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Look at "flat fee listing" services. You can save at least 3% (seller's agent commission) and up to 6% by avoiding realtors. These services will charge a flat fee to list your house on the major online portals, but you're on the hook for showing it. You'll still need a lawyer. Not really an ASAP solution, but you can save tens of thousands of dollars this way.

Also, don't sweat a price drop as long as the market you're moving to doesn't lag the market you're in. You might lose money when selling, but if the other market is stalling too you'll pay less and it could be a wash.

Timing a market slowdown such that you sell before a drop and buy after a drop is nearly impossible with a primary residence.
any independent analysis to see if the incentives just didn't move under the table?

"your article achieved so and so? don't mind that, we gave it a journalistic valid prize, here is your money bonus"
To mars, luna, and orbital platforms we go!
Schizophrenia, depression
Sellers have been greedy...but reductions send a pretty clear message to buyers: wait, and there will be more
One update broke notifications for me for like three months. The Android client is a joke.
the absence of HN comments is deafening
or sellers are selling for non-planned reasons and need the money now?
Yeah I just clarified because of the part that said "for France's system", this part of the tax is not what's paying for the welfare part of the "system". According to https://argent.boursier.com/impots/analyses/ou-va-largent-de...

- 23.5% for tax credit for other people (i.e. think about solar panels, etc.)

- 15.7% for primary/secondary education (i.e. from kindergarten to 12th)

- 13.6% for counties and other local / regional structures.

- 11.5% for interest on the debt.

- 9.35% for the Defense budget.

- 6.35% for Universities (education and research) => This is paying for ~ free education!! Probably the best deal in the French system compared to the USA.

- 5% for Europe

- 4.3% Police

- 1.9% Judiciary
I think a lot of Python engineers don't yet realize they have this problem. It's a classic issue in predominantly OO languages because you often get so caught up in defining objects you lose sight of control flow and data flow. Toss multiple inheritance and metaprogramming on top and it's basically hopeless.
> every large Clojure project I've been a part of is that as the project grows, it becomes harder to make sense of the types used across the project.

Are there languages you've seen that don't show an ugly side as projects grow to a large size?
The point about scale, is that if this happened at the scale that is being claimed, it shouldn't be too hard to find a compromised unit.
You're correct that much larger changes are needed. I don't claim my approach would solve the problem, just be one step towards a solution. I don't even know what a complete solution looks like, but I do know the changes I've made personally are likely compatible. And I'm frustrated that very few people are willing to go as far as I have.

A complete solution might be impossible, and we might have to make the least bad decision out of many.
China and India have to be on board for reasonable progress to occur.
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Chrome on iOS is just wrapper around safari WebKit.
desktop, because it's fast and ergonomic
The JIT does for interpreters what the Merlin engine did for the P-51. Originally, it had the Allison engine, and was sluggish and performed poorly. The airframe lit up when fitted with the Merlin engine.
People are having a bit of a field day with that, but how is it any different from any other paper which gives bonuses for stories which move subscriptions? Or simply the fact that a journalist's career progress is basically pegged to the importance of their stories?

It's a niche-specific metric for rewarding the same thing every publication does - reader interest. If a reader is interested in a financial article, pretty much by definition it will alter their market behaviour.

I actually agree, as with all journalism, that there is some incentive to write exaggerated articles. But it rarely causes respectable journalists to fabricate stories, and I can't see how this would be any different.
Very trashy article, doesn't even display in my country.
They might not use lead fillings, but they still use mercury amalgam unless you tell them not to. Filling your mouth with Mercury seems pretty medieval even though there are good reasons for it (the mercury amalgam has far better mechanical properties than the plastic that replaces it).
Does anyone know how much carbon is released to grow the extra food that you use cycling verses what you would use driving? Food production is very energy intensive and the human body very inefficient.

You can’t effect the amount of carbon released by adopting a low carbon lifestyle when the price of fossil fuels is above the cost of production. All reducing demand at the margin does is lower the marginal price causing an increase in consumption elsewhere in the economy.
Can’t reproduce on Safari here.
It is what IPFS is built with, essentially they built out IPFS and made everything modular. It is being used in a lot of blockchain projects since it is so easy to develop with and write your own protocols.

Developing with the library essentially comes down to protobuf serialization logic inside a router with the path being the name of your protocol, just like you would in rails or node, everything else is handled by the library. To talk to a peer over your protocol you just need their address on the network (public key), your protocol name and to serialize your protobuf data to be written over the network, the libraries handle dialing/routing through connected peers if its not possible to directly connect to the peer.
No need to have somebody hand over a server. If the implant happened in two segments of the supply chain as the article claims, it shouldn't be very difficult to find one.
I would guess the internet/social media/news media info overload environment.

