jialutu

$15k? How does the students pay their tuitions nowadays then?

First thing, it will not happen overnight (if it ever happens at all). I mean, let's be honest, the US is still a massive market so there is no doubt that it still has a lot of tricks in its books to maintain a lead.

But the thing is, being the major dominant currency actually comes with drawbacks:

https://equitablegrowth.org/reserve-currency-privileges-cost...

So potentially, the US dollar losing its role as the dominant currency may actually come with benefits for everyday Americans.

With a more stable currency, this means more investor confidence, and more confidence for other countries to trade using that currency. There are a lot to be said on this topic, but overall, countries use another's currency to facilitate trade look at 2 main factors: how big your economy is (to cushion the global trade) and how stable your currency is. This was why the pound was THE major global currency about 100 years ago, until it lost its empire, which massively reduced the size of its economy, and hence the mantle was passed onto the US dollar. In recent years, the US dollar seem to be starting to lose its shine given the country is losing its stability and some US politician's allure to the MMT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

As for the amount limit that's transferrable, this is only there to individuals to prevent capital flight (limited to $50,000 per annum), it's not limited to companies.

I remember the last time I tried to buy a flight ticket with Qatar Airways, one of the currencies they accepted was the yuan (kinda upset they didn't accept the sterling). This probably will challenge the US Dollar's role as the dominant currency, which is actually terrible for the US in its long term debt structuring.

That's pretty out of date information, a quick look on XE shows this is not the case at all:

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CNY&view=10Y

Well, because even though people on HN loves to preach "open dissent and criticism", HN hates actual dissent and criticism against the HN party line. So I am not surprised she/he got downvoted.

How does it strongly suggest the origin is in China? The disease was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, where many countries (especially European ones) are starting to find that their first cases were in December 2019 (if not earlier) as well. Once again, this is really stating my point that China detected COVID-19 sooner than everyone else, and hence demonised by it, setting an incredibly bad precedence for future outbreaks!

Thanks, corrected :)

Nice, thanks for this!

I also found out that protonmail doesn't seem to send the password in plain text in the post request itself. Really keen to see how they do it as well.

Wow, it's quite disheartening to read some of the comments here. Let's try something shall we:

- open up private browsing

- press F12 (or however you get the developer console on a mac) and go to the networking tab

- go to gmail.com say

- enter your gmail credentials

- look at the post request generated, and at the request tab, it will contain your password in plain text

So passwords don't get hashed on transit, this is why having HTTPS is so crucial, which is to prevent someone in the middle (say when you connect to an open Starbucks wifi) from sniffing out your unencrypted password. The password on the server side initially can be unencrypted before it gets hashed to be stored into the database. So in this instance, the password in the database is hashed, but there is a small period where the password is plain text in memory.

For a site called hacker news, it's really sad how little people here know about hacking.

That is literally how you innovate! What a lot of people are unaware of is that Europeans had been copying and stealing Chinese secrets for over a millenia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_int...

https://www.chinese-antique-porcelain.com/european-porcelain...

The US have a history of stealing tech secrets from the British:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...

Hell, even the name America for which we give to the United States today was stolen since America was originally given to "Latin America" named after Amerigo who had only set foot in Latin America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci

I was also astounded when I found out how much US brands actually copy each other. So really, there is no shame in copying from others first before innovating, because that's what essentially learning is all about right? I mean we are constantly standing on the shoulder of giants, but for some reason, for certain sectors, we tend to lock out that process.

Having been to a few tech conferences held by the EU commission, I would say the issue is not (wholly) to it being too open. The biggest problem with the EU is that it is ultimately 27 sovereign states with different language and cultures and very different economic situations.

What the EU tries to do is to bring these 27 states closer by awarding grants based on cross-border collaborations (so company A in France needs to collaborate with company B in Italy) and also helping the poorer states. This is a very rigid process, hence I guess this is why we've not seen much success stories so far.

Personally, I've not used OVH, so I cannot judge. But here is how I would rate Scaleway.

Pros:

- They are really really cheap! This is not just for the VMs themselves, but their VMs come with NVMe disks and comes with uncapped networking

- Their customer support has been phenomenonal, and this was when I was on their free tier support

Cons:

- They are only limited to 2 regions, Paris and Netherlands

- I've seen their VMs become out of stock quite often

Personally though, their pros far outweigh their cons, so I would very much love to see them expand their service.

