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The estimates of the underground market ranged from 1 to 3 Billion per year in the cannabis economy when I lived there. It is a substantial industry there which means a LOT of people in that province work in the black market.
Political science. Its like techical. It changes faster than technology.
The "next week" referred to in this article happens today.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/internet-...

For this to get through the Senate the way it did makes it pretty clear to me that the Senate is way beyond corrupt. Especially considering the piece of this legislation that goes way too far in prohibiting future privacy rules from enacted if, for some reason, this did end up going through and being a total disaster.
I went from glasses and astigmatism to LASIK and halos.

I would still do it again and recommend it.

The quality of life improvement is tremendous and the amount of money saved on not getting the glasses re-done every year offsets the cost of the LASIK.

Halos, really only at night, is corrected by wearing a yellow tint "sunglass" aka shooters glasses while driving.

Plus my SO really doesn't like my driving, so i chill out in the passenger seat anyway. They feel more in control and i can get some sleep.
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Humanity could use some thinning out.

Unfortunately we'll take a lot of innocent fora/fauna down as well.
It would've been much better if you posted 6 links, 3 with and 3 without autotune. See if people can figure out which is which.
> `More information != Better` is evident in contemporary web design.

In a way it is. On the other hand I found the original Yahoo page with just about 100 blue links very readable and navigable.

I wonder if the art of speed reading has been lost. Navigating the web for me was much faster around 2000 than it is now. Too many sites have proprietary and byzantine procedures of interacting with them (example: click on a button before being able to enter something in a web form).
"La migra" means "immigration" according to google translate. What's the problem with that? Is it also vulgar slang of some sort?
This articulates a lot of what I've felt in recent years.

Here's this syntactically ugly new feature that allows you to save a few lines of code and obfuscates meaning from lesser mortals!

Hey let's dispense with those tired old curly brackets and use indentation instead!

Let's make a simple scripting language, and then extend it so that it becomes as complex and indecipherable as C++!

Hey wouldn't it be a great idea to have a server that runs JavaScript!

Try staying up to date when you have to work with a complex suite that tries to run everywhere and jumps on every passing bandwagon. You will then understand why the 'stuff changes, suck it up' argument isn't always valid. At times these days I try to get something done and discover the tools I have at my disposal are just poorly written crap on top of incompatible crap on top of indecipherable crap.

No I don't want to use your stupid Jupyter notebook! Just give me the frigging source and a readme!

So much stupid and unnecessary complication. I wish I'd just learnt C.
Seconded. After reading this my poor B- social skills, immediately jumped to a B+. Not a pancea, but a great book to help you think about/observe how others think/feel and how that will in turn affect you.
They promised it last year. A lot of people, including current health permit (authorized) users have been complaining that nothing has happened since last April. It might have won him the last election but I don't know the numbers (probably nobody does).
Cool! Beautiful interface, and love the ability to star without logging in.

Any plans to add support for other apps like Spotify? I've always thought an "Instagram for playlists" would be a fun app.
Having a computer and radio in your brain doesn't mean you have to expose access to anything via the radio link. Even if you want to, there has to be software in between the connection to the meat and any APIs you provide for controlling your body, mapping intentions to raw signals for the neurons. This would have some form of access-control and safety features.
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With regards to later developments yes, but your thesis that Romania was democratic except for external pressures isn't tenable.

Yes, Romania eventually was put under the heel of both Nazi Germany and the Soviets, both had to use force to impose their control, but it looks to me like it was becoming a totalitarian state before that.

As I read more, King Carol II played off different factions within the country to advance his own dictatorial control of Romania. The 1938 coup seems to have been entirely internal and it may have been planned as early as 1937.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Constitution_of_Romania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renaissance_Front
Well, I still don't get it... How I'm using my system now works perfectly, finally, and I'm sure I probably fit into the 'modern usage' bracket (hidpi, multiple monitors, USB-c projectors etc)...

That security improvement would be good, surely we can add this to X though?

Adding that bit of security isn't enough to sell me on replacing such an entrenched bit of our daily lives -- for me at least..

We are stable and it's pretty and fast enough. Progress is always good, but it has to bring something to the table other than a transparent replacement of what we already have with new code. How many million hours has X run this month?

I sound so uncool to myself here, I really like shiny new tech but fucking with something so important for reasons that no one really seems to agree on seems like a bad move to me.

