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> The rest of the world understands that previously infected people have natural immunity

From your comment I'm not sure you fully understand what that means in terms of COVID-19, and what are the real world implications of natural vs vaccine-induced immune response.

For starters, a prior COVID-19 infection, unlike taking the vaccine, not only leads to a worse and sometimes outright ineffective immune response but also leaves you open to reinfection that are reported to be far more serious and outright deadly.

https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-p...

> and are granted the same freedoms as vaccinated people.

This really depends on which country you opt to cherry pick. In the EU for instance prior infections are not recognized as being the same as vaccination and consequently travellers are not "granted the same rights". For a person who had a previous COVID-19 infection to be granted the same privileges as a fully vaccinated person, that person has to take at least a single dose of a vaccine.

> From the outside looking in this issue looks like Americans having a religious war as usual

From the outside looking in, the only thing that's dumbfounding is this widespread resistence to get the damn shot. Countries like Portugal and Spain already show fully vaccinated rates of around 80% of their population, Canada reports 75%, and unexplainably the US only has around 58% of it's population? What can possibly explain this madness?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccina...
I am nowhere near as educated as the author about how the macroeconomics work but I wonder if he isn’t short-sighted. I mean that in the sense that currently there isn’t any lack of depositors and the banks do not rely on money markets. However, we are probably at peak savings right as people are restarting to spend. On top of that, with the level of debt Americans have taken on (mostly mortgages), if the rates rise ever so slightly, they will have to dig into their savings to make ends meet and it might trigger a new cycle. We also should not underestimate what could happen if inflation persists and "inflation mentality" sets in. People will put their cash to use as fast as possible and buy real assets, equities and even supplies. This would further reduce deposits.
A JIRA user is needed to see them I guess. Do you mind to tell what are the issues ?
Had been feeling quite frustrated with work lately. Corporate inertia at the same time as "move fast" in a DS/Eng setup combined with a re-org going on. Add zero devops + an "incident" as cherry on top. I'd been stretching myself thin trying to do "everything", and do "everything right". To the point that it started impacting my personal life.

Took a vacation to Rome and Venice, and just 5 days away from home were enough to decompress. Feeling really good now.

Wish I had more time for open source contributions, but marriage + work are almost leaving no time at all. Got something going but the big tasks require a lot more dedicated effort.

Now thinking of new places to go on vacation in Southern Europe to escape from the cold :)
In Europe the Bachelor is already fully focused on a subject, and you have to get a Master degree before you can enter PhD programs.

In the US the Bachelor is much wider in scope and you can get the Master during the PhD program.
> So you succeed in losing 20% of your money on the initial USDT trade

Presumably the value of Tether would drop much farther than the value of other crypto.

If USDT drops 90% and BTC drops 50% in USD terms, the BTC would gain value in USDT terms and your loan would be even more overcollateralized.

Then you could pay back your loan with USDT at ten cents on the dollar and make an absolute killing.
> I always imagined a Ph.D. was about having a good idea and demonstrating your ability to develop it

My story back in grad school was most of the time I didn't know if I had a good idea. Sometime I kept doing the same stuff again and again hoping to get some new insight, sometime I tried pursuing different approaches only to throw it away a month later.

There's also the nagging feeling that you're not working hard enough when your peers are publishing left and right, which push you to work late into the night, at home, for trivial reasons.

In the end, I decided that grad school was not for me and got out with a Master Degree.
Because it is much cleaner to name the arguments rather than to have a void* to what may or may not be the same struct floating somewhere in space.
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Many moons ago, the HEB grocery store system in Texas used to have a lot of 24 hour stores. Then they had a rash of thefts and shoplifting, so they closed those hours off and relaid out the stores.

At what point was Texas full of city councils and DA's who actively encouraged lawlessness and theft?

And, seemingly, the current problem is that these things appear to be gang-related. So, just as with the "War on Drugs," you can pick off as many small fry as you want, but you really won't make any headway into solving the problem.
Over the years I've had a lot of inconsistent experiences with commercial lactase enzyme supplements for dairy intolerance. I've decided to embark on a hobby project (OpenLactase) to produce my own digestive enzyme supplements from scratch using Aspergillus oryzae fungi.

I'm currently working on designing an open source stirred tank bioreactor (Open Scale-up) for fungi cultivation. Bench-top at first but the design is intended to be suitable for scale-up.

Very different from the day job as cloud infrastructure engineer.

https://github.com/mycowerk
Curious myself.
Afaik, when they actually measure people performance, nobody works optimally on 4-6 hours of sleep a night. People may claim whatever or ignore the feeling, but sleep deprivation affects them still.
> One of the fundamental choices we made was to build a static website.

