skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are underestimating the trouble a nation-state can make for a foreign company, especially if that foreign company continues to leave itself exposed by doing business in that nation-state.

I don't know the exact ins and outs of how courts will enforce foreign judgements (I'm sure it's very case-by-case), but saying "we cut off signups from people in that country" is surely a very strong prophylactic against such a judgement being enforced.

And on a more petty level, Russia could make serious trouble for any Russian expats employed by Fastmail (or their relatives still living in Russia). Cutting off signups makes this at least marginally less likely.
What about an authentication app? Google Authenticator or something similar can be installed on the phone which is necessary for SMS, improves the security more than SMS, and doesn't suffer from the problem of losing it, at least not more than SMS auth does.
> Otherwise the unit can just be passed from friend to friend and never get back to market.

I'm not sure how this is unfair. Considering the way capital gains are taxed after the sale it seems like the grandfathered-in rent controls are just a lever at the opposite end of the spectrum. But of course, we don't want to give any levers to the poors so it has to go.
Correct. There are also third party apps, like PowerPhotos, that let you access, update, move, delete the photos from the library file if you don't like going through Finder.
It's a good thing that the value of your house is going up though, right? I suppose it might be upsetting to have to sell your house if it becomes too expensive, but that's a really nice problem to have imo.
OP here. Slept on it.

I said in that same segment "if your only criteria for publishing are some measure of verification and some measure of newsworthiness". In re-reading their piece, that's all they checked for. So what I said seems substantially accurate to me.

But as a matter of phrasing, it's true that I used "sole criteria" above, which was sloppy. So I'll award a bounty on that. See your email.
> If the payee has a Greek bank account I suppose? But then it means that if both payer and payee have a n26 bank account and use it in Greece, they don't have to pay this fee anymore, right? So why would they use Greek banks?

Indeed! I think Greek banks are just running on inertia now, they'll soon have to abolish these fees. One thing keeping people from switching was ATM usage (N26 only lets you withdraw for free up to some amount). This was especially since until a few years ago we were pretty much cash-only, but now that we're basically card-only, there's much less incentive to use an ATM.
i think the comparison with node is good, because my policy for both of them is the same - if i want to use either, i do it inside docker.

i can't be arsed to deal with all the various version dependencies and incompatabilities and system install vs local install nonsense that comes with installing it on my actual computer.
Call it what you want, but the obvious fallout of this is that valuable assets will be owned by very few people, and rented out. A tenet of the Great Reset is that "you will own nothing and be happy".
Often you must lie in order to tell the truth.

After all, language is a poor simulacrum of life, but, then,
we use it else "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" and forced to use shadow puppets deep in Plato's cave.
And whenever this comes up, I just like to remind people that we went to a reserve requirement of 0% nearly a year ago with the start of COVID.

https://medium.com/navigating-life/we-just-went-from-fractio...

Edit: Downvoted, and I'm guessing it's the source? This is legitimate fact though. Here's the fed's own announcement.

> In light of the shift to an ample reserves regime, the Board has reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective on March 26, the beginning of the next reserve maintenance period. This action eliminates reserve requirements for thousands of depository institutions and will help to support lending to households and businesses.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...
Mine was an example. There are other examples. The long arms of governments don't reach everywhere.
I see. My team would literally never hear about this discussion with the CEO. We'd start working on US operations and I would assign some people to do Lean user validation. As would be my prerogative in that role, as they would already know how to do and would be expecting to do as a first step.
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Right, because fractional reserves are set around 10% or so.

edit: fraction reserve _requirements_ are set around 10% or so.
Nuremberg is a small town where emergency personal, which can drive the train can be deployed quickly to all locations, without having lots of on call staff ready. Deploying this in London is a different challenge.

However I agree that with remote control the need should be mostly avoidable.
This is such a brilliant answer. Imposing the grandma test on early-stage ecosystems is a total naysayer move. We all know that humans are capable of doing advanced math, even though a newborn baby doesn't come even close to being able to do it.
Lack of housing is not a technology or industrial problem. New homes can be made easily and relatively cheaply if given the go ahead.

Lack of housing is by policy. By ensuring there are not enough houses ensures there is more demand than supply, which means higher housing prices, which means higher mortgages. The mortgage market is based on rising house prices. The banking industry is based on the mortgage industry. Low house prices, would mean a falling mortgage market, which means a banking crises. Given that the banking cartel has more influence on politicians than the populous, we have this current state of affairs.

Remember, in the 1950s a new build home would cost about 1 years salary. Now one year's salary might only buy a nice car. Building technology hasn't gotten worse, it's much better and cheaper. It's not the construction companies that need disrupting.

