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> E.g. many of the naive arguments for razing Confederate history can be applied to American history, Native American history, etc. Without nuance, the conversation becomes "we are good and our history is good vs they are bad and their history is bad".

Don't forget the american revolution. It had nothing to do with liberty or freedom and everything to do with greed and the desire for native territory.

History is propaganda and everyone has their version of history.

Growing up in the northeast, we are taught propaganda about how we fought to end slavery. Lincoln is portrayed as the great emancipator. But closer examination of the civil war shows that's a blatant lie. We know the north didn't fight to end slavery. I don't know what they teach down south but I'm sure they have their own form of propaganda.

The civil war, like all wars, was about wealth. "States' rights", "slavery", "freedom", etc are just propaganda to hide the ugly truth.
Except that Bitcoin is more of an insecurity - pun intended!
For Decades, Southern States Saw People of Color as Sub-human.

Therefore, who cares what southern states do.

Down vote to your satisfaction.
yep. states rights to make their own laws about slavery superseding the national law
Downvoting kicks in at karma > 500. I can't remember if there's anything beyond that, but I don't think so.
If they were just preventing people from making SawStop knockoffs, I'd be fine with it. But they aren't. The Bosch system protects the user through a completely different mechanism. The only thing the two have in common is the sensing of contact with the blade, which is basic physics.

Worse, SawStop is trying to push legislation mandating their system. If they succeed, it would prevent any other system from being developed, even in the absence of patents.

Imagine Microsoft pushing for a law requiring all computers to run Windows. "Why wouldn't they try"? Sure, they can try. And they would be hated for it. As is SawStop.
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I think we again and again come to the conclusion - the world careless less about crypto.
As part Meskwaki and living in AZ next to several reservations I am aware.

Still a lost cause
Because you have made the choice to look after your sick parents?

I haven’t made the choice to look after your parents.
The relationship between student loans and tuition prices has always been the other way around - schools are more expensive so people take out larger loans. Government subsidies for student loans are comically low compared to actual tuition these days and have barely been keeping up - private student loans have always been available and the limit has always been based on creditworthiness of borrowers as opposed to government policy.

The idea that student loans leads to higher tuition prices has always been a politically motivated talking point from the right as opposed to something based in reality. Going to college or often going to as good a school as you can get into and afford is considered more important than ever before and disposable income and wealth among the upper middle class in the US have been going up significantly, not to mention among the global elites who see US colleges as status goods. On the supply side, prestigious institutions are hardly expanding their capacity for fear of losing prestige and school administrations are becoming increasingly market-savvy and less willing to charge less than below-market prices for otherwise wealthy students and their parents.
I'm aware that emotional abuse can be quite damaging as well - despite how I may have phrased it poorly. I meant it more 'less than obvious' than emotional didn't matter.

Still that is interesting and I wonder if it maps well to the rates of depression with the rise of paranoid helicopter parenting or if that is a spurious correlation in itself. I have remarked that parents these days seem to consider it /ideal/ to be acting like they are antagonists of a YA Dystopian novel where they see devices sold boasting "Track your children secretively through technology" and think "That sounds like a good idea." instead of "That sounds incredibly messed up and would be considered satire a few decades ago." It might be more of a middle class issue - I'll admit to not having intimate details across the economic spectrum.
If you block 3rd party cookies, can the (exact) scenario described in the article still happen ?
But the institution itself doesn’t work outside of a few narrow fields: the results aren’t replicable and they’re dangerous to trust.
Part of this is because he had proven that you could bring back a useful biological sample, by eating a spider in the early parts of the movie
This is an interesting subject. The 4th of July is not celebrated in Utah as it is in other states: instead that same energy and celebration goes into Utah's "Pioneer Days." This divergence from the rest of the nation provides some insight into the history of Utah and the people who settled it, and their relationship to the greater United States. Personally, I don't think it reflects positively but that's just my opinion on another interesting divergence in national tradition.
A comment about not getting something ends with everyone else is irrational? If you don’t understand something the problem is often with your model of reality being incomplete, not other people.
No, not okay. Just stop.
How can some rando small company manage to get access to FB internal emails over some dinky app, while parliament has to resort to such extreme methods?
People are just cashing out.
They are no longer hoarding the bitcoins.
The article mentions a blower that runs on batteries and is super expensive. Yours has a cord and is cheap. It seems yours is better as long as extension cords can be dealt with.
This exactly, the American Civil War was precipitated by Southern aggression via Dred Scott.
> The construction was specifically designed such that the person who figures out the hash collision is the owner... It's not a matter for courts to decide

Anything is a matter for the courts to decide. Look up Popov v. Hayashi, where the courts tried to sort out who owned the ball that was Barry Bonds' 73rd home run. 2 guys caught it at more or less the same time. There was a dispute. The courts applied equitable principles to determine how ownership should be divided. The day will come when someone needs to make a similar call in relation to BTC.
> That said, if you don’t mind me pushing for a bit more clarity here - you must have known going in that heroin is an exceedingly bad idea due to its physical addictiveness. What was it that caused you to start taking it? I am genuinely curious, not here to judge you.