The corollary of this one is : do not offer the possibility of creating a user account when it adds no value. Some analytics that no one cares about does not provide value for instance.
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I for one can't wait to run the in-browser regression app I've been working on in JS at the M1 mac I just ordered... a stack that would probably run faster on my old 2015 box if I'd written it in C. Basically proving the OP's point that optimization tends to decrease when you can write easier code and just throw more cycles at it.
American companies pay you to join the military?
Are you implying advancing particle physics itself is useless? I believe that today's biggest challenge in engineering is finding applications for the most cutting edge physics, and I think focus on Skunk Works for the same is the need of the hour.

If we have not found any applications, its probably because we have not tried enough / invested enough.
All reasonable criticisms. But it is very early still and you won't see many transactions for exchange of goods this early in its adoption. That's not to say that BTC will eventually take over, it's just to say that the kinds of uses you see this early aren't predictive of its future.
> Labour is priced by the market.

The market is an idealized abstraction, not a real thing that exists. CEO pay is decided by Boards of Directors, which CEOs tend to be on, and which are part of a narrow, highly connected class that CEOs are also members of.

> Prices aren't "decided" by anyone

Yes, the prices that a firm will offer for particular work are decided by particular decision-makers at the firm, not abstract outside forces. The market is a model of the the aggregate of factors influencing the decisions those people make, and the decisions employees make about accepting work.
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I've been building a page with some Tailwind CSS landing page templates and hopefully I launch it soon. I initially thought it would be an easy project but it has taken me months of slow grinding to get to this point.

https://templates.tw/
> Well, this page is not so fast to open for me, definitely not 0.5 second, more like 5 seconds, so I wouldn't be the one listening to his advices.

its hosted on a raspberry pi and is front page of HN...
26 days ago on HN, 659 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28781586
I detest the colours with the scroll. Awfully distracting.
it's really depending on people. Dr Steiner already holds a phD and MD at early age. older life is a continuation of earlier life
Not sure I should put it in this thread, but heck, here goes my caffeine deprived sleep.
I've been grinding Leetcode and System Design questions for about 2 months now, hoping to land a job from India to US or UK maybe. This stride of mine comes in after trying 2 Saas products ( unfinished ofc) and realising that I'm not mature enough to tread on indiehacker path yet.

Also, after seeing the second COVID-19 wave handling of India, I don't have much hopes for the future here. So have been preparing for interviews ( profile: Software Engineer).
I've given couple of interviews as my mock for big tech companies of India and have some offers in hand, alas all in India.
Getting an opportunity outside India is damnn hard ( don't want to make my way out with MS and the gigantic loan for life). More power to my hopes!
there is no external source of revenue
for those payoffs.

Josy wants to pay money to Tim. Tim is connected to the lightning network. So Josy also connects to the lightning network. For that, she needs Bitcoin. So she buys Bitcoin. Josy is the external source of revenue.
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Sorry man but Charles Ponzi didn't actually invest USD into anything he just paid off earlier lenders with interest and loaned more money from new lenders so that he can pay off earlier lenders and did that repetitively. BTC has intrinsic value just like USD does, it is an investment if the value changes. I didn't see that you know who Ponzi was and what and how he did it.
i wish i was in my early 20s and aimless. the whole world of possibilities still... feels like everyday just more and more doors close now
I can’t help but say that even WordPress can be served as a "static site" if caching is done right. And maybe the fact that I use an ad-blocker is saving a few watts per week.
It is actually not. Many 3 year PhD or part time ones are not recognized for immigration or jobs in USA.
I'm not attacking anyone, and you can follow the citations to learn more. I'm submitting that attacking individualism, critical thinking, the written word and "perfectionism" in the service of "communitarianism" do nothing to address racism, and are actually an offense to non-white people (myself included).
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By this guy's definition, gold is a Ponzi scheme.

1. People invest into it because they expect good profits, and

2. that expectation is sustained by such profits being paid to those who choose to cash out. However,

3. there is no external source of revenue for those payoffs (gold sitting in a vault, or hanging on jewelry doesn't produce revenue). Instead,

4. the payoffs come entirely from new investment money, while

5. the operators (miners, refiners, etc) take away a large portion of this money.

It's really interesting to discuss Bitcoin with critics, because, as in this case, it often exposes that critics don't understand WHY and HOW financial systems work. Obviously gold or precious metals aren't Ponzi schemes, so this guy doesn't understand what makes or doesn't make a Ponzi scheme.

