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Plenty of people have put thought into what to do to end war. You don't need original thoughts from me.

The natural corollary of someone attacking you is not to get into an arms race.

Afghanistan didn't choose Taliban. Pakistan and Saudi chose Taliban and armed them enough to take over. War obviously works.

What's going to happen in UKR is that the warlike will win and then naturally turn their guns towards the locals. Exactly like in Afghanistan. You can arm them as much as you like, but they will not turn into gandhis with an excess of guns.

My point is not that war doesn't work. My point is that we should all be fighting against war.
This is from their about page (https://blog.kraken.com/about/)

> Kraken is one of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges and the leader in euro volume and liquidity. Globally, Kraken’s client base trades more than 90 digital assets and 7 different fiat currencies, including GBP, EUR, USD, CAD, JPY, CHF and AUD.
Single place? Probably no. But You can go branch by branch.

For armor, Chieftain is probably as good as it gets in English when it comes to universality (he's both a historian and an active service Lt.Col. in the US NG).

For further armor sources, I'd highly recommend the YT channel of Tank Museum Bovington:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTankMuseum

The chap whose video Chieftain replies to ("Perun") is worth following in his own right for the modern take on Russian / Ukraine war. He's more of an economist / logistician, but well worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q

From Perun You'll often hear the name "Michael Kofman". He doesn't get one single place where you could find all of his stuff, but google him and go through the articles / videos he is in. He's often used as a source for quite a lot of commentary about Russian Army in the past 20 years or so.
https://russianmilitaryanalysis.wordpress.com/

When it comes to general doctrine, it's sometimes useful to know the compositions of forces. This is a good starting point:
https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleOrder

When it comes to modern navy, Jive Turkey (now called "SubBrief") is probably a cool starting point. Mainly submarines (he's an ex US Navy 688 sonar operator), but :
https://www.youtube.com/c/SubBrief
First, here’s my source for UK leading subsidies for oil & gas, see top of page 11:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=COM:...

Next, using analysis based on per capita, % of GDP, etc — hides the truth, UK’s subsidies by total amount spent are significant to the industry.
First time I remember seeing her was when she announced the death of Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk.
Unfortunately the "weapons are a waste" opinion has taken a severe hit since February.
In general, I am a proponent of European style abortion laws. I believe today the Supreme Court will release their opinion on Mississippi's abortion law, which emulates the european ones. Hopefully, we can come to a reasonable compromise.
It seems less concerning and more BS. I have no idea who would target blockchain engineers or why.

I do understand why "we are fighting the system, this is dangerous" would be a selling point used by employers.
I just tried this with 10 random companies from the tail end of the s&p 500, I didn't cherry pick anything:

2021 profit # employees profit/employee
DISH Network Corporation $ 6.143B 16,000 383,937
FOX Corporation $12.909B 9,000 1,433,333
Wynn Resorts Limited $ 1.205B 30,200 39,735
American Airlines Group $ 2.046B 123,400 16,580
Bath & Body Works Inc $ 3.096B 92,300 33,542
Hasbro Inc $ 6.42B 5,600 1,146,428
Advance Auto Parts Inc $ 4.929B 68,000 72,485
MGM Resorts International $ 9.68B 74,500 129,932
Hormel Foods Corporation $ 1.928B 20,000 96,400
Paycom Software Inc $ 0.89B 5,385 165,273
> What place has a law that prevents you from hiring three sets of locals to work three different 8-hour shifts?

You hire 2 people to work 12-hour shifts. The machine is moving in your country, but the employees work somewhere (and for someone else) with lax labor laws.
Alternatively they could be from non-crypto tech startups, 90% of which are working on stuff that is just as bullshit and never would have been funded in the first place if not for post 2008 monetary policy. Crypto isn’t special in being bullshit, this whole industry is full of a lot of bullshit.
End-of-life? How about just the Samsung Galaxy line beyond one made 12 years ago. It's sort of popular in Android-land.
Certainly, but the days of calling abortion 'immoral' but otherwise being pro-choice are basically over.
Come on, subsurface [0] had already proved Torvalds wasn’t a one hit wonder.

