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The military’s power over Myanmar hasn't collapsed in a half-century. (Even during the ostensible moves towards democracy in recent years, the military still called all the shots.) They seem to have established a pretty solid dictatorship. Also, the creation of a new capital at Naypyidaw, in the middle of nowhere, is said to have been an attempt at making the regime impervious to any large-scale public protests.
If you don’t understand how the DTCC works, why are you trying to correct others?
I'm pretty sure these racial categories are American abstractions, whose names have only reflected their composition in recent decades. The Irish, for instance, were long not considered 'white'; they were just 'Irish'.
This is ridiculous. Other automakers aren’t being forced to buy Tesla’s credits.
The local Safeway near me has one of the most repulsive bathrooms for this reason. There's no reason that you can't respectfully clean up your mess if you've made one.
They often do, but they don't have to. You can write an uncovered call, if you're brave or stupid -- after all, worst case you'll just market buy the shares to deliver on the day the option is tendered.
To spell it out, if whatsapp were considered a threat they'd block it just like they block Signal.
I can spare a bit of respect for the Lincoln project folks for immediately disavowing the behavior of this guy.

Seems like it might have been addressable earlier, but still. It's important to say out loud that such behavior isn't ok. Even that shallow level of accountability is often sorely missing.
I'm sorry for assuming your meaning, I didn't realize you meant to refer only to software. I do agree that we could benefit from re-localizing. I'd prefer it not come wrapped in a new cold war, though. We have all the motivation needed for mass mobilization in ecological crisis, if we could see or feel it more directly.
Selling reduces their collateral requirements, purchases increase it. There was no reason to restrict sakes, in fact it would have hurt them worse.
Is this the same general public that endorses genocide against Muslims?
Call me crazy but I thought the idea is that banks would use deposits to fund loans and kick some of the profit back to the account holder in the form of reasonable interest rates.

That seems capital efficient to me, but it's apparently a quaint relic of the past now that eternal 0% interest rates are the norm.

I'm reminded of the scene from It's a Wonderful Life where George Bailey explains to all his account holders why they can't all withdraw their money at once, because it's being put to productive use by their fellow townspeople: https://youtu.be/iPkJH6BT7dM?t=49
Shorts covering is expected to move the price way more that it has. That 500m vol is people/algos trying to profit of intraday movements keeping the price relatively stable (for GME)
Why does it follow that they should be banned if it's just betting? Except for a handful of folks, everybody loses money doing that as well.
This article is about Myanmar not the United States.
How do we make it less scary?
> Why would you want to disagree with Kafka being the default option? What could you reasonably advocate for in its place?

Very few people roll out of bed and think "my application needs a high performance distributed event stream". For every problem that can be solved with kafka, there are other solutions that don't involve kafka. Many of the alternate solutions don't involve event streams at all. Are they better? I don't know. That question is unknowable without looking into the problems in particular, and looking at what other technology is out there. And I say this with a lot of fondness for kafka. I really like it. I just think there are always technical tradeoffs to make.

> any more than MongoDB competes with PostgreSQL

MongoDB and Postgres do compete with each other though! They work differently - so part of the competition isn't around features; its around how your people think about your data. "Think of your data in a way that makes sense for mongodb!" say mongodb sales reps. "Think of your problem as a message queue" say fans of rabbitmq. They aren't wrong in the general case. But there are lots of problems where I could use kafka, or I could use redis, or I could use a naked postgres instance. You need a much more complex heuristic to decide what technology to adopt than "Should I use kafka?" -> "Yes."[1]

And I say all that as a big fan of kafka. I think its API is delightful and just today I was plagerizing its API design to sort out backpressure in a system I'm building.

> What could you reasonably advocate for in its place?

I haven't used it but by all reports RedPanda is lovely: https://vectorized.io/

[1] Though I'm convinced the answer to "Should I use mongodb" is always "No."
"Historical accuracy" is not an end unto itself without further consideration to any other context. One can be inappropriate while being "historically accurate". As a crass, extreme example, I would say a hypothetical movie about Sandy Hook can be "historically accurate", but be wildly inappropriate with how it portrays violence.
With those things in place, macros can absolutely be a net positive for code understanding. And if I saw that being done with any regularity at all, that would be great.

As I get older and more jaded, though, am coming to think that, in an office setting, it is a mistake to choose a language is optimized for maximizing the effectiveness of a thoughtful programmer. It's much more valuable to minimize the damage that can be done by a careless programmer.

