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> For some reason, anti-maskers try to move the goal post by pretending that a basic protective measure is either full-proof or is not worth doing at all, which boggles anyone's mind.

I don't know about other "anti-maskers," but for me, it's about the precautionary principle [1]. If a "basic protective measure" is not foolproof, then maybe the downsides of such a measure outweighs the benefits, and before we decide, collectively, to change our habits, maybe we should think hard about those downsides.

Yes, there are downsides to masks: reduced oxygen, keeping captured bacteria close to your face for long periods, etc., made worse by the fact that people, by and large, do not rotate or clean their masks properly. In other words, experiments in a lab that study the effectiveness of masks when used properly do not match the reality of how people actually use masks.

In other words, in science, all factors matter. [2] And pretending otherwise is disingenuous.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/in-science-all-factors-matte...
Reading through the code base was a joy for me since I’m newer to Python. Very well written, documented and easy to follow.
The paper linked is called "Understanding the Lightning Network capability to route payments" which cannot be found in any reputable or peer-reviewed journal. How is that suppose to be a reliable study?
I was told at my last workplace that continuing to use IE was a war crime.
Agreed. weather.gov is maybe a bit ugly but works great, and is mobile optimized.

Although I disagree with other point, spokeo and fastpeoplesearch is the absolute worst example of digging through private info of millions and "only consolidating it". SWEs working on this type of stuff are either immature or have no soul in my opinion
I got past it by disabling javascript (using ublock) and reloading the page. This works on a lot of websites, but not all websites.
Also not to get into politics, but this one is near to me -- Is anyone in our ___ing government ever going to actually care about this insane debt we've accumulated? Do you know how long HN made fun of Uber for burning through investor cash? What about our Government? Are they beyond critique? What's wrong with not passing a stimulus bill?

It was the correct move in my opinion. What in god's green earth are we doing adding trillions more to our deficit when we are rapidly approaching 30 trillion in the red? We are sacrificing many future generations. No one has stopped to think if the long term trade offs are worth it. No one stopped to think if all this damage to the mental health of our young ones, our future, is worth it, if the isolation is worth it. No one stopped to think at all. Arguably if the federal government would stop being everyone's baby sitter, it may push states and local governments to do their own jobs instead.

But alas, no one thinks like this anymore. They just think there's an infinite well of money, and big daddy government is always going to be there to give me a loan, and it will always continue to be this way, when there are many, many examples of this not being the case. Rome will fall.
I don't suppose anyone knows of something like this, but for a thesis? I have trouble keeping clarity and pulling disparate sections together. Though there is a chance that this is procrastination talking....
EU TERREG changes the scope so that the location no longer matters and it applies to services with "significant" user base of EU citizens. It essentially mean to opt our from having to support 1hr SLA for content removal, services will have to check papers of all users to ensure they are not EU citizens.
I've been a paying customer for a few years (since Dreamhost shutdown catch-all support) and when I 1st migrated I tripped over a bug in their IMAP implementation that made thousands of messages disappear from my mailbox. Their support identified the bug and pushed a code fix into production in less than 24 hours, which immediately resolved my issue.

Gmail on the other hand keeps kicking my devices out of being able to log in and activating a security lock down, and the closest thing to support I can get about it is a webpage that implies that can only happen if my devices are hacked.
To everyone? If I was an employee and heard about this I would lose a lot of respect and trust for the CEO.
yes but this is hn so I fully expect someone to post their personal success story
Small businesses don't know what tech can do
Unless they are requiring everyone to use 2FA, isn't that objectively worse than having the option of SMS 2FA? I'm sure there are a significant number of people who would just switch back to using a password instead of SMS 2FA rather than having to get a non-SMS second factor, since it is much less convenient than just putting in a phone number.
If two Bitcoin forks both claim they are the "real bitcoin", who decides which one is the real legal tender?

El Salvador courts?
How to Start Disrupting Cryptocurrencies: “Mining” Is Money Transmission
Yes, elephants can certainly destroy crops. But proximity is a symmetric concept. The problem has been the massive expansion of our (speaking as an Indian) population (~360 million in 1950 to ~1.4 billion in 2021) into previously untouched areas, not the migration of elephants (and other species) into Bombay, Delhi and Chennai.

There are organizations that are working on more wildlife-friendly farming: https://elephantfriendlytea.com/ as well as on preventing the capture of elephants, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294.
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The big thing IMO is that taxes won't be due on capital gains for Bitcoin. This could potentially drive foreign investment?
Yes, it's a smaller problem to lose even all your ransom money, than to be physically captured and put in jail for decades. Can't we just agree on that?

