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Mark Cuban's program is amazing and revolutionary. I'd love to see more transparency about the manufacturers involved. Katherine Eban's 2019 book Bottle of Lies showed that many major non-US generic drug manufacturers are not subject to rigorous testing or inspection, and several conspired to produce ineffective or dangerous medications.

I also learned from that book that generic drugs are not produced by the same process as the brand-name drugs. I thought it was basically an open-sourcing of the drug and it's not that at all. They use the same ingredients, but the generic manufacturers need to reverse-engineer the proprietary manufacturing processes of the big brands, because important details are often deliberately omitted from the patents.
Interesting, I have stood next to a World Cup winning downhiller begging his mechanic to increase tension in his wheels beyond where the mechanic was happy so his wheels would survive longer. He thought this 'compliance' stuff was bs, and he liked that I agreed with him (hence the conversation). This was a couple of years ago mind, but I would be suprised if it had really changed.
Well, yes and no. They are clearly all-in on crypto (and who wouldn't be, if I made 100 million on tulip bulbs I'd probably be all-in on tulips, too) but they do state in the featured thread that they "aren't really an NFT guy".

Certainly not a great look to have >$100 million in an asset sitting in a single account of any form, though.
> CA is probably more important by itself than all of Europe.

I recall reading (years ago) that "If California were an independent country, it would be the sixth-largest in the world"... Which would still (at least at the time) put it behind Germany. So, faaar from "more important by itself than all of Europe".

> Even PA or GA are heavy hitters that would smoke most similarly sized EU countries.

Given how wrong you are about California above, I very much doubt this one.
That has some obvious downsides. It probably doesn't matter for you personally but being able to take someone's domain away for political reasons isn't ideal.
It was certainly a document, but was it literature? I don't think there was any attempt at art. It was just an airing of grievances.
You could try Nystrom's "Crafting Interpreters" as an introduction but really you're asking about a topic that is usually covered in the final year of college because it has so much pre-requisite knowledge. You do need to know machine language for at least one processor architecture since that's the ultimate output that source code is being converted to. You also need to be pretty adept at data structures (often derided as useless knowledge by the HN pundits) because you're chopping up that source code into a structure amenable to conversion into machine code. (Ideally, you'd also want to know processor and machine architecture at a fairly detailed level because you can't really reason about performance without knowing the mechanisms by which machine language is actually processed and their constraints.) Only then are you at the point where it makes sense to talk about how the internals of a compiler is implemented.
I’ve seen people say what you’ve said for almost 10 years now. I wonder when the crypto beanie baby fad is going to die down. Maybe 100 years later?
> Writing a Lisp compiler in Lisp isn't much different than writing an interpreter

Writing a lisp compiler in lisp is a very different task from writing an interpreter. Especially if one expects to bootstrap.
Anything you get from Google play store is wrapped with Google's trackers. This ensures that Google knows what you are using at a minimum. Then the promiscuous Google Play Services provides even greater visibility as it processes all your notifications. You can check the trackers here. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

Apple's store and OS is more opaque. Others may be better able to explain their mechanisms.

A small minority of us don't have Google Play Services on our phones and get all apps from F-droid. So he is not referring to us.

As a developer and system administrator I would have added to this piece how costly it is to actually delete data. It is usually far cheaper to store everything even well after it has legitimate use because developing archiving routines and strategies that don't break other things is work that few IT organizations bother with among all their other priorities.
> I’d pay $5 not to drive.

Many normal pharmacies also have mail-order options. My neighborhood pharmacy includes free shipping, whereas Mark Cuban charges an extra $5.

I'm baffled that so many people are consuming Mark Cuban's marketing/PR without questioning if it's really the cheapest option. It's like everyone read the press releases and just decided it sounds correct.
I’m from the UK

> Except nobody should actually be paying $22.80 for generic Prozac. You can drive to any local Walmart and get it for $4 and they will bill your insurance, which will count toward your deductible.

FWIW I thought this meant that it was $4 because of “your insurance” or “deductible” but I think you meant it’s $4 for people that aren’t insured? And people that are insured get it for free?
I thought it sounded really good!
The “possible” words are added to the “answer” words to get the full list of guessable words, which is still around 12k just like it always was.
So, don't go to school?
Being reasonable is often not effective. It’s like asking workers to communicate in a way that works for the capitalists’ police, as they get shot. Most Americans will choose fascism anyway, the only point is to get the rest to see it. Aggression is far more effective at that.

