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> I think we would be better off if a different stablecoin with a more solid grounding was the most popular one.

I think you're missing the point of the article - the reason Tether is the most popular and cheapest is because it is junk behind the scenes.

You could start a competing one, which follows KYC laws like a real bank, but you'd have to charge higher fees (KYC is expensive) and turn away many customers (KYC is effective). But few users would use it; they would keep using the cheaper, more popular option, and they would justify it exactly the same way you did:

> But for now, since Tether is the most popular stablecoin and popularity itself provides value...
Having personally read this book, I can add another anecdotal data point to the "it's great" category. It is an insightful book without being preachy and has something useful for people at all levels. Obviously it's mostly based on one person's experience, but there's so much trash in this category of tech books that this read like a breath of fresh air.
"Downwind" assumes dispersal by turbulent airflow over a large area.

But krypton gas is 3x as dense as air. Xenon is 5x. They don't mix eagerly with air, but run downhill more like a (fluffy) liquid. Riding above the water, they run freely over low obstacles to water flow, and spread out far beyond the water's edge. These gases would have run down the Susquehanna River and spread out in the bottom lands along it.

The paper cited in [1] is extremely guarded in its estimates of exposure to Kr radioisotopes, particularly concerning the more active ones like Kr87, 88, and 79. They note that helicopter sampling would produce unreliable measures, and the first measurements of any kind did not occur until 2 days after the incident, when the most active would have largely decayed, and (anyway) run downstream.

The peer-reviewed "A reevaluation of cancer incidence near ..." by Wing et al. ( https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10.1289/ehp9710552 ) concludes that increased incidence of cancer around the plant is not consistent with published estimates of releases.

Evacuation was not suggested until two days after the event, and few did, as there were numerous assurances that it was safely contained.

Disingenuous disavowals of harm no not increase credibility.
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Tether problems are known. It's surprising that crypto sphere continues using it. I guess it's a good way to connect digital native Bitcoin to the rest of the world, aka, fiat.

I've been advocating for Bitflate. It's a cryptocurrency with constant inflation. The idea is to create a digital native and decentralized stablecoin. We won't get perfectly stable price. But it will not be controlled by a single entity. I think it is a better alternative than centralized stablecoins.
Those aren't non-Western ideals, lots of people in all countries strive to achieve power either via the imposition or in order to impose those qualities on their particular citizenry.

tl;dr: your category error invalidates your entire point.
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What would have been a stopping rule or failure condition that would have led you to abandon this approach?

You have to distinguish between a hobby that brings you pleasure and the beginning of a business that will earn a profit if you valued your time at its opportunity cost.
The way developers test Blink/Webkit still (they just test one browser in the family, be it Chrome or Safari largely depending on the web developer's home hardware) it's hard to consider it a hard enough fork to count as two separate engines. Sure, reality shows more divergence than such web developers that test that way tend to generally expect/believe (Safari as Apple-only "LTS" Chrome), but that perception and its reflection in testing alone seems reason to consider the family together (especially with Edge moving into the "family" for among other reasons that very reason of "simplifying web developer testing requirements").
Umm, no, that's not where I was going at all. But I guess I could see how it might be taken that way with a little squinting.
It seems that more people are moving to dark mode. I use Tampermonkey here on HN so I can view it in dark mode.

Maybe some day HN will see the light and implement native dark mode. :)
Until they hit a problem and then there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The SaaSS problem is particularly insidious at the macro scale, because services substituting for software like to embed collaboration functionality that really should be handled by separate tools (and the filesystem). The resulting network effects contribute to sucking out the oxygen from the software space, so the minority of users who like their freedoms suddenly find themselves forced to use the disenfranchising services.
The Air Force Gets New Airplanes
Just to play devil's advocate...

But wouldn't a car dealer try to have a variety of cars models instead of multiple cars of the same model? Wouldn't it be better for them to be able to show a potential customer a variety of cars rather than just one model? For example, if they could only have 3 cars, wouldn't it make more sense for them to have an A4, a BMW 3, and an Acura TLX (for example) rather than 3 A4s?

Or maybe used car dealers have significantly more stock than I'm giving them credit for?
As someone who did a lot of professional training and love to teach complete beginners it’s definitely possible but it’s not intuitive and it’s a lot of conscious work.
Apple under invests in developer tooling relative to what it does. The dev tooling teams are surprisingly small and the internal dev experience at apple for their own employees is pretty bad compared to other large tech companies. My guess partly is because of the siloed nature of the company, and they don't sell dev tooling for "money".
Simply put, defense isn't sexy. It's always easy to find people who want to discover a way to, for example, make foreign centrifuges blow themselves up. It's less easy to find people who want to spend eight hours a day preventing, say, ignorant government employees from clicking every link that shows up in their e-mail. Infiltrating a foreign telecom provider to use its smartphone OS update mechanism to hijack the phone of its head of state's wife and record secret conversations is sexy. Monitoring the behavior of apps installed on your own personnel's phones for potential hostile behavior is not sexy. Building a 1.5 trillion dollar fighter jet is sexy. Stopping China from repeatedly stealing all the project files is not.
But the ads in question were aired on TV, this letter is asking FB to go above and beyond what most TV networks are doing (CNN being the only one who did not air the trump ad, objecting because it called them "fake news")
I'd feel remiss in not mentioning that Hashicorp's Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool has a provider for Domino's Pizza

