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The British economy nosedived into total exhaustion of resources, with resource rationing extending to 1956. It was closely intertwined with the French economy for a century before WW2 and its assets were wholly seized/decimated.

If WW2 went on for much longer then the UK would have descended into universal abject poverty and total societal collapse.

Granted this universal suffering of the populace ushered in the social-welfare state Britain is so commonly known for nowadays, it was nonetheless devastating.
> Visa recently offered select merchants a $10,000 reward for depriving customers of their right to pay by the method of their choice. A Visa executive described this practice to CNN as offering shoppers “freedom from carrying cash.”

This is and should be treated as an attack on US currency. It's not treated as such, because Visa sells its product to US gov as trackable and easy to control alternative to cash.

Visa gets duopoly for payments. Government gets citizen spending profile. Citizen gets "freedom from carrying cash".
Coins are not so much a problem. Low value coins, umm, have little value. I've seen some examples of them being phased out.

Pennies and nickels don't exist (as change) at my local farmers' market. All the vendors I buy from round to the quarter - with a loose rounding scheme that generally favors the buyer.

While in Barcelona a while back, I reached into my pocket to pay for a ticket to Montjuic Castle. Apparently the cashier thought I was reaching for a pile of 1 or 2 cent coins. (Really? One, two, AND five cent coins introduced in 1999?). Once she realized I had 1 and 2 euro coins, she happily accepted them.

In an area where pickpocketing is apparently a big problem, I was quite happy to not have to pull my wallet out for small transactions.
If it's not life-threatening, don't go to the ER. Go to urgent care. They'll charge you $100-$200 for the visit, plus cost of materials. $27 X-Ray kind of cost of materials in my experience.

https://www.howmuchisit.org/how-much-does-urgent-care-cost/

Better yet, get direct primary care. It's ideal for tylenol and ace bandage situations.

I am completely convinced that even if you have insurance, you are much better off acting as a self-pay patient. Your options are better, and you have a much better idea of how much things cost. People say you can't shop for a hospital in an emergency, and that's true -- but I already know how much the hospitals around here cost and how good they are because I have to for routine medical care.
Oh you can. You just distill the rum out and feed the unneeded portion to the pigs. Which is presumably something like what is going on.
But there is no war inside the country. USA is involved in wars, but it is stable.
I've seen people who barely understood the NPS formula obsess over their NPS score as well as customers who wrote quizzical responses such as "I love your service it is the best, everything is perfect" and grade an 8, overall I find its an interesting vanity metric.
I agree both can exist. The original article argues against SDC investment in favor of mass transit.

I agree public transit is unequivocally great and important. I don't agree that most of our investment dollars should go to mass public transit over SDC public fleets.

NYC is an exception and can't be replicated in most places, and the lack of transit options are still a burden on the groups I mentioned.
> Seattle's sex industry has grown right alongside its tech industry

Ah, yes. The healthy states of relationships in our country.
> What do people buy $1000 smartphones for?

Consider the iPhone X a smartcamera instead of a smartphone.

Consider the "portraits in low light" at the end of the side-by-side comparison section that Vanessa Hand Orellana and Lexy Savvides did for CNET here:

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-vs-iphone-8-plus-is-the-c...
Really?

> Uber owns their maps.

That seems rather definitive compared to:

> And where did I claim it does not currently use Google Maps?

Don’t say things in matter of fact form and then push the blame on the questioner when evidence is shown that your “fact” seems anything but.
>Without cash, we give way too much power to entities managing the payment systems. Card companies don't like you ? You can't pay or take money anymore. That happened with wikileak, remember ? It was not illegal in my country, but VISA and paypal sure prevented me to make a donation to them. They stopped me to use my money in a legal way because they didn't like it. This is such a slippery slope.

Also, payment processors are not legally required to issue cards to everyone who asks. This adds yet another burden to those who are already poor/un-banked/un-documented.
I've never seen it for sale in RI where I live. I only have access to it via hunting.
A method I was taught at school for philosophy is very similar. DICE:

Define - Introduce and explain the concept

Illustrate - Give examples

Contrast - Give contrasting examples or alternative points of view.

Explain - Cover why the concept is interesting or significant or why we should care about it or why it is preferable to alternatives.
Of course it's not binary. What I'm suggesting is that differences in corruption may be small between all those countries (note that we can't just count everything that China does that's undemocratic as corruption, because China is not a democracy).
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I don't think buying/selling women was a communist cornerstone.

