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In the U.S., too. In fact, it was the United States that pioneered this in the modern age.

In practice, at least one San Francisco (city/county-level) department and at least one California (state-level) department deliberately makes it difficult to get responsive records, even though the law requires them to not only provide those records, but help the public identify which records might answer the questions they have.
EU has become a true dystopia.
Right, obviously HK is a bit of a special case. Land in Manhattan would, I'm 100% certain, remain incredibly expensive.

The cool thing about leases is that you can change the cost of the lease periodically, which ensures that the value of the land does not accrue purely to the person occupying it.
You don't really believe that do you? The market disagrees as well
Surely everyone will want a swasticar.
>[I]nterpreting this law in such a way would further solidify the dominance of proprietary AI over open or academic research.

This goes to the heart of the debate here. Obviously forking an open-source model of Chinese origin is not “sending dollars and gigs of data” to China.

Hawley is a non-stupid person so he almost certainly gets this. The issue is that for a few US companies with >>$100B of market cap/valuation whose boards happen to be extremely plugged into Washington’s money machine, their strategic enemy isn’t China; it’s open-source models.
Just like he’s a free speech absolutist, right?
Sahil Bloom[1] frequently posts this type of picture on this Twitter feed.[2] I'm going to assume it's from his new book, “The Five Types of Wealth.”

1. https://www.sahilbloom.com/

2. https://x.com/SahilBloom/status/1884670271845548171
Forgive my ignorance but with just so many people and so much money and so little area, isn't high rents inevitable?

I contrast that to places like the USA and Canada that have huge amounts of area but policies that encourage inefficient land usage.
Replacing the government with unaccountable middlemen is sort of their goal, isn't it? Think of the efficiency we could gain once we do away with all of that accountability nonsense...
Which is cool I guess, if you live in one of the relatively small number of places in the world where that exists, in which case you wouldn't use Starlink anyway.

Many of Starlink's customers would otherwise be on VSAT, with 600ms+ RTT to geostationary birds.
It's reasonable when you think about it from a risk assessment point of view.

The IMF wants to feel that El Salvador (a) will likely be able repay the debt, (b) in a currency that is unlikely to devalue too much. For that reason, the debt would probably be in USD or some other prominent world currency (letting the debt be in El Salvador's local currency would risk them printing money to devalue it, threatening (b)).

So the IMF would probably make the debt in USD. In theory, bitcoin can be exchanged for USD, so in theory, El Salvador could exchange some of their bitcoin into USD to pay the IMF back. But what if bitcoin's value drops precipitously? Or if it becomes illiquid?

It seems the IMF thinks bitcoin is hype, so it expects its value to drop to near zero eventually. That would make it very difficult for a country that has large bitcoin reserves (instead of large reserves of a more stable currency) to repay the loan.
We’ve gone beyond being able to damage their interests with protectionism. We’re only hurting ourselves by denying access to any Chinese innovation.
Yeah, I mean. Given what is known about the FBI and MLK how much worse could it get?

Fun fact: there is a statue of MLK at the FBI academy in Quantico.
Well, we probably wouldnt be in a trade war right now.
It is more rare than gold and getting more rare every 4 years.

What is the current supply of gold and what will it be in 2050?
https://archive.ph/TMHWB
The original headline was "stupid coup," and that's what I Googled to find it again, but they must have changed it at some point. Materials that link to he piece still use it, though, and I think it's quite fitting.

https://kottke.org/20/11/i-lived-through-a-stupid-coup-ameri...
It is actually and very unfortunately both.

One of the researchers we are connected to has posited that increased amyloid build up decreases the effectiveness of the glymphatic system, which is why we see lower delta power in older adults which then further reduces the ability to remove build-up. It's a vicious cycle.

We also see this with cortisol levels in under slept individuals and exacerbated in people with AD.

In response to a lack of sleep, the body increases cortisol, that increase in cortisol introduces challenges in getting good sleep, which increases cortisol.

For most of us, this isn't an issue as we get on top of our sleep within a fairly short period and sort this out, but in people with AD, there is a cortisol dysregulation, and potential a circadian issue as well.

