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> The Pool of the Arches allows visitors to relive the city’s glorious past. Caliph Harun al Rashid, who commissioned the pool, ruled during the Golden Age of Islam, when economics, science and culture flourished from the western edge of the empire in Spain all the way into Asia. The significance and accomplishments of this period became clear as our boat glided through the dark water under the tall arches, still standing after more than 1,200 years.

I know a cistern is a very neat thing to discover. I personally want to see it now. However, I can't help think that this is blown out of proportions. People were not idiots 1,000 years (and longer) ago. I'm glad the people of Ramla were able to build cisterns - but I fail to see how that confirms this shows "The significance and accomplishments of this period".

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> You are aware that your numbers are wrong?

No, the numbers are correct.

> but Chernobyl caused many more deaths.

No, 56 direct deaths. Check the Wikipedia article.

"56 direct deaths (47 accident workers and nine children with thyroid cancer) and it is estimated that there may eventually be 4,000 extra cancer deaths among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people."

> Even the WHO predicted 4000

(a) that is an estimate and (b) those are classified as indirect deaths, not least because they are estimated to occur over a span of 30-40 years. Also, these estimates are hard because cancer rates in the area have significant fluctuation due to other causes. And these are the estimates that were revised downward with every iteration of the report (every 10 years AFAICT).

So 4000 is the best number we have and, given the history of these projections, still likely to be on the high side.

> that is one of the lower figures.

It is likely to be the most accurate one, and they have been revising that estimate down with each report they publish. The other figures are generally from organizations with agendas to push and usually without any actual evidence.

> to say it was 56 is not even a base for discussion

Actually, that is the correct number of direct deaths, and the only ones where we can be certain of the causation.

> all the deaths caused by nuclear energy...including uran production

Please read the other linked article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

Or these:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

http://www.theenergycollective.com/willem-post/191326/deaths...

So nuclear is safer not just than coal (which is the main alternative), but also than oil, natural gas, biofuel/biomass, Peat, solar rooftop, wind and hydro.

And yes, it is logically consistent to say there are no "catastrophes" (plural) when there is only one event that rates as a catastrophe (singular). And yes, scale matters. When you are talking about catastrophes that take thousands or hundreds of thousands of direct casualties, events that have 56 direct casualties are probably not properly rated as catastrophes.

And when you include long-term effects, it is somewhat hard to rate as "catastrophic" something that's significantly safer than rooftop solar.
The difference between a commercial airliner, and a rocket launch is four to five orders of magnitude of power.

Rockets have, and will continue to occasionally explode. (From 1% to 5% of the time.)

If airplanes would explode 1-5% of the time, there wouldn't be a commercial air travel industry.
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She's an American citizen and was in the US at the time. I was in Cambodia.

Nope, pretty sure that wasn't the case. We aren't aware of any such setting. What's really funny is that the context wasn't sexual at all. It was a medical conversation with a family member. I'd gotten the HPV vaccine earlier in the day and we were talking about it.

The image in question was from an online medical resource, and it didn't flag the image itself as I ended up sharing it directly with her anyway. I think it got flagged because the string had the letters sex in it. Or, if someone else had flagged it for some reason elsewhere... Who knows?
How about policing actual current behavior and not some historical act that the person was already punished for. You don't need to care for former sex offenders. But you might care for reducing recidivism. Driving people off the biggest surveillance platform in the world may actually hinder the ability to catch them doing it again.
I'm running iPanoramaPrints (https://ipanoramaprints.com).

It's a niche site for printing panorama photos.

Profit under 1k/month.
If HN consisted entirely of this kind of thing, I would never get anything done.
...Which is why it's important to get in as much as you can while you're young. Unfortunately, not everyone has the foresight to socialize at that age.
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- Most fruits in the US are bred to last longer and picked earlier so that they can survive long trips from the farm to the grocery store.

- Take a closer look at the ingredients in your bread. You're most likely buying bread with preservatives. There are bread makers that make bread without them and those will go bad sooner. Look for sprouted bread. Those can go bad within a couple days of the sell by and the sell by itself is only like 3 days from when they get it in.

- Why would a customer want to pay more for less versus your competitors?

- Ingredients are tasteless because same as with breeding fruits for transport, we do not optimize for flavor but quantity and cost. Good meat is a function of what the animal eats and if they exercise. What you're looking for can be most likely found at your local farmers market.
Does Bangladesh have a systemic prescription opiate problem?

