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I don't agree with the punchline. This is a nice thing to flex, and I don't have anything bad to say about buying military/professional/etc stuff when you actually need, but taken literally this is just straight-up a terrible advice. In fact, as someone who is way over-meticulous and tends to overthink when buying stuff, I'm advicing myself (and anyone who is like me in that regard) the polar opposite: if you don't 100% know what you need, just buy (reasonably) cheap simple stuff. Both OP and I just love that feeling of "owning the best stuff", but this is sickness. I just need a toaster, for God's sake, I shouldn't spend 2 evening looking for and $200 buying "the best stuff". "$5 Chinese crap" will do just fine, and, no, it won't break. And if it won't do just fine, I can just throw it away and buy a better thing, now knowing what exactly do I need and why the cheapest option wasn't enough. Similarly like if you've just gotten into climbing, it would be stupid of you to buy the most expensive La Sportiva shoes: you don't know how to use them anyway, and it will be horrible experience. You can buy La Sportiva if you want, but just get a fucking model for beginners. But, really, if you buy half as expensive "meh" brand shoes, you'll be just fine for the first 6 months too. And, yeah, having a beaker as your glassware is cool, but many people would appreciate it more if you'd serve them beer in an actual glass or cup, which is way cheaper and easier to get.

But, anyway, the punchline isn't why I'm writing this: I'd just ignore that if there would be nothing interesting here. What actually strikes me is "I don't think corporations/businesses are to blame" part. I mean, I don't care whom to blame, this is counter-productive. But I've been thinking about that lately, and I cannot let go of the idea that customers being that horribly misinformed is a real problem. This isn't something given. Customer disinformation is an active pursuit of corporations. And, you know what, if I spend a few weeks on the problem, I think I can get an idea of what do I need from a microwave. But everyday I am "choosing" countless stuff just by selecting the "most trustworthy" package. I have no idea what toilet cleaning products should contain, what actually makes them effective and if there is any difference besides the price. I know that 80% of everything written on toothpaste or shampoo package is a lie, but I have no idea what isn't. And this really shouldn't be that hard, people should have at least somewhat clear idea of what is essential, and what is just their preference. Whole markets exist simply by virtue making it a customers' habit to buy their stuff, without knowing why they do so.

This isn't anything new, of course, even though every generation tends to think that nowadays ads are especially horrible and misleading. But given how much some jurisdictions appear to care about fair treatment of customers, I think more money could be spent by governments on countering corporate activity in this area, not helping them. Not necessarily by forbidding stuff, just by sponsoring studies and keeping folks informed.
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> To whom?

To everyone outside the cryptocurrency social bubble.

> And I believe those thinking otherwise are reacting to the new usage encroaching on the old. Petty hill to die on…

I think it is pretty silly to deliberately use an ambiguous term when better ones exist.
You are in a car. That is already over engineered. Get a bike or hike.
> If someone steals your fiat USD, there will eventually be someone with guns removing you from society if you don't return them.

That's true for any type of property, including cryptocurrency. US police have returned stolen cryptocurrency to its rightful owner.[1]

The wrinkle is that police can only recover property if they know where it went. Cryptocurrency makes that harder in some ways (pseudonymity/anonymity, mixers) and easier in others (transaction history on the blockchain, lots of electronic records in exchanges).

Over my life, I've had a half-dozen things stolen from me that were worth more than $1,000. Only in one case did the police recover my property (a motorcycle) and only because the thief committed other crimes while riding it. I had to pay $200 to get it out of San Francisco's impound lot. (It would have been $400, but the city gave me a 50% discount because I was a resident.) It was only after paying the money that I could see the bike. It was totaled.

1. https://www.nj.com/news/2019/09/nj-man-tried-to-send-apology...
I spent a long time giving NFTs the benefit of the doubt because I didn’t really get it and I couldn’t get anyone to explain it to me who wasn’t also VERY invested in their outcome and unable to concede the possibility of any downsides.
Considering that it hasn't produced any value of note in 13 years, I'm gonna go out a limb here and say I don't think it's worth 2% of the entire world's wealth - and certainly not 3% of the world's energy.
"The Spy Who Loved Me" was the shortest of Fleming's works that I read. But given that, I agree with the author of the article that many of the Bond books had serious failings.

I read "Live and Let Die" and was embarrassed for Fleming for his attempt to channel Joel Chandler Harris. A case where the film bettered the book.

"Goldfinger" has the villain actually trying to steal the gold from Fort Knox. Another case where it was better in the film.

"Diamonds Are Forever" and "Casino Royale" are the books I can say I liked the most.
It's Y10K proof ;)
Are there any half-decent ways to run CI locally? Anyone have any suggestions?

For me it doesn't have to be automatic like these CI services.
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> Gifts generally have strict deadlines.

