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721.
by ptero 6y ago
Sure, but I suspect reducing unnecessary automation will lead to using noticeably fewer chips. People have different preferences, but I think many, like me, would prefer a simple heater on/off and a linear stronger/weaker selectio
722.
by ptero 6y ago
It is even broader (and worse) than this. Technological gatekeepers you listed there are often working in concert with financial gatekeepers (credit card companies, payment processors) to prevent funding of alternative information flows.
723.
by ptero 6y ago
I think it is household vs personal. The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual real median personal income at $35,977 in 2019. For a startup founder, or in fact any single person, median personal income is a more relevant number.
724.
by ptero 6y ago
That is, sadly, not how it works in many countries -- if the money is gone, it's gone.
725.
by ptero 6y ago
> The poorest have a negative net worth, so inflation reduces their debt Yes, and it helps those who got into debt some time in the past, and without this debt have a positive cash flow today; for example a graduate making good salary bu
726.
by ptero 6y ago
> When there's a steep inflation, be it anything from Turkey level to Venezuela level inflation, your salary gets adjusted to sustain your lifestyle Only at the lowest levels, where it has no relation to economics anyway: most gover
727.
by ptero 6y ago
> In a wealthy society like outs, assets are exactly where you would see the inflation. Demand for staple goods isn't going to go up Demand may not go up, but the costs for producers will and those costs are going to get passed to c
728.
by ptero 6y ago
IIRC, Oracle managed to get a huge, well paying customer (DoD) behind their "we build a better database" pitch. That provided enough funding, users and support to move into applications. In fact even if they didn't expand int
729.
by ptero 6y ago
The problem I have with the setup the author listed is not the exploding part, it's the pressure to accept and calls from the hiring manager pressing to accept. All well within the exploding offer window. If the team has this attitud
730.
by ptero 6y ago
I am not sure that banning of Mein Kampf has a long-term benefit. If it has not been banned it would likely fade into obscurity instead of becoming a symbol. As a counter-datapoint I grew up in a country that effectively banned religion
731.
by ptero 6y ago
And for early trades of a stock, in the analogy of the poster you replied to, the seller is a creator (inventor, builder, etc.) who needs money to build or expand and a buyer provides money for him to do that for part of future profit. That
732.
by ptero 6y ago
I highly recommend analysis by Lyn Alden. She looks at the situation with an engineer's approach without pushing any political agenda. She looks at several options and provides the justification that "this time is different";
733.
by ptero 6y ago
If you want news on a hot button topic it is usually better to watch it reported from far away. Less attachment leads to more information and less spin. Thus I would read US election news on European or Asian news sites, Brexit from Asia, e
734.
by ptero 6y ago
> Down 6% after hours, for reasons that I don't understand "Buy on the rumors, sell on the news". Sell on the news part I think
735.
by ptero 6y ago
Can you point to a few examples just to make sure we are talking about the same thing? I use wikipedia for math, physics and engineering topics frequently and generally do not have too much trouble understanding it, possibly with a few cros
736.
by ptero 6y ago
Its 75% each way. And they will for many years work to reduce spying by lowering this percentage, to 50% in the asymptotic case.
737.
by ptero 6y ago
I do not know the details of this case, but universities are opening new departments, centers and programs all the time. There needs to be some mechanism for reallocation rather than just growth. Some breadth is always needed, but strength
738.
by ptero 6y ago
Yes, but it took so many years of confusing people not deeply familiar with the situation that perl6 will be a better perl5 (as perl5 was a better perl4, perl4 was a better perl3, etc.) while in reality it was a very different beast.
739.
by ptero 6y ago
All good points. I am just saying that moonshot projects are supposed to be "very high risk, high reward" projects -- unlikely to work, but if they do would provide big benefits. Your points argue that this is a "high risk, n
740.
by ptero 6y ago
I think the main problem is they lost the edge on execution. Traditional "vision" is not strictly needed for moonshot projects; the vision for moonshots is provided by a small team working on their idea. But should the technology
741.
by ptero 6y ago
I think your "ecosystem of python libraries" is the key point. Python got a lot of mileage for a mass adoption from ML. Its libraries provided an "easy ML" for masses at the time ML got popular in science and job market,
742.
by ptero 6y ago
Some personal medical data is very sensitive, and for a good reason. I am not claiming that this is true in this case, and the state does have to argue and prove why it decided that both the search and the arrest were justified; but it
743.
by ptero 6y ago
It is a weird story. I do not think she is being targeted for speaking her mind or advocating a particular view of the COVID, the charges almost certainly are for accessing the non-public data she should not have accessed. And some data
744.
by ptero 6y ago
This is not new; such things happened many times in the past (25 years ago Microsoft was the behemoth trampling small companies) and will happen again. I do not think Google is doing it consciously -- this is probably just collateral damage
745.
by ptero 6y ago
United States too. Same feeling that most messages are iMessage or SMS. But as one of two extended family members with Android against ~10 with iPhones, for me iMessages are pretty horrible. They mostly work most of the time, but frequently
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by ptero 6y ago
> We teach five year olds about Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement because it’s an important part of our history. Children are going to have questions about why things happened, and what the “right” side of it was. What are we going
747.
by ptero 6y ago
I did not follow your reasoning about 5 years old debating the merits of segregation, can you elaborate? Many topics are introduced at young age, and can take many years until they become a part of the person's worldview that they pers
748.
by ptero 6y ago
Democracy vs fascism is the discussion I hope you can win on merits. In fact I wouldn't mind honest debates on this topic at schools: it can serve to vaccinate people against intolerance and extremism. Communities that shut down such d
749.
by ptero 6y ago
When a company (or two) gets a near-monopoly on a distribution channel, bans are no longer a business issue. We banned X becomes much more important than "because of Y" part, which can always be made up and is pretty weak in the c
750.
by ptero 6y ago
Can someone provide a short technical summary for folks, like me, not closely tracking libre signal, F-droid, etc.? I get the freedom arguments, but what is the technical crux of the issue? Did a reimplementation (competitor?) of signal wit

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