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> A Court in Germany ordered that access to certain items in the Project Gutenberg collection are blocked from Germany... until the issue is resolved during appeal, [Project Gutenberg] will comply.

This is really misleading. It implies -- nay, outright states -- that Gutenberg is merely complying with the court order. But the court did not order the entire site to be blocked.

A more candid answer is found in their information page:[1]

Q: Why block all of Germany, rather than just those 18 books?

A: ...Because the German Court has overstepped its jurisdiction, and allowed the world's largest publishing group to bully Project Gutenberg for these 18 books, there is every reason to think that this will keep happening... Blocking Germany, in an effort to forestall further legal actions, seems the best way to protect the organization and retain focus on its mission.

[1] https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html
Benton's is great bacon, but:

(1) You can look at that price tag and see why it's unlikely to be your go-to bacon,

(2) Last I checked, Benton's used a nitrate cure, and

(3) Seriously, intensely smoked food (Benton's bacon qualifies) is probably going to be more carcinogenic from the smoking compounds than from the cure. Unlike nitrate->N-nitrosamine, we're pretty clear on how smoked food causes gastric cancer.
We didn't so much 'choose to have children', we just chose not to abstain from having children. We did choose to have sex and from sex you can get children. There are all sorts of things you can do to try to keep them from being conceived but they are generally boring, unhealthy, tedious, unpleasant or a combination of those.

As to why we did not choose to abstain from having children - which in my opinion would be the real choice to make given that having children is the normal result of two healthy people of fertile age and opposite sex having intercourse - I can but say that I wouldn't be here to argue this point if my parents had made the choice to abstain from having children. I quite like being here. This might sound trivial but it really isn't, just give it some thought.
There is the idea of universal jurisdiction for certain crimes, but it's usually stuff like genocide and really nasty stuff, not copyright infringement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction
I know who Daniel is. We’re all free to disagree with the moderators, you know?
> The WHO advised that consuming 50g of processed meat a day – equivalent to just a couple of rashers of bacon or one hotdog – would raise the risk of getting bowel cancer by 18% over a lifetime. (Eating larger amounts raises your risk more.) Learning that your own risk of cancer has increased from something like 5% to something like 6% may not be frightening enough to put you off bacon sandwiches for ever.

Uh, no, it isn't. Does anybody even eat "a couple of rashers" of bacon per day?
> But....why? In a certain way, it's just some random court from a country you've never been to ordering you to do something. Why would you comply.

In the beginning (like it was in this case with gutenberg.org), it isn't a court order, but just an email, asking me if I could respect their local laws.

Books becoming public domain example: In Germany it's 75 years after the author's death, in the US some amount of years after the publication. Who am I to judge which approach is "right"?

Btw: We're suffering quite a lot here in Germany because of software patents in the US.

> Which is all fine and dandy, but I still don't understand why an American company with no legal presence in Germany should obey rulings of the German court.

Don't you consider a website in German, accessible from Germany, which looks totally legal for most Germans as some kind of legal presence in Germany?
Thanks for this, interesting stuff!
Might still be a Minnesota / Midwest exclusive. It’s another University of Minnesota varietal.
You eat salt daily, of course, but you're never eating so much concentrated salt as you are when you eat any significant amount of bacon. I'm not suggesting that you're so sensitive that the amount of salt you get from a salt shaker, or from seasoning a steak or a burger before cooking it, is going to set you off. There's so much salt in the bacon that it dramatically alters the texture of the meat!

You also believe yourself to be sensitive to MSG, but the common thread between the foods that are causing you symptoms might not be a pair of poorly-observed sensitivities, but rather that the foods that trigger you tend to be very salty.
Yes, decades of enrolment data is what we would call ‘empirical’.
Neither do most US citizens.
> Doitsche Welle

What?
> Is there a reason browsers don't have decent line breaking algorithms yet that make paragraph text look better than the current "left" and "justified" CSS alignments? I miss the way LaTeX lays out text.

The CSS model supports floats, while TeX doesn't. Floats make the problem much more difficult, because floats can have ceilings anywhere within a block, and placing a float reduces the amount of space available for an arbitrary number of lines below it. To make matters worse, the spec requires that floats be placed as high as possible, so browsers aren't free to move the floats around to try to minimize raggedness.
First line in the description: “this isn’t a Chromecast”
Literally made my day - thanks for posting this.
I’ve been shooting a Sony NEX-7 for years. Amazing camera. The great thing about e-mount (and mirrorless in general) is that you can stick almost any old manual lens on the thing with the proper mechanical adapter. Gives you an enormous back catalog of 50 years worth of gear to play around with, much of it reasonably priced ($5 bargin bin lenses are often the most fun too, so don’t bother lusting after Leica). The MC and MD Minoltas are my personal favorites lines, along with the Olympus OMs. One of those is a good, cheap way to get your feet wet
Are there public numbers for this?
> Unlike a regular computer cluster, the nodes are very ephemeral (as website visitors come and go) and can’t talk to each other (no cross site requests).

