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> Buying a more modest apartment or house can mean working less or retiring sooner

Additionally there should be some self-sustainability in community. I wouldn't mind, if apartament was connected to power grid that includes solar panels and batteries owned by this community, which effectively would lower my energy costs.

I also think that many people wouldn't mind owning some affordable space nearby for your activities. Maybe some greenhouse, park or garden, maybe just some basement for small storage space for your online shop, maybe just regular shop or some cafeteria, maybe some workshop or server room, maybe just office, maybe some pool.
Definitely checking that out. I've stopped eating Octopus. They are just on another level.
That rail line is half the speed and built in one of the flattest parts of the country?
Why not just containerize your software and run the container on the HPC cluster?
Australia’s service sector makes up ~20% of exports - the resource curse is related to import/export, not internal measures.

Total exports 2019-20: 383G$ goods, 92.3G$ services https://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/trade-and-investment/tr...
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Who’s the 800 lb gorilla for Rust (because it seems to have large community behind it)?
It's not just a pay issue. Government is terrible at hiring good performers, weeding out bad performers, and motivating its workforce.

Even if you hired a lead engineer for 400k, can't fire them if the end up being incompetent.
This is literally the plot of Uncut Gems.
I once worked construction at a state park, I made prevailing wage which was 4X more than my regular hourly wage.

Talk about the slowest moving construction project, everyone was incentivized to take breaks and milk their hours. We turned a 4 hours job into a 2 day project.
The press release says:

> we are opening our EV connector design to the world. We invite charging network operators and vehicle manufacturers to put the Tesla charging connector ... equipment and vehicles

This does not even promise that it is free. "open" and "invite you to X" sound good but are very vague.
No, this is a crypto"currency" fanboi's version, sorry.

Everyone wants to transfer money except a vanishingly small percentage of the population who wants to use these things. Aside from a rounding error, no one even understands what they are or how to use them. I get invoiced for services in money, I pay my taxes in money. There's nothing else.

This has been the favorite poster child of bitcoin shills but it's been, again, thirteen years and it still doesn't work so much that there has not even been a credible attempt making it work.
If that’s the point then it seems we are making the right decisions. Dominance in one at the cost of another, possibly less important area.
It’s only ”good” if you believe the ends justify any means. What about FTX customers? People aren’t pawns you can play with for your “greater cause”
> You’re confusing the CCS chargers outside of North America. The ones in NA are absolute trash and Tesla is right to try to kill them off as fast as possible before electric car volume that uses them becomes significant.

noting that you appear to agree with my assessment that they want to kill off CCS and force all carmakers to use their ports as a means of avoiding having to change their own supercahrgers, otherwise, no thanks, I own a new car with the NA CCS charger and it was a significant investment. I'd prefer my car not be "killed off".

> Tesla is well over half of the electric cars. There’s no reason for them to accommodate the absolute worst standard at their stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Charging_System

> Automobile manufacturers that support CCS include BMW, Daimler, FCA, Ford, Jaguar, General Motors, Groupe PSA, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, MG, Polestar, Renault, Rivian, Tesla, Mahindra, Tata Motors and Volkswagen Group.[1][2]

unless they are compelled to do so in the interest of the public good so that "nearly half of electric cars" (currently already on the road) aren't trashed. or please make an adapter for existing CCS cars.

here's a vendor that appears to be planning to manufacture such an adapter. pretty hard to find, though. https://evadept.com/tesla-supercharger-to-ccs-adapter-guide/
> Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

I believe nowadays most people refer to (1) instead of Perl tool, when talking about Markdown.

Personally I use Markdown *a lot* for Flutter apps, where text is rendered natively. Also use it for legal documents, which are converted to PDF via pandoc. Another project I have is a console app that also shows formatted help text written in Markdown. In all these cases there is no HTML whatsoever and no 'text-to-HTML conversion tool'. Yet it's all Markdown, so no need to reduce its applications to HTML, let alone claiming that it's designed "to transform to HTML".
Disagree. Privacy is a human right. It protects people's mental and economic wellbeing. Further, it can save millions of lives. Or, if you prefer, lack of privacy can lead to millions of deaths.
Thanks, I just read that elsewhere in this thread.
Didn't she literally say they use elementary school math right after that?
I work in tech now but started in the regular industry out of college. Something to keep in mind is that tech is a very small percentage of the US engineering workforce. Tech is great because of the projects, culture, pay, and benefits. But the reality is, there is a ton of engineering jobs in the US outside of tech. The US alone has about 2M engineers nationwide [1].

[1] https://ira.asee.org/national-benchmark-reports/workforce201...
If that was indeed the goal then it's been going absolutely atrociously so far.
This year fit the pattern quite well. I heard on the radio that there were 20' waves on Superior the other day.
I think your error here is that you assume that politics do not exist everywhere people are involved.

