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I'm not sure this fully identifies the problem with politics. The people who want to make large amounts of money go into business. The only billionaire in the US government last year was Trump. It isn't even obvious his wealth will save him from the hornets nest he stirred up.

These are people who care more about power and image than they do about monetary incentives. The money is a means to power, not an end in itself. Market incentives aren't their cup of tea, and they just rewrite the incentives if they can't do what they want.

The problem sits with the American public. They keep asking for incoherent things and refuse to agree on even basic facts. That isn't some minor issue that can be worked around with a clever system, people need to start resetting their expectations.

Eg, the public at large demands houses make good financial investments and that everyone can afford a house. This is not achievable. The problem isn't the politician's incentives, it is the public's not accepting that reality and negotiating the social contract around it. The debt based shenanigans to try and make both true are not good ideas and logically can't work.
Your model that people can afford to hold onto an asset with maintenance costs forever seems like it can't be true. It's possible for your primary residence, but that's because homes have a use - you can live in them. If you're using it and paying the mortgage then it doesn't matter if you're underwater.

Anyway, this can be solved by waiting for them to die, and in the meantime building more houses with more efficient land use.
> what you're looking for

It's a boat, not a submarine. The low profile makes it harder to detect from the sea. Not from the air, though.

At max 2-3 knots it can only go with the current (not against). Needs calm-ish conditions, if it is to reach the destination as opposed to any random place.
YouTube is down because of minified dev build being deployed
I'm getting:

You are currently using minified code outside of NODE_ENV === "production". This means that you are running a slower development build of Redux. You can use loose-envify (https://github.com/zertosh/loose-envify) for browserify or setting mode to production in webpack (https://webpack.js.org/configuration/mode/) to ensure you have the correct code for your production build.

At least it is minified :D
The difference between cheap and expensive (luxury) products is the margin. Manufacturers of cheap wine have to sell a lot to make a profit because they can't afford to charge any premium. This means going as fast, cheap, and low quality with the ingredients as they legally can. This is how the race to the bottom looks like and it's almost universally applicable in just about every field.

A $2 bottle of wine is less wine and more creative engineering. And that's ok as long as the customers understand what they're getting.
Repeating this same line is just harmful noise at this point. Rather, we should - legally - demand more from tech utility platforms like Google, Facebook or Apple.
Cheap and versatile [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/19/palm-oil-ingred...
Synopsis: Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin, respectively. Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.
15 years ago, if I had said that society would build a tracking system and that most people would happily carry a tracker in their pocket and pay monthly fees to support the tracking networks, I would have been laughed out of the room.

But that is what happened, and most people are oblivious to this fact.
It’s been in use as in “toxic relationship” or “toxic behaviour” for maybe fifty years. If you’re thinking of “salty”... that goes even further back. And both were definitely popular in Counter-Strike a decade before any other game!
I disagree. Classically, philosophy was about establishing truth (which is why it is called philosophy - literally love of knowledge). But establishing truth was seen as a subset of better living.
It's easy to dismantle this argument by realising that you're making a fake comparison. Nobody (not even ISIS) is going to be stupid enough to give access to nukes to the kinds of people that they value little enough to send on suicide bomb attacks. This was also true for the Axis forces. Nobody was entrusting low level SS and Kamikaze grunts with nuclear codes and the same would be true for even a "rogue" state like North Korea or Iran.

You also clearly don't understand what path would lead someone to resort to suicide bombing if you think you can reduce it to "a pure act of hate". These are desperate people who have been brainwashed to the point that they think they would bring more net worth to the world by blowing themselves and their surroundings up than living on. What would help "talk sense" to people is to stop engaging in illegal invasive wars that (intentionally or unintentionally) destabilise their region.
> Daily reminder that your business/project/hobby should not depend on anything controlled by Google.

Note that this doesn’t mean don’t participate on platforms controlled by Google, it just means diversify your business so you have multiple income streams rather than just putting all your eggs in one App Store basket. Apps should really just be a client facing portal tied in to a whole ecosystem of solutions you provide.
You're wrong, here's all the details for Hinkley Point C:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hinkley-point-c-f...

EDF have already planned spent fuel storage and decomissioning, and it's provided for in the prices.

That's just one example, but it's been the standard practice across nuclear projects for decades now in most of Europe.

> Unless we can see evidence that the system as a whole (i.e. nuclear industry plus government of various levels of corruption) can function to process and store waste safely, this is a black mark against the nuclear industry.

