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> Why wouldn't they? Nuclear retaliation is their whole defense doctrine. They probably won't need to because they maintain adequate diplomatic relationships with all of the different powers in the Pacific.

We’re at risk of losing any essence of what we were originally talking about. But I see no compelling reason that France would launch nuclear weapons for any reason other than a potential invasion of France or unless some other country launched nuclear weapons at it.

> Carrier groups are too slow and carry too little protection to actually resist an attack from a military of an equivalent technological level nowadays.

Not seeing any evidence of this whatsoever.

> Anti-ballistic ship missiles and supersonic missiles fired from high altitude are a pain to detect and fly too fast to be reliably stopped. The US has been trying to develop counter-measures but their actual capabilities are unproved and they remain vulnerable to saturation.

So nobody has a Navy then… and now the US just maintains the current advantages it has? And why develop hypersonic missiles (which the US has) and deploy them when your potential adversaries can’t stop cheaper cruise missiles either. Launched from, oh, idk, nuclear powered subs in the region that the US Navy also has and is increasing via allies such as Australia?

And not to mention, potential adversaries have to find US ships and overcome their defenses which, are pretty good though not perfect. Meanwhile those ships are probably out there doing things in places you don’t have reach to. If a war broke out with China, which is a country that is massively dependent on imports, you can just use your land based (Japan, Guam, Australia, etc.) and have the US Navy seize shipments coming to China. Now what? Transport resources from Central Asia to vulnerable factories and other facilities in the coast?

> You will not be able to operate carriers close to China or Russia if they want them out of the picture.

You’re assuming that it’s necessary to do so and that the US fleet is somehow just a passive recipient of attacks without countermeasures or the ability to initiate an offensive.

> Cripple your navy? Nuck you? Geopardize your economic blocus with China and provide them with the mineral they need? They could do all of these things.

Well jeez in that case the US can just nuke Russia! But we aren’t talking about unrealistic, world-ending scenarios. Russia can’t cripple the US Navy, won’t nuke it, and is already trading with China.

> Step out of your bubble. You don't understand the actual position of the USA in the modern world. You can't just dismiss countries. That's not how diplomacy works.

“Someone has a different opinion than me so they just live in a bubble”

c’mon.
>The simplest is to only handle things you can really handle at the current frame and let everything else filter to the top and interrupt entire process.

I find this approach creates exactly what you try to avoid: error handling complexity.

The problem is with the Exceptions I believe. They mess with normal program flow. They create code that's hard to reason about, that's less explicit.

Sometimes Exceptions can clean up some code, but usually it just sweeps dirt under the carpet to blow up in your face later.

I rather use sum types and actual return statements (or implicit returns when all code is expressions) than Exceptions.
Only if you think that the demand for real estate is mostly driven by housing needs, and not speculation & monopoly style hoarding artificially driving prices higher.
Agreed. Explanations of git sometimes remind me of monad tutorials.
Then you just get thousands of holding companies.
This sums up nothing. (You could go as far as saying that our own bodies are legacy systems. So what? What does that have to do with anything?)
This is happening now in the UK. Lloyds bank [0] and John Lewis [1], a retailer, are both planning to tap into this revenue stream.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/19/lloyds-plan...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/04/john-lewis-...
Absolutely! The difference is dramatic for many types of functions.

You can write a full checkers game engine in a single wasm file weighing in at about 1500 bytes. I only use this example because I worked through it as a continuation of the 853 byte partial implementation in the pragprog wasm book. Even optimized and minified JS ends up being a far larger file for any similar amount of logic.

I could see some huge wins from rewriting popular JS utility libraries in web assembly, but of course it depends on the library how much sense it makes. There are limitations around DOM manipulation, as others have pointed out, but I'm sure we'll see more and more wasm over time.
It can't pivot towards that since it hasn't done anything else since 1945. The US has spent 75 years preparing to fight peer adversaries while fighting asymmetric guerillas. Especially the AF.
This is exactly the kind of solution I favor in the states. Buy up properties, build or expanding housing supply, and then either continue to subsidize it or sell it back to the market while imposing land value tax.

Why? Because the problem is lack of political will. You can't expand housing supply if nobody wants to.

It's a piecemeal solution until we figure out something better or that society is willing to support public housing initiative. Otherwise, we would be waiting forever for entrenched political opposition to die or the situation to worsen over time.
> The government should buy land, construct a whole bunch of high quality housing on it, then rent it at below market rates.

They can't, because they'd need to zone that land for housing use (a different part of the government is responsible and won't do it) and they'd have to relax the regulations for building houses to make it cheaper (another different part of the government is responsible and won't do it). You can't spend your budget on subsidized housing if you also want schools, infrastructure and low tax rates.
I do agree, but he does call it out as "part 1" and he is going to discuss the options that could have changed the situation next week.

