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>>A stable coin where you trust whoever is providing the backing for that asset is no different from a crypto currency in that way, the trust model still requires that you trust someone to honor the coin or value it in some way.

I don't follow. With a cryptocurrency you don't have to trust any one. The cryptocurrency can't be redeemed for anything, and thus there's no one to trust for honoring the claim upon redemption.

>>The interesting part about it that you can move coins between people who don't trust one another without a 3rd party is entirely due to the remotely verifiable nature of the thing, like any other coin.

Yes true. And that applies to any digital property on the blockchain.

The challenge for digital property that is a claim on a real world asset is being able trust a third party to honor the claim upon redemption of the digital property. Some parties have solved that for claims on national currency, and thus we have a few stablecoins.

Whether this model can extend to real estate, automobiles, commodities and other assets/goods remains to be seen.
People being given free money say it's good they've been given free money. News at 11.

> Certainly better than tolerating the open secret that many of them weren't' "actively looking for work" when claiming the dole.

I agree there. The real move forward is the (re)acceptance that certain sectors of society are a poor fit for the salaried-work/commercial-enterprise model. It's the good part of socialism, which should be par for the course in an European social democracy - the fact that we don't expect it anymore is a very sad result of 30 years of political decline in the West.
Sounds basically like a grant program, not UBI.

However, slapping the phrase UBI on your program while it’s trendy is a genius way to “rebrand” something most governments already do. Politicians are the best marketers.
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Terry Tao has a somewhat similar method https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/batch-low-inten...
Of course, we can chat on LinkedIn :)
Don't hesitate to ask, I don't know everything but I'm happy to help you out.
My comment was specific to employment & "menial labor", as is the issue of universal basic income.
Where aliens could be watching us
The context is literally the previous tweet.
"They expect one of us in the wreckage brother" as one Reddit comment put it.

Bobby has to go, no matter if this is "his fault" or not. Shareholders lost a lot of money, Blizzard lost a lot of reputation. It happened on his watch and new blood is needed. To be honest I think the studio is lost, we can only hope that some of the spin off studios will turn out to be great.
Forgot to say thanks for a well-cited and helpful response!
Yes, I wasn't stating the obvious: you need to insulate the floor and roof as well. For example, reinforced concrete foundation slabs are usually placed over XPS foam boards here. There are many ways to do this, my point was that you don't have to go to extremes to get impressive benefits of modern insulation.
>I do believe making a website is still cheap and easy

Is it now? Parler shows that if you rock the boat, your hosting will be pulled and your phone app removed. Google censors a certain page that was the successor to r/The_Donald on Reddit, along with another certain chan style site. Similarly Gab got payment processors and hosting pulled out.

Now I have never bothered to explore these sites, but if their public image is telling of the truth, then I deplore the political narrative within them. Yet they still paint a real clear example that companies can and will screw you over if they want to, with not a whole lot you can do about it.
> This was received very well by the artistic community in Ireland so it's odd to see people remarking it's not much or will do little

Well, yeah. The community gets offered free money, and receives the news well. All others aren't so enthusiastic.

What were you expecting?
This project deserves more credit than it gets. It is vital to have a clear, unbiased view of our leaders, large and small. For investigative journalism but also for the curious citizen. Being sanctioned is no small matter and being able to find the source opens the door to recourse.

I'm happy to see that OpenSanctions choose to become sustainable by allowing companies to get a license to use their data.
The "do just the minimum" strategy of corporate inclusion and diversity.
So here is a sample,

Chapel, HPC language mostly sponsored by Intel and HPC

https://chapel-lang.org/

D programming language,

https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in...

Ada/SPARK,

https://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/en/source/la...

Swift,

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/OwnershipManif...

ParaSail

http://www.parasail-lang.org/

Project Verona from Microsoft Research

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-ver...

Project Snowflake from Microsoft Research

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/project...

And finally your favourite C++

"Implementing the C++ Core Guidelines’ Lifetime Safety Profile in Clang"

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/slides/TechTalk-Horvath-Impl...

Also the "Clang Static Analyzer - A Tryst with Smart Pointers" talk at 2021 LLVM Developers Meeting.

For the Visual C++ part of the story

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/lifetime-profile-upda...

