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I wasn't trolling, I really can't read it. Also not on that archive link.
My biggest gripe is "hey, our users all seem to think we're the good guy, so let's sneak in ads, they won't care".
Nope, the tax is paid on the profit (i.e. post consumer).
I still can't get over the fact that Orion is the name of a sex store chain where I am from.
I'm 37 and got my ham radio license when I was 15. Ham radio captured my imagination in a way nothing has before or since, and led pretty directly to my career as a hardware and software engineer.

In some ways I feel lucky that I encountered it when the internet was still young. The internet was there with tons of resources to learn about it, but not so ubiquitous as to have killed the magic of getting on my radio and talking to someone across the country or world.

I'm primarily a CW (Morse Code) operator, and would so hate to see it die out as an art form, hobby, and useful technology. That said, I'm also well aware that the hobby is evolving and needs to evolve to survive, as it always has. I think accessibility of SDR and increasingly advanced digital modes is a great thing.

If you're reading HN, you're probably the kind of person that would find stuff to enjoy in ham radio. It's a huge hobby, and about much much more than "talking to people".
I think this mistakes the difference between de facto and de jure.

Sure, you can cross the head of the DNC all you want. As long as you’re also okay with the DNC supporting you being primaried.
The median games programmer wouldn't be able to do it in 50 years. (assuming they were locked in a room for 50 years with that same hardware, not that they got to see state of the art progress and upgrade their machine)

The amount of innovation, from applied BSP, Zbuffer tradeoffs, light maps with interpolation, interleaved FPU corrections for texture mapping, multiplayer protocols (qtest used TCP), brush-levels, etc...

Before ID software did these things, they weren't checkboxes for what to do. After, sure. But the hard part of programming is not typing.

The median programmer would not have been able to do it before it had been completely irrelevant. The median games programmer could do it in 2005. In 1993-1996? Not a chance.

The main competitor to Quake was Duke Nukem, which technologically was just "doom and a half". The enemies were sprites, ffs.

ID software was years ahead of every other games developer.

The reason other games licensed the Quake engine wasn't that it was cheaper than doing it yourself, it was that they couldn't do it.

Edit: granted, I have a low opinion of the median programmer. But sometimes in life you meet people who, with things you think you're actually pretty good at, just completely mop the floor with you without even trying (or showing off). It's humbling.
Yes, but increased profits (by running profitably) also increases returns for the shareholders... A good thing.
> most economists (left and right) believe the optimal corporate tax rate is 0%

Please provide some evidence, because I think only a narrow group of right-wing economists say that.

Taxes are generally applied where money is transacted, such as income and sales. For economic and legal purposes, corporations are entities just like people. They earn money, save it, pay it, invest it, etc. IME, they try to come up with every argument, sane or bizarre, to avoid contributing their share of taxes.
If you are using Restic Backup aren't you coming close to what's being recommended here?
Guys, I see my question greyed out. And I also see some comments greyed out. What does that mean? They are getting downvoted?
> essentially all code covering "this usecase" -- operating peripheral cores -- is today C++ or C code.

When has "essentially all...today" ever placed a limitation on future progress?
Airbyte CDC is based on Debezium, but Airbyte abstracts it away and make it easier to CDC from Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL to any supported destination (included S3). Here is the doc for CDC: https://docs.airbyte.io/understanding-airbyte/cdc

I guess one benefit is that you can use Airbyte for all your data syncs, CDC and non-CDC. You can give it a try with your own data, and see if it's easier for your team. You can run Airbyte locally with Docker Compose: https://docs.airbyte.io/quickstart/deploy-airbyte
> you should look elsewhere.... At least, that's what the people leading the ham radio community and arrl say.

And that's what people are doing, which is (I'd guess) why we're commenting on an article about the uncertain future of HAM radio.

Also, that's going to change the community, but it won't erase it. Just like the HN community isn't hampered by the presence of encryption.
Groups, pages and family members that I have not blocked.

Some of the posts Facebook shows to everyone and the ads.

The video widget list that shows what is pretty much embedded Instagram videos.

And quickly enough, the "you've reached the bottom" message and end of scroll. I can't remember its exact wording, but the way it's displayed makes it seem like a bug or glitch. It shows that they did not expect users to get there.
Not going to happen. Amateur radio is very centrally about non-commercial use cases, with the encryption ban ensuring that's actually the case and trivially detected if not. Mesh networks for use by everybody for any purpose are a (valuable!) very different thing, living in differently regulated bands.
It's legal in the same way it's legal for me to demand that you never eat tomatoes again. It's also legal for you to demand that your neighbor turn off his TV. Anyone non-government party can pretty much demand anything from anyone else. It means next to nothing. Not trying to be snarky here. It's just that I find it odd that so many people seem to think that the law is about what's permitted when it's really about what's not permitted. At least in the USA.

