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> In your example of steak, there are macroeconomic changes which may well cause the specific commodity to change in price substantially over time. Inflation isn't determined as a function of "steak" but rather as a function of "protein."

I don't think this applies to the general population's understanding of inflation. The layman's interpretation would be "how much more expensive would it be today if I bought the exact same things 1/2/5/10 years ago". This is actually how inflation was measured up until the 90s.

"Removing" (i.e. reducing the weight) of a good when it becomes more expensive is contradictory to measuring the price increase of an average basket of goods. Especially if you do it on short timeframes. CPI-U is reweighed every 2 years and C-CPI-U is reweighed every month. How are you expected to measure inflation* beyond those timeframes? Housing too expensive? Rent. Cars too expensive? Public transport. Steaks too expensive? Eat chicken. Chicken too expensive? Ramen. Ramen too expensive? Food stamps.

The result? Population on food stamp in the US rose from ~6% in 2001 to ~15% in 2017, while unemployment rate and wages stayed the same. They can't protect themselves via buying stocks or other assets because they need their money to survive months by month. All the while, the riches are getting richer by pocketing efficiency gains and bailouts.

People have learned that the 2% inflation (of a fixed basket) is nothing to worry about in the past. The same measurement would now yield a 10% inflation rate which is unprecedented and worrisome. So the inflation measure was changed to a dynamic basket in which expensive items are reduced, cheaper items are increased and magically inflation* is around or even below 2%. Nothing to see here, nothing to worry about - we always had 2% and 2% is fine. Except the poor are getting poorer and more desperate and susceptible to fascism.

So the idea people have about "inflation" as the increase of costs of a fixed average basket of goods is as obsolete as the idea of "money" being backed by gold.
GeForce go also took down almost all of it's titles due to licensing issues where Nvidia were too afraid to upset their partners, which shows there is no business here and they should never have invested in the first place.

But at least Nvidia's initial conceit was that it would piggy back on someone else's content ecosystem rather than building their own - building your own gaming content ecosystem is a) incredibly hard b) a fifteen year plus project and c) costs a hundred billion dollars. Google weren't willing to do those but launched a project that needed them.
>Wayland has existed since more than 10 years and it has still not been able to release a usable system.

Fedora has has it on by default for about 4 years now and its perfectly usable. I use it every day.

The problem is much more serious than you are explaining. While using X, on my main monitor, UI and text becomes so small I can not even read it or click the icons. I'm not talking about the window size, but the UI and text size. With wayland the app can switch from 200% scale to 100% scale as it crosses the window border. On X you must pick either 100% or 200% and stick with it on all monitors.
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I remember reading an economic survey of Sweden where they credited the large number of successful Swedish startups in the 70s and 80s to a lot of Engineers and a lot of jobs around in case the startup didn't work.

This sounds a lot like Silicon valley - what do you think?

(p.s. I can't find the article about Sweden anymore)
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I started it and I asked about casting in general. Chromecast is the only type of casting VLC supports; because of that I think its not living up to it's name.
>>" MMT may even be right in theory but in practice may be entirely unrealistic. "

I don't know what that mean. Or a theory is better than the current one explaining facts or it's not. That's the scientific method.

>>"[..] US's reserve currency status [..]"

We know what the neo-keynesian predicted for Japan monetary policy of the last 25 years (high inflation, high interest rates), and we know that it's not what happened.

>>"And how does MMT solve for the various asset bubbles ongoing including the real estate bubble in Australia or perhaps the stock bubble in the U.S."

It totally does. Because the central banks are buying financial assets, they are crowding out institutional investors to other kind of assets up the chain and pushing prices up. Note, that MMT doesn't support QE. They just predicted what would happen.
That's exactly how I'm assembling my Sway session. My Sway config ends with `exec systemctl --user start sway-session.target`, and that target links to all the services I want running in my session (redshift, notification daemon, etc.). If you don't like systemd, you can `exec my-session-startup-script.sh` in the exactly same way.

The Sway devs maintain a list of common helper applications that work with Sway: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/i3-Migration-Guide
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>Can you tell me where it was stated that every political outcome globally is tied to the US? A bit of a strawman.

Where you specifically implied that Trump's actions emboldened the authoritarians that seized power in Myanmar. As someone who lives in this part of the world (close to Myanmar), your comments are a bit silly and self-centered.
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Don’t tell my boss but I ssh into my home machine and work on personal projects.
How do you encrypt such a thing?

Is it encrypted at rest?

I would be too paranoid to put personal stuff on some website, if I don’t know the encryption techniques and technology used behind it.
The first three man spaceflight - Voskhod 1 [0] in 1964 - was actually in a capsule designed for a crew of two. They didn't wear spacesuits so as to create room and make the additional weight more manageable. The third crewman - Georgy Katys - was actually an engineer rather than a cosmonaut, and was offered a seat for propaganda purposes. Allegedly his presence on the flight was a trade to buy his silence regarding the actual safety of the mission - he really wanted to get into space.

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In MWI, the problem doesn't exist to begin with.

In e.g. the Copenhagen interpretation, observation plays a special role, because it's the moment of wave function collapse.

