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It would kill the price of gold, as its only point is the scarcity and deflationary behavior. Nobody really needs gold.

But now imagine they arrive with cool cancer curing technology and want trade it for some real estate. The deal is not so bad, is it?
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After years of contemplating which web framework to use for personal project as a server side guy (spring mvc, angualr, react, vue, plain js no framework, jquery, laravel, ruby on rails, django, etc) I have reached this conclusion:

Server side templating is the best for this kind of work so it can be either php (server side templating with php) / ejs (server side templating with javascript) or jsp (server side templating with java)

Somehow I lost touch and focus and forgot about server side templating by all these angular, react etc. they managed to mix me up.
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uh I think the main use for microwaves is reheating food. I've never used it cook anything.
Yes. It is a little more complicated than I posted earlier, but the point is that not all parties agreed on the arrangement so there was no arrangement.
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It’s kind of interesting- the asymmetry of moral expectations and entitlement.

If you accidentally purchased a bag of M&Ms from Amazon for 500 dollars instead of 5, they will let you undo it. On the other hand, if the matter is reversed, Amazon is expected to be a good sport and take the loss — even if the purchase was made in bad faith (ie- knowing Amazon mis-priced it but purchasing it anyways.)

I’m not going to entertain any counter arguments that Amazon deserves this because they treat workers poorly or don’t pay taxes or whatever, those arguments are orthogonal. The same behavior would happen with a company with better public trust and respect. And it’s not like anyone is selling those cameras to donate money to a warehouse worker in need.

I just think it’s amazing how frail people’s morality is, how it goes out the window when certain conditions are met.
I don't think we'd be able to infer the wealth distribution from GDP per capita, either. Total GDP tied with the Gini coefficient might tell a reasonable story. But the premise of Gini Index of 1 leaving all people too poor to invest directly in U.S. Real Estate makes sense. I'm pretty confident that China's wealth distribution is far from perfectly equal among all citizens.
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Gab users already have the audience/megaphone, aka "the means" to practice their free speech. I'm not saying that fdroid is not allowed to remove gab if they want to, but it's still going to indirectly benefit gab. Same as Alex Jones fiasco. Bans don't work. And if we've all collectively ran out of spoons like you say to argue against their weak propaganda, then we have a more severe problem on our hands than having gab on this store or that one. Just out of curiosity, have you seen what's on Gab? Faulty ideologies need to be discussed in the open.
It took over a quarter of the year with one engineer 100% dedicated to it and between 1 to 3 other engineers involved part-time over different stages of the project.
Sure, and some companies could send you to collections or something similar, but not many would over a $10/month subscription.
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I was about to think that was old, but then I remembered that mainframes, as I understand it, can aim for decade+ uptime, so that might actually be reasonably fresh?
> Also I’m curious about the 1-bit recording. Is that a thing?

Yes. This homemade GPS receiver uses a simple comparator (1 bit) to sample the signal (after amplification to get the noise floor over the decision threshold).

http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
It is just asymmetry of power.

We all would condemn someone who was stealing from poor(relatively speaking), while stealing from rich isn't frowned upon that much.

This is nothing new, nothing related to Amazon itself. Just part of human nature.
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Thanks for your work! When I said Multi-Account Containers are great for Power Users, I had in the back of my mind that Facebook Containers are great for everyone who does not use MAC - it really is a pretty seamless experience, and as opposed to MAC, does not require manual container selection.
To me, the headline feature for Python 3.8 is shared memory for multiprocessing (contributed by Davin Potts).

Some kinds of data can be passed back and forth between processes with near zero overhead (no pickling, sockets, or unpickling).

This significantly improves Python's story for taking advantage of multiple cores.
Note that an 8% decline does not capture the demand implications. If the market is pretty sensitive to demand, 8% is a pretty big number.
Not if it's a OTC transaction like FX markets. I worked in FX industry and there have been several occasions where due to pricing engine error or trading platform error one party was able to profit.
Amazon is a professional seller, they should know better. Buyers are not professionals, they shouldn't have to. Depending on the country this is even enshrined in law (e.g. customer protection laws against accidental buying).
Maybe a fun fact.

A Chinese colleague of me was telling me how much money is going out with every wave of western media coverage on China’s future. They become worried and they invest abroad by buying assets or sending their children.

Then I saw some articles blaming Chinese buyers causing housing market issue in other parts of the world like Sydney, London, and Vancouver.

