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> it's like when the UK announced Brexit.

The UK didn’t get kicked out of the global financial system. The comparison is like comparing a shooting star with an asteroid impact.
I remember it well. We sold it at the Mac Emporium in New York City when I worked there in 1990.

It was cheaper and easier-to-use than the gold standard, Quark. If I remember correctly it sold for $495 to Quark's nosebleed, "Pro"-only price of $800.

Being into the Mac in those days usually meant being into Desktop Publishing, to some degree at least. A printer was an essential peripheral, and having a copy of Pagemaker or Quark (they came on several 3.5" "floppies", which weren't floppy at all) marked you as a serious kind of guy!
> give every kid $15k/year and be done with it

I like the idea in principle, but one challenge I haven't seen addressed is that the cost of educating a student is not uniform. Students on either end of the bell curve with special needs, unstable home situations, no/broken English, exceptional intelligence, ADHD, behavioral issues, etc cost more than average.

Therefore, similar to health insurance, every organization is incentivized to attract cheaper-than-average students/patients and expel or discourage the expensive ones. You typically end up with the most expensive participants dumped onto the public schools/plans which results in a death spiral.

In my experience, most people love this kind of libertarian approach right up until the moment they find out they're going to be one of the expensive ones, at which point they discover a newfound appreciation for public services.
The best way for Russia to recover is to leave Ukraine, then all sanctions will be lifted.
Oh I see, you're just being churlish.
I think there'll be a massive increase in energy prices due to the sanctions against Russia, which will make proof of work crypto unfeasible, so I don't think crypto will have a large enough marketcap to be a viable way for Russia to circumvent the economical sanctions
> United States which has over 800 military bases spread across dozens of countries all around the world, is literally occupying multiple countries with tens of thousands of troops right now including Japan, Germany and Australia

Having soldiers and military bases in foreign countries isn't occupation when their governments invited you.
Germany was planning on going ahead with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline before this affair started and has cancelled the project with legitimate misgivings. It gets a significant part of its energy needs from Russia and right now has no real substitute.

This has proven to reveal miscalculation on both sides. Germany thought interlinking its economy with Russia would cause Russia to behave. And Putin likely assumed that when push came to shove, Germany's energy reliance would prevent them from taking a stand against the invasion.
Sadly Russians need to be forced to get rid of their dictator. The only way to do it is if Putin stops getting more money from outside, and it will be extremely painful at this point.
Where do you buy the rubles from, all forex brokers announced that they are suspending ruble trading for the moment.
The comment that started this whole thing said "Meetings and collaboration to figure out what to build, discuss issues etc". I think that covers both categories of good and bad types of collaboration you describe here.
> Being in the west and taking your culture from Judeo-Christian / Greek philosophy

The term “west” is needlessly ambiguous. Ukraine sought to join the West, as in the league of countries with functioning democracies, strong militaries, growing economies and freedom for their citizens. In attacking Kiev, a modern European capital that does not want to be invaded and repressed, Putin attacks people striving for something valued and fought for in Warsaw, London, Toronto, Taipei, Canberra and Istanbul.
If we’re going to be taking tax dollars anyway to pay for education, I honestly don’t care what type of school they go to as long as the family gets to make that choice. My bet is it probably would be a funnel for religious schools initially and controversially, but it would also open up opportunities for secular private schools to enter the market down the line.
From the article: "He said that Pluton will also prevent people from running software that has been modified without the permission of developers."
It's not a detail. It's a more complete picture. Both of your comments are different slices of the same pie.

I don't see anything written above that pertains specifically to any type of FET.

Your last paragraph is a new topic. It's true that Si can be as efficient as SiC and GaN, despite what the marketing usually says. But there are other benefits to new materials. They already support higher voltages with planar technology, and 3D will increase that further. Gate driving will get easier and more rugged.
Nobody is going to buying their oil, or anything else, for quite some time, and sanctions should be locking up a lot of their toys. Hopefully governments are good at tracking where all of their foreign wealth is hiding.
Can't be 100% certain, but GP is probably referring to Germany's reliance on Russian natural gas. They get at least half of their natural gas from Russia. Due to this, Germany was dragging their feet on taking action, hence the reluctance. However, they snapped out of this once things really kicked off[0].

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-scholz-halt...
The movement was already strong before Chernobyl, and I don't know exactly why it was so much stronger in Germany than elsewhere (and couldn't find a clear explanation on Wikipedia either).

Then Chernobyl happened. Germany was, and is to this day, directly affected by the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl. (Many of the boar hunted in Germany are considered unsafe to eat due to high radiation levels).

People remember when they were wondering if they should abort their pregnancies because they weren't sure if they'd give birth to a child with three arms, or too afraid to drink the milk, etc. - most of these fears turned out to be unfounded, but that doesn't mean that people weren't affected by them and remember them deeply.

