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"Solvency", writ large, is ability to service debts.

It's not quite as simple as cash-on-hand, turnover, or profitability. Start-ups without revenues or net profits may be solvent if investment capital is available, premised on future profitability or a viable exit strategy. But it's fairly strongly related.
I'm not sure the comments so far are really about what's germane in the discussion of this article - namely, it's talking about the government document[0] which is an obvious nod-and-wink to the City[1], that they are free to go ahead and exploit loopholes in international and national law, and continue enabling the criminal system of tax evasion and political and social corruption, without the interference of regulators.

Anyone reading the headline statements in the document can see the implied meaning. For instance, the Chancellor of the Exchequer:

"I want to ensure that the government - working with our world-class regulators - takes an agile and dynamic approach, one which enables those in the financial services sector to evolve and thrive as they embrace the new opportunities of the future."

[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[1] The 'City of London' in this context should be understood as the rough equivalent of 'Wall St' in US terms
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Ohh no, I didn't know that others had a problem with smart shift, I've had my mouse for well over a year now with no issues across Windows, macOS and Linux (minus the ability to configure anything on it on linux, a problem I've not tried solving).

I assume that firmware updates have done nothing to help you?
I don’t really understand the regional inequality point. Obviously the City is uniquely rich and full of investment amongst places in the UK, but that is because we are fortunate enough to have one of the world’s foremost financial centres. Most firms in the City view Paris and Zurich as their alternatives, not Manchester and Birmingham, and I don’t see how that can be changed.

I think the country is much better off with the City than without it and to some extent we must be accommodating of it, not bending it to our will.

Disclaimer: written from my desk within the City.
Why would online retail not also be a match? I assume there is are many more online retail transactions than travel related transactions simply because people shop retail more than they travel.
Risky click disclosure: The GIF isn’t a GIF, it’s a JSON response containing full geo-location data on the requestor.

> Not sure I would ever trust any privacy claims from a company that stores this type of made-for-fingerprinting data.

Reminder that every resource you request from anywhere causes the server to be able to index all this info on you. Anyone doing anything where audience matters has a subscription to MaxMind GeoIP lookup, giving you all this info inline on every request. There is nothing special about this GIF except it shows you the info the server has.

If it bothers you, the idea of servers having all this info tying your requests together, you can switch on “Private Relay (Beta)” on MacOS and iOS, but note that the beta doesn’t play nice with a custom profile for DNS (it will look up once for filtering, and again for private relay).
No they don't, if I am correct all they need to do is allow you to swap out the dll for your own and put a license.txt or what not with the license. As long as the DLL is setup as a shared library (which it is) it is fine.
There's a free tool that integrates with Ableton Live to make these easier to set up. I can't remember the name and Google is (as usual) useless for finding it, but I do remember it wasn't updated for Live 11 last I checked. Maybe someone else will be able to name it.
Seems no different than Costco's Kirkland Signature brand. Private labeling something as your own that is made by someone else (and not disclosing who) is not really a new concept.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826167
To quote the New York rap group M.O.P.
"I'm nine hundred ninety-nine thou short of a mil".
Does Queen Elizabeth Pay Her Fair Share of Taxes?
Yes, well the same Steve Jobs who denied being the father of his daughter, who dumped the burden of supporting his daughter on ordinary working taxpayers while he counted his first hundred million, this was the guy who called someone who was convinced his company was worth more a liar for saying he knew it. And even got the guy to feel bad about his sin. Amazing. It was all part of his extraordinary toolbox of manipulative tools, the "reality distortion field" that his admirers spoke of.

I got to see him behind closed doors in meetings when he was at NeXT. If you want to see Steve Jobs in a private meeting, watch the scene in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin tells the salesmen that they are losers because the Baldwin character drives a more expensive car. Steve literally did that in one meeting, answering a question about why he didn't do such-and-such with a "I drive a Porsche and you drive a General Motors car" as his argument for why his superior wisdom must not be questioned by losers.
The usefulness of any of this generated stuff eludes me.
I think many can remember the sheer magic of their first cdrecord run (and the terror of producing a coaster). Instantly recognizable name, really sad news.
Totally agree on this point. As an American who spent the last year working in Westminster this was always something I never understood.
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> This is the money they could have used to have a buffer to deal with these situations or to improve their systems.

Matt Levine covered this last year [1]. The basic gist of it was that the CEO is focused on the shareholders, and the best use of the money was on stock buybacks. Spending money on improving customer or labor relationships wouldn't have helped during the start of the pandemic when all the airlines were stuck in the same boat unable to fly planes, and the cash used by e.g. American Airlines for buybacks in the past 7 years to increase the stock value 113% would have only bought them 4 months of operating expenses. The most long-term value for shareholders was created through the buybacks, and the government being willing to prop the businesses up during downturns reduces the risk exposure from this strategy.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-17/the-go...
It is supposedly coming, albeit decades late:

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
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Thanks!

