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These CBDS dont shift power it just makes things faster on a technical level because they can be moved p2p. Its central controlled but it doesn't need the centralized technical infrastructure. The money private person uses is unlikely to be replaced by CBDCs and also that money is already digital for the most part.
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Why would one need to rethink how society works? This is how all cities grew until single-family-houses-only zoning swept the United States in the 1970s. And if Tokyo can build skyscrapers, I don’t see why earthquakes would keep California from replacing 40’ SFHs with 40’ multifamily buildings.
Not the poster, but happy to answer since I have a decent amount of experience in similar areas.

Their point is that while in theory you could blind yourself to the holdout set - that rarely REALLY happens. At least in a truly good way. Almost everyone is going to either peek at the data, massage the data, or try the validation and when it fails tweak the model and try again, or any number of shenanigans that no one admits happen - but happen all the time.

The failure mode that a prospective test would guard against in this case is - you can't peek or massage the future (and if you can, you can retire a billionaire pretty easy and stop worrying about this) - so you can't accidentally fool yourself or others by peeking, massaging, etc. And if you tweak your model, then do another prospective test - then you still can't peek at the future, and you'll have a different set of data, so you can't be overfitting to the old data/p-hacking.

You can do it over and over again, and as long as you don't just say 'all good' on a failed test without doing another different prospective test, you either have a predictive model or you clearly do not.

That is something the traditional validation models cannot do, since they aren't looking for truly never before seen data.

It still doesn't tell you if once in production you will stop fitting and fail over, but it does at least tell you that it fit a never been seen, new set of data at least once. Which is better than the other tests can do by their very nature.
Cognizant had to let go of business because it couldn't hire talent
I apply the same principle to wedding and graduation gifts. Here are people who probably don't even know where they're going to be living in six months. The last thing they need is more stuff.
> Can you provide some examples, particularly where the cars disable safety equipment for lack of payment?

Sure, I did here already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058509

And it's generally pretty easy to find yourself, if you want https://www.google.com/search?q=cars+disabled+for+lack+of+pa...

> Cars/lenders are already heavily and rightly criticized

I'm sure you're right, but it still exists, and it's getting more common not less. Besides, the remote switch ability is there regardless of whether it's attached to payment. It's also being attached to cameras and GPS and auto-driving featuers, etc., etc. Your concern was about the safety of remote switches in general, right?, and those are incredibly common.

> "X as a service" is still a rent-seeking biz model, which is kind of deplorable overall but may work for some people.

You've already stated your opinion about this, and I don't appear to be making headway by pointing out that it's lowering the barrier to entry for some people, and that two different buyout options are available, and that they allow you to pause the rent at will.

So... I guess my question is do you finance anything at all? Do you have a car, or house, or rent, or credit card? If it's "deplorable", why participate? Don't you think the ability to pause payments at will sounds like a good thing? I do, and it doesn't sound all that rent-seeking to me that they're offing a buyout option, and a no-penalties cancel option where you get to keep the stuff.

> have chosen to implement a fail-dangerous mode as their primary feature.

I hear your point, and in the absence of any design information about this product, I agree with the general idea that attaching remote capability to safety equipment could be dangerous, whether or not it's common. That said, passing judgement on any given product requires seeking out and understanding of how the product was actually designed. A remote switch is not necessarily bad engineering. Cars aren't the only vehicles getting them, airplanes are too (and some people consider it a good thing, no possibility of hijacking.)

Stay curious friend!
I don't think that the reason I've tried Chinese food is to quiet the agitation of my soul. Do you?
To be fair the gerontocracy is pretty much saying that to all millennials in the US.

They invested all those years ago and we damn well best recognize their sacrifice with eternal servitude, and be thankful our buying power is deflated to prop up theirs!
Do you think that accounting doesn't exist?
2-3 years ago someone had a bad day so don’t use the project… I guess this is the today’s mentality. It is no longer enough that the software is good if they don’t publicly lynch every wrong thinker or mistake-maker who passes by they are guilty by association
Doesn't people leaving reduce housing prices?
I find that our childhood joys imprint and become adult obsessions for some. If you grow up in one place, like this man, you may crave to stay there. If you are taken to new places frequently, you condition to want that. Happiest moments on the beach? You crave beaches. Favorite foods for a kid become comfort foods in adults. I grew up in the delta of the Danube, rich with fruit trees and amazing tomatoes. Ended up settling in a place that has great orchards within driving distance as well (every other climate felt really uncomfortable). Be careful how you condition your kids :)
If you look at a California population graph over the last one hundred years, you see a huge growth in population, being at about parity with Texas in 1940. And now, that really long population boom has leveled off and started to even decline a bit, not a drastic drop. It sounds like maybe California has just reached it’s carrying capacity for the time being, why should we be worried about that?
one must imagine Sisyphus happy
In other jurisdictions the solution is to allow the retired homeowner to defer property taxes, to be paid out of the eventual proceeds of a sale.
We should be aware because growth curves will change in all sorts of places, breaking various forward looking economic expectations.
> I can only imagine the situation is similar if the original E-ink developers managed to patent all the necessary technologies to bloc everybody else.

