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> In the middle ages the nobility were effectively the government (and the church provided checks and balances, kind of)

This was kind of true early on, and got less true both as the size of the nobility grew (especially in countries like France and Russia, which had serious nobility surpluses) and as a professional class of government emerged (by the time you get to Samuel Pepys, you're talking about largely a professional government). Even before that in practice many or most government functions were carried out by appointed or elected commoners.

To take a ridiculously over the top example, take the samurai class in the Tokugawa Shogunate. They were about 10% of the population, and by and large weren't really allowed do anything much at all (beyond wars, but there were no significant wars during that period). 99% of them were pure drain on the economy.

> as well as the investor class

This is way more dubious. Obviously it depends on the time and place, but in most times and most places it was anything from socially unacceptable (England) to effectively illegal (Roman Republic/Empire) for aristocratic landowners to invest in non-land things. What little investment in productive projects there was was largely by merchants, money lenders, and later banks, all generally commoners.
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Ask HN: Does Zoom Webinar inflate registration page visits?
Your highly specific question of the day. And about marketing, to boot.

I'm running a Zoom webinar for a client and noticed the # of signups is abysmal across multiple marketing sources, according to Zoom's stats. But then, looking into each source's internal analytics, none of their traffic stats align with Zoom's.

Page Visits / Registrations, per Zoom:
Source 1: 95/2;
Source 2: 142/1;
Source 3: 41/1

Page Visits / Registrations, per each source's analytics:
Source 1: 3/2;
Source 2: 54/1;
Source 3: 1/1

Anyone else experience these kinds of discrepancies?
> Does the word "drinks" also bother you?

No, but if you went to a pub and had several 'drinkings', then yes.

"Learnings" is incorrect.

> Does a language get to change and evolve at all?

Yes, and despite my dislike for "learnings" it looks like it is here to stay unfortunately. It's "business English", amplified by the internet. When I tell friends and family about "learnings" their response is, to put it mildly, "who are these idiots?"

Historical language evolution is towards shorter words, when those words are heavily used. Who knows how the Internet is going to change the language?

I think you'll appreciate Suzie Dent's twitter account: https://twitter.com/susie_dent
The classic example of this is a $31m house owned by a UBC student in Vancouver:

https://torontosun.com/2016/05/12/311-million-vancouver-mans...
I'm literally typing this message on a Windows 7 PC. If Microsoft had forced those to upgrade to Windows 10, how is that possible?
This happened to me as well. You don't even have to move, if you go on a business trip the content becomes unavailable as well. The EU had a public comments period in relation to this a few years back, but I haven't heard much since.

I assume that the geo-blocking is still somewhat relevant in regards to protectionism for the dubbing industry in some member states.
> I did horribly on a test in high school once and went through my closet throwing out most of my favorite toys, in particular things from Nintendo

But.. why? Was it an act of self-flagellation? Rage? An attempt to clear out distractions?
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For what it's worth it could all be state sponsored.
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Really cool! Interesting to hear that. I thought about diving deep on details, but was concerned it would become too heavy for a blog post to read every week. Will experiment on that.
I'm glad to hear this. The concept is really solid, and I'll be paying attention to future entries in the series!
Monetary savings is basically the main selling point of serverless:

https://read.acloud.guru/how-going-serverless-helped-us-redu...

https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/economics-serverless-co...

https://medium.com/perfsys-blog/how-serverless-computing-sav...
Forget SEO! The way you wrote his comment is nice. Write like that.

I’m not sure you can even “write for SEO” in 2020. Maybe in 2012 you could. If you are talking about keyword stuffing etc.

Making the article readable and people want to share it is paramount.
Actually, there is. Official diploma's are watermarked and numbered in the same way that money is. I used to work at a factory that produced the raw paper for such documents, and the amount of logging and auditing for each sheet/roll of paper that moved through the factory was immense.
I'd be more interested in hearing about how people trying to move money out of governments and areas affects local real estate prices. I think Canada has more of a problem with wealthy Chinese trying to park their money outside of China than money laundering.
It seems to me that this is mostly benchmarking the performance of the (low bandwidth, high latency) DSL uplink, not the Raspberry Pi.

"I have seen it dynamically compress and serve at a sustained 2.7 times per second a small webpage"

You should be able to get a lot more performance out of a Rasperry Pi 3 than that! It has similar capacity to the 2000-era workhorse Sun E450 https://fanf.livejournal.com/141066.html
It's great to know that we still have no idea what we're all doing in tech.
Do all these hospitals have backups that ransomware and automation can not tamper with? Is anti-tampering a requirement in their audits, or just detection? Have any hospitals started implementing secured workstations in kiosk mode? i.e. Windows 10 LTSC with all the hardening options enabled and AD permissions locked down and treating workstations as ephemeral devices.
That's what I meant by "personally" honest - their governments they led had all kinds of problems but I don't think that was caused by fundamental dishonesty by those individuals.
So tesla won in everything regarding quality of assistance, but cadillac won because: it wont activate anywhere but on premapped higways, monitors drivers eyes with infrared cameras to ensure driver is following the road.

