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Craig Wright Ordered to Pay $1M as Lawsuit Takes New Twist
"Do you agree with me or are you a fascist?"
Come on, you're being unfair. "strong government" can mean many things, strong regulation in the e.g. gambling industry is something a strong goverment does but that doesn't mean it's fascist. Also, the idea that a weak government is the only kind that has checks and balances is just silly. Not to mention there are plenty of leftists that very much want a weak government, not just conservatives. E.g. libertarian socialism, left-wing anarchists, the strong tradition of syndicalist in the US.

Also, you must live a charmed life if you have access to the internet and believe that the US government is the worst example of competency.
> But the issue here is that Russia's actions if Ukraine joins NATO were very easy to predict.

Ukraine has not joined NATO, and is not going to in any foreseeable future. At Russia's request, Ukraine and Georgia were denied entry into NATO already in 2008. The topic was completely off the table. And yet Russia invaded both of them. Leaving Georgia and Ukraine out in the cold decreased the risk for Russia and increased the likelihood of aggression against them.

> I think you're reading something I didn't write; it is pretty obvious why they should be worried about Russia and why they'd want to join NATO.

It's not obvious to me, if I accept the notion that Russia merely reacts to NATO. Sweden was not in NATO and accommodated Russia every way they could. Why did they abandon this policy? Why did Finland do the same?

Finland is particularly notable, because its foreign policy gave birth to the term findlandization: "The term is often considered pejorative. It originated in the West German political debate of the late 1960s and 1970s. As the term was used in West Germany and other NATO countries, it referred to the decision of a country not to challenge a more powerful neighbour in foreign politics, while maintaining national sovereignty. It is commonly used in reference to Finland's policies in relation to the Soviet Union during the Cold War."

If we accept the idea pushed by Putin's apologists that countries in Eastern Europe should stay away from alliances, remain neutral, sit silent and hold their breath to avoid angering Russia, then Sweden and Finland were doing exactly that.

Why did this approach become utterly discredited in early 2022? What changed for Sweden and Finland?
Use Show HN (respectfully), else this is just SPAM advertising.
Did you have the number configured as forwarding number? At some point I got asked to verify an old forwarding number, but I just deleted it and Google Voice continued to work fine (I mostly use it in VoIP mode instead of forwarding calls).
Going one step up the ladder...

So many products and services have been ruined by the need for a subscription/ recurring revenue model instead of a consumption / one time purchase model.

I see so many products (mostly software) I would gladly pay $20 one time for but balk at paying $5/month in perpetuity for.

Content in particular should be owned or rented, not subscribed to.
No. SMS, MMS, SIP, e-mail, even Jabber are universal standards.
Several options: jmp.chat, voip.ms, mysudo, etc
I think it's an amazing place to play with honeypots!
The personal project I talked about, I have built and rebuilt it like, 4-6 times now? #1 was absolutely pathetic and looks nothing like #7, which looks much more professional and legitimate.

If you look at each one of these in isolation it's easy to call them a failure.

If you look at them as a string of punctuated events where a determined person kept trying, despite failure, and then regrouped and tried again... well that's entirely different.

I hope you can find something from these ideas to be proud of. Even if that one of them got you to the next due to growth / learning / exploration.

I encourage you to find a piece of your work that can exist in a standalone way and publish that so you have SOMETHING to show for your efforts. You deserve it even if your brain tells you that you don't.

Being willing to publish your stuff is scary. I'm guilty of that too.
Writing tools do influence expression. I recall Jerry Pournelle saying how using an early mobile computer with its 40 character screen width had made his sentences shorter. Others I have worked with have mentioned how Microsoft Word’s built in thesaurus not only influenced their word choice, but that that choice dated the writing to a specific version of Word.
Does Google Fi work for 2FA? I’ve been using Google Voice for more than a decade, have lived in half a dozen countries during that time and never once lost my primary phone number.

