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> ...Intellectual work doesn't lead itself to reporting status on completed tickets every single day.

Status is WIP until completion. As for the intellectual work, that's just outright Analysis stage.

Most of dev's work is actually analysis. Sure, there's implementation, testing and such, but Analysis is almost non-stop.

Anonter way to put this is Evaluation of Alternatives, Optimization of Approaches.
Smaller European nations did this kinda policies through 60s-90s and it worked fine. Now thanks Euro this kinda lever has closed most of them.
Well yeah. From the government, for rich people. I don't know any poor people who can directly profit from corporate bailouts, tax cuts or has access to loans with such low interest rates. Even though as you say it comes from the population at large.
“According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.”
-bee movie
Clearly you haven't kept up to date with the lightning network.

The idea that any blockchain could squeeze all of the world's transactions on the system's layer one was always an absurd proposition to anyone with a basic understanding of computer science.
I have created UPI ID directly with bank and there is no need of any third party app. It can be used to transfer money directly without sharing bank and card details.
Not when triggered by the api gateway, that is still 30 seconds for things triggered from sqs, s3 etc its 15 minutes.
Maybe we need a better definition of “never”. Are we going back 11 years, or 50 years, or 255 years? If wages truly never keep up with inflation in this country, then we’d be living like they did prior to the industrial revolution. You can’t argue that technology hasn’t had in impact on everyone’s quality of life over longer timespans, which doesn’t get taken fully into account in the data.
this and they are not alone, it's horrible
Standard internet discourse.

Numbers are bad - "See everyone, things are fucked. I told you so." (which is what this post is about)

Numbers are good - "Meh, I never trust the underlying data anyways. It is all meaningless."
> Not really; it is the server that tells all clients what the state is.

Not with realtime action games, nope. The server hopefully verifies, but not even that is a given... Just look at New Worlds immortality bug from a few weeks back for a pretty large budget game that forgot to do that to a sufficient degree.
Men do outnumber women on apps but I think you'll find it's actually very difficult these days to get men to attend dating events like speed dating even in western countries.

Why are men afraid of dating events - https://www.originaldating.com/blog/2015/6/18/why-are-men-af...

Speed-dating event in Membertou cancelled due to lack of men - https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/speed-dating...

Art museum hosts a speed-dating night and only women show up - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-speed-da...

The death of speed dating - https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/charly-lester/the-death-of-...
TL;DR: Author expresses his dislike for modern meme culture as a move away from classic humor and towards baseless self expression. Ironically, this long rant of self expression could be a meme.
The best thing you can do is form a union
Good for the thousands of families impacted by unethical marketing and dispensing of this drug.
But has the ability for people to vote for One Nation specifically lead to bad government policies? Under a less fair voting system, might a minority of extremists have been able to take over one of the major parties (or at least might one of the major parties have adopted extremist policies in order to secure the vote of the extremists)?

I think it would be very naive to imagine that making the voting system less representative would make people just give up on their extremism and peacefully accept the policies of one of the major parties. If anything, I would guess that showing how little support an extremist party has would disabuse its voters from believing they represent some sort of oppressed majority.
That's their point; it's no longer possible to source reliable products for the mom-and-pop stores.
couldn't credit card companies expose an API to let you do this?
It would seem like a failure of the justice system if they didn't consider that this met the criteria of a criminal case. Could have also helped set a lot of precedents to deter such crimes in future.
I wouldve just linked to https://www.reddit.com/r/ReallyWackyTicTacs/ if it wasnt banned already but we are talking about nu-reddit here. :/
http://mbrserver.com/defrag/
> This sort of thing costs the company money

You underestimate how much are companies willing to sacrifice efficiency (total amount produced) for profit (extraction of value from labor to capitalist).

There was this book (I don't remember the name) that claimed that UAW unions wanted more worker autonomy to compete with Japanese, and it was more actually more efficient system, but the management killed it because it threatened their position.
Advent of PBT – Day 17 – IsHumbleNumber
Same. Most of my time is spent in thinking. My manager has told me though that it sometimes is not possible to quantify this time unless I create a doc where I lay down my thought process.
That the fed has no tools is correct to the best of my understanding. The central banks are tasked with solving problems they have no mandate to solve.

Inflation is, among other things, a problem of the market having too low a demand for money compared to the supply. One obvious way to fix that is by taxing money out of existence faster, decreasing the supply and thus increasing its value assuming demand stays fixed. (And there's reason to think it will; demand for money is a relatively unflexible parameter.)

