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"We don’t worry that e-cigarettes increase the number of fatal car accidents, diminish motivation and cognition, or impair academic achievement. The drugs through the gateway that we worry about with e-cigarettes are Marlboros, not opioids."

The casual manner in which Gladwell dismisses the danger of tobacco is jarring. Each year, tobacco is responsible for at least five times as many deaths as opioids are in the United States (480k vs 70-90k) [0][1]. Globally, tobacco kills more than 7 million people each year [2]. Although Gladwell has dismissed claims that he has shilled for the tobacco industry [3][4], his trivialization of the dangers of tobacco do not support that position.

Nevertheless, that does not undermine the argument that caution should be exercised with THC and other cannabinoids. It was prohibitively difficult in the past to do research on the compounds [5], so we should exercise humility when making definitive claims about them without further investigation.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

[1] https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/08/malcolm-gladwell-s...

[4] https://shameproject.com/profile/malcolm-gladwell-2/

[5] https://www.newsweek.com/why-its-hard-do-marijuana-research-...
They'd have to be damned cheap. I give away printed bits of paper all the time ...
A fantastic book on this (plus it's short): Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Practical Ethics Series) by Doug Husak - a superbly-written argument for decriminalizing all drugs.

https://www.amazon.com/Legalize-This-Decriminalizing-Practic...
A lot of the what the "EU says it is" was significantly influenced by what the UK wanted it to be, especially when it comes to finance.
But you’d only make that choice if you really, really want to be in the Apple ecosystem. Especially in China, there just doesn’t seem to be the same drive from consumers, even if it’s likely affected by Chinese government policies regarding cloud services.
I know it’s an exaggeration, but it’s also a (small) possibility. Believe it or not I’m not at my most rational in the middle of a panic attack ‍️
Windows continues to move in the right direction with package management. Your comment "not officially supported" may not be correct depending on your definition of official. Package management is native in win10 with OneGet, and PMs like scoop have been improving in quality and reliability to the point that I don't even think about them anymore.

I do agree that there is a lot of room for standardizing tool chain and dependency install workflows, but the tools themselves are of high quality now imo.
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The mainstream press complaining about someone deliberately omitting facts from what they report. That's very ironic.
> each swap on the $20K pack will recover you $20-40 in depreciation

Just the labor cost for the procedure is likely to greatly exceed the $20-40 estimate.
Which is fine if failing is cheap. Depends on the risk profile.
So this is like Arbitration in the US?

In the UK, how are they "known to be free of political interference etc."?

Is it easy for people to contest a decision that looks unfair and bring it to the regular courts ?
> The UK has traditionally punched well above its weight economically

How is its trade balance doing lately? Not so good.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/balance-of-trade

> Being the banking capital of the EU is a huge contributing factor to that position, btw.

I'm not sure what economic indicators you are talking about. Certainly none that reflects the actual well-being of the population.
AAA games rely on a single purchase fee for revenue. Once sales taper off because the game isn't hot and new anymore, there's nothing to be gained from further investment. (Ever notice how games steadily decrease in price the first few years after release?)

Uber gets recurring revenue from their app, so expecting them to provide updates is like expecting a rental property owner to maintain the property--entirely reasonable. Expecting a game developer to release patches years later is like a homeowner calling up the original real estate developer and demanding improvements. Not gonna happen.

(With the obvious caveat that homeowners are allowed to do the work themselves without the original developer's permission, but this about economics, not the absurdities of software licensing.)
Innumerate person here, does that mean that supporting Mac is a net loss for a business?
I wonder if he was told, repeatedly, "if you don't like it, leave". My experience has been that companies who don't want to change say this to their best employees, whilst dragging along their worst ones indefinitely. The best eventually follow the advice.
And property prices in London/South East become affordable again, Sterling falls benefiting inward investment, exports, and tourism. So not all bad news then! :)

There's so much defeatism within the UK and anti-Brexit propaganda flying around from vested interests. It's all so tiresome.

> Brexit is a self inflicted shot to the head.