Of course, being a one hit wonder in software is pretty good if your hit is the Linux kernel.

[0] https://subsurface-divelog.org/
It's a good thing its a signle player game and someone cheating in their playthrough has absolutely no impact on your own enjoyment of the same game!

I agree re: cheaters in multiplayer games, though. Except for the rare cases of "everyone gets to!" ala CoD:MW2 lobbies where the cheater/host set the game to where everyone could fly and shoot massively explosive rounds. That's good fun, for a few rounds.
While I don't agree with your conclusions, part of your arguments are correct:

> Measure by the standard of living, not monetary units.

From the paper below:

"This reflects considerably stronger global convergence in quality of life than in income"

https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/technology-and-dev...
Whenever people talked about "suicide drones", I felt like they haven't studied the history of warfare.

A surprising number of conflicts: WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, degenerated into artillery slugfests. You can't get much cheaper, faster, or more effective than guns shooting dumb explosives 20km away.

Only when the opponents were stupidly overmatched by US Air Superiority (Afghanistan / Iraq) did things change. But even with Air Superiority over say, Vietnam, USA still degenerated into an artillery slugfest.

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Its hard to beat 100lb shrapnel bombs delivered 20km away. Logistics wise, trucks carrying shells is just far cheaper than any other delivery mechanism. This fact has been true since WW1, and no technology has ever really changed the calculus. (Adding li-ion batteries, cameras, remote-control and other features so that you can turn the delivery mechanism into a drone is just unnecessary chips in most cases)
That sounds like a lot of work when you can just write down your password somewhere safe?
Certainly in the UK you're required to do both, and in most cases that will involve your passport or biometric residence permit.

I have trouble seeing why a company would contract with a party they can't sue in the event of non-performance, unless they're a much cheaper/better option.
> Raising wages with Consumer Price Index (CPI) is dangerous, because it could cause spiraling inflation!

Conclusion is correct, but you're missing initial driving factors:

1. Supply-side price shocks in oil, gas, food, manufactures (China zero-COVID policy)

2. Reduced financial subsidies to US: less world appetite for U.S. treasury bonds

3. Fed easing revealed now as pushed too far, given the world's run of very bad luck: COVID followed by war in Ukraine.

So, the world has gotten poorer, the "pie" smaller, and most of us are going to be getting smaller slices for some time.

As much as I'd like to see all the world pie's assets now held in the form of say, mega yachts seized and converted to floating medical clinics run by Medecin San Frontiere, I wouldn't be scanning the news for such a headline.
Thank you for sharing. That was a tough read. Really feel for everyone involved.

I think regardless of the type of work (anon friendly, remote, in person), we need to build systems to deal with these sorts of things gracefully, in a way that supports the people affected and doesn't bring any further suffering or pain to what is already such a tragic and difficult situation.
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People vastly underestimate the "peace of mind" costs - once those are taken into effect it can suddenly make sense to do things that many consider "financially unwise", such as having a large emergency fund, paying off a mortgage, etc.

And once you do that you can find yourself suddenly feeling much more free - knowing that even if everything goes south room and board is taken care of can give you the courage to take risks you'd not otherwise take, such as starting a business, a family, even moving.

The main thing about "living paycheck to paycheck" that scares me is that feeling of being trapped.
Ask HN: Is a reliance on clean energy wise in an uncertain enviromental future?
The energy policy of the day is to rely on "clean, sustainable" which means solar, wind and wave power all of which depend on weather conditions.

On the other hand we are being warned about possible freak weather conditions in the future, such as severe storms which could seriously damage solar, wind and wave installations. If climate change entails such severe occurrences in the future, how sensible is then to put most of our eggs in the clean energy basket?

A major volcanic eruption or explosion might spread so much dust in the sky as to reduce solar energy output, such as the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora, which also resulted in freak weather conditions and famines.

