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Please note that I am VERY much appreciating the application and effort, and this was not meant as criticism. I saw you mentioned you're not a Linux person which is cool - I get why the brew is there.

It's just that I never really understood why there even IS a homebrew for linux.

I'm pretty sure you'll find yourself with multo-distro repository presence soon enough since your app is useful indeed.
There are actually quite a few companies doing things with bitcoin that generate revenue. Bitcoin isn't supposed to make you money; it's supposed to be money. Dollars on their own don't generate revenue, nor is gold locked in a safe. Bitcoin has qualities that make it better than fiat and better than gold, at the cost of an established history.

Perhaps the author just spoke to the wrong people, didn't get the fundamentals, or didn't ask fundamental questions.
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It's an older book, but I remember getting a lot out of Adrian Hill's How to Draw when I read it many years ago. Probably out-of-print, but cheap second-hand copies are around.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1471816.How_To_Draw
Visiting rt.com will make the browser warn about an unsafe self-signed certificate emitted by ddos-guard. I think the latter's website is ddos-guard.net, which welcomes me with a captcha and this message, which is kind of cute:

> We have registered suspicious traffic coming from your network. Using this page, we will be able to determine that you are not the robot.

What if I am, in fact, The Robot?
That applies to a lot of known future sanctions. Eg clearly Germany would like to not need any gas pipeline, and Russia will aim to build more pipelines to China before German governments can say no more Russian gas. However, could excluding them from Swift at some point between 2014 and this week be justified?
This quote:

> He compared the art of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods, all financed properly with sound money, to the decadent culture of the twenty-first century, with its “animalistic noises’’ and “immediate sensory pleasures.’’

Does seem a lot like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
I was there 2019, I assume not much has changed since then
> Signal publishes the fingerprint on their website: https://signal.org/android/apk/

Ah, fair point, there indeed my logic does not apply. On GitHub releases with apk downloads, I've never seen a fingerprint and including it on the GH platform itself would not help either, but indeed nothing prevents the maker from using some other place to publish key material.
I obviously need to read "Worlds", but one thing I've wondered for a long time is whether LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" was also partially written in response to "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"?
I'm not saying Russia's actions are legal, morally right, or justified. Russia (or, for that matter, any authoritarian nation-state that's barely accountable to its own people) is a threat to all its neighbors. I'm only saying that a regional power that has traditionally been the hegemon will think this way.
“Studies comparing the rate of second-language acquisition in children versus adults have shown that although children may have an advantage in achieving native-like fluency in the long run, adults actually learn languages more quickly than children in the early stages (Krashen, Long and Scarcella, 1979.)”

“Adults are quite strategic in their learning, compared with children. They are generally self-motivated, use time effectively, and can apply themselves to lengthy tasks.”

My personal opinion is that the #1 block to fluency as an adult is the concentration on written resources and trying to apply rules. Children learn by mimicry, but adults learn by resources, which creates errors. You can tell by listening to people that have learnt English as a second language, and understanding the source of the errors they make.
Whether the piece is actually true or not, the hallmark of bad journalism is attempting mind-reading. Mind-reading has never been a thing: either before the Trump era, during, or after.
Good question! I've managed to pick it all up through various Wikipedia pages and journal articles on programming language theory and type theory. There's probably some good books and/or review articles that could take you through all of the foundations, but I don't know what they are.

All you really need to understand, though, is the syntax for describing syntax, small step semantics, and big step semantics, and what those mean. If you go back to the previous post on the UCC, I try to explain each of those in the context of that calculus. If you have any specific questions about things you find confusing or opaque, I'd be happy to answer them.

It might also help to read the source code for UCC and UMCC, if you're more familiar with code. But code tends to be much lower level, where it can be difficult to see the forest through the trees.
Charles Bargue's Drawing Course ("cours de dessin" - it's a book) is a classic from the 1800s. It's also in the public domain!

https://archive.org/details/C.BargueDrawingCourse/page/n23/m...

The idea is to slowly progress through the book by copying each plate accurately (the sizes are scaled down in book form, so zoom in!). I found it very effective for practicing lines, tones, and form. It's nice to pick up fundamentals first before delving deeper into a specific style.

And the #1 most important thing is to just draw as much as you can. There are tons of before-and-afters on social media where people with awful beginner drawings have shown that they can improve to become very good artists by simply practicing a lot. Much of drawing is raw mechanical precision - and it can and must be trained like any other physical skill.
Ha, I was doing exactly the same thing 30 years or so ago; even running comparisons between minor version releases. ARJ was doing very well compression- and performance-wise (and also had open unarj code as far as I remember).
What? I'm not saying russia didn't pay off far right parties or whatever. The comment i was replying to was talking about anti nuclear sentiment. Changing public opinion to that extant would require a much much more involved process than just bribing a few officials.