Edit: Also I should say that that was the state of affairs until just recently. This recent move by Blackrock and the like is the prelude to massive inflation. They are abandoning paper assets (cash, equities etc) and investing in hard assets like housing, farmland and commodities.
guessing it's somehow BGP related. can't wait to find out
> I have never paid transaction fees for ordinary transactions

You have, just not in a way that’s obvious to you.
Alexandria laid foundations for the modern world (2016)
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1402434266970140676.html
All US states currently have property taxes [1].

[1] https://learn.roofstock.com/blog/states-without-property-tax
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I do not think home buying is exactly this. It's much emotional and sometimes both parties involved are green - this may describe a transaction between two veteran RE investors.
US attitudes toward socialism, communism and collectivism (2020)
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I don't think a _bigger_ legislature is going to help annything?
> they'll just go to the Fed/Treasury, who will swing their wand and write in additional (digital) reserves for the bank.

Pretty sure that's true for larger institutions and lending between themselves, but not for your everyday accounts. They must go to fed member banks themselves to ask for the loans.
Yes, they have: TSMC is expanding fabs to outside of China's geographic sphere of influence. Even just having one coming into the US should be enough for European China hawks to feel they have a little breathing room, but from that perspective it also won't be enough. As a result, Europe is in fact working right now with TSMC & Samsung to discuss options for advanced fabs.

This actually presents a bit of peril though. China is not going to be thrilled that its industrial influence is on the decline, and the question is "How will they respond?"

We already know part of the response: We can see it play out in the contentious situation regarding adoption of 5G equipment in Europe. There is also the fact that China is investing enormous sums of money in foreign ventures and areas of the developing world, e.g., parts of Africa. These areas may effectively become client states to China.

It is, in some ways, a very interesting response to the failed methods employed by the Soviet Union. There, client states were obtained & held largely through military means. That was done either with the threat of force to client states to keep in line, or military support for regimes or regime change, for example North Vietnam.

Especially having some experience with those endeavors, China has moved on to non-military methods-- economic development. That is probably preferable to the threat massive global conflict, or even just lots of smaller ones, but if you worry about China expanding their values throughout the world, in being more effective it is also more worrying.

Probably about the best thing we can do is the path we have started on: diversification from reliance on China, and our own support in equal or greater measures of the developing world.

I should be clear though: when I talk of expanding China's values as a negative, I always mean that in the political sense of the repressive Chinese government, not the people themselves.
> I now understand why banks do not use email addresses as the login id. The thief would not (easily) be able to align my email address with my bank login id.

This is an important point and one I've been thinking about for years. There's so much discussion about using password managers and good password practices and 2fA but almost no discussion on how using a single identifier to log into all these various services is in itself a huge security vulnerability. If we had different login usernames for each service, gaining access to people's accounts would be that much more difficult.

Email should be reserved for communications and not double as a means for authentication.
> Real time career knowledge, real time non visual person tracking, real time coordinated search across cities, real time IFF, lethal payloads on them all, real time localization. There's a lot of requirements there. ... Are they within US borders? How? Flew in? Launched from within? How did they get close enough? A ship? Infiltration?

Rather than go through and carefully solve the fascinating puzzle of how to destroy civilization step by step, I'm just going to point out that these things are not actually very difficult. Instead of hoping that the next Daesh can't recruit anyone who knows how to build an IMSI catcher, write a Facebook app, or use LinkedIn (or VKontakte if their adversary is Russia), think about what happens when there's a conflict between two adversaries that can.

> The US could. Russia, China. After some testing. But not the next ISIS.

Certainly the three states you mention could develop that capability, yes, although they don't currently have Slaughterbots fleets ready to launch. And Daesh certainly wasn't able to develop it, although they did drop a bunch of unguided hand grenades on people from remotely-piloted quadcopters. But what about Turkey? France? Rebels in the West Bank less incompetent than Hamas? The Zetas, who as I understand it have been running their own cellphone networks for 10 years? The Sinaloa cartel, which has thousands of drones carrying contraband across the US border? The Jalisco cartel, which is already targeting the families of police officers? The US-backed Guaidó faction in Venezuela? The US-backed military dictatorship currently running Egypt?

This isn't something that requires the budget of an aircraft carrier, and it's not something you can see from a satellite before it happens.
Seems to break pulse: https://github.com/IThinkImOKAY/IThinkImOKAY/pulse/monthly
> Everybody works but the vacant lot. I paid $3600 for this lot and will hold 'till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people. I take the profit without earning it. for the remedy read Henry George.

- Billboard posted in an empty lot, Rockford Illinois, 1914
Sadly, most news headlines are terrible. When I read the headline, I clicked through for the details. Fortunately the details made the whole thing clear.

