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I disagree. Excessive copies of the same question can dilute votes, which is one of their strongest signals for quality, as it should be.
"If Boeing and Airbus weren't artificially inflating administrative barriers to entry we'd definitely have more competition, and consumers would benefit, not suffer."

From the article:
"For Bombardier, development of its new C-Series of planes took more time and more money - $6 billion in all - than it had anticipated, requiring what amounted to a bailout from the governments of Canada and Quebec."

Stop and parse that for a second.
The stupid thing is, we all know it. The city planners didn't want to put stop signs in, but my neighbors demanded it. It was stop signs or speed bumps, and the majority ruled in favor of stop signs (not that speed bumps would have been better).

Really, for our street - which goes between a rural highway and a major local artery - the only solutions are to give drivers another more convenient way to cut through, or to shut off the entrance from the highway, forcing them to go another 1/4 mile to the stop light as intended.
China seems to develop infrastructure and cities overnight.
Okcupid adopted a Tinder mechanic recently. You now have to swipe on photos and match before you can send a message.
"Family members can screw you via relation" isn't really a new issue. English Common Law generally moved the legal needle on literally being killed or sent to jail for the crimes of a relative thanks to the abolition of "corruption of blood" law, but there are a lot of other ways you can be on the hook for a relative's actions.
The one making the choice is more likely to end up with preferred partner. The one accepting/rejecting existing proposal has less chance to end up with most preferred partner.
His later writing is a lot more cynical. And brilliant.
"...biology is a science, not a pseudoscience or protoscience (or magic)"

I agree with your overall point but I take slight issue with this statement.

I am not biologically educated, but I am biological. I have no idea what my conscious is or why/how it works, even though I do know that I exist. And neither do you, nor anyone.

To me, that is the classic definition of magic. This differs from eg electronics, physics etc, because I am biological. I have a personal perspective on it, in a manner that I could never with electronics, physics etc. Ie. I can readily understand how far away from understanding the biological process humanity is.
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No, what we really need is common acceptance of polyamory, and people getting together in 3-6 adult households. It'd make affording housing a lot easier, it'd solve a lot of loneliness problems, everyone would get more sex, and people could finally get past this idea that their partner needed to satisfy all their check-boxes.

Interestingly, if you look at the polyamory community, you find that men are much more accepting of this lifestyle than women, even though women stand to benefit from it more.

The landlords wouldn't like it, though.
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Hi HN,

This week trading on several tokens got halted due to discovered & exploited vulnerabilities in two smart contracts. One of them lost about 90% of its value… and another one lost 26% - $40,000,000 in market cap.

We wanted to focus more on the technical analysis of the situation to shed some light on common vulnerabilities that still abound.

Would love your feedback, since we got some mixed reviews on whether we did a correct technical judgment of one of the contracts. Especially of the SMT token.
Really surprised the didn't include Kitty terminal. It is the fastest I found on macOS (even compared to Alacritty) when using PragmataPro font (which made me switch away from Terminal.app due to slow rendering).
I think you keep overlooking the path taken to get to the point of making those six figures.

I would love if someone in the industry could shed some light here. I have two friends early in an ATC career and it sounded like getting to where they are now was hell (and they definitely aren't at the 6 figure mark yet). The most reductive way I've had it explained is it's years of training, with shit pay and relocation, and the possibility of washing out along the way being relatively high.
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It's not a big deal for healthy people and non fatal diseases. It's however a big deal when you need antibiotics the most.

So, the choice is to reserve them to the most extreme cases which will save the most human lives possible. Or, use them all over the place improving the average quality of life at the expense of significantly more people dying.

I think it's reasonable for humanity to pick either option, but pretending it's not an important choice is over simplified.
The tricky bit there is in how metadata may come to be attached. If there exists a list of web pages, each of which contains a single prime number, then that list is legal, yes?

If from a completely different domain, someone who has no relationship whatsoever to the maintainer of that first site creates a page explaining how DVD players contain AES keys and then links to one of the pages on the first page, from the perspective of a web user, that's number + metadata = illegal, right? And yet the number itself is legal. And the text by itself is legal. The combination is illegal, but the combination doesn't really exist.

