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Cuba pointed missiles at the US because the US was openly gearing up for one of its many invasions of Cuba, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The Soviets put nukes there because the US put nuclear missiles into Turkey.

The US government has declared they want to destroy the US. It has been the US interfering in Iran, not vice versa.

The US banned Nobel Prize winner
Linus Pauling from leaving the US, only giving him one shortly before his second Nobel prize to avoid international embarrassment.

Playwright and former Marilyn Monroe husband Arthur Miller was denied a passport, blocking him from seeing the Crucible open in London.

Civil rights icon Paul Robeson was denied a passport, explicitly to deny him the opportunity to talk about the state of national oppression of those of African descent in the US.

Also NY Post reporter William Withy Jr., Corliss Lamont, Howard Fast, Rockwell Kent...

In more recent days one can not drive a car in the US without a license, travel a plane without one, take an Amtrak train without one or ride a Greyhound bus without one. The US absolutely exercises control over where its citizens can go, many of these restrictions are new.
Why does the Republic of China still claim mainland China?
You are correct but it's hard to escape that sound. Maybe I was always at the wrong terminal.
Surprised nobody noticed Node.js 0.10.46 is installed on all hosts, under /usr/bin.

I'd assume this may be a good place to start.
So? Many other countries have factories in China. But now even Samsung has most production in Vietnam. I have no doubt Foxconn will move most of production out of China soon. Foxconn is investing heavily in India production.

Yes, you should email Apple to tell them to move out of China.
Prior to the Japanese takeover of Taiwan in the 1930s people considered Taiwan part of China. After Chiang fled to Taiwan and placed himself in power he called a Taiwan the Republic of China. The PRC constitution makes it clear that they consider Taiwan a province of mainland China. After many decades of domination by Japan and Western powers it’s understandable that many leaders in the PRC want a status quo ante with regard to Taiwan. Wether one agrees with their stance or not it is certainly understandable why they think the way they do. Also, for a while it was U.S. policy that there be one China. The issue is murky enough that the U.S. still does not recognize the ROC.
That is some phenomenal documentation.
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The article mentions that.
I don't know. Do you think the damages the communist government have caused over the decades to the Cuban people are justified?

The embargo didn't ultimately work, and neither did the government.

I was just responding to the idea that an island that is no threat whatsoever to China, and which has never had nuclear missiles pointed at China, and which has not ever nationalized property from citizens of China was somehow equivalent to the Cuba situation.
yeah, basically sites like that. Like you state - a good option if you want to do it outside a doctors visit to check on levels
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Hi HN,

I am the creator of Proxie. The app has been around for a while but recently it has got its 3.0.0 update which introduces the rule functionality.

It enables you to intercept requests/responses on the fly and I think it's huge.

Happy to hear your opinions!
>smartphone pictures are universally awful when given a closer look.

A few years ago, I would have agreed with you. The latest generation of flagship phone cameras (iPhone 8, Pixel 2, Galaxy S9) are comparable in quality to a good compact camera. I really can't see much difference between a modern smartphone and an old favourite like the Powershot S120. You wouldn't want to make big prints, but you can get genuinely good images from a flagship smartphone, especially with a third-party app like Camera+ or ProCamera.
Chiang fled to Taiwan wasn’t Taiwan
considered part of China?

Taiwan had been under Japanese rule for 50 years. When Japan lost the war, Taiwan was governed by the Allied Powers, who appointed Chen Yi [1] from the Kuomintang (KMT) as chief executive and garrison commander of Taiwan Province [2].

The Peace Treaty with Japan (Treaty of San Francisco) [3] and the Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) [4] both did not specify that Taiwan was a part of mainland China.
I think formally/legally Taiwan was Japanese until 1952 but Japan was under allied control now.
The question of Taiwan's legal status was left open in the aforementioned peace treaties. This is the legal/technical root cause for the problems with Taiwan's legal status even today.
(The real reason is quite different: it's Taiwan's thriving democracy which undermines and contradicts the Chinese Communist Party narrative that democracy is neither needed nor desirable for the Chinese people.)

