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> I don't imagine there are many protections for active duty folks that are designed purely to protect the individual.

On the contrary, for reasons political ('everyone loves the troops'), administrative (Congress in many ways writes the 'Employee Handbook' for military personnel), and logistical (the military is heavily made up of people straight out of high school), there are several protections in law designed to protect military on active duty.

We can cancel leases with landlords with nothing more than valid assignment orders, at any time. We can vote in elections using the easiest process there is, including instant registration and the ability to fax the vote over. And, yes, there are restrictions on lending to those on active duty to try to keep us out of trouble.

Even though active duty personnel do make convenient targets of political affection, it's not all done out of a sense to protect the individual. Active duty personnel have clearances, access to government facilities, and so on. Protecting them from getting into stupid situations is to the government's benefit.

But that all said, we get a lot of protections that exceed what the government deems necessary for its benefit. Just look at the differential treatment provided to military and government civilians (who also have clearances, access, etc etc) if you want to see.
Very interesting, thank you for this! Just a note that your demos do not seem to load images.
I don't know, but I'd presume that it fails far less often than accidental programming.
They truly do. And it doesn't even have to be many spammers, it only really takes one person to ruin a free service. I've had plenty of personal projects I had to shut down due to some random person who just decided to hammer my servers for no reasons. I block the IP or IP block and they get more. I put Captcha (HN always complains about it but this is why it's often needed...), and users (who pay nothing) complain that it's annoying. Running free services on the internet is truly a PITA.
Does your number include electric heat pumps? Germany is warm enough for very modern heat pumps to do well.
There is one fundamental error in this blog; the battery energy density graph. Battery tech does not follow Moore’s law. Batteries are not transistors..
You're right. Cash advances are generally not on very favorable terms.
My car was towed the other day and while I was paying my bill for the $700 or whatever SF makes you pay, there was this guy at the next counter with nothing who was sleeping in his van who had it towed and they wanted $100 to release it. The tow counter lady could obviously do nothing (his price is low because of low income etc. etc.) but the guy was going to have to sleep in the street otherwise. And there is a holding fee each day it's in the tow yard.

Sure, we could find each of these risky situations and try to regulate them, but you won't even know of them because most people will never get towed. It's better to improve access to credit.

The guy could get $100 the next day, but not $100+storage-fee/day. It's like $70/day. Any loan that goes between 0% per day and 70% per day simple interest would have been a net win for this guy.

Obviously, having eavesdropped on the whole thing, I paid it as I was leaving but I think perhaps those of us with easy cash liquidity should perhaps build some intuition on what kinds of situations cause people to take on onerous credit.

EDIT: Oh, I recalled a detail I'd forgotten when first relating the tale. He wanted to go get his phone from the van so he could call for help but they wouldn't let you in the yard without paying to release. I imagine he was going to have a damned hard time asking for help without the phone.
> it was all in the name of flattening the curve to build supplies and increase healthcare capacity... right?

No.

The things that were about flattening the curve were about avoiding acute health system overload and increased mortality that would result from that (for all causes, not just COVID, since no ICU capacity kills people regardless of the reason they can't get into an ICU) to provide time for the development of effective preventive and treatment interventions, minimizing deaths on the route to that. (I suppose you can call that “building healthcare capacity”, but the goal has never been prinarily about bulking up the number of seriously I'll people hospitals can concurrently treat on a sustained basis, but the capacity to prevent people from getting seriously ill.)

(The original research indicated that after a general lockdown period, cycling local, often more modest, control measures would likely be necessary to that end.)

While the particular half-measures adopted and half-heartedly implemented have had mixed results in preventing health system overload (since we've seen temporary overload various places at various times), we have, in fact, developed various effective interventions and are on the road to more.
This is wrong. Nuclear reaction output can be modulated on the order of milliseconds, practically visible as the temperature of the core, which varies on seconds to minutes. They can be used as peaker plants if so designed. In the US at least, the issue is that energy output must be telegraphed 4+ hours in advance.

If I had to guess this is a constructed incentive to make nuclear less desirable than coal or gas under the guise of safety.
If you didn't start healthy eating after decades of public health messaging about it, it's unlikely that you will start now and it'll make any relevant difference - and it isn't as if healthy people being better off isn't being constantly repeated. Vitamin D had it's hype phase, got looked at a bunch and it's still not clear how much it really does, although I'd agree that pushing the existing recommendations more probably wouldn't hurt.

> Doctors have widely been prevented

citation needed I guess. Again, lots of stuff is being looked at (and some integrated in treatment recommendations), not just "Pfizers own new drugs".
Nuclear reaction output can be modulated on the order of milliseconds, practically visible as the temperature of the core, which varies on seconds to minutes. They can be used as peaker plants if so designed. In the US at least, the issue is that energy output must be telegraphed 4+ hours in advance.

