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> why was it still outperforming other asset classes by this much?

Because the future is uncertain, and that uncertainty was baked into the price? And there's nothing to say that "baked into the price" has to be accurate... investors could have collectively read the tea leaves wrong.

> These numbers aren't showing anything other than how the companies perform in the current, corona-affected, economy

Which could be considered passing a stress test with flying colors - maybe people are interpreting this as "which businesses are robust or anti-fragile for a once in a century event". Or just as easily - maybe investors are betting there's a chance that some of this current context is the new normal.

I'm a little confused as to what you're trying to ask overall. Markets and investors aren't perfect, the future is uncertain, and random walks are everywhere.
If he wasn’t alone where were his militia buddies whilst all this happened? Watching from a safe distance?

And I don’t think it’s an enemy of my enemy thing. I think these groups genuinely think Trump supports them.
Uhh, people are marching on the capital right now
In 2014 a friend made a joke Kickstarter (I guess in response to the Potato Salad Kickstarter campaign) where he would make a PB&J sandwich, vacuum seal it, and mail it to you.

I still have it at the bottom of my freezer, vacuum sealed. Some day he will randomly get it back in the mail.
The algorithm itself takes three cost&memory values N, r, p, and if you're calling the `crypto_scrypt()` function in C or C++ as a KDF you need to specify those.

The command-line binary generally takes "max time" and "max ram" (as percent and/or raw value) and estimates appropriate cost values. As of version 1.3.1, you can manually specify cost values for the binary if you want.
Agreed! Funnily enough, this doesn't work on my 2015 MBP, just my newer Touchbar one.
Thank you. I had no idea.
My 12-year-old son will be taking the basic exam next month -- studying for it has been his quarantine/summer project. It's been fun teaching him the basics of electronics, but there is some cramming required, especially for the questions related to legal matters.
Zoom is important, but zoom didn't evict anyone.

The US government did.

The government is the only organization "allowed" to use physical violence against anyone it wants to.

The author raises many valid points, but I think the logical conclusion of his points condemns the US legal system more than it does zoom.

Author: Having to agree to a contract with a private company in order to access public services is immediately objectionable.

Me: I agree! But unlike the US Government, Zoom doesn't make threats of violence against people that don't want to use it's services.

Author: Second, for the state to require use of Zoom is for it to promote and subsidize that company.

Me: I agree! The but the state wouldn't even BE ABLE to subsidize Zoom if it didn't first threaten me with violence in order to take a large fraction of my money.
A number of ISPs have started using NAT for IPv4 due to the address space crunch, which means that at best those IPv4 addresses can only be used for coarse geolocation. The fact that IPv6 addresses are per-device means that at a minimum you can get household level geolocation for each device (based on the prefix). The fact that addresses are long-lived is not really relevant, since addresses are only long lived with respect to a prefix and prefixes will change when a device moves to a different network (almost always the case with residential service).
Even before COVID-19, you'd have to get a work visa, which probably isn't too tough for most software people, but can be a hassle.
> until one day I discovered a plugin for VSCode that embeds Vim

Pretty much any editor with plugin support ends up with at least one Vim plugin. In addition to VSCode, Sublime, Atom, and Emacs all have Vim plugins (Sublime's is even built-in, but disabled by default).

To me this is the best of both worlds, since I can take advantage of all the nice features from my IDEs while still having the efficiency of Vim editing. Honestly, the thing I miss the most from full-fledged Vim is the Subvert command from abolish.vim (https://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish).
An overstatement.

> [...] then that telemetry data all of a sudden becomes the most personal of data.

> What does Firefox telemetry data include?
According to the Mozilla wiki, telemetry data includes all the information needed to answer the following questions:

How long does it take Firefox to start?
How long does it take Firefox to load a web page?
How much memory is Firefox consuming?
How frequently do the Firefox cycle collector and garbage collector run?
Was your session successfully restored when you last launched Firefox?
No, I don't put much stock into fMRI results.
Yes you can have your own local definition I suspect you will face an uphill battle for it to be accepted though. I suppose that means the protestors could be called the community too and since they outnumber both the militia types and the police they are the majority?

Ultimately it’s the transitory nature of the participation that marks it out as not part of the community. For example a landlord might not be considered part of the community despite owning property.
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> Constitutions are squishy things, ultimately. They evolve over the years.

They're really not -- or shouldn't be. Certainly not when you have a textualist/originalist majority on the court charged with deciding what is and isn't constitutional.

I get your broader point that societies and norms change. But the last thing any of us should want is a constitution that is lightly referenced and broadly interpreted because history shows such easily interpreted and changed documents benefit the oppressor far more than the oppressed.

