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There is supposed to be a strict separation of never using the military against the citizens of the united states.

Due process and judicial process in a courtroom are not the same thing. Your citizenship isn't a bubble you carry around with you that gives you enhanced protection from your government under all circumstances; if you choose to put yourself in a kinetic theater of operations then it doesn't act as a bullet proof vest.

In the case of Al-Awlaki, his due process was people in the executive branch (specifically the National Security Council) looking at the fact that he was running around on battlefields with people the US was fighting with, and deciding that he'd chosen to become an enemy combatant. You can certainly critique the general conduct of war by states, and whether the US should be engaged in asymmetric wars in general or in that theater in particular, but I am no more or less exercised about al-Awlaki's death than I am about any of his Yemeni/Al Qaeda associates that were blown up at the same time.

Put another way, if you were OK with them being killed, then you should be OK with him being killed because he chose to affiliate with them. If you're not OK with it, then I'd say the problem is the War on Terror as a whole, since it effectively functions as a blank check to target any group that can be designated as a military threat.
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Thank you for your thoughtful reply; you deserve a serious answer.

I accept that, occasionally, my systems will fail. My data will be lost. No recovery will be possible, and the damage will be permanent and lasting. I do not hope to succeed in those times, but expect to be scarred. I will fail.

Given that I will fail, I'd like to understand how I fail. I'd like to understand why I fail. I'd like to measure how often I fail, how short I fall of success, and the root causes of my failure. I'd like to know when failure is about to happen or is happening.

By writing down what I do, I know how to fail. I can write down what I do when I don't fail, too. I can write while I do, and I can read what I wrote to do it again. I can let somebody else read and do what I have done.

I can expect to fail sometimes. I can expect to not fail sometimes. I expect failures based on causes, not based on self-blame. I expect to not fail most of the time, and only fail at certain times when something has caused me to fail.

I can fail less in the future. My actions today can change how I fail in the future. I can plan to fail, or intentionally fail, or sometimes fail less. I act intentionally.

I haven't failed in a while. The last time I failed, I looked at why I failed and I did what was necessary to try to recover and fail less.

This is how SRE works. This isn't overconfidence; this is fault-tolerance. It's not easy, but it works.

To respond to your point about faith, I have plenty of faith, just not hope that my faith will be able to prevent me from failing.

And finally, try Nix sometime. It's pretty cool.
Well if you are technically savvy... maybe you'd go a step further too and then you do think they're gone, its a whole other question... or the same one.
> We need to remove hundreds of billions of tons of Carbon from the atmosphere in order to avoid catastrophic global warming.

Only if you believe the predictions of the models used by the IPCC, which have already been falsified by the data. CO2 has been rising according to the most pessimistic "business as usual" model scenario, but actual warming has been less than that predicted by the most optimistic "massive reductions in CO2 have already happened" scenario. This is the huge elephant in the room that is never mentioned by climate change alarmists.
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Well that's the whole problem with the War on Terror, isn't it - the designation of who's an enemy is rather unilateral.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-mil...

That’s tens of millions, and I’m being generous in ignoring how you’ve moved the goalposts. Your thesis is simply unsupportable, sorry.

Besides, we don’t know what the future holds, but in terms of raw possibilities we can now end all human life on Earth thanks to technology. That’s also new in the last 70 years. Hopefully we’ll never do it, but we could. Thst also flies in the face of the “technology reduces casualties” business. Of course, so does all of human history for thousands of years, but hey, let’s keep it simple.
Well that's the whole problem with the War on Terror, isn't it - the designation of who's an enemy is rather unilateral. At least in Al-Awlaki's case he was advertising his ultra-militant intentions about as clearly as possible.
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There's something to be said for that. You can get aluminum or plastic extruded cases to which you add your own custom end plates to fit your switches and connectors. End plates can be made on a laser cutter, or outsourced to companies such as Front Panel Express.

Too many hobbyist boards end up with connectors on all four edges, making it very difficult to package the board.
There's also an argument to be made that remaining on the cutting edge of military science is a form of national security.

Your words, I’m asking who’s security? Our security while we pretend to own the world? Our security against invasion? How secure do we need to be, when we can already end all human life in 45 minutes?
Ask HN: Are you a solo founder? How do you deal with stress?
I'm a mentally tough individual, and I deal with stress very well. I have no issue with managing teams while coding on large projects that have tight deadlines, but there's a 'different' type of stress when starting your own company by yourself.

