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Microsoft has a chrome and Firefox extension for similar management lockdown

This sounds really interesting but possibly qualitatively different than programming/engineering where automated improvements/iterations are part of the job (and what's rewarded)

Not even kidding - the AskHistorians reddit. I use their Sunday digest links as a magazine: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search/?q=title%3A%22...

It's filled in both so many gaps and made me increasingly curious about many periods/places that I previously felt disengaged about -- and led to much more reading of actual history

That is somewhat mitigated by grouping comparisons of S/M/L change sizes.

It would be interesting to group changes by line-deletions, say to indicate rewrites (and size of them)

on top of that, I personally know several women scientists that had to put up with his misogyny first-hand.

All my teacher friends (before this article) had joyously reported on lunch rooms being loud again (and even fights and lol, sex) happening.... But in a good way. If kids aren't getting into some trouble then they're not interacting and learning about society and human nature enough

I can't imagine the Cloud Act being effective without Microsoft (and French gov) complicity.

If they can make successful tax shelters they can architect the entities and the architecture to remove this option.

There's some 9-eyes thing where this is a feature not a bug

I do this with audiobooks/podcasts and then can start with the lights off and lying down. (important part I find is making sure the dynamics are low -- no high-volume ads or flashy punctuated sound effects)

Not sure if any other buds work like this but the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds seem to auto-pause based on some kind of fitbit/sleep indicator which help even more with staying asleep.

From the article: > Another argument supporting the suggestion that species which have lost their GLO gene were under no selective pressure to keep it, is that all species which have lost their GLO gene have very different diets but all of them have diets rich in vitamin C

What would a diet poor in vitamin C be considering that "everything else" makes it? I guess root vegetables? It feels like, if anything, this would imply a GLO gene decay more often than has happened, no?

Well, xz is a rare event too.

There's no knowing how many backdoors were added by small network companies or contractors. But there's rarely accountability when it happens because the company would rather cover it up, or just not ask too many questions about that weird bug

I was so sad when I lost xmonad support on Ubuntu 24.

I think the closest thing that could get most of the way there is https://github.com/domferr/tilingshell/

The headline is a little crazy. This is like someone talking about the Human Genome Project and the headline reading "scientists discover humans have DNA" The diversity at many levels was even known. They're just trying (which is great) to get far more known genomes (the same way we are doing with human microbiomes now)

I'm pretty sure they weren't unrecognizable or mystery and it's just being used as a pejorative for food they didn't like

A friend of mine argued that "math is invented" rather than discovered. This seemed wrong to me and in arguing against it I found https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/

At least at this stage I think it relates to whether you believe "the universe"/reality is a sort of momentary collection of the currently-existing things. Vs seeing reality as the set of all things that might obstruct "me" or any entity from doing something.

To me, even if the wall is invisible it's still a wall

Just balance that as well with what chemicals and elements show up in farmed salmon and wild salmon (heavy metals, micro plastics, PBDEs,...)

Not saying one's better, just that all our food sources have higher and lower quality steps before market.

In the profitable cases (and maybe just as open offer), why not just sell them back to their staff/former owner?

There's no point to keep the IP of games that are shuttered.

Maybe the offer was made and a bunch didn't take it?

Well the evidence is circumstantial. A bunch of Canaanites celebrate a spring festival with unleavened bread. Later they adopt a different religion that has a spring festival and an Exodus story with a new god called YHWH is glommed onto El.

I think it depends how "natural" one thinks the reason for unleavened bread is to Exodus. There's obviously plenty of mythical aspects to the story but the oldest are more focused on the river (Song of the Sea) and the battle. Why not combine rebirth/reinvention stories -- one a feast and another the beginning of "freedom"

But it's fair to say that most of Passover as a story and holiday is unrelated.

I'd answer a bit differently than replies so far. Later monotheist post "merging" of El and YHWH didn't really have space for El's son so they had to treat him as a lesser and then hostile God. Any worship for him was considered bad.

Otoh, just like "Easter" is an echo of an earlier holiday, it just so happens Canaanites, as I understand it, celebrated the end of the storm god's season in spring ... Very similarly to how Passover is observed. With a sacrificed lamb shank bone and some other aspects.

