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If you genuinely want to understand something, you need to ask about it in a way that expresses that intent. A snarky putdown in the form of a question does the opposite.

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A reactor that runs on natural uranium is still fissioning 235U (and some of the 239Pu that has been bred, but that's true of reactors that run on low enriched U as well.)
We had a generous (no upfront fee) franchise agreement with a US-based partner, much bigger than us and for whom we were developing a UK-oriented version of their training products while also working on the main US version.

They also agreed to fully fund a major marketing campaign in the UK.

Under the franchise agreement, we'd only have to start making paybacks when our level of business hit a certain level of profitability.

Marketing funds were delayed for 'reasons' and we forged ahead using our own cash - a mixture of business and personal.

We soon had sufficient market penetration to hit the kickback level so we had to start making payments to our partner - but they were still dithering about the marketing money.

Then business began to slow and, to cut a long story short, marketing assistance was withdrawn and we discovered that the US partner was directly approaching our customer base, despite us having a territorial agreement.

The US partner company then adopted the stance that they were much bigger than us so we'd have no chance at litigation.

Now trading while insolvent, we had no option to fold the business and lay off about 8 staff.
doesn't really matter since it's a numbers game: Even if the majority would be totally unaffected by ads, that would still leave a (significant) minority being affected, so still a very interesting business opportunity (which it is, of course). Nonetheless, I would count myself as one who is rather unaffected by ads, but still ads do give at least a presence to products that would otherwise get completely unnoticed. And if you don't drink beer and want to buy beer for friends who come over what could go wrong with the brands that are always on TV?
It's funny that these dismissive, trash-talk comments with zero value get upvoted on HN as long as it's against crypto. It really is a double-standard here. Ironically, that comment is also part of the groupthink.
And these are still fissioning 235U. 238U by itself does not sustain a chain reaction.
That sounds like a burden of proof shift.
Why should that be illegal in the first place?
Because then you could cut income taxes for people who work or cap gains taxes for people who actually save. The fact you pay more tax on things you earned than the inheritance lottery is BS.
I never had to think about race until I came to the U.S. from Latin America. I was asked "so what are you?", which was quite offensive. But Americans seem to be blind to their own obsession to categorize people based on skin color, and now it has been exported around the world. It's quite sad people don't even question it, because you can't, it makes you a racist. I'm surprised this article was even posted, as it is clearly racist by today's cultural standards in America.
to expand a little bit: the annexion of the South Tyrol area dates back to 1920, after the first World war.

Skipping the previous heavy germanization of a Roman region, there was the forced Italianisation during the fascist regime in Italy, which is not exactly Italy screwing over locals, but a tyranny trying to screw over everyone, including Italians.

South Tyrol has been ruled an independent region in 1946, after WW2 by the Italian authorities and definitely granted the status in the 70s of the past century by the UN.

So they have been an autonomous region for at least 50 years.

Quoting OP «nowadays the relation with the Italian gov. is quite good» can be translated to «they have been good for a long time».

I know there are still irredentists who still see themselves as part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, honestly, I believe they should move on.

Anyway, talking about it here it's completely off topic as per HN guidelines

«Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.»
I’d opt for a clear contractual agreement that could be entered and exited, or a paid alternative priced fairly.

Same with the phone, one shouldn’t pay for a phone in cash (or payment plan) and continue to pay indefinitely with personal data. It could be worked out contractually that way a person knows what they are buying at time of purchase.
The same dynamic occurs with real estate agents. A successful agent optimises for quick sales, while giving the appearance of trying to get the best price. Very important to know when dealing with agents if either selling or buying a home.
There is accelerating adoption of blockchain to manage cargo shipments, bills of laden, and authentication of supply chains.
If we say it’s nine rolls of two dice, and the probability of getting any particular pair of numbers in each roll is 1/36 (underestimate since we sometimes only care about the sum), then getting any specified sequence would be like (1/36)^9, around 1e-14. Of course then we’d have to get the gameplay right too
an AI drone targeting and killing a person is a view through War on Terror lenses, a first world view so to speak. The Turkey and similar drones have been developed in a different context, in the context of real wars and military conflicts. The TB2 (operator guided) drones were key for Turkey succeeding in Syria, Libya and Azerbaijan - in all these cases they obliterated opposing, Russian backed, forces which were using Russian made air defenses (mostly Pantsir-S1) covering the Russian made armor. Ukraine has already bought these drones and started licensed production of them (including for export), and there are talks about further collaborative development of the drones with Turkey.

