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My best friend was in a famous cult half his life. That's nothing like a cult.

He had unlimited money ($25k a month was nothing) and freedom to do anything he wanted for 15 years. He was never harmed. The organization collapsed as the
elders passed away partially due to the rule of no proselytizing so no new members.

edit: they had about $50M split between 6 people near the end. I don't really know why more people don't do this: register a religious organization, require all members to assign all assets and money to the organization, work together for the rest of your life building your wealth tax free and watch how quick your wealth amplifies as you acquire properties and make investments.
This says nothing. You could just as well be arguing in favour of three-card monte or any other obvious scam.
I agree there is a big difference between day trading meme stocks and sticking your money in an MSCI World Index Fund or whatever.

That being said, I still constantly feel tempted to check how my portfolio of very boring index funds is doing, despite having absolutely no intention of selling anything for many years.
If you are a 2x or 3x engineer, it makes more sense to work 0.5x or 0.33x hours than to give all your energy to one company. Get a 2nd job before you give one company everything.

I recommend you do the same work of the next person on the team and shirk the rest. Any company that despises this practice is trying to get something from you they aren't willing to pay for.

I assure you, your company doesn't deliver 3x what it promised in their contracts.

If you are salaried, you promise to be available for so many hours a week and do duties as assigned. Perfect. Honor that end of the contract and shirk away.

Dont let the capitalists invent a morality to shame you to give them 100% while they are in a meeting with their lawyer on how to incorporate in Luxembourg and strongarm municipalities into giving them handouts.
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iirc many NFT systems use IPFS [1], where content addresses and content hashes are the same. Of course, it still requires someone to actually store the underlying file.

A good lesson in buyer beware - many NFTs are being made (and sold) by people who don't know what they're doing.

Another quote from Moxie RE IPFS [2]:
> another strange phenomenon is that NFTs which host metadata on IPFS often don't use ipfs:// urls, but rather an explicit https IPFS gateway, which isn't fundamentally that different from some random webserver in terms of what clients are capable of enforcing.

[1] https://ipfs.io/

[2] https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448162369553637376?s=20
“Comfortable” is not only a function of temperature, but also relative humidity and wind speed. Based on this site, there are no good times to visit Hawaii - it’s always too warm to be comfortable, even in the middle of the night. I assure you this is not the case. ;)

It is a “temperature fingerprint”, and not a comfort fingerprint, but maybe “neutral” would be a better word here.
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I agree, and it's a much larger topic on time and expectation management.

My point though is that many people are both overworked and have no work boundaries, which is the worst of both. Taking control back so that work serves their life instead of the other way around is much needed and good to see.
Spain has a nomad visa called Non-profit visa. Does anybody know about it?
I can't see gravity perfectly canceling out forward velocity while simultaneously contacting the surface. It would have to come through the body first. Which, I suppose, is terrifyingly possible.
Absolutely, I feel it truly gives insight into how an addiction works.

If every morning you wake up and smoke a cigarette right by the window while you brew coffee, then the day you decide to stop there are two forces at hand: first, the addiction to nicotine, but there is also the void left by the activity of smoking.

When you quit social media or whatever smartphone boredom annihilator, what do you do on the bus back home? On the waiting room or queue of whatever place you find yourself at? In any of those small idle moments?

For me I've found the answer to be obvious but not very exciting: I get bored. I get bored and let my mind wander, ideally this means I'm not merely unfocused, but rather at rest mentally, otherwise I dedicate some time to this or that thought that would surely have assaulted me right at the time in which I should be falling asleep. I think society has gotten into an habit of never being bored, I don't think that's healthy.
There was at one point a git interface. It was extremely cumbersome to use compared to the perforce/mercurial ones and was eventually deprecated. I can't speak to how much of that is staffing limitations versus underlying technical reasons for poor compatibility.

At any rate, it's extremely simple to move to Mercurial from the git world, particularly with trunk-based development.
> ... I can't think of important, game-changing things I would like to see besides unrealistic battery-life expectations.

I'd like to see a satellite connection, ideally with gprs speeds (calling, chatting, podcasts, music, reading websites anywhere).

It would also be nice to have transflective displays that work in direct sun without using too much power.

Also I wonder whether power could be reduced so much that all-around solar panels can give u a small charge when being away from the grid.
Only tangentially connected to the article; but contemporary Azoreans believe the archipelago comprises the last remnants of Atlantis and if you ever take an opportunity to visit, you might see why.
Oh that's nice. I haven't played League in a long time so I didn't know they had already done this.

