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> No, it's because no matter what the cost of school is, universities know their "customers" will just take out a loan to match whatever the price is.

This is key, and price inflation happens when the entity receiving a service is not the entity paying for the service. It makes the customer price-insensitive. Witness healthcare in America.
Actually, no one asks anything. That's why it's really popular money laundering destination. I lost count of scandals of money laundry, fraud and tax evasions that each are over a billion USD. They tend to come out when something political happens. The amount of cocaine seized this year was in the scale of metric tons with no arrests made on the receiving side.

Oh and about your 2). I have some exposure to that stuff and I assure you, it's not how it works. The US does have sanctions but these are lists of names and specific corporations, you don't suddenly get into a blacklist. These lists change with the political situations. Also, there are known terrorist, so if you are not one of those or if you are not politically targeted you wont have problems.

If you are in a list, you use private jet to move cash or gold. Turkey is truly the wild west of illicit money at the moment.

If you send USD, it will go through the usual SWIFT mechanisms and will be visible to the USA but you can always move cash and gold. Turkey's proximity to major markets and the infrastructure is excellent. EU is just right there, accessible by plane, train, car, bus or boat. UK is less than 4 hours of flight, just like Dubai.

Istanbul has a physical cash only gold and USD/EUR/GBP trading center. The city of Istanbul is gargantuous, 3 times of El Salvador's population.
My hypothesis is that most of our "unproductive time" in the 40h workweek is just filler time spent warming seats, a direct result of there actually not being all that much work that a human can consistently accomplish in a week.

So, by removing the expectation that you have your butt in a chair 8 hours a day 5 days a week, the new model is "get everything you were already painfully stretching across 5 days done in only the time it actually takes (2 days), and let's all go home and enjoy the free time we otherwise would have spent scrolling on our phones under florescent lights and quickly tabbing back to Excel when the boss walks by."

I truly do believe 95% of office-based business would get the same "amount" of work done in this system.
Why do you think that the people that rent at market rate subsidise the people that rent below market rate?
Same. I'm on caffeine free now but I haven't kicked the entire habit yet.

That said - it's much easier to drink just water now. No caffeine headaches and such. Can't actually drink the caffeinated diet coke anymore - get sick from it. Super weird.
Google is trying their absolute hardest to reduce the fingerprinting surface

Really? If true, it's so they will be the only source of such tracking info.

Google is like the one eye, it never stops seeking, looking, tracking you.
Feel free to lay out the entire supply chain and the numbers that support your hypothesis.
Yeah, I was just thinking about every other app that you might use on the phone.

If you only use a web browser then that's perfect for you. I am a fairly minimalist user and I generally prefer the browser over phone apps but I still use too many apps to list here easily.
Android dev here. Still have the same default wallpaper as my Pixel 3 came with 3 years ago.
Color theme is generated from Wallpaper.

Color theme consists of at least 3 colors taken from the wallpaper.

At least 3 unique colors is enough to make the user potentially uniquely identifiable, depending on how rare the color combos are.

2²⁴ (R⁸G⁸B⁸) combinations for every color times 3 colors means 2⁷² combinations.

And there are color samples taken from potentially two different wallpapers.

Other apps have access to the colors picked for the theme generated from the wallpaper so they can theme themselves accordingly.

This means an app can use your color theme (of 3 or 6 colors) as a nearly unique fingerprint. The odds of collision for smaller apps (sub 1 million downloads) are pretty damn low.
That's pretty interesting in the photos. Will have to discuss with some friends. I believe the professor, but there might be subtle differences between the different kinds of protests.

EDIT: Looking at some side-by-sides with the George Floyd protests, it seems apparent to me that while there were some non-black participants in the 1960s, the proportion of them significantly increased.

https://www.google.com/search?q=george+floyd+protests&tbm=is...
That latency also reduces throughout. While a freighter is anchored waiting to unload it's not carrying other cargo. We have the same number of ships, but the effective number of ships has been slashed.
Hey, I'm not 51 yet!
In practice, "Do I have excess calories?" is an excellent approximation for "Am I gaining weight?"
Note also that if you spend all of your funds allocated to Lord Bezos at smile.amazon.com instead of the base 2LD, you can specify GiveWell as the beneficiary and they get a small cut of each purchase.

It's per purchase though so you have to update your bookmarks to point to smile.amazon.com. Uninstall the app to help you remember.
"Beds" is a meaningless figure... it really refers to staff. Now they are massively firing nurses who won't get vaxxed (which should be red flag in and of itself, wonder what they are seeing day to day) which in turn leads to less beds... which then in turn helps justify the "need" for mandates. All of those nurses have been getting daily boosters of covid from actual patients every day and we are pretending like they all don't have preexisting immunity.
Phosphoric acid is a strong acid. Got it.
> pandemic preparedness

There's a big difference between a threat that has existed for all of human history (pandemics), and a completely novel threat model that might exist in the future (AI)
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You make it sound like there was a 100% vote in favour of Brexit.

