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>The answer is you choose a car based on personal experience, referrals from friends, and trusted third party reviews.

You can speak for yourself. I bought my Honda Fit because I saw a video ad on Youtube.

Worked for me, I love the thing. And if I didn't? No biggie, would have sold it off on Craigslist and bought something else.

Would I select a doctor based on an ad? No, no, and no. Which is my point, actually.
> It's not like people were completely opposed to it. But now after so much time has passed we're still paying an extra tax that exclusively benefits the eastern states.

Which tax would that be? If you mean the Solidaritätszuschlag: It isn't actually bound to any task and is used for more or less everything the government wants, not to help East Germany (just like any other tax). It is also payed by people in both West and East Germany.

Just one of the many stupid myths people tell themselves on both sides that breeds sentiment.
> The conversion you are talking about is true only if you annihilate your fuel (which creates photons), and then you convert photons into speed in some way with 100% efficiency.

Maybe it's hard to explain from a real world example like a rocket but if mass isn't converted to energy in that case, in the E=mc2 sense, where does the energy come from?
Yes, in some parts of the city the wall is still there. In other parts, like where I live, iron beams stick out from the floor to show where the wall used to be. And in other parts, you can't see anything (though you usually don't have to walk far to see some wall-related artwork painted on a wall or something like that)
The IBM Model M is a great typing keyboard after you get used to it, but you are right that it is on the stiffer side. The previous Model F keyboards took about 10 grams less to actuate, and are widely preferred. I find even those a bit stiffer than my taste. Neither of those keyboards has my preferred feedback or force curve, though I don't mind typing on them. The biggest objection I've ever heard to either is the noise.

In any event, actuation force is an orthogonal concern to travel distance, tactile feedback, post-actuation force curve, upstroke bounce, keycap shape, etc.

Relatively fewer people typing on a such IBM keyboards got RSI compared to other keyboards, because the extreme tactile snap makes it very obviously unnecessary to type with much force more than barely required to actuate them.

But the cause of RSI is largely down to posture and typing style more than keyswitch design, though the latter can contribute (the worst are cheap rubber dome boards from the 90s-2000s, which often force a hard smashing typing style). We would have much less RSI if computer users kept their wrists straighter, pulled the keyboard closer, tilted it parallel to their forearms, and stopped slouching as much.
Known in German as "Ostalgie" ((Ost = east) + (Nostalgie = nostalgia))
True, but there's still a difference. If you graduate with 50k student debt, say in CS, you're absolutely urged to work in your niche field where you're compensated for your new expertise and can pay back the loan. That may mean moving to a particular place with an industry that caters to this niche.

If you did vocational (e.g. apprenticeship) schooling and graduate with little or no debt, that urgency is far smaller, and it tends to be much less of a niche.

i.e., there's less debt pressure to pursue work that adequately compensates for your new knowledge, and there's more places (nearby) as you don't work in a niche as much.
In the UK Amway's legal settlement requires them to publish the compensation tiers and how many people are in each tier. So you can see at a glance that almost everybody involved gets nothing.

It doesn't stop people joining, unfortunately. Knowing that Sue, the really successful seeming Super Global Ambassador Tier leader at the presentation on Saturday earned less than a shelf stacker does not stop some people figuring if only they join Amway they'd be doing better.
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I imagine people open the sewer cover on the street and push stuff in.
This is the case for why sometimes when it comes to backwards compatibility you have to say no and break things. Except Blizzard put in a huge amount of work to maintain compatibility anyway. Really impressive
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Is it really speeding if one is going the speed of traffic? Traffic speed is largely determined by the design speed of the roadway, not the posted speed limit. Also, going substantially above or below the speed of traffic puts one at an increased risk [1] of being involved in a collision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_curve
Yes. And with files too :)
This is what I have been saying for a long time. Readability in Python is an illusion.
That's communism for you right there. Did not someone once project the Eastern Bloc would collapse x-years in the future when communism had eaten up all communal resources and the buildings themselves would not get repaired anymore. Looks like that was the end.
Not sure, but this is a problem on a smaller scale in domestic plumbing too.

I suspect because it's been cooked and lost all its emulsifiers, resulting in a hydrophobic blob. Water-based bacteria just slide off. I've seen cooked fat sit around in a kitchen for ages with no visible decay effects (but I wouldn't use it for cooking!)
__Reliable__ pools are only in 3.
I'm astounded how much effort was put into emulating this. It's damn near heroic levels of effort.

The most tragic part is, most users won't even know. There are probably a few EUD maps out there that don't run on SC:R and everyone probably just thinks Blizzard is breaking things unnecessarily.

