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> A campaign that calls for sugar to be treated as a toxin, like alcohol and tobacco, and for sugar-laden foods to be taxed, labelled with health warnings and banned for anyone under 18.

So, we're, like gunna ban fruits?

Seriously, it's kind of crazy to have the immediate response to "the mainstream consensus was totally wrong" to be "let's use the force of the law to enforce the new consensus!" A little bit of humility is called for, I think. By all means improve the official recommendations, but let people make their own decisions about what they put in their bodies.

Tangentially, I've become convinced that the actual #1 worst ingredient we're eating is too much vegetable oil:

https://www.breaknutrition.com/omega-6-fatty-acids-alternati...
The free trial is better for customers, the money-back will get your more money.
> Do not assume

You can't assume, but you can certainly check for a given implementation. Plenty of implementations do provide secure randomness, e.g. Ruby's SecureRandom[0].

https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/securerandom/rdoc/S...
>Don't know about Chrome, but it's likely that Chrome blocks other peoples tracking in favor of Google's.

citation needed
For those that are interested in learning more about Lazarus, here is the IDE's site: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/

And to associate a face with the name, here is the screen shot page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Screenshots

W10 Specific page: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/File:lazarus_win10_1709.p...
The french draft includes services older than 3 years.

The new proposal that the french are pushing has the following conditions which must ALL be met:

Available to the public for less than 3 years
Annual turnover below €10 million
Fewer than 5 million unique monthly visitors
This article misses that people WANT other museums to be like this.

The modern art museum experience is a quiet keep to your self affair, and people arent even sure they can take photos. Compare that to the same artist’s gallery opening in a cool but grundgy part of town, and it is a loud, social and wine laden affair.

Popup museums fit right in between. Meant to be shared solely by your attendance and photo tagging with no ambiguity on the rules.

Maybe everything else the article wrote has some merit, but it is definitely out of touch and takes satisfaction from that reality, which is just poor journalism.
How to make your first Python project
The Playstation 3 and Vita also run/ran NetBSD, as well

Sony also helped spawn "ToyBox". A BSD licensed replacement for the GPL "BusyBox" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toybox
As much as I'm no fan of Google for the way they treated me when I briefly worked there, along with DeepMind, IMO Waymo is acting as the adult in the room when it comes to self driving cars.
Europeans have been conditioned to depend on state support to the point of being unable to function without it. Not during times of duress. At all times. This creates dependency. You become a slave to the state.

When you are a slave to the state, your only recourse for redress is violence.

Paris is burning. New York is not.
If password reuse is a problem, one should be solving that problem instead of it's symptoms. "Have I Been Pwned" comes to mind.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v2#PwnedPasswords
> he shouldn't be so willing to accept as correct articles in areas outside of his expertise

Let me refocus that to highlight the silliness:

> If doctors get it wrong in areas you know about then why should one think they get it right in areas you don't know about?

If my doctor knows not even the slightest tiniest thing about computers, the internet, etc., I'm still going to trust him on medicinal matters.
It says something about our culture that suicidal urges are considered something that need to be "treated". From a logical point of view it is the decision to continue to exist that needs to be justified, simply because it is the positive performance of actions (gathering life sustaining resources etc). The suicidal person should flip the question on its head and ask the nonsuicidal person what's their justification for living.

This is like asking the question, why are people poor? Ever since Adam Smith we know that poverty is the natural state, that what needs to be explained is abundance.
Some of the most fun I've had was company team building at habitat for humanity. I basically learned how to frame, insulate, and finish a home in 2 days. I think most engineers love this stuff.
> I do wonder why FAANG aren't more active lobbying the EU, though

I think they know that article 13 is going to be beneficial for them. If law requires costly content ID, it will make half of companies go out of business or non profitable in Europe. I really think many companies are going to ignore Europe as a whole.
I used to be in favor of the EU, but over the last decade the more I learned about how it operated and what kind of regulations they passed, the more opposed I became to it. Just the fact that they're bringing this proposal back again means that the "lawmakers" have zero respect for the general public.
> customers making charge-backs via their credit card provider. These chargebacks are pretty much impossible to combat for digital products

It's not impossible. Companies such as Chargebacks911 worked with Clickbank which is an affiliate program selling digital content to reduce their chargebacks quite significantly.

More information here: [0].

Some credit card companies are now electing to work with both Kount and CB911 into their stack.

[0]: https://www.kount.com/case-studies/clickbank-chargebacks911

Disclaimer: I don't work with either company but spent the last 2 years looking at the whole fintech stack for my startup and know (almost) all the players in the space.
I don't know, I upvoted it... I think it's good other immigrants are giving their perspective. Personally I was a cultural mismatch and that's why I left... that doesn't mean nobody has these particular values or that everybody shares mine.
If you don't pay your taxes you go to jail, which in some places could be in the same ballpark as whatever is actually happening in Syria (I don't really believe in what the UN says).

