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I think you might have missed the distinction between buying IAP on "Gems" or cosmetics and the fully fledged gambling lunacy that are loot crates.

It's not about protecting daddy's credit card; gambling can be an extremely addictive and corrupting activity, one that children should not be exposed to as part of their daily gaming.
> When I lived in California, Mexican food was cheap and almost always delicious.

That quality Mexican food is more readily available in a place that used to be Mexico and which has since that time always had a substantial Mexican population is, perhaps, not so surprising.
The US is a powerful nation that imposes its will by force on other nations and is indifferent to the interests of those it subjects to its will.

This has been true for a long time and remains true now much like Russias nature.
It works great because they have a limited spectrum of hardware to support. Linux and Windows supports a much broader range of hardware combination, obviously the perfect combination and work doesn't exist for them.

Try to install OSX on different hardware combinations (once you get chameleon working) and you will find out that it sucks, maybe even harder than Windows/Linux.
I came to a similar realization a few years ago. I followed a number of people who were/are widely followed in parts of the FP community that are generally caustic, but I assumed their popularity implied that they had something useful to say. I eventually unfollowed/muted/blocked many of them because I reached a point where I realized I'm not dumb, I actually do know the domain pretty well, and I'm well regarded in that community, yet I think these people are just spewing hot air (either aggressively negative, confrontational, or self-promoting). To be honest, I don't think I've missed anything of any consequence since my block/mute/unfollow-fest. It does disappoint me when I look and see that some of these toxic personalities are still widely followed and still spewing the same garbage, even though I can't see any tangible contribution that they've made.

There are many who are good at making noise and opining, and even talking about wonderful "tech" that they are working on, but most of the "brilliant jerks" ultimately produce nothing of value and contribute nothing to the ecosystem.
Could you eaborate how any trust problem is solved here?

Points 1 and two aren't solved in any way, as the buyer has to trust the producer to not lie when making the entry. In other words, the trust problem here occurs before entry into the database.

Point 4 is already solved with by a multitude of companies selling those temperature-sensible stickers (and adding/removing the stickers is the same vulnerability as adding/removing the iot device).

BTW, with a blockchain solution, these are not at all "impossible to alter". That would only be true for a blockchain that is actually decentralized and heavily mined. That implies a blockchain with a multitude of products using the same chain (e.g. not just an OliveOilChain), but then we approach the scaling border very fast, making a blockchain unusable for this use case.
Apple did the exact same for computers, Tesla is surfing on the same kind of hype wave I suppose
Uhm, how do you know house maintenance costs increased as well?

Seriously, what kind of argument is that. Just because other cities are expensive as fuck, Berlin has to be as well?
> Python succeeded because it was general-purpose enough.

> I just dont see people with "software engineering" background taking any serious liking to it.

I guess my point is that if you found Python general purpose enough, you'd likely find Julia general purpose enough too. If people with "software engineering background" take a serious liking to Python but not to Julia, then the reason probably isn't the language itself, but a combination of lack of popularity and a pre-conceived notion that the language is meant to be "scientific" not "general-purpose", that there aren't enough libraries, that the language might not survive, etc.
"Now all I will be able to picture when I see him is Hitler, as this is the kind of thing that the Nazis did."

You know how propaganda works?

If not, you should check it again, if you can change your view based on one article.
I'd like to see hard evidence first, before judging like that and there is too much propaganda flying around at the moment, that I am hesistant to believe that China is really
"Killing innocent people on demand for their organs on a mass scale".

No doubt, China is doing horrible things, their whole fight against Falung Gong etc. shows many of its ugly faces - and it is not the first time, I heard from Organ-harvesting and selling in china - but hard evidence for that claim("Killing innocent people on demand for their organs on a mass scale") is something different.

Besides:
"Say what you will about Trump - he isn't killing people and cutting out their organs."
Not that we know. But we do know, that your secret agencies spy all over the world and hack and blackmail and abduct and torture and assassinate and manipulate and also bomb whenever Pax America or some assets of an important member are at risk. Not for democracy, nor human rights - but plain material motivation.

So maybe resist the temptation to feel too righteous, living in "gods own country" because your politicans seem a bit nicer than others. (in general they are ... but also only if it suits them)
I don't put it on the Internet at all. I was just wondering how so many people were praising the site and its features and how this application has so many users with nobody even asking the question about a privacy policy or the developer not thinking about it. Since this is a paid product, a privacy policy is a set of promises that the vendor makes to you as a customer, and is part of the contract with you (which you can enforce or claim compensation for when breached, depending on the jurisdiction).

