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I hate to be that guy, but I want to point out that more people not always equate to more output. E.g. if you create a "controller" role, they would try to justify their existence and create more work/overhead for others.

And you would be surprised how many roles in big bureaucracies are "controller" roles by nature.

My guess the reason he is not moving on to different topics is that there thousands of people with official credentials who completely misunderstand statistics, and fat tails in particular.

Yes - it's a good example of a survivorship bias.

Firefox is actively moving away from XUL.

Good rationale from a maker, not a purist, and good luck with your projects!

I liked the site, it's clean and to the point. Just a small nitpick: right under the Demo download button, you say "(Demo does not have Pro features such as team management, access control and others)".

I wouldn't say that - that essentially gives the user a (subconscious) rationale on why she shouldn't download the demo. I would suggest to focus on the positives instead - what the Demo can do. If you can somehow remove limitations, even for 14 days - even better!

it’s a common misconception: bitcoin is NOT supposed to be anonymous (it has a full ledger), but pseudonymous.

You might enjoy his "Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People", which consists of short essays on a few interesting people, some of which he knew personally.

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Thank you for reading the article and summarizing it - I flagged the submission, and recommend others do the same.

It was! Also, in early 1990s we had food shortages and long lines in stores for basically everything (in Moscow! things were much worse in the regions), which was a direct result of the government controlling the economy for many years through directives and completely ignoring the basic laws of economy.

Sadly, the examples of economies of Soviet Union, and Cuba, and Venezuela, and North Korea etc. are somehow not sufficient enough for people to realize the danger of such control.

People buying apartments to rent out via Airbnb is not inherently a bad thing - it just indicates there is existing unsatisfied demand for short term rentals, which cannot be fulfilled by hotel industry. And guess what - hotel industry is another example of an industry heavily regulated by government (zoning laws, construction permits etc.). So the Airbnb problem most likely has the same underlying root cause.

And only really wealthy people can afford to stay in a 5-star luxury hotel. The underlying mechanisms are the same: when demand for a resource is greater than supply, you can either artificially limited the demand by some controlling body, or let the market bring them into equilibrium through pricing signals.

You are using emotionally charged words ("artificial", "abuse", "greed"), which makes a bit hard to have a constructive argument, but let me try :).

One way to think about prices is as a signal. When greedy landlords raise prices, they send two signals: (1) To other landlords and wanna-be-landlords, saying it's an attractive market which would justify new construction or cleaning up your spare bedroom and putting it on the market, both increasing supply, and (2) to current and future renters, making it more economical for them to move elsewhere and thus save on their rent, thus reducing demand.

Raising prices = Demand > Supply. You can either try to curb the demand (by e.g. creating incentives for companies to build offices elsewhere, move government bureaucracy somewhere else, etc.) or improve the supply by facilitating new construction, which in most places on earth is limited by, again, local government restrictions.

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As a person born and raised in Soviet Union, I strongly believe that whoever thinks that a proper economic response to raising prices is literally to order them to stop raising, is a lunatic.

Could you please share tips on how you opted out of arbitration? I’m waiting for my M3 to be delivered, and would like to understand the pros and cons. I’m in CA, US if that matters.

Can you apply the same logic to Uber/Lyft?

So Nassim Taleb's "Silent Risk"[1], a mathematical parallel version to Incerto, is not good enough?

[1] http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/SilentRisk.pdf

True. But security considerations add an important dimension to the conversation which is often missed.

Here is an alternative view from Theo De Raadt, OpenBSD founder: “[firefox catching up with chrome’s security] is lipstick on a pig”: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=152872551609819

It does have access to .cache and .config as well

I've fixed Fontconfig error by properly capitalizing DOCTYPE and SYSTEM and using double quotes:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">

Some more: 1) .cwmrc has a parse error around chrome command - fixed by adding quotes around “chrome —enable-unveil”

2) I copied your fonts.conf exactly, and see “Fontconfig error, line 2: syntax error”. Can’t figure out yet what’s going on.

Amazing guide! You have a typo - a second ‘chown’ in mail setup section should be ‘chmod’

Moderators: We should probably link directly to the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq16.html, the undeadly link is nothing other than a 1-paragraph reference linking to the same.

In addition to the problems already mentioned (Google collecting more data, Google making ad blocking harder), let me share another issue I have with this: Google is becoming a de-facto gate keeper to your website, turning bots away.

Do you get it? A company whose business model is based on their bots ability to crawl the web will now have more power over other bots.

Brilliant.

I was half-joking, of course, and what I meant is that it’s an optimization problem with multiple dimensions and tons of trade-offs. E.g.,

- low power or performance? - ease of use vs. tunability? - closed vs. open-source?

For the server OS, your choices are practically either Linux or FreeBSD (FreeNAS is based on the latter). If you don’t need zfs for NAS, OpenBSD becomes another interesting option - assuming the hardware is supported, is rock solid and easy to administrate, but may have some learning curve.

Tinkering with something like RaspberryPi is not a bad idea - you will spend $50 or so but will learn a ton and in the process will understand your own requirements better. However, if you want NAS, I recommend buying a server-class hardware (like T30 mentioned above) and invest time in understanding how to use zfs and do reliable backups, assuming your data is valueable. I personally don’t think you should aim for lower power for NAS with any serious amount of data.

You are opening a Pandora’s box :). There is truly no easy answer - too much depends on your budget, needs, OS of choice, etc.

A good way to start is to follow a few subreddits, like r/datahoarder or r/homelab to get some inspiration and understand what are the options etc.

But since you still need an answer, here is something to get you started: 1) For fanless and ease of setup, buy a Synology/QNAP NAS, and install additional software there - $300+ w/o disks. 2) For future proof, buy Dell T30 on eBay for $300 and install FreeNAS on it.

Thinkpads are VERY well supported - pretty much everything works, except bluetooth and fingerprint reader. I just ordered a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6th gen as a replacement for aging Macbook to use as a main home machine.

You can search NYC*BUG board, where users submit their dmesg(8) output, e.g. there is a submission[1] for Dell Latitude e7270.

[1]http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=3466

FWIW, I will be getting a highDPI (25x16) screen for my Thinkpad, and I think it's a worthy upgrade at ~$100. But Lenovo does give you a choice in case you would rather use 1080p.