diab0lic

A large chunk of the Netflix backend runs on the JVM. Much of it written in Java. While I agree that many devs avoid it like the plague, and I used to be one of them, once I let go of attachments to programming languages I found it quite a pleasant experience to develop software using Java.

Basically using Lombok and Vavr give you a very nice lightweight functional experience. Bells and whistles tend to be a distraction from making software that works and scales. I’d way rather focus on the hard problems in computing than how to most idiomatically or elegantly express things in a language.

> No math, no numbers. I’m asking a very simple question: what then?

The comment you replied to answered your question. The transaction goes through, absolutely no additional regulation or control comes into play at the transaction level.

NOTE: I am not supporting this position, or opposing it. I’m just stating what the gp post said.

Was it “Being the (Pareto) Best in the World”? [0]

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XvN2QQpKTuEzgkZHY/being-the-...

Yeah there are all kinds of edge cases when a digital token represents ownership of a physical object that just aren't accounted for. What if I get foreclosed on but smash the hard drive containing the key out of spite. Who owns the house now? The chain says me, the law (central authority) says the bank and under the rules we live by today the central authority is correct.

What now?

This motivates productive use of that capital. Deflationary currencies just guarantee the rich get richer as an axiom.

This seems like a bad idea. If I own a physical store and you’re in it I don’t want to encourage you to leave quickly. I want you in there as long as possible putting things in your cart.

I had also understood it as a feudal Japanese term referring to revealing you have no blades hidden underneath. A reveal that must happen before a civil conversation can begin. Also I don’t think people are naked beneath their kimonos.

Woah. Thanks for the link, as a PyMC3 user I was not looking forward to the transition to 4 expecting to have to relearn the API like the transition from 2 to 3. I was debating wether I should learn 4 or switch to a different library when all I really wanted to do was stick with 3.

Looks like I get the best of both worlds now.

Yeah I was thinking of Control specifically when I wrote “until the base/pro split)”.

That was certainly a very conscious and no brainer decision for them as a business. The install base for next gen consoles is nil compared to the ~114mm PS4 and ~48mm Xbox one units sold. Given that they clearly wanted to sell to this customer base they damn well should have been optimizing for at least the pro models. I’d be choked if I was Microsoft or Sony because up until very recently (until the current base/pro split) the implicit contract with consoles was that games would run well on them. (With a few noteworthy exceptions in the past.) This release breaks that contract and this hurts confidence in consoles.

Unfortunately targeting next gen for a holiday 2020 launch isn’t realistic when you can’t actually get the hardware.

> When you buy into a Crypto you're investing into the technology itself.

This argument of technology + limited supply is fallacious. If the technology is so useful the coin can just be cloned with more supply. The technology itself doesn't force me to participate in a limited supply market in order to get the benefits.

I think what the grandparent post is trying to make clear is that there is no technical impediment to moving money instantly as some others have claimed here. It isn't that the amazing technology of blockchain has allowed us to achieve this for the first time. The reality is that this completely unregulated space is allowing people to sidestep a bunch of regulation and thus move money faster. If crypto becomes an issue the powers that be are going to do one of two things;

1) Regulate crypto such that it isn't an issue anymore and is in line with existing systems.

2) Improve the regulation such that the existing monetary systems move money more quickly/easily/whatever.

Crypto has an edge in neither of these situations.

This is likely because linear regression meets most widely accepted definitions of machine learning. [0][1] It is simple and very effective when learning in linear space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html

Large volumes of minerals that are already in space (don't need to expend energy putting them in orbit) to build settlements, ships, etc...

> Yet Dell and Lenovo offer computers with Linux pre-installed, but so many technical people ignore them because Apple is shiny and fast.

I got a Lenovo last year with Ubuntu preinstalled. It was he "blessed hardware". Wifi didn't work after wake / sleep and my connection via usb-c to my monitor was unusable. I switched back to a mac because I wanted to work, not fix my tools.

These aren't one off anecdotes, there are dozens of people in this thread with the same story slightly different. This isn't people going to Apple because it is shiny, it's going to Apple because managing hardware isn't their job.

Either verbally address that meaningfully or drop the condescending attitude.