The reason I say this is a capitalist endeavor is the recognition of an asset (the daughter), the want to see the most return (as large of a bride price as possible), and then seeking to improve the asset through education, travel, and competition to lead to a better selling price.
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"As long as you have money the US is great" even if you have money you will still have to go to the local hospital for emergency and will have to wait for specialist appointment some stupid amount of time unless you actively spend time and money donating to the hospital some serious $ so you have direct numbers of people in charge etc.
> NYC is a reflection of america. The old school Greek diner has been replaced by Starbucks and non luxury retail is largely homogenized.

Good. If the old school greek diner that has been in the neighbourhood since 1970s does not own the bricks is probably is a sucky diner that has not kept up with the times. It also probably means that it is way too large. Corner stores in Manhattan give you what a old school greek diner gave you food wise. The diner simply did not adapt.

> New development of fancy building that lay empty as speculative investments starve out the storefronts.

So? They collapse and new places go in there. That's why we have abundance of popup stores in such spaces in Manhattan and developed portions of Brooklyn ( think Williamsburg, Dumbo, Park Slope )

Most of the complains are coming from old timers, such as the ones that live in rent regulated or rent controlled apartments sometimes paying $250 a month for FOUR BEDROOM. I'm sure what they would really want is that the stores where they shop were also regulated so they could pay 3% of the prices those who showed up after them pay.
That is a very solvable problem!

Just apply the right amount of pressure :)
Was reading more into Tether and I thought this was interesting: Tether Default Swaps

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tether/comments/7lx3bw/introducing_...
I get the feeling that you might not understand why you're being downvoted. There's nothing wrong with expressing your opinion. But on Hacker News especially, it is important to contribute to and elevate the discussion. After you post your comment, people should learn something from it. If people do, they appreciate your thoughts, and upvote you, especially if your thoughts are very insightful. If you don't contribute anything new to the discussion, people don't appreciate your comments and prefer to downvote you.

In both of your comments, you say that someone is wrong, but don't offer any detailed examples of why someone is wrong. You state, "This is not an essay, I have no time to write too much." But this is Hacker News. If you read through many of the discussions here, many of the comments that get upvoted the most are actually essays that go into a lot of detail, logic, and evidence to explain each writer's thoughts. And those essays are appreciated because they elevate the discussion so that everyone learns something new.
Laser cut lattice living hinges
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Not as good a scientist as possibe unless it is so.

That's why they call it a LABORatory . . .
i'm curious. which one netflix is currently using evcache or dynomite (https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite) ?
Uh, it works? https://caniuse.com/#search=Webassembly

Remember you can also have a polyfill (at a performance cost when parsing).
Not to mention the onboard LAN is over the USB connection, but is topped off at 100 Mbps, so no high-throughput uses will work over the network.

Alternative SBCs have started adding onboard eMMC, USB 3.0, and GigE; while they’re still not desktop PCs, having faster IO makes tinkering so much less annoying (for many applications). I hope if anything, the next Pi has Gigabit.
Nice engineering discussion of a common laser cutting technique.
JS-heavy sites are night-and-day faster on iOS, thanks primarily to faster CPUs (which is mostly due to better L2/L3 caches). The iPhone X has 8MB of L2 cache; your sub $200 phone likely has no L2 at all. Even high end Android phones have, at most, 1MB of L2 cache. This shows up pretty clearly in Speedometer scores.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks
Exactly. And if current wild west of web design tells us anything, is that users can endure any kind of look&feel because they ultimately don't give a crap about it, they want to do what they came there to do.

(Which makes the "web where everything looks and behaves exactly the same" better than the web where designers fuck with UX to get a fraction of a percent increase on an A/B test, because consistent interfaces are easier on the mind of the user.)
Also, you can lose your phone the same way someone can pickpocket your wallet. If we’re stopping to use cash because of this, we should stop using expensive smartphones.
Between the hours of 10 to 10.
I presume that might be because Twitter has established itself as the place where everyone is, not necessarily because Twitter is a particularly good platform to argue over.
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What I'd find acceptable forms of advertising are product placement/sponsoring in TV shows/movies as it's done today, and marked-as-such (!) "native advertisements". You want my time and money, so better deliver me a good, convincing story...
Banks are actually charging businesses for handling cash
I winced as well! But at least he grabbed an actual mathematical concept used to describe a set of data.. as opposed to whatever NPS is using.
> Apple is just as sensitive information greedy as Google

As in Apple stores the information on their servers, forever? A lot of the sensitive information like a fingerprint or face scan is saved solely on the phone, as is a lot of the ML based features like content detection within a photo. Apple doesn't use a server farm to tell you there's a dog in your photo, it uses your phone.

