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Great :-) Yes, those are Paradox games.

Hearts of Iron - HOI(4,3) is more of a modern warfare game: you manage supply, manpower, combat lines.

Crusader Kings - CK(3,2) is more of a roleplaying game: you manage your family, dynasty, vassals, religion, personal traits, and personal/family scheming.

Europa Universalis - EU(4,3) is a game that combines a bit of everything: you've got internal affairs, foreign affairs, bit of warfare, technology, colonization, discovery, market trading, ...

Stellaris is like EU but in space. With scifi tech, federation, diplomacy and mythical/intriguing events

Victoria is more of an economy management game along with a bit of warfare and political fun.

They're all good games that can take a few couple of hours to have fun with. People usually joke that it's like playing with a map and some coloured paintbrush ...

Paradox has some other nice titles too. I think "Tyranny" and "Pillars of Eternity" is Paradox too but might be wrong. Those are RPGs (think Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, ... kind of RPGs)
The usual answer from the unreasonable, irrational, and selfish Rand Paul-types is "gubberment always too big, so regulations bad."

I would modify Madison's quote: If everyone were angelic, proactive, and wise, no government or regulations would be necessary. Since none of these can ever be true, government and regulations will always be essential.

I'm in Austin and froze for 3 days because of piss-poor under-regulation due to lack of grid and backup power investment. ERCOT did they best they could while under-resourced and then thrown under the bus by the MSM and libertarian, anarcho-capitalist sympathizers like Abbott.
It’s a bit hilarious to look back on this keyboard with added application specific keys and wonder why they couldn’t have been replaced with keyboard shortcuts. I’m sure the state of “normal” UX as we know it today didn’t exist then, at least with respect to something as fundamental as the keyboard.
Maybe we should police each other more, and technology less?

But who is making the technology?

Circles. Circles everywhere.

Perhaps you should not anthropomorphize technology.
I feel like it is only the worst 5% of kids who ruin public school for everyone else, but it’s those students who the school devotes the most resources to “fixing” or “helping” which rarely work. If the bottom 5% were sent to a different school system where the objective was just to keep them away from the other 95% and prepare them for a life of beating their wives and robbing liquor stores, the other kids would do much better.
I haven't looked at it for a while because we've just been holed up at home, but I seem to recall that the biggest PITA was having to do some kind of language test, and you can only do that via approved places. I speak the language fluently, so it's not a worry, just a hassle, but if you don't speak it well, you probably ought to brush up. Also: requirements may differ for different situations - I am married to an Italian woman. Sometimes things are different for children or other relationships.
You can register another hardware key with your personal (software) key. It's mentioned in the article.
Education yes. Everything else you won’t be that glad.
> And your theory doesn’t explain two things: - how this hurts gamers now, and - why if Nvidia just wanted profit and the chips are useful for games, why wouldn’t Nvidia simply do nothing and let the miners buy all the 3060s. Wouldn’t that be the most profitable thing here?

No it is not. If they mis-predict when the mining craze ends, they will be stuck with a huge inventory and no way to deal with it. The reason they will be stuck with the inventory is because the miners will be able to sell the second hand cards at a rate that NVDA simply can't compete with, so they end up as the bag holders just like it happened with the 1xxx series.

Infact, I'd wager that DLSS and RTX were used as a hacky solution to drive people away from the 1xxx series because the 1xxx series was more than sufficient for 1080p gaming - which is the most common resolution. The 3xxx series, even the 3060 is an overkill even for 1440p let alone 1080p.

This, to me, suggests that had NVDA not gimped the hashrate of the 3060, once the craze was over and the market was flooded with 2nd hand 3060, people would not be incentivised to buy anything above a used 3060 because it is a) an overkill for 1440p@120hz and b) it has much higher perf/$ than anything NVDA could offer with the 3xxx or 4xxx series and it wouldn't make any sense to go with anything higher anyways because 4k gaming doesn't seem worth it unless you are playing on a TV.
I'm so sick of morons open sourcing abuse tools under the guise of "helping". This tool will be misused to abuse and harass more than anything else. Making these tools available to masses is dangerous.
Yes. That's why there is the NHS Choices Framework which allows you to choose both GP and outpatients. My GP is 40 miles away. My daughter is treated for her condition at Guys even though we're 20 miles away and there is a different local hospital.

The postcode lottery doesn't exist unless you're dragged into an A&E.
Btc mining only works on asics. You can mine ethereum on gpu’s.

NiceHash rents your hash rate to buyers, you mine ethereum, while they pay your rewards in btc.

If you want ethereum directly, you can mine for a pool like ethermine or flexpool.
That seems true of structural components but untrue of silicon, where the heat output difference is literally the GPU being jiggled more aggressively inside by the miner.

