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What mainstream candidate in the last two elections had a deflationary monetary policy?
ROn Paul was the last candidate with something relatively close to that.
That being said the idea that I want a deflationary policy on cash is ridiculous, but I want a deflationary policy on my semiliquid investments. BItcoin does that.
>It would have been just as easy to make bitcoin highly inflationary.
Yeah but then nobody would have liked it.
There is definitively nothing wrong with two different kinds of cash existing in a system, one purely liquid one semiliquid. Again please do not be dishonest. There are very specific reasons that make bitcoing attractive. Acting as if electronic banking deals with what bitcoin is intended to solve, is an extremely dishonest way of framing things.
Deepmind ended up consistently beating everyone including the world champion in SCII with near human view and input limitations. The initial press release was early in the process before letting it play on the SCII ladder. However, it kept getting better.
I'd encourage you to watch the finals of last years Brier. The brushing can do A LOT. Actually, brushing is so impactful that they have had to put limits on the brush composition in recent years because the materials have become so good that it barely mattered how close your shot was. People were moving the stone an incredible distance. Now the throw is much more important and sweeping can help but it can't move a stone 10 feet. [https://www.tsn.ca/broom-wars-a-thing-of-the-past-after-new-...]
Have you seen ActivityPub? From a very quick glance, it seems like it might fit this, and it's relatively actively used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

It's not RSS (which is a bit of a shame), but it scales better since it bakes in pushing / pulling patterns, where RSS only pulls.
I'm wondering how clear it was to her about the re-level when she accepted the offer. I'm sure it must have been pretty clear? I agree with what you're supposing in terms of how it likely went down. I don't think that would really qualify as "doing the work of another level" or whatever they originally said.

Great insight, too, on the subsequent headline if Amazon just starts recruiting black candidates willy-nilly.
Following that

Wheel of Fortune bot, who knows the whole dictionary and was trained with the data of all past games, wins a car and waves from the passenger seat.
Looks pretty active to me https://github.com/jquery/jquery/milestone/7?closed=1
Huh, funny how this always happens...

Something about those who refuse to study history are doomed to repeat it.
Fungi are eukaryotes, so the missing link from fungi to the rest of the world has to be closer to archaea or animalia than bacteria, right? I assumed that molecular clock figure was when fungi diverged from their last common ancestor with animals.
>> That meant that all the usual suspects, like Lockheed, GD , TI (I don't remember exactly which ones) came up with Ada compilers and runtimes that cost on the order of $10K per seat.

I always wondered why I've never seen it used outside government work. Your explanation seems incredibly obvious after reading it.
Sure, it's weird to write (`then` is a separate statement, it has to end with `fi`, that's different), but I prefer making things easier to read than write. I believe that it's easier to read that boilerplate even if you have to look up how to write it.
I keep using Waze over Map but I have noticed what looks to me like a one sided data flow from Waze to Map: traffic information, road closures etc. Too bad that it extends well beyond end user experience.
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> In an effort to push these companies to make positive changes – and for customers to realize who controls the brands they’re buying – Oxfam created a mind-boggling infographic that shows how interconnected consumer brands really are.

Haven't found the infographic per se but the initiative is quite relevant indeed -> https://www.behindthebrands.org/ and that is quite revealing to the unaware -> https://www.behindthebrands.org/brands/
> Imo we should just solve this issue once and for all by supplying government housing to anyone at a low price, but there seems to be little political will for that.

Where would that end? If you always build more to accommodate any poor or homeless people, they'll come from other cities to enjoy the cheap housing.
Possibly relevant: Chess might seem the least physically oriented of sports, not physical at all. But after about 40 years of age, it's hard to keep concentrating for hours - classical games often last 5 hours or more – and older players fade after the 3rd or 4th hour. One mistake and you're toast, often. See how none of the top players are over 40.[1] Two in the top 20 are over 40: Anand at 51 is world #17 – but in 2008 he was #1, and Topalov at 45 is world #19 – but was #1 in 2006. Experience doesn't seem to matter anything as much as youth! Also, the top players keep very physically fit, because they have to. It's no good winning for 5 hours if you then have a brain fade for 2 seconds. It's needs something like the stamina of a long-distance runner. It seems a top chess player can burn 6,000 calories – and lose 2 pounds – per day, playing in a tournament.[2]

[1] https://2700chess.com/

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/20/chess-grandmaster-diet-exerc...
To add more context, only a few cities (Berkeley, Santa Monica) had strong rent control with vacancy control in the 1980s and 1990s. Other cities, such as San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles, had rent control but have always allowed the rent to reset to market rate when the unit is vacant.

The California Law called Costa-Hawkins phased out vacancy control in all cities from 1995 to 1999. After 1999, landlords have the right to set the initial rent, overriding local vacancy controls. (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...)

