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Charles II, after losing the Battle of Worcester, fled to Europe where he stayed for nine years [1][2]. There he discovered tea. He also discovered Catherine of Braganza, a tea drinker (like most of the Portuguese nobility) whom he married [3].

In 1660 the British monarchy was restored. Charles and Catherine then introduced the custom of tea drinking to the British court.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Braganza
Breast cancer gene mutation 'doesn't affect survival'
Hello! I'm the author of this article. I created a new account to post this. I hope it's not too long, but if you're in a hurry, reading the abstract/introduction is enough to understand the gist of it. I'd gladly answer any questions, criticism or feedback :-)

Edit: I removed "kill" from the title of the article, because I now realize it sounded a little harsh. That harshness wasn't intentional :-)
Humans should have reconsidered their place within the global ecosystem well before the twenty-first century, but our limited longevity and innate myopia, along with rapacious capitalism and religious dogma, kept us from doing so. Now we've destroyed the one thing that sustains us, and to what end?
Let's not see this as simply a national policy issue. It's a global problem where peoples lose control to the levers of their governments. Sometimes, it's about a population that is deliberately misguided by propaganda. Often, it's a problem with the concentration of wealth and transnational entities who escape any reasonable form of governance. The solutions to this won't be found by ostracizing any nation's citizens, but, to join in solidarity to solve the economic and governance issues that are at its core.

Cooperative structures could offer an approach to these problems. Cooperatives are a way for a group of people to collectively own shared resources and make decisions about them democratically. Importantly, they are not governmental (i.e., they lack force of the police/military) yet can use the same legal environment that for-profit corporations enjoy. Cooperatives fall in the middle of the political spectrum: to liberals, they are about economic self-determinism; to conservatives, they are about smaller government and corporations. Cooperatives could be used to peel away economic activities from unaccountable entities.

As leaders and doers, we should start thinking about what activities we perform should be governmental, which should be proprietary (privately controlled) and which should be cooperative yet economically participatory. For example, regional water systems are often operated as cooperatives rather than for-profit entities or as a department in a municipal government. This distributes economic and political power. We could build upon this organizational pattern in other industries. We need more tools, research, and investment into how cooperatives could help us form global democratic networks that are small, distributed, financially sustainable, and accountable.

We need global, bottom-up, fractal governance and economic markets that distribute political and financial power.
Hmm... I still don't see the "revolutionary" part tho.
dude, how many fucking email addresses do you have then?
To rephrase: it's completely irrelevant and I think you're now dimly aware of that.

This is likely why you did not ever attempt to explain its significance and responded with a facile insult when I alluded to its irrelevance.
I'm using a work-provided one right now and I absolutely hate the keyboard.

Everything is so cramped and it just feels like typing on a solid piece of plastic. I ended buying a separate mechanical.

And the Magic Mouse, dear lord. it's the most un-ergonomic mouse I've ever experienced and that, combined with the inability to disable mouse acceleration in High Sierra without hiking sensitivity means I'm stuck using the trackpad, which is fine for basic stuff but it will never beat a mouse for fluidity, speed and accuracy.

Plus I'm convinced if I continue to use the trackpad I'm going to do some permanent damage to my hand/wrist. It really isn't comfortable to use for long periods.
Who would enforce such a ban? The best you could realistically do is ban the import in your country. Is there even much international electricity trade occurring?
They did, because other people figured out something was up and the speculation was considered more problematic than holding out a few days.

As you say, the vulnerability was disclosed to others on the 1st of June, which puts us at 6 months for the disclosure deadline. If 6 months in vendors aren't ready with patches I doubt those few days would have made a significant difference.
Why can't they just reuse when it is apparent the case is harmful (as in, people complain and check number of downloads and dependent packages) by blocking the name and disallow reuse for any other cases?
> New “Responsiveness” scenario. Workloads include: application launches, file launches, web browsing with multiple tabs, multi-tasking, file copying, photo manipulation, file encryption + compression, and

gone down to 86% :-(
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I tend to think the same. I switched to twitter, instagram (I know, also facebook) and messengers and stopped using facebook altogether. Many of my friends did too and I'd guess that FB can see that in their numbers.
I think “chai” is not really a Swedish word, but a word recently imported by the cafes, signifying some kind of tea-based beverage.
Some of us use myemail+sitespecific@gmail.com. It gets delivered to the same myemail@gmail.com. Other mail providers probably offer the same convenience.
They're still selling th 15in rMBP w/out touchbar.
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch

But then again, this has the same specs as a 2015 machine: with all the function keys and ports, has an older processor, no discrete graphics, and starts at a smaller storage 256GB SSD. If only they'll offer one with discrete GPU.
Vietnamese uses both "chè" and "trà". But for some reasons, for things like iced tea, bubble tea we only use "trà". For the traditional tea that serves in a teapot, either is fine.
On a macbook there's still a SATA ribbon cable between the HDD/SDD and the mainboard
Personally I would like to know how to disable that "feature"
I can even divide B2B into 2 parts: small businesses and enterprise level
What did you mean saying "tea in the middle"? I'm quite sure we Vietnamese only use "chè" or "trà", both variants are basically "cha" I think.
Exodus wallet  password/12 words
Hello,

I wonder whether my password and my 12-word-phrase is in a local storage of Exodus wallet. Is there a way to find and decrypt my own password ?
Sure, at minimum it is annoying. For me i'm always checking latest political, sports or technology news, although this might come across pretty bad but I put my facebook "world" in the same category so I want the latest updates all the time
This is already covered in the book. The water ice on Ceres had already been used up in the colonisation efforts of Earth and then later: Mars.
This sort of thing makes us _look_ dumber

Context is important; your friends in the pub know when you are joking, or not entirely serious, or making a rhetorical point, or playing devils advocate, or are referencing an earlier conversation, or telling an inside joke, or have just misunderstood something. Random strangers on Twitter read everything as an unequivocal statement. And respond accordingly.
How can I be more productive?
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Are just some Indian words loaned by English.

Two interesting words that Punjabi/Hindi has loaned from French is Savon (sabun) and Cartouche (Kartoos).
Thanks, that was a good read.

Still, as they say in this article, without a tinfoil hat: "There’s no reason someone couldn’t have found this years ago instead of today."
Down the “shithole”: why lexicographers need your profanity
You're all way off.

A pair of Gauls and a Breton (by pure coincidence) brought tea to England.

It's all documented in history books such as this one:

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

:)
> you really need a cdn service for static sites that take a lot of hits

No, you don't. HN traffic isn't that large. Even a Raspberry Pie should be sufficient (with good internet connection, though). See the above link.

You'll need a CDN for videos and maybe huge hi-res images, though.
Interesting! Never heard anyone use "tea" to describe the evening meal. Tea refers to the light meal at late afternoon, after lunch and before the evening meal (dinner) at my place, seems to be same as the "common" usage.

BTW, Cantonese is actually a "chai language": the character 茶 (tea) reads like "char" as in charcoal, without the h sound and in a low tone.
> This is kind of the opposite of personalized medicine, making response uniform across the population.

Which is a far more pratical approach.
> but the same meaning is always conveyed

Debatable. https://medium.com/matter/lost-in-emoji-translation-apple-vs...

Old article, and Android is/has ditched the blobs, but still highlights the importance of the art in conveying the same meaning.
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The demand for tea amongst the English aristocracy predated production in India.

The main impetus for the English to grow tea in India, was that it was costing too much to buy from the single monopolistic source, China. Basically, the Honourable Company was trading opium for tea. More money could be made, meeting English demand for tea, by producing it on Company controlled land.

The question is, where did Catherine of Braganza source her tea from? India, as suggested by the grandparent comment, or China.
Yes, but that's because it's Powershell Core now. Powershell Core 6 + upcoming Windows specific plugins will replace the old Powershell 5.
"So will the heterodox become the new orthodoxy, and economics go quantum?"

So did Thomas Friedman change his name?

Also, to all people in economics, or rather social sciences: stop with the dinky physics comparisons.
Ask HN: What is a good laptop to put linux on for development
I'm looking for a new decent laptop which I plan to put linux on.

I'm currently looking for something 15 inch that has reasonably high specifications and doesn't use anything that will cause any firmware issues.

I excluded a new macbook[0] for it's touchbar (can't believe they don't have the option for a 15" version without one).

I've excluded the librem 15[1] as the usb type c doesn't support display (would be nice to have two display outputs).

Does anyone have any recommendations?

[0] https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch

[1] https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/
Check out Ecclesiastes.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”

3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.

This is from Solomon, a man who had everything and it didn't satisfy.

One question would be why aren't we satisfied?

An answer, from a Christian perspective, would be, as cs lewis states:

> If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world

A consistent biblical them is God's Providence in suffering. The book of Job for example, or Joshua's, what you meant for evil God meant for good, but along with these examples the people aren't given any explanation for what has happened to them. Job never gets told why he was made to suffer.

