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When you no longer really believe (or never did believe) in one of the fundamental pillars of the EU e.g. ever closer union.

If you don't believe in that then it's your duty to leave and let those that do continue forwards with an ever closer union.

The UK joined really hoping to push the EU more towards a confederation which it would've felt comfortable in, the whole "working from the inside" thing that people are always saying is the best way to influence the EU. But ultimately a majority of the rest of the EU wants much closer integration than the UK would've ever been comfortable with... so here we are.
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Here's a wish for rapid adoption of IPv6, where no one will be fored to use nat ever again

>If eight people want to watch Bob while he's talking, you've got to find eight videos' worth of upload bandwidth from somewhere.
With p2p you may stream parts of the video from multiple clients
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I've been kicking this idea around for a while now.

Just two weeks ago I was texting with a former associate about getting some 53 containers, cutting them up into 5, 8x8x10 cubes and welding what's needed for a few other mods.

I'm thinking to myself, if we can sell these for $1300(?) it would be a good value for some situaitons right?

I've seen some of the problems and come up with a few solutions for a few of them, so it might be viable.

His dad moved his steel shop business, and I have not gotten a chance to get out to the new one.. but think maybe next week we should try to calculate things tighter and consider further.

Might need some seed money to get some prototypes done to show off an MVP and get a real calculation for all the time plus materials.
reminds me https://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
I laughed out loud at this moment, which came a few seconds after starting the sample:

"Aaaand we're out of memory."

Explains why samples tended to be really short .. and also why some artists (or their labels) did make the investment in studio time & the professionals who knew how to take this tech to the next level.

I worked in a 24-track studio in London in the early 90s where dance music was recorded, mixed, and remixed by The KLF and Nomad, among others, as well as soundtracks by Hans Zimmer, who owned the studio. There was a small army of people who not only knew the studio hardware (the board, Moog, compressors, gates, etc.) but also Cubase, sequencers, and other software, which was quite expensive but utterly necessary to crank out the hits played on the radio and the remixes that were preferred in the clubs.
SHA1 is crumbling. It's being replaced because it is likely to be broken further, in practice.
IMHO it crosses the line from "loud" to something unacceptable enough to call broken.

At idle with default fan curves, it was on the knife-edge of max-speed not just loud but continuously revving up and down so incredibly distracting. It would continually grab my attention even with headphones on.

I barely lasted a day before ordering a Dark Pro 4 and now it's silent.
Shambles. It sounds like there was no load-testing.
IIRC IPv6 became a ratified internet standard in 2017
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They don't need the money; their pay is already more than enough to retire from. Also, a bad CEO needs to fail spectacularly to not get hired. Plenty of mediocre CEOs keep getting hired for insane salaries.
In theory. I've heard many unscientific anecdotes of CPUs being killed this way. My understanding is that in a liquid cooling system without flow, or with no cooling system attached at all, delta-temp over delta-t is so high that the thermal cutoff circuits might not react fast enough before other parts of the chip have been damaged - especially if the chip is under load at the moment of failure.

On the other hand, a heatsink provides a decent amount of passive cooling all by itself, so when the fan fails there's a buffer that slows the rate of heating to a safe margin.
This is great, thanks. One of my biggest issues in PC hardware has been comparing older parts with modern ones. Most sites don't retest old hardware with new tests that they use on new hardware, so you end up with wildly different numbers that don't tell you anything.
I like to commit small parts of code separately, but to be honest when you are starting a project and you are working alone I don't think is that important.
Tell that to the people forced to work on zero hours contracts.
I have a self hosting project ready in the wings but I don't know how to make it self sustaining or useful (economically to me as I am poor as it is) if I made the source public. It is also not clear to me how to sell it as a closed source application. Please have a look here: https://wharfie.org/
I vote that we start with the country that uses the most resources per capita, and that pollutes the most per capita :-P
Cue to a physicists view on this subject (starting from basic termodynamic principles):

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
> "you cannot get big businesses to reckon with the environment."

Well, that's what governments are for. It is the government's role to create regulations which promote the broader, long-term interests of the population and environment in situations where markets fail to do so.
Something to think about: with so few people we can only sustain a handful of metro centers, for many reasons metro centers need to be of a certain size to be effective as a hub for business, jobs, social aspects and policy making, so people gravitate to where the cities already are. So "property in a busy metro" is still a scarce resource in Australia.

Another aspect is we quite simply have an inflated market, driven by foreign investment, speculators, government policies and incentives that help investors at the expense of home buyers. We also have thousands of citizens with outsized investments in real estate, and the government is doing everything it can to make sure that house of cards doesn't topple down and cause a recession.

