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How many arrests does it take to chill free speech?

Push it! I can happily pick up the torch on everything except the PCB design.

I wonder how many different federal and state bureaucracies govern the manufacture & operation of commercial aircraft. All it would take is for one of them to require senior leader…

Two nodes, and either two edges with one arrow each, or one edge with two arrows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's the hypothetical half of the equation. The tangible, measurable half is how many people the FDA has killed by denying access to life-saving treatments. A number of studies[0…

Indeed. Never mind the fact that all transactions take place on an immutable public ledger that’s available forever…

> The drop in price has a great deal to do with improving technology not simply competition driving down prices And this improved technology was an inevitable, foregone conclusion?…

Sure, but the point is, a halfway decent type system will eliminate whole classes of errors—consequently eliminating whole swaths of things you would ever need to write tests for. …

For whatever it's worth to you, I don't think of myself as easily impressed. I saw Ted give that demo at a small conference around 10 years ago. I was impressed. Whatever part you …

> I've worked at a number of financial institutions including two banks. I spent 5 years in fintech and touched over a dozen financial institutions. You're not thinking creatively …

Things this article fails to address: 1) That AML creates a massive honeypot of data for hackers, housed at institutions which historically have structural challenges with technolo…

This is Hacker News. Please keep your religion out of the comments.

This is the blog post I want to read. What’s your setup for that?

It’s germane in the sense that what you’re arguing against is a rounding error by comparison, consequently, not a material argument against cash-based money laundering in any meani…

The real cop-out is that HSBC and friends launder more money for terrorists and human traffickers on a bad day than your typical local racket does in a year, and they only ever rec…

The answer is simple: identity. Insecurity comes when we find our identity in our work and our ability to do it—but our value as people does not and could never derive from it. Thi…

On the other hand, 150k is an astronomical sum for most people on the planet—and no one is being forced into accepting that as a market rate, or even living in a high-rent city, pa…

Yeah, I like this and other similar suggestions. Either generic task-related icons, or if you're going to personify them in some way, use bots or something similar. Some friends ru…

I was ready to install it when I clicked the link, until I saw the persona thing. Feels super bizarre and it's a huge turn-off. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

> One of the main roles of government is to step in where markets fail. Because that's worked out great so far? In every case I can think of, the government (usually because it's a…

It's not you. K8s' design is terrible: the combinatorial explosion of nouns to learn is specifically because the abstractions are bad. It's quintessential of an industry that self-…

> I should know — it's been my livelihood since I graduated from college in late 2019. Yeah... no comment.

The real mind-hack is that people believe it's exclusively one or the other, and argue vociferously against the other side. George Orwell once wrote of the Spanish Civil War: "Earl…

So, that's accurate, but doesn't correspond to the situation. At all. 'Escape hatches' are definitionally exceptions to the rules, whereas effects in React are standard practice.

Yes—and for many reasons, of which this is a teardrop in the ocean.