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>Who pays for their housing, food and beverages out of a stash of dollar bills accumulated 20 years ago

Very few people could afford to do this, but in some markets for home ownership those would be the only type that could actually afford to own a home any more.

The gold standard has always been there for thousands of years and is likely to remain for many forseeable lifetimes to come.

The structural problems (from the citizens' point of view) are a result of how & when the US declined to participate any longer.

Not much different than anyone else over the centuries who could once afford a little gold but no longer any at all.

Remember since the US dollar was always tied to gold (after foolishly withdrawing from additionally constitutionally mandated silver in an earlier century), then when that was later tied to the confiscation of gold from the citizens, that allowed the dollar to be more powerful than gold as long as US taxpayer's assets were strong, making the USA actually relatively affluent as a nation. Therefore the gold price worldwide could be stabilized at $35 per ounce for decades, indefinitely if the taxpayer's assets would have been truly worth preserving by the regime. This was as long as the dollar remained tied to gold, even though citizens had not been allowed to hold gold of their own for most people's lifetime by then.
With income taxes skyrocketing beyond the "temporary 1 percent tax on income" needed to pay for wars, tremendous wealth was transferred to the federal government over the decades and held as gold, until the fed had more wealth than the citizens which is the opposite of how the US actually grew as a free country, back when prosperous stuff could just pop up anywhere without federal interference.

Then one day Nixon comes along and offers the US gold to the rest of the world for $36 per ounce. Citizens still not allowed to participate, but the Saudis for example being some really big ones having a faster appreciating asset that sizable took great interest because they could actually afford to trade a portion of their faster-appreciating asset for one with less forseeable upside at the time.

Then Nixon "opens up China" so there can sooner be a new lower living standard to decline towards, gradually of course which is generous because the taxpayers can be put into free-fall at any time without a parachute since then.
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In conclusion, Jacques Abbadie should be credited with the interesting precursor statement in French. QI believes based on current evidence that Abraham Lincoln probably did not employ this well-known adage.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/11/cannot-fool/
Long story short:
Unexpected OpenSSL hard crashes in our application. Turns out our HW was reporting support for unaligned access where as it was actually disabled in CPU due to buggy hw (arm platform).
Reading between the lines a little, maybe that example summarized multiple similar incidents that built up to a point where this person simply couldn't accept the premeditated context projected onto each session. Never really thought about it that way before, but I can imagine that would get old/draining pretty quick.
From the article "Avoid handling a customer’s phone. If you have difficulty viewing or scanning, ask the customer to adjust the phone to make checking easier. "
I very much suspect the dangerous idea of the "bliss point" is to blame, as is marketing unhealthy food. No way is a mind going to develop right when it is constantly bombarded with false hunger signals.
Specifics are in the Wikipedia entry for the Flint water crisis.

Of note, lead levels aren’t a constant. The lead is a result of deterioration of lead soldering in the pipes by water over time. It’s an unknowable process for when and what lead will break off into the water. People ingested very high levels of lead - that is safe to conclude.
It sounds like because they were not processing the data there was some queue of files that were building up until the buffer was full. Once full buffer the request would be denied by their transport protocols, maybe a security feature run ary?

It seems once you unplug either via Ethernet or hard reset the pointer to the MAC address / up would get refreshed thus the full load dumped. Which would be consistent as to why in 2.5 hours the bug would persist again.

I agree it’s funny the author never found out what caused the bug.
in general people are too fast to drag a hard line between scientific and hogwash, as if wisdom is useless without proof
or p-values
What source have you read that said there were no remains? Depending on how exactly he blew himself up, there might very well be identifiable remains intact, such as extremities or even the head.
I don't think it's fair to make that claim at all without data. This is the same argument that religious people use against sex education and condoms and it has never held water before.

Don't seatbelts encourage dangerous driving then? Don't vaccines encourage poor hygiene? Time and time again scientists have invented something that makes life drastically safer and time and time again they've been a huge net positives.

It doesn't make any logical sense to me and I've never seen any compelling evidence that this causes it to be a net negative.
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So I found an NIEH article which says chronic exposure in adults can lead to memory and concentration problems:

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/lead/index.cf...

The city leaded the water supply in april 2014, and the wikipedia timeline says that no one was reporting the elevated lead until february 2015. Even then, the city denied that there was even a lead problem all the way up through september 2015.

