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I have a certain admiration and appreciation for this sort of thing, and every article that describes how the internet is physically interconnected.

Having seen internet connectivity in India slowly grow from only satellite-based connectivity, to having private internal interconnecting hubs within the country for bandwidth providers and ISPs to reduce latency, then news of every new submarine line improving bandwidth and latency, thereby reducing pricing. Going from getting 135ms - 200ms via dialup locally, to getting 60ms to Singapore and Hong Kong while playing Counter Strike and Quake 3. It was such a high!

Each development was so critical and it brought me great joy, and excitement. Still does!
Except in Soviet Union terrorizing all the opposition parties/majority of voters was long, costly and brutal process. Online voting makes the whole thing cheap, easy, and undetectable.
I suppose the downvotes are because you hadn't heard about their pedophilia. Google it. Cook's botanist/scientist on his second voyage, Georg Forster, wrote about how they often took girls as young as 9 and 10. They argued that this was acceptable because "Polynesian girls were sooner ripe".
Here's a critical breakdown of where that number came from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwindurgy/2011/10/25/did-moamm...

TLDR: The $200 Billion number comes from the value of property and assets owned by the Libyan government and sovereign wealth fund. And while Gaddafi had zero qualms about using tax money to directly fund his lavish lifestyle, treating government property as his own and using the sovereign wealth fund as his personal trust fund, he never made any moves towards actually seizing the assets or principal of the wealth fund for himself, so technically it shouldn't count towards his wealth.
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I’ve developed such a seating concept! I’m presenting it to airlines at the largest aircraft interiors show next month. PM me please. I like your thoughts on the topic.
I don't understand where the failure is.

Yes, people are living longer. That trend has been going on for decades. Did the Finnish statisticians and actuaries underestimate the increases in longevity and costs?

Or did the people on government choose to, for example, lower taxes based on the optimism that it would improve the economy enough to make up for the shortfall, only to find that wasn't the case?

Or something else?
If plastic was biodegradable that would be pretty much the same thing as burning it. We need to keep it underground in the form of oil
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Before reading the article and before seeing your comment, I was chatting with my partner about the 737 Max, advising her to be wary. And lo and behold... You are definitely not alone in this.

However, and to play a bit devil's advocate, China has a reputation as being a place that does not care about the value of human life, and the current climate is charged with USA advising people to ban Huawei's hardware, so this could have ulterior motives. If it was France banning them, nobody would bat an eye.

Political or not, in my eyes it is definitely the right move.
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Clicking is hands-down the hardest problem with this type of device. Their hardware mouse button placement is not ergonomic; the user in their video has to use a separate hand just to click!

• If you allow tap-to-click, users are likely to trigger false positives from resting on the keys

• If you allow press-to-click, users will be unable to click in many positions (e.g. the intersection of 3 keys)
> in the context of cameras, I think it will be quite some time before that happens.

Why? The car can easily detect slipping. It can upload camera data every time any Tesla ever lost traction. You think machine learning won't be able to correlate those signals?

Certainly some problems are way easier for us, but that problem seems way easier for the Tesla fleet than for a human.
> Ukraine is just 500km from Vienna

those are two vastly different independent countries.

> how developed it is

can we just cut all cheap talks and focus on undisputed facts and numbers? the undisputed facts here is extremely simple -

1. China's official GDP per capita is well below world's average.

2. The research in the OP article shows such official figure is highly inflated.

You can keep painting China as "developed" or "developed in some selected areas", the above undisputed facts won't change. Hundreds of millions of Chinese live well below the world average standard when it comes to their economic lives. Selectively ignoring the real life situation of hundreds of millions just to back what you believe is not that convincing.
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Tourists already clog the sidewalks (stopping every ten feet and striking a pose for pictures) in NYC. Add robots to the mix, it is gonna be fun.

Maybe robots won't come to NYC, because of winter/snow? How is this thing going to navigate a foot (or more) of snow (or slush/ice)?
It also became much less cost effective after the franchise was extended - when UK Constituencies had a small number of voters it was more practicable - see the Blackadder episode "Dish and Dishonesty"
Some of the points in this article I disagree with but others I like. Compared to my past self I am "super productive". I have a full-time career, a single parent to two young kids (approx 70% of the time I'm not at work I'm parenting) and I study nearly full time (3 units per semester) with a perfect GPA. I somehow still have time for "wasting", like commenting on online discussion boards, going on dates, etc.

