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This reads like a Grade 9 persuasive writing paper. If 2019 is the year of the DAO, what was 2018? The year in which not a single DAO did anything useful. Correct me if I’m wrong, but why does a change in the year make any difference?
I'm not anti Bible, I just think belief in something despite evidence to the contrary is irrational and in this regard, belief in flat earth and the supernatural are equally irrational. We don't all have to be rational. Irrational people are not bad people. It's not immoral to be irrational. I love many irrational people in my circle of friends and family. But to believe in something despite evidence is called faith and faith and science cannot coexist because people of faith offer no condition under which they will acknowledge that their belief is incorrect. So with that rule set of logic, flat earth believers and believers in supernatural are in the same category, with love and respect.

As a side note, that the Bible is wise and moral is independent of its accounts of the supernatural being true. The supernatural can be explained by the time period in which it was written.
>>> they feel a mysterious attraction and then promote the guy for a reason they can't really explain but can come up with a justification for.

For a domain (tech industry) that is supposedly dominated by facts and numbers, there is a lot of promotion and hiring based on such mysterious feelings, not based on actual facts and numbers. Culture fit?
100% of the deficit is from over-spending or from under-taxing depending on how you look at it...
Derivatives did cause the loses basically for what you said above.

>derivatives were created and rated on the assumption that the borrower's default rates were consistent with historical default rates.

The historical information was wrong because the issuer of the subprime loans hid bad loans given to people with thin credit histories.
I hate it when people call being wrong "lying."
This is a semantic argument. He was born there so it could be argued that Israeli is technically accurate. I hate it when people call being wrong "lying."
800 Watts for 12 hours a day is about a hot tub worth of draw.
Hennessy and Patterson said that Moore's law ended in 2015.
I should say, their check did clear (and I didn't even expect to get paid when I agreed to do it). So there's that.
> Honestly? You would? You want to see vast amounts of suffering for your own gain?

No. But I'm not a nation state who wants to reclaim its former glory as a world super power. Hence, "if I was Russia". I didn't say "if I was myself"...

> Well possibly if they want to live as survivalists. Perhaps some Russians do, but I've only known a couple of Muscovites who would barely know a potato from a turnip. The international order (such as it is) isn't remotely in the ballpark of being resilient enough to survive the convulsions climate change is going to cause.

They wont live as survivalists if they have the worlds most productive farmland. Anyway I doubt climate change is going to render the world inhabitable to humans or decimate the global economy. We'll adapt we always do. There'll just be winners and losers. Most will lose and there will be hardships. The natural ecosystems will be fucked but in the end we'll still be here doing just fine.
I don't want to make a concrete statement on this, I am not an economist, but I know enough of this debate to call out that there's dissent on if the way housing costs are calculated into CPI ends up reflecting the actual costs of obtaining stable housing. ("owner occupied rents" or "imputed rents" are some relevant concepts)
Can't read the article so I have to assume it's misinterpreted results or a crappy study.
The international community isn't going to let denmark sell land they essentially stole from the natives. The time for denmark to have sold greenland was after ww2 when we offered to buy it from them. Now, most people view greenland as an independent country ( though greenland is still part of the danish kingdom ). Greenland will continue to be a quasi-independent protectorate of the US.

Also, about 63% of the earth's landmass ( 70% if we ignore antarctica ) is located in the northern hemisphere. Much of that is siberia, alaska and canada. If you are looking to buy land, it'll be far smarter to buy in these areas or the frigid upper midwest. These areas are going to be habitable and farmable far before greenland will ever be.
Fruiting plants are a pain because you have to shake them to pollinate. We mostly stick to leafy stuff. The lights are incredibly bright, top of the line horticultural COBs. They are not the pain point.
synergy - Android's bootloader (fastboot mode, etc) uses LK, of which Zircon is a fork.
I'm no expert on any of this stuff. From what I can tell from searching online, the USPS is required to fund their own pensions[1]

> "for the most part."

This was explained. The government pays to mail voting materials to some people. How is that different from any branch of government buying some stamps to mail some letters and packages?

Their "monopoly" gives them the exclusive right to put things in mailboxes. In return, they are legally required to serve every single part of the country equally, at the same price. They also can't set their own prices.

