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One more for future reference: Cleveland Meredith apparently arrived too late for the riot, but was arrested the day after with two unregistered guns after threatening to "put a bullet in [Pelosi's] noggin on live TV.”
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Earlier post 2009:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852

"Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency."

Written by co-founder/CEO of Pachyderm and first employee of RethinkDB none the less.
During Yeltsin times corruption was equally high both on street level and government level. But West didn't care, on the opposite - West praised Yeltsin and even openly meddled in our election to elect Yeltsin for the second term. Despite him being extremely corrupt and using his position to enrich his family and friends.

Now, West suddenly become very concerned with Putin's alleged wealth (nobody had seen it) - why? Why Putin's wealth is more important than Yeltsin wealth? Why current level of corruption which is measly compared to level of corruption during Yeltsin times had become so extremely important to the west? Why it didn't bother anyone before?

What is important to me: being able to live normal life: have a job, have access to medicine and education for me and my family, having enough food on my table to not starve. Less important but nice to have is enough income to travel somewhere for holiday at 1-2 times a year. To have friends and family. To not have war in my country (which is US currently actively pushing as well - they hope to force war between Europe/Ukraine and Russia because that will be very beneficial for US economy and US being separated by the ocean will not experience the devastating effects of the war on its own territory).

I do not believe that democracy exists anywhere or even actually possible. I do not need some kind of "free speech" whatever that means. I like to blog, but I seriously doubt my blog would cause any problem in any society. I'm definitely aware that blogging in the US is more likely to create problems than in Russia.

In Russia nobody cares if you're rude or politically incorrect or you have contradicting political views. Many of my friends do not support Putin unlike me - that doesn't ruin our friendship. Whatever I write on my blog will never put me in trouble in Russia, even if I'll write "I hate Putin, he's a crook" - nobody cares despite what you may read in western media. In Russia I can write or say: "BLM" or "All lives matter" and I won't have any problem at my job or with the police or with anyone. In the US there's only one approved view that you can openly support, otherwise you're destined to have problems, e.g. you can be fired from your job and become homeless if you don't agree with your latest election results or don't support some SJW movement or you support it but not in an approved way.
It does.

It doesn't fit with the published iOS terms, but as we've seen before, Apple frequently ignores the published App Store terms during approval.
" they always, always start to request more features."

It's not even that they'll request things in the future. There's often a backlog of stuff that will be coming up. I've still had to fight on people pushing back with "quit 'overengineering'! YAGNI! etc" comments.

"Yes, we ARE going to need it. You agreed to it 3 weeks ago in meeting X! Just because it's not in this week's workload doesn't mean it will never happen. We're slated to have to do XYZ in 5 weeks - we understand enough of the problems that will face to be laying some of the groundwork (some extra refactoring/cleanup today in prep for work that will come down the pipeline 5-6 weeks from now)."

But... that will impact the schedule for today so... ignore it.

It's not always so blatant, and current projects don't suffer from this approach nearly as much as some past ones, but it happens.
Sure, tell that to the HR authorities who are insisting on only hiring one 'type' of developer for the currently exasperated teams, who then have to do things that types way, or else - even when half the team already does 'type' and knows why we should stop doing it.

I know its not a popular opinion, but 30+ years of experience in the software industry, from top to bottom, including stints in HR projects, has led me to conclude: HR is never senior to technical staff. Ever.

HR is not your friend. It is an organizational adversary imposed, usually, by executives who cannot make technical arguments or see things through to completion, no matter the depth of their understanding of the subject in focus, or otherwise.

If you are a technical person, never accept career guidance from someone who cannot do your job. Period.

Technology is about action, and doing things. Its not about identity. HR in the modern zeitgeist, from big corp to startup, typically avoids having to participate in any action of company product-building by instead promoting identity-as-service.

That this gets inverted is a huge cause of technical debt, imposed by nonsense policies and scripts that do not have a place in technological realms, but rather drama theater.
You completely miss that a property that I purchase to live in will probably be both interest and loan while a property purchased to rent out will be interest only.

This means that someone buying it to rent out can get a loan for significantly more than someone looking to purchase, making it much easier to outbid them.
> ... which mean he can probably afford the house in the first place.

Not true. The people (or companies) winning the bidding war for these properties are paying cash. Normals don't have $900K cash laying around to buy a property originally listed at 550K.
Why can't you make a free account with the dozens of free stock brokers that allow fractional shares?

As an aside, if you can't afford a single full share then it might not be wise to gamble your remaining few dollars on a crypto play.
I think the whole thing is hogwash. Debt is an instrument of contract, nothing more, nothing less. It's packaged, legally binding and sold on the markets. There is nothing good or bad about it, it is what it is on its own.

