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No. This is not true. Derivative works are a thing. If that were true Disney would never have been able to make their derivatives of Pinocchio or Snow White.

After Steamboat Willie expires you bloody damned well can make your own Mickey Mouse cartoon, comics, dolls, or whatever as long as you're not claiming to be Disney or using an exact copy of one of their later derivatives.
> why do we have ~200 nations instead of a single world government?

It's easier for powerful central organizations to influence smaller countries which are divided against each other, while believing that they are relatively independent.

Also: latency of information transfer and the speed of light, which lead to local variance and central filtering of changes which are allowed to diffuse elsewhere.
I'm not sure I agree that Mozilla bears no responsibility for Web feature bloat. While you're right that Google currently appears to be stuffing every feature imaginable into their web browser at a breakneck pace in a desperate attempt to make it literally impossible for anyone else to write one, other browser vendors don't need to take it lying down. Imagine if Mozilla, Apple, and (pre-Chromium-fork) Microsoft all collectively agreed not to implement any more Web features: would websites really give up ~30% of their audience (including the lucrative iPhone crowd!) just to use some Chrome-only dingus?

As a nonprofit, Mozilla is in a great position to lead a charge like that. But they've chosen instead to make the problem even worse. On top of everything Google does, Mozilla also creates and implements its own dubiously necessary features (WebVR comes to mind) and uses venues like the Mozilla Hacks blog to promote them to developers.
> I don't consider software engineering to be engineering because we don't have a professional body or licensing or standards

Why would this be the defining characteristic of engineering?
IMAP is much more recent than the Courier font, so you should feel young here.
> I really miss the old Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 days

You could say the same for early iOS apps that just used the default Apple widgets and style. I think ~every app I use know has its own style.

Funny enough, this is less true on computers. Except games.
>Sherlock and Batman

Sounds awesome.
To a certain degree, like with many wildly held beliefs, dispelling biggest cryptocurrency zealotry becomes a whack-a-mole game: of the thousand disprovable beliefs, any given person presented with any given disproof will claim "Well I certainly don't believe that, so you've not done anything against my specific (possibly shifting) 17 beliefs".

In particular, re: "Nobody serious says that decentralization == privacy" -- this is presented as tautology on regular basis, by people that certainly hold themselves as serious and I'm willing to take as such, on Hacker News and other IT-related forums, as well as many other venues.

"Are people suggesting that new economics are needed? I don't think most people are suggesting that" - a lot of more zealous cryptocurrency supporters are very much on the "this is like nothing we've ever seen before" bandwagon, and/or are explicitly desiring as a goal/hope a massive disruption of economic and financial systems.

Just like, if there are N Christians, there are in my experience N+1 Christian belief systems, so it appears to be the case for cryptocurrencies. People more patient than myself are trying to make a dent by tackling those N+1 arguments, hopefully cognizant that for any set of believes P, they'll be presented with those exclaiming set of beliefs Q which obviously has nothing to do with P, those people into P are deluded/irrelevant, and they would never agree with them (unless it offered them temporary advantage:).
>> method of making sure I finished my meal

That approach has been linked to the obesity crisis. MacDonalds knows all about it, the need to finish what is given to you regardless of whether you are still hungry. They observe the lengths customers go to get that last fry at the bottom of the container. We should at least consider teaching kids today to not eat everything on the plate every time. Perhaps they should learn to stop on their own.
probably. and I sure hope so, since they use it as an example.

but why in the world would you have that happen on a font demo site? use an image/svg. otherwise it's risking becoming a demonstration that it's unreliable/you don't know what you're doing. (not that browsers make this stuff easy... but still.)
If I understand correctly, you can only use the initial art as it is, but nothing else. Latter colorful work and trademark(not even related) should be still far from allowance, legally speaking.
Making stuff is half figuring out what to do and half fixing the inevitable mistakes
Thanks, link: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
More importantly, you're losing out on a bunch of protections that you can't get with a debit card alone (price protection, various warranties, chargeback, etc).
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From what I understand, SUVs generally count as "trucks" rather than "cars" for regulation purposes, so they don't need to meet the same efficiency standards. I'm sure that's a big part of it.
I must admit that I find the whole idea of micro-aggressions somewhat suspect, at least as currently posited, since it becomes an apparent necessity for me to second guess everything that anyone says to me for ulterior or questionable motives. As an introvert this degree of "extrospection" sounds utterly exhausting.
They can be used as pejoratives once "extreme" is added.
What bugs me more is how Apple removed scroll bars. It's left me staring at a Finder window thinking I'm going crazy because ls said there's a file there.
I’ve never seen this before. With 0% APR they should be identical. Are you missing an initial down payment?
I would bet that if one is unsavvy about it one gets paid out about as quickly as they pay vendors (which can be glacial) but that a demand letter to the general counsel with a judgement attached results in a check getting cut no later than the business day after the day the letter is opened.
In my case the workbench is the sacrificial piece. I have a 3/4" sheet of MDF on top of my workbench that I can screw into/paint/whatever, and just swap it out when needed (ends up being every 18-24 months with my fairly limited usage).
Nice eye, I noticed that too. However, on my browser, the "ř" looks like Times New Roman. Might be a bug with the site's fallback.
>everyone knows that immigrant labor keeps rural communities going in Iowa

