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I don't buy it. I love coffee and caffeine in general but it's just a stimulant.

I personally believe the net effect is to make your body work harder to get through the day.

I think it's bad unless you were funded by the coffee industry.
Hey HN,

This is a long-time side project of mine. After a few earlier (re)launches, I came back to it a couple of weeks ago. I now feel the concept is so simple, can't be long before it takes off ;)

No seriously, a lag-free & encrypted postgres replica as PITR backup that Just Works is something I've never found and has become something of a personal itch.

Very curious about your feedback
Well they would say that, wouldn't they?
The referendum was enacted as part of an elected party's manifesto that promised to implement the result.

After the election, parties voted to enact Article 50.

After enacting Article 50, the parties that campaigned in the following general election on a promise to implement the decision to leave were overwhelmingly successful.

Ignoring the referendum would have been a poor decision.
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I remember these referendums and in at least one case there was no explanation of the the referendum was the first time around. We were just expected to rubber stamp it. Also on one or other of them concessions were gained on the second time round. So it wasn’t just like the ”keep voting til you get the right result” thing that you hear people spouting ... does anyone actually believe we’re that soft?
> 2. I am not sure how you can claim the majority of the populace is against leaving the EU. A national vote demonstrated the opposite. And it's not clear that another vote now wouldn't yield the same result

I'm not generally happy with the idea of assuming those people who didn't vote on the day would have voted in one direction or another; but given that EU citizens who've lived in the UK for many years were excluded from voting we can assume that a lot of those would have voted to remain had they been given the choice.

Unfortunately if we did have another vote the only outcome which would be decisive would be another leave result.

The leave campaign didn't define a vision of brexit beyond vacuous slogans. It left the door open to any dream of what brexit could mean. This is irrefutable in spite of their protests to the contrary.
There is a difference:

If A, then result would NEVER be realistically contested
If B, then result COULD be realistically contested

No one would argue that if the vote were stay, we'd be seeing it again. It wouldn't happen. Not even maybe.

But since the underdog won, since leave won, it is now contestable.

I'm on this fence on this one, and I don't live there, so I don't have a side. But I do see each side's points.
Airbnb makes no effort to control the legal aspect of people letting appartments on their site, nor do they give tax agencies the means to collect taxes. In fact, at some point, they offered their european renters to collect earnings on nameless credit cards from Gibraltar.

There is also the negative effect of renting prices going up, or having your neighbour replaced with 3-4 party organizers a month.
I've been doing similar with node+shelljs for similar reasons. Especially with Windows being used by a lot of devs where I work.

This cheatsheet is still a nice to have though.
One of the most spot-on comments I’ve read in a while.

I laughed out load when reading the part about talking to the actual / real users in the doc. We pretty much never do that, but by God, we’re doin’ agile, ya know.
Don't overestimate the customer.

"I don't like Google Maps and I deleted it. Now I can't see the map! Fix it now!"

"I see. There are competing map services available."

"That's not the map I want. I want the map!(Google Maps)"

"You can use a browser."

"Browser? What is it? I simply want to use map!"

"If you really wan to use the Google Maps from the app. Then you have to install the app called Google Maps"

"I don't understand you! Speak English! FIX IT! FIX IT!"
There's something to be said for a bias towards the status quo. If it ain't broke don't fix it and all that. If the vote had been 60-40 leave I'd agree with you but it was close to 50/50 and based on some misinformation.
Here you go https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/

The same problem arises though as you can't track senders - there's no way of knowing how many reports were produced by a single machine.
I'm already addicted to your foul dark energy swill, you don't need to sell it to me twice!
Eh, I'm not fussed about that. The example images used are smooth but still rather complex. It would be hard for your average bear to codify them programatically.
I started doing the same thing with my front lawn in Oakland, California due mainly to the last drought. It is now socially more acceptable to have a dry, dead lawn in the summer than a green one, so not watering it doesn't make you look like a poor person or a weirdo. Greens up with the first rains and has a lot of different grasses and flowering plants in it from natural seeding. I like it.

The main problem is getting rid of the tall dry fire-hazard stalks when it completely drys out, a few months after the last rain of the season. Mowing leaves lots of straw to track into the house for months. Burning is out of the question in an urban area plus it kills the insect population. Can't keep a goat year round. If I could rent one goat for a weekend, that would be great.
They are referring to your company, and the "selling" being what you are selling to your customer - aka - your product.
What someone needs to do is put sensors in people's mouths, record them saying known phrases, then stick the sensor data+phrases into some AI and see if we can't get that Trombone talkin'!
8 weeks is not unusual for a study like this (randomized and controlled). Almost no study where researchers tell participants what to do will be longer. Epidemiological studies, of which there are many on coffee, do have more subjects over years, but rely on self-reported data.
Genuine advice is often coloured by a person's own bias and experience, and if another takes it without taking that into consideration, they will be misled by the same faults.