Even thinking in terms of "investment" is gap thinking and treats human systems without human traits.

In a system of joint activity, people and artefacts work together in harmony. If they're not working together, it's not joint activity and if its not joint activity, that doesn't mean its debt either. It's dysfunctional.
Is this just for tiddies or is this corporate America trying to install its worldwide swear filter again?
I think the idea of short-term vs long-term tradeoff is key. And whether you chose the short-term option decisively or naively, doesn't alter the fact that the tradeoff existed.
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It's certainly maintained by that, but Norway has a couple of centuries history of political focus on food security, ever since the British naval blockade of Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic wars, and then strongly reinforced by the nazi occupation. The strong focus on keeping the rural areas settled also in large part stems from that, though of course it is also self-reinforcing in that people who now benefit from policies designed to do so tend to want it to continue for their own reasons too.

There's a lot of cultural significance of food security, going back to e.g. decades of making primary school children learn about Terje Vigen (Ibsen's epic poem about someone trying to brave the blockade to feed his family), coupled with a lot of cold war thinking that at least up to the end of the 80's saw food security as part national defence during a time where we still had air raid siren tests many times a year in case of Soviet invasion.

While that has certainly softened up since, most Norwegian politicians still grew up with that.
Yeah, jumping from #65 to #1 in a single year is... surprising.
There's no chance that a North African state could project power into France, so presumably such a war would be fought on the soil of that nation.

Doesn't bode well :/
I live in Lithuania (eastern europe, neighbour to Poland). Can confirm. War on home turf is something that is in the back of my mind. It's also a business risk that we take seriously at the company I work at.
Your are right. It IS a bug, and we will fix it asap.
> Every homeowner who takes out a mortgage ... is effectively and productively using debt

I understand taking a loan from a business perspective, e.g buy more tractors for my farm to increase productivity. But how is using debt to buy a house increasing productivity?
In the UK, it's not just low interest rates, it's also that the rules on renting have made it more attractive for landlords and less attractive for tenants. For example, you used to need a good reason to evict someone, now you can just evict them whenever you like.

Once you moved in, increases in rent used to be regulated. Now a landlord can charge whatever they want after the initial period and if you can't afford it you have to leave.

Landlords used to have to maintain and fix the property. While they still do in theory, in practise they often just threaten one of the two options above to anyone who wants a repair done.
Half-true. Amazon also wins by monopoly tactics:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/amazon-em...

And offering new, but delivering used, damaged products to customers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26320094
Hardly a surprise because it's cheap street food for the lower classes as french Kebab is which they are really just a variation of, meat, fries and industrial sweet sauce that is. The Champs are not really the kind of place where those classes live. Ghetto food seems a bit strong though, you can easily find them outside the rich neighborhoods of the West which suggests me you might find instructive to get out of some time.
Sorry to repost. This was up for 20 mins last week then got taken down by the moderators (I think because there was a waitlist). We've removed the waitlist and would be grateful for feedback.
I recall not being able to use the top and bottom faces, for instance. But maybe that was just the KDE implementation.
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This is actually being tried, starting this month, in my area (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56293250)

Monthly council tax will double for properties that do not have occupants. This is due to my area having over 10% of houses being bought as holiday homes or investments that stay empty for most of the year.
That's like pointing to the free turkeys Mexican drug cartels give out on Christmas as an argument for letting them murder people.
> Same with 2-3 year terms on cellular carriers with a "free $0!" new samsung phone.

I really like the moves T-Mobile has done to change this. They very transparent that you are financing the phone on your monthly bill and then receiving monthly credit to off set the monthly payment.
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All the Arcanspace stuff is cool. The problems are real.

The pieces and principles force me to think about many of the "skills" I have acquired in order to work on various shells and desktops as burdens.

I can't bring myself to change to (or develop) pipeworld/durden-esque environments (yet?), I am drawn to them because I have a strong, natural alignment to the principles the author espouses and develops against.

Keep up the good work.
Both Ross, and Roux had all the means to play filthy rich, they just elected not to. In other words both were very bad at doing a criminal enterprise.

I will though second you on this point:

> I used to view things exactly like you did. I was a big Bitcoin user as well. I read Treasury's War and it sickened me. AML is indeed a parallel quasi-judicial system except without the good bits of the actual judicial system, and poses many civil liberties concerns.

AMLKYC is the free world's equivalent of all what STASI wanted to become. But just like the original, STASI got largely useless for its nominal purpose the bigger, and more powerful it became.

STASI started to finding people to prosecute for the sake of finding people to prosecute, and keep ever expanding need to grow its manpower, and political clout.

