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Wow did you _have to_ get his mother involved?

tomcooks

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Defending against an APT is not the only use case for the machine. More importantly you singled out the top of the line model for your complaint. For that much money it better come with keyboard. Worried about APT? Save thousands and build your own ergodox to use with the novena.

dfc

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&gt; If literally Hitler produced an awesome tech framework and published it as open-source, I would still use it if it&#x27;s good and I would see no ethical problem with that either.<p>Okay, at this point I&#x27;m convinced that you are just trying to rationalize yourself out of the essence of this discussion.<p>Like I said elsewhere, open-source is not a one-way proposition. It benefits Facebook to a great extent.

amelius

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The post the author wrote goes more in depth than this. Per your analogy, it doesn&#x27;t quite explain if multiple people (cores) want to make a salad. For example, how does the tomato on the counter and refrigerator get allocated?

drwl

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I saw it here in NYC after the election - &quot;We&#x27;ll secede, and we&#x27;ll fight the other states if it comes to it.&quot; OK, good luck winning when no one owns guns, trucks, generators etc.<p>It&#x27;s a pipe dream. You can&#x27;t win a war with a bicycle and a baseball bat. Montana could probably win a war of secession, but this ain&#x27;t Montana.

JBReefer

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Does the king work, rely on inherited wealth, or receive money through taxes?

hashmymustache

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I thought I was the only one. Thanks for taking off a load of guilt. It&#x27;s okay to enjoy this stuff. Very sage comment. Never finish because of the fun of building.

737013

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MA and NY have major economies and plenty of legislative cooperation.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m

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For this particular attack - what if you do not have write access, but have sufficient social capital to get a pull request merged with a benign-seeming file?

azernik

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Is that really all the fault of Trump? Not being from the US, my impression was that traveling to the US has been an ordeal for quite a while now (maybe since 9&#x2F;11)? There were also famous cases of people dying, wasn&#x27;t there a taser incident and one (mentally disabled?) person being choked to death? There was even a Tom Hanks movie about a guy stuck at an airport indefinitely. All before Trump.

facepalm

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That only direct democracy is actual democracy, and the BS different &quot;types&quot; were only sold as such.

coldtea

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I love that this writer puts on no airs.<p>&gt;As far as defense goes—would you want to fuck with a country with the world’s best drones, robots, tech weapons, missile defense systems, and cyberattack abilities? No one would dare attack California.<p>Most people try to sound more important and qualified when discussing something so radical.

ygaf

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It sounds like the actual most dangerous problem was people financing homes on unsustainable lending terms, literally requiring the home value to go up so you could refinance before your ARM teaser rate expired.

mrgriscom

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More likely we&#x27;ll see more forms of non-dischargable consumer debt. This is debt which is not discharged when someone declares bankruptcy.<p>Every time you hear a politician advocating more student loans (rather than more affordable higher ed), one of the reasons they do this is because student loans are non-dischargeable.<p>Think about someone who is 18 and takes on lots of debt. There would be very little reason not to declare bankruptcy, and just live off of wages for 5-7 years until the bankruptcy is cleared from his&#x2F;her credit report.<p>With the housing crisis, most debtors also owned some equity in the house, which was a massive incentive not to foreclose, yet many still did.<p>But with consumer debt there is no downside. You can just choose not to pay it. The collections industry uses some marginally-illegal tactics to create personal embarrassment, but that&#x27;s where it ends.<p>With an auto loan the car can be repossessed, but you can pay your rent using a credit card or buy a new TV every few months and if you fail to pay back the debt nobody is going to force you to give up those items. As with education, once the money has been used nothing the creditor does can take away the item, which is why the debt had to be made non-dischargeable.<p>I think we can look forward to a new class of non-dischargeable consumer debt which will initially be sold via lower interest rates, but will become the sort of debt that college campus credit card pushers will mainly be slinging.<p>There is really no political opposition to this anymore, now that both parties are so strongly aligned with the finance industry.<p>I&#x27;d also expect to see the credit report become something somewhat more like a &quot;trust dossier&quot; that would routinely be viewed by employers and other entities we all work with who do not typically view the data, and would include things like TSA precheck status, IRS timely filing information, immigration status, etc.<p>There&#x27;s a reason debtors prisons used to exist, which is that the human optimism that can get us through great hardship can also tend to lead many humans to be overly optimistic about their ability to repay debt. It takes a very firm hand to create compliant borrowers. In the US, the older generation views missing a credit card payment as a really big (and embarrassing) deal, but the younger generation does not care as much about this.<p>The occupy movement was a backlash against the shackles of student debt, but was shut down relatively efficiently. The next iteration has fewer principled objectors but a lot more debt cynics who view consumer debt more as something to be exploited.

