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> But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song.

An iPad running Korg Gadget is much, much more capable, though arguably not as hip and cool.
You would need to move 1 million into some crypto exchange, there is a bit of risk there and it takes significant amounts of time. Then go and buy 1 million of USDT, you can see the live orders here, there are several buy orders even above a million for prices between 0,98 and 0,99: https://ftx.com/trade/USDT/USD

And then you need to take your 1 million USDT to Tether, become a verified customer (I'm guessing this takes time as well) and exchange them for real dollars. Which they will then probably take a few days to deliver to you.

So I can see how that may make sense for someone that's already through most of those steps and at lower prices like the 0,95 from this morning. But at the current 0.9944 sell price I don't think it's worth it for many people.
Reading history always makes me feel better. For example the periods after the founding of the US or the period after the end of the US civil war. Turns out we've been doing stupid stuff for a long time. And yet I generally agree with the way we've progressed, even though there's still more to improve.
Can you please clarify what you mean by “audited reserve reports”? The best ive heard of is “attestation” or “assurance.” From the very page you linked:

> Tether Holdings Limited do regular assurance opinions every quarter

And from the latest report:

> We have examined the assertions by the management of Tether Holdings Limited that its Consolidated Reserves Report as of 31 December 2021 at 11:59 PM UTC (the “CRR”), a copy of which has been included in Appendix 1 to this report, is correctly stated based on the balances set out therein.

Thats the account attesting that yes, they were provided with a report. The report, as stated, is internally consistent. Where does it say the independent accountant audited the holdings?
Not in any discernible degree without at least an electron microscope...
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> which prevents Russia from reinforcing its Black Sea fleet

After the successful attack on Moskva I'm not even sure it's beneficial to NATO or not. Of course it is in the best interests of Ukrainians to keep these ships at bay, but from NATO's point of view this could be an excellent occasion to make some significant blows at Russian fleet.
Thank you for the heads up, but I don't see how.

They were not part of the development and have no financial involvement. Hmm, now that I think about it, I am going to the conference as affiliate of the university... :/
Has the whole book been discredited or just one chapter in the book?
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I live across the street from a school. I'd walk my kid in through a side door, the only one that was unlocked, early in the morning. I asked if the front door could be opened at that hour- nope, for "security reasons" they could only have one door open (oddly, that door was completely unobserved, while the front door had cameras, and was next to the main office).

Even though I live literally next door and standing in my yard, I can see kids playing, I am exceptionally cautious. In particular, I introduced myself to the staff (they park in front of my house every day) so they knew who I was, smiled and made direct eye contact, and acted in a non-aggressive way. This greatly improved my ability to move about my yard without suspicion. They never did unlock the front gate, though. Security through theatre.
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I'm someone who tends to hate on electron, but definitely ignore those comments. If you have a large, experienced team who can easily crank out a native app, then there is potential for increased performance, but for solo projects and small teams the increased productivity alone is worth it. It's way better to have something available than a promised feature that may ship in 2 years.

Plus, there are tons of slow buggy apps that are written in c++, that doesn't guarantee performant software. Electron doesn't need to be slow either, VSCode demonstrates that. Especially for a solo dev or small team, electron is for sure the right choice for a desktop app.

Edit: the reason I tend to dislike electron is that apps don't often follow native UI trends, which is definitely a solvable problem.
Seems pretty similar to https://scratch.mit.edu/
Your first and third points are areas I've found open source companies pleasant to work at. The cheap customers go to the open source code; the ones looking to actually pay buy support contracts. Customers that you can't please also switch to open source; meanwhile ones who find a good fit but want some guidance, end up paying a support contract.

Doesn't work for lots of businesses, but where it does it's quite nice.
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Let's add the Nintendo Switch. I can get the KORG Gadget for 30£ and make some sweet tunes. Sure, to get the tunes out into something I can export sound from I'd need to get the KORG Gadget for iOS or Android, and from there to Ableton Live. But I've tried out the KORG Gadget on Switch and it's really fun to use.
I used to think that. Who would get elected for EU president? I believe we have such diversity that the risk is that only the right wing hardliners could agree on a common candidate and we’d risk getting something like Orban or Berlusconi as EU president. I think you can see the trend in the US. So no thanks.

I find the complexity of EU actually to be a feature, not a bug. There are drawbacks, but I’ll take them over the alternative you paint.
I keep posting this objection on every single one of these articles.

It is weird how supposedly techno-savvy people can't spot how easy this would be. But I'd think it would look more like an alternative to murder-for-hire when ruining someone else's life and throwing them in jail would be sufficient. Get someone else to pay reasonably big money to actually do it and not just threaten it.