All this imagination is amazing to me as a person who actually works in the display industry. It is like someone walked into a sports car showroom and announced that these cars are too expensive because of patents and it has nothing to do with volume and actual cost of iron and rubber. And then a bunch of other people all agreed with them and started blogging about it. Because that's what I see happening here. I wonder when someone like this will walk into an Apple showroom and start exclaiming that these apple products are all too expensive because of patents and not because of other factors.

As for Wacom and Stratasis, I have no idea since I don't work in those industries. But I've never seen convincing proof put forth. Circumstantial sure, but clear data that would convince me that "Stratasis used FDM patents to block all progress in 3d printing" doesn't seem to be available.
CBDCs are not for private people buying grocery.

But you normal fiat is already digital and tracked and in most cases the gov has or could gain access to that data. This however is not the goal of such a "govcoin". CBDCs is to remove clearing (settlement) and make it real-time.
> Allowing mixed use zoning around the bay would make the Bay area a much nicer.

Not just there.
Perhaps it was bound for the USA eventually though?
I respect your choice tremendously. On the other hand, on plan on retiring in 2-4 more years and devoting myself to dangerous and obviously excellent adventures which will likely have me dead by 50!

I'm rationalizing my decision to stick it out just a bit longer, but I have zero fucks left. I'd rather dig ditches than write software for one of the big companies at this point, but I'm not digging ditches.
I have the same problem. I've taken to reformatting code that I post on my blog to fit in something like 60 columns, with a modified code style that takes less horizontal space (using clang-format & prettier to do the work for me).
Proportionally? How does that work? Is it based on time of usage? So sites will now have an incentive to keep you on the site as long as possible? Not sure I like that.

Also, do people who use the internet for half an hour a week pay the same as those that spend all day online? Not sure I like that either.

I do like the general idea, I suppose, but trying to make it reward people who actually add value, proportional to that value, is not an easy problem.
The bureaucracy in California definitely feels excessive. Taxes are too high and don't seem to be helping solve the numerous social problems that California is facing. But politically is seems that one of the biggest issues hindering development is how different municipal governments can block and sabotage regional projects at the expense of the rest of the state (e.g. billionaires in Atherton preventing high speed rail "because it would be too noisy"). Is diving the state into even more political units the solution?
Sounds like this is a personal problem and not a them problem. They’re sending you a json and you’re complaining that your memory usage is exploding. That’s on you. If you’re not actively cleaning up after yourself idk how you can blame the external api for your internal memory issues. That’s my two cents at least. You can’t possibly design an api that fixes a user’s poor design.
The advice of one teacher of one moderately known mathematician hardly seems definitive.

The advice implies a completely linear process of learning. I think that works for some portion of learners and isn't useful at all for another portion.

Edit: never abandon a book you have chosen without working all the way through it

I've read a number of math books on my own. There are plenty of bad books out there. Some will have you wasting an awful long time if you never abandon them (since they are filled with extremely difficult problems or simply don't explain themselves well). This is advice for someone who, at minimum, has a teacher feeding them good books.
Media is just as dishonest as they've been for decades or longer. The problem is not traditional media, and it's two fold.

In the US at least, there's a dramatic rise in "captive media", essentially party propaganda packaged as news. I won't name names, but the number one sign is when you see a rotating cast of elites from one party showing up all the time for "interviews" and "exclusives". These media channels are funded and staffed by the same people running said political party. They're essentially one in the same. Plenty of people are fine living inside their party bubble despite more diverse opinions than ever being freely available on the internet. They are convinced that this news source is just as good as any other, and probably even better because they're always saying things that match their opinions. The same thing happens on social media, ML sorts people into their bubbles and hardly anyone leaves.

