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> i am not an american, nor russian. i come from a third world country far from this drama. to me, "russian propaganda" is the same as "american propaganda" which demonizes the other and calls their version as the "ultimate truth".

Yeah, third world countries far away have their own perspective, and it's usually at least as weird as the other two. Well, in many it's of course just a copy of he Russian propaganda; don't know about yours.

> don't americans/west see their media/actions as what it is, propaganda aganinst russia?

No. Because it isn't. Because we have free speech, with media of different persuasions all allowed to spread their own versions of the truth.

To people from dictatorships -- like Russia, or many places in the third world -- this seems impossible, because they're not used to it. So when they -- you, apparently -- see that most media in the West on the whole agree on the basic facts, the "obvious" conclusion to them (you) becomes that "This must be just their side's propaganda!". Please try, in Occam's spirit, to consider the simpler explanation: The reason they all seem to more or less agree is that they've all done their own research, and what they're reporting is the truth they've found. You hear the same from them all, because the truth is the same for everyone.

> blocking RT across america/EU is seen as protecting free speech but god forbid if russia reciprocates with banning american companies? then its an action against free speech, again?

Yes, because what the West is blocking is a state-owned and -controlled Russian propaganda channel, and what Russia is blocking are free independent media. (Well, except for the VoA perhaps.)
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And before that one of the founders of BitGo was at Google and and wrote much of the HTTP/2 and SPDY :)
I know several people with RFID implants. The Apple Watch collects health metrics, among a other things. A guy had a Bluetooth speaker implanted to cheat exams in India.

I think the most dystopic example is the Poor sods whose bionic eyes ceased functioning when the company folded.
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Same. I can do it. But not fast.
A trick I've used on top of serializing JSON in the URL is in-browser compression with a library like pako [0] (zlib in JavaScript). This helps you get more data in before you reach the browser limit for URL length.

[0] https://github.com/nodeca/pako
Which is itself propaganda from other religious sects of note who got so fast and loose with doctrine they allowed salvation to become pay-to-win (indulgences), and corruption to become so endemic, even members of the faith started nailing protests to doors, or schisming due to overreach by the theocratic edifice.

If uou're going to make a historical argument, please follow through.
Anyone making $500m/year legit could rug for $20bn+, so they walk away before that point.

Tether have a great business model but seem to spend 90% of their time falsifying reserves instead. It certainly gives the impression they're planning on taking the capital rather than interest. They're already in breach of the NYAG agreement, with three+ more cases pending.

It actually seems like a great project for e.g. Fidelity or Vanguard to set up a mutual fund that doesn't pay interest. With the name recognition it would be immediate #1 stablecoin assuming they offered the same level of audit scrutiny and reserves breakdown as their other products (i.e. 100x anything offered in the cryptocurrency space currently).
It's a relatively mainstream opinion that yes they are. Casinos are not allowed in some places, many individuals who could choose otherwise explicitly choose not to work for companies involved in gambling.

My morals don't personally draw that line but it's common enough that you can't dismiss it as preposterous.
That last part is key: you’d only publicly share bad news if you had unloaded – and if the news isn’t good they’d have an incentive to offer a major holder a better deal with an NDA.
They can keep calling it a conspiracy, but at least from what I've seen, more people are becoming aware of the truth every day. It gives me a bit of hope; only a little bit.
No. I agree it should be universally used for machine-readable data formats, but for human consumption there is no need to be anglo-centric.

You guys are already slowly encroaching on milliards and billiards in other languages with your illogical short scale numbers.
I still think objects are great, but PowerShell makes it so hard to deal with them.

I think F#-interactive (FSI) with its Hindley-Milner type-inference, would have been a much better base for a shell.
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How is he a boogeyman? He's already prolonged the pandemic by convincing the vaccine companies not to allow smaller biomedical companies (with markets in poorer countries) access to produce it because it makes more money for him. How is that not insidious?
The initial claim was that Tether was 100% backed. When it was revealed beyond reasonable doubt that these claims were false, Tether's proponents pivoted to claiming that the peg was defensible. Because the peg was defended for some time, these proponents gained a certain amount of credibility among the gullible.

Looking at the history of markets to try to understand the difference between pegs that can withstand the shifting tides of market sentiment vs those that cannot is a useful exercise. I am pleased to see this article on the HN front page.
The sales thing is super important but the channels and investment really depend on the type of business. B2C won't scale with phone calls you need marketing organization.
This is encapsulated by that simple statement. Do whatever you need to get sales.
In 10+ years of startup experience on the science and engineering side.

Sales fixes everything and is the hardest thing.

If sales can execute then there is no problem. It seems obvious but it's really not and people make the business about the mission and product - that stuff is secondary seriously secondary.

