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This is only one half of the story, there is also the export drive going on to force LNG and other hydrocarbon products that 'fracking' is delivering on the rest of the world. Lame NATO friends of America such as Poland have to buy expensive LNG from Uncle Sam instead of their Russian neighbours.

The same thing happens with that current hotspot of Ukraine where these policies have led to a very cold winter for the people that live there. They are being 'forced' to by that coal that Trump has insisted on getting dug up from the ground, a fuel nobody wants any more (even though coal fires are so nice to have).

Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, the move to them is unstoppable due to this price advantage. Much progress is unseen, in a world where people are so fixated on being negative and nit-picking those building out the carbon neutral future are quietly getting on with it. They don't need the State Department and the Pentagon to bully others into buying windfarms. They also don't need naysayers that claim windfarms are too difficult to maintain or other hysterical nonsense about 'China and rare earth metals', 'lithium and polluting wars', 'the power is never there when it is needed' and all of that tripe. Funny how some people can't collaborate and have to have hissy fits just so they can stay stuck in the dirty fuel past. Trump is not the problem here, pettiness from weak minded people who believe what they read in newspapers is the bigger downer.
I think they generally are safer - Apple has a better security posture and tighter control over both the hardware and OS. Though not perfect clearly.
Probably: https://developers.google.com/identity/one-tap/web/

Edit: added "probably" because I didn't actually test it.
Lime has been in Brisbane for a month now, and they are a menace to pedestrians. Whats more, it does not look like it is alleviating the traffic problems whatsoever.

I saw one pulled out of the Brisbane River the other day too.
Reddit has user pages now. It's a bit rough, but it can pretty much fill tumblr's functionality.
People are comparing them to litter. You can also walk around trash, but you probably don't want trash everywhere. They're an eyesore and take up more space than a piece of trash. It makes the city look more 'dirty'. All they would have to do is have actual designated spaces for them to fix that, like how cars work.
I really want to try this. I think easy car sharing could be huge and it'd be amazing to be rid of the hassle that is car ownership (monthly parking, insurance, maintenance, etc.)
They are fairly commonly left in ways that make it difficult for pedestrians in wheel chairs/walkers/blind.
Does this mean I can use this to boot ISOs off my home server? That would be great for installing Ubuntu, for example. Is there a guide on how to do this somewhere?
American capitalism isn't working
Yup, I actually kind of hate steam and yet the library grows... It's basically an accretion disc at this point.
CCAs have historically been useful for defeating the confidentiality guarantees of cryptography protocols. BB'98, Vaudenay '02, the iMessage attack, etc.

Selling "encryption, but not IND-CCA3" to a lot of (clueful, at least) companies is almost impossible.

If you read the linked article, it discusses a way to hack it in.
Why is this post downvoted? They asked a relevant question which generated discussion.
Eventually the dev got a whiff of it. He was let go abc offered, I’m guessing, a lofty consulting position for a year. This was the exact scenario they were trying to avoid, but at least we pushed it back to as far as we could.

The project eventually went from horrible to interesting once all of the legacy was dealt with.
Right, but isn't that also the case for people in cars? They get head injuries in car crashes that may have been prevented by wearing a helmet.

As for helmet laws, they have unintended consequences, such as fewer people riding bikes. Resulting in more cars/pollution and less exercise, less healthy population.
It doesn't seem terribly good value for money. You can get a Nucleo-32 or Nucleo-64 for $10-15. For $23 you can get a Nucleo-144.
Aside from the much more important core issues in the article, I found this bit interesting:

> Because of those sweepingly invasive capabilities, Israel classifies the spyware as a weapon. The company must obtain approval from the Defense Ministry for its sale to foreign governments.

Does the U.S. use such classification for spyware and similar tools? What are the standards which determine whether or not it's a weapon?
Where or function backport from Rails 5 for Rails 4.2
The "what we eat" is tied into the energy and transportation aspects of it. Even ignoring the methane issues of industrially raised (beef) cattle, American agriculture / supermarket culture is hugely (over?) dependent on a world with dirt cheap energy and transportation. That isn't likely to change in the transition to electric vehicles and greener energy sources to the electric grid, but there is still a risk to existing grocery supply chains if the margins shift due to industrial transportation and energy costs.
> would listen and judge system stability suggestions based on participation in supposedly optional activity unrelated to system stability.

In my experience they are closely related.

> You also openly say that you trust people work based on Friday beer

Sure - there is an incredible depth of research on trust building via outside of work/after work activities.

