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Technical question! Shady dictator moves $100 million to the British Virgin Islands. Where does the money actually go? In a "traditional" country the bank can invest the money in the stock market or land or government bonds. But as I understand it BVI doesn't really have any of those things, at least not in sufficiently large amounts to support the trillions banked there. So I wonder where/how does the money exist in these tiny countries?
I laughed way to hard at this
I don't find his reasoning terribly convincing though.

First part boils down to the classic catholic strategy of "outbreed the enemy" with handwavy reasoning along the lines "worst things are not going to be happen to first world peoples". Some cherry picked factoids sprinkled here and there like sea level rise in SF and NYC. Total red herring.

In Europe we already saw the migration crisis from Syria and how it was a great polarizing tool. There is no border wall that can be built (let alone be moral in any shape or form) to keep out billions of starving and misplaced from the global south and keep us in the first world nice any cozy.

Then the part about the carbon cost of raising children goes to the tehcno-utopian realm of carbon capture with some really optimistic dollar numbers.

I'm 40 and probably going to have kids, but if I were young I'd totally hold older generations feet to the fire and tell governments: "fuck you, if you don't get your shit together and start doing something meaningful about the climate catastrophe, I'm not going to have kids".
Yeah, a f2p gaming company I worked for briefly got started this way.
Pretty sure the "you're a liar" is just a convenient way to blow it off without going into details.

The buy was probably already questionable even for $50m, a number Steve probably already knew even before they entered the room. The exchange showed that the founders were going to be stubborn about the price.

So in the end this isn't "trust is everything in business, and Steve was offended" but simply "don't jump into negotiations with your pants down".
yes but you also need to be able to afford nice house for kids
> Bezos, who recently stepped down as chief executive of Amazon, also owns The Washington Post.

I like how they hide this statement several paragraphs into the article. Suddenly I have to ask if I am getting the entire story. Surely there is a better source for this story?
I think it's pretty apt. They co-opted their own system.
Ireland is putting in place reforms nowish, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804895
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> The number of people solving a problem scales with the number of people available to solve it.

The climate crisis and carbon in the atmosphere scales with the number of people available to solve it, as well.
No; the certificate signing request that a CA uses to construct a certificate doesn't have the private key - that should never leave the control of the site owner.
fs-verity - integrity by a file.

dm-verity - integrity by file system image.

Both have its uses.

Both are covered by IMA.
If anything, physical hardship and scarcity seem to strengthen the drive to survive and reproduce. Maybe what we have here is a vindication of the "old geezer" refrain that kids these days are too soft and too spoiled?

Anecdotally, I don't plan on having children myself, but that's because I don't think humans (and probably mammals in general) are set up neurologically to create productive, sustainable systems in which life can thrive indefinitely. Let's fade away and give the birds or squid a shot, eh?
> Say an electric car comes with a small sealed and fixed battery that gives up to say 100 miles of range.

100 mile range electric car batteries are not small, on the order of a couple hundred pounds.

> Another slot in the car that is usually empty may be “filled” with a battery along the highway while on a road trip. Reaching the end of range? - just swap out the “filled” battery.

Okay, so this battery slot you are proposing keeping normally empty, but filling and swapping for road trips. This is presumably a not-small battery, like the main battery on a current Tesla, maybe a bit smaller to account for the nonswappable one. So probably something on the order of 1,000 pounds.

Not something you swap quickly, easily, or without special equipment.
Damn, I remember working with him to bring cdrutils to solaris back in the day, he was quite no-nonsense but we had quite a lot of fun on irc poking around, star was always faster than gnutar too.

Will raise a glass to you tonight, friend.
That's why large enterprises typically use something like a balanced scorecard instead of individual KPIs.

https://hbr.org/1992/01/the-balanced-scorecard-measures-that...
> the articulated joint that was present in LifeTrac I - to allow long-life on the shafts - which experience much less wear compared to skid steering
I think it has been pretty standard throughout history for less educated/skilled people to have more children, although now the problem is that since both parents of the family are skilled and working full time, they have much less time to raise a significant number of children.
> it provides a rather thin abstraction layer over machine language.

No, it doesn't, and it hasn't for quite some time – not since C compilers started exploiting undefined behavior for optimization opportunities. It used to be that if you wrote

a + b

where a and b are int values, the compiler would emit an ADD instruction in assembly. This isn't necessarily true anymore, because compilers are allowed to assume that signed overflow doesn't happen, which makes writing correct overflow-detection so difficult and non-intuitive. Even worse, code which was working correctly for 20 years might start exhibiting subtle bugs from one day to the next, just because you've upgraded your compiler from version 9.4.2 to 9.4.3.

Undefined behavior is one major reason why writing correct C code is complex and difficult in practice.
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First of all, compassion and condolences for Schilling’s family.