In this case, the advice about baldness is a joke based on a negative stereotype for baldness, and not genuine advice at all. The default response in this post appears to be along the lines of preventing or reversing hair loss, showing support for the stereotype, and that people are taking the content at least a little bit seriously. I'm just here to say this particular piece of 'advice' is misleading at best and harmful at worst. Baldness will only affect your happiness if you let it.
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It’s Switzerland.
> "to be blocked until enough entropy is available"

which is fine. The idea that entropy is a consumeable resource is a crypto myth that needs to die.
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Can we stop with these comments? We get it, and we all know there's a shutdown. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.
Do they mean compressing the amount of neurons involved in computing, or do they mean compressing the outputted model?
They are sovereign, as article 50 proves. Unfortunately, they want something from the EU. Actually a lot. And so they need to offer something in return.

That's the big joke of Brexit. Boris Johnson fantasizing about dozens of trade deals ready to be signed when the UK exits. How many are there now? Zero.

Because the UK isn't in a position as strong as Brexiteers fantasized. Ostensibly they are all for negotiating deals in the national interest, but when the other side has interests, too, that's somehow unfair and they should "go whistle".

Brexiteers are looking for handouts, not real negotiations.
Because the current government only have a majority due to a confidence and supply agreement with the DUP, who would break off that agreement if there was a border between Northern Ireland and RoUK as part of the deal.

Overall to Brexit supports in Britain it doesn’t really matter, it mainly matters politically for the current government. Without the DUP they would effectively be a minority government.
The differences in degree matter a lot.

I'm glad you say that. You should go and look into the frequency of political violence, with an eye to finding things which are not reported by the media. A preponderance of incidents are committed by the extremist far left (Antifa &c) in 2018 and 2019. Then go and look into the frequency of people advocating for and tacitly approving of political violence. A preponderance of incidents are committed by the extremist far left and far right. Really, I'm tired of yahoos who basically say they can do anything, so long as it's no worse than the other side.

In terms of differences of degree, the extremes on both ends of the left/right spectrum seem to be trying for escape velocity from reason and sense.
That's nice, but in Scheme, all pairs constructed by any code anywhere are mutable, and structure made out of mutable pairs can be passed into any library function. An object notation like (a b c) read from a stream gives you a mutable object.

It's a significant language difference that can't be papered over with a data type and handful of functions.
52% of a 72% turnout, so really just ~37% of "the people".

(If I did the maths right)
CSS definitely supports gradients in theory but perhaps the way they work is not to the liking of designers / their audience / their clients

https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_gradients.asp
Red meat is not a risk. Excessive iron is the risk they are referring to. You can research the side effects of consuming too much iron and decide for yourself if you are at risk.
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Medium roasts have the most. With roast, both water evaporation and caffeine pyrolysis increase. Medium hits the maximum. I prefer very light roasts for the flavor.
I want my toaster to burn the weather onto my toast.
Usually they would be. I’m sure there is a rare exception for why you would want to create it as a raster image, but for the usual cases I run across CSS is far more flexible.

Embedded gradient images for use in emails for clients without CSS gradient support, possibly.

In this specific case I can see why layered CSS gradients would be non-trivial to assemble, but it’s a trade off.

Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14926189/creating-a-grad...
Under What Circumstances Will Stripe Ban Your Account? Afraid of a Mistake
My brother and I run a business that sells digital goods. It seems like based Stripe's ToS we're in the clear (although there's multiple sections which we are close to being in violation of)... but if we reach out for clarification and they decide we aren't they could shut us down permanently and take away our ability to object.

We need written approval from them because some of the companies we want to partner with want assurances that we are good to go with our payment provider... has anyone encountered this situation before? Does anyone know what we can do about this? Is there a risk in reaching out to Stripe/does anyone know how understanding they are about things like this?

The digital goods we sell are blockchain based so that adds another level of confusion for people... they're still just digital goods though like anything else - payment processors (and a bunch of other people) just seem incapable of differentiating them from crypto currencies, even though they're totally different.

Any advice/similar situations that people have dealt with? Basically, we're 100% positive that we don't violate any terms but we're scared they might mistakenly think we do.
According to the inflation calculator, https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
the $395 list price in January 1972 is equivalent to over $2400 now.
The idea that food and medical supplies will disappear is completely wrong and has already been debunked by, amongst other people, the head of the NHS.

