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I don't know that the individual is a substantial figure in the patterns of distribution. Sure Suzy took out a $40k loan and is paycheck to paycheck because of it. But that's a very small fraction of the whole. And application of stimulus, while remedying some people's serviceability, gives others the basis to leverage up. As a whole, the system is highly circular, it's where you've got exuberantly large gravity that things start to bend and twist. And estimations in this system are designed to bust. Despite the fact that the whole system is manmade, we know very little. Estimates of oil prices 3 months in the future will be wrong, and nobody can actually predict the closing price of the indexes, let alone individual stocks, so to assume those estimates are even probable is ridiculous.

What I think we need to be considering is the highly concentrated nature of monolithic corporate capital and power. Like, for example, Amazon. The immeasurable value of the exchanges that took place globally for goods through Amazon. And Amazon tends to invest that wealth, which would be a net decrease in "capital entropy", while Amazon nets increased value despite the fact that they don't hold the capital. They do briefly inject a small sum of capital over a wide range of industries, though, like building materials, construction labor, engineering, and etc... But ultimately that money loses velocity, it doesn't have the momentum it needs because everything is so expensive now, and as a product most people opt to leverage.

On that latter part, as a miser of sorts, it's actually far more effective, even in the case of depreciating assets, to leverage. I could've been "educated" by now if I wasn't exceedingly scrupulous in avoiding usury. I spent many years of my life accumulating the relatively meager wealth I did collect and it's only put me at a disadvantage due to the nature of federal grants weighing personal holdings, from which I'm only able to draw in tax refunds, and only a fraction of what the ultimate costs will be it also puts me in a morally precarious position as far as other modes of welfare. That is to say you're dually (and quite possibly triply, with inflation) punished for choosing the "responsible" path of self-funding. To ossify that point, 0% interest increased sticker prices, so now buying big ticket goods comes with interest embedded.
.txt is a file extension designating a plain text file. But yes, new well-known files of this sort intended to be included on websites, like humans.txt and now security.txt, do follow the naming convention of robots.txt.
>the amount of land border that'd we'd have to police

In all fairness, the US could seal its borders pretty tightly if it wanted to. But the land borders were kept open for commercial purposes and we allowed passenger flights in and out. And there are lots of reasons why shutting all that down would have been politically and economically challenging. But we could have done so (which is not to say we should have).
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A depositor is not the customer banks are chasing. It's the businesses who want loans and financial services like M&A and IPOs.

Their competitive advantage is not in their software at all. It's in their relationships. The software helps them scale to large numbers of depositors. That's all.
"Automated ‘Robo-Snipers’ set up along the Gaza border, designed to create “automated kill-zones” at least 1.5 km deep. But they aren’t merely robotic guns. The turrets feature heavy duty 7.62 calibre machine guns tied into a network spanning the entire border. If any turret detects human movement, the entire chain of guns can train their sights and concentrate firepower on the interloper. Some turrets are also able to fire explosive rockets."

It's surprising that wasn't proposed for the US-Mexico border wall.
My guess is that the article is thinking of other kinds of storage, such as water pumping. I very much doubt battery storage could be cost effective at this time.
>The whole argument for printing money being OK is dumb. If it's OK to print money to pay for some things why are you not doing it more? Why not make everyone a millionaire?

No one is advocating for unlimited money printing. The fact that money printing is being used to inflate financial assets that benefits elites is a policy and political failure not a repudiation of monitary policy.
The hardware used in Smart TVs is generally raspberry pi level (to the point the SoCs the rpi uses were actually designed for set top boxes) but a lot less friendly from both a kernel support perspective and hardware perspective because you don't have the entire Raspberry Pi foundation and hacking community behind making the software and hardware easy to hack on. Outside "I'm in it for the hardware hacking" grabbing a Pi 4 is going to be infinitely more effective, particularly if you want to throw libreelec or a de-googled Android TV on it without doing a lot of the hardware and software work yourself but even if you do it's unlikely you reach Pi quality.

At the "more money but I just want a device I can run my own software on that works out of the box" the Shield TVs are great, you can throw an open source Android TV on it (not that the branded one is all that bad tbh).
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“Did nothing” is different from “didn’t do enough”: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abc0e9
> OEMs make significant money pre-installing windows on their machines.

Then why is it that, whenever I see a choice, the Linux option is always cheaper?

For instance, I just went do Dell's site and randomly selected a laptop (https://www.dell.com/pt-br/work/shop/isv-workstations-certif...). The default operating system option is "Windows 10 Pro 64bit Brazil Portuguese"; if instead I select the "Ubuntu Linux 18.04" option, the price gets R$ 686,00 lower (and that's before removing the "Dell Endpoint Security" antivirus option, which decreases the price by another R$ 240,00).
Hundreds of points lets you get a good average. 2 or 3 requires that you've definitely clicked the same point on both images; a human can use other bits of the image to work that out, but a computer finds it harder.
Right. This seems like a good pattern to have. Much like app/framework specific config, I much prefer to have everything under ~/.local/ than a myriad of ~/.foo dotfiles. It's only one endpoint to route, and you don't need to change configs each time you add some new static file.

