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> So the book argues that when developing countries are pressured into free trade agreements

This should have been obvious since the Opium Wars and the Opening of Japan (see Commodore Matthew Perry).

All developed countries are pro free trade for markets where they are strong and fiercely protectionist where they are not (or they consider those markets strategic priorities).

I'm from Romania. Romania joined the EU in 2007, so we had to liberalize everything. It has generally been good for us (higher wages, economic growth, overall development), but I know all the German, French, Belgian supermarket chains.

Do you know why I know them? Because there are 0 (zero!) local supermarket chains left. They've all been bought by foreign companies.

Similar story for banks, car companies, whatever.

During the 2008 economic crisis Erste, Austrian banking group, repatriated all the local profits (from BCR, former major Romanian bank) to Austria so that the local banks would not be impacted. Similar story for OMV, Austrian oil and gas group (from Petrom, former major Romanian oil and gas company).

It's a mixed bag, really. You need some foreign investment to kickstart things, but if you don't start blocking stuff off, you'll never go over the middle income barrier, at best. At worst you practically become someone else's colony, or in the olden days, you actually were their colony (and what happened in Bengal in 1941 and Ireland in the 1800s comes to mind).
Wish cookie consent could be saved at the browser level and websites can just check against my settings instead of asking me every time.

I guess that makes too much sense.
Without more detail it's hard to say much that's useful but in my experience WSL2 has been nothing short of excellent. Also switched from Mac to Windows with WSL and the development experience is much better.
I hope your book does well.
They told me the internet world was going to end if we didn't subsidize Google, Facebook and other Big Tech companies with Net Neutrality.. yet nothing happened. So once the proponents acknowledge they were wrong we can discuss.

As a good rule of thumb, any government regulation that is supported by Google, Facebook, Netflix and other monopoly tech... is bad for you the individual.
Harvard Prof says social distancing is good for independent thinking
I will just use Hugo. Makes more sense for me to focus on my main goals. Thank you :)
Cookie/privacy consent stuff is really just an instance of the "terms and conditions" problem, canonically described in South Park's HumancentiPad.

In modern times, we hang a lot of hats on explicit contracts. If contracts don't work well, we're stuck for ideas.

The reductio ad absurdum is that contracts are supposed to be a flexible solution. Meanwhile, almost every implementation is a rote ruleset.
I don't think the analogy works so well ... programming and exercise are very different.

Once you're not a beginner, programming mostly becomes about the specific domain youre working on, rather than the code. So improvement comes from a better understanding of banking or file systems or whatever you're doing, rather than cross-training in some proxy thing the way you do with exercise.
WTO has rules, as do nations with agreements in place.

'Allow' implies some degree of forgiveness or allowance of entity on the other side of the table.

In this case, Ghana may probably face trade sanction/scrutiny for their protectionism. It will have to play out in terms of other agreements.
Are you okay? I can't tell if you are just generally in favor and would make use of it when the time comes, or if you want to die right now.
By itself, it's probably not a good idea.

If the government supports the development of a chocolate production industry, including support for cocoa exporters, then it has every chance of success.
> Not at all. Rust's safety guarantees work in practice.

They don't just work in practice. I spent 3 months last semester being taught in the separation logic "Iris", which is used to formally prove the safety guarantees of Rust as part of the RustBelt[0] project. That was under Lars Birkedal, for anyone curious.

Rust is a language I love doing actual work in, but it's also one I really like from the perspective of the theoretical backing.

[0] : https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
I think that whereas little has changed for men, it's mostly influenced by women. In today's society women are encouraged to develop their careers, stay single and have fun through their 20s which is when their fertility is declining while at the same time their standards are rising. There are millions of high achieving single women in their 30s that cannot find a partner because of hypergamy. A few decades of liberalism cannot erase millions of years of evolution.
Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to find forms on the web
The book is indeed http://t3x.org/amk/

I ordered a paperback at:

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/nils-m-holm/logic-programmin...
in-scheme/paperback/product-1z82nmng.html?page=1&pageSize=4

It was absolutely worth it.
Should the state’s citizens (or subjects as you call them) be allowed to run a different OS than the one which the state determines is “the absolutely most secure and therefore state-sanctioned”?

If they can’t, do they really own their computer?
Google Scholar has a bunch of papers, from Oregon to Netherlands and papers analyze individual cases, categorize illness, history of suicide attempts etc.
>-O2 to -O3 in gcc

This sounds more like undefined behavior in your codebase than a compiler error. I don't know Rust but I'm pretty sure the whole selling point is that you won't run into problems like this.
Coffee is a commodity. Marketers will re-brand their roasts pretty quickly and convince us all that 'it's better'.

Coco is special in that production is limited.
As a cyclist I sometimes run red lights if it is safe. Why? Bacause I cannot get from A to B with a bicycle with the current infrastructure.

