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Few things are truly obvious, so this is a good question.

There are a lot of good answers here, but I feel compelled to add one more.

Kindness... opens doors. By being kind, your feedback is much more likely to actually benefit the person on the receiving end of it, which is the point of giving feedback in the first place.

Kindness also reminds us to look at not just the things that we don't like, but also at the good, and to give credit wherever and whenever it is due.

Here, for example, I could just have replied with an answer or a link to an article. That wouldn't have been unkind, per se. But you did ask a good question! Other people that read my reply may have wondered the same thing, and so by raising this, you helped all of those other people.

Moreover, in looking back on things, I struggle to think of a time in my life when being unkind was a net benefit to me.

Doing things that don't help me... doesn't sound like a solid strategy for winning. :)

So, in general, I make it a point to Always Be Kind, and encourage others to do the same.
I think that when CalRobert says

> One way of handling this is making paternity and maternity leave nearly equal, and mandatory.

"mandatory" means making paternity leave compulsory for employees. I could be wrong, though.
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One of the malign changes that neoliberalism/libertarianism has wrought is societal attitudes to children.

Prior societies understood that children are fundamental to society. If the children die, the community dies with it. Modern business thoery and economics see children as extraneous. That's cultural poison and it's everywhere now.
But is there a "rape culture"? I mean there are criminals that commit rape. But what are the reasons to call it a culture. As far as I know, the rape, at least in the western world, is perceived as a terrible thing and is punished by law.
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If such a contract is valid, I have no trust on Vietnam's law.
Why would you want to recreate Windows UI? It's an evolutionary dead-end and everybody is moving off of it. KDE is a dead technology as well, they're still stuck in the WIMP metaphor, whereas Gnome are pushing the envelope with innovative tablet-friendly user-centric story-based UIs that are miles ahead of anything Apple can dream to achieve. We can't move forward by being stuck in the past and an effort to hobble the F/OSS desktop by EU governments should be resisted at all costs.
Australia also has instant transfers between banks, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Payments_Platform
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The article misspells it as 'Shakrti' in the body. Posting here because there is no comment section on the blog.
Hardware context switching is quite fast and overhead free.

The problem is that commonly the hardware based switch will not save all registers and with software based switching you can be much more selective about what you do and eek out a bit more performance that way.
> the fascination of Western archaeologists with Roman History is explained by the necessity of the American "aristocracy" to establish a cultural heritage of exceptionalism

That seems a very US-centric viewpoint. Plenty of Western archaeologists aren't Americans. For many European countries, the Roman Empire is an important chapter of their own history, so it is unsurprising that archaeologists in those countries would be interested in it-and their interest has nothing to do with the United States. (Even many of those parts of Europe which never were subject to Roman rule were nonetheless enormously influenced by Roman culture, through the spread of Christianity.)
Thanks for sharing this comment!

I wonder if part of the govt’s interest comes after discovery (-ies) of backdoors in US and China based processors — a national security motivation to develop indigenous manufacturing.

Congrats to this team. Great project!
how do you manage so many tabs? I struggle to find my active tab when i have 10 open. Maybe I should change my theme.
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I tried downloading the official hugo binary from GitHub for x86 using wget and got an average speed of 50.3KB/s. It's a 6.12M file and took 2m 26s to download to an Ubuntu VPS in Singapore.

I then installed speedtest-cli to the VPS using apt and tested the connection speed with the following results:

Download: 1999.57 Mbit/s
Upload: 588.90 Mbit/s

When downloading from GitHub I noticed they're using an S3 bucket to store the release archive:

github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com

Could S3 reduced redundancy be the culprit here? Is there some way I can increase the speed of these downloads?
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I've heard this difficulty a few times so it must be valid, but I find it really surprising. It's such a close analogy to email subject lines that I would have thought that most people could get their heads round it quite quickly.
What's the price point of one of these processors? The article doesn't seem to be clear on this.
You make a blanket statement for Europe, but I know for a fact there are plenty of places in mainland Europe that will sell it OTC just about everywhere. In this case this is therefore not a super useful generalization.
Spot on. Although in our retirement age we might get to explore the moon or mars at least. But not too happy about not being born a couple of centuries later to see what warp 9 feels like.
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But think how much you learned in the process!
Imagine that you are the one doing customer support at one of these companies ...
Only policies that limit citizens can be called that - only some kind of extreme anarchocapitalist would say that, for example, food regulations are autoritharian.
Or: how to ruin Instagram by diluting everyone's feed.
but they still effectively lose part of their shares, as their stock now represent a lesser percentage of the company.