A tram recently got built where my parents live near Paris. They had to involve something like 15 cities, 3 departments, one region, the French state, and the european union. That was lots of people who wanted to have their way. It slowed things down. But it got built anyway and now it works.
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Tech bros should just stay away from this area. They don’t have the IQ for it.
What you regulate; cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrencies or decentralized exchanges?
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Animats pointed out a scam from 2013 to the tune of $200M: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33564752

I was curious how this CEO was caught, so after doing some digging, I came across this story. It turns out that he was forging bank statements for over a decade. The auditors would send a request via snail mail, which was always intercepted by Wasendorf. He then sent back statements saying “We have the expected amount of money” when in reality they were $200M in the hole.

How’d it come crashing down? In 2012 the auditors called him up and said “Hey, so we’re finally getting rid of that snail mail stuff. Would you mind logging in to the bank and approving our request to review funds electronically? Thanks!”

After a few months of dragging his feet, he knew he was done for, and tried to commit suicide. He’s now in prison for 50 years.

The recent FTX implosion was an order of magnitude larger than this fraud, and the SEC are already investigating (see HN link). It’ll be interesting to find out what happens to the former CEO.
If it's any consolation I expect that a significant portion of the "billions" they're talking about simply never existed.

E.g. I print a trillion tokens, keep most in my pocket but give out some chunks to friends and put a few percent on the open market. They trade on the open market for $1 and tada I'm a trillionaire. The token price crashes and now my friends have lost billions.

But it was all just a mirage.

There are real losses in that example-- the suckers that bought the tokens for $1 on the market-- but they may be tiny compared to the numbers being discussed.
> Visibility or accountability of what? Many blockchains are public.

I don't know how you ask these questions if you read the parent's post.

Clearly, the parent lays out situations where going off/on blockchain dilutes visibility.

The cross-collateralization of FTX assets wasn't on blockchain.
Brightline is basically a conventional (slow) train, whereas the CA project goes 2-3x as fast... totally different design constraints. Amtrak in California is already as fast as the Brightline.
I thought Binance books are so complex and convoluted that nobody can can figure them out. If that is really the case and this picks up they may go where FTX went.
Without even looking into it I am going to say huge price differences between different rail projects are something I really would expect to see. Building, planning and permitting a meter of track in a dense urban center is going to cost magnitudes more than building the same track with the same people through a more rural route even if it was done by the same people in the same system and state.

That aside the trains might run through different terrain and might have to run at different speeds. Building a dirt path through a flat desert is surely more cheap per meter than building a tunnel through a mountain.

So to compare such projects to each other in way that you can draw meaningful insights from the comparison means you have to ganular data science and compare how much of each track is going through which type of environment.

I am not saying your point is not valid, but just comparing the final numbers is not going to cut it here.
For those wondering about why there was no mention of union...

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/01/08/meme-weeding-u...

apparently, even in non union states, these project costs are ridiculous.
> Is your complaint that the projects are folder-based instead of taking the form of a "project file" containing a list of files in the project

as an aside, you can totally do this with do this with sublime-project files if you want.
I know little by way of the crypto world, but I have to say that calling platforms like FTX, Binance, and others "exchanges" strikes me as very much misleading.

In traditional finance, the "exchange", as in "the New York Stock Exchange", only facilitates the calculation of market prices for a range of assets and the matching between sellers and buyers. Exchanges don't even manipulate money - that's left to other, highly regulated, professions, such as brokers.

Brokers hold your assets and sometimes lend you money, but are very restricted with what they can do with it unless they qualify as banks, which requires complying with an array of complex capital requirements.

So really, I don't understand: how are those entities not offering "investment services" and so not under SEC supervision?
It always astonishes me that undo, redo, and auto-save are implemented without relying on a logging mechanism akin to databases' "write-ahead logs".

To me the main problem of maintaining "redo" actions is of identifying them. They are unnamed, and presenting and recognizing an alteration is hard.
Your claim is that Terra/Luna was merely "competition" and not a criminal scam?
The California project didn't have to be sold the way it was - but that was the whole point, get the boondoggle started.

They could have spend a fraction of the money on improving the capital corridor and the Santa Barbara - San Diego corridor instead, but that wasn't sexy enough.
Very interesting, thank you!

Looking at the attack vector (https://blog.stalkr.net/2019/11/the-gomium-browser-google-ct...), this is a pretty tightly constrained circumstance where you are permitting an attacker to execute unknown Golang code within the context of your process. (perhaps like the Go Playground, if that's not starting a new process for each user.)

