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I which it isn’t. I’ve seen a high school friend falling into that gradually: he started speaking about cannabis to the point it became its only topic of conversation. Then of course he hanged only with people with similar interest. He became weird during the breaks and needed to smoke something, anything. After that when I went to the university he became a small dealer. He got enough money from that activity to rent an apartment and buy all the newest gaming consoles. So he didn’t project himself into the future: no studies, no saving. He finally got into debt because of his girlfriend not paying her part of the rent. Sad story because it was not a dumb guy but the addiction makes him made very bad life choices.

On the macro-scale, cannabis and others drugs are a big factor that fuels France suburb separatism and in some case finance terror attacks. Sorhere is a need for a real prohibition or for a legalization to stop this underground economy.
You need a union, Ibrahim.
And if they did want to legalise it someone else could use exactly the same evidence in the opposite direction!
"Of course she wants to legalise it. Her husband owns the cannabis farm!"
What is "go/epitaphs"?
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It's not just software industry btw: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/...
Yes, I was thinking of finalizers.

To me, the main problem with them is that I have no control over when/if they get run. Fortunately, there is defer. ;-)
The comments here are more interesting than the article itself. Looks like the real issue was a UX snafu on YouTube's part that support had trouble resolving for too long. Let's hope YouTube does better in the future.

However, if you read the comments here, they paint a sinister portrait of YouTube that has nothing to do with Blender's issue. Some examples:

- ads are required for big channels (false)

- demonetization of content creators (unrelated)

- anti-trust based on search or social networking (unrelated)

- SketchUp is blocking YouTube videos (false)

We might as well change Hacker News from an article based format to a topic based format if everyone is just going to bring in their unrelated and false pet peeves to every discussion.
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You're really blaming the wrong people. Blame the doctor for screwing it up, your wife for not checking the prescription, or the government for creating/enforcing the relevant laws that would have put not only the chemist but their entire franchise underground for "doing the right thing". Laws are laws, broskie, don't expect everybody to break them for you.

If the migraine was really bad (bad enough to cause tangible damage) maybe you should sue the doctor for damages, or if it wasn't that bad, report him/her and go somewhere else next time.
I won't work flights that separate immigrant kids from families
I also recommend https://old.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/
Ask HN: What is the first thing you implement at a new company?
For job-hoppers and contractors. If you arrive at a company, what is the first thing you push for?

For instance, I usually implement a good feature-branch flow with branch pipelines and a strict merge-to-develop etiquette with mandatory merge requests. It makes my work easier and once the team is used to it, they also really like it. No more messy development branches.

I also request a small office stool next to my desk to make code reviews, three amigos and pair programming easier. It is a small thing but I noticed that people are more eager to discuss things if they have a place to sit.
wow, the reasons not to get a VW just keeps on piling up huh?
No, being fired is when a person with authority tells you you're dismissed; it's an active and explicit form of dismissal.

Constructive dismissal is dismissal, for all intents and purposes, without being fired.
Thanks, that convinced me to give
Yes, you can actually program a bussines process using BPMN. Furthermore, there are tools that convert BPMN to the actual machine code automatically.
Well, Iceland has a lot of gravel roads so they might assume that this is normal..
Maybe it's because I live in Finland, but that's not how I interpret it. On the contrary, I interpreted it as the writer implies that this is another publicity scandal in the wake of the emissions scandal.

Cultural differences?
A link to a Reddit thread? What?
Another point of view is recently-introduced SESTA. It was a law intended to stop sex trafficing in the US. Seems like a nice bill, right?

Well, as a direct consequence of it, sites like Backpage got shut down and reddit banned loads and loads of communities that were used by sex workers in countries across Europe where sex work is as legal as it can get. Sex workers were simply cut off of their usual ways of communicating between each other and attracting customers because of a law in the US.

And the reason that the Netherlands always gets mentioned when talking about soft drugs is because it decriminalized marihuana decades ago. In reality, the way they did that was very impractical and open to loopholes that were commonly abused by the coffee shops. Dutch laws on drugs, at their current state, are way worse then the laws in places where marihuana was decriminalized recently. The reason for that is the pressure from the neighbors, because the ability to buy and grow larger quantities + open borders = more work for Belgium and Germany.

