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In most (all ?) countries except US, you are not taxed for crypto to crypto conversion. However you are taxed when you convert crypto to fiat. For example if you want to secure your bitcoins benefits by converting them to 1M USD, in France you should pay 300k USD (30% flat tax). But if you convert them to 1M UST, or USDT, or USDC, or whatever, then you pay nothing.

Note this is not tax evasion. At the end if you want to buy something useful (e.g. a house) with your crypto assets, you will still need to convert them to fiat and to pay taxes. This is just a way of securing volatile crytpo assets.
>The AUMF is, Constitutionally, a conditional declaration of war.

It's not, but that actually isn't relevant and doesn't matter in the Al-Awlaki case anyway.

The text of the AUMF specifically references those who participated in or planned 9/11, which means it's not relevant to Al-Awlaki. Also, Al-Awlaki's family offered to have him turn himself in the second he was charged with a crime but the US Government refused to charge him since that would immediately guarantee him Due Process which they specifically sought to avoid.
You strike me as someone who is at least right on the cusp of breaking through to understand what is really going on, however, if not, I encourage you to reconsider the assumptions and motivations of all the labels and affiliations of organizations and people and social strata you were likely also “taught” about all your life, mostly through “history”. It is an odd thing that many, if not most humans assume good faith/intentions even in the light of the starkest and most overpowering mountain of evidence. I guess not much in the universe is more powerful than the human capacity to deny having been fooled. Cue Mark Twain quote here.
It is only used by a "narrow" sub-culture group in the USA, as far as I know.

The way we learn about the world is to be exposed to "narrow" sub-culture groups in various countries.
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Reminds me of the Amazon data request process from a few weeks ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30820424
Nothing beats "it's cheaper". What happened to blue collar jobs in the US is coming for white collar jobs. Even if you don't do it, your competitor will and drive you out of business.
Until companies start competing for talent in Quebec.
Anything that combines Nietzsche with a "slow information diet" gets
my interest.

Nate Anderson's take [1] feels resonant with me, although I've moved a
long way from "Just Saying No" towards deeper tactics of intellectual
self-defence.

My experience of promoting "digital veganism" [2] is that the
underlying psychology is very complex. So much more than simply
entreating people to have concrete goals, focus and careful choice of
information is required.

There are forces at work related to self-esteem, sense for good
living, dignity and interpersonal dynamics, social status and much
more.

A powerful influence on my writing in this area has been psychology as
much as philosophy. For example Adam Phillips "Missing Out" [3] and
the works of John Bowlby on attachment theory.

Building healthy relations with digital information technology is a
long road I think, and one that requires significant courage and
tenacity.

[1] https://amzn.to/3skknf9

[2] https://digitalvegan.net

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13369538-missing-out
There are portable versions of browsers that you don't need to install and work just out of any folder.
Eve is an example of what the whole "play to earn" thing could actually look like and not be micro-transaction fueled casino-psychology games, imo!

There are people who basically do play full-time, running a corporation or something, and even kinda roleplay a bit, and some of the best leverage that into what resembles a salary by doing Twitch shows or selling merch and such.

So in essence, the players are paying these people to effectively become NPCs in the game to better their enjoyment of it! And it's been going for 20 years now.

Eve Online is the prototype for the metaverse.
I think what you're complaining about is dangerous in the long term. People are becoming frustrated and don't have relief. I bet we're going to see more unrest like the convoy protests.
Nothing about the projected cost to run your own does-it-all L1 node.

Nor much about the expected TPS on mainnet (>22 TPS isn't an impressive claim) has me sceptical about the level of openness you can expect going forward.

The spec comparison I'd make is something like:

solana (>5000 L1 TPS, bloated full server, PoS consistently tiny zk blockchain)
minima (>100,000 L2 TPS, tiny smartphone server, bloating L1 tx-PoW blockchain but lots of L2 incentives/guarantees).
zeeka (>1000? L1 TPS, medium server?, distributed PoW small variable blockchain store)
> Agreed, wake me up when cheap outsourced developers actually works out.

This actually happens quite a lot in my West-European country. Companies that aren't too picky about language knowledge can get cheap(er) Eastern European developers to do a lot of work. It works out well for the company. I'm one of the last expensive local developers, so I work with them quite often.