The Green movement had also built its entire identity around it, making it hard to go back on it.

Fukushima sealed the deal because nuclear power was advertised as safe, not "well it explodes sometimes but the actual damage is less than from coal", any thus the safety claims lost all credibility.
Most public sector workers have benefits, pensions, paid time off and a variety of other means of compensation aside from their salaries - unlike many private sector workers. All of them have the opportunity to vote for the politicians who come up with the policies that govern their public sector jobs. They are also free to form their own associations, coalitions and lobbying groups to further influence whoever they want in their capacity as private citizens. But when it comes to collective bargaining and other, specific legislated rights we have legally granted unions, it is a bridge too far.
Canada, US, UK, and more are blocking their ability to withdrawal foreign reserves.
There's actually an agency whose job is to do that, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency). And yes, they have been coordinating with all the US large corporations (and banks) lately.

https://www.cisa.gov/news/2022/02/26/cisa-and-fbi-publish-ad...
Might be a bit difficult to judge from that given that they've ordered banks to not allow foreigners to sell:

https://www.reuters.com/business/russian-cbank-orders-block-...
How many of those have voted for Putin?
The notion that somebody could simply "memorize algorithms" and then apply that information on-the-fly to questions they won't know in advance -- demonstrating adaptiveness, creativity, and the application of general problem-solving knowledge to novel problems -- and that this doesn't measure intelligence is not credible.

I'd bet my net worth that the ability to perform well on these interviews positively correlates with IQ.
That doesn't really work that well in a strong dictatorship.
Good luck actually executing that trade
The time require by devs for non coding work is inversely proportional to how relatable the domain is and how specific the problem is. Tell me to build a clone of twitter and I can make a lot of autonomous decisions. Tell me to be an ERP and I'll be spending most of my time not coding. Most of software development are in domains that most people don't intuitively understand.
What percentage of people study leetcode and can't provide coding sample vs can provide coding sample / have something on github / etc
Treat Security as a Risk
Large chunk of those reserves is now frozen. They can’t do much about it.
Office365 Online is to compete against GDocs which GDocs has an incredible feature set for light/basic users.

But, cloud Office is absolutely abysmal if you get away from the core line features or need to do anything semi-difficult.

Online Word fails to faithfully reproduce complex layouts. Dealing with asian languages results in weird font inconsistencies as well as layout errors.

Online Excel also fails in non-ASCII text. Complex Excel books that are already slow are even slower online. Of course, you can't access local resources if any book reaches outwards like that.
I never said that.

In fact, I think that ordinary Russians are absolutely complicit. Even last year Putin was still enormously popular with Russians.

I was just pointing out that the Ruble falling doesn’t hurt the elites one bit, nor does it stop the Russian war machine.
What is your success rate?
Russian economy (applies to Eastern European in general) is generally cash-heavier than Western world. Having been burned by inflation before, Russians are skeptical of ruble as a life-savings mechanism, and diversify into gold or hard foreign currency, which is the reason you see those currency-exchange kiosks with neon signs well beyond areas frequented by foreign tourists.
Yes but if you have 2 part time devs, that requires 2 people spending time. The discussion here isn't meetings vs doc, it's full time vs part time.
If Russia's foreign reserves are stored in foreign banks, access to those reserves can also be limited via sanctions
Agreed. The division of Oracle I worked at had revenue that was close to impossible to predict and they ended up making huge cuts to revenue just to convert it from usage based to monthly recurring. At the time they also did not know if the division was profitable or not because it was so difficult to track usage based revenue. Spoiler alert, they were gushing losses and had lay offs/reorgs for a long time.
(2020)

Original discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24845878
It's simpler then that: you currently can't trade things in and out of Russia, and can't turn rubles into other currencies: who outside of Russia wants to trade Bitcoin for Rubles?
> why go through all the trouble of setting this up instead of just using AWS

1. Have you ever hosted something on AWS, for public consumption by parties not under your control, where you, personally were footing the bill?

2. Have you ever hosted something on AWS where a misconfiguration on your side and/or upset/impatient customer caused a bill so large that you had to shut the company down?

AWS will scale to fill your bank balance, irregardless of whether you can afford to pay for that scale. AWS is great for elasticity when you can afford to pay.

AWS has no functional bill limits, even after 10 years. For those who post a link to the AWS bill limits havn't actually handled any meaningful scale, at which point a set of dedicated servers is great value.
Completely made-up tax numbers aside, such strong opinions about the disposable income of strangers and what they should do with it! Sorry, I'm passing on this offer. Don't call back. Thanks.
For baking, yes, many recipes can be converted to use powdered milk.