Let's compare Canada and the Netherlands. Canada: you can grow 4 plants and have up to 30 grams with you for recreational use. The Netherlands: you can grow 2 plants and have up to 5 grams with you at all times. In the Netherlands, these restrictions also apply to the supply side, so coffee shops operate mostly in a shady gray area. In Canada, they're introducing licensed supply chain.
I'm having trouble seeing a difference between the two.
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Even in such case contract usually has a clause about premature termination and related compensation.
Yes, but then you need special equipment rather than standard cameras (that usually filter IR); which would prove the point that it's about physical limitations rather than racism.
It's 2018. Https absolutely makes sense in all circumstances... everywhere for everything. Http should not even be considered as an option.
I wonder how police forces will react.. imagine spending a lot of time checking people and probably dealing with tensions and now no more controls, all is fine (sic)
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The Hollow Men is from 1925

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/tseliot/1076
Has the quest for top-down unification of physics stalled?
> A link to a Reddit thread [that is a screen shot of a 4chan thread]? What?
A link to a reddit thread with a screenshot of a 4chan post nonetheless..
Language nitpick: I think you mean anyone, not everyone.
... When the old stupid racists (who voted for Brexit)
finally die (not so long hopefully) ...

Over 50% of Great-Britain is stupid and racist? You have a source for this claim?
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Sounds like all dark side to me
Is having your phone on airplane mode the same as it being turned off? (still trying to ping towers regardless?)

Also, if a phone has no antenna/no data connectivity/no GPS, but has wifi functionality. What is tracking situation there? I assume one could forward calls to the phone through wifi or is that a terrible idea?
Well, in principle it's worse because normally child services avoid doing that if at all possible; they try and place the kid with relatives or other people who've cared for them in the past, whereas these kids are pretty much all institutionalised in big warehouses.

I don't think that's actually what people object to though. Remember the big (bogus) claim on social media that ICE had lost 1475 children who'd been seized from their parents? That was about unaccompanied kids who'd been united with family members. The entire thrust of that complaint is that it was some kind of Nazi-esque atrocity that ICE weren't totally controlling and tracking those kids.

Fundamentally, I think the objection is to two things: Trump being president, and the border being controlled. The only politically acceptable position right now is for every person to cross the Mexican border with a kid to be let through, and even that might not be enough because Trump.
They claim a 10x power / performance advantage actually, what I gather is that it's supposed to be higher performance at much lower power. It isn't out of order and so it has to wait a long time in case of last-level cache misses. But it has insane throughput when it doesn't have to wait for memory.

Most likely they'll mitigate the waiting problem by hyperthreading. GPUs do extreme hyperthreading to stay busy without any kind of out-of-order execution.
VW and AUDI do make good cars.
I think the moral of the grand OP story was the automated aspects of that machine only enhanced the human actors tendencies to just follow through.
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Apparently Blender had more than 2 years to sign an updated contract - a contract which every partner had to sign to comply with updated legal regulations.
Their existing contract would not work anymore (legal reasons?).

The Blender team never did that, and also never reacted to any youtube support mails.
> Support doesn't scale.

If you cannot (or don't want to) scale support, create the policies from beginning in a way that hardly needs any support. Just like you plan your database from beginning how it is supposed to scale.
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Heh, that's the real problem actually with buggy name-based systems. In my current company we have a person officially called "Name Surname 2" for the same reason.
reminds me of zpaq [1]. It is an public domain compression tool, which save the decompression algorithm as IR into the compressed archive. It is written by Matt Mahoney, best known for the PAQ archiver series.

[1]: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html
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I don't think it should be ISPs that should offer such services. I got bitten once back in the days when I had an AOL email address. Changing ISP then became a complete mess, and unlike changing mobile phone provider you can't port your email address to a different hosting company.

So I think whoever provides these services (Identity, email, Fediverse node) should be independent from the ISP, and allow you to use your own domain so that you can change provider one day
also DSP code has a decent amount of instruction level parallelism.
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> I'm just saying let's not make a Holocaust in its name, and these policies are literally starting to mirror those types of events.

I think you have been mislead by the media - at worst it is applying the existing long standing detainment practice to another maybe 20% of cases.

> Do you have the stuff to show it's actually hundreds of thousands?

More than 20% of public school students in California are classified as English learners - aka don't speak English.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ds/sd/cb/cefelfacts.asp

These people are not evenly distributed among schools/classes so in some schools half your class might not speak English.

