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Well, the original argument wasn't just "according to our beliefs, God was involved in this"; it's implying that bananas would be unlikely to be the perfect size and shape for humans by chance, i.e. unless they were designed for that purpose. Which means there has to be a designer (who cared about humans), which for natural phenomena would have to be God, or at least some sort of god. That is, if you exclude evolution and other natural optimization processes; those are known to be able to simulate the appearance of intelligent design, but in theory could be excluded if there weren't a plausible mechanism for something to have evolved in response to humans, e.g. because they haven't been around for that long in geological terms. (Except that plenty of other animals with opposable fingers have existed for longer, but – details. I'm not saying the argument would actually be valid, even if bananas' current appearance were entirely natural.)

On the other hand, artificial breeding provides an explanation that doesn't require God in any way, so it does invalidate the argument. The only way to salvage it is to say that God is responsible for it being possible to breed bananas into such a form, but that's obviously much weaker.
From: https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how...

You’ve actually got one set of keys for each device you add to iCloud, and each iMessage is encrypted independently for each device. So if you have two devices — say, an iPad and an iPhone — each message sent to you is actually encrypted (AES-128) and stored on Apple’s servers twice. Once for each device. When you pull down a message, it’s specifically encrypted for the device you’re on.
That's another bigger factor: if Apple doesn't include it as a standard for their mobile phones it's not going to get anybody anywhere unless all carriers seem to care to implement it at all. At which case I'm not seeing why pushing for XMPP wouldn't be as valid? Carriers have the capability to power XMPP networks that work accross carriers... Also requires less reinventing the wheel and being locked down to "Google said do this."
> Ryanair is a horrible airline. If you add up random costs you are confronted with during the whole process of flying with them they aren't even that much cheaper. Withwhich I mean expensive meals/drinks, costs for suitcases, costs for checking in at the airport when you didn't have access to internet, etc.

Complete BS. Cost of expensive meals and cost for suitcases aren't "random costs". They are entirely predictable and you have to make your decisions based on that. The people who can't do that end up paying for the ones that do.
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It's just a catchy headline, it doesn't really make sense but is comical/nonsense so it makes you stop and pay attention to it. I think it's brilliant.
So... you pay for two seats every time you fly?

Edit: Oh, it's a trick for couples. Very smart.
Possibly depends on where you're flying to/from in the UK (And Ireland I guess), but Aer Lingus are regularly competively priced against the Ryanair flights, Easyjet also works if you're flying into Belfast.
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I thought that all travelling couples did this. I compare it with being allowed to change the door that you can open on a TV show. The costs of choosing two side-by-side seats are greater than choosing just one seat, except for the extra room row. It also depends a bit on the length of the flight. Longer flights make you pay more for choosing a seat.
I think RCS has been available for a while.
I know my Samsung Phone supports it.
The article and this thread explicitly call out racism. The terms race or racism show up a dozen times (now more), but sexism only appears once.

In terms of criminal justice, men are treated significantly more harshly. The man's sex seems at least as important as his race, but it seems we don't see or talk about that bias as much.

Are we blind to sexism when it hurts men? How can we do anything about it if we don't talk about it?
The issue is that it's entirely possible to pay more for the seats than for the flight itself. I myself find this an issue, but ymmv.
One of the most interesting conversations I’ve ever been involved with was when I went on a tour of guatemala with a group of med students from California. The kids were almost entirely children of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. They talked about differences in religion, in folklore, in parenting, in language — but one thing they absolutely agreed on was that people with light skin were lucky — and they talked about how to make their skin look lighter, etc.

It was really an eye opening conversation to me — how deep the impact of colonialism has been on those countries and how it even spreads through generations and across boundaries.
I've had an issue every single time - usually on the return route to Dublin funnily enough. Could be because I'm not flying so frequently alright, in a non-business frame of mind ... always more things to go wrong for a holiday traveler.
The cheapest price tickets are often subsidized by the extra charges that some people are willing to pay. I don't see this as a scam.
Ask HN: Who is responsible for ads on Facebook, Facebook or people being faked?
In this:

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-04-23/martin-lewis-to-start-legal-case-against-facebook-over-scam-adverts/

Facebook say "when there is a fake ad, martin should tell us and we'll deal with it" but he doesn't even advertise on FB.

If someone posted an ad pretending to be me, I wouldn't know because I don't use FB.

so - who is responsible here FB? or is it more complicated?
Yeah but the difference here is this app is intended to be installed by default on phones which would have a larger userbase if done right. To be honest I never use Android's default messaging app it always felt horrible, until Signal I would always use third party alternatives which had more customization capabilities.
> You have to consider things like: is the variable null or undefined? Does it have the Number type? Is the number an integer?

