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>> Losing my mask and panicking while diving has always been a concern of mine.

That's one of those things that take me by surprise when I discuss peoples' relation with the sea. I never thought there was a problem with having your eyes open underwater. I'm Greek and I've spent a lot of time in the sea when I was young, so I must have just gotten used to it.

Mind you, my eyes still get red but I don't actually feel them stinging or experience anything unpleasant.

I can totally understand being worried about panicking in the sea, though, especially if you're diving. I snorkel, and even so, when I go under it's always in the back of my mind that anything can go wrong and I need to keep my wits about me at all times. I've been close to drowning twice too, so yeah. Need to be careful.

The sea is not your friend :)
So this program is like having some insufferable pedants arguing over your language? Great!

Does it accept 'nearly unique' ?
"It [is] fallacious to assume that only the cost of R&D is reflected in the price of a drug. The hidden cost of marketing is a great contributor to figures quoted."

https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/ip/resources/ip_dissertations/200...
Maybe excess of immature and foolish yields too many opportunities for violent events to happen ?
"When you click the icon, you aren't thinking "I want to turn the icon into a big X." Instead, you're thinking "I want to see the menu.""

Bingo. I clicked through all of them, wondering why there is a need for so many different animations showing that the hamburger menu is disabled/inactive.
War is always connected to money... here is an example..

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/allwarsarebankerwa...
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> voting is secret - I think everyone's voting record should be made public! How would this be a bad thing?

Unnamed rich hopeful approaches a load of people and tells them (s)he will pay them $AMOUNT if they vote for him/her. If the voting is not secret, then the said rich hopeful can verify who actually voted his/her way, and who to pay. Likewise, a random thug can politely offer to break the legs of someone if they do not vote his/her way. If the voting is secret, it removes the ability to pay someone to vote a particular way, or use threats or coercion.
I took a Russian duolingo course, it was surprisingly thorough and well made. It teaches you the alphabet, basic phrases and a decent amount of grammar (verbs, tenses, prefixes), colloquial, etcetera. More than enough to get by in daily life, strike up a conversation and read some literature.

The website is very user-friendly, and the app has been designed specifically for mobile screens, so a lot less typing, and a lot more swiping.

It feels like a paid app, and I can't think of anything that comes close in value. If I were the CEO of RS I'd lose a lot of sleep over duolingo...
That's cool but it sounds like this tool is way oversold. It namedrops DFW and other great authors then shows examples of it correcting spacing and "brb." This isn't stylistic revising that takes you closer to those writers, it's just simple corrections.
> - voting is secret - I think everyone's voting record should be made public! How would this be a bad thing?

Speaking as someone who was born and raised in a country that as only known democracy for the last 42 years, making voting not secret is not an option. Maintaining the vote secret protects the electorate.
I will note that these conclusions are neither mundane nor universally correct. They certainly fit in with certain ideology which Hacker News and the startup scene like, but I could never lead a fulfilling life without the input and love of others and, equally, my devotion to them - and I am not solely talking about family and romantic partners.

On the other hand, there are indeed certain things which are my domain alone. But if I fulfilled these - had a house, a dream job, security of income - I would still be unhappy without others around me, which is not under my control, nor should it be.
> The problem is not limited to this article. For example in the Windows demo-scene world, it's trivial to do 4k/64k demos by using all the DirectX libraries available in the OS. So that the size of the actual demo is completely relevant since you benefit from massive system libraries.

But all developers still have the same size limit and access to the same apis. Which means that creative competition is totally possible.
I've spent a lot of time in the see also but I always had blurry vision underwater. I've always preferred to use a mask when I could.

Maybe it's just something you need to be aware of culturally, to even attempt it?
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> A meaningful discussion cannot be had if you are only allowed to speak negatively of a subject.

I agree censorship of ideas or opinions is a bad thing, but if what he says is true, that the sub was being essentially rendered unusable by sockpuppeting, trolling, organized downvoting (which is also censorship, BTW) or other abuse, then what option is there but to clean it up? This is not a specific /r/bitcoin point, it's something that dates back to Usenet times, and applies to every forum since.

I don't know who is telling the (most) truth here, I have no idea, because I don't read that group and don't really follow Bitcoin (or even Reddit), but I do think it's fairly absurd that Bitcoin (a supposedly democratic, decentralized technology that nobody owns) has always had what are essentially a handful of very powerful 'official' channels and representatives, with enormous influence, and AIUI major forums, including /r/bitcoin and BitcoinTalk, are actually owned by one single person (perhaps the parent of your post).

