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> informational

If this is supposed to be informational, what useful information is it providing? Can you name a single utility that will, in practice, be gained from a "GMO" label that isn't based on ignorance, delusion, fear of the unknown, or fundamental attribution error?

If there is some legitimate use, them I would fully support "GMO" labels. Until strong evidence is presented, presenting the "GMO" label as "informative" is an attempt to mislead. It confuses consumers and encourages delusional behavior.
Thread-placement wise, I thought it was the best place to post the message to maximize salience and relevance. Do not be offended if there is no need for you to be offended.
You can only work for people that you like.

—https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf
I'm also an immigrant in Québec (and Québec City), I've been here for 17 years though so I basically grew up a Québecois after having been a little German boy and being born in Bosnia. Where are you from originally?
The number of people here that are describing trolling as fun, amusing, and effective is pretty high. I wonder why this is the case? Even if so many people enjoy being an ass or ruthlessly screwing over other people, it's strange that they'd openly admit it.

One possibility is that it's a byproduct of the school system. Most of us spent years at each other's throats in a Lord of the Flies type environment, so it's natural for this behavior to transfer to the internet.
You might want to host it yourself, rather than expose other people to the legal threat that comes with what you ask for.

This is possible with INN. Everything you ask for, I think, is possible with INN.

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn//
> Most others, including its central premise about everything actually being a file, were not (adopted or successful), and turned out they weren't a big deal.

Except they are, because Linux reinvented them decades later with lots of hype, but worse, in the form of user-level file systems and containers like Docker.

> They could have built those 2 features independently anyway.

Except you can't know which features will be a hit in advance, so your research prototype is only a failure if it never gets any adoption, and never inspires something better. Otherwise it was successful in exploring a design space, even if the result is negative.

Your argument is the same fallacy as the belief that publishing negative scientific results isn't important. Documenting failed experiments is just as important to growing our understanding as documenting successes.
This ultimately ends with Vitalik receiving a subpoena from the feds on behalf of a U.S. based investor who loses and gets pissed. Then he either complies and builds a backdoor for Ethereum, or he gets banned from the U.S. has trouble going back to Russia because they want the same thing. So he will ultimately become like the Bobby Fischer of crypto in effort to not give government backdoor access to Ethereum. Will it work? Tune in next week!
I'm sure it could be a lot cheaper, usually government contracts are inflated. Seems like everyone increases the actual costs to extract more money from the government. Not to mention the govt changes requirements constantly (F-35).

But then again I feel like to do deals with the govt it requires jumping through hoops.
> Sources also said Jawbone has discontinued its Bluetooth speaker business and is trying to sell its remaining inventory.

No trackers and no speakers, what's the left of their business? Nothing?
Ironic in light of your comments on the OpenBSD forced W^X thing, but I happen to agree that strict W^X should be used everywhere possible. It may not matter for higan (though it would be funny to see someone exploit it), but it could be a deal breaker for more security-conscious projects that might want to use libco (say, for a cothreaded server).

As for assemblers, I just don't see how requiring gas or maybe NASM/YASM for x86 would complicate the build process so much. Heck, gas is a dependency of gcc. The only problem I see is for Visual Studio users, which could be solved with using NASM/YASM for Windows (which is not really a big deal when the co_swap_function has to be different due to the calling conventions anyway), or a separate MASM implementation for Visual Studio (giving you duplicate implementations with VS Windows and gcc Windows on x86 and x86_64 respectively).

I know you're consistent with your views on code clarity and that this is a hobby for you etc, but libco seems like a tiny, static enough library that it would make sense to accept a little ugliness in order to Do The Right Thing™.

(PS: Thank you for higan, I've learned so much from it over the years.)
A configurable mock server with an intuitive configuration management interface and a http api.

https://medium.com/@i.anunay/mocknode-e338f793dba0
It's a bit fascinating and scary how casually they talk about the weapons of China and Russia, and what we need to counter them. Do they believe there is a realistic chance of war with these countries? Or is just about using military might as a political & diplomatic tool?
Never, more speed is good because they can program the projectiles to break apart before impact with soft targets. The limiting factor is air resistance, greater initial speeds result in more energy wasted.

Also, I believe they are (were?) looking at the Zumwalt destroyer for this weapon, which actually only has 78 MW of power output.
Yeah, I agree with this point. The media, the politicians, various elites in general have called people who disagree with things like globalisation, immigration, etc bigots and nazis so long that they're being drawn to extremists who don't constantly attack them.
That's great! Lenny vs Sales Soundboard. Our computerized agents battling it out autonomously.
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The difference though, is that HN clearly does not claim to be an uncensored free for all. HN has a very strong focus, and strong rules. They want a very limited window, and that's not a bad thing. I think that will help them stick around for a long time.