* Keeping lists: This one is huge. I have lists all the time which track what I need to have completed and when. I have watch lists for tasks like "get birthday present for this kids party", etc. I have a job list at work.

Procrastination: I use this all the time. It's currently 7:23pm here, I'm wasting time now and I have been since 6pm but my deadline is I wake at 4am tomorrow to work.

Food: This article touches on food but I feel it's really important. I eat low carb because I find carbs make me far more tired. I also avoid large meals because they make me tired.

Something that isn't touched on in the article: Find ways to save yourself time. I get angry when I see an office worker earning 6 figures typing one finger looking at the keys. Touch typing doesn't take long to learn but it saves so much time and effort. Everyone has little quirks that take time/effort to fix but pay off in a big way once fixed. Do it, it's worth it.
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if you migrate a TS project with strict mode enabled to Hooks, you will see how much implicit type annotations can be dropped

I think you meant "explicit"

I agree with you. I've not been too bothered by typing state and default props, but higher-order-components are almost impossible to type properly (a good typedef doubles the LOC count).

I don't like that hooks don't abstract away the shared behaviour as well as HOCs (the component is unaware of the HOC while it it aware of the hook), but being explicit isn't a bad thing either and it's definitely worth it if it makes typing a non-problem
I the UK system each party has monitors who observe the count and also get involved in any disputes.
Cache invalidation is pretty hard if you need to clear data from local caches for every thread.
This is one of the reasons why Netherland has banned voting machines completely. We're back to paper and pencil because it's easy to verify that all votes have been counted.
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You get problems like "granny farming"
We've gone through similar rounds of debugging our XHCI bits on illumos. PCI and USB sniffing hardware is expensive and we have access to neither.

You can get a long way by becoming comfortable with the specification, reading and getting review on your source, and by using the debugging tools on your OS (we have MDB and DTrace, etc).
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2 planes have gone down in 6 months, basically unprecedented in commercial aviation
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> Anything music related reminds me that many(most?) hackers are musically inclined.

Hmm. News to me - I've never heard this before. Got any references on that? Annecdotally I can only think of one person I vaguely know who liked playing keyboards. Again annecdotally one of my parents is a professional musician so you'd imagine some of that would run off and perhaps I'd be more likely than the average to be musically inclined having grown up in a house full of instruments and music, yet I have absolutely zero interest or inclination.

Sure people listen to music a lot, but never seen any other connection beyond that?
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No, because two planes went down within 6 months.
Don't vote = don't get any benefits.

You would have to have an allowance for certain Disabled and Housebound voters and maybe be allowed to miss one election.
>A hundred camels were in tow, each camel carrying hundreds of pounds of pure gold.

Or around $1bn in gold assuming 500 pounds per camel at current exchange rates. As a percent of the then global GDP, this was likely well above the modern super rich, but as a head of state, his pilgrimage would have been perhaps comparable to a mid-sized war for that time period given the number of troops and total expense.
it’s really nice to be able to wrap up shared stateful logic without HoCs

agreed. I loved HOCs for the composibility, abused them and very rarely encountered prop collision, but TS (or Flow) made them a massive pain
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Don't bugnumber@bugs.debian.org work?
> with the assumption that you had the stabilizer trim under control, why would you add to the significant workload by disabling the electrical control of the stabilizer?

I'm struggling to see how you think having to make manual adjustments every 30 seconds is "under control". Check the flight profile, it was never under control.

> the Lion Air pilots did not encounter a runaway stabilizer

What did the pilots on the four previous flights encounter? Did they not follow procedure correctly by overriding it? The trim stabiliser had to be adjusted 23 times during the the fatal flight, this is a solid fact. After a few times it should have been very apparent that there was a problem related to the automatic trim system and switched to manual.

Manual trim would only get adjusted a only few times during a regular flight, it's a very basic skill and the trim wheel itself takes up a huge amount of real estate in modern cockpits.