Most refugees are economic migrants, as their going to the most favourable countries instead of the closest ones shows: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/europe-grapples-distincti...

Anyway I'm over with this, I was defending free speech, this "refugee" charade is already finished anyway.
Well let's agree to disagree. To me, "man" and "women" mean sex (i.e. biologically male or female human), not gender.
"Tiny house" AKA a normal house in the rest of the world.
Deduct the labor cost of salary and wages only, and the distributions to the owners. Those are someone else's income. If it isn't someone else's income, for them to pay tax on, you pay tax on it. No loopholes or exemptions, period. The only way for a dollar to not be your income is if you gave it to someone else, to be their income.

If you add up all the incomes of all the tax-paying entities, it should equal the money supply multiplied by the velocity, minus the unreported income economy.
In that case, some moderation (manual or through automated tools) could be used to address the issue.

On that note, I noticed that my original post was downvoted. I personally think that it would be more useful if the person who downvoted it had posted a reply instead and detailed the reasons they disagreed with what I posted earlier (like you did). The latter contributes to the discussion. The former doesn't really provide any useful information other than someone out there disagrees with me and I have no insight as to why.
As parent alludes to, I don't think it's a matter of CDs sounding worse in an objective sense, but lacking an affectation of the medium that some people like in vinyl. Think about movies: ordinarily they're shown at 24fps. Higher framerates are objectively higher quality, but don't feel "cinematic" because they aren't what audiences are used to, and in some cases the additional detail makes special effects and makeup more obvious, diminishing the sense of reality.

From an information-theoretic perspective, a vinyl LP is garbage compared to a well-mastered CD. From an aesthetic perspective... people like what they like?
Which has led to massive issues within Sweden.

An extraordinary 190,000 refugees are now expected to arrive in Sweden this year - double what the agency expected at the start of the year, and more people than live in Uppsala, the country's fourth largest city.

If the predictions are correct, Sweden will take 20,000 asylum applications per million people in 2015, double the rate even of Germany.

The strain is beginning to show everywhere from politics - where the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats are, according to two of the country's eight main polls, now the party with the most support - to finance, where both the central government and municipalities are struggling to find savings to cover the costs.

https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-hits-refugee-crisis-zero-hour/a...
>For Scharff, this technique apparently worked quite well. In addition to initially preying upon his prisoner's fears of the infamous Gestapo,

Meanwhile in 2019: "Ok, if that's all you know we have no further questions. Next week you'll be transferred to Saudi custody so they can ask you anything they want to ask"
I'd argue that this type of AI frees up humans to be more creative. If a journalist doesn't have to spend time writing routine articles about baseball scores, they have more time to spend tracking down real stories. I posted elsewhere in these comments about my own AI-powered news system, and if I didn't have that my entire day would be taken up writing routine articles that are interesting to readers but have very little journalistic value. Instead I can turn on the machine and let it write this routine content while I go out and interview the city manager about the proposed development downtown or the upcoming tax increase.

If the routine and mindless tasks of humans are moved to automation, those humans are now free to actually create.
There's nothing. It's something that's been made up by so called "audiophiles" to justify heavy investments in equipment whose performance does not help with anything.

Our ears are degenerating with every year, but the older those people get, the more expensive the equipment has to be, otherwise they can't grasp the soul of the music etc. pp.

It's just an excuse, CDs are fine.
Same here. Unless it's your own activity, you shouldn't work more than what's written on your contract.

If you work more, you get abused and low-balled by salary negotiations
Except now, sendgrid is merged with twilio; so... history repeating?
Wouldn't? Or can't given the lack of safety nets?

If the worst-case scenario is starting over perhaps the risk isn't so "massive." But when the worst-case scenario is starving then it's certainly a massive risk.
Its also a side effect of property taxes. Why pay 10-20k a year in property taxes when you can live in a mobile home.
>Seriously, it's kind of crazy to have the immediate response to "the mainstream consensus was totally wrong" to be "let's use the force of the law to enforce the new consensus!" A little bit of humility is called for, I think. By all means improve the official recommendations, but let people make their own decisions about what they put in their bodies.

Well said. There is a much bigger lesson than "it turns out sugar is bad." It's: "we don't know as much as we think we know so we should stop being so overconfident."
>EU legislation passes through majority support.

Due to the way the EU is set up and the "EU parties" are set up, this basically means that France and Germany have a ridiculous amount of sway on the issue.
Nikon transitioned from AF motors in the camera to AF motors in the lens, which added weight to the lens (and removed weight from certain low-end consumer bodies). The lens I use has AF, but uses the body's motor.

