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The article reasoning can be shortened to observation that passive optical system does not change the wavelength of photons and to trigger a fire the wavelength has to be short enough.

But the conclusion of the article is wrong. The surface temperature of the Moon has very little to do with the wavelength of the reflected photons.

Consider a surface covered with ideal tiny mirrors each pointing to random direction. Only a tiny proportion of these mirrors will reflect light from the Sun towards observer. Now consider that 90% of those mirrors are painted black reducing the reflected enrrgy flux by further factor of ten. The Moon is like that.

Still the reflected light has original wavelength of the light of the Sun. Collect enough of it and that triggers fire.
The "both sides" claim is faulty, and lets fascists normalize their viewpoints. As we've seen countless times, the fascists want to "debate" people, because it gives them another platform and more exposure.

That's why "decorum" doesn't work. Fascism must be opposed at all turns, by all means. Otherwise they will succeed in moving the overton window even further to the right.
Especially if your new "home country" aka the US&A, does not go on the barricades if you a citizen get abducted, threatened or otherwise extorted.
> Norway

You do realize, that Norway is not a member of the EU. So in the context of Europe and the EU, it's more like Canada vs. USA.
They might finance retirement of chinese, though. Immigration is nice, but it's far from the only path to sustained economic development.
> How did he get away with all of it for so long?

By claiming that all of that was legal. Plainly and simple, until some prosecutor does not walk over facts and not file a charge, no crime is being prosecuted. In such cases, the very reason for starting a process is prosecutorial discretion.

(Anti)Nepotism laws are notoriously hard to act upon: unless somebody got caught red handed (taped, stinged,) any accusation of appointment beyond merit is just a lot of speculation and rhetoric.

The same way ... Boston Consulting Group, and PWC have decades long record of employing 20 something scions of officials for well paid senior positions in every major country you can think of.
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Norway is a part of the EEA. In practice, we are an EU member; just a non-voting one, with a few carveouts for fisheries and such.
Half of the population cannot have natural children, i.e. the median age of 47 is past menopause.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-age/

(Prefrozen or surrogate embryos can make it into their 50s)
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Who said anything about dollar returns? Effor vs reward is just a general way to describe an action with some cost and with some benefit.
For what it’s worth it makes beautiful sense to me. Both as a motorcyclist and also as someone who has thought a lot about splines.

My favorite spline editor is the Bezigon tool in Macromedia Freehand of yore. It sprang to mind as I read the passages you wrote.
Jeez, that is morbid. There is a website (or an app) for everything
London, Community Fibre.

Very similar company and expanding all the time.

I tried their 1Gb service. It’s very impressive. £50 a month.

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Nope.

RC aircraft are fine and have very clear laws https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Model-airc...

As do drones, which have been updated fairly recently and only require a license (for now at least…) for large drones or commercial usage https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft-and-drones...
I thought Zoox was planning to have a bidirectional car with no drivers seat. Nobody to take over.
No that is not the case. It was a corruption scandal managed by the prime minister. Jho Low was "just" the guy who implemented it (and profited greatly from it). Malaysia is a very corrupt country and the PM and other top officials likely has many other schemes to enrich themselves.
Of the former children from Africa, Syria, Afghanistan etc. which came to Germany (Europe) in the last three years a too high percentage does not seem to have the ability (or willingness) to replace a worker in Germany. Immigration alone doesn't help. It may even make matters worse if the 'wrong' people come. (I wrote 'seems' because it is difficult to get objective hard numbers for this emotional subject).

Regarding birthrates/immigration: Help without conditions is wrong, I now think. NGO's should not be allowed to 'help in Africa' (and Afghanistan, ...) without making sure that the birthrates drop significantly. Providing modern medicine without enforcing the 'recipients' to adapt the culture/custom will lead to a desaster in those countries (and if 'everybody' migrates - in Europe also (will happen after my lifetime probably)).
In the last few days it's had a good improvement. Copy username/password directly from the window is back (had to previously edit and view password, then copy) and speed is just as good as I see on chrome.

I'm using Windows an Linux and these improvements have come in the past week or so for me. Perhaps they recently updated, I haven't checked.

Worth taking another look if you can.
Why would that be better? If that worked, it will take 20 to 30 years to see any improvement in the workforce, but will cost a lot up-front.

However, financial incentives have never worked. In fact, I don't know of a single political measure which has significantly raise birth rates. The only way that might work would be to discourage women's education, which of course nobody wants (I hope...).

Children are massively expensive, especially to the parents. Parents, especially those who work, can't be "compensated" for the work, costs and risks of raising children. The motivation to raise children is entirely irrational from the perspective of the individual.
> Discussing types? Does it matter that much [?]

