arca_vorago

>I'm sick of people trashing facebook when they can only wish for the data collection ability of the NSA. Oh, and there's no opt out there.

So because facebook isn't at NSA's level people should'nt trash fb? What an obviously logically fallacious statement. Do you not realize FB is part of the firehose that feeds the NSA et al? It is only one of many firehoses, but don't underestimate the power of the amount of data fb has. Something tells me you know this and are being intellectually dishonest.

I wasn't saying the CIA was it's discoverer, but rather it is the one that pushed LSD as part of the counter-culture movement of the 60's, which included experimentation on people (often without them knowing) in mkultra/artichoke programs and more.

A quote from Timothy Leary: "I give the CIA total credit for sponsoring and initiating the entire conciousness movemenet, counter-culture events of the 1960's."

As for why synthetics are dangerous, I think there is a thesis paper waiting to happen on that. Mostly because I don't think we fully understand the effects in total of some drugs. For example, I had friends the VA was trying to put on synthetic THC... but every single one of them said it was horrible, and I came to the conclusion that THC(a/b) alone is bad and that it's the natural combination of it and the other 300+ cannabinoids, including CBD, that really show promising medical benefits.

>The same for other crimes where people do not hurt or threaten to hurt other people.

Isn't that the thing though? Don't these bankers actually hurt more people, and hurt them worse, than any violent criminal could? So the person who hurts one family gets jail but the one that hurts thousands "doesn't get to work in the industry" anymore? That sounds like hogwash to me.

Has everyone just forgotten about the principle of equality under the law?

ctrl+f ego... no hits? I've never done a psychedelic other than a very spiritual moment with salvia divinorum, but I have read up on them extensively, (they are often touted to help with ptsd), and the one major common factor is their ego-busting nature.

Ego is a good thing in many ways, but due to societal and cultural strangeness, it is sometimes warped into overdrive (arrogance, etc) and sometimes too puny (low self-esteem, etc). Psychedelics seem like a path to showing you just how big... and small... you are in the universe.

That said, I have two warnings about this subject. First, I personally think synthetic psychedelics are potentially the most dangerous, which is why (especially after finding out it's CIA origins) I never intend to do LSD, for example. Second, these are things that my native-american brothers tell me must be done as a spiritual journey, and not as recreation. Those who approach these powerful things recreationally are the most likely to have bad trips.

I second blockdiag and it's variants. One of my half done side projects is an automatic network scanner and mapper that is versions so you can walk back in time on the network with netdiag. The only downside to me is the non gpl license.

Yeah quite a lot of people don't understand the power of holding or just "financial services" companies in todays economy. They are quiet giants in most respects. For example, in the "147-corporations who rule the world paper"[1] I noticed number 13 was Franklin Resources Inc. Never heard of them, but apparently as a holding company they are one of the most powerful in the world... with many more like them.

[1]https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf

>These huge banks have simply become way too big, and it serves no one's interest but their own. They have zero incentive to provide actual customer service anymore. There needs to be a massive restructuring of our system to allow smaller banks to thrive and provide actual competition.

Thats not the plan though. Now that they have IMF'd almost the whole world, they have no one elses pie to take from... so they are turning inwards. In order to do this, they are murdering and executing [1](American Psycho reference, but lots of literal truth there too) their way to the top, but not just in banking... in all industries. (bayer-monsanto being a good example).

What we need is anti-trust/anti-monopoly laws to actually be enforced... oh wait... the same bankers that need regulating basically own congress and many more. I'll never forget looking up my podunk Texas congressmans public financing and wonder why so many NY banks were donating to him. Until we find a way to start fixing congress (the closest to the people of the 3 branches) this will just happen again and again.

[1]https://llwproductions.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/big-banks...

Personally, after hunting terrorists for the government in my youth, I've come to the conclusion that bankers are the real terrorists. Financial terrorists.

Very much this. The real problem is getting the message to the masses when the message platforms that they use are controlled and censored.

Their job is national security... within the confines of the constitution. I don't get how an entity egregiously violating the supreme law of the land can ever be dismissed with an "I don't care" by anyone who claims to care about the rule of law.