One of our last government's policies to "Help ease house prices" was to give grants to corporate investors, so that they could buy up land and rent it back to people. That's the kind of policy making we have here at the moment
* isSpace handles tabs, but looking at a single byte at a time it won't handle all the multibyte space symbols you can have in unicode. If you read further down, they rip out the remains of unicode handling for further speed improvements.

* Looking at a single byte at a time, it presumably only handles the "C" locale :) They don't say what locale GNU wc was tested with (if it's not LANG=C, that benchmark should be re-run)

* --max-line-length? no. But I'm guessing GNU wc isn't benchmarked with that option on (can't find the invocation in the blog post though)

* data State { ws, bs, ls } keeps count of words, bytes (more honest than calling it characters) and lines.
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But it's expired...
The only thing clear about the results at this point is that Iowa will probably be fired from their first in the nation status on voting.

If there was ever a use for the phrase “You had one job!”
I think that structure, accountability, and community are the big draws towards school. For young people I think that these are extremely important- when I was in school- taking 6 classes meant I spent a roughly 40 hour work week on school stuff. I had a really hard time doing half of those hours when I wasnt in school.

Obviously that's more of a me issue than an issue inherent to self-learning, but many of us have me issues.

If you're not the type of person who would benefit from structure and community- the value proposition clearly doesn't make sense. Even if you would benefit from those things- the value proposition isnt clear at all- its tremendously expensive.
Malthus was proven wrong by productivity gains. England did not starve due to a rising population, but went on to become an industrialized nation. Increased population allows for greater specialization.

This only holds true as long as free markets are allowed to operate somewhat unimpeded. Typically the Malthusian position is one that advocates excessive government intervention. When taken to an extreme this can make the Malthusian catastrophe self-fulfilling as the market can longer allocate resources efficiently.
That productivity will have to come from automation, and a robot doesn't get a salary so doesn't have to pay income tax. So that'll have to change if you plan on using the productivity growth to fund pensions, no?
International law isn’t enforceable and doesn’t supersede sovereignty like the EU does. Plenty of countries violate international law (most of them) with nearly no repercussions.
Europe, Japan and the native population of the US have elected themselves. Africa probably won’t have the population boom since education is spreading, which tends to slow reproduction rates. Problem is solved in about 30 years with the death of the boomers and the non-replacement rates.
That's where you call the police, right?
Some Javascript frameworks I like; some I tolerate. Some (<cough>angular</cough>) I learned to despise.

I reserve my love only for VanillaJS.

My library for playing with the canvas element[1] is entirely VanillaJS. 0% dependencies. 1000% a learning experience for me, having to seek into the darkest corners of the language to find solutions to problems I didn't even know existed!

[1] Scrawl-canvas - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/tree/v8-alpha
That's just one of the tales of the "aid" industry.

Turns out, the real key is jobs.

But try investing there, and the "aid" people will call you a neo-colonialist.
Oh, that’s unfortunate. It looks like they replaced the AGPL with that 11 months ago. It used to be open source!
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Also, apparently the CEO of Shadow Inc. spent a year promoting for Hillary for America in 2016 (aka Bernie's chief opponent in the DNC). The CEO's husband also works for Buttigieg.

https://twitter.com/elainelayabout/status/122458125953343897...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/thousands-furious-suppor...
Growth is an international arms race.

I think the biggest problem is that economic growth gives countries a (military) advantage. If you opt out of growth-based economic system, your neighbors will have more army or resources or manpower. They will eventually invade you or dominate you economically.

This is similar to the situation Africans were during Industrial Revolution. Europeans needed a lot of workers for factories and plantations, so they would visit a coastal African country and buy slaves. You could refuse to sell them slaves, but then they would sail to your neighbors and sell them firearms. Then those neighbors would have substantial military advantage and could invade you. There were only two options: be the ones that receive the rifles, or form a large alliance which refuses to sell slaves to Europeans. Forming large alliances is HARD. Africans weren't stupid - they tried to negate the technical advantage, for example the king of Kongo wanted to pay well for ship technology.
(source: "Black Mother" by Basil Davidson)

Back to prosperity without growth. To resist pressure from neighboring states that practice economic growth, you would need to continuously improve efficiency and that's hard. Produce terminator-like killer machines and drones to make up for less numerous army. Have super advanced science, strategy or diplomacy. The only country I know that comes close is Switzerland, and it has the advantage of mountainous terrain away from major transport routes. Ideally the advantages you have should be ones that can't be taken away from you or "stolen" via espionage.
Because that's still science fiction. We have enough ressources to sustain current population/economic system for a few decades, a century at most (i'm thinking gas, rare earth, phosphore, etc).
It's been 50 years since we got to the moon and we're still stuck on low-orbit earth. Even getting to Mars is still very very hard. Do you think we'll be technologically ready to colonize an earth-like planet by the end of this century?

