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You asked why, I told you

If you dont understand that market then you will keep adding irrelevant conditions

None of the crypto products offer those yields for very long, there are enough different products that capital can keep moving between them to sustain a given rate to investors

Whatever is being offered - from the legitimate services - is not different than what banks had been doing with customer deposits

Like I said, WHY people pile into any particular custodial solution is because they cant or don't want to discern

If you want to debate about the skepticism that should have been lobbed at a compounding version it doesnt add anything to the discussion

Outside of crypto nowhere is offering 10% on anything over really any time period, inside of crypto services are offering 1000% of percent briefly with any managed solution being able to give 10% comfortably, it would be easy to make slightly more enticing accounting and easy for an investor to not be able to discern which tweak is the bad one. Many people also just like high yield investment schemes and plan to get out before the mathematical impossibility rears itself
Lobbying groups often write the laws, politicians then just put them up for the vote unchanged. At least if we're talking about the US.
Former Olympian Says Trans Athletes Will ‘Knock Women Out of Sport’
For me the difference is in emphasis, if I read it out loud

"Everything does not need" emphasises everything.

"Not everything needs" emphases not.

It's subtle, and probably subconscious, but it has an effect.
> Gitmo is specifically not on US soil to avoid dealing with US laws.

“Camp Delta at Gitmo is used...” is more accurate here than “Gitmo is specifically not on US soil...”; Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950) was not a motivating factor in securing the lease at Guatanamo Bay (in 1903) but was a factor in siting the temporary (Camp X-Ray) and later permanent (Camp Delta) detention facilities for War on Terror detainees there.
> Why should someone "come out" as anything?

"When are you going to find a good girl to marry?"

"Mom, I'm gay".

For example.
> 0,08% or 0,0008

Where are those numbers from?

> For example, eight percent is equal to 800 basis points.

Correct. 800 bp = 8% = 0.08 = 8e-2, as in your example there (different than the numbers in the linked article).

Also, 8 bp = 0.08% = 0.0008 = 8e-4, as in the numbers you gave at the top (different than the numbers in the linked article).

Also, 0.08 bp = 0.0008% = 0.000008 = 8e-6, as I’ve pointed out (and corresponding to the numbers in the linked article:

> ACH fraud is extremely low at 0.08 basis points, or 8 cents for every $10,000 in payments.

Note that 8 cents are $0.08.)
> The government writes the laws, the people elect them.

Yes I remember when I still believed this.

Funny thing is this is demonstrably false, as in you can try to study the correlation between voter's opinions and legislation (and find virtually no correlation) and the correlation between opinions of the 1% and legislation (orders of magnitude better correlation).
> He claimed that he gifted laptops to the Belizean government pre-loaded with spyware and alleged to have found evidence that multiple top officials were engaged in drug and human trafficking.

So he was looking to take out his competitors? Because he boasted of having sold 25KG of psychotropics in the previous year, so let's not mistake him for some vigilante.
TBH on asp.net you pretty much just follow a tutorial and you have signup, auth and users pretty quick. Let’s say this is 4 hours work for a programmer but .net newbie to set up a new project, add authentication including email/password and Google and get that deployed to azure. 4 hours from a business is a tiny amount of time. The upside over no code is owning the code and not being reliant on a dozen other indie startups for your business to continue to run
This is rather unusual; looks almost like a hit job by someone who was pissed by another post on the blog but didn't want to reveal their identity...
"Although the film is not officially part of the German training and education system for forklift trucks, it is frequently shown by instructors to lighten the mood."

I was born in the wrong country.
Seems highly unlikely to me (a Google engineer who works on systems that use Zanzibar / Cloud IAM) that this is a result of anything other than a change in policy.
This isn't a hypothetical; it's already happened. Look up the case of Karen White in the UK.
Given the data we have now, you’re right— if humans were rational we’d be focusing topics that affect the masses. Using minority groups (BLM, LGBT, Immigration, etc.) as shields for larger agendas is an effective defense strategy.
That sounds like you are not contesting that it's a slur.

You just think the slurred party deserves it.
I don't know how Google does their salary, but a lot of big corps do salary bands by level, and when the 2x a year (one of which might not be advertised) company adjustments come up, they determine merit based rases and then adjust to try to tighten the bands. So if you're underpaid, you'll probably get a bigger raise than otherwise and if you're overpaid, your raise will be adjusted down.