Sorry but you've written a lot of terribly inaccurate stuff here. Let's see what the report says.

There are dozens of design flaws in modern aircraft, a miniscule amount are unrecoverable following procedure.

The process to manually override trim on a 737 that should have been followed:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/16/world/asia/li...
How are you releasing, but the products are not seeing the light of day?
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Obviously this is impossible to answer with any real specifics as it varies from company to company. The skills needed for a founder at a technical company selling B2B are very different to the skills needed to build a consumer app. However, a good ability/understanding of the following would really help;

Being able to say no to adding more features. This is probably the most important skill. It's really easy to say yes to more and more things, and every time you do you make it less likely a user will ever see your app.

Deployment. Regardless of what you're making you need to be able to get it out there reliably.

Code quality. Spending time revisiting code to fix issues is wasted time, so writing high quality code you can understand and fix fast is key.

Testing. The easiest way to lose a user is for them to see a bug right away, so you need to be able to test well.

Security. Obviously.
Theres a debate in the UK at the moment on whether to let an IS fighter back into the country [1], they were a child at the time of leaving, but are adult now.

It is 'interesting' to compare the situations and reactions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_Begum
Maybe the sunny weather encourages optimism? And orange trees fruiting in the streets.

Always thought Douglas Adams' "horrifyingly sunny" Ursa Minor Beta was based on California.
I clicked because it's trombones. My problem though is that the valve for the F-attachment is broken off and I need to resolder it. Does anyone have a nice tutorial outlying the pitfalls associated with soldering that (my approach would be to heat the lever part in the oven, heat the installation site with a blowtorch and add solder and put the preheated part on it, hoping it's no cold solder joint)
Wow, I didn't realize the software fix hadn't been rolled out prior to yesterday's crash. Yikes. Also count me among those who went through the rest of this year's (already booked) flights this morning to ensure I'm not on one of these things.
Yeah exactly that. :)
It’s such nonsense, depressing to see it in a highly voted comment.
Well, no, not unless you define speed as “bandwidth”.

If it takes 1ms for the 1 bit to get to the other side, it’s still going to take 1ms for N bits to get to the other side, even N-multiplexed.

It’s the bandwidth that’s improved with multiplexing.
TLDR: White man holds door open for a Chinese woman. She says thank you in English to show respect. Man decides she's got a guilty conscience.
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I am in the same boat. All I've ever known is existence, and the thought of not existing anymore is terrifying.
I have a naive question (I'm a long time Debian user, but never really tried to contribute): why isn't all the Debian in a single git repository? I'm not suggesting to vendor all the third party code but only all the packaging information, like, say, libreelec does (and I assume many others)
||“Every scientist and radiation expert in the world who comes here says the same thing,” he said. “We know we don’t need to reduce radiation levels for public health. We’re doing it because the people want us to.”

And that is the biggest problem we have today. Our "Leaders" do not lead but just play the part.
A while ago an article [1] was posted here [2] with focus on its effects on sleep. Might be useful as well.

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632668
I don't like them either, but they absolutely don't get in a way of normal keyboard use.
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> Unfortunately we use tslint so we'd have to add eslint just for this.

This won't be a problem forever (https://medium.com/palantir/tslint-in-2019-1a144c2317a9) :).
It is true that our current system is basically build around growth.
But I find the resource leak bug metaphor of the article gravely lacking.
The problem isn't solely, that resources are allocated and not released afterwards. The problem of our time is transforming resources irreversibly into (toxic) waste at a breath-taking pace.
I also don't see alienation, complexity and bloat inherently as a problem. Not sure what to take from the article. It seems to be written from somebody, whose software-centric world view has himself alienated from reality. Especially the conclusion, that the input of hackers might particularly valuable for the "reconstruction" of civilization, due to their experiences with software bugs, reveals the author's déformation professionnelle.
It might be because Tesla tried to get around the odd law that says all cars have to be sold via a middle man. They might have had some sort of legal response to that.
As if democracies aren't buying votes already en masse?! Lobbying is just that, on a scale that actually matters more (directly at policy decision making point).
You're simply missing the fact that by definition there won't be any case where you see the LED being turned off 1 second before you push the button. If you see the LED being turned off, you won't be pushing it the second later.
Colossal bandwidth use for very high latency updates? Surely it’s better to get depth information from the device rather that from Apple’s self driving cars/StreetView clones, either with stereo, lidar, or AI estimates?
Wow, definitely looking forward to the 3rd edition!
The problem is: what defines a security issue. A developer (more often then not) doesn't know if a fixed bug could have lead to a security issue.
This is pretty big news in China although the West doesn't really report much on it (Search Wang Linqing and you will find nothing), people are citing this as an example again of the extreme magic realism that is in China and how CCP and their corruption needs to be tackled.
Oh, sure. Foster homes are a thing. Where children who would otherwise greatly suffer or disappear in "family-oriented" societies can live in reasonable safety and care.

