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Dan Carlin is not a historian, he is an entertainer. His podcasts are entertaining fiction, not history.

> The Mongols barely left any written trace but wiped out entires cities and regions [2].

They left tons of written traces - in muscovy russia, in yuan china, in mughal persia, etc. You can't maintain such a large empire consisting of many civilizations without records. Most of it disappeared over the years as the empire broke apart and different empires formed.

Much of the history of the mongol empire is twisted propaganda, like all history. But it's especially so for the mongol empire due to shifting change of nationalistic, ethnic and racial landscape.

Here in the west, the mongol empire is caricatured and hated for racial reasons. In other parts of the world, the mongol empire is admired. In most of the world, it's a bit of both.

Also, most old empires, including the chinese, romans, greeks, indians, mesopotamians, egyptians, etc left very few records relatively speaking.
I assume the "US is comparable to China" assertion rubbed a few people the wrong way. This link collection shows the gravity of the situation in the US, and that US is drifting towards totalitarianism, without having reached that stage by a long shot. The surveillance scope is quantitatively different in the two countries, given the expressed totalitarian nature of the Chinese regime.
Or Europeans went to Africa, Asia, and the Americas and extracted as much of the natural resources as possible at the expense of the indigenous populations and without a thought to the future sustainability of the lands. Some examples that spring to mind:

* Spanish silver mining in the Americas. 150,000 tonnes of silver were extracted between 1500-1800 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_silver_trade_from_the_1...). It isn't hard to understand who benefited from that silver, Spain or the South American colonies.

* African slave trade which exported 10-15 million people from Africa. In 1850, Africa had about 50 million people when it should have had closer to 100 million, when accounting for lack of reproduction, if it weren't for the slave trade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Africa#Atl...)

> Europeans came into Africa and Asia and stole all the factories, leaving Africans and Asians to revert back to agricultural societies?

How about actively passing laws to make sure that the colonies could not survive without the mother country by restricting trade. Maybe start reading about these colonial times a bit more. What you find may surprise you
That's a HN CSS problem, not a problem of code formatting.

They should fix it.

Meanwhile, on mobile one can use one of the 10s of HN client apps.
How cool that you've already written a whole blog post dealing thoroughly with that problem. :D
That’s actually a great question — does Medium truly gives you that many readers that it makes sense to live in the closed ecosystem? I have its app installed and subscribed to a bunch of people but I still only go there via the links on the web and I feel like a lot of people do just like me.
Why is he writing the post on medium instead of a platform that doesn't have the issues mentioned?
If you have a dyson sphere, it glows very brightly in lower wavelengths, such as IR. We don't see that in voids. Additionally, looking back into cosmic history, we can see the formation of voids in the very early universe and their expected expansion.
Yes (but it's not tabs)
Are you ok? what type of comparison is this? how does US allowed Muslims to practice their religion in peace without problem?
Many universities and other institutions like hospitals are steam heated because they have the steam anyway from their own combined-cycle power plants. I guess this is a legacy of universities having power before widespread electrification? In any case it’s very efficient. Steam can provide not just heating but also cooling and refrigeration. If you already have the technical staff to run your own power station then maintaining steam distribution should cause you any additional headaches.
Yes, everyone's aware. It's mentioned every time it's used. No one cares. Making a frictionless mobile site lowers the barrier to entry.
Yup, a number of possible solutions. Dark Forest doesn't lead to the likelyhood of us seeing UFOs in Ireland tho.
The parent was not being rational, and noted that they were doing the same thing as other people. They later changed their behavior due to exposure to outside information. It seems explicit to me that the parent admits to being wrong here.
Medium may not be providing Rss, but I'm a big fan of their curated content. Plus it gives your posts more publicity.
Ok, well perhaps that's a problem right there.
It would be like Medium was when it first started. Such a platform will come along soon if it hasn't already, everyone will jump to it, and then they'll monetize it, and then another will come along...
The iPhone 6 (and plus) had Touch Disease, battery issues, and bending issues. It was just not a great phone and cost me 2 $150 repairs and 1 $79 repair at the Apple store accounting for 3 of the 4 phones I bought. I am rather clear on my memories and doing searches for others on this phone.
I'm guessing the "evolved to make ... their servants" implies a human-like agency.
> Here is a fun mental exercise for the reader. Imagine that you run Alphabet and want to destroy an arbitrary medium-size business that threatens you in any way. How hard would it be, considering you control pretty much all the search queries on the web and tons of other things?

