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Presumably you can. I personally do not have accounts at any USDT exchanges, so I can't personally verify that fact. Even if all of the USDT exchange don't accept USD withdraws (which itself is unlikely because nobody would provide sell volume to them), at the very least you can trade them for "real" USD on kraken (at a few percent discount).
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Not helpful, facilitating contempt for people is not the opposite of facilitating depression.

It's even worse when it facilitates contempt for your peer group, e.g. dumb yuppie millennial shit prejudicing interactions with the neighbors, coworkers, people that have tech jobs and live near you etc.
Recommended dosage, which most people take more of – take two every couple of hours, and you're going to need a new liver. And when you're in pain, it's easy to loose count.

Which is why in some countries, the maximum amount allowed over the counter is 16ct or so (sometimes a bit more when bought from a pharmacist who can make sure the buyer is aware of the dangers). It is irresponsible to sell a 1,000 ct bottle of pills, yet the grocery store near my house does, over the counter even.
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Perhaps this is what was meant by "wargames"?

http://www.consimworld.com
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They were just very long time members of the community that stepped up to the plate in order to avoid the whole thing being shut down.

I would have absolutely nothing to do with the posters of objectionable content, least of all to elevate their stature to moderators.
It remains a problem in need of a single, highly usable and smart interface that can collate all the disparate data and expedite the process of planning and booking.

I use Kayak. But typically find that I still need to manually perform searches for each leg of the trip. Across flights, hotels, transportation, tickets, etc. And usability of these sites can be abysmal, especially on mobile.

My pro tip: book well in advance. 6+ months to ensure availability. Particularly around busy travel times.

For discovery my tool of choice: Google Maps. Helps to visualize, find local eateries, attractions, CVS shops, etc.
"Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again- forever."

For those of you who were around in the late 80's early 90's. Today's moral panic about opioids will give you a chuckle.

Back in the 1980's opioids were the devil and many patients, even in hospice, had undertreated pain due to fear of addiction.

In the 1990's it dawned on doctors that maybe they should be a little more aggressive in treating pain. It made sense. Pain can slow recovery as it can leave patients immobile. In addition, it's criminal to have someone suffer in pain when you can prevent it.

So doctor's prescribed more and things worked out fine. Then they went to far and prescribed heavy narcotics where they weren't really needed. In addition, the public mood shifted towards opioids (as it had shifted towards cocaine in the 1980's). Who needs to buy heroin when you can do a doc to write you a script for 100 80mg Oxycotin?

So the crackdown begins. We have hospitals stating they won't give out anything more than Tylenol or Ibuprofen.

I predict in the next decade we'll start the whole process all over again. Patients in desperate pain won't be adequately treated. There will be a public outcry and opioids will become "tools that can be appropriately use for all types of pain."
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Well no, I think her doctor is basing his/her advice on what he typically does, and what patients expect (see the original NYTimes article where the author was adamant that she needed stronger painkillers, but turns out she didn't).

The dangers of opioids are well known, and it turns out that the evidence for opioids being the best option to be routinely diagnosed is shaky. From the article I linked to:

The authors of the new trial, led by Andrew Chang of Albany Medical College in New York, note that common medical practice and guidelines, including those championed by the World Health Organization, suggest that opioids are simply more effective at treating acute pain than non-opioid medications—or combinations of them. Yet, the data backing that is shaky.

So maybe, more discretion on when and how many opioids are prescribed would be better for everyone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254124
I agree with you. But that individual fact isn't the point.

Each of us is sensitized to different things. A doctor friend watched less than 60 seconds of the original "E.R." TV show because in that minute he saw someone use an IV upside down. That made the entire show untrustworthy.

It rarely takes a lot of effort to get it right. Why not do so?
This might be the original research?

https://twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/957318498102865920
Just got one of these. The keyboard feels like a cheap Bluetooth add on, the touch bar is like a state of the art touch screen phone from 2004 in bar form, and the touch pad picks up my palm all the time.

Not a happy camper.
> it is impossible and you should not try to do that.