Arrogance and entitlement on Facebook's part though, that I agree with.
I would hazard an eyeball guess that the overwhelming majority of container ships headed for the U.S. are carrying non-essentials.

I disagree with your statement that "it doesn't matter what you do". It is all that matters, because what everyone else does is beyond my control, and only what I do is under my control.

Individual action and its spread through word-of-mouth is pretty much the only way anything changes in this world.
I still don’t understand why passports are required in official paper. It’s just a bar code that guy scans to retrieve the official record with photo ID on their server. Anything printed on paper passport is worthless and untrustworthy.
> Looking on zillow, I’ve seen places that aren’t as good as mine in Chicago go for 2-4x the price I paid.

I’m…not convinced that’s an unreasonable ratio between the Bay Area and Chicago.
It's a fun conspiracy theory, but Facebook leaks like a sieve, so if it were true I'd expect it to be in the news by now. I would also hope that Facebook's infrastructure isn't so fragile that a small mutiny of a dozen employees could hold it hostage. But you never know.

If you want a better conspiracy, how about "the whistleblower is a Facebook plant inserted to control the narrative and influence the regulatory capture Facebook needs to further entrench its position as a permanent fixture in society."
For me my poor English becomes an advantage here - I can listen to rock music and completely ignore lyrics, if they are in English and I don't deliberately focus on them. But if the radio starts playing something in my own language then it becomes distracting, even if I heard the song hundreds times before.
I have no interest in setting up a bunch of engineering equipment to listen to a bunch of 60-70 year olds broadcast their uncensored perspective on things. If you know what I mean. If they want to protect that as "one of the best parts", they are welcome to keep it among themselves for the rest of their days.

The original iteration of Ham is from a bygone era when phone calls and broadcasting was the primary method of information dissemination. I don't have a yearn to go back to those days, personally.

Now amateur, self-built, internet routing outside of constraints like DNS or corporate owned infrastructure? As an augment of the modern internet where we can self host satellite endpoints to a community owned constellation and send files (not just mere morse code), that I could be sold on.
There are devs out there who obsess over making sure their builds/programs/whatever are small in terms of bytes so they don't like anything that imports more than they need.

Django has everything. It is "batteries included." Well, many devs find many of those batteries to be useless, a.k.a bloat.
> Over time however it's clear that /pol/ is a far right platform

Citation needed.
There are definite advantages to this over containers in some cases, and definite advantages of containers over this in others. Containers are always hard to manage with multiple Google accounts if you want one to be default, for example, because of the way they do accounts and how they redirects everything work. Any time I'm in "workspace" type window, I want Google to just load in that container, so a profile would be great.

For other things, I really want containers. For example, if I'm prompted to load my banking side from a google email, why yes, I do want to open this tab in my baanking container, thanak you for asking, Firefox. Oh, this is a link to social media? Please cordon that off to a separate container as well.

Profiles are good, containers are good, they both serve slightly different use cases and can be used well by the same person, so both should be first class.
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The man who invented the Heimlich maneuver only got to use it once not long ago, in a nursing home.
The trouble with HAM radio is that it isn't that useful anymore. We have amazing cell coverage, wireless broadband just about everywhere and the ability to socialize online.

Ham used to be incredibly useful for global communications, rural areas with no phone service, and a way for people to stay socially connected in remote (or not remote) locations. This isn't needed in the vast majority of cases now.

That has led to most hams active on the airwaves being an older demographic. And the way they try to recruit others into the hobby is obsolete because the need just isn't there. It's a 100% academic exercise, rather than a way to connect with anyone around the world.

There is a newer aspect to ham which is modern digital radio, but most old timers have no knowledge or interest in that. There's a subculture that exists that does amazing work in that space, but it's disconnected from the old-timers that represent the face of ham radio. You'll find this subculture at DEF CON and similar events.

Even the things about ham that are still useful, like the marine net on 14.3Mhz which we used in the 90s for transoceanic sailing is about to become obsolete with affordable internet in the mid-pacific or mid-atlantic becoming a reality. And polar bases are about to get polar orbit Starlink satellites for broadband.

So the hobby really needs to transform it it's going to survive. But the old guard and new world are so disconnected, destruction and recreation may be a better way to think about it.

My wife and I are both ham Extras and we run a cybersecurity company. She's KF1J and I'm WT1J. We're passionate about the hobby, but both see the writing on the wall. Ham right now is a solution looking for a problem.

