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Don't forget the latest one: SSD or memory change on iMac pros bricks them https://gizmodo.com/reports-newest-macbook-pro-bricked-if-no...
That’s a good idea, but usually Netflix can blacklist domains faster then a VPN provider can acquire new “residential” blocks.
The part that gets me about the sentiment expressed in posts like this are that there are loads of people who will angrily just do things that make my life worse. They think they're stopping the asshole law-ignoring company but in truth they're just law-ignoring assholes themselves.

So they perceive some war between them and some company and impose that cost upon me - an innocent third party. I don't care if there's a scooter or bike by the side of the road because it isn't even an inconvenience, but when you're throwing it onto the street or into a water body, you're not a hero. To me, you're a worse villain than the company.

Now you have the restraint to not do this but there is a véritable plethora of morons who do not.
If it's (nearly) free, them you're the product
I think the ignorance is on you for not knowing the USA & allies version of Capitalism has killed far more people since WW2 than Stalin could've ever dreamed of, most of those wars unjustified and based on lies. Now add in poverty, drug addiction, preventable deaths from lack of health insurance, slave trade in Libya, refugees from wars we created, etc. This is far more destructive, but it's ok to not criticize it because you probably live cozy.
Alternatively, one should address defects by fixing them not just marking them.
shouldn't it be the last time the oligarchs took over an industry?
This is the lesson everyone should have taken from digg.com but it is still being played out again and again.
No. The one ultimately responsible for the actions are the ones doing it. The appalling conditions at these prisons is first, foremost, and primarily the fault of the company running them. Trying to bring the state into this discussion is trying to cloud the air and take responsibility off the companies doing these things, usually for the unrelentless pursuit of more profit.
I'm not sure they can make a comeback, Instagram ripped off all the good parts and executed on their vision better. Adding all of the celebrity ads and discover feature was a huge mistake, all users wanted to do was communicate with their friends.
I've been brutally betrayed twice in Diplomacy. I'm still good friends with those people. It's only a game. If you can't separate player's behavior in the context of a game with who they are outside of it, then maybe board games is not the hobby for you, or at least not social/negotiation board games, which are very common in recent years.
Well, you could read the stuff that was written by the people who actually lived through it.

Many people who grew up in the Soviet Union, are still alive today. There are even a couple in this very thread, and apparently they know very much how horrible it was.
Most of what Kanye says makes no sense.
Can't believe nobody pointed this out yet:

Estimation is NOT commitment. Committing to estimates paves your road with good intentions (and leads to hell). Don't commit to estimates!!

Estimation is EXTREMELY valuable to help the business get a sense of engineering capacity. You can't tell the business, "we can't launch a Facebook competitor in a week of effort." No shit, Sherlock. So what can engineering work on next? What can the business ask engineering to prioritize, that's chopped up into a small enough piece that it can work it's way through development and into production in a more or less predictable manner, while still being large enough to have demonstrable business value?

Orgs that can't produce reliable software estimates suffer from one of the following: unreliable infrastructure (can't deliver new builds if your build system is down), insurmountable technical debt (can't reliably and quickly roll out requested changes if you don't have automated integration testing), bus factor 1 (look who decided would be a great week to be in a car accident! /sarcasm), lack of senior technical leadership involved in planning / chopping up tasks.

I hate to break it to people, but those are all pretty much fixable. You can have highly-available tooling. You can have competent technical leadership that balances technical debt and creates clear task work for engineers. You can have team leadership that prioritizes getting information out of team member heads and into source code or wiki (when appropriate), and cross-training. The fact that most organizations fail at best practice does not mean that best practice is inaccessible.
I would add, the potential to become a legal target. That is, receiving, fending off and complying with subpoenas and court orders.
Kulak isn't a ethnic group, so there can't be a "genocide of the Kulaks". The definition of Kulak were the landowners who wouldn't collectivize. And yeah, a bunch of them were executed doing shit like lighting grain on fire during a famine out of spite for the government.
To expand on what you're saying: when a user base forms habits around a product—especially something they use on a daily basis—changes no matter how good can be jarring as a result, and thus have a negative impact.

Perhaps Snapchat as it exists now would've taken off just the same, but because the new version represents such a jarring departure from the old, it flops.

A better example of this might be Microsoft keeping the Start Menu for over 20 years. While some cheered for its demise, most users decried the change at the time.

That said, the problems with Snapchat as it exists today run far deeper than merely disrupting people's existing habits, so it's not the best example. Personally I think the app is now poorly-engineered trash. Nonetheless, the notion is an interesting one to at least consider, if only in an abstract sense.
Yes, and that is mentioned in the article.

