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You completely do not mention, that China is MILITARY THREAT.

1. China takes Taiwan

2. China dominates all chip manufacturing

3. China dominates the AI industry

4. China overthrows the US tech industry supremacy by dominating global markets

5. US economy collapses (It is not exaggerating to say the tech industry is the lifeblood of US economic growth, just look at the stock market)

The philosophical argument is actually irrelevant, since China isn't trying to export its ideology that much beyond some alliances of convenience. China never tried to win that argument either, it just blocked off the internet with its firewall, and focused on building its economy.

China is first and foremost a military threat, then an economic threat. Hence why winning AI is so pivotal (AI drones will dominate battlefields and jobs).
Half of these are comic book villain levels of evil they're so brazen. This person shouldn't be trusted to be in charge of a corner deli.
I think one thing people are missing the point on is that it's quite addictive to have live up to date news. Twitter is constantly debating the latest talking point, you can get instant notifications. But it's actually quite exhausting after a while, you're no better off knowing something minutes after it happened when all the analysis is very shallow because nobody's had time to look at the bigger picture around an event.

I've been trying to digital detox a bit and I've found it's quite enjoyable switching off from a lot of that and buying a newspaper on a Saturday. I usually either pick The Observer (weekend version of The Guardian) or The Times.
Expecting CEOs to live by the same rules and expectations as the line workers is like expecting generals to live by the same rules and expectations as privates. It's just stupid. It will lose you the war in the military; what do you think it will do to a business?
From Bede (731) to BONE (1991-2004): A sparrow's flight through the ages
> We used to pay $1 every day to buy newsPAPERs? Remember?

I don't remember it being anywhere near that much.

Even today the local paper is a good chunk under that price, and if I forgo the actual printing then it's about a hundred dollars per year.
But when you withdraw that £100 it will be worth less due to inflation. You can't eat money.
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A major item is the prevention of the proliferation of nukes.

The U.S. has security agreements (or assumptions) with allies. If the U.S. appears weak, then allies freak out and nuke up. China and Taiwan are nearly at war. If the U.S. doesn't come through for Taiwan, then everyone gets nervous. Japan and S. Korea likely get nukes the fastest, since they are tech powerhouses. Then European countries may follow suit. Then, each enemy of every new entry to the nuke club also feels pressure to get nukes. Next, everyone gets in a race to build more nukes.

Additionally, you get the same issue as with Russia. If a big power takes a smaller power, then where do they stop? What is to stop them from taking everything. And this is already happening. China has been in low level clashes with the Philippines to take forcefully reshape borders. If they do this to Taiwan and the Philippines, then they likely will do this to every country in a border dispute with China. And Taiwan is strategically important. Japan faces a greater threat from a China controlled Taiwan. That's why China wants Taiwan. The island is important to China's national security.

In this world, you have a nightmare situation of more fingers on more triggers. More MAD targets for everyone. A greater possibility that someone actually pulls a trigger. And the thing is, China doesn't care about this. If every country on the planet being nuked up was the price to pay for domination, then so be it.
Depends what it is; some of the print newspapers in the UK have moved to online subscription. It worked for the 'premium' ones with longform articles, it has not worked for the 'red top' newspapers, and they've gone back to ad-supported models and have enormously declined in quality of journalism.
Short: How he got into the Arms trade (https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1823920847910002913?t=Ol1EfTJ3...)

Full interview: https://x.com/quasa0/status/1823933017217482883?t=Y6SiFSxf8z...
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How is this different from pyodide[0]?

[0]: https://pyodide.org/en/stable/
Perhaps you do in fact care about some selection of specific news, such as tech news, sports news, news of cultural tends, business news, and arts and entertainment news, for instance. Just not "news" news. And perhaps you get your news in specialist or indirect ways. I imagine you have an idea of what's going on generally, somehow, and keep up to date with more than the length of the grass outside.
It's been popular in the last decade and a half to think that freedom is when everyone, including massive corporations, can do anything they want with your software, including closing it and taking away everyone else's freedom. Don't people think it would be better if they couldn't do that?

People who value attention over principles are known as "pick mes" apparently.
hear hear

You can't influence the course of the company (hence the 'beating drive out of you' comment I made). I am not root-causing the issue and putting the blame on leaf-level folks, just describing it. Quite the contrary.

I was riding a gBike (single-speed for those who aren't familiar with one) ~10 years ago with my friend and I told him this bike is a perfect representative of Google's culture. No matter how hard you pedal it goes the same speed.
Why is it a sensitive subject?
Most (not all) of the seized fentanyl is not being smuggled by immigrants coming over the border. The arguments Republicans make are that the migrants are exacerbating the situation by diverting customs resources and that those numbers could be skewed because there is equipment to detect drugs at ports of entry but not between border crossings, so the seizure rates could be higher at ports of entry out of proportion to the trafficking rates.