And GCC as well, although they are late to the party

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DavidMalcolm/StaticAnalyzer

Finally a couple of CppCon 2021 talks that touch on the subject in various ways,

Type-and-resource safety in modern C++

Code Analysis++

Static Analysis and Program Safety in C++: Making it Real

Finding Bugs Using Path-Sensitive Static Analysis
But, how, exactly?

The only bad things I can see are:

1. Constructors with many parameters

2. Needing to pass a dependency many levels deep

But, I would still think that those are not big deals (what do you have, 40 parameters or something?) and that the explicitness can be helpful. Isn't it good to know that the top level service depends on your email-sender dependency from just looking at its code instead of needing to analyze its code and every single object under it?
Apart from his public disgraceful behaviour (who know how bad he is in private),
how come majority of other companies avoid this shit happening inside them?
i totally forgot! yes, absolutely.
Art and cultural heritage may have worth outside that represented by short-term supply and demand?
I suppose now is the time to invest in art materials suppliers, and exhibition/performance venues, since this will function as a subsidy for them.
I am strongly against treating Redis as yet another cache. For me it is a perfect database for non-critical short-lived data, that can be reproduced from more reliable databases in case of failure.
Not only "philosophical", better insulated houses are also more comfortable.
Does not work at all. In Finland we have disastrous situation with pre-90's "Bottle"-houses with air-tight insulation. Not enough circulation and dangerous mildew blooms.

All this lower 50's German crap about heat pumps and heat exchanges does not make much sense. Once again. Not a surprise.
Some guidelines for better, healthier, low energy, low cost house construction:

Understand basic physics.

Avoid the architecture-of-the-week construction trends.

Set your targets:
Size vs cost?
How long do you expect to live there? Price of energy vs better insulation?
Maintenance: type, frequency, amount, cost?
How important is it for you to reduce the environmental impact?
Start small and expand later, or start big and later rent out part of the house?

Stay open minded about the solutions and designs. This makes a huge difference. The building codes and municipal restrictions are often the most limiting factors on how "good" a house you can build. Don't add _unnecessary_ restrictions on top of that. Look around at different solutions, not just what the local construction companies offer. Travel and see how things are solved in other countries.

Use simple construction methods and design. Reduce the number of construction tasks necessary, and make each task simple. A significant real world problem with normal passivhaus construction is that while designed well, they are often very complex to actually build, and small mistakes by the construction crew can have a large impact on the energy requirements as well as cause health hazards.

Well insulated windows, walls, floor and ceiling also drastically improve the comfort feeling of the house, not just the energy bill. When done right and coupled with properly designed ventilation they also improve the health aspects of the indoor environment.

Many low energy houses built today require that the indoor air is kept very dry when the temperature difference between inside and outside increases. This has a lot of negative health effects. By choosing different insulation and interior materials they can be made to allow high indoor humidity. Your lungs, throat, nose, eyes and skin will thank you. Internal humidity around 50-60% also reduces air transmission of many viruses.

Thermal mass is mentioned in some other posts here. Make sure to place it inside the insulation layer, not on the outside. Water and stone have similar high volumetric specific heat capacity. By using water circuits and storage, the mass can be moved out of the way, and often coupled to very efficient heating/cooling systems.

We have developed a construction toolbox for houses and industrial buildings with very low total life cycle CO2 footprint, suitable for climates down to around 0C annual average temperature (northern Scandinavia, around the polar circle). They are fast and cheap to build and provide superb internal environment. If you're interested in more info I'm happy to share. You can ping us at StoneWoodGreyBeard at gmail.
For background "Diane Abbott" is a bit of a UK meme for when any political/government does bad maths. This if from a few instances of such maths:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWYIkhJdOZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxjkvjHn6Qg

But we all have such moments, she just did it publicly a few times and with that, a meme was born.
It will be part-time but eventually they will get better and can start making money out of it, and if not then well it can just be their hobby right?

Except that's not what actually happens. People working a full time job (or more than one job) don't have the time or energy to also be a part-time artist until they make it. This is especially true for people who have other responsibilities like raising children or caring for elderly relatives. Leaving it up to "the market" only works if a single part time job is enough to live on, and it isn't.

UBI for artists means they can work a little less to make time for making art. Society is essentially paying them to make art. That makes society better. Ireland has decided it's a worthwhile investment.

I'd love to live in a society where everyone is paid to do something they love, to make society better, but doing it for artists to start with is a great first step.
I think that's the way to go. I really enjoy art, especially music. There's a lot of money in the market, but most artists really struggle to make a living. The superstars get rich.

