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> It's a bit like asking people not to use the Gregorian calendar in places that are not predominantly Christian.

I think it is different in that numbering years is useful, and we need to have an agreed starting point, and by historical accident we've all adopted an estimated (likely slightly incorrect) birth year for the founder of one of the world's major religions. It is hard to pick a culturally-neutral starting point – astronomers sometimes use the Julian period starting at 4713 BCE, but while that is more religiously neutral it still isn't culturally neutral. (It is based partially on astronomy, but also partly on the taxation cycle of the ancient Roman Empire, and that's still Western-centric.)

By contrast, applying names to periods of time is far less useful and far less portable across cultures. The 1800s looked very different in different parts of the world, but it was the same 100 year span everywhere. And we only do this for a handful of historical periods anyway (most seem to be named after British monarchs – Victorian, Georgian, Edwardian, etc). Applying those period names to places outside the British Empire is a bit like applying Japanese era names to European history. The whole thing of historical era names seems to be somewhat dying anyway – references to decades (the 1990s, the 1920s, etc) seems more popular in discussing more recent history – the Elizabethan era was in the 16th and very early 17th century, not in the 20th and early 21st.

> We have to adapt our language to the person we are communicating with, and if they are familiar with the time frame associated with Queen Victoria, I can see how it makes sense to use it. We could refer to the period of Isabella II of Spain, but they wouldn't understand us, so it would be rather pointless.

"mid-to-late 19th century" covers roughly the same timeframe, and everyone knows what that is.
> Really made me realize that sometimes simple, trivial things that everyone takes as fact really cannot be trusted.

One I've noticed is "Einstein was super smart" when a simpler theory is "Einstein didn't cite prior work so everyone thought he did it."
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In Firefox, File -> Save Page As... lets me do this. Local search tools should be able to index such archives (if they can index Word documents, they should be able to index HTML). Seems a fairly solved problem if it's something you need?
I'd be more interested in hearing about the terms of the Qualcomm deal. Is Qualcomm putting its eggs in the Intel basket for 2025 or has Intel reached an agreement with Qualcomm that Qualcomm will buy from them if it fits Qualcomm's needs and it's ready in time?

If the agreement is "Qualcomm will send some of its business Intel's way," that isn't a huge vote of confidence. Heck, are we talking about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8xx series or just some Qualcomm chips like the ones they put in WiFi routers? Or their low-end Snapdragon 4xx series?

The article is kinda spinning it as "Intel will be making the Qualcomm chips going into everyone's phones," but it could be more "Qualcomm is going to have Intel manufacture its low-end stuff which is always behind tech-wise and Intel is giving them a big discount because Intel needs a win."

> In the chip world where smaller is better, Intel previously used names that alluded to the size of features in "nanometers". But over time the names used by chipmakers became arbitrary marking terms... This, he said, gave the mistaken impression that Intel was less competitive.

They are definitely less competitive at this point. Nanometers might not be the right measurement, but one can measure transistor density. Maybe that would make more sense?

Even if "Intel 7" (10nm Enhanced SuperFin) is equivalent to TSMC's 7nm, we saw TSMC's 7nm back in 2018. I have a TSMC 5nm in my pocket. I guess if Intel can keep to its road map, it will catch up. If "Intel 4" comes out with products in early 2023, it won't be far behind TSMC's 3nm process (which will likely debut in the 2022 iPhone).

Of course, we'll have to see how well these Intel chips perform. We should be able to benchmark Intel 7 processors with Alder Lake processors landing later this year. Will these stand up well against AMD's 7nm Zen 2/3? Will they stand up against AMD's upcoming 5nm Zen 4? I guess we'll be able to test Intel's chips against what AMD has been shipping and see how well Intel 7 stands up against both 7nm and 5nm processes.
But you can do the same thing with six or eight weeks too, there's something to be said for being a sustained presence to draw people in.

The draw of the olympics is the four year achievement, almost regardless of sport. There are so many of the competitions that could be hyped up far better than they are, and more room for backstories and more room for competition.

I think NBC will punt the olympics pretty soon because of the cost, so we'll see.

That combined with the cost of hosting and a dearth of bidding cities, corrections are coming.

What also mystifies me is that the governing bodies for the main olympic sports don't coordinate their world championships to be in the same period in off years. They could probably capture a much larger percentage of olympic voters if the swimming and track and field champs and gymnastics champs were all scheduled close together and with awareness of each other's schedules.
Knowing and using a thing and proving it are (usually) different skills.
Just because it's transparent doesn't mean there aren't latent exploits, e.g. the DAO. Open source doesn't mean bug free, and having those bugs immutably etched into the blockchain where all your money is tied up is pretty terrifying!
My impression of the Victorian era is that the British Empire dominated world affairs for most of that period, making them a natural centre of attention for historians of that period.