Also "fairly trivially traced" can be naive. Here's one scenario from a million possible scenarios. You hate politician John Doe and happen to know me. I have a stash of millions in ransom money on my public anonymous wallet.

So I start sending money to organizations close to John Doe, and John Doe himself, implicating him in crime. You give me cash personally for a job well done. I just laundered some of my money and used the "trivial to trace" money against someone else.

Things aren't as simple as you may believe. Sure, if you're stupid and directly cash out your coin to your persona, you'll get traced and caught.

But money is money, it's a resource you can use in countless ways to move the pieces on the board around and get someone to pay you for it.

Here's another example. I start donating 100k USD worth of coin to bunch of charities. You may assume one of those is a pawn. But you can't prove who it is. Well, I happen to know one of the charity owners. I give him 30%, I just laundered 70k. I also lost some, but eh? I can blackmail some more people. Other people's money are cheap to me when I risk nothing by taking them.

Those are relatively simple schemes. If you sit down and think, you can come up with much better ones.

For example what I use this ransom money to pay for some other criminal activity? Like kill someone. I move the problem to them, but they can pass the ball around more until you can't prove WTF is happening. You have no idea whom those wallets belong to and why are there transactions happening. You can trace the money but you have no idea after some point if the recipient has any clue about the origin, or if there's criminal intent.

Here's another weakness. Who has worldwide authority over crime? No one. So if I shift my coin to the opposite side of the world and cash it there, due to fragmentation, lack of cooperation and so on, I may have cashed out before someone manages to even make the right calls to begin negotiations on cooperation.
Assuming that if masks reduce the transmission by 10% is automatically worth it is not a good idea because we need to know the downsides of masks and how bad those downsides are.

In science, all factors matter, not just efficacy. [1]

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/08/in-science-all-factors-matte...
Compliance with legal features of various nations does not divorce companies from the responsibility for the results if they choose to comply.

Actively participating in oppressive behavior makes companies complicit. This is why companies today rightly face criticism for use of slave labor, abusive labor, resource exploitation, helping governments restrict speech, helping governments breach privacy (which results in people actually dying in places like Russia). Just because these things are legal to not make them right or acceptable to Western exployees, shareholders or governments. If Russia demanded that I must take actions that would potentially result in deaths from their authoritarian regime, like by giving them access to our customer's communications, I'd tell them to get bent.
"Delaying a tax is not avoiding a tax. Tax avoidance is a term of art (distinct from tax evasion) that speaks to maximizing deductions/credits and optimizing income categorization. ..."

Dragging debate into the minutiae distracts from the cogent moral objection. Time honored technique.

Observing that inequity is accelerating does not and should not require a CPA.

"They’re right about the laws, but incurious about why the laws are that way (not just in the US, but across the developed world).:"

Opinions differ.

You do not cite the original precedent setting court case.

Nor do you cite the prescient objections which have proven true.

Further, you do not acknowledge the central issue, nor offer any guidance or wisdom for possible remedies.

Lastly, I don't like your clickbait title.
They are using them?

The country has a population of >6 million.

Bitcoin beach is a philanthropy run by one adult coordinator, 4 university students and 4 high school students.

The country is not using the lightning network. Maybe some have intentions for them to. But this is not something widely used by any means.

ref: https://www.bitcoinbeach.com/
They can be a lot more than $10.

If everyone has and knows how to use Bitcoin then they can transfer as much as they like for <$1 ATM, and it'd be a much easier process.
Yes, I was saying I would have avoided words like "permanent fix", because it sets unrealistic expectations.
Aside from the strikes, another aspect of automated subways is worth considering.

Most subway lines in Paris have a few minutes interval between one train leaving and the next arriving. On the automated ones, it sometimes gets down to ~30 seconds.

Seems automating the trains enables much higher frequencies, probably by eliminating human reaction times and reducing margins of error.

Now, other countries have that without automation… but I’m not sure I’ll ever live to see the day when people over here run their trains as efficiently as it is done in, say, Japan.
I really want to like Vivaldi. It's the only browser (afaik) that supports tabs on the side. Right now I use "Tree Style Tabs" on Firefox with some custom CSS to get rid of the original tab bar.

Unfortunately I get a massive delay when fullscreening youtube videos in Vivaldi.
The video first maximizes to the left half of my screen, and only then expands to the whole thing. Sadly a dealbreaker. FWIW its a little faster if I have the browser already maximized.
Indeed; but having seen the comments and counter-arguments Hanson keeps drawing, I'd say thats not a common position. I see the split as "earth life is only life"; but that's not a great way of expressing it...

Better might be "known life is all life" or "all life is known". My particular peculiar kink in this discussion is that I think there's whole orders of life and modes of being, on this planet, that we have at most barely perceived and roughly imagined.

