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> So how do you get your money out of the country when you are not allowed to get your money out of the country? Strap dollar bills on your chest, or just use crypto?

For that scenario, the better question is: how are you supposed to get cryptocurrency if you're not allowed to get your money out of the country?

But that's not the scenario I was addressing, what I was addressing the circumstances that lead to the very real practice called "dollarization":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_use_of_the_U.S._...

> The U.S. dollar is also the official currency in several countries and the de facto currency in many others, with Federal Reserve Notes (and, in a few cases, U.S. coins) used in circulation.

A list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_substitution#US_dolla...
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Thanks for getting in touch, hope it works out. I'm chalking it up to heat of the moment, mistake, poor judgement in a time of strife.
Have a system by which each coffee comes with a unique code on the receipt. This code grants you 1hr on the WiFi before terminating your session.

Present a screen which provides a payment gateway to buy more time - or for less money - buy another drink.

I've been to cafes before which let you "rent" a security lock for laptops and all the tables had a loop which they could be attached too.

In many cafes I've seen signs saying "no tablets/laptops at the weekend" to make space for customers who want to socialise.
Because we're human. Kids can be very cruel. They don't know the emotional toll and cascade effect of mean comments or actions. In a sense kids can exhibit psychopathic traits, completely devoid of empathy for the bullied victims.
Cornell joins NY-led group to propose hydrogen energy hub
Subject to mislement, subversion or change of opinion?

Of course not. The procedure would also induce omniscience

/s
> How can we create a more equitable financial system, where everyone has access to banking services?

In the EU - easy - get rid of PSD2 which requires banks to add OTP before actions, account number and password are not good enough anymore.
Information and transaction providers now exist because of that but they require an application and a certificate that costs money.

If in the EU we get rid of those and go back to old "home banking computer interface" everyone can access their own account in an automated way.

Instead we now have to pay an external service which pays the state for certs each year to be able to automate our bank accounts.

This is essentially legal theft or a protection racket.

Image you have to pay a 3rd party for every sale you made. That is PSD2 in a nutshell.

Also easy - provide free bank accounts. Banks make enough money as is and are bailed out with citizens cash if they crash.

All crypto(currency) does is contribute to the pollution of the planet and provide no real value (progress). I'm not talking about all the scams that are going on in terms of value and I'm aware people got filthy rich by gaming the market, which isn't a market to be honest. It's a manipulative scheme, unregulated and I repeat myself, bad for the environment.
There are defaults for all sorts of functions. find() functions on an array in many languages use some default. Parameters often have defaults when not set. Strings often have a default encoding.

The vast majority of the time, the default works well enough. Why make things more complicated than they need to be?

It also has the added benefits of helping more junior engineers when reading the code. "Cycle sort? What is that doing?" "Insertion sort? I was taught that was inefficient! I should spend time updating this code to a better sorting algorithm! My tech lead would love my initiative."

Or we just use sort(), and we all move on with our lives.
This image from a daily mail article of all places shows the trend over multiple generations in a family very well: https://i.imgur.com/YcjjsiI.jpg

It's from the UK but it's probably even worse in the US (I think in the US now most kids aren't allowed out of the yard of their house on their own until they're old enough to drive basically.)
It's not a language issue it's an ideological issue that exposes in clear terms that Social Justice Populism is more an antagonizing than it is about 'Justice'.

Latinos don't want this specific social change, but the 'vanguard' of Social Justice demands the change and utilizes it as an effort to both give evidence of the 'evil racist world in which we live' - and to 'one up' and take the the supposed moral high ground.

Put another way - there will never, ever be an end to the claims of racial injustice, because the opportunity for bad faith populism provides an opportunity for some groups to gain leverage and power.

Social Media has amplified this dramatically so in a world that is actually getting much more fair on racial terms, we scream and argue more about to the point of raising pedantic elements into total hyperbole.

In 'polite Canada' they used to have language wars. The 'STOP' on the stop sign is a political issue, because it's technically English. So they argue about having 'Stop / Arret' - i.e. 'bilingual' stop signs - on federal property so that the French speaking person in Alberta, who may not know what 'Stop' means, will get the right idea.

These ridiculous discussions drown out any meaningful social reform, because the rational, pedantic progressives are actively culled by the radicals. In much the same way Stalin's control over the Germany Communist Party in Weimar Republic led him to attack the SPD (Social Democrats) as 'the primary enemy' over the far right.

This entire post could be restated in terms of populist right-wingism as well, particularly in regards to making something out of nothing and attacking their more traditional peers , with small differences.
Why not do both?

Forgiving past loans for graduated students does not put future money into the hands of college administrators unless you continue issuing and forgiving future loans.

