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> Do I find the idea of trying to deduce an entire ethical framework from first principles fascinating and the way it is done interesting: yes

I wonder if there is anyone less deranged than Rothbard working within the same deontological framework. I honestly struggled reading "The Ethics of Liberty" because I can't accept his base principles. I was hoping to find some kind of justification for homestead principle, but he basically says it's self-evident. Maybe for American libertarians it is, but for most people it's not.

David Friedman's consequentialist approach is probably less aesthetically pleasing, but at least his "The Machinery of Freedom" shows that you don't have to be a lunatic to be an AnCap.
I have things I use at least once a week that don't spark joy. Should I now get rid of them and get new ones? It doesn't seem to say anywhere.
> I don't know how much control she has at the moment being married to the person that actually owns the stocks, but if she gets 50% in a divorce that sounds like a financial jackpot. That's akin to state sponsored theft IMO.

I don't understand this comment. Marriage is not a social convention, it's a legal contract. Saying that she won a jackpot or somehow did something devious shows a huge level of misunderstanding.
Pixel has no bloatware.
Dozens of politicians are elected over and over. Richard Byrd from Virginia retired from the Senate in 2010 after 51 years. That's the current "record".

It's similar in the House. John Conyers just stepped down due to scandal after 52 years.

IMO, that there are no term limits is absurd. Thomas Jefferson got it:

https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/quotations-jeffers...

As we've improved our understanding of the human brain through neuroscience, and how can see that ideals will get lodged in people's brains and not change, having people serve that long just leads to stagnant idealism controlling politics.
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One of them was a broken link (at least from here) :

#15 Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf]
Same and about the same timeline.
There are a few tweaks you can make to gits diff so it shows changes in a line better, but it's not great.

You can also write each sentence on its own line - output will still put them in the same paragraph. But it's not as nice a reading experience of the markdown.
Don't forget about Police Story! I can still remember seeing that in a smokey Chinatown theater in NYC and being stunned by that mall scene at the end.
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Never forget the corollary!

“...But don’t dismiss malice.” Dismissing reasonable concerns about a nearly universal practice is best done through reasoned argument, not aphorism.
I started learning Mandarin a few months ago. My kid goes to a Saturday school so I figured I might as as well join when they made an adults class.

Thus far it's been reasonable. I do have some advantages, having parents who speak Cantonese. In fact a lot of the words seem similar. The grammar might be different, but we're not flying through the course since it's once a week.

I'd say thus far it's like when I went to learn German, being a native speaker of Danish. With just a very few lessons, knowing the neighbouring language opens up the new language very fast. I could pick up a German newspaper and read it within a few weeks, it having been gibberish to me previously. Even quite complex political stuff was understandable suddenly.

With Mandarin my expectations are lower. The characters are still hard to remember, and tbh I haven't spent the time trying to memorize them. What's cool is I've learned how to use a pinyin keyboard, which allows me to convert the sounds written in Latin script to Chinese characters. Much like one might write emojis. But I'm able to write stuff to Chinese friends and they can read it.

The great thing is translation services are pretty good now. You can just paste the pinyin into google translate, and something sensible seems to come out. Part of this is of course I have closer priors being a Cantonese speaker.

And finally I'm now on WeChat, which turns out to be one of the biggest apps in the world. Interesting to see how design is done in other parts of the world. The teacher has us write answers to questions in WeChat, and she has us pronounce stuff so she can critique it.
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My scary thought is if this dramatically increases the availability of food and the population rises. Then it fails later because it turns out that adaptation was to prevent some weird virus from destroying the plants...
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I'm struggling to even find the canonical source code for xxd, let alone a way to provide a patch. You could probably email the address in the man page, but that's from 1997 so I wouldn't be too optimistic about getting a response. And even then it's quite likely that the original author considers xxd finished and would be reluctant to accept patches for it anyway. On top of all that the hard part of this work (cross-platform terminal colours) had already been done for the author, so the implementation was probably far easier than adding colour output to xxd would have been.
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To be pedantic, that's till harvesting your data, it's just not selling it.

Does that make it malicious and stupid?
I'm also a maker, but this guy is just entered in my pantheon of hero. Swords ! With some kind of code can be a solution, also ! :-)
Are there enough superchargers in Europe (inc. UK) fo this to be feasible?

What do you do if (as seemed to happen to the author) a supercharger station is out of action and you are on 20% battery with the next station half a charge away?
This is deeply unsettling to be honest. It means kenya is looking f or a long-term relationship with China even though chinas debt driven diplomacy is already pushing the country into a precarious financial state.
> Despite that, I'm not sure what there is for us at HN to discuss. Maybe how divorce effects successful businesses?

