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> My understanding is that reserve banks create money out of thin air

"Money creation in the modern economy" (Bank of England, PDF)

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

Quote:

In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank
deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often
misunderstood: the principal way is through commercial
banks making loans. Whenever a bank makes a loan, it
simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the
borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money.
The reality of how money is created today differs from the
description found in some economics textbooks:

• Rather than banks receiving deposits when households
save and then lending them out, bank lending creates
deposits.

• In normal times, the central bank does not fix the amount
of money in circulation, nor is central bank money
‘multiplied up’ into more loans and deposits.
but I thought capitalism was the most efficient economic system :(((
I see from the obtuse responses you've received, there's really little point in summoning the effort to type anything besides either 'linux sux' or 'linux rocks'.
No, by the most common interpretation, apps don't need to be GPL'd, because they are not linked to the OS.

This is what makes Android possible.
"among his other crimes"? WTF? Since when is climate change denying a crime?
If the water heater uses copper pipes, the copper still gets into the water. And even with plastic pipes the trace amount of plastic may still end in the water and nobody knows if drinking such water for, say, 40 years is safe.

So do not use hot water for cooking/drinking.
Answer this: if Facebook was only a product for advertisers, whom would they show the ads?

Facebook‘s product is a platform. It can’t exist without users, and it can’t exist without advertisers (presumably).

Since both end users and advertisers are part of the product, the data of all of them needs to be protected. It doesn’t matter who the paying party is.
there’s enough social pressure for the vast majority to not exploit that system

What fucking world are you living in, pal?
Hundred Largest Islands of the World
Browsers don't speak grpc natively. There is a separate spec for browser support, but it's a very new project https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web/blob/master/README.md
> I'm pretty sure Linux kernel modules can't easily do that.

They can, and rootkits in the past (unsurprisingly) have. But that's just technical ability; users willing to run things like that is a whole different matter, especially when we can just namespace and/or sandbox apps.
>Can you quote the bits you consider "a load of nonsense"?

The article attempts to defend Swartz by essentially claiming that what he did was unimpressive... So what? Same goes for SQL injection. In fact, most crimes are quite unimpressive.

It's indisputable that both JSTOR and MIT actively tried to block Swartz, and that he actively circumvented those blocks.

The article also makes the completely bullshit claim that Swartz could've realistically received a 35 year sentence.
Exceptions are the exit() of libraries. Or if you're using plain C, setjmp/longjmp might be a good idea, depending on what you're doing.
Have you actually tried a Linux machine from a company that bundles hardware, software and support or are you just comparing apples to oranges?
Wine is a lot different from virtualization. It’s likely if Microsoft did release a Windows compatible Linux (or some micro kernel thing) they would virtualize the SxS assemblies and kernel for each application to help with security and compatibility.

They gave a demo called MinWin years ago that more or less did the same thing.
The rebalancing China needs is towards domestic consumption, even for itself to be more sustainable. What this has done is reduced investment and worsened consumption. It isn't really what the leadership want. China currently retains near the lowest consumption-as-a-proportion of GDP worldwide.

Controlling the Chinese economy is relatively easy with the state corporation machinery through the investment component and brings in robust economic growth in GDP numbers, but consumption really sags.

FWIW the entire western economic system canters around the consumption portions of GDP. That's why everyone loves to export to the US/Europe/Australia. Consumption is resistant to short term economic shocks.

You'll have many around here boasting higher saving rates in Asian nations, but these are the reasons the economies are far behind (inc Japan). Look at the other side of savings, more spending means more is earned as well creating a net social surplus for everyone beyond the private scale of saving. It takes exports to make up for this shortfall.
That depends on my situation and whether I felt the sentence was just or administered fairly.
Absolutely not the fault of Werror. Werror is fine and a great idea. Your complaint here is crappy build systems where you can't easily adjust flags. Yeah that's garbage and so normal we sometimes accept it without thinking how utterly rubbish it is. But it's sure not Werror at fault of you update things and have trouble working out how to do something basic and trivial with the build system.
Werror forever. Don't do crappy build systems so you can do sensible things like enabling Werror.
That would be a very neat approach. I had not heard of MinWin until today and now I'm pretty curious exactly what it entails and what the implications of it are.
> the fact [..] that the New York Times, an American media company, is effectively banned [..] from reporting it

This is absolutely fascinating to me too, that an Australian court order is influencing the behaviour of media in another country - the NYT no less! I can't think of any precedent to this.

