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Citation not needed at all. This is not a scientific journal; it’s a discussion forum. If you disagree feel free to share your own opinion.

In the same way that winning at roulette does.

Is roulette wealth creation and destruction?


Agreed with 1 and 3, just a tip re 2 though: sops encodes json and yaml semantically, key names of objects are preserved. Iow you can see which key changed.

Whether that is a feature or a metadata leak is up to the beholder :)


Chef John (an American) wrote a blog post in 2010 about why cups are the wrong unit for flour:

https://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-measure-cup-o...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvz0WKanGU


I’m convinced when people say they “love flakes” , 95% of them just love fetchTree and lock files.

(Which is totally valid btw)


Fair, another thing I really like is you can do `nix flake show templates` and try to `nix flake init -t templates#trivial` and be like ahh so thats how its supposed to be done or init `full` and be like ok this flake thing can do a lot of things I didn't know it could do, you can then edit, delete and experiment.

If you have a US or Japanese passport and want to try NL: https://expatlaw.nl/dutch-american-friendship-treaty aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT . It applies to freelancers.


Yeah, I'm in NL, so this is my frame of reference. Also, in many companies English is the main language, so that helps.


Interesting thanks!

It is the language. The module system is both semantically indispensable and a second class citizen. It's another language, implemented on top of Nix. Once you have a userland "if" reimplemented in your language you know you're in a bad place. (`mkIf`)

Maybe lazy evaluated attrsets can help make a dent, but still the lack of static types for module code is beyond painful. It's hostile.

I believe Nix is worth it in spite of this, and I'll advise anyone to learn it, it truly is the way forward, but by god do I hope it's not the last step on this journey. Please, Lord, please don't let nixlang be the final iteration XD


You mean the EU regulating their market, right? I think TFA is about shareholder voting rights. Two different things.

> Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund said on Sunday it would vote for a shareholder proposal at the upcoming Microsoft annual general meeting requiring for a report on the risks of operating in countries with significant human rights concerns.

The Norway sovereign wealth fund is a large pension fund holding the profits of exploiting their natural oil reserves. It’s not related to the EU.


IMO it's not different, I've been at multiple companies shaken down by these kinds of groups. It goes like this:

1) A) Shareholder proposal bullied through via questionable means like buying votes from index-fund vote providers (or endowment/pension/wealth funds) that put other interests ahead of fiduciary interests. (and/or) B) Weak but expensive-to-fight lawsuit

2) But don't worry, we have a consulting arm that will do the reports for you. If you pay them, we can guarantee it satisfies the shareholder proposal, and we will drop the lawsuit.

Sometimes human rights, sometimes ADA, sometimes environmental, the playbook is basically the same.


Number 2 would be quite damning regardless of anything else, so if there's a lead for that definitely let us know. Assuming it's just nr 1, though: I think I see what you mean but at that point, I guess.. don't hate the player, hate the game? Bit overboard to call it "extortion".

And, yeah, if you're a >$tn company going into the EU, or even just giving out shares, I agree: consult lawyers :) sound advice. In fact they probably did.

On its face, I don't see a problem. If the situation is as insidious as you describe, I definitely agree with you. But then that's the story. Not TFA.


> Yes, and the US system is the envy of the world

Where in the world have you polled?? because this is categorically opposite to my experience discussing the US college system


I dunno, google any university ranking and you will find the top ten has many from the US?


University rankings have pretty much nothing to do with how well they teach students, only their research output. And good researchers aren’t automatically good teachers ( and vice versa).


I don’t know any such rankings which measure envy, I’m afraid. It’s all based on numbers of papers published, etc.

Do you think people in other countries envy the us college system based on rankings? If so I strongly recommend a trip abroad and striking up a few conversations with prospective or enrolled students. In my experience the topic of cost and non dischargeable student loans comes up often. Rankings very rarely.


google, lol, marketing doesnt make a university good.


Would love to know your reasoning because when I look at SPY there’s quite a few ad companies in there, and heavily weighted, too. Why would Wall Street love ads on them but hate it on openai?


One reason is that it means "general AI" is likely farther away. If it were close, they wouldn't need to spend resources on sucking pennies from their free users.


"general AI" is a lie.

if you believe in "general AI", you are a sucker.

if you believe in "general AI", you have been conned. Welcome to America.


I think you're right, but the people investing in AI seem to believe otherwise.


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