But nobody in Bitcoinland seemed to care that much about such "dictatorships" before.
Uber and airbnb are doing absolutely fine in my impression! ;-)
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> And war is VERY anti-capitalist.

Is that true? I think in many case war helps a small group of capitalist people to get richer. Especially the ones that know the war is coming.

I'd like to twist your statement: war is VERY anti free-market.

But then I think free-market is something that capitalists are much in favor of when it helps them, and much against when it limits them.

Note: I understand capitalists in the Marxist sense of the work, they do not need to labor (sell work-hours for money) as they can make money with their money.
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On the other hand, [creationism is taught in (some) schools](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016...) and there are vast parts of the country with [little or no access to reproductive health clinics](https://www.facebook.com/nationalabortionfederation/posts/12...).
There is a difference. You are lumping many aspects of starting a business into the marketing category. Identifying a market? That's one of the first things you do when you start a company. It's finding a group of people to market a product to. If that's marketing, then almost all aspects of a business are marketing.
It's a good thing then that most people don't use it in its technical sense

An easy fix for this not problem is to use distinct instead of unique
What's the status on the Yo app?
Is it making money? Still able to raise money?

I'm very curious because the founder wrote some articles on growth hacking, but I can only see Yo as a fad and not a real business that will survive.
> If you don't have an informed vote, perhaps you should simply not vote at all ?

This is an idea I've been toying with. Whenever an election rolls around, I keep hearing people say things like "I don't care who you vote for, just vote." "People died for your right to vote." "The problem today is that people don't vote."

But I wonder whether the problem is that too many people vote. And mostly they don't do actual research, so they vote based on whatever's trickled down to them through the media they consume. This gives an advantage to whichever side can make itself sound most attractive in soundbites, which seems suboptimal.
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C# has out if I remember correctly. Haven't used it in months (C# that is) but it pretty much does the job as far as I've used it.
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Which sort of logic? I'm not defending that only pharma companies should do R&D, I'm defending that we shouldn't restrict R&D to government.

And on your point, do governments distort science less than business?
The problem with deconstructing a tuple is that you can easily make mistake about the order of its members. The struct is a much better solution to me, and you can go over the problem of the weirdly named one-off struct by using the iod library (https://github.com/matt-42/iod):

foo() { return D(_id = "test", _age = "42" }; }

auto r = foo();
std::cout << r.id << r.age << std::endl;
We test that every day: People get their oxycodone prescription etc. taken away.

Today this is one of the most substantial gateways to heroin use. A proportion of those who have their opoid prescriptions taken away turn to buying more on the black market. High black market prices for drugs like oxycodone lead people to try heroin.
I'm not sure exactly what you're saying, but it does matter if others are paying $20 for the same or similar coffee maker — it tells me I've been taken advantage of, wasting money that could have been used in better ways.
You are clearly misrepresenting the author. The second part of the article starts with a concession that democracy is beneficial despite the lack of consent. He is arguing that the non-consensual nature of government suggests limited local government is preferable to needlessly invasive global government. Here's a relevant snippet:

> Nonconsensual government must be subject to a substantial burden of proof when it exercises coercive authority, and it may often fail to meet it. The nonconsensual nature of most government policies also strengthens the case for devolving power to regional and local authorities in order to increase the number of issues on which citizens can “vote with their feet” and thereby exercise at least some degree of meaningful consent.
I cannot agree more with the article.

When I see a enter you email field, the first thing I think is "God, do I really want to receive more spam?".

When it is a enter your password field "God, I need to store somewhere this password so I don't forget it, and I can't give them a common password as these guys will almost certainly leak it".

And when it is enter my credit card details, I find myself almost never buying from a website I do not know if I can't checkout with paypal.
Look, even without the block size issue, the infighting is a problem.
It's not perfect.

We get a booklet explaining the voting issue at hand, things are also discussed in the media and on political parties websites.

If it's a referendum then both the referendum people and the government get pages to explain their point of view. If the government disagrees they often use scary words to make people vote against it.

If it's a constitution change you see the diff. Like any diff it's not always obvious how it inscribes itself in the bigger picture. The constitution is much larger than the us-one as it includes all sorts of things.

At the end of the booklet you also get to see what each political party (10-15 of them) would vote.

People use all of these sources to take a decision, putting different weights on different things. I think a lot of people just defer to what their preferred party recommends.
I never assumed that, but someone has to pay for the cost of R&D, please explain who would pay the 200 billion dollars in annual pharma R&D that companies invest when all countries outlaw patents.

