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I live in one of those countries. Nobody will accept my currency in exchange for bitcoin. I can't send money offshore to buy bitcoin.

I mean, just ask the Chinese how easy it is to get bitcoin today. The billionaires, millionaires, and political elite can get their hands on bitcoin sure no matter where in the world they are, but not the common man (the actual oppressed in those regimes).

Unlike Alex, I don't have a conflict of interest.
If you gave them a program written in C++, it would probably be faster for them to recreate it in Labview than to figure your version out. (Heck, if you gave it to a python programmer, they might choose to replace-implement it in python rather than figure out your C++.)
If kids "don't even feel this shit if they catch it"

Why have pediatric ICU beds been near or at capacity and care as a whole on the brink of failure from months of completely fucked working conditions for the doctors and nurses?

Along with other kids not dealing with COVID having life saving medical procedures/treatments indefinitely delayed until beds are back down below a certain fill for some amount of time? I've personally had to see effects this in my extended family.

Seriously - what is wrong with you? What makes you have to say things/come to conclusions like this when you're very clearly factually incorrect?

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/coronavirus/pediatric-hospital-b...

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-flow/number-of...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210816/u-s-reports-record-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kids-sick-covid-are-fil...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/24/health/covid-hospitalizations...

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-pediatric-cov...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/02/picu-hosp...
The parent comment is valuable, but the numbers do seem wrong. I think it is part of the argument for ending strict lockdowns once vaccination rates are high.
Death rate is highly misleading given the skew of outcomes based on a few factors we have known for a long time now such as age.
'The case remains open': FBI rebuts claim Zodiac Killer case is solved
Ask HN: Where can I bike in Foster City?
I'm going to spend a couple months consulting at a site in Foster City, CA, USA. Should I bring my bike? Is there any point? Are there places to recreationally ride, that are more than a mile or two?

I ask because my normal recreational ride is 10 to 20 miles. I doesn't seem worthwhile to bring my bike, if the trails are a mile or two of shorefront with dog walkers and dense pedestrians.
24 years old, NW is ~300K. That's about 30k in cash, 200k invested into VTI and VT, and 70k in 401k.

I achieved this by becoming a FAANG software engineer right out of college. By my projections, and assuming no major world events occur to knock my plans off course, I should be a millionaire by 28/29 and will be able to retire by my mid/late 30s. However, the more and more I work, the more I realize that I really enjoy what I do, so we will see what happens.
"Google said it's making these changes in response to frustration from advertisers and content creators about their messages appearing alongside climate denialism."

Then why not give advertisers the option to avoid putting their ads next to climate denialism, as opposed to demonetizing such videos entirely?
It's all about how you define "creating wealth". So indeed in todays liberal capitalist society we might say that an investor who's share trades were ultimately a zero sum game is "creating wealth" but a mother raising a child, which is hard work, is not.
> Kids don't even feel this shit if they catch it.

In general, sure, but that's a bit like arguing people should be able to drive drunk because drunks are more likely to survive a car accident.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/odds-favo...

> A retrospective study of nearly 8,000 trauma patients found that seven percent of people who came in sober died of their injuries, while those who were hurt while drunk only died one percent of the time. A positive blood alcohol level seemed to increase the likelihood of survival, even after the researchers took into account the age of the patient and the severity of the injury. Trauma patients who came in to the hospital drunk were discharged sooner, too.

The impact on others can be significant, and important.
So now they are up 5% on their investment in two weeks and the establishment still has to nitpick on a national tech rollout with positive cashflow.Hmm.
Is HOMM popular with the Russian speaking IT crowd?

HOMM2/3 are my favorite games ever.
After the first "bend", the ROI for SS tax is super-duper low. If you're working for 35 or more years, this would be ~12k/year in 2021 dollars a year. Thus, if your income will put you over the poverty line, paying more unnecessary SS tax past that won't help very much. (I'd put a number on the ROI, but it depends on how old you are.)

