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I apologize in advance for my stream of consciousness.

I found myself in a similar situation when I started working after graduate school. I continued to live like a poor grad student as my income became an order of magnitude higher than my expenses. Changing my expenses would have actually taken congnitive overhead, so my expenses barely increased for years. I just saved the difference in Vanguard's VTSAX.

Gradually, during busier times of my life, I did start to eat out more and more. Then I gained a lot of weight from it -- for me, eating out almost always meant eating more food than I should consume, and it's often unhealthy food. I eventually pulled myself together and cook almost all of my food at home now. I also get more joy drinking coffee at home, reading in the morning, than buying it out. Although I don't cap my grocery budget, it's significantly healthier, and spending can still only get so high if I'm not wasting food.

At this point, living life feels much like a game. Money equates to a kind of resource point that is useful to achieve goals, and it is worthwhile to manage and "cultivate" this resource, but it's not an end to itself. "Winning" isn't getting more resource points, it's to maximize joy (or other "fullfillment" however you may wish to define it). Spending resources doesn't necessarily increase joy , though it does provide opportunities. A great many things that increase joy are either free or linked to lower resource spending vs. alternatives (e.g., cooking at home is healthier and usually cheaper, and for me, often tastier, a smaller home "forces" more social interaction with family, which can often lead to a less lonely life, frugal spending while traveling can lead to you staying in hostels and meeting other friendly travelers, etc...).

Preserving and managing your resource can also let you optimize long-term choices, perhaps getting you to FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early). Even if you don't want to retire early, it allows choice to leave a job that isn't leaving you personally fulfilled.

Good luck!
I can't find it either. I think it doesn't exist in German.
In the parent post's defense, open source would actually allow for looking at exactly what data is sent how. And hold the companies accountable. This would be dead easy, without the need for whistle-blowing, or reverse engineering
In Denmark we have a fairly recent political party called Liberal Alliance. They were funded by billionaire, bank owner and businessman Lars Seier Christensen for almost 10 years and at their height achieved 7% of the votes and a spot in our government. At some point Lars Seiers brother founded a political party and Liberal Alliance fell out of favour with the billionaire.

In our very recent election Liberal Alliance was decimated and Lars Seiers brothers party was voted in and is now bigger than Liberal Alliance.

Now, I’m not suggesting anything that you will need a tinfoil hat for. There are a lot of reasons things went the way they did for these two political parties, and most of them could have happened without the easy access to money. I do, however, think it’s a worrying show of how just much influence, a single billionaire can have in a small democracy, compared to the average citizen.
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It's just an error on their part with the link, the article exists:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-04/kapitalismus-demokrat...
Extending this question a bit, a framework I'm curious about is JavaFX. A modern GUI toolkit targeting the JVM sounds like something that could rival Electron, especially if they manage to get installation right (would probably involve embedding the JVM). One would be able to write cross-platform desktop apps in Kotlin or Clojure for example. But I don't see a lot of people using it, or even mentioning it at all...
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Can anyone explain what the point of a pegged cryptocurrency is? Since you are dependent on the issuing entity to honour the stated peg, why not just have your balance be an entry in a regular database maintained by that entity? What exactly does the blockchain gain you here?

One thing it does _not_ get you is censorship resistance. If the central authority wants to take away coins from a wallet, all it needs to do is to simply state that it will not honour the peg for coins originating from that wallet. This can be tracked by FIFO, dilution or any other stated accounting principle, and renders the balance in that wallet worthless.
The medical area is full of self serving
stories that are used to justify super high prices but almost always aren't backed up by hard numbers.
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That's not page layout as we're talking about. That is one of the proper uses of float.
The articles reasoning is flawed: It does not recognize that the rise of the new far right is in answer to neoliberalism and globalism. The problems they are describing are caused by this old neo liberal anti-nationalist but still right wing agenda. I guess it is confusing to them that the current Italian government both is cracking down on immigration and for the first time is introducing long term unemployment insurance. Unrestricted immigration was also the weapon of choice for the elite in the US in the 19th century. You could pit Germans against Irish against former Slaves and it is still one of the reasons that today there are so little social benefits, because people think “those people” will take advantage of it.

