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> Not sure why I would choose Windows unless I needed the C#/.Net toolchain.

You're missing out on Visual Studio... for Python, C++, etc.
It has to be plain text and easily readable i.e. base 10. I dont think there are many degrees of freedom regarding the encoding.
How could this be - I was told our corporate overlords are able to do whatever they'd regarding kicking people off their platforms?

Whatever shall we do?

The funny thing about the whole "do bad things and get kicked off" strategy is that every platform has abusers. Since Big Tech can arbitrarily decide the thresholds and circumstances that lead to being kicked off, this effectively means they can kick anyone off for any reason.

Even on here, on Hacker News, if you dig deep enough I guarantee you can find questionable content (albeit probably downvoted) to justify deplatforming if you were tasked with deplatforming this site anyways.
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I said it was not malicious!
> Exactly, however tackling it is going to include educating people on the time value of money.

Which Islam acknowledges. As a matter of fact, the borrower is encouraged to return more than the amount he borrowed as a show of gratitude, but it cannot be in the loan contract nor implied or enforced in any way.

> Fortunately I don’t abide by Islamic law.

Yet people keep crying at the wealth gap and inflation rates and the government printing money and only a tiny percentage at the top benefits at the misery of everyone else. Islamic law is there to make a stable and just society, not for us to be wolves and destroy one another, which humans have done time and time again and it's never going to change.

> Lenders are not even close to guaranteed to profit

They are contractually owed a profit. They can go after the borrower in case of default with the full support of the law and take not only the principal, but the interest on top. This would never happen if the loan were an act of charity. The fact that the entire banking industry exists is proof that it's a very lucrative business to be in.

> and a loan is a type of investment

This isn't a strong argument because hiring a hitman is also an "investment" or "business transaction". Islam places restrictions on investments. For instance, investing in a tobacco company or a casino is prohibited. Lending money with interest is another prohibited investment.
That is typically how the second shot works. We don't actually know.

It is possible the second shot isn't needed at all. It is possible that the first shot works for 45 days and then stops working completely. Experts doubt both of these extremes, but cannot actually say they are false because they don't know.
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Also, when Jobs went back to Apple and made the switch from Power PC (64-bit) and moved to Intel which was x86 (32-bit).

Which was because the G5 was too power hungry for laptops.
Check the operational format column. Notice that amazon, being number 4 overall, is literally the only one on that list that says "e-commerce".

The greatest generation is dying off and the boomers are retiring. If no one seriously challenges amazon, there is going to be a lot of growth in e-commerce.
Sure I'd love to see something concrete about the "actual small businesses that have positive ROAS." You have any research to cite?

Keep in mind I'm talking about targeted advertising, not advertising in general.
We can examine both at the same time. You don't have to defend Apples practices just because Facebook is worse.
Uh, why do you think that?

You don't appear to be behind the EU in any substantial way. (2.61 doses/100 administered for EU, 2.49/100 for Canada)

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

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You've purchased more vaccine relative to population than basically anyone else in the world and you appear to be higher than the EU in terms of the line for deliveries.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
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Did you try winget [1]?

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
I think the answer to that is: “Are you the one person?”
It's not clear to me that there is any idle production capacity. Pfizer, Moderna and AZ got to the approval gate first, but they started their lines months in advance knowing they needed to start delivering orders. I assume that's true of everywhere.

The simple truth is that there is no plausible way to deliver all the vaccines that nations want to inject right now, and given the size of the project there's no way that distribution is going to be fair. That is true at local levels (c.f. media stories of US boutique clinics getting vaccine before urban hospitals) and global ones the same.

The US and UK have an advantage of larger existing pharma industries and so have a head start, leading to grief in Europe like the linked article. But... this wasn't really resolvable. If it wasn't the EU it would have been someone else unexpectedly behind. No one's going to be happy until we're all vaccinated.
My long term observation of humanity is most people try to solve every problem with whatever strategy that's been working for them. Vs anything practical and appropriate.