If you're a procrastinator, yes. About 10 years ago I started buying winter holiday gifts in August. :) But only for my partner.
Agreed, there is a bit of selectivity and careful consideration. These are misuses and illfits. Wearing military boots to a wedding is an impedence mismatch so to speak, not really a fault of military boots.

You gotta compare apples to apples.
The Shortest Interview of Magnus Carlsen - ONLY 10 SECONDS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goKBquMpn0
So, this is going to be slightly beyond me to accomplish. At least, I'm not really willing to apply the effort. But what if there was a service to pump out garbage data for these ad services to collect? Like, what if everyone used every toothpaste all the time (theoretically). Thus, marketers are flooded with bad leads. Enough to make a critical mass to stop relying on data collection tactics. To make sure this gets enough market usage, it would have to be free, thus the funding of such a project would be difficult. Perhaps a Wikipedia type of public funding rounds, maybe patreon and create merch. I don't know. I'm just interested in a way to dilute the data market and make it absolutely meaningless for anyone to buy. Hopefully, destroying the market. A handful of people doing a wee bit of ad blocking isn't working. Will this have 2nd and 3rd level repercussions? Absolutely. Will this hamper corporate surveillance on people? I think so. At least I think it'll be a better ride than the Gamestop market ride. Just a drunk idea. Throwing it out there. Maybe someone will think of something better off of this.
This comment was posted when the headline said "rogue" because the URL was https://www.businessinsider.com/killer-drone-hunted-down-hum.... We've since changed both (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27337912).
It's still almost always worth buying one property of each color, to prevent other players from building a group.
He isn't an historian.
Meaningful change is more likely to occur after Buffett and Munger have departed this plane of existence. At 90 and 97 years of age, respectively, no need to hold your breath (based on actuarial tables).

Progress on this front is possible (corporate climate change responsibility), and occurring. Check out Engine No 1’s activist success with Exxon within the last week. They pushed for pro climate directors, Blackrock followed (because Blackrock can’t push themselves directly as an indexer), and Exxon lost even after fishing for backpeddlers during the shareholder meeting (which is very much not common or within good taste from a corporate governance perspective). Like a wound, constant pressure must be applied.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/engine-no-1-gets-at-least-2-... (Engine No. 1 wins at least 2 Exxon board seats as activist pushes for climate strategy change)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-27/exxon-... (Matt Levine’s take on Exxon)
Remember, Tesla isn't reluctant to start dealership franchises because of reducing consumer costs. It is 100% due to their aggressive any right to repair stance.

Most places have the laws that require any tools/diagnostics available to dealerships be made available to all. No dealerships, No tools. Tesla do not want you or 3rd party mechanics to fix your Tesla.
From the point of view of a billionaire, the world probably looks like it’s working exactly as it should.
Clever analogy. Let me quickly give some background on actual the use of gold as a store of value, besides the obvious point that gold does not rust (decay) and that it is somewhat rare.

As you know, gold is also shiny and has been used for jewelry for thousands of years in many cultures. Some anthropologists have reversed the causality of value and jewelry, arguing that gold is precious _because_ it is used as jewelry. Indeed, in many cultures different types of jewelry [1] were used as a basis for currency (as in unit of accounting).

Therefore, one of the most basic human features, dressing up within a social hierarchy might be at the basis of gold and currency.

I don't see any such use case for cryptocurrencies (yet).

[1] besides pearls, beads, necklaces, it could also be rare make-up material or even feathers. I recommend the work of anthropologist David Graeber in his book Debt: the First 5000 years.
He's an economist, with an ideological bent, not a historian.
Actually that isn't true. It is a free Linux distro and you can download it at https://repo.virtuozzo.com/vzlinux/
They're stuck because they work with proprietary tools on obscure tech. Nobody else wants them because their experience doesn't translate.

I recently made the transition but it was extremely difficult. I ended up with 1 offer after ~10 or so interviews and ~50 or so applications.
Completely eliminating any risk of chargebacks mostly shifts risk back onto the customer; I don't think it's a net benefit. Some businesses seem to intrinsically have sky-high chargeback rates but I'd prefer that those businesses simply not exist rather than put up with the existence of crypto.

I once bought donuts from a food truck with BTC and the donuts were good but the payment process was really slow.
It wouldn't surprise if hacking will decide wars. It doesn't matter how many drones you have if the enemy has all of them.
“ Believe me, Chevron is not an evil company," he added. "I have no compunction — in the least — about owning Chevron. And if we owned the entire business, I would not feel uncomfortable about being in that [industry]."

Believe me, if I were a billionaire I too would be defending other billionaires, peasants be damned. Bigly.
I found the linkedin in super dispiriting (others' success while I failed etc) when applying for jobs and found this lovely extension.

https://www.hidefeed.com/

It simply hides the feed. Then I could apply for jobs/network in peace.
Reminds me of a great New Yorker cartoon... https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/print/u-g-PGY13F0.jpg
> Actually, my understanding is that cryptocurrencies are having impact in developing countries.