I don't personally think that's really that applicable to regular golang users, unless they're trying to sandbox Golang code somehow within the language itself. (And if you are allowing untrusted code, then it's basically game over anyway).

But it's still interesting and I added a note to my comment above about your point.
I mean, I'm sure you'd be angry at people who choose to do whatever they please too, the only question is where is that line for you?

Would you draw it at truckers who drive on bald tyres? Ones who ignore the work time regulations? Ones who drive drunk? Ones who don't turn their lights on at night?

All of the above are "people who choose to do whatever they please" - if you aren't angry with at least the ones I listed, I'm curious what kind of lawless society you live in.
haven't seen this. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33565868 above.
If you look at the history around this - I think you're fairly confused.

You've picked some random quotes - but modern copyright law essentially started in England in 1710 with the Statute of Anne.

Some background context - Prior to 1710, there was a legal monopoly over publishing held by the Stationers Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Statione...). They were the only entity that could publish manuscripts and newspapers in England legally.

Authors themselves had no such rights - Instead they would be forced to sell their manuscripts and maps to members of the Stationers Company for a one time fee, and the Stationers Company then retained a perpetual copyright on them.

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So when you see the quote "Nothing is more properly a man's own than the fruit of his study"... you need to understand that in this context they mean very clearly that author's work should be theirs - and that the copyright shouldn't go to a company who profits because of a monopoly agreement with the crown.

They weren't really saying "Copyright laws are a good thing" they were saying "Copyright should remain in the hands of the author - not be forcibly removed by the crown".

Further - and this is IMPORTANT - they decided that 14 years was plenty of time for a copyright. There should be no "perpetual copyright" like what was granted to the Stationers.

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And yet.... here we are in 2022, with a situation that actually looks fairly similar to the 1500s. Large publishing companies control nearly all successful commercial publications. They've lobbied the government to increase the duration of those copyrights and trademarks to be nearly "perpetual" for all meaningful purposes, and they usually pay authors a one time fee for those perpetual copyrights.

If anything - I'd argue that modern copyright laws as they exist and are enforced today are a complete sabotage of the intent of those men you're quoting.
You could simplify this further by making it a bit more abstract:

You have $100 worth of stock in Google. You think Google stock is going to appreciate so you borrow $50 of my money to buy more stock. I see that you have $100 worth of Google stock which provides me with some security that you have a valuable asset and are a worthwhile borrower.

But, instead of Google's stock value increasing it starts to fall. You took my money and I'm getting nervous so I force you to sell your Google stock. At one point you had $150 worth of Google stock but now I've forced you to sell your stock for a total of $75 which allows me to recoup my lent money ($50) plus my fees and I really don't care how much money you are left with, if any.

This is important for the economy because credit (which this is) helps create growth and drives economies - when credit is tight then economies grow slowly if at all.
There’s plenty of other search engines eagerly waiting to take googles space on ios, should google decide to block ios users
You don't even need CGo or unsafe to deal without a GC. Go's GC is written in Go and it obviously doesn't depend on a GC! You just need to know which features imply a GC/allocation and you need to take care to avoid those features. Conceivably, you could devise a linter that statically verifies your no-GC requirement.
So in other words, “the vast majority of electric cars in the US are using Tesla’s connector”. How exactly does that mean CCS won?

A bunch of far behind EV manufacturers settling on an inferior connector doesn’t mean much. Tesla and its connector is exactly akin to Sony and Blu-ray, except Tesla is further ahead and won’t be charging licensing.
Brightline goes exceptionally faster than the CA line, right now.
It sounds like folks are assuming this will be free for implementors and license universally with little restriction. Nothing in this press release says it's free. "open" could just mean "open to apply", for example. " We invite charging network operators and vehicle manufacturers to put the Tesla charging connector..." could be read as an invitation to negotiate.

I expect licensing terms to be announced, and I bet you large users will have to pay.
Which version of you would have done better at something like... running around with your kids at the park? Or running a mile to catch a train?

My main point is that defined abs and a giant chest and arms have little to do with health and performance, but the body-building culture has convinced us all that they do. It got ridiculous in the 90s when Arnold and Stallone were portrayed as heroes good at everything due to their big muscles, when the reality was that Arnold needed help wiping his own ass when he was at his biggest.

But if your goal is attracting a mate or intimidating other males bench press and bicep curls are your path.

I am also coming from a place as someone who hit 315 on bench in my mid 20s but felt like an old man.
That may be true in the US, but for example in Berlin, cycling directions are still unavailable and POI search is still behind google maps. I would prefer to use Apple Maps, but it’s lacking.

There’s also no way to share a route with someone else.
How? Are you sure?

It has two big power pins, one smaller pin dedicated to ground, and two tiny pins that look completely unsuited for power.

