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> The second core issue is modern dating. That one I don't know how to fix, but the essential issue there is the dynamics of dating not requiring commitment coupled with financial security for women mean long term pair bonding happens at a lower rate and later in life.

One way to fix it is the government deciding to highly encourage 'old-fashioned' social norms.

For example, we could have single-sex spaces, which help the sexes develop unique cultures that they then have to rely on each other for.

Or we could encourage single-income-earning, realizing more men are going to take advantage of this, and encourage more stay-at-home parenting, realizing that more women will take advantage of this (but by no means should the sex of either role be forced).

Or, we could change sex-ed curricula to focus more broadly on family formation and its importance.

Encourage church membership, since that used to constitute a large portion of the dating pool, and makes it easier for people to find others like them.

Idolize the roles of mothers and fathers and how it's a national duty.

There's lots of ways to fix it. The willpower simply isn't there. Of course, many people are in complete denial as to the root causes too. The truth is sexual attraction is fundamentally based on sexual difference. Save for a slim minority of the population, this is true across the board (yes, even in homosexual relationships). The reason why dating sucks and people can't find partners is because we've attempted to eradicate all sexual difference, but every once in a while human nature overpowers even this, and we see phenomena which our current culture cannot explain but is easily explainable in the larger context of the human condition (for example, the popularity of 50 shades of grey amongst women, or the popularity of 'seduction culture' and the manosphere amongst men).
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If there was a severe drop in hash power, the mining difficulty would also drop. If it dropped very low,
a single computer using CPU mining would be enough to mine a block every ten minutes (as Satoshi himself did after he first created Bitcoin).

In the long run, as long as even a single person has an interesting in mining, a new block will be mined (on average) every ten minutes.
The churn spurs innovation - people coming into the team with new methodologies and perspectives.
Your post came through a wormhole from 1979.
I use an Occulus 2 headset, Bigscreen VR app, headphones, and that's it really. I personally prefer hooking my Occulus 2 up to a PC, but it's not required unless you're doing a room with more than 4 people in it but that's just for the person hosting the room.

Participants only need the headset and app.
I can't wait until FlexSearch reaches 1.0.0. Reading the source code is like reading great literature.
I don't get how the front page could be so clearly misleading and not expect to get found out. It's all about nothing hidden and "that's all you pay" until you click pricing and then there are many different charges and models.
> This is going to cause significant economic problems quite soon, or they will have to open up massive immigration which will completely change the country.

They'll have to unite with North Korea eventually. Make of that what you will.
It's in the legal complaint by the State of CA.

https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
Is there a reason not to make quicklime instead of limestone?
> I think they'll do whatever they need to make money and if they need to change Blizzard's culture they will

That's optimistic. To that kind of institution, what matters is getting back to business as usual with as little disruption as possible. They'll just hope that firing a scapegoat will appease the mob long enough for them to move on to another scandal, and if that doesn't work they'll keep firing scapegoats until it works.

Actual company culture changes would require that the people at the top have incentive to change. The higher ups at Activision-Blizzard already showed they were willing to tank the company's long-term potential for short-term profit.
The real world is not some dystopian SF ruled by cool kids wearing shiny armor. The world's economy is still run by people consuming goods and services, creating demands - declining population is not an insurmountable problem but it does pose a huge challenge for any nation's economy.

Fewer people -> fewer sales for Ioniq and Galaxy S -> less money made by these companies -> less money available for industrial research -> worse technology for your servers, drones, military satellites, submarines, whatever -> lose the war.
Hell...you don't even need to snap a photo. Just take a look at your GPS or cell triangulation data for the time you think you may have been abducted.
> They buy goods and services in the local economy increasing demand and work tax paying jobs.

That heavily depends on the immigrant group, and is, on average, not true in most of Europe where many immigrants heavily depend on welfare and it turns into intergenerational dependency. I'm sure it's different in countries that aren't offering full benefits to immigrants, and are much harder to reach via illegal migration, i.e. the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand, but that kind of blanket statement isn't accurate.
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That was almost entirely due to America rebuilding Europe and every other major industrial power knocked off their perch for a couple of decades. It had nothing to do with immigration. Additionally Americans were still having lots of kids at that point so the population was growing without immigratiom.
Ok the other hand, it would give the south a ready source of young labor, which they absolutely will need going forward. Managed properly, it could be a huge boon.
This is literally a plot line from Metal Gear Solid 2 made real. I will quote below:

Colonel : Raiden, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship.

Raiden : Are you telling me it's not!?

Rose : You're being silly! What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.

Raiden : Create context?

Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.

