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> By definition they are more volatile than usd as they are pegged to it and vary in price

I understand your reasoning, and you're correct in this case (assuming your numeraire is USD). However, if your numeraire is something like a GDP-weighted basket of USD, EUR, JPY, and CNH, it's possible for a USD-pegged asset to be less volatile than USD (since your unit of account isn't USD).
We can't both say "linux has so much customization" and at the same time "you have to disregard everything you know".
What? How are they lies, they were operating fine until they decided to not follow the laws one day. That was their prerogative and not the CCP deciding to block them from the market. Unless you can point to laws tiktok is violating it's not a remotely comparable situation. The way that Chinese companies work they explicitly create distinct entities that can meet the requirements of any territories that they operate in.
They will contact you.
I got downvoted yesterday for implying this. Is it true that her sentencing was "right in the middle?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33963823
If userspace was really exceedingly slow then we wouldn't bother using it.
How many goats do you have, and how much milk do they give you?
You can say whatever you like about the EU (corruption anyone?), but at the very least, they are countering Big Tech. Just that idea of effective balance of force is a positive signal to me.
I still feel too dumb for that kind of diffuse moralizing. I understand why the teacher wouldn't want to police directly though. Really effective leaders have emotional liquidity built up for that kind of situation, and do subtle work to restore balance.

There's a grey zone where bullying blends into friendly teasing. A little bit of poking gets the blood flowing, especially if you already have social velocity, but repeated exploitation is just cruel.
Apple Working to Add Support for Sideloading and Alternate App Stores in Europe
Tangential, but fun: the following is NOT what this post says. The following is the response to a the ChatGPT prompt "write the press release by an imagined body called the Department of Energy announcing the achievement of fusion ignition." Mind you, ChatGPT training data ends in 2021, so it's definitely not aware of this news:

"The Department of Energy is pleased to announce the successful achievement of fusion ignition in our latest experiment. This breakthrough marks a major milestone in our pursuit of clean, limitless energy.

Fusion, the process by which atomic nuclei combine to release vast amounts of energy, has long been considered the Holy Grail of energy production. It has the potential to provide an virtually limitless supply of clean, safe energy, without the harmful greenhouse gas emissions or dangerous waste products of other forms of energy production.

For decades, scientists and engineers have been working to unlock the secrets of fusion and harness its power. This has been a challenging and complex endeavor, but we are now closer than ever to achieving our goal. The successful fusion ignition in our experiment marks the first time that this process has been achieved outside of the core of a star. This is a significant step forward in our efforts to harness the power of fusion and bring it to practical use.

We believe that fusion has the potential to revolutionize the way we produce energy, and we are committed to pursuing this technology with all of the resources at our disposal. In the coming years, we will continue to conduct experiments and research, with the goal of developing a fusion reactor that can provide a stable, reliable source of energy.

We are extremely proud of this achievement, and we will continue to work tirelessly to develop this technology and bring it to the world. This is an exciting time for energy production, and we are confident that fusion will play a major role in our collective future. We are grateful for the support of our colleagues and partners in this effort, and we look forward to continuing to push the boundaries of what is possible."
There's a trading reddit that I sometimes visit where they all use Paypal Friends and Family which I gather is incompatible with Venmo despite being owned by the same company? The time or two I've used it, the guys on the other end took Square's Cashapp luckily. I do have Venmo because a former team used it. I also have Zelle because it's built into the Ally Bank app which came in handy to pay back my Uncle when he helped with some fence construction. If this is innovation, I'm pretty tired of it.
Is it still in draft state?
I think they were gradually decimated due to shrinking margins but that was partly due to decimalization, Reg NMS and other market structural reforms / changes. Then HFTs stared to flourish which drove the older market makers out of the picture.
Evolution doesn’t work by having individual creatures keep calm and carry on just ‘putting up’ with whatever geological, climatic or atmospheric changes take place.

Evolution works by having creatures that can’t handle the new situation die. Preferably before they are able to reproduce.

And it may have escaped your attention, but the large non-avian dinosaurs? They all died out.
A nuclear arsenal where only 100 of the 6,000 warheads are actually maintained and functional is still a useful one, though. Less so if 100/6,000 tanks work.
The appropriate analogy for this technology would be that it may be possible to initiate a thermonuclear weapon without relying on fission at all. Currently we use a fission nuclear bomb just to generate the temperature and pressure needed to start the fusion reaction, same as the one on today's announcement.

So far it hasn't proven to be viable, but time will tell.
The Martian atmosphere does not provide meaningful shielding against heavy ion radiation unless you're way down in the Hellas basin (where no one particularly wants to land). You reduce the flux by half compared to deep space just by having a big rock blocking half of the sky, but you'll still get all the cancer sooner than later.
International research team creates previously unknown nitrogen compounds
Is there a TL;DR? This made no sense to me whatsoever.
No DNS shenanigans? Maybe! Then what, DHS shenanigans?