That wasn’t the case, it was won with a small margin.
Do they? I've had the same "live wave animation"(that looks like the PS3's XBM menu) for at least 5 years now and I don't see any reason to change it.
All good improvements, but Java is missing some really key pieces:

- pipe operator (or custom operators in general)

- do-notation

- tail call optimisation

- currying / partial application

- (better) type inference

- expression orientated

- less syntactic noise around function calls (fewer commas and parenthesis)

- type-classes or even runtime generic information to work around that

Some of the thing I’ve listed can never be added without dramatically changing what Java is. At that point it would be a new language.
Also in isolated networks like industry automation or so. You have a couple of devices and static addresses. Very simple.

A couple of years ago I tryed to make my homenetworks complete IPv6, but then I realised, IPv6 is a such pain for me at home with a couple of VLANs and so. Of course just NAT is bad, but it had also it's good points.
The implication being that because only conservatives complain about it, concentration of power is nothing to worry about?

Do only conservatives worry about the consolidation of traditional media [1], too? Or is that something others, besides conservatives, also worry about, and is therefore a legitimate concern, unlike the consolidation of social networks?

What about the other way around - if only liberals complain about something, and not conservatives, do you also use that to dismiss the concerns?

[1] https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own...
I’ve found it useful to clean car battery terminals in a pinch. If a car is on the edge of starting, cleaning off that little bit of corrosion can help get you going to drive to an auto parts store.
You want the person who is better able to negotiate to negotiate price and product. For what groceries or car you buy you yourself is better than the state. However for education and healthcare the state has proven to be a better negotiator than the people.
They specified "based on a present-value analysis". They were interested in SS as a personal money-returning interest for that question.

That doesn't mean they don't think that people should pay taxes for welfare programs like social security or for other governmental functions, it just wasn't what the question was about.

Certainly if you're after the second bend (very realistic for a lot of folks) there is minimal return on contributing.
Yes, that's the difference. However the volume in El Salvador is so small that it's insignificant in any real terms. It's a poor country with a tiny population. They certainly wont be able to exchange you USD for BTC and vise versa if you try to do it with a significant amount.
While I agree that regex DoS isn't a very useful thing to highlight in a build, there are risks that come with vulnerable code running in CI/CD systems.

There's a whole topic in information security and infrastructure hardening that centers around SDLC (secure development lifecycle) and it covers such thrilling topics as:

1. Is the code from your SCM the same as the code that was built and deployed?

2. Has anyone tampered with your build or deployment artifact?

3. Who all actually has access to the boxes that do all this? Can you tell when folks access your build boxes and what has changed on them?

4. Does your CI/CD system have privileged access to secrets or other internal networks?

5. How confident are you that your digital supply chain is reliable and trustworthy? Would you know if someone fed you a poisoned dependency?

The list goes on and on. There be dragons here. I'd love to see less focus on regex DoS and more awareness around the fact that build systems need just as much scrutiny and security as the production environments they feed into.
No, I do think research on AI ethics is important and necessary. But I also think there's a time and a place, and "third most pressing issue for humanity" is not it.

Biased AI algorithms are a problem for the 10% of countries where AI is part of their daily decision process. For the other 90%, "I don't have enough nutrients for my brain to develop" and "I'm severely disabled due to a preventable but unprofitable illness" are much more pressing issues.

I support basic research, even in areas whose economic benefit may not be clear. But if someone asks "how can I help humanity the most?", I consider "AI research" to be a really bad answer, to the point of being almost a lie.
Any economic activity is basically actively destroying the environment though. The big difference is that there are a few supply chain steps that get bypassed before value is created. I know I know, someone will take issue with that and say that no value is created with crypto when a coin gets minted and the rewards are distributed while value is created along each supply chain step when you manufacture a car. But if it wasn't creating value people wouldn't do it at this scale.
> The vendor will refuse and the case will be thrown out.

I'm skeptical that a case would be thrown out that easily. I have seen expert witnesses getting chewed by the prosecution on minor details. So what if the source is unavailable. It can be argued that the device is tested and regularly calibrated, and that any inaccuracies found will be minor - and certainly not enough to exonerate the defendant.

