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I thought this was one of the most interesting of Swartz's writings collected in the book The Boy Who Could Change the World, particularly now that Congress, um, isn't.

More information about the seminar at https://ethics.harvard.edu/aaron-swartz-%C2%A0%E2%80%94%C2%A...
You are equivocating additional weak points and additional verifiers when you are using the word "trust" for both.

Having an additional entity the failure of which would lead to a failure of the system/product is an additional weak point. Obviously, you want as few of those as possible that you have to trust.

Having an additional entity that watches/checks what is going on is an additional verifier. Obviously, you want as many of those as possible that you can build your trust on.

You argument is essentially that you want fewer verifiers in order to have fewer weak points. That's just nonsense. By the same logic, you should prefer an intransparent dictatorship to a transparent democracy, because there are "fewer poeple to trust".
Rhonda Patrick has an information-dense talk on sulforaphane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg
That's not an issue. That's a feature
As another commenter has eluded to, I would love to see them propose some monetisation models for the store. Personally, I think they should make Patreon-style donations possible with a super-low barrier to entry (only 1 to 2 clicks to donate). Maybe they take a tiny (~2%) slice of every transaction to help manage the whole thing. Donations only imho. That would be awesome.
Sort of. It's only really usable for those who want to apply the same restrictions to their users/contributors.
Simplicity is very hard.
> The research team hope that their software could help pharmaceutical companies in the protection of their intellectual property, and to hasten research into organic chemistry.

It seems what they are attempting to sell is a IP protection service: let us show you other molecules and synesis routes you should also patent defensively, without actually attempting them in practice. Pretty soon you will have algorithmically defined patents.

It's IP anti-science at it's worst.
Usage vs production is one of areas where I have had a hard time to get good data. I mostly base my own understand on https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=country&solar=false&rem... and https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&ye...

That said, there is a lot of import/export in Europe on the energy grid.
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I think he means “iOS supported”.
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> Apparently the one downside of Borg is that it has to walk the whole filesystem for backups, rather than picking up changes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/325

This is true of most backup programs.
Have you tried replacing "China" with "Hitler Germany" in your argument? Do you think it still applies? Or can you explain why not?
The site doesn’t claim that slack.com, twitter.com, etc. will go down when the flag is flipped. Just try entering those domains into the testing widget within the “Domain owners” section, and you can see that their status is not so dire:

> Minor problems detected!

> This domain is going to work after the 2019 DNS flag day BUT it does not support the latest DNS standards. As a consequence this domain cannot support the latest security features and might be an easier target for network attackers than necessary, and might face other issues later on. We recommend your domain administrator to fix issues listed in the following
technical report [link to report]

As other comments have said, the new rule does not require that all domains support EDNS, merely that all domains respond with “EDNS not supported” when applicable instead of pretending that they support it. Those sites you linked follow that rule.
> I was amused to find that under some interpretation of his argument, the most extreme varieties of obvious pseudoscience fall under science

You can't define science as 'the right answer' because that is unknowable (notwithstanding that there are a lot of things where if we havn't figured out the truth then the universe is set up to radically deceive us).

And if you accept that unknowability as a premise, then pseudoscience is a perfectly valid science. Something can be completely wrong and still be established in a highly scientific way.

Just because something is provably wrong doesn't make it unscientific. It just makes people who believe it provably wrong. They are likely to be stupid, I admit.
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I cannot express in words how much I feel I relate to this post. Big thanks to the author of the article and OP for posting it here.

A few thoughts:

* Don't compare yourself to others, nothing, absolutely nothing, good comes out of it. Ever. I know this is especially hard in times when anyone can brag about their accomplishments in a blink of an eye on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere else. Follow those people, learn from them but don't compare yourself to them.

* Even if you did not finish your projects you still have learned something which makes you a better programmer.

* Programming is just a tool. Nobody will care much about your code as long as it does its job - be it a great application, service or a useful library.

* Your job pays your bills, if you earn more than others (a very common case if IT jobs), donate money to charity, to a good cause.

* The author has taught a person to program and he created a website. This is not something to be jealous about, the author should be proud of himself. It sounds to be that the author is a good tutor, maybe there's an opportunity to participate in local meetups, organize workshops or start a career in that direction?

* As others already mentioned, programming is not the only thing in life. Maybe there can be other hobbies like painting, carpentry, or gardening?

EDIT: formatting
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If you're using borg backup and would like to support the project, you can do so here: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/borgbackup

Took me forever to find that myself so just posting it here in the hopes that more people will support the developers.
This is the kind of junk science that ruins energy discussions. Seriously, hand waving away the energy storage problem of solar/wind by assuming a magic technology will be created?