How about an illegal heroin problem?
The "but coal kills people too" - at magnitudes higher rate - factors in because it's not a matter of turning things off without replacing it. Turning off nuclear means coal continues to be used for longer.

The death rates of coal are so incredibly high that it is immoral and irresponsible to switch off nuclear plants - the way e.g. Germany is doing - as long as coal is being used. The same applies to fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent to well maintained hydro (the caveat being "well maintained" - build a dam and you sign up for eternal maintenance or putting towns downstream at risk of destruction), though the far bigger problem with hydro is environmental impacts and displacement of people.

The point is that these debates do not happen in isolation. It's not a matter of disliking one so we turn it off, and that's it. It's a matter of relative risk and relative damage. When you argue against nuclear, without giving another option, the reality is that today you argue for more dangerous, more lethal, more environmentally damaging options, because we are unable to build out sufficient replacement capacity of safer renewables, and lack sufficient storage capacity for them to be suitable for base load.

The number of dead from the panicked early decommissioning in Germany due to their dependence on coal, for example, will measure in the thousands, not just in Germany but across Europe - they can't contain their air. The decision was a staggering display of ignorance of the relative risks, and part of the reason why some of us get really upset about these debates. It's not hypotheticals - peoples fears are literally killing people.
The habit problem is very likely to be caused by the lack of a relationship in the first place. Sex and intimate relationships are a normal human need, so of course people are going to turn to substitutes when they don't have this.
For those who aren't aware, Laravel Cashier is the official billing package integrating Stripe, Braintree, and more. https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/billing
We live in Germany (Berlin) & received (and will render if needed) amazing support from friends at times of need.
Nice work, Marin. Great detail on your methods and findings.
People downvoting this, did you also approve of UC Berkeley deleting videos because they were not captioned for deaf people? Setting minimum standards on housing quality without guaranteeing affordable housing availability seems very similar to me.
Why is this being downvoted? It's objectively true in every place I've lived.
Disagree. That's the whole point of me asking. It's cheaper and will be better tailored to build your own GPU stack if you need it at scale than it is to "rent one" from the cloud providers.

I think it comes down to comfort and how critical it is to business processes.
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Yep last time I've checked the Roman aqueducts are still there and well the pyramids are also there (unless you think Stargate is an accurate historic account of events).

People weren't stupid, and building big whilst labor intensive isn't particularly hard.
> And here the implications is that human reasoning backfired because we judged the impact of nuclear accident wrong

Yes, that is what he claimed.

> It is combined with a "the boar lives there well because it has no fear, we can live there as well".

No, he did not claim that.

> That comes from the first sentence, that health risks from fear of radiation exceed the actual health risks from the radiation.

The existence of boars is not being used to support the claim that fear of radiation exceed the actual health risks. Rather, that claim is being asserted independently.
I don't understand the downvotes.

Rent is just theft based on the monopolization of land. Forcing the poor to pay to live in government approved ghettos is more extortion of their limited resources by those who monopolize the commons.
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> I don't recommend using minifiers which contain bugs

I recommend not using minifiers. Or compilers, for that matter. Or really any software. ;)

> or do unsafe transformations (a form of bug IMO)

I think it depends. In crass, unsafe transformations are only performed when you pass a special flag to the API or CLI. The constraints and effects are documented with the premise "If you're not doing X, Y, and Z, we'll squeeze out a few more bytes". X, Y, and Z are things like relying on browser bugs or only using deprecated features (e.g., using -webkit-border-radius without border-radius). Folks using CSS preprocessors (SCSS, stylus, LESS, etc.) oftentimes don't have CSS that could cause issues, and this option is safe enough for them (and provides a hefty benefit).

The problem with CSS is that you can guarantee many things as safe, but because of the flexibility of the language, it's impossible to minify "perfectly". Having knobs and levers for the developer to say "I'm not supporting IE9 or below, yes you're looking at ALL of my CSS, no I don't care about browsers older than three years..." gives much better results--especially on large projects--by trimming down the number of variables that could prevent different sorts of "optimizations".
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Why would it be CGI?
Does anybody know about the channel which hosted the stream? "Golden State Times" doesn't have a legitimate website (the .com has an invalid SSL certificate; didn't even proceed) and some of their other videos appear more than a little biased: see their video named "VAULT 7: Obama's CIA Posed as Russian Hackers!!!"
Fantastic analysis of a complex system. Congrats on the bounty! +1 for dropping that you're looking for work at the end, that's a great resume post.
Output to stdout instead of a file on disk.

