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My partner and I are almost done with our dry December (the month was chosen for personal reasons). Each of us were technically overconsumers of alcohol (2 drinks a night on average) before this month. Throughout the month we’ve both gone through differing intensities of emotions as our minds and bodies adjusted to not drinking. Stress hormones and the dopamine system are affected by drinking, so perhaps we experienced some reversion back to normalcy in either or both. I read this article and my feelings align with everything written; my view on alcohol has changed, hopefully for good.

This is interesting. What is OWL?

Given that energy prices, which are a partial driver of inflation, are high and will certainly remain high through the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023 due to demand from cold weather and China coming back “online”, I really don’t see how the 2022/2023 predictions make sense. They may be solely focusing on how supply chain disruptions will cease soon, but that also implies increases in energy demand which will offset some of those supply improvements.

Yes. I changed my email as one does on occasion and, even after confirming with them that I changed my email, they froze my account with the requirement that I mail a copy of my SS card to their fraud dept. I immediately cancelled the card instead of dealing with the hassle. Their card offerings are not competitive so I do not have much incentive to use their credit again.

The most frustrating part was the fraud dept told me they froze my account _because_ I changed my email. Nothing to do with strange charges on the account.

Moreover, while tech valuations are way down, it’s not at all clear that employees have lost their leverage. The labor market remains extremely tight, and with stock prices depressed, big companies have been forced to compromise on planned office re-openings, allowing employees to work from home indefinitely, while agreeing to big salary increases.

This excerpt undermines the point of the article. Who cares that a bunch of VC’s and CEO’s think “woke employees” should be fired, when the reality is the labor market for these employees is as tight as ever. Trash writing.

I’ve removed snap and had absolutely no issues. My Ubuntu install now upgrades software in the same way as before snap became the default install method. This script seems comprehensive https://github.com/grobo021/snap-nuke

However, I do believe pretty deeply that every app has the potential to be much more powerful if it leverages the internet and I think the terminal is not an exception.

But that’s exactly it. A lot of people on here, including me, do not agree that _every_ app has that potential. In fact many believe that internet connected apps are unnecessary for many things. There is strong evidence against this if you just look at the number of “secure” systems that have been hacked over the decades. While you may capture a large audience with your internet-first terminal “app”, who honestly don’t care about this stuff while at work, you will get pushback from HN and somewhat+ privacy concerned devs.

It looks like you’re looking at a different chart, which is weird because they look like they’re from the same source. The tweeted pic of the chart shows -40% but the chart you linked never shows a value that low for the date mentioned.

This chart is insane. I wonder what combination of phenomena this data can be explained by?

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This has been the difficult bit for the ecosystem, and I think grasps at what GP is saying. For every competent dev/cryptographer in the space, there are 10(0) who are not because there’s so much money floating around. Those 10(0) may implement zk-class protocols incorrectly and end up in the same situation we see today. There is promise in but a ton of validation/maturation to do for zkrollups in the wild.

You’re assuming that 6.22tn is all from domestically produced base materials and therefore the correct denominator component for that 18.6bn number. I cannot find what base materials imports compose that number but I bet you it adds quite a few hundred basis points to your equality.

Just look at origin of packaging for most food items. They are often not the US, and shipping to/from external counties of origin isn’t economical.

Theoretically I think that’s possible. In a practical setting it is not since task arrival times are of a probability distribution; this means that utilization is not 100% and therefore queues do not grow to infinity. Given the author’s point about ~80% and above being bad, I imagine the immediate processing scenario to still be pathological.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30601286

I am using nuclear war in a literal sense, but I do see how my wording seems sensationalist given historical context.

Ok this is good to know, thanks for clarifying. While not nearly as bad as the two scenarios listed, spreading radioactive particles near a population center of civilians could be grounds to consider this a nuclear war, intentional or not. Not on the same scale as a deliberate nuclear attack of course.

I would argue that this is a near equivalence of nuclear war with Ukraine. A well-/mis-placed Russian artillery shell could cause a loss of reactor integrity and meltdown, no?

EDIT: according to child comments, a meltdown is unlikely/impossible, but spread of radioactive particles due to a direct strike is possible.

CapitalOne offered this feature too, which I used heavily. Then they _got rid of it_. Blows my mind, it was incredibly nice.

Yeah, this article seems like a pining for ye olden days of the industrial revolution rather than a substantive assessment of current innovation. I agree with some of the opinions stated, but holistically I don't buy what the article is selling.

It means that Gemini is not responsible for the GUSD coins you purchased, but if you have 1 GUSD coin you can exchange it for 1 USD up to the FDIC limit.

I was just going to comment with something similar, but more focused on the individual's inability to think creatively because they're just trying to survive on an increasingly inflated-away income. Poverty has a profound effect on creative thinking, and increasingly more of America creeps towards poverty. The author throws one sentence out there on this, then moves on to top-down excuses for lack of innovation.

Given what this expose says about institutional lending not being able to account for high ROI, how is Gemini Earn[0] able to offer up to 8% on GUSD and slightly less on other coins? Gemini is audited and says all GUSD Earn backing funds are FDIC insured up to 250k. Definitely concerning.

[0] https://www.gemini.com/earn

So the company can bring in outside execs without ousting one of the founders from a C-suite role.