skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're describing a different process.

People lost their life savings because they purchased assets that went down, or they lost their jobs in the general economic downturn. Nobody lost their life savings because their bank suffered a run and their deposits were lost.

To extend the metaphor, this is the difference in getting wiped out in the 2017-2018 crypto crash, and getting wiped out by Mt. Gox.
I presumed that everybody did this.
Are they following the Agile Manifesto?
https://agilemanifesto.org/

If so, then it is. If not, then it isn't.
I honestly doubt some sports have any value to the masses at all, such as bobsleigh. The Olympics increasingly operates like a corporation and is used as political tool.
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The last time was also a mistake.
For whatever reason, the UK has been extremely against extraordinary rendition despite being aligned with the US.

It was a decent sized scandal that rendition flights had even just refueled in Diego Garcia (a UK territory).

These sorts of things can't be looked at in terms of broad 'alignment'.
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It's called a successful countersignal. It says: "we commit to providing such an unmatched degree of pure technical excellence, openness and outstanding customer support that we can have a hidden/secretive white guy wearing a frickin' fedora hat as our literal corporate logo--And get away with it!" I'm sad and even a little concerned at seeing it go away.
Some of the big tech companies already have a solution to this problem (good performers might not be good managers):

They make it possible to make good money as an individual contributor without climbing the management ladder.
Once your doublewide is up on cinder blocks and functionally immovable / hasn't rolled in 20 years, things do actually get more complicated.

"this is my land, you're tresspassing, get that "mobile structure" off in 24 hours or you'll be arrested" is not something you can do to a renter with quite the same level of cruelty.
The American people should work to de-classify the black sites, and close down Gitmo - only then will the incredible actions of America's ruling elite intelligence classes become fully understood.

Yes, read the Wikileaks. Investigate for yourself and move outside the comfortable safety bubble of mainstream mediathink, which makes such acts 'too incredible to be true'.

It starts with Wikileaks, but ends with effective use of political power by the American people to ensure these heinous acts are revealed to the world. That is, entirely, the point of Assange in the first place - that Americans are being swindled by their governments secrecy into being complicit in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Or, is your standard "we have been told we are all the good guys, so - no matter what 'mah Russians' have to say about it - we are the good guys"?
Look around you. A mobile home is generally the most cumbersome and expensive-to-move (and store somewhere!) yet valuable thing you can own. Your car is big but moves under its own power.

If a landlord evicts you, any sane law would require them to disburse any value from possessions you leave onsite, minus reasonable disposal or administration costs.
Which states specifically have these laws? What's the typical legal name for these laws? Couldn't find anything on this in a few quick Google searches.
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Several months ago I came across a website dedicated to sharing this mindset--that privacy, even if you have nothing to hide, is good for society and lets people break out of restrictive norms. I haven't been able to find it again despite a pretty long search. Do you happen to know the site I'm talking about?
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Thank you for sharing the fried chicken recipe. I've ordered the oven and thermometers and will be attempting it this Friday night.
> Local organizers plan to use existing venues such as Staples Center, Pauley Pavilion and the Rose Bowl. Only a few temporary facilities will be needed at relatively little cost.

The U.S. has been pretty good on this front. Salt Lake City nailed it, almost all of the major additions are still actively used by the community (hockey, cross country skiing, ski jumping, etc).
You piqued my interest. I would check this out and the effect of hosting the World Cup:

1. Economic Impact of the London 2012 Olympics (https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/2100/994)

2. Analysis of Impacts on China's Economy of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5369536)

3. The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games (https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/economics-hosting-olympic-g...)

4. Google Scholar Search: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C11&q=eco...
I fully support this. If you, a manager, are aware of illegal activity within your organization and do not take steps to stop it, you are as responsible as the individuals doing the illegal activity.
The argument structure there 'a related to b related to c, therefore c works for a', isn't far from what they use on Ancient Aliens.

So, where's the actual profit? Or is this all mind control, friend-of-a-friend illuminati stuff that's assumed to make Google want to do this stuff?
I mean - that does happen. I personally know of enough middle class kids for whom none of that is true. They just worked incredibly hard, and didn't give up when people normally do, including not being paid for many years while living at home with a family. Sometimes what people attribute to connections or privelege, is a lot of behind the scenes sacrifice, and fortitude, and patience.
So far the permanent venues built for 1932 and 1984, have had very long lives full of use - I see no reason why 2028 would be different based on their statements.
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This does that in Vim: https://github.com/wellle/targets.vim

I use it all the time!
The only reason I don't use Spacemacs is the startup time/GUI lag, but if it works for you keep at it!
Of course, they won’t build housing, schools, libraries, services, or hospitals, so it’s hard to see how this will benefit the people of LA at all.
I'm not entirely sure why that's strange. It's been a common term for an instance or VM for as long as I can remember.
Thank you for the trivet recommendation. In addition to purchasing the 5L ditch oven and thermometers after reading the recipe blog post I've now purchased a trivet to go along with it.
If mob guys lobby politicians to make their protection racket legal, then no difference.
john wheeler is one of my favorite physicists. one thing i have wondered is: where and who are the john wheeler's of today? that is, who are the people who are well suited to advising and mentoring students and generating a lot of active, comprehensive research in a field. i feel john wheeler is completely underrated and underappreciated in his ability to advise and mentor and lead research programs. just look at his wikipedia page that lists all the post-docs, phd students, master's students, and undergraduates. it's insane! he seemed to have been a real treasure. just look at how many of his students went on to become famous or notable in their own right.
Salt Lake City https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympics#Economic_...
Looks far better than the Rio buildings to be fair...
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If anything, I'm happy that there's a country willing to prosecute people for white collar crimes.

