skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can and does happen - but it’s usually limited to a locality (either the landlord or the local government) and you can move outside their jurisdiction relatively easily. It’s rarely a state or federal thing.

But here there is only two at the highest level - and nowhere to turn.
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If these become popular, how do you prevent money laundering?
Seems Taiwan really set the stage for this
I don't struggle with css, i just never use it since it's not what we were taught and my job rarely has me poking at it. But if I need to convert stuff or alter things it's not an issue. It's just gonna look sloppy it less than ideal.

But it's css code. You can debug that real time and it doesn't affect the real stuff that my company actually pays me for.
Actually, the general public kept demanding a housing price collapse around 2008. It's rather tragic.

See https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43062766-shut-out for more detail than you ever wanted to know, or check out the author's blog at https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/
We already have a federal target of 2% inflation and a 20% capital gains tax, which add up to about a 2.5% wealth tax.
Also, if the government starts owning shares in equities, they may as well pump and dump the share market directly like they do with bonds.

Also if you're going to design a utopia per country, why not just make it a global utopia, and model it for the 7 billion humans instead. Same for equality, model it for the global population instead of the 5% living in the usa.
It's interesting to ponder 'why' an intelligent human being would do this.

- Him having made so much money on a highly speculative asset, at one point having decided to pour a significant amount of money into it in the first place and it paying off? Almost certainly.

- Musk's seemingly irrational nature, tendency to do crazy things, to the point of that a 'fan' of his would actually deem him capable of doing a bitcoin giveaway? Almost certainly. You most likely wouldn't even believe this, verified or not, if it was a more 'reputable' CEO tweeting this.

- Current social media investing frenzy from stocks to altcoins to everything in between? The speed of social media, hype, buy and dump activism? People desperately trying to find their own 'opportunity' to strike gold? Imagine he wakes up the next morning, the giveaway was real, and what regrets would he have? Urgency forces stupid decisions.

I am not trying to attribute responsibility, but there are quite a few factors at play here, and they explain why he did what he did. Not trying to pass judgement on him, but at that very moment, he was a gambler, a speculator, not an investor or rational person. And then this happens. It happens to people in the financial industry all the time.
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fair enough. Do you happen to know the previous high price for any of beeple's works? I cannot seem to find any on the google.
At least they aren't charging $100 per year to be a developer like Apple does. I would have liked to make my apps multiplatform, but it just doesn't make sense at that price.

Edit: It's great to see that this platform likes downvoting people who release their software for free. Profit matters above all else. I guess next you all will tell me my job is worthless and I suck at life because I make under $100k.
It is, for example, default behaviour in IrfanView.
>Saying that the left spends too much effort on rhetoric might be valid criticism, but focusing on it as reasons to "walk away from the left" (which not too many black Americans are doing, BTW) is disingenuous.

That depends whether you distinguish between the Left and the Democratic Party. Most minority voters remain firm Democrats, although fewer than in 2016. Many/most minorities I've met, including myself, are completely disenchanted with "the Left" as an activist bloc that tries to take over or derail the Party. That bloc is simply two or three times as strict about "culture war" issues - which I agree with you are ultimately nigh-meaningless, but alas - as about the "kitchen table" issues where most people actually agree with them.

In short, you can be a racial or ethnic minority who wants universal healthcare, a new voting rights bill, and to strengthen workers' unions, but then you dissent from the "Left" agenda on one culture-war issue, one that theoretically applies to your group but which you were never consulted about, and bam, the Left hates you and wants you gone.

"Everyone get in line, we have to stop Trump" only worked while Trump was in office. It's hard to tell people we all need to get behind whichever street protest is marching downtown now, with Biden in office willingly signing surprisingly progressive bills like the stimulus.
The difference is that if there are enough unemployable humans they can vote, rebel or otherwise enforce that they get a share of the profit. Horses did not have that option.
Why would you believe it?

Sure, some scames are complicated - credit swaps, sub prime mortagges, etc, I can see why people fall for that. Sometimes you're relying n a greater fool, sometimes you're relying on unlikely events (horse winning etc), because you value the potential reward more than the risk. All of that's rational - hell even buying a lottery ticket is rational for many people.

But in all those areas I can see why the other person is involved and what they're getting. My risk/reward ratio is different to theirs.

I go into a greater-fool situation and yes, I expect that I'll find a greater fool, the person selling me the $whatever doesn't.

I could buy a Tesla and think that they will take over the entire planet's energy grid. I can see why someone is selling me a TSLA share at $800 (they don't think tesla is worth that much), that's reasonable.

