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This Germany may have done, but "the gold crisis" / general Bretton-Woods-Exchange-Mechanism crisis brewed since the mid-late 60s and culminated visibly in France (de Gaulle I think) sending a tanker to collect their $ trade surpluses in physical bullion form, see the ending of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Gold_Pool --- all Nixon did in Aug 1971 was basically just confirming to the world the completion of a transition that had been in progress for years, at that point.

It all started with the emergence of "Eurodollars" in the City of London, in the late 50s --- in itself, and their consequences, an inevitably that only a few thinkers such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Rueff foresaw with any kind of accuracy (even though his favouring a gold standard isn't something I personally buy into as a good idea for the modern globalized economy --- same goes for a dollar standard or Euro standard or crypto-standard or any such notion though)
devops isnt going anywhere, its just learning a nee set of skills. you think any front end developer is going to have a strong enough understanding of AWS or Google Cloud to build and scale a serverless product? absolutely not. and most backend developers won't either.
This is just the tip of the iceberg my friend :) the small conversion rate is mostly due to a broken interview process, not a wrong matching mechanism. Nowadays you'll often end up with this kind of emails after spending weeks interviewing for a job:

"Unfortunately, we think you're not a perfect match for this position, blabla..."

You are a perfect match because you're applying for something you do everyday at a different company. You might also have an impressive github page or even products of your own out in the wild. Problem, you couldn't crack a leetcode-like stupid problem on a whiteboard during a 30min timeframe. So they think you're not qualified for a Frontend dev or mobile or backend job. Again, you have years of experience in the domain and a huge track record.

One single algorithm problem on a whiteboard is all they need to make a decision nowadays. The evaluation process is completely broken. Does it mean we all know how to build products and the goal is to actually separate the best from the very best? Well, if I'm fresh out of college, I should crack your leetcode problem in a minute because that's exactly what I've done for the last few months getting ready for my final CS exam. If I'm a lead engineer who deals with complex architecture and people problems everyday at work while building products for the world, I am miles away from school. Reading the job description they're looking for a lead web engineer. Going throught their interview process, %90 of the evaluation revolves around writting pseudo code on a whiteboard for hours. Talking about trees and linkedlists. Do you see the problem? They are looking for an experienced engineer with a huge track record, but they use college stuff to evaluate their candidates. If you're fresh out of school you could crack the interview but you're not even qualified and vice versa. That is the broken piece.

I think companies are moving towards eliminating the Resume. All they need is to find someone who can crack a stupid question, typically what google did when they first started hiring a lot of people in early 2000. Today, everyone is going back to the same process of hiring "generalists" whatever the heck that means. We need to stop that to improve your conversion rate.
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Can be worth getting a second-hand GPS watch as another option. Lightweight, useful and you are probably already carrying a powerbrick to charge your phone anyway so that covers recharging overnight.
Yeah. All that matters is whether it tastes good, and stuff the rest. You can't taste a story you tell yourself. Or perhaps more to the point, you shouldn't be able to.
Military transports, each with a strong marine detachment aboard, and escorted by at least equal numbers of fast frigates or destroyers. Even in the very unlikely case that someone's dumb enough to try it on and able to successfully suppress the counter-mutiny that'd be sure to arise among the embarked marine force, an unarmed ship that can't outrun an armed pursuer is in a hopeless situation.

In the case where exists a credible threat of attack by another power, you'd want to use a much stronger escort, ideally a carrier strike group and some attack submarines. Escorted aerial transport would be another option, requiring more flights and being more vulnerable in transit, but with each flight exposed to attack for a much shorter period, and significantly lowering the cost of a successful attack.

In any case, if you're concerned about perfidy among those entrusted with items of value, the classic response is to ensure that no one acting alone has sufficient leeway to steal, and ideally that massive collusion among many actors at all levels of your guard force is necessary to do so.
That's what I can't understand. Why even buy Nokia if there was no intention of continuing to manufacture phones a few years later? If they had released three new phones (low end, mid tier, flagship) in February 2017 they would have at least kept up with previous earnings. If the flagship model (and perhaps even the mid tier) were released as the rumored "Surface" models and specced appropriately, they would likely have seen a small increase initially and greater sales as the year goes on.

Instead, we get more advertising and less privacy than before, in Windows 10 on the desktop. I'm done, Microsoft.
This is more common in dry climates where shoes don't get as dirty/muddy. Notably, this describes California, where most TV shows and Movies are produced. It's not as widespread as it would seem from American media.
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I am reminded of the time a poster here on HN threadcrapped [0] simply to post a non-affiliate link to an item mentioned in an article. His stated belief was that the article itself (or its author) was not worthy of an affiliate commission but the item mentioned in the article itself was of legitimate interest, and so he went out of his way to make sure readers could investigate the item mentioned in the article without giving affiliate credit.