Yeah maybe there might be some inaccuracy - but then the defendant failed the standardized field sobriety tests. And the cop is saying that they were visibly drunk. Now what?
What do you mean? I'm struggling to think of any examples here other than police stealing people's money. I don't understand the bank comparison here at all, deposits in most banks are insured.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-...
Ok- the million dollar question- what to use instead of python..?
Any professional java developer will tell you exactly the same thing about java.

Professional java developers use a maven file which is similar to a package.json file. And it lists dozens of dependencies.

Even though java has default collections (so does javascript by the way), most developers also want Apache Commons (which could be compared to lodash)

And by default java has no DI and IOC, so most of them will install Spring Boot. The thing is, spring boot isn't just 1 dependency. There is actually a spring boot initializer website to help developers pick their dependencies. On top of that the names of Spring dependencies change between releases, sometimes they move things around.

And about persistence. In java you would need a JDBC library for ms sql server for instance. However, there are different ms sql server jdbc libraries depending of the version of the database, and depending on the version of your JRE. And in some cases you need additional libraries to add security protocols. (e.g. "bouncy castle")

And then there's JAXB which used to be included in the java framework, but has been removed since JDK8. Talk about backwards compatibility.

And what about portability. If you want to make a setup utility or installer for your software, then often they will include a copy of the Java runtime inside the installer. After all, you can't expect users to have java pre-installed. That does mean, that every installer has a footprint of 400MB+ (~the size of a JRE).

Node.js isn't that terrible now, is it?
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I've used the same wallpaper on every computing device I've owned, for the last 26 years.
It was either 5 or 6 match into vanguard, which is ok but not great. I saved 105% of my income for a couple years as they paid for all my living expenses including food, although I went shopping to get groceries and cooked for them. Also this was not the tech industry…

I carpooled to work so that was also free. The only thing I spent money on was a couple new iphones and alcohol/dates/entertainment, which was paid with through churning maaaany credit cards.

I’m very grateful for that, and would show them my retirement account every once in awhile to prove that I wasn’t blowing my paycheck on stupid stuff.

The only real problem is that it didn’t really work because housing prices have increased much faster than the market so now I need like 1-1.5MM if I ever want to buy a decent house by Seattle and don’t really have that.
With LabVIEW, I found the inability to use the git version control system extremely limiting, along with vendor lock-in/licensing and difficulty debugging VIs.

Programming graphically has its merits, but I think for large organizations it ultimately becomes a huge headache when employed in production environments and that they would be better served by a text based programming language such as python. In my opinion, it works far better in lab environments and for rapid prototyping.
Given your list of beverages, it sounds to me you might be subconsciously self-medicating with caffeine :). Myself, I'm constantly drinking either black tea or diet coke, all day long. I only drink water as last resort. I've been like that since childhood. It only recently occurred to me that I'm always settling on drinking choices that supply me with stimulants, indicating a potential deficiency problem.
Thanks for this feedback, and I definitely think we could do a better job of making it clear which orgs we have a direct relationship with vs not.

That being said, Network for Good, our partner for disbursing to nonprofits whom haven't connected directly with us, also handles disbursements for a lot of Facebook Giving and other large donation platforms, so I don't think the checks coming from there are necessarily unexpected by many nonprofits - see their support article on this at https://networkforgood.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150073...
Tracy Beth Høeg was touting ideas against children vaccination well before this study she coauthored.

A cardiologist commentary for this was that raw VAERS data is not to be trusted and CDC will know better. End of story.

This study also seriously underestimates the virus speed and complications.

Do not let any random quack fool you. Verify it.
> the optimal money move is to continue working to full retirement age

Only your highest-earning-of-SS-income 35 years matter, so it's conceivable (and probably not too rare for many HN readers) to have had 35 max-income years before FRA.
AFAIK I think Terra’s UST is pretty legit
The next page is “Getting started” (http://www.conmicro.com/hercos360/getstarted.html). It says:

“The best source is the CBT CD-ROM, which contains Rick Fochtman's OS/360 distribution. This has not only the OS/360 distribution files, but also the source to the operating system and utilities, as well as some useful documentation. There are many, many other useful files and utilities on the disk, and it's a must for anyone wanting to experiment with OS/360, as well as any systems programmer on a modern OS/390 or z/OS system. Ordering information is at the CBT Tape site.”

That CBT Tape site is a sight to behold even if you have no plans to run OS/360: https://www.cbttape.org/. Bonus link: https://www.cbttape.org/funny/bug3.jpg
Either, whichever is most stable.
Cooking time heavily depends on the dish. There are recipes optimized for time consumption - if time is a priority, you could use those. Sometimes we just put potatoes in the pressure cooker, peel afterwards, and season with some oil and spice - takes 10m max. That’s the healthier alternative to fries from McD. A keto meal will take longer, but at least in my area there‘s no takeout option for keto anyway.
On Windows multiprocessing is very poor due to lack of forking. This means for example no memory at all is shared; modules, data, external shared libraries etc are all individually loaded by each subprocess. There are also some Windows-specific oddities that make using it a further pain (can’t remember the details).