This leads to the second problem (in the US at least). There's a large contingent of the population that feels like they've been left behind. Their culture is dying out, even being replaced. They look at the other side and those people look different, have different religions, different jobs, live in different places, have different cultural beliefs. It's easy to convince these frightened and angry people that the other side is so different they're not even Americans. And party propaganda latches onto all these differences and rips them as wide as possible, which is part of the reason the two sides became so different in the first place. It's easy to sell fear to these people and get them to the polls very effectively. Once you've convinced these people the other side isn't Americans, you can sell them as traitors, enemies, fascists, really whatever you want to placate the scared and left behind masses.

Dishonesty of the media only matters if you listen to lying party propaganda outlets. Usually you can tell which outlets are truthful by looking for ones that aren't constantly stoking fear and demonizing people or obviously pandering to one party. Outrage sells to simpletons and manufacturing it is more profitable than finding it in the wild.

America is undergoing the same cycle as many western countries. There was a huge population boom post WWII and this group is aging. Their children are a similarly large generation and you're watching an epic cultural power struggle between the old generation that's generally been in power for 40+ years and the first younger generation large enough to outvote them. That's a general simplification but a majority or party positions and voters are sorted along this axis
Stop growing rice and fucknuts in the fucking desert. That solves the water problem.
There's no way to undo the lost time that any bad decision causes.

Time you lose that you should be with your family, the last hugs/words that you couldn't give, the wife/husband that had to work harder because you weren't there, the now ex- that moved along with life

One problem is that money, apologies, a gold medal, doesn't bring back the lost past
On the topic of cloop, any idea why it never made it to mainline? Its hugely useful in itself, and I use it for some custom boot images built with buildroot, but it breaks on nearly every kernel upgrade. Also finding the latest cloop source always feels like a treasurehunt.

Everytime I ask about cloop in mainline, I get told to switch to squashfs - which is fine, just that cloop has uses well outside squashfs' domain.
Though I have to admit, 4G/5G is never going to draw lines in the sky.
Look at Davis CA or 20 minutes away from half the UCs really. North of San Diego is cheap is peaceful. Most places do not have the endless urban sprawl of the bay or LA.
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Wouldn’t a ledger be a path to solving this?
On Nextdoor you can see the settled Californians complaining about the traffic, crowding, and wanting to stop development. The housing crisis doesn’t register for them at all since they got theirs.
i don't know what that means?
I think this is due in part to the gamification in stack overflow. Often Y is a very detailed question that few people know the answer to. But X is a more general problem that anyone knows some answer to. So you answer the question you know how to answer, even if it wasn't asked.

However, at least in the case of stackoverflow, you're getting advice for free, even if it's occasionally unhelpful. You aren't entitled to an answer.
Don't sleep on the canned sardines. They never stop being good imo. Their high protein and fat content makes them really satiating. I think they're the ultimate food if you're dieting.

Since gyms were closed, I cut for about 4-5mo at the start of lockdown. Everyday for those 5 months: sardines. Never got tied of 'em or felt like I was on horrific starvation rations.
Reminds me a lot of my uncle that had sort of taken over my grand-parent's farm and never really moved away from there.

I can definitely empathise with his mindset, especially after many years in the city. Though being from a culinary-centered culture, the one size fits all meal is really depressing to think about, especially that he probably can get some really good produce from people in his network.

Being a farmer is really something different and here in Western Europe (I'm going to assume there's not that much difference between UK and FR farming cultures), it's really a labour of love.

I've been lucky to have some exposure to this world through my family and people often have the wrong perception of it and quite often looked down upon by people that should know better.
These comments are old but I figured I should point out the meta: if the japanese government cuts contracts they would just have to spend yet more on subsidies. Japan already has extensive subsidy programs for companies with reduced revenue from Corona. Not only would Japan lose out on any upside, there would not be any savings. Further more: it is Japan: the government is not for want of cash.
oh wait, you edited. ok!
Yeah. Plus, reducing parking minimum to the sane level will give us back a significant portion of land wasted for 90% of time.
> Let's imagine that we build so that we don't have to hear our neighbors' partying.

I’ve heard (and been kept awake by) my neighbors in every single place I’ve lived that’s not a detached home. Even the fancy condo with super thick walls/floors/ceilings only made it rarer. If nothing else, this is why I want a single family home and hate the idea that this is the desirable future. Invest in remote work and let people have space.
Yes, that can happen, but it entirely depends on where you work. Some employers are fine with letting people stay at a level if that's what they want. Of course their salary tends to stay pretty constant too in that case, you'll basically just get COL raises.
I know. I didn't say the ads were ranked for highest bidder. I said they were ranked to maximize profitability. If the user does not click an ad, it's not profitable to Google. If the user comes back to the search page after visiting the ad, the ad is not profitable to the advertiser.

