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Sure, I’ve got a 12.3″ netbook (running Linux), and I don’t see any point in a variable zoom there either. Though I suppose it is 4:3 and hidpi.

Still, even at 768p you get a bespoke layout for your device, since this is literally the most common resolution still (seriously). The pinch-to-zoom on mobile is only useful for the very specific case of viewing unoptimized content (mostly desktop sites) in a comparatively smaller viewport. It’s not even useful on mobile if the website is optimized (sometimes for worse, but still).

It’s a nice to have, but hardly essential. But people are saying it prevents them from switching, so I am curious why.
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I can't emphasize how important it is that companies like Snapchat and Instagram have made this such a big business. Remember when people would Tweet out with text that they were doing this? For example, your friend Tweets: "Wow, what a nice hike today!" The reason I give so much credit to Snapchat is they changed the way we do this. Why would I give you this kind of update in my life with simple text, when instead, I could actually take a picture? Snapchat got so popular because they took the boring Tweets people weren't getting much attention for and made people's trivial daily tasks that much more interesting for your followers.
>> Why do we still tolerate this?

This is the real question. The thieves are just a symptom of the real infection: terrible, insecure client software. I'm not sure what the solution is but I am pretty sure it involves Microsoft having skin in the game somehow.
They've backed away from their classic Herculean efforts at back compat over the past decade or so.
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Half my bodyweight was roughly 160lbs, that's nearly 4 times what you seem to consider "substantial" so you'll forgive me if I think I have a somewhat different perspective on weight loss than you do.

Besides which, here's what you've missed in your calculations: Precisely because there are lower calorie foods that you can eat, choosing not to eat 500 extra calories is much easier than 500 calories of walking. You can eat three of the meals you described every day (assuming your math is correct, I didn't check) and only consume 1500kcal, right? Since that's bound to be a deficit for pretty much anybody who actually needs this advice, you don't even need to walk at all. You probably should, just don't kid yourself into thinking that it makes up for poor dietary choices.
We could be mistaken about every experience we've ever had[...]

This has no bearing on the hard problem of describing consciousness or how organic material (maybe silicon some day) gives rise to it.

This is assumes beliefs are entirely separate from experiences but that's counter to the complex experience characteristic of consciousness - one can experience believing many things, including contradictory things if one isn't careful. It's narrative that claims to make things uncertain but actually, implicitly maintains a neat, certain rational narrator on top of sensory experience (sensory experience, right or wrong, is spoken of a mere data evaluated by a separate rational actor). However both neurological research and reflection shows the beliefs, consciousness, experience and so-forth are all meshed
together.
Again, this is something that is more fair to the consumer at the expense of the artist. The only reason you owned an album was because you couldn't listen when you wanted to, and were forced to buy it. Now it's better for the consumer, but not the artist.
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See https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/relnotes.html for release notes
You're conflating two things. I said determinism in math, while you want to know about the universe.

Randomness only means that you can't determine the source of the determinism. Rolling a die might well be a perfectly deterministic event, and indeed, people can learn how to roll dice in a deterministic way. But done the normal way, and you get a random result, you're not going to be able to predetermine the outcome, at least not at speeds that would be useful.
https://youtu.be/rkz1ItKLAvk?t=247

also

https://youtu.be/rkz1ItKLAvk?t=492
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Those must be seriously old, because it runs fine for me on a 2010 laptop (on it's last legs) with a Nvidia GPU, it actually runs better than my other newer laptop which doesn't have a discrete GPU. Both have an Opengl version newer than 3.0 so that probably is the limiting factor.
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There are only around 5,000 bank robberies in the US each year. If they each walked away with 100,000$* which is unlikely that's only 0.5 billion which is peanuts vs the 44 billion retail loses from shoplifters and other issues.

PS: 100k in 20's is ~11 pounds. Some people might leave the bank with more than that, but not that much as most branches don't much have cash and simply simply moving it becomes difficult.
Blue ocean strategy, zero to one, business strategy canvas.
The YC blog, they like to do things a la Peter Thiel too.
The 22 inmutable laws of marketing is not strategy but it's a good complement to zero to one, as Thiel doesn't deepen a lot about how to retain part of the value in a market with marketing.
Beat Saber (Oculus Rift) + fitness watch (Vivosmart HR+) + My Fitness Pal is working great for me.

I'd been counting calories for a couple months and dropped about 8 pounds (which is good), but slow. My self-control was 'meh'.

Got Beat Saber two weeks ago. I love music, and apparently I love dancing. Kept tracking calories. Down another 8 pounds in those two weeks. I've been playing about 30-60 minutes a day, and with my average heart rate (at a safe level) and weight, I should be burning ~400-1000 calories in those sessions.

