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You are right that most of their wealth is tied up in assets but you don't need to convert their wealth into cash, you can just transfer ownership. Example, take Elon Musks shares in Tesla and just give them to random people. Some of those people may sell, but many won't.

This clearly won't destroy the value of Tesla since they will continue making cars. They made good cars before Elon joined Tesla, and they will continue after Elon leaves Tesla.
So I just 'read' Beyond Zebra' I found on youtube. Can someone explain why it is offensive (as per eBay)?
A cohort and I were just ballparking what it would take to corner some neglected yet vaguely nostalgic market and then seed alarmist copy to manufacture a rush on sales.

We decided it'd be a lark, but the return probably wouldn't beat printing Bibles.
My bad, not ‘doing it wrong’, just trying to use the wrong methodology for your problem :)

sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Wow, that's an awesome concept for a story/film!
The flu is super rare now because of masks and no travel. Did u get tested when symptomatic?
I too have been driving some some time now but we have this thing called the internet, where you can see and share information.

Lemme help you out friend - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+autopilot...
Censorious in what way exactly? I feel like it is highly moderated already to the point where only posts that matter make it to the top (at least most of the time, no system is 100% perfect).
If the publisher shutdown and the IP on the books went into legal limbo, then the exact same thing would happen - has happened - to numerous works. For example try to get the Sid Meier Alpha Centauri novelizations - they're almost impossible to find, they're out of print (they're expensive as hell on ebay).

It's been a problem for years that there's been so redress available when a publisher either owns an IP and refuses to sell or license it freely, or when an IP falls into unclear ownership and the same basic thing results.

This all has nothing to do with anything political (because these are not being suppressed by a government, and citizens and organizations are free to choose their own speech and associations) and everything to do with just how garbage copyright law is.
Can you support this claim about imperialism (also, "common" is a rather huge exaggeration)? I hear it made all the time in a hand wavy way with no substantive demonstration. Frankly, it sounds rather condescending, as in: East Asians couldn't possibly find the kinds of eye shapes more common among European stock more beautiful unless they were conditioned into believing that in some way! Seems rather dismissive.
Nice. It's a common enough joke that could have been a dog but enough effort was put in to make it a real winner.

Thanks.
Oh great we're all equal but I'm an attention whore girl, look at me!!!!!

I'll tell you what, if you truly want gender and race neutrality, just ignore it and don't write shit like that. Get to work and do great things.
I don’t understand this argument. Several overlapping specs max exist. ISO specs weren’t built to take advantage of Web specs. W3C specs were. Like it or not, the W3C didn’t do any disservice to the ISO or fight unfairly.
It was an intentional backdoor in the contract.

https://bscscan.com/address/0x7e0c621ea9f7afd5b86a50b0942eae...

Note line 304 the O is a 0:

bytes32 slot = ADMIN_SL0T;
I think it's clear that all societies are facing problems like this that people are prone to following populism and ideological extremes, which can be made worse by amplification of social media. It's not yet clear how to tackle that and make critical thinking really useful but not to fall into populism traps.
I don't see Google Drive ever providing an API for bringing your own client; it will probably have to be from the other side.

We already have OT and CRDTs for concurrently defining changes from each user and a way to merge them. There is also the Braid spec (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-toomim-httpbis-b...) attempting to standardize state synchronization on top of which one can bring any client
Only insofar as Darwinism comes into play and vulnerabilities kill unsecure projects. It doesn't look like new projects are safer than older ones.
I've got one of these too. Its called openssl.

$ alias getsecretcodes='openssl des3 -d -salt -in ~/Documents/codes.enc -out /tmp/codes.txt'
$ alias putsecretcodes='openssl des3 -salt -in /tmp/codes.txt -out ~/Documents/codes.enc'
That’s a bit of a toy from the perspective of enterprise requirements. Good starter system if you adhere to open source religion.
My local ferries use them:
https://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk/new-mv-wight-light-...
It was around the same time that far right identity politics ramped up massively as well.
I think that the word ‘Double ungood’ was generated by his auto correction program which automatically replaces all the swear words with some less offensive words
On a per kWh basis, whoch is the metric that matters, wind and solar got cheaper in 2019 than the latest nuclear projects in the UK. Existing nuclear plants are a stop gap solution, and a very good one, to combat climate change if they were used to close down coal and oil power plants asap. They can be replaced by a later date with renewables, starting with oldest reactors.
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Xi Jingping considers the promotion of liberal values, human rights, and democracy at their core to be "arrogance, prejudice and hatred". This goes beyond one power vs another, every democracy is under threat.

[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/xi-jinping-turned-me-into-a-...
who's "basic human rights" are being denied here? Are you saying that the publisher of Dr.Seuss is committing human rights abuses by choosing not to publish some of the books THEY own the rights to?

