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> When you move money domestically, your bank and the recipient’s bank use some intermediary system to coordinate a series of agreements which result in your bank agreeing it owes you less than it did prior and the recipient’s bank agreeing that it owes the recipient more than it did previously.

I just don't understand the reason to leave out central bank in these discussions. Yes there's all those agreements, payment rails and so on. However if you look past all that inter-bank transfer results in banks' central-bank reserves getting changed. Let me elaborate.

Banks Foo and Bar have accounts with central bank. When I Transfer USD 100 from my account at Foo to my friend's account at Bar the central bank does -100 to Foo's reserve balance and +100 to Bar's reserve balance. For more details please read this terrific, short and succinct book "Central Banking 101"[1]

International wires, however is a different matter. You have FX market, correspondence banking and what not. But when it comes to moving USD around the NY Fed has absolute and total control over clearance. Any bank that hold USD deposits must have corresponding reserve account with NY Fed. So regardless if SWIFT or any other form of wire transfer, NY Fed can cripple a bank's operations by freezing their reserves. Here's a relevant sanction announced by the US Treasury a week ago [2]. And here's the relevant section.

"Treasury is taking unprecedented action against Russia’s two largest financial institutions, Public Joint Stock Company Sberbank of Russia (Sberbank)and VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company (VTB Bank), drastically altering their fundamental ability to operate. On a daily basis, Russian financial institutions conduct about $46 billion worth of foreign exchange transactions globally, 80 percent of which are in U.S. dollars. The vast majority of those transactions will now be disrupted. By cutting off Russia’s two largest banks — which combined make up more than half of the total banking system in Russia by asset value — from processing payments through the U.S. financial system. The Russian financial institutions subject to today’s action can no longer benefit from the remarkable reach, efficiency, and security of the U.S. financial system."

Of course they could continue to transfer money through correspondence banks etc., however their existing USD reserves are frozen.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56863052-central-bank...

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0608
So user didn't read guide properly, then after turning on a new tax invoicing system didn't check that all customers were actually being invoiced for three months... Obviously Stripes fault. /s
When someone tapped my shoulder in the office, they often started to whine about their problem without providing any actionable information, wasted a lot of my time this way, then I tell them to send me an email with a description of the problem - that ends up actionable.
This gets to something I've been wondering about, what is the winning condition for Russia now?

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't see the ukranians giving in any time soon, they seem determined to fight for every inch. The cost of occupying them is going to be astronomical and tie up their military fighting a guerilla war.

I assume the expectation was that they would invade, the ukranian government would run away and they could impose a puppet government, but that just doesn't look likely now.

I may be very wrong, but I just don't see what the endgame is for Russia that doesnt bleed their economy dry in the process.
My team is mostly in office, but we do have people in 2 other time zones.
Communication happens mostly in slack (even for people in the office - because it would be too loud otherwise - open plan office, gggrr), but also to include people not in the office. I think having remote people in various time zones is fine, as long as we can "get together" once in a while. We do virtual board game night (well, afternoon for most of us) once a week, and of course, do sprint reviews and planning together.
I publish to Juno, they seem to be a valuable source for music that has been around for quite some time and they sell multiple formats including FLAC.

https://www.junodownload.com/labels/Ruff+And+Tuff+Recordings...
Not without acquiring a citizenship of real worth. Uruguay isn't a bad choice. or Ireland.

If you aren't paying taxes (aside from sales taxes) you are at some remove leeching. Maybe there's a debate here, maybe you have registered as a resident alien in the places you nome to, but most nomads as I understand it seek to be visitor-status for as long as possible.

I know the digital nomad economy includes people who want to sublet their place to you and then get very upset when you show them you've registered as a resident: It plays both ways.

So by all means cease to be american, but please: pay your taxes wherever you are.
I am still in disbelief that there is no other solution around this, its absolutely insane. I live/work in Switzerland, wife is Swiss, child born here etc. In Switzerland you have higher than average salaries and that 112k is easily surpassed. So they US is basically telling me to stay poor, or abandon my citizenship.
*deserves this
"recently"

same here. last week i decided to not renew my spotify subscription for the first time in 10 years and bought some of my favourite albums on bandcamp. sigh
Show HN: Analyze Your NFT Flips
On the contrary.

Jetbrains IDE's prove the fact that no matter how much you engineer, a java based desktop application will always be slow and eat huge amounts of resources.
>Just you wait! I'll be right in the end! You'll see!

You will. You already can. You actually have been able to see this for more than a year had you only opened your eyes - maybe your mask was in the way?

> LOL.