> But they later realized that any polarized lens rotated 90 degrees and flattened could produce the same screen-blocking effect
It is partisan because because people’s votes are predictable. An armed forces GOTV is going to benefit one side, an African American GOTV is going to benefit the other. Who a GOTV targets shows which side they are on.
The people hypothetically demanding these denials have gone literally thermonuclear before. It’s an entirely different ball game when you deal with the guys with machine guns.
> Holding yourself to deadlines creates room for compromises and creativity.

In other words, when it turns out the estimate was too optimistic one can either:

- allocate more resources to the problem,

- make compromises about quality of work,

- miss deadline or

- adjust scope.

The first solution is rarely possible (or doesn't help because new hires take time to be productive), the second has unwanted side effects, so the last two are the best options... Pick your poison I guess.
As an aside, I can see now that laws around the world like this will be what breaks up the internet, to the extent that isn’t already the case.
> "Developing markets, not the U.S.”

I thought he hated developing markets?
Thanks, I didn’t realize I can flag it. I shall do that going forward.
This is hubris incarnate, the seatbelt argument all over again.
The 3D panning shots were pretty nice considering there's no specular information in those 3D scans.

The claims are, of course, insane, but I guess they're trying to sell some kind of fancy correction algorithm to fill in the gaps.
This idea was already broached at HN in

Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17885284

But a question arises as to practicality of this configuration in extreme weather at sea. That's a lot of wind swept area aloft abovedeck. In extreme weather conditions with rolling seas, an elongated cargo vessel such as a tanker will be subject to sagging (central portion suspended in space between two wave crests). Given strong head or tail wind force imposed on tall rotor shafts it would seem that extra torque would be imparted on the central section increasing the liklihood of hull failure under full cargo load.
I deleted my main account recently-too much time spent on the HN/reddit.

I would not currently express beliefs like this on something that could be tied to my meatspace identity. I am an academic in a department with lots of international students and while
I am not now prominent-I could become prominent and anyone with both eyes open knows how the chinese government responds to external or internal criticism.

I would be in the future be willing to accept that type of attack-but not over an HN comment.
Browser do it based on name="" on anchor tags not ID. And if you are implementing your own version you should probably also be using name not ID. Best practice is t use JS to progressively enhance the page not reinvent the wheel so name is the logical choice.

Edit: Also, word of advise. Lose the "Ha!"... it could potentially make your comment come across as arrogant.

Edit 2: Leaving my original comment intact even though I was wrong. Apparently my knowledge is out of date on this one. Thank you "re" for correcting me.
Really nice, haven't figured out what it's capable of, but reminds of a similar interface I wrote from scratch about 15 year ago in Java Swing. Blows me away how powerful browsers and JS have become. Really amazing that you can do this with so few lines of code, compared the (tens of?) thousands lines I wrote to do similar.
Would wind turbines make more sense? It seems like they’d be catching a larger cross section of wind.
If you really think the stalinist USSR was any worse than modern capitalism I'd highly like to you to look at the plight of third world countries and the post colonial ties that have caused famine,war and chaos in many of them for over 100 years. Western capitalism is built off the abominable conditions it creates, at least the USSR had a measurable improvement and a move away from the horror of the 30s in the 50s.
SpaceX has a launch Sunday night, and it may make some noise
On the flip side could these replace conventional wind turbines to generate electricity?
I’m biased, but Basecamp is an absolute joy to work for.
An assumption I have is that so much news on these sites comes down the wire from AP, Reuters, et al. that there’s little to no value in catering to that audience when plenty of compliant websites over there will be doing it better already. So I’m kind of repeating what you say there.

While at odds with the value of the internet, it is understandable that they decide that their business isn’t really in global news/reporting to international audiences and GDPR is a reason to focus on what works better for them. Before then it was purely incidental.
You're right – I guess I got too hung up on the types. What I meant to say is that I prefer to distinguish "`a` is not equal to `b`" and "equality between `a` and `b` is undefined"; the typing aspect is kind of orthogonal and muddles the discussion.

(I guess I ended up conflating equality and equivalence[1], but in my defense, most languages seem to do that too; and the presence of the `is` operator in Python mixes things up even more)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_(mathematics)#Relat...
Even the worst accusations against the US do not go so far as to say that it is less free than China - the proposed oligarchs are plural, but China is now a dictatorship.
Criticizing china does not mean I do not criticize the actions of the United States.

nice tu quoque.
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If the memory initialize code is released as a binary blob, it is called as FSP (which usually is used with Coreboot). Why not just call it as the original name - memory reference code(MRC)?
WTF is wrong with your reading comprehension? The context was specifically regarding workers not having a weekend FFS!