Authoritarian, right wing, populist governments tried bullshitting and gaslighting to combat the virus.

Me I'm an introverted hermit. Been working well so far.
That seems exactly like the kind of use case where you would really want to just buy high quality prints to hang on your walls, not the printer.
That “niche” is the reason Shopify is a 100+ billion dollar company.

With respect to eBay, proving someone sucks at running ads isn’t the same as proving ads suck. (also it matters a lot more what % of sales the ads in this case represented, rather than just the absolute change in sales).

I agree with you about the neighborhood businesses fwiw.
Amazon even splits into three very cleanly separate pieces: AWS // Amazon.com // Fulfilment
Thank you, thats a great tip! I may copy your letter..
1 author, no citations, 193 pages. Going to discard this one for now.
I feel like this question is a trap, but I'm bored, so I'll give it a shot.

First off, not all "market manipulation" is illegal. If it was, a company announcing a new product would be "market manipulation", because it impacts the stock price. But I think you're right that the line is definitely grey in a lot of situations. And really, that's why we have courts.

> Do you think that something like "Elon Musk tweets the word 'bitcoin'" can/should actually be charged as market manipulation?

If Elon Musk had just bought a whole bunch of bitcoin, then tweeted it out, and then sold his newly acquired bitcoin, then yes. He 100% knows that what he tweets affects markets, and attempted to directly benefit from it. If you want to argue that he doesn't know that his tweets affect the market, the SEC has already determined that it does based on the "TSLA private at 420" situation.

> What about people selling their newsletter of stock tips?

Market manipulation requires actual market manipulation. I dno't believe that "attempted market manipulation" counts (but I may be wrong). All of these newsletter attempts fail, so there's nothing to really charge.

If any of these newsletters actually have a measurable effect, or if the person sending them is buying-sending-selling (at a profit), then yes, it is market manipulation.

> What about printing an article in Bloomberg suggesting that XYZ is undervalued/overvalued for $reasons

This is kind of what Bloomberg does, and they typically have arguments in both directions (which I think kind of evens it out). That being said, true information, with real evidence, is not illegal market manipulation. DFV's initial "due diligence" and legitimate bull case are not illegal market manipulation.

> What about some nobody on reddit posting to wsb to say let's go to $321!

Now you're getting grey. I'm not qualified to answer. This answer will likely be very similar to whether or not something is "inciting a riot", and will be super context-dependent.

But note that this is different than saying "GME is going to $1000 because of <totally false and made up reasons>" (especially if you already have a position, and if you make a profit as a result of the market that you influenced. Remember, if you don't actually influence the market, then it doesn't count.

But whether or not you succeeded in influencing the market can easily be determined after-the-fact. Just because you get away with it in the moment, doesn't mean no one will look back.

> What about being paid to tell clients what you think they should invest in?

If this is your job, you are likely licenced in some way, and the rules are likely different.

> What about telling other users on reddit for free what you think they should invest in?

I think the answer here is the same as the WSB-specific question

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Feel free to disagree with me, these are just my opinions, and again, context matters.
You should be wary of any revolution based on giving up all your money.
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You’re proving my point.
> Germany's death rate since the fall is higher than the US though.

That is, if you actually trust the latest data coming out of the US, which could be a very misleading thing to do [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-cdc-cor...
The biggest issue for is that WSL2 is painfully slow accessing the local Windows file system.

You can mount the WSL2 file system in Windows, but then changes to files arnt communicated to apps. So your code editor wont know about changes made in the WSL2 env.

Not everything works or can with WSL2 either. There are some things you cant build and run.

I use Windows for games.

I also have a need for Adobe SW and MS Office. (requirment of my job).

macOS is great for dev, Adobe and Office. But I cant game on it...