I'm Australian too, and I am honestly not sure how I feel about this. There are good arguments on both sides. We're really in uncharted territory.
Big tears and all. If people put that aside and simply looked at the numbers and product composition this problem wouldn't have been a mystery. Qualifying our failed perception with the implicit bias that allowed this failure doesn't ring of a resolution.
Currency is debt. If you have a 20$ bill that means essentially that the government owes you the equivalent in value. If everyone converted all their debt to currency that just means the state buys all the debt and prints sufficient government IOU’s (bills) along the way. If there is not enough value to cover the debt, the notes just lose value as others refuse to trade them at their previous rate.
Are you sure? I’ve spent quite some time playing with the internals of Docker Swarm / swarmkit last year and I’m quite confident it wasn’t true then. As far as I know they call go-raft directly because they only need a fraction of the features offered by etcd.
Looks like this landed in October 2018: https://blog.sketchapp.com/dark-mode-data-a-brand-new-look-a... There are indeed significant performance improvements.

"Now running on Metal and with a brand new tiling system for the Canvas, Sketch performs better than ever when moving, resizing and manipulating layers in a large or complex document — up to 2.7x faster than Sketch 51!"
China literally has forced labor camps.
I'm not so surprised that rootkits can exist on Linux, but I was under the impression the Linux kernel made it much harder to break out of the framework provided and patch over whatever you wanted. Sure, it's all Ring 0, but there's kASLR and you have limited visibility, maybe not even a map of symbols. Is it still possible to do this kind of attack today?
Pretty sure that is because of metals. Living things die when boiling anyway
One's "fragmentation" is another's "choice".
I don't know if there is a good fix for it, but labels are a very potent weapon. In the U.S. a few decades ago, calling someone a communist sympathizer was a dangerous label. In China in the 1950s being called a rightist was a dangerous label. Today being called a racist, a pedophile, a Nazi, etc. are still dangerous labels. In this article cited the author was labeled a sociopath by an ex-boyfriend and also of being cruel ("cruelty-based view of the world"). These labels are difficult to undo because they are so easy to remember. If you live in a small village and, let's say, get labeled a derogatory term like a "slut" ... that quickly propagates until every villager accepts it as common wisdom that you are. So I do like the discussion about how to engineer a better social system, but it would require censoring label accusations until they had been proven, and this goes up against another part of the social system of supporting free speech. So I think you'd have to ban negative labels in the way that we don't legally allow hate speech (in the U.S.) despite the First Amendment because of the way it causes disproportionate and long-term harm to the victim. I don't see any other realistic solution to a problem that has existed ever since humans formed social groups and speak languages... being ostracized, exiled, or worse has been the outcome of shaming for the last 100k years. I don't see a great way to avoid it other than to just walk on eggshells and always be really nice to everybody or develop the reputation of a maverick... tough but honest and fair (like Sen. John McCain was known for). Regardless, you have to fit yourself into some admirable persona that society values to avoid shaming. If there are other people that get shamed because they don't fit into one of the socially admirable personas, perhaps the best way to address it is to expand the list of socially admirable personas.
Well done to everyone showing off by writing his name. You're enhancing the chances of a misstrial. But I bet you feel cool proving you know something while simultaneously showing off both your arrogance and ignorance. Good work mods too. Nice.
Yep, I acknowledged that in the last sentence of my comment.

My point is it's not at all simple, and it's certainly not as simple as the "calories-in/calories-out" mob claim. If it were so simple, obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders wouldn't be the widespread and profound problems that they are.

And my larger point is that the "calories-in/calories-out" call is a euphemistic way of trolling people who suffer these conditions.
> The issues largely fall into two categories - missing software, and missing or undercooked hardware support.

I've trying every Fedora release for about two years, with a view to switching (back) from macOS. Everybody has their priorities, but Fedora is now there on software and features for my uses. If I switch back now, I'll lose the official Google Drive client, but that's it.

In the past, I've run Linux desktops without hardware issues by buying slightly older ex-corporate laptops with Intel CPUs and graphics. Today, there seem to be a bunch of vendors offering Linux preloaded, so I don't expect to this to be a big problem.
I liked his talks as Morea easily digestible, but the book was full of useful tidbits. As an alternative to the real way debt is used today though, I suggest John Perkins books and The Tower of Basel
Ah crap. Here we go again.
This is also how the Apache httpd server works, last I checked. Not the entire server, of course - it's a long-lived program with lots of memory to manage, however when servicing a request, it uses the arena pattern to allocate memory and the entire arena is freed at the end of the request. In fact, its entire memory management model is based on a hierarchy of memory arenas that can only grow and get freed once whatever it was that required their liveness ends. I've had the pleasure to write a plugin for it to handle a certain custom upload protocol.
It’s actually difficult to piece together what MinWin was exactly. Some sources say it used virtualization, other source say it was an extremely limited NT kernel. I suspect it was a little of both.
Some churches in the US also use "debt" in this way during the Lord's prayer (i.e. not referring to financial debts):

