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It wasn't just his thrift, it was his very standard knowledge of financial markets.

I agree that the economic gap has widened and that our most famous and moneyed capitalists of today "borrowed" large sums from their business owning parents.

However, Read was an outlier in many ways. His discipline likely stems from his military service, and without a basic value investing understanding of markets he would not have amassed his fortune.

He may have been humble, but he was anything but the average guy. What's most impressive is not the building of his fortune but his giving in death.

In a way he embodied both the old American work ethic and the American promise of economic opportunity.
I run a startup at home. We became fully virtual a while back and now have people all over the world.

You have to set some boundaries. My big one is that I don’t work on weekends unless something is on fire. I may glance at emails but that’s it.

I also don’t live alone. I have a wife and kids and will take breaks to see them. I do work pretty long hours during the week but it’s punctuated with some positive human interaction. My wife stays home with the kids right now, so they are here.

I think if I lived alone I’d be prone to do what you do, and I’m not sure it would actually increase my productivity. There’s a point where you hit diminishing returns for any knowledge work. The brain needs rest like any other thing. I think if I lived alone I’d be forced to set weekday time boundaries to keep from going nuts.
As much as everyone likes to discredit traditional values, such savings and thrift, they win out in the long run.

The 'millionaire next door' is nothing more than consistently living on less than you earn (Elizabeth Warren has great savings guidelines), investing what you save (read John Boggle), and taking advantage of compounding interest.

It's simple and doable for a large majority of western society. It's not easy though, but that was as true in 1996 as it is today.
Slavery is a completely different situation than the ills of late-stage capitalism.
Well it works better than Just work hard, go to college, don't save your money!

No matter how much you dislike the system you do have to live in it. Choices you make an an individual might well be in conflict with your views on the aggregate.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

This quote explains all you need to know about American culture.
not if they re dry
Isn't it? Honestly asking.

Apple are having peoples handsets check file hashes against a hash list and reporting anyone who has files with hashes on the list right? And there is a threshold of matches below which you dont get reported. Above that they lock your account.

The fact they're currently limiting it to image files and the US doesn't seem like much of a difference.

Am i missing some clever defence against misuse.
Australia's economy is pretty dependent on Coal, Aluminum and Gas.
Two of these a hopefully going away soon but the Government is so In bed with mining and they throw more money at elections than every other sector put together that nothing will done about it until it collapses.
i miss the look of their desktops ! and the purple colors of sun workstations :)
Wet bulb thermometer is the kind that a pair of thermometers are mounted together with one wrapped in wet cotton and the other dry. Typically between the two glass tubes is a little look up table that gives humidity from current dry bulb temperature and delta between the two.

I don't know what exactly environment reaching 35C/95F web bulb means, but considering 1) it indicates temperature of a thermometer cooled by evaporation, and 2) body temperature of a human is ~40C/100F, I think it means evaporative cooling aka sweating is becoming useless. It won't be a huge stretch to consider that unsurvivable.
This reminds me of my wonderful 2013 Google Glass:
1) Say "OK Google, take a picture"
2) 2 seconds later, you see the picture it's taken in the little window
> modern day slavery

Slavery is a system that involves kidnap, torture, rape, and murder. There is nothing about your life experiences that remotely compares.
Bringing the Power of the Sun to Earth
The 40 pins on the Pi are intended for GPIO and low-speed connectivity (SPI, I2C and friends). Unless I'm missing something, it is simply not feasible to use those GPIO ports for any high-speed interfaces for three reasons:

1. The pins are likely connected to a memory-mapped GPIO controller in the Broadcom SoC (you write a value to a special memory location, and the GPIO controller will physically change the voltage on the associated pin). While you can implement certain slow interfaces - UART is the typical example - purely in software using bit-banging, this approach only works as long as your desired interface speed is a lot slower than the CPU clock. For example: To implement a UART controller at 9600 Bd running on a 1 GHz CPU, you have over 100000 cycles for each symbol you send or receive. For 1000BASE-T, you are looking at a symbol rate of 125000000 Bd, so you'd have just 8 cycles for each symbol (and this is completely ignoring the line code used for 1000BASE-T, which the GPIO controller very likely doesn't support on a physical level).

2. If you want to run an interface faster than a few MHz, you have to be more careful on the electrical level to avoid reflections/impedance mismatch and other signal integrity issues. Essentially, you can't just hook up 2.54mm pin headers at gigabit speeds and expect everything to work fine.

