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I'm one of those people who thinks there's a land crisis going on and it's being fueled by wealthy, doomsday preppers. People are putting up private property signs on public (re: federal lands) every where they can and are trying to claim rivers as their own. I think a lot of it started with Michael Burry convincing wealthy people to do it after he got success by betting on the housing crash, combined with the political landscape.

But regardless, as a non-wealthy person who enjoys the outdoors it's very concerning. I don't like that I may be out one day on a river or a trail (particularly when on a mountain bike, dirt bike, or in my Wrangler) and may encounter barbed wire or "private property" signs when it's definitely not private property.

I canoed and kayaked 150 miles through the Adirondacks and I remember a lot of private property signs but it was all in regards to the shore and actual land; signs put up to keep people from camping on private land. I get that. But blockading a river isn't much different than blockading a road to me.

They're getting away with it right now because it's small tributaries and such, but what if some jackass pulled this off on the Mississippi or something equivalent? Logistics of that aside, I bet some governments would be far more concerned. And depending on how court cases regarding this go they may be setting someone up to do just that.
"Every small business can be tokenized"

My parents own a gift shop (like a Hallmark). Can you give me an idea of how their business could be "tokenized"?
there is a difference, but it's not black and white.

sure, state is much more powerful. however, state plays by the rules, and if the rules (aka laws) are changed, state will leave you alone. And laws could be changed.

good luck trying to stop the mob, though.
Life, With Dementia gives an interesting (moving) account of prisoners caring for other prisoners who have dementia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dement...
ABS uses software, I'm not aware of a mechanical ABS.

Limited slip differentials in all their varieties still don't do what stability control and traction control do. You need software for the systems to perform in a way we have come to expect.

A car without any software at all would be carbureted and have no ABS or traction/stability control.
Abrupt sentencing is more appropriate.
I may have missed something but please point me to an ABS system that does not use sensors and software to actuate the pressure modulator.
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Hackernews discussion is intended to be productively informative. Knowingly putting someone down on a public forum does not make anyone better for it except maybe to educate the person making the mistake and others performing in an equal manner. Considering what Adrian was dealing with, any others like him might not even benefit from reading such things; this delivery method is more likely to fail than to succeed.

It's fine to constructively criticize. But it's inherently impossible to do that with someone who's died because they're dead. And with disorders which risk social impairment, public shaming isn't the solution either; it just drives people who don't understand how to address their challenges further and further into a hole.

I figure your question was intended as both maieutic and rhetorical, but please take into account what I'm sharing with you here.

People are expected in some capacity to grow on hackernews. This comment contributed no growth value to anyone.
I did the same in one game.

One of the civilization was way ahead of me in term of tech.

Fortunatly I had a large empire, able to produce a lot of units, and this civilization was rater small.

So I sent loads of units on this civilization to take one city. Countless units died, but in the end I was able to take over the city and gain one tech.

What I did later was a bit of a cheat, but it worked. I removed all my units from the city, let the other civilization retake it, reconquered it the next turn and got another new tech.

I did this for a few turns, and presto, I was on par with the other civilization in term of technology. Then, it was game over for all the other civilizations as I was also the biggest producer in term of industry.

As for the capital, I did the trick to make a raid on it in another game. The motivation was a little different however. They were getting really close to launching to Alpha Centauri, taking their capital destroyed their spaceship. And I was able to win.

I also remember playing the game way past its end (something like year 3000 or 4000). It was quite funny, because of global warming, all the terrains were converted to swamps or deserts.
> Whether to build something expensive isn't a scientific question, it's a political one.

Well, if you're building something expensive with the intent to perform science, one would hope that the political answer to this would be informed by science.

> To take an example to the extreme, if it were just about science, science might decide to convert the entire mass of the Earth into a particle collider and kill us all in the process.

Relevant: http://cowbirdsinlove.com/46
*Can opener not included.
If they're dumb and uneducated enough to be running a hit-for-hire service, they probably hacked the site together themselves; Geocities looked like geocities because nobody had web skills.
I don't think this applies here, because in this case the two events are directly related. Poster's aren't bringing up random unrelated problems with the U.S., they're bringing up similar systems already in place in the U.S. that HN commentators aren't up in arms about.

So you either need to do what I asked, which is explain why the two aren't comparable, or admit that the pushback against these policies is because they're new, foreign, or framed differently than their American counterparts.
> Just like cars, bikes have a responsibility to look out for pedestrians and other vehicles and avoid hitting them.

If, as a pedestrian, you dart out in front of a car or a cyclist going at legal speeds, and there isn't room to swerve to avoid you, you're going to get hit. Period. Physics is inviolable on this count. Stopping distances are what they are.

