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There would be a lot of more places to go camping to if everyone lived in such cities. See how Manhattan would look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs-10eEGEe0
Picasso is a wrong example because his art was not a result of him being not nice to women.

But a person with a bad character can sometimes get things done that others can't.

Admiring that person is like saying that you hate fossil fuels but still enjoy a trip to some distant location a few times per year.

It's hypocritical in a way.
There is nuance to all of this obviously, as with anything cultural, but in short - yes.

Large swaths of the US population have been deprived of food culture for several generations now. There are many exceptions of course - Latino family bbqs in Southern California, or Cajun crawfish boils, are examples of food culture that’s well and alive that I’ve experienced personally. But you also have many Americans for whom the act of procuring ingredients and cooking is something so distant that it’s essentially alien - it’s been replaced by fast food, gas station food (frozen pizza, box of Mac & cheese), food delivery, etc. I’ve lived places where you had to easily drive 50-100 miles to find a farmer’s market - something unthinkable in Europe.

Nowhere is this more visible than in schools. In French schools, it’s not uncommon for the people making the food to make seasonal/local recipes, eat it with the kids, maybe even involving them lightly in the process. In the US, school cafeterias often are serving what is essentially gas station food.

(a funny side effect of that is Americans traveling abroad get their mind blown by foreign gas station food - see for example the sempiternal meme of tourists having their mind blown by the very mediocre Japanese konbini sandwiches)

Many have written about this, Michael Pollan is probably the most famous one.
Atmospheric capture today is far too energy-intensive to justify the effort. It’s likely far cheaper as of now to capture it from existing plants mixed with N2 and other gases at the plant, compress and liquefy it for purity, and truck or pipe it to the plant.

That’s assuming that we have CO2-emitting factories, which are hopefully gone soon. If most of the hydrocarbon is synthetic and burned by airlines, tapping the exhaust isn’t an option. I’m not sure whether it will be cheaper to capture CO2 in the atmosphere or run alternative ways to travel.
Just because the Star Trek universe had WWIII doesn’t mean we have to. I would like to live in Star Trek via the path of least suffering, but whatever path, it is the future I wish for generations to come regardless the struggle I personally have to endure.

To wish the current system upon children and children’s children is selfish and cruel beyond imagination.

If people wanted, we could all wake up tomorrow and begin building that better future. It is literally a state of mind at this point — the technology and intelligence necessary is within our current evolutionary form.
> It relies entirely on someone else coming along later and paying more

Yes, just like any part of the economy. Scarcity and/or productivity is why someone pays: either something, or more for it.

If it's BTC, the theory is it will be scarce, like gold.

If it is one of the other crypto coins, it has to be productive like e.g. this app enabling sharing internet with others.
Concrete blocks are, as Alexander Hamilton noted in the Federalist Papers, the most important payload on a communication network.
Ironically Harry Potter was banned at my school. (Witchcraft!)
> Boot infection are really rare

Gee I wonder why. /s Such statements are tedious to say the least, preventions have been implemented, obviously it curtails such abuse, obviously that reduces frequency.

> the whole TPM module isn't really needed in my opinion

It's nice that you have no key material that would need to be kept strictly on the device, but a lot of users actually do. We don't want people's Webauthn tokens carried away, we don't want Bitlocker keys stolen, most certainly we do not want biometric authentication data stolen. Maybe you have reduced that risk to near zero, but that's not the case for the vast majority of users.
It will become uneconomical because making the same chemicals, or better replacements, with renewable energy will be cheaper:

https://www.enapter.com/newsroom/reaching-price-parity-of-gr...
Yup. The point of the Fed is to ensure consumers can stick their money in banks without being experts in the banks' financial position themselves

From the point of view of the Fed, it is different though; the reason it offers banks special privileges like banking licences, deposit window lending access and [only recently, not uncontroversially] interest on reserves is because they perform complex and risky operations like lending businesses and homebuyers money the economy needs. If they didn't do this, the Fed wouldn't have come into existence, never mind having agreed to pay interest on reserves banks hold so it could maintain a positive interest rate after flooding the system with reserves with QE.

So there isn't an obvious imperative for the Fed to extend privileges it designed for lending institutions to an institution designed with the explicit intention of not performing that function, and simply earning a risk free margin on interest from the Fed. It's not too different to the situation where its difficult to register for charity tax breaks if the purpose of your organisation is in fact, not charitable.
But it'd make a lot of whistleblowing impossible too
Yes, this is already the case on Android.
Two years ago I canceled smart-id contract (https://www.smart-id.com/) and stopped using any "smart" devices. Because one day the smart-id app ceased to work on my rooted smartphone.