Fixing the grift and providing relief to those who were grifted should be two sides of the same coin.
>> or witnessed bullying in school

It doesn’t tend to be like in the movies where the big kid hits the little kid. It’s often something you wouldn’t notice and friends of the person being bullied wouldn’t notice. Subtle but continuous and because you have to go to school you can do nothing to avoid it. Also keep in mind words can hurt much more easily when you’re a kid.
> Now the majority of people are driving vehicles that are much larger than a 1982-model work pickup, and with 5-10x the engine power.

The 1982 F-150 had around 200 horsepower, depending on the configuration. If you believe the majority of people are driving between 1,000 to 2,000 hp cars today you are badly mistaken. An Abrams tank has around 1,500 hp but not too many of my neighbors drive those to work.

https://itstillruns.com/1982-ford-f150-specifications-759817...
Yes. The university is not paying the professor because of refusing to use the pronouns, and the title heavily implies.
So tired of the culture of stoicism, in which you are supposed to internalize abuse. you have to let it out sometimes. Make your frustrations and demands heard.
Probably because some people get bullied to the point where they no longer want to live anymore. While we objectively cannot give a number to “ability to shrug it off”, it’s clear that some people cannot.
My point wasn’t about seediness or drug use, but about the number of severely mentally ill living on the streets. That has objectively gotten worse since the barriers to commitment went up substantially in the early 1980s and the Reagan dismantling of the national public mental health system and subsequent collapse at the state level. I feel less worried about drug dealers who have a rational economic reason for what they do than an untreated and unhoused paranoid schizophrenic with violent tendencies. IMO, that’s the really big change in at least the urban landscape. (N.b., I see this in NYC, Seattle, SF,and a number of other cities I’ve lived in).

Folks have noted the helicopter behavior permeates even suburbia, but I wonder if that’s more because of sprawl and lack of meaningful pedestrian infrastructure than anxiety.
If you had actually read the article, you would have seen that the loans were forgiven under a student loan forgiveness program introduced in 2007.
My experience as an iPhone user in the US is that it's like pulling teeth to convince older Android users to install a third party chat app. They refuse to participate in the solution; they don't even know there's a problem. Most Android users I know are old people. I'm basically on my knees begging them to pick an app, I'll install literally anything. They won't do it. It's not worth the hassle to even try convincing them. Green bubbles it is.
Today, we share some of our learnings from having used Kubernetes for a few years now and how organizations can navigate some of the preconceived notions out there. Would appreciate your thoughts.
Well, that is normalized in that the standard of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is about giving you the tools to deal with these feelings you have. There is a push among many to give one's emotions primacy, but obviously simply attempting to suppress them isn't a useful way to do things. It's about recognizing the way you fall into behaviour that isn't productive for you and stop it.

And that's the normalized state-of-the-art in the field, so this is one of those "can we normalize building roads?". Yes, yes we have.

As an aside, did you know 30% of soldiers experiencing severe combat trauma will not get PTSD and 70% of soldiers experiencing combat trauma will not get PTSD? I bet for those in that category, they will simply not understand why the rest feel how they do. But it is how it is. For instance, I can't relate to how it feels to be short.
> It's disappointing but not unexpected to see your comment downvoted. There's a reason CPTSD is considered even more difficult to treat than PTSD.

As you have correctly pointed out: disappointing but not unexpected.

I'm actually happy, it means that usually for people their worse experiences are high school bullies or broken ankles.

It's a good thing.

I wish it was true for everybody.
Yes, governments are accomplices in this, and yes, as I mentioned, we want cheap shit and turn a blind eye.

But we have laws like minimum wage, hours of work per week, social security contributions, health and safety etc. I don't care if it is a white or a black or a green man from mars that does a job, but I want him or her to have the protections we establish by law. The only reason there is these 'imports' of low skilled poor people is because business men know they can get around these laws and exploit them since most of them don't know better.

Wether is abiding by the law makes a business go out of business, then so be it. You may disagree with the minimum wage, the safety laws, and I encourage anyone to vote in accordance to that, but as soon as they are laws, either a business can work following them, or should not exist. We don't go and say 'well, loansharks can only exist by breaking some kneecaps, otherwise the business model wouldnt work' and let them do it.

And I am pissed because I saw these things first hand many times. Even called the respective government entities to expose the situation, and nothing was ever done, because as you said, governments benefit from this also.

For example (and I saw this happening more than once), minimum wage here is around 700 euros. Of this, the employee pays 70 to social security getting net 630 (minimum wage doesn't pay taxes basically). The employer has to pay around 200 euros on 'extras' to social security and other things. So it costs around 900 euros. I saw foreigners that didn't know better saying they wanted to get 500 at the end of the month. Employer paid them in cash 500 at the end of the month illegally, no contributions to social security or unemployment. Working more than 40 hours per week and id something happens to employee, he is fucked, and for this privilege, the owner saves 400 euros per month. So no, I don't want even more open borders to allow more and more exploitation.

edit: just today this comes up https://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/769046/escravatura-de-200-mol...