https://ndmckinley.github.io/terraform-provider-dominos/
Hah! That's the benefit of integrating with Google Fit, a major feature request they have been ignoring for a long time before solving it: https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Blaze/syncing-FitBit-with-go...
I’m confused, according to the article this woman, at the age of 55, as a heroin addict, got life without parole for carrying heroin in a sock across town.

What a waste of taxpayers money and a complete shambles.
Sorry, but antivaxxers, homeopaths and quackers telling drinking bleach drives out intestinal worms don't "misunderstand science". They spread, knowingly, lies.

> Who is the arbiter of the truth?

Why does a fact need an arbiter in the first place? It is general scientific consensus that vaccines do not cause autism, that homeopathy is placebo at best, and that the "worms" that people excrete after drinking bleach is their intestinal lining. And for heaven's sake the earth is a globe, not a flat pizza. Everyone has a right to be an absolute moron, but it should not be allowed to knowingly spread dangerous lies. Democratic discourse requires facts as foundation, not lies.

> What about people who are sincerely misinformed and well-intentioned?

Reeducation camps? I don't care about people too dumb to accept science. Sarcasm aside, I do not see a realistic way on how to re-integrate people brainwashed by conspiracy crap over years back into democratic discourse that does not at the same time build a system that can easily be abused by fascists. And this is a problem.

> if you're selling a product under false pretenses, you can be sued. If you're just publishing content, you can't be sued.

The people selling bleach cannot be prosecuted. They sell bleach, a perfectly legal product. The people who say that bleach kills autism cannot be prosecuted either, because "free speech". Meanwhile, parents are pumping their children full with bleach because they are afraid of "autism". I would prefer a system where no child has to suffer bleach enemas because their dumb-as-rocks-parents fell victim to quackers - I would prefer a system where these quackers are locked up before their speech leads to direct quantifiable suffering.
There are two different things: semantic and syntax.

From what I understand now, you are arguing about syntax: we should not need to write “async” or “await”. I'm not really going to discuss this, because as you said, I do like the extra verbosity and I actually like explicit typing for the same reason (Rust is my favorite, with just the right level of inference) and I'm not fond of dynamic typing or full type inference. This is a personal taste and that isn't worth arguing about.

On the other hand, there is also a semantic issue, and sorry I have to disagree, stack-ful and stack-less coroutines don't have the same semantic, they don't have the same performance characteristic nor they do have the same expressiveness (and associated complexity, for users and implementers). What I was arguing that if you want the full power of threads, you pay the price for it.

But from what I now understand, you just want a stackless coroutine system without the extra async/await” keywords, is that what you mean?
Ads can be both truthful and misleading.
You can sideload Pebble apps AFAIR. I vaguely recall doing that recently to restore the watchface on my wife's Pebble after migrating it to a new phone.
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Hand marked is better than just observable. Takes the machine out of the equation except for the tally and the tally could be confirmed with multiple machines.

There should still be minimum security standards required.

Air gapped counting machines with hand marked ballots is a good start.
>> Part of the regulation could be that Facebook can only serve stateless political ads. If a politician wants to advertise, they can't pick and choose any parameters.

> Surely there are some parameters that would make sense? I don't want to see political ads from a local election across the country. There's also no reason for me to see an ad for the Republican primaries if I am voting in the Democratic primaries. Etc

I think the answer is somewhere in the middle. A couple factors need to be balanced: the ads need to have the minimum targeting to not be wasteful and pointless, but they can't be so narrowly targeted that oversight by the media and voting public becomes difficult.

I think the right balance is something along the lines of: 1) coarse-grained geo-targeting allowed down to an MSA at the narrowest and 2) no targeting based on interests, demographics, or ideology.
Be careful: just because a feature is working as intended and specified, doesn’t mean that there’s no problem. The spec can be just bad.

(I say this as a matter of how you express such things, not about this particular case. I agree with you in considering there to be no bug here, but rather that this is a serious feature that shouldn’t be messed with—and pretty fundamentally can’t without unravelling substantial foundations of the web platform.)
We charge annual at $5k USD. 1/50 buys that.

