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Yeah - its important to set aside space where we can both recognize Elon has done some impressive things, but also rightfully point out he has consistently been a massive bellend.

Regarding the landing rockets issue, I've found BPS Space's youtube series on trying to land a model rocket in a similar matter very enlightening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miMT44LFUjs

> Hiring the right people to push the success of SpaceX and Tesla?

Probably this. Its not easy to do.

I think there is also something to be said about the singularity of vision Musk brought to these companies. Its easy to dismiss (and I haven't been a fan of him much since the whole Thailand incident) but its one of those annoying aspects that eludes the desire of developers' (i.e. the average reader of this site) desire to quantify everything.

It makes me think of the story of Steve Jobs after his return to Apple, where he called a meeting of team leads, made a quadrant on a white board with the edges labeled "desktop" and "portable" on the vertical, "consumer" and "professional" on the horizontal, and demanded the company only produce 1 product to fill each of the four squares, eliminating the rest.

Barring some sort of Carl Icahn "activist investor" forcing themselves on to the board, I don't see SpaceX changing anything. Bad PR doesn't affect a company which makes its money mostly through long-term government contracts, and common sentiment is that Tesla/SpaceX long had the boards purged of dissenters and populated with "loyal soliders" to Musk's cause.

That is a major plot point in Margin Call, which is a dramatization of the initial housing bubble crash of 08: https://youtu.be/zn2Xf9hAFcE?t=461

As a user of Thunderbird on desktop and user/donor to K-9 on Android this is incredible news.

Super excited to see cketti's work get a major FOSS organization behind it. Contrary to some other comments, I have actually been really happy with the new interface updates and I think giving K-9 a light thunderbird skin would be fantastic.

I mean, if you can acquire or otherwise reverse-engineer[0] the game seed, you can also just find resources by loading a local copy and noting the coordinates of ore. For major servers, anti-xray plugins will be installed as due diligence, but most of the anti-cheat efforts are focused on detection, reverting, and banning.

Ultimately, if you have a big enough server to attract serious cheaters, you will (or at least should) have tools that can also detect suspicious behavior based on heuristics (i.e. see if a player mined straight to an ore block). Tools like CoreProtect[1] can help detect and revert this.

Ore obfuscation still works very well, however, for the majority of causal cheaters that just googled "hacked minecraft client" and installed the first result.

One ore obfuscation technique used in PaperMC actually sends intentionally fake data to the user to "muddy the waters"[2].

(I know a lot of this because I help develop a Minecraft server management tool)

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaRurhiK-Lk

[1]:https://github.com/PlayPro/CoreProtect/

[2]:https://docs.papermc.io/paper/anti-xray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Tullock#Tullock's_spike (I think this was mentioned earlier but I can't find the comment, so I'll just link it again)

I did two things that greatly helped me.

1) I at least made an attempt at some of Cal Newport's suggestions in "Deep Work" and schedule working blocks for myself. I adopt a different posture, maybe wear different clothes, If you can afford to, get a second cheap laptop and use that only for work... And then go somewhere else physically. Even if it's just a different room.

2) Consider trying a few sessions of neurofeedback therapy. I did it in high school and really felt my ability to concentrate and think along a single track improve significantly. I can't guarantee anything but it's worth looking into.

At this point in your hypothetical, if we're still talking about the US dollar, you'll have a lot more to worry about than generating a return on your investment.

If you think this is a serious potential outcome, then I suggest you forget about investing all together and instead start learning subsistence farming practices.

Or you could buy Swiss bonds?

My family is a bit of a Chaco cult. We've climbed 14'ers in Colorado in them, my sister wore Chacos under her wedding dress, and I unintentionally ended up living and working close to the HQ.

I personally have walked 10 miles in a pair, but it was pretty casual walking.

Get them on sale, and send them in to get refurbished from time-to-time. They are fantastic.

That's true, but its a deeper problem with that. The moderation is a sort of "in protest" form, with lots of deliberate "blind eyes" and slow action so they don't get deplatformed by the app stores etc.

Beyond the moderation, these sites have the problem that they are inherently set up as a sort of opposition haven -- "we're twitter for people banned from twitter!"

This results in a phenomenon Hank Green calls the "worst people problem"[0]. I'm not a huge fan of the judgemental term, but the core idea is similar to pointing out the inherent contradiction of, say, an anarchists' society. You end up with a userbase that is defined by its desire to flaunt rules and reject any normative standards.

[0]:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1348101443404787718.html

(somewhat related and worth a watch: Folding Ideas' 2017 video essay about YT alternatives. Alt platforms have had inherent problems even before the more recent political bent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3snVCRo_bI)

What is this "Listerine case" you mention? It sounds interesting and important.

One thing that both terrifies and, oddly, comforts me is that when we zoom out to the highest scales of the universe, its clear that there are questions we cannot answer.

Its like the halting problem for metaphysics.

Regarding (1), any nuclear weapons may just remain on the sea floor.

For one, we've had nukes lost before by accident (called a "broken arrow" incident in US military) and its estimated around 50 have been lost at sea and never recovered[0].

The thing is, water is a really good radiation shield, and nuclear weapons must execute an extremely precise series of actions to detonate.

It may actually be safest to just leave them put.

[0]:http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/weapons/q0268.shtml

Ah, yes you're correct. Total brain fart, unfortunately too late to edit so my mistake must live on in infamy...

