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> That's how free markets work.

Why should work relations be based on the "free market"? Why should we consider the market the core institution of a society, the concept underlying any form of relationship?

"Free" markets the way libertarians tend to imagine them do not exist, and for very good reason - they would lead to a hasty collapse of society. You can't for example sell yourself into slavery, you can't be hired to work more than a certain number of hours per week, or if you're younger than a certain age etc. There are countless restrictions on what a contractual relationship can look like between a worker and a corporation - things are definitely not "free".
China's policy wasn't all that successful

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

Population control is a very outdated idea, we have enough resources for the population, we just don't know how to distribute them using free market models.
Anecdata that agrees with you follows.

Meritocracy is still a factor but the bar is currently very low. My own father came out of the impoverishment of war torn Bangladesh to be a successful real estate developer in the west. Why did his elder brother not have the same results? Very simple: the elder brother was responsible for the family. The family has rewarded the elder brother by taking care of him for years now and he is the happiest old man I know. He will die satisfied.

The truth that no one wants to admit is that we have to put (very minimal) resources behind the youth to become independent of their families so they can grow.

For all his faults, my father understood this for everyone except me (long story) and funded the education of a few people back home. For two boys I'm aware of, that was about $5-7K/year. The two boys lived in a one room shack that routinely got flooded. One is now an accountant, the other is a working chef. Trust me, neither of them are particularly smart.

What's needed is so minimal but the problem we have is too much grifting occurs. Levels and levels of middleman bullshit.

I would start experimenting with Kiva-style microloans if you want to make a difference, tbh.
Seconded!

The Vufine+ [1] is about the best option I’ve found so far. It works and is a standard HDMI display but it’s really small in your vision (so need v large font sizes), has quite a lot kind of obstructive stuff from the casing etc. in your field of view, and feels bulkier than it needs to be.

I’d be happy with much lower resolution like these displays specially if it appeared larger and clearer. I actually bought a transparent OLED thing [2] recently with the intent of trying to hack it into something wearable but no progress on that yet and not sure if it’ll actually even be readable.

[1] https://store.vufine.com/

[2] https://a.aliexpress.com/_BSV8F6
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This is all well and good to argue around a very literal meritocracy, but I don't think anyone actually argues for this. It's not just "lol, 1 - 1 = 0, meritocracy is impossible".

The underlying principal, as I understand it, is that it's unreasonable to think for example, that mark zuck literally does millions of time more work than say, a senior software dev at a middle size company, or a farmer. Yet zuck is compensated as such. We can recognize the "unique" value facebook creates by giving unique compensation, but should that compensation really be x1m times more than the farmer?

Reworking wealth distribution is the goal - not rewarding everyone equally for everything in some meme level paradox.
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When you saying the heating is "from compression" do you mean (1) there's a process in which compression occurs, and that's where the heating is, or (2) the heating is that which necessarily occurs when a gas is compressed from pressure P1 to a higher pressure P2?

Because (2) is wrong. Compression occurs at a shock, as does heating, but that doesn't mean the heating is due (entirely) to compression.
Look into the low-power mode of whatever microcontroller you're using... I did an AT-Tiny85 project, and it burned through the battery. I then switched to low power for a while, and it draws micro-amps (!) when in low-power mode, so the battery would have lasted hundreds of times longer.

Oh... umm... the display, yeah. Maybe have an on-button for the display to power it up only when you want it?
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Depends on country. I started to use Internet around 2002 and ICQ was the messenger of choice. Nobody used AIM or MSN Messenger around me.
There will always be an incentive in collecting transaction fees.
Three problems with that idea:

[1] The smallest (publicly known) nuclear device ever built weighed about 23 kg.

[2] Detonating a nuke in orbit would cause a potentially devastating EMP.

[3] The Outer Space Treaty explicitly prohibits putting WMDs in space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosio...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
Scarcity = value only when the underlying asset is actually an asset i.e. it produces something or can be used to purchase goods & services.

Bitcoin is pure mania, it's completely worthless and enables the worst of the worst people in the world.
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What I mean to say is they should both be regulated as securities which is what they both are. And yeah it's fly by night unregulated attitude hurts plenty of people. Doesn't have to hurt me to be bad.
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Previous discussions:

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986324
The 3DS can play DS and GBA games natively. While the lack of a GBA cartridge slot is a hindrance, it’s nothing that ROM injections on a hacked console can’t get around.