It's still not a zero-sum game, as it's percentage of a (hopefully) more valuable company.that said I does seem to me that dilution is a way to sell off the same share of your company twice. or am I missing something? (I'm also not a economist)
The simple feature of reducing settlements from days into seconds is by itself a great use-case. However, there is a lot of structural incentives against it. If you're a big bank and make nice transaction fees because your clients trust you to make a secure, legal, and successful transaction, you probably don't want blockchain

A centralised system with trusted nodes is far better for transaction times - this is the worst use-case for a distributed ledger. Blockchains try to avoid trusted nodes, and thus their transactions are slower, because they are multi-node, by design.

Banks already provide transfers in seconds (perhaps not in your country).

Banks make money because clients trust them, they are insured, provide reversible transactions etc, not because their transactions are slow.
I had like +2000 tabs saved in my OneTab now, plus hundred of tab groups in Session Tab (not on my PC, so not sure about correct name) plus +200 tabs saved in Pinboard. I tend to collect things and made myself actually have to look over at least once to see if it worth saving...
> For example, I need multiple spaces where each space is "dedicated" to a single Google account

Could you sign in to chrome in your different google accounts, with an instance of workona per google account? It's not perfect, but might do what you want it to do?
OT, but I just get

"You're using a browser set to private or incognito mode.

To continue reading articles in this mode, please log in to your Globe account."

Should that even be possible?
To answer your question, exits.com is a great resource for people seeking smaller acquisitions.

If I may insert a personal opinion, I feel like for single person businesses, the potential upside is so great for you that it's going to be hard to find a buyer willing to make you an offer you can't refuse. I'd advise you ride this one out into the sunset. It's a subscription business, you could definitely squeeze at least 5 peak years out of it before it starts to fizzle out. Maybe you could move somewhere cheap and maximize the profits
oh nokia... I did believe in you. what a shame.

I almost bought one for my mom after her moto g1 battery died. I thought the 3210 2017 would be simple, latency free, sturdy tool.. apparently it's worse than the original.

I'm sure there's a comfy market for faux-dumbphones, aka dumbphone ergonomics (buttons, simple display) but with just a tad of internet and processing (say transportation/directions for instance)
It is a shame that we can't seem to take a more iterative approach to public policy.

E.g., try a program somewhere, and if it achieves the desired results, scale it up. If not, iterate until the end of a pre-agreed timebox, and if things still fail to deliver, that's how learning happens.

Sadly, I doubt that the public at large would be okay with this approach. :/
Annoyingly this chip lacks the Compressed (RVC) extension, making it incompatible with all existing Linux distros. These will either have to be recompiled without any Compressed instructions (which increases I-cache pressure on other CPUs that do support it), or we'll need to ship two versions of everything. From discussions I believe they've been recompiling Fedora & Debian from sources without RVC.
I don't get why they don't use lotteries. Have a grade cutoff, then choose at random. You should get unbiased results. The remaining bias is grade bias which would reflect poor schools and their corellation with ethnicity. Which will give a clearer startegy for intervention.
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It was between 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 prior to DNA testing.
> I have never heard of them

My comment answers why you did not hear of them.
Imagine someone asks what graphics editors are available on the C64, and people suggest using Photoshop at low resolution because that's what they are interested in, and because hey, it could be that that person hasn't heard about Photoshop yet. "About your question, that's a good question, but let me answer a better question."
Saw one at RIAT in the UK as recently as 2007. Again it was flanked by armed guards, and had the pilot standing in front of it sharing some stories.
I've always thought the Peace Walker logo was a pretty interesting twist on the peace symbol.
No accountability. Nobody's going to come and ask criticise how he spent their grant money, why he chose this paper over another, etc.

Distrust of the public sector leads to excessive accountability requirements that often take up a large fraction of the project cost, maybe even more than half.
Isn't that just lisp-2-like behavior where functions and data maintain separate identities?
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You mean they mixed up the babies and gave them to the wrong parents?
If you want a pharmaceutical product you can try to buy products that have a licence. That would be something like Circadin - a slow release product.
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I host my own mail server and spam is non-existent issue. Especially when you can integrate it with various free antispam info providers.
>> But born just in time to explore the consequences of strong AI!

There's nothing to suggest we know how to create strong AI, or that we will have any idea any time soon. It will most probably take several human generations before we can even get close to anything resembling human intelligence implemented in software or hardware.
We don't discriminate against asian people, just their problematic culture.
Where does that happen?

