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Even ignoring it's use in jeweler, gold has significant industrial value.
I experienced pain on my wrists after prolonged hours with MacBook Pro(2017), no tingly sensation.

I have since switch to the Logitech MX Ergo trackball mouse along with a mechanical keyboard (silent reds and topre works well for me)
You cannot replace the European population with an African or Middle Eastern population and expect the same outcomes.

Europeans are over-educated. It is too common to be studying Master's degrees into your late 20s for topics like Psychology, Language. Master's degrees should be limited to the hard sciences. 30% overqualified for their current job. [1]

Europe needs to make hard decisions like this, because the current status quo of low fertility rates and near-poverty existences across the continent are unsustainable. America broadly shows that the low-tax route is better, apart from their poor healthcare system (and since healthcare should be non-profit, with a focus on cheap treatment and prevention, Government should handle that area of the economy).

[1] https://qz.com/12551/30-of-european-workers-are-overeducated...
France has spent beyond its means on the Neo-liberal "invade the world invite the world" policies of supporting US wars and taking in vast quantities of economic migrants as "refugees".

The solution is crystal clear to anyone who isnt in the corporate media bubble. End the aforementioned policies.
If you need to replace physical infrastructure, well, that's where the problem is. MTA has about 6500 subway cars. Replacing all of those would tie up somewhere around 10% of the world's total yearly subway car manufacturing capacity.

Okay, so maybe you only design a module that can be retrofitted onto existing cars--there's only 16 car designs on the MTA according to Wikipedia. You just have to install them on every car, which means figuring out how to slot the install times into the maintenance schedules of cars, and if your schedule slips for delivering the parts to install, well, that's going to push stuff back a few months.

The problem isn't that the algorithm is hard. The problem is that the hardware didn't exist, and retrofitting hardware is a much more expensive endeavor than retrofitting software.
The concept of "individual freedom" is the single most powerful driver of public opinion in the USA.

If you're a politician and you want to keep those private insurance lobbying checks coming, all you have to do is tell your constituents that public healthcare would take away freedoms.

Repeat for public transit, reducing the defense budget ("they're fighting for our freedom" is an extremely common refrain), offering even basic human care for migrants, etc, ad nauseum, etc.
Which is actually very relevant to the project that I’m referring to. All four services were database intensive. They all worked perfectly independently. But when messages started at service 1, did some database work and put a message in the queue to kick off the next process and so on. When all four were running at the same time processing messages, the database screamed and made the website unresponsive.

It took me longer to tune performance than to write the code. Can you imagine four developers working together tweaking code, queries, indexes, number of simultaneous threads, etc?
> Whether most people can tell the difference between 320k and lossless is irrelevant-- the retail price is the same for a technically inferior product. This is a regression.

My camera can save images as either raw files or maximum-quality jpeg's. I know for a fact that I will never need to edit these photos later on. Which format is superior?

Useless data is of no value to anyone, and data we cannot perceive is useless.

If you're worried about license revocation, you should focus on obtaining DRM-Free digital media instead of killing trees. And make backups, of course. DRM-Free is standard for downloadable music nowadays. DRM-Free eBooks are less common, but they do exist, e.g. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/drm-free
The people who arrive in Europe are economic migrants. The real ones are in refugee camps in Lebanon and Turkey.

By 2020 only half the refugees who arrived in Germany a few years ago are forecast to be employed, with the current unemployment rate 40%. [1]

I have seen firsthand (Christian) refugees offered settlement in Poland, who after receiving handouts from the local community including a car, packed everything up and drove to Germany overnight to join an ethnic community there.

Besides, if we care about helping refugees, we can help 10x as many people in their home regions than in Europe, for the same cost. Really we should be addressing the underlying problem - inequality and overpopulation - by devoting all of our foreign aid budget to providing education and contraception to women.