Do any medical professions know what "chronic" means in this context? Would 17 months be chronic for someone who was cooking and showering and drinking leaded water?
Pretty common assumption. [1]

The need for money saturates slowly. Think about winning 1000 dollars (nice dinner pehaps), 10 000 (better car), 100 000 (larger appartment), .... , 10 000 000.

At some point it doesn't matter if its 200 000 000 or 300 000 000.

On the other hand a lotter ticket is 1$. What is the utility of 1$ - a can of coke pehaps. But the perspective of winning $1 000 000 - thats a nice idea to hold for a few days... So many people do despite the slim chances.

[] https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/23952/is-the-u...

[] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2013/08/05/how-the-mar...
A 4K intro (a decent one anyway) is much harder than a larger one. "If I had more time I'd write you a shorter letter..."

I found a 256k intro to be a pretty good balance, constrained enough that you don't need a pro-quality art team to look good, but still enough space that you don't have to go too deep into procedural generation and compression.
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Wasn't that the agreement with the Crooked Clinton in the 90's?

It seems we're still in Phase 1 - nothing has changed.
Democracy is nothing more than a system that replaces swords/bullets with votes. That's it. The fight for power (aka. resources) it inescapable and the only thing that democracy did, was to change the field that this fight is fought on. Democracy is more tolerable because no people die (in the open) when the landscape of power changes.

The only two benefits of democracy to "the people" are:
(1) the fact that they have now become the weapons .. and if they are smart, they can use that power to influence which actions of the warring factions are needed for their supremacy so that they are more inline with the interests of the people.
(2) the entry requirements and risks to become one of the factions are much lower which can help with (1)

The only problem is that the warring factions know this and will do everything they can to conceal the reality of the situation so that the people do not exercise the power that they have. And they have been very successful at it. The amount of people who believe that democracy is somehow inherently good for the people is beyond my belief.
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I've never in my life searched for "is X worth seeing", the thought hasn't even crossed my mind. That is maybe not very smart, but before I see it I can't decide it, why would I trust random strangers on the internet? :)
There are two checks against the agreed upon "right thing",the national executive who has to agree with the consensus, and (thanks John Marshall), a system of (theoretically) impartial courts which can decide if the "right thing" is actually allowed according to the rules of the game (Constitution).

The slavery compromise was exactly that. First the 3/5th agreement, then the Missouri compromise, then finally, when one side got all of the power (which is what the system is supposed to mitigate the chances of) a shooting war.

Lincoln likely wouldn't have gone quite so agro on slavery if not for succession.

And there likely wouldn't have been a United States if there hadn't been any compromises on slavery. The two sides would have split at the outset, and either
1) neither would have been able to amass enough influence on the continent and they'd have been reabsorbed by a European power
2) after a hundred years of independent growth and simmering hatred, the two nation's would have had a war even more disastrous than the American civil war.
Maybe we saw each other :)

The group i was with reached 5th place with this demo: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=41739
Only applies if i missed the joke. Simply hate it
I'd like to see your evidence for

a) PrEP significantly decreasing condom use

b) This being a net-negative when considering the hugely decreased risk of HIV transmission as a result.

If you believe this, don't you also believe that seatbelts encourage dangerous driving?
I think VR tech can have this profound effect in history knowledge. Assassin's creed games seem to have already interested thousands of people in its historical settings.
This is by design since the early 1970's.
Why is the Caltrain connection to SFO via BART so cumbersome?
because container creates separate env so that site doesn't recognize you as previous visitor.
They're not getting paid $300k a year. They're getting paid $160k a year and the delta is made up in RSU. I'm not sure how FB transacts on stocks for you but depending how they deal with the taxes involved OP could be off by a large factor in the net calculation. Also not sure how FB vests stock, but if it's traditional OP still hasn't vested anything (1 year cliff).
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Yeah, I grown up in a village at the north-eastern (the least developed part of the country) border with 2500 people living there. My first 10 years was during socialism.

Even my “underdeveloped” village has now 24/7 electricity, water, sewer system, gas pipelines for heating, CATV and ADSL internet.

So please stop try to prove me, that it is a 3rd world country.
The interesting difference is the “wetware” knows, without ever being trained, that it’s going to hit another person and stop the vehicle. If you think SDCs will reduce deaths at all I believe you’re ignoring reality. There are plenty of other options like public transport or remote work that is infinitely better then some cocky engineers thinking replacing a human brain is easy
The contamination is the result of the water being drawn from the nearby river. The river water eroded the lead solder in the towns pipes. It started in 2014. All per Wikipedia.
Know the risks.

