skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't short tether, because if you succeed, it's likely that the entire crypto ecosystem will implode, and there's a serious chance you won't get paid.
This is far more complex to model, and near impossible to. I wouldn't expect to see this anytime soon.

But to give you some hints, breakaway civilizations would likely happen all the time. Every space program has issues with astronauts not following orders simply because the astronauts internalize the idea of "what are they going to do? Come get me?" This is frequently talked about in settings where they are discussing Moon and Mars colonization. A Martian colony won't really belong to the US/China/EU/whatever for very long. I'd expect something very similar to Red Mars/The Expanse.

Another big reason for this will simply be time of light communication delays. Between Earth and Mars that's 8-15 minutes one way. It is highly impractical to control a territory when communication takes so long, they will effectively become independent. We've seen this historically too. Colonies operate drastically differently than their home countries. Being so far away it is difficult to communicate and cultures will diverge, especially considering that their day to day lives will be drastically different. Different needs creates different cultures. But luckily this distance also makes war difficult between two planets. You have months to respond.
> Bellingcat is a great example of an outfit aligned with the 9 eyes intelligence community, Elliot Higgins will never go against what Nato or the Atlantic Council stands for (at least not in a meaningful way).

And you know this how exactly?

> Americans are the most propagandized people in the world who's media is owned by a bunch of billionaires (as is the case in all English speaking countries),

Obviously that's far worse than living in countries where the state run media are your only source of information, cause they would never indoctrinate anyone?
At least they have not independently rediscovered integration yet.

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

https://math.berkeley.edu/~ehallman/math1B/TaisMethod.pdf
The overall economic cost of trying to maintain generation after generation doing the same thing with the same results far outweighs the people experiencing some pain of having to re-train, go to school or move elsewhere. If anything that's where the government should be trying to help, not trying to prop up industries with our tax dollars.
This will come down to reputation. VPN providers which don't do a good job managing abuse from their networks get blocked a lot more readily than better run networks, and in this case they'd be able to make pretty strong assurances that they can link activity to a single user.
No. If the copy is faithful, it would understand the procedure made a copy. Unless you made an identical copy (and what would you gain from this?), each would know which is which.

I guess you could lie to the patient about the procedure being a mind transfer instead of a copy. That would help market the procedure if the copy was destructive, though.
I'm relieved I can still reply, I'm just adding that I'm not planning to suicide right now, but maybe I consider it later.
You're not current on technical innovation and vertical integration programs in:

- Turkey (eg. software, defense, drones, medical device manufacturing)

- Pakistan (eg. aerospace, maritime, defense)

- India (eg. medical, chemical, pharma, defense)

- Russia (eg. defense, materials)

- Brazil (eg. software, aerospace, textiles)

- Malaysia (eg. high tech, primary metals, value-add mfg)

- Indonesia (eg. primary metals mfg & vertical integration)

- China (eg. everything)

If you were current you would know what you're saying is mostly wrong, and true at the far less impactful margins.
If Apple logged (incoming IP from user, outgoing port to exit node) pairs for each session, and the exit node logged all requests, this should be sufficient to associate all requests with a given user IP, right? Or am I misunderstanding you?

I wouldn’t expect them to log it, personally, I think that can only lead to headaches down the line. My reason for responding is just that I disagree that there is no way for another party to associate all requests even if Apple & exit node both fully cooperate and keep logs.
To my knowledge, I can only bet on Tether’s collapse if I hold uninsured funds in an institution that is, itself, at risk of failure in the case of Tether’s collapse.

Is there a way to short Tether without this egregious counter party risk?
We can't really expect people at Walmart to weigh the moral import of two different TVs. The information isnt at hand and quite frankly they are too stupid to do so.

This is why we try to ensure everything they can buy there is unlikely to kill them if used properly. We can likewise that nothing there was made in circumstances or conditions we would find morally unacceptable.
You just described me. I ran a company. I was good at generating referral business & closing it, but I was not good at throwing money at something that generated business in an outbound fashion. So the bigger my business got, the more vulnerable I was to my referral pipeline drying up. I did not like that, and I didn't want to remain small, so I got out.
Work 2021: Say goodbye to yesterday's work habits
> It didn’t matter that there was nothing bad coming from China or Russia or Nigeria. All that mattered back then is that he had dirt on the US.

Because liberals hate America, right? This sort of thinking from conservatives baffles me. Improvement of any sort - personal, cultural, political - depends on acknowledging legitimate criticism. US citizens aren't required to be blindly loyal to their country. To state an obvious near-tautology, the only way to make things better is to encourage and facilitate useful criticism, so that bad things can be improved.

