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Your discussion of "legality" here is U.S.-centric. Google has offices in Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Turkey, U.A.E., India, and China, to name a few. How would you feel if Google worked on military technology for those countries? Would you point out that it was inevitable that their militaries would seek ways to use A.I.? Would you point out that the Turkish armed forces' activities are permitted under Turkish law? Would you lament the inability of Google employees to separate work from politics?

Google has users in almost all countries, and even our friends in other liberal democracies do not see the U.S. military the same way we do. Perhaps some Google users' family members have even been killed by the U.S. military. This presents a perfectly reasonable business reason (one that has nothing to do with "the personal, the moral, the legal, and the political") for Google to turn down AI drone contracts.
There is nothing intelligent about machine learning. It’s cool but far from intelligent. AI buzzword to describe machin learning is equivalent to people calling computers cpus. Let’s me know really quickly just how clueless they are.
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Nice. This is for Unreal Engine.

Second Life still can't even generate ordinary billboards automatically. Most low level of detail models in Second Life are generated with the Decimate tool in Blender, which does a terrible job. People decimate all the way down to one triangle, which looks terrible. Better level of detail models have to be handmade. It's so 1990s.
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No. Both the writing style and the page breaks lead the reader to think the article has "finished" several times before it ends. While I completely agree with a lot of this article's recommendations, it's funny that an article criticizing Apple's design would be designed so poorly itself.
Yes. Hence no Jetson practical, pervasive flying cars either. For point-to-point bulk transport, it’s more efficient to have dedicated low pressure tunnels with maglev or similar. All that petro burning will look incredibly awful in 50 years, if not now.
> I think more importantly Rust has to clearly demonstrate that it really is better for projects that use C currently.

I halfway agree. More evidence is always welcome, but the nature of that evidence will almost always be subjective, and I'm not sure a lot of language adherents even care all that much when the evidence is objective. So more is better, but "clearly demonstrate" may be pie in the sky thinking.

> I think the failure of wider adoption of D is a good case study.

I always considered D interesting, but not worth the effort for the gains it offered. A more ergonomic C/C++ is nice, but ergonomics just steer you the right way, they're a far cry from preventing a while class of errors. A GC does offer some help in that direction, but comes with a clear continuous cost. Compiler level error prevention with zero cost abstractions comes across as something a bit more new and novel, and changes the cost/benefit analysis some. It's now a one-time up-front cost, with the possibility that the cost will lesson over time as you become more accustomed to the language.

From an outsider's perspective, Nim was actually a lot more attractive than D as a replacement for C/C++. The cost seems almost negligible since it compiles to C, which makes the benefit fairly good (if overall of less magnitude than I perceive the benefit of Rust to be).
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It's a law in Delaware, only. It is almost never litigated. You haven't addressed my point that any altruistic motive can be reframed as marketing and that therefore the law is largely meaningless.
You don't need to pay so much, you can get some that attach under the seat for $30.
> Simply put, those who are attacked will fight back.

Well not that I'm Christian, but Christian teaching is basically the opposite of this (Matthew 5:39 - i.e. turn the other cheek). And Gandhi's resistance was also an example of the opposite. In fact the opposite is the only way to deescalate a fight (or, as the US chooses to do, create the biggest weapons, but isn't that then affecting the rights of the people on the other side of the argument?)

> Those who are forced to say or believe something will instead resist the idea.

Really? Advertising, religion, nation states, even your belief that these are "natural" laws are examples of your inherent bias. As a smaller example, even politeness - civility - is a counter example.
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The bidet does not need to be stand alone. You can get them for under $30 that attach under the seat.
I am also the CEO of a tech company. The thing that I realised that chilled me out is that things don't fall apart so easily. In fact I'd say that, as long as you are a reasonably hard working individual who respects issues if they become critical, things have a tendency to be ok - even when you can see all the bits that are bad and you want to improve. So relax! It sounds like you're doing a great job. Enjoy it and try quite hard (but not too hard) and things will probably be better than ok!
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Why would it be a joke? Just want to know different uses for spreadsheets. How companies are using it...
Its probably including fishing which has I would imagine a much higher rate than crews on a cruise liner.
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The Muskegon feeds into the Lake Michigan which is thus upstream of Niagara Falls and a lot of hydro power generation. Granted we are not talking about a huge amount of energy, but it is one of many costs that are not being compensated.
Because of the demographics of alums I’m assuming
It's far too late to de-politicise this forum.