This is known as fraud and it is considered a crime in most developed regions in the world. It is an intentional false representation of fact intended to mislead. Deception in the case of short term accomodations (AirBnB, VRBO) can lead to legal injury. You are at risk of having a criminal record.

While this may seem fine because you're not intending to do anything malicious, situations outside of your control may arise during your stay and your fraud will be revealed. If nothing happens during your stay, you will likely get away with this kind of fraud. The problem is that you're risking having a criminal record just to avoid a third party having temporary possession of your drivers license. Guests at a hotel or motel always share their drivers license at the front desk. When you rent a car, a drivers license is required. The difference between these in-person experiences and one entirely digital is a false sense of anonymity online.

This aside, drivers license identification is never saved to a database, file or anywhere if it is done correctly. Read the terms and conditions to see for yourself. The hotels, however, save that information in a database and may not remove it. In other words, online verification is more secure than in person.
I think Capella Sistina has the same problem
> I do not care about safety (memory or otherwise) - my code doesn't take arbitrary input, run on shared hardware, do much of anything over networks or have memory safety crashes

How do you know it's the case that you don't have memory safety defects in your implementation?

It's almost certainly not the case that you don't care about safety. Out of bounds accesses and writes would make the simulation defective. Defective simulations are useless. However it might make sense if you said that you don't find yourself fixing defects like these often.
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The first comment on the article mentioned that the automated sky train in Vancouver comes every 2 minutes even at 1AM. Sounds like an awesome benefit.
Yet the actual results have been disappointing. China's carbon emissions have only continued to increase since 2016, whereas most other countries have been decreasing emissions.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/World_fo...
> I know I'm in a weird minority (most of the people who think like I do seem to be game engine developers).

As an amateur game engine developer, I'm probably in a weird minority for abhorring C/C++/C#/Canything. :)

I love Swift, and Rust or Dart would be my next choices if Swift wasn't available.

With first-class support for native APIs which do most of the work anyway, performance has not been a concern for me on Swift. I see only benefits, like making it hard for some types of bugs to creep in and code that is pleasant to read and a joy to write (though you can write beautiful/ugly code in any language, of course.)
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I agreed with 100% of these complaints before the oculus quest.

The external cameras turn on in the quest when I need them because I’ve gone out of bounds

The guardian helps me stay inbounds in my small space

The latency and amazing head tracking have removed all motion sickness

But it’s still just a beat saber machine. There haven’t been any major titles released in months, and it’s unclear if there will be.

We need Nintendo-style first party titles and some killer apps.
SJG is also famous for being raided by the Secret Service, having lots of stuff vital to their operations seized and being awarded a nice sum of money in SJG vs. Secret Service, which iirc. was also one of the reason why the EFF was created. They got on their radar because "The Mentor" of Legion of Doom fame (a familiar name for anyone reading Phrack at the time) also happened to work there and he distributed some (illegally?) obtained material via the SJG BBS.

The work in progress Cyberpunk module for GURPS was confiscated and believed to be a "handbook for hackers".
Old gcc/g++ doesn't assure the thread safety of static variables. And I have a core dump triggered by it.
Many cities have pledged to behold future city administrations to changes that the current administrations themselves will not be responsible for implementing.
> I heard these stories so often I could often guess what the problem was the moment someone walked in.

> "You sounded happier when you said ‘photography’,” I said. My psychic teacher was right – the signals we pick up before conscious awareness kicks in can be accurate and valuable.

These are valuable skills.
Since when she is popular in no small part because she is popular. Also known as the front page effect - whether you envisage newspapers or HN. :)
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Its the same for telcos, these days there is much stricter auditing and actual real security vetting - I know team leaders on some systems had to be PV (top secret in US terms)

I suspect that at some stage this might come for some FANG employees
No during the last strike (September) in Paris the line 1 and 14 (the only 2 lines with automated metro) were both operational.
To me, this is the highlight of this post:

Consider: what is a parser? Really, a parser is just a
function that consumes less-structured input and
produces more-structured output. By its very nature, a
parser is a partial function—some values in the domain
do not correspond to any value in the range—so all
parsers must have some notion of failure. Often, the
input to a parser is text, but this is by no means a
requirement (...)

Then, the title of the post could be: Leverage the type system to represent your data, not validating it post-facto
Oh, nice: props for including precise, fully worked example commands to actually use this. This is so helpful in terms of onboarding and being able to actually get people to use a project:)
> He has a very young family at home that is now going to be totally broken.