All I can figure regarding the poster's true motivations in that thread is that there is some small percentage of the population that still gets syphilis, and some much smaller percentage that lets it go untreated, and some small percentage of the people in the tertiary stage of syphilis must post on HN...

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13285587
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Hmm... how offensive is that, actually?
"may endanger"

Not a convincing argument. All the countries with nuclear weapons or more of a danger. The effects of climate change are slow, and people can adapt.
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Airplanes can do air superiority, but you can't take over a country without boots on the ground.

The idea of Germany invading Switzerland is surreal.
Google scholar solves the same problem, for free.

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Facebook did something similar and I entered 'Bovine University', which it turns out has tens of thousands of students.
The down votes come not from the "truth", but that this is a smoke screen. Yes, we had much higher temperatures in the past. What is the problem right now is the quick change in temperatures. At minimum this means, that our day-to-day lives are getting screwed up, as the current civilization is adjusted to the temperatures of the last 200 years. Large cities are going to be flooded, whole farming regions are going to shift. We are talking about relocating billions.

And if we are really unlucky, the eco systems get screwed up by this fast shift, which could have extinction level consequences.
I wonder if they aren't hoping to leverage React Native's growth to expand the platform's app offerings (eventually).

The real problem is that innovation in the mobile space has just stagnated. It was a 10-year explosive all-in from Apple and Google and the winners are kinda just in place now. The industry happened very quickly. I don't see a compelling reason for consumers to jump ship unless something big actually comes about (why would they?)
States tend to act like psychopaths. It should come as no surprise that the US doesn't honor the original agreement if it's in their self-interest to not honor that agreement.

I'd be interested to know how the US came to hold the gold for Germany in the first place. Because it seems to me that Germany's mistake was to swap the gold for a promise.
My comment doesn't reference the GP. Did you miss that?
do you have another preferred baseline for air temperature data?
The site has launched far enough to attract spammers. It looks like you've got some cleaning and monitoring to do:

http://www.wikipaper.org/p/Special:AllPages

Bookmarked your site, looks interesting for this non-academic.
>up to $400,000 a ticket

I haven't seen that figure anywhere, even the yacht rent ticket was 'only' $150,000 for ten people, including staff.
They made some conscious and poor design choices in w10m. They decided to copy Android in a bunch of weird ways, too many notifications and inconsistent keyboard behavior.
What is the point you are trying to make with? If the headline included that this time it's largely due to human activity would that placate you? It's an implicit assumption with such artcles that the alarm comes from this time being the fault of human activity and that the change is rapid.

Large numbers of people are passive or apathetic to what is going on in terms of pollution and the detrimental effects that this is causing. What is the point of mentioning that climate changes naturally when the focus is on human caused change?
> I also find it a bit strange that they seemed to go through a lot of effort in melting these bars to make sure no one can inspect the originals.

You're inferring a motive. The stated reason is that those bars didn't conform to the London Good Delivery specification.
Side note: how did you not go to high school and end up in tech(assuming here), just curious, you don't have to answer of course :-)
The classic decades old online advice of "lurk for awhile before you post" is also valid in that context.

Using military terminology is kind of brutally honest, yet clarifies the situation, if I've been trying to run a stealthy recon mission to observe intel to prep for possible later missions (or not...), a sudden sneak attack by an outnumbering flanking welcome wagon force is can be panic inducing, defensive fire and run for emergency evac.

More prosaic its like walking into a new store trying to soak up the vibe and feel of the theme and product lines and style and other customers, then getting pounced on by a salesdroid demanding full attention so they can close a sale to me on whatever gives them the best commission, not cool man, that's why internet shopping is crushing brick and mortar.
I think we're just worried there might be cities we like where the next great lakes will form.

We're wondering how fast this will happen and if there's anything we can do about it.
Late? Windows Mobile pre-dates iOS by 5 years.

It's interesting that their first attempts were shrinking desktop Windows UI to work on a phone. That failed so they came up with a phone UI and expanded it to work on the desktop. What's the third act?
The exception makes the rule. America is still great for people of all color.
> So why exactly do we have a crippled desktop experience in Windows 10 now?

We don't? Can you clarify what you're referring to?
These may be reasonable propositions (or were when they applied, especially in the cases of a) and c)), but if and only if one assumes the deposits are effectively on call, and apparently they are not.

Your last sentence gets close to the key issue: if there is an innocent explanation, why have the parties who could remove the doubt over that explanation stopped talking about the issue?
It's in a way a "compromise". Someone with as much experience as you has the luxury of being able to learn AND get paid for it too so I think you should utilise that.