grandalf

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doesn&#x27;t work for me:<p>&lt; -h <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8080" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;127.0.0.1:8080</a> -c kubernetes-coreos&#x2F;pods&#x2F;redis.json create &#x2F;pods F0711 00:42:59.424059 03183 kubecfg.go:182] Got request error: Status: failure ( api.Status{JSONBase:api.JSONBase{Kind:&quot;&quot;, ID:&quot;&quot;, CreationTimestamp:&quot;&quot;, SelfLink: &quot;&quot;, ResourceVersion:0x0}, Status:&quot;failure&quot;, Details:&quot;failed to find fit for api. Pod{JSONBase:api.JSONBase{Kind:\&quot;\&quot;, ID:\&quot;redis\&quot;, CreationTimestamp:\&quot;\&quot;, SelfL ink:\&quot;\&quot;, ResourceVersion:0x0}, Labels:map[string]string{\&quot;name\&quot;:\&quot;redis\&quot;}, De siredState:api.PodState{Manifest:api.ContainerManifest{Version:\&quot;v1beta1\&quot;, ID:\ &quot;redis\&quot;, Volumes:[]api.Volume(nil), Containers:[]api.Container{api.Container{Na me:\&quot;redis\&quot;, Image:\&quot;dockerfile&#x2F;redis\&quot;, Command:[]string(nil), WorkingDir:\&quot;\&quot; , Ports:[]api.Port{api.Port{Name:\&quot;\&quot;, HostPort:6379, ContainerPort:6379, Protoc ol:\&quot;\&quot;, HostIP:\&quot;\&quot;}}, Env:[]api.EnvVar(nil), Memory:0, CPU:0, VolumeMounts:[]a pi.VolumeMount(nil), LivenessProbe:api.LivenessProbe{Enabled:false, Type:\&quot;\&quot;, H TTPGet:api.HTTPGetProbe{Path:\&quot;\&quot;, Port:\&quot;\&quot;, Host:\&quot;\&quot;}, InitialDelaySeconds:0} }}}, Status:\&quot;\&quot;, Host:\&quot;\&quot;, HostIP:\&quot;\&quot;, Info:api.PodInfo(nil)}, CurrentState:a pi.PodState{Manifest:api.ContainerManifest{Version:\&quot;\&quot;, ID:\&quot;\&quot;, Volumes:[]api. Volume(nil), Containers:[]api.Container(nil)}, Status:\&quot;\&quot;, Host:\&quot;\&quot;, HostIP:\&quot; \&quot;, Info:api.PodInfo(nil)}}&quot;, Code:500})

kohlerm

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<i>I think it credible that some people need stress in order to perform at a high level</i><p>How is that relevant? UBI doesn&#x27;t propose to eliminate jobs (even stressful ones), just make them non-compulsory.<p>If you&#x27;re saying that these people would simply not get a stressful job if they had UBI, hence they wouldn&#x27;t perform at an high level, what about if they currently choose a non-stressful job? Doesn&#x27;t your argument imply we should force people to take certain jobs, even against their will, so that they perform at an high level?<p><i>Presently Israel makes people train for the army for a year or two, which I believe is partially responsible for their high level of innovation.</i><p>There are 71 countries in the world with compulsory conscription, including Algeria, Austria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Colombia, Côte d&#x27;Ivoire, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Iran, Kuwait, Laos, Moldova, Mongolia, Norway, Paraguay, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.<p>Do you see them all as countries with high levels of innovation? Have you considered that the correlation may be spurious?<p><i>Having people just work together is a very difficult but necessarily task and I believe obtaining UBI should require that.</i><p>How do you account then for the existence of the Open Source community, a mostly voluntary collaboration between many thousands of inviduals often thought to be people with poor social skills? Not to mention all the volunteer-based non-profits, churches, events, etc?

