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I self cut and fade at the edges, but I think the keys to doing this correctly are:

1. Good visibility of the back and sides of your head. Either a 3 way mirror, or some kind of video setup with your phone and a laptop.

2. Patience and practice. The muscle memory and hand eye coordination needed to handle the clippers correctly takes some time. If you cut your hair once every couple of weeks, that's approximately 25 reps per year, which really isn't that much considering the spacing between reps is so long.

Edit: I missed that you have been doing this for 12 years. That's longer than I've been at it ~3 years.

Another thing that helps is watching YouTube vids of legit barbers. There are a ton of different techniques that accomplish the same thing, you might find some new insights into ones that work for you.
I am imagining David Blaine regurgitating a bottle of butane and fire-breathing it inside the terminal now. I believe he can hold the frogs down while this is happening and spit them up later as he's boarding.
The DNS servers shipped in home routers are usually set up as caching DNS proxies by default, and will forward queries for cache misses to the DNS resolvers or caching proxies that your ISP is running, rather than the DNS servers in home routers doing the full resolution themselves. So it’s not what I would consider “true” “local DNS”.

However, even if we did switch everyone to running their own DNS resolvers, what would happen then? Without the massive shared caching we have today, the load would significantly increase on the authorative DNS servers for each domain. Even with client local caching.

So the number of companies running their own authorative DNS servers would probably decrease — more of them would be using hosted DNS provided by a third party. A lot of companies host the authorative DNS of their domains with a third party big already. Including myself — I use Cloudflare for all my sites because of the HTTP caching and other things they offer on top of hosted DNS.

Increased load on authorative servers will likely lead to further centralization of DNS hosting with a few big providers IMO. Because even a lot companies that specialize in hosting DNS might not be able to handle the load when everyone is running their own resolver. Only the big DNS hosting companies will be able to afford it. So we end up with everyone hosting DNS with a few DNS hosting providers — Cloudflare, Amazon Route 53, etc.

So by decentralizing the DNS resolvers that clients use, you push companies to centralize the authorative DNS servers further. The net effect is that you will only have shifted where in the resolution the queries centralize.

And let’s say that this happens and Google sees the amount of queries received by 8.8.8.8 drop to near zero over night. Odds are that if Google values the data they gain from clients using these resolvers, they will make a big push to ensure that they host the DNS for as many companies as possible, so that they still end up with their hands on the query data. (And Google does value this data — otherwise they wouldn’t still be offering public DNS query servers.)

And also, what about the root servers? Will they be able to handle the massive increase in load? And won’t the root server traffic be subject to surveillance by state actors wanting to know what sites someone is browsing?

DNS is kind of funny because in a way it is both centralized and decentralized at the same time. But if you want the web to be truly decentralized I believe for the reasons stated above that having people run their own DNS resolvers is not part of the solution.

You are going to have to replace DNS altogether. Realistically I don’t think DNS is going away anytime soon. The web and the internet in general is too reliant on it. But I really wish we could.
> any other similar OS which you have absolutely no idea what it's doing under your nose

This seems to be most OSes, sadly :(
Assuming stopping at a stop sign materially increases safety (which may or may not be arguable; not tackling that here), then whether or not it's harder to get going again after stopping is entirely irrelevant.
They're running right now if that's not obvious; the best way I know of to follow along is https://twitter.com/keithdunn (includes bonus kitten/puppy content, but mainly it's blow-by-blow coverage of the carnage unfolding)
I cannot see blind faith mentioned anywhere in these essays. I can also not see it mentioned anywhere that you should not spend any time questioning your idea in the initial stages.

It is likely that you misunderstood PG. He is merely saying that even with all the work, you won't always be right in picking an idea. However, this does not imply that you should put no work on it and start acting on blind faith. In fact I am pretty sure YC does not fund teams who haven't spent at least some time analyzing their idea.
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>Some people block people on twitter

Marc Andreesen. olefoo is talking about Marc Andreesen.
I don't claim to speak for the parent, but my difference in opinion comes from the fact that when tested, the red team managed to get banned weapons and mock explosives through TSA 95% of the time.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/exclusive-undercover-dhs-test...
You're overcomplicating it somewhat by separating things out that could reasonably just be averaged together.

The real question is what the supply and demand curves look like. It's possible for everyone to make more money by reducing prices and making it up on volume, if that's what happens.

If you're a driver and you currently spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for riders, and the lower prices reduce that wasteful idle time, you can end up making more money, even working the same number of hours, by driving more miles in the same number of hours.

But that's assuming the lower prices spur sufficient additional demand to compensate for the lower rate per mile, which is going to depend on the specifics of the local market.
Whenever I (or whoever I’m traveling with) gets selected for the full pat down I always make a comment about usually getting charged extra for this service or some other equally stupid joke.