This is especially true because being in the EU actually increases food costs due to the common external tariff. The only reason food imports would slow is if the government wanted them to, which it doesn't.

The illogical and ridiculous predictions that somehow the only thing keeping British people alive is huge payments to the EU, is not only factually false, but insulting to boot. The UK survived the rest of Europe trying to literally conquer it. Now there are people who seriously believe the country will be brought to its knees by trading on WTO terms.
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"The Brexiters generally are pushing to leave on WTO terms" - to claim that there is a consensus amongst this lot is perhaps a stretch.
The truth is that May never consulted to find out what could fly.

A brexit that involved staying in the EEA would find a parliamentary majority, even now.
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The thing is, the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that 52 percent of Britain had voted that the government should build a submarine out of cheese.

Now, Theresa May was initially against building a submarine out of cheese, obviously. Because it’s a completely insane thing to do.

However, in order to become PM, she had to pretend that she thought building a submarine out of cheese was fine and could totally work.

"Cheese means cheese," she told us all, madly.

Then she actually built one.

It’s shit. Of course it is. For God’s sake, are you stupid? It’s a submarine built out of cheese.

So now, having built a shit cheese submarine, she has to put up with both Labour and Tory Brexiters insisting that a less shit cheese submarine could have been built.

They’re all lying, and they know it. So does everybody else. We've covered this already, I know, but it’s cheese and it’s a submarine. How good could it possibly be?

Only she can’t call them out on this. Because she has spent the past two years also lying, by pretending she really could build a decent submarine out of cheese.
If the pro brexit rallies are anything to go by the number of people who truly feel passionately for it are not bothered enough to take to the streets.
> as I'm sure you are aware: the texts of the constitution and the Lisbon Treaty are essentially completely identical

I am not aware of any such thing, in fact I reject your statement completely.

> the electorate were not given the option to reject it a second time
Isn't that a matter for France to address, rather than the EU
If the UK signs the deal. Of course binding yourself by treaty to some future action does not negate your sovereignty. It's an expression of your sovereignty!
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To what extent are "DNA strand breaks", as measured in a blood sample, correlated with other health outcomes?

Caffeine is a diuretic. The coffee group likely consumed more total liquids in the course of the treatment. So the mechanism might be simply more flushing of damaged cells – possibly beneficial, but not unique to coffee.

It's odd for the headline to highlight "dark roast" when lighter roasts weren't tested, for comparison.
I wonder why it bothers people about battery packs, but not propane tanks. They seem to have equal chances of exploding.
I think this is accurate, and not at all pedantic.

The idea that software has 'gettiers' seems accurate and meaningful. To some degree, making and maintaining gettiers is in fact the point of black-boxing. Something like a well-implemented connection pool is designed to let you reason and code as though the proxy didn't exist. If you form beliefs around the underlying system you'll lack knowledge, but your beliefs will be justified and ideally also true.

(One might argue that if you know about the layer of abstraction your belief is no longer justified. I'd argue that it's instead justified by knowing someone tried to replicate the existing behavior - but one form of expertise is noticing when justified beliefs like that have ceased to be true.)

And yet this story isn't about facades breaking down, it's just a common debugging error. Perhaps the precise statement the author quotes is a true and justified, but the logic employed isn't. And it's an important difference: being aware of environment changes you didn't make is a useful programming skill, while being aware of broken abstractions and other gettier problems is a separate useful skill.
On one side, I'm not liking this ruling as it's a weird reversal on freedoms.

On the other side, gambling acts as a one-way function on money, allowing laundering. So reducing the ability for laundering is a good thing.

Finally, gambling can easily destroy family finances so it's good policy to curb it on those grounds as well - requiring the gambler to visit an establishment means potentially less nets-eggs being broken to feed a habit.
a right to punish others

This "right to punish others" should be a big red flag, be it from extremists on the right or the left. Both extremes have poor records, historically speaking.
Apple Maps allows this, at least on macOS. I've never looked for the option on iOS but I assume it's there somewhere too.
> You are. When you buy insurance, you are betting that you will have an unforeseen incident and will utilize your insurance.

Almost, but I don't feel like this is 100% accurate, because neither involved party wants an unforeseen incident to occur - the 'win' situation, if you could call it that, is the same for both parties. I can sort of see the argument that you are betting you "won't win", but I can't see it as gambling behavior:

> I don't see why source of a risk matters here.

Gambling implies taking a risk for possible gain, no? To me, part of the difference is that the risk/chance involved (life) is not intrinsic to the transaction - it is more or less known what your returns will be, and under what conditions. Contrast this to, say, a slot machine, where the 'win' conditions are owned by the house and unbeknownst to you. There is no situation where you can know you will be paid out for any given parameters.