The relative lack of freedom to criticize is exactly why so many autocratic states become mired in corruption; there's no non-destructive mechanism for accountability and change in government.
Actually this is no longer true. As of recently, the crypto ecosystem produced Dai (https://makerdao.com/en/), which is a fully decentralized stablecoin. I think it represents one end-state of the crypto ecosystem, blockchain transactions but with decentralized systems keeping volatility near zero.
And, related, “ A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” -Planck
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There are current conspiracies regarding the source of the leaked Hillary Clinton's emails, the origin of Covid-19, UFO cover up, QAnon.

None have solid evidence. Will any be proven to be true?
>was pretty clearly outed

Where's that evidence beyond (a) he's anti-US government and (b) of all the international powers that might wish to launder dirt on the US through Asssage, one of the names on that list is Russia?

That doesn't make anything "pretty clear" that his information just so happened to come from the place that was also the convenient national bogeyman of the time.
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growth is pretty stable, stats: https://www.prosperclout.com/stats/2021-06-15
Considering that the technology to build such drones is so widely available there's no reason why small arm drones wouldn't be protected under the 2nd amendment. Drones with bombs are a different story, but will be developed regardless of any international agreement (just like bio weapons).
The government will never allow high inflation as it undermines the willingness to write and sign long term contracts and trade agreements.
The ad industry is not monolithic, though. Some people want to genuinely move on to less privacy-invasive business models; others not. I have been to industry conferences where the advice was "well, if you do not like the Do Not Sell link on your site, maybe it's time to stop selling and start changing your business model."

What is different this time around compared to P3P, DNT, and other earlier mechanisms is that the times have changed. Privacy is a much bigger topic. There is much more reporting now about privacy. Users understand a bit better better (though, we are still far off from real transparency). Lawmakers and regulators are catching up. Many companies embrace privacy. There is a burgeoning privacy tech industry with quite a bit of venture funding.

Also, lessons were learned from earlier efforts. CalOPPA required recipients of DNT signals to only say whether they respect those. The CCPA regulations now require actual compliance. If the CCPA is applicable to your company, you have no choice but to respect it. And that is also true for automated browser signals. There is much stronger enforcement now behind more recent privacy laws. Virginia and Colorado recently enacted privacy laws, and it is likely that other states will do to.

Disclosure: I am an academic researcher working with collaborators of all stripes on Global Privacy Control
(GPC) [1, 2]. We are in touch with the good folks at ADPC and support their work. They are doing a fantastic job over there!

[1] https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
[2] https://github.com/privacycg/proposals/issues/10
Yup. There are more shells than there are IDEs, keyboard switch types, keyboard layouts, and operating systems. Shell ideological wars get just as bad as emacs/vim and linux/Mac. Use whatever you want, but company IP is shbang'd to bash.
The risks are that tether brings down whatever currency your short is denominated in. For DeFi, it will be either another token or cryptocurrency.
Are you really arguing that because child pornography exists, no large company should offer ETE photos?

Despite there been reasonable solutions like bloom filters and client sided hash detection, so that known child abuse material can be detected, without it needing to compromise the privacy of 99.99999% of users?

And that photos present some of the most sensitive materials on your device:

- geo-IP location showing basically everywhere you have taken a photo in, ever since the dawn of time

- people's consensual sex tapes

- photos of passwords, account recovery codes, private keys, seed words
They dance around this in the article, but there is a current obsession with taking in massive amounts of protein for “health reasons”, and there’s just little reason to do so. Even a vegan diet - even a particularly poorly designed one, will get you pretty far without any needed supplementation. The idea of combining foods, like beans and rice, turned out to be a myth.
Reading the other comments about the lack of integrity in scientific research that they’ve witnessed, is it any wonder why people might be skeptical about important issues like climate change, vaccines, masks, etc? There’s great research being done and a larger part of the population is becoming more and more skeptical because lies are being published and touted. Science needs to clean its house.
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> I would argue that Aircraft carriers are the size and cost due to large munitions and maintenance constraints.

Pretty sure runways are the reason. VTOL aircraft are too expensive to operate. Helicopters aren't good at attacking ships. Conventional aircraft need a runway: aircraft carriers have to be that big.
The whole video would have been better if he had built an argument from the ground up instead of starting with the idea that Tether is a scam and laying so many attempts at humor and irony on top of it.