You must taste this stew. You want steak instead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuMMa1-VhQg Learn some fire safety while you're at it.

I would say they are just as likely. I'd like to take a moment and point out that I see this response type way too often around here. Someone criticizes something and is almost always asked about why they aren't criticizing this other thing too. It's intellectually lazy and logically fallacious, as if when leveling justified ire on a person or company, you must then start listing every violator of the same type.

I assure you MS is still not to be trusted. I find this recent uptick in naivety about them dangerous. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, can't get fooled again.

"I mean really, when was the last time you cooked a perfect omelette or steak over a campfire on the lam?" About a month ago. I was raised in the forest cooking trout we had caught the same day. Sometimes wed even do dutch oven cooking for city-slickers who got hunting tags. Cast iron can make some of the best food you ever tasted when done right.

I'll give you an example of one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ_ly0Ja394

Camping doesn't have to mean bad food! It can mean even better food than normal! (I also a vote for damper , which I call aborigine bread, it's great for snacking on the go)

Yes and No. Look, I think that decentralization has a lot to offer and has many applications where it makes sense, but lately I've heard a bit too much decentralization-for-decentralizations-sake talk going on. The internet still goes through backbone nodes (which are the important interconnects of ISP's deep in datacenters). We are still transversing a physical medium limited by the laws of physics. That said, this is why meshnets for example are a great proper project for decentralization to overcome that sort of physical layout root issue (taking it to p2p radio comms of some sort).

Everybody talks about the cloud likes it's a new magic. It's fucking not. It's just servers in datacenters like it always was, but with nicer interfaces for remote customers. Except the cloud providers lock you in, by design. The ISP connects the servers of the cloud providers in datacenters to the public internet, but those servers reside in datacenters.

Servers which run in prime conditions, with good hardware, and have the proper infrastructure and people to support them and give them uptimes in the four 9's depending on datacenter tier. Decentralization might be able to approach this though due to the strength of it's topology.

Another issue is privacy. The ISP and the state level actors have your data and you know it... and are entities you at least theoretically have legal options for recourse against. Everyone knows your IP when you start running p2p decentralized platforms. That's why for example you should not be running a tor exit node from your home network. In this day of easy data on people, your IP is a hop skip and a jump away from you being doxed. Or ddossed, or various other things.

I could go on, but the point is decentralization has a place. Use the right tool for the right job, and stop trying to make a multi-tool that does everything cause it always fucks something up.

I'd love to see room for competition in media that took a different path if it wasn't already all monopolies and bribes cough lobbying and the innefectuality of the FCC in it's mandate.

A strong fourth estate is essential to the proper functioning of the constitutional democractic republic.

Wow, thanks for these links, I had no idea about plastic number theory in geometry. So cool.

There are quite a few things that can be done.

1. Get management in on the importance of ergonomics in modern work-life. Like needs to be a large portion of budget and discussed with the board important.

2. Culturally teach the importance of ergonomics in computing. Make it a part of prereq college basic IT courses.

3. Interface types will change this equation. VR, wireless-VR, AR, advances in motion capture, and in brain-computer interfaces will offer alternatives that will have to be adapted and evolved into (I'm rooting for a foss future myself, as it will be more agile in the evolutionary process which is ony one of many reasons foss software is superior to proprietary.)

4. Change the outlook on the desk space and it's function. I was in really good shape in the Marine Corps but I still found time to play pc games, which all know can suck hours away, so I designed a workout program for at the desk in my barracks room. I turned what was a sedentary area into an active area just by changing my approach. For example, during CS matches, the rule was every death is max set of dips (using chair arms) squats (by pushing chair back out of the way) pushups, curls, or pullups, etc. Then rotate every time. I've also used balance balls as chairs in order to force me to focus on my core and ab static strength. There are many examples and each person is different, but the desk doesn't have to be a lazy place. (If you are interested in this I would start with horse stances to work with leg strength first and get the bloodflow to the gluteus maximus which is what excessive sitting restricts.)

Ultimately, I've been saying for a while that VR with room sensing seems really promising to me because I envision a future of VR workout sessions, which could be really fun by gamification and get people in shape! It wouldn't be that hard to ship a kettlebell with a motion tracker in it.