But of course, central banks do not control taxation, so there's not much they can do.
I mean, that's kind of what I'm saying. It's hard for local stores to find consumer goods that aren't junk quality. Portland, Oregon where I live does have one of the better local economies for well sourced / locally produced stuff, e.g. we still have glass manufacturers, make a lot of shoes, and anything made out of wood, pretty much all your furnishings and most of your food you can buy from local makers and growers. And there are small shops that are still sort of affordable where you can get quality stuff. But if you want to buy a can opener, yeah, you can either go spend $100 at William Sonoma for one made out of titanium, or go buy one at Kroger that'll break in a day. Shit outta luck.

[Edit] I feel like here's a good place to sing the praises of my made-in-America, wool and cotton non-offgassing mattress. https://joybeds.com ...I think I was order #700 or something, and I feel like they're not getting the love they deserve. I'm in no way associated with this company but talking about finding quality goods and buying locally, it was really hard to even find this company, and felt like I was taking a big risk buying it online from a manufacturer with so few sales. We need more of this.
You need to have a bank account to use UPI. Banks require a phone number afaik.
>Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, the most-popular decentralized digital currency, have a notoriously large carbon footprint (bitcoin mining alone consumes about half as much electricity in a year as all of the UK). So to leverage a cheap source of energy to run their bitcoin mining operations, Lochmiller and Cavness found themselves partnering with oil companies to repurpose a byproduct, primarily methane, that’s typically vented or burnt off in flares.

Aren't crypto miners using GPUs to "mine" bitcoins?

Doesn't that also mean every person who plays video games is also responsible for stressing the power generation system. And as GPUs become more powerful to give better frame rates and fancy tech like RTX, they also become more power hungry. Doesn't that also mean the massive data centers like the what Google is running for Stadia with massive number of GPUs is responsible for taxing the power generation system? Or people who train Deep Learning models with billion of parameters on GPUs? I do see people pointing fingers at Deep Learning and how it isn't "carbon neutral" but the other things are not really talked about.

That being said, I am not people/companies who use GPUs aren't the cause of global warming or are somehow singlehandedly making it worse I believe that as a society we are kind of involved in this. Finger pointing will really keep going in circles.

I am not the biggest fan of pop science as it often oversimplifies problems but this video by Kurzgesakt is very good as it explains what I am trying to say. https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc
A use case that delivers positive value (i.e. not just enabling crime). I found some of the cryptokitties-style experiments interesting, but not when every transaction costs $50 (and the security of the chain only works if the underlying "coin" has value, so that seems inherent and unavoidable).
From the other side, whenever a member of my team has come to me asking to match an offer I've always refused and wished them well in their new role.

If someone is unhappy enough to start job hunting rather than talking to me then it's a clear sign that they'll leave soon regardless of any pay rise. Psychologically, every pay increase makes someone happy for a short time, and then they get used to it and they start to wonder if they should have asked for more, or they focus on other reasons why they don't like the role they're in and wonder if the other one would have been more fulfilling. If you match an offer, or even beat it, the person is likely to have left in a year anyway.
There have been a number of interesting attempts at this. They have names like dplython, And haven't really caught on widely. Python isn't really the best language to build a dplyr-like API in since both the structure and the culture of the language are against metaprogramming and nonstandard evaluation to create DSLs.
Likely some of both. Many of the costs are going to the supply-chain bottlenecks, IE: meat packing plants, lumber mills, container ports, chip manufacturers. Demand is high and it's hard for new supply to be brought online so those in the right position benefit significantly. For example AMD and NVDA revenue up 50%+, income 100%+

Eventually these high margins will attract competitors and bring down the margins but it takes quite awhile to get a chip fab up and running, and similar with meat-packing, lumber mills, etc.
https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/muc3ze/tifu_by_accide...

Possible in some places!

In many European countries the post office also offers banking services.
Well thats... horrifying. Grabbed a monster image off google to see how it goes.

https://sketch.metademolab.com/share/997996cb413a4590860268e...
> Of course investors would be more interested in a platform where their financial superiority carries over, it lets them game the system unlike an ambiguous decentralized protocol.

Short of a worldwide communist revolution, that's just going to continue to be the case for any up and coming technologies that make money. Who benefitted most from the enormous gains in tech stocks over the last 25 years? I'll wager it isn't the minimum wage employees.

> Decentralization needs the blockchain less than the blockchain needs decentralization.

Name for me any other way of transferring money to a stranger over the internet in a decentralized fashion. Name for me any other way of executing Turing complete code in a censorship-resistant fashion. These are two big parts of decentralization that crypto solves. Do you refuse to acknowledge that?

