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People said all the same ugly things about The Bean ("Cloud Gate") [1] in Chicago. Now it's a beloved icon of the city.

People in New York just have to get used to it.

The comparison to the Eiffel Tower is to say at least that structure has a restaurant and a shop at the top, so there's a reason to go up there.

When the Eiffel Tower went up, people were aghast and hated it. They demanded it be torn down at the end of the Expo. But they got used to it.

Same story for the big Ferris wheel in Paris.

[1] https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/tag/cloud-gate/
Metformin for cancer prevention, longevity: popular in Silicon Valley
Scrolling doesn't work at all on said article.

Don't waste your time: Live, Bing, LinkedIn, Office, MSN, Microsoft and GitHub.
I agree that your hypothetical is possible. However, in a field where men occupy 90% of all positions, I still find it hard to imagine that they discriminate against their own group, i.e. treat their fellow males "in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people" (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/discrimi...)
This is a pretty good article, but I'm not fond of this recent trend to try to make articles into "experiences" that do all sorts of weird things with scrolling. They always end up being messed up in a bunch of ways if I scroll down using the spacebar instead of my mouse.

At least Reader Mode works on this one.
I can confirm. One of the write-ups I did: https://gist.github.com/maxidorius/b25769f1a89c8860b928babe7...
I got 5/6 "This content is not available from your location" from a California based ISP.
We switched to digital OTA in part because it’s narrower. We can fit a lot more channels into the OTA TV bands than we used to. Too bad there’s so few people taking advantage.
How about instead of rounding up all sorts of harmless non-white people and throwing them in cages that instead their efforts are focused on the abhorrent things like that?
> No one is entitled to live wherever they want, doing whatever job they want, at whatever pay they are able to demand.

Why is it the case that one is entitled to pay someone less than a living wage to do work needed in a city?

I've recently observed a society full of ridiculously unimaginable wealth, with zero homeless people.

How is this possible? This wealthy society decided that any person who lives in it should be able to exist with a minimum standard of living which includes housing, no matter their situation. I believe this actually makes society more wealthy due to network effects.

Why can't the US do the same? I bet it would cost a lot less than the mess we have now.

Before anyone asks, I'm talking about Switzerland. Not without its faults, but in this area it's quite refreshing.
I just googled my guy. He is homeless but he's in Salt Lake and apparently in jail, unable to post the $200 he'd need for a $2000 bail for assault on a police officer and illegal camping in a public park.

Crazy to think that this guy was tuning PF firewall rules thirteen years ago. Mental illness is a bitch. We need to make it easier to get conservatorships.
Disclosure: I loathe Trump.

"Despite denying any contacts with Russia, we now know he'd been offered a deal to build the biggest tower in Europe, a payout worth $300 million, during the campaign. "

This is a misrepresentation of the facts - it's exactly an example of the very problem mentioned in the article.

1) Donald Trump builds buildings, that's his business. Much like selling coffee Schultz's job. Trump has been trying for decades to build in Moscow, much like Starbucks, Tesla, IKEA, Volkswagen, Zara, Google etc. try to do business there.

Donald Trump has no business in Russia - but Howard Schultz has over 100 Starbucks locations in Russia. [1]

Howard Schultz has been materially 'doing business' with Russians for decades.

Given the mafia-like nature of some business activities in Russia (IKEA has to pay a kind of extortion to be in Moscow), how is it possible we are not screaming in outrage over Schultz's 'deep Russian business connections'?

Because making coffee is a normal part of his business, just like Trump builds buildings.

He's allowed to do that, it's normal, even if 'we hate him'.

2) There were no material plans to do anything in Russia, literally just some conversations. No contracts, no agreements. Just talk.

3) "a payout worth $300 million" - this is a fabrication. Not only was there not even the start of a deal - the '$300M' figure is a totally invented number.

4) 'During the campaign'? It's widely reported that Donald Trump did not want to be president, and that he was surprised he got the nomination, and everyone was surprised that he won. It's reasonable for a candidate to continue their business during the initial part of a campaign, especially if in all likelihood he would lose. As it became clear that Trump would win the GOP nomination, talks were abandoned.

Summary: Doing business in foreign country is normal. In some foreign countries, at a large scale, you will deal with the government. This is normal. Trump did not have any material activity in Russia, and it ended as it became clear Trump would be taking on a political nomination anyhow.

I could take your other comments and contextualize them in the same way: most of this has been utterly misrepresented.

