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This article changed my view on the subject a bit.

Lately, I had been watching various documentaries and YouTube videos about the opioid crisis in the USA and Canada. Often, the public policy seemed absurd to me, as it was just as if the first responder services were offering free customer support for the drug business. They used Naloxone to save the lives of customers who should normally have overdosed, and with no supervision afterwards, those addicts were soon back in the street where they keep buying and consuming.

A drug that is too lethal has very little commercial viability. By decreasing the lethality of drugs, first responders support the drug business, which is absurd.

I started reading this article expecting it to enforce my position, but I had to acknowledge the fact that apparently, this policy did indeed reduce drug usage in that country. That puzzled me a bit as I was struggling to see how making consumption easier could reduce consumption, but then they mentioned how they provide methadone, and that seemed like a sensible explanation. They don't provide customer support by just giving naloxone for instance, as I saw they do in US and Canada, they also provide an opioid substitute, which should hopefully reduce the likelihood of a relapse.
Modern education hasn't produced well-rounded individuals since the nadir of Taylorism in 1910. It's produced one-dimensional people who are good at passing arbitrary requirements for the sake of passing arbitrary requirements. This process is even worse in countries without the socio-cultural background of the US - read Feynman's description of education in Brazil (iirc, from Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman) for a fantastic example of this sort of degeneracy. Essentially, it had students "learning physics" by memorizing and guessing what the teacher wanted from students who had "learned physics".
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A few more for your list: dataloader, draft-js, express-graphql, regenerator, relay, yoga
Most ad blocking is about intercepting specific urls, which can work at a layer below javascript.

They can also do server side ads and make the url indistinguishable from another image asset. They haven't, so it isn't 'dire' enough yet.
Most likely leaked from a private channel. Lots of these types of little documents.
I'm not sad that foolish people are losing money due to market manipulators. The same people trading DOGE would otherwise be playing online blackjack or something.

I'm just a little sad that the manipulators aren't motivated to put their brains towards a more useful cause. In the same way that I'm a little sad that Steve Wynn spends his time building casinos.
Will it still be voluntary and consensual if the day comes where stores post signs: "Payment accepted in bitcoin only"?
Indeed. They don't need to restrict speech or monitor much, when they've convinced people to censor themselves. If I lived in an area that was repressive, I'd probably make sure I never said anything bad about the government.

One of the things I like about my country is that I can call my government out when they make bad choices and I can even organize a protest to show my displeasure.
The legal drinking age in the USA has a long and storied history that mainly has to do with MADD and the Reagan administration. The most straightforward and sensible opposition can be explained in a single sentence: “If I am old enough to die for my country and mandated by law to sign up to do so, why am I not legally allowed to have a beer before doing so?”

Regarding your comments about the voting system: of course they are true. How long will the hypocrisy manifest itself before it is changed is the true question.
I'd say re-production and re-cognition are two separate skills.

I recognize the Mona Lisa when I see it, but I won't be able to reproduce it.
As the Wikipedians say, [citation needed]. Yes, Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Fandango, but they appear to be using essentially the same methodology that they always have: look at a bunch of reviews of a given movie, decide that review is "fresh" or "rotten" (which is done objectively based on the reviewers' own star/numerical ratings as much as possible, from what I can see), and tell you how many reviews they've aggregated were "fresh." What bias are you asserting? Are you saying they give Warner Brothers and Universal movies better ratings than competitors? Can you cite plausible examples? Through what devious mechanism are they subverting their aggregation system?
An education trying to create a rational democracy would focus on liberal arts mixed in some ratio with an engineering temper. Focusing only on engineering and science will cost society art and creativity.

I live in India and while we have a robust movie industry, we (I can speak only for the little middle class I'm exposed to) don't enjoy art. E.g., none of my high school friends became dancers. We have exactly one alumnus of my high school who is reknowned nationally as a dancer. Yes, India is very science and engineering focused.
I just checked Chrome Beta on Ubuntu, Windows and OSX, and there are no Chrome processes running upon login.

No Chrome processes until I actually launch Chrome.

Can you verify?
Sorry, I'm confused, can you help me understand that blog post? I'm getting three messages from it:

1. We like React a lot with or without the license.

2. It's not our job to convince the world React's patent license is fine.

3. We're substantially moving away from React, including large rewrites.

...why are they moving away from React? I'm confused, do they believe using React implicitly supports it? They're already vocally supporting it.

I don't have an opinion or a dog in the race with regards to the React and patent license drama, but I legitimately don't understand why this blog post (or the underlying decisions) was written. In my opinion it feels like a huge deal to decide to rewrite a piece of production software, especially if you like the software already. So what am I missing?

