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> state’s fiat powers come from its credibility, transparency and the power of taxation

Nope. State's fiat powers come from its monopoly on violence.

Completely opaque and corrupt states have fiat currencies too. Many thriving ones. The only reason people use these fiat currencies is because not doing so invites violence from the state - imprisonment and fines at best, actual physical violence at worst.
> Once you're down to three players, the magic happens, the margins go way up, and supply shortages become profitable.

That's because three is the maximum amount of CEOs that fit in a golf buggy (with equipment).
As the parent said:
>even families in coal country don’t want their kids becoming miners.

But that doesn't seem to be the case, as those same families voted heavily for the politicians who claimed they could bring back coal jobs and the industry. So they obviously want someone to be digging coal, and who else but the next generation?
> I'd rather have a $20 bill than $20,000 of Monopoly money

All currencies we use are smoke and mirrors. The difference is that that $20 bill is backed by well armed US Marines and an crypto currency is not
Even in Central London (UK) that's fast internet. I can't get 90MB in Zone 1
Depends on the system architecture. But a lot of complex systems have been message signaled internally for a very long time, hypertransport based systems being a prominent early example in the desktop/server space.
Wait, copilot spews out code that was licensed outside of public domain or equivalent? How is that at all legal?
I can understand your frustration, and there should be some warning, but this is not a bug.

Every issue type is configured with its associated issue-create screen and that screen has its fields. When you change the issue type during issue creation you're replacing one set of fields with another which results in the information loss you experienced. This just doesn't affect the description field, but all other system fields and custom fields.
I admit I’m not familiar with current techniques for desalination at scale, but I’m curious what the energy requirements would be?
> When you write on a terminal, you are encouraged to make good choices so that your code is clean, with a well-thought-out structure and conventions that allow it to be read and processed by a number of tools as painlessly as possible.

This reads a little bit like a dynamic language vs a typed language. One argument for writing dynamic language is kinda similar to this.

When I write code in a typed language I have to think far less than if I write it in a dynamic language as the tooling takes care of it for me. But in my experience no matter how much I think about how to solve something in a dynamic language I make far less mistakes in a typed language.
HN is very ill-suited to discussing politics in general. That's a known feature.
Should explain with another git hoster than github first, let them get used to something else. Then, when they meet github, they will know, that they used something different before (hopefully, otherwise they are hopeless cases).
> Oh the typical techie solution to environmental problems. We can solve this with tech!

In this case, yes, we literally can solve this with tech. We don't have to wait for the aquifers to dry up, because California has a ludicrously long coastline just begging for desalination plants up the wazoo.
You're looking at it completely backwards. Congress was fine to let the EPA run around and do whatever, because that means people can bitch at the EPA instead of Congress.

> Why is it the court's job to tell congress what they meant to say?

That's... not what they're doing. The court is telling Congress that if you want an agency to have the power to make vast, sweeping changes, then you have to be explicit. They don't get to create an agency and then just give them blanket authority to do anything they want, at any scale.
>For the Atom community and team, you've made one of the greatest text editors out there. Nothing will ever beat it, not even vim which I also swear by...

There speaks someone who's never tried to work with large files in Atom
The perfect theme song for reading the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PLf-2FYIM
> The reason people are mad is because the court is relitigating long settled cases

How many of those same people were mad about Obergefell, which did just that?
California just decided not to build desalination -- the decision was unanimous from the water board responsible for approving projects -- on the ground that more water isn't needed
Not to mention the fact that they will find a lame excuse to roll this into the credit score system sooner or later, so they can know if you are a "responsible" citizen or something.

And also that government employees are incompenent so they'll send the entire thing through wetransfer or something and it'll be leaked sooner or later.
No. A separate wire has its own transceiver. They still have to share the transceiver among all subscribers. Beam forming saves on transmitter power and receiver S/N stats. If it were all just for you, that could improve your bandwidth. But it is not.

Lots of people would like you to think otherwise. Now you know better.
sort of. People learn to read it, but they don't really speak or write it. the ability to read a language doesn't make it an alive language.

This contrasts to Hebrew, which some say was a dead language, but was the living language of jewish law correspondence and jewish law / biblical exegesis, even when other languages were the day to day vernacular (ladino, yiddish or the like). People like to say that hebrew was a dead language before the modern hebrew movement, but that's not quite fair. It wasn't a day to day language of the streets, but new things in it were being written every day all over the diaspora. Basically, those who say it was a dead language are demonstrating their bias against religiously oriented texts and communications.
The bureaucracies are much more accountable than the courts. Congress can limit them at will, and so can the executive, at any time. And the head bureaucrats are not only appointed by elected representatives, unlike supreme court judges, they can be relieved of their powers at any time for any reason.

