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Agreed.

> If I want to search for something topical and relevant, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord etc. The general Internet is dead: it's just legacy content and spam.

The "general" Internet is not dead. Though if you just want to participate in just Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord you might well think that.

Users of marginalia (author above), Mojeek (disclosure: CEO) and others [0] are well aware that there are riches of organic human-made content; from years back and new. Yes, a lot of noise too, which Google has a bigger (SEO) struggle to compete against. But still there is good and different content available.

To find good content, using search, you need to use "search" engines which enable discovery, as Google used to do so. I stress the "search" as the emphasis of Google, Bing and thus their syndicates is increasingly on being "answer" engines.

[0] https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
Not much on “continuous lockdown”. Lockdown in China is “dynamic” and at this point a great portion of the population has been on a lockdown at once. Many smaller city are in lockdown sporadically every few weeks but they are not crowded. Most rural areas are not tightly managed either, lockdown is per village or even per household basis with no statistics.

I think for China what matters are the big Tier1 cities. It’s enough to paralyze China if 2-3 of them implement full city wide lockdown. Core areas of Beijing has implemented daily test, not much in its suburbs though. So far Beijing is quite manageable still.

Source: family in Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan and several other Tier 2/3 cities across China.
You are a bit late to the party. Many Russian assets have already been seized, among them the Gazprom subsidiary in Germany.

We are in a weird spot where Russia is very much interested in economic relationships continuing more or less as is (exemplified by the conciliatory rhetoric from the Russian government, essentially they are saying "no hard feelings, return any time" to the departing companies) so will mostly respect property rights. OTOH the West sees financial and economic relationships as their main weapon in this war so most funky moves related to property rights will be initiated by the Western governments (e.g. many "sanctions" essentially are extrajudiciary property seizures).
I figure this is the real reason. Which dealership would be stupid enough to say they had sold a car in a month that they were officially lockdown. The retribution would be swift and harsh.

Could also be zero because everyone obeyed the order.
I'll do the take home tests if I find them interesting.

Interesting to me is important. Last time I did one I found a recursive (not tail recessive) solution to a problem that I already knew was a simple iteration using a couple standard library functions - but where is the fun in that? I learned a lot and didn't care that I didn't get the job. (I did earn a call back, which is great considering at the time I didn't qualify for the advanced position they were hiring for)
The article totally misses the point of why the rebrand failed.

I used to drink Tropicana Grovestand all the time in the 2000s. One day, I showed up at the grocery store, and a bunch of people were in front of the Tropicana rack, looking confused.

I tried to find "Grovestand," but I couldn't. There were tons of identical bottles to choose from. Eventually, after staring at the bottles for a few minutes, I saw tiny text at the top of the bottle, hidden under the angle from the shelf above. It said things like, "no pulp," "pulpy," "lots of pulp."

I had no idea which one was "Grovestand."

Now, when it comes to orange juice, I really only like "Grovestand," so I took the time to shake the bottles around and figure out that "pulpy" was "Grovestand" and that "with pulp" wasn't. But, if there was another brand that I liked, you bet I would have bought it instead.

All they needed to do was keep the old brand names, and make the words visible. That's it. Even though I was relieved when they went back to the old packaging, I was disappointed. All I wanted them to do was make it easy to find "Grovestand."
I found a few pro-terrorism sites here. I don't think it's the OPs purpose, but he's being duped by the few users that do look for sites like this where they can add a "curated link" to their ISIS or Hezbollah or Hamas site with a slick facade.
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I would not underestimate how critical influence is.

Influence / knowledge how to operate big chains,.how to organize supplier how to do marketing etc.

If you are a smart modern person speaking English also makes it easier for you to stay in your country when you have appropriate job opportunities and a ecosystem which feels adequate.

It's not that I would miss McDonald's if it would disappear were I live bit if a lot more does, I would probably want to migrate away.

I think this is a bad sign for Russia. And IF they are able to recreate what they already had, it will take time and be costly.
Obviously I can't source something from inside President Xi's head. But that rumor seems consistent with the observed facts on the ground.
That's pretty similar to here in south-east England, in particular with "new build" houses (anything built in the last 20 years, of which there are lots).

I never saw A/C in the UK when I was younger, and in the last 5 years, I can point out a good dozen houses within walking distance of my house that has had units added. We're going to be one of those shortly.
>wifi adapter card to save power

Removing the card is preferable.
the restaurants will stay open, just under a new franchise
If you want to know why you are facing these problems please answer this simple question:

How is anyone at these major service providers supposed to distinguish between your claimed legitimate use and a fly by night spammer churning through disposable fake identities?

