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>mantra that price is everything, and lower is always better than higher.

Quality decides what 'better' is, not price. A tool made by a craftsman with much better materials will, itself, be used to create superior results.

There are two kinds of book readers in the world, my friend.
At 6:30: "It is thought that an impact like this happened 6 times in the violent past of the Earth's history." -- I wonder if this could be correct?
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This is the unvarnished truth at the heart of the matter. Your comment should not be grayed out, as our survival as a species depends largely upon getting past the individual vs society dichotomy and waking up to the realization that our singular species has to be able to act as a singular unit with regards to preserving life on planet earth and making better designed systems. Most of our so-called intractable problems could be solved in short order if badly designed systems that serve vested interests against the wellbeing of the group were altered. (Major long term conflicts, so-called “border crisis”, climate change, desertification, deforestation, overfishing, increasing economic disparities during pandemics, etc…)

All my opinion, of course, but God told me to mention this here, stone tablets being out of fashion and the likelihood of readers viewing this on other sorts of tablets being higher, etc
The point is not to determine the actual reason(s) - us plebs will likely never know. The point is to examine the possibility that sometimes alternative explanations to the official narrative could be plausible. Which loops back to how this all started and my original comment, that there's a narrative of electrical power usage and transparency issues - which are real. But there's other plausible explanations - political power and control. Even if the latter were true, it's unlikely the World Bank would cite them in their response.

Most of this thread stemming from my comment has been around "conspiracy theories" and such, which I find disappointing, because there is a healthy level of skepticism and distrust that should be applied to these institutions.
On one hand, the maintainers of the IRC server code freenode used stated that they would ban any of Lee's "lackies" if they ask for support, on the other hand, some trolls published on hn that they were expecting a reply from their RGPD request, I suppose they got a lot of these nonsensical requests. Considering these matters, it seems starting fresh was the only sane solution.
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" At the no-tech level you can simply have crypto backed redeemable notes - like the old gold standard."

If the government had any credibility whatsoever, the could already do this with any number of backing mechanisms.

If they want to 'go hard' they can buy gold.

Their plan is to mine BTC for solvency anyhow - mine some BTC, buy gold, and voila - reserves.

But realistically, if they were competent enough for that, they could also issue a well managed fiat, which would allow them to be much more nimble.

The 'tech' required for those who can use it should not be that hard, much easier than BTC. BTC 'wallets' are not really suitable for regular consumer consumption anyhow.

The point is, none of this has to do with BTC it has to with the credibility of the government, which is very limited.

If they sorted out their leadership, not only would they have a sound monetary system ... they'd have a sound financial and legal system and a healthy country overall.
Sounds pretty much like my upbringing in Africa. Bus drivers had authority and if they spied you being naughty through their review mirror they could kick you off the bus resulting in a few kilometre of walk home. It was common to get off the bus in solidarity with your friend who was being kicked off and walk home with him. Sometimes it was just more fun and quicker to walk than wait for the bus much like you.
I just call it appealing to the lowest common denominator.
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You're wrong about BTC transactions happening on physical paper with no connection to the network. It's not possible.
95% is closer to reality. Sometimes a driver trying to avoid a crash will do something wrong and get injured with no harm to cyclist or pedestrian.

Or will harm someone else than the perpetrator.
They closed it. They explained why. The cmuratori person is naive in their assumptions.
I digress, but the reason we lived there for exactly 6 months (on the day) was that we would be ineligible for Swedish child allowance after that.
Dang has had to post that admonition so many times the past few weeks, he really out to just auto-pin it at the top of the main page. Make it “Readme First” FAQ thread or something.
The structures we build on Mars will be made to anticipate the Martian conditions. Most of the structures we have here on earth were not built to anticipate an asteroid impact.

Usually it is known beforehand when an asteroid will collide. We might not manage to build structures quickly enough to save all humans, and the resulting scramble for the few spots in the bunkers might destroy them. There also won't be any time to test the design and subsequently improve it. On Mars we have plenty of opportunity to measure the environment. Even if the worst happens, we can still repopulate the colony from earth, as long as our society is not being scared by such failures and stops manned Martian efforts completely.
hypothetically, how would it feel to one day realize that God and nature and chance and one’s very own true nature are one and the same?
Being on the receiving end without general anesthesia also sounds pretty incredible: how many of us could take an hour of having a caveman scrape away at your skull with a flint, which is one of the documented methods mentioned?
Do you have support for HIPAA/SOC2 companies? We have PII/PHI and would love to use this.
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> The Oxford English Dictionary defines conspiracy theory as "the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as a result of a conspiracy between interested parties; spec. a belief that some covert but influential agency (typically political in motivation and oppressive in intent) is responsible for an unexplained event". It cites a 1909 article in The American Historical Review as the earliest usage example,[37][38] although it also appeared in print as early as April 1870.[39]

And it seems they even used time travel to do it.
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> Note that the only alternative is to trust a third party to identify people to you.