There is no perfect OS for me right now. :-/
Sure it can. Vaccines are only one part of the puzzle. With 50% population immunity you need far (far) less natural immunity to reach an R number less than one, at which point outbreaks don't grow anymore.

Obviously these magical mRNA vaccines with their 95% numbers are going to be more effective. But that's just a (very) happy scientific accident that they worked out. Historically vaccines haven't been anywhere near that effective and have still controlled disease. Hell, the flu shots we get are like 30% effective and they still save lives every year.
The general info you cite is great, but I'm disappointed in the Zacks stuff.

The US moved to what's called T+2 settlement (trade + 2 days) in 2017, over 2 years ago. Zacks still talks about T+3. In contrast, your Fidelity link gets it right.

Someone might say "so what!", but Zacks purports to be a financial advice website. They should know better. It makes me question the accuracy of the rest of their website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%2B2
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-68-0
A Fed Wire is a settled transaction, and it is settled in seconds. The only reason they're not used more is that they cost about $10. OTOH a Bitcoin transaction has been more than that recently, and it doesn't settle in seconds.
I’ve spent over a year now 100% in linux. And while I have 0 desire to go back to Windows at all (I do run a VM to do bits of work on .net framework) sometimes the pain of linux can be frustrating. It can be so fiddly and trying to get things working can be hours of hair pulling.

My latest issue is a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10, 18.04, all have screen flickering. Which doesn’t occur in other distros. (Not screen tearing)

https://imgur.com/a/Yfs4cXb

But if I try mint, it has random UI freezing. Pop_OS! Has random things that won’t install because the distro name is pop and not ubuntu. Kubuntu runs flawlessly but then I can’t sign into vscode sync out of the box.

But when it works, it’s awesome.
> Dead trees and Emacs org-mode are both resilient against data loss.

How so? Emacs isn’t magic. It’s software. It has bugs. Countless things can cause data loss with paper—-rain, sweat, literally losing it, bad handwriting, wear and tear.
I'm reflexively upvoting this because it's absurd to me it's grey even though I don't have a dog in the fight.
I don't use PHP anymore, but I used it for years in production. Was pretty easy to maintain (via Apache's mod_php).
I'm sorry, it's not Rowling that is 'bullshit' - rather it's this comment.

a) Plenty of wealthy people have been 'cancelled', that they haven't been, is not evidence that many have not tried.

b) Her positions are entirely reasonable and in good faith.

Comments like these are exactly the problem, representative the totalitarian mobs wanting to destroy anyone who doesn't agree using outrageous tactics of bullying and slander.

Take a dose of self-awareness and understand that this trite is the category of those pushing to overthrow elections or deny COVID.
They also don’t ask you if you want whatever specific content they are rendering that day to be rendered or not. Caveat visitor.
Read this. https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...

If you happen to work in the industry, you've probably had to certify compliance with SEC regulations to stay employed.
Looking at Flight Radar, at least pre covid, was absolutely astounding every time. The scale of humanity is really incredible to me. There are more people in the air than live in my city.

When I first flew to a big city, Osaka, I flew over 3000km of desert before even getting out of my country, and then bam, everything was absolutely infested with life and activity. More 'stuff' than I had ever seen.

Looking at Flight radar not long ago, I saw the veritable stream of Japan Post cargo planes one after the other flying into HK or China, I forget. I remember thinking that just the postage was more planes than were aloft where I live for all commercial, travel and personal activity combined.
I believe he has a youtube video from 6 months ago titled something like "> 100% short interest, short squeeze possible".
It’s inconvenient for me to have to pay for things, that doesn’t mean stores are obligated to let me shop for free.
On Android, it's still much easier to install apps from outside Google's app store (just change the "install unknown apps" setting, download the .apk file, and open it) than it is on iOS.
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Seen this twice now. This is another conspiracy theory. The screenshot going around is NOT a paid ad from Melvin, it's a promotion of a headline from a CNBC show. CNBC doesn't take money to issue ads on behalf of its guests, they were merely teasing the content of the segment.
Those are output driver transistors. There's a pull-up transistor on one side of the pad and a pull-down transistor on the other. The transistors are interdigitated to make them large so they can provide high currents.
That is because the website has free speech and users vote on the articles. Spammers like HWR use a script to vote up their stories via bots but the users vote them down.