"And forgive us our debts, just as we also forgive our debtors." (Matt. 6:12)
Why we suck at “solving wicked problems”
Facebook appeals against Cambridge analytica fine
Looking forward to see your results on Imagenet!
Conflicting ideas means believing that princess Diana was murdered by MI6 and that she was kidnapped by another shadowy party. Or that migrants will simultaneously take all the jobs and that they all just come to leech our welfare system dry.
I really wish people would choose better names, we just had an hyphen and it becomes a C dialect from the early 80's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C
This is semantics used to distract from the fractional reserve system in fiat currency, and is mostly false.
the 'convert' name is misleading perhaps, maybe we can agree the proof is in the execution time https://youtu.be/TlTcQJPUL3M?t=478
Anyway, let us celebrate a wider adoption of Arrow! :)
> You still have to spend a lot of labor/resources maintaining and managing dynamodb.

Do you? At least with DynamoDB On-Demand there shouldn't be much maintenance left to do.
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Free market only works when there is a choice. If there is only one provider available then regulation is necessary to avoid exorbitant fees.
I feel uncomfortable when I read stories like this: the kind of stories where large groups of otherwise reasonable individuals collectively decide to secretly expose thousands (low-balling) of people to asbestos. Events like this pop up everywhere in the world and everywhen in recorded history. The frequency leads me to believe that my current self and my hypothetical, killer J&J executive self are the same or very similar; differing only in circumstances, rather than character.

I revisit this train of thought fairly often. I think it would do a lot of good to investigate what exactly happened to the people who are knowingly participating in this coverup. Maybe ask them if they would like help in their personal lives? Maybe some kind of welfare program where taxpayers subsidize their lifestyle and also pay for a counselor to help them figure out how to lead joyful, wonderful lives without killing the whole world? I'm just brain-storming from my armchair over here; A thorough investigation would probably yield better answers to the question of "How can I meet my needs if I admit that the company I work for sold asbestos to babies for decades without telling anyone?"
What do you mean? More ambulances would mean you could be nearer to the patients (imagine an ambulance on every street corner) so the net journey time would be less. You can also administer care from the ambulance (e.g. narcan, cpr, stopping bleeding etc.) which can save lives. A huge number of ambulance journeys aren't time critical either (e.g. a broken leg) but not having an ambulance means getting a taxi or other transport which exacerbates problems.

Probably better to have more ambulances overall, and maybe a few ultra fast ones (e.g. helicopters) for time critical situations.
I always saw Canonical as trying to do this, considering what pains they used to go through to not use the term 'Linux' in their marketing. They were playing things as though Ubuntu was their own platform (and in many ways, given the different ways that Ubuntu used to break compatibility with plain Debian, it was) — their own software centre, their own desktop, their own services.

Many of those seem to have gone by the wayside: Unity deprecated in favour of GNOME 3, Ubuntu One dead. It makes me wonder if Canonical found out that it just can't be done, that pissing off the people involved in the projects upon which Ubuntu depends by sacrificing some of the sense of community in exchange the It Just Works™ magic towards which they have been working is ultimately a fool's game in the current ecosystem.

I find that a shame. I thought Ubuntu had the potential to be a sort of macOS for Linux: built upon a free base, contributing heavily to other projects from which it takes, but also adding Ubuntu-specific stuff (still open source, of course) that disrupts the Linux desktop ecosystem to make the current other players (KDE, GNOME, Xfce, etc.) feel like amateur hour. At one time, it felt like Unity could've been Ubuntu's macOS desktop and I could swear they were heavily promoting some Python API for desktop apps that might've been to Ubuntu as Cocoa is to macOS. That also seems to have changed.
With no freeing, memory used is the sum of all allocations. With freeing, it is max of the allocation for active objects at any given time. The former can ask for much more memory from the OS for some programs that generate a lot of temp garbage. Though this probably doesn’t matter for a C compiler - unless it is required to compile megabytes of generated code!
This article is already pretty outdated. According to Jim Scharf with DynamoDB On-Demand you don't really have to care anymore about DynamoDB's implementation details, like partitioning: https://twitter.com/jim_scharf/status/1069056907686465537
So will you say what you plan to trigger the fusion with?

