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We are having mass shootings at a minimum of one a month. Ordinary person-on-person gun violence happens daily. Ideally, neither of these would be regular occurrences, but they are.

Are we to just throw our hands up in the air and say "oh well"?

Would you still think that if you were among those shot, as you lay there bleeding to death?

Let me tell you this - I'm politically liberal, and I support 2nd Amendment rights. Reading the various arguments presented in this article's thread, I agree with many of the 2nd Amendment viewpoints addressed about the nuances and such of the right.

Even so, I feel that something needs to be done to get our current out-of-control situation under control.

The problem is, I'm not sure that circle can be squared, so to speak. The consensus seems to be that if you want an intact 2nd Amendment, then you have to be willing to be among the dead victims in a shooting.

I'm not sure that is what the Framers intended the 2nd Amendment to be about.

In fact - just thinking about the wording of the 2nd Amendment right now - isn't it more focused on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, for the protection of country (or State?), being part of the militia - against internal or external threats to it?

That is, again thinking about it, it doesn't seem to indicate that such people are free to carry or use their weapons at just any time they wanted to, but for when there was a perceived threat against the collective, not the individual? Of course, they would need to always have access to their weapon, so they should be able to carry it, in case that threat arrives when they are away from home or something...

This is more a exercise in reading the wording of that particular amendment - the nuances of the words, comma placement, etc. Maybe my above "re-interpretation" is not compatible; I know it certainly isn't the interpretation of the courts today.

It feels like I want to have my cake and eat it, too. I don't want to be the victim, or my loved ones to be victims, of potential future random gun violence.

At the same time, I want to keep the 2nd Amendment intact. For me that would mean the ability to hunt, the ability to shoot predators or varmints on my land, the ability to protect myself and my fellow citizens if needed, the ability to practice (ideally in a controlled range), and the ability to own the guns I want and keep them in a safe manner, with proper training.

Is it possible for both to be accomodated? I certainly hope it can - but maybe I'm just nursing along a fantasy...
I definitely thought you were going to suggest just putting electrical tape over your eyes.

I'm so sensitive to light at night that I actually thought about it.
Came here to say gaff tape, so seconding this. And I'm an actual gaffer, so you can believe me. I have it on every tiny spot of light in my room.
See, other than the personal attack (thank you for that), we agree! Contextual, relevant ads work great! There's no reason for targeting and collecting data on users, except that it provides justification for these companies to exist. Just about anyone can provide contextual ads, you need Google or Facebook scale adtech to stalk 7 billion people on the planet.

Around the announcement of Chrome's "Privacy Sandbox" effort, Google lied about the effectiveness of targeting advertising (claiming it was 52% more effective, despite independent studies settling for somewhere around a 4% difference), because it can't survive in a world where we realize it isn't necessary for ad revenue.
> To do that we can simply return without returning anything i.e. null.

I'm no JavaScript expert, but a function that returns nothing results in undefined, no?
Residents of Puerto Rico don't pay federal income tax, hence, no representation is appropriate in that case.
> You could figure out some clever way to produce carbon structures from the atmospheric gasses

Isn't that how trees work? Setup some filtration unit to remove the sulfuric acid, pump the CO2 over tree saplings, and as output you get wood plus a source of fresh oxygen.
'Co-living': the end of urban loneliness or cynical corporate dormitories?
Well, the "Mum & Pop" stores you mention, are far more likely to be at risk from taking out a loan that they end up not being able to pay back on time, and late fees and compounding interest make the total cost of the credit far more than they expected. It seems like the total risk here is visible, whereas the worst-case risk of a conventional APR model is difficult for inexperienced users to perceive.
The picture alone is worth the click!
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I love seeing Stripe announcements primarily because I just love their frontend design. It's just so dang clean.
what does the JDBC driver has to do with thread per connection in the database? jdbc doesnt care if you use threads or processes for the connection
I think there are two things you need to know, the basic model of d3 (.enter() and all that) and to make use of the example code online you need to have a good intuition for how to translate from v3 to the current version.

Once you know those two things, I consider it unmatched for creating unique visualizations, particularly interactive ones.
An evil mirror universe twin of you, instead of owning an ETF, owns a bunch of shares of APPL, a bunch of shares of GOOGL, a bunch of shares of stock X.

If you are panicked, and are selling your ETF, your evil twin is panicked, and selling all their stocks.

This causes the exact same downwards pressure on the market.