See: https://linux.die.net/man/1/wget
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> They just had to like beer and be lazy.

Fortunately, this is something that ancient & modern men alike excel at!

It is kinda funny to think that a prime reason for us developing advanced societies, civilisation & technology is also a prime factor in damage to society, uncivilised behaviour & destruction.
It may help to remember that the average yearly wage in India is about $3000[1].

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-average-annual-salary-in-I...
Lighting, camera FOV and many other things can really play with how people look.
You can generate iCal files and import them in a calendar application.
I do not understand your argument. You just price a new tax high enough such that the system is paid for, no? I think everyone agrees that you need a new tax to pay for the system, and you are not going to take the current tax revenue and pay for single payer plus everything else the government pays for. Instead of paying for insurance premiums or getting a lower salary because health insurance is part of your compensation, you would just pay a new tax. As a result your life would be simplified since you no longer would need to worry about insurance networks, levels of coverage, out-of-network doctors in in-network-hospitals, etc.
And that's the reason not to report abuse to the fucking Facebook. Just report it to the police directly.
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-O is the file to write output. plain - means stdout. so, run wget and print results to stdout. tip: add -S to include response http headers.
> The real issue is code abstracted bottom-up instead of proper design.

Exactly. We're (basically) saying the same thing here. I kept my comment short-and-sweet as not to get into the nitty-gritty of everyone's different work situations/requirements/stances on different testing practices/building an app vs a library or service/programming paradigm/etc.

To expand ever so slightly: "These days I'm all about 'dirty integration' first to help inform my ultimate design."
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Also, 8 months ago they commented: "I hope to see you all tomorrow 6-11-16 for 2 trump rallies more info on our channel...Thank you﻿"

Conflicting interests? Fake video?
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While Swift will compile on different backends now, XCode is still the premiere Swift dev environment and will be for a good while. So a non Mac Swift dev won't be having a great time.

The target market is really iOS devs who want the same language on the back end.

That's a perfectly reasonable engineering goal for an iOS-first shop.

But they're a vocal group and like to hype up server Swift as the next big thing for everyone. That's just not going to happen.
> How come accounts.google.com more severe than others for XSS ?

Because that's where the jewels are: "Control, protect, and secure your account, all in one place"
Micro services a long view
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He hasnt exercised his private key recently.
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YouTube livestreams automatically become videos after the stream ends. So no need for a separate upload...
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Compare, for example, the Basilica Cistern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_Cistern

It was built in Constantinople maybe 2 centuries earlier, and one would think that the technology persisted.
If your answer to any GIL's is to write in a different language then I guess you don't have a problem.
> I knew a lawyer who had to take such a defence case and he refused to look at the evidence.

While I can understand this at one level, at another it disturbs me that a lawyer hired (in some manner) for the defence would refuse to look at evidence to determine whether it met the definition of "illegality" in order to present an effective defense for the client.

Without doing so, the lawyer had no way of knowing what the images consisted of - were they merely going by what the prosecutor told them? Isn't that some kind of abdication of responsibility to a proper legal defence? Could the defendant get a new trial because of this?

If this was your trial, and you knew you were innocent, would you want to hear this from your defense lawyer? Or would you rather hope that the porn star in the images showed up at your trial to absolve you (which recently happened to some poor bastard)?
Pretty elaborate research indeed, I once filed a very simple, but just as dangerous, stored XSS on www.linkedin.com (with access to cookies) + some other bug, hoping to speedup my Partner API Request, got $400 for the XSS and many weeks later $400 for the other bug too (which took them 6+ months to fix). The $/time wasn't worth it, and of course the Partner API Request got declined without explanation.
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The main point is that this new architecture has many interesting advantages over the standard Rails & database approach.

By logging all the interaction events and computing application state via a stream processor, you get all the benefit's of a log-centric architecture. Building different services as "views" over the history of interactions, forking the stream to test new applications, replaying data to test different recommender models, ramping up models on historic data and falling in with real-time data for continuous updates. That all becomes the same thing.