In my city of 30k people there are several traffic lights equipped with road sensors. So they only ever go green if something heavy enough or with enough metal / magnetic mass in it rolls over it. Especially for left-turn signals it's impossible to get them triggered as a cyclist here.

One will remember waiting in the middle of the road for a few minutes. So I decided I'll come to a stop if needed and see that it's safe to run the red light. I'd even do it if police is seeing it.

This topic has also been raised to the city council and local administration but I guess my tax money will not be spent on cycle friendly infrastructure.

> You cant just hop on a bicycle use infrastructure others are paying for and expect to be treated like equals without paying into the system your fair share.

There are a few studies that show that cycling saves cost while driving cars is subsidized by the government. That's taking taxes, fees into acount. Even the heavy petrol taxes in Europe.

Probably it helps to keep that in mind if one is again annoyed by cyclists (read people) using the road.
Transactable value or unique information on some niche topic you're really interested in. Years ago, I subscribed to a (print) newsletter on folding kayaks for example. Of course, that's harder today given the amount of freely available information on the web.
> Not to pick on you, but I often hear this frasing in the 'first world' and surely you dont 'allow' or 'disallow' internal policies to an sovereign nation?

Not exactly. Between forcing their hand on disadvantageous trade deals, lodging complaints and enforcing restrictions with the WTO, and outright installing dictators and funding militias - allowing or disallowing is all what the first world ever does.
I think there is a browser extension for this. I forgot what it's called but it partners with the cookie banner companies, so that it automatically sets your preferences on most websites.
Looks terrific after a brief skim around the site. I did notice a couple of things...

a) When opening a project, the file names are often long, and therefore truncated with "..." at the end. Unfortunately, that cuts off the file extension, and there's no "show filename on hover" or similar to see it. You have to open the file to see the filename.

b) There doesn't seem to be a viewer for Gerber (.gbr) files, which I understand...perhaps that comes later. But, it would be useful to at least recognize the filetype and have an icon for it, even if the viewer is just a text viewer.

c) The "explore" menu could use a "pinned example project" that shows off all the functionality. For example, I tried opening lots of projects to see what the BOM viewer would look like. But, none of the projects (and I opened a lot of them) had a BOM file to look at.

Again, looks terrific, and seems to fill a big hole.
Go has no subtyping and only supports polymorphism via structural types (and some weak support for untyped constant values). It also has very convenient syntax to define newtypes from primitives (or non-primitives, but this is less commonly used).
Why would you install postgres through Brew though?

Those times are way gone, that's the purpose of containers.

I've been using Brew for a while to just install "core" packages like python, curl, wget and such, and everything else like a postgres, nginx, whatever..a go to a container.
I really hope Ivory Coast will join Ghana on this, as they did for the LID bonus case. Together they account for over 2/3 of cocoa production. So, they can pretty much reshape the cocoa/chocolate market and break out of colonialistic trade agreements for the benefit of their people.
Perhaps my reading is incorrect but why did theg decide to use all transactions (something they can't control) versus outgoing transactions (something they have sole control over)?

It also relies solely on blockcypher's api. I wonder if they were contacted and what their stance was.
As far as I know, no, unless you manage aspects of that yourself via git-annex or something similar.

My setup to do this is that I run my own nextcloud server, which handles the computer and phone etc. syncing, then nightly that's backed up to a small computer in my house (I just use rsnapshot for that), which then backs itself up to rsync.net (using plain old rsync.)
Inter African free trade is increasing sharply, so their primary market would likely be other African countries. Maybe that was their trumo card if worst comes to worst.
Reckless driving as defined by statute typically includes a "more than X over the limit" clause where X is small enough to include "normal traffic speed for a clear day with light traffic on the interstate highway system and many state highways"

This is exactly my point. The laws are far too broad to have stiff penalties and draconian enforcement. Of course nobody should be driving 40+ through some downtown center signed at 25 where pedestrians are present. But people routinely make common sense exemptions to the letter of the law. They treat that stop that could have been a yield were it not for the option to turn left as a yield. They ignore a 40-20-40 speed limit drop when that drop is there for a particular problem condition that is not applicable at the time. Etc. Etc. Cyclists and pedestrians make common sense exemptions all the time too, albeit a different set of exemptions specific to their mode of transportation. The overwhelming majority of traffic participants behave reasonably, but reasonable is not consistent with the letter of the law.

Of course we don't want "reckless drivers" on the roads but "reckless" is by its very definition an ambiguous term and nobody's yet to nail it down in statutory form in a way that doesn't leave gaping loopholes or make reasonably people subjet to being screwed at the discretion of law enforcement. And we see that every time law enforcement tries to go hard on a particular type of crime it just devolves into doing the most enforcement against the most vulnerable.
Amazon Says It Pays Alabama Workers Well; Other Local Employers Pay More
> Rust's designers need to choose between adoration and actual popularity. The latter will require some tough decisions. If it's going after the C++ market, it should make itself extremely appealing, irresistibly so, to C++ programmers.