I understand a lot of that is water weight from working out, but I'm also keeping my calories in check WAY more easily. My graph from those two months of calories consumed was spiky with missing days (out of shame, not willing to enter them in). After starting with Beat Saber, my graph is incredibly consistent within ~200 calories, and always at or below my goal.

Having an understanding of what 500 calories actually means in terms of effort helps me mentally connect that with the value of eating that extra 500 calories. It's some kind of connection that doesn't exist when I'm not physically active and tracking calories.

Side note, I only keep track of my calories "burned" out of curiosity. Fitness trackers are notoriously unreliable overall, but it's motivating. I do NOT eat more calories based on activity done, which is a recipe for disaster IMO.
In France there's the Dune of Pilat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_of_Pilat). It's really nice to visit. 110 meters high, right next to the coast. It's just one giant dune though :)
No.

Though I'm hoping with 61 "Faster switching between tabs" it'll be better. After changing the user chrome and updating I had to disable/enable the addon to get the tabs to render again. Sometimes when creating a new tab seems to be ungodly slow I can make it a bit better by going to the preferences and unchecking / rechecking the "optimize tree restoration with cache" box.

Still on pre-quantum on my home PC but I let my work machine update and have been keeping a hopeful "wait and see" approach since... It does seem to be improving at least. But the bug of closing the last child of tree triggering the loading of the next tree before switching back to the previous sibling (as specified in preferences) remains, it's going to be a while before it hits feature and behavior parity with the original.
The vertical alignment is in a straight line, but yes absolutely, the curvature of the keys likely has a role to play to make it as comfortable as it is. But if you look at the keys from the top, they are in a straight grid like the keyboard you linked.
I love intellectual debates, but this really isn't one. I just have the feeling this is an "intellectual" mob in progress. BTW, it's wonderful to attack people for their English skills; I speak 8 languages but not all of them at C2 level, despite being grad at one of top US colleges. Would you take my sincere apologies for offending you by not being on your level?
No wonder, discriminating against asians, white, men, high iq, christians is considered acceptable in todays world.

We are getting to a point where even violence against "non-woke" becomes acceptable. See antifa or the recent violence against butchers from radical vegans in France.
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> I think that would be classified as a defensive use of a patent.

That makes no sense at all:

Cost of publishing in a newspaper, or arxiv, or any other verifyable source: $0.

Cost of getting a patent: $5K-$100K spent on patent editors, patent lawyers, maintenance fees, re-editing after feedback, etc.

It's been a long, long, time since I heard about anyone spending less than $20K for a granted patent. Paying $20K for something that you can get (essentially) for free, prior art defense, makes no sense at all.

Patents are an offensive legal measure; the only way the work for defence is in the "offence is the best defence" sense.
I think the deauthentication issue was fixed with 802.11w, which is required for vendors to implement to get their 802.11ac license[1]. It was introduced in 2009, so you can be sure there are plenty of vulnerable consumer routers out in the wild.

Of course, WPA3 will also suffer this same issue of adoption.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/a/64440
If that's true – and I don't know if it is, even though panpsychism resonates with me personally – can you explain how panpsychism would conflict with the idea that consciousness is an illusion?

It seems like it'd be the next logical step: if consciousness is simply what (sensory) computations feel like "from the inside", then it stands to reason that other computations can also "feel like" something from the inside, regardless of the substrate they run on, no?
>You're conflating two things. I said determinism in math, while you want to know about the universe.

Well, your phrase was "determinism is math is countered by randomness".

Since there's no randomness in math, the only logical way to interpret what you wrote would be to mean "determinism is math is countered by randomness [in the universe]".

>But done the normal way, and you get a random result, you're not going to be able to predetermine the outcome, at least not at speeds that would be useful.

Well, dice roll results are not math. We can use math to calculate their probabilities, but any randomness in dice rolls, if there is indeed any, is in the universe, not in the math we use.
> WPA2, when properly implemented, is very secure.

Nope, WPA2 has a number of security issues. Let me introduce you to the Wi-Fi deauthentication attack [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_deauthentication_attack
For a more solid experiment, there's the BBC prison study: http://www.bbcprisonstudy.org

Different conclusions, just as fascinating.
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Maybe the "terrible personalities" is an observation of a symptom, which is triggered by being at Harvard, or from the process of getting into Harvard? NOT some universal truth about all Asians. Maybe not even all Asians at Harvard. Maybe its not even a truth at all.
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Do you think there any confounding factors that make a colorblind approach to distributing scarce resources unfair?
Because IETF is NOT an industrial alliance, but Wi-Fi Alliance is. See the differences?

see also: 3GPP.
Does the foo.cc compile as a standalone file with the `#!` at the beginning?
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I don't think jdietrich is confusing anything; they explicitly said:

> Plastic packaging doesn't spontaneously release itself into the ecosystem, it's put there by someone irresponsibly managing waste.

