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It is illusionary high end.

Go take a tour of some of these and look at everything with a critical eye. You’ll notice that workmanship is usually very poor, fixtures are of cheap Chinese quality, faux materials everywhere.

I think the industry just learned how to make high-end-looking very well.

In reality many of these luxury buildings have quality problems to come years after delivery. And good luck getting the builder to fix it. They conveniently “go out of business” or just drag on forever with promises and even court battles.
For uncommon events like aircraft hull losses, I very much prefer the larger sample size of a few years, even if it does put the data slightly out of date. Though note - the IATA there notes that 2017 indicates a recent (last-few-years) trend of increased safety in sub-Saharan Africa.

GP poster was quite clear that the two pieces of data were from different sources, and the five-year data shows clear trends (though with
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Indeed, the main reason I clicked on this was genuine curiousity as to why Americans hate PCs!? What kind of underground PC culture exists to hate? Suffice to say I was a disappointed.
Color doesn't even have unambiguous definitions. The XKCD color survey was a fun inquiry into this: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
>I am a minority. No it isn't.

LOL. Were you elected to speak for all minorities?
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I expected them to have stolen physical stuff, like a GSM sniffer or stuff like that. This is more like Wannabee Gangstas Gained Illicit Access to Database that Tracks Almost Every American.
If any of your other apps are connected to fb then all your info was likely granted to fb as well .
Thanks. I've already emailed most of these, but will try the others.
You would prefer to stay near an airport, rather than far away over the sea.
Exactly. Even-though my livelihood right now comes from Python, I was trained in Java in my university(along with C). I did some coding(web scrapping) in Python but that was it. I still can and willing to write in Java.
No more than the OP was elected to speak for the majority...
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18206442 and marked it off-topic.
No.

1. You would not want to ascend to flight level 360 (particularly with a damaged plane).

2. You would not want to leave the vicinity of an airport (particularly with a damaged plane).
I don’t think your links show that.

That first link tells you little without knowing the denominator for each country. How many flights did they have over that period of time?

And it covers more than 70 years, which is way too long to tell us whether a country or region has a bad safety record today...maybe America had 99% of its crashes in 1945, whereas the other countries on the list had all of theirs last year.
> One obvious question is what people mean by “political correctness.” In the extended interviews and focus groups, participants made clear that they were concerned about their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them

The problem is that everyone is hyper sensitive to specific things, even where they claim to oppose political correctness. For instance, most "devoted conservatives" dislike political correctness, but made a big issue out of Obama's passing remarks about "you didn't build that" and "cling to guns and religion". They took great exception to Clinton's comments about "basket of deplorables", but didn't have a problem with Trump's "rapists and drug dealers".

Ie, when the other side says something that offends you, it deserves to be made into a big issue. When the other side is offended by something you say, political correctness has gone too far.
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The James Damore memo is quite a complex subject. The story is nuanced and at no point Damore was sexist. He goes the extra mile to say that women can be as good engineer as any man and propose a different mode to interest women in engineering jobs.

I do not know if you have read the memo, but it only objective is to find a way to hire more women in an effective way.

Personally I liked the proposition in the memo because it would allow for men and women to equally share child-duties.

That said I do not criticize google's decision to fire him as the overwhelmingly negative exposure the memo had was quite a damage to the company...
This civil war of opinion, can get the click rate up, if your article gets dragged into a flamewar or two.

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I don't know what this is being downvoted for. I'm not a minority, but it's also obvious that a lot of PC stuff is virtue-signalling, combined with a implicit reproach towards minorities for being sensitive. I mean, realistically, nobody gives a damn if you use the wrong word for a disability. Disabled people care that they're not accounted for in political decision-making that whole areas of wealthy countries are basically impossible to live in, whole careers that would be perfectly viable are closed, and so on. I'm not black, but I'm pretty sure nobody black is angry about people using the wrong words. I'm pretty sure they're angry about the fact that police basically have carte-blanche to imprison and murder their children over bullshit.

PS: I am actually mildly disabled. But then, that's the thing, isn't it? Everybody is going to be a minority at some point in their life, if you're old, if you have kids, if you have an injury - then you get the hard side of a society that caters for white able-bodied men.
I don't know about you but I hear plenty of clunks and wirring on planes during take off and landing, sometimes uncomfortably loud and even though I know a bit about planes, I don't know if it's normal or not. (I'm alive so I assume it is normal!)