There are parents who reject their children or even kill them: apparently infanticide in India is not uncommon. There are relatives who try getting rid of their inconveniencing elderly. You can't be unaware of it, these are plot devices in a number of Bollywood films and there are specific laws to deal just with that. In a country size of India, the number of people not receiving adequate care or outright abused has to be in millions. An independent safety net greatly improves their odds of survival and life expectancy.

Approximately noone is looking forward to watching after incontinent, or demented, or paralyzed patients while trying also to get on with daily life. It becomes a full time job very quick, and many simply have no proper means to do so. Lacking any other options, most people would do that however out of basic humanism, but it's not to say they find that process rewarding or they do any good job at that. Quietly hoping for timely death of the patient in their care while hating yourself for it isn't uncommon.

So again, for the lack of any alternatives you present the social order you live in as a virtue. But you can only make moral choice when you have any realistic choice at all.
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Sensors fail all the time modern aircraft, people would probably be quite scared knowing how often.

After the Airfrance airbus incident they also introduced a "patch" to protect the aircraft from erroneous pilot actions leading to stalls when indicators are incorrect, those fixes were certainly not indicative of guilt but just another layer to stop pilots making mistakes.
As one of my friends (and no a local councillor) who was involved in Conservative politics at uni in the UK said it gets taken over by "a bunch of drunken yahoos".

She was taking about the FCS and People like Guido Fawkes.

Oh "Yahoos" refers to Jonathon Swifts Yahoos not any one employed by Yahoo
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The use of the "mas...bation" word also automatically meant I will not forward the link to co-workers or friends. So the author lost many potential readers from it.
You're unlikely to rent the whole thing so it just depends on how much bandwidth you need. If it's only a couple of TB per month it's not that expensive.
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Interesting article but Jakob Fugger the Rich was estimated to be worth 400 billion Euro at the time of death and he's missing from the list. How accurate might the rest of the list be then?
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Making industries/factories/companies accountable for environmental pollution is easier, logistically/politically/financially, than making individuals accountable. So yeah, people are shit and they want this but fixing the problem is easier if you go after the industry and tax the externalities. Plus it’s not so black and white. In my neighbourhood people want to make environmentally friendly choices but when you go to the market you’ll find no options without plastic packaging, food chains refusing to serve in my own metal containers etc etc.

In a similar vein, a majority in a country can choose to oppress the minority but that doesn’t mean government should let it happen because the people made the choice.
I thought "designed by a Deep Learning AI"
It already is, AFAIK
Who create the security tokens that banks use? I could see few things more lucrative and advantageous than a perfect backdoor into that hardware, especially since here in Sweden you can create electronic government ID from said token which can be used for everything except voting.

It is not without reason that most common fraud here in Sweden (around 80%) is someone calling under false pretense asking a victim to use the hardware token in order for the fraudsters to create a new electronic id which is then used to empty the bank account, create credit accounts, and so on. So far those security tokens has had a perfect track record from a hardware perspective, as much good that does. Maybe that is a bomb waiting to explode but it is hard to see a stronger incentives for criminals than what already exist.

When people here discuss electronic voting, security of the hardware tokens is not usually brought up. It is rather all the other elements which makes it a bad choice. There would be no physical ballots that can be verified, questionable anonymity, and a loss of a controlled voting environment. All the common solutions to those problems usually results in the conclusion that it then easier to just keep the current system as is.