I'm not against migration per-se, as long as it is from culturally compatible countries. If Europe needs cheap workers there are millions of them to be found in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia etc. Even further afield, there are millions more in South America. These people already share a culture similar to or identical to Europeans, and already speak a language similar to a native European one. Europe should control explicitly who it allows into its borders, not outsource the job to criminal people smugglers.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/bea8507e-64cb-11e8-90c2-9563a0613...
More emotionally charged anti-crypto commentary that will not age well. If you've ever spent time as a quant, you'd know everything about crypto is about it being a trading vehicle with global public market exposure. Capital is raised from the capital markets and if it swells, ride it.
I mean, I think Bitcoin is really beautiful. I'm not sure it's as multipurpose as gold is (it certainly doesn't seem to have many uses.) But the basic idea really is a beautiful algorithm. I'm just not sure it has serious applications. Which is definitely unlike gold.
I added two atlases under my monitor which seemed to solve all my problems. Obviously there's a ton of variables, I'm just sharing that sometimes it doesn't take much to fix.
See that's the thing. You shouldn't buy any of these for investing - only for use and only when you need to. These are all mostly 'utility tokens' being added to Coinbase. One of the biggest areas that these might see usage in the future is decentralized finance and decentralized gaming. Probably the most interesting project now is DAI, and no, people definitely do not buy DAI because it's going to go up! There are some other great projects listed there, and I urge you to take a closer look at them before you dismiss them.
Seriously? Are you sure they are worst "wasters" of energy on the planet right now? What about cars, and eating meat, and Christmas lights, and so on? Have you checked your own energy consumption today?
Europe needs less Government. The problem is that these tax changes are just never linked to tax cuts and actual living improvements for the everyday workers.

A proposal to phase out pensions for people currently aged under 40, in coordination with a large decrease in the Payroll tax rate (and strict orders to business to pass it along entirely to employees) would be met with reasonable popularity.

Europe artificially inflates the cost of labour with its huge taxes, and wonders why there are problems with unemployment and tax evasion. It artificially inflates the cost of living with huge VAT rates, and wonder why people don't have more children or consume more.

Have a look at what Georgia (country) is doing. They have to compete on their own merits and do so with amazingly efficient taxes:

* 20% flat income tax

* No social security or employment taxes

* up to 1% land value tax

* 18% VAT

* 15% corporate tax

* Excise taxes on drugs and fossil fuels

As a result the country is developing very well despite its lack of natural resources, unfortunate geographic positioning, and prior Russian invasion.

European bureaucrats like to defend heavy taxes and redistribution because it creates a need for their services. We should tax people less, and let them decide what to spend their money on. Along the way remove as many impediments for employment as possible, and tax the goods which have negative externalities (fossil fuels, drugs, food sweeteners)

...

If you really want to set the cat amongst the pigeons, we can look at an entirely different tax regime, where each person and business is expected to pay a fixed tax rate per year, merely for existing (scaled to size of business, and probably age and health status). Then, they are free to earn what they like, independent of tax. I don't see why Government shouldn't operate on the same principles as a business, with transparency and efficiency.
> Without it, my home state would be severely affected.

New Mexico?

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...
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And exactly which utility tokens have real usage today, as opposed to vague promises about tomorrow?

As far as I can tell, the primary real-world use case for cryptocurrencies today appears to be money laundering.
Look into stretching exercises. This video saved me from debilitating hand and wrist pain. I'm sure there are similar exercises you can perform for forearm, elbow, shoulder, etc..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUyMNyrOHJQ&list=FLm2_1OPWIx...
It’s not always about customer feedback when implementing functionality. For instance, take the rules governing rail car maintenance.

https://www.railinc.com/rportal/documents/18/260641/Guidefor...

The software for it has to work. There will be months of work implementing the rules engine before you have anything to show the customer besides a mock-up..

You won’t really need two week sprints to get feedback from customers. It either implements all of the rules or it doesn’t. I can imagine the same happening for tax software.
I do this as well, specifically an 84 key keyboard. It still has home, page up, page down, and arrow keys but it’s less wide than a typical tenkeyless.
From the prologue of the previous book on Wolf3D:

"It may appear like a waste of time to read and write about "old" engines dedicated to extinct machines, compilers, and operating systems, but they carry tremendous value. Not only are they packed with clever tricks, they also remind us of the constraints programmers from the past had to overcome. They remind us of the spirit it once took to reach new frontiers. Things have not changed much. These days we may deal with gigabytes, dedicated hardware accelerators, and multi-core CPUs but the spirit it takes to keep on moving forward remains the same."
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I traveled through Turkey in 1993. The PTT (phone monopoly) had a saying which doubled as a vision statement: "A phone in every village!" They hadn't met that goal and I'd sometimes roll into these little places where there were no phones at all. But there was always one TV set in the tea house because football.

I'm really glad I caught the tail end of pre-internet travel in the '90s. I've been overseas since but it is not the same. The sense of journeying into the unknown is simply gone.
The problem is that most of the software engineers here don’t have a strong liberal education in the classics to understand the societal implications of a decentralized money supply.

Bitcoin is not meant to be used by the people in p2p exchanges. It is meant for large institutions.
If country A wants to send country B, 5 billion, are they going to just wire it to them??? No that’s very difficult to do and Bitcoin solves that problem.

Historically kings were the ones that controlled the money supply, but now that has fundamentally changed.
And yet, marriage rates are by far the highest in Asian Americans compared to other ethnicities:

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...

