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There is no real deal to Tai Chi. The fact of the matter is that a Thai Chi fighter has less tools in their arsenal than the best MMA fighters.

The traditional martial arts that are actually effective have already been incorporated into MMA. Jujitsu, Muay Thai, Wrestling, even some Tae Kwon Doe, Karate, these have all made inroads. But nobody makes it far these days in MMA knowing only one form.

Even if the best tai chi guy could hold his own on the feet, the MMA fighter would just go for a takedown or pull guard and the tai chi guy would not have the tools to defend.

There is not a single person who practices Tai Chi who has anywhere close to the breadth of martial arts mastery that someone like Demetrious Johnson has.
I've been using http://hellobonsai.com for invoicing. It has been an amazing experience.

They do time tracking and a bunch of other things as well and are continually improving the product.
I wonder if you can just stuff phone in carry-on and claim to have lost it.
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It's not an easy problem to solve. A very capable organization, ITA Software, was able to rewrite the shopping part. They failed, however, on delivering a new tech reservations system. Not for lack of money or talent either.

Google bought them for $700M.
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They're two sides of the same coin. Your situation is already the reality. A 40% discount for selling your information is a 67% surcharge for your privacy.
Well yes, they would likely keep their current one while expanding into new areas.

I'd argue though the only thing keeping them in the game is network effects and fighting that fight vs IG is... going to be challenging.
Almost certainly human error.

Anecdotally, I had a standby ticket recently when my seat was reassigned to a paying customer, although I still had a boarding pass for that seat. I was halfway down the jet bridge before the gate agent realized that my ticket had been revoked.

I imagine it's second nature for gate agents to let passengers through, and one lapse in judgement can cause the United incident, despite the software showing that the ticket was invalid.
And did one of the participants here break one of these rules? Or did the people start crying foul after their preferred candidate lost? I sense some goal-post shifting going on here.
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Well, if Google had sold to Yahoo, or FB again to Yahoo....
Selective exposure bias and cognitive dissonance absolutely do not only apply to information (in as you said "debate and 2nd hand reporting"). Their effects are equally documented on first hand experience.

Two people with difference beliefs experience the same thing and each walk away with their previous beliefs reinforced.

I hear and grant your argument ("What I'm suggesting is that where we don't observe significant adaptation in preconceptions within a shorter time scales, we might discover that humans are more capable to adapt over a much longer scale.").

But you're seemingly only using that to suggest that there will be one impact (towards more flexibility / change). You're ignoring the other side of the sword: what if more experience only deepens our beliefs because of our hardwired cognitive biases? E.g. if its difficult to overcome 20 years of racist enculturation, then what about 200?

The worries I have, and why I bet more on my future than yours, is that the majority of these biases stem from non-conscious processes in our brains. So there's no indication that taking a brain adapted for a 30 year human lifespan and extending it to 200 is going to radically change their physical, biological underpinnings.

However, if we gain the technology to indefinitely extend life, it seems probable that we'd also have the technical capability to modify these logical flaws. So it's possible we'd be able to "debias" brains to a greater degree.

Or, and I'd actually consider this more unlikely and harder, perhaps our understanding of human psychology and neuroscience will have advanced to the point where we can consciously override our own biases in a more reliable and passive manner (e.g. super mindfulness, Dune-esque psychoconditioning).

My main point is that indefinitely extending life and expecting our mammilian, product of evolution brains to just "get it" isn't a bet I'd be willing to take with humankind's culture hanging in the balance.
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Around 2005, they scanned my boarding pass and let me board a wrong flight. I didn't even check the gate properly as I was in a hurry but I found out only when I got to someone's seat asking him to leave because it was "my" seat.
Prepare your phone before coming through. Backup, wipe and set the password to "I am a panty-sniffing thug". Bonus points for filling it with nothing but articles about law enforcement overreach and pictures of pigs.

Encourage everyone you know to do similar, or whatever they're comfortable with. Make being a trouble-maker a badge of honor.

If you don't fight somehow, you are accepting it.
I think the NYTimes is either exaggerating things or they are trying to sell a narrative.

"China" has always known that wushu is just for show and that Tai Chi is more like yoga rather than a fighting style.