I could even see a transaction where I give my email address to "Elon" and he sends me money, because he's a gajillionaire and doesn't value it, but does value email addresses, or maybe a transaction where I make or share a DOGE meme and he likes it, so gives me money instead of a "like".

But what possible reason would there be for me to send Elon Musk money and him to send it back? Why would he do this? Why not just send me the money for sharing a DOGE meme or something? Or just send it for being the first person to click his link?
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I still wonder what would happen if IBM sold a IBM i for $499 only licensed for developers. It's not like the thing really needs high end specs. I wonder how many programmers would go for it on a fluke. Would be good for schools too.
Just because the correlation isn't 100% doesn't mean it's 0.
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You might consider this alternative perspective:

“Indeed, what is acceptable for white people to call African Americans and for black people to call themselves has evolved over the last century. The standard term has shifted from “colored” to “Negro” to “black” to “African American” as people sought to redefine themselves and their place in America.

Now, in 2020, “people of color” often is used to refer to the collective group of non-white Americans. It is offensive to single blacks out as “colored.” That, in part, is because of the painful segregationist history associated with the term prior to the mid-1960s. “Colored-only” restrooms and water fountains are examples of harmful relics of the Jim Crow South that black people had to fight, and die, to remove from American culture.”

https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/dahleen-glanton/ct-da...
You should learn when to use the word "literally".
The app is on itself open source, normally it doesn't track users.

I'm also a hoster of my own fediverse instance and data is shared in the network only with the instances with which you interact, and the same thing is for me. And I don't have any privacy policy because I'm the only user in my instance.
Changing the name or updating implementation details is not the same thing as completely abandoning the technology.

You're talking about building a completely separate payment system that has nothing to do with Bitcoin, that suffers from all of the original privacy and centralization problems as regular cash, but just because the funds get converted to Bitcoin after some purchases we're still going to pretend it's using the same technology and that it still aligns with Satoshi's original goals?

If we're doing that, then I'm declaring that my credit card is a Bitcoin system, because I can buy Bitcoin from Coinbase using a credit card. I'm declaring that Visa is already just a layer 1 payment system on top of a Bitcoin backend.
> Unfortunately, those short periods of time are enough to bankrupt people.

Maybe. But that just means that being a bull is tricky business, too. It doesn't mean that being a bear is good business.
That's exactly why I was adamant (on condition of taking my current manager role) that I was always going to be coding. But I agree with most of these steps and when I was solely an engineer, I resented managers in 4 - 7. It was my goal to never be like that.
I think this is a bad comparison. His situation would be closer to buying a house for $40k, making $40k renting it out. Then someone tells you you could probably sell the house now for $500k, but you don't and instead you gamble it away. You never had the $500k to begin with. You had a house people say could be possibly worth that much.
Sorry, the article seems to be behind a paywall.
I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say.
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I won't waste an opportunity to frame this as a modern shifting of the overton window. Rather than editorialize, here you go.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Even this article that we are commenting on seems to me to be a _leftist_ critique of liberal/moderate virtual signalling, and is calling for them to actually do things that matter for anti-racism.
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There is a framework for this that was created over 100 years ago when the same problem happened with railroads. They did they same thing and used their monopoly power to discriminate on who could ship goods by rail. Society said that was wrong and we have the idea of a common carrier that must treat all customers the same.

We should declare all app stores to be the same, common carries that may not discriminate. Bottom line, end of story. No BS about "hate speech" or other terms that are made up to make censorship sound more palatable.
Aren't there fewer free apps to choose in iOS? They charge $100 per year to be a developer. That's kept me from making my apps multiplatform.
IF one happens to own a flagship Android device from top brands, nothing changed for the devices that most people actually buy in large quantities for their pre-paid cards.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/4/20847758/google-android-up...

Google's own security reports marketing usually only focus on the devices where they can sell a nice Treble picture.
I'm from Ukraine. In the 20-th century communists killed several of my relatives. I will never forget about that, and there're many million people like me all over the world.

I do observe tendency in modern world to white-wash communism, and cancel facts about crimes committed by communist regimes.

I know it sounds crazy and I don't have any evidence, but one possible explanation of the trend - Russia's or China's state-sponsored propaganda.
This is exactly what I thought to. Similarly some artworks value is pumped up with fictitious buys and sales so it makes it into the news (at least in that market these type of sales don’t go unnoticed).
All of those things are a good start but it is five hundred thousand dollars. It’s obviously a huge amount of money for someone like this. Why wouldn’t you check with your bank or a solicitor or the financial services regulator in your country before undertaking such a large transaction? The blue check mark just means they’re a celebrity, immediately dumping your life savings into something because the meme man told you to is a pretty foolish thing to do...
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> Recently this was Jamie Dimon lambasting Bitcoin all the while a cryptocurrency trading desk was being set up at Chase.