200 moldovians in slave conditions, a quote:
> When asked why he continued to work like this, the Moldovan migrant explained that his boss did not give him money because he withheld it and deducted it to Social Security to guarantee European citizenship.
Yeah the words I use aren't as harsh, and I'm willing to adjust.... if there is really consensus in making an accomodating world for people like this instead of ...... yeah a more Machiavellian outcome for people that can't cope, incentivizing people to figure out how to cope or disregard some stimuli.
Have you considered cloud machines for software dev?

Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder in a business that provides cloud environments for software dev.

One of my cofounders used to code daily from his ipad. I switch between my gaming pc and my mac. The flexibility and peace of mind is unbeatable for me. Plus its great for intensive computing usage since you can scale up and down.

That said, if Linux is your general purpose OS of choice (in addition to programming), than I completely get it :)
Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD
From the other day: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090952156/how-ukraine-kept-b...

> Russia's invasion has caused untold damage to lives, buildings, and roads. It also threatened to destroy Ukraine's banking system.

> But a month into the war, Ukrainians in most of the country can still put their money in savings accounts, pay their telephone bills, and withdraw cash easily.

> Today, we speak to the CEO of Ukraine's second-largest bank to learn how the country's banks are continuing essential business in the wake of devastation on the homefront.
Product Hunt is a step away from spam on a good day, and I'm not surprised to see how much worse it's gotten. Even most of the products now are just templates
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We're hardly the first people to complain about this, but it drives me nuts. I rarely delete messages (for better or worse), so I have an ever-growing iMessage database that is basically inaccessible to me. I don't know why I pay to back up 20 gigs of messages that I can't even access, but here we are. For instance, I wanted to figure out the exact date I met my partner. The only way to do this on iMessage is to scroll up...all the way up. With a few seconds of god-knows-what in between every page. The endeavor is usually futile, though; because when you get a ways back, the iMessage app will crash.
OK, right. Thanks. So the label on my jar is out of date.

That's one for books, but as far as I recall Kraft was there from the outset in the 1920s (so it was really always US-owned until recently).

Edit: just checked the low-salt version (both are used here—it's the smaller jar) and the label is different. Never noticed that until now.
> This effectively turns universities into career-training centers.

It's no change. That was already the premise of underwriting non-dischargeable loans.

> Then suddenly we have a society that does not appreciate art or dance or whatever other subjects were dropped.

Again, no change. If they were valued enough to support an expensive college degree, career prospects would be less dim.
So tired of government meddling in people's affairs.

So if you work for government you are eligible, in private business not!

That money is going to come out of someone else pocket. In this case it’s going to be more inflation and more taxes.

Where I live (Canada) the system is so complicated that 95% of people don’t even understand how it work. We have to run simulations of typical cases to trace graphs and make a decision.
Exactly what right as an employee do you have which allows you to create a hostile environment for customers?
The last time I implemented something like this we used a little library to check for typos on common domains and gave users a chance to correct on the front end before submitting. It significantly cut down the frequency of bad email addresses.

All of the other stuff is important too, but the most common issue is going to be someone tying "gnail" instead of "gmail", not having an obscure domain.

On a related note, I have mylastname@gmail.com and I receive emails from other people with my last name several times every week. I am almost certain they mean to type [firstinitial]mylastname@gmail.com but miss that first character. That's my working theory anyway. I've had to intervene multiple times when getting sent important medical emails for a different person with my same last name.
I'm all for contributing to admin salaries. I'd even go so far as to say state-funded schools shouldn't charge tuition at all.

That said, I have to agree that tuition definitely seems bloated and many admins make absurd salaries.

Until that's fixed, which seems unlikely in the near future, how do we fix the issue of massive debt that hangs over people for their whole lives?

The obvious solution would be to reduce tuition and other costs, but now we're in a loop. It seems like an intractable problem.
Like children of men but being done for the purpose of population control. That sounds like a good/scary sci-fi story!
Measuring this is problematic. I'd probably qualify as "bounced back" because a lot of the damage wasn't apparent in my daily life. I survived and thought I was okay.

It wasn't until I was 33 that I realized none of it had gone away. I'd just hidden and internalized the abuse and blamed myself for being the way I was.
I'll sell it for cheap, ie 1kish but it's going to my mom next week otherwise
Related: I used to use me@<myname>.com but gave up because Gmail uses "Me" as the name when displaying a user's own email address and it was confusing people enormously because a thread would look like:

>>>Me wrote:
>>Me wrote:
>Me wrote:
Me wrote:
Isn't the government the creditor?
You people are square as delaware I swear.