Well, if you've decided to use TypeScript for some reason other than momentary whim, it must matter a lot...
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Their reputation "on main street" is largely irrelevant to them.
Don't think so. I'm having a hard time figuring out what it actually means. No urbandictionary entry, and the only other time it seems to have been used was another HN thread last month.
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I do think that the two partners Leissner and Ng are probably complicit to some degree. They probably do deserve to get prosecuted by the justice department.

But GS are just the underwriters of the bond, they aren't guaranteeing the bonds. They didn't steal the money either. The Malaysian government is claiming that because the fee was large (around 10%) that it's clear evidence that the organization as a whole was complicit and guilty. I don't think that's a very strong argument.

But the Malaysians don't seem as interested in justice (certainly the two partners should be jailed) as they are in finding someway to get their money back. So instead of looking at the people in their own country who stole the money, an investigation that might implicate other powerful people besides Jho Low, they turn their eyes to easiest target they have, GS, a foreign company.

It might even be reasonable to ask for the underwriting fee back (though I'm on the fence about that), but 7.5 Billion USD? Do you think that number of motivated by justice? Do you think it's motivated by "teaching them a lesson?" Or do you think that the number is so high because Malaysia wants the money and they see an easy way to get it?

7.5 Billion is almost 10% of the entire company's shareholder equity, truly a staggering sum for GS to pay. Total revenue for GS in 2017 was around 30 Billion, net profits were just 4 billion. How is almost 2 years of net profits in the least bit fair as a punishment?

And if it is fair, why stop at that? Why not 15 billion? Or 30 billion? Why not just take all their equity and turn it into a state corporation. Surely Goldman Sachs, the blood sucking squid, deserves a comeuppance for all the proletariat ire they have received over the years.

Maybe that last paragraph is a little much, but the point still stands. I think people irrationally hate banks and hate wall st, and their view of justice for the banks is colored by that discrimination.
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My maybe slightly pessimistic view of Japanese attitudes toward immigration is that they will try to keep the Indians in a state of limbo, ready to deport them at the drop of a hat. Which of course won't work at these kind of numbers, anyway.
Yep. How many US counties would a person from outside the US know about.
Well, thanks for correcting me on that if that's the case. If you work within the field, you surely have a more up to date idea how that works.
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> 700 watts per square meter doesn't set things on fire. It can only heat a blackbody to 60 degrees C.

> (I'm ignoring the part about wavelength filtering because it's confusing and would only make your piece of paper heat up less.)

I’m afraid you’re ignoring the interesting bit. You say that 700 W/m^2 doesn’t set things on fire. This is not true. Sure, 700 W/m^2 applied to some target that is allowed to radiate its own blackbody light out to the sky won’t get it very hot, but that’s not what I’m suggesting. I’m suggesting that you insulate the target very well so that its blackbody emissions don’t escape, but you let in the short-wavelength moonlight. Thermodynamics requires that you also let out the short wavelength blackbody emissions, but those are negligible until the target gets very, very hot.

This effect isn’t science fiction — it’s just the greenhouse effect, amplified. Greenhouses (the glass ones and the atmospheric ones) exploit the fact that sunlight doesn’t match the Earth’s blackbody spectrum, so a filter (glass or gaseous) can allow incoming radiation in but trap most outgoing radiation.

In effect, I’m suggesting that a very good greenhouse plus some lenses could get hot enough to start a fire.
Even if you believe that distinction, Scala is different because library writers can use the same language as application developers. That's not true of the divide between implementing and using Go.
Well on "main st," Trump is the messiah. So maybe we shouldn't really care what they think.
Flyway. It’s super light weight. Works out of the box with Spring Boot and you barely have to change your process. Just write sql scripts in a folder with a convention for the file name and away you go.

The Java migrations are fairly handy for calling web services etc

Good for standing up end-to-end tests too.
That's okay, hardly anyone needs to factor prime numbers :-)
Can someone provide backstory on this? I missed it because I blinked. :-)
You can obviously copy files off of a usb drive before giving it back. I don’t know anything about this case, and I’m not accusing this guy of anything, but your line of argument is wrong.
in an ideal world, all non-physical harm would be handled this way. unfortunately, such attackers can cause multi-million dollar (or pound, in this case) losses in a short period of time and probably have minimal assets. you might get a few grand out of them if you're lucky.
It's because it was an early undeclared war authorized by proxy. The only time it dominates the news is when it is "over" which reads to me as a heavy government push to use a "victory" as a retroactive justification for a war that was never directly approved by US citizens or their representatives.

Now, this is how all wars are done, but then, it generally wasn't the case.