But do let’s talk about history … The people under what was the Soviet Union lived under terrible conditions long before the Bolsheviks come to power (I’m sure you remember that Peter guy, right?). It’s undeniable that the Soviet Union propelled Russia from a brutal, backwater country (even compared to contemporaries in its day) to a world super power in a remarkably short time period.

That said: It should go without saying that it doesn’t excuse any atrocities they carried out, but since we’re contextualizing — they _never had_ the same notions of human rights as the West, and arguably the Soviets were somewhat of an improvement over the old Czar ways. Was it still brutal? Was Stalin a fucking asshole? Yes. Nobody’s denying that! To reiterate: No, it’d not be fun to live under Stalinist USSR! You’re being obtuse and arguing fallacies by making a leap from ‘Americans also have no weekend — today’ must mean I endorse Stalin.

Even today, Russia finds itself under a strongman dictator asshole. Why is that?

Back to this article: It attempts to paint a picture of a system devoid of a weekend that ultimately was considered a failure while ignoring both history and the striking similarities of our own system. It blames ‘Communists’. Historically, all around the world, the notion of a ‘weekend’ was unheard of. This was a new concept and faced considerable resistance when it was introduced in America. Today, Americans live under some very poor economic conditions that extends to all aspects of their lives — including mental and physical health. So _TODAY_, for many in America, there is no weekend since they have to work multiple jobs just to barely survive. Smashing, groovy, yay capitalism!

And since you bring up oppressive regimes and we can’t possibly know what that’s like: You are aware America has a long history of slavery and genocide, extending through today with dire issues around police brutality and the (in)justice system that is a joke, especially for POC? Right? Right.
'Overvalued' or rather 'overpriced'?

Real estate just as any other market instrument can be objectively overpriced.

Asking price is often set higher to pad for negotiation, as giving a discount is a phychological incentive for a buyer.

As for 'overvalued', that's seems to be a subjective concept. Value is static until it's exercised. If you hold a $100 in your wallet, it does not matter (save for a fear of losing it) until you show someone else that you have it, as basis for some value transaction.

Can you overvalue a $100 ? Sure, make it a collectible, put a celebrity's signatue on it etc. Provide future reasons for it to hold a higher value. Use it as a basis to borrow $200 (even though that $100 may have being borrowed itself).

In a way, real estate has become a fiat just as the actual currency is. While the dollar is a short-time instrument so its value could be exercised immediately, real estate functions as a long-term instrument to transact for a future value. That value is in form of taxes for government, interest for banks/lenders, rent cash-flow, or a potentially higher selling price for the owner.

As for the owner-occupied house, it can be seen as being more a liability than an asset.

Do you believe that a newly listed property does not hold your expectation of its future value? Well, the seller has not promoted that value to _you_ convincingly enough.
Highly recommend this book. The way it opens, describing the discovery of placebo, was quite eye opening.
When I saw the column called content my face went a little bit sad.
I take offense at your implication. This is a topic I care deeply about and reading the comments moved me to express my opinions.
It is sensible, on the face of it. It just doesn't appear to scale.

Once you and your partner are both on shifts, any semblance of a weekend is gone. I worked 3-on 2-off for a long time, it was fantastic. Then once I got a live-in partner, on a regular 9-5, I was unavailable for 40% of her weekends. That was a stretch.

Add in kids, and it'll get even messier. If mom's day off is Tuesday, dad's day off is Thursday, and the kids have the weekend off?

It works for the factory, but the more of the same family you put on opposing shifts, the messier it gets.
This frustrates me to no end. I'm quite alright with being exposed to extreme left and right wing opinions on a daily basis. But I simply can't stand all blatant misinformation which is fuelling seemingly ever increasing levels of indignation about issues that aren't even really real issues.

I get particularly disheartened when I see clickbait titles such as 'income flat again: 10 years straight' from traditionally trustworthy public news channels (those EU institutions that have been around for many decades, aren't funded by advertising and have social, not commercial motives). And then I think, no way, I click, and all the way down the article it has a brief memo where it says 'some economists say this is merely an interpretation, as we were referring to household income being flat, even though the number of people who lived in the household decreased. This could also be interpreted as rising incomes and everyone having more real estate per person'.

At that point it just strikes me that they intentionally made good news look bad, an organisation looking only to inform the public, not get clicks. It's like the disaster industry isn't even dependent on commercial incentives anymore, it's like this cultural trait journalists seem to have. (or I dare say get the impression, have developed as of late, but I'd probably be myopic to say that.)
>For it to be useful long-term, you'll need to find a policy with both guaranteed renewal and guaranteed coverage increase as your income rises, before any chronic conditions appear (or are diagnosed) or things like car accidents occur and become pre-existing conditions.