icebraining

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A type of shared killfile might work, kind of like how some people or groups of people curate the lists of ad domains in ad blockers.

vageli

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You can save your debit&#x2F;credit card, just don&#x27;t save the CVV (if it is static). My debit card provider also has a feature to randomizes CVV every 5 minutes ie. for every purchase (I can enable or disable the feature). CVV is mandatory for online usage of debit&#x2F;credit card.<p>The same provider also give 25 IBANs per account. I could, for free, put 25 virtual debit cards on them, and have the IBANs empty unless I put money on it. Good luck scamming me this way. After all, the accounts are empty except for a few min when I put money on them to spend it.

Fnoord

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Yep - multiple representations, and interactivity, for the win. It is incumbent on the instructional designers and teachers to construct a process where the learner actually learns the concepts rather than learning processes and using computational resources to cover a lack of understanding.

AKluge

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IIUC it&#x27;s their own custom implementation of something a lot like Haskell, with the compiler implemented in Haskell.

dllthomas

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&gt; If I wanted to create an API to interact with a bank for my local city here in the U.S., do I call up a bank teller and ask me to connect me to someone who is interested in integrating their bank with the world?<p>I always wondered this, but when some minor crime seems to get heavily investigated by police. Seems like there are avenues to report something and have it taken seriously that just doesn’t exist for the general public calling the general number.

Scoundreller

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&gt; CDC, Nature, New Scientist, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet<p>None of these sources are trusted by the people who don&#x27;t want the vaccine.

throwawayboise

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Not from Python to Haskell but Thomas Leonard[1] has a very nice series of blog posts about migrating 0install away from Python to OCaml, of which many points also apply to Haskell which he evaluated as a choice as well.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;roscidus.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;choosing-a-python-replacement-for-0install&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;roscidus.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2013&#x2F;06&#x2F;09&#x2F;choosing-a-python-...</a>

LeonidasXIV

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The fact that they end up in ED is actually proof that girls act on their suicidal thoughts in non-effective ways. Boys who shoot themselves in the head, or jump from the window, or in front of the train, they don&#x27;t end up in ED, they go straight to the morque.<p>A girl would typically swallow some pills, and then call their best friend to say godbye, giving time and opportunity to help them.

988747

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&gt; However, it is indeed historically and factually a province of China.<p>It <i>was</i> a part of China.<p>But things change. The CCP took over the mainland but not Formosa, the rump state moved to Formosa, and these became two separate countries moving along different paths. Every year they grow farther and farther apart.<p>Now it&#x27;s an independent country with its own government, population, currency, military, flag, land, economy, institutions, foreign policy, citizenship, and culture. They have their own academic system, their own universities, their own borders, legal system, constitution, etc.<p>However this country can&#x27;t &quot;declare&quot; its own independence because of the threats of Chinese violence.<p>Well, that doesn&#x27;t change the fact that it&#x27;s a separate country. I may not &quot;declare&quot; that I am not a part of Roy Orbison&#x27;s family, but that doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m part of that family.<p>You don&#x27;t need to make a declaration of what is an obvious fact. You just go about your life with your own country and enjoy your freedom and prosperity. This will continue until China&#x27;s government collapses and the threat of violence against Taiwan is gone, or until no one cares whether a declaration is made or not because the holdouts that still think that China and Taiwan can possibly be the same country will be so laughed at that no one will take them seriously.

rsj_hn

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Oh my god who is driving this thing?

wussboy

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It is indeed completely and utterly unachievable.<p>&#x27;what can I do&#x27;?<p>The easy answer is to point to some of the myriad things one can do. Aviation has perhaps the biggest bang for the buck, easy to unilaterally give up and with quantifiable significant impacts. And yet, utterly insufficient by itself.<p>The hard answer is that we need to downsize our expectations by an order of magnitude.

