AWS API Library from Cognitect: cognitect-labs/aws-api
- Authentication
- S3 User
- IAM user
- Operations
- Documentation
- AWS SDKs often include extra functionality that's not in the library itself
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- Holiday - Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
- Vaughan - Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA (reread)
- Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- Ousterhout - A Philosophy of Software Design
- Mao, Lawson - The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (Cambridge China Library)
- Kuran - Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
- Tuchman - The Guns of August
- Furet - The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
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/ virgin_yhwh_vs_chad_shiva.md
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October 19, 2018 07:15
Virgin Yahweh vs. Chad Shiva
Referring to now here's why I'm punching you
A premise of this post is that sanctioning people is sometimes better than the alternatives.
I mean that literally, but mostly metaphorically. Things I take as metaphorical sanctioning include name calling, writing angry tweets to or about someone, ejecting them from a group, callout posts, and arguing that we should sanction them.
Given that sanctioning people is sometimes better than the alternatives, I think we need to be able to have conversations about when “sometimes” is. And indeed we can and do have those conversations. Many words have been spilled on the subject.
But I think it’s probably a good idea to try to avoid having those conversations while actually sanctioning people.
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/ 2018-2019_Premier_League_Season.md
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October 8, 2018 14:39
2018-2019 Premier League Season
- To have org-mode expand everything by default: M-x customize-variable RET org-startup-folded
- To insert code-blocks quickly: <s TAB
- To insert a new bullet/number in the current list: M-RET
- To promote a heading:
M-<left arrow> - To demote a heading:
M-<right arrow> - Hyperlinks:
- To link to another org-mode file:
- Again, the math here seems off. If the agent has to get a $1000 checkup if they've realized that they've been affected by a cosmic ray, doesn't that imply that the actual world table is as follows?
Decision World Utility Probability Weighted Utility Total Utility
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Attempt taking $100 No ray $100 1-p 100-100p
Ray $1 - 1000 p p - 1000p 100-1099p
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Attempt taking $1 No ray $1 1-p 1-p
Ray $100-1000 p 100p-1000p 1-901p
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/ accountable_capitalism.md
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August 18, 2018 21:17
Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act
Original Link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-shouldnt-be-accountable-only-to-shareholders-1534287687
Corporate profits are booming, but average wages haven’t budged over the past year. The U.S. economy has run this way for decades, partly because of a fundamental change in business practices dating back to the 1980s. On Wednesday I’m introducing legislation to fix it.
American corporations exist only because the American people grant them charters. Those charters confer valuable privileges—such as limited legal liability for their owners—that enable businesses to turn a profit. What do Americans get in return? What are the obligations of corporate citizenship in the U.S.?
For much of U.S. history, the answers were clear. Corporations sought to succeed in the marketplace, but they also recognized their obligations to