Probably the only lasting legacy of the Korean War in the US to people who weren't directly involved is the meme of "brainwashing" and its permanent association with Communist Asians due the Lifton book[1] which ironically popularized both the idea of the "thought-terminating cliche" and the throught-terminating cliche of "brainwashing."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Reform_and_the_Psychol...
if you enjoyed this you might also find “A confession”[1] by L. Tolstoy interesting. I did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confession
>I doubt your average joe even knows what GS does beyond being a “vampire squid.”

I guess the question is whether it matters what the average joe thinks. If it does, then GS is in a bad place because all the joes I know wouldn't touch them with a 10ft pole. If not, then we only need to consider what the financial folks think (which I can't speak to).
Because immigrants are here to stay. This will forever change the demographic composition of Japan.

I think one only has to look at Europe to see that mass immigration of low skilled labor from foreign cultures does a lot of harm in the long run.
Maybe:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_disulfide

Doesn't appear that many substances have auto ignition as low as 100c.

If you're hunting for easy to ignite stuff, it might be better to go for low flash point stuff, and strike a spark?

Eg gasoline will work in pretty cold environments with a flashpoint of - 43c.
Why do people think this? I know a good chunk of users I interact with every day pay for their Nitro subscription. It's not crazy to think I can buy a game or two on it as well. They partnered with Warframe, I think things are going well.
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Norway's also part of the Schengen Area. There's no practical difference to an American in terms of travel and trade between Norway and, say, France or Germany, other than the fact that the money is krone and not euros.
Needle in the haystack thanks for this insight
This is the dangling carrot. Be wary of the stick in the rear.
Other than patch, there's also etags and match headers that are frequently used and well supported.
In fictional paper wealth.

If I own 1 billion Chuck-E-Cheese tokens, and you pay me $1 for one of them, current market cap formulas say I'm a billionaire.

It is thus no wonder that personal fortunes can crash 30-50% in one month when everyone stops bidding on stocks that are valued at 60x earnings.
Yeah, it’s not really enough unless your expenses are extremely low. But if you’re okay with living in a private room (in a shared apartment) and eating all meals at home, you can live on $500 a month in many places in Portugal, Spain, Serbia, Hungary, etc. 3% is a reasonable rate to rely on, and 3% of $200,000 is $6,000 per year.

In any case, that seems extreme. I’d recommend using the $200,000 as a 10+ year runway to build your business instead.
To be fair, VW didn't try to screw over their customers per se; indeed the whole point was to increase fuel efficiency (direct benefit to customer) at the expense of increased NO2 emissions (a negative externality). Of course what they did was deplorable in any case.
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Crystal clear writing. With cogent argumentation. This is how you persuade. Parallels with contemporary climate deniers is stunning.
Isn't it very convenient though when you brand anything to the right of Marx as 'Fascist' so that you can silence those viewpoints by any means necessary? Even using violence?
> I don't know of a single political measure which has significantly raise birth rates.

Economic freedom, and getting rid of pervasive and extreme rent-seeking (especially at the local level) which raises the cost of caring for kids, and for the kids themselves to start a new household when they grow up. You can see this in places as different politically as the Scandinavian countries (e.g. Denmark), and the U.S. "Red" states. It just works, it's simply anathema in every way to all sorts of out-of-touch elites.
Surely there's a vast gap between inconveniencing/causing financial loss and injuring/killing people? I can imagine one being considered a reasonable act of protest by some whilst the other puts one beyond the pale.
Coincidently, The prime miniser of Malaysia somehow increases his bank account to the tune of 700m during the same period.
All governments do it. Some just do it in the open.
In case you actually don't know (not an insult, just not sure)...

The CFO of Huawei was arrested in Canada for extradition to the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/business/huawei-cfo-arres...
I think one of the main impediments to having children is just having space for them. You cannot have a child in a 40m2 apartment, and more is very hard to get in so many places. Certainly not for the people usually inclined to have babies (ie. the poor).

I don't know but Tokyo is probably similar.
True but your lifestyle in say, Belgrade or Budapest would be much better.
If you don't know what "too much" is for the thing you're eating or drinking, your advice is totally useless. This is why we do studies. No one ever worries if they're drinking too much water. On the other hand, we know we should worry about eating too much refined sugar, thanks to people who study nutrition. We also know the consequences of consuming too much sugar, which has been shown repeatedly through studies so we just don't have to rely on the word of nutritionists and doctors. I really don't see how any of this is bad. If you're sick of seeing headlines about nutrition news, stop reading it.
Who says they didn't hire a PR firm to write this apology?
I honestly don't think you could over-estimate the USA's role in world's affairs for the last 100 or so years. The West is lead by the USA.

And I don't even live in the US and I think that.
When you work somewhere, you end up having access to all sorts of stuff. E.g. through the issue tracker, you might be able to see things about projects that are supposed to be secret (as in company-secret, not government-secret). If you resign and your usb drive has a bunch of deleted files about that stuff, that has nothing to do with your job, that’s a reasonable basis for serious suspicion.