That along with the capability to emulate up to SNES games makes my 3DS something that still makes its way into my travel backpack. I leave the switch and GBA SP at home. They’re too big for what they offer.
Are you suggesting that we separate children from their parents?
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Agreed -- it is certainly inheritance that mostly takes the blame here, since it allows massive advantages to accrue, unchecked. However, I do think that there's something to be said against even inner-lifetime accruement of obscene wealth, as that can warp merit as well. Where's the sweet spot? - the level at which there are sufficient rewards required to motivate the gathering of wealth without the risk of accruing such an advantage that would unbalance the playing board.
Couldn't agree more! Even just conducting double checks on others certification would do a lot of good.
"21 million is a big finite when it comes to collectibles"

It's worse than that. You can divide BTC into a lot of tiny pieces. So there are lot more than 21 million pieces. Most collectibles are valuble as the whole thing, not little pieces sliced off of them.
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I have no kids, live alone and am absolutely fine. Just playing games, reading internet, watching youtube, chatting and occasionally doing something else that happens to interest me at the moment.

Not sure how it would be different without pandemic? Maybe I'd spend few percent of my time outside and/or interacting with people in person, but probably no more.

I'm one of those people who found out that their preferred lifestyle is called quarantine.
No, sync is not available. Browser bookmarks are actually not the same as the bookmarks I keep in LinkAce, therefore I do not need any sync feature. You can read a bit more on the about page how the app is positioned. https://www.linkace.org/about/
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Zoom violated its own terms of service for access to China's market
ltc in Japan is closer to medicare in the us. Its run by the city and is need based and they can deliver services to the home. You get a case manager who contracts the services and then you might have a copay or deductible.
> It is the hereditary nature of wealth which is the largest contributor to long-term inequality.

Hereditary wealth is a specific form of rent-seeking which is something liberal economics has no explanation for. It's like one of those things that never left the feudal era whilst everything else did. But I wonder why some who follow this type of economics think this is the sole and most important issue? There are many examples of rent-seeking and this is far from the biggest contributor towards inequality.
That’s a terrible idea.
You are so focused on economic inequality that you ignore the greater picture: there will still be a hierarchy. There will still be humans dominating other humans and asserting themselves above them.
Maybe in the far future humans will create a social technology to live in true equality but in the immediate future this is clearly not happening.

As long as there is a hierarchy, you cannot really have equality, sorry. You make humans more economically equal and you create an even worse situation where human hierarchy is based on family name, connections, genetics or just plain violence and social mobility would be even worse than it is now, where it is dictated by income and wealth.

Also your definition of meritocracy is contentious. For example you are saying, it is not meritocratic that a boy does not achieve his maximum potential because his parents could not afford to give him the best opportunities. But what if instead of comparing just one generation, we compare two or three? What if we compare their grandparents and their parents? Maybe the grandparents of the poor boy were better off but for whatever reason the wealth did not tickle down in sufficient quantities. Whereas maybe a boy who is richer today had poorer grandparents who worked really hard to make sure their grandchildren had the best opportunities.
That looks like meritocracy to me.
I'm curious as well. I was in Asia on business and their navigation is top notch.
Why wouldn't it? In the end this is a people problem, not a tech problem. And both Silicon Valley and Bangladesh have some form of "local" meritocracy. Meritocracy applied and working within your stratum but not across the boundaries.

Whether you're poor or in a lower caste you still get some form of meritocracy within your group to keep you content and motivated. But crossing the boundary to the next level, while not impossible, is designed to be highly unlikely because people in all layers like the security those boundaries provide them.
Surely the human factors at play are not incomparable.. ?
I am not sure how getting there by being smarter is any better. It's not like anyone spent any effort to be smart, it's just genetic lottery.
Depends. Might make sense in countries with polar nights, not so much in the Mediterranean where it just sucks up energy, especially with EVs.
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I went back to IRC. Though there are channels which bridge IRC with matrix and/or discord (gross). That alows cantankerous users such as myself to interact with careless lusers ;-)
Wonderful idea! As others have pointed out already it’s getting more difficult to find items that are still available for purchase. When they are still available they might not be built to the same specifications as before. I’ll swing over to the site and upload a few products I’ve been happy with that are still built to the same specifications. There is a thread somewhere over in the mrmoneymustache forums where you can likely attract some interest if the mods allow you to post. Best of luck!
Anyone else using Impossible Lists here?
Geothermal is a lot like nuclear: it's a capital intensive baseload source. As such, it suffers like nuclear in an environment with increasing intermittent penetration.