Second of all, I had a very recent positive interaction with him. I recently was in contact with Mr. Schilling to report a bug in CDR tools. Even though he was (looking back) dying, he was very prompt in replying to me and discussing the bug with me over email. However, even though I gave him a fix, he was unable to apply it, probably because of his poor health.

Thirdly, there is a really serious bug in CDR tools: It will start creating bad timestamps in 2028. That’s not a typo: 2028 (not 2038). Because of how ISO 9660 filesystems store timestamps (8-bit number, 0 is 1900), on 2038 (1900 + 128), unless the 8-bit number is explicitly made an unsigned number (assumed with other ISO 9660 implementations), there will be issues with timestamps. [1]

A full bug report, complete with a bugfix is here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990468

A fork of cdrtools with this bug fixed is on GitHub: https://github.com/samboy/iso9660

Again, prayers for Schilling’s family, and he was very professional in his interactions with me, even in his final days.

[1] The issue is with how Schilling’s CDR tools calculates timezones; the time zone becomes an invalid number starting in 2028.
It's so widespread, Masahiro Sakurai (Nintendo/SORA) even made mention of it in the latest Smash Bros. presentation.

https://youtu.be/L-q6Gz_4Yqc?t=160

"I heard it can run on any computer. Is that right?"
> On one hand, it's those people's problems. On the other hand, as someone living in the West, I am very much "in the same boat" with these people. I suspect the danger to our the kids 20-50 years from now will be consequences of demographic decline much more than climate change.

"West" can just import as many young people as it needs. Already educated and ready for work. Demographic decline is only possible in "rich" countries that intentionally restrict immigration.
I'm not sure what we think the city does to hide all this money but compared to its size I think its probably cleaner than: swiss secrecy, Irish tax dodging, Dutch sandwich companies, and the US tech companies with billions parked in carribean banking centers delaware companies and south dakota trusts etc. Opinion article seems to sling a lot of muck but nothing substantial/concrete. "competitive" is not evidence for a crime IMHO.
Hi, I'm not sure if you've looked into this or not, but another area that is interested in this sort of thing and might be very excited is musical gesture recognition.
It's not at all surprising there would be a counterproductive culture. Rockery isn't commerce. The management style which may result in excellence in commerce isn't the same that will do well in rocketry. It stems from Bezos and we know all the bad complaints that has produced.

That said, can we get away from lazy shortcuts like 'bro culture' even if it's a juicy quote? Imagine someone said hick culture or urban culture, fem culture, whatever. It may be true in some way but try and use understandable adjectives rather then ones the reader has to fill and load with meaning.
Stores like Best Buy and Target will cancel your orders (without telling you why) if you make purchases using Mullvad's VPN.

Rarely I'll come across 403 errors. Usually when I do, it's another online store.
> I drive a Porsche and you drive a General Motors car

i hate adding to the steve jobs circle jerk, but i think this is actually kind of smart if we can momentarily suspend our disgust for his character.

the fact is that steve and everyone he's in the room with are there because they worship money. that's the social contract with every job. he has the most, and if you want some of his, you have to be quiet and listen even if he's being unbearable.
* Are we saving enough for college considering how fast tuition is going up*

It's not obvious to me that the college system as it stands today and has stood for the last twenty years is going to be similar in twenty years.

In Arizona, full-time community-college students pay under $2k/semester for school: https://www.maricopa.edu/future-students/tuition-fees. It is possible, even today, to pay relatively little for a four-year college degree.

Most people prefer existence to non-existence, even if the cost of housing is high. https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-Kids/dp/046...
Denmark has been lurching towards the right for a while (from a Swedish perspective). There is more anti-immigrant sentiment and a solid foundation for keeping migrants out. (You need an address to get a CPH number, but you can't get an address without a CPH number for example).

I'm not saying they're wrong, I don't know. But that's the perspective from Malmo which is the closest major city to Denmark in Sweden... in fact Malmo is sometimes referred to a suburb of Copenhagen. (this is also controversial)
Here's a nice related FT opinion article, "The rich get richer and rates get lower": https://archive.is/rMTnV

It explains a sort of feedback loop taking place here (with regards to excess of money looking where to invest => "This pushes rates down directly, when those savings are invested, driving asset prices up and yields down; and indirectly, by sapping aggregate demand.")
> `unsafe { ... }` means "I hope you are convinced by my arguments in the surrounding comments, or better still in my POPL21 paper, that this is correct".

I disagree here (and that's ok).

The unsafe keyword tells Rust "this code is sound", i.e., there exist no program execution for which this code will cause safe Rust to exhibit undefined behavior.

Rust will parse it, type check it, compile it, link it, etc. "as-if" it was sound.

And Rust only makes any guarantees about what your program does if the unsafe code was actually sound.

From the point of view of the compiler, the unsafe block itself is a user-provided proof that whatever that code does is sound.