So then I don't understand what are we gaining for blocking all chat.
I was under the impression GP felt they should release on a slower cycle, not faster
the headline is garbled. A vast majority does think it's getting worse (76%), but only 56% considers leaving within 5 years.
We'll see next Monday, at least rumors are going wild already :)
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I think you hit on an interesting question; and the answer is yes.

What is different is the value framework, right?

The further down a hierarchy you go the more individual the problems become; therefore the guy at the top is never going to solve for N challenges, just the macro ones.
The tweet is in French. That was a rough translation
Some liberties have always been taken away in any society: you cannot kill or steal as you please for instance. There is always a need to figure out a good balance between personal liberties and the greater common good.

Gambling with your savings might seem like a personal choice, but in the end there will be bailouts that I will have to pay for. You might not agree with where I draw the line, but ignoring that there has to be line is putting your head in the sand and ignoring reality.
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The only "smart money" is "other people's money".

The problem is that ordinary people are replicating the strategies that professional traders use, without realizing professional traders bet other people's money, keep the profits, let their customers eat the losses, and reboot at-will with fresh "other people's money" when they go bust.
The real solution is not only to predict but to explain why the accidents happen, there are always some reasons why some places/location have more accidents then normal.
In apt at least the fancy UI can be disabled completely, see 'Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "0";'
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I don't know if you know the relevant history, but I am specifically referring to the precedent of Israel bombing the Iraqi reactor. Gaddafi also had a nuclear program that would have gotten him in trouble if he hadn't stopped it in time.

I don't want to categorically endorse nuclear weapon programs (or even civilian programs) as a reason to go to war, but I can understand why some countries believe so. Particularly in the case of Israel, when countries like Iraq and Iran have specifically and repeatedly said they want to destroy Israel. The nuclear programs in the hands of Iran, Pakistan and China are already troublesome. Their current governments might seem relatively "rational" about the whole thing, but they are authoritarian and who knows what will happen with their next crop of unelected leadership.

In less egregious cases, highly radioactive material is sufficient to build dirty bombs. A simple regime change, civil war or whatever in an unstable region with nuclear power could lead to a nightmare. Even less sinister, simple incompetence can lead to a mismanaged reactor or waste disposal, which in turn can have wideranging and catastrophic consequences.
I'm gonna advocate Tenerife (my island) since it would be amazing to have more HNers around :)

https://weatherspark.com/y/147639/Average-Weather-at-Tenerif...

Doesn't seem to get much better according to weatherspark :)
I feel that the simplicity of just building on the server and pushing the updates across the wire is where we are heading. So a lot less double up, with regards needing to write both for the server and client. Validation especially will just need to be written once.

Although I do feel Phoenix Liveview is a better option because they implement sockets.

Also saw this update today they will allow you to trigger javascript on the client without the sever round trip, it's one of the things people get a bit stuck understanding. Generally they think to pop open a modal or menu requires a round trip to the server but really you should be using Alpine.js or similar for such things. This new pending update remove the requirement of needing a framework like Alpine. https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1...
So it is solely running on AWS? Or are there other clouds as well?
Thankfully it was flagged. I'm at ease. Please put your facemask on.
As someone who was raised in the Bay Area and had 3 decades of tech career in SV, and left forever in 2016, I'm still surprised at how thick those remaining are to not see the reality. I assume they don't get out much so they've never seen the contrast with reality to see how bad it is!

56% is merely those who have short term plans to leave. With up to 77% not liking things, they are on the edge of deciding to leave. It only takes a nudge! It's what pushed me and I still have family and >30 years of inertia keeping me there - I reached that point and have never looked back.

I was in the Bay Area a few weeks ago and I am SO GLAD I don't live there anymore! What a shit hole it is! It's far worse than 2016.
I have to say this really surprises me, smartphones now are so good that you could easily keep one for 2 years or more and not notice the difference.

My personal cycle is about 4 years, and I do my best to take care of the battery so that I don't even have to replace that during that time.
Out of curiosity, when you have a large amount of text flying by like with package installs, what is the expected accessibility behavior? I imagine a screenreader trying to keep up with the install logs in any way would be... chaotic.
> The biggest surprise for me in the current market is how employers and companies are complaining about the lack of skilled people but are unwilling to shift their own behavior to become more desirable to workers.

I don't think it's really surprising - what makes sense for the business does not necessarily make sense for the middle management writing the hiring requirements. Bob doesn't want to deal with remote subordinates because he has no idea how to. He also doesn't want to hire outside the US because he's never done it before and doesn't want to learn.