Of course, the answer is probably that the text is illegal in the US, because the DMCA overrides the first amendment. Whether the text includes the number or a link to the number, it all interferes with the ability of a company to make money, so it's illegal.
I'm not sure why that would be the case. First, I think most smart people already recognize that sufficiently complex biochemical systems can in fact perform computation as well as other abstract operations. Second, there is already a ton of literature in this area, it's often very helpful to analyze biological data from the perspective of various graph and sequence rewrite automata, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the underlying biology is explicitly exploiting matter at that level. Third, I don't see why having any such "proof" (to the extent that you can prove anything about biological systems anyway) would be an advance. What new predictions would you be able make?
No, not at all. My last girlfriend was largely attracted to me because I'm thin, and she's a fitness nazi and hates fatness.
Police used an "open source" genealogy DNA website GEDMatch; not one of the commercial ones:

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/04/26/ancestry-23andme-den...

>Lead investigator Paul Holes, a cold case expert and retired Contra Costa County District Attorney inspector, said his team’s biggest tool was GEDmatch, a Florida-based website that pools raw genetic profiles that people share publicly. No court order was needed to access that site’s large database of genetic blueprints. Other major private DNA ancestral sites said they were not approached by police for this case.

>"“GEDmatch exists to provide DNA and genealogy tools for comparison and research purposes,” the site states on its policy page. “It is supported entirely by users, volunteers, and researchers. DNA and Genealogical research, by its very nature, requires the sharing of information. Because of that, users participating in this site should expect that their information will be shared with other users.”

>“If you require absolute security, please do not upload your data to GEDmatch. If you have already uploaded it, please delete it,” it continues. “While the results presented on this site are intended solely for genealogical research, we are unable to guarantee that users will not find other uses.”
Solar Thermal appears to offer 3x the kWh/m2 over Solar PV

I'm wondering at the difference between your measuring "kWh/m2" vs mine of "W/m2". Upshot: averaged over a year, what's the power output? are you including all "off" hours?
Its not likely, but I've had it happen to me where 2200 batches in it crashes because the graph has dynamic sizes and the input is not well formed. Static typing would not have helped.

But, static typing could help provide much more useful error messages than what you get from the Python code.
I don't know anything about how VS Code is architected, but surely if language support extensions are such a drag on performance, the plugin API has some way to load them dynamically only when a project of the relevant type is opened, right? Or does it really load every conceivable language plugin you have installed into memory whenever you open a scratch file in VS Code?
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OK, this may be a new feature, since I stopped paying close attention several years back when I got frustrated with the direction the community was going.

But I don't think that "audit" questions do much to address my issue. They enforce that someone is paying at least a little bit of attention; but they still emphasize things like voting to close a "bad" question, rather than helping the person asking the question ask a better question. They might help a little bit with people who are just not paying attention at all for questions which are black and white as to whether they are "good" or "bad" (such as blatant spam), but they don't help at all with pushing the "grey area" questions in the right direction.

That's the crux of the issue; the community is so focused on just cleaning up bad questions by closing them, rather than working with the person asking to help get them to be able to work better with the community.
Relationship is eating, sleeping, and other stuff complimentary to dating?
Wow, is a terminal emulator expected to write content to your /tmp? Security!

> It turns out the VTE library actually writes the scrollback buffer to disk, a "feature" that was noticed back in 2010 and that is still present in modern implementations. At least the file contents are now encrypted with AES256 GCM since 0.39.2, but this raises the question of what's so special about the VTE library that it requires such an exotic approach.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664611#c48 seems to clarify. This affects all vte-based terminal emulators, but only when setup to unlimited scrollback.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/752924/ for a quick test I made which seems to confirm that in the limited scrollback case, nothing is written to disk.
No, there is no reason to conclude any of this from this paper.

BTW, if this blows your mind, then the mating type switch of yeast is really gonna blow the stack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating_of_yeast#Mating_type_sw...
Assuming I understood you correctly, I'd prefer if the "draw a line under everything" approach happened in Poland, wrt. who did or didn't support the socialists during 60s - 80s. It's not even about violence and death, just plain old politics. In the political sphere, for the last 2+ decades everyone has been combing over the archives to find some dirt on everyone else. And the media spammed us with that as well. I wish they'd just forget about that and get on with building the future of the country.
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Eh. I'm 5'6". Tinder worked quite well for me. (I look good, to be clear)

I'm sure it would have worked even better if I were 6' and looked the same. But looks on their own do very well.

This was even true on okcupid, where you had to list height. I also got a lot of attention, and routinely got that "congrats, you're attractive" notification the site would send.

