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Is this... meant to be a commentary on the nature of relationships that start on Tinder?

Sitting by a small campfire watching the sunset in the Rocky Mountains while sipping lemonade.

And making out.

The most generous estimate I can find of monetary usage is 10%. Most estimates are less than half that. I don't remember the last time I saw a legal business that accepted crypto as payment or heard of anyone I know using crypto as a currency. The way it's taxed doesn't seem very currency-like to me. I've yet to hear some practical reason for crypto better than "no bro, you'll see".

People are really using consumer printers in counterfeiting?

I'm not saying I don't buy crypto because it crashed at this point in time. I'm saying continuously over a very long period of time I haven't bought crypto, and that's based on the information I have had over that continual period of time. Nothing has changed for me with this crash except that some people who I think are wrong are going to shut up now. (edit: I dream - I'm sure they'll find a way to tell me they're just buying the dip).

I'm saying I don't buy Bitcoin because at no point in the last few years have I seen it be used for anything other than speculation. There are no dividends. There are no voting rights in anything. There is no actual asset aside from a number that a blockchain says you own. It's like owning a share of a company that doesn't actually exist. The only upside is I can buy it and then get lucky and sell it for more than I paid for it, to someone who will almost certainly eventually get unlucky when things crash because it is and always has been useless. I see it as being no different than roulette, a game I also don't play.

It's a fascinating technology on which to build a digital currency, but rounding down, currency seems to be none of the actual usage.

I'm pretty perplexed by what crypto has become in practice. All the big selling points for me are that it's a currency (that almost nobody uses as a currency) with mathematically-ensured security (which goes away if, like many people, you're holding a lot of wealth in a centralized exchange that tries to dumb everything down for the entry-level consumer) and controlled inflation (which is defeated somewhat by the massively fluctuating prices all driven by hype and speculation) and the potential privacy (which is really only there in some currencies and / or if you never use any other currency) and lack of government involvement (which goes away if the government can tell you've been using crypto and decides to tax it like a security).

In the end, it's a bunch of crypto bros who want to show how much they don't depend on the government suddenly realizing that FDIC-insured accounts were actually developed for a reason. It's people calling dibs on numbers. And yeah - the blockchain has led to all sorts of interesting ideas, but the money you pump into the currency du jour isn't really worth anything once people move on to a new trend, or once your exchange is hacked, or whatever.

I've been getting told for months that I'm missing the train and making a bad decision by a guy who bought BTC at 60k and told me "everyone" was saying it was going to go past 100k. And apparently I was a fool for investing in property and a diversified stock and bond portfolio. So yeah - I feel somewhat vindicated right now.

This is a very interesting story, but this article is pretty light on a lot of the details of his life. He got into a lot of mischief throughout his life and unfortunately died a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn. It's a real shame, because he was obviously bright and highly motivated and I feel like he was just never able to really put all that potential into action.

My favorite part of the story is that he was arrested for stealing smoke detectors from his apartment building trying to collect radioactive material. One of my first jobs was shipping / receiving for an electronics manufacturer, and smoke / gas detectors were the lion's share of our business. I was told I always had to classify the products as "components for a nuclear reactor" on international shipping manifests, which I thought was silly. Until I read this story...

I've mostly heard it used by farmers. And it makes sense if you're thinking of the equivalent rainfall measured in inches on a property measured in acres.

Which is beautiful, but is absolutely not something I would ever choose to pay for.

Possibly it's just a matter of astronomers being particularly interested in this topic and pursuing it the way they're best qualified to, because we happen to already have all sorts of equipment for gathering signals.

I like the idea of gathering more data on UFO sightings as there have been very credible reports shared by the military lately, but what other sensors do you think would be practical to deploy? They may happen a lot overall, but you can't predict where to place sensors. We see them now because someone happens to have a camera pointed in the right direction, or because they show up on some broad-area radar. What else could be deployed in a practical way to gather meaningful data?

Which brings us to one of the best XKCD punchlines of all time: https://what-if.xkcd.com/3/

The recollection doesn't say anything about who else didn't make it. I don't think they included the information you're trying to infer from the story.

Incidentally, an elephant was used in their first big Hadoop book (and I would find it hard to believe that was coincidence): https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hadoop-the-definitive/9.... There's a Hadoop-the-elephant logo that's trademarked by Apache, but elephant puns and even other drawings of yellow elephants abound in that community, and I'm not sure that's the kind of thing that trademark law could be enforced against even if the ASF wanted to.

Last time I encountered this was creating random IDs for things, either as a random string of characters or when selecting from lists of attributes and animals like all the tools that'll name things like "curious possum". It's not actually a hard requirement to hit every possibility before repeating, but if you do see 2 or 3 clusters in a sample it gives people the impression it isn't random.

I used to not drink caffeine at all, and I was always perplexed by this belief coworkers seemed to have that you simply can't work without caffeine. It's only because your body is used to it and your mind thinks you can't work without caffeine. "How can you do it?" they would ask.

Treat it like a drug. When I do actually have an exceptional need to stay awake and focused late at night, yeah an energy drink can help me keep my eyes on the road for hours without fading or feeling bored. But then if I drink them every day because I like them I do start feeling dependent. Just step yourself down, or go cold-turkey when you have a few days of down time. You can reset yourself fairly quickly.

Same goes for athletic performance. I used to do jiu jitsu regularly and everyone would drink energy drinks right before training or competing. I tried it and it seemed that I could have bursts of exceptional energy but I would drain my batteries a lot faster. Just help your body learn to bring itself up and down on its own. It can do it.