But more than that, I would love to hear perspective from those who exploited this bug. At the very least, it must be amusing to see some of these things still working even though they really ought not. I mean, a buffer overflow read/write primitive reading and writing from and to data structures that no longer exist? That's really something.

After enough years, a bug stops being a bug and starts being part of the personality of a piece of software or hardware. I like that they cared. And I'm sure, for sake of the some-17k maps making use of it, users will too. I don't play StarCraft, but I'll say this has my interest piqued almost enough to consider buying this and checking it out. At $15, it isn't too hard of a sell, especially knowing the care put into it.
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They did have it better. Which is why that want to go back.

Edit: or should I rather put it this way:

They have lived in the GDR, and have years of firsthand life experience of what it was like. And they also live in the reunited Germany. And they also have years of firsthand life experience of what that is like.

Why would they prefer the worse option? (hint, they won't) And why would they think the worse option was better, if they have personally experienced both in detail? Who are you to say that what they think is wrong?
Give this a look

https://neo4j.com/
Heh, Douglas Adams wrote in 1987 "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself..."
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We were wrong. We aknowledged it and improved. It's a good thing.
Because

> CSS style sheets are short. They are not much bigger than one editor window. Very few people (only professional designers, it seems) write style sheets longer than a hundred lines.

<https://www.w3.org/People/Bos/CSS-variables>
If you pay for Spotify in a region, the selection should be the same wherever you physically are.
Why is this flagged?
How can we request unflagging?

Is it all about censorship of harsh truths?
You say that because you are not a sysadmin. Python user base is very rich.
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That's what the dude just said
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Other experiments have shown that future events can effect the past events which lead up to them, which this article seems to be hinting at.

I had a eureka moment about this very thing just sitting around smoking pot and thinking about slits and waves, before it was cool.
It's an idiom: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/an-iron-...
What does "sounding rocket" mean in this context? I thought the headline meant it 'sounded like it was souped-up', but from the article it seemed like maybe it had another meaning.
In short, there are multiple ways to represent the same character in Unicode: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16173328

@ademarre's RFC link looks like a good place to look for guidance.
As someone constantly hopping between programming languages always found the use of virtualenv to be the opposite of "straightforward and obvious". I'm happy that Pipenv exists and that I can finally use Python with the same ease as Ruby+rbenv.
FYI: The photos are not "side by side." They scroll over to see before and after views.

I didn't immediately realize it. My German is lousy. Etc.
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> you might be advocating for murder, property damage, more corruption and misery

Where are they advocating for it? I only see a prediction, not an endorsement.

> The only thing that will help for sure is, I am afraid, massive amounts of riots.
Sure, but it's less noticeable. The Sun loses 4.4 millions of tons every second (out of a mass of 10^30kg, but still)
Though variables has been added as a recent thing, people need to remember that CSS is not a programming language.
If it isn’t something to be like a bat - the “lights are off” so to speak - then it’s not conscious.

I guess I'm focusing more on the "lights are off" part, although that's just an aside. "Conscious" and "lights are on" seem like alternate ways of saying exactly the same thing.

Nagel's "is it like something to be" terminology has always struck me as wilfully contorted and confusing, but amounting to the same thing again -- you're conscious if you're conscious. It doesn't help us explain consciousness and it doesn't even help figure out what things are conscious and which aren't. Is a plant conscious, or a rock? Writers can certainly imagine what it might be like to be those things.
Specifically, I think she is using it in much the same manner as in Chris Rock used the "n" word in his "Black People vs. Niggaz" stand-up skit.

Either that or she is being deliberately patronising towards perceived innocence, also for comedic effect.
So she can plagiarise an app, call her critic a jobless harasser and get away with it all just because she is a woman?

If this is tolerated at large it will have a chilling effect on any young person (including young women) who looks and sees people like her because they will think they are too stupid for tech since they can't make an entire app in 2 months. It will also have a chilling effect on all men and women in tech. Men will be afraid of criticizing women and secretly doubting their competence and women will be coddled, depraved of criticism and doubted as being there for reason other than their own skill.

IMO it has already happened to a degree in USA. In Poland no one sane would doubt a woman in tech or be afraid of criticizing her but in USA it's getting very murky, especially after stuff like [0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868
I drive for Uber part time and I don't feel the self-employed contractor classification to be 'bogus' at all.

I use my own equipment, set my own hours, perform tasks with autonomy (I can choose whatever route I or the rider wants) and have no supervision. I can also work for Lyft simultaneously if I want.
I remember reading a good article outlining this: https://jann.is/ipad-pro-for-programming/
>> the Flash Player patch Adobe will release next week.

