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What is the reason for constantly adding so many emoji with every Unicode update? It seems like it's creating never-ending development and graphic design work for software that supports emoji. Additionally they'll cause constant software size increases to include thousands of images that'll barely ever get used.

If you look down that list of new emoji, I don't see the use case for many of them, and many of them seem to leave the door open for yet more additions.
Eg. The garlic, waffle, falafel and butter emoji, why are they needed? Will every food be added? Will some not? Where do you draw the line? Was a teenager having a serious problem expressing garlic in a WhatsApp message without an emoji?
More plastic ? Is there a shortage of plastic that I missed ? It would be a much more exciting news if someone managed to convert plastic to biodegradable material.
The Zermatism stuff is whack .. but the Protong stuff is great!

>Beginning in 1940, Szukalski devoted most of his time examining the mysteries of prehistoric ancient history of mankind, the formation and shaping of languages, faiths, customs, arts, and migration of peoples. He tried to unravel the origin of geographical names, gods, and symbols that have survived in various forms in various cultures. This work, called "Protong" (in Polish, "Macimową"), continued uninterruptedly for over 40 years. He wrote a manuscript of 42 volumes, totaling more than 25,000 pages, and including 14,000 illustrations.[3] The volumes covered a variety of issues; his pen drawings of artifacts, which he considered "witnesses", were done to confirm his theories.
I think posting publicly has the advantage that other projects can cite this when having discussions of how to set up their infrastructure.
The Stack Overflow answer linked is horrifyingly delightful: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226872/how-to-shrin...
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That oddly parallels the 2012 Costa Concordia shipwreck.
Make window fullscreen, press Windows-G on a Windows 10 computer with halfway good graphics card. Pump it into VLC and crop away the stuff you don't want ... and profit? :-)
> Gmane used to paper over this issue, but Gmane’s availability over the last few years has been spotty, to say the least (it is down as I write this).

The Gmane web interface is not just down but shut down for good: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/com...

So this issue won't get better without Debian doing something themselves.
>we are looking at every problem in terms of money

Because making money by doing an activity is one well known way to do it long term, in a self-sustainable fashion. The other way is by force, which has many issues. Furthermore, in an open society (like most Western democracies), force use is very limited and cannot be sustained.

Either we find a way to make money out of fixing climate change or it won't happen, unless you're OK with global dictatorship.
Mansa Munsa was head of an empire himself. It seems incongruent to show displeasure for it had been replaced by yet another empire, just because it was based in some European country.
> I believe Word still has an built-in grammar/spell checker that works just fine without all your documents being sent to Microsoft

...unless you use their cloud storage system, which Word tries to get you to do. The last time I read that ToS (not recently, probably 1-2 years) it included granting MS the rights to share your data with any of their customers or licensors for legal or business purposes, past, present, or future.

Honestly, I’m sure that those terms were written by a legal team to cover reasonable potential or actual uses, but they also cover ridiculous uses, and it’s not like you’d even know...
I think you are talking about a OTP here, which needs to be shared before communicating.

But random numbers are also used to generate public/private key combinations, which can be used for live communication after a handshake.
> Acting on your vision is easier for people when they have access to large pools of money.

This is a highly oversimplified vision. It's true that Elon has way more money at his disposal. But it's also true that he had the guts to put all of it on the line for his vision.

If I was that rich (after PayPal), I would put money on the side that I would never touch, and then try the business thing with the rest of it. I think most of us would do that, or even retire at that point.

Putting all your money on the line (and let's face it, if you have millions, you fall from higher than if you only have $100) really shows how dedicated you are to your vision.

That's why we are talking about Elon here, and not about you or me.
> feedback would be appreciated

I'm just looking through it, for me looking through the epub version the layout is broken (at least viewing using Adobe Digital Editions), apparently every time there's a yellow block with code.

"1.1 Target Audience and Prerequisites" is the first example but I keep finding more.
Checked out the Twitter feed.

Really great!
Please don't post low effort comments like this on HN.
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What are the "many governments" that dictate this? I'm only aware of the US allowing advertising in a price that's lower than what you end up paying.

Well, in Europe there's an issue with budget airlines advertising tickets for ridiculously low costs that don't include all the costs you're likely to incur when you want to use that ticket. And of course buying houses is complex. But everywhere else, the price advertised has to be the price you pay on purchase. Anything else is deceptive.
The "proof of ownership" needs to be fresh enough for each leaf issuance. It's not permitted to just check you have example.com in 2015 and then keep issuing you certificates for the next ten years for names under example.com

But that's not a huge obstacle, account based issuance exists today in the corporate space, some tech person proves control every so often and as long as they keep that up to date all other account users get certs whenever they want.

