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>> £90bn in a financial system that moves trillions daily.

£90bn is based on NCA official figures that are always more "conservative" for obvious reasons. I think that amount is quite big anyway.

>> The UK isn't the money laundering capital of the world...you have just quoted yourself...

Nah...I quoted from the website linked. You can also google it. It's on all major websites including the financial ones(i.e ft.com).

>> Russians are evil but it is not easy to connect directly with crimes

Right...laundering money is a apparently a crime in itself to begin with but I guess that doesn't matter much to you.
Here is another quote for your enjoyment: "London is ‘the jurisdiction of choice’ for Russian crime gangs". Anyway let's not make this a "russian" thing. London is the money laundering capital of the world after all. It's not open for russians only.

>> it is an extremely bad idea to launder money through the UK's financial system (unless you live somewhere that doesn't comply with CRS...in which case it doesn't matter)...

Apparently that's just old good BS. The wise guys launder happily and are not bothered as long as they give back.

>> And what is the accusation here...

It shouldn't be that hard to figure it out, Walter! Hints: “the money laundering capital of the world”; "‘the jurisdiction of choice’ for Russian crime gangs"
This doesn't actually claim they found Antarctica proper, but that they found the Antarctic seas and icebergs.

Which is not to diminish the accomplishment (Polynesian navigators were crazy good) but to scope it so it's not discarded as ridiculous (since getting within sight of Antarctica proper is next-level difficult).
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That one was amazing.

I also love the one where they convince the one guy to wear a shock collar by telling him it's audio gear.
>traces of a strong culture for navigation in South America

Further, the motives for diaspora were not there. Native south Americans had barely scratched the Amazon. There was so much left to explore and exploit on the continent. Going on a crazy at sea journey just was not necessary.
A title of a Ryan Holiday book about stoicism has been a helpful mantra for me: The obstacle is the way.
Yeah, people sometimes don't seem to understand that a lot of rules are written in blood.
As usual this is the result of gatekeeping in the medical industry. It is typical of this industry to kill a million people through inaction to avoid killing one through action.

As a bonus, by arrogating the exclusive right to drug prescription and analysis to themselves they can charge what they want.

Man deserves true freedom. To self diagnose if one so desires, to kill oneself through incorrect prescriptions if one so desires.

People foolishly say “If only the doctors would see my illness as an illness” not realizing they exist in a false prison. Doctors should not stop you from treating yourself. You are sovereign over your body. Never let them rule.
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In my opinion—Twitter is not a very accurate gauge on society at large. I'd assume that Twitter has a vocal 10% of users counting as 90% of the content on there. Many of which are quite opinionated...
I have both the Sony and the remarkable and the note taking experience is not comparable. Since I bought the RM2 I've essentially not touched the Sony, the RM2 is so much better. I'd also add that I use the RM2 for reading and annotating pdfs a lot and I had the same thought about size at the beginning. I am a bit more twisted now, I'd definitely like a larger screen when annotating pdfs (just reading is fine actually), but I also think I would leave the device at home much more if it were bigger. The RM2 is a perfect size for always having it with me.
When I draw, I like the lead to be extremely sharp. It's always bothered me that in reality I'm only using a hair thin cylinder of the center of the lead, and the rest gets turned to powder.
And yet...people bought new horses after doing this, regularly.
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> Do I feel these folks needed reining in? I mean, for their sake.

Yup when I called their behavior "toxic" before, I was mostly thinking from a self-harm perspective. Actions that harm others are worse, of course, but self harm falls under the umbrella of "toxic" too.

There's also the issue of millions of kids watching the show and in some cases trying to emulate it. I'm an ardent supporter of free speech, so I'm definitely not calling for censorship here. But I wouldn't call the enormous cultural impact of Jackass a good thing, either.
Yeah I use rmfuse for connecting. It works like a charm.
First day of electrical engineering classes we were taught, before troubleshooting a circuit - make sure you're plugged in.

Assumptions are evil :)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27513938

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Redis REST has overhead less than a millisecond compared to Redis TCP. But when EDGE caching is enabled, reads become much faster as expected. Rough numbers we have seen:
REST: ~0.70ms
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Note that, EDGE caching is work in progress. It will be publicly available in a few weeks.
The article concerns philosophers who loved talking about ideas, not the colloquial usage of the word stoic.
That's not what stoicism is at all.
Damn, I'd been meaning to build exactly this for ages but never got around to it. It's always felt like a key missing piece, particularly after working with tools like Android's preview tab. Major kudos to the team!
The short ones are better.