In Nov 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 10 41%-59%, which would have repealed Costa-Hawkins and allowed vacancy controls again (https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_10,_Local_Ren...). Berkeley, Richmond, and Santa Monica would immediately have imposed vacancy controls under their existing laws.

In Nov 2020, California voters again rejected Proposition 21 40%-60%, which would have allowed vacancy controls that limit rent increases to 15% per vacancy (https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_21,_Local_Ren...).
Oh! TIL, thanks!
In my book, any C levels shouldn't have direct access to production, and espectially when you become a CTO you stop coding.
> I have yet to see a justification for eating meat better than "I like it, and I can". Weak as that is, it is by far the strongest argument out there.

Culture? Cuisine?

I think a lot of people that have food as a strong central part of their culture may even identify with it. It may simply not be immoral in any sense of the word.

But aside from that, "art" for lack of a better way of putting it? Cuisine? Chefs make beautiful art and sometimes it's with meat.
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I’ve never watched one of those documentaries. My views on this shifted in part due to personal experiences with animals and the shooting of Harambe.

I do not doubt what you’ve observed however the scale of the process virtually guarantees suffering.

The United States slaughters over 30 million cattle per year. If one out of 500 [1] slaughters falls on a range from major pain to unimaginable cognitive experience of trauma, it’s pretty bad.

It says nothing of mishaps and disease resulting from their keeping.

While some feel relative intelligence is not a good way to determine suffering, pigs are regarded as one of the smartest animals on the planet. As another HN friendly example, pigs demonstrate self-agency: they can use a joystick to manipulate a cursor. [2]

The US slaughters over 75 million hogs a year. Run the same stats and you end up with a commanding species that is nothing short of barbaric.

I agree with the comment upthread, that in due time our cruelty to animals in this time will be one of our great shames.

[1] I think suffering is likely far more common than this, but for HN perspective, here are some estimates in bugs per lines of code: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56043694

[2] https://escholarship.org/content/qt8sx4s79c/qt8sx4s79c.pdf?t...
> Also if you're auditing, wouldn't you audit all dependencies?

What’s the point of a transitive dependency can pull the rug out from under your audio with a single update
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Man I'd love to see the data from the outcome of that study you mention. That seems really interesting. Reminds me of that anecdote about something like 80% of engineers consider themselves to be exceptional compared to their peers.
Reminds me of my time in music school. The ear training department had a special resident visiting that week and their skill was such that someone joked you could jingle the change in your pockets that person could tell you how much you had and in which denominations.
this seems to be an issue with bad typings - ideally `JSON.parse()` would return `unknown` and then it wouldn't lie to you, but that would probably break a lot of people's code.

EDIT: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/26188
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And whenever I hear time crystal, I think of bad sci-fantasy 80s movies.

“Mondor, you must grab the time crystal before the second moon equinox, or the Flarborg will be released from their electronic pen and ravage us like they’ve never ravaged before!”

“Oh. Well, we wouldn’t want that would we?”
Which projector did you go with?
On the contrary, more of this please. Personal accountability is sorely lacking these days, from the heads of Fortune 500 companies getting away with golden parachutes after ruining countless lives in 2008, to shit like in the Ars story.

Sure, hold the company responsible, but don't just let the person get away with it so they can run off and do the same at another company. Crooks and arseholes go from company to company causing damage everywhere they go because firing companies won't tell anyone while they let a person go. This seems to be a result of just that culture of silence, because how else can you explain someone becoming CTO of an org like this without know basic stuff about their own area of expertise?

When minions make mistake, let the company take the heat. But when the person screwing up is in leadership and therefore directly responsible, it ought to fall on them.
One of the harder parts about that is setting up the attitude of the SV so that each payload gets time pointed at the earth (if that's what it cares about). A while back I worked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASSIOPE, which had multiple payloads, and giving each of them appropriate earth-facing time at specific parts of the orbit was... a delicate scheduling problem.
How about Apple?
Regarding realism, I wonder if it's possible to hear the difference between drums if you assume dampened vibration.
Yeah I can't say I agree with your friends if that's indeed what they meant. The first amendment is incredibly important. So is the jurisprudence around what it means.

I have a suspicion that there might be a communication barrier somewhere between you and your friends. I'm a bit out on a limb here, so forgive my presumptions if they're off base. I mean no offense.

It's possible that your friends have learned that, when talking to you, 'free speech' is only worth defending when it's offensive, neo-nazi style speech. Then, without making explicit the change in vocabulary usage, they run with it -- ending up in a bad spot where they're saying get rid of 1st Amendment. There's no winners in this story, just unfortunate misunderstandings.