Also, maybe teaching your children to be toxic towards anything won't really improve the world they will have to live in?
>It's almost as if their outrage depends less on actual hurt feelings and more on how much of a payoff they calculate they might earn from Those in Charge Whose Opinions Actually Matter

I wonder if _some_ may feel guilt for their own past actions or a historical burden unfairly hefted upon them. Instead of approaching that, it _may_ be easier to externalize and blame others. This _could_ explain the rampant accusations of racism. It is easy to see how this could become a self-perpetuating feedback loop.
I agree with this.. I've personally been more effective in an async communication type of approach. Communication over email, slack messages, ticket comments.. just leave a comment on my ticket, give me time to ponder on it, then I'll respond. If there's anything mission critical that really requires everyone to sit down in a room together, then we can schedule a meeting.

I accept that not everyone's like me, though.
> difference here is

On the contrary, this does not seem to be distinct with SARS-CoV-2. The other endemic coronaviruses (which cause pneumonia more rarely, and are typically just called 'common colds') also produce very similar 'long covid' effects in similarly tiny slices of the population.

Search your favorite repository of scientific literature for "{hku1|229e|oc43|nl63} cardiovascular" - you'll be amazed at how well documented, and yet poorly understood, this phenomenon is. There appears to be less literature for 229e, but pretty convincing for the other 3.
Huh? I thought the placebo effect was pretty much the textbook definition of psychosomatic.
what happens if the publishers find that Harry Potter Volume 3 is racist because the escaped murderer is called Black. (yes, I've read it. No spoiler alerts, please)
How is it "less about what the headline appears to say"?
When the iPhone originally came out in the US it was locked together with a 2 year contract with AT&T.
I thought so too! Linus was even like "don't blame the developers, this one was particularly nasty" and everything! Good to see nice and sensible Linus once in a while!
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Next international helium shipment on its way.
I manage managers and managers of managers, so have years of seeing this play out over dozens of teams. At this point, I prefer my engineering teams to "locally optimize" their process. I tell them that I care about the following 4 things:
1. There is a clear way for stakeholders to provide you with their requirements and discuss them.
2. There is a clear decision made about what is going to be worked on.
3. There is a way to check on progress without asking individual engineers.
4. After work is complete, stakeholders get clear communication about what actually happened.

I strongly suggest that they accomplish this by using "sprints", because then it means that they only have to manage the communication before and after sprints instead of ongoing. I also have never seen my #3 really done well because getting developers to keep issues up to date has always been difficult.

Almost every team ends up doing daily stand ups, and when they don't it is usually because of timezone issues, so they find a substitute. This seems to be something that many engineers fall into as a habit to help keep each other unblocked.

The one thing that is problematic for my approach is predictability. If teams don't have an inherent value of completing sprint goals, then work carries over from sprint to sprint, and stakeholders can't predict when things are going to be delivered.
Makes you think
Who would the car optimize for? Saving the kid or saving the driver from getting rear-ended or swerving into an object?
It's not hard.

There is a good classroom demo where somebody melts a molten salt in a crucible with a bunsen burner and demonstrates that it becomes transparent, conducts electricity, etc.

A molten salt can be used as a coolant, competitive with sodium in fast reactors. It is not so chemically reactive and you can see through it (imaging repairing a reactor you cant see -- a bad problem in the 1970s, not so bad now with ultrasound). It is less heat conductive than sodium though, which hurts the econonics of fast reactors which need a large amount of nuclear fuel to form a critical mass and can get more value out of that critical mass by getting as much heat out as possible.

You can dissolve uranium, thorium and/or plutonium in that salt and that is proven (see MSRE) but needs development.

Most of the dangerous products of the reaction stay in the salt, it works a lot better than you think it would. (when a sodium reactor melted down in the late 50s they never detected radioactive iodine because it reacted with the sodium and the salt dissolved in the coolant, then it decayed in place.)

You still have some noble gases coming out and fine particles of platinum group metals coming out, but that's less of a problem than finding materiald that can survive 30+ years of that treatment.
I would probably be considered far to the left of most HN commentators, but I still find moves like this to be pointless.

Ebay, Amazon, etc are all private companies. So I appreciate the point of view that they can operate as they like. But they really shouldn't be prejudiced as to what they sell on their platform, unless there's some form of law-breaking going on (for example the Anarchist's Cookbook).

I'd prefer something at least like how WB handled older Looney Tunes or Disney handled the Muppets - add a disclaimer before relevant episodes explaining objectionable parts. But outright delisting from sale is wrong.

Ultimately these types of moves are bandaids on the real problems we need to solve, like police reform, the schools-to-prison pipeline, the war on drugs, etc.
No, this is actually not what it means. "Office hours" has two distinct meanings: one is the hours you are in the office. That is not what is meant here. The other meaning, which is what is meant here, is specifically designated times when experts make themselves available for random questions about the thing they're an expert on.

