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No, I'm well aware of that, and have plenty of strong opinions about that. However, I don't think that's the only issue, so I tried to avoid going there.
I was rather under the impression that using btc requires mining btc which uses a rather lot of energy. What am I missing?
Note that the survey included owners who purchased between 2012 and 2018. The article doesn't specify, but it's possible that the 20% who switched were weighted towards early adopters who purchased in the first few years of the survey window. It would be interesting to see whether that switch-back rate is declining over time, and whether the decline is accelerating. I would bet yes on both.
That's less crazy, esp. given the sizable populations in Canada that speak French to some degree and have ethnic and cultural ties to Francia.
Maybe they removed sorting machines because they don't help with parcels, which are an increasingly large majority of USPS's work.
Our project started on a free Heroku tier (which funnily enough, to this day, is the reason our DB is postgres), but quickly outgrew that and I heard horror stories about how quickly it got expensive.

We then switched to the cheapest Hetzner tier, which was just astoundingly cheap and performed very well for two years or so.

Eventually we had to upgrade and are now paying EUR 5 for an instance that's probably beefier than we need.

All of this is backed by Dokku (haven't found a use case for k8s yet, single-machine is good enough for now).

Be interesting to see what happens if we ever wanted to scale horizontally, but there's quite a few Hetzner instances we can scale to vertically, before needing to go horizontal I think.

We also used some other 'free' services, like Netlify for hosting the static sites our product spits out, but we found that they have a lot of hidden (and surprisingly expensive) costs, like form handling. Those costs add up quickly.

Ended up going with Cloudflare for that, which delivers a lot on their free tier (and less worrying about getting DDosed by something like HN).
Around 6M requests/day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469566

There's no tracking javascript and no cookies (unless you're logged in) afaik so not sure if the number of unique users is even measured.
It can, and when it does, it destroys that energy, and forces other users to use polluting energy.

The environmental cost of Bitcoin is not that of the energy it uses, it is the cost of the dirtiest energy it forces others to use.
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My wife and the other moms in her mom group keep saying that they want the husbands to get together and do something. They just don't understand. We have nothing in common, and the shared experience of having kids is not even close to enough.
There is a bad-but-good hard SF book about this general subject called Tau Zero. You’d definitely need to be going much faster than 0.5c to get anything close to the effects you’re describing, but that book is a fun read if you’re interested in the subject.
The scale of outsourcing Boeing has done for the 787 is not comparable to AB (or anyone else). They outsourced core competencies, wing design, materials, software, basically everything, and it pretty much aligns with the point the author is making: you can’t innovate / design if you don’t know how your products are made.

But you seem way more interested in proving right than having a productive discussion here. I suggest writing a blog if you’re interested in a monologue rather than wasting people’s time with inflammatory retorts.
Nothing. This is just one more sociopathic bitcoiner excuse.
I'm using Google Analytics to track pageview count on a website and it does appear to add around 0.4sec to Time-To-Interactive of the PageSpeed score.

And the GA script size is about 40KB.
> Well, imagine what would have happened if AWS closed overnight

What are the circumstances under which the switch is hypothetically turned off at every AWS data center all at once? It just doesn't seem like a realistic scenario. Most ways in which Amazon could fail would involve either a bankruptcy spinning out aws into one or more holdings, or years of decline where people switch off of AWS anyway. Sure, if all of those data centers blew up, then yes it would be catastrophic for a few months.

> What I meant by that is also the money can ensure that new laws are not introduced, or investigations not carried out

I see where you're coming from, but it seem a little thin and unspecific. The Amazon Basics thing seems like a bad example. It's the same model grocery stores, Walmart, Lowes, and department stores have used for decades. And no one ever really complained before. In some cases Amazon is white labeling products from the brands they're now competing with. So those companies still capture a lot of the revenue.
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I operate a DTC company in the Boston area and send thousands of packages every year.

Even the tracked Priority Mail packages have delays. The system promises 2-3 day delivery (and that's what customers are told during checkout, no way to change it) but it's often longer than that, particularly for larger/odd-shaped packages such as the long Priority Mail tubes.

In New England, a lot of problems can be traced to COVID outbreaks among USPS staff in processing centers. It was especially bad starting in November and continuing through February.

At one point the Post Office stopped scanning parcels (for us, in mid-December) and huge backlogs built up across the system. We heard from our USPS business rep in Boston that 200 workers were out sick at the giant processing facility in Nashua NH, leading to trucks arriving at the parking lot that couldn't be unloaded. They switched to processing Priority Mail at the facility in South Boston and everything else in Stamford CT, but they weren't able to work through the Nashua backlog until January. One Priority Mail parcel we shipped on Nov 30 that was supposed to be "3-day delivery" arrived at its destination in Kentucky 45 days later, on Jan. 13.
> “If it’s your paycheck and you are waiting for it, it matters a lot”

Is this a bad example or are paychecks a normal thing in US ? If yes, are they sent by mail ? I'm just curious about how this works.

