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>Cities should not pay for new stadiums

There is for every city to decide if funding some private business is in the interest of its inhabitants or not.
I'm Spanish, and wherever I've been in Africa, South America or Asia, everybody ask me if I support Real Madrid or FC Barcelona, soccer teams of the main cities here. And the number 1 visited museum in Madrid is not the Prado, which is one of the 5 top art museums in the World, but Real Madrid museum in their stadium.
Without meaning to argue that it is necessary, it persists because it just isn't that big a cost. Gas isn't the largest cost of ownership and 5,000 miles of cheap US gas is still ~10x the cost of an oil change.
In my country those stadiums are just a money transfer schemes from public pockets via local government to local pockets. They have no problem building "temporary" stadiums while the old ones are "renovated" for hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payer's money. You cannot normally even visit the stadiums when there's no match being played. As you said, they usually need hundreds of riot police present each time because there is almost always vandalism and fighting. Those stadiums are not used for anything else. For example, I cannot ask the soccer team if I could use the pitch for say a day because I want to organize a drone racing competition. I would be laughed out of the room. As the other posters said, they just take my money and give it to some other persons who are living very luxurious. I know, Ferraris are expensive.

However, I understand that those sport events are like a safety valve on a pressure cooker. It lets those aggressive members of the community to vent so they don't realize how fucked they are in their daily lives. It something like a pacifier for those people. It is bread and circuses, and the bread is getting smaller and smaller.

That said, if the local government is spending money on (pretty much private) stadiums, then I would postulate that they have too much money and the taxes are too high.
Commercial toasters (and, I imagine, commercial electric kettles) are 'good' in the sense of being well-built and long-lasting. I've got a 1980s Dualit toaster which is essentially bomb-proof (the clockwork timer will eventually stop working but is easily replaced; even the elements can be readily changed out if they get damaged).

Of course, the downside is that new ones start at £150 or so. So it's difficult to make a financial case (as opposed to an aesthetic, or a principled one) over a £10 special from Tesco.
In the same manner, you can easily connect any of the big US tech companies to the US intelligence services or military.
>extra cash is not because Firefox is more successful, it's an additional bribe from Google so they can point to an alternative browser when governments come after them for browser anti-trust.

Except yknow, 2016 where the majority of their money came from Yahoo. Because that money is buying something of value, Google is just the company that most wants the product.

>Implying she joined in December 2019 is seriously underplaying her role before then.

She became provisional CEO in 2019, like I said. And I'd have to guess she was officially hired as nobody better wanted the job for the salary.
Thanks for the replies, guys :) I think with this in mind I'll write some documentation. My plan right now is to write them in Markdown, then bundle them alongside the app in /help/{...}.html or something.
Atlanta is second to maybe only LA in terms of how bad the traffic gets. Neighborhood streets backed up with highway traffic bad.
Definitely not the place to look if cars stress you out like they do for me. On the bright side living there disillusioned me about American cities and now I live happily car free in Tokyo :)
Easier said than done. Never mind the sunk costs, what are the local career prospects for a failed year 11 college student?

Paraphrasing an old joke, what do you call a medical student who graduated by cheating on the exams?

"Doctor"
When I see the evidence. Party in sauna with the hookers was a quite “specific” sort of connection between E. Kaspersky and FSB officers.
> Can a judge order you to do something that is not possible?

Certainly. Here’s a relevant explanatory comment that I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23632398.

Contempt of court is an exceptionally powerful instrument. If the law says you must remove things on request, what were you doing putting stuff in a place that you couldn’t remove them? And if the law says you must provide such-and-such information to the police on presentation of a court order, “I can’t because I designed it so I couldn’t” is not an acceptable defence. So far, these things have been flying under the radar for the most part, but it wouldn’t take much for them to be explicitly banned on the grounds that they make it impossible to comply with law.
Totally agree, my team has been lumped with random projects in C# and Go for this exact reason, with no technical justification for it. It's not that either is particularly difficult to learn, but the person who originally wrote them did it for their CV's benefit.
Well, I did say known for pro sports teams. I guess exactly what that means is debatable, especially when a city is famous for many things.
Insult intended. It's insulting to me that people keep saying that k8s is "from Google" (as though it's a good thing) but then turn around and say that Borg is what Google actually uses internally (as though it's a bad thing).
It means Racket:Next is now a sport, in the current political theater, the title can be read quite differently. I also did not know of Racket:Next.
> We’ve been printing absurd amounts of money for years praying inflation didn’t show up in meaningful indicators and now that it shows up it’s some big surprise

They have been praying for inflation - it is the intended outcome of the policy and it has taken 23 years for it to happen.