There aren't good excuses for some of the bugs on iOS (the most recent iOS has been out for months and they still can't fix the emoji keyboard size issue, when this issue didn't exist in previous iOS versions?) but I trust Apple significantly more than Google with my data, in part because I know Apple's money isn't from my data, it's from the sale of their phone. This isn't true for Google and it will likely always be true that Google makes its money from advertising and user data. I also trust Apple to actually do some semblance of due diligence and make sure their app store isn't full of malware, something Google seems unable to do reliably.
Why GIF ? Why not webm ? I understand that GIF is popular and works on all platforms, but it's such a waste of resources, has bad image quality and so on.
As devices get faster, developers use more compute budget, leaving other devices in the dust. Developers write code against high-end devices.
Which would have done what? Reduce the population because of death?
In R you can just plug in a vector of probabilities directly to get the likelihood. Ie:

p = seq(.01, .99, by = .01)
y1 = dbinom(7, 47, p)
y2 = dnbinom(40, 7, p)

It doesn't matter much for this use case but that will also be much faster. It does simplify the code quite a bit too though.
I listen to music when coding to stay focused and keep up the tempo, stay motivated.

I enjoy listening to music while driving, some new stuff, but mainly favorite songs that were a soundtrack to my high school and university days.

It's still fun listening to favorites and discovering new bands.

I was in a band in college too and still play at home so it's fun discovering new songs to learn/techniques.
This to me is the biggest issue with health insurance in the US right now---it's effectively trying to cover two issues at once: 1) non-payment to health care providers 2) unexpected ailments to health care consumers. We have insurance companies as the middlemen, trying to make money from both ends. It's like having the same lawyer as prosecutor and defense attorney; no matter how much you trust any individual to do a good job, you're asking for trouble in the long run.

I feel like the best solution would be to change the arrangement from consumer<-->insurance<-->provider to insurance<-->consumer<-->provider<-->insurance. Have providers charge consumers directly (so prices are more transparent), consumers buy actual "health insurance", and providers buy non-payment insurance. If the government needs to subsidize non-payment insurance rates for certain providers, it can do so without as much risk for inflating prices and screwing over people who can pay the bills.
Given that many people use RPi as base for home entertainment systems... I'd prefer GigE and one or two SATA ports.
Hebei not Hubei
Not trying to be pendantic but the entire hostname is exposed, not just the domain name. I’m assuming that’s what you meant.
One of the problems I have noticed while using cash is the dearth of "change". In case of a digital transaction, restaurants can simply swipe and charge the exact amount. But, when it comes to cash they ask for "exact" change.

Which makes me wonder, are we running out of coins or something? Or is it some marketing tick that pricing has to be non-zero, odd numbers to increase sales and that makes tendering change difficult?
> Catching fish by drying the pond.

That is what fraud and malware are doing to the web ad industry. And they don't mind doing that.

So, the reason that ad blockers are killing the ad industry lies in the industry itself. There is not enough self regulations on spam, malicious sites, fraud, etc. For emails, we have filters that remove the majority of spams, but for ads, there is only ad blockers that remove ads indiscriminately. If ad platforms cannot find a way to remove the majority of those, the industry is simply doomed.
Stories are currently only available for English speakers learning French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish, but I think they're a really well-done kind of stepping stone from the regular Duolingo courses into a bit more in-context learning. Hopefully they'll keep fleshing it out; it's a really nice addition to their platform.
I have been using Nexus phones for about the last 5 years now, and I would say that a iPhone is clearly a better piece of hardware than a $100-200 Android phone. But for the top tier Android phones I'd agree that the reasons for paying the Apple premium are dwindling.

Looking at something like the Essential phone that's retailing for $500, I think the many users would be hard-pressed to find an extra $500 of value out of the iPhone X. Then you look at a Pixel 2 XL, that's about $200 cheaper than the iPhone X while still featuring a very high level of fit, finish, and performance, and it gets to be a good deal harder to make the case for the iPhone X.

Android and particularly vanilla Android have really closed the gap on iOS while Apple has gone a bit backwards in some respects.
When everything works, electronic payment system are way more convenient.

But that's a big problem with our current societies: we keep trading "good for democracy" to "convenient for best case".

People use electronic voting machines, centralize all their data in the GAFAs databases, buy everything from amazon, get all entertainments from DRMized ad saturated controlled medias...

And then, when you discuss at diner about the big world issues, everybody say that "we can't do anything about it".

Well, for a start, we could live our live thinking about the society we are building instead of just what's comfortable right now.

We are enjoying a lof of peace right now in rich countries. It's not going to last forever, since nothing does (and history calls). In 10 years or 200 years, our countries will drift to a dictatorship phase. But it's not an immediate state you get to. It's a slow decent into madness.

You really, really want to have cash to have a healthy society. You need something malevolent players can't control. You need something less centralized so you can't be stopped from using it, or by spied on if you use it. At least for a reasonable small amount.