It’s not surprising you’d side with the empire, your material interests align with it. Y combinator is after all part of the export of capital at usury rates. It’s ok, when our turn comes we will make no excuses either.
> Players could lose levels from dying

Not only can characters lose levels, if they die enough times they end up back in Rookgaard at level 1 with all skills and spells permanently reset. I once witnessed the so called "rooking" of a level 100 character... They threw the items in the river too. Imagine logging into the game and picking your level 100 character only to see it spawn in Rookgaard completely reset.
Fungal sugars boost vaccine protection
> Inevitably someone will take control and raise prices to match the rest of the industry

I don't know that this level of fatalism is appropriate, and if it sets the new level for the rest of the industry at a lower rate that would be good!

A co-op can do what you are describing, seems like someone should send Mr. Cuban a cold email asking him to re-incorporate his venture as a co-op!
Decentralization increasingly untrue? Ethereum consensus and execution layer nodes are at about 6k, under Bitcoin, and way above other projects.
Not to be confused with the similar-sounding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryx.
More or less about the time the printing press came up, and books - and advertising - started getting cheap?

What a coincidence.
That’s why they formed as a public benefit corporation, it makes it more difficult to pivot towards pure profit seeking.
They are single header for a single reason: Dead easy to distribute.

> You can have perfectly readable code in a single file that is 1000s loc.

You can if you are dealing with a single concept. JSON parsing is not a single concept. You can easily split that up into more understandable modules. In fact I would wager that any JSON library that has not modularised serialization, deserialization and object building/modification into modules is not doing a good job.

It's not like more c files cost anything. It's not comparable to header-only libs since they will compile to an object file anyway.
Yeah, Julia can only take metaprogramming so far given its non-S-expr syntax - which is the right tradeoff given its domain. Its macros have to be given at least vaguely Julia-like syntax - `*` still needs to be a binary operator, `if`s need `end`s, etc. That's great for nice little DSLs appropriate for the scientific domain, but not quite enough for a "platform for programming languages". (It also has "string macros", which can accept anything at all, but basically give you a lump of string at compile time, and leave the tokenization, parsing, and any further manipulation up to your macro.)
> FWIW I thought this meant that it was $4 because of “your insurance” or “deductible” but I think you meant it’s $4 for people that aren’t insured? And people that are insured get it for free?

No, it's $4 retail at Walmart. $10 for a 3-month supply.

People with insurance might also pay the $4 if they haven't reached their insurance deductible (same concept as car/home insurance deductible).

Insured people still pay some co-insurance, up until their out-of-pocket maximum.
The amazing thing is that he's telling everyone exactly what he's doing. He wants to extract 15% as a middleman in an industry that transacts 100+ billion a year. All for running a simple website and taking on a tiny bit of transaction risk. And people think it's a charity instead of business worth billions.
> the DAO did give community members power over Millegan’s ability to shape the future of ENS..

How is that different from having stock holders?

You can also find cooperatives in the real world where customers are members with voting rights.
Sensible rewilding schemes include compensation. I am not trying to minimise how hard this is, but there's an economic solution. Also, wild dogs probably cause as much damage as wolves do.

Urbanites was a bit un-called for.
If the end customer gets the money then it's not a kickback.

If a middleman gets the money it's probably a kickback.
Counter-point: there is currently another submission on HN suggesting that crypto "off-ramps" are really problematic and difficult at the moment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30322296
No. A work must meet the criterion of "originality" to be copyrightable:

"Creative work must meet a basic level of originality to be considered the product of an author. Direct copies of someone else’s work can’t be copyrighted, and neither can facts, short phrases, titles, etc. For example, the names and addresses in a phonebook can’t be copyrighted but the photo on its front cover most certainly can."

https://www.newmediarights.org/business_models/artist/ii_wha...

Also, even if you could copyright your password, copyright protects against unauthorized distribution. If Google is merely storing your password, it's not distributing it.

(A single word or phrase, e.g., "Google", can be trademarked, but that specifically involves its use in commerce to identify a brand. But it can't be copyrighted.)
The interesting part is that it actually [has/had] built in introductory courses for certain things (like basic marksmanship or first aid) that you needed to play through to unlock particular character classes.

Actually an interesting idea!
Ego and the belief it could be used against them in campaigns this year will keep most politicians from allowing a change in public health policy due to the results in the paper. "We need more studies" likely will be how they proceed though there's a chance they'll simply try to discredit the authors and discourage anyone else from finding similar results.
> Mark Cuban's pharmacy, however, refuses to deal with your insurance

I don't see a problem with this. Some insurance plans are can be hard to deal with. My personal experiences involve requiring step therapy (trying a cheaper, possibly less effective drug) before approving the prescription. Another experience is that a drug may only be covered for one condition but not for another (e.g. finasteride for hair loss vs finasteride for enlarged prostate).