You don’t need a smoking gun of a crime to be suspicious that a crime may have been committed. Suspicious facts are plenty to start investigating, and a mountain of “circumstantial” evidence can even be enough for a conviction.

I don’t know anything about this case, and I’m not accusing this guy of anything, but your line of argument is wrong.
They care about the poor and vulnerable as long as they support their power grabs. Otherwise they send them to the Gulags or execute them - and the excuse is always the same "It's for your own good".
Unfortunately, congested city driving is probably one of the toughest cases. Once you can drive through Manhattan or Boston you can probably handle just about anyplace with paved roads in the US [ADDED: assuming a sufficient degree of mapping and testing in those other areas].
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I assume the point is that creating new types is very simple, so if you need a new one, then you can just make one, call it what you like, put whatever you need inside it, and start to use it. You don't need to have interminable discussions about this.

If you need more stuff in the type later, you can add it. If the name turns out to be wrong, you can change it. If you need to remove something, you can do that. If you just decide that it was a bad idea, you can get rid of it entirely. In each case, you can just make the change, and the compiler will show you all the code that has to change because of it.

If this is some public-facing or versioned thing then some discussion would be warranted - but you would have had to do that already, types or no! (But even if the worst happens, and some new type gets added in, and it's kind of wrong, and it gets exposed anyway: at least you know about it.)
> A September 2015 report by CIS asserted that "immigrant households receive 41 percent more federal welfare than households headed by native-born citizens."[78] The report was criticized on the basis of poor methodology by Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute. Nowrasteh said that the report opted not to examine how much welfare immigrants use, but to examine households led by an immigrant so that the report could count the welfare usage of the immigrant's US-born children, which leads to a misleading estimate of immigrant welfare use.[78]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Immigration_Studies

"Center of Immigration Studies" seems like a very dubious source of information when even Cato is criticizing them.

https://www.cato.org/blog/center-immigration-studies-oversta...
That respect, I think, is more for its success than its probity.
You know, there is another country that have United States in its name, the United States of Brazil. Do you know any of their individual states? You may know now some of the ex-URSS component countries because recent conflicts, but back then, would they had count as countries or states?

Talking about EU is like talking about OTAN. Each of their component countries have their own president, their own political countries, and in a good part and their own policies, besides the group common policies.

Countries are about political borders, not economical. Would you put California, Wall Street, Shenzhen and a few more at the same level as countries?
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That's not true. The strongest leftist movement in the Western world now is Progressivism, which is statist and not libertarian at all.

Let's not forget that the Progressives lauded Hitler and his eugenics program in the 30s shall we.
Of course that also protects the IP :)

Also, great post. I love reading reverse engineering stories.
So far the immigration of low skilled workers has worked out quite well here in Germany. We still have a better social welfare system, better health care (overall), free university and so on...

Turkish, Italian and Polish immigrants, most of them unskilled at arrival, have contributed hugely to Germany's success in the past century, and they still do.

The "long term harm" is blown well out of proportion, and to ignore that history is at best dishonest...
There's also a satellite measuring pollution:

https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Coper...
People in the US are taxed for _not_ having babies and no one is taking to the streets over it.

If you have a child, you get a tax deduction (or credit? I forget). That is effectively the same as a tax for not having a baby.

Someone with a child pays less taxes than someone without.
That makes sense too. I thought that also at that time that LTE was relatively new, so in theory, the UMTS or GSM would have a stronger signal than LTE, which would have meant my calls would be fine.
Can you elaborate on why you think the large fee isn't a clear evidence the organisation as a whole was complicit?
Found the actual complaint: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ho...
Perhaps it would help if we clarified some terms first. "An underwriter is the party that evaluates and assumes another party's risk for a fee, such as a commission, premium, spread or interest.". Note, the part about taking on the risk. GS underwrote the huge 1MDB bond, but allegedly in cahoots with corrupt individuals, while allegedly intentionally ignoring red flags (raised by their own internal compliance department) and then knowingly passing all the risk and subsequent losses to the Malaysian tax payers.

> 7.5 Billion is almost 10% of the entire company's shareholder equity, truly a staggering sum for GS to pay.

Apparently the 1MDB losses have cost Malaysian taxpayers around USD $12 billion. Given that GS was the underwriter and allegedly the key enabler of the scandal, punishing GS by making them pay at least the majority of those taxpayer losses seems unjustified or unfair to you? What amount do you believe is fair?

For example, if a "fence" helps a thief sell off some "gear" and the thief is caught. How much should the "fence" be liable for? How much should the victims get back?
you don't gtake back just the money that they stole. always you get more to convince others to not try it again. they should try and get as much as possible.