Part of me thinks you could read that sentence this week, next week, a month or 6 months from now and it will still hold true...
Who didn't see this coming?

It's weird that its' 2018 and humans still haven't learned the dangers of moving too quickly to bring new technologies to market. One might think them all fools.
I built my first website in 2003 on freewebs.com, and a couple more from 2004-2006. [0] [1] I remember “slicing” layouts in Macromedia Fireworks and Photoshop. You would draw rulers over the main components, and the program would generate a monstrosity of <table> tags to convert the layout to HTML. It was an improvement over Microsoft frontpage. At that time CSS was largely used for fonts and colors. I even had a feature on one of those websites where you could “switch layouts” by using a different css file with new colors.

Then developers started decrying the use of tables for layout, and sites like AListApart (referenced in this article) really pushed for more reliance on CSS. It seemed like we were then stuck in an uncanny valley from 2006-2015 when, even though some browsers supported modern flexbox/CSS3 features, you couldn’t really use them if you wanted feature parity between browsers because so many users were stuck on older browsers due to enterprise upgrade rules.

What really improved css, and the web in general, is automatic browser updates. Chrome was the first to implement it and now its commonplace. Not only that, but the security community spent a decade shaming enterprises for rules against upgrading software. Now, finally, it seems like enterprises are realizing the insecure thing to do is not upgrade.

It’s an interesting interplay of pressure between chrome/Firefox browser devs and security community that got us to a place where a huge percent of browsers are the latest version. It really can’t be understated how much this trend has helped frontend developer productivity the past few years.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20040610011616/http://www.mainelo... This beauty got me 2nd place in the "maine student web design awards" for middle schoolers! You can see the layout switch if you choose "aqua" or "mid morning breeze". I think I actually implemented it with two different slicing layout. All the images are dead now, but you can see from where they were positioned what slicing used to look like.

[1] Ok, so probably nobody cares about this, but I'm enjoying the blast from the past... here was my second site the next year. This one didn't win the competition, which I think was due to my trash talking on the competition forums lol. http://web.archive.org/web/20070104015744/http://www.splitat...
Stralsund is one of the prettier cities I have visited in Germany. Even plattenbau there is not so bad.

I'd take it any day over most parts of West Berlin.
In almost every case, I find that people who struggle so with CSS are those who do not have a proper understanding of either CSS or HTML. They do not know or understand the "box model". They will even state they are unaware of validating (error checking) either and some even openly state they see no purpose in it.
Fat doesn't decompose very readily - which is why it's commonly used to seal jars of meat products like terrine and pâté.

In anaerobic conditions, you get hydrolysis of fat, in which the water content is removed and the fats end up saturated and indigestible further by anaerobic processes. Cf. Corpse Wax.

In aerobic conditions, they'll be broken down into aldehydes and ketones.

I'm guessing that the interior of a monstrous fatberg is rather anaerobic, so you just end up with a great big blob of saturated fatty acids.
I doubt that. To me, London tap water never tasts like chlorine, I suspect it's chlorinated much less than most tap water in the US.
Once you've got return type polymorphism, you really start to miss it in other languages. The simplest example possible is "mempty"

mempty :: a

gets the "default" value of a. Which makes no sense in a language where you need an instance to have polymorphism.

(This, incidentally, is also why all OO serialization libraries are awful.)
Well you'd be surprised. Where I live we have this semi governmental entity that collects fees for music played in the workplace and they will happily use a set of speakers connected to a computer as proof that music has been performed publicly. It's totally nuts but they have a lot of power here.

https://www.bumastemra.nl/faq/hoe-betalen/ (Dutch)
Same for me, although I speak (and am) German. I just thought, "it would be nice if you could move this... oh look, you actually can".
Oh, Sorry I just realized this is the new version of Okular that does it (adding the number of the slide on top corner and auto hiding it). I thought it is the PDF file feature. Unfortunately, I cannot remove my post! Just switched to KDE and I was not used to seeing the slide counter.
Truth is, German Reunification was never an aim of West German politicians until it suddenly appeared as an option at the end of the 1980s. And even then, half of the political spectrum was strongly against it (eg Gerhard Schröder, who later became German Chancellor). Before that, anyone who argued in favor of reunification was eclipsed into the fringe.

Having been bombarded with arguments against reunification for decades by at least one half of the spectrum, will have shaped the views of many. A lot of people felt unease about an American president pushing so visibly for it, as Reagan did.

For the German Easterners it must be said, they were the only "revolutionaries", the only Germans who risked anything and showed courage and actually fought for freedom. Yet, there is almost no official commemoration of it. Partly because many Easterners were part of the system. Partly because the West-German left hated to be reminded of their own amorality.