As you noted, you have no history or reputation. Nothing. The rest of us will gladly increase the cost of entry for you without any concern if it increases the cost for bad actors who are attempting to parasitise the system.
In my experience, just having a degree at all (in CS, Eng, IT/MIS, but even math, music, languages) isn’t a terribly strong predictor within the field. It’s mostly used, by those who do, again ime, to filter out against lack of commitment/perseverance/grit.

Personally I feel I get much more signal talking to people about their particular passions, accomplishments, struggles, and ideas.
Every US corpo is "I support the current thing" meme personified.
Non-ironically, the only time I drink Tropicana, or any fruit juice anymore is when I buy it at McDonald's
I don't really have much to add to the topic that hasn't already been said here. It will be interesting to see if this continues and what it does to Russia.

But on a tech side of things, why is the corporate section of McDonalds trying to request my location?!? Glad Safari prompted me and I blocked it but this is ridiculous.
https://plausible.io/privacy-focused-web-analytics

You surf with JS off because of sites abusing their users' data. This is not it.
Nice idea, but of course if it gets even slightly popular, every SEO content farm will immediately generate 10,000 sites that all list each other in their webring.txt.
It’s particularly cool that this works on mobile
actually Russian propaganda interpreted this exact news as "McDonalds will be re-opened in mid June" [1] focusing on keeping jobs and suppliers and mentioning the rebranding

[1] https://tass.ru/ekonomika/14634951
I'm not exactly sure how your example is particularly egregious.

AWS Support doesn't know your workload. If you, who know your workload, can't figure out what's wrong, how can AWS Support figure it out in 15 minutes?

> "that got an answer of 'looking into it' in 19 minutes, then ~1:45 an answer of 'oh, yeah, I checked and this and this DB you talked about didn't reboot', which was true, the person that made the ticket pointed out the wrong instance."

Which wasn't AWS Support's fault. They looked into the resource on the ticket. Again, AWS Support doesn't know your workload and isn't going to go on a fishing expedition to guess which DB might be the issue.

> "3 hours after I point the correct DB we get told, yes, you are right, it rebooted. And then on the 1st of April I ask for a timeline of how the writer/reader nodes changed during the reboot, I get an answer on the 20th, even though we pushed in the ticket and through our TAM for an answer."

Timelines and RCAs have to go through the service team. Up to, and including, the service GM at times. It can be frustrating to wait for an RCA, but sometimes the things just take time.

> "All in all, for the hundreds of thousands of dollars we're spending a month on support, I have a feeling that when we need it, we're kind of alone."

I'd encourage you to open a chat or phone for a business critical issue. That way Support doesn't spend an hour and a half trying to troubleshoot the wrong resource. Those errors can quickly be found and remediated on a call.
You're right, currently you can't get your revenue outside unless you're down to use a scheme involving exchange for trades inside Russia, move them outside and turn back to money. I've diagonally read the article linked and it depicts everything correctly.
The problem with that is that Putin doesn't seem to care about the damage to Russias economy and hijacking the gas pipelines is likely to do just as much damage to the countries downstream. One of Gazproms local off shots managing gas reserves was recently seized in Germany, however without Gazprom delivering gas its tanks will just stay empty and they represent a not insignificant amount of our winter reserves.
I take myself as an example.

People that know me and don't meet me regularly might know the URL of my web site and might care to look at it once per year and check if there is something new. Usually pictures and tales from holidays. Covid made those holidays less memorable so I didn't make any update since fall 2019. People that meet me regularly don't need that website, I'm telling them the tales first hand and showing them the pictures without being obnoxious. I guess that this website is a target for your search engine except it's not in English and your search engine seems to want English search phrases.

I don't have anything of value to share on a public chat like Twitter and I don't have an ego to pretend I do. I also don't use Facebook anymore. I go there once per year to like the messages that wish me happy birthday. I think it's polite to do so. All my media production is on WhatsApp or Telegram in group chats with people I know in real life.

If I really cared about producing content for the world I'd probably be using Twitter, Medium or the fad of the year and they'd take care of my SEO (do they?) or I'd be trying to score points on StackOverflow.

To recap: I never intended to compete on SEO. I'm really OK that my website is only for friends and spreads by word of mouth. It probably never did, I bet it's been on a flatline since I created it 20+ years ago.
I remember that design. I liked it, knew it was Tropicana, and bought it. But I do remember also being surprised by it.
This is why I primarily prefer and frequently am the lead on backend APIs. There's no BS. I spend 90%+ of my time coding and architecting the system. No bickering, etc.. Here's the API, now use it. It's a great little niche.
Asked a genuine question related to crypto regarding key and ownership.

Was so heavily spammed by bots (assumption). Did not reply to any of them (as the sub-reddit mod comment mentioned not to).

So yeah, that time. Apart from that I rarely initiate a conversation myself (via chat)
Good way of putting things!
It's about removing sanction: denying the Russians - particularly the urban Russians - their veneer of civilization, affluence, westernization. The notion that they had accomplished something material positive in regards to moving forward in the world among nations after the Soviet collapse.