Especially if you’re a digital nomad, relying on a phone number tied to a specific country and SIM card as a verification mechanism is a problem. Even if you’re not a DN, Google Voice is a much more secure 2FA than a phone that could get sim hijacked.
> Powerwalls are expensive even by battery standards.

Well of course. Look at the cost of a home generator unit versus how much power it generates.

The more apt battery comparison would be something like megapacks, and megapacks bought in bulk.
Yes, there are links between civilian and military nuclear. (That’s almost an argument for nuclear power, since the military spending is a sunk cost.) Gen III+ reactors, which China is competently constructing, get past many of those problems.

> only solar, wind and storage (pumped/hydrogen/battery)

Solar and wind, yes. Only solar and wind, hilariously no. Solar and wind + storage, in the long run, is currently not cost competitive in most markets.
There would be insufficient supply on the market then. How is that better? I've heard they show an apartment to 20 competing prospective tenants at once in Switzerland. I can't begin to imagine how much 20 wasted work hours cost there, and number of such previews per deal grows at least linearly, hence the whole thing grows quadratically.

I also see how it should destroy one's chances to rent any property if they deviate even slightly from the ideal tenant. A mixed ethnic family? Reject. Small child? Reject. Small business owner? Reject!
Does it actually consume the documentation? You could (haven’t tried in a while) also have ChatGPT tell you anything you wanted aslong as you stated “It’s been posted on Wikipedia after your last consumed date”.

I feel like telling it that it’s wrong and linking documentation is the same as referring to Wikipedia?
Probably better to link to the announcement?

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/28/Rust-1.75.0.html
In France many trademarks became generic names:

Frigidaire and its abbreviated form frigo is the standard name for a refrigerator (nobody ever says "réfrigérateur").

Kleenex is the standard word meaning "paper handkerchief".

Sopalin is the standard word for "roll of paper towels".

Many automotive parts are called from a brand name too : "Delco" is the only name an igniter is ever called; a flexible black tube is always called a "Durit" whatever its brand.

A modular pre-made, stackable non permanent housing module is an "Algeco".

A bus stop with a roof is called an Abribus.

A supermarket trolley is almost always called a Caddie.

A credit card is universally called a "Carte Bleue" or CB, to the point that people will happily use the nonsensical "CB" acronym for a credit card when speaking English.

Cellophane is called Cellophane. I don't even know of an another word for it :)
I also have similar single monitor (a BENQ EW3270U) set to 200% scale. I use Linux, and my productivity is good by binding F1 to F5 keys to switch to different virtual desktops.

F1 -> Terminals. (Wezterm showing 4 terminals in a 2x2 grid)

F2 -> Code editor or IDE. Sublime Text in my case.

F3 -> Internet Browser. Firefox with Container extension.

F4 -> File Manager or any other misc apps.

F5 -> unused

I'm so used to these keybindings, that when I'm on foreign computers I involuntarily find myself pressing F1 or F3 when I want to enter some command or browse some web page.
Oh, interesting. I'm surprised they haven't merged them / moved people over / shut down Hulu.
I mean exactly that. If you have a phone number associated to your account and gvoice, they will ask you to re-validate it via SMS at random. If you don't have a US number (as I just tried to switch to one number I can access) they will just display that it must be a US number.

You might just have a US number and not yet be flagged to revalidation. Or maybe going overseas flags you for revalidation (great timing!)

...anyway. Good luck waiting for Google-I'm-altering-the-deal.-Pray-I-do-not-alter-it-any-further to be upfront about their changes.
This is a nice article, but it does have some parts that seem off base. First you can walk into any chinese grocery store (in america) and get 20 kinds of tofu, thats really not an issue, and chinese restaurants (in chinatown) will sell many kinds of tofu.