This is a non-problem. If you really have to consider all these edge cases before testing if a number is odd or even that's a sign you need to seriously rethink your domain model, not reach for a library that has already thought about these edge cases for you.

Well written dynamic code should be mostly statically typed.
> It's a lot easier to screw up a text based format than a binary format.

I don't see a single instance where this is true.
I was at a similar conference last week and the same thing happened and the same IBM case that tracked produce supply chain was presented. The same "wow" moment was shared when they said they can now track the origin of a product in under 2 seconds where before it took them a week.

I happen to work in a product that manages produce traceability, and I can confirm that it is quite within the realm of possibility to track produce in under 2 seconds with a simple web app and a relational database. We have been doing it for about 10 years.

To add, the produce supply chain is full of connectivity and digital literacy issues, so I would venture a guess that a blockchain implementation would generate a lot of attrition on the operations side of things. Another point of concern is performance since this is a fast moving supply chain due to the product short shelf life.

It was interesting to see how this audience thinks that blockchain somehow "solves" traceability when this has been going on in several different forms in a wide array of different industries with specific needs. They seem to also think that the right way to do it is with IoT and smart contracts, as if it were just a step away to push such a solution to an existing supply chain.

It keeps me up at night that one day a top-down decision will come that says we must a have a blockchain solution because market, or new competitors will bloom in the face of absurd amount of money being thrown at blockchain solutions and take market share. I imagine that 5 years from now, the winners of today's hype battles will be the losers when they have to maintain an overly complex inflexible solution for many years more.
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I'm of the opposite opinion. I have yet to incur any extra costs whatsoever -- checking in can be done mobile, bring your own sandwich, etc. I don't mind random seating either, I'll have enough time to spend with my travel buddies at the destination. The leg space is a bit tight, but I love the fact that the chairs can't be lowered. On other airlines I frequently have to ask the person in front of me to keep their seat upright.

They are always the cheapest, even EasyJet doesn't compete for some reason. I prefer Ryanair over any other airline and use them whenever possible.
Or you could just... not make use of any of the extra options and enjoy the cheapest price possible.

I spent a total of 8 EUR to travel from Germany to Bulgaria and back again two years ago with Ryanair. I fly with them whenever possible because they're by far the cheapest option available and I simply manage to not eat or drink something or go online for 2-3 hours, which really should be manageable for pretty much anyone.
Yeah looks like. Seems like I was on holiday when she left, and i then left shortly thereafter, so I missed it
Thanks, I'll try them in future if it is an option.
> An not even encrypted "on the surface" (as Facebook's WhatsApp):

As a Telegram user who feel betrayed by and doesn't like WhatsApp, -can we try to keep this sane?

Unless you have extraordinary proofs then WhatsApp is effectively E2E encrypted as verified by multiple industry experts.

The current problem is not message encryption but metadata leaking to an owner that is known to "move fast and break things", and is considered untrustworthy by many of us.

- that is, again, unless you have proof that their encryption is broken.

I do not recommend WhatsApp as long as they are owned by Facebook and don't have a business model that is compatible with putting users first, I just think we should be careful about throwing around accusations.
From all the articles I have read on this, it is never mentioned if this will be in AOSP or part of Google Play Services. I really hope they allow any app to use RCS messages instead of keeping it in their own walled garden.
Wikipedia's a minefield for people with ADD, yep.

But oddly enough, I found that Stackoverflow's "hot questions" or whatever thing is equally distracting.

I'm on a professional software developer network, and then I see a super interesting and legitimate question aaaaaannnddd... I'm in a rabbithole.

Don't know if it's helpful or not for you, but I found an extension that limits the maximum amount of tabs you can have open at a given moment, I set it to 3-4, it forces me to decide what link I do or do not want to click on. Makes me conscious of my unconscious browsing habits, might be useful for you too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/max-tabs-web-...
You have the choice between a cheaper (no seat-choosing) flight and a more expensive (seat-choosing) flight. If everyone could choose the price would be somewhere in between and at least some people would be worse off (those who really didn’t care about choosing and would be paying more now and those who would be paying less to choose but now would have less choices).
Well, BA charges for a designated seat in business class among other "tricks" they play (like selling a connection that makes you switch between LCY and LHR)
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Yeah I get what they're doing (and I'm sure other people do too); I'm just saying I see why people feel it's a rip-off nonetheless.
Well, with Ryanair that's often still cheaper by a considerable amount than with other airlines.
The UK press has spent decades telling people about "rip off Britain". There are usually plenty of choices for people willing to pay.

