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Volatility didn't change overnight, I'm sure margin requirements for speculating on Rub increased dramatically in the run-up to the war. It's unlikely they allowed any margin at all on the eve of the invasion.
As an American, you should be against this. We've already got a perfectly good defensive treaty with them that would compel us to act. Tripwire troops are only necessary if you don't believe the other party would honor the treaty, which is a perfectly reasonable stance for Latvia to have but I'd hope my fellow Americans wouldn't be so grim about that.

Permanently stationing troops there is only a cost burden to the American tax payer. It does advance American imperialism to have Latvia surrender some of their sovereignty to us, but that isn't exactly a noble goal. And certainly it doesn't materially improve the lives of the average American citizen.

> Americans are suddenly much more popular in Europe again

If you're concerned about hearts and minds, more bases is certainly not a good thing. American military personnel tend to be wildly unpopular in the surrounding areas, actively building resentment.
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Of course Putin and cronies won't get affected and won't stop the war because they are old and have already lived a full life and they are still the richest Russians.

The entire episode of Putin has convinced me that as a human organizational structure - Leaders must have an expiration date and there has to be a system to preemptively eject politicians from power.

Of course, people in leadership positions will hate this.
Crypto wouldn’t stop economic warfare.

If crypto really was the norm sanctions would look like making transactions with sanctioned entities a crime (not that it already isn’t) and local violators would get targeted and charged a whole lot more.

The “decentralized” part of crypto works for black markets and money laundering on scales which get ignored, but you’d better bet that if the west wanted to sanction a country they would succeed even if crypto was a significant portion of the economy.
I love this! The G4 Mac is by far my favourite Apple design ever, its such a shame it was such as short lived design aesthetic.

My wish is that as Apple seems to be moving its iMac (and soon MacBook I believe) range back towards a more "fun" look reminiscent of the original iMac period they could resurrect this design.

I would love a touch screen iMac or Apple Monitor that used this design, its perfect for folding forward into a position for touch interaction and sketching.
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Still don't understand dew point/vapour/condensation. When I read/watch about it it sounds trivial, but if you asked me to explain it right now, I'd say "I don't know". So I don't really understand it.
Ask HN: Why isn’t open source hardware a thing yet?
First of all I haven’t done any HDL (Verilog, VHDL…) programming so I just know what is it…

For instance Linux is open source and the software is totally under your control so you can totally trust the software developers.

The thing is what if the hardware was the problem? How do people trust the hardware developers??

Couldn’t malicious things be done with HDL?
Religion is poison to the mind. It shuts down your ability to consider things rationally. Thinking Putin is a demon possessed dictator is going to be a much worse frame of mind than simply considering him a deranged despot who needs to be treated as such. Religious people didn't make those things, crazy rich people abused the poor and took their money, labor, and time to build those "magnificent temples and palaces" when instead they could have lived up to those elements of their religions about being compassionate and generous to each other and looked out for humanity's welfare. Instead they built monuments to their pride and abused the trust of the religiously devout. The golden rule is great advice except those in power never really pay any attention to it.
First of all, this isn't a question about invasion. OP asked why Russia and US can't be allies, and the GP said one of the reasons is because Russia is not a democracy. US has shown time and time again that democracy only matters when it suits them. US is an ally of Saudi and a lot of monarchies in Middle East; Saudi, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait. US also overthrew a democratically elected govt. in Iran for a "friendlier" Shah. You also have Operation Candor.

So to sum it up, my point is, when it comes forming alliances, US is willing to overlook democracy. I don't know why you're bringing up invasion.

Also, as an aside, if a country is not democratic, that doesn't give US right to invade it and you don't get to justify it.
You're right, I was thinking of pre-Brexit EU GDP figures.
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the UK government was quite clear in the Lancaster Speech in 2017 that it was going to leave anything under ECJ jurisdiction

I'm not aware of any institutions that were left that didn't match that description, perhaps you know of some?
It's a neat trick, but pretty much everyone knows it nowadays. Could try detecting something else, not sure what though.

On a related funny note, the first Metal Gear Solid V crack only worked on Chinese timezone or language setting, I forgot which.
It would be reductive to ignore the Jewishness of it all, at least as a millieu, particularly considering the shared heritage of its co-creators. The entire comic book industry of its time was (like Hollywood of the time) largely the work of refugees, emigrés and their descendants.

There are definitely riffs on Nietsche in there, course. Not least in the name gag.

But it's just one example of the extraordinary amount of hidden/telegraphed Jewishness in US culture of the time. And because it is so well-hidden, people are often surprised when you point it out.