I guess it is not surprising because the Zeit has been the mouthpiece for a globalist neo-liberal elitist agenda in Germany for a long time. Their editor in chief is a warmongering (has argued for a preemptive attack on Iran for example) Havard educated neo liberal.
A few years ago, a journalist reporting on how the Mosuo culture is being affected by the modern world found that many Mosuo men and women were abandoning their traditions in favour of modern Chinese social values. They also had to leave their villages for the larger cities to do this. The senior Mosuo women were apparently very concerned by this. I wonder what the rate of this defection is now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosuo#Modernity
It's nonsensical to some, but not to others :) never forget the incredible capability of consciousness.
Public company, that is their job and legal fiduciary duty.
> with zero fees via Facebook products including Messenger and WhatsApp

reminds me of the classic "If You're Not Paying For It, You Become The Product"

edit: the prototypical crypto (bitcoin) has fees as the final (after there's no more new btc) incentive for miners to process transactions. but this doesn't?

probably we'll have to look at their white paper but if Facebook is the only actor running this network why make it a cryptocurrency at all?
Fourth step: when they came for me there was no one left to speak up.
Twitter was being used to disseminate malware and addressed it in a way that hurt another platform without fixing their own. JSFiddle took a reasonable approach that did not affect Twitter and left their product offering intact while punishing bad actors. Twitter slapped a “JSFiddle bad” band-aid on the problem that does nothing to address the problem of Twitter being used to spread malicious content. Instead of using their size to do more Twitter uses it to do less.
> I know people whose spending days by reading those fake accounts while they have no idea what's fake and what's real

That's not your point I think, but fake|bots accounts and subs are among the best things we got from twitter/reddit in my opinion.

Aside from the ones designed to be funny from the start, the nonsensical ones also blend perfectly with what we would call 'legit' users and serious posts/communities.

That's to a point where I find it really useful to purposefully inject fake and non sensical content in the timelines to get some daily critical training, but also an escape hatch for the mind when hitting some of the submissions that we think just can't be real.
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Interesting link, thanks for posting it
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I am not agreeing with this opinion.

Think of the same comment put the other way around. What do you think of people "selling their vote for a mere promise of free sausages?"
I think the problem is that if you want to have a smooth UI development costs go up exponentially. There are just a lot of details necessary to be addressed. Hard to do on low budget.
It's snappy compared to IDEs like Visual Studio or IntelliJ IDEA, slow compared to native editors like Sublime Text. I think it's unbeatable as a TypeScript IDE and that's what I use it for most of the time. When I need to open a large file, I use Sublime Text.
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I mean I know they exist - Barcelona is divided into blocks I think. But personally I've never been to a city like that.
priorities != faster.

priorities == latency control.

In fact, since the scheduler is now more complex, there will be more overhead (however small) and hence slower overall.
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oops i.e. notice of mistake acknowledgement
No. They came for the nazis. There is no slope from nazis to good people.
Selling is not convincing, selling is finding people that are uninformed but are in the market for your product. So good sales people will stop selling to you when they realize you are currently not in the market for the product and move on. Bad sales people will waste their time "convincing" you.
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When we had nation states, we had free speech. Now we have companies and surveillance capitalism and we're back in the dark ages. Centuries of civic progress, payed for with blood, sold for the consumption of crappy content and evaporated in just two decades. Looks like Enlightenment has failed after all.
Democracy will take care of the "Superrich" (that will probably include most people on HN)
Root of the problem is the lack of inclination/resources for average person to participate in the democracy as much as a focused entity, especially one who doesn’t need to worry about putting food on the table everyday.

Many people I’ve met are completely apathetic of their voting powers. They don’t want to read current events, research candidates, go to town meetings, and work to inform fellow voters. On the other hand, many people are also burned out from going to work, getting kids ready, making dinner, putting them to bed, working 80 hours a week, etc. And they may not have the cognitive abilities to analyze data to figure out what is true and false.

Democracy relies on having numerous “informed” voters, but what happens when the machine gets so complicated that there are not sufficient “informed” voters?
The allegedly worst site of actual national socialists had some badly drawn anime comics with very questionable messages and a minuscule user base. They were at the lowest bottom of the barrel for years. Then censorship ambitions flared up and look where we are now...

Not that rational arguments seem to work in this discussion...
You need the $5/month subscription to use SFTP, a basic feature of SSH. That is ludicrous.
If you're interested in conspiracy theories, this may be a way for Facebook to circumvent GDPR, since financial data needs to be kept for at least 10 years. Once you make any trade using this currency, you won't be able to request deletion of personal data, since it's required to be kept as financial information.
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Thing is, is that true with FB with their dual class structure and MZ owning most of it?
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The timing isn’t great for the antitrust investigations. It’s not a particularly monopolistic move, but it creates new threat vectors for narratives of their potential villainy.