Not sure how that would actually help but they somewhat _can_ talk to each other through WebRTC. I wonder if that would change anything here
You could place the order and pick up in store. You would get the order a couple days faster, and don't have to go find the item in the aisle.
I want to sneak that in as an Easter Egg for some serious corporate web app I'm working on in future.
Several. HTML versions though. Might be IPv6 as mentioned above.

Sad...
> I think what's really missing from the discussion is the simple fact that if creative jobs (artist, writer) or less technical jobs paid as well as Soft Eng jobs then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

That's largely a function of markets. You make it sound like it's a policy of some kind, or some kind of social problem that needs fixing. Also, you yourself are guilty of exaggerating the value of money.

> Alternatively, we wouldn't be having this discussion if our society did not largely judge a man's success in life by his wealth (and the things money can buy, like a nice car).

Who's judging you? Some people might, but what do you care? Associate with people that value similar things, not with people whose highest values are cars and money.

> I guess what I'm saying is that, if I had the choice, I would rather be a sculptor making the same salary as a Senior Soft Eng than an engineer at a large company.

Again with the money. If you want to be a sculptor, be a sculptor.

> Too bad our society isn't set up like that, eh?

Set up? Nothing is "set up". You seem to be living under the impression that there's this abstract looming thing called "society" that lords over the affairs of man, and that you are this lone ego occupying its center. Society is the set of individual human beings in a network of a variety of relationships. Money doesn't fall from the sky. Who's going to pay you for your sculptures? Are people supposed to pay you just so you can do what you want, market demand be damned?

(Btw, some sculptors make ludicrous amounts of money. Many probably make okay money, though apparently the avg. salary for sculptors, painters and illustrators in Delaware is the same as the average for software engineers.)
It's a numbers game. I choose bacon. If it was "increases your chance 4X" then they might have had me, but 0.18% over an already small chance.... meh. Very badly written article. Once excerpt

"The WHO advised that consuming 50g of processed meat a day – equivalent to just a couple of rashers of bacon or one hotdog – would raise the risk of getting bowel cancer by 18% over a lifetime. (Eating larger amounts raises your risk more.) Learning that your own risk of cancer has increased from something like 5% to something like 6% may not be frightening enough to put you off bacon sandwiches for ever."

That math is terrible. It's 5% for cancer, not bowel cancer. The author has an extremely poor grasp on numbers, and is clearly trying to elevate the scare factor. It's probably more dangerous to drive to work for an extra couple of months of your life than it is to eat bacon.
Because all German speaking people reside in Germany right?
I also do a hot bacon and egg breakfast almost daily. It's rewarding and gets me ready for the rest of the day.
This is exactly my go-to-move as well.

pandas.read_hdf has beaten out ray.dataframe.read_csv in terms of speed on the few files I've just initially tested now. But I imagine the programmable flexibility csvs have over hdfs (I've never used a Unix command to edit a hdf for example) is why this new approach could get some traction.
I agree that they should have included a link to the main repository in the introduction, but the 4th paragraph from TFA describes Ray:

Pandas on Ray is an early stage DataFrame library that wraps Pandas and transparently distributes the data and computation. The user does not need to know how many cores their system or cluster has, nor do they need to specify how to distribute the data. In fact, users can continue using their previous Pandas notebooks while experiencing a considerable speedup from Pandas on Ray, even on a single machine. Only a modification of the import statement is needed, as we demonstrate below. Once you’ve changed your import statement, you’re ready to use Pandas on Ray just like you would Pandas.
Poles often say that there is a tendency among Polish have-nots to be jealous of the haves.
But they had to wait for him to enter US soil
Well it sounds like you were traumatized by the experience a bit. Me too! But do I struggle with it still? I'd say yes and no. Shit I hate mobile. Hang on I'll move to a real keyboard, BRB

OK. When I met my current wife, who is much more supportive than the first one, I didn't even have a bank account and was living paycheck to paycheck, and literally cashing them at the check-cash place. She also was just scraping by, as a student. So that put us on a more even footing economically I guess. We're also neither one, especially materialistic in the first place. So I think that allowed us to not put money concerns first & foremost in our evaluation of each other. Which I would say might be a prerequisite or at least a help, for that mysterious and random-ass thing called love to take hold.

(On the other hand we probably both could tell that both of us were smart & discerning enough to know how to get money and what to do, and not do, with it if we had it. And we were probably both giving off innumerable small cues that we each came from the same socioeconomic class, which might be more important than anybody wants to admit, especially after the previous paragraph.)