(Like, can you name a really popular Christmas pop song that was not written or co-written by a Jewish person?)
> This makes it sound like 10k queries per day is the max, no matter how much you pay?

There's no limit if you restrict it to 10 websites or less.
Is it? According to Google, they're the fastest again. Maybe some HN users with M1 Macs can run the benchmarks for comparison.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/07/google-speeds-up-chrome-on...
"The MAD thing really just applies to Russia (China too I guess?)."

And North Korea, and soon possibly Iran.

It's not clear how much longer the nuclear genie can be kept bottled up. Belarus is already asking for its nukes back from Russia. It's likely that other countries that feel threatened may start pursuing their own nuclear programs now that they see how vulnerable non-nuclear nations are to attack.

In the long term, technological advances will concentrate ever more power in the hands of the few, and MAD may start applying to other technologies, not just nukes.
This reminds me of my honeymoon vacation. My wife and our baby daughter were visiting friends in Argentina. They told us to bring our whole vacation budget in 100 EUR bills and they'd exchange it for us into Pesos on the black market at a much better rate. The physical bills were really cumbersome to carry around and keep safe - I believe the highest denomination was around 10 EUR.

This is when I understood the privilege of living in a relatively stable monetary system with a highly valued currency.
The mind boggling thing is that he could have had a legacy. He steered Russia through a period of pretty consistent growth after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He could have been that guy, the guy who helped Russia's economy recover and made lots of Russian billionaires very happy. He's not a good man, and his legacy would always be colored by his treatment of his neighboring nations and his political opponents, but he'd definitely make it into the history books.

Going down as an aggressor and turning his entire country into a geopolitical pariah seems bizarre.
In which the author of an article is shocked (SHOCKED!) that acts of aggression are covered differently when they're "friendly" versus "enemy" acts.
Yeah his current motivation is not getting whacked.
copy pasting relevant snippet from my sibling comment:

>US has shown time and time again that democracy only matters when it suits them. US is an ally of Saudi and a lot of monarchies in Middle East; Saudi, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait. US also overthrew a democratically elected govt. in Iran for a "friendlier" Shah. You also have Operation Candor.
> Either violation of a nation's sovereignty is a crime or it isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Pirating WinRAR is a crime. Murdering someone is also a crime. Just because two things are described by a single word, doesn't make them equal on a moral landscape.
By realizing I could never live up to my own expectations, and that other people would be at best nominally impressed by my greater than nominal efforts. Basically I came to the conclusion that perfection is a waste of energy. However, taking pride in my own work & striving for excellence works well for me.
I know. Just today germany announced it will continue buying russian gas. They don't mind putin bombing ukraine or dirty oligarch money. Instead they will sanction Poland or other EU countries as soon as they are out of "line". A sad state of affairs in europe, and I don't see how reform can happen while the EU is also under its control.
This isn't at all true. When companies aren't permitted to do business with Russia, currencies and forms of payment don't matter. If I own a company in the US, I'm not going to ship any products to Russia, regardless of whether I'm paid in roubles, crypto or dollars.
Russia seems to be on the way of North Korea. Hopefully it won't come to that.
actually it's rather the opposite, the focus is on fixed-function decoder blocks that are present in the new consoles.
Call me old-fashioned but I could argue that "everyone" benefits from a world where we can still economically isolate genocidal regimes.

We do away with this power at our peril.
You probably haven't read the whole entry.
I have a few questions:

1. If I had shorted RUB on US intelligence reports leading up to the invasion, would I be able to collect, or would illiquidity stop me from being able to obtain RUB to cover my shorts?

2. What does this correspond to in terms of what will happen to their economy? Will everyone with savings be out half, while everything adjusts to the new prices and the fixed value of Russia's natural resources simply re-denominates into 2023 rubles? Too bad they halted stock trading, otherwise we'd know what the future expectations for profit are.

3. Does this indicate anything beyond A. a rush to move money out of the country and/or B. an expectation that their government will be printing a lot of money?
> Russia also feels threatened by NATO and the EU alliances inching closer towards their country.

Eastern countries are inching closer to NATO, not the other way around. Russia's latest invasion is the reason why. You might as well have said:

> Russia feels threatened by countries trying to protect themselves.
As of yesterday, it was 1:112, already sharp decline in RUB value compared to pre-war/pre-sanction levels of ~1:80. Now it's 1:158.

What changed in the last 24 hours? I'm no expert, but apparently, this lines up with Moody's downgrading of Russia's credit rating to Ca:

> *Moody's said default risks had increased, and that foreign bondholders were likely to recoup only part of their investment.*

> "The likely recovery for investors will be in line with the historical average, commensurate with a Ca rating," it said. "At the Ca rating level, the recovery expectations are at 35 to 65% (of face value)."

