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These laws don't benefit me in anyway. I hate recieving texts from politicians begging for money using a loophole they have written for themselves.

I also don't want random people to be able to call me and yell at me about politics.

Enabling phone spam is in no way required for a functioning political system (not that we have one of those.)

Phone spam doesn't inform people on issues, doesn't create meaningful debate on issues, and has no value in strengthening democracy.

Every single candidate that sends me spam loses my vote permanently.
How do you suggest we pay journalist? They certainty shouldn't work for free.
Consider profit as what happens when the demand for your product is strong enough to warrant reinvestment.
> The value created is lost because it’s no longer used to improve the firm that created the value. It’s redistributed to various yacht companies and the like.

It's not "redistributed". There aren't parental figures just apportioning money as they see fit. People are spending money on what they find valuable. Partly that's on the firm. Partly that's on salaries, particularly in places where creating competitors is easy and the incentives are good for people to want to take that risk. Partly on maintenance and the like. Then a chunk of the next lot must be given to the government or directors will be locked in jail. Finally, out of what's left, comes the money you're talking about. That can be reinvested, or pulled out. It doesn't "disappear".
Def use what you know. But you can learn the basics of Elixir in two weeks. The payoff is worth it.
yes, but when that club demands that you vote a certain way in order for you to remain a member, or when the club is responsible that you were listed as a candidate, then you are dependent on them and no longer a neutral representative of those that elected you. and that is whats wrong with the current system, as it doesn't allow you to vote in ways that are actually in the interest of your constituents.
Right, the status quo as I understand it in many US states is essentially "the current election winner at redistricting time gets to set the boundaries for the next election". That's a terrible status quo (unless you like gerrymandering) and there's very little incentive for anyone to change it (as it benefits the winners, by definition).
it isn't. There are tons of artists that have been, for many years, working outside of the demoscene producing breathtaking work. Demoscene is more focused on realitime optimization.
I do. If I try to film something in public I am very aware that people notice this and that I should not be pointing my phone camera at their children, etc. It is not that easy to get away with filming others unnoticed with a smartphone.
Gary Bowser was an unwitting website admin who was not involved in making or selling the Xecuter mods in any manner. But just for his connection, he was kidnapped by force from his home country and illegally detained for several months in God-knows-what conditions; then in a sham trial sentenced to $10M in fines, 40 months of prison and an additional $4.5M in restitution because the judge, in his own words, wanted to "make an example" out of him. To add to that, he can never declare bankruptcy and no matter where or how he is living, he is permanently bound to send 30% of his monthly income to Nintendo. He is in his 50s with deteriorating health and no viable career and his life is unambiguously ruined.

If you see this as the judgement of a fair and independent court I have no words for you. But the whole world is aware of the American judiciary's reputation of being a glorified bullying arm for megacorps and the rich.
> There are no obvious subsets in Common Lisp - see Baker

i think baker's point, and i'm sure you know it's also been discussed to death on #lisp at some point, that you can't choose one obvious set of fundamental special forms, in terms of which you can express a common lisp, because some of those forms can be in various ways expressed in terms of each other. his other point is that spec's special forms are underspecified. but i don't think that he's making a point that one can't take spec's special forms, treat that set of special forms as arbitrary, but working, and implement a common lisp with them. i've not given this subject enough thought, but do you by any chance have links to somebody making that point, that you can't in fact implement a common lisp using just special forms.
What's wrong with only wanting high earners to come to your country? Japan knows that high earners are definitely going to spend more and probably cause less trouble than lower earners.
Many were enraged with by the soulless tech gentrification of the city. But they couldn't compete so they had to move. Some don't have the means to move. It must be sickening for many to have to deal with the externalities.

Or they can just agree with Gary that correlation is never causation.
So are nearly all security vulnerabilities.

Is bypassing the lock screen a security bug?
Except Philips isn't really a monopoly here.
Nintendo Turned Gary Bowser into a Real-Life Villain
I don’t know what you are talking about. The world around is nothing but the fruit of research.
Thanks, it works now! But the tables are still broken (e.g. in the "Wires" chapter)
Thanks for the link. I didn't know Peertube, yet.

I can't see how you can avoid the centralization problem and also have decent monetization for the videos. But I want to certainly become convinced that it can work. Crypto made me a decentralization skeptic.
Show a "I don't want to be filmed" sentence encoded in a QR code on your t-shirt and enforce legally that unless you a specific license you have to shut your camera.

Aka real-life "do not track" header ?
Not the case. I don't think there's any plans to replace the Apache, but the closest thing would be the FARA program which hasn't selected a winner yet.

