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>Are you saying you don't eat plants because you feel their pain? My guess is probably not.

You are correct. I am, like we all have evolved to be, omnivorous. I supped on delicious pig parts with potatoes and brussels sprouts last night. The seasonings I used included crushed plant seeds, pressed seed oils, and real butter from someone's cow.

Vegans, like those people who choose to eat meat-heavy diets are making a conscious choice to ignore a specific option from all the available food sources.

Your body has evolved to be able to handle all of it, some of it may be better for your health over the long run but that doesn't mean that you can't eat it. It means that you have chosen not to eat it for philosophical reasons.

I'm not in your head so I don't know why you have chosen to be vegan except that you say that you don't want to cause pain to that part of the biota that we understand has the capacity to experience pain. It appears to be an ethical question for you. Stick to your guns. Live your life.

I wrote the "mock poetry" as you describe it in a tongue-in-cheek way in order to have the reader see life from a different perspective, that of the plants that you would potentially be consuming. I have also followed the literature about plant growth, etc. for many years. I don't have a green thumb so I usually end up feeling sorry for the plants who unwittingly fall into my cart when I'm on my annual garden upgrade adventures. I do what I can to make their growing environment more growth friendly, ultimately so that I can eat the fruits of my, and their, labors.

After catching the NYT article that I linked I was grazing HN posts and found this one and at that point I knew that I had found the perfect article to challenge a vegan's belief system about the ethics of eating something that knew that it was being injured in the process and perhaps felt pain and sent itself into damage control as a result of the attack on its life.

I only needed to find a vegan poster who would make the argument that eating plants is more ethical than eating animals because animals feel it when we hurt them. You came along and my heart skipped with joy, or maybe I have an undiagnosed arrhythmia. I quickly began to type out in my word processor all the things you see gathered in that "mock poetry" part of my posted reply. My mind was flooded with bullshit so I flushed it into that post.

Poetry, like art, is subject to individual interpretation.

I intended to cause the reader, and you, to consider that plants may also be disinclined to accept our established usage of them as a food source. Perhaps they are in fact just resigned to their fates and immediately launch into damage control as soon as a credible threat appears.

If you took my post personally then maybe the lack of collagen in your diet has thinned your skin a bit too much. You should consider adding supplements to your diet to correct that deficiency. Of course the best sources of collagen are animal products. The choice is yours.
Agreed. I dabbled with Pyside2 recently and it was refreshingly well structured compared to PyQt4, which is what I last used when I built a GUI a few years ago. It looks like the community might finally get behind one, good, open library for Qt5.
Ill bet it was done intentionally.. some years 10% of Danske Banks total profits, was from this one branch..

They where warned multiple times, that the clientele of that branch, was shady. This was an Estonian Branch, with primarily non estonian customers.
I built a C-layer myself for use with C#.

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet

It worked out nicely.
I guess that's cool if you mostly do web stuff. But there are tons of developers that use Python/C++ for embedded systems, OS, data science and other things that could make the same argument for Qt.
I agree that just idling those Montana ranches is probably best. Huge tracts of land just to raise a few cattle. But then what?

Back to Bison? Bison are much more effective at preventing forests from forming than cattle are. So "natural", but from an ecosystem protection and climate change perspective probably not the best choice. "What's best for the environment" is often a large set of conflicting goals...
hi, if anyone wants to start with a public social network (instead of building one with your existing friends), here's an invite:

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The 2nd graph shows that the article is complete BS.
Interview with Eiiti Wada, Creator of the Happy Hacking Keyboard
By not getting married?
And you’ve technically been “divorced” (entered into cohabitation with a serious partner for some years and broke up) 1 or 2 times before making it official with the government.
I was last in Vienna about twenty years ago. It struck me as the cleanest, most orderly, and perhaps most beautiful city I'd ever seen. Public transportation was excellent, costs seemed reasonable. I recall vividly how locals would immediately move to the right automatically when catching the escalators - everyone was polite, courteous, orderly. I've wanted to go back ever since but the opportunity has never arisen.
You'd only be fighting on one website — on proggit you said you agreed ;-)

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9gzppu/falling...
> How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN?

Out of more than 600'000? A bunch, I bet.

(Yes, I was shocked at the number too)
The bottom of the article says that non-married couples with kids are less stable than married couples with kids. It implies that couples that would have gotten divorced are instead not getting married in the first place, which creates more situations where a single mother is raising children with no support from the father.
If protonmail is billed as a pgp replacement, then people will think it is reasonable to use protonmail's encryption instead of 'offline' encryption, when that's not the case at all.
Jesus as a name is quite popular, though. According to the site I linked above, in 2016 Jesus was the 134th most popular name for boys; Mary was the 127th most popular name for girls; Maria the 113th; Eve the 456th; Adam the 75th.
What was it about the Poles that let them break Enigma while other countries couldn't? Mathematics talent? Mechanical talent? Luck? A desire to not be invaded and overrun by Germany?
> The downside is that when they do have kids outside of marriage it's a worse situation as the families are less stable without the institution holding them together.