On a smaller scale for instance, in the UK for instance wind turbines have had to shut down in strong winds.

Hydro-electric power stations have proved in adequate in long periods of drought.

My view is that extreme weather conditions require even greater energy consumption to defend and maintain living conditions, such as air conditioning in long periods of extreme heat, heating in long periods of extreme cold, or rebuilding city environments to cope with these extremes, and thus depending on the uncertain atmospheric conditions to provide the energy to cope with the very same uncertain atmospheric conditions just isn't wise.

Are policy makers truly exercising wisdom with this outlook?
> Late term abortions are so exceedingly rare that they don't warrant serious discussion.

Executions are exceedingly rare, yet they do warrant discussion. School shootings are also incredibly rare, yet they warrant discussion. Terrorist attacks are incredibly rare, yet they warrant discussion. All these discussions are warranted.

You're showing your partisanship by refusing to discuss something simply because it's rare. How many abortions of the kind I described would you be willing to tolerate? Why?

The CDC (hhttps://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/ss/ss6907a1.htm) says that about 5000 abortions occured in 2018 after 21 weeks. This is more than the total killed in 9/11, the total killed by school shootings (169 killed since 1999), etc.

So again, how many?

EDIT; downvoted for citing data. Sad that we can't have productive discussions on hacker news. My partisanship used to lie solely with the democrats until they became intolerant of any view other than abortion anytime, anywhere; now I'm a political outsider. When one sees engagement like this, these sorts of stories become unsurprising.
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I’m guessing most of the people who voted don’t own
This is worse than TDD "write the test first" extremism.

The # of projects that have all the requirements perfectly laid out to enable this is... effectively zero.

I can see something where the requirements and iteration/convergence artifacts lead to some structured documentation ... maybe, that's an interesting idea.

The reason documentation comes last is that you don't know what comes out the end of the sewer pipe after the vagaries of Faster, Better, Cheaper pick two... well actually it's Faster Better Cheaper Documented ProcessFollowed, pick 2.5.
I liked subversion much better than cvs as it was less buggy and was more integrated with Apache for web-based vcs.
PHP I feel like was mostly all the old web providers you could sign up for to run your own site always had LAMP stacks available as options either default installed or trivially installable, often with instructions.

Ruby I'm not sure what caused the hype unless it was something like Heroku making deployable Rails easy.
So this is a yes + yes from you. I also tend to think that I could use the service and be able to deduct the expense from my earnings.

In the scenario I imagine, there is now VAT involved. The website does not even provide an invoice or anything.

I can very well imagine this becoming a real scenario. At the latest when DAOs and AI are combined to provide services that completely live in the digital realm. Without any location at all.
Congrats Sri and Brian! This looks very useful.
Looking forward to giving audit-level access to my systems to a anon "Senior Security Auditor".
Knowing Penn & Teller there's probably a cheat code that adds the occasional stripper hitch-hiker along the route. At least I would hope so.
Amen. Once I understood the game and started being able to play rationally, the main threat was always my own impatience. How many times I lost fights just because I forgot to stop and check my inventory for useful stuff. Or ran right into a floating eye in a dark corridor...
I'd guess that interaction is very common and not illegal anywhere I'm aware of.
Yeah. Either I cheat myself infinite money or I set up a basic, in the black city, turn the speed as high as it'll go and go eat dinner. Functionally the same result, so why waste the time?
Tanks were created to cope with two dominant threats: small arms and artillery shrapnel; the WW1 battlefield of machine guns and massed artillery. They've been improved to cope with some new threats since, but the number of threats are multiplying rapidly. The cost and complexity of tanks is exploding trying to deal with all of militarized model airplanes (Bayraktar et al.), guided artillery rounds (BONUS), long range armor seeking missiles (Brimstone), guided mortar rounds (XM395), intelligent anti-armor mines (PTKM-1R), man portable antitank weapons (Javelin/NLAW/Stugna-P/...), improved RPGs, etc.

