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As a high-earning & tax paying immigrant in UK, it seems it is much easier to come to UK illegally than by legal means. It is getting harder to get a PR.

Cost of living, rise in taxes and degradation in Govt services (e.g NHS) really has got me thinking whether staying in UK is really worth it.
You're at least a few weeks behind the state of the art.
> Unless it's an incredible compression algorithm, diffusion necessarily have learned something from the input rather than copy-pasting things, as claimed upthread.

Arguably, "learning" and "compression" are the same thing.

In this sense, you can view SD as a compression algorithm where the decoder is the model, the compressed file is the prompt + tweakable params, and there aren't any error checks made, so you can feed random data into the decoder and get something out.
Great read. The real problem with "the skin in the game argument" is that it's a matter of opinion, but one opinion is more likely to be right.

>> Raising capital to do a startup reduces skin in the game (you’re spending other people’s money, after all).

The more likely correct take is as follows. Note that I am changing just one word.

The right version:

>> Raising capital to do a startup INCREASES skin in the game (you’re spending other people’s money, after all).

The naïve take seems to place no value on reputation (ability to get more financing in the future).
Unfortunately, this primarily affects houseless folks. And like most houseless people issues there's very little attention and resources aimed at this. I've put up houseless folks in Motel 6's before only to have the manager lock them out and keep their stuff, knowing full-well the police wouldn't help. I'd definitely encourage people to get involved locally in local mutual aid groups focused on houselessness. If for no other reason than to see it with their own ideas. Even people that grew up in poverty or lower class are often shocked to see the extent of human rights abuses happening under their own noses. After seeing it first-hand the will to tell all your friends and neighbors about it will find you

Legislatively, the usual suspects do have related campaigns (i.e. ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project) but even those only work on this issue as a related tangent. Local prison abolition groups often have more local campaigns but the effectiveness of that strategy is really up in the air.

Some states have passed legislation against some of the worst abuses,[0] but I can tell you first hand that legislative victories rarely translate to on the ground changes in police behavior when it comes to houseless folks

[0] https://endforfeiture.com/legislative-reforms/#ended-civil-f...
I mean $100 for 2 ounces of the marijuana plant in particular isn't cheap at all. There are some 'mild' complications in growing it, but in theory it should end up more like a bulk farming product where we talk about dollars per pound on the retail side, and dollars per ton on the wholesale side.
I think in public a whole bunch - on my blog, on Mastodon (previously on Twitter) and mostly in thousands of issues and issue comments in my public GitHub repos.

No cons at all so far. No one cares enough to actually read and pay attention to all of that stuff, at least not enough to get angry or mean about it!

Every now and then someone will reply with a useful clue or hint, which is the biggest pro.

I'm in a privileged position: I'm not part of a group that gets discriminated against, and I don't tend to attract the attention of trolls or nazis.

I tend to live by the classic Howard Aiken quite: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
I had the same question!

My understanding — relayed through one degree of separation from Daniel Griffin, the dendrochronologist who wrote the piece — is that the core samples are very long and thin, and care is taken not to injure the tree and to allow it to heal rapidly.

Here's a write-up from Carleton with more info about how the tree core sampling process works: https://serc.carleton.edu/trex/students/labs/lab2_2.html
>But I'm not convinced that "drinking water" is a significant contributor of minerals to the human diet.

I don't think I'm claiming that. I'm sure kidney functions work so long as some salts get in 'em, whether dietary or water intake, I just suspect that the body expects the minerality to already be in the water directly, because the vast majority of non-human-curated drinking water seems to be that way.
> One good rule of thumb is that whenever people are blaming foreigners for their problems, they're wrong.

I don't think history reflects this view. You might remember something like the Revolutionary War, et al. One country often targets and exploits other groups of people. In modern terms, "foreigners" is a practical way to describe the exclusion of a specific nation's members and it's allies. In the USA/China sometimes there's policy that's populist misinformation. In retrospect (decades later) the sentiment is seen as reasonable.

Let's take for granted that you meant "in housing markets". In Canada and the Seattle^ area, luxury homes and goods were commonly considered to be dominated by wealthy Chinese "investors". I dont remember the exact Chinese tax law change enacted by Xi (which effectively taxed foreign holdings), but it caused a mass exodus of Chinese investment and crashed the luxury good market for the Bellevue area over a handful of months. I had left the area by then, so I didn't track it too closely. Seattle is back as a top destination for Chinese millionaires...but I don't know much about that either.