And let's say you build one into a 1-liter box. How many watts should we expect it to produce?
zookeeper uses a coordination kernel, while etcd uses a replicated state machine.
I’m observing there are reasonable terms for both the vulnerability in SQLite (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution) and the vulnerability in Chrome due to the vulnerability in SQLite (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_code_execution) and wondering why we can’t just use those?
Don’t know if it’s the same in the US as the UK, but the regulators details are generally on the bill under the complaints section for each company/utility.
how is bottle water better? where I live the tap water is usually of higher quality than the bottled water, just a bit harder.
>Are you sure we aren't adversaries? Because we certainly don't seem to be ideologically aligned!

None of those things pose a true threat to America, and who benefits from treating them as adversaries because of ideological differences?

>China has chosen a path of dictatorial horse-shit of its own accord - the US didn't push them into it.

Though there are strong arguments that US and other Western powers did push them into this situation, if you view this as a path they chose why would you oppose it? We tried controlling their path before, and countless millions of Chinese died as a result.
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Which they could do by joining the numerous signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment.

https://sfdora.org/read
LOL, no.

As a mid-career DINC in a 2% income bracket married to a 1%'er, I too, have money but not much time. That is why I will never not use a Linux desktop. Everything just works on my XPS 13 arch + i3. I also own the previous gen mbpro, I think I used that last year may. Just the idea of me wasting time with osx or windows is sneeringly ludicrous.
When were fabs not a strategic asset?! It's the whole reason Taiwan still exists.
> So unless you somehow found a way to turn off gravity the sun and every other star in the universe experiences a constant “input” of energy due to gravity.

The word you want here is "catalyst", not "input". The gravitational pressure has to be there, but it is not consumed.
Let's not be so dramatic, nowhere near 40% of Americans want either of those things. I'd guess 70% want the status quo with a nudge to the left or right, 20% don't give a shit, and 10% represent the extremes (on the US political spectrum) that you mentioned.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN again.

We've had to ask you this more than once before.
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It uses etcd/raft from beginning.
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I feel like this is a bias first world people have. I grew up poor, got plenty of haircuts from "a lady in the neighborhood" and never got chemical burns on my scalp, never had lice, etc. Sure, anecdata, but travel to basically any third world country where regulation is either nonexistent or unenforceable. Countless people do this every year. These things just aren't a real problem. You can get a haircut, you can get street food, etc. Basically just eat where the locals are eating and be careful about water/drinks that haven't been boiled. In other words, drink hot tea instead of water, or bottled stuff.
Investments tend to take a while to return-- this one didn't pay off though.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've done this many times, we've asked you repeatedly to stop, and you keep doing it.

In particular: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm surprised that African slaves aren't an obvious component. Am I missing something? I am somewhat red-green color blind, I admit. But I did look at the left-hand list in the video, and didn't see many.
Sounds about right, but:

> As people move off of the team, features are forgotten and misunderstood; but as long as those features continue to work, there will be customers continuing to depend on them.

You have this in the non-rewrite scenario, too, it's just part of the technical debt, so it's less obvious to see. And it will bite you just as hard if you need to update the feature.

So because rewrites are good at uncovering unknown unknowns, and it might be better to say that the technical debt was underestimated.
>This is correct but most people don't carry a lot of cash in their brokerage account for very long. They either use it to acquire securities, or they move it out to a real bank account. So SIPC is not equipped, financially or logistically, to act like the FDIC.

My understanding is that:

- "Cash" in brokerage accounts is usually actually some form of investment, and is usually listed as such (eg, as a deposit, money market fund, etc). The SIPC protects the holding of the investment, not the value of the investment, so if the fund goes bad, there is no protection.

- Cash in brokerage accounts is cash, and is not very common. It isn't going to make any interest, because it's not being invested by either the account holder or the brokerage, unlike fractional reserve banking. The SIPC protects this, but that's because it shouldn't have been at risk anyway.

The Robinhood account is thus confusing. If it is offering interest, then it's not cash, but a cash investment, and the actual value of the investment, which is what the clients would actually care about, isn't protected at all.

Edit: it appears they've pulled the announcement. Reading into that apology, maybe it was some sort of sweep into FDIC-insured bank accounts? But if so, how could that possibly offer 3% return?
This is surprising considering that SQLite is very heavily tested. It shows that ridiculous amounts of testing with 100% coverage of every code path and "millions and millions" of test cases still doesn't guarantee that the program always works as intended.

I think that this is an important lesson about testing. We should have fewer tests but we should try to get the most value possible out of each one and for developers that means actively seeking out unusual edge cases that are likely to break things.

Source: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
That covers the first clause, but not:

> or if some debts will ever be repaid, or wondering about "jubilees" where debts are forgiven,