I too wish for a world where headlines aren't terrible, but we currently live in a world of clickbait.
Presumably your own desire to maximize revenue. If you charge a rent that your tenant can't afford, then you get nothing.
> a home water filter might also solve that particular problem

Yes. I don't see why it's an issue. A lot of houses have water softeners because hard water destroys appliances. An RO filter for the kitchen isn't a lot more expensive than that.

(And I've also lived in developing countries where the water isn't always safe to drink. Boiling or filtering worked fine).
Getting off the federal reserve petrodollar inflation express.

Bitcoin (and lightning) give you the option to self-host as much as you want. They don’t force you to do anything.
> Why would your property taxes not continue to go up endlessly?

IIUC, you're arguing that we should expect that ^^^ outcome, because of the political/economic dynamics you mentioned earlier.

My understanding is that, except in towns/cities undergoing gentrification, U.S. municipal property taxes are pretty constant (modulo inflation).

So it sounds like the outcome predicted by that theory probably isn't happening. Wouldn't this cast doubt on the theory?
This debunking... really isn't. To pick a random example:

> For starters, no one knows what an “optimal” sperm count is. The World Health Organization sets a range of “normal” sperm count as from 15 to 250 million sperm per milliliter. (Men produce about 2 to 5 milliliters of semen per ejaculation.) But it isn’t clear that more is better. Above a certain threshold — 40 million per milliliter, according to the W.H.O. — a higher sperm count does not mean a man is more fertile.

It doesn't follow from this that there is no sperm-count crisis. Since the marginal energy cost of more sperm is pretty small, you'd expect that evolution would build a generous safety margin on the sperm count required to achieve reproduction, and we can be in a "crisis" if we're shrinking that safety margin even if it hasn't reached zero yet. e.g, suppose the threshold is 25MM/mL and a "normal" count is 100MM/mL; a decrease to 40MM/mL can be a crisis even if it hasn't had any visible effects yet. Not to mention that whole paragraph completely disregards the possibility that falling sperm counts are as much a symptom of declining health as a cause of problems unto themselves.
Unfortunately the part of Colorado that feeds much of the rest of the southwestern part of the US it's water is still below average in snowpack this year:

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/co/snow/pro...
It’s not Microsoft’s fault - the pdf is well formed. The printer is the problem in this case.
This simply isn't how the financial system works. The bank will only loan out amounts based on what they hold in reserve. Asking the Fed/Treasury to "swing their wand around" isn't really close to what happens. Also, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury are different entities.

They don't just "print money" for banks arbitrarily.
Thanks for digging that up. Yeah, I suspected that the "regulatory blockage" thing there might account for more of the risks than armed robbery :)
The point of bringing up the technical issues is not that they are unsurmountable, but that they require political will to fund upgrades.

The RMT would be easy enough to deal with if there was political will to offer them a suitably lucrative agreement for their present drivers to accept that their numbers will steadily decline.
Your conclusion is based on a series of questionable premises and you assume causation that doesn’t necessarily follow. What support do you have for saying that because the government is influenced by lobbyists and gerrymandering that necessarily means property taxes will go up endlessly.

In fact the evidence is that property taxes don’t go up endlessly they are actually highly stable when adjusted for inflation. Further many states don’t have property tax, or expressly cap them.

Finally everyone always needs more money, individual and companies included. Why should government be any different. Governments are just human organizations like any other. They just have a different role and responsibility.
The reason why I believe mining isn't being labeled as money transmission is because the miners never take custody of any bitcoin, they collect/handle transactions themselves, but these transactions are p2p, the bitcoin do not go into the hands or control of a money transmitter.

Where the author is correct is that the miners are the chosen ones for writing to the central ledger of bitcoin, but writing to a ledger including transactions, is not the definition of money transmission- the miner would have to take custody - which they do not.

Now where money transmission I believe is running rampant is any smart contract built on ethereum, like uniswap, that is taking custody of any token and holding that token- all of them are violating money transmission laws.
I really don't see how you're complaining -- the value of your home is going up way more in absolute terms than the property tax you're paying.

If you don't have cash, take out a small mortgage on the house to pay the property taxes. You'll still come out ahead in the end.
Non homeowners are paying way more whilst getting less in return.

I really dont understand the logic of being OK with paying double for a house, just because the buyer can sell it for the same amount (or higher) afterwards.

