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The Stoic philosophers considered this, though they of course were not software engineers or even in a capitalist world. You can only pursue "arete" (excellence) under your own criteria. As the Stoics remind us, you don't control the social conditions you live in. You can only do the role you have as best as possible, and that you do control. The job itself may be pointless. You can still try to do it well, and that is the reward.

I don't know any, and I have written or reviewed about 20

PL/1 was the systems programming language for Multics. Certainly not a bad language to work with.

Perhaps a bad idea, but at least it was rigorously specified. I note that that Javascript and perl have same ability. See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

We have one already: cash.

As for protection against authoritarian actors. If your state has already gone full panopticon, crypto won't save you, indeed the state will mandate exclusive use of their chosen crypto, gaining even more visibility into your life. If your state has not yet done so, you should fight to preserve liberty and the rule of law. If your country turns into a full-out surveillance state, you are not going to overthrow it by buying things with Bitcoin.

I would like to see some data on what actually valuable applications or businesses have been enabled (or simply improved) by crypto currency. I regret that the only business I know to be benefiting from bitcoin is ransomware.

If you are under 30, it appears your risk of death is low regardless of your status, but you will not forever be under 30, and perhaps you know some over-30 for whom the difference in death rate is important? Even if there's no one you care about who is over 30, to the extent that vaccination also reduces your risk of infecting others, it is polite to your society to be vaccinated. Perhaps you get no great benefit, but others do.

Just today I got two phone calls that showed up as "Unknown". Neither was spam. One was my family doctor, the other a local bicycle shop. If it matters, I'm in Toronto, using an Android phone, with Rogers as my carrier. The first might be due to privacy (of the doctor). The second I can't explain. But in any case, blocking all unknown calls would not be in my interest at present. I can hang up pretty quickly when I hear the boiler-room background and some dude asking me about Air Duct Cleaning.

Kerson and his team asked buyers at every retailer who stocks PNW parts to remove them from their Amazon stores too, so that everyone involved could maximize their profits and not undercut each other.

IANAL, but is this not collusion or price fixing?

> After leaving his job in global business development at Amazon, Aaron Kerson used his knowledge of the platform’s sales algorithms to power up his new business.

Don't corporations typically have non-compete clauses to prevent an employee from exploiting proprietary knowledge they gained while working for the firm? Would we be supportive of someone who left (e.g.) a small bicycle parts company to help Amazon rule that market?

Perhaps "in there too" ?

Ted Nelson was very explicit on this point in his visionary book "Dream Machines".

To amplify on that. Consider the upside to catching a cheater.

Catching a scientific cheater:

* You improve the collective knowledge of humanity.

* If the cheater is in your own country, you may also reduce the size of the grant-seeking pool

* Fame? I doubt it.

Catching a speed-run cheater:

* If you're a contender, you retain your place on the leaderboard

* Fame.

Note too that the baseline assumption in science is that while we can make mistakes, we're not fraudsters. The reason science advanced so far and so quickly is that we basically trust one another. The baseline assumption in competitive games is that there will be cheaters.

The lisp dialect (*Lisp) did get off the ground. I programmed in it.

A parody of the song "That's Amore" by Allen Sherman has lyrics like "When you're diving at night And your feet feel a bite That's a moray!" and "When you see a big eel with its jaws made of steel that's a moray".

I express my dismay that you would even suggest using a pirated edition. Do you deny that McWhorter (and/or his publisher) is entitled to sell his work?

So now I want to know 1. what is the eigenface for each of the two clusters? What does the perfect liberal look like? 2. What is the political orientation of https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

So you accuse the author of bad faith or at best laziness or gullibility. You are now obligated to provide superior explanation of the trading regulations, not just call names.

Where is "ansible"? (Faster-than-light text-only channel) Coined by LeGuin, but also used by Card and others

How regrettable that the document has no named author, other than the official sponsor. The advice stands or falls without it, still one would like to know the name of the one who advocated so well for clear writing.

We always allow the candidate to use any reasonable language. We're not testing if someone knows Java/Python/Lisp (I wish). We're testing if they know any language. I can confirm seeing people with resumes who nevertheless could not write any code even in the language they professed to be "expert" in.

Our incentive is not (as you imply) a selfish desire to enrich ourselves though artificial scarcity, but rather the knowledge that a weak team member hurts everyone and is hard to get rid of. At my firm we have the explicit goal of hiring people who are better than half the developers at similar level. A little math will show you that if you do not do this, your average talent level goes down over time.

It's one of the questions I ask when I interview people.

I could care less whether you remember some algorithm you could look up in Knuth. I want to know if you can put yourself in your customer's place and design an API that meets their needs.

Unlike the GG&S case, where smallpox and influenza decimated (literally) the new world peoples, there is no evidence that East Asians had evolved resistance to the coronaviruses prior to the pandemic. What differences in death rate we have seen can better be explained by social organization than inheritance.

Maybe you mean First Law of Robotics? (is joke, in case not obvious)

This reply is in bad faith. He did not attempt to "justify" the pricing with "vendor lock-in". Indeed, the prices went down, not up.

And putting other people at risk

Questions 1. How these detectors read distance of the event? In order to assert that the rate peaked 8*10^9 years ago, we'd need to know distance. Surely it's not based on amplitude 2. Galaxies collide. Is there reason to think that many galaxies contain a central supermassive (10^9 solar mass) black hole, and that such holes have collided as well? Perhaps too rare to be seen in five years?

Isabel Wilkerson's new book Caste compares the systematic racism of the USA, the caste system of India, and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. She attempts to describe a fundamental framework of caste (including divine mandate) that encompasses all three. She reports on how Martin Luther King came to see himself as a Dalit (undercaste). She also provides a brief introduction to the (Indian) caste system. Quite relevant to this discussion.

Then again, the AI system Eurisko won the Trillon Credit Squadron game twice in a row, each time with novel strategies. You might say that dogfighting is more constrained by laws of physics we already know, and so this won't happen. But wouldn't you hate to be proven wrong?