And for many use cases, you get better performance on less hardware because you have a simpler concurrency model.
yep, Facebook messenger censors! It also does not allow you to send links e.g. to warez sites... I'm sure it censors even more stuff.
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I love Vue and have used it before, but I would like to use an even smaller library if possible. I believe Inferno is 9kb and Preact is 3kb, so Vue isn't that far off, but I still would like to hear people's opinions on the truly tiny frameworks.
> I hope the law is sane enough here.

I can guarantee you, it isn't.
Swift is fast and the language is nice and all, but this feels more like propaganda. Let's not forget IBM and Apple have become friends recently.[1]

I really don't see Swift becoming a popular full stack solution outside of environments invested in iOS and macOS.

Swift can indeed run on a multitude of systems but that doesn't mean it's a good option. For example it's not even close to being ready for Android. It can run, but that's it. Other than that you are on your own. No UI libs, nothing.

This leaves you with iOS if you need to run on mobile which is extremely restricted. Want to freely distribute an app among your colleagues on the lab? Fuck you. You have to do all sorts of acrobatics with testing devices, provisioning certificates, etc.

In Android you just compile an .apk and send the link to your colleagues to install it, like in any other platform on Earth except iOS. Even macOS.

[1] http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/work-with-apple/ibm/
Wow, I didn't know org mode did sequence diagrams. That is going to be really useful to document our code.

Will be great to be able to check in the source for sequence diagrams since the online services I've found for making them are hard to work with as a team.
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Creating smallpox given any amount of any information would come as a surprise to most scientists and religions, and I can look up information right now how to create ricin, guns, and nukes, and nobody would stop me from doing so.

But information so powerful that merely having it should be worth automatic prison time? With no possibility to safely report the possibly much more harmful act of transmitting it or using it?

No such information exists.
I've had this exact same urge for years now and have had a couple of false starts at tackling the issue. Glad to see 1) I wasn't the only one wanting to make those simple copy edits and 2) someone followed it through and did something about it.
Great. I love these, and there are so many. This is a nice treat.
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If you're new to the scene take heed of the warning, the video's cannot do the best of these justice, codecs just cannot convey the fluid high resolution impact of the real deal. If you get the chance install and run a few :)
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I recently rewrote a server that I had in Kotlin and really happy with the results. With this I am pleasantly surprised! I already liked the syntax, and now it gives me another reason to try it out. I am not sure though how would it compare with Go.
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Maybe we should relocate endangered species to Fukushima or Chernobyl.

Noone's going to buy a radioactive tusk.
At least the German speaking countries explicitly call themselves Zentraleuropa (Central Europe) in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitteleuropa
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> Does Bangladesh have a systemic prescription opiate problem?

If you want to talk about the impact of opiates on Bangladeshi poverty today, you should go back much further in history.

Bengal opium, being much higher quality than the product found in China and Afghanistan, was the major impetus behind the British annexing the territory back in 1757. They used this monopoly to extract exorbitant taxes from Bengal, causing widespread man-made famines which killed tens of millions of people. They then used this tax money and the opium to flood the Chinese market with cheap, high-quality opium, against the Chinese rulers' will, in an attempt to undermine the Chinese government as well by creating a widespread opiate epidemic. China did not come under explicit colonial rule the way Bengal did, but it came very close.

Over this time period, Bengal went from being the richest region in the second-richest empire/region in the world (next to China) to one of the poorest, which it still is today, despite its rapid growth in recent years.

This strategy isn't over, by the way. The opiate market was (and still is) a part of the US military strategy in Afghanistan - balancing the desire to "crack down" on heroin production and smuggling against the desire to provide Afghani civilians with an agricultural economy that doesn't rely on Taliban support.

Bangladesh doesn't have a synthetic opiate problem, simply because people there are generally too poor to purchase synthetic opiates in the first place. Raw opium is still used in these areas due to its widespread availability, but it's much less addictive than the synthetic opiates, because pharmaceutical synthetics are obviously designed to be highly concentrated and potent.

As for the raw numbers, 0.3% of Bangladeshis consume opiates at least once per year, compared to 0.57% in the US, 0.8% in Italy, 2.65% in Afghanistan (the highest) and 0.004% in Singapore (the lowest).