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This is just pure evil. There is no "we". It's mind-boggling how some economists have become complete puppets for governments. He is just straight up lying in most of his arguments.

Economic inefficiency is a problem of the current monetary system, caused by its centralization and inflationary nature, and this is the problem which bitcoin is trying to fix. Most of the issues in the world today are caused by our current monetary system, from wealth inequality to consumerism and environmental problems.

He is suggesting that the monetary system should be even more centralized, and we should move into even more centrally planned economy, like in Soviet Union. This time however, they're planning to use big data to solve the economic calculation problem and to control consumer behavior. This is completely immoral, and ends up destroying both personal and economic freedoms in a society. This problem is very well understood, and no one seriously suggests central planning unless they are evil and want to decrease freedom and equality in a society.

We already have too much central planning in our current system. Central bank digital currencies would be the last step in this process of completely monopolizing money, and giving governments and central banks the absolute authority of where money is invested and how it is spent.
There are various stages of this beyond the plain illegal. Some people watch secondary signs like private plane travel data, for example.
> $600k in total interest and principle for a $300k sticker-price house over 30 years

These numbers are a bit high, but definitely in the ballpark [1]. BUT, I think that framing it as total interest + principal is also misleading. Let's say you locked in an interest rate of 2.75% in 2020-21. Your total interest payments on a 300k house (with 20% down) would be $112k, so total P&I would be $412k. Someone might look at this simplistically and think, wow, I'm overpaying by 37% if I take out a mortgage. But at a 2.75% rate, anyone who is financially savvy is going to recognize that as a steal. It's almost like free money, because it's being paid off over 30 years. Your $1500 monthly payment might seem like a lot now, but even with relatively low inflation, your payment in years 15-30 are going to seem like a bargain when they come around. But it's hard for many people to think in those terms.

[1] Mortgage rates right now are around 4.75% on a 30 year. Assuming 20% down on a 300k house (60k), you would take out a loan for $240k, and over 30 years you would pay $210k in interest, or a total of 510k in principal + interest. Your monthly P&I would be about $1,530.
That's an interesting take considering the recent vaccine mandate program was also, in a way, a surveillance program. Making lists of people who took the vaccine, and those who didn't, and those who didn't were targeted and controlled.
"The example that comes up most often is housing. Critics point back to the early 1980s, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) made a fundamental shift in the way it calculates the consumer price index (CPI) for shelter."

Why did the BLS do this in the 1980's, no one is asking? Well, I will tell you, in a another simple chart:

https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...

Check out where the FED rate was in the 1980's.

TLDR, they did not want housing prices to be included in inflation since they knew they were going to go on this rate lowering binge which would increase the price of housing.

The folks in that article are trying to tell you housing prices are cheaper because you are paying less per month???? What???? HA! No, they are hiding inflation by using rent equivalent, which is not even close to the real rent prices. If you are paying more to own a house (if you still have a mortgage you do not own your house) then housing is no2 more affordable! Wow, the doublespeak!!!
this is why i love docker :D
Yes, I think it is. But, it's not great. The pseudo assembler language is not great, but it was definitely easier for me to deal with, perhaps because there were lots of other people using it and sharing info.
The interesting thing about gallium nitride is its use in blue LEDs (light-emitting diodes), which was discovered in 1972 and perfected in 1993, resulting in a Nobel prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#Blue_LED

I wonder what new engineering knowledge has emerged about gallium nitride that allowed it to become such a recent force in power supply electronics.

I didn't know that gallium nitride is transparent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_nitride
I think you are missing the point. You can have all the "accountability" you want, in practical terms, nothing has changed. Your data is still being taken and exploited, but now thanks to the bureaucracy we can no longer say that it is being "stolen".

It's akin to saying that assault is now okay because the people are being forced to sign consent forms before getting punched in the face.
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This is a correct point of view. It's just plain old localized oligarchy.
I wish SNS had a way to have a process receive a message, or have a Watcher for it in an AWS SDK like Boto. Feels like a big hole in actually using SNS as a pub/sub mechanism. Much simpler than having to setup and maintain an HTTP endpoint.
Anyone who has had significant experience with Canada geese would understand this pastime.
there is also a port of the "original":

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
How do you speak clearly and plainly about these topics? It's factually true housing prices aren't included in the CPI, but it's not easy to explain why and how replacing it with the somewhat abstract notion of housing services, estimated by owner equivalent rent is conceptually superior.
The article presents two graphs of arguably manipulated/unreliable CPI rates, and that's somehow being using as evidence for whether crises are larger or smaller? The article from the beginning uses obviously incredibly biased language throughout, it's a pure opinion hit piece; the author isn't even attempting to present an impartial view on the topic.