Usually anyone dealing with too much info have to be trained to handle it - soldiers/pilots/ER docs/air traffic controllers etc etc. Most people who have to deal with it without the training just break down.

Kids are esp vulnerable as they are targeted specifically with all kinds of info.

I teach part time and see a lot of anxiety and depression. The current thinking about this is to not take away the internet but the device. The device makes us face these environments alone. But it you put the kid in a group setting...class room or a living room with internet access the way they handle the overload changes. They feel safer and less depressed/anxious about the negative triggers. Still lot of research needs to be done though...
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Url changed from http://Twitter.com/NASAWatch/status/1049111536550273024, which points to this.
It could mean that. Or, it could mean "sellers have had inflated expectations of where the housing market is at based on previous growth".
https://bicycleuniverse.info/bicycling-wastes-gas/

According to this a "typical" omnivore cyclist produces about 3 times less carbon than a "typical" driver. Vegan and vegetarian are about 4 times less. You can play around with the numbers in the calculator. I think this guy's probably biased towards veganism, but this is what I've seen.

I haven't seen a comparison with motorcycles or electric vehicles, or a comparison that took into account the embodied energy of the vehicles.

Edit: This calculator also assumes equal trip distances between modes of transportation, which is not realistic in my experience. Cyclists tend to have shorter trips. So that's another factor to consider.

> You can’t effect the amount of carbon released by adopting a low carbon lifestyle when the price of fossil fuels is above the cost of production. All reducing demand at the margin does is lower the marginal price causing an increase in consumption elsewhere in the economy.

If that's true, then I guess the goal is to slowly reduce the price. Perhaps cycling is ineffective in terms of carbon emissions. This is okay for me as I find either the cost or physical fitness benefits convincing in isolation.
Stop eating animals. Governments are slow to act, but switching to a plant based diet is something you can do right now.
This. "Static typing fans hardly ever acknowledge how difficult the types make it to read the code. Too much focus on that one time when someone made a typo and there was no unit test." Well said.
> don’t encourage long term stewardship of our resources

Politicians are completely incapable to make a balanced yearly budget, so what do we expect there exactly?
I’m not following.

I’ve heard that the change would benefit certain areas of the world. Ie Russia may warm up and gain more hospitable land. For this reason I’ve also heard some nations may be emissing greenhouse gasses.
Formal “education” just seeks to get people to think in the same close minded way. At least from my experience in public schools.
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Antidepressants really do help. Especially for getting out of the lowest lows. Then, when you are out of the lowest lows, the other things (like talk therapy) have a chance to be effective.
After looking at the math a bit (including the one helpfully provided above), I think you're missing alot by ignoring the effect of the rotational velocity when thinking about this effect. The spinning rotation has a multiplier effect on the air movement similar to a how a much larger/fuller sail could redirect the air flow to produce more forward motion in a traditional sail.

[Edited] The effect is similar to how a rotational wing aircraft also produces lift that is not strictly proportional to the area of the wing (although for different reasons).
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Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
I'm a software engineer in the bay area and have been thinking about moving somewhere cheaper (in USA or aboard) where I can live cheaply and focus on my own intellectual pursuits. I'd love to be in a place where the living costs are low and where there exists a thriving intellectual community (I've noticed cities near top academic institutions tend to create that sort of atmosphere but not necessarily). I'd prefer a place where English speakers are common enough such that I won't feel isolated by a language barrier. I haven't traveled too often and would love to hear from HN community about any places that match this general description. Thank you in advance!
Hi, libp2p dev here!

Yes, we use it today! libp2p is the P2P Networking Stack of IPFS that we refactored into its own project so that others could take advantage and be part of its ecosystem as well.

It is what gives IPFS and other projects the P2P connectivity, support for multiple platforms (including Browsers) and more! There are 3 implementations interoperable today at different stages of completion (Go, JS for Node.js & Browser and Rust). Full overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRe_oDtfRLw

Also, Chris Pacia recently delivered an amazing talk at QCON about libp2p https://www.infoq.com/presentations/blockchain-libp2p, I totally recommend checking it out.

You can find more talks of examples and use cases at https://libp2p.io/media.

