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Then lend the money to yourself, if you are so convinced.

Please become specific: how much money do you reckon would you need to do what that person did?

If you are so convinced it is easy money, and there is absolutely nobody who would borrow you money, set your goals to saving that much money and do it yourself.

If you have the skills that guy has, I don't believe you are stuck in a minimum wage job, either. And those skills are free to acquire on the internet if you can read and write, so please don't argue that education is not affordable for poor people.

You don't have to get a one million $ portfolio right away, btw, you can also start with a smaller portfolio. He is making money by having domains people want to buy, not by having many domains. You could start with one domain, costing you only 70$.

I also don't understand your point about having to buy from a squatter. He describes how he got hold of interesting domains at a fair price, that is the entire trick.
> 1 former GNU/Linux user who still frequents the forum, to suggest to install an Apple iBulb, which has a fresh and innovating design and it costs $250.

Well, in this particular case the reality got funnier than the joke.
That is where mandatory interoperability could help. We do not have insular e-mail systems that cannot communicate with one another. In case of IM, interoperability would go a long way towards reducing dominance of Facebook.
And people in Germany still are shouting how it's becoming a dictatorship...

A lot of the things the Chinese government did was only possible because they're not a democracy which has to answer to the courts
I'm a fan of Arch on the desktop, and I wouldn't recommend this.

The strength of Arch on the desktop for me is that it is a rolling update distro - that you are always up to date with the newest driver updates, mesa, etc.

This is exactly why I wouldn't use it on a server. Every time you install or update, you run the risk of getting a major software update that could break your app or server config.

For servers I want predictability - the same software versions over an extended period with just bugfixes & security fixes, and for me to decide when I want to change major versions. Arch doesn't make this predictability an option.
And yet, you can see if it’s signed and by whom before running it.
Of course the OP is shilling SharpAI. Look at all of the OP contributions on HN.
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If you consistently get the choice between paying $2000 for that or $2000 for a dingy basement suite with no windows, then yes it is luxury and will stop the price of those less desirable homes from rising. The key is to ensure supply outpaces demand. Meaning: let developers build luxury developments. The more the merrier.
It would seem that you had a) not the best teachers and b) didn't get it. I had a very left-leaning liberal history and civics teacher, he never argued against the existence of a German military. I was in school when crosses were tossed out of classrooms, that was never a real question, besides a couple of catholic religion teachers.

And why wouldn't all religions be treated equal in a country that guarantees religious freedom? Quite an important lesson to learn, if you ask me. Death penalty? Abolished in Germany, so I don't get your point of arguing for it. That being said, you can. If the arguements are good, it shouldn't impact your grades. If it does, well, grades in German (literature) are highly subjective as well. And try arguing against Catholic dgma in Catholc religion class. Religion calsses are, by the way, mandatory in all (most?) German states, and the church has huge sa in who teaches it.
Why do you make such a difference between products and services?
Beyond the regular testing, I imagine the contact tracing would be easier for a production set than a restaurant.

Are diners in American restaurants required to register name and contact details before entering? We have that in South Australia (takes a few seconds via QR code), and we currently have no active cases state-wide.

Last time, they showed a list of particular hot spots (bus stops, shopping centres, schools) and asked if we'd been at any of those locations recently. Though I imagine there wouldn't be much of the US right now that isn't some level of hot spot!
Free markets only work when there are large numbers of sellers and buyers. One example (out of many) of a necessary government intervention is to prevent monopolies from forming (or at least regulate them). Whenever one party has an outsized influence, they will tilt the whole market in their favour. It doesn't even have to be a monopoly, if a single player makes up a substantial portion of the market, they can affect it in non-free ways.

Even Adam Smith recognised the need for government regulation to ensure that markets remain free.

Edit: I think you may have misread my comment; I wasn't claiming that there is no such thing as a market without government interference (though that is probably mostly true). I was claiming that a market cannot be free without government regulating it to keep it free.
> it is entirely just a scheme to subvert our democracy.

If our democratic systems were transparent, verifiable, and understandable, it wouldn't be possible to 'subvert' our democracy in this way. The fact is that our democracy has already been 'subverted' whether or not any fraud occurred (and surely some did, just as it does in every election in American history; the only question is the scale - was it late 1800s scale or late 1900s scale - most people on HN would agree it was probably late 1900s scale, that is, minimal.) But the system is set up in such a way that we cannot actually prove anything. We just have to accept what we're told, because democracy.