Capability and performace + ease of use goes both to tesla.

I wouldnt call this outperforming other driving astistance systems really...
The first example smacks of writing which is not so much unclear as it is deliberately banal and devoid of impact, as famously described by Orwell here: https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
They offer an indirect source for the one explicit claim made in the article: 20% of the price increases in London due to laundering. It's not linked, and I wasn't able to find an article online, but the claim is credited to "Christoph Trautvetter of Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit"

Aside from that concrete claim, they offer a plausible explanation for why something that may make up a small proportion of sales could cause an outsized increase in prices. And they do draw comparisons to known cases in stock markets. So I think it's still an interesting article.
It happened today and maybe treating it as a joke isn't all that appropriate?
Wow this is something I was thinking about... then the money launderer turns around and sells the house they just bought “for quick close” and that sets another precedent in the market... and so the process repeats.

“All of a sudden, a money launderer shows up, and offers the owner 10% over ask for a “quick close.” You’re not too worried, your agent told you the place a few doors down is going to be on the market next week.

Unfortunately, the new place now uses the home owned by the money launder as a comp. Now the ask is 10% more than you were expecting, because the marginal buyer set the price down the street. Someone else bites, and buys it before it “goes too high.” Now the money launderer’s buy was just validated in the system.”
Sounds way too negative from my experience. I’m only in my 30s to be fair, I’m sure it does get harder as you get older, but I’ve also definitely interviewed a lot of older engineers and made offers to them at what seems like a similar rate as other age groups.

I have to strongly disagree about advising the OP not to join SV startups. I’ve worked at many of them, and they can the perfect environment for a “jack of all trades”. I also have not found that all of them just care about culture fit, there are certainly some that might fit that caricature but but by and large what they care about is can you get things done quickly without needing a lot of hand holding. Smaller startups are more likely to look for this as well in an interview, and for example have you build something fairly practical rather than solve tricky algorithms problems that bigger companies rely on.

As far as using your network to get jobs, you might be surprised that it’s not as easy as you think. The smaller the company the more pull this can have. But most companies try to be objective in the hiring process, and any company over a certain size (I.e. if they’re big enough to have recruiters and a head of HR) probably won’t just give you a job if you don’t pass their standardized interview questions. The main way it can help is if you don’t yet have enough experience on your resume or a good school and are having trouble getting past the resume screen, a personal intro can move you along to at least the hiring manager screen or first technical screen step.
I mean I genuinely beleive I still have passion for this subject, I just absolutely hate the career field.
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Whoa there, settle down boomer. There's a difference between "real" propaganda vs what you're using loaded phrases to describe. You're free to be as right wing (or left) as you wish but this is hyperbole & exaggeration, and doesn't contribute anything to the discussion. Save your outrage for your local Facebook group not here.
> Imagine world where there is no Wayland, how is it better? I fail to understand who forces you.

You answered your own question. It starts with distros defaulting to Wayland, despite it completely missing features I currently rely on in X11. No big deal, I can always manually switch to X. It's only a small pain! Then more and more software starts being Wayland-only, because most people are using it by default. Not a huge deal, I can stick to older versions of software. Then drivers are only released for Wayland, because at this point the only people left running X are me and a few other folks like me. Meanwhile, the features I consider absolutely necessary are still missing, because the primary source of funding is no longer hobbyists but corporate vendors.

I have seen it happen before, with GNOME. A decade or more after the cascade of attention-deficit teenagers started stripping out features it is still missing plenty.

> People created Duvian. If systemd is such an awful choice it should be amazingly popular.

You miss the corrupting influence of money. Money means resources, and resources mean being able to extend tentacles into every project. Resources mean being able to present an offer to other projects that they can't refuse: patches that implement needed functionality and, oh yeah, also mandate systemWaylanD.
It was just a wikipedia table, and the citations actually referred to SARS, not COVID... Hence my skepticism.
It is described here, specifically in the "The Blub Paradox" section:

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

My understanding is that everyone understands the features and ecosystem benefits of languages they work with, but not necessarily understands those of other languages.
As a result, the value of their opinions on other languages may be mixed.
I first only saw part of the title until the word "think" and it made perfect sense to me without the rest.
This made me remember the story that early Nazi Party was full of government spies tasked in destroying Nazi Party, Hitler being one of them.