I have no earthly idea how much this "monopoly" costs taxpayers and it hasn't stopped UPS, Fedex et al from providing plenty of competition. I think taxpayers, especially in remote and rural communities, are coming out ahead in this bargain but again, I'm not an expert.

In any case, none of this has anything to do with net neutrality which is where this discussion began. Pretend USPS doesn't exist - does UPS or Fedex charge the sender and receiver for shipping the same package?

1. https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
Beyond Meat is a $550M brand and is winning over meat-eaters
Those are both very short term studies. The only critical factor in weight loss is how much people weigh in the long term as in 5+ years.

“20% of overweight individuals are successful at long-term weight loss when defined as losing at least 10% of initial body weight and maintaining the loss for at least 1 y.” Things get much worse in terms of 5+ year weight loss.
The authors point about people generally trusting video as truth even though there is tons of nuance in all of the various ways the video is captured and produced is a good one.

I feel like a lot of the points in the article can apply more broadly to almost all polarizing viral content. In the information economy it often pays off to be unobjectibe and manipulative
For anyone else curious.

I'm not sure, but a cursory search suggests it's perfectly fine to publicly lie about a private citizen with no recourse, as long as you avoid financial or related damages?

"In order to determine the damages from a slander or libel suit, there must be quantifiable damages. Defamation of character damages a person’s or company’s reputation, and it must be proven that the damage to reputation correlated with a loss of money, property, relationship or was subject to harassment that led to any of the above losses."

https://thelawdictionary.org/article/when-to-sue-for-defamat...
Been there. Done that. It does not work.

I want to have

nginx-1.99.77
nginx-1.99.78
nginx-1.99.78ehjkhk-1

in the same repo. It is not possible.
No, those are <somepackage>-<someversion> where <somepackage> is different.
Such naivete
Andrew Colin (1936-2018)
repropro has that limitation.
Yes, I also found Dell is pretty good in rotating display game (my latest display is Dell). I do encounter some sites which are to wide for 1080, but it's not too often.
If we could reduce the density of a person by about an order of magnitude we can start replicating bird flight on a per-person basis. Our approaches to flight are constrained in all forms by the desire to put really heavy things into the air.

Look no further than drones that can operate for quite a long while, move in any dimension fairly well, and manage some pretty ridiculous speeds for not being designed to do so all because their purpose is not to carry large complicated amounts of weight.
Popper's thought experiment is one of those neat little packaged concepts that people hear about and say "oh, right" and nod along with without really questioning its fundamental premise.

From a practical standpoint, nobody reasonable would say that a society must be always tolerant to everyone, all the time. All tolerance has a limit in the real world. Furthermore, a society can certainly accept a modest level of intolerance before it starts to encounter serious problems. Little examples of intolerance happen every day, in every city and country in the world, and yet we keep shuffling along.

Everyone also tends to ignore this part of his quote:
"In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise."

Popper follows this by saying that society must claim the right to suppress intolerance if it becomes a serious danger, but he is arguing against a strawman. Almost everyone would agree with this.
I feel like the studies of specialty diets bring misleading conclusions, because they always count calories for both sides.

If you’re on a calorie controlled diet, then calories in calories out holds. But most speciality diets (I’m on something pretty similar to slow carb) are targeting adherence, a factor that’s removed if you’re only measuring calories in and calories out.

Without white carbs I find it much much easier to reduce my calorific intake. To compare my diet with any other — if you’re enforcing the same number of calories — is kind of pointless, as I specifically don’t want to count calories, nor do I want to feel hungry.
> If a government messaging standard is introduced, it will absolutely be designed to consider lawful intercepts like US CALEA.

Then that is obviously not what the parent is asking for. The government could decide to enforce an insecure messaging standard at any time. What does that have to do with the people demanding them to enforce a secure one? Are you suggesting that if we demand a secure messaging standard, it will give them the idea of turning around and enforcing an insecure one instead, as though they haven't had that idea already?
Usually code works pretty fine for me (though sometimes I've had to fold some side panels). It gets a bit tricky with heavily nested code, because of indents, but this code usually needs refactoring for other reasons too :)
Billionaire Mark Cuban Went from a Crypto Skeptic to an Avid Investor
thanks for the feedback

there are deep links to the examples in the github page, if that's what you mean
pan / zoom isn't super well supported, sorry. i've just been using my browser's zoom in / out
if you open the help menu, there's a key combo (cmd + shift + v) to hide / show the graph
I was just going to mention this as well. It seemed like magic back in the day.
Is there a set of circumstances that could result in someone being born in Israel without gaining citizenship, while also not getting citizenship in the country their parents were from?
As regards propublica:

I’ve a great deal of experience in the healthcare field. Their recent series of work on healthcare has been amazing and amazingly bad: they’ve chased down data, analyzed it thoroughly, and apparently not bothered to speak to actual experts in the field to contextualize that data. Particularly where that would interfere with their agenda.