I may be an odd case. I started reading about drugs on the internet, on Erowid, and various forums. I started experimenting, first with psychedelics and dissociatives, but then others things as well. Eventually I discovered opioids, and I just really really liked them. I sort of didn't believe the hype about their addiction potential, thought that I was strong enough not to have that happen to me.

I also have some social anxiety, and drugs generally helped me to socialize with other people. Both by reducing my anxiety in social situations chemically, and also by having something to talk to people about that we were both interested in (drugs).

> I might guess based on your comment that peer pressure may have been a factor, given many friends who were addicts. But if so, what was the root cause of the insecurity that caused you to be vulnerable to peer pressure in the first place?

I wouldn't say it was peer pressure that got me into these things. I sought them out, consciously. That being said, you are right to ask about the root of the vulnerability, but it wasn't so much vulnerability to peer pressure as it was difficulty socializing, probably caused by my generally introverted nature. If you want to try to connect that back to trauma, you could say that I had a difficult time in middle school socially, but I think that's a fairly common experience.

> (If it wasn’t peer pressure, whatever it was... basically I’m just trying to understand what was the root cause of you personally making the unhealthy decision to try heroin)

To summarize as best I can:

- Genuine curiosity
- Distrust in authority and their narratives about drugs
- Social anxiety
- Belief in my own invulnerability, common around that age (18-21 was the time in my life)
- Really really liking the way opioids made me feel
And it's a very prescient comment for a company that wasn't ultimately successful:

...we call the "AOL anywhere strategy" and although predominantly people use personal computers, over the next few years we think a variety of internet devices, some pocket devices, some television devices, will become more and more important and working with Sun and Java as well as other operating systems we want to create the best possible set, kind of a family of these internet devices for AOL and for Netscape.

Of course Java would end up on those "pocket devices" in the form of Android.
Native Utahn here. 4th of July seems just the same here as it does anywhere else i've lived. We basically just have a round 2 on pioneer day.
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Looks like Six4Three is at fault here. It should have protected the papers to be not accessible by whoever is outside the US.
We will see more of this as national jurisdictions collide with the international internet.
There is no conspiracy, just that the rules changes to keep demand going.

All sorts of garbage loans that would have been illegal in the past are now common.
I should have been more clear. I was thinking of something along the lines of a hardcase which is already common for laptops, but has a usb-c port built in and below the case is a large set of batteries. Think a "Mophie Case" for your laptop.
So many useless services and so many who believe this year will end in a bullrun. If you ask them why, they can’t give a good answer, or it’s “because last year we had a bull run in December”.

I believe in Bitcoin and blockchain, overall I think last years run was good for mainstream understanding, but adoption and technology didnt keep up the pace of all price speculation. We correct, we cry, we slowly recover. Not this year, and not next year.
There's a KaiOS flip phone being sold in the US. As Alcatel Go/Alcatel Quickflip.

It's really really bad. I have one. Like, the basic experience is just bad. Even for a flip phone. There is also no supported way to install apps or anything, even though KaiOS theoretically supports this. I had intended to see if I could find a back channel way to even write my own apps and install them, but the basic experience is so bad I lost interest.
I think sub-1k btc is extremely unlikely. The history of BTC's growth and crashes is strikingly similar each time. It goes up 5-10x, then crashes to roughly 2x where it started, stays still for a while, and then repeats. I'd be willing to make a bet with you that it won't go under $2k by years end, if you'd like :)
Seems like a very light and theoretical article. I remember reading papers produced by IBM and HP where they analyzed chip failures - and they were much more specific in terms of both deep analysis and proximate cause (heat being essentially the overwhelming proximate cause.)
Both the title and the story of the title of "The Thing" are absolutely brilliant
The world cares about useful things, like the ability to wire money with low fees, or being able to buy a pizza. Very few care about holding onto an asset hoping that it will go up indefinitely... and it never does if it isn't needed for daily use by many others.
I've seen the ability to rewind cause problems in practice (accidental rewinding causing redelivery of old messages). It's something to be used cautiously, only if you really need it.
dang, I appreciate your efforts to maintain civility and I sincerely apologize if my tone came across as disrespectful towards any member of the HN community. I also appreciate you mentioning your experience with past trauma.

