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Your comment is what every textbook says and it's not wrong for ideal conditions.

Meanwhile in the field you come across a boogered up fitting line that leaks, you slap some tape on the threads, the nut seals to the ferrule, the ferrule seals to the tube and the tape seals the threads.

It's not "right" but it works well enough often enough that people do it.
"48% more colors!"

lol you could take this out of context and I would 99% guess it's from Apple's website.
How do you do that if the growth rate hasn't started to slow yet?
> Sony was planning a much bigger reveal in a few weeks at GDC in SF, but, well, COVID-19 happened. So here we are with a live-streamed version of the event, offering far and away the deepest dive into the next-gen console.

I wonder how far we are from purely digital launches for many products.

Aside: TechCrunch should really stop hijacking the back button. You shouldn't have to possess frontend development skills to know how to disable the intrusive JS which powers this.
I suspect this would be due to mixing legacy and UEFI booting, where grub-legacy would interfere with whatever the disk management was doing and fixing it would involve removing grub.

For grub-uefi, it is just another file on a EFI system partition.
Are you at liberty to say which hedge funds these were?
It's a metonym, and you're right it refers to finance. But, many corporations over the past 30 years have kind of evolved into financial companies. Look at GE. The criticism, relevant to this very article, is that (many) companies focus far too much on maximizing shareholder value, at the expense of other investments.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-powered-the-american-century...
This is confusing to me too. The best explanation I've heard is that the market is expecting a future increase in bond supply (gov bond issuance to fund coronavirus mitigation measures), which would drive prices down and yields up. This future price pressure is being priced into bonds today.

Bitcoin crashed as well and gold isn't overperforming either. So rather than having a huge transfer of assets from stocks to bonds/gold/bitcoin like we've seen during past periods of market volatility, I think we are seeing falling prices across all the forementioned asset groups.

The one open question for me is Real Estate (I work for a small commercial real estate developer). REITs are down 20%. My contacts in the Broker community have told me individual property sales transactions have dried up due to an inability to do property showings combined with no interest from buyers or sellers to make big moves until things shake out. RE moves slow so we haven't yet seen how this dynamic will impact sales prices.
In the global warming discussions there are always lots of people testifying that it's impossible to cut private car use or their world will end, hopefully this will shake those ossified attitudes.
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I love these two devices but really I don't know which one use Suitable for my job. Are you sure really Surface Pro is better?
Some of the things you're saying seem contradictory (American politicians are rarely imprisoned for their crimes, therefore Americans should be more trusting of their government? That seems completely backward) so forgive me if I've misunderstood you completely. With that said...

> "The conversation is dominated by the fear of gov't abuse. So few point to how successfully South Korea has leveraged their vast surveillance infrastructure to tackle this problem while maintaining a vibrant democracy. (When's the last time the US actually imprisoned a leader? Or even held a powerful person to account without pardon?)"

South Korea isn't all sunshine and roses either. They had numerous military coupes in post-war half of the 20th century. One of their dictators was sentenced to death for massacring hundreds of pro-democracy protestors, but was then pardoned for this. Things might not be so bad in South Korea currently, but the nastier stuff is still in living memory today. South Koreans would be wise to tread carefully when empowering their government. I think the cautious attitude modern Germans have towards these matters is a good approach: "Never again" rather than "It could never happen again."

As for the attitudes of Americans, no organization nor individual is entitled to trust; trust must be earned. Insofar as Americans don't trust their government, it's because their government hasn't earned their trust. On the contrary, the American government has frequently violated whatever little trust anybody has in it. Modern America may not have any recent military dictatorships like South Korea, but there is nevertheless a lot of disturbing unpleasantness in recent history.
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Yep TP is required, but less compared to not using.
In general, many of the "new" features introduced in the past years, both in C# and in many other languages, simply come from the world of functional programming.
So yes, F# in the natural playground for these new features simply because it's functional first.

Also, in many other ways is an incredibly powerful language, which leverage in a vry powerful ecosystem, sadly is kinda left behind without big sponsors.
The scale is important. A JS interpreter is 10s of thousands of lines of code at best. Even if sandboxed, the likelihood that there's a way out of the sandbox massively increases as more code is added. The possibility of bugs in the interpreter is another issue. For example, 10k lines of C or C++ code means there's 10k extra lines where there could be a buffer overflow, segfault, or memory leak. And then multiply that by the number of times these lines are executed with unknown input (AKA every line of JS code).
It makes me think of a visual novel in which a character is bullied and has 1 million yen extorted by another character over a period of time.

