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Dynamic typing is a trade off, one that requires some explicit type checking in some situations.

It doesn't make it a stupid solution or a stupid problem.

If you validate and conform your types at program edges it's rare you ever really need to do type checking.

That is, a properly structured PHP application has all the benefits of dynamic typing and few of the problems that static type checking supposedly eliminates.

I like both static and dynamically typed languages.

Just like I like Async and non Async languages.

All language types require practice and learning to adjust to the different patterns that are required.

If you write PHP like JavaScript, or if you write PHP like java, or php like C++, you're going to have these problems.

If you write PHP like PHP, function heavy, class light, and a mix of functional and procedural depending on context it actually works out very well for a lot of things.

But go ahead, call the language stupid and irrespectable.
Part of the reason why Enums weren’t originally added to the stdlib was because if you get ten developers in a room there will be eleven conflicting expectations from an Enum class.

Personally I’ve never needed to use the Enum class, ever, in the last five years of Python development. It takes barely any time to implement a custom replacement if you need one, but for 99% of my use cases a dictionary or tuple has been enough.
This prompted a query as to what Ian is up to these days:

https://github.com/sanity/tahrir

http://tahrirproject.org/

"Tahrir aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook. It is at an early stage of development, but is being actively worked on by a number of volunteers."
I’m not the only one that lives here that visits HN. It seems the house internet is blocked from signing up. I use my phone in privacy mode. Internet points don’t mean much.

Honestly though, Reddit/HN without a comment section would be great. Let messenger systems handle propagation.

irc.ycombinator.com would probably be much easier to moderate and be a lot healthier for everyone too.
I was under the assumption that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was being produced at cost under the agreement with Oxford University. I'm curious as to what cost savings they were after - possibly on distribution or in establishing the manufacturing bases?
I currently build Windows binaries via cross-compilation on Linux using gcc-mingw-w64; I assume that is affected by the bug?
Currently, this article has only 14 points and two comments suggesting it is not a big deal. Why did it rise to position three on Hacker News?
Wall Street Isn't Buying Leon Black's Epstein Story
I misread then. Though you did ironically just say that pony does prevent race conditions :P
An engineer's guide to managing bipolar/mania
> Enron blew up, basically all of the Investment Banks blew up in 2008, LTCM blew up.

Right, and each of those events is news that you can identify it by saying Enron, or 2008, or LTCM. It isn't just about DFV. It's about all the other little guys who have made hundreds of thousands or millions on this.
Also this is confusing because I would expect it's not the chip that "supports" colours but the display. If you hook an M1 Mac Mini up to an old display that uses 8 bit colour you're not going to get "billions of colors"

If they are talking about the laptops, it should be that the Laptops/laptop displays supports billions of colors.
IVs in the crypto world can get up to 100-250, but 1000 is insane even for crypto. Truly incredible.
> if all else fails, and a fund can't buy back the 50,000 shares it owes some brokerage, that fund doesn't have to buy them back. They can just declare bankruptcy.

If that's true wouldn't it incentivize the brokerages to help the funds weather the storm? Everyone can just wait it out till the stock crashes back and instead of sticking it to the man WSB just emptied their pockets into the mans accounts..
Could you explain who would "loan" these hedge funds shorts at these elevates levels? Or is that not how it works.
I believe it means due diligence.
Cool-Retro-Terms white noise effect is amazing for legibility. In screenshot, meh, but in action it makes reading much easier on my eyes. The readability improvements from my filter setup is so great that I use CRT on my mac despite the insane number of compromises (no tabs, crashes now and then, copy and paste is strange, limited scrollback, latency measured in who knows how many 100s of ms).

Other similar programs don't have the same type of white noise effect, they don't improve legibility at all.
More importantly for a vaccine that is sold at cost, the regional price that the IA got was $3 per dose, the commission stepped in trying to get it down to $2.

Israel is paying $30 for its doses of the Pfizer vaccine and likely a similar amount for Moderna.

If the EU would’ve paid as much as Israel is for 500M doses it would only cost them 15 billion $. That is peanuts in the grand scheme of things, the UK spent 16 billion a month to cover furlough payments ffs...
Such confidence about "gold standard" is hard to justify without ANY studies on mRNA long-term effects (how could there be > this is brand new vaccine technology and delivery).

I would actually argue it is "safer" to take a more traditional vaccine (which have a long history of safety studies, including longer-term one) than an untested (in the long-term sense) mRNA vaccine, given equal efficacies. So, maybe not the J&J if we can truly compare % efficacies given with the mRNA ones (as others have noted, they might not be comparable as different measures were used), but give what we know I would pick the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine over the mRNA ones.
I’m curious. Poker has a lot of strong strategies and what not, but if a new player comes in, how do those strategies prevail? You may be confident with two Aces, but the player could be extremely confident in their king pair and wager as if they have a straight
It's not exactly a table, but NYT has a vaccine tracker with much of this information https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
Go back a bit more, you'll see the 80 percent on borrow fees too.
> It wasn't lost on people that the app, named after the outlaw hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor, was quick to shut it all down with one phone call from the rich.