You don’t have to look too long before the Victorian era to find an era where France is the undisputed center of attention in Western history.
Actually, yes it does sound plausible. Doesn't mean the scientists there were even aware of the intention. Do you really expect the CIA or a black budget agency to build a lab in America with giant letters that say "Biological Weapons Research"?
Yeah. If they were interested in speculating using Bitcoin, they would just buy Bitcoin, instead of essentially letting their end customers decide, wouldn't they?
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> Show me someone who loves office life and being around people who are forced to be together, and I will show you someone with a perverse addiction to confict. When extroversion becomes immoderate, they become masochists who crave attention and interpersonal intensity. As a result, whenever someone tells me they are a "people person," I give them a wide berth because I remember the advice I was given as a young boy which was, "you are what you eat."

I'm quite surprised that this is a large part of the top comment. I'm not an extrovert but I love office life, despite its flaws. The primary flaws of office life for me are:

1. Commute. Currently not a problem but it will be in the future for me.
2. Open plan offices are the norm and make focusing more difficult.
3. Slight more difficulty in eating home-cooked food as if you aren't organised, you end up buying lunch rather than cooking at home.

I don't think I have a perverse addiction to conflict.

Major advantages of working in an office include:

1. I work more productively usually. The environment helps me focus, rather than goof off.
2. It is much easier to have impromptu coffee and lunch conversations and interesting discussions, both work related and otherwise. This increases team social bonding and speeds up knowledge transfer.
3. The people I work with in the office regularly are easier to relate to and think well of than faces online.
Debunked, see study mentioned in https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49746060
I doubt they're getting into mining, their AWS product is in hosted ledgers and things like that: https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/
The space certainly seems full of Ponzi schemes and rug pulls. This article spends a lot of words carefully dodging around that.
NSA's encryption trickery means little when the "secured" system isn't actually turned on. You still need to count things even when they are not in use, especially when they are in long term storage.
Not without destroying trust in AWS
And it doesn't mean we have to keep it, either. It helps to research the particular scenario and find out whether there's a better path than the one we default into.
Probably should be “Vote with your ${CURRENCY:-USD}”.
> keyword "ℕ" cannot be used as an identifier

It looks to me like the guy has an outbreak of reservedkeyworditis the language that he's trying to handwave around with some talking point about sets versus type.

But a syntax error of a reserved keyword being used in some phrase structure that calls for a a non-reserved identifier doesn't have anything to do with type semantics.

The phrase structure of the A ⊆ B syntax could allow B to be certain keywords, such as ℕ, which is treated as a set in that context in the appropriate way (via an implicit conversion or whatever).

We know what A ⊆ N means; what the programmer is asking. The requirement is not unclear. Moreover, it is doable. The question is do you do that, or not.
That may be a fair criticism of the naming. My point was more that it doesn't make sense to be called cryptocurrency, and less that it's the true next progression of the web.

With regards to the cash outs, I think there's probably an argument to be made about web 1.0 and 2.0 companies that were highly unprofitable with no way to ever become profitable. There were investors propping up companies with bad fundamentals, IPO'ing, cashing out, and in the end the tech bubble pops and takes down the market and retail investors with it. Crypto definitely does it more quickly and violently, but it's not a crypto specific phenomenon.
Yeah, the idea that Jeff Bezos is going to pull an exit scam on the entire bitcoin ecosystem is ridiculous. He already has all the money.
Fake supercentenarians have been used by multiple governments in the past to glorify their lifestyle. USSR did the same, claiming that Shirali Muslimov reached 168. China also has fake "longevity villages" that draw some tourism.
Or extremely right, considering we now live in a world of walled gardens and user choice and repair-ability has diminished in large part because of Apple.

I think he/she means that Tesla, like Apple, has a cult following in which people can't see the company doing any wrong or facing any criticism when it comes to its products or repercussions for what it will do to the industry down the line.
Jesus. Joking not allowed on Hackernews. Thanks for the downvotes.

You know, before emojis we had these things called smilies, which are composed of several different characters to express some intent.
It works like this ;) - aka wink wink, I'm not serious.
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Gregorian calendar was directly adopted in many places. It is still Gregorian calendar in France as is Ming vase sitting in a museum in New York. Arabic numerals used on Space Station do not stop being arabic just because there is no Arab in sight.
I read up on this when the article first came out, and what really stood out was the way the supports of Calment's claim / debunkers of the new theory would ignore how their supposed evidence did or did not fit in. IIRC, the Guinness authenticator talked a lot about how they authenticated the birth records and other types of records, which is irrelevant to this particular claim.
> It’s fairly obvious that in a country where citizens are free to be armed, police must be armed too

Even granting that for the sake of argument, it is less obvious that government-public interactions not for the purposes of arresting criminals or otherwise responding to or preventing apparent actual or imminent crime need to involve police.
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It's a Ponzi scheme built upon a Ponzi scheme.