Every time I read an article about money in the US, I have the feeling that a lot of money transaction (paycheck, paying your bills ...) is done by paper/mail. I'm surprised each time I read this since I never had to think about paying my bills or receiving my pay on my account.

I'm not even sure my parents ever get paid by check (like, with some sort of paper that you have to give to your bank) but here, maybe I'm wrong. And I know it can sometimes happen here for short contracts to get paid by check, but even in this use case, it's pretty rare.

If I'm right, is this more a cultural thing or some sort of technical limitation ?
I'm saying there are 2 multi-billion dollar companies that only had mobile apps for a long time that the vast majority of people use to book rides to places.
Yes, but that happened after the MS bid.
Don't complain about reactions from one set of users in a new thread. "Butthurt" isn't a way to refer to other people here, either. This isn't reddit. Finally, yes, multiple discussions about a singular topic occur on this site regularly.
Perhaps the sites are only valuable as a bundle?

The brand value of both AOL and Yahoo has to add up to something, but TechCrunch and Engadget is most likely just thrown in for free to get rid of both sites.

On its own I believe that Yahoo Finans could be a profitable little site.
Just a nitpick, but currying is a language detail, one can potentially create an efficient implementation with or without them.
It is partisan because Oracle told us so. They have bragged that they ran a decade long well financed effort to make all these actions against Google happen, and what we see now is the culmination of that.

I don't doubt they "won" in the end, but I'm baffled that they brag about "competing" like that.
> If it were true... and this became public, AWS as a business would be done.

Why on earth would you think that? They did worse on their storefront, which has a much smaller migration burden than AWS, and while a few big brands made a stink and pulled out, it didn't even noticeably slow growth.
Postal services in my country are not private, but fully state owned and managed, but they are the worst service we have vs private alternatives. And yes, we have unions to cover for employees that know they are hired for life regardless their lack of performance. The solution for many of us was to go online for most of the transactional stuff and use private services for packages.
"This next evolution of Yahoo will be the most thrilling yet"

I'm very skeptical about that claim.
>A mobile OS is much more usable on a smartphone than a desktop one.

The point is that there should be no difference between "mobile" and "desktop". Mobile devices are capable of (almost) everything desktop does. Just connect a screen with keyboard and you have a "desktop". Now, you have thousands of apps already written for GNU/Linux.

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

Can you achieve this on Android?
No, it is a typical response of a guy who spent two years and countless nights studying econometrics and the issues of specification and identification. But thank you for wrongly assuming my nationality and disregarding my response based on that.
Equating actual, illegal signature fraud with facebooks facilitation of free speech - even speech that you, personally, disagree with - is a far bigger problem than vaccine misinformation.
i have knew persons who were dying in peace while sleep. i only am hoping i shall be this fortuneate.
It’s definitely a political problem at its heart and requires political solutions.
I agree completely. Most of the EV proponents (and I am one of them!) live in densely populated areas that work well for EVs. I live in a rural area. Sure, I could charge an EV at home, but every where else it would be a hassle.

Saying things like "EVs are great for towing because torque" completely misses the point that you need to get that torque to the road through the drivetrain and to tow the vehicle through a chassis that can take the load. You're not towing a two-horse slant with a Model S, no matter how much torque it has. Until that's possible, we just keep buying used pick up trucks.
Rod Brooks is a great example, he's someone who has done more in robotics, across a range of paradigms, than maybe anyone else in the world - and who has been very candid in his criticisms of promises around full self driving.

But it doesn't matter, people choose to believe marketing hucksters instead. :(
>Many countries who manage their money supply have wildly unstable currencies. Turkey for example.

This is true, Erdogan decided to take control over the money supply, which is generally the job of the central bank which is an independent branch of the government. Countries with independent central banks usually have stable currencies.

>On the other hand many economists belive Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman's assertion that "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" (more economists disagree with this probably, my point being that these are not settled matters)

What Turkey needs is reforms and financial aid for the agriculture sector not control over the money supply because "inflations" aren't caused by interest rates, they are caused by shortages in the relevant sector. If there is enough food for everyone, then food inflation will go away and it could go away despite the money printing.
I am referring to them singling out that "liquidity" thing as the sole culprit, while much more obvious problem of omnipresent "fraudstrepreneurs," and cost of construction materials outside of tier 1 economies of Africa is not even mentioned.