What? I know people who made $30 an hour with full benefits in the 70s doing those jobs. It amazes me people can claim to support the poor/middle class and illegal immigration at the same time

Illegal immigration killed those communities by driving down wages and forcing people to go to college and move to a city to find a job that provides a living wage. The result is the death spiral of many rural communities as young kids are forced to leave

I won't blame illegals completely, big business and corporate farms are the ones that pushed for it in the name of better profit margins for investors
Ask HN: What was your worst personal financial mistake?
I'm curious what traps smart people have fallen into that I should avoid, perhaps because you weren't informed or perhaps because you got to confident in some way.
I did not spend that much effort on this.. I know the text-shadow on links is kinda bad, and I'm also not happy with the green for visited links. But other than that, this made HN much more readable for me, I figured you might enjoy it as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18752033
I don't think it's ironic at all. It's just that most of us may be a different kind of hacker.
Technically the FAQ says first weekday but nobody thinks of Jan 1 that way.
That and a lot of nostalgia. Don't get me wrong, I love old computers, too, but going back to 1976 isn't going to fix UI's for most people. The Xero Alto was revolutionary not only for the GUI it evolved (not invented, out of Doug Engelbart's NLS) but also for it's underlying use of the Smalltalk language which made the system theoretically programmable by anyone.

The problem is that NO UI is going to make programming accessible to everyone, a lesson we learned painfully and expensively in the 90's when CASE (computer aided software engineering) tools were all the rage. For you see, it isn't the UI that makes programming difficult (nor the language), it's the cognitive burden of building a complex construct of nothing.

There are only so many people in the world who can or desire to be programmers. The idea that coding is for everyone is just as foolish as the idea that playing piano is for everyone. Sure, anyone can hack at a keyboard (musical or otherwise), but writing great and useful software takes special skills. The UI isn't going to gift them to you.

I do think we need better user interfaces and it's true that today's applications have moved backwards in many ways, but don't let wistfull recollections of things that never were get in the way of real progress.
I think it's more a question of the number of newcomers, and their desire to integrate into the community versus their desire to change it to be like their place of origin. Some small towns seem very happy to accept hard working immigrants who they perceive to have compatible moral values.

For non-straight, I'm occasionally surprised by how well integrated (and even beloved) some non-straight inhabitants have been in the small towns I've lived in (Wisconsin and now Vermont). The problem might be that a town which is 90% welcoming may have the effect of being extremely non-welcoming depending on how much the 10% objects and behaves.

Earlier today I posted what I thought was an interesting small town Iowa immigration story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-27/two-towns.... I was surprised by how welcoming at least some parts of the town were.
Now I'm curious. What did you intend to write? Your post gives equal credence to herbal pseudoscience and modern medicine and, in context, questions whether antibiotics were worth it.

Yes, I should probably find a way to condemn luddite fatalism and anti-intellectualism without pointing out that they are species-wide suicide, exactly as irrational as the personal version and exactly as unacceptable to push for. Maybe I should have simply downvoted you, flagged your post, and hoped nobody saw it. I'll even apologize; I am sorry.

That said, honestly, "disagree" is entirely too weak a word for my perspective on the beliefs your comment helps people believe. I'm going to contest moloch-worship and naturopathy and luddism even when they're unintentional. When they show up on Facebook and Reddit they end with twentysomething mommies deciding not to vaccinate their babies and assaulting Waymo safety personnel. And, well, my real audience are those potential antivaxxers and bucketed crabs, so logos is actively counterproductive and I'm stuck with ethos and pathos, neither of which are anything like good faith. :/
We shouldn't have to rely on post-hoc science to tell us that. Designers should not be allowed to execute in counterproductive ways in the first place, and there was nothing non-obvious about this. We have rules about how road signs should look. How are we going to get back the time lost now?
It makes perfect sense. There's no logical requirement at all that she should want France to be obligated to provide for China's citizens just because she wants China to be obligated to provide for China's citizens.
I have not actually seen a supply-chain use case in production that doesn't involve a central authority. Have you?