One of the most sobering realizations of my career was that the most effective way to become your team's 10X programmer is not to work in a way that lets you be 10X more efficient than your colleagues. It's to work in a way that forces your colleagues to be 10X less efficient than you.
> Uber and DoorDash said they do not have any specific rules about bathroom access. Grubhub, Seamless, and Instacart did not respond.

Can anyone familiar with policy making in gig economy companies explain why the spokesperson wasn’t told to say, “We think it’s not okay. Going forward, the first offense for a restaurant that denies bathroom access to a driver will be a 24 hour ban from our platform.”

Courage is contagious. Why not take a stand?
Why would they think about helping “some buddies” first when their house was on fire and about to collapse?

Don’t you realize how extreme it was for them to have to borrow $1B in a single day?
For microcontrollers, https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs has some mindshare (although not sure how much there is outside the mbed world).
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If you pretend to click it naturally, that won't happen.
I have noticed another indicator of good design is how easy it is to add specific fixes/features without having to think too much about how many places you'll need to make changes. Interesting point about no. of test cases. I tend to end up with several combinations because I prefer to focus on integration tests more for crud-type applications (a test configuration type/class comes handy in such scenarios).
Line shared DSL had a lot of problems in the US, but it worked well overseas.

For one, AT&T got most of the orders because their retail prices were often lower (sometimes quite a bit lower) than the wholesale prices they charged to smaller ISPs. It's really hard to compete like that. Add in fun things like initially line shared services were often over dry pair (no dial tone) and telephone company lineman often used dial tone to see if a pair was in use; leading to loss of service if a pair was repurposed for another customer.

The alternative for small ISPs was somehow find a way to overbuild a 3rd network in the area, or sell out to Earthlink, or to someone who sold out to Earthlink.
Military rule has been a complete and utter disaster for Myanmar. It's one of the poorest countries in the world, brutal repression, ethnic cleansing, isolation, the list goes on. There is nothing at all to redeem it.
They still recall them from person B, who has no choice but to buy them at whatever price is available to cover their position.
UDF works fine with read/write media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format).

I had several USB flash sticks that I formatted as UDF under Linux that I used to transfer files between Linux and W10. You get large files, long file names, and read/write compatibility on Linux and W10 with a UDF format USB stick.
From [0], dated January 16, 2020:

>Aung San Suu Kyi could not have ordered the military to stop their operations against the Rohingya, and it was legitimate to fear that the military would reverse the transition toward democracy ...

Now we see just how little control she had over the generals.
Ahh, I thought they harbored some ill will towards the project. Thanks.
It can be different (better) in case of social—I don’t think forcing the largest player to let competitors use its infrastructure is required.
It's easy to look at them from our perspective and think "you're so small, shouldn't you be peaceful and united in order to face the larger world around you?" but we're just as prone to the same type of thinking.
Sad but not surprising. And unlike previous coups, there's no obvious way to protest: they've plowed an estimated $4 billion into building a brand new capital in the middle of nowhere, far from any people who could protest, and it looks like this investment is going to pay off.

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/myanmar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C19EhJitGrU
This is an interesting read. I just deployed my first contract to mainnet last week and despite my best optimization efforts, it still cost us almost $300. There is a lot of work to do still for Ethereum to be usable in a cost efficient way. In a perfect world, I can deploy as many contracts as I want for less than the price of cloud storage. Decentralization cannot be the only selling point. There has to be competition on price at some point too.
This is a long series of citations that seems on its face to confirm that broker-dealers can't use customer funds to post DTCC collateral.
Defaults Matter, and there is no a legitimate reason to ever have this disabled. It's just asking to have user accounts compromised.
A lot of that crowd here, at least on wsb people don't take themselves so seriously!
Not necessarily. But we're talking about a heavily regulated system, run by a lot of very conservative entities, that currently works pretty well on the whole; there's going to be a whole lot of "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
No, this is about Apple iPhone and iPads disallowing the Facebook app from collecting a large portion of the data that Facebook believes that it needs to collect in order to do business.

This is not an article about a speech that itself may end Facebook. This is an article about a speech given to formally announce a decision Apple has made to protect its users from Facebook's insane data collection.
So, white and off-white (I.e., lesser whites)?
Ask HN: Why did a lot of websites all of a sudden switch to hCaptcha?
Either stubbornness or perseverance, depending on how charitable one is feeling.
NYSE: SNAP ("Snapchat") listed shares have no voting rights, and they seem to be doing okay.
I see it everywhere, even Cloudflare switched. Was it a privacy thing?
The third largest city is in the middle of nowhere?
disaster.radio seems kind of dead. No commits to the GitHub in 4 months. The contributor who responded to the latest issue says they aren't actively working on it. I think it would be great if they merged as well. Do you have links to any conversations about this?
But you're not offloading risk -- you're increasing risk. What if jet fuel rises for some reason other than increased usage? What if usage is increased, but, people simply aren't visiting your region?