Give it a spin and post feedback on github.com/libp2p. We are also on #libp2p on freenode, come say hi!
I almost wish for the process to move faster. Maybe then people would take action.
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It's past time to recognize that this is happening. We're going to experience the fallout of a rapidly warming planet. We need everyone to switch from prevention mode to cure mode. The political will to avoid this just isn't, and never will be there.
That doesn't change the fact that Mojang didn't make MCP. If Searge didn't step up and do it there's no reason to believe that Mojang ever would have come up with something similar. Mojang promised for years and years that "the modding API will be released any time now" yet they haven't done anything to materially support the modding community other than to hire Searge and the Bukkit team.

I guess they finally have behavior packs like resource packs for Bedrock edition (used to be Minecraft PE) but that doesn't allow you to write any kind of turing complete code for custom behaviors. That's the closest they've come and all that lets you do is stuff like make pigs behave like a creeper and explode when the player gets too close.

To date it has been 8 YEARS literally the better part of a decade from when Mojang first announced that they were going to release a modding API and they still haven't done anything. Releasing these two libraries as open source is a nice gesture but that doesn't actually do anything for the modding community. The least they could do is just stop obfuscating their releases so that MCP isn't stuck doing a bunch of unnecessary work.
Your kneejerk defensiveness is an indication that maybe it isn't "absolute bullshit" or "quite frankly dangerous." Not everybody has had the exact same wonderful experience with SSRI medication, and personally I can relate to the problems described in the article. Please don't immediately assume someone who disagrees with you is "anti-science". This isn't anti-vaccination nonsense we're talking about here.
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The current chill with China is one of the rumored causes - less investment money coming to the US.
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Which credible sources disagreed about the crowd size?
We still don't know what's actually happening here. There are a number of possibilities.

One is that there is some secret keeping happening. Either only a handful of people actually know and they aren't talking and the people issuing denials aren't them, or there is some kind of significant pressure from the US or China to keep this quiet and the companies are complying.

Or there could be some kind of misunderstanding. The story is half true but some details are wrong so people are looking in the wrong places or asking the wrong people. This happens sometimes with anonymous sources. You get fifteen people confirming most of the details but only one is offering the name of the company or some specific detail of the attack and that person got that detail wrong, something like that.

Or the entire story could be unadulterated crap. The problem with this one is that we can't ever be really sure it was the case, and it will be at least a couple of months without any form of hard evidence or corroboration before it makes sense for people to stop looking for it.
I am in no way affiliated with either Oracle or Joyent. I have never worked for or at either of those companies.
> Most will make little effort to research the legitimacy of a video

This is already happening. People are regularly editing videos out of context to fit a narrative. It can't really get any worse when the media's integrity is already hitting rock bottom.
Sorry about your martyrdom, but you're taking an absolute position yourself right now.
It fashion driven development.

Many cannot get to the grips that majority of work is just plumbing, yet another CRUD app or just plain maintenance.

So it is cooler to keep pushing for things like those companies, even if there is no need, after all the cv needs to match the new buzzword soup filter from HR.
Also the ones calling no fouls are the primary targets and would be most affected by this as one of their selling points is their security levels.

Independent 3rd party review is needed.
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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund will invest $45B in SoftBank’s 2nd Vision Fund
He does. And poor people. And old people. He still wants the money of advertisers targeting these groups though.
I use a laptop at the desk, with a monitor and proper keyboard / mouse and task chair. I use MacBooks mostly because of OS X and the need to interface with Linux and Unix infrastructure. I don't need horsepower on my workstation, because all the CPU or disk IO I need is in the data center.
You mean until it's too late?
With the current wave of nationalist populism, chance of action is shrinking. One horrifying potential feedback loop: lack of serious global action allows continued climate change, creating more refugees, intensifying nationalist populism, creating illiberal democracy, allowing further climate change, and so on.
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The line between a completely made-up depiction and a real one isn't necessarily the important one. The photos of Hillary Clinton were real enough, but carefully selected and post-processed to make her look as unsympathetic as possible.

Does a photo of a candidate scowling or sneering constitute a genuine portrayal of their appearance and personality? If so, why not make that scowl or sneer just a bit more menacing or disgusting, if your publication is in the opponent's corner?

A better example might be this one: http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/darkened_mug_shot/

Imagine what it's going to be like when the tools are good enough to do more than just airbrush or darken a static image, but not yet good enough to create entire "fake news" segments from scratch. It's absurd to think that ML-based tools won't be used to turn a real audio or video recording into something different that you and I will incorrectly assume is still real.

