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> can literature have any impact outside the confines of culture?

> Literature, originally "writing formed with letters," from litera/littera "alphabetic letter" also "an epistle, writing, document; literature, great books; science, learning"[1]

This old general sense of the word literature is still in use when we refer to scientific papers as "the literature".

In my opinion Literature-proper (like Joyce, Tolstoy, Austen, Mann and on and on) has more noble aspirations than mucking about with the "nightmare of history" (quote is Joyce's, or more specifically Dedalus's). Literature is the source code of culture, history is its child.

Perhaps history and literature can be seen as 2 independent lenses to understand our world, but I see the relation of literature to history more as that of math to physics.

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/literature
2021 Saw a 31% Increase in VR-Related Insurance Claims
nah. it's more like a new type of technology conglomerate where knowledge share and mutual support between projects still exists, but innovation murdering enterprise scale corporate bureaucracy problems have been minimized by reducing the depth and influence of the top-level holding company to an absolute minimum.

the only potential trust concerns would involve exclusive dealings between portfolio companies, but even that is a stretch.
No idea. When I multiply all $fn by 10, the render takes between 50 and 200 percent of the original render time or else the program crashes. In any case, the new flags make renders wicked fast.
Heh: "Retirement End Year".

Is that a synonym for "The Year You Die"? :)
Not the same thing at all. Smartphones have reached the point where further improvements are largely superficial for years now. Pinephone's price point is only possible because of over a decade of the proliferation of cheap smartphone components.

Consumer VR headsets are nowhere close to that point. The Quest 2 is right at the edge of usably clear text for work - with a price point that is only possible through the backing of a giant corporation desperately gambling their future on their whole metaverse shtick.

Trying to do better means requiring optics and display technology that is going to drive that price point up, especially for a hackable headset that is automatically going to rule out monetisation through user data.

tldr: nobody should care about providing cheap hardware to entitled "hackers" at their own loss. Hardware doesn't grow on trees.
> anything to bring down drug prices.
On the other hand, I'm increasingly uncomfortable with just how much free marketing and PR is being applied to the "Mark Cuban Pharmacy" without much critical examination of what's going on here.

I've avoided simple things like up voting stories about it for exactly this reason. Sure the headline sounds great but without actually going through the math and how the site works who knows if it's actually good.
Note that in the US, anti-trust regulators don't use the layman definition of monopoly. The definition they use is an entity with significant and durable market power, such as having the ability to raise prices or exclude competition[2].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
This is an actual pharmacy. Goodrx is wonderful, but it's basically an exploit of the existing pharmacy+PBM system and pharmacies would love to cut it off. Real pharmacies with cheap and transparent pricing are going to be better for patients in the long run.
They are cheaper than Costco on several drugs based on a comparison performed within the last 20 days.
My brother got compensated, tractor sank into a beavers lodge, broke the axle, got 50 €. Was in the newspaper the day after that.

Now that the beaver has destroyed the road foundation several times and the public had to pay for it, over and over, the mood of the sub-urban dwellers is slowly shifting. Turns out wildlife is not so cute, if you have to pay out of pocket for it.
Doctorow's not notorious, he's just famous (in certain circles.) Emphasis mine:

notorious - adj - famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed.

I would call that definition prescriptive and not descriptive. In practice, people use the term mostly for someone who's famous or well-known because of some bad quality or deed, and sometimes for someone who's famous or well-known and who additionally has some bad quality or has done a bad deed.
while you wait for more research, i suggest looking at the countries that have ended their mandates this year, and how they are doing, as a cheap and expedient form of research into the question of how useful mandates are.
Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human interstellar civilization thousands of years in the future, in which superluminal travel is impossible (for the humans), so travelers use hibernation to pass the decades while their ships travel between systems. Merchants, including the ones the book portrays, often revisit systems after a century or two, so see great changes in each visit.