Do you have any data backing up this assertion?
Related personal story.

I had dealings with a national technology-based company over the past several years that involved fraud. Not on my part. It was obvious to me after some investigation that they had stolen several hundred dollars from me by causing charges on another account without asking my permission or clearly indicating that charges were being made. (I had to investigate to figure it out)

I was willing to let it slide and move on. Lesson learned. Then I saw a commercial for the company and realized: they were doing the same thing to tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of other customers.

It was really kind of mind-boggling when I thought about it. Who knows how much money was involved.

So I looked up a lawyer in a nearby large town who had experience and knowledge about class action suits in the technology arena.

We had a nice chat. I had accumulated a ton of paperwork to show what was going on.

He agreed. They were hurting a lot of people. On purpose. But he couldn't take the case.

Was it lack of proof? Broken laws? What?

It was arbitration. If I understood him correctly, arbitration clauses are destroying class action lawsuits. So you can legally screw over tons of people, then insist arbitration with the few that care if you get caught. And you get screwed over? You'd better not say anything about it because then you'd be slandering the company. After all, they haven't been found guilty of anything, right?

So how about regulatory agencies, I asked? Surely this violates some regulation that they operate under.

His view, if I understood him correctly, was that regulation was entirely political. It had nothing to do with them breaking any rules. It certain political contexts certain companies got the hammer. In certain other political contexts, they did not. In this particular case, he knew from the lay of the land that it was not worth pursuing.

I'm still taken back by our conversation. I had no idea that arbitration had effectively destroyed class action. I don't remember this ever being reported anywhere.
My office is in Kendall Square (near MIT), my house is in Central Square (Cambridge) and I spent most of my time in Fenway, downtown and Harvard. As a reference. But in my experience, this is a systematic issue in Boston Area.

Also, I'm a biker, I don't drive (I don't even have a drivers license in the US, I hate driving, but I know how to drive and have drivers license in other countries), if it matters.
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/04/curato...

"Inventor William Lawrence Murphy (1856-1957) began tinkering with hideaway beds while living in a one-room apartment in San Francisco in the late 19th century. He was falling for a young opera singer and courting customs at that time would not permit a lady to enter a gentleman’s bedroom. But according to family legend, Murphy’s limited finances and a strict moral code didn’t spoil his chance at love. His invention allowed him to stow his bed in his closet, transforming his one-room apartment from a bedroom into a parlor.

"The couple married in 1900."
Millennials I know that are now in their 30s have already been “married” in name 1 or 2 times. We just don’t make it official like previous generations did because of cultural pressures.
The concept of free-will is so preposterous, baseless like souls or ghosts; because lack of understanding how the brain works doesn't make what happens inside it more metaphysical.
Even Mild Physical Activity Immediately Improves Memory Function
In addition to what the other said, if you use Qt Quick instead of Qt Widgets you get something which is an order of magnitude more powerful than most of the alternatives :

* http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/07/05/qt-quick-designer-coffee-m...

* http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/05/24/qt-quick-designer-qt-creat...
I love m4/3ds, but I do concede it has a ways to go for low-light performance. So far as bokeh goes, just remember your equivalencies: getting good bokeh is possible, but not as effortless as with full frame on an average lens. The big appeal of the system to me is how much less volume and weight you carry around when it comes to lenses.
I don't, but it is at the bottom of the article so maybe the author can back it up?
I'd like to take this time to introduce a project I have been working on. I'm using it in production currently.

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet

It is a perfect balance between QML and .NET. The tech stack splits along the perfect line. QML for UI, .NET for business logic.

I'd be glad to answer any questions.
> This is one of the reasons why euthanasia is not legal

Except where it is legal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia
I no longer live in the UK, but it's the country I have the most experience with. Here's what sucks:

1) Overpopulation. Especially in England, especially in Southern England. One of the highest population densities in the world, and it really shows on the roads, trains and in how compact everything gets built. (Unlike the Netherlands which has similar population density, there are far fewer people on bicycles due to worse infrastructure.)

2) Unwise immigration policy that has ruined many of the most affordable parts of cities that would otherwise be desirable places for young people to live.

3) Stagnant and outdated culture. It's kinda pathetic in the 21st century that there's still a monarchy and unelected House of Lords. And that people actually defend it on the basis of "tourism". Also, the FPTP electoral system for the House of Commons creates an environment in which only majority/conservative viewpoints get represented politically. In the UK I felt like the political system was run by older generations for their own benefit only; there is very little of a culture in the UK of caring about or investing in the young. The tuition fees debacable is only the icing on the cake of this cultural tendency which runs pretty deep.