It always amuses me how strongly people come out in opposition to the idea of the gold standard, when it demonstrably seemed to work for America, it powered the country from the time it was a collection of colonies to the time it had men driving buggies around on the moon. The country was on the gold standard for hundreds of years. Coming off the gold standard is the experiment, is the outlier. The gold standard obviously worked well enough for that vast majority of the country's history, yet it's somehow regarded by certain people as an obviously horrible idea which is gross, repugnant, "a barbarous relic that belongs in the dustbin of history". It just doesn't add up. If it's such an insanely horrible idea, how did it work so well for so long?
Retina display is at least 200% or more scaling, right? You're comparing hires text rendering to lowres. Screenshot is 2x bigger because browser doesn't know about pixel density and scales it 2x by default. It does the same to those low res screenshots so they look normal sized on 4K but they're blurry because they're being image scaled.

See: https://johankj.github.io/devicePixelRatio/

If you see more than 1 at 100% zoom you have resolution scaling. Try browser zooming to 50% or 200%.
Hopefully you have the same attitude when the sin tax comes for your vices, I suppose
There's a difference between decreases in the price of specific goods that comes about due to technology, and deflation that comes about due to monetary policy.

That I can think of, the obvious difference is that the second one almost definitionally means a steady decrease in nominal wages. This seems like a perverse incentive - if I sock away my first paycheck flipping burgers under my mattress and do nothing with it for 50 years, a deflationary regime means I can take it back out and buy a lot more with it than someone with their first paycheck flipping burgers today.
I assume we’re talking here about Free Software (capitals important): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition
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> I don't understand why the writer of this article would chose to focus on the deceptive monthly payment argument rather than the concrete interest-rate argument.

Why? because they have a motive. The motive is to put out a propaganda piece to try to convince the FED not to raise rates.

Look at this AI triggering headline at CNBC this morning! They are using the FEDs "favorite" inflation measure, which is 4 points lower then the typical number quoted!

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/27/the-feds-preferred-gauge-sho...

Wondering why stocks are up today?
Meanwhile people have to pay thousands of Euros to maintain their teeth if they need root canals or prosthetic dentures and such. Maybe you're just not old enough to know?

Btw the "free" tier system is a joke in Germany. Waiting months for an appointment is the norm for anything more serious than a cough, unless you're privately insured which all the rich people and interestingly civil servants are. Tells you a lot when those working for the government don't use the public insurance themselves.

People may be surprised to hear that someone with a medium income (by EU standards) can get better healthcare in Africa than in a place like Germany. Or at least for now, the ANC is working hard on destroying the private healthcare sector in SA.
> You only really need visual studio if you want the gui builder or you're doing windows c++ stuff

VS code isn't an IDE, afaik there's no official support for .csproj, .sln, and any of the essential build automation technologies in the .NET ecosystem. There's no practical way to add NuGet packages in VS code, just 3rd party plugin city.
I think it may well eventually be done unilaterally by some group, not fully thought through, to much vocal opposition and hand-wringing. It may end up too much too late (pushing too far in the opposite direction, after much harm has already occurred).
Who will do the training? Will the training results be made available publicly? why wont it start until a few weeks from now?
> I would love to expand these articles, but the "culture" of Wikipedia actively works against this.

Can you expand on this? I've only had positive experiences editing for Wikipedia as a newbie.
Private clinics/hospitals in Europe can do this, and I'm assuming at a lot less of a price than 50k. I always go to private clinics in Europe and for getting your entire body tested costs, in Estonia, maybe a few thousand USD. I recommend Confido (https://www.confido.ee/en/). No health insurance or residency or anything required, just make an appointment, and pay for it. That's it.

In Spain I was very happy with Sanitas (http://sanitas.es/).
consider moving to Europe where there are multiple countries with excellent free healthcare systems
I suspect this emphasis on tactility is sentimental nonsense. But we should definitely give it a serious try to find out!

What i would be much more interested in is eye tracking. I have three screens covered in interactivity, but the speed at which i can interact with them - which is the speed at which i can explore and experiment - is limited by the speed with which i can grasp my mouse, then shove it around to position the cursor. I'm convinced i could do many things so much more fluidly if the machine could see where i was looking at transfer focus there in a flash.
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Don't spend all your time heads down working. Programming is only half the job of being a developer. You have to communicate with your team and other teams. You have design reviews and code reviews. You have to attend meetings. You also need to create and maintain working social relationships with your coworkers so that you have the network of resources when you need it. Ask lots of questions and be eager to learn. Don't be surprised if the company does things in less than ideal ways, there may or may not be good reasons.