No, the proper alternative is blocking or discouraging sensitive communication until an in-person verification has taken place.

Also, you are always trusting a third party. You have to trust the Signal people (maybe), you have to trust Intel and their SGX (lol, look for some papers on those) and you have to trust your phone vendor. Proper security educates people about whom the are currently having to trust. Spinning it like no third party needs to be trusted for Signal to operate is dishonest.
I assumed it was one of those situations in which you ask around even though chances are slim because there is virtually no cost in doing so.
We don't have exile, no penal colonies, no ostracism, no corporal punishment and life term prison sentences are at least as cruel and more expensive than execution.

Unfortunately there are no cheap and efficient options for removing someone permanently from society right now outside of death penalty.

Outlawing people may work, but for various reasons it is non starter. You cannot lift protection from the law nowadays from someone.
> What segment are you targeting?

We believe we have something to offer for a broad range of segments. Students can use it to supplement their education, professionals can use it to hone their skills in related areas, anyone can use it to learn hobbies and so on.

> if it’ll also target schools and universities

It is on our roadmap to integrate with universities, offering them an out-of-the-box peer to peer learning experience integrated into their LMS's. For example, a student that needs help with MATH101 can peer with those that took that course before.
> We buy and use their oil

We actually buy a very small amount these days. US is a net exporter.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
There’s a favourite link at the top of the page on mobile just under the thread title.
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My passport and US immigration laws mean that I have to enter a lottery in order to get a job. No thanks.

The other aspect I forgot to mention is the way work days are treated. I work 7.5-8 hour days and then I get to hack on my own stuff. I'm sceptical of US attitudes to overtime.
1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
Enough about stripe on this site already. Nice ad campaign.
Ding ding we have a winner, though I hope it wouldn't be relevant what gender I am.
This was kind of my point - you can't be penalised for taking the advantages you have in life. But if you are aware of issues facing others you can give them a hand up and we end up with a fairer and more equal society.
Is your argument that you should not acknowledge something you know to be true (for the sake of the argument)?
Quoting Dr. Malone "The alarming thing is that there is no alarm."

This is long, and parts of it might be debatable, but I think this should be considered. It might be misguided in parts, but I think it is very genuine, and just as fellow human beings, I think we should give it some consideration.

https://trialsitenews.com/should-you-get-vaccinated/
I highly recommend The Wisdom Jesus by Cynthia Bourgeolt.
> We buy and use their oil

Although that is true, the US imports less and less oil from Saudi. In fact, it’s been dropping steeply since shale oil became cheaper in 2014 and we haven’t imported less from Saudi since the oil glut of the mid-1980s.[1] I don’t think the US stopping Saudi oil imports is going to worry them as China is their major market now and China is another repressive regime. We should stop protecting their shipping though as we do for the entire globe still.

1: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...
>why do they include details such as, "he was a school teacher" and, "he owed gambling debts"?

I would assume to soften the expectations that result in this kind of no-guilt thing you never see given to...other segments of society:

Bannon, Rauch, and Ramaiya consented to the entry of final judgments without admitting or denying the allegations in the complaint
Article mentioned Apple with their own mainstream language, I suppose Swift. But it's far from being mainstream, didn't gain the desired attention and failed miserably with TensorFlow. Thus, it's a niche language making no sense outside of the Apple ecosystem. Is not a serious contender to Haskell.
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another reason for me to go renewable. downvote me but i can't justify paying a country for their oil when they do this type of humanitarian violations to a child. same reason i refuse to buy apple and nike. i can do without until others realize that if they don't play fairly they don't get to play at all, at least without my money.
You can see how it's going to be confusing to people though?
>Gaddafi had launched the idea of a pan-African gold dinar at least since 2002. He was killed in 2011.

True, and I don't claim it's fact (discussed in sibling comments) - just something to consider. But there's also a difference between floating the idea, and amassing enough gold to actually pull it off, and he was acquiring quite the stack from what I hear.

>Your suggested link between Ghaddafi's killing and "debt based fiat systems" is a conspiracy theory promoted by Russian propaganda channels like RT, but not backed up by facts.