Are they concerned that people won't use WordPress because it has React components? Does React's BSD + Patents license extend downstream like that?

EDIT: Thank you for downvoting me twice for asking an honest question folks...
Is that even the claim they are making? I honestly never thought about it, but the claim could easily be "we kill 99.99% of germ strains" or "we kill 99.99% of germ cells".
People claim wikileaks to be unbiased, that's the difference.
"Dish" as a verb indicating gossip is informal, but according to Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dish + scroll down), it can be both a transitive and intransitive verb (i.e., used with an object, or not).
Don Knuth has considered it dangerous for years. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
Agreed. Thank you for saying something.
Oh, wow... never even heard of that one. What a horror show.
Suspension of disbelief only works when the world presented is believable and the story interesting. I find myself able to suspend belief on Nolan films, for example, because of their engrossing story and style.

With your example of Prometheus, no, the flick is not bad because of that scene, but the scene is an indication of the overall laziness of the plot. All the nit-picking, as you put it, is because there is nothing else to hold on to, which is not true of Alien at least (I don't particularly like Aliens).
I'm saying that a person must be getting exposed to millions or billions of variants, and only one leads to an infection. That is very surprising to me given my understanding of viruses.
I'm always amazed at how many doctors I've encountered behave as if their knowledge is the extent of medical practice. I get it though, research is hard to stay on top of and isn't linear to results.

Granted, also, that there are lots of doctors who do follow research.
I can only see this ending up like the earlier psychiatric practice of mass-lobotomization did. The same types of alliances of ethicists, the judicial system and mental health professionals collaborated then, too. They really believed that they were doing the humane thing by taking the matter of competency into their own hands and justifying what can only be called torture in the name of therapy.

The existence of any social or institutional mechanism that gives one esteemed category of people the right to deny someone else's rationality is always abused. Not even only abused with small probability, it becomes the norm. Therapeutic authoritarianism produces labels like "drug addict" which only results in widespread persecution of people who don't follow society's preference of correct drug usage; soon people who are the wrong weight might also become deemed 'incompetent to make good-hearted decisions based on the specific drug', or their specific religion, or their "oppositional-defiance disorder" etc..

Could you imagine if we said "people who go to work everyday are helpless because their incompetence prevents them from seeing that they are only doing it because their brain has been rewired to make them depend on their salary for satisfaction" or the seemingly innocuous but even more insidious version, "oh, I did hear that new studies showed that some people are just genetically predisposed to employment.. it's not their choice, it's a disease, you know. Haven't you heard about the long-term epigenetics in the reward center? The brain becomes rewritten!"

The thing called addiction is itself little more than the fear that drugs make a person incapable of choice, their free will. Not surprisingly, in pursuing the desire to correct individual behaviors with state-sanctioned superstition, a decades-long nightmare of rights violations and moral duty to dehumanize 'addicts' in the name of therapy ensued. It's like using thermite to put out a candle. Any transformation of the approach to drug use that forfeits the people it's supposedly benefiting from the regularity of the guaranteed rights granted to all of society is doomed to be the opposite of their freedom..
People that pontificate about subcultures with no direct experience.
I work for a company with at least one lawyer dedicated to IP law and we thought about this long and hard. What it does is potentially make t prohibitive to sue FB if they violate our patents. Since we have hardware patents and they have hardware, it was distinctly possible that this could be a real problem. We decided to proceed anyway but we know we are risking something. And you can say patents suck and we shouldn’t have them, but our hardware patents represent decades of R&D that wouldn’t exist if we didn’t have patent protection.
You are an angry little man.
That's true for startups too (admittedly the ratio is probably less stark)
Former banker, and to this day I remove the F1 key from my keyboards because I still use excel heavily. Never really crossed my mind to remove winhelp.exe or anything else. This was a simple solution to a simple problem, didn't need anything more complicated.

And if I ever need to access the help function, I'd just stick a pen in the socket and hit the membrane.
This isnt directly related to the article, but I have two questions about ICO coins I was hoping someone here could answer. I read that recently a group raised millions of dollars in less than a minute to fund the creation of a new web browser.

1. How are coins valued when the underlying company is building a product it will never be able to, or never intends to monetize (eg if Wikipedia had an ICO).