Soon my old 3G dumbphone will be useless as the mobile operator ends the service. People are pushed to newer phones^W surveillance devices and I have to hunt for real 2G phone soon.
So is war.
Don't reproduce.
How many of the trucks you see in the US are actually needed, though? Most of them are only used for commuting, and twice the size of a truck used for actual work.
Sounds about right!
It's LGPL
Do you ever think back and wonder if maybe you did make the right decision?

After factoring in ~10x 15-20% jumps over 25 years, compounding interest and more maybe that translates to being 100% financially secure 10 years sooner. I didn't do the math but you get the idea. Basically is a temporary bad place or 2 for a year worth gaining 10 years of not having to work unless you wanted to?
Grammarly suggested that I change "object-oriented programming" to "thing-oriented programming." How competent do you think their data team really is?
It was never removed. It was only ever moved to the end. Some blogger only read the first line and thought it was gone, so he made a huge fuzz about it and people/newspapers who didn't verify jumped on. But everyone who checked immediately called him out. You can verify it yourself by checking the internet archive around the dates of the alleged removal:

April 21st, 2018: at top [1]

May 1st, 2018 (next save): at bottom [2]

The blogger outrage only started in late May.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180421105327/https://abc.xyz/i...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20180504211806/https://abc.xyz/i...
Is this really true? Most incentives I know of are for first time home owners. Most landlords can't take advantage of them.
You can only hope that you don’t own any tokens when the music stops
Oh ! This is terrible. The poor kid will be scared of robots, if not chess for a long time. Hope he recovers well.
You get into a para-managerial role in tech first, then leverage the new job title to get a more purely-managerial role elsewhere, emphasizing the organizational elements of your experience.

I recently switched from tech to education by emphasizing the educational parts of my previous jobs, which were otherwise very technical.
Faraday Future delays the launch of its first electric vehicle yet again
Grammarly is banned by my employer and plenty others I imagine. I’ll let that speak for itself
and all that crap will get eventually pwned anyways
I ported a C codebase (routino) to an redbean APE, it was a little bit of work but not alot. If fossil does not use many external dependencies it'd probably not be that much work, especially considering sqlite is already there.
I left my job after 3 years for 3.5x cash

And my friend who I recommended them that had 0 commercial xp and no solid skills received something like 10% more than I had after 3 years

I've been kinda stupid.
The point of third party clients is not even to expand on any functionality, but rather to strip down unnecessary bloat of the official client.

Users still get banned for that, even when they are well within reasonable use, and then they are unbanned with words “This serves you right, now use our spyware* of a client”.

* Discord used to scan your entire HDD “for games” when starting up.
I've only managed about 50 people, and only in the UK, but in my experience it's extremely rare for someone to explicitly say to their manager that they want more money / a promotion.

I guess a lot of people are under the impression greed is something to be ashamed of, or feel it would be confrontational or ungrateful to ask for more money?
If they're already doing something illegal (avoiding tax, buying drugs or whatever), surely they'll ignore this law on cash transactions as well?
Hindi has words but not commonly used and understood slang for many of these concepts.
Ovsyannikova and Kara-Murza are not jailed, they are detained and their fate is going to be determined in court. And they are not detained for being anti-war as you said -- they are detained for spreading misinformation -- repeatedly. Yep, just like they would be in the glorious free USA.

As for the thousands of protesters being jailed -- you make the same (deliberate?) mistake again -- they are detained, not jailed. And then released with a fine. And again -- they are detained not because they are anti-war but because their protests are illegitimate -- they are not properly registered with the authorities. And guess what? It works the same way in the USA!

Makes your comment look in a totally different light now, doesn't it?

Oh, and if you didn't know, RFERL is directly sponsored by the US government while WaPo and NYT are covert fronts for the Democratic Party so anything you post from them should be taken with a truckload of salt.

The situation in Russia right now in regards of Ukraine war is very simple -- everybody has rallied around Putin and against the West, everybody knows that this war is a proxy war against USA ands Ukraine is just an unlucky puppet. If you see some media telling you otherwise, you should know outright that it lies.
Ehhh. I'd say they tolerate it.

Their policy is basically "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". So as long as you aren't yelling at people about DPS meters or streaming with obvious mods, they'll leave you alone.
District councils (so the second 'lowest' of the possible tiers) but yes. In practice, they've all deferred to the judgement of the British Board of Film Classification (née ...Film Censorship) for nearly every film since it was set up.
On the internet “most people” are an imaginary statistic we toss around thinking it means anything.
Or he start's making battle robot's (breaking the fingers of school bullies).
> Unfortunately, I live in Germany where cash is still king

No, that's actually very fortunate for you, and likely a result of the collective memory among the (previously) eastern German population about the meaning and abuse by government of tracking every little thing you do.

