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The degree of ideological doublethink here is bizarre. As far as I can tell:

- Crypto is good

- Fiat currency is bad

- Except the US dollar, which is good

- So US-dollar backed stablecoins are also good

- But we can't have the Fed operate a stablecoin, that would be bad

CBDC = Central Bank Digital Currency. Can we edit the title accordingly?

I've spoken on the phone with humans in Google support. (You, too, can do this, just pay them enough.) However, they called me after I filed a support case and specifically requested a call, and they started off by mentioning the number of the case I had filed.

If you ever get a cold call from "Google Support", it's basically guaranteed to be a scam.

Previously on HN: "Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid"

475 points, 845 comments, 42 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41996156

Fiber was not killed in the cities where it had already launched. What's new is that they're expanding again.

Any examples you'd care to point out? All the high-profile Google shutdowns I can think of either failed in the marketplace (Stadia, Plus) or were successful but not making money (Reader, Hangouts).

> Stay within the cloud provider's ecosystem as much as possible, including for domain registration and DNS

Alas, if you follow this advice to mitigate this particular risk, you're completely hosed if your cloud account gets taken down or compromised. Which is why the standard advice is to do exactly the opposite and make sure your domains and DNS are separate from your cloud provider.

North Korea was the rich, industrialized half of the country, South Korea was poorer and extensively damaged by the Korean War. The fact that the South is now 10x richer and way better on any measurable metric tells you all you need to know about how well Juche and the Kims are working for the North.

Vaclav Havel has a few things to say about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless

Then plug in another AI that maps the cartoons back to deepfakes of the original players, and the circle of life is complete.

Or, you know, stop building in places that are pretty much guaranteed to be destroyed.

The Rolling Stone article claims that insurance companies are currently not required to disclose their math, and are fighting tooth and nail against being required to share it.

This article presents a very interesting contrast to the article and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42732728, which basically asserts that insurance companies are not to blame and some places are actually becoming uninsurable.

Maybe, just maybe, it's possible that some places are becoming too expensive to insure and insurance companies are exploiting every loophole they can to maximize their profits?

As the 173 million strong population of Bangladesh can attest, they can and do live in such places.

"Each year, on average, 31,000 square kilometres (12,000 sq mi) (around 21% of the country) is flooded. During severe floods the affected area may exceed two-thirds of the country, as was seen in 1998."

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

Most of the world does not want to aspire to be Bangladesh, but humans have been living in extremely disaster-prone areas for millennia because the short-term benefits (rich soil etc) outweigh the occasional catastrophic losses.

The last one is stage separation, not an explosion. You can clearly see the "exploded" rocket continuing to fly afterwards.

Google has been extremely clear that Workspace/Cloud customer data is firewalled off and never fed back into the machine. If you're claiming this has changed, can you point me to the source?

That would absolutely happen if China invaded Taiwan and the US stood by twiddling its fingers.

Remember, Sweden and Finland were staunchly against NATO membership until Russia invaded Ukraine.

Yes? North Korea's own nuclear capability is very limited, and China doesn't care enough about North Korea to use its own arsenal and risk nuclear annihilation.

I still wouldn't want to be in Seoul or Tokyo if that happens though, and yes, there's a non-zero risk somebody somewhere gets trigger happy and things spiral out of control.

There's one important factor this experiment is not controlling for: inventory. If user A gets deep enough into the purchase flow, the hotel will place a hold on their room for 10 or so minutes, and that room will not be available when user B does a search. If pricing is dynamic, and for these hotels it obviously is, user B may well be shown a higher price regardless of geography.

This applies even if the experimenter is not going any further than checking top level prices, because other people are booking actual hotels and thus impacting prices all the time.

Fun fact: there was a cafe at the Parkes visitor centre, inevitably called "The Dish".

https://maps.app.goo.gl/xe5Udu4HPkrt7hqL6

Interestingly enough, the Fukushima exclusion zone has roads that pretty much fit the bill. They're the pink lines on this map (PDF), with the exclusion zone in gray:

https://www.meti.go.jp/english/earthquake/nuclear/roadmap/pd...

You are permitted to drive through but not stop or get out of your car. I presume ordinary speed limits apply though, so no exciting post-apocalyptic signage.

Would you have a source for this?

Good luck getting commie blocks pushed through planning approvals today. NIMBYs in general are violently against any kind of public housing.

Sleeping rough has always been rare in Finland for the simple reason that it gets down to -20 quite often in winter. Freezing to death is not an uncommon fate for alcoholics.

Nuclear fuel is needed only in comparatively tiny quantities and can be sourced from friendly suppliers like Australia.

All that verbiage about robotaxis and not a single mention about China, which by all accounts is well ahead of the US in deploying them out on the road. (With a distinctly mixed track record, it must be said, but still.)

Creating software is an economically profitable activity that many people are willing to pay top dollar for. Throwing a disc really far by hand, not so much.

That said, the "hobby" angle is irrelevant here. As the article points out, the IOC makes an absolute fuckton of money from Olympic broadcast rights and sponsors, essentially none of which flows back to the actual athletes.

> Brands are doing what they can to lift the appeal of alcohol-free alternatives.

In Indonesia and India, public alcohol advertising is basically banned, so for decades you've seen huge outdoor ads for Bintang Zero (which is terrible) and Kingfisher Water (same logo as the beer) for the sole purpose of circumventing these laws.