Also, make friends, eat lunch with your team, have fun at intern events if they have them.

My main point is don't spend your time heads down trying to finish your project. You'll be missing on so much if you do.
Canada has the same doctors per capita as the U.S., it's just that in Canada access to health care is considered a defacto universal right whereas in the U.S. for much of the population health care is a privilege or benefit associated with employment.
This looks gorgeous. A really clever idea
3rd party JS code used to be snippets you were expected to copy-paste into your own code, or whole files you were expected to save and then load with a <script> tag before your own code.

Now there are like 50 ways to import JS code, most of them don't work most places, a lot of the code itself won't work in a browser at all (node-only), and a great deal of it is a pain to get into a browser if you're not fully bought into Node and probably also serving the whole "app" from Node.

It's about as easy to write your own JS in a browser, now, but it's vastly harder to start using code from the overall JS ecosystem.
I have not read the paper, but for some high level context, it's written by a team of researchers at DeepMind, and was presented at NeurIPS, so I'm going to go out on a limb and give the authors the benefit of the doubt that they probabally have some idea of what they're talking about.
You haven't convinced me. After all... what about short-term bills? Are they considered savings or investment? What about FX accounts? What about operating capital? In other words... what is "not invested"? An axiomatic definition is imperative... not turtles all the way down.

Savings and investment are largely synonymous so I stand by my initial statement. How can one expect to buy a house if they're precluded from putting savings "in-the-mattress"? I'm not suggesting they'd be better or worse off using leverage... I'm saying it is solely for them to determine since they're the ones who are most familiar with their own circumstances.

If someone enjoys wiping their rear with $100 bills that's up to them.

As I can tell, the best definition for "in-the-mattress savings" is capital that is deemed a bad investment by any/every one except the person who managed to create the savings itself.

Your argument leads to a slippery slope... what would stop me from taking your assets because they don't fit my definition of "investment"?
As someone who lives and breathes social media and Google trends, "interestingness" is something that has both trend and stochastic event-driven temporality.

Example: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2022-01-01%202...

There was interest in "Ukraine" at a certain background level until events in January 2022 began an increase of interest. Then the invasion in February drove it through the roof. Interest in Google Trends peaked specifically on 24 Feb 2022. However, after the initial invasion, interest steadily and rapidly waned. By 24 Mar, interest had waned to 10% of its invasion peak. By 24 April, 5% of that peak. And 3% by 24 May.

So "Ukraine" interest is still 3-4x times its pre-war baseline (2021 trend line), but it is 1/25th to 1/33rd of peak interest near the start of the invasion.

And, due to a specific awards show incident, interest in Ukraine was eclipsed by searches on "Will Smith" centered around 27-28 Mar 2022. That interest did not peak as high as the peak interest in "Ukraine," and was even more ephemeral. By 02 Apr 2022 interest in Will Smith fell below that of interest in "Ukraine." And now interest in that individual has basically resumed to its pre-stochastic event baseline.

Interest in topics is not only temporal, it is also geographical and social. Interest may rise (or fall) in certain countries or states or even cities. Or its locus may be based on virtual communities other social reference groups. "Marvel" or "Star Wars" fans might be hyped by certain news, and interest can spike amongst them, while only having peripheral interest in other social reference groups or amongst the general public and popular culture.
Direct Primary Care might be a good place to start: https://www.dpcare.org/

I gave it a try last fall, and the difference is night and day: my current Dr actually works for me, whereas the last one very obviously worked for my insurance company.

Rereading your post, this is exactly what you want. He had me do a whole bunch of tests right off the bat and set about optimizing different things. His job is to keep my body working well, and he takes it seriously. In-network docs are, in my experience, mainly about hitting arbitrary metrics imposed by insurance companies.
> We need something similar and conspicuous for mortgages. Let people really see/feel the interest.

The disclosures you get from the lender are already required to contain a a "FINANCE CHARGE" which is the total interest you will pay on the loan, "The dollar amount the credit will cost you". They also have "TOTAL PAYMENTS", the "The amount you will have paid after you have made all payments as scheduled."

The forms are formatted clearly. If you want to know what the number is, it is right there with an explanation.
> As part of this, £200m will contribute to the £285m annual funding gap by 2027/28, created by the licence fee settlement earlier this year.

When this government calls it a settlement, what it really means is "you have to settle for this pittance because that's all you're getting."

Same for the Local Government Settlements.
Recent versions of Win10 still perform quite well on old hardware for me - could be that you just need a clean install?
This same argument also applies to owners. If the org makes $100k in revenue and the owners take $10k of that, why don't you just leave to start your own firm and keep it all?