Besides, Bruce Lee already dispelled all the myths surrounding "traditional kung fu" a long time ago. This isn't some new concept that was introduced by MMA.
What do you mean by that is has no form? I feel this might just be that you're not used to watching these matches. It's the same as someone not familiar with soccer watching a soccer match, it's just some guys running around kicking a ball randomly. There is technique, tactics and strategy involved in MMA. As evidenced by this Tai Chi master being worked to the ground quickly and effectively. In my opinion the MMA fighter demonstrated excellent form.
I would draw an analogy to "boosting" stock price. When you are doing everything right, your stock price rises on its own. But you can also do self-defeating things to "boost" it nominally.
That's sort of how digital music streaming works...for consumers mostly and not so much for creators. I mean even if I put $100/month into something like Flattr, across the thousands of open source authors whose work I use, each would get about a penny.
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I agree, but that's beside the original point. There is a moral difference between raping and pillaging a defeated foe and leveling an entire civilian city as part of a war strategy (examples: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Oradour sur Glane, etc...).
Not likely to happen. It is a very expensive and difficult process to get a new airframe FAA certified to carry commercial passengers, which is part of why the Dreamliner took so long to be delivered. Couple that with basically zero margin for airlines and you have a perfect storm of "it's really expensive to make a new plane and no one will pay for it if you do".

There's a reason you see so many 20+ year old CRJ-900s and MD-80/90s at the airport. Airlines literally cannot afford new planes, and aircraft makers can't get new airframes through the regulator process easily enough. Boeing struggled to get fly-by-wire to pass FAA regulations, how do you think they'd fare trying to replace aluminum with 3D printed plastic?
Haven't you ever seen a Kung Fu flick? This is an entire trope.
Slightly off topic, but this is hardly the biggest blunder of the airline industry. A company I worked for last year absolutely tore them apart in a talk at 33c3.

In short, information like your address or passport number is easily accessible, and while it wasn't in the talk (I think), we were able to recover plaintext credit card numbers during the research.

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme...
Doubt it. Bruce Lee basically said the same thing and he's Chinese. This is more like the NYTimes trying to spin a story.
Plenty of Snapchat users (the ones who created the hype) are no longer teenagers. They are moving away from Snapchat to more concrete (perceived adult-ish) platforms like Instagram or not use them at all. Snapchat failed to evolve their product. I mean seriously do we really need those creepy glasses to record whomever you want?
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I guess it depends on the martial art? The ones that emphasize sparring with full resistance have found practical success in MMA, such as Judo, Muay Thai, and BJJ. I don't think many people would say a trained mixed martial artist is not great at combat.
I also practice BJJ but think of MMA as a pretty brutal no holds barred sport. The 2 things are not the same (although often talked about as being the same). BJJ is a (relatively) narrowly defined practice. MMA is a sport where you can bring any fighting practice or combination into the ring (and the successful fighters bring many). BJJ is a big part of MMA, but arguably no longer the defining skill needed to succeed (especially in the past 5 years or so).
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Let's hope the water utility doesn't decide to send out a spray of brown water when it's time to remind people to leave their taps open when the temperature goes below freezing
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In my experience, when I tried to board the wrong flight, the scanner served its purpose making an alerting sound and making sure they'd prevent me from boarding on the wrong airplane.

This was with Delta (both my intended flight and the mistaken one.)
"Download Chrome so that Microsoft can't block the Google Toolbar" isn't a selling point for consumers. I don't doubt that it factors into the strategic story of why the company invested in and supported the browser, but in addition, office productivity tools like GMail and the Apps suite rely on local storage, offline mode, and RPC technologies that the three big browsers weren't guaranteed to prioritize supporting in 2008. To ensure it could build the apps it wanted to build, Google needed a web user-agent it could control. Chrome was built and launched as much to enable those apps as it was to keep Google current as a default search target.
I've watched lots of MMA fights. Obviously, there are rules to the sport. But, to suggest it's not brutal is a bit much. It's brutal. That's why people watch it. No one turns an MMA match on hoping to see a beautiful display of athleticism. They tune in to see someone get their ass whopped.
> As explained later in this blog post, we plan to (i) contest the patent lawsuit vigorously, (ii) fund an award for a crowdsourced search for prior art that can be used to invalidate Blackbird patents, and (iii) ask the relevant bar associations to investigate what we consider to be violations of the rules of professional conduct by Blackbird and its attorneys.

Interesting. Seems to be more of a long term solution than just "We'll stand up for ourselves because we can"
Never would have guessed that. Very interesting.
Maybe just erase your phone then and there? Or set it to erase after 10 failed password attempts? Wonder how bad they'd make it for you in retaliation.
I think it probably didn't help when Wei Lei brought Mr. Xu's mother into it.

