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You do realize that there are plenty of people, atheists and women included, who feel that abortion is genocide and that the people who advocate for abortion are advocating for the extermination of people, right?

The way they see it, a living person was created and attached to someone against their will and now the one who did that gets to just outright murder them because it's "inconvenient" under the guise of "right to control their body". Basically if I took out your kidneys, attached you to me so my kidneys would filter your blood as well, then decided I didn't want to do that anymore, so I let you die. (I know the example is kind of fucked, mainly because there is no good analog to pregnancy).

There's all sorts of things going on with the abortion debate that I can't really get behind anyone who frames it as a "simple" debate. I currently side with the opinion that it's a private matter and only the people involved should be the ones to wrestle with whatever ethical considerations that are tied up with it. The decision is too big for anyone to decide for someone else.

Regardless, his point isn't that those opinions he posted are correct, but what would happen if a group took power that pushed that view and "deplatformed" dissent. Because they had the "correct" view. No one actually thinks they're wrong.
Sakamoto is one of my all time favorite composers. If you like stripped down, bare piano music you should check out his BTTB (Back to the Basic) album. It's my go-to relaxation spin.
More practically speaking, most parents do not have the breadth of knowledge to spontaneously tutor their kids in every subject. Homework can provide fodder for parents to engage with their children on academic subjects the parent might not know well, or might not think to bring up.

I know some people are taking offense to your comment, but the reality is that even parents who very much wish to be involved in their child's education often need a nudge on what, exactly, to talk about.

Even parents who home-school their kids usually buy academic materials to use for this reason.
Ford plans to spend $4B on autonomous vehicles by 2023
Ah, I see. Appreciated! I did jump to conclusions here and I apologize.
Just wow!!! Free, fast and highly addictive. Must try it while listening to liquid DnB or psychedelic trance ;-)
Especially when it's a simple statement of facts.
You're a racist, and your racist overtly political comments dont belong on HN
This is the first response in this conversation that has made any sense.
If my experience throughout grade school is an accurate reflection of US schools at large, nearly every upper-middle and above kid has a parent or tutor doing (or proofing) their homework for them.

The poor kids (myself included) don't even necessarily have a person at home asking them anything about their homework, and so often don't do it at all.

The kids with the tutors tended to have test scores that underperformed their homework scores. The teachers usually attributed this to abnormal stress levels due to the student being an over-achiever, or it was hand-waved as "he's just a poor test-taker", etc. A lot of them were given additional time to complete their tests as an accommodation.

The kids who didn't do their homework tended to have test scores that dramatically outperformed their homework scores. The teachers attributed this to a slacker mentality, the student "not applying themselves", the student not respecting the teacher's curriculum, etc. In my case, I was repeatedly threatened with not even moving on to the next grade due to homework, despite never getting anything less than an A on any test, and repeatedly demonstrating that I knew all the material really well, and having all of that acknowledged by the very people threatening the hold me back a grade...

That was a bit of a tangent, but yeah, a lot of kids have parents either doing their homework for them or proofing/correcting it before the teacher ever sees it. A lot of kids have parents doing entire projects for them using what is clearly hundreds or thousands of dollars in materials and equipment. It's a common thing, or at least it was in my districts growing up.
> Eleven of those genes, they discovered, were still active on one side of the animals’ brains but not on the other, even after the animals had apparently forgotten about the shock.

What exactly does active genes mean here and how can they do that in a living slug and be different on both sides? Afaik, genes are mostly constant throughout one individuals' lifetime, and usually the same in all cells

With almost a GB of data in the DNA of a single cell and 100 billion human brain cells, the DNA sounds like a great storage medium for memories (725 exabytes)! But that's not how it works, right?
Please cite sources on popularity, influence, and scariness before you ascribe total responsibility to a single sub-group. The fact that multiple governments and millions of people around the world endorse Holocaust denial ranks higher on the threat scale to me, as a Jewish American, than the far fewer and less locally-popular white nationalists here in the west.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/05/th...
Ask HN: What can i do to study abroad?
So i'm an Egyptian at the last year of high-school which is the most crucial and life changing year of all
and you have to get at least 95% grade or more to have an opportunity at Fucking LIFE!!
((yes we use the percentage system as retarded and backwards as it sounds))

-so i want to study abroad specially in these following countries: {{Finland(University of Helsinki)/Germany/USA/Canada}}
any country that truly values the educational system and treat the students well.

so my question(S) is/are:-
1-what are the requirements do i have to have to move and study abroad?!
2-is there any cheap way to approach these tuition fees?!
3-what are the precautions do i have to take so nothing would get in my way studying abroad?!