Now, what can oppose those drones, and in particular by the probable opponents in the region? Manned air fighters, other drones, and jamming. In all those cases to preserve and maintain superiority the drones have to get fully or at least partially autonomous. Note that the Turkey isn't participating in the stealth race even though they could have gotten F-35 if they behaved, and the countries like Azerbaijan and Ukraine for example have no chances of getting stealth, so drones is the [only] way here, and autonomous drones is just the next step in the development of those weapons what their national security (or regional superpower status in case of Turkey) will be relying upon.
Because email has no value except as a means of communication. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are massive speculation scams. It's popular because everyone wants to hold one in the hopes it goes up in value. There's no reason for it to go up in value except that other people think it will go up in value and want to buy one too.

You're buying a number on a blockchain somewhere in the hope someone else will want it for more money, that's it.
It's a race towards spending ever greater amounts of energy to mine blocks.
Have you thought about what effect 40% inflation year over year does to you like in Argentina?

Or over 1000% in Venezuela.
I observe the exact opposite: people do not like accepting the risk of payments that can be reversed because the buyer does a chargeback scam, or used a hacked paypal account.

Multisig escrow is also better in every way if people want to involve a third party in case of a dispute
Recruiters are like men on dating apps: spam as many people as possible without reading their profiles, treating people like objects
CCP is also the kind of government that would send the old people to far away farms to grow rice for the "young builders of the new society" and China has 1.5 billions people, so it can keep doing this for a few generations. Bluntly speaking, CCP won't carry the dead weight around.
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Agricola/Caverna has a pretty large number of resources. For Caverna, off the top of my head: Food, gold, wood, stone, ore, rubies, wheat, vegetables, sheep, donkeys, cows, dogs, and pigs... (And, of course, workers, time and space are kinds of resources, as well.)
Fiat money has value because it is widely, almost universally, accepted in exchange for things of intrinsic value (food, shelter, toys, tools).

I'm not aware of any non-government-backed fiat currency which has gained widespread use in the history of humanity. And in fact all of the fiat currencies I know of originated as representative money.

Bitcoin is not widely accepted in exchange for things of values, and I see no reason to believe that will ever change. Being able to spend it is the "killer app" of cryptocurrencies, and none of them have actually implemented it, despite many, many attempts.
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It's certainly not a 100% tech topic? there aren't any (or hardly any) of those anyhow, no? but the main thing I want to say is thanks for that "putatively". Post HN I want to work on a society for endangered words.

Edit: well, one thought...IMO the dynamic that the explicitly-political threads and this sort of thread have in common is that people's identities are strongly vested in their position. The more we do that the more it feels like our existence is being threatened, rather than just our view. Then it's a fight to the rhetorical death.

That happens with emotional tech themes too, for example when people (god help us) identify strongly for or against some $BigCo or $celebrity.

Large sums of money being involved are a big multiplier of all this.
The issue is the fertility rate is permanently stunted. Even if they go soylent green on the elderly, they’re on a downward population trajectory that is likely locked in by cultural shifts. The longer the fertility rate is held down (China’s was 1.3 for 2020), the harder it is to reverse the trend due to momentum.

Good for the planet and individuals making the choice, bad for the CCP.

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+fertility+rate

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/10/china-birthrat...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51145251

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3135342/chi...
In what ways is the technology itself, rather than how it may often be used, a scam?
I remember lobbying my friends to pool money so we can buy a router and use RJ45.

Living on the edge !

My parents still have fond memory of seing skinny teenager bringing computers on well barrel in their basement to play video game.

They were suspicious at first. But then they concluded they we were indeed playing video game.
> How do you turn your Bitcoin into food, housing, utilities, and other necessities?

I sell it for dollars to people in person; some of the dollars I have to change into Argentine pesos before I can spend them. Isn't that how everybody does it?

> The Internet was not available to virtually anyone in 1982 much less 1969

It was available to almost anyone who knew someone who had access, which is the same situation as Bitcoin. Precisely what Maciej is complaining about is that so little of the economy is hooked up to Bitcoin is that most of us can't buy a pizza with it without going through intermediaries.

> Nor was the ARPANET of 1969 even remotely similar to the Internet

It was remotely similar; it provided telnet over a packet-switched network, with routing. You could argue that substantial technical changes happened in Bitcoin over the last 13 years, too. Maciej did, in fact, make that argument: he pointed out in particular the dramatic shift to centralized intermediaries like Coinbase (the ANS.NET of Bitcoin?) and from CPU mining to GPU, FPGA, and then ASIC mining, as well as the proliferation of alternative cryptocurrencies. We could also mention segwit, the BCH schism, Lightning, BIP39 and Electrum seed phrases, and lightweight clients like Electrum. Those changes are not over yet. So the situations are in fact quite closely parallel.
For that matter, there's nothing in tenure that requires universities to allow bad teachers to continue teaching. Tell him to go research something, and if anyone thinks his attitude is worth dealing with for his expertice, they can approach him volutarily.
probably because there's a lot of anal downvoters on HN
This is very true, and the down voting you are receiving for saying this is shameful.
What are your arguments for this proposition?