They were supposed to act like true Nazi and infiltrate them heavily until they had enough information to dismantle it... but the spies quickly overran real members (seemly when Hitler and others were sent, the party had 15 members or so... and for a while the party had more spies in it than real members), the spies, that weren't "real Nazi", while trying to blend in introduced more and more ludicrous ideas and ended convincing people for real, seemly including themselves...
Well this might sound odd, but I've seen some videos.. it's very likely not just a kitchen knife. I've only seen this happening with large blades. And then it actually happens surprisingly fast. I imagine they "train" somehow to get some routine.

But either way, I can't see anyone interfering with something like that going down.
Have you ever lived in Vancouver? It’s a strange place. Everything is expensive and you see ultra rich people everywhere, but there is little in the way of local industry to explain all this wealth. Everyone who lives there will recognise this uneasy feeling of ‘Where did all the money come from?’ For ‘normal’ people it feels like there’s this richer strata of society that exists but there is no clear path into it. Almost like royalty.
This article may offer little evidence, but it rings very true for people who live there.
Sorry I don't understand how 'Second, most research projects are funded by grants not from the state - it comes from industry and places like that' can imply 'that people really like to lie about this point for ideological reasons'. Can you explain that?
As mentioned in the article, evading capital controls is money laundering.
The knowledge of riding a unicycle on a tightrope does not give you the ability to ride a unicycle on a tightrope. Yes, you have to learn it through experiencing it, because you need to map it to your motors. Animal has instincts, they are able to trace water, for example, without teaching. It is also knowledge, but for our discussion, knowledge is what we obtained after birth, not something encoded in our DNA. This knowledge is stored in the format of language. Apparently some believes that that language is part of our DNA. That's why you can have Tazan, but not an animal can speak human language even if a human raise it since it was born because language cannot be learnt without support in code in DNA.
That's what free software always meant -- free as in freedom. Stallman is a 1960s lefty, and puts personal freedom at the center of his philosophy. Today's left is... different, and more concerned with score settling, specifically, paying for privileged groups' historical privilege with a purgatory of additional restrictions going forward. Personal freedom for all is not the goal, matter of fact it's inimical to the goal.
My local hospital was hit with ransonware. They had backups but it took almost 5 months to get back to normal.
Say what you will about Russia, but I don't believe they'd attack hospitals dealing with COVID in the middle of the pandemic as a cover for some kind of attack.

I know anti-Russia propaganda is at its height now and I even admit it's weird watching how worked up Americans get about stuff they're been doing all around the world since WWII, but as bad as Russia might be, I don't really buy they're behind it.
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Not the person you are replying to, but maybe at that age they anticipate being financially secure and can apply their medicine or law degree to serve a needy community. That could be incredibly rewarding.
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In some cases the line is probably thin between "wealthy Chinese trying to park their money outside of China" and "money laundering"
>Many came to the answer "no", because foreign home ownership was in the 5-10% range depending on the neighbourhood.

How many foreigners are able to obfuscate "true" ownership is also a huge question.
This is insane - feels like something fishy going on... I wonder if business people in China use students and pay them a fee of some sorts to facilitate getting around KYC requirements etc?:

“Land title documents list Tian Yu Zhou as having a 99-per-cent interest in the five-bedroom, eight-bathroom, 14,600 square-foot mansion on a 1.7-acre lot at 4833 Belmont Ave.

Zhou’s occupation is listed as a “student.” The other owner of the property, which boasts sweeping views of the North Shore mountains and Vancouver, is listed as Cuie Feng, a “businesswoman.””
Folks conflate TODO lists with a personal "library" because the first note they usually create is a TODO list, and then a set of sub-TODO-lists per project.

Often, what we spend time on most, are the things we need to get done, and our true reference "library" is just Google.

I would argue that a pure personal "library" is actually just the archive of past projects. In that context, searchability is more important that good organizing.

I have that sort of hybrid approach. My "main" doc is a TODO Journal where I list my todos for that day (often copied from the prior day). The journal maintains a record of what I've done every day since I started two years ago - each new day is set at the top of the doc. Many of the line items are themselves links to other documents (all in markdown), which are themselves a mix of project notes and TODO lists.

I use Typora to edit, and WinSCP to encrypt on a remote drive that's backed up each night.
In regards to point 2: Having kids and reading tons of books out loud to them has really impressed upon me how important this is. Reading my own writing out loud has been a real turning point for me in developing my writing skills.
Try not paying your real estate taxes and you'll discover that you're only renting the land under your house. The local authorities have the ability to confiscate and sell your dwelling if you don't pay your taxes.
Similarly, I find "devops" means "sysadmin that uses Jenkins sometimes".
> entitled to a refund

Are customers solely responsible for only buying from monopolists so that the store they purchased from can provide refunds when the content later (inevitably) becomes unavailable?
It might not be called that, but most countries(this is difficult to generalize, as this is not unified in EU regulations) have at least some provisions for comedy/parody, reviews, previews and discussions use of otherwise copyrighted material.
Byild systems are not equivalent! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/build-s... . Also yes, excel is akin to a build system.
> Feynman said, that if you cannot explaind it to a child you do not understand it, not that you should communicate with everyone like they were kids.