Saying simply, credit availability make little difference for construction business in already relatively well doing countries in Africa, and everybody else will have much more obvious issues to deal with first.
That's generally true, but it's not meaningful in this case. If I say "One in 10,000 stars in the Milky way is a hypervelocity star moving at relativistic speeds", there is no context to provide a threshold for the magnitude of relativistic corrections that are important.

(And if it's just about escape velocity, they should just say that. The Milky Way's escape velocity is 550 km/s = 0.002 c, for which relativistic corrections are extremely tiny: \gamma ~= 1.0000017.)
That's not really going to help most people. It's not hard to obfuscate the malicious parts of the script.

I remember someone saying that you could essentially backdoor a target machine by rolling back certain libraries by a few weeks to undo security patches. I don't know modern *nix package management well enough to know if that's true, but it's a scary idea.
"Who is gonna go first" seems to be an issue. I'm unable to produce a query that sticks any non-AMP result into the front of the carousel. So, everyone seems to be waiting for some notable publication to go first.
>Do you think they are exploiting people?

Yes, part of how they achieved this was by violating emissions standards for a decade, something that they've been fined for. I'd be willing to wager they engage in similar practices too.

>I could keep listing examples of market leaders that offer better products that are more aligned with consumer preferences,

Their existence alone won't convince me. You need to answer why the competition is unable to produce similar products at similar prices.
> You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox

AMP being a subset of HTML, that does not look accurate.
Tried that when I lived there.

Kept changing things to "sammo" and "arvo", and "beer" to "VB". /s

True story: the Aussie courts have ruled that "cunt" isn't a curse / vulgar word; e.g. he's a good- / shit-cunt is not offensive with regards to public officials. https://nswcourts.com.au/articles/court-rules-its-ok-to-refe...
Your use of the word "push" makes it sound like you believe people who don't have access to "the digital world" are there by choice...
Francia? Is that a thing or a typo? Never heard that used before.
What’s the issue with the engines field? I don’t see any particularly strong reason to not use it.
You can learn to identify literal paid shills by their consistent messaging across distinct forums/media and use of certain rhetorical tactics. For certain subject matters it is practically guaranteed some of the participants are shills. There are a lot more shills on the internet than most people realize.
Being in the team that created rust would look great on any CV. I think millionaire is reachable for many of them.
There's a nice line by Terry Prachett in his book "Going Postal". This is near the start of the story, as the protagonist, a conman, is being confronted with the effects of his cons.

> "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly.

> "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!"

> "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”

White-collar crime has effects. Every time people are encouraged to clock out, then clean up their station, that's 15 minutes of wage theft. Heck, sometimes this becomes so common that the criminals work to make it legal. Every time that Amazon has their mandatory daily exit screening, that's 30-60 minutes of time that should be on the clock, but is completely unpaid, legal and SCOTUS-approved, and wildly unethical.
Through work we deal with Japan Post, and there a letter can get basically anywhere in the mainland from anywhere else in one business day.

Granted, the nation is one-dimensional in shape so things are helped there, but the reliability is expected.

On one hand, I think overworking mail workers isn’t worth it. On the other hand tho, surely there’s a way to make this stuff work better than requiring 3 days to move a letter across town.
> started to become obvious that Verizon was starting to extract as much value out of the acquired AOL web properties at the expense of quality/brand integrity.

This seems like a good assumption to make anytime a company is sold.
A person could reasonably argue that it's a good reason to ban untraceable phone calls, which is actually being worked on. Likewise, a person could reasonably argue that truly anonymous money shouldn't exist. I'm not actually convinced of this, but it's a coherent position to hold.
Exactly the same goes in Switzerland. I suppose all those people suggesting privatizing the postal services either live in a digital bubble or never sent a postcard to their grandmas.
If my tools are faster than me, there’s no point in making them even faster. In fact, I’d trade some of that speed for a smaller memory footprint.

In your example of the watch window, updating it at more than 30 fps is probably overkill.

One very common mistake is optimising the wrong thing. My advice is always the same: first run a profiler with a real workload (absent that, eu it over your automated tests), then look at what you need to optimise for speed. All the rest should be optimised for readability.