The OkCupid data shows that everyone prefers people of their own race, and Asian women are no different.

> If you prefer anecdata

I mean, specifically not. I am open-minded to the idea that Asian-American men are being excluded in ways outside of affirmative-action, but not willing to accept "feel discriminated against" as having any weight in an era where there's a US President largely elected by white men who feel discriminated against.

Every reply to my original question ignores every category except dating, and if you use marriage as a (I think pretty reasonable) proxy, it's hard to make a case that Asian men are suffering there.
How do you know that you did not have a natural recovery that just happened to coincide with the new intervention?
I highly recommend that you see a physical therapist. That's when my situation started improving.

An ergonomist recommended this mouse to me and it's been really good for me (better than the Logitech MX Master I had been using): https://handshoemouse.com.

Also, setting my desk height properly helped, I think. It's hard to find desks that are low enough but I bought an Ikea adjustable height desk that goes low enough so that my elbow is level with my hands when typing.
I'll take fibers that yield automatically on blocking operations over async/await most days for most tasks. It's slightly less flexible, since you can only wait for one async action at a time per fiber; but a pleasure to use in comparison. But for that you need fibers built in.

Go sort of does the same thing, but insists on running fibers in separate threads at its convenience; which means giving up the lovely simplicity of cooperative multitasking for the same old multi-threaded circus.

I'm unfortunately not aware of any languages more recent than Smalltalk that get this right. My own baby, Snigl [0], is just getting to the point where it's doable.

[0] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
Regardless of its taste, craft beer movement started as class root movement by beer enthusiasts to make more individual beer in small quantities and has been very experimental (in places where it flourishes) and has produced really unique tastes and flavours.

So the GP is correct. See also https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

I think that the main issue is the knowledge about the real value is very hard to obtain and this gives the marketeers an upper hand to flood the marked with the fake information.
that's horrifically barbaric.

also not sure why its on HN
Not that justifies its cost today, no. That's a commonly repeated fallacy by goldbugs.
Still disagree, the pickaxe would be a tool to harvest the good. Coinbase sells the good directly and provides a exchange to trade with others.
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I think NASA spent a lot of money on figuring out what works and what doesn't work. They probably could have done it much cheaper but SpaceX certainly had a very good blueprint to start from and didn't have to figure out everything from scratch.
I'll buy this picture. Feelings of insecurity created by someone (anyone) who has more than you fits in with 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Further reasoning about irrational behavior is as unconvincing as science trying to explain magic. (Which in many cases might be helpful in explaining the long chains of coincidence that led to wealth, despite the often-fragile egos involved.)

Some of the very rich try to invest in philanthropic causes. Studying the magnates of a century ago can be helpful. (E.g. the story of T. B. Walker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._B._Walker ) On the whole, today's ultra-rich seem less-inclined to give a damn (not unprecedented in history).
Your anecdote is irrelevant. Scam sites usually give up their bitcoin related domains when they fail, which invariably get taken over by basic phishing sites. You should look on the Internet Archive to see what the scam sites were actually doing, before they went out of business and had their domains taken over by phishers.

Funny that you trust and parrot Bitcoin scammers, but you don't trust a list of Bitcoin scammers. Afraid some you've invested in, hyped and promoted yourself might show up?
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, JIRA is the worst tracking tool, except for all the others.

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...
Any actually used technology won't become cold instantly because old systems will already depend on it and won't be rewritten immediately
> the manifest unfairness of huge multinationals such as Apple, Google and Amazon

Those are American companies. Why aren't there EU companies at this level? Probably because of their destructive tax policies. Massive tax increases will just make the situation worse, and investment capital will desert the EU for American.
You mean that one made it to it’s target and the other didn’t? Maybe I’m misunderstanding your point because it doest really feel like a discussion, rather an interview?

Like, sure, if that’s success then ok...again I’m just saying i think there are alternative ways to improve security, and while a locking door is one of them, the TSA is probably another great place to look for improvements. It feels like the US airport security situation is stuck in the world of “look busy and sound strict, people will behave and respect the security of planes”, but really it’s just a giant pain in the ass for most people and meanwhile mostly ineffective at stopping actual risks from passing through to the aircraft.

Real question: do you work for the TSA or airport security in some way?
I think the odd thing about this thread is that ticketing systems really only provide me a value-add for stuff that isn't being worked on actively. Oh its time to pick up this ticket, its marked as high priority, here's a conversation about it in the ticket, here's the acceptance criteria, etc. If I know what I'm working on all the time I can just write it down in my notebook. Its the stuff where I needed to step away to another task for a week or something and I've lost my mental model for the last task, that's where JIRA can be a helpful tool IMO.