There is a project to effectively internalise multiprocessing by running separate interpreters inside one process. It’s meant to be cheaper than having separate modules too.
I’d wager that 99% of all excel workbooks in the world contain no VBA.

Excel’s market power is in what you can do in the formulas, interactive exploration, and incremental progress not in the (fairly awful dev-experience) VBA.
There's the fact that soda is packed with sugar and people getting addicted to the dopamine hits. [1][2]

[1]https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/addicted-to-soda
[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6488513/

In the case of diet soda, I assume that since most people already start drinking regular soda, there's a placebo effect.
> How would a government seize Bitcoin?

The same way it seizes anything else; have people with guns show up [0] to the person with control over it, and inform them they must turn it over or face dire consequences. Seizing money held in a personal wallet means doing that to the owner (whether its a physical or digital wallet), seizing money held in a third-party service (often the case with Bitcoin) means doing it to the service operator.

> Stealing Bitcoin is not the same as seizing.

True, in that “stealing” is what is called when someone seizes property from another without legal authority. But false in the senae that seems intended, in that the mechanics the government uses when seizing something are exactly mechanics that would constitute stealing if they weren't backed by law.

[0] Or people without guns with the implicit backing of people with guns. Or just messages from an agency known to be backed by people with guns.
HN changes the title itself.
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Then the establishment should just be honest about it instead of trying to fear-porn parents into wanting to "protect your kids from the deadly disease".... Just say.... we are going to put your kids at risk from the vaccine because we think the ends justify the benefits for old people.
Is there anyone here on HN who lives in El Salvador and can report how things are going?
> If true, it's so they will be the only source of such tracking info.

So... they're reducing their competition? Sounds anti-competitive. They wouldn't know anything about that though.
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That's not how you count it, right? Otherwise it simply leads to a race-to-the-bottom where an ad-supported product gets to bypass market regulation because they get their money in a different channel.
Lightning network and power consumption have been discussed in countless HN threads
University degrees, in practice, aren't about learning or education. Depending on the person and the university, they are about accreditation (you have more doors open with a bachelor's than you would otherwise, depending on the degree) or they are about connections. Either one can be worth a loan.

But I'm not so sure that making them free accomplishes either one. It's possible that doing so would only push the problem to the master's programs as organizations and candidates look for differentiation.
I think it's interesting that your comment is being interpreted as downplaying the risks of covid and is getting anger because of that.

An interesting lesson in human psychology.
It doesn't matter. There is a central entity that decides on his behalf who's going to be in that list.
Can you elaborate or provide any references for those statements? What in [0] doesn't work as advertised?

Also, something I'ld like to know that would otherwise be really dishonest on V devs' part, is their memory management innovative? Oortmerssen, creator of Lobster language, said that in their Discord they mentioned[1] that the memory model was taken from Lobster.

[0]: https://github.com/vlang/v#key-features-of-v

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25514198
Zimbabwean dollars were highly volatile.

Getting your paycheck and not knowing it'll be worth roughly the same amount next week when rent is due is a serious problem.
I own about 4-5 computers and 3 phones. One of those computers is a Mac and one of the phones is an iPhone. The only claim I made was that I would be more satisfied if the iPhone could support third party stores or sideloading. I will continue to stand by that claim.
I prefer maximizing human prosperity. That is not necessarily contingent on energy consumption, but at least throughout recorded human history there is a very strong correlation. So long as it does not compromise human prosperity, including in terms of our relationship to the natural environment, I have no objection whatsoever to massive quantities of clean energy.
Mozilla's "default search provider agreements" are worth upwards of $400 million a year. Mozilla Corporation doesn't need any more money, but they're a corporation...

Mozilla is sitting on around a billion dollars in assets and continues to have revenue around $400 million a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliatio...

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201...

Mozilla has had weasely language regarding their advertising agreements since at least 2014 when they announced their "ongoing search strategy," saying that Yahoo was going to be their "long term strategic partner." They then breached their contract with Yahoo in 2017, presumably because Google offered them a deal they couldn't refuse to be reinstated as the default to coincide with the Firefox Quantum release.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-feature...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/promoting-choice-and-inn...
I don't really care if it's inflationary or deflationary, as long as the rate of inflation/deflation is fairly small.
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And within the EU (EEA incl) these systems are interoperable, I can use my German bank's debit card in France, Italy, and ironically also in Switzerland. Even via NFC...