I don't buy an ETF because I want someone to do financial malarkey with my money. I buy it because I want to own stocks, and I can't be assed to deal with my own brokerage account. Besides the convenience aspect, there is zero difference between the two.
This is not a matter of opinion and focusing on advertising is a red herring, because Google is not just doing advertising, it's using mass surveillance in order to target advertising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

Surveillance capitalism is harming privacy and the idea of a free society. It gives the people holding the collected information massive power over others.
Off the top of my head, Facebook and Taboola have significant reach.
I'm doubtful that recursion would ever be more performant than iteration. Iteration with a stack gives you all the capability of recursion without the function call overhead. As others have said, the main advantage of recursion is ease of designing and understanding the solution.
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I agree, but it does seem to become more compelling if you're doing your integration in the database.
It's analogous to dependency injection, and you could do it via dependency injection by passing in an allocator object (or class, in the STL), but normally I think of dependency injection as injecting polymorphic callable objects, not monomorphic memory buffers. So I think of passing in memory buffers as a lighter-weight alternative to dependency injection for cases like this, and one that can provide some additional guarantees (see my top-level comment for details).
I have worked in the small business lending space before. Stripe cannot price in terms of APR because legally, it is not a "loan". It's a purchase of future receivables. If it was a loan, the APR would be considered usurious in most states.
I wanted to ask the same question: how does it compare to Dash?

As a non-javascript user who does data visualization, I would love to have some advice about which technology(es) to invest time into
Umm, sort of - without employment, one will likely lose any health insurance that one might have had and with that can follow financial ruin. "Lives of quiet desperation" is a fairly accurate description.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK - "A root cause investigation showed that input materials were subject to cleaning processes that had not existed during the original production run. This cleaning removed a substance that generated the required impurity. With the implicit role of this substance finally understood, the production scientists can control output quality better than during the original run."

Cites https://www.lanl.gov/orgs/padwp/pdfs/nwj2_09.pdf - "Fogbank: Lost Knowledge Regained".
Presumably by the cable that was torn off.
"When an index fund investor sells, they’re technically selling their holdings in direct proportion to their weighting in the index. So there is literally no market impact"

This is a straight out false statement. Who is this guy again? Oh yea, he has his hands in passive investment big time.
OP's account is 9 years old and hasn't mentioned CBD once in the last few pages I read.

You need to not.
What's the advantage of this over a simple hardware interface (which should be really simple since I thought NVMe was basically just a PCIe node) that directly exposes the flash and then let the application/filesystem/whatever layer handle it?
This is what Facebook was ten years ago. The problem is dating wasn't as successfully monetized as it is today. Tinder/Bumble/CMB etc. have cracked that code, and Facebook wants to get in on it.
Facebook confirms it will test feature that hides others’ likes
Wework is a tech company as long as people call it a tech company.
Are we focusing on making the next teammate's job easier and not focusing on delivering a solution quicker?
Basically, they're saying that he _allowed_ people with what many think are unpleasant views (on matters unrelated to Scala!) to speak at other conferences.
Markets are amoral and should not be used to justify anything.

You're essentially arguing that something is beneficial to society because it makes money (mostly for Google).
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> 1. inflating the money supply[0] has a usual consequence of price inflation[1].

Except this hasn't been the case for well over a decade in the U.S., and for several decades in Japan. The money doesn't trickle down, it just sits in reserve because nobody wants to invest it in capital goods, labor, etc.

And monetary policy doesn't even seem to be the primary culprit of asset inflation. Profits sit in reserve, too, and the past 15+ years of global profits have been enormous.

Say what you will about Elon Musk's financial profligacy, but the man plows money into capital goods and labor. And the fact that he's plowing other people's money is what makes it so laudable. We need more salesmen like him who can convince investors to actually invest.
While Athens was not selecting ballots, but representatives directly, random ballot voting[1] is related and is one of a very few voting systems in which strategic voting (voting for other than your preferences in order to get the desired outcome) is never correct.

There are systems that make strategic voting not correct in most (if not all) real-world settings, but those are so complicated that IMO strategic voting would still happen just because people don't understand the system.

I would love to see random ballot voting for electing any sufficeintly large set of representatives, it's simple and provides proportional representation.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_ballot
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If I wanted to learn how to live life, accepting the reality of it, while being on psychedelics, then I guess they wouldn't get in the way :)
Uhhhh, well I don't tend to wait 3-5 minutes for a single .jpeg to load on a website any more.