From what I understand so far, this is likely a misleading take on what happened.

Also, the author falls into the same trap as other reporters--not accounting for the other brokerages that did the same "shut it all down" things.

Then there's this "you're the product" meme, which is really being stretched thin these days, applied to all kinds of situations. When you look at the details, RH is not the same as a free service like Facebook.

(Beyond which you can even argue that you _are_ the customer on Facebook, depending on what you're doing on the platform. And doing so will also help you better understand how Facebook works, which "summing it all up" memes never really promised to do in the first place)

Looking at "free": I pay for RH Gold, meaning I pay a fee plus interest rate. The customer service has been fine. They refer to me as a customer in their communications. They update me on market conditions and send emails reminding me to do things like update my trusted contact information and look after other important details.

It's not the only brokerage I use, but it's easily a better customer experience than other brokerages in those ways and others. The app alone strikes a great balance between "not useful enough" and "overburdened with interface depth."

> Update: A representative for both Citadel and Citadel Securities told Inc. that these are completely separate companies with a firewall between them.

Could the writer not have asked about this before hitting the Publish button?
It did happen. But mRNA vaccines are new. The capacity needed to be built all along the supply chain. Months isn't a lot of time when you're talking about building new brick and mortar procduction infrastructure.
The supply of Bitcoin is “limited” but in reality it’s irrelevant. 1 satoshi is 0.00000001 which means for every 1 Bitcoin in circulation there is actually 100,000,000 satoshi. You can’t buy a hundred millionth of GME.
“For as long as we’ve had TVs, color has been an important metric to judge the display’s quality.”

Um, no, we had TVs for quite a while before it got any colors, in the beginning it was all gray scale.
Enums are implemented in a weird way in Python, not as part of the language but as a class that modifies itself. That said, this article is not what I expected.
Nobody has believed the stronger forms for a long time. Well, except maybe a couple people with early EMH papers that they built their name on.
It is, but there are still regional price differences due to labor, manufacturing and supply chain costs.

However trying to get a $3 vaccine down to $2 is laughable for what is essentially the wealthiest trading block on the planet, even their poorest member could afford to cover the entire union.
Suspected Russian Hack Extends Far Beyond SolarWinds Software
> Those two things weren't readily available until the past few decades...which surprise is when exoplanet discoveries started happening.

I think the other poster might be alluding to a chicken-and-egg situation: could a stronger theoretical basis for the existence of 'Hot Jupiters' have driven development toward the goal of their detection 20 years earlier?
I guarantee you the interests of institutions on the short side of the stock factored in to the decision to raise deposit requirements.

And the Interactive Brokers chairman is explicit about why he chose to block buys.
What is "Scalable Secure Scuttlebutt"? I think that should probably just be "Secure Scuttlebutt".

Also, would be nice to have Oasis added as a desktop "SSB social app".
There are certain options you can't trade without a margin account because they are fundamentally on margin no matter what.

Whether or not you can "day trade" on a cash account would probably just be equivocating about what "day trading" is.
It definitely does limit your ability to very quickly enter/exit positions.
China to Cancel All Patent Subsidies
You can install any .ipa on a iOS device you just need to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it onto your device signed in a way that will make it valid.
> "I thought it was incredible. [...] ...the "smart money" gets the trade this wrong."

I assume you're referring to the ' '. Whether GME is worth $5 or $30, the stock rose to $500, and that's not fundamentally a misunderstanding of value. funds cooked the grenade too long (to use another ), and and the crowd slapped it out of their hand before they could throw it. Boom.

No?
I think they mean the utilities and services, not the land mass.
Is it so black & white? Is it not possible to design an interface that shows the true state but is also indicative of how things should eventually settle?
Yeah, but people really wanted those greys to pop!
> These decisions were likely made on far more more factors than one of purely material.

That's the same point the author is making: If the decision was made based on logistics the war would have to have started in 1938. So the decision was made on something else and only rationalized later with the "time to prepare" argument.
> Short-sellers are part of the free market

Not when they get to simply turn off the half of the market moving against them they aren't.
Is your money where your mouth is? Opinions are cheap and if I've learned something in my career as a trader, it's that anything can happen
This is my thought process as well but currently the J&J and AZ vaccines are somewhat hard to come by and a vaccine is better than no vaccine.
Until Monday when the bills are due and their wives(let's be honest, this crazy train is the T train) discover their bank accounts are empty.
Most likely. You can check with the pastebin code https://pastebin.com/thTapSgn . Local and Thread outputs should be the same.
I replied to a comment that wanted the government to demand money from innocent people to bail out people with obsolete careers, and the comment meant this was virtuous vs bailing corporations out, while in fact demanding money to bail out inefficiency is not virtuous regardless.