There must be some scheme of symbolic addressing. DNS, of all things, is reasonably decentralized, it only requires SOA records for top-level domains to be propagated in concert. (It has other shortcomings though.)
> People in Oregon and New Hampshire tend not to have very strong affection for their state.

Did you miss the article last week on HN where 60% of American adults live within 10 miles of where they grew up? People in the US absolutely have a strong affinity for their states. Just as in the EU, they may choose to leave for better opportunities however.
Venus is the post-apocalyptic Earth you're looking for.
Here's an explanation of each one: https://askubuntu.com/questions/926461/whats-the-difference-...

Basically "E" and "S" were an attempt to save as much data as possible and "R" may not be needed (but including it created the word "busier" backwards). I'm guessing "I" may have been to be sure "U" wouldn't get stuck somehow, but don't really know.
> Power extraction from a bundle of hot material is not a particularly unknown problem. It's in fact how every power plant on the planet works.

River power spinning a generator? Wind farm power? Are those counterexamples?
Harder, but not for ~90% of websites which are uniquely tied to an IP(range).
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The Rise and Fall of Peer Review
They're saying a treatment that can actually reverse aging and prolong lifespan is worth 1000x more than money, especially to someone who already has more money than they can possibly spend in a (currently expected) lifetime.
Could you be automatically (or not automatically) assuming the comment you were replying to was suggesting things from the West were "less enlightened"? I didn't read that in any of the words, I feel like that was an assumption of yours! Do you assume that anyone pointing out that something is "Western" is saying there's something wrong with things that are Western? Why automatically assume that?
I really did not need to send a copy of a bill or passport to sign up with gov.uk. The Revolut app was happy with an emailed photo of my passport and a selfie taken from the app itself. Local banks all have their own apps. Store loyalty cards are mostly also apps, and you can ID them from a device with RFID.

And so on.

I find the EU and UK more or less on the same level for digital services. The UK is a little behind in some ways and a little ahead in others.

The US seems to specialise in making everything unnecessarily difficult. If I want an EIN and I don't already have an ITIN, it's a letter or a fax, and it takes months. If I want an ITIN it's an officially notarised copy of my ID documents - which usually requires a trip to an embassy - and a letter. And again it takes months.

If I want to set up an LLC I have to wade through the details of 50 states, all of whom have different prices, rules, filing requirements, and local tax rates, and hire a local agent, all of whom have different prices, rules, and filing requirements.

And then the IRS can fine me $25k per infringement if they think there's a mistake on my annual filing, even though I won't be paying tax on an LLC passthrough.

Except I will because if it's a passthrough I'll probably be hit with a personal withholding tax, unless I fill in the paperwork that proves there's a tax treaty which reduces it to zero.

If some tax has already paid I can probably claim it back but I'll get a paper cheque which my bank will look at and think "Huh? Why?"

On the upside if I was living in the US I'd have to worry about incredibly expensive health insurance and payroll taxes which would make starting a small business either non-viable or very risky.

And so on. Business friendly? No.
> And to be real, the wonderful smell acts on your parasympathic nervous system because of appetite, for the smell is associated with roasted food. Add to that the childish reflex of sucking on a nipple. So it is pretty much an eating disorder, in my humble opinion.

Even Freud once said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". There is no scientific basis for the whole "oral fixation", so calling it "childish" is pretty ignorant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_stage

Edit: "Contradicting the Freudian psychosexual development concept of oral-stage fixation, the Duration of Breast-feeding and the Incidence of Smoking (2003) study of 87 participants reported no causal relation between the breast-feeding period and whether or not a child matures into a person who smokes."
Reply to #1: Many psychiatrists don't seem to be concerned about control variables. When I consulted with them, they would simply ask me how I was feeling and if I said I was feeling better, they would assume that the medication was working. They didn't try to figure out if the improvement was actually due to the medication or something else. In modern life, there are many factors that can affect our well-being, and it can be difficult to track them all. But it's important to always question whether the improvement we experience from medication is actually due to the medication itself or something else in our lives. That's what I'm suggesting.

Reply to #2: That is possible but intuitively I would say the problems those addictions created for me were my main motif for doing lifestyle changes.
It's an explicit goal of the NIF to better understand the physics of fusion for weapons research. Not the main one but it's pretty important!
> There is some use for ETH out there that doesn't involve avoiding financial controls and regulations or separating fools from their USD

I do not grant this, because Ethereum has been around for 7 years and no such uses have materialized yet.
In the US, we can't just convict people because they lost people money. You need to prove criminal intent. Are you aware of any evidence demonstrating intent to commit fraud?