There's a reason the Silk Road only appeared after Bitcoin came on the scene. Tor's been around a long time, PGP's been around a long time, but Bitcoin was the missing puzzle piece. I'm not saying drugs are good, I'm just saying decentralization tech didn't reach the level required to implement Silk Road before crypto came on the scene.
BitTorrent is a terrible file distribution mechanism. I can't think of a single instance where I have had better performance downloading a torrent than a simple FTP/HTTP transfer or video stream from a web server or CDN.
debatable to what degree meme culture has become more repetitive but I think there's probably something to it. Mark Fisher borrowed the term Hauntology from Derrida to describe this kind of media consumption/production. He thought that one key aspect of the way we communicate was that we're essentially trapped in a sort of self-referential loop that cannot escape old aesthetics, ideas or forms and that we had in a sense cancelled the future or anything genuinely new.

It seems like that's the sort of thing the OP feels about memes, and people have often observed it about retro-pop fiction like Ready Player One, the intensity with which fashion is recycled, the never-ending superhero movies that now comprise most of mainstream cinema, and so forth. Subjectively kind of like you're stuck in some 2000s videogame where nobody bothered to turn the servers off.

I think that's a sort of feeling many people have about large parts of the media today in some form or another.
I dislike windows 11 UIs, while it is pretty it ruins super fast drilling down of information
It's time for the butcher's bill over the silly corona restrictions, and none will ever connect the two to together.
> Difficulty readjusts every 2016 blocks, changing money needed to mine a block. Congestion would be temporary.

The number of transactions per block is fixed (IIRC it's about 6 transactions/second), so transaction fees will always rise to the level that the world is willing to pay for 6 transactions/second at.
You're free to experiment with pricing, just not to weasel out of an already closed deal and then increase the price.

Markets need some rules to protect the weaker players so they all feel like participanting. It's in everyone's interest. If you make it "use whatever force you want if you're the stronger player" the market will be less functional and many players will no longer participate.

The US doesn't have many of the European consumer protection rules. As an alternative everyone uses a credit card to get some of those protections back. The downside is high creditcard fees going to the payment networks and Visa etc getting to decide who can do business and who can't. I personally prefer the other system where the law creates those protections instead.
https://archive.ph/etgjU
How is that any different from Fiat money? Or anything for that matter. It holds no real value beyond the paper it is printed on. It is valuable because we all agree as a society to give it value.
It's got some use as a commodity of speculation for gamble-vestors and for unscrupulous billionaires.
I wouldn't be happy about my retirement savings being in or dependent on bitcoin.
This is why I love to study history, you can almost predict the future by studying the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution
Not sure what's happening there, but we've hired a few career starters recently and are usually fighting for midlevels. The market is crazy now. It's been candidate-driven for quite a few years but recently it's gotten even so. Hard to tell what you've experienced but please don't conclude you're worthless! If you'd like I'm happy to give advice/look at your resume, I've been a hiring manager for more than I dare to admit. My email address is in my profile.
Have you faced any financial hurdle while buying a domain in the start?
> For one thing, it’s likely that transaction fees will rocket, as miners try to replace revenues no longer provided by the emission of new Bitcoins.

That's not how Bitcoin fees work. Miners do not define a fee. A transaction has at least 1 input and 1 output. If the input value differs from the output value, the miner gets to keep the difference. Miners will prioritize transactions that offer the most change/fee per byte.

Fees go up because users want their transaction processed before other transactions.

Fees are more based on congestion than on whether there are block rewards.

If the fees are too low, less efficient miners will stop mining and difficulty will drop, making mining cheaper.
Inflation isn't bad, it is part of the interest rate cycle. You cut rates until you can't then you use inflation.
I don’t see how that’s relevant to my comment. If hearthstone issued scam NFTs then that’s on them and their reputation would be tarnished.

Just because it can be used for scams doesn’t mean the tech is a scam.
Carrying capacity is around 1-3 billion. We should be fine with one billion.

Point to note: 1600 AD: world population was 500 million. 1975: 3.5 billion.

We’ll be fine as a species at one billion tops. It’s better for the planet too.
Fork of which chain?
Could I ask you how old are you ?
I don’t understand anything they show on this page. Bad communication.
I had to be signed into verizon's site and then click the link, but now can't get that to work, but it appears the direct page is https://myvpostpay.verizon.com/ui/acct/secure/profile/privac...