The election systems in each state have their own problems. In Georgia the problems are with the tabulation, with absentee ballots, with chain of custody. I am not saying fraud did occur. I am saying that because of the problems I just mentioned, it is impossible to prove if fraud occurred or not. And things should not be that way.

At any rate, all you mean by 'subverting democracy' is 'decreasing faith in our institutions.' And I honestly don't know how anyone can look at the past few years and trust any of our institutions.
Innovation often arises precisely from turbulence and uncertainty.
Capitalism's ability to make things into commodities is a way of making more of things. The timeliness is that water is getting scarce enough that soon people may not be able to afford water. This is a way to make it so that water stays affordable by incorporating it into a system where there is a profit incentive for producing more of it.
Hi I was referring to the cost of advertising for users not advertisers. Sure advertisers pay a cost based on an auction system which is subject to laws of supply and demand.

However the cost that users pay for engaging on the platform is the use of their data. So I guess what I meant by aggressively increase the “price” of advertising was referring to the hidden cost of Facebook being able to serve adverts in the first place.

As others have pointed out, anti-monopoly legislation os largely about preventing firms from abusing monopoly power to increase prices. If you consider the cost of using a social network to be the data the user provides, then the more data the user gives up to the use the social network, the higher the cost. Because of the strong network effect, users may have little choice but to stay on the platform if they wish to engage in the social network. The notion is that Facebook are abusing the stickiness of their social network by increasing monetisation of user data, knowing that users won’t easily leave.

By purchasing Instagram and WhatsApp, at the time the two biggest threats to engagement on Facebook the website, Facebook the company are able to coalesce the three networks, making stickiness stronger, making it easier to raise prices (consumption of user data in exchange for adverts) and thereby abusing a monopoly position.
I agree Slack is way over valued for something which could be switched without much effort. In fact my anecdotal knowledge from my network suggests that MS Teams is taking over.

However the analogy with Pakistan is incorrect. Pakistan has a lot of people who simply don’t have the skills to be productive. Same with India.
And in South Asia progress and reform doesn’t happen easily.
> Then why are they not massively ramping up ICU capacity?

Because you cannot. Even if you have the space and the materials, you do not have the qualified and experienced personel to run it.
Uber drivers or AirBnB hosts are not seen as employees of those companies, but as independent operators. As such they usually fall below the £85,000 threshold for VAT registration in the UK. This means massive amounts of VAT is not being collected.
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The Arizona case was denied essentially because the affidavits were declared hear-say, because the testimony wasn't provided during court. I'm not a lawyer, but that doesn't make sense to me.

First, it took weeks to document their testimony - it would likely take further weeks to basically re-do their testimony in court / depositions.

Second, if it was so important that their testimony be sworn in to his court, why dismiss the case entirely, instead of just allowing the plaintiff to bring the witnesses to the stand?

It's pretty easy to dismiss a case as "having no evidence" when you ignore the 100's of affidavits as hear-say. Sure, it's not sworn testimony in court, but to automatically assume every one of them is lying, is a bit of a stretch.

Another rationale that has been used to dismiss cases is that evidence that the law was broken is not evidence that fraud that took place.

It's pretty much beyond dispute at this point that in several states, credentialed Republican poll observers were not allowed to do their job in a meaningful way - contrary to state law. (referring to MI/PA)

When literally hundreds of thousands of ballots are being counted without any oversight, those ballots should be thrown out. Not because its proof that fraud happened, but it is proof that the controls to prevent fraud were not in place (that were legally required to be in place).

"No evidence of widespread fraud", is true. But what is also true, is that there are mountains of evidence of election laws that were ignored/broken, that in a fair election, would result in those ballots being thrown out.
I really like Arch, but I wouldn't use it in production.
Yes, the packages are up to date and there are not many problems with them. But did you try to rollback to previous version of a package?
I had the problem on my personal laptop last year. There was no possibility to get a different version than the newest, which was broken (upstream's fault in this case). Luckily I had the previous version in my pacman cache and was able to install it. The package maintainers did a good job and the issue was resolved in something like 24-48 hours (from patching upstream to pacman). So nothing tragic for personal use.
In a productive environment? A very big no. One to two full days are simply not acceptable in any kind and/or size of business. Yes, you would (and should) test the update before rolling it out to production and be able to mitigate the problem, but you can't be sure, because you can't pin the version you want to install. Ok, you could build your own repo and package everything you need yourself. But it takes time and costs a lot of money.

