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" I believe that the US doesn’t need a CBDC despite the banks, whose activities are, to my mind, almost all better and more equitably accomplished these days by the robust, diverse, and sustainable ecosystem of non-State cryptocurrencies (translation: regular crypto). "

Is he saying that the cryptocurrency ecosystem currently provides loans, insurance, compliance with laws, anti money-laundering mechanisms on the same level as the existing infrastructure? Let's say I need a loan to build a house, where do I go in the world of cryptocurrency? What exactly does that even have to do with cryptocurrency itself? Banks provides services, they can do it in bitcoin, they can do it with dollars, the mechanism of the currency has nothing to do with it.

I'm honestly not sure after reading that article that Snowden really understands what the purpose of a bank or financial service providers is. they're not just intermediaries in a technical sense, they're institutions that pool and manage risk. yes you can automate the technical transfer of a loan, but a loan always has two human sides, and the creditor will always be an institution because it makes sense to professionalize the management of value.
Bill Maher praises China for being a 'serious country' and contrasts it to the non-serious US. That is pretty mainstream. There seem to be many people, both left and right, who see China's actions on clamping down unfettered capitalism and decadence as a good thing. In my view it's a mixed bag. I think the real driving force is in preparation of a US/China conflict which is starting to feel inevitable.
I assumed that we had switched to some sort of switching infrastructure a long time ago, where you wouldn’t pull every single copper wire all the way to the exchange
Not sure who, but I almost thought of subscribing to a paper.

Then I recalled the horror stories for papers, so looked for how to unsubscribe, and these clowns actually required a phone call to cancel. WTF?!

So ended all thoughts of subscribing. Idiots.
> Tesla can't generate its own water

Of course they could -- in theory they could drill a well and put in their own septic system. That's probably illegal in Austin proper but the Tesla facility is sufficiently far away that it might be legal there.
Judging from the content she puts online, she seems painful to be around. Good one for Apple - that sort of attitude will bring a whole team down.
I mean #1 you missed the bit where I'm not being serious? But #2, the US military is just fine at blowing up specific named people in specific locations. It's trying to mould an entire nation with their own ideas and traditions into a carbon copy of America that they're not great at. Facebook, I think, would avoid this trap.
> maybe this is an ongoing mental health crisis or something.

Assuming you are right (a big assumption) cutting off her health insurance is one poor way of handling the situation. This is a very dark side of employer provided health insurance in systems that don’t really have socialised healthcare.
If Apple is known toxic and you still go to work there, I don't know what to tell you.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

First paragraph:

>The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to it in 2003.
America’s unemployed are sending a message: Safety and compensation matter
Boise Entrepreneur Week to give away more than $100k in pitch competitions
Oh noes, he has ammo at his desk. Come to my state lady, pretty sure everybody but one of the people in my last office open carried.
Gjøvik’s claims should be investigated. But regardless of their validity, this opportunity should be taken to discuss the work culture at Apple, which has long escaped scrutiny unlike other corporate giants such as Amazon or Ballmer-era Microsoft.
> OK this is the case about whether he committed sexual assault in Sweden

No, this is a witness whose testimony is related to late additions to the US charges.
Early on in the pandemic, the Canadian IPAC (Infection Control and Prevention) establishment came down hard against theories of airborne COVID transmission, at first even going so far as to not recommend masking. Even now that the science of airborne transmission has been established, they're waging a rearguard battle to obfuscate/deny it and airborne protections such as better ventilation and masking. If you go to a Canadian hospital wearing an N95 these days there's a good chance they will insist you to take it off in favour of a "clean" surgical mask with gaps around the sides and nose.
Yes, there was much gnashing and wailing of teeth here when they announced they were abandoning the native experience on Mac.
Windows won't treat this like malware, because, all the other similar products out there are not treated as malware either.

because it does not run as a service/persist, it will be undone by the next big windows update anyways.
One town in Rutherford Co re-elected the same corrupt mayor for decades on end; he was the longest serving elected official in state history. Over the course of his administration he stole the contemporary equivalent of millions of dollars from the small town, which had a population of a thousand or so during his tenure. He won his last election (with ~80% of the vote) while actively & publicly embroiled in the lawsuit that would ultimately cause the state supreme court to order his removal from office. After he was forced out, the town's elected council immediately appointed the town manager, his twin brother, as temporary replacement; his twin announced he'd just do whatever his deposed brother told him to do... and won his own election in this platform. One resident, when interviewed about the affair, admitted the former mayor was corrupt and a thief, but defended his record saying he was a good old boy and "never did anything bad-wrong" like murder. One of the town's major thoroughfares is named after this long-(self)serving mayor and he's still revered with nearly saint-like status in that town.
Not bad. Runtime protection of the data is really good/useful. Lets see where this project will go :)
United Becomes First Airline to Intro PayPal QR Codes as Inflight Payment Option
IIRC it has come up in various Blizzard lawsuits around bots and cheat software.

