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> Better science education might resolve some of the emotional problems connected to nuclear energy.

Persuasion is a science that has been perfected by religions/cults, magicians, marketers and sales people. Scientists, mathematicians, economists, and policy makes don't wield that weapon very well.

You can spit accurate + well researched stats that argue your case until you are blue in the face, but not everyone listens to polite, well researched Oxford-style debates. You are competing with entrenched interests like oil and gas lobbies, doubt purveyers who have purchased professors with grants, the wild imaginations of Hollywood, and the association of "nuclear" in the minds of people who lived through the Cold War.
I work in distributed systems, and I consider blockchain very interesting. It's so interesting I click on a lot of links on Hacker News, and sometimes I take an afternoon on a weekend or vacation to read through some of the papers.

I just have a well-paying job and I don't see any opportunities lucrative enough for me to jump away. Why? Bitcoin is an experiment. Reading through the paper, Bitcoin does not scale to general purpose commerce. All of the other technology appears to be "me too." When I first heard about Etherium, the bullshit smelt so bad that I couldn't even look at the paper.

What will get me really interested? Pay me to implement a real-world use case that fits the scalability constrains of blockchain. This isn't things like general-purpose currency, or general-purpose contracts. Someone needs to pay me to implement something that requires blockchain; instead of someone paying me to implement a blockchain and then going and finding a use for it.
They apparently paid the author (Tito) to add it in. Originally he had pulled all of his packages from the default channel because he was unhappy that we require semver for all new packages (to allow newer features to work). After a bunch of users complained, he added SideBarEnhancements back (his most popular package), but apparently at some point later Kite paid him to add tracking code to it.
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Why don't they have an Ethereum, Bitcoin, or other donation address?
> Have you talked to many locals in China and found out they were against their regime?

I actually have. In fact, every single one that I talked with was against their regime.

The Chinese culture is not the victim here. The "evil whites" are not trying to mess with the eastern cultures in this case. Instead, the Chinese people are the victims, victims of the fascist regime that rules over them.
> I think Firefox supports all of the Chrome APIs but I'm not sure

They support quite a few but not all. in addition there is a promise based version of each of the APIs that you can use in firefox under the browser namespace instead of the chrome namespace. (with a polyfill on npm too if you want that in chrome)
> Interesting, I find that surprising due to the overhead involved.

Due to the frequency of this, objc_msgSend (which handles dynamic method calls) is hand-written in assembly, with caching and "fast paths" to improve speed. The overhead can usually be brought down to that of a virtual function call in C++.
PayPal had a developer sandbox back in 2010 when I wrote our client code. Honestly I don't remember it being difficult or tricky. The worst aspect was their confusing documentation which tended to mix up various different services and APIs such that it was hard to figure out which was the current, appropriate one. Perhaps that was the Stripe advantage: a single obvious course of action to take.
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Then again, people wouldn't have an innate desire to believe in good and bad people if fairytales and religion weren't already so popular.
You know at its most literal—ie terrorism is the use of terror to gain leverage—this would imply fake news is the problem.

This is just pr fluff.
Anyone interested in an extension of this thought by Catherine should read Kafka's "In the Penal Colony": https://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalcolony.htm
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It is like saying that (say) the Monopoly or Risk game revolve around throwing a coupe of dices (which is actually what they revolve around).

Still the actual dice throwing is the least interesting part.
It just hit me that if I want to get an accurate view of what people think of a contentious topic, I can't trust Google or Youtube as a gateway anymore. I simply don't know what machines or "experts" have decided to hide from me.
Sounds similar to a fair bit of video game content. Bayonetting innocents, adolescents brutally murdering other adolescents... Drawn or photorealistically rendered or real, where do you draw the line?
Weirdly enough - I found gmail was running VERY slow on Chrome. I switched to the Brave browser and it's been blazing fast.