Your final point is a strong one: Substantial parts (and, for some forms of speech, nearly all parts) of our freedom of speech runs through a handful of large social -media companies. There's little reason that can't be addressed with appropriate federal legislation but, if that's not enough, then let's get on with the heavy lift of actually amending the Constitution, rather than hoping our better angels prevail in interpreting it.
You've got much cheaper housing or much more expensive insurance than the average person.
It’s a double whammy because the employer gets to deduct 100% of their contribution but the little guy buying it on the open market has to use post tax dollars.
Both situations are really a matter of freedom of speech. Forget Google, does a person with a personal website that allows comments get to control what comments they want displayed on their site or not? Does that person get to choose what work they want to accept from a potential customer?

Both situations boil down to freedom of speech. Both have extra, specific laws that deal with their situations. Without a well thought out justification, a mismatch between the position on those is likely hypocritical, no matter which you are for or against. A well thought out positions may not be, but I don't think most people actually have a well thought out opinion on the intricacies of how these intersect, and what it means, and instead fall back on what they would like to be able to do in that situation, or on their impression based on the way it was presented to them (I think it far more likely contextual presentation is to blame for some of this than actual reasoning). It does little good to point out the hypocrisy of some group on a specific issue when that form of hypocrisy is widespread and rampant. We should also point out the cause of the hypocrisy itself.
The author claim that they're not re-inventing adverbs, but rather want a word that modifies another adverb (someone in the comments suggests an "adadverb"). But the example doesn't show this:

> “He quickly ate the mango in a distracted manner,” I wanted to write, “He distractedily quickly ate the mango,” because, among other reasons, I wanted to be more concise.

But in the first sentence, "quickly" and "distracted manner" both modify "ate," and so they are both simply adverbs.

While there could be some merit in trying to suggest a causal relationship between the two adverbs ("Because he was distracted, he ate the mango quickly"), that doesn't seem to be what's being suggested either.

So I can't really see the purpose of this. How does "distracted" modify "quickly" in the example? How is "quickly" itself different, now that it's been modified? I don't think it is, what's different is the way the mango is being eaten, so they are both simply adverbs for the same verb.

In any case, adverbs can already modify adverbs:

"He burped enormously loudly."
For comparison, in the UK we spent £197.4 billion in 2017, or approximately £2,989 spent per person [0]. Which works out as:

~£250/per person/per month. Which is $330. Or $350 adjusted for inflation since 2017.

That covers everything: emergency room, ambulances, giving birth, cancer treatment. Everything: no copays (except very small ones (<£10) for prescription medicines). And it covers the entire population.

* Except dentistry. For some reason that is separate.

[0]: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan....
That example is a crowd intimidating people with the intent to compel speech, of course, and they’re using the slogan “silence is violence.” But those are two different things. You could pick any slogan you want and have a mob recite it while intimidating people into agreeing. That’s not an indictment of the slogan.
Does that include the healthcare-related taxes you paid? Not being snarky, genuinely wondering.
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I suspect more schools would adopt schemes like Rutgers. They charge part-time students over twice as much as full-time: https://riskmanagement.rutgers.edu/student-information/rates...
That was a wrong example. I just skimmed the code at the end of the article, which turns out is not Solidity.
Oh god what is with those em dashes (—) and spacing? Is "foo—bar baz—quux" correctly spaced? Because it took me a minute to parse the title (and the same line in the article). For a while I was thinking that "qualifies—or" and "adverbs—an" are some advanced concepts from linguistic equivalent of algebra. But it turns out that the sentence is just "qualifies, or adverbs, an adverb".
All of that just points out how bad it is, even with 'insurance'.
That's fascinating. Because poverty lowers life span by ~ 10 years [1]. And covid economics are expected to push over 100 million children into poverty [2]. So that's a billion life years lost from economic costs versus the 10 million life years lost if 1 million die from covid.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...
[2] https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-poverty/covid-19/#:~:tex....
I was going to say something similar. The best, non-oxymoron, interpretation I can come up with is:

> A longily concisely written account of skydiving.

Since these are intended as adverbs on adverbs (which, by the way, is already how adverbs work), my most generous interpretation is:

> A concisely written account of skydiving which took a long time to write (or to write concisely?).
Biggest community is in Asia. When you visit tournaments common language for what's happening on the board is really nice to have. If you stick around that's like <0.01% of what you need to learn anyway. Plus you've learned where Atari name came from :)

Japanese counting is more popular but you really don't need to worry about it until some high dan level if you play on 19x19. It takes a long, long time before you will be able to say confidently who is winning on 19x19 if the game is close.