These developers are well-educated and very capable. They are in the same or an adjacent timezone, so there's no issue there. They have little to no knowledge of my local language, but that's not a big issue for us because we do most of our work in English anyway. There is no daily/weekly face to face interaction of course, but with WFH that doesn't happen with local developers either. There are just no insurmountable problems with nearshoring anymore. And since you can easily save 30-50% on a developer's salary by doing so...
It’s not even clear it costs less when you factor in the decline in quality, delays, and extra work needed by everyone else to monitor the outsourced work. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

How do you read that as six one way, half a dozen the other? Outsourcing often leads to lower quality, delays (which has business opportunity costs) and extra expense to monitor and review the work. Instead of being faster, cheaper, better outsourcing is slower, more expensive, and worse. Why would anybody choose that?
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Yes, it's been linked twice for you already. Please read back through the thread. You can reference the lawsuit and the public statements made prior to the assassination.

Now, are you ever going to answer why the US Government never bothered to charge him with a crime?
Or have that video conference call from your bathroom.. as long as you're on mute.
I guess, fundamentally, the question comes down to: “will we expect lightstream to be developed under the name Ben Johnson, or Fly.io.” This _might_ have implications for what the project becomes.

My intention was not to be condescending, fwiw, so I am sorry for my failure there.
Every framework has some kind of inspect-and-adapt thing going, nothing special about SAFe in that regard. The bigger question is how the organisation is supposed to get from zero (not using the framework) to the point where it is working at every scale, necessary if claims of business agility etc are to be realised. If the answer is a rollout project, then the dissonance there (not to mention the pain) should not be underestimated.
"wake me up when cheap outsourced developers actually works out. "

You're missing the point here.

They're not going to be hiring from 'body shops' they're just going to be hiring people 'remote' - just like you.

Why do you think that you in 'Small Town Ohio' are going to get hired over the guy in France at 80 cents on the dollar, or Poland 60 cents on the dollar, when they have decent language skills.

You're going to find out quickly that 'core education' in a lot of countries is as high, if not higher than US.

Brazil has iffy educational standards but their upper 1/3 get a good education, and India the ratio is worse but population higher.

The number of good devs. from China is blowing up.

US is 5% of the world's population, and educational standards vary.

It's a big world and Google etc. have no 'loyalty' to America.
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Admittedly most of my experience was in VB.NET, with a small caveat. The codebase I worked on (for around 3 years) was initially ported verbatim from an old VB6 + Access app, and it had the bare minimum amount of changes needed to make it work, so I feel like (and wrote the comment with the assumption that) at least the business logic part of said software was more VB6 than it was VB.NET. Barely no classes and 0 inheritance (the one good side), but also really dodgy imperative code with laughably brittle error handling (when it was there at all), wonky syntax (subjective), and an extremely loose approach with typing.

Considering that I spent (and still do spend) most of my afternoons with Haskell and F#, it was a bit of a shock and an experience that I don't remember fondly at all heh
> It doesn't though. The default format for requirements doesn't specify which requirements are top-level and which are no

Shameless plug: you can `pip install pip-chill && pip-chill > requirements.txt` and work as usual. If you feel brave, you can `pip-chill --no-version > requirements.txt` and check if your thing works with the latest of everything.
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I wasn't implying diff's design decisions were wrong, just that when we greenfield things these days, self-description is a feature where it decidedly wasn't in software built during the era where characters cost money (in ink and paper) to represent.

Git was wise to copy diff for backwards compatibility with existing CLI tools because it is primarily accessed via command line. No such backwards-compatibility gain exists with a PATCH protocol over HTTP.

In terms of terseness: when servers care about terseness these days, they use a non-ASCII-on-the-wire transport like GRPC. I believe that is out of scope for this RFC.
In Factorio I just let things buffer on belts and eyeballed things as I went along. The hard part was designing things such that I could arbitrarily scale out builders/belts as needs changed.

Satisfactory requires you to be slightly more intentional with ratios but (at least when I played) I came up with some balancing belt designs that let me get away with not needing to be super accurate with matching input/outputs. As long as I kept things at like 101% it'd all work out at the end. I'd need to do some head math to figure out initial build capacity of some product and I'd expand after that as needed.
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This is why I hold Bitcoin. I expect it to be widely desirable someday, and will gain much value in the meantime. This is the nature of money itself.
Do existing PyTorch models work out of the box with cloud TPU, or does it require some tweaking?