Anyway we just went with it. Over time I continued on my technical path until I was making decent money, while she continued on her non-technical one and basically... isn't. So now, strictly speaking, I'm "subsidizing" her. So am I struggling with it? Kind of. But she helps me too in a lot of ways that are both practical and intangible. I dunno at some point you have to make the decision to be generous. If you find someone you can trust, that is a lot easier. But then again trusting is kind of up to you too. I mean there's a certain level of basic trustworthiness needed on their end obviously, but you do sort of have to decide to trust someone. Or don't, but it sounds like you do want to. Anyway bottom line, you can't live your life in fear of what might happen, that's too shitty!

So I guess the TL;DR from all this nonsense is: find someone from your own socioeconomic class but otherwise ignore money. Make sure you share important values, and establish trust. Don't let money fears make you lonely.

Final note: Those who want money from you, that's all they can get from you is money. Which at the end of the day is not much.
I'm from Ukraine. I have 360°FOV realtime true color view at Ukraine.
You asked me to say about inaccuracies, so here is answer.

In short: There is no Nazi in Ukraine. There are some attempts to create nationalistic ultra-right organizations by Russian agents, but they are monitored and destroyed as usual. (I destroyed one of them and deflect attempt to create another by myself when I was in operation).
I would not have known that from the top of my head, but the comment I replied to mentions internal and external services and that is what I was referring to, not the article and the MI5 specifically.
Probably some people do, but then they probably have many more pressing health concerns than a fractional impact of nitrosamines.
It's useful to have a term to refer to the Irish, Scots and Welsh. In a modern context "Celtic" is normally used to refer to those places, and more to refer to a common culture rather than an ethnicity.
I thought it was pretty clear. They specifically say "certain items" were to be blocked, not the entire website.
>We have known for many many years about several other types of diabetes.

So are you saying the research project didn't contribute any new knowledge at all? In that case, why the quotes from the experts that it did?

On the other hand, if you do think it contributed some new knowledge, you should have said that and mentioned some specifics.
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unfortunately for the larger-than-normal percentage of children born with birth defects and genetic abnormalities, first cousin marriage is extremely common in pakistan:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=fir...

another example of what happens when you have a relatively small population group that marries and reproduces only within their own community, repeatedly for 1000+ years, there's a large number of genetic disorders which disproportionately affect ashkenazi jews:

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=ash...

to the extent that ashkenazi are strongly encouraged by their family doctors to go for special genetic screening, as a routine part of family planning.
No, it's because a buyback is purchasing an asset (a share of issued stock) and payroll is just an expense. You could argue that increased payroll increases retention which is valuable, but that's an indirect and uncertain way to increase the value of a company.
FWIW TeX has \parshape
Of course they are. This is practically in the definition of stats. It isn’t a question of if it’s inaccurate, but of how inaccurate it is. A confidence of 95% isn’t much worse than 100% for purposes of advertising.
I know all of the media is very POTUS-centric lately, so maybe there was a better word I could have used to describe a person who is proud of his country and its progress -- but a Ghanaian is very proud to be Ghanaian, and will positively light up to hear you compare his country favorably to his neighbors, something which is not remotely hard to do, particularly with neighbors like Burkina Faso and Guinea-Conakry.

They're going places, and when an outsider can validate that belief, the swelling of pride is really nice to see.

I was left with the impression that they have made sacrifices and gambles in their country, and they are relieved to be going places and seeing payoffs. They're still far from, say, South Africa -- but they're definitely the jewel of West Africa at the moment.

Sorry that my word choice colored my opinion negatively for you. It's a wonderful place, they are a wonderful people, and it is well worth a visit.

$0.02

- Mike
Certainly, given that each ebook could be a static hash. But you'd need to revise index pages periodically. And I'm not sure how search could be implemented. Except through Google, which does index pages from https://ipfs.io/ipfs/ . However, I gather that IPFS respects take-down requests, so you might need to use another gateway.
With its current business model (no ads, not selling anything), HN's revenue is zero. But it has non-zero costs: hosting fees, salaries of two moderators, etc. So its value as a business would be negative.

If you were to start running HN as a profit-making company, its nature would change so significantly that it wouldn't really be "HN" anymore, and many of the participants would go elsewhere. And the participants are what give HN its value.
i dunno, i would argue that people generally do see these other things as successes. its just that paychecks are much more easily quantifiable/comparable that leads to a skew in emphasis.
I don't think he told you anything. He wrote something and you read it.

There's also mentions of "slow shifts" and similar, indicating that the change of your diet is not radical and sudden, but gradual and slow.