Or at least it would have been clearer and more educational; I haven't seen his videos before and maybe other people watch him for entertainment.
This is just dumb. A person spends 15% of their life using educational facilities. It is possible they will need parking and attend places of worship for close to 80% of their lives. The latter are also not amenable to geographic consolidation; you can't build one parking lot for entire medium sized city, but you might be able to only have one secondary school.
It's interesting that this is a popular enough sentiment to be a pattern.
Kraken is notorious for trades occurring at non-representative prices across a variety of assets. This happens any time someone places a large limit order and there's not enough liquidity at "reasonable prices" to fill it.
Yet has decidedly more 'fall on my head in event of an earthquake' potential than stick building, in my part of the world. Different building materials have trade offs.

Plus, how many residences (other than chic converted factory lofts I guess) even have bare brick and mortar interiors?
Ahh, I see what you mean. That way if USDC collapses, I would lose just the amount it was over-collateralized by. If USDT completely collapses but USDC does not, I would gain the amount I was short USDT.

This is more interesting. Thanks for explaining it.
> What is the best way for me to start doing remote work?

send out resumes.

hiring is so hot that if you can do the work, nothing in your history besides "embezzler, intellectual property thief & saboteur" would slow you down much.
> In terms of transportation infrastructure the USA is behind countries like Kazakhstan and Morocco.

I admit I haven’t visited Morocco in 20 years, but based on what I witnessed traveling through the country, this seems incredibly unlikely.

A few major, shiny, “prestige” infrastructure projects don’t represent the average state of their infrastructure.
Even then, google likes to link to a twitter account (that is, main account) of some random person who reposted the image three months ago instead of the actual tweet, or author's twitter, or anything usable
The underlying limitation though is that this is only literally true of FORTH code that is literally repeating itself - identical sequences of tokens. As soon as you start pervasively using stack manipulation ops to deal with more structured kinds of data and control than what's involved in very simple programs, this property becomes rather less useful.
> In its heyday Wikileaks was lauded by the left mainly because it provided evidence that the US did “bad things”.

That's because it's a valuable service. Look, I'd love it if sunshine could shine equally into all corners of the world, but if an ideologically impure weirdo with bad hygiene and some vile sexual habits wants to shine sunshine just into my own country's dark corners.... then fine!

I want my country to live up to its own ideals, and that requires making everyone aware of when it doesn't. Justice isn't a zero-sum international game of tit-for-tat.
I can trade in and profit off of snake oil, and there are lots of snake oil salespeople around the world - but it’s still snake oil at the end of the day.
Similar problem eventually. I'm an SDE in the Seattle area, I won't work for Amazon specifically because of the hire-to-fire practices. I saw that at MS back in the day I don't need to put myself through that... Generally speaking I get at least 2-5 contacts a month on linkedin trying to hire for amazon.
In c and assembly the terms reference and pointer are sometimes used interchangeably. An lval is a reference to a value, * is the dereference operator, and so forth. I don't know the spec admittedly but I've seen the terms used interchangeably in compiler code and documentation. I think c++ began distinguishing between and defining references as distinct from pointers, and java removed explicit pointers entirely and generates them and dereferences them automatically for objects.
surely it's evidence that someone thinks it is probably true, enough to put in a lawsuit without the judge throwing it out for wasting their time
Why are you criticizing the left for only caring about corruption from the opposing political side but Assange gets a pass for only caring about corruption from the opposing political side?

The truth is only being anti-corruption when your opponent is corrupt and ignoring corruption from your allies is itself a form of corruption.
There was a short spike of CHFPLN on Forex few years ago: exchange rate went from less than 4.00 PLN to 5.50 PLN, because of Swiss central bank decision to not stabilize it anymore. Some people made a lot of money (or so they thought). Few days later the broker declared that spike "a technical glitch" and they cancelled all the trades.

The moral of the story is: your exchange will always find a way to screw you.
> history shows that every single global conflict

Er, not to be pissy, but isn't that a sample size of two?
Most software doesn’t live very long, and opportunity costs can be huge. For every Minecraft ported to every platform there are several Atari 2600 games that nobody cared about.

Creating emulators today is vastly better use of resources than anyone writing ancient console games considering long term portability issues.
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I think a lot of that distinction turns on how well your network data is linked to your identity. In the case of Mullvad, you can pay them anonymously by putting cash in an envelope and just mailing it to them,[1] which lowers the trust factor involved.

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/pricing/
> but if I recall correctly it's plainly against the law for them to do this.

Yes, though technically no. IIRC it is against the letter of the law to make it harder to opt out than to opt in. So this behaviour would be fine if it was at least as painful to opt in.

> Websites continue to do it because they're fully aware that enforcement is laughable.