NAB has spaces to block HWR, and NAB was founded on Freedom of Speech by Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/becausewecan
The Digital Citizen has rights. And its time to draft them.
Money isn't conserved in the same way that matter is. Right now the market cap of gamestop is $22B, which is calculated by multiplying the share price times the number of outstanding shares. If some news comes out over the weekend that causes people to value the stock lower, we could see the first trade at $33/share instead of $330/share. $20B of money just disappears. It never really existed in the first place.
What's not believable about that? High or low?
I’ve been lucky to work at an institution has clinical pharmacists available on call all day to answer literally any question we have.

This is pretty neat, hope it works out!
It's a good point. Many of the more popular subs are transparently astroturfed, and more than a few mods are bought and paid for. Reddit is already neck deep in information warfare. I'd be surprised if what you describe isn't already happening, although who knows at what scale.
Kinda funny small-world stuff that Justin Frankel (Winamp + Gnutella) went onto AOL/TimeWarner and got into a feud with an exec he wrote a passive-aggressive blog post about without naming him. The exec was Chamath Palihapitiya.

Justin was and always will be a legend - he wrote an AOL Messsenger ad blocker and mp3 search plugin _while working at AOL_
An honest question from someone who hasn't used Windows since the early 2010s: as developers, what's the draw?

I've seen a few blog posts like this one where competent individuals attempt to construct a Linux-like development environment on their Windows install. It's clear that you're still fighting the host environment at the end of the day, and that anything that provides a Linux-like interface is going to suffer from both Windows' lackluster performance and the overhead of virtualization/translation/emulation/whatever approach your layer-of-choice uses. Is it familiarity, presence of other (non-development) applications, or something else?

Edit: I should say that I haven't used Windows since 2012 or so, but I have developed for it (mostly drivers and filesystem work) since then by running VMs. Ironically, my best experience developing for Windows has been entirely on Linux and macOS.
Thanks to jetbrains, no, you’re not.
A year old, but on point...

https://www.russellclarkim.com/marketviews/russell-clark/201...

> There is no doubt that a default by a clearinghouse member is more likely when initial margins are low and may be
caused by a sharp unexpected move in the underlying markets. In the event of a default by one member this could trigger
a chain reaction. Firstly, initial margins will rise in an event of a default, which will restrict other trader’s ability to
participate in the market possibly acerbating the move in the underlying markets. Secondly, if the defaulting member was
a particularly large player in one asset (likely, as this would be the cause of the default), the members with opposite
positions may not receive variation margin and hence will become unhedged at the very moment they need hedging.
Thirdly, the clearinghouse may well have to recapitalise itself from the surviving members. Major clearinghouse members (including JP Morgan) appear to be seriously worried about a clearinghouse problem after the default by a member of Nasdaq Clearing AB ..."

Be careful out there. :-)
The reality of most of programming I've done is that in 98% of cases you deal with data structures that are sufficiently small for performance not to matter much on modern hardware.

If you do need to deal with data structures that are quite large (i.e., take GBs of memory), perhaps PHP is not the right language.
You could have also opted for a Kaypro, or an Apple II with an 80 column card. I believe both were significantly cheaper than the Mac. Sounds like maybe you already had an IBM though, and so bought the EGA setup?
I actually find this [1] more readable than this [2].

[1] https://github.com/Vestride/fancy-index/blob/main/before.png

[2] https://github.com/Vestride/fancy-index/blob/main/after.png

It's also not the same directory they're comparing. IMO why add padding? Why change #000000 to some grey text?

Just add icons to [1] and you're good to go. May be use Sans-serif fonts if you wanna feel bit ~fancy~.
I think it's fine.