It is being done today, and there are multiple projects that intend to improve upon it ( by recycling or cold underground permanent storage). What kind of evidence do you need? For it to be done over a 100 years? It'd be far too late then.
Lol you must be trolling
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In this case I thought it was rather obvious what the author's bias was and he doesnt't try to hide it.

It might be useful if they tried to conceal it. E.g tried to present themselves as an objective researcher at a think tank that takes money from general dynamics/lockheed or a journalist who clearly hastily rewrote a press release.
> enforced at the whim of anonymous bureaucrats

Not all of whom are human.
It's fine to propose technical solutions like browser add-ons.

But how does this address the problem of comment sections easily devolving into a dumpster fire? There's a reason why newspapers, like the Inquirer, are turning off their comment sections. That reason is sound.

It's like hosting a block party and having it overrun by neighborhood maniacs, weirdos, libertarians and homeless people. What you're proposing is a means for inviting, organizing and publicizing commentary for all content on the web whether the content creator wants it or not.
I once tried to advertise on facebook. I was editing my ad, and when I was trying upload an image or something, it went into some sort of infinite loop of trying to reload the page. Then, seconds later, it was banned, taking down my business page and my personal account as well. Still down after two years and going through their "appeals" process, which involves trying to log in with my old password, saying it was a mistake, and nothing ever happening.
Except it's not, they give you time to comply with the policy.
Now that's a title I would like to have on my business card.

It just states upfront that you don't give a shit. :-)
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> The UK has notoriously low productivity compared to Europe and the US, and longer average work hours than the rest of Europe.

You should be very wary of productivity statistics coming from Europe.

I have worked most of the past decade in France. Like most highly educated employee in France, my contract is in days and not in hours. Officialy and legally, I have no set hours but for accounting purpose I have always officialy worked 37.5 hours a week. In reality, I have never worked less than 42.5 hours and weeks above 45 hours are both common and expected.

This is the norm not the exception.
My friends gave me the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Technothrasher" many years ago in college, which I now use for my handle on many websites. I often get asked the very same question that you just asked.
There's already F-Droid and the Amazon App store.
> the safe and conservative way to do that is to use today's winter time all year round

What are the points that lead you to this conclusion? Personally I'd prefer if DST was abolished by staying on Summer Time permanently, as I dislike the lack of light in the evening, and couldn't care less about the dark mornings, but mine is a purely selfish reasoning.
This is getting worse than mainstream celebrity press.
"they should have built their own phone with their own app store"

- the hn community, when it suited their political agenda
How much time was given in this instance?
+ focus on identifying and relieving bottlenecks
It actually does make sense. Overconsumption is a huge contributor to the problems that we see today. People buying a lot of junk that they don't need leads to wasted resources and overexploited ecosystems.
>So what drives these prices is actually inherited wealth.

This is so true for Germany/Most of Western Europe. Buying property is a pipe dream at this point, even for white collar professionals, if you have no help from the bank of mom and dad.

Building has just not kept up with demand (can't build and dilute the value of established NIMBY property owners) and wages have not kept up with the rising property prices.

And rent freezing for the established ones further increases the cost for those new to the market. So good luck building wealth for a mortgage when you'll be paying over half of your net income for big city rent.

I feel like unless something changes, we're looking at some massive revolts in the next decades if things continue along this path of squeezing the middle and lower classes to further transfer their wealth to the rich, all carefully enabled by the ruling politicians.

That's why so many desperate young ones are gambling their savings on GME and other memes, since they realized that unless you're born into wealth, the game is rigged against you building wealth no matter how hard you work. So then, why bother working hard as that just makes the rich even richer but not you.
works fine here.
I want to know how well Brotli fares with this. Browser and server support for Brotli and Brotli with static compression is the future rather than these MS-DOS things from a long time ago.
'Spanish practices' in the UK means using bureaucracy to get as much out of the employer with as little effort as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_practices
He should have gone with Technoviking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y
> paid subreddit mod

They used to pay moderators?
A lot of the hardliner Brexiteers would go for it (an Englishman's home is his castle) an Farage actually mentioned it.

Brexiteers would see tony martin as a hero.
Here is link to the code:
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You cannot compare a random persons’ blog to a comment on mainstream media. The audience size is vastly different, and the overlap probably nil.
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Rawa TV | Remote (EU timezone overlap needed) | Full-time | Full stack developer, React Native developer

Rawa TV (https://rawa.tv) is a live streaming platform targeted for gamers across the Arab region. We are building the largest arab gaming community that will help gamers directly engage with each other and monetize their passion through our platform. We are backed by strong investors, close to 6 figures of users, growing at a rate of 400 new sign ups per day, and for our next phase of growth we are looking to increase our team with dedicated and talented people.