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
There's another thread here about gaslighting at work that sort of catches what I experienced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18952734
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I think of Segment kind of like a routing layer for behavioral tracking data. Rather than installing N trackers on your site, you just add Segment's and then in your configuration for Segment you tell them where to route the tracking events (to Google Analytics, Mixpanel, whatever).

I think it goes beyond behavioral tracking data use cases as well.
Are you asking how a child is different from a dog?

It’s cruel to exterminate a million humans because they annoy you, yet substitute humans for ants and suddenly it’s not cruel. The subject matters and what is cruel to animals is not necessarily cruel to humans. and vice versa. Put a chain around the neck of your child, drag it to a local field and give it snacks until it learns to roll around on command and the difference should be blatantly obvious.
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Posting rational thoughts in other threads does not mean you are biased in everything else. Unless you mean the author is biased against dogma?
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I recently was also thinking about how to organize my data & backups. I still have not really decided. Esp about the software. I collected lots of options here: https://github.com/albertz/wiki/blob/master/backup-software....

At the moment, I really like Perkeep (https://perkeep.org/). But I'm not sure whether this is a solution for everything.

On the hardware side, I also have not really decided. I want to build up my own NAS (custom hardware, no preconfigured thing), which should be quiet (if it is not doing anything, i.e. most of the time), as it will be in my home. Another NAS maybe at my parents home. And then maybe some cloud storage.
No one writes a tutorial to teach others, at least not for free on the internet. The real purpose is to signal their own expertise (even if they know nothing more themselves than what is in the tutorial).

You see a similar dynamic at work with business gurus giving out free investment advice, ask if they knew so much why aren’t they successful investors themselves? Or middle-managers on LinkedIn handing out their “leadership” technique.
Pumped hydro is not a solution. It blows the whole cost effectiveness of renewables at any kind of scale.

It’s much simpler to say that NY will just have it’s future indefinitely wedded to fossil fuels.
Knowledge is good. You may not have meant the onus on women--but to me it really sounded like it. By saying "women need to know what works" (again, to me) it sounds like "women need to understand that there is a certain way the world is, and if you want to fit in to that world, you must play by the world's rules".

My point of view is that if men are being assholes because BOOBIES!!1! then men are being assholes, and it's men who need to know "what works." The world's rules are skewed at the moment: IMO telling women that they need to know "what works" attacks a symptom, not a problem.
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I confirm. The website is quite confusing, I am trying to understand but what the specs are but it seems to be impossible.
What Tim Cook is stupidly missing is that a large number of women, and of course some men, are physically unable to comfortably hold the new, wider phones. Many, probably most, of the sales of the SE are to women who want an iPhone they can actually hold and use.

If ever there was a sexist decision, it was to only make devices that most women are excluded from using.
Rules are simple really - if you can identify me, you must provide a way for me to tell me what you know about me and to stop tracking me for any purpose at my discretion. Is it much to ask for?
I suspect most of them were being bought by businesses. At the time I was selling QMS PostScript printers (for £5000+ each) into publishers and marketing agencies. They were all running Pagemaker and Illustrator.
I'm an avid, avid player. Multiple times a week, helping run a local meetup, with a multiple-hundreds-games collection that has rapidly expanded to take over my whole living room. That said, there's seven games I've ranked a 10/10:

* Cosmic Encounter -- a zany, crazy game of negociation and dynamic alliances where you can work with your best friend on one turn and find yourself forced to attack him the next. Some of the most hilarious moments of my gaming career have been induced by this game.

* Sidereal Confluence -- a zany, crazy game of trading and engine building where the game is "just" building cubes according to equations on cards ("2 blue cubes and 1 green cube gives you 5 orange cubes") that can then be traded for other cubes with other players. Sounds dry and boring... but manages to turn even deep introverts into a mix of slick used car saleswoman and deep south auction runner.

* Deception: Murder in Honk Kong -- a simple game of social deduction, with 5-12 people trying to find who amongst them is guilty of a horrible murder. Simple mechanics, simple game, another one that turns even introverts into, in this case, strongly opinionated detectives.

* Yokohama -- a Japanese, thinky, planning game involving moving a president meeple on a randomly built map about trading resources in the city of Yokohama. Love the puzzle, the theme and the mechanics.

