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I personally believe that both are stupid, but they shouldn't necessarily be illegal.

Not wearing a seatbelt doesn't really affect anyone else, so it shouldn't be illegal IMO. However, I could see an argument for insurance refusing to cover you for medical injuries if you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

Texting and driving is a bit different and I would consider that "reckless driving", which already is an infraction. If you're operating your vehicle in a manner that is unsafe to other road users, you should have your driving privilege suspended. However, just making it a fine makes it seem less serious IMO, and handing out tickets for innocent use of a phone while driving also seems wrong.

If you're not endangering others, you shouldn't get a ticket. I think this should apply to all infractions of the legal code. If you're driving over the limit, but there's nobody around, then you either shouldn't get a ticket or it should be a much smaller one. However, if you are endangering others, the penalty should be far more severe than it is today.

The same goes for alcohol. There are a lot of other ways for you to be driving dangerously, but being slightly over the limit is often safe for many people, while being under the limit could still be dangerous for others. For example, driving while sleepy is often more dangerous than driving drunk, yet I don't think I've heard of anyone getting their license suspended for driving sleepy. Also, driving with screaming kids is also dangerous (as a parent, I've been there).

You should only be pulled over if you present a higher than average risk to other drivers, and that needs to be proven independent of things like your BAC. I don't think, but I also don't think it's fair, especially since some state levels are quite low (e.g. I live in Utah where we have 0.05% limit).
When you consider that you're listening to a ~500W EIRP transmitter that's >20,000km away, with a handheld receiver that usually has a pretty omnidirectional antenna... 50 bps starts to sound quite impressive!
effectively, yes, mineral rights are nationalised.

when you buy property in Australia, that does not include the mineral rights on that property, which are a whole separate thing. Farmers have got rich selling access to mine sites, but only the government can sell the mining rights (for the first sale anyway).
You can still get remote jobs if you pitch it right. Basically you need to emphasize ability to work independently and communication skills.

1. "here is project I designed and built on my own"

2. "our team is distributed across two offices, I collaborate with people in other office"

3. "I wrote some code for open source project"

4. "I help customers debug their issues over email/phone/chat"

etc.
I see your point... but realize that 99 percent of such bugs are upstream. So it's a matter of locking packages, or adding hacky things to a shell script that runs at install time. In a lot of way, it feels at times a distro maintainer is a secretary between the end user and upstream packages, since we end up opening the bugs.
Even in this august forum, you will find that there are people who downvote data that they might find unpleasant.

It happens far less frequently than in other places of the web, but I've seen it happen often enough with some of my comments.
My wife had struggles very similar to yours. She had herself tested for a super broad range of allergies and intolerances (this wasn't cheap) and found that her histamine levels were 20x the upper bound of "normal". This was in a time when eating a single chocolate chip cookie could knock her out for days.

She then did an elimination diet much like yours (but without the keto - she just cut out anything that either is high in histamine or encourages histamine production in the body). She's a different person now. Her gut mostly recovered in the sense that the same cookie would now make her feel bad for a few hours and sometimes not even that. It's great.

Just in case it interests someone, she maintains a food blog particular for histamine intolerant people at https://histaminefriendlykitchen.com/
Asking half market rate is signaling desperation, so it's likely to make you _less_ likely to get a job.
How would a fingerprint prevent ambient alcohol in the air from tampering with your test result?
I think the author's point is that the ads put out by lots of these VPN providers do suggest that they are a one stop shop to hide your identity.
It's a mistake to think that Romeo and Juliet, or any fiction, is really just about the characters in the story. You might not learn more about Romeo or about Juliet but you can learn more about what people will do for love. You don't have to read fiction for this, you can learn it from psychological studies if you want.
That also makes it sound like your name's not really Bob.
I also noticed that all our scholarly articles are gone from Google Scholar. The only thing there is our two highly cited books.
https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=site%...

We've come to rely on Google too much, so much that if you are not on Google you don't exist. That's a problem with researchers that are looking for articles to cite.
The point as applies to individuals extends to projects also:

> Programming system builders have also been exposed to this lesson, but it seems to have not yet been learned. Project after project designs a set of algorithms and then plunges into construction of customer-deliverable software on a schedule that demands delivery of the first thing built.

> [...] plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.

Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month (1975)
I feel like people are interpreting your "20%" criteria more literally than you intended.
In the case of Request, there is already an official wrapper for the library that supports promises. https://github.com/request/promise-core

It is a couple hundred lines of code though.
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Just gonna add the "kinda NSFW" tag here. Hilarious nevertheless.
Hotels feel bereft of charm and comfort, I prefer the home-y, personalized vibe of the 5 or so AirBNB's I've booked over the years. It's possible there were hidden cameras, yes, but is that not also possible in hotels? Either way, I don't get excited to potentially be snooped on, but I can't throw up a tent and camp any time and any place, so it's a trade-off.
Hold your horses a bit, you can't make such blank statements about somebody who you don't know at all. People are so vastly different and unique inside that what works for you and defines you might have little to no meaning to next guy. What you consider an important marker of some aspect of personality might be lacking elsewhere, yet the aspect itself might be very well there.

Psychedelic drugs can give you perspective on, well almost everything that nothing else in western culture comes even close to. Or might not, as said we are so unique that no blanket statement can express the truth.

As for me, doing some rather extreme sports puts me to situation with imminent fear of death (ie climbing hundreds of meters above ground, used to have strong vertigo all my life), that one becomes well-aware and content with it. Maybe not every climber, but definitely me.

If I experience my parents/life partner passing in my hands, it will be a tough moment. But I will manage it, no doubt there. Same goes for rest of close people. If you expose yourself to extremes, you become familiar with how you react to them, and also in managing them.
As much as I think that Linux Mint is a distribution with great potential, I don't want to support something that blatantly states that they don't want my help or the help of anyone who supports Israel.

http://abriefhistory.org/?p=774
By "they" you refer to the oil companies? Sure, they will go wherever there's oil to be found.

It's the Norwegian politicians/people that I praise.
Locking people out of company chat and other documents during the talk is weird. Wouldn't it make more sense to use the next two weeks or month (whatever the standard period is) to wrap things up and hand them over to other people? This looks like a needless destruction of knowledge.
My car makes that beep and it's really frustrating because, a lot of the time, it beeps when I have heavy stuff in the passenger seat. It should just show a light and be done with it.
> unless your operating system is horribly misconfigured

So, Windows with (default?) settings?
That phrase has such a strong connection to data leaks and privacy invasion that I instinctively stay away from anyone who uses it.
In the US, hospitals are legally required to treat patients in serious condition regardless of ability to pay. The hospital has to at least get the patient stabilized before discharge. Hospitals receive some government funding for that, and then they try to make up the rest of the cost by raising prices for insured patients.

Clinics aren't subject to the same requirement and can legally turn indigent patients away.
Today, there's lots of ambition but very little follow-through

Yeah, I definitely agree with this. Nothing to add really, hopefully when there is more political bandwidth for this sort of stuff things will change.
The MGTOW movement is really throwing a wrench into this.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7bdwyx/inside-the-global-...
>The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

One should realize that politics can be used to cement long terms societal stability, and not just make one rich as fast as possible.
We had one in a small Irish school, all I remember are logotron,some word editing and Mr. Ee. We used to leave one of the windows off the latch and go back into the school after hours to play Mr Ee, good times :-)
Hi prison mates, I'm Bob and I am in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Do you want to rent out my copy of the Twilight series?

Maybe that's slightly more accurate?
Exactly - for the longest time, the success / error callback signature was the primary and expected way to handle async code in Node modules, and there was a lot of objection to using promises - in part because at the time it was not stable, and in part because its performance was less compared to callback style.

You don't want to put performance bottlenecks in core and/or frequently used libraries just so it fits your preferred async style. If you REALLY want to pay that price, it's trivial to promisify a library like this - and it doesn't add complexity or size or (worst case) dependencies (like 3rd party promise libraries, as was the case for a long time) to your small, focused library.
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util.promisify won't work on request in most places because they don't use the defacto standards of callbacks (the first argument being an error argument, callback being the last argument, etc...). Funnily enough, i believe it predates the widespread use of that convention! But that means you need to either do it yourself (which admittedly is pretty trivial), or use custom bindings to "promisify" request (which do exist! and are even maintained by the original authors).

But promises are only one reason why request is more difficult to use.

