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wampwamp··on Trump slaps tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China
A "super lab" that used "cartel" processes was discovered in Canada a few months ago with almost 100 million[0] lethal doses of Fentanyl. It was only 11 miles from the border. The group was linked to a Khalistani transnational crime network; the same group of people (Punjabis) have also taken over our trucking industry[1]. Our border is the longest undefended border in the world and Canada is now taking in more than 1.5 million people per year[2], not including the 5 million on 'temporary permits'[3], mostly from India and China[4] and mostly un-vetted[5]. They get H2B visas with their Canadian passports and can travel across the border with ease. 1 billion doses worth of precursor chemicals were found in the port of Vancouver over a period of just 3 months last year[6], all coming from China. Halting immigration and shutting off the precursor chemical supply from China via the port Vancouver is all my clown show of government had to do to avoid this trade war. Stopping the flow of these brutal new drugs will do more to save both our economies than any amount of 'USA owned' tar sand ever could.

[0] https://bc-cb.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=2087... [1] https://thecanadianbazaar.com/how-punjabis-came-to-dominate-... [2] https://www.meansandways.ca/news-articles/chart-of-the-day-c... [3] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/migrate/millions-of... [4] https://youtu.be/bg3psxZ_pRg?si=GLSJdquqF4WQgcNt&t=441 [5] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/terror-suspect-enter... [6] https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/enough-precursor-ch...

wampwamp··on Monday Was the Hottest Day Ever as Global Temperatures Rise
Yeah, but you would probably listen to a Neurologist about your lack of a foot problem if 99 out of 100 podiatrists told you 20 years ago that your perfectly healthy foot would fall off in 10 years if you didn't stop driving your car or you didn't pay them the money every day for the rest of your life.
wampwamp··on Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (2015)
The consequence would be vaccine makers are now gods on earth with the power of life and death.
wampwamp··on The world needs topsoil to grow 95% of its food – but it's rapidly disappearing
Hemp gives you all those things and grows extremely well hydroponically.
wampwamp··on Update on Taking Tesla Private (Elon Musk)
I believe they are planning on creating a holding company whose only business function is holding private Tesla stock. This makes it easy to crate a prospectus so that non-accredited investors can participate.
wampwamp··on Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
You’d just need an extended public key that gives unique addresses to buyers and a price API to provide rate conversions. Your private key can be offline or on a hard wallet. Also see btcpayserver for an open source bitpay clone that does what you are thinking and more
wampwamp··on Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
Yes, bitcoin transactions are 'known' and are represented by a unique hash; however, It's impossible to 'reject' an incoming bitcoin transaction. Miners can implement custom software that can exclude blacklisted transactions from their list of mineable transactions, but requiring all miners to blacklist an address or transaction would require a hard fork.
wampwamp··on Bitcoin is a Bubble
The risk/rate of inflation in cryptos is determined by the market's appetite for the fork/alt. Along with the even distribution of inflation (in the case of forks) vs the traditional "trickled-down" inflation makes it very different in practice.
wampwamp··on An $814M Mystery Near the Heart of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchange
The banking system can expand an initial deposit of $100 into a maximum of $1,000 at a 10% reserve ratio when subsequent loans are re-deposited. ($100+$90+81+$72.90+...=$1,000). This all gets counted as M1 money.
wampwamp··on Ask HN: Best tiny JavaScript framework?
https://voyager.cancoin.co/ is a bitcoin block explorer using Mithril with Websockets (and an Elixir/ZMQ backend). https://github.com/cancoin/bitcoin-voyager-web
wampwamp··on Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry
The article mentions "targeted electricity passed through the skull" as a possible treatment by "adjusting brain function". That seems a bit extreme to me, unless of course your condition is truly debilitating or causes you to become recklessly violent with noisy eaters.
wampwamp··on Ask HN: Kibana, Grafana, Chatbots, SMS – How do you keep an eye on your product?
For small apps I would use Monit to watch the server processes combined with CloudWatch to watch the servers themselves.

I would investigate the TICK stack (influxdb) before ELK. TICK is great for metrics that are not stored in log files. tail + awk should be enough for managing log files if you only have a few servers.

wampwamp··on Ask HN: Kibana, Grafana, Chatbots, SMS – How do you keep an eye on your product?
For log aggregation I use Elasticsearch + Logstash + Kibana. For statistics I use Influxdb + Telegraf + Grafana. For service alerts I use Consul + Consul Alerts. Notifications get sent to Pager Duty and/or Slack from one of Kibana, Grafana, or Consul.

The Grafana graphs are especially fun to watch and Kibana has a nice logentries-esque plugin for searching and tailing logs.

It's quite the system to setup but once it's running everything else (i.e. the rest of your app) is much more manageable.

wampwamp··on Redis 2.6 is near
My group are using Redis at a really big Canadian company. It's a 'VMware' database if they ever ask! Haha.
wampwamp··on Introducing NowJS or "How to make a chat server in 12 lines of code"
redis.publish(some_listener, payload)
wampwamp··on Are Visionaries Born or Created?
I'd say they are created (by their parents) and then born (in a hospital).