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Ability to print money can be good and useful, but governments have a long history of going overboard. The benefits of printing money are immediate and tangible and the pain tends to lag and are widely distributed (hurting everyone that holds the currency worldwide).

Fiat currencies definitely have their place, but so do hard assets. And it may turn out to be useful to have a hard asset that is much more easily divisible, transferrable, and more resistant to seizure than gold.
Slack is down. This is shaping up to be my most productive day in a long while.
He's never been vocally against either one. He has been asked about it and has suggested that he is considering it and recognizes that a lot of people think he should, but has never said one way or another.
I tend to like Cloudflare's API for key/value storage.

If you don't delete the record, the key will always have the same id-number, so you never need more than a single API call to reference a value or change it.
Economics is not a very difficult subject. Most people intuitively grasp supply and demand and other basics.

What mainstream economics has tried to convince us is that hard work is meaningless and infinite money can be printed. Scarcity is a myth. I don't need complex graphs to explain away why printing shitloads of money causes inflation and warps incentives. It's hilarious that Keynesians keep pushing the same garbage and being surprised when people respond by purchasing scarce assets like Bitcoin. What did you expect would happen?
My coworker's theory was someone was waiting for the holiday's end to deploy something risky.

And I'm in that boat of depending on Slack for alerting... in fact my team was also waiting over the holidays to deploy more robust non-Slack-based alerting (in our defense the product is only a few months old and only now starting to scale to any real volume).
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Calling it a clone is a stretch. There are a ton of features missing.
The two cliched sources of this problem are 1) someone pushed something out over the holidays that could have waited until January, or 2) peak capacity was negatively affected since the last time a spike happened, nobody had a way to monitor it, and so this has been broken since the end of May. On further reflection, someone will admit that they noticed a notch-up in response times and did not connect the dots.
Well, I think it probably depends on where you work. At my work, people just took 2-3 weeks of time off. It takes a moment to get your head back in the game.
It depends. When I went to college I remember this lady around 70 years old who was a student. I forget what major she was in or other details but remember talking to her then. I don’t think she was getting something practical out of it but maybe something personal. I remember her saying something like college was something she always wanted to do and now she had a chance to. She was very bright and quick witted and it surprised me she didn’t have a college degree. So in this case this is what mattered to her. I was amazed at the time but found out she was not a singular case at the time, some people do return to school late in their life
Google is already being ruined by this tiny minority of sanctimonious blowhards. This is just a move to give more power to themselves to push their own political agenda in Google. Personally I want nothing to do with them, and I'd prefer that they just leave the company if they're unhappy. There's still lots of companies that want to hire software engineers, though of course they may find that nobody else puts up with their nonsense either.
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Yeah lots of stuff is just left to rot outside. Like that Enterprise Bridge (though it wasn't the one from the show but from the Vegas Experience)
Not only that! The story behind their newly founded N division is very interesting. They poached a long-time BMW executive Albert Biermann who headed multiple vehicle developments and the BMW M group, and tasked him with bringing up the N high performance divison within Hyundai (N as in Namyang R&D, but he says also Nurburgring). Since then he's been promoted to President & Head of R&D. As my most recent comment history says, I've spent several weeks in Namyang and I've never heard of an executive's name being (positively) invoked so many times inside the garage :)

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> the reward for playing comes from making something aesthetically appealing

More like "The reward comes from playing with your own objectives and succeeding at them" which is one of the hallmarks of sandbox games, not just Cities: Skylines in particular.

I've played Cities: Skylines quite a bit, the genre is my favorite one. While I agree the game doesn't force you into completing arbitrary objectives, I've found it quite challenging myself, but that's also because I setup my own objectives to be challenging.
Our org just failed over to GChat as well. Piece of cake.

