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> Changing interest rates doesn't change the money supply.

It does by discouraging creation of new money by way of loans.

The uneven distribution of money is because of an unbalanced wealth creation system. Money trickles down from the Fed into assets (owned by banks and wealthy) who then loan that money out to others.

Some of that money goes into business activities such as procuring goods and services, thus creating demand. The rest of that money goes into speculation and buying up more "assets" that will pay out in future.

Notice how labor is not important in any of this at all. Labor is almost a side-effect of this economic system of assets vs assets.

Unfortunately, no human is born with assets. Most humans still make money from labor. If money printing goes into assets but humans make money from labor, it's obvious that this will throw most humans out of the system.

This is like a video game where some people got the cheat code while others didn't.
The only thing is, once the streaming market has dominated, there is nothing stopping it to also turning into crap full of advertisements.

I remember when cable was cheap and as-free.

The transition looks good because it has too (to lure customers away from cable). My bet is that it’s only a matter of time till “personilized ads” are forced upon you.
YC explicitly moved from Boston to SV to pre-empt competition.
Back when iAd was a thing, there were articles about how upset advertisers were that Apple's iAd wouldn't let them plug directly into an Apple customer's music and video store purchase history.

>Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users,but what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad.

>rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest, AdAge says. And it’s well worth noting that Apple prioritizes customer privacy here over a big potential upside in ad revenue.

>what it doesn’t do is hand over the keys to all that data and let advertisers plug into it directly with their own data-mining and targeting software. That’s not standard for the ad industry and that’s likely the reason a few Madison Avenue feathers are ruffled over their approach.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/advertisers-not-thrilled-w...

I'm not sure why you think that Apple has had a change of heart since then, especially given their recent decision that these sort of privacy protecting policies provide Apple a competitive advantage.
> an amount that dwarfs the subsidies offered to Amazon

one thing I really love about NYC is how easy it is to deflect attention and get what you want

exhibit A: "tech workers" make the same amount in NYC as they do in the Bay Area, they fly completely under the radar and the inequality warriors point fingers at finance instead, serving to highlight the fickle nature of an unorganized protest where the cause/perpetuator of inequality is so easily interchangeable to whoever is the richest. Granted, these cities don't really know much about each other's struggles, so you see a lot of the same arguments rehashed and evolve in different ways ie: Austin recently dealt with a cultural appropriation uproar over a "Bodega", and not cultural appropriation from NYC lol, its just whoever is the loudest.

exhibit B: Walmart is practically banned from NYC in an effort to save/protect local businesses, while every major, minor, and luxury retailer enjoys larger than life flagship versions of their stores positioned in space constrained Manhattan.

exhibit C: The way tax breaks are made relevant news at all. Hudson Yards isn't the only place getting it.
The things met by universal derision then kept that reputation is by far the larger set.

Additionally, the Eiffel tower mostly drew criticism during its construction[0], not once it was finished. If the vessel could muster the "it's not finished" defence, then that would probably settle people down. It does look like a cool start on something impressive, but the vacuousness that Wagner objects to shows: the thing looks unfinished, a cool 3d printed prototype you made to look at and then put on a shelf after 10 minutes.

Frankly the pictures form the actual construction were more impressive than the finished things, just because before completion you could always try to imagine it completed as something more.

[0]: https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1120/...
That’s the problem. Any original content that Netflix funds it only has one way to recoup it - subscription sells.

Any money that Disney makes from Disney+ is just additional profit. It’s already recouped most of its costs through theatrical releases, commercial network tv, video on demand, etc.

Netflix also has to borrow money externally. The other companies getting into streaming have free cash flow to prop up streaming.

Even Apple can operate its streaming service at a loss and its just a rounding error.
Can some people who consider themselves knowledgeable in the "nature/nurture" debate, either side, weigh in here and educate me please?

When I was 14 I liked listening to Linkin Park, writing cheesy QBasic code, and playing Final Fantasy games. Also girls were starting to really hit the radar at that point.

Maybe my memory just sucks, but I don't recall there being much nuclear friggin' fusion in the mix. I'm guessing a lot of people, even the smarties here on Hacker News, were also sorta kinda average like me when they were 14

So, what gives? How do prodigies like this kid happen?
I didn't say that they have identical traits. I just wanted to take GGP's post Not all homeless people are 'bad' one step further, and I don't think it's inaccurate to say that homeless people aren't bad people.

BTW GGP put bad in quotes and that makes sense (though an editor would probably strike the quotes). I think calling someone bad is reductive, as you say.

