skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is flawed perspective and your three examples are a very mixed bag of unequal occurrences. All three of those situations are unlike the other. Jim Crow laws were very much not due to a "majority" -- if you remember, the country went into civil war over the issue of slavery, and the North has always been the more populous part of the country. Laws against Homosexuality were part of the fabric of pretty much most of the world (still so in 72 countries, as well as 70% of the commonwealth states), so not sure you can attribute that to any one particular moral majority, it was more of a global majority, so there goes that comparison out the window. And finally, the War on Drugs had nothing to do with morality, but basically one man's smart campaign to manipulate the public so that he could target minorities and anti-war protestors (later -- the CIA learned you could make a nice dime, so they continued it in the name of "national security" -- wonder where we heard that before)

And finally, your argument is very flawed because systems of morality are what have lead to the greatest human progress for thousands of years, and you are invalidating all of that on some unfortunate decade-long (strong emphasis on decade long, not millennium long) effects of fundamentalists and charlatans who, as history has already judged, were on the wrong side of things? You must have a very bleak outlook on humanity.
> The flaw with that argument is that something like 99 of 100 laws exist because, basically, they should. They benefit society, so essentially the whole population wants them.

That's very much debatable. It's not even clear how to count the number of laws, even if we are only considering Federal law in the US. (see https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43056.pdf )

Certainly there is no one who knows all the laws, and unlike in coding, there's no commitment to DRY or modularization, which leads to very common unintended consequences.

You're arguing the 99/100 case, but I'm sure it would be easy to find someone to credibly argue the 1/100 case.
More or less.

Remember though that if the business is unwilling to have you on premises you are trespassing and that is illegal. You can be arrested for sitting in a chair after you are told to leave.
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That's quite probably the most impressive picture of 2018. For a long time there was a belief that earth was singular in possessing an abundance of water and now spectroscopy has revealed the presence of water on other planets and fly-bys by probes show geysers erupting from the surfaces of moons. Science advances even if it's not always at the pace we would like.
Yep, surround with a swarm of skeletons so he can't move and kill him with crossbows.
You make a good point. I think my need to bring value comes from being so grateful for the opportunity - I feel like I need to do something for him because he's doing something for me. I guess my time to 'repay' him will come later.
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Because often the consequences are paid for by other people. I'm specifically thinking about things like environmental regulations or regulations around accessibility.
Prices of assets coming down means margin debt gets called, and investment loans secured by, for example, shares as collateral, leading to defaults and ultimately to bankruptcy of companies with sizeable amounts of debt on its balance sheets.

Now, the argument might be that it's their own fault, but that will likely leads to tens of thousands of jobs lost. And we're not talking tech jobs.
>Many things didn't exist before the 1900s, that still doesn't entail they are harmful.

Stop trying to reverse my statement because you think that will allow you to dismiss it. I said they are harmful, and they did not exist before the 1900s. Not they are harmful because they didn't exist before the 1900s. Their harm is known by the negative health effects of their consumption. Those negative health effects did not exist for people before the 1900s.

>Now where's the evidence that these deficiencies were not prevalent or worse throughout history, which is what you're actually claiming.

I see a pattern here where you state that common scientific knowledge is wrong unless I provide citations for it, then when I do you just ignore those citations and the entire subject and proceed to call some other common scientific knowledge wrong. You can use google too.

>https://reliawire.com/history-osteoporosis/

I am well aware that people post common misconceptions on their blogs. If I link to a blog post about how the earth is really flat will that make it so?

>Citation?

Again, this is not wikipedia. If you want to call someone a liar, do so. If you want to find out information, do so. You don't get to delete opinions you don't like if you spam "citation needed" enough in a conversation. The history of type 2 diabetes is easy to learn about, it did not exist until the early 1900s.

>And from food spoiling.

Which is obviously caused by being unable to produce enough food and requiring all adults to spend their entire lives toiling in the fields to avoid starvation, thus supporting your belief.

>So basically the reason for the feasts is so they didn't have to waste precious food on keeping animals alive, because otherwise they'd all starve

They didn't waste food, therefore they were all starving. Brilliant logic.

>I linked to evidence that quite literally say we don't have enough historical data to infer the actual rates of suicide

You linked to poor evidence for suicide rates. That is not the same as no evidence. This kind of tactic is just silly. "Oh, well the evidence that shows their suicide rate was much lower has limited sample sizes, so we should just assume that in reality they had much higher suicide rates".

>What I am saying is that your claim that modern rates are higher is baseless.

And yet you provided evidence to contradict your claim.

>Wrong

Neither of your links are even related to my statement, so going "DURRRR RONG!!11" seems a little odd.