What impact do you think that has on education levels?

The idea that this is a minor issue and results in only a slightly worse education is ludicrous.

And education is not a minor issue - when my kids were younger probably 30% of my income went towards my kids education.

That's 30-40% fewer hours I could have worked if the public system was any good.
OT: I really expected Bloomberg to do better than NYT and others regarding their subscription service. How is it, that I would have to contact them to cancel my subscription? What is so hard about a simple cancel button. Also their pricing is way out of line. The introductory offer is $9.99 (which is just in the Netflix range and about right for a single service) but after 6 Months I'd have to pay $35? It needs more than one subscription to a news site to get a pluralistic world view and this high pricing works straight against that.
> it can't possibly be easier to write their own rendering engine from scratch

Did you know that the original rendering engine of webkit & blink, khtml, was Qt's ? Besides, the platform abstraction that allows to use Qt on top of WASM is less than 3k lines of code - everything else is the same whether you're on windows, mac, whatever.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think that it can be evaluated through subjective experience. Most men have a very optimistic and idealized view of the world when they're young and become more and more cynic and pessimistic with time; people age, their neurobiology change, their space of possibility is shrinking.

Also, does it speak about US or the world at large? Workers in US have had an advantage over the rest of the world in the second half of the twentieth century, and now, with this advantage going away, they inevitably feel that they're economic prospects are becoming worse; but from a purely utilitarian perspective, for every worker in US who no longer can afford a middleclass lifestyle from a blue collar jobs there are several workers raising from poverty somewhere in Asia.
They have to block them.
Apparently these partners had >2 years time to sign their new contracts to be policy compliant with latest legal regulations around different countries.

Apparently they didn't do it, and they didn't respond to any outreaches. YT legal team _had_ to react.
AFAIK lock screen ability was only available on Windows NT and we were all running Windows 95/98 which didn't have a workstation lock feature.
Ok that's interesting, you've clearly done a lot in this space already, are you still working in this space and would you be up for a quick discussion about it?

I was actually thinking about it from a different direction.

Allow people to enter free text and then aggressively parse it out into a structure. Make the structure visible and then work with the structure. But allow the free text to stand as metadata.

Allow the person writing to highlight/markup blocks in the main text that support their argument.

The structure I was thinking of as a starting point was a list of clauses. You could then surface people stating a clause, saying that it's sometimes true or false, disagreeing with it, and detect it across the nodes in the graph making discovery a bit easier.

Or even taking a clause and using it as a starting point for a new discussion.

The other thing I think that's necessary is what kind of environment you foster. Something like changemyview[0][1] with the delta system [2] comes to mind. Simply speaking a person awards delta's when they've had their mind changed in any meaningful way by a person, and they're required to give a short explanation or statement about why they awarded it.

--

- [0] https://changemyview.net/

- [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

- [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/deltasystem
Anyone without a college education is stupid and racist now.

The left has not learned the lessons of brexit and Trump and continue to drive away the working class that they have utter contempt for.
If it's an well-written and interesting idea, what does it matter?
That's not entirely true, though. Affirmative asylum seekers have been deported aggressively as well:

https://eu.freep.com/story/news/2018/05/17/troy-cile-preceta...
Manna already exists in warehousing, I found out last weekend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice-directed_warehousing
Of course it's a disaster, it's a for-profit sex cult. It even tells you that in the name.
Some products just aren’t worth paying for.

I might use a webpage that displays me the current year as a progress bar? Would I pay for it? No.

Your best bet is to just move on and market your new product (with actual value worth paying for) to the users of this one.
I think you can avoid involvement with the common-definition politics to a large extent, and this is in fact a part of a change being effective. I see the political world as molasses; you stick your hand too far into it, and you won't get out. You (should) want people to have a say in how the new tech impacts their lives, but you probably don't want to get sucked into partisanship and endless bickering about political ideologies. It's a waste of time that doesn't help anyone (except the print & media business).

I can't remember who said it, but I read once that developing technology is about giving politicians more options. The complicated incentive systems governing modern politics may not allow the rulers to solve some problem right now, but if you give them more options, then maybe one of them can be used. E.g. with climate change, there's no way politicians will just shut down coal plants and build nuclear ones instead. But dropping prices of renewables give them an option to achieve the same end goal more gradually.