You might not ever catch up to someone who started higher (and certainly won't for the integral of compensation), but the gap should narrow over time.
You describe one possible situation, let me imagine a different one. I say that I like going by Mike, and you keep making a point of always referring to me as Michael even when it doesn't really make sense to go full formal. After multiple months of it, I kinda get tired of this and decide to accept offer from another company and tell our boss that. When they ask me why I want to leave I'll be sure to mention that, and maybe they'll evaluate our productivity and decide it's better for business to just fire you instead. See how different those two situations are even thought the premise is the same?
The alternative, that Google doesn't delete stuff that people want deleted, is worse. They can't win either way.
I'd bet my entire net worth you've never even met the guy you're so confident you know enough about to drag his name through the mud.
I think the mobile situation is a bit different.

People who depend on e.g. WhatsApp to communicate with friends and family simply won't switch to a phone that doesn't run WhatsApp.

Those messaging apps (or apps like Uber/Lyft) in particular have network effect (i.e. the decision is not solely your own) and a new entrant for the phone hardware has to support those apps (hence the Blackberry's decision to be Android compatible) or they are dead on arrival.

I don't think there are many apps that people depend on on Windows or Mac in the same way people depend on WhatsApp or Uber on their phone.

Sure, people in certain occupations may need to use Windows/Mac-only apps, but there's plenty of people who don't use them.

I run Linux Mint on my laptop (and have for years) because there's no Windows or Mac apps I personally want to run. This is thanks largely to (a) webapps (e.g. Google Docs), and (b) cross platform dev tools that made e.g. VSCode, Brave, etc possible (which doesn't exist for phones outside Android/iOS), and (c) me not being a gamer.
> this benefits "the rich" is so far as "the rich" are shareholders of these companies

The rich are the shareholders of companies. According to the Department of Labor's survey of consumer finances, the wealthiest 1% own 38% of stock. The wealthiest 5% own 71% of stock. The bottom half of the country owns 1% of the stock.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/upshot/stocks-pandemic-in...

> It doesn't benefit "the rich" to have a poor population, if anything it makes the rich more vulnerable.

That means after a company does its capital investments, the rich would prefer money going to wages over profits. The opposite has been the case for past centuries (not that they never lose the battle).

It may be dialectically self-destructive, but so is the arms race with Russia (and China), so is increasing carbon production. Russia's czar in the early 20th century had self-destructive properties as well.
Fauci’s NIAID institution directly sponsored coronavirus research in Wuhan lab suspected in the leak (via more than $800k in grants in 2015-2019).

They are probably as interested as Chinese government in downplaying the role of this lab in the Covid outbreak.
I'd be on Borland C version 35.0
You left out the INEVITABLE real time deep learning based nudificafion mode where someone can choose whether or not your clothing exists in their reality.

Classically Augmented reality has been just to add things to the visual perception of the world that were not there but with advancements in various geometry manipulative neural networks and processing power creating new things will probably take a back seat to visually changing what is already there.

Also as facial recognition becomes a much more public and available technology we are going to see AR net platforms emerge that allow people to “rate” and “comment” on other people which will be something permanently and publicly associated with their biometric geometry. The potential for offensive and unremovable graffiti and reputation sabotage is extremely high.

Needless to say there are significant and negative real world implications for this and other similar emerging technologies which will cause major social conundrums which have not yet had to be considered.

One issue with these things is the only method for doing anything about it is legislation. AR and VR can be just considered just a significant extension of what we call the human imagination although there is one major difference, this imagination can be shared with anyone whereas ones imagination is available exclusively to the individual.
That may have been true, but these days can't you just put the video on S3 or any storage and play it using the <video> tag?
> Powerful forces seek to manipulate impressionable minds and make them question their own gender.

To what end?
> By allowing the author to hide behind anonymity it reveals The Economist's biases and their stake in the debate by asserting that "terf is a slur" and representing "gender critical" ideologies as "mainstream."

Why do you wish the author was named--so you can have their head? You sound like the people in the article trying to stifle debate
RIP McAfee. You're a testament to the concept in which many intelligent people find a windfall of success but face the dark void of "what now?" While many like you have flamed out into drugs and mental illness, few have made it so public. May the people you so gravely hurt also find peace.
> 1) law enforcement takes decisive action to detain the perpetrators, and 2) organizers think the violence no longer serves their political goals. Both 1) and 2) were true of the Capitol insurrection, which was universally condemned

1) The law enforcement has a track record of glad handling the far right. 2) many prominent right wing media and political figures tried blaming the insurrection on antifa, are blocking any investigations, and are justifying the event and the big lie that created it.

I don’t think most people who aren’t supporters of right wing viewpoints will agree with your assessments.
Tax evasion isn't victimless. It is a civic duty to pay into the system that you benefit directly from. Freedom isn't free.