Looking back on this comment, I agree that I could have worded this more respectfully. I will strive to do so better moving forward.

I would hope that HN is a space where you can call out illogical ideas, which is what I was trying to do. I reacted emotionally because I felt like I was being trolled, which is extremely common for anyone who exposes themselves by speaking about trauma. I can see now that the intent may not have been to troll me.

However, I do feel like I’m being singled out a bit unfairly here. Again, not excusing the tone of my own comment, but I’ve received a few replies that feel at least as aggressive as my own. There’s one in particular referring to the “stench” of my comment that felt a bit harsh. All I would ask is for the same standards of civility to be applied to all members.

If you see that comment and legitimately believe that mine was noticeably more over the line, please let me know.
In the US, you have to do what you say you are doing in your privacy policy, and the government enforces that.
Why do we need a post on HN every time bitcoin passes some arbitrary value? This rarely sparks any meaningful discussion here (case in point, the other comments in this post).
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To the OP's point, how does one scientifically determine that to be causal?
This Ask showed up on a Google Group I happen to co-own called Blind Dev Works. So far, it's been very low traffic, but it is a resource that already exists intended to support the needs of blind developers.

You and any other blind developers here (or potential allies) are welcome to join. Just send a join request. I'll approve it.

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/blind-dev-works

(I'm visually impaired, but not blind. I'm not really a programmer either, though I still hope to be one someday.)
Possible, but doesn't seem likely somehow.

What's more interesting is how the committee knew the documents were in the UK. It wouldn't aurprise me if the UK intelligence services tipped the off, with tacit apprival from the government.
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I think no such guarantee is needed as that is beyond the scope of the specification, I think. If you do need that you can use C or WebAssembly (or you can specifically use an implementation which guarantees it).
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The below comment is more political than anything else.

Like any commodity/currency/anything of value, at this point the massess have plenty of/the majority of BTC. Once this changes and hedge funds, banks, et al, will hold the majority of any/all ctyprocurrencies, then 'suddenly' the prices will rise, cryptocurrencies will be mainstream and accepted in your local grocery store, and they will bloom. Only then and not a day before. 'We' can't have the people running their own money. Once their money becomes 'our' money, then we will allow them to play with some of it.

It is called capitalism and holding/controlling the power.

If someone is selling at $4k, it means that someone is buying at 4k. Tomorrow someone will continue buying at 3.5k. I don't think big banks are stupid. They can and will speculate, wait for it around the corner, and when you see it next time hittint $10k, remember that someone who bought it TODAY for 4k is selling it for 10k, making 60% sweat-free profit.

It is a long game.
If you make the bet in Bitcoin, losing is less damaging to you than winning is prosperous.
I hope somebody has backed everything up and would eventually upload to alternative places. I actually wonder why don't people open the websites like that one in i2p or TOR.
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So there is both a theoretical and an empirical relationship between real estate prices and interest rates but they have nothing to do with mortgages per se - you will find that this roughly holds true even in countries where mortgages aren't available.

The reason is that even in a world without mortgages, real estate tends to yield either payments (as an investment) or benefits (as the owner) that are roughly fixed and not entirely based on interest rates. If you consider the value of real estate to roughly equal the sum of discounted cashflows, this means the lower the interest, the higher the value.

Note that in theory, only land prices move this way, not the value of improvements, since the value of improvements is strongly tied to the cost. So if you consider the value of housing theoretically as a sum of land and improvements, only the land portion is subject to interest rates. So some have observed here that empirically the connection between real estate prices and interest rates has been weak - this will be the case in real estate markets dominated by the cost of improvements (most US markets until fairly recently I believe).
A self fulfilling prophecy I see
> Doesn’t really work in practice though, because you rapidly deteriorate into a ludicrously invasive system

In practice there is a small core group of activities that cause the vast majority of the problems.

> Coordinated and sustained public health programs can reduce the adverse effects of lifestyle

In practice we don’t have the stomach to use techniques that are time tested.

Take obesity - fat shaming works but it’s rough on the people who are being shamed.

Instead of fat shaming though there is a fat acceptance movement.
I'm convinced the brain learns what are efficient triggers that result in addictive behavior.