Just because we loathe Trump, and I wouldn't put it past him for one second to 'kiss up to Putin' in hopes of a sweet future deal in Russia ... does not make him guilty of anything, certainly not to the degree the press has admonished him.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/541629/number-of-starbuc...
If they did who would listen? If they did what risks and repercussions do they face?

This also presumes they're strong enough to speak up in the first place. If you're a victim of this kind of abuse you usually aren't.
Yeah, that seems very odd to me. I sat next to a successful math Olympiad student in first year advanced algebra. He typed his lecture notes in LaTeX in real time, producing textbook-like results on the fly. It looked like he was running Linux on his laptop. Suffice it to say, I think he could accomplish anything he wants to with his math and computer abilities.
I use my iPad to stream content for my mother in law to my TV using AirPlay. It's a huge pain in the ass. She can't do it for herself, I have to set it up because of the various steps involved. I don't see that as a viable workaround.
San Francisco is neglecting to enforce existing laws regularly broken in the open by folks largely overlapping with the homeless population.

I've mentioned this before on this forum. At one point when I worked in the mission we watched daily a homeless encampment operate a bicycle chop shop in broad daylight from our second-floor lunch room. The police did absolutely nothing until it had been operating for well over a month. They would drive by occasionally, doing nothing more than slowing down, while a pile of stolen bicycles and bicycle parts sat next to the tents covered by nothing more than a tarp. We saw a constant flow of people coming with newly stolen bicycles and leaving with rebuilt permutations presumably to be sold on craigslist. They didn't even try to hide it.

Apparently the police stopped bothering to arrest people for petty crimes because nothing would come of it. The criminals would be immediately released back on the streets.

That has nothing to do with tolerating homelessness and some people living on the streets. We don't need to make homelessness illegal to arrest people operating a bicycle chop shop in broad daylight.

Sometimes I wonder if the city is deliberately neglecting to police crimes being committed in broad daylight independent of homelessness to further an agenda interested in criminalizing homelessness. If they can let things get so bad that everyone conflates homelessness with rampant uncrontrolled crime and destruction of the city, then it becomes much easier to garner support for such laws in a panic.

The police should do their jobs in at least enforcing the existing laws and we should be punishing criminals.

You could clean up the homeless problem in San Francisco pretty easily by simply enforcing laws and incarcerating criminals who happen to also be homeless. It's exceptionally easy when they're operating out in the oppen without even a roof and walls to hide behind.
The entire notion of journalistic ethics has become totally self serving and delusional. It starts from the mistaken assumption that it’s possible to be free from the biases of one’s own ideology. The solution is embracing, and exposing oneself to, the opposing ideologies.
As the author of one frozen homeserver [1] and an hybrid implementation [2], with various work made all across the spec, I'm not shy to say synapse is the only homeserver because it talks its own dialect of the spec, not because there wasn't attempts to build something else.

[1]: https://github.com/kamax-matrix/mxhsd [2]: https://gitlab.com/kamax-io/grid/gridepo
Performance hit of C to LLVM to IL to LLVM to native: zero performance loss
I'd be shocked if that's the case. Basic LaTeX isn't that hard to learn, and the basics will take you really far.
I will never ever forget the Michael Giacchino scores in the original Call of Duty campaign.
I was in jail once. Apart from weed it seemed like illegal drugs were readily available and much cheaper than they were on the street. I've also been in a mental hospital where unprescribed drugs were impossible to get, they put me on some crazy stuff though. I met addicts in both of these places and honestly neither of them seemed to offer much help for that condition.
The article looks like propaganda.
They're gonna need a huge internal cultural shift if this is going to work. Their entire company is built around hardware. Services are "just good enough". No one buys an iPhone because of the services offered -- you buy the services because you already have the iPhone and it works better than the third party services. But I don't know anyone who adores the Apple services.

Or to put it another way, even if they offered the Apple services on non-apple devices, I doubt many people who don't already have an Apple device would sign up.

Their services make money in spite of how they work, not because of it. If they want to compete on services, they actually have to make good services and prioritize them internally.
Sure, I get it. Kinda like how I'm gonna call this conversation "with a moron", and move on.
And with the popularity of the product, the environmental concerns of the unrepairability are even greater and more relevant today.
Does it have to do anything with nature? For example, having sex is completely natural, but doing so in public is frowned upon. On the other hand, walking on arms upside down is completely unnatural, but perfectly acceptable in the middle of town center.
very much agreed, destruction is the final step of creation.
This appears to be propaganda. Unfounded "conclusions" are drawn that support a given side and depricate another side.
> the indication that no other indictments means that collusion is not a part of the report.

