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You're inverting cause and effect. The petro link to the dollar is because the US was the first major oil nation, it had a relatively dependable currency, and it developed the world's largest market economy. The dollar didn't become standard due to oil, oil (and most every other commodity) became priced in dollars because of the might of the US economy.

Japan's debt being overwhelmingly domestic, priced in yen, is also not due to the petroyen (which doesn't exist).
I've often saved on Apple products over the Apple stores, and their reward program is an automatic 2% back (obviously only matters if you buy enough there to ever cash in, which I do)
Why not a million dollar cap? Surely that would be more effective.
and no different from a lot of the rest of the world
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> it dates back to when the gold standard ended in 1971, and then there was the oil crisis in 1973

The U.S. dollar was put at the centre of the Bretton Woods system in 1944 [1] because the United States, at the end of WWII, (a) held a global nuclear monopoly and (b) was the sole industrial power not bombed to the turn of the century. The dollar thus took its central place in global trade. That, in turn, led to oil being priced and traded in dollars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference
Due to a downvote, I want to reaffirm my position as stated.
You might want to do some research on that one. Hitler might be considered an amateur compared to Stalin.
Articles like this are killing us, because they reinforce a false analogy that the federal government is like a business or a home. This is killing us politically. Its a shame.

This is the way modern monetary systems work (sovereign fiat money). Its healthy and totally normal. Federal debt is not debt that private citizens are liable for. A treasury security is like a CD, or savings account. Since the Federal Government Complex ( including the Federal Reserve Bank) can issue currency to infinity, there is no problem here. When a treasury security expires or is redeemed, they merely changes numbers in a spreadsheet. 99% of the time those "funds" are moved back into a new treasury security. There will always be demand for interest bearing risk free government debt.

go read http://neweconomicperspectives.org/ its all there.
If I do indeed have no idea what I'm talking about, you have done nothing to change that.
> No, he or she wants to heal you and be paid well.

That first part isn't guaranteed in a for-profit system.
Also, you may need a signature on the document which you would do by hand, while filling out the other fields sith keyboard.
What's with the strange wording, why do they call patients "healthcare consumers" now?
You really can't beat going into a physical store for a large ticket item purchase. No waiting for shipping, easy to return, viewing the product in store.

Recently purchased a MBP from Bestbuy. The first one I received had noticeable back light bleeding near a screen corner. Walked back in the store the next day to return. The process from an online retailer would have taken weeks.
Inspire issue 17 details how to derail a train and how to make the device to do it.

It's open source jihad (I assume pretty similar to normal open source) and looks around $20 to make, p35

https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/inspire-magazine-...
Recently I've started buying small tech items (wireless mouse, laptop bag, temp cell phone, etc) from Best Buy again. Being a WA State resident, I'm paying the same 10% sales tax on Amazon purchases (or near enough to not care), and not only can I try out items before I buy - I get free, immediate delivery too, no Prime needed.

Then, after getting the product, no worries about it being counterfeit - like the pants I bought from Amazon, sold as adult pants but must have been children's pants, as my foot wouldn't fit through the leg.
Simon is a friend and he's one of the chillest and professional guys I know. He makes furniture and whole shop/office/room set ups that are fantastic. A true master craftsman. If you're into interior design porn his instagram is worth a look https://www.instagram.com/simon_harlow/?hl=en
This doesn't even touch the idea of training people to fly.

I've been studying for my Remote Pilot license just to use my drone professionally and the amount of information you need to know is at times overwhelming. I seriously can't imagine how you would administer a test like that to license people to fly their cars.
Your conclusion sounds like the premise of Ready Player One (and countless other dystopian future scenarios). Hooking poor people up to cheap, advanced entertainment is no better than stuffing them which cheap over-processed calories.
I think people are missing the parent's point. HTTP is not just some random aspect of delivering your content. It's an integral architectural aspect of the service.

If you're doing caching, you want to do that throughout the network (via proxy) so you can have tiered control of traffic flow. If you're going to block access to networks, you want to do that at a firewall so you can do some access control independent of your API endpoints. If you're designing your API, you want your HTTP method to reflect the kind of operation happening on the server, so you can categorize traffic by method when you're looking at service metrics.

These aren't just "using HTTP well", they're deep architectural decisions. They deal with HTTP, but you make them not just because you're trying to use some transport protocol the right way, but because it improves your quality of service.
I think "flying car" should be reframed as 'noisy expensive conventional personal aircraft'.

'Flying car' is associated with what you see in scifi movies, they never use conventional aircraft tech, they can lock in space, don't burn oil, don't sound like an high-pitched overblown fan, don't have wings, ... They are piggy-backing on this image without delivering the necessary innovations. Unless someone hacks gravity or improves energy density of batteries beyond today's dreams, "flying cars" will stay a scam, it won't happen. More likely to see everyone riding segways by 2020... With global warming, the idea of vast distribution of personal aircrafts integrated into daily lives is beyond absurd, IMHO.
It's fully reentrant and thread safe atm. I haven't thought about multithreaded parsing & printing, though. Mostly it was intended as a quick tool to get data into the right format for testing or debugging or writing code.
Drugs don't multiply at the site of action.
> That generation has nothing but problems with their devices, it's like a mini game for them.

This isn't a generational thing. I know folks from all generations who have trouble with technology. Sometimes this is because things really are broken. It's not like a lot of things are high quality. Sometimes it's because stuff is hard to use. For those of us in tech we have a higher tolerance for learning pain and have enough understanding stuff is easier to pickup. For many others the UX is just painful to learn.

Poking at this as a generational thing can cause us to miss some other underlying issues worth paying attention to.
Repurposing HTTP error codes conflates your application-specific errors unless it maps to an exact subset of one of the predefined errors.

...and beware even the errors that match exactly! I've seen multiple systems in the wild that treat 404 as an application-specific error for "content not found". It sounds perfectly reasonable at first, but it puts you one misconfigured reverse proxy away from inadvertently broadcasting to the world that all your content is gone.

This can have data-corrupting effects. If an external system deletes resources via a reliable message queue and treats 404 as a success condition, they run the risk of dropping these messages and creating an inconsistent state. I've seen it happen.

Keep application-specific error messages distinguishable from the 'plumbing'.
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That's also a good question. So, do we have any rough estimates?
I still can't think of flying cars as anything other than a terrible compromised aircraft married to a terribly compromised car. There are 15K airports in the US. Drive a few miles over to one and get in a proper airplane seems like a better plan for most use cases I can think of.

When I see the average driver competence on the roads, I don't see most of those people successfully commuting in a flying anything over the course of their lifetime.
This is just like paddy bucks from Always Sunny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxxE1AcUSM
I briefly searched for inflation-adjusted debt per capita but couldn't find it.

There is the federal debt to GDP ratio, which is 105%. This is at least a 50-year high[0]. FRED's household debt to GDP data doesn't go back very far, but we can see it's off the highs off 2008[1]. (edit: added household debt to GDP)

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/gfdegdq188S

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HDTGPDUSQ163N
The claim that, for instance, the Great Barrier Reef is dying due to massive bleaching is based on selective data and contradicts the evidence: "Monitoring data collected annually from fixed sites at 47 reefs across 1300 km of the GBR indicate that overall regional coral cover was stable (averaging 29% and ranging from 23% to 33% cover across years) with no net decline between 1995 and 2009. Subregional trends (10–100 km) in hard coral were diverse with some being very dynamic and others changing little. Coral cover increased in six subregions and decreased in seven subregions. ... Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) outbreaks and storm damage were responsible for more coral loss during this period than either bleaching or disease ... we found no evidence of consistent, system-wide decline in coral cover since 1995. Instead, fluctuations in coral cover at subregional scales (10–100 km), driven mostly by changes in fast-growing Acroporidae, occurred as a result of localized disturbance events and subsequent recovery." [1]

We have scientific observation of corals, and of coral reefs, that goes back just a few decades. We also have their fossil record of the last 500 million years, including huge climate changes and the documented extinction/rise of various coral subspecies. And then we have people who claim to know with dogmatic certainty that corals are massively dying right now, that they cannot adapt to any climate change -- regardless of the full scientific context.

If we know so much as to make such gloomy, specific predictions -- please show me detailed scientific documentation of the diurnal cycle of corals and their symbionts, with exact minute-by-minute measurement of the day-and-night changes in the photosynthesis, the amount of CO2 in the water, and the productivity of each coral and symbiont. Then provide the same for each day across seasonal changes in water temperature, abundance of sunlight, and CO2 fluctuations. After that, can you indicate this: what are the specific concentration of atmospheric CO2, global sea levels, and ocean temperatures that you will accept as the standard to declare there is no risk of extinction? can these numbers ever change over time and corals would continue to thrive?

The actual science directly contradicts the alarmist speculation spread by unscientific media reports and professional purveyors of modern eschatology.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3053361/
Like most Americans I order a shitload from Amazon. However the last item I bought from Best Buy was a TV (my old LG just ... died).

Ordered online, chose to pick up in store.

Drive 35 min to store

Pickup process takes 10-15 min

Drive 35 min home.

Left after dinner, was watching it that evening.

The only condition that would have prevented me from using this model would be traffic, as it could extend the trip by 60-90 minutes and would also increase my stress significantly.