In transport, you can choose between comfort, speed, time, flexibility, reliability, and a few other factors, and make your choice. London to Manchester options on the train have

* Time -- travel by train "offpeak" and save a fortune over peak

* Comfort -- travel by train "peak" and have more space. Travel in First Class and have more space.

* Speed -- travel by London Midland and Northern rather than Virgin and save a fortune

* Flexibility -- book a fixed train and save

In addition to the plethora of options on the train there's also
* Fly -- can be faster (depends where you're going, but from west London to West Manchester it's faster), can be cheaper, can be more comfortable (you're guarenteed a seat), tends to be pricey if you want an element of flexibility, not as flexible as the train or car

* Coach - slower, less comfortable, cheaper

* Drive -- very flexible, slower than the train, requires effort, twice the off peak train cost

* Taxi -- not that expensive, especially for a few people

However people complain that "it's too expensive", despite being able to travel from Manchester right now for £20, or in a couple of hours for £12.
I don't know anyone who would fly on ryanair. If they were the only 'airline' flying somewhere I would consider that it's not possible to get to that place. As far as I'm concerned they only exist to spam up the flight listings
All this stuff is done on what’s app and line outside of the US...
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For a 1 / 1.5 hour flight from DUB->LGW I honestly couldn't care how the cabin crew act.
To add to that: they bought that.

It used to be called Urchin I think.
The grand vision seems to be that you would retrieve it from Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14116 ).

Of course that is out of date and not in sync with the Wikipedia article. But there's public query services you can use to fetch stuff from there, you wouldn't need to parse html.
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And in a whole lot dirtier and environmentally damaging way.
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Well, nobody wants a misaligned investor. But I had the impression the negotiations already failed, because one buzzword could not be satisfied. My comment was meant more as advice to overcome such problematic situations during negotiations, than to mislead someone about what you are actually doing.
And uncached hits only would be an even more worthless metric.

I, too, think either that number is wrong or this wasn't a feature available to all users.

I also agree that using this metric as affirmation the feature is liked is dangerous; count me among the many here inadvertantly contributing without enjoying the feature.
Not since the 1980s.
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> On other airlines I frequently have to ask the person in front of me to keep their seat upright.

Do they ever say "No"?
How would you see to drive? They never said the film was transparent.
Those of us in the UK consider "flying to Europe" as being a flight from the UK to mainland Europe.
iOS does not support RCS so it's dead on arrival.
It is so obvious that it will be a failure.

I know like 4 big Google projects and all seem to be failures (Kubernetes being the most successful, but still in hype so nobody realizes yet how mediocre it is). Right now it seems a good time to start working on a Google killer.
Ryanair actually care a lot about keeping people on the tarmac - it costs them money. Their financial model only works if the plane is in the air as much as possible.
This is because you used to be able to sit wherever you liked once you boarded the plane, and only premium passengers could get a reserved place. Now they are reserving you a bad place beforehand, so you can't just sit wherever you like, and if you want to change that, you need to pay. What used to be free, is now being charged for, and there is little reason to do so other than "because they can" because it doesn't raise the operating costs.
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Conversely, good luck finding an affordable rental during an oil boom.
> Isn't that what all police expect, from everyone?

Honestly, I don't know. I've been fortunate to have never had a bad interaction with the police, and when I have had dealings with them they've been helpful and professional. I hope that I know enough about my rights that I would be polite and cooperative but firm if the situation demanded it, but I don't really know whether I could do this in practice.

I live in the UK and we supposedly have "policing by consent" [0] here, but there is abundant evidence that the police tend to exploit the power asymmetry. Armed police who consider themselves "the boss" are one of the reasons I am unlikely to ever visit the US.

[0] One of the "Peelian Principles": https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/policing-by-conse...
Relative to LINE/WhatsApp/Messenger/WeChat/Hangouts -- does anyone use SMS?

If big G really thinks it's going to "replace SMS" ( and they can leverage their platform to roll it out / lock in ) then good luck to them, maybe they can replace SMS.

But so what?

SMS was not the killer messaging app.

Those things are elsewhere.

Why does big G have an aversion to big acquisitions?

FB buys WhatsApp & IG -- Great moves

MS has made some big purchases

But the big G seems to purchase, but only for small dollar amounts (relatively). Same with Apple.

Even tho these two corps have (don't they?) big loads of cash.

I think it's technical arrogance. Big G and Apple are used to being revered as King S&&t of their tech.

So they think they can build it themselves. Ahahaha, sure, you can BUILD it...but can you get product/market fit to where it matters as a replacement?