There's that phrase again. Not everything RT says is a lie. I don't make the claim to know the inner workings of the global political elite. I just like to see which of my friends only get their propaganda from MSNBC/CNN/Fox, and which like to sprinkle in a little zerohedge and RT
Apologies, in the 100 year time scale I was referring to this [1] - but that is for a "big one (8.0-8.6)" not a "really big one (8.7-9.2)". The risk of a big one is 1 in 3 in the next 50 years, 1 in 10 for the really big one.

So _likely_ 250 till the next big, big one. So who cares right? The very definition of "not my problem". On the up side (referring back to the top of this thread) ELE Asteroids are millions of years apart :)

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...)
Using TiddlyWiki on VPS so it's online accessible from my home IP address without authorization and with from any other location. Served using the Caddy webserver which automatically handles the TLS certificates. Taking notes for years using Tags for search and grouping.
Even our character encodings have turned into bloatware.
My parents had/have about 9 siblings each. There is no way in hell my grand parents could have raised those many kids without letting them be free most of the time.

Of course the times were different (between 1930s - 1970s) and in India the definition/threshold of risk is, let's just say, different compared to the west :-)
We don't currently have the certifications, but they are high up on our roadmap! Send me an email about this to max@graphcdn.io and I will ping you once we are there.
Is this news outlet reputable? I want to make sure this is factual before sharing.
I thought you were clear. Only after you got called a liar did I even notice the other meaning. Some people go online with a box of matches looking for things to set fire to.
You can presume that a large percentage of that 40,000 weren't exposed to covid19 during the study.

I remember a year ago the Chinese shutting down a covid19 study in China because their infection rates went to zero.
Is it censorship resistant? Couldn't state easily enough attack it at any sufficiently large point it contacts with real economy? They degree certain wallets being tainted. And then promise to jail anyone who deals with coins from these, receive them and transmit on to anywhere but government controlled wallets and face jail time? For one scenario, or just tell exchanges or like to confiscate any coins coming from certain addresses...
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That sounds like a fake supply problem. Potentially people having places to sell or rent blocking high density developments, or lack of infrastructure causing issues.

Good old adage is infrastructure first.
He edited his original comment to omit "repetitive", which made it even more chuckle-worthy.

I've driven through most of the places he mentions in Europe, and with that knowledge it seems even more arbitrarily chauvinistic to try to claim the limited areas he mentions are close to the diversity of the entirety of the US or North America. While I love several of the national parks in France, their nature of being so clustered ends up being much more repetitive than the gigantic sequoias, brutal deserts, enormous mountains, and temperate rainforests one can experience in the USA - and that's just west of the Mississippi.
Maybe they should include a baseline vaccine (say pfizer biontech) in their trails instead of just placebo and their own vaccine.

That would show whether the result is due to new variants of the virus or just different efficacy of the new vaccine.
There is a jump in logic at one point that probably should have been developed better:

"...If doubt arises as to the probable efficacy of measures...it must be remembered that it is better for the public morale to be doing something than nothing..."

"First as to the things which it is desirable not to do. It is not desirable to close theaters, churches and schools unless public opinion emphatically demands it. It is not desirable to make the general wearing of masks compulsory..."
Here's the BBC reporting the same news: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57492219
A possibly trivial example, but I've found that I tended to be ignored in meetings. I'd suggest something, it would be ignored, and 5 minutes later someone else would say it and everyone would say "yeah that's a great idea". So you could call that out (I did but it looked really petty imo) or draw attention to colleagues who area struggling to be heard.

I've heard someone dismiss the idea of employing a woman for a post because the team was all male. For such a situation, a rebuttal would probably be heard more if it came from a man.

These are gender related because I'm white but you would doubtless find equivalents for other groups if you asked. Being aware is important I think
Sounds cool! I‘d be interested in the caching and analytics part, but without the CDN, i.e. for an internal GraphQL server. Is there a way to do that?
In the French Wikipedia there is this small text about the demise of John Law's system in France. It's also a bit more optimistic than the general tone of the pointed article:

"If it causes loss of confidence in paper money and in the State, Law's system nevertheless allowed the consolidation of the French state debt by shifting the burden on many savers.

The economy of the country was saved from the widespread indebtedness and the shortage of liquidity, experienced before the arrival of John Law. Economic agents were in fact freed from chronic indebtedness, and inflation reduces private debts by at least half.

The main victims of the bankruptcy were in reality the annuitants - apart from real estate - but, on the contrary, the resumption of movement of the economy saw the general situation of subjects of lower condition improving."

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_de_Lauriston#Fuite_et...
Actually once you setup a compose key it can become second nature.

I program in Raku, which can be written using only ASCII, but it can be clearer if you mix in a bit of Unicode.