There is a little bit of controversy though about the fact that none of the other existing or proposed rotorcraft would be able to keep up with the V-280 (for escort duties), so probably they will be attaching some weapons to the thing. But it's definitely not intended to be a dedicated attack helicopter.
Another layer of abstraction will surely simplify things
“You can get really strong by putting pullup bars all over the house.”

This!
At what point do these numbers start to be like a crypto currency? But one with real utility?
Have you ever been to Australia? Hell, at least treat yourself to the majesty of Australian crime drama, Holdens, RSAs, and calling people a "dog", Underbelly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqvOIr08iuQ

In New Zealand, over the last say, 10ish years at a guess, we've had a gradual but continual increase in organised crime activity - and an escalation in violence.

Because Australia started deporting non-citizens who had been jailed for 12 months+ (I think? Or, 12 months+, or could've been jailed for 5+ years or something, even if you weren't). And for historical "fun facts about Australia" racism-by-proxy reasons, very few Kiwis who've lived in Australia all their lives have been able to gain citizenship. So there's been numerous Australian criminals deported to NZ. Among them, Australian organised crime members. Around the same time NZ was getting into methamphetamine, a profitable and growing demand. And well, what do you when you're good at something that makes money, and you need money?

So we have seen establishment of chapters of Australian bikie gangs that we never had here before, and they're expanding into areas someone already called dibs on. Deportees have also joined the existing gangs, and the Australian veterans bring two key things to the table - access to networks of suppliers with good product, who didn't bother with NZ before, an effective distribution network, and the ability to provide guns and the means to get them past the ports.

The Aussies also brought Aussie gang culture - they were also a lot more shooty than the Kiwi gangs (although there were alway periodic flare-ups) and so when they starting shooting early in the argument, everyone else followed suit, now there's a lot of gang members being shot by gang members when previously might've been a stabbing or a good beating.

But yeah, no organised crime in Aussie lol. Certainly not organised crime that has often in the past compromised state police forces. There's also certainly not cartels looking for local partners who want to get some cocaine sold in a historically sadly undersupplied market, nothing bad will happen here. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/19/sydne...
Don't forget about prophecy
I think any system which has complications is going to seed distrust today.

For instance because you have the electoral college in the US you have the possibility of the electoral college going in the opposite direction of the popular vote. An event like that reduces the mandate of the winner.

If a PR system or single transferable vote or something like created events that were hard to explain on the news that's trouble.
It is not so difficult to replicate your design in Slint.
This is what I came up in by trying it quickly: https://slintpad.com/?load_url=https://gist.github.com/ogoff... (but yeah, needs some polish)
I don't understand why this would be interesting.

These "digital nomads" who would travel to Japan for work+sightseeing aren't taking local jobs and don't have a Japanese bank account.

Does Japan want to tax income produced within its borders, regardless of where one is actually a tax resident? Most countries I'm aware of treat people as tax residents if they reside there for more than 180 days a year.
It’s crazy remembering the pushback from Google Glass a decade ago compared to now with people embracing the exact same thing (but worse) with open arms under the guise of it now supposedly being normal.
You made the best decision you could at the time, and the outcome was a best-case scenario! That's a real victory.
I don't think it's fair to say that "nothing good" comes from profit. Aren't new businesses created from profit? Investors make a profit in one business and then invest in others. That in turn creates jobs and opportunities.
Link to the actual generator: https://colorcolor.in
The Great Stagnation is obviously a consequence of worker protection and environmental protection laws. Give me an exemption to both and I will turn this economy into a rocketship.

Everyone knows this is it. But everyone likes worker protections and environmental regulations so we pretend it’s not. But we know.

Remove those rules and TSMC’s AZ plant will be done yesterday and SpaceX’s Starship will fly more often.

We can dance around it but this is reality. All this other stuff is just window dressing.
Imagine rendering some complex data model to image on server vs downloading json and rendering it on client. Yes, SVG does exist, but it doesn’t cover all cases.
> Interesting, he seems to primarily work on a Discord Bot.

No, that's just his only public repo. It only has 95 commits but he makes on average 1,000 commits per year on private repos (including Weezify, presumably). So it's really a very small fraction of his activity.
One man's "lost productivity" is another's salary. I agree though, so many things have interactive interfaces when other modes of interaction would be preferable, not to mention that describing UI operations typically requires screenshots to understand what is going on.
> will require figuring out how to get Postgres to do it in a reasonable amount of time, whereas a data warehouse is designed to do these kinds of aggregations very efficiently.

"reasonable amount of time" is speculative term, it could be good enough for some usecases.

Also, you can do indexes in Postgres, but can't in say BigQuery, meaning it is more likely I can build low latency analytics in Postgres but will have issues in BigQuery.
Let’s say he is too much an interested party to have any credibility on his opinion. Would he not say it is the case? He bet his company on it. He is paid to say so.
Fyi, The pricing page[0] is unnecessarily hidden (4-5 clicks). Please make it part of the top menu or show it with the free trial screen.