Simply please explain what in the absolute F do i have to do to study abroad?!!
*cause it seems really complex

THANKS FOR READING...PLEASE HELP ME I'M ON THE VERGE OF ENDING IT ALL :)
Except we're talking about Nazis and not nudists.

As a society we are re-examining those beliefs and something that used to be considered normal (i.e. slavery) is now considered grossly unjust.

Just because someone is old, that person is not entitled to spew their racist, white nationalist beliefs.

I will repeat this again, I haven't hear a single instance of nudists building death camps.
I think it's because nudity gets you banned on just about any corporate webfilter, but simple text won't.
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Alas not a single mention of if these songs required a whole different set of licenses to play. The act of changing the song list can lead down to a confusing licensing set as there's at least 4 different licensing authorities, each covering a differing set of songs.
> Regardless, his point isn't that those opinions he posted are correct, but what would happen if a group took power that pushed that view and "deplatformed" dissent. Because they had the "correct" view.

Yes, thanks for the good summary of my point. Based on how down-voted my original post was, it appears I wasn't clear.
Is this sarcastic? A dream? An outline of a short story? Is there any basis?

> intense personalities

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I recently paid to have a car transported across Australia. The warranty excluded force majeure events, as you'd expect, but on the list along with flooding, riots and the like, was the ambiguous "accident". Surely "accidents" were exactly what I'd want covered with a car transporter?!
Thank you. I'd suggest some middle ground, but it's probably too late.
I can immediately imagine how several doctors could use such a display for e.g. a tomogram or stereo-microscope output during a surgery, or something like that.

It could also make a good in-store display.
I don't disagree that there are differences. I'm trying to point out that if you merely demand that Facebook take sides, they will probably take the side of the majority. Most of the time that's fine—like in the case of Nazis—but sometimes it will result in them suppressing minorities that deserve to be heard.
> More investment is not a uniformly good thing

Nothing in my post said it was.

> government does not exactly have a stellar track record when it comes to choosing investments so as to maximize ROI

Who does?
> Ability to send messages to slack on successful / failed builds

That should be easy enough, request a new cloud builder Slack. Currently this is possible though using the curl cloud builder and constructing a custom curl request to the Slack API.

> No story on how to store secrets

Agree, need a way to mark variables as sensitive/secure. Don't show them in the build history in plain text and make the input field of password type. Encrypt somehow when stored as well.

> Conditional build steps AT ALL

Agree, this is a biggest missing piece.
But they deny any such effect at all when it comes to fascist content. Dynamic is exactly the same; appeal is thankfully more limited.

This whole situation is risible. Did everyone ignore the real meaning of “meme”? Some ideas are like viruses in more ways than one. It’s time we brought hygiene and basic plumbing into the information Wild West
Great to have access to that information.

- Empire Builder near Minneapolis: 10h late.

- Empire Builder near Kalispell: 6h late.

Passenger train service in America needs to be returned to the private sector, without any interference by Congress. [added] Or you can watch the government fuck-up and quickly cast blame on the private sector. Private passenger services would have different, satisfying contracts with the rail owners; this is what companies do in the private sector some people apparently hate so much. There was a time when privately operated railroads were reliable in this country.

Freight currently has deleterious right of way because this is what bureaucrats have agreed to. Imagine these bureaucrats did something similar on the highways you all love so much, making passenger vehicles wait on the side to let trucks move a little faster.
Yes. And there is code in the SQLite source tree (currently on a branch) that supports OFD locks. The problem we have is that SQLite is so widely deployed and is in so many systems and on so many platforms, that we have to continue to support Posix Advisory Locks (PAL) for the foreseeable future, for compatibility. It will be great if someday we can remove the PAL code. But for now, it has to stay in the tree.
I've solved the humidity problem: get comfortable with being sweaty. High heat on the other hand, especially in combination with humidity, would have serious effects. Where I'm from, it occasionally will get to 110F, and rarely 115F, sometimes higher (albeit, with low humidity). I've seen recycling bins melted to the sidewalk on the hottest days.

How much water do you (reader) drink in a given day? I wonder how drastic the effects of heat and sweat vary, depending on how much water a person has.
I think explicitly saying you're going to play devil's advocate is pretty much dog-whistling whether you intend to or not.
Should probably have a [2016] tag.
You seem adamant to discredit specific examples of consensus when there are plenty of examples. Go down the list on IGM and find another one if you wish.

I'm not here to criticize Chang's works, I'm here to criticize the article, which focuses on critiques of economics in general. Those critiques seem to fall into two categories:

1. economists have political schools of thought and disagree on many things

2. economists assume that people are rational

I do not think that these are valid reasons to disregard economics as an area of research and I have responded to these points as much I am willing to do so. I am concerned that many people (such as those that you can see all over in this comment section) have an agenda of discrediting economics in order to support their own political agenda when the facts disagree with their agenda. An example of this when people advocate that lowering taxes will raise revenues. This is not a political difference, this is a disagreement with well researched observations about the world.