For example, a raw quote can be written like this using only ASCII

Q[C:\Windows\]

Or you can write it like this

｢C:\Windows\｣

To get those two characters I have added these two sequences

Compose [ [
Compose ] ]

I use them so often that it was worth making them a double press of the same key. The other options would have probably been `Q[` and `Q]`.

Another example is

* * *

That is a lambda that takes two arguments and multiplies them together. It is also much clearer as

* × *

I didn't even have to add this

Compose x x

There is also

1, 2, 3 <<+>> 40, 50, 60
1, 2, 3 «+» 40, 50, 60

@array>>.is-prime
@array».is-prime

These were also already there

Compose < <
Compose > >

Most of the compose sequences I have added match the ASCII equivalent. Which makes it very easy to remember them, even though I may not use them often.

π pi
τ tau
∪ (|)
⊎ (+)
∩ (&)
≡ (==)
≢ !(==)

(That is I type `Compose p i` for `π`, and it is equivalent to `pi`.)

or are at least similar

Unicode
Compose
# Actual ASCII

∅ set # set()

(That is I type `Compose s e t` and it is equivalent to `set()`.)

Though some of the ASCII operators are apparently too long to do that with.

∈ (el) # (elem)
∉ !(el) # !(elem)
∋ (co) # (cont)
∌ !(co) # !(cont)

I would like to point out that I actually had to read my .XCompose to remember how to type this last four. I don't use them as often as `｢｣`, and they don't match the ASCII like `≡`.

There are also some that I had to make the compose sequence longer.

∘ &o # o

---

There are some codes that I just remember for some reason like `U2424` is `␤`. (That's not even an operator in Raku, though it is useful for messaging the camelia eval-bot on irc.)
> E.g. if headline is about X but in the vicinity of Y the thread gets filled with generic comments about Y that have nothing to do with X

Exactly! I created an ASK HN a while back on this. It received a lot of feedback. It appears many long-time HN readers are tired of it.

You can see it here; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287700
Not even easy to measure, just ones that feel like having big impact, unpredictable timing and are not cumulative. That's not a terrible heuristic as black swan events do happen, but then again common risks need to be optimized for too.
Doesn't really change anything which foreign currency they would use, be it pound, yuan, franc, riyal etc....
40,000 yes, big. But when looking at who got Covid, the numbers are tiny. In the end you are comparing who had vaccine/placebo on a group of O(100) people.

It seems these trials aren’t actively monitoring the participants to see who gets even mild Covid, they just look at who ends up sick and tests positive.
Sanctions on Iraq did work, Saddam was contained. Might even have been swept away in the Arab spring later on. Unfortunately a bunch of religious fanatics invaded Iraq using a false pretense because God wanted them to. These fanatics didn't believe in diplomacy. After overthrowing the Taliban and the Baathists, they spurned all hopes of a negotiated peace and tried to wipe their foes off the map and remake the region in their own image. The defeated Baathist army was dismantled, the Taliban remnants hunted instead of negotiated with. Even the spurned Iraninans would have de-denuclearized out of fear in 2003 but why settle for that when you can have it all with regime change? And now here we are debating the evil of these once vanquished foes...
It's so strange that in most countries, you never see someone sitting on two chairs.

The board is there to keep the company management in check. But in the US, this seems like the norm. Does it not worry the stockholders?
I am more comfortable with JS + Three + Web than Unity/Unreal, and we had planned this as a web first experience. I also wanted a lot more control over the application than what those engines support (eg - in terms of loading, mobile, asset management, DOM-based UI, etc).

In hindsight some things would have been a lot easier with a game engine!
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From what I gather, even though some of the offences were committed by him when he was a minor, some of them weren't. So it's not like they are applying "death penalty for children" as the article claims.
You have broad vaccinations already in some parts of the world, presumably that means that the variants that are still spreading are the ones that are less susceptible to the vaccinations.
What is the limitation on "moms" here? And btw, why having a limitation on one parent?
Exploring quality control measures taken to make the glass bottles for vaccines
> compared to talking through why they are acting that way.

I agree empathy must be deployed to everyone here. However there are some things that must be stopped at source. I leave that judgement to the reader.
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Saudi oil: nothing would happen. It’s a commodity. They’d sell their oil at market price minus epsilon. Regime would be fine.

China tariff: they’d devalue the yuan. They already have capital controls that keep money from leaving the country. Regime would be fine.

At the end of the day, might as well trade with them for our own benefit.
I do feel like some of the terf tropes come from people building straw men because they don't like the idea to start. "Maybe we should all be nicer to each other, by the way this group has these problems" doesn't really make news, whereas "politician says all men are rapists" immediately gets outrage shares.