While nobody can guarantee anything in life, we still expect reasonable policies and protections to be available. Otherwise why would anyone even worry or talk about the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Take this unrealistic example: would you not feel you're being scammed if you bought a flight ticket but the airline had no policy about baggage loss or delays (essentially anything that could affect you, the paying customer, negatively)? It's quite obvious that the airline cannot guarantee that your bags won't get lost or that there won't be delays in the flight times.
> Nowadays Drupal is mostly marketed as a robust enterprise tool for markets to hold critical data

Who markets it as this? That's utter madness!
A company that has no skin in the game and which business it is to be a trusted third party. One of the big audit companies would be my first thought. But there are many businesses that play this role (exchanges, clearing houses, etc).

At the end the job is technically quite simple. Maintaining a semi-public database. It's pretty black or white.
This might sound obvious and you might have tried a lot of these already, but for me what works in similar situation is that if it crosses 4, I skip sleep that day. And having a strict wake-up time works. Of course as the parent comment suggests, the night light played an important role. I have three different lights near my bed, each less intense. Also having dinner early, cold showers before sleep and no exercises at least two hours before.
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> It works great because they have a limited spectrum of hardware to support

Probably

> Linux and Windows supports a much broader range of hardware combination, obviously the perfect combination and work doesn't exist for them

Yes

> Try to install OSX on different hardware combinations

Why would I do that when I can buy a Mac?

This is neither a moral stance nor a philosophical one, it's a practical one. I want a stable reliable machine to be productive on, and not to irritate me more than is strictly necessary. That's been a Mac for the last 15 years or so. One dud model in that time is not enough to get me playing with XF86config, tweaking the Registry again, or powering off my laptop when I'm done with it.
Remember it's more than just fact and opinion, it's also about what's covered, whose interviewed, etc.
In Germany mortgages are with fixed rates, so no surprises in interests. It's a somewhat incompetent landlord that takes higher mortgage than what the rent covers.
I'm assuming you're referring to the royal you here.

I suspect you're in favor of making all opiods legal as well?

How did larry niven and pournelle say it? Think of it as evolution in action..
I agree. With try again I meant start over.
Not OP but my tip is to take a weekend or some other time without obligations and stay up 1-4 hours later each night until you have rotated around to the correct schedule.

The other way is to develop a sleep debt until you can sleep at your desired time, and set an alarm to prevent yourself from oversleeping and falling back in to your normal routine. This will also lose you time out of your normal schedule, and is pretty terrible-feeling to boot, but it doesn't require quite as long.

Sleep physicians or sleep therapists are good about setting this kind of stuff up, if you have reasonable and inexpensive access to medical help.
Well, the example that I know best are the Baltic countries and most of the Russian minority in those countries do speak Estonian or Latvian or Lithuanian fluently.

It's not a case of people in the Crimea speaking Ukrainian but whether they have the freedom for their own culture. We're not talking people who have lived in a country merely for decades either, we're often talking people that have lived in a country for generations, certainly back in the tsarists period of the Russian Empire.
The continued health and well-being of our fellow human beings take precedence over most other 'things'. If it's a choice between letting someone buy an extra boat and giving someone potentially life-saving preventative care, the choice is clear.
If this is true it's pretty ridiculous,I get similar as a junior dev in Croatia...
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The Python community focuses on stability and maintains each major and minor release for a long time so applications built with a particular version of Python continue to work with updates for a long time
Ask HN: 5th year masters vs. masters at another school?
What do you think about getting a combined 5 year BS/MS in computer science (for example, at UW in Seattle), as opposed to doing an undergrad in CS and then doing a masters in CS elsewhere?

This is for someone who isn't very interested in academia research/getting a PhD, but is interested in industry/industry research.
> As for the self righteousness of "only peds belong on sidewalks",

It should be pretty clear that both car lanes and pedestrian paths are both unsafe for scooters.

Add a bike path, just like e.g. The Netherlands, Denmark, etc. The bike path is generally designed for up to 25-30km/h. Certain scooters and electric bikes may go above that. In Netherlands scooters and electric bikes are divided into 2, ones which can reach up to 25km/h and ones which can reach up to 45km/h (above is not allowed). This with different regulation for each.

There might be a case for adding yet another special path, e.g. scooter path for traffic up to 45km/h.

Way more people can travel around on a bike path than a car lane (occupies more space while often just having 1 person).
This is what millions in enterprise funding gets you. A decade+ of sunk cost fallacy.
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I'm not sure, I got my "starter set" as a gift.
Just in case you are living in NYC, try Teremok - it's a Russian fastfood chain which just started expansion to USA, that I cannot wait to see here, in Berlin. I'm always going there in Moscow to eat some blini.
I've heard of incidents where children are given Valve Steam giftcards to purchase games, but then turn around and use the funds on the gift card to gamble. The parents involved have no notion of gambling even being a possibility with these gift cards. The financial loses to the parents are minimal but real harm is still present since their child is being manipulated by adults to develop a gambling habit.