But that makes reddit and HN an apples to oranges comparison. They aren't even trying to be the same thing.

My personal concern, is that there is no reddit replacement that has a broad focus. All of the alternatives seem to be racist shit-holes, or fluffy, clearly manufactured facebook-feed alternatives.
these are terms that I am working on with my lawyer- and I am sure investors will have some push back and changes of their own
Amazing it took so long to evolve that step.
Usually I pretend to be interested while getting as much information about the caller as possible, and then I inform them that I intend to file with the FCC or describe in gory fantastical detail how I plan to murder them, depending on how annoyed I'm feeling that day.
Well... it is a bit more complicated than that...

"Câlisse-moi patience" : leave me alone

"J'ai décalissé le char" : I wrecked the car

"Tabarnak-moi patience" : NOT USED. NO ONE SAYS THAT.
You've obviously never heard of extradition have you?
Would you extend that same generosity towards someone that identified as a facist? Or would you assume they are a jingoistic racist etc. and associate them with Nazi Germany and company?

That's my point. One suffers guilt by association and its name itself has become a meaningless insult, the other does not and the mere suggestion that one could be against it draws to mind images of Cold War loonies. When in fact, both are (relatively speaking) sound families of ideologies.
> I'd hope that some people, at least, actually want to fix problems and gain respect in their field.

Naturally. Of course you must assume that some people don't.
Nobody has any idea of how to place a value on any of those things, so you're just making it up so far as they are concerned.
> see the videos of his supporters confusing Hitler quotes for his

I loathe Trump, but that trick works with just about everyone. You take some famous person (Richard Dawkins is a favourite) and find some Nazi / Communist quote and create an image macro.

I'm mildly surprised a troll hasn't had t-shirts and buttons printed, and given them away at rallies.

> (then again, Trump himself tweeted a Mussolini quote)

That's a bit more worrying.
You make good points, but I wish you'd express yourself more nicely. You really don't need to call the authors idiots (twice!) To make your case.
I read the german version of this article a few days ago and paired with my own experience (I was born and raised in Germany and lived there until the age of 25) I came to the conclusion that: a.) being poor in Germany is much much better than being poor in most other countries (incl. the United states, where I reside now) and b.) When you are poor in Germany you can drastically improve your cash flow by not living in one of the expensive cities. Living out in the country in a small village will enable you to stretch your welfare checks compared to living in Munich, where most things and most people around you are much more.

I also think Germany has a unique opportunity here to tackle the problem of social mobility and could improve the way they deploy the welfare budget. For example supporting a young family with many children before they face sliding into "poor status", due to one parent staying home to take care of the family. The article did a great job highlighting three interesting situations and their challenges/opportunities.
You can unsubscribe from the DMA junk mail list, and it works for most generic mailers.
Stuff that brings money is mostly not "solving your own problems".

It's one of the lies that became "truth" in some parts of the Internet.
What is the main problem in the creation of DAO company?
During the censorship fiasco a lot of people moved onto voat.
I can take photos but the second and third tabs are empty; i can't see/set a reference. I tried ensuring the photo had a uk banknote in it (does it matter which?) but it made no difference.
we are living in a world where if you are unlucky to have money or a proper job, people will see you as a lazy, cheap, dirty human.

I guess, maybe universal salaries, and free school, medicine will make our societies engage in what is important in life.
Be happy, engage with your families and friends.

When I was young, I remember clear, days when I was starving, and so my parents trying and fighting to provide some food.
Now, I life my first 30 years of life, and realize that nothing change. We are working for money and dreams that are fake.

In Berlin, capital, you see more people that are searching for food, empty bottles, and are in hartz and people look at them as dead animals. In Berlin, there are east european poor people, that sleep on the bridges, on parks.
What they are doing?
Ask for money.

Been poor in Germany, I guess is better than in Bulgaria or Romania, but been poor in any country, also ignorant make us damn idiots.
remember- this isn't for within the company, this isn't a workplace relationship.(for the most part) this is about investors and founders. And just like you have to go to HR for an office relationship, you would need to do something similiar in a case like this
That's enough for me to side with these two guys. I think Magic Leap is not that magical after all.
I got the iOS version and I was having trouble aligning the corners on the reference object. When I lifted my finger the crosshair would jump slightly with it.

Is it possible to offer edge detection or corner snapping?

I also got much better results when I zoomed as far as possible into the image to align each corner. I think that would be a helpful tip in the app when aligning.
I think most people generally believe that, yes, war with other countries is possible.