Well maybe he shouldn't have spied for Saudi Arabia? I hope he enjoys federal prison.
Exactly. That's why we needed a new tool that does exactly the same thing, but allows us to say we're doing something different. 


I have always had the impression that graphql was built for a problem Facebook has, but that most of the rest of us don't (numerous complex backend (some non-SQL) data sources and highly independent frontend teams moving very quickly).

As I work in an environment where there are no frontend vs backend developers, and we have a single SQL database, graphql is a neat tool which solves some problems I will probably never have.
I actually don’t think the payoff will be great. What’s the real benefit here. Some jobs will be lost but now we have a large hackable software system that humans have little control over. If I have to sit in the front seat and watch the road then it really doesn’t do anything for me. And then there’s always going to be instances like this “I didn’t test that scenario” crap above.
That's why I just refer to everyone as a chinese male unless they ask me to stop.
Fair enough. At least here in the States, Scandinavian countries are often portrayed as more equitable on relative terms. Do you know how Sweden's inequality compares to the U.S. quantitatively?

The training for schooling outlined in the book is often independent of the school structure (e.g., tutoring, test prep etc.). The upper echelons didn't think it was uncommon to spend $100k per student on this extra training. The authors point was that training works and that the rich have more advantages to educating and training their kids
People don't care about a lot of things until they're told it matters. I mean, look at the "gaming" and "X with RGB" market and tell me people name economically reasonable choices when buying computer hardware. I'm sure marketing could sell quite a few ECC sticks.
The reason the Mona Lisa is so famous is because Vasari waxes serious lyrical about it in his Lives of the Artists (published in 1550). Here's what he says about it:

"Anyone wishing to see the degree to which art could imitate nature could readily perceive this from the head; since therein are counterfeited all those minutenesses that with subtlety are able to be painted: seeing that the eyes had that lustre and moistness which are always seen in the living creature, and around them were the lashes and all those rosy and pearly tints that demand the greatest delicacy of execution. The eyebrows, through his having shown the manner in which the hairs spring from the flesh, here more close and here more scanty, and curve according to the pores of the flesh, could not be more natural. The nose, with its beautiful nostrils, rosy and tender, appeared to be alive. The mouth with its opening, and with its ends united by the red of the lips to the flesh-tints of the face, seemed, in truth, to be not colours but flesh. In the pit of the throat, if one gazed upon it intently, could be seen the beating of the pulse: and indeed it may be said that it was painted in such a manner as to make every brave artificer, be he who he may, tremble and lose courage. He employed also this device: Mona Lisa being very beautiful, while he was painting her portrait, he retained those who played or sang, and continually jested, who would make her to remain merry, in order to take away that melancholy which painters are often wont to give to their portraits. And in this work of Leonardo there was a smile so pleasing, that it was a thing more divine than human to behold, and it was held to be something marvelous, in that it was not other than alive."
> The amount of people who believe that democracy is somehow inherently good for the people is beyond my belief.

If the alternative is swords and bullets, I would think most people prefer democracy. It’s the worst system, except for all the others attempted so far.
The same way defences industries do I would imagine for SF86 etc
Been to budapest last year the air there smelled of cigarette smoke way too much of it. Other European cities have cleaner air.
Moderate political solutions are (1) very frustrating and (2) much more effective in practice than they have any right to be. Often both sides of a political argument are wrong about the nature of reality and a solution where the major concerns of both sides are addressed is pretty good.

And the important thing is often that decisions don't happen in isolation. A moderate middle ground solution that fails often lends a lot of weight to the next round of negotiations when people decide what to try after compromise solution #1 fails.
So it is our collective fault ?
Doesn't this kind of argument work for almost every type of fraud though? "The customers were paying for the fraud, not what was advertised."
> But students say this requirement is often ignored or the procedure for challenging a decision leads to a long delay - during which time their entire deposit is withheld- and many challenges end with them losing out anyway.

I doubt very much that the requirement to 'protect' the deposit in an approved scheme is often ignored, especially by letting agencies. If it is then the penalty is that the tenant cannot be evicted in most cases, and the landlord may also have to pay up to 3x the deposit's value to the tenant as penalty.

Moreover, the adjudicators of these schemes are thorough and professionals and it is for the landlord to prove he is entitled to deductions, so if "many challenges end with them [students] losing out anyway" it does mean that students are indeed often in the wrong.