One might have imagined an environment in which geothermal replaced (say) diesel at remote locations, because diesel fuel is expensive. But add some wind/solar/batteries to that diesel and you save most of the fuel. The benefit of replacing it with geothermal is reduced.
You can use anything and write your own API

I think there is no way to reduce the number of APIs with code. NoCode hides complex APIs from the developer.
Use third party services and projects that bundle random APIs like Miro.com or hackhaton-starter bootstrap etc. Higher API level that hides a lower API level that YourApp is not interested in and only focuses on the program algorithm.

But here is situation where we have 14+1 API standard
That is not what meritocracy is - it is rule by the cognitive gifted.

The argument for meritocracy is that meritocratic societies (and by extension businesses) kick the butts of all others. It might not be fair, but it works better than all the other alternatives.
That’s a ridiculous equivalency. You can provide high quality education to all without USSR style communism. In fact I’d argue the long term success of a capitalist system relies on it.
Domain specific languages just didn't settle at the level we expected. We thought they would be for really narrow domains, like a language for each kind of business logic. But instead the domains are more at the architecture level and some very broad purpose (i.e. HTML, SQL, etc).

At my company, we use Ruby for web backend and system administration. We use Typescript for web frontend. We use C# for process automation. We use Rust and C++ for real time performance (we've got an in house 3D engine), and a little bit of high performance processing. We use Python for data processing and machine learning.

That's six "general purpose" languages, each applied to a specific domain, on six software developers, in three teams of two. Each happy with their choice of languages, effectively solving the business needs.

I think at some point in the past this situation was described as a nightmare. But I think at that point people thought developers were something you just opened a tin can of, and then applied to whatever problem you had. Nowadays we hire for a specific purpose (or at least I do). When I hire web dev experts, I expect them to be fluent in the industry standard web programming languages and platforms of our choice (i.e. for us it'd be Ruby and Typescript). When I hire 3D experts I expect them to be fluent in C++, and proficient in Rust (it's the future). And obviously it's Python for the data science types.

That's a very clear world to me, and to be extra clear, I'm not saying any of the languages I mentioned are the best choice. As long as we operate within the lines the industries have drawn, you can draw upon the best libraries and ecosystems for your particular problem. I would never approve a 3D engine to be developed in Ruby, or a data science pipeline in Javascript. I'd rather have a Ruby developer learn some Python so they'd be able to work on the data science pipeline (disregarding their complaints about Python's inelegance) than have them trying to kludge together subpar Ruby libraries.
There is a donation link in the LinkAce settings for the archive, but making it more prominent is a good idea. I actually donate on a regular base and hope others will do too.

Edit: added a link to the features page.
Interesting strawman. There are a lot of other ways to control inheritance than separating children from their parents.
What this article doesn't mention is all the failed attempts at creating collectible value, leading to a survivorship bias that implies rare+finite=value. Something being rare doesn't imply value, it's the combination of being rare and desired that makes a collectible worth anything. Although, I'm not even sure it should be considered a collectible, as the desire to own bitcoin is one that diminishes the less it's worth.
Love it! The more competition the better. Also demonstrates (at least personally) the internal bias I have that the distribution of mobile phones in North America is the same as the distribution across the world... And that is clearly an incorrect bias
Steam has regional pricing.

Here is a price chart for Cyberpunk 2077: https://steamdb.info/app/1091500/
Exclusive-Russia ships only first part of Covid-19 vaccine to Argentina -sources
Australia/Victoria. Long, strict lockdown, with separation into metro area and regional rules. It brought the cases down to 0 for a month (now single cases are acquired from NSW, but that's a separate story).

I'm not sure if the difference from the European countries is in people complying or with good implementation (clear, short rules). Either way, spread inside the city (so the island / sparse pop arguments are irrelevant) has been eliminated.

The difference in rules simplicity and exclusions is visible. Compare for example official rules for UK's level 3 only https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tier-3-very-high-alert with Victoria's 3 steps all together on this page https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/3-step-fram...
That procedure is for recording a hash in the blockchain, which is overkill in this case. There is no need to make an actual transaction.

If you only want to prove ownership of an address, you can simply sign a message with the private key behind it. There's a "sign message" feature in the bitcoin qt client for this purpose. I think Electrum also supports it.
Do you have any sources on what percentage of wealthy that inherit their wealth? From what I've gathered it's quite small and doesn't necessarily last more than a few generations.
1971?
Hi HN,

OP here. If you wanna know more about the code involved in this project, I'm happy to answer your questions!