4) Government services such as healthcare and education vary enormously in quality from region to region, and the quality is usually pretty poor by international standards. The wealthy get private health insurance and send their children to private schools, which aren't an option for those not able or interested in paying twice.

5) Housing prices. Even engineers can't buy houses in the South. Also, a lot of the housing stock is fairly old.

6) Surveillance state and general unwarranted cultural paranoia. CCTV capital of the world.

7) Failed welfare state (there are A LOT of homeless, and a big underclass population) and failed labour movement (the only jobs which have unions are public sector jobs).
How? It shows divorce rates have fallen over the last ten years for all age groups except the oldest.
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“Auto-What?” –  A Taxonomy of Automated Machine Learning
"Plummet' == 8%? Seems like the title is exaggerating a bit egregiously.
Right to litigation is a basic right. It's the 7th amendment.
Is there a GoQt5 being worked on anywhere?
> Since DFW is so spread out, many suburbs don't have public transportation or limited transportation.

Depending upon your outlook, this can also be seen as a positive as the maintainability of very-infrequently-used public transportation in very spread out suburbs can have much higher cost than benefit as opposed to the inner cities. If you crave culture, it's not for you, but if you crave peace and quiet you will be happy (outside of the city of course).

> I am struggling to find other things to complain about...

Liquor laws, bar laws, and gambling laws are some. But in the scheme of things, yes, very few things to complain about.
Sorry... I'm not being sarcastic but, currently, I have zero reason to believe that any kind of filter is being applied, hence why I believe this is less of an issue. What other uses, besides pointing the camera at your face, would someone have for using a front-facing camera? If you wanted a picture of anything else, you'd just use the regular camera which has already been shown to not exhibit the behavior. What non-vanity uses are there for the camera?
I started using Instagram to publish to Facebook back in the days mainly because Facebook's mobile upload functionality was buggy and often failed to upload.
Very HN of you to replace force in the title with “enforce”.

Here it is in a sentence:

By enforcing the terms of the agreement, Uber forced binding arbitration on the contractor.

If the contractor Filed a Complaint before a court in breach of the arbitration provision of the contract, Uber could have waived its contractual right to arbitration and allowed the case to proceed, but instead they forced the contractor into arbitration by enforcing the agreement. There is an obvious reason Uber elects to put the arbitration provision in its agreements and there is a reason they didn’t waive that provision when push cane to shove...it benefits Uber.
True, I grew up Catholic, so maybe I'm only slightly ashamed that I forgot all about Rachel and Ruth. :)
So, while yes, we have lots of fmri data that suggests our mind makes decisions for us, then convinces us that we made the decision conciously. I suspect it's a mistake to take this to the logical conclusion that we can make no conscious decisions.

Even if consciousness is a complete illusion that our mind fabricated for us, we still seem to have some control over our reactions. I say this as someone who is teaching my children better reactions to what life throws at them, and similarly having to mediate my own responses to mistakes they make.

Even if all this is happening at the margin, that seems to be enough for us to have some profound differences in how successful we are at navigating life.
Homelessness? It's pervasive
Yes, certainly. My point is that if you have "mostly no vocals" you can subtract that from the left + right mix to get "mostly the vocals". It won't be exactly right, sure.
nope there are plenty of other options but you know what, i dont really care, maybe im evil too but im not going to bother switching
No reason not to defer to cynicism when working in gaming. ;)
Pretty cool. I'd love to see an updated version with SDI or HDMI I/O rather than composite video.
Even if they raise an issue every once in a while you can tactictly tell them to go away. And the company will, swearing is sometimes useful in the response.
> This is why minimum wage and other laws exist.

This is not a settled question in economics. The idea that minimum wage laws help the poor is at the very least debatable.
Survivorship bias.

Toyota makes extremely reliable cars, it doesn't just come down to maintenance. Poka-Yoke has a lot to do with that reliability.
If the side streets are currently faster than the congested highway that's true. I'm talking about situations where it isn't, where the fixed cost of stoplights and speed limits ensures it they will never actually be faster than the congested highway.
No, of course they didn't. But that doesn't mean they didn't still modify the codebase of the DOS (I cant recall what it was called) that they bought.

Besides, my point clearly wasn't who originally authored MS-DOS but rather that MS didn't even have a product to sell -let along a well engineered one- back when they first visited IBM.
Apache Pulsar Graduates to Top-Level Project
Before I clicked the link I thought it would go to a Github repo owned by Volkswagen showing they had written code to forcibly pass CI tests. It's not clear from the title that it's not actually talking about VW the company.
PS: There are now 200,000,000 electro scooters in use in China.
> I'm so skeptical whenever I read something like that. Even on small scales, deceit and conspiracy are rare.

