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When I was traveling across Europe, I had hard time taking photos of regular houses that I liked. People will get out and ask why I was photographing.

Maybe it is the way it is because Germans like it that way, not everyone needs to have photo of their house. Not necessarily hating the internet.

Also, I hated the fact that Germany did not have Street View, used it extensively at other places to pick neighbourhoods to go or not to go.

When I asked people I met how comes you don’t have Street View here, they all said that they liked their privacy and it has to do with the times when the government was watching everyone, so they are more cautious about it.
The legislature sets the unit of account that taxes get paid in. Setting that unit and imposing liabilities in it causes demand for the currency. Then you get a cascade effect.

That's why, in strong taxing nations, the currency border is very sharp. The one in Ireland for example between Sterling and the Euro.

They also then set the relative price of everything by how many of their new currency units they issue in exchange for goods and services.

If I tell you that you will get 20 groats for an hour of labour, you'll immediately know the price of everything in groats because you already have a relative map in your mind of how much things cost per unit of work required - or can quickly construct one from your own experiences.

Every new currency has an infinite exchange rate to start with. It doesn't matter how many USD you have you can't get a new currency because they haven't issued it yet.

If you analyse currency changes with these viewpoint tools you'll see how it works.
Don‘t base your opinion on DOGE. There are plenty of cryptocureencies with actual use cases that provide value.

It's entertaining to see how crypto pushers all hate dogecoin because it's a 'joke', yet the only real difference between it and countless other coins (say, bitcoin) is in its name. The dirty secret is that they are all bad jokes.
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I'm still waiting for abortable fetch feature, since I have to deal with some services that have unstable network connection and often got stuck and never drop their connection.

Is there any progress over this one? Last time I heard, they still have to wait till rusty_v8 got matured enough for this feature to be available.
Are you assuming his reasons for not wanting to return are health related? It would be dubious and dishonest to use that as an excuse if not.

I completely disagree with the strategy if you aren’t vulnerable to the virus. Negotiate remote on its merits without throwing something emotive in there for your personal gain.
Sowing wildflowers is becoming more popular here in Ireland. You can buy wildflower mixes or seed bombs but the expert view is to just stop mowing, there are enough dormant seeds in the soil. And those that are present are generally more suitable to the local environment than anything you'd introduce.

Reassuring as you say.

https://pollinators.ie/wildflowers-to-plant-or-not-to-plant/
Buybacks are also a mechanism of connecting stock price to company performance, but arguably that is also tenuous and rare, except for the last few years when several companies have done buybacks.

Oh, and in other direction, bankruptcy.
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Isn't this approach flawed as it look like seasonal lows of CO2 [0] are above 400ppm are are going to continue rising making the alignment drift even further out. Is there any way to adjust the calibration with the expected low CO2 readings?

[0] https://www.co2.earth/seasonal-co2-cycle
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"Social media firms will have to remove harmful content quickly or potentially face multi-billion-pound fines under new legislation."

To a surprise of no one, it has nothing to do with 'protecting users online'.
crypto is transparent, banking is not
Maybe they can leak who killed Ashli Babbitt.
Nice clean graph interface! Better for exploring than the usual force directed graphs that pop up everywhere. (Would love to have it in Obsidian.)
Why is the demo at 720p? Does not look good to do something like that.
Really? Oh no! They had such a nice UI.
Some weeks ago, I saw a comment on HN[0] that made me think. It presented an argument for current level of fines for all kinds of white-collar mischief being sufficient. The reasoning as I remember it was along the lines of:

- The fines are usually attached to an order to stop the activity in question. This leads to the misbehavior being corrected, because a company continuing their practice against the order will be committing much serious offense.

- Such "slap in the wrist" fine clearly establishes a particular practice to be illegal, which influences decision making process in other companies. When considering whether to walk a legal tightrope, there's a world of difference between theoretical liability and a clear example of someone else landing in hot water for doing that same thing.

Put like that, it sounds reasonable to me if fines start at a low level (regardless of the public's opinion of the offender).

I'm posting it here not because I agree[1], but in hopes that someone can point to evidence for or against this approach working. Do companies continue to do the things they were fined for in the jurisdictions they were fined for? Are other companies opting to engage in a behavior after someone else in the same jurisdiction was fined for it?

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[0] - Can't find it now :(.

