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>Interestingly, the U.S. currently ticks off many of the early stages of a country headed for a bloodbath, according to Stanton. There's polarization, discrimination, dehumanization. But strong legal and government institutions in the U.S. are likely to block such a disaster from happening, he says.

Any 'Murican with a social media account would agree with the first two sentences.

But I'm not sure about the third. It seems our strong institutions are not impartial, and can be bent to serve strictly political purposes.
I also got the "Registration is denied" error multiple times with no other error messages.

Does your company name have any non-alphanumeric characters? I removed the "&" from mine and was able to register.
They are the same people. The Brexit they sold to the working class and the Brexit the Brexiteer elite is dreaming of are 2 entirely different beasts.

Since the vote has been thrown, the local population has largely been ignored. Their need at best a second thought in a grand political and cynical battle for power.
Most radio stations are crap, but the world is a huge place. Listen to say WFMU out of NYC and you will hear a very wide selection of odd stuff.
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Programmers? Sure German language needs a nice round of refactoring. Remove all redundancies. It would be a huge changelist with shit ton of lines removed, and still all tests for meaning pass.
Seems like most spammers / scammers are finding out passwords of old accounts instead of creating new ones (which are a pain to create due to the phone number verification and the disposable phone numbers ban).

Twitter should probably scan their user passwords for obvious / most-used ones and require their users to change their passwords.
The service you get in the US isn't "good service" it's people kissing your ass because they can't afford not to. It's all fake.

In Europe, you get seen when it's your turn and the staff work at a reasonable pace without killing themselves because they have a decent base pay. They don't degrade themselves for tips (I've seen this a lot with waitresses in the US flirting horribly with customers).
Does Google 2FA still have the option to telephone the code through to a phone? If you have a direct-dial number to your desk phone would that not work?
Or any service that lets you read your text messages remotely; Pushbullet or anything offering the same functionality?
>a few hours per day tops

That looks like a rather active use.
I've had the same issues and a similar experience after using Signal the past few years. It took so much effort to convince my closest friends to install Signal and the single most frustrating thing it would do is force us back to SMS because sending of encrypted messages would continuously fail.

What really sucks is that there's no hope of me convincing them to switch again if a better messenger were to come along.
"Nevod is a language and patent-pending technology for pattern-based text search."

Yawn. I will stay with my patent-free regexps (or whatever other tech I may need) than to rely on something that will let you put a gun to my head if I ever wish to sell my product.

No thanks. Software patents are evil crap.
To be fair, if you are making huge trading decisions like this on consumer retail, and ignoring the online component of the third largest online retailer in the US, you're going to lose all your money eventually anyway.
I think that’s too complicated. The US has to be in a state of declared war against the country the traitor aides.
Internet Explorer is the only option for Windows Server.
I think the parent poster was talking about both being messy in the past, but recently having a major version upgrade that deprecated old features. PHP 7 could be compared to ES6 (as well as ES5's strict mode)
Yes, which is why I linked it in the thread, and your comment specifically. Did you see this comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19109418

Why do you think rust developers weren’t aware of separation of concerns or good examples in 2016?
Something similar happened with the "secret wall street speech transcripts"-not a major story, but the fact that they weren't public became a major talking point for the Trump supporters I talked to-and lo and behold they did eventually leak.
> Would you call this potentially totalitarian?

Absolutely. And “good intentions” is irrelevant, what matters is the results. How do people in that hypothetical society live? Obviously we cannot tell, but we can study history and check how things go when liberty is discarded.

> Because it creates a totality

This is just word play. The word “totalitarian” has a very specific meaning. From the dictionary:

1) of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.

2) exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.
It's not just about justification of freeloading. It's about a company being able to push arbitrary stuff to your device masked as adverts. Yeah fine I listen to music for free on your service. Does that mean that everyone should be able to spy on me? Nobody is complaining about voice or image or video-based ads. But running JS and iframes is just arrogant.

Also I'm very pissed off with people who say freeloading. It's not freeloading. I pay with my time to watch or listen to your stupid ad. I should not also pay with my personal data. An ad is just an ad it should not have evolved to the monstrosity of tracking you.

It has evolved in the same way copyright has until we find a way to kill both of them as they are not needed in our world.
I don't think the big news of the article is the Python kernel, but rather the C++ library that makes writing other kernels easier.
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I just read this [0] this morning and thought it was thoughtful. Hope it helps.

[0] https://medium.com/not-another-diet/not-another-diet-6a86abe...
http://radio.garden/

It's what you get when you smush internet radio and a virtual globe together. I really enjoy exploring different parts of the world and listening to their music.
For me: start small.. keep moving, inward, onward, upward..