While we can't rule it out fure sure, it would be crazy to bet on that possibility.
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If that's how they measure employment, how do they measure underemployment?!
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I think this is the reason why it the parent was criticizing it. Blockchain as a term generally mean "crypto-magic-stuff on a blockchain" so for git to use it instead of a more academical Merkel trees (or Merkel DAG if they exist) sound a bit like low effort name dropping.

Again it is not a criticism of the article, but it is not a criticism of the criticism either.
I agree, I'm glad to see him on HN. Brad is great for beginners, and I still use him for my "how to I get some boilerplate up and running" type things for languages and frameworks I'm not familiar with.
I already use none of those.
Because of interplanetary transportation costs, due to physically unavoidable planetary gravity wells, the existence of other inhabited planets has essentially zero effect on the prosperity of the average Earth inhabitant. There is physically no way to build the space equivalent of cheap maritime shipping.
Taxes can account for externalities. Smog is a great example where modern western cities have higher air quality and much stronger economies.
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At least in Canada, the city cares about building permits, but doesn’t do any checking on how the building/construction was paid for.

Banks don’t really question rent cheque’s coming in every month, or a large bank transfer coming from your lawyer for the sale of property.
Britain did not rule the EU, nor did it have sovereignty over the EU. The EU is a separate political entity from the UK, and had sovereignty over the government of the UK.
In 2016 India did the infamous demonetization claiming that the ₹500 notes were used in hoarding black money and funding terrorism.

It ended up massively shocking the unorganised economy, and the nation is still recovering from it. The main reasons the government stated while doing it are still going on. The entire exercise didn't solve any problems.
Your real gap is max 4 month, not much of a gap. You can fill it in with personal project that you did some other time if you really don't want to have that gap, or just say the real reason, medical and that's it.
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The community members working on it right now are focused on improving the capabilities of Sandstorm for fellow self-hosting enthusiasts like ourselves. We’re not building a company, so our priorities are a little different.
Nothing he suggested was illegal.
Funny how that worked out for Ireland, right? How we were able to enforce our will on the UK?

The sovereignty axe swings both ways.

More independence gives you more degrees of freedom but less power. More unity gives you more power where you're aligned. To maximize effectiveness, in a purely selfish way, it makes sense to sacrifice degrees of freedom for more power if you're not particularly interested in those degrees of freedom to begin with.

The only ways Brexit makes sense are as sacrificing power absolutely (the North Korea Juche approach), or changing the degrees of freedom being exercised (giving up on the Western European social model).
I actually don't see why someone couldn't write a PHP style autoloader for JS, there is already a lot of cool hacks around require. I think a simple autoloader would just do something like (almost pseudocode):

find src/**/*.{js,ts} -exec cat {} | typescript >> build.js
I contained my snarfing until:

"The ordinals 17, 42 and 6.12 are reserved to reduce confusion.

The ordinals 18 and 19 are reserved for the strings "Reserved" and "Unassigned" respectively.

Unfortunately the ordinal 20 was used by two earlier, competing proposals, and so can mean either "Color" or Colour". Implementations are encouraged to disambiguate based upon context."

At which point I audibly snarfed.
>> IMHO in diets like in politics the danger is always in the extremes

Not just politics and diets, in almost every sphere of life extremes tend to be dangerous.
Maybe we will see that Moores law still holds (somewhat) true and it was Intels de-facto monopoly and their inability for progress to declare the end of Moore?
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But that would make them quite literally the 1% (or 0.1%), i.e. you'd have large middle and lower classes and barely visible upper class.

I wouldn't put "net wealth of 5m" into a group with "net wealth of 50k", I think the 5m person is more similar to somebody with 500m insofar that he doesn't do manual labor, has a significant income from capital gains, and has ensured that even his kids won't ever have to actually work.

Something like 50% lower, 40% middle, 10% upper class, with a tiny part of that upper class making up the super rich sounds more reasonable to me. Maybe the super rich are their own class?
They don't. That's just one of the things Westerners like to say about poor countries.
I can’t see why people would want to move to SF City for the weather. California? YES. Definitely. Even the Bay Area yup. But the City? Erm...
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It’s fascinating how the reality of Earth being embedded in a vast ocean of resource is completely lost on so many. Human ingenuity is key. With every step we unlock another level of resource utilization driving prosperity. If anything social organization and financial frameworks need to support the unfolding of our technology tree. As humanity we just woke up. Enlightenment now.
1.5 Chosen-prefix collision: Given a prefix A, generate two values AB and AC, where B and C differ but are both prefixed with A. (AX is A concatenated with X). This exists for SHA1. It's more powerful than a basic collision wheri you can't pick the prefix, but weaker than either type of pre-image.
From what I was reading, many of the people responsible for reporting the results hadn't even downloaded the app until the night of, or if they had, hadn't ever logged into it on their phones.