I hate the gossipy implications of these stories, and they're legitimately sad news, but there is plenty to discuss that is relevant to HN

- How this could impact Amazon, Blue Origin, etc

- How challenging relationships are

- How difficult it is to stay together through major life changes, in this case they married before Amazon and are splitting now with Amazon being one of the worlds largest companies... imagine that journey together?

- How divorce/breakups effect people

- How relationships/divorce/breakups effect businesses, financial decisions

etc
The frustrating part is that you cannot protect yourself from that outside of turning your cellphone off or putting it in airplane mode.
I'm not sure I've seen it. I'll have to give it a watch.

I also really enjoyed his recent one with Pierce Brosnan— The Foreigner. It has a far more dramatic tone than the others, but it's great.
Audio over Bluetooth has been one of the most consistently terrible user experiences I've encountered, and I used Linux as my daily driver in the early 00's.
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Traditional web frameworks typically have far higher security risks, for example, Django executes all queries as the same superuser. Once someone cracks your django, the database is toast. With an RLS based system like both PostgREST and Postgraphile leverage, the application has no more privledges than any other user with a valid key.
Wasn't the whole point of the iPhone SE to shore up the lower end for exactly these types of situations? Why then did they kill it and simultaneously release the most expensive versions yet? It's easy to say "well China had a rough year" but if your business model doesn't account for market swings like that you're Doing It Rong™
This is only for notifications... Not really a Core functionality..
One example was hands free laws. That was supposed to happen in 96/97. Our lobbyists kicked that can down the road quite a long ways. I had a major project queued up in PoC phase with an AI that listened in the background to everything you said. You could tell her to conference in someone, call someone, hang up the call, etc.. This was before "smart" phones. It was the same software used by the gov. to monitor calls for key phrases. No training required, she could understand any language, accent and context. Really cool software actually.

Another incident was around someone that broke the GSM encryption algorithms and was going to go public. My boss and a federal official met with them and explained what prison they would disappear into and for how long. Such things were postponed until long after the internet had grown and disclosures became more common. Nowadays people know that the GSM algo's have been broken for some time.

Another one was a spammer that managed to get his own SS7 signaling link and was spamming phones with text messages. I suggested dropping his link and I was told to let it go, since he was paying for the link... There are no laws against spamming mobile devices because they are not landlines. The laws around unsolicited advertisements only applies to landlines and fax machines. As I am sure you all know, having your own SS7 link means you can spoof the caller ID, do caller-id blocking override, drop callers on congested cell sites and much more. This is why 2FA on cell phones is less effective.

This one isn't so much about laws but rather ethics, and phone theft. From day one, we had the ability to brick any GSM phone over the air. We chose not to do this however, as customer support could accidentally brick the wrong phones. As you know, this led to phone theft being very profitable. That was the very thing that GSM bricking was supposed to stop, but we were just not willing to do it. There were no laws requiring us to use our capabilities to remove incentive to steal phones. There was discussion of making laws to require this, but we blocked all discussion from happening.

Some of the other issues I can think of would be rather risky to post here, despite being well after the statute of limitations, as they could cause embarrassment for certain agencies and could risk HN getting censored.
One reason to be more concerned about privacy in a nationalized communication network is because it removes a middle man - one who cares at least a little about PR backlash - from the current system. In a nationalized system, there is likely much less friction for a bureaucrat to block entire classes of content than there is today (where they need to deal with a handful of companies whose goal is to make money rather than silence dissident opinion).
No, we have instead started a good dozen coups, and a dozen offensive wars (with varying levels of justification).

I am pretty sure that if the targets of those wars had WMDs, those wars wouldn't have taken place.

Incidentally, how many times has Israel been invaded since it illegally acquired WMDs?
All red flags except for this:

> * Some arrogant community members were tolerated just because they wrote popular blog posts on Nim implementing a fashionable pet project.

Arrogance is a problem, but kicking out a participant should require a bit more than their being arrogant.
> Is that what you call crapware?

Yes, especially LinkedIn. I do not want any software offered by or affiliated with LinkedIn installed on a device I own.
What do the FB "true believers" believe? Is the belief the same one now as it was five or ten years ago?
I had issues loading my dashboard too for a couple minutes. But it seems to work fine now.
So let people build up like every sane city does.
Views are the abstraction layer:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tutorial-views.html

Your application layer "security system" is just row level security done outside the db.
That could be why Rush Hour was such a hit. Chris Tucker is also very expressive in everything he does so it was a good matchup with two great actors.
If you want pure cyberpunk, take a look at R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020.