The administration of Taiwan under Chen Yi was strained by increasing tensions between Taiwanese-born people and newly arrived mainlanders. Even back then, many Taiwanese resented the increasing streams of mainlanders coming to Taiwan as the Chinese Civil War raged on the mainland. This culminated in the February 28 1947 Incident [5], which cemented the KMT's rule.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Yi_(Kuomintang)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Province

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_San_Francisco

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Taipei

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_Incident
I'm not American (and don't live in the US), but this is a ridiculous over-generalisation. The US is a massive country of over 320 million. It attracts architects and designers from around the world, as well as producing many influential and world-leading figures of it's own. The country is so vast, that making such sweeping generalisations like this can never capture the enormous quality and scope of design (good and bad) that must stretch from one side of the country to another.
I never gave my opinion on the matter. I just stated that the perspective was understandable and it seems you largely agree with that statement. We have the same views on the situation.
I recommend a separate tab, I couldn't use the back button to return to HN after navigating many pages, on desktop Chrome.
Where outside of the Nine Dash Line does China want to own?
Stoicism is the closest I can get away from appealing to emotional harmony blindly (choose the happy way now but potentially make a grave error by doing so).

Thinking about things that aren't presented with a face... one face or many.

Unity with concepts. Read Nichomachean ethics in college, but funnily enough now that I look at it, the professors may have found much more literal value in it than did the students.

Humor, the Greeks, educational systems. Life, sigh.

The directions things go in.
Sure. But if the top of my range is $150k, and I'm talking to a company that would be willing to pay me $175k, it's not in my best interest to tell them that $150k is enough to hire me.

Unless you are special snowflake, why would the company’s range be that far outside of the range for the local market? Either the company is incompetent, you’re about to step into some crap, or the employee doesn’t actually know the market.

Generally, yes. But the exact percentage may differ from company to company.
Typical example are bad employers with high turnover. They need the recruiters to get a lot of new people in the door every year, while convincing these candidates to walk in the door is typically harder due to the employer's poor reputation. So they end up paying recruiters more, sometimes a lot more, per successful candidate.

Every job I’ve gotten through recruiters, the employer was adding people not replacing them. Well, except for one where they fired the most senior developer, three weeks after I came in. I didn’t know I was being watched as his replacement and being made the team lead.

In hindsight it was obvious when half the interview was asking me to come up with a 90 day plan to create a modern software development shop on the spot after he told me about the challenges they were having....
Nice work. I'd be interested to know how your customers are finding you. Have you invested much time into customer acquisition?
Further than this, DMT is endogenous and protects against hypoxia:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2016.0042...

http://beckleyfoundation.org/2016/09/15/the-first-study-to-s...

Some are lead to believe that DMT is released during a NDE as a last attempt at survival.
A fractured bone because she was fucking around with the pressure in her ear. I don't know why anyone would do that.

You can read the story here: https://outline.com/ZZNsFC
That's only if it doesn't come from suspended sleep.
If it has to actually pseudo boot, it drops.
x264 is an h264/AVC encoder that uses the CPU to extract maximum quality for a given bitrate. It does not support any fixed-function hardware on GPUs and the like since that goes contrary to its goals (gpu-accelerated encodes tend to have worse quality for a given bitrate and the fixed-function hardware doesn't support profiles like Hi10p that can improve quality).

Pov-ray is a raytracer. It only runs know he CPU (it has no codepaths to use the GPU).

imagemagick is an command line image manipulation suite that by default uses the CPU to perform operations in images. There is opencl support but it requires either a build option or configuration option for it to be enabled.

My own experience, comparing LAME and flac encoder speeds on an Android device (binaries invoked via a terminal emulator) to a desktop CPU and comparing the actual performance to the geekbench 4 scores showed that gb overrated the Android device by almost 125%.
I would agree except I find Maven to be easily the most sane and flexible and extensible build tool out there. I've used Maven to consistently build and deploy vast systems made up of hundreds of libraries. And this was ten years ago. Maven's only "flaw" is that it doesn't support incremental builds and, frankly, I've come to believe this isn't a flaw at all and incremental builds are an inherently unpredictable anti-pattern. (That might just be the Maven trauma speaking. There are tools out there like buck that claim to get incremental builds down perfectly but I have doubts and we've seen some strange bugs in buck builds.)

What I find so strange is how the systems that came long after Maven -- particularly NPM and .NET -- that they could be so much worse than Maven. Somehow these people weren't aware of the importance of reproducible builds... despite that being a "thing" in Maven almost 20 years ago. Then, as noted above, you have go devs building off of git master branches.

All of this suggests a real problem in software engineering. There's a distinct lack of knowledge sharing that does not lead to gradual, linear progress. It's quite disconcerting. Things are not getting better, every day, after all.
Movies and TV shows are naturally biased towards social relationships and friendships because it's hard to present a first person point of view. Yet I assume that's where the future of entertainment lies, in first person virtual reality. Peep Show with David Mitchell and Robert Webb is the only exception I can recall but the humour there is fairly dark and nihilistic so it's hardly an endorsement for solitude (besides, they're flatmates). A counterexample from literature I can recall is Robinson Crusoe, who is alone on the island for the first time in his life but not lonely because of a new-found relationship with God.
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Not saying up front what you are looking for is completely wrong and really bad advice.

