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Your argument is a truism: that any competitors don't have the budget/user base. Well duh, FB is by far #1 in both of those categories. The only way for a competitor to beat them is to come up from nothing to build a SNS and prove this naysayer argument wrong (and for its founders to have the stones to not get bought out). Until then, every FB post on HN is going to have people pointing to the FB network/userbase and saying "IMPOSSIBLE!"
This outrage culture is getting to be a bit much.

Anyone who's worked in gaming knows that "Whale" is a term to refer to high spenders that are several deviations from the norm.

A 1-year old racked up $10k in bills on a game where people normally spend $30? Whale. Period.

That's not unreasonable at all because the 1-yr old is in-fact a high spender several deviations from the norm.

Does any of this mean the game was explicitly marketed to 1-year olds? No.

Is it possible that the parent racked up the $10k in bills and blamed it on their kid? Entirely.

Have at it HN.
But wouldn't that mean we won't be in there? Until, and if, it gains traction?

Edit: also, are we the problem?
Does currently, but that's climate shift for you.
A lot of people in this thread seem to be making a Thermian Argument[1]:

> The diegetic argument aims to dismiss criticism at its core, suggesting that there aren't any problems with a text provided controversial elements are internally consistent with the rest of the story world. In slang terms, this could be referred to as The Thermian Argument. In the sci-fi classic Galaxy Quest, the thermians don't understand fiction as a concept. It doesn't exist in their language, and thus they see all texts as historical documents.

Yes, "whale" is industry slang/jargon for a high spending account. It is also fiction that was made up by the gambling industry. As such, the term doesn't have any intrinsic meaning; it gains meaning from how it's used. Using a made-up definition as if it had a specific intrinsic meaning doesn't justify bad behavior, but it does revel some of the speaker's ethics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxV8gAGmbtk
But they did arrest and are bringing deportation proceedings against “scores of students”.
No, you've got him all wrong. Zuck is sorry about all of this. He's said so since 2003, also in 2006, and in 2007, and in 2008 (four times), also in 2010... it goes on to this day. He's incredibly and perpetually sorry for being a total scumbag: https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-t...

Related note: when my 3-year-old says he's sorry, but keeps punching his sister, we put him in time out.
Can you really trust any mathematician's judgment who doesn't use serial commas? ;)
ICBMs have the distinct advantage of being able to provide a wide scale attack with high precision and short preparation/response time. This makes it a perfect deterrent.

But between the long preparation time, the chances of being discovered ahead of time, and the low relative impact/reach, even when placed strategically a few car-nukes would probably deliver more of a "terror strike" type of attack. You can cripple a few weak points but nothing "terminal".
I'm not sure that he meant lidar is a crutch in the way that this article represents. Those tiny wavelengths that allow lidar to provide tremendous detail also make it unreliable in rain and snow. Until that problem is solved, and I haven't heard that it has been, lidar dependent cars either 1) can't drive in the rain or 2) must be able to operate reliably in the rain using technology other than lidar.

Believe it or not, cars will need to be able to drive in the rain, so if you're going to eventually need to build a car that will work reliably without lidar then why not build that to begin with?

It looks like most SDC companies are going with lidar because it is faster and easier, but if it only covers 90% of use cases then that does sound like a "crutch".
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What is "the problem"?

If you say the embargo solves the problem of fueling a boogeyman enemy to rationalize military spending and fuel nationalism, then I would say it's a quite elegant solution.
Armenia and Georgia look like fascinating places, at a real crossroads both culturally, and in terms of the climate and geography too.
What a bunch of BS relativism. So every organization over 1000 people is equally evil? As Bill Maher said, working for HBO is not the same as working for Monsanto. And for who have been following, working for Facebook is like much more like working for Philip-Morris than its like working for HBO. And spare the nonsense about our collective guilt for the CIA. Those of us who vote (and vote against the fascists) have no reason to feel guilty.
Kinda ironic, how Britain managed to organise a trade deal for Iran so quickly with EU neibours and yet utterly unable after years to organise its own trade needs.
In addition, his recently published book says plenty that does not jibe with the version of his ideas presented in the NYT article. In other words, if he were really as the NYT article suggests, he wouldn't have published that book, which contradicts some of the things the NYT article says he asserts.
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...and Allo is gone to make room for the carrier implemented RCS.
But the optics aren't good
Do they support "events" yet?
The countries of Europe are our allies and friends, the EU as an entity seems to treat the UK as an enemy.