That was not true on 56k in the late 90s. On a baud modem in 93, sure, but I wasn't talking about that.

As for software load speed, the amount of data being loaded off a CD for a 2d or older 3d game is magnitudes smaller than the data being loaded from modern games.

Irrelevant. The amount of multimedia on a CD was vastly more than the main memory available at the time. Plus you didn't have multi cores, SSD storage (or any HD) etc.

No one optimizes anymore, and it shows.
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2 years ago I started using a sleep mask to black out the room at night. It's amazing. Mask goes on. Mind goes quiet. I go to sleep. And as a bonus: no more dry eyes in the morning.
This is like a pay day loan. It's a brilliant move by Stripe to monetize their float/net deposits.

I wonder what the effective interest rate will be.

Edit:

I meant "merchant cash advance"

Reminds me of this article:

How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-10-06/how-two-g...
I’d be down for ddclient reimplemented in Go
I really love what Stripe are doing here - whilst yes the the APR can be quite considerably higher. That's fair since Stripe are taking on quite a fair bit of additional risk.

As the borrower this loan is significantly de-risked since there aren't any dreaded monthly payments you must make.

Here's my attempt at a quick interest calculator for Stripe Capitals loans:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RH9PpJ9kdB7X4xcZvqb7...
Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance
I'm not an expert either, but from what I do recall of my EE courses in college...

Circuits with respect to frequency, past a given point capacitance starts to look like an inductor at high frequencies. The charge and discharge sloshing happens fast enough that power really gets wasted to heat or other leaks (but mostly heat for the things we build).

My personal gut-feeling is that faster Hz probably isn't happening without some kind of radically different / exotic design or process. Further that is the case it's unlikely to scale down. That kind of system might be useful for AIs, large governments/corporations, and maybe game consoles that need a lot of power and are wall-powered so they don't care.
> I'd have a hard time believing some niche hedge fund somewhere wouldn't make a killing off this by providing liquidity.

Typically the opportunists here would be stat-arb hedge funds. They bread and butter of their strategy is to isolate the non-explainable ("idiosyncratic") movement in single name stocks, then bet on that factor mean-reverting.

E.g. if Microsoft goes down 0.5%, but the market's up 1%, and the tech stocks are up 1.2%, and various other factors that move Microsoft don't explain it being down. Then they'll bet that the movement is driven by random noise, and buy Microsoft, betting that it will re-converge with where it's expected to be. They'll also use various techniques to isolate whether idiosyncratic movements are likely driven by company specific factors or market noise. Like NLP on a newsfeed to look to see if there are any breaking stories, or tracking recent analyst revisions on the stock.

Suffice to say that stat-arb funds in this day and age are very very good at this. In a liquidity unwind event, the signals stat-arb traders use would absolutely be lighting up. The biggest question would be whether stat-arb funds in aggregate have enough capital to counter the absolutely humongous flows that a potential index fund unwinding would release.

Another complicating wrinkle is that most stat-arb desks are no longer independent hedge funds, but units within larger multi-strategy funds (like Two Sigma or Millennium). There's good and bad. The good is that if there's all of a sudden massive opportunity the multi-strat fund can quickly reallocate more capital to the stat-arb desk.

The bad part is that stat-arb desks may be unwound due to arbitrary contagion in other parts of the market. If the multi-strat fund sees a big loss in another unit, it may pull capital from the stat-arb desk to meet margin calls or redemptions. For example this happened in August 2007 [0]. The subprime mortgage market blew up, then all of a sudden a bunch of esoteric stocks started behaving crazy for the next weeks. And that was largely because multistrat funds were pulling capital to meet margin calls on their mortgage portfolio.

[0] http://web.mit.edu/Alo/www/Papers/august07.pdf
Shopify capital is similar. The APR can be high, but then you usually can't get loans on that short term. Also seems to be very popular with shopify.
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FYI, in the recent versions of .NET you could do this by accepting Span<T> instances instead of the usual array + index + length.
The article explains it. You offload a lot of the processing required by the CPU onto the SSD, and you minimize read writes for the SSD architecture, reducing emulation requirements.
What's stopping a business from getting a loan and then transferring the funds - and directing part/most of their future receivables - to another entity, in order to drag out the loan term?
quick internet search says 5g is mainly a range of 1K, usa is 9.834 square km, yes this doesn't cover areas that have no roads but lets call it 1/4, that's still around 2.2M towers you'd have to add to make this feasible. Plus all the support infra. But hey at least we'll have power everywhere so we can put super chargers at every one of these towers!
We're white, so I'm sure it never crossed the worker's mind (j/k, kinda).
Would async/event based work? Of course with at least one thread per core.
There is certainly opinion whenever you choose to point a camera at something instead of something else, but I think in this instance the choice of no narration left the viewer with a bit more space to make their own interpretation than many documentaries do, which was refreshing.
This is really cool! I find it very interesting that moving the key-value store directly into the hardware could result in performance gains.