Obviously most devs will answer yes to this question. However, I don't think the implied conclusion (software devs copy each other, so the legal apparatus applied to software is okay doing so, too) is a valid one.

For one, this is hardware.

And second, even if this was software, that just reinforces the farce that is software patents -- another reason to add to the list of why patents on software shouldn't be a thing.

Obsidian is a self-hosted repository that ultimately stores everything as plaintext markdown (.md). It is 100% portable and by default owned by you.

Protip: you can easily sync obsidian by sharing the top-level vault directory with syncthing. Its entirely transparent, you just start obsidian and open the vault, and changes you make on one system automatically appear on others.

As for protonmail, its better than google -- but you're right in the data ownership. In the case of protonmail, they have a much better track record than Google, but if you are really paranoid choose a service that supports SMTP/SNMP. You can then just have a mail client store the mail as an archive or connect it to any other mail system.

I have mentioned my preferences before, but I'll refrain from turning this comment into an unpaid ad. Drew Devault's recommendations are pretty good though: https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...

I think the article author agrees with you. That's why they put 'work' in quotes.

It is useful for their argument to split 'work' and 'not work' along these lines because they are trying to reach readers that honestly do believe that any time not actively writing code for a jira ticket isn't work.

You are the dev that added Lightish Red?

I want you to know that the reddit halo community loves you.

GoatCounter is great! I use it for metrics on my hobby site (which are visible publicly): https://dotbun.goatcounter.com/

Mostly based off this quick search: https://www.everynda.com/blog/duration-clauses-non-disclosur...

As I said, I definitely understand not wanting to be the one to actually set precedent - that involves getting sued by Google, which is expensive and potentially career suicide. But I think ultimately its probably not enforceable.

That is only enforceable for Trade Secrets -- at least in most of the US. Google would need to prove that the things this employee worked on were "essential to the commercial viability of the business".

I totally understand not wanting to poke the legal behemoth, however.

As an anecdotal, a personal friend who is a former Googler signed a 10-year NDA, and he had his fingers in quite a few pies.

So maybe in 3 more years?

Its more the geometry of the process than the rate of failure. The post is just saying, "if the rate were constant". Basically, throw a dart at a wafer. Wherever the dart hits, the whole circuit/chip containing that point is now worthless. Assuming you threw the same number of darts (failures) at a board with a smaller chip, and a board with a large chip, the larger process wafer loses more total silicon (as a percentage of usable area).

With smaller chips, you have a smaller "grid" for your dart to land on. So the total number of failures (darts) being the same, you still end up with less usable silicon, since the bigger grid means you throw away a lot more surface area with a failure.

Take a look at this picture of a failure map, if you would like some visuals: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S09521976120008...

I am replying in the context of the parent comment asking if opinions of Soros in Brazil match the rest of the world. Which, well... they do.

You are allowed to call George Soros evil, greedy, what-have-you. However, antisemitism is a real thing, and his name has been commonly invoked as part of conspiracy theories pushing it.

Working in the IoT space can be... fun. Here's a high-level PDF on good OTA practices I've seen passed around before: https://mender.io/resources/product-briefs/_resources/Requir...

George Soros conspiracy theories have been a dogwhistle for antisemitism used in right-leaning politics in the United States for decades.

Generally 401(k) plan ratios are not managed individually. Most will have target date funds[0] that automatically transition in to progressively less-risky investments as you get closer to retirement.

The problem is... almost no financial instruments outside of stocks can provide a meaningful return any more, so even the target date funds are almost all stock.

I noted your other "time in the market beats timing the market" comment, which suggests you are an active investor. That's great! But very few Americans are active investors, and expecting them to become so is unrealistic.

Its a problem of realpolitik, which is why, going back to my original comment, you should still care, if only for how it will affect you.

[0]: Here is an example prospectus of a 2055 target date fund. Note the graph showing the changing allocation of stocks/bonds/money-market funds (or CDs). By retirement, nearly half the portfolio is still stocks. https://prospectus-express.broadridge.com/summary.asp?client...

My (very amateur) understanding of the housing issue is that its primarily a problem of supply. Since houses have been redefined from a dwelling to a financial investment, there is strong pressure on political policy to encourage asset appreciation. That means NIMBYism and corporate REITs are acting as two wealthy and highly-motivated special interest groups in favor of making new development nigh-impossible.

Or at least, so I've been lead to believe. All I know for sure is I can't by a third of the sq. ft my older sibling could 8 years ago.

That's a bit callous of you, not to mention shortsighted. If the Baby Boomer generation loses financial security, they will as a group A) tighten their spending habits and B) not retire.

Either of these effects on their own would hurt the younger generations, and together would make the already slow wealth building hit a brick wall. (I'm 25, for the record, and I don't expect to be debt-free or a homeowner until well into middle age)

While it really shouldn't be true, and at the level of financial mechanics probably isn't, the stock market has become the measure of the economy. Remember, pensions are dead and buried, and the nuclear family standard means that relying on your children (read: you and I) is not the bulwark it once was. That means 401(k) performance is really, really important, as terrible as that may be -- its just the reality right now.

Out of curiosity, do you use Cloudflare DNS? Cloudflare doesn't support EDNS IP location (ostensibly for privacy), which Archive.today uses for geolocation-based multicast resolution.

Archive.today's maintainer decided they didn't want to deal with it, so they intentionally return incorrect DNS results to Cloudflare IPs. Cloudflare's CEO has stated they could just detect and override it, but that would be essentially MITMing DNS, which felt like an overreach: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702