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But then it's no longer Amateur Radio, it'll just be another unlicensed spectrum like the Wifi spectrum since there's no way to know who is using it or what data is going over it.

There may be value for this to the public, but it's not the same as Amateur Radio.
Yeah, I definitely think they come from an era where we all didn't have a pocket communicator that plugs us into any community at will.

When I flung packets across the bay with a friend, we used cell phones to figure out antenna positioning and alignment. violating the spirit of the intention of these rules, imo, but hard to say
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If you loaded in private browsing (or logged out), HN was speedy as normal. If you're like me, from time to time you accidentally sign out and don't notice it until much later.
M Impression was that Tether is holding BitFinex papers. I am not sure though where I read this
Not impossible without some planning. When I'm navigating around my city I'm pretty familiar with the arterial roads that run across the county, so even in a new neighborhood I can feel my way out without anything. If I had a map in my car like my parents growing up, it wouldn't be hard to trace a simple route and drive along it. That's how I mostly use mapping software on my phone anyhow, preplanning the route then just driving it, maybe reviewing briefly at a red light or if I need longer I just pull over for a second. I don't like having to look away from the road at a screen mounted on my dash to navigate, feels dangerous. I feel like I also have a much stronger sense of direction now from navigating like this vs just blithely following the blue line.

In college I would often study on my laptop outdoors where there wasn't any wifi. I would just download all the stuff I needed to read in advance.

You could use the 7th day of the week to just pull stuff you need: relevant technical documentation, cache a few stack over flow threads, update your RSS feeds to keep track of websites you follow, refresh your email (if you have a job where you can get away with replying once a week), etc. Even if your job demanded you be connected to the internet all day, disconnecting after the working day would probably be a nice detox.
Instagram(and maybe some other FB services) seem to be having issues again today. According to the verge
Eesh.

Ironically enough I was thinking recently about how, content aside, Facebook’s UI is as bad now as it was in 2010.
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> So are you saying...

The answer to such a question is pretty much always no. (cd. Betteridge's Law)

Being (developmentally) retarded is a a way to be stupid. There a lots of other ways each with their own merits. People with intellectual disabilities aren't inherently bad, or morally bad, or necessarily worse that any person without a diagnosable disorder. That said, the whole idea is that the typical process of cognitive development is slowed or stalled on the way from baby to adult. This has undeniable disadvantages and, all else being equal, nobody should want it.

My feeling is that you must mix empathy with empiricism, and be brutally honest about the practical facts, while obviously not extending that to any unfounded personal judgements.
Not quite.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-go...

Tl;Dr: Mozilla gets no less than $400 million yearly from Google just by keeping it as default search engine.

I was happy to donate to Mozilla in the past, and would do again even knowing about the agreement with Google; I want to support them.
But I'm donating to support development and promotion, not to make some rich execs even more richer. If that's the case, then I'll use my wallet elsewhere.
Not as exciting as knowing that you can't comb a hairy ball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
> I distinctly remember the claim that most economists (left and right) believe the optimal corporate tax rate is 0%

Optimal for what objective?
There’s limited bandwidth available. I definitely think it’s worth experimenting, but my expectation would be that any bands that allow for encryption would quickly be saturated with traffic.
I think it's an alternative to second-hand and thrift shops, and the biggest advantage is that it is available even in areas without thrift shops.

The second advantage is that you don't have to pay, so it is more likely that items will find a good home instead of being discarded.

The third advantage is non-participation in the money system, if you're into that sort of thing, and also the elimination of overhead for store and inventory upkeep.

One downside, of course, is that most people aren't willing to keep their "stock" around for too long, so there's limited inventory at any given time that you can browse.
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Vimtutor is what finally got me into vim after trying it and quickly abandoning it a couple times. The interface finally "clicked" in my head and I was able to edit text quickly with a little practice. I've used vim a lot more since.
You're imagining that major corporations will move to Sri Lanka? Moving from SV to Texas is considered bold, but try persuading employees to move out of the OECD, and then finding talent there.

Also, businesses actually benefit from and prefer to operate in a well-funded, well-regulated, free society. Those are the societies with freedom, customers, competent and fair legal systems, safety, money, infrastructure, etc. The corporation is part of the society they operate in - they aren't a customer of it, they are the makers of it (just like you and me). They have a stake in making it work well. That will be true wherever they go.

They might observe that most leading businesses were developed in wealthy countries (wealthy localities, even) where those businesses pay taxes - more taxes than now in the US, for the most part. Even in the US - what great industry has come out of a low-tax area? Oil doesn't count.
I got my license when I was around 37 and was already very familiar with the internet. So the long distance communications part of Amateur Radio was less interesting to me, I was more interested in shorter range VHF/UHF disaster communications. And still am, I still participate in diaster drills and the occasional special event (running, biking, etc) support.
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> The level of arrogance and entitlement here is mind blowing.