(If any short man is reading this, my advice would be: Get lean, and get muscles. This matters far more for you than for taller men, who can coast.)
Maybe those bubbles would have risen even higher if the interest rates were lower.
If you can come up with a historical example of a natural monopoly you’ll have done better than the entire economics profession at doing so. We have many examples of local monopolies, government granted monopolies and companies getting very large shares of an industry by driving up quality and driving down prices but no unambiguous examples of natural monopolies arising in competitive markets. Large fixed costs and low marginal costs are usually cited as preconditions of natural monopoly but the US supports DHL, FedEx, UPS and the US postal service. Many municipal markets have had multiple competing utilities for multiple decades.
They basically don't make mobile (non TV) LCDs any more... and they used to be one if the largest manufacturers. It's not quite the same, but it's similar.
Obviously, current vogue is for AI / ML / CV expertise. With compensation of $1M right out of school not unheard of.

Personally, if I chose to go the academic route. I'd like to have a lab at an institution such as the Broad Institute. Systems biology at the frontier of human understanding.

https://www.broadinstitute.org/
Those of you who are CS people who are trying to stretch this paper into more significant than it is: please go and read all the first-year biology textbooks before speculating.
I agree that the use of a public genealogy database is problematic but the way in which the police obtained the genetic material is not.

Once a person discards any material as trash in a public space, it's fair game. The police didn't begin doing this sort of thing when DNA tests were invented.
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thats what Dodd Frank bill did. 0.5% on Debit cards
They weren't attempting to destroy anything. They were properly using contractors and some cities felt that it was unfair and introduced new regulations and Uber wanted the states to overrule them. There is plenty to dog on Uber about without having to introduce hyperbole.
Nope, unless they participated in creation of such video. If they just downloaded it off the internet, then no - maybe they should be sent for mandatory psychiatric evaluation, but to prison? No.

Let me put it this way - you can go on google right now, type in "two teenagers kill man with screwdriver", and very quickly(on dailymotion) find an EXTREMELY graphic video of two guys killing a person with a screwdriver, picking out his eyeball and playing with it, while he's still alive etc etc. It's absolutely sickening and it shows a horrendous crime being committed. Yet watching and/or downloading such a video is not a crime in itself. If police ever found such a video on your drive they would probably go "wtf dude" but nothing would happen to you. How is that different from the video you described? Because someone might wank to it? What if someone gets off on the one I described? Is it a crime before or after you get aroused?

Instead, like I said - simply having a video/picture/text/drawing of literally anything shouldn't be a crime in itself.
The defense will need expert witnesses to explain why genealogical-resolution matching is unreliable, but any defense attorney worth their salt should have a stable of such witnesses; the difference between "A 100% correlated match between DNA at a crime scene and the suspect's DNA" and "An N% correlation between a suspect's DNA and a suspected relative of the suspect" is pretty clear even to this layperson.

IANAL, but even without the expert witness, defense should be able to throw enough doubt for a criminal case defense with a line of questioning that begins "If the DNA matched to person Q in the DNA database and not to my client, why is person Q not the one being charged with this crime?" Defense can then move from there to the observation that the match to a relative in the database merely narrows the field of subjects to a whole family tree of relatives of the matched individual.

(Note that in this case, the police used the geneology matches as a tool to focus suspect list, not as primary evidence in a murder trial. That's more in the realm of "Looking for everyone in town who buys that brand of cigar" than in the realm of "Your dad's DNA got you sent to prison!!!").
> Sure, it could be dangerous, if you use it to perform dangerous experiments. Can it have unintended side-effects? Sure, we already know about those.

In my opinion, this is the wrong way to frame this. We know there are unintended side-effects, but you make it sound like we already know what we don't know. Therefore, everything is relatively safe... which can't logically be true.

You can't gauge the specific danger or benefit of the unknown.
I honestly think if more people gave emacs a chance they'd find it's exactly what they've always wanted.
Sure. But there is a also a big price to pay by regular citizens. From West Germany it didn't feel like a triumph or something worth celebrating.
Ok then, what's your plan for dealing with a population implosion caused by people simply not wanting to have kids any more? Every industrialized nation is seeing this now, and only avoiding population implosion because of immigration, which is not a long-term solution to the problem (eventually everyone will reach some kind of wealth parity, and history shows that sufficiently wealthy modern societies don't produce enough children).

The only alternative plan I can think of is to hope that anti-aging treatments advance enough so that people live much, much longer lives, thus greatly reducing the need for replacement people (instead of increasing the birth rate, decrease the death rate). But this is just sci-fi at this point.

