kristianbrigman

As bad as this is...as this thread points out, more of the money needs to go to artists, and supporting fewer employees should let them do this.

I would love to see historical rates in urban vs rural/suburban areas for this, alongside migration/growth rates - does something like that exist?

My son (in college) probably won’t be able to afford much of a house in the Bay Area, austin, etc. but originally he was going to become an electrician in Watertown, NY. You can get a house for $120k there, which seems doable on a 50k income.

These were (intended for) Unix machines, not general purpose PCs… the assumption was that everyone was compiling anything that went on the system anyways, or were buying licenses for a specific hardware box. So at least it wasn’t considered to be a problem at the time.

One other unmet hope was that improvements in compiler technology would give a peer boost, they had up to 10x over the life of the program, which seemed wishful to me at the time (a lowly validation engine just out of college) but if it had worked out, theoretically your old programs would have gotten faster over time just by recompiling, which would have been cool…

Legislators pass laws, judges (normally) can only strike them down. It is pretty much like other places otherwise, but that process of the government limiting itself is a key feature imho.

I think this might be useful if we kind of wargame prospective regulations to follow all the ways people might abuse it, then you might get something that works. Maybe lawmakers already do that? This thread feels in that spirit too…

And what happens if the server holding the keys gets compromised? I guess most manufacturers won’t care, but the more reputable ones would have things in their source they consider proprietary and would definitely not want to have to submit it.

Verification that it is, in fact, the actual shipped source might not be trivial either.

It could mean more than that, or maybe not. Velikovsky had the interesting hypothesis that you could compare this histories of different traditions to see if they synchronize.

For example, joshua stopping the sun for three days, which would have been in the evening (you’d stop the sun at sunset, not at noon)… so you can look a Chinese history where it was dark for three days, or aztec history where the sun was about to rise.

He does play fast and loose with his source material (based on the ones I’m familiar with) but I think the general idea is interesting…

This is a feedback loop though. It is a reflection of the moderation wars in some ways: Google’s main job now is to try to keep you away from malicious sites as much as find good ones.

So they prioritize ‘known good’ sites (big platforms, major companies, etc.) over unknown, individual sites. Then, since it’s now harder to be seen as your individual site (and less work), this pushes people to move to higher ranked platforms. This increases the ratio of noise (the ratio of spam/malicious sites increases compared to good ones) making it worthwhile to skew more towards results from platforms, etc.

Platforms also have the benefit in that it’s a lot harder for a YouTube video to be malicious, giving them more freedom to take chances recommending unknown content. It still could be hate mail, but at least it’s not going to ransomware you.

There is Fleet, which they purport to be their next gen IDE. Which I haven’t even tried, though I am am avid pycharm user, so maybe it’s not getting the results they hope for?

Kind of related: https://authorclock.com/

This is not really about marriage vs friendship, but two kinds of friendship imho… this could just as easily have gone the other way (new friend attacking her romantic partner).

But (also imho) no one really knows what marriage is anymore anyways.

How do these usually get checked? I mean, maybe he’s already done this successfully a few times.

It is very similar to caching performance impacts. And like you say, sometimes performance is just faster, and sometimes it actually enables functionality…

Two fundamental truths:

- nature is inherently competitive. - civilization and culture temper this but requires vigilance to maintain.

The second implies that some cultures may be more effective at tempering nature’s excesses than others… and also that it can change in a way in which it becomes less or more effective, or at least effective for different things…

You’re right, mine should have gone to the person you were responding to, sorry about that :)

Were they underground before?

Your friend often asks for you to spot them $5 when you are out at lunch, it’s no big deal and they’ve always paid it back.

Now they want to borrow $5k all of a sudden. Do you give it to them, just based on the above history?

It’s more than that - banks used to have prepayment penalties. People with high credit scores are (probably?) also more likely to move, which means the bank may only get a couple years of interest until you pay it back (when you sell to buy a new house with a new mortgage), vs. people who stay in their house for many years. These things mean that someone with a lower score may be a better investment for the bank.

If it sounds ridiculous… imagine that every month, all the mutual funds you are invested in shut down and gave you your money back (with interest), and you had to choose from a whole new set. Some of you probably do this anyways, but most people prefer to make the choice once and then just let it grow.