angelzen

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My guess? Sooner rather than later. I think a LOT of things are going to come to a head sooner rather than later. Even those of us who make good money should be worrying about the direction things are going.

comeonseriously

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Why does the scanning code have to run on the device?<p>Why can&#x27;t it run in cloud only when a device tries to upload something.<p>Then users can just turn off using the cloud services and retain their naive notion that what&#x27;s on their phone is really private.<p>When are we doing to see a cloud service provider that matches iCould and other service providers but promises total anonimty

luckyorlame

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I still semi regularly bought Rebook shoes for R&#x27;n&#x27;R training. My SO and myself find them to be the perfect combination of stability, lightness and flexibility when doing rock and roll with acrobatics.

sdoering

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I think that&#x27;s exactly right.<p>If you run into traffic and get hit by a car, the conversation is about that, not &quot;under thinking&quot; because the impact is painful and obvious.<p>However, it&#x27;s more subtle for someone to notice that it takes you 30 minutes to cross the street because you&#x27;re way too cautious, and the impact of that (&quot;you could be doing a lot more with your life than standing here&quot;) is less obvious.

xyzelement

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My mousewheel doubles as a middle button, how about button-wheel scrolling?

cratermoon

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It&#x27;s not really any different if you keep in mind that foo is a <i>reference</i> here, and so that&#x27;s what const applies to. The equivalent in C++ would be a const pointer to a non-const object.

int_19h

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One thing that many Linux&#x2F;Unix users do not know is that all commonly used filesystems have a &quot;reserved&quot; amount of space to which only &quot;root&quot; can write. The typical format (mkfs) default is to leave 5% of the disk reserved. The reserved space can be modified (by root) any time, and it can be specified as a block count or a percentage.<p>As long as your application does not have root privileges, it will hit the wall when the free+reserved space runs out. Instead of the clumsy &quot;spacer.img&quot; solution, one could simply (temporarily) reduce the reserved space to quickly recover from a disk full condition.

anonymousisme

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The good thing is you only have to buy it once, and then you have unlimited amounts of art you can display.

xwdv

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Do you have a link? That might mean a set of different things, ranging from very hard to impossible; strictly speaking, this seems to go against Godel&#x27;s theorems tho there are standard workarounds.<p>I&#x27;m familiar with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.discourse.group&#x2F;t&#x2F;alpha-announcement-coq-is-a-lean-typechecker&#x2F;581" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coq.discourse.group&#x2F;t&#x2F;alpha-announcement-coq-is-a-le...</a>, which was just hard, but it does not prove Lean consistent, it only lets Coq process the Lean stdlib.

Blaisorblade0

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I've noticed that by creating visually appealing levels that are also random, you pretty much cannot avoid art fatigue.<p>Diablo 2 had pretty bland levels, so all the details of them, including how copy pasted they are, just get blurred together.<p>However, if you try to make everything look good, like in the Torchlight games, then you start noticing the world around you and with it all the repetition.<p>I don't feel like there's a good middle ground here, sadly.

lelandbatey

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Nice, however there is a much simpler solution that works for 99% of cases. [1]<p>Add a .gitattributes file to the root of your project with the following line:<p>*.pbxproj binary merge=union<p>Very occasionally you will get duplicate items but Xcode then warns you can take approbate action.<p>[1] I started using this approach a couple years ago after finding this:<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12909222/tell-git-to-treat-pbxproj-as-text" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;12909222&#x2F;tell-git-to-trea...</a>

andymoe

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The numbers aren&#x27;t suspect, the journalist just segued into a second topic without being clear.<p>The outage happened at the Pyeongtaek plant, which according to Wikipedia has capacity of 450,000 chips per month[1]. Making the maximum estimated damage only 13% of monthly production capacity, not 50%.<p>The Xi&#x27;an plant is a completely different plan, which is beginning an expansion at the end of the month that should add 200k&#x2F;month of additional capacity at that plant. Nifty fact, but not immediately relevant to the outage that happened.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...</a>

cosmie

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How is a disagreement about data protection principles anything to do with the banks?