That's not what I said, there was a full stop, not a comma. I was applying Feynman's idea to writing, if you can't explain something simply in plain English, you really should rewrite it to reach a wider audience.

> I hate seeing advice like "use simple, reduced vocabulary".

Sure, and if articles are written 'normally', for people with English as a second language, that means that they will learn more English words when they encounter new ones.

However "I" is one person, and an author wants to reach the widest audience, with the lowest common denominator. I don't understand much German or French, for example, but an article written in simple German or French is much more accessible to me (the lowest common denominator).

Writing is about reaching all of your audience.
It's a real market, it's just heavily supply constrained.

Conventional market theory assumes that supply will rise to meet demand, but between green belt laws, NIMBY movements and the difficulty of crating new land where people want to live, that's often a big problem in property markets.

There's also the fact that we all need somewhere to live, and once we have a family we'll devote a very large fraction of our resources to get the best place to bring up our children in.

So we have a limited resource we all (many of us) want. The result is people, us, compete with each other to bid up the price. We do it to each other.

Yes there's definitely an impact from buy-to-let purchasers bidding up prices. Here in the UK the government recently revised property taxes to make it less advantageous to own and rent out property, which is a good start.

How do homeless people maintain wealthy people?
Actually what exactly is the member of staff doing on the DLR that is necessary, other than answering tourists' questions and putting a triangular key into a receptacle at every stop and then turning it? I have not been able to figure this out.

In the Netherlands, the NS has two types of trains that go between towns. Intercity and Sprinter. Sprinters have someone who will walk onto the platform at every stop, or failing that, lean out of the carriage, verify that no one is getting in, and then step into the train again to put the key into the receptacle and then turn it. Following that, the doors close. In contrast, there is no such person on Intercity trains; they do fine without. There may be a conductor who checks tickets. In comparison to the DLR, both Sprinter and Intercity trains have drivers.

Is there some requirement or function that I am missing that requires a dedicated member of staff to perform this key-turning ritual at every stop on the DLR and Sprinter, or is this simply to appease the unions?

It could be that Sprinters are meant to be more lenient towards people running to get on than Intercities, which might have a stricter schedule.
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ReCaptcha also thinks that mailboxes are parking meters, for some reason.
There was certainly a semi-forced situation at one point. My mom's Windows 7 laptop started the Windows 10 installation automatically one night, with no questions asked. The computer just restarted and started installing it.

Now the reason I say semi-forced is that it was still possible to cancel it. The automatic process got paused at the EULA acceptance screen and if you chose not to accept the license terms then the installer would start a lengthy rollback process and eventually get you back to Windows 7.

On my own computer I never experienced this because I proactively chose hide update for any Windows 10 related patch.
https://torontosun.com/2016/05/12/311-million-vancouver-mans...

This was linked further down... a student owns 99% of a $31mm property. A Chinese business person owns the other 1%. That sounds like trying to get around KYC / AML requirements and obfuscating things to me...
Nobody is intentionally going to make X worse but everyone will make the kernel, graphics drivers, desktop environments, and other components better but potentially different in ways that no one will be updating X to match. X and it’s associated tech like DRI will bitrot. And of course existing bugs will go unaddressed.
With all these "scientists don't know why" articles, I always picture some scientist somewhere slacking off on HN and going "Is that..? shoot, my bad guys - didn't mean to do that"

Like Tesla with his earthquake machine
What is fictional about the market? It seems to be behaving exactly like any and all other markets, with exactly the same tricks for exploiting them. It's really just textbook!
> The whole time, Boomers are stoking the coals on this fire, explaining this is “earned equity.” If you want your own, you need to work as hard as they did. Standing by as each irrational player enters the market is exhausting work. Boomers also had to save uphill for a down payment… both ways, in the snow or something.

Why the needless dig at Baby Boomers? I am not one (and normally as ready to enjoy a dig at them as the next guy), it just felt … off.

I can't blame someone who thinks his asset is worth something and who has made decisions based on that belief wanting to preserve that perception!
> When you remove the warts from JS there's not much left

Modern JavaScript is pretty sweet to write compared to pre 2015. It sure is fun to join in on the "JavaScript bad" circle jerk though.