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A negative rate bond or CD is not fundamentally different from a normal one, you pay a set amount now and in the future you get a guaranteed payout at a future date. Except that instead of making money on the interest, you pay a little. The banks offer these products because they still make money on the fees, and on the arbitrage from loaning out the invested funds at a higher rate(or by doing nothing with a negative rate), or by bundling and selling the securities. This can still be a good option for buyers compared to investing in junk bonds or CDs that pay higher rates, or in stocks and mutual funds because what is important is the risk adjusted return and not just the yield. There are costs/risks associated with keeping a pile of cash in a vault or stuffed in a mattress, or sitting in another type of account that is not insured. If you expect interest rates to decrease even more buying a bond or CD can make money because you can sell it for more in the future, even with a negative rate. The big one is that in certain cases there are requirements to purchase CDs or treasury bonds by law, or as part of a contract, or by the governing docs of a company instead of just holding "cash".

For an individual, you would be unlikely to purchase these because the cost/risk of holding cash in a bank account is minimal and some type of insurance likely covers it, and most individuals want higher returns and would rather invest in index or mutual funds than CDs even if they had positive returns. And if you think that interest rates will drop in the future and you can sell the bond for more, you are still more likely to buy higher yield bonds with higher risk.
It's complicated in the US because it's the states that administer elections and IDs. Everyone does it differently, with different equipment, ID requirements, and allocation of election resources.

Voter ID, for example, is contentious because a state can influence election turnout through decisions on where ID offices are located and when they're open.

Edit: I always find it ironic that the Republican party--the party of limited government--wants people to have to go to the bastion of efficiency known as the DMV (!!!) in order to vote.
During the San Bernardino case, they have said multiple times that they cannot install software without the user entering their password.

And even if you assume a publicly traded company lying outright, what do you think is more likely: then silently backdooring the phones of people in Hongkong or pretending to have accidentally unpatched a vulnerability, hoping people would update to that OS in order for pretty obvious exploits being able to run?

If I was as evil as you make Apple out to be I would sure as hell do the former.
It’s ok as long as the date isn’t taken too seriously. Or seriously at all. If you need a deadline then probably best to stop doing scrum/CD for that feature, dust off your Gaant chart software and get planning.
My main concern with the way things are going is that it looks an awful lot like attacks on vaping are for the purpose of driving smokers back to cigarettes. I know of no one that things vaping is harmless. It is certainly much, much less harmful than cigarettes and is infinitely preferable to cigarettes.

I quit smoking, with the help of vaping. I was a pack-a-day Newport smoker that started on a ludicrously high 36mg nicotine level. I was down to 3mg within a year and quit entirely a year later.

This is a very common story for former smokers that switched to vaping. There is a theory in the vaping community, or maybe its an urban myth, that the lack of MAO inhibitors is what allows people who vape to essentially lose their addiction. What I can tell you is that stopping vaping after two years was painless, very much unlike attempting to cold turkey cigarettes.
That's what you want me to think but you're part of the conspiracy too...
You can pay less by buying the version with the 1920x1200 screen.
The number one controllable risk factor for stroke and heart attack is smoking. By far. Not diet, not exercise, smoking. A significant part of that is because nicotine will constrict blood vessels leading to hypertension[1], this leads to destruction of the surface of an artery, leading to atherosclerosis formation. One day the atherosclerotic plaque ruptures and then you see me.

We once thought that atherosclerosis is an old persons disease, where health habits later in life lead are what predicates plaque formation. The Army started noticing fatty streak formation(first stage of atherosclerosis)[2] in arteries of dead soldiers during autopsy, which now leads us to believe this starts in youth and progresses from there.

1) https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/vdp/2005/00000002...

2) https://media.jamanetwork.com/news-item/autopsy-based-study-...
Yeah, no. If feminism were at all interested in improving the mental health of men, it wouldn't be called feminism. Feminism is only interested in men insofar as the whole gender is considered the source of womens' issues.
IATA has a website, I am not sure what additional service from the new service https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/IN-India-passport-visa-heal...
Election commitee (or whatever it is called in different countries) has unlimited and uncontrolled physical access to those machines and their keys. What stops them from uploading a firmware that would count every N-th vote for candidate A no matter what was voter's choice? How do you detect that?

Unlike electronic voting, paper ballots are much more difficult to manipulate. If a voter has marked a box for candidate X, you cannot change it or ignore it if there are observers. An observer can verify that voting goes according to the rules and votes are counted properly. The most popular way to "hack" paper voting is to organise groups of people and ride them on a bus from one polling station to other so that they can vote multiple times, but it is more difficult to do, and easier to spot than simply replace the firmware in a voting machine.