It seems to me that for anything involving a central authority, there are much better technologies.
A subtlety bears mentioning: History favors both centralized and distributed power, at different times, in different places, in quasi-cyclical fashion. Examples of history thwarting centralization include the collapses of: the Roman Empire, the USA in the 1860s, the 3rd Reich, Yugoslavia, the whole Warsaw Pact, and the USSR. Some of these were later "re-centralized" and some weren't. When things get too decentralized, centralization kicks in. When things get too centralized, decentralization kicks in. It's a balance.
Crypto is not even zero sum, it's negative sum, because whilst the value is set by people trading to each other, real USD has to come out of the system every day to pay for the electricity to support it.

The reason it hasn't "generated" wealth and has merely "moved" it, is because it doesn't allow everyone to succeed. Say in your case, person A bought at $1 and sold at $100, so he is up $99. But someone else had to buy the bitcoin he sold, so that person is currently sitting at -$100. For one person to profit, another necessarily has to lose.

The price of bitcoin could increase almost indefinitely, since the whole "hodl" meme is about reducing the supply and reducing the float, which allows it to continue to pump upwards and for people to get rich on paper. But it will never be possible for all of them to actually cash out, there isn't enough real USD in the crypto economy to allow that.
Interesting. It makes it mysterious to me at which point a mere collection of "facts" about a fictional character turns into a copyrightable depiction.
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if you ask me, it's form against function
My bets are the holes were drilled and sealed in Russia, before launch.
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fortunately it can all be disabled in about:config as needed
“19 female and 1 male university students” participant is a laughable small sample group. How can any insight be drawn from that?
After years of switching between programming fonts, I finally settled on SF Mono. Not planning to switch any time soon (and hopefully ever).
>Anyway, everything else doesn't follow, because culture isn't a thing that can be just transported from one place to another. Nobody's got a reliable recipe for growing a specific culture. I think culture is instead a result of the environment.

my argument is that history and values are culture. "everything else" is just physical infrastructure, which is comparatively easy to build, compared to getting people who value the things that need to be valued if you want a tech hub.
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Thanks!
It would be even spookier if somebody (unexpected) knocked on the door...
I was not familiar with the AWS link, I will take a look.
Thanks!
The Courier typeface actually predates the IMAP server by 40+ years!
Of course that's a thing! Although 13% doesn't sound like a significant amount. The trick I used in high school: Write the essay. If it's too short by 20-30%, increase the verbosity in every place you can until it's long enough. If it's short by more than 30% then you have bigger problems. If your essay only needs an extra page on a 15 page assignment, chances are you can add fluff and easily hit the 15 page mark.
Technology can automate and organize a lot of it better than a human government, and with no crazy ideological agendas.
For those looking to buy a new car and have a Costco in your area, I highly recommend looking into their Auto Purchase program. They negotiated great pricing below invoicing. I did a ton of work shopping around for a new car just before Thanksgiving and I couldn’t find a better price.

For reference the 2017 Toyota Highlander XLE AWD was $1700 under invoice.
I've worked at a few companies in the US on various visas. If they ask if you are legally allowed to work in the US I'd generally suggest that you say no but also mention that you would qualify for a TN visa. Because a TN visa is cheap, quick, and relatively straightforward to get I've never personally experienced or heard of a company rejecting a Canadian applicant for this.
From personal experience Rust has the lowest “Google search to error message” ratio (if that’s a metric) of any programming tool I’ve used. It’s genuinely a delight to use after having to deal with error messages from various JavaScript tools, Python packages, and C/C++ build tools.
Probably good for full-screen writing. Anywho.

Feel free to add an opinion, I've been evaluating and whittling choices of fonts for code development:

So far Monaco and Source Code Pro seem best.

- Fira Mono https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono

- Hack https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

- Inconsolata https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata

- Monaco http://www.gringod.com/2006/11/01/new-version-of-monaco-font...

- Pragmata Pro https://www.fsd.it/shop/fonts/pragmatapro/

- Source Code Pro https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

I think monospaced, sans-serif, semi/bold, large punctuation and disambiguated look-alikes with antialiasing on works best on a low res laptop. Monospaced serifs seem to look better for code online.
so that's what we need to work on then. improve the quality of life everywhere.

mind you, we may need to rethink how to best do that without being imposing, but that is something we can workout.

poverty levels have reduced worldwide according to statistics, so it is possible. it will just take some more effort to get there.
I tried both FreeCAD and SolveSpace [1] a couple of years ago on Linux, to design a custom computer desk that had to fit into a fixed space, so a parametric CAD with constraints was useful.
For that purpose SolveSpace was a lot more stable (IIRC it only ever crashed once, whereas FreeCAD crashed a lot more often). YMMV those bugs may already be fixed by now, but if you are having trouble with it I'd definitely recommend trying Solvespace, and in either case save often!
[1] http://solvespace.com/index.pl
Thanks! I appreciate the frankness.