Ethereum (and whatever other chains support smart contracts) literally only exist as a platform upon which to build Ponzi schemes.

Sorry but I can't do anything with DeFi. It's just juggling more crypto around. I've had multiple tell me I can get a loan on it but this is just False for any practical reason. I can't say get a loan for a car and use the car itself as collateral like I can do at literally any bank. I have to put up 100% of collateral in crypto. It blows my mind that there are people on this site who are proponents of DeFi in its current form.
That's pretty much the answer I expected but I had to ask anyway. Thanks.
The AASP got the part from Apple, but charged me 600 NZD and the parts look shanzhai (blurry printing on the cells, wrong PCB date code).

Apple Support confirmed the order number is a genuine Apple part. Makes me worry about Apple's own supply chain quality.

The AASP also did a pretty shoddy job at repairing: the case screws were in the wrong positions, and the logic board was seated badly so I couldn't plug in USB. I just spent an hour this morning reseating the logic board myself.
code comment in the readme describes the Record as constituting an 'interverted index'. typo for inverted? although it is not obvious to me what would make this an inverted index instead of a normal index
"Society would be better if instead of investing in popular things we dictated what should be popular to invest in"
"Cryptocurrency" is really an outdated name. Most of these don't claim to be currencies and aren't trying to replace standard money. Even bitcoin has pivoted to be a store of wealth with scarcity built in, akin to gold. Very few really think it should/will become a true replacement for typical currency at this point.

Edit: They do become a very valid replacement for a store of wealth in less stable economies however. Venezuela has seen a lot of utility from Bitcoin since their currency is even more volatile than Bitcoin is. You could imagine the quantity of countries that applies to grows as Bitcoin (or another coin) gets more adoption and it's price becomes less volatile. Particularly things like stable coins, which are pinned to the US dollar (1 stable coin effectively always equals $1).
Wasn't Qualcomm announced as a 20A customer?
OP says of growth in DeFI value: " I think it’s primarily driven from new entrants and solving problems." New entrants==Ponzi scheme. Also many fallacies about finance are stated as fact.
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I'm not an op, but to me trucks indeed look stupid. Cybertruck looks more like an SUV.
I fail to see how this is at all relevant to whether or not we should return to in person work. If the Bay Area truly is unlivable, that strikes me as a local political concern. A place with that much wealth surely could have built more housing, infrastructure, etc, but the local population chose not to. Either vote with your feet or live with the consequences of the life you and your neighbors chose.
I know someone (a little) who is a grandmaster. He obtained the title maybe around age 17 (+/- 2y) after doing it basically full-time through his youth, with strong family support, after showing strong promise at age 3. I'm pretty sure he and his family are glad of it, and it was a lot of work. His brothers and father are also very good at chess and have taught (rated, but not IMs I think).

I'm very glad (AFAIK) he didn't have to abuse his body etc to get to that point. That doesn't seem worth it.
> rehiring a lot of other veteran former employees who were involved in many of their historical successes is certainly a good sign

They certainly are trying to get the band back together. I see little reason this means they can turn around a huge beast.
If people find value in baseball cards, I don't see what is wrong with allowing poor nations to grow their wealth with crypto.
Why has nobody done this in a legit/safe way yet? How hard is it to create the equivalent of Tether with 100% independent auditors from the start that verify the coins are backed by real fiat?
I don't disagree there's some cool technology, and in particular in the DeFi space - the problem is it's all fruit of the poison tree at the moment. It's all dependent on price action and the price action is dependent on Tether, on sketchy exchanges, on crime and criminality, on 125X leverage, on manipulation.

And of course, there's so many problems with smart contracts - even the core idea of permanent, irrevocable transactions where bugs can leave you destitute and without anyone to speak to. And no way to unwind them. [1] Unless you're big enough, I guess, and can just fork the chain like Vitalik did with the DAO.

[1] https://www.rekt.news/
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Still, even at an $8k difference you’re looking at $150/mo at a lower interest rate than most would get for 60 mo. Most car buyers don’t want a $600/mo payment. Yes, average new car price is something like 38k but a lot of that is going to SUVs, not a midsize car like a Tesla.
Has a change.org petition ever done... anything?
> That's also why older you grow it is harder to be at the top, understanding is not diminished at 40+, however memorizing abilities are.

I'd like to see some evidence of that.