Strange sense of humour, considering the damages from those lockdowns:

- the National Bureau of Economic Research warned that increases in poverty caused by the lockdowns will cost more than 800,000 lives in the United States over the next 15 years due to higher poverty levels [1]

- Suicide rates have jumped dramatically over the past year [2]

- Dementia deaths between March and September jumped 13,000 as patients were left with little means of social interaction [3]

- San Francisco reported that deaths from drug overdoses exceeded COVID-19 deaths in 2020 [4]

- the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 475,000 excess deaths in the U.S. at a time when it was reporting 281,000 coronavirus-related fatalities. The difference is 194,000 additional deaths unexplained by normal mortality and COVID-19 combined [5]

All this while the lockdowns had little to no effect [6].

So, take that mask off your eyes and follow your own advice on your "media diet". Follow science instead of The Science™. Also, stop with that stupid "right wing" blather which you probably got from your "media diet" - or do you think countries like Sweden and Denmark are "right wing"?

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28304/w283...

[2] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-pandemic-effect-suici...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/16/coronavirus...

[4] https://fee.org/articles/san-francisco-sees-more-overdose-de...

[5] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-covid-19-death-toll-is-even...

[6] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v...
It is not reviewed yet, I am skeptical as well.
The article fails to mention on which passport he travels which is quite relevant. The other passport you own will be linked to another country, financial system... and taxes.

not a very good article, without comparing U.S vs another country tax system/medicare pros and cons, it is impossible to make an enlightened decision, therefore making the title of this article irrelevant.

we would need one article per country vs the U.S for this to be informative imo.
Sweden, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and several more all beat the US
The reason car prices differ based on location is because it's resource intensive to buy a cheaper car from a distant location, so you only compete with locals on price. This is not the case with developers. Once a worker is remote, there is not much difference if they are 80 miles away or 3000 miles away. The reason for the salary difference is because the company can get away with it, rather than a factor of the local market.
Bingo.

Someone might hear ‘no tracking’ and think ‘privacy’, and they might be right in making the connection, but DDG never promises not to save some details about your searches. They just don’t serve up ads which are based on your browsing habits.

I still use them because this makes their operation way less perverted than Google’s in my opinion. That, and having (IMO) better search results which aren’t SEO’d to death, make it stand apart from Google Search in my view.

Over a number of years I have switched over from Google-everything to having a number of different accounts for different services, including paid email and domain registration. I wonder how a paid search engine would go in this world? - for now there are excellent search engines like DDG which are free, but I wonder how much a subscription for ad-free searching would cost?
I haven't payed attention to the speed-running scene for this game, so I was caught utterly by surprise by the section on glitches in the game. How does something whose out-of-combat state should be easily modeled with a trivial state machine end up with so many bugs in that portion of the game?
I have no idea what kompose convert does, honestly. Principally, one could print out any format from miniboss, but it depends on how much you want to trust a tool written for local deployments with kubernetes stuff.
I don't think the post is aimed at people who don't have anywhere to live.
> I have no desire whatsoever for any of those things

Cool, thanks for making that explicit.

> nor will I accept it for your convenience

A little aggressive but OK. Remoters are on the defense, after all. But please realize... I'm just a person on an internet forum.
You very definitely can beat the US for visa free travel, albeit not by a large margin:

https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
You are not compelled at all. You can probably afford some land in the middle of nowhere and grow your own food.

You want some things that are available for money and need a way of getting money. That is very far from slavery. Every day you can choose to with or not, and what you want to work on.
Can you express the value in dollars?
I don't meditate, but thoughts do just seem to appear to me without a lot of control or conscious effort. My answer is twofold. Firstly, your executive function is still moderating those thoughts, even if they're appearing from some dingy recess of your brain that decided to think about hunger or inkjet printers. Secondly, there's not really a "self" other than your executive function and the stuff going into it. Any agency is the executive function. It deals with the stream. Maybe it drives some work upstream, like eating before hunger hits.
Write LOGO first, or scratch then.

Java is a good intermediate step as a first serious programming language - it has good compile time messages, and even more importantly, it has pretty much full runtime safety, which is absent from python, c, javascript et alia. With these languages students will struggle with code that seem to work, yet are faulty - it is better to fail with an “ugly” but readable exceptions during development, than to not do anything just get wrong results (either type errors, non-intuitive conversions, or straight up memory corruption)

Also, java is a tiny language, I really don’t get your point. Sure, hello world requires 3 lines of boilerplate, but other than that you have pretty much listed every single java feature there is. How many languages’ feature list can you enumerate in a rant?
> Are games priced at $0?

Plenty are, like the one I wrote:

https://classicempire.com/

Doom, one of the most famous and played games of all time, is also free.

https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/

> AWS

is a hardware service.

> Do Apple and Google let you use all their mobile apps for free?