Check out the book mindset by Dr Carol Dueck.

She walks a person thru recognizing where we have a fixed mindset vs a growth mindset. It was a refreshing read.
Signal has some serious problems and I'm glad other people out there are talking about this, too.

I ended up stopping using Signal (except for a few holdouts) because of the message delivery problems; it caused way too many social problems.

I mostly use Telegram now, and it's been great. The worst part about it is everyone saying "but it's russian spyware!!" whenever I suggest it. It isn't, folks, and I'm well apprised of the theoretical vulnerabilities. They're just a compromise I'm more than happy to make, when the alternative is a chat tool that fails at chatting even 5% of the time.
The video signal is muxed onto the fiber after the OLT, so the only shared portion of the infrastructure is the passive fiber. That’s effectively an uncontended resource. The single mode fiber has vastly more capacity than you can actually use with the active components of the network. Your limit in data speeds is from the OLT, and the Ethernet ports those OLTs are plugged into, none of which is shared with TV.
You are unfairly conflating the people who voted for brexit with the anti-brexit elites.

I doubt the people who voted for brexit are fine with saudi money.
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Well, it's a free service. They have no reason to care about users, who block ads and don't intend to ever become paying customers.
I’m not sure how much targeting they do on their ads but they are also targeted terribly.

I don’t listen to Spanish music, and I don’t speak Spanish. Multiple times when I had my free Spotify it would randomly decide that I would get all of my ads in Spanish that week. No idea why. My first thought was that my account had been hacked and someone changed my language - but nope, Spotify just doesn’t know my demographic.

I have since upgraded to premium.
It's strange that despite "boat" being in the title, it's only mentioned once in the article.

tl;dr for people wondering why:

>Karakul is so salty, it’s almost impossible to navigate a boat on it without capsizing due to the vessel riding so far out of the water.
I don't understand what you're trying to say, Russia is an important diplomatic and military power but economically its GDP is barely above Spain and quite far below Germany, the UK, France and Italy. If you take the EU as a whole its GDP is more than 13 times greater than that of Russia (22 trillion vs. 1.6 trillion USD).

It's definitely a significant power but I don't see how you could argue that it's "clearly" the main continental power.

However it's probably the regional power with the highest nuisance potential for the EU (alongside Turkey).
The issue isn't that blackmail works or doesn't work, it's that it only works on some people. Trump is an obvious and clear candidate for blackmail, given his personality. Bezos is not.
Access to spotify free tier is not a human right, it's quite easy to just not use it
I should have phrased it differently, but there's a strong emphasis on the word 'tops' there. I'd say that most of the time at work, I don't listen to music at all, and when I do listen to music, it's never for more than two hours per day.
I mean they’re obviously tracking your every move but I’ve subscribed to Google Music for years and never had any problems. Use it every day.
Nuclear deterrence did more to ensure peace in Europe than the EU. It's not a choice between the EU or war.
As other commenters point out, most PHP written today goes through a framework that negates most of these points (single entry point, modern architecture, code is precompiles/cached and optimised, simple and intuitive goes through the window)

On the more general point, I am not sure scripting languages lend themselves better to lamdbas, as dependencies are usually external to the system.
For instance PHP often relies on system json/xml libraries. Database access also needs to be precompiled and installed on the system, as would be crypto or internalionalization routines.

Compared to that, I'd expect compiled runtimes can have one single "fat" binary that has most of the risky dependencies and only rely on the bare minimum provided by the system.
In France they soon had an Emperor then not long after that the Bourbons were restored to the throne:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVIII_of_France
I was with you until
> I don't want to pay for something I only use for a few hours per day tops.

A few hours a day adds up pretty quickly. Though I can understand not wanting _two_ music streaming service subscriptions.
Scepticism not denialism.
I know we're a little ways off, but this seems like a great platform to combine with automatic blood sugar measurement. Imagine taking one pill in the morning that measures your blood sugar and internally administers insulin as necessary. There are already externally attached pumps that do both (my father, a type 1 diabetic, uses one) but having an electronic device permanently attached to your stomach is a bit of a hassle.
You might want to check out gearmand and/or any of it's spiritual successors.
The Pamirs are so beautiful. Definitely near the top of my list of places to go once that region calms down.
I had no idea that was an option in the first place. I'll have to look into this more.

All of the services that I know of that let you read texts remotely are also blocked at work. Basically anything that falls under the category of messaging or email.
A common idiom is the defer, for example, file.Close() only if there wasn't an error when the file was opened. You can also put them in an if statement. This means that the deferred function aren't strictly tied to their scope.