> That sounds like horrible workplace

Strange considering I work at companies regularly listed in “best companies to work for” surveys.
Embark (YC W16) is hiring a software engineer – build autonomous semi trucks
Yes, I think whether Uber or Lyft (esp. Uber) can pull off such big acquisitions before their IPOs is the big big question on how this market shakes out.
Maybe this is a little over the top in complaining, but it bothers me that they get to take up space in the city without paying rent/property taxes/etc.. like every other business that takes up space has to do.
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Depends entirely on the on-call rotation. I've been on one where you could go the entire week without being paged, and where most of the pages did not require an immediate response. That did not prevent me from living my life. I've been on another where there were several pages every day, at all hours of the day, each of which could take anywhere from 30 minutes to several hours. That one certainly prevented me from living my life.
The bigger wheels give it much better stability. Hitting a hole or rock on a bike and a scooter is a very different experience. lots of the scooter steering setups make it very easy for the front wheel to suddenly turn 90 degrees and send you flying
It's also not directly in the city.
Well, hopefully for free. There isn't usually a charge for using a bike rack.

Instead the scooter companies should charge for not leaving the scooter in a proper parking spot.
It's possible that utilization is lower in smaller cities.
And unlike those old publications, there are digital copies now so they won't die the death they deserve. I say it with sarcism, but there's some amount of seriousness in there...
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I think the phrase "Old Books" here is a bit dated, ironically. A phrase that would be more immediately understood to us might be "original sources."
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Edit: looks like we've had to give you a bunch of warnings already. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd really appreciate it.
> Why do you assume we want either Pascal ("wrapping semantics") or random-"optimizations".

I don't think I assumed that.

I think there are a variety of ways of dealing with the overflow issue, which fall at a variety of points within the multi-dimensional design space that includes considerations like (a) comprehensibility by the average programmer and principle of least surprise (b) performance (c) fast failure (d) portability across hardware.

I don't know if C and C++ made the right decision with leaving this UB, nor am I convinced of the compiler writers method of handling the UB, but they are at least consistent in usually favoring performance and portability above other concerns. That it, is it is not obviously wrong to me or, nor dominated with another obviously better behavior.

> It's actually very easy for the compiler to detect that it is a check to avoid overflow, it's the text of the program.

I guess you are suggesting some type of idiom recognition, which will preserve these checks, but still allow full optimization in other cases where overflow is not expected or the intent of the programmer was different? I don't think that will ever happen. The best you can hope for is that the involved compilers simply decide to define signed overflow as wrapping, i.e., make the -fwrapv behavior the default. Personally I think that's a reasonable choice.
I was verbally abused by my mother all through my childhood, I understand it plenty.

If you make the comparison of horrific verbal abuse to nearly-innocent physical abuse, I could see what you mean. But if you keep the degree of assault identical between physical and verbal assault, physical will always be worse.
yeah, capitalism doesn't work if the government picks winners and losers. A recession is often a good thing, kind of like how natural forest fires clear things out. This time the government intervened and simply kicked the can down the road.
Steams algorithm sucks, it has a bad habit of recommending games I already own.
The tokenization of real estate
“What is the FCC hiding?” Pai still won’t release net neutrality server logs
I can't think of anywhere it's common to put the dollar sign after. They put the Euro sign after in some European countries. Nowhere puts the percentage sign first.

The author is in the US, though.
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How can you tell if it's alleviating traffic problems? I don't think the effect is large enough to tell through a gut check.
I specified "TortoiseSomething" rather than "TortoiseGit" because I specifically did not expect the developer to be familiar with all VCSes. This needs to be agreed upon in advance - it shouldn't be hard to create an environment for whichever VCS the candidate is familiar with.
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Completely agree! I use org-mode for this, I start a new * section every day with a date.

I also use hashtags like #link, #question, #note, #todo, #done, so I can easily search through them.

When I encounter some error, I write down the error, add a hashtag by the topic (like #docker or #ubuntu or #stripe), then URL for a solution I found (like stackoverflow), then a snipped of code that solved it with a brief explanation.

At this point my notes.org is 7.7 megabytes long and contains all the notes from every day of the past several years. So when I encounter an error I've solved before I just do the search and immediately find the solution.