The other is that the author makes the mistake of over emphasizing the vegetarianism aspect (which i think some comments here also are). Many chinese dishes with tofu flavor them with meat. Outside of a temple, the vegetarian aspect isnt really important, tofu is just another dish. Tofus attachment with being a meat replacement or a vegetarian food is the major reason its not eaten more by americans.
Yes. This video is now required viewing in intro trademark classes at law schools to illustrate this point.
I started with a lot of monitors and I've ended up with just one 27" UHD monitor. It works great and i like the focus it forces on me.
If this is serious, and not a joke, then someone needs to stop patching their kernel and buy a larger LCD.

I use 2x 43" 4k TVs, but I know people who use 3x 32" screens.

These are the largest screens a human can use with a PC.

Btw, 43" 4k TVs are currently $176 each.
Even then it's really not that much of a hit if you have half-decent hardware, I've kept it on and I think the only issue I saw was launch day BG3 and it would use much more power from the wall than when I turned it off.
It depends on the age of the kids—for the price of a Disney+ subscription you can buy ~2 DVDs a month, which at my kid's age (4 and 2) is way more frequently than they actually want to watch new movies. When I was a kid, (and I'm seeing it with my own kids) we had a tiny selection of movies that we loved to watch repeatedly. Why pay rent for that selection when you could own it for the same price?
Sewing machines are one of those things where I learn how they work then promptly forget and they go back to feeling like magic.

I think this video has really made it stick. It’s more like a knitting machine than something that does “sewing” like how I was taught by hand. The thread never goes through to complete any knots. It’s just tangles.

I also finally understand how the bobbin inside the base can be so small: it supplies much less thread to the tangle.
I know it's ridiculous, but I will use my own time to work on some problems that officially we're not allowed to fix. I make that issue my hobby project and use my time to learn some new tool/technology (that looks good on a resume). For example, right now I'm learning Rust to fix [a hairy build problem]. Taking on the problem gives me back some that developer motivation. Using it as a learning opportunity makes me feel like I'm personally growing.
Well of course they'd have been. But prevailing wisdom just few years back was Disney's of the world can just steamroll Netflix of the world because they own all the content. Developing streaming system is only some low level implementation detail in larger scheme of things.
Thanks I'll look for those!

I've been using etymotic also but it looks like they're not really available anymore here in Europe. And not adjustable.
They never have. A top of the line Voodoo2 would be $535 today, only $235 more than the retail price in 1998.
I just tried to imagine some scenarios. Im sure you could come up with some of your own

you can have your ECU replaced / reprogrammed now by certain garages so I bet back street hackers would start offering "upgrades"
"I am stuck on Band-Aid® brand, 'cause Band-Aid®'s stuck on me!"
From my research ‘Salt’ meant fool, ‘salt of the earth’ is like a ‘bless your heart sort’ of matter. The implications for Salary would mean that the soldiers were being fooled by accepting what they were given as payment. They also say the Lord works in mysterious ways.
A landlord developer who builds and furnishes an apartment complex with the intent of collecting passive income on it for a long time also creates something, but that is close to a central example of rent seeking.
Religions don't wring up other religions by making more media of other religions.
LLMs statistically generate text that sounds fine, grammatically and semantically but they have no idea of the underlying reality that the language describes. The text they produce is not evidence of cognitive skills and cannot be trusted as being factual.

As examples, LLMs have agreed to sell a new car for $1 and suggested drinking bleach as a cure for the common cold. A lot of 5 years olds have a much better handle on reality.
If you’re in a rare team doing agile halfway right, see if you can start providing separate level-of-effort for a feature with good UI that’s also quick, and the worse-for-the-user “on-brand” one.

Part of what causes this crap is that the costs aren’t visible. If you can get it through stakeholders’ heads that they’re cutting the feature development rate in half (and making UX worse, and paying in maintenance time and a higher defect rate, but those are harder to make them understand) with their twee UI, some can be steered away from it, or at least convinced to tone down the most-harmful parts.
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> The visa requires applicants to have an annual income double the amount of Korea's gross national income (GNI) per capita for the previous year.

> Korea's GNI per capita was 42.48 million won ($33,000) as of 2022, requiring those applying for the visa to have an annual income of 84.96 million won.