Heat dissipation is due to jiggling the tiny gates a little every time you fire one: which cycle much more often in the mining case — at a higher temperature, where there’s more likely to be damage.
I think Exciting Technology, especially in the programming world, is mostly built on top of existing technology, and for me personally, I choose Boring Technology for doing that.
Oooh nice. I'll try this out when I get a chance.
Lots of businesses really, really want a mobile number from me for some reason, don’t accept VoIP numbers, and I don’t want to give them my real mobile number.

So instead I have a stack of SIM cards plugged into GSM USB sticks (like this mostly is) and get the inbound messages sent to me via Pushover notification.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html says 9.4% of US children are diagnosed with ADHD, so the odds can't be that low.
Uhm maybe 1 out of 100 comments or so :)
Those life skills get taught in homeschool programs too. Or are you under the impression homeschool students are locked away in a closet with a textbook and no windows until they turn 18?

The only lesson a state school can teach that might be missing in a homeschool program is that large institutions are out of your control, have their own motivations, and will maim you without a second's hesitation.
We can estimate the number of people that have immunity by infection by looking at how the R value changes, accounting for other variables.

This is epidemiology 101 stuff.
Yeah, I've thought about that, but at least for the people I know personally, they're all bored to death with these stopgap habits and the second it's safe to hang them up and go back to parties, music, and weddings, it's going to be a second roaring 20's.

(But agreed on the "don't take a walk" style lockdowns. And I'm honestly surprised the backlash to them isn't stronger.)
> My GP is 40 miles away...

Great! Everyone can afford the time and expense of travelling far away to a better GP... oh no wait that also depends on income.
Damn, spot on.
I write mostly HTML 3.2 (with progressive enhancement additions on top for newer browsers) and I'm still finding new things to do with it after 20+ years.
Perhaps we're just lucky, but our Swiss bank was okay with it. We only had to guarantee to have a licensed US tax advisor prepare our US tax returns, filing requirements, FATCA/FBAR etc.

While Swiss banks are a bit crazy about anything related to the US (three years ago or so they just stopped accepting US checks from one month to the next, even though they had previously charged a crazy amount of money for it to be cashed in), I heard that banks in neighboring countries such as Germany are less concerned as long as your bank advisor follows some general guidelines.
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You can accelerate 5-10 years to 3 months using pay for citizenship schemes. For example Grenada has one where you get citizenship and a passport in return for "donating" $150k USD to the government. Grenada's is interesting because you get visa-free access to China. Antigua and Barbuda are running a "50% off sale" (I kid you not..) where the cost is only $100k USD (normally $200k USD)
Oh, I wasn't aware that this was idlewords writing.
Just to add what others said, could also run it on android tables. Sadly, the linux-running tablet options aver very limited.
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damn. I loved using this site. HN and Original Signal were my two go to sites for quick summary of what was new in tech.
Are those migration documents or crypto credit cards?
Applying for US citizenship is actually pretty straightforward unless there is something weird about your case (eg a conviction). Nowadays it can take a lot of clock time. But the application itself (N-400) is easy.
The hardware isn't supposed to connect to manufacturer servers, so how manufacturer is going to make decisions?
Click the link, content loads, then is immediately obscured by a “we need your consent” pop up. But content had already been loaded so why can’t I just read the thing?

I have better things to do with my time. (Like whining here hahah).
Yes though I stopped. At 22c/kWh it’s 2$/year per watt. Which makes a huge difference when optimizing your setup and cooling.
Additionally, transistors can experience aging through various mechanisms [1], some of which are permanent and some of which can be fixed with a reset. Most manifest via a shift in threshold voltage of the transistors, which can impact the operating frequency of chips or stability of sensitive circuits such as memory cells. When ICs are designed they usually have a lifetime operating profile, i.e 5y or 10y with max voltage and operation for x% of that lifetime at a given temperature. Simulations are then run pre and post degradation to ensure requirements can be met. Different fabs such as tsmc and samsung will provide models/info for the transistor aging as part of their design tool kits.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_aging
This is exactly right. Where the NHS won't pay you're free to go private. This case, and that of Charlie Gard, were quite different. The dispute was a welfare one: whether the best interests of the child (Alfie) were to be allowed to die, or to undergo experimental treatment where it was pretty clear it would have no benefit. There's quite a good explainer (which sets out why it was both complicated and emotional) in Vox[0].

But it can't be stressed enough that this was about who makes the decisions, not about who pays for care. The money was there to pay for the alternative treatment (fundraised, in this case).

The question was whether the parents have the right to make the final decision, or the courts. And English law is very clear that in the end the High Court has the power to make care decisions in place of the parents when it believes it is acting in the best interests of the child. And that extends to withdrawing care and allowing the child to die.