I feel sorry for them. I think Big G and Apple obviously do great, but couldn't they do better to just narrow their focus. Even tho FB is f^&&d up in a lot of ways, one thing to really admire about their business is their narrow narrow focus. Even Oculus makes sense because Zuck sees a "Ready Player 1" world as the future ( with him as God Emperor, of course..heh ).
> Saying that we need to "cope with quite a few 29 year olds with zero higher education" is like saying we need to cope with a ton of 18 year olds with no higher education.

Is it really though? There's a whole system set up to service the former, not really the latter.
I opted into the beta for this way back and have been using it for ages, it was pretty surprising finding out it only just went into wide release. Given how useful I found it I'd have thought it would have been released pretty quickly even when not perfect, but given the results can't complain.
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It's horrifying when you stop to think that any police car going by could end with a bad interaction to some degree, completely depending on how the officer feels about you or in general. Baring extraordinary circumstances, that officer will completely get away with it as well.
> If i compare a BA flight with a United flight ...

Make sure you add $20/seat though. A few months back United switched to "Basic Economy" as their lowest option which again does not include carry-on bags (not just checked bags) or picking a seat. For an apples-to-apples you need to upgrade to at least regular economy to start comparing flights with United.
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Ah okay. I'm from Germany, where we have rent control everywhere.

But I also know a guy from NY who rented a flat for a few hundred bucks decades ago and now subrents it to other people for thousands.
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Ryan air might use a system where the probability of getting a middle seat is biased upwards, but not quite guaranteed.
In that case, there has to be a critical point for the bias where it switches from "Better check in late" to "better check in early".
Because with no bias (the first simulation) we have "better check in early" and with maximal bias (second simulation) we have "better check in late".
I'd guess that this critical point depends on the proportion of pre-booked seats.

I wonder if Ryan air balanced the bias so it lies roughly at this critical point.
This comes with the 'upside' of being more fair, as this system can't be gamed by changing your check-in time.
It's added:

https://trello.com/b/SAn8emo2/cchoundcom-roadmap-public

Thanks :)
Because perhaps their "secret sauce" is not in the hardware?
Why backdoor the messaging app, when you can just add a new device.

Apple does, but as far as trust goes, they are on the same level as WhatsApp (also E2E).
Tesla use Panasonic's NCR18650B cells which were originally designed for laptops. (At least in the Model S anyway, I think the Model 3 is using something a little more custom.)
Exactly the same issue I have with Ikea. I can never find the price of the exposed combination, e.g. for a wardrobe: I don't care what a door or a shelf cost: I need the price of the ensemble in order to compare with competition, and I expect this total price to be exposed in bold! With no easy comparison, no way I'll buy here!
I am often amazed at how many people just can't manage to go for 2-3 hours without stuffing their face.

Equally amazing too that people won't pay for a designated seat but will then spend 30 euros on drinks and snacks?
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It depends on which part of the world you're from. I'd have thought that anyone from the UK would be saying Blue Lines.
I've taken about 500 flights in the last decade or so, I can count on one hand the number of delays of over 2 hours

* Moscow 2013 to Heathrow -- 4 more hours in the lounge, got €600 compensation.

* Heathrow 2014 to Bangkok, 5 more hours in the lounge -- got €600 compensation.

* Toronto 2017 -- delayed Delta flight to New York to catch a Virgin flight to Manchester so was downgraded and rerouted on KLM. No compensation as it was a U.S. airline. Lesson learned. (No lounge access either so cost me several beers)

I wasn't flying during the Volcano incident.

I do remember being delayed overnight with ryanair due to weather, but that was c. 2003. They wouldn't reroute me on the next morning flight to Anconna (rather than my original Forli flight -- only 50 miles away), so I had to buy a new ticket. It's attitudes like that which is the reason EU261 came in.
It's added:

https://trello.com/b/SAn8emo2/cchoundcom-roadmap-public

Thanks for the feedback, if you have a specific use-case in mind API-wise, please don't hesitate one second to contact me @aabergkvist (twitter)
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https://github.com/arthurk/bitfinex-ohlc-import

I wrote this a few months ago for a personal project and decided to open-source it. You can get all historical OHLC data (1min granularity) from Bitfinex (earliest markets start from 2013) which can be used to carry out further in-depth analysis of market trends or backtesting trading/arbitrage bots.

For convenience, I can also provide a snapshot of the DB just contact me (email in profile) and I'll upload it.

Also I did the same for kraken/bittrex and gdax. Let me know if this is useful and i'll open-source them too!
I wouldn't fly on anything other than Ryanair because every other airline is mad expensive. Yes, some things about it suck, but at least I can afford to fly, thanks to them.