IMHO, index.html and favicon should be the only files living at top level, and I guess robots.txt since that's a de facto standard (and soon to be actual standard iirc)
Tell that to the people not on this, or any, forum because they are left behind and don't have any or a decent internet connection.

In I were in that spot, I'd happily trade a few bright spots in the sky for catching up with the developed world.
"job security of the salaried employee"

No such thing as job security.

If you're good, they won't throw you out even if you're a freelancer. If you're bad they will throw you out even if you're an employee.

I did both and the only difference I saw was the type of work you do. As a freelancer I have less hand-holding than an employee, but also more freedom.
The dark coating isn’t used anymore, they have a visor/sunshade instead. The satellites people can see with the naked eye have not reached their service orbit yet, and they are not aligned to use the sunshade (they are instead configured to raise orbit as quickly as possible).

As for the rules about polluting space, the simple fact is that none of the rules makers expected that some agency would want to launch thousands of satellites. There are no rules covering this scenario.

AFAIK the nearest we have to rules covering the proliferation of communications satellites are ITU rules on access to spectrum. There’s no restriction on the number of satellites, just who is using what frequency in which part of the sky.

If you want to add rules about the number of satellites in orbit, better get in quick before StarLink becomes too valuable to ban.
Side question (non crypto related), does paying for it automatically makes the advisor legally liable for the advice in most 'advanced' jurisdictions?
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I don't think anyone has the ability to shoot down enough Starlink satellites to make a difference.

Musk's biggest risk in China is the CCP confiscating the Tesla factory in Shanghai.
It's based on number of hours worked, rather than hourly vs. salary. The Affordable Healthcare Act defines the number at 30 hours a week for more than 120 days a year where an employer must offer insurance.
By pressuring Tesla. One thing making me nervous with Tesla's China business is that it will become too big for Tesla to let it fail, at which point Tesla (and every other Musk company) will be beholden to the CCP.
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This is because the US labor laws are messed up. In other countries, you get paid overtime even if you are salaried.
> All killing of humans by other humans is unethical

It's going to be difficult for you to find many people who agree with this assertion.

Most people awknowledge the necessity of self defense, and many others who agree with the death or penalty agree with the idea of death as punishment for certain classes of crimes.

Now there's an argument to be made about a judicial process being followed or the issue with unintended consequences/blowback but it's a hard sell to your average person that a brutal dictator shouldn't be killed.
How do you know it still would've happened at all? This isn't a very productive conversation.
Right but how much loan you can get in the US is tied to how much monthly payment you can afford. If interest rates are 2% the total price of the house can go up with the same monthly payment. At 4% you can’t afford as much house. Housing prices generally fall when rates rise. Once you are locked into a loan, you pay the same amount. But if you need to sell and you only put 5% down on an 800k house, and now the house can only sell for 650k, you would have to make up the difference on the note.
So I feel like this is basically irrelevant to most people. Maybe having hourly pay and overtime is better but it’s generally not a simple choice between exempt or non-exempt employment because the exempt positions tend to be more highly paid and therefore more desirable. Moreover, if you’re an efficient worker, you may feel there are better incentives for you to be paid for that efficiency if you’re salaried.

It also feels irrelevant for me (and most people on HN?) because the sort of work I do (computer programming) tends to be salaried. There are self-employed contractors but I feel like they don’t count as they’re also exempt (I think) and they get to choose their rates. When I saw the title I thought it would be comparing employment to contracting or entrepreneurialism. I feel like the things that will have a big impact for compensation are more long-term, discretionary, or growth related (if you’re going to get an x% pay rise every year then your starting pay makes a big difference to the total over all the years), eg promotions/equity/bonuses/switching employers.
No, because the original was made hundreds of years ago by a now globally recognised artist. A jpg is just a jpg.
At least it doesn't take 10 days anymore

I think it was 5 years ago already when Apple got it down to 1 day
It's like buying a piece of land. You don't physically take the land home, you just acquire new and specific rights depending on your legal jurisdiction. Are you buying the property, or just the deed to the property?
Maybe you're sick or hearing this argument, but I'm sure being the most isolated country on Earth helps in a pandemic.

Not that I doubt the civic mindedness of the NZ people!
I saved a significant amount of the money I made as a salaried employee, about $110k in total, over a five-year period. What did I do with it? I bought Tesla stock right after the crash last March, and now I'm retired at age 40. I recently moved out of California into in a luxury apartment in Tennessee, where prices and taxes are low. I am completely free to do as I please.