We thought about and figured that was very possible.
Let me do some digging and see if there is anything internal I can share. If not, the airbnb engineering blog has some good articles on this approach: https://airbnb.design/building-a-visual-language/
Helm for Kubernetes is pretty huge ~17k stars on GitHub and nearing an industry standard.
Instead of half-assing it, if it's "boogered up" and leaks, the fittings should be replaced.
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> The economy produces 20% more than it did ten years ago. But the GDP is still $2000, because that's how much money there is.

More or less, yes. The improved efficiency is reflected in the fact that prices are now 20% lower, so the same GDP buys more goods. I'm not saying that prices shouldn't be considered. Prices are an important economic metric—which is exactly why it's a bad idea to conflate natural price signals with the noise caused by artificial changes in the money supply.

> If I saved a dollar, why does that dollar give me a claim, not just to what the dollar would have bought when I saved it, but also a claim on a part of all the growth since I saved it?

Because the improved efficiency and growth are in part due to the fact you chose to save that dollar, meaning that during that time there were $1 worth of extra goods and services available for other people to invest or consume. You created a surplus and essentially loaned it to everyone else by choosing to consume $1 less than you produced. The drop in prices is the interest on that loan.

Of course, it could go the other way too. If people choose to consume capital rather than invest in the future then the economy could shrink, resulting in rising prices. The general rate of return represented by deflation or inflation (in the absence of interference with the money supply) represents the baseline level of return a venture needs to offer in order to be worth investing in, not just for the individual—who would be looking for the best rate of return in any case—but for the economy as a whole. If you can't find anything better to invest in than the real-valued return you would get from stuffing your money in a mattress and waiting, we're all better off if you do just that and avoid taking resources away from actually beneficial investments. An inflationary economy incentivises people to invest more, but if the inflation is artificial then the result is a lot of malinvestment from people simply looking for a safe haven for their money, even if it's still losing real value over time.
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In Africa, Belgium's presence in the Congo was particularly vicious. Then there's the Spanish in Central America, and the Tasmanian genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigeno... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Tasmanians
Have you tried ctrl-shift-v?
It's a fire sale though. So you can also protect your capital as best you can and get in there. Establish a rule to sell the stock if it falls another N%, and jump on the stock sale. HN is generally super risk-averse but there are ways to moderate risk with finer-grained control than "don't try to catch a falling knife."
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> Within 1/(10 q^2) is only sometimes possible.

For any q?
Doesn't this seem backwards? Given that the usr prefix doesn't mean anything anymore, wouldn't it make more sense to just put everything in /bin and keep /usr/bin as a symlink for backwards compatibility and eventually drop it?
Aren't all XPS 15 models nvidia-only? That would an extra roadblock on the way to just-works linux experence.
that's interesting, but it's unclear whether or not that would target the wrongdoers precisely enough. executives, some (maybe all) board members, and some principal shareholders (maybe all principals) are the likely instigators of decisions like this. those are the folks to punish.

and on the flipside, it's not clear that all creditors deserve potential upside beyond their promised fixed income (and many probably don't want the added risk and responsibility of equity over debt).

you'd also want to claw back related gains from executives, board members, and principal shareholders.

maybe the benefits should accrue to non-executive employees and to customers instead.
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I use iOS, but the iron grip Apple has on its walled garden puts advanced users at great disadvantage.

You want a privacy-friendly browser like Firefox? No, you are only allowed to use a Firefox skin on good old Safari instead.

You want local ad/tracker blocking? No way, you are allowed to use a VPN instead, and hope it doesn't sell your data too.

You want to jailbreak and stroll outside the corral? Better hope iOS keeps having zero-days, because there's no official way, and Apple actively works against the unofficial way.
Through this unprecedented money printing, the Fed is devaluing not only the dollar and all pegged fiat currencies but also all institutions which are centered around it. It's not surprising then to see cryptocurrencies outperforming stocks over the past couple of days.

The Fed's QE program back in 2008 was one of the main incentives which drove the creation of Bitcoin and its subsequent adoption.

The Fed has a real problem now. People are beginning to realize that not everyone has to work as hard to get the same amount of money, but the truth is even worse than that; not everyone has to deliver the same amount of value to society in order to get the same amount of money... The root of the problem is the Fed and the mechanism by which this newly printed money enters the economy. It's not a fair process.

The real intrinsic value behind fiat money is based solely on its ability to:

- Deceive people into thinking that it has value backed by real economic contributions.

- Forcibly coherse people into accepting its nominal value even if some of those people doubt it.

In other words, the intrinsic value of fiat is rooted in lies and manipulation. Smoke and mirrors. Then it follows logically that every institution which derive their value from it is also rooted in those same lies and manipulations.
Saving us from the effects of climate change if we let it progress far would be a (very difficult) technology problem, but fighting climate change is an economic and political problem.
You don't buy all at once, though - you can "dollar cost average" into the market by buying index funds in small chunks when there are big dips, and stop buying when it stops falling.