JPM Chase has 250K employees. Do you think Jamie was made aware every time the markets division took a hard look at crypto?
You use them to buy stuff on the darknet and resell.

Classic money laundering.
Housing prices that are too high are terrible too. They effectively lock people out of homeownership on reasonable terms.

I would prefer reasonable home prices, which means neither collapse nor bubble mania.
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Well yes, but if you invest your own money without going through banks at least you have some choice in where it goes (oil companies, weapon companies, sustainable funds, &c.) and you get to cash out all the benefits (or loss)

I'll take my 7%+ average over the last 100 years vs the "insured" 0.5% my bank proposes me (which doesn't even pay for what my bank charges me monthly)
Isn't Merlin just the Asus firmware with some additional features? From a security perspective it does not seem like an upgrade since it still includes many proprietary Asus blobs.
I want to share my own reactions to the name change since this is a really interesting topic. For context, I'm an African American, so many of my ancestors were slaves.

- The first time it occurred to me that "master" in this context could offend anyone was when GitHub changed the name (and broke my workflow).
- My immediate reaction was, "this change is by white people for white people," where "white" means anyone who isn't black.
- My next reaction was, "they may be changing the name for the wrong reasons, but the change is brilliant."

Let me explain a little more. Whether motivated purely by virtue signaling or by more genuine intentions, changing the name doesn't fix any of the problems that black people face. The article explains this well.

What's powerful about this name change is that it pushes us to alter a habit, in my case one embedded deeply in my fingers, something that I do every day without realizing that I'm doing it. Thus it is a useful reminder of the implicit bias that contributes to the lack of diversity in tech. Never mind that the old name was harmless, the change brings repeated awareness to an important topic, and it reaches a the developer community in a targeted way.

So, next time you are annoyed that you have to fix a script or you accidentally type master when you needed to type main, please just take a deep breath, change the name, and remember to reflect upon whether you have are subconscious habits or biases that work against diversity in tech.
Biden won because many of us blacks, especially in South Carolina voted for the candidate that we thought would most likely win over whites. Warren and Bernie were seen as too progressive and the reward for that would be 4 more years of Trump.
>> You used a lot of words to make a mundane, unsupported assertion sound profound.

Well, that's the game, isn't it?

Btw, like some of your music. Do you have finished tracks online?
They will do this. Firefox is starting with their extensions to block content that the devs are biased against.

Very soon only web browsers that censor to their bias will be allowed in the play store.
Thanks for setting that up!

Though looking at the low correlation between gold and the rest of the market, it looks like you did make an argument there for gold as part of a diversified portfolio.
Three independent investigators came to the same conclusion, but we're supposed to believe you know better from your armchair?
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I do that, because I use a not popular enough programming language.
There is definitely a need for alternatives.

My issue is they acted like this is something groundbreaking and unheard of, while what they've shown is either something that's comparable to other options in the space (Their software looks like branded Plasma Mobile), or vaporware (I won't trust them to deliver hardware, until they actually do.)

Edit: My other issues are located at the bottom of this page. This company has lost any hope I had for it.
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I think of Andy Warhol, who became famous silkscreening Campbells Soup can labels. Often it wasn’t even him making the prints, but his assistants in his “factory”. Should a Warhol be worth more than an identical silkscreen you could buy in the gift shop? Regardless of how you feel about that, I have a hard time seeing a big difference between that and an NFT.
What is meant by "big corporates turning open-source into a T-shirt farming service" ?

Is the main point being made that, corporations are using open source (ie github) as a platform to commercialize software?
I don’t actually think that’s accurate. I don’t see the term “free speech” or any obvious variation on https://tusky.app or even on https://joinmastodon.org.

As I understand it, their main goal is escaping corporate control, and any freedom from censorship they provide is incidental.

See too Mastodon’s “server covenant”, which seeks to quarantine instances that allow hateful content: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
I think this is about right, but one sticking point I've found is: what kind of employee is the project manager? Who do you hire, what is the career trajectory? There is a temptation to have them be a manager, because hey, manager is in the name! But having gotten over that, there is a version of the job that is essentially entry level work; what you describe of managing the tickets and all the stuff is just not very high level work relative to what the rest of the team is doing. But then what is the progression? What are they trying to do after they've put in their years wrangling tickets? I think this can actually lead to a lot of unnecessary complexity. If you have a smart and ambitious person doing this job, they're going to naturally look for ways to make it more meaty. But it doesn't really need to be, so you're in a bit of a bind.