timthorn

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ok , i found the answer , looks like it is JS&#x2F;HTML with chrome embedded. I hope it will run fast.

camus2

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Stimulants were indeed widely available, but by 1970 this was perceived as a major social problem, as documented in this (thoughtful) 1969 article: <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/48874/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nymag.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;features&#x2F;48874&#x2F;</a> In turn, you could follow the references back to the Japanese amphetamine epidemic of the mid-50s.

anigbrowl

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Both sides are unitless: sales is not in dollars but the number of sales.

jules

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If you&#x27;re just doing keyword matching, you&#x27;re best off building one of these first:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Inverted_index</a><p>As for the interview, I really wouldn&#x27;t sweat it. Even if you didn&#x27;t do well in the eyes of your interviewer, 1. there are several interviews that they are looking at, not just one, 2. people understand that folks get nervous and can screw things up sometimes, and that whiteboard (or google document) coding isn&#x27;t the best measure of intelligence. Because of this, they&#x27;re usually more interested in how you respond to feedback than the merits of your first attempt, and 3. there&#x27;s a lot of luck to any interview process - what questions get picked, etc. and even if you don&#x27;t do well I wouldn&#x27;t discourage you from trying again in the future.

dannypgh

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Does anyone know if it will be available for download later on? I dont have the bandwidth to watch live.

dhanush

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Hi Auston,<p>Email me (email in profile) and we&#x27;ll figure something out.<p>(Thanks for the great post.)

edw519

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Well, we&#x27;d have to poll the HN readership to make sure. However, do you really doubt that such a poll would result in anything better than, say, a 90&#x2F;10 split in favor of &quot;code means programming&quot;?<p>I mean, if you do doubt that, that&#x27;s fair enough. I just thought it was pretty obvious that <i>in this community</i> the word was used in a pretty restrictive way (thus the post complaining about it) and broader meanings were only found elsewhere.

mikeash

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I rather enjoyed "The Truth About Hacker news and Communists."<p>Apparently, "All persons claiming to suffer from hacker news are in fact shape-changing aliens."<p><a href="http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/hacker%20news/NDM1MTE" rel="nofollow">http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/hacker%20news/NDM1MTE</a>

morgante

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And another feature I like about ({ }) macros (anyone know the proper name here?) is you can return values. Clearly more useful in an example a bit more complex but...<p>#define ADD_ONE(a) ({ a + 1; })<p>x = ADD_ONE(2);

doug11235

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Nothing because these files won’t trigger a match.

zepto

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This appendix, along with the chapters that are except from &quot;The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism&quot;, are actually my favorite parts of 1984. I enjoyed how &quot;Principals of Newspeak&quot; is written in a past tense when describing the language and the events of year 1984, it feels like a glimmer of hope that somehow mankind did indeed escape the horrific dystopian world otherwise presented in the book.

dbattaglia

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Thanks for the info! Should be fixed. Chrome (somehow) handeled the media queries differently.

eliaskg

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You can’t compare a longitudinal study with a cross sectional study. This study doesn’t account for the time dependent decay of vaccines’ immunity. There is more than one dimension to optimize for.

acituan

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Probably not as clear cut as that. The OP study suggests that vaccines can be improved from learnings from natural immunity.<p>&gt; &quot;Overcoming the challenges to end the pandemic is accentuated by the recognition that SARS-CoV-2 can undergo rapid antigenic variation that may lower vaccine effectiveness in preventing new cases and progression to severe disease. Our findings show that most COVID-19 patients induce a wide-ranging immune defense against SARS-CoV-2 infection, encompassing antibodies and memory B cells recognizing both the RBD and other regions of the spike, broadly-specific and polyfunctional CD4+ T cells, and polyfunctional CD8+ T cells. The immune response to natural infection is likely to provide some degree of protective immunity even against SARS-CoV-2 variants because the CD4+ and CD8+ T cell epitopes will likely be conserved. Thus, vaccine induction of CD8+ T cells to more conserved antigens such as the nucleocapsid, rather than just to SARS-CoV-2 spike antigens, may add benefit to more rapid containment of infection as SARS-CoV-2 variants overtake the prevailing strains.&quot;

briefcomment

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&gt; Reed Elsevier and the other rent seekers<p>I don&#x27;t think your fundamental thesis of &quot;only Elsevier is blamed&quot; holds up to the post you replied to.

