a culture in an area/country to promote a behavior that many of the people there agree with. That doesn't mean that all the people in that area/country agree with (or exhibit) it, just that it's common.

For example, there is a fairly widespread / rampant "cheating/copying/don't-bother-learning" culture in a lot of schools in India, especially as it relates to software development. I've seen it brought up and stated as truth by people from that region over and over. There are also many VERY smart, skilled, devoted software developers from that are. I've worked with quite a few. However, because there _is_ that culture, the "noise" (bad developers) to signal (good developers) ratio is really high. And, when dealing with developers from that area (especially, from my experience, those at various contract/churn companies), you need to be careful about the work they're doing. You need to check to see it's being done well ... at least until you're familiar enough with the people/team that you can trust them.

Culture _has_ an impact; but that doesn't mean it should be assumed... just that it may mean you need to pay more attention.
Same, but broke millenial here. Will be working until day I die, likely. Sucks. Never had the momentum to accumulate wealth, and now I have no idea what to do.
The point is that it is a protest. By emailing bigcorp’s legal team will waste a small amount of their time. Especially if it “sincerely” thanks them for accepting your altered terms of service and shares some screenshots of the 200 response etc. doesn’t have to mention what was altered.
Then references Dmitry Agarkov.

V2 could use rocketreach to find individual lawyers at bigco and mail each individually with slightly different messages to create more confusion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ and their wiki https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/index/#wiki_ad...

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/investing/
So, we'll save the planet by forecasting its doom by building hugely complex models which run on massive super computers which use insane quantities of energy.

I'm sure I want this to happen, but it's on the level of "100 private jets fly to a climate conference" in terms of optics.
> easy to confuse physical presence with productivity

Early in my career I worked for the US division of a giant Japanese company. On the occasions that executives from Japan would come visit, we were expected to periodically stop working (programming) and carry papers to and from other cubicles and manager offices.

This apparently gave the impression that we were working very hard, when of course it was really making us less productive.
"Cable chips" - or as they're actually called "eMarkers" are mandatory for all USB-C cables above basic capability.

What Apple wanted was to leech on every single cable sold for their own profit with their proprietary licensing.

You already have what you wanted - now you're just demanding Apple tax for no reason. Remember, you can always just buy that 120$ Apple cable and be a happy camper. Right now. With no extra DRM.
There's no need to go searching for the "real" Noah and an "actual" flood in the distant past. It seems that most early civilizations that developed on alluvial flood plains come up with flood myths that explain the destruction and rebirth of civilizations because they saw floods and rebuilding on a fairly regular basis. Ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians, etc. all have flood myths that are strikingly similar to the Noah myth. Sometimes even building a boat to save the animals because the gods told him. IMO, it's almost certain that the ancient Hebrews picked up on one (or more) of these myths and incorporated it into their own culture.
There's a huge need for subscription bundles. I'd gladly pay $20/mo for access to a bunch of big names, even if I'm limited to like 60 articles per month combined across those sources.

Instead I just don't pay anyone, turn back when I encounter a paywall and look for someone's summary if I'm really interested.
Strongly incentivizing monthly subscriptions versus weekly? I do not know but that is what it says. Is does not seem like low balling.. more like high balling? It does seem very strange.
I'd be extremely surprised if the parent company (berkshire hathaway) had structured their companies in a way that left them liable to re-insurance risk :) They may own re-insurance companies, but that doesn't make them liable for losses in those companies.

My understanding of berkshire's business model was that they're heavily diversified, so that they're not as vulnerable to catastrophic loss from a single company/industry.
"Anarchy has a very short half life."

Anarchy is all there is.

Underlying all the existing power structures, which people are educated into accepting and even defending to their own detriment and loss of sovereignity, there is anarchism pure and simple.

No political system will ever outstrip inherent sovereignity, the same way no amount of laws and regulations can eliminate the inherent existence of an underlying free market.

Life always finds a way.
Yes, exactly.

The problem with chomsky's model is how it manipulates the landscape of our analysis, how it introduces paranoia into our perception of the media.

This is, I think, a serious pathology and a serious flaw -- though, for Chomsky, it's the mood he wants you to be in.. since he has a bridge to sell you.

A real political science here has to explicitly engage with this chaos -- has to model society as the irreducibly complex system that it is. Theories here arent neutral: they modify the very thing being described.
If the economy is booming and everybody is content, it's possible to entrench power. But the way things are going now, i don't think so.
I'm Taiwanese and an American citizen.

Let me ask you, which lives are more important? Ukrainian people? The people in Gaza? Or Taiwanese people?

Obviously the Taiwanese people. As someone who is Taiwanese myself, I know the US is making the right choice here for using military intervention exclusively for the Taiwanese people. We are just that much better.

It obviously has nothing to do with the fact that China is becoming a military and economic peer to the US. And of course nothing to do with the fact that Taiwan is a key point for control of the Pacific and cutting edge semiconductor technology. Nothing to do with those things at all because the US is a country that cares.

Sarcasm aside, I really am Taiwanese and a US citizen. This duality allows me to have the least biased view of the situation as it isn't clouded with just the typical patriotic attitude you see from your average US citizen.
If you can eat it, then so can a lot of other critters. The rabbits, possums, and squirrels quickly figure out you're the Grub Hub of the neighborhood. The crows will join in, too. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but if you think you're growing food for you to eat then boy are you in for a surprise!

Also, most lawns I've seen will inevitably have clover, unless you're overly aggressive with your herbicides, which most people aren't. The pollinators are supported, not that that really helps anything since they're not commercial pollinators.
Yeah.

My workflow in Git centers on the index, and making lots of commits on local branches that will never get pushed. I spend a day working, rewrite history, stash a bunch of unrelated changes on temporary branches, and then send a couple commits on the main branch for code review.

When I used Mercurial for work, it felt surreal to have all of those weird little workflows get locked away behind plugins. I get how Mercurial is way easier for people starting out, and I also get that I could just use the plugins, but when I use Git, all those history-rewriting tools are right there where I want them.
Especially tedious on Amazon when you have a seller list the same cable in various lengths. The reviews are all commingled, so you'll get plenty of valid five star reviews for the short cables while the long ones don't support the bandwidth.

And who knows how many reviews are from non-techies who are just getting a picture on the screen and leave a five star review without knowing / caring if they actually got HDR or not.
Would've been funnier if I got the brand right. Oh well. It was a long week.
One thing to remember is that you may not get on with works that other people gets engrossed in - so you'll probably need to try a variety of styles to work out what works for you.

Books worth trying to see if you like the styles include:

* Rivers Of London - Magic in a modern London setting

* Burning Chrome - A collection of classic Cyberpunk short stories

* Leviathan Wakes - The start of the Expanse series of works, a harder style of sci-fi

* All Systems Red - The start of the Murderbot Diaries, a softer style of sci-fi

* Permutation City - Existential sci-fi