With a basic income for artists, everyone profits:

- Artists can be more creative and independent, because they don't need to monetize their work.
- People can enjoy art regardless of their social status and the money in their pocket.
- Society has a richer, more diverse and creative culture.
In classical Newtonian mechanics, velocities add normally a+b = c (an approximation which works near perfect for almost all velocities humans interact with). I think you might be asking a different question, though, but I'm not sure what.
"This software may have bugs" seems like a very different situation from "Our language just doesn't care whether maybe your program is nonsense and might have Undefined Behaviour".
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Not very many people believe that a market of individual capitalists responding to supply and demand creates the best outcomes. For example many people believe that state mandated healthcare creates better outcomes. For anyone willing to look beyond a simple model of supply and demand, a deep analysis of the effects is needed.
I come from Poland (sub-zero in winter; can be anywhere from -20C to +10C but typically 0-5C), but the winter I lived on the Spanish eastern coast was the coldest in my life: thin walls and windows, stone floor, no heating apart from little portable heaters, 5 degrees and rain outside.

Now I live in French southern coast, the buildings are slightly better but still poor. In my place even with all heaters I have on max, I'm nowhere near as comfortable as in properly built and heated apartments in my home place (actually when visiting friends in Poland in winter I'm almost overheating!).

Basically half of the year it's quite uncomfortable to stay at home for prolonged time: for ~4 months a year at winter; then again for ~2-3 months at summer (+26C at home with blinds down unless you put aircon on max for hours). Kinda suboptimal for WFH to be honest :)
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From what I've seen, its basically a honeycomb with a thick plastic coated foil to act as an atmospheric barrier. I came across it from a number of sites, but I've not managed to get any samples yet.

> And how do you maintain the 'very low internal pressure' over the decades that you will need it for?

now thats a million dollar question. I don't know.
Hopefully these artists can use this opportunity to create a following in the NFT market, which is rapidly growing and could possibly lead to a massive expansion in annual spending on art.
Indeed, which is why, in my opinion, it is a reasonable thing for the government to fund. The government funding things which are of value but would not make economic sense in a free market economy is a good use of resources.
Get ready for art to become... design.
Weird. I’ve found YouTube’s recommendation system to be showing me literally the same videos over and over.
"If you care to actually look into it, you'll find that flat-earthers have accounted for most/all of these. I'm not a flat-earther, but it's worth looking into before stating things that "obviously can't be accounted for with a flat earth."

That does not match my experience. I did looked into it and I found no consistent model of a flat earth. Lots and lots of words and sometimes even with consistent logic at times - but build upon completely false assumptions and flawed logic and therefore worthless. (you can proof anything, if your basic assumptions are made up)

"I don't think flat-earthers have accounted for Foucalt's pendulum however. "

And some of them tried and believe they did, but only when ignoring other facts and used twisted logic.

Like some parent poster had said - it is not about proof, but way more about ideology.

Otherwise they could very easily have a real proof, by sending up a weatherballoon, or organise a boat trip to the end of the world. But since they always refuse to do so (I challenged quite some with that concept) or even really think about it - they likely suspect inside that they are wrong, but rather not confirm for real, because then they would have to abolish a lot of their other ideology like chemtrails etc.
Since you doubt my sincerity already, I don't think there's anything I can say which would change your opinion.
Framing everything as a reflection of short-term capitalistic gain is a travesty. Culture transcends your lifetime and probably the lifetime of the people that you are a part of. You ask what value there is in that, but I am curious what value your believe there could be in anything else without it.
This is a pretty bullshit argument. People can have a really easy or hard time learning a language, depending on said language. It can be too far from what you know, or too similar but just different enough.

Also it's a log of personal experience and not titled "an objective criticism of Zig". I've been interested in Zig a little for a while and this was awesome to read. It hasn't made my interest any smaller or bigger, it's simply a description of one beginner's journey, and if the Zig people are smart they will analyze it and then decide which points are valid and which ones can be ignored. Neither ignoring everything nor accepting everything would probably be useful.
> Art and cultural heritage may have worth outside that represented by short-term supply and demand?

Or it may not. We can't tell objectively, because there is no metric to measure.