The UK as a negotiating entity has failed to argue coherently, because the political classes are hopelessly divided and opportunistic.

It's important to note that the EU has not agreed to /anything/ in terms of trade as part of this deal, that's why it's a terrible deal. It's a deal to make a deal, but it includes us agreeing to pay massive outstanding budget commitments. So it's pretty much the UK surrendering their only negotiating leverage (and also the ability to revoke article 50) for absolutely nothing in return.

The EU /can/ enforce this on us, because of their relative size and our political disunity/mismanagement, but it seems obvious that they /should/ not.

An agreement which the British people could agree on would be a comprehensive free trade agreement and customs region(with us paying into budget) but no free movement, no deeper integration, and no ability for the UK to make external trade agreements. There are two fictions preventing this - the EU pretending that this is impossible or unfair (there's no law that free trade has to have free movement, it's a convenient political fiction for the EU), and the right Tories pretending that any external trade agreements would even begin to compensate for the cost of customs checks with the EU.

The UK is screwed but the EU is a malign entity, which seeks to treat us as they have Greece- a banana republic to be screwed by committee. A club which won't allow you to leave is ruler. Sorry for the essay, a remain voter.

edit: The backstop is not at all the most disliked part, it gets the most press because it's the sticking point between T May's attempt to shoehorn her bill through because it seems to lean towards a softer type of deal, which loses her the hard-right Tories and the Irish question loses her the DUP. But it's just a fight between the Tory clans who have power, if you polled the UK population or even parliament, it would not be the most unpopular part of the deal, not even close.
Facebook. That’s why. People protest online instead of offline.
Yeah I searched Etsy and eBay. It was hard to find one that was big enough for my iPhone 7 Plus and my wife's SE (in a thick case). I eventually found a few brass and bronze candidates that were big enough and quite handsome.
Skolnik's books are good but they are pretty old and focus mostly on the hardware/transmission of radar. The code sequencing is on the baseband signal processing side and is a direct result of IQ modulation being a thing in vector signal processing. Lots of modern radar designs use the same style of pseudo-random encoding to prevent interference between units. It's a major push in automotive radar right now (70GHz band) for instance.

Think of it as encoding your mac address on each packet you transmit wirelessly so you can tell which signals come from which source.
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Evidence based medicine with standardized treatment protocols and checklists provides a realistic hope for reducing the biases in our medical system.
Healthiest person I ever knew was my gradma. She sure as hell wasn't vegan or paleo.

She was Catholic and she was practicing the virtue of temperance every day.

We often adopt lifestyles, we do certain things, in order to become healthier, fitter, smarter, richer...

She wasn't doing it because who she wanted become. She was doing it because of who she was.
Unless the ladder is anchored to something, it’d probably just fall over backwards if you put any weight on such a rail. They get unbalanced if the load isn’t kept forward.
Where do you see that? I only see references to 'alleged "recruiters"'.

Unless outline is skipping part of TFA?

But in that case, "recruiter" is an incredibly poor choice of word by the author.
Humans are advised not to swerve around things, as a general rule, so I imagine similar logic works for self-driving cars. You're almost always better off -- for everyone concerned -- to dynamite the brakes and hope for the best. Swerving is a good way to lose control.

In any case, you lost me when you got to "the driver has a potential for an increased chance of death." How exactly do you propose a computer will calculate this? Even today's best supercomputers would take multiple orders of magnitude longer to model the odds than it would require to act on them, and even then it would just be a guess. Hell, we judge car safety today by ramming them into objects repeatedly to see how they perform on average, and it still has only a vague relationship to what might happen to you in an actual collision.

My point is that it is 100% unfeasible for the computer to model these probabilities, and I see no reason to think it will ever be feasible. Even without getting into the weird things like "what if the pedestrian is 99 years old, or a 20 year old pregnant woman?" the complexities are basically infinite.

So the only correct answer I see is for the computer to do exactly what we would expect a competent driver to do today: stop the car as quickly as possible. And assuming it's not overdriving it's sensors (something humans are not supposed to do either) then that should work damn near 100% of the time.
That shocking thing is part of justice system in USA, explicitely. (In contrast, in Germany cops+prosecutors are indeed legaly obligated to prosecure all crimes they know of, but in USA they don't. )

"We won't prosecute this or that crime" is even sometimes announced.
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It really is. In modern context "evolution" doesn't mean "any type of evolution e.g. Lamarckian evolution, evolution from natural selection or Pokemon evolution from leveling up". It really just means "evolution from natural selection" which is not only a novel idea proposed by Darwin, but Darwin also pioneered to research on this idea (i.e. going around the world and collecting specimens that could potentially falsify his hypothesis but instead support it).