Simply doing something with the money is not necessarily better than doing nothing with it. None of the above is productive use -- it's simply betting. Jet fuel producers don't care about your commodity-indexed fund call option.
Not necessarily. It could be that whatsapp is popular enough that blocking it would increase the risk to this regime more than not blocking it.
[Am author] We kinda already have this:

> If big players are required to offer a fully featured API, and the user can switch freely, they would be incentivised to stop taking their money from the advertiser and charge the user directly, becoming a commodity like electricity.

> That way you could switch between messaging providers freely, while using your preferred client app. Messaging providers will be competing on which one is the most reliable, ethical, has the most complete API, and so on.

You've...uh...literally described the Fediverse.

In addition to having multiple hosting providers/instances, there are different implementations; Mastodon and Pleroma are twitter-likes, WriteFreely is for long-form blogging, PeerTube is for video (like YouTube), PixelFed is for photos (like Instagram)...the list goes on. All these implementations share an API; someone's PeerTube video can show up in my Pleroma stream, and a Mastodon user can comment under a WriteFreely blog entry.

Mastodon-to-Mastodon migrations are quite seamless; you can keep your followers and everything. Other implementations have a bit of work to do.

EDIT: I'm afraid I worded this very poorly. I don't want to take away from what the parent comment was trying to say (far from); I'm saying that we have a useful example of what that comment describes.
The argument in favor of allowing shorts is that they provide a strong monetary incentive for private investors to investigate and expose financially fraudulent companies.
How well does this work in a forested area without line of sight?
I still find this surprising given how crappy my experience has been with recent AMD cards. I have a 12 Core ryzen which I love. And every time I try to go AMD for the video it’s been a disaster. I have an old RX 480 which seems to work pretty well on everything except Wayland, and then in Nvidia that I VFIO into windows.
True. And likewise, not everyone needs an ETL pipeline.

"Keep your architecture as simple as possible, but no simpler". There are important problems kafka solves. But its worth checking if you have one of those problems before using it.
Myanmar has a population of over 50 million, and has been in various stages of civil war continuously since the end of WW2. The army's primary public justification for ruling the country is precisely the need to keep a tight grip on the misnamed "Union of Myanmar" and prevent all the various rebel groups from spiraling off.
But... Wouldn't that mean they need to halt all buys? Why only the ones being targeted?
I agree, however the companies that have a real product will survive longer on average. A real product has a better chance of enduring hardships (bear market/recession) than investor-funded growth companies. We haven’t seen how today’s tech investments will change during a real economic downturn. Last one we had was arguably over 10 years ago.

But with the top X% having far more capital, we may continue to see investments, even in bad economic times. But I think that’s unlikely.
The buyer gets made whole by the broker they bought from, retail you'll never know it happened. The buyers broker makes the sellers broker make them whole, they pay whatever the buyers broker has to pay to buy the shares elsewhere plus more. Brokers
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but don't options contracts introduce risk? I've never run a business -- what risk are you incurring by having the cash sitting in a bank? If the play is instead to take a (perhaps small) risk in order to increase your amount of money or keep up with inflation, I understand that. But then I still don't see why options are necessary. There's lots of ways to do that.

The original post described options as a way to make your stream of money both "safer" and "steadier". I'm struggling to understand how introducing options can be safer and steadier than keeping money in a bank and creating an intelligent budget.
> Say 2 million of them bought some GME.

I think you are off by one or two orders of magnitude. I'd wager that a full half of the subscribers haven't even opened reddit in the last week.
As long as sandboxing between apps remains, it doesn't matter if you download random crapware. They may do bad things while you are using the app but the damage is limited to what you type in to the app itself rather than on windows where programs have access to everything.
GitHub is no longer just a source code management company. They've started their horizontal integration, and are firmly in the more general "Developer Tools" category. This would be another addition to their horizontal integration, and increasing the amount of the development pipeline they're involved in.

The specific advantage is that it makes switching providers really hard. You develop in Atom, store the code in GitHub, use GitHub Actions for CI/CD (if that's viable, I'm not super familiar with the product), use GitHub to manage the released artifacts, and publish them to GitHub's app store.

That makes it really appealing to buy because you don't have to talk to 7 different vendors and duct tape their solutions together with Python scripts. You talk to 1 vendor, who gives you all the pieces, and the pieces are already able to communicate natively.