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> Ultimately, printing money doesn't make anyone more productive or produce anything. All it does is redistribute wealth from those that were first to get the new free money away from those that were last to contact it.

I look it as raising taxes on the rich is too hard, and too easy to roll back. Just give the people who need it most the money, devaluing rich people's money. It's just a more efficient form of wealth transfer, and inflation isn't an issue as long as the deficit growth doesn't exceed long term growth.

> At the moment we have new money being created by central banks and given to privileged institutions who get access to free money.

Also, did you forget about fractional reserve lending? Banks don't need the fed to create money, they do it on their own all the time.
If someone's backlog goes to zero, their manager can't find more work that needs to be done, and there is no reason that person needs to be available during core working hours, requiring them to sit in the office and kill time is ridiculous.

The catch is that for most of us, those conditions are almost never met. When was the last time had a job where the entire backlog of work was cleared out and there were no tasks you could be helping with? Usually if that happens more than a few times, the team is on their way to being reassigned or even laid off.

The 40-hour workweek target is best viewed as a feedback loop. If everyone is consistently working more than 40 hours per week, something is wrong. Team size needs to be increased, schedules need to be pushed out, scope needs to be reduced, inefficiencies (meetings!) need to be pulled out of the way. Something has to give.

Likewise, if someone is consistently running out of work early, the schedule needs to be brought in, the person should help take pressure off of some other tasks, blockers need to be removed, and so on.

The challenge as a manager is that estimation and work-assignment are a two-way process. I work with team members to assign backlog tasks. If someone is consistently taking 20 hours of work for themselves and pretending its a full work week, someone else has to pick up the remaining work.
It's really not that simple. I made a small fortune being salaried. Would I have made the same money self-employed? Maybe, but I'm not sure - the risks are a lot higher (the rewards too, but like I said, far less certain).
>It's surprising that wasn't proposed for the US-Mexico border wall.

With enough scapegoating and propaganda, anything is possible.
They've also been raising money ($850M in February) so they don't necessarily have to be using profit from paid launches.
>The government is forecasting that businesses already overburdened with debt because of Covid are going to borrow at near record amounts to fund investment and I can say with near certainty that they won’t be, because banks will not be lending, and that ends that suggestion then.

Banks will be lending, they will have to because they need to get the cash (printed by the central banks) off their balance sheets. They will do this by lending left right and centre.

Wages will probably lift as well because there are several structural skills shortages in the economy at the moment - due to Brexit and some other factors.
Most of my experience is in the United States, where I live. In the US a "normal" mortgage typically has a fixed rate.

However, any kind of unsecured loan will have a floating rate. Certainly that includes all credit card debt and any kind of short term business financing like paypal offers.

Further, if you have a poor credit score it is likely that your car loan(s) will have a floating rate and that you will be aggressively steered into a floating rate mortgage (an "ARM"). This will be presented to you as a benefit in the form of lower monthly payments (for now).
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Israel definition of dual-use is adaptive. Very adaptive.

> Concrete used to build attack tunnels - restrict concrete.

> Burning old tires used as smoke mask to attack border - restrict import of used tires.

> Helium balloons used as incendiary devices - restrict Helium supply.

Those are all real examples from the last few years, btw.

Edit: Basic necessities to sustain life - food, water, medicines are allowed. No need for hyperbole.

If you had a bad neighbor, you would do the same.
Sounds perfect to me.
Nor should we fool ourselves that it's important for a machine to take over. We don't "suuuck" at driving -- or at killing other people, for that matter: as a species, on average, we're fairly competent at both tasks. The fact that a machine might have a lower failure rate isn't a singular reason to embrace the tech.
You know, you have some valid points. Unfortunately, due to your demeaning and dismissive tone, I don't feel there's any point in engaging with you further.
That argument has absolutely nothing to do with this article. Not saying I disagree, but it's true or false regardless if we kill with a robot or not. It's irrelevant to the discussion.
Then it is provable wrong. I can't believe anyone who has watched news from the US could believe in such foolishness. If anything it is just the opposite. Just goggle that video.
Only if your wages rise accordingly. And don't forget that your taxes are going up as well unless tax brackets are adjusted for inflation.
> Batteries, solar panels, wind mills are all very hard to recycle

Everything the world creates is unprofitable to recycle except for aluminum soda cans. Compared to the average commercial waste, batteries, solar panels and wind blades are straightforward to recycle.

> Where's the talk about all the "rare earth minerals" that's going to have to be strip mined around the world to keep up with "clean energy"?

There's no talk because the commonly used batteries and solar panels don't contain any.

A lifepo4 battery consists of Lithium, Iron and Phosphate, all of which are abundant.