That's only true if you want to increase your spending as your income increases. If you start out with an upper-middle-class paycheck and lifestyle and get disability insurance for that, and save 100% of any pay raises on top of that, then a simple cost of living adjustment is more than enough. And even without a COLA adjustment, your long-term savings should be accruing faster than inflation anyhow. Rough math says that if you can't save enough to replace 2% of your income in a year, then you can't afford to retire after working 50 years.

>That is, the total from all sources will be capped by the most generous policy at somewhere around 60% of pre-disability income.

This is more than it sounds like, since private disability benefits are untaxed. For anyone with a six figure income, that's $5k/mo in after-tax income. Plus, this income is 100% portable within the US - you no longer have to live within the high COL areas where the tech jobs are.
You’re not wrong, homelessness was illegal in the Soviet Union and not in the “we will not rest until everyone has a roof over their heads” kind of way, rather more like “you better be staying at your registered address (raspiska) OR ELSE!” That’s one way to solve homelessness.
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There is still a diesel engine in the loop, which if turned off makes the ship not move.

These are like electric hybrid cars which are sometimes thought* of more valuable than increased efficiency of burning gas (which is all they boil down to)

*at least I used to think that. Maybe I'm the only one.
I might be missing something, but could you explain why?
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I think nowadays the comparison is vs gradual typing.
Current location and some before and after pictures - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:73...
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There is a risk. Google and Facebook won’t pull out of Europe. But to the degree there’s too much divergence of laws and regulations affecting smaller sites I could definitely see fragmentation happening.
There's a particularly good example of this risk in the article:

/* Unlink the client: this will close the socket, remove the I/O
* handlers, and remove references of the client from different
* places where active clients may be referenced. */
unlinkClient(c);

I wouldn't trust a comment as technically detailed as this one to stay in sync with code changes to unlinkClient.
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It is a bit funny: you attempt to show the irrelevance of philosophy, and immediately stumble on a deeply philosophical question: "What is the measure of philosophic truth?" Actually, the question is "what is the measure of truth?", because philosophy has no special rules about truth.

Then you repeat the Sophist's answer, a philosophical school. Unfortunately for you, philosophy has much much more to say about truth than what the Sophists said. For example, they invented logic, and explained how to identify fallacies. So "just about rhetoric" has been shown to be wrong. This invalidates your argument 1.

Your question in 2 is again deeply philosophical: when is any knowledge "good enough"? Go on and treat this question seriously, then you will find out that some philosophers did the same already, and that you might learn something from them.
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Please tell me how our system was so much more moral than theirs.

There's this FTFA

For ordinary workers, quitting one’s job, missing a day’s work or being over 20 minutes late became criminal offenses, with mandatory prison sentences.

and then there are tens of millions of people murdered, starved, and sent to gulags by the communists.

Communism has an absolute lock on the title of the greatest moral failure in human history.
I'm pretty sure Wikipedia is a tertiary source, actually. Their guidelines recommend preferring secondary sources, and place significant restrictions on the use of primary sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research...
And again, they try to be cheaper by manufacturing in China. When do we realize that this is a trap we created for ourselves...?
Regarding the actions of the Trump Administration and trinkets-CIFUS [Committee on Foreign Invesment in the United States] and FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act] enforcement are increasingly rather dramatically. I think these improvements are in SPITE of the actions of Donald Trump and his top lieutenants-but they are happening nonetheless. in fact they are probably happening in response to the very actions of Trump/Trump surrogates with Russia!

https://www.lawfareblog.com/foreign-investment-risk-review-m...
No, I remember an absolute load of ways it didn't just work, or worse, worked in silently incorrect or insecure ways. I think you get my point so I'll leave out the laundry list of things I remember being broken throughout the history of the world wide web. A TLS error here and there is not so bad :)
- (1) More resources don't always make things go faster.

- (2) Compromising does not always compromise quality of work. You can always cut scope as you mention in (4) and ship less features at a higher level of quality. Although what I was getting at was more that we have a tendency when given time to go about refactoring and rearchitecting things that don't necessarily need to be done, or introducing unnecessary / premature abstractions and optimizations. Deadlines tend to curb instinct to do that.

- (3) You can miss deadlines, but that's not a clean win either. It hurts morale, allows for feature-creep (oh you're not shipping next week, well boy do I have some extra things you could do with your newfound time) and hurts relationships with teams depending on what you're setting out to deliver all across the company.

- (4) Adjusting scope can make sense, so long as you're very good at figuring out what doesn't need to go out. Not every team is.

tl;dr: Shipping the right 70% of the feature set at 100% quality without premature / unnecessary optimizations and abstractions can be pushed along by aggressive timelines. This must always be balanced with sustainability.
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