If Cuban wants to avoid the headache of dealing with formulary lists, I don't blame him. Obviously consumers should compare prices whenever possible, but if the difference is only a few dollars I'd probably rather pay Cuban directly than deal with the Walmart retail experience.
+1 for Arctype - I'm a happy user :)
Fun fact: Some people think the aurochs is the animal mistranslated as "unicorn" a few times in the King James Bible. Most newer translations just say "wild oxen" instead.
Legal threat is a temper tantrum in this case. They are sparring pointlessly.
It does specifically mention armed helicopters, several times:

"The MEDEVAC leadership refuses to remove the red crosses and arm their helicopters even though doing so would allow faster responses to some requests for evacuation of wounded troops."

"AMEDD is pursuing a public relations campaign to stop the movement to arm the MEDEVAC helicopters as reported by this email to Michael Yon site in early February 2012"
DOSBox. Though technically an emulator. Most people that want an easy way to run old DOS apps are probably better served with DOSBox anyway.
I have to admit that my stress relieving method is pretty much ad hoc. I take the wheel off the stand a couple times and press the axle against the floor. I grab the spokes and squeeze. I pluck the spokes and listen.

Usually I put the wheel back on the stand after a week or two of riding. A really good builder shouldn't need to do this, but part of this whole exercise is to evaluate and improve my skills as I build more wheels. And I'm not building racing wheels, but trying to do the best possible job is part of the learning process.
My brother did the same. Unfortunately the letter F came early and with it "format.exe" unfortunately the explanation in his book wasn't clear ... and there was no backup of many things.
The problem is that although the inactivated vaccine provides good protection against severe polio it doesn't seem to work too well at stopping people from spreading the virus, which is not ideal for an elimination program. Presumably this was less of an issue in the developed world because polio spreads mostly through the oral-fecal route and there were already a lot of hygene and infrastructure improvements in developed countries aimed at stopping diseases from spreading that way.
1. Maybe. It's not so great if you publish something confidential.

2. No one is responsible for anything, you'll never get any support, and one day the decentralized consensus might be to abandon the whole system.

3. It takes 16 seconds for a transaction to post and the average transaction fee [a] is over $2. Cross-country money transfers (assuming you mean international) benefit money launderers and criminals a lot more than me.

4. I never understand this sentiment. Thousands of tokens have been invented to create hundreds of billions of dollars. If the federal reserve told everyone they could print their own fiat and have it accepted at the bank, what do you think would happen? Inflation, right? Think of it another way. If the liquidity for the market is fixed in the sense of the amount of fiat people are willing to bring in, then every token mined or minted is diluting the value of anything you're holding.

5. This is at the risk of losing your keys and your life savings. No thanks. Also, banks act as a backstop for a lot of things people don't even think about. They won't let you wire your life savings to Nigeria without trying to make sure you won't get scammed. The indemnify you from the risk of fraud if you're using a credit card. Money you give them is backed by FDIC (or similar) insurance, so if the bank fails your money is still there.

6. Like?

7. Yeah. I'm sure the super elite that control almost all of the money and assets on the planet are going to sit by and watch as the crypto community anoints themselves as the new rulers of the wealth.

And what happens in this utopia where everything can be anonymous and governments have lost control of the money supply? Does everyone stop paying taxes? Who funds the schools, hospitals, and all other infrastructure? Do you think the rich are going to suddenly become charitable and start funding everything? They already contribute as little as possible, so it's difficult to imagine a world where they'd contribute $1 if they aren't forced to do it?

> The fact that people still don’t get that in 2022 is astonishing.

We don't get it because it doesn't make sense. It might make perfect sense for those of you that mined millions of (on paper) dollars of crypto currency, but it's not a good deal for anyone else. It's objectively worse in terms of stability and predictability and the best outcome for us is to get a different set of wealthy elite that control everything.

a. https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_...
For apps I've built in the past, I've found the hardest thing was having to pay monthly hosting costs for years (which is pretty much a necessity if you use a cloud SQL database that things like Rails and Django rely on heavily).

Even $10 a month becomes annoying after 5 years.

I built this: https://forever-free-cloud-app-starter.chriszhu.me/ as a way to build a basic CRUD app that would be free to host forever.
I also used to think only idiots rejected generics. Then the Ranbaxy scandal happened.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/the-scary-truth-behin...
There is a smart contract that supports features like domain name resolution and transfers. The data and code needed to resolve the domain to your IP would live on the blockchain, so effectively every node in the network is hosting it. The smart contract could be totally immutable; nobody would have special permissions.

The resolution would work by executing some "lookup" smart contract function on a node (you could run your own local node for lookups, or use a public node similar to hitting your ISP's or Google's DNS server).