3. Related to the two previous points: Almost all high-speed interfaces (including GbE, USB, HDMI etc.) use line codes at the physical level and/or use differential voltage signaling (LVDS/TMDS etc.) for transmission. The Pi's GPIO controller is very likely unable to send/receive data using differential standards. By the way, if you're interested in this topic: Most FPGAs (even entry-level FPGAs) support differential voltage standards in their IO blocks and even include special encoder/decoder blocks (for 8b/10b encoding).
Which is exactly the kind of complicitness I have an issue with. I don't believe in giving bureaucrats enormous power over an individual. Freedom is easy to give away, hard to take back. Plenty of examples around, why.
China-funded paramilitary dropbear gangs, obviously
Fucking perfect example. Exemplifies exactly the things that get Australians hot and bothered enough to protest - getting it totally and absolutely arse-about.

Perfect example, nicely done.
I'm going off grid first, and then hope to move overseas too.

I can't stand how many rules there are now, just doesn't suit my personality type.
There is also mustard gas dumped in the north sea near knokke, in rusting vats. Near to one of the busiest shipping routes in the world.

Don't worry, citizen, it's not leaking much yet, go on holiday at the coast.

https://www.gremberghe.nl/2013/07/het-mosterdgas-voor-onze-k...
We definitely need to adapt building design to cope with higher temperatures. I live in a brand new building that has floor-to-ceiling triple-glazed windows on each side. They look great and let a lot of light in but the summer afternoons can be infernal — my WFH office can reach 32C, despite my best efforts to move air out with a large fan. I’m sure that with smaller windows or some kind of external shade the situation would be better.
They'll provide a sheet of paper. For some reason since covid I always forget to bring my phone when going out in Australia
It does work. 404 means there's no info in the database.
> There is little doubt that they kill prisoners - something one ex-fighter freely admits. "No-one wants an extra mouth to feed."

That's the quality journalism I expect to see from BBC, right here.
>>What’s interesting to me is plenty of immigrants prove it’s still true.

I've witnessed it. I know a couple of people who's net worth is more than a million dollars by simply working all the time, saving their money and buying their three family home. The more savvy ones even own more than one.

And these are people that knew no English, had an elementary education, worked at jobs that lots of people would not work at.

I guess the point is that you can make it, but you have to be willing to work for it.
> tens of thousands of people marching on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne to protest covid lockdowns and defend their right to free assembly

As an Aussie I must say that I see these protests rather differently. For better or worse, Australia has gotten used to having zero COVID: people here tend to see the protesters not as brave individuals defending their rights, but as idiots who recklessly endanger the lives of others by spreading disease through a largely unvaccinated populace. Many people here are of the opinion that some ‘fundamental’ rights can and should be suspended in a critical emergency.
At least in Germany a 15 year old sending nudes to a 18 year old would bring the grown up in danger for prosecution for possession of "CP".

Police was riding schools for stuff like that already after teens used monitored channels (like "private" social-media messages) to exchange such pictures.
I avoid phone base 2FA where possible, and companies (e.g. Twilio) that insist on me having a phone number just end up without me as a customer for the most part.

When it's unavoidable I use Google Fi. I can't actually use the broader Google Fi service (data, etc) because I'm not in the US and you have to be to activate the sim properly, but the SMSes go to a web messenger and I can collect them there.

Google Fi has been cracking down on international only users in any case, which is a shame because it's absolutely a service I want and would pay for.
The counter argument, and why I’ve never been bent out of shape by books like this, is: these strategies are no guarantee that you’ll live to become an 8-millionaire at 92, but they’re not likely to make your life’s financial outcome worse and even if you die at 75 with “only” $200K and a paid-off house that you lived in for 40 years, you probably experienced less financial (and overall) stress than you would have with your same life conditions but a YOLO attitude, leasing a new car every 3 years for every driver and taking big vacations every year because “you deserve it”.

> “I certainly do not see the point of becoming [a millionaire] if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.”

I can’t help but think of Warren Buffett here. He seems happy in his (well-chosen) starter home.

https://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-modest-home-b...
> Why are you distracting from Russian warcrimes?

Alleged warcimes.
What this really need is, when I scroll to the end of a note and keep scrolling down, it should go to the other note.
When I have a feeling that I would like to share the picture with my friends instantly, I also take it on my phone.

Also, Canon G9X has bluetooth and wifi interfaces and phone app that allows quick downloading and sharing of photos (although it is indeed slower and more cumbersome than sharing directly from the phone camera app).
Recommendations for co-working space in London for an entrepreneur
Hi all,

I'm looking for a co-working space in London and would like some recommendations. I used to work in Shoreditch in 2010s but on a recent visit it seems the startup vibe is not what it once was (granted, there's still pandemic going on).

Where are the entrepreneurs, startups and freelancers based today?

Backstory: I'm taking a month off work to build the company that I've always wanted to, maybe longer if it works out. I've always been passionate about interactive, immersive and 3D experiences and so this I will be looking for clients in this space. I've 10 years' experience as a software engineer and designer, having worked in video games and XR at big companies.