I can think of a dozen horrible things that are popularly embraced with both hands. And you guys don't even blink.

My idea, otoh, might be awesome.
> one of the questions that remains is how the trout is able to sense its surroundings well enough to intentionally take advantage of the effect

Doesn't a fish have the capability to try swimming at different frequencies to find a resonant one that minimizes effort (or maximizes forward motion)? Swimming might not be the right word, maybe flexibilities. I obviously don't do research in the field so wouldn't know if this is actually a dumb question.
> Sometimes, the solution is as simple as it's going to get, and it's still complicated. State management is a good example. I'm more referring to that situation.

That's fair. There is definitely irreducible, or essential complexity that we have to deal with.
I’m all for respectfully seeking atonement, so long as it’s understood that the victim doesn’t owe the perpetrator anything.

Parts of the article made me uncomfortable, like how after the perpetrator had been blocked, they went through friend back channels to continue to try to communicate with their victim.

Maybe that kind of stalking will ultimately work out for the best for everyone, but that’s pretty presumptuous, and seems more about assuaging the perpetrator’s guilt complex than victim recovery.
This is by far the best tiling WM for macOS. Greatly appreciate the authors work (it is, I believe his second or third implementation of a tiling wm).

Especially nice is the functionality to hold fn and drag with the right mouse button to change window sizes.
> If I want to design my own CPU, I will have to add it to GCC.

Why do you "have" to add it to GCC? You could only add it to LLVM instead.
I share this for, page 53:

A Foreshadowing of Modern Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence Analysis in 10th Century Byzantium

Andrew Skitt Gilmour
Delta Air Lines Tested SpaceX’s Starlink Internet for Planes
What if they're series F and are burning €1m per month on infrastructure because it's badly designed, and haven't yet turned a profit? Maybe VCs really do have billions to slosh around... Didn't a start-up go under recently for that very reason?
it died in '08.
Quoted strings are actually used in the real world, though they're certainly not common.

Shitty front ends are definitely putting an end to that, though.
Oh yeah, Yueh. Good call. His conditioning got cracked.
Ada/SPARK already provided such benefits, and NVidia has chosen it instead of Rust for automotive firmware.

Rust momentum is meaningless for GPUs unless NVidia decides it gets to play in CUDA, and they are now one of the companies with more ISO C++ people on their payroll.

It is also meaningless for PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox, unless the respective SDKs integrate Rust.

Bootstraping isn't silly, because LLVM and GCC are written in C++, so there isn't any "Rust will eclipse C+", when it depends on it for its existence.
WHY ARE SO FEW PEOPLE ASKING TO SEE THE TUNNEL?! I have to see it!
I think you might be misremembering, because the FAFSA is just the application you fill out to apply for student aid. Maybe the Department of Education issued the credits?
I've recently gotten back into first edition D&D (AD&D) and had overlooked for years that there's a whole dungeon generation "algorithm" in the back of the book. I've started to use it to play "solitaire", which I've learned is a fairly popular thing to do for old DMs that enjoy practicing their DM skills (you roll up your own group and pretend they're making their own choices). What's fun about it is that the dungeons it generates are crazy. Diagonal passageways, varying passage widths, stairways that might go down multiple levels and then come back up, rooms that are only accessible by traveling to other levels temporarily, etc.

The other thing that is interesting is that the order of generation is based off the party's choice of what door/passage to explore next, so it's very much intended to be generated during actual play.

I've thought more than once it would be fun to work up a tool to generate that dungeon on demand, to just press a button each time a choice is made and then watch it animate.
A lot of the comments make great points but honestly I think the biggest problem no one has addressed is the massive expansion in population since the 70s.

This has lead to much larger "towns" and suburbs where the sense of community is essentially gone. At best you might know a few neighbors on your street. So risk tolerance has gone down for a good reason. And when you see a strange kid out playing and you don't know who's kid they are, you're going to naturally worry about them and just assume the worst.

Another factor too astutely mentioned by someone below is the car dependent nature of most non urban environments, especially in North America. I see lots of kids playing near their homes on their own in the neighborhoods I live in. Parents aren't too far away and they're with the other kids of the neighborhood. Maybe the safe distance a kid can travel on their own hasn't changed, it's what you could actually accomplish in that distance that has changed.

Today's society, especially western society, is much less community focused. So now, not only do I not know what strange adults exist in my 200 home open air neighborhood with a single playground, none of the adults there know me either nor my family and therefore a perceived sense of risk and maybe even actual risk is higher that my kids are in danger.

That's what happens when population explodes and population density increases. All that's happening is the West is finally experiencing what many Asian and Middle Eastern Countries already knew.