Do you see the word "all" in your sentence? I didn't say "all". You modified what I wrote.

> All of those industries are heavily regulated by law

And the software under those regulations is expensive. See a pattern there?
I had a collegue who would literary tap me on the shoulder. It was a loud open office so I had noise cancelling headphones.

It was insanely annoying. And when I told him to please stop, he started to wave his hand in my peripheral vision.

I pretty much gave up trying to make him behave. I mean those headphones are not that good you can just speak ...

Just the risk of such things makes it hard for me to concentrate. They need not have to happen, just that they could is enough.

I think it is the walking up behind me on row desks that is the problem. I have a private office now with my side to the door and in no way I feel the same.
I executed an entire project which was pretty much non-stop pair programming over Zoom and Teamviewer. Was the most productive I've ever been on that particular system, and trying to physically be in the same room would've only been a negative.
Knuth, all volumes but especially the first. I also like SICP, but maybe that's just me.

The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Ban companies from requiring college degrees unless they can prove a college degree and the associated skills/knowledge are mandatory to fulfill the job.
I would say it's more similar to Pulumi, as the main aim is to avoid markup (or a simplified programming language, like HCL in the case of terraform). The other two are correct though: Only for Docker and in Python.
Germany seizes Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s $600m superyacht
Just like you are not a slave the warden is not a prisoner since he can go home every day, and can choose to stop working there if he doesn’t like the place.

Choice is what prisoners and slaves don’t have, and we have plenty of both.
How do you pay SS and Medicare? I know someone in your situation who was trying to and was told you can only do that if you have US income source (which they don’t have)
Good question.

My hope is:

Putin doesn't want lose face, so he pumps more money into it than his supporters are okay with and their patience runs out befor Ukraine loses.

His end game would be Ukraine getting leveled, the west being angry and remilitarizing, and he can sell a new cold war for the next decades to keep support.
Okay apples to apples then

This is Amazon in 2006 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline/amazon-2006

Now Amazon landing page has:

- Omni-search with autocomplete

- Dynamic language and region selection

- Quick order forms accessible by profile dropdown

- Many submenus embedded somewhere on the page

- Multiple carousels of content embedded throughout the page

Nothing like Amazon's current landing page existed on the web in 2006. Basically everything was just CRUD back then. Simple CRUD applications are becoming increasingly rare
I think old beliefs about strong language use are partially wrong. A certain understanding between members can make the most vulgar groups pretty friendly.
The way I work is I have in my configuration a set of packages that I want to always have access to. Things like git, vim, gpg and so on.

Then for every dev project I have shell.nix defined which lists project's dependencies. I also have direnv installed, so when I enter that directory, the project's tools are automatically available for me. I rarely change the main configuration and more often project's shell.nix. And for one-off's I use nix-shell -p <package>
I'm jealous that you have this experience, honestly. I do the same things, but feel like a caged animal. Maybe I just need a comfier seat.
There's a ton of companies doing CSPM products these days, and now it looks like the trick they're trying to achieve is integrating their detections into their ecosystem (notifications, automated remediations, custom policies, infrastructure-as-code scans, endpoint agent integration etc). Wondering what your roadmap is and how you'll take these big guys on?
Do you think U.S. medicare covers services outside the U.S.?
I've been your friend , I've been your lover's wife. I agree with the rest of the comments, I understand you completly. Thank you for the article. It has helped me relax.
SPAs dominate? Off the top of my head I can't think of a single SPA that I actually use regularly. I worked in a niche a few years back where they seemed common (configuration interfaces for embedded systems) but looking at my own habits and the sites that dominate in terms of web traffic, that's thankfully not something that has caught on generally.

I can sort of see the point if the "A" part of "SPA" actually applies to your product, but for the dominant players that doesn't seem to be the case.
Just like everything else, this is just another way to determine which companies I want to work for. For folks like me who are 100% on-board with remote work, I won't work for Google because it's a dealbreaker for me. (They probably wouldn't have me!)

For others, it's not.

That said, at this point I'd almost go as far as to say that city centre-based offices will eventually be consigned to the dustbin of history. Who thought the idea that spending 2 hours a day travelling to and from a physical location (and having to pay for it!) to generate larger profits for shareholders was a legitimate or sensible use of human time and capital?

My health, both physical and mental are immeasurably higher as a remote worker. The biggest argument I hear is "But you don't get to socialise anymore!" but of course I do. I socialise with my colleagues both remotely and in-person and more importantly, I socialise with those I _want_ to socialise with. Members of my community, friends, family, people I choose. Not people who passed the same interview as me.
And yet if you used Linux, the operating system would be free. Linux is very heavily used in industry.