As far as demonizing, the only thing in this article's discussion I'd demonize is KOMO's video, which I concur with Real Change [1] is a hit piece. I don't know enough about any commenter to judge them like that, nor do I think it's my place. So if it came off this way to GGP (I don't think I did), mea culpa.

1: https://www.realchangenews.org/2019/03/20/komo-asserts-seatt...
I wonder what the depreciation tax differences would be? For us we buy hardware in the 'on' years (our business runs in 2 year cycles)
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> it also condemns masturbation, marrying foreigners, eating fish, letting menstruating women inside the city limits and mixing fabrics.

There is a very convenient Christian doctrine where there are "three types of law in the Bible", which explains that some rules are meant for Israelites and some are meant for everyone (and you [or the church] basically get to guess which apply to you).
I agree. I used to follow the “Lonely Planet” guides but now I’d rather plan as little as possible. You’ll bump into people to recommend stuff. There are exceptions e.g. long hikes need some planning.
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What's the evidence?
There is, I am starting to believe (regardless of whether or not this particular finding holds up), an ongoing problem with our approach to nutrition. The anti-pattern goes like this:
1) people who eat/drink X have health benefits
2) it seems to be related to X having Y in it
3) let's sell Y as a pill
4) dang, no health benefits, how did that happen?

Now this could be for several reasons. Maybe eating/drinking X is a marker for a lifestyle that is healthy, or for coming from a background that includes beneficial genes of some sort. Maybe Y is not the only thing in X which matters, it's just the most obviously related thing, and you really need the whole package. Maybe the amount of Y you get from eating/drinking X is good, but in concentrated form at high levels there are drawbacks of some sort.

But, however you look at it, putting Y into a pill (that can often be patented and sold as medicine) is not the same as eating/drinking X, and despite the financial incentives for claiming it is, we need to recognize that.
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On mobile there is a "Buy Now" button at the top of the screen that goes to plasso. https://imgur.com/a/XYD9slH
A symptom of drug use, that is a symptom of a sickness spreading through our society. It isn't a US problem. Across the border, Vancouver is famous for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6-1oo-b3Ds
It is spreading to colder climates as well. Tiny in comparison, but it has recently turned into a problem in Toronto. The encampments are already growing again:
https://globalnews.ca/tag/gardiner-expressway-homeless-encam...
I wonder if anyone has compared cancer rates with those who eat euryhaline fish ( less sea toxins )
But by then you are not comparing apples to apples. Those are Java BigFloats, and by that reasoning Java and any other language that has access to bigfloats also would do the correct thing.
> when they are not allowed to share their land with the landless.

this seems to be aggravated by zoning laws and NIMBYism in the US where localities will not tolerate high-density housing that is an eyesore but provides little homes to people who'd otherwise not have one (or have to pay higher prices than they otherwise would)
What's with this "even in Poland"? Democracy in Poland is as good as ever. Compared to previous government it is even an improvement.
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"just... disappointing"

I'd bet that is not how you really feel.
I know right? It’s amazing how many side channels it stacked up. I’ll admit there’s a lot of garbage and languages I don’t speak - that I should delete..
Ok... exactly my point.
I've always wondered if in future an archive like this can be used to train a machine learning powered cyborg boxer or even a robot boxer. This could be one of the incentives for preserving this archive. Surely with AI set to replace a lot of workers, boxers will also be affected
> Rent is set by supply and demand. There's no law - economic or otherwise - saying that it is necessary for landlords or anybody else to yield a return on capital.

Investment opportunities are also a market with supply and demand. The demand for a high risk investment with low expected return is approximately zero.

If there are more attractive investment opportunities (higher expected return with lower risk) then money will flow there instead.

US treasuries provide a backstop for the minimum expected return on capital. It’s throwing away money to invest in something non-liquid with an expected return lower than, say, 1 month T-bills, which are currently about 2.5% APY.

Of course it’s possible to lose money renting a particular unit, or over a particular timescale, but we’re talking about the long-term macroeconomics, where this is not the case. Hence expected rate of return, which has an average and variance.

In that sense the long-term macroeconomics dictate that yes there is an “economic law” which says rental properties must provide a positive return on capital. Or else there would be no market for rental properties.
Well, her criticism was deemed worthy of inclusion in the US Library of Congress.
HSDPA is part of 3G (3.5G if you like). LTE is 4G.
Classism works both ways. I can’t fucking stand poor people who have nothing more to hate on rich people about than that they have money. And the converse is true, rich people who think poverty is some moral failing. This article is riddled with, fuck people who have more than me. Ugh, get the fuck over yourself, no matter what social position you may have happened to find yourself in. Not ‘Fuck The Vessel’ just ‘Fuck You’.
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Owning a home then limits mobility. If you need to find a job that requires you to move, it’s going to be a lot harder.
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Exactly, I think of them as exhibits. I've looked at brick and mortar as museums for a long time and I'm not the only one.