I don't really care about vibration reduction, stabilization, or any of the other modern sharpness-obsession gear. I'm still shooting a D7000 I've had for close to a decade. For what I'm trying to express, more resolution and sharpness has never really helped.
The American dream of just getting by ;) [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdKuDNIqGI
As well as recreational uses, for which purpose it is actually a rather benign substance when dosed correctly [1].

[1] https://hilaryagro.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/alright-lets-tal...
DeepMind’s AI Shows Itself to Be a World-Beating World Builder
I think this comes in different flavours.

(1) Sales Channel Flavour. This is a guarantee you use to improve conversion rates, by trying to remove any reluctance possible. This is usually where you find the "hoops" to lower the number of actual claimants.

Generally, highly optimized sales "funnels" are found in segments with high margins & high advertising costs. A 5% return rate is no big deal if you spend 40% on media/advertising.

(2) Heirloom Product. Say you sell a $500 camping knife. It's designed to last generations. Besides marketing, a lifetime guarantee frames the product mission in nicely concrete terms, with natural feedback mechanisms. IE, guaranteeing the product for life helps ensure you make it to last a lifetie.

(3) Just-easier flavour. This is more common now, with amazon/yelp/charegbacks/etc. Money back might just be the easier way of dealing with unhappy customers. For a mature company easy=cheap. For a startup, easy means minimizing "escalations:" Chargeback disputes, Let me speak to your manager, etc.

You need to watch out for no. 3. It could be in the "do things that don't scale" category.
Nope, I think in pretty much all states, property taxes fund schools in that district. So if your parents have an expensive home, it gathers lots of property tax, which goes mostly to the school in that neighborhood.

> American Dream

The so-called American Dream of social mobility does not exist anymore. It's a relic from the 50s, where a single income from a modest job could support an entire family, with a summer vacation every year.

The more modern examples of rags-to-riches bootstrapping-my-own-widget business are atypical.

The middle class is disappearing and it's not because they are upward bound.
Alibaba Is Conquering Africa, Where Is Amazon?
Maybe a bit of both? Housing has been systematically blocked in some areas of the country, leaving a severe shortage, and this is one way to cope. For others, bigger is not better. More maintenance, more cleaning, more bother comes with more house. Different people trade off in different ways.
You can be like Humpty Dumpty and use the word like that if you want, but it seems like highly unhelpful terminology to me and rather insulting to the people concerned.

If you want an example of something that really is Nazi, take a look at the downvoting that's going on here! (That was an attempt at humour; downvote it.)
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it's taken me 15 years but now I work about 8 hours a day; sometimes I help with after-hours tasks related to my job but that's rare (roughly, quarterly).

I used to work 10-14 hours a day, plus 24x7x365 oncall. It was miserable and my health (mental and physical) suffered greatly.

Mostly now I lift weights, run, and try to practice portion control.

The only remaining bad thing in work-life balance is my 8 hours of work is bookended by perhaps an hour each way commute, and it's getting worse every year. In another year or two there's going to be more mass transit in my area so at least I can play games on my phone instead of driving.
Exploiting Insecure Object Deserialization in Open Source Healthcare Software
Virtually any sedative can be a "date rape drug". As that page notes, very-much-legal alcohol "is the drug most commonly used to help commit sexual assault".

Ketamine has substantial legitimate medical uses, and is thus legal in those situations.
Legitimacy maybe, but democratic legitimacy is absolutely lacking. A country governed the way the EU is, would not be considered sufficiently democratic. The democracy for the commission is very indirect.

People vote for their national parliament. Parliament appoints a government. Those appointed governments then discuss who to appoint in the commission. Europarliament gets a say, but can only accept or reject the entire commission, not specific members in it.

The Europarliament is the only democratically elected body on the EU level, and its power is sorely lacking.
The power of deeper networks for expressing natural functions (2018)
I'd be more impressed by "tiny" houses (~20% of normal size by my own definition) if they didn't cost 50%-60% of a full size house.
Number of MEPs is proportional to population... That's called democracy.
yeah i just noticed the status page was removed - it used to actually be pretty good!
> "Whatever is on twitter is still a real fact because they repeat, verbatim what people post on it."

This, right here, is the problem. Something is not a FACT just because it's being repeated over and over on Twitter. In fact, I have a feeling the correlation between accuracy and Twitter-repetition is probably inverse.
In Germany it works like that, at least for in-house developers in many larger companies. I got flex time and, on average, don't work more than 40 hours per week. Obviously there are some exceptions (like production issues and large releases), but employees are compensated for those with either money or time-off.
Or that the people who are being interviewed individually have no leads so from their vantage point the investigation perpetually seems to be wrapping up (because there seem to never be any new leads) except every now and then they find someone they can nail for the typical process crimes wall street/Washington elite engage in.