As a founder and early employee - you need to know if you can execute on sales or not and make it clear to both yourself and your coworkers.

Sales isnt something you can learn to do my biggest lesson is i cant do it no matter how hard I tried. If your employees / boss / cofounder are not closing sales you seriously need to get someone who can as your companies top priority.

Closing means money in the bank and nothing else. Paper is meaningless.

A contradictory learning is the best startups I've been at are ones where folks are ideologically fanatical with mission.
The ejection from the ERM was probably the point at which the Brexit movement became more serious.
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> Meanwhile France last year just dropped the age of consent to 15 and if you check Wikipedia you'll most EU countries have it set around the same age.

France's age of consent has been 15, since 1945 (1982, if you weren't straight). What they did last year was add a Romeo & Juliet clause that allows for below that age if you're within five years of your partner and not committing something that would otherwise be considered assault. So a 15 yro and a 12yro won't end up in a rape case for being partners.

They tightened overly loose definitions, basically. Not dropped - raised. (A lot to do with this [0] particular case that demonstrated just how damn loose the laws were.)

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/fr...
I think I was clear. My proposal is to have no geographic sub-districts to any polity. Everyone in a city should be free to vote for all candidates for city council, everyone in a region should be free to vote for all candidates for the regional assembly, everyone in a country should be free to vote for all candidates for the National Assembly. But if you really wanted to rescue some unique neighborhood, my suggestion is that you do so directly, without trying to achieve the effect as the accidental side effect of an unrelated architectural decision.

This sentence has no coherent meaning:

"It's not about "creative problem-solving towards some goal" it's about balancing competing goals from competing stakeholders. "

There is no meaningful contrast between the two phrases.
>>and it would be fairly simple for an expert to dump out the list of things being looked for.

If you embed a neural net trained to detect "some" kind of images, I would love to know how one could "dump" the list of things the net is looking for. Basically it's not how it works - the neural net is more or less a black box, you can't tell what kind of things it's looking for by just looking at its contents. You give it an image, it says it is a match or not, based on some internal algorithm - but looking at that algorithm tells you nothing about what kind of images would produce positive matches.
I've done this for years via Bitfinex. Occasionally the wires are a couple days late but never any issues.
>> I've _never_ seen a case where "let's increase our sales headcount" strategy actually did anything

no one said hire sales people; rather if you've got a problem, first look at increasing sales before you put your efforts elsewhere. This will either fix the problem or explicitly identify it.
I've used that trick on Fortune 500 CEO's many times. Almost never had any of my designs changed beyond whatever "duck" I put in.
Its a lot harder to be an English-speaker living in Germany than you might think. NOBODY wants to listen to your shitty botched German (and trust me, it'll be botched for a while) and instead, almost everyone you meet will want to practice their English instead.

All it takes is a few sentences in German, though, before the judgement dissipates and the "lets take the piss out of this guy speaking German by speaking 'perfect' English at a much higher level of competence" takes over ..

It adds up though. Speak your shitty German to strangers, and you'll gain a lot more friends.
It is bad and sad that many people lost money that didn’t want to sound like I’m not aware of that.

And yes you could be right it’s just my bubble.
But it’s still sad that so many people fall for get rich quick scheme.
Isn't it the other way around - Trello has been around and used for informal project planning for years before Notion became trendy.
Call me crazy, but I'm under the impression that Germans do use international software, and that Germany may even be home to the fourth largest software company in the world.
As a pilot that was my first instinct as well... it just sounded like he knew his way around an airplane... fully concede he may not have been a pilot, but he was clearly way too familiar with the situation to be described as someone who had "no idea how to fly", imo.
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> I was planning on buying a couple of GPUs, but now I think I should wait a bit just in case ETH crashes lol

If you're willing to wait a few more months, I'd definitely wait. Regardless of a price drop, there should be a demand drop due to the transition to PoS.
But Hollywood also loves money, so this figures. Won't be hard to extend copyrighted material the CP hashes and make it harder to store, transfer or view unapproved media.

We have already seen Hollywood ready to abridge freedoms anywhere people make unauthorised copies of their films/shows. So this would mesh well with that. They were disgusting long ago.

But to be fair, you're lumping them into the wrong broad category. They obviously aren't all pedophiles, but most of them are greedy.
what app is he talking about?
> You have definitely not had 67 different governments

I've studied English, not American.

So government to me means means "the group of people who officially control a country", like in this BBC headline "Netanyahu out as new Israeli government approved".

We definitely had 67 governments.