And so Providence imbues the apparently meaningless with meaning, even if it's meaning we can't understand.

The analogy of children is appropriate. Often they find themselves in situations they don't understand, and actually they're developmentally incapable of understanding, but their implicit trust of their parents comforts them. This is how we were designed to live our lives.

> This is what I have observed to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, to drink and to find satisfaction in their toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given them—for this is their lot. Moreover, when God gives someone wealth and possessions, and the ability to enjoy them, to accept their lot and be happy in their toil—this is a gift of God. They seldom reflect on the days of their life, because God keeps them occupied with gladness of heart.
People often violently overreact to relatively minor social or legal offenses. Like when bad parents who get caught on video get death threats. It's not an extreme opinion that kids should have good parents.
Not OP, but I do the same thing using wildcard addresses on a domain I own. I might use hn@my.domain for Hacker News, amzn@my.domain for Amazon and so on.

Foregoing the custom domain, some email providers also let you add tags to your address (e.g. your_address+tag@gmail.com). I'm aware of some people who use that functionality to have unique email addresses for each service.
In Ireland people would traditionally have had breakfast, then dinner, then tea as the three meals. Now that only happens in the country or on Sundays.
I love the pithy irony of this comment. Not sure if it was intentional.
All models are wrong, some are less wrong than others.

Just like the standard model is just a model, economics relies on models as well. Matter of fact is that it's hard to predict what humans in aggregate are capable of. But I welcome anyone trying to come up with new models ...

Full disclosure, econ PhD student (high-freq trading area)
It should be really written in upper case, as PECTOPAH, to match the cyrillic letters better :)
If you lost that, you're done.

With current technology, it would take hundreds (tousands?) of years to crack your phrase.
What really amplifies radical opinions is the feeling of exclusion from decision-making community.

When a person feels their opinions are appreciated, they tend to try and play nicer with others. When a person feels their opinion is ignored and silenced, they tend to radicalize and hold increasingly flamboyant opinions.

Compare how hot topic the copyright was when studios insisted they'll get to enforce whatever they lobbied into the laws and won't hear the internets' crowd, and how milder it is today when they had to cave eventually and decrease expectations for entitlement. Even if not many things actually changed.
The sum of the mass of all human approximately equals the sum of the mass of all ants ... and therefore if humans are not special ants we need to consider whether ants are entitled to welfare payments? What??
Doesn't matter how much you push the button at the crossing it shows the green light when it was programmed to, regardless of you.

If you want to cross you either need to wait until the appropriate time as dictated or you need to risk your well being and cross the road.
> what's the problem with the HTTP-01 challenge?

Nothing, yet.

But who's to say that another similar bug won't be found in common shared-hosting platforms that forces LE to turn that challenge off too?
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It's not obvious (at least to me) that Meltdown is caused by a performance optimization. The fix to Meltdown introduces a pessimization, sure, but that's not necessarily the same thing.

Meltdown could be a simple bug that doesn't incur a perf loss when designed for properly, but happens to require an expensive fix in the field. Does anyone know?
>That’s because the pernicious social dynamics of these online spaces hammer home the idea that anyone who disagrees with you on any controversial subject, even a little bit, is incorrigibly dumb or evil or suspect.

I see some merits in this article and I agree with certain parts up to a certain point, but the portion I quoted above is actually more troubling to me. There are lots of people who refuse to believe basic, empirically-proven concepts about the world and social media is merely revealing the ignorance of those people. Celebrating it or saying that everyone has a valid opinion (despite that opinion being based on something false) is even more harmful than the conflict spurred by disagreement, in my opinion.
"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save."

Are you a beneficiary of this system? We aren't very good at thinking on a large scale as a species, and most of us on Hacker news are in some way beneficiaries of the system, relative successes. However, there is something deeply troubling about the social and economic structures that are currently pervasive. I don't think you or anyone else is a 'bad person' for not fighting against the way things are, but I personally believe there is a better way, and we have the tools now to find it.
Dell XPS 15. Dell laptops have by far the best support for Linux.
It's my understanding that a lot of US airports don't have an international-only terminal where people in transit wouldn't have to first go through customs & immigration.

Quick google search brought me here:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g1-i10702-k10297825-Do...
My guess is that the cost of the placeholders is indeed what is driving their decision, though perhaps it is a premature optimization.

