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The USD$ went from 9.50 to 12.50 in a month and I believe the last adjustment they did was at 8.5. Apple had 2 days of no online sales but the sales in the shops continued until the inventory depleted.

I was also going to grab a Macbook Pro when the price dropped below the US price but I wasn't decisive enough and missed the opportunity. I bet a lot of people bought MacBooks just to re-sell.

An interesting detail, in Turkey they are allowed to sell laptops with only Turkish keyboard layouts due to some law on protecting the language. Only German and Arabic layouts are excepted due to some trade agreements.

On the iPhones, the Turkish prices are never good due to very high taxation(about half of the price is tax). Turkey even pioneered the IMEI registration process where you can't use foreign device for longer than a few month in Turkey. If you like to bring a device from abroad, you need to register the device and pay a hefty registration fee and you can do it only once in two years. Officially, the registration is to prevent terrorist from using the devices as burners. The fee was 10 liras at the beginning but now it's over 2000.
> if/when the lira rises 15%

Turkey currently have negative forex, it won't happen.

A fiat currency that have lost all market confidence, it's not going anywhere but down.
Not the parent poster, but I bought a Z80-based single-board computer last year.

I wrote a simple text-based adventure game for it which I submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946130
The really annoying thing is that now they have touchscreen computers but you still need some proprietary hardware tool to fix software problems in the car. Why do no cars expose debug info / service tools in their UIs?

My Skoda has an issue with headlight levelling and I'm pretty sure it just needs some kind of software reset or recalibration but they just don't let you. Infuriating!
I really want to like this, but there's several negatives in my opinion.

* No arrow key cluster
* Alps rather than Cherry switches, which in my opinion means much less choice of switch and keycap.
* No QMK firmware (I think?)

But all those extra keys could be really nice to customize.

I'm really looking forward to getting my Keyboardio Model 100. Going to have fun customizing the keys and getting used to a split keyboard. I'm definitely going to get another small macro pad so I can have arrow keys.
Since this data does not speak for itself, here is additional data:

Czech republic has ~60% vaccination rate.

I assume, that how it is with others 99% of deaths are 60+, 90% 65-80+ in both vaccinated and unvaccinated categories.

The vaccination status ends 3-6 months after shot, unless you get a booster shot. Obviously, that booster shot also has term, when it is considered to be vaccinated, so potentially you have to get unlimited boooster shots, unless covid ends or you die.

Also, covid among vaccinated in % provides less people needed to be treated, so overall, where people that had vaccine boosts, had greater % share, that had to be put on ICU. Btw, there is NO DIFFERENCE ON SURVIVAL RATE of people who are put on ICU - the chance of survival for both vaccinated and unvaccinated in my home country was ~60%.

IMO, all of the data in regards to covid should also show how well was their immunity and that is lacking in ALL charts. My gut feeling, is that mostly people who have no wish getting vaccines have some other health issues already - for ecample I have no wish to get vaccination and go through regular complications(with probability that it might cause shock reactions), because I have some other medical issues that I have to deal with. So, if the stupid idea is that miracle cure of vaccine is going to solve all health issues, well - in UK that is not working at all. People who are vaccinated are still dying.

Here is the MAIN ISSUE that I have with such data, that has been posted from all the sources everywhere:

NONE OF THESE EXPLAIN DEATHS OF FULLY VACCINATED PEOPLE(to be fair, even partly vaccinated people should be under miracle cure of vaccine...) So far NONE of vaccination pushers can explain deaths among people who had vaccines. Btw, in regions, where vaccination has been 100%, right now there has been no SLOWING DOWN of deaths from covid and covid cases, but they are going up. It's some kind of a religion, where zombifioed people are pushing for full vaccination and you sure can't shatter that faith in vaccines, even if VACCINATED PEOPLE ARE DYING!

So far there ONLY seems to be a greater coleration in regards to seasons in year, than vaccination statuss. There has been publications in regards that, but I would like to see ONE ackkkktual proof(without using lingo with - maybe, perhaps, possibly) that vaccination is improving immunity aginst covid for those people, that have strong immunity AND DO NOT NEED VACCINATION and for those people, who have weak immunity, and where vaccination is giving antibody development with much much lower levels(below average) - starting from 10% up to 0% and they fall very flat in very quick time after vaccination shot.
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Surgeons sometimes operate on the wrong body part. There's an easy fix
India is one of the 4 with ASAT capability, in addition to the 3 you mentioned. But it doesn't make sense to destroy even a single satellite (due to Kessler syndrome), if it is just to stop starlink service. The signal can just be jammed. Or even simpler - just monitor the uplink transmission and punish those who break the order.
Circle makes money on the yield they get from the treasury bills they hold. If US treasury bills crash, the stability of USDC will be the least of our worries.
Ask HN: Is Booking a Xmas vacation now the best way to profit off Omicron news?
I know, I know, people are going to point that the best way is to go long the stock market (S&P500 or Wilshire5000)

The point is that with the stock market you need other people to also agree with your stance in order to profit, whereas when you book a vacation your only need is flights to keep departing and hotels/resturants to stay open and accepting guests, plus the avoidance of lockdowns at destination.