>You've fallen into the common trap of romanticizing the past

That's possible. Or perhaps you've fallen into the much more common trap of romanticizing the present.

>but your apparent inclination to claim that rates of happiness and health are far worse today than they ever were is completely baseless.

Again, there's a big difference between "the evidence is not strong enough to know that with 100% certainty" which is the case and "completely baseless" which is what you wish.
That feels like a whitewashing of history.

Activists were (with different language) very much worried about negative externalities and effects on the commons when it came to Prohibition.

Remember, people were getting rampantly drunk, fighting in the streets, neglecting their families, becoming unemployable, and so on. Beer/wine/spirits sellers were more than happy to promote drinking even with all the social problems produced by it.

It certainly didn't feel like a private matter at the time, like praying in your bedroom each night.

So "someone making a fortune while leaving the alcoholism and broken homes in its wake" would look very much then like "someone making a fortune while raiding the available housing units and ruining neighborhoods" does today.

Edit: And, to be sure, that doesn't mean Prohibition was a good idea. But means the right solution wasn't "free for all for alcohol", but "okay, you can sell alcohol, but with these rules to contain that problem".
Dropbox is very well known, but I think Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook are more well-known :)
There's a term for people who don't eat meat, but eat fish:
Pescetarians.

I'd rather have it clear that people use the right terms, since some will probably complain about being given only vegetables when there was fish available, whilst happily claiming they are vegatarian.

it's almost like claiming that you are vegan when you are vegatarian.
This kind of attentiveness is how you get me to refer Namekin to my friends — cheers!
You mentioned "adding value" a few times, but if you are truly job shadowing then that should not be a goal of yours. Job shadowing is about observing and learning. Just watch and listen, and do your best to humbly stay out of the way.
Diablo was great, but it's very different and really a action RPG.
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I'd modify the fine by adding: $1m/per month while your stuff is polluting the space orbit.
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> punish the company without destroying it

Aside from a massive fine, is there anything else they could have done? Could they have jailed the executives and investors? Could they have revoked their corporate charter?
Holy shit I played the crap out of empire in highschool with a friend on IBM PCs, mid 1990's. So many good memories.
If things break as you say then it won’t matter what you’ve invested your money in. In such a scenario the investments that pay off are in knowledge that others find useful and physical fitness.
Hey, thanks! We've updated that to link to both the relevant blog posts.
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I advocate STV with larger sets, 8 or more. The wasted vote is smaller, any constituency that can show up and get out the vote for 1/N of the total gets one of the N seats. 5 seats or fewer biases towards the major parties. Lots of 5 seat sets will go 3-to-2 or 2-to-3. I'd like to get in other voices and split it 5/3/1 or 4/4/1. And I bet over time that 1 would grow to 2, but we have a bootstrapping problem in the current system that always throws away that smaller voice.
It's an ad for Chanty, not an objective comparison of Slack alternatives.
My dog in particular has a useful feature. He will always come wake me up around sunrise.
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If bitcoin and eth don't have a stable value in 2018, how does WhatsAppCoin sans Facebook guarantee have to stay stable?
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Mozilla is not the only company paying people to work on Rust, and we've heard rumors of more companies being interested in doing so. Losing Mozilla would be a big blow, but Rust is larger than that at this point.
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> As for more promising projects, we'd be better off doing research to find those projects than throwing away people's money on a pipe dream.

What "pipe dream" are we talking about here? Preventing this planet from becoming a complete toxic dump?

Solving our pollution problem doesn't just stop at reducing new pollution, it should also involve cleaning up what's already there, that's the only sustainable approach.
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Tip is expected to be 15% for regular service and 20% for good service. Restaurant staff are paid under the minimum salary and the government expect them to make up the missing half with tips. Mimimum wages are $12 an hour but only $9.80 an hour for employees receiving tips.

Bad service isn't to be expected and should be reported to the managers when it happen.

https://www.retailcouncil.org/resources/quick-facts/minimum-...
> CBD absolutely helps with seizures and anxiety. I don't need some retroactive scientific study to show this because the evidence is already there, vouched for by those who use it. There is no placebo effect for seizures.

there is a huge issue with quality control for cbd -- it varies wildly between products and is totally impossible to control for. i'm sure it can be medically useful but you must be able to buy a legitimate product first.
You might think about adding chat into the mix. You could look at possibly rebasing onto Crossbox ( https://crossbox.io ),which also incorporates chat + some other stuff (I have no affiliation, just stumbled across it recently and the demo is pretty attractive). Or you could probably easily add an XMPP chat server/service onto whatever you've already built..
The NHS is probably concerned with stability, accessibility and performance. Also I would like you to please explain why sass and Nunjucks are not good for “satisfying changed requirements”

Edit:

Also, are you serious that GDS should consider front end developers their constituents and not their users?
Rates have been near zero forever. They were still extremely low. The fed is trying to get back to something resembling normal.
> Second, just because it doesn't describe your government now doesn't mean it won't in the future, unfortunately. Consider examples of a 1920s German, or a 1960s Iranian (the old regime was oppressive too, but in different ways), or a 2000s citizen of Poland.