If you write: unsafe { *ptr } that's a proof that dereferencing the pointer is sound, therefore the pointer is non-null, it points to an aligned allocation able to hold a type, the value at that memory location is a value of that type (i.e. the pointer is dereferenceable), etc.

The Rust compiler accepts your proof and generates code as if your proof is correct. In particular, it will compile code around that code under that assumption, it will eliminate null pointer checks after that code, etc.

If the proof that an unsafe block provides is incorrect, then the behavior is undefined, and Rust makes no guarantees.

I agree with you that given some unsafe code, actually proving it correct is not something that the compiler does, and that creating a tool that does this is hard. If it were easy, the compiler would already do it, and we wouldn't need unsafe at all.

Unsafe exists because there are things that the compiler can't prove correct, and this escape hatch allows the user to provide a proof that the compiler can integrate into how it compiles the program.

There is a whole repository of Iris proofs for unsafe blocks in the Rust standard library, for which we have formal proofs. But these are not integrated in any way with the Rust code one writes. They have been written by humans aiming to get a confirmation that the proof expressed by the unsafe blocks are indeed correct. Some were not, and had to be fixed, and pretty much every fix has generated a paper.
I'm not sure if it really is a biological imperative. Sex is, but reproduction doesn't seem to be. Lots of people in Japan seem to not care for example. I also, personally, am missing that biological imperative, maybe that is just me though, but there is no part of me that thinks: "I want a baby".
Very interesting considering both WP and BO are owned by the same boss ...
This is fascinating, I saw this exact "queen can't enter without prior permission" bit in some alt history fiction recently and was convinced they must have made it up. I wonder if Washington DC's special status in the US was inspired by this City Of London arrangement in some way?
Regardless of how impartial the journalism may be on the story, this does seem like something you'd put in a disclaimer at the top of the story.
I read an article a few years back about a company who'd had their AWS root account hacked and held for ransom [1] and even though they had backups and snapshots and multi-AZ replication the attacker could destroy the primary and the backups at the same time, because they were all in the same AWS account.

If the writers are imagining something so severe it could trigger a global depression, they're probably thinking of something with that kind of impact hitting everyone in the region.

Such an event would be very unlikely, you would hope - but I'm sure you could pull it off with the resources of a nation-state and half a dozen sleeper agents.

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608076/murder-in-the-amaz...
i would recommend that you put your info into the monthly hackernews posts Freelancer and who wants to be hired.

I live outside the states, but got contacted for some freelancing opportunities.

The way i see it there is an absolutely large amount of work that you can do outside of the US/EU for companies based there. They just probably aren't FAANGs or their equivalents. Lots of small and medium shops hire too.

I currently work for a small company in the states, but live in latam
> Fossil fuel subsidies need to be phased out.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a social stability measure. There are going to be hard times when people can't afford fuel to heat their homes in winter, and have to endure lectures by the private-jet-to-next-climate-conference-crowd on how morally flawed they are for still affording to light up a candle at night.
Do you consider it a bad thing that he said that "to your face" rather then receiving a generic rejection letter (or being ghosted)?
Houses are empty because no one wants them. I mean like this https://oldhousesunder50k.com/
> That seems more scary to me than an extremely slow change that would force us to grow banans instead of potatoes and move from the beaches.

Then you haven't been paying attention. It's not about growing bananas where today we grow potatoes, it's about what happens in the areas where today we grow bananas. Those areas will become literally uninhabitable for large parts of the year in the next 50-100 years at the current rates of carbon emission, and the billion+ people living in those areas will move elsewhere.

Looking at how the minute amount of migrants from Libya and Syria were received in some of the wealthiest countries in the world (~1 million people reaching Europe and throwing it into a political crisis), the effect of 3 orders of magnitude more migration will be devastating, and are one of the main reasons for imagining that nuclear war you fear (especially given India, Pakistan, and China have nuclear weapons, and will be at the forefront of this massive migration from Bangladesh and their own coastal areas).

All this will happen, most likely even if we reduce emissions to 0 today. Perhaps it will be limited to a few hundred million instead of more than a billion if we reach some goals of the Paris agreement, but even that is unlikely to actually happen.
It's a pretty terrible case for "everything is getting crazy expensive".

If that 28 buck cost stems from all his ultrapremium/expensive brands, that's on him, not inflation.
I've seen adverts more subtle than this one
> So I wonder where/how does the money exist in these tiny countries?

Banks, in any country, aren’t limited to domestic investments. It goes into exactly the same things as it would if in a US Bank.
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"There is no border wall that can be built (let alone be moral in any shape or form) to keep out billions of starving and misplaced from the global south and keep us in the first world nice any cozy."