Work is 100% remote but not async, therefore some EU timezone overlap is needed. In the direct chain of command, everyone but the CEO comes with a strong tech background, so management does understand you. Being a startup, there is also no clear chain of command, but rather a mist.

# Full stack developer

As a professional full stack developer, you will take both frontend and backend tasks, but the ratio strongly favors backend. At the moment the code is v1.0, so not pretty, but a rewrite using proper microservices boundaries and clean architecture is on the horizon.

## Requirements

- Typescript (though good JS knowledge is enough)
- Comfortable with relational databases (PostgreSQL & MySQL)
- General AWS practice, more specific ECS, Lambdas, RDS Aurora
- ReactJs

# React Native developer

At the moment our frontend is split into 3 independent projects, with independent developers: web, Android & iOS. We would like to unite all under one roof, and think React Native is up to the task. As a professional React Native developer, you will be tasked with taking the current project and rewriting it, with a focus on Android and iOS. A separate colleague will focus on web and backends integration, and it's expected that you will work together closely.

## Requirements

- React Native - Typescript
- Expo - Typescript
- Ability to copy-paste from StackOverflow when dealing with Android/iOS specific issues (some native knowledge heavily preferred)

If you think you fit the job description, please send your CV and any other documentation of your choice to apply@rawa.tv
Indeed it is not, which is why its a tragedy that wealthy countries basically sit around paying lip service to the issue and point finger at some poor farmer god kbow where claiming pollution is his fault

Meanwhile people who control the global financial markets and industry bear no responsibility
I really like these projects but as an apple investor I am torn with the feelings... Apple hard ware isn’t that expensive and the software isn’t particularly great. I had a apple lc II and I own a Macintosh apple IIe I have used a kvm based qemu image and the experience is good enough for development but not much else and with the addition of aws apple images with Big Sur can’t we just use things like that. I know we want this for free and not pay apple. I know I am an apple investor. But a vm is a poor way to experience apple products. My modded Mac m1 with the thermal pad mod will be the fastest MacBook Air possible but the battery might suffer. I am not saying don’t do these this for fun. But I’ve used apple products. These things will encourage new users to use apple products. Do it but buy an old Mac and give apple hardware a chance. If you don’t like it just return it and go back to your awesome qemu kvm pass through setup that supports nvidia hardware. What I am saying is apple hardware is pretty good and if you like the software you might like the hardware. And if you dont like either just buy the stock.
TP became popular before it had units, IIRC. It was small, fast and, well, available.
Youtube has a staggered release so it might be regional or just waiting to hit everyone :D
News is not art. It is part of public discourse and has entirely different dynamics.
Solar, like wind, is not an energy source you can control. It's nice when it's there, but it can't be the backbone of your energy mix without controllable energy sources, like coal
You are assuming a lot. Many stanford phd's fail the google interview. I'd guess larry, sergey and zuckerberg had a pretty good chance of failing their own swe interviews...
- It is not secure

- You can make/buy them

- Luggage locks are all garbage anyway

Most mechanical locks are garbage and neither resistant to practical physical attacks nor at all pick resistant. Many are vulnerable to super-generic low-skill attacks like bump keys and comb picks.

Many electronic locks are garbage.

Smart locks are complete garbage.

See https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ for many practical examples.
I hope we see more companies introduce non-standard vanity titles. As stupid as it sounds, I may be a bit more interested in climbing a corporate ladder just to have a cool sounding title different from the usual corporate crap.
I'm sorry that you are involved with this kind of toxic "business" and with funding round beggars. I've only worked with real users of real data for real process integration, real marketing, real monitoring and auditing, under real management, in real companies.
Or you can just make a web app. Unless you are doing games or anything requiring lower-level hardware access, like a bluetooth scanner or something.
> The difference is, most of these costs _are_ factored in to renewable costs because there are few subsidies (at least at grid level

It will depend on location, but across the EU there are massive subsidies. Furthermore, recycling costs aren't included and are just starting to come to light with the decomissioning of the first generation of solar and wind generation platforms. Their limited useful life,bserious recycling costs and related pollution, and all of those on the energy storage required to actually make them useful for bade load are rarely a part of the discourse.