[0]: https://tembo.io/docs/tembo-cloud/billing
It disappears from the industry that created the value, the industry arguably best poised to increase productivity, was my point. Yachts and fancy cars are part of the economy too, but they’re not the best place for resources to go if you want to increase innovation and productivity.
> Technology serves humans. Instead, we have cargo cult companies such that the mere acquisition of architecturally-ordained technology is perceived to be the solution

Sounds right on the money

And of course it has to be the latest bells and whistles without questioning why is it even there. Or how it can serve the company and not the way around.
Singaporeans bemoan US senator's 'ignorant' grilling of TikTok CEO
My current (Brightspeed) and previous (Spectrum) ISPs have nominally "supported" IPv6. Except ... not nationwide, there are regional differences in how it's done and how well it works. And nobody can tell me if my specific location is supported or how to configure my equipment to use it.

On one hand, that gives me hope that we're getting closer to near-universal ISP support. On the other hand, it's been like this for so long I question if it'll ever improve.
> the pursuit of maximal profit doesn’t make as much sense to me as it used to.

Alternatively, accounting hasn't kept up with the realities of the world. Profit today isn't measurable just in terms of the exchange of tangible items. Actors also seek to profit by way of other intangible things like, most notably, attention; something old-school accounting doesn't account for.

Maximal profit makes as much sense as ever, but maximal profit as it shows up on the books using traditional accounting methods may not.
Yes, we read the same article. What I'm saying is misleading is the chart itself. The chart in the article supports a totally different conclusion than an inflation-adjusted chart. It doesn't actually support "Best economy since the 90s," and yet the author included it. That in itself is misleading to me, whether or not you hedge with a quick statement about inflation afterwards.
u seriously arguing oracle as a source of progress? "embrace, extinguish and extort" Oracle?
Even if it's stable in a game theory sense, it depends on the political class being partitioned into exactly two parties. Otherwise the two biggest parties would have an incentive to smother all smaller competitors.

I think the answer has to lie in an algorithmic solution dependent on a high-resolution population density map.
I work remote in tech and live in a rather economically depressed and forgotten area of the country.

Given your background in finance, I am genuinely interested in your take on this region and how we could improve it.

The area is the Southern Tier of the state of New York. Specifically, Elmira NY, born and raised, but moved to NYC for several years for work and back. The Elmira/Corning area had a booming industrial economy before the effects of neoliberalism and offshoring.

Very few people in tech, but there are a handful remote workers in the area like myself. Typically, the area is more of a service and industrial economy with a small amount of tourism from the nearby Finger Lakes region. Nearby Corning Inc. is laying off thousands and talking about moving their headquarters down to NC, which would decimate the area even further.

There is talk about NYS and Chuck Schumer wanting to inject millions to make this area a lithium ion and fab production hub, but many locals are skeptical that will materialize. While near-shoring and re-shoring trends sound promising, many feel as if this area does not have the same geographical advantage it had during the gilded age and into the early-mid 20th century.
Assuming it’s legal to do so I imagine that some will use this visa as a springboard to access other visas. 180 days is long enough to hunt for a work-visa-furnishing job or a school to attend for an education visa for example.

That may have been possible under the 90 day tourist visa (though I think that one may explicitly bar job hunting), but 90 days disappears surprisingly quickly and the flight out and back in to get the second 90 day period is a nuisance.
I think the reality is that at some point the Israel government is going to have to become a fully secular democracy. Do you think that can happen within the existing governmental system or will it require a completely new government?
>While Scorpius is fantastic, he doesn't belong on the ship ...

I agree, and so did the maker of the YouTube video I linked to. Interestingly, Wayne Pilgrim, the actor who plays Scorpius, mentions in an interview how difficult it was for him to play the character, since his motivation became, how shall I say, conflicted. It's an interesting case of the story-tellers putting an actor in a very tough spot.
It was a fluke that it worked so well for so long.
I usually can figure out when I am being filmed by a smartphone and ask people not to do this.
It’s always amusing how people compare crappy spa vs great traditional site.

A well done spa is far superior. Offline support, caching, adaptive layout, etc. it’s not even close.

That being said, barring things like offline support the two are equivalent functionally. Use what you know.
Only if they allow immigration.
And yet still substantially still more tech jobs than before the pandemic.
Can you really say Java succeeded in that sphere? It's simply not the case that Java applets had success. I was an early adopter, and was even paid to write a couple Java applets in '97, but I would say the whole thing was... questionable. They lingered about for a few years being badly supported and having a not-great security story, and then were unceremoniously killed.

The potential was there, but in reality people just used Flash, and when the DOM/JavaScript interface became more competent, they switched to using JS.