The EPA wasn't determining law on their own. Congress decided to entrust them with the authority to regulate emissions of pollutants explicitly, and both Congress and the Executive can at any time limit their action if they feel like the EPA is overstepping. They did not, because both Congress and the Executive feels like the EPA is acting as they should.
and making the future of scamming. #trailblazer?
Honestly, that someone can be this confidently incorrect is really fascinating to me, both in theory and practice.

Even setting aside the fact that you're wrong in practice (i.e. there are already far more efficient cryptocurrencies in existence today) it's just very weird that the sort of person who goes to a site like this will confidently say something that's roughly equivalent to "We've reached the maximum speed of CPUs, they cannot get faster than this."
Presumably their water sources are more sustainable. Or, at least much more sustainable than LA or Central Valley.
Beef, pasture and animal feed crops are tremendous "wastes" of water. Much of it is also exported.
It is odd to me that no one is talking about the largest reason ships are not flagged as US.

Straight from the article:

"Today just 0.2% of all ships are U.S.-flagged. Many ships now fly under the flags of Panama, Liberia and the Marshall Islands — countries that allow ocean carriers to bypass a slew of safety regulations, labor laws and taxes. "

The US has basically regulated itself out of the shipping business. Think about that for a second and then wonder if the issue is really greed. The US regulations has made it insanely more expensive to have a US flagged ship.

How do we compete in a global market when the regulatory atmosphere is so lopsided?
The most comfortable headphones I have are my open ear Hifiman He-400i. Minimal clamping pressure, and they’re more breathable due to being open backed. I can wear them for hours without issue. The downside is that they only work if you can get away with open backed headphones. They’re useless if sound leak is an issue or if you’re on an airplane or something. But for working at home in my office by myself they’re ideal. And they sound way better than anything else I’ve tried.
Do bubbles, after popping, collect and reconstitute themselves in analogy or reality? Tulips certainly didn't. Bitcoin really is a slow motion multiplicitis analogy to your "muh Tulips."
Atlassian’s WYSIWYG editors are some of the buggiest bits of UI I’ve ever had the misfortune of using. Writing anything in Jira or Confluence is an exercise in misery. Even basic stuff like hyperlinks often go wrong.
Dryer places don't starve. But they don't export almonds.
the IMF has no incentive to change the way it's doing things & would require a 'rewrite' of the current infrastracture. Also, public/ private key encryption is not quantum-safe, so eventually we need another way. (There is ton of research being done on quantum-safe cryptographic proofs)

History shows systems rarely 'change'. More likely than not they are replaces. That's what BTC is an attempt at.
I would suggest you take a look at history, you would see that humanity’s story is one of exploiting resources till collapse
Solutions that ensure access to a necessary element for all life are not mutually exclusive. The water rights (and disputes) date back centuries; waiting for the courts could easily result in calamity -- even if those rights are quintessentially & obviously a non-ideal "tragedy of the commons."
Last year Californian passed the bill that allows the release of the entire registry with PII to any research institution [1], that studies gun violence. So not only they leaked it themselves, but they also made sure that a grad or undergrad student at one of the universities can loose a flash drive with a info about all gun owners in California.

[1] https://thereload.com/new-california-bill-would-allow-the-re...
Pumping water from the California coast to Nevada is not a good idea. You’re basically describing a hydro plant, in reverse, carrying expensive water.
No, just stop growing stuff we can't eat or stuff we export. And then water more efficiently with drip. This is so wildly wrong. Alfalfa is useless.
> acre-feet

Being European, that's the weirdest unit of volume, I've ever seen.
In my experience, the very cheap oled screens are usually quite a bit bigger than that. Closer to the size of a smaller smart watch (with much lower resolution of course)
TU Munich is also getting really strong, they've been winning Elon Musk's Hyperloop for the past years I think
This has to do with (bad) estimates being based on a particularly wet period that occurred around the time of original dam construction.
> If we were just a bit more selective in what we farmed, we could reduce our water usage by a significant amount.

If California had spent the last 20 years (let alone 50) building out desal plants, we wouldn't need to be selective.
Even then, our dominance in intellectual property is not assured. TikTok has taken the world by storm and I would have never imagined a Chinese company would make a social media app more successful and compelling than what any Bay Area company could produce. We're also seeing Hollywood movies become less successful overseas as other nations step up their own media production.

Not only do I see our competitive advantage in Intellectual Property declining, I also don't know what comes next after Intellectual Property.
This is somewhat insane.
WHY is no one looking at how protocols explicitly invented to solve this problem work?