WASM-STREAM is really just a quick hack for rc3, the remote chaos communication congress happening right now.

But so far, I found it quite entertaining to listen to the audio stream.

Edit: Provisioned an ogg-vorbis stream now too. So now the blog should play the stream in Chrome-based browsers too.
I thought a lot about this when I started working on the app. I decided against it because the Internet Archive has the proper tools, expertise, infrastructure and is - hopefully - a long term archive for websites. Maybe an alternative local backup is added in some future version, but I have no plans for it currently.
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That's wrong. Read it again especially the last part "Nowhere does the bank need someone else's money to give you that credit."

They cant credit infinite amount because there is no infinite no-risk demand for credit. Banks dont give credit where there is a risk to lose. That's why startups need VC and not a bank credit. Banks attract certain deposit holders because they are future house builder or otherwise customers of something the bank actually makes profit with. They dont care about the money deposited but if its more its more likely to be a customer they can make profit with. So yes they are interested in you as a customer if you have money but not because you store it there and they want to use it for something. Its one of the most taught lies about how money and banks work.
This is a logical leap i'm afraid. We have been trying to give people what they need using government welfare for a century now. It's not communism to correctly understand that some people need to be given opportunities to prove themselves in the market regardless of their race, wealth, etc.
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Bitcoin requires a large Twitter army to maintain its value.
I have exacty the same suspicion. Cases started spiking exactly 3 weeks after we opened schools after summer break in Poland, and did not start falling down until we closed down schools again.
Is the random matrix generation section in here up to date?
The official numpy docs [0] seem to indicate that `randn` is legacy, and that `randint` is deprecated.

[0] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html
Calvin. The city owned the streets and ravines, so any route that used an existing ravine allowed for a surface rail segment. Under streets there was zero land cost, just the dig and shaft cost through the clay, garavel and hardpan that underlies Toronto. Going under houses was possible with forced purchase via eminent domain of the underground rights - but had a cost as tunneling cost more than cut and cover in these early days. We now have integrated tunneling/lining machines, so that is what they do not as C&C has large infrastructure relocation costs, whereas deep tunnels encounter only whatever is there. They extract drill cores on the planned routes these days to bypass any aquifers(wetted sand/gravel etc). The large east west light rail transport (LRT) used a combination of tunneling and surface/ravine open cuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_5_Eglinton

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

As you can see by the timeline, it was all fits and stops
Distributing rewards according to merit may be beneficial, but the problems with unequal distribution go far beyond hereditary rewards. Consider the income distribution according to jobs. Some jobs are assigned greater monetary rewards than others even if they are essential to the functioning of society. Much of that comes from our notions of status. I would argue that distributing wealth according to merit only works as a motivating factor when one is being compared to their occupational peers, which is something rarely seen in lower income occupations.
> I use browser bookmarks for regularly accessed sites and have a separate application that takes care of all those links I would like to “keep in mind” but don’t want to pollute my browser bookmarks with

I strongly feel like it could be both. You created something that does one thing (I assume) really well. Adding sync may sound like too much on top but we already are living in a world of isolated data islands, it may be a good idea to start building bridges.

Maybe sync browser bookmarks in, mark them with a special tag, and only sync those out.
FWIW I'm balls-deep into Elixir, pardon my language, and I almost never write recursive functions.
I think you're missing a critical point here.

> I like Apple laptops but they're not great in terms of repairability, extensibility, modularity and openness.

I just don't care about any of those. If I need it repaired, I'll pay the vendor to do it. If I need it extended, I'll pay them to do it - or buy something new. I don't care if it's modular. I only care about openness insofar as I can tell what it's doing. The rest is a waste of my time.

I suspect I'm not the only one who feels this way, given the way this thread has gone.
I think France, Italy and Spain data is pretty convincing. If you know anybody near Colmar or Bergame or working in any hospital around there, lockdowns (decided by the state or not) were more than necessary. Maybe not nation-wide, sure, i think this could have been a mistake, but smaller than doing nothing.

I've already said that, but my cousin (emergency care) in Colmar was sending his "best" patients in army planes to another cousin working in Brittany (reanimation). He worked 12 to 14 hours a day, for 45 days straight. That was one hotspot, and Colmar was hit a bit less than Bergame, i'm pretty sure any italian having familly there would have many more horror story than i have. At least they didn't have to select patients in Colmar (well, not as much).
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