I liked this one:

floss
> As for incompetence: imho, webrtc, which Google standardized and open sourced, is likely the single most important innovation on the interwebs

Complex browser-based alternative to TCP? Standardized alternative to Socket.io? I can't say its not useful but webrtc is hardly the most important thing...
Living in China and talking with many around me (not a representative sample since they all speak english), I agree: it's quite easy to see all this drama as an expression of jaleousy or ignorance from hypocritical westerners than an enlightened analysis of their condition.

If for us the solution is to have the crime rate of the USA, the inefficiencies of Europe, or the slow death of Japan, it's hard for them not to prefer the glorious albeit maybe artificial paradise promised by their rulers.
I think the idea was that you could host a file as a torrent but use S3 as an always online source for the file so you can distribute the .torrent without worrying about all peers being offline at some point since s3 would always be online. In theory it would be cheaper than the alternative of just giving a link on s3
If doing this stops someone from their precious, they will update their clients right away.
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> Commenting for visibility

Can you elaborate? Do you believe that HN's algorithm prioritizes "comments that have replies" more highly?
Japanese maker have a weird love for wood glue. For instance flat pack furnitures come with glue for extra strength, where Ikea just sizes the bits tight enough to not need any.

To play the devil's advocate, their wood glue doesn't smell and is pretty easy to use. It's less messy to me than regular scotch paper glue for instance.
Thank you, I was coming up short on terminology since this is outside my normal field! It looks like there are some relays directly from Kidee which might integrate directly with the hardwired smoke detectors. I'll definitely do some more research.
He described the exact plot of the pilot episode of The Lone Gunman in that YouTube link., The Lone Gunman was like the Mr. Robot of March, 2001.
We are talking here about a mature technology. Not a bleeding edge area. Modeling a part, making a drawing of the model, and creating a fabrication strategy and code are all problems solved by multiple competing vendors who interact with customers on a daily basis. It’s sufficiently hard to do WELL that open source, or free solutions are mostly for hobbyists.
I prefer Vrbo for this - unlike Airbnb it's for whole homes only (not rooms in someones house) so thats one less filter you need to select when searching.

They also tend to be peoples vacation homes and not created-for-Airbnb investments with spartan cheap furniture and crappy pillows and you can't even find a pair of scissors in the kitchen drawer. The quality of the listings, management, cleaning seems to be much higher

And to top it off, their Search function actually treats you like an adult - you can select SORT filters so you're not forced to wade through a bunch of crap listings because Airbnb's lead UX developer hates you and doesn't value your time.
In my case, it is a combination of persistence, a small number of excellent specialists who believe me, and willingness to spend tens of thousands of dollars.
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this introduced me to the awesome 凹 and 凸 kanji characters in japanese/chinese, meaning concave and convex respectively; plus 𠱂 which apparently means 'to rebuke/retort' i.e. a 'sharp' response (lol?) - see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B9 and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%87%B8
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Not crazy. Do it and share it.

Just be prepared: the future of the internet is navigating politics. You better be prepared for people to be upset at query X returns results too right/left/up/down for their political preferences. Then senators start tweeting at you.
Yes, but depending on your yearly income there is another tax separate from the normal income tax (inkomskatt), if you earn more than 523 300 SEK you also need to pay "statlig inkomstskatt" at 20% for everything above that rate.

And previous year 2020 was the first tax year without värnskatt, an extra 5%, ie 25% total, for everything above 703 000 SEK. It was abolished 2019.
Or maybe even just a small dot in the center of locked tiles. Great game idea! :)
Hickam's Dictum: A man can have as many diseases as he damn well pleases.
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The difference is that there is no way that Biblical or ancient Islamic scholars would have the equipment to study quantum physics or advanced astronomy. It is entirely plausible that Polynesians who settled as far south as the Chatham Islands could sail further south. Granted, with no archaeological evidence, we can't say for sure. A better parallel I think would be the Viking discovery of America. Before we found the archaeological evidence, all we had was the sagas and the medieval reports. It's certainly enough of a lead to warrant looking at the ice with some ground-penetrating radar.
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Yes It is like all these tiny small things add up. And when people ask what are the difference or they are about the same I clinch. It is exactly the same as saying Fonts typefaced dont matter and they are all the same in 1980s.