Are there cost savings over traditional GPU workloads?

When will GKE support TPU? And will there be preemptable instances?
> so I guess it's a hundred bucks per star. :)

That actually totally checks out as a Fermi estimation. If you think of starring as developers marking a library that has brought them value, if they starred it, it's probably saved them an hour or so in the long run. So one benny* per star totally checks out.

* Ben Franklin, not Ben Johnson, lol, pun not intended
I think “smell” was not intended as a value judgement, but as a way to emphasize that there’s probably something wrong nearby, even though it’s hard to articulate.
One estimation trick that I've found effective is the following:
(1) determine the smallest number that your sure is larger than the true answer.
(2) determine the largest number that you are sure is smaller than the true answer.
(3) take the geometric average of the two. (i.e., sqrt(a * b))

The reason this does well, is that oftentimes, (1) overestimates the true answer by roughly the same multiplicative factor as (2) underestimates the true answer by. So the geometric mean cancels the over and under estimates in order to get an estimation that does pretty well.

I find that this works remarkably well for estimating the dimensions of buildings, trees, etc.
FWIW: Poorly-fitting panel covers would never pass an inspection and are inherently dangerous. It's really important for the panel to be enclosed. Humidity, dust, vermin, and fingers get in. Sparks get out. Your home insurance would be worthless in case of a fire. Never mind the risk to irreplaceables.

But re: tripping the main -- this is likely a fault in the breaker itself. It's not likely that a faulty line breaker allowed enough current to trip the mains breaker (though it does happen, but see below). Of course several overloaded lines can trip the mains, but this is exceedingly rare. A fault in the mains breaker is a serious problem for sure. However, unless you inspected the wiring yourself, I'd hesitate to assume that it was miswired as you describe.

In standard US residential service, you get two 120V lines ("legs"). If the mains breaker failed, it's possible to lose one of those legs to the buss that supplies the line breakers (and the house fixtures), while the other leg stays up and powering the "other half" of the house. In this case, 240V appliances will appear to be "out" because they are only getting partial power (240V is really just two 120V services, 180degrees out of phase).

So I'd guess the cause was a failed/fatigued mains breaker. That's a job for an electrician, regardless, who would surely notice miswiring if present, and the other code violations that you definitely had.
What are the odds that abortion rights are the last one this court strips away from Americans?
Then why not outsource?
It's a helicopter. It basically has an onboard vibrator. Park it at an angle and spin blades until you find a resonance and then leg gravity do the rest. I'm sure there's some very specific reason this "doesn't work".

Or just hope the vehicle's flight envelope is wider than the "dust's ability to stick to the panel" envelope. You're gonna lose the vehicle either way so why not try it.

I think part of the problem is that the kind of people who have a lot of experience solving these kinds of problems don't really have career paths that intersect with NASA so the engineers spec'ing out the vehicle don't really know with good enough levels of certainty when they can make cheap minor tweaks to the design of the vehicle that will produce some secondary positive result. And you can't go just call up the professional specialists and ask for their input because the processes involved are too bloated and would cost too much money to invoke over small secondary features so you really need that kind of expertise in house or not at all.
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Yup, "That's creepy as fuck mate" was all it took to dissuade a former manager from rigging the ceiling up with cameras for whatever he was looking at doing

Sometimes resistance is not futile
That's a good way to put it. I think the fact that he used tweets to illustrate examples of doomerism exemplifies that. Twitter was written from the ground up to prey on our irrationality and emotions.
Gates (and Buffet via Gates) invests huge sums in science and tech via his foundation. Elon Musk funded the $100M XPrize for carbon removal. Yuri Milner funds the Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics. Sergei Brin and Mark Zuckerberg are also breakthrough prize funders. Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt are also major funders of X Prizes.

The list goes on and on. These things just aren’t widely reported because they are boring and don’t fit narratives favored by much of the press.
Yeah, I really don't understand why they don't include a shaker motor to vibrate the particles off the panels .. I mean I can guess that its just one more part to throw at a very, very expensive BOM already, but it seems to me that there must be some resonant frequency, well known through tests already, that would shake the panels just so that they become functional again ..
I agree with most of what you say. However:

> [...] especially when carbon costs are priced in.

You misunderstand the economics of proof-of-work. Perhaps we should call it 'proof-of-waste'. Basically, in something like bitcoin proof-of-work functions a bit like an auction: the total amount of resources wasted on mining tends to equal the total amount of mining rewards.