Considering the history of the world, and considering that wars are happening in other countries all the time, I'd personally say that thinking war isn't possible is incredibly naive and unrealistic.
It's not just how much momentum is in the projectile, it's also how much energy is transferred to the target. A jumbo jet at cruising speed is likely to transfer almost all its energy into a large portion of virtually anything it hits. A small projectile traveling at 4500mph is likely to either transfer a lot of energy into a small area, or punch a hole straight through and keep on going until it hits something else.

Which isn't to say that it's not useful, but it probably isn't useful for the same applications. Something like this wouldn't be my top choice for large-scale destruction such as knocking down buildings. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in a bunker or tank that has one of these things bouncing around inside, though.
It amazes me that this completely nonsensical distinction passed muster in the courts.

There is no meaningfuk distinction between political, commerce, and religion, and the First Amendment specifically prohibits granting special legal status to religious activity.
yes, diagrams is the correct term. and I agree with you that they can help, esp if a project is very large or complex, distributed, etc.
Which is totally why they went with the very simple implementation of rewriting links in users posts. This way, VigLink works in the background and the user never interacts with them.

...

Oh wait, they instead decide to tunnel all clicks through their own infrastructure? At massive cost and complexity? I wonder why they decided on this implementation, huh.
Original Version:

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/armut-in-deutschla...
It's all about one word. Tribalism.

A lot of people feel Gawker was a member of their tribe. It's the old "He's a bastard, but he's our bastard" thing.
> It's okay for some codehumper to make everybody else hate their job and themselves, because, hey, that guy loves what he does, and if you don't it's your own fault for not spending Saturday nights masturbating to tail recursion tutorials.

I love this sentiment. A lot of self-deprecation on the part of programmers--nay, on the part of anyone--comes from comparison.
> Do they believe there is a realistic chance of war with these countries?

Surely anyone looking at history learns it's not a matter of if, but a matter of when. Perhaps (hopefully!) it won't be in our lifetimes, but it's reasonable to want to stay even with or ahead of the capabilities of other powerful militaries, including ones we are currently allied or at peace with.
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Don't over think it. You aren't leaking information by declining the call. They know the number is valid when it starts ringing
In my experience, each round of scam calls will stop calling once you have answered their call and said no/hung up after a few seconds of listening.

Which isn't really useful beyond getting them to only call once every few months instead of once every few days or whatever.

Everything but political crap and surveys seems to go like this, answering a call and saying no firmly ends that stream of calls.

For the surveys I answer and ask how much they are paying people to take the survey. Then when they say they aren't paying I say I'm not interested and hang up. My hope is that this is superficially annoying for the person doing the survey. Not antagonistic, just enough to remind them exactly what it is they are doing.
It really depends on the subreddits and their mods.
The weapons of China and Russia aren't going to be confronted only in China or Russia. At any rate, it's always good to negotiate from a position of strength.
This projectile is actually significantly more sophisticated than a bullet. It is going to require a significant amount of guidance/control to have any level of accuracy at 100 km. That is the real cost driver, and it saves money compared to a missile because it gets all of its kinetic energy from the gun.
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"Little" correction: the word "Enculé" is a more specific kind of "Fucked", it means "Fucked in the ass". It has the word "cul" in it which means "ass".
Shit, that guy is me. I have brought back more or less dead projects with some good ideas and showcasing them.

OTOH, I am constantly worried I am too slow (the legend of the 10x developer does not help) and tend to omit test cases or leave code in that works but is not easy to read or understand.

At least I use every time I find to refactor code later, but we've had some bugs in UAT which shouldn't have been there.
I use Batman.
> I'm sure it could be a lot cheaper, usually government contracts are inflated.

That's a reasonable rule of thumb, but it's kind of funny to apply it to the weaponry of large scale modern militaries, since those almost certainly couldn't exist without the very governments that makes their costs inflated.
Straight asking to be put on the do not call list has the same result (for the callers that maintain one).

Just talk over their opening spiel. 15 seconds, no more calls from that caller.
The caller ID numbers are fake. There is no security against inputting a fake caller ID.
In war rendering things unusable is as good as completely destroying them. Also, secondary explosions set off by the impact/spaulding can be a Very Bad Thing: https://youtu.be/750jAbdf-I8
> ... and should you get in trouble with the law, it's going to be time to find a Francophile lawyer.

Maybe, but a francophone one would be more immediate use.
Let's look at this another way: Do you think that there will never be another major war? Like never, ever, ever again?

Can you genuinely state with certainty that humanity is over fighting major wars -- that we've evolved past that?

The answer is simply no, we haven't gotten past that point and likely never will. So in that context we should be developing weapons to fight and win wars against the most likely of threats.