There's a "mobile connector" that can convert 3 phase, but that has an entirely different plug on the wall side.
TinyGo still has a GC, right?
why did i click this clickbait headline, he just wants to add payments to twitter.
Well get into your TARDIS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
> The sequence of events are linked

Not really. Look at Jobs' second coming to Apple. He replaced a sequence of CEOs that all failed to turn Apple around. Jobs turned a near-bankrupt company into the biggest company in the world, with the same crew and technology of the near-bankrupt company.

Pixar enormous success was Jobs' doing. Nobody else believed in Pixar.

NeXT was a failure, but Jobs found a way to salvage it.
the argument is I dont want to take my brand new car to the junkyard in two years.
Yes, because usually job is done for client or employee, not for you or your close ones. Then place for self expression is limited.
My wife got on a spirulina smoothie kick awhile back, so I did some research. We sent it back.

Lake Mascoma isn't too far from us, and we do see cyanobacteria blooms around here.
Ah, I see. This particular case I am handling by filing a geoposition in one of my Google Maps lists with a comment or maybe a link to the source. This way I also have a chance to visit it while nearby. This adds a small dependency on Google, but so does any bookmarking service, unless it is self-hosted.

I will give this another think though, thank you!
It partly has to do with the bidding process - the drive to get the lowest bid. Competent companies know the cost won't work and are unwilling to put up the surety bonds to take on a project. It leaves with the boldest incompetent company to make the lowest bid who gets their foot in the door and then jack up the cost overrun later on. Often the project failed due to cost overrun or sheer incompetence. At the end the cost of doing business go up for all parties involved.

I've seen transit projects with hundreds of millions budget fell apart with nothing to show at the end, and have seen a transit project that doubled the cost and tripled the schedule to get to completion, and that was a good project.
> A lot of these "competing cryptocurrencies" are just financial instruments, kind of like you could have stock in a company, but you can also trade options and futures of the same underlying stock.

No they weren't. This comparison has no relation to reality.
Not really. Tesla is already the vast majority in the US. They are just opening up to try to kill of an already existing worse standard.
Quick detour: expected value alone does not optimally maximize your long term outcome. Bet sizing (a la Kelly Criterion) is just as critical.

E.g. if you had a weighted coin that was 50-50 odds with 3-to-1 payout, you wouldn't bet your whole bankroll on just one flip.
Thanks for your long reply.

> clever strategies employed

Yes, I think he's a clever orator. I assume he gets talking-points from advisors; but he's winging it a lot of the time, and he gets away with it.

But he's not "clever" like someone who once finished reading a book. He brags that he doesn't read books, and I believe him. He has a famously short window of attention. Perhaps all of his 'stable genius' is focused on what matters; but what's that?

[Edit] The pub around the corner from me sells a draught ale called "Stable Genius".
A crypto exchange had nothing to do with crypto?
Or maybe it is the opposite? Why did (institutional) investors trusted and funded this ... thing so much? Maybe the fact that the Founder was literally born inside academic elites has something to do with it?

The guy who is supposed to have "won" this , is running an exchange apparently banned by china, largely disliked by regulators and disinvited by governments, and not funded by any government or large investors, right?
Personally, I love the writing style. It's enjoyable to read, and it conveys a lot more of his sentiment than dry writing would.
Neat thanks. Was just setting up a new system and was kinda dismayed initrd is still a thing.
Not as dangerous as the free pass LFP batteries have been getting despite trapped energy, thermal runaway and very high heat fires that are extremely hard to control and extinguish. There needs to be far, far more oversight of the battery industry.
Although I'm a fan, Brightline also leveraged a bunch of existing rail, whereas the California project is almost entirely new right of way. That makes it hard to compare the projects apples to apples in my eyes. It seems intuitive that building a new rail line from scratch is going to cost more and take longer than building off an existing rail line.

I believe this is also the core of why Brightline has so many level crossings, and thus accident casualties as Floridians become accustomed to at-grade high speed trains. California high speed rail probably won't ever have to reckon with that grim issue, as it's been engineered out.
How about everyone with assets stuck in FTX that can’t withdraw them? When your accounting is fictional it might be hard to pinpoint who’s money went where but everyone got screwed in the end
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It is not about legitimate costs. It is about legalized corruption. Projects are super-expensive because the overwhelming majority of money spent goes to line pockets instead of building.

The US's innovation has been to make corruption wholly legal, proof against indictment
> Rent control can, and sometimes does work

Only if you ignore the secondary effects, which are legion.

> retain an unconscionable amount of empty units

A secondary effect of rent control
> Where does the ratio of 10 to 1 come in

Debt to equity. $10 of debt for every dollar of equity.