skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not really sure how Tether is maintaining their $1 peg on the open exchanges, it seems to me that they shouldn't be. But explaining why the market cap hasn't gone down is very easy, it's very hard to actually destroy Tether.
Hey, I don’t disagree that that FDA is very conservative. My comment was more around the politics of it.

Look back at the Vioxx hearings. People crapped all over the FDA because they didn’t catch an increased risk of CV issues until post-approval.

If you’re the FDA, it’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.
Every time I see this brought up I'm reminded of The Office. Mostly due to this incredibly in depth analysis: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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Maybe it's just me, but when a widespread injustice is only being discussed in the context of it happening to a rich and/or powerful person, that's a pretty strong hint we're not talking about the actual injustice.
I don't see the big deal. They don't think Linux support is worth it. So a developer chasing Linux support won't use them. Salesman says what he needs to trying to close the deal. Kind of a dumb thing to say, but... Us Linux users are used to being second class citizens in the consumer software world. Vivox just won't get our money either. Eh.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
As far as that goes, I'd be willing to start with implementing standards for execution and working back from there. I haven't looked it up, but I imagine this is how law enforcement evolved in humans.
All the moonwalkers were men, all were American, all but one were Boy Scouts, and almost all listened to country-and-Western music on their way to the moon

These writers just can't help themselves. It's part of their hive-mind checklist.
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What danger do you foresee in your thought experiments?
Yeah, Scotland Yard confirmed it about an hour after his rearrest.
As a Japanese, It's crazy too. The government approved treatments are all strictly priced. No more and no less.

2k USD for a few stitchies? That's still insanely high.
Damn, did not think of that #facePalmToMyself. Yeah, such things shouldn't be outsourced
The only thing special about a mobile home is that usually (non-mobile-home) you either rent or own land+house as a bundle, not rent land and own house (or the far less common vice versa). Besides that it's just the classic trade-off between owning and renting, paying for liquidity. Is owning better in general? Probably, because it has powerful rights in a finite world. Even home owners are subject to disposession due to HOA/COA, property tax, and condemnation/eminent-domain.
You can firewall the backend services and use 2fa to temporarily open them for a specific workstation.
Obvious solution is just give people more money for doing the same thing.
I wonder how a testing supervisor could be motivated to falsify the tests?
That video is absolutely hilarious - thank you for making my morning
Maybe they should book a trip to Athens, Greece, before spending more.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2014/aug/13/abando...
The original response was of course stupid. Developers should just use Mumble instead anyway. It's open source and not locked into any specific platform.
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> These things happen all the time in real world free unregulated markets. The seller looks at you, tries to understand how much you can afford and what are your alternatives right then, and to get the highest price possible.

But that is not at all what I'm asking about. You clearly didn't read the post I commented on.

If my basement is flooding and I sound rich and dumb to the plumber I call, I might get quoted triple the price of one of his regular customers, sure.

But there won't be a Plumbing Benefit Manager company as a middle man that has a "negotiated special hourly $800 rate" with the plumber so I don't have to pay the "official $9340 rate".

That sort of complex plunder reeks of regulation to me. I can't imagine how it arises. Which is why I asked.
Does then should allow the insurance company to go after SPI and its directors to recoup the payout.
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It is unfortunate. I remember the earlier days of the internet when regulation wasn't brought up like this constantly.

I think the unfortunate reality is whenever there's money involved, certain players will win over and time and become gigantic and by the very nature of their being at the top, they are unethical. Naturally, the less ethical and more ruthless money makers win in the market if all other things are considered equal to their competitors.
At least for high performance C++, the Linux toolchain improves code quality by so much. Between valgrind/cachegrind, asan, efence, always having the latest clang and clang_analyzer, and Dockerfiles for continuous integration environments, programming on Windows feels like I have a hand tied behind my back.

Even something basic like replacing malloc with your own instrumentation to track errant allocations is basically impossible since every DLL in Windows loads its own allocator.

I know Windows has similar tools but wrangling Visual Studio, especially remotely or across multiple developers, is significantly more painful in my experience.

Even if you don't ship on Linux, programming on Linux is worth it imo. I mean, Carmack wrote Quake on a NeXT and shipped on Windows, so if he was doing it back in the day, how wrong can it be?
While I completely agree with you, the armchair investigators of HN and the rest of the internet had no problem speculating about Boeing and the 737 thing before anything definitive was concluded by any actual investigations by real investigators who know what they are doing.

The sudden change of heart here is mildly entertaining.
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I only quote it because some people can't use observation data to understand the world. They rely on the authority of science to prove it to them.

Way before Milgram it was known: jails, concentration camps, humanity is rife with stories of atrocities. And of a significant percentage of the population participating.
Kind of sounds like you're arguing their "terrible but not an epidemic". It would be nice to live in a society where you didn't have to dig into the stats to determine how much gun violence is actually happening, and instead the answer was little to none.
Pretty nice to see actual research on this, especially in the teeth of the selection effects that make it harder for people working on their own to get funding.
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You're not held responsible. The company is. You just made a bad investment through bad fortune. You get to sue the company for losing you money.
It is false for the reasons I already explained to you. That number is misleading. Renewables are calculated that way which is what is misleading for reasons I already explained.
I read his autobiography back when it came out and remember it being quite good.

https://www.amazon.com/Geons-Black-Holes-Quantum-Foam/dp/039...
NixOS is much saner than your usual run of the mill distros.
>This time, organizers said they based the budget on “real” dollars, looking across the next decade to predict expenses and revenues in terms of when the money is actually spent or received.