Is it the parent's fault for not researching the game store more carefully? Perhaps. But that's no reason to not regulate it. Casinos aren't allow to let children gamble, even though you could certainly blame the parents if their child wandered into a casino without their knowledge!
As someone from Berlin, I can very much say this is the case.
Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux
NAT breaks the original design of the internet where every endpoint should be reachable from anywhere. Try using protocols that rely on this (like SIP) and see how far you go.
Well, for Bulgarian, there are two different keyboard mappings one can use to type cyrillic with. The typewriter layout, which nobody uses. And the phonetic layout, which just maps the latin characters on your keyboard to their cyrillic equivalents where appropriate, plus about half a dozen character mappings where the latin character doesn't have a cyrillic character, so it's mapped to a cyrillic character that doesn't have a latin counterpart. I'm not sure how it is in Russian, but I suspect they have the same system.
Where do you people live where this behaviour is legal?
So for me, sleep and wake up times don't matter much. But for most people, if you want to optimize for one, don't worry about when you go to bed, worry about when you get up. Your body will naturally get tired at the right time each day based on your activity that day, as long as you avoid blue light and mental stimulation at night.

To get your body set to a wake up time, use an alarm clock for a while. As long as you're good about your nighttime light and stimulation habits, you'll find that after a month or two you don't need the alarm anymore.

If you're already using an alarm, then clean up your nighttime habits and see if that helps.

Note: This is all my opinion on reading a lot about this. I'm not a doctor and this stuff only applies to people with otherwise normal health. If you have a sleep disorder, all bets are off.
They had three pretty great serieses of Lord of the Rings figurines, for every of the three movies when they came out. I recommend to google them up.

The ones I got still have value for me. Even some of the "worthless plastic" toys are actually quite creative (at least you often get some fun assembling them) and thus more than anything that can fall out of a digital loot box. As a child I didn't want to throw them away.

What is not coming up here very often is the irrational customer behaviour of buying digital objects, which will disappear when the servers turn off.
> But riding on the sidewalk really does mean that the burden of taking care of pedestrians is all on me.

The thing is, I have more trust in my ability to watch out for pedestrians than I trust drivers to watch out for me.

Fun fact: After I started wearing a reflecting vest when riding my bike, I think drivers have treated me much more considerately. Maybe they are not so bad after all and just did not see me as easily before.
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Not OP, but I have strong opinion about this:

I believe that if you want to motivate people so they would do something, positive motivation ("Let's make someone's life better/easier by doing what we want him to do") is much more effective than negative motivation ("Let's complicate someone's life so he would have no other option than doing what we want him to do"). It's easier to hate/rebel against when someone is punishing me for doing something than hate when someone is rewarding me for doing it differently.
Keep in mind sabalaba has an ongoing business interest in the PRC. The company they co-founded touts the CCP-aligned Tencent as one of it's customers. Per own bio,
sabalaba has also co-founded a Beijing based incubator.
As a Ukrainian, I am somewhat jelous to you. We already switch our street signs and the rest to be in Latin for reasons as simple as tourism, it's somewhat strange that a tourist isn't even able to search for the street's name (nor read it) without Latin.

After the aggression, Ukraine switched from Russia being the biggest trading partner to EU being one, it's not as hard as it seems comparing to the threats Russia is accountable for.

We have a small but steady project called "Latynka" for Latin-Ukrainian alphabet and I wish it success http://latynka.tak.today/
I think we'll be fine. The earth just needs a brain to heal itself, or to plan to heal itself.

I don't agree at all with the half-assed expensive solutions proposed so far.
Amsterdam hasn't been big on cycling for a "very long time". It was a very car heavy city for a while and is now on a better track thanks to changes in policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...
The article is similarly data-free. The only references are to known/well-accepted figures that everyone is mentioning, e.g. the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predictions. The so-called "climate reality no one else will dare mention" isn't really explored, and certainly isn't referenced, save for fairly spurious lines like:

> A small band of artists and writers [...] have embraced the idea that “civilisation” will soon end in environmental catastrophe but only a few scientists [...] have suggested as much.

So both the number of artists and writers, AND the number of scientists supporting this are apparently small. And, again, unreferenced.