If I had to guess this is a constructed incentive to make nuclear less desirable than coal or gas under the guise of safety.
I guess I misremebered it migth have been signal or matrix ... I am sure about the informal recommendation of things to avoid but I'm not so sure anymore about the informally recommanded list of things to use ...
My original claim is that something like that was true and what someone else was referring to and I gave you a lazy link, and you complained about the guys terrible methodology and replication. I told you that there are dozens of studies and data analyses (some are on huge data sets [1]) out there and your response is that oh no they have to be quality. That's a goalpost move from "this is bad" to "all those (that I haven't even seen) are bad."

> This isn't even close to the best we've got.

If you've got that then show me and I'll have a look. Until then I'm going with that studies I've seen that all seem to say roughly the same thing (despite widely varying sample sizes and quality of methodology)

1. https://medium.com/@worstonlinedater/tinder-experiments-ii-g...
There's a big difference between someone saying "I see on LinkedIn you're a Staff Software Engineer at Google and you make at least $500K" and being able to brush them off with "don't believe everything you read" and actually having government tax records in hand.
One good example is electric car charging... all the EV owner has to do is opt in, and an algorithm can do the rest.
Not necessarily. I might not want to bet on my own situation. At all. Ever. Because that might tip my hand as to what I know about what's going on. Many close-to-the-problem folks might then bet "zero." But just adjacent to it, folks closer to it than a random stranger, but not as tight-lipped, might make bets.

But that's better than a "lol this rocks" or "lol this sucks" bet by someone who has absolutely no knowledge of the situation — at all. That's either going to be a random bet or, more likely, a pre-biased placing of a bet.

Also, the link I provided above expired. Here's a better link; you can then download the PDF from there:

https://direct.mit.edu/itgg/article/2/3/73/9498/The-Policy-A...
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Versions of this comment were common when radio first was introduced. And television. Etc. It's fine to feel nostalgia for some aspects of past interaction of course, but a mistake to read too much into it. Generally an area to be aware of recency bias.
Yeah, all cloud provides do, this isn't new. The only reason Apple's version was controversial is that they did it on your own device instead of their own server, but scanning files on cloud services is common practice.
so is tesla running cameras with 21+ stops range? idk why isn't this argument dismantled every time musk mentions it just by pointing at how actually good eyes are.
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> Microsoft’s 365 and outlook stuff

teams calling is not, they do not even share the contacts, they only sync and sometimes they do not.
Many thanks for your kind and valuable reply to my first post. I will definitely after having seen the replies keep it up with the series around one post per week!. I want to emphasize the detail and formalism of the content.

AND I have already modified the misspelling. Thank you as well for that one, as it also means that you read it haha.
> (1/3 of billionaires have died or disappeared)

How did that happen? Iirc, according to Hurun Report 10 years ago, some 80% of the upper class Chinese had an escape plan ready. You'd think, as a billionaire they have a plane waiting for them 24/7 to get out of the country.

> You cannot travel abroad

In the border with Vietnam, at night you can cross the border for 5 yuan on one of the smuggler boats.

> You have little recourse as a woman who is abused by men in power

Only country in the world with more female suicides than male suicides.

Also, no recourse if CCP thugs steal your stuff. Guy I knew had his Ferrari stolen. Couldn't do anything because the thief was a local party functionary's son.
It's all just scams, frauds, pump-n-dumps, and outright thefts. I really wish our industry and community would stand up and put a spotlight of shame on this kind of activity.
If they've finished college and plan on going into education and can't mix fractions and percents, then it has nothing to do with their primary school math scores.

Which is actually a much larger question - how are teachers graduating from university without being able to do 5th grade math?
Can confirm this as an Austrian ;-)
What's the connection of this to the parent?

High power is always corrupted. Even today we have Kennedy assassination, Eperstein, Assange. Desmond Shum is connected to Wen Jiabao. No 2 in China at its time. You think dealing with these people is not dangerous?

CCP is bad in different way than any other political organizations.
That does not make China unique in any significant way at all.
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Why should a society be structured by majority rule / majority benefit for such things, even if one agrees with your premise that society is supposedly better off (which I disagree with, you're not counting all the required consequences that go with re-ordering the system, you're pretending we're only talking about one thing)?

Actual democracy is an extreme negative, not a positive approach to organizing society.

You can claim the majority would benefit from eating the wealth of Sergey Brin and Larry Page at this point, they no longer operate Google, they're just ~50 year olds sitting on $200 billion in Google shares, piddling around until the day they die. So why not let society benefit sooner rather than later by consuming their wealth to its (supposed) benefit, divvy up their wealth to the poorest 51%.