I get you need control for big sums. There is not good reason for a company or an entity to hide money transactions. But for humans ? There are a ton of good ones, and it's just being a good citizen to stand for keeping it around.
Instead, we have some $$$$ static analysis tool that nags me endlessly about using Optional<T> private fields, but lets using the == operator for non-primitives sail past without comment.
Oh, my bad, I thought your question was more about why they exist rather than who are their users.

I would love to know that as well, I never bought in any fork myself.

Although, the very first time I bought some cryptocurrency, it was dogecoin, soon after its release. I bought for an insignificant amount and considered it lost right away, just like when I buy a pizza or icecream. It was "just in case" (and it turned out to be my first profit, feeling good, albeit just winning a few bucks). Maybe some people are specializing in that?

Would love to hear from anyone buying in those forks.
I used to like sub $200 phones as well. However, I prefer something more expensive for the better build quality. However, not $1000 more expensive.
That is so, I think probably taxation as a measure of GDP is too dubious a measure for connecting up with a normal person's experience of taxation, in the ideal world they should be related but evidently the devil is in the detail.
Apple photos, Apple mail, and Apple Music are amazing in my opinion. Apple maps, disappoints however
> Researchers often cite costly transportation as a significant barrier to receiving quality healthcare. A study by Samina T. Syed and Lisa K. Sharp, doctors at the Kalamazoo College, suggests that cost-efficient access to a vehicle is consistently associated with increased access to health care.

Uber is using venture capital to subsidize rides. Drivers are often providing the services by going underpaid and putting up their own capital without getting the appropriate rent.

This is not a sustainable model. If there is a real need that is currently not met it has to be provided through other means in the long run.
Sure you can. You'll need to uninstall Google Play Services as well but it is definitely possible to run Android without the Google-specific bits. It's is the first thing I do when setting up a new Android-device.
I don't trust these numbers. It was thought the undocumented population of Shanghai was this number in 2007 when I lived there.
I downvoted you because even though you took the time to write a detailed reply, you seem grossly misinformed. As others have indicated, increasing the block size was not agreed to by the core devs. It would create even more wasted space and thus further increase centralization.

The core devs are not committed to minimal changes to the original design, but they are committed to decentralization.
In a way we reverted to this situation after women's sexual liberation. Before the time comes to have children, the most attractive men acquire most of the sex. And this is during the time in which women's attractiveness is at its highest.

It is not until it is time to have children that most women settle down with a man of equal attractiveness (and sometimes not even then since the state will step in to provide resources to single mothers).
And, as a matter of fact, one does not actually know how smart one is being without already having been willing to work hard. It takes work to make real confirmations of what we think we know, and if we are not willing to put in any work, what is going to push us over the obstacles which must be cleared in order to be free from comfortable cognitive traps such as groupthink? Seen in that light, it would be very silly for someone to disagree that working hard is important because it's very literally necessary in order to be able to have the result of being smart.

It's easy for the ignorant to ignore but when they say "lazy" they generally mean something closer to "don't want to know" something or "not courageous enough to ask" because it actually takes more work and is thus harder to change for the better through learning things in actuality than it is not to change for the better. As if they desire it to be true that they can succeed by only having to use their brain, it may be a form of greed.
> The will of action is always dualistic. Is it possible to go beyond this will which is separative and discover a state in which this dualistic action is not? That can only be found when we directly experience the state in which the thinker is the thought. We now think the thought is separate from the thinker; but is that so? We would like to think it is, because then the thinker can explain matters through his thought. The effort of the thinker is to become more or become less; and therefore, in that struggle, in that action of the will, in 'becoming', there is always the deteriorating factor; we are pursuing a false process and not a true process.

> Is there a division between the thinker and the thought? So long as they are separate, divided, our effort is wasted; we are pursuing a false process which is destructive and which is the deteriorating factor. We think the thinker is separate from his thought. When I find that I am greedy, possessive, brutal, I think I should not be all this. The thinker then tries to alter his thoughts and therefore effort is made to 'become; in that process of effort he pursues the false illusion that there are two separate processes, whereas there is only one process. I think therein lies the fundamental factor of deterioration.

> Is it possible to experience that state when there is only one entity and not two separate processes, the experiencer and the experience? Then perhaps we shall find out what it is to be creative, and what the state is in which there is no deterioration at any time, in whatever relationship man may be.

—Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom, Chapter 15, The Thinker and The Thought
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Yeah this is actually quite an unique business direction. There is also a possibility to do computation (like mapreduce) via ads - something I have been thinking for a long time. I heard about mining bitcoin that well too as an attack...
> The only scenario I can think of where playing them in a mobile app is a problem is if you don't have a smartphone.

What a thought!

But yes, and in the context of partial sight / blindness, smart phones are not great for accessibility.