For the meta project/product management I'm just not sure. I'm endlessly frustrated by estimations and burndown charts that never seem to look good. The estimates are always too high, and the burndown charts often look like horizontal lines (sometimes they even go UP). And you can't figure out the cause of that shit by looking at a chart, or even at the board of tickets. You would need to talk to the team to figure that out.
Even if you live out in the middle of nowhere, you have to pay property taxes. If you barter, you have to pay taxes on that stuff too, so you need to make the fiat bucks somehow. That's why fiat being required for taxes is the big one that makes it the defacto standard. After all, you have to have it, or its electronic equivalent or people with guns will come and get you, imprison you and take all your stuff away.

Not that paying taxes is bad. It helps keep inflation down vs the government just borrowing all the fiat it needs from the fed. However, if you try and run your whole life in gold or bitcoin or whatever you just can't do it legally.
> There's some strong similarities there.

In that they both use a descending chromatic line over a minor chord in the harmony, a device that has been used in music for over 300 years.

Their differences are great, notably in the structural importance of the figure (it happens in the middle of an ambient passage in Taurus, but it's the opening, passage of Stairway); in the fact that Stairway uses a melodic line on top of the chords, whereas Taurus doesn't; and that Stairway uses it as a structural block for the whole song, and in Taurus, it's only a moment in the middle of a larger section.
I recently learned about epigenetics and it's mind blowing.

In a nutshell: the expression of a gene within an individual can change over their lives, and the changes can be inherited. There are multiple mechanisms of alteration and inheritance.

The field is still in very early stages of research, but here are some paraphrases from Wikipedia to hook you:

* Children born during the Dutch famine of 1944–45 were smaller than those born the year before the famine and the effects could last for two generations. They also were at increased risk of glucose intolerance in adulthood.

* Children of women who were abused during pregnancy were significantly more likely than others to have methylated glucocorticoid-receptor genes, which in turn change the response to stress, leading to a higher susceptibility to anxiety

* Male mice that participated in voluntary physical exercise resulted in offspring that had reduced fear memory and anxiety-like behavior in response to stress.

For further reading:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics_of_anxiety_and_str...

--- Pure conjecture ---

As an engineer, this sounds like coarse short-term evolution; a dimmer switch for various genetic functions which can improve offspring fitness relative to a sudden environmental change, possibly with negative side effects, until the environment stabilizes or genetics can adapt with new functionality.

Only now, our population is mixing over broad geographic areas subject to an unprecedented acceleration of environmental changes, with often no prior genetic training, as cultures shift towards sedentary, inside, less-social lifestyles that have fewer children at greater ages.

An inter-generational epigenetic analysis of celiac, autoimmune, and other "new" diseases could be ground breaking. I'm wondering to what degree they are emergent symptoms of possibly conflicting epigenetic adaptations accumulated over multiple generations. The timing is just so suspicious.

The mouse study of stress tolerance also suggests follow-up studies that may have fascinating political ramifications.
They also invent textiles for their target markets, i.e. Apple style vertical integration.
Some tokens are designed as a right to cash flows... see "work tokens".
Yeah I'm familiar with OCaml I wasnt sure if there was a language progression that was suggested to go through. I was actually interested in using Menhir more too.
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Isnt the price reduction what can lead to the 51% attack?
Would Marie Le Pen have done any of the things Macron did to damage the livelihoods of the French people? No. Because Macron is a Neo-Liberal puppet and Le Pen is not.

The leaders you seek are glaring you in the face, but you reject them because you buy into the lies about "right extremism" from the corporate media that got us here in the first place.
Early on in my career, a manager of mine told me about his first few years on the job after being hired by Ontario Hydro (at that time the integrated generation and transmission utility for all of Ontario) in the late 1960s. The first two years was pure training and basically an extension of your engineering degree except specifically applied to the typical problems and practices of the power utility.

Of course, in those days a utility job came with a generous pension, a seniority-based career track and an expectation that you would likely retire there, so anything invested in a young employee was just investing in the company itself.

Large engineering employers no longer feel the same social compact with the profession to train young engineers and make experts out of them. Not only do they not set aside time for employees to learn, there often aren't any seniors around for them to learn from because the company hasn't bothered to create a meaningful career track for engineers. It's promotion up to management or stagnation at entry-level pay. With little meaningful prospect of advancement in their technical career and no pension 'golden handcuffs', there's no incentive for employees to stick around. Once they become experienced, they split for the contractor they used to manage, creating a vicious cycle that drains the utility company of talent.
Collective wealth cannot happen without a government. After all, you're going to need some entity that writes down the rules and enforces them, which is what a government is.