In MWI, there is no wave function collapse, so there's no need to identify certain special events called "observations" which are somehow different from the rest of physics. It's just our eyes, and brains, and instruments, interacting and becoming entangled with the other things in the world.

When we "observe" Schrödinger's cat, we entangle ourselves with the cat just as the cat was already entangled with the cesium atom. Now the world is in a superposition of two states: in one, the cat is alive and we see it as alive; in the other, the cat is dead and we see it as dead. This is exactly what the equations say should happen. Nothing special.
They fill the pores with epoxy but so how could the resulted material be biodegradable? Serious noobie question
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Itried it but it didn't stick. Maybe I didn't like the defaults. I'll check it out again !
Django is not even a player. Look at Java, C#, and PHP, those are the big server-side tools. Rails, just barely.

Logic and state are intertwined with UI in React/Angular apps, without the well-understood structure and techniques that can make server-side code manageable with clear separation of concerns. That happens because of the client-side frameworks, and limitations of focusing skills on the client side.

Every server-side framework has supported templates for front-end developers, for a long time. There’s no reason someone focused on the UI has to know any more about the database and business logic working with traditional server-side rendering than they do with React or Angular.
> Still, it does not seem a really fundamental problem, it must surely be solvable from within X?

X gives you two options: set DPI per displays. The thing is, you cannot drag windows between displays, the app has destroy it, connect to another one and recreate it here. There's even no mechanism to detect multiple displays other that user setting up the DISPLAY env variable.

Or you can do, as the Xorg does: use multiple screens on a single display. Here, the limitation is, that all screens have to have same DPI.

Neither of those are acceptable for modern display server.

> it will break screen capture tools,

It is a good thing that they are broken, because what they do is snooping on windows that do not belong to them. Just like it is unacceptable to integrate user address book to your app by going through its internal files, it is unacceptable to screen grab by snooping windows of other apps. In both scenarios, your app must go through API, which puts the user in the control, whether the app is allowed to do that. Wayland enforces such protocol for screen grabbing and input handling; those app who do not bother... well, the train will leave the station without them.

> other things that are dear to us like xwit, xdotool and the like

Same as previous, but for input handling.

> Just for that silly mixed-resolution screen problem?

No, there are multiple problems. For another, surely you would like screen lock that doesn't flash your desktop on unlock?

> I have observed this problem, but to me is a minor, mostly irrelevant nuisance. Losing xwit would be a major problem.

See even here on HN, it is important for many. Just few days ago there was a discussion under article about i3 and how to drag it into hidpi world in 2021. On the other hand, the mainstream user doesn't even know why they would use xwit, even if they knew it exists.
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Indeed, which is why submarines are the linchpin of modern MAD. But they weren't always present; the buildup of nuclear arsenal started when the options were limited to ICBMs and strategic bombers.
Windows subsystem for linux literally uses RDP and wayland for single windows as its graphics subsystem. Single windows aren't a problem and "network transparency" through remote procedure calls is just anachronistic, and will never support things like animations, 3d, or video.
Could you elaborate by adding any relevant but legitimate links? The web is filled with all kinds of crap, and I'm sure that would be useful.
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All the things that were mentioned are annoying, but multi-touch works properly, animations are smoother and I get no screen tearing, even on a multi-GPU setup.

It's almost like different people have different priorities, who could've though?
Why doesn't that apply to photons and electrons, then? At what scale do things stop interacting with the other worlds and stay in their own world only?

This is exactly the measurement problem, essentially identical between Copenhagen and MWI.
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That's a shame, I enjoy playing with ML so having no CUDA available is a bit of a showstopper there.

For graphics I'd like to switch to AMD, but right now you just can't buy their higher end consumer cards.
Exactly. I'm just about old enough to have used USENET and to remember the "is spam free speech and are we bad for deleting it" debates that also applied to email. In the end, the spammers won: you have to censor spam, or the service is all spam.

Filtering content is an absolute necessity. If you want to make a diverse general-use service, you need another layer to filter out shock images, unwanted nudity, actually illegal child and 'revenge' porn, and the constant barrage of insults that prominent minority users will be subjected to.

Moderation adds value.
None are current AFAIK. I do think that the downsides of P2P could be largely offset by assuming a raspberry Pi or equivalent small system to offset the battery, bandwidth, and CPU penalties that are so hard to justify on Mobile.

So they are of historical interest only, but if you want to did up the history I'll give you some search terms. Marvell had a $99 reference platform called the SheevaPlug CloudEngine had a Pogoplug, CTera had a CloudPLug, Seagate DockStar, GuruPlug, DreamPlug, PylonPlug, sipJack, GeNiJack, etc. etc. etc.

They all had a GHz or so CPU, GigE, 512MB ram, etc.
Yes, but a) they were willing to keep investing billions and billions for years, and it appears Ruth Porat simply isn't going to let Google do that any more and b) they considered it a tactical must to do so.

As an investment it probably wasn't a good one, truth be told.