What they wanted was inflation in wages, assets, goods, services, productivity and growth. Inflate away the notional value of debt. What they got was gamestonk, crypto, stagnant wages, gig economy and antiwork.
Did apple really fuck up or are they actually succeeding with iOS being the most "safe" mainstream end-user operating system by far.
Arguably they fucked up by bungling the Mac App Store so running executables downloaded from the web and software updating itself is still common.
There's a lot of valid criticism to be made on web3, but this isn't it. It completely misses the mark and shows a poor understanding of what it is and how it could work.

The most glaring error is the assumption that non-essential user actions/content would be stored on an L1 blockchain. L1 is expensive, a settlement layer for things requiring maximum security. It's absurd to store tweets or likes to tweets on it.

Tweets could go to L2, and likes to tweets could be centralized, for simply not being valuable enough to store on a blockchain. Or, one could conclude that perhaps a social network may not be a good use case for the blockchain entirely, or only parts of it, like media and decentralized identities.

Not a single thought is spent on potential positive/new use cases. For example, it would be trivial for users producing high quality content or even NGOs to get a revenue stream consisting of micro donations. As an alternative to the ad model. And this concept of connected wallets can work across applications.

It would directly cut out the middle man. Similarly, as much as NFTs are frowned upon, for some independent artists they offer new possibilities (with proper anti-fraud mechanisms). Having them deeply integrated on social networks and any other connected apps may provide many new opportunities, especially if the metaverse ever takes of (I have no idea if it will).

I agree with the sentiment that web3 still has to prove itself in a big mainstream use case, and there's lots of ifs and buts, but "omg sending a tweet costs $2"...is incorrect, cynical, anti-intellectual and closed minded. A cheap shot.

Personally, I think a social network cannot be decentralized. Not because of the financials, instead because of the censorship problem. It would soon turn into 4chan or worse, and pressure to remove harmful or downright illegal content would ultimately kill or suppress the network in a way that defeats the point. A more fruitful way may be what Twitter is doing: integrating some web3 aspects into web2.
Not only pulled the data but also destroyed some of the infrastructure? Wiped iOS devices and wiped some file systems?
English translation of Marina Ovsyannikova's statement
Heroku keeps 7 days of automatic backups, and to the best of my knowledge they are deleted after this.
Lisbon is absolutely fantastic. I would happily move there.
Walkable, very diverse, awesome beaches, great food, beautiful scenery, 1h or 2h by plane to rest of Europe. Amazing nightlife, best parties I've ever had :D
I’m aware that some movies and games are subsidized, but most people here are probably against those too, especially when it’s big budget efforts. That’s part of why I chose the examples I did — people are more likely to object to subsidies for things that are already hugely successful and profitable on their own, than, say, little indie efforts.
That's moving the goalposts. The inference made by narrator was that the vast majority of Americans supported the Iraq war and any resistance to it was incidental, dismissed and quickly forgotten, that something like the protest incident in OP couldn't happen in the US.

That plays easily into the common narrative of Americans being bloodthirsty or brainwashed by their media but it simply isn't correct. There definitely was a period after 9/11 when any criticism of the government or war against Afghanistan and Iraq was seen as unpatriotic, the Dixie Chicks were cancelled, French fries became Freedom fries, and propaganda like Courtesy of the Red White and Blue became hits. But the US is more complex than many people give it credit for, and there were also protests in the streets and criticism within the media, even people going to Iraq to serve as human shields[0] against their own military.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shield_action_to_Iraq
I'm curious how that works with the one-salary policy.
Singapore is pretty awful for LGBTQ rights, no? OP didn't mention it but it's the reason I would never consider living there despite having heard nice things.
> But it's yet to be proven that PoS provides the same level of security as PoW, and there's solid arguments that it never possibly could.

Could you direct me to some of these arguments? My thought is the opposite, that something in the lines of PoS is more secure in the long-run because it tends towards decentralization. I guess the devil is in the details.
Zurich, Switzerland. Very high living standard, great public transport, healthcare and whatever you could need. High to very high salaries (120k to 150k TC for experienced SWs at local companies, more at FAANG). It can be quite cold, though and there's certainly more diverse places.
Their whole range of management software do.
Indeed, registries don't do much more than what:

docker image save foo:latest \
| ssh pod docker image load

does (the stream is a docker tar archive with layers and metadata).
Cricket is also played in places that Indians have emigrated to, like the US.
Being the most popular sport league is not the same as being the most popular sport. Out of ten league positions, basket has #1 and #10. Soccer has #2, #3, #4, #6, #7 and #9.
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to start raising interest rates this week to help tame inflation.