Also automated deployment of Arch is a little bit of a headache.
> but FDA wouldn't even bother to approve it safe, let alone useful

Which is not necessarily bad. They might schedule it as a prescription drug (as in many, although not in all countries) if they confirmed it works.
> As long as those almonds can be exported to profitable global markets, almond producers will be able to afford pumping up water / buying up water supplies, causing water related problems locally.

The commenter you are replying to is implying that in many places, like California, by and large almonds won't be able to be grown profitably to be sold to the global market when you take water costs into account.

Access to global markets doesn't magically make everything profitable. (Often just the opposite for specific industries, because you'll also face global competition.)
In 1957, virologist Maurice Hilleman saved millions of children
It's cute to frame the death toll discrepancy in terms of national character, with Americans who don't even _believe in science_ coughing on everybody as their scooters whirr merrily to the nearest hamburger depository, but at the end of the day, most Americans and Australians were killed by the same thing: their precarious positions in society.

It's not like private nursing homes, increasingly casualized work, and an insane weath gap aren't a thing in Australia either. Everybody slobbering Dan's knob conveniently forgets that the second outbreak could have been avoided if the government hadn't subcontracted out all the hotel security.

Australia's neoliberal death march has yet to reach the brutal conclusion that America arrived at, but it's trodding along. And smug complacency certainly won't reverse that course.
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No, that’s not a reasonable take at all. The patent itself should provide a clear description of the technology and enough detail to replicate it. It doesn’t require disclosure of every small detail that isn’t relevant to actually executing the technology, like say quotes from suppliers for glass vials.
I'll qualify that to be every day for the last few days, since this is the worst spike.
It sounds like you have a problem against privately owned water rights (the exclusive right to extract water from some region and then sell it), not against water futures per se?

FWIW I'm sympathetic to that position (in some form), it would just be better to be more precise... people are acting like "water is a basic human right" is a principle that can straightforwardly be used to derive the rest of our water policy.
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In fact creating a market for water futures will likely contribute to solving these problems.
>I never stated or implied that Section 230 barred censorship. It does, however, protect service providers from the liability that a publisher would take on for publishing content that otherwise should be censored. As these companies voluntarily embrace more censorship, they are calling into question their status as "service providers" since they are effectively operating as publishers; i.e., not protected under 230.

No. That's not what section 230 says.

There is no distinction in section 230 between "platform" and "publisher."

This has been noted and detailed repeatedly in this discussion.

Please see this[0] which will explain, in explicit detail, why you are wrong about section 230.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
> Deno as great as it sounds doesn't offer enough benefits (...) Deno feels just like an opinionated node/Typescript distribution with too little improvements

Node is 11 years old. In the beginning, it was rough around the edges, too. I think you need to be a bit more patient until Deno reaches a similar level of maturity.
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True. And I don't have evidence that it has inflated the problem beyond anecdata. That said I don't think it's reaching to believe it has.

Anti-vaxx movement was started by a bogus publication from a then reputable source. It was blown up by ease of information spread and exacerbated by the undermined confidence in traditional media. That much is known.
afaiu this went live today: https://www.deutschepost.de/de/m/mobile-briefmarke.html
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> The alternative is "games don't run on Linux at all".

I would prefer that over false hope.
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Great work, we live in amazing times! I can't imagine how humanity will evolve from now on if knowledge is as available and as well and accessibly presented as it is these days!
Anecdotally 1 if I do it offline. The internet sinks productivity.
Contrariwise, it will likely increase access to water by allowing futures contract prices to signal future scarcity and motivate capital investment in production.
People are eating more at home and less in restaurants. Shifts in diet are plausible.

(Just speculation. And potato prices might have changed for reasons independent of covid.)
I know a variant of this about a Romanian but the important thing is the reflexive: "One ball got lost and one got broken" or as a word for word translation: "One ball lost itself, the other one broke itself"
How do we know this isn’t already the solution :)?
And he exited his water positions a few years back too.
>It's sad how people just don't believe that markets are good at all.

The problem is that the definition of "free markets" has been badly muddied. What we have in most of the real world are not free markets. It skews everyone's opinion.
If you want a superior Google Stadia experience, buy GeForce Now.

It is subscription based like Stadia, but allows you to play games from our Steam account (assuming that game devs haven't blacklisted it from GFN).

You don't need special hardware or premium membership.

