MsMowz

Modern fiat currency is backed only by debt. The fact that money can be backed by debt implies that there agents have a sufficiently sophisticated ability to judge trust of other agents. It's not extremely relevant that trustworthy behavior is enforced by the state.

Maybe there should be a centrally agreed upon authority that can change the size of the money supply by fiat. That seems like that would fix most of the problems with Bitcoin.

Fama would say it's priced accurately given the known information about it, but he would also agree that the price should change as more information is discovered about the nature of bitcoin. The efficient market hypothesis isn't about the price being "right," it's about it reflecting the available information.

That's the only reason people invest.

I don't doubt that this is true at times, but what do you think they teach in mid-tier schools? They use the same textbooks and curricula that other schools do. For example, most of the schools within driving distance of Austin use UT's courses at least as a guide for course design. They're not just handing CS students a box of crayons and hoping for the best.

I've been able to mitigate pretty much all the issues I've had with remembering details about complex problems by using effective note-taking and diagramming.

2 things:

1. This is probably not appropriate for HN because of its political nature.

2. Socialism is a broad movement, containing everything from the worker cooperative movement and democratic socialism to anarchism and communism. This article is talking about welfare states, which are not an example of socialism. Social democracy is capitalism.

I'm aware of the history of Cuba's opposition to the US after the revolution, but the Cold War has been over for 25 years and all signs point to Cuba attempting to rebuild solid relations.

I think it's interesting that this was immediately framed as an "attack," with of course the implication being that the Cuban government attacked American diplomats, since Cuba has so much to lose from attacking diplomats and literally nothing to gain.

Microsoft just moved an office into Munich and now, over the objections of the municipal IT staff, the city is switching to Windows. Interesting.

Politics is, broadly, anything to do with interacting with other people. It's a recent phenomenon that only electoral politics is considered politics.

It varies with whatever you're trying to produce, but the biggest problem is that family farmers are being displaced by larger farms mostly because of economies of scale. The only thing left (at least, where I'm from) that family farms can do alright by is beef, and the reason is that you can't just stick a calf in a feedlot for its entire life like you can with chickens or hogs, so there's not as much room for economies of scale.

Farming has been a race to the bottom for a long time, and this is welcomed by people who want to see cheaper food at any cost. I'm sympathetic to that view, but when I watch the continued erosion of rural communities based around the erosion of farming as a living, I have to think we should do something. What will happen to those people? And what will we do when (or if) we take into account the enormous environmental costs of large-scale farming? You're not going to just get those family farms back, because unless you're raised on a farm you probably won't have an interest in farming.

Farming is no way to make a living. I'm glad that these people are finding success, but I come from a farming community and family and for decades farming has only been affordable if you also had another full-time job. Although microfarms for trendy produce might not be so bad.

Kansas has a tiny government already, I'm not sure there's much left to clean out except the elected positions.

One thing that jumped out at me is that they cite an increasing number of party members hating the other party. What they don't consider is that party membership for both parties has declined over the same time period, presumably leaving the most partisan in the parties. So it doesn't seem unlikely that the very premise of the work is inaccurate.

Why would spaces be sent over the wire?

Automation also played a large role. I can't remember where I read it, but about a year ago I saw and article that showed that automation was destroying more jobs than it created for the first time in known history. We're not going to be able to fix that without a serious change in either our property rights or perhaps a reduction in full time hours, or something with a similar effect.

I really want this to work out. 18% of the US population is rural, and the rural economy is disintegrating faster and faster. The social costs (not to mention the hardship for those people) will be enormous in a decade or two without a sharp change.

I don't expect it to work, but I wish the project luck.

I was talking about being falsely accused. All signs in his case are that he actually did it.

>Yet in today’s environment, even if he ultimately proves himself to be innocent through the lawsuit he claims he is going to file against his accuser, a career death sentence has already been carried out by a virtual lynch mob. That is wrong.

Has this ever actually happened?

It is nice to see comeuppance for those who used their position to hurt others. I'm hopeful that the past few weeks lead to a new culture where victims do not fear retribution for speaking out or going to authorities, but I fear that without a concerted effort to make that happen things will go back to normal and this will just be a blip.

The problem is I always end up writing a state container that's similar to redux at some point if I don't use it. For simple things, you don't need a state container, but where is the line between simple and complex? It's hard to tell, and since redux is so low overhead, why not err on the side of using it now if you think there's a chance you'll want to later?

If any state that isn't just police and a military counts as a welfare state, then I don't think that's a useful definition of welfare state.

Do you think the American money is nicer and cleaner than Russian money? It's all the same.

Unbridled speculation and compound interest.

>Startup firms are defined as small employer firms that were 5 years old or younger in 2016.

They're not using "startups" with the same meaning we have when we talk about startups.

I wasn't considering semantic tags to be a feature, since that's kind of trivial, but I guess I should've.

I just can't help but feel you're really overcomplicating something that doesn't have to be a problem. Styling is probably the hardest thing to get wrong in a modern web application.

>removing SASS-specific syntax, reusing existing JS code, throwing errors for missing styles.

Throwing errors for missing styles is a nice bonus, but nobody is making you use a preprocessor, especially if you use atomic stylesheets, and you've avoided reusing existing code by introducing way more new code. That's not the point of DRY.

Maybe it's just my experience, but I've never understood introducing the mental overhead of something like styled components. Why don't you just have one component per JS file and a stylesheet with the same name as the component in the same directory? That's quickly becoming the standard, at least in the circles I run in, and the reason is because it's (1) super easy to configure and (2) requires zero mental overhead.

Also worth noting that none of the five advantages listed are exclusive to Styled Components, but every one of its disadvantages is.

At the risk of getting too political for HN, I think we need fewer of all three. What business does the US government have effectively acting as an imperial power in 2017? I'm with you that we shouldn't be risking lives as often, but we can accomplish that in multiple ways.

I think it's a little too easy to paint things like this as an outgrowth of culture. While our soldier/police worship is ingrained in culture, it didn't come about naturally; it was deliberately campaigned for after the labor gains in the 1890s-onward to try to undermine the red menace, especially once the US entered World War I, and our government continues to spend tens of millions on propaganda at sports games and the like. Of course, this is perfect for politicians who can take funding from defense contractors, but for the rest of us it's wasteful and, I fear, helps set the stage for the rise of fascist movements like we've seen for the past few years.