It's not giving russia the benefit of the doubt, I'm just very doubtful that russian intelligence services are so competent while being much less well funded and having a lot less material reach than their american counterparts. Yet, it would be ludicrous to just assume that even the CIA could have the means to manipulate the public opinion so much that you'd get such a widespread anti nuclear sentiment in big country like germany, right? All of that without getting detected.
You make a good point, and considering the greediness of F1, if they situation were right, I have no doubt that they would go back.

That being said, the rumors are that F1 is looking for a replacement race to fill that spot. So if that spot gets filled quickly, then I'm sure this will be "officially" canceled. Also, a couple (perhaps more by now) of drivers have already said they won't race in Russia. But again, who knows how this plays out.
It's interesting to see Malthusianism is still alive and well.

The cake isn't a fixed size. Our agricultural innovations continue to far exceed population growth. We can produce virtually infinite energy with Renewables and Nuclear Energy. The Earth is 70% water, and that too is a renewable resource; there's more than enough for the next million years.

That's not even getting started on the fact that these sorts of prediction have been wrong repeatedly. The average world citizen has a vastly greater standard of living than they did 50 or 100 years ago, despite the increase in population. So the population is going up, and the standard of living is going up even faster.
They seem to be planning to use the CIPS, the Chinese alternative.
THIS! Almost all inmates are illegally kept in functional solitary and/or unconstitutional conditions. 30% of my long term facility was classified 'short term housing' because they were not constitutionally allowed to keep people in those cells longer than 3 months due to the long term psychological damage of such small spaces. Dudes had been in their cells 10 years. One guy almost won a case about it, but they just moved him and boom, he no longer had standing for his court case, everything dropped, and no court following saying 'hey we found that this guy was in unconstitutional conditions maybe we should check things out'. Nope, just dropped. Another fun example, the US Courts have ruled that lights on all night preventing sleep is torture. They have a more recent finding that it isn't torture if it is determined it is needed for safety. All the effects of not sleeping for 4 years were totally undone once I learned it was for safety and it wasn't torture.
It's the next step:

The activation of the response troops does not mean that any US or NATO troops will go into Ukraine, which is not a member. US President Joe Biden has been clear that US troops are deploying to eastern Europe to help bolster NATO countries nervous about Russia's aggressive actions, and they will not be fighting in Ukraine.
I'm on week 8 of a weekly 90 minute Italian course. My wife and I both are in it, 8 other students and the class is held over Zoom. I've actually been pleasantly surprised with my progress. We study a bit outside of class and there is some casual homework but I'm excited to see after taking a few more levels with the teacher.

I do wish the class was twice a week for more forced cadence of practice but that's an adult problem.
You are assuming the US is leading the effort, which is not the case. Also EU and US are partners and allies and so mutual support is expected.
I grew up bilingual (English first language, Italian from my mother) and the "read a book you liked in your first language but translated into your desired language" is an excellent way to get exposure.

For several reasons:

- You liked the book originally so you won't mind reading it again

- You know the story so if you get to a part where you don't understand the language, you can infer the meaning based on the your knowledge of the story

- Because it was translated, it's good to see how a phrase you know well in your primary language was converted into the new language. This is particularly helpful for your own "on the fly" translation when you are speaking.

In my particular case, I knew "family" level Italian very well (e.g. how you would speak to your parents, siblings at home etc). What I didn't know was more formal and inter-adult language grammar. Reading books by one of my favorite English authors translated into Italian was a real game changer.
Google single-handledly solved the problem of how to send legitimate emails from other providers into the spam box. In effect, non gmail emails are second class.
> The US benefits enormously from owning the reserve currency and running the world financial system, and the ultimate effect of our trigger-happy approach to sanctions is to push countries away from those

That seems belied by actual history. The US has been a "trigger happy" sanctioner for basically the entirety of the post-war era, and the dollar has been dominant throughout. What would change now that didn't when we sanctioned Iran, or Iraq, or Cuba, or Yugoslavia, or...
Does anyone know how to throttle this a little bit? I would like to be able to browse the web while this is running in the background
Yes, which is why I say that the argument is circular. It assumes its conclusion.

Either a computer program can "understand" Chinese or it can't. If it can't, we're done. If it can, then having a non-chinese-speaking human simulate the program won't cause it to stop understanding Chinese.