The training set included pretty much all sneakers I could find online. However, the algorithm tends to bias towards patterns that are more common e.g. hundreds of colorways of Air Jordans.

BUT I can fine tune the model by training on a small subset of sneakers. So if you have any types of brands or sneakers that you would like to see generated, please feel free to mail me some examples at stan@thissneakerdoesnotexist.com and I will see what I can do.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/LaF0rge/status/144747187482130433...
The source code is necessary to create "your own".
So I am partial to the idea of working "to do the minimum amount of work necessary to underwrite a good life." I think our culture is broken in several ways, and this sounds like a good approach.

BUT, the romantisized ahistorical model of the Ju/’hoansi people (also known as !Kung San, "bushmen") the argument detailed here is based on... had it's high point in 1966 indeed, and is no longer considered reliable by anthropology.

It's based on too many romantisized assumptions feeding into what Western anthropologists wanted to see.

1. That the Ju/’hoansi people had, just until the Western anthropologists showed up, been exclusively "foraging" and "isolated" without contact with their neighbors or "civilization". In fact, when Richard Lee showed up they were already in economic and cultural contact with their neighbors, but he left this out of his account, assuming it happened just before he got there and was "uninteresting".

2. That the Ju/’hoansi culture was unchanged for hundreds of thousands of years, and thus represneted how humasn lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. All people have history. Even to the extent they were "foragers", it doesn't mean their ancestors had been foragers for hundreds of thousands of years, had an unchanged culture for hundreds of thousands of years, or lived "just like" humans of hundreds of thousands of years ago.

3. That the Ju/’hoansi lived that way entirely by choice -- or entirely as determined by their "environment" and not as part of larger human regional multi-ethnic society. Edwin Wilmsen made an argument backed by evidence that can't be quickly dismissed that they actually functioned as a regional underclass in relation to other ethnic groups in the area, that perhaps they would rather have had more than "the minimum amount necessary" [or a different level of 'good life'] but didn't have access to the means of production to do so.

All of these counter-claims are also simplifications and debatable. But the original picture of "foragers who have been living this way for thousands of years with no contact with anyone else and thus show how humans lived in pre-history" is clearly also an over-simplification, and is not really how anthropology sees things anymore.

That people are still repeating it as gospel in 2021 I guess shows how attractive it is to some of us in our culture in 2021, as much as it says anything about prehistory or the Ju/’hoansi.

And to be sure, the Ju/’hoansi in the last half of the 20th century, show a different way to live, sure. As do all sorts of people around the globe. I think it is accurate and beneficial to let anthropology remind us of the incredible diversity of ways humans have found to live, that things we think are invariant or necessary for "healthy" culture almost never are, that there are far more paths available than we might assume.
"The 1%" doesn't even begin to capture the wealth inequality. The top 0.00012% have around as much wealth as the bottom 60%.
I'm surprised on the amount of hate this post has received.

Also, no one talked about what Haoyi has accomplished here (and in the general Scala Community).
There are too many "icons" in the tech industry that are just techlebrities.
Li, OTOH, is one of the most brilliant engineers I've ever seen. It's one of the fewest people I truly admire and I'm sure that most of the fires he describe in his post were already put off, thanks to his initiatives.

Just wanted to bring something nice to the conversation :)
In a similar undertaking, Inigo Quilez (of Shadertoy fame) once created an animation using the cells of a spreadsheet [0] as pixels.

[0] https://youtu.be/JnCkF62gkOY
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Profile: Jörg Schilling (2005)
No, correct way around. Rollout of renewables to the scale that nuclear can achieve in 5-20 years is practically impossible.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
There is a concerted effort to eliminate autonomy and individual agency
Russia probably does not count as being a part of the civilized world. Even Finland is a questionable case due to the polar bears walking all over the streets of the capital Hell-sinkit.
RIP Jörg, many probably don't know him, however his work was at the basis of k3b, Brasero and many other software programs that allowed burning CDs in early 2000s. At least that's what I know him for.

Linux expanded and thrived thanks to CD copies and the support of CD recorders was often poor. His work surely affected many and he did his part in bringing Linux to where it is today.
Price instability in fossil fuels is a big boost for renewables. The industry has always been boom and bust, but now consumers have a choice.
> I replied, “I don’t think our investors would accept this.” (We’d been hoping to raise new money at a $150M valuation, and had floated this to potential new investors. There’d been some interest, though no serious takers.)