Joking aside, I don't know what's to be gained by smashing a clearly weaker opponent unless you are a sadist.
Even then, I often board with my coworkers who have higher status than me. If we're sitting next to each other and he's in group 2 but I'm in group 6, I'll generally board with him anyway and no one seems to care.
I'm not disputing your thesis about the need for basic research and long term investment ( and definitely alot of what's on HN is hype), but could it be that in today's world, deep innovation can be done in a more distributed manner and small research groups are much more powerful , especially since we already have a lot of the needed infrastructure ?
The most basic function of Customs is to know what is coming into the country. Customs has always had the right to search whatever and whoever they want.
Well, not for everything. If you're working with scientific data, the lack of NaN and Inf can be problematic.

Not that HOCON solves that.
You make it sound like Donald Trump himself dug up the terrorist plans and issued the order. In all likelihood he wasn't even aware of it until after it was issued, it's not the president's duty to oversee stuff like this. This order was issued by the DHS, the head of which is John Kelly who is hardly a Trump lapdog.

If the position of the users of this forum is that everything to US government does for the next four years is wrong just because Trump holds the executive seat - then we need to have a 4 year politics ban because this is going to be unbearable. This has nothing to do with Trump and the fact that he is even being brought up in this discussion is crazy.
You think life is more unpleasant now than 100, 1000, or 10000 years ago? I don't think I'd want to live in any of those eras if given the choice.
I find most quotes to be interesting sounding, but on deeper thinking incredibly vague or pointless.
I think the weatherization is under the tiles. I'm not sure what they'll be doing, but I imagine there will be forms of some kind under the tiles to cope with wiring concerns and alignment, and there will be weather protection underneath those forms. Some of the weather sealing will fail, same as the tar/sheeting does on conventional roofing. The tiles should still be good, so the main cost after 30y should be labor to re-seat and re-seal, and the optional replacement of any failed solar tiles.
The airline industry is already established and low margin so it's not an easy opportunity for disruption. Combine that with heavy regulation and needing tons and tons of very specific expertise and I doubt any VC would touch most of it with a 10 foot pole
There is one in that list for OpenBSD kernel in 2016. When tmpfs was removed from OpenBSD the reason given was "lack of maintenance". The problem found by afl had nothing to do with the decision?
Yeah, I'm not saying it's dangerous to run 90 miles a week. It's dangerous to suddenly start running 90 miles a week.

Just looked that guy up though, I bet he's got some cool stories!
The "new breed" is described as:

"""Blackbird combines both a law firm and intellectual property rights holder into a single entity. In doing so, they remove legal fees from their cost structure and can bring lawsuits of potentially dubious merit without having to bear any meaningful cost. """

Prenda Law already patented that breed. Expect infringement suit shortly.
That's until you have a significant amount string parsing with regexen in your app. Then Crystal is actually slower than MRI Ruby. Hard to believe for a compiled language but true.
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I don't think your examples prove this isn't Trump-related.
Funny- this exact same thing almost happened to my sister a ~week ago. She boarded the wrong airplane (although the scanner beeped without any errors). Luckily, after sitting in the plane for 5 minutes, she realized that she had boarded the wrong plane. Her flight had changed gates.
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I don't see a problem with the aircraft themselves. Modern airliners are excellent for the most part. The parts that aren't excellent (like the seats and entertainment systems) are installed by the airlines after the manufacturer is done.

Musk has repeatedly stated that his goal is to get space travel to be like airline travel. Airliners, with their rapid turnaround and zero refurbishment between flights other than cleaning the cabin and refueling the plane, are the model he's shooting for with his rockets.

Essentially all of the problems in air travel come from the airlines, not the airline manufacturers. All of the problems discussed in this article are about ancient backend computer systems that don't get the job done very well, not the actual aircraft.
In my experience (7 years as a corporate lawyer), a law dictionary would only be consulted for legal terms of art, which "procurement" is not. For most terms, a regular dictionary definition is used.

At any rate, I don't see how the definition cited would clear up the matter. It's a big leap from "the entire process of purchasing goods" to "commercial use". Like "use", which I discuss above, "commercial use" is a common term of art, and it would be strange to say "procurement" if what you mean is "commercial use".
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That bar seems to have lowered substantially a few months back.
More or less - from Wikipedia:

The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray.[8] Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation (CCC), in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995, while Cray Research was bought by SGI the next year. Cray Inc. was formed in 2000 when Tera Computer Company purchased the Cray Research Inc. business from SGI and adopted the name of its acquisition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray
From experience I can say the Telco industry is exactly the same.

It would not surprise me to find any industry that has been around 40+ years will be the same - they want to spend time and money doing what they do, IT is seen as nothing more than an expensive nuisance.