Obviously this is politics and people can disagree with their arguments, but this is one of the other favorite "don't lie but kind of do" games. The claim that detection rates could be higher at ports of entry isn't outrageous, there is some logic to it, but since by definition we don't know what the rate of undetected trafficking is in each location, there is "no evidence" for their claim. This is not equivalent to it being proven false, but that will often be implied.
> do I get $10M bonus?

Seems like you might want to consider the finance industry.

If you make something important 5% faster, you bet you are getting a few years worth of salary as bonus.
Until we have anonymous electronic money, this still does not overcome the problem of privacy (it may worsen it).

"Problem of privacy" which incidentally made me very relieved to find in your article: it is nice not to be alone

> I don’t want or need entities with strong (e.g., credit-card-payment grade) proof of my identity tracking to the paragraph what I’m reading
If you mean his tonsure, the style was known as "a monk."
They don't use AWS, by the way. This was GCP.
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As someone who spent 5 years in China pre-pandemic, China is a threat to many nations due to their growth. The Chinese govt. is specifically targeting key markets (EVs, solar, battery tech, steel, semiconductors) and China makes much more of those items that can be used internally in China. So China ends up driving any non-Chinese battery or solar panel manufacturer out of business.

If Chinese EVs were to be sold widely in the US, they would be less than half the cost of any Western-made EV and would take over the EV market. A future where Chinese companies own the EV market in the US with all of the American user data going back to servers in China- that's just not a future the US govt. wants- no govt. (outside of China's own) should want that.

Then there's the whole Fentanyl epidemic in the US and elsewhere. That is largely due to Chinese chemical manufacturers who are selling the chemicals to Mexico and then those drugs are smuggled into the US. There are many to blame here but the US has been pushing China to ban the sale of these chemicals outside of China for a long time without agreement. China realizes this is important to the US and it's being used as a key trade issue.

"doubling down on liberal democracy" got us to where we are now wrt China. China doesn't respond to liberal democracy. They only respond to force or trade embargos, or tariffs. That's what was learned as Xi decided to become dictator for life.
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If there are still people cruising after all these layoffs in the last 2 years, it’s again a leadership issue.
What an incredible mask-off moment. The war mongering coming from this man is insane, I still don’t get why these people even bother to say they “care about democracy” when it’s clearly a lie.

He says China is “lost” or whatever, simply because the West has been unable to control the country in the same way they have done with Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc.

I hate these people that justify barbarism and imperialism as a means to a “greater good.” It has “white man’s burden” written all over it.
shouting the following into a phone: "YES, FRAN. I KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, BUT I'M LOOKING AT THE WENUS, AND I'M NOT HAPPY." will be good, but what happens if the management says "I like that guy! What's his name?"

later on "Hey Chandler, Did you get that WENUS problem sorted out? Chandler, I'd like you to come to the main office and give a presentation, we need your kind of can-do attitude"
That's better than what Google became
I'd say Vanguard's VUSXX at 5.26% clearly beats it.
They just nixed ubo on chrome.

The comments on that are full of people jumping ship, as is to be expected.

Without firefox to point at as an example of how they are not anticompetitive, google is in for an even worse time wrt anti-trust.

And now that firefox won't have Google's money they will need to stand on their own again.

Firefox got markedly worse every year since they started taking Google's money.
As a worker from home guy (I am fully remote), I feel offended by this over-simplifying statement:
I'm one of the top contributor in the company I work for (it was officially acknowledged).

Also, as a solo parent, work life balance is uppermost important to me.

What he miss out is that by restricting the bucket of employees/human you consider, you get ride of top talents that aren't to your norms.
Your business needs biz-ass to look biz-ay!
It's ludicrous to lay this at the feet of individual employees and assert that they're all just lazy with no drive etc.

Google has severe cultural problems and the responsibility for that should be assumed by the leadership.
he spent so much time at work they became family!
The main problem with slash as italics is that I very often write either file Unix file paths (like /etc/) or lists of alternatives (like vim/emacs/etc), and such markup languages tend to get confused.

I rarely have that issue with * and _, since they only really appear as explicit symbols in code or math which already have other syntax markers.
Sorry but that take is insane. Don't you think that people in China just want to live just like people in the US? China dominating the Tech industry vs the US makes no difference to a majority of the people in the world.