From MDY Industries v. Blizzard:

> As with most software, the client software of WoW is copied during the program's operation from the computer's hard drive to the computer's random access memory (RAM). Citing the prior Ninth Circuit case of MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511, 518-19 (9th Cir. 1993), the district court held that RAM copying constituted "copying" under 17 U.S.C. § 106.[4]

That one is more about another program accessing the ram and reading it (the act itself meaning that data in memory is "copied" again) but it's not a big jump to apply the same logic to a regular player's usage of the game.
"Criminal responsibility for failing to prevent someone committing a crime" sounds like something some reddit lawyer would dream up based on misreading of the law.
How much slower is remote work?
There are two comments up now, casting doubt on the motives of the person who was let go.

The big shocker here isn't Apple getting rid of someone who rocked the boat too much, that's a given in $bigcorp.

It's the allegation of Apple breaking in to someone's home & impersonating the police. Now that i find shocking.

Big if true.
The point is that they're using an off-the-shelf icon kit with some native dialogue forwarding. By this definition, VS Code is also a 'native' app, which we know to be untrue.

Frankly, I think the MacOS HID has been dead since Mojave. At some point, developers realized that Cocoa wasn't enough for most apps, and it was an awful lot of work to put into an app that would only be used by a fraction of their customers. Currently, the definition of "native" on MacOS is that it uses loosely the same keyboard shortcuts as your other programs, and if you're lucky then it integrates with your global menu. In the age of webapps and cross-platform development, there's simply not a way that MacOS' approach works. Even niche toolkits like GTK solved this problem better than Apple, which makes it even more mind-blowing when I see Mac developers defend their build system.

Walled-gardens lead to sticky situations like this, where volunteer-driven efforts are more developer friendly than first-party offerings. I weep for the Xcode users who don't know what it's like living on the outside.
The problem with "startup" is that there are two separate issues mixed up in the same word. PG defined it as hypergrowth which is certainly one class of startup, but there's another one as well. The other aspect of startups is that they are newish products doing something new in new markets. As such, issues like product-market fit are key. The problem is when you start to say things like you're not a startup, you're a traditional business is that most traditional businesses don't have the product market fit issue, and thus most traditional businesses are far far less risky. For example, I don't need to convince a bank that my coffee shop will achieve product-market fit, we know people love coffee and have lots of tools for evaluation the financials of a potential coffee shop, which is why I can get a bank loan to go start up my shop.

Now there's the issue of starting a company that is trying something new and lacks product-market fit, thus is higher risk and we don't have good tools to evaluate those risks, but is also looking to grow conservatively thus isn't able to get the interest of those looking to give out high-risk funding, ie VCs.
I mean I don't know what to say here - the whole entire point here is that he makes a fuck ton more than his reported income and should (probably somehow) pay taxes on that. This graph IMO shows pretty clearly how not optimal the current tax system is: https://i.imgur.com/jcO8KgO.png
Correct.

As a consumer i want to get stuff i want quickly and get refund if i'm not happy. Amazon solved it, even though it's ridden with fake reviews and fraud. This is lesser evil many can live with.

However, as an investor or business builder I want full control over my resources, finances, investments, business values, risks and rewards.

That's where the governments tends to put too much nose in.

And that's where decentralization can totally help to make outdated, expensive, controlling and abusive financial and taxation systems obsolete.
The right answer is to buy better air purifiers, as good ones are nearly silent.
Lots of western countries, including the US. The way rich people end up exploiting the legal system in the US is not a different interpretation of the laws.

Corruption is not yet prevalent enough that a rich person can get away with murder by bribing judges/prosecutors to interpret the laws differently.
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The point would be to have the central HVAC system be renovated to boost circulation with HEPA filters in the loop precisely so that you don't have to have two noisy things doing a middling job of a similar task in the classroom itself.
Right. That something is private is by itself meaningless. This is a major problem in the West that many don't seem to understand, that the lines between the private and public sector are worthless and blurred if the private sector is powerful enough to function as a de facto arm of the government. Raw power is what counts. In terms of the media, CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, WaPo, Fox, etc, are all de facto regime media outlets (Google and Facebook fall broadly into the same camp because they control the flow of information). The same oligarchic milieu that influences or runs the government influences or runs the media. They all go to the same schools, live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same parties, etc, etc. You don't need a Legion of Doom to orchestrate anything or any planning. Common interests and a similar lust for power causes a coincidental synthesis of mutually constructive arrangements that the same group finds beneficial. It happens naturally, as it were.