2. If another company acquires this browser company, what happens to the coins?
Ok, you didn't specifically mention git in TFS so I assumed you meant TFVC.
Interestingly that would seem to further the author's point a bit. You didn't think dogecoin was legitimate because it was named after a meme. So that made you less likely to trust the code/governance?
Spreading FUD with no proof. This has not been the case at all from my experience.
There is zero path for that after both endorsing Romney and Clinton.
As jacquesm pointed out, you've been posting outrageous (if true) stories about famous companies and executives to HN for years. The first several times I read those, I thought 'holy shit!' But then—maybe it was the one where you told about Steve Jobs' collusions with Bill Gates that took place on an airplane so nobody would know?—something started to feel a bit off. Anybody can post anything on the internet, after all. We have no way of knowing whether such stories are tall tales or not, and alas, sometimes users make things up.

On Hacker News, we start from an assumption of good faith (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), but we also care about substantive discussion. Our goal is good conversation—a forgiving medium—but eventually you need to substantiate what you're repeatedly posting.

I don't assume that your stories are false, but by now you've built up a lot of narrative debt. So please don't post any more incredible claims to Hacker News without a significant reason for readers to believe them.
FTA:

> I think Facebook’s clause is actually clearer than many other approaches companies could take, and Facebook has been one of the better open source contributors out there. But we have a lot of problems to tackle, and convincing the world that Facebook’s patent clause is fine isn’t ours to take on. It’s their fight.

My interpretation is that due to the negative publicity that Facebook has garnered with their license, they didn't want to scare people away from using/building on top of their platform by using their library even though they themselves did not have a problem with the license.

It's understandable how that might be the final straw for Facebook when even people who don't have a problem with their license won't use their libraries for that reason.
Jesuscoin crowdsale
Tax just tracks that the transaction occurred, it doesn't track who's doing the transaction.

But if you don't like even that much, then replace "cup of coffee" with "lemonade from a neighborhood lemonade stand".
Why would you stop at the binary initial impression, though? All the information you need is one click away.
>Legal matters at big companies generally take months to resolve and come to consensus over.

Sure, at your typical big public company. But Facebook voting control is firmly in the hands of Mark Zuckerberg, and he doesn't have to wait for approval of a board of directors. Just like when he decided to buy Instagram for $1 billion in a matter of days. If Mark detected developer sentiment shifting, he can move just as fast as he wants to stanch the bleeding.
Dogecoin is for fun. Much block-chain. Wow.

It died off because _some people_ tried to turn it into a real thing for micro transactions, etc.
> Frats select for larger physical stature and attractiveness. This deselects for academic performance and strongly selects for business success

Physical stature and attractiveness are negatively correlated with academic performance? Sounds like you're repeating a stereotype. Can you cite evidence of that? (I have come across studies, e.g., Kanazawa 2011, that show significant positive correlation between intelligence and attractiveness. Also, frats are not composed of purely attractive people. That's just Hollywood movie nonsense. I've met plenty of unattractive and rather dull frat members.)
This is correct (have family in the industry). Pay for pilots at major domestic airlines is based primarily on seniority and equipment you fly. Captains at the end of their careers flying the larger planes - 747, 777, 787, A350 - are easily clearing $300,000 with great benefits.
Isn't that possible with play music with every Android version since (I think) 4?
You forgot kick ass female lead, implausibly beating up men twice her size using minimal muscle mass :|
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Many countries take this approach.

https://decorrespondent.nl/6562/het-zelden-vertelde-verhaal-...

Amsterdam, 1985, the government supplied methadone using an old city bus they transformed into a drug dispensary, they even supplied clean needles for free.
They feared that for example the Apache Foundation wouldn't use WordPress, and so with others.

And yes, the Patents part of that extends downstream to anything using it, that's the dangerous part of patents. It applies to everything that does that — even in independent implementations.
Well, they're repressive enough that the French come to NL and Portugal in droves to get their drugs.
Offline signing is common, so theoretically you could print the transactions and private-key to the account/utxo on paper and use them as physical promissory/bearer notes.

Unfortunately though, it's the network that verifies the absence of double spends, so there's no guarantee of uniqueness.

With the no internet, and limited interbank settlement, I would still bet on the value of crypto over the fiat inflation that would be used to facilitate credit-worthiness.
The coins themselves are valued based on what people are willing to pay for them. In contrast, when a story claims "a company raised millions of dollars" it is typically talking about the currency Ether that was PAID to the company in exchange for the tokens. That is also worth what people are willing to pay for it, but because Ether has been around longer it has more of an established value.