No, it is merely extremely expensive. But that's something that you need to tackle head on when your business model is to provide a service for free to a large chunk of the planet's population. The 'free' bit doesn't absolve you from your responsibility as an operator.
Would predominantly wealthy, influential, highly organized people who were not Jews not have been just as successful?
PBS Space Time did great episode on this subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqaWyZsEtY
They’re a customer and a very big one. They also need to figure out how to patch their systems. Systems which may be controlling weapons.
Empathy from the doctor is always nice, not just adherence to the current dogma that flips back and forth every decade or so.
The bold and italic characters actually belong to the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols [0] block, so they're strictly meant for math notation rather than general formatting. The superscripts are part of the Spacing Modifier Letters [1] block, which is used for IPA. You'll also sometimes find other formatting quirks that are deprecated in Unicode and meant for compatibility purposes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Alphanumeric_Symb...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacing_Modifier_Letters
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955
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That depends on your definition of wargames. These tick all the boxes for my definition.
You mean Sierra / High Sierra. This is because of compatibility breaking changes to some low-level kernel system calls. Since valgrind is essentially a CPU emulator, it is tightly integrated with the OS kernel, and has to be updated accordingly. The macOS contributors to valgrind seem to be relatively few, probably because most macOS developers primarily use the various sanitisers in clang (they also have UI integration in Xcode).

Have you tried the clang or gcc asan/tsan/usan sanitisers as a replacment? There are pros and cons of valgrind vs compile time instrumentation. The sanitisers increase the memory footprint, but run with less overhead. valgrind can detect some errors that the sanitizers cannot etc.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955
I think that you are right in that Seoul would be an absolute tragedy. That said, if (and I really mean if) the situation could be abstracted to a choice between an American city or Seoul getting bombed, then for an those charged with protecting American national interests, the choice would be a no brainer.

Now back to that if.

The current regime in NK is rational and interested in self-preservation above most else. That is generally agreed upon. So it is not likely they would attack first. So Seoul vs American City is not probably a real choice.

That said, they have no wish to integrate into the international order, frequently make threats of mass destruction, and seem likely o try to use nuke capability/threats to make demands on their neighbors. They are flying missiles over Japan. Then there is the fact that the regime is genuinely evil to their people, which makes political upheaval more likely given any weakness, sudden events, etc. And frankly, I do not like the threat of nuclear exchanges that can reach my family and friends from an actor as irresponsible, immoral, and backasswards as NK. It is already a tragedy that the largest countries have nukes, but proliferation is very dangerous.
Yes, that would be useful. 4.x kernels has some block io improvements and some recent phoronix benchmark shows ext4 making huge strides.
I was only superficially aware of that type of stuff (I play CS:GO every now and then) but not what skin trading actually was nor the money laundering aspect of it. Seems that if Valve wanted to do something about it, they would, right? e-sports are very popular now and they make you use their Steam phone app if you do want to trade something on the Community Market. I guess since it's not technically illegal and they get a cut of it, they don't mind looking the other way (or maybe don't think of it as a negative).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16250791
On the flip side, Australia prescribes antibiotics like they're candy. I'm always amazed at how easy it is to get a flight of them here.
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He said that a potential downside of attacking NK is giving China more influence of South Korea.
One explanation[1] i heard is observation is a actually equivalent to entanglement. Now we know that two elements entangled will have to maintain the state corresponding to its entangled peer. Now if you observing (or taking measurement) the whole system gets entangled to the particle. you are observing and hence the wave function collapses.

You can look at a better explanation here
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc
Perhaps it's the Trump name in the headline, but this seems worthy of much more attention/debate than it has received, given the potential impact.
With the double-slit experiment, my understanding is that if it's done in a closed room, the wave function won't collapse and you'll get an interference pattern, but if you're in the room, it will collapse and there will be no interference pattern. Aren't you testing it by observing it?
All the available chips are in essence low-cost and thus low-security NFC/RFID tags. Depending on application it means that either the tag is trivially cloneable or is trivially cloneable by any reader that is able to read it (ie. the authentication protocols are typically "backwards" and the reader authenticates to the tag, not the other way around which would actually make sense). Probably only massively deployed NFC protocol which actually somewhat makes sense security-wise is EMV NFC (and that is in fact only straightforward mapping of how contact EMV cards work into NFC and it's limitations).
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> That seems quite unpersuasive, especially with no citations given.

Well there is no good approach to censorship, it's censorship after all, you will always piss people off.