Love them or hate then, that's why for example Uber & Telsa are so "disruptive" - they are focusing on the IT and the "Thing" (taxis / cars) is virtually second best.
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The POC seems to require some semi-esoteric stuff. In the absence of a more general exploit technique, it might be better to more explicitly say "these are configurations you should not use" than being as sweeping as this is (as for some configurations it does look super-frightening). From reading this, my impression is that there are two things people need to do:

1. Switch off untrusted DNS (e.g. Google's) regardless of any POC. Nginx views using these as insecure (fair enough), so they may decline to issue security advisories for any exploit that doing so allows (less fair).

2. In certain circumstances (1) is insufficient; the post details at least some of these. But you need to do (1) regardless.
> The ACLU has become much more active in trying to protect the rights of travelers during the Trump era

> in 2016, “the number of people asked to hand over their cell phones and passwords by Customs and Border Protection agents increased almost threefold over the year before.”

I mean, it's great and all that the ACLU is working on this, but the repeated attempts to tie this all to Trump is becoming kind of maddening. Pretty soon all this stuff will start being referred to as "Trump-era security measures" in the press and most will forget who actually started most of it (the last two presidents).
OK, I know it's the worst to show a product and have the first thing out of the audience be a feature request. So I guess first: this looks awesome. Second: what I really want from a SOHO router is a decent remote administration workflow. Our network admin is remote/part-time, and frequently uses remote-desktop apps to be "present" on our network to administer our firewall.

Here's what I'm thinking. Build an OTP display into the router that is necessary as a second factor for remote administration. Then, instead of allowing the remote administrator to make changes immediately, require me (on the local network) to approve the changes.

Regardless of the actual implementation, it seems like remote administration is a neglected featureset of the SOHO networking world. In my experience, though, it is very common to need someone outside the network to make changes (remote employee, family member, IT consulting shop, etc).
>There are probably a hundred ways to rationalize why

It's just a difficult problem to solve. Many capable organizations have tried in earnest, including one Google bought for $700M. Thus far, the non TPF solutions can only scale to medium sized airlines.

It's not impossible, it's just a huge investment, and the payoff is lower than other potential uses of the same money. That's why all previous efforts stalled.
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It's a strange move.
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Yeah! I recently built a website that heavily uses Illustrator assets exported as svg. I was happy to have read that explanation before pulling my hair out over weird artifacts.
Well, the current display is not much better in my opinion...

Xu is right, if you're presenting your "craft" as something you do for health reasons, great. If you're presenting it as something which should save your life in a dangerous situation... then that's a problem.
Only if your phone is locked and it is looking for all open wifi networks. If you unlock it or it is connected to a particular wifi network this is not true.
You're right, but I'd just like to plug Debian for servers — it's a really well-made distro, put together for sysadmins by sysadmins in large part.

And it's pretty wonderful on the desktop too!
It's more a brand name at this point - like "Westinghouse" items sold at Target.
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> includes a roof AND solar

...and the cost to remove your current perfectly good roof! I think I smell a bargain!
Exactly. It doesn't really make sense to talk about procurement of an automated valuation model, but that is what the statute seems to say.
Well the point is to get you thinking, so I wouldn't say it's pointless. If you've thought deeply enough about it to decide it doesn't matter, you've probably already absorbed the lesson you were supposed to learn. Most koans are completely pointless or vague, but in order to figure that out you have to understand it, and at that point you've already grown.
It feels like it's a classic case of where coming first can hurt you down the road.

For example, part of the reason the US is so far behind on credit card technology (just getting around to adopting EMV) is because the US was the first country to widely adopt credit cards in the first place and there's a lot of inertia.

In the airlines case, they were one of the first industries to computerize. Now they're stuck with the mainframes. Same thing happened in banking.
Do you practice Tai Chi? Do you know anything about it?

I do and I've met serious people who can do some incredible things. These people are serious and don't go into the ring with some self promoting idiot.
The arrogance of BJJ practitioners truly knows no limits.
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By not continuing to pummel him when he is on the ground. I don't know what could compel someone to continue hitting a person's head as he lays helpless on the ground (the opponent was basically curled up in the fetal position). At that point it just seems like the fighter gets some sort of sick enjoyment from hurting the other person.
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I would wager there is more money to be "found" by streamlining operations (e.g. better boarding and overall faster gate turns) than there would be in manufacturing improvements.

What most people don't realize is that an airliner is a $40-240 million dollar investment that needs intensive regular maintenance. Nobody gives a shit if you can shave 100lbs off the weight of the fuselage if you also have to replace the entire thing during every D check.
What's wrong with art? Not every runner trains to compete world class. Not every dancer wants to join competitions. Tai Chi is still popular with people who wouldn't be able to fight and gives them joy - even though the moves do come from fighting stances. You just need the keep enough sense not to challenge other people to fight you. I don't see a reason to call this bullshit.