They always end the pat down early and move on to the next person.
It should not be the responsibility of individual members of the public not be threatened or assaulted by the authorities! Such rapid escalation from friendly to threatening should be a retraining issue.
You're really misunderstaning the power balance here: when you go to a doctor or a dentist you are not a customer buying their services, you are a supplicant begging for their mercy :) That's why they work the hours they find convenient, and you have to go through the hoops to make it on time for your appointment.

This logic however does not apply to barbers.
Couldn't you easily do exactly that any time you want?
Rate in religious circles is not higher then in the general population. The issues are about coverup and things like that, but that happens in all organizations, it's not specific to religious groups.
I keep two pocket knives in my backpack, and I've accidentally brought them through security three times. And I have flown maybe a dozen times in the past 18 years.
i think its just the invasive aspect. personally i have not had too much issue but one time i pulled up my pants possibly weirdly (boxers and pants unaligned that i could feel) and a overzealous tsa officer thought it looked suspicious not a strip search but they got grabbier than usual. white male too.
"...indiscriminately selling user data..."

That has never been Facebook's business model. The Hacker News crowd is smart enough to discuss these sorts of topics without dumbing down and misrepresenting the facts.

Facebook indiscriminately sells ads. In the past they also indiscriminately gave third parties access to user data. Doing that let them grow their market share and helped their primary business, but is not how they make money and is not a core part of the product.
I think that Hanlons razor, combined with the need to Do Something™, suffices to explain this.
But USA never helped Saudi to treat its people inhumanly.
The US didn’t help or remained silent when Saudi violeted human rights.
The US never EVER helped Saudi to spy on a journalist then advised its murderers on how to weather the storm, like Kushner did.
Even Lindsey Graham couldn’t tolerate this atrocity but it was fine with Kushner and Israeli PM Netanyahu https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-on-kh...
But the direction changes. Current machines aim downward. The new ones will spin, and fire in all directions.

And there is more radiation in total since now there's there are multiple images, while before it was just a single one per bag.

I'd also be concerned about backscatter going out the sides, since there is more radiation in total.

All that said, the shielding should take care of it.
"As low as £2,255.00"

GBPUSD is trading at 1.3
Indeed, an example of hospitality and individual kindness to bring a smile to the face of even hardened skeptics. I've been to the airport a few times, and believe it is the typical good nature of people there.
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I second the recommendation for the Oster 76. Having used both, it is much better than the cheaper Wahl clippers. And compared to the price of having someone else cut your hair, it will pay for itself in a very short time.

I used to go to a hair stylist who was a friend from church. After I switched to a very short cut, she told me "I don't want to lose business, but I have to tell you that you could do this yourself."

So I got the Wahls and they were fine. Some time later I got the Oster Classic 76, and they were much better.

I tried a few different blades and settled on the 1 1/2. Takes 5 minutes or so, and like another commenter I do it right before getting in the shower.

Sometimes I miss a spot and notice it later sticking out a bit. No big deal, since I have the clippers I can fix it in seconds!

Other things to get with the Oster are the Blade Wash and Kool Lube. They also have some grease and oil for the gears, but I don't use those much. Maybe I should open it up and clean and re-lubricate the innards, it's been about 10 years since I've done that.
A dowsing rod would work as well except it would be hard to justify the fat contracts awarded to friends and former colleagues.
Well as someone who (rightly) got their handslapped recently by the downbutton-ers for making arude and snarky post, I'm happy to live in the wisdom of the crowd. There is a difference between a thoughtful opinion that disagrees with conformity and just being snarky about conformists - HN is pretty good about separating.

I think this group, amongst all others that I interact with, is critical enough to call a bad faith argument a bad faith argument. However, I think all of us need better training/practice on how to identify bad faith arguments. I see the turn that has been occurring on HN against Elon as one example of that. It may take time but it happens. Compared to other spaces on this here Cyberspace - higher quality and higher s/n ration on argumentation is what keeps me coming back to HN. When people disagree with me here, I actually learn something.

Added: My twitter account got blocked because it spent most of it's time autoreplying to people about how the freakonomics podcast became an advertising pitch for the Koch brothers. I only use facebook because my mother prefers it to text. I can't stomach reddit having known the founders as people. My HN account really only exists because someone said a nice thing about a talk I gave - which drew me out of the shadows. I like it here, can I stay? I'll even wear a north face fleece. I drive an EV I promise.
it might not be lazy but if I just dig ditches in my backyard for 12 hours i’m not lazy. I might be stupid.
Tipping is horrible and incentivizes the worker to prioritize people who tip/ are likely to tip and underperform for people who do not/or are likely not to.