......[ Skipping ahead a bit, the game is very verbose. ]

Raiden : And you think you're qualified to decide what's necessary and not?

Colonel : Absolutely. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their meaning for later generations?

Rose : That's what it means to create context.
Would be great to filter by number of seasons
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the data retrieval only works for a tiny fraction of government documents, like the Aadhaar. For everything else like college certificates, it's only storing the image you submit. At least this was my experience some years ago.
Companies have basically said “don’t bother learn about the business except for the interview” with their compensation approaches.

Why bother spend time learning anything not applicable at your next role?
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/activision-...
https://github.com/karmada-io/karmada
These reports sadden me. I loved StarCraft and Warcraft dearly, I put thousands of hours into those games. Blizzard has enormously failed on sexual harassment, on WC Reforged, and the money-grubbing EA-Activision-Blizzard merger. And what about the fully mobile game debacle, "don't you all have phones?" Or the glacial pace of updates for it's expectant fans? Or the complete lack of self-awareness in blatantly calling abused women liars?

It's just so sad the best RTS maker has completely gone down the shitter. It feels like the cherished game company of years past has completely rotted and left grieving fans and loyalists to look around and wait for...what? Frost Giant? C&C? Indy games?

This doubt is why I nervously watch and play SC, hoping they don't go under so we aren't subject to bootlegged hacker-filled black market versions of these masterful old games. Who will maintain these old treasures or add basic Quality of Life features? Can I ethically play a game whose purchase enriched sexual harassers and their richer enablers?
Has money ever been untraceable? Cash certainly was traceable starting with certain volume. Closest was maybe art and collectibles during Shoa!?

A more fragile social order then we have today?!
It has been reported on multiple sources, maybe updating the link to a news report would be better. I think OP submitted it because it deserved further discussion. To the best of my knowledge this has already been confirmed though.
This absolutely happens. A lot depends on the company and role, but in my experience after 24-36 months you tend to become known more broadly in the company and are passed around as “person who knows about x” and these type of interactions characterize most of your days. It’s not a bad spot to be, but definitely not the most productive arrangement.
> I don't think pay increase will help stagnation.

No, but lack thereof can certainly cause it.

When there's no real reward, what's the point of putting in the extra work and taking risks? Two things that quickly break stagnation.
Articles like these vastly overestimate people's desires to switch jobs. Yes one good engineer left last quarter because they were underpaid and someone gave them a better offer, but a hundred others stayed put. Things still overwhelmingly worked in the company's favor overall.

And add the fact that technical interviews are still designed to be as painful a process as possible, so much so that people I know have given up guaranteed raises just to not have to go through it again.
I loved McConnell's books, having read Code Complete, Software Estimation and Rapid Delivery.

Besides what is covered in those books, I've found it extremely useful to document assumptions. Every single estimate has some mental model of the project to be done. Code to be reused, vendors to integrate and, most importantly, things that won't be done. The real project almost always breaks with some of those high-level assumptions, but that tends to be lost in the shuffle.

Attaching assumptions to the estimate makes it much easier to do a post-mortem.

A powerful memory cannot compare with pale ink.
Baudrillard said that television has a "cooling" effect, that is it recasts citizens as consumers and dissuades political participation.

If it does that for 9999 out of 10,000 people, the 1 person who is motivated to (say) drive their car into a crowd at a protest will disappear in the statistics.
> The uncomfortable truth is that there's very significant demographic differences when it comes to folks who use the "I got an offer elsewhere, pay me more and Ill stay".

What differences are those?

I tend to think that it’s a bad idea anyway. Once you’ve done it, your employer will know that you’ve already thought about leaving, so much so that you’ve already completed an interview process and have gotten an offer. Surely that must tend to be damaging to the relationship going forward (not saying that it should be, but that it often is).
I think there's more variables at play though. A person who has been at a company 3+ years has figured out how to be effective in certain areas, but is also now asked to be effective in a much wider range of areas. They are asked to maintain something they wrote in their first year, they are asked to attend meetings or respond to emails because they have the knowledge and influence, they can't start anything new because they are so pivotal to the thing they're currently doing. And yeah, these things are important to the company, but they make the worker feel like they're stagnating. The company starts to get in their way and they feel like the only way to do something they find interesting is to leave.

Companies need to give engineers the opportunity at a clean slate. Let them shed responsibilities and pretend they're just a very competent new hire with the freedom to start working on whatever they want to. If it's a larger company, you can usually transfer to another team somewhere, but you still get pinged about stuff you never want to spend time on again.
I would do that but it's very helpful to also see how often the price changes and goes on sale to know if I am getting "ripped off".
> Somebody is on the wrong side of this trade in a big way.