That's when things are going to get scary. I'm sure this tech is coming soon to an election near you.
We did this before with COM/CORBA, and then 'scaled to size' with DCOM and CORBA. And yeah that went awesome. So many machines with the potential of having the wrong versions, or expecting certain results to not get them was catastrophic. Not to mention so many teams would re-work their components and all hell would break loose in seemingly unrelated parts of the app.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
i'm late to the discussion, but i think you buried the lede here (so to speak).

it's not so much that we're reaching for some neoliberal efficiency (whatever that means) at the expense of humanity, but that such kinds of industrial regimentalism allows the managerial class to place themselves above and apart from the proletariat in the corporation.

regimentalism marginalizes workers such that managers dehumanize and treat workers indiscriminately. it allows managers to make rational yet ruthless decisions without considering worker impact. it sets them apart; it others the workers, and thereby gives managers all-important status over workers, even where otherwise undeserved.

at the same time, the proletariat worker self-disciplines themselves (as foucault likes to put it) around the ever-intricate rules and ever-tighter tolerances, so much so that they cannot pay attention to the man behind the curtain pulling the strings (and realizing that he is pitiful and small).

this is the most important aspect of regimentalism, and the most insidious. the proletariat gig-economy worker loses money, power, and esteem in the transaction, but they're too busy jumping through hoops to do anything about it.
If you are concerned about climate change, stop eating animals. Governments are slow to act, but switching to a plant based diet is something you can do right now.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
Cancer from fruit? This is the first I've heard of that. I can't google for it either, because there are pages and pages of links about fruit preventing cancer.
You didn't accuse me of working for Oracle; your coworker implied it, but it also shows how little she or he is versed in the subject matter: the very reason top Solaris kernel engineers work at Joyent is that they vehemently oppose the Oracle corporation; it's that same reason why OpenSolaris was forked into illumos, from which SmartOS is built. Please let your coworker know my answer.
In fact, various US government programs use taxpayer money to shield parts of the population from negative consequences of climate change already. For example, FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program subsidize property owners in high-flood-risk areas and pass along the immediate economic cost of rising sea levels to everyone else. Fannie and Freddie do the same thing by maintaining lax flood insurance requirements and taking losses (at the margin) when uninsured homeowners end up underwater (figuratively and literally) and walk away.

I do think a revenue-neutral carbon tax as described in [0] could be politically viable in the not-so-distant future. But maybe I'm being too optimistic on that - coal miners seem to be awfully overrepresented in the current political environment.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/28/196355493/econ...
I’m sure Google is lovely and all but there was so much Google worship in this post that I never made it to whatever the actual subject was supposed to be.
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In crypto, it's always better to do your own research instead of following buy recommendations. That said, you can use the numbers in your research: for example, if two coins have a similar market cap, but one has much higher buy support, then it might be a better investment.

Buy support shows demand for this coin.
Odd this story doesn't mention Brewster Kahle, who AFAIK came up with the idea of archiving the Web. I heard people joke about it in its early years, too. I'm glad he took it seriously.
> And yet, we are in such denial about our role in the death of natives. ( It was "smallpox" )

You make a good point but you're also wrong.

The way the colonies (and later United States) treated the natives was absolutely deplorable and immoral. The US (from the founding fathers until very recent times) is as guilty as you say.

HOWEVER... it cannot be denied that the accidental spread of European diseases wiped out over 50% of all natives before the era of colonization even began. Even today if contact is made with isolated peoples great care must be taken and medical services kept on stand-by. A disease ravaging the isolated group is a very, very real possibility.

It also means if humanity does every colonize another planet (even in our own solar system), if the flow of people ever stops we may not be able to re-establish it due to disease risk.
The skeptical part of me seems bound to point out that we've been told that it would happen by 2020, or even earlier.
One other possibility -- someone wanted make China look bad and made up the whole story... and had enough resources to paint a plausible enough story that Bloomberg believed it.
Interesting metric - noted.
If a major economy ever balances its budget it's making a huge mistake. GDP is driven by investment, the more you can invest the better, and if you aren't you can bet your rivals are.

The balanced budget trope is abused by right wing politicians who want to (literally?) starve the welfare state while subsidizing business and defense. These are the same politicians who deny climate change in order to protect business, and the same politicians whose denial of climate change will destroy poorer, browner countries, and the same politicians who will deny aid and asylum to refugees from those destroyed countries. Don't fall for any of their horseshit, they're basically just corrupt, and incidentally monstrously evil.
It means they unliked all their likes en masse. Twitter's counts of these things are eventually consistent... with strong emphasis on eventual.
Article seems so click-baity. Last year, more than 1 in 4 home sellers dropped their price, according to the included chart, but the market was hotter than ever.
...which networking library is non-modular?
Yes you're right - I typed Chinese meaning Japanese
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