It's not very hard to make a spreadsheet to play with numbers if you want. I'm considering retiring soon, decades before eligibility, and I've enjoyed playing with the numbers, as I have the opportunity to contribute more or less in the coming years fairly easily.
> I don't know which is better though, will the minimum wage worker pay for services that are more beneficial, or will the millionaire invest it in a company that creates jobs and provides services?

One way of measuring this is by looking at the "velocity of money." [1]

IIRC a dollar spent at a local, family-owned restaurant travels 7x further than one spent at a mega-chain restaurant before . The restaurant owner might use that dollar to pay their cook, who might use it later that week when he gets a haircut to pay his barber, who might later use it to buy a coffee, etc. Because value is created for both parties with each transaction, this is considered much better for the economy (and especially the local economy) compared a dollar spent at McDonald's, where it might just go into a bank account and stop moving.

I don't have the data to back it up (someone here might?), but I'd be tremendously surprised if a dollar put in the hands of a millionaire circulated more than a dollar put in the hands of the minimum wage worker, or if it created more value in the overall economy.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp
Automatic braking doesn't get much attention, but it seems like something that could be incredibly valuable if it got to the "clearly better than human" level.

This is purely anecdotal, but I find the automatic braking system on my Mazda CX-9 to be fairly annoying. Once every couple months or so, it has a false alarm and brakes while blaring out alerts, in an urban environment where I don't observe anything out of the ordinary at all. And it's never activated in a situation where I found it to be helpful.

That said, it's possible that an annoyance every two months is just the cost of a system that really would help me if I got into bigger trouble. It's hard to say from purely my own anecdotes.
Just out of curiosity, did you get COVID first and then decided to get the vaccine later on? Or was it the other way around? I'm guessing the former - I've had friends who had COVID and their doctors still advised them to get the vaccine - and find it quite troubling if so. We've known for so long now how robust natural immunity is - and before we "knew for sure" any sane person's priors would still assume natural immunity works the way it does for any other respiratory pathogen - yet there was a concerted institutional/media push to act as if immunity literally didn't exist, or the more subtle form that immunity might exist but that vaccine immunity is "better".

Not that it's super relevant but the friends I mentioned were mid 20's and in fine health, no weird immune disorders or anything, so the fact that their doc advised the vaccine was frankly just negligence in my book.
(1) IFF is shorthand for "if and only if". Try to read the original sentence, it makes perfect sense and is used correctly.

(2) Logically, iff, equivalence and double implication are themselves equivalent, the expression in question is (necessarily) logically correct even in those forms, though it is irrelevant as of (1) and a confusing way to express the relationship, as the causality clearly flows in one direction.

(3) It was not meant nor interpreted as a bare logical proposition, hence it is improper to blindly apply logical transformations and reinterpret in a different system.
The risk that a person could potentially write an infinite while loop and commit it to a codebase is about the same as the threat posed by the DoS "vulnerabilities" that seem to have completely overrun the NPM audit system. Noone wants to know about the former risk.
In a testament to how powerful product placement can really be, the image of James Bond using a VAIO laptop while sitting on a boat is still burned in my brain.
I'm pretty neutral on Tesla/Musk, but I looked at this guy's (Russ Mitchell) writing history and it appears to be an unhealthy fixation on Tesla. His Twitter, and almost every article he writes, is about bashing Tesla. It's like he has real personal beef with Musk, a person he's probably never met.
Hardly surprising.

Regardless of the future of bitcoin, I do wonder if this move will serve to accelerate the country's move towards more technological and digital literacy. For a place that's probably still pretty heavy on physical cash, this could be a net positive for them in the long term even if bitcoin as a currency doesn't work out.
Is that conditional on donating via some cryptocoin? I'd be up for donating a well-deserved $100 (can't really afford much more right now sadly) but prefer traditional methods.
Their hobbies are literally instagram, youtube, and spotify. Any attempt to encourage them to expand their interest beyond these is met with indifference.
That's what my NAS is called
Well, thank you very much for the last part.