And what decisions would that be? Your post seems self contradictory to me because it implies that Rust is both too "low abstraction" to be "extremely appealing" to C++ crowd, and too complex and "hard to analyze" to displace C in use-cases that require portability and/or are resource constrained.
I used to get so tired of having to write up explanations of why my FreeBSD server couldn't possibly have failed a security check for a Linux vulnerability, or that the web server they were complaining about didn't actually exist, or a million other retarded false positives every quarter. Thank goodness I don't deal with PCI any longer.
I like the idea, will have to read AGPL. In my mind an ideal version would be, when translated from legalese:

If your business is just an extension of the underlying software (the source) and you don't want to open source your part of the work, then pay a commercial license.

If your business uses the software (the source) just as an ancillary part most probably you're ok to source back any improvements back and keep them open source (no need to pay). If it's ancillary and you need to keep them closed, then pay for licensing anyway.

The only thing I don't understand but seen many time mentioned is the "infecting" nature of the GPL licensing?
Great points! I'm just going to use a static site generator and focus on what I actually want to learn instead.
Or going back, just to be presented with the same questions again and then hitting the paywall after that.
Wow this is an excellent experiment. I quit on level 2!
Other challenges to SV’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora
I'd be quite interested how he meets the power requirements, is he using electric dryers? I feel like a vans alternator has no hope of running 1 let alone 2 of them. Also what does the freshwater/wastewater system looks like?
This annoys me to no end. And opt-ins are instantaneous? Get outta here.
Toilet paper is by definition fungible. If one square was not "the same" as the others I'd throw out the whole roll.
Do you have any specific knowledge about Ghanaian industry or is this just your opinion? Can you provide some sources for your claims?
You didn't actually think the heater that keeps Tesla batteries warm in winter is just a simple resisitve heater? :).
Easy SMS Hijacking
Two thoughts here. First, why do we need to choose between "crash" or "accident"? Why can't journalists be more descriptive, even in headlines, by saying something like "bird strike", "single vehicle collision", etc?

Second, there's a saying with the motorcyclists I personally know, "full face or no face", meaning in the event of a mishap, helmets that provide less coverage are far less likely to protect the rider. I don't think we should mandate what type of helmet people wear, or wearing a helmet at all, but assigning some responsibility to the rider who got hit where a full face helmet would have protected might be appropriate.
This is a pretty minor point, but any proper coffee geek will tell you that the shelf life of roasted coffee is pretty bad.

Thus it makes sense to roast closer to the time when the coffee is made available for sale; shipping from African countries up to Europe, would increase the "latency" a great deal.

I'm sure modern packaging gives a decent shelf life, and TBH I don't worry much about the use-before label on coffee around here, but that's generally because it doesn't last long on the shelf anyway. :)
Free trade is usually done on a tit-for-tat basis. I think the GP is saying they should allow protectionist policies without "tatting".
If you're working with stencil and paste, my understanding is that paste only has a few hours of working time once it's applied, so you have to assemble it in the day.
Nyxt browser is also interesting from the point of view of power users.

https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
It really depends on what your current situation is. Sometimes a break or distancing solves the problem. Other times it simply is trying something else, job, language, hobby. Make changes until something clicks. It sounds cliche, each person has a different journey but journeys do have some common patterns. Not sure what your frustrations stem from but I could get in touch and talk more about this.
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Couldn't they just query outgoing transactions from the wallet?

The estimates given also do not factor transaction fees (currently 0.00041 BTC ~= 25 USD) , the estimated costs are only in value given to the attacker.

For this specific botnet continuous denial of service also doesn't make sense. The attacker could easily setup an upgrade at an ip that chooses a different public address.
Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime
Ask HN: Do you perform your daily duties per your job description?
I asked myself why it was so important for me to please everyone, to the point that I would feel resentful and stressed because of it. I'm afraid to say "No" because every time I will say "No", I would disappoint someone, make them angry, hurt their feelings, or appear unkind or rude. Does anyone here feel the same thing?
Exactly, "first half of the book" is not spoiler territory. It is the sort of thing typically summarized in a review. One can only reasonably demand a spoiler warning for a twist that comes later in a book. What will surprise readers of Aurora are two things that happen after that prion plot.
Someone tell me why you need the Ethereum blockchain for NFTs when you can just have non-divisible coins represent them, and be watched by a subset of the network instead of the whole network. I mean this is like transporting a beanie baby inside an armored truck with a convoy.