Compare the node.js style streams with async iteration which could be possible if the library supported it:

node streams style:

const readStream = fs.createReadStream(inputFilePath, { encoding: 'utf8', highWaterMark: 1024 });
readStream.on('data', (chunk) => {
console.log('>>> '+chunk);
});
readStream.on('end', () => {
console.log('### DONE ###');
});

async iteration streams:

for await (const chunk of fs.createReadStream(inputFilePath, { encoding: 'utf8', highWaterMark: 1024 });) {
console.log('>>> ' + chunk)
}
console.log('### DONE ###')

Not only is the latter easier to quickly grep and understand, but it also is easier to catch exceptions (a try/catch works, and it bubbles up! So it's harder to ignore errors by forgetting to add a `readStream.on('error'...)`), and it works correctly in async contexts so it doesn't also need to be wrapped by Promise constructors.

Then throw in writeable streams, transform streams, and tons more that all require more difficult setup, less standard ways of working, and are overall harder to get completely right without any bugs.
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It was likely both. Protein offers diminishing returns after you have 'enough', fat offers good amounts of energy and nutrients. Also, humans likely have always eaten some plant material, but wild plants are quite poor in calories and macronutrients.
Assuming all the best intentions in the world, this will most certainly be abused. Where do they think all of the people they want to silence will go? They will no doubt go to the darker web and concentrate there.
> It was a huge success, so they gave up on it

This made me chuckle. I hear it again and again with regard to British innovation and entrepreneurship to the degree that it's almost a cliche, but would be interested to know if there's anything solid behind the idea (and that's not a snarky 'sources?' comment BTW, just genuinely interested to know if this supposed phenomenon has been substantiated). Is it just the case that circumstances conspired against the UK? Is there something in the culture that led the UK to give up too easily in favour of easy money elsewhere? Was the UK deliberately undermined by e.g. the US (Black Arrow, TSR2)?
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Ubuntu had traction already, they had a perfectly good thing then suddenly changed directions (unity + the phone desktop thing).

My analogy would be xp -> vista. Alienating core & target users.
I have seen articles with "flagged" but do not understand what this actually means in practice, as those articles are not removed from view. Does it mean that comments are closed?
Pension funds are in big trouble and Bitcoin can save them
I sometimes work around the Friday of being such behind someone by taking it as a opportunity to "drop into a lower gear" and take things at a more casual pace.
Why the world now has more grandparents than grandchildren
It's funny how this is such a popular topic on sites like HN who heavily censor users themselves based on their political opinion.

HN put shadow bans on hundreds of users for non-conforming posts. It seems like anyone who had a wrong stance on the whole "NPC meme" is affected, even if they only found it mildly amusing.

Source: I found it amusing, openly said so and I'm shadow banned on this IP.
They have an Iraqi immigrant [1] to thank for their far-sighted policies. Farouk al-Kasim moved to Oslo in 1968 for family health reasons and was in the right time and place to help steer Norway's national policy toward unexpected oil wealth shortly after.

(Edit: link to article below doesn't work well through Google indirection ... And search for original at Financial Times website is paywalled ... apologies ... search for article title "The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil", you'll find a readable link.)

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a...
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There's also Kenneth Goldsmith's UbuWeb, a curated directory of (hard or impossible-to-find) avant-garde art, music, writing, video. Launched in 1996.

http://ubu.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UbuWeb
> Starting with the obvious, if you pay for a VPN service, they have to keep your user account and associated payment information and your payment history. So, unless you are using a fake identity and an anonymous credit card (is that even possible these days?), your VPN account will be linked to your actual identity.

Check out https://mullvad.net if you want a VPN that takes anonymity serious. They don't even have real accounts, you just pay (preferably via BTC or even cash via postal mail) towards an account number that is also used as an identifier to authenticate towards the service. While there is no 100% guarantee, I would trust their claim that they do not log.
One of the biggest reasons for the interest is that the first telescope was developed that could see birds and people on the moon. That would be like television shows every night. http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax
Interview questions:

How would a search engine distinguish between the two kinds of queries, tens of thousands of times a second?

And how would one architect such a two-tiered system, particularly with an eye toward cascading failures?
>Then again, I still wouldn't be surprised if most people were just too perplexed if their car suddenly accelerated like crazy and not stay calm and hit the brakes as hard as possible right away. It might take you a second or two to get what's going on, and by then you might already have lost control.

Without electronics or software involved, many years ago (1980's or so) there was a FIAT diesel engine, that was widely used on mid-sized cars, typically the Ritmo (Strada in the US) that had a servo-brake working by depression coming from the engine that had a defective membrane.