Today's google forex rate:

84,960,000 South Korean Won = 65,487.17 US Dollar
https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/30/record-increase-in-eu-mi...

It’s simple. You have finite resources and you have to choose where to spend those resources. The EU has chosen healthcare and pensions which leaves almost nothing for defense. Guess who has to make up for the shortfall?
I don't live in the US, so far my Google Fi is fine except for international data. "Your international data roaming has been suspended".

The error message says you need to stay in the US, with "significant usage" for at least 30 days for access to international data to be restored.

I typically visit the USA a few times per year for a week at most (which is why I have the Fi plan in the first place), so this message has been on my account for over a year, and so far I have not seen any indication that Google is going to cancel my Fi plan.
Bingo, I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like I can't start in the middle and it's impossible to track back to the first story or there are just way too many so I just give up and don't watch any.
They did that with Pirates of the Caribbean first... I blinked and there were 5 of them.
A Private Liberal Arts College Is Drowning in Debt. Should Alabama Rescue It?
It’s funny how crap the other streamers apps still are compared to Netflix.

Little things matter.

Netflix always picks up the exact second you left a show. Apple, Disney and prime sometimes jump back 5 minutes or even more.

Netflix app opens super fast even in my crap old smart TV. Apple, Disney, prime take ages. Even when open the UI is very sloppy.

Netflix adjusts the streaming quality depending on your connection. Which means things download fast / stream reliably and also presumable saves them a tonne of bandwidth.

An then they actually have good content too…
And find a partner, and enlist your son in the military while you’re at it!
Great news, anybody knows what kind of taxes you need to pay over there?
For example, many people today believe that we only use 10% of our brain.

But it wouldn’t be fair to say that’s what our “culture” believes to be true.
With Google Voice I have a phone number not tied to a particular SIM card or to a particular phone. When I travel internationally I can use a cheap local SIM and I'm still reachable on my US number for calls and texts.

With Fi you run into issues if you use it for too long outside the US. And also I read that people had troubles re-activating a Fi eSIM from outside the US in cases where they (for example) lost their phone.
This is an argument for alternative app stores or even PWAs. There shouldn't be a single guardian telling me what I can install on my phone.
The person asking the question seems to be looking for a course or textbook with which to challenge themselves.

What you've described is the opposite of that.
And most art that people actually consume is not made by such hobbyists. It’s made by professionals because people who are able to make a living out of an activity tend to get much much better at that activity.

If it’s so trivial to do as a hobby with no economic output, then do it yourself or don’t use other people’s professional output. No one is forcing you to!

Artists are also welcome to publish their work directly into public domain whenever they feel like doing so for charity. You can always go visit your local schoolhouses to see hobbyist art.
Yes, tell me why I am wrong instead of just alluding to it
I really hope that one day I will run into someone involved in Apple Silicon design who will tell me whether UMA was chosen with post-graphics GPU needs like AI in mind.
Many people in France say velcro though.
> How do you compare storage to that? What storage btw?

Li-Ion production rates have also been growing exponentially since at least 2010[0].

> Especially not compared to solar and wind which of course have huge storage implications.

Not so: the absolute worst case for renewables is wasting some of their output when they produce more than needed and using the existing dispatchable power plants when they don't produce enough. This can be transitioned gradually or quickly as more storage comes online.

[0] possibly even longer, but the infographics I've found are annoyingly limited to 2010-${production date} at best, so here's one ending in 2020: https://www.freeingenergy.com/facts/learning-lithium-ion-bat...

And this figure for 2023 is nearly 3.5 times that figure for 2020: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1419540/global-lithium-i...
I never used gentoo. Making sure the graphic and wifi card in a laptop worked after every upddate on Ubuntu was hard enough for me.
At the expense of vertically squished fonts, which I hated the look of. I would have been more likely to use it if it had a similar increase in the number of columns to keep the font at the correct aspect ratio.
Often when I see people advocating for small government, they mostly mean cutting things that they don't use. It's always about cutting welfare, or ending this or that subsidy. Why does (in my country at least) it seem that the "small government" types are the ones that want to criminalise protest, destroy privacy and encryption and make us scan our faces to watch porn (whatever you feel about the subject, can we atleast agree that that is a step to far?). Heck our "small governments" types are trying to get the face of everyone with driver's license in a police database.
Why not just use a MacBook Air or something? It's basically the same price.