So I get to piss everybody off.
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So do I. Yearly property tax assessments are an injustice.
This, for me, certainly drove home how much I hate refactoring things. If I need to reconfigure my factory for some reason, beyond throwing in a little spaghetti and in-filling some gaps to add another few bits of production, I'll just waltz off into the distance a ways and start anew, piping in resources from the old factory as needed.

And then I run into bottlenecks arising from the utilization of the old factory and the process repeats itself.
There is an inherent tension in Factorio (and software engineering!) between trying to get everything right up front and just building anything that works and fixing it later. I've found a balance that is fun for me in the low-stakes video game world.

Every Factorio player I know has an enormous laundry list of things they wish they'd done better after their first game. That urge never completely goes away, and if that feeling is more distressing than energizing to you, then perhaps Factorio is not the game for you.

Still, the process of analyzing a system in a factory and redesigning it to be more efficient is massively satisfying. New challenges arise at every stage of a factory's growth, and before long, your 'starter base' is just a small part of your whole operation, and the shortcomings there just don't matter in the whole scheme of things.
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For the context, here are some Wikipedia articles about the 2020 and 2021 political crisis in El Salvador…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Salvadoran_political_cr...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Salvadoran_political_cr...
Maybe before such an ad hominem you need to become a bit more familiar with recent developments in El salvador. Associating this government initiative with criminality is a very reasonable thing to do.

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/05/06/el-salvado...
What drives up prices? Demand. What pushes people out of housing? Those prices.

NIMBYism, density restrictions, etc, are largely "universal" US policies, vs liberal/conservatism splits, so it's the demand that's the difference here between the rest of the country. Note the difference in population density between a Houston and a Los Angeles. LA just ran out of neighboring land to sprawl into first, yet the demand kept coming...

And on top of it, there's a mismatch between where people want to live and where jobs are available, so you've got homeless in CA cities and unfilled jobs in the middle of the country...

Those prices are increasingly starting to cause more and more people to leave, but still predominantly lower-and-middle-income people - and the demand and prices are being driven by the high-income or high-wealth people - so I'm not sure it'll change much.
> Department of War Studies at King’s College, London

Let's be honest, they got nothing on Trinity College, Cambridge.
I don't really understand why you think I'm advocating for SMS as the only factor, when I very clearly wrote the exact opposite.

Let's say that you remember your password, but your house just burned down. You cannot replace the U2F keys and backup codes that were lost in flames. But you almost certainly can bootstrap your real life identity far enough to get a replacement SIM.

Which, in combination with your password, should be enough to get your digital identity back.
Both. Some people (probably minority) will use self-hosted wallets. Majority will use custodials (banks).

> And if the latter, why would bitcoin be of help at all? A normal bank account would be simpler and less worrisome.

USD will still stay as the official currency of El Salvador. However now merchants have to accept also BTC. The hypotheses is that for example foreign businessmen will bring BTC in form of investments to the country, and people will send BTC via remittances. There is possibility that there isn't actual demand, but there is also possibility that El Salvador might get some serious economical boost because of this.
Be careful about becoming an expert. Maybe being "good enough" is a better investment of your time.

I once wrote a business-facing app in ExtJS. I played around with it, and I said, "ExtJS is cool, I am going to get good at it".

Six months of studying the dark corners of ExtJS and becoming really good at performance challenges and corner cases, ExtJS comes out with version 4, burning the bridges with new paradigms and making my "expertise" obsolete.

In general, stick to micro-frameworks. It's much harder to get burned in that world.
I might not be remembering well, but I sort of remember receiving extra charges from my bank (Germany at the time) because I passed the number of transactions limit for the month. All transactions above the limit came at a charge.
I genuinely don't. Can you explain it to me?
> It has throughput and memory penalties to get low and predictable latencies

Hard realtime C++ does as well.
fwiw, I started working on a CV/OCR scripting language a few years ago, now called Wildcard. It's "emoji"-based, but the initial input was meant to be from a camera. https://youtu.be/dSOfMSS9aFY
https://github.com/hugs/wildcard
So how does paying in BTC via Lightning actually work? What kind of integration will store owners in El Salvador have to make within the next 90 days? Does this apply to buying a can of soda at a brick and mortar?
Link to paper "Self-sustained green neuromorphic interfaces":

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23744-2
Indeed you are correct. In fact, when I was writing my comment I just said "(He was not a programmer.)" and then decided to add "nor a hardware engineer" to disambiguate.

I didn't want to put in the second Steve's last name (hoping not to burn too many bridges), and I liked the parallelism of just mentioning each one by first name.
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27445119
Government investigates Government for purchasing arrangement at below market value.

