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It did not matter how old or sick each one is it mattered how each one is perceived. After the first debate a lot of Democratic voters felt like Biden was doing very poor and he was, numbers show it.

But really Democrats keep providing one unpopular boomer candidate after another, so when it is NYT or anybody upset - I am not surprised.

EDIT: actually I meant to reply to the person you are replying to, heh.

Prefer to believe.

I think it is actually a good idea, in theory, but the penalties for failure to file are hefty.

New York Times wrote [1] a pretty extensive expose on how the government takeover has happened. Basically Musk started infiltrating the government with his agents a couple of years ago so by the time inauguration happened he had access to all the passwords. I am not sure which laws were broken but if they were I hope the administration that comes in 2029 will not overlook these people's contribution.

[1] https://archive.ph/oJRrI

If Europe somewhat deregulated startup stage businesses an countries issued more visas to engineers it could probably turn a lot of things around. So far European founders have been moving to US. But these days I imagine I'm not the only one who doesn't want to work in the shadow of US technofeudalist oligarchy and receive money from people like Marc Andreessen.

Renaissance Technologies is a very successful hedge fund that almost exclusively hires PhD's to do the coding, no matter what field.

A token is just a token, who uses it how and why is not intrinsic in the token itself. Stocks and bonds have been tokenized, why are those not scam? There are lots of tokens representing different things, economic models and with very different histories following their creation.

Plenty wrong with tokens but I would remember that VC funding also comes with a lot of drawbacks and, in my opinion, is what is holding technical progress back. I am in a startup and VCs are preventing us from focusing on longer term goals like interoperable protocols. The VC game is simple - fund a "disrupting" company aka an extractive monopoly and cash out. In that light, even though we took VC funding some sort of cautious yet fair token raise would have made sense, it'd allow us to work out the product without compromising on longer term goals.

I understand the distrust for blockchain but there is also ideology in blockchain world that has not yet occurred in the greater world, that funding is broken and new alternatives are needed. Has somebody figured a perfect one - no. Is experimentation good? Yes.

It tells me that git is the wrong tool for the majority of people but it just happened to stick.

When Snowden, is my question. RFK put a lot of words into "if I am in charge that'll be my first thing". Yeah, he's not the president but he's also not nobody anymore.

I deleted my twitter account not too long ago and now more and more often I scroll down to the bottoms of websites hoping there is a Bluesky link and tada: there is. @letterformarchive.org

I absolutely cannot relate to the HN excitement over rockets. What is the point? What are we going to do with them? It feels like half religion half misplaced techno-positivism.

(Also a person who actively platforms outspoken neo-nazis runs the company that is launching them)

Honestly do not understand why rockets are a big deal. What are we going to do with them? If anything we have too many satellites in the sky as is.

Well I certainly cannot relate to the criticism. I played the game early on as a teen (and every few years since) and while, at times difficult, I never thought the puzzles were "confusing", it seemed like a pretty organic combination of styles of puzzles built into the game. The head turning dynamics I have also found to be quiet pleasant as it made me relate to the character more.

Not that criticism is bad but Grim Fandango seems to one of the most if not most loved adventure games (just visit and adventure game forum or subreddit). So one can take it apart and think about the individual parts but the whole is certainly a masterpiece of a game.

Oh that's fun. Were they surprised to be sought?

It's one unlikable candidate after another. How does one fire Democratic party leadership? How is it all democratic to leave the choice of the only "left" candidate be down to... who? Some boomers?

To reflect on HN trends for a second: people seem to really like "uncovered" things. Like some lost song, or archeological piece or, as here, identity of a person in a mostly inconsequential context.

I also don't seem to recall these kinds of posts hitting front page much until recently. What is this? A new wave of nostalgia for long lost past on the internet? Hacker News demographic change? Discovery of a new marketing vector? Or just me seeing a pattern where there is none?

I used one at a relative's house and I agree - worst appliance user experience that I've come across.

Same for Smeg.

The guy who made Nomad List and a bunch of other websites said on twitter that he was contacted by Draghi for the report.

Too much talk going on without actually hearing the charges.

My friends are running a company called FOAM Space that has also put a lot of research into 3D terrestrial-base positioning [1]. Their system, though, can also make "claims" about the position, which is a cryptographic proof that the object that created the claim was at location X at time Y. So, not only you can find where you are but you can also you prove to others that you are there. They use unregulated LoRa bandwidths to operate.

[1] https://foam.space/

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In general the original study felt like a more widely accepted Myers-Briggs of sorts. But as always happens with people and personality related theories the reality is either "more complicated" at best or the theory is outright false.

Yet another study that "explains it" turns out to be false. Good.

Another MIT course that I absolutely love (went through it twice) is "Environmental Technologies in Buildings" [1]. It covers a very wide breadth of topics, like sun radiation, photo-voltaics, wind, insulation, human perception of heat and lighting, etc. Just all around fascinating. Professor Reinhart is a pleasure to learn from. There's also and Edx course with lecture recordings for it [2].

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-350-sustainable-real-estate-s...

[2] https://www.edx.org/learn/sustainable-development/massachuse...

I know the workflow is quiet different but Rhino is popular, for example, with architecture crowd and their licenses are perpetual.

An FT article[1] from today claims that Chinese banks are stopping working with Russia too, to avoid the sanctions.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/50d6bcd1-f1f6-41a1-bb26-a54826548...

Which is everybody in the world except for a handful of people.

I have had to implement a large REST API recently and feel like I spent a lot of time setting up things manually that GraphQL provides out of box. REST tooling has gotten better but so far I have not seen anything as convenient as Apollo, for example.