Tax evasion is theft from the public. Tax evaders steal from you.
How about being a murderer?
I mean 1860 is when the civil war happened, possibly the worst time in American history. And the 70s were the end of Vietnam, another terrible time. Cynical elites have been apart of American history at every point between those two dates. I don’t think you can pick a time where America was really great or perfect. The only real example I can think of is the end of WW2 where American industry accounted for a staggering 50% of the world’s industrial output.
An outcome where 30 strategic B voters win over 70 unstrategic A voters is one I would expect VSE to rate very poorly. That is not a value judgement, and is directly related to the outcome.
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I think very little history is about passing judgment on historical figures.
I think it stems from privilege.

Trans women are seen as seeking female privileges (like the ability to compete against women in sports, which is easier than competing against men). Which enrages some people.

Trans men are seen as giving up their female privileges, to which everyone shrugs and says "you want less privilege? Fine by me!"
Absolutely. It starts to get a little too deep down the rabbit hole for me saying that Ivermeticin being withheld is the "crime of the century" and that it isn't being used because it isn't patented and so there is no financial incentive to use it. It's a bold claim which I don't know how well is supported. But he deserves his uncensored say, especially since the whole lab-leak hypothesis debacle. Big Tech has acted shamefully in all of this. It is increasingly clear now.
Yep, but there are price points where it starts being worth costs. If you want to hire a team of 10 engineers (mix of junior/mid/senior) at an average FTE cost of $150k and are struggling to do it in the US, and could probably make it happen at $200k - $250k, the looking at hiring 10 engineers in another country for $80-$120k and hiring another 3-4 local engineers/managers at $250k to manage the coordination inefficiencies still probably comes out ahead.

You still need to hire (or get a vendor that hires) good developers or you'll be screwed though. I was burnt by some bad Indian outsourcing earlier in my career, but since then have worked with excellent firms from India, Ukraine and Columbia. But we paid top of market (for the foreign market) rates for that value.
To be fair the population was pre-filtered for bitcoin enthusiasts
I don't think it will be possible maybe some ELIZA type interaction in the future you could come up with a virtual Harkness Table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harkness_table

The purpose of the small class size discussions and methods similar to Harkness is to teach children how to behave and interact in group discussion. You are taught mental poker with an authority figure and your cohort. I can see the value of this especially for children that will need to supervise their wealth once they become adults. It's a great way to prepare someone to supervise a family office.

I believe learning the short duration decision games and long duration meta game with professor and class inculcates people predisposed to lead and inspire/manipulate.

You need a physical setting to learn this on a daily basis over several years. Even if you are not good at it; if you recognize what is going on you won't waste time in dead end careers or partnerships with elites. That is very valuable...

It's kind of funny. When people ask me which college they should send their kid to, I always reply better to spend their money on one of these types of private high schools or boarding schools. One of these kids and a community college degree will still be better off than most... (most likely they will find a way to continue the credential game, so...)

Will the American oligarchy provide these opportunities to the general public? Never... it's costly and time consuming. They need people that submit to quarterly reviews, 0-5% raises, and tenuous year end bonuses.

Maybe we should have a FAFSA for high school...
I know I would be an impeccably safe forklift operator after watching Klaus' training video. :)
This is true. I notice that practically all Californians I meet have a deep knowledge of Middle English and have studied Chaucer extensively. They even pronounce 'Chaucer' correctly, which is very rare globally.

Comments like this are why I love Hacker News.
But you're not just calling people by the wrong gender, you're acting as a gender authority and upholding the laws and restrictions against trans people that the authorities put in place. Look at it from a trans person's perspective and it's clear that their struggle is a clash with authority. If your company forbids you from creating a toxic work environment for trans people then that is an extremely minor brush with authority compared to what trans people endure.
Had a net worth of several hundred million in a country where the cost of living was 23% of the US might not be a "megayacht and private 787" lifestyle, but it would do pretty well.

He owed a lot of money in back taxes because he made a point of specifically refusing to pay them, not inability to do so.
This sort of non-reasoning is all too common now in partisan news sources. They project opinions out to their viewers without any reasoning or supporting evidence. You've spotted a good example on the left. The right does it too with all sorts of racism and antifa nonsense. Oh and apparently the election was stolen. All around our political climate over the last 20 years has gotten progressively more insane and tribalistic.

Another poster in another thread once said that during the Bush and Obama years, safeguards against misleading the US public with counterintelligence ops were removed. I feel like that must have something to do with the explosive growth of the partisan-bullshit-drama-news business. The obvious factors in changing news media are the internet and social media, but I don't think that fully explains the widening divide and eager abandonment of objective reality.
Human brains seem really good at these things, just like they're good at for example recognizing faces. Perhaps it has something to do with evolutionary pressure for our survival?
Ok but AFAICT the US government didn't make him look like a loon nor did they hound him relentlessly because he was a loon. They hounded him relentlessly to pay his taxes which is easily resolved by paying taxes, something even loons are capable of.