[1] - I have no opinion just yet. I thought about it a little, and I realized that from game theory point of view, you'd expect a company threatened with the 2-4% annual revenue level fine to put up an expensive fight, not to protect the behavior in question, but to contest the fine itself. This adds another point in favor of this view.
Quiet a few highly-motivated tech employees interview even if they aren't looking to move. Many of my friends/colleagues took 1-2 interviews a year just to keep their interviewing skills sharp (interviewing is a skill that benefits from practice, just like anything else), and to keep an eye on how far their comp was above/below market.

You can't necessarily infer "is unhappy here" from "has an offer from another firm".
> The consensus one year ago was that immunity doesn’t last longer than 6 months

No, it wasn’t.

The consensus was that it was uncertain the degree and duration of immunity conferred because the available evidence was insufficient and contradictory.
Skimming the book there are number of issues which stand out.

With regards to 'selling the schools', in many places the charter school money just goes to tax exempt private landlords the charter school is leasing the building from without any substantial increase in benefits for students.

The section on taxes ignores state and local property tax and portfolio effect caused by deductions and expenses in federal income tax.

The chapter on money seems bad. Money is credit not a commodity. The simplest way to create money is through an equity loan not issuing gold certificates for gold bars. When someone wishes to take out a loan in 1M new-dollars on security of an estate worth 1M USD, the new dollars are a new unit of currency initially issued at a 1:1 ratio to USD which then floats.

The U.S. colonies did not originally have any gold. Issuing public money on security of estates allowed the colonies to provide a medium exchange for farmers without precious metals, raise revenue from interest payments without taxes, and economically develop despite mercantilist policies by Great Britain. During revolutionary war and war of 1812 the U.S. printed money and treasury notes to pay for existentially necessary expenses because taking out large loans in external currency which could not be paid off within 20 years or inflated was considered unethical to future generations.

Gold standard has caused lots of problems historically. Just going back to gold standard and depending upon private banks for money is not really solution. If a country does not have gold and residents are not allowed to domestically provide money as a public utility, on ideological grounds that anything 'public' is bad, this could prevent a country from developing if foreign lenders decide they can gain more through usury than by financing productive development, and could also prevent a country from financing defensive war during invasion.
even just the battery waste alone will be insane. the coin cell batteries only last a year and they are non-rechargeable so if someone gets their first airtag in their teens and uses it throughout their life then that's at least 40+ batteries. its kind of nuts when you think about how many people will end up using these

hopefully they would be recycled in some responsible way but thats wishful thinking. future archeologists will have a interesting time figuring out why there is such a dense layer of coin cell batteries on top of a layer of fidget spinners
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I'm not personally a Java fan, but "java is quite outdated" is a quite outdated statement itself.

Sure, it's not as fast to add stuff as C#, and also surely anyone looking for a fight can nitpick, but it has most modern features you'd expect a modern language to have.
> My family group chat is now on Telegram

Good for you, and your family, but that's simply not possible in lots of situations. My father and I tried to convert our family chat to Signal. Didn't work. I have no way to convince my coworkers to switch away from Whatsapp: they simply don't see privacy issues in the same light as I do.

It's unfortunate, but at least for the time being it's simply not happening.
When you invest in a company you provide capital for it grow.

Crypto is not capitalism.
Until you get an out of memory error. Then you need to start fiddling with the JVM.

Or until you realize that you have a 99th percentile latency of multiple seconds...
I was under the impression that chip and pin is more common in the UK and Canada because fraud is more of an issue, so the cost benefit works out in favor of it.

Even now you never have to pin in the US.
I'm still not sure I agree that Satoshi did nothing wrong, per se. But I really appreciate what you're saying, as this does afford some separation of the art (Bitcoin and Co.) from the artist (Satoshi).

Satoshi (whether it be he, she, or they) went into creating Bitcoin intended as a peer to peer cash that was easy to spend and outside of government control. Unfortunately, at least in the case of Bitcoin, it has turned into this slow, unwieldy "commodity" that is now rebranded as digital gold.

Thanks for your perspective, atweiden.
Yes. I also enjoyed reading it, and worry about how we get out of this conundrum.
I didn’t know what deno was.

It’s a typescript native alternative to nodejs that adopts the browser security model, replicates the golang standard library rather than node’s and is written in Rust.
Some of us think Tesla or will dominate auto manufacturing.
Possibly true. Staying outside FB now means relying on the charity of others to tell you material facts only said inside FB
Although if you take this strategy, it's also worth talking openly about it on the regular. That way your management wont go into panic mode when they hear you are interviewing, but they'll also be reminded regularly to adjust your comp to market levels ;)
> What does differentiate a scam from a legit investment ?

that the reason someone might pay you more in the future must be "legitimate" - that is the asset can be independently valued to be worth more in the future.