^ https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/business/in-suburban-seat...

^ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattle-be...

p.s. I do think there's some strange belief that people making broad claims are stupid or less connected and informed than in the past. Almost anyone can talk to brokers and realtors and get this information, as opposed to random internet assumption of inaccuracy.
I'm not qualified to apply, but this sounds like a very useful project.
The phrase "There are alternative options such as non-animal fats and hydrocarbon waxes, but these might increase the cost of production, reduce efficiency, affect recyclability and finally negatively affect the environment."....

....is such a semi-randomly grab-bagged set of statements similar to a set of nigh-unverifiable closing statements made as a desperate last-ditch attempt at proving a point in a debate that I feel it significantly weakens the article's stance, not strengthens it.

For example, with people with religious and moral objections to using animal products along governmentally-supervised transactional lines, whataboutism involving other parts of the supply chain/where animal products are used don't really serve to prove the point -- again. In turn, if we were to use this bit of what I'd consider to be somewhat faulty logic, the bank notes could be used as leverage in the future as the example in a list of products that uses animal products, just as other items in that list are being used as leverage today.

As for my position -- sometimes I eat meat, sometimes I don't, but I'd like to please avoid flesh in my money, however miniscule.
But it won't decrease the number of people competing to live in the units, which is what determines the value of the housing units.
That's all there is to it.
How so? I don't know much about Dubai (from emmigration pov) other than the fact that its a low-tax destination.
Maybe coming from afar and picked when they're green? Local strawberries in the summer are great, just like local tomatoes. The rest of the year it's much harder to get either one in any variety I can stomach.
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Right therefore it would seem that it is ok to mutate local variables inside a function anyway you want, because that can not have side-effects outside of the function. Right?
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I like the sound of this. Got a website or any mockups I can check out?
My understanding is that it's been proven over and over, the world over, the way to slow population growth is to educate, especially women, and provide easy access to family planning / birth control.
My Christmas project that did pretty well on Reddit: Helping shoppers find good deals through visual lookalikes. https://getscore.app

https://www.reddit.com/r/frugalmalefashion/comments/zydup3/i...
I think people with sane, knowledge-based optimism and the ability to uncover opportunity where failure is more evident are indispensable.

I’ve worked on teams with and without these people, and the difference in velocity and overall achievement is starkly contrasted. So much of what teams accomplish is based not on some rigid parameters determining concrete outputs, but what teams individually and collectively believe they can do together. When failure inevitably occurs, they respond by yet again uncovering opportunity and optimism. Other teams often reel and suffer major hits to morale.

I suppose this is true in personal life as well. So much of what you do in life is a product of what you believe you can do and how you respond to obstructions and failures. On a team, leadership which handles this particularly well seem to have a cumulative positive impact by contagion I suppose.
> > you cannot destroy it,

> is this really true?

Practically speaking, yes. The value of a parcel is largely from its location/proximity to metro areas. I've never heard of someone destroying residential property directly through chemicals or radioactivity, though value can be greatly diminished by local antagonistic developments or rezoning it unfavorably.
Is this built on Ethereum? What does the rest of your stack look like?
I was already losing satisfaction in AirBnb but have been open to it if traveling companions were into it. But the nail in the coffin is these deposits. The last few AirBnBs that I have vetted have had these $1,000+ deposits. There was even one I found that had $2,500 deposit (granted it was a large house).

I can stay at a 5 star hotel for a $50 deposit on my credit card. I'll just do that instead. Like you said, its not even really about tying up the money either. I would put this on my AMEX which has no credit limit, so tying up $1,500 isn't really the problem, its the need to authorize a host that I don't personally trust to be able to make any claim they want to justify keeping part of that deposit. I have much more trust in Marriott or Hilton and they only need $50. In all the traveling I've done, I've never had them refuse to release a deposit in full. By contrast, I've met enough crazy AirBnb hosts, that i wouldn't trust them with $100, let along $2,500.

Cleaning fees are also ridiculous. I've seen a lot of $500+ cleaning fees. Come on! What kind of cleaning are you doing for $500?!

