I just dont get it. Why would any one use vpn instead of tor if all you want is to circumvent the censorship? Tor provides access to restricted site for free the same vpn charges .
Its good to watch youtube tech channels. But nothing replaces books in my experience. Get in to the habbit of reading books and watch videos only occasionally.
> Here's the "paradox" that takes this phenomenon even further: the more choices people have, the less uniform the distribution is, and the more it favors the top producers.
How do you explain the pre and post netflix years. More movies produced more people get rich post netflix. Fewer movies produced less people got more rich before netflix.
To me it sounds like "more people get rich" is a line in the sand. There are more movies to choose from, but the top movies gross more now than they ever have and the "middle-performing" movies, relative to the others, make less than they did 40 years ago. If you draw a line and say "more movies make over 100 million in revenue now than before", that is a natural byproduct of there being more movies to pick from now, and more people watching movies now.
Pareto distribution also explains wealth distribution and "income disparity". There are simply more people now, so the separation between the median and top 1% is going to be greater now than it ever has been. There's nothing political about this. It's a natural manifestation of a Pareto distribution, and as another commenter pointed out: this distribution shows up all over the place in nature.
Your parent comment was talking about distributions, while you are talking absolute figures. For example, if we define rich as >1 mil, then lets say before netflix, 100 movie producers made exactly 1 mil. Then after netflix, 5 movie producers made 1 bil while 150 made 1 mil. Still more people total, but the distribution is more uneven.
I see it now. "1.5" billion from 150 people contributes to making the distribution uniform where as 5 billion from 5 people is contributing to skewing the distribution. But is there a proof to that or it more of an observation.
Slightly off topic. What is the tech stack and architecture of "archive.org". How do they manage such huge storage. How do they forecast and how much does it cost per year to manage existing storage ? I could not find any links?
He makes some great point on deepwork and cites verifiable research. But you should be careful as he is totally against watching porn and worse favors religion.
Emacs in itself is worth studying to become better developer. The best minds in the computer industry have worked on this editor's design. For example I used to think single namespace in elisp is bad. But after used it for a while it feels having single namespace is probably good for cognitive ease. In contrast C++ offers namespace but when "using namespace" is used at the top of the file, the rest of the file contains only part of the namespace. This makes it harder to grep while reading source code. Although emacs have longer symbol names its cognitively much easier.
Please, try to get into the habit of not only sharing the keystrokes but also commands they bind to. With all different Emacs "distros" popping up, it's hard to track the bindings. "Is it in vanilla, Doom or Spacemacs?..."
My hope is for a convention to emerge where the proper etiquette of Emacs pedagogy would be always mentioning the command.
Also, I think you meant to say C-h r s <search_term>, where <s> binds to Info-search