Investment in shares is not a scam (mostly), even if they _never_ pay a dividend, as long as they earn a profit. Investment in gold, however, can be likened to a scam, as the value of gold only grows to as speculation, and not wealth creation.

Hard to say whether cryptos behaves as gold, as some crypto does have uses beyond being sold to someone else for a higher price.
Precisely what I also wanted to say. This is not the level playing field, in addition to selective pricing structures being doled out to subscription based services
You know this thing called gold. All you are doing is being an early investor in "gold" in the hopes that a future "investor" will hand a greater amount to you for the "gold". This is all there is to it.
Again, you are making it abundantly clear that you did not actually inform yourself:

* smart contracts

* decentralized exchanges

* decentralized finance (lending, investing, etc)

* instant borderless value transfer

* actually HARD money

All of it trustless, permissionless, uncensorable, resilient, not controlled by a centralized entity, mathematically provable.
Perhaps better yet, install a switch -- a big red toggle on the rear, with even bigger lettering -- to physically dis- and, if desired, re-connect it?
Please tell me more about the agricultural futures market of the early modern period
So, given that dividends are priced in to the value estimation by investors - which we have established is completely disconnected from actual value - and priced out once paid... it turns out that for exchanges, value is not very relevant?
I actually see Java looking at itself and realizing where it need to catch up to other languages these days. As someone who grew up with Java 5/6/7, the current pace seems breakneck with much-welcomed improvements.
> Not a specific one - any API

Defining this is a job for industry bodies and suchlike, as is keeping it current. Lest we forget jokes like the 2020 Brexit agreement containing references to Netscape Navigator 4.0
>I'm not sure how you would convince society to do away with separate rules for minors. It's very rare for a justice system to decide that a 16 year old should be tried as a 21 year old.

the real situation is opposite - it is pretty exceptional to not charge 16 years olds as adults in a rape case.

Separate rules for minors is a right thing to do up to a reasonable limit - a 16 year old thinking it is ok to joyride somebody's car is one thing, whereis to murder or to rape - it is very different.
I might be missing something, but it seems to me like the easier thing to do in a culture where you might have to back insults up with violence is to... not insult people. I mean, I agree that dueling is not something that we'd want politicians to do, generally, but one of the intended effects of it is to reduce just that sort of casual disrespect that harms group unity (and yes, I'm aware that "group unity" among a ruling class is a dangerous thing to the proletariat - see, for example, insider trading laws not applying to them). If you have a problem with someone, you keep it to yourself or deal with the matter privately between the two of you. To publicly insult someone meant something far more serious when there was a social expectation to put your life on the line for the insult.

Again, not a fan of dueling, just steelmanning it. Giving more power (in terms of freedom to express oneself in a political context) to the more martial members of the ruling class would likely be a very dangerous thing, but I just wanted to point out that that specific example is something that dueling is meant to eliminate. Certain societies enforce politeness (with big, big air quotes over "enforce" for some) with social opprobrium and centuries of precedent. Others enforce it with threat of force (as others have pointed out, honor/warrior cultures tend to default to this). Having it not be enforced at all is interesting, and I wonder if over time rifts between factions will only deepen due to mutual disrespect. I wonder what effects that will have on public trust in the institution (already not at great levels, I'm aware).
Compare with another serious topic: cancer deaths vs funding:

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124435/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3411479/

Breast cancer (and leukemia, as it affects kids) are proportionally the most funded ones. Rectal cancer (with a similar DALY loss as breast cancer) does not receive nearly as much funding. Lung cancer (which is common and deadly) gets little funding, as we associate it with people taking their own risk with smoking, even though often it is not the case (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023395, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01410768198436...).
In the UK, watches, being mechanical in nature, are not subject to capital gains tax on any profits.

For this reason alone luxury collectable watches are a smart investment for diversification purposes for the ultra wealthy.
> Can you truly look at TSLA and say that there's value creation behind that valuation?

the value of TSLA hasn't been created yet - the event is still in the future. The current price is based on the expectation (by many people) that their value creation in the future will occur.