You won't predict the bottom, and you might not get all of your money in in time, but you'll still wind up ahead when the markets recover.

And they will recover, unless we somehow get to a point where the entire monetary system collapses. The only question is whether it will take a few weeks, months, years, or decades.

Pick your starting point depending on how long you can wait. Buying early makes you less likely to miss the dip, but it might take longer to start seeing green numbers. Buying late means that you stand to gain more in the short term, but you might not get all of your money in in time.

Personally, I think we're still straddling the "early" line around now, but your guess is as good as mine. This is what they call a 'roller coaster' :)
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Is this a similar concept to compartmentalized consensus? https://mwhittaker.github.io/publications/compartmentalized_...
Living in AZ all summer long you have heated water for cold. The metal tanks sitting on top of mountains are great water heaters.

During the winter its a bit colder but still nothing like the well water back in the midwest. Well water bidet would cause hypothermia to your anus
By gateway you mean proxy right?

Is that even within Paypal's TOS? Can you front-end their web service and capture users' passwords purportedly for proxying?

I know that Sofort does that and I'm flabbergasted by my bank switching their stance from "wait, who's capturing our login tokens?" to "oh, you're talking about Sofort. Yeah, we can't control what others do on the internet [I mentioned they could just block the Sofort servers]. This is fine." Checking back what the official statement was, in summary it came down to that (use of) Sofort doesn't comply with the TOS but they're currently allowing me to use it until they came to a more permanent agreement in current talks with Sofort.
At least you can rest assured that Elon Musk will never send one of these…
Feels a lot like ChromeOS: declare bankruptcy on a lot of the userspace cruft that's accumulated over the decades
I am not Richard Eng. Why would you think that anyone who supports Smalltalk can only be him? Do you really believe there is only one Smalltalk fan throughout the world?

Richard is the most prolific promoter of Smalltalk in years. So I support and applaud his efforts. Why is this so difficult to accept?
This crisis is exposing that our modern economy has a very thin layer of resilience. I can't help but think of Climate Change as the next obvious thing that we should have seen coming, but have not adequately taken seriously.
Great book. If the history lessons don't get you, the leadership/management insights will. It should be required reading for anyone with aspiration in tech / creative fields.
Anyone know how to enable this new UI?
When I was at college a decade* ago, there were quite a few student carrying around an iPad with a keyboard cover, and doing all of their schoolwork on that. Heck, I understood the draw the moment I did the same with the (doomed, but then-novel) Surface RT. That thing was lightweight and lasted all day without needing to worry about finding an outlet, which is a big deal when you're running to a different lecture hall every couple of hours.

For some disciplines, especially anything involving CAD, I think desktop computer is still necessary. That said, I think you'd be surprised just how much of a typical college education can be done on nothing more than a basic tablet and a handful of productivity apps.

* (...wow, it really was a decade. How the time flies.)
As curvature of space is affecting measurments of distances in angles, the curvature of spacetime is affecting both measurements of time and distance.

Concerning the curvature of space: If you measure sum of angles of triangle on the surface of earth, it will be grater than 180 deagrees thanks to positive curvature of earth surface. For triangle in your backyard the diference will be immesurable, but if your measure traingle with segments spanning for 6 thousends kilometers sum of the angles will be closer to 270 deg than 180 deg.

For the spacetime in the vicinity of earth you don't have to necessarly think about large distances, here (https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2pu2o0/is_there...) someone calculated diference for two clocks so you can se scale :

"If so the clocks on Earth's surface and 7km down would see a relative drift of 0.001ns per second, so the lower clock would tick that much slower as viewed by someone on the surface. At that rate over the course of a billion years the surface clock would pull ahead by 525.6 minutes."
I asked specifically about ads as I do not have those so curious why others do. I do not need generic Windows criticism as I am using it without any problem for like eternity, so do not really give a hoot if somebody else does not like it. I have whole bunch of Windows and Linux computers (laptops and desktops/servers) and am happy like a clam.

"Ceding high end of the market to Apple". I would not go into much details but for example my gaming grade laptop runs circles around Mac that costs twice as much. So sure I'd rather be a "low end" peon with the decent hardware.
> desecrate their burial sites, further destroying their culture and identity

"Desecration" is not an objective concept. If the local people no longer remember that burial and regard it as sacred – and in the absence of written sources, seven centuries is enough to sunder any living link between a historical population and the population currently inhabiting a place – it is hard to claim that damage is being done here. Also, Africa has seen population movements, such as the Bantu Expansion, by which peoples living in a place today may not be the descendants of those uncovered by archaeologists at all.