It's the other rules that we don't trust you to enforce once given your own subCA.

1. Lifetime is an easy example. Having checked you own example.com the maximum longevity for a leaf certificate is 825 days. A subCA that itself only lasts 825 days would be kind of annoying (you'd need to replace it say once per year, then swap all your issuance to the new one each time), so presumably you're going to want it to last longer, whereupon nothing prevents you using it to issue yourself leaf certs that last longer even though that's forbidden.

2. Key checks are another rule for lead certificates that the root CA is supposed to check but if you have physical control how can they?

If you ask Let's Encrypt for a certificate for your Debian weak key because you forgot that the archaic Debian system you were trying to certify has a broken OpenSSL install out of the box it will just refuse. That key is no good. But how can the root be sure you run such checks every time on your own subCA ?

3. Or how about compatibility. The trust stores and the Baseline Requirements both say only to issue specific types of certificates, e.g. no SHA1 for security reason, but also no SHA3 because their software doesn't grok that yet. Or equally No putting arbitrary EKUs in certificates without explaining why. Rules like this also can't be enforced on the subCA.
Yes, store brands. I think what sets those internet giants apart is their aggressive drive to expand into ever more business activities, integrating both horizontally and vertically. Supermarket chains appear stagnant and lame in comparison.
another opinion https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=5749046130...
But that doesn't answer actually how expensive.
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I think the argument here is given for servers that can only be accessed via an internal network; ie those eavedroppers would have to be on the internal network.
For example proper runtime dependency management?

Try updating a single homebrew package to a new major version and watch the other homebrew packages depending on it breaking.

To be fair, that's not a problem unique to homebrew. Gentoo used to break runtime dependencies, too. Although that was a long time ago. Nowadays libs used by other programs are preserved and only deleted when all dependencies have been updated, so breakage no longer occurrs.
I read this somewhere that Russia was tying to snoop on US by attaching these cables with electronic surveillance equipments.

IIRC military and defect corps have separate cables installed for themselves, and the Russian’s were trying to read the signals.

Would someone tell more about it or add the Wikipedia page here please?
And looking through the rest, two of them were "chemical leakage/fire in the cargo bay" and one of them was obvious pilot error ("fell off the runway").
>Are you saying that it's small enough that you can sway the >election by threatening to beat up every voter?

>That's a brave claim.

No, generally the way it works is letting the word get out that if people vote for X you will come kick their ass later. For example if go beat up vocal supporters of X before the election and shout we're going to kill you if you vote for X, we know who votes for who because our hackers can see it online fools. Then people might be, oh I don't want anyone coming by my house and kicking my ass after X wins. So I will either not vote, or I will vote for Y so I don't get my ass kicked or even killed, sob.

If we think you voted for X and we come by your house you better be able to convince us you voted for Y! That actually scales pretty good because you only have to publicly hurt a few people before the election, and then hurt a few people after the election if X actually loses so the next election people will be well I better vote for Y and prove I did it. And people now have to actually vote for Y and show they did.

For example, take the following paper into consideration https://www.aisre.it/images/old_papers/MafiaViolence_Oli&Sbe... and then think, huh what would it be like if they could tell who voted for whom?

I mean the thing you're saying about the only time people ever bought votes was when it was completely legal, maybe that was true - was it also possible to prove who you voted for? I mean I don't know what you are actually referencing with your completely legal vote buying line but the implication that people would not buy votes to get power seems if it were illegal to do so seems incredibly silly given all the other illegal things people do to get power.
Shameless plug: https://github.com/hoffa/debpack

It won't pass all lintian tests due to the ridiculous requirements and useless ceremony "correct" Debian packages need. Still working on it.
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Not sure if it'll do anything for you but it surely is safe. My SO is taking 20mg per day for years (for glioma, not insomnia, it's way too high dose to work for insomnia). She had a break from it for few months during which her tumors started regrowing, might be coincidence.
> Because 2 737s went down in the past few years?

Because 2 brand new 737s went down in the past 6 months and at least one of them was at least partially due to software.
Huh, it was the other way around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells
I love how the first comment praises it for being "straightforward". For reference, this is how you shrink a file system on Windows:

diskpart
select volume C:
shrink desired=4096

I guess it's nice that the Linux version lets you move the partition as well (or "shrink from behind", so to speak), but damn, "straightforward" is not a word I would have used to describe it.
Usually online voting supporters say that it would increase voter turnout. It seems that it hasn't happen in Estonia: 64.2% in 2015 and 63.7% in 2019 [1][2].