Government abuse of all-knowing and all-controlling abilities is a question of "when, what and who", not a question of "if".

Cash is like a standing army. You don't want to ever have to use one, but if you don't even have one you can use, you'll lose the next war that breaks, which historically has been a question of "when", not "if". So every country - including Switzerland who hasn't been part of a war in centuries - maintains a capable army.

You wouldn't dismantle your army just for convenience. Don't stop using cash.
The discounts are getting smaller and smaller as the valuations go up. A new chain, Aptos, is raising at 2B valuation. Optimism, an ETH Layer2 raised at 1B valuation. Until like last week, it had a circulating marketcap of 100m.

Lots of smaller projects are priced below VC prices. For example, CowSwap is at like 12c when private rounds were at 15c.
That is precisely the proof I need before I ever buy into either. I'm very optimistic about PinePhone but AIUI it's currently quite far from being a reliable daily driver for the kinds of tasks I need one for.
For me that’s a problem for the average user? That’s everyone else’s problem that idiots don’t care to control their technology and need big tech to do so with an iron fist
Tell HN: Engineer Facepalm
engineer facepalm : when you realize you've made the problem worse by trying to solve it.
Gov.UK: Prevent ministers and officials from hiding policy changes as minor
https://languagetool.org for sure. Europe-based, can host your own server. Plus, it's the only one that doesn't seem to eat my Mac's battery.

Some (might be all, actually?) parts are open source as well.
I don’t know the exact breakdown but the bulk of it was apparently in-game items.
Context: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/22/e...
It's LGPLv2+ which doesn't restrict your use in any way — you can combine it with proprietary code, ship it in closed source products etc — but does mean that you must contribute changes (to this library code only) back rather than being able to steal them from the commons for your proprietary benefit.
All automated "writing & style" tools are for people who can't write and have no style. If that's you, great -- better to use the tool than not.

Otherwise, everything -- from Word's style tips, to these online tools are the death of authorial voice.

I mean to write precisely what I say. Not "to write what I say" because that's "more concise and easier for the reader". Precisely what I say, because that's more evocative of my frustration.
I agree that the corporation itself deserves no “loyalty” it really is “just business” for them and employees should feel the same. As long as both sides play fair there shouldn’t be hard feelings.

But where things get messy is that employees get emotionally attached to their coworkers and even projects and workplaces. This can be some serious baggage to deal with if it was a good place where the employee got an opportunity to grow and form relationships. It’s why folks have to overcome resignation guilt when leaving. These are totally normal feelings.

how much does that translate to in terms of pay? I guess it depends on one’s value system. As long as the employee was not exploited with low pay, it could easily be >30% if the new offer is a unique opportunity.
It is absolutely mindblowing that nobody questions this bulls**

A house that mines crypto ... or the reality, a house with a tiny crypto miner in a corner of the house.
Hahah hilarous
I feel that trusting Grammarly is like trusting GitHub will not leak your code in private repository.
> I’ve been a C# developer for a decade and I still think it’s hopelessly convoluted for getting very simple things up and running.

For me, fsharp interactive is one of the best prototyping experience I have ever experienced.
I'm not sure if thats really a good deal. You can find some Leafs with new bats for like $3000-4000 all over. And thats road legal anywhere. Maybe chop the top and you got a pickup.
Yeah - at my job as well, not to be trusted it seems
Wow, I've written way more shell code than people should and I didn't know you could write this

toolname < textfile

as

< textfile toolname
Bitcoin's layer 2 can do 7000 transactions per second easily.
You can help them a bit:
alias firefox=lynx in .bashrc
That looks good, thanks for sharing! Haven't heard of it. Intentionally never used Grammarly because it feels sketchy to run some keylogger.
I generally seek out movie trailers when I’m in the mood to watch a new movie. This model works well IMO.
You keep saying words that appear to make sense but actually don't in the context of this post. Pretty much like politicians do. What is your point exactly? You said that academia is more free now than in the 90s -- is that your point? If so, this point is incorrect, because in the 90s there were no political witch hunts against academics that are prevalent and widespread nowadays.
> That's why I started journaling: to be able to tell what happened in the past. Not just the big milestones, but all the little steps.

This tracks for me, especially with little kids. I feel more peaceful knowing that these days won’t just completely disappear into the past. Just knowing I can look back later gives me solace now.
Hey OP, I feel relate to your problem as CTO of a startup that is growing fast and requires heavy integration with operation and biz (Seed to Series B in 4 years). My day to day is quite hectic, however, I'm happy to do experiments whether I can contribute or help.