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/moodys-cuts-russia-...

This may also be related to American and European efforts to ban imports of Russian petroleum.
I do not have a lot of faith that anyone of significance will be appropriately punished. Most likely if Putin is facing a defeat he will either deploy nukes and go out with everyone else, or go out like Hitler.

The people in power will die or escape before anyone can be rounded up. How long they can exist on the run is a good question. I'm sure there is a regime somewhere that would offer safe haven.
I don't think I dismissed the value of anything.
Ah, memories.

Also, love that the commits are set to '40 years ago'.
Then why not post this as a text post instead of trying to promote your worldview with an unfounded paper? This is extremely dishonest.
Until bandwidth and storage space is practically free, there's no real way to compete.
>And at this point there’s not much left for him to lose.

Sanctions can be reversed.
>Quasi-superpower

He wishes, he’s the leader of a midsize nation longing for the days when it was considered a superpower.
I wonder if the higher interest rates offered by Russia lead to many people getting into carry trades that would now be blowing up. I wonder if there is a repeat of LTCM hiding somewhere.
There were two things that helped me overcome perfectionism. Well, probably more, but two that stand out.

One was getting focused on the purpose of my activity. I'm writing a letter to persuade X of Y. I'm writing documentation so users know how to do Z. I'm coding a module so the system can do W, which lets users do A and B. I'm patching this drywall so my house looks nicer. Then I can subvert whatever perfectionistic impulse comes my way. Maybe what I can do in the time I have, with the knowledge and skills I have isn't perfect, but it's better than what exists now. Maybe I can't write a full manual with screenshots, but I can at least create a Help page with a few bullet points--it's now better than it was, and that is progress toward achieving the purpose I set out after.

The other was having fun. Not necessarily at work or other tasks (I do have a friend that loves doing drywall; I do not feel the same!). But I found the more fun I had in life, the less hold perfectionism had on me. If I go throw a frisbee around with a friend, it doesn't matter if not every throw is perfect. It can be kind of fun to try goofy shots on a basketball court. What if I try playing a board game with a completely different strategy than usual? I might learn something, my friends or family might tease me, I might lose. Oh well. What if I try telling jokes and they fall flat? It wouldn't be the first time! Just having fun and enjoying the moment seems to keep me from focusing on myself, and that's a big part of it.

Come to think of it, being a parent (especially of small kids, because nothing is perfect in a house with small kids--wait, and older kids, because there's no way to keep older kids thinking you're perfect) helps too. And managing people (at work, or coaching a team, or coordinating volunteers), because in the practice of tolerating imperfections in others, I learned to tolerate them in myself, too.

And as I skim this over before posting, I realize that a lot of it is being less focused on myself. Easy to say. Tougher to do. And almost impossible to do when trying it.
Yes, but as you said, it works only after adding such annotations to various libraries. A circular buffer is just a special kind of memory allocator, and as such, when it allocates and deallocates memory, it needs to tell the sanitizer about it.

What bothers me about the Linux code base is that there is so much code duplication; the pipe doesn't use a generic circular buffer implementation, but instead rolls its own. If you had the one true implementation, you'd add those annotations there, once, and all users would have it, and would benefit from KMSAN's deep insight.

Every time I hack Linux kernel code, I'm reminded how ugly plain C is, how it forces me to repeat myself (unless you enter macro hell, but Linux is already there). I wish the Linux kernel would agree on a subset of C++, which would allow making it much more robust and simpler.

They recently agreed to allow Rust code in certain tail ends of the code base; that's a good thing, but much more would be gained from allowing that subset of C++ everywhere. (Do both. I'm not arguing against Rust.)
> Is this really better than having left things alone?

Better for Putin's self-esteem. Worse for everybody.
DuckDB also works fine with R data frames so there is really no downside to using R in this case
Republicans and Democrats alike bought into neo-liberalism entirely, no later than 1990 (though, yes, it did start on the R side). The leaders and presidential candidates of the big two parties have consistently been on board with it, with the only big exception being... Trump.

Meanwhile, neo-liberalism has been and remains unpopular with the electorate on "both sides" (which is why Trump was able to leverage that gap between voter preferences and the standard party platform)
I think part of the benefit you get from cloud is that if you only need 5 machines on the weekdays, but 10 machines on the weekends, you can easily scale up and down (instead of running and managing 10 machines). Another is reliability. It is not uncommon to have AWS/GCP instances stay on for years (since the underlying hardware is abstracted way), etc.