In the case with an electronic machine, you cannot see what's happening inside.
Besides conception, sex exposes you to pathogens that might cost you your ability to reproduce or have sex again, or to live, in the worst case scenario. Sex is very much of a tradeoff, unless you're oblivious to the risks.
Then let me try phrasing it a third way:

So people should be forced to invest their money beyond the extent to which holding that money inherently counts as an investment, even if they don't think any of the ventures that they directly invest in are worthwhile?

The fact that government "is debt backed by full faith and credit etc etc etc" does not answer the substance of the question I was actually asking, and which should have been clear from the context I was asking.
https://github.com/cdr/code-server
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This is a horrible idea that breaks the idea of secret ballot and opens up all sorts of vote buying, coercion and intimidation.

It's absolutely imperative that after you leave the ballot box, noone has the ability to verify what your particular vote was, and you don't have the ability to prove to someone else that you really voted that way, or that ability will be abused on scale, by local "influencers", employers, etc requiring the people to demonstrate that they voted "correctly". The mixing up of ballots in the ballot box is a very important feature for the elections.
Also if the state-owner is different from the state you live in, that's probably pretty good.

Especially, if the state has different interests :)
> It should also be clear that not using electronic cigarettes is better than using them.

That is obvious. But switching the current cigarette smokers to electronic cigarettes seems clear to be a better alternative for both the smokers and the people around them.
Conceptualization of Jeong and Dynamics of Hwabyung [pdf]
I guess you mean source for state-owned VPNs?

My other comment has this ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525041

And Lantern, a P2P VPN popular with the Chinese is backed by CIA (so is Tor):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20373425
Sadly the number you are thinking about is self reported by the device - it is required by the spec to report its bMaxPower in USB Configuration Descriptor. This field is merely a convenience and a promise. http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Designing_USB_Devices_fo...
Not really. The odd vote here and there might be gamed, but enough votes to statistically affect most elections is extremely difficult. Think about it. You need a voter, physically present at the precinct, matched up to a registration. What does that mean?

Assume a million votes are cast in an election. To move the needle 1%, you need 10,000 votes. And let's assume a single fake voter can realistically cast ten votes in different precincts, considering vote time and travel time (they can't just keep coming to the same precinct, for fear of recognition).

So you need 10,000 fake registrations, that must match real addresses, and you need 1000 people working all day at fake voting. One voter out of every thousand would be working for this conspiracy.

Now, you need to do this in complete secrecy. Nobody can talk. Nobody can gather evidence. They can't go to the police, or the media. Even one leak is enough to not only ruin the scheme, but create a nationally known scandal. And if it can be connected in any way to a particular political party, that party's name would be dragged through the mud across the country.

It's insanity. No one could safely pull it off.

You know what can be pulled off, though? Voter suppression. Make it much more difficult for certain categories of voters to actually vote. Such as poor people who might not have ID (or might hesitate to use it). Then, convince a large swath of the public - people like you - that this is about security, not suppression. That form of election manipulation is now seen as patriotism, not corruption.
You beat me to this joke :)
just call your credit card company(ies)/banks and demand they stop sending you offers in the mail

this action alone will save an enormous amounts of paper, orders of magnitude more than is required for every democratic action you'll participate in with our super low tech future (paper ballots for all), and nicely reduces the amount of shipping/logistics etc. that your local mail delivery service has to do. massive win-win for the planet and democracy
I feel like nobody is bringing up one of the core challenges that the U.S. has that many countries don't. You just vote for way too much fucking stuff at once. In Canada, our ballots are literally just a list of candidates for a single seat. Very occasionally, there will be a single referendum question attached to it. That's it. I've never voted and been asked for more than two choices except for municipal elections. I searched for "sample 2016" ballot and the first result (Sumter County, Florida) had--I shit you not--26 separate votes on it.

I bring this up not to criticize, but to put those who think that paper ballets are impractical in a bit of context. Of course you'll be begging for electronic systems when all of your voting is done on a single day and you vote for who gets to be the janitor.
No the Uber/AirBnB model is to mask and hide risk offloaded to members of public, while simultaneously using apps to bypass regulations on where and how businesses normally operate.
They work by committing frequently illegal acts, organized by apps, in such a way as to put the majority of risk upon "independent contractors" rather than themselves.

Now you might point out how WeWorks' shell corporations for each property might act similar, but that's big landlords and banks getting screwed over when WeWork goes under, not individuals. Though individuals might get screwed over in the stock market by giving money to the founders and investors through IPO, but at least if they'd actually read through the hype before investing..
Realistically even if Rogan were to push back, at the end of the day you'd just be watching a show through Joe Rogan's beliefs: he'd push back where he didn't agree and he'd let slide anything he agreed with.

