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>I've been using Anchor + Mirror to get ~40% APY

>It's not as degen as the other Defi, but it's very low risk

This just screams scam to me.
> We make a lot of stuff

No, we don't. We assemble a lot of stuff and somehow manage to call it "US made". Let's not fool ourselves.

Most "Made in USA" product is nearly 100% comprised of components and assemblies made in China (mostly) and other places. I know entire companies that operate this way.

If you read through the ISIC divisions 15-37 categories it is very easy to see that there are entire categories of items could not be made even with 25% US-made content.

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/seriesm/seriesm_4rev...

Start on page 44.

Divisions, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 36 are almost certainly either made outside the US or assembled in the US with nearly 100% non-US materials. Take Ikea as an example. Or, for that matter, almost any piece of furniture you can buy from Walmart or most furniture stores.

The other classifications run a range between genuinely US-made, assembled in the US from foreign materials and 100% non-US.

To be clear, I am not proposing that we should have a 100% inshored supply line. That cat is out of the bag. There are entire industries that will never come back. Ever.

We could do better though. Yet this, at a minimum, requires unity and a solid commitment to actually focus on things that really matter. We have not demonstrated being able to do this for quite some time.

A real analysis would require detailed data per ISIC division along with an analysis of the products and their actual US-made content. Having been in manufacturing for some four decades, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that there are very few things we can truly call "Made in USA", even if the criteria is 75% domestically manufactured content.

A few hours browsing the Alibaba website should give anyone a good sense of where we are. Pick an item. Go find a manufacturer on Alibaba. You are likely to find hundreds of them in China. Now go find manufacturers of the same item in the US or Europe. Good luck.

If I send out for a quote for a part or assembly in China, I'll get 10 to 50 quotes overnight. If I do the same thing in the US I would consider myself lucky if I get one quote in two to four weeks. And when I do finally get it, it costs 2x to 5x more and takes five times longer to get it done. It's that bad. In a lot of cases the US companies are just middle men who get the products made in China.

And then there are real questions about these numbers. Simple example: Are Apple iPhone sales counted as US manufacturing output?
I feel like we're talking past each other; I agree with 90% of what you say. It's just that you're focusing on the forces drivigg China's behavior, whether China is fostering stability or not, and its broader role in the region in the 21st century, while I'm trying to anticipate exactly what would happen in a conflict over Taiwan.

Yes, China is acting as a bully. But the universal response isn't standing up to China but cowering before it. US airlines are scared to even acknowledge the existence of a place called Taiwan. When Muji accidentally labeled some hangers as "Made in Taiwan," it only took a few days before it groveled before China and begged for forgiveness. I'm 100% in agreement with you that these things are ridiculous and a sign of deep-seated insecurity on mainland China's part. But these incidents also do not make me optimistic about how regional players will react in the case of war. Businesses and the general population will be eager for the conflict to be wound down as quickly as possible, regardless of long-term strategic costs. And without a broad regional coalition strongly committed to restraining China and rolling back any gains it has made during a conflict, Taiwan is (literally) dead in the water.
Bartolo colon, José altuve, Aaron judge and Michael Cabrera are/have all been top players in the same sport.
So unions, and the labour movement generally, need to work on a national or international scale. In particular secondary action must be legal and a credible threat for companies that try to exploit their workers.
It would be more helpful for the community if you pointed out the flaws.

Even without much DeFi experience I can see some comments are simple dismissals without understanding the enormity of technical details, which is a fatal mistake in the field. Not many explanations of why those dismissals are wrong though.
Why there are geographical restrictions for remote positions, like US, Canada, Europe and such?

Talent is everywhere, and people willing to work in time zones where companies, teams operate. Does it really matter where the employee located?
Mostly just a bit of 'bro culture'. I also was told they were worried I'd 'rob their code' as I was using my personal computer instead of a company-provided one.

This guy told me the owners were worried because I could just take the code home (of course, I wouldn't delete/create the repo when arriving/leaving each day lol).

I don't know if it was really the startup founders' concerns or his paranoia, though.

After I left, I returned 6 months later to say hi (the founders discovered I was in town and asked me to go there, to their new office). So I went there, hoping this guy wasn't there, and guess what? They fired me about 2 months later after I left.

They played a trick on me, asking me what I thought about him once I came to the office. Only then, after I've politely tried to avoid shaming him while saying our working >style< was very different, I was told that they let him go.

I burst out in a laugh, finally telling them openly that they did the right thing. Then, they asked me why I didn't let them know about it.