Not sure what the size of banks has to do with anything.
This logic applies just as much to the Moon, but no one seems to be lining up to board lunar colony ships.
Why is an area code meaningless?
Personally, I don't think "readable by people that don't know the language" is a reasonable feature to optimize a language around.

And if you go on that direction, almost the everything on the language is a larger roadblock than an oddly placed conditional.
I can feel a "no true ML fallacy" brewing. 'Properly trained ML' is 'accurate' until it makes a silly mistake and somebody loses an eye. Then it's "still in beta" with Perfect Accurate Function just around the corner, right behind Full Self Driving.
It is also interesting that the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda and then we will be invaded by zerg.
This is a great quote from a series I love, but I think it’s important to consider other angles.

Earth, metaphorically speaking, is humanity’s “cave”. A very nice and comfortable cave of course, the possibility space for the development of our species is bounded by it. It’s in our best interest to develop the ability to venture beyond the cave for increasingly longer periods and eventually become able to live outside of it indefinitely.

With this in mind, the moon is too close and convenient for long term self sufficiency to develop. Mars on the other hand is only reasonably accessible once every couple of years or so, which forces the issue of self-sufficiency right out of the gate. The first few decades of human presence there will be focused almost exclusively on self-sufficiency. This is important, because that means it has a far better chance of continuing to exist if/when political will for it wanes.

The upper layers of the Venetian atmosphere may seem attractive at first glance but it has several impracticalities, namely having to stay permanently aloft and total inaccessibility of the resources on and below Venus’ surface.

Will some take part in efforts to move beyond Earth’s surface with greed as a driving factor? Undoubtedly, but I don’t think it’s a valid reason to not do it.
It's much higher, there are fewer healthcare providers of all kinds, and Americans use more expensive healthcare services. It's not more expensive because insurance companies are charging you, their costs are passed through from providers.

Also, out-of-pocket healthcare spending as % GDP is lower in the US than in the UK. Expensive healthcare in $ doesn't matter when you're paid so much more.

https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1602097888385015811
Probably one of the best games of all time. I can still vividly remember most of those quotes. My favourite is "beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".
> Europe has been highly Americanised

This is very true and also very interesting. One underappreciated effect of this is the speed of diffusion of ideas originating in the US.

Generalising and simplifying a great deal, it takes a couple of years, maybe 2-3 for an idea to become normalised in English speaking European countries, and then another few years before the idea becomes normalised in the non-English speaking countries. This has the effect that Europeans are always late to the party and that hampers competitiveness, b/c the US and China have already moved on. A really amusing instance is EU research funding. Cloud computing became a EU-fundable research theme when Amazon had commercialised AWS already.
FTX international was not regulated and Tether is debt backed. So no it's not like either of those things.
This is anecdotal but in my experience in large parts of Europe, this already practically exists.

From what I understand, in Germany at least, companies can demand that employees sign a non compete. However, once an employee departs the company, if the non compete agreement prevents the former employee from finding suitable work, the company must pay your salary until it can either prove that the non compete agreement is not the issue or until it releases the former employees from the agreement. Given those conditions, companies very rarely enforce their noncompete agreements and they’re functionally toothless.
>Katcher’s E5 patent is for a process of extraction. If a subset of active ingredients is identified and the minimal set of rejuvenating proteins becomes known, his patent becomes worthless. Naturally occurring proteins cannot be patented.

This is not legal advice, but I firmly disagree with these statements. Individual naturally occurring proteins cannot be patented, but:
A method of treating aging by administering the individual protein can be patented.
A specific combination (subset) of naturally occurring proteins that is otherwise not really found together in nature in an isolated manner, is likely patentable
A highly concentrated extract (or other means of making the particular combination) that is not found in nature is patentable
A method of making the combination is likely patentable.
A compound that begins as a naturally occuring protein, but is modified in some way for therapeutic efficacy (pegylation, truncation, fusion, etc.) is patentable
A formulation suitable for administration (with buffers, stabilizers, etc.) is patentable.

There are many inventions that go into making a therapeutic. Yes the compound itself provides the cleanest and most valuable patent protection, but natural products can be protected.

Then there is regulatory exclusivity, which can be an entirely different ball of wax that does not necessarily have anything to do with patents at all.
Apologies for the late reply.

You can't prove that in realtime without a trustee, which is just how things have been done forever. With all due respect, this is how it is in "advanced economies". Where are you personally from where you think anything other than cash provides instant, irreversable, and indusputable settlement in this case?
Venmo has been independently valued at $38 billion in 2020.

The venmo "innovation" does something every retail bank in the UK has done for over a decade.
Because they didn't 'pull out', they were banned. And Dragonfly wasn't stopped by the US, it was cancelled by Google after their employees protested.