One takeoff I was on, the plane was vibrating like crazy, like I've never heard before but after a few minutes, it stopped and nothing happened!
I found charitable interpretation a good indicator of whether someone is virtue/tribal signaling or interested in intellectual exchange, finding truth and acting moral.
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> Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.”

From experience that's more or less correct. I'm on the left and the majority of my friends are also on the left and we make fun of PC.

Why are so many people easily offended by language? I remember when Larry David did a funny bit about holocaust and people gone mad, "you can't joke about the holocaust". I think this is the PC that most people hate.
Does anyone else see articles like this and think about how much money in retirement they're foregoing? By not maxing out 401k & IRA deposits each year in your 20s you're missing out on significant gains from compound interest later in life. A sabbatical like this makes sense to me when you're comfortable with the trajectory of your retirement. The other situation is where significant mental health issues that can't be sorted out by adjusting schedule & lifestyle around work are going to negatively impact your career anyways. It could be worth it to take the loss on retirement account deposits to sort things out.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18207375.
just a bit of a factual remark: he was asked to do so.

diversity and inclusion committee at google ask employees for feedback, the memo was a feedback saying "current policies do not work as expected, maybe offering more part time and family friendly jobs would allow both men and women that do want to spend time with their family to like working at google".
I just build a service/website last weekend using App Engine and Firebase. After reading these comments and this blog post, I think I might migrate it over to AWS. I didn't realize that
Firebase was so unreliable.
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virtue-signalling, combined with a implicit reproach towards minorities for being sensitive

Indeed. Here's a concrete example of PC culture banning a word and shaming people who actually have the condition https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/press/facts/brainstorming-offens...

93 per cent of people with epilepsy did not find the term derogatory or offensive in any way and many felt that this sort of political correctness singled out people with epilepsy as being easily offended.
In comparison I was way more impressed by the oculus and vive than I expected to be. Vr gets a bit boring after a while but I’ve never seen anyone try it who didn’t have an expression of joy on their face.
I know you are joking, but transmit information through dimensions using gravity is one interesting conjecture why gravitational force is so much weaker than the other forces. It leaks through dimensions. And maybe this type of communication will be necessary when we have to leave this dimension to hyperspace because of the entropy [1].

[1] http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Alright, let's switch to that, since most of the thread below is just semantics about the term 'political correctness'. All: I'm sure we can do better than that, so please try.

(The submitted URL was https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...)
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This is the IATA data for hull loss rates for 2017 per million departures from your link:

Asia Pacific - 0.18

CIS - 0.92

Europe - 0.13

Latin America and the Caribbean - 0.41

Middle East and North Africa - ​​0.00

North America - 0.00

And it ends there. No mention of any problems or concern for 'safety limits' for any region. Infact the IATA data is overall happy with the rates across regions. If you can find anything on that page that points out a problem for a specific region please link to it.
Adobe reader has a built in advanced search function that will search every pdf in a folder. Not that this would replace the system that this author is writing about, but it works well for those times when you have to search through dozens of documents that tally to thousands of pages.
Nathan for you is absolutely hilarious and brilliant. He has quite a few incomplete episodes on youtube if anyone wants to check it out. For example: https://youtu.be/xMW-SzZKJ-Q
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Security problems often exist for years at a time.

Rather than making all of those applications vulnerable at the same time, they slowly become vulnerable as the release binaries are linked against bugged code. If it's not linked at runtime, or recompiled, it'll be vulnerable forever.
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Doing otherwise leads to tedious flamewars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It does and it doesn't. Framing can be extremely effective in politics: "collateral damage", "entitlements" etc. There can also be reclaiming efforts on specific words e.g. "queer". But in the other direction the euphemism treadmill can turn terms intended to be neutral into slurs - "retarded" is possibly the most conspicuous example.
So, AIUI the US got this crazy situation through the following chain of circumstances:

1. The US has long had very geographic numbering. Most cities have a single area code for everything in that city, in bigger metropolitan areas it may be a few codes instead.

2. Americans took longer than almost everybody else to get used to giving their "full" number, after all everybody you know in Springfield is in the same area code so why not skip that part when reading numbers?

3. But most of the code space is sparsely consumed this way. Most area codes have free space, but there are few whole area codes, let alone groups of codes, free.