This may have happened already and some middle aged dude caught with CSAM is crying about how he's been framed--only he really has been framed. But nobody believes him, because nobody believes a sex pervert.

It seems like a great way to me to put out a 'hit' on someone because it can be done from across the world without leaving any physical traces, with the actions taken across national borders, and much less likelihood of the cops being able to do anything about it, even if they do detect it and the person winds up going free.

Agencies like the CIA may also be able to exploit this against foreign politicians and public figures they don't like.
Can I get an ELI5 on this? I don't do enough in this space to understand the significance. Thanks in advance to whomever can help out!
I know a few professional musicians who have them and you can look up a host of famous musicians who are known to use them: Diplo, Bon Iver, Deadmau5, Yasutaka Nakata, even Ariana Grande has one. It seems to occupy a similar space to the Elektron products —- high end with a steep learning curve
Of course, the path to destruction is always paved with good intentions.

But time and time again humans have shown that they cannot handle the responsibility of power. And giving governments access to all private communications is absolute power.
The most common confusion with this is that when importing library code from your binary, you use `crate_name::...` as opposed to `crate::...`, as they are separate. You also don't have to declare the lib.rs as a module from the binary, and generally all your `mod` statements will reside in your lib.rs
Ironic that this is coming out of the tutanota people whose product disabled my newly opened account, based on unspecified suspicions, for 48 hours, during which mails sent to it bounced as undeliverable, and only notified me about this fact upon subsequent login.
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Calling all citizens to a crazy war to die in pride for their lands and forbidding men to leave to country also is a very nationalist move for a non nationalist country IMO
Wekan is wild, it's a great project but it's downfall used to be that it was a worse version of Trello. But now that Atlassian has atlassianed all over it Wekan is now "Trello back when it was still good." It's a joy to use.
California takes loitering near a school very seriously.

Loitering at or near a school is a misdemeanor that is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 court fine. If the defendant is a person who is required to register as a sex offender under California Penal Code Section 290 PC, the maximum fine amount on a first conviction for loitering at or around a school increases to $2,000. If the defendant is required to register as a sex offender and has a previous conviction under California Penal Code Section 653b PC, he or she must serve a minimum of 10 days in jail. And if the defendant is required to register as a sex offender and has two or more prior convictions for loitering in or around a school, that person must serve a minimum of 90 days in jail custody.
To personify the problem a bit, I feel like Finland's hand is forced:

Russia points guns at Ukraine and Finland and says, "Don't call for help or I will shoot you." Russia proceeds to shoot Ukraine anyways.

Perhaps this is an oversimplification, countries aren't people after all, but what is Finland to do in this situation? In my opinion, Russia has deteriorated trust so completely that folks assume that the punishment for a threat will happen _even if_ a line isn't crossed.
I disagree. The manual review process uses a downscaled/greyscaled version of the image, and there are known attacks on this type of preporcessing.
Would you mind giving us access to all your email and phone messages? It's for a good cause, we want to check you're not doing anything wrong. Right? If you did nothing wrong you have nothing to fear
Maybe an off-the-wall recommendation, but I found Anxious People by Fredrik Backman to be inspirational and uplifting.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53799686-anxious-people
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It's complicated. Russia is not part of that convention, as can be seen on the dedicated wiki page [1], but since the occupation of the Snakes Island by the Russians earlier during the war the "exit area" just outside Danube's Delta is, de facto, controlled by the Russian Navy (barring an Ukrainian cruise-missile or two).

I'm Romanian, I live in Romania (Bucharest), so as I'm geographically close to this I've been following this particular Danube issue closer than the others, but the thing is that the situation on the ground is still pretty muddled. For example, just as the war started the Romanian authorities had suspended commercial navigation on the Chilia Danube Delta Branch, the one on which the Romanian-Ukrainian border is situated, for fear of Russian bombs. Presumably the navigation has been allowed to resume, but nothing official has been made public in the Romanian mainstream press, the only related news was something about the Ukrainian authorities being unhappy with us (Romanians) asking for navigation-related customs taxes that were seen as too high, so I assumed that commercial navigation had, in fact, resumed.