> I just don't understand why we're still talking about this when nuclear storage costs, even when included, are laughably optimistic

How so? Most of the problems around long term storage are political. The temporary swimming pools are still good enough for decades or even centuries to come, while projects on underground permanent storage are advancing ( most notably Finland iirc).
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Re batteries: For grid storage, you don't need "battery metals". Lead-based batteries are perfectly sufficient when you don't care about energy density. And that's ignoring other methods of storing energy.
You could argue that someone or a some group asked for a change order and/or approved a change request with a “bot” or a piece of code.
Why not technocrat?
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Here is from the original article quoted on the Wikipedia page: "Since 2002, Yarvin had been working on an algorithm — the backbone of Urbit, a product that would restructure how people use the internet. In 2013, he launched the San Francisco-based company Tlon, which oversees Urbit."

Can't really find any info about when they officially "created" this thing, but color me skeptical when someone says they "worked on blockchain" before blockchain was even invented.
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Hi,

Saw a while back a service mentioned here that was doing something along the lines of $subject and then another service by a commenter in the same context.

Of course I can't find anything now and google is not helpful.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
You're probably aware of it but if not, check out the "biomorphs" from Richard Dawkins "Blind Watchmaker" book. Or the 1987 documentary version at :

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x223a3n

(The whole thing's great but the biomorphs are at 26:40 )
Yeah, SEO has become hell hole in the last 6 months. Crippled businesses across the board from what I've seen and heard on the grape vine.

After 8 years of SEO expertise I honestly can say that there's nothing about SEO these days that makes sense, pages are not being indexed for weeks at a time, spam/crap at the top result. Throw in the endless (and ambiguous) requirements to adhere to the mighty G's requirements.
Does your approach allow for quality optimizations like sub pixel rendering for arbitrary curves? It seems like this is what is interesting about this approach.

Also in terms of “two draw calls”, does that include drawing text as part of your transparent pass, or are you assuming that your window contents are already rendered to textures?
The dev release seems to have problems with accessing Window:

https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/6babc418/jsbin/desktop_pol...

desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.js:9964 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'process' of object '#<Window>'
at desktop_polymer_inlined_html_polymer_flags.js:9964
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I don't think any reply to this comment mentioned Stripe's actual moat: vertical integration between their products.

HN loves Stripe's Payments API, but in my experience from having worked on payments at a large ecommerce unicorn, APIs from companies like Adyen and Checkout.com are just as easy to work with.

Stripe's real moat is that they offer so many useful products around payments and finance that integrate really well. You can get fraud detection, billing, invoicing etc. from other merchants, or you can build your own, but it's probably cheaper (and much simpler) to use Stripe for all of that.

At the moment this is true from small to medium sized companies. Past a certain size you will most likely be using multiple Payment Service Providers anyway, so the vertical integration is not as useful.
It's terrifying how little Musk gives a shit. Tesla is testing unfinished self-driving technology via customers (which endangers those of us who don't even own Teslas) and Musk's reopening of his factory caused 450 cases of Covid.

For someone who holds the lives of others in his hands, it is sad, disturbing, and enraging that he behaves like a clown and a teenage troll so much of the time.
Adding to zamadatix's excellent points - it falls under the HIPAA Conduit Exception, which includes encrypted email and the US Postal Service, through which a healthcare provider can send PII with a reasonable expectation that the messages won't be intercepted in transit.
For those not from South Africa, this app is primarily for people to be able to get notifications or look up when their area will be affected by a "planned power outage", or as Eskom (our state owned power utility) refers to it, "load shedding". "Load shedding" is enacted whenever they have a power production capacity issue where different areas take turns without power so as to not let the power grid collapse.

This app aggregates information from various data sources and provides push notifications too. It is without a doubt the best source of this information and the app being unavailable significantly affects the day to day lives of a significant portion of the South African population who use it to plan around these power outages.

While the app also has a "chat" feature, it's really tangental to the primary purpose of the app and I expect that most users of the app, like myself, don't use that feature at all and only care about knowing when they will be without electricity.

In case you're wondering why they hell we have load shedding, it's because Eskom is grossly incompetent. Their incompetence is hugely exacerbated by nepitism and corruption where government has historically appointed people to Eskom management positions solely as "favours", rather than on qualification for the job.
Got to love the geek in Elon for trolling the haters using SEC official channels :-)
There is no appeals process unfortunately. For the past 2 years I have been asking for an update regularly and the only response I get is an automated response saying that they have checked my ad account and there is nothing they can do about it.

My website is still blocked by Facebook's sharing debugger and my ad accounts with balance in them have been blocked without a reason given.