Weird that Google products don't even seem to run the best on their own products.
Hello, I am halfway through my sophomore year in college and I have already been through two internships: one summer and one spring semester - summer. I would say that the most important things are grades and understanding, however basic that may be. The good grades will land you an interview, but your understanding will land you a job when you nail the technical questions during your interview. It wont hurt to try applying for some after your freshman year. It's very important to send out as many applications as you can. Look on job posting sites and apply to any internships you think you could be a good fit for. Don't worry about your lack of experience; everyone has to start somewhere, and there are plenty of companies that are looking to take on younger interns.
Not for apps like Facebook. Their app binary is in the hundreds of megabytes.
One thing I noticed was that it deletes the file upon download initialisation and not completion. So one downside is that if your friend cancels the download to try again later, they won't be able to.

One upside is that others won't be able to initiate and get the download at the same time - but perhaps if the download was cancelled, the tab closed, the item should become downloadable again?
They are planning on supporting the necessary functions required to port those types of extensions over to webextensions... see [0]

0. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384515#a545216...
Skeleton.css is my current favorite bare bones framework. Its last update on github was 3 years ago though, so I'm checking around to see if there's any similar bare bones framework. I know an update to skeleton.css might not be necessary because everything works, but Shoelace looks promising.
If you just care about the correctness of some algorithm, proving it is just tedium and not likely to produce a proof useful for reading anyway. So an exceptionally long, boring proof of correctness generated by a supercomputer is perfectly fine.
This is huge. There are a huge amount of capital inflows from indexers from being part of the SP500. This will be a strong disencentive to future IPO candidates for issuing shares with reduced voting rights.
One is fiction and the other is not.
10% of Irish people are redheads while about a half carry the gene apparently. I'd be willing to bet the dark haired brother has forearms covered in freckles
And even with $10 million, SAP has a plain ugly UI - ASCII based controls from the 1980s coded with a COBOL inspired script language also from the 1980s.
Thats pretty scary.

This is almost drumhead court martial for peoples online personas. :-/
The fallacies of web application performance
By common you mean 18 books have been confirmed worldwide.

> Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2016, The Anthropodermic Book Project "has identified 47 alleged anthropodermic books in the world's libraries and museums. Of those, 30 books have been tested or are in the process of being tested. Seventeen of the books have been confirmed as having human skin bindings and nine were proven to be not of human origin but of sheep, pig, cow, or other animals."[1] (The confirmed figures as of May 2017 have increased to 18 bindings identified as human and 13 disproved. https://anthropodermicbooks.org/
In Chinese, the character for green, "绿" (lǜ), also means light blue. Apparently, this is a more linguistic coincidence (https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/6832/what-is-the...).
There should be some kind of line drawn when a service is something people are essentially forced to rely on or is so ubiquitous. "Common carrier" phone companies aren't allowed to selectively censor your use of them, and it seems reasonable that something the likes of Facebook should maybe have to be held to a similar standard when it's so ubiquitous and a major part of modern communication. There are also precedents such as malls not being allowed to limit speech on the premises in California, along with some other states having similar enforcement of certain rights on some kinds of private property.
It's funny that proof of work still doesn't seem to protect from people loosing 31MM a while ago, or the Mt.Gox hack. I can't remember the last time my bank fucked up like that. That problem may be more solved then we are letting on. I know, I know, fuck the man.
I was trying to find a map of the 'dead zone'. Cursory link searching got me here: http://www.mightyearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Meat-P...

There are some maps showing the run-off situation.
How does the Internet work?
What an absolute joke of a response.

> But I was raised like a good little patriotic American boy, so I value free speech pretty damn highly, and I find this policy misguide and scary. Also, let's not kid ourselves -- ISIS is just an excuse. I guaran-fucking-tee this policy will be used to stifle all kinds of objectionable, non-politcally-correct videos.

What about that isn't clear to you? He supports it on principle.
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My small company needs a bank account. What are the features and costs we should consider?

Do you have experience with the giants, Chase and Wells Fargo? If you're in the bay area (ideally the east bay), what bank do you use?
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I hope Firefox succeeds and destroys Chrome.
Firefox stable feels relatively slow. Firefox nightly is really snappy, especially with Stylo enabled.

Also, go to about:config, and make sure preloading is turned on. I checked it last week and for some reason it was turned off, even though I don't recall ever doing that.
Will you release any of the Made with Krita books as eBooks/PDFs in the near future?