I was just too naive, thinking they'd just outright reject my opinion and decided just leaving was the better thing to do for my mental health.
I was wrong: honest criticism seemed welcome by them.
The focus of the article is American literature. In that context, cricket has no standing. Across the erstwhile british empire, yes, cricket is quite the snooty sport ;)
Wait, Dutch have recreated a Running Man?
How about they stop fucking farmers over with their encrypted, unrepairable shit?

I hope some Chinese company kicks their anti-customer ass.
> I'm still waiting for somebody to launch MondoDB, hopefully with the tagline "The Radical Database!"

Hmm... how about Mongo 2000?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONDO_2000
Do you have a link to this one please? Sounds interesting!
If these "rough men" can be put off of military service by seeing lesbians in an ad not targeted to them, how the hell are they tough enough to stay cool under enemy fire?
He put it together by writing a script.
I’ve met a few CEOs in my 10 year career. They seem to just blow hot air and drift around on it. We all see it.
The amount of energy wasted due to poor caching strategies alone could power small countries. Made far worse by the current trend to maximize code readability and organization by using as many dependencies as humanly possible for even the simplest of tasks.
Its value and utility would drop but it won't be debased in a technical sense. For now the kml/amc controls for the on and off ramps are so locked down I think the powers that be are satisfied. The tin hatters say this is just a warm-up to get us primed for a centrally controlled all digital central bank backed system that can be used to better control a populations use of carbon, vaccine uptake and whatever else they want to pull your strings with. I often wonder why they tolerate crypto. I hope this isn't why.
If you set the CEO pay to zero and gave it to all the workers it would amount to a microscopic raise, and presumably wouldn't make the company any better run.

CEO salary / number of workers / number of working hours in a year =
14.75 million / 70k / 2080 = $0.10
I personally know people who were running a HFT market making fund when their net worth were below one million. It's true it's not the easiest field to enter but that's the case for many others as well (medicine, law, competitive bike racing etc.).
Is it, really, actually more important? Or do the CEO and board of like-minded folks who are executives at adjacent companies merely have more direct control over who gets the money? Because without the folks who actually make the tractors, the company quickly loses its primary source of income. What's the CEO's actual value-add?
Oh I didn't realize its size varies on x86 and x64... I thought it's always 64-bit under compilers that target Linux! Today I learned...
Yes. On PCs, things like C cross-compilers for microcontrollers were very expensive, because the market was tiny. A C compiler targeting the 68HC11, a small microcontroller, was expensive enough in 1987 that I used Forth instead. And that wasn't free.

I bought Walter Bright's Zortec C++ compiler for Windows in the 1990s, and I think it was about US$400.
Incorrect film reference. Below is a correct film reference quote for this article.

Mr. Liggett: Now there seems to be a lot of confusion on this next question: asexual reproduction. Could someone tell me please who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex? [1]

David Lightman: Ah-heh.
[whispers something to a classmate]

Jennifer: [overhearing, Jennifer starts to laugh]

Mr. Liggett: [turns around and sees Jennifer giggling] Miss Mack! What is so amusing?

Jennifer: I...
[Jennifer breaks up into laughter again and turns to look at David, who puts on a show of mock innocence]

Mr. Liggett: Alright, Lightman. Maybe you could tell us who first suggested the idea of reproduction without sex.

David Lightman: Umm... Your wife?
[the class erupts into laughter]

Mr. Liggett: [pointing to the door] Get out, Lightman. Get out.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwDbgE54QYE&t=1m18s

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet
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That sounds really weird to a european. A manager at my job in his 50's I know is doing is PhD studies along side his quite demanding workload. To my knowledge as he described the process it was no problem to the department to work on his courses and thesis "only part time". This is CS so domains may differ.
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If you make a poor business decision and the government pays to fix it then that's a bail out, where smaller businesses would need to eat those costs themselves.
Lose the dithering and use a sane image format.
> then they will relocate sections of the factory gradually.

Then we will tariff farm equipment manufactured wherever they relocate to. Deere will find it hard to get politicians to be on their side on that sort of thing, if they don't have a domestic presence.

There's a reason why GM, Ford, etc, make cars in the United States - and it's not because they like dealing with UAW.
AWS DocumentDB is mostly compatible with MongoDB, but isn't actually Mongo. When we migrated from Mongo to Document there were quite a few queries that failed to run, and we weren't even using complex features. Some indexes also failed to work in some queries.
> buy rather than build

Candidly, this is our biggest challenge. If we can surmount this, we'll be huge. This is also why care so much about "upmarket brand". Decisions aren't made by numbers alone. We need to show that we're the smarter way to grow faster because other top companies are doing it.