PTP precision time protocol, albeit implemented on the wrong layer to be directly useful here, solves it by timestamping frames.
Everyone keeps saying desalination is the solution but doesn't desalination cause an enormous amount of waste output (hyper saline slurry)? It seems like creating a new problem to solve another.
> 1. We’re eating more fresh fruit

Is this supposed to be a joke? "Let them eat fruit?"

> 9. Comparing wage growth to the cost of necessities

It's here, far below the fold, that the real story begins. Spoiler: health care, housing, and education did not get cheaper. Which you already knew, because you pay out the ass for them, and that's not a feeling one forgets.

But we are eating more fruit, so I guess on the balance everything is fine.
True, but I meant that fan runs when the compressor is running to blow air over the coils. That movement of air will allow more transfer of heat from the stuff in the freezer.
My first two games were built with my own hacky web sockets implementation. From a software perspective it's pretty messy, but it gets the job done haha.

I actually had built an alpha version of my 3rd game with my own networking code, but because it is more of a real-time game, there were tons of bugs. Switching to use Hathora for the back-end logic has made the game much more stable so I can finally work to release the game.

You can check out my first two games here: https://gomobo.app/. They play kind of similar to Jackbox games, but with more strategy board game elements. Would love to hear what you think!
Which is exactly my point.
Increasingly, in the US, bars and stores swipe your DL to validate your age. This is in the name of making sure the id was checked and not requiring the bouncer/clerk to recognize all sorts of state IDs.

Really, all the info goes to the establishment and/or the company providing the reader.

The old fashioned “bouncer will forget all the info” doesn’t apply any more.
We can't admit that, because then we'd have to look at all the other industries we shipped overseas to avoid oversight and taxes.
Handling third-party provider outages
Vineyards aren’t particularly water intensive, are they? Compared to things like almonds and alfalfa
> That's my point-- how? Presumably you're just going to host your FOSS somewhere else that Microsoft can still get it.

The problem isn't that Microsoft can access you code. It's the section D.4 on Github's terms of service [1]. If you are hosting your code on Github, you are essentially giving Microsoft the legal rights to do certain things with your code. That section is broad enough to allow Microsoft to train copilot with your code. It gives them the freedom to disregard the license. On the other hand, it would be a clear violation of the license if they read your code off another hosts and reproduced it verbatim. I don't know whether any legal challenges would stand in a court, but at least you are not giving away the right to do so.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
States with plenty of water could grow some of the crops.
Yeah, buying out the current water right owners and moving towards market prices on water seems like the best way to handle this.

But that requires a government that can and wants to do things. I hope to be surprised, but I don't see California doing either of these things...
Well, LCSC [0] has microB at around $0.02 [1] and USB-C (16 pin) at $0.05 [2]

[0] https://lcsc.com/products/USB-Connectors_369.html
[1] https://lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_XKB-Connectiv...
[2] https://lcsc.com/product-detail/USB-Connectors_G-Switch-GT-U...
But the whole point of the "porn --> Pornhub" half-joke analogy is that it shares the word "hub" with Github!
Do you have an example of this being done on a large scale? Sincere question. I've just never heard of it being done.
As far as I understand, PBS data is based on the guns, that were recovered and which it was possible to establish, that it was stolen, which depends on how this data is collected and reported by the states.
Probably not but then war would certainly be lost without them.
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Zk rollups are about as fast as visa network - and recursive zk snarks can scale further if needed. The benefit is that they inherit the security of the main network - users can withdraw tokens from them trustlessly, and at no point can the rollup owner steal user funds or block them from withdrawal.

For financial services like lending and swaps this is great and avoids some of the CeFi and CEX problems we are seeing. For other apps like art sales, public groups, and ENS domain name aliases, it allows ownership of assets to be held non custodially rather than a single company’s servers and records.
> can be fulfilled with very low bandwidth and today can already be priced at 1 dollar per month per person

I can promise you that basically the entire internet (with the exception of this particular site) doesn't work at "very low bandwidth."
As a consumer, I'm not very impressed with smartphones. It's mostly just entertainment. There's very little utility other than looking stuff up on the internet. It's basically just a far less UI capable but more portable computer. if you doubt this to any degree, just try getting any work done: anything. spreadsheets? programming? writing a length email? debugging? smartphones are mainly just entertainment devices.
i think your rule was truncated... it's actually no-politics-rule-unless-it-makes-us-money-and-what-are-you-really-going-to-do-about-it-,-quit?
Ask HN: What is your development strategy?
Hello HN, what is your development strategy?