Also from a career perspective to other people and employers it will probably not look very good. People may assume you were not good enough so you had to stop and become a student again. As wrong as that would be, people's perception is shallow and they don't have much information to work with, they'll make judgements.

And as I said if you insist I think it doesn't hurt to concentrate your efforts on something with financial potential, just because you can. And something that you can "show".

I think you'd be better off fitting the study in between other stuff in an organic way rather than just saying ok let's stop the world, go learn some stuff and come back again.
That's a common theme about regional flavors: they need to be adapted to local tastes.

Just ask autochthonous Italians eating abroad - every single Italian restaurant serve plates that are too greasy, too flavored, too spicy or whatever. And you can't get a good cup of coffee almost anywhere around the world, because outside of Italy the burnt flavor is often praised as a brew having 'character'.

But that's fine, because Italian flavors are not really to the liking of Englishmen and vice versa. Carbonara being made with cream instead of egg is often done not because the places can't look a recipe off internet, but because that's what locals expect in term of flavor and consistency.

Likewise for the absurdly loaded pizzas with three dozen ingredients: it tastes great both ways and I'm not gonna tell the One Italian Way is superior, but Italians are more used to a single strong flavor per plate, while abroad that'd be just plain and boring. So everything adapts.

I dab in international dishes at home, but if a Mexican would eat my chili he'd have a stroke - but for other Italians? They all say it's super, because it's modulated to our taste.
> Monetarism still believes in the seductive idea that stability can be achieved by fiddling with the money supply

I think you've hit the nail on the head. This is my belief as well; while it is apparent that monetary policy can be useful, the old adage goes "if all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail".

It appears that instead of doing the correct (and politically difficult) thing from a fiscal, tax, and policy perspective, we just keep lowering the interest rates and waiting for the next upswing.

Which where the Chilean experiment[1] with apolitical fiscal policies will be interesting to observe. I've not seen much on it since, but it'll certainly be tested in the not too distant future.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/10/fiscal-p...
We have climate deniers, and we have another group of people who don't want to spend money to solve the problem; probably the Republican party. Global warming simply isn't a priority.

More important problems than global warming. Skip to minute 6:

https://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioriti...
... I think you should reread my comment because it has nothing to do with the armed forces.
Microsoft had/have an excellent mobile OS and Windows phones available and was gaining traction. All the promise of UWP and integration between W10 and the Band and WP and Xbox and so on disappeared under Satya, not Ballmer. The Band is the most bizarre deprecation for me, seeing as there's still nothing on the market which does everything it did.
By all means have paper maps and a compass as a backup but I doubt there's a smartphone on the planet today that doesn't have a built-in receiver for GPS satellites. They may (probably do) also use WiFi and cell signals to speed GPS reception but they're in no way dependent on those other signals for GPS tracking unless they can't pick up a GPS signal indoors etc.
... and no one really noticed. Microsoft could do the sensible thing and sell Android phones.
Not everyone in the west is a fattie. I am pretty skinny and wanted to gain some weight fairly rapidly a few years ago, so sat with a 2L bottle of soft drink beside my desk at work every day for a couple of weeks. It worked a lot better than my previous attempts of just "eating more".
Say goodbye to mediocre programmers; ai is around the corner to write your avg crud app.

Serverless is going to significantly reduce costs that were needed to make mvp, prototype and so on. No sane business is going to rely on a single solution hosted by gce or amazon. Yes you can be fearless you can try it and maybe you can succeed but 90% of other businesses will still need to integrate with thousands of components and infrastructure parts. Devops is not going anywhere. In fact the demand will only increase.
Well, that's a telling finding. It's just "telling" different conclusions about "global wealth", "JPMorgan's market capitalization", and gold's "fair" value to different minds ;)

The only thing that's safe to assess about that bullion is that for all human intents and purposes, it'll outlast infinite numbers of generations, and the other stuff --- won't. That alone tells of the impossibility and futility of putting any sort of currency number on it, in fact, any figure will do --- $100 or $100k, whatever the world perceives will be equally valid and equally workable. Doubly so since "you can't eat it", it's in the final consequence not broadly "needed at any price" for industry, and the actual supply for its prime purpose (preserve some proxy of wealth through the generations) need not be increased, and every physical ounce above or below ground is in extremis already owned by someone.
Somebody'd figure out how to game a blockchain, or just render it irrelevant. You cannot engineer around human ingenuity. But it's always so much fun to watch people try.
Amazing. I couldn't agree more this is obviously a useless way to learn baking at first.
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It's an old scam, Bob Dylan sung a song about it in the sixties called "Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues"
TBH that was they said about DevOps.
Pardon my ignorance, but is Quora still a thing? I thought it was largely made obsolete by the various StackExchange sites and networks.
Google Maps is terrific on pavement. Get off pavement in the Rockies and no, it is about 80% accurate. Good enough to make you think it is going to lead you right... until it sends you completely wrong. Believe me, those of us who spend our weekend off-road in the West are painfully aware of exactly where Google's limitations lie.
My real problem with serverless (right now) is that it just destroys your ability to have an efficient development workflow. Unless you want to use the really specific nodejs serverless framework, you're really in trouble. (As far as I can tell, https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline is the only offline-API-gateway).