If he were to tweak his definition so it no longer applies to gold, it would automatically no longer apply to Bitcoin.
It was suppose to be a medium of exchange, instead it became an object of speculation.
All currencies are Ponzi schemes.
Ultra low to negative interest rates and mass government bond buying. The 10 and 2 year interest rate have not been meaningfully set by the market since 2008.

It is still a red flag, but a well known enough red flag that the treasury and fed will change their issue / buying bond behaviours in order to maintain a positive slope.
There's an additional problem though. What if you've found a type of work that you do find meaningful and interesting, but you just don't want to spend 40 hours of your week doing it, now that you "don't have to". It's hard to fit back into working life if you only want to do it, say, 20 hours a week. Some part time jobs exist, but they're the exception.
Let's run the numbers again for a thought experiment:

- $15600000 CEO compensation [0]

- 69600 workers [1]

- 1760 hours average per US worker per year [2]

- $20.12 hourly wage for the lowest paid John Deere employees

$0.13/hour, 0.6%, or a bit over a dollar a day increase for the lowest paid group. That would be the increase if the JD CEO would work for $1, with all his previous pay evenly distributed to all employees. Not insignificant.

Now let's have a slightly different thought experiment. What if the CEO pay is cut by 50%, and evenly distributed only to the bottom 10%? A $0.64/hour, 3.2% or $5.09/day increase. That would be a very significant number to all involved.

I'm not saying this is what should happen or not. Just saying the number is significant.

[0] https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/1...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/278010/john-deere-number...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
I thought ponzi scheme has to have malicious element in it, like all things listed on [0] for example.

[0] https://www.ponzitracker.com/
>fully vaccinated individuals with breakthrough infections have peak viral load similar to unvaccinated cases and can efficiently transmit infection in household settings, including to fully vaccinated contacts

Seems like that rules out herd immunity.
So ethereum by his definition is not ponzi, right?
I just bought what will eventually become an artists’ residency, and we will start renovating it later this month. It will probably take about two years to get it started. The plan is to have a few artists a year come for about a month each and make art under the influence of the crazy dramatic landscape there. It will not be a paid thing, I’m financing it myself. At first it’ll have to be informal but eventually I want to have some kind of foundation running it so I can assist artists with visas where necessary.

I find it very exciting to work on a big long-term project like this, though it’s also frustrating because I’m doing it from a significant distance. Self-inflicted frustration but still.

Also, I’m learning a new language and moving to a new country, slowly but surely. Well slowly anyway. The residency is in yet another country. Maybe my life is complicated.

I didn’t win any lottery, but with a little juggling I had enough for a year or two without a day job. I was originally going to concentrate on just making art (I’m an artist as well as a techie) and trying to get settled in the new country.

This has worked pretty well considering the state of the world, but with a limited runway I will start looking for something to do in the industry next year. Maybe an indie project, maybe a startup, maybe just contracting.

The art center was in the back of my mind for a few years, and now that it exists (as a piece of land with some concrete on it anyway) I am quite happy to have a specific project that should bear fruit on a longer time scale than just a painting or a gig, and it helps that it’s not my source of income (like a company would be) nor existentially important (like kids). I can do more, or less, with it as circumstances allow.

Anyway that’s what I’m up to. In the likely event some of the art is tech related I will do a Show HN about it some day.
"I don’t know how many people will agree, but striking up a conversation with an American stranger is much easier than it is with an Indian stranger."

LOL, as an Indian, I relate to this so much. In India, if a stranger walks up to you, nearly 8/10 times it's either to ask you for money, directions, or to scam you. So naturally over time, you develop a thick skin to avoid strangers or keep interactions with strangers as "transactional" as possible.

In the US on the other hand, there's a lot more of the "a stranger is a friend you just haven't met yet" attitude in the air, so people are much more open to interacting with people they don't know.

The first month in the US, every time some stranger waved hello or good morning when I was walking from my hotel to the office or back, I clutched my bag a bit tighter ;-)
There’s a high likelihood that the dystopia of the social media world leaks into and consumes the real world as people use AR with glasses around town, real world locations turn on complimentary tech (is already bad with cameras everywhere and tracking in stores etc).

I think there’s a huge increase in ethics and privacy jobs on the horizon, and a ton of angst from the public.

Its disappointing to say the least that we’re working tech jobs during this era.
their argument is that filesize doesnt matter because images download in parallel... thats just idiotic. 10x 100MB images downloading in parallel is still going to take longer than 10x 1kB
The section on images made me realize how redundant most blog post images are. Usually they are random generic images from Unsplash, Pexels, etc. and are only exist to add some color to the page. The specific image is mostly unimportant.