One hypothesis why the AD paper I linked to earlier had such a huge impact on AD sufferers was because PTAS has been shown to have a 15% decrease in early night cortisol levels.

The cortisol levels were not checked in the AD subjects because it was a feasibility study, but I'll be speaking with the researchers next week, and hopefully that is the plan for the next stage research.
I didn't say they shouldn't do anything. I said that them whining about the situation won't help. To be honest I have no clue what they *should* do, as I said before it seems they're pretty well fucked for now. They could steal the GOP playbook and start a multi-decade effort to take over all media sources and influence people's internal metaphors. But that's going to take some time.

But I hope someone smarter than I figures out a better path.
HUD and FEMA alone are 2.5x larger than USAID's budget, so while I can't argue with the unsourced bit that it would be shocking, it's clear there is and was even more money being spent on Americans too.
Cities like rome that have real archeolorical things going back centuries and they can dig easier than nyc. Quit using that cop out if they can do it you can too.
> the guy is a repeat offender and/or on probation

“It was for two or three quarter ounces of weed!” isn’t the defense you imagine.
This is the part I'm curious about. Trump may be many things, but lacking transparency around his motives and actions is not one of them. As you say, he is doing basically exactly what he said he would.

So what I'm curious about is whether anyone who voted for Trump, and especially not the hard core MAGA folks but more the "The Dems suck, prices are too high" folks that shifted toward Trump in 2024 vs previous elections, are surprised/angered/scared by his actions. If so, what was their thought process?

I'm especially curious how they feel about Musk's role in all this. I just can't wrap my head around people that were "drain the swamp" nativists are cool with an unelected foreign-born billionaire having free reign, essentially unaccountably, to do whatever he wants to any federal department. If somebody told me in 2010 that this would happen in 2025 I would tell tell them that they are nuts. If the Dems had done anything 1/10th as egregious, Republicans would be apoplectic, and rightfully so.
>In the U.S., too. In fact, it was the United States that pioneered this in the modern age.

The hack in the US is to just label everything "SECRET," and it's excluded from FOIA.
The firewall just got ten feet taller
I think it's fair to say that early sleep disruptions are related to the onset of AD, and then AD itself exacerbates these issues, I commented further above.
> One concept is that BTC is a good investment. Historically that is undeniable.

I'll deny it.

Bitcoin has seen large gains, that is undeniable. However, that is not the same thing as being a good investment.
Yes I think this is going to be the end of Bitcoin, we'll never hear about it again after this year
> It is useful context for people who aren't American to know how ridiculous Josh Hawley is, and has always been.

Hawley looks like a clown and acts like a clown but he knows how to play the game. The only two things the guy talks about is how much he loves israel and hates china. With those credentials, he might be president one day.
Someone needs to get around to doing this for Microsoft Teams.
According to leaks, “Steam Deck TV” has been in the works for a couple years now iirc
There is no problem with property values or rent values being high because they are the result of demand for living in a high quality area. There isn't a problem either with these prices varying over time as the attractiveness of the area changes.

The problems are wholly on the supply side, where either

- there are bad laws that lead to any of the following, or
- developers legally or illegally cooperate to suppress supply

- landlords cooperate to push up rents or reduce quality.

- investors use land or housing units as speculative assets

- normal people want to use their primary residence as a way to build wealth, so politically support measure that artificially inflate their property values. Individually, this is not a problem, but when everyone does it, the system breaks.

The goal is to design a system where all of the above doesn't happen. A very big task.

P.S. I don't know anything about HK.
I want to combine a big database of data points about myself. Something similar to https://howisfelix.today/ but self-hosted, dockerized, easy to integrate and use. Plus import of the data from iPhone via Apple Health. Right now I can export it as a file but I don't have any means of parsing that file and importing it in to my own database.

edit: not sure why the data on that website has been blurred, but it's still available in HTML
You could also say that a command line terminal is just a wrapper around the OS's process start function.