After all that self-proclaim tough guy shit, let me cut to the chase. Doing a start-up alone is an intense personal challenge at first. You quickly become aware of your flaws, shortcomings and you need to adapt and adjust soon; or you fail.

How do you deal with this deep level of personal stress? Vitamins, Working out, talking to other people in the start-up space, etc.?

I'm starting to take vitamins and going to local hotels to work out; Yes, I walk into hotels act like I'm staying there and use the gym.

I do feel better, but I wanted to see what others are doing. I've been reading about how a lot of entrepreneurs are struggling with depression and wanted to start this thread.

I hope this thread helps another entrepreneur out. Stay strong, stay focused and believe in yourself. Remember, each time we screw up, we found another way we can become better.
If Google does a better job of defining who should be killed, and it siphons money into the Bay Area, why shouldn’t we be supportive of google’s involvement?

I agree that perhaps we shouldn’t blow people up overseas, but at least while we are at it, why not make the best decisions to avoid killing the wrong people?
Not likely. Carmack did a write up of a recent vacation: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2110408722...
This is a really great start. I'd love to help.
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True, I guess I meant a rasterization library. It looked like they were mostly using SDL2 for interfacing with the OS and blitting to the screen.

(and to be more specific I really meant without opengl|directx|vulcan etc)
My friend has actually won a green card through a website like that (unofficial) he forgot about ever applying and people from this website spent considerable time and effort to contact him and let him know that he won, they called his Russian phone number and got a hold of him miraculously, I am pretty sure had he applied directly through the official dvlottery site, he would never know that he won. so sometimes this type of sites do what they say.
Honest question: why (is it beyond I was bored, so I did it because I could)?
Could we please, please stop trying to micro-optimize our children from birth? Give them love, food, shelter, and a rich environment, but also give them space. Give them room to breathe and explore and learn. Let them be bored sometimes. Let them make their own mistakes and choose their own projects and learn their own lessons. Let them be children.
I probably occupy a considerably more marginalized/precarious position in society than you do, but while your observations are largely well-founded you chose an amazingly pompous way to articulate them.
My grandfather's were on his PC and cameras (those that weren't hard-copy photos that he developed himself).

For my own, some are online, but most are around the room, copied onto various storage devices (redundantly, and on devices that my wife knows about, and that other family members could easily find, if we were collectively hit by a bus).

In terms of ebooks and non-CD digital music, there's maybe a couple hundred dollars worth. Almost all of my digital video is on DVD/Blu-Ray. The photos would have more value, anyhow.

For software: Meh. My projects are mostly for my own entertainment. If someone wanted to fork them, it's not like they'd be fighting for control of a community, or something.
If you followed basic financial advice since the 80s you'd achieve those retirns.
Google is now integrated into the iMessage apps drawer
Tough one to chew, wondering if this is Google's only involvement with the government on such scale.
> And giving someone life is the ultimate pay-it-forward act of gratitude

Also likely the worst thing you can do for the environment
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Never heard of that. This is why I love HN. I'm likely to now Google around for how to grab this and run in an emulator. Appreciate the share.
SPICE can do a lot, but you're asking a LOT. Modelling internal states of a micro is generally a different package than the mainly analog simulation that SPICE does. It is rare for them to be tied together.

Practically speaking, your interface ought to be separate enough that you can define the range of states the micro's inputs should see, and the range of outputs it should drive, and separate the two. There are times when I've wished for a combined simulation but it wasn't worth the hassle to set it up. Honestly for the accuracy I expect I usually prefer to just build the thing rather than simulate it.

LEDs are really boring to model anyway.
You say as if there's no way to get a bad food supply outside of captivity.

It's not a inherent part of captivity. If some prison started beheading people every thursday, it wouldn't be "prison" that kills people, it would be the beheadings.
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Says who?

Projecting historically low inflation is no less reckless than ignoring it. Imo, you're better off looking at absolute returns and tweaking your expectations based in inflation as itnhaopens.
Question: does securitizing the solar tax credit increase or decrease solar deployment? I don't know enough about the market to say, but I do wonder if you may have missed the forest for the trees.
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Google officially doesn’t care about opportunities less than $1B in size. I very much doubt this is anywhere near a billion dollar opportunity. My educated guess: they’re trying to sell cloud to government and need a good use case. Cloud deal_could be_ a billion dollar opportunity.
This seems like something to discuss with a medical professional - GP and/or psychologist.
If you don't agree with a part of what I've said then you're more than welcome to articulate your objections instead of asking a series of rhetorical questions. It's clear that you have strong feelings on the topic but at this point you're not trying to have a discussion you're just being belligerent.
I became a long distance (10km+) runner to deal with uncertainty. I run 3 times a week; about an hour each time. To me its a form of meditation. When I am running, I focus on breathing and let go of most other thoughts. The ability to not think takes your mind away from your product and lets you think more objectively.
If you always carry your phone with you anyway - you can just Bluetooth teather it to your MacBook anytime. Easier and you don’t have to pay for it. So it’s not like macbook ever needed this feature that surface pro just got.
but what about a basket of four bad currencies?
it could be used for further inquiry or investigation. in the case of the computer the owner would not even know.
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Holy smokes – this is comprehensive.
>I agree that perhaps we shouldn’t blow people up overseas, but at least while we are at it, why not make the best decisions to avoid killing the wrong people?