I don't think I'd be open to forking over 12 EUR for shipping. I'd gladly pay 8 EUR for an eBook edition though.
This is how PayPal lost my business initially; now that I'm a part of the payments industry, I use PayPal sparingly for much else.
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> Good luck searching for "google Malta" and getting decent product help.

Why would you search for “Google Malta” for product help when Malta is from X, not Google (searching for “x malta” gets more relevant results up front than using the wrong company name) and is a project, which has not yet produced a product (and any product may well have completely different branding.)

Plus, when it does result in a product, it'll be a utility-scale energy storage system, so I'd hope anyone needing product help isn't just doing a web search, anyway.

> You would think Google would recognise the benifits of owning a namespace.

X isn't Google, though they share the same corporate parent.
On the main https://testpilot.firefox.com/ page, scroll down and click "view past experiments". Each one gets a write-up when it's over.
I concur with the other commenter, "the cloud" is a laundromat is one of the most apt metaphors I have heard in a long time.
send.firefox.com says that my browser (Safari) is unsupported. Anyone know what particular "web technology" the site uses that Safari doesn't support?
You'll want to quote the entire statement, since what you've selectively quoted changes the meaning drastically.

People are less objective about an entity who is paying them. There is nothing controversial about this. I'm surprised someone like you would even convince themselves otherwise.
Could this be used to prove co-NP = NP, though?
At least in Germany, that's exactly how most pumped hydro storage is operated, and it seems profitable. So probably about that cheap (depending on the energy market).

Construction costs for pumped hydro storage seem to be in the range of 500$/KW.
I worked in Videoconferencing in the 90's and the advent of better CPU and processing power come the turn of the century with netmeeting, many in the industry thought the days of dedicated hardware and expensive MCU (Multipoint control units) was soon to be usurped. Nearly 20 years on and yet to see that killer video conferencing feature.

Of note was also privy to early testing of Three (UK 3G mobile network) tests for video and whilst managed to stream the Matrix in the early days as a test, that never took of either and that was more due to the costs of data connections, an issue very much moot these days (least in the UK).

One area that often lets down videoconferencing at the consumer level are the camera's and the environment the user uses them in and gets down to lighting. But again, no killer, easy to use consumer solution has come and taken the market by storm.

Sure many point to point video solutions on offer and used but no universal standard multipoint as easy as sending an email to multiple people is jumping out.

With that, I wish Facebook good luck and they do have the user base to drive this, but I'm not sure it is a feature as high in demand for consumer users as many wish or feel it is.

I can only put this down again to the environments such consumer systems (your mobile say) are used in and whilst the processing power is there to alleviate much of this, that has still to come to fruition as a user friendly reliable experience.
Ouch, that article really hurt my respect for SPL. Nawaz especially, through his discussions with Sam Harris, really opened my eyes to the struggles of moderate and progressive Muslims when it comes to reforming Islam.

Nawaz was himself radicalized as a young man, and much of his work today is around preventing other young Muslims from taking that path. It disgusts me that a man with such a important perspective is carelessly labeled anti-Muslim.

Check out the audiobook discussion with Sam Harris if you haven't, "Islam and the future of Tolerance". It was a good, respectful discussion between two very different viewpoints, and Nawaz made very insightful and logical arguments for mainstream Islam being capable of undertaking certain anti-radicalization reforms and why those matter.
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Here is the backend: https://github.com/mozilla/speech-proxy (which talks to Kaldi via I think https://github.com/api-ai/asr-server)
Facebook is THE mother lode of terrible engineering. They have turned it into an "art". You can see it across their end user offerings, as well as their open source ones. What is perplexing is that they have some of the most talented engineers out there. I'm guessing those people are using the resources of the company to research and do what is interesting to them, while clowns run the actual projects.
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> > I remember that nobody likes a pedant (even an accurate one).

> It's just that nobody likes being corrected.

Nice one.
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"There’s such an improbability to their story -— that these brothers from a little village would come to build what could well be one of the most important companies on the internet.”

But is it, in fact, improbable? If you believe Paul Graham, the most revolutionary ideas are always going to come from off the beaten path -- from some backwater, either of geography and/or of ideas.
Wow, pretty cool. Expedia has the forecasted data as well? Or is that built from past years
Ask HN: Possible to develop a 4HWW-focused startup from the beginning?
Lately I've been reading the very well known Four Hour Work Week ("4HWW") book by Timothy Ferriss and have been inspired by some of the startup stories from Indie Hackers, specifically the clever business called Instapainting started by Chris Chen (https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/instapainting).