Plus the first rule of every game is to optimize for playing against weak players.

On the stock market and prediction markets one is playing against very strong players, information asymmetry plays a huge role and perhaps insider trading (especially in this case where technically any information on the pandemic outlook is not considered insider trading )

On TrivaGo, Expedia, Booking.com... instead the opposition is basically other would be vacationers , and that has to yield larger return
Heh I clicked through a few recommended titles and then the app reported "Feeling undefined" :D
"Why are you using the pejorative term "propaganda"? It is communication."

Intentionally misleading communication is propaganda.

If you think you understand the chart, tell me what would a year with "normal" temperatures look like? What would be a normal temperature?
I think after you are 35 you don't want to see progression in salary but in life quality.

Of course unless you were terribly underpaid or you spent all the money on whatever...

I am going to be 35 this year and I was working on FIRE - while I cannot really drop the job for the rest of my life. I think I have enough, like flat with no mortgage in quite OK place so I don't have to spend most of my salary on renting. Now I am looking into cutting my hours, because with my current rate working 4 days I still could save money.

I will probably stick with current company as long as possible because I hate interviews and then if I will have to I will take whatever job will be there if things go south.

But that is me I like low fuss life, keep it small and steady. Happy that I can get some beers over the weekend and play with some raspberry PI. No need to get a sports car at all :)
> In particular the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been lobbying to convert the Messok Dja, a particularly biodiverse area of rainforest in the Republic of Congo, in a National Park, devoid of human presence. This aggressive act of clearance is rooted in the idea that a ‘wilderness’ area should not contain any people, thus rendering the original inhabitants of the forests as intruders, invaders and despoilers of ‘Nature’.

There are other examples of this sort of "ecofascism", namely the "Half Earth" proposal wherein half the Earth's landmass should be dedicated to human-free "nature". Of course, no one will willingly give up their home, so this is tantamount to ethnically cleansing those regions--Africa and the Global South--that are geopolitically weak so that the wealthy Western nations can maintain their decadent quality of life.
For a mid sized helicopter like this, you can expect around 40 gallon per hour and a speed of about 100 mph.

So I don't think this is a solution to the RV fuel consumption problem.
Never met a WYSIWYG markdown editor I liked since all efforts of making it WYSIWYG impacts text editing.

For all markdown docs now I've moved to just using VS Code with a live reload UI, the best DevUX I've found is VitePress [1] which immediately updates on save and shows the real thing, i.e. exactly how the docs will look including rendering any custom markdown-it extensions or Vue Components embedded in the page.

One free Markdown editor I have started using is Notable [2] which has become a worthy replacement to Notepad for manually managing TODO notes & sporadic text files in a neat simple UI with built-in search, pin working docs and custom labels for quick organization and retrieval. It works exactly how I wanted it to as a minimal UI for editing static .md files in a directory with all metadata stored in frontmatter that displays preview mode by default and an unobtrusive text mode when editing it.

[1] https://vitepress.vuejs.org

[2] https://notable.app
Unless that is corrected for the age of the patients it won't tell us much. In particular, older patients are more susceptible to COVID, and also more likely to have been vaccinated, and similarly for patients with compromised immune systems.
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Chassin gets it exactly backward. In 2011, a doctor in Oregon performed surgery to correct a 4-year-old boy’s wandering right eye, but the surgeon erroneously operated on the child’s left eye. Before this surgery, the correct operative site had been marked in accordance with the Universal Protocol, but when a nurse prepped the wrong eye for surgery, the surgical drapes covered the marking — the very problem that Chassin thinks will affect negative labeling. But if a negative label had been placed on the boy’s left eye, then that warning would have been exposed when the nurse prepped the wrong eye. If the negative label were obscured by surgical drapes, that would mean the correct side had been prepped.
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> At some point if you're a rich-enough party you can just take over these networks with enough money and resources.

This is such a concern levied against cryptocurrency; why does no one levy the same concern against traditional publicly traded companies? That someone who is rich and powerful enough could simply take control of Apple, or Walmart (assuming they make >50% of their outstanding shares available for trade on the public markets, which some public companies do)?

The reality is: It is a concern. But its a vanishingly small one. To do so would be, in many cases, suicide; and it would be even more-so with cryptocurrencies. It would take an obscene amount of money and resources, converted into assets which held value under the societal context of the status quo. The status quo doesn't like changing; the assets would probably lose all their value as everyone in the 49% abandons their investment. What would this hostile takeover gain? A few billion in revenue? They'd lose far more in the attempt.