You can invent a huge number of scenarios for doing things like that, where society supposedly is better off if we violate the property rights of some minority group. Why shouldn't some minority of people be allowed to lend at 43% interest if there are takers at that rate? Because you say so? Why shouldn't their property rights be respected - the property right to lend their money out at the rates they can command - and why should the majority get to arbitrarily restrict their property rights? It sets up an obvious exploitation situation, which is always the case in democracy, where the majority can endlessly torture, exploit and abuse the minority.

It would very clearly be better for the top 51% (far more than that actually) - the majority of society - if the economic bottom 10% did not exist (a group that rarely holds a job, has vast health & drug addiction problems, rarely pays taxes into the system, rarely contributes much of anything; and in fact that's true in nearly all welfare states, including the US). So they should all be gotten rid of, is that right? Democracy in action. The tax paying majority is sick and tired of carrying the never-tax-paying economic segments at the bottom, time to get rid of them, for the benefit of "society" (aka the majority power herd).
Not the OP but I always fail to see how this is useful in the real world (I'm sure you already guessed I'm no financial guru).

Can someone please explain why isn't this akin to comparing the price of a gallon of water to that of printer ink and then thinking: "hmm, the water is way cheaper. I'll take a dozen of bottles, yet I'll be spending less."?
Why are so many here pro-nuclear? How do you solve the problems that come with increasing use of nuclear reactors?
1. handling nuclear waste
2. knowledge transfer of breeding technology which is also used for creating plutonium for atom bombs
I do not like to be negative, but perhaps this book could be titled -- DNA seen through the eyes of a coder who does not know any biology.

The genome is not a computer program with lots of #ifdef's. It is a data store, much of which seems to be evolutionary left-overs, and a tiny fraction of which encodes the molecular machines that allow it to function. Depending on how you define decoding, perhaps less than 10% of the enzymes encoded by the genome (which are encoded by less than 0.2% of the genome) are involved in processing the genome data (DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, ribosomal proteins, topoisomerase, etc). A larger fraction of enzymes are used to provide the energy and raw materials to keep the cell going, with an additional set of enzymes used for cell signaling. And much of the rest of the proteins in the cell (again, remembering that less than 2% of the human genome is protein coding) are used for structural purposes.

The genome has a large amount of potential information. In higher organisms and higher plants, a very small fraction (2-5%) of that data is evolutionarily conserved to the extent that we think we know what it does (many of us think the rest is literally evolutionary junk). The parts we understand encode molecular machines, but it takes a very broad definition of "code" to imagine that data is a program.
yeah but re-generating a private key as a secondary owner isn't akin to any ownership concept in the real world and so I doubt that the law already has a playbook on how to handle such a situation.

Re-generating a private key for outputs that have spendable Bitcoins isn't like sending letters to the wrong person.
Io was fantastic as a personal learning vehicle, over ten years ago. I did have a game project that used it, right in the lull where Lua’s FFI was still a little rough and JS did not quite break out of the browser.

Its simplicity also made it great to write an interpreter for, including GC. However, nowadays the focus shifted to JIT, mostly via LLVM, which leaves such free-form languages unable to compete on performance, without significant effort.

I do fondly remember the endless explorative chats with Steve Dekorte and the other language geeks on IRC!
Wow. Name calling, especially such wholly inappropriate and inflammatory name calling, is way outside the norms here on HN.

With brand ambassadors like yourself is there any wonder why I and many others want nothing to do with GNU or the FSF?
Wouldn't that be roughly 1775-1781?
Would you consider reading the excellent book "Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" by Nadia Eghbal?

The data behind what "Open Source" projects look like differs from the popular culture narratives and assumptions about what they should look.

I doubt there was justification for disabling your player account. and I'm sorry that happened to you.

But it sounds like your expectations about code contributions, and onboarding new volunteers may have been far from that project's reality.
They have value because people think they will have a bigger future value. People think they will have more value in the future because there will be a bigger sucker willing to buy it from them. That's it. There's no step along the future ownership chain where it actually creates, yields, or transmutes into any sort of fundamental value.

So assuming you've done your research, it is known up front to be worthless and yet you are buying it anyway with the intent to defraud someone else. Or you haven't done your research and you end up being the sucker in this setup. Either way, art NFTs are pretty definitionally a scam.

The word "scam" is thrown around far too much by critics of cryptocurrencies. Think what you will of bitcoin or ethereum, but neither one is a scam. NFTs, on the other hand, unequivocally are scams.
That looks like you have the right driver. It might be a source engine/porting issue then. There's not much that can be done about that, except run it under proton. However, as you said, that probably won't let you play on some servers.

Have you tried running the game's benchmark with and without Proton? Disable vsync and set all the graphics settings to the same level, then see if one performs better than the other. That would at least confirm that the issue is due to a shitty port.