If you don't care about that, then the balances changes. If you're OK with 1 on prem server, you can just buy a AMD or Intel workstation, and tweak the hardware config (e.g. RAM, kernel, software, etc.), BIOS to your liking.
>Do you mean "valid programs where everything is initialized when an object is created will somehow fail to detect that"?

Valid programs where a field is left uninitialized at creation time, but the programmer makes sure it's initialized before it's used.
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I don't see why not. I think they can be used for anything a GNN / Transformer could be used for, but with better probabilistic qualities.
They were tips on free whiskey/vodka + mixer as we were gambling. I googled at the time and those numbers were recommended for that service. For food drinks etc would normally tip 15-20% depending on service, would also go lower if it was terrible.
Of course they have the right - nobody has claimed that YouTube is breaking the law by censoring RT.

Nevertheless, they are still engaging in censorship, per Wikipedia:

> Governments and private organizations may engage in censorship. Other groups or institutions may propose and petition for censorship. When an individual such as an author or other creator engages in censorship of his or her own works or speech, it is referred to as self-censorship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

You are doing exactly what I just warned against: trying to redefine words to exempt yourself from criticism.

It's insulting. Nobody has said or implied that YouTube is breaking the law here, so why does your reply hinge on that?

More importantly, why would anyone want such a shameless megalomaniac filtering what they can read and watch? That's the crux of censorship: you're not just refusing to personally host some content - you're demanding everyone else does the same in order to ensure that it's not available at all.

The merits of censoring an enemy propaganda outlet during a war can be debated, but pretending that it isn't censorship at all is equal parts absurd and dangerous.
We're talking about a theoretical federal republic where states aren't allowed to restrict immigration, but the federal government isn't strong enough to homogenise the laws here.
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Anyone remember the omg wtf calculator contest?
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Reminds me of https://weekdone.com/ for some reason. It should be a Jira plugin where the team can vote on each of the questions. =)
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> Your last linked article [...].

The article is based on an imperfect study, which found that masks could reduce infection rates by almost 50%, but I can accept your criticism on this, and probably should not have used it to support my argument. However, if you're telling me that it's not evidence that masks can protect you, then it can't possibly be evidence that 'a mask probably won't protect you' for the same reason.

I agree that the majority of the studies cited by the CDC are statistical analyses, but not sure I agree about the low n-values. There is definitely strong evidence that mask wearing reduces overall transmission in the community. It is conceivable that the only reason for this reduced transmission is because it stops people infecting others.

The studies which look specifically at whether a mask protects a wearer individually or not do have lower n-values (Payne, Doung-Ngern, Wang X), but all of them find that it does [note: I haven't looked for studies that don't find this, if you would like to share some, I'd be happy to look at them]. It's unlikely you'll get experimentally tested results because it would be unethical to create the circumstances which would allow you to test this experimentally.

> As the person making the positive statement [...] I'm sure you are fully aware where the burden of proof lies.

I'm not sure you understand how burden of proof works. Anyone who makes an assertion carries a burden of proof, whether it's a positive assertion ('wearing a mask protects the wearer') or a negative one ('wearing a mask does not protect the wearer' or 'a mask probably won't protect you').

I think I'm arguing my part clearly, offering significant (although not irreproachable) evidence that wearing a mask DOES protect the wearer. The only evidence I've seen that wearing a mask DOES NOT protect the wearer is my own citation, which can't rule out masks being 46% effective in reducing the likelihood of catching COVID-19.

Best OP can get away with, even if you don't accept the evidence I've presented, would be 'there's no irrefutable evidence that masks will protect you'.
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You can ask the same question to other failed dictators - at some point they get overconfident and make a grave mistake. Now the world would like to give him a golden bridge, but there's hardly any.
> I also think the collective West has gone mad too. The campaign to cancel, ban, boycott and belittle everything and everyone that has anything to do with Russia is out of control. People are not to blame for the actions their government. The talks like "let's hurt the regular people so they revolt against Putin" are just like that villain from Shrek: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make".

Russian indifference is solely to blame. You care now that it hurts you, but the years of support to dictatorships abroad, from Cuba to Syria, the invasion of Georgia, Chechen. You didn't care about any of that.
Thank you for the courage of reaching out. I don't think educated people judge all russians the same way.

It is absolutely shameful what happened in Ukraine. I think there is a lot of suffering, especially for ukrainians, but also for russians who lost sons or friends in this war.

I don't think it will end soon. As you said, it will drag on and will need at least a generation for the wounds to heal.
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Alas, Matthew's fonts don't include Cyrillic alphabets. So I swap in Noto Serif for the body text of multilingual posts.
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This is fake. Sells at 105 right now. Edit: I have an account in a Russian bank and can purchase usd at this rate right now.
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