Also, is there any English-language forum of this size anywhere in the world where one could discuss swastikas (be they Buddhist, Hindu or Nazi) without a flamewar?

I've seen civil discussions on the topic in Chinese forums, where the sensitive topics revolve around Imperial Japan and more recent political issues, but it's doubtful this topic is possible in the western world except in small communities.
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IIRC the standard MS stack at the time: C#, ASP.NET (which had just come out), MS SQL, IE, some in memory caching and bitmap rendering (canvas didn’t exist), AJAX. Pretty bleeding edge, but it all worked OK.
Get someone to help you manage the CEO tasks. Maybe what you really enjoy doing are the technical aspects?
Twitter seems especially unsuited for long-form "articles" like this. Neat generators and neat maps, but the whole time I was distracted by the breakup of text and flow.

Why not get a free Medium or WordPress account?
Is the recent attack on Facebook a coordinated effort to kill Zuck's office run?

Don't get me wrong, I think all the flak Facebook is getting is deserved but there's little in the revelations coming lately after Cambridge Analytica that is really new. However the media backlash is a lot, a lot bigger and more sustained that I thought it'd be, even here in HN. I'm not one for conspiracy theories but could it be partially orchestrated by some political powers that be to kill his political aspirations? Or even if it didn't start that way, I guess it could have been helped by this.
Isn't this problem caused by fix axis solar? If all solar panels were on trackers, wouldn't the curve change form and partially mitigate the problem?
Your English is fine!

I don’t know enough about how C# is AOTd to really answer that. I mean, some runtime code would still need to be in there, I assume?
I always thought it was for ease of mopping?
Also, if my answer is useful, please look at my submissions and answer my last post - as I could use some help too. Thank you.
Yeah it’s illegal to break the speed limit, too. If everybody does it and it’s selectively enforced who cares.
Just raise the food prices by 15-20% to account for loss due to tips.
I'd add Nanking, London, Warsaw, Auschwitz, Amsterdam, and Bataan to your list, and that's off the top of my head.

The British, U.S., USSR, Germans, Japanese, and Italians all practiced atrocities and mass warfare and/or genocide against civilian populations. I'm not challenging the credibility of your list, only the one-sidedness.
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"In 2015, the Washington Post examined tipping culture in the US restaurant industry. Looking at a survey of 1,000 servers, 34 percent responded that they believed black diners to be "very bad" tippers, in comparison to white diners who 98 percent believed to be "average" or "above average" tippers."

"In the first study where white servers believed black diners were "very bad" tippers, over half of those who responded said they "don't always give their best effort when waiting on black customers.""
> No haptic feedback

HapticKey fixed this for me: https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
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This notion of privacy probably results in people taking way longer to do their business. Americans don’t have time for that shit.
Honestly don't know why you're being downvoted, other than people having a different preference from you.
What if a group of users believes and behaves similarly, without coördinating amongst themselves?

Should that be prevented? It's not really distinguishable from the scenario you prevented.
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On top of that news outlets essentially lost almost all their web traffic after FB started focusing on meaningful connections in January.

They are probably beyond pissed because of the ad revenue loses...wonder how many of them will fold soon?
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This has always been my way of looking at the 2A. It's clearly intended to give citizens the rights and tools to fight wars, otherwise it wouldn't mention it along with militias. Thus, it does seem logical that it extends to armaments of war, such as knives, firearms, artillery, bombs, etc (perhaps even hacking tools).

I'm a gun owner myself, and I've (long ago) taken the stance that the 2A isn't really compatible with modern life, as the people who originally wrote it could not have anticipated the weapons militaries deploy today. It makes sense in my mind that it is Congress' responsibility to regulate what it reasonable weapons for civilized society.
It's not that it's heterogeneous. It's that each Cell processor only had 256K of RAM. K, not M. For code and data. You can pump data in and out from main memory in bulk, but random access is very slow.