My wonderment and praise for the gallery curator shattered by the clerk trying to upsell me on a store credit card or data mining loyalty program.

"Why are you talking?"

Must be the quizzical expression my face makes as I take slightly too long to reply.

For actually purchasing something going into a retail store is basically a game of "how is the sales person going to lie to me today". It should come with a laugh track streamed live on twitch.
Sure, but I’m willing to sacrifice a little return for diversification. Everyone who invests in index funds is, too. As long as the return is still reasonable, 10 units still Beats 1 unit worth 10x as much.
I didn't say they don't mean things. And phone companies are welcome to try and call whatever they like 5G but it doesn't make it true, any more than the ITU trying to claim some technology is or is not 5G. What makes something 5G is that it is a widely adopted technology that is a clear generation ahead of 4G. That's it. It's not complicated.
Personally, I like the look of it and the idea of walking around it whilst taking pictures. I can appreciate the argument that it may descriminate against people with disabilities due to lack of elevators (if that is true). To be fair I also think it looks somewhat shwarmaish, but really what is wrong with that? After all its in the "Big Apple"!
Netflix is much more bang for your buck. But I think HBO has a much better signal to noise ratio. Also HBO has some all time classics, which netflix lacks. I think Netflix has a lot of B+/A-, but it's missing an A or A+.

A lot of Netlix's new content is downright bad.
It's somewhat reminiscent of Uber/Lyft vs taxis, minus the sketchy business practices. The convenience and personalization of streamed content is so far superior to the previous solution.
You mean unlike human?
I'd argue that you're too restrictive in your definition. e.g. unsupervised clustering has no sample training data.

The usual definition (due to Mitchell) is that machine learning is a system s.t. its performance on a given task improves by past experience.
>But then you have to provision space in memory for the whole image size

No, you can have your container system load parts of the image on demand into that tmpfs.

That's my point: this doesn't have anything to do with writing to memory, writing to block device, etc. etc. This is just a matter of indexing the image so that it can be lazily loaded. Which is of course good, but let's be clear that it's orthogonal from whether you stick the images on local disk, stick them only in memory, or whatever.
Sure. That's very much my point (or have I missed yours?)

"Natural" is used to mean "in the ontology of Man".
I'm doing my PC gaming exclusively in linux now a days with steam+proton helping out a lot.

Just bought sekiro on friday and it runs like a dream without me having to configure a thing.
I'm shocked that they haven't started streaming women's football (soccer). It's growing like crazy and compared to the men's game it's extremely cheap.
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Mathematics has always been like that.

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra went through many "proofs" over decades before settling on one we accept as rigorous.

And rigor itself? A relatively modem requirement. Calculus was put on a rigorous basis only in the 19th century. It existed, and was applied, for centuries before that.

The real truth about mathematics is that it's way more about intuition than rigor, and that things that most people think are true are taken as such. It's human nature, and mathematics is a human endeavor.

Moreover, math itself resists rigor in a fundamental way, as Godel showed us. Machine proofs? Eh. Ultimately, everything is up to humans, even the axioms. Will the computer believe in the axiom of choice?

And stuff that's too complex to be understood except for the select few? So be it. It means nobody really cares about that stuff. Maybe someone will discover a better proof later. Maybe someone will stumble upon a counterexample. Maybe nobody will touch that for a thousand years. Math will go on.

Not that all math is accessible, but all good math is not limited to in-groups.

For an extreme example, Grigori Perelman's famous work is surely not accessible, and is famously incomplete. It didn't matter. The ideas were clear to enough people around the world that it didn't take long for them to spread, and for others to step up and close the gaps.

I've always said that mathematics is a form of art, perhaps with a smaller audience than most. The only criterion in mathematics is beauty: whether the work is interesting or not. Some works lack in that aspect, as it happens in all arts, and will not be appreciated by future generations. And it's fine.

Disclaimer: I do math, sometimes.
Compilation times? Obfuscation? Bloat? I like them but these are valid negatives.
Right. Naive Bayes is considered to be a machine learning algorithm, but also consists of just "simple counting".
> with no natural light

I mean, I agree with you a lot, but the Oculus itself is tons of natural light, it's all soaring windows:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZQvDMR-aOZc/maxresdefault.jpg

The above-ground Oculus structure is beautiful and inspiring in a way little architecture in that part of the city is.
Um, it just happens that I'm sitting behind a brand new fridge (not as awkward as it sounds, this old house doesn't have cabinetry for the fridge yet). It's white.
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dang, sorry you feel this way
This is the most powerful thing they could do. There are a ton of services that are almost impossible to deliver at scale without a lot of data. If only there were a company that was trustworthy...
I find that kind of hard to believe based on experience. I suspect a .3mm sheet of glass could make a bend radius of maybe 500mm, not 4.5mm.