How are Bitcoin and Ethereum ponzi schemes?
Sounds like adult ADHD symptoms. Do some research into hyper-focus.
Could you define socially acceptable? Thanks.
Yes that's fine, disclosure is usually the word 'offenders' are looking for, for sure.

I just thought that here the tone was more 'here's why I can give you a good answer' than 'I'm aware my answer may be biased'.

Basically, the three things that are conflated into 'disclosure' are (all 'for example'):

1. (Disclosure) I have a vested interest in this because I work at the company being discussed [but I really think everything's fine and this isn't an issue];

2. (Actual disclaimer) I left the companh being discussed years ago so I have no knowledge of this issue [but my opinion is..];

3. (Source/background/listen to me!) I work at the company being discussed [so I'll pass on your feedback]

For me this is more a 3 than a 1, because there's no 'but' I suppose is the simple way to put it. You disclose a relationship because it might put what you're saying in a different (worse) light; here it's just why it's worth listening to. (If they'd said 'Company X is the best for negotiating salary IMO', 'I am CTO there though' would be a good disclosure!)
I've found that about 30 minute interviews work about right for me. When I'm recording them, I may go as short as about 15 and as long as about 45. But 20-30 always feels like the sweet spot.
Salt helps against hard water, AFAIK.
You can still buy drugs with bitcoin :-)
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Brilliant point. I agree. Cryptocurrencies are fueled almost exclusively by FOMO. Tether is a joke and probably a scam, yet somehow has a $60B market value. SMH.
I can imagine an endless number of scenarios where the person setting up the targeting doesn't particularly care about the efficiency. E.g. they were told to spend the entire budget, and can only do that with blanket targeting, and they'd rather just follow orders than push back.
Hi, I and many others share your desire to work outside and not feel fatigued after working with a digital device.

Making a quality transflective screen suitable for laptops and having good viewing angles is a complex manufacturing process; companies are working on it. I hope in the future this becomes viable.

At EI2030, we are working on making an open-source and open-hardware e-ink laptop and tackling the challenges. Our first pre-prototype Archer is almost complete, and we are going to start working on our second prototype.

Github to Archer:
https://github.com/EI2030/Archer

Talk at foss-north 2021, "Building an Open-Source Eink Laptop."
https://foss-north.se/2021/speakers-and-talks.html#asoto

Zulip community dedicated to the project
https://ei2030.zulipchat.com/
Does this mean that the compiler can embed smart hints for branch prediction directly in the bytecode, by way of setting very specific dedicated registers?
"Come buy my non-profit's company scrip" doesn't sound as appealing as "this could go waaaaay up in value, buy my speculation scam"
> The guy doesn't actually think that a fighter jet seat is better than a normal office chair in any practical sense.

Now that people are discussing it, I do want to find out if there are former air force pilots reading this who can corroborate or refute my hypothesis: I suspect long-duration mission bombers like the US B-52 and B-2 have pilot seats especially tuned for extended operational comfort, even more so than commercial airliners (passenger or cargo), and it would be interesting to test my hypothesis that those would make excellent office chairs for coders. Someone makes these from old pilot seats [1], but I'm specifically interested in pilot seats from airframes that routinely perform round-trip trans-Pacific routes.

I personally wouldn't routinely use such a seat for more than say 10-12 hours at a time, but if it is proven to still be comfortable after someone uses it for that long, naps for a couple hours in it, and uses it for another long session, then it is likely going to feel very comfortable to me. And maybe the safety harness will help me maintain my posture instead of having to remind myself every half hour to check it.

[1] https://www.skyart.com/en/captain-office-chair
You give convincing arguments in favor of BTC for folks living abroad in less-than-stable states. But these very arguments for which it is acclaimed have clear flip-sides that should be worrisome for those very same folks you claim it's suited for.

Safeguarding hard physical cash is something most everyone, old and young, technically literate or technically illiterate, poor or rich, intrinsically knows how to do. And when it is stolen or lost, there are viable approaches to pursue with favorable probabilities of a happy resolution: tell a police cop to see if they can catch the thief using detective work, you could try looking around if you think you might have misplaced it, etc.

With BTC on the other hand, ensuring your wallet isn't had by committed and technically proficient bad-actors or that your wealth isn't all erased in the blink of an eye with a hdd crash or a distressed acquaintance wiping your data away, you can't expect normal people to be up to the task of combatting all of this. And retrieving stolen BTCs from bad-actors living a continent away is a task that police cops are not up to doing or even the slightest bit capable of. You are a really smart guy kragen, I'm sure you won't forget your computer's password one day or have your wallet compromised, but someone like my mom or grandma would, and the thought that simple mistakes and viruses and computer illiteracy could and probably would be the thing that leaves someone's wealth irretrievably erased without much avenue of recourse saddens me, and makes me wish that people in our profession who understand this would stop encouraging its usage.