And expected to do so 4 more times this year.
I've long wondered about the generational effects on human physiology and cognition from pregnant women drinking alcohol.

Excessive consumption causes Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, but there is no sharp cut off.
I once saw a guy while driving on the 405 through Irvine, put his knee on the steering wheel to hold his truck in the lane, and rip a bong. That's some dedication and I was honestly impressed.
Or: "If you've never quoted an Umeshism after you screw up, you're taking too much responsibility for your failures"
McAfee is a magical product indeed. Not only does it ensure your Intel CPU is always enjoying the benefits of TurboBoost, but it also provides a faithful emulation of a 5400 RPM drive when using tmpfs. Marvelous technology. (And if you have a kernel-level problem, don't worry - the enterprise support you're paying so much for won't answer your calls, because McAffe taints the kernel).
>there is no book written that will explain her beliefs, you have to ask, listen and reflect, then ask some more.

I would bet money she has a bookshelf full of them. New age and pseudoscience thrive on the grift of merchandise - there's always at least a book.
Not a worry if you wfh and get most stuff delivered.
I am interested in what baby sitting you have to do with HA?

I would say my home assistant (on a Pi4) is stable maybe 95% of the time, with most issues solved with a reboot. The biggest of those rare issues is that my zigbee dongle occasionally just refuses to work which isn't really an issue with HA its self.

I tried OpenHab in the past and was not a fan, but thats not to say its any worse.
Lenovo gets a lot of love from linux users for their laptops, but they've repeatedly shipped malware infested systems. Sometimes they did it in exchange for money, sometimes they wrote the malware themselves. I wouldn't recommend anyone go near them. I mean, hardware that'll play nice with linux is nice, but we're not lacking for alternatives these days.

If a company who acts as horribly as Lenovo does can still be recommended even in tech circles it makes me wonder what a company would have to do before their reputation suffers for the general public.
Chinese currency is already considered a reserve by virtue of being one of the five in the IMF special drawing rights basket. However it can never overtake USD or EUR for that purpose so long as currency controls remain in place.
You can still see it failing in that varying-density case.
Browser extension for Google search from another location
Useful tool for search engine marketers, makes life a tiny bit more comfortable and faster.
I think when you are no different than the next corporate giant, and you begin to pinch the pennies as a result, then you attract talent that is no different than the rest. I remember at my last job it was always: "Well, our formulas and market research say this position is only worth $X, so that's what we're going to pay." They failed to realize that a large portion of the best qualified people simply would not accept such low compensation. Frankly, I felt a bit insulted coming in, when their pay offer was so low, but my field was so niche in the area that I begrudgingly accepted it.
> You're being very generous with that thousand. Current Russia isn't a descendant of Kyivan Rus

I'm beginning to form a hypothesis about why Putin's "Russians and Ukrainians are one people" rhetoric is such a big and important part of the background to this invasion: This whole concept of Russia growing out of Kievan Rus has, as I understand it, long been part of the Russian self-image. In reality, though, at least as far as the actual Russian state is concerned, that's not true at all -- Russia is the descendant of Muscovy[1], not Kiev (=Kyiv). But, as that contrasting-pictures-of-cathedrals-vs-forest meme that did the rounds last week so brilliantly illustrates, Muscovy has pretty much no early history at all -- AFAICR it really rose to prominence only after the Mongol invasions, so it's late-medieval. Kiev, OTOH, goes back to at least the Vikings and Byzantines, so pre- or early-medieval.

So I'm beginning to think this whole conflation of Russia's history with Ukraine's is just Russia looking to shore up its histirical legitimacy. Rulers, particularly autocratic and authoritarian ones, have always wanted to make their country look ancient and venerable: The Swedish Vasa kings consigned a Historia from Olaus Rudbeck that purported to show how Sweden was actually Atlantis reincarnated; Czar Ivan The Terrible, from the original to the current incarnation, tried to usurp Ukraine's history as that of Muscovy.

(No idea how original this is; probably not at all. I mean, it's hard to believe that real historians would have missed it all these years... But not having studied anywhere near enough history, I hadn't seen it before I came up with it on my own.)

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[1]: And, OK, I suppose to some extent of Novgorod.
> The financials on this are settled. Sports stadiums are an awful financial investment.