> Next time we’ll take a look at the solutions that actually did disrupt this trench stalemate and consider the degree to which such solutions could have been implemented any earlier than they were.
You change the laws to incentivize building up. You add transport infrastructure, parks, schools, etc.
>I just think it’s a way for people to show off their wealth

So is the Mona Lisa. So is a manuscript of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

The notion of NFTs is embedded in the idea of immutability. If unique strings of bits hold no value for you, that's your preference and nothing more.

If you can only be sentimental about oil and canvas, or handwritten ink on leather bound paper, that's your preference and nothing more.

I can destroy the wallet key somehow. I can destroy the book. I can destroy the painting.

It's not an illusion of uniqueness at all, you just seem to be unwilling or unable to comprehend patronage.
> because they don't want the Army encroaching on their core skill of aviation

That's exactly what's going on. Incidentally that's one of the reasons USAF did their best to bury the promising AH-56 Cheyenne [0] back in the day, it was in direct competition with their own program that would later become the perennial A-10. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-r6RR1nJM

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AH-56_Cheyenne#Progra...
The pilots get to submit a limited list of preferences, but there's a fixed list of slots, like "f22 => 2, f16 => 4, ... kc-135 => 3".

Then, your ranking in the class drives when it's your turn to pick. Along with some other criteria. For example, some aircraft have min/max pilot height criteria because of the ejection seat. So some pilots do end up flying aircraft they didn't really want to fly.
But now, instead of worrying about errors, you're worrying about pleasing the type checker all the time.
Most people would be scared to answer that. If you did answer, naming concrete examples, you'd be flagged with a great likelihood.

On a very high level, everything is steered by representatives of large corporations, who are using the usual "community" tactics to gain power. The people in power do very little in terms of coding or having original ideas.

Discussion on PSF infrastructure is stifled, cautious and controlled. The atmosphere that existed up to around 2015-2019 has been ruined. Non-corporate developers have been weeded out and their significant contributions are now governed by corporate representatives, whose corporations associate themselves with the substantial work of others and slowly take credit for it.
Thanks for mentioning interest rates as well. Though I don't know that it counters the original point. Things can have multiple causes. Both limited supply and low interest rates can be major contributing factors.
You’re forgetting investors who don’t want to rent property. They just by new properties, keep them empty and pristine and profit of the rising market value of the asset. Sounds crazy but it’s definitely a thing in London.
It should attract very high taxes to make it unviable but of course it doesn’t.
This would be really useful as an app! I moved to Washington DC back when illuminated pedestrian paths were in weirdly short supply. People were getting mugged on the National Mall in the dark.
So be really aggressive about associating holding companies with their owners for the purposes of this tax.
The A-10 was designed to mow down convoys of Russian tanks headed on roads from Russia into Europe.

That role is outdated: the US realistically does not expect a full-on war with Russia (though a hybrid war is a possibility, such as the Ukrainian conflict). Also, sending tanks in a single file column down roads is stupid. Russia knows this.

What else can it do? Someone mentioned Close Air Support. The AC-130 and MQ-9 do it WAY better. The gun on the A-10 can't hit anything accurately (remember - to aim the gun you have to physically aim the aircraft - the A-10 is not a nimble plane, and human targets are TINY at altitude). The A-10 can also carry bombs for Close Air Support. The thing is... so can the MQ-9 and AC-130. the MQ-9 can loiter on target longer and is WAY cheaper, and the AC-130 has missiles AND guns that actually hit things AS WELL AS quickly engage targets.

Can it kill tanks? Yes! But if you're taking out tanks onesy-twosy (again, not in convoys), then again, so can the AC-130 and MQ-9. The Hellfire was LITERALLY designed to kill tanks. Great thing about MQ-9s too is that they're remotely piloted; in a neer-peer conflict, the tanks would be protected by AA - but there'd be no pilot deaths if an MQ-9 goes down, so you can send them to risker places.

It's an outdated plane for an outdated mission set that's expensive and ineffective for what it does. People just REALLY like it because "it's a flying tank!", and "brrrrrt! haha! Big gun!". In the end, it stays around solely because of it's "cultural value".
Being Captcha'd likey means that those systems know not to trust your clicks. I seriously doubt you're doing any damage here, and at worst you're helping the companies you dislike.
It's a peeve of mine. One of those inconvenient truths of history that people don't like to talk about or don't know about. We (the US government) started poisoning alcohol WITHOUT TELLING PEOPLE. The fact that the practice continues is ridiculous.
In many Asian countries you can just buy a townhouse, break it down and built a flat. Something like that would be unthinkable in the West.
Except contrary to any other landlord, the government doesn't expect to earn money but to have a balanced budget. This is why medical expanses are much higher in the US than in any European country. This is why all basic necessities should be controlled by the government. Water, roads, internet, housing.
Berlin has a few city-owned housing companies [1] that provide above average service. You'd be much happier with DeGeWo than with Akelius.