There was also our prime-minister meeting with the Bulgarian side (with which we share hundreds of kms of the Danube) and making a statement afterwards about how the Danube should be made easier to navigate (i.e. a strong hint made to the European Union to send us money to do that). If that indeed were to happen (i.e. if the Danube would be made easier to navigate) then the Ukrainians would be able to send a large part of their exports to Central and even Western Europe (via the Danube-Mainz-Rhine canal) via fluvial ships, at a fraction of the cost they now have to pay doing that using rail and road-transport. That's why (among other things) the Russians have set their eyes so strongly on the Budjak region (i.e. the Ukrainian region just North of the Danube's Delta) and that's why they have bombarded this bridge [2] that leads to that region at least three times in the last few weeks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Commission_for_t...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pidyomnyy+Mist/@46.0749075...
Usually before sleep when I 'fake sleep' in order to signal to my body that I need it. Typically I reflect on the day and look forward to the next. Nothing wrong with thinking & introspection.
We used to have all hands meetings in which everybody talked (not the CEO yakking) explaining what they were doing and what they planned to do.

Our A/R clerk explained what she did. She managed to get almost everybody to pay on time (cough not the assholes at Sun though). Her avg was something like 35 days (we wrote everything net 30 or less). The next quarter she reported that she'd gotten the average down to something like 23 days, and got a standing ovation! For a ~60 person bootstrapped company that meant a lot, and this exercise meant everybody appreciated her work.
I think kowtowing to ANY group wanting to rifle through texts/email/anything is a bad idea without some legal principle like a very specific warrant has been issued to do it. What these guys want means that all encryption has to have a backdoor so they can look through you private "papers" at will. Yeah, I don't like that, and no I'm not exaggerating. Otherwise, we wouldn't have agreements between countries like Five Eyes. I just don't understand why everyday people just roll over for government abuse of their privacy.
Isn't there a cell phone shop near you? It's usually under $100, right? (though I wouldn't know, since I've broken the screen before wearing out the battery on every phone I've owned, unless it lasted until the software was EOL).
Digital easier to read, but I personally think analog is easier to “feel”. I get a much larger sense of urgency when the minute hand approaches an anticipated position. And same goes for when the hour hand crawls downward to signal the end of the work day. Seeing it physically close the distance to the 6 o’clock position gives me a much better feel for how much of the day I have left than “3:24”. It really is like a pie chart in that sense.
I'd be willing to bet that the discrepancy is something that we generally consider invariant but in reality should be a ratio between two things that are very large, but get bigger or smaller at _slightly_ different rates depending on the scale or distances you're working with.

Granted, I only ever got as far as E&M physics in college so I could be way off here but that scenario has turned up so many times in history.
That chart shows Tether hit a 3.5-year low today. Hasn't been this low since the last crypto crash. No guarantee that will continue, but there are definitely some very smart, very rich people looking at how to break Tether.
I always faced greater danger from administrators, student-bullies, and teachers (in order of descending harm) than strangers, ever, at any age.
He looked across the Ukraine border and saw Nazis on the other side, so at this point his sight chooses to see what ever he wants to see.

Putin burned all bridges unfortunately, he can't seat at any table and be believable since he stomped on a bunch of international laws and treaties.
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yes, but you only need it once

and then your legislation is essentially eternally protected because you'd need the same QM to remove it, which will practically never happen

the system empowers the legislators of the past over the legislators of today, which is fundamentally undemocratic
Generally Western people do not believe in Tether. People believe in it regionally.

The counter argument is that Tether's growth is the exact same as USDC's growth and other stablecoin's growth, especially those that are structured in the exact same way, with 1:1 redeemability for fiat somewhere. Some of those, people like the level of validation they show, others have undermined trust and never show the level of validation that people want.

Tethers are primarily created upon deposit into Bitfinex. Any fiat deposit. And are only destroyed upon redemption, but people rarely do that because they often just trade out or sell the Tethers. This is akin/analogous to Robinhood creating a RobinBucks whenever a deposit hits. We would see the growth of RobinBucks redeemable 1:1 for dollars. We don't see that because Robinhood and other exchanges don't do it that way. But if a popular exchange did that, we would see what that really looks like and say "ah, this isn't strange actually, we just weren't used to this level of transparency". Redemptions would be low because people don't really leave their brokerage/investing accounts, they just sit in cash waiting to buy a dip... in their brokerage accounts.

Finally, multiple US authorities have looked into Tether multiple times. Typically their fines have been about a combination of A) not being 100% backed by dollars at some point in time and B) not disclosing that. Meaning that at one point and subsequently, Tether did match their level of review, and at one point was backed 100%. Tether has had skepticism from the day it was created nearly 10 years ago, and a US authority got all the information was like "well that one time in 2018 we didn't like that". Tether is not 100% backed by dollars, it mostly is though. The standard is better than other respected financial institutions.

Let there be a run, I don't like to use Tether. I don't like algorithmic stablecoins more. There are options now, those options are holding up. Regardless, Tether isn't as complicated as people think. There are other reasons to avoid Tether and all centralized stablecoins that can be frozen address by address, or by losing access to their bank account. Remember when that was the criticism? Probably not.