Also I mark all the important thoughts and insights with >> at the beginning of the line, so I can search for ">>" and find a summary of all the most important insights I've learned over the past month.
I meant to avoid being pickpocketed! It's easy for someone to yank it out of there. They can even replace it with folded paper to make you think it's still there when you check.
Just got my email from Quroa...Who writes this drivel:

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I've heard this type of story way too many times. People getting sucked into some social media community and becoming anxious, fearful, and bitter. Social media is much more dangerous than we bargained for it seems.
Chinese gene editing scientist missing amidst rumors of arrest
Could you elaborate why this is so impressive? As I understand it, it's because things like TF or PyTorch can only AD specific things as part of a spec vs generic functions like this?
I'm curious to find out what the usage in winter will be, I can't image it will be very popular in rainy or snowy climates.
If I opt for multiple "hidden" settings that make my browser more private, am I not giving away my privacy? I mean, finger-printers will notice my unique fingerprint consisting of tailor made privacy choices.
That only speaks in tongues.
> ... and doesn't care about breaking the rules to win

Oh. There are rules which countries should be following, even if it's to their advantage not too? ;)
There was a spate of videos that circulated starting around 2012 and later, as sort of a sequel to the bath salts panic, showing horror stories but seem to have been debunked as a eith a hoax campaign, or rare oddities.

Videos still float around, but they seem to have this voyeristic leer to them (like malign scared-straight after school specials) that genuine footage or journalistic coverage usually doesn't carry.

On top of that, there aren't many people actually owning up to being involved in the footage that does surface, and people who claim to have witnessed instances or met individuals affected by it, only seem to be the kind to tell tall tales.

This leads me to wonder if it was largely a media campaign to get in front of a problem, and head it off, before something like its portrayal emerged.
That was my question to you - you are regulating your behavior out of concern for how others see you.

I don't.
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Shouldn't your same argument apply to the "under 18 crowd"? Why is it a "nanny state" to force adults to wear helmets but not children and teenagers? Alternatively, shouldn't grown adults be able to make their own decisions about whether their children wear helmets?
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Innocent until proven guilty applies to them too. What percentage of false allegations can be proven to be false, like the accused being in a different place at the time? Despite a couple of high profile exceptions I'd wager that's small enough to be a rounding error.
Martin Armstrong's computer Socrates has China surpassing the US by 2032.

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SF didn't want to make BART feel bad by providing actual competent transit options, so we got the joke that is Skip/Scoot.

Seriously, this city has convinced me democracy doesn't work. Maybe China should regime change us.

Edit: stingrae points lack of availability may be the City's fault, rather than Skip/Scoot. No sé -- but for sure the city's intervention took a useful, environmentally friendly transit option and made it non-useful.
> Killing people is immoral in any society

Most societies make an exception for killing enemies of the state. Soldiers are seen as heroes fighting for their country not as immoral killers.
Petroleum industry gets tons of subsidies. I think there's a reddit out there somewhere with a list of the tax deductions that are specifically for Big Oil. It's like 2 dozen or so.

And that's just the stuff that's out in the open.

All of that subsidizes any ICE car.
All roads without separated tracks for cyclists/scooters should be limited to 30-40km/h
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I'm fairly sure the books he's most famous for are fantasies that have something to do with a lion.
Is this the alternative to lean startup?
Boys instead fall into other toxic communities, like incels.

The youtuber ContraPoints made a great video about such communities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0
Before the Yahoo acquisition, Tumblr was hemorrhaging cash. I don't think it ever was "stable" financially, which is all that matters in the end.
And Ammo.js! There are literally dozens of us using it!
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I've had a Bluehost account for several years as it's the easiest way to get a WordPress website up and running quickly. However, Bluehost is severely locked down when it comes to running any kind of real web application (e.g., Django.) Does anyone know of a more versatile (and potentially cheaper?) alternative?
> ... Mozilla seems to try avoiding supporting such a thing

Back when I was trying to manage the configuration of my machines by having a git repository in my home directory or using stow, I got a little upset when I found that firefox stored its configuration in a profile directory with a random prefix. Why would it make it random? It's got to be the only program to do such a thing. I cannot imagine it's for anything other than to annoy people trying to manage its configuration with tools different from their own.

I've since found a way to make the profile directory not have a random prefix, but it still requires doing the change through Firefox's GUI profile manager.
In a way, Google does encourage it by requiring all code to be reviewed before check in. If you're pair programming, you already have a reviewer and can check in right away. One-person projects can be more frustrating due to the delay.

It doesn't seem to be enough to encourage widespread pair programming, though.
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Which makes it a good time to start poking fun at ICOs, which is what GetRichQuick is doing, right?
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AWS Lightsail is a good alternative.

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