4. So, in most countries cellular telephones were assigned separate area codes, but in the US they'd just be assigned numbers in a local area code where they were purchased.

5. But, in other countries the different area code provided a clear signal to consumers when cellular calls were expensive. This is the same pattern as knowing the 1-800 prefix is free to call. Re-using geographic area codes meant Americans didn't have this signal...

6. It wouldn't be right to charge extra with no way to know in advance, and cellular phones were for rich folk anyway, so why not charge the phone's user for the extra cost?
It's a placeholder in the final binary that gets replaced by the target application executable file name so Warp knows what to run.

This is a known and established technique. I don't have the link right now (mobile) but .NET Core does something similar for their native deployment, for example.
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Any recommendations for hardware, software and good service provider for home VoIP?

I've used an Obihai OBI110 in the past and it was super reliable, the only maintenance was an ~ once yearly power-cycle. Had it setup with Google Voice (was free* for US calls) and Anveo for e911 (~$10/Year). Porting the existing landline # to Google Voice required porting to mobile first, as GV would only accept ports from mobile #'s. Ordering a Ting SIM card [SIM and port were free, line was $6/mo, only needed one month] and then to Google Voice [$20 fee] accomplished this for $26 total. With recent updates to Google Voice service combined with the OBI110 being past EOL, I need a new setup. It would be nice to ditch GV for a paid provider.

*Google records your calls, monetizes the data with ad targeting, selling your voice profile, future blackmail, etc.
There were a few interesting ideas by others in the original comment thread. Mostly on how to compress the sdp so you can get away with just one large QR code without flashing (for example by presharing a dictionary or stripping the sdp down to the bare minimum: https://webrtchacks.com/the-minimum-viable-sdp/).

I lost interest in this approach because it was way more practical to give up on serverless in exchange for only scanning in one direction instead of both ways (e.g., scan a QR code once on mobile to both open the webpage and join a websocket channel, then use it to upgrade to a webrtc connection). It's a neat trick for use cases like AR.js where this is natural to do: https://github.com/jeromeetienne/AR.js
>How can people forget to say what their project is at all?

Exactly, we barely have time to read what's new, let alone spending time digging into what this "new" thing is suppose to be.
> We believe that our GPU LSM is the first dynamic general-purpose dictionary data structure for the GPU.

And now we wait and see if this is true, or if we'll see Cunningham's Law in action[0]. Either way we'll learn something.

Anyway, a general-purpose dictionary data structure for the GPU sounds like it should unlock a whole lot of new possible use-cases, no? Are there any scenarios where this would be immediately beneficial?

[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham's_Law
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"retarded" is possibly the most conspicuous example.

The earliest example of this I can remember is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Deacon#Blue_Peter_and_cul... (showing my age abit there!)
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Yeah, I think no idea is a negative signal. Too many ideas seems more indicative of a good founder. And YC does still follow the invest in teams, ideas may change motto, I think.
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What's the story with patent/license on fractal tree by tokutek (now percona)? Can you use it for personal use only? Ie. you can't use it at work without a license? What about Bε-trees - are there patent free implementations?
It's from the "Daily Comment" section. Basically, an op-ed. A commentary on the situation. It's exactly what someone would expect it to be, and I would say it's an interesting opinion.
My biggest problem with bootstrapping while still holding a full time job, not to mention a baby, is spreading myself thin on too many ideas, eventually not grinding enough at any of them.
Are there any technical reason why this can't be done? Surely it is a business issue? ( Not enough Long Route with passengers that justify developing a special plane for this purpose )
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Java is somewhat like chrome in that it pre-emptively gets some RAM, because it's managing memory allocation to programs itself. (and because the speed increase of not doing system-calls offsets some of the performance hits from running a JIT)

Is that 512 the lowest you can get it with command line options?
The term "politically correct" started its life in the 60's and 70's when leftist groups used it IRONICALLY to criticize other leftists who were excessively dogmatic.

Somehow in the early 90's the term got lifted by the hard right to describe _anyone_ who they believe promoted progressive ideas. I remember when Rush Limbaugh was in his peak, he used the term "PC" constantly. Since that time it has come to be used exactly as you describe by the hard right and increasingly, the mainstream, which happens to also be shifting to the hard right.

