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The ballot and scanner should be open-source, hardware and software, replicable by any concerned citizen. If they are concerned that the votes are miscounted, the scan can be run on their box as well. The boxes should be designed for serial daisy-chaining of the ballots. There should be a way for them to verify one another’s source code.
Now that you mention it ... I don't wanna be here, in your British Hell.
I'm surprised that this doesn't include also the ability to just automatically pause your Tesla vehicle from charging during these moments.

This would be relevant to far more customers!
It's generally accepted that a SOC2 report of a SaaS provider covers the controls that are the responsibility of the company to manage.
Woulnd't life expectancy reflect pretty much all major factors related to health? (outcomes, access, etc) For that, US currently ranks about number ~50 in the world, which is not that bad, but also not so great for a rich country.
> to buy a similar would be roughly 1000 times the monthly rent.

Have you somehow inherited into a rent-controlled apartment still paying the same $5 rent from 1800?
> From whom was NATO defending itself in Serbia and Lybia[0]?

NATO will never attack Russia but Russia sure loves to attack countries that try and join NATO.

Russias aggression in countries nearby is the number one reason for NATO expansion around Russia.

> No more than the US chose to shoot down Iranian airliner [1]. Americans who killed 290 civilians in one shot even got medals [1].

Your whataboutism is commendable my friend by this is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

> Obviously it's not true. Kiev and its Western patrons explicitly told that there won't be peace negotiations and it's unlikely that Putin will leave all the Russia supporters in the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine to the mercy of the Ukrainian nationalists. That would be hugely unpopular.

Ukraine was willing to negotiate, but then Bucha happened. When Ukraine saw the rape and genocide of its citizens at the hands of the Russians all bets where off.

> The Budapest memorandum was not legally binding and the situation since it was signed had changed dramatically -- the whole idea of common security for all of Europe including Russia (explicitly described in the Annex of the Memorandum) was thrown away by NATO expansion.

Even if it was legally binding Russia wouldn’t care they play politics only to their own benefits.

The idea of peace in Europe was collectively destroyed by Russias numerous brutal wars of conquest over the past 30 years.

Seems Russia cannot let go of the Soviet Union, it would be smart for every post soviet state to join NATO to counter Russias seemingly unlimited aggression.

> I'm afraid there won't be Ukraine when it ends. Many more people will die in the process.

Lots of Ukrainians will die but plenty more Russians will die. Russia has no counter to the advanced weapons being sent to Ukraine by the west and lately it looks like Russia cannot even secure Crimea let alone other regions.

There’s a reason that Russia has rolled out T62s to the front line, they are running out of more advanced heavy armour.
That seems so much hassle for so little.

But in Europe credit cards don't give cashback.
Buuuuut as banks they have a totally different privacy policy than a 3rd party payment system, aren't they?
Weirdly Mazda MX-30 uses touchscreen for climate control. I tried it and of course it's pain to control. I don't understand why they adopt, maybe they want the model more special(exotic?). I want MX-30 for short-mid range use if UI is sane as like other Mazdas, and has 4WD.
There was a relevant Supreme Court decision in 2017. Credit card surcharges are considered part of the first-amendment rights of the merchant (although they seem to be regulated on a state-by-state basis). No, I don't think the first amendment justification makes sense either.
(Created anon account just for this) Not a "big tech" company, but we do have a subscription service and I'd say 20%
Yeah, what's this landing page about? https://www.pinecone.io/managed-faiss/
Given how large ecommerce has gotten in China, it begs the question, are credit cards truly the necessary pillar? ECommerce even in the US is extremely top heavy, with Amazon having ~40% share, so while the allure of a random ecommerce site is an interesting example, thats not the pre-dominant usage pattern.
Would you rather write "hello.world.bye" every time you need it?
Also, their Early Access Preview builds for major releases are free
I wonder if a whole house fan would help avoid using the AC through the night. Of course, the next obvious question about is it worth the installation cost...
TBH it's been set up and working for so long I never ended up using the Java interface. There's also a telnet interface iirc that can configure pretty much everything.

I should probably hide it behind a Pi but it works, never breaks and I can't really complain.
> Initially, the mother of two young children was sentenced to serve six years in prison

If you're from a country like that and have small kids, maybe put your Twitter aside and leave the activism to someone else.

Seriously.

The kids need a mother more than a nation needs a martyr.
Why would they want to do this? This would seriously hurt the corporate profits of Intuit (maker of TurboTax).
Each node is completely separate, housed in a good quality aluminum enclosure with a fan, and sitting on top of an external USB Seagate 2.5" portable drive (either 4TB or 5TB), connected via USB 3 cable. I'm pretty sure these drives are SMR, but they've been good to me, and they're fast enough for my needs.