The merchants repeatedly find that once smart dust (tiny swarms of nanomachines) are developed, governments inevitably use them for ubiquitous surveillance, which inevitably causes societal collapse. <https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255>
I've only skimmed the first few sections but so far I'm loving what I see! I just started learning Rust and have been going through "The Rust Programming Language" book. Now I'm tempted to switch to this.

My favourite formats to learn from are the "learn while you build" types where you get a good combination of the "how" and the "why," which this seems to be doing.

I really appreciate this being shared! Thanks to the authors for writing the book and OP for bringing it to my attention here on YC <3

edit: and if anyone else has suggestions of similar resources I'd love to hear about those too :D
> All your proposals ignore the fact that someone with electronic design skills can whip up a GPS tracker that is outside of this system.

I don't know. Why AirTag work for a year by a CR2032 is because usually it only uses BLE to connect near Apple devices. GPS+LTE tracker drains much battery so it can't be practically run on CR2032. Only Apple (or Google) make it very usable this kind of device.
I am curious if individuals do actually have more freedom now than before.
http://archive.today/K7Y3Q
Keycloak 17.0.0 released. Now based on Quarkus
it seems manufacturing is on the todo list.

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/mark-cuban-unveils-plan-to-...
The company responded [1]. With no other context, this honestly seems like a reasonable mistake, and it's one they corrected. Still one for the recruiter meme history books.

[1] https://www.scmagazine.com/analysis/careers/cybrary-ceo-talk...
> if you give the vaccine, then the vaccine causes more cases (of type 2) than it's stopping.

> There's no solution here - either option makes things worse.

That's false and misleading. The OPV2 vaccine will stop both vaccine-derived cvdpv2 virus from spreading and the wild type 2, which has been eradicated. Since OPV2 is a live attenuated virus, it will also continue to multiply and confer protection to any person drinking contaminated water, the vaccine "spreads". It is thus highly effective at stopping polio and in no way it can be said that it "causes more cases than it's stopping".

The problem with OPV2 is that it has a relatively higher chance of reverting to an variant that causes polio. This is not a problem if the population has a high level of vaccination, since the live attenuated virus cannot propagate and mutate. It's only problematic in low coverage areas where it can multiply extensively in many hosts.

Thus, the cvdpv2 epidemic is an expression of low vaccination rates, similar in every way to a wild poliovirus resurgence. The novel OPV2 vaccine will improve the genetic stability of the attenuated virus, allowing further "viral vaccinations" in low coverage areas - but we could eradicate cvdpv2 today with the existing OPV2 vaccine, if only we could get good vaccinations rates everywhere, as it has happened in most of the world.
The problem with that is that RISC-V exists, which has such open market of cores.
Except for Node.js, unfortunately there's still no good way of building a simple CRUD app like with Django/RoR. Available solutions are still very much do-it-yourself or very niche-buggy. This has some advantages! But it's really bad if you just want a CRUD app.
> Unnecessary if we allow wolves to be hunted.

So more people die in car crashes?. Good idea
"They really don't understand social or engagement. Not digital natives. A real threat for us."

It reads like a onion article.
So by the analogy, the reason to develop Ethereum is so that we can fleece people before the nazis can fleece them?
Upvoted to help un-gray your comment. Questions should not be downvoted. Welcome to todays 10 thousand: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Spacecraft Maximum Allowable Concentrations for Airborne Contaminants [pdf]
> 1 is questionably valuable and arguably harmful
If it’s mutable, it’s centralized, so you’re wrong.

>2 is increasingly untrue

That’s also incorrect, Ethereum has become more decentralized every year

> 3 and 6 aren't inherent benefits of Ethereum and 5 aren't true
Yes they are. Ethereum is deflationary and will became three times more inflationary later this year.

> 7 is speculative and begs the question.