The presence of the human doesn't expose a contradiction in the assumption "a computer program can understand chinese".
> jailhouse lawyers

What does this mean? Were you a regular lawyer before becoming a jailhouse lawyer? Are you a regular lawyer after being a jailhouse lawyer?
French nuclear regulator halts assembly of fusion reactor
So... Weibo, but the UK version.
Really good feedback and 100% agreed - tweaked the proposed idea.
> That's why bank runs can quickly lead to economic disaster.

That is true, but arguably not a consequence of money being digital, but rather of fractional reserve banking.

Physical vs. digital accounting is largely orthogonal to full/fractional reserve banking.
What are the completeness levels of the various editions (edition-1, edition-2, and edition-3)? In which editions, if any, is the OS anywhere close to feature-complete (i.e. close to meeting a base set of pedagogical goals as a "small OS" for teaching purposes).

It's not clear to me from either the top-level docs or a skim of the update posts whether this effort is essentially a loose collection of (useful!) blog posts, or whether they close the loop to form a coherent and complete whole.
Totally agree, we already have a generation of folks who don't know how to spell without the crutch of a spell-checker (I include myself as a victim), does Grammarly produce even worse outcomes?

The one caveat here (which I try to cover in this post) is there are definitely people who suffer from things like dyslexia who heavily rely on these types of tools to be able to communicate confidently. In that way, they are very useful.
Thank you. As always, it’s a rare luxury to be able to get meaningful insights from this virtual community.
Google doesn't index everything and they don't even return results from their index with perfect precision. You have to make some trade-offs at that scale.
Oddly enough, Western European countries don't have this problem, and have a significantly lower recidivism rate. Perhaps ask them how they do it?

I believe there are even documentaries now that explore justice systems in various countries.

This is not to attack you or anything, but rather to highlight a cultural divide. To European ears this kind of question feels like it's right up there with "What else can you do but behead a man who runs off with your daughter?" It's really jarring to hear, and makes one think that such a culture is incredibly backwards and barbaric...
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If you are looking for realism, the single best advice I can give is that you need to practice drawing what you see vs what you think you see. Humans think in terms of icons and memes, but resist the urge.

When you see a nose on a face, you'll want to draw an icon of a nose, with an outline. But resist, and really look at what you're seeing. A camera or a printer doesn't draw a nose, it prints a series of consecutive values that look exactly like a nose, and so should you. Outlining should be for reference and nothing else.

If you get into the world of color, the same thing happens. When it comes time to color skin, for example, you go reaching for the meme color of skin. But really look at it; you're a camera. That skin right there actually has blue in it. And yellow. And red. Stop seeing what you think you see, and see what is actually there.
I think the phenomenon you're observing is that the quote observes a true correlation, coincidence, or relation, but "sounds crazy" because the implication it draws is _very_ strong relative to what can probably be evidenced.

In other words, it _is_ the case that Renaissance works were financed with harder money than works today. That's a historical matter of fact. It _is_ the case that families are breaking down or that nutrient levels in produce (per unit size) have decreased. It's also the case that those events were coincident with a change of greater adoption of fiat currency vs hard currency (and I'd put it on a spectrum because of fractional reserve banking and other items which made the Gold standard dollars not _really_ redeemable in Gold and etc).

With all that said, the "sounds crazy" comes in because it's totally unsubstantiated in the quote (and probably otherwise) that just because these things occurred together the change in the status of money is the primary driver behind the other changes.

Edit: For example, if the change in money is the primary driver, then it is the case that the massive technology shifts we've seen aren't the primary driver. Nitrogen based fertilizers aren't the primary driver. Various civil rights movements aren't the primary driver. The presence of global travel, the formation of a global village, the new ability to communicate, none of these are the primary drivers.

And the more you lean on fiat money being the explainer, the less you allow all these other things to contribute to the explanation. That case becomes harder and harder to support, I think.
this is an excellent point, one i hadnt considered. SPFS only has 23 banks connected to it as of 2020, so if its to be an alternative Russia would have to consider it as an alterative of last resort. just how strong is it?

the consternation im still faced with is "with the support of the entire EU." It may be difficult to secure a resounding vote with the bemoaned sword of Damocles. much heating fuel comes from Russia in the dead of winter.

still other HN posters make a great point (and in other posts too) that every time SWIFT is disconnected, it popularizes alternate markets at the expense of US and EU interest. certainly a stronger SPFS must be taken into account.
I don't know, to me it always seems to start with an account with a long name and man or woman in suits, carried on by people in similar online attire with extreme rage and confusion, until it hits someone with an ultrashort name and an anime icon who speaks shibboleth, at which point either the original misinformation is explained, or platform aristocracy kick in.