Power is provided either using official RPi power supplies, or a couple of multi-port Anker USB power supplies that I had previously. A limit of 2.5 amps does not seem to cause any issues.

Currently everything is connected to a single switch, but I move things around my office sometimes, and sometimes have the RPis connected to two different switches.

Right now, everything including the 1 switch is connected to a single APC UPS, and that thing is super old, so that's another SPOF.

My clients currently are a few wired desktops and laptops over wifi, all connecting via CephFS. I haven't tested with librbd or krbd, I imagine it wouldn't be fast.

The RPis are mostly 8GB, but I do have a couple 4GB, and one RPi 400, which is kind of hilarious.

Everything is running Ubuntu 20.04, Ceph Pacific, and deployed from the first node with cephadm.

I use only Samsung microSD cards, either 32GB or 64GB. I don't think it matters what kind, but getting bigger cards makes me feel like they'll last longer. Most of the nodes have the var partition on the external drives (on a small partition at the beginning of the drive), but I do have a few where I didn't set that up early on, and haven't gotten around to redoing it.

I partition the drives and put LVM on manually, and tell cephadm to use the specific LV instead of the bare drive.

If you want any kind of performance, definitely set your expectations very low, but for me this works. I can stream at least a pair of 4K movies off this simultaneously, and I also run an instance of Paperless-NG off this over a CephFS mount and haven't had any issues.
If it started today you might be right the people that knew how to build things could unretire and save us but 10-15 years from now they will be dead and the knowledge will be lost
3.5% isn't what merchants pay unless you're tiny. Highest interchange is around 2.5 and maybe you'll pay 0.25% in settlement fees.

What interchange covers mainly is the cost of capital to give a consumer a 60 day interest free loan. Capital isn't free and this has real world costs to the bank underwriting the loans. Why you Chase or BOA debit card interchange rates are 0.05% because they aren't lending out their own money.
Vietnam is the go to destination for stolen Apple equipment. Someone there is already an expert at unenrolling MDM, etc.

Makes sense to move manufacturing capabilities there, they are a step ahead. Perhaps it will result in vulnerabilities being closed.
Store co-branded credit cards encourage you to spend more at that store.
>middle income trap

China is not a good example for the middle income trap. Middle income trap countries relied on cheap labors but could not move up in the value chain.

China has moved up the value chain. They're the top or close to the top for many things including mobile phones, chip manufacturing (7nm), AI, software, 5G, electric car batteries, nuclear power, fusion research, quantum computers, etc. They also publish more scientific papers than any other country, by a significant amount.

Conversely, true middle-income country like Brazil and Thailand have not moved up in the value chain one bit.

China, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan are all East Asian countries. They all have very similar values when it comes to education, hard work, and entrepreneurism. It's only a matter of time until China joins the first world. Their major cities are already first-world.

Yes, there are countries that have cheaper labor than China right now but China should be able to replace that with higher value services such as exporting 5G tech or nuclear power plants.
Over in Europe I pay €2.20 / month for my account. Transactions are completely free for private individuals.
A business account is closer to €8 / month, with a transaction fee in the range of €0.10-€0.15. Discounts apply if you have a large transaction volume and integrate with their systems, of course.
My comment was intended to help people who might be in that situation better understand how AMT works, not to justify it.

But since you ask, the stated purpose of AMT is to make sure high earning individuals are not using tax loopholes to avoid paying any taxes. I assume it applies to ISOs to prevent employees from being compensated only in ISOs to get the better tax treatment.

Having paid AMT myself on exercising ISOs, I concede its an annoying additional thing you have to consider when taking an offer from a startup. But its not some grave injustice. Tech employees at successful startups with in the money options will be just fine.
Literally every building north of Ventura is connected to pg&e’s grid. It can’t be all that onerous if it’s universal.
A far worse problem that still exists is that your module can get pulled by one of your dependencies (which could include some other part of stdlib!) instead of a system package if there is a name clash.

Worse yet, since Python stdlib gets new packages in new versions, valid code written in the past might get a name clash in a new Python version.

It's really unfortunate that there's no single top namespace package for the entire Python stdlib, like "std" in C++, Rust, or Zig.
Well, my wife and I are kind of the degenerate case of getting credit card rewards since we are “digital nomads” traveling across the US, staying in mid tier Hilton hotels, using Uber, and flying everywhere. This means that 100% of our personal spending[1] goes on credit cards unlike most people who have car notes and mortgages/rent that they can’t put on credit cards.

Just on credit cards we get:

- 7-10% back on flights (Amex Platinum and transferring points to airlines)

- 10%-14% back on hotels (Amex Hilton Aspire)

- 5% - 8% back on dining and groceries. (Amex Gold)

- 4 - 8% back on Uber (Amex Green)

- 2-4% back on everything else (any of the above cards).

This doesn’t count hotel and airline loyalty points.