I think you have to begin a little further back in the logic train than that state-sponsored murder for hire with the help of closed-source algorithms is legitimate or acceptable.
You could argue that the US has done a great job protecting us. Hence why you view it as a non threat.

We shouldnt be as naive as the Romans.
I’m asking a question you seem unwilling to answer. You invoked national security as a motivation to stay on the cutting edge of military science. I’m asking just what your definition encompasses, and pointing out that it’s clearly not just the sanctity of our borders. Traditionally national security is about the security of a nation, not securing its dominance; the latter goes by a different name. Our vast nuclear arsenal secures the former, but not the latter.
It seems I need pspice to use any of the vendor models though (or LTSpice if I stick to LT only parts).
Hardware folks are generally underpaid, FWIW. I had an idea and was able to get an almost genius level HW guy to do the grunt work for $75/hour, and he seemed thrilled with the comp level. He worked for a very recognizable brand name, but did side work for peanuts. I wasn't lowballing either. I bumped his intitial offer by 50% just to make sure I had his attention.

His design worked out of the box with no issues, and he even had solid advice on dealing with the end Chinese PCB suppliers.

I'd advise hiring an expert because they generally aren't priced the same as software experts. I'm pretty sure I'd have spent a lot more fumbling around trying to do it myself.

Kind of a shame really. It's arguably a harder skill to master these days.
The Atari 800 was a fantastic machine. Miner 2049'r was a great game. The Atari 800 was way ahead of its time in terms of graphics and sound. Check out the stuff Philip Price did with Alternate Reality in 1985. Also have to give a shoutout to the Atari 130XE.
I am being very objective, The Mozilla Foundation is a Non profit tax free organization that gets that tax free status because they are suppose to be following their stated goal of the organization not to be popular

Mozilla Foundation has a Tax Free Status in order to promote the Open Web

They are no longer honoring that goal, as such they should lose their Tax Free status, the should stop calling themselves a Foundation, they should stop fraudulently holding themselves out as being For Privacy and the Open web

if they want to make a Insecure, Privacy Invading Browser, that is perfectly fine. Google and MS already do that

They need to be honest about it and not hold themselves out to be something they are not

They do not fight for the open web, they do not fight for user privacy, they do not support the goals stated in the the Mozilla Manifesto. Thus it should be removed and Mozilla Foundation should be dissolved into the Mozilla Corporation a for profit software vendor making a Commercial Web Browser

You taking the stance that Mozilla is no different than Google, MS or other Commercial Software Vendors. That they are a software company looking to make the best software for their customers..

Mozilla does not have customers, Mozilla is not and should not be a commercial entity, Mozilla is a Charitable Foundation with a set of goals they are violating
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On the other hand, now, that's bleak.

My mother has always said "Funerals are for the living, not the dead." I don't find the GPs attitude bleak at all. The people who grieve most heavily seem to be those with unfinished business with the deceased. If you leave behind no unfinished business, I think people can let it go fairly easily. They got what they needed while you were alive. That's a good deal.
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Hint: They doesn't believe that statement, they were using its ridiculousness to attack your point of "If you don't have time to read the article, why do you think you deserve attaining its essence?"
Literally all of the equipment used to kill people, from the rifles, to the bullets, to the fighter jets, to the parts to repair the fighter jets, are manufactured by private companies in the United States. So I’m confused by your confusion in thinking that Google’s assistance in the drone program is somehow the first private company to participate in providing goods and services that are directly involved in killing people. Is Google somehow more culpable than the companies that make the bullets or bombs? How is providing software and computing power for that any different? You don’t think a private company writes the software that targets things for jets and missiles?
It doesn't need to be in the ToS. In the US your information has no legal protection, with a handful of exceptions like medical information. You should assume any information you give to any company is being shared, sold, and utilized to the fullest extent to monetize you.