Ultimately, my (current, always subject to change) view is that if you want to help effectively, you need to avoid touching the dysfunctional parts of modern politics as much as possible, lest they suck you in.
uh... what ? the text on all electron apps looks like a blurred shit on my machine, and does not look at all like the text settings I apply.
Really? 2-3x Annual profit? that seems very low. In mature industries (with stable, low single digit growth) acquisitions go for around 2 times revenues, but the real multiple is usually on EBITDA and can easily be 8-15x. Why would you sell for 2x profit? Once you subtract capital gains, you's be at 1.5 annual profit: you'd be better off hiring a developer to run it and go on a permanent sabbatical.
So in effect he's right to suggest the pharmacist should just be replaced by a robot because you would have them follow the rules no matter what with all humanity stripped out. If there was more than one pharmacist available it wouldn't have killed him/her to go and take a look at the wife in the car.
A fair comment. The only way people can refuse to accept their behaviour is by not giving YouTube their business (by either visiting the site or submitting content) and who's going to do that? It's YouTube :-/ It's their way or the highway (or Vimeo)
I would add to this, that there's probably a lot of lobbying at work as well. In my country at least, the lobby groups for that "other recreational drug", alcohol, and the pharmaceutical industry are both very powerful. There are vested interests in not seeing (a) popular recreational use and (b) promising medical applications take hold, precisely because it's something that can just be grown and is difficult to control and profiteer upon. I'll be accused by many people of spouting conspiracy theories but it doesn't require any mental backflips at all to render it plausible so I'm claiming Ogham's.
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Regardless of the epithets used to describe them, it's worth remembering that, accounting for turn-out, it was around 37% of the British electorate that voted to leave the EU.
> If you never rode in a cab before those companies existed you have no idea how terrible it was.

That's very location specific, living in London Uber is no cheaper than minicabs on most journeys, you already could find out the price of a journey beforehand, larger minicab companies already had apps for booking (albeit not as polished), and Uber drivers generally seem to lack the kind of local knowledge of roads that allow local cab drivers to choose faster routes than whatever route their app indicates.

The only area Uber has a compelling advantage is journeys of ten miles or more across the city, where not having to return to the area where the journey begun means that they are cheaper than a minicab.
So we should avoid defeR?
I very often notice how Musk will write or tweet in an ambiguous enough way that most people will read different messages out of him.

My own speculation is that he does this intentionally not to lie, but to catch people out with "gotchas". It's a hedge against both failure and success.

I caution against over-interpreting anything he says until the details are made very specific.

An aside for example, one time I told a customer "I'll see what I can do" - what they heard though was closer to "ok I'll sort it out for you", and weren't too pleased when later on we weren't able to resolve it in time for them.
That's pretty silly. The overhead of a recall on a cheap fix versus a proper fix is such that risking another recall is simply stupid. Besides the obvious image damage.

Models affected: recent model years Volkswagen polo, Seat Ibiza and Arona.
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While I agree with the letter of your legal analysis, it should not be "the best the company could do" to make the worker whole. It ought to be expected that both parties behave ethically.

The worker should not abandon the company during their time of need because of an unfortunate legal SNAFU. The company, in turn, should take it upon themselves to ensure that the worker doesn't suffer economically for having done the right thing by them.
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I don't see how that is in way relevant to self driving cars. Is Seattle funding self driving vehicles also?
I don't know. "Does it violate the UN Convention on Human Rights?" is a good start. Also "Does it violate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?". Or, y'know, the Kantian Imperative.
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I believe it's a plotline in any film or TV series featuring gangs or mobs.
I recommend reading the RISKS Digest. It has been a forum for this stuff for many years.

* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/
I see the same happening with Alcohol. Should it also be illegal? Or should we not patronize people in general and help those that seek to escape life via any mind altering substances to the point that they interfere with the rest of society?
Why? Honest question. You seem very certain, so you can probably explain?
Your view is justified and valid, but have you considered what happens to those same people you care so much about now? They just get some from street, and it's not only impossible to reliably notify them of any danger, they risk incarceration afterwards as well. That's not mentioning questionable quality of street drugs and substance lottery. You might be tempted to say that without legislation population exposure to the drug may be lower, but I'd argue it's impossible to objectively measure it when people are afraid they get jailed if they somehow slip and let it be discovered they do it. I bet the actual percentage of people using drugs is much higher than you think.