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It didn't improve things for the drivers

It's certainly true of the Republican party in the US. They proclaim to be defenders of freedom of speech, yet have passed the vast majority of bills censoring books in educational institutions.

https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/ this is from a few years ago but the trend continues

why are you "trying to remain AI hyped"?

What a warped world view. Libertarianism today just means supporting massive concentrations of private power, I guess.

Ask the Greeks how that turned out.

> So then how do humans generalize so well from so little language data? Is “pre-training” on visual data the secret to our success?

Aren't you assuming that humans are born with some kind of blank slate of a brain? What if they don't get it from their senses. What if language is an innate human ability that is genetically encoded, it isn't learned so much and uncovered, and grows with us like a heart or a lung does?

Take a person with a full head of hair and remove one hair, are they bald? Remove another one, bald? Clearly not, but if you keep removing hairs at some point you have a head we consider bald. Deregulation has been working like that. It's hard to point to one discrete event.

In any case, the process really got going under Jimmy Carter. If we're talking about airlines, I guess you could point to the Airline Deregulation Act. The airline industry had been built in the first place by what people in this thread would call "protectionist" policies.

Stock buybacks are a big part of the story as well. These were illegal market manipulation I think from the Great Depression until the 80's under Reagan.

I would guess the shipbuilding industry in Finland is also built on subsidy and "protectionism" just like every other successful industry too. A cursory google search shows millions that were made available to shipbuilders: https://www.businessfinland.fi/en/for-finnish-customers/serv...

I'd bet that's just scratching the surface. The only way any country has been able to develop their productive capacities is through public grants and subsidies. The history of US industry shows the same thing, research in materials, electronics, the internet, etc were all accomplished through publicly funded research.

The decline in quality of out Boeing has coincided with a collapse of the regulatory framework that kept profit extraction limited since the 70's and 80's. Now you've got the worst of both worlds, where the industry is protected and subsidized, production gets off-shored and outsourced anyway while massive profits flow into shareholders pockets in the form of stock buybacks. It's funny that you look at this and blame the protectionist aspect when "protectionism" literally built the industry in the first place.

Every country who isn't just getting exploited for their natural resources or labor has built their industry by protecting it.

> The West plays nice as much as possible.

Please, tell us how you came to this conclusion

which UDP settings do you usually tune?

The book "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech" covers lots of stories like this from the industrial revolution. The luddites resisted having their work taken over by machines. The machines produced worse quality, but were cheaper and lowered the skill level required to do the work. It also made output predictable, allowed people to be bunched into factories and enabled child labour and other kinds of exploitation.

At the time people resisted having their autonomy taken away by smashing the machines and burning factories. It's a great book that will surprise you with how similar many of the situations we deal with today are.

I know the post is about "discernment", but I think the author kind of missed the real issue. It's about automation making things shitty, so that society can be reshaped to maximize profit extraction. We _could_ live in a world that strikes a balance between the relentless drive to automate and a more humanistic approach, but that would require structural changes.

I would bet other things your read are laden with ideological language, you just don't notice because you've already decided you agree with it.

You're just saying it's a technocracy in a nicer way

> Even the smartest people I know have a commendable tendency not to take certain ideas seriously. Bostrom’s simulation argument, the anthropic doomsday argument, Pascal’s Mugging – I’ve never heard anyone give a coherent argument against any of these, but I’ve also never met anyone who fully accepts them and lives life according to their implications.

Maybe you ought to think about why that is? I wonder why "smart" people don't live their lives according to magical situations with no bearing in reality?

You mention bankruptcy, it should be noted that Greece was loaded up with debt it could never hope to pay back to private French and German banks, and it was not allowed to declare itself bankrupt and restructure. Instead, they kept "extending and pretending" rather than restructure the debt. Some economists have called it a modern form of debtors prison.

The Greeks also had no control over monetary policy as a result of being part of the EU currency union so they were essentially at the mercy of the banks and the EU leadership.

It's usually the opposite. In a crash or time of hardship you want to spend more. Austerity in a downturn creates a virtuous cycle. That's the insight of Keynes and what got the world out of the Great Depression.

The austerity policy you're suggesting has been overwhelmingly found to have failed almost everywhere it's been tried. Cutting spending in a downturn creates slower growth, which makes it even harder to recover. The book in OP argues that austerity is not about recovery, it's about disciplining workers.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/07/imf-au...

nice! been waiting on this one for ages. Any idea if removing the implicit box-ing that async_trait uses has a measurable impact on performance?

Are there some cases, say with really big futures, where removing the boxing actually hurts performance?

You define "open" as selling a service?

are any of these points supposed to be convincing?

why would I want my identity managed by a shitcoin run by a private company?

> The U.S. has been booming for hundreds of years at this point.

Glorifying the early US economic system is not doing much for your argument.

Riiight, please ignore the existential planetary destruction we are hurtling towards, trust these ubermensch to decide what's best for you.

I really wish people would drop the "explicit is better than implicit" mantra.

What "explicit" means vague. Does it mean you want the code to be verbose? Noisy? Because that's silly, and Rust doesn't even have a history of doing that. We went from try! to ?, we went from impl Future to async/await. I'd rather people talk about what they really mean than just repeating that line over and over again.

edit: also it's really weird the OP seems to keep wanting to post this thread. If you don't like their library, fork your own?

There's also an interesting story about Chile under Allende trying to implement some cybernetic systems in the 70's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

There's a book called "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" about it, I haven't read it yet though.

I really liked this book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/da/book/show/57615568-collapse

The inevitability of the USSR collapse was certainly framed that way by pro-western ideologues, but my understanding is that it was the result of conscious reforms and more often than not, blunders, taken on Gorbachev and his cadre of supporters.

Do you have any good resources for UDP tuning?

It's not a labor shortage, it's a wage shortage.

I've got one of these from way back and was meaning to do something similar in Rust. Yet another project that I just never got around to.

It seems to me if you wanted to deliver on "economic benefits", save lives, reduce emissions, etc there is an obvious already existing option: subways/LRT. For inter-city travel build high speed rail. I just don't see driverless cars as the panacea that other people do, even if it worked— which it doesn't seem to.

The benefit of a coop structure like this is for the workers. Worker owned coops tend to have flatter pay scales, retain employees longer, and are internally democratic.