The most likely threats happen to be China and Russia.
> theirs

*there's
they probably don't need my code, but their code.

I met many people 2001 in highschool who laughed at me, because I wanted to be a software engineer...

"what new do you want to develop anyway?!"

well, that was before things like Steam, AWS or Facebook.

Such people just fear to be automated away.
this is the best work-related article/essay i've ever read since i started in this field in the 90s. (except for the collared shirt part lol that's odd.)
Replace her home phone with a VOIP system?
> When you are poor in Germany you can drastically improve your cash flow by not living in one of the expensive cities. Living out in the country in a small village will enable you to stretch your welfare checks compared to living in Munich, where most things and most people around you are much more

You're right, but that's the start of welfare dependency. If you have kids, you probably kill their life chances as well. I'm talking of the UK, rather than Germany, but I imagine the same is true anywhere in the rich world.
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The English are masters of the subtle insult, though. This is usually illustrated by quoting Churchill, for example:

Bessie Braddock to Churchill -- "Winston, you're drunk!"

Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober"

Edit: there was a great one on TV yesterday, one politician was commenting on the former London Mayor Boris Johnson's stance in the upcoming referendum on the UK's continued membership of the EU and said: "He is far too intelligent to believe what he said."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36401104
Captcha test? You reached John, please press 4 to continue phone call.
Because it catches all the callers who don't text - ex: banks, robocalls, people leaving frantic emergency messages, etc.

Anecdotal, but I now get complete "text message coverage" for all incoming calls.
You won't find any official government statements about this, but supposedly senior US military officers have been saying privately that they think an air and naval war with China is inevitable within the next few decades. They see China today as being roughly equivalent to Japan circa 1930 as a competing power. So they've been quietly reorienting the military to fight that conflict. I hope they're wrong. We need to find a way to coexist.
In the UK I'm signed up with the Telephone Preference Service.

I only ever get one type of unsolicited phone call from a robot voice asking if I've recently had an accident, then transferring me to a human to get details.

I tried asking them to put my on their do not call list (very calmly and politely) and they keep calling. So now I waste as much of their time as possible everytime they call, and then block their number. (And then report them to ICO).
Even if it doesn't sound natural we like it when you try (especially the swear words) :)
Oh, that doesn't help people get to my blog. I just bought the new domain yesterday. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
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Thanks for posting this. It is rather interesting to play with and has a good interface.

I have a couple issues though. First I can't zoom in enough to be very precise with the placement and measurement. It would be nice if the zoom was not limited so much. Also, using a Samsung S5 I am having some trouble getting an accurate measurement. I put a ruler and a us letter paper in the same plane and took a photo at about a 30 degree angle. I'm seeing about a 12.7" measurement on a 12" ruler.
> Why shove non-trivial amounts of engineering effort into it

because it's more fun
There are no good logical or legal arguments that I've heard so far. It's all hand waving furiously.
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How about Mercedes, or Porsche?
I'd disagree. When I am slumming it at home, I wear the most comfortable pair of trousers I have. If I'd receive a call to have a beer with pals, I'd still change.

I think the same applies in the given example: the in-group knows the guy in the shorts and T-shirt is a nice dude who helps others and is super-professional about quality. The customer, as an outsider, just sees someone who's underdressed.
But once you've called the emergency number, and are in an Ambo on your way to hospital, or are in the hospital, you want to let people know that you're not dead in a ditch.

Some hospitals are stricter about cell phones than others.
I'm in the US and get an increasing number of robocalls from my area code, as well as robocalls from my own number.

I still answer most calls from my area code, but if I suspect it's a robocall I just pick up without saying hello. If it's a robocall, there's generally a lengthy pause and then you can here someone connect (at which point I hang up).
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...
Very true, my biggest regret is not doing this sooner!
This is how I genuinely feel about the level of scientific illiteracy our society has fallen to. We literally have people at an executive level who are functionally illiterate in science, making decisions on the basis of their ignorance. (The editors of the WSJ could be seen as examples of this.) "Solar Freakin Roadways" got almost $2 million from the public. Are we functioning with a viable educational system for a complex technological democratic society? Heck no. Even the people in charge are riddled with ignorance on basic levels.

Not knowing what you don't know can literally cost untold treasure and many millions of lives. There are tons of examples of this in history. I'm pretty sure we're not doing so great a job teaching that either.

And yes, it even goes to examples of basic Computer Science knowledge on HN!
Strategically, China is our only real rival and threat (Russia is a secondary power at best). It's in our interest, and our allies interest, that we be prepared to win a war with them, even if we prefer not to fight them.