Remind me how everything is connected and how hard is to see the consequences of other actions.
Well, that’s not what the article says. Some of their image sources are using plate-locked frames of reference, and some are using global frames of reference. It’s actually inconsistent.
Again, nothing about hosting Gab apps forces you to install them and be exposed to content from Gab. You still fail to address my point.
Would you support the same thing done by, say, Christian bakers not providing a customer for religious-ideological reason?
I think who you're purchasing from does make a lot of difference though and it is not necessarily an orthogonal topic in morality.

I'd imagine a lot less people would take advantage of this pricing error against a mom and pop store than a multinational corporation like amazon.
adding up case, charger, a decent sd card and the pi is way above 35$
Unprotected sex doesn't make you an expert in anything.
Oh, I agree. Media like NYTimes and Bloomberg have enormous influence over the sphere of finance and investments. They have and will continue to exert equal and probably more influence on how US money is invested overseas. But that does not alter the fact that they've been wrong about China all these times.
Four of them too from what I've seen, none of them banning /pol/.
Yes but it has more costs involved than just this.

For example the statistics of the brands Sony and Canon are now wrong and the budget of advertising is still as it was yesterday. So the bookkeepers have a lot of exta work to get this straight.
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Is a dark UX pattern not deceptive by definition?
A synonym for a denial of service on a platform is a ban.
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But it's not one cable, unless you pay $30-$50 for that single cable. That cable will also be very limited in length. If you want something that is longer or cheaper then you're going to have to get multiple cables.
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I bought hosting and domain name from namecheap last week.
I could (and still can) toggle auto-renew on and off pretty easily.

My only gripe with namecheap is that sometimes I have to solve a captcha to login.
As not2b suggests, it's more nuanced than "Hong Kong is just another city by 2047".
Firstly, they're supposed to be separate for at least 50 years. The ambiguity comes in with determining how separate the "two systems" really should be. Are they allowed to specify the national curriculum? Are they allowed to extradite criminals?

After the 50 years are up, Hong Kong can potentially continue to act semi-autonomously as an SAR. (It's just not supposed to change until after that date.) Hong Kong's current status is economically advantageous to China, as companies have a place to make inroads to the large Chinese market in a business-friendly environment that typically respects the rule of law. The SAR is also given special economic status by some foreign countries, which would likely be taken away upon 'complete integration'. The integration that you're talking about is going to be a long process, and there won't be a singular point where it's clearly happened. So we shouldn't be surprised that China is making efforts to integrate now, but we also shouldn't be surprised by the resistance.
Kvashuk, the complaint suggests, was undone by Microsoft's UST Fraud Investigation Strike Team (FIST), which noticed a suspicious increase in the use of CSV to buy subscriptions to Microsoft's Xbox gaming system in February 2018. The investigators traced the digital funds, which had been resold on two different websites, to two whitelisted test accounts.

From there, FIST proceeded to trace the accounts and transactions involved. With the assistance of the US Secret Service and the Internal Revenue Service, investigators concluded that Kvashuk had defrauded Microsoft, despite efforts to conceal his identity with fake accounts and to hide public blockchain transactions using a Bitcoin mixing service.

In addition to service provider records that point to Kvashuk, the complaint notes that Microsoft's online store uses a form of device fingerprinting called a Fuzzy Device ID. Investigators, it's claimed, linked a specific device identifier to accounts associated with Kvashuk.

Pretty involved dissection, went all the way down to digital fingerprinting to catch it.

The thief was smart about the hiding it, but not smart enough, but he had to know after $10m they would catch on. Reminds me of the McDonalds Monopoly game that the extended family of one of the people that worked at the printing place kept winning which was improbable, then expanded further where everyone would give them a cut of the winnings up to $24m [1].

> Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip-club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’

Take $10m or $24m from a large corporation, someone is going to notice.

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds...
How do you pay DoNotPay? What is their business model?
He's talking about it from the moral standpoint. Most customers will be able to tell that something is off when camera gear is that cheap.
I've thought about this a lot. Every way to monetize a game will be interpreted with hostility.

If you sell games for $60 upfront then your marketing will be perceived as a scam in the face of any failures or shortcomings in your game. You're trying to hype people up and sell them something bad.

If you sell attempts, or lives, like an arcade or candy crush, then when players lose a level they think you're extorting them for money.

If you sell time, like a subscription, then players think you are trying to force them to grind to pay money

If you sell in-game items, like weapons or maps, the players think you are intentionally weakening the free items in favor of the power you can buy.

If you sell in-game cosmetics, like skins, which have no impact on gameplay, the players think you are trying to make every look stupid and you have to pay to look cool.

Video games are inherently manipulative in the sense that the game is designed for you to behave in fun ways and do fun things. Once monetization is in the picture it completely poisons the whole dynamic. It doesn't help that the audience skews young.