It makes it really appealing to sell because once you buy in, it's really hard to get back out. Imagine trying to replace all of those components, and the developer time you lose as people get used to the new systems and how they all work together. Bonus points if you can only publish to the GitHub app store from GitHub installations. GitLab can do a lot of those things, but they don't have an app store.

As others pointed out though, it would compete with Microsoft's existing app store. I would not be terribly surprised to see some kind of integration between GitHub and MS's app store, or Azure and their app store though.
> The company could issue more shares

It could, and GME trying to capitalize based on insane stock performance would be a real test of nerve, because it's one thing that could focus the news off the WSB vs institutions narrative and back on the business fundamentals of business, which still suck.

Maybe it works, maybe it just collapses the whole house of cards.
No, someone could own the entire float of Facebook shares, and Zuckerberg still has a majority of the voting rights.
FAT32 patents are now fully expired, making it the most compatible filesystem for which any new devices should support at a minimum, from this point forward.

Most likely the best approach for NTFS is to standardize at ASTM where Microsoft could contribute as much documentation & volunteer effort as they would like (or not), regardless with other members a full-consensus ASTM standard could then be agreed upon & maintained from that point forward. Should have been done a long tome ago for both FAT32 & NTFS as well as all other file systems which are intended for widespread use.

It's just not something where you want to have a moving target, it basicaly needs to stay the same forever once it gets into widespread use.

Important data is too important for any less than truly standard file sysstems.
> ESP32-S2 has both WiFi and USB

USB 1.0/1.1 right? Not 2.0?
I’m not sure. For the record, it could just be a bug or an unexpected edge case, not necessarily a specific government intervention, but regardless it does seem more fragile than it should be considering Signal’s ethos.
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Democratic government or military junta, what’s the difference?

Said the victims of the Rohingya genocide.
It really depends on an individuals displeasure at work though right? To take a ludicrous example my utility function for eating a sandwich is has a sharp discontinuity as a function of how much Polonium is in the sandwich. So too with some people for money and work, especially when it is far away from your current state. I don't think this is an experiment that a real economist (TM) has ever performed on an individual to discover what the true utility function is (happy to be wrong though).
I think the above commenter was trying to say: you can't always own 100% of the outstanding shares with voting rights, because in most cases insiders hold many shares that they will not sell.
> quite a bit has changed since 2006, specifically in the financial reform bill of 2010 and the jobs act of 2012

> not a lot, but a bit

I don't know who you could persuade with such lack of conviction...
Most desktop app stores suck because they have nothing in them because developers stay far away if given the choice. No developer would willingly give away 30% of their profits and face being randomly removed if they can just provide the app directly to users.
I think that only tends to be the case with the newest hardware? Even 3 years ago when I finally made the switched from nvidia to an rx580 things just worked out of the box with stable Mesa and kernel versions.
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> Stuff like this and the M17 project give me hope that we might some day have something more than just the dumb AX25 packet radios(which are stuck in the 80s at 1200bps and zero FEC).

Isn't there some weird regulation about "non-decipherable" communication holding back usage of Ham bands?
Short interest numbers are published on the 15th and 31st of the month. We'll get a look to day on how the shorts have changed over the last 2 weeks.
Hosting with a dynamic IP is not particularly hard. I had a raspberry pi ping my IP back to the dns server minutely and it worked well.
I responded to a similar perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25985086

TLDR: the best platforms don't need to scale (in the traditional sense), and only need a revenue stream to pay for software development. Simplicity of the software can reduce development effort and therefore the budget.
hCaptcha isn’t run by Google. That’s reason enough for me.
Alternatively: we could assume that people are capable of making their own financial decisions and don't need anyone to police what they do with their own money. Treating people like children for taking risks and assuming they are too incompetent to judge the consequences is condescending as hell.

The simple truth is Game Stop was a good trade, and I think comparing stocks to lottery tickets is very inaccurate. Stocks give you all kinds of numbers and information about the company which is just a little more transparent than staring into a random number generator. They have been called risky. But there are far more volatile positions to be holding.
Moderately well. I can get a couple miles of range punching through trees, far far better than any other unlicensed option. Chirp spread spectrum is pretty cool.
Two words for you: The DAO.
There is an extra thing you can do to make fdroid admin but it requires root. It does allow auto updates though.
There was literally nothing except an obscure village or two when construction started in 2002, and the official population figure of 900,000 is widely regarded as preposterous. (The video I linked to above guesses 100k tops.)
It's included in the WSJ article about the Point72 and Citadel investment.