I tried switching to iPad and the only thing I keep thinking about was "this is just my Mac, but worse in every single way"
If you make gears, for example, and sell more than $5000 of gears, you still have to pay for Delphi under that license... it's really weird.
I think the #1 thing when you become part of an exec team is that you should be optimizing for the _business_, and not your function. The working assumption is that you will keep your function executing and delivering, but what is really hard is helping to figure out what the right decisions are for the business. Should we invest more in product or sales? What if there’s a huge top of funnel problem — what can we do about it? Your job is to bring that technology perspective to the discussion.

I’ve been an exec, founder, CEO, and board member at various stages of successful (IPO) /unsuccessful companies (acqui-hire) companies. And the common thread at every stage is that the most successful companies had management teams that worked well together to optimize for the business.

So instead of spending your energy on reading / learning more about tech, I’d recommend you spend your energy learning more about business (I’d probably start by asking the CEO & the rest of the mgmt team for advice on what to learn.)
I told it to stop apologising all the time. It apologised for doing that :)
It's not.

Walmart is not a 'marketplace', yet they could easily give you a replacement product from a different 'wholesaler', just like Amazon can give you a replacement from a different 'retailer'. There is no material difference here. Amazon owns everything about the interaction, they have just creatively outsourced creating product listings and a bunch of product risk.
By 25x14, do you mean 2560x1440? If so, are you saying that a $15 device will magically make a 2560x1440 monitor higher resolution than 3840x2160? If that's what you're saying, do you have a link that provides some detail on this because I don't believe it.

I'm also unable to believe someone would consider 27" 4K text illegible on a mac since that's what I use that every day and can read text comfortably. Edit: Unless you're using it unscaled, then yeah, text isn't that legible.

These are strange statements to make without any detail.
Only downside to using your own sync server for your devices' Firefox Sync is that the Firefox/iOS cannot accept custom Sync server URL; with Firefox/iOS, you are stuck with Mozilla Sync server.
Unicode's name for it is REGISTERED SIGN. It's usually silent when part of a brand name, though.
You will realistically never jack up price anywhere far when competing against AliExpress.

You can sell some of these exclusive widgets for $4 instead of $1 but getting leads would cost you these $3.
API might go down the road travelled by music in the last 25 years or so.

Music used to be a copyright on a melody. Arrangers/producers had nothing.
Recorded music now has expanded to have "production rights".
This a copyright on the way the released recording "sounds".
The recent Ed Sheeran court case is a good example how weird that can get.

So APIs could be get there with the right crop of lawyers and court cases. ?
You will get what you wish sooner than later because our defense spending is unsustainable and we won’t have a choice in the end. We’re starting to see the cracks with terrorists hijacking cargo ships without repurcussion.
As someone in this situation a lot. They always do. People generally don't want to fight the smartest guy in the room. And everyone is happy to leave responsibility with someone else.
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I just helped my parents in law to switch from DSL to Verizon 5G Home Internet. They were paying $130 a month for 10Mbps DSL internet. Now with Verizon for 80 a month, and you get a free Xbox which was a perfect gift for another family member.

The speeds are 200/40Mbps download with spikes and downs.

The other option was Comcast, but if you go internet only - the installation service is not free, but they have coax cable for Dish TV, so installation on your own would be a questionable quest. So to look for other options, I went through all big 3 (t-mobile, att and verizon), and only verizon was available. I would assume that because their cellular plan is att, if att would be available, home internet plan probably would be cheaper as a bundle.

But still a good save of money, and such an upgrade from DSL to 5G.