This is the risk averse argument against certain technologies. If you believe your government won’t change and are willing to take that bet, you can lean into technologies very hard and reap the benefits.

Of course, if you think there may be a day where your government will change and use technologies against you, you could live out in the boonies and never even touch a computer, and thus get no benefits from emerging tech.

It’s a trade off between being at the bleeding edge and being as secure and private as possible. Personally, I have made my decision. Could it be my undoing one day if government decides I’m guilty of everything? Sure, but I doubt it will happen. I’ll take the bet.
In Canada in general tipping is expected for appropriate service; we're a bit behind US in general, about 5% (when they were 15 we were 10, when they inched to to 20 we centimetered to 15, now we're moving to 18). I wouldn't say it's quite mandatory though, and especially not for service not meeting the standard.

Now, if you are in a large group, many restaurants will have a percentage gratuity applied - this is clearly stated on menu, receipt, etc. It's not typically a dollar amount.

While there may be specific few diner joints where bad service is part of the "charm" of greasy but delicious food, overall it sounds you just got a grouchy waiter and poor service :-/
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Does using an app like cloudflare 1.1.1.1 protect us from this ?

Cloudflare app link - https://blog.cloudflare.com/1-thing-you-can-do-to-make-your-...
I'd rather not go into details on the sexist attitudes, but let's just say there is a pattern of talking down or ignoring the credentials of female scientists.

The feasibility study is BS. It only convinced the media, no one in the marine community. They also gave the scientists they asked to "review" it literally 24 hours to do so. It is pretty hard to see how it was a good faith effort.

Here is some information written by an actual oceanographer.

http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deploye...

http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-2-...

The second article is an in-depth explanation of all the scientific and engineering problems with the prototype.
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am i nuts or did the bubble already lose all of it's air? MSFT, AAPL, AMZN, NFLX, GOOG have lost 20+% of their market cap since the peaks at end of august/mid september. S&P500 and DJI are at 52 week lows after people proclaimed another 3-5 years of The Golden Bull Run on CNBC. the crash happened, it just took months, not seconds.
Put the two together. I don't think it's the end of civilization but I'm not sure how our society will deal with another 2008. We could be in for serious turmoil.
The challenges of starting a company are different form the challenges of running/growing a $25 million dollar company. That being said, you will still learn a lot from shadowing him.

I think you have a few options:
a. Shadow him. This in itself will be fairly useful.

b. Shadow him plus. If you want to do this, I feel like offering to potentially sending him an end of month report later-on on a particular aspect he wants might not be a bad idea. To do this well, you might want to spend 25%-50% of your time in meetings where he is not there depending on the report topic.

c. Offer to help on a top strategic initiative of his - This is personally what I would do. You will have an awesome project under your belt and will learn from the experience.

d. Work for him - If he is paying you he will likely want you in a specific role. I feel like this might be the least helpful to you in the long term.
How recent were those numbers? The US is currently around 30% coal, 20% nuclear (so only about 50% combined), 32% gas, and almost all of the rest is renewables of various sorts. Germany is 35% coal, 12% nuclear, 13% gas, 35% renewables. France is 72% nuclear, 12% hydro, 8% coal and gas. I'm having trouble finding the exact breakdown of coal and gas for France, but it looks like gas dominates.
If that doesn't sound dystopian, I don't know what does. So glad I don't live in a major city with lots of pollution.
Citing a part of the first paper's Conclusion:

> Until data from well-designed clinical trials are available and reliable, and standardized CBD products that are produced using GMP are available, caution must be exercised in any consideration of using CBD for the treatment of epilepsy. In the meantime, based upon promising preliminary data, further clinical research should be wholeheartedly pursued.

Citing a part of the second paper's Conclusion:

> Human experimental findings support preclinical findings, and also suggest a lack of anxiogenic effects, minimal sedative effects, and an excellent safety profile. Current preclinical and human findings mostly involve acute CBD dosing in healthy subjects, so further studies are required to establish whether chronic dosing of CBD has similar effects in relevant clinical populations. Overall, this review emphasizes the potential value and need for further study of CBD in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

So the second one says it seems good for acute dosing. Both say more research has to be done. Let's hope this is being done in the near future.
Dubious would have been seeking approval from a non-US regulator. That's abusing the framework but technically I think there's no reason you couldn't get the CIO of Vanuatu (the relevant ITU administrator) to approve your satellite and have that be legal. The FCC would be mighty sour about that but I think you could do it.