I could purchase a 150m2 house with my salary a decade ago. Now I could find a 75m2 house that would be too expensive for me. I dont care about being able to sell the house for more money afterwards, it doesn't matter, because I have to live somewhere anyways. So any profits gained will (probably) be factored into the purchase price of the next house I'm buying.
Community is the first threat to Google and Facebook in 15 years
Really impressive and a plesently surprising feature from AMD. I imagine the real target market for this is Eypc server CPUs. Eventually they might be able to cut the L3 cache out of the CCD die completely and rely only on external SRAM die as L3. This would give AMD a very flexible portfolio where they can offer different SKUs with different amounts of L3 cache at different price points, all using the exact same CCD die. What will be interesting is to see how much the die stacking impacts thermals.
Hi, looks very promising. I would totally consider switching to this streamlined approach to business conversations. However, I don't see any mention of email. Email is IMHO vital for any service that wishes to 'integrate' the full company conversation stack. Do you plan on adding additional integrations?
There's a big difference between a solution which requires you to use a custodial service, and one which gives you the option of non-custodial service - the latter allows for a much greater ability to hold custodial services accountable, by opting to self-custody, without forcing you to change your payment medium in the process.
I think the disruption will come from the civil planning side of the equation. When we can figure out how to build a city on the edge of Arizona that people actually want to live in then we can begin to leverage more efficient and automated building techniques like 3d printing houses and stuff.

It takes more than houses; also entertainment, food, infrastructure, jobs, etc. Otherwise, you're 100% right, location is king and nobody wants to move away from a fun/profitable/valuable city to live in an abandoned mining town in Oklahoma just so they can own a home.

As dystopian as it might sound, I wonder if there is some way to "crowdfund" or "preorder" a new township location. Everyone signs up, pledges like 1,000 USD or something with a lease extending at least 3+ years. And developers can use that money to build an entirely new township in a location with cheaper land. This might help alleviate the problems that come along during a cold start with requiring critical mass adoption before a location is desireable to live in. (Not suggesting this exact course because having an entire town owned by a single developer sounds like a capitalist hellscape; just thinking out loud, I don't know what the actual solution would be)

I believe something similar is already happening with something like the Culdesac project. (I have no affiliation with this project, just so happen to live near it and have heard about it a few times) : https://culdesac.com/
If you look at past attacks that had a name and logo it's often not that these attacks were particularly dangerous. Think about Spectre.

What these attacks often do however is breaking existing expectations. I think this attack ticks quite a few boxes there. It questions the idea that TLS can be "layered" on top of existing protocols and just be secure without consideration for the underlying protocols. It breaks security independently of all the fancy crypto we have in TLS 1.3 that we enforced due to previous attacks on weak crypto. It shows a generic problem with TLS that hasn't been tackled properly yet.
Yep, it is the rule rather than the exception for many who are "natural" deep sleepers. I used to be one of those until I got overweight.
If something comforts you it's not a delusion. It comforted you and comfort is real. Bullshit manipulation which doesn't approve can find a potential for making complaints but it's not up for discussion.
interesting(ly sad) percentage .. I wonder how come nothing impedes their laundering

that said I wonder if having another path won't make them even more hungry.. i'm sure criminals are very creative when it comes to making more money
Most fiction writers think of their newsletters as self-promotion. But what if they thought of "newsletters" as the final product. Why not send your writing directly to your readers? I think it is the next wave of publishing. I have a weekly fiction, comic, and humor newsletter. And I serialize my novels directly to my readers.
If you own all options and the renter needs to have some sort of housing, they'll pay anyway. The end result is that the owner will start collecting a larger percent of the renter's earnings.
That's part of it, but I'm also sitting here with the warm satisfaction that my earlier comment is up to 12 votes. Without votes or likes, I tend to assume that no one has read my comment, or no one finds it interesting. The effort I put into posting it ( I assume) was a waste of time and effort.
Absolutely. I'm a sucker for good writing and I feel that you all set an excellent example of how to do technical writing and analysis correctly.
That Connecticut deli math sign
Are they trying to flip these or trying to rent them?

I'm curious why Blackrock thinks these homes are worth this much if the rest of the market currently doesn't.
> ...a discrete jfet has a better noise floor than an op amp or a regular transistor.

This used to be true, but you can get really good low-noise op amps these days.
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REITs have been doing this for a long time. It accelerated after 2008 because of the housing collapse which was triggered by Banks creating to much money rather than the Fed.
I'd start with VOIP numbers being so easy to spoof... and move onto the entire telephone network being insanely insecure and unverified, despite decades of efforts to link people to telnos -- until they implement actual caller-recipient full verification, they've effectively got nothing.
Never-mind, read the link. It's just shoveling more crap on top of the existing shadow DOM instead of finally just cutting bait and making a CSS property called `inherit: reset;` like they should have done to begin with.