I don't really care. If people want to go to AirBnbs, then great. I've had some good experiences with them, but i've also had several bad ones. I don't like the risk I need to take each time with the host. I also am getting fed up with the calculating the "real cost" for each one when comparing them. I'd rather go to Marriott or Hilton where they treat me like a God. So I'm basically done with AirBnb at this point.
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Even though it's pushed to a server, doesn't mean it goes to everyone in that server.

Right, the issue being raised is that there's nothing preventing it from going to everyone on the server except the server being nice about it.
The one improvement modern Windows has over Windows from the 90s is the lack of those godawful cascading menus that would disappear off the screen the second you even slightly missed a hover target. I do not miss those at all.
I don't know if it's the best one, but momkeytype.com has an option where you can not only set it for different written languages, but it also has programming language options.
> The oil market is a fully globalized commodity and there is no "American picture"

I agree that this is the current state. However, this can quickly change at the whim of the US president and doesn't even need congressional approval. In fact, we have seen increasing request from within the US to decouple from the global market and hence have a "domestic" and a global oil price. I don't know how this would play out if it ever happens. But all the legal groundwork is there and the US president can impose an oil export ban at any time if he wishes to do so.

Examples of requests to do so (without success so far):

* https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/141...

* https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycomme...

The saddest part is, that the US has great solar and wind potential but the least incentive for a mass transition given the opportunity to decouple from the global commodity market at any time (elections anyone?)
If the transfer is instantaneous, the fraudster could have cashed out already from the other bank account. There is nothing in the other party’s bank by then.

The chargebacks in credit cards come mostly from the credit card issuer pockets, and are funded by credit card fees. Not the case with banks that don’t take any fees on transfers.
Ask HN: Can ChatGPT Manufacture Consent?
What are some ways these advanced GPT technologies can be used to manipulate (eg: manufactured consent) or actively harm (eg: disinfo/malinfo) a country's citizens?

Followup question, what are the chances these technologies have been used on people before they were revealed publicly?
There is Manim and Manim.community [2], most development happens around community.

[2] https://www.manim.community/
Sure. But we've only flourished under industrialism during the last 250 years.
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I don't think there is much in the literature to suggest that increasing the zoned capacity will lead to significant declines. All I've seen is that such development will instead curtail the significant gains that march past local median wages, which seems like a good thing even if you are a homeowner, unless you identify as a Scrooge McDuck with no empathy for your friends and family or people in your community.
Need and "can accommodate" are two different things.
Which was kind of my point – DeepL knows that (sometimes). In the above case ("mud all over the shop"), it offers you "place" ("Ort") as an alternative translation for "shop". So it seems to have some inkling that an actual shop may not be what is meant. This means it's up to the user to decide which it is, which to me seems fair enough.

(In other sentences using this idiom, however, DeepL does fail miserably. If you ask it to translate, "There's blooming flowers all over the bloody shop ...", e.g., the results are not pretty. So, yeah. Some way to go.)
This is my position too. What I'm looking for in a twitter alternative is something public that I can post to the entire world, and search. If I want to post to my friends I already use Signal and vastly prefer that to something like Mastodon.

The add the extra complexity of follower only things and instances and I just don't understand who this service is aim at other than the people who created it. Hence, to me, it is and will always be some niche thing (that isn't terribly interesting to me).

All that said I still read these threads because there needs to be a good twitter alternative.
Well, it's been a joke (at least around me) for a long time that weed was just like tomatoes to grow. If someone can figure out how to pull off a good quality heirloom tomato variety that works even in the dead of winter, that sure would be nice.
Up the stories to 85 and then we are talking.
It's super easy to grant your kids Canadian citizenship, just give birth there.
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Well, from what you were saying, it's mostly a problem of making your asynchronous framework work well with exceptions. It is true that you need to do special things for asynchronous programming to work well in C++, be it for exceptions or even the scope-bound lifetime management of C++ in general, which all have a huge impact on the design of your system.

In particular most multi-threaded C++ code is incorrect, not because it is impossible to do it correctly, but because the standard tooling is too low-level, each third-party framework targets a different niche, and people who roll their own tend to hack it together.

I understand Seastar is supposed to do it somewhat correctly, so you could suggest to Mozilla that they switch to that.
How inflation but also less consumer power?
Spanish, too. "A caballo regalado no le mires el diente".
I think you can say the same about green card holders in the USA. Or there is some specifics that specifics between treatment of permanent residents in USA vs Canada?
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> Besides Rust everything else is a toy without stability and backwards compatibility and/or lack of libraries. Rust is fine, it’s just that the problems it tries to solve aren’t something that experienced C++ devs often struggle with.