No speculation here, check here yourself for just a small overview https://www.defipulse.com/
EQ was my first mmorpg too, but i got banned in 2008 for botting.
Come 2018 or something I learned of PEQ which is a eq emu server allowing unlimited macro assisted botting- so this server is basically a guild emu at this stage. You run 54 bots and solo raid content. VERY MUCH FUN PROGRAMMING

http://www.projecteq.net/
Cartels can be monopolies.
Just my 2 cents, this is what I find working for me:

- I found that I can retain much better if the course has readings. It can be lecture notes in textbook form (not presentation), or just a textbook. I found that without this, if all they provide are presentations, or blackboard work, then it is very hard to retain what I learnt long after the semester ended. (You could say I should create my own notes, but paying to learn is essentially to be more time efficient. I really don’t have time to create my own “textbook” from their blackboard work. I envy those that can transcribe in LaTeX in real time.)
- creating cheat sheet (even if the exam don’t allow them and just for personal reference) is useful to keep the big picture, make you be successful in the semester, and can be useful in the long run. But especially if you are page limited due to exam requirement, the cheat sheet can becomes cryptic for your future self. I think this is a must for any course.
- I lately also creates personal wikis to hold my knowledge. Basically Wikipedia is a very successful medium even for stuffs you know, you can look it up there to retain your old stuffs. Personal wiki is basically try to recreate the Wikipedia experience tailored for personal use, meaning only for relevant stuffs (say san history), or even links to various useful sections and other site such as math world. One tip is that in Chrome there’s an extension to force MathJax on Wikipedia, and with that you can click on a Math equation and copy and paste LaTeX in your personal wiki. (As it is personal, there’s no copyright issue, but if you share make sure the license is compatible and cite.)
- 2nd brain: the last point about personal wiki may be similar to what some might call a 2nd brain. I still didn’t attain it (my “database” is fragmented in various places.) But I should learn more about that and may be one day I can build one.

What I said is more about being able to retain knowledge in the long run. Eg the real world doesn’t care if you make a search to find stuffs. So what I said is more about how not to let what you learnt be wasted because you can’t retrieve them.

Lastly, I find teaching very useful too. Being about to teach makes sure you truly understand a subject, and even reorganize it in a manner that’s easier to understand. But often you can’t control what you teach. You can’t say today I want to master Stochastic Differential Equation and let’s teach a course about that. But on the other hand, try to spend some time teaching some concept you find hard to grasp can be useful (audience and feedback like questions can provoke your mind to finally click.)
They plan to both manufacture and resell.

>15% markup plus pharmacy fee plus shipping and handling.

This is the intent, and still cuts out at least 2 middle men between consumers and manufacturers: the insurance company and pharmacy benefit managers.
The older generation was also "irrationally" afraid of pandemics. Turns out- they were right.
wulvs are no threat in the summer when they can easy migrate onwards into deer rich territory.

Story changes, when all the easily hunted deer is gone and a harsh winter comes. Once the hunt success without retaliation is there - it all goes south fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks
Not to take away from Tibia, which I've never heard of, but I was playing Marches of Antan on the UCSD system via Telnet back in the early 90's. So longest running might be a stretch.
Indeed. To stretch that analogy a bit further, spoons can be seen as a new technology which pushes the cost-benefit curve out. As with all new technologies, adoption can be gradual. For a time, lots of people will continue to eat soup with forks, until soup browsers begin shipping with spoons by default.
It is quite elaborate, well-planned and a lot of time has surely been invested, so the very underwhelming results must be devastatingly demoralizing -- which I think is probably the best outcome of any scam.
Probably because you are rich, but 99% of humanity aren’t.
Fun fact about that embassy: it has on its grounds a monument dedicated to the brave American pilots who died on Bulgarian soil during WW2. What it neglects to mention is that those pilots died from Bulgarian anti-air defences ( including a heroic ramming in one case) because they were bombing targets, more often than not civilian ( as in cities, and the parts where people live), in Bulgaria.