There's an old adage that equity traders are the short-bus riders and bond traders are riding the long bus. I tend to think there's something to this and thus I tend to think the bond traders are more likely to be right here.

> The odd thing about this is that gold, the traditional inflation hedge has gone nowhere fast.

It's going into real estate.
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Job seekers in game development are many. These companies will never lack developers.
Oh, I think that will be a great change for them. It especially makes sense with the new focus on metaverse.
Ask HN: What numbers do you associate with old computers?
I'm writing a book on retro computers and the numbers that tie them together. (Full blurb and example prose at https://unbound.com/books/20goto10/)

What are the ultimately geeky, deep knowledge numbers, that aren't as obvious as 64K, 8, or 0's and 1's? (And bear in mind, I might need an explanation!)

Thanks in advance...
Cancelling debts will only make asset prices skyrocket. Why worry about paying $400k, $600k, or $1 million for a house, if you anticipate that a few years from now the govt will wipe away all your debt?
Those European countries also developed fast without much immigration (including Switzerland and the Nordics, which were not affected much by the war). It may have nothing to do with immigration, but you certainly haven't proved that.

Edit: Currently the poorest parts of the US population are stagnating at best, at a time when rates of both legal and illegal immigration are quite high. It is hard to make the argument that immigration is preventing things from getting worse.
Then they’d have to define it as currency and they can’t tax purchases made with currency.
While this comment is currently downvoted, HN should probably change the link to the source mentioned in a sibling comment.
Sadly in 2021 adding 140KB to a page isn't a big deal (given how heavy the rest of the page probably is) - but it really should be.

A large chunk of the world's population still pays a locally-expensive rate for mobile bandwidth, and we're increasingly leaving them behind - or worse, pushing them into zero-rating internet plans which mean they can only use Facebook and WhatsApp while avoiding the rest of the web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rating
See above. It's not required to use the Notecard, but it's extremely easy to use and convenient. The combination of the Notecard and the Notehub are essentially a simple JSON-centric "data pump", with a good deal of carrier data included.

We've priced it so we can make an "infrastructure-appropriate" profit on a sustainable basis; there's no 'surprise' business model and your data and your devices are yours, not ours.
In Switzerland you pay tax on the rent you could in theory receive as a landlord minus maintenance cost and mortgage payments. I suspect that this is a far bigger contributor to infinite duration mortgages than the bond market.
is there a tried-and-tested ipad app anyone can recommend that does what the stream deck does?

stream decks have always interested me, but the price has always seemed a bit steep. compared to their XL model, for ~50$ more (with an educational discount) you can get a base ipad, and unless you really want the tactile feedback, i can’t think how that wouldn’t be a better buy.
Well that’s… curious. Not sure I’ve ever read the NSA providing hardening guidance on anything before.
Full legal complaint is here; this incident is in point 48 on page 15.
https://aboutblaw.com/YJw

edit: original link and title were specifically about an employee committing suicide while on a trip with her supervisor, after having previously had her nudes (allegedly) circulated at a holiday party.
I can understand spying, but I don't understand interference, as in toppling another regime, or as in invading another country like Iraq in the name of democracy. The latter looks pure evil to me.
I’ve read about this and a big reason is it’s simply so much easier to get a job in the US. You’re not dealing with unions and America just has way more low paying jobs. You can def argue this isn’t a good thing but working a low paying job is better than working no job.
I like this, especially the quote

>Visionary ideas derive directly from centering people at the margins

But I think the conundrum is still one step further - in these instances of the rich college kids building for their marginalized selves, they had the means by which to do it. The big for-profit corporations have the means too, but their existence is credited to being for-profit, because the corporations exhibiting not-as-profitable behavior eventually shrink or disappear.

So I would say innovation still comes back to who can shoulder the risk. Wealthy college students can take the risks because they can always fall back on their trust funds or nepotic jobs, but decision makers at corporations can't because their not-profitable decisions affects their continued existence at a profitable corp.

That means "Data Driven Innovation" comes down not to be literally "Data Driven", but really about spinning a story with whatever data to convince corporate gatekeepers that this new feature for the marginalized isn't that risky an innovation. Unfortunately people do take it literally, which is why this piece is a great reminder about where real innovation comes from.
On the one hand Mr. Dean rightly recognizes that longer-tenured developers bring more company-specific and domain-specific expertise to the table and they should be paid attractively to prevent them from leaving and taking that knowledge with them.