Would it be possible to implement a browser-level image library? Instead of a blogger using a generic Unsplash image, they just select one from the "Firefox Image Library", which is already on the user's computer. This library can be curated and optimized to keep the browser file download manageable.

Considering that images are often 70-80% of the page size, the savings would be significant.
The same article on the front page twice in short time.

There seems to be a big number of people who have the urge to declare crypto a scam. I wonder where this urge stems from.
How much land do you need ?
I'd say that Dune, as a single book, is a metaphor for a local Arab community rising up to overthrow a pair of colonial powers (Brits/Harkonnen and American/Atreidis) to take control of their own oil reserves (spice). It is a story about Jihad, a word that is used many times in the books but is notably absent in the latest film. Start changing too many characters and the metaphors to our real world fall apart.
That's very fast in adding the feature to kernel to address the loss of performance due to Sprectre.

Assigning OS threads of the same process to the hyperthreads in the same core is a good thing anyway. The threads probably share many data in the process and can benefit from the shared cache in the core.
> By this guy's definition, gold is a Ponzi scheme.

Right.
In Europe it seems we have them?

There are quite a few app-only or direct-banking things that opened up in the last decade (off the top of my head: N26, Monzo, Revolut, Starling, Illimity all have banking licenses).

It's true they often rely on some established bank but they haven't folded yet.
I believe Apple was investigating a healthcare offering but has since realized they are better off targeting personal health metrics and habits (to avoid classification as a medical device) while partnering with others on research on detection of issues and on automation into telehealth and the like.

One take on that is at https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-health-employees-backl... (possibly paywalled)
I could open the issues in icognito mode. 1: Operation may block on prepare conflict while holding oplog slot, stalling replication indefinitely

2: Do not use the collection distributed lock for chunk merges
One technique I have used for this is to merge the footprint of two substitutable parts, if someone has a name for this please let me know. I adore manufactures that stick to the same footprint for lots of parts, or have the 1-4 version be a linear replication. I'd love to see more regularity and programmability, so one could have programmable resistor and capacitor arrays.
It's not about the readability of code on web pages, but the fact that web pages are unnecessarily bloated in the first place.

Even static page generators seem a bit too complicated at time.
Absolutely. It's the "most literary" of sports for the purposes of this article, but not really. There have been a lot of novels written which are either specifically about sport or where a sport plays a major part.

A few other contenders off the top of my head which have some literary pedigree:

Fishing - Old man and the sea

Hunting - Practically all the rest of Hemingway from what I remember although it's been a while

Grouse Shooting - Lady Chatterly's Lover

Tennis - Lots of David Foster Wallace, but in particular Infinite Jest[1] which is set in large part in an elite tennis academy

Basketball - The Crossover

American football - End Zone (the author of the OP loved Underworld, but DeLillo didn't only write about baseball)

Table Tennis - The mighty waltzer

[1] Which actually has a lot about punting in American Football also
If you just want colour, why not add some clever, but simple SVG graphics?
Norwegian here. I spent 6 work weeks in Canada and USA setting up machines and training operators around 2011. My observations:

- huge meals. And "all you can eat" seems to mean exactly that. I didn't test though but remember waiters were eager to refill.

- North Americans seems friendly to me. I was even invited over to dinner by a plant manager.

- Talking to someone who was super-happy working 180% in three jobs because it allowed her to send all her three sons to college and because three jobs were less boring than one made me decide to never ever complain about Norway again. (Education including higher education is almost free here.)

- Same goes for seeing more than one person working what is well paid industry jobs in Norway visibly lacking front teeth (when it is that visible I guess it must be they cannot afford to fix it.)
> By that definition, gold too is a ponzi.

The explanation for why gold is not a Ponzi holds true for Bitcoin itself too. At the very end, Bitcoin has a (tiny bit of) value as a means to establish the global ledger. Just like with gold that value is just the smallest fraction of its market value.

I think if the author would have included gold and stocks in their definition of a Ponzi scheme their argument would actually be sound. Of course they would be branded a lunatic then so they wouldn't.

I guess that's where the power of the Ponzi scheme lies. How do you argue against the thundering horde if people making money hand over fist?
Read all the 'about' pages on Stakedy and Celody. My takeaway is I think this guy is trying to create The Matrix on a blockchain and upload his brain there.
um… i’m not a tech company.

And contrary to what it may sound like: I’m all in favour of these things going through the process.

My nitpicking is with people that spew b/s on the internet and pretend their wishful thinking is fact.
A PhD is a full-time job.

That should mean it's a 40 hour a week commitment, not that it's the only thing you do for half a decade or more.
The organized thefts that result from not punishing crime at all fall into a new category, and are effectively a seed funding round for a new layer of criminality.