Of course, Bob isn't going to go to _his_ supervisor and say all this - that would be career suicide. So we get all sorts of silly excuses about why they need people in the office or only hire from X country.

And all that is going to persist until people like Bob are forced to adapt or lose their jobs. The real question is this though: how much are developer salaries inflated because of stupid, self-serving requirements from people like Bob?
Nice how this article pus together people who want more flexibility in work location with people who hate work and try to work as less as possible.
Makes you almost guess where theguardian.com owners stand on this issue.
Awesome I'll check it out, thanks for the specificity!
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The boring wisdom is that a bigger economy needs more money.

I will rephrase it. The unit of account should remain stable in respect to what it tracks. If the unit of account is grains and grains spoil then capturing that spoilage in the unit of account does not constitute a breach in stability. E.g. persistent background inflation is often caused by "natural" processes.

If you have a limited quantity of the unit of account then the unit of account will have to change and then people start betting on how the unit of account changes, rather than do productive work.

Here is a makeshift analogy:

A court is in charge of the unit of account and can set it directly and arbitrarily.

A family has borrowed 120 units (representing 10 years of labor) to build a house.

One year later the judge changes the unit of account so that 1 unit = 2 months of labor.

The family has to pay back 20 years of labor to pay off the house.

People now stop borrowing and start speculating on the unit of account because it is other people who have to work and they hope that the unit of account goes up to 1 unit = 10 months of labor so that they can retire.

There is an obvious problem. The family can simply default and the obligation to work 100 years vanishes into thin air.

The lesson here is that work should be more profitable than speculation.
Also freaking expensive.

I hope LEGO subsidizes this guy's endeavor.
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We will learn a lot from upcoming research about the algorithmic PR descendants of Cambridge Analytica.
Maybe they thought that it was clear that they had the authority to move member projects to GitHub Enterprise. Maybe they thought that moving to GitHub Enterprise is solely a helpful move since it gives extra features to the the projects for free (by that I mean that maybe they considered it to be the equivalent of simply setting a flag on the project that gives it access to those features). Maybe there was miscommunication internally due to not having well-define protocols and someone thought it was safe to move the project.

I don't know if they'll tell us exactly what was going through the mind of the person who triggered the move, but I don't see any reason to assume that they can't change how they operate to be respectful of the project maintainers.
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A good point and one I hadn’t considered before (shame on me). Does anyone have a good reference on making accessible terminal programs?

As a web developer I’m intimately aware that there are many gotchas and nuances to be aware of - I have to figure the same is true of the terminal.
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All terminal applications should have a 'basic' (or to use Git terminology, 'porcelain') output mode by default, and an alternative renderer for more visually inclined people as an option.

Most recently, Yarn 3 went way overboard with their installer, to the point where it's... visually overwhelming? Tree views, colors, dotted underlines, multiple scrolling segments, etc. It's a bit better if running in CI mode (no coloring), but still not ideal.
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I worked at a company that's done several record breaking NFT auctions and sales. The top tier NFT collector / whales I've know have been constantly talked about how much they like the things they are buying / bidding on. Both in public, and in private.

User interviews seem to go like this:

Us: Why did you bid on this NFT [for upper six figures]
Them: I liked it.

Or just take a look at most of this guy's tweets:

https://twitter.com/crypto888crypto/status/14448949722478960...
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The meterorite right now:
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Who wants to think about their conception?

*shudders*
Mein Grundeinkommen e.V. is hiring a Frontend-Developer in Berlin (onsite)

We are a Berlin based NGO exploring how a unconditional universal income might benefit our society.

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>The entire reason Bitcoin now has a trillion dollar market cap is the unstable traditional system where savings have a negative return.

One would think that people would simply invest their money instead of holding onto it. If anything, negative yields on savings are just a case study of why trickle down economics is a myth. The rich consider holding onto money more profitable than investing it.
Agree, this shift in attitude might be a response to how poorly paid regular jobs are and how unfair the system is -- in practice and in perception. It's hard to keep focused when all you see on social media is superficiality being rewarded.

For the system to be rigged in favor of the ultra-rich, you'll need a army of enforcers, the influencers, the lawyers, even the developers that are "just doing tech".
The terminal is a visual tool. That makes it inaccessible, almost by definition. Terminals are text-based, but they can still be used to convey non-textual information (ie. progress bars, graphs, etc).