I've always thought that was much more logical, the current system in the UK just doesn't make sense at it's core => if you're an employer you can get saddled with an employee who you have to pay whilst they don't work for a period, who can then quit, but you're not allowed/expected to try to avoid this by not hiring women. Or taking it into account in promotions/salary.

If you really believe both of: 1: women should be paid to have children at their current salary. 2: women should not be discriminated against in any way. Then the only way to reconcile it is to have the government pay. And no, equal male leave wouldn't solve the problem because they don't take it. And no, mandatory male leave isn't a good solution. For a start it's unbelievably authoritarian to force someone to leave their work because they had a child. For a second you still have exactly the same discrimination problem it's just directed at potential parents instead of women. That would remove it as a feminist issue so it wouldn't get press but it would still be a problem.
You can go to the ER with no ID and give a fake name. If it's a condition that can be disgnosed in an ER, they will help you anyway.
Probably more than anything else it was from when I bought my iPad. There was an explosion in apps after I bought it, and services came with it, along with subscriptions.

The first thing I knew something was wrong was when my subscription to BBC Good Food Magazine changed, and I could no longer email myself recipes in any meaningful format (I had to screenshot the page and share it).

A common one is when a service is bought out and goes to crap, or when a service just goes under (like ma.gnolia) and you lose everything.

Plex has also burnt me by not letting me access content on my own network when their online service goes down.

Facebook burnt me more times than I can count, but Cambridge Analytica was the last straw.

My favourite type of burn is the breach of a security company burn, like lastpass.
> It's interesting, though, in that although my phone doesn't do apps, or email, it still supports multimedia (music, images, video, via a microSD card)

Well, that's what `dumb/feature` phones was doing at their times. There were Java applications, that could access the web/mail/stuff but I wouldn't consider them as real "mail/whatever support" as there were no notifications, background sync and stuff.

My suggestion to OP:

Buy refurbished Nokia 5310.

Pros:
- it looks beautiful
- it's size is just right
- it works very fast, including multimedia
- it has dedicated multimedia keys
- good battery time (as every dump phone should have, comparing to smartphones)
- cheap (Aliexpress prices are starting at $25, but see Cons before you buy)

Cons:
- watch out for bad quality refurbs. Ask seller for real photo, this is an example of bad refurb: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Nokia/724717466.html - metal parts replaced with cheap looking plastic, both numeric keyboard and multimedia buttons looks not-solid
- multimedia keys can be fragile from putting phone into your pants pockets. If metal part around the buttons sticks out - it will hook your pants material and start to stick out even more. I had used this phone few years and it was ok, but seen some people that had this problem

Suggestion number 2:

There are A LOT of dumb phones produced by sometimes not-well-known brands, but they are good ones. They are cheap and you can choose from many models. Get a friend from Europe to help you if you are located in US (I assume you are, maybe wrongly)
Mandatory paternity leave! Can we do a straw poll of how many people think that if you have a child the government gets to tell you how long to quit your job for!?
What aspect of not being a good language makes it work well for mathematicians?
I don't understand this thing about slow financial transactions. Does it really take days to send money from one account to another in the US?

Here in India, we have a thing called IMPS. You can send money instantly from one account to another. Transaction cost is a flat Rs. 5 (less than $0.10) for any transaction size.

There are other newer protocols as well such as UPI which I haven't really used because IMPS serves my needs perfectly.

Sending money to another account is basically a non-issue here.
> you could get the 1984 or black mirror dystopian society

We already have that, let's stop pretending we're not already living in a dystopian society.
sigh

Maybe I'm just entirely misinterpreting your messages, because you're never specific about what you're trying to refute.

> It's an emotional response.

An emotional response to what? Please be clear here. Are you still thinking the rejection of one-time pads as a solution to the problems of OpenSSL and PKI is not based on logic or merit, but somehow based on emotion? If the answer to this is yes, then just come out and say so, because I would gladly explain what is wrong with your proposal.

> IMO you just wanna be loyal to the group you think you belong to (you said "we")

What group do you think I'm trying to be loyal to? The fans of OpenSSL? The people that believe everyone should use HTTPS?

> You don't want to admit your part.

What "part" am I supposed to be admitting?

> You just justify your feelings.

...and?

> If you feel threatened, it's your problem.

I don't feel threatened. Why would I feel threatened? You're the one that is acting persecuted for having a proposal get rejected.
You word this as if married women being inseminated by other men isn't in the vast majority of cases an unintended consequence of completely intentional behavior. Your "being frank" is framing an incredibly rare situation as primary.
Umm they are out to discriminate against Asian people.