You can see this play out in the food service industry and it is horrible and only contributes to a culture of soft-discrimination.
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Inflation is not a tax: there is no government entity that collects inflation payments.

Not having any money is worse for the poor than having a basic income, even if there is inflation. The market has no direct incentive to serve those without money. The alleviation of widespread human suffering due to poverty and the massive increase in the general utility of the market to humans clearly makes UBI the moral choice.

Inflation does benefit debtors: with money being cheaper, loans are easier to pay off.
I would be fine without any screening at all. It would be like getting on a train or bus and no one seems to have an issue with using those methods of transportation without any security checks.
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CT is a more powerful xray with multiple images taken at different angles.

If xray is damaging, this will be more damaging.
Bit late in the game isn't it?

Need to lock down battery supply and probably pay MAGNA to build it which would eat into profit margins.
i use a belt, looped and pulled tight against the back of the neck with one hand while the other hand drives the clipper along the edge of the belt.
> It's called proof of work.

> I did this for email. Get in touch if you want to try it.

How? Via email?

I'm not going to implement your proof-of-work scheme just to email you.

Nobody else is, either.
These are great ideas, making me wish there was a convenient product that helped to set all of this up, and tweak the configuration.
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Just saw the author of one of those articles. Sigh.
Edit: I'm being downvoted, but I know more than you about timestamps. Check my bio before downvoting.

You want a column that can store both timestamp and timezone, so why not just have 2 columns? You already have to convert the timestamp into the user's timezone when rendering because the user's timezone can change. Storing timestamps with timezone just complicates things, for ex:

display_in_user_zone(TIMESTAMP UTC)

display_in_user_zone(TIMESTAMP_WITH_TIMEZONE)

The above is exactly the same, but the UTC one will prevent bugs in the long run.

The only time it's acceptable to store time with timezone is with DATES that do not have a TIME component.

If you really need to display the timestamp in the timezone the user originally entered, store the original timezone along with every timestamp.
Symbols (variants with our without parameters) and integers are unboxed, while floats are not (but in a few specific cases such as arrays of floats, and iiuc that's an inelegant special case on its way out, as it prevents other optimisations).
Agree 100%. When the XZ2C came out I bought a second XZ1C as a backup, it's was obvious where they're heading and I'm not going there.

Hopefully the next time I need a new phone someone will make a compact device with a folding screen.
Don't be overly pedantic. As inaudible to human hearing is exactly what the author meant, 0dB (implicitly relative to anything reasonable) actually matches the intent better. Also 0dB (relative to no matter what) is closer to the machines actual noise output than -infty dB (think high frequency hum emitted by the PSU and similar).
> Both agencies seem to follow a similar methodology: when there's an incident, analyze the cause and enact regulations that would have prevented it, building up a system leads to fewer incidents over time. And they seem to have led to similar results -- over the past decade, there has been only one passenger fatality on commercial flights within the US due to accidents, and zero due to hijackings/bombings.

Because that's not actually the case? Only a small part of the FAA's activities is post hoc incident analysis. They do quite a bit of scientific studies, certification, licensing etc. And in fact the most recent outrage against the FAA has been the feeling that they have bene derelict in their duties in regards to the 737-MAX by adopting the problematic self-regulatory approach used by, say, the Department of Agriculture.

By contrast, the TSA (which is much smaller than the FAA and has, for all intents and purposes, only one responsibility) on has never demonstrated competency, clearly awards contracts based on cronyism (the millimeter wave system have no science supporting them), engage in absurd scope creep (checking bags on some train or bus stations, pretending to be law enforcement) and reducing security from where it was before the agency was created (e.g. "TSA locks" which have permitted an increase in theft from bags) etc.

Not at all the same.
Just ban spam calling.
Keep in mind that it's only like $50 CAD for 4 years. You're basically paying for the printing of the card and nothing more.
Let me clarify my argument. Ostensibly, the goal of the USPS is to connect all of America with flat-rate first-class mail. The USPS charges as much to send a letter across the country as it does to send it to your apartment neighbor. That means that people in cities (or really, people in routes with high density first-class mail usage) subsidize people in lower-density areas. Let’s assume that we agree that this goal is reasonable, and thus that this subsidy of low-density customers by high-density customers is reasonable.