I read now and then about how paid software relies heavily on the free stuff, and how those vendors should donate to the people writing the free stuff.
since the ML hype is here to stay, it's really good in my opinion because investors are constantly pouring more money into the industry
I was presupposing you can get yourself out. If you can't physically leave the country, owning crypto will not help you much, except perhaps to bribe some corrupt official who could smuggle you out. Similarly, if the electric grid goes down, if there is a nuclear war, or if a gamma ray burst causes a mass extinction, we will have other things to worry about. Crypto is not a magic bullet for all the scenarios you can think of, but it can help most cases.
Authorization & access restrictions. Yes, you can go quite far with table/row/column permissions, but a lot of business logic cannot be modeled using just those (i.e. "user cannot place orders if total outstanding invoice payments surpass value $X").
In Kotlin, you can use any Java library without a wrapper. That includes JavaFX of course.

TornadoFX is only a convenience skin on top of JavaFX to make Kotlin code more concise (but it's heavier also as it adds a lot of code to your application).
I'm guessing control of Kiev and a land route through allied territory from Russia to Sevastopol would count as winning.
How is that a relevant benchmark? It’s like claiming that c++ is “slow” because look at the memory consumption of this program calculating some big-ass weather model on a cluster of machines..

Intellij does a shit load of thing, caches your files, constantly monitors for changes, etc. It is not vim written in java.
A special law to help police investigate some crimes by some people, meanwhile Louis Vuitton pays a million dollars every other year to settle wage theft claims against their own employees.

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/prog.php?parent=l...

Considering the amounts involved, the police should be demanding surveillance of their HR & recordkeeping operations.
search "flag theory"

Probably bad idea to drop your passport if you don't have decent alternatives in place
> Because every single transaction in USD must result in a credit and debit to an account at the US Federal Reserve

If I understand it correctly, in this case, isn't the thing prohibiting that transaction the US sanctions (i.e. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0612), rather than exclusion from SWIFT?
There is no such thing as a free market under capitalism only a capitalistic market. Yet you are here and are complaining about the capitalistic market. Governments are giving all sorts of concessions to capitalists namely the homeowners and real estate corporations. The latter benefit from the democratic legitimacy that the former give them.
> I assume the expectation was that they would invade, the ukranian government would run away and they could impose a puppet government

That was absolutely the expectation. Russian state media recently accidentally published an article written before the invasion that was supposed to be an account of their swift victory and Ukraine’s reintegration in to Russia.

https://briefs.fourthestate.org/2022/03/01/russian-state-new...

What the end game is now is anyones guess.
It's not as fast as C/C++, but its faster than most languages in heavy use these days
I obviously can only speak for my company.

> it's probably more likely that the employees are... not great at judging their productivity

At my company "let's get everyone stuffed back into the office asap because productivity" was mgmts slogan, but that position became pretty much indefensible after they announced that 2021 was literally the best year ever (highest revenue, highest revenue rise yoy absolute and %, largest increase in headcount, highest number of projects shipped, highest number of new projects etc.)
Because the U.S. prefers to penalize market participants who provide services like market making and reward market participants who speculate for periods of at least 1 year, all of my income is taxed at income tax rates but none of it is "earned income."
Here are the concern points:

The invasion itself is a bit insane. In winter? An invasion? The preparations look slapshod, the troop morale of the invaders seems to be low to begin with. It doesn't reek of desperation, since there was no imminent threat to Moscow. It seems like insanity, or worse, dementia.

Putin is a strongman, a narcissist, a sociopath. He cares not for the fate of this world. He may have terminal cancer (speculation, a possible reason the invasion seems rushed and ill-timed). Some men just want to see the world burn.

Putin may be cornered. What is the endgame of this invasion? Humiliation is the minimum. A sign of weakness where he is deposed and likely assassinated in the process. A NATO or EU member Ukraine with a well-armed and seasoned populace (probably several million Ukrainians are training to be soldiers, and are very motivated to be good soldiers) that HATES you, and only about 300 miles of distance.

Putin has lost this war already it seems. This nutso strategy seems to only work if he assumed all of Ukraine would lay down for his forces like Crimea. That's not happening, and there will be drones, TOW missles, MANPADS, and more arms flooding in from bordering NATO countries to arm and help the Ukrainians.

Putin is paranoid of NATO/EU encroachment into his sphere. This was supposed to be his grand rebuke / riposte to the gradual incursion into his sphere of influence.

But now it has failed badly, and from Putin's standpoint, strengthens the West's hold on Ukraine, buttresses the regime, motivates the populace.

That leaves Belarus as the only buffer/border state, and they invaded Ukraine, and have a despot that likely can be easily deposed with NATO/EU allies to the north, south, and west. Belarus has invaded Ukraine too, so Ukraine has a casus belli to counterinvade them.