[1] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/find-a-flat-in-berlin#hous...
For everyone not familiar with German rental markets: Berlin is quite cheap compared to other big and small cities. From cities as big as Munich to smaller ones like Mainz, most cities are more expensive (except for those in the former GDR). Cheap(er) rents are part of the reason why people move to Berlin - the more the Senate does to control rent, the more people will want to move to Berlin. The only way is to increase supply - or rebuild the wall ;-)
Yep. Thats why recruiters/employers are so desperate to fill jobs. That's why governments (pushed by big tech) are trying to teach toddlers how to code. That's why 200k+ salaries for senior positions are now pretty common.
Many HN posters are California based, and apply the weird nuances of that market with everyone.

The demand side of capital is underrated because it’s hard to see. Normal folks don’t realize that managers of large funds are doing previously impractical things like buying suburban subdivision homes because they have access to unlimited capital and can offload/distribute risk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28510454

Already posted by the author.

It's a lazy weekend morning so I decided to play though despite the plodding place it takes you to get it game section. I didn't measure exactly, but it took only a few minutes to complete and I felt the exposition was at least as time consuming as the game portion.

Overall I wouldn't call this a game. It's a interactive short film. Had it been presented that way when the author first presented it I would have different expectations. Games I want to play, interactive movies/shorts I expect to watch and have limited interaction to drive the plot.

As an interactive short, I enjoyed it.
SAme for the UK, it should have some percentage of methanol or some sort of difficult to remove bittering agent
The prices in Australia are based on forecasted demand. Since there is almost a 100% chance that the population of tomorrow will be greater than today, that means you can buy on higher prices than current demand. Unfortunately that means houses can be considered worth almost infinite dollars since the population will keep going up.
The problem is not that there isn't sufficient housing, the problem is that a lot of the housing is too expensive.
Instead of buying what they sold two decades ago for practically nothing, they should have built more supply.

Open Google Maps and check Kreuzberg, a district of Berlin. South of it is Tempelhofer Feld, 355 hectares (a third of Kreuzberg), a discontinued airport next to the city only used for people to bike and do barbecues. It's an old airport so it looks bland and there are smaller parks right next to it offering the space to do barbecues and play with your dog. It's been a decade that this airport is not being used yet it's still in that state.

Paris' housing crisis is mostly due to the road surrounding it (le Périph') but Berlin doest not have that yet housing is getting more expensive extremely fast, faster than in Paris actually.
I think the JWST team would do better to keep a low profile until they know all is well after deployment.

As for "eye candy" a lot of the imaging may well be at a single wavelength so a single color. Many images of exoplanets will probably be dots and the, the interesting information being distribution of IR "colors" from point sources.
Is this the plot of some diystopian film?
One member of the Dutch royal family even owns about 500 apartments (IIRC) in Amsterdam.
The article mentions Mikron.

Micron seems to be the US company that we might be familiar with.

I guess they're different companies
I have thought something similar but more in terms of deduction for living in your own home. But it does make more sense to increase the cost of rent-seeking as well.

Also i pondered would adding a law that allows tenants to have an option for purchasing the house at market price for decreased taxation for the landlord help. That should make more people home-owners and thus allow them to generate more wealth in the long run.

Of course the whole topic is so complex it's impossible to invent any rule or law that fixes everything. But preventing useless speculation is what every common sense individual should wish for.
Ebooks that require an account to acquire do exist.
Trying to handle every error can also be a distraction though. I would suggest to only try to display errors that are likely to occur. It’s okay for a few unlikely errors to be not surfaced other than with a cryptic “there was an error.” This can shorten development time by a lot depending on your architecture.
Reading the comments, I noticed that my advice is very US-centric. The core still applies but you want to approach pricing differently.

I would set your pricing around a proposed move to the US so you can ask for money at US labor prices. If the move doesn't work out, you've got the contract priced right at least. Or I would inflate the number of heads you think you need to get to the same place.

Make it low-risk for you. Make it worth your time even if the contact disappeared overnight because your sponsor gets fired. The easiest way to do that is charge enough that you always have a year of expenses in the bank.

The key point is to justify your costs against their costs to replicate and then get a contract that doesn't pay you for your time.
I don’t know if you could pay me enough to have one of these in my house.
My own home grown browser based reader written in PHP.

It's different to others in that it only shows items from the currently served rss feed file i.e. there's no item history.

It's like this, because I don't want the pressure of unread items clocking up, knowing I'll never get to reading them.
this service always made me feel uncomfortable, even the origin of the name “mechanical turk”… an illusion of automation meant to fool others, but really just the hidden labor of a foreigner
Sometimes that happens, but not always. Take the Barbican centre in London as a very well known counter example.
> Must be the power of the A10’s Gatling gun.