Quite glad we never moved any critical ops work into Slack bots, since we don't control Slack.
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I would gladly permit these works to be added to the world's global CO2 burden...
Ah true, and certainly that varies in different jurisdictions, I was just responding in general to the 'what are they doing investing when they're a software engineering company' point I suppose.
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I can't even begin to guess what went wrong. What are your guesses? How many screaming executives are there at Slack saying "just roll it back"?
It might have been the increased usage due to the pandemic (since it didn't happen from 2019 to 2020) + the sudden inflow of people at the same time.
Yeah, this is what we actually use as a fallback, and I did push for this as an full time alternative given we'd get it free, but people dislike it for all sorts of frivolous reasons.
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That's actually a worse argument, if I understand it correctly (are you claiming that the article is not interesting for HN readers?? It's frontpage position - currently at #3 - seems to be a pretty convincing counter-argument. The article might not be interesting for you personally, but... that's not very relevant)
Same - and it's just... weird. The "everything must be in a thread" model feels really clunky.
To me, anyone who work in tech and dismisses the Exposure Notification framework as "surveillance" is no different from an anti-vaxxer.

The app does 3 things on your phone: 1) continuously exchange Temporary Exposure Keys with other phones with EN enabled, and 2) periodically download a list of TEKs, compare to locally cached list of TEKs to determine if you were in close contact with a COVID positive patient, and 3) in the unlikely event when you are tested positive, work with your Health Authority, use a one-time code to upload your TEKs to the key server.

If you are really paranoid, you can do 1 and 2 with just a battery powered Raspberry Pi Zero (someone has done that and was previously posted to HN but can't find it right now) which should be net beneficial to you. But if you just don't understand this framework please stop spreading FUD.
> the Fed _hasn't_ been buying BTC, and therefore hasn't artificially propped up its price. The same can't be said for stocks, real estate, or anything else available on equity markets.

The Fed isn’t buying most equities. The monetary transmission channel for equities is exactly the same as Bitcoin’s.
In the other threads, there's been some theorizing that some central infrastructure is down or struggling. Perhaps AWS or the like.
Coming from the 3rd world, I don't find GPs thought that laughable.

US constantly meddles in other countries affairs, and has scant regard for international organizations.

Abu Gharib is not so far behind us. Nor is indiscriminate drone attacks which may have caused massive amounts of collateral damage.

Despite the sentiment here, US simply does not have a good image in most of the 3rd world.

Even walking out of Paris Climate Deal does not give much credence to the view that US is willing to coexist and cooperate with other nations.
I also find CPU/RAM monitoring not very useful to me. I used to put conky widgets all over the place, but concluded that it did very little. Most of the time I fire up htop, I'm looking to kill a process anyway.

I programmed one of my keyboard to be modal, and use the lighting as an indicator of which mode I'm in. Sort of like vim's status bar. It's pretty handy.
Bitcoin is deflationary (fixed supply) and cyclic.

If the world economy were held in fully minted bitcoin, each bitcoin would be worth ~$4.2 million USD.

Investing in bitcoin is like investing in abstract gold without an industrial or art use fallback. Rather, the transfer across boundaries piece is the fallback, the actual goal is to claim a deflationary estate and then get the world to use the medium to drive up value. Of course when popularity really increases fees will have to counter the rate of deflation, which will roughly equal economic growth, or nobody would ever trade out of it, and at the point it's the real collapse.
It's OK, once Google gets a union then you'll lose your 600k TC job and get moved back down to the 250k job because you haven't been at the company long enough and promotions and pay ranges can be based on tenure because that's more equitable.

Your responsibilities will be the same, though.
I just upgraded my computer this holiday season, and was surprised that my motherboard, CPU-fan, and graphics card now all sport colourful lights with special cables to connect them to the motherboard.

If it makes people happy, I'm all for it. I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to actually turn the lights in the CPU-fan off though (they are on by default), so there is a very colourful and pointless light show going on within my completely black and opaque computer case.
From my experience on here. When the articles hit the frontpage it is time to sell. If no story has appeared in 6 months buy.
Everyone back to IRC!
Anti-vaxxers? Really? Way to engage an argument by generalizing and politicizing with a completely irrelevant comparison.
You've misunderstood what I wrote. When I'm saying that "90% of what we got what was fraud", I mean that 90% of the traffic that did convert from FB ads were users that were trying to scam us (it was a financial services app), I mean literally steal money from us with things like stolen credit cards.