As a hypothetical situation, imagine that, for some strange reason, all immigration between countries was suddenly stopped magically, so they had to either come up with some new solution to get people to have more kids, or face population decline and the economic problems that come with that. What's your solution to this? Forcing citizens to have more children at gunpoint sounds a lot worse than having the state create and raise children (which, BTW, does not necessarily mean that private individuals/couples are prevented from having their own children; I never advocated preventing people from reproducing).
This article[1] summarizes the recent problems.

[1] https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2017-08-04/mopac-and-th...
But it has a value regardless
Are construction costs killing new Bay Area housing?
It is possible, but extremely unlikely given the evidence.
But, when did Sloths lose their energy? I have seen videos[1] of Sloths crawling/slithering slowly across a road, and cannot imagine they were ever a formidable or challenging target for (pre-)humans.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES32UFlPOUA
Who is suggesting that will happen?

I suspect you aren't quite sure about what "support" means here. It doesn't mean your app suddenly stops working one day. For most apps it'll make no difference in fact.
I don't think either of those concerns are really the police's concern. If the public reacts to this news by mistrusting those sites, so be it.

(One could, I suppose, make an argument that the police, for purely selfish reasons, would want as many people as possible to use these sites so would keep mum on this methodology, but that's assuming police act as a coherent unit or organization and are not themselves individuals and citizens with their own red-lines for creepiness).
It's hard to believe them when Trump was doing infantile stuff on Twitter about nuclear buttons.

Trump got a gold star for showing up because it costs those leaders literally nothing to pay him lip service, but I think that's it.
The graphics are amazing!

About the sound, I remember playing an mp3 through PC speaker on a 386 computer, as well as having a special config for wolf3D that made it play its soundblaster sound effects through the PC speaker, so its single voice square wave can produce arbitrary sound.

Good ending music nonetheless!
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Perhaps. On the other hand, China watched the events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union with great interest and adapted in a way that kept the Communist Party in power. Kim might see that as a model instead.
The biggest player I know is/was short and overweight. He however was always looking, fairly charming, and had reasonable expectations.
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Those are reasonable extrapolations but are outside the purview of the police's concern. I don't expect they would stop a police chief (let alone a beat-cop) from bragging about a cool new method for narrowing a suspect list, because the benefit to other cops knowing about it outweighs the harm to the companies' bottom lines.
"steal your stuff and grab DNA off of it"

It's not stealing.

First off, if you discard something in the trash you no longer are laying a claim to it and giving it up for the trash handlers.

Secondly, it was established in California v. Greenwood that you don't have a privacy right to trash left out on the public curb for pickup; which obviously implies that you don't have a privacy right to trash placed in a public bin.
Hold on... So there are companies out there that you can pay to do your flirting for you?

I don't know what this says about us as people, but damn... that's so sad.
If I make those photos available then yes, of course I would be happy. If they were taken without my consent, that is different. If I do not take adequate measures to protect them from accidental or malicious release, that is also different. I am specifically saying that owning knowledge should not be illegal. Creation, distribution, profiting from... All different things. Possession of data at rest should not be a crime, regardless of content. It's what's done with it that changes legality, in my opinion.
68xx is another case that got the conditions which set flags _just_ right. IMHO, obv
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RTA. The relative match was used to narrow the suspect list and focus the investigation. I don't know the prosecutor is even going to bring up the ancestry DNA in the trial, and I doubt they will given the much more accurate direct DNA match they were able to acquire after staking out the suspect's home.
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There are any services like Stripe, where users don’t need to buy monthly subscription? Instead they will pay only for time they spent in the App. Payment protocol on “crypto currencies” provides an ability to do that. User will be not overcharged, app’s owner will be sure that he will receive money from user for the time spent.

For better explanation please see, https://blog.request.network/introducing-continuous-payments-a61132332984

Does anybody need that service? I need a feedback from you guys
Irrational behavior from world leaders can be effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

Not saying this is going on necessary, but from the game theoretic point of view it makes sense.
95% of the time I want to do something in a clearly sub-optimal way is because I'm required to use an unmodifiable code base that forces a path.

But sometimes explaining how the situation arises:

* Violates NDA/secrecy/licensing agreements.

* It can be complicated to explain the conditions that created the situation to people that aren't working with a custom/proprietary tech stack.

* Is irrelevant. If the operation needed to solve my problem can be concisely stated, why type a distraction?

I remember one post where someone said something like: "It'd be better if you tried this, but if you really need to do X..." followed by an explanation that solved my problem. It made my day.
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I personally belive this to be the case.

I cam across an interesting article here on HN posted about the link between polygamy and upheaval in the Economist https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732695-p... .

Whilst its not evidence, it certainly makes the case.