If it were up to me the US ambassador would be expelled until that abomination honouring war criminals against Bulgarian civilians was taken down, but i see why nobody serious can afford to take action, the power disbalance is too big.
Is always used as a deprecating term in this case. And insulting the same people that are taxed so the farmers can be heavily subsidized, is very unfair.
HeidiSQL possibly?
I'm not from the USA ... could someone explain what a "Pharmacy Benefits Manager" does and who they work for ?
Seconded for Hasura - really great tool that's make it easy to setup an API on your database. Also makes it easy to manage your data models and permissions. You can use it to build REST API endpoints as well as GraphQL ones.
Impoverished Afghan women are receiving emergency aid in crypto
I was indeed. They did unban after an email. I had seen mention of it before, and contemplated emailing them to ask, but hadn't done it to this point. Thank you for your comment. I could indeed see why they originally did. Apparently they try to monitor for cases such as mine, but mine had slipped by.
Physical hardware disconnect for mic and camera is badly needed. I've a square of duct tape I stick over the camera of a 2.5k laptop. Madness.
People were sending robots to Mars long before Musk blew up his first rocket.
He probably witnessed a hacking. Someone gained access to the account and died several times with the character. Very common back in the days.
This is just lazy, though. YC could hire a couple of well paid people to seek out innovators, via social media (Reddit, YouTube) and attempt to balance the scales.

Throwing up one's hands and saying "welp, demographics/statistics/climate change/demon fairies are at play, here, so I guess we'll do nothing" is certainly capitalist, but it's not very good.
My mom was an OB/GYN nurse for several decades. She worked in Active Labor for many years with a nurse named Alice Stork.

This Stork did indeed deliver thousands of babies.
This was my understanding of why it's the way it is in NZ. NZ's hospital system was pretty full before covid, and from my understanding, wouldn't take much to get overwhelmed with covid cases.

On the flip side, there are so few unvaccinated now, that I don't know how big of an effect the measures have with regards to unvaccinated restrictions.

Having said that, personally I've not had any issues with the current restrictions, they don't impact what I would usually do. But I'm probably the exception, not the rule when it comes to unvaxed people.
I'm of mostly of the opinion, the restrictions are of a net positive for us, if you're not vaxxed I would avoid gatherings, especially indoors. Seems kinda reckless if you're going to parties etc while unvaxxed.

*not vaccinated, mostly because I don't socialise much so don't see the need, not until I want to fly. I see it as, the longer I can wait, the more we'll know about the vaccine, and hopefully there will be better (more effective) options.
> Most of the "step therapy" programs exist to gate the non-generic medications, so you wouldn't be finding them at Mark Cuban's pharmacy anyway.

I had to go through PA for 2 generic drugs that cost ~10-15 each a month from Costco (according to GoodRX). Cost Plus is actually a bit more expensive with shipping. If its $5 shipping total and not per drug its a small saving but wouldn't count towards my deductible. Was a huge hassle. I'm pretty sure if you were to take the time*wage my pharmacist, my doctor and myself spent on getting it done it would have paid for the prescriptions for at least a decade.

Oh and I'm on a high deductible plan so it will probably never cost them anything because I probably won't hit my coinsurance/out of pocket max.
I took a very quick look at the code, and here's what I gleaned. It says that the CPU frequency must be more than 4 MHz. And it looks like it's coded to run on machines with different clock rates. All in all it seems like a pretty good sign that the code is not locked to a specific CPU.

Next thing you can do is to choose an esp8266 target within the Arduino environment and see if it compiles.

Those two things would be enough to satisfy me that it's worth actually giving it a whirl. More expensive hardware would demand more extensive research.
that's impossible with the government actively thwarting any such efforts. The self promoting and vastly overfunded security apparatus' of various countries will justify their actions and budgets with "counter-terrorism". Before that it was "communism". The uk government spent vast sums on CCTV. Obviously, they turned out to be useless without adequate funding for actual police.
Your arguments are mostly usability. However, there are already many services that gives you additional utility such as insurance, backups etc.