Anyway, if Google and Facebook need to follow censorship laws in China, then maybe TikTok needs to follow not-being-based-in-China laws in the US. After all, they can't just decide not to follow the laws.
Does TARGET TIPS not count as settlement?

According to its own website [0], it means "individuals and firms can transfer money between each other within seconds", and "TIPS offers final and irrevocable settlement of instant payments in euro, at any time of day and on any day of the year."

[0]: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/tips/html/index.en.htm...
Irrelevant FUD in reality. Firefox does everything I want, and the others don't. I'm currently running this Linux box at 800Mhz this week (for unrelated reasons) and everything works fine.

One single exception: Facebook.com runs slow as dirt. That is due to the very complex extension (FBPurity) I use on it to remove the ads and other trash from that site.
>>It's actually an extremely poor place to do business.

Yet businesses find a way. It would seem like your statement could use further elaboration.
Incompleteness Ex Machina
In nuclear fusion, mass is converted into energy according to the famous equation E = mc^2, where E is energy, m is mass, and c is the speed of light.
That doesn’t follow. The DOE covers a bunch of energy research that has no relationship to nuclear weapons (e.g. solar).
I have an iPhone, but it still makes no sense. I wish I could opt-out of authenticating through Google's apps and just use my TOTP. It's annoying.
If you closely inspect a dictionary you can see that there can be multiple meanings for a given word.

Visiting your last link for Merriam-Webster, you will see a '1 of 2' and a '2 of 2' beside these distinct meanings.
The Full Testimony Bankman-Fried Planned to Give to Congress
You wanna smoke yourself to death? Do it at home. Most people want to smoke themselves to death in the open, around other people though. It's nobody's right to pollute our air for the sake of their bad habits, thus regulations.
True. AI will have a much bigger impact on humanity in the next two decades than fusion will.
Does Mozilla CEO still earn 3 million dollars a year?
Ok, then there's no point in having the stable coin conversation.
> “But our work shows that before success comes connection between the student and others in her peer community. From high-quality peer relationships within the academic environment, especially relationships with peers who share a common identity, comes the confidence and motivation to persist" [..] “We must prioritize culturally aware mentoring and research in the UMass system"

Those terms sound much friendlier than sex- or race-segregated mentoring. I guess this is one of those cases where diversity, at least within an mentor-mentee relationship, is not a strength?
Let's check our assumptions. The bulletin of atomic scientists first published in 2017 [0] that they felt the modernized US nuclear arsenal is likely sufficient to execute a devastatingly successful first-strike against the Russian arsenal and nuclear command and control, because the new 'super-fuze' in the submarine arsenal significantly upgrades the hard-target kill capability of the warheads. The risk they communicate in this article is that Russia will misinterpret a false positive from their early warning system (which offers only half the warning time of the US') and launch a "retaliatory" strike against the US on a false alarm, because they do not expect to have that capability after a US strike. The modernization program has continued since 2017 and extended to the minuteman arsenal.

[0] https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...

>the United States would be able to target huge portions of its nuclear force against non-hardened targets, the destruction of which would be crucial to a “successful” first strike...The garrisons and their support facilities would probably be destroyed quickly, and some of the dispersed road-mobile launchers would also be quickly destroyed as they were in the process of dispersing. To destroy or expose the remaining launchers...Just 125 US Minuteman III warheads could set fire to some 8,000 square miles of forest area where the road-mobile missiles are most likely to be deployed. This would be the equivalent of a circular area with a diameter of 100 miles.

>Many of the nearly 300 remaining deployed W76 warheads could be used to attack all command posts associated with Russian ICBMs.
Doctors in the US make FAANG engineer money.
My still-favorite was a little 10-liner bash script that checked for a 200 response from http://organization.tld (from the webserver itself, but running out to the internet and back to find it)

If it didn't get a 200, it bounced Apache

Ran every couple minutes for years
The second part of this answer is a non-sequitur. Why Mars in particular? The technology needed to get there doesn't carry over to any other destinations except the Moon and Venus, and it's much easier to build next-generation rockets on Earth. Why not just skip Mars and go straight to step 2?
If understand the article right according to the author high tech === software.

I would say this is far from the truth. The first covid vaccine was developed in Europe. Europe plays a big role in green energy. I would say Europe can innovate.

That doesn't mean that Europe hasn't many problems and disadvantages.

1. Lack of money for startups. Less venture capital and subsidies for startups.
2. Bad interplay between military research and startups. This basically created Silicon Valley, and it seems to be a big part in the Israeli startup scene.
3. A big part of scientific research is removed from universities => less potential founders get in contact with cutting-edge innovation.
4. No unified customer base to start with. The big home markets of China and the US seem to be a key advantage, at least for Internet/social media startups.