If that means bringing trauma to the forefront of your mind in order to get a dopamine hit, so be it.
More Americans have Prime than go to church or own a landline
I'd be happy to make the bet in the currency of the grandparent's choosing. Crypto or otherwise.
Overstock to sell retail business to focus on crypto
Pretty sure yes; after Safari started blocking third party cookies by default a few years ago, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have all started supporting the option to use first party cookies to get around this. As I understand it, they deploy code that stores tracking information on-site using first party cookies, then access that data directly.

https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-what-are-facebooks-first-p...

https://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-adwords-respon...

https://searchengineland.com/bing-ads-apple-intelligent-trac...

Someone please correct me if my understanding of this is incorrect, I've been out the ad world for awhile (thankfully!)
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Testing alone will not preserve knowledge, just safety. Knowledge requires an explanation of what the tests are doing and how the tests detect it.
Since this HN, folks might be interested in a contrary view of Mate's ideas:

The Seductive (But Dangerous) Allure of Gabor Maté.
"Gabor Maté is admirable, but leads us down the wrong road"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-in-society...
I'm wondering if this story made it to the top of HN because hackers and developers are more sensitive to noise than most people. I heard that all programmers at Microsoft would get private offices(&) because Bill Gates himself was so irritated by distracting sounds that he couldn't imagine productive work in an open office space.

(&) Is it still true today?
You missed off my two. Stereos that are 90% baseline turned up way too loud and the teen craze in my area of putting stolen megaphones on their bikes and playing 5 second snippets of music at incredible volume. You can hear them from several km with no exaggeration. The odd damaged individual does this to their car too.
> patronizing stench

That falls under what the site guidelines refer to as name-calling and ask you not to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
MAC whitelisting as a security measure against deliberate, reasonably knowledgeable attackers is indeed of questionable value. But that's not the only reason you might use MAC whitelisting.

Another use is to prevent accidents. Suppose you have multiple networks. For example, at work we have separate networks for machines that handle different kinds of sensitive data, with each network having the appropriate incoming and outgoing access rules to protect the kind of sensitive data on that network.

In such a situation, MAC whitelisting can protect against someone accidentally plugging a machine into the wrong network. Someone goofs and plugs a machine with customer financial data into a network that has unrestricted outside internet access? It's not on the whitelist for that network, doesn't get an IP address, and they quickly notice something is wrong.

In a home WiFi setting, MAC whitelisting could be used for partial sharing of your WiFi with people who don't know much about networking. Maybe I want to allow my neighbor, who has no idea what a MAC address is, to use my WiFi with his phone, but not to use it with his other devices. I could give him the access info and then use MAC whitelisting to just allow his phone on.

Finally, even if MAC whitelisting is not being used it would still be nice to be able to find out the Pi's MAC address easily, so that you can assign it a static IP address on your WiFi network.

Yes, you can find it out by letting it get a dynamic address on your network, going into the router settings and looking at the device table and figuring out which unexplained device is the Pi, and noting the MAC address.

Then you can configure the router to assign that MAC address a static IP address. In a world where consumer router firmware didn't often suck that would be fine. I've run into routers that once they have assigned a dynamic IP to a MAC address make it difficult to assign it a static IP address.

It's a lot easier if you can do the static IP assignment in the router before the Pi has ever connected to that network.
> Why can't I just gather materials and build my own house?

Indeed. This is why discussion of "supply" misses the point.

- Many people would quite happily build their own house in the middle of Central Park. But they cannot, because government intervention prevents them.

- Many homeless people would happily sleep in unused climate-controlled office buildings at night, but cannot, because government intervention prevents them.

- Many people would happily live outside of cities, but can't for financial reasons (effectively, the government coerces them via property law, into moving into cities to do work).

Supply is not the issue. There's plenty of supply already existing or easily created. The issue is that people are violently prevented from using it.
Yes. There are many ways to identify a person beyond cookies.
When I was younger, my mom had a house with a large house full of oak trees.

We had to rake the leaves, because, if they were allowed to decay on the ground, it would kill most the other plants.

There was a leaf blower, but we didn't use it for long - personally, I thought the rakes got the job done more quickly and thoroughly, even with that obnoxiously large yard. But then, I suppose I wasn't doing it professionally. Maybe with practice I'd have gotten better at it. The leaf blower was new; rakes are something I grew up with.

It was certainly more work to use a rake. I see that as an upside, though - it's always struck me as odd that people will spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to make it so everyday tasks require minimal physical effort, and then spend even more money on home fitness equipment and gym memberships in order to artificially replace all the physical activity they were ostensibly trying to avoid in the first place. Again, though, that's personal use, not professional.
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> offering the internship only to second-year students would be age discrimination

This is not true.

> offering it only to full-time college students would be discriminating against people who can't afford to attend college full-time

This is also not true.
Not sure why this was flagged.