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You were incorrect. Your daughter said “The W.H.O.” where as you only said “Who”

I hope this leads to a fiery death. Thin client architecture leads to even more loss of control for the individual user.

> These fires, and the climate change that has delivered them to us, deserves an urgent, determined, long-term response with all the tools we have.

These fires were delivered to you by arsonists, not climate change. I'm not a climate denier, but this is akin to blaming everything on a lack of penance to a vengeful God.

We don't know the mortality rate, because you can't trust anything coming from China's government. It takes a certain amount of time for the virus to kill and that time hasn't passed yet.

A disease that makes you cough up blood, is highly mutable and can be spread for 2 weeks prior to experiencing symptoms is not to be dismissed as just the same as a flu.

Depends if you're sleeping or not

Nothing new here, same complaints as in 2011. I know people think there is a time limit for cryptocurrency to establish itself, but there is literally nothing else happening in finance.

Don't trust China's government figures.

They have actually done the exact opposite. They knew about this way back in December, the numbers they report are wauly understated and they have even arrested reporters and made them delete their footage.

China is all about showing a good image to the rest of the world and their own population, and this outbreak goes in the face of that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5XkhUKMDM

There is also a newly opened medical research facility that investigates pathogens in Wuhan. It's possible the virus escaped.

A somewhat more in depth article here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rabbani-guantana...

Regardless of what this article says, I'd stay away from the Red Cross: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/16/482020436/senators-report-fin...

Drones picking up trash would be cool, but maybe infeasible.

Is that what's going on, wealth extraction from the poor? Because it seems to me that poor people today are taking more out of the system than putting into it.

Then you admit income inequality isn't what is important here. but absolute quality of life.

Then you admit income inequality isn't what is important here. but absolute quality of life.

If your life is also becoming easier and more comfortable as well, how does income inequality affect it?

The problem isn't the total cost, it's the reporting requirements. Who wants to look up and record the fair market value of bitcoin and then calculate gains every time they use it to buy a coffee?

Avoiding tax illegally, which not reporting income would imply, is what some people do. Not only millionaires and not all millionaires do this.

This hasn't been touched since 2012: https://code.google.com/archive/p/nix-os/source/default/comm...

Don't confuse this with the excellent NixOS: http://nixos.org/

Put relevant coursework at the bottom or, better, get rid of it entirely. It's already understood you've taken classes relevant to your field of study, and no employer is going to base whether to hire you or not based on which specific classes you took. Your internships are most important and it should look like what you value the most. This makes it seem as if you are excited about working and felt you did good while working.

As far as projects, they're all school homework assignments, right? I'd get rid of all them except the ones you really are proud of, and if possible have a link to the source code on the resume. Otherwise it looks like your desperately padding.

It's alright to have a short resume. If you are straight out of college, it's expected, and some employers prefer younger, less experienced workers because they are more likely to do what their told. What isn't cool, though, is to try and make it look like you have more experience then you do, and then when someone reads your resume more closely, they discover that you've been trying to look like something you're not.

> True, but once you've pegged the currency to gold, it can't fluctuate very far from the price of gold.

I think this depends on what your definition of backed means. If you include the government not just buying the currency for a given amount of gold, but also selling the currency for the same amount of gold, I agree.

But, otherwise, if the government guarantees it will only buy the currency for gold and not vice versa, then I disagree. For example, I could state tomorrow that I will guarantee to give anyone 1 oz. of gold is they give me $100 trillion in USD, and then technically USD would be backed by gold (by me), but such an offer would have no real effect on the how the market would value USD.

I might be wrong about what backed means, but if so, then I also don't understand what is meant by partially backed.

The difference is, when you go to the gold standard, how much gold you acquire to support the currency.

After that, they are the same (but keep in mind, the value of a currency is dependent on a lot of factors, and not just the gold that is backing it. Otherwise currencies backed by nothing would all be worth nothing, which we know isn't true).

Well, there are algorithms that support perfect forward security.... but nah

Just now?

What a momentous achievement of finding so many qualified females!

Hi, welcome! Snacks are on the right, bathroom is on the left.

But then if just one of your friend's private key is stolen, you lose control of everything you wrote, past or present.

From what I can see online, there are only around 8000 reported drug users out of a population of 7 million or 0.1 %. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.0045...

The actual number is probably higher, but doesn't compare to the USA with 24 million drug abusers out of a population of 331 million or 7.25%. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/nationwide-...

Where are you getting your information from that it is a problem in Hong Kong?

Asia has had tons of poverty and trauma for a lot longer than the USA even existed.

And if its slavery, then why are European cities the same way?

She interviewed the owner of the bar, and then listed out 5 other places in the local area where high quality non-alcoholic beverages are served. It's neither lazy nor pandering nor "wish fulfillment for prudes". It's just true. What's your problem, man?