At some point, they got to see a large double digit of DDR population as potential spies, and terrorists, and it was then when the system started to break down.

STASI agents were running after people for they suspected of revolt for storing too many food items, while mass agitators were kind of overlooked for their "banality." That few month window was what allowed for DDR protest movement to materialise seemingly overnight.
If I could I would give you 50 up votes just because you wrote 5 paragraphs about what you see as problems with the current system without suggesting that it be replaced with some kind of blockchain.
> But if something is done with plain bad code, it shouldn't be called tech debt. Something that outgrew its objective shouldn't be called tech debt. If something is a bug it shouldn't be called tech debt.

I don't think anyone refers to bugs as technical debt per-se. What I have seen is bugs that result from technical debt, and hasty bug fixes that create more technical debt.
Nice to see full-text of the articles linked and really fast. Do you provide an API like Algolia does for HN?
Do servers get to set their own NSFW flag or is it punitive?
How is it not a dark pattern? If they are confident in the value of the subscription, why not print out the whopping minimum total of $635.88 everywhere they mention the price? They do it this way because it is misleading in a way that benefits Adobe.
> It's not IR and the rules are very different. Beta-emitters aren't dumping that energy into thermal heating, they're dumping it into the interior of your cells as a high energy electron or positron. Wherever that thing appears, it's quite likely to blow a hole through whatever substructure happens to catch it, which means despite being low overall energy, the delivery mechanism is quite different.

Ok, I get your point now: even if low power, by being ionizing radiation, it can break molecular bonds, create dislocations in crystals, alter enzymes etc. However, the tritium radiation just not very penetrating. Even if it has enough energy to ionise several atoms, it deposits that energy superficially, where cells are already dead. The layer of skin sensitive to radiation is just too deep compared to the maximum distance the electrons can travel: 40 μm vs 5 μm. The sensitive tissues in the eye are even deeper: 3 mm.

In facilities that handle tritium there are containment systems but, really, there is no special radiation shielding. The only way for this radiation to to do real damange, is if the tritium is inhaled or absorbed into the skin. But even then, due to a series of factor like the low energy radiation and the short biological half-life, the dose per unit intake is very very low (~10⁻¹¹ Sv/Bq).

I'm saying most of this based on the book "Safety in Tritium Handling Technology", which I'm currently studying, but I really can't find any mention of accidents or concerns about what you say regarding tritium.
Does the French preparing for war mean anything at all? The French are horrible at preemptive preparation, much less actually fighting. No one has forgotten the second world war.
Optimization is a form of debugging, which is a form of support/maintenance. Developers much prefer greenfield development, such as rewriting the entire thing.
The shopping tab has to be among the most crippled Google products I’ve used. Think the regular search ignores your filters? The shopping tab doesn’t give a fuck about your double quotes.

Can’t imagine the app was much better.
Or it’s a “we’re selling to Microsoft” decision. Who knows.
This is absurd. I don't know why but modern politics is just plain self destructive.

You get people like this criticizing even the most minor form of foreign employment from a western corporation but absolutely nobody gives a crap when foreign aid is used to subsidize weapons manufacturers and directly destabilize a country by providing perverse incentives.

You dismiss dependence on westerners for employment but do you know what the alternative is? The alternative is to do everything yourself and there is no way you can compete against western nations because they band together while every African nation tries to stay independent and dislikes their neighbor just as much as they dislike westerners.
The movie did feel a year long.
That is because Polish allies did not react to Hitler's invasion. And after the war, Poland was given to Stalin to become USSR's satellite.

Trust issues are somewhat justified in this case.
I like this quote:

> 21 million bitcoins seems like a low limit to set. According to [0] the exchange rate is currently 221 Bitcoins per USD, so the total value of all possible bitcoins is only 95000USD.

Today 95000USD is worth 1.51BTC
Seems odd to publish a benchmark against Lucene where your results are "Lucene crashes at 4 concurrent users". Since there are thousands of people using Lucene and products built on Lucene every day, I think the issue may be in your benchmarking code.
Reddit clients on iOS already have to filter out NSFW content unless the viewer is logged in and has some settings applied to their account.

This is an Apple policy not a Reddit policy

https://www.vice.com/en/article/78k8yb/reddit-ios-apps-disap...

Edit: added the url I meant to use in the first place
No, the Mac Mini available on AWS does NOT have an M1. It has an Intel Core i7.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/
Despite having 'debt' in the name, it isn't directly coupled to financial incentives. An internal team that produces tools for other teams within the org can have tech debt.