Also, I am a bit worried that online voting might give young tech-savvy people an advantage over old and poor people who don't have access to computers or mobile phones. Has there been studies about demographies in these elections?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Estonian_parliamentary_el...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Estonian_parliamentary_el...
Elon Musk is the best counterargument to your claim.
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It is the other way around for me, I always disable the track pad, as I else will randomly move the cursor while typing, which is really annoying.
I mean, it kind of said that in the article?

> It would be an attractive plastic alternative—one that would break down naturally in the environment, and wouldn't leach hormone-mimicking compounds into water
They’ve always been available to civilians as smoke markers.
Acknowledging that you're a one-man business and thus you're the sole responsible for how your business is conducted is not remotely similar to the "how to draw an owl" meme. You only accept what you're willing to accept, and if a client decides to play you for a fool then the only person responsible for keeping a business arrangement that is clearly bad for you and works against your personal interests is yourself.
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> The ship will carry enough supplies to last at least 60 days: roughly 200 loaves of bread...

Unless Jesus is one of the crew members, that isn't nearly enough.
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> The lack of pricing in negative externalities. That is the root of all capitalist evil.

There are lots of other kinds of market failures; markets diverge from the Efficient Market Hypothesis in certain quite common conditions, markets can produce monopolies, etc.

And even without all of those failures, markets inherently attach an unconscionably disproportionate value to the desires of the wealthy unless a serious redistribution mechanism is layered on top of them.
I made this small little library because the alternatives like Viper were too complex and did not provide a clear simple getting started example.

My goal was to make a library which does 1 thing well. Hopefully this library will help anyone who needs to load configuration files.
You have certain values that you use to predict another value. Now you have maybe a lot of criteria, some more and some less important ones. You try to find correlations here between the inputs, so that you can describe the output more simply with a combination of these input values.
> The fact that a random stranger is able to push a change and get it reviewed, approved, merged, and available in minutes should be the goal of most open source projects.

That sounds like a security risk to me.
At least for PET some bacteria exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETase
Maybe it is expensive. They could be seeing "trading" and charge more because those folks have deeper pockets. Like how the DLSR industry is suddenly charging astronomical prices when the feature set of their devices is for cinematographers.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Adjusting the price to how much the customer is ready to pay instead of just offering the cheapest possible price is usual business practice.
>You also become acutely aware of cable breaks. Somehow this happens quite often under the English Channel.

You're not lying. :) When the internet is down in the ROI (Republic of Ireland), it's always because something was dragging along the seabed and cut the cable[s].

Given that the ROI doesn't have many IX's for international connection[0,1,2], it's quite hard to miss when it does happen.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Neutral_Exchange

[1] - https://www.inex.ie/technical/network-diagram/

[2] - https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/country/ireland
I agree. Also, slow release can be similar to small doses in effect.
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I stopped my reading at this line.

> However, why do they think in these circumstances respect needs to be conveyed at all? Why do they feel it is necessary to draw attention to my whiteness? It almost smells of a guilty conscience.

Why not? What's wrong to convey appreciation of any kind? From all the evidence she does NOT necessary feel that saying thank you IS necessary.
>the same way as AUR -> community -> core works in Arch (which is the model I think is missing in Go).

Arch packager here.

It doesn't quite work like that. The distinction between community and extra is largely based on who packages it, it used to be defined as above 5% usage. The distinction between that and core is that core is considered essential to the distribution. No package is going to go from AUR to core without replacing some integral part of the system.
> Yes and no, but there are still people that can be honest to each other without contracts and nasty clauses and so on.

Contracts are not about honesty. They are a way to avoid having to negotiate how to act when predictable problems occur by setting the conditions (i.e., what to do when something happens) on paper.

If a project stays permanently on its happy path then you don't need safeguard clauses, but often it doesn't and having to decide how to proceed after problems occur is not easy or enjoyable for any part, because someone's ideal solution may not be aligned with someone else's best interests.
Incineration actually recovers energy from trash - plastics are made from fairly complex petrochemicals, and so have a decent energy content.