I come from a nation that ranks lower than Argentina in stability. My family went through this very dance of receiving money from abroad and having to go to WU to get it. The risk of a bad accident happening is infinitesimally small in that than with BTC.
I don't know anything but it's not hard to see how this might work somewhere like Venezuela. Cryptocurrency seems most useful for black marketers to get funds out of the country, which will create a demand for it. If ordinary people get cryptocurrency from relatives, they can trade locally to get local currency, then use it to buy black market goods. The local money recirculates and the cryptocurrency funds sanctions-evading imports.

Whether this is a good thing or not probably depends on what you think of illegal markets in desperate situations.
I thought it was because the default buy box choice wasn't the cheapest
Graffur, yes, I've read them. But I'd bet you know that; I think probably you are making another point. I'll write it out, and you can tell me if you agree. You are pointing out an inconsistency in what I wrote: you think it is unfair of me to suggest that someone else read the guidelines while at the same time not following them.

Am I accurately stating your concern?
Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for ‘impossible’ puzzles
The calculator that comes with MIUI 12 (Xiaomi phone) writes everything as you type, like you'd expect.

But, the moment you type `%`, it instead replaces `10` with `0.1`. So in the end the screen shows: 2+2x0.1 = 2.2

I guess not as surprising as you expected :-]
Who hurt you??
Well played! And this strategy is actually easy to execute.

The probability for executing this strategy is:
P(3)+P(5)+P(6)+P(8)+P(9)+P(11)+P(12) * P(4).

Plug in the numbers from
https://statweb.stanford.edu/~susan/courses/s60/split/node65...

(0.0556+0.1111+0.1389+0.1389+0.1111+0.0556+0.278)*0.0833 = 0.07407036

So 7.4%.
As someone with over 500 games (and way more expansions), I think your friends put you in over your head. It's akin to any other hobby. If you put strong-tasting craft beers into the hands of an in-experienced beer drinker, they'll have a similar experience.

There are hundreds of "gateway" games and thousands of fantastic middle-weight games with elegant minimalistic rules which are still thinky and satisfying. Otherwise, there's millions of lighter games, which just act as a prop to get together and socialise without being the center of the night.

And as someone who made and launched a game "by myself" (with a friend) that sold ~1000-1500 copies, why would anyone make anything? Why make a JS library that only 1000 people will use when FAANG can have a team do it? Pure creation, the enjoyment?
In Argentina? Some of them use LocalBitcoins, while others walk into a storefront that advertises Bitcoin or remittances to Venezuela, and hand over their pesos to the guy behind the counter. There are also groups on WhatsApp and Facebook to find counterparties. That's the reality: Venezuelan refugees, who I guess are "criminals" to Maduro's regime and people like you, and illegal aliens like me, who I guess are "wealthy".
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Wow, you can actually pay your bus fare and phone bills in Brazil with crypto? That sounds either very impressive or totally unbelievable.

I could not find anything on Google, so if someone could you link/cite to some actually used examples (I guess apps or utility website?) that would be very helpful. Sincere thanks.
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Why do you think the aristocracy cares about Bond films?
Bond films are trash for proles. Any attacks in an Elba-bond would only cause damage to the proles. That being the reason the aristocracy can, and will when prompted, say "oh yes, it's a stunning and brave work of art"- because it's like chemo, or antibiotics- a mild poison that damages the scum far more than you.

The scum likes bond films; when bond films say "England is racist", the scum sours and turns on itself. The human aristocrat breathes a sigh of relief and goes back inside.
That's a made up problem. CCP can just "spend" a bulk of young males in a small war, tell the rest to multiply and in 25 years the populace will double.
How does that make sense? How do you surge foreign direct investments to record highs when markets are not open?

Your statement is also based on a false premise. Companies don't invest in China to change China. They invest in China to make a profit. And making a profit, they did and they do.

Wanting to change China is, ironically, something which mostly non-businesspeople want. Which makes the narrative that "we're being hostile to China because they don't open up markets" all the more insane.

China has opened up. Walk down the street in China for 10 minutes and you see a ton of foreign companies. There are so much more foreign companies in China now than 30 years ago that the entire statement "China hasn't opened up" makes absolutely no sense. Not everything is open, sure, but that's still a far cry from "China hasn't opened up". China is also continuing to open up more parts of the markets.

This comment here is on point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27333819

The fact is, even if China isn't opening up as quickly or as much as you like, the trade agreement with China was never based on symmetry in the first place. It wasn't the goal, and more importantly, symmetry isn't needed for both parties to get what they want.

Both parties did get what they want. What the US now wants has changed. It's entirely possible to renegotiate and get what you want, without devolving into useless, illogical and dishonest aggression rherotic. This whole cold war is entirely unnecessary, but I guess people care more about making up an enemy and being able to moral grandstand, than to address actual issues.