It’s not like we need the history of all UTXOs ever, the coin may have changed hands like 100 times max, so it has an easily checked history. Same principle on Ethereum.
WW3 was fought with soft power and economics. Now some countries own other countries and nobody is complaining.
I just found this last night: https://github.com/memo/eco-nft. From the README:

> Selling work on a blockchain can be a technically challenging task. For this reason, many platforms and websites have emerged, aiming to make this process as seamless and easy as possible for artists. Unfortunately, currently many of these websites are based on the Ethereum blockchain, which is very inefficient and ecologically costly by design. E.g. selling just a single-edition artwork on Ethereum has a carbon footprint starting at around 100 KgCO2, which is equivalent to a 1 hour flight (and depending on the platform, can reach a long-haul flight) [2]. Selling an edition of 100 works has a carbon footprint of over 10 tonnes CO2, which is more than the per capita annual footprint of someone in the EU - including all emissions from industry and trade [3].
A previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17969472
When something starts, the worst possible abuse isn't immediate.

It will take time for this abuse to pop up. But knowing how humans are, it will happen.

I don't think this is the reason to oppose it though. Life is important and protecting it from ending is the main function of the state. There are many many sad stories of people who cannot have assisted suicide and suffer. But there's a whole other kind of suffering that a society goes through when people just kill themselves whenever they wish to with the full blessing of everyone around them.
> because the company had done a half-arsed job with the fs layer

Exactly.

And I know Mac reigns in dev land. Just the moment Docker comes around (and it does quite a bit lately) all those shiny (and that's a compliment) pieces of hardware become heated vacuum cleaners.

I'm not saying "lol, Mac is teh suck" (what you apparently want to read). I'm saying: here's something that my Linux laptop wins at. Docker.

You come across rather angry, even saying that Linus uses Apple hardware without running the macOS... How does that work as an argument against my experience?
Just flexing that geopolitical hot take:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-22/ghana-see...

China’s influence over Africa to secure it’s own cocoa production?

Article from 2017:
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKL8N1K35R1

So looks like China paid up this year and got exclusives, and not Switzerland.

What’s the game, I must know. Ghana is Lord Baelish?
The (U.S.) dollar is backed by the U.S. Army and always will be. Confidence decreases? The U.S. will likely start a war with the country whose currency tries to replace it (on "national security" reasons).

Fiat will always be backed by military force.
Morality of suicide is a completely different discussion. Euthanasia (in practice) comes down to whether government-licensed doctors should get to decide whose lives are worthy of living. Some people will be approved, some won't.

The implications are pretty troubling to me personally. Someone gets diagnosed with a sketchy mental condition, which in turn causes them to contemplate death, and then the very same doctors approve their euthanasia.

If I tell anybody to kill themselves I will rightfully get criminally charged. Someone approving an euthanasia is pretty close. Sure, they may want it, but so will people who get denied, one cannot say the act of approving is completely meaningless.
> Mining difficulty is scaled to the hashpower of the network. In the long run the EV of ten minute time between blocks is maintained.

The key part here is “in the long run”. IIRC the difficulty is only adapted after a certain number of mined block, so in case of a mining power collapse you still need to mine blocks at the old difficulty for a while, which would be really slow in the aforementioned scenario before a really long time has elapsed (more than a thousand years).

Anyway, in such scenario, you would probably not have a worldwide reliable network anymore, so the whole concept of bitcoin would just be be obsolete.
Thing I keep seeing and don't understand is "Legitimate interest" as a separate thing to consent.

"You opted out of our cookies, but we're going to say we need them anyway, but you can still opt out of that".

It's somewhere between underhand and downright disturbing ("our interests override your lack of consent"? Eww)
Alright, I guess I don't know what you mean by "prime use case" then. Yes, you can use interfaces to make test doubles. No, that's not the historically motivating factor behind their inclusion in languages.
Am I the only one who, after installing some brew tool, every bin in /opt/homebrew is immediately kill -9’d at launch, and then I have to brew list | xargs brew reinstall?

Seems to be some signing issue but it’s only happened to me twice and I didn’t have time to properly investigate at the time...
People discuss book plots online all the time and a person can’t expect to remain oblivious to everything, especially considering that what I mentioned isn’t even a shocking plot twist: it is where KSR goes after this part of the book that will challenge and surprise readers.
This has been happening for years. A friend of mine lost their channel twice because, somehow, his channel got hit by a ban wave of channels that were uploading specific Japanese adult videos with a very specific title.

It took him weeks of messaging YouTube to even get to a human being, and even then it was another month for his channel to come back. They know the system is bad, they just don't care.
How To Stay Sane with Modern C++ (2020)
These discussions often revolve around introductory or 'first' books. What are some good followup books to HtDP, or books for an intermediate audience?