Probably very easy, but consistently using this strategy would ruin my own business, in effect helping my competition.
Now imagine you're Facebook, how easy it was to rule the social media world, and because of series of equally stupid hard-balls you've mentioned, you're 5 years away from being MySpace.
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Airbus planes have four modes: Normal Law, Alternate Law, Abnormal Alternate Law and Direct Law. In Normal Law the computer will basically override anything that would put the plane out of its flight envelope. In Direct Law there are no protections provided (but there are still warnings). (Abnormal) Alternate Law are in between, with some protections active. There's even a mechanical backup in case of complete electric power loss... I don't know if it's available on all models though.

So no: in Airbus planes the pilot can and do absolutely control everything. If needed the pilot can always go into Direct Law. When sensors fail (like the pitot tubes in AF447) Airbus planes step down to Alternate Law. “If the software fails, pilots can take control, unlike in Airbus planes” has never been true.

There is however a difference in that Boeing pilots are supposed to always have the last word without needing to deactivate protections or anything. The plane would for instance apply physical resistance on the yoke to alert the pilot that something is wrong, but pulling/pushing hard enough is enough to override the protection. Well, that was my understanding until this accident (investigation pending, of course).
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Yeah I'd say the main thing medium offers is easier exposure.

You could always post on medium and on your own blog though, and post your own blog here, for example.
> Questions like, “How is my app different than all the other Hacker News apps out there?” were ignored.

I understand the frustration that leads to this
question, but it is wholly irrelevant and only loses you a bit of the reviewer's attention span.
You're kind of missing the point of the book: "Polygraphy is not science." It's an interrogation technique.
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Dan Luu's blog is almost there, but personally I'd prefer if there was just a tiny bit of CSS that capped the width of the text. With full width paragraphs, it's not the most pleasant to read.
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/query?status=assigned&status=... suggests this isn't done - is that incorrect?
> The effect has been studied as it applies to illegal drugs and it has been shown that the potency of marijuana increased in response to higher enforcement budgets...

If the price of all marijuana goes up, then I bet overall usage of it goes down even if the individual potency goes up.
It seems to me by saying "Attach documentary evidence in the App Review Information section in App Store Connect granting you permission to use these sources" they are just asking for a paper trail of your rights to use that information.

Why can't you include the agreement for the API as documentation of this? Seems really straight forward. They are trying to protect themselves, not get into a philosophical battle over software and media copyrights.
You should see sequential write speed. Its probably writing a log + checkpointing.
Sometimes there are conspiracies. But they are rare compared to simple incompetence. My objection to most conspiracy theories is that they skip over the null hypothesis, namely that one or more fallible humans screwed up.
Reader mode is definitely a very important part of the modern web experience. A rather sad truth.

I recently also found a Firefox extension [1] I'd been looking for a some time: a way to automatically enter reader mode on some URLs, such as medium.com. This makes browsing Medium much nicer.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/automatic-rea...
Man, I remember finding markdeep a while ago and I've been looking for it. Thanks for the link
Apple has problems but "cutting corners" is not one of them.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-knew-about-the-iphone-6-...

Cutting a bit of cost by not using underfill is the definition of cutting corners.
Move towards the closer piano that is solid and has the correct key size.

Set up the seat height at the correct position

For your family's mental wellbeing, assure that you can plug good headphones in your piano.

Start repeating the same sequence of notes one hour each day and counting fingers. Try it until it sticks and you develop a muscular memory, then go to the next scale.

Is much easier than a guitar in any case.
I don't think anyone should be locked into a specific blogging platform and should own their content 100%.

WordPress has been my blogging platform of choice for years but, I've tried many different platforms and ultimately ended up returning back to a platform (ORG) in which I could have total control over.

I've also built a tool (https://scribewp.com/) which allows me to now write my blog posts in any text editor I prefer and later I can sync a markdown file to a posts or page in WordPress. This has improved my productivity and I own my content 100%. While medium is a great platform, there is too much noise going on when reading a blog post.
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A consulting company I worked for fired a sales guy who basically built it with the two co-owners. He basically found all the clients to place developers with and found / interviewed a bunch of devs. Then the company grew and they hired a fancy Ivy League / Wallstreet experience guy in his place.

They gave the original guy zero warning. Kind of messed up.
> I agree with that, but my follow-up has always been, why can't these devices continue to help patients, but in a secure way? The manufacturers really don't want to spend the money to try and have some form of a security posture?

I speculate the truth is benign; security isn't a top feature for many development shops.
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Indeed.

