this isn't a copyright litigation how is this top comment
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first of all, low/high levels have a cause. if it's nutrition, yeah, you're right, just measure and correct.
but you come to the conclusion that's nutrition with zero evidence supporting it, and that's annoying as hell, because it's basically shunning the door for people with real conditions that could live 10x times better if only someone would have used a more rigorous method of inquiry instead of 'just nutrition lol'
it doesn't have to be complicated, but it still have to be rigorous.
problem decomposition is maybe not the central skill, but the one that helped me most so far.
alumni average results and achievements will vary a lot, because of open access, and population size and economic stagnation would screw other metrics like employment rate, wages etc. other metrics like staff size are pointless as well, unless maybe proportioned by participation over population size, and then one would need to carefully define what each university catchment region it.
it's not just the API, the whole operating system need to be aware of the need to operate at such frequency, because even if the clocks are faster, the software gets interrupted all the time. what good would a nanosecond api do if an interrupt can stall the cpu for a microsecond?
hence the need for a whole class of realtime operating systems. the next question would then be, why aren't all computers using a realtime operating system? because with the relaxed time constraints we get great returns in speed and cost.
the push from local industries to large conglomerates to global multinationals was sustained by a strong economy and easy access to large banking institution that could finance their operations at reasonable risk for themselves.
the small local banks in Italy could never sustain such a growth, and production remained local, with few notable exception.
sure politicking, corruption and mafia had a part in it, as they will reduce competitiveness of a company compared to others having none of such issues (i.e. the state deciding where to build factories based on unemployment and not efficiency) but a large enough company can absorb that in the bottom line and continue operating.
Medium companies are, however, completely suffocated from this.
the Italian startup stagnation is more confounding, but my personal belief is that it's likely a result of the absurd taxation the middle class gets. It's basically impossible to build up any saving to start entrepreneurship around here, as everything in welfare comes from the middle class. And existing entrepreneurs have little incentive in branching off to new unexplored areas. Without the fuel and ferment from solo founders making it, there's no culture and no substrate to fall into if a business fails. Everyone is just grabbing at their own chair, hoping not to be knocked into poverty by the next round of financial crises.
in 2020 however it appears to me that wikpedia gentrified, accruing a thick fat of bureaucrats and has somewhat been stagnating around his stack.
reducing support is maybe a good opportunity for them to lean down a little and get back at rethinking the future of crowd knowledge self-organization, instead of putting layers of gates and red tapes around each bureaucrat turf.
the real things that were dropped since then were 32 bit protected mode apps, and for such you have plenty options for both virtualizing and paravirtualizing.
I can boot basically any other version of Windows under my windows system using Microsoft provided software.
I can even just go boot up older version of Windows on current hardware if needed be, up to a point.
almost everything from eighties to today I am able to run one way another, nothing "stopped" working.
Apple physically removes old software from their delivery platform or signing servers and if you lose your devices it's lost forever
how does it even compare?
like in sports, the size of the talent pool matters, and with an unbearable cost for entry entrepreneurship almost s losing proposition unless if under the heels of some financing partner whims, as it's the only realistic option to sustain the bottom line costs from handling vatmoss, letters of taxations and the other billion historical bureaucratic commitments
second reason, middle class can't get savings any more. savings are essential for a wealth of reason, including starting a family, a business, investing in property or other people ideas. these are all essential for growing a solid economy long run.
angel and VC money works as a surrogate but it goes only so far as it aligns with the 1% incentives; it burns as much as it elevates, maybe even more, and is more of a way to extract money from growing SMB instead of a way to build a wealthy middle class, as they only play for the exit.
the wet bags behind the autopilot get bored, distracted, complacent, ill or reckless due a moltitude of factors some of which outside their control
it is well known at this point the human modes of failure, and that there was basically no mitigation is a reasonability of the system designer
I'm glad I can delegate them the reasoning about which task is more urgent, and them acting as buffer to clients frees me from a lot of time trying to understand what they want, how they want it and all the back and forth about how much they want to pay for it.
good project managers, that aren't just bossing internal people around but working with the team at different part of the projects like communication and operations, are rare, but are a joy to work with.
did you write the column one after another (first all left, then all right) or going left right line of text then top down?
not overnight of course, but there will be a zoning effect at some point, as there always is, where some neighborhoods pool similarly minded people, as neither offer nor demand is really elastic.
no, not really. what it means is: every important sytem has attackers trying to exploit it. finding an exploit is a series of hunches while probing the system as a blackbox, and you need just one; meanwhile a defender has to be methodical enough find them all.
given the differences, obscurity removes the defender ability to systematically analyze the system while on the other hand for an attacker it remains as much of a blackbox as it was before.
from the admiral giving the order to his own ship flaggers to communicate to the next in line takes time, then the order gets flagged to the next in line ship, which has to rely to the ship behind etc. then the acknowledgement signal has to travel back and after that you can execute a coordinated turn
it all takes quite a while, and meanwhile you're best off not changing idea; even just cancelling the order introduce the risk to confuse and disarray your battle line
now, is it the order per turn the best system? probably not. Fields of fire had an interesting system that represent well modern era army organisation and disorganisation from units moving independently, but then again it's a very specific application, while strategy system or civilization games have much more ground to cover
if not link to that are one misconfiguration or one parked domain from being wiped.
I (used to, pre-covid) see daily plenty people cutting bus lanes, so these exist, and what you going to do to protect society from them? even a stern look is not the anarchist way.
most sport teams have a captain and a trainer and most volunteer forces are under supervision of more experienced staff around here. sure they don't strictly command the squad, but they're the one responsible for organizing participant to minimize internal and external friction
that capitalism is unfair is so generic it's extremely disingenuous to make that critique as a sign of anarchism
there's quite a logical jump from "two wrongs don’t make a right" to "abolish the criminal justice system", which isn't about punishment to begin with in most societies.
"Pretty much every achievement has been based on cooperation and mutual aid" - pretty much most of the contemporary technological jump came from wwii, and the modern technological jump came from private holdings competing and one upping one another.
"Do you believe that human beings are fundamentally corrupt and evil" uh, there's psychopathology that need to be cured; how many people submitted to rehab vs how many people were forced into?
"certain sorts of people are inferior specimens, destined to be ruled by their betters? " of curse I wouldn't call them "inferior" and "ruling", but some people require continuous assistance or guidance. this question has been loaded with negative term to cause a certain predefined answer to seem the only right answer. ask yourself is someone with dementia would need a tutor to manage their finances instead and help them trough surviving in decent condition, and suddenly the answer is not as much black and white.
hope this is because it's a very short essay to a large introductory text, because otherwise is severely lacking both in arguments and the logic by which what's there has been built.