> Why would anyone desire that it dies? If you don't like it you can ignore it.

Because it's everything wrong with games industry wrapped in a neat shitty package.

Subscription - checked.

Buying games on that subscription - checked.

DLC on top of that - checked.

Doesn't allow you to transfer games - checked.

Only thing it's missing is a lootbox system.
> uncomplicated place where there are only two distinct genders, or all cops are bastards, or it’s all the mainstream media’s fault, or we can save the planet from global warming by just planting a trillion trees, or whatever

Or where everyone is created equal and there are no important differences between races and sexes. Where their political opponents are all evil and stupid. Where different government systems (representative democracy? Monarchy? Whatever the CCP is?) are obviously horrible. Where weird new ideas are destined to fail or have already been tried and found to fail (like reusable rockets, Musk was far from the first person to think it might be a good idea).
What an incredible piece of work. I can only dream of having the patience, skill and drive to make something so beautiful and informative.
We are being told that markets solve everything and yet the US have the most expensive healthcare in the West and the lousiest internet. The belief is empirically supported.
By that logic if a tech start-up takes a business grant from the local govt of say $500k, but later raises $10M from private investors, the entire company and all of its technology should be public domain?

Really? A drop of public funding means the entire company is public domain?
Like Jay says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytfohob38vM It really depends on what do you want to run on and including also how often you plan to upgrade dependencies. But being honest, Arch upgrades are transparent. For example I never got crashes or similar issues upgrading from Arch OS/Kernel dependencies in my daily basis desktop. The issues that I have only faced were with few dependencies coming from the AUR channel that I have installed on demand.
So it's not a "crazy" idea to consider to give a try ArchLinux for server-side stuff. Not in 2020.

> I very much like the process of steadily keeping up to date bit by bit, instead of stagnating on a stable base and doing a big bang update every few years. I also like the fact that I don't need to know which version of which release am I going to get, it's always the latest one and it's the one that upstream released.

Yeah, that's also the motivation of this thread from my side.
In fact, moving between majors for example has also "risks" to tackle (E.g CentOS 6 to 7 to 8). You know, things that you need to take time to evaluate and test. But in the other hand, having rolling release upgrades makes that headache disappears.

So IMO I believe the Arch rolling release approach will be the next way to upgrade our software on a non-distant future.
It's time to try out and test ArchLinux on hot places like servers.
But it's way less effort than checking, isn't it?
The name in the footer isn't English, so it's hard to know from that and there's no about page that I could find. The Twitter profile makes it more obvious, but I only clicked on it to check because of your comment. Why bother??
I think the reason they couldn't find enough users is that their offering just wasn't convenient/good enough compared to piracy. Not only was pirated content more accessible, it also often had better subtitling. Official subtitles seem to have way more localization than fansubs. This might be great to capture a broader audience, but it also means that the fans that are already there don't want to use your subs. Sometimes they'd just rather not watch a show than put up with your subs.

Stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjUtoQaRfE0

What they probably should've done is what Qidian ended up doing with webnovel.com. They should've approached the fansubbers and the release groups and offered them a job. That way they would've retained the expertise and fanbase. It would've likely caused a lot of issues like Qidian did, but they would've likely had far more success.

Alternatively, putting anime on places like Steam could've also been a good choice.
(Futures) markets work for basically every other commodity they've been tried.

So the presumption is that they'll work here too to allocate scarce resources fairly and efficiently.
Pfizer should not have this data, normally it doesn't leave the investigation site. Pfizer has only coded data (pseudoanonymous) that does have subject names replaced with numbers.

edit: note that subjects can still be identified with this data, just not directly.
What happens when there's a drought and the million gallons of water that farmer ordered can't be delivered?

What happens when speculators drive prices up because they know the people that actually need/want that water have to pay or risk losing their crops.

Water is important enough that it should be publicly owned and distributed. This is pretty much the only way it can be effectively managed and distributed, rather than hoarded and scalped as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
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I was going to pursue the Red Hat Certified Engineer course (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Certification_Program). Now that CentOS is dying, I uhhh, do not want to do this? I asked my manager and she is fine with me finding an alternative course to strengthen system engineering skills. If you had to recommend the best alternative for the RHCE program, which program would you recommend and why? To be clear, work will pay for either and they're less enthused about the RHCE track going forward, especially with the focus on Red Hat operated Ansible in the prerequisite course for becoming a RHCE (the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) course). Any advice is suuuper appreciated. Thanks!