Crypto already has replaced money in several countries, especially third world countries where it has replaced money for 30% of the population that have protected their funds against inflation thanks to the inherent scarcity of respective cryptos.
tldr: roam's defining feature, bi-directional links, sound great in theory but break down in practice. if you rely on them as your primary means of finding notes, it quickly breaks down because there's no canonical starting point (by design)

Thought this was a great write-up of the missing link with roam and tools like it. They make it incredibly easy to add notes but after a while, make it incredibly difficult to find those notes again when needed

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of https://dendron.so/, a YC backed PKM tool focused on hierarchies and structured note-taking

Wrote a tweet thread about my takeaways from the article here: https://twitter.com/kevins8/status/1493020520815546368?s=20&...
I woke up this week to dozens of comments on a video from a speaker at SaaS Connect 2017 (previously known as The Small Business Web Summit) to learn she was arrested and charged by the DOJ this week for laundering $4.5 billion in crypto. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-arrested-alleged-conspira...

Billion!

Since this is an allegation, we must presume innocence. However I still cannot imagine what planet would entrust 10 figures to her control. Witness her rap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jlSHGAem6g

But I also realize reading this Twitter thread I do not understand the world of crypto at all.
Fables are fictional works designed with an intention of changing social behavior.

And you also have fictional books with political/social agendas like 1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Atlas Shrugged, etc. that are often quoted during real-world debates. So literature has at least permeated the consciousness enough to be considered a reliable argument for some thinkers.
Yes, but if a euphemism causes people to stay at the site and do some financial planning, what's the harm?

Ideally one would specify a probability distribution of death times.
As far as I remember logging out required the players to wait for a timer to run down.

This was in place to prevent players from just logging out to flee from fights/escape dying.

But it also meant if the client lost connection, without the player going trough the log-out procedure, their character would still be present on the server and in-game world, often for several minutes.

Made it quite tense when losing connection during a difficult fight, you never knew if you logged back in to a won fight, or logged back in respawned at the temple with all your stuff gone, as your character lost the fight while you were disconnected.

And because very early on there was only one place where every dead characters would respawn, the temple, organized groups could target somebody for repeated killing even while they were disconnected, they just had to be fast about it before the character timed out.
People inevitably develop unreasonable fantasies of what life could be in a field / relationship / situation far from their own. I feel you're being a bit unnecessarily cynical about how bad this kind of daydreaming is.

Yes, if you were an actual plumber who spent half a day tugging diapers out of a 2 inch pipe, and some dumbass hipster you run into later tells you how glamorous your job is, that might be a bit annoying. But people in all sorts of fields experience that annoyance to some degree.

Anecdotally, I have two friends I went to college with who daydreamed about quitting their desk jobs and working a trade. One of them, I worked with on construction crews during school breaks, and he'd talk about how much he preferred that to college. He ended up in an office job anyway.

The other guy didn't have that trade experience, he just felt he'd like it better. He did some white collar work after graduation, hated it. Later he went on to work in a couple trades until finding one that fit; he went through a very extensive licensing process, and now makes good money and spends very little time behind a desk. And he's very happy with that -- so it does work out for some people.
As much as I think Monopoly law needs to be expanded, there is no definition of anti trust law, that would apply to YC.

Anti trust law, requires pretty significant market power. And even in places like the EU, "significant" means at least above something like 20-30% of a market.

And there is no way that YC has anywhere close to that, in basically any market.
Not sure what you’re trying to say. Reddit would rightfully say things like that Dan’s other stuff you may have pitched here don’t earn much. Some would give numbers and so on.

Meanwhile here a few people pitched really awful earning and not worth it beer money suggestions without details and so on.

The indictment now is on HN being a bad place for this sort of info. Also for any sliver of transparency and real honesty. If something will make ya $10 a month for example. Say that. And so on.

I know it is getting bad when I think too highly of my own in groups and dismiss others
There were already many companies doing this.