However, I have needed to do most of the above. Usually as part of a team, thankfully. Happy to learn that you didn't. YMMV.

I'd guess that Google wants to hire engineers who can do that, too.
Interesting article but its rich as fuck coming from a company whose sole product is weaponizing the ever increasing scope of browsers against users
Life at 50C: Keeping cool in India's heatwaves
There's a lot of nuance that you're not taking into account. For example, previously infected benefit minimally from getting vaccinated (they're already better protected than non-infected but vaccinated individuals). The risks of covid are strongly correlated with age and healthiness, as are risks of vaccines (e.g. affects particularly young men). There's many variables that individuals can take into account when deciding what to do.

Note that I'm mainly criticising anti-scientific propaganda sold as science, and forced vaccinations, not vaccination itself (in general or specifically for COVID).
Do it in FORTH - then we can have Git running on bare metal on some obscure architectures.
Are we talking about the same US? I don't live there anymore, but I'm always surprised by the high number of indoor fountains in publicly-accessible buildings (as well as many parks and outdoor locations) there. For instance, every library, shopping mall, or larger store seems to have one near the bathrooms.

Meanwhile, in some European countries, for instance, outdoor fountains can be more plentiful which is fantastic in its own way, and indoor options are much less common. In others, neither outdoor nor indoor options exist so one is forced to find a public bathroom to use the faucet.

In some other countries, both public bathrooms and water fountains can be very rare, which unfortunately leaves no viable option.
Yeah, the anti-vax hockey player Josh Archibald recently caught COVID and developed myocarditis as a consequence. It's among the known sequelae.

Your risk of myocarditis from COVID is 10x-20x your risk of myocarditis from a vaccine.

(One of many many sources: https://twitter.com/awong37/status/1444825498018795521)
> A home-cooked meal for me takes at MINIMUM an hour.

It's not hard to optimize for speed. White rice, beans and frozen veggies boil in 10-15 minutes and don't even require attention for the full timespan. Cleanup consists of putting things in the dishwasher. And I don't know why you would factor in eating, going to McD won't teleport it into your stomach. Time can be further amortized by making several servings, putting them in the fridge and warming them up in the microwave later.

We're comparing to fastfood here, not a high end restaurant course.
Pretty misleading title IMHO - from the 3rd para of the article:
"In the first eight months of 2021, vehicles without any type of electrification – battery electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid, hybrid – made up less than 10 per cent of (9.66 per cent) new car sales"

So by 'electric', they mean what are commonly referred to as 'electrified' vehicles, and by ICE, they are actually referring to pure gas/diesel cars. I have news for you - hybrids still burn gas!
It's not always that random (not saying it couldn't be). GiveWell, the best known research outfit, publishes their process: https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/process

Peter Singer (who also runs The Life You Can Save), has lots of thoughts about why one should go with "effective" altruism instead of always donating to your local charity, and I would say they are worth listening to.
If the government cares about making it easier to send remittances, should there be a simpler way than Bitcoin?
Somebody said it is a hard problem to solve.
While we're discussing it, does anyone know where to get road-standard rear lights for a bicycle? For riding at nights on streets with cars, I want the bicycle to look like a motorcycle: a pair of yellow flashing 'hazard lights' (because the bike is much slower than the cars), red light(s) that brighten when I brake (actually connected to my breaks - doesn't seem technically hard), maybe functioning turn signals.

It's visible, drivers understand it perfectly, and it's a very mature, well-tested road safety technology (unlike much bike lighting). It seems obvious to me, but I haven't seen it anywhere.
Saying that it's like assembly is an odd way of phrasing it since a single G code statement can have a huge amount of functionality under the hood. But yes, it's interpreted. In fact, some older machines have very small buffers so you have to "drip feed" them a few lines of G-code at a time.
The big advantage of TTS is that you can manipulate any components however you want, as in physical play. You can apply house rules, add custom components (cards/factions/etc), allow take-backs or corrections, play out experimental what-if scenarios, and so on.