Google are stuck in a no-man's land. They keep going into sectors where you've got to invest a decade of money and hard work to get anywhere, but they have a CFO who basically demands any project makes money in two years or gets canned (for the avoidance of doubt, I'm not especially criticising this approach but it's clear most Googlers and their culture do not get it), and a generation of project managers who believe you can launch minimum viable products to consumers and fix it later. You can't make all three of those points work at the same time, and that's why literally anything they launch new at the moment is going to fail.
>developing window managers difficult again.

That's subjective. There are compositor libraries. It shouldn't be more difficult.
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Even if 90% of your peers are in Amazon, the egress fees on the other 10% cost more than sending all of your data over a competitively priced network connection.

And that's the best case, where all your connections to them start and end in the same availability zone. Just inter-AZ fees cost more than you'd normally pay for transit.

It's almost entirely lock-in.
but how else will you allow for the ministry of truth to scrub out the politically incorrect facts from the face of our societal memories?
The author seems to have way to little knowledge about wayland. It's okay to say I use Xorg bc it's not ready for my usecase yet but spreading this whole GNOME FUD makes this more spam than anything else. I can't take this serious at all.
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Accepting ADHD as a thing, immediately means accepting all the so-called treatments for it (Concerta, Ritalin etc), which immediately creates a (huge) market, with market forces that will do everything possible to maintain the market alive and kicking - hence standing in the way of digging deeper.

Cancer is diagnosed in a very methodological and strict way, and the fact that we discovered it doesn't mean we discovered the cure for it (sadly, curing cancer is very hard).

I have no problem with ADHD being a defined disorder that we can ask questions about - as long as we understand that
it is not a thing, cannot be objectively diagnosed (and therefore treatments are as vague as the diagnosis), and people cannot have it (the same way we have a flu or COVID-19).

About homosexuality - it was just an example of how the psychiatric bible - i.e., the DSM - can get things horribly wrong and therefore should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Eventually....when hardrock lithium mines run out after digging an open pit over a mile across and half a mile deep, and the salt flats of South America are covered in toxic brine.
You have a better chance of being hit by a meteor than falling victim to a compromise that would have been stopped had you only used wayland.

Also xwayland is not a fix for any of the issues identified.
I mean you just have a different library now.

You had to use xlib to access X11 too.

(and bunch of others if you wanted nice things like font scaling, clipboard etc.)

And people will probably write other libs. If nothing else I expect ... but in rust and goloang variants.
I have to agree about client side decorations. But my biggest issue (I use gnome) is that it is now the compositors job to remember window sizes and positions, and they are not doing that. I understand and agree with the reasoning that an app can't influence its environment and position itself. But someone has to do it. And automatic placement is not a substitute for remembering the users placement.
Farming business logic out to a service you don’t control, asynchronously, and then paying by request is sketchy to me. On AWS, GCP, Azure I can run a server I configure, manage, and control. I can run as many as I need, automate provisioning and configuration, and still maintain control.

I could make the case that Javascript is a sketchy language for implementing business logic but that’s a matter of taste.
> And writing UIs that fit to various ontologies is not solved.

Are you aware of any projects that try to solve this? Very interested.
That's cool. Although, it's beyond my comprehension that people still use volumetirc measures. It's not as though accurate scales are expensive or hard to use.
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I thought most WebAudio wrapper libraries aimed at games were kind of useless or only really designed for simple usecases so I wrote my own. Also partly as an excuse to learn TypeScript, the horrendous web build architecture better and put something up on Github that was kind of an end-to-end project.

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Yeah, the Japanese language for classifying things as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami might be more useful. But that kind of is the point here, a lot of this stuff revolves around these arbitrary classifications that we've used historically and culturally and you get interesting results when you mix that up a little.

Which is why taking sweet and salty things like pineapple and ham and putting them on a Pizza is completely normal to some and offensive to others even when using other, similarly salty and sweet ingredients is considered normal to them.
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> My personal experience was that dextroamphetamine helped my (pretty severe) social anxiety by calming me.

This is what Cocaine, MDMA or alcohol in reasonable doses would do to you. Stimulants generally do this to everyone.
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Indeed. I think one of Google's big problems is that it has a finance division desperate to prove to the market how rational it is, with a huge mass of project managers and leaders from the Gmail days who believe you can launch any old crap and take five years to iterate it into something good.
Many of the lessons are being carried over no doubt. Others are embodied in the heads of people not working on Wayland or in the codebase itself as emergent properties from interactions never consciously designed.

There will be some loss of lessons with almost no doubt.
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Record the screen and airdrop to your mac. There’s an option in iMovie to export as screenshot video. Also it’s not available for download worldwide?
I don't really understand why such a title has been chosen for HN. Granted, the original one is inflammatory, but this one is just wrong: there is no “Yet”, Wayland will never be a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement, and is not intended to be.

Wayland has a different approach when it comes to security, which makes it much less flexible in order to increase user security. It has evolved a in way to allow as much legit things as possible, but it will never be 100% compatible with what Xorg offered, by design!
No kidding. I'm on a 5am bedtime cycle now.
The video appears to be taken from this spot, facing roughly due west:

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After the vehicles pass through the roadblock, they can be seen to turn left, heading towards the Presidential Palace.
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