If you like fantasy mixed in with your cyberpunk, Shadowrun is the gold standard. A word of warning: Shadowrun has a rather heavy, complex system, because it does absolutely everything. But I like it a lot.

Generic systems like GURPS and Savage Worlds can do cyberpunk of course, although I don't think GURPS Cyberpunk has been updated to the 4th edition. No doubt something exists for Savage Worlds, but I have no idea what.

There are other cyberpunk systems that I know very little about, but others are enthusiastic about, including Eclipse Phase (seems to include space and transhumanism, so it's probably not pure cyberpunk, but it might suit your taste), or Ex Machina.

Sprawl seems to be the Apocalypse World/Dungeon World adaptation for cyberpunk.

SF is much broader. The original SF RPG is of course Traveller, which is somewhat retro; the game predates computers and doesn't have many (any?) robots either. But if you want to travel around in a space ship, this is great.

Stars Without Number is an SF game that translates ideas from the OSR movement to the SciFi setting.

There are of course several different Star Wars games, including the original d6-based game by West End Games (recently republished by Fantasy Flight Games), the d20 (D&D-like) Saga Edition, and the Edge of the Empire-style games by Fantasy Flight.

GURPS is great at SciFi, and I'm sure Savage Worlds does it too.

Diaspora is a small but really cool hard SF game based on the Fate system. I love how you first generate the worlds together and then generate the party together. In space combat, dumping heat is a major concern.

Paranoia is weird dystopian funny SF. The Computer is your friend.

Starfinder is the SF version of Pathfinder. I assume the system is therefore D&D-related, but I honestly don't know.

Dark Heresy takes place in the Warhammer 40K universe.

But there are dozens if not hundreds of others.
The US has no general privacy law, but there's a clue in one of its hilariously specific privacy laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

The way to get a cellphone privacy law is to get the locations of congresspeople (especially Republicans), and use this against them.
“Whom” is disappearing and everyone needs to chill about it
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I have used ConTeXt a fair amount and I like it quite a bit. I would actually say it is easier than LaTeX, in the sense that it is more discoverable. After you use it for a bit, you see that the macros are all built on each other in predictable ways, so they all tend to take the same options and achieve similar effects. In LaTeX, the answer to your questions is usually "there's a package for that," whereas in ConTeXt, the answer is often "this macro takes the same options as this other macro, so just pass them in."

What is different about ConTeXt is the prevailing attitude towards using plain TeX from it. LaTeX really seems to consider plain TeX quite unsafe. I suspect this is because it is hard to build a resilient declarative system on highly weird and procedural TeX. ConTeXt, on the other hand, kind of encourages you to use TeX directly. So that led me to learning more about plain TeX, which now seems much less scary to me than when I was using LaTeX.
There's order of magnitude more homonyms in Mandarin than English to the point where having a pictograms system starts making sense. That's why 80 percent of characters are multipart with one of the radicals carrying the pronunciation.
Homonyms don't exist in every language to the extant that you can write an entire essay with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
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Totally OT but: Of course I can see this chef's point but why does it look like they are psychopaths on loose in the kitchen ? When I talk with chefs or people running cuisine they are very aggressive and ready to burst out at any thing with a confrontational and "I am always right" attitude.
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That's like saying you want petrol stations to start closing down, so that manufacturers hurry up with electric cars. The logic is sound, but in the meantime it would be just bloody inconvenient to drive miles to a nearest petrol station while you still haven't got an electric car.

I want wireless headphones too, but I don't want to use adapters with my existing(and very expensive) headphones that I have right now. More importantly, having a headphone jack does not stop bluetooth headphones from working.
It's rather toxic "us vs them" opinion. You shouldn't hate on other people. Most hate on the internet is actually manufactured and people are just hostages to their emotions.
Thank you. That's a fantastic list.
Or don't use a Tesla for something it's not really designed for? Cars can be rented pretty cheaply. 99% of the driving I do is within a single charge of say 300 miles. I might have to rent once a year for longer trips.

My sister has an old generation Nissan Leaf with sub-100 mile range. It works fine for her use case and when she makes a long trip she uses her partners car or rents one.