Picky eaters have a somewhat disease and should try to incorporate variety. Otherwise you risk black swans by eating practically the same thing all your life. Eating many ingredients is antifragile :D
extensive scientific evidence contracts your claim that it is "not particularly harmful":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/6af25e7b-0545-42ba-a6f...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-23183102

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

http://blogs.jpmsonline.com/2015/12/07/cousin-marriages-a-pu...

https://www.ua-magazine.com/first-cousin-marriage-doubles-ri...
You don't need to go to a special butcher. Asian groceries usually have pork belly and you're seeing it at more and more "normal" supermarkets too. The problem, though, is that it tastes nothing like bacon.
We beat him home, I think our paths diverged at the Congo (we said nope and boated around, he went through I believe) -- we were in touch briefly last year and contemplated tackling the congo in a group.

I think he's doing Asia also, and we chose to "first world" Asia instead of trekking through. We sent our car back to Portland from Cape Town and did Asia/Aus/NZ like proper tourists with rented cars. :)
State Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Your Free Speech
I didn't find the dismissal of botulism risk entirely persuasive. Botulism may be rare but it is really lethal.
> 0.5% chance of dying prematurely.
> the median age at diagnosis for colorectal cancer is 67.

So statistically speaking eating 50g of processed meat a day reduces your life expectancy by 3.2 days: (78 years life expectancy in US - 67 median age of getting cancer - 1 year of dying from cancer) * 0.005 chance of receiving cancer * 0.18 increase of cancer probability * 365 days.
No, that makes no sense. Why would you store debayered data when you can store the original with the same exact results?
None of those pass muster.

1. There are plenty of German-speakers not living in Germany.

2. Is that organization somehow affiliated with project gutenberg? Or did it simply use the name, which gutenberg probably doesn't care to trademark and wouldn't have the funds to legally enforce anyway.

3. You must know that hardly anyone uses .us.

4. So all it takes to be subject to a country's courts is for that country's media to bring up your activities?

If you think those points create any sort of legal nexus in Germany, that would also imply that most activism and protest against authoritarian countries' laws should be illegal, with those responsible subject to the authoritarian regimes' legal systems. That is untenable if you have an ounce of respect for free speech or liberal values or a free internet.

Apply the reasoning to the laws of certain Middle Eastern countries. China. North Korea.
> they are inherently fuel inefficient compared to devices with wheels

assuming it can be harvested cleanly, energy isn't inherently a problem until we start getting close to capturing a significant fraction of total solar irradiance. we get better at this every year, so eventually it will be a non-issue.

> they are noisy, a problem which can probably never be solved unless breakthroughs are made in science-fiction fields like anti-gravity

imo, this is probably the biggest obstacle. like you say, there's really no plausible breakthrough that could reduce the noise level to something that could be acceptable in a dense environment.

> airspace is very limited. In my country, we have already serious planning problems with the current amount of air traffic

idk what country you live it, but this is probably only true at higher altitudes and in the immediate surroundings of airports.

> airspace is very limited. In my country, we have already serious planning problems with the current amount of air traffic

this is important, but people won't necessarily care.

the other items in your list would probably delay adoption but not prevent it altogether.
Also, it was a great rebuke to S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH.
Parshape isn't as expressive as the CSS float model, because the entire shape of the paragraph has to be specified up front. CSS floats, though, effectively change the shape of the block as the block is laid out.
I mean, if you want a standard for everyone, it's hard to ignore where most people work.
No, but most do. So translating to German and offering German books (pretty well known ones btw) should get you thinking about German laws for a moment.
I've passed out from college back in 2015 and since then worked in a B2B integration company for 2.5 years. To be frank, I've worked my ass of in past 2.5 years and gained a lot of experience in various technologies (both backend and front end). Moved to Germany in this February.
> Dr. Greger's "How Not to Die" has helped in some of the education and all the references to studies relating.

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, you may buy yourself some years with virtuous living, but you are still going to die. It's worth considering whether you want to give up all your small temporal pleasures.
The Economist had a special report on marriage a few months back with a bit on cousin marriage around the world. They had an interesting conclusion.

> Two academics, Bilal Barakat and Stuart Gietel-Basten, point out that when women usually have five surviving children, a woman can expect to have 25 male cousins. When the average number of children falls to two, that same woman will have just three male cousins, some or all of whom might be younger than she is, and thus ineligible as marriage partners. The marriage squeeze will be even tighter in cultures that insist, for example, that a woman marry not any old cousin but her father’s brother’s son. Eventually, cousin marriage will be crushed not by medics but by mathematics

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21731490-pract...
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If you live near a large enough community of former Yugoslavians, you can find nitrate-free Suho Meso, which (when it's good) is like a cross between bacon and prosciutto. However, it contains all the carcinogens of smoked meat. That said the largest brand in the US (US-produced, actually) is not nitrate-free.