I've negotiated thousands of salary deals and it never works like that.

Consider this simple scenario - employer is looking for a mid level developer, wanting to pay around $80K. You, however, know that you would never accept a role for less than what you got paid in your last job, which is $110K.

So how is this going to play out? 3 interviews, everyone invests their time and effort and codes coding tests and assessments and at the end of it they say "we've got $80K in mind for you", and you are outraged.

The correct advice when asked your salary target is to know the range you are after. It should be neither too high, nor too low. Ask yourself the question - "what is the salary I would feel happy with to stay in this job for the long term?" - that number is the bottom of the range you present. You can add $5K to $10K to that range to give yourself some negotiating upside.

So your answer in the above example might be "I'd like $110K to $120K depending on the responsibilities of the role".

That's the right way to do it. It's ridiculous to go into a recruiting process hoping to negotiate at the final stage - that would waste everyone's time.
I think you're conflating two unrelated dimensions - automation and size. Traditional ad-buying for TV operates at scale but without much automation. Meanwhile, there are plenty of players in the ad business that aren't particularly large but operate without much human oversight.

What this does is increasing the cost of serving small customers, while having negligible impact on the cost of serving large customers. This likely means companies like Google and Facebook will stop serving small businesses that cannot guarantee a certain budget. In a way, we live in a fairly rare time in that a small startup has access to AWS, Azure, GCP, FB ad manager and Google adwords, getting access to most of the same functionalities afforded to larger companies, while operating on tiny budgets without needing account management. This isn't true of many other industries or even services within the same industries. As is, I don't think small businesses are particularly profitable segments for these companies.

This is exactly what already happened with Youtube demonetization - the increased scrutiny on content safety and importance of having human content auditors made monetizing large groups of small-time publishers on Youtube entirely uneconomical for Google. So they got the boot. So in a sense, we should conclude the exact opposite here - automation is what allows a level-playing field for small players and if you take it away through putting a huge amount of pressure on platforms to police behavior of individual customers, it will accelerate consolidation in other industries.
>There are approximately one million places with good guides to learning the technical skill behind photography, because there is not all that much technical skill to learn.

Only if you take a relatively shallow, digital-oriented approach. Ansel Adams' legendary trilogy (The Camera, The Negative and The Print) are still essential reading if you truly want to understand the photographic process.

I broadly agree with your main point - most of the images on that site are trite and uninspired.
I agree. I think DMV should ban this if it ever happens. I imagine it would feel like in Times Square everywhere. There is a reason why tail lights are red and not replaced with displays that show ads.

This is terrible idea and poor investment.
It actually is easier than people think, after chrome added the ability to disable shm (which isn't available on lambda) you can statically compile it into a single binary and run it with chromedriver & capybara easily.

Unfortunately Google Cloud Functions don't natively support golang yet so for my business this is a non-starter.
I wonder what % of people now believe the US medical system is the scam that it is. Utterly dishonest pricing.
With better regulation, a centralized system of butchering is probably better for animals. Humans are evolved to eat meat. There is nothing wrong with the circle of life, nobody lives for ever and these animals are serving an important purpose.
I tried to use Headless Chrome on Cloud Functions for a project I'm working on, but even on the fastest instances loading pages was sometimes really slow (pages timing out after waiting for 60s).

It seems sometimes JS execution was taking a long time, so I guess that was preventing requests from being made. In a single CPU cloud function you have network requests, JavaScript execution, rendering, and the Node process controlling the browser all competing for resources.

That being said, it was super simple to get started!
Ah, I just spotted where you meant. I’ve changed it to a bullet list with authors. Hope that helps.
it's not a stalemate. able devs are in short supply, jobs are plentiful. in this economy, the prospective employer loses if they don't budge.

if they can't work around you not providing a number first, don't work there unless you're willing to sacrifice expected salary for an opportunity at this particular company.
> Now, granted, China won’t agonize about collateral damage the way we do

Please qualify this statement.
Yeah, right. I thought I still had jQuery in there and thought about replacing it. But now as I looked at the code I realized that it's already mostly using Vanilla JS.
I think the point is there are different perspectives that have some merit to them. Both sides have compelling points. But one thing is clear, the PRC have always considered Taiwan part of the China and currently they will not countenance a different view on the matter. Will the U.S. be vigilant enough for long enough so that Taiwan remains independent. Personally I’m skeptical that this is so.
Tried HC just yesterday on cloud functions. For some reason, it runs extremely slow. Did some comparisons to AWS lambda with similar memory / cpu sizes and basic “load page and screenshot” jobs would take 2x - 3x more time on google cloud functions.