> The US Justice Department alleged that McAfee evaded tax liability by having his income paid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts in the names of nominees. He was also accused of concealing assets, including a yacht and real estate property, also in other people's names.

> In recent years, McAfee repeatedly claimed that there was a plot to get him - however the [Spanish National] court said there was "no revealing evidence" that he was being prosecuted for political or ideological reasons, El Pais reported.
I, for one, would be quite sad to see Linux on Github. An open source alternative, and preferably one without the political baggage and MS-backing of Github, would be a better fit.
Article says he didn't file for four years.
My bad, I was confused with another project. I can't edit it now.
coperate video training platforms are mega dumpster fires caked in the legacy user experience crust you would expect.youtube ends up being the best, most user friendly platform for companies to upload videos to. not to mention its free so "why spend money on this platform or spin up resources for self-hosted infra when this is free?"
Honestly I have been doing this with all kinds of content, if I ever reference it to make a point, use it to understand a topic, etc I have a local backup of the video, webpage etc.

Too many times I have gone back to reference something only for the site to be dead, or the user been banned from the platform.
The gender critical are not policing trans identity; rather, trans-activists are doing the policing of gender expression by loudly insisting that any kind of socially non-normative gender expression should be seen as tantamount to and ipso facto equated with some sort of trans identity. Your own reference to "gender fluidity" as tantamount to a separate identity rather than a characteristics that all humans may share to a lesser or greater extent, is an especially clear example of this. Need I point out how this policing may be harmful to non-heteronormatively-expressing folks?
I can completely understand how frustrating the situation can be - I am extremely supportive of trans rights but I also feel like that decision starts at adulthood. Puberty blockers seem like a really good way to compromise on that point since doors are being kept open but no decision is being fully committed to.

Being a teenager is really confusing to begin with, and the last thing children need is more ways to categorize and divide people into clumps.
This is going to be a good test of my rule that any project with "libre" in the name -- except, as my astute colleague pointed out, libreadline -- is doomed to failure.
This is a pretty ignorant response. There are many ways to judge a vaccine than its effectiveness. There are also side effects. And its pretty standard for people to get the "Pfizer-flu". That's a pretty major downside to a vaccine. And as well, we don't know the long-term health impacts. There may be heart issues related to taking the vaccine. We have to wait until the data comes in.
I think fault implies intention, so I wouldn't call it fault. It's just a conflict of life goals and personal properties that no one particularly chose to have.

Though I also approve of the intention of GP to understand the situation from their parents' perspective.
nit: I can't find source material indicating these were actually industry events. The article mentions they are, but that's just twitter "journalism". If you are at a happy hour the Friday night on the first day of a conference, is that a work event? Probably depends on who you ask and their bias.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what you or I think about Noah's behavior. We would probably come to the same conclusion, you and I, if we were sitting on a jury together presented with facts. Neither of us want sexual assault to go unpunished. The point of my initial comment is that I don't think society benefits from extrajudicial groups and I do not consider firing someone, even if the mob was right, appropriate justice. If Noah is guilty of sexual harassment, that's a serious crime and he should be treated as a criminal. As a society we have mechanisms in place to handle these situations. A twitter shitfest is not the appropriate mechanism.
I've also seen advancement as a cover for "unfair advancement of others."

Which is sometimes the trigger for leaving: "why did they get the promotion when I have been-here-longer/work-harder/do-better-work?"
But why does having an army fail these countries?
Is China known to be individualistic?
Don't expect your bank app and other common non-FOSS apps to ever work on Anbox. The problem is that more and more Android apps are requiring the device to pass SafetyNet. Not only will Anbox not pass SafetyNet, but even de-Googled Android ROMs like LineageOS have generally lost this war.

Generally supporters of FOSS phones who have to run an Android bank app or their country’s official ID app which is SafetyNet and Play Services-dependent, are encouraged to simply get a cheap Android phone for those limited purposes. Not to expect the PinePhone or Librem to run such apps.
fake news: inaccurate thermometers in urban heat island
It's funny you should say this because the truth is different, it's a lot less monolithic and centralized than you think.

Here is a report titled "Understanding china's political system"

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41007.pdf
That’s not how China works. Source, my Wife is Chinese and her father is a retired CCP member.

Local officials are highly corrupt and also are terrified something they are responsible for will come to the attention of the central leadership in a bad way. Thus they will bodge things for personal gain against the policies of the central leadership, and will try to ensure the central leadership don’t hear about things they very much want to hear about.

This is a terribly high risk strategy, but it’s the only one that actually works. That’s the problem with corrupt bureaucracies.

Of course once central leadership is aware of a situation they can mobilise vast resources and have absolute power to impose whatever strategy they choose. Anything or anyone in the way gets flattened. This is now happening in Hong Kong.