The time it took me to double-tap zoom was less than the time it would have taken for an SPA to load over my weak ass T-Mobile connection
Because I have almost 30 years of experience using Windows, and a complex set of tooling, scripts, and utilities that I have grown accustom to. Heck the sysinternals suite alone is incredible.

Windows has incredibly good keyboard shortcut support. A small example, the context/menu key on keyboards is the equivalent of right clicking wherever the cursor is at, making spellchecking as I type super easy, I'm sure MacOS has some meta-combo that does this, but over 20 years ago Microsoft made this tiny piece of accessibility a first class citizen on their platform by starting a certification process for keyboards that included such a key.

Windows has non-borked external monitor support, unlike a slew of MacOS machines. (See, every thread on HN where some subset of people report problems with external monitors).

Windows has insane hardware support, buy whatever upgrade is on sale today, throw it in your machine, and odds are it'll just work.

Speaking of insane hardware support, my current Windows install has switched motherboards and CPUs multiple times. Pop the SSD into a new computer, boot, wait a few minutes for the OS to setup proper drivers, and off I go.

The UI is a first class citizen, not an afterthought. At no point do I have to wonder if my setup supports screen sharing.

Its media pipeline is pretty darn powerful. Per app volume control rocks, but the entire media stack can be rerouted, split, and merged, in all sorts of fun and cool ways.

The clipboard works. really well. I have actually seen the source code to the clipboard in Windows, a lot of engineering effort has gone into making it work that well.

Apps don't randomly stop working because I upgrade. Major UI utilities that reach deep into the system that I started using on Windows 7 work just fine today.

Do I have complaints about Windows? Of course. IMHO it has gotten way to large, back in Windows 2k and even the Windows 7 days, the # of background processes on a clean install was a fraction of what they are today. My start menu only opens up every other time I click it (...). And as with every other OS, reliability has gone down over the years.

But Windows isn't some half forgotten wasteland. It is the single most popular desktop OS, and for over a decade it was also the single most popular development platform.

Would I do docker based development on bare Windows? No, but I've done Android and Web development quite happily on Windows.

For reference, I have done C/C++ dev on Linux, and right now I use both MacOS and Windows for dev.
But we live in democracies, and there are a lot of people who feel differently than you might. Not just Trump. They look at the same numbers and dangers and don't agree.

Besides, the authority and responsibility to respond to a pandemic (issue health orders, closings, quarantines, and lock downs) rests with the states and not the president or congress.

EDIT: removed a remark about Fauci and herd immunity, I thought I read this but couldn't find a reference. My apologies.
You're saying this despite the weekly pcr and different efficacy testing methods?
However, despite a spike in calls, the actual number of suicides in Victoria was lower in 2020 than previous years [1]

[1] https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/suicides-in-vict...
It's a shame nobody saw this coming fourty years ago and devoted his life to the cause.
How else have this feeling that this game called stock market is set up for the bigger players to win?
Windows bloat, performance, and telemetry is frankly out of control. I use primarily either macOS or Ubuntu for development work day to day, but need to use Windows for specific builds and testing. I don't enjoy the experience.

I'm not sure if these issues are because I don't use it very frequently, but every time I start it up:

* CPU gets eaten alive by telemetry related services for minutes at a time.

* A barrage of updates I didn't ask for get forced on me (Despite whatever settings I put)

* Anti malware tools cause system to be I/O bound for about a minute

Longer term observations

* The disk usage goes up and up and up, even though I'm putting no data on to it

* I keep getting nagged to use a Microsoft account to sign in

* The default internet browser gets reset to Edge

* Some older applications just stop working for no reason, only to start working again weeks later.

On the plus side, Visual Studio seems to be much improved from what it used to be.
Do you remember the hatred and conspiracy theories directed at Diebold during the Bush years? Why does Dominion suddenly deserve a pass?