But in all seriousness a good IDE is much more than a text editor and buttons which run terminal commands. The main thing a good IDE has is a good debugger, which not only allows for stepping through code easily, but also shows the values of variables, memory, registers, in one easy to use interface.

If you don't use a debugger then either you're only building very simple programs, or you're stuck in some sort of special hell when it comes to debugging.
Reading the Epstein saga start to finish has been instructive as to how power works in this country.

I previously had not understood it.
It doesn't have to be "magic" that causes it to go up forever. People need a way to put large amounts of money in places that are difficult for governments to get to and /or easy to move across jurisdictional borders. Think: money launderers, people that are worried their corrupt government will seize their assets, people hiding money from someone they owe like a spouse in a divorce. These all seem to me to be reasonable use cases for bitcoin.

All the things that make bitcoin a pain to buy a pizza are irrelevant if your goal is to hide $100m in your shoe. Nothing can do that better than bitcoin and there is a demonstrated need.

If you assume the reason to use bitcoin isn't going away and the wealth of the world goes up-- while the supply of bitcoin is pretty constant-- it can keep going up without magic.
I don't think "bitcoin" is progressive, bitcoin is a technology. I think the idea of trying a decentralized electronic currency is progressive. Whether they implemented it well or should have seen the problems with using it as a currency is one thing, but in the idea of trying something new sure I think it was good. I don't think it caused grave harm to try.

And I certainly can claim that their policies on crime are progressive. They are prioritizing the rights of the many law abiding people who have a fundamental human right to live unmolested and unterrorized by criminals. I think that is very progressive and quite a radical departure from the status quo. I don't think I have ever heard "human rights advocates" and UN types opine and lament the human rights of people who have to endure this type of criminal society and I think it is brave and progressive to fight for them. I absolutely understand that it has required concessions and weakening of rights in other areas, and I don't say that is a good thing, but everything is a tradeoff right? If they continued conservative status quo the tradeoff would have been other peoples rights continuing to be violated.

Just because it's not "progressive" as exactly defined by an elite ruling class in the "international community" and think-tanks and academia, and the leftist intelligentsia at large, does not mean it is not progress in social reform and improvement for the greater good. To the actual people who have to live in El Salvador, approval for Bukele's reforms are staggering. I'm sure a lot of the "experts" who assured everybody they would never work are upset about it because they have a lot of egg on their face now, but fortunately the country has a bright young progressive leader who cares about the people more than the elitists say.
It's not "moving the goalposts." It's realizing that the principles behind perceptrons / Lisp expert systems / AlphaGo / LLMs / etc might be very useful and interesting from a software perspective, but they have nothing to do with "intelligence," and they aren't a viable path for making machines which can actually think in the same way a chimpanzee can think. At best they do a shallow imitation of certain types of formal human thinking. So the search continues.
How much of this is due to the fact that our congress is a hospice ward?

We desperately need term limits. Age limits might make sense too but term limits would mostly take care of that.
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I saw plenty of birds in Istanbul, and the rest of Turkey.
My other pet metaphor is that we're all standing on top of wobbling Jenga tower and the republicans want to knock out the blocks beneath us.

And thank you :)
I would love to create a study group to publish a article titled “What Makes Us Invest?”

Over the past 12 years of pitching to 1,000 investors, I have followed investors work in feedly, analyzed public content, and carefully cross-checked every question I received. This process allowed me to identify six distinct types of investors.

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>The actions are entirely unconstitutional.

At this point, who cares? The democrats in power have proven themselves wholly incapable of doing anything for many years now.
Still cheap compared to most forms of money laundering.
They only doubled and tripled in value. Gotta wonder what you think they expected
China was Tesla's largest market and major manufacturing base for the international EV market. Up until this year when Chinese domestic EVs took over, and it's looking like Tesla will never get anywhere close to the top ever again.
Consumer rights, labor rights, and protecting our shared environment should match conservative principles. I agree with improving these agencies and making them work better for people.

But it’s absurd think that the representative government shouldn’t be involved in protecting citizens from companies.