And, yet, we have the example of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. I'm involved in the same industry, and know how little it would take to fudge the emissions test results. Yet the company was, in fact, active in a widespread conspiracy to defraud regulators and auditors. And THEN we find out that A LOT of other people and companies were doing the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal.

None of this particularly surprises me. It's clear the industry allowed themselves to get trampled by grandstanding politicians, who passed emissions laws that are almost too restrictive to adhere to. The only way to do it is to spend exorbitant amounts of money on aftertreatment systems. This may have been the government's goal all along, as a "voluntary carbon tax," but it's clear that the only place you can make these expensive additions to the product package is in heavy trucks; NOT in passenger cars.

The longer I live, the more I attribute to malice. When you strive to correct the ignorance, but the behavior doesn't change... what are you left with?
> you're here defending that one time

That's a bald-faced lie - I never defended it. But thank you for this illustration of how you and the likes operate. You know that this is false, and that everybody can see it's false - after all, my comments are just above yours for everybody to see and it's obvious I never mentioned that matter and never defended it!

But you rely on the fact that your in-group would let you lie pass because you're attacking an enemy, and your out-group would be afraid to be associated with defending a racist - and if not, you'll just accuse them in racism too. This is not a good faith discussion.

> our frantic reactionary panic about the idea of basic civility being a written policy in software development.

That's another bald-faced falsity - I never rejected idea of "basic civility". In fact, if anything, you are the one rejecting "basic civility" right now, by falsely accusing me instead of engaging in good faith and trying to impugn my motives instead of discussing the actual points raised.

Basic civility is great. But basic civility can be done in many ways, and this particular formulation of CoC is not the only one (in fact even having CoC is not the only one). Implying that anybody who opposes particular formulation of CoC and particular process of it's introduction is against "basic civility" is not telling the truth. And the events that surround it prove that the matter in question is way bigger than "basic civility" - there were numerous attempts under the guise of CoC to silence and remove from projects people that disagreed (even in outside fora having nothing to do with the project) with some views of people who often even not members of the community in question.

Hounding people out of working communities for a random comment and throwing around baseless accusations in not the way to do basic civility either. Yet somehow some people think if they say "we're for basic civility" they themselves are free from upholding basic civility. And that basic civility implies they can do anything, but their opponents better watch out.

> Because Newspeak and thought control

Yes, because speech and thought control is what it is all about. And, ultimately, power. You are not allowed to do crimethink, and if you do, you are an unperson. That's what you are trying to do here - you do not argue with ESR's article, you're trying to unperson him. And yes, stubborn refusal to listen and to actually know the position of somebody who you are supposedly criticize is the part of the deal - if you wanted to engage and refute the points, the minimum requirement would be to know what are you actually refuting. But if you want to unperson, the less you know the better.
Didn't volkswagen "fix" some emission tests in this manner?
> But not required to continue working there. It should be pretty easy to find a job that pays more than 1c/hr.

That's pretty glib and misses the point: labor laws like the minimum wage exist for a reason. The tl;dr is that the free market didn't solve the problems the laws were meant to solve 100 years ago, and the free market isn't going to solve them now (if the GP is corrected and forced arbitration gives employers a way to bypass the laws).
Salt Lake City, UT:

1) Very poor air quality in winter due to inversions.

2) The local popular religion (Mormonism) has an outsized influence on legislation, so there are weird laws surrounding alcohol, business on Sundays, use of downtown property, etc. Outside of SLC proper people assume everyone is Mormon, and one's religion (or lack of it) can affect job opportunities, etc.

3) The city is extremely car-centric, with large blocks and narrow sidewalks. there are few places where it is pleasant to walk or linger outdoors.

4) Public transit is not great, but still better than some US cities. This seems to be slowly improving.

5) Homeless communities are concentrated around a few service locations, so certain parts of the city can seem overrun and unsafe, especially public parks. Panhandling is everywhere.

6) Local culture breeds busybodies; neighbors will complain to the city if they deem your grass is too tall, etc. There is also a lot of casual racism; for example, neighborhoods with a majority Latino population are considered "bad" despite having no higher crime, attractive houses, etc.

Gripes aside, SLC is mostly a great place to live. There is beautiful scenery, reasonable housing, lots of restaurant variety, and so on. But nowhere is perfect.
Sure yes, doesn't change my point. If what GP implied was correct, it'd be legal everywhere.
> we’ve been saving for two years to have a wedding, and we’re planning a relatively cheap one

The second part here is in conflict with the first part...