It’s better not to demand money from people and instead let them be free - the money you don’t tax will end up being spent on more goods and services, like how the average Swiss lives better than the average Norwegian, even if CH has no ports or natural resources, but instead has economic freedom
> What you're doing here is called Argument to Moderation

I am doing nothing of the sort.
PHP = a programming language + templating engine.

Most general purpose languages do not have built in templating and do not have templating in their standard library.

As a programming language, many modern languages have a faster and more optimized runtime than PHP. If the Laravel authors ported their framework to Node, Python or Java it would certainly run faster.

As a templating language, it has to run on the server. That means you pay for the computing cost of templating not the end user. Unless you do your templating using a JS solution.

On top of that, you have to transfer a rendered page from your application server instead of just serving files from CDN at a fraction of the cost.

Overall, PHP is the wrong solution for the wrong problem. I used PHP in 2004 and then moved on. The industry at a large also moved on.
Some big boys are invested too https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/sectors/gme-stock-g.... They will deal with the Hedge Funds. The people will suffer.
Is it? And if so, why?
This is the right approach. Then the measurement system doesn't matter. You can use lbs/oz, grams, whatever kind of scale you have handy.
Halting trading temporarily is extremely common. A halt for hours or days at a time is not.
> Also this is confusing because I would expect it's not the chip that "supports" colours but the display.

Is't the chip SoC and so includes the graphics hardware? Doesn't that bit have to support the colours?
I'm somewhat out of the loop. If RH is low on money due to lending it out, then they have to stop lending. But the decision was to stop allowing buy orders on GME if I read and remember that correctly. What's the issue? Don't investors deposit money into their RH accounts and then purchase the stock from that money, giving RH a commission? That should be good for RH, so I'm not getting this. I probably just miss some info, hope I'm not asking a stupid question.
> Geopolitically Germany had the advantage ?

What do you mean by this? Why “ Geopolitically”?
The US has twice the per capita covid deaths as Germany. Great success right there, hurrah!
If you like military history (and this style of writing) I highly recommend 100 Decisive Battles From Ancient Times To Present. It gives an overview of 100 engagements that changed the world: the strengths of each army, the expected outcome, and usually some "twist" that turned the tables.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/100-Decisive-Battles-Ancient-Present/...

It looks like there's a PDF here, but you'll be waiting 2min: http://rogers.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_73281...

Here's the list of battles:

- https://i.imgur.com/izTpwpG.png

- https://i.imgur.com/sdUljXu.png

Here's the list in text form, sorted by year, for blind users: https://gist.github.com/shawwn/099cadef6d0e2600172cd0d202b16...
Author here: I found this page after writing the blog but found it surprising that Apple has listed HDR support here but not on the actual product pages.
While you aren't technically wrong, those opinions are nowhere near the mainstream. The Internet puts a magnifying glass to the most provoking people in the world and makes them seem common.
"Color" here is used as a broader term that includes black and white contrast and quantization noise, which certainly was a chief concern of early television design.
Only 12%? More than 1/10 of your population dies, literally more than a decimation by its old meaning, saying that this is not such a disaster is incredibly unempathetic. Or you have a very warped view of what consists a disaster...
But in many areas a house is totally within reach on a tech salary.
> Why is this such a big deal?

You don't see it? You don't see any reason why this is a big deal?

When was the last time brokers shut down one direction of trading on stocks?

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EDIT: FWIW, you can't shut down one direction of trading, there's a buy for every sell, but you can skew who get to do the buy and the sell.
A fairly large slice of under-70s have diabetes, obesity or cancer.
To be precise, it’s the government forcing business to close that is costing trillions. The vast majority are not in the risk group at all, and would had continued to provide value if they could. Instead, we see economic shutdown and governments speeding QE up to the next level to keep markets afloat by inflation. Smells like Weimar but with smartphones
You need both. For e.g. if you take an older GPU like GTX 280, that's not going to output 4K or HDR signal.
And, more specifically, the interpretation of that phrase (as it's defined in the AstraZeneca/EU contract) under the laws of Belgium by the courts located in Brussels, Belgium.[0]

Assuming this aspect of Belgium contract law sufficiently resembles its US counterpart, the interpretation of variants of "reasonable efforts" is a rabbit hole with few rivals. In the book written by a leading authority on US contract drafting[1], the topic commands its own chapter:

Chapter 8 Reasonable Efforts and Its Variants

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[0] per sections 18.4 and 18.5 of the AstraZeneca/EU contract linked to here