The US no longer being able to print money (without massive inflation) out of thin air would force it to be more fiscally responsible like many other countries have to be.
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Yeah, this is something I try to be aware of - I’ve got my style and it works well, but it’s not the only style and in many cases it’s not the best. I’ve got a team of mostly senior folks, all of whom have very different styles, and it’s been a real delight getting to see how other people whose skill and experience I respect approach problems, even if sometimes I’m white-knuckling my chair arms because it’s so far off of how I’d handle it.
I mean, nobody would just go on the Internet and tell lies and all, and the story's only coming out now, but crypto's been on a wild. If they mined and sold ETH at the peak in 2021 when it was above $4,500, that's 23 Eth they would have had to have mined to hit $100,000k. Someone else will have to do the math on how achievable that was in difficulty, but I don't think it's that inconceivable.
ChatGPT is like Wikipedia c. 2005: simultaneously very useful and yet with just enough junk to cause problems which mostly affect those who know the least about whichever topic.

Still better than learning from newspapers, though.
It's actually about one major thing. Will China invade Taiwan, a country and 20 million people that have lived free of the Communist Party for 70 years, and if so, what does that mean for the US and allies to do something about it or let it happen?

If the US tries to prevent it, that's a package of huge "war-like anti-Chinese (government) sentiment" ramifications that should've been grappled with a decade ago.

If the US doesn't prevent it, Pax Americana is officially over, and the world will know what the collapse of World Order really looks like and what that means for the diminishing prosperity that first worlders are accustomed to.
> And one of the things to know about war is that the offense always has the advantage

I'm no military expert, but wasn't it exactly the opposite?

The attacking army needs to be bigger than the defending army and will suffer way more casualties,even if they are successful.
How many years do you think it would take, and how powerful a computer would you need before you could switch Youtube channels as fast as channels on a regular analog TV from the 1960's?
They are free to license that glue however they please, within the legal limits.
All that does is make me distrust the freedom index.

The US isn't the bastion of freedom it's government likes it's people to believe, and there are European countries that strongly value freedom, but particularly the big/core EU countries and the UK are absolutely not free, nor are any of the other anglophone countries.

I could believe someone telling me Switzerland and Finland are more free than the US. They seem like very freedom loving people with governments that mostly leave them alone. Many of the metrics in the index I do believe apply and the US government's propaganda tries to focus on it's strengths instead of the aspects where it is not free. Freedom to trade internationally and regulation are good examples of that. Nonetheless, any country where you can't speak your mind freely you absolutely aren't free no matter what it's score on other metrics. The fact that Canada ranks higher than the US speaks to the fact that the index is extremely flawed. Many of these countries ranking higher than the US have banned books and jailed people for speaking words.
> going home early and working from home was more important than winning

Well... count me in !
I did not.

That said, it is up to the individual to work at Google or not, so it's not like they are a self-selecting population of maximally driven people. At least not the recently-joined folks.

By and large, Google is branded as the company people choose to go and coast maximally recently.
Are there long term studies on the effects of creatine? I was asking given the evidence for increased cancer, and mortality associated with high red meat intake, but a lack of understanding re the causative mechanisms.
Even in small cities in Spain, central areas are high density with three or four storey mix residential buildings.

I chose a random small city in northern Catalonia called Vielha and viewed it on Goggle Maps, there they are. They look different to Eixanple apartment buildings, but they are there in the centre. Population less than 6k.

Chose another, Gironella, a bit further south; population around 4k. One less floor on the multi family apartment buildings in the old centre, and a much higher ratio of SFDs to MFDs in the settlement as a whole, but still there.

How many should I sample to convince you?
Indeed, if I actually felt like the work I was doing was directly benefiting my coworkers and community members I would be really excited about it! Hard to get motivated when all your work goes to making sure your manager gets a kitchen remodel and a third house.
https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress

Check this out. You _almost_ use the most expensive service.

I think you should expand your awareness. Hetzner for instance doesn't mention anywhere that they throttle your 10gbit uplink, but they limit to 20TB/month, with ~1EUR for every TB over. Seems like you wouldn't even have noticed what you described in your article.
if your projection was for making $1,000, but then because spiked up to over $4,500 an ETH, that it's suddenly lucrative, it makes sense. cryptocurrency's been on a wild ride so a projection that they'd only make $1,000, but ended up with $100,000, isn't impossible.
> The owners of big companies include lots of pension plans, index funds, etc. Hurting those owners, who didn't have any say in the bad decisions, is probably not what we want.

It is exactly what we want. Otherwise the only deciding factor for what to invest in is maximum profit and that just incentivizes companies to skirt the law as much as possible.
Freedom is better because it removes hurdles to more rapid evolutions of efficiency, which leads to better utilization of energy, bringing better material life for every human.