For most newer cryptocurrencies (not Bitcoin), this attack is not a matter of owning 51% of the mining power, but rather 51% of the currency itself (proof of stake). To do so, for any reasonably successful and valuable currency, would be crazy. Its just not a concern, period.

It may be worth elucidating this, but: bitcoin is on the way out. The crypto community has absolutely striated into two groups; the bitcoin traditionalists who build ten acre data centers next to volcanos to farm their digital gold, and those more forward thinking who are actually interested in solving the bigger, more tactile problems with cryptocurrency like real use cases, environmental impact, etc. So, many of the concerns surrounding bitcoin, which evolved in the '10s when it was the fastest growing player on the block, are simply no longer relevant.
> Wouldn't stealing all the foreign assets of Venezuela by US and UK also affect the Venezuela economy?

There are a number of things wrong with this statement.

1. Timing is off. The U.S. didn't freeze Venezuelan assets until 2019 after Chavez died and the economy had already collapsed.

2. $342 Million in cash was frozen and 1.1. million barrels of oil were seized, the rationale being that this was a small dent to offset the amount of Western assets that Venezuela nationalized without compensation.

3. For years before the US responded, Venezuela nationalized foreign investment in its oil industry, gold mining, agriculture, telecomm, banking, auto manufacturing, paper products, Satellite communication, pharmaceuticals, and many other industries - most seized without compensation. Prior to the 2019 action, the US basically left foreign investors without recourse, as they had to file lawsuits in courts in order to try to obtain compensation.

The value of the foreign assets seized by Venezuela far exceeds the value of Venezuelan foreign holdings seized in response.

The real problem for Venezuela is the flight of human capital by those with skills. Venezuela lacks the skilled workers to operate the industries it has nationalized, which is part of the reason for the economic collapse - the other part being simply the usual effect of socialism on reducing productivity due to the breakdown of the price-system.
> This narrative has nothing to do with reality, because vaccinated people spread covid, too.

But not as a result of acquiring immunity.
Agreed. Also if you’re operating at a high level at a company you should be defining your own role to some extent.
> Wealthfront or Betterment

Which do you prefer and why?
Gold lost more than 50% of its value over the last ~10 years of QE. That's quite a failure.
I don’t find it satisfying: I can copy files from one stage to another, but I can’t install a .deb (or any other package for that matter).

Copying a list of paths will break if the package changes, and it can’t easily do anything done by pre-install and post-install scripts (like changing a file, registering a GPG key, etc.)

The official excuse from Docker is that “multi-stage builds cover that use”, but that’s not true if you need to install local packages. I think the buildkit feature that lets you mount folder in the build container is a hidden admission that this is wrong, but it’s annoying that the build process will then only work on machines where a non-standard option is set.
Australia and New Zealand are also less busy and have wider roads than most of western Europe.
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Does your team share Excel or Google sheets, where multiple people are entering information into the same document? Am I the only one losing control over input?
Oh I imagine I would be the same, I empathize and understand. I don't really know what the solution is. Do we just adjust our expectations for "success"? Should people stop expecting to be where their parents were at 30 and start expecting it to happen at 40 or 50 instead?

There is also a difference between continuing to participate, and shutting the door behind you so no-one else can participate. That's what we are getting in property markets in various places right now and it's not necessarily malicious. Young people can't afford homes even with well paying jobs, because the property game was rigged to build wealth for those who got in early and now the bar of entry is too high.

I think sport is a good example, a natural ageing out process means there's constantly room for up and coming talents, and importantly people can see that there is room and so they know they can invest the effort to aim to take that spot.

In various ways right now, it feels like there's no room, and there may never be room. Why invest the effort? Why save money for a house if prices are always just continuing to climb? Why work hard when the wages are too low to progress because the c-suite hoovered up all the cash?
Email is decentralized. The internet is decentralized. This problem was already solved much more efficiently.
> NONE of vaccination pushers can explain deaths among people who had vaccines.

Vaccines are imperfect. They are particularly imperfect when given to patients with impaired immune systems. This is neither unexpected nor reason to think vaccines are not a good idea. Please do not resort to the Nirvana Fallacy! https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
There is a reason that statisticians love R. It's because the alternative to R for statistical work is SAS, not python. Compared to SAS, R is a godsend.
Your argument is boiling down to saying: This cannot happen because I have this XYZ belief, which I have because this has never happened in the past.

It should be understood that singularity has not yet been achieved. That is not in itself a reason to believe that it cannot be!

More below.

>> Airplanes and calculators exist within the realm of what it is possible for a human to design.