The single main reason for Rust's success is that this statement was proven wrong again, again and again. C/C++ devs kept repeating it, severe bugs keep getting discovered.
NIMBYism is not restricted to rich people in the suburbs. Poor people who live in areas that can be revitalized also frequently oppose new construction because they worry that if their neighborhoods become more attractive to people with higher incomes, gentrification will force them out.

That has happened to people, so it's a valid concern.
Not OP, but changing from natural gas heat sources to heat pump does increase your house electricity demand, but then that natural gas is no longer consumed. Natural gas is commonly used as the 'peaker' energy source today... so it's likely that you're just going to be burning natural gas at a plant somewhere else to power your heat pump in the peaky cold snap situation. Natural gas power plants are going to be more efficient than your furnace, unless you have one of the very modern furnaces, and the amount of gas needed to be burned and turned into electricity is going to be a ratio (3:1, 4:1...) lower than the natural gas needed to be burned to heat your house.

Overall that seems like a reduction in total emissions, since you're using less natural gas overall to heat the same amount. Yes, it increases power demand, but is also lessens demand on natural gas by a greater amount.

This could be a overall net negative if the power mix is heavily polluting (coal... etc), but largely we're moving away from that over time and it will only get better.
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I can buy ounces all day in Portland for $20. Is it Jesus incarnate? Nope. Is it perfectly good sinsemilla that gets ya high? Yup.
Your comment strikes me as one of the most "technically correct" I've seen in that I can't disagree with any of your statements and would take exactly the same approach with my children - but I can't help but still agree with the parent comment with regard to private schools having a large negative effect on our society.

If I try to start from a clean slate without all of the institutional baggage our country has, I can't come up with a framing for education which doesn't make private schools a gross symbol of self-perpetuating inequality. When you add all of the cruft of the British class system into the mix, the picture doesn't improve.
So what do you think should happen if someone takes stuff without paying?
Because consumers in the US buy on size and appearance and not taste.

We'll buy a pint of massive, red, perfect looking berries that have zero flavor before we'll buy a smaller, dented berry that has the best flavor on the planet. Add to that the berries tend to be picked green and shipped long distances and you have the perfect maelstrom for the next 'red delicious' debacle.
otoh, they used to be more of a source, more journalistic, rather than the significant clickbait and twitter sourcing they use today (not just CNN)
Well, you absolutely need a system to organize who can invest building on land and can reap the benefits. It can't just be a free-for-all with anybody allowed to build anywhere there's space, even if it's currently somebody's backyard.

So once you agree that permission to build needs to be organized, you need to figure out how to allocate that permission, which in situations of scarcity is going to be to the highest bidder.

But people aren't going to invest in building structures that will last for decades unless they know they'll continue to hold permission to occupy those structures for decades.

So either you hand out things like 100-year leases or you hand out ownership outright. In the end, most of the world has settled on ownership because 100-year leases tend to cause massive headaches once you hit the 100-year mark, for a whole host of reasons.

So land ownership is just what works from a practical perspective.

(That being said, I am personally intrigued by a system where the government would lease all land yearly according to market rates, but where higher rates for longer [e.g. 15- or 30-year] terms could be locked in with private banks, much like fixed rate mortgages. The classic problem, of course, is how a government is going to reliably determine "market rates" for land that changes hands only very infrequently. Property taxes already attempt that, but they also often result in value that are obviously not "market". It's much the same problem with assessing non-liquid wealth for wealth taxes.)
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> There needs to be ALOT of police reforms, not punishing crime should not be in that list of reforms but that seems to be the #1 action taken by "reformers" of late

I would say it's not exactly an action taken by "reformers"... it's a lack of action (for one thing) resulting from an interplay between attempted reformers, and police (individually and collectively) basically deciding "fine, if you think we need reform, we'll just stop doing our jobs, that'll show you."

I don't think there are any police reformers (or even police abolitionists) who think their agendas have been successful at all, lest you think the current situation is what anyone was going for. I would not call this... situation to be an action taken by police reformers, exactly, let alone the "#1"
action taken by them.

I do think "punishing crime" is a more complicated concept than you imply, I admit (all "crime" has never been universally and consistently "punished"), but before we even get into that.
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