If you want to make a game just for the passion of it, if you want to have a healthy relationship with gamers, you are literally not allowed to monetize. You have to give it away fully for free.
Depends on the site.

In my native city: Times Square is to be avoided at all costs; the Met is worth going to.
This is my new favorite site. With so much of this stuff it's hard to find real info outside of the insular circle of crazies.
It really is underappreciated. (Well, the OV-fiets is nearly universally revered, but people just love complaining about the trains. It's far from perfect, but it's really pretty great, for many routes even compared to travelling by car.)
I'm aware. The first link I gave says as much.

However while it's accepted in regional spoken US English, it's not accepted in written English, even US English.

As for evolution, language does indeed evolve but only when changes are accepted by a significant number of speakers. No matter how much you wish it, you can't simply start forcing a linguistic change on society without society agreeing. If you start to spell "agree" as "agrii" for example, nearly all English speakers will (rightly) tell you that you're wrong, you can't just respond to them with "language evolves". "On accident" is still rare enough that we have a choice to reject it and that's the choice I'm making.

Also, remember that there are non-Americans on this site (I'm one of them). To us, this is simply incorrect. We don't have exposure to this kind of US English in most of the American media we consume (TV, movies etc.).
But why ? Other than inertia and legacy reasons that is. Is there some non partisan resource on this ? A paper or a neutral blog ? Whenever you try to research something like this, you end up on either IBM pages or pages by mainframe enthusiasts. I want to know exactly what you are buying compared to a regular high availability database like setup in the cloud.
I’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. Thank you for mentioning this.

Would this work with e.g. large NumPy arrays?

(and this is Raymond Hettinger himself, wow)
Well, I guess we'll see what Beijing decides, because Hong Kong's opinion is moot.
Not at all.
first, real estate is the essential part of a grand urbanisation plan along with other infrastructure developments.
second, concrete and steel buildings definitely last longer than plaster and wood built ones in U.S.. It's just U.S. people spend a lot of time maintaining their house...I think it's not economically sensible. The time spent on house maintenance and repair could be more valuable in productive activities.
"he had to know after $10m they would catch on...Take $10m, someone is going to notice"

You don't know that for every person caught after taking $10m there aren't 5 who took $100m then stopped and got away with it. It's just pure speculation.
The message here seems clear: F-Droid is not a free platform. The software on it might be free software, but it is curated by F-Droid. If you wish to exercise your free speech, you should use another platform, since F-Droid can and will censor it.

I for one am deciding now never to use F-Droid for anything important enough that it risks being censored. I do not use Gab myself, but I think such platforms are very important to a free society.

It is ridiculous to try to censor a free speech-centered platform because people say disagreeable things on there; that is the point! We can not have "free speech, but only if I agree with you".
The idea that str.format produced simpler or more readable code than f-strings is contrary to the experience of most Python users I know. Similarly, the contortions we have to go through in order to work around the lack of assignment expressions are anything but readable.

I do agree that Python is moving further and further away from the only-one-way-to-do-it ethos, but on the other hand, Python has always emphasized practicality over principles.
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Gab, via their free speech and unwillingness to take down content in general, promotes content that is racist, misogynyst, antifeminist, islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, authoritariant, supremacist, and pretty much anti-intellectual. This is why I oppose that platform.

Of course you can have free speech as a person and a code of conduct for your service. You are free to say anything, and your platform has a right to not want to hear or spread anything.
Hey, sorry to go a bit off topic here, but it has been on my mind a lot and besides Nextcloud (Virtual drive, little supported and imo not great for other reasons) and Seafile (part commercial, confusing package) I haven't been able find any viable solutions for this.

My problem seems simple. I'd like to only really synchronize a few (selected) files and directories, while other files are simply shown as stubs and only downloaded on request.

I've seen that there is a Syncthing explorer that only downloads files on demand. Is it possible to build a hybrid and how difficult would it be?

Thanks.
Is it really about morals? I see it more as a service that makes people chose your site over the competition. It basically boils down to “the customer is always right”, doesn’t it?