Or 67 cabinets, if you prefer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Ita...
Traditional detective work will always be the best way to uncover real crimes of this nature. Any mention of this in support of mass surveillance is just a ruse.
What is worse is the ignorance on the English-speaking side. We have been putting up with your stuff for a few decades now, and almost the entire population needs to know about it, while we see near-zero attempts to adapt from your side.
Given were talking about the trump ban I'm not sure it is, he was banned, countless antifa accounts calling for Andy ngo's death were not.

There is a clear double standard, pointing that out isn't whataboutism it's simply calling bullshit on someone using the incite violence argument to say trump should stay banned.
> But even though it's better than hooking up ID verification to social networks, "pretend teenagers don't use the Internet" isn't harmless policy, it's not just that there are popups people click through.

Related to that, we can't just pretend teenagers have no ability or agency. Honestly, it's a toss up who would 'win' a cat and mouse game between the MN legislature and a group of teens with programming capability. Adolescents are in a developmental stage where they're establishing themselves as individuals away from their parents/adult authorities; it's natural that they're going to seek out spaces that either their parents don't know about or don't want them going to. Our job as adults is to make sure that process is safe for them while still allowing them the autonomy to learn to make good decisions.

> I vaguely wonder if the result of these crackdowns isn't often to make social sites more dangerous for kids.

I wonder this too. I was a very digital kid back in the day before there were regulations against it, and there were opportunity costs to kicking out the under-13s that would be very magnified for 13-to-18s.

It prevents kids from having their own social structures and spaces. For example, 7-10 year old me ran a curatorial site for the Geocities' kids neighborhood and late elementary school me also had an IRC channel. It seems bonkers, but there were advantages: Since I/some of the other kids could run things ourselves (with some adult help from trusted adults), it kept creepy adults from integrating themselves into the group by providing resources. (Think the stereotypical college kid buying high schoolers booze; if kids can't sign up or learn how things work, then they have to play in adult playgrounds instead of making their own.) It meant I could kick people and that the conversation was age-appropriate (because that was where I talked about kid stuff and how dare you be off-topic in my channel [kids make great dictators]).

Related, having an admin/building group of kids is really helpful as a buffer, especially in the teen years. Lots of teens aren't going to tell their parents much, but they will tell other teens, so having some teens around who know how stuff works and gives advice is helpful.

You can't legislate for teens without remembering that they have agency and will act independently.
I have watched 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace' by the same guy. If that stuff is anything to go by, Adam Curtis long on insinuation and clever cuts, and short on actual insight.

Beware of Gell-Mann Amnesia.

Btw, I suspect politicians always used the protection-from-nightmares just as much as promising utopia.
In English and particularly American English, “the government” is understood to encompass the justice system as well as Congress/parliament. People are taking about justice system abuses, not just some MP abusing his power. Law enforcement and courts control the country just as much as the parliament.

This isn’t some feature of American government either: in the US local law enforcement is often completely divorced from the state and federal political process and is run independently at a local level, with sheriffs and district attorneys even being elected positions in many jurisdictions. There is no national police - the closest thing is the FBI (though there are a few other national law enforcement agencies), but it can go after only crimes involving multi-states or interstate commerce, and at a high level it is run essentially like state law enforcement organizations in other countries, largely independent of the political process, although at the very top it is politically appointed, usually with a career official placed in charge.
There appear to be more nuanced balances than that. Putin avoided escalating the war via an explicit and public mobilization on May 9th, yet he certainly doesn't think he can easily win with the forces on hand.

Consequently, he must feel as though a public mobilization would have a higher risk (public opinion?) than reward (additional military manpower?).

In lieu of an influx of manpower, the existing Russian forces seem destined to grind down over time, both in terms of personnel and materiel.

IMO, he annexes Kherson-Crimea-Mariupol-Donbas, and calls it a victory.

Unfortunately, Kherson is still semi-resistant, Mariupol still (somehow!!) has active defenders, and ~1/3 of Donbas is still under Ukrainian control.

Donbas also has the misfortune of being an explicitly delineated area... so there's less wiggle room to redefine it as the portions already under Russian control.

And it's unclear that the Ukrainians would accept the above under any terms. Maybe "give us this and the rest of the country can join NATO"? But Kherson & Mariupol seem huge sticking points.

So the most likely outcome is that the war grinds on, with Russia attempting to achieve the above goals, Ukraine continuing to stubbornly resist (with NATO armaments and supply), and Russia continues to launch long-range strikes against western Ukrainian industry to increase pressure for peace. Which is to say, ugly.
Fair enough, thanks for pointing this out.
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> i literally said i come neither from russia nor america

But that is of course exactly what you'd say if you were a Russian troll.