On the other hand he touts his use of a compensation formula, reducing engineering salary to a formula rather than taking into account an individual's background, experience, expertise, demeanor, and individual impact. (To be fair, he does emphasize that the formula will include "performance" in some way, but I've always been leery of boiling down performance to a simple equation. We've all been in roles where people have had material impacts other than lines of code committed, features completed, or KPI scores.)

I suppose I fundamentally agree with the author's premise that tech salaries should rise with the overall market to keep institutional knowledge from walking out the door, but on the other hand I don't think following a simple equation is the best way to get there.
Search: blizzard suicide

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2021/07/22/activision...

And finally, the most haunting story documented in the lawsuit. Again, a content warning:

A female employee died by suicide on a company trip. The lawsuit alleges this was “due to a sexual relationship she had been having with her male supervisor,” who was found by police to have brought sex toys to the trip. Additionally, it was cited the female employee had previously faced intense sexual harassment at work, including an incident where a photo of her genitals was passed around by male employees at a holiday party.
They're in the middle of an HR scandal first and foremost (though people are mad about they game design decisions too). It makes sense they're focusing on the HR part.
This is such a tired and lazy comparison. Especially when there are so many more apt things to compare Bitcoin with: early 2000’s tech stocks, pre-crash housing prices, East India Company.
This has been exactly my experience. My family is used to me advocating for various “security best practices.” I’ve always been the “family tech support guy,” so I have ~15+ years of accumulated goodwill. Some folks were a little more resistant than others, but so far there’s been enough family/social pressure.

I’m not the most patient person, but I’ve made extra efforts to be patient with this. I’ve also done everything I can to include/involve interested family members in the process. We have a channel dedicated to feedback on Mattermost itself, and I’ve been able to recruit a few folks to help me evangelize.

I may not be able to change the world, but I can make a difference to those closest to me. I am extremely fortunate to have a family that humors me.
This is neat. I love that you are fostering a publishing mindset, and not just showcasing a glitzy 3D magazine for folks to gawk at.

There is a steep hill to climb before a 3D web really lands in a way that fosters an ecosystem of content creators. I suspect that it will take a different breed of web browser to truly realize an XR web, one with built-in, high-level APIs for composing 3D content. Ultimately, you need many of the built-in features of the 2D web, and approximating those things via a canvas is tantamount to rebuilding a fair chunk of the browser.
What are some of the social problems that the SWIFT network solves?
This doesn't look misleading to me. 5,000 events per month is very reasonable for a hobbyist project and the Prototype free tier is pretty generous as things go.
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Remember when people were called cranks and tin foil hatters for suggesting Roundup might contribute to health problems?

Unfortunately Monsanto will just wheel out their next toxic poison right after Roundup is banned completely.
The inconsistency is in using 12 instead of zero, which results in four discontinuities per day (12:59 AM → 1:00 AM, 11:59 AM → 12:00 PM, 12:59 PM → 1:00 PM, 11:59 PM → 12:00 AM). The times should be divided into 0:00 AM through 11:59 AM and 0:00 PM through 11:59 PM so that the hours wrap around at the AM/PM boundary, not one hour later.
The thing is cities don't need to be anti-child. But you're right... they absolutely are.

It's not just the apartment size, it's the entire setup. For example, my city of Portland let the bars remain open while shutting down the parks during COVID. It just sends the message that those in charge don't care about families.

Or look at the tolerance for deviant homeless. It's one thing to be compassionate. It's entirely something else when that compassion extends to men exposing themselves and masturbating in front of young children (which has happened here before).

America's cities have become playgrounds for single adults, instead of their historical place as places for all kinds of people.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190910-the-major-citi...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have...
With this offer of $49 for "10 years of cellular" (and 500Mb data [1]) included, I wonder which LTE network is expected to provide and support that connectivity for that long?

Something like this could be a good candidate for what the Helium Network (and similar) are intending to do.

[1] : https://dev.blues.io/hardware/notecard-datasheet/note-wbex-5...
You can easily develop this, and you won't pay anything except for the Notecard. It'll work until you reach 500MB or 10 years, whichever is sooner. (We offer the ability to upgrade beyond 500MB.)
> In a tragic example of the harassment that Defendants allowed to fester in their offices, a female employee committed suicide while on a company trip due to a sexual relationship that she had been having with her male supervisor. The male supervisor was found by police to have brought a butt plug and lubricant on this business trip. Another employee confirmed that the deceased female employee may have been suffering from other sexual harassment at work prior to her death. Specifically, at a holiday party before her death, male co-workers were alleged to be passing around a picture of the deceased's vagina.

Quote is from the lawsuit: https://aboutblaw.com/YJw