I think this is where the impulse to let the managers handle this as a small part of their job comes from. It's already clear who the managers are and what their career progression is, and handling stuff the team needs to unblock, which doesn't fit well into any particular box is already part of their job.
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> Rehiring talent costs - on average - an annual salary.

That's best-case scenario - an ordinary cog in a big team supporting well-documented/tested and fairly generic, simple software. A friend of mine did a research paper and said it's more like 3 years annual salary in most companies because:

* Loss of productivity during notice period

* Onboarding time of new staff

* Negative impact on morale of rest of team

* Rest of team needing to support work

* Recruiters fees

* Time spent recruiting

* Customer frustration

* Replacing them with someone worse

* Extra mistakes
> And all the real work that people actually appreciate is done for free by volunteers.

I have been contributing to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons for well over 2 years now: Volunteers do contribute a lot but they also tend to create ruckus in equal proportion. One such example: The tools the engineers build for a focus group of Editors who have one or two jobs to do across all Wikipedia properties are absolutely important and don't come for free.
Help out someone who is not very versed in finance: what on earth are "non-debt and non-dollar assets"? Are those stocks from non-USD economies?
Not only that, there is a difference between thinking crypto is a fad and creating a trading desk to profit off that fad.
OK, but at least all the tools are there.
In Serbia government officials displayed some gruesome photos on TV couple weeks ago which were allegedly obtained from SkyECC phones with equipment borrowed from EU.
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I agree with you, he lost real money. But I also agree with the other poster: it's hard to feel bad for him gambling away money that he got by gambling to begin with.
In Germany profits from crypto speculation are not taxable if you have held the coins for two years.

At least, according to my accountant a year or so ago, may have changed since..
I read a comment once, saying that Spring is a lot like the COMEFROM statement [0]. You are in a class, but you have no idea how you got there, or how to get somewhere else. Your IDE is no help, because everything is "decoupled".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
It's worth pointing out tho that the DSA members elected to congress were elected as Democrats.
This is 100% the key. I learned to code in my 30s, but I had been trying to learn for a dozen years before that and nothing stuck. Until I had a product I absolutely wanted (or had) to build, it was impossible for me to have the motivation to learn and have the concepts stick. But once I had that product in mind, everything fell into place.
Ubiquiti Unifi is exactly in that spot. Looking Apple like good and considered business/professional (at least in this article .. we all know they have their problems).

Generally, I completely agree with you. The high-end products do not look fancy normally.
Many service providers allow account recovery via sms, effectively making it the only factor needed. This is the big concern in my experience.
I'm no fan of Android to be clear. My standard install these days is a custom rom if possible, and then only using F-Droid as a repo.

I want more options, I'm just unconvinced this is it.
I was talking about for our federal government. I didn't realize there were 8 CSPANS. I kind of want to get cable now, just so I can watch THE OCHO!
Thank you - much appreciated
I built a blog engine that almost has that stack (Payara instead of jetty, apache dbcp).
One has to look at the sales of Non-Tesla EVs. You can get a lightly used Chevrolet BoltEV for USD $15,000. That is absolute collapse of the value. People get angry at Traditional Car companies when they put most of these models on limited, but look at the Sales of Jaguar, Audi. Benz does not even bring their EV to US.

If you are buying a new EV just buy a Tesla, they are a generation ahead in many things but also making their own seats, reducing the wiring in the car etc. neat innovations.

Tesla is a halo brand, but more than that they have optimized the many things in a car from first principles.

There are many vying to be Samsung of EVs but only time will tell. My Bet is still on the Japanese.. with solid state battery. I have been wrong a lot so.. lets just call it a hunch.
Wabash is already pivoting to special composites to lighten trailers for EV Tractors. I'm sure as new technology makes itself available they will start to think about solarizing their trailers. Right now they run their refers off of propane, switching to battery/electric would be a welcomed change. A trailer can spends days to weeks and even a month in a yard waiting for a tractor and could possibly charge a very large battery in that time. As a side note they could also add regenerative braking to the trailer axles.
It's awful that this guy was scammed, but I am really having difficulty wrapping my head around it. Presumably he follows Elon on Twitter, and would see these scam fake Elon replies/accounts have been trolling his Twitter feed for years. I guess seeing the blue verify check and FOMO at doubling his holdings made him throw caution to the wind.
You're blaming "the left" for distrust in voting? I don't know where to begin...
IMO, eventually this will revert, when lawyers (and judges) realize DRM makes many of them redundant.