This is incorrect.

"Collusion" isn't a specific crime, but rather, a euphemism for a family of crimes.

We've seen Trump associates charged with and convicted of those crimes, relating to improper communications, obstructing an investigation into foreign influence, lying to the government during an investigation, etc.

We've seen the Russians charged with the related crimes, such as hacking the DNC. We've seen Mueller trace out the connection between GRU and the campaign convicts, via Wikileaks. We've seen multiple Trump associates who lied under oath about their or Trump's financial dealings with Russia. Or in the case of Stone, about many many things.

We've seen additional evidence that Trump is the center of a vast criminal syndicate with ties to Russia, given the multiple branching investigations across jurisdictions, the related campaign finance crimes, and the testimony of his decade-long "fixer".

This is what is looks like when a criminal organization is prosecuted -- and the reason that Trump has not been charged with conspiracy relating to the criminal acts he ordered, acts for which others face jail terms, is policy against indicting a sitting president.

There's no speculation involved, and considerable evidence of their criminality.

What's fanciful is you ignoring all of the facts to say things like:

"Well, it doesn't matter if associates of his are going down for related crimes, and that he's the connecting feature between their criminal acts -- that he hasn't been charged with something made up means that nothing happened!"

(All of that aside, the media is a travesty and their coverage of this has been click-bait driven fantasy.)
I have an 8" from last year that performs fairly well. I only use it for reading comics and watching videos, and I have f-droid and some programs from there installed (Termux, firefox klar) and it never feels like it's lagging or too slow. The dual speakers are nice, and I like that it has a microSD card slot.
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Agree; I am think Trump is a deeply flawed person. But he was prosecuted because by standing up to China, he was a threat to the profit margins of the mega-corporations like Disney (cheap labors to make their merchandises) - who owns ABC, ESPN, and now Fox. And a threat to the equity returns of wall street, who wants corporations to increase their short-term profits by outsourcing even more jobs to China, humanitarian rights and environmental rights be damned.
Aesthetics is not architecture! Not sure how much clearer i can be.

Talking about architectural aesthetics is like discussing the success of Amazon or Google by way of the colour palette of their website.

The articles argument is about the underlying processes which spawned and support the building. It is one valid criticism.
"Faking emotions one doesn't really feel" is not why calibrating one's approach to eye-contact can be beneficial - in fact, these two things have basically nothing to do with one another! If anything, it's helpful to be able to conceal one's emotions before mutual attraction has been clearly established, lest an excessively overt emotional state be reinterpreted as aggression. (You know how people tell you not to make eye contact towards an aggressive dog, because the dog would see that as a challenge for dominance? Well, the relevant social instincts are still fairly active, even in humans. And yes, they can lead to unwanted screwups when you're meeting someone, e.g. for dating!)
Still can't implement to this day.
Architectural Revival
Did they bribe the previous US presidents to sign business deals during the last 30 years? I think it is entirely inappropriate to think that briberies are the only reason to do business with China.
I am center-left (recovering socialist) and I thought the documentary was fair (harsh and judgmental but fair). It seems like the residents are not happy with what is going on, and the city government is not providing satisfactory results. Clearly arresting and returning drug addicts and the mentally ill back to streets next day is a bad idea. I wish they spent a little more time digging into why they are just returning offenders back to the street. Suppose the cost of incarceration is a factor for the city's budget, would they be able to institute and sustain a comprehensive rehab program? The documentary seems to have presented guaranteed solution (comprehensive rehab) at the end, but they might be masking complexity.
I respect iFixit's ideals, but this is just ridiculous. Highlighting the lack of repairability in a MacBook Pro is one thing, but AirPods are a marvel of compact engineering. There's barely room for the battery; there is positively no room in there to replace glue with clips or screws so that a few tinkerers can try to fix them at home. Plus, you can replace just the earbuds or the case on its own (it's unlikely you'll break both at the same time) for ~$60.
Yes. I agree completely. The part of the media committed to appearing savvy at all costs is definitely part of the problem.
You think that's bad? Theoretical math has "conditionally convergent series'" [1] Sum in order and it can convergence to a given value. Rearrange the terms and any real number is possible.

I have a hunch there could be a bit of relation between these things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_convergence
> Are women not as smart as men when it comes to tech?

I wouldn't say smart because thats a whole other can of worms but generally less suited, yes absolutely no doubt about it. It's weird but outside of the SV-buzzfeed-vice-huffpost filter bubble it's common knowledge that most women would rather do anything else besides stare at a screen all day and do something that neither involves people or art in any way.

It's not exactly rocket science but somehow it has become verboten to point out what everyone across cultures around the world (ex US progressives) and even science can clearly see.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/899263...

I will say that in the past what I mentioned has been abused to keep out and belittle women who clearly WERE suited to jobs like this. The excellent movie Hidden Figures shows how wrong and sad that is.

But two wrongs don't make a right. Focusing on gender parity is also going to make for lot of miserable women pressured into careers that don't really suit them.
It is worse than Watergate. The FBI spied on a Presidential campaign using evidence supplied and paid for by the another candidate.

If the names were changed, Hacker News people would be outraged. They would be mad at the FISA court, mad at the FBI, mad at the media.

Look in the mirror and decide, do you have consistent principles or do they own apply in certain situations.
I do wish he made that tweet and then it would be hilarious to see everyone inject truth into that statement and rationalize it from all possible angles.

"That's why YC is now more focused on biotech and food businesses. Computers are no longer the fastest growing market and YC is smart to adapt so quickly while other VCs are still playing catch-up"
German banks.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all. "
And yet, without my cable company I could not stream.
Are there any factual claims in the article you take issue with or do you just disagree with the overall thesis that the media reported this issue irresponsibly?
Yeah, I think it would benefit them to make it open, also. It's really hard for me to think of a protocol that benefits from being proprietary, especially if you're trying to build an ecosystem around it.

(I think there's probably a good case along those lines for an open "Internet of Things" protocol that would let any IoT device work with any voice assistant or other controller -- probably by "publishing" a set of control terms for it, like AppleScript dictionaries and whatever the ARexx equivalent was on the Amiga -- but so far I'm not sure anyone's even proposed that.)
> Trump did not have any material activity in Russia, and it ended as it became clear Trump would be taking on a political nomination anyhow.

Michael Cohen testified that their claims of doing this was a lie, and they continued their business dealings after having claimed to have ceased as a candidate.

If they didn't feel they were doing anything improper, why did they lie to the American people and during subsequent testimony?
I saw a dog on heat being followed around by a cluster of dogs. One of them tried to hump her head.

Animals have no idea what they're doing. Calling them 'homosexual' is highly presumptuous. A lot of dogs, for instance, will hump a leg. Is that 'natural'? Nope? Genes for it? Nope? Hormones and lack of opportunity? Yup.

Even teens get crushes on other teens of the same sex, but grow up and they are totally heterosexual and couldn't imagine doing anything with the same sex. It's just mixed up feelings and hormones and confusion.
I'm not extremely familiar with the ad industry, but isn't this setup (tell us who you want to target and we'll do it for you) the way that the other big platform holders work, like Google and Facebook? That's always been my impression, that the data is their "secret sauce" and they aren't interested in sharing.
You would only need one special case: if a list (top level or not) has 2n+1 numbers, weight the last one differently.
You are right sounds like a good thing to do to a child.
Reader view in Firefox has always worked flawlessly for me with BBC articles, including these "funky" ones. It's a godsend.

Is there a reader view/mode in Chrome, or is it only supported via extensions?
If they have to buy a laptop anyway, spreading the cost over the life of the equipment turns a capital expense on the balance sheet into an operating expense on the P/L statement, and can have some pretty nice tax benefits (jurisdiction dependent of course).

Often plant and equipment is financed this way - photocopier for example are seldom purchased outright, and come bundled with service, support and consumables.
If the kid wants to do it, why not?

Too many girls are forced to into "normal" beauty pageants. Maybe you should focus your aggression that way.
AirPods being a technological marvel does not negate the fact that its disposable nature is a pretty big problem. As far as I am concerned, if the environmental cost of the existence of a product is not factored in to its design, it should not exist.

This may be a bit of a stretch, but on the same token, K-Cups being super convenient does not negative the fact that they are an ecological nightmare.
"Ultimately, homosexuality in humans is fine not because it's natural, but because we should, by default, let consenting adults do what they want together."

Including adopting children? I don't think so. I didn't grow up with a mum and I dearly wish I had.
I’m not sure what you mean by “only accepts offsets which are meant for batches” but with Kafka the offsets are per-partition and you have to flexibility to control exactly when that offset is marked as processed. In our systems we always used manual offset committing and would only commit an offset once processing of the message has completed successfully to ensure both at-most-once and seamless failover.
Ahh to be back in the 90’s where our only environmental concerns were 9v, AA and D-cell batteries