> But how do I know the game is actually using these drivers ?

I'm not expert on the Linux graphics stack, but if you see that in hwinfo, then it probably means the game is using it unless you have some funky switching setup (like Nvidia Optimus). The safest way to check be to read the game's logs, since it might print out that information (similar to the output of glxinfo). There are debugging tools like Renderdoc you can use, but that might get you VAC banned.

Launching Steam through a terminal will show you the standard output of the Steam client, but idk if it also shows you the output of launched games. There's probably a way to do it.
> they have to achieve actual full self driving with the hardware in place, or they're going to face refunds and lawsuits.

they since retrofitted the hardware twice since the claim was made, last retrofit being to the tune of 10k$.
and next month, another emergency. The root cause is low income, because with a higher income, such things won't be an emergency.
I see now what you mean, it's less of a difference than I thought you meant. In my mind it was the "r" sound that you pronounce differently but listening to it it's actually the ee that's different.
For all the mean things I could say about the language and it's ecosystem, this is one area where elixir/phoenix/channels shine.
Agreed. For example, tulips were extremely valuable in the Dutch Republic in 1636.
You don't have health checks?
What about postgres passthrough to disk. Is it better to do something like that?
I normally see postgres on zfs, but I wonder.
Yes; it's a trade-off due to how difficult it is to make people give a shit about the short-term---forget about the long-term (if there's no stock involved. We've barely figured out how to make CEOs tuned into the "long-term").

The corp is just a vehicle for the goals of all its passengers. Most of them are only on-board for a couple of stops, and then off to the next vehicle. To voluntarily forgo getting off at your stop, without receiving something of equal or greater value, seems awfully foolish.
I'm going to disagree with the sibling responses here and agree with your premise - I actually think in some cases it's not fair to calculate APR for short term, low value loans. Here's why: There's a transaction cost with making a loan - paperwork, time, etc., and in many cases that transaction cost doesn't scale with the loan size.

Example to illustrate: Let's say I ask you for a personal loan. If I need $100,000 and I want to pay you back over a few years, let's say you charge me 5% APR. You write me a check and you can roughly count on the fact that I'm going to pay you ~$5,000 a year for the service. I get the money I need, you make a nice return, we're both happy.

Now let's say I need $100 for a week. If you charged me the same 5% APR, that means I pay you back about $100.096 next week. Is it worth it? Pretty good deal for me - I'm happy to get a week's usage of $100 and it only cost me a dime. Pretty bad deal for you - and in fact, I expect you wouldn't want to even do the deal. Not worth the risk!

So what do you charge me? What's it worth to hand me a $100 and hope you'll get it back in a week? $1? Still pretty low - and that's 52% APR! $5? Getting closer - now you can buy a beer or two at the bar next week. But that's 260%! $10? Now we're at 520% APR.

It doesn't really scale at low numbers.
We recently redid our landscaping, which included making the edge of the driveway and S curve. I thought my landscaper was pretty clever.

He took a flimsy pvc pipe, nailed it down at the beginning and end of the curve, and it bent into a perfect S curve that he then spray painted down to follow.

It’s amazing how physics and nature can solve these problems for you!
Yes, I use this much more often than the more powerful general split feature, it feels very "right-sized".

split_once() and similar split features in Rust are interesting because Rust doesn't have overloading, yet you can split on a string, or a character. This relies on a Trait, Pattern, that is Nightly, so you can't Implement it yourself in stable Rust today, but eventually this factors out the commonality which is cleverer than overloading (because it applies everywhere automatically)
Yes, this is not new. People have abused Drive to host illegal content and spam for years. They have been silently banned and removed. The fact that you rarely hear about it shows that they actually have a fairly low false-positive rate.

The only change now is that the file gets unshared, you get a notification, and can try to dispute the claim. This is a strict improvement.
Any other examples of discrimination are also bad. How is this hard dude.
> But it seems my field of work, the web or the tech industry more generally, has a bad notoriety in the eyes of most people.

It may be related to the products people use. Since 10 years the Software enginerring is going backwards and instead of improving things they only make the user angry. It seems that the last years were only use to improve on the pallete of dark patterns for the user. I have a lot of colleagues which are very good software engineers but when i look at Windows/Office/Teams/Android/KDE/Gnome/Systemd/Pulseaudio i really wonder who pays such people and how much engineering is in their work.
Web developers are special. I wonder where they find ideas and if they ever saw a computer interface before (hamburger on the left or on the right ?, very big fonts or very small ?, a lot of wasted space, no way to print a webpage, no way to zoom the page, want to select text ? forget it, no toolbars, toolbars which change shape , toolbars with no begin and end handles because everybody has a touchscreen even on win 10 and so on and so forth).