Depends on what side you are. On the receiving side or on the spending side. If you're in the Stadium's management, or you're a player for the team, you're about to get rich, and you can buy your next yacht or your 7th Ferrari. Ask me how I know. This also goes if you're a construction contractor, or a local politician(s) who signed off the project.

This is the side benefit of the "pooling the money" and usually the only benefit.

If they've build the stadium with their own money; I would be more than happy for them. Also the local population would be that much richer.
Yeah, a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) is a very useful method which is closely related to k-means. It allows for other shapes than just spheres which tends to be very useful in practice. In addition to the probabilistic cluster membership (as you mention). Not only is the same EM algorithm used to find GMM parameters, but initial cluster assignment is usually done with k-means (typically a variation dubbed k-means++)
It's like the days of sa/no password all over again. Made easier because of the published CIDR blocks.
OTOH, lesser players can't make the diving saves anyway and would be better off conserving their energy.
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I've experienced Cinnamon on Linux Mint crashing (leaving the display frozen), but it was possible to go do a tty with ctrl+alt+functionkey (each of f1-f6 goes to a different tty, f7 goes back to the display) and manually restart it. But this hasn't happened to me in the last couple months, so it's probably fixed.

Then I've had some full freezes where precisely nothing at all works, but those happen very rarely and I wouldn't be surprised if that's a hardware problem.

Then there's full RAM. Yes, linux still hasn't figured out how to not flop on its head dead when RAM fills up; though usually the mouse pointer isn't immediately frozen.
When a single vacation costs several grand, your commissions add up fast across hundreds of vendors - especially when there is little competition in the early days. This is before they had reservation software of their own tying then directly into other marketplaces.

This is an example of understanding and recognizing an opportunity earlier than the big guys.

Nowadays it looks like simple paid ads - but that can still add up to a lot.
CPI inflation for the 12 months to feb was 7.9% - Ukraine invasion happened in March...

Did people not notice the price of everything going up?
Strange, I've never seen this before. I've been running Docker for years on one of my pet project machines, but while Docker is exposing the ports on 0.0.0.0 my iptables firewall blocks all of them.

I'm not using --iptables=false but I'm not discounting the possibility that maybe I've configured this on a more global level somewhere.
Web Archive Focussed on Vedānta
Hyperinflation is a monetary phenomenon. USD sales by foreigners wouldn't be sufficient to cause hyperinflation. Who are they selling to, and for what?
https://theaum.org/ is a project idea that I had.
There are many places online where you can look for shad-darśana such as Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika and Vedānta but none of them group various amounts of resources together under a single roof making it easier to get a whole picture of the topics.

TheAum.org is trying to accomplish that, it is mainly a web archive (but also a blog) of many resources with principal focus on Vedānta and Advaita.

The main site button "Website Map" shows you many of the resources that are available.

Please note that the website is still a work in progress and that archiving all these resources would probably require a lifetime of effort.
Depends on how you define "LGBTQ rights". Nobody cares who you are with here, if that's what you are asking.
I don't think that would work for AI based systems.
A new [0] feature in Windows is "protected folders", which denies access to specific folders (user-configurable) by default to applications, and the user needs to actively allow them access. The downside is that it's all or nothing, meaning that a given app either has access to none of those folders or to all of them.

You can do something similar with SELinux and AppArmor, and I think recent versions of macOS also have something similar.

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[0] new to me, I'm only an occasional Windows user, for gaming, so it may have been there for a long time
> I would hardly call click an pray, and then having to redo this every time you want to set up a fresh install reproducible or deterministic. My standard for that is using Nix.

Your standard is overengineered and a waste of time. No one needs that. IT is not paid a million dollars per year, we can spare a few man-hours.

> Imagine actually having to care about the products you release.

Actually, imagine NOT having to care because Windows exists and will allow you to ship one driver and it'll work forever. Wouldn't that be nice? Think of the cost savings. Think of the driver stability. Stop imagining, it's reality.

> I think any sane person should consider advertisements in their file explorer harmful.

Well you thought wrong, most people don't care or are very mildly annoyed/bemused. If you only read HN and TheRegister, you might come away thinking that everyone is suffering life-altering psychological trauma from that Candy Crush ad, but it's simply not a major issue.
How to Start Earning in Web3
I thought your point was that you can choose who has access to your data, which is the opposite of what I've just told you?
That would fly in the face of nature, where wild animals are almost universally more cognitively resourceful than domesticated versions.

Its special pleading to say humans should be different.