robertlagrant

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Yes. We know that it is based on the papers explaining how it works.

zepto

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Switch bank if that is so important to you.<p>I only use banks that provide access via ATM and Web, in addition to apps.

pjmlp

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Orwell was a leftist, but also opposed totalitarian societies. &quot;1984&quot; was a dystopia to expose such totalitarian societies. Unfortunately, much of what he described as a horror scenario in &quot;1984&quot; is already reality today, without people being bothered by it anymore.

Rochus

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Precisely. I just have a problem with them being hypocrite.

ksec

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TL;DR<p>Total trip time: 17h42m.<p>Driving time: 11h18m (64% of the total trip time).<p>Charging time: 6h24m (36% of the total trip time).

dgudkov

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<a href="http://arclanguage.org/" rel="nofollow">http://arclanguage.org/</a>

rms

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For those unfamiliar with Carl Malamud, he's a national treasure cataloging and open-sourcing the nation's legal codes, government videos, legal filings and other public documents.<p>He had Aaron's back many times, including when the FBI was investigating the Pacer liberation. If you want to support the kind of work that Aaron believed in, resource.org takes donations in many denominations.

rsingel

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"...people started consuming a lot more."

chrisfromto

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A few of the other projects that people are working on: GitHub for Mac, GitHub for Windows, libgit2, internal tools, ops, Gist, Git

bkbleikamp

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Awesome feature requests - I've since added them both!

philipbjorge

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Half of our team members work remotely from home, in other parts of the world from our main base in Melbourne.<p>And we encourage our team members to travel as much as possible, working remotely from anywhere in the world.

tomhoward

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There's plenty of that at large companies too.

zeroonetwothree

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&#62; You can't get San Francisco running efficiently, because that would require large numbers of unionized city workers to willingly admit their redundancy and wastefulness. Inefficiency pays their salaries.<p>I predict we will all have this problem before too long. Every time you hear a politician talk about "creating jobs", this is what they are talking about: work as welfare. Gotta right to live, gotta work to live, so you gotta right to work-- never mind if, by working, you're actually damaging the economy.<p>Right now it's only a few obsolete unions and they sound crazy, but the robots will come for all of us eventually. We need to start working yesterday on a society that can conceive of supporting even those who contribute nothing, or I fear that the era of free food will see us all starve to death.

Cushman

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No, he's not. He's addressing one of the premises commonly used when making the inequality argument, that middle class wages have stagnated since roughly the 70s. Nothing more, nothing less.

chrisfromto

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How do you count 4? The 13 and 16 will be phased out as old models and the 14&#x2F;16 will remain. Then there&#x27;s the MBA.<p>So 3 models, with 2 of them being &#x27;Pro&#x27;.

eberkund

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That&#x27;s why there are new H1B&#x27;s each year, and its not a one time thing -- to have a continuous flow of additional supply to depress labor prices.

dragonwriter

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&#62; traditional syntaxes are a way of representing an AST in text,<p>Actually, no. They're a way of unambiguously representing said AST. The just happen to be a lousy way of doing so. Let's see why.<p>&#62; and commonly considered to be "better" by the particular language's adherents<p>Interestingly enough, almost none of those adherents actually know their favorite language's syntax.<p>Why do I say that? Because very few people know the full precedence of expressions. So, they break expressions in unnecessary places and/or add redundant parentheses.<p>And, the few folks who actually do know their language's syntax know better than to actually use that syntax because they know that the person reading their code doesn't know it, so they, the experts, are forced to over-parenthesize.<p>&#62; What representation is "better" really boils down to taste and opinion.<p>And then there's the problem of manipulating said AST. To do so for a traditional language requires a parser and a bunch of datastructures, which every project reimplements. Everything that you need for lisp is built-in.<p>And then there's the fact that Lisp's AST macro processing is built into the language processing scheme.<p>&#62; Sure, you don't get to apply proper macros, but Java/Ruby/etc. programmers don't care about that.<p>The C programmers care, but they're used to being abused by C's macro system.

