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I work in fintech. I'm not sure what bank regulations you think are overzealous. To give an example, banks can legally keep you from accessing your data. Whether by blocking your screen scraping or providing an API with poor coverage.

You understand I imagine that the regulations don't use the word "unsophisticated" and as such it's a red herring. We have these (few) regulations because banks and their consumers are not entering into a business arrangement on similar footing. I'm not "too big to fail". I don't get a bailout.

Banks love to collude with one another or engage in predatory behavior, and when we repealed the Glass-Steagall act in 1999 it took less than a decade for the subprime mortgage crisis to rear its ugly head. Allowing banks to also act as securities firms will continue to show us these "once in a lifetime" economic recessions every decade or so. And would you look at that? It's been over a decade since the subprime mortgage crisis, yet here we are back in the same glut.

Crypto doesn't solve any of that. It solved double spending. Most of the "exchanges" that people are using are mixing banking and securities, and when crypto blows out there is nothing left to catch most of the retail investors that shoulder that cost. There already are so many examples that listing them is prohibitive, but I'll remind everyone that Mt Gox handled 70% of all Bitcoin transactions at the time and lost 6% of the entire Bitcoin circulation at the time to hacks. No FDIC insurance, do not pass go, do not collect $200. Laissez faire becomes laissez tomber.

I wish people were honest about why they like crypto -- it's a speculative asset in a time when most people can't afford appreciating assets, and it doesn't require an ID if you avoid exchanges so you can buy contraband. The drawbacks are someone can code a button that is difficult to inspect and if you press it your entire wallet is drained with no recourse. Haven't even touched on the energy or silicon expenditures for a system with laughably tiny adoption
I could find plenty of uses I like, I just don't know the ethos of Go well enough to anticipate what they'd consider "reasonable" vs "abuse".
I think maybe more it’s the peak of platformization which all regress to the mean. There’s still a lot of interesting things to find, it’s just a lot harder and you have to venture off the main platforms quite a bit.
I hope that you like flowers. All but two of the photos are leaves or petals.
I would say most really good insect macro images are done with dead insects anyways, as they need to be stacked to get a decent depth of field.

The “how to light it” is probably a bigger point. Even with a ~100mm lens, dealing with the lens’ shadow can be annoying.
Agree that this is an interesting line of discussion. I think you missed a few options of why USD are more democratic. You can also:
- run for office
- organize people politically

The open source point is important, but any individual crypto seems very hard to change once it is in place. Feels like it assumes you can predict how it will be used and what the consequences will be. The law isn’t easy to change but there is a clearly defined abs democratic process for doing so (assuming you are in a democracy).
No, this doesn't solve the problem, it puts a fence around it. We should solve the problem.
I cant think of worse relationship advise than be with someone who never triggers a negative response in you.
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I recommend age as well. It offers encrypting for recipients for whom you have public keys.

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
Our prime minister (Rutte) is known as 'teflon Rutte' because no real scandal seems to stick to him. The entire idea of dodging accountability seems to be present from the very top of government.
Economic agency is not corruption. It's no different from negotiating tax breaks with local governments here in the United States.
That's not how monetary policy works. The "new paper" that is "printed" by the central bank is traded for a financial asset, typically a bond. The counterparty which previously had a bond, now has cash. It's unclear how the counterparty can take advantage of this situation at the expense of everybody else (which is what you suggest is happening).
In all reality the Mexican cartels are the beneficiaries of The War on Drugs as they are serving a well established market for illegal drugs where the government offers no protections (quite the opposite actually) to the market participants so whoever can muster up the most firepower is the ‘market leader’.
Everyone gets wiped by Carlsen, so this isn't a hot take.
I just _know_ she'd love to have a chest freezer (runs in her family I think); alas, we live in a London apartment, space is one thing we don't have.

On a side note, with energy prices (which are typically high in the UK compared to some other places) I'd be loath to use an "old" freezer. We once rented a place, and I found their circa 80s freezer user more electricity than we did for the rest of the flat.