I suck at Chess, but to me Go was much easier to learn. You can have quite a lot of fun without studying any openings.
How is keycloak compared to Pomerium for example?
They are worth more than toyota, uber, lyft, ford, gm combined.
Fair point.

Perhaps I should add that, this past spring, I had a day where Blackboard failed on me, and where I lacked the presence of mind to think of a good Plan B on the spot. To my embarrassment, I ended up cancelling the lecture. That experience is why I thought to plan ahead this time.

When Zoom goes down, certainly we should expect some disruptions. As you say, some will be more serious than what I dealt with. But "critical infrastructure" still strikes me as a bit much.
If you remove the 'i' from "ily", then you get the sentence, "He distractedly quickly ate the mango...," which seems grammatical to me.

In any case, I'm not sure why some high schooler's ill-considered blog post is Hacker News.
I hear you, but the flip side is that this is a hobby. I did not get in it to get mad.
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I have a Psomething (the one with Xeon) from work and a T480 for personal stuff, but as I have been getting rid of Intel in my life, the T480 will be the first to go.

How is the T495 with kernel 5.8? How does the GPU handle day to day life, and video acceleration? And more importantly, does the T495 have soldered RAM?

The awesome thing about the T480 is how I could upgrade a bunch of things, from Wi-Fi card, to RAM, to NVMe drive, and I would not like losing that.

The new T14, unfortunately, will take forever to show up in Brazil, so the T495 seems to be the logical option.
Bad joke sorry
About 139 here in The Netherlands.
Yeah, that sentence should look like this: "He distractedily and quickly ate the mango", and then it's clear both adverbs modify the same verb. Unless the author was trying to pull the equivalent of "he is distractedily quick", in which case I don't know what their original sentence would mean anymore.
Small differences are huge though. I gave up on WebEx over two years ago when finding Zoom, so I cant speak to them adding copy-cat features and catching up feature-wise. However, I first switched to zoom from WebEx based on:

1. One click meeting starts w/ a simple URL

2. One click meeting joins w/ a simple URL

3. Standing reservation-less room with a URL to remove the hassle of booked by 15-minute segments that WebEx wanted

As for Lync, not sure where to start. There are times 3 or 4 years ago when you were lucky to be able to log in. Their auth was a mess and if -- God forbid -- you had a legacy Skype or legacy Microsoft account, there were strange auth/password reset loops where accessing your account was virtually impossible. You'll find plenty of discussion online about people who suddenly found themselves shut out of a decade-old Skype account because their Skype email was somehow mal-merged into a Microsoft account. I was similarly trapped in this endless loop of auth issues and gave up entirely on Lync.
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I can help you. My handle on OGS is the same as here.
> trying to control others' thoughts isn't going to change that

Controlling the spread of misinformation is not "controlling others thoughts".

> your assumption is that banning free speech would improve things

Banning specific content such as anti-vaxx is not "banning free speech". If anything, let it go rampant on your platform is actually helping promote it. Private platforms have no such obligation. It's like if I came to your house and forced lies about you to your family, and when you threw me out, I claimed that you were trying to ban my free speech.
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Well, 1% of a $billion is $10 million. I think I could get by on that.
There are no extra healthcare taxes.
>The Dark Forest is my favorite science fiction book

Mine too and Hyperion andandand :)
Any idea what level of coverage you get for these rates? It's hard to compare these options to exchange plans, some of which are significantly cheaper. I tried doing it for Rutgers, but the site they use won't let me see plans without a student ID number.
Thanks for the book!
last I saw, roughly 80% of people in the US have employer provided healthcare. In a democracy a 20% minority has to be VERY vocal

edit: I was incorrect, this is 80% of people get healthcare from their employer OR the government. Only 20% of people are responsible for paying for their healthcare separate from their employer (if they have one)
I don't wanna hijack his thread, but I'm a small contributor to a great open source project library called AccountsJS, which seems pretty similar to this, AFAIK. and it's really modular/flexible on whatever you want to implement it with!

You can use it both with REST/GraphQL, and any frontend you may like.

Also supports Oauth like Twitter, FB, Google, Insta, etc...

Has 2FA. MFA on the works...

Anyway if it piqued your interest here are some links:
http://accountsjs.com/
Repo in GH: https://github.com/accounts-js/accounts
Agreed, somehow bots are able to jump the queue but there’s no description of how or why that’s possible. Why would the bot transaction be given higher priority than the submitted transaction?
Some style guides let you put spaces on both sides of an em dash, others want spaces on neither side. No style guide wants spacing on only one side, and the title is correct with its lack of spacing on the em-dashes.
possibly when you are depending on transactions being verified on two different chains but one can do child pays for parent or can be overwritten on a smaller blockchain you could end up with a "blockchain race condition"
Many thanks for the resources!
I disagree about memorization. That may be true for chess, but the go board is too large and the game to long for that to be viable. In the opening, bots will generally recommend several places per move that lose 0 or -0.1 points compared to its preferred move. You would have to memorize thousands of opening just to have a chance of still being in book for the entire opening, and even then your opponent can take your out of your preparations at a cost of less than 1 point.
Which people, which mark, have been wrong? What's happening (excepting the stock market) all seems to be pretty in line with the expectations I had around April.