Putting the defers on the stack is also part of how the runtime unwinds the stack during a panic.
Why do you think that consciousness is different from a self image in a neural network which is configured to use some effective learning algorithm?

Of course there are other theories but they are just as unproven as this one.
Regular grammars a strict subset of what Perl 6 will parse, no? If you stick to that subset it will parse in a single pass.
I never read the book but the 1971 Andromeda Strain movie is still one of my favorite moves.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
Germany is definitely the leading force behind the two, but yes, they work closely together.
Physical media still exists for a lot of music, but I know first-hand that some music, collections/anthologies/compilations and playlists containing some original content are becoming increasingly digital-only. Check for an artist's profile on a music service that allows you to purchase and download the content. Bandcamp (no affiliation) is one such service. Then you can make your own physical or digital backups external to the service.

This is less than ideal, but it works for now.
Someone tell Microsoft "Mission accomplished!!!".

I knew they would ocme to their senses eventually so I stopped using IE about 10-12 years ago!!
I think the title is also misleading, because the boats float, just too well.
They also changed their terms regarding reverse engineering.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978825
You don’t have to take my word for it. Read up on the history of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the insane things it used to do (regulate rates for air and truck freight). Read how companies like UPS came into existence after those things were deregulated. Read how most of the western world followed suit in the 1980s and 1990s.
> a few hours per day tops

Multiplied by how many days per year? Seems significant to me.
"Britain is leading a group of European Union states who are trying to..."

This seems in bad taste, atm considering the ongoing divorce proceedings.

More seriously, I wonder what this is really about. Money laundering has become an enormously hairy term. It could mean just about anything.

I suspect this about housing the piles of money officials, oligarchs, warlords and aristocrats from these countries accumulate. No one wants to keep their $6bn in Yemen. It's not safe there.

Saudi has a huge, wealthy aristocracy. It's no secret that a lot of them are heavily invested in the UK, notably London real estate.

Considering the "game of thrones" event where prince MLB locked up half his own family and extorted... princely sums from them... I imagine the desire to get your loot away from the middle east has just gotten keener.
If self-promotion is allowed in this context, I'd like to suggest my own website as a good example: https://barrowclift.me
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> they cause a lot of pain and suffering

Nothing compared to the US prison system, which is where we send people. It is entirely moralizing. Our prison system is the way that it is because of a specific morality in the US, just as so many laws and political positions that exist. There is nothing ethical about it.

If you want people who are addicted to drugs to be able to free themselves from the cycle in a country with a prison system like ours designed to cause fear, you must make the drugs legal, so that coming forward isn't a permanent personal threat.
Derek Sivers has a great blog: https://sivers.org/blog
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It would be more precise to qualify your description of Germany as being the main economic power, because in military terms it is still effectively occupied by the US. Perhaps apparent permanent vassalage status is worth trading against economic success in your eyes..
honestly the backlash is on the whole idea of using state resources to whitelist transactions

its not about whether a country or participants in a country fulfills the criteria set forth in "are they circumventing capital controls to also fund terrorism" guideline

its about the capital controls at all. banks obviously aren't playing ball and the state can only leverage the financial institution's relationship with their central bank to enforce this anyway, parallel non-bank payment systems make it more apparent that all of this a moot point anyway, and the costs to enforce this ideal are extremely high.

obviously no senator can say "maybe we shouldn't try attempt to police terrorism financing", but a 28 country bloc that requires unanimous consent can easily bring sanity back into public resource use, and thats what is happening here.
Hope the price per pill is more reasonable that current prices on insulin which are skyrocketed over 20 years.
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You can keep a sheet of about 5-10 of them, and generate more when needed.

It's inconvenient, but if your in an environment that disallows phones or other portable electronics (like 2FA Fobs/USB sticks), it may be the only reasonable way.
I believe GP addressed that:

> services like Spotify and Apple Music incourage extra data usage, and randomally delete music as they see fit

I certainly wouldn't use a service that deletes my music.
Just use a flatboat.
> Sometimes I have to use locks, and I don't think we should be forced to use locks in 2019. We've had better solutions since the 80s.

Absolutely not. Locks/spinlocks are found in pretty much every significantly parallel software project. It is pretty arrogant to criticize almost all software architectures on earth.
I run a site focused on a very narrow niche (pricing strategy)... https://taprun.com
And that's why we keep our old vaults password in our new vault.
Then don't use their service. Why is this made out to be difficult. If you want to take/consume their service then pay, for it via ads or subscription.

If you don't like that they have an ad based model, and personally want to boycott their subscription service because of it then do so and buy your own music.

It's not complicated. 'Not rewarding their behavior' is simple - don't use Spotify. Anything else is very transparent, after-the-fact justification of your desire for theft.