It's because there ARE contributions from the owner, even a passive owner has what I called "dividends from stored labor": they took on the risk, created a functioning company solving a problem, did the work of organizing the systems/structure that run the thing, and so they are entitled to a piece of the revenue as well (as that revenue couldn't have been earned without their contributions either).
I think your comment says a lot more about you and your knowledge of the world than them.
If multiple people want to own the same thing, how do they "decide" who gets it?
I'd change the perspective. Both you and the GP are right, but all these benefits are used against the consumer, to distract them from other things that are happening. It's a subtle race to the bottom which, when looking at younger generations / lower classes and their incapability to buy, suddenly isn't so subtle anymore.

The entire thing also creates a cycle of "house prices must go up!" which further exacerbates the problem, at the cost of those who haven't been able to buy houses. Or worse, it creates a large amount of debt which is begging for a 2007-2008 repeat.
I think most "self-help" experts even from the 1800s would agree that one's iron will eventually turns into ambition, and that it is the most linked trait to both success and failure.

Galileo was set apart for a physician, but when compelled to study anatomy and physiology, he would hide his Euclid and Archimedes, and stealthily work out the abstruse problems.

When shortly imprisoned in his cell, he would even experiment with the straw laying around to make new discoveries.

I just don't agree with hierarchical rank at all. It's the most obvious trait to the common person. But it doesn't include the context of how people got to that level in the first place. Mostly because many of the famous stories of great breakthroughs in science, invention, wealth, etc come from stories of early adversity. There are plenty of stories of those who inherit their hierarchical rank and then lose their fortunes and place in society because they have no such ambition. Hierarchy is determined by ambition.

"The world always listens to a man with a will in him" - Orison Swett Marden
> not for the merchant.

So:

1. Bad for consumers (who merchants also are).

2. Bad for people who make mistakes.

3. Good for merchants-as-merchants, including unscrupulous ones.

4. Good for thieves.
What if this ransomware infects a hospital ? Then it can kill people.
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Perhaps the worst part about this authoritarian train of thought is that we think these things won't happen if we simply voice our opinion. History, including recent one, shows that "elites" will suddenly shove things down people's throat, passing bills against the vast consensus.

I just don't see how a centrally-controlled digital currency can guarantee privacy.

Crypto is an idea that arose for a good reason, but it's not a long-term solution.

CBDCs are coming though to most countries, including the US (eventually). It's unstoppable.
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It’s not sentimental nonsense: it’s enactive cognition.

I believe this is a hugely under appreciated capability of humans, possibly one of the keys to a type of genius.
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He’s saying X is not hard if you read X’s docs.

I don’t think that’s unreasonable.

What’s unreasonable is this culture in web dev that you shouldn’t have to read the docs!
That's gratis but not libre. It's free from cost but not free as in freedom.
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You don't even have to move I think you can likely get treatment through a private hospital on a tourist visa.
I work with a lot of .NET Framework legacy code. Those nuget packages have even more useless links, I’ve had both official packages 404ing (to be fair, making their own links 404 is a specialty of Microsoft, for documentation they have the opposite approach as for windows, nothing should be backwards compatible -.-) but more often link to some modern .NET core (or .NET 6 now I guess) and thus be completely unrelated.
Ask HN: Any free and open source NoSQL DB has a way to create document groups?
I am learning CouchDB. As I understand it, documents in the database cannot be grouped into categories, such as, for example, all receipt documents can be put into a receipt bucket, invoices can be put into invoice bucket etc.

Are there any free and opensource NoSQL databases that provide this feature of grouping documents according to category?
I wrote another Ghost in the Shellcode story up on twitter thread[0], but I'd like to share it here also.

In 2013, I wrote a GitS challenge called "hackerbook". It was a "misc" challenge where I presented you with a series of photos of prominent hackers at the time and asked you their name. It worked on the same principle as reCaptcha, I only knew the names of about 30 of the hackers and put those into the database. For the remaining ones, I accepted any answer but logged it to the database. If you correctly named all the 30 that I knew, you got the flag.

I wrote it because I thought it'd be funny to get people to give up the real names of their friends. I also thought it might be a good way to harvest the names of hackers[1] who are opsec thought leaders. For the remaining photos, I went to every CTF team's twitter, facebook, flickr, etc and sliced out random people.

The challenge worked pretty well at de-anonymizing a few folks. One player even sent me a photo of his friend's passport, claiming my challenge was broken and not accepting the correct name.

I think we already knew most people would give away all their personal details for a chance to win a free ice cream but they'll also give away their friends details for made up internet points.

[0] https://twitter.com/withzombies/status/1529145520027054081

[1] https://twitter.com/thegrugq
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