I've always been one to prefer newer, more energy efficient devices even at a higher initial cost (it's somewhat of a hobby of mine to see how energy efficient I can make things in my home), it's times like these where I feel it's actually paying off.
What is the “neutral” chess move?
Maybe this way they can avoid GDPR compliance?
How did this make hacker news? Robot written, skate-corporate.
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It's really smelly, thick, shiney, and can peel off. The Masterseries is more like normal paint, looks better, and can be painted over as well. I found it a lot easier to work with.
You're focused entirely too much on the crypto aspect of this. He conspired to aid a country in invading sanctions of the United States. He asked the US State Department for permission before going, meaning he knew there could be potential legal consequences ahead of time. The State Department denied his request. He went anyway, provided information that the United States could prove he knew could be used to evade sanctions, and then returned to the United States after committing the crime.

The crime has very little to do with the actual content of the presentation or the information he provided, or crypto whatsoever.
> Crypto is a needed option, it can be made to be more environmentally friendly.

This argument has never made sense to me. BTC is fundamentally proof-of-work, and attempts to switch it to some other “green” mechanism will almost certainly fail (see Bitcoin Cash). Ethereum has been promising PoS for nearly as long as ETH has existed. Other “green” coins are either tech-demos, ponzi schemes, or some amalgam of the two.

The ball is rolling, the train has left the station, BTC and ETH have the momentum. Other than rug-pull incentives like airdrops, why would those in the “circle of adoption/need” choose green crypto over what is established?
The speed at which super grandmasters see the board is jaw drop amazing...inhuman to my experience. While I'm still trying to count the number of pieces ont he board of a chess problem, they've already calculated a dozen likely lines or more.
Try it and you’ll see.
You are basically saying that accredited investor rules are not successful in excluding people from making certain types of more desirable investments, because there are other barriers that are in place anyway. I think this is true, but beside the point. If you want to have an even playing field for investing, every barrier is an obstacle.
There are no heat pump systems that could supply high grade heat for many (if not most) practical industrial processes done in large scales. You can’t use heat pumps to burn clinker. You can’t use them to heat aluminum for extrusion. You probably can’t even practically use it for dryers in paper mills. The technology you are asking for simply does not exist. This is not to say that it cannot exist, but it’s silly to say that it’s “just” an issue of installing heat pumps.
North Korea knows how to create a nuclear bomb, yet if he went and disclosed how to make a nuclear bomb that would be problematic.
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> the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area and

I don't think it's that common. At least, I don't recall seeing it ever. Maybe it's used in non-English mathematics?

Wikipedia mentions it's also used in electrolysis so maybe this new one is related to that somehow?
With HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29880115
So what could cause a causality between income/country of origin and fraud probability?

Is fraud genetic?
I don't think so, so it's only a correlation at most.
Honestly, as someone most of whose life is spent writing algorithms, when I hear any non-technical person say the word "algorithm" that's my cue to tune out. "Algorithms" seems to have a meaning that's approximately "super-intelligent runaway AI robots ... oh, and they're also racist".

Meanwhile, neural nets are accomplishing the great, hitherto-unreachable task of [checks notes] grade school math: https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/math_dataset
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I'm sure this happened, but this is where the checks and balances come in; there were apparently no checks to see if the people actually lived and worked in NL. And there was no recourse to get the money back, which is a failing of European law and the fraudster's country of origin's legal branches.

And the fix was to cast too wide a net; instead of handling the individual cases, they instead tried to apply logic and rules to it; if (country == bulgaria) fraudPotential += 100 kinda thing.
Numerical aperture alone does not tell you anything about the amount of light gathered. The product of aperture and sensor size does. Phone cameras still have much smaller sensors than DSLRs.