You may not want judges to have that degree of power. That, honestly, they exercise it extremely carefully may not be a comfort. You may think that the parents' view should always control. That's fine. But that has nothing to do with the NHS and its funding system. The same issues would arise even if the child was in a private hospital and the parents wanted to pursue futile treatment against the advice of the medical staff.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/27/17286168/a...
What are "abuse tools"? Trying to suppress knowledge is never the answer. That would mean that only those in the know can either protect themselves or exploit others.

The "never put information about yourself on the internet" mantra from before social media needs a comeback and it will not happen if no one shines a light on how easy it is to track people online.
Please do not spread misinformation – this was not a case about the health service paying for treatments. It was specifically about whether or not life support should continue to be provided, or whether doing so was inhumane.
Yeah.. the false narrative that arose around the charging bull when they brought out the fearless girl was pretty infuriating.

All they needed to do was one simple thing to fix the symbolism - turn the girl so she's facing the same direction of the bull and its a message of strength through unity, the girl and the bull fighting the same battle etc etc. Instead they turned it into girl vs bull, us vs them, tribal bs.
>Are you saying the kids should lie and deny being American?

No, you just don't have to say it, you have a swiss passport and that's it.
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'Family' and 'human life' does not over-ride all else, which is obvious in cases of abuse or neglect. It's more complicated when medical experts and parents disagree on what is best for the child. What you understand as the 'best care' may not be the same as what an expert in that area may understand as 'best care'.

'Everyone should receive the best care' - so how do you suggest this is best done?
I don't think it's a better comparison when it comes to how much money is "printed". That's M1, not M2. Fractional reserve banking don't print money, it increases (and decreases) the money supply through lending.

Despite perhaps not being backed properly, Tether is not supposed to be fractional reserve, nor is Tether created through debt.
kWhr, not kW. It's also 1/2 to 3/4th the electricity used in a month by a typical US household.
Those numbers are made up to support your assumptions. I claim the troublemakingest 5% have an increased chance of having an outsized negative effect on overall society, and by tossing them by their ears, we double their chances of behaviors that have serious (10X) negative effects: perpetrating fraud, abuse, or violence.

Depending on assumptions, it is easy to argue that money is best spent accelerating our brightest minds and giving extra support for the most at-risk, letting the middle atrophy. Or it is best to treat everyone equally, which certainly leaves the top underfulfilled and the bottom underprepared. It's just spitballing.
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> You need to sign up for the system and log in into the account you’ve just created or use the one you already have.

Free my ass.

EDIT: My bad. I understood it like you had to log into a service outside the application itself. I'm terribly sorry for my comment.
I worked East coast time from the Mountain time zone, with colleagues primarily in the East Coast, Europe, and India.

The 6am meetings were a constant feature - complicated by the semi-annual daylight saving time dance.

Indian coworkers shifted their work day a bit later (helped a little with traffic!). Europe definitely preferred the mid-afternoon meetings, rather than flipping them by 12 hours. Adding anyone from Oceania would be difficult...
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Safe and flexible would be a better target than exciting or boring. Those are a bit harder to quantify than newness though.
Totally agree with you on the recent laxness in design and the regulatory capture that allowed it. But treating zero as a feasible goal is unrealistic. I've done code inspections for safety of flight code and making sure you have 100% coverage and branch coverage not just in the high level code but in assembler still doesn't get everything. You try to make sure that redundancy saves you (seriously boeing!) But common mode errors and just human fallibility to see all the possibilities mean we miss stuff. And all this is so much easier in software than in mechanical designs where redundancy sometimes just isn't doable. We shouldn't give up best practices, but we shouldn't have unreasonable expectations of them either. And not every engineering failure implies a failure in engineering process.
>but I've gotten the impression they always want me to leave back where I came from.

It's the same if you move from Zurich to graubuenden :)
I am explicitly _not_ anthropromorphizing technology; I argued it is a logical abstraction with no rights.
It's not about anti terrorism measures. It about fatca

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/corporations/foreign-account-...
What is the expected benefit of punishing schools by underfunding them if they get beaten by other schools’ test scores?

Have school districts not yet discovered that competition applied to learning is counterproductive?
That's not an interpretation, that's just pointing out that people who do not have a strong conception of themselves or have self-imposed limits on their behavior according to their moral system have no reason not to blindly pursue enhancing their material wealth.
I wouldn't be quite so extreme, but I think it would absolutely cause a populist backlash similar to the yellow vest protests in France (but probably more far-right because this is America).