Which country specifically would be a good example of this? If there are in fact any examples of this.
> After all, Elon is so cute when he's enthusiastic! But yeah he probably knows it's a scam too, what was I thinking.

Judging by how quickly Tesla stopped accepting Bitcoin, I would say he definitely knows.
I'm a huge Bond fan and would love to see Elba as Bond, but I doubt he'll be chosen simply because he is too "old".

Bond movies come out a little more slowly than other series and they'll want their next Bond to be able to do at least 3-5 movies. Starting with an actor who is almost 50 just doesn't seem to fit that schedule, unfortunately.
> An athlete's job is to be the best at their sport.

I disagree. Sport has always been part athleticism and part showmanship. At the end of the day, it's a business, and showmanship increases the bottom line. Partaking in interviews is also contractually mandatory (kind of like if you're a movie star). I think she's hijacking a hot-button issue in the zeitgeist (mental health) just because she doesn't want to do the post-game interviews after a loss (which I'm sure is not fun).

And either way -- even if it were genuinely a mental health issue -- her, of all people, would quite literally have all the resources in the world to deal with it. Just do your job. You already make an absolutely obscene amount of money, anyway.
I set my first Arduino on our washing machine, which was my platform for demos for my family. I set it right on an area with chipped paint and exposed metal.

I eventually figured out I'd shorted and destroyed the 7805 regulating the DC input to 5v. My first in-the-field electronics repair was to remove it, bodge it, and live with a USB-only Arduino. I still have that Arduino; it's a reminder of the first time I let out the magic smoke.
I see opportunities tending towards the most competent foremost, with psychopathy potentially helping but in many cases hurting. I've seen many people fired for being assholes, as an example of cases where these traits have hurt. All the psychopaths I've met have had pretty pathetic and lonely lives. People figure them out and they get sidelined.

Politicians, quantum healers, fraudster psychics, snake oil salesmen, etc, are rare niches where psychopaths genuinely thrive over regular people.

5000 years ago you pretty much had to be willing to murder someone to get what you wanted and survive. Nowadays such ruthlessness is punished in many contexts more than rewarded. The corporate ruthlessness that we see today is such a tamed beast in comparison.

So I'm not convinced that the selection for psychopathy has increased.
The assets available for those games are ultimately at the mercy of the proprietary Unity client. If the company developing it decides to stop doing so or supporting certain assets, you might find the things you previously had become unusable overnight.
The book shows Joe having a crush on Wendy and Wendy likes Joe. We can theorize they were married and Pat undid their marriage. That just makes Pat's behaviour even weirder.

Either way, Pat (described as "obviously no more than seventeen") strips naked and announces she's moving in with the very messy and penniless Joe just minutes after meeting him for a job interview. That much happens in the present. All this theory adds is that Joe was also married and Pat just decided to undo his marriage. It's one extra obstacle. It doesn't explain why she's interested in Joe. There's no character development. And Pat gets blown up a few chapters later.

I'm not saying it's impossible for someone to do that. It's just one example of a character acting weird for seemingly no reason. But the characters remain weird throughout the book.

I talked about in another comment how Pat's power seems way too powerful to use in a logical plot.
TIL games of Monopoly have a formal ending
Aren't those things also purchased with usd, euro, yen, won, rmb, etc?
With all due respect, people have been predicting that “$thing will (finally) be what leads to hyperinflation in the US” for decades and decades, but it has never happened. That’s not to say it can’t happen... but that predictions of imminent hyperinflation have historically been a poor bet and that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
> I'm exposed to the risk that buddies of the WU employees will rob my house later

In comparison to getting your wallet compromised by viruses searching for it (and they will probably become more aggressive and adept as BTC usage increases), the chance of this happening I feel is exceedingly low. And avenues of recourse exist: there are clear leads to follow on for an investigative team.

> I've had my bank ATM card cloned by a skimmer on an ATM while I was traveling overseas

I know that my credit card covers me for this and I would get my money back if such a thing were to happen to me.

> I've had WU give me ridiculously unfavorable exchange rates, and there was nothing I could do about it

And BTC transaction fees are ever-increasing. And so is its environmental cost.