They are (correctly, IMO) pointing out that this is a classic case of missing the root cause; it's a commonly held position that plastic containers are inherently bad for the environment, and that position leads to laws like the one in the OP.

My read of jdietrich's posts was that a more nuanced approach would be more optimal; the problem is not plastic containers per se, it's poor disposal.

Keep in mind that India has less well developed infrastructure than Norway and the Netherlands, and so it's much harder to dispose of waste properly. More investment in this sort of service might be a better long-run strategy in terms of national cost/benefit. (Or it might not, depending on how much it would cost to improve the infrastructure; but the discussion about whether it's a good idea should make an analysis on that point.)
Huh. Mere presence of sand dunes isn't an indication of any sort of "desertness", at least at this scale. Michigan has several sand dunes, and it isn't even remotely a desert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_State_Park_(Michig... That one is according to Wikipedia over 2000 acres of sand dunes, which is over 3 square miles, which is quite a bit bigger than the Carcross "Desert".

There are places in that park where you can stand and see nothing but sand. Well, sand and lots of dune buggies. But, still.

Presumably a colloquial name, or there's something else to it.
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Why hello there, I was just about to point out the same fact.
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You're trying to make "consciousness" mean far more than many of the rest of us in this discussion, and then arguing against the definition you're the only one using.

We're not talking about the content of our experiences, and as long as you keep insisting that's somehow part of the picture, we're never even having a conversation. "Consciousness," as we're using it, is the simple fact that you're experiencing at all. Nothing else. Not the content. Not the feelings about the content. Not the "neat, certain rational mirror on top of sensory experience". Just the raw, unfiltered, unqualified fact that you are having an experience at all. Full stop.

Everything else is detail, and can very easily be wrong. The fact that there is an experience happening in the first place, can't.

Otherwise, please explain to me how I can be mistaken about the fact that I am experiencing. Not what I'm experiencing — that I'm experiencing.
Ive been thinking theres a better classification one could make for wrapping food products using entropy. Food with short shelf life and not a survival food should be packaged in high entropy packaging.

Although, sweet items would need to be taken care of since these would have a long shelf life but shouldnt be packaged in plastics.

But in general, so long as there is adequate recyclable replacements, then this is great
who are “the Greys”?
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Difficult to diagnose your play style, but the early battles are pretty easy to win. Sometimes, with a second layer of shields your opponent literally cannot damage you. You can still control the game while paused, so you can give orders and time your shots to all land at the same time and overwhelm opponent shields. I usually target their weapons first, since repairs are costly.

> I thought it might just be that I'm too casual

You can also lower the difficulty level while you master the game's mechanics. Some things to consider:

- Training your crew
- Acquiring more crew
- What parts to sell
- What parts of the ship to upgrade first
- How to get by with more equipment points than you have reactor points
- When to run
- How to choose sectors
What is your definition of "illusion" here, as I see you've used quotes? Even your description of it is as a fact that is taken naively at face value; who takes the fact naively, and at face value? Only a subject could do that. Information can only be knowledge when there's a "knower".
> You might argue that, but you might also argue that when you bought a CD, you bought 10-15 tracks, even if you only wanted one or two.

My same argument applies to a single track purchased via iTunes - it doesn't matter how many times you play it; it costs the same. The bundling of tracks on an album is something all artists did/do, so it doesn't affect the fairness question in my opinion (at least, not fairness between artists).
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> To try to fight against the very existence of advertising is quixotic to the point of being sad.

Yeah if this doesn't scream "astroturfing for an ad company" I don't know what is anymore.

Sorry, I'd rather keep up the good fight of being the owners of my attention. Pushing back against ads isn't "sad" or "quixotic" at all, and in fact should be celebrated.
It's not a question of limiting coal/oil. The global poor can't afford these resources today and that's not going to change.

The third world mostly avoided using landlines because cellphones ended up cheaper. Coal and Oil are also likely to be skipped over for cheaper alternatives.

Consider, in the US people save money by installing Solar at home vs using the high quality electric grid. When the grid is on average down for several hours a week the incentives are even stronger.
It's actually 17y old, that bug or a dupe of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790.

Why do you want it - if you really need it then you can have a skin so the user can alter the user chrome to match a specific website.

Personally I consider it one of IE5s many horrors that websites were given control over the users UI. (IIRC you could turn it off at least?)
I understand your argument about the net c02 benefit of wrapping cucumbers in plastic. It doesn't mean plastic should be used or that it's good. You're not comparing the benefits of plastic wrap to the benefits of increased engine efficiency, or the c02 benefits of improved sales cycles or local agriculture vs global conglomerate food producers.