No different to how I'd rent a van if I was trying to move a sofa.
"Africa" isn't one place, but rather a collection of dozens of countries. But in general, most of them are on the aggressive-growth path that leads from agrarian/illiterate poverty to urban/literate middle class over the course of 2-3 generations, just like Asian and European countries before them. Many African nations are growing economically at rates north of 5% annually, far faster than any "first world" nation.

Colonialism has been replaced by international trade, which expects nations to hold up their end of business. That means businesses want - need - workers who can read and do arithmetic, who are reasonably healthy, have access to transportation and personal communication (phones, internet). They need roads, clean water, good airports, stable local currencies, effective legal systems, all sorts of things that the old colonial system did not require. Provide schools, roads, vaccinations, clean water, and good currency, and it affects everyone. Things get much better very quickly.

This happened in America, too. Hell, both my grandfathers were illiterate. One didn't even have running water or electricity on his farm, when I was a small child and he was an old man. It wasn't weird then.
"Matching" in dating apps is old world thinking.

"Swiping" has largely replaced computational matching because it outsources the decision to the user and allows for high-through-put decision making. Users set a radius and judge everyone who meets their basic criteria in that radius (or for the lucky, select from the cattle-call of already received likes).

Yes, these apps could be limiting the raw number of swipe opportunities, but this would probably just turn users away altogether for lack of viable matches that fit their criteria.
Not only that. How many times has my one machine, with one single version of ms word installed, broken the formatting of my hundreds of pages document...

In the point where you learn how to create all the custom formats needed, and then you make sure to always mark all paragraphs/words/stuff you need to be in such custom formats without any indication other than the dropdown on the top (what is really hard and awkward) and then all you do is going into every single one of the custom formats to fake-edit them and reapply... that's hours wasted... possibly multiple times every week...

Latex is hard, and a piece of crap, but after the learning curve you don't have that kind of problem. The tech doesn't generates rework all by itself just because you went to bed and turned off the computer.

Do I think Latex is good? No; but it's definitely a better solution than word processors for this type of work. It is a bad solution to a hard problem. While word processors is a trivial solution to the same hard problem, one that doesn't really solve it in the end.

Honestly though, I'd love to see something more like Markdown in use here, but no flavor I know currently cuts it. Or maybe a word processor that -actually- supported paper|article|thesis|book|w/e templates and complex constructs...
> ... as by trying to fully top off at every charge, a typical newbie mistake, ...

Hmm, in what way? Throwing my usual home trip (~980km) from Switzerland into Tesla charger route calculator shows me that I'd have to stop twice and coast to each charger at less than 12% of battery left. Those are also only chargers on the route, what's the alternative here? Do a 1300km trip and stop three times?
I'm glad you warned us that the something that happens is really bad. I wouldn't have guessed from the episode title... b^)
I am much more worried about the government spying for my phone than about corporations spying for my phone. All that corporations want is money.
Careful about buying 'new' copies of that phone on Ebay: there are none. Almost all of the new copies bring sold on Ebay for the last year or so are fraudulent. Finding an actual new LG V20, outside of perhaps Korea, is unlikely.

edit: just checked Ebay, and yup, there are no legit new copies to be had, except for maybe AT&T or unlocked variants for $400+. There's a very low chance that anyone will be/or has been able to find a new LG V20 for at least a year, and almost certainly not for a reasonable price.

It is a similar situation for numerous other smartphones on the used market, most new copies for sale are actually remanufactured/used that have been repackaged and fraudulently resold as new from somewhere [originally] in China. The fake LG V20 new copies began flooding the market somewhere in the past 1-2 years, and have dominated since, but that practice is typical for smartphones in general.
For the most part, for airport to hotel and back, Uber/Lyft are mostly interesting relative to cabs because they tend to be cheaper (sometimes substantially). For one trip I do a number of times a year where I need to take a cab from and to the airport at my destination, the only reason I tend to use Lyft is that it's about $15 cheaper than a cab ride.

In general though I don't use Uber/Lyft or cabs all that much when I travel (which is frequently). But, anecdotally, a lot of people seem to have gotten into the habit of pulling their phone out of their pocket whenever they need to go more than a couple of blocks.
The whole point of vinyl is an analog signal chain from source to speaker (never mind that today everything is digitally recorded and mixed). Why then would I introduce an ADC en route to the speaker? I can't control the signal chain prior to the pressing of the vinyl but I sure as hell can control it afterward! If it's not a pure analog signal chain from the needle to the speaker then what's the point?
He never said taxis were great- did you miss this:

> Uber (and its Peter-Thiel-backed rival Lyft) are not good companies. They’re not forces for good. But the system they killed? Also not good.