Yes, I’m taking into account annual fees. But all of the cards above have enough perks that they more than make up for annual fees - Uber credits, Clear credits, credits for hotels and airfares etc.

I’ve estimated that’s about 6.5% back a year on our budget. That’s more than we were paying in state taxes before we changed our official residence to a tax free state.

I also work in consulting, while I only travel 5-6x per year for work, many of my coworkers spend 40 weeks a year traveling a rack up credit card rewards by putting expenses on their personal cards and getting reimbursed. But they keep the rewards.

There is also an entire culture of “churning” credit cards for their sign up bonuses.

But I agree, for most people it isn’t worth it.

[1] we do have investment property that we have to pay the mortgage and a few bills on.
What does it depend on? And how do you figure out which one it used afterward, if not beforehand?
It’s not only optional, you get paid good money for providing the service. But once you opt-in you are under contract to provide the power when they come knocking.
No, you are exactly backwards. Did the People’s Revolution win or did the students win? I seem to remember that the students were run over by tanks. Probably not being driven by highly educated PLA commanders.
These types of holes don’t cave in because they’re drilled through solid rock.

But they do get very very hot where the drilling is done (and by design for geothermal, they want to reach hot geology).

This heat melts the drill bit quickly.
You have to pop the browser, then export their password keychain, because who's going to do run a bazillion copies of Chrome to separate them by site
This is just patently false. How are you extrapolating a high ranking for healthcare quality from the survival rate of a single disease? The US spends exponentially money per capita yet has lower life expectancy, infant mortality, childbirth safety, etc. than countries like China, Estonia, and Poland.

I don’t know where you could possibly be getting your information from but here is some reading for you.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
In the context of games it is in fact "real time", at least in "real time strategy" (and as opposed to "turn based") but obviously that conflicts with the engineering definition.

Maybe "live"?
There is a book called "Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10" whose sole purpose is exactly that.
AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of stealing from luggage
It is notable that you said "Writing Ruby feels..." but made no mention of _reading_ Ruby. I think I agree with you that I enjoy writing Ruby more, but I definitely enjoy reading Python.

It's definitely easy to write unreadable Python code, just as your can write easily readable Ruby code. But I think that some of the "clever" things that the Ruby language allows (some of the things that make it fun, things that aren't considered obscure or advanced features) tend to make Ruby code more difficult to comprehend.
"can/can't" language when the intent is "should/shouldn't" language.

I often get feedback from my mental health professionals that things cast in CAN or CANNOT mask SHOULD and almost always go to WANT if you really do believe it, and otherwise beg a question: can you alter it? is it an externality or not?

The consequences of clogging up hospitals is a rise in other mortality. The consequences of clogging up vaccine production lines is increase in other problems because of lack of vaccines for other diseases. The increase in health costs for long-term conditions.. the increase in production losses, in supply chain breakdowns, in inflation caused by demand/supply mismatch.

Economists are very depressing. What they do is look at this, and say simultaneously "this will take 18+ months to work through and you can't alter the trajectory much" and "there is a huge opportunity here for some change, if you're willing to take it, but the history here is you aren't willing to take it"

We can, and will "live" with this deathtoll, and we have done in the past, and we probably will do for the forseeable future. What we want, and what we should do, are quite disconnected from what will happen in this space.

Anyone who thinks mortality stats will drive us to alter existing structural behaviour longterm, is an optimist. Anyone who calls for it, with "cannot" is an activist or advocate.

I like optimists, and like advocates. Lets be clearer thats what they are.
She's never said anything unreasonable on the matter.
European debit cards such as Visa Debit or former Electron are practically no different from a credit card in making online payments. They work just fine.

There are also credit + debit combination cards, which have two different numbers to use. They also let you choose which side to use on the payment terminal.
Different platforms with different goals.
Heavily processed (reformed) meat is different to a simple cold cut of cooked meat.
I grew up hearing the old "smoke a cigarette, take 6 minutes off your life" yarn, which makes me wonder; if you smoke 10 cigarettes while riding a bike over the course of an hour, would you be more likely to crash your bike or have a heart attack?
If you swipe your finger from the left to the right it opens the camera
If you have excess generation during the day, why don't you cool your house to 72 in the late afternoon and then back to 78 when the sun starts setting? It would probably delay you batteries having to power your AC for about 4 hours.
Someone read "How Asia Works"!
Exactly limited warfare maybe to keep each other behind red lines. It’s bad though because sometimes there are mistakes and escalation
Western ideals like abortions should be illegal?
I'm a voice actor with an interest in tech. So, Reddit scratches itches that never even come up on HN's radar (unless, of course, it's a tech specifically trying to put me out of business, which there is plenty of).

So... why not both?
Since it takes at minimum 4 hours to drain each battery (3.3KW discharge rate), a better question would be what percentage of peak demand power they can provide.