You could just set citywide speed limits of 5 mph to decrease stopping distances enough to allow vehicles to avoid darting pedestrians, or pedestrians could just not step out in front of vehicles that have the right of way.

It's really not hard to, as a pedestrian, upon reaching a road or bikeway, look for oncoming traffic and yield to it if they have the right-of-way. If you insist on stepping in front of oncoming traffic and you get hit, that's on you.
Roads are mostly 2D which prevents such simple rules from working. If nothing else people and cars need to pass bike lanes at intersections.

On top of that almost every bike lane I have seen has had parking one side with the only way to park a car is for the car to also use the bike lane. EX: 3rd google image for bike lanes: https://bikesiliconvalley.org/wp-content/uploads/Veterans-Bl...

Going 3d with dedicated bike skyways can solve this problem, but bikes are 3rd/4th class citizens in most places because they get a relatively small fraction of overall transportation. (Cars, walking, subways or other public transit, then biking.)
Wasn't there a mass bot purge a couple of weeks ago immediately followed by complaints that Twitter was silencing important conservative voices because they're part of the Deep State?
I like WednesdayCoin, a coin that can only be transferred on wednesdays. https://wednesdaycoin.io/

(not a hexel coin, but another ERC20)
I'm worried that paranoia is a thing of the past. I somewhat concerned that a (free) national ID scheme will be the result of the "Voter ID" push from the GOP in recent years.
That's a fair distinction. I would apply that reputation to the author and possibly aggregate that for the outlet though. I don't think it's as easy as judging CNN as a whole based on a single piece.
Once I dreamed that I lived through a nuclear war, I dreamed the aftermath and my life scraping and scrapping through a shredded world. The dream brought me to the house in the woods where I live now, but in that world it was tattered and burned and no children lived there. I laid down, grateful for a dry spot and a wall that split the wind. I woke here, but not there.
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Those cases are currently a vast minority of reasons why bike lanes are blocked. If those were the only times that bike lanes were blocked, at least 99% of existing blockages would be solved and everything would be vastly safer.
I'm not sure I would take them at their word -- any kind of circumstance beyond their control flatters them.
That's been going on for decades. I recall barbed wire on rivers in the Colorado Rockies. Also on some creeks in the Southeast.

But yes, hitting barbed wire sucks for canoers and kayakers. It can get people killed. Some of us carried wire cutters.
On the other hand, shoplifting rate is really low. A lot of merchandise is literally out in the streets. Security is minimal. In many European countries shit would get stolen in no time. Yet high social trust in Japan allows this.

Well, till nanny punk comes..!
I can confirm that this hasn't been a feature in any of the modern versions.
Yes, but my concern, personally, is that we're just getting a sneak-preview of a system that will eventually end up implemented here. We don't have a social credit system, but we do have a do-not-fly list and, if you get put on it, you don't have any way of finding out why. Your "regular" credit score can shut you out of not just loans but jobs, apartments, and other basic services. How much of a leap is it, really?
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That probably means he could have gone to 40k with a bit of huffing and puffing :) but it’s still a pretty good yoy raise.
>> 50 years from now when there is one person left working and 300 million retired people (I exaggerate to make the point), that guy is going to pretty busy since he’ll have to grow all the food, build and maintain all the buildings, do the laundry, take care of all medical needs, produce the TV shows, etc. etc . etc. So what we need to do is make sure those 300 million retired people have the funds to pay him??? I don’t think so! This problem obviously isn’t about money. What we need to do is make sure that one guy working is smart enough and productive enough and has enough capital goods and software to be able to get all that done, or those retirees are in serious trouble , no matter how much money they might have.

Doesn't this assume that the money that the elderly have can't be used to import things? If you can import, then the money is useful again.
> But, America's love of excess capitalism means our tax code is needlessly complicated and pretty much insists on as many third party businesses to be involved as possible - every company you work for, plus anyone holding your securities, plus Intuit or some other tax preparer, and so forth.

I don't think it's fair calling this capitalism. Capitalism is the idea the the production of goods is controlled by private entities, whereas what you are talking about is a government over complicating/regulating an industry at the behest of a company. In a capitalist society, regulation is not a thing, whereas in the corporatist society I believe we live in, regulation harms the citizens through capture and reduction in effeciency.
NC Police Issued Warrants to Search Data on All Google Devices Near Murder Scene
Civ2 is pretty fun and not too complex. The very best “Civ” game is probably Alpha Centauri but Civ2 is a good gateway drug.

If you get stuck refer to this: https://lparchive.org/Civilization-2/
My experience with Zuora is that it's a feature-complete payments subscription that's an unholy pain to work with. We chose them over Stripe before Stripe has ACH.