Money isn't the only thing in life.
Plenty of countries regulate public religious practice. Take France, for instance, which even regulates public display of religious symbols . Does it follow that it is hate speech to say, "the government should handle religion more like France."?
Well as he mentioned those were autogenerated reports.
That being said... I tried Planetary Annihilation and it worked without issues for me on Linux.
When is Atom/RSS support getting reintegrated into core Firefox, then?
Sanskrit being mother of most modern languages, including European. There must be a scientific reason why Sanskrit was declared the best language for Computers by NASA. Dwarika cities were discovered intact under seabed proving Indian civilisation is the oldest in the world and was far ahead even 12,000-32,000 years ago. It is clear that there is science in many rituals of Karama based Hindu Vedas, rituals, food, Yoga etc. It is not surprising the claim Indian scientists are making. On the other hand, in a Mahabharata speak, Britain would be called a land of daemons on the basis of the murder, loot, suppression and hijacking of cultures of its colonies. British would like world to believe that sun actually shines out of their backside.
It may be better to solely target SteamOS, Valve's GNU+Linux distribution, and to not support the other distributions who shall adapt/follow SteamOS.
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If anything, can't but help feel that WikiLeaks informed how the ICIJ handled the leaked 11.5 million leaked documents that comprised the 'Panama Papers.' The involvement of multiple journalists, across different organisations, really adds authenticity that the information was handled objectively and fairly. There's been very little criticism of that fact, at least when compared to WikiLeak's handling of other materials.
Maybe you should ask someone in your management chain why Steve was punished for expressing his concerns, thereby ensuring you wouldn't have heard about them internally at Mozilla.
Obviously. Saying norms can help is a platitude. So is saying they don't help with no thought. And that is what I believe most people take from articles like this one.

My problem with these sorts of articles that pop up every now and then is that folks tend to absorb less the 'evaluate your life in its own context' message, and instead hear 'you can be a hot weirdo with no repercussions'. Which is just flat wrong.

I fully agree with you that every person needs to evaluate their place in society and see whether their role is their role or just what they believe is expected. (completely separate tangent, I also believe more people should experience psychedelic drugs for this very reason)
Well, for one thing, it grows incredibly fast, and spreads like a weed (some types, anyway).
> but what’s the explaination for 24 embassy staff members randomly experiencing the same symptoms

Could simply be the Nocebo effect: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200001133420206
Not disagreeing ... it makes little sense to develop commercially for Linux and never has. That doesn't mean that Mac isn't still a niche platform though, and banging on about number of tickets raised isn't really an appropriate way to quantify the value of a particular segment, or not.
On Windows, I often get prompted to install C++ runtime dependencies when installing. One big thing Steam did was manage multiple installs of DirectX for each game. It's just a matter of Linux being cost/benefit to overcome these things, like they have on Windows.
The author, Tom Limoncelli, is seen as an expert in Systems Administration circles, and has written several books The most famous two:

Time Management for System Administrators
The Practice of System and Network Administration

He also regularly gives talks at conferences, etc on the subject.

He is most likely paraphrasing many conversations he has had with people over the years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Limoncelli
> https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/cpp/

CMake is the most used build system for C++. Meson doesn't even register. CMake is also 6th fastest growing language on github : https://fossbytes.com/fastest-growing-languages-in-2018-gith...
Agreed; I think Sundrop Farms provides a path forward here.

http://www.sundropfarms.com/
What is moving to the EU is EU-based activities, i.e. loans/deposits to/from EU customers, derivatives or repos with EU customers, etc.

For loans and deposits, there were likely to be already booked in EU branches already rather than London. These branches are merely being moved to a EU subsidiary. For derivatives, repos and other, these are not really typically funding any activity in the UK.

In any case it is unlikely to have any impact on lending in the UK. What it will have an impact on is where the banks are making their money, i.e. more EU business will be taxed in the EU (keeping in mind that EU business already done out of a EU branch of a London bank was already taxed in the EU).
They didn't pull the support at all.

They've added another driver to a long list of blocklisted drivers that cause issues with the hardware acceleration. Nothing about that list is Linux-specific, as it includes a bunch of macOS and Windows drivers as well: https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/gpu/config/...

Firefox does that too: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...

Between a crashy browser thanks to a crappy driver and a stable browser without hardware acceleration, browsers will always just take the latter route. Don't like it? Run it with a flag and expect it to be a little less stable. That's it. You absolutely can't blame neither the browser nor the platform for that, only the vendor of the driver (or in this specific case NVidia, since it's actively hostile to the vendor).
Luckily, it's easy to block with AdBlock Plus.
All I get is a black page with a bunch of broken image icons. Does this need Flash or something?