It's actually kind of funny that here in London, we want to encourage people to take the train, but we simultaneously scream at them that they're too fat, poor, and bald.
Are eyebrows okay to pluck? I don't ever see myself plucking my eye lashes, but the brows are more common.
The problem as usual is with the users not the system. If anyone in your building turns the valve on their radiator off (because their space is overheated) then the water will condense and when they open it again the entire system will hammer, forever, until the building engineer drains it. As for the air vents it seems that building supervisors just can’t resist painting them, which renders them inoperable. They should know better.

So in summary steam is wonderful as long as humans don’t get involved.
No it won't
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Literally the first sentence on this page describe the censored content as "sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content."

Your argument that this is the same as the desire for blocking legitimate hate speech in the US is simply political inflammation. It's not at all the same. Please stop.
> As for their alternatives, kicking the user out to Safari would significantly reduce the usability of the app.

Not at all.

When you open a website in Safari from an app, the user gets a first class website-browser experience without your chrome, and a "< Back to your app" button in the menuline.
And Nutella. Apparently palm oil is an irreplaceable component of its recipe.
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> many anti-vaccination misinformation peddlers are squarely aligned with what constitutes the "left"

“Squarely aligned”? Nope, anti-vaxxers are not “squarely aligned” with any broad political movement.

Responsible politicians, party officials, pundits, etc. of all parties and ideologies are pro-vaccination.

But e.g. the Governor-Elect of Oklahoma is a GOP anti-vaxxer. It is incredibly dangerous when these views start to get legitimized: children will die.
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I hope those diaries do get translated. I know of some efforts to do this for Partition stories, including oral histories (starting in the 80s).

Don't forget also that vast numbers of european men were also simply conscripted, as unwilling cannon fodder.
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Fortunately this is not true. Actually destroying retaliatory capability requires a sustained barrage of hundreds of nuclear weapons, the first rocket will definitely not do it. And while a single rocket will trigger a return strike with a nuclear weapon it will not trigger an all-out response.

If you ever get the chance to read old declassified nuclear attack plans against a city, you will see the same. A single nuclear weapon ... just doesn't do it. Those plans involve starting out with something like 10 nuclear explosions (not even directly against the city itself, rather on supporting infrastructure), and then one more every hour or so for 48 hours or even weeks (these plans are/were made for most large cities, and even for US cities where the likely plans for Russian nuclear attacks are created by US to allow for better preparations).

In some ways what you see in the first episode of Battlestar Galactica is somewhat accurate. First, dozens of nuclear explosions make an effective response impossible (e.g. military installations, runways, important bridges, train lines, communication, ...), then a methodical "sweep" with nuclear explosions of the entire city. This cannot be done with one, or even 10, nuclear bombs.

And even pretty bad radar systems can tell the difference between one and tens/hundreds of rockets.

So whilst this is a concern, it can and is eliminated with proper infrastructure and planning.

There will not be information asymmetry once a nuclear attack actually starts happening.
Or perhaps less conspiratorially, complaining about votes is against the guidelines here and pretty much guarantees an automatic downvote from a lot of people. As in this case, it never achieves anything other than derailing the conversation.
That does nothing to rule out contamination from a different tissue.
> It's a basic fact which he seems to claim doesn't happen

This is a lie.
That would be the same from a legal standpoint. You app would just get shittier UX, nothing else.
The problem is not only how much how a blogging platform owns your blog, but also that it owns the viewer's eyeballs. From the moment the viewer reads your blog, the platform has power over the viewer.
If there were buildings, roads, etc that were built, many of them were destroyed.
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Or even just SFSafariViewController set to automatically enter reader mode. Then you're not downloading/displaying content from other sites, but you're still keeping users within your app.
I can't believe that the AoA disagree warning is a PAID option. And I've worked in aerospace.
I didn't realize they had a name for it... it seems so obvious.
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When I was a kid growing up, programming a computer was like riding a bike or writing with a pencil: the computer was a tool shaped specifically for that purpose. Because as soon as you turned the thing on, the first thing it did was to prompt the user and await the entry of a program. Using other people's software by loading it from tape or disk was a kind of shortcut. You still had to instruct the computer to load the program with a command!

A stark contrast to today, where we are presented a menu of "apps" but no obvious way to program the device (and in the case of some common devices, no way at all). People think that kids these days "know tech" because they spend a lot of time in front of "screens" but imho that's not the case... we may have gone a step backwards in terms of tech savviness since the Commodore generation.
Our data doesn't support that.