If AWS really wants to drive adoption of their more-proprietary cloud tech, they're going to have to drive harder on local dev workflows. Google is doing better here (e.g. https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/emulator and https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/emulator) As someone who cares greatly about productive developer environments (it's a reasonable portion of my day job), I wouldn't touch serverless right now. Things slow down way too drastically if you have to push to the cloud to test what you're building.

I looked into starting a new app using serverless tech just yesterday. I don't really want to use nodejs on the backend (as I can use any language on the backend, and JS is not the pick of the litter), so that left me totally optionless unless I want to build up a bunch of infrastructure on my own (and sometimes I enjoy that, just not my goal right now).

As usual, the death of devops is greatly exaggerated, the role will evolve like any other. As the boring stuff gets easy, application complexity will grow. There's really still a lot of boring stuff that isn't automatically solved for you.
I think the desktop is more closely related to the tablet platform than mobiles.
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And yet fortune 100 and 500 companies are increasingly adopting cloud technology. And there are plenty of solutions already available to distribute your cloud infra to multiple providers at once.

I think the writing's on the wall. Software devs are coding Ops out of a job. Even the network is software now.
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It is great you guys are down voting me when the guy above me is being incredibly smug. Thanks for showing your true colors.
One might be forgiven for expecting it to make heavy use of CouchDB.
Yeah, English is "blessed" with roots in most languages over 100k speakers; so unlike most other languages, even local food names are indecipherable. Indian food names are straightforward in a similar way to chinese food names: dal (split, referring to split lentils) tadka (a.k.a tarka, a.k.a chaunk, referring to tempered spices), Saag (leafy greens like spinach, mustard leaf, collard greens) paneer (unaged acid-set cheese), aloo (potato) gobi (cauliflower).
The University of Northern New Jersey would be a fun choice. A fictional school created by US Homeland Security for a sting operation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Northern_New_J...

Edit: 72 Alumni and 2 employees on LinkedIn. Heh. https://www.linkedin.com/edu/university-of-northern-new-jers...
I would also add that the "Everything is a String" paradigm makes it simple to reason about somewhat complex concepts. You don't have to try to teach beginners about objects and pointers. Just plain old text strings. Everything else is under the hood.

I miss some features of more modern languages though. TclOO (object-oriented extension) is minimally useful but lacks GC, so you have to keep track of all objects to manually destroy them when you are done. I miss easily passing around functions (procs), and saner local namespacing for functions (ie like in python). Exception handling is also a bit of a pain.

A lot of these things are addressed in Jim Tcl, but it hasn't seen much adoption.

http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html
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All brilliantly stated. I would only add that it's not "all" participants in communities (on and offline), but archetypes, legends and hierarchies spring up espousing the "ultimate", perfect or essential ways of performing the activity...

almost no one can or does live up to them. That confuses neophytes.... so don't be stymied by sage advice!
I really, really liked my Nokia Windows phone. The tile based UI, the smooth performance and snappy UX, an excellent camera and the way the battery could last for sometimes 3 whole days without charging. Android phones just don't compare. And though I like MacOS, I could never get iOS.

Microsoft gave up the war here in the last 10%. They should have put their head down and persisted. Alas, now we just have two flavors of phone..
Fortune 100-500 run myriads of different software. Really your "avg" fortune 500 company cant be used as a benchmark.
As an avid hiker I've been using https://www.alltrails.com app which lets me download just a segment of a map that a trail is on and is detailed enough for me to follow.
I think that if Germany tries again to invade a neighbor, EU is over.
There have been some recent analogs in real life. Mostly in the tech. industry, but also in luxury real estate.
> …but I was very surprised to find a Chinese-Mexican restaurant in Florida…

Here in AZ there's Chino Bandido that attempts this fusion, and many seem to like it. Personally I, a mexican, was not particularly impressed. On the other hand I thoroughly enjoy the Jap-Mex Sushirrito. Then again the whole of Mexican food here in the US is at least somewhat americanized too.