And, yeah, as others pointed out... Java did not have generics, or enums until 1.4, and its exception mechanism hasn't really stood the test of time.
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Switzerland is #2 in the CoL index. Thailand is #94.

Not to sound confrontational, but you must be horrible at managing your trip spending.
That's still profit. It's just the profit is paid as dividends to workers.
blatantly diplomatic
> I'm not sure how this could be avoided in the US system of 2 senators per state. You can't exactly send 2/3ds of a senator to Washington if you had a proportional system.

Make the state legislatures proportional, impose a deadlock-free contingency procedure and repeal the seventeenth amendment. Either that or random ballot.

Though, I wouldn't necessarily consider either of those good ways of solving that problem, which would probably involve increasing the size of the senate as well somehow.
This is going to be not the technology nor technical ones at all. Once upon a time, I was intrigued by the fact that power-saving economy mode dish washing takes a lot more time while consuming less electricity. While reading up and watching videos, I stumbled on the Boulevard Home[1] Channel and I subscribed.

Otherwise, I have a very limited set of channels[2] that I like to keep going and get lost watching them.

1. https://www.youtube.com/@BoulevardHome

2. https://notes.oinam.com/awesome/video
At one consulting gig, I came close to doubling the productivity of an internal operations team by turning a multi-step wizard into a single, condensed page.

Their design consultant whined about how the lack of white space made the interface "unreadable and, hence, unusable" but, when I left, the ops team took me out to a bar for all I could drink and their manager drove me home.
AI trained on a baby's experiences yields clues to how we learn language
https://archive.ph/iedK8
Exactly where my thoughts went, much easier to not realize its a recording device.
This sort of feels like a Nash equilibrium in the wild.
> Satya goes on to argue that AI has the potential to restore productivity growth.

And Satya has a big investment he needs paid off. Had Satya's statements come from an economist or other it might be a little more believable.

> It is symptomatic of an engineer who doesn’t understand the underlying problem and tries to pattern match to get at the solution.

Pattern matching is absolutely the correct thing to do for most situations because it is rare that anything new is necessary. Almost all of engineering is a reflection of business processes and business has the same mode: a new business process is most of the time pieces of old processes rearranged.

> But when the abstraction isn’t tethered to empirical results or anything measurable and falsifiable, the abstraction is just an obfuscation, a cargo cult ritual.

That's not a problem with the abstraction that's a problem with observability. Abstractions are insanely useful both pragmatically and otherwise. O11y is often the last thing considered, if it's even implemented at all.

I'll also go on to say that it's interesting that the stagnation problem is framed in such a way. Software is a tool, not a product. It's going to take a product or class of products to fundamentally change the direction of growth and innovation. For all we know AI might even be it, contrary to the author's contrary.
There are other reasons to not like Word other than 'it six's. One is availability. If you're on Linux all day, your options don't really contain word - it's not free to download and install due to needing a license.
You have to go and find some other computer that runs windows, and start it up - just for that one document. Then you have a single use computer, which obviously isn't a great experience.
Closest thing that I use is Google docs, sometimes. I (and many others like me) know how to use word (and excel) pretty well due to some life in that world. I still remember most of many of the hotkey combinations to step through the menus.
The reason I use vim for everything now is - I use vim for everything. I live in vim/tmux/ssh/tui, so most problems go there first if they can.
There are obvious benefits to the vim/git/Typst setup, if plots need to go in a document for example, but it's also strengthened by word not being easily available.
> Humans can exist without profits.

Of course - and they did for a long time. But they couldn't have anything that couldn't be scratched out of the soil.
After 20s ... you have lost 50% of your visitors, because they think the damn thing is never going to finish loading on their connection and you will have triggered connection loss anxiety on multiple levels.

Also this is assuming, that one does not want to take all the things of that website and burn them after use, which is not a safe assumption to make on most websites, considering all the ads and trackers on today's typical websites.

An offline still working app sounds great. Unfortunately very few aspire to reach that point. Most already break to various degrees when you hit the back button.
US gives federal agencies 48 hours to disconnect flawed Ivanti VPN tech
What Cargo Cults Reveal About Human Nature
Those sectors are always hiring and understaffed. Most jobs there also aren't either jobs people are excited about nor have good pay.

It's like saying hiring is going great because McDonalds got everybody to flip burgers.
The solution to gerrymandering is multimember district with proportional representation inside the districts, whether small (e.g., 5 member districts with STV) or large (whole-legislature “district" with party-list proportional) or hybrid (any form of Mixed Member Proportional).

Better proportionality in representarion also has a whole host of other benefits.

Everything with messing with how you draw lines in single-member winner-take-all districts is just shifting representation problems around and not actually solving them.