Max power: 3.3 * 50000 = 165MW.
Peak demand for 2020: 47121MW (18th August 15:57).
Percentage of power: 165 / 47121 = 0.35%

Using the yearly average instead (31713KW):
165 / 31713 = 0.52%
Yes I give estimates when asked. I use the priority list to negotiate the number of deliverables agreed to. The list makes it easy for biz people to balance time vs. deliverables.

Yes if #1 is blocked then I work on #2 until #1 is unblocked. And if #2 is blocked then I work on #3 etc.

I use a single prioritised list to manage teams. The list is public to the team and I rearrange it as needed when new discoveries/obstacles warrant it. I also let team member choose which tasks they want to work on. As long as it is one of the high priority tasks. I don’t know if individual team members have their own list. I don’t care how they do their work as long as it gets done at high quality.

I also publicly list tasks completed and the people who completed them. It makes it very obvious to everybody who the most productive people are. It’s a great motivator for the team because everybody wants to be #1.
1) the issue is not usually that the hole ‘caves in’, but rather that at some point everything is hot enough and under enough pressure that it doesn’t act like a solid anymore. Think playdough. Casings make it doable for awhile, but then at some point it’s so soft and hot it’s more like pudding.

2) you’re thinking of limits on vacuum suction (aka ‘sucking’ water up), which yes is very limited. Deep bores of any kind are almost always submerged pumps, and they don’t have this issue (‘pushing’ water up). Typically there are strings of submerged pumps in the borehole for deeper wells.

For geothermal, usually they can just push cooler water down, and don’t even need to pump it back up - the heat expansion/steam pressurizes everything and does the work for them, as it’s a closed aquifer.
>Rowling’s intense transphobia is not up for debate

You said the quiet part out loud again. The only reason to be unwilling to enter a conversation at all is if you know you have no argument.

The point, obviously, is that if you can be a woman just by claiming to be one, you should be able to be non-transphobic just by claiming to be.

She hasn't said anything unreasonable, she's just being attacked for not joining a modern day internet cult.
I have a whole house fan, and it's awesome. Cools the house down really quickly at night. I mostly did fine in the Pacific Northwest without any A/C until a couple years ago. A whole house fan is worse than useless, though, when you have wildfire smoke and it isn't getting below 75 outside at night. I finally had to cave and buy an air conditioner.
What do current laws in Russia have to do with communism?
There’s a lot more approval-related stuff and general friction.
Couldn’t you run a diesel generator and turn a profit with this?
Interesting, I did not know that! It’s always worked instantly for me, even got a few thousand dollar transfers.
Yeah, but that hour longer will still be an hour spent on the exercise bike.
emacs is not UNIX

well it’s GNU

it’s a parallel universe

it’s an OS

UNIX makes more sense, actually

I love emacs (and lisp) but I don’t like it
> State Farm says to budget 1-4% of the value of a house for annual upkeep costs. You're significantly below that it sounds.

Certainly far below, maybe like 0.1%

Although basing it on the market value doesn't make much sense since housing prices cycle wildly up and down, whereas maintenance just increases with inflation.
I'd be impressed if they fit it into a dll with the databases as one file, a la SQLite

Now that would be an achievement!
Thank you very much for the test. That gives me a good idea of what I could expect from my hardware, which is not quite that beefy.
"Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming." - Rob Pike, "Rules of Programming"

The essence of programming is data.
The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dûm. Shadow, and flame.
>The thing about debit cards though, it's a different system and they don't work for online payments which makes them effectively useless.

Everything in your opening sentence is incorrect.
It's an optional opt-in and the rewards are pretty good.
Some places don't even allow you to install solar because planning a national grid power demand is not easy and solar generation needs to be taken into account and it depends on a lot of factors, it's a solvable problem for sure but these companies aren't known for their technological innovations..

You also don't want your power provider to build expensive peaker plants for the occasional peak demands. Programs like these and other DER programs help flatten out the curve and lower yours and everyone else's bill.
What is this sorcery?

Just use an old android phone.

It was just spam, sorry.
Imagine a breakthrough in some incidental category and 'poof' everyone is using geothermal and fossils, solar, nuclear etc. fall to the side, all of world geopolitics shifts and 'climate change' arguments dissapear.

It would be like the change wrought by the telephone + car + radio kind of thing - just unthinkable.

I don't think people from the 1890's really imagined what things would be like in 1990.

That said, it may be that those things won't happen and we do have an idea of the 2090's because it's not that-that much different than today.
> I feel compelled to be "that guy" for a second and just mention that while this is convenient, it makes you blatantly vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

I don't believe that it makes you vulnerable to MitM attacks if you are authenticating with a key.
Carmack is a genius, but I somehow doubt that is going to be the one to crack AGI...

I can't wait to see what we learn from him though.