None of this is really cutting edge, it has been possible for a long time now.
I’ve never had any of my submissions approved, so I don’t bother attempting to submit anything any more.
oof, I remember when he made that tweet a few days ago and saw the twitter mob start to flare up. I'm conflicted,

1. Yea the guys said some really fucked up things its hard for me to feel sorry for him losing his job over it.

2. I don't like the precedent it sets as the overton window is swinging all over the place
TLS has session resumption with exactly the same issues, it is just more efficient in QUIC.
This is completely anecdotal, but something interesting happened to me recently. My trainer, who is unvaccinated, got really sick one week. Lots of throwing up, high fever, headaches, just feeling awful in general. He tested negative for COVID multiple times.

After his sickness went away, we worked out together (I'm vaccinated and boosted). Two days later, he calls me to tell me he tested positive for COVID but barely feels anything, just has a slight cough. He tested positive for a week and half afterwards.

I didn't get sick whatsoever. I mean, maybe one day I had a little bit of nasal congestion, but it could have just been the cold weather or any number of things. My wife also did not get sick (but she's vaccinated as well).

I think it's too early to write off that vaccines don't prevent transmissibility or even getting the virus. The immunization effects of these vaccines are so unknown to us given that they're so new. This whole COVID-19 situation is so damn weird, and that's why a lot of people are admittedly very skeptical of everything.
There're a fair number of Africans who laugh at how Europeans react to lions. Lions pose the same problems to Africans that wolves do to Europeans: they mainly take livestock and only rarely human life. In large part, any harm to humans caused by a lion is economic or secondary (e.g., starvation). In fact, lions know that if they eat a human, the human's tribe will hunt them down and retaliate (must've made for a very interesting day in Simba's circle-of-life training!), so only a sick or injured lion with few other choices for meat will attempt to eat a human.

Now the hippopotamus... that is an animal widely feared in Africa. They may look fat and silly and eat plants, but they give no fucks, and will charge and trample you without a second thought.
If you don't want a stupid tweet to get you kicked out of a decentralized organization, then don't setup the rules to enable that.

Effectively, this shows that decentralized governance might actually work. It also shows the danger of codifying rules. If you do it wrong you can footgun yourself, and it'll take a lot more work to develop good blueprints for DAO governance so unfortunate things don't happen so much.

I'm not so interested in the outcome, since they all joined the DAO and agreed to the rules. It was fair, according to their own rules. What's more: it was efficient and effective.

The author asks "did this even need web3?" and that's what's so interesting about it. Of course, Twitter can't fire a bad CEO (or a politician). You can yell and boycott all you want, but it's up to the owners of the company as to what happens to said bad actor. Now, with web3, you can collectively use a vending machine of encoded rules and literally remove them. No pleas to the authorities, just direct action. Put a coin in, and the machine starts doing something.

This has a whole lot of implications, both good and bad. It's really up to the developer community to figure out the best way to navigate this, because it seems most other people are busy shitting on crypto or trading shitcoins and useless NFTs to notice that a new overlord is hatching.
> In an age where most lawyers and judges, like everyone, mindlessly click-through "agreements" and shrink-wrap EULAs ..

That's an interesting problem. I'm a little disappointed that the route we've gone is having courts decide that this or that bit of EULA isn't binding, but people are still expected to read them and be somehow bound by them. It's kind of difficult for the common man to find out which parts of an EULA are or can be legally binding, so why should they ever be read?

For a while now I've been thinking that EULAs should also be made simple and clear and understandable, kinda like they're forced companies to do now with consent dialogs. No walls of text, no small print, no legalese, and definitely no tons of obviously unenforceable but chilling terms (that the poor reader might think are enforceable).

It does not feel right that people are "agreeing" to something they didn't read anyway (and which if they did, most people wouldn't really understand anyway), and they can only find out what their rights are after the fact.. so maybe we should just say that such agreements are not okay, stop it. It should be easy to understand exactly what you are agreeing to (or possibly we could just have the terms in law and stop this silly game altogether).
No, that's more like four languages: Typescript, CSS, HTML and the JavaScript the TS gets compiled down to. You can't just write TS once, and never touch it again, because you are now targeting a webbrowser and running a webserver, and are probably using a billion NPM packages. None of those are 'static' for a year, let a long a 'long time'.
The link provides the full text. It's just a commentary essay, not a paper. The Lancet provides covid-related content for free. For example, I clicked the first link and got the full text of that particular reference at https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473-3099...
Individuals have far more freedom then ever, but at the same time their actions are increasingly becoming more recorded. The reality where every facet of a persons life becomes known to government is almost completely upon us. It will soon become impossible to commit the smallest of crimes without law enforcement being notified. The data is almost complete, all that's standing in the way is existing privacy laws and the inherent difficulty of compiling the data. Flimsy barriers to dystopia.
Blockchains are just tools. We should focus use cases to choose different types of blockchains. Layer1, Layer 2, sidechains, private chains can be combined together to solve the problem.