It's also the carrying capacity, the speed to get on target, the ability to loiter (and take punishment), and that helos try to kill themselves as part of normal operations. One of the large initial motivations for the V-22 was how helos compromised operation eagle claw (the iran hostage rescue), and that was neither the first nor last high-stake op compromised by helos shitting the bed.
This goes right back to supply. Real estate prices don’t exist in a vacuum; ultimately someone will buy said property who wishes to live there and will have decided so due to it being the best of all options.
I’m also aware that the standard approaches to verify safety and efficacy have been used and safety was never a concern.

A quibble: Phase IV "post-marketing" is where you find the really rare adverse effects that you can't find in Phase III trials, which for the FDA authorized and approved vaccines were as big as they get, but still have a maximum of 23,000 people getting the vaccine. So that rare brain blood clotting problem with Janssen's vaccine actually had one case of it in its clinical trial, but that wasn't enough signal to detect it as a problem. But after 6 million or so people got it in the US there were enough cases reported to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), a handful or so it could be detected and addressed. Same sort of thing happened with the heart and heart lining inflammation for the mRNA vaccines.

But as you say, these are the standard approaches, no extra length pre-marketing testing would have discovered them based on how vaccines work, and for drugs roughly the same thing happens as you discover there are some people who just don't tolerate them. For more on this, look into "black box" warnings that are regularly added to the prescribing information for doctors from Phase IV surveillance.
The worst is: just a couple of years ago, in 2013, the (mostly) publicly owned BayernLB has sold 32 000 condos/rentals to a private owner for extremely cheap prices: around 77 thousand euro per rental.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayerische_Landesbank#GBW-Verk... (German)
I don't understand your critique -- the words tenant and segue do not appear in this post. What are examples of playing fast and loose with language?
We had that in the past. It was called feudal society.
Embodiment for Nerds
The construction market is heavily regulated in Germany. The government is actively suppressing the creation of supply by issuing permits very slowly (or not at all) due to zoning laws and similar bureaucracy, or due to financial reasons: in a lot of places, the city itself is already the biggest owner of housing. They would reduce the value of their own assets.
> I much prefer writing and reading code with exceptions than explicit error handling control flow.

Can you let us know what languages that use "explicit error handling control flow" you have used?

I've extensive experience with both an much prefer the "explicit error handling control flow" in Rust/Haskell/Elm/Kotlin/ReScript, than the exceptions in Java/C++/C#/JS/Ruby/Python.

Interesting that the use of implicit nulls (another of my annoyances in langs) is also split along these lines!
Yeah, it's completely bad timing, like the situation took them by surprise. Doesn't the state employ economists and planners to handle these situations properly and timely?

If so, what were these economists thinking? What is the profession even worth if it brings a false sense of knowledge and security?
"I have failed. I can't get a teaching job and I am just a stupid patent clerk at 22. No one will ever even know who I am!"
--Albert
I got an idea and I want to test it using a landing page to collect emails with a waiting list.
I know some backend and frontend but not an expert.
Should I use some kind of Wix or other website builders to do it quickly and if yes any suggestions?
Hearing the Brrrt of a flying gattling gun must be pretty demoralising for enemy troops though. It doesn't necessarily need to be highly accurate.
Lmao, I actually heard this one before and the guy was serious.

I give it a few years before your corporate lordship fucks you over and you have no recourse or you simply get bored out of your mind in this perfect city.

But don't worry, the rest of us will provide some quality locks on the outside of your wall, so you can stay there until death.
Real estate rarely decreased in price, especially in Berlin. It may turn out to be a good investment.
Not all governments are inefficient, and not all types of public housing are cheap. See Vienna. It can work.

Where I live (Montreal), a very common model is housing cooperatives. Funds help build or buy property, then gets converted to housing rental coop. It's not perfect since not everyone wants to manage a building, but it works fairly well overall.
Personally, as someone who has been sketchnoting for about 5 years, I feel the point of sketchnoting is more to create a condensed visual reference of an idea for personal recall than for teaching that same idea to someone else.

There's a wider argument here of whether notes should be used for personal recall or general reference. I tend to lean towards the former, but there's more nuance here.

I'm working on a blog post that discusses how to take good sketchnotes and breaks down this argument a lot further, but it's already super long and far from being finished... perhaps I'll finish it someday, haha.

Kudos to the original author of these notes. When taking these types of notes, you have to think about what to leave out as much as what to leave in. I think that concise notes in this style to show that the author has a deeper understanding of the subject than the notes convey on the surface, especially when the point of these notes are to compress one's knowledge on the subject into a concise visual representation.

Sketchnotes are macroexpand for the brain :P
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