This also isn’t something that foreigners are doing uniquely to Africa. Graves from this era regularly get dug up by archaeologists across Europe. How else do you think we know so much about the impact of the Mongol invasion and the Black Death on European settlements?
> no matter how much money you throw at the problem, the market is going to respond with another steep sell-off

There are two problems. A public-health problem, which is killing people. And a quarantine effects problem, which is putting people out of work.

Throwing money at the latter works. It keeps unemployed bartenders paying rent. That keeps them in their homes and their landlords from defaulting.

As the first problem evolves, however, it makes the second worse. That means we don't know how much support is enough. Until we know how bad the first problem is, the second's effects will remain poorly constrained. That turns every public action, with respect to either the first problem or second, into a cause for panic for the markets. (It doesn't help that the quality of communication around these actions has been poor.)

At the same time, everyone who can get liquidity is taking it. That's stressing the notoriously-chaotic credit market. This is a problem entirely manageable through throw-money-at-it central banking solutions.
Usually, one can, with no ill-effects. Many operators run their marginally economic wells for only a few hours per day already.
Don't know for Germany but 50% of the cases in Spain are in Madrid so hospitals are collapsed. That info is not in the link.

I would say we need more information per country to understand differences.
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I used to be pro-nuclear, but here in South Africa, we can't even keep our coal plants running - nevermind nuclear. Last week a 930MW nuclear turbine at Koeberg went down because the cooling pump filters had not been cleaned in years and was filled with fish and jellyfish.

Small-scale, independent solar producers and perhaps geothermal or CSP (molten salt) seem to be the only strategies that can work.

There will always be corruption, war and fraud. To be pro-nuclear, you have to guarantee political stability for 100+ years, and I don't think many places could guarantee that.
A natural explanation is that the government is considered less creditworthy.

There's also been news this morning that the government will bail out commercial paper and corporate bonds, and that this has caused investors to move from treasuries to corporates.

It strikes me that both explanations may be true.
My favorite Slack feature was never knowing for sure which of the 5 buttons in the upper right corner contained the thing I was looking for.

It's that sort of uncertainty that reminded me of life's uncertainties in general on a regular basis.
Pretty bad? It was a complete economic shit storm, and as of this moment, it was a whole lot worse.
Sorry for this post. We have engineers working on it now -- we are looking additional expertise though - will find the right place for it.
There are more US citizens who are neither of the two than any one of them, if memory serves me right.

As for me - I'd say that Dems are the elitists trying to prevent the masses from getting what they need, and the GOP are their maniac friends tearing things down.
This would ruin the iPad. MacOS is a great windowing OS. It’s not made for touchscreens.

MS has been doing this weird dance where they tried to smoosh two OSes together and created one bad OS. The absolute worst was when Windows 8 first came out, and I keep accidentally getting into tablet mode on my non-touch screen laptop.

Apple is taking the correct course which is to build a new OS from the ground up and adding power. MS made gigantic missteps by trying to force a windowing OS to support touch.

Both are somewhat meeting in the middle, and now Surfaces have gotten pretty decent, but they started out bad.

The other thing to remember is that people buy tablets for touch, and Surface Pros are pretty decent laptop replacements but still so-so as an actual tablet.
I don't know that I've ever heard a good reason why we need to have historical/ancient scripts, symbol sets, etc. in something like Unicode.
My parents are in China (Shandong province) and they are free to travel across cities. Restrictions (aka lockdowns) are lifted and cities are getting busy again. Generally, back to normal, aside from school closures.

Most recent news from this morning: Schools are opening across the country in stages from April. This is strong signal. I don't think "coverup" and "school opening" can do together because viruses won't listen to either CCP or Trump.

As a Chinese with so many friends in China, I would say that articles from WSJ/NYT about China may not reflect the reality. They are telling the truth, but there are many truths and reporters just want to pick whatever they want. E.g., there are sad stories for sure, but there are also plenty of moving good stories. In this mixed-up world I found it very difficult to find real "objective" reports, aside from your own eyes...
Go for a walk. You’re allowed. It will help
The workforce is largely made up of heathy people under 60, so it’s at minimal risk. My suspicion is gatherings like movie theaters will shut down until a vaccine is available, restaurants are going to swap to carry out, and the sick or elderly are going to be expected to self isolate. That’s still a huge economic hit, but far from the end times.

Looking at Wuhan, a total shutdown can dramatically reduce the number of new cases. We can’t really afford that for long, but it buys time to prepare and may be required if things start to fall apart.