Any actual reason to believe that (a) AGI that exceeds human performance, (b) weak AI, (c) strong AI, (d) AI that can improve itself, (e) AI that can autonomously pick up new domains, (f) AI that has a sense of humor, ... are not within "what is possible for humans to design"?

>> Why is it that we have not designed a calculator that can invent new forms of numbers or a new paradigm of maths.

As far as I know, Doug Lenat had developed a program called Eurisko, which came up with a notion that was it not taught. As I recall, the program started looking into opposite of prime numbers, i.e., numbers which are highly composite. Doug later discovered the concept pre-existed.

I have myself also coded a program which was domain-specific, however it provably made inventions that were patentable, and which I could not have invented. I know because one of them were recently invented by a colleague and it was even filed for patenting.

A desk calculator here is a wrong example; that machine is too limited. However, there may not be a valid and scientific reason to believe that intelligence, judgment, creativity, wisdom, are more than mere calculations. (I won't dwell into consciousness, etc., though I can.)

>> something that exist or is created within the bounds of human imagination cannot (imo) escape the limitations of that same imagination.

I have already given examples that are small but which countered that.

AlphaZero was limited to playing chess, agreed, but it's imagination did extend well beyond that of it's creators or even the human chess players it played against. In fact, very recently, there was a research published trying to understand how it or a more recent chess program, loosely speaking, 'thinks'.

AlphaZero was limited to playing chess, because we trained it using specific cost functions for chess.

If there's enough training data, etc., then in theory, we could define cost functions that are similar to those of a species or a biological ecosystem, i.e., survival instincts, procreation, whatever. Such a system may develop it's own internal models and behaviors, and even possibly notions of various emotions.

Just think it through. If you can come up with an actual answer why it cannot be done, then both you and I, and at least I :-) will be able to invent to break that answer! :-)

It's better to ask why it cannot be done, that will take us there. (The debate whether we want to or not is a separate track.)
Precisely what I was thinking, wouldn't using non-newtonian type physics in such a situation just increase the impact force on the body?
You’re either going to be forced to do one or the other, or both. Would you be okay with hybrid? Why this stark dichotomy when compromises already exist?

If you don’t want to be “forced”, then become your own boss- this is a Y Combinator site, after all. Become an entrepreneur or a freelancer. Or drop out of the workforce entirely into the ranks of r/antiwork.

It sounds like you’ve found a new path, that’s great! You do you, but trumpeting it in such an oblique way is just Vaguebook humblebragging.
That's not what my point was about. The point was autonomous services, and I also outlined an idea for one that would have real-world benefit (if properly designed). You can argue that there are no "useful" services yet, but not that there will never be any.
I switched industries and roles by taking an entry-level position in a new industry. Took a pay cut, but new gig had way better benefits. 100% worth it. Got more raises so far then the entire time I stayed in the old role. Got better benefits and colleagues. Wish I did it sooner.

What helped me in making my decision was comparing the industry and growth of my old role versus potential of the new one.
100% Agree. Only issue is that I'm trying to buy a licence but the payment options seem to be US-only (ZIP code validation). I'm trying to buy from the UK.
The amount of Monday morning quarterbacking of Zillow is just staggering.
This is why I desperately hope that manufacturers don't follow Tesla's example of putting everything in a digital UI. It makes sense when you have a limited amount of space in which to support infinite uses (e.g. a smartphone) but not in something like a car where having dedicated, tactile controls is both a safety benefit and a more enjoyable user experience.
Same here, the one criticism I have is that I had to put tape on the toner cartridge to defeat the toner empty sensor. After doing that I've been able to continue to use the "empty" cartridge for an additional 5 or 6 years (I only print maybe 50 pages a year though).
A quick question for you peeps working in larger organisations with 1:1s (i've been out of that game for a number of years). How have you adapted your 1:1s for remote working? It's always felt to me that moving out of the usual workspace to have these discussions is an important aspect (effectively on neutral ground) and i'm wondering how this is achieved remotely - how does it feel different to the team member than yet another video call?
Having reached 40 and living through the pandemic, my priorities have changed from trying to climb the greasy ladder to ensuring I'm doing work I enjoy, and having a good work/life balance. I have people far younger than me who have been promoted above me, but seem to constantly annoyed by the type of work they have to do. Constant meetings being one of them.

I know I'm underpaid for my experience and skills, but I try and be a leader in my field, and try a train as much as possible. As others have said here, the extra time I have at home gives me the energy to work on other projects (hobby, etc).
Why would that be something to look forward to? can't it still mutate to cause harm?
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Did you have Marketplace charges? These are USD only.

When they launched the SEPA direct debit option a couple years ago I tried it and the debit bounced back.

Eventually I did not have the need for marketplace instances anymore, then I tried it again and it worked.