This means that mass-mailers are being subsidized by the USPS’ implementation of this goal of nationwide first-class mail, because presumably they are paying less than the actual cost of mailing their advertisements. I suppose we could go a step further, and say that high-density customers are in fact subsidizing mass-mailers, which I think most people would agree is not a reasonable subsidy.
I accidentally went through security with my infant son's boarding pass, separately from my wife and son who went through with my boarding pass, the TSA agent only checked my wife's boarding pass and not my son's. Not to mention how trivial it is to get liquids on a plane without them being searched. Bruce Schneier notably went through security with two of the biggest bottles of saline solution for contact lenses he could buy without them actually searching the bottles. When asked by the TSA why he had two bottles he told them "two eyes" and they let him through. Not to mention he was using a forged boarding pass at the time to go through security.

https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2008/11/the_things_he...

My wife was also wearing my son in a wrap at the time and just walked through a metal detector, no searching pockets or taking off the wrap or anything like that. Anyone trying to sneak contraband through could just carry it through with the baby knowing it won't be searched and then just leave after exchanging the contraband past security and walk out. You could easily sneak 10lbs worth of contraband through so long as it wouldn't set off the metal detector.
Think how depressing it must be to collect a paycheck to annoy people to do something you know is utterly pointless.
This is false. There are tons of M rated games with sexual and suggestive themes on both PS4 and Vita.
Go to http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.aspx select PS4 or Vita, M rating, content include: sexuality, timeframe: whatever you like and feast your eyes.
You can look into investing them in Amazon resellers. you can use a platform like upfund.io, or loan it out to Amazon sellers you know personally, from my experience investors can expect 40%+ annual returns. This is because the FBA business models can yield 200%+ yearly ROI for the resellers themselves.
Unlikely, when they've a history of far worse?

https://twitter.com/CianMW/status/1111345551969304576
I am the same way but I started taking vitamin b1 and that seemed to help me a ton in reducing the number of bites.
> Just think of this, what if Trump was able to hack every congressman phone?

Something like that already happened: https://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/1/john_brennan_faces_cal...

So what will we do if it happens and we find out. I guess he'll just apologize and we'll pretend it never happened? It worked like that last time:

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/cia-spied-senate-committee

> According to CIA spokesperson Dean Boyd, agency director John Brennan apologized
Not about stalker, but related question. What if the offender don't really care if you can see them? They just do a suicidal attack to the victim, like what a terrorist always do. Or what if the offender are prepared for the jail time?

You can't stop people who ignore consequences, and this tech enable them to perform what they want without an organized crime group or terrorist group.

State surveillance is an issue, but this tech creates different issues.
At this price I would rather buy a Raptor TALOS II or Blackbird.
My favorite lines to use:

"Whoa.. whatever you just did, do it again."

or

"Can I have her give me the pat down instead?"

And you can really irritate them if you say the little spiel along with them. It rattles them.
We needed exactly that functionality at work a few years ago, so, of course, "TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE" got picked for the column in the DB. After a few weeks of people entering data, DST switched over. Eventually someone noticed all the old dates were all off by an hour...

It really should have been called "TIMESTAMP IN UTC" or "NORMALIZED TIMESTAMP" or something else instead. It's especially dangerous because the results you get back from using it look correct with casual testing and you might not notice that your database is subtly wrong for a long time.
> the TSA is pretty far down on any rational list of complaints about government

Only if focusing exclusively on direct interactions.

From an ideological perspective, I don't think it's projection (your wording) to observe that in their current form they align closely with both general government authoritarianism and the exercise of federal power over the states.

From a pragmatic perspective, I think it's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed about how such security measures seem to normalize invasive government behaviors in general. Societal norms and values aren't static, so how we do things in the present can and does affect how the public views things in the future.
The bully capitalism, squeezing every last drop of of a "human resource".
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I'm getting some TempleOS vibes here.
I agree with you. I guess I'm asking how likely is the (quite appealing) scenario you describe?

The volume increase will more than offset the price drop -- otherwise Uber would have no incentive to drop the price in the first place. What else do we need to know to predict the outcome on drivers pay?
So can we now build a decoy that emits CO2, human sweat odour, and heat, that traps and kills mosquitos?
I find it interesting that this tool exists for the Facebook platform and not Instagram. Instagram has a meaningful amount of FB’s ad spend.
Edit: I'm being downvoted, but I know more than you about timestamps. Check my bio before downvoting.

zzzeek's comment is correct, he should be upvoted not down.

> A correctly coded application does explicit normalization of datetime values the moment they enter the boundaries of the application, just like it would also convert encoded bytes into a unicode-aware strings up front, so that within the application there is no ambiguity, both when persisting and when handling.

This is 100% true, about handling datetimes and unicode. I built a time tracking application which has proved this true many times.

> I completely disagree with this advice

Me too, the article op clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.
A related notion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
It would have to be global.
I think the proportions have shifted significantly. (Proportion of “problem solving” to “plumbing”.) There’s at least a couple orders of magnitude more software and services available to use and connect to today than there was 25 years ago.