Maybe someone else has some justification for is that we're missing and can enlighten us?
This is a nice idea but wouldn't it be much more useful if it only disconnected you from a subset of the web (i.e. distracting websites) like SelfControl.app? You obviously need the web for productivity.
Notice how, Americans are paranoid about it and it hasn't happened, and as you said, Europeans aren't paranoid about it and it's happened to every country?
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I went from glasses and astigmatism to LASIK and halos.
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Most psychological researchers deidentify subject data, since you can only show it to a very small group of people otherwise. (which might prevent you from e.g. getting statistical help from someone outside the project).
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It depends on a lot things:

What platform do you want to target? What languages do you know already.

Are you building this IM app as a learning experience? Or are you hoping to compete against the likes of Facebook, Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal etc?
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The scientists from 1963 were right even then: the robots were enough to explore the Moon, transporting human flesh and bones around and keeping them alive is not something that directly increases our knowledge of the Universe. The "man on the Moon" was a political, not a scientific project.

The worst place on Earth is still better suited for human life than either Moon or Mars or any other object in the Solar system. We depend on almost all, compared to the other objects, unique properties of the Earth. And the other stars, which could have the planets more suited for us are many light years away. The humanity must learn to respect the Earth. We won't get a way to easily survive without Earth no matter how we'd like to.

Global warming or a nuclear weapon "accident" are too probable to wipe out what the humanity achieved up to now for us to ignore the necessity of urgently solving these. Not to mention even more "inconvenient" questions of the whole approach to the use of all the Earth resources.

We still have to clean up our own backyard first. There is no known reachable second Earth waiting for us and we won't discover it by experimenting with the survival of a few persons on Mars. The human life is not self-sustainable there and it won't be even if we create some "colony."
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Want that the point of the beta version of the store?
Thanks for elaborating. Certainly assuming that your data is safe in RMQ is a mistake!
I'm just going to leave this here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/papers/rank-polymorphism...
So is he sitting there pressing the delete key himself?
I wonder if these conversations are how we ended up in 21st century with old people adamantly refusing to use computers - at some point in their 20s they decided they don't want to have anything to do with this dangerous technology, and now they are 60 year old and unable to receive email. Will it be us in 40-50 years time, with kids running neural laces with ease, and we will be refusing to use them because we were worried about certain aspects of it?
Cool. But I got an error "building took longer than expected. Try again in a minute?" for every non-negligible package (for which this would actually be useful). I only got it to work for left-pad.

Either way, nicely done!
I did and within a decade my eyes reverted to their original prescription
Because when atoms decay they tend to decay into other unstable elements that also decay.
In a similar vein to "focus on one db and truly exploid its features" (vs an orm); I think targeting a systemd-aimed architecture/deployment can actually be quite neat and powerful.

(I don't use it on desktop, but server based it can be quite neat (imo/ime) :-) )

Being that, for some situations, I truly do believe systemd is better than old school init (I think similar for s6/runit/etc too (ie they're better than sysvinit))
This is a good post. I hope this was a good comment.
A lot of start-ups are hyping themselves as deep-learning or something close to that in order to make themselves appear 'hot'. Recently I looked at a company that had absolutely nothing to do with deep-learning or even any kind of machine learning whatsoever and that still managed to sprinkle the various buzz-words with great regularity throughout their investor targeted docs.

What I don't get about this behavior is this: It won't work, and in fact is a net negative, so why do it in the first place?

Investing is a trust thing, if you break trust before you even get to talk to your potential investor there is no way you will raise money from them.
Why would I use this instead of just creating a trello board?
Great book on this is James Kwak's "Economism" - the abuse of purported economic insight for political purposes.

As just one simple example, good old Hekscher-Olin trade theory (a neat general equilibrium model with 2 countries, 2 goods, and 2 factors of production, capital and labor) "shows" that free trade is a good thing, leading to a Pareto improvement.

But of course, that's predicated on a whole host of assumptions that might or might not hold, and furthermore predicated on the assumption that the "winners" compensate the "losers", through redistribution.

So, the economic case for free trade more or less includes the case for redistribution and compensation of those negatively affected by it - but that's often conveniently left out by proponents.
Honestly, it's because sometimes I read comments on HN that remind me that there are people that look at life like it's an optimization problem. And, I'm pretty sure that I don't score well in their objective function

And, I guess that freaks me out, especially when it's probable that some of these same people will oneday control the tech and data that run the world.
Sure, but there is cost to maintaining X. If Wayland is smaller and can achieve the same thing more effectively (more secure, faster, better features for contained applications, etc...), then that is preferable.