The result is, as they say, noise and fury signifying nothing. In honor of the gell-man effect, I couldn’t in good conscience use them as a source for a field I’m not an expert in.
Overflow and underflow on signed types is undefined behavior in C.

You should almost always use unsigned types unless you must use a signed type. And you need to think about these kinds of overflow and underflow cases.
Not the same thing, the point is that you have had enough exposure to different things that you can solve problems. The reason software company asks those questions is that if you are familiar with your data structures (lists, stack, queues, trees) your algorithms (sorting, searching) you can pretty much give a reasonable answer to most of those questions.
Or do like Philip Roth and have the New Yorker publish your Wikipedia rebuttals: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/an-open-letter-t...
Except for metabolic adjustment where the body spends less calories by being more efficient with exercise or slower with low calorie diet and the notorious fact that people underestimate calorie ingestion it really is not as complicated as this article makes it sound.

It is very difficult to cutivate a consistent healthy diet and exercise regimen indeed and except for very few physiological/mental reasons any recommendation that denies caloric deficit is garbage.
I personally will usually mock out the api using Node/Express and link endpoints to hardcoded json files.
What an amazing project! It seems almost like a path to madness, trying to reverse engineer the platform, but there were applications even very early on that were mac only that were desirable on PCs.
> [...] they apply the expensive knowledge learned from fancy MBA schools (that charge bucks) and lower cost and increase profit. And lowering cost always means paying less to employees. And increasing profit means charging more.

A place I used to work brought in a new GM who, after nearly a year of attending meetings and taking notes without contributing anything of any perceivable value, made his grand proclamation of how he would build the company into a mega-profitable mega-corp:

He would reduce expenses (by screwing the employees).

And increase profit margins (by charging customers more).

And increase earnings (by making more sales).

Genius! No wonder he got paid the big bucks.

This, mind you, was at a company which built mining equipment. During the end of a massive slump in the ore market for the types of mines they serviced. At a time when the two major customers had both publicly announced 30%+ reductions in projected outlay for equipment.

And no, it didn't work.
According to the author, he was asked by Google to give feedback on the info they had about him. He did, and they ignored it.

What will it take before you consider them to be lying?
Actually, the author's use of the colon is correct, and your interpretation doesn't accord with the usual rules of grammar for colon usage.

What I assume you're thinking of is the journalistic use of a colon as shorthand for attribution, normally used in headlines. In that case, the colon and person/organization fall at the end of the sentence. So you'll see things like, "We'll never pass upcoming bill: Rep Smith".

But that's not what the author of the blog post wrote. Instead, he placed "Google" at the beginning of the sentence, writing "Google: Please Stop...". As such, he used the colon in accordance with one of its most common usages--as a means of address in correspondence, similar to common letter opening "Dear Mr. Smith: Please find enclosed...".
It's the same for the liar paradox:

'The sentence below is true

The sentence above is a lie'

Well no, it just means one is wrong. Though I imagine the philosophic roots had more nuance than the sci-fi that came from it.
Check the backend roadmap here:

https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap/blob/mast...
Very interesting. I've never heard of this idea of making some specific glyphs thinner, but it makes perfect sense. I'm curious, is this something you discovered on your own?

I'm definitely going to try this out.
One theory is that many fields in modern science are simply too broad and deep for Einstein-like syntheses: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/science/the-next-einstein...
I think it is far less an issue of faulty AI and more an issue of Google ignoring requests to change information about someone when that person notifies them that it is incorrect.

It's one thing to show things in search results, a very different thing to have a little box saying "We Google have deduced that this is true." They should take more responsibility.