anamax

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Too bad I'm leaving SF on Wednesday... I think annotations are really cool.

steveklabnik

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We've been here before:<p><a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2208562130" rel="nofollow">http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2208562130</a>

jacquesm

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In fact, a lot of New Scientist online articles have this problem. I've stopped clicking.

mturmon

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I've lost interest in their API since they've implemented those ridiculous display requirements. After Facebook's and Twitter's recent changes I've become completely disillusioned about what the use of third party API's entail, especially social media. I don't blame them for looking after their self-interest, well at least not Twitter, but working with social media API's no longer seem fun or interesting. They seem like too much take and not enough give. It's clear they want ownership and control, and the only innovation they want is the kind they can directly benefit from. Again, nothing wrong with that, just not going to be their fucking lap dog.

apphacker

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Zuck.

siglesias

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Excuse my lack of C knowledge, but using your proposed macro, what would be the result of calling:<p><pre><code> MYMACRO(x,y,x+y) </code></pre> with your inclusion of typeof()?

greyboy

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Can you rephrase that to include the words "disproportionate effort" so it gives the illusion of being relevant?

tedunangst

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I don't think that that is true, at least not for Common Lisp.<p>How do you express any of the following constructs using only parentheses and symbols?<p>#:foo #.(foo) #+ FOO (bar) #- FOO (baz)<p>For the original Lisp, parentheses and symbols were all that was necessary. For more recent derivatives, that is not necessarily the case.

ekiru

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I think you&#x27;re missing my point.<p>First, I think &quot;benign commercial interests&quot; are not. At least not at that scale. Lobbying proves the point. Tech&#x2F;media is not even the big example. Military industry, banking, mining and healthcare are all far more intertwined with government. Their most important activity is lobbying. That said, tech lobbying still pretty big and the combination of lobbying and controlling a media powerhouse is worse than just lobbying.<p>More importantly, Facebook (etc), being a massive media channel has lots of power and influence just by being facebook. Again, commercial interests aren&#x27;t necessarily benign.<p>FB might tweak the feed to make sure covid-19 rumour mills or deliberate misinformation campaigns don&#x27;t get out of hand. That might be a good decision (or not), but it isn&#x27;t a benign decision. It demonstrates that commercial interests, feeds and such are not neutral. They are deliberate, opinionated and that opinion affects reality.<p>There are two questions that the tiktok case brings up: &quot;how much power?&quot; and &quot;who&#x27;s power.&quot; Zuck isn&#x27;t as scary as Xi, hence the different response to tiktok. OTOH, Facebook have the same sort of power as tiktok, just a lot more of it.

netcan

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Buying a boat was the worst financial decision I ever made in my life. I now own three of them.

opwieurposiu

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The irony is inherent in the ideology. This is just one of many examples of that irony on full public display, cannibalizing itself.

banads

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Or it backfires when people realize their newly purchased, expensive car doesn&#x27;t do what they thought it could do. Tesla is not managing expectations well.

xinsight

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Also, it&#x27;s only cash transactions that are rounded. If you pay by debit or credit (which I would guess is the majority?) then it&#x27;s still the exact amount and nothing has changed.

lovegoblin

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So who is Apple then

lihaciudaniel

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We can start with DNS ANY queries. Cloudflare lied their way through this whole process, with the claim that CF were just following standards, when in fact it was exactly the opposite: Not conforming to the standard while simultaneously pushing through draft changes to the standard in order to support CF&#x27;s business decision. I&#x27;m a trusting guy, and took CF&#x27;s claims of championing privacy to heart, but this move completely blew that out of the water. Nowadays, I genuinely wonder sometimes how long until someone blows the whistle and it turns out CF is building dossiers just like Google, and renting out access to governments and law enforcement and adtech, shoveling even more crap onto the pile.