This all seems intentionally difficult
I am building a dating app that prioritizes UX over short-term profitability. The roadmap includes this feature, matching users with people who are likely to respond and preventing users from getting too many or too few connections.
This is a perfectly reasonable use case, but also completely infeasible right now due to transaction costs - it could cost hundreds of dollars just to mint and transfer the NFT. Ticketmaster charges outrageous fees, but they’re nothing compared to eth transaction costs.
Governments are also indemnifying the people who do not want to get the vaccines and are spreading covid through their behavior (no masks, not distancing, no isolating).
It would be interesting to see what would happen if families of people that die from covid-19 in coming months/years bring a negligent homicide lawsuits against some of the prominent advocates of the above mentioned behavior.
Knowledge that is less common is more valuable.

Even in social situations, you can just stay ignorant of pop knowledge, and still amaze peers with relevant obscure trivia.
And when someone come to you asking for a raise, how often do you give it?
Sounds like they're better off leaving, if that's your attitude.
To make this process safer I usually recommend:

1. Put all new code behind feature flags that are off by default in production.
2. Make rolling back easy.
3. Have extensive unit and integration tests.

Some of the deployment steps could be automated even further -- maybe the CI server automatically deploys Staging after a successful build.

See the books Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and The Toyota Way for more.
I have a deathstar in the basement. It was working last time I placed it in its cardboard grave of obsolescence. Who knows what would happen if I powered it up today?

I don't really know what to do with all my old hard drives. I love SSDs because they don't vibrate and make noise.
Why can't you connect the dock to the company laptop when you work and to your personal PC when you don't?
You said I always hear rosy thing about how polished the Apple ecosystem is. But this more sounds like a bug in your software. Many accented characters have two representations in Unicode, so you always have to normalize strings before making comparisons or use a comparison function that takes different encodings into account.
This mindset seems common but is far from the truth. Even with blue-collar jobs pay varies widely especially now. Employers want you to think everyone pays the same and you can't do better elsewhere.
That's why most money kept with banks is kept in interest bearing accounts to at least keep up with inflation (obviously things have been a bit off kilter since the GFC and covid). Or that pound quickly moves into circulation.
GitFlow, broken by design.

1. Do all your development and testing on one branch (develop). Vet its HEAD commit.

2. Once that's good to go, merge that into a different branch (master), and deploy a completely different commit to production!

The vast majority of devs that I have spoken to believe that, after merging develop with master that develop == master, and have no controls in place to actually guarantee that.

& in case you're thinking "I thought they were?"

* merge to master (master) # what shipped
|\
| * PR #184 (develop) # what was used by devs

Different commits == potentially different trees. (And, in a large enough company with enough commits and time, "potentially" drifts towards certainty.)

A good shop will deploy master somewhere sane like a QA env first… but still. It's brain-dead. Truck-based development is simpler, less often crashes the minds of devs who can't be arsed to learn git, and what you test/dev == what you deploy.
I see a lot of complaints of people about the fact that Pfizer required legal immunity against side effects.

This is a must for any vaccine manufacturer, otherwise the vaccine is just not commercially feasible. That's what killed Lymerix, and why we don't have Lyme disease vaccine anymore. If the government does not back it up, the manufacturer won't stand a chance.

Even if the vaccine has a good safety profile, a 0.1% rate of side effects applied to millions is still a lot of lawsuits.
I defragged a SSD partition recently. First time in MANY years I ran a defrag utility. There is still a reason to do it.. if you want to shrink a partition using stock utilities then you need contiguous free space.
You understand unions are democratic, right? You can vote out the leaders if you disagree how they manage it.

Now of course, if you are in the minority, and still feel slighted (and under-appreciated), there is always an option to start your own business with like-minded people.
Ask HN: Did you find it useful to implement SRE error budget policy?
The error budget policy essentially prevents any deployments till we reclaim our error budget, did applying this policy help improve your system reliability?
Not sure I follow. GraphQL is a way to ask for data from the backend. What does it have to do with the client layer?
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I dunno, you seem like you've got pretty strong opinions on UX.

Imho, it's better to observe the generalizations we each fall under, and use it to learn more about ourselves.
'The Fed as a lot of tools at its disposal...'

Average and poor Americans would be better off with a simple formula to set money expansion. Then fire the private 'Federal Reserve' banksters and let someone else have the contract to clear checks.

It is long past time to end the 3rd central bank.
There is no in-group anymore. The term "meme" no longer serves as a shibboleth for any particular subculture, and anyone on major social media platforms has seen them and knows what they are. Memes have become the equivalent of grandma's Christmas chain letter. But, of course, this is the true meaning of the term coined by Dawkins. Somewhat fittingly, and a little ironically, we have watched the coded meaning of "meme as in-joke," (an anti-meme to the out-group) become absorbed into the original meaning. The word was a malapropism all along, and people are starting to understand that now.
The remarkable for instance has an exceptional low latency for an eInk device. I enjoy using it.