Yes, there is a cost to you, as a user, in switching. The benefits of Wayland don't really filter to you as a user in a perceivable way, but if it means that the applications you use are developed more quickly and end up being more efficient and secure, that's a benefit. The reality is that Wayland will be something you use, eventually, because people will support it (because it's better for them to target than X), and so eventually you will need it for something you want to use.

That's why I call it a trade off. Right now, would I develop an application only on Wayland? Probably not. In the future, that'll shift and eventually tip - at some point the cost of developing on X will simply be that much higher it won't be worth it.

I understand users being risk-adverse and not wanting to change, but the argument of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" has historically always lost in the end. It's rare for a system to have no room for improvement, and X is definitely not such a system.

As to, why not do it in X - because X does want to be backwards compatible and stable for it's users. Secuity that breaks fundamental capabilities applications expect can't maintain that. Ripping out the cruft breaks existing stuff. Wayland aims to replace or remove 99% of X, so why work from a basis you are going to use essentially none of?
That's interesting; I didn't even notice it.

But the border doesn't scale with window size, and I tend to keep my windows large on an already large monitor, so the relative effect was small and (subjectively) even pleasant. I can't get too mad at the design choice, but maybe it should scale in some way to window size.
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One of my relatives also said this "I have nothing to hide" BS, I replied by asking who they were talking about. Response: anyone but the criminals. Hmm, so I demanded to install a spy app on their phone to be able to monitor everything they do, where they are, record the conversations etc. They declined this offer, either implying that they perceive me as a criminal or they confirmed to being hypocritical about this reasoning. Also this reasoning implies that government agents and other officials are somehow immune from illegal or criminal activities.

Edit: my impression is that the general public somehow thinks that this data collected from mass surveillance is stored so securely that it can never be accessed by criminals. The only thing that could ever change this perception is some major breach of personal information followed by massive economic consequences, otherwise no one cares and politicians care too much about they own power that they will only expand surveillance efforts.
Cool! Looks nice. And it's great to see something like this bundled as a jar instead of an SaaS, given the nature of private data.

How do you enforce licensing?
Lewis' argument isn't sound; if Jesus indeed claimed divinity, that sole conviction could be a delusion, without rendering all of his other statements delusional.

This kind of reasoning is typical of apologists in my experience; it sounds right, but it doesn't hold up to scrunity.
Well, I'm talking about easy vs simple. I never got a local PHP(+Apache+MySQL) env working simply back then.

easyphp.exe and wamp.exe are two good examples of what I mean.
I don't see a contractor equipped to fix some lights make their way out with a few hundred pounds of lead, on top of that they would endanger their career and reputation for some 10's of $ whereas the job they were there for probably pays a large multiple of that.

Blaming the contractor is easy, but the vast majority of such thefts is done by insiders or security personnel.
Hell, I'd watch that even if there was other stuff on.
The isotope in question (Lead-210) is indeed a decay product of Uranium-238. However, not all lead is Pb-210, most of it is made of other, stable isotopes.

Since mining and refining lead removes the U-238 that would decay into more Pb-210, if you wait long enough (and shield it underwater), you get almost radiation-free lead, as the Pb-210 existing at the time of mining/refining eventually decays into non-radioactive Pb-206.
How does having such a close relative appear before a Judge even pass the most basic legal ethics test.

Judges and Lawyers need to be like Casers wife above suspicion
I'm looking around for where I mentioned universality. "in large quantities" is the only vaguely similar term I used, which could still be 0.01% of agricultural practice and qualify as a "large" number of animals. Not that it is 0.01% of course: I live in Ireland where our beef is pretty much universally grass fed, and relatively well treated, but even here the same cannot be said of other meat production (chicken and pork really ain't great), and this is a tiny country, not producing on anywhere near the scale of many outside of Europe where standards are far worse.

I'm all for more advocacy for those involved in meat production who are adhering to a stricter standard of quality and ethics, but there mere existence doesn't negate the overall dreadful impact of the meat industry as a whole on animal welfare.