In a world where there is a Stugna-P "behind every blade of grass" tanks become a liability. I think they'll be scaled back to niches; there will probably always be a need for a big chunk of metal to push through and blow holes in things. Going forward though, the German Blitzkrieg model or Russia's Horde Of Armor doctrine is dead when the combatants are not greatly asymmetric.
Inefficiency just requires extra capex, not opex. And the capex is capex is still falling at an exponential rate. So, no.
I think you should try and understand the definition of 'victim mentality' a little better.

There's great power in understanding where you came from, and how that affects your behavior today.
>Mindless consumption is nothing but a disease

Take a moment, when you leave your house next, and find anything upon your travels/commute/walk, man-made, which is trying to NOT get you to spend (time/attention/money).

Our entire civilization is built around programming consumerism, and lauding profiting from the inability to NOT spend.
As a general tip:

Trusting that someone doing something markedly unusual is "handling it somehow" is a great way to get some ugly surprises later. Companies do things wrong all the time and in many cases you can find yourself liable for their mistakes/abuses in some way or another. Sometimes at great cost. Obviously, you need to trust every employer/client to some degree, but you'll benefit yourself by developing a sense for what smells fishy.

Unregistered, anonymous work in a world of borders, worker protections, and taxes smells like the dumpster behind a Red Lobster. You don't have to rule out an opportunity that interests you, but do be careful!
No. Ryan is not saying anyone is overpaid. He's saying that many business models are impossible.

The market is saying that those business models shouldn't exist.

This is true no matter what the number is. Slave labor enabled the American South to deploy business models that are impossible today. Doesn't mean it was good.
How well do long range drones work if the other side puts up a serious blockages of radio waves and decides that "no you dont get satellites anymore"?
Ask HN: Is now a good time to purchase a gas guzzler?
Ignoring the cost to the environment, I'm wondering if increased gas prices have caused reduced demand and prices for gas guzzlers. Also in 10 years I'm not sure how many vehicles will still use gas which may be a factor in whether you decide to buy one now.
I was wondering the same thing re: #3. Some of it is answered in the article but it reads like it was written by a pop-tech blogger and obviously very light on details. I'm not sure where the linked article gets its information, but it seems to suggest that Hinge might be doing some kind of image analysis, maybe:

> Your likes also play into it. The more you like certain types of people, the more Hinge learns about your preferences, as founder Justin McLeod told British Vogue: “It gets better and more accurate the more that you reveal your tastes.” It’s kind of like if you look at the past ten people you’ve dated or fancied, you’ll eventually start to see a pattern emerging, so you’ll have more success (in theory) if you start to seek these types of people out. I.e what’s the point in me going for short blondes when I know I’m only really attracted to tall brunettes? The answer is there is no point, and Hinge knows that.

And why wouldn't they be? It seems like an incredibly easy target for aligning visual preferences without having to ask.
Who draws the line between necessity and luxury? Who draws the line between enough and too much? Who could be so arrogant as to volunteer an opinion on this for all of society?

Further, your argument doesn’t hold water - food is a requirement, but does it have to be grass fed beef? Could I not make do with soylent green?

This way of thinking is a race to the bottom. It must be avoided at all costs.
When I saw the title, I first thought this article had something to do with the intersection of computational science and inner-city street gangs.
Microsoft made the mistake of letting users keep IE11 next to Edge. Egregious.

Having a IE mode for whitelisted websites would have killed IE11 on public internet a long time ago.

“Website broken? Click here to try IE11 mode.”

But no, IE is still on the desktop and people will use it for both intranet and internet
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Is that true? The you cannot deduct expenses in absense of an invoice?

Any links to back that up?

What I find around the net seems to point in the opposite direction. For example the German "Eigenbeleg":

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenbeleg

The Wikipedia page says that to deduct expenses from earnings, the expense has to be "belegt" which means "documented". But it seems the documentation does not have to be done by the seller. It seems it can also also be done by the buyer.
> The alternative to thinking before doing is wandering aimlessly, which really isn't likely to steer you where you want to be.