The general user quality you get from Facebook Ads is atrocious.
Yup. This seems like the right spot to plug this excellent article that has made me many 10s of thousands of dollars over my career:

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Good thing patio11 doesn't demand a percentage for the millions and millions of dollars he is responsible for people collectively getting in increased salary/comp.
Seems like Notion has a service interruption going on as well: https://status.notion.so/

Potentially related?
Actually NT4.0 did not support FAT32 at all (unless you installed a little-known driver from Sysinternals I've never actually seen used in the wild).

So maybe his work was on Windows 2000?
And I'm saying there should be no special benefits to management :)
The Gist is that Tether is a cryptocurrency that is supposed to trade at 1:1 USDT:USD. Every tether (their currency denomination) issued is theoretically backed by 1 USD. In 2017, Bitcoin prices soared in large part to the fact that so many people were trading tether for Bitcoin. It turns out that Tether may have arbitrarily issued more USDT than USD they have on hand. Therefore, the buys of bitcoin were essentially fake - trading $0.75 USD worth of tether for $1 of Bitcoin (a Tether lawyer said that Tether only had 75% of the cash necessary to back their supply of USDT).

I'm not sure how it's supposed to affect current prices, however. Tethers are still around, and as far as I know, they have not submitted to an audit, but 1 USDT is still trading for 1 USD.
Conversely, a kid in a basement with a laptop can for $20 via distrokid be listed on Spotify and be discovered within non-geographic communities.

It’s not all bad, but these are cool ideas.
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If there were any greater signal that bitcoin is not a safe bet right now, my dad has started buying it. He keeps saying thinks like "if I'd have put in £100 4 years ago".

I keep trying to tell him that if he'd tell me tomorrow's lottery numbers we'd be much better off but alas I think he's a lost cause.
Just a reminder that it's probably not a wise idea for anyone to get further in bed with Zoom than they already are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...
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This is not the first time I have heard something like "There was little interest in helping us understand new Facebook policies or what we were expected to do to comply with them. " This is generally said when the new policies are intentionally designed to keep out a whole niche of shady behavior, so that complying would require to abandon their core business model; i.e. it's not really expected that they would comply, the policies are explicitly written to stop doing business with them and also every future company like theirs.

If they could work out something with the customer representatives to mostly keep doing what they want to do while fitting within the letter of the policy, that would just indicate a bug in the policy text that needs to be fixed.
The difference is labor time compensated for is compensated for, labor time expropriated is not.

Labor time compensated for by Google excessively well is also labor time where workers are producing wealth excessively well. Ken Thompson had a hand in creating an enormous amount of wealth before he stepped foot in Google. Where does all this created wealth come from? The work done by those who work and create wealth at Google (and the uncompensated primitive accumulation of web content - and the taxpayer funded grants to Stanford and for ARPAnet development etc.)
Same for me. Data is missing in tables too.
We have an alert channel in Slack, but it's mostly ignored. Our primary alerts come via SMS/VictorOps.

At one of my old jobs, we had SMS via two physical/hardware devices in our data center. One had a Telstra SIM card and the other had an Optus SIM card. (They were plugged into the same machine, but we had plans to put a second one in another data center before I left).

If you really care about alerts, you should have physical hardware doing your SMS messages via two different point-of-presences.
There are lots of things the DPA can help with. Testing for one. PPA. Cold storage pods needed for vaccine distribution. Raw materials for any of the above.
Or you could buy a whole town...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjBDKfrqQI4TgzT9YLNT8g

The idea is quite appealing, but I think I prefer to experience Brent's journey vicariously through his Cerro Gordo videos!
Not sure about nurses, but a broad section of the population does not know how percentages work. This is true for almost all countries. The width in science skills is breathtaking.
The 1-day price chart via Google shows a drop from ~33,700 @ 4:00 am UTC to ~28,900 @ 10:30 am UTC

So, about 14%.