I am a relatively experienced hobby developer who recently joined the workforce. In one of my recent projects, which as a small solo project, I noticed that I was not putting in my best effort when it came to the quality of my code and work. I was so focused on the hand-off that I forgot some parts of the main feature, which ended up not working.

My question is: how can I prevent this from happening again?

Do you use lists or mental models to remember the main objectives? And how do you assess your own work to ensure that you didn't miss anything?
I set up itsme on my android phone using linix. This was a couple years ago, so things likely changed for worse since then.

P.S. If you use a JB device, you should also use Magisk and be ready to troubleshoot.
Collecting fog electrostatically is 2x more efficient than desalination. It works by ionizing the droplets in the air and collecting them on wire meshes: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5323. The technique also doesn't produce tons of salt waste that you have to dispose of.

It's a potential solution for towns/cities next to the ocean. Desalination is cheap enough already if we get desperate.

It won't be cost or technical feasibility that prevents us from solving the drought problem.
Look, I think I agree with you that aquifers running dry is a very serious problem. However, I don’t understand why you believe desalination would not alleviate California’s problems with water. If California could be convinced to build enough nuclear desalination capacity for all present and future water needs then the problem is solved, no? There are trade offs such as environmental impact and cost. There are obstacles to implementation such as fear of nuclear power. If that’s your concern then please clarify.

(I haven’t watched that episode of the show. Does he go over this?)
Could you please elaborate on how you sit. Do you have different positions? Do you spread your legs or alternate ...etc
Historic Rotterdam bridge won't be dismantled for Jeff Bezos superyacht
That seems wasteful. How about a biotech startup that merges fish DNA with human DNA that gives humans the ability to consume saltwater directly. As an added bonus we can give people gills aka built-in SCUBA equipment.
You'd think the almond farmers would be the ones to do that.
I grew up in California and I’ve seen just about everything from my youth turn over in the last ten years from tech transplants and TikTok stars. My old neighborhood is now majority yuppies in condos. Money is a destructive and constructive force, California has made the deal with the devil.
> What happens if I don't want to identify myself?

You get arrested until the police can figure out who you are, at least that's how it works presently in most of the EU.
No, that wasn't the claim I responded to. Twice, my comment explicitly mentioned the novelty of greed and speculation as the claim.
What are you even arguing? People posting here need to made less ambiguous, seething comments and stop assuming that people reading already know what they’re arguing.

- The poster above mentions desalination and says tech provides a solution.

- You make some vague point about tech people depending too much on tech, but without actually discussing the point and why.

- Then you go on to talk about the current problem, which the commenter above proposed a solution to, but making it sound as though you’re disagreeing with them.

So what are you even saying??
Being American, same.
This is different from what you're saying though. This isn't about "what basic knowledge is needed generally." This is about us frog-boiling ourselves into a world where we end up accepting the mentality that code is owned and controlled by the big company/entity in the center. For now it's "convenience," but if it continues it absolutely will turn into a center of power to be policed. "Dangerous code" will be censored, etc.

In other words, yes, Stallman was right.
ahh, i was looking at those company's 'as tech'. In the sense of technology, not internet company's we see today.

To be honest I think we agree, we are just getting caught up in semantics. Whether it is capitalism or tech that's doing it is irrelevant because we have the development of technology in a capitalistic world order. In other words, it is impossible to differentiate when the two are so intertwined.
What of Macaulay2 and Gap and Magma and so on?

That said, I'm still a Mathematica person at heart.
The court can't just overturn laws. Cases have to be brought to them first. So your argument of "why is X bad law allowed to stand when they just overturned Y?" doesn't hold water.
My experience has also been that Windows 11 is buggy (haven't been using it for a while because it can't even reliably connect to the internet). But also in my limited experience (just one install on a single machine in ~2020, used for a few months): Ubuntu is just as bad or even worse.
Very cool! I assume that anything captured will still need to have Sync/Send?
California has incredible fog forests also, home of the second tallest tree species registered in the planet. A desert would not have evolved giant slugs and arboreal salamanders.

It was a much more humid place in the past, probably.
My thought about that is the coastal commission needs to think hard because decisions like that are likely to result in their power being curtailed.
Expensive to fork I presume.
Well, the constitution grants the judiciary branch the final say on all cases of legality. So I don't think it's very controversial that they also have the final say on the legality of the legislative and executive branch's doings.

Also of course, this is exactly the separation of powers, which is completely fundamental in all western societies.
Indeed they do have a rich history of bad regimes. That's kind of the point.
If by inhabitants you mean ordinary residents, well, the vast majority of all water used is used for agriculture.
The same thing happens to orgs using Salesforce, custom fields get added and ignored ad infinititum.