My favorite part is that 25% of their revenue is professional services, and their professional services are sold essentially at-cost. You're going to need somebody to help you get set up, but at least the pricing on that extra headcount is fair :)

They're after large customers, and this is what they get.

"As a substantial portion of our sales efforts are increasingly targeted at large enterprise customers, our sales cycle may become increasingly lengthy and more expensive, we may encounter still greater pricing pressure and deployment and customization challenges, and we may have to delay revenue recognition for more complicated transactions, all of which could adversely impact our business and operating results."
They presumably sent OP the email because he has used it. Most won’t receive it.
And? It's not about anything you wrote, just have a shred of decency on a comment to a father who lost his son. That's above anything you know obviously.
In honor of hackerdom I'll be a bit of a pest and say that stoners already have that lesson covered. :)

I think hackers reveal the unexamined difference between how people use something and what it does. E.g., people used copyright to give exclusivity to a particular publisher. But copyright itself doesn't "do" exclusivity. It instead gives the author the power to license the work as they see fit. So even if the license is a legal restatement of the golden rule, it is still backed by the full force of U.S. copyright law.
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That would be a great comparison if the many worlds hypothesis were proven or even provable. As it stands, it is basically just a belief which is held to explain the scientific facts. Not much different from ancient man's belief that spirits had influence over the weather cycle. Check out https://strangenotions.com/flew/
Microsoft tries forcing Mail users to open links in Edge
Maybe they should stop parking in bike lanes then.
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It's more precisely that they have a strong sense of filial responsibility (vs larger societal responsibility). Children are expected to financially and socially support parents.
The shame is in admitting that family support is absent or insufficient.

History and future plans:
http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/the-car...
I think if you saw a similar system implemented in the US it would happen mostly with private companies doing it. The obvious place to start is some combination of social media and your credit card records. Crawling through your e-mails, search history, and Internet activity is another likely avenue.
> It is very much like being in prison, except that I am not afraid of my fellow inmates.

I don't know - our fellow FOB inmates (Afghan security forces) kept turning on us and shooting people.
> I wish they would spend more time finishing the halfway done projects they've started (and fully documenting them), rather than continue to launch new ones.

Perhaps I am reading too much into your comment but you make it seem as though releasing other products slows down the development of those projects that you consider halfway done.

This is definitely not the case; it's not as though the engineers who were working on CloudSQL or AppEngine decided to start working on a CLI instead.

> I think recent articles I've read about launching being the track to promotion explain some of the state of things within GCP.

There are certainly issues with promotion but if anything I'd imagine getting a highly requested customer feature like Postgres out of beta would be awesome for promotion so I don't think that's the underlying issue here.
I also had this as a kid. I think the game was quite lacking in the "game" aspect, though it was nice to have my new mutated orchid overtake the world.
The Tribune is a pretty factual paper, but studies have been mixed over the years. Confusing the data is the implementation of RLCs at sites that never had an issue with right-angle crashes, that’s a key reason the Chicago data showed an increase in collisions.

I don’t think we’ll agree on this issue, but I understand your arguments and they are reasonable.
Check out Gitea, which is a community managed fork of Gogs.
Well said and absolutely agreed.

Based on the numbers presented, even with the "these numbers are conservative" caveat, focusing resources on this doesn't make sense.

"In 2010 and 2011, 161 and 130 drunk driving fatalities occurred in Los Angeles County, respectively." [1]

So almost a 14:1 drunk driving fatality to street racing ratio. Even if the street racing numbers are way off, they'd have to be 14x as large to have the same impact as DUI.

Which somewhat stands to reason. I assume street racers aren't in the habit of (1) wrecking their expensive and carefully modified cars & (2) dying. Given their interest in racing, I'd even hazard to say they're likely better drivers on average than the (admittedly terrible) public.

[1] https://www.sjclaw.com/Resources-and-Media/Articles/How-many... (claims to be NHTSA data)
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A major reason people use US dollars is because they want to buy stuff produced by the US. If the US doesn't produce anything, USD are pretty much useless.
Thanks. Yes, this is completely additive to the existing SDK.
Steve Jobs’ Half-Assed Job Application Sells for $174,000
I did stumble upon libxsmm while looking for a BLAS library, I didn't see they had integers.

Do you know what libxsmm means by "small", there is nothing in their README/wiki. However it does say that libxsmm doesn't support 32-bit OS. My library is used in IoT devices.
Can someone explain to me why it seems like in the past month or so everybody and their mother has re-discovered "whataboutism" and insists on explaining the concept to me?
...and it's flagged...
If your career can be destroyed by having the opinions you decided to post in a public forum under your real name copy-pasted, you're an idiot.
For those wondering like me what the UI looks like, here's a video:

https://youtu.be/9Vca8JBIiUY
Wow, he figured out how to miniaturize a penny-farthing and add gearing to boot.