Whereas Amazon would take 2-3 days (maybe more) and I'd be shitting bricks worrying about it getting damaged and being forced through the horrors of shipping a return.
> By definition you can not declare war on something not another country

So the American Civil War wasn't a war, since the south wasn't another country? The Chinese civil war wasn't a war? The Iruqois Wars weren't wars? The Seljuk-Crusader War wasn't a real war? The War of the Sicilian Vespers wasn't a real war? The War of the Succession of Champange wasn't a real war?

It seems like there's about 4,000+ years of natural language clearly establishing that a war is NOT just about fights between two nation states.

But, hey, I could be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time Congress has passed a resolution that ended up being found unconstitutional and it won't be the last.
I think the question is rhetorical.
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"This interest includes repaying principal."

Stop right there. Something's fishy with the terminology/math/reasoning then, no? If the "interest" includes principal, then what is the interest? It's like saying "Use one cup of flour and water" or "The size of my penis is 6 feet including my height."

Here's what let's do: subtract the principal from the interest. That should leave you with the interest only. Therefore

I - P = I

Subtract I from both sides...

-P = 0

Divide by -P...

1 = 0

This is the axiom of Black Math.
FYI, open source: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/

> Lazarus is a Delphi compatible cross-platform IDE for Free Pascal. It includes LCL which is more or less compatible with Delphi's VCL. Free Pascal is a GPL'ed compiler that runs on Linux, Win32, OS/2, 68K and more. Free Pascal is designed to be able to understand and compile Delphi syntax, which is OOP.
I wonder how much the mining GPU shortage helps.
Leveraged buyout failures have taken out many large retail companies recently, such as Toys R Us. These are leading many to declare the "end of the mall" as they see anchor stores closing. But there are still many opportunities in retail.
From whom do the borrow all that money? Who "owns" America?
I was also surprised by this. In the papers where they did this work, they discuss many previously-known mechanisms for intercellular mitochondrial transfer - apparently cells can form nanotubes and exchange organelles, and that's relatively well-studied. That's not what's happening here, though, and they state that the mechanism at play is unknown.
No you're right, I blindly trust Jeff Bezos to do the best thing for humanity.
Best Buy used to have extremely shady practices, and to some extent still does. They used to have lower prices online, and higher in store, and IIRC not match their own website, nor online competitors. As I understand it, this has changed, their policy looks sane now.
Last time I walked in to purchase a laptop, the only ones available had a small packet taped to them of 'upgrades' or antivirus or whatever that cost a ton. I had to track down an employee who had to get a ladder to find the same model with no such attachment.
> Since the Federal Government Complex ( including the Federal Reserve Bank) can issue currency to infinity, there is no problem here

You just broke central bank independence, and with it the political independence of monetary policy. Historically, that leads to rampant inflation. The federal debt isn't like household debt. But it can't be printed into infinity. The U.S. government's debt incurred as a result of fiscal policy (i.e. not including the Federal Reserve's debt, which technically includes every dollar bill) has real consequences in constraining the government's taxing and spending power without tripping up inflation.
To be fair, the opportunity cost of not farming land in the Mississippi river valley is a lot higher than not farming land in the rain-shadow of the Rockies.

Not farming some of the most fertile land in the world makes you richer than Crassus. Not ranching on land that can barely grow enough to support a smallish herd just makes you sensitive to the wholesale prices for grazing animals.
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> When I see the average driver competence on the roads, I don't see most of those people successfully commuting in a flying anything over the course of their lifetime.

Ah! But AI, you see! They'll fly themselves!
That's because they have generations of narrative dialog that is only intended to be used in academia. They use superfluous and oftentimes nonsensical language because they are attempting to create an environment of pseudo intellect, where none exists.
Yes, being aware of the scale of any sorts is tremendously valuable. The scale of suffering, complexity, culture (having travelled the world makes it smaller), time, distance puts things in perspective. Knowing the extremes, it's warm and fuzzy in the middle, most of the time.
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The initial pulse was gold, as you suggest. The state motto is “eureka”, referring to gold. Gold was discovered in 1848, statehood followed quickly in 1850.

Agriculture and railroads followed the gold.
I'm not saying it should be this adversarial, but why not take a few photos with the buyer and the goods, them have them inspect the goods and sign a form with the date they received it and and a report on the condition?

I wouldn't think it's that weird since anyone who's rented an apartment has to do the same.
There are problems with every language but if we don't talk about these problems, fanboyism increases.
That's the way reporting on the repayment of the national debt is done. The point of the article is unchanged. Those familiar with Treasuries will understand

If I run a deficit of 100 dollars, borrow 100 dollars and I repay the loan by borrowing 100 dollars and the interest on both is 10 dollars, than I owe 220 dollars but I only got 100 dollars of real spending.