If you don't care about that amount of freeform object manipulation and just want to bang through a game by its standard implementation, then yeah boardgamearena will do fine.
Ask HN: How did the Arduino Pin Header eat the world?
I have a several boxes of embedded boards in front of me. There are ~100 boards total, from: NXP, Intel, Renesas, InnoPhase, RealTek, ON Semiconductor, Nordic, STMicroelectornics, Atmel, just to name a few. All but ~10 boards have an Arduino Header on them. The remaining 90% conform (roughly) to the standard Arduino header: Rx/Tx uart on pins 0/1, VIN, 5V, GNDx2, and 3.3V pins, and the rest GPIO. I can't find a good explanation as to how a tiny foundation started 16 years ago became the dominant interface of the embedded world. Does anyone know?
No. It means that every vaccinated person has a 53% reduction in their chance of catching covid-19.

More importantly, this study found that after 6 months, protection against being hospitalized was still very high (93%). So, while vaccinated people may spread it, they're very unlikely to end up in the hospital or die from it.
My hypothesis on this is that all automaker's automatic emergency braking systems likely function at approximately the same level, but Tesla drivers are disproportionately likely to rely on it due to the use of Autopilot being so incredibly common. Statistically, drivers of other brands that include similar lanekeeping abilities are far less likely to use them compared to Tesla owners' use of Autopilot.

Should it be happening? Well the NHTSA doesn't seem to mind it. Maybe we should be asking them why their automatic emergency braking tests are so stupidly out of agreement with what drivers expect and automakers promise that the systems are able to do. The freight industry has a high speed test and their systems are top notch.
401k limits are about $58k per year... You can only personally contribute up to about $20k per year. There are ways to take advantage of the difference such as employer matching and after-tax traditional 401ks (and instantly convert to Roth money).

This is also a way of contributing to a Roth (IRA?) if you don't qualify for a regular Roth IRA (make too much money) or want to contribute more than the $6k limit per year.
What a truly invalidating and humiliating take! Clearly you need to be warred upon for a thousand years for this unforgivable slight :D

As it happens I agree with you here, at least personally, and here is why: humiliation is an EMOTIONAL feeling and you cannot assume it is justifiable. Narcissists can feel humilated over not being treated like they are God almighty. Bigots can feel humiliated over having to engage with subhumans as if they are people. I've got a brother who is humilated if he has to bag his own groceries at the grocery store, and goes into rather well-disciplined and civilized rage over it. Likewise if he's served food and something is wrong with it or with the service: he, in a dignified way, punishes everyone as hard as he can and goes to war.

We cannot go by feelings like this: it can't be personal. There has to be a contextualization where you say 'no, you cannot beat that passing lady to death because she rolled her eyes at you and sneered'.

That's why humiliation is so dangerous: both for individuals and for societies. It spurs these extreme, vengeful reactions, but there seems to be NO requirement that it is over some justifiable slight. We're far too subjective to trust this reaction in anyone or anything. Being able to take a broader view is indispensable.

Some of the most capable, powerful people in the world are walking wounded, forever acting out revenge on past, unreachable humiliations. It's tragic, but also dangerous. It's why we have laws and police and such: we've never not had this problem.
I haven't used it myself but I know Vassal [0] was used for Pipeline playstesting and it seems to have an extensive set of games set up already.

I like BoardGameArena since the games are licensed and you know you're supporting the creators in some way versus platforms that are typically unlicensed like TTS.