Pretty much.
More importantly, it's just wrong. Large objects are not converted to references, they're passed on the stack.

¹ §5.4 https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ihi0055/b/
Given the choice, Trump pardoned rappers and war criminals but not him. A man that did more to expose the swamp than anyone. Was Trump just rhetoric, and bolster with no backbone. Other then twitter trolling, what exactly did he accomplish.
I agree. You want the excessively-serious, unpleasant ones to reject you ASAP and the fun ones to warm-up to you.
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This is surely a solution to a problem that doesn't exist? If you are in an area where a friend is, you text them and ask if they are up for a coffee. Or is it for meeting up with strangers? In which case you have a certain momentum to reach before there are enough users to make it attractive.
Simulation of course, but I'll submit this video for your consideration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K8LGTwy6Zw

To sum up the conclusion of the several-hour video series: the Aegis Combat System is essentially impenetrable to all but the most overwhelming of forces.
i switched to a self-hosted searx instance and it was way better than ddg for me, although i do still have to switch to google in very rare cases
I’m not an American so I may have a different perspective on it than you, but is Hillary Clinton the left?

From my perspective she sort of make Margret Tatcher look like a socialist.

I do think most of us were fooled by wikileaks because it starter out being against the Iraq war. This was before snowden, back when people weren’t actually being serious when they joked about echelon listening in on us. It was also back when we, at least in Europe, figures that Russia was going to be our friend and it was sort of pre-information war. Apparently the information was was already well on its way, but we didn’t really know, and we didn’t take anyone who warned us serious. Us being the general public.

It was also a world where everything surrounding American politics, and to some extend all western politics, wasn’t always this us/them, left/right, blue/red nonsense that it is today. Anyone, from the most conservative to the most liberal who watched the wikileaks leaks on the journalist and the children being killed by drones (or maybe it was far away airplanes) were appalled by it, because it was simply appalling and back then, people cared more about wrong/right than their “team” looking good.

So I think it is understandable that people bought into wikileaks being genuine but these days… well… let’s just say that the west still hasn’t recovered from in the war on truthful information and that we are still struggling with trust issues and all the wonderful things like flat-earth, anti-vaccine and what not stupidity that’s running ever more rampant in our society. Among other things, because people like Assange showed us why we shouldn’t trust our institutions.
Why would they kill the golden goose though? Think of how much money they could be making by simply holding deposits...
Why low-code tools will not result in 80% of software being created by 2024
This goes against the basic experience of most people that went through the 80’s and remember how basically everything in their living room was made in the US including the TV from Western Electric Co.

While statistically, it may be true, literally 99% items in my house are made in China. Paint on the walls is probably still made in US.

Small business and manufacturing industry statistics would be interesting to evaluate here without the rhetoric “Where do people get this myth from?” - daily experience of millions of people does not align with reality of 30 years ago. That’s why.
Quite frankly she doesn’t come across as very smart, and certainly not very technologically sophisticated. The idea that you run into a problem and use Google to solve it hardly constitutes skill development.

It is interesting that they’re hiring based on job boards. I don’t know how normal gangs recruit but I’d guess it’s a lot of word of mouth. It seems when there are real honest alternatives out there for skilled labor, that you need to go to the public will also be an Achilles’ heel.
> And you know this how exactly?

The less time you spend engaging with HN's right-wing and alt-right trolls the better off you will be...
Inferior fleshlings lay before me... as barely breathing hunks of meat

With the blood of Unicron in my veins, I reign like a god

A god amongst insects

I have existed from the morning of the universe

And I shall exist until the last star falls from the night

My ultimate peace would be granted by the destruction of all life, stars and nebulae

Leaving only nothingness and void

Although I have taken the form of this machine

I am all men as I am no man

And therefore

I am a god

Even in death there is no command but mine

Your race is of no consequence

Laserbeak...

Kill them all
> If it comes with any forced Google stuff or telemetry, it is disqualified before it even made an impact.

Seems like the best strategy is to not do these kind of things until wide adoption. Microsoft, Apple and even some Linux distros did such things.
This is a rough explanation of the "generations of warfare" where our tactics are defined by the tools and weapons we have available. Unfortunately, we (humans, not just the US) tend to then treat those as the "right" tactics even as the underlying tools and weapons change so we're always fighting the last war.

Cheap, autonomous, easily-deployed tools - weapons drones, sensors, etc - are a huge change that some are adapting to leverage but few have adapted to respond to.

Which is scary considering the "generations of warfare" model where in fourth generation warfare, the boundary between civilian and combatant is blurred..