My version of tech debt is anything about the design, implementation or operation that isn't meeting the current needs and is not readily adaptable to meet them--an impediment/mismatch in the original design or implementation to what would be a suitable design/implementation now.
Wow their employees are going to be crazy rich. Weren't they granting stock at a $8b valuation only a month or two ago? At $100b even an L4 might walk away with $5m.
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Headlines like this always surprise me. We love the lone genius myth, despite it being, as the name suggests, a total myth.
WTF FSF
Maybe php has changed the last couple of years but the last time I worked with it the numbers of dependencies where nowhere near a typical node project.
You can look at the NTV takeover for a good example of how this can happen. In cases where the state doesn't end up directly owning the media company, suspiciously often the majority of shares ends up owned by Kremlin loyalist oligarchs. On top of this there is a widespread general culture of self censorship, where there is fear of covering certain topics because of possible government interference. This was even confirmed in an official Russian report in 2004. I'm not saying this is without exception, but it would seem that the government has very large influence over media in Russia compared to many other places.
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"facing many systemic problems for business"

Like a wealth tax?
Ah, they didn't really. The Maginot Line held, and they knew they needed to stop the Germans at the Belgian / German border.

That the invasion of France ended the way it did was a surprise to everyone, including the Germans. Mainly you could boil it down to better command and control all the way from strategic to tactical and luck on the German side and the opposite, bad luck, bad cooperation and bad communication on the allied side.
I had some very tiny ones actually walk the threads of a sealed peanut butter jar lid to get into it. I, of course, found this after I had eaten the sandwich. Extra protein that day, I suppose.

Anyway, Terro liquid ant bait has worked very reliably for me on ants like these. It is essentially a borax and sugar mixture that the ants take into their crop and return it to the nest. Eventually they feed it to the queen, stopping the flow of eggs. The stuff in the white houses usually kills them too quickly -- you want them to live and give it to the other ants in the colony.

One caveat here is that, for some types of ants (Pharaoh), their colony will splinter if it is stressed. So one colony may turn into many colonies, each with a queen, at the first sign of danger. Using liquid baits on these types of ants will actually make your problem worse.

If you go with Terro, resist the urge to do anything to the ants while they are going to town on the bait. It's going to look bad, but they need to return to the colony.

Another solution, if you want to find all of the open spaces in your house, is to puff diatomaceous earth into these spaces. It's pulverized diatoms and looks and feels like talcum powder to humans. To insects, though, it is like walking across glass and acts as a mechanical insecticide.

Both of these options are relatively non-toxic to humans and pets.
Isn't this exactly what happened to Tumblr back in 2018? It feels a little different since Tumblr is one big unit and Discord has its content shared by servers so it's not like you're immediately able to find NSFW content with Discord without explicitly searching out and finding a server to add.

I applaud apple for their work towards making iOS secure, but I still just can't get on board since they can decide at any time I don't have the ability to choose for myself what software I want to run. There's a reason my first iPhone was immediately jail-broken and I left the platform almost 10 years ago.
Russian occupation of Ukraine is a bit more complicated. It's in the context of a red line they set out decades ago, which is that NATO wouldn't be able to extend all the way to the Russian border in the south.

Now certainly that's a bit unreasonable as countries should be allowed to associate with whoever they want, but it's not exactly a live wire threatening war left and right, it's a red line they set out a very long time ago, and there's not much reason to think they're interested with much beyond that red line.
Pay for food, you'll just be hungry again tomorrow
Only because I have Outlook open most of the day, and I don't really use my personal calendar for anything.
Indeed, which is why a careful examination needs to be made of the energy and resource cycles involved. It'll be interesting if we ever switch to an energy economy fuelled entirely by PV (or similar), and seeing how the energy economics plays out. This is aside from the various minerals needed to continually replenish our new green energy sources, and what we do with the complex and poisonous wastes produced.

As for your comments on China - they certainly don't have any issues allowing widespread pollution and industrial poisoning of their people and land.

>The whole 'it's all powered by fossil fuels' argument is a bit old now

It'll only be "old" when China reduces the amount of coal (and mostly brown coal) that it uses to manufacture all this stuff for us. They have enormous reserves, it won't happen any time soon.
The opportunity is the paydirt.

The experienced oldsters make up the sluice.

The youngsters represent the water.

Nobody worries much about the spillage if there's gold in the pan.
I'm not aware of any browser since IE10, and some versions of IE11, that don't. https://caniuse.com/rel-noreferrer
There's no guarantee that you can release such a program at all. Things can have conflicting licenses in which case it is simply not valid to have both of them at the same time. For example, a strong copyleft requiring all source code to be released, and a library with a binary blob for which source release is impossible or prohibited.