And funnily enough, you'll often hear this trait as being desirable in a pseudo-random number generator. People often want something that will jump around fairly unpredictably but that will come close to outputting all possible numbers once before getting into re-runs.

Some organizations use this feature to enforce security policy and ensure regular rotation of credentials. You can't get a static access key ID / secret access key pair, but you can get one with a session token, and so you run everything inside that context. If you can't specify the session token to an Amazon client, you just can't use Amazon STS.

"on the job"? Most likely. But I spent a lot of time and money getting a degree from an accredited university, where I was bored the whole time and maxing out the number of credit hours they would let me take while also working as much as I could. Why? Because I could've aced the first 2 years of CS classes by the time I was 13. I would imagine that's not uncommon among people who grew up with a hacker mindset and had the resources to explore it. I surely had gaps in my knowledge - not saying I didn't learn anything from the college experience. But I would love to live in a world where I didn't feel like I would, at some point, be better off with an accredited 4-year degree just to get or keep a job in the first place.

This is a good idea. I've had two employers with "unlimited PTO". One of them explicitly set an expectation that I was expected to take at least 4 weeks per year. And it wasn't in writing, but everyone was told this, so there's "witnesses" which is better than nothing. This actually worked really well, and everyone seemed to take an appropriate amount of time, but no one was explicitly keeping track or expecting you to fill out paperwork just to take a break.

Another employer said you needed to talk to your manager and justify time off with regards to results, and the timing of your break, relative to releases, etc. In this scenario I hardly took any time off, but folks who clearly didn't care about their manager took SO MUCH. Learn from me, though: they never gave me the promotion I was chasing anyway.

Are other cases of online abuse, workplace harassment, discrimination, etc. so rare that people are actually chasing problems like this for a paycheck? It would be wonderful if that was the case, but I doubt that it is.

One key thing to know here, in addition to the replies you already received, is that the role of fiduciary duty is dramatically overstated by a lot of other HN comments.

As someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about, I'm also wondering how he would be getting around the widely-reported "poison pill", even if he did have $21B more.

I've wondered about this, because I hear about bullying a lot on various neighborhood social media groups, etc. When I was in school I felt like I was a victim of bullying. Looking back with my grown-up perspective and having gone to talk to a therapist about a lot of it, there was definitely some legit bullying, and I absolutely buy that that happens to other people now. Kids can say or do some pretty cruel things, sometimes without even realizing it. And I think our hyper-connected world has made some of these dynamics worse or harder to escape.

There was, however, also just the fact that I was extremely awkward, having immigrated multiple times at key times in my social development, and I just didn't really feel connected to anyone or know how to relate to the other kids around me. I acted pretty unlikable in a lot of ways, and other kids could have been more sensitive to that but at a certain point that's just an unreasonable expectation. I interpreted the way they acted to me as bullying, but looking back that was what helped me grow out of it and be able to relate to people better.

I don't want to extrapolate from my experience and say that kids feeling bullied need to just deal with it and grow through it, but I think that's a factor in at least some other cases. What I thought of reading this article was my own experience on the other side: I moved back to near my home town after a decade away, and I messaged some people who I had felt had bullied me at one point in time but with whom I had been Facebook friends for a while. We ended up having a really good chat over lunch or something, and it was healing to feel "Hey - grown-up-you is actually pretty nice and cool, and grown-up-me is capable of talking to you and feeling mutual respect". It stopped feeling like they had bullied me, and felt more like man, growing up can be weird.

It would probably be prudent to withdraw your other DMCA notices until you figure this out. You're being given the benefit of the doubt, and the other counternotice on Github doesn't exactly portray you in the best light either.

This discount is what got brought up when I complain about this on NextDoor and Facebook. Local business owners who are contributing to the spam, whose circulars are among those I just immediately throw in the trash, don't want to pay more. I'm very curious if they actually track the ROI on that advertising. I've asked - one local business found they got nothing from mailings anyway. But that's just a sample size of 1.

What happened with Bernie Sanders in the primaries? I thought he saw it through to the end and just plain lost to Biden. Not that that fact alone didn't concern me.

But I think it's a far more damning image to the party that Tulsi Gabbard qualified for the debates under the rules at the time, and then was excluded because they changed the rules. You can't play the race or gender card every time your person isn't winning, and then go out of your way to very specifically exclude the only candidate left who isn't white and isn't male. You can't really make a principled argument against the way the electoral college currently works by ignoring non-mainland delegates. You can't claim every vote should count. You can't claim the two party system is the reason you can't incorporate new, non-adversarial ideas.

I never cease to be amazed how much I pay in taxes and then whenever there is a government service that is necessary or desirable for me, I have to pay to use it or endure shit like this to subsidize it.

I don't think the physical mail problem gets talked about enough. Maybe it varies - because I actually don't have much of a problem with spam text messages myself - but one of the bigger chunks of my HOA bill lately is the cost of the daily emptying of a large trash receptacle by the mail boxes, because everyone opens their box and immediately dumps 90% of that crap into a shared trash can. What a waste.

I think #8 (weekly syncs) illustrates that even the author doesn't believe in a 100% asynchronous world either. I value a good synchronous discussion when its possible. But between time zone differences and being flexible with people's varying home situations during a pandemic it's an exception rather than the rule.

When it starts being involuntary and harmful, or perhaps in response to emotional trauma?