As for GME - the short squeeze certainly did create value. It's like charging someone dying of thirst in the desert for water. But as soon as those people got _some_ water, you can no longer charge the same high price. Thus GME's rise and fall is rational.
Go somehow takes the worst bits of Java in this regard and makes them even worse :(
In page 60 or so the document talks about how to impose laws and security without a govt. There's also a section on non-government approaches to make polluters pay. Presumably the owner of the well would end up much poorer for their actions than when they started.
Update: it's done. Thanks!
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After three years of intense work and a year-long beta, including sites from Digital Ocean, Shopify, and Flowplayer: Volument is finally open for everyone. Here's the story:

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I acknowledge that it improved recently and I'm not saying it is a bad language. But it is missing a lot of features and convenience that the majority of newer language add. Java prefers to put a lot of emphasis on compatibility, which also has its merits. But the language itself (not ecosystem/tooling) is outdated in many areas. I stand by that.
Not only adopts the browser security model, but more broadly adopts browser APIs.
It might be what us typical for now, but hopefully if we recognize it as a bad comment it won’t be in the future…
Let's be real here, only a negligible amount of buyers today purchase cryptocurrencies because they believe in the tech - for the majority, it boils down to making a quick buck.

The tech does indeed have valuable applications, but that doesn't take away the fact that we're in a mania.
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> Seems like any currency conversion or speculation of any kind is a zero sum game then

it's not really zero sum - this sort of speculation creates liquidity. This liquidity allows people who want to use the underlying asset in some other way to have a buyer (or seller) on the other end of the transaction.
V8 is written in C++, not Rust.
Bit of a lazy question, but: is there a pre-made option available for general consumers to buy?
Back in the day I used to have to repair the CRT monitors for these. They were incredibly heavy and you could do yourself serious harm just lifting one from a box onto your bench. The reason for the weight was that once you had removed the plastic cover there were several layers (depending on the model) of metal screening around the circuit boards. An unusually good level of EMC screening for that time. I presumed these things were all built to military/govt spec to prevent TEMPEST eavesdropping ? Anyway removing all of that wasn't a quick job.

As for the IT part of the workstations I don't ever remember them going wrong they just ran & ran.
Kind of a nitpick, but it appears to break the back button? I saw that it doesn’t support my mobile screen resolution at this time (which is reasonable), so I hit back, but it appeared to forward me back forward to the same page. Pressing the back button twice in quick succession also didn’t work for me.
> And if it's not the case for these pathetic cases, what does that say about the rest?

There’s an old joke that starts with a guy taking a train through Scotland. He sees a black sheep out the window and says, “Ah, Scottish sheep are black. How interesting!”

The price of a stock is part market insanity and part value. The proportion varies.
They're talking about deno, which _is_ written in Rust. https://github.com/denoland/deno
I've been doing this for a couple years, just with Selenium rather than Puppeteer. Banks are generally okay, and they don't change their websites that often which is nice. A couple banks force phone 2FA and deliberately hide the "email confirmation" option which makes full automation difficult. Also nag screens, Selenium unreliability, etc.

Some companies like Azure use a different account name every time they bill me. I ended up having to regex the credit card transactions for that. Others have something completely nonsensical like "BS 03-6743-2266" (<- this was iTunes), or use a 3rd party processor that puts their own name in the transaction.

The real issue for me is getting itemized purchases to do categorization on. Stuff like restaurants are okay since everything is food, so I can just categorize the whole transaction. Amazon banned me and forced me to change my password while trying to grab my purchase history (and only my purchase history!). I was trying to grab it from email receipts but then I realized they don't send receipts for Subscribe & Save purchases (!).

I'd kill for something better, but for now it's this or manually enter every transaction or give up on financial responsibility.
Going a bit on a tangent here as far as the topic of the article, but... It's mind-blowing and depressing to realize that there are apparently millions of Americans who believe that dogs can't feel pain.
This is why you are better to work for small companies. Big companies simply cannot afford to treat people as individuals when it comes to terms of employment... it’s just not practical to negotiate individual deals. Big companies must implement standard processes for things like this.

And if you run a small company, this is how you beat the big companies to the best talent... negotiate deals that suit the individual employees.

The moment a company says the word “percentile” when talking about salaries, you know they’ve become “a big company”.
It's not just HN, and it's not just Java. Actually it's not just software development, it's almost everything - movies, music, sports. A is better than B because. C sucks. In certain contexts this is ok, the fun is in the pointless argument, but engineering should be more serious than that. Alan Kay referred to the whole field as a pop culture, and I can see his point.