I suppose my point is, if you cannot tell that there is a benefit at all, why leap to the assumption that it's a large enough benefit to pay 25m euros for.
For my pet projects I want more reliability than for work ones. At work we can afford dedicated SREs and PagerDuty and on-call shifts and stuff. As an individual developer I want things to just work and deal with problems when I am awake and not busy with more important tasks.
> paying people for doing what they love even when you are going to, in effect, throw away whatever they produce is madness.

No, it's hardcore keynesism. You're still sustaining demand in the market for all their necessities, from food and toilet paper to brushes and smart LEDs; and you are supporting the overall quality of life in the country, which passes also through people getting involved in art in various ways (as critics, consumers, etc). The fact that you may or may not get valuable output at the end is relatively irrelevant; in the end, a couple of resulting unicorns could probably repay the whole operation just by publicity and goodwill flowing to Ireland.
If you keep posting flamebait to HN and using the site for political battle, we're going to end up having to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We've had to ask you about this many times already. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28039859 (Aug 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24537038 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23242575 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22783030 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22212130 (Feb 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20538796 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20220277 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241078 (Feb 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17615385 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447998 (July 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16758976 (April 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15739604 (Nov 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11950922 (June 2016)
Like it! Scrapegoating it is from now on in these circumstances.
If you go by the CDC’s hesitancy in accepting natural immunity, including the number of dubious conducted and/or worded studies they pushed, while ignoring studies showing the opposite and what foreign governments were doing (eg 3G), one is forgiven for believing that.
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Because not of bread alone you shalt live. You can't get to the moon without moonshots. There is a queue of people willing to fund for-profit moonshots, but when it comes to art and other non-monetizable human endeavours, in practice there is only the State.
Sure, I think that's fair, yet a restriction on freedom of speech, which doesn't have to be inherently bad.

Going with the same kind of example: society agrees that murder, thievery and lying are bad things, yet find it justifiable to kill in self-defense, to steal in order to eat, and to lie in certain situations.

I'll also say that it's very different to limit a certain type of speech than to limit speech you disagree with.
It's a fairly well documented fact at this point that abuse of Diane Abbott's incorrect use of maths is driven mostly by misogynistic online abuse and hate-filled newspapers looking ot make a quick buck. I'm not suggesting that's you, but please don't perpetuate it.

You don't have to look far beyond the people in power right now to see politicians making stuff up or saying things that are completely untrue. Why is Diane in the firing line? She's not even an Irish politician.

- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/14/abuse-of-di...

- https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/tories-nee...
> Standard double glazing

How is the code still allowing new construction with windows having U of 2 (such as double glazing)?
A more restrictive code would reduce a country's CO2 footprint, companies would sell more expensive products like windows, and no one except the few constructing new homes would be economically impacted - and obviously only short term, while the economic gains are reaped by everyone. So how is this not politically easy to just...do?
> A fish rots from the head.

This isn’t a fish. And, as a kid that grew up on a bay, I’d note that usually the head is the last identifiable part to go.
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FYI the top bar (with About) etc. blocks the view of the first line of the note. For a second, I thought it was more of a 'blind typing' concept where you write on without seeing what you wrote (for train of thought kind of message-taking or whatever).

Other than that: looks really cool, thanks for sharing!

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Take a look at this project https://www.nyctimescape.com/. In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xQ3vrmPNfw he (Joseph DiGiovanna) explaines his setup.
> TSMC is on track to spend ~$50B in 2023

Yet, if history is any guide, then at some point a tech disruption will turn everything on its head and there is no guarantee that the incumbent players survive.

Quantum / optical / bio chips? Nothing on the horizon anywhere close to market, but there is no fundamental reason to think silicon is the end game.
What criteria would you apply for independence? The ratio of the locally decided budget over overall government spending in the region?
So go use those arguments you already mentioned, about redistribution and buying houses, against current taxes. You can even use the same complaints about freeloaders.

You made it sound like this caused new objections, rather than being one more bout of business as usual tax griping.
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I intend to use rockwool for the floor and roof crawl space.

Luckily I have a relative in the field who can share advice. I am conscientious of the condensation issue. There's a company local to me who use hemp boards which are porous. What you say is definitely something to consider given the extent of work involved, and to possibly undo.
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That would explain the quality.

I do honestly believe that the Yugoslavian manufacturing industry was conceived solely to make the Italian manufacturing industry look decent.
It's for the same reason that there aren't more companies coming out of nowhere to make Hollywood blockbusters.

I think you might be underestimating how many man hours it takes to create the content for an AAA game.