I suppose these wouldn't be as generally useful?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly the problem LLVM was designed to tackle?
Just in the US right now. We know the need for capital is global, and we’re working to expand this to EU businesses soon! However, we don’t have a specific timeline at the moment.
This is what is known as Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_cash_advance, nearly every business with at least $20k credit/debit card sales a year has access to through their payment processor, bank, or companies that specialize in that sort of arrangement, of which there are tons. It is not a loan, what you are doing is basically selling your future card sales at a discount.
I think this is good model, Good performing business always have option of taking loan from alternative places instead of Stripe at better rate. Fixed fees no compounding helps businesses avoid debt trap. Which is a reason of so many business failures.
Is there any expectation or obligation that all proceeds of the business are handled by Stripe?

I mean, if you have several payment methods on your website, one resource to improve your APR could be to make more promiment other payment methods for the duration of the loan.
>Mixing binary components together constitutes manufacturing explosives. Persons manufacturing explosives for their own personal, non-business use only (e.g., personal target practice) are not required to have a Federal explosives license or permit.

i.e "the kind of explosives most non-experts in non-military settings are best served by are free to use for personal use (state law notwithstanding)"

https://www.atf.gov/explosives/binary-explosives
CPU offload. No futzing with blocks. Just send a key and value.
The problem of course, is that Google isn't the market loser... yet. So while Google doesn't have a history of patent shakedowns yet, if we look at other tech companies that are past their prime, we can make a reasonable guess Google will eventually join the patent shakedown game.
Well, I was obviously generalizing, not stating that no programs anywhere need to run faster.

However, taking your example, the filters can't really be optimized because they're applications run on top of a bloated operating system which isn't optimized for the reasons I mentioned.

Writing a highly optimized program to run directly on the hardware of a given machine would speed up filters tremendously but also be a trade-off in terms of manageability.
I carried a palm pre in my front pocket 10 years ago, it was probably thicker than this phone (though also much smaller diagonally).
> ... INTEL CORE I7

When someone says Intel i5 or i7, I immediately wonder if they're talking about 2008 i7 or 2019 model.

Intel would be smart to retire whole i3/i5/i7/i9 branding. People seem to think every i5 or i7 is the same.
Unless everyone has an evil twin, there is less chance of everyone wanting to exit X at the same time. Hence there won't be a run on X.

Moreover, if my evil twin a) owned a managed fund or b) sold in a slightly smarter way, then they would lose less on X due to liquidity.

Moreover, the hit on Xs price also has a slight hit on the ETF value. Hence there is a small positive feedback loop.
Ask HN: What's the cheapest way to receive bank SMS oversea?
I'm an American living in Europe. Right now, I'm unable to manage my American bank account as most operations require a 2FA code, which would get sent to a dead number. I'm heading stateside next week and I'm pondering how I can rectify this situation. Buying a cheapy prepaid plan (e.g. Red Pocket) is one option. I'm worried though that might not work. First, the bank might refuse to send the code to a phone not tied to an SSN. Second, the phone might not get the messages across the ocean due to lack of roaming.

Anyone has experience?
Does this service exist only as an app at this time? I have long ago decided that Facebook is not trustworthy enough for it to be allowed to have an app installed on my smartphone. Which I guess should remind me that it is not trustworthy enough to run a dating service that I should take part in.
The hash table for mapping keys to values will be implemented in hardware on the device, rather than needing to come off the SSD to the CPU.
CLaSH 1.0 released (A functional HDL)
Yeah, we've iterated a lot (and done a lot of customer interviews) to try to figure how to make the presentation as simple-to-understand as possible. It's hard to show a (de facto) APR precisely because it will depend on your subsequent sales. (And showing it could even be confusing because there's no compounding with our fee structure.) All that said, one of the key questions we care about when speaking with customers, prospective and current, is "Are the terms clear?". And if coming up with some kind of APR-equivalent modeling thing helps achieve that, we'll do it!