[1] A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting by Ken Adams (https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/297140045)
Also AMD is pretty close to AMC lol. Seems absurd but they also restricted trading on GM.
Not even high end, even if your i3 laptop is from 2016 or newer the integrated graphics likely supports 10 bit HDR output.
Which are good brokers for the primary two accounts?
iPhone 13 will be different, this is why
There is nothing special about being short more than 100%, they short shares that are borrowed multiple times. But it also means the “long” interest is more than 200%. Even if you own equivalent of 100% of float there are still other shares that can be used to cover. The only issue starts if someone has lent out more than 100% of float and tries to simultaneously recall all of them.
Since you asked, my layman's strategy would be to keep prioritizing the groups at most risk of negative consequences to get the mRNA vaccines and open a second "lane" with less stringent requirements to get a shot of the J&J vaccine. So right now where I live, healthcare workers and people 65+ can get the vaccine and it looks like it'll be another month before they add more eligibility. Perhaps you would open up another lane to say, frontline workers (retail, teachers, etc.) so they can get the J&J vaccine right now or wait until the eligibility for the mRNA vaccine gets relaxed to them. Upside is this gets the most at-risk individuals access to significant protection the quickest. Downside is that forego "really good" protection for "amazing" protection and get sick while they're waiting.
> He did so against the weakest opposition, overwhelmed with infighting and a lacklustre leader

All of which was also present in 2017 when May squeaked to victory

> Campaigning solely on the notion of “Getting Brexit Done”

which ... was effective and led to the largest landslide in 40 years.

I think he’s been a crap PM but the idea that he’s not a sharp political mind with a keen sense of the political mood is insane.
Damn. I just reread the section. You are entirely correct.
Anymore I just opt out of the game.

I don't use any Apple tech.

I don't use Facebook.

I don't use Amazon.
> Would you be better served by a Free Software alternative, or is the issue with your overconsumption of music?

The issue is the proprietary algorithms of YouTube are designed to addict me to music, creating an overconsumption of music.

> Data-loss bugs are a serious issue whether or not the software is Free.

Dead trees and Emacs org-mode are both resilient against data loss.
The Fed had no legal authority to bail out Bear Stearns because Bear Stearns was an i-bank.

The only two i-banks that got help from the Fed were Morgan and Goldman, and they only got it by converting to commercial bank holding companies first. So really, no i-banks got help from the Fed.
As a Robinhood user I want to …
I know people at the European Medecines Agency that were angry at Ursula von der Leyen in December because she was always making public announcements (about the beginning and speed of the vaccination campaign) with no regard for the reality of regulatory activities or manufacturing and logistics constraints.
You can hate yourself and still be employed, it seems.
I'm also pro-EU,remainer,etc. The problem is that the EU is the political graveyard, because countries send the most absurd people there. Not all of them,of course,but a lot. EU works when things are going slow and because of the sheer economical scale and power, everybody takes it serious when it comes to negotiations. But the EC isn't a bunch of experts on rapid situations. It's exactly the same when a French civil servant complained that they are being outbid when buying masks, because the state can't pay upfront, while the Americans ( individuals) could,so essentially a 60 million people country ended up competing against a few individuals with cash. Same with vaccines: while the EK were trying to come up with something, Israelis already were calling around the globe to make sure they get it first.
> And Robinhoods actions affect on GMEs price was likely small.

You clearly weren’t watching the order book the second this started. The effect was immediate and severe.
> The narrative has changed so quickly from this being a value play, to a short squeeze, to now militant activism via buying stock as a means to sticking it to the man.

Absolutely! A week or so ago I watched his July 2020 video (declaring it a great value buy looking for 50-100% at around $4..!!) out of curiousity. Interesting, but totally disconnected from the short squeeze mania, I missed that leap, at least from there to anti-shorters makes more sense (as in 'I understand your position').
Yes, I was being a little unfair to the author.

Though I'm actually not convince there is any prevaling narrative that the goal of appeasement was rearmament, most narratives are that it was born from a policy of pacifism with a desire for geniunely avoiding a conflict that some in the UK felt could not be sustained.

Churchill was very much a Hawk all through the 1930s and was pretty much ignored, Chamberlain was Dove through and through not playing some game buying time for a decisive strike.
There are a number of direct risks related to the Adenovirus itself. Multiple adenovirus vaccine programs have been scrapped over the years because of these issues:

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/Adenoviral-vect...

For example, famously, one Ad-based HIV vaccine was found to increase the chances of getting HIV. People still theorize that it might be due to the vector itself:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

(that said, these platforms are certainly better validated than the mRNA-based vaccines. There's an approved rabies virus vaccine based on adenovirus.)
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In Sweden the death rate during 2020 was equal to the average for the last 10 years. We had zero restrictions until a couple of months ago.