for me it feels like i have to go back and relearn all the things i had learned before. the second time around you learn some new piece of the puzzle. rinse and repeat and experience is what drives your knowledge. so you might be asking a better question; how to avoid all the bullshit?
well my dear girl, you can't. when you're in a shit slinging war [which is what we're having] you can dodge and weave all the shit you want, but eventually you're going to get hit with some shit. and you'll probably throw some shit...
might be getting to the point that we're all covered in shit. at which time we might ask ourselves... do we really need a shit war? some people will just be happy with all the shit flinging. others will try to escape it. eventually, some will find cover from the shit storm. it will be a haven. much like hacker news. others will want to join the sweet cover and protection from the shit storm. a tipi to a fortress. a tribe to a village. eventually we will have to isolate the shit throwers from the non shit throwers. that will be a place that deals with problems like intellectual property and competition based policies.
until then... just gonna have to learn as much as you can. look for the path of least resistance. sometimes it will just be easier to go along with the bullshit, and you should go along with that. recognizing that and learning how to identify it is how you deal with it. don't take the red pill. don't take the blue pill. take the purple pill... prince is waiting
one last thing to remember: the meek shall inherit the earth, but not her mineral rights.
1. Terrance Malik did a pretty good job of capturing the boolean of this article in knight of cups. the rich, despite this study, still have the same existential crises as us plebs. also, there's something inherent about trying to find purpose in life that even escapes the niceties of privilege.
2. those 'niceties' are currently being accounted for through policies made over 25 years ago [0]. they have been, essentially, mistaken as our prime purpose for life. when in reality, it's more that they are a sort of short cut for being 'allowed' to pursue what you perceive as your purpose [one day, collectively, we will realize that we can only provide this to x number of people for y quality of access to that pursuit]. essentially what i'm saying is that the policies were created to allow the entire system to inflate and eventually crash, while letting the rich create a nice puffy cushion for themselves to land on when it does crash. rather than say, the same thing happening but without the cushion.
this is rather just typical human behaviour at scale. ray dalio has been talking about it. we're reaching the end of a 300 year cycle. no one alive has experienced it before, but it happens regularly in human history. i think it is a natural phenomenon. inheritance is more to blame than any other element. we die and our bodies go to the same place, but our capital does not. we do know that capital allows us more opportunity to pursue more 'life', and i imagine that even people who only get that chance through inheritance sometimes believe they worked for it/deserve it whatever... but we shouldn't mistake the idea that wealth is the end game. it is, in many senses, just the beginning. but it is not the only. an example of this would be having kids. or finding love etc. wealth is just tylenol. temporary alleviation of symptoms. sometimes it allows us to do more art, or have more kids, or find more lovers, but its no guarantee. what we're all seeking is a common understanding that money is a tool; for each of us to pursue life as we see it. not the perverted way we've used it [and we live in a democracy so must take responsibility for its misuse]. the attitude in this article, to me, is less about wealth, and more about ego. it's egotistical people who can't understand the poor. and we get seduced by their confidence. ayn rand is a good example of this. the preacher who ended up on welfare.
when the bandaid comes off, just remember that it's not your fault, it's not society's fault, but it's our fault. fix the bugs, account for fault tolerance, and act accordingly. all that said, burning down the buildings, destroying the statues, raiding the halls of congress, is not the answer. but tampering the egos just may be. i think the only way we can do that is to not allow power or wealth to concentrate. that's the lesson to be learned. to an extent we must let it, but that's the thing. finding that sweet spot. understanding that is how the rich can understand the poor, how we can understand each other, and how we will eventually understand the greatness of that sweet spot.
i think anything boxy is antiquated. you can always swivel your monitor for more vertical real estate. being able to look at two windows side by side i think is more valuable than increasing vert at the expense of horz.
all this 1x1 and 4:3 business just sounds like hipster nostalgia to me. granted I'm not a programmer, but we're not all programmers either. it's almost as if there's some virtue signaling going on there. oh the desire to be different in a mass produced world.
I always had two windows side by side on my 5:4 screen. On 16:9 I have three windows side by side, which isn't as useful, and I lose several lines of text. It's not a hipster thing. I've been saying widescreen is stupid for monitors since before everyone had them. I have widescreen in my living room, though.
Which resolutions are/were those monitors? I've only ever seen 5:4 monitors in 1280x1024, so a 16:9 monitor at 1920x1080 would give you slightly higher vertical resolution and some nice additional horizontal space.
Two windows side by side on 1280x1024 are 640 pixels wide each, on 1920x1080 three windows are the exact same width each, plus you get an additional 56 pixels of vertical resolution, so in fact more lines of text.
And of course once you go to 2560x1440 or 3840x2160, you either get oodles of space or sharper text, thanks to display scaling.
it's definitely about balance, i don't think it should be as hard as it seems though. what does seem difficult [and is extremely sad in my view] is that Occam's razor type edge, acting like a filter between achieving that balance or not. you said this, i agree.
the sad part is something like this thread; where half [majority? like before Reddit hit critical mass] the people can/do understand what the difference is between, say, trolling and a dialectic or stoic whatchamacallit, and those that don't/can't.
as i think this thread seems to generally agree, those that can't then resort to this rhetoric you're talking about. you can see the same echoes in things like socialism and fascism. general bigotry. the backhand of misunderstanding.
where it really gets messy is when you have University graduates who can't understand these 'tropes'/dynamics/straight up logic getting opportunities ahead of an uneducated person that CAN understand those things, simply because they have that degree. it comes from the same place where racism and sexism are valid. where it's invalid you get this blame game. it's the hammer and the nail. those who can, do. those who can't, say... the Germans must have a word for this? man i wish i was more articulate cause i think we've all [as in hacker news minded type people?] got the words for this on the tips of our tongues. so much so that even out most basic know it's coming [the civil war chatter].
from what i remember open core doesn't need to disable sip to function, just to install. the firmware is the actual firmware upgrades released by apple [everyone was shocked they supported this] that come embedded in the osx updates. my updates worked fine.