There's no sense in expecting a visual application (such as the terminal) to be somehow accessible out-of-the-box.

Trying to automatically translate a visual interface to an accessible interface is bound to be error prone and not work in all cases. What's accessible for a blind person, may not be accessible to a deaf person.

Applications should share the core business logic, but have entirely seperate "frontends" for every situation. A graphical frontend, and an accessible frontend. We need an open cross-platform standard for this, and enforcement.
MCA can also be a prophylactic.

The assumption that vaccines would end the pandemic was also based on the idea they would stop transmission. This turned out to be wrong. Vaccines are excellent at preventing hospitalization but do a crappy job stopping transmission.

So when we have vaccines who are only excellent at self-protection and we also have a cure, I don’t see why we would compel anyone to take something they don’t want to.
"Nation-state" is an little bureaucratic Americanism because if you talk about a malicious state actor there everyone assumes you mean Florida.
I’m not fundamentally against the idea of nuclear power. I just remain unconvinced that we’ve “solved” the problem of nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste remains dangerous and harmful on a timescale that can almost be described as tectonic. The earths crust isn’t static or stationary, if you throw waste into the bottom of the ocean its not clear what will happen to that waste in 10 millions years time, or even 300 years time.

I agree that our current climate situation demands drastic actions, and theres a strong argument that solving the real harms today of climate change are worth taking the risk on the theoretical harms of nuclear power. But I don’t agree that nuclear power is currently “sustainable”, it’s almost certainly the best energy source we have today, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will stay that way for long.
Sounds a bit heavy without a tool designed for maps or rasters, but this is similar in nature to other tips I got here using GIS-tools (namely the GeoServer one). Thank you!
It's possible that gambling for profits or having a soul-crushing workaday job are both undesirable ways to live.
FlorisBoard is another open source keyboard project that has experimental support for gesture/swipe typing. It requires a bit more accuracy than spyware keyboards but might be worth a try.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/
> Medieval peasants weren't told their place in life is a matter of personal responsibility

I assume wealth inequality is worse today than Ancient Egypt, but regardless of how it is, this point is key.
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Performance is the main one. Particularly on older android devices where script execution is absurdly slow, and network traffic is also often slow, pure HTML is a big win.
Maybe retailers should have more precise and accurate sizing so folks don't have to try on three sizes of something to find one item that fits.
That site has multiple people owning the same NFT, so I don't see how it is an NFT site and not just a regular image trading site. Paying money to have a site say you have a new picture is reasonable, but I don't see what NFT's has to do with that.
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I'm inclined to agree; it seems like there are a LOT of people who make bionic limbs as 'side projects', but it seems they're not commercially available? You'd think someone would be mass producing them by now.

Of course, a lot of articles like these are by US people, where finding the money for a commercial prosthetic is much more difficult. Can you get anything from health insurance if you don't have a job (because you're missing a limb)?
Maybe they shouldn't be able to buy that 60k car with credit card debt? If you're also proposing that the entire financial system needs to be redesigned to minimize leveraging and stop the insane focus on growth, I agree.
> These practices are essentially unregulated; companies do whatever they deem most profitable.

This right here. The government could take care and regulate online shopping to dis-incentivize "fast fashion" and other crap that essentially only helps kill off the planet faster.
Interesting solution, thanks for sharing.
In many cases requiring that the item actually be returned is to prevent fraud.

For some cheap items I think Amazon concluded that the benefits in terms of costs to them and of customer satisfaction outweigh the risk and cost of fraud. I'm also sure that they have extensive data on their customers.
This aspect of SQL is my favorite example of a "leaky abstraction".
I don’t think you appreciate how small that is compared to what would be required for global grid storage. Using numbers from Wikipedia, the world uses something like 2200 TWh of energy every week. The figure I’ve heard thrown around for necessary grid storage is “weeks”, so we’ll say 1 week of storage is required. That means it would take Europe 3700 years to produce enough batteries to build the batteries we need in the next 50ish years. Or if you prefer, we need to produce an annual 44TWh of batteries a year globally for the next 50 years, which means we need 75-Europes-worth of production capacity. Further still, energy demand is projected to increase as the global population grows and as standards of living increase.

Even worse, scaling anything isn’t linear. It’s likely a lot easier to scale from 1GWh/year to 10GWh/year than it is to scale from 10 to 100. For example, in the first 10x scale, you might be able to pull a certain kind of skilled labor or raw material from other industries, but for the next 10x you now need to increase the global supply of said skilled labor or raw material.
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