Thanks in advance!
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Came here to say almost 80% of the countries economy is dependent on China. So let’s call the corporate interests what they are. Tributes to the CCP.
Yet people did. The heat stroke at 35C° wet bulb if far from instantaneous.
There was an interesting article on heat pumps in the NY Times yesterday - they are similar to AC units but far more efficient, requiring far less electricity to run. Plus they work as heaters in the winter. I use heat pumps coupled to solar panels and draw very little power from the grid, if any.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/climate/heat-pumps-climat...
True, however HN is designed for fair civil discussion.

It comes down to the goals of the site owner. Do they want to create a community and moderate accordingly. Or is it simply a way to up the time-spent metric through readers having a peek to see how stupid the comments are, or not being able to resist throwing in their own two cents.

I'm not suggesting I am any better that the average net user, I said "wasted effort" for a reason.
I recall finishing the first year of engineering (and secondary school before that) without having my own calculator.

Meanwhile, most kids around me could not do something as simple as 49/7 without a calculator.

It's a loop. If you have a calculator, you use it more, so you never get better at maths, so you use a calculator more.
> Cold cellars can be in short supply

If this starts to happen semi-regularly, you can bet my garden will turn into a little hobbit hill/cellar.

That said, I agree that if it happens suddenly to that extend, we would likely be looking at more than 0.1%.
CVE-2021-36948 Zero-Day in Windows Update Medic Exploited in the Wild
There’s really too many to name at this point.

The bikie laws in Queensland.

Permits for protests which can denied on the basis of ‘harmed local commercial interests’.

Terror police being sent after the friendlyjordies.

Let alone the corruption (nsw libs, barrier reef grant, detention Center security contracts) & complete lack of accountability (Angus Taylor)

It was sad to see the recent protests in the name of ‘freedom’, when in reality it was about government support. Which I support them to get, it just saddens me that that’s the extent of collective action.
That’s pretty cool, i’ll check it out.

Unfortunately you can’t change ‘Font size’ at all in the Duckduckgo browser.
Implementing Single Sign-On Integration with SAML Providers Using C#
I thought it would be helpful for community to have some detailed guide and coding examples on standard ways for authentication and authorization with third-party services using SAML
My question is security updates.

I'm willing to invest time once to get something better working. I'm not willing to invest time on an on-going basis to keep my router secure. My normal router is a !@#$%, but the company does push out security updates.

Most of the DIY projects I've seen require me to do it manually.
So, let me understand after Western axis destroyed Libya, ... and as the matter of fact the entire region, stole all gold and oil, now we blame Russia?

Neat...

I mean we quite hold high moral ground in this...
I hadn't read the book itself, but had got a different message.

I thought that most of these people happened to run successful businesses in poorer communities (often immigrant) where their peers were all relatively poor. They therefore didn't get caught on a treadmill where expected gifts and living standards drive everyone to spend all their money on keeping up with the Joneses. Most of the community have little money, not because they're stupid or wasteful just because they're starting from very little. So the outlier has no real need to spend the money and just banks it in their business against downturns and over time it builds up.

Interesting as a phenomenon, but it sounds they were drawing very broad conclusions from that for their book.
I wonder if there's some model that could explain it using static friction. If you and everyone around you is and has been at the same socio-economic situation for a long while, it would take something big to make you move, but if you have just immigrated, then obviously there's no static friction and you don't have any particular baseline anymore, so you have a higher likelihood of just keeping in motion, due to the lower dynamic friction.
The internet feels like cable TV without this plugin. Cut the cord!
Hah, there's one there that I'd believe not to be an "under construction" graphic, but a graphic from a website about the C64 game Ultimate Wizard (there's a light green-on-black "Construction" that looks noticeably out of place)
Things you must do to get a promotion
> This is not exactly the right inference. You can have a language that has the property "if it compiles, it works", that language just cannot also be Turing complete.

Not quite. It can be Turing complete as long as you fill in the proof steps the compiler can't infer for itself. Coq, Idris and other theorem provers can all produce programs with arbitrary looping behaviour given valid proofs are generated.
A guide to small satellite propulsion systems
Yeah, for the most part I use either time based tokens or my Yubikey. Where that's not possible and I can't avoid dealing with the provider as you mentioned it's Google Fi since they have a web gateway I can retrieve them on.
Book a hotel and flight to a different country. Stay in a hotel. Walk around that place, engage with the people. Try the food. Visit a Museum.
Shadow has you uses their servers to put your stuff on.