Sure they can clone brands, and sometimes they can clone products and services, you can also go to Walmart and buy Great Value brand products that are 85% as good as the brand goods. Most people still don't want to do that if they can afford not to.

People buy brands primarily (not exclusively) for social reasons of status, not because they're vastly superior to all alternatives (off brands, generics, house brands, etc). They don't need that Chanel or Louis Vuitton bag, or iPhone, they want it to show off.

Removing sanction is about the West no longer pretending Russia is a civilized nation, no longer pretending their culture is a civilized one (rather than a barbarous relic of the conquest-obsessed primitive past of the European great powers conflicts).
On the plus side, increasing awareness of the problem has made it more common to see actual fresh orange juice squeezed onsite at stores. And it's delicious.
It is indicative of a short term change. The short term changes here in the US resulted in other long term disruption and that's likely to happen in China as well.
I think you're generalizing your own behavior. I regularly use google to search for topics that cross my mind and I end up on many websites that are not one the giants in your list. It's a fun activity. If people stick to the same 10 websites that's on them. Nothing prevents you from exploring the web.
Can anybody explain why the rouble is at a five-year high? Or is there something in the intricacies of currency pairings that means this high isn't quite like other "highs"?
But that goes for everyone, until you can put it into numbers which aren't gamed. That's what is being challenged here. Do the communication methods as they exist today provide value, and to what degree? Do we have actual numbers?

Whenever the "we hate meetings / the current bureaucracy" crowd criticizes the current state of affairs, the opposition tends to seek the high ground and go "well but you just don't understand what drives value". Meanwhile, there is a surprising lack of numbers regarding all this.
Just posting here that I'm real and I'm glad I found searchmysite! After HN, Verge, Ars, Gizmodo, and some car forum, I struggle to find content I want to read. Hopefully this will allow me to continue to find something I can read as I work on solving problems at work. I find distractions help me to refocus in an odd way.
Hasn't the US already been seizing stuff somewhat randomly? I don't think there is a case that Russian yachts are contributing to the war effort, but there seems to be a push on to make off with them.
That's how hype works. The amusing part is that you can be hyped up for something that you already have. There was a game I played on PS2 and NDS and then it got ported to PC and I was hyped for it and enjoyed it as if I played it for the first time.
> then maybe Gazprom's pipelines won't be Russian anymore.

Germany already took over control of Gazprom Germania, with tanks and pipelines within Germany. So that isn't much of a threat.

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Elektrizitaet... (PDF, German language)
I think the suggestion is that they are going to remove the branding rights from the franchise owners “de-Arching” them. So there will be no McDonalds branded restaurants in Russia.
Having taught this paper a couple times, the best way to think about it is a binary. Why is there 1 (a firm) and not 0 (the market)? This way shifts the internal/external viewpoint slightly. The resting state should be 0 (the market), we need to understand why we get 1 (the firm).

All of that being said, SaaS and remote work tools should reduce the cost of transactions in the firm, which means expanded control of capital and more productive monitoring systems. In effect this means that the company can coordinate restrictions on output, monitor agents, and curb the costs imposed by the agents on the firm.

Theory is ambiguous when it comes to markups, what the company charges versus the price that consumers pay. This might go up or go down. There is a lot of current debate on this. But the theory does suggest that markets should get more monopolized.

Let me know if you need more. This is one of my research foci.
> Russia is party to several international treaties

Russia (or more precisely Putin) obviously gives a sh* about international treaties. The invasion in Ukraine breaches more than just one such treaty.

So why would they care about intellectual property?
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Cryptocurrencies are not nessarily more volatile, but they are certainly slower.

I don't think you need to make the same tradeoffs because less decentralization is needed for micropayments. I think GNU Taler is a good solution but it is competing against a monopolistic surveilance network that the banks profit from.

I don't think the world/country can depend on a single company like PayPal. Once you get vendor lock-in, they will hike up the fees. GNU Taler would implement the same interface/API across different banks/vendors/wallets, so the individual switching cost (of going to another bank, for example) is low.
> P2P never made it to the mainstream; instead, centralized systems still (or, again? even more?) dominate the landscape. So, because it failed, should we try Web3? I doubt it, as it is more likely to fail, due to higher complexity and more dependencies.

One major reason decentralized has a hard time is because standards, public protocols cannot be innovated on rapidly. Or at least, new iterations cannot be deployed universally very quickly. So centralized / proprietary channels rise to the top because new ideas can find expression in them more rapidly.
Some guy in his basement that cobbled together a working e-Ink word processor would be much more interesting to me

That's exactly what this looks like. It looks like someone glued an e-Ink display into an old ThinkPad T41.