What exactly makes this so immoral?
Edit: The border itself.
They said "Yesterday at Walmart i bought", not "Yesterday at Walmart.com sold and shipped by Otoric - Free 2Day Shipping* | Otoric Inc. i bought"

Buying food from third parties online is not the same as in store.
Chatroulette's Founder Has Spent 12 Years Trying to Solve ‘The Problem’
Yeah this.
Only if you don’t think you have or need something that can be passed politically.

I have a nightmare that the woman smart enough to create sustainable energy is currently an illiterate 14 year old girl being married to someone three times her age.
City of London fought hard against isolation from European capital centers during Brexit negotiations the following years after the vote.
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> Which is like dissing TV adverts or billboards or, I dunno, stickers on racing cars.

Absolutely nothing wrong with criticizing any of that. Paying for TV channels yet being forced to see ads is an indignity. Billboards and all other forms of advertising are nothing but visual pollution, cities that have banned them are nicer. Stickers on racing cars are also visual pollution.
I was using JSON before it was 'invented', as was basically anyone sending data to the browser in JS format.

Holding specific people responsible is pretty absurd.
> wintun.dll, from the Wintun project, without mentioning it, thus violating its license.

I am curious and want to understand, not arguing, but this is a serious allegation. Can someone point out exactly where the Wintun violation is?

I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read the license [1] carefully, and I don’t see an obvious violation for failure to mention Wintun. Section 3 “RESTRICTIONS” does say no removing of proprietary notices, labels or copyrights - is that the problem? It says no redistributing the “rights of the Software” which is different than using the Software directly. And maybe(?) most relevant it says you cannot use the name Wintun to promote your own software, which seems potentially almost opposite of this claim of violation. The license does not seem to mention any requirement to post the name of the project, did I miss something subtle?

[1] https://git.zx2c4.com/wintun/tree/prebuilt-binaries-license....
> The above statements are then wrong or patronizing or completely misses the point.

I think more what's more going on is that longtime Rust programmers can get frustrated by the sheer volume of people who have never used Rust but dismiss it because they hypothesize that they will need to regularly write things like linked lists in Rust just because they are the easiest data structure to write in C.

When in reality let alone the amount of high performance data structures in the standard library and crate ecosystem mean it's extremely unlikely they'll even feel to write any data structures in the first place. Programming Rust and C or C++ is a very different experience in numerous ways and it is unproductive to expect that not to be the case.
Same, too much caffeine and being dehydrated are a trigger, too many nights of not enough sleep as well. It's annoying they've gotten more frequent as I've gotten older.

The first time it happened a doctor recommended Excedrin (HAH!), fortunately I had already suspected caffeine so I skipped that advice and hammered water and laid in bed for a couple hours instead.
Timothée Chalamet on Wonka film set in Dorset
https://archive.is/wE9Mw
Do you literally mean planting trees inside the children? Or is that an unfortunate typo?

Either way, planting one tree for every child born would have negligible effect on climate change. I think we need billions of trees planted every year to make a significant dent.
Bolsonaro was eased into power by Obama.
They eliminated the most popular politician Lula with fake charges in Operation Carwash and a sham trial of it.
It is now overturned. Bolsonaro even gave a thank you speech for the help the Obama administration gave at the CIA headquarters after he came to power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash

https://apnews.com/article/9e097b1cb92c4400b76c096da8f26910
Probably can't start in Netscape Navigator either, the audacity.
JSON5 mostly extends JSON's syntax, not its data model (it still doesn't outlaw duplicate object keys for example).
Why do you think it is extreme and why does it bother you whether other people have kids at all? Any argument I can think of is a variation of "we are all in this together", be it "survival of the humanity" or "who will fund my retirement?" However, the general trend of ignoring the climate change shows that most people absolutely don't want to experience a mild inconvenience for the sake of greater good. So, why should I have kids in such environment?
Not because the -o mode also remove any block testing on "__debug__", and that's a very useful thing as well.

The original feature is perfect. But there is 5 good years of educating users so it can be used.
Yes, and if Steve Jobs whim had blown the other way and allowed the price framing, this guy would be hailed by the same crowd as a negotiation genius -- even though both scenarios were actually just high-stakes coinflips.
What about Axiom, it seems to have been worked on for many decades.
> Frankly, I wonder if we will ever be completely free from fossil fuels.

One way or the other, this is inevitable. There's only so much fossil fuel that can be burned before the environment becomes too hostile for civilization to survive.

> What do you do if the sun decides not to shine and the wind decides not to blow for a long time? What do you do when you exhaust your energy stores?

Power2Gas gets you to 100% at a reasonable cost. Batteries act as short term storage, with most of the stored energy going through them; the gas provides long term storage and back up generation, with most of the energy storage capacity there (with a much longer average residence time). There may also be room for intermediate storage on the timescale of a week or so (pumped hydro, thermal, for example).

Multiple levels of storage like this is analogous to the cache hierarchy of a computer, in that combining different storage technologies with different properties can provide a solution that is better than any of those just by itself.