E.g. “Facebook’s market abuse could easily extend to coercing its millions of ad customers to use its cryptocurrency, enabling nefarious ad campaign spending for political causes without a way to trace the source.”
Everybody likes thinking they are in the class above the one they are in, which requires having a class below.
I think a bigger statement here is that nobody is _entitled_ to anything.

We have an informal agreement that you shouldn't hit on service workers because essentially they can't escape the situation gracefully, but that agreement is not bilateral because as a customer you generally do have the freedom to be up front or let it pass.

Obviously there are shades of grey to everything, and by no means am I excusing all behaviour, but the power dynamic is in favour of the client not the worker, and if you're respectful of the individual then I don't see why it should be stigmatic to approach someone.

For context I've had waitresses give me their number, and that was just nice, no expectation that I have to reply and no repercussions if I didn't (as-in, they didn't have a means to berate me for not replying). But, yeah, shades of grey.
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I seriously hope so, but I doubt it. The problem is that we have ever more militarized police and, thanks to digitalization, basically a real-life 1984 scenario. Our German Interior minister actually wants access to Alexa and friends for the secret services.
What about doing politics yourself?

Want power? — cling to men with more power.

My advice, drop in onto their caucus and start talking something big. Dress smartly. Make an impression of you being a "big man."

Believe me, it works.

I was a complete nobody on a work visa in Canada, yet I crashed on nearly every caucus party Christy Clarke had over 6 years I was there, and was making sure to make big fuzz with my appearance every time.
OK that's just opened my eyes a little. It sounds so obvious - if the atmospheric pressure is the same then yes we should be able to fly aircraft. Maybe not with the engines used on Earth but in principle at least. Slightly terrifying that a loss of power should result in a 50km drop to a crushing hot acid death, but probably not much worse in reality to smashing into rock like you would on earth. Very interesting comment - thanks!
I think what grows anger is double standards of liberals, among which many rich people as well.

Asking to open borders to third world immigration while paying little personal price supporting these migrants at source. See European (very wealthy) socialists.

Asking to raise taxes while using every available loophole, and every tax haven available. See Google.

Asking people to make their environment diverse, showing gender balance while doing nothing when the imbalance goes the opposite way.

Displaying solidarity in public, while doing nothing anonymously, or as demonstrated by their career choices.
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As far as I know there is no legal requirement to do so.
Speaking of LA, according to Politiken,[0] their leadership believes their terrible showing in the polls is partly due to a lack of financial support by the Danish industry at large. Specifically, they mention that LA got 3 million DKK less in support this election compared to 2015.

So maybe money does work? Or perhaps the LA's leadership is focusing on exactly the wrong reasons?

[0] https://politiken.dk/indland/politik/FV19/art7244111/Erhverv...
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Have you transferred money across borders to an individual lately?
As much as I want to criticize this FB is probably in an excellent position to navigate the kyc minefields.
Everything we have shows that this is untrue.

When you remove their funding - by demonetizing them - their spread slows.
According to their Pricing page[1], you require the $5/month subscription to use SFTP. That seems like an odd decision for a company who proudly calls out that they use 'end-to-end encryption' to sync your settings.

[1] https://termius.com/pricing
So it basically returns "true" (with hash H) from network-accessing function if "curl" succeeds, and "false" (with hash H) if "curl" fails?
Like this Jordan Peele / Obama PSA?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0
When visiting the USA I turned on the TV just to watch an ad segment (didn't have to wait long) and I agree with the dystopian feel. Medical ads and also the attack ads (political or otherwise). It just made me want to say "piss off ads! promote a product or service but stay the hell away from my personal business". Big vibe of none-of-your-business, but like you say they just get in your face. It feels a little like being at a tourist market.

But I wasn't there to watch TV so I filed it as the next weird cultural artifact where the USA is in fact exactly as advertised worldwide on TV and film instead of made-up by a crazy screenwriter :)
When there is a connection hiccup (once every couple months) and you get tossed to your backup nick then, in many channels, you can't send. What's worse, you can't re-nick while still in the channel. So you have to /part all such channels, re-nick, then /join them again. Often I just don't bother rejoining. It's extremely frictional.
Not censorship, context. Censorship is disrespectful of the reader; it assumes the authority knows better. Context is respectful; it assumes you will make the best decision (for you) when you have all the relevant information.

So don’t delete the fake video. Put a big red exclamation mark next to it that says “this video has been substantially manipulated. Contents may not be genuine.”

Also: while viewers and producers both deserve the same respect, producers can forfeit theirs by consistently failing to respect their viewers. A consistent pattern of intentional deception should earn a shadow ban.
Why is this a bad thing? Is the implicit assumption here that the electorate is primarily mindless, and that things like advertising or facebook or fake news or russian ad buying is all it takes to directly translate from dollars (or euro or rubles) to votes?