I noticed the clue "Kashmiri" in your name only after my previous reply to a comment of yours. So, if that means your "third world country far away" is India... Yeah, pretty goddamn Russia-aligned. Maybe consider whether your own "neutral" media environment is really that neutral at all?
It is fairly intuitive but my first few landings in a Cessna 150 were not pleasant at all. Granted it was a grass runway but I'd have been in serious trouble without my instructor. I'm sure the tower would have been able to give good guidance on pitch, angle, etc. but there's a lot of juggling going on when you're landing a plane, especially when you're inexperienced.
Debts held by a company that has refused to be subject to a traditional audit. Only the credulous would have confidence that a high proportion of this debt is good.
Though the fundamental issues with the GIL haven't changed, that page hasn't been updated in quite some time and the
recent discussions section at the bottom doesn't mention the current attempt under discussion:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzfzZsD...
My proposal is to have no geographic sub-districts to any polity. Everyone in a city should be free to vote for all candidates for city council, everyone in a region should be free to vote for all candidates for the regional assembly, everyone in a country should be free to vote for all candidates for the National Assembly. But if you really wanted to rescue some unique neighborhood, my suggestion is that you do so directly, without trying to achieve the effect as the accidental side effect of an unrelated architectural decision. The neighborhood with the unique culture has voters who will express their interests in city, regional, and national elections, and that should be enough, but if you felt strongly that this unique neighborhood deserves additional protections, then my suggestion is that you pursue that goal directly. Incorporating that neighborhood as its own independent city would be a way of achieving that goal.

About this:

"What do cities have to do with congressional boundaries? Districts span cities."

My point is that districts should not exist.
This will push "criminals" further away from the common applications and they'll start using their own (forks?) and setup their own servers. Then there is no control at all anymore.
> It cannot be understated, removing the GIL will be a HUGE deal for Python! It's an ugly wart which has existed for about 30 years

I would argue the opposite: it's the secret to Python's success. It might even be my top example of how "worse is better" plays out in real life.

I agree, the GIL feels like an ugly hack. The software engineer in me wants to hate it so much. And, now that I'm on the far side of a successful transition to a data science role, one might think that I hate it even more, yeah? Because the work I'm doing depends so very heavily on compute performance and parallelism.

But it turns out, nah, I'm coming to like it. It's an ugly hack, but it's the best kind of ugly hack: one that gets the job done.

Because I'm pretty sure that the GIL is the secret sauce that makes Python C extensions work so well. Without it, it would be much more difficult to write safe, correct C extensions. Doing it without introducing race conditions that destroy memory safety would be a black art. So people would probably do it less. And that probably means no robust Python scientific computing or data science ecosystem, because that stuff is all C extensions.

We could instead use a C FFI, like it's done in other languages. Java, for example. But Java having to use an FFI and Python being able to use its C extension mechanism is exactly why Python has eaten all of Java's Wheaties in the data space. The marshaling costs of talking back and forth across that boundary are just too high. Copying goes up, locality of reference goes down, cache misses go up. You saturate the memory bus more quickly. Once you've done that, it doesn't matter how many threads you have running on how many cores. The bottleneck is happening outside the CPU. Top will happily tell you those cores are working hard, but it turns out that what they're working so hard at is sitting around and waiting.

This isn't just theoretical. Last year I replaced a heavily parallelized compute-heavy batch process written in Java with a Python implementation that got the work done in less time despite being single-threaded. Sure, the Python implementation was basically a little scripting on top of a library written in C++, and the Java one was pure Java. But that's kind of the whole point. I also know that, back when I wrote the original Java implementation, I tried the same trick of farming the calculation out to a C++ library, and it actually made the throughput even worse. JNI is a harsh master.

And besides, as others have said, numpy & friends give me most the parallelism I actually need, for free.

Maybe it hurts other people more? Maybe Web developers? But there's a part of me that thinks, if you're trying to do that kind of work at scale, making Python go faster is perhaps barking up the wrong tree. There are plenty of other languages that are statically typed (reducing pointer chasing and branching can increase your throughput without giving Amazon more money in the process) and don't even need a global interpreter lock in the first place because they're not interpreted, either.
Scaling sales is a very different thing from getting sales, and I'd argue you won't know how to scale until you find a channel that works but is not cost effective. Otherwise you're essentially shooting blind, but at scale, which doesn't hit much but uses a lot of ammo.
Does one or two retired actors’ investments and business interests in surveillance technology companies qualify as “Hollywood” campaigning for the destruction of free countries?
> You're wielding those monikers as if anyone to bear them would be a fool by definition.

Not as far off as you might think
> ..."Confidence comes from realizing there will never be another you. You are the only version of you that exists."

Very helpful point to remind oneself in those times of doubt. Thanks, Jon!