[0] https://vassalengine.org/about.html
It seems like this isn't the most precise chart which I think is likely in order to avoid underestimating intoxication.

https://www.businessinsider.com/drinks-before-driving-if-bac... has me at 0.13 after 5 drinks versus 0.21 according to the CA chart. This is an astromical difference that I implies at least one source is lying via statistics.
I wonder if the cameras or ML are thrown off by flashing emergency lights or emergency vehicles' livery (most cars on the road use just 1 paint color)
you're describing the "dude got banned" part

the other part is "dude is threatened with a lawsuit if anything he ever codes ever touches anything facebook, even if he himself never uses it"

the store analogy is bad anyways -- I could try to correct it, but it's so non-analogous that the result would be contrived and convoluted

the key point is that I, as someone who wants to use his browser extension to make my facebook experience healthier, no longer can do so because facebook banned me from using the tool, too

so I guess a horrible store analogy would be, the store disallows me from using a wheelchair to access their store if he built the wheelchair, and also if he builds the wheelchair he gets sued

it's just like the most recent facebook whistleblower said: facebook prioritizes profits over user safety, and will until they are forced to prioritize user safety higher -- just like OSHA made companies do for employees, the FDA made food and drug companies do for users, etc.
> Tesla does not have a media relations department and Chief Executive Elon Musk did not respond to attempts to seek comment.

Tesla has ongoing response to this.

https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Are you somehow under the impression that everyone is driving at most a one year old car?
> playing without ELO anxiety is way

Absolutely. My games are a lot more relaxed, I find that my gameplay is a lot more bold and attacking. This results in games that are much more exciting.

When I played logged in, my overriding concern was always trying not to lose, rather than to win.
No one has called for bans of discussions of the lab leak theory (or no one mainstream). It was simply obvious that early harping about it from Tucker Carlson was a useless distraction in the early time of the pandemic, when the rest of the world was focusing on how to respond to the pandemic instead of beating the shit out of Asians and calling Coronavirus "Wuhan flu" to enrage the libs.

No one has "banned" discussion of Hunter Biden. (I just saw your reply to someone else saying it was censored from facebook; I would be interested in seeing any evidence of that). Downvoting isn't censorship. Lack of prioritizing coverage by a newspaper could be a concern, but that isn't censorship (and boy, do I have some news for you if you don't know how Fox does its reporting).

Republicans have barely lifted a finger when in power to secure voting systems, or take any interest in voting security. You keep on acting like Republicans care about election security (or election fairness at all) but they don't. They care about disenfranchisement.

There was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in 2020, as stated by Secretaries of State from multiple states Republican-led and Democrat-led. As shown by reviews in multiple states that were done for partisan reasons (we lost and we don't like Democrats winning).

Voting records might have been broken because political polarization is at a high note and we had a hugely polarizing president in office.

The investigation into Russian interference was related to disinformation campaigns and collusion with members of the Trump campaign, NOT voter or election fraud.

It found evidence of that, but the Republican-led house did nothing with the information. https://wannabewonk.com/summary-of-hypocrisies/

edit2: Ah, yes, you're talking about the discredited hitpieces that were released in the weeks before the election. Yes, it seems those were throttled, openly and transparently, due to them being discredited hitpieces.
Tasty. Fizzy. Caffeine. Cheap. Tons of flavor options.
That's fair, Con Edison has an actual monopoly (more or less, it's weird and you can license third-party power), while Facebook just has a plurality of social media attention. Hell, I didn't even have a Facebook until last week when I bought my Oculus Quest (though I used a fake name and a burner email address), so clearly it's not vital.

As I said before, i agree with the OP, I was just trying to entertain a different point of view.
No, it's not. Donate to ZSF directly or via every.org and I'll match it.
I'm not sure why it's unfair for first-time founders. STEM founders are largely better off not innovating and instead helping FB sell ads. Tax incentivizes like QSBS for companies, especially bootstrapped co's, help. Job creation & technology invention is why the gov already has direct programs to give tax money directly to startups (SBIR, R&D tax credit, ...), and this is an extension of that encouragement. We need more, not less -- otherwise it'll push even more to the concentration of VC-funded fintech startups and FAANG.

I would agree that QSBS support for the already-rich can be less effective -- your case of angels. I'd rather see improvements on the capping structure, vs pushing incentives even more (15-30%!) to working for FAANGs.