Then there's the whole political angle. One side wants this to seem like the investigation is chasing nothing and should have ended a long time ago. The other side wants it to seem like a damning report will come out tomorrow.
I work 8-5 as a software engineer (incl. lunch so only 40 hours a week) plus a short ~15 minutes highway commute each way. If there's an accident though that could easily be an hour, it's a congested area and there aren't many alternative routes. It's a crap shoot unfortunately but rarely an issue. My SO is a resident physician so averages 80 hours a week Mon-Sat. My "family" time is largely dependent on her schedule and I work in other things as I'm able.

For health, gym at 5:30am 4 days during the work week and an occasional Saturday workout. I try to eat healthy but not to the point where I'm not looking forward to a meal. Cooking for my SO is also a big stress reliever after a long day or if she's about to start a 24 hour call shift or something.

Productivity wise, I'm personally a fan of the "Nike" approach: just do it. If you're at work, do work. Don't sit on HN or Reddit or Facebook. If you need to use RescueTime or change your hosts file or whatever, fine. But just doing what you're supposed to be doing when you're supposed to be doing it is about as crucial a piece of the puzzle to your success as you'll ever find.
If you study history, you also quickly learn that there were orders of magnitude more poor people killed by the rich and powerful than the other way around.

Yes, but considering that there have always been orders of magnitude more poor people than rich and powerful people, your statement is effectively empty. More telling is that the rich and powerful get away with it, until they don’t. In France during the Revolution, in England during the civil war, in Russia when the czar system was torn down.

Push people far enough and they don’t break, they lash out and take their society down with them. It can be hard to predict when that will happen, but if circumstances don’t change it seems that it always does. Ghaddafi could have been forgiven for believing that after decades, he wouldn’t be hunted and killed by his own people. Hosni Mubarak clearly thought he was untouchable, as did Ben Ali in Tunisia.

I’ll say it again, I’d prefer an orderly and plannned redistribution rather than it all being burned to the ground because a handful of elites can’t finish their goddamned history education and ascribe to the “this time it will be different,” school of what could charitably be called “thought.”
The article doesn't really get into it, but there are some weird pressures in the US that really work against tiny houses, namely: our crumbling infrastructure nationwide and our system of paying for that infrasture and other civic responsibilities with property taxes.

If a municipality is looking at two competing development plans for a couple acres of town:

1. 10 new $500k - 3,000sq ft McMansions = 5 million dollar base and 48 people (estimating 4 people / family)

2. 30 much smaller houses at $100k each = 3 million dollar base and 100ish new people (estimating fewer / house)

In the small house scenario (if they were built on foundations and tied into city water/sewer) you also end up with 3x as many connections to install and support, significantly more kids that need educated at the local overcrowded school system, etc.
The Intel 80386, part 12: The stuff you don’t need to know
Show HN: My Implementation of "Quick, Draw", a Game Developed by Google
Sure, if you are really determined to do it, nothing can stop you from finding a way to shoot yourself in the foot. I still maintain that depending on randomness in UUIDs is conceptually misuse, even if technically achievable.
It seems to me that the core ethos is upping our standards of living. Sort of like a whole-life kon-mari tidying method. Tiny houses help focus specifically on things like:

1. Owning high quality and purpose built possessions

2. Becoming debt free and allowing yourself to take on tasks of great risk (regular world travel, start your own business, etc)

3. Removing things from your life that aren't useful or clutter your life
why is it that Amazon has refused to do business in Africa? Already Alibaba's AliExpress allows African customers to buy products from China and ship them for free. Unlike Amazon, you also don't pay overquoted taxes.
Not true... How about all the makers out there? They are going to make with or without approval from strangers / aquaninstences. I am happy they share on IG as I wouldn't see their creations otherwise... especially folks in countries that do not use an western style keyboard.
It's sad that the site doesn't work without javascript. We had this exact navigation working with iframes 20 years ago. And I could resize the TOC on the left back then.
>In other words, we seem to have arrived at a stage where vapidity is not only tolerated or accepted but encouraged, lauded, and rewarded.

Have you ever been to a museum or an art gallery? We've spent most of our history coveting bits of shiny metal and exotic fabrics. In 18th century Europe, the pineapple was a highly prized status symbol; people would rent one just to have it in the background of their portrait. We're a cargo-culty species of status-obsessed idiots. We always have been, and we probably always will be.
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> I'm specifically concerned about one-time digital purchases, where once the customer has the file/valuable info there's nothing to stop them from keeping it and requesting a refund.

It's highly dependent on the product and who you're selling to. What are the specifics?

I have a subscription based Chrome extension [1] that will stop working if you refund. I offer 7 day refunds in place of my ability to offer free trials right now. I get minimal refund requests so it's not something I worry about and I'm not going to invest time in winning over people that don't see enough value in the product after seven days.

[1] https://www.checkbot.io/
Because it costs at least $1000 for year?