Sometimes all I ask is the other manufacture just to copy Apple MacBook to the atomic level. There should be a lot of learning in doing so for them. The only notebook I see that is taking a lot of MBP design learning is actually Microsoft Surface Laptop. Still let down by its software though. And my god the leaked Windows 11 is still awful.
I use fugitive, which lets me pop open a blame view for code I'm looking at and trace its lineage. It's often helpful, and when the commit messages are good, very helpful.
"mom, my bum itches." So mom decides to look for the source. Seems appropriate/natural.
We have that now: There's an API option to say "give me the latest output instead of what you have cached".

Why that isn't the default, I have no idea.
But where I disagree maybe is that it's a market anomaly. It sounds like a human anomaly but the market is here to allow it to be expressed fairly and in the open so that it corrects itself naturally over time.

The alternative is a small group of well educated or armed people planning the economy by 5-year increment for the good of the people. They can be right for very long, but is it fair to prevent us to make mistakes and only allow them ?

The market maybe isnt here to maximize efficiency of outcome, but maximize fairness of access ?
In the Rāmayana (circa 14000 BCE), while searching for Rāma's wife, queen Seeta, the forest king Sugreeva describes Antarctica in great detail. This is documented in Vālmiki's Ramayana and therefore predates the Pacific islanders mentioned in this study. I am guessing because the description is in Sanskrit most of today's researchers find it inaccessible, but I hope they find translators & arrive at the actual truth, instead of half-truths.
Not the subsistence ones
As smart as some of them may be, as far as I’m concerned they are ALL shady individuals.
I had a consultant buddy ask me about FoxPro last year because he knew I had done some work with it at one point. Apparently all of payroll at some largeish company you've maybe heard of (~15k employees) was done using an ancient FoxPro Windows 3.11 version (2.6? 2.7? memory's rusty) running via compatibility on Windows 7 and they were just getting around to trying to replace it.

In a way people probably think things like that are insane but if you step back and look at it, if it was getting the job done all these years it was decent engineering.
The /files directory has been online and they've been releasing files there for quite a few years. This isn't some new development.

Here's Internet Archive's snapshot from 2014:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141127154059/http://file.wikil...
Is it just me or is stoicism been heavily commercialised over the last few years, along with vipassana meditation.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with getting employees to live healthier and more resilient lives, but the skeptic in me thinks that there may be other motives.
Cloudflare Workers are a really great addition to static sites that need just a little wee bit of dynamic content from the backend. It should really be promoted more by create-react-app as a logical extension into back end like dynamically overwriting canonical urls and other meta tags in the static index.html
Recently I started incorporating n8n, a workflow automation software, into my backend. Initially my use-cases were Zapier-like. But I realised it was more powerful as a visual program editor. For certain kinds of workflows, it is more intuitive to code and manipulate them using graphical nodes. Perhaps, we can have a similar text+graphical editor for such backend code as well.
I think Jason Russel was drugged [1] to discredit him and to warn off any others who would use social media to try to influence US foreign policy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Russell#Legal_issues
When your coding standard enforces 80 characters, you end with a single logical statement split across many lines. This quickly approaches un-readability if you fetishize self documenting code. In my opinion, short variable and function names with a comments are often more readable that self documenting behemoths, e.g.,

double compute_angular_acceleration_in_radians_per_second_per_second(double torque_in_newtons_per_meter, double moment_of_inertia_in_kilogram_meters_meters);

vs

// Units are base unitsSI.

double compute_angular_accel(double tau, double J);

I'll take the second any day.
My ISP warned me "you could be getting scammed"

I never knew my ISP was filtering and checking my links
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This is what happens when you treat IT as a cost center. Would love to see how many times the IT team urged higher-ups to prioritize and fund computer system modernization and upgrades.
There are undoubtedly a couple personal accounts with buckets configured in 2014 which have been idling at $.04/mo ever since, and they're allowing the grace period just in case. But likely no clear active users.
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Sure, but that still is less efficient when things are working fine. Any time you tie up resources that you don't absolutely have to is a loss of efficiency.
I disagree. Especially if these privacy violation happen without the explicit knowledge of the user.
My point exactly, you might think it’s a safe name to pick. Context is everything and for a todo app this name is quite unfortunate.
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I dont know if innocent describes people signing a contract. They can be victims of manipulation but maybe people are less stupid than you give them credit for.