Zoom in on the bezels in the up-close view: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/61a133075b8ce58a48f1bed1/61e...

The southeast corner looks like there's a battery indicator half-covered up.

It even has a IBM ThinkPad logo and a "T41" in the corner and machine screws holding the screen together.
I eat it like once every 2 months, I think I'll be alright.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I really don't think this is "clear to consumers".
No because it's mostly not P2P. A lot of it is centralized. There are central servers behind things like MetaMask or hosting most NFT content.
The basic premise in market economies is that if a transaction occurs it is beneficial for both the buyer and the seller. This makes intuitive sense if you think about it - nobody forces you to buy McDonald's, you do so because you think a Quarter Pounder is worth the price you pay.

Sanctions work by preventing this transaction from happening, which means both the buyer and the seller are worse off compared to when they are allowed to trade.

The key point here is that although both the buyer and the seller are worse off, one party may be disproportionately impacted. This is the case with the Russian sanctions, as Western companies can usually find other markets (although less lucrative) but Russia is now having serious trouble sourcing certain components.

McDonald's is likely doing this for image reasons or to appease stakeholders rather than doing it to punish Russia directly, but the outcome is that Russians are slightly worse off than before.
There are mini-editors that try to mimic emacs: https://opensource.com/article/20/3/lightweight-emacs (and more which I forget).
In late April up to now, Wiby (a small mostly unheard of search engine) began having the exact same issue. Tens of thousands of the exact same type of "powered by..." requests coming from thousands of IPs. They are using a tool called QHub.
The transaction can be mutually beneficial: We gain cash worth more to us than the licenses/branding/machines, they gain licenses/branding/machines worth more to them than the cash. For the classic example, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Ricardo'...

Cutting them off from the global economy does damage their economy. No, burgers aren't as important as banking or bullets, but it's something.
It's just one of those weird things that people, especially Americans, have been conditioned to think is wholesome.

After some time not drinking it, orange juice is almost sickeningly sweet to me.
It has been dead for a while now and the whole society feels it globally. Things were getting so good then things become horrible and whoever cracks the path to the goods stuff again will find great riches at the end of the path.
>The problem with cryptocurrency, unlike eg. gold, is that you can't melt it down and get the energy back somehow.

Melting gold down would require more energy, not less and is a step in the initial mining of gold, not "getting the energy back."

Not sure what you were getting at here
Also M1 MBP, but I only use Figma when consulting a design, not creating one. It's definitely beefy (higher ram usage), but I assume it's electron based and has all of chromium running underneath it. I don't think that's a big deal for things like Figma that are usually someone's primary (or a close second) application. Hasn't been a serious issue for me, but I definitely close it when not in use instead of letting it hang around.
I am both surprised and not surprised by this.

It does kinda make sense, I have 2 cats (from the same litter and have been together their entire lives. 14 yo now). They each clearly respond to their name and not their brothers name. Or at least respond differently, but I have noticed they look up sometimes if I call one and not the other (but won't run up to me). I have long though it was them responding to the "pet voice" that we all seem to use. But if this was the case that explains it better.
that is a weird perspective, if i may say so. i don't think rudeness has anything to do with class. there are plenty of polite and friendly people as well as rude people everywhere.
Ask HN: Freelancers, what's your hourly rate?
I am trying to figure out if I should charge more. I currently code C++ for the equivalent of $100 per hour. So please post what you do and how much you charge.
For the fellow European (edit: & US) HN crowd I can highly recommend Hetzner's Cloud offerings: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
Keep in mind that tiny ~550 MHz, MIPS 24K core based boards have been around for a while, including OpenWRT support. They are not as powerful as one might like, and with performance lower than a Pi 1 (and a lack of accelerators), you might be better off getting more recent ARM based stamp-sized SBC for the same price.

What is interesting about this one is that it has reasonable documentation for a change (but not about the MediaTek SoC) and they might actually be able to move volume on both their main device and extension boards.
I feel like there's a way for crypto to be useful in this problem space, but I don't have faith that the actors who build such a system would be good-natured enough to make it a healthy environment, especially after all of the scammy projects that have surfaced these past few years.

I think back to when people used to tip dogecoins via a bot on Reddit. It was low-friction, low-cost, and seemed to seek no rent. A similar model may work well for micropayments (instead of microtipping), but I don't have enough faith in the current web3 sphere to develop this without it turning into a scam.
I am not sure it is even that rational though.

I think it is like brand name vs off brand. I just bought off brand oatmeal that was $1.98 vs the brand name was $3.50.

Someone buying the brand name is just operating on an unthinking heuristic that they only buy "the best". I am sure they would justify it after the fact that the brand name taste better even though it is just oatmeal.

So many decision points in society run on that heuristic IMO.