I’ll dig deeper soon but this is a bad start.
> Plus you are using 2 hours per day of your life to the commute

This is the biggest intangible to me. There's a lot more you could be doing in those 2 hours per day (family time, exercise etc) which might make you more relaxed and/or productive at work. Sitting in a car for this long drives me crazy.

You could maybe even be using those extra 2 hours per day to work on side projects or generate income to make up the difference.
How many requests per minute were you running? I was planning on using Headless Chrome on Cloud Functions to take in some arbitrary HTML and output it to a PDF. In my case I can’t see >2 rpm happening anytime soon.
In my experience it really isn't that rare. There are a lot of people who do not job-hop nearly enough to optimize income (maybe they're optimizing for stability though, that's their business) and once they've made one jump there's such a possibility/probability of doing so again that it's not really in an employer's best interests to make it easier for them to do so by taking advantage.

Most engineers only reach their steady-state productivity 9-12 months into a new job. Getting a year of somebody cheap is rarely better than getting multiple years of them unless you never should have hired them at all.
This is an interesting question! Maintaining this claim seems crazy.

One
interpretation is that Taiwan sees this as a bargaining chip with China, to be given up at an opportune moment, in exchange for something else, e.g. the China accepting Taiwan's independence.

However, more likely is that giving up on the claim to rule China, might trigger the China's anti-secession laws, which in turn would lead to an invasion on Taiwan.
Do pharmacists have to take the Hippocratic Oath? How is not telling your customers that the insurance copay is higher than cash not harmful?
I doubt that strategy would have been of interest to this organisation, due to this part:

> they had never released a production application before.

It's entirely understandable to end up with a poor-performing team if you start out without any in-house technical knowledge. But how did they end up with a team comprised entirely of people without any experience at all? That to me indicates that, rather than being unable to identify good candidates, they intentionally tried to cut corners. Telling an organisation like this how to identify better candidates isn't going to make a blind bit of difference because they aren't interested in better, they are interested in cheaper.
Wait, now you’re claiming that your original post was satire? Perhaps you should clarify that to the multiple people who have responded with comments in earnest.

Regarding your claimed motive to cast a negative light on the victimizers, uhhh... yeah. That might be believable, except that you’re doing the exact opposite in this thread. I hate to break it to you, but leaving insensitive comments about addiction which you later claim are satire isn’t really helping the situation.

You are also pretending to be respectful with your choice of language, but you’re not actually showing any respect at all.

At this point the only logical conclusion is that you’re trolling. In my experience, behind every troll is someone who is suffering and needs psychological help. Whether or not you believe it, I know there’s a “true self” of yours underneath the facade you’re showing here on HN that actually knows how to help people and not hurt them.

Whatever happened to you to make you this way, I wish you all the best in working through it.
Okay, who should I send my email to? Do you think customer service will work? Or do you think calling them is a better bet.
In my experience on both sides of the hiring table, the application does not go to the no pile--unless, not that the employee is a "fantastically great snowflake", but rather the employer is unwilling to reckon with the market. Dismissing an employee because they won't kneecap their negotiating position for you is a sign of institutional toxicity.

(And I do mean on both sides of the table; I've quit jobs upon discovering that the employer would not allow me to hire people at fair wages, too.)
Great article. On how cities surge, some are planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_community#Brazil

At least Brasilia, Brazil's capital was planned, and if I remember well, there wasn't any city/encampment/etc before. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais' capital was also planned, but I believe it had some sort of settlement there before. So some cities just happen, others are planned, and others Oklahoma I guess :)

And on the Land Run... I believe many parts of New Zealand were populated in the same manner as Oklahoma. Some land was "acquired" from Maori tribes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Zealand

The quotes around acquired are due to the way some land was bought or negotiated. Some times Maori would receive insignificant amounts of money, or in other cases pakeha would use of loopholes, such as a law requiring the land to belong to one person. Then once the land belonged to a person, they would negotiate with him directly. Some more succinct information https://teara.govt.nz/en/land-ownership/page-1
Is it still within say 5 seconds?

Do you get the impression there’s some config tuning to do or something you can’t control?