I usually buy the year for the discount when I'm getting something (QB, BugSnag, etc) unless it's more than 3k, then I have a think about it.
what's the point of rendering into a terminal? why not use a raster framebuffer?
To some extent, yes. But you can still have centrally-imposed rules that improve security for specific voting methods.
The Complexity of Hiding Complexity
For a year's worth of work IMO it's still impressive

I have tons of side projects I've spent months on that never made a dollar
I winder how much of Microsoft's focus on documentation and having full teams to produce it was also spurred by the nature of their enterprise business and the whose ecosystem of certification and training it supported (which in turn supported Microsoft in a cyclical nature). Microsoft has a whole set of of official test prep and training material, certified trainers, etc.

Even if the documentation department never made a profit themselves, I imagine being able to point to some revenue and it being an important part of the overall business strategy kept it as feeling fairly important to most execs.
Only if the debate hinges on the idiosyncratic mannerisms of the subjects of the story. I saw plenty of substantive facts in the Register article, with less filler.
They're not infinitely intelligent. They're just almost always more intelligent than you (or me).
when will americans finally wake up?
I am sure this happens with lawyers routinely. Usually a deadline will be expressed in number of days from some event, like “90 days from the date of agreement” or something. If it is an important deadline, do not trust your lawyer to do this day count correctly. Ensure all of the assumptions are correct (date and time of events, whether it is business days or calendar days, etc) and triple check the day counts on a calendar yourself.
It's only horrifying if it's not opt-in.
Wasn't tax corporate tax "reform" in effect last year as well?
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You can. It's nice to have a working app store though!
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> In capitalism the market is supposed to correct for bad acting like poor customer service.

That only works when the public knows that the customer service experience is poor. I'm no fan of Twitter, but putting this stuff in the open is incredible effective for this reason.
> It just takes skill to understand.

Again, and maybe I'm missing something, but it sure seems like a business opportunity unmet here.
It's not entirely unhackable, but way better than anything based on electronics.
Can you not delete it first? If you really can’t do anything at all, that’s rough
Any googling results in reports that Russians spent, even at the highest estimates, literally immaterial amounts on ads relative to the candidates and PAC's. And people on the left still insist it mattered! Meanwhile, Mike Bloomberg said he wants to spend $500 million (WTF!!!!!!) on anti-Trump ads in 2020. Reminder: he isn't even a candidate! So is this interference???

It's conversations like these that make me lose my temper.
Indeed. Someone I know has had theirs stolen twice.. last month.
I've just had a catloc (anti-theft) fitted last week, let's see what good it'll do.

Glad we're moving to EVs and away from this nightmare.
On major avenues in Manhattan, but not necessarily on side streets[0] or in other boroughs[1].

[0] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7740039,-73.9587169,3a,75y,1...

[1] - https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6757116,-73.9532197,3a,75y,2...
I believe even Hacker News is inaccessible via ipv6.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19833362

I noticed this at my parents' house, where their new wifi setup was toggled to "ipv6 only" mode, and HN didn't work.
So, don't. Like, no one forcing you to.
What I fail to understand is why it's so important to you whether a pre-processing/compiler/de-sugaring of language A results in a valid snippet of language A or another language for complexity of language A.

Take Objective-C automatic reference counting [1], implemented as a transformation of the original code to valid code of the same language (similar to a Lisp/Rust/Scala style macro) by automatically adding the appropriate statements.

If I understand your argument correctly, according to you this increases the complexity of "Objective-C with ARC", but would not have done so if the compiler would have implemented it as a direct transformation to its compilation target instead.

To me, that is an implementation detail which does not matter. "Objective-C with ARC" is exactly as complex in both cases. I'd argue it's even a little bit less complex with the "macro" implementation since you don't need to know assembly to know what ARC is doing.

Similar to ARC, Rust implements some things with macro's, which first "compiles" something to valid Rust. To me this is not more difficult for users than it would be if the compiler would directly generate LLVM IR without this intermediate step.

The inclusion of macro's in a language do make the language more complex of course! And creating macros is notoriously difficult since you're basically implementing a small compiler step! But for the user using something is not suddenly more difficult because it's implemented using a macro.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
I’m not sure I agree it’s such a big problem, other than having to upset some advertisers by declining advertisements that used to get automatic acceptance. Remember, Facebook is still a private enterprise and they’re under no obligation to make everyone (or anyone) happy. They are free to limit activity they find inconsistent with their moral view, just like Apple does.

And also keep in mind, these are ads we’re talking about. People who want to publish political speech can still do so on their own pages or status updates, but they won’t get paid distribution into users’ news feeds.
FEC rules don't really cover who sees what, they cover what anyone can see.

Now we can expand on those rules to dictate who can see what, but no matter who views the ad, it would likely be bland, and confer no new viewpoint at all. Lest it fall afoul of FEC rules.