Drawing any conclusion from your c02 net benefit calculation assumes that we continue to do business exactly as we do today without improving, and ignores the possibility that there might be a point where there is no net benefit to wrapping cucumbers. The sources you provide elsewhere in this thread conclude that improving the processes involved in production of foods is where we should focus, not that we should wrap more things in plastic.

If we could sell 100% of cucumbers without wasting any cucumbers and without using plastic, that would be better than wrapping them in plastic, right? Unnecessary use of plastic is not good for the environment, right?

This cucumber thing feels like a sideshow distraction to sing the praises of plastic. Unnecessary single use water bottles are a massive global problem. Cucumbers, not nearly as much. There are legitimate uses of plastic, and I'd be happy accepting wrapping some veggies in exchange for getting rid of single serving plastic water bottles and the many other unnecessary uses of plastic that pervade.

> The run-off water from cattle feedlots, grazing pastures or the fields used to grow cattle feed cannot be readily recaptured in a usable form

Not immediately, but next year, right?

> this run-off water will have polluting effects on aquatic life due to contamination with nitrates.

You mention the pollution from agriculture but leave out the pollution from plastic production. Plastic production has immediately toxic pollutants, causing high rates of cancer to workers and nearby communities. Not to mention plastic waste itself being damaging pollution, with a lifespan far longer than nitrates.

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

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3327051/
Which implies parallel construction
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I wonder if anyone accused of these things has ever thought to bring in HN users as expert witnesses.

I'm sure even a random sample would cause a huge reduction in these inflated "master hacker" claims.

It seems that if you can have a few people rationally explain to a jury what the accused did, the crimes would seem much less diabolical.
Have you read the article?

The issue discussed is that Harvard consistently rates Asian candidates as having "poor personality". They never got into the school, because of that assessment.

That low rating is relative to other ethnic groups.

Are you suggesting that submitting an application to Harvard somehow makes Asians (but not other ethnicities!) have bad personality?
Except WordPress is almost completely founded on its plugins, so that's a non-trivial consideration. Specifically, if WordPress cannot provide proper abstractions, sandboxing, and protocols for plugins to be secure by default, the issue could be greatly reduced. As-is, its model both encourages such flaws to be included and provides its non-technical users with no viable way to identify which are likely to be vulnerable plugins.
> I question whether Botswana needs to kill their elephants, especially as reports have Botswana containing 1/3 of the entire African Elephant population.

Obviously killing elephants (any animal really) in large numbers is a big problem on many levels. Transporting elephants is also difficult and expensive, and more importantly you need someplace to put them. Most of the other big game reserves in Southern Africa also have problems keeping their elephant numbers in check. Where would you take them?

> And the proposed law will not fix that, hunting would only be allowed outside preservation areas.

I haven't been up there in a couple of years, but the fencing around Chobe is spotty at best, the entire riverfront is unfenced (at least the part you get to see as a visitor), so I don't think there is really a big restriction on the Elephants' freedom of movement. I am guessing this is one of the reasons why they can cause so much damage to the crops of local farmers, they aren't really fenced inside the game reserve properly.

Targeting the elephants outside the park does more to alleviate the farmers' immediate problem, but its the same population of elephants (in the broad sense, not the herd sense) inside and outside the park.
Thanks. Having created contests for my business, I am familiar with the skills exclusion, but always understood the skill in question was required to be that of the contest participants. This is somewhat implied by your citation:

>...entries must be skill-based and winners must be chosen based on merit.

In the scenario above, it takes skill but not the participants' skill, so it is essentially as out of the control of the participants as which number is drawn by a ball machine.

Now, if the skill in question is that of picking a winning sports team, then were talking about gambling which, of course, has its own set of rules and would be a stretch to apply here in any case.

Overall, it seems this contest would be on shaky legal ground one way or another.
That's a Dan Harkins protocol; Harkins is a little notorious for Dragonfly, a PAKE he tried to get "approved" by IETF CFRG before being slagged by Trevor Perrin†, who wrote up a particularly simple and nasty side channel attack on the elliptic curve point generation technique Dragonfly used. SAE includes what looks like the same "hunt-and-peck" point generator.

† https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg10922.h...

Later:

All I ever read about the Dragonfly PAKE was trevp taking it apart on CFRG, but from a quick skim of this paper and the IETF draft Harkins wrote for Dragonfly, this looks like it's just an instantiation of Dragonfly.

That would be pretty funny.

What is it about WiFi security that makes it such a backwater?
I assume the use of plastic in most cases is reduced since it only needs to travel from store to home.