Parsec is more like TeamViewer, VNC or AnyDesk in that you uses your own hardware to both connect to and from, albeit with a latency that's low enough to play games, and color fidelity that's good enough to do graphics. It is much valuable to businesses that wants to levrage their own powerful hardware but no be limited by teleworking employee.
Okay, that's fair. It's a different kind of representation than what I was thinking of, though, meaning general exposure of an idea to some kind of broader audience.

From an individual's perspective, being in a bubble is great. I get it. I just get a little anxiety at the idea of society being partitioned into a bunch of self-reaffirming bubbles of different extremes, something that's starting to feel very real in the US lately.
You're not wrong. I find it hard to take articles like this seriously when there's the more pressing issue of still being under effective house arrest (which has now gone for about a year with no end in sight).

Hell the premier implemented a curfew and said it was due to public health advice, the public health advisors denied it, then he said it was on the advice of the police, and they denied, and that was that. No further questions asked why we implemented a curfew for fun. In this environment it's positively quaint the idea that our cyber laws are the thin edge of the wedge.

I would leave, but like North Korea, it's against the law for citizens to leave the country.
Thanks for your input.

1k hops is also not something we see on a regular basis in our old business, which is much about people moving houses and transactional data from payment service providers. Ppl with money issues seem to move a lot more often and also fraud cases often have a lot of hops.
>I would prefer useful knowledge over fantasy knowledge almost every time.

I think the better contrast would be useful knowledge and having fun with fantasy knowledge.
Maybe he was missing a couple things, but it's not far off. Go to college for a major that has high economic value. Continue building your skills after college. Live below your means. I'd like to see data on people who do all of those things and how they end up.
>have to be willing to work for it.

And typically, you also have to be willing to live at a lower quality of life and save, which most people born in the west aren't.
Garlic Noodles Became One of the Bay Area’s Most Iconic Foods
For many HN readers (like me) Washington DC is in a foreign country. But Washington DC is not a US state, so it is not at all surprising that many Americans treat it as a foreign country :)

What is happening here is the same thing that happens with UFO's. There are multiple incidents for which there is no good explanation, and many people automatically assume that they have the same cause.
Especially Unity-born DRMS. I see them consistently defeated by trivial means. It seems ridiculously expensive to properly secure a Unity build.
The link really highlights the importance of having win-win situations if both people cooperate (i.e. positive-sum game).
So, in your view, human rights cannot be suspended, even if there is an emergency? So things like banning indoor meetings should be allowed to continue, even when there is a pandemic?

I didn't protest the lockdowns because it seems reasonable to me that you'd want to ban proximity to curtail the spread of a disease that spreads by proximity. That doesn't mean I won't protest a dictator just declaring an emergency and violating everyone's rights.
> WB 35 °C (95 °F) – theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70 °C (160 °F), though the heat index does not go that high

I’m inclined to say that this is not very survivable, regardless of your precautions, if your air conditioning has died.
Air conditioners are air source heat pumps.
It's easier for the whiners to call it slavery and act like they don't have the ability to make decisions to change their situation.
I agree, the actions of our (or rather my) forbearers in dealing with man-made toxins were short-sighted and ill informed. They hadn't dealt with these new chemicals in such large quantities before and they probably didn't give a second through to the consequences of simply dumping them.

However I wonder if there is a silver lining in that by polluting those waters it has also protected them from overfishing? Much like Chernobyl's nature is flourishing, yet still not safely habitable by humans long term.
Guns in the hands of the Australians who want guns in their hands is an outcome that's about a thousand times worse than a "disarmed people".

Also, anyone think that a US civilian militia has more than a snowball's chance in hell against any committed government-deployed force?

Tell 'im 'e's dreamin'
Anyone who runs a full node can decide any set of rules they want to follow. You can incentivize miners to mine on your fork by providing block rewards. If you pay people to do something, at least some of them will.

The ETC fork would have been successful at any non-zero support level from people with the ability to mine. And since any CPU can mine (just inefficiently), any fork can get a mining baseline. That may not give you a ton of security but it works.

People who run full nodes are the ones that decide hard forks.
i honestly like batch and bash files haha
> Why would you make that comparison?

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"

Because the informal creed of USPS is that of the postal service of the first Persian Empire.

"It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed." — Herodotus, Histories (8.98) (trans. A. D. Godley, 1924)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service_c...
7 Days of Bootstraps: Day 2
That's what journalism is, alleging something. Adding the word alleged in front of what they are reporting is only meant to distract from the allegation without adding anything substantive. Of course it's alleged. All human discourse is alleged.
I wonder if people confuse wet bulb and dry bulb here. Wet bulb is related to how well your air conditioner or sweating will cool you. Dry bulb is what we usually say when taking a temperature reading, or listening to the local news' meteorologist.