'just doesn't work' and 'doesn't just work' are two very different statements. You said the former, but I've only spotted people saying the latter in here.

Also if you have to argue with someone that linux does work for them, you've missed the point.

> or even left Africa.

I think it's pretty clear the parent post is talking about the first people to migrate to the Americas.

It's the ignition temperature for paper. Fire burns at different temperatures depending on the fuel source, even paper will each a much hotter temperature after ignition.

I have not tried this in a while but no. It requires a very involved setup compared to it's CUDA counterpart and certain functionalities don't work / performance characteristics for specific operations can vary wildly. If it look at the amount of time necessary to deal with it the calculus quickly swings in favor of just purchasing an Nvidia card.

Edit: And some sibling comments have pointed out that it doesn't function on current gen cards.

Nvidia still firmly leads the software game in this regard. I'm really hopeful this will change in the future but I had the same criticisms four years ago when I bought my last AMD card and nothing has changed yet.

Right but if you're a gamer and you wanted an AMD card and can't get one because of crypto demand you'll buy an Nvidia card, thus causing demand to spike. Obviously it didn't spike as high as AMD but consumers will feel the shortage if demand spikes over supply, which happened in this case.

Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for posting this, I wasn't aware of it but am excited to read it -- I've been craving a more technical treatment of Taleb's subject matter.

I do work for a FAANG company and bear that bias, yes. I haven't always worked at a FAANG company though -- before I did I appreciated the upward pressure FAANG companies were putting on salaries.

I took another look at your comment I replied to, I must have glossed over the "If they have not ties to the party, they shouldnt have tried to compete" part. I apologize. I want to be clear that I'm not suggesting these companies shouldn't compete, I'm glad for all of the employers we have in tech. What I am suggesting is that they pay the price the market for that talent is currently willing to bear and if that results in less concentrated ownership for the ones that eventually do come to dominate the industry I won't be losing any sleep. For those that think current giants are "unbeatable" -- current FAANG companies were tiny and irrelevant 20 years ago and the industry was dominated by a different set of "unbeatable" giants.

That's a huge stretch so that you could pull two boogeymen into the conversation and stand them next to my argument. The big tech companies may have undesirable effects on the world but paying individuals too much isn't one of them. Literally the only complaint is that other owners can't hire for under market rate? Who cares?

> not to mention hiring everyone at 10X the salary a startup can afford to pay.

This is how a functioning talent market works. It isn't unfair to the startup that big companies pay more, it's unfair to the startup employees that the startup isn't paying more. I'd argue that if a startup can't pay market rate for the employees it wants (be it cash or equity) then it wasn't properly funded in the first place.

> The view you just described is active support for the status quo.

I hear this all the time but I cannot for the life of me figure out why it is "active support" isn't it at most passive support? If you were actively supporting it, you'd be taking political actions and therefore not being apolitical?

I was on Roy's team at this time. I am not one of the four mentioned in the link, but I definitely know exactly who is being talked about. I wanted to comment that these four were considered outliers even by Netflix standards for being very high performing. So bear in mind the example is an extreme one.

> That’s...not evidence of a facebook employee being implicated.

The account messaged and said a facebook employee was involved. It isn't proof, it isn't strong evidence, but it is evidence and an implication that a facebook employee was involved.

> It’s actually not even evidence that the account even swapped hands!

Similarly the change in account usage pattern isn't proof but it is evidence.

You seem to be implying that owning whatever guns and ammo it is you own will enable you, or the populace to resist the modern American military? I'm not sure as your answer was vague and abstract.

The weapons shop was written in 1942, that statement may have been true back then. I'm also not sure the Vietnam war was fought with civilian purchased firearms and munitions... there may have been a state actor on the other side of that one.

Is this genuinely something you believe to be a benefit of owning and purchasing firearms in modern day America? I'm not trying to change your mind, I just want to know if that's really what you believe.

The greatest thing though? I'm curious what benefit it confers to you? I am legitimately curious to understand your perspective on why this is so important, not trolling.

The right to keep guns is the best thing about America? You and I live in very different Americas, there are a lot of great things about this country and I'm not sure I agree that gun ownership ranks towards the top.

Edit: Removing the politically charged statement, though I do think it makes this a less substantial comment.