My total experience is 14 years start from eng, project manager, CTO and now handling Product. I have experience managing talents from Asia, India, and Silicon Valley. I spend my time weekly aligning with the biz stakeholders like VP of Operation, Finance, Commercial, HR and of course, my co-founder the CEO :)

You can reach me out at barudevice0 @ Gmail dot com
If I were going to drink any politician's kool-aid, it would have been Bernie's. Hillary Clinton was part of the problem, just as most other sitting politicians are part of the problem.
Facts just don't matter when you're selling hope-ium. To the moooon!
Almost everyone I've met in crypto cares about these things.

Sure it is probably not even 1% of projects by number and there are plenty of frauds/scams (which are oviously illegal without any new laws) and even more just really terrible ideas (whatever happened to caveat emptor?), but there absolutely is a sizeable core of projects, founders, devs, and researchers that cares deeply about privacy, freedom from coprorate/government surveillance and control, open source and open protocols, and building a very different online, digital future than the one we are currently headed for.

I think that's worth the effort. Even if that might fail, and even with the collateral damage from scams and fraud (which, again, are already illegal). We accepted cars despite the deaths and injuries and pollution (which we also deal with legally and try to minimise without destroying the benefits of having cars), and they reshaped our society. I expect crypto and privacy tech. to do the same in time. It may even take as long.
I'm definitely not lying about this.

The statement “asking gay men to stop having orgies is homophobic” is obviously not the same as the statement "emphasising the focus on men who have sex with men…will lead to a dark place with rampant homophobia", particularly when backed up with lots of examples of exactly that thing happening!

It's not that "everyone is so mind poisoned at this point we can't just _disagree_". Indeed, I don't even disagree! I generally think that health authorities do need to understand and talk about community-specific risk, while ensuring that they balance that messaging with the impact that this can have. On the other hand, my own fucking grandmother is now under the impression that I am now at risk from a magical gay disease that's sweeping through the country because of how ham-fisted the communication has been.

The problem is that instead of talking about what your concerns were (while taking on board other points of view on the issue and how complex it is) you jumped directly to making up a quote that justified what you already thought. If you want to find a thing that is going to make "everyone is so mind poisoned" then that is what's going to do it.
Some ideas: Tesla. Northvolt. Polestar. Scania. H2 Green Steel. Myrspoven.
I looked into getting a Helium hotspot, but when I looked at my ISP‘s terms of service, the Helium use case is explicitly forbidden (I use Frontier Internet in Florida.)

If you’re not familiar with it, what a Helium hotspot does is allow compatible IOT devices to share your Internet connection.

I suspect that allowing random third parties to use your Internet connection it’s explicitly forbidden by the terms of service of most ISPs, especially when you are being monetarily compensated/rewarded for such sharing.

Excerpt from ToS:
“Customers may not retransmit the Service or make the Service available to anyone outside the
premises (i.e. Wi-Fi or other methods of networking).”
I'm in the UK and seen them about. They aren't very large, about the size of a Fiat 500 which is considered quite a compact car.

[Edit] I've just looked it up and it is considered a mid-sized super-compact.

Within 1/2" of the Fiesta for the wheelbase. Its quite dinky.
Engineering is dealing with reality.

My lack of knowledge is just another part of that reality.
> How long from now are you talking about? Eyeballing it, I think it would take us about a thousand years to get off by an hour?

The Julian calendar being off with regards to leap years wasn't a problem… until it was. And then someone had to fix it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
That's exactly why Bit--in was invented. Electronic money, kept outside of gov control.
This response has been great, I appreciate really all the feedback. In lieu of a mailing list, I made a Twitter account @pickcode_io https://twitter.com/pickcode_io that you can follow for updates on the project
Business Retreats and Sanctions Are Crippling the Russian Economy
Language Tool – Open-source Grammarly alternative
Show HN: Prelaunch Templates Built with Tailwindcss
This is a very serious thought. If I was _totally_ happy in my position and you told me you could increase my salary 50%, there is no way I would stay, simply based on the "wait up, this means in the long run this salary increase will take X years off my time waiting for retirement".

There is no substitute for "I can retire at 60 instead of 70".

Of course, OP said he was making 6 figures (an insane amount of money away from my position) so perhaps they are already planning to retire at 55...
The best alternative is a copy of Strunk & White and/or a colleague who has one. It is really quick to read cover-to-cover and understand, and it will make you a much better writer of everything.

No, I don't trust grammarly. On top of the surveillance, it often makes grammar mistakes!
OP would need a work visa to work in the UK because of Brexit. Low salaries for perm roles plus high taxes make him worse off.