So it's only useful for tasks that work like an assembly line - data flows in sequentially, gets processed, and output is pumped out. Great for audio. Lousy for everything else in games.

If you had 16MB on each CPU, the little CPUs might be useable. You might be able to run physics or pathfinding or NPCs in one.
Is that really true? I feel like there are people who are actually just passionate about things early on and have ample opportunity to explore those passions. I believe those kinds of students are able to make it into top schools as well even though they aren't studying for the sake of getting into them..

Or maybe I am naive
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Just use Debian GNU/Linux minimum-installation without desktop environment. I doubt you're much faster in studying the OpenBSD kernel compared to the Linux kernel. I'm also not sure if some days are enough for both of them.
Actually modern commercial jets have worse speeds slower than say a VC10
> Qantas just commenced one of the (if not THE) longest non stop flights from Perth in Western Aus. to London in 17 hours. I myself flew from Sydney to Houston direct in 15 hours last month

They flew a 747-400 from Sydney to London direct all the way back in 1989 - things haven't changed that much unfortunately :(.
Windows is a bad product made by a company that has historically been a bad and unethical actor that has attempted to limit user freedom and destroy freedom of choice by illegally destroying competitors. Recently we are to believe that they have found jesus and ethics via quiet contemplation and peaceful regime change.

All projects are ultimately created to scratch somebodies itch. If it doesn't work on windows out of the box that isn't their use case. What you are wondering is in effect is why people don't pay money to purchase a windows license which will ultimately fund a bad and evil company in order to enable the projects software to run on an inferior OS that the dev doesn't run or care about. If its not end user software for desktop users it doesn't even have the positive effect of enabling a substantially bigger group of potential users to benefit from the software. For anything server related they are either already running linux or can as easily run a linux vm as a windows one.

Further the users who would benefit will by and large buy a license if the software is non free but probably wont contribute anything but complaints phrased similarly to the support requests they would make for paid products that had failed to perform adequately.
Right--the authorization we saw was for the return trip, and the question was what that might have implied about the trip down.

The NTSB report notes that, earlier that year, during Tropical Storm Erika, the Captain felt no need to ask for authorization when changing course--he just made the change and notified HQ. This time, with his job on the line and future career in doubt, he seemed less willing to act independently.

The NTSB concluded that they had no solid evidence that the company was applying direct pressure for him to stick to the route, but they did note a whole host of implicit pressures, as well as a relative deprioritization of safety and crew management in the company culture as a whole, that might have adversely affected his decision-making.
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I'd love to live in a world where collective action by workers could be considered an abuse of power. The workers would be way better off in such a world.

It is completely insane and probably symptomatic of the extremely successful doublethink anti-union campaign by big business in the US to think organized workers could ever pose a larger threat to democracy than corporations you are grouping with the government as victims.

What a lot of people don't realize is that incorporation under US law is functionally franchising an elected government. The difference is that instead of the members of the business getting the votes the votes are called shares and are controlled by an oligarchy majority of shareholders.

The means by which the vast majority of businesses are run (with exception to many nonprofits, public benefit corporations, and coops) is what many would consider antithetical to how to run society fairly. And then people are surprised that such unaccountable undemocratic systems produce blatant corruption - except people don't even call it corruption despite it being a direct mapping to public corruption, they call it business as usual or meeting earnings expectations.

But no, the influence of THAT system of organization is fine - better, adored. Aspired towards. Workers trying to have more equal negotiations by working together though? Threat to democracy.
This article makes me really glad I custom-configured the most powerful Macbook Pro possible that didn't have the Touch Bar.
Going off of that, when I realized that an ice cube was proof of incredible engineerning and that in terms of mankind, it's brand new tech !! I "couldn't believe it". I got that the concept of freezing water was some complex thermodynamics, but never realized it implied I couldn't make an ice cube without it when it's hot outside ! I thought the French had been drinking cold champagne all these years ! (turns out they have, since mostly only the rich ere drinking it and they were using various caves to keep cold temperatures, and they shipped ice from the Alpes; no source on my hands, but that's what I remember when looking into it).