Another threat is foreign ownership of media. In Poland, where public media is explicitly controlled by whatever ruling party happens to be in power, there was recently a big media circus around introducing some media investment restrictions by foreign companies. Over 80% of Polish media are foreign owned, much of it in German hands, but not only. Best of all, it's not presented as representing the interests of those countries or groups. That's a huge problem for national security and a symptom of the neocolonial control the country is under (Piketty once described Poland as "foreign-owned"). Recent media brouhaha was triggered by an American media company (owned by Discovery). It's one thing to read about another POV. It's another to have foreign interests presented as your own and concealing their true nature. The Western media meanwhile routinely convince the Western public that anything against Western oligarchic interest in that region is fascist and other favorite epithets. They groom the public to view what's happening in a way that is untrue and benefits oligarchs. Colonialism still exists. We just call it other things now.

Also, divisiveness is not the primary problem, but downstream. If we focus on division, we risk throwing truth under the bus, especially in this climate of subjectivist "narratives". We are vulnerable to saying "to heal divisions, we must accept a common narrative". Heh, sorry, nope. That's the tyranny of the lie and the narrative makers (hence the foaming at the mouth by those who are losing control of the "official narrative"). The only thing worth uniting around is something true and something capable and worthy enough to function as a unifier. You need enough in common to create a workable society where coexistence and cooperation are possible. If we can't find something like that, then sorry, but you have no viable society.
You speak like someone who hasn't found themselves in California's 13.3% tax bracket.
I play guitar in a traditional jazz band. Found HN while self-teaching computer science as a quarantine hobby. I love the random interesting links and substanitive conversation. A lot of the conversation in the comments gives me direction in studying.
"Honestly I think the UK has a lot going for it - very low levels of corruption, good law and court systems, good education, low levels of crime outside of London stabbings, the NHS, excellent Civil Service, The National Trust, English/Scottish Heritage."

Except the heritage everything that you mentioned here has gone to shit.
I don't fit as a marketing person, but still find HN pretty and swung over here and really interesting during the reddit disporia of a few years ago. Found the Telegram bot for HN and that's something that's kept me coming back when I see some interesting stuff. I wish there was a HN for marketers, you have a really engaging community.
How serendipitous, I was just watching a show Bob Moses [1] did on one of these towers above LA, and was wondering what they were. Now I've my answer.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKeduffv7_U
And unfortunately, the author comes from the UK which is now no longer under the jurisdiction of the CJEU. That might have provided him some protection.
maybe they used a genetic algorithm to generate the headline
The obvious answer would be for the school to not rely on portable fans with filters on them, but instead actually upgrade the building you’re in.
Apple isn't any better - Apple gets the hash of every program you run on a Mac.
What You Can Learn by Staring at a Blank Wall
> You are making unsubstantiated claims about the person

his sentence was clearly speculation, and not a "claim". The people here suggesting mental health issue are on much thinner ice
If you accidentally accept funds linked to a sanctioned terrorist address or something, and then mix the money... I hope you have a good lawyer
We had the information. It’s why we didn’t have huge outbreaks related to planes.

Anyone who looked into this, including me, knew this more than a year ago.
I'm pretty sure they've repeatedly mentioned that they're also funded by viewers like me ;-)

Yes, they get government funding and have a public mission. But they also aren't entirely funded by tax dollars.

I do think they have a weird bias that they are very oblivious to, but I don't think it's exactly a pro-government bias. It seems more like a don't-be-controversial bias where the goalpost for that keeps shifting.
Clearly crazy person throws out unsubstantiated complaints along with a bunch of complaining about non issues, and you think that's justification to put a company under scrutity? Ok commissar.
Most likely. Canada also has a habit of under-spending on healthcare in general. The system is also hypersensitive to political whims and can end up getting neglected as a result. This is because the provinces have direct control over every aspect of the healthcare system, and set the budget for them directly.

Unlike other nations like Germany and Estonia, Canada's healthcare system is fully dependent on the provincial government to exist and be funded. If I'm not mistaken, in the two countries I mentioned, clinics can get private funding while providing universal access in most cases, which means they have a larger buffer between the political whims of the state, and their ability to provide service. If the state under-provides, the clinics can seek investors to cover the new costs, all the while maintaining universal coverage.

