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Curious (not) how Soviets just became ‘russian’. This is soft propaganda once again.

Premise? The guy spews the most vile stuff and russian propaganda. There is more than premise to say he’s a piece of shit.

Outdated Cisco hardware, vpns still getting pings, port scan finds some open, people start to connect to proxies to connect out of Kazakhstan?

I think there is an analog here to the great man theory vs zeitgeist. Maybe this tech was underwhelming and its massive impact was due to fortuitous timing. So you weren’t wrong about the tech just how it would mix with the spirit of the moment.

The energy drain of software development is something I struggle with. I’ve worked as a painter and can relate to wrapping things up for the day and coming home physically exhausted but with energy remaining. Especially with Covid ‘work from anywhere all the time’ it’s very difficult to find a balance as a software slinger.

I am not going to reply to this because it’s a frustratingly crass response that lives up to the stereotypes of engineers. Is it that hard to believe that even in legitimate police interventions they are much more likely to use deadly force with a black person? “Black men are about 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police over the life course than are white men.” https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

It was not campaign finance laws that’s incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Donald_Trump?wp... Charges were abuse of power and obstruction of investigation. That Democrats were itching to impeach him doesn’t change the reality that he abused his office to advance his own political interests.

Your own reference proves it’s anything but fake news. That link states right off the bat that banning travel was virtually useless. He’s on record with Bob Woodward talking about how he knew the virus is serious but he wanted to avoid ‘panic’. If Trump spent a fraction of the energy he’s devoting to without any proof undermining our voting he would have been re-elected free and clear.

Bottom line or at least some silver lining?

I’ve seen the impeachment described as illegitimate somehow. It was political sure, no doubt about it. But he tried to use his office to coerce a foreign government to take down his political opponent. That should be a fireable offense. He only escaped it because of purely political defense.

Are you trying to cast doubt on the imbalance in the occurrence of these killings? That seems naive if I assume the best of intentions.

But they aren’t taxed without representation. In fact they are subsidized heavily. The very opposite.

Attractive is a stretch https://apps.newyorkfed.org/markets/autorates/SOFR, granted rates are historically low but today a bank will earn $25 overnight for every billion lent out. Not really a cash cow. Maybe that’s why there is finally some progress.

Great idea. Have you done any analysis on the data?

I’d be curious to see if a passive index to track members of the Congress would beat the S&P.

Although it may not account for other sweet deals like this option expiry extension and accelerated vesting https://theintercept.com/2020/05/12/david-purdue-senate-card...

The real value of the currency is supposed to (at least theoretically) be hurt by this. Printing money to solve problems either leads to hyperinflation in the extreme, a deflationary trap that Japan has been in or some new thing we are creating. Maybe because the whole world is doing it all at once it’ll be ok?

There is someone more informed to comment on this but the reason is the Fed. They are buying corporate debt. That’s a pretty drastic thing to be doing. This recent commentary by the Fed chairman describes the scene, the money tap is wide open. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/powell-vo...

Here is an interesting use https://www.lexifi.com/instrumentbox/. Algebraic description of financial contracts that then gives all sorts of common features you want to analyze them ‘for free’.

Spot on. Too many comments are see-sawing on details of parameters and trade offs but just talk to a doctor in NYC, they are out of room in ICUs and terrified about triaging that will start taking place.

CoRecursive by Adam Gordon Bell is fantastic. I especially liked the episodes with Hal Abelson (SICP) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/corecursive-software-e...

And

Phillip Waddler https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/corecursive-software-e...

Bryan Cantrill episode was good too. Lots of variety and Adam Gordon Bell interviews very well.

I’d love to re-read that ancient white paper called ‘Bloomberg in a nutshell’ if anyone has it. It explains the server side architecture which is pretty interesting and terrifying as you said.

But you can come to your own conclusions about virtually anything including conspiracy theories if you are relying on subjective observations and your own interpretations. You should be free to do so but it should come with a strong disclaimer so others don’t take it as truth. That’s the value of cited research. It lets you assume some credibility and objectivity in the claim.

Seriously? This is first I hear of something like this. Any sources you can share on the subject?

So it’s a feedback loop between ability and interest. With the two combined and progress registering people continue on. But what’s the wellspring of interest and is ability largely a gift or can it be cultivated?

Cool! Are you referring to the phantom types technique? I am interested in how you implement this in typescript. Do you have a blog post about it you can refer me to? Or even just a gist?

Great post. On the topic, the Bloomberg terminal is a dinosaur and is slow to start from what I remember but email and most of the features are pretty much instant in their response. There is plenty of resistance from customers to newer features which tend to be more ‘modern’ looking and feature-full but have noticeable latency. To give an example, there is a feature to price mortgage backed bonds, the 15 year old (maybe older?) version loads instantly, takes command line arguments, on the other hand the new version takes maybe a few seconds to load and matches 98% of the old functionality plus 30-50% of new capabilities. The new one is basically universally hated.

As with most things, everything in moderation but your comment reminded me of ‘slow parenting’ and ‘idle parenting’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_parenting

That doesn’t seem like that big of a number for a large corporation that Slack is now. Tesla had a net loss of 700mm[1] last quarter. Their business is more capital intensive for sure but still. Just looking at a 150mm net loss and saying it’s a big number doesn’t tell you much.

[1] https://ir.tesla.com/node/19771/html#CONSOLIDATED_STATEMENTS...

I would describe that post as propagating junk science. It’s cherry picking stats and skewing them. Odds ratio difference for pelvic organ issues for women who have a C section vs natural delivery. That’s just establishing strength of association. It’s surprising that there is any association for women who have a c section. The ‘safer for babies’ paragraph makes the claim that 692 babies would be saved if 1 million women chose c-section over natural delivery. So 0.069%? I hear you about wanting to be skeptical but there is conclusive research on negative effects to children who are delivered via c section. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/10/14/... Not to mention that it’s a massive surgery for the mother with all the inherent risks of one.

Your comment brings to mind a fascinating short story that follows this idea: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

I am pretty sure I found it on HN a few years ago.

That introduces enough friction that I don’t want to bother buying there. I’ll just pay more and wait longer for a product I know is genuine.

Oh, they’ve been banning customers for too many returns! https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8mde/amazon-ban...