What we're really talking about with FEC rules, is a return to the middle, because extremist views can be shut down by pointing out misleading content in the ads and subsequently rejecting them. Whereas the bland, meaningless stuff will always be free of any misleading content, and be subsequently approved.
Doesn't help with GP not wanting the data in Google's systems.
> I was surprised to learn that left turns account for "more than twice as many serious injuries and fatalities as right turns."

This may be because bike lanes are placed on the left side of major one-way avenues in Manhattan: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8005797,-73.9618377,3a,75y,1...
Anker:

- Zolo

- Liberty+

- Liberty Neo

- Zolo Liberty [Upgraded]

MPOW:

- M10

- T5 IPX7 TWS

- M20 IPX7 TWS

Apple:

- Airpod

- Airpod Pro

This is why people buy Apple products.
More contractors than employees.
I know that amateur astronomers have tracked the position and trajectory of X-37B so surely countries with advanced space programs (Russia, China) would be able to do this with ease? I think a rendezvous with a known satellite would be detectable.
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It's not about selling the data for ISPs, never was, never will be. For ISPs almost all websites are uniquely identifiable by looking at clear text SNI and Host: headers. But it's much worse, 95% of top 1 million websites are uniquely identifiable just by looking at IP addresses during page load, basically netflow data that pretty much all ISPs store. And this data is more detailed, than DNS queries. There is a lot of detailed data to monetize, cheaply, with no ability to hide, besides Tor and VPN.

ISPs couldn't care less about such silly attempts to limit spying that don't really work, what ISPs actually care about is control. They want to be the ones who decide which websites have which IP addresses, they want to be able to change them, block them, do address translations, maybe show you ads on nonexistent domains, etc.

Mozilla, Google and Cloudflare are no better than ISPs here either. They don't want you to know all of the above. Mozilla wants money from Cloudflare, Cloudflare wants to control critical piece of infrastructure pretty much all competing CDNs rely on, Google probably doesn't need it, but just can't help itself to get its hands on that data.
Resources would be far better spend improving the first-party UX and apps first, before opening up the ecosystem to outside developers.

The same could have been (rightfully) said about the Apple Watch....

The iPhone dev kit trailed far behind the initial iPhone launch.

The iPhone launched July 2007. The dev kit was released in April 2008. The App store launched around July 2008
Interesting that the one Scottish and one English entry in that list were both named after Queen Anne. Was it generally acceptable to name boys after well-known women, or only after female royalty?
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If 60 voters want X offered by two candidates but 40 want not-X from one candidate, not-X wins 40-30-30. It's not a false dichotomy, it's the flawed outcome of plurality voting.
I have the opposite experience when it comes to availability.

I sell some software that runs on servers, and we used to get so many tickets that came down to the server's IPv6 transit being busted in sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle ways. And then we have to fight with their NOC to convince them something is broken.

IPv6 is an afterthought in many networks. There is less peering, less monitoring, less users overall to uncover issues.

It got so tedious to deal with that support burn that I just changed our software to not dual-stack any of its outgoing connections. Not heard a peep since.
On a positive note, it probably saved her life.
>If you want to spend more time with your family, go and spend more time with your family.

Not everyone has this privilege. If your job demands that you manage server clusters, then that is your livelihood. Which is exactly why outsourcing aspects of your job to other companies is so appealing, and why so many SaaS's gain virulent popularity as every other company switches to their services one by one. If I can reduce the amount of headaches I have to deal with at work, I can at least arrive at home a little more energized and ready to do fun things. Rewritten, if I can convince my boss (or my wallet) to pay some other company to do my job for me so I can sit around and do easier things, I will always prefer that choice.
I can understand why FB shouldn't be allowed to just exempt itself from the FEC rules that other media follow. But I don't think their policy on "no filtering for truth" is something the FEC bans in those other media, so I don't see the privilege.
This is true. But for reference, I'm using a 2018 MacBook Pro with two external HiDPI monitors connected via USB-C (a Dell 4k and an LG 5k2k), and the page still performs flawlessly in Chrome.
Well I've had a Versa for over a year and it's been great. Basically it's a fitbit that also shows notifications from my phone. It has some simple apps that you can use for workouts or some other single-use trivial things.

The configuration part of the fitbit companion app is frustrating. But that's where the UI belongs and where it should be fixed. I have zero interest in a watch that's an even smaller and more frustrating phone UI.

Mostly I like only having to charge my watch every 3-4 days because it's long enough to forget about needing to charge it.
Let me guess, you also believe in Epstein's "suicide".
Maybe you are too young to remember the war on drugs, but it was (and continues to be) a sad period in American history.
Google states a lot of things, especially about ranking. The common knowledge is to keep them on the same domain, people have tested these things a lot. Google absolutely don't rank things the same on subdomain, heck subdomain is even s different site on webmaster tools.