Whatever the history, "politically correct" has always been an insult. While there certainly are people who think they're 100% correct in politics, no reasonable person wants to labeled by others as "PC".

Unfortunately, there's been some developments which make me wonder whether some are actually embracing the term without irony. That's disturbing and it is a sign that really, really bad stuff may be coming.
We have a room filled with one foot of iron, one foot of sand, one foot of water, one foot of air, and some empty space filled with god knows what needs to be filled in order to balance the gravity equations. There is one group of people looking for particles less dense than air to fill the rest of the room. I am in the group that's looking at the other end for particles denser than iron, and I firmly believe they are contained in black stars (wrongly named black holes).
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So basically I shouldn't judge or comment on something because I can't do that thing? I mean I can't appreciate/criticize art/poetry because I can't paint or write poetry?
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>Freedom from the undesired action of men.

How does a free market protect you from this?
> A lot of pilots don't use ILS and use a visual approach.

I feel like if you are so visually impaired, you can't see an object you are facing, you really should't land visually.
I love this idea but I can't see a mass market for it.

Many people use youtube for this. My experience is, it works well for almost any kind of repair or trade work you can think of.

You could "remote in" an expert, but now we're talking $10-$100 an hour as opposed to free. If you're doing the work yourself I think it's safe to assume you're not valuing your own time outside work at a high dollar value.
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If the original poster wanted to directly link to the underlying study, the OP would have.
That original link was to a prominent media platform.
Or I was going to sleep and didn’t want to stay up to write a report on my phone. Use your data but consider my anecdotal comment above. The aviation world is more opaque than one might think, and the governing bodies in certain areas are extremely protective of what is a great source of pride for their countries. I’ve worked with many people from these regions, talked with many people who work with people from these regions, and know many people who have worked in these regions, in addition to the exposure that comes from simply being in this industry. The system is designed to protect you and does its job, even when certain operators aren’t up to par, including the pilots.
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If they are going to charge fees, i wonder if this can be used for deliverying packets (keep it the unused space you bought).

Imagine if we can hand over the packet to a passenger for ultra faster delivery at the other end
Not true tcpa rules are rather strict - see https://www.sms-magic.com/blog/tcpa-guidelines-bulk-texting-...

$500 per message fine. I think the issue is enforcement
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Improper title.

1. This is specifically about non-SCLC.

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We had the same exact problem with Firebase Realtime Database. Our product uses it heavily and is dependent on its latency so we notice anytime an issue appear.

The unacceptable thing is : not only outages are fairly common, many smaller, briefer outages and disruptions are not even reported. For example the day after the 2 hour outage mentioned in the article, there was an issue where while writing to the database seemingly successful, but the clients listening to the changes would NOT receive the notification that the data their are observing was updated, for more than 30 minutes. It wasn't reported in Firebase's status dashboard.

Google bought Firebase back then, and to replace Firebase Realtime Database, Google developed Firebase Firestore (now in beta). I suspect that Firebase Realtime Database isn't receiving much attention these days and that the service will be closed after some time.
Pretty sure the light is integrated over a frame anyway, so that will get you the same results as just shooting at the lower framerate.
You have good points. But as a person who felt like heaven when switched from Go back to Node.j to write a migration tool for migrating data from two different data sources which was frustrating in Go, I don't know what to say.. Node.js is good, it's very fast and with Typescript, it reduces a lot of unwanted bugs as well. May be it's me, but Javascript flows for me, but not other languages. I have reasonable knowledge in Java, very minimal experience in Go, PHP and Python. For me Node.js is the sweet spot. It's almost as fast as Go (way faster than Python and Ruby) and almost as productive as Python plus you don't need the context switch when you move from Frontend to Backend.. It's natively async which other languages are playing catchup. It's single thread model, though can feel limited, is god send and simple to reason especially when you get to debug thread introduced bugs in a million line Java stack which only occur in production. IMO with some multi process hack it's almost as capable as Java or Go.

Regarding MongoDB, it also serves a similar purpose (faster development). There are tradeoffs and if you are experienced in SQL you may feel irritated when reading it's shortcomings, it's understandable.
Maybe they already sold enough to be comfortable for decades and are just trying to make the space welcoming and fun, because if they were into Bitcoin early on they probably love the idea of it and don't just want to make money, they want people to use it.
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