I have a game project (planned GPLclient/CC?contentbysub model) with a long goal of getting into that territory, but had to narrow scope away from recently. I'm mostly waiting for VR on gnu/linux to get better, hoping the Vive Pro has made progress in that area.

I have chosen the emacs org mode system over Jupyter, but I still like Jupyter regardless. The real tragedy is how dependent people have become on proprietary stacks like Mathematica.

If you like youtube-dl you should check out mps-youtube (https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) which has the ability to use youtuble-dl as the backend I'm pretty sure (i prefer to use the native one personally)

It's also gpl vs youtube-dl's public domain.

I'm sure eventually I'll figure out a way to just do it in emacs. (I'm mostly joking... kinda... maybe.)

"How do you deal with ignorance? I don’t mean how do you shut ignorance out. Rather, how do you deal with an awareness of what you don’t know, and you don’t know how to know, in dealing with a particular problem?"

I don't really like the rambling tone of the article which never really addresses it's central premise-questions.

Look, systems thinking is about thinking. Thinking is about how you were trained to think. To become a systems thinker, learn how to think better, how to think differently, how to think critically, and how to think logically. Now self-examine, correct problems, and repeat loop.

For example, the thing many elite schools teach that most others don't is the trivium and quadrivium approach to thinking.

Another trick is less tangible. Find brilliant people and learn from them. Learn what they do wrong, not just what they do right.

Finally, as a sysadmin, if you learn to think in a flowchart about just about any problem you will be fine... but the trick to that is to be specific about what the problem is.

What I don't think many people get is that these types of people and structures and institutions they exist in largely exist in order to perpetuate inequality in many ways.

It's not just google though, this is fairly widespread in America, and I bet many of these companies that practice hiring like that are either doing it because thats what everyone else has done (without realizing the reasons or not articulating the real ones), or because taking those kinds of candidates means not only do you get a potentially useful in their job employee, but you get access to another kind of elite-social capital.

https://youtu.be/PMotykw0SIk?t=595

I did a little testing about ~4 years ago and found most of the speed increases were in the netstack, but I didn't do any computational testing either.

As for your last question, I think largely due to the fact that it's just not mainstream yet.

FCC doesnt seem like it's protecting consumers. I think if I were POTUS I'd be using this section of its mandate.

"Communications during emergencies and crisis must be available for public safety, health, defense, and emergency personnel, as well as all consumers in need. The Nation's critical communications infrastructure must be reliable, interoperable, redundant, and rapidly restorable."

The honest thing is that the FCC has already shown itself to be a problem by allowing the media mergers and aquisitions in the first place, and the people who made those decisions should be held to account as far as the statue of limitations allows, but also should the institution (preferably by congress).

I'm starting to get really tired of "independent" government agencies being at the heart of root problems.

Are you targetting a specific coin you like for the featureset or are you diversifying and just spreading it out and focusing on the volatile liquidity at play?

Are you doing the writing or are you aggregating or something else?

The publishers are an enemy of a free Web, and we mus not let them encroach upon our territory without repercussions, or else the next thing we know the Web will look like cable TV.

You think states are bad, you should check some of the city level pension issues, which I think are much larger in aggregate per state than the state pension funds.

A really good intro to the city level issues would be the Dallas police and firefighters pension (just duckduckgo it)

It is also worth noting that the original speech called it the military industrial congressional complex. Indeed very relevant.

Nothing wrong with that at all. Has that all been on LoL? You guys did a lot right with it from the start. Unfortunately I burnt myself out on mobas due to HoN.

This seems far too focused on dev tech debt, which has a very narrow scope. I like the article, so I'm not knocking it, just offering a little perspective. As a senior sysadmin in the past my primary issues have been technical debt across the entire board, number one being too few hires for too much workload due to cheap or nearsighted execs, but I would definitely agree that contagion is a great term for how techdebt grows faster the longer it's left alone.

It's worth remembering the CTO and senior sysadmin and a few others are dealing with all the tech debt of the entire company and IT department of which dev is only a subset (of course this depends on the company, but on HN sometimes I see convos like this where it feels devs are just talking at each other and not receiving much outside feedback.)