* Teotihuacan -- a recent release, also thinky planning game involving moving dice instead of meeples, on a less randomly built map about using resources to build the great pyramids of Teotihuacan. Not entirely dissimilar to Yokohama, that one also hits on theme, mechanics and puzzle to solve.

* Clash of Cultures -- the civ board game of connoisseurs. Sadly, requires a deeply out of print expansion to truly shine -- one of the rare civ games with a map, a tech tree, player conflict that can still be played in 2-3 hours and explained in 20 minutes.

* The Colonists -- a city building game that can last 10-12 hours even at just 2. If you've played that way back, its theme is akin Colonization (the game by the Civ team based on colonization of the Americas).

I'd also give honourable mentions to Hanabi, Power Grid, Android: Netrunner, Istanbul, Innovation, Chinatown, QE, Dune, The Mind and Trade on the Tigris.
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Cutthroat Caverns: looks like a cooperation game, at the beginning. But since there can be only a single winner, the goal is to start betraying at the right moment. And if it's too soon, everybody can loose

Explosive Kitten: fast-paced card playing games. A lot of randomness, but great fun

Evolution, the origin of species: just played it once, but I liked it a lot. Everything is about card combination

Unstable unicorns: another card game, the goal is to reach a stable of seven unicorns. Each round, one can add a new unicorn to one's stable, if one has a unicorn card. Of course, interventions by other players will make it hard to win the game
It is called "the experts blind spot"
I disagree. This doesn't "diminish the person's feelings", it's saying that feelings aren't always relevant. Not being motivated is part of life. If something must be done motivation (or its lack) doesn't matter. Sometimes the suck must be embraced, feelings be damned.
thing is, that's the sort of thing that the original IP owners are trying to put on their own subscription services. I expect you'll end up finding them somewhere that's not Netflix. That's why Netflix is spending all this money for original content. They don't wanna be left with nothing as warner brothers, NBC universal, disney, etc all launch their own streaming services.
Same can be said about people students hate. If a child hates his or her parents, the child will learn everything to be nothing like their parents. I think the article is a fluff piece. School was a complete waste of time for myself. The only benefit was for social connections. Everything useful I learned "career wise" was from online and where I found good C++ videos that got me into programming. I doubt much has changed and even expect it's becoming even more dominate where you have a better chance of succeeding if you're a self learner who can navigate online to whatever is needed to be learned.
To everyone commenting on the price: people regularly pay thousands of dollars for a wristwatch.
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> Since you can bootstrap it in assembly

Assembly? You can bootstrap it in machine code! :)

http://t3x.org/bits/hypersol.html
The Resistance is awesome, but it's too easy to go postal after some games with some people.
https://www.isc.org/blogs/dns-flag-day/
Broth is an interesting idea. As a liquid it seems like it'd be a relatively simple product.

The questions I can think of are (1) how big is the market, (2) how hard would it be to get competitive, and (3) how much impact would it have? If broth today is mostly made from byproducts of meat production, then it's probably pretty cheap to produce and we might as well keep doing that until we get rid of that meat production.
Sounds fair enough.

I do wish that physical scientists, including myself, had more philosophical training though, even if its not science per se, such that we could reliably have original, educated opinions on empiricism, rationalism, etc.
I highly recommend to anyone interested in synths and music to go to a local shop and try out any modular system they have on display.

It really brings a lot of creativity and playfulness to playing music.

Me playing around on my modular system: http://youtu.be/jD-2xqTkGUc
I never paid for shows on itunes or wherever that had per episode prices, because I could never justify the cost. That's why I use subscription services. For the price of say 5 episodes at current prices, I end up with more than 3-4 episodes of value on Netflix.
I don't think it's written to be interesting I think it's written as propaganda, ehm, I mean to raise awareness.
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How do you deal with the off-site problem? That's why most people use cloud services -- as an off-site backup that they don't need to manage themselves. Yeah, you could just put everything on an 8TB hard-drive from eBay (not sure that's a great idea for important data) and stick it on a shelf -- but the chance that drive will be alive and not have bit-rotted by the time you need the data is smaller than most people would be comfortable with.
As I said: open source
It could be even easier. You know these prize contests where they give you a flyer with a covered code like in a lottery ticket? Just send these directly to households or give them to people who show you their id.

Only when you enter that key you are from then on allowed to post on certain subforums.

This way you'd get anonymity and a fair certainty that the people taking part at least lived there at some moment in time (which IMO also entitles them to speak about local topics).
Synology allows syncing of your NAS to a similar Synoogy NAS on another location (Cloud station server). That's what I am doing. This doesn't prevent issues with data corruption, but prevents these kind of issues where you 'complete' NAS fails due to a possible surge.
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It's actually very true for me. If I don't feel sincerity of the instructor, or they're cold & rude against the class; my grades for that particular class doesn't go up much.