This is a big bet. Is there a threshold for engineer TAC in search, discovery, and ads? $1M? 2? More? Hire a dozen? One hundred? I've seen these numbers. They happen because the potential value is there and the VC funding is there, but I haven't always seen the delivered engineering results. Us? We've been there, done that. We'd like to focus on delivering the results, and we know from experience that's going to happen better from the outside.

> no crossover between any of your customers

The model architecture and infra are the same, but the literal weights in memory are totally independent. Most of the heavy customization is in allocation rules and blender, and we have a DSL for that. https://github.com/promotedai/schema/blob/main/proto/deliver...
OK, let’s blame our representatives for allowing software patents to persist, and scumbag outfits like John Deere to coast by ripping off Americans.
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I have a hard time imagining that it's at all relevant whether or not their business genuinely overlapped. If you're big enough, it doesn't matter unless your target has the means to drag you through court as well. I'm reminded of the Backcountry.com case from a few years ago, where they were apparently hunting down every commercial use of the term Backcountry.

https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/issues/the-backcountr...
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Thanks, that's a great suggestion! I actually have an article on proxies in the works however I'm a bit stuck on making it a bit more accessible since proxy access is either really expensive (for a single dev) or extremely unstable (like free proxies).

I've always had the luxury of paid quality proxies in my web-scrapers however for article purposes I'd like to have an example of cheap or free proxies for casual usage/education. Are you using something in particular?

One idea I've explored was using VPN service as a proxy but seems like most big VPN providers are not providing proxies anymore.

Anyway, I can PM you once I figure out how to put this together properly! :)
> No, that's not what democracy is. That's what you want it to be.

I don’t even know what that means.

Seems that you have no answers.

> Not only is 10USD/EUR per month times the entire population just an incredible amount of money ... it's way more effective.

That’s about 3B USD a month for the entire US population. Not a small amount but the political system is absolutely flush with money.

Plus you need to organize hundreds of millions of people and convince them to spend it towards one cause/pool. Which is orders of magnitude (as we like to say) harder than the billionaire class loosely organizing togheter.

(Not to mention that you have to keep out grifters etc...)

Not to mention many people can’t afford those kinds of “just two starbucks a month” recurring expenses that HN readers scoff at.

> Most damage from lobby happens because corporate lobbyist are the only ones there. Just one publicly funded lobbyist there to remind the decisions makers of what is right and prevent their ability to rationalize would make an incredible difference.

The keywords “right” and “rationalize” tells me that you are idealizing. The decision-makers don’t care about what’s right; they care about money and power. And if they do start to care about what is “right” then they will be replaced with someone else.

The decision makers need money to stay in power. In turn they turn to the biggest pockets. Predictable outcomes.
Let me know if there's any way to contact you about this! I'm quite curious from an academic perspective and would love to hear your thoughts (even if it's just a brief phone call or email)!
There’s more to measure with allocators than how fast it can pump out memory. You’d probably want to check for memory overhead and heap fragmentation and various security considerations.
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What’s the TC for a senior engineer?
Yes, that would be a stupid way to raise wages. I guess I assumed I didn't need to explain that I'm not suggesting a contract that literally says to only divvy up the CEO's salary. This is the most pedantic response to anything I think I've ever read.
Counterfeit USD is a small, inexpensive problem because of US military might. The biggest guy in the playground never actually needs to fight.

Imagine for a moment the world suddenly adopted the Nicaraguan Córdoba as the common reserve currency. How long before it gets printed everywhere? Who is going to stop it? And how far do you think Nicaragua's AML/KYC regime would actually reach?

Iceland's currency wouldn't work as a world reserve either, for pretty much the same reasons. You can get away with being small and isolationist if your currency isn't that important.

Make no mistake, "cut off from the entire world financial system" requires the threat of violence. Banks get fined, countries get sanctioned, warrants are issued for people that have never set foot in the US. I don't know exactly how to apportion the cost of that enforcement, but I know you can't ignore it.
For the latter, it should suffice to use a monolithic closed loop control that intrinsically compensates for induced torque coupled between actuators through the base.
At the time you paid to be a part of the computer revolution, Moore's law was at its peak no sign of stopping as the effect of commercial microchips had just started to kick in and home computers got exponentially cheaper by the year. Products were expensive, but it didn't matter as whoever mastered this new technology would go on to rule in the future when costs came down and the economics of scale kicks in for software.
The average worker is not special and easily replaceable, so workers as a whole organise for changes. The CEO's work is still more consequential, however. You can find new engineers and programmers but it'll be relatively hard to find good replacements for executives like Shotwell, Nadella, Huang, etc.
My New Year's resolution was to write more and I'm happy I was finally able to find the time and start my own newsletter on substack! (I write about engineering management at engmgmt.substack.com) So far, it's been challenging to find the time to write frequently -- once a week is recommended but I'm aiming for once every two weeks.