My grandma lives in .pk. I fear she would not be capable of understanding the concept of BTC or Trezor as she can barely understand how a TV remote works. She does very much grok the concept of cash money though, and is quite fond of exercising her freedom with it.
Wonder how long Buffet has to live and whether it is relevant to take into consideration his opinion at all.
This is obviously not true. You cannot buy, say, 3 million USD of bitcoin to transfer to another person who then cashes it out for 220 million rubles. More than one government will be clued in, many will stop you until you identify yourself, and it certainly won't be at most a few dollars to exchange.
They're not exactly wrong. Even if tariffs increase enough for manufacturing capability to be restored in the US, factories will struggle to find the labor (Americans seem disinterested in such work), and the parts and maintenance supply chains will still be dependent on China.
Once you have enough liquidity of cryptocurrency in the country this isn’t an issue. And the incentives to own cryptocurrency in a place like Venezuela is high.
You are correct, I guess my reading comprehension isn't what it used to be. I thought I saw an error and got blinded by the rush of posting a correction.
I think it depends on what you mean a lot by "think". Did they wake up thinking, "Hey, let's go for some misogyny today"? Probably not. But on the other hand, it's not like their behavior is random, patternless. People often do things without really understanding what it means. Indeed, given how hard actually understanding a global society and its history is, I'd say we almost never totally understand anything we do. It's a big world, and people are universes unto themselves.

One book you might read here is, Bancroft's "Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men". It's written by a therapist who mainly dealt with men in court-mandated therapy programs related to domestic abuse. Few of the men ever saw themselves as bad actors. There was always a reason they were justified in their abuse. He goes into great detail examining how abuse worked well for them.

I also think you misunderstand the systemic nature of things like misogyny and racism. You are effectively saying it's the job of women to fix sexists. Putting the burden there acts to support sexism. That's true anywhere, but it's especially true when we're talking about academia. Look at that UMich CS professor: he had many opportunities to understand his behavior was wrong. He surely heard it from women. He certainly heard it in trainings; "don't grope the students" is something every professor knows by now. Ignorance is not the problem, and suggesting that women with little power should educate men who can ruin their careers only helps abusive men.

Ignorance can be the problem in specific cases, of course. But even there, individuals are responsible for their own behavior. If men would like to not be sexist, they should study the topic. For the HN crowd, I might suggest Manne's "Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny" and the follow-on book "Entitled". Both are sharp, readable, and very analytical looks at the topic.
Agree, once climate becomes a market inefficiency, profit will reveal itself. First was just general energy and impact, now that we know it's bad, it's environmentally safe energy. The conversation has changed.
lol we find the person with the worst monopoly family rules of all time
When OPEC organizes middle-eastern oil producers to cut production during periods of low prices, it's called a cartel. When hedge funds organize multinational oil producers to cut production during periods of low prices, it's lauded as environmental heroism. I could be too cynical, but this looks like an example of those "our guys are freedom fighters, those guys are armed combatants, their guys are terrorists" things.

The proof of their true intentions will come when we see their response to the eventual demand recovery. If they silently re-open the taps, they're working like a cartel. If they keep the taps shut they're honest environmentalists.
You won't, because then it'll turn out to be nonsense.

This is always how cryptocoin nuts argue.
"Athletes and their fans can now form direct connections through social media and other platforms that were previously purely controlled by the media."

Right, but do you think tennis players can replace prize money (funded by the media industry) with Patreon and Substack?
> And then you'll see a few years of other games imitating the initial innovation... Often the 'originator' game may be pretty simple, to show off the new technique, and the followers steadily add complexity. People who play a lot of board games tend to pick up rules faster, due to knowing a lot of common mechanics already, and have a higher tolerance for complexity.

Thanks for that explanation! Yes, it seemed like there were some scene assumptions and complications that I had no idea existed.

Very different from the time tested Monopoly and Scrabble. Now everything has phases, multi-variable resources, multi-variable point systems dependent on the phase, etc.

Its just hard for me to discern where any of this came from, why people are aware of some of these mechanics, and which games just have really bad designs and bad product market fit - if the whole scene is just indie producers winning a popularity contest once on a crowdfunding site. There is a real skepticism for me on whether any set of rules or mechanics is "good" or just absurd - due to that last observation.
Is there a "standard career" for a BS grad?

But very vaguely: MS alone IMHO doesn't add much - doing something specific cool can of course open doors, and the MS potentially can provide an environment where that's easier than doing it on your own.

A relevant PhD gives you a much more direct path into research groups at many companies, or into teams otherwise working on the specific topic.
They may not be 'military grade', but I'd say that clothes designed to look like freshly-pressed office wear after a month spent backpacking broadly count.
| It's bad now, but in the future it might be great?

Not be able to reverse transaction is not a feature, it's a fundamental flaw. There is absolutely no advantage to the consumer or the producer to have all transactions immediately permanent.

The rest of your comment reveals your bias: You don't really care about it working technologically, you just wish you had made money on it.
USENET had nothing to do with the Internet. It ran over UUCP.
I played that version, for real. The lawyers got all the money and now everybody in the family hates each other. It took years.
I notice that you say "can be viewed as" not "are used for"... USDC is just used as a lubricant for crypto speculation. Payment or remittance providers don't use USDC because it isn't actually better. Sure, now you have a programmable dollar; why isn't anyone programming anything good with it?