I am here to point out that there are factual sides of economics where we have high consensus, and discussions around economics should take this into account, just like when any other area of research is discussed. There is a point to observing the world, discussions can be grounded in evidence, and wrong opinions exist.
The modern startup boom, from Netscape until now, is not defense spending but mainly private enterprise, in a high-tax, high-investment state.
Does the Drake equation model the universe to provide any real insight into the Fermi Paradox? Even if it does, only a few factors have enough data points to allow the ranges in the learned SDO analysis to strongly illuminate the question, “Where’s ET?”

We slowly make empirical progress on the ranges. For one thing, we now know how many stars in the immediate neighborhood have planets: the vast majority. We now know that the prospects for water/organic based “life” look pretty good in our neighborhood: there are in the range of half a dozen prospects in our solar system. We might nail that one down a bit more within a few decades. We just need one hit on Enceladus, Europa, or Mars.

Until contact is confirmed, it seems the question comes down to two big problems:
(1) It took 3-4 billion years for life on earth to evolve from first replicating molecules to “intelligent life.” Our species is ≈ 200,000 years old. That represents 1/23000th the age of the earth.

(2) We have had “radio” (radiotelegraphy) for a little more than one century. That represents 1/46 millionth the life of the planet.

Assuming humans survive for quite a while longer, what are the chances that another species—say, within 1000 light years of us—will be using “radio” (EM communication) at the same time? Even if our two species each survive a million years, the chances we appear at the same time are slim. A million years represents 1/4600th the life of our planet.

On a positive note, there are in the range of 16 million stars within 1000 light years of earth.

The Fermi Paradox presumes much: intelligent life is destined to evolve on suitable planets; intelligent life survives the filters (my doomsday money is on human pollution, ye olde shite problem); EM communication or star travel is a logical outcome of intelligent life. All of these seem a bit dubious to my limited mind.

On the other hand, almost by definition, a starship is immortal. If humans ever achieve a viable industrial infrastructure, at say, Jupiter, we will have already overcome many of the obstacles of traveling to Alpha Centuri. A self-contained, self-repairing, self-propulsing “vehicle” has to avoid collision, of course.

Here, my money bets first contact will be, or has been with machines.
Congrats on launching! This is really cool. How hard would it be to integrate OneGraph into an existing GraphQL endpoint that I'm already hosting to power my application?
So this is like Azure Stack with no limitation on hardware configurations?
> Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

I was very disappointed with this book.

The book TLDR : Current solar technology is great but will flat-line at XX% of energy usage. We need new stuff.

In fact, this book could have been written 10 or 20 years ago. It pushes all sort of mythical solutions and still-in-lab technologies. And it hand-waves away the entire progress in solar/battery/EVs in the last 10 years.
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There is very solid science about how children develop, and what they need from their parents, and it is useful for parents to understand it.

Here are two good places for parents-to-be to start:

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/Pages/default.aspx

https://www.naeyc.org/our-work/for-families

I can recommend books too, but they're at home so I'll have post later.
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> Recently I started MITM and Burp to intercept Apps to get direct api access.

Kind of a party foul in my book. .
The issue with this viewpoint is that you're correct - but not accounting for all the areas where other humans will hold a similar opinion about a less clear-cut issue. Abortion, 2A, etc.

I want anyone who talks openly about wanting to commit murder or having others do so, to be banned. But I have to recognize others will abuse that, calling abortion murder under all circumstances and silence any women's group that discusses such things.

The solution isn't an easy one. Personally, I'd be happier in a world with "No Politics" or "Everything (that isn't clearly illegal) goes" as the only options so as to avoid leveraging a tremendously powerful platform as a weapon.
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Yes, this is how it works, but it's not vital for the site purpose, so if it is against their terms maybe i'll need to make users input this data making it even more real, since it's not what the store says, but what the people are seeing.

How would you go around this ?
My service is regularly shit on America’s best network in NYC. iPhones used to be very good at this. Now I can’t make phone calls/drop in the same location, on the same cellphone.
> Where does it end? When are we finally allowed to take action?

Speech must only ever be met with speech if liberals want to keep the moral high ground. If you meet speech with oppression, how are you any better than the oppressors of the past that liberal movements fought and won victories against?

Now if you're facing oppression, that's a different story and at that point "taking action" (your words, not mine) might be justified.
Typo:

"Kids are like dogs, you reward and encourage behavior you want and punish and discourage behavior you do NOT want."
I was under the impression that since[1] 2.6.12, when using BSD flock(), NFS will use POSIX locks that emulate BSD locking behavior and work over NFS. So long as you use consistent NFS implementations, shouldn't this work?