However, what does decrease with age is physical stamina. And classical chess tournaments, oddly, take a lot more physical stamina than you might think.

Counterintuitively, the whole faster/blitz chess systems have been good for older chess players.
Author badly needs an editor. I almost noped out after:

> Disclaimer: I decided I’m not going to use charts or any other bs. If you need to be shown the data, this article isn’t for you and you aren’t going to make it anyway. This is strictly for people at the top of the food chain or who want to be there. Yes this is long, I don’t care. It’s you and your families life at stake.

If they had either a writing style or work history that justified it, I'd have slogged through but the number of typos didn't invite me to go further.
Who says Apple will be the only vendor of successful ARM desktops? It seems like it's only a matter of time before other vendors catch up. The point is simply that Apple demonstrated the viability of ARM in those use cases.
Here's a reference about the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - Sustainable Development: 17 Goals - https://sdgs.un.org/goals
No it isn't. I own both. "Below Zero" is standalone. It uses most of the same mechanics and tools but is not an add-on.
The famous ipod review by CmdrTaco (creator of Slashdot):

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
A rosy definition of DeFi:

DeFi (or “decentralized finance”) is an umbrella term for financial services on public blockchains, primarily Ethereum. . . . DeFi takes the basic premise of Bitcoin — digital money — and expands on it, creating an entire digital alternative to Wall Street, but without all the associated costs (think office towers, trading floors, banker salaries). This has the potential to create more open, free, and fair financial markets that are accessible to anyone with an internet connection.

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-defi
Exactly. That's the part that doesn't really make sense to me. It sounds like they're turning off whole stations during the Olympics even though those stations don't necessarily have much if any actual coverage of the Olympics.
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It's not that people are against jokes, yours just didn't land. Have some humility.
I wouldn't be surprised. BTC rose from 32k to 38k in a matter of hours yesterday and it's already dumping. Only found out why hours ago, not sure if this news came before or after...
Sounds like an interview question.
The article title was too long for me to include the full context. From Dell:

> Yes, this was driven by the California Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory energy efficiency standard for PCs – including desktops, AIOs and mobile gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted systems across Dell and Alienware.
51% miners have limited control over blockchain. They can censor blockchain by not allowing some transactions (and forking whenever other miner tries to add those transactons). They can undo some transactions by making a fork before that transaction has happened and eventually forcing the world to switch to their chain.

All those cases are highly visible. I don't know what will happen if someone will attempt to force-fork blockchain. But I highly doubt that 51% miners could monetize that power.

Another point: bitcoin miners are using ASICs, not GPU or CPU. Those ASICs are useless bricks outside of bitcoin mining. If bitcoin miners will collapse bitcoin, they'll lose their ASICs investments. AWS can sell their CPUs to anyone, but mining bitcoin on their CPUs is pointless. To mine bitcoin, you need to buy or build ASICs. And you need bitcoin to stay afloat to return investments from those ASICs.

The only danger is if some actor have lot of money (e.g. US government) and want to kill bitcoin. They can rent some fabs, build lots of ASICs and wreak havoc. They'll spend a lot of money, but probably they'll achieve that goal.
> A quarter is made up of a bunch of hours.

And a sandpile is made up of a bunch of grains of sand. [0] It's identically disingenuous to suggest that such a difference in quantity does not manifest a difference in quality.

I don't think your point is necessarily a bad one, but you're leaving a lot of opportunity for people to dismis it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
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I had a conspiracy theory level explanation for why Toyota is dragging their feet on EVs -- they need to have the inherit unreliability of ICE cars in order to make selling highly reliable Toyotas viable. Stay with me on this one.

Toyota vehicles are already highly reliable. If you take Toyota level quality and apply it to already simplified EV cars the average lifespan of their cars would go from 15 years to 30 years (guestimates) since there's 1/100th of the moving parts (or less?) in an EV. You'd sell fewer cars and your parts division would sell fewer replacement parts. You can't be profitable on wiper fluid and tires.

Toyota execs saw the end of their business if they ever adopted EVs so they need to ensure future vehicles were powered by explosions -- you still gotta have an entire ICE powertrain in a hybrid. They knew hydrogen was a dead end, but by the time everyone else figured it out it would be 30 years later.
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This bubble has been going on for 11 years. When does it cease to be a bubble?
in this case, i would have an US credit card, whereas Zomato requires an indian credit, along with an OTP pin sent to the phone number linked to the credit card.
Why is <n> vs <nn> depending on context silly?

Context is required to disambiguate ん vs an initial consonant of the な行. There's not really another choice unless you want to make <n> exclusively used for one or the other, which also isn't great.

<l> is also not unused, it's a prefix for the smaller version of characters e.g. <le> => ぇ or <ltu> => っ
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