The numbers just feel way off.

I suspect glass that can safely fold with a 5mm bend radius would be extremely thin and fragile.
1) there are a LOT of people in the world; it may happen to one kid in 100,000, you will still hear about a few of them now that we get news from so many places
2) while it is quite possible that this kid did this, it is also possible that his parents did, and are pretending he did. Similar things have happened in the art world. But who knows, maybe he did.
Yeah would like to add that asylum applicants are given very limited work privileges limited to a specific area within a country, where the countries try to distribute the load quite a bit.

But it's also easy to just keep walking to the country you want to be in since all the border controls are gone once you reach schengen area. Few easily avoidable exceptions. Further compounded by all these countries retaining their own asylum protocols, so even if a country is landlocked or access is limited by some other geographical feature, if you are able to show up then you are able to request asylum.
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I’m not sure that passes a basic sniff test.

It’s much more likely after decades of poor economic management and a weak economy, Italy is willing to sacrifice some principles/accept some risk in return for Chinese investment in ports and businesses. China has invested heavily in Greece as well for the same reasons.
I'm not sure what you're on about. The US does have social safety nets, and most people in America work okay'ish jobs and live okay'ish lives without constant nightmares.
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Yep and there are always versions of what I will call the 'deathbed' story. It usually is spoken by a person who has made it spending time on their deathbed saying they didn't have to work as hard as they did.

Not only that but what is exactly the definition of 'worry'? It means different things to different people and maybe what he did was obsessive compared to what someone else did or would do in the same exact situation.

Look I am obsessive with computer backups as much as I can. Luckily I haven't really needed them. Wouldn't it be really stupid for me to say years from now 'boy I wish I hadn't spent so much time worrying about backing up my systems?'. (Of course not and that's obvious).
Is there a win win business model that helps these homeless people while not being a charity?

There are so many issues: drug addiction, mental health, a changing economy. It doesn't feel impossible though.
Well, at least it's better than Metronome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_(public_artwork)
Sorry, but rounding up American citizens who didn’t commit any crime and shipping them somewhere else seems extremely un-American. This is the kind of thinking that has lead to some of the worst human rights abuses in the 20th century in countries like Germany with concentration camps, and in the US with internment camps.
While it is certainly impressive to build a fusor, I don't think it immediately follows that this kid is a prodigy. What it does show is that he has the skills to follow other's instructions and adapt them, and the work ethic to see a project through.

The main obstacle facing most kids who want to put their energy into something like this, is that their parents can't give them a spare room to convert into a lab and $10,000 to spend on equipment.
I don’t think static IPs are as relevant today.

What I do for my home PC (that’s for ipv4, but it doesn’t matter) is I map my current external IP in Google Cloud DNS every 15 minutes with a TTL of 0.

Of course I only make the change if needed, so I am easily below the paid threshold, too.

In a properly p2p system the idea of certain servers being offline for short amounts of time is considered a norm.

So should be OK either way.
That is a fair point. How would you counter the following?

When a call is made or a text is sent to a mobile number is is not addressed to anyone in particular. It is addressed to the number only.

Mobile phone "MFA" only proves someone has access to the SIM card. It could be anyone.

When a letter is sent to a mailing address, it can be addressed to a particular person.

In many countries, there are laws that protect postal mail from tampering.
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It's not that I think this building (or attraction or whatever) is beautiful and worthwhile. It's just that I don't care that much and I'm a bit skeptical of people who do. I don't think it would matter what kind of sculpture/attraction/landmark/etc was built here -- people would still be criticizing it because there are a lot of people who pour derision onto everything the ultra-rich do. It's like a hobby.

I think the two main motivators of this behavior are 1. jealousy and 2. a way for middle class people to distract themselves from the emptiness of their own lives: "Look at those rich people, their lives are so empty! They are so tasteless and they don't understand what really matters." Little do they know that rich people are distracting themselves from the emptiness of their lives by building this kind of stuff in the first place.

Me personally, I find it hard to criticize people who are building things. I wonder what the thousands of people who built these buildings think of them. I'm all ears if someone wants to make a serious case about what should have been built here instead and who should have paid for it. But this isn't that.
I knew about Beaker and Dat (played with Beaker browser/distribute web sites) but not the other two protocols. Glad to see a discussion here.
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