Instead we have a show from the beliefs of each guest, and even if some guests are wrong (I'm sure every guest is wrong in some way), you do end up with a diversity of beliefs.
Why would you expect that a bank would hold your electronic euros for less money than a negative yield bond would cost?
So does that mean that cancer is contagious among identical twins?
Regulation hasn't caught up. Think of Juul as the Uber of nicotine.
> But you'd need mandatory random audits, and a legal requirement to keep the paper originals for up to years

Or you publish all the marked ballots, so that anyone who wanted to could do their own count to verify the results.

You can also design this so that any individual voter can check to see that their ballot was included in the count, and counted correctly, without being able to prove to someone else that they voted for a particular candidate (so that vote buying schemes aren't enforceable).

See Scantegrity [1] for a specific system with these properties, which can be implemented on top of existing optical scan vote counting machines. For a more general look at securing voting, see end-to-end auditable voting systems [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
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I had an XPS13 from two generations ago, and I completely agree with the "killer" wifi linux problems.

I'd also completely agree that it was cheap and easy enough to replace. Lots of guides online, and getting a real intel wifi card was like $15. Took me about an hour, and most of that was gingerly opening the case.
If Joe Rogan wasn't accessible to the "dumb" people, we wouldn't see the level of consciousness rising on the low end in the general level of consciousness in humanity. But we are seeing that, it's just misguided so it ends up with flat earth anti-vaxx in it's adolescent stage, but this isn't to be feared or hated, but embraced as part of the psycho-spiritual development of those that lag behind. We're getting smarter as a collective organism, humanity, and this is part of the necessary growing pain. Joe Rogan was designed by God to be perfectly exactly what he is at this very moment. And by God, I mean a post-religious, post-rational, post-atheism definition of God. Richer than the definitions that have existed before the post-post-post modern age. (before the age of fake-news, fake-reality, etc.)
Hopefully that can land for some, it's a mindfuck.
If you asked, most people who are arguing for sanctions on Brasil would also support sanctions on America for pulling out of the Paris Agreement.

>if you’re going to criticise someone clean up your own house first.

Is a terrible attitude to have and will never lead to any solutions.
I was interested in trying it out as I already use Hugo + S3 for hosting with my own scripts but the added value is just not worth the cost and the free tier is not viable at all. By that I mean other online services that offer a free tier generally make it so it's a viable option with fewer features. Your free tier might as well be non-existent, none of your tech-focused audience is going to use a blogging service that allows them only 5 posts and no access to CSS.

I hope I don't sound too harsh, seems like a good idea overall.
They would have two options:

A) keep the euro notes in their vault, which only works if you deposit paper bills in the first place

B) keep electronic deposits in the ECB and pay interests to do so

In either case if they give back the money to the clients when they ask for it how do you expect them to cover their operating costs (plus the interest they are charged by the central bank in case b)?
Well, USA doesn't have a reasonable national legal ID and consider it unacceptable to implement one.
Seems difficult to do. You'd need to know the name and address of the voter, and be sure that that haven't voted yet, and won't try to vote after you.

I can see that happening maybe a few times, but it seems ineffective on a large scale.
Owner of an older 2016 XPS 13 here. I'm mostly satisfied with it, but after 4 years there's a very noticable bulge (due to thermics?) on the left to the touchpad and extending into the keyboard. Touchpad sticks out 1mm+ on the left, and has kindof always been a bit difficult to operate for right-click. Should I be worried the battery will explode or something?

Anyway, bought the XPS because of the matte screen, excellent keyboard, and rich interfaces (for a notebook of this size) incl USB-A and SD both of which I use frequently, but these are gone on the newer model. Also not enthusiastic about USB-C as a power connector; had my Samsung smartphone connector wear out within less than a year's time. It's sad because the notebook generally worked very well for me, but with the changes Dell made ceased to stand out. Any recommendations for alternatives (maybe I should finally come around and buy a Thinkpad)?
Rendering UIs in webgl is fairly user-hostile. No accessability, no extensions, no custom styles, ...
WARNING: The State of California contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
actually you can run django on cloud run without issues.
cloud run is basically gvisor+docker (which can be run on GKE or on google managed servers) its basically built with knative.. btw. even the new appengine can run django.
(you can't run background stuff or you shouldn't)
The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money
Electric and Hybrid cars still require a boat ton of non-renewable. Depending on the car, you produce as much C02 making the car as running it for a lifetime (in the case of the Range Rover, it's actually much much more in the making).
I live in Victoria, and truthfully, Victoria/Vancouver/Seattle, are basically the reason that the Oil Sands exist at all, it's where the vast majority of the product has gone over the last 50 years. (Also, I think you're talking about the transmountain pipeline, not trans-canada).
A new species of leech is discovered
I was handed a collection of shorts a while ago [1] [2]. Only two of the stories had a male protagonist: one is an ineffectual programmer trapped inside a smart house (which has a female AI personality; in the end a female colleague rescues him) [3], and the other is an insane space probe. It's not quite the pogrom jcriddle4 was describing, but it was an interesting swing of the pendulum.

