Isn't that only about separating government powers? As in separating Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. I just don't see the connection to non-government economical powers. Seems like a stretch.
I'm stuck on the first few paragraphs. It's clear that the author is heavily biased again anything-that-is-not-culture, and therefore gives really bad examples for non-cultural solutions. It's easier to convince everyone you're right when you give the worst possible alternative solutions.
> Incentive: dock pay for people who are late
There are much better incentive-based solutions. For example:
- Managers reprimand employees who are frequently late.
- Positive incentive for physical meetings: have a nice fruit bowl with just enough fruit so there are no leftovers for anyone who's late.
> Process: make process for creating or executing on a work item so heavyweight that people stop doing simple work
Better process-based solution: every employee has a "big" item that they work on, with planning weeks/months into the future, and syncing occasionally with their manager and/or peers.
Note-taking is very individual. I found out in university that the act of writing lecture notes helps me focus and remember. Otherwise my mind would drift. In fact, I soon realized that I should write my own lecture notes, even if I never look at them afterwards. And only paper is good enough for fast writing of math.
I used to let spiders live freely in my house, until one time I wanted to go to bed at night and noticed dozens of black spots on the bed cover. I looked up and saw hundreds of tiny spider babies on the ceiling. From then on, whenever I see a spider in the house I get rid of it. Sorry...
They are, and I think that Spotify should work to ban them. If I'm listening to a podcast on Spotify, then presumably the podcast creator is already getting my money (indirectly, via Spotify) and therefore I should get an ad-free version.
The fingerings in the example in the readme are completely non-intuitive for me. I've played piano for a few years and never encountered such fingering. My guess is that the algorithm is optimizing for the wrong metric.
I just noticed that this kind of pop-up appearing is a trigger for me to close the page. I immediately get the feeling that I got the basic idea of that page.
The Cartesian coordinates can also be misleading, since even on foot you can't go in a straight line between any two points. There could be a fence in the middle.
There's also a difference of height. It might take 10 minutes just to get from an underground station to the street level right above it, and you can't go in a straight line there either.
It doesn't really matter if the nazi reference was appropriate or not, using nazism as a comparison point is taboo for any kind of serious discussion. Once you compare anything to nazism you pretty much forfeit the discussion, even if it's a valid comparison.
That could really be a great thing! The problem is that Mersenne primes are "sparse", i.e. there aren't many of them. Finding one could be like minting a new block, but it would be so rare that it won't be practical. For crypto, you would need something with many solutions, but then it's probably not so useful to find yet another solution...
Lots of things are "down the stack". The servers, the building they sit in, the electricity that runs the building, and the coal/water/solar/wind that produces that electricity. Should Twitter run a power plant? Maybe they should optimize the design of current power plants? Also, what about the toilets that their programmers use - they could probably be optimized as well!
I wish something like that would be possible for me, but it isn't for 2 reasons:
1. Getting into writing flow (either code or documents) takes me a while.
2. It's so hot here for most of the year, that after walking outside for 10 minutes I need another 10 just to cool down.
Seems like Instagram should be on the hook here. They have a legal team, they have a license for the content, and they provide site owners with an easy way to embed content, but they don't provide the proper licensing for actually using it? Seems like some sort of entrapment - although I'm probably using that word incorrectly in the legal sense.
Suppose I put a bowl of cookies on my lawn with a "free cookie" sign. Then I sue anyone who takes a cookie - not for taking the cookie, but for stepping on my lawn. I don't think a court would be willing to accept my stance that I didn't provide a license to enter my property.
I've had a $1.5/month charge on AWS that I tried repeatedly to track down but failed each time. Eventually I just let it run until I canceled my credit card.
Comparing the amount of money seized by civil forfeiture to the amount of money stolen by criminals is like comparing the number of people in jail to the number of people enslaved by human traffickers. The institutional systems tend to be much larger, and they will always be abused and will hurt innocents (e.g. the war on drugs), but this doesn't say anything about whether they are good or bad as a whole (few people would suggest closing all jails).
Yes, but the comparison is useless. Presumably, at least some of that civil forfeiture is "legitimate", i.e. illegal gains. So what are you actually comparing here?
All the major browsers support adding custom search engines. You just need to specify the URL template to do the search. The common format is to put "%s" as the search term. You can use it for any site, not just things that are considered search engines.
Firefox is a bit different, since you do it by adding a bookmark, and giving that bookmark a keyword. The other browsers I checked have an option under the search engine settings.
After defining the custom search engine, you just type "<keyword> <search term>" in the URL bar.
> Is it to protect the vaccinated? This makes no sense, as the risk to the vaccinated well below the range we have accepted for decades.
What is the acceptable range? Older people are still dying from Covid even after 2 shots. If a third shot can improve someone's protection from death due to Covid, say from 70% to 90% [1], that sounds like a good reason to take that shot.
The comparison between someone in Israel taking a booster shot and someone in a 3rd world country without access to vaccines is irrelevant - at least until there's a serious global initiative to provide vaccines to everyone around the world.
[1] Original stats talked about 90% protection, but that has gone down since then. One of the possible reasons is the need for a booster shot. But we still don't know what level of protection the booster shot will provide.
Such regions of memory are usually marked as uncachable (UC) or write-through (WT) or sometimes write-combine (WC). These specify what type of caching is allowed, and if you somehow configure an incorrect caching type you're going to have a bad time.
Both cases are meaningless debt. The interesting information is total amount owed by the government minus total amount owed to the government.
If I take a loan from the bank for $1000, but also have $1000 in a bank account in another bank, then my debt is 0. Social Security is a bit like the second bank account.
Election rigging is a renewable resource. At the start, you can tilt the results a bit in your favor. As you gain power you also gain more influence and popularity, and then you can build deeper structures of corruption, which enable further election rigging. The cycle continues until it implodes with a revolution. Then the citizens are left with a broken government - after removing the corrupted parts - and must rebuild everything. The lack of structure allows more corrupted players to enter, and that's why a single revolution us not always enough to move a country from a fake democracy to a functioning one.
I lost you at the second paragraph. Crypto researches generally agree today that the NSA actually chose strong contents for DES (I assume that's what you meant by DEC?). They invented differential cryptanalysis a decade before anyone else, and used that to strengthen the cypher. Everyone suspected their motives at the time, but eventually academy caught up with the knowledge the NSA had, and could show that the constants are in fact good.
Too bad they're doing the opposite of that nowadays...
I think you're overly-critical. The CSS immediately gives the look & feel of using Windows 7. Maybe the gradients are not completely spot-on, but the other 95% of elements are great.
I'm really glad that Mozilla is developing Rust. Even though I'm not using it (and haven't even learned it), it looks like a net positive for the world of software development. This is exactly the kind of thing that a nonprofit should do.