Thus, "reunification costs" are only a translucent argument. As if the redistribution policies already existing in West-Germany weren't the real culprit why the West-German worker was left so little of his wage and why the job market was stagnating at best for years.
Report it as fraud to your credit card company or cancel your card and have a new one issued.
> participate in health savings accounts that can cover these types of fines

Do you really believe the solution is to create a complicated bureaucratic way of saving up money for lower income workers to pay punitive fines to corporations who wish to avoid following longtstanding employment law?
You could do worse than to start with reading the open exchange spec, that should give you an idea of what's happening under water.
It's probably not possible to solve this with law.

Even the Pyramid Scheme part is semi-optional with newer scams.

The last one I looked at had the usual Pyramid shape, with complicated rules so that it'd always turn out that you didn't get any money, but to defuse the whole "it's a pyramid scheme" thing they said well you can just buy the product and not "join" anything, that's fine too...

And then you realise, wait a minute, the product is basically fruit juice in a fancy bottle for maybe 5000% markup. So, even if you didn't fall for the pyramid scheme, if you buy the juice you _already got scammed_.

I looked at their company structure and the MLM company is legally completely separate from the juice company even though you can't buy the juice elsewhere. So even if the MLM company was shut down for being an outright scam (which isn't likely even in a country that doesn't elect a barely literate reality TV star to run it) the juice company locks in a large fraction of the profits and that's 100% legal, they simply sell a cheap product at a high price and keep the difference for themselves, nothing could be more in line with the American Dream.

Because the MLM makes people buy juice to get their money, and that leaves them with crates of awful-tasting juice they'll never drink, they're tempted to eBay it for say, half the RRP to cover some of their losses. But of course if the juice was available on eBay for half price it shows everybody what a scam this is, so company policy strictly forbids this...
Cool. What's changed?
UK court ruling blocks extradiction of hacker Lauri Love to United States
I watched your Principles of Technology Leadership last night. Thank you for putting this up on HN, I may never have seen it otherwise.

The link to the slides for the above talk is broken:
https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/principles-of-technolog...
I once "won" SC2K when all my launch arcologies took off. However, I was busy fixing the city's plumbing (the buildings are hidden so you can deal with the pipework) and I missed it. I tried switching mode but it wouldn't let me until it finished.
Countercounterpoint: once a proof of concept shows it is possible to use something maliciously, in a way that isn't impractically inefficient, it will soon enough be used that way by someone.

So: don't panic, but do take precautions as soon as possible.
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You may be willing to waive your own rights, hard-won on your behalf, but there is an externality. Just as a person who chooses not to vaccinate affects not only themselves but lowers “herd immunity” for everyone.
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Hmm, my google-fu seems to be failing me, do you have a link where the company states that?
The point of the "gig economy" is to get around regulation by pretending that your employees are contractors. See also, AirBnB (for getting around planning/zoning regulations), Uber (for getting around employment, taxi, etc regulation), etc etc. There exists a whole business sector devoted to trying to bypass regulation.
Complaints about HN's quality declining are practically as old as the site itself[0, 1], as is the mistaken belief that HN is intended to be exclusively about programming and technical content (leading to the mistaken conclusion that the presence of non-technical content is a sign of HN "turning into Reddit", which is common enough that there used to be an explicit rule about it[2].)

If you want to see better content, post better content, or put more effort into the quality of your comments.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5781854

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198041

[2]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=HN turning into reddit
I fear that there won't be regulation against the "gig economy" as politicians are way too bought out by the big companies profiting from it...

Not just that, or even mainly that, I don’t think, it’s the impact on the employment figures.
The blurriness around the edges gives it away --- and blurring the edges is incidentally the same technique that Photoshoppers use when they can't quite get the borders right.
A big part of the problem is that it's new, and regulators move slowly. Regulators in many places are now cracking down on the likes of Uber and AirBNB; these fake contractor companies are probably next.
"It's not the tool that's causing your problems."

I very much disagree. Tools generate different expectations. For example, an email can be responded in a few days, an instant message not. If you company expects you to be reachable by instant message versus email, you have to react faster, and possibly have more trouble managing what you call their internet lives.
Well - if I am staying in "my country" I leave my manual selected carrier on. When I'm travelling into the other countries I change it to automatic carrier search. Works fine for me.
OpenRA is reimplementation of the Red Alert game engine that support multiples games. They have their way to deal with the assets issue but I forgot what exact solution it is. At least RA is available for download for free for EA so its help too.

Edit: « OpenRA is 100% free, and comes bundled with three distinct mods. When you run a mod for the first time the game can automatically download the original game assets, or you can use the original game disks. »
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