This is just straight-up illegal.
I consider mastery of anything to be a sign of genius. Someone out there is in the top .001% of skill for underwater basketweaving, and I think they're a genius in that category.
Being "generally against regulation" doesn't imply any specific mitigating rational as you would suggest. Being against poor, mishandled, or unnecessary regulation... yes. But if that was stated, there'd be nothing to argue with.
Thank you. This gives me clarity. My need to contribute was my way of showing him how grateful I am, but that can come at a later time.
Java doesn't beat C++ in raw computational benchmarks. The JIT compiler is a marvel, but it doesn't beat peer AOT compilers.

The Techempower benchmarks mostly show how good the entrant's web-serving stack is. Java has a couple of decades of multiple skilled, well-established groups competing to build the fastest web stack. C++ has Boost.Beast, which, although its developers are smart, wise, widely respected, sexy, and moderators of a Slack i frequent, can't compete in terms of resources.
> A big reason the National Archives enters into agreements like this with companies is that digitization, especially on their scale, is expensive. If it weren't for agreements like this, Amazon would only want to digitize the films for which they knew they could turn a profit and the vast majority of the collection would sit un-digitized and be at risk of loss.

And yet there are researchers willing to do this quickly and for free, so why do we even need Amazon in the loop?
I can imagine this text will be popular among Project Euler problem solvers, given the shared themes of continued fraction, Farey Sequences etc.
The point is that the 3rd amendment is not relevant anymore given that the military has such an enormous budget they have no need to quarter in your house.

The 3rd amendment has never been used in any Supreme Court decisions, and in fact has only ever been used in a single appeals case in 1982[1] (thus there is only one instance of precedence for this amendment -- not to mention that the judge and appeals judge already accepted the Petitioners' argument under the 14th amendment).

I think that a part of the constitution that has only ever been used once, and was based primarily of a fear of a repeat of one of the Intolerable Acts in the 18th Century is hardly a relevant amendment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engblom_v._Carey
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Ok, cool. I totally agree.

I'm just not sure how "it's good that CBD is regulated" is similar to "every company that makes CBD is selling snake oil or putting people's lives in danger."
Assuming you are making use of Netlify's Identity service, and also their free tier value added dynamic integration leveraging Lambda?
Not to ruin the joke, but I'll just clarify that "mitron" is actually Hindi for "friends" and is used by our Prime Minister a lot (especially in speeches).
This project cannot work. Here's some information written by an actual oceanographer:

http://www.deepseanews.com/2014/07/the-ocean-cleanup-part-2-...

http://www.deepseanews.com/2016/06/the-ocean-cleanup-deploye...

In the marine community, this project is a punchline.
I happen to own mylastname.org and it has kind of been a problem if I’m being honest. I finally had to start start carrying around cards with my email address printed on them. People can’t handle it, they expect personal names to come before the @ and if you say anything after the @ besides gmail or hotmail or a business name they absolutely shut down.

I’m sure it doesn’t help that my last name seems like it’s misspelled...
It should be noted that the iconic hyperboloid nuclear cooling towers are actually unrelated to nuclear power. Many nuclear plants use them, but many do not, and many non-nuclear plants also use them.
Glad we have a GDPR-like thing in California and wish some of the lesser states would get their house in order. :)
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I feel bad for whoever ends up in this position. The FCC has required Swarm to designate someone to be responsible for regulatory compliance. That means someone with knowledge and experience with FCC regulatory compliance. Not an engineer who happens to be tasked with work an attorney should be doing. Whoever takes this role isn't going to be compensated nearly enough for the personal risk they're about to undertake and is being set up to fail. They need a lawyer, and they need to listen to the lawyer, not an engineer.
I think even just offering @namekin.com as an option, and allowing people to start mailing lists for their families would be awesome as well (of course, offering this for the domain option works too). Since some last names are way too common, it could even make sense to figure out a good list of most common domains to buy ahead of time and offer to use them to families. Of course you gotta make sure they understand other families with the same last name could be using those domains.

You could offer a single @namekin email as a sample of the whole service as well, which might go a long way and get you more feedback.
Well, C# and TypeScript both seems to have gotten a whole lot more right (I'll cut TypesScript some extra slack here since it has to take extra care not to step on JavaScripts toes now or in the future.)
For those who have no clue like me, what does shadowing mean/entail?
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Not defending China but this might be simply fake news. Haven't seen it in any major news network or human right organization talking about this.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is just a campaign against China these days. I see bad news every day on the internet about China.
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