However, if the instructor is sincere, likes what he/she's doing, or I'm not being emotionally or wordly punished for my mistakes, my grades can easily compete with the top three.

It's a response to perceived hostility / cooperation. I need to feel that we're on the same side. If I feel otherwise, I just study enough to pass the class, because my life is more important than a petty hostility in a class. The bad thing is, when I feel that cooperation, I study even less and get much higher grades, because I can listen and learn in class, since I don't spend any effort to protect myself from the instructor, and concentrate instead.
One thing I don't get: if you're trying to avoid patents, why go back to the 1800s? Don't you just need to look at recent patents that haven't expired?
Have you looked at Arq[1]? It deduplicates, encrypts, compresses, backs up to most major cloud providers and SFTP and Minio, is available for macOS and Windows. We've been improving it for 10 years. The data format is open and documented[2].

(Note: I work on Arq)

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com
[2] https://www.arqbackup.com/arq_data_format.txt
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Eventually, something actuates a servo, and servos don’t understand iteration. Do you agree eventually something with g-codes level of detail must exist (even if it’s just unspecified internal commands)? If so, do you agree you’re just advocating for that layer to be part of the machine?
Please don't take that as my personal opinion, just a point for a good argument. If you have a nice family, raised and supported kids well into their adulthood, that is all very nice on a personal level, but globally what have you done?
I by no means expect everyone to be the next Henry Ford or Edison, but if you're just living your life, you're just consuming planet's limited resources.
Animals have lived like that for millions of years, sustainably, in a self balancing act. But I feel that humans are savvy enough to strive for more than just the daily grind and consumption, so that the world they leave behind is a better place, not worse.
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That seems like typical media hysteria to get views. Per a much more reasonable article (https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-xperia-xz4-compact-cance...), the entirety of available evidence is this statement given during an interview:

"We stuck with Compact for a very long time, because of the ease of use. There’s always room for different sizes, but people want a lot more surface area for their content now."

That doesn't sound like a definite statement to me. A more appropriate headline would be "Future of Sony Compact series in question" or something along those lines. That just wouldn't sound as exciting though.
Aside: do you still need to use a cache service when using Postgres? Our Django web app forgoes any caching because “Postgres is fast enough” and “has its own cache”.
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:). The very first thing I ever put on HN in Ruby got blasted — hard — for not having tests.

I never released OSS without tests again.

It’s hard to discern rigorous criticism from kneejerk reactionary responses. I’m hopeful that the narrative is helpful in showing I’m appreciative and impressed by the effort, but have real concerns about the project and implementation itself. It’s not bad. It’s difficult to understand. Which is a classification of software we’re all likely to create at some point, and we can all help each other be better at writing about what we create as well as building the right tools and abstractions.
Jolla Phone already had a Android emulation for Sailfish OS
What do you want out of helical cuts that G03s don’t give you?
This could also be a good way to refresh keys periodically. And with the scratch-off lotto ticket idea, you could anonymously assign keys using QR codes, which would greatly improve the UX, AND mean you dont need to store any details of the person. Nice idea.
This isn't a biology book but does tall about resilient systems in an accessible way:

https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/thinking-in-systems/
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And those who can, were taught.
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
> hacks like bootstrap

Do you mean Twitter Bootstrap, the CSS framework? I've never considered it a 'hack'?
Yes, I was also thinking about perkeep and giving it a spin. I was considering a RAID 1 array for redundancy.

Another thing I was considering was M-Disk[1], that can, supposedly, hold information for 1000 years. But I wonder what other people's experience with it is.

Alternatively, I understand normal Blu-Ray disks should be able to have data retention of about 40 years, and that sounds decent to me.

I was looking into Amazon glacier and/or google cold line, and the prices seem decent, but I do not like the fact that you have to pay monthly, even if a small sum, it's just one more thing to concern yourself with. I would like to prepay and know my stuff is up there for a couple of years.

Normal Dropbox/Google drive stuff is too expensive to store big amounts of data, so not worth it. Plus, you have a copy of it locally also, (at least in normal use cases)

Thinking about it, I think this would be a great idea for a startup. Cheap data storage for long term storage, with competitive prices, the ability to per-pay, user-side encryption and a simple UI that grandma can use to drop photos. It should be able to guarantee that the information you desire to will outlive you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC