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> turned Greece into a different country.

They turned themselves into a different country by borrowing Euros at German market interest rates while their previous interest rates for borrowing were at 16% before they joined the Eurozone. They lived way above their means for more than 10 years, what did they expect for a country that has virtually no industry?
I'm not American and the arrogance and cognitive dissonance rubs me the wrong way. You are the CEO of a company not a visionary prophet. People like Musk wouldn't last a week here.
At the end what are structural changes which will grow the Greek economy? From Bulgaria to Estonia, the east European economies are far more competitive and innovative and could still suck the growth out of Greece in the small room left around Germany's giant and productive manufacturing economy. Greece is nowhere a rising technology star neither.

I guess Greece will find an equilibrium at a lower income per capita.
The date is correct. This is an older article.
Most of the world runs on patrongage, or 'clientism' as you call it.

Most large corporations are like that and so are Western governments.

'Getting in the door' at an entry-level job in government or even in business ... there are rules here, and tech tends to be more 'skills based' as are startups. But after that you'd be surprised how many people have the jobs just because they think they deserve them.

Clearly, an illiterate person is not going to be the Director of whatever, but someone who is intelligent, a good communicator and politically suave can go very far.

It's probably much worse in Greece, and every Greek person I know has left.

The EU may be about as good for Greece as the USA is to West Viginia - sure, you may be protected and have a low-baseline standard of living, but you're going to get kind of wiped out and never recover because nobody will stay, and nobody will invest.

In these Federations, the winners are the established economic powers. Smaller that are really, really responsible (i.e. Montana, Dakotas, or Sweden and Switzerland in EU) and hold their own. Otherwise the power slips away.

Greece and Portugal are becoming retirement homes the size of nations.
>I never wanted to "waste money" on a mac

it's a pedantic point I'll make, but one that's important to articulate: Apple hardware has incredible build quality- and you pay for that. An equivelant build quality Windows laptop will cost roughly the same.

The Entry level Apple MacBook pro 15" is £2,349.00 with:

256GB Storage (m.2 SSD, high speed))

2.2GHz 6-core 8th-generation Intel Core i7 processor

Radeon Pro 555X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory

16GB 2400MHz DDR4 memory

Retina Display,

--

The same spec DELL Precision 5530 is: £2,481.49

256GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD Class 40 (Much slower)

Intel Core i7-8850H, Six Core 2.60GHz, 4.30GHz Turbo, 9MB 45W

nVidia P1k

16GB, 2 DIMMS, DDR4-2666MHz SDRAM, Non-ECC

15.6" Ultrasharp UHD IGZO4, 3840x2160, Touch, w/Prem Panel Guar 100% color gamut, Brushed Onyx

--

So, more powerful CPU, slower storage and less pixels with a touch screen. -- For the same price.

The issue when comparing price is that it's often Apples (heh) to Oranges, Apple only sell high quality hardware thus the cost to play is higher.

(FWIW they also charge too much for upgrades; but this is just smart business as those who need that much power are willing to pay)

(PS: I actually own a Precision 5520 and I love it; I don't buy into the Apple hype train but I don't buy into the anti-apple hype train either- all systems should be weighed on their merits but my point is that price is often an unfair metric when people talk about laptops due to the abhorrent build quality of most laptops)
I'm slightly salty: Hey, at least Greece is relevant. That Golden Ancient Age of Greece bought it relevance, support and sympathy for all eternity.

I'm from Romania, a poorer member of the EU that faces an even greater demographic crisis. You don't hear a peep about us in the news, except for recently, when the corrupt government started beating up protestors who were asking for stronger anti-corruption measures.

Anyway, from a slightly less salty perspective: it's a real shame what happened in Greece. I think Greece and Argentina may be the only developed countries which lost the status. Hopefully Greece bounces back but I think they'd need a big mentality change (their is awfully close to ours from what I've seen).
Don't shoot the messenger here, but isn't this a case for blockchain technology? You sign and make the JS public and it can't be changed?
there are some upsides to not expanding Greek infrastructure. Tourism always caters to the lowest common denominator and I don't want to see Mykonos become Ibiza if they decide to expand the airport there. Making a place like that easy to reach also destroys its magic by overwhelming it with loud drunk Brits. Noone wants that.
Get global entry instead. Comes with pre and you can use it for international travel by air or by land.
What language was that? I'm sceptical they couldn't find a translator.
> Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger.

This is a beautiful analogy and it applies for adults interacting with Alexa / Google home as well.
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" Imagine what even having 10 developers living in the village could do for its economy."

The same could be said of the 10K small villages in America, or billion in the rest of the world.
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Wasn't the lock in the article kind of async? From my understanding, the problem was not the wait time on the lock alone, but that the lock is not fair: so even if you asynchrounously locked, someone else (in this case the WMI scan) can get the lock everytime before you get it so you are blocked a long time (you cannot continue with this particular operation until you get the lock, even in the async case).
The US democratic party wants free welfare, free education for everyone: none of this has been historically supported by "right-wing" movements. So it's a difficult to support your statement.
Saudi Arabia has the whole Vision 2030 plan in motion. The general thrust is they want to diversify the country away from being a petrostate. The headline numbers for state investment in renewables are nothing to scoff at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-16/saudi-ara...

I can’t find the link right now, but Bloomberg did a short ~30 minute documentary 4-5 years ago on Saudi efforts to build a biofuel research center.

I’d also posit that now is the ideal time to take money from the Saudis, if there ever was a time. The Aramco IPO is going nowhere fast, so a key pillar of Vision 2030 is dead in the water.

I’d humbly suggest that you read up on the Saudi youth bulge. Every Saudi receives an annual Alaska-style oil dividend. A huge portion of the youth population is unemployed. The thousands of US dollars paid out to each idle youth is not sustainable long-run, even if oil prices were to increase.

Assuming this Saudi deal is some kind of preferred stock or hybrid equity-debt structure, Tesla can probably get the most favorable terms possible from the Saudis because they are somewhat desperate at this point.
Yup. I’m of the belief that there is something which can be counted as “too much” change - change beyond the capacity of the system to absorb.

So when the gears go out of sync, the real world just finds ways to pretend to match the requirements - keeping the change drivers happy- while going on with life as close to normal as possible.
> In 2003 they helped launch an illegal and murderous invasion of Iraq

Yes, they participated in negative campaigns like this one (not all of them though[0]), but they also did a lot of good things. There is a huge difference between a well-researched article about Roundup in a major newspaper and a tweet on the same topic, even by someone with many followers.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jul/13/iraq.guardianl...
Love it as you may, doing intense work for 120 hours a week (~17 hours a day) will burn you out. Just because I love running or working out doesn't mean I can spend unlimited time doing those activities and continue to improve productively; in fact one would burn out rather quickly. I believe there are aspects to intense mental work that are similarly physically demanding.
they are too busy cracking down on peaceful criticism of Islam in the west.
Both major parties in the US are right wing though.
> "One of the greatest things the tech industry could do to decrease the economic inequality due to location would be to embrace remote work. Imagine what even having 10 developers living in the village could do for its economy."

In rural areas I think you have to start thinking more concretely about what "economy" means. With smaller populations things are much more micro than macro. One huge difference between rural and urban areas is that people are much more self sufficient, which makes economic numbers difficult to compare. For instance somebody with an income of $5,000 is generally going to be living a pretty miserable life in the city. On the other hand that can easily be more than enough to live extremely comfortably, even given comparable costs for what's purchased, in a rural area. And the reason is self sufficiency.

In a rural area that person likely already owns their home (80%+ home ownership in rural areas [1]) and activities come entertainment like hunting, fishing, and agriculture can provide immense amounts of resources. For instance just a single large whitetail deer can easily yield more than 100 pounds of edible meat. A single catfish and you're looking at 5-10 pounds of food, and so on. And the overhead costs there are completely negligible. The hunting license costs way more than everything else combined (once you already have your guns, rods, tackle, etc). Get into things like raising chickens and pigs, and you literally will never have to pay a dime for food again if you don't want.

$5,000 ends up meaning very different things, even if we ignore localized inflation. It's just you don't need to buy as much. Of course the corollary there is that notions like "economy" start to mean different things. If people don't need, or want, to buy as much - then economic growth is not a very good indicator of how well a place is doing. We take the view that people must not only constantly want more, but also buy more, earn more, and spend more. Growth, growth, growth! What of people that are, "Nah - thanks, but I'm okay with what I have"? So now we stick a guy earning 6 figures into the middle of all of this. I'm not really sure his effect is going to be, but it seems a bit simplistic to simply immediately equate more money with success.

[1] - https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/...
Show HN: A CAD tool for custom magnitude comparators
Liberalism and the word liberty in and of itself no longer means anything concrete. Every side claims to defend it but in the midst of it all I'm reminded of the quote that those who give up a lottle liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. All who profess it end up being tyrannical.

I've disabused myself of the schpiel that is the concept of liberty. It means nothing today because is has been abused as a concept.

I like to think of it now as simply more state intervention vs less state intervention.
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This is pretty cool. I've been looking for an example code base for creating a simple GUI tool.

This seems a bit too specific to lists though. Would it be possible to write module for manipulating tree data, e.g. something like a filesystem? (drag and drop files to move them between folders)

Do windows users need to have Python installed or does the installer come with Python build-in?

Also, what does the installation story become if the modules require python libraries that are not in stdlib?
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"No bucks, no Buck Rogers", as it goes.
Hello HN,

My name is Ioannis and I wanted to share our project with the community.

We have created an online generator of hardware comparators. The comparators are based on an old patent which has expired and is free to the public. The patent describes comparators which are easily replicable with simple gates.

Designing hardcoded hardware components, using VHDL or Verilog, is quite easy and there are plenty of tools to help you with that. However, creating a generator from scratch is a challenge. Finding the design, looking for repeatable patterns and reusable components, placing and routing...

If you are into hardware design and looking for free accelerators, feel free to checkout the project.
http://arch.icte.uowm.gr/hdl/magnitude_comparator.php

You can find more information about the research bellow:
- presentation : https://speakerdeck.com/gpetrousov/a-cad-tool-for-custom-mag...
- youtube presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HksSLp8jspM
- online tool : http://arch.icte.uowm.gr/hdl/magnitude_comparator.php
It would be great to be able to change the search engine keyword from 'w' to something else. My brain has hardwired that to the Wikipedia search.

Otherwise, I think this is super!
Ok, I think I get it... mostly.

I'm reading a book about rockets right now ("Ignition"). It actually contains many funny stories about inventions and dead ends; how some substance seemed very promising, but then it turned out it corrodes steel very slowly; or how they abandoned a better fuel for a slightly worse one that was more practical (e.g. wouldn't freeze in the winter). I guess in general, we only hear/see the success stories, i.e. technology that is better, and could be put into production and scaled. As a software developer I might be a bit blind to that ;)
We don't hear much about Romania but we hear regularly in the news about Romanians, usually in connection with atm machines and aspects of the night time economy. :)
This is the risk people take when they are too lazy to host their content themselves.
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Unclear whether this was an ingenious comment that points out the daft American multi-word expression "I could care less" also means it's own opposite.

But, I'ma guess probably not.
That's neoliberal propaganda.

1. Greece did not live above it means. It did not have more debts than other countries in the EU zone, countries that did not crash
2. Greece would have been fine it it had not been forced to destroy its economy with an austerity program

> They lived way above their means

You probably are german, because that is a BILD/CDU slogan. It's very hard to qualify what that is supposed to mean. A country can not "live above their means". It can have too much debts. That wasn't the case here.
Well I guess w/o knowing the specifics of our situations it's difficult to know why our experiences were so different, but if that is in fact what you did experience and you weren't trying to game the system (which it seems many people do try, unfortunately), I'm sorry that was your experience-- unless things worked out better for you?

Based on my experience and what you're saying, my sense is that the schools have wide latitude in deciding who they'll consider to be independent. I mean, the FAFSA form requests a bunch of info, but the gov't will calc w/o all of the fields being filled out. I'd guess that they and the schools are saying, 'If you are able to get the data from your parent(s), spouse, etc., you must be on good enough terms for them to contribute. So, gtfoh, w/your excuse(s).' While it's not right, it's convenient for them since, from what a friend in fin-aid consistently told me, there is always more demand for aid than there is supply.

All of this said, just w/respect to the general discussion, people need to give think a little more about what purpose(s) schools actually aim to serve and who benefits from things functioning as they do today. There, unfortunately, is no such thing as free formal schooling; money comes from somewhere. And a shortage of funding for the system isn't even an actual issue today in the U.S.

The questions more people should be asking are 'Why is (formal) education so expensive?' and 'Who is benefiting from this arrangement?' Once more people start figuring out the answers to those questions,-- some of which are actually quite interesting/disheartening/infuriating-- the avg person would be in a much better position. I say this, not musing on some theory, but having researched this a bit for a class I had in uni. Some of the answers are hidden in plain view.
I think when you look back at the pedo comments, and the market manipulation tweets you can easily see him as being in the middle of the breakdown. The question isn't whether he'll break down, but what his next outlandish fuck up will be and how far it'll go before someone steps in.
From my Greek friend's stories, I gather it is order of magnitudes larger there than in my home country (Spain). Yes, the custom exists but where you know that in Spain it happens "frequently", in Greece it seems to happen "always".
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You misunderstood my comment; I don't mind if it's Digital, but I want to -own- the digital copy.

then, yes, there's the ongoing cost of storing it and backing up, but not cleaning it, and most digital media is easy to sort and find..
This is a good point. You can do things with your smartphone in China that not even advanced markets in Europe have figured out. The US tech sector isn't the only player anymore.
I am looking for the right conference to submit my Master Thesis research to and in the process I though it would be a good idea to have a list of research-focused security conferences.
Did I miss an important conference? Do you have comments for one of the listed conferences?
It makes sense in that it:

- reuses technology Tesla have already developed and are familiar with

- increases sales of said tech

- a controlled setting where they can get more data about real-world performance of their tech

- introduces their tech to punters
Yep it is. Also the computer don't have fans so it's dead quiet at all times. It's an Asus Zenbook ux305.
You're not helping with my saltiness :D

:(

Anyway, I'll cut it out, since this whole topic and thread aren't really HN material.
I just read the benchmarks and was surprised at how slow the toml parsers are, I mean it's syntax is simpler to parse than YAML (assuming spec v1.2) but they where still slower...

So I guess there is simply no high performance toml parser implementations?? (in the tested languages, which don't include rust)
Did anyone here ever have the speech synthesizer card for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A computer? I remember playing a game called Parsec on that computer and if you had the speech synth plugged into the expansion port of the TI the game would speak at times.
> Most of the world runs on patrongage, or 'clientism' as you call it.

It's not black and white, for sure.
I lived in Greece until my 27, I had the unfortunate idea to even invest and open a business in Greece, and then I left and worked in Germany and UK for the next 6 years as a software engineer.
Yes, the difference is immense. Cannot emphasize it enough.
I'd never go back if things remain as they are.

You're welcome to go live and work in Greece, then tell me if "clientelism" is the same everywhere.

> Clearly, an illiterate person is not going to be the Director of whatever, but someone who is intelligent, a good communicator and politically suave can go very far.

You're in for a big surprise...
Plus, the french administration with its bureaucracy has to be the most ineffective in Europe. France has so much bureaucracy, it makes Germany (already overburdened with bureaucracy) look like an efficient market-oriented country.
We could ask a lot of questions, but at the end of the day system complexity will increase the likelyhood of so-called "system accidents" for any type of system, not just SW.

One of the most effective measures to combat such issues is to... reduce the system's complexity. E.g. by not having another VM running on top of the OS just to read and write e-mail.

Since this won't happen any time soon due to various reasons, the only reasonable thing left to do for most of us is to grab some popcorn and watch how the software development world struggles to contain the mess we made and fail at it.
Just not true. I've been following the subjects for years, and there's been a long-term swing against him, with articles critical (particularly) Tesla and also Musk personally.

Him doing stupid things (arguably getting involved in the Thai cave situation at all, let alone calling the guy rude names) has added more fuel to the fire recently, but it was definitely a fire that was already burning strongly.
Portugal's economy has been booming since 2015 - please resist the temptation of bad-mouthing Portugal before you understand more about it's current political, economical and social situation.
> Liberalism itself isn't right wing at all.

Classical liberalism is considered right wing in Europe because most of the the classical liberals are also culturally conservative (against gay marriage ect...) and globalist. Although plenty of socialists are not that open either. It's just a weird mix and really depend on the situation of each countries.

The "far right" is also most of the time anti-liberal, and sometimes even adopt socialist stances on matters such as public administrations, anti-privatization, universal healthcare... while making immigration policies their first concern.

The politics of Europe and USA are very different at the national level. In Europe people change sides more often and there is room for a 3rd, 4th main party unlike the 2 party system in US.
Arch wiki is extremely helpful if you know what you're looking for (for example I want to setup Secure Boot, it's easy to follow) but unfortunately there is no "best practices"/high level guides there (it takes a lot of time to think of the modern/"best" setup you want to have). It reminds me of Wikipedia's NPOV.
"Visa-free travel was what made me truly understand what "privilege" means"

It's not privilege it's responsibility.

Swedes are not limiting travel to Armenians and making it easier for Germans because of 'privilege'- they are doing it because Germans and Swedes have a deal, they know that their citizens and governments will honour.

The Swiss have a small country and can travel anywhere, so could Armenians if the government and people there took the right steps. It would take a generation or so but there's no reason you couldn't.
It's not Facebook that leads to genocide, and you don't need Internet to commit ethnic cleansing... Otherwise Balkans would never happen.
Just out of curiosity could you elaborate on the "not a fan of Arch" statement? Is this the rolling release model or just something else?
Thank god he did, otherwise we'd just have another company noone has ever heard of.
As long as the village has proper infrastructure. That is a decent Internet connection (in Greek counties average connection speed is about 3Mbps so forget about teleconferencing and such), decent mobile connection, frequent public transportation, adequate medical facilities (a lot of municipalities have understaffed hospitals) and equally adequately staffed schools. In my estimates, more than 80% of the country outside big cities fails in one or more of those factors.
Greece makes headlines because the narrative there is that, 'if todays crisis goes wrong enough, Greece will pull the Euro and the EU down with it'. Romania just doesn't have that level of risk to everyone else assosiated with it I guess because it doesn't owe enough money.
Yes, exactly. Using JSX is also easy for development purposes if you don't like hyperscript syntax. Just add babel.min.js file and use

<script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone@6/babel.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/jsx">
/** @jsx m */
// your can use jsx here
</script>

and bingo! You can use JSX. No need to use npm, webpack, etc.