Government investigates Government for illegal pump & dump scheme.

Bitcoin value drops.

Citizen held Bitcoin is worth less.
It sounds like this could be all done remotely, with cameras, and one worker physically present at each station, plus a roving maintenance team.

If we can fly drones through the deserts of Arabia why can't we drive trains remotely through the suburbs of Croydon?
Previous discussion of Anandtech article on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350632
My take is that El Salvador may actually want the flow of money laundering through their banking system. And it gives them an opportunity to seize some of it.

The idea of increased remittances is interesting but the logistics of doing that on the ground might be challenging for the unbanked.
Upper bound is a specific term in real time also unfortunately.

Might I suggest wording such as "upper bound constraints exceeding 100ms aren't typically addressed with real time methods".
> But the importance is that there is always the option to self-custody if you want to. With fiat you don't have that option even in theory.

You mean that if you store cash it will magically disappear once you hit a certain quantity or age?
How to make your data harder to find online
Show HN: Drop-in replacement of express-session to enhance security
If it had a decent search agent in it, without ads, I'd pay for it.

Because, let's be honest, advertising sucks and anyone that thinks advertising and search belong together sucks even more.
> But the importance is that there is always the option to self-custody if you want to. With fiat you don't have that option even in theory.

The stack of hundred dollar bills under my mattress disagrees with you.
So they have an infrastructure where customer data is not separated from other customers, that's pretty terrifying! This means another bug of the same kind can also cause a global disruption any time in the future (mistakes will happen).
I think the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) model is fine. The author seems to be as ignorant of "machine learning" as he claims the general public to be of the concept of "driverless trains". For those unaware of what the DLR is, it's a 35 year old driverless train system in London with a human "train captain" who is basically like any other passenger but that can also operate the doors and override things if needed. You don't need machine learning and AI to drive a train on a one dimensional track, just a half decent team of Engineers to design something properly.

Yes the "train captains" can strike but they are far more replaceable than highly trained and very highly paid human train drivers. The evidence is clear, the DLR is far less affected by industrial action than regular tubes. Industrial action is so rare on the DLR that it becomes delicious news when it does happen: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/strike-proof-do...
Don't you ever use public transportation? Most larger European cities have quite acceptable transportation.
Also one of the reasons it takes longer is probably that there far more cars on the road and everybody is using their car even for short trips.
When Bitcoiners bring actual facts to the table, people ignore it.

Bitcoin has been used in the El Zonte town for some time now and lightning is functioning and allows almost instant and practically free Bitcoin payments, yet if you read half the comments here, Bitcoin is very slow/inefficient system and is only used by criminals.
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That's an interesting moral quandary.

Just because insects are smaller / less complex living beings, do they matter less?
If we translate that to humans, does that make killing a skinny young baby more acceptable than killing a fat adult?

It seems like society deems killing an insect is better than killing an animal which is better than killing an human being you don't know in a remote country which is better than killing a human near you.

Our morality is definitely heavily based on what is convenient to us - with an extra layer on top because of our societal reputation system. It's interesting to see how people feel instinctive repulsion which seems to contain this rational societal considerations.

Killing an insect means I can't look at a tiny animal. Almost nobody will judge me for killing an insect.

Killing an animal means I can't look at a bigger, more entertaining animal. I may be judged if I kill an animal, based on the animal.

Killing a human from another tribe won't change the opinion most of the people in my tribe have of me.

Killing a human from my tribe will change the opinion most of the people in my tribe have of me.
That's pretty much my point. If a person's standard of safety is blindly running code from the reckless idiots at Windows Update I'm surprised they'd balk at running an executable whose only reputation is word of mouth. I wouldn't do either.
I know what "fascist" means. "Authoritarian" might be a slightly better epithet for the current president Bukele. His party recently voted, in the assembly, to fire five supreme court judges who opposed Bukele.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Salvadoran_political_cris...

He and his party were elected, however. It seems Salvadorans are getting sick of the neverending war between the MS-13 and Calle 18 gangs.
It's not about "affording". Banks outright refuse people, businesses etc.
I am not sure why EU? it will benefit germany only.
If WebGL and WebRTC are causing bluescreens, that is probably a GPU driver bug (though I realize that users don't care whose fault a crash is). If you have steps to reproduce, even if not 100% reliable, you can file a Firefox bug in Bugzilla. Mozilla has contacts at Microsoft and can pass along the bug.
The article, actually a single Q&A, is dated Sep 2007.
That's a great headline for yesterday.

This article details a new piece of information, and the headline reflects that.
In short no - I've edited parent post for more info