More seriously if your aim is to limit the number of people applying for premed then limit the number of pre-med slots and let the applicants know.

If demand is greater than supply then just put everyone over the acceptable score into a pool and draw out at random. Why resort to outright racism to solve a problem of supply and demand?
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Ask HN: Mother (66) retired, bored and remote. What to do?
My mother recently retired. She lives in a remote location (very cold most of the year), but has good internet. She is used to being productive, and is mostly bored staying at home all day (husband works and supports).

She asked me if there are ways to make a small amount of money online and to stay mentally active/ not bored.

Does anyone have any hints? What are your parents doing at home (digital or otherwise) to stay entertained and sane?

Thanks!
Not really. Something can be a right and an obligation at the same time. For instance there is the right to vote. Historically, in certain periods and countries vote was/is mandatory. (e.g. Greece)

Sometimes, a right or measure has to become mandatory to ensure people enjoy it.
Those sorts of roles are often headhunted. Maybe find a good recruiter? You could also poke around AngelList.
Increased efficiency comes at the cost of lowered control. It took me awhile to wrap my brain around the mindset. If the company takes me up on my offer to rebuild their infrastructure at my current pay rate rather than hire a consultant to do it for $X00,000, note that hundreds of thousands of dollars is quite cheap for this kind of consultation, that presents an efficiency improvement at the cost of control. The CFO wants Magento and I'm not interested in coding Magento.

It's more rational from a business standpoint for it to introduce often-extreme efficiency penalties in order to achieve the CFO's will. This is an actual scenario that happened to me by the way. I couldn't analyze it with quite this amount of granularity until recently.

Everybody in the company that could have formed an opinion agreed with me about the efficiency gains of doing it my way. But what I was wanting was politically impossible. So me and the company parted ways.

Since then Magento's new version provides an API layer that makes it way way easier for companies with competent technical leadership to have their programmers use disparate skillsets and still get along. I can learn Magento well enough to work on it on the backend, and maintain the Rails frontend that I would have wanted to work on. If I had saw this coming at the time, I'd have stuck around and helped manage the replatforming. But all I was looking at was the extra $X0,000 I was going to make elsewhere.
R already has a failed lisp predecessor: XLISP-STAT. I don't know that it was bad at all - it was developed by one of the core developers of R and by all accounts was numerically superior. I believe the conclusion regarding its demise was that lisp syntax just does not appear to captivate a large enough audience.
Given that some book scanning processes are destructive, and the presence of a digital archive may be a pretext to dispose of the physical one, and you'll never get budget to digitise it again .. this may not be the worst decision.
"Do well" is always a function of two things: natural talent and time devoted to a specific activity.

This is why I suggested looking for stuff you enjoy doing no matter how good you are at it (at least at first).
If you pick up dancing (just as an example) but feel frustrated because everyone else is a better dancer than you then you will drop out quickly, because it just reinforces your idea of "not being very good at it".

My suggestion is to try a few different things - stressing the non-competitive aspect - and see if there is something you enjoy.

Possible suggestions:

Photography: you can start by just taking a walk with your smartphone, no need to invest any money in fancy equipment, plenty of online courses and advice for the basics, too).

Drawing: again, either self-taught, or try finding a course (drawing is nice because when you get the basics down you can practice a lot on your own, wherever you are and have a bit of time...).

Painting: same as drawing, with the drawbacks that you need more than one pencil/pen, and therefore you will probably not be able to just get away with quick doodles during lunch hour, or at the park or whatever. Will also be more expensive and take space at your home. On the other hand you can nowadays do a lot with a tablet and a high-quality stylus.

Martial arts: try something non-competitive, like Aikido.
More in general, there are a lot of choices in what this book describes as "self-cultivating arts": https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Arts-Self-Cultivation-Robert...

So: try something that does not cost a fortune at the start, because you cannot know in advance if you like it or not (if you love it, you will be able to find a lot of opportunities to spend money on it later ;).

Try avoiding any idea of competition with others: it does not matter if you go to a drawing course and the other students are "better" at it than you. The important thing to focus on is that at the end of each lesson you will be better than you were before the lesson.
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To my knowledge, a countries education tends to focus on the country itself.

American education teaches a lot about the US but little about the history of specific European countries and in turn EU countries teach little about American history ( IIRC during my education we covered the entirety of the US history in half a year and then went back to more local history )

It's always quite amazing to realize that other countries mostly have just as much of a rich history as your own.
> There is something awe inspiring about people who spend long times doing something they love without expecting much in return, for public good.

If only we could have such people elected for president.
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