For non-baking used it can be trickier, I believe. The powdered milk doesn't always act the same.
> If you are on covid-time, your instinct is to delay, seek consensus from a billion parties, and basically act very slowly to adopt to the realities of the pandemic.

A billion parties, huh?

I sought out three on a covid-related matter. Am I one of the bold heroes in your dichotomy, or does "covid-time" really squelch nine orders of magnitude down to "true?"
Another of the "you will own nothing, and be happy" predictions? Let's hope they don't come true (or at the least, fight against it as much as you can)...
They have 20% of reserves in gold. Gold can easily be used as collateral to get dollars.
if anyone is looking to get rid of their rubles, I have a few nfts that I'm willing to exchange for them
But you're not paying taxes to send your children to school. You're paying taxes so we, as a society, can educate our children. The way we do that is public schools. The money you pay for school taxes is in no way tied to your children, or even whether or not you have children. People who don't have children also pay taxes because, as noted, we're funding for society to educate all children.

I am 100% against the idea of parents being able to redirect the money they pay in school taxes to private schools. There are a number of things that should be communally paid for, with everyone contributing whether they need it right now or not; education is one of those things in my opinion. Police, Fire Departments, etc are also in that category; you _can_ have them be individually contracted, but it's a bad idea.
Maybe not. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/how-russia...

> Not so fast, argues Bernstam. What does it mean that Russia “has” X or Y in foreign reserves? Where do these reserves exist? The dollars, euros, and pounds owned by the Russian central bank—Russia may own them, but Russia does not control them. Almost all those hundreds of billions of Russian-owned assets are controlled by foreign central banks. Russia’s reserves exist as notations in the records of central banks in the West, especially the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve. Most of Russia’s reserves are literally IOUs to the Russian central bank from Western governments.
Heavily depends on the nature of the work in question and size of team. Larger the team, and more foreign the domain the more time is needed to coordinate work.
Point of no return has passed. Things like this will affect not just 0.001% of the population (as the idea of blocking Github), it will affect everyone in Russia. And this will finally make them fight against the regime.
Seems like a mismatch to equate an individual period of time (development) to a global event (COVID). These two phases are orthogonal--children are going through their development during COVID.

I feel that creates a strawman for people supporting measures to reduce spread; that they don't understand children are developing (I suspect teachers know this better than most, anyhow). Viewing the situation considering only development doesn't change this: if the rate of infection stays above one for a long stretch, there will be mass death from overwhelmed hospitals.

That's been the balancing act that policy makers are striking. We've seen how that works in practice: restrictions have dropped, as vaccination rates have gone up and seasonal waves have passed.

I understand why people might want more support for their children via home or private schooling; that's always been an option for those with means. It highlights that we could definitely use more resources to try to support child development: more teachers for smaller class sizes class, more space in classrooms, better ventilated spaces, expanded remote learning accessibilty, etc.

Where I live, schools are asked to do more with less every year. So it's unsurprising to me that they're not super adaptable to major disruptions.
I don't see him crossing the red line of going into Poland though, so it's still a stand-off, but I think NATO is going to come out of this much stronger as some had started to wonder about its purpose since it had been so long since there was an aggressor like Putin is being currently.
There are two different issues here. Assuming it’s a random risk you would expect car dealerships to offer some from of insurance/extended battery warranty.

However, if the batteries need to be replaced every say 12 years spending 16,500$ onto replace a 75kWh battery is less than gas prices over that time span. Further the labor is only 2,300 to replace a battery so falling battery prices could easily make that a pricey but expected repair that’s worth doing once.

Of course that’s assuming a full replacement is needed, the other option is to add capacity to adjust for reduced range. A 75kWh battery that lost 40% capacity only needs an additional 30kWh of batteries to be back to full capacity. An initial design leaving a void and appropriate hookups largely solves the problem of battery degradation.
I wasn't able to read the article due to a pay wall, but it sounds like excellent news. One of the purposes of a government is to defend its people. Outsourcing that to another country is just reckless.
isn't the equipment to produce weapon-grade fissile materiel kinda different from those used in power production? So the time "time to slap together an atom bomb" would still be quite long. Also when talking talking about nuclear's price vs LNG, another factor to take into consideration is energy dependence on foreign suppliers
> If Russia's foreign reserves are stored in foreign banks, access to those reserves can also be limited via sanctions

All reserves not physically held are subject to sanctions. And the Russian central bank is being sanctioned by the U.S. and Europe.
I think the 98 crisis will be pale in comparison. Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis

I wrote a thread comparing 98 with this: https://twitter.com/mmaunder/status/1498105293493792771?s=21
Many (/most?) developers want to get paid lots and lots of money for their software.
This page is an absolute disaster without an adblocker. Good lord.
All it takes is 5 million of it them out on the street in protest and Putin's goons will be overwhelmed. They face arrest while Ukrainians face bombs. The whole world is rallying behind Ukraine and the Russian people themselves have the biggest power to stop him.
Exactly, and that's why the apparent discrepancy is there. Pretty much any time there's an apparent large arbitrage opportunity one will find that there's a barrier (or significant cost) to actually executing it, or it already would have been arbitraged away.
Ooh. I have a question about migrating off Google Apps (which I pay $12/mo for across two domains - one mine, and one my wife’s).