(Latest MBP w/ Safari)
The World elevation, long shadows (scroll down a bit on the site) is just stellar! Didn't know the relative above-sea-level differences across the world.
And medical records software

In fact, the entire hospital had plans for multi-hour downtimes due to releases, not to mention department-specific contingency plans if the downtime took longer than expected.
Almost every DBA (both administrator and architect) I’ve worked with was opposed to the workflow that most developers like to use - schema migration tools like Liquibase and FlywayDB along with continuous deployment. I have problems with this approach only if there’s poor testing around database changes and this is the default in most companies. For example, adding an index to a column can write lock an entire table and cause a site outage as a result. On most developer test databases this is accomplished within a few seconds usually in which time most test suites won’t notice the issue. And because most development environments don’t look anything like production for cost reasons, you’re incurring a risk there.

Instead of fixing the technical root of why there’s so much risk, most companies add the most possibly expensive resource out there to mitigate or understand it - a person. The more dysfunctional, the more people get piled on while nothing actually is fixed (this is a larger cultural enterprise problem that goes beyond database changes). Most decent data tier engineers I know don’t like to babysit DB changes yet almost everyone I’ve worked with had that as a large percentage of their time spent. Such a waste of time and talent.

But then there’s a few DBAs I’ve seen that basically don’t do anything productive by making everything that goes wrong a developer problem, refusing to help troubleshoot (even when the DB in question is not accessible to developers), and other not very devops-y behaviors (hostility-first operations that is). It’d be one thing if the DBs had some huge changes happen, but usually I’ve seen these folks hardly do anything visible to me as another infrastructure guy and the troubleshooting I wind up doing on behalf of powerless developers is something that would have taken someone more knowledgeable less than 5 minutes with a quick trace of DB queries in flight and some historical profiling.

But being change review Charlie is something that a lot of people do that, while necessary to some degree, becomes their entire job. That’s just frighteningly dull work to me.
Yes, it's true that some English bands sing in mid-Atlantic accents, but that's not because it's somehow impossible to sing in an English accent.

I think song lyrics are often easier to understand than ordinary speech just because they're slower, independent of accent. For example, I find it easier to understand Spanish in songs than I do when someone is speaking at a normal conversational pace.
AMD first started with open source graphics with the radeon kernel module and pre-SI drivers around ~2009. It was just that Mesa in 2010 was nascent and tiny with it only reaching OpenGL 3.0 support in 2012. It was less AMDGPU being a big deal in 2016 and more that was when Mesa hit approximate parity with the latest OpenGL.
Because it's not solving for the water surface elevation and velocity, only for light reflection and refraction from a pre-set surface.

> The way that the water appear to move comes from slightly altering the point on the refraction and reflection textures that we sample from every frame.
>
> These slight offsets comes from sampling a du/dv map, which is just a texture that encodes different x and y offsets.

The app in the link you posted does indeed look like it's solving at least a shallow water system of equations, and looks very excited to me as a wave physicist.
Just to note, the CoreOS ALB controller [0] has very little in common with the design of Skipper.

The ALB controller configures Amazon Cloud "Application Load Balancers" and adds a Kubernetes service as the upstream. There's nothing in the data path.

[0] Now adopted by SIG-AWS as https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controlle...
Probably less to do with luck/head-in-sand and more to do with filtering out potential employers.
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So do virtually all other Northern and Western European countries.

What you have that they don't have is the English language as the native language. Non UK lawyers (as me) chose to UK arbitration etc. because of the language, not because we trust your courts more than the German, French or Dutch courts.

Yes, arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in most other countries could be conducted in English, but with UK arbitration we know that we would be able to read the statutes, court rulings etc that the arbitrators read and refer to, in the same language as them.
My job gives me a good paycheck, but isn't all that satisfying. It's varied over the years with some jobs being better than others, but overall I can't complain.

Marriage (because of the kids) has been much harder, and at times more stressful. But while I would trade my job in heartbeat, I wouldn't trade my family for anything.

I would definitely say that I'm happy. But like people have said above. Happiness is something you choose. You have to choose to recognize the blessings in life, of which I have many, and to deal with the stress and problems (which I also have plenty) as they come, without letting them rule you.
The thing is, if you only boot into Windows occasionally, you'll have to wait for updates about every time you use it. That's pretty annoying and has actually stopped me from doing it at some point.
This all looks really nice - any idea if there's anything comparable that works with Django?
> The UK is proposing to leave the single market (in the best case)

No, May wants to stay in the single market, the EU is refusing that option.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/single-market...

This stubbornness on behalf of the EU will damage both sides economically and thus be corrected at some point when the current EU administration is replaced by a more reasonable one.
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All good points, but there are a couple mistakes I often see people (not just beginners) make that did not get mentioned:

1. State the problem (and convince the audience it matters) before rushing to present a solution.

2. Know the background of your audience, and figure out how well they need to know the background to get something out of your talk.