If the company is acquired, a number of things could happen. It's important to note that for the most part, the company doesn't control the coins. They simply publish a contract that provides for the tokens to function, but normally the administrative capacities of such a contract are limited once the sale is over. When administrative capacities do exist, they are typically controlled by one or more people controlling a particular private key. The owner of that private key will have control of the contract, so in order for a company transfer to transfer control, that private key would have to also transfer. (they'd probably want to redeploy the contract under a different key anyways since there would be no guarantee the old owner didn't still have a copy of the old key.)
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> However, you might be able to construct an "IOU" of sorts by creating a signed transaction offline, to be fed to the network later.

And if you grant the holder of that IOU the sole right to print and distribute notes representing subdivisions of that debt, you’ll find yourself back at cash!
> Recently, I added a webhook that takes all our GitLab pushes and parses out JIRA information and automatically handles that sort of business-level logic

Have you found a good solution for auto-linking to JIRA tickets from GitLab comments/commits/etc without turning on the the included JIRA Integration? I want to continue using Gitlab's native issues, and the included JIRA integration replaces the native Gitlab issues with JIRA tickets, which is such a colossally boneheaded idea.
Ethereum's upcoming Proof of Stake mechanism is supposed to put more power into the hands of investors compared to miners.
1) The organization selling the coins more or less says "hey who wants to buy these for $1 each" and somewhere between zero and lots of people buy them. Once I buy one, I can sell it to anyone else for any price. Then the invisible hand does its thing
2) Well the coins themselves can't really be changed. Any actually enforcable obligation on the purchased company wrt to those tokens would ostensibly be acquired as well

I think the big risk with lots of ICOs these days is even if some discerning investors pass, there are still lots of folks buying in as described in #1. And a lot of times it's really unclear what leaglly enforcable obligations actually exist wrt #2.
A resource I recommend is the book, Chasing the Scream, by Johann Hari.

It lays out the complex and remarkably individual history of the war on drugs and its consequences to great effect. If you read it and agree, buy a few copies to pass on to random people you encounter.
I find this history confusing. Legendre guessing by hand? Spaghetti on the wall? No mention of the massive work of Laplace and others that led up to Legendre and Gauss, or Gauss's connection of the notion to probability? This is truly a bizarre view.

And then the idea that numerical optimization accounting for the slope was novel. How does he think that mathematicians calculated for the preceding centuries?

Linear regression springs full formed in the 1950's and '60's? What happened to Fisher and Student and Pearson and all the rest?

Where's Hopfield? Where's Potts? Where's an awareness of the history of mathematics in general?
Why do you think I am trying to snuff your viewpoint? How did I prevent you from voicing your opinion? My reply was just:

"> I am for social pressures against unprotected sex. What is this if not trying to make other people live their lives following your way of thinking?"

Yes, I really don't get it how is this preventing you to voice your opinion.

I honestly don't care what you think or support, but when you are suggesting "social pressure" in order for people follow your opinion then you will find me calling you out.
"Processes could be set up whereby mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists), ethicists, and the judicial system could make determinations that an individual is not competent to make decisions"

Isn't that allready pretty much the case?

If a person gets demented, cracy, whatever - then other people around them notice and take action. Hospital, Judge s. There are also other issues than drugs, like
driver license, firearms, childcare etc.

Not that it is really easy to determine if a person is sheep-like.
Lots of gray area and abuse in that area, so barriers are quite high.

(is a suicidal person for example crazy? I think not necessarily, only in rare exceptions)

But I very much agree, that a normal, mature person should have every right to consume whatever he or she wants. While beeing still fully responsible for all her action s ...
I can vouch for Susa as a seed-stage investor. Definitely take this offer - this is a big decision, and it's worth talking to experts on various sides.

I also sold my last company for a bit more than what you're describing, but in the same arena. Feel free to get in touch if I can help. (Find me via my profile and/or on social media if you're interested.)
As is bitbucket.
Which is why I buy my music from DRM free, full fidelity sites like Bandcamp.
This is an aggressively unproductive way to frame the situation.
If you have evidence of tax evasion, I'm sure the tax authorities would love to hear about it.
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How does Dollar work offline? How much do you have in your pants?
Because if the world goes offline, Banks would not have all the "money" necessary to give it back to people.
Wow this is impressive! Def going to try it out!
Neither angry nor little.
You are putting words in my mouth. I didn't use corporate rights holder argument to justify unrestricted copying. But DRM is enforce market and device segmentation, not to empower content _creators_.
> The currency survived a crisis of credibility after a bug was discovered in 2016

This is my primary worry with cryptocurrency, what if there is a bug in the code which do unexpected things and destroy the value completely.
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