I get the sentiment, but why not invest in companies like https://www.scaleway.com/en/ a bit more?

What troubles me more is the idea that you think there needs or has to be some sort of hegemony in the first place. I personally know of scenarios that is already far worse in the world today because of this idea of someone having to uphold some sort of hegemony.

Which part? The sanctions part or the hegemon part? Here is a list of US sanctions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

I love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.

And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...

Let's also not forget if this was in any other country, the US would be sanctioning them already, making a bad situation even worse! I am personally very glad to see this potentially being the end of the US hegemony.

Pretty much that. Here in the UK, we have a US diplomat's wife that killed a kid while driving in the UK. Having returned to the US, the US would not extradite her even though now there's an alert issued for this by the Interpol. Yeah, due process my arse!

https://nypost.com/2020/05/11/interpol-seeks-arrest-of-anne-...

Doesn't the US have a huge problem with IP trolls? It's really hard to get an accurate figure when the US can just issue IPs like it's no one's business and can to go to court to dispute these equally as easily. At least here in Europe, it's a lot more difficult to file for patents, I've not found any conclusive numbers, but if you can extrapolate from these numbers here I would say that the US is the outlyer rather than the norm https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/publications/ck0d2ofe9u6d...

Didn't Palmer Luckey literally pay people to defame Hilary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign? I guess he knows all about how 50-cent army works, especially US ones.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/23/oculus-pa...

Edit:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/31/oculus-rif...

Wait, what are you talking about? RabbitMQ does have persistent messages, you just need to set the queue as "durable", and the messages persist even during failures.

As for the personal data aspect, why does that come as a surpise to you? Babylon Health's website is full of Google tracking, which to me raises a huge concern. Now I get you do it in regards to your home page, but when it comes to user account pages, that's really dubious to me.

I find people saying things like "criticism of the Chinese government is not racism" is akin to things like "I am not racist because I have black friends".

Anywho, I gave you an actual link of a pubmed article about the H1N1 2009 outbreak being under-reported, yet the criticism is once again about China controlling information flow. Where is the criticism of under-reporting from the US and Mexico H1N1 outbreak from 2009 and 2010 and controlling the information flow? I don't remember any of that, do you?

Are we then going to start talking about how the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreaks were massively under-reported?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#Comparisons_...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22738893-estimated-global-mo...

I don't see any of the scares or complaints of under-reporting from back then. So what's the difference here, the fact that the disease originated from China? Seems pretty racist to me.

Isn't this is just like a digital version of golf clubs? Who knows, maybe all you need a critical mass of rich and famous on the platform before others join on board to connect and try to do business.

Then again, golf is kinda fun, even though I suck at it, and I barely use social media anymore, so maybe it's a bad comparison.

In addition to getting the grants, they also like to see that you are cooperating with a company or entity from another member state. I mean I get the approach is trying to build a cohesion between member states, but as you say, it adds to another layer of bureaucracy.

That said, I would really like to see EU build up more of its own home grown tech industry. Although for me being in the UK and now in a limbo with Brexit, I am not sure how that's all gonna affect us here.

If you want distributed DBs built on top boring old SQL databases, there is always https://vitess.io/. Not played with it too much myself, but it's been tried and tested by big companies (it was originally built by youtube), so worth a try.

So apparently it's not a full quarantine like everyone suggests, but more of a partial quarantine. My understanding is that deliveries to the local government is not accepted, so they are sending this straight to the hospitals. I also hear the logistics are set up, with more information currently available in the wechat group set up for this.

If you are interested, there is a crowdfund in the UK trying to raise money to provide surgical masks to doctor and nurses in Wuhan. Here is the link: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/standbywuhan

I live in the UK buddy! Here is what I see of democracy, UK PM, voted in by less than 100k pensioners, at the same time, outside my office here in London we have a church that operates as a food bank! Tell me, who is being disingenuous at this stage? People who just cry democracy as Casus Belli to destroy their own city (heck even other people's countries), or would you rather try to look for the actual underlying problems? From what I've seen, democracy is certainly not doing a good job at that.

Brainwashed, yeah, I agree with Mark Twaine: If You Don’t Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed

That quote about the misinformed part is certainly true in the west (or at least the UK where I live).