Taxpayers?
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Bitcoin does seem to lack effective leadership. This dates back to Satoshi leaving: he handed over the reins to people who didn't want them.
> Would you invest your own money in a Pharma company if there were no drug patents?

India does not disagree with drug patents, from the article: "Successive governments have taken a view that patents should be granted only for major innovations, not updates to existing compounds."

Pharma companies are notorious for extending patents (in perpetuity) by adding small 'updates' to existing compounds when the patent nears expiry. This is rather similar to Disney's strategy: get copyright period extended right before Mickey Mouse is about to enter the public domain.
Historically, surpluses of young, unmarriageable men has not been a good situation in China. It's a recurring trend around most of the large-scale peasant rebellions. A man without access to women, with no prospects of a family of their own, has little to lose and everything to gain from violence. ISIS is a pretty standard example of how that tends to play out.
The money health insurance currently pays to pharma companies. It might not be more efficient than the current model (but maybe it is, I'm not very knowledgeable about the current process), but I think it would be fairer.

It might also have the side effect that we'd get more drugs that are currently not produced because it wouldn't profitable (eg antibiotics) and fewer drugs with dubious efficacy that are very profitable (eg anti-depressants).
Probably a stupid nitpick, but this bothers me:

> detecting grammatical errors is AI-complete, requiring human-level intelligence to get things right.

(emphasis mine)

First, there's a problem of usage. When in CS we say that a problem is class-complete (like NP-complete), we mean that the problem belongs to the class (which in this case is true, because human-level intelligence can check grammar), but also that it is class-hard, which informally means "at least as hard as the hardest problems in class", and more formally means that any other problem in class can be cheaply reduced to the problem, and so finding a suitable solution to the problem is identical to finding a suitable solution to all other problems in class. Not only checking grammar not known to be "AI-complete" then, we don't even know that human-level intelligence is necessary to solve it.

But the reason this bothers me even though I fully understand the statement was made informally, is a little deeper than that: we don't even know what "human-level intelligence" (or intelligence in general) is, let alone what AI means. That people refer to AI as if it's a thing rather than a very vague notion, clouds how people think of AI research as well as intelligence. I would have simply said "we don't know of good algorithms to dependably check grammar, and this appears to be a very hard problem that may require intelligence".
Wow...

This looks very similar to Cachet [1]. Did you take inspiration from it?

[1] https://cachethq.io
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I really don't understand why consumers care for relative price changes in the first place, rather than comparing absolute prices. Is price information really so scarce? My first step is always to check amazon to get at least a rough estimate on the range of prices for a given product or product category.
One may argue that balance is way off right now. I would prefer to see a system in which there are lump sums by the government for a treatment development with certain performance characteristics.

And the government owns the rights afterwards. We should make pharma companies do work for hire.
Are you claiming that the American car lobby is not powerful? You might need a history refresher on how (for example) "voluntary export restraints" came to be a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_export_restraints#19...

But they've been fighting that battle for close to 50 years and losing.
Sure, I'm all for patent and copyright reform, but that's not what OP is suggesting.

And in one way or another someone has to pay for R&D.
because you need leverage to pull it off - just like refusing to sign the Paris Climate Treaty or the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

India has a long history of Non Alignment and trade blockades going back 50 years.... but most importantly has huge economic leverage right now, only second to China (in Asia).

In fact, my personal bet is on Iran to be able to do something like this - they have a sizeable youth and good education systems... as well as a long history of leverage against the west . If only they get rid of their religious constitution.
This is very cool and needed, thank you.

Could you include a sample .proselintrc? rc files tend to have very different opinions on how to be formatted: dictionaries, JSON, bash-argument syntax, and so on. (EDIT: Ah, found one: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/cd428bb0ecc5530c1.... Can’t quite get it to ignore butterick, though.)

I find it a little curious that you use a Markdown example and lint for curly quotes and unicode ellipses by default (butterick), since Markdown discourages such pre-formatting in its syntax, but that’s just hairsplitting, of which I can tell by your swelling Issues count that you have plenty of as it is. :)

Looking forward to some formatting/syntax highlighting in the CLI output, but I know you have your hands full as it is.
Nice "hack". I'm using statuspage.io for the notification side of things but can see why this is a very decent free alternative.
Are you saying that Trump is not Hitler because times are different or that he won't be elected because times are different?

Third Wave experiment and some others showed that you don't need desperation to succumb to the strong leader.

And as for becoming a hitler, there's a megalomaniac beast in many of us, probably more so in those who've climbed up the latter as high as Trump has.

