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> Growth in inequality correlates very nicely with expansion of the money supply.

This gets complicated. The money supply has to expand to keep up with growth; getting the flexibility to do this is the reason why the world abandoned the gold standard. Failure to expand the monetary base adequately leads to deflationary economics, which is another kind of hell entirely.

That said, the fed's response to the last two economic disasters (2008 and 2020) has been to do quantitative easing in ways that do concentrate wealth in the hands of asset owners. Buying questionable assets with printed money does give the owners of those assets money at the expense of non-asset holders.

There are ways to respond to economic disasters without increasing inequality, but these choices are not politically feasible in America as they would involve giving money directly to people who don't have much of it.

Giving money to rich people (through monetary or fiscal policy) is seen as politically good, while giving money to anyone else is 'welfare' and is a political third rail.

Economists do know how to deal with these issues. The problem, as with everything else in America, is that the politicians (hello, Mitch McConnell) and interest groups (hello, Koch network) who have a veto over policy don't want to deal with them.
>Mastodon is run by "them"

That's not how federation works.
Would you pass this feedback on? Having completely opaque pricing is a big red flag. I assume it is very expensive, or else you couldn't afford to route inquiries through a sales rep. If you aren't hiding a high price, you should publish it. Also, and this is a strong personal preference, I never ever want to talk to or hear from a sales rep.
I've been considering it. If you'd find a desktop app useful, please do open an issue on GitHub: that way I can gauge the demand a little better, which will help me to prioritise what to work on next!
The Great CEO Within. Free ebook. Popular (1K+ HN points). Good methods.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZJZbv4J6FZ8Dnb0JuMhJxTnw...

Unicorns vs Horses. Article. Good perspective.

https://medium.com/@awilkinson/unicorns-vs-horses-f81d8dd61f...
No more so than any random website. Mastodon is a federated platform, so find an instance that allows you to say what you want to.
While we won't get to know the full story and the entire history of this person's Discord account (to side with him one way or the other), this piece still serves to show the downsides of a centralized service which has to do its own abuse management - and at discord's scale[0], there's bound to be a lot of mistakes.

On a side-note, running a modded client (like Better Discord) at any time is a risk to your account. Some people have reported getting banned for year-old messages that used a plugin which allowed creating embeds inside the discord client (you otherwise can't create custom embeds on a non-bot account)[1].

0: https://discord.com/company#app-mount:~:text=Our%20metrics

1: https://github.com/Fraserbc/BetterDiscord-Embeds#user-conten...
Individuals have all kinds of reasons for doing the things that they do, which is why I wouldn't use the phrase "vegans in general", and why I haven't addressed my comments to vegans at all.

Veganism, however, has strong ethical foundations, and any amount of research shows this.

Unless we are considering the mental health benefit that comes with feeling ethically superior by being vegan, there are no valid health conditions that support unilateral veganism. It's akin to swearing off all liquids because of a lactose intolerance when consuming milk.

Veganism relies on the assumption that commodification of animals and products created by animals is considered unethical and should be rejected. I don't disagree with the sentiment to a degree, but I also don't agree with it absolutely. I do feel the need to point out that there is a Nirvana Fallacy within veganism itself, as it fails to truly define what is considered an "animal", and what is considered "commodification", and this is where conversations frequently turn into splitting hairs. Many animals (humans and not) engage in symbiotic relationships. Dogs will guard a home, and as a result, will be fed and protected by people in that home. It's how families work, friends, etc.

If a sheep sheds wood, naturally, is it anti-vegan to use that wool to create a coat? What about skinning a dead cow (natural causes) for its leather? There's a ton of gray area.

Veganism, at face value, is an idealistic platitude based on a beautiful notion, but it doesn't work on its own. There are a lot of great things about it, but it has never held much sway in my mind besides, "That's a cool idea, and I like seeing strides being made to make it easier to make 'vegan' choices, but I cannot bring myself to promote it".
What happens when rewards for mining a block halt or the price of Bitcoin drops to a point where it’s no longer economically viable to pay for electricity and mining rigs?
This! I prefer to define various docker-compose files wrapped with a makefile. Then, spin up various parts of the project with simple commands like `make api-up`

It's so easy and simple, I don't know how I ever lived without it. So much is supported, I feel like it's so easy to get everyone on a team on the same page without having to install and configure so many different things.

Funny enough, despite all of these containers, I actually don't deploy any to actually run any of the code or dependecies. It's all just for the ease and speed of development.
> ... both of your big-O comments have counter examples (check out Coda for 1)

Have you ever checked on your own any such "counter example"?
I ran FreeBSD on all my personal laptops from 2015-2018 and I didn't notice any difference in speeds on Chromium between personal and work laptops.