It is also disingenuous to compare its volatility to stocks when it is supposed to be a currency.

I want a heck of a lot less volatility in what I use to pay my bills and buy things than I'm willing to accept in my investment portfolio. Unless bitcoin and other coins demonstrate such stability, they aren't going to become a major form of payment.
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They do serve some level of balance against the 'frog of the well' [alt. king of the hill] effect.

Smart kids often come away thinking they are the smartest and that they don't need to learn or understand anything else, thanks to our cheer leaders. This can lead to cognitive and behavioral fallacies, expertise in some narrow field gives themselves the idea that they are smart and qualified in domains outside of the scope of their expertise. Meeting other smart people, exposure to domains outside of one's own scope of expertise tempers that to a degree.

In retrospect the most valuable thing about my college/university experience was meeting people from different backgrounds (financial, social, educational). High school was too homogeneous.
You're taking it on faith that those with authority in the discussions will be acting altruistically with equitable consideration for all would-be members.
> I think even Bernie was against TPP, not just Trump.

It didn't do much for US workers, just protected Intellectual Property. TPP means you can't outsource it to China, but you can absolutely outsource it to Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. as long as they respect the IP.

Mixed feelings. It has no real benefit for US workers, but, at the same time, the damage is done and US manufacturing isn't going to magically reappear. Might as well at least try to lock down the IP and force Asia (read: China) to play by the rules.
He seems to be selling lots of stuff though.

But yeah the description and the photos are pretty sparse for something that'll fetch about half a million.
Best definition I've heard:

"Social justice" is an awkward term for an immensely important project, perhaps the most important project, which is to make the world a more equitable, fair, and compassionate place.

But the project for social justice has been captured by an elite strata of post-collegiate, digitally-enabled children of privilege, who do not pursue that project as an end, but rather use it as a means with which to compete, socially and professionally, with each other.

In that use, they value not speech or actions that actually result in a better world, but rather those that result in greater social reward, which in the digital world is obvious and explicit. That means that they prefer engagement that creates a) outrage and b) jokes, rather than engagement that leads to positive change.

In this disregard for actual political success, they reveal their own privilege, as it’s only the privileged who could ever have so little regard for actual, material progress. As long as they are allowed to co-opt the movement for social justice for their own personal aggrandizement, the world will not improve, not for women, people of color, gay and transgender people, or the poor.
> I guess my question to you is why do you demand democracy in government, but accept authoritarianism at work no questions asked?

Because employment is a freely associated business relationship. I don’t demand democracy in my business relationship with in-n-out when I order a burger nor do I demand democracy when a company pays me for some software development.

I do demand democracy from a government that makes laws I cannot opt out of and controls the courts which enforce all disputes in my life.

Even the largest companies in the world can be avoided by someone who doesn’t want to do business with them. The same is not true of the government.
How do you know it's down completely? Maybe it's down for you and maybe even down for a majority but still up for some subset. Happens with many products.
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I'm willing to bet this is influenced more by SLAs and Slack's lawyers than marketing speak.
Volatility should not be measured on one time events or short-time events. Short time-frames, bitcoin is still very volatile comparing to the most used currencies.
At least those were in a grid. The Faxanadu ones were just one line without spaces.
I find it so hypocritical that so many people espouse the "American Dream" of working your way up and earning more and more, they get so upset that someone might want to protect what they've earned.

The truth is, many Google software engineers are unhappy with the political choices that Google are making. Yeah, they could vote with their feet and quit, but would you take a massive pay cut and financially destabilize your family as the first course of action? I wouldn't; I'd try to exact change from within, whilst protecting the benefits I'd earned in the workplace.

And all that's just looking at the individuals benefits. Unionising would mean that I, a straight white man, could help support policies that empower my minority co-workers.
The effective property tax rate in CA is actually well below 1%, since assessed values of properties are not allowed to rise faster than inflation or 2%, whichever is smaller.

When I bought my house, the effective property tax on it went from 0.1% to 1%, as the assessed value under Prop 13 was 1/10 of the purchase price.