This is because money is trying to be two things at once - a medium of exchange, and a stable asset - and those are often in conflict.

If I just want to trade my bushel of corn for your chicken, money makes it easier - I exchange my corn for some money, and then I exchange that money for your chicken. I don’t care whether the money is ‘one fricasee’ or ‘ten million gorzebos’ as long as we both agree that’s the number attached to it. You can use something that is a real asset for this, but it actually doesn’t have to have any intrinsic value to be usable for this, as long as everyone agrees to use it.

However, there’s a time element - I can sell my corn, and then keep the money for a while, retaining the power to buy the chicken later. That turns it into a potential asset. During that time, the numbers attached to different items could go up or down - the time element makes arbitrage possible. Even for ‘useless’ assets.

Too much money held as assets can reduce its effectiveness as a medium of exchange - but improving the effectiveness as a medium of exchange can reduce its stability/value as an asset.

Also probably why there is a lot of contention over gold standards etc. - the gold standard improves its value as an asset, while potentially limiting its value as a medium of exchange - so it’s going to depend on which one you prioritize whether you will favor it or not.

Not sure, but people certainly talk that way in Victorian novels (does anyone actually know Mr. Darcy’s first name? :)

On the other hand... it seems that Elon's long-term plan is to try to create a social media platform where the users are the customers instead of the product... that seems like it would have to rely less on advertising revenue to do that.

I am not sure how that will play out but I wish him well (as someone who is not a major user of most social media)...

IIRC it was very common for early Christians, who were mostly Jews initially, to go to temple on the Sabbath (Saturday) and then have their own meetings on Sunday, as they didn’t consider them separate.

How would this be a problem? Not following…. They don’t offer the student loans themselves afaik, the loans come from somewhere else, so they normally get the money but not the risk.

And I would think that if there _is_ loan forgiveness… that is essentially a back door to a increased government grant, they can’t just tell private companies to eat the losses, the government (i.e. taxpayers :) would have to cover them…

I think this is a great idea, but for different reasons than you’d think.

If you read around, there is an epidemic of college freshman whose parents have the ambition, and will do whatever to force their kid into the college and even the major they choose…(sample: https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Adult-Overparenting-Prepare..., these are students entering Stanford whose can’t make their own decisions).

Who ended up stuck with the loans for these degrees that the kids may not want or have the independence to take advantage of? Not the parents… the students are the ones suffering for their parents’ ambition.

Obviously not the whole picture, and maybe it’s not completely right yet, but I think this particular direction will help some of those students.

The feeling the tool gives you while performing the task, is what make the task more likely to actually get done (this is Atomic Habits #4 (iirc?), make it rewarding).

I wouldn’t say that’s lying, just an somewhat inaccurate simplification… language is always spoken in a shared context that, like Huffman encoding, assigns short terms to common situations (wife, girlfriend, flatmate) and things outside those common situations may require more tokens to express accurately.

this is closer to what Redmatica (now Logic) AutoSampler used to do.... you would just play notes (separately by space), it would split by space, detect the root note for each sample, and then make a multisample out of it.

but actually trying to reproduce a real instrument involves legato between notes, handling pitch and timbre changes as you play, etc. So a much harder problem.

There is a great chapter in ‘The Art of Invisibility’ that describes a lot of the ways in which your anonymity can be compromised…

I personally like regex as well, but it can be hard to read… there are other similar things like python parse (https://pypi.org/project/parse/,”parse is format in reverse”) which are a little easier for easy cases.

Yeah, one interesting thing in the article was an offhand comment about how too much openness actually was counterproductive because people put on headphones, so didn't actually interact. Here probably, there is a 'right' amount of mixing with disparate groups. In the (admittedly only two) large groups I've worked in, you really needed to interact outside your local group to get anything useful done anyways.

Actually, this reminds of the network effects section of 'Where good things come from' (Steven Johnson), which actually points out there is a right amount of 'edge' density - too little and you don't see outside your local group enough for ideas to flow; too much and ideas flow but don't tend to die before they can reach critical mass.