I know the 4HWW philosophy DOES NOT actually suggest you should start a business by outsourcing everything, but if you took that mindset from the get-go, could it produce good results?

For example, I'll make up a business similar to Instapainting: [BUSINESS PROPOSITION]: Upload a photo and get it custom printed onto a cell phone case and shipped direct to your door. If you took a moment to read about Instapainting in the link above, you'll notice slight differences, in that the people 'producing the product' were actually artists themselves and were fully capable of painting the reproduction. My example is a bit different in that it's someone requiring the equipment to produce the product... probably not the best example but I hope you can see where I was going with it.

For this example, a few things are needed: A simple photo uploader + payment processor attached to the form, and a person on your staff that can take the image, create the case, and ship it (or ship to you, and then you ship it [longer delivery time]).

I suppose the main point of this post, and the questions I would most appreciate receiving some info/feedback on are:

1) What is the best way to go about finding outsourced staff that I can bring on to do the hypothetical case creation for me?

2) Where should I be looking to find them?
What we've seen over and over again with DRM is that that's enough to shut down content, though.

First, because the review system is unreliable - it's prone to acting defensively in the interests of the host (Google) and making the fastest defensible decision, regardless of accuracy.

Second, because the review system is slow. Even 24-hour turnaround is slow in a setting where display rankings risk exponential falloff if they don't get traction quickly. A brief delay on a Facebook post or Youtube video can be a death sentence in terms of engagement.

I'm not sure this system will have problems; "input from" doesn't mean "giving control to". But I certainly wouldn't want to rely on the review system as a reason to trust that nothing legitimate will be restricted.
There's many such tools available, RiseUp runs one called Up1. See https://share.riseup.net/

It's quite nice, has integrated image and video viewers as well as a pastebin all end-to-end encrypted.
I was about to post that. Those groups have very specific agendas. They shouldn't be allowed to block articles which disagree with their agenda.

Here's Dabiq, ISIS's propaganda magazine.[1] It's well-produced and in English. See what the other side wants. There are the usual rants: "We ask Allah to support the mujāhidīn of the Islamic State against the agents of the tawāghīt and the crusaders until the banner of the Khilāfah is raised high above Istanbul and Vatican City". Their strongest ire is raised against Arabs who oppose ISIS. The West is just the enemy, but Islamists who oppose them are committing apostasy. They're opposed to democracy on principle. Allah must rule, and that means autocratic rule by religious leaders. "Legislation is not but for Allah".

There's a concern that some people will be taken in by this stuff. That's only a problem for people who haven't seen enough extremist material to be able to evaluate it. There's a certain similarity to all that stuff, along the lines of "We're good, because God is on our side, and we have to kill the other guys because they're evil." This message is available in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic flavors. Kids should see all of those in school, to immunize them against such messages.

Will "trusted flaggers" be allowed to make Dabiq inaccessable?

("Maybe they is not evil. Maybe they is just enemies." - Poul Anderson)

[1] https://clarionproject.org/islamic-state-isis-isil-propagand...
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..and then rewrite it again via a clean room approach and run that one and see if they tally.

Preferably on different hardware.
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My team and I operate a SaaS that helps bloggers that have similar issues.

The key is to just start writing. There is no "wrong" blog format. You can write 50 word blog poetry, or you can write 5000 word essays. It does not matter. It just needs to be GOOD content.

In the beginning (unless you are already famous), you will likely not have much audience, so just knowing that makes it a lot easier to not worry about all the little things like grammar, execution, etc. Who cares if there isn't too many people judging at the time. And that's a perfect atmosphere to "git gud!"

As you blog over a few months, you will start becoming better at many things, writing (grammar and spelling), networking, communicating, etc.

The most important part is to just START. Once you are going, most of it will come naturally. When you are ready to build an audience, the REAL HARD work/hustle begins.
I'm not sure who'd have the ability to make that type of acquisition, to be honest. Maybe First Data? That would may even be a stretch.