That Plato thought your mind transfers from your previous souls and this is called "evolution" is simply an accident of language.
Or OSQuery
Do you also advocate for an embargo of China, which pollutes at over twice the rate of the US?

How about embargo of the EU, which currently pollutes at roughly the same rate?

Did you know that energy production in the US is overall more environmentally friendly than in Germany, for example?
You sure about that? https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/what-toll-free-number-a...
That's basically what they did here since "the federal indictments name eight people in eight states who allegedly were students at the school and recruited additional students to enroll."
Those were the people who were allegedly helping these people fake the transcripts to commit this fraud.
Truth. I like how the young dems are doing in terms of anti-war and pro-privacy stance.
Even in the UK there are deaths. Yes the US should work on whatever it is that makes UK drivers safer, but UK drivers still kill people and are thus unsafe.

You have just given numbers: when autonomous cars beat those numbers they are better. Until then we should be careful.
There are hardware based cheats for CSGO. It’s a PCI card with some custom CPU/FPGA on it that scans and changes values inside the memory of the game.

When I read the title I hoped it would protect against that too, but no such luck then, I guess?
They don't seem to share staff though, at least not on the editor level, compare:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/admin/the-new-york-...
and
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/magazine/masthead.html

There's also the obvious difference that one is a newspaper and the other is a magazine; I think it's just a bit unclear what is being meant when they claimed they are "different publications".
Clearly you have lost track of the argument you have put forth. I decided to countenance your WP article and it seems you can't get illegal immigration outta your head. A sentence in your own article reinforces my statement about H1B workers leveraging their US born kids citizenship for their own citizenship.

You even missed out on the basic fact that I am talking about legal immigration and "anchor baby" is a term used pejoratively in reference to immigrants who have dubious intentions. H1B is for highly skilled workers who have proved their mettle even before immigrating.

And for your kind information, what you call "single anecdote" is called "precedence" in legal terms and carries huge weight in future course of action
It's the refund policies that are being questioned, you being aware of a charge doesn't mean anything when Facebook doesn't refund it.
If that were standard policy then parents might get the idea to let their kids just spend whatever they want on FB games knowing it'll just get refunded, effectively scamming app developers.
> The upvote/downvote mechanism does "gamify" the experience

A key benefit to me is that the points aren't visible to others. Up/Down voting is fine, and there's no real public benefit to the karma given to an individual post, nor any way to even see what it is. Sorting isn't based only on the post score either, and it's not in your face -- it's a much better system that slashdot in my view.
for what? Instagram? That's much worse imo.
True.

Most of the matriarchies were in Africa, and they were decimated completely when European colonizers showed up.

There were a few matriarchies elsewhere, but not many.

Most human societies were patriarchies.

It would be interesting, from a purely scientific point of view, to see what the african matriarchies would have developed into? How does that sort of thing affect development? Etc.
It's a lot more difficult to do, but a deep cull of your friend list might replicate a lot of the value. Those acquaintances you met ten years ago and haven't spoken to since? Unfriend or at least unfollow. Get it down to the people you actually talk to & care about.
No when somebody says something that does not ring 100% TRUE, you question it and have a look into it yourself with multiple sources from contrasting perspectives.

But equally, you can't presume innocence as that's just as bad as presuming guilty.
Yeah, thats fair. I'm with you on that. You'll never find a candidate who you agree with completely, you just go with the one that agree the most with or disagree the least with.
Humans naturally have varying degrees of patience, and thus varying degrees of regard for safety measures.
Edit: I was looking at a corrected article. Ignore this post.

I don't know a whole lot about this, but I do know that if you write something to show that you were misrepresented in an article you need to be extremely careful to not misrepresent the article.

He says:

>The article wrongly states that in 2015 my colleagues I argued that the population of Europe was “almost entirely” replaced by people from the Eastern Europe Steppe

When the article says:

>Almost entirely replaced existing commmunities [snip] in Central and Northern Europe.
Who in their right mind would trust that?
You don't have to quit Facebook to get the mental health benefits.

All you have to do is unfollow everyone! Literally everyone. Your feed will be blank and peaceful, but you will still be able to maintain a presence on messenger and maintain your profile for people to reach you. You can also still interact with private Facebook groups and things, if you want.

This is what I did, and it curbed my addiction to checking facebook.