Even if you believe Zuckerberg has changed, it does put a quite apropo spin on those IMs from when he first started Facebook [1]:

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuckerberg: Just ask.

Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.

And now people give away vastly more than the data he had back then.

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...
This was a video lecture (like a TED talk, but not) and was notable for me because I was doing my estate plan at about the same time. Ran across the video maybe in 2015... I will continue the hunt for the video.

The issue wasn't getting into a financial account per se, rather getting into all the devices the husband controlled. She didn't know the passwords.

In the old days, estate executors would monitor physical mail to make sure they found all bank accounts. With many tech savvy people moving away from physical mail, the only notification about which accounts are out there are arriving by email to an account an executor does not have access to. How to know which accounts need to fall under the estate if you don't know the account exists?

Anyway, I will keep up the search for the video. I tweaked my personal technology plan a bit to deal with some of the issues that video raised. In addition to a physical list of key passwords, 2FA recovery keys, and encryption keys, I also included specific recovery scenarios like:

1) me dead, all laptops / phones / 2-factor fobs destroyed

2) me dead, phone missing, but still have laptop & fobs

3) me dead, laptop missing, but have phone & fobs

4) me dead, fobs missing but have laptop & phone

As a courtesy to clients, I also noted what client assets and data I controlled, where I kept the object, how to decrypt if necessary, and who to contact to arrange hand over.
Please do not post ideological flame tropes to Hacker News. They're predictable, and so do not gratify intellectual curiosity. They lead to flamewars, which destroy the container here. We all have an interest in not letting that happen. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The good things about HN are all fragile. The default forces of the internet all tend to destroy them. Everyone posting here is responsible to take care of the container—just like you wouldn't litter in a city park, or set one on fire.
Unless it doesn't.

"Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public." -- Quinn Norton.

Libraries have various traditions of burning. Alexandria (probably several times). The U.S. Library of Congress, in 1814, 1851, and 1825.

http://www.accessible-archives.com/2013/01/the-other-fire-at...

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/22/this-day-in-politi...
When I was a kid, I thought the 400 was the coolest looking computer of them all because of the membrane keyboard. They truly sucked to type on though.
Had a career prior, so my 1.whatever GPA didn’t matter. I pretty much stopped going to class within a month of starting and dropped out before first finals. Everything since has been relationships. Key for me was to define my skill set and evolve accordingly.
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so if I already did a 23andMe hereditary analysis, do I need to pony up more if I want them to reveal more about myself?
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> I sure am surprised that the discussion has already reached the point where tech companies are debating whether they kill people 'incorrectly'. I must have missed the democratic discussion about private businesses assisting in killing people at all, a duty traditionally exercised by states.

Sure, it's valid to disagree with Google's involvement in this project, but I find it incredibly hard to justify the claim that private enterprises traditionally don't equip armed forces. Providing technology and hardware to armed forces is something that private companies have been doing for centuries. Heck non-state groups selling arms to armed forces likely predates the existence of states as we know them. Most armies prior to the modern era were militias that privately purchased their own equipment.

This project is "assisting in killing people" to at most the same degree that developing munitions guidance, military radar systems, and sonar are "assisting in killing people" (I'd argue less since this technology is purely about reviewing reconnaissance data, not about the actual deployment of weapons) and private companies have been developing those systems for over a century.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and ideological fodder to Hacker News? Whether you mean it to be or not, it's vandalism. This wretched subthread is exactly what we don't want on HN. It is exactly what will trash the site.

An experienced user like you ought to be more familiar with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and ought to take better care of the commons. Everything that's good about Hacker News is fragile.
The patchworks of demographics, identity, media narrative, alliances, and horse-trading that determine government representation and policy are extremely complex and require immense energy to influence in the smallest of ways.

They are vanishingly unlikely to budge for your pet technocratic issue. Doing surgeries correctly is not, in any meaningful sense, up for a vote, nor is anyone going to win elected office on a doing-surgeries-correctly platform.
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> does the credit work?

clearly the folks responsible for renewing the solar tax credit thought so.

> but forest & trees!

imo, neither the solar tax credit, nor the oil & gas R&D credits are valid uses of public funds. so I quit.
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Laws can persevere in the face of technology which pretty much rendered them obsolete. But they remain artefacts of a different time. Let me present you Japan requiring vanilla porn which depicts pubic hair on and around reproductive areas of people to be fuzzed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Japan#Censorshi...

They seem to date from back in the Meiji restoration period. But this is Japan which is also known for the Soaplands, so go figure.