Fact: most companies have only one incentive. To make more profit. Everything else is secondary. Companies have a very, very, very strong incentive to cut costs and hurt people if it helps their short-term bottom line. In fact, making more money is their only incentive. And there are thousands of examples of abuse, from tech getting shittier, to energy companies massively polluting certain regions, to poor safety records, to ballooning health care costs.

That’s a non-partisan fact — abuse from companies hurts everyone.

Your opinion is, apparently, that the free market and these companies themselves are better equipped to protect people. Even though there is absolutely ZERO incentive in capitalism for them to do anything that would protect people if it costs money and doesn’t help their bottom line.
In particular El Salvador doesn't even have its own legal tender and haven't for a long time. They use the US dollar.
> possibly not speculative at all

There's a sentence
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How a currency increase or decrease in price so fast will affect how people spends it. It’s a bull market, yeah let’s wait for it to go up before buying that.
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> Haven't republicans been campaigning on reducing govt spending for like 50 years?

Not really. There is a political strategy Republicans have engaged during this time known as "Two Santas" which can explain it:

First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans
control the White House they must spend money like a
drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far
and as fast as possible.

This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus
making people think that the GOP can produce a good
economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes
people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa
Clauses.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans
must scream about the national debt as loudly and
frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our
children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut
spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government,
crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around
the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending
money.

This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own
social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus
shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus
right in the face.[0]

0 - http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas...
Well, if you have food scraps lying around, something will eat it. (Even if it's mold.)

I'm not quite sure why you would want to do genocide on rats. Some people even keep them as pets, you know?
Has it been circumvented? No? Then what's the problem?
To add to that, Rust code is generally not written to be 'exception-safe' when panics occur: if a third-party function causes a panic, or if your own code panics from within a callback, then memory may be leaked, and objects in use may end up in an incorrect or unusable state.

You really want to avoid sharing mutable objects across a catch_unwind() boundary, and also avoid using it on a regular basis. Aside from memory leaks, panicking runs the thread's panic hook, which by default prints a stacktrace. You can override the panic hook to be a no-op, but then you won't see anything for actual panics.
Right, 5 guys are gonna untangle what you allege is generations of tangled mess.

Got it.
The best safe space after the US is Switzerland.

If you move anywhere else, you risk making it worse for yourself.

One option is Taiwan which gives gold cards to people with impressive GitHubs.
Most of what I've seen are uninformed knee jerk reactions. Glad they're getting flagged
>The ranking member (senior Democrat) on the intelligence committee voted against the ban (https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/tiktok-ban-jim-h...):

But he voted yes on the subsequent vote?

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024145

Moreover your factoid is misleading because it omits the fact that the chair voted for the ban, along with most of the members. Of the 25 members on the committee, only 4 voted against.
> Steel cans provided by the resident are the best option for cost and sustainability. “Metal recycles forever”.

Those two sentences together means buying the trash cans over and over again.
And the community "decided" to follow the core developers who controlled the narrative on r/bitcoin, bitcointalk and various exchanges when Bitcoin was forked, with the first chain (Core) remaining "Bitcoin" and the other fork then being labeled "Cash".
Very well then. I’m going to create a better product to accelerate that gravitational collapse.

See some of you on the other side but it won’t be here. I’m out.
Its not like IMF had a gun to their head. They could have refused the loan.

At the end of the day they abandoned the policy because they believe it will help the economy to abandon it (indirectly via the loan). I certainly wouldn't call that a success.
The author of the comment is, however, an expert in the field the author of the article is trying to (unsuccessfully) reason about.
Streisand effect is overstated, censorship/bans work.
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Personally, I want to see these topics on HN BECAUSE of the high standards for discussion here. What is stopping people from flagging individual comments that don't measure up to HN guidelines? Instead these entire submissions are being flagged in anticipation of an imagined future argument, which further derails anything there is to be said about it because the conversation turns to the subject of the flagging itself. THAT is what kills discussion.
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You just need articles of incorporation and all crimes become civil matters.