After a while, I slowly started following specific people again (mainly just the people I interact with on a daily basis, and the few family members that I can actually stand).

The moment someone starts stressing me out by posting nonsense or clutter, they get unfollowed.

It's very zen, and my mental health has drastically improved from it.

P.S. If you Google "Facebook Unfollow All", there are multiple tools and things like browser extensions which make this as simple as one button press to accomplish. It can be pretty tedious to do manually by hand if you have a lot of friends.
Just enforcing the law doesn't make their actions not cruel. When the political heads of those agencies in charge of the agencies are talking about "deterrence", "self deportation", or enforcing the law in the most maximalist way (e.g.: family separation). Their mandate is to enforce those laws but they're going about it in a way designed to hurt.
This is a good point; he could have physically removed one pair of drives, at least, at which point he would have had an actual backup sitting on the shelf.
> I think the author himself has a one page blog post summarizing it as well.

Link please.
He's been vindicated time and time again, his theories are the most influential of any one writer in psychology. I took a great books course and had to struggle through MULTIPLE made up case studies, and pretend these are "great" when it's just BS. Still, thousands reading his works every year and universities vindicating his theories doesn't mean he didn't fabricate data, espouse cocaine use, and all of the other negatives people bring up time and again.
Literally only a month and a half ago.
It doesn’t matter if it was marketed to them or not. They have both a moral and legal duty of care to protect children.

Legally the parents consented to the charges, but it’s clear from the leaked documents Facebook knew parents thought it was a one time charge not something their kid could spend without limits.
> The solution is for all parents to be aware of potential for dark patterns and to put the onus on them to refuse to let their kids play F2P games?

The pattern is very simple. If the game has an in-app purchase along the lines of:

* Buy 10 gems: $0.99

* Buy 50 gems: $2.99

etc. then it's F2P garbage. Get rid of it. Take the five minutes to see what your kid is playing.

Otherwise, you're asking to ban these games altogether or make them 18+. All because it's too much trouble to see what they're actually doing with that iPad you throw in front of them.
Not bad! A lot better than Very Bad Trip
The war in Iraq was a direct consequence of people voting for Nader over Gore.
Good mental development includes not being tricked in to spending other people's money, so I think such a game is impossible.
The parents probably won't even pay those bills.
They'll just call the credit card company, dispute the charge, and tell them it must be an error. No individual generally sees those sorts of charges from Facebook.
Given the choice, that half the salary would still seem attractive? Isn't it. Now being in same time zone, closer to US SV, native s/w engineers would have to compete fiercely. I wonder, how would folks react over competition with Canadian tech industry.
The soviet era never ended. Just listen to Radio Yerevan.
The expression actually comes from prose originally, but applies very well to writing, theatre, movies etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show,_don%27t_tell
Here's an example I hit recently. https://2f30.org/
Well, yes. I had credit card since I was 16 and I believe 13 was the lower limit (but that's not in US).
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> Apple's power on device owned by customers is ridiculous

It's a feature.
There must be some people out there earning more wages on the 10x increase in stock prices, investments..
Apparently the university had no real classes or campus, so any students who continued to use it to maintain their visa after discovering as much, are clearly not "people who want to learn, work, and better themselves".
I think you missed a very important detail: Everything you wrote talks in terms of groups. There's a cutoff level of aggression past which individuals wouldn't be able to function as a group.

Evolution doesn't work in terms of positively selecting the "strong", it works by selecting out the "weak". In this case, the point isn't that we positively selected the most peaceful. Instead, we selected out those so violent they wouldn't even be able to organise into a tribe.
Incorrect, the theory is that human groups selectively killed unreasonably violent individuals, which over time led to a more docile/pacifist population. Not that pacifist though, as the countless wars and violent acts can attest.
The federal indictments name eight people in eight states who allegedly were students at the school and recruited additional students to enroll. All have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit. They face a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

The eight recruiters allegedly helped create fraudulent records, including transcripts, that students could give to immigration authorities.
It's too bad SawStop saws are incredibly expensive (and going up in price Feb 1st.) They are definitely worth it compared to the cost of an injury, however many people are priced right out of owning one.
Could be, but they didn’t get her on anything related stock trading and instead got her for “lying”. My point is, even if they are unable to catch them red handed (you’d have to be inept), ghetto can always find alternative methods to find someone guilty.
>This outrage culture is getting to be a bit much.

[HN user proceeds to post his outrage at outrage culture]

That’s awesome, reminds me of the movie PCU, where the students protest protesting.