As far as my experience goes, those with full long names and professionally taken portraits as icons are easiest to trigger and corner because they only ever believe, refuse or double down. They never back down in embarrassment, or verify claims or make refutes with requisite care, and they are extremely angry by default as well. Complete anonymous posters(like in certain gray website) are very problematic in whole different ways but even those are not as easy to manipulate.
Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. Everybody who is interested in the ongoing controversies around COVID should read through this; it demonstrates some skillful thinking and arguing.

When I look at Deusberg and Mullis, I see Malone and others.
Any other introverts worried about how they'll fare in post pandemic life (cont)
There is an open debate about the likely damage done by power surges along long-distance power lines. Industry funded research claims that they should survive both EMP and major solar storms. Real world experience suggests that they are overconfident.

See https://chris-said.io/2020/06/18/everything-ive-learned-abou...

Regardless of which side you believe, it is clear that any "worst case scenario" should include the possibility of an EMP attack that actually does take out the power grid.
There was a huge company in china I think, taking loans by using gold bars as collateral.. for years, turned out they weren't gold
No, that's easy for you to say from a country that has never been occupied.
Restic is currently the best solution in my view.

The backup script is much simpler, the repository is properly encrypted, takes snapshots, dedup, mounts the remote, integrates with backends, has clean output, and various useful features for working with repositories.

Rsync over SSH is not even encrypted at rest.
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"The government has also proposed measures that would force companies to filter out "legal but harmful" material"

This isn't government censorship though. It is just a private company that can choose to comply with the law or not. Something something not censorship. Something something children!!
Strangely, it was obvious to both sides in the US election that Facebook was pushing the agenda of the other side.
> This is a complicated question that will start a flamewar, but basically, any bank in the world can create dollars out of thin air given adequate collateral. Read about "Eurodollars".

This is true, but it's actually sort of a specious point. What a eurodollar deposit "really" is, is just a short contract. Your European bank takes your exchange and promises to give you back dollars when you ask for them. That they may not have them right now is just a technical detail. But the value of the dollar is still set by what the market is willing to pay for it. The bank going "short USD" is a risk it takes, not an inflationary pressure per se.

So... sure. Foreign banks can create dollars just like brokerages can "create stock shares"[1]. Except, they really can't. They're just playing accounting tricks.

[1] Or, more relevantly perhaps, how one crypto exchange can create wrapped tokens representing foreign coins. This capability was part of the exploit chain that led to the DeFi hack last month.
The US was involved in military operations on the ground in Iraq & Afghanistan and in the air in Libya & Syria in the 2010s. Not sure about boots on the ground vs. ISIS.
It doesn't matter. Facts don't matter if you have spent significant amount of your life savings into magic internet money. Any news is contructed into 'this is good for bitcoin'. Even history itself is malleable, everything can be blamed on fiat (even though Bitcoin itself is fiat).
Article 5 is where the action is, if you're not familiar with it. Invoked only once, by the USA, in response to 9/11.
>. US banks are free to use whatever communications channels they choose

They're free to choose today because they all choose SWIFT. The second they choose a Russian backed system to evade sanctions is the second they lose that privilege.

Given that, I don't see how your post shows mine to be "absolutely wrong". If anything you're supporting my point that "No SWIFT" really means "No dollar transfers".
Sanctions would work indirectly in the sense that the people would support regime change even if they can't bring it about themselves, if it means sanctions will be lifted and their standard of living will get better.

I don't think in any of the countries you list there's popular support of the leadership.
It's a very unpopular opinion because the precedent set (compulsory ID verification for online stuff) is very much not worth the thing that you think you're getting (improved behavior in an online social network).

Assume that tomorrow you started requiring compulsory ID verification for, say, entering public parks. It's possible that this would lead to some improvement in the general conditions of public parks. But you would still think of it as dystopian bullshit. This is the same.
Sure, writing boilerplate is always going to have overhead.

But in my experience the stricter-yet-more-verbose design strongly increases maintainability and velocity in the long term, which should be self-evident due to the massive reduction of coupling.
"It's the trackpad, stupid."
The difference, I think, is that Ukraine wanted NATO to defend them, but NATO wasn't sold on the idea. Ukraine isn't culturally aligned with the rest of Europe; they might like to be but they have a long way to go.

Finland and Sweden never asked to be in NATO, largely because they assumed that it would never be required. They are
culturally aligned with Europe, but figured they could avoid conflicts without having to commit themselves. This might change their minds.

If Putin doesn't take that for an answer, it will indeed be war, and a much, much worse one.
This was excellent, thanks!
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That tab did not seem to generate much traffic. LOIC is outdated and I think is protected against nowadays.
Tik Tok is popular among young people.