Ridiculous.
I think there is something wrong with your premises. There is no rule of law nor nature that interest must be paid. Negative or zero interest are completely possible.
I feel the analogy is more like: You need to fix a single brick so you buy 72 pallets of bricks, buy a fork lift, 5 cement trucks, buy a garage to park them, try to acquire at least 2 cement factories, hire 4 people to do logistics, someone to do HR, 12 truck drivers and 4 fork lift chauffeurs. Placing the brick is outsourced.
> Tax code is a failure of government.

Is tax avoidance a failure of business then? What about the billion dollar lobbying inudstry?

“[Rentier capitalists] assert a belief in ‘free markets’ and want us to believe that economic policies are extending them. That is untrue. Today we have the most unfree market system ever created….

How can politicians look into TV cameras and say we have a free market system when patents guarantee monopoly incomes for twenty years, preventing anyone from competing? How can they claim there are free markets when copyright rules give a guaranteed income for seventy years after a person’s death? How can they claim free markets exist when one person or company is given a subsidy and not others, or when they sell off the commons that belong to all of us, at a discount, to a favoured individual or company, or when Uber, TaskRabbit and their ilk act as unregulated labour brokers, profiting from the labour of others?"

"…today, a tiny minority of people and corporate interests across the world are accumulating vast wealth and power from rental income, not only from housing and land but from a range of other assets, natural and created. ‘Rentiers’ of all kinds are in unparalleled ascendancy and the neo-liberal state is only too keen to oblige their greed.

Rentiers derive income from ownership, possession or control of assets that are scarce or artificially made scarce. Most familiar is rental income from land, property, mineral exploitation or financial investments, but other sources have grown too. They include the income lenders gain from debt interest; income from ownership of ‘intellectual property’ (such as patents, copyright, brands and trademarks); capital gains on investments; ‘above normal’ company profits (when a firm has a dominant market position that allows it to charge high prices or dictate terms); income from government subsidies; and income of financial and other intermediaries derived from third-party transactions."

Source: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-08-03/book-day-corru...
Students will presumably learn about actual metaprogramming in one of the non-missing semesters, so maybe it's meant as a pun?
The Sanders campaign hedged against such an error occurring and had their own internal app to track caucus numbers: https://theintercept.com/2020/02/04/sanders-campaign-release...

No surprise, it shows Bernie Sanders winning solidly. This whole situation reeks of the DNC trying to stunt his momentum.
You’re not a lawyer. Are you defending gaming our immigration system?
Actually yes, the cache hit ratio is not linear with cache size so you get diminishing returns. http://www.dataram.com/blog/?p=112. On top of this, once a CPU core is operating at say 80% of the time the maximum possible speed up from more cache is 20%.

Further, every layer of cache adds latency and cost as you need to check it before going to main memory. In the 486 and early pentium days External Cache was common, but it’s no longer useful.
> I think the biggest problem is that economic growth gives countries a (military) advantage. If you opt out of growth-based economic system, your neighbors will have more army or resources or manpower. They will eventually invade you or dominate you economically.

Or the population including the elites get sick of living poor country and the wont defend the government letting it be overthrown.

> Back to prosperity without growth. To resist pressure from neighboring states that practice economic growth, you would need to continuously improve efficiency and that's hard.

If you are improving efficiency your economy is growing. Unless you assume people will deliberately use less resources once efficiency grows and I don't think that has ever happened.
You can't change past commits to add that hash (without changing all commit hashes), so this method could only protect new commits. For any existing repo this would lead to a very weird security model: We admit that sha1 hashes are broken, and only guarantee that commits made by git versions newer than git x.x.x are safe from after-the-fact modification (or alternatively only commits made after date X).
This looks so great!! Installing on my Mac in a bit. Took too long of a break. This should be on Homebrew if possible. Especially since the newest Mac comes with zsh. Old bash issue won’t be there.
Make their own trade agreements? Hold their government accountable without having a circle of the government and the EU blaming each other?
If an industry has grown so much that it can fulfill all the demand the market has for it, why does it need more growth?

So "growth" would come from changing demands eventually.