"Hey I really like this bike share service, but I don't think it's safe, so I'm gonna steal the bike, improve the safety and then ride it whenever I want. I don't want to reward their behavior of renting bikes I feel aren't safe."
I hate the Spotify client overall, but the multi-device integration stuff is done so well
If I'm listening to music, I don't have to think what device I am doing it from, I can just grab my phone, laptop or tablet to navigate/change songs and it works just like magic
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A poor abstraction is always a poor abstraction, but a good abstraction can not only isolate your components from change but also provide a better interface.

I'm not going to write raw HTTP requests to S3 in every place in my code that I need to read/write objects from there. What I'd rather have is a simple abstraction with methods like get(id) -> obj and put(obj) -> id.
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Addendum to the solution 1: "Don't assume that, because you paid for something, they aren't harvesting your data anyway".

Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19113960
mp3s are compressed and lossy. Makes them unsuitable for buying. There are a few sites like bandcamp that sell flacs. Not sure why the big players don't let you buy flacs. It's not like there's an engineering issue. Maybe they get the rights only for lossy files.

Edit: Since some will invariably point out that you can't hear flacs, here's a better argument. Even if you prefer lossy music, there are and will be better codecs than mp3. So the choice of encoding should be up to you so that you can choose a better codec in the future if you wish. And mp3 wasn't even free until last year. So until 2018, it was illegal to play mp3s on a free system.
I try pretty hard to make the close-outs failsafe. It is very difficult to manage errors or recover once you have started closing resources. However, you are then left manually calling file.Flush (for example), which can easily be forgotten.
Are people lazy, or do they have much more important things to concern themselves with? I'd rather get work done and spend time with my family than spend time looking for the "ideal" way to listen to music.
This is a helluva fun thing to run on a nearly 30-year-old repo (in our case, started with RCS, eventually ending up in git).

Takes you right down memory lane and really gives you a feel for how your codebase has evolved, and the place of each contributor.
Because you already pay with your time and attention when they play ads. Why should you pay for a subscription?
The point here is we thought we owned access. That occasionally was revoked without notice, or recourse.
Which particular charts and graphs did you take issue with? It's great to see critical takes on anything but they're fairly pointless (we're anonymous here) unless you offer some reason to believe. For all I know all his data was cherry-picked to fit an anti-CAGW agenda but someone merely claiming this doesn't make me any the wiser.
> I think the problem can only be solved at the compiler/OS level.

There's the problem. That is a lot of levels. There is support at certain levels; nowadays you can force writebacks from certain cache lines, and OSes let you keep pages from being swapped. The problem is that it needs coordinated support at all levels, but there is no money behind it, unlike features that may improve performance, and hardly anybody knows there is even a problem.

Spectre and Meltdown have raised awareness of security threats in infrastructure, but are so big they also absorb all the budget for it, and will continue indefinitely.
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Spotify is a great way to discover and browse music; but it kind of goes with the nature of streaming services that your access to their content is neither as reliable or as anonymous as playing files you’ve downloaded. Then again, major labels now provide lossless DRM free files through Qobuz, Juno Download, Beatport etc (although some region localisation still exists, but once you’ve bought the file that no longer affects you). Smaller labels operate through these platforms as well, and through Bandcamp (which is my favourite platform for buying music). So I do think the situation when it comes to legal access to digital music is much better than it ever was.
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What doctors and researchers get wrong about diabetes is that pin-pricks and injections are not even remotely bad. I don't know a single diabetic who cares about injections and blood sugar tests. You get used to that within the first week of diagnosis.

No, the unpleasant part of being diabetic is having to live every second of your life as an act of weighing how what you're currently doing is going to affect your blood sugar levels an hour for now:

- Have I been sitting in this chair too long?
- Have I not been sitting down enough this morning?
- Have I been drinking enough water?
- Did I just drink too much water?
- I haven't been to the bathroom in two hours; does this mean I'm screwed?
- If I eat a piece of toast after dinner, will I be able to have sex with my wife without going hypoglycemic?
- I'd like to go hiking, but it's hot outside and my insulin might spoil, so maybe I'll walk around the block instead.
- I just plan on going to the grocery store for 20 minutes; do I need to bring insulin in case there's a traffic jam on the way home?

Etc., etc. Pharmaceutical companies can't solve the real lifestyle problems associated with diabetes short of inventing an actual cure.
Maybe their new Chromium based Edge browser will, since Chrome presumably still supports all of those.
Julia Evans' blog is one of my favorites: https://jvns.ca/
Apple Music doesn’t delete music you own. Even if they lost the license, you could still have a copy on your own computer and your own backups.