That's not something Canadians can do. Talk of any private involvement, or restructuring in general, in Canada's healthcare system is often very politically charged and not particularly honest, so change is not happening any time soon.

I suspect the issue here is that the hospitals know that having HEPA filters would be a good idea, but political will isn't there to give them what they need. Canadian politics on both sides lately has been more about the appearance of progress through large gestures, rather than careful consideration of long term solutions. It's very unfortunate.
It's not about fetching salts, it's about the whole approach; you literally can't approach it that manner.
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Six Calls from Aicha: How a CEO skillfully interacts with her board
So true. So many of my most memorable life mistakes occurred because I got impatient and missed a step.
Student and hobbyist programmer. I actually found HN through the programmingcirclejerk sub on Reddit and got hooked. I like learning new things, and Reddit isn't the best place to do that, so I've started browsing HN more.
I often see the term "line" used as a metric. When screens were limited to a certain number of characters in the early days this meant something. Is there some current limit to the length of a line that would make this useful? Bytes/Characters seems more appropriate.
Sorry, I missed your comment.

To answer your first question, a significant amount of RCS for a capable commercial radar, not least of all because it is rounded for hydrodynamics, which is a terrible shape for minimizing RCS.

Second, I should have been clearer: the submarine stands to gain by operating their own radar rather than working from sonar alone.

Finally, submerged transits are mostly advantageous for security concerns.
> So, at the risk of attracting a fair amount of hatred, let’s begin.

Disagreeing is not hatred, even derision is not hatred. Come on. Nobody hates this person. I really wish people would stop with this little bit of theatrics.
Not at all. This approach will make more effective salary or wage negotiations. As a side-effect this will lower the possibility of low payment for overtime work and will create more quality in the product pipeline etc.
I had a discussion about benchmarks and how useful they are a few days ago: i remember mentioning TechEmpower in particular because of how close to typical real world usage of the libraries and ecosystems their benchmarks are!

That said, Vert.X and some other of the frameworks aren't exactly idiomatic Java, because they're heavily focused on maximum performance - when i last checked them out, there were even async JDBC drivers in development, and while the performance was indeed stellar, it wasn't exactly production ready back then.

Edit: well, the actual way it writes and reads isn't bad in of itself, but some might need some time to get adjusted to the concepts. Actually, i'd say that it reads a bit more like JS: https://vertx.io/docs/vertx-core/java/

Of course, things have probably improved, but perhaps it's also useful to compare some of the full platform implementations and perhaps the most popular of each language's frameworks. Maybe even with ORMs, to also see how those technologies fare in reality, since i've personally seen some of the most widely used enterprise frameworks become pretty slow due to all of the abstraction that's going on, which perhaps is a deserved criticism for Java.

So for most of the "boring & stable" projects, it could look a bit like the following: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=...

- Java, Spring: the most popular enterprise framework in my experience
- Java, Dropwizard: a pretty good alternative to Spring that takes a number of the industry standard frameworks/libraries and integrates them
(Quarkus not featured because while the MicroProfile compatibility would be useful to test, they actually have no tests with ORMs for now)
- JavaScript, Express: still the most popular framework for back end development with Node
- JavaScript, Node: sometimes i've seen people write servers directly as well, which is surprisingly far easier in Node than it is in Java (servlets and the abstractions around them can be unpleasant to work with)
(Koa not featured because while it's gaining popularity, they actually have no tests with ORMs for now)

With those particular frameworks, the scene changes a bit and both of them are far more similar in their performance. I'm not sure what the takeaway here would be: whether it's that Wirth's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law) applies to libraries that try to cover all use cases, that Java just has some popular frameworks which underutilize its potential for performant code, or that you really should compare particular frameworks, paradigms and implementations, rather than just languages in general (since the overhead cannot be disregarded).

Of course, these results also may not be representative of the stacks that other companies use or even those that are popular in other regions of the world, so i invite you all to check out those results for yourselves with the stacks that you're considering and maybe even browse the test source code: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...
I can't even believe 99% of these sites get any real sales / draw from their spam regardless.

I'm convinced it is all "monkey see, monkey do", they read some reddit post, and it mentioned marketing 101 aka email emails!!, and so they need to spam.
Surely being a life hack is a property of a solution, not of a question? What on earth questions are they inviting here?
> Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

> Gold Microsoft Partner

Why would MS partner with a company that makes software to "bypass" their spyware?

Why would O&O partner with a company that has spyware in the OS, then proudly display the Gold MS partner badge on the same page?

Why is the source code obfuscated?

Think about it.
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