When I was a kid, we topped over this hill on the interstate, and way down in the distance there was an overpass across the road, with straight road from here to there. And I wondered how my dad could aim the car so well that it would go under that overpass way off in the distance.

Of course, now I know that he didn't do that. He didn't even try to do that. Instead, he steered the car.

The alternative to thinking before doing is not wandering aimlessly. It's steering. It's knowing where you're trying to go, even if you don't exactly know how to get there, and having an initial idea of how to get there, and then starting to go there, and adjusting as you find obstacles that you didn't know existed, and as you find that your aim was off.
Anyone know if security firms already do this by default? For example, if you work for the NSA, do your co-workers even know what your real name is?
threatening someone who has the ability to intentionally introduce a vulnerability into even a relatively small cryptocurrency probably has the potential to be insanely profitable, and the odds of it even being investigated are far lower than any other form of fraud (for now).

There’s plenty of good reasons to go after some specific blockchain engineers who could do this, but otherwise yeah it seems kind of silly and over dramatic.
(not from the article) but from a quick google search...

"businesses that contract with S Corps do not need to issue them a Form 1099-MISC"

I'm an s-corp, and yet I still have people 1099ing me. It's more annoying than anything because I get all my tax stuff done quickly, and someone will send out a late 1099 with slightly different numbers (typically error on their end) and... I've just given up caring about that.

"You don't send 1099s to your landscaping service, or your office supply store purchases, or the energy company, but you've contracted services with them." "Oh, but you're a person"... with an s-corp registered for 10+ years and a separate employer TIN.
I've never quite understood this MS policy of "ending support" but continuing support anyway for extended support contract customers or for specific versions, etc.

The way I look at it, MS obviously is actually continuing to support the product, they are just choosing not to make it available to most people. It's still supported, just not for everyone.

I feel that if security patches are still being produced, they should be released as opposed to expecting people to use nothing, or roll their own by getting patches from a third party.

They could be released as "donations" to the public good from the big customers.
Most of the comments are the comments are about the article and threads typically evolve to become more on-topic so you're better off writing something about it as well, rather than adding meta and did-you-read-the-article-ing. Plus the guidelines ask you to avoid that.
>If I had a dollar for every time I had apt bullshit me with "requires package, but it will not be installed" or something of the sort I'd probably have something over $20 which isn't that much but still infuriatingly high.

Completely unrelated but the exactness of this turn of phrase here delighted me so much and without your permission I’d like to steal it for my own use in my daily conversations (without credit).
The article mentions that merging in svn was not as easy as what BK did and what git needed. It allowed merges but they were “big deals” where git makes merges very easy and common.

I remember projects where out of 50 people only 1-2 were capable and trusted to do merges. And that was a tedious and boring job so the joke was that you never wanted anyone to know you could merge a code base for release.
I like the idea of at least writing a PR and FAQ (where a build is a product). That helps a lot fo manage anxiety and kill backlogs.
Simpsons mocked it years ago: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Yard_Work_Simulator
Funny, I do the same thing, medical tourism in Chile. Like all Hispanics. We all get all medicine in Latin America, never in America, to the extent it's avoidable. It used to be the other way around, like I knew a kid who kept traveling for medical tourism from Chile to America because he had a rare heart thing, rare disease.

There should be flying ambulances, like international flights taking emergency patients to where they can be treated economically instead of getting signature after signature squeezed out of them, one per hour starting inside the ambulance.
> How can this be bad or a footgun?

You are coming from the side of someone who already has a a well planned algorithm that doesn't get stuck in infinite looping or end up diving too deep.

My concern was for those without a well planned algorithm, who don't see that it can get stuck in a loop or dives too deep too quickly. In these situations blowing your stack is a good indication you have a problem.

This is just my bias of dealing with programmers who don't do well with recursion or love to introduce function call hell.
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