For simplicity, assume mining rewards are fixed.

If hashing becomes cheaper, (eg first because of GPU miners, later because of ASICs), the hash rate will go up, but the total amount of resources wasted on mining will stay the same.

If hashing becomes more expensive (eg because of a universal carbon tax), the hash rate will go down, but the total amount miners spend on mining stays the same.

Arguably, that's exactly how a carbon tax is supposed to work in the best case.

Of course, there will be plenty of incentives to avoid the carbon tax. Both by mining with clean power (good!) and by mining in places that don't implement the carbon tax (less good!).
As a proxy for popular opinion and orientation to power, music can be a pretty efficient signal though. When you look at big changes in chart positions and whose sentiment it triggers, someone shooting to the top of the charts out of nowhere is a signal of aesthetic direction change that a politician needs to be able to parse to be percieved as "in touch."

Musical taste can also reveal a bit about the politician and how they may respond to issues. The sounds of Biden's peak years were psychedelic and arena rock with an all or nothing protagonism, where the former president kind of peaked in the fern bars of the 80s so there was a smooth new wave/brett easton ellis vibe about the whole thing, where he was aloof and self oriented on the issues. Condoleeza Rice was famously a pianist and admirer of Brahms. It's a bit horoscopey, but musical taste is an honest signal of revealed preferences. In Canada, I get the impression the current prime minister is just really into Sarah McLachlan.
Somehow, “sales” still works in that analogy and it’s kind of great.

Set sail for home! They’re having a 20% off sale!
Completely with you, in complex projects the tooling can be improved and those tools attempt to do that. However going back to what the OP was suggesting about how the situation puts them off using Python, I do think it's the messaging around this that's the problem. Python, the community, need to unify on a message around official tools. There will always be edge cases, but the noise generated by them can give the impression the ecosystem is broken when it really isn't.
Plants are generally net neutral in CO2 consumption. They consume CO2 during the day, but when not producing energy through photosynthesis, they consume O2 and produce CO2 for their cellular respiration.

The net effect is generally, plants release similar amounts of CO2 at night as they consume during the day. The exception here would be plants that use Crassulacean acid metabolism for photosynthesis, which would be a lot of your arid native plants.
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Replace "exploit" with "pay less because the cost of living there is much lower".

My colleague in India gets paid a fraction of what I make, but he is able to afford a bigger house and more luxuries. The cost of living in the Western word is out of control.
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You've got cause and effect flipped. The method of faceting or scattering from even, panelled surfaces is an effect of the root cause, namely the computer's inability to compute more complex radar profiles. You can read more about this in Ben Rich's book 'Skunk Works', the story about his time as the director of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Projects, informally called Skunk Works. Great read!
NFTs typically don't even entitle you to copy the content you "own" - DEFINITELY not to re-license it, for any popular crypto market. If you are not the original buyer (i.e. if you bought your monkey NFT from someone else, not from the original issuer), they may well not entitle you to anything at all, since you do not have any kind of contract with the original issuer.
Me:

> Also, I remember seeing a model kit in the window of a model shop in North London, well before the plane was announced to the public. Must have been in the 80s.

Note "well before the plane was announced to the public"

This would have been far before 1988.
I found a bunch of fascinating old videos by the San Diego Opera recently, as well as a (new to me) niche of custom mechanical keyboard channels, some of which are brilliantly funny.

Youtube is not trying to serve you good content, but it's helpful for finding new things if you vary your media diet a bit.
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One of the things that's cool about Bzip is that it makes use algorithmic techniques developed by theoretical computer scientists in order to perform the Burrows Wheeler Transform efficiently. It's a great example of theory and practice working symbiotically.
If you aren't known to the people that control your project/company you might get outsourced.

If you don't provide value for your salary and only have knowledge/skills that other people have you might get outsourced.

If you don't behave in a polite and reasonable manner and show a little humility to people who aren't system experts, you might also be in trouble.
"Academics write articles for Elsevier journals for free and hand over copyright; other academics review and edit these papers for free; and Elsevier then sells these papers back to academics."

-- This is not accurate. Elsevier journals also charge huge amount of fees (around or over $1000 depends on the journals) from academics for submitting and/or publishing their manuscripts.

--edit: changed submitting to submitting and/or publishing