All my personal laptops are Windows now (partially for some low-key gaming and partially ease of use). I thought I'd like using Hyper-V but it's a pain in the ass to configure static ips. So I do all my development in a Fedora VM on Linode...

In writing this up I realize there's not really great reason to be using Windows after all. More and more important software is available in the browser (i.e. Figma finally made Sketch/macOS less of an issue, Google Docs is Google Docs).

Maybe I'll switch back to FreeBSD.
After hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, they brought HAM radio to help coordinate around the island.
Seriously, I get that something falls over. But to have it be 5 hours to recover, for a service this critical is nuts
Sim hermano. When I mentioned “liberation” I meant the psychological catarse of the moment those 2 goals must have inflicted and meant to the Argentinean people. I totally understand how Tatcher used this war (as it is common to Great Britain) to pump popularity up when neo-liberalism was not really working. UK military killed some ~1500 Argentineans to achieve so. And while they thought they were the smartest, Maradona showed them otherwise.
Fewer people buy rigs. Fewer people mine. The remaining people get paid more. It's a self balancing system.
I agree this (automated abuse detection lagged realtime, flagged some past behavior) is likely. I also suspect whatever else may be the case, the lack of detailed explanation is probably because whoever is fielding support simply doesn’t know (and may not be able to know) what was flagged.
I think you might be misreading my comment as advocacy of one solution vs another; it absolutely wasn't, and in fact my views are roughly the same as yours (I think that a more market-oriented system would cause far less suffering than the current system, but that single-payer is a lot more feasible and that either solution would be preferable to the grotesque status quo).

Where we disagree is that I don't think minor market-friendly improvements to the system would get us, given the mountain of regulation and other govt involvement that already exists.

My thesis is basically: I'd prefer a more fully market-oriented solution, with the access problem explicitly handled through subsidies et al. But if we're going to have a healthcare economy that's planned in much more detail, let's actually plan it instead of the current nightmarish hodgepodge of inconsistent and mutually counter-productive one-off gov't interventions.
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> zero terminated buffer library

Indeed.
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There’s a moral difficulty here where western societies care a lot about the beginnings of things and can’t stomach things ending, as if the only desirable world is one in which we all experience immortal bliss until the heat death of the universe.

Every living thing exists by consuming other living things in some way or another. Every living thing has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Most animals are at least in small ways, consumers of animals.

There is moral value in striving to maximize the quality of life in all its stages, that does not necessarily have to exclude death for a purpose.

Everything dies whether by accident, disease, predation, of degradation by age. Thinking things were better off not existing or better off dying of organ failure instead of being eaten doesn’t always make sense to me.
Attackers only need one attempt per username.

They will use a leaked list of millions of username and passwords, then use a botnet to try them all on another website.
I did a GDPR complaint because GitHub locked me out of my account because the 2fa failed. It took the dutch authority 18 months for them to decide they couldn't be bothered to make GitHub provide my data. GitHub also lied and claimed my repositories weren't personal data even tho my name and email are all over them. Also if you talk to your agency you can't actually appeal the decision because your agency didn't decide anything, they have to follow it on to the agency that is responsible for that country based on which country the company is based in.
As I mention elsewhere, it's an emergency laptop for me. I am more or less constantly on pager duty but I only get paged like twice a year or so, thus the keyboard gets used perhaps two hours a year or less. It's good enough for that. Forcing me to slow down my typing in those situations is actually a boon.
They solve predatory rent increases.
You know about ITER and co?

And until a working fusion reactor is build, it is indeed a fundamental physics problem, with all the energy involved, which is not at all completely understood since we are in quantum mechanic level down there.
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raziel below has an excellent response. To add to their comment, I'll say the difference here is the precision needed for LIGO is with a more or less static equipment you can tweak. This requires plasma stability during a dynamic, very chaotic system. You do tweak the static parts, the laser and related apparatus, the target and what holds it in place, various diagnostics, but the actual process itself is a very dynamic explosion that it itself is hard to understand or predict fully a priori, and certainly not to the degree we understand gravitational waves at the point of detection at LIGO.

I mean, as I said elsewhere, the reason we don't have fusion for any fusion experiment is plasma instabilities, at this point that fact is like saying the reason ice cream melts in the sun is because it's hot. It's a fact of all fusion experiments. The only system we know of that can achieve net gain fusion we know of is gravitational confinement which uses a big mass to contain the hot plasma, also known as a star.
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I can’t be the only one offended by the unpaid labor involved in CAPTCHAs (training self-driving AIs or whatever).