The point is, nation doesn't necessarily have to loose The Great War and have its economy in ruins to bring a hitler to power.
Well in the name of freedom anyone can and should be able to do science. And anyone may legitimately come up with a cure. But seldom do we see that happen. Instead we usually see incremental progress on existing knowledge, which is then used to do regulatory capture of some given drug. Do governments distort science less, well they don't partake in this sort of scientific charade as profit motivated corporations do. They also don't have any incentive to push drugs for massive profit that they know don't work that well or cause certain side-effects.
Seconded.

Also Saint Lucia doesn't have the clout as India when it comes to global trade.
The title is misleading. The very article is a clever piece of marketing. And it certainly cost something to someone to get it online. Perhaps the correct title is "without spending on advertising"?
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So is the index cached then?
Wow! Not even sure if that can be extrapolated into other markets such as China or India (although the take impact is not as big due to their lack of internet access). The impact is very big indeed.

May have to start calling "post office" the "cargo office" as cargo would be the only item physically sent.
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>it is important to remember that prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve, there was no such thing as a world war.

> Although pre-war Germany had a private central bank, it was heavily restricted and inflation kept to reasonable levels... So, in the media of the day, Germany was portrayed as the prime opponent of World War One

The invasion of Russia, Belgium and France might have had something to do with it as well.

> as early as 1933 they started to organize a global boycott against Germany to strangle this upstart ruler who thought he could break free of private central bankers [poster of "Judea Declares war on Germany" headline]

Come on HN, we're better than this sort of nutjobbery.
States governments are just most recent and best invention in the field of predictably and least harmfully exploiting people by people with physical power. Earlier invention in the same field were warlords and mafia. If you look at the World Wars you might be wondering if it's actually a progress but in times of peace they are way more efficient and how else could they learn that war between states is a bad thing until they tried few times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
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Anyway, it's a clever idea but GitHub itself suffers a lot of outages. Is this a good idea?
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I'm not convinced that being shot, ripped to shreds by shrapnel or tortured after capture is more pleasant if you happen to be wearing a uniform at the time.
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In general you are correct that C function arguments are passed by value. However, in the case of free() specifically, an implementation which treated the argument of free() as if it were passed by reference would be conforming. Obviously one cannot write a free() implementation in standard C with this behaviour, but there is no requirement that a conforming implementation's standard library functions such as free() have to be written in standard C (or indeed in C at all.)

As rm445 quoted C11 clause 6.2.4 para 2, "The value of a pointer becomes indeterminate when the object it points to (or just past) reaches the end of its lifetime". Hence, prior to free(p), p had a determinate value, now it has an indeterminate value. The standard imposes no requirement that it has the same value as it had before (indeed, such a requirement would contradict the explicit statement that the value is now indeterminate.) Any reliance on p having some particular value post free(p) is relying on undefined behaviour, and in undefined behaviour one is allowed to do anything at all, including giving free(p) pass-by-reference argument handling.
FYI, seems to work perfectly find in Safari on Mac OS X Desktop.
Is India that clouted?
I don't really want my neighbours to be able to buy an unregulated nuclear reactor! They need to be sited away from built-up areas, water sources etc because the contamination from a potential failure is "forever", including areas rendered uninhabitable.
I wouldn't be so sure about it. 8 years ago my dad was diagnosed with GIST, for which there was only one drug at the time - Glivec made by Novartis. He had to take 2 boxes a month, each one costing 5x the average national montly salary. Fortunately, the national health insurance in Poland covered the cost of the drug fully, so he never paid anything for it.

The point I am trying to make is that when he was diagnosed, there was 6 other people in Poland who have been diagnosed with the exact same type of cancer. By the time he died last year(thanks to Glivec he lived much longer than the original predicted 6-12 months with traditional chemotherapy) the total number of people with GIST in Poland taking Glivec was 30-40. That's in a country with 40 million citizens.

So sure, the drug is not affordable to pretty much anyone in Poland, if the national insurance wasn't paying for it. But even if it wasn't ultra-expensive, there still a very limited number of people who need it, so I can see why Novartis charges what they do to make at least some money back.
> If only they get rid of their religious constitution

Apply that to any situation in any country in the middle east.
Are you claiming you can paste in your own copy, and it will run against it? I see no text area in Chrome or Safari, what am I missing?
It's very possible to make a watertight electronic voting system.

Just as it is pretty easy to inspect the inner workings of bitcoin/blockchain, it will be as easy to check that every vote worked the way it should.
99.9% uptime for the last month [1] doesn't qualify as "a lot of outages" in my opinion.

[1]: https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month