For those on the fence, writing is a wonderful hobby that also has some practical applications -- give it a try!
The reserve status of the dollar is absolutely dependent on the might of the USA military. Ask Libya what happened when they ventured down the path of trying to not use the petrol dollar to sell their oil.
Look into the Terra stablecoin network and read the whitepaper before dismissing it. The returns are very real. There is a reason that decentralized finance is the fastest growing industry in history. You may want to investigate with an open mind.
> but still a fair way behind Oracle in terms of popularity

I have a vague feeling that those who use Oracle are using it due to circumstance or corporate necessity.
The published numbers are opaque. There is no way of confirming what mechanisms are used since the data is secret. See the paragraphs on data confidentiality.
Sure, but the issue is not demand but supply. Enforcing the scarcity of USD requires a large military. Enforcing the scarcity of BTC merely requires electricity.
If you could borrow enough USDT though, you could still break the peg without transacting with Tether directly:

- borrow a ton of USDT

- trade it for USD on exchanges, eating away at organic demand as well as the reserves used to keep the peg

- eventually (presumably) the peg will break and the price will collapse, and you can buy back the USDT for cheap to repay the loan

The trouble is getting that USDT-denominated loan, though.
I would like to learn more about your experience.
They sure will. And like Boeing, their once-impeccable reputation for quality will continue to slide into the mud. No worry, that's years from now. The execs responsible for the outsourcing will get hefty bonuses for the immediate savings, and retire happy.
It is the wet dream that some 100 line script will eventually become the only and unbiased arbiter and judge of anything in the world of finance.

You are probably reading this comment and thinking "yeah, hah, naive fools". About as naive as the fools, that believe in a 100 line program, that gives you a puzzle that nothing will realistically ever be able to solve, yet the program could tell immediately if the solution is wrong or right.
South Korea had reducing nuclear construction costs.

https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/historical-construction...
If you root your phone, you can use an Xposed module like DisableFlagSecure to get around apps that do that.
Some adaptation is appropriate, as a lot of the pulp fiction scifi from that area has characters doing ridiculous things like using tape drives. On the other hand, setting up a scene and doing a shoot are not the same skills used for telling a story. Many directors have absolutely terrible taste when it comes to story telling, as we can see from Game of Thrones and the other Dune adaptation.
What, is that a major thing?
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No, I just literally translated the Russian one, hoping it might stick.
God no. Because of DST Seattle is dark at 4pm in the winter. Going off DST would probably prevent some suicides.
I'm convinced that people who like apple touch pad just haven't used a quality mouse.

There's proof for that, apple mouses are notoriously bad.
Do they, though? McDonalds pays more in some locales nowadays, for work that's nowhere near as difficult or physically demanding. I'm sure it wouldn't totally break John Deere if they paid more for labor given that each tractor is like $300-400K, excluding support contracts.

Seems to me like this "union" is basically controlled opposition, kept in place to pacify the workers with whatever crumbs the management sweeps off the table. I'm sure they put on a good show for those union dues though.
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At a company that size, it’s typically based on how well they are filling their pipeline of candidates. Difficulty finding people pressures pay to rise (this is the pressure UAW is exploiting.) They also conduct salary studies and survey employees to figure out if they’re satisfied by their pay. So while there may temporarily be a pay schedule, it’s constantly revised. In a large company there are many roles and schedules so at any point, many are somewhere in the process of changing.

The UAW situation is different. Unions negotiate contracts that affect all employees. These are set by the ability of the union and management to negotiate, with some pressure from market rates. These are closer to the “stone tablet” idea of yours, but only fixed until the next negotiation.

There is no ‘dividing up the income’ activity, like the other user suggested. Management just focuses on making more revenue than it’s paying for all expenses, and tries to employ as many people as it thinks it needs to acquire that revenue or grow future revenue.

This is a simple explanation that elides a lot of detail, but hopefully helps.
You just need to visit physiotherapist instead of a regular therapist.
I half expected it to say he started it at 23
Google tells me that unskilled delivery drivers and in some places even fast food workers are getting $20/hour right now.