It seems to me to run counter to the democratic idea that an individual’s opinion matters. Either individuals are good at forming their own opinions from the world and voting is the practical realization of that into a government, or the electorate is an unthinking blob to be managed, as it will only vote for that for which it has been sufficiently inundated with propaganda, in which case the whole election is somewhat of a farce to begin with.

Why isn’t the will of the people (given an equal opportunity market for people to buy mass media advertising) respected more?
He may have the voting majority due to the stock class voting configuration, but he is not the owning majority.
I was not mocking it — I genuinely tried to google the term. Grenade launchers was all I could find.

I guess it's AGPL then.
Now, I’m not suggesting anything that you will need a tinfoil hat for.

We had (in Poland) at least one party which suddenly sprung into existence with decent poll results, was very pro big business and had pretty shady financing.

Fortunately they(especially their leader) were incompetent.

What I'm trying to say is that to me your account is not surprising at all.
<95%... that's catastrophically bad.
I think the angle here is international blockchain Venmo with a goal to convince the non-destitute Facebook holdouts to finally sign up so that they can commerce.

For the record I doubt that will work. The early adopters will be scammers and people duped into thinking this is their get rich quick opportunity.
I have some experience with both models. Bootstrapping is hard mostly because of sales, not R&D. I'd say a healthy model these days is to bootstrap the tech before you start investing in sales as much as you can. The danger with that is poor product market fit: most techies are not great at doing sales and marketing and you may end up building what you'd want instead of what your customers actually want.

For a no-tech company, getting techies to execute your vision is hard and expensive and generally impossible without funding or a very solid co-founder. You are basically talking about outsourcing an mvp to cheap consultants that aren't that great. The result is throwaway code. If you can sell that; great and you can then start fixing it. If not, that's a problem.

A few of the open core companies pre-date their VC rounds. I know one of the Elastic co-founders from before he got involved with that. The project was several years old by the time they incorporated and got proper funding. They were bootstrapping using consulting and support type stuff (this is how I met him). After getting organized, they went from a small group of contributors to closing several big rounds and hundreds of staff in a short time. Also from there to IPO was quite fast. I'd say this was a good example of bootstrapping followed by VC capital to grow followed by what looks like a successful IPO: they are trading at 82$ after an initial price of 70$, they have revenue, and growth, and what looks like a reasonable valuation to my (not an expert) eyes.

IMHO there's nothing wrong with VC capital provided you do it for the right reasons and on your own terms and not as a shotgun wedding. In my current company, we got close to a series A a couple of times but chose not to proceed for the reason of wanting to stay in control of our company and protecting the interests of our early investors. The flip side is that this has slowed down our pace and limited our ability to grow.
I worked some in marketing and targeting modeling within retail finance.

From what I saw, the data privacy rules and client contracts are followed scrupulously, and infractions are noted and remediated. Encryption slowed us down at least 10X,and bureaucracy another 10X.

While frustrating at times, I appreciated that most if not all actually wanted to stay well within the legal guardrails.

Of course, this is one person's experience, and obviously can't apply to every company. Genie and cork, toothpaste, and all that.
Maybe you're just not allowed toccount the points and have to pretend to let them win? :)
It's here: https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2019-04/kapitalismus-demokrat...

Though TFA was originally written in English, so if you're on HN you'll want to read the original anyway.
That does not really answer the question.
My question was "what does blockchain bring to the table compared to a regular database?".

How does using a blockchain/cryptocurrency make it easier to sidestep regulations compared to a regular old database?
It might be in the future. Here (EU) and now (2019), they cost as much as BEV, while fuel costs as much as fuel for ICE, giving you the worst of both worlds.
A few points:

- some pegged currencies are still decentralised (e.g. MakerDAO) - they rely solely on smart contracts
- even with a centralised peg, you have to trust an organisation to keep the collateral, but the contract can state that anyone can move the funds around, so the managing organisation cannot just remove funds at will

Also, compared to a centralised database, you have an interoperability aspect - if it's just an organisation keeping everyone's balances, it's hard to make those balances interact with the rest of the blockchain ecosystem (e.g. how do you participate in an ICO, if the crypto balances are stored in one system, and token balances are stored in another? implement APIs for every single one of them?)
I agree, it would be nice to see an approach that allowed access to just advanced ssh features (if you can call something like sftp an advanced feature) for a slightly less steep price point.