In my opinion they should be required to do something about it. It is very similar to how you can tell google your privacy is invaded by something on Google Maps and they will fix it (with blurring, in that case).
Morgan from the TiDB team here. Thank you for the feedback, and I agree with you. We actually took this line out from the same copy in the docs: https://pingcap.com/docs/

(We must have missed a spot, and I will follow up and make sure it is addressed).

We try to be transparent about the differences from MySQL. On the compatibility page, there are a few cases described such as large transactions, small transactions and single threaded workloads:

https://www.pingcap.com/docs/sql/mysql-compatibility/
You don't have to ramble. Just putting all the tweeted content into one post would be fine. Not having to split your post into 9000 tweets doesn't mean you can't write the same concise way.
Here's the relevant headers from a recent email from Apple, including the Authentication-Results and Received-SPF lines:

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Huh? Linux and Darwin both have 32-bit int. I’m sure there are some where it’s 64-bit, but the only one I’m aware of is old Cray systems.

C makes it hard to have anything bigger than 32-bit int. The standard integer types are char, short, int, long, and long long, and if int is 64-but then you’ll lack a standard type for 8, 16, or 32 bit integers, which is inconvenient. Nothing says you have to have those, or that you can’t make some implementation-specific type to fill the gap, but it’s messy.
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How does Google know he’s not lying?
I can assure you that the major theories behind modern big distributed databases were not written in decades old books.
> Rust has Rayon (which is not yet used in the Benchmarks game examples)

Yes it is!

Since or before May 11th, 2017 —

https://web.archive.org/web/20170511062152/http://benchmarks...
A noted judicial maxim, "I know it when I see it", has been criticized as trivial. Here you prove that not to be the case. You have a serious disagreement with the maxim, in that the purely visual properties of this image are not what make it objectionable to you. Instead you dislike the history of the image. But its nearly five decades of use in this field are the historical reason it is used today. You're advocating for your historical judgment over the different historical judgment of scholars in the field.

That could be reasonable. For instance, the fact that statues commemorating the Confederacy have some historical relevance doesn't make up for the fact that they mostly celebrate the awful institution of slavery and a society that was built upon that. We therefore disregard the "historians" who advocate for their continued intrusion into our public spaces.

However, those statues are quite explicit in their celebration of that odious time. This image is simply a beautiful image of a beautiful human. And its history is far from odious. Even the larger image is hardly prurient: secondary sexual characteristics are viewed obliquely. Most women have no problem with that. (Instead they object to the continued vilification of breasts in the form of breastfeeding bans etc., which vilification you continue here.) Lenna herself certainly has no problem with the image: she has publicly stated she values her appearance in the best-selling Playboy of all time, and its subsequent second life in academia. There is nothing wrong with an image of an unclothed human body, and this image is tamer than many such images.

Few women appreciate your advocacy here. Unlike you they don't assume that everyone is either a Puritan or a junior high schoolboy. I can think of few things less interesting or important than a "nudity detection algorithm".
Ask HN: What is the fastest way to code a website?
I have an idea for a peer-to-peer startup which needs an e-commerce/craigslist kind of website. I am a good programmer, but I've only used C++/Java/Python my whole life and worked only on the platform side of non-internet products (Think of Desktop applications, MS Office, etc). I've never used any of the modern web frameworks nor know much about scaling up a website, services etc. When I look up on the web, there are literally tons of frameworks, languages, and choices to make. What would be the fastest and the most effective way to code a website? Also, I might've to scale it up in future, so I don't want to make the mistake of using esoteric or dead languages.
This GPU Gems article is a good overview of GPU volume rendering as well (http://developer.download.nvidia.com/books/HTML/gpugems/gpug...). Raymarching in the fragment shader is probably better on modern hardware than the approach outlined in GPU Gems but it's still worth a read.
I'm surprised this has been posted, never mind upvoted by anyone rational. Doing work consumes energy. End of discussion.

(There is an argument that it is easier to eat less than to exercise more, but that is a different debate. Ideally you do both.)
Sometimes feeling hungry is ok and likely healthy. Always feeling hungry is brutal.

For me, low carb works like magic and with limited aggravation once past the first week. The problem is, if I never learn to be (sometimes) hungry, it all comes apart when I go off the diet and back to living in the land of infinite crap carbs.