What about flight insurance? Is that a gamble because no one knows if you'll make your flight? Are you betting that you won't make your flight because you purchased it, or are you paying for a conditional service?

(mostly not serious) aside: if what you posit is true, is the peace of mind one gains from having insurance akin to gambling addiction?
Boycotting of countries or not is one thing. Once in a country and following the law, Apple's business model is simply more conducive to privacy. Unlike Google, they are not reliant on the collection and analysis of data. On the contrary, like DDG, they use privacy as a differentiator and advantage. The only thing you can trust about companies is their business models.
Well, I find that's obviously a very biased type of report based on a flawed premise. An economic migrant will eventually have kids and grow old, so in 40 years time the 'average' migrant won't be contributing more. It's just that they are right now. Or, perhaps worse, they'll take a large proportion of their total earnings out of the UK in a decade and move back home.

Anyway, putting aside that, they knew they couldn't release reports like that because they had to pretend to be anti-immigration.

So rather than having the conversation which was vitally necessary to reduce anti-immigration feelings, they were secretly pro-immigration, and even saw it as a necessity, so they just suppressed it all.
Dunno. BBC from 2016:

> The question of a second referendum was raised by Mr Farage in an interview with the Mirror in which he said: "In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it."
The terminology is troublesome because "Scheme" more specifically determines the language than "Lisp", so "I'd prefer to use Lisp over Scheme" or vice versa is somewhat "apples versus vegetables".
To the extent that's true, his argument is with the author of the article we're commenting on, not the Tech Solidarity list, which is actually much clearer about its threat model.
Could you use a similar idea to go after bitcoin keys? If so, you may not be able to crack any particular key, but you could steal the bitcoins from the ones you did crack.
That's a fine interpretation. But the way you phrased your objection, one could think that potatoes was not actually in the data set, and they pulled the comparison out of thin air. But it was in the data set, and it was a real comparison.
You are ignoring:

a) the narrow outcome

b) the non-binding nature of the vote

c) the fact that leave overspent + cheated

d) the fact that what was presented as "leave" was an impossible lie

(the cake-and-eat-it option)

e) even if you disregard the cake-and-eat-it faction, both "cake" and "eat it" were under the "leave" umbrella. Doesn't hurt to first settle whether you would prefer "cake" or "eat it" and then hold the referendum.

Oh and of course:

"In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way." Who said it? Yes, Nigel Farage.
smartmontools can grab most of that info too, even on Windows.
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Yea the polygraph adds nothing useful here
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Stopped drinking coffee months ago and I have never felt better. Anxiety is down. Sleeplessness is down. General mood is up. Best of all, I no longer get headaches due to Caffeine withdrawal.
Plus this page doesn't print nicely, either to paper or PDF.
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Why couldn't caffeine be the main mechanism-of-action?

It's a diuretic, so those treated with coffee likely drank more total liquids during the study, and perhaps flushed more older/damaged cell material.
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"I understand and do want all these things, but don't need them coming from an ANSI/ISO standard" is substantially different from the Blub Paradox.
>Creating political will means: educate yourself and your neighbors and discover ways (protest, lecture, lobby) to stymie their agenda and advance your own.

Tons of people have been trying this for decades now, and all we have to show for it is Trump and climate denialism. Educating people doesn't seem to actually work in practice.
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> Remain was what it says on the tin stay in the EU and any desired changes happen within the system of the EU.

That's simply not true. Both remain and leave campaigns were backed up by dubious or misleading claims about what the future would look like if the UK voted to leave the EU.

Those backing remain claimed Brexit would cause financial instability and require an emergency budget, that unemployment would rise, that NHS finances would be undermined, that families would be £4,300 worse off, that Scotland would immediately leave the UK, etc. David Cameron said he would stay on as Prime Minister in the event of a leave vote. None of these things happened.
That would have been much more interesting.
Do you know how Julia gets such great ffi performance? Is it inlining, for instance?
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French referendum was the exact opposite of Brexit referendum.

The question asked was « Do we accept this constitution ? »

As you can imagine, barely anyone read it, so on the end most of voters choosed their response on this question : « Do I like my actual government ? »

But my point is, for the Brexit the question was simple, and could have been summarized as « Leave or stay ? » which is very easy to have an opinion on (even if the consequences were not that clear and, as many have stated in other comments here, an elaborated exit treaty should have been thought before asking).

So one one side, a complex question (due to the complexity of the text), and on the other a simple one.

And in the end, most of voters voted emotionally.

Maybe not that different after all.