The climate change issue is that, when burning it, you release carbon just like when burning any other fossil fuel.
That's the parent's point, isn't? It's normal, i.e. not bad, that there's lots of alligators there; and calling it infested, in other words, implying that we'd prefer that they not be there, is disturbing in its human-centricity.
For now, we’ll publish articles from various categories in one feed (science, technology, psychology, cosmos, history, medicine, nature - as mentioned above)
- How I Built This with Guy Raz

- History on Fire

- Dan Carlin's Hardcode History - hardly been regular lately

- Casefile True Crime

- Darknet Diaries - surprised I haven't seen this one mentioned more here

- Intrigue: The Ratline - it's only a set number of episode but I just finished it. Philippe Sands, who sounds like Alan Rickman, investigates this senior Nazi who disappears after the war.
Let's get arrested by the Japanese police
It seems like a free lunch because we are starving ourselves for it. We need a lot more than we produce endogenously under artificial night lighting.
Why businesses depend on this man's technology (Twilio)
I need to do a write up of my FPV hovercraft its also quite janky.
The graph showing the shift of undersea cable shares from public internet backbone to private companies is concerning.
You can also resize partitions online in Linux. The point of the article was how to migrate the running system into memory and then wipe and reinstall the system. Try doing that from Windows :)
That's Clearbit's page. Not Livestorm's. Again, this URL is a proxy to Clearbit's API :)
Yeah, admittedly if you don't know what's going on there it might feel pretty convoluted and "wtf am I doing here". OTOH, on Linux you could do this since forever, it's not been that long ago that Windows finally shipped tools to do so. Now actually, Windows seems even more convenient since you can easily shrink a FS that is online. On Linux I'm not even sure that is possible; maybe with btrfs but I never really needed to do that, so I have no idea.
It wasn't an example. Instead of answering, you moved goalposts and asked "why don't you import stuff from Canada".

However you look at your "example", it's not good for the US.

- Canada has universal healthcare

- Canada has government regulations

- Despite all that, insulin in Canada costs less than in the US

So the original question still remains and is valid: why is insulin in the States so damn expensive? Given that the US is one of the largest insulin manufacturers in the world. And it's produced by literally the same companies.
I'm not sure I see the link between your comment and the one to which you're replying.

GP is saying that the expected components that make up a modern operating system, including things that might be seen to be 'trivial' such as full USB 3.0+ support; a full, robust networking stack; the sorts of security and protections against modern methods of attack from bad actors; all on top of modern, efficient, and possibly even forward-thinking APIs that make developing for the OS efficient and even a joy for developers — these things are neither trivial, easy, or quick to do.

Whereas you're talking about just hardware, which is not even close to the whole story when it comes to an OS in 2019.
You can easily buy it on eBay. A USA company which has local dropshipping sells it, and manages to skirt the regulations.

My understanding is that it’s not sold over the counter (otc) is because it’s a hormone. The class of drugs isn’t available otc.

Also: I think many people use it in completely the wrong quantities and in the wrong way. I’ve heard of people in countries where it’s legal giving their kids 30mg to get them to sleep.. “it’s otc so it must be safe”. I don’t blame the NHS
It's all right but the housing market is absolutely insane. I was paying 1600 CAD for a 50 sq ft apartment.

The public transportation was also awful. TTC is a joke. I also wasn't a big fan of the culture of the city. Lots of finance people and I also feel a lot of the hyper competitive status focused culture of the states has seeped in to Toronto.

I also have much more flexibility and vacation with my current job. 6 weeks vs 4 plus I can work remotely now though this is more of a function of the company I work for
All these "e-voting can never work" comments just scream ludditism. Estonia has already demonstrated that it works, we have online banking and cryptocurrencies worth billions of dollars in market cap, and people want to say it's not possible. Yeah, ok. Feel free to express your views, but don't pretend to represent the software engineering community.
>Somehow this happens quite often under the English Channel.

How often? Once or twice a year?

And what were the reason it breaking so often? I thought the English Channel were quite free of Cargo Ships and the like.
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Pardon my sieve-like memory.

I should had clarified I am quite dim visaged about it.
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He is not talking about the article but the stack overflow question and answer of parent; and the point of that is to resize the root partition without booting into another OS, not to wipe or migrate to memory (ergo the question being asked: "How to shrink root filesystem without booting a livecd").

You can do that just fine on Windows, hell you can even do it with a nice GUI using computer management.
I think we're going a bit off topic here.

I only ask that you don't let the plot devices of Bollywood films have a non-trivial influence on your world view.

The statement of yours that I was originally replying to was:

As long as you can provide good quality care, there isn't much of a moral difference how it's done. Just don't see how a trained professional changing vessels is worse than resentful daughter-in-law doing the same.[1]

The extended case I wanted to talk about was of a healthy, financially sound adult. Not kindergartens or extreme circumstances that lead to foster care. Say this adult wanted to put their 3-year old into an institution of permanent professional care. Would you find that to be the same as putting one's parents in an old folks home? Or is there some difference?

I am going to assume that you have children, because your entire tone changed when I brought up kids. If I'm wrong, please correct me. Would you be fine with putting your children in such an institution if you felt overwhelmed by the responsibility of child-rearing?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19354278