I wish Apple would offer a way for sites and services to verify that a client is indeed human via Touch ID/Face ID.
I dont know if you have played football or are a fan, but the context is a great part of the difficulty of a goal, not only were his opponents better the stakes were sky-high. Players who regularly score in a normal game freeze when the do-or-die time comes. For all his brilliance Messi has never scored a goal in a decisive game in a WC, Maradona scored 4 in 2 games in 1986.
Here's a PDF of the Tymoczko paper that this link discusses:

http://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Websites/M...
Wow. If I were in charge, the team running a service should not be the same team who decides whether a given service is healthy. This is pretty damaging info about the unprofessional way AWS actually appears to be run.
The commercial linux distros have great documentation in my experience. What issues do you have with those?
Isn't the idea that if you edit something I'm looking at it would be nice if my view could automatically update? (FWIW, I would totally accept that I don't need that on a bug tracker and I probably am actually happier without it, but I can at least see the premise being interesting... being able to see point changes or user votes or comments as they happen; I do appreciate the extent to which GitHub's issue tracker automatically updates).
> like the 1000 previous generations of humans that had to kill animals to survive

Just a couple of hundred years ago there wouldn't have been many people killing more animals than they could eat.
Mastodon and Pleroma are Twitter alternatives, not Discord alternatives. The chat functionality for them is awfully implemented last time I checked. But then again it's a different target audience.
1 - It's deflationary

2 - Worse, there is literally a finite amount with a surprisingly large floor on the smallest denomination (which exacerbates problem 1)

3 - slow, repudiatable settlement.

How could you use it to buy a pack of gum at the store? The cost of the transaction would be high and the shop owner would be pissed if 45 minutes later the transaction backed out.
More like ten hours at this point for Kinesis
ELI is the future of high power laser science! It's also a good example of how the future of this sort of physics is definitely in the EU and China, not in the US especially as people get impatient with NIF and other similar experiments.
And Cloudflare already does that—that's what the "Checking your browser before accessing xyz—Please allow up to 5 seconds" message means. It's clearly not enough for them though, because they then go to also require CAPTCHAs.
I agree that some people here are in the perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good camp. But far from all of them. Think about all the arguments about which technology is best. Or the worship of people like Steve Jobs, famous for being unreasonable and uncompromising. Or the continual brushing aside of societal balance when it's a shiny new technology or a company on the rise.

Even as a person big on incrementalism, I believe that there's a lot of benefit in being uncompromising in long-term goals. Look at Toyota and their "one piece flow" concept, which they've been pursing for decades. I also think the people who seem unreasonable in the moment turn out to be right in the long term. Look at Google launching when people thought search was basically a solved problem. Or Dropbox. When they were getting going many saw them as entering a crowded market with a too-simple product.
This generally applies to anyone complaining on the internet about anything. It's convenient when those judging can only ever hear one side of the story.
What's up with the odd focus on "using the official client"? Why would anyone doubt she was using the official client? What else would someone be using? To me it sounds like maybe she had been accessing Discord with something other than the official client, but not at the exact moment she was banned.
Ask HN: Best practices to clone Smartcar API for Sweden?
I have been watching the San Francisco tech scene for sometime. I am believing in the long term view of "API platforms."

I am seeing companies like Teller come in Europe to clone Plaid. I am seeing already clones of Smartcar API like Otonomos, Enode, and High-Mobility in Europe. There is not one based for Sweden at this time.

I am looking to bring the same offering to Sweden market and maybe more markets soon after.

I have started applying to local incubators. Who here has brought an existing idea into their localized market? What are some pieces of advice/lessons learned? Any thing of else that I should be doing?
>They're alternatives, but they are far from being usable alternatives.

It has to be comments like this that drove someone to create n-gate.

WebEx had 324,000,000 users running 73,000,000 meetings in March of this year [0]. As of April, Meet was adding 3,000,000 users per day with 100,000,000 users attending meets per day. [1]

You're obviously right though, they're clearly utterly unusable.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cisco-systems-webex-idUSK...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21240434/google-meet-thre...
Why does it feel like the Apache project has become a dumping ground for unwanted (and partially unmaintained) garbage?

Apart from a few projects (Apache httpd, Hadoop, OpenOffice) it looks like a dumping ground for open source projects which have lost their original way or otherwise would not be a good idea to use for any modern project, many of which are writen in Java
Yeah.

I got banned in PUBG due to their broken anticheat and it tagged my Steam account with all the games as having bans on record. Fortunately I wasn't the only one and they fixed their software and reversed accidental bans.

I wonder what I could realistically do if something like that happens again and the developer doesn't notice?
Gosh this evoked a keen sense of nostalgia. I don't miss C strings at all. Along with segmentation fault, core dumped. Ruined many a night!
The Rohingya genocide occurred in 2016-2017 which killed thousands. Those remainder Rohingyans fled in the hundreds of thousands.