> And then, my terrible mistake, a moment that I’ve regretted ever since: “Actually, I know we’re worth three times as much.” /14

I don't see how it's reasonable at all to pounce on this as a lie if you mean it in the sense of having a strong belief and say this when asked to clarify.
> I imagine it's also picked up steam since last weeks revelation from leaked internal Pfizer emails[2] that they used cells from aborted fetuses while testing the RDNA vaccine (testing - it's not in the vaccine), but have publicly stated otherwise.

The fact that fetal cells are used in testing has been public for a long time.

This article dates back to last December, for example: https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/you-asked-we-answered-do-t... (and here's me citing it two months ago, in case you want to claim a ninja-edit "last week": https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/comments/p6f6yl/l...)

The “it’s the vaccine mandates!” argument has to figure out a way to explain why all the other airlines weren’t similarly affected when they instituted theirs.

Alex Berenson is… not a reputable source. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
Little by SV standards, but pretty decent for the rest of the country. It’s easy to make 6 figures plus excellent benefits for a job that’s relatively low stress.
It is compound growth (because we dont really allow deflation for various social and economic reasons) therefore it grows exponentially
> (If you want to study ingenuity in business, have a look at Wall Drug.)

I wasn't aware of Wall Drug [0].

From their homepage:

Wall Drug has a rich history in the state of South Dakota. Nestled in the city of Wall in the western part of the state, Wall Drug has grown from its humble beginnings in 1931 to a thriving oasis. Wall Drug offers dining, activities, gifts and souvenirs, visitor information and, of course, free ice water. Many road-worn travelers stop at Wall Drug and leave awake and refreshed, just like they did more than 80 years ago.

[0]: https://www.walldrug.com/
I do not see why credit specifically be a utility. But electronic transfer of money should be, and supposedly will be:

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow
After 6 months you move to the next release, just like most people do with libraries, JDK is just another library, no need to worry about upgrading, just do normal regression like with upgrades of other libs. There are no major releases of JDK, all current ones are minor ones - just like in case of JDK 8 you got new features in minor releases (e.g. change in changing of toString, added classes in standard library - no one was worried about that then)

And BTW. Azul MTS want's to have a word with you: https://www.azul.com/products/azul-support-roadmap/

e.g. JDK 13 and 15 do get builds.
Although the title of this short quiz is aimed at designers, it's generic enough to apply to anyone who is building a product. (It has the flaws inherent in these types of questionnaires - simple choice of answers without accounting for more complex responses.)

If you prefer to skip the quiz, look at the 'Design types' page to see the type (or combination of types) you feel reflects aspects of your personality.
Pretty excited about Algorand's AVM 1.0 release and new features. But I am biased since that is what I have been working on recently.

Looking forward to more comfortable lighter weight VR/AR glasses. Think that upcoming displays will be 10X more comfortable and use optical wave guide instead of phone on face and that will make a huge difference.

Looking forward to Neuralink and that type of thing, ie brain computer interfaces.

Artificial muscles have come a long way. Especially promising are the high voltage types which I can't remember now, HASEL or something. 3d-printed artificial muscles and limbs could be a real thing.
Seems like it’s a “wildcat strike” where some employees organize and strike silently without the consent or direction of their union.
I don't know about that, with P/E ratios as high as they are I think investors assume companies will have an infinite lifespan.
> After the construction of the unit started in 2005, Areva began constructing EPRs in Flamanville, France, and in Taishan, China. However, as of 2019, the construction of the EPR in France is ten years behind schedule.[35] Taishan 1 in China became the first EPR to start power generation on 29 June 2018,[36] and the second one (Taishan 2) came online in 2019.[37]

Sounds like it has a lot to do with the regulations/regulators.
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What's fundamentally wrong? None of this has anything to do with greater productivity... It's not as though larger houses require a linear increase in construction workers; computers do not grow in vast fields necessitating hundreds of farm-hands. It's quite the opposite.

GDP, which is what we were talking about, can rise forever because those who benefit will find ways to make it rise. Like, say, coupling difficult-to-access healthcare to it! Hey, now healthcare is a full fourth of it! Selling real estate and insurance to one another helps it increase, too! Line go up!! Something tells me that greater productivity allowed this cool and normal situation of proliferating middlemen to occur.

The existence of relatively inexpensive ovens, etc, has been the case since easily 1970, which is around when productivity started to decouple from benefits to citizenry.