I won't defend the commenter here directly, but their comment is certainly no worse nor less valid than the article.
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Eh, Raja wasn't all that great - he promised the earth and delivered nowhere near.
Well in this particular example, I would argue that a team manager with honest-to-goodness managerial tasks(1-on-1s with members of the team, discussing personal issues, doing evaluations and negotiating bonus & compensation, etc.) is entitled to a private space in which to do it.
(to clarify, I was talking about a line manager)

As for the rest, you can argue all you want about status symbols and proxies, but once they're entrenched in the company culture it's next to impossible to change them. Rationality doesn't enter this picture... Or when it does it's through cost-cutting initiatives, and we all know how those are great for morale and boosting productivity.
The "productive rule-making" of those two companies contributed to a worldwide rent crisis (Airbnb) and attempted to undermine labor laws (Uber). Local governments and labor organisations are still busy dealing with those consequences.

If you "break the rules that don't matter" and leave the resulting mess for others to solve, that's not "naughty", it's just plain amoral.
Decide at what time you would like to wake up. So if you're trying to go to bed at 10, and get 8 hours of sleep, then set your alarm to 6 or 6.30AM (depends on how long it takes you to fall asleep). It's gonna suck for the first few days but eventually you'll be so tired that you'll start going to bed earlier, eventually reaching your goal. There might be more subtle methods, but this is what I do.
Should have known :-) And as always comments say more about oneself than the other.
Record your voice and answer Tell me about yourself? and put on the soundcloud or somewhere and share it with HN.

I think HN might help you. But without listening your voice they can not able to judge or answer.
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Do you guys have some Scala in your code base ? or do you strictly use Go?
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I just disable the blue light entirely in monitor settings.
Setting the colors which include blue(magenta, cyan,blue) to 0 stops that entirely. The only drawback is that colors in images that have blue are replaced by gray/black tones(which isn't a problem for me at all).
> Personally, I'm rather happy to see this action being taken; loot boxes are a predatory and frequently deceptive business model.

Are they? In Overwatch you only get cosmetic items, and you cannot trade them (so it's hard to argue they have financial value). In addition, when you would get a duplicate item you get in-game coins instead, and those coins can also be exchanged for cosmetic items.

Personally I think the mandatory animation when you open a lootbox takes too long so I've simply stopped opening them a while ago. I think I now have 20 unopened lootboxes?

Compare with Steam, where you could (can?) get "free" loot boxes, but you'd have to buy a key with real money to open them, and then the contents were random (but tradable with other players, for money). Now there's a company that is clearly begging to get banned by anti-gambling laws.
I suspect this effect only holds on extremely broad issues where people don't consider their core identities material interests to be at stake. It's one thing to be amenable to arguments about very 'zoomed out' policy issues advanced by some bloodless columnist in a mass market publication. It's quite another to convince a NIMBY that the housing market needs to be glutted, or plutocrat that their money needs to be spent on poor people instead of private islands.
This is what I get from reading the paper copy of the Scotsman in a cafe at lunch. Somehow it seems better to have clear "sections"; the US politics is confined to the single foreign news page, and even UK news is not the main focus. Some of their opinion columnists are extremely bad and I stop reading at their byline, but that's a relatively small part of the paper and I'm not giving them money for it.

Whereas reading news through social media gets you whatever the most controversial thing is at the moment - often US news which is of limited relevance to me.
For a correct comparison, you would have to combine the 5 car traffic lanes into one to compare throughput to the bus lane.

My previous image looks like maybe 500m, so say 2.5km long line of cars.

Cars can't travel that close together. For driving at say 70kph which is around 20m/s, for a safe 3s distance between cars you need 60m for each car. I guess around 30 cars in each lane of the photo, so 5x30=150 cars

60m x 150 cars = 9000m= 9km

So now we are up to a 9+2.5=11.5km line of cars PER BUS!!

I would argue you can get better bus headway than that right now, but if a bus has its own lane you get faster average speed, which means you have less buses on the route at any one point, which means you can keep the original number of buses and run them with high frequency/smaller headway.

Cars will never be able to compete with public transport with dedicated right of way. If only cars would get out of the damn way of buses and light rail.

Feel free to show me I'm wrong though, happy to learn.
>People, writ large, don't want to hear this. Happy stories are far more compelling. Complex stories with unhappy endings, not so much.

I don't think this is clearly true. I was pretty convinced by Pinker's latest two books, and even though a lot of historians were critical of them, I wasn't convinced by the criticisms. I think that people have undervalued the tremendous increases in average quality and length of life across the whole planet in the last 200 years, and that people generally like doom-mongering stories. If we go on the basis that the media tries to make a profit by producing the stories that people like to read, opening up any news source would seem to provide evidence that people like to read bad news.
He went to conferences with that pitch trying to raise interest and capital. A lot of people who were active back then hard the pitch in person. It's not exactly a secret and no reason trying to pin this on anonymous sources.
What are the alternatives in ""enterprise"" CMS, though? Would you rather use Sharepoint?
I use TornadoFX daily and its a joy to use.