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Re:Second-Order Thinking on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:34AM (#32467982)
What are the inputs to this framework? Are we going "What happens if we defund the police?" in isolation or are we asking what happens if we take the money from the police and put it into housing, into medicare, into other social programs? The answers you arrive at might be different.

In fact if we extrapolate that line of reasoning out to the capitalist substrate of our economy we might find some surprising second, third+ order effects.

Why even make this joke?
I haven't used influxdb before but if the data resides on hosts I own I think that would be acceptable. Thanks for your answers!
This looks pretty useful and I will definitely be trying it out. I see you can upload CSV files for visualizing. Is there a way to send data as it's generated?

Another question would it be possible for Marple to use the data locally (or from say my own s3 bucket or database) instead of having to upload it to your servers?

For those like me who need some kind of reference for the distances mentioned (548-900 AU), Voyager 1 is 156.5 AU from earth today.
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever had a changed-your-life moment? on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @09:58AM (#32250468)
When it comes to working holiday visas this is one of those times non-Americans[1] actually have _more_ options than Americans.

1: Western non-Americans, more specifically, unfortunately..

A lot of people haven't developed the muscle to look at anything discussing "demographics" extremely critically.
Sure you can have this "discussion" but it comes off as needless (and probably racist) concern trolling. The Sweden thing is a favorite among reactionaries trying to mask their racism. The homicide rate in Sweden is lower than Canada. It's lower than Finland.
yeah but it was private and presumably a pretty limited number of people knew about it at the time which narrows down the number of potential candidates pretty considerably.
> But the problem here is, that the EU concepts are often adapted elsewhere

oh no anything but that

Re:The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:36PM (#32089057)
you still need to do kyc to convert to real money, which is essentially the same as transferwise for example
Re:The Lightning Network: Turning Bitcoin into Money on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:35PM (#32089037)
which ones
Re:Why are there no bridges in East London? on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:30AM (#31998256)
Jay Foreman's videos are great. Love the old BBC documentary aesthetic he (mockingly) goes for.
Re:The Singular 'They' on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:27AM (#31998230)
If you listen to someone whose first language is something like Spanish or French but isn't totally fluent in English you'll hear them use "he" instead of singular "they". It's not an egregious error but it definitely sounds a little strange (at least to my ear).
weird conclusion
Re:Cheat sheet for if I'm gone on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:42AM (#31751559)
Dashlane actually has a deadman's switch feature. You can give it a list of accounts who can request access and if/when they request access you have 24 hours to decline them. After that they get access.

Too bad they got rid of their native apps....what a pain. I wish 1password had a feature like that.

it's location services, not apple maps.
> The predominantly rich are who get into those ivy league schools and rack up giant student loans. You're planning to pay off rich kids loans?

that one's gonna need a citation lol.

> Also how's that money printing going? 8.5% inflation and still rising... You want more of that?

ask the corporations that are posting record profits in spite of this inflation

> The poor will burn that million so fast. It's the mentality of the psyche, no different than a dog who eats their food as fast as possible fearing they might lose it.

break out the calipers boys

> The rich take the million and buy as much investments as possible right away.

wait i thought we were getting inflation that makes the million meaningless

> In a couple years we go check on how things are doing... the rich are rich. the poor are poor. Nothing changes. People need to understand that money doesn't work this way. Want to eliminate inequality? Teach people to not be poor, teach them to bust their butt doing something useful to society.

real rich dad / poor dad hours here

> as long as it does not infringe the rights/freedoms of anyone else

that seems like the hairy part

someone who has a billion dollar exit is in a somewhat better position to pay those taxes than a person scraping by on minimum wage. What you seem to be advocating for here is not less taxes but pushing the taxes downward to people who can less afford them.

Maybe instead the federal government could do inventive things like substantially cut the military budget.

Yeah that's not really a niche as much as it is a description of what Hare is. Maybe what would be more helpful are some examples of use-cases you and the rest of the Hare team have in mind when developing this language.
So hare's target niche is people who want to use hare? On the first blog post and the ensuing conversation here that wasn't clearly stated (at least as far as I can tell). It seems a little strange that the programming language's niche would be "idk why not"... but then again why can't it be?
don't worry we're happy to do both transit and xenophobia in canada (unless the next administration cancels the transit plans) (they will)
there's that plus i think a bunch of boomers (like my parents) took it as a sign to retire.
This is such a weird take. Is the conclusion here that the upper class needs to adopt a sigma grindset and get married more because it'll influence the poors to be less antisocial? Like none of the systemic rot or declining wages over the past 50 years matters?
Re:My take on Elon's offer for Twitter on Saturday April 16, 2022 @06:57AM (#31051363)
employees' political biases aside these platforms exist to make money and so they'll play within the boundaries of "acceptable" speech which in the west is pro-capitalist, pretty centerist, and with some scraps thrown to minorities from time to time. If you are outside the window you are off the platform because advertisers get anxious. saying they arent political is absurd.
Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:32PM (#29879260)
no im suggesting that 'yolo lol we have more beds' is meaningless if u end up with worse outcomes. and let me be clear that 66k per 1M cases and 807 deaths per 1M is better than 180K per 1M And 2515 per 1M.
Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:54PM (#29878667)
idk canada has 806 covid deaths per 1M and usa has 2573, it's not exactly screaming 'success story' to me.