Shizzles, I couldn't make a simple flame by myself ;p
Agreed. I couldn't find (modern, thin bezel + Displayport) 1920x1200 panels when I was shopping last time. I do see a few on the market right now, when one of my 3 goes out, I'll sell off the other two and order three 1920x1200 panels for sure.
As far as I know "varies the frequency of the transmitted light and measures the freq and phase delay" is the standard way of measuring ToF in case of lasers. You modulate the laser diode by a signal of a wide range of frequencies and you subtract returned signal (after cleanup). The observation is done on a spectrum. Low frequencies give you wide range but low precision and high frequencies higher precision but lower range but you can use them enhance precision of the former.
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To be fair, the thing that is most oft intended by the idiom is "look, if the cherished first amendment can be restricted, then so too can the second amendment".

It isn't a law, and where I say "might" in my follow-up, it should not be confused with "is" or "will". There are no laws that forbid you from exclaiming fire in a theater. People think there are because Oliver Wendell Holmes made a clumsy aside while explaining a bad decision that has since been overturned.

Either way, the real point to this is that a punishment for negligent use of one's rights (e.g., falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater for the purposes of causing harm to others) is still not remotely the same as banning free exercise of that right, or converting that right into a privilege through licensure, as is being suggested as rational compromises for the second amendment, predicated on a clumsy and wrong-headed interpretation on the first.

We might all prefer it if you had to obtain a license to speak in a theater, on the grounds that yelling fire in one might prove too dangerous a responsibility for average citizens, but I think most of us would agree that it would violate the first amendment quite heinously. The only way to imagine that equivalent restrictions are less heinous when applied to the second amendment is if one takes the second amendment less seriously as a "real" right, or to imagine that such restrictions are common on the first amendment. It isn't less real a right, and such restrictions are not common on the first, despite misuse of the aforementioned idiom.
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This school only makes sense if you throw out the entire section that mentions a well regulated militia. A militia would be expected to have artillery.
Suffering for a quick buck. They’re both in different wrongs. One bait-and-switched their product with an unethical substitute and the other seeks to make money to defend their own ego. sarcasm Clearly, he raped her and he should be stoned to death. sarcasm
The result of this is that people eat out less.

And worse, the places where people have smaller dine-out budgets are also where all of the low-wage chain restaurants are clustered. All of those youth and unskilled labor jobs in the suburbs are pretty much in restaurants.

It's inexcusable that people in restaurants are being exploited for their labor, but I think we absolutely have to figure out an alternative before putting them out of work.
I'd be very interested in HNers' opinion of this. Is this paranoid conspiracy garbage, or is it very careful reporting?

[Edit: A bit more research shows that it's on a conspiracy site.]
>you shouldn't be able to walk around with a rocket launcher or semi-automatic weapon

That's a ridiculous statement to many people. Most handguns are semi-automatic weapons and you will find little agreement from pro-2nd amendment people to eliminate both handguns and any rifles that aren't muzzle-loaders or bolt-action.
The fact that the vast majority of people don't travel more than a week or two (if ever) probably contributes to the lack of perspective.
Yes, postgres has sync and async replication with the ability to even choose a quorum (so that 2 of 3 replicas confirm).

Also has logical replication now, although I wouldnt recommend it because it doesn't support DDL changes yet. Overall it's a solid db choice, but there is still some work involved.

Otherwise I'd recommend SQL Server for a fantastic commercial database that runs cross-platform and has great tooling to make everything easier and some advanced features.
I just heard a This American Life about something similar[1].

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> By Tuesday night, YouTube, as well as Instagram and Facebook, had taken down her pages and videos.

Her videos seemed quite harmless - home exercise, veganism, animals.

I don't understand the motive for YouTube to take down her remaining videos.
I am imagining the copywriter fighting the urge to say "there's a rift in the Rift."