To be interpreted as: It takes multiple revisions of the budget before somebody in the city government was even realistic enough to apply a discount rate to future cash flows.
I think people would probably prefer that as well, rather than the accepted standard of companies offering only cost-of-living raises unless you hustle your way to a new title (or company).
Los Angeles is treating this like an infrastructure project - it gained numerous benefits from the last two times it hosted, and will likely gain more of the same this time.

Los Angeles of all cities (based on history) has a good chance of running a profitable Olympics.
The interactions you have where you could possibly save a million dollars on a contract are not the interactions of an average person
> Going vegan is simply the right thing to do at this point.

I'm sorry but no. Your diet is a personal choice and no amount of shaming is going to change that.

Do you travel internationally? Own a car? Do any other of a million things that have an impact on the climate but also constitute living your life?

It's great to put this information out there but telling people that your choices are "simply the right thing to do at this point" is incredibly condescending and will likely have the opposite impact you want it to have since no one likes to be preached at.
I'd be interested to learn which part of the german constitution was "essentially written by the americans". Can you give an example? Just one?

Please don't forget that (1) the allies had really diametrically opposed goals -- France had to be coerced by the UK and the US to agree to the draft constiution. Moreover, (2) the allies tried hard to avoid the impression that they were forcing anything on the german drafters. Only the date for the drafting conference was an allied constraint: 1. September 1948. The allies wanted to West-German population to accept the constitution, remember the cold was was hotting up at the time, and Soviet union was good at exploiting discontent.

approved of the Germans
that went there

Is that even true? Was there an official approval process? Have you got a reference for this claim?
You're stretching the definition of reserve too far.

Banks are fractionally liquid, but they're actually fully backed by non-cash assets, such as mortgages, business loans, and bonds. The reserve requirements and risk levels are tightly regulated and they pay insurance (FDIC) to protect against the risk of sudden withdrawal demands or market downturns. In practice this has been working for a very long time, with runs on banks and FDIC involvement being quite rare.

Tether is only 74% backed "by cash and cash-like securities", which means that they are insolvent, with their assets column being worth less than their debits column. This is massively worse than any consumer bank; a bank might not be able to cover all their liabilities at once, but Tether can't meet all their liabilities at all.
Wouldn't it be easier to hunt for resources deeper in Earth's crust?
he has an autobiography: geons, black holes, and quantum foam: a life in physics

https://www.amazon.com/Geons-Black-Holes-Quantum-Foam/dp/039...
Satoshi is for all practical purposes not a billionaire. The assets have not and perhaps will not ever be liquidated.
Fool me once, shame on you...
Fool me 100 times, shame on me...
That's what happens you try to play the game of being an international power broker but fail miserably.
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There's good reasons beside carbon to avoid running your car on what's pretty much liquid margarine. Arable land can't be spared for it on a global scale. And it fills the air with the usual medically inadvisable smut and gases.

Airplanes, on the other hand, that might be a good thing.
They needed to be recorded and approved as safe for the cabin. These were smuggled. It was a breach, and was punished.

If they'd applied, who knows, they might have been approved. Afterward, everybody talks about how awful it was. But that was just blather.
It's not just the wasted time, it's the fact that we're all training Google's services for free.
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They were very open about the reasons, they are simple and make total sense. I like the new brand.
I've always said the same thing. I like tofu when tofu is being tofu, but not when it's trying to be something else.
In formal terms it’s another case of the. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem

People making these decisions don’t care if it’s a net loss to other people as long as they personally benifit. As long as the rest of the US subsidies it, LA can still profit.
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This is not the first time LA has hosted the games.
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Agreed about risk reduction leading to increased use of force, that's totally the case - look at drones.

However while the frequency might increase, the scale and impact is at an all-time low.

WW1: 40 million dead. Drones:
"According to the Long War Journal, which follows US anti-terror developments, as of mid-2011, drone strikes in Pakistan since 2006 had killed 2,018 militants and 138 civilian". Hard to argue with those numbers for a 5 year period. Roughly 20 people a year die by being crushed by their TV's and furniture in the US a year - we don't stop selling furniture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...

I mean how can you NOT support several thousand dead militants, with that minor a civilian cost? I'd happily accept a far higher civilian cost for the decimation of militants, but our guys are exceedingly professional and their precision is legendary.

Mistakes happen, sure, but in comparison to the 20th century, we're doing great!

We're doing so good, maybe we should argue that we need MORE precision weapons, given how much they've reduced overall conflict and the fact that large governments are no longer as willing to go toe-to-toe because of them.
The reason your index funds return so much is that you're buying a share of ownership in the company. That includes upside but it also includes downside. If there were no downside you'd be getting exactly money market-like returns.
I think you are missing the whole point of cemeteries and crypts: to honor the dead. They are not parks. They are not nature preserves. They are not just quiet places with scenic views. They are memorials to those who have gone before.

Turning a place of honor into an office space kinda defeats the whole point and is super disrespectful.
Frankly I don't see why being a member of a corporation should protect an individual from criminal charges. If you do or authorize something illegal on behalf of your company, you should be personally responsible.

I know it's a long-standing doctrine in law and there is probably a good reason for it, but it just seems too easy to abuse.
Are you black or white?

Because if your white you don’t have the experience to speak for people of color.

If your black than I’m very happy that has been your experience.
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Telegraph never exceeds 300bpm, which corresponds to 40wpm on average.