> about 8,000 will be removed in each of the next four years.

IOW, about 40,000 tonnes of waste. About the same amount of waste as a small town.
_If_ you fancy identifying yourself to Microsoft and hooking up the copious telemetry they gather to you identity that is.
After watching a few interviews with BlockFi[0], I come to understand:

There are probably hedge funds or other large institutions who want to trade USDC or BTC without owning it. I am not a professional investor, so I don't understand quite why they wouldn't just buy USDC or Bitcoin outright and trade it...

But, every market needs liquidity and you basically are providing it by lending out your assets. There are some protocols emerging which lets you keep ownership of your coins and still lending them out.

I would go to BlockFi or other 2-3 bigger institutions (maybe even Kraken or Coinbase) and lend USDC out for currently 10%.

I don't know about taxes much, it depends on the country. All crypto is tax free in Germany after 1 year, so people mostly hold for a year and sell.

I am lending out USDC because, well, where do I get 10%? Also, lending out BTC means you can still keeping it while profiting from it.

Few people here understand that people actually don't want to sell Bitcoin since it seems to be a hard asset, and you don't want to get rid of it. So you can profit from the gains on the BTC price WHILE ALSO profiting around 5% a year of it. It's like a dream.

I don't expect this to go on for ever, but the market needs liqudity and its a perfect time to do so.

[0] https://www.realvision.com/shows/the-interview-crypto/videos...
Lets put it this way: a 7.62 to the head - an actual, literal "head shot" - is lethal in all but the most exceptional circumstances. Same with the hearth region. A hit in the leg can easily be survived, especially if someone is around you to put a tourniquet on it.

In fact someone in the same boot camp as me got a 7.62 through his thigh after he didn't get the notice and wandered around between the targets as people started shooting. He survived with no lasting injuries. Extremely lucky but still.

Source: I got most of my small arms training on G3s which are 7.62.
Does SpaceX really have any capital constraints? I'd assume that in the current environment they can essentially raise/borrow unlimited capital just on Musk's brand name.
Don't think that's really true, unless by "most countries" you mean countries where the financial system is exclusively state owned

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My mother was raving about the service the other day.

Speeds are 10-15x faster, she’s having an easier time with her online community college course and her job KPI is up by double digit percents [1]. She was worried that IT wouldn’t be OK with it when I said it was satellite (They’d been burned too many times), but the IT guy was incredibly excited because he’s also waiting to get Starlink.

Looking forward to the service only getting better, really incredible execution.

[0] My dad went on the roof in the cold Wisconsin winter to put it up.

[1] Lines transcribed per hour, as a medical transcriptionist working from home.
> The issue I have with salary structure is that you have no opportunity for going above and beyond.

Yes you do. This should be recognized via bonuses, raises, and/or promotions as appropriate. It's not immediate, but it does manifest over time. If it doesn't, use the experience gained to move to a company that appreciates such work and rewards it appropriately.
You said it. I get so tired of talking to people, especially young people early in their career, with this attitude. They want raises, promotions, and bonuses at every turn, but never show in crunch time. They think showing up for 9 months with a completely perfunctory attitude towards work is enough to justify their upward mobility in the company. It is not. I have had interns come and absolutely ball out the whole time they are with us. Sometimes I am sure they go back to their dorm room or apartment and put in a couple extra hours on their project. It shows. I have no problem getting them hired with good salaries and quick promotions. Then you have the guy that has bounced around from team to team for 5 years, never gets anything done right, and wants a big raise.
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The factors in COVID are age and obesity, countries with older and/or fatter populations have more cases per capita and hence deaths. Lockdown is a rounding error.
That’s one twisted way to interpret it. A more charitable one would be that Israel is better at protecting its civilians.

It sounds as if you have an idea that Israel could just make it all go away in a day if they’d like. I would love to know what you think that move would be.
Everything's dual-use, then, including basic necessities.

Food - could be used to feed combatants!

Medicine - could be used to treat combatants!

Consider the possibility that "you're not allowed to build houses for your families because we won't let the materials in" potentially inflames more terrorism than it stops.

edit: Regarding your edit, "Edit: Basic necessities to sustain life - food, water, medicines are allowed."

Shelter is considered one of the basic necessities.

> If you had a bad neighbor, you would do the same.

If I had a bad neighbor, and I walled them in and forbade them from buying concrete and fertilizer, the police would likely intervene in their favor.
What does supplemental health insurance look like in the UK when the NHS is supposed to cover most things? Is it just the ability to go to private clinics or does it cover elective surgeries at a high percentage or provide international coverage?
Weird, I didn't make a value judgment, I had only pointed out the biting irony of the situation at hand. Any assumption you've made from my post is just that: an assumption.
Battery storage is cheaper than HVDC power lines.

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