I also don't agree that the experts have been unhelpful, and strongly disagree that they have been worse than no advice. They have been fought at every turn by people who don't understand epidemiology.

I think it's pretty clear that if we had actually listened to the public health experts, we (in the US) would be in much better shape. Trump (who you brought up) bears some of this responsibility for doing something so stupid as to politicize masks. He bears more blame because he appears to interfere with and try to adjust the science messaging to fit his narrative, which serves to confuse people.

So no - the experts haven't been wrong. We've just not spent much time listening to them.
Because it isn't dumb.
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I laughed out loud while reading this article. The author sees some things so correctly, while completely missing the forest for the trees.

Author: A single California-based company, Zoom, is now the foundation for education access from elementary school up through graduate school.

Me: Hah. The 'foundation' for education for the last 100 years has been the US Government, which exerts so much power over the entire system.

Author: Another challenge is that Zoom is a relatively young company (founded in 2011) that has experienced some security-related growing pains.

Me: The US Gov. has experienced security-related growing pains, but at least Zoom doesn't kill tens of thousands of people around the world every year.

Author: In March 2020, the company was widely criticized for a dubious claim that it supported end-to-end encryption for videoconferences.

Me: At least Zoom doesn't have a track record of spending billions of dollars to subvert encryption technology, wiretap hundreds of millions of people, and then lies about it.

Author: There are plenty of alternatives to Zoom, including Skype, Webex, and GoToMeeting. The challenge of course, is that Zoom has benefited from an enormous network effect.

Me: Oh how I wish there were a less-violent alternative to the US Government. At least Zoom cannot enforce it's monopoly of certain services with violence and billions of dollars of money
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As an outsider looking in, though, it seems that banks are getting better at this, while crypto is getting worse.

There's a bajillion fintechs helping the banks sort out their UI issues and make it friendlier/better.

Bitcoin is still basically unusable for everyday transactions, and the endless stream of wallet provider hacks is not convincing anyone that it's secure. As TFA says, the hazards for normal folks playing in this pool are getting worse. If the miners are frontrunning your transaction every time you want to get paid, what's the point?
Isn't that the whole security / obscurity point? That true security only comes by being exposed to active, intelligent, informed adversaries for a sufficient amount of time?

Or, another way: each exploit and oops only improves the system, rather than being a signal of its failure.

And let's be honest, the competition is still "Oops, I accidentally sent $900M to the wrong party." [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222045
This is a tricky problem even to define, because there's "Reddit" which is the owners and paid moderators, then there is "reddit" which is the universe of its subreddits and its unpaid, unaccountable moderators.

For example, it's been well known for awhile that if you subscribe to any of the men's rights subs, you are auto-banned from several of the feminism ones (including TwoXChromosomes). That kind of thing certainly isn't lenient but also isn't under Reddit's control.
Hmm, so being a white person myself and criticizing other white people for using their whiteness as proof of their so-called superiority is racist?

I don't think so, and your opinion doesn't change things.
I appreciate the snark as much as the next guy but I don't believe Hacker News is the right forum for it.
I've seen this exact idea before. Did you look to see if it existed first?
To compare apples to apples, note that the American number is just the premium. In my case for example, I need to spend an additional $6800 before the insurance kicks in and starts paying out.
I think that's where the scam sits. The cost is not being driven by the cost of actual healthcare anymore. It's being driven by how much companies are willing to pay for each employee. So instead of companies just paying the employees more per year, they're paying an insurance company about 10% to 20% of their salary.
But these can and will be fixed (by banks, the legal system, etc)
there's a really bad naming conflict with an enterprise product that's been out for the better part of a decade.
I tried to start up a Slack for a hobby decidedly lacking in technophiles. A few people joined, and I put some seed comments into different channels to try to drum up some conversation. Did not work, so I stopped posting so I didn't become that crazy guy talking to himself.
Did the author get permission for this attempted Good Samaritan deed? Or did he go out on his own and screw up the implementation without the contract owner's knowledge?

If it's the latter, that's kind of a shit move.
Ok, but the adverb is "distractedly."

The "ily" in "distractedily" isn't doing anything.
One could say such snark is...boysenous
Tao Lin is annoying in his own right, but he's not a high schooler.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Lin