People need to grow up, there is stuff out there that may dicomfort your world view but get used to it. Also only because you are deleting comments on facebook does not mean - at all - that you are tackling the cause, you just swipe the dust under the carpet.
The thing I really really like about IKEA is the fact that you could look at and try out furniture for hours without any staff ever coming over to ask you if you needed anything.
What exactly is salting a license plate?
>for example a ratio of 1 full time CSR (customer services representative) per 1000 users, not the 1 per 20k or worse they are currently trying to do

Hey, that's the Mastodon model! Relatively small independent servers with own admin/moderator teams responsible only for their own servers. That's scalable moderation.
From what little I've gathered about the subject, I think so. Spiking neural networks would be orders of magnitude more energy efficient than deep neural networks for image and audio processing. The main hurdle lies in designing network structure and weights; the cost function of a classical neural network can be differentiated using basic calculus, but optimizing a spiking neural network is not as easy.
I'm pretty sure that's not the case. The interference pattern only disappears if you try to figure out which slit a single photon went through. It does not require a conscious observer to be present. What matters is if you extract information from the system or not.
I'm still confused: where is the interaction in the double-slit experiment? Here's a quote:

In the famous double-slit experiment, single particles, such as photons, pass one at a time through a screen containing two slits. If either path is monitored, a photon seemingly passes through one slit or the other, and no interference will be seen. Conversely, if neither is checked, a photon will appear to have passed through both slits simultaneously before interfering with itself, acting like a wave.

What does "monitored" mean here? The problem is that everywhere I look, I find a synonym of "monitored". My question is, "How does that break down?"
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This article explains part of my rationale why, later this week when I get my new MacBook Pro, I'm going to opt for the non-Touch Bar version.
Your reference to "faith in anything" is most likely referring to a central being controlling everything (see: god), as faith in something/anyone doesn't give that something meaning. Nihilism doesn't necessary refer to faith, it's typically referring to existential nihilism, or that nothing has an intrinsic meaning. Nothing comes with meaning. This isn't something to despair, you have full ability to give things meaning. What I'm getting at is more in the realm of optimistic nihilism, or that ability to give your own meaning to things, as they didn't have any intrinsic meaning to begin with. That game you're playing? Some might think of it as a waste but you gave it the meaning of happiness. That flower you're smelling didn't come with meaning by default, but you gave it the meaning of beauty. I would argue faith can be a burden more than nihilism as blind faith can lead to complacency. Again, complacency might not be the worst thing until you give that meaning.
> If you want a 13" laptop without a fucking touchbar, then get the 13" one without the fucking touchbar. It's an option that you chose not to get.

Alas, Hacker News seems just as susceptible to the classic "Apple = Bad = Get Upvotes / Karma / Whatever"

I for one really enjoy my 15" MacBook Pro with touchbar and I'm just as productive as ever as a Software Engineer.

It's not a difficult concept people. We get it, you don't like it, we don't need articles years after the release of said touchbar. Don't like it don't buy it, or at least own up to the fact you just want cheap exposure for your article.
The other thing I really like about USB-C charging is that its on either side of the laptop - so I can have it plugged in on the most comfortable side depending on where I'm working. But yeah an inbuilt HDMI and USB-A would have been awesome.
In a quantum logic circuit, every "observation" can be thought of as ultimately compiling down into a controlled-Z gate between the qubit-you-want-to-measure A and a qubit-to-hold-the-measurement-result B.

The interesting thing about the controlled-Z is that it is actually a symmetric operation. You could think of it as "if A is ON then apply a Z to B", but it is exactly equivalent to say it is performing an "if B is ON then apply a Z to A" effect. The truly symmetric description is "apply a -1 factor to the weight of cases where A and B are both ON".

Because the controlled-Z is symmetric, and every measurement ultimately involves a controlled-Z, you can't move details about A into B without also kicking back details about B into A. When B is a big well-approximated-by-classical-physics system, the back-effect plays out in a way that we call collapse.

Said another way, B (you and/or instruments) can't get information about A (the quantum system) without collapsing it.
What why-question are you interested in?
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It's nice to see Plan 9 getting some love in the limelight.

There's a 9fans Discord server lying around for anyone interested: https://discord.gg/6daut5T
I think most people are missing the point here. MoviePass has many ways to monetize from begin to end. It currently has more then 1.5 million subscribers & growing very fast (fastest subscription service growth ever, even faster then netflix). Most people miss the opportunities MoviePass has. It will control the demand & distribution of movies through its subscribers. Movie theater goers have been declining year over year and MoviePass will help reverse this.

It currently makes money by

a) subscriptions $9.95/month
b) $2-3 rebate per ticket contracts with about 1000 theaters (5 new contracts a week are signed)
c) 20-30% of concession revenue with about 1000 theaters (5 new contracts a week are signed)
d) Bought "America Animal" movie rights for North American release at Sundance Festival
Walking around my neighborhood at night wearing a PVS-14 nicely shows everyone with security cameras

https://youtu.be/gEWniEhtE2k
I found a USB-C to Displayport cable on Amazon, not sure if it fits your use case but it ended up being much faster than HDMI on my Anker hub, which was limited to 30fps I think.
> What works for now is to participate in his life with him.