Yeah. They put a server on the internet but we're not supposed to talk to it. We can only do it on their terms. Gotta control those users so they don't hurt a billion dollar company's business interests.

I remember the pirate bay's responses to legal threats. That's exactly the kind of reply Facebook deserves.
>If you want a better conspiracy,

ugh. you're evil. that's going to fester.
Shape Up is really powerful and cuts straight to the meat of things which is getting things done as opposed to the traditional way of planning and processes greater than actual results. We’ve been using Shape Up for a little over a year at the Sailscasts Company and love every bit of idea in it. I think personally is a lean mean way of getting things done with tangible and measurable results!
I feel like HAM Radio just can't compete for the minds of young people. There are just so many amazing things to play with these days. If I were a teen again, I probably wouldn't even bother with getting my HAM license because I'd be so busy programming and designing with microcontrollers, WiFi, LTE, lasers, genetic engineering, etc, etc...

HAM Radio feels almost like a solved problem these days. Sure, there is room for advancement but to do anything interesting starts to require quite a strong background in communications theory.
And why is it so important that businesses pay a high corporate tax rate? Isn't it enough to tax the money when it actually leaves the business? (Is paid out.)

Some economists say that corporate taxes distort capital allocation.[0] A minimum global tax rate removes the ability for a country to decide for themselves whether they want this or not. Estonia, for example, is worried that their tax system has to change as a result, because they don't charge a corporate tax on money that's reinvested or retained.

Edit: apparently Estonia is banking on an exemption for reinvestment.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/economic_p...
Asking about how people spend their life is often illegal to ask. If you don't know the local laws only ask job related questions. This is why my company gives me a script of questions I'm allowed to ask - to get the conversation started on legal topics in ways that are unlikely to stray into illegal areas. (more than once I've had illegal information given to me - but I didn't ask so that is okay)

Illegal information isn't anything that will affect how someone does the job in general. You learn about personality, but I hope you can deal with those personalities anyway.
Ah, so it’s like “unfollow by default” instead of “follow by default”
> living in differently regulated bands

People keep repeating that, but it's not actually true. There are no bands available for long range (50-100 miles between hops), decentralized, encrypted, mesh networks that are cheap enough for random people to connect to.

You're probably thinking of random wifi meshnets that only work in densely populated cities. That's very different, and the limitations of those networks is exactly why HAM radio meshnets are so attractive.
Um, this sounds dangerous and unhelpful in actually making long-term lifestyle and relationship with food changes necessary in losing weight and keeping weight off.

Additionally, ganging up on an individual explicitly as a weight loss plan sounds like a great way to develop an eating disorder, given that simple exposure to the pressures of instagram is known to do this to girls.
Activist investors don’t always invest based on projected revenue. They consider it just to make sure the company is not a fraud. However, they don’t care about huge revenue. They care about goals like green energy, new technological frontier. Number of companies that have decent products in these spaces are not many, so supply and demand pushed their price to huge valuations that doesn’t make sense for other companies.
https://www.jamstackthemes.dev has a similar list of Hugo themes but also has about 800 open source themes for all the other ssgs like Jekyll, Gatsby, Next etc
Rust allows you to layer on “just the heap please” and yes, many projects do exactly that. The point is that it is clearly delineated: no_std has no system dependencies, and then you can layer things like alloc on top of that, up to and maybe finally including full standard library support. Rust allows projects to explicitly signal what stuff they need, which helps make the ecosystem interoperable, which is the point made in the talk.

Incidentally, “every” OS does not have a heap. Many do, possibly even “most,” but that’s not required. It is extremely nice to be able to know what needs a heap and what does not.
I'd say instead of a sudden and complete disconnect, go for a phased disconnect. In the very first phase, avoid using the network and look for other alternate resources like other posters have mentioned here. Reach out to network only as a last resort.
Is an economic recession or depression necessarily bad, if everyone's basic needs are still accounted for?

If the economy is in a state of overproduction and extreme waste while the effects are the burn-up of our own habitat, shouldn't it tune down a bit anyway?
That last bit is a possibly huge unintended consequence.

Crimes that would typically be a misdemeanor suddenly turn into federal charges when the USPS is involved. Would we see an increase in federal prosecutions for passing bad checks if postal banking is widespread?
No they don't. The way Mozilla is currently setup they need to sell ads, but there are other ways to manage firefox (note that separation between Mozilla and firefox!).