Your advice to learn more about photography certainly seems good.
I’m seeing more diversity in music than any time in the past 30 years. Genres are effectively dead as musicians break all the previous borders.
New UTF-16? I'm only aware of the original 1996 one, which uses all of its 20 surrogate-pair bits for the codepoint (unlike UTF-8 which can use bits to extend to more bytes). In my understanding, "just" removing that restriction would mean completely replacing the encoding, like UCS-2 being replaced with UTF-16. The new one may have some overlap, but transitioning to it would still be a huge undertaking, and far from trivial (quite a few programs today still use UCS-2, quarter of a century after UTF-16 was introduced to replace it).
> The top wealthy aren't getting hundreds of millions of dollars per year via truckloads of cash which they then somehow pay a small tax rate on

I believe your take is incorrect. The article is talking about capital gains tax paid when investments are sold, and how it is lower (as a percentage) than payroll tax.

FTA:

"Since 2013, that long-term capital gains rate has been 20%, about half the top rate on ordinary income (37% in 2018)."
In other words, libertarians.
Another previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29880749
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A $20 extension tube or reversing ring will turn even any plain 50mm prime into a fine macro lens. There really isn’t an upper limit on lens hugeness or cost for people chasing that last 1% of performance.
Sure you can. The f-stop is the ratio of focal length to aperture diameter. A aperture of f/4 means, the aperture is one fourth of the focal length. At the same f-stop, you get the same light density on the sensor surface.

The catch is: a phone has a much smaller sensor, so at the same f-stop, across the whole sensor less light is gathered and consequently, you have a weaker signal.
It would also be interesting to see stats normalized to accidents per mile (or km or or whatever). I wouldn't be surprised if the average ebike gets a lot more use than the average city bike
The 'original founding ideas' of wikipedia, whatever they may be, aren't relevant if they aren't actually encoded in the organizations rules. And since nobody can come up with a persuasive argument that wikipedia must accept crypto by wikipedia's own rules, this clearly isn't the case.

Without that, the 'founding ideas' are just ideas wikipedians used to have, and are far less relevant than the ideas wikipedians presently have. Their present views are evidenced by this vote, which crypto advocates are clearly upset about.
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Thank you for the insights :-) I'll read tomorrow!

About the real world, ideally the society control the automation in a very simple manner: since the public (State) fund well public research most of the private sector just implement @the good/practical part of those public research, think about what happen in IT or pharma industry, Xerox research, AT&T research were formally private, but practically a public paid and public pushed research, GAFAM born out of it and after those big labs no more real evolution/revolution happen; similarly for pharma industry in USA there was (ok, still is but just for name) the NIH, others just produce drugs discovered and tested by them. In such model there is not much room to steer the society, the most advanced research born out of public bodies who work for public interests, private can't compete, they can obviously research for themselves, avoid building something they dislike etc but can't really steer.

That's is. In laws term suffice ensuring an effective private-public separation forbidding the sliding door's mechanism and paying well enough, giving research facilities and freedom enough to discourage the jump toward the private sector.

Once schools/uni are a public-almost-only show, research is mostly public the private sector is powerless. They can make good profits of course, but not against the public. If you observe the past in the end companies who have built and sold public research were very profitable and even with high taxation the sole who gain less than now were top management and private equity investors, all the others gains more and for good.

If you analyze the history most advancement born out of public research or free research (old patronages), private research have given something to the history but small things not high tech, yes, most advancement are born out of military needs, but still, public needs.

To arrive at this point we need culture, so we need a middle class wealthy enough to study and live to live and progress not just to amassing money like classic stereotypical parvenues. That's why wall street was always against the middle class and culture, they prefer Marxists other bourgeois for this very reason, in the end they know that even Marxism promise much but never give real power to the masses, witch is just another form of neoliberal capitalism, like the actual Chinese one, while a classic bourgeois society actually gives power to the masses, in a substantial Democracy because that's the sole form of organization that ensure to most people the best social protection and they can't just select by census much.
This is a strawman. It also paints “crypto fans”, as some monolithic group that all think the same way.