I want to try that. I doubt I'd replace my road bike, but I want to know what that's like to ride.
That guy's wikipedia page screams fraud. I would just be careful, iiwy.
Consider a company that used to sell stuff by the unit. Boxed software, DVDs, whatever.

There is a new world of their product, and even though it's 2018, they're not in it. It might feel like Spotify has won, Netflix has won, and so on, but in other verticals, subscriptions still aren't the norm.

Remember when Dollar Shave Club started selling razors by the month and got bought for a billion dollars? P&G needed to find a way to transition to subscriptions, and they paid up for it.

The subscription economy is a real trend, and it's not something you can just convert to overnight if you have a business that's a going concern. You have to figure out how to put out some new offerings, and the way people pay for these new subscriptions have to work with your existing business processes.

Zuora sells to those companies. Companies that want to sell subscriptions, but can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. They want to work with a company that understands that subscriptions are the new important thing, but not the only thing.
Gift cards? What's the need for decentralized crypto token (given the costs complexity and friction)?
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I think that, in any given interaction, the odds you are interacting with a paid government agent are exceptionally low. I personally have been accused of being an agent of so many governments in online discussion that I think the hit rate is extremely low.
Because HR regulations, taxes, benefits, etc. vary widely between countries. And they change all the time.
Today I learned that the Russians invented criticizing someone for hypocrisy.
Isn't that just the anthropic principle? That's another explanation for a life friendly universe, but not something that can be proved or taken as proof.
Yeah, I found with Mail for Windows 10 that the setup for gmail and my university's office365 account was fairly seamless. Likewise Outlook on Android (although I'm currently using K-9).

The only place I'm using webmail is on Linux but now Thunderbird is receiving new love it might be time...
I'm not trying to be alarmist, but seas are dangerous.
How much is their currency worth on the foreign market? It's value is based on how much products and services are for sale by people who accept the currency. A bunch of retirees sitting on local money with no productivity will generate (hyper)inflation.
Had the Amiga version of Civilization - I was absolutely hooked immediately. A little later on I got into CivNet on Windows 3.1 (Trumpet Winsock and SLIP!), and eventually Civ2 (the pinnacle of the series).

I haven't really liked the latter games in the series. It just seems like something is missing :/
How fast do you really think they are going? 15 mph is a pretty good clip on a recreational (non-racing-style) bike. Most people I’ve run across are doing 12-15 tops.

I don’t notice any complaint in your post about how cars are flying along recklessly at more than twice that speed.
Most people who claim that fiat money is essential for a growing economy are unable to explain the US economy from 1800-1914.

The real purpose of fiat money systems is so the government can spend more than it takes in by printing the difference (or the more modern variation of just creating it with accounting gimmicks).
Surely they would need to know which Tesla was there and subpoena those records specifically?
Which is part of why deliveries of large pieces of furniture in France and Belgium is still done through the windows, and a portable exterior temporary elevator. They are usually mounted on small pickup trucks or on trailers towed by trucks.

Absolutely terrifying — and fascinating — to watch being used. Nothing quite like a slightly hopped up version of a fireman’s ladder with hundreds or thousands of pounds of furniture one it. Or maybe just piled up with a bunch of random stuff that they don’t want to have to carry up or down stairs.

Been there, done that.

Examples: https://youtu.be/LQg8JCtNPtg and https://youtu.be/lnF0ETvdTXc
I remember that being a huge concern between my second and third deployments, but this was several years ago. Is the green on blue still a common problem? Sexual assaults used to occur in a higher frequency than you would suspect in FOB environments particularly around certain NATO allies as well.

Even with these insider threats and the periodic rocket attacks daily life was still hopelessly dull. I remember people willing to cut off their arms to experience the misery of combat just to get off the FOB.
USD is also the de facto currency in many less-developed regions of the world, and also for international oil trade. One day those markets might become the "tail" that wags the US domestic "dog"
This is very very rad. Good work folks! Less crypto scamming and more crypto fun is great.

Jean
I'd be truly excited if Google was prepared to state it had any intention to open source it's actual web apps. But everything I know about the company says that isn't even an option. What you open source is the same as most of the other things Google open sources: The things that funnel you into Google's proprietary services.

Even suggesting that Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides might be open source someday is as unbelievable as suggesting Google's considering open sourcing their search algorithm. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
LIDARs are awfully expensive for personal use. Look for other 3D scanning methods, and if you still think it's required, rent one.
> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage#Seigniorage_as_a_t...