For example, I work on a project that heavily depends on "library foo". The guy who wrote "library foo" (who is an employee of my company) holds "office hours" for one hour every Monday, where he commits to being in a Zoom call that other employees can join to discuss questions about "library foo". That does not mean he only works for one hour a week.
Smart contact development is mostly out of the wild west that you're describing. Development tools and standards means that these cases where funds are directly syphoned are now quite rare. In this case this was a intentional backdoor left by the developer.

Most modern DeFi exploits take advantage of unintended interactions between multiple smart contracts.
>This is a true case of biology not having kept up with societal progress.

I think you seriously have this backwards. How can biology keep up with societal progress?
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> Nobody actually reads Mein Kampf ... It was (and still is) about the personality cult of a strong man and his message of power via blaming and oppression of minority groups, not the actual words themselves.

That's precisely why people should read it. That personality cult developed because Hitler's narrative of oppresion by Jews resonated so strongly.

> just like nobody actually reads the Bible unless they're actual preachers

Nonsense. Christians not only read it, but study it as a guide to life. There was an informal thing at my work where they'd read and discuss a passage every week or so.
I don't see why your reasoning shouldn't also apply to fish and shellfish as it does to other animals?

> would it justify killing someone’s dog if I thought dogs were delicious?

That's a bit silly. Regardless of the ethics of eating meat, there are a whole bunch of other reasons why you wouldn't kill someone's pet. Just like you don't dive into people's fish tanks for your seafood :)
There's no special "historian card" that you need to show to access sources. Everybody has the right to study history on their own, and I guess the world would be a much better place if many of us did.
Isn’t this just Fata Morgana?
>if they are informed in advance that the goal is to crush the price.

Ok but the scenario was what if bitcoin holders convince the government to support price instead of crush it?

The Bitcoin "fever" is already starting to spread from individual speculators to large businesses, already a jump that I didn't expect.

If the fever spreads: individual speculators -> large businesses -> financial institutions -> government? This is when we could be in trouble.

I hope the Tesla purchase is a gimmick like you said. But what if it's the start of a trend? You provided the justification yourself? "Everything seems to be a bubble. BTC might actually be a good bet."

> It should be around 1 year until the next cycle starts and BTC crashes like in 2018.

Yes that would be the best scenario, but what if large institutions are on a multi year trend of adding Bitcoins to their portfolio which prevents this crash?

I can still see a non negligible probability of the fever going:

individual speculators -> large businesses -> financial institutions -> government, then, great depression II -> WWIII -> sticks and stones etc.
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You are correct, here is their smart contact code which has been verified: https://bscscan.com/address/0x7e0c621ea9f7afd5b86a50b0942eae...

Note line 304 the O is a 0:

bytes32 slot = ADMIN_SL0T;
> To be clear the "freedom from" I'm referring to here is the freedom for innocent bystanders - children in this case - not to see lazy racial stereotypes surreptitiously in what should be a funny book that either offends them or gives them a false/bad impression of those races.

You do realize your comment perverts the very meaning of the word "freedom" to mean the opposite of its actual meaning, right?

You are "freeing" people from the freedom to access information and ideas you find unacceptable.

That is not freedom, that is the opposite of freedom.

Banning "unacceptable" ideas is the staple of Orwell's 1984, and appropriately, we are starting to use Newspeak as well: "Freedom is Slavery".

> Throughout history society has decided what (legal) things are acceptable in public

This is a dominant used book seller banning private individuals from selling a book to each other to read in private settings. Nothing about this is "public".

> This is different from Mein Kampf or Marquis de Sade, or Lolita

As if anyone will be surprised when our new commissar overlords at eBay and Amazon ban these books next.
> heavy performance penalty to be paid for that predictability

I think this is probably a fascinating area of study. It feels like there is a power/time/space non-linearity and being able to trade one for another.

How about the CPU is put into a fixed timestep mode, where all operations take the same amount of time.

If there was a hardware level concept of a thread, it could be a thread property.

Another option would be a queue of futures with a rate control based on the required security properties.
I came from the company that virtually invented Scrum (Easel Corp / Jeff Sutherland) -- showing my age now, I assure you -- it wasn't invented to give non-technical people the power over developers. In fact, it was quite the opposite. It was created to help developers ensure that their lives could be validated in the timebox of work that was required of them. No offense, but you need to probably work in a better Scrum environment. Sounds like you haven't experienced Scrum properly.
The question began with "If", as in a hypothetical (and potentially future) scenario in which circumstances change to more towards censoring content. I certainly agree that moderation as it is today is at a good level. That may not stay certain for long.
Linus Tech Tips looked at a fuel cell USB supply a few years ago. It sucked horribly, and barely produced any power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-yLqwGS2dA

Besides that, we can have 10 hours from a battery quite easily right now. If you need more, there are external batteries powerful enough to power a laptop over USB-PD. And after that you just charge it from any power outlet. It's a known technology, very mature, and doesn't run into any trouble at airports.