A carbon tax is regressive. All energy and resource taxes are regressive, since the rich can easily afford more expensive energy. Carbon restrictions are also regressive on a macroeconomic global scale as poorer countries are often more reliant on older and simpler fossil fuel technologies. The only exceptions there are countries with a lot of hydroelectric resources (which is also an old proven tech). A stricter international climate accord would severely punish or even bankrupt many poorer countries, while richer countries would be able to afford newer "green" energy or nuclear power. Both of these are too expensive and technically sophisticated for early stage developing nations.

I really think just investing heavily in the build out of alternatives is a far better strategy and the only non-regressive way to do it. Build and scale the new stuff until it can compete on price with the old stuff and then set the market loose. Since the new stuff is now cheaper, the market will replace the old stuff. Meanwhile as we use more fossil fuels they are getting more costly to obtain, so it's really when the two curves intersect that change will happen.
At some point nvidia would be better off mining with these gpus than selling them.

The oddest solution I can think of is gamers lease graphics cards at a low low price and nvidia mines on them in the off-hours. With a big enough operation they could force all the other miners into becoming resellers. It's free, distributed electricity and it gets the gamers off their backs.

(While I have your attention, I'm pretty sure proof of work is the paperclip maximizer sci fi warned us about.)
I have a computer on my network that runs an nfs server and hosts media, then use kodi on nvidia shields (or other computers) to access it. It works extremely well... as in not even a single issue for years now. I should stress that this is at the level of just serving files, as I don't show any metadata associated with the media (as it's mainly personal home movies, etc).
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As far as I know Microsoft simply thinks users don’t have issues to report that are worth mentioning. After all, 90% of issues are in third party code. And Microsoft thinks they detect a large part of the rest through their telemetry.
Yup, I'm more curious to find out what I can find out about myself more than anything else.
I think boring/exciting are a matter of context, some new tech is exciting because of its implications on a broader level... i do buy the "Excitingly boring" compliment bit but anything new isn't necessarily exciting and old stuff isn't always boring.
i went to one of the best public schools in the states. even then the environment was toxic. heroin was dealt in the hallways, many kids even died of heroin overdoses. kids were viciously bullied and physically assaulted while the drooling, slack-jawed staff looked onward. i never put it together until now that this was probably because formally acknowledging what was going on would negatively impact the schools numbers/ratings.

the school system as a whole wore away at the physical and psychological health of a massive number of kids because of the insane schedule that deprives them of sleep. this was scientifically proven a while ago.

american public schools are a disgrace. i would never enroll my kids into a public school. they are glorified daycare centers where the inmates run the asylum. and all you have to do is reflect on your interactions with average americans to understand the fact that these schools are more likely to damage a person intellectually than advance them.

the only thing that separates people who had a good experience vs people who didnt is their personality. if you are not on the spectrum then its just one big pleasant vacation. but if you are unhealthy, on the spectrum, have a troubled childhood or for whatever reason fall behind emotionally or socially, then public schools are worse than a death sentence. everyone involved should be ashamed.
Yep. While there are only a few techniques I would use unchanged, the book's philosophy has been very formative. The focus on allowing users to form habits has particularly stuck with me as a principle with important non-obvious results (e.g. no adaptive menus).
Yes, there should be a defense against device simulations. For example, a manufacturer can insert its root private key in the devices and use it for additional signing.
There’s a global chip shortage due to

1) covid-19. Factory closures, employee, and supply chain issues.
2) 30-40% growth in gaming due to covid-19
3) trump tariffs (for the USA). Gpu exemption expired in January.

Crypto is affecting prices but they aren’t causing the supply issues. I don’t think amd has produced many 6800/6900s. Ryzen 5800/5900 cpus are rarely in stock.
Sentimental perhaps, because of my heritage, but definitely also practical advantages. For one, citizenship makes owning property in the respective country easier. Also, should my children ever decide to live in Croatia, they could do so, no strings attached. Who knows what the geopolitical future holds? Will the EU still exist in 20 years? Will Croatia still be a member? How will current and future refugee crises shape local immigration laws?
Let's just create an explicit class system, assign people to those classes using some weird metrics and then decide their whole life for them using those classes!
What a perfect solution!

/s
So, let me get this right: the only way you are allowed to critique the system is to make yourself irrelevant by becoming a techno-luddite, turning your back to society, disconnecting and disappear into the woods to live of the grid and self sustaining? All the critics must shut up because they don't have an alternative (although if they give an imperfect alternative you probably wouldn't deem it feasible). This is bullshit and self serving.

It's like saying you aren't allowed to hate petrol cars because you use a petrol car. The concept of technology being solely the domain of capitalist is ludicrous. The invention of technology is not bound to our economic system.
This is a presumption that is not based on history nor empirical evidence.

So critique of the system is something that can be done even if you like technology.

I would think someone who identifies with hackers would understand this.
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