Just look at how America is all-too-willing to let mass murderers like the Sackler family get away with profiting off of addiction. Do these sound like words of someone trying to do anything other than profit off of death? “The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white.”

Meanwhile you see blue collar Americans charged with federal riot and conspiracy charges for exercising their legally protected free speech rights at a protest that they had acquired a permit for (Rise Above Movement).
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Another alternative, visually select the region you're interested in then:

:'<,'>normal @q

to apply the macro (in q) to that region. You might want to remap the above command to some shortcut if you find it useful often.
> Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten if we look close enough?

This arbitrary and dangerous thinking.

But if you really feel like it by all means start looking closely at as many billionaires as you can identify and prove that each of their gains were ill-gotten.

Just please avoid the generalization.
A loan is an asset, it just isn't a riskless one. A great example are bonds, typically considered to be assets, which are technically a loan that you have given to a government or company.
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"The London Olympics cost $19 billion, three times the original $6.5 billion budget, while the Tokyo Olympics are estimated to cost over $25 billion, four times the originally announced budget. There are similar stories from the Games in Athens, Montreal, and Sochi." -- Deadspin

The budget will definitely keep multiplying until it's at least double digits. The initial budget was a fantasy.
"The new figure represents a $700 million increase over previous estimates, with organizers saying they had to adjust for inflation after L.A., which originally bid for the 2024 Games, agreed to wait four more years."

Not much of a news story here - wait four years, inflation goes up - when you're looking at 6b, 700m in inflation seems reasonable with the state of inflation in the economy.
> This looks like your targets unintentionally depend on the other code.

Sometimes it's unintentional, for example an include left in after it's no longer needed. Other times it's intentional but lazy. For example, I often see commits that pull in one dependency just to use one tiny little utility function, but that dependency pulls in ten others, which each pull in ten others, and before you know it any change in a hundred files forces yours to be recompiled even when that tiny utility function wasn't touched.

A responsible developer would refactor the header file to keep the number of spurious rebuilds down, but the world is full of irresponsible developers. With multiple repos, the public immutable part of an API and the private fluid part tend to find their way into separate files pretty quickly. With a monorepo they don't, which is kind of ironic because one of the purported benefits of a monorepo is that it's easy to reach into "someone else's code" and refactor it. Unfortunately, people just don't seem to use that ability for good often enough unless review culture forces them to.
>> Hasn't the crime expired?

> No it hasn't.

IIRC, a couple of the less serious crimes expired but the most serious one remains prosecutable.
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Ask HN: Building a SaaS from scratch, whats the best language/ecosystem to use?
Hi,

I'm a seasoned developer building a SaaS from scratch independently, whats the language/ecosystem to use? I experienced in building with .NET but want to make a choice considering the ecosystem that is vibrant too. Thanks.
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The article presents too many Agile/Scrum "artifacts" for my taste, eg

Agile favors so-called T-shaped skills

Adam Smith would be turning in his grave

Agile is a true democracy

LOL

The Agile philosophy certainly has something to say, but it's not hard to see the possible negative implications of "self-managing/self-policing teams" when they're owned by capitalist organizations.

These kinds of ninja teams can be extremely effective, but they should own a share in what they create, otherwise the whole thing becomes a BS attempt to make people work harder via "transparency"
Speak for your own cultivated lack of empathy and situational awareness. Most of us are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.

All three of you have so much free time on your hands and such compelling priorities, that you each went to the effort of creating your own green account, just to make a single idiotic statement each defending racism.

To "xncYCa," "pKaqzd," and "olwq": Is this the job you're all paid to do? Do you three sit next to each other at work in St Petersburg? Or do you all have to share the same chair? Get a real job, professional troll.
One note from the IVPN report is telling--not so much about IVBN, but of the limitations of an audit:

> While Cure53 has faith in the proper handling of privacy and the absence of logging
on the IVPN project, the auditors empirically only confirm that the systems that they had
access to displayed no evidence of logging.

Also keep in mind that the audit specifies the situation at a single point in time. There is no way to tell if things changed the next month. Or if law enforcement installed something that nobody could talk about.
I have been actively trying to reduce my ecological footprint because I believe climate change is real. I don't feel it's a matter of "personal choice" at this point. The way we live has a profound impact on the planet, and we all need to try and reduce that impact in any way we can. I realize this is a message people don't want to hear, but I believe they need to hear it. Going vegan and flying less are two of the biggest changes an individual can make.
Murray is interesting - he's intelligent and well-informed, but he leans so heavily against the UK intelligence services that he's unable to spot situations where they're probably not the villain. Like the whole Skripal case.

He regards "bellingcat" as an enemy; they are the supposedly independent blogger producing OSINT that showed the Russian missile launcher used to shoot down MH-17. These days I'm suspicious of people defending the argument that this wasn't Russia.
They don't pay list prices either, and have negotiated something much less. The list prices are basically a fantasy hoping to gouge the unknowing, while the rest of us feel like we got a discount.