We’ve received a fair amount of links shared with us on Google Drive. Is there anyway to migrate off Google Apps AND retain access to those links?

Or, am I basically stuck paying for this software for the rest of my life?
Most of these wealthy people there are Jewish and according to Putin's propaganda Ukraine needs to be freed from Nazis. I'm sure most of these wealthy people support the war and probably knew in advance and protected most of their assets.
The raw materials in Russia will still be raw materials in a few years. Its not like they will lose value in the log term because of this. Any kind of crisis only kills the small the big will be ready to buy up everything and make profit.
As a Hungarian I'm quite happy that finally the EU put pressure on Hungary to not steal all EU funds and direct to Viktor Orban and his family. After 12 years finally we have an election where we have a good chance (about 50%) to unseat him and significantly decrease corruption in our country.

Of course in Russia the situation is much worse at this point, but Russians know that they can get back their money if they elect a less corrupt / aggressive leader.
The entire post is about how a specialized course is required to pass a technical interview in companies like Amazon and here you are making a comment that implies desperate Indians are hired with zero qualifications for the job only because they are desperate.

I can't comment on the working conditions at Amazon but I have to say that those Indians must be highly qualified to have that job and should be paid fairly.
A few years ago I was consuming a SOAP webservice from a Remedy ticket handling system. While developing my end of it, I saw all sorts of weird 3-character clusters in some notes fields. I don't remember what they were exactly, but something like Ã¢ï¿½Å¾ (I just did that in CyberChef, I don't think that's what it really was at the time. It was only 3 glyphs I'm sure.)

I started digging into it, a eventually worked out that some system at the start of the chain was using the ASCII US and RS characters to separate the notes! Each note would have the format of

timestamp␟username␟note␞timestamp␟username␟note

and so on. Then, through some chain of black boxes I never got to see, those ASCII values were converted into the visual ones I used above (U+241E and U+241F), then those were misinterpreted into Latin1 or some other non-Unicode encoding. What came out the other end were the jumbled messes I saw.

I ended up just searching and splitting on those messy characters to recover the structured format of the notes. (They were all dumped into a single field in the SOAP record. I hate SOAP enough as it is, but was amazed how our systems managed to ruin it even more :)
Crypto marketcap would have to go up massively to make that work with the little bit of crypto that is in active circulation. It will be a drop on a hot plate.
A link would indeed be helpful, I'm falling to understand what sounds like just acting like a member of the community, and participating in the forums even when it's not his recipe. (People do someone's argue about recipes on Reddit, after all.)
well i suppose by then earth will be long gone.
At the point where you are both a voter and paid out of public money, you shouldn’t get to also have a union. This is a choose two situation, and since I’m not going to tell anyone to give up their voting rights, this is more of a choose one situation.
> Gold can easily be used as collateral to get dollars

At a deep discount. The buyer would run the risk of secondary sanctions by the U.S. They would also, likely, want to take custody, all of which can result in striking discounts. (I beliece Iran got dimes on the dollar for their gold.)
When internal security forces switch sides (or stand down).

Tends to be how revolutions go.
I run some C# lambdas using the HTTP API and that post is not accurate. Our Cloudwatch numbers are way lower on less memory used.

Ways for better c# production startup (AWS or on Prem)
* Compile in Release mode
* Test Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) mode
* Limit code size. The JIT reading 200mb+ of code will be slow compared to a 15mb deployment.
Executive order preventing NY State from doing business with Russian entities
No sympathy with people who have no control and don't support this war? The last pill had support at 8%.

You can't speak your mind in Russia. The population is not guilty.
It’s not a false dichotomy if you just look at the union’s actions.

How does opposing a vaccine mandate help students? The answer is it doesn’t, its just the union flexing its politics muscle by using the mandate as a bargaining chip.
Absolutely. My friends would only be pissed I got to do it before they could!
If you want to buy rubles with USD how do you propose to do so without kayaking your way to Russia first?
That's the theory, but like I said for us it hasn't really worked out like that. Maybe we're doing something wrong so who knows.
It's Germany and by extension EU's own fault for not developing alternative sources of energy. Note, I said alternative sources of energy not alternative fuels. How did Germany come to being so reliant on Russian energy? What were the Germans thinking when they were happily decommissioning their Nuclear and Coal power plants in favor of what was largely Russian Oil & Gas? Its not surprising that the west finds itself again in this situation.