I am a crypto fan and do not “want deregulated finance”. It is not “exactly what crypto is all about”. I think most in the space would actually like to see more sensible regulation.
I personally believe it's more varied than ever (simply because there has never been a time when there was more interaction between very different people and ideas)... but as we get old, our mental models get more and more outdated. It can see more variation if you give the data it has been trained with but fewer variation when it comes to new unfamilar data (everything new seems more similar to each other just by being different from what we know).
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Without docker, he'd need to install build dependencies on the host. Once it is in docker, why move it out?
Yes. I've seen far more "looking for an excuse" divorces than not.
I would broadly categorizes these new tools into two categories: 1) those that are adding real value and make things easier, and 2) those that just add bling to existing tools. An example of the former category is ag, an example of the latter is duf. Also, lots of old tools can do more than you think. For example, did you know good old top can display a bar graph of CPU load for each core just like htop? Just press 1 and t after starting top. You can even make the output colored (press Z and enter), although admittedly the default color scheme is not great.
> You don't have to take my word for it, Zelensky himself has spent the last 2 months begging for more and more financial and military aid from the US/NATO

And also fighting for survival, there's that. Financial and military aid from all over, after an invasion, is not the same as "resistance from the US" - the latter implies combat, from the US only. It's dishonest to conflate these.

> And I'm still trying to understand why you think Putin wouldn't take the opportunity to invade under Trump,

All the guidance that you're going to get is above, and I can not help you further.
for some relationships, this is a signal of animal dominance basically.. "do it my way, because I say so" happens every day
Why?

Less visible redirects? No ugly address bar+controls?

The PWA people need to know!
It seems like these cross-platform solutions always sound good on paper but end up not being so great in real life.

To anyone who’s used this already: is it better than say Xamarin?
We have them out in the 905s too. I've seen quite a few of them here in Durham Region.
True, jpegs would have achieved similar. I liked PNGs over the years because of the alpha channel, which was super useful. WebP is the only format I know that is both lossy and has an alpha channel.
Yet SA finances terror.
Isn't "the sun" an extremely untrustworthy tabloid?

and no, I haven't read the article, and I'm not going to.
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ƒ stops need to be adjusted for sensor size [0]. The iPhone 13 Pro cameras all have and equivalent f stop > ƒ/8 [1]

[0]https://photographylife.com/equivalence-also-includes-apertu...
[1]https://www.dpreview.com/articles/6780391159/all-apple-iphon...
After the Nepo match, no one has a winning score against Magnus if I remember correctly.
I was thinking on a residential basis where you would buy and recycle the iron powder. But yes, in a large commercial heat storage facility you would not need to transport the iron at all. Pretty cool!
You get used to it.

Like Forth, the "killer app" of this RPN syntax is the ability to factor and refactor your code, along with the simple stack-based execution model this allows the code to pretty closely reflect the essential mental model of the problem you're trying to solve. There is a very precise mathematical model for this in Category Theory but I'm not a good enough mathematician to attempt to elucidate it. If you're "doing it right" your code is evolving towards something like the Kolmogorov complexity of the domain/problem. Chuck Moore pointed out that Forth programs can often be smaller than the equivalent program written in ASM.

Anyway, the result is that you have a lot of small definitions, but each one captures a single coherent thought about your program, so it's easy to read. Plus you get used to the RPN and stack themselves, which makes it easier.
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Where do people see RISC-V heading in the future ?
With ARM arch solidly entrenched in mobile and embedded - is there space for RISC-V ?
I remember reading that Twitch banned him for re-streaming a Dr Disrespect chess match with commentary because Dr Disrespect is banned on Twitch

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Oh what a blast from the past - copying files with blazingly fast 1MB/s!

If you prefer a Windows GUI to this, Total Commander has full support for Laplink (still) built in:

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This is why I really dislike social solutions that involves money. I understand that you have no choice but to use money in a developed economy (because if you just give services, it doesn't count toward GDP), but this is peak 'indicator became the target' dumbassery.
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