Regarding remittances, I don't believe any blockchain technology has made a significant dent in the market. If you have data otherwise, I'd be interested to see it. But I live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of money transfer places, and all of them seem to be conventional.

As to the rest, I think we're talking about light financial crime. (Light because the heavier sort isn't big on having a permanent public record.) It's hard to know, of course, but is this usage going up or down? I had the impression that KYC/AML efforts were putting a big crimp in it. Either way, it seems self-limiting to me, in that significant success invites more attention from various authorities, which strongly discourages participation from people who would like to remain on the right side of the law.
Data is the new oil.
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I think you might have scrambled up your protein recommendation of 0.5/g/lb. The RDA for protein is 0.8g/kg of body weight. Maybe you meant 1g/lb?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-much-protein-do-you-...
In that case, why do we have ~200 nations instead of a single world government? Clearly, sovereignty matters to groups of people.

Italy alone used to be a dozen+ independent city states. Divided the world 200 ways seems like a lot unless you look at how much it's been divided historically. And in comparison, that's extremely centralized.
The same could be said about Hypertext Fiction in the 15+ years ago time, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved upon (look at cave paintings).

We're still in the silent movie era of internet media and content, where pretty much everybody could (and did) try something, and there were a (relative) zillion releases to prove it. Either by attention or chemistry a lot of it didn't survive, but it eventually built concepts that are still in use today.
They have reissues for the books by R.A. Montgomery through chooseco. The books by Edward Packard are not included. I did a bit of Googling, and found an interview where he explains that it was a trademark thing, where Random House let it lapse, Montgomery snagged it and put his books out under the trademark of 'CYOA', while Packard instead made some into mobile apps under the name U-Ventures: http://www.gradyhendrix.com/edward-packard-interview/
I've always thought that was a terrible argument. The same logic could be used to justify slavery since our food price would drop even lower. Work conditions aren't much different for illegal laborers compared to slaves anyway. If they complain they get deported
You're conflating wanting each society to provide the best for its citizens with wanting each society to provide for other society's citizens.

Like her, I think China should do something about its wealth inequality. Like her, I don't the Czech republic really needs to get involved.

It is, as you say, an "important distinction".
> I see a lot of demand from enterprises (particularly in financial services and supply chains) for blockchain.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I understand that's the claim. What I'm asking for is not general areas, but specific examples of where a blockchain is actually in use and delivering value.

As far as I've seen, all of the examples in those areas are at best pilot projects. Actual utility seems to be somewhere close to zero. E.g.: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_fi...
Ish. Batman is basically an “action Sherlock” already. You would have to significantly tweak one or the other to make it interesting. But yeah, having the freedom to do that in a professional production would be pretty fun.
Are people suggesting that new economics are needed?

That's a mantra I've heard non-stop for as long as I've been paying attention to cryptos.

To be fair, though, I hear it almost exclusively from the evangelists and traders, who have an economic interest in pushing that narrative.
Not sure if the hull has other through holes for mounting stuff, but this one could easily be just that. Someone drilled a hole they thought made sense, it didn't, they sealed it with the wrong material and didn't say anything about it.

I bet every spacecraft has a couple non conformances like that.
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Can you please stop trolling? You make assertions about GNU Emacs development while obviously having no clue about it. Your last question is nonsense (why don't those companies just not build on Eclipse instead of making new IDEs? Has it occurred to you that maybe it is because they want to make a new program?). Programs like Eclipse don't offer even a tiny fraction of the features that I use GNU Emacs for every day, and I only use a small fraction of the different GNU Emacs features and packages.

Have you ever tried working on an Eclipse plugin? You obviously have no experience writing extensions to GNU Emacs if you think that "It is just harder than with other languages." You are living in Java fantasy land.

There are literally dozens of Emacs packages for different programming languages offering refactoring support. The vast majority of Emacs development is done outside of the main repository. People decide to build on built-in GNU Emacs code, on other third-party packages, and sometimes third party packages get merged into the main repository. There is a huge group of different development communities around GNU Emacs that is unmatched by any IDE, and few other applications at all, right now. GNU Emacs is an overwhelmingly successful example of a project with a large number of developers, and among other things it shows that you do not need namespaces (modules) or OO for this.
Which is why it's important to make your opinion heard regarding how it's spent.