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I can't really tell if you're saying they're like or unlike YouTube, but YouTube did get acquired

Don't have much of an opnion on him being good at the engineering stuff or not, and not saying I would bet on it, but I could see the logic in shorting TSLA either way, he's distracted, it seems possible that Tesla's customers overlap with twitter users/left-leaning people enough to cause trouble, him getting involved in the first place could be a sign that his judgement has got worse for some reason.

I've seen once or twice people admitting to doing this deliberately to get around brigading/doxxing rules when they actually do want to share the username or whatever - not sure if it's allowed because "they tried" or because it's difficult enough to read that still stops most of the brigading (in many cases you can probably just search for the content to get the username anyway, if you care enough)

I think in the same way we have expensive cars or whatever to say "I have so much money I can afford to waste $x" we have suits to say "I'm so organised I can spare some effort dressing kind of impractically, just to look a bit better for you, my client"

This is a good point, but on the other hand, couldn't any application be hijacked in the same way to include a keylogger/upload plaintext password DBs stored locally by browsers/etc? Somehow this hasn't happened on a mass scale that I'm aware of.

Can you use a plain Hyper-V VM? i.e. with Hyper-V Manager

It still exists and the logins often work, at least for me

Mostly agree but if your diet is particularly bad, just eating less will mean existing nutrient deficiencies are magnified and (probably for this reason) you'll feel more hungry than you need to, increasing the chances you give up. IMO.

Some companies, you can tell, have realised the word plastic has negative connotations and try to avoid it, normally they'll use the word polycarbonate instead, I think that was what they were playing on. (I myself hadn't realised it wasn't always possible to substitute in that way).

I guess you've heard it before but “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

I don't know whether it's true or not... hard to prove there's causation and not just random cycles of improvement and decline due to luck or external factors - the higher you climb, the easier it is to fall.

Sometimes you come back to an area to fix a bug or whatever, and it's useful to know that the hack wasn't absolutely necessary, just a matter of time constraints - it may be that moving to the proper solution is the easiest fix for your problem, and you get a bit of extra confidence that it won't break something else.

This feels like it proves the point, I believe this is true, but yet, for all situations that aren't very specific and technical, the earth is round, and saying otherwise will cause more confusion->harm than good.

well... yes?

Centipedes (from New Latin centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, "foot")

So much emphasis on thinking about gear changes does seem a bit unfamiliar to me - but it could just be since my first driving experience was also manual, I was learning all this in the background while my main focus was trying not to hit anything.

Never did anything as exciting as you but I do feel like maybe being a passenger for so many years gives you an ear for when a gear change is needed, and you hear "sorry, wrong gear" and feel the lack of acceleration or whatever. As for /why/, I just imagined cycling up a hill.

People who are net-contributors feel like they're likely to eventually be elderly, and unlikely to become disabled, I guess (so the inverse of your feelings)- combined with deception by governments that social security programs are like a savings account for the future, not a tax to pay for today's expenses.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs is the only solution for healthcare.

More bluntly - if you're a greater-than-average user of healthcare resources, this seems like a dangerous line of questioning to bring up.

This is important to say - but I guess the question still stands, if they had somehow secretly developed nukes in say 2008, would they have been left alone? (and should we let everyone have them for world peace? I don't think I like those chances)

I'm not sure if you're saying this as an argument for standardisation (ha, let's debate the spelling) or not, but these people will always find something, from frameworks to linting rules - the amount of discussion stays the same no matter how much is agreed

I'd never heard of the guy until now so maybe it's obvious but you do wonder in these situations, he must have realised that the questions were leading to an article but did he expect the transcript to be published verbatim?

So is a million, I've never got this surprisingly common argument based on population size, would it be fine for a country of 100,000 to do nothing/would a hypothetical country 10x the size of China be reckless if it didn't act even more forcefully than they are? The human costs of lockdowns also scale with population after all.

I've noticed a couple of LED bulbs (one with warnings that it's non-dimmable) where the PWM (presumably) means that even when I'm not looking for it, I'll move my hand quickly to grab something and it looks like I'm in a 20fps computer game, fun novelty but it wears off. Fortunately there are plenty where I don't see this.

There's presumably a gap between the current level and what's legally required, and they can afford to let things slip a bit without getting in trouble.

More difficult to bot on iOS? If they're worried that their verification process might have flaws and don't want thousands of fake accounts on day 1 and all the bad press, the cost of the devices and difficulty in jailbreaking is a kind of safety net maybe.

It's normally much easier to buy e.g. a computer, a mattress, various household chemicals than to get rid of them properly. We need to tackle one or both sides of this equation, or people will just dump stuff in their local river if you censor the burning video.

It's the old piracy argument again, loads of money was spent trying to take down pirate mp3 sites without results, then Spotify comes along. But maybe recycling some of this stuff is really difficult, in which case the cost of dealing with it should be factored into the price.

Had a similar experience: I think regrettably if the timescale is this short, no-one knows who to talk to (from other teams/the proper managers the level above), there's some need for memory/dealing with long-running things, and so you end up with backseat driving, revisiting the same issues without decisive action taken, etc

I mean, I'm not convinced by the comment, but I think the article is talking about managers of developers, nearly all of the people here are involved in development, mostly at companies which are predisposed to trying to replace humans with software (because their product does the same)

So the interesting question is, in that context is a manager becoming ever less necessary

There's a cluster of things around transport and then... also Twitter? I get that in the end you want to do everything but what makes microblogging a more important day 1 feature than food delivery or gaming or online dating. It's like if Amazon did just book delivery and online photo storage.

The whole "advertisers don't want their ads appearing next to xyz" has always felt contrived to me, like, I can use Gmail to receive all sorts of wrongthink and I'll still see ads on it, similarly Twitter should be a neutral tool not a magazine. It's up to the users what they see.

You'd need a lot of market share and confidence as Musk to actually say "this is silly" but it is silly nonetheless. The big players started down the road of "ok we'll ban the worst stuff" and once they blinked it's been "but what about" all the way down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_of_the_devil ?

It's an example of the general problem, it would be better if Intel (and some "competitors" to keep prices low) could always perfectly adapt to new technologies etc, and retrain people.

When they can't it's good companies come and go, or Kodak would still be blocking digital cameras (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kodak-bankruptcy-idUSTRE8...) but the price we pay is things like wasted effort on re-implementing everything that didn't need to change at the new place, good people can't always move to it as you mention, etc.

Different countries at different times adopt different positions on the scale between inefficient (?) state-linked monopolies with jobs for life and letting the market do its thing. I'm not sure what factor means that sometimes we end up with Samsung and other times British Leyland.

That itself is an example of capitalism as the least worst option... similarly how much effort goes into trading currencies or commodities or whatever just so people get a fair price and aren't screwed over by whoever is the only person selling at the moment they need something. But we're self-interested, biased, and this is the workaround (or the system that emerges from our nature - self-interest is turned into the energy behind it all and "greed is good").