Morally the customer isn’t always right, but you sell more when you protect them from their own mistakes as well as yours.
Yeah, I recently had to change TTL on my laptop to 65 to avoid tethering fees.
Make sure you understand big-O properly. Focus hard on algos and data structures. Keep looking for areas of specialization, eg Networking, AI, compilers, formal grammars, etc. Don't forget to work on the math. Keep coding.
Amazon is famously the company that sells you counterfeit crap only to point at some anonymous third party.
The incentive will be to hype the game up, encourage people to preorder, go on a massive marketing spend, and then don't fix anything broken about it after launch to make sure it's dead within 2 years in time for the new hype cycle.
Food is at least a healthy market, look to other human needs which are regulated like pharmaceuticals and you’d see that people get very upset about it.
How's China going to solve its housing bubble? Because we've heard about that building up, but there seems to have been no solution. Just because it hasn't blown up yet doesn't mean it won't.
It really is. Most of the developers here probably make twice as much as the average independent type designer, yet they insist on distributing their work without consent.
Possibly, in the McDonald Monopoly scam eventually the mob got involved, so maybe some are able to get away with it somewhere.

But like in Office Space, when the account gets big enough it has to eventually be investigated and people aren't smart to run up a big amount but get greedy, whether they find the money or not who knows but someone will know.
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What if is the right phrase. You assume they are only looking for a specific margin, which they have to optimize for. They already optimizing to maximize the total profit. If there is a productivity increase of the workforce possible they take it unless the conditions get so bad, that a lack of workforce or lawsuits result in higher losses. Same goes for a price increase, if the number of sold products shrinks less then the additional margin per products its a reasonable thing to do.

That piracy/fraud/costly mistakes increase the overall cost for consumers just doesnt happen, no large company in their right mind has additional profit potential lying around that they just dont take because they dont need to. What happens is that at some point the market segment becomes no longer profitable and companies leave that segment entirely.
Man, things get really ugly when you start shitting on the practical yet horrible things ordinary people use just to scrape by.

The way I see it, dollar stores are the resulting explosion of inedible jellyfish in an open sea, overfished and stressed by voracious invasive species.

If you think the jellyfish caused the problems, you're way off the mark.
20 years after. It took 2 decades. My impression from the debate, and taking in consideration the political context, is that he saw that as the tipping point of the BDFL transition and a good test run as much as a language feature.
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See my other replies as well.
Let's be specific.

There are about three dozen people being held in Guantanamo. A total of around 780 people were detained in total by the US military over a decade and a half. Of those 780, around 730 were let go. Nearly all of the detainees were granted representation and visitation rights, along with Guantanamo itself being subject to public observation & access by human rights groups. The US Supreme Court ruled that the Guantanamo detainees have specific protections, such as habeas corpus and have a right of access to the US court system.

Your comparison is between Guantanamo and what China is doing. Therefore it begs the question: when is China going to stop forcibly stripping millions of Muslims of their religion and beliefs, torturing those people, and let go the million or more people they're actively holding in camps? And does the fact that China keeps building more camps, indicate that it's all going to stop soon? Will China allow media access to the camps? Do those being held in the camps have any rights of representation? Do prominent human rights groups have routine access to the camps for observation purposes? Has China publicly declared where every camp is located and how many people are being held in the camps?
Amazon is not a person, it's a company. Attributing moral to a transaction with non-person entities is frail itself. Does moral even apply here? What does it mean?
Anyone can predict a bear market... the trick is when.
And The Economist. Can’t forget The Economist’s constant and sustained death knelling over China’s economy over the years.

I just file all these away along with the other 8447372 similar articles predicting the imminent collapse of China.
Scott really does make great videos. He does a great job of breaking big things down into smaller bits and making the information available to a wide audience. Didn't know he'd done an episode on Ignition!, though.
Oh, what a man! He's also the author of the legendary CHOLMOD algorithm, probably one of the most used numerical algorithms ever, just after the FFT.
On the topic of scaling (or more appropriately down-scaling) the Chinese model, I'd love to read some serious academic/scholarly papers about that. Like Western capitalism currently in practice here (i mean US), the Chinese model certainly has its limitations. There is zero chance, I mean absolute zero probability that China could grow at 6+% forever. But the fact that a country of 1.2 billion population has emerged from dire poverty just some short 50 yrs ago into one of the most vibrant economies in the world is a fact that's truly inspiring.

This is one of those examples, as in predicting the stock market, where the majority opinion is always wrong.
Note that there are also millions of Mexicans which are US residents but not US citizens.
its the only digestible news source for geopolitical stuff I can watch AFTER a day of intense programming.
It's not, it's correlation between fresh student, and what happens in the field.
Probably helps the employees realise that their vote matters..
Well, would you like to allow that kind of comments on HN?

I mean it's just teenagers using the N word...
I think it’s also proportional though. Like this amount of money isn’t even pennies to Amazon and I think people recognize that. If this was something much crazier, a mistake that could put Amazon out of business in the same way a financial mistake to an individual could make them homeless, I think at least more people second guess what they are doing.