And to the grad students: sometimes, when one only has 10-15 minutes to give a talk, it is hard to give one that makes sense to junior members of the audience and still speak to the experts. Don't give up! and don't be shy about asking speakers questions afterwards. Sure, there are some people who think they are too important to talk to grad students (or even faculty) they don't know. The worst you get from asking such people a questions is you get brushed off (don't worry, they're not likely to remember who you are, and it's not likely to have a negative impact on your career). But more often people are happy to go into details, and/or put you in touch with the postdoc / grad student who knows all the gory details, etc. etc.
Steve, you have inspired me many times over for your diligence and incredible work. Good luck on your future project, whichever one it is!
This implies that the people that advocate so strongly about Trump and see it as a true decay of american society is 5%.

So actually a very small minority!
>I'm not sure why Huawei did this.

Because that's how you do press releases.

News outlets print them verbatim, and it's traditional to read like that (as opposed to e.g. "we released a CPU" which on a news outlet it would make it seem like the outlet's team released the CPU").
Rust works great on Windows. I use it every day. Is there anything specifically you had in mind that needs to be improved? Off the top of my head there is some tooling work that needs to be done, but cargo and rustup handle compiling, versioning, and dependency management flawlessly imo.
What's the range though? Considering the battery pack is the main cost contributor, it's always possible to introduce a lower sticker price by further compromising on range.
What does this have to do with computer science and entrepreneurship?

I don't come here for a bunch of political whining.
>Money isn't the only thing in life.

Disclaimer - I'm not trying to be hateful.

That seems like a completely nonsense, garbage statement. Brexit is primarily about money and economics, from what I can tell on the outside looking in.

So what was your purpose in writing that?
But the real question is: has Assange/WL ever been any different? Has it ever not been a tool sponsored/handled by some intelligence agency?
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"Having money isn't everything. Not having money is everything"

- I forgot who first said this.
Another case where the US is shooting itself in the foot. Chinese money will now invest in local Chinese startups, which are growing very quickly, and in other countries other than the US.
+ Norway and Switzerland both have partly artificial economies, buoyed by Oil for the former and dirty money for the latter.
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And in case anyone is wondering why they do that: press releases are intended to be used in an article verbatim. Headline and all. Press releases are written from third person perspective because that's how a reporter would write it.

And if you go on Google and search some text from a press release, you'll find tons of articles using the headline and body completely verbatim like it's their own article. This is intentional.
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More of a meta-comment, but the underscores you used to presumably get markdown italics should actually be asterisks on HN. Normally it doesn't make a readability difference but trying to parse the book names from your post was a tad mentally painful. Took me a little while to realize the asterisk v. underscore thing so I thought I'd pass it on.

Note: I do wish HN would adopt standard markdown
Switzerland is part of Schengen (which UK is not), yet not a member of the single market - they are not in the EU for customs purposes, have many restrictions on imports (e.g. food).
Same reason batteries in your phone or laptop are each a different shape and non-removable. They are an integral part of the design, a significant part of the weight & volume, with significant thermal concerns, etc... many electric cars today even use the battery as a "stressed member", aka the battery provides rigidity to the frame. How exactly will that be hotswappable in two minutes by John Doe?

Basically, the point is a standardized, easily removable, hotswappable widget makes a lot of sense when it's a minor item. But when it's half the weight, value, volume, and engineering challenge, you have to sacrifice all of those attributes to use the hotswap widget.

This originally made me think, if only we could pump fluid electrolyte in & out of the car, and let the battery take whatever form it likes. Then I realized that's called a flow battery, and then I realized that a hydrogen fuel cell is a type of flow battery.
No, it's the "QA environment" that you define differently.
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Multiple news agencies have reported that the Ecuadorians cut off his Internet access in the spring of 2018, after unspecified or wildly speculated-upon "misbehavior" by Assange.
"English law is largely whatever EU law says it is (it's regulated by the EU)."

Aha, but as the major financial services industry player, we actually had a seat at the table, and could actually influence those laws.

Now we may have to follow rules we have no say in, or something.... Only 3 months away, no rush.
> That's a bit of a misrepresentation, because those "successful non-members" are members of the single market, which is currently something that the UK is actively trying to leave.

The UK is trying to leave the EU and stay in the single market. The EU is trying to deny the UK access to the single market.