Its also easy to see how and why it does work so swimmingly, despite all the questions and criticism. And thats because someone can arb really well and reliably.
"The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-...
If your business wraps up does this turn into a pretty brick?

My instant wonder and would be a deal breaker until I found out if the device pulls from the calendar directly or via a proxy you run if it helps any

Going by the language in the privacy policy it’s the proxy method. I’d have to pass, personally. Looks great but I got no use for it if you shut down

Also it’s “sold out” so I assume it doesn’t and won’t exist until you get enough interest. For me this is more an impulse buy, give me a week thinking about it and I’d forget about it completely (then 2 years later I get an email “xyzzy is complete and shipping now!” with no reminder of what it is)
Sure, but if you read the article the proposed law by EU specifically mentions detecting brand new and not yet classified CSAM by using machine learning. So it's not just hashes we're talking about here.
That has the same in-band problems as existing specs, which is that things generating the data need to have that callout.

There are many cases where the "solution" to the CSV inband signalling problem was to just reject values with commas, because they should never come in and if they ever do they should be investigated because they weren't valid data for whatever the CSV was storing. The whole problem is that programmers don't think to do that. The siren call of the string append function is just too strong, especially when programmers don't even realize they should be resisting.
It's hard to know what somebody else will find inspiring, but I can share a handful that I personally found to be so:

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

It's Not About The Bike - Lance Armstrong

Ultramarathon Man - Dean Karnazes

Charles Proteus Steinmetz: The Electrical Wizard of Schenectady - Robert Bly

Report From Engine Co 82 - Dennis Smith

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets - Graham Farmelo

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth - Paul Hoffman

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan - Robert Kanigel

Also, I haven't read it yet myself, but I have heard good things about The Last Lecture[1] by Randy Pausch, and have it queued up to read soon.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Lecture
In some ways it's a rule that only bad code gets shipped. I find that heuristic helpful in my day job.
Given that these are positions that have to be filled by someone, it's also possible that they're filled by people who happened to have had the winds blowing in their direction, and that if events had been different, other people (more or less cunning) would have been there.
> 5. When you need money, banks will ignore you. When you have too much of it, you get flooded with additional offers for cheap credit. Plan accordingly, so you need to borrow long before you start the project and borrow enough to get you over the cash flow shortage. If you wait until you actually need the money, terms will be horrible.

I've noticed this mechanism, but how do you go about it strategically? Which exercises or workflows can you use to determine how much to borrow and when?
It's effectively illegal if the police will prevent a person from doing it.
"The people that complain about lying, corrupt politicians are almost always the same people that peddle lies on social media. If these people truly want less lying, corrupt politicians, then a prerequisite would be for them to not engage in that behavior themselves. As I said, our politicians mirror ourselves, and they are selected from among us. We get the leaders we deserve."

This is false. I'm not sure where you get this idea from. The people that complain about lying, corrupt politicians are everyone. You did it in your reply. The "mirror ourselves" statement is defeatist and useless. There are honest people in the world. They are calling out lies and corruption every day. You do them the ultimate disservice to claim that they are "almost always the same people that peddle lies on social media".

Doctors, judges, witnesses in court cases and many others are held to higher standards of truthfulness than the average person. These are legally binding, and have real penalties. Why can't we hold politicians to the same standards?

If a witness in a trial is found to be lying, they can't resort to "Freedom of speech!" as a defense. They are charged with perjury. We should consider elected officials as being constantly under oath, and any dissembling should be treated as perjury.
How would you know that the bot would have been banned without shipping? What is preventing you from improving and re-releasing the bot? Sounds like you got the fast feedback you needed from shipping.
It really is painful to watch. It's been so long since I watched anything that wasn't a streaming service that when I see old fashioned TV with commercials and horrible editing it drives me up a wall.

I remember when my complaint about the History Channel was that it was WWII all the time. It was still massively better than today; at least I learned about the Battle of the Bulge over and over and over.
Integrated video cards were integrated onto the motherboard. APUs/iGPUs are integrated into the CPU.
Timing is really important. A good startup sees where things are heading or pivoting. There is nothing that can fix bad timing of an industry or market short of complete transformation of what you're doing.

Invest in your employees' job satisfaction. Keep growing them, and make them want to stay. There is really very little value that doesn't stem from seasoned human capital.
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> Gates and Zuckerberg both dropped out of college, fortunately;

I'm generally on the side of whatever is against billionaires, but they dropped out of college because they had started thriving businesses and didn't really see much point in the degree, not because they weren't intelligent or motivated enough to actually get one.