In the article’s case, if counting warriors is so important, keeping a counter at the AntColony class that’s updated every time you write to an Ant would be the obvious solution.
Manually sorting letters isn't actually the alternative here - what the US Postal Service was moving towards under DeJoy (and probably before him too) was sorting the same letters using the same kind of automatic machines, but a smaller number of them reconfigured to sort into a larger number of different piles using parts from the scrapped machines. This reduces overall capacity, but should be more efficient so long as they don't actually need the extra capacity.
My starting point would be searching nih.gov. Google does a good job indexing them. On google use things like:

site:nih.gov "reduction in migraine triggers"

site:nih.gov "migraine triggers"

And so on. Social media, blogs, news communities have intelligent well meaning people, but you will get mostly anecdotal data that may or may not apply to you. Very little feedback will be scientific in my opinion.
He can never be. No body can change castes. That's the worst part of vedas. Even Shivaji maharaj was not allowed to hear vedic verses because he was not from the priest caste. Modi is just an opportunist.
I agree with you, I'm not sure how that's related to my comment.
> Does nationalisation stifle innovation?

I would argue that it does not. We have a lot of innovations from the last 100 years that have come from state-run projects / endeavors.

The more I think about it the more it looks as though private ownership stifles innovation if there isn't a direct profit motive for it.
What is DuckDuckGo buying from Yahoo? I was under the impression that both search and ads has supplied by Microsoft.
> The only downside to renting is they may not have inventory on holiday weekends. I've never had this problem.

You will this year if you try, given what a disaster the rental agency inventories are right now.
I agree, but why is this a reply to my comment?
Thanks for the quick response, I am impressed, that is a large number...
That is correct. Unfortunately the TKIs are more for slowing/stopping spread temporarily until the cancer no longer responds - then on to the next one. My doctors were going for curative so I've been going the more traditional route and those will likely be tagged on post-surgery in an effort to keep anything missed in check. Also ALK+ is non-responsive to immunotherapy which would have been nice weapon to have in the arsenal as a cleanup crew.

It may be a pipe dream, but I'm hoping to hold on long enough that some of these new mRNA approaches start offering clinical trials I might be able jump in on.
In other news: somebody thought they were worth a positive number.
"A-Post" is 1.00 CHF, not 1.20 CHF. Still more expensive, though (but way cheaper than the huge prices quoted for Denmark below!).
Maybe all Verizon wanted were the names of the people who were signed up with Yahoo so they could glean all their ones and zeros as well as some cash selling them phone plans?
Do you recall "DOSBLOOD.EXE", a font loader TSR that made the letters look like they were dripping?
Ok, I see what you were saying now. Yeah, we agree.
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On a second thought, yes, you're actually right...
Agreed. It always seemed to me as analogous to the situation whereby one enters some identifying information in a phone prompt, only to have to spell it out again for a CSR. Both are just plain bad design.
> You cannot dismantle the only mail service that is OBLIGATED to deliver mail to every address.

It doesn't, though. I lived ten years at an address they wouldn't deliver to. I had to rent a PO Box in the nearest town to get USPS mail, whereas UPS and FedEx delivered right to my door. I don't know where you're getting your information, but it isn't true.
Personally, I wonder if your argument changes if the thing in question is not a toaster but something the public wouldn't want to wait 15 years for. Medical vaccine, groundbreaking software, or an improved biological process using less antibiotics. A toaster doesn't really have immediacy, but this policy affects things that do.

I don't have a solution, just a vague feeling that in 2021 15 years seems like a very long time (for software, at least.)
That's not what people meant in 2008 when the phrase "too big to fail" came into the lexicon. The phrase meant that there was systemic risk. You're moving the goal posts to mean "big companies are behaving badly," which is different.
The key will be encrypted, not obfuscated - it won't be possible to retrieve it even if they have the binary without my password. This is what you also suggested, right? I just agreed with you above. Perhaps you missed the part about using the password? I'm confused.
It doesn't have 0 to do with AWS. AWS funds the amazon beast they compete against. As a retailer you would have to be absolutely insane to feed money to the Amazon mothership via AWS so they can continue to fund undercutting you in the retail space.

All of that is ignoring the fact that any customer of size WILL be sharing details about their go-to-market with their AWS account team. Just because a random guy in support can't login to their systems doesn't mean their assigned architect doesn't know what their process workflow looks like and didn't help them design it...
Yahoo employee here... AMA
Same. I have friends from some gigs that have stayed friends for many years. Other jobs, I never talked with anyone again. Age and stage of life is factor. If your coworkers all have young children, birthday clubbing isn’t really on their agenda.

Without out-of-work activities & bounding, friendly coworkers don’t transition into friends. I’d suspect remote work makes it very difficult to form a permanent friendship with a colleague.
Isn't it the workers who (whom? I never know) pay the payroll tax? That's their money, in exchange for their time spent on work, that's not Amazon's money. This doesn't make sense to me.
Ah, you're right, not sure what I was thinking. It's 1.30 if it's a thicker envelope.
Silly? Its covid time. The post office was hit hard by restrictions. They told us where I live that delivery was going to be affected.