There's definitely some relatable and transmitted stories like the flood, etc. However, the Levant and Egyptian gods "grew up" in different contexts than Mesopotamia. Egypt was pretty centralized from the beginning and their gods were not based on cities. "El" means mountain and Baal was a storm god -- neither of which has (to my understanding) any trace to specific cities.

That said, I agree there was some idea of a god "living" someplace specific -- e g. YHWH living in the Arc so they could carry Him into battle.

I don't want to completely refute this because I'm also an amateur and there are a lot of instabilities of consensus, but Baal was at least also the son of El in Canaanite religion which predated an Israeli kingdom.

My understanding is more that Yahvists had more nomadic origins and populated (/conquered, possibly the Levites[1]) a Canaanite cultural context and then there was religious syncreticism and interest in merging them. Depending on the specific passage's history there's either a ret-coning of "all one god" or at least the interpretation that way (including how your links translate those passages).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/00...

Agree in general -- I think the tiktok/shorts wave is biasing strongly for shorter video and then the time format kills any followup/2nd iteration-explanation

But this one was pretty good.

I'm trying to read the paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.10732 to get a sense of things in more detail (probably quite helplessly).

It's talking about ellipticity. Should I be imagining a kind of tightly packed set of ellipses at all scales and shapes (kind of undulating or expanding and collapsing I guess)?

Does anyone have a better gloss-level sense of "the new method"?

Against the Day is by far my favorite. It has the same sweep-of-history as Gravity's Rainbow and some others of his epics but I think it's the one where I actually feel for the characters more than them being mostly a vehicle for the historical braiding.

Probably the best to lead into Shadow Ticket too since that is pre-WWI.

I think we need to adjust society so fewer people feel they have nothing to lose than in the status quo.

I explored this idea a while ago https://ouwi.org/ I wasn't able to get the perfect crystal I wanted but I think whatever works will need to be a lot more visually differentiated than the MIT version

Right, but for functional markets it turns out the marginal opportunity cost is not good enough.

Most famously interest rates without some government (or other, in the case of Crypto) hand in distribution and projected distribution, the market can fail (everyone is encouraged to hoard).

In Stiglitz' case (not looking it up, but from memory), used car markets fail. While the marginal net opportunity cost is what the price yields, it creates a negative feedback loop where people that have a used car that's more valuable than is verifiable exit the market, and then you get .... all the more 'lemons' -- i.e. only bad cars). Dealerships are one way to correct for that information loss, but markets don't always value sufficiently the information that will solve it.

We can be a bit more smug/hopeful nowadays, because information is a lot more easily aggregated/hosted. But we have to recognize the .... value of those components.

Stiglitz specifically wrote about minimal interventions of e.g. just supporting/hosting (reliable) information exchanges. His proof showed that there were some markets where there was no value for any individual player to "pay" for the information needed to improve a market, so it stayed bad. Stiglitz' career definitely moved in a direction of more interventionist policies (of which I'm probably more sympathetic than you to some/many of them).

Are you suggesting that I'm trying to curry political favor with...Stiglitz (or someone else)?

Not in the article, but the body of work (that you're clearly familiar with).

If you believe the Fed/ability-of-the-Fed to smooth the boom/bust cycle, then you disagree with Hayek -- he wasn't (just) arguing for a generally free market -- he believed that all markets were perfect (especially/including the price value of Money).

It turned out Keynes was right.

Thanks for linking to this -- it highlights a fallacy that Hayek seemed to mire in whereas on one hand, he believed that the aggregate "market" forces would always be sufficient to stabilize pricing stability (/inflation) he railed against the ability for any 'manager' (i.e. the government) to do so.

I'd strongly recommend to folks interested in this to pick up the Stiglitz, et al 2001 Nobel Prize on information asymmetries-research https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/advanced-economic...

It strikes me that US DARPA has a weird position where the more military advantage can come from concentrated high investments then the US+allies/beneficiaries win. (Ie fewer expensive toys should win against many cheap toys)

If Mil technology is too cheap then US advantage is much lower.

So part of that is just keeping SOTA moving quickly. But also centrally-deployed tech having outsized longevity (things like satellite deployment or AI or the anti-missile battery-type stuff).

For this launching from a larger vessel maybe.