Most of our traffic comes from hackernews, reddit and similar. However because our blog is too niche?

https://medium.com/@buckaroo.pm
You've never tried Hershey's then.
Let the user select

- How many articles per page
- Only article with N upvotes
- Don't display articles already read
- etc
I think so. The ultimate question is who are you going to sue and who is going to sue you if something goes wrong? Imagine having to put your ML researcher on the stand and having him say "I can't say for sure that this or that didn't affect the outcome in a meaningful way"
Can't wait for PWAs to truly take off, so we can all build for an open platform again, without having to deal withh this nonsense.
I have pointed them to the API documentation that I use, however they were uninterested in that. I also tried contacting the maintainers of the API, they didn't have anything for me.
Depends... if quality goes up, sometimes that grows the demand for a product. Kraft Parmesan convinced me I didn't like Parmesan for the longest time...
I am curious if that kind of arbitrary myopic judgement will hurt Apple in the long term, as influential developers end up using Android because it supports more options.
> using code formatting for non-code is extremely annoying

Even for code it is annoying because of the wide margins. The margins take up about 50% of the width of the screen (!)
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Ha. I was about to write an identical blog post. Must be zeitgeist.
I think that what the people who indicate this really mean is that they refuse to change their minds as long as a decent portion of the population also refuses to change their viewpoint as well. Because then it is still validated to a certain degree. Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, had a great blog post about this topic. His post was on the issue of global warming and he said basically that his position on global warming is that since he doesn't know enough about the science to say with any level of certainty himself whether the claims of global warming are true and there is a social/political cost in terms of credibility/image for saying you don't believe it, then he will always say he is a believer and agrees with the mainstream opinion, regardless of what he actually thinks or if he simply doesn't know where he stands. If 99% of the world came to agree on the topic of global warming, I doubt most of these people who claim they will never change their mind would still hold the same belief. For example, are there still flat-Earthers? Yes, but they are a rounding error to 0 at this point.
"But others do it too" is always a weak defence.
"Cope" here is "how we are not dying from them". Either our bodies have adapted to some nanoparticles (mineral, but not plastic yet), or we're far enough away that the natural particles get absorbed by e.g. ocean waters or soil and don't readily get into our lungs.

Another case, which I totally overlooked, is pollen and dust, which do result in serious negative reactions in humans, quite regularly. This may be not outright deadly but debilitating nevertheless.
> Don't be surprised if someone has this "idea" soon and makes a killing with it.

Let's change the world.
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As per a previous comment, the contents of the pages linked have as much to do with Atlassian as the contents of a page on github.io have to do with Github.

This is a stanford.edu project wiki page, hosted by Atlassian. Nothing more.

By the same logic, any performance improvement that Github might see from random projects hosted on Github, should be "dogfooded" in the same way.

It's not dogfooding when it's someone else's work.
Here's what I get opening the post with a landscape iphone: https://imgur.com/a/ywJtaCn (that's after I dismissed the cookie warning popover)

Neither bar disappears when I scroll down. You can test this with Chrome dev tools and see the same thing.
Itamar Turner-Trauring latest Software Clown newsletter¹ (#105) was about this. The author wrote about a similar story where a company he worked at changed as it grew and layoffs were made.

He concluded with some really good points:

| I came away from the experience unable to commit myself to a company. In part this was an ethical stance: who controls the company can change, and change quickly. So loyalty to a company meant committing to follow people who shouldn't be followed, not because authority is inherently bad, but because in most companies authority cannot be rescinded by the workers in its power.

| But it was also an emotional reaction: I'd put a lot of myself into my job, only to see my work—and my friends' work—destroyed in an incompetent power grab. I didn't want to go through that again.

| The thing about loyalty, though, is that it's motivating: you give your loyalty because you want something or someone to succeed. So if you're past the point of pure survival, where do you find motivation if not in loyalty?

| Eventually I came round to solidarity, a thornier path than loyalty. Loyalty is simple, because it starts with an answer: your country, your cause, your company, your friends—above all. Solidarity is complex, because it starts with a question: beyond yourself, beyond your friends, beyond your cause, beyond your country, what ought you do to help everyone?

¹ https://codewithoutrules.com/softwareclown/
According to many, WWI was in many ways about the colonial powers fighting about access to the colonization game. Germany had little to no colonial reach abroad, and wanted in. That's what drove some of the desperation -- the economic stakes were very high.

I mean, this analysis of WWI was what was taught to me in grade school. (It's also similar to the analysis of WWI that Lenin gave in "Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism")
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