Destruction of habitat or forced expulsion is close to genocide itself. We as humans destroy the habitat of animals causing extinction, how is this not the same case? Because the inhabitants have legs and can move elsewhere? What if they choose not to migrate?

By the way, the reason they're expelled & fleeing is because the only other choice is death. There's no option to stay other than death and if you think that's not genocide then sure. I know where you stand.

Regardless of whether it was expulsion or genocide, atrocities were committed and Facebook was a key factor into the lead up to what occurred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook's_r...
That England team was unlucky not to win something. They were very good. They lost to two eventual WC winners in a row in 1986 and 1990.

They were the #1 ranked ELO team for a while in the late 1980s :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Football_Elo_Ratings#Lis...

Just as a note, I'm not English nor do I have English heritage and don't 'support' England.
ventilators are highly specialized, and they're death sentences. A lot of people early on died due to the overuse of vents. Today they're not used until needed and the recovery rates have gone up.
That's the feeling I got as well. 9 times out of 10 when I see "I was banned for doing NOTHING wrong" it's just a lie.
Some die before you have the chance to kill them.
Isn’t the newest Mac Pro available in rack form?
Could you support nice-looking causal diagrams? Most look like the bubble-and-line diagrams in [Pearl 95](http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/R218-B.pdf). I think it would increase their popularity (and the quality of science) if it was easy to include nice ones in papers & blogs.
I was trying to acknowledge the tradeof ("I'm not saying that's worthwhile for every API being developed"). I was arguing that API documentation is not bad because there is a developer with "awkward" writing abilities, rather it is bad because of choice. Which might be the best choice for your situation, but still.
I believe 2nd layer systems are failing because they're focussing too much on theoretical security, at the expense of usability.

Instead, they should go for whatever security they can get while still getting fees sub-1-cent, transaction times sub-1-second, and still vaguely decentralized.

The really secure transactions can be reserved for cases where paying a $2 fee and waiting 15 minutes is acceptable.
The Discord client will do a full reload if it starts getting bad status codes from the API, eg. 403 or 401 (due to a password reset or account termination), so that's probably what happened here.
It's a joke, Joyce.
He's also the author of the research paper we are discussing.
Is this true in other countries? I had a friend who finished med school in Brisbane but then struggled when he came back to the US to find a residency.
If you can read in Spanish, I recommend you the blog post "10.6 segundos" from Hernán Casciari, from 2013.

https://hernancasciari.com/blog/10_6_segundos
I had done many dry runs in advance and knew it would not crash. The presentation window looks very crisp in this mode and does not at all indicate that it may be illegible fuzz when used with (arguably) the most popular videoconf platform.

Thanks for your concern though!
The argument could be made that you had a lot of valuable experience though. If I were looking to hire a new programmer, and had someone with experience as a reporter, I’d be thinking about all the places that experience would be useful. It would suggest to me that you’re a good writer, communicator, you can deal with the general public, and function reasonably well in a high-paced, short-deadline, office environment. A decent programmer who is an excellent communicator is hard to find and can be incredibly valuable, and if I couldn’t get you up to speed as a programmer, you could still make an great technical documentation specialist, marketer, etc.

If I was looking at someone with the same amount of programming training who had previously flipped burgers or been the proverbial “ditch digger” I’m not going to see many parallels for those skills.
I recently installed dosbox on my rpi, and it made me seriously consider how hard it would be to modernize all that old software.

Desktop apps were mostly better, and were all much faster on the rpi than native alternatives are on my recent $2700 laptop.

Edit: modernize = app store for abandonware + docker-alike for dos instances.
Or providing the same service but much better, and at a slightly elevated price that's justified. Took me a long time to learn that I can charge a lot and still add value.
I guess the follow up question would be, how much would Bitcoins hash rate have to drop before a 51% attack is viable?
Do you honestly think people aren't 'take this seriously'? People are scared out of their minds, and a lot of the fear has gone way too far. We are well past the point of mass hysteria.
>Unicode using one to four one-byte

UTF-8 is a variable length encoding, some characters need 8 bits, other characters need 32 bits per your own quote.
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I would rank it something like [all plants] < chicken < human. Chickens may not cry over spilt milk, but they do experience fear.
> show the downsides of a centralized service which has to do its own abuse management

And platforms that have no censorship also have downsides. There’s no perfect solution.
> same goal

Scoring against Getafe is not comparable to scoring against England in a world cup, specially when it is Argentina against England (in a game England invented) only a few years against the Falklands war. It's a great goal by Messi, but Maradona's goal has a place in history books.