Maybe they understood that it was an opportunity to seize, a cheap loan in a bubbling up market, and they decided against carefulness.

I face this with bitcoin for instance, trying to stay careful in an exciting rising market. If I stick to fundamentals and what I think I know of past experiments, this makes no sense. If I look at making money in my lifetime, I feel stupid resisting.
This is an outside perspective from a European but I do remember some of those contestants being in the spotlight for a while but none of them ever milked it like the Jackass guys did.

The Jackass guys got managers and actively sought to stay in the business. At most the AFV contestants might have made an appearance somewhere on a talk show.
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The amount of electrical power to shoot a single round was immense, the greatest known energy used to propel a projectile from a railgun was 33 megajoules.
I'm thinking mostly of the comedy of the awkward situation it could potentially put someone in, not so much the hacker but the manager or master as another poster mentioned who would have to explain why his employees have a photo of tank man on their screen as their superiors walk in. "But I was just hacking, it's not me it's them?!?"

But realistically at most it would plant seeds of doubt like all the CIA craziness we've seen posted to HN of late. There's some pretty disturbing stuff with respect to that such that it made me appreciate some more of the anti government sentiments about the evil government and dirty affairs we've created in other countries.
I've heard it before, and my very serious reply is this: "well, I please only to have one, so you will have to keep searching until you find it"!
The same linguistic, geological & climatological evidence points to the RigVeda being at least 24000 years old. Please refer to extensive research done in the last decade or so. Nilesh Oak et al.
human eyeballs sorta do
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I just flew in from MIA to BWI (flight 1488 if you're curious) from Southwest last night. I am so sorry for the people effected by this. Yesterday was supposed to be my start date at a company I previously worked for and I had to delay by a day because Frontier Airlines, another garbage low-cost airline, cancelled a flight due to "weather" (there was no weather issues) and then refused to rebook with another carrier because of the aforementioned weather issues. Absolute bullshit.

Frontier was dirt cheap, so ok whatever, but Southwest basically chargerg 535 bucks for a 2.5 hour flight from major city to major city and then didn't even let people drink on it. They even gave us free alcoholic beverage coupons that were then invalidated. Complete bullshit.

Definitely one of my top 5 least favorite flying experiences. Flying is such a shit show these days. It used to be so calm. I can't believe airlines can charge half a g and also not let you drink. I get stressed a bit during flying and they just chuckled and kept walking. Fuck the airlines. It is egregious that this covid culture has resulted in this insane fear of interacting with other people.

I think when I move to Miami in September I am not going to fly, I'll take a train with the highest possible class just to get around the absolute garbage experience that flying has become. It'll take 24 hours but maybe, just maybe, it won't be Kafkaesque
ok but do they have like... proof? anything beyond old folk tales? an actual landing site or artifacts? no? then they didn't get there first.
How do you configure fonts in this? The default font seems tiny!
Scared money doesn't make money. I would mildly chuckle though. Mostly because of models and cocaine. Not the CIA off-balance sheet reference.
I strongly agree with reducing red tape for biomedical testing, but this is a drastic oversimplification of the current scenario, and of vaccine efficacy.
same here, I lost a trove of writings accidentally deleting my storage folder on Android. It transitioned me back to writing things on paper.
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My dad lived in a small town in India for most of his life.

When I come across stoicism and read about it, I realized he has been living like a stoic his whole life. His way of approaching life is so aligned with the concept. And yet he has never read or heard about Epicteus.

I have been reading a lot of books about philosophy lately, but I realise the most you can learn is from people around you.

The books are often contradictory. In the exact same situation, a book titled why zebras don't get ulcers, the author claims venting out is much healthier to reduce stress. There was a study done which indicated people who vent out on the spot are less likely to be stressful (less stress harmone).

Observing how others deal with situations and picking the best out of them works out well for me.

When I come across a friend who managing a heated argument and is calm after ward, I try to learn from him. Understand why he is able to do so.
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