But if the user buys from the ad, that doesn't say anything about whether the ad was useful (or counter-productive) to the user, it only means that this transaction was profitable to Google and the advertiser.

Ads not matching the search query are not the issue. They are neither profitable nor helpful, so you can't use that criterion to distinguish the two goals.
Neither do the earth care about per nationality emissions. In my opinion Per capita emission is better metrics compare to per nationality to improve things.
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I literally moved to China to try and find whatever I was missing at the time; a decade, four other countries, and countless adrenaline-seeking excursions later, some part of me is still searching.

It may not apply to everyone, or even a majority of people who go out of their way for something new, but I know exactly what the parent comment means.
If you want to learn more about Uranium, this recent podcast was pretty good:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
I wonder how your employer would feel if they saw the post I replied to?

If you think they would react negatively, then wouldn’t you concede that there is an element of dishonesty here?
I've also heard people mention places where they freeze property taxes for retired people.
It’s a remote village of 30 houses. The only reason it’s newsworthy is because it’s SpaceX. They feature some angry woman in their video who accepted their buyout for 3x the value of the house and doesn’t live there anymore. They literally had to stage a video of three people on a beach to claim that locals use it often when really it’s way far out of the way for anyone and far inferior to south padre which has far more amenities. The actual issue is the wildlife preserve but nooo the wsj wants to push an angle that SpaceX is bad because some homeowner is pissed that he’s not being offered 10x the value of his crappy 3/1 home built in the 80’s.
Chinas 3rd world status is the problem of the Chinese government not the rest of the world.
CA is next to the ocean with plenty of solar power potential. Fab water can also be recycled with some effort.
Itch.io: Apple's lawyers just called, we need to turn off ALL the games
Has anyone used this one? Is it good? I'm on a compatible OS but it's just so incredibly expensive...
Mozilla has never made Firefox completely stop working for 2 days. Even if they did, it's still a false equivalence: if FF stops working for a few hours you'd just use Chrome pretty much seamlessly. With Signal you have to switch to a different messaging service (easy) AND persuade all your contacts to switch too (hard).
Doesn't that use the whatsapp web api? Which requires you to have Whatsapp installed on your phone as it routes all communication to the phone where it is decrypted?
I get that this is a real problem, especially in tech support. And this write-up is better than others I've seen. At the same time, I think people referencing this don't seem to understand how self-centered this perspective is. As the asker, you've got a stack of problems that might start with: well, I need to eat, so I got this job, so I need to do this task, ... (20 technical problems later), so I'm trying to do Y. How am I supposed to know how far up my stack _you_ want to go? If I knew I made a wrong step 3 problems ago, presumably I would have just asked about that problem.

The suggestions here are fine. Still, I think it's more important that the responder have some empathy and be willing to go back and forth a bit to understand someone's problem instead of expecting the asker to guess what information the responder is going to want.

Also, what's with the name "XY problem"? If "asking about Y when you want to do X" makes it an "XY problem", couldn't any problem involving any two things also be called an "XY problem"?
Pretty shady behavior. I’m not inclined to care about licensing disputes but google is a behemoth just begging to get hit with an antitrust lawsuit with this behavior.
Per capita really doesn't matter to the Earth, just politics
Make sure they know how to contact you in other ways. Tell them to write it down once a day for like 2 weeks until they confirm it works by using it.

Then never launch the app again.
Not saying your larger point is wrong, but this schtick ("Goodwill pays its executives well, roughly $1MM to many of its regional executives") always annoys me. Goodwill is a large organization, and large organizations require experience and talent to run.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about a large corporation, a government, an army, a charity, or even a church. It's not going to be possible to find people to manage it properly for $50K a year. Cutting corners when it comes to attracting and retaining qualified management leads to even greater waste in the big picture.
Wow, I just saw a cluster of satellites go overhead earlier tonight. It must have been starlink. It was really really cool, and quite serendipitous for me to be camping, in a dark place, seated at the perfect angle to see them between the trees. Definitely a memorable experience.
You could easily tweak this to be similar to something I grew up with, from Slovenia: https://www.tasteatlas.com/manestra Maybe cook longer and blend some of it to thicken it up.

Ours typically had pork and Polish sausage added, plus this type of pasta: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ditalini&safe=off&source=lnm...

It's similar to what Italians would know of as Pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans) but obviously varies by region, even village by village.
No, because rich households are still migrating in. It's low and middle income households that are leaving.
Ah, fair. I've never actually seen that become a problem, but I can see how it would be if I were doing more extensive Java interop.
Big "Get ready to eat bugs!" energy.