[1] http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_d10
You don't earn a living from scraping, you earn a living by solving a problem and providing value.

What problems are your projects solving? Are people were paying (in either effort or money) to solve these problems currently?
Seeing as my iPhone X can kill my entire month's data plan in 10 minutes. I'm not sure if I care.
I think this comment says more about your understanding of science in general, than about what science can tell us about raising children.
Ask HN: Basic employee freedom
What are the things that are considered part of basic employee freedom. Freedom I mean they shouldn't get influenced by management or worried of getting fired or management has nothing to do with.

Choosing what code of yours goes to opensource?
Ability to ask any question to CEO in all hands ?
What kind of dress you wear?
Ability to to take leave without asking anyone?

Please let me know if you think of more
Seems like the opposite to me. If there's no penalty to getting caught, why not keep trying? I'm not sure what "ever more clever and socially destructive ways to avoid being caught" you could be referring to
> Apparently, this German legal model is that small children are a force of nature, like a tornado or hurricane.

That's pretty much the US model, too; young children are unlikely to be subject to tort liability (under common law, there was a firm cutoff at 7 years for negligence, with a presumption against liability up to 14; now in most jurisdictions it's a balancing test of age, experience, and intelligence.)

And even where a child is liable, they are likely to be effectively judgement-proof and many jurisdictions have fairly limited provisions for parent liability for minors torts (California, e.g., has a quantitatively-limited amount of parental liability, for liability from willful misconduct.)

There may be some cases where there is a negligence action against parents for reasonable care in supervision, but it's not clear that the duty the would be judged that much differently than in Germany.
I believe people are mis-framing the tech debt debate or at least missing part of it.

Tech debt has to be managed and triaged, this is true.
Tech debt slows down product development and degrades stability, also true.

But tech debt is also a talent retaining and hiring tool. No one enjoys to work on a project that gets in your way for reasons that can be resolved. You need to pay down tech debt when people ask in a reasonable fashion otherwise, simply put, they'll leave.
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is that how Silicon Valley startup always did?
Anyone else read "The Undoing Project" (a Michael Lewis book on Daniel Kahneman, which was on the list)?

I thought it sounded super interesting, but I'm getting mixed impressions from Amazon reviews.
Wow, this is depressing.

For comparison, here's Germany's:

http://www.apps-bahn.de/bin/livemap/query-livemap.exe/dn?L=v...

(might need to zoom in to see more trains)
I agree that Windows 10 should not be dismissed as adware. But just because Ubuntu and Mozilla did it doesn't make it right. It's something that absolutely shouldn't happen in the first place. Microsoft does not need to default to invasive tracking and ads in the default UX, and there's no question that it's an anti-consumer move in the first place.
I never understood the point of an on-site cafeteria in a centrally located urban office anyway. It makes loads of sense in the spread-out suburban 20m to the nearest Chili's hellscape that is the ever pleasant south bay, but you really don't need it in SF. I feel like a lot of it was a sort of "us too" copying of Google/Oracle without fully understanding why it was done in the first place.
You make a good point but what you're talking about is effectively the beginning of the end of liberalism. While it sounds simple to say in this case that "people aren't rational, therefore we're going to control their speech and we're technically a private company so nah nah nah," you are in fact opening a huge can of worms with incredibly far reaching consequences. I don't blame Facebook for refusing to take a stand on this point. As much as people like to accuse Facebook and Zuckerberg of being greedy and arrogant, I think on this point they've shown a remarkable amount of humility. Sticking to the same principles that have guided humanity's most successful decisions for the past 200+ years while being constantly mocked by the mob shows an incredible amount of restraint. People who think no platforming tens of millions of people is a simple decision are the reckless and arrogant ones with no regard for how serious such a decision really is.

If tens of millions of Americans lack the competence and morality to be allowed to talk freely amongst themselves, why do we let them raise kids and vote?
At least the browser part you wrote hasn't been true for years.
you can just call it the largest/most powerful/biggest ever HARDON.. pardon, HADRON accelerator. He'll go for it for sure.
Jesse here. I'm the eng manager for GKE and GKE On-Prem Storage lifecycle over at Google. For basic persistent volumes, we have working vSphere (block) support, which allows us to do a lot (including persistent/stateful services).

We also have great storage abstraction layers built into K8S - CSI, FlexVolumes, and a large suite of in-tree plugins - so adding additional ones is pretty easy.

I think you're talking about something else however - specifically scaled/distributed storage services.

We're investigating options here, though keep in mind you should have no problems running containerized storage services in GKE On-prem. They would be on top of the existing block support I mentioned above. I saw a couple comments in other threads from some vendors that sell solutions that do just that.

For storage systems that don't containerize, that is a different discussion. Happy to talk more.
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