Other than that, I'm genuinely curious about the origin of the "inevitable war that we have to win for humanity" sentiment. Where does this judgment come from? It's perplexing to hear such a deterministic and high-stakes view being expressed in elite circles. I wonder what specific factors or events have led to this conclusion, and whether it's based on concrete evidence or if it's more of a narrative that has gained traction. It would be interesting to understand the reasoning behind this perspective, especially given the complex and multifaceted nature of US-China relations. Are there particular think tanks, policy papers, or influential figures promoting this idea? I'd be very interested in tracing the development and spread of this sentiment, as it seems to have significant implications for international relations and policy-making.
Why did you and Erin stop working there in 2020?
what a shallow ad-hominem. during his tenure he was extremely well liked and growth was booming. why would his spousal relationships make him a bad leader? do you look to your managers for moral leadership?
Thats still gonna be a big change shift if such companies could axe every 2nd or 3rd developer in their teams. In that situation you might be competing with your colleague not to loose job or have to be "non-arogant" (/s) to ask for pay rise.
You missed the most important items...

1. The U.S. fails to protect Taiwan.
2. All allies lose confidence in the U.S. nuclear umbrella, and they create their own nuke programs.
3. Japan and S. Korea produce nukes nearly overnight. Lots of other countries follow. We now have a much worse nuclear arms race.

China needs only one reason to make the argument for taking control of Taiwan. That's national security. Taiwan is extremely important as a strategic island for defense of the mainland. For example, go look at a map of Taiwan airspace vs Chinese airspace. Honestly, I find it almost ridiculous that such a great power is boxed in so much by a tiny neighbor.

Personally, I think Taiwan needs to take one for the team and commit to reunification with China. That would cool things down significantly. Maybe the Chinese could even throw in some deals on borders to give the Philippines and other neighbors a break.
Manufacturing Consent defines anti-communism as the US's national religion and a pillar of political power...
Meta is the most leetcode heavy interviews for SWEs, they expect you to solve 2 leet code questions in every coding round.
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They lack the alarmism of CNN, but the way that outlets like NPR were so comfortable to tow obvious political lines during the pandemic (such as even entertaining the possibility of a “lab leak” hypothesis, painting it to be insanely conspiratorial and/or racist, despite the Wuhan lab being supported by NIH grants) — the most clear and dangerous version of manufactured consent I’ve seen in American media this generation.

Most media outlets (including NPR) begrudgingly accepted this as a strong likelihood for the initial source of the virus only a year or two later, once they had political approval.

Journalists and editors in these larger institutions no longer have any courage to actually be a “fourth estate” or think independently of government.
> A small refinement here, your statements are largely my experience dealing with people linking against gpl3 software because of the vitality and the patent exemptions

In the context of the thread (the claim GPL 3 provides more of a motive for people to by paid licences for dual licensed software) I think that "small refinement" covers most of what we are talking about though.
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Anything dependent on "user generated content" has a capture factor.
It doesn't matter if all the apps are slop, people will follow established creators, and new creators will follow an established audience.

I suspect the clones of something existing have no real chance of success without some sort of external marketing hook; better revenue sharing or similar. The rest will be ignored like every other current low effort app.
Ha well, as a lover of spirited conversation I am not at all offended. I'm not telling you you have to use (A)GPL code, I'm just trying to dispel various rumor.

I really, truly believe the GPLs have revolutionized our society. It's hard to imagine the internet and tech looking as good as they do (they could look way, way worse) without copyleft. Somewhere along the way we adopted this simplistic, hypothetical conception of freedom as "fewer restrictions and obligations", but experience gives us numerous counterpoints. Who is more free, the citizen of a country that protects against robbery, fraud, and violence, or the denizen of a lawless land? Oftentimes restricting one freedom (the freedom to kill, the freedom to close source) unlocks untold other freedoms (freedom to speak or worship without violence, freedom to build Google et al on the back of FOSS software). We've weirdly forgotten this, and I'm doing what I can to remind us.

That Google policy is actually heartening to me. It means that if I build some successful infra app and license it under the AGPLv3, there's zero chance I'll see it show up in GCP. That's a mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned.
yes I understand that , but respectfully I hope you understand that I came here not to hear to rent a server but rather to actually get a alternative.

1) wireguard and openvpn are really hard to configure. You can just see it from the fact by seeing the plethora of apps trying to simplify these two.
(see sshuttle to see what I am speaking)

2.) I want it to be accessible by everyday , so no I am not looking for it as a vpn
Having a separate test team is pretty much mandatory in safety critical development. You really want people who haven’t written the code go through the specification independently and write test cases for every requirement.
I was with Vanguard for many years. Fidelity has too many things I like to split between two brokerages. Using 4-week treasuries on auto-roll is close enough to VUSXX for me. You really can't go wrong with Fidelity, Vanguard, or Schwab if all you need is a brokerage. But Fidelity has a much broader set of products that it offers compared to Vanguard.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Fidelity:_one_stop_shop
What kind of features?