Kudos to you for figuring this out. Taking the screen away without providing alternatives doesn't seem very helpful. Even if we accept the thesis that online interaction isn't deep or satisfying enough, replacing it with no interaction is still a step in the wrong direction. Anything that gets them to interact with peers or parents, be it sports or board games or shared craft projects or whatever, is going to be both more effective and easier to maintain over time.

P.S. Yes, this is even true for introverts. Even if interaction is draining and has to be limited, there's still a difference between low-quality vs. high-quality interaction.
It's missing DeltaV to the asteroid belt. Clearly the reason is the long standing conspiracy to suppress the knowledge that the belt's resources are less costly to tap than Mars's!
I have a very relevant anecdote:

My grandfather was an open-heart surgeon. In the days following surgery, he would always insist that his patients get up and take a short walk. They would not want to, but he insisted that this was an important and valuable part of recovery (in several dimension) and that they needed to push past resistance and force themselves to do it.

Later in life, he underwent a surgery requiring general anesthesia and found himself in the same position. He said, "If I had known it was like that, I would not have made them do it."

So I think the surgeon's personal experience of the situation is -- in fact -- highly relevant in practice, even if not in theory.
Wouldn't they just mine to a pool (private pool if enough clients)? I'm not sure why an inefficient client would lead to additional fees.
Personally, screen real estate is the second most important metric as far as productivity goes, after RAM (I usually have a lot of browser tabs and terminals open). I usually use two 2k monitors and my Macbook Pro's retina screen when developing. I would definitely feel severely hampered by a single screen with 768p resolution.
It depends on the market sector, but many have trade magazines/web sites which are always looking for editorial and advertising. If you can ghost write the editorial for them, it saves them work. If you advertise with them, they may write about you at another time.

To be effective though you need a compelling story.
This is a nice article that highlights some of the more important case law regarding privacy while traveling in your car. But I think it's important to make clear that the Supreme Court has ruled that individuals do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their public movements, car or otherwise (U.S. v Knotts). While most agree that the infallibility and general capability of GPS does create a new technological perception of privacy in public spaces, and that an individual does not shirk all expectations of privacy once they are in a vehicle, one argument is that the technology does not make something that was previously public now private. Carpenter v. U.S. is a landmark case right now that will be decided this summer and is distinct from Jones in that there was no common law trespass to help the court answer the question about tracking via GPS or cell phone records.
Building national state owned infrastructure and rejecting neocon free trade policies? Trump could be the most left wing president in decades...
A lawyer’s business card in the Rolodex is not a “legal department” by any definition.
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Hey HN,

Recently I did an audit of my activities and I found myself doing too much trivial work. I want to outsource it, but my past experience hasn't been too great.

Anyone can provide tips? Also, is it possible to hire someone on a retainer basis - with little jobs along the way? My past experiences with outsourcing my work has been Freelancer.com and they were either very literal/to-the-letter or flaky as heck
My recollection is that there was a Vector Graphics in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley around 1972 that was doing something with high-resolution black-and-white video graphics powered by a PDP-8 or something similar. Was that a previous enterprise by any of the same people? Maybe my recollection is in error???
thanks for the summary.
There is approximately zero chance that someone at the NSA didn’t find out about it before it was publicly announced.
Yeah, it's very annoying.

To deal with stuff like this, I right click near the video area, go to Inspect, then just delete the portion of HTML that contains the unwanted element.

Really helps with pesky foreground pop up stuff.
Not a bad idea. Pay psychopaths a good wage, keep them out of trouble and keep the web clean.
I am probably among the tiny minority of users who strongly objects to any form of Content Moderation whatsoever.

Regulatory requirements notwithstanding, a policy that dictates what content gets filtered to users is analogous to a parent forbidding a child from watching an age restricted movie.

Although I could present a "this is a slippery slope" argument here, the more salient argument is that content moderation is essentially a form of social engineering. If you think I am exaggerating but have never seen video footage of what _real war_ does to real human beings I would encourage you do so; consider then whether you still experience the same apathy that you did whenever "Suicide bomber in <place_in_middle_east> kills x" appears in your feed.

IMHO, people should at least be presented with the option to see what is getting filtered rather than selectively suppressing objectionable material lest society remain indifferent..
I think we can assume Intel have heard of cryptography.