I'm pretty sure sip gets re-enabled each boot, but to check for authenticated root volume i think i need to install the g20 to run crutil or whatever it is.
happy to hear that I'm not the only one [sys admin type person] doing this.
although i use Windows, i do have Catalina installed [and Debian for the triple boot]. also using open core. I'm pretty sure i downloaded a copy of osx from one of their repositories 0.o
I'm super lazy, it's really not that hard.
my average cost for hardware since i bought my Mac is now less than 400/year CDN. is it worth it? while I'm slightly concerned about the security [I'm probably the biggest risk anyways since I'm not confident in my knowledge of secops], i get 95 fps playing pubg, can edit in 4k, run 100+ tracks in Cubase, and run 3 different OSes or as many vms as you'd like [which i think can also run bare metal vm on the 144 firmware upgrade]. on top of that the case still looks good and I've kept at least 50+lbs of ewaste out of landfills or whatever... seems pretty worth it [hopefully no one ever tries to steal pictures of my cats]
[we could also get into a discussion about the right to repair bill in the EU, talking this way]
do you game? i feel like that might have been intentionally left out of the interview?
what info would you keep unencrypted on your servers?
how much does a colo cost for a 2u server typically? how about back in 06?
is rsync a good solution for video files backup?
what are the benefits over say, running a home server and keeping physical backups at your friends house or iron mountain or something?
can rsync use 'live' encrypted data? in other words, how do you encrypt/decrypt on the fly? say for streaming an mp3 or something? [not that you would do this if you were paying per GB...]
please excuse my ignorance. I'm not a real sys admin, just an old wanna be hacker that could never get his shit together.
i can't read the entire article, but i can read the comments. it doesn't look like anyone is talking about the real reason for CBDCs. which is to create more liquidity. in other words, to get money out of escrow while international cross border payments are settled.
when a large transaction [billions] is made between two countries, there must be that much of each currency in either institutions account. it is there for days or weeks at a time. so that money isn't being put to work, it's just sitting there. a CBDC would settle these transactions within seconds. this is why something like xrp is interesting to many people.
specifically, CBDCs are interesting where the IMF is involved. they issue to countries something called special drawing rights, SDRs. these are a basket of currencies used to 'balance' the international monetary system between the developed world and the developing world. [the world bank is where the g7-20 do their banking].
a 'one world currency' might look something like a CBDC SDR. since currency transactions can be immediately settled anywhere in the world, a [diversified package of] SDR would essentially serve as a 'world dollar'.
as an aside, the economic reset being promoted, coincidentally by the world economic forum, i think, is an attempt at a peaceful transition away from the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency. and while it might be china's Yuan or reminbi that replaces it, i think it might be something more like an SDR. or, in other words, a basket of currencies lumped into one digital currency; a one world digital currency.
hrrmm, any suggestions on personal projects that will make mill-i-ons?
I'm half serious. like how can i make an algorithm that auto trades vwap starting with a $1000 account?
anyone have links for projects in;
building your own receiver.
building a laser.
building a 4 story walk up multi family unit.
building a particle accelerator
programming a kernel from scratch
how to get a super hot mail order Russian bride for free
how to convert your car to hydrogen cell
how to create your own cannabis genetics
i threw some in there to see if you're paying attention, but maybe there should be a thread for cool projects [not just github like].
i wonder this; if there is a stop loss already on the books at x price and a HFT enters a market order at that price when a stock is falling, which order will get filled first? i feel like answering this question would sort of answer the argument you guys are making?
as for useful work... we should really just be honest with ourselves/each other [and machine learning/ai might help us to do this] about what is actual useful work. it begs to challenge freedom, but ultimately i think we're headed for an efficiency level that will make the most efficacious worker look lazy af...
tldr: education
for me it feels like i have to go back and relearn all the things i had learned before. the second time around you learn some new piece of the puzzle. rinse and repeat and experience is what drives your knowledge. so you might be asking a better question; how to avoid all the bullshit? well my dear girl, you can't. when you're in a shit slinging war [which is what we're having] you can dodge and weave all the shit you want, but eventually you're going to get hit with some shit. and you'll probably throw some shit...
might be getting to the point that we're all covered in shit. at which time we might ask ourselves... do we really need a shit war? some people will just be happy with all the shit flinging. others will try to escape it. eventually, some will find cover from the shit storm. it will be a haven. much like hacker news. others will want to join the sweet cover and protection from the shit storm. a tipi to a fortress. a tribe to a village. eventually we will have to isolate the shit throwers from the non shit throwers. that will be a place that deals with problems like intellectual property and competition based policies.
until then... just gonna have to learn as much as you can. look for the path of least resistance. sometimes it will just be easier to go along with the bullshit, and you should go along with that. recognizing that and learning how to identify it is how you deal with it. don't take the red pill. don't take the blue pill. take the purple pill... prince is waiting
one last thing to remember: the meek shall inherit the earth, but not her mineral rights.