Maybe they've had situations where a spammer has created a very large number (millions, billions?) of packages. It's possible that the majority of user submissions are automated spam from botnets. I would assume npm has some mitigations in place to prevent this abuse in the first place, such as rate limiting and captchas, though maybe that's not enough to stem the tide.

Though, given that they say they have humans doing the package deletion, that makes me think that the number of spam packages created can't be that high. Certainly not high enough to outweigh the risks of package name reuse. Increase your prices a few pennies a month so you can afford to store the placeholders forever.
The odd thing about this case is how there wasn’t anything unusual about the estate.

Heirs disagree all the time. That’s the point of hiring an independent administrator.

How could the bank have screwed this up so badly?
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HighwayHash: Fast hashing at over 10 GB/s per core in Golang
*Media Is Making Us Dumber
> This is from Solomon, a man who had everything and it didn't satisfy.

Well, it's attributed to King Solomon in one tradition and attributed to Hezekiah and others in another. I am not sure if either has been definitively established. It could as well have been a disillusioned religious scholar.
I remember first seeing emoji on Github and that they were very early those emoticons. I'd love to know more about the story there. I did some Googling and found nothing...
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HighwayHash is a new and very fast pseudo-random-function (PRF) developed by Jyrki Alakuijala, Bill Cox and Jan Wassenberg from Google research. The algorithm takes a 256-bit key and computes 64-, 128- or 256-bit hash values of given messages.

HighwayHash can be used to prevent hash-flooding attacks or authenticate short-lived messages. Additionally it can be used as a fingerprinting function. Note that HighwayHash is not a general purpose cryptographic hash function (such as Blake2b, SHA-3 or SHA-2) and should not be used if strong collision resistance is required.

At Minio we have developed a native Golang repository for HighwayHash with optimized assembly implementations for both Intel and ARM platforms. We will switch over the bit rot protection that is currently relying on the Blake2b algorithm to HighwayHash.

Google repo: https://github.com/google/highwayhash
code repo: https://github.com/minio/highwayhash
TL;DR

1. Meditate on death everyday when you wake up. Face the fact that you will die with help of a belief system that helps calm anxieties about death. Termed Terror Management Theory (TMT), it helps reduce existential anxieties. In the framework of the christian afterlife of resurrection and judgement, it also makes you more motivated to do the tasks that promise a better afterlife.

2. Through ruminating on the suffering of others and explicitly realising emotions of empathy repeatedly would overtime make such reactions a second nature applied in real life.

3. Attributing boredom (or rather distraction) to an external malevolent force helps better combat it.

4. Performing 'living funerals', meditating on their life as if they might die now, before going to sleep to help gauge their life and maybe how happy they are with the direction.
Last time I checked and voted, the US Election system was rigged. Due to political gerrymandering and a conservative media brainwashing machine, even when the country casts 2 million more votes for a president, she is not the one to win.
GM says it’s mass-producing cars without steering wheels
What do you mean by “without the h sound” ? “Charcoal” doesn’t have an h sound as far as I can tell.
Are these names somehow related to each other? Our childhood dogs (RIP) were Rex and Rufus.
Facebook’s New Focus on Friends Could Negatively Impact Publishers
Don't worry, they're too busy arguing to have fun https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-the-great-poop...
Took me a while to get used to but now I prefer HTML this way too. It makes it really easy to understand what's happening at a glance.
Some nasty login forms block the '+' symbol from being used.
With respect to the author, he has it backwards (Wittgenstein and humans’ anthropomorphic assumptions are at the core of my work these days).

Humans always discuss non-human actors in human terms. This can be useful (think of Dennet’s “the thermostat wants to keep the room at 70degrees”) but also lead down a false path (the “queen” of a hive isn’t the boss — innfact there is no boss).

So the very model the author decries is a specfic tool to avoid these kinds of errors. Animals that killed humans were sometimes tried and hanged in medieval Europe. That’s a foolish absurdism. And people do understand this — his example of the elephant minders shown that people can adapt these models just fine.

This conception of agency explains some opposition to, for example, self-driving cars. People are confused when they can’t make eye contact with a car’s driver. They make assumptions as to why certain material shows up in their Facebook feed. Etc. I’m not working on cars, but am working on on systems that don’t violate human assumptions.
That’s a bit of a different relationship. The ability to fire the consultant changes the power dynamic.
It would seem to me the answer is to factory reset your phone before travel and reinstate it after landing. However, the UK is not much better, given recent legislation. Until the average voter gets concerned enough about this to make it an election issue, our lives will be more and more constrained.