The stories were mostly pretty average. I thought 'Escape from Caring Seasons' by Sarah Pinsker was great; sadly, it doesn't seem to be online. 'Byzantine Empathy' by Ken Liu enraged me greatly, because it was about the transformative power of blockchain, and like everything about the transformative power of blockchain, contains a massive implicit "???" right before the "profit".

[1] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?659620

[2] https://factordaily.com/twelve-tomorrows-mit-technology-revi...

[3] http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/okay-glory/

[4] https://breakermag.com/kchain-science-fiction-premiere-byzan...
Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
> ...it does send a strong message to our and other governments...

It also increases security for users.
Humans always have value, and claiming they don't, regardless of if they're NAZI or what they've done, is nazi-ism.
So the answer is to throw our hands in the air and give up because our ancestors did something we now to be extremely harmful so we have to let everyone else do it too?
Are those SPEs durable against legal challenges that pierce the veil and eliminate the protections for We?
So? AirBnB has the exact same problem with regulators. Uber is in trouble with taxi regulations in major cities.
I was talking about random audits on top of targeted audits if suspicious activity exists just to be clear.

Routine double counting all votes would be controversial due to the high cost.
Bad title, it could be used to generate power when it is fixed and there is a source of moving water (tides, fixed implanted medical devices) or generate force for something moving through water (submarine), but not both at the same time.

Moving water generates electrical currents, this is a pretty standard physics demonstration and how lightning works. This is perhaps a novel way of utilizing that property with thin conductive films.
It's funny though.
Now that's a really funny quote:

“We will never tolerate any attempt, by any organization—government or otherwise—to compromise Chrome users’ data. We have implemented protections from this specific issue, and will always take action to secure our users around the world.” — Parisa Tabriz, Senior Engineering Director, Chrome

while GNU just released this page: https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html

and Google admit they had to give in to sharing information about their users with the US goverment.
Because it could be used against them very soon. They wouldn't face such an existential threat if they had cared about it sooner.
This is the norm in business. It forces reciprocity. It’s why most sales orgs spend so much on business entertainment.
That reference is the book in the movie where Neo puts his stash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6R94keJcHk
Tangentially related, for anyone with an interest in surveillance craft, the US Embassy in Moscow was bugged from the ground up:

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/15/world/the-bugged-embassy-...
The Hugos have always been like that. Not necessarily about politics, but about what it is that the kind of people who vote for the Hugos find comforting. There have been occasional diamonds, but for the most part, the Hugos have been anointing embarrassingly poor books for decades.
In Star-Trek, "Sir" is gender-neutral.
I remember when I made the change, must've been 2004 or 2005, I was reluctant at first to change from IE to Firefox, but the killer feature FF had at that time was tabbed browsing.

Kids these days will never know the struggle of having 10 browser windows clogging up the task bar...
What I got out of the article is that the cost to make one more widget for a software company is minimal, and thus is mostly profit.
A non tech company has material costs (non-non consequential? :) that means their growth isn’t going to hockey stick.
That seems to be the main differenator I see when Wall Street talks about tech companies.
Apple, Google, and Mozilla Team Up to Block Kazakhstani Surveillance
I see you've posted this approximate figure and its comparison to a car three times already, but the Kia figure is irrelevant. The relevant comparision is the required power to push the USS Seawolf forward and what speed can you get with 84kW? I myself can push a 6500Kg boat although not as fast as the built-in 10kW engine, admittedly.

Don't forget that it is a sub and silent running is likely way more valuable than fast running (nobody is saying they can't have two methods of propulsion)

Also, I don't know anything about this USS Seawolf - is it a nuclear sub? IIRC the problem with them is that the pumps cooling the atomic core can't be shut down, meaning there is always detectable sound. Would a hose with this material on the inside be able to pump cooling water silently? Don't forget that the 'pump' in that case could be almost the entire length of the sub..
I've never seen anyone advocate abolishing recounts for close races. Random audits all of the time is an addition to current procedures, not a replacement.
> So, how exactly do you magically enforce affine type semantics in the data you pass to wasm-python

In Rust, calling foreign functions is considered unsafe, precisely for that reason: once you leave the boundaries of a single language, the compiler can no longer enforce these invariants for you.