That is what the article is saying. of the $21.4 trillion in debt, only $14 trillion funded deficits and half of those deficits were the results of rolling debt over.

No funny math at all
s/This interest includes/These payments include
85% from factory bakeries, 12% from in-store (i.e. supermarket) bakeries, 3% from "actual" bakeries.

It would be interesting to see figures from another European country.

https://www.fob.uk.com/about-the-bread-industry/industry-fac...
Yeah bro Buzzfeed is totally doing AB tests on Article Headlines about Income Inequality.
As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
For the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place shall know it no more.
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> vs. Amazon's "two day shipping" that regularly turned into three or four days

I find this experience interesting. Here in the UK amazon offers next day delivery (and in same cases, same day delivery), and often delivers next day even when they don't claim they will.

I have had problems with counterfeits though.
Isn't this solvable with a camera or is eBay's process broken?
Except we attribute the product to the company, not the CEO. Wouldn't the equivalent be "This is a MyArtStudio piece of art", rather than "this is a piece of art by pdpi"?
I've had a lot of "two day" Amazon shipping turn into 3 or 4... the arrival date even on Amazon will show in the past for a few days.

What used to be a sure thing from Amazon, I now just think of as "maybe".

Having said that the crazy mess (tiny isles and disorganized) and $20 USB cables were Best Buy stores made me give up on them a long time ago. I've visited a few times recently to hopefully get a look at some laptops, but they always only had a collection off odd models and wonky specs.
Bought a TV from Amazon about 10 years ago. UPS couldn't deliver on the scheduled delivery day because the box was too big, and was stuck at the back of the truck. So I had to skip a day of work for no reason. They delivered it the next day in the early morning.

Sometimes, shipping issues are truly not Amazon's fault. Yet still they can impact us.
I think of REST imposing a certain grammar that HTTP alone doesn't necessarily require. Remember, REST is resource-driven.

- HTTP verbs are like normal verbs. They represent an action.

- URLs represent the location of a resource or collection of resources.

- Resources are like nouns. They represent what is being acted upon.

As soon as you start assigning different actions based on different URLs, the HTTP verb no longer actually represents an action and the URL no longer points to a resource.
> There are HUGE benefits for our client developers with GraphQL. Like being able to select as much or as little as a particular view/component/whatever requires and no more.

That's not a unique benefit of GraphQL. Any HTTP based API can do this, regardless of how it's designed.

Some specifications even have it baked in (See: jsonapi.org).

> GraphQL from a front end or mobile POV makes your api more like a data store that it can interact with and query for it's needs, which makes app UI work much nicer.

Again, not unique to GraphQL.

> There are also a ton of maintenance benefits, like for example if you add a field in GraphQL that's perfectly fine to not change the version because that break any existing calls, which is not always true with REST.

Again...
Take another look at the table - the values are denominated in millions of dollars, and that second symbol is a comma, not a period, so it's 19 million million.
It shouldn't necessarily be dead. The floated premise doesn't actually make any sense. It's a media panic click-bait parade that has been going on for 20 years (only briefly pausing after the dotcom bubble implosion).

The death of physical retail! When the media serves up that headline, they get an easy win every direction. If it becomes true, they're on the money with their fear mongering. If it doesn't come true, they can breathlessly write stories about how physical retail survived miraculously (against a narrative they invented about impending total collapse).

Physical retail will remain a massive segment. Amazon - the poster child for the media's click-bait scam on this topic - long ago figured out that there is immense value in physical retail (for various reasons), which is of course why they bought Whole Foods and are bothering to experiment with Amazon Go store concepts.
As a dude-do-you-ever-think sidenote, this sort of thing keeps me from getting excited about any type of virtual reality that does anything with our brains. How do I know it won't simulate 10 years of torture, then at the end replace that memory with 10 minutes of an edenic golden field, so when I actually unplug all I have is a nice remembered experience that I'd like (incorrectly) to try again?
> But end-to-end cacheability at the HTTP layer, part of the original rationale behind the REST API design style, does not make sense for most APIs anymore in 2018.

Why not? What were the relevant changes between the 90s and 2018?
Me, you (indirectly if nothing else), mutual funds, companies, countries.
Being valuable isn't binary, but you shouldn't stop in the middle if it's possible to do better easily.
I thought the first Thor movie was the better one of the Marvel movies, perhaps it was because of Kenneth Branagh's influence, and his experience with Shakespeare; he did the family conflict in Asgard quite well.
That graph doesn’t look like it accounts for either inflation or population growth, and so it’s not going to say anything useful. It’s certainly not suitable for making your argument.
> considerably reduced the number of connections, wasted data, and made our client code so much simpler through easily grokked queries.

I mean, you could have also just done this with what you had.
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