Again, disregard if this is nonsense. I've been witness to similar disagreements in the past, so I'm offering my 2c since I think you're making the good faith effort to represent, even while exasperated, the views of your friends.
What if you found out you couldn't vote in the next election?
That's correct right now, but it would not be too controversial to divide up sats into something smaller, as no one's quantity related to the total limit would change. Lightning supports smaller units that get rounded out at settlement.
Any time there's a vegan angle to a scientific study or a documentary the standard of proof for me is much higher because these causes are often pushed for animal rights reasons.
No idea why, but maybe the same reason the flu is not as much of an issue there as it is in developed countries ?
Masks are proven to lower transmission rates for covid.
When it comes to the climate I have two primary problems:

1: We use fossil fuels (natural gas) to create artificial fertilizers. We use manure from cattle to create organic fertilizers. The production of artificial fertilizers is seen as positive for the environment while the production of organic fertilizers is seen as an negative.

2: When we use artificial fertilizers to grow crops which get used to produce bio fuel we call it carbon neutral. Cattle eating grass is in contrast seen as a major if the largest contributor to climate change.
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Could be. But from the article I do not see why. Could you elaborate?
A somewhat surprising corollary: if you have methane and you can burn it, it's better to do that than vent it directly.

(Of course, better still to leave it in the ground, if that's where your methane is coming from...)
| I take a very SFBA perspective here

I don't know how useful an SFBA perspective is, given that area is dealing with factors that very, very few other places in America are: Namely, an historic single industry boom and a lack of expansion area. The only real comparable place in America is Manhattan.
Legislate what, exactly?
> shouldn’t cost $50,000

To me that makes no sense. Cheaper than the midwest? The whole world would want to move there.
> that would be way more illuminating than “Here is a list of some cool palettes from famous designers”.

It's up to you to see if it works for you. The OP was just somebody that got inspired to put together some color patches in a presentation that is reminiscent of Rams. It's not any deeper than that but also not a waste of time.
Quick-learning cuttlefish pass 'the marshmallow test'
Was the economy more stable with no monetary policies? Was the gold standard a failure but now we fixed the underlying issues?
Dubai Health Authority to Administer Covid-19 Vaccine to Non-Emirati Citizens
The one that usually gets me is built-ins shadowing binaries, such that `man time` doesn't actually give me the info I need.
Creating color palettes is a vastly different endeavor than making a painting.

I agree with what you're saying - that's my take on paintings as well and shallow dismissals of them isn't my core point.

Furthermore, color palettes are a tool and paintings are works of art.

When someone says "Use this color palette", it is important to ask "What specific speciality are you offering?" and what thought process has gone into making palettes which no one here can put a compelling explanation together.

I expect more. I expect objective contrast analysis, some deep color theory...nothing of the sorts exist here. It is not akin to painting or whatever modern art arguments you want to apply here.
Probably. archive.org has a wasm build of DOSBox that works reasonably well.
There are treatments for cyanide poisoning. Hydroxocobalamin can be used to react cyanide and form cyanocobalamin (vitamin B-12) which is nontoxic and renally excreted. The trick is to identify the cyanide poisoning quickly enough.
I've had a lot of contracts over the years that range from handshakes to those full of overbearing non-compete/ip clauses. Early on, I learned that handshakes aren't a good approach and you always want some form of contract that's mutually beneficial. I also started by having an attorney who answered my questions about various clauses - money well spent. Over time, I learned more and got better at negotiating - I agree with all the folks recommending negotiation. In addition to trying to get a more fair agreement, negotiation tells you more about the type of people you will have to work with. It's the first time you get to have difficult discussions and you'll learn how much you can trust them. Exception to the rule for me is that I've seen startups lately that have the overbearing non-compete/ip ownership clauses, which I just walk away from because they're so one sided that a fair negotiation isn't worth the effort when I can find other customers without having to do that. Another consideration is that I've never gone to directly work for one of my customer's competitors after working for them - unless work is hard to find, it just isn't a nice thing to do.
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
> stupid amounts of rent for small apartments (1100 - 1200 cold rent for 50sqm

Wow that's cheap, London you'd pay double or triple that.
This also irritates me.

Humans have built in limitations other than limited intelligence. For example, we have limited ability to remember stuff, our memory is not flawless, we can't perceive time or forces or distances with almost unlimited precision.

Claiming something is more intelligent than humans because it can use something else as leverage to accomplish the task is nonsense.

I am not better at calculating stuff in memory than you just because if I am allowed to use calculator and unlimited memory to beat you.

AI is not more intelligent at playing Starcraft because it can perfectly know what every single unit is doing at any point in time and can project exact resource goals into the future.
>depending on how bad your vision is, you man need such a huge screen [...]