The only subjective aspect is whether you believe that's a worthy trade-off, but you can't argue that it isn't happening.
That link was hard for me to copy on mobile. Here it is, unformatted: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/einstein/
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Just to add another datapoint: It works fine using my 27” Acer B276HUL that’s configured using a hacked EDID file. If it works with this third-party setup, it’s probably safe to say it’ll work with any.
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Although others object to karma displayed prominently next to a username, I'm wouldn't be against it --if-- the karma was more meaningful.

The problem is that karma score combines points for submissions and comments. Those are very different activities to combine into a single mathematical scale. (Yes, I know that's also how other sites like Reddit works and a single score is "simple".)

Upvotes for submissions is saying something about the userid's curation and/or the type of topic. Some topics are "hot button" and attract upvotes even though the actual writing within the article/blog is substandard.

Upvotes for comments is saying something about userid's generative mind. His/her brain has an opinion and the fingers type it out.

As an analogy, karma combines upvotes for how a disc-jockey selects (curates) music with the upvotes for how a musician performs live music. This doesn't invalidate the DJ's effort but combining the scores means we lose more information than we gain.

I suppose the higher level abstraction we can use to justify a "composite" score of 2 very different activities is the concept of "participation score". In that way, karma==participation. In that case, does showing a participation# add useful information to the posts?
I was just watching a nice documentary on George Orwell, https://youtu.be/s6txpumkY5I.
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Personally, being in a UK, I consider "do I have enforceable consumer protection rights" when buying products online. That broadly amounts to "do they have a business address in the UK, contact info, are they active in promoting their business, perhaps do they have a physical shop", etc etc. I'd seriously avoid shopping where I couldn't contact the owners, unless I was doing something illegal (and therefore where I couldn't rely on my consumer rights) in the first place.
Most old lead objects are cast, casting is a process where a liquid is poured into a mold where it is left to solidify. Presumably because both the melting crucible and the cast are under the influence of gravity while the metal is in the liquid phase the heavier elements will sort themselves to one end of the end-product, maybe even into the flues that will get cut off from the final product.

It would be much harder to keep the U238 evenly distributed throughout the lead during such a process.
>preferring nuclear reactors based on uranium over say thorium

There are other reasons for this as well. LiFTR reactors have serious problems with chemical corrosion.

This is not a good example.
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> No it really isn't, static linking does not imply bloat as commonly perpetuated.

I never said it implied bloat. I said that, if you ask Rust to link dynamically despite the lack of a stable ABI, you'll get binaries of a size similar to C and C++.

> Try this: opt out of everything except the standard library, create something somewhat trivial and idiomatic in both rust and c, compile and see what you get.

I'll need you to be a bit more specific than "somewhat trivial", given that "Hello world" uses println! or printf() but you consider it ineligible.

> Hello word is hardly a use of the standard library.

println! aside, it's a data point and that's all I meant by it.
It may not be a good example but it does nothing to detract from the overall point.
I tried this on my first trip to 60 Hudson (a "famous" carrier hotel in Manhattan). We needed to remove a Cisco 2600 router. It's smaller than a pizza box. It fits in a backpack. I carried it under my arm.

As I step out of the elevator and into the lobby, the front desk person goes "you can't remove that equipment".

No worries, I anticipated this and have all the relevant removal paperwork. He is uninterested.

"you can't remove equipment using the passenger elevators"

But, I am in the lobby. The door is less than 20 steps. I already rode the elevator down.

"you must use the freight elevator. that is the law."

OK, I'll go back upstairs and use the freight elevator. Where is it?

"you can't operate it. you need an elevator operator"

OK, where should I wait for them? can you call one for me?

At this point, let me tell you it is Easter weekend.

"they do not work weekends, and it is a holiday weekend. they are $160/hr, minimum 4 hours, and it is double time on the weekend, plus time and a half for holidays"

OK, I'll just put it back. This piece of equipment is barely worth $400. Then I proceeded to go up the elevator, back to the datacenter, go inside, put the router in my backpack, and go back out.

And at the lobby was one of NYC finest, with one of the security people, who kindly asked me what was in my backpack. Then asked to search it. Do you have a warrant?

"I don't need a warrant. I'll just take you down to the precinct and open it there. You sure you don't have any weed in there, Mr. California?"

I went back up, put the router in the cage, went back downstairs, and used every ounce in my body not to flip the building security and his cop buddy the bird, akimbo style.
I'd add pjmlp to the list.