I assume you're assured of this perspective because the existence of your boat makes you uncomfortable with the idea that we're using the insane productivity gains our species has realized to be gainfully employed not doing anything material or beneficial, but rather tricking people into clicking on ads. I understand whose shoulders I stand on, and I also understand that we don't really have to have the underpaid underclass to whom the ads are shown, we've just decided this way is better.
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Unfortunately, that standard seems to be “you can ignore cancel culture if you are independently wealthy”. You can try and ignore cancel culture as some regular working man/woman, but that won’t get you far when your employer caves and fires you, and no one will hire you, because of the Twitter mob.
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It doesn't seem to be. MWB's location for me is much more accurate, I'm thinking Google?
Why would divorce bury you in debt, take your house, and ruin your credit? You pay child support if you are married too, it just is called "parenthood" rather than child support. If you are paying alimony indefinitely, it indicates that you didn't damage your career when getting married, so the concerns about being buried in debt seem odd. And again, you pay alimony if you are married too. It is just called "supporting my stay-at-home spouse".

And divorce is not some random outcome with a fixed distribution. It is a specific outcome that involves you and another person. You can make decisions that control your future. You aren't flipping a coin.
Running Doom to hackers is the equivalent of Turing completeness proof to theoretical computer scientists.
There is a principle I live by, that most people used to live by before we entered this strange neo-savage era: “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” I expect the same from the companies with which I do business.
Schilling's death was announced earlier today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826167
No, I wouldn't accept that approach either. But at least it would be focusing on the risk instead of being a status play. At the moment you're accepting a risk without knowing anyone's antibody titer at all. It says a lot about the situation that nobody is measuring it and nobody minds that it isn't being measured. People's susceptibility to COVID is barely in the conversation. A risk-based strategy is not being employed.

Despite all these measures you are still going to be exposed to the coronavirus. Just like the every flu that we've dealt with for the last however many thousand years. This rigmarole is just upsetting people for no real gain to you.
Not always, but, practically.
This was cool. Definitely going to use it somewhere.
'The Billion Dollar Code': The Battle over Google Earth
Is the Guardian paywalled or geoblocked anywhere?

Alt URLs are generally suggested only where that is the case.
> i wonder if the average professional coder, still has. chance to beat the big teams ?

I attended the MICCAI workshops this year, and while I didn't go to the brain segmentation challenge, in the ones I did go to the winners were generally academic individuals or groups.

My MICCAI login is on my work computer, so I'm not going to go and check right now, but a quick google shows that the winners of FeTS2021 were all academics: https://twitter.com/FeTS_Challenge/status/144401094937199411... and HEKTOR2021: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/miccai-2021-hecktor/leade... looks similar.

EDIT: Academic groups are of course not the same as 'the average professional coder', but this is a fast-moving research field and if an individual is competing with the state-of-the-art that doesn't sound particularly 'average' to me.

EDIT 2: The DiSCO challenge appears to have been dominated by academics, both individuals and small teams : https://twitter.com/GabrielPGirard/status/144397287871477356...
Which optimizations is the rust compiler missing?

A lot of the optimizations required for fast code, like manual layout of custom datastructures are done by the programmers, not by the compiler. I don't doubt that rust can also express this optimizations given the similar low level control provided by the language, but what the OP and the parent are saying is that some of these are not idiomatic in rust and harder or impossible to express in the safe subset of the language.

> You would not want to use a lot of STL or functional stuff in a rendering pipeline core. High performance C++ looks like C.

FWIW that's not at all my experience.
I don't see any evidence that python has issues decoding json.
Generate 1,000 designs. Run them through a hot-or-not or a-vs-b competition. Make the winning sneakers into actual products.
That would work but I have never seen a city bus here. The town just isn't big enough to justify it. I've seen tour buses on the highway but they are going to Yellowstone and don't make stops.
I love space, and get excited about seeing BlueOrigin/ SpaceX/ Virgin now flying tourists - but I think I am still missing the actual business case.

Where do you see the value beyond novelty? What's the killer application? Settlements on Mars, or something more short-term? I think I'm still stuck in a 'a computer on every desk - yeah, but why would anyone need a computer!?' stage, and it bugs me to no end! ;-)
If the penny hasn’t dropped yet for anyone who was still wondering, this is what Brexit was always really about. Shameful.
> continue enabling the criminal system of tax evasion and political and social corruption, without the interference of regulators.

I think the nod and wink is to enable the perpertrators from outside the UK to 'invest' here, and let us have a cut, rather than enable UK citizens to engage in these activities.
How is this not a ridiculous fringe idea? There are plenty of completely valid reasons not to want to have children. Climate change is absolutely not one of them. If you told me 0.39% of people actually felt that way I'd be wondering why it's such a huge number (in absolute terms). The fact that it's up to 100x that is pretty surprising, in a bad way.
Not at all, Mullvad is an outstanding VPN and one of the few that supports IPv6, and it's completely normal to re-brand existing technology. Even in that particular business it's very common: Many antivirus vendors use 3rd party antivirus scanners and databases instead of their own.