Upper limit of the minimum requirement is probably the size of the screen of the phone being used by the individual? Or do many people always use a phone with reading glasses (eg to check the time in a nice big font)?

Those stats you've listed don't look so great. They seem to include those who are short-sighted and can read just fine without glasses. (Eg most children to people under about 40 who wear corrective glasses).

Somewhere in middle age every single one of us needs reading glasses as our corneas harden. Long sightedness. This is the relevant thing for smart watches & smart phones.

Either all of the middle aged to elderly must put on reading glasses to view their smart watch or they don't use one is the status quo.

It really looks capable of being disrupted to me in a market that appears to be growing. Especially given the potential for health benefits of smartphone monitoring etc. which is more attractive to middle aged to elderly given the greater prevalence of medical conditions.
This is nice, shades of the old (and surprisingly capable) Windows Macro Recorder. I wish this sort of thing were available on Linux, any suggestions?
Can clickhouse deal with medium-large blob data? Say the size of a normal email?

We are using Postgres to store email at my app: https://hanami.run The log is append only and getting scrub daily.

Can clickhouse deal with that? The query is very simple, just need to match exactly a single column(domain) and pagination?
When you walk in a traditional store and there's a big display of Coca Colas arranged like a turkey right at the entrance for thanksgiving that's not the store trying to help the consumer. This is just how stores have always been merchandised.
FYI, rents in Vienna are not "incredibly low". From someone who has rented there.
In contrast, having submitted to a number of biomedical journals recently:

- The EIC is paid - not a huge amount, but a non-trivial amount.
- Graphics work may be done to make figures conform to "house styles"
- There is absolutely copy-editing done. Heck, I usually end up fighting with them about copy editing.
- We don't use LaTeX, so papers need formatting (and generally, IMO, end up superior to those formatted via LaTeX templates)

Finally, for university presses for books, there are people who evaluate whether a book is worth pursuing, who coordinate peer review, who hound faculty who haven't turned their chapters in yet (something I'm guilty of), etc.
I guess I've been reading that construction long enough that it's obvious (at least to me). It's also helpful that the same construction is common in obfuscated and tightly-compiled Javascript...
Sure, we understand "too many calories is bad" also, but that wasn't my point. A lot of conflicting claims about macro composition are made for example, and it's really hard to definitely dismiss them (or even answer how much it matters) mainly because we don't understand it well enough.
Banger thanks I was just looking for a book about exactly this
Surely this is good. The long term inhabitants get to stay at a cheap rate, the newcomers have to pay a premium. NYC works in a similar way.

The only difference is new construction, are new buildings controlled as well or free to charge whatever?
I've always told folks that no technology will save you from your own developers.

A good application can be written in any technology, just like a bad application can be written in any technology.

Certain technologies will try to guide you to a better place, but it's up to developers to take advantage of it. Or to do crazy stuff like the above. . .
From what I read, the contribution of factory farming feed is substantial. Dunno what bison and African wildlife were eating but cows fed a diet that had even a small amount of kelp reduced the methane in their flatus substantially.
You are correct! I mixed up the Owner movein and Ellis. Thanks.
https://andysirkin.com/tenancy-in-common-tic/san-francisco-r...
Money is defined as (1) a store of value, (2) a medium of exchange, and (3) a unit of account.

Bitcoin is still in its infancy phase tackling problem (1). (2) Will come once enough people value it to accept it as money, which hasn't happened yet. (3) is further still.

You claim we should buy goods and services because otherwise our hard-spent time will disappear.

I claim this is not the natural order of things, only what inflationists want you to believe to justify what is a unilateral tax and re-distribution of wealth (similar to the dilution that occurs in fund-raising). In a free market, we should buy these things because we need them and want them enough to exchange our hard-earned money for them, not because of the fear that our previous work/stored energy is slipping away.

The things you wouldn't buy would be things you wouldn't need. Perhaps we can return to a state where we don't spend money we don't have on status symbols and asset-hoarding. That, plus funding wars, are among the results of putting money supply in government hands. Bitcoin actually provides a way out of this mess.

> BTC is not "infinitely divisible."

If it were to become significantly more valuable, sub-Satoshi denominations will be added.
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"GasToken is an Ethereum ERC20 smart contract that lets users tokenize gas, an internal resource used in Ethereum to pay for transactions. The idea is simple: store gas when gas prices are low, release it when gas prices are high and experience lower transaction fees. GasTokens can be traded like any other ERC20 token."
Wouldn't it be better for race-relations as a nation to keep the books, but move them into some sort of lesson plan around why these books are not good, pick apart what's wrong with them and use that as a teaching about how those who came before us weren't as tolerant and maybe we can learn to be better?