fapjacks

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But everything else is not actually confidential... Confidentiality means limited visibility, when you process your data, the memory is in clear without this tech, or Intel SGX that offer confidentiality and integrity.

nellydpa

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I guess I was grading on a curve when I said &quot;very secure&quot;.

om2

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That presumes that the negative comments are always the ones derailing the discussion. For example:<p>&quot;I think these questions at IAC are great, it&#x27;s good that people get a chance to &lt;self promote thing&gt; at a technical conference&quot;<p>&quot;Wtf is with these stupid questions at IAC? They should be asking about &lt;fascinating technical detail&gt;&quot;

martindevans

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@sometime_soon: a. finish parser for action oriented command interface b. provide generalized web accessible datastore for said CLI<p>@(wednesday 5-6pm PDT): this hour for sale to highest bidder<p>@eventually: a. profit

olefoo

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Having a sustainable transport scheme is a necessity in moving to Mars. I don&#x27;t think anyone is naive enough to think that in practice transport is the hardest problem. But it&#x27;s psychologically important - without transport there is nowhere to go. Either we become multiplanetary or not - I don&#x27;t know - but if we become multiplanetary then transport is a necessary step. Building the transport scheme from economically self sustaining processes is only for the better for the robustness of it.<p>The fact that something is marketed does not diminish the utility of a thing.

fsloth

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Perfect for my new HackMUD habit!

poisonarena

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Underwater colonies are more viable and habitable than mars.

yolesaber

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Bike shedding.

HeavyStorm

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I fully understand the complaint. I also understand that this is not up to you to decide.<p>It is <i>not</i> up to <i>you</i> to decide other people&#x27;s and teams&#x27; workflows. It is <i>not</i> up to you to decide what is or isn&#x27;t harmful in the context of another team. And it is <i>certainly not</i> up to you to decide that GitHub shouldn&#x27;t provide features their paying customers are asking for, because of concerns of a completely different context and workflow.<p>I appreciate that you are more than familiar with git, but that doesn&#x27;t give you free reign to decide what is and isn&#x27;t an antipattern <i>for other people</i>. In fact, you should understand far better than the average HN user just how absurd your reasoning is if you&#x27;d step back from it a little.<p>What you call antipattern, a lot of people call feature. If GitHub now clashes with you on a philosophical level, consider moving to GitLab (oh, wait, GL has supported this and far worse for a far longer time).<p>The developers using rebase flows do not affect your life. They do not affect your work. They, and their &quot;antipatterns&quot;, are as harmful to you as an iOS user is to an Android one. And your merge flow does not affect me. What <i>does</i> affect me is reading constant unwarranted negativity on Hacker News, a community where my expectations have so far been above those of reddit&#x27;s unending stream of cynicism. And it bugs me far, far more that this has been your reaction to a company listening to its customer base, than you or I could ever care about deciding what flow is or isn&#x27;t an antipattern.<p>Bloody hell.

scrollaway

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&gt; It has been really difficult to come up with questions that don&#x27;t end up turning into &quot;guess my magic answer&quot;.<p>Yeah, that&#x27;s a really hard thing to do. I try to think of many solutions to the problem I&#x27;m giving ahead of time, but that takes a lot of time and I know I&#x27;m not going get each one.

DashRattlesnake

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Feel free to explain it to me, as I consider people to be individual actors who are not subject to mental control

oldmanjay

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I&#x27;m not sure I&#x27;d say most anymore. Ten years ago that was the case, but not anymore. People are just use to the idea of CVTs.<p>A few have the option for virtual gears or a manual shift mode, but default to normal CVT behavior. But there are several that have no option for shifting beyond normal and &quot;low&quot; gearing for engine braking, just like traditional automatics.

mywittyname

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In Golang you can spawn a green thread on any function call with a single keyword: `go&#x27;.<p>The ergonomics are such that it&#x27;s not difficult to use.<p>Why can&#x27;t or shouldn&#x27;t we have a mechanism comparably fantastic and easy to use in Python?

metadat

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