Hydrogen also either requires constantly buying new cartridges, or acquiring special hardware to fill them.

It's just late to the market. At this point the batteries are actually very good and a lot more convenient. There's probably some use case in which one can't have enough batteries, set up a solar panel, or use a generator, but it's got to be a niche.
The term "office hours" in American English can mean either of these concepts, but in the current context it clearly means the one you suggest ("horas de consulta").
Yes, the idea behind the office hours is that you can point people at your calendar. If the calendar is full then that's how it is. Maybe the team has to grow to accommodate the increased demand but the maintainer certainly won't spend an extra hour working on the project beyond the time he allocated.

Compare that to the usual issue grind. You feel compelled to respond as fast as quickly and maybe even spend your whole day because you know that the backlog will grow worse tomorrow.
We shouldn’t be so bashful about tinkering with nature
What is interesting in this announcement is that Hitachi's solid state battery is so far behind Toyota's solid state batteries to be mass produced in 2021 :)

For those who do not know, Toyota and it's battery partners have been announcing solid state batteries 'soon' since ~2010 [1].

[1] https://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/10/toyota-20111019.htm...
How to do it for all stocks though
There’s an irony here. The adamantly pro-nuclear crowd tends to be just as vocally anti-regulation. It’s stranfe that proponents of a “trustless society” are willing to put so much faith in corporations and governments ability to do the right thing, plan for the future or even exist in the future.
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Which is the point I hoped I had made, In fact when I was young I worked on a project for BS5750 (aka ISO 9000) and the v senior guy at BSI mentioned that very thing to me.
> The seroprevelance data claimed that ~10-20% of the population was already infected, back in March of 2020.

That's not quite true. The surveys in that time frame were mostly < 10%. The > 10% surveys came months later.

However, it's certainly possible that these are false positives (particularly the wastewater studies).

However I'm not sure that this particular observation is a good basis for that conclusion. It takes a substantial mass of cases to produce excess population-level mortality, which is what gets our attention.

Since we weren't testing for cases prior to March 2020, we really don't know how many people died while infected with the virus. Now of course we count nearly every such case meticulously.
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I’d find giant lenses hovering over the ocean to be pretty mysterious.
Didn't the Simpsons continue using Apu?

The documentary also explicitly discusses the "mainstreaming of Indian immigrants". It isn't something that is just ignored or missed.
AOL's only contribution to Usenet was to fill it with people who didn't understand Usenet, all at once, almost completely eradicating the existing community.

They discontinued the service when Usenet was no longer a selling point, because they had destroyed it.
It is important to remember that this is the first release candidate of a series which is usually 7 or 8 entries strong. It's pretty far removed from shipping. This is a testing procedure, though not one which looks the way you're used to. In general, Linux ships pretty reliable releases once the rc process is completed.
Any runtime security measure produces overhead (array bounds checking, dynamically checked borrow rules like Rust RefCell, etc.), at least in computational cycles. There is no magic formula.

Calculating mandelbrot fractals to measure speed might be a nice exercise in which Rust or Zig can compete with C. But in a real software implementation, when you need to open a file you still have to call the OS function fopen(). Whatever thing File::open (Rust) is doing before calling fopen() is overhead.

How can you avoid that overhead? Write in C (at your own risk).
But what actually is happening?
Thousands of books go out of print every week. There are over 50 or so Dr Zeus books. If the heirs of the author and publisher no longer want to sell a handful of them will the vast majority of future American readers care?

I would guess that eventually (if these books are popular enough) they will be edited and brought up to date like Richard Scary books:

https://www.upworthy.com/8-changes-that-were-made-to-a-class...
There's been some of that already, not in the sense of governments forcing the separation, but in the sense of governments making the keeping of data a liability, e.g. with the EU's GDPR.

There's certainly still a whole class of applications when owning the data is a competitive advantage, but there are also lots of organisation whose core competency is not selling data, even though they do have to work with user data. When storing data yourself is a risk, it becomes a lot more attractive to just let the user store that data somewhere themselves and have them give your application access to it.

I'm sure this one of the reasons we're seeing a lot more interest from Europe than elsewhere in Solid [1].

Then of course, there are also lots of organisations struggling to maintain correct and up-to-date data. If multiple organisations access the same data as controlled by the user, the user is more likely to have kept that data up-to-date.

(Disclaimer: views are my own.)

[1] https://solidproject.org/