Basically, it could happen that the membrane broke/got a hole in it and the oil from the engine would enter the combustion chamber, to the effect that the engine would go up at full revs.

And you couldn't switch it off, the only way was to depress the clutch pedal, put in fourth or fifth gear and brake hard while releasing quickly the clutch.

It was a terrifying experience for someone not very familiar with cars/engines, though most people using a manual gearbox know that by depressing the clutch and braking would stop the car (so no or few accidents caused by this issue), knowing how to forcibly turn off the engine wasn't (and still is not) common knowledge, the motor would continue going on for a few minutes until something else would break or the oil in the engine would have been mostly burned (leaving the engine with no lubrication at full revs) until the engine would seize up.
I agree and what I think (optimistically) could come from regulation. Surely by making these views and opinions less discoverable will help them become less mainstream?
The larger operators can also be sued. How does it work with AirBnB hosts? How do you even know if they have the assets to be worth suing?
What's the alternative to Request? I see Mikeal has made Bent [1], but I'm not sure if the new, alien syntax is worth it? Also found got [2], thoughts?

[1] https://github.com/mikeal/bent
[2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/got
There's a place for both. Rothko's Seagram Murals are bland and unremarkable in the pages of a book, but become utterly overwhelming in person due to their sheer scale. Conversely, Sir Charles Bell's watercolour sketches of battlefield wounds are so affecting on part because of their small size. When stooping over to peer at these pocket notebook sketches, you are transported to a field hospital in Waterloo, standing over the shoulder of Bell as he quickly but expertly records the carnage of war in intimate detail.
Add a don't be a dick clause to the license and revoke the keys of anyone who is.
Is "10x more productive" even the right way to assess ourselves? I may be writing 1.5 times as much code as I was 2 years ago, but that code per line is much more sophisticated and gets a lot more work done, as I've learned more and more libraries and learned more tips/tricks/shortcuts.
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Only in an idealized democracy - and democracies don't work that way.
It's not only that. Consider that the fish export of Norway is huge, compared to almost everything else (although oil is still in its own division). More importantly, export of fish from the area discussed has been going on for more than a millenium and can likely continue for another, or more. Unless a disaster happens, and one would be a huge oilspill in the middle of that area, which could destroy the fisheries for generations. Compare that to just a few decades of oil, and the latter doesn't look so important (economically) anymore. This part is what concern those who are against oil drilling there, even those who are not particularly concerned about CO2.
Everybody assumes that oil prices are going up. However, there are several large effects that could cause the price of oil to decline.

1. Economics predicts that the price of something will be the same as the price of its cheapest substitute. For a long time, fossil fuels were the substitute, keeping the price of renewables & nuclear down to unprofitable levels. However, renewables, storage and electric cars are all rapidly decreasing in cost, depressing their prices and the prices of their substitutes.

2. Carbon taxes or other similar schemes are looking more likely in the future. They shift the demand/supply curve, causing fewer barrels to be sold at higher prices, but the price doesn't go up enough to cover the full increase, leading to depressed prices before the tax.

3. Economics says that the price of a commodity is the same as the marginal cost of production. In other words, the highest cost producer of oil that meets current demand makes $0 in profit, all lower cost producers make >$0 profit. If demand is low, then that marginal cost is $10 Saudi oil. If demand is high, then that marginal cost is $100 Canadian oilsands oil. So if demand drops because of climate change mitigation and/or renewable substitution and/or electric vehicle substitution, there is supply of lower cost oil, meaning prices can drop.

4. We're not running out of oil, we never have been. As mentioned in #3, the price of oil is the marginal cost of production. Anything that costs more than that price isn't counted in reserves because it's uneconomical to extract. So by definition we always have almost no reserves and never will have.

There are trillions of barrels of oil in the Canadian and Venezuelan oil sands alone that aren't counted as reserves for this reason. We're less than 2 price doubling periods away from making this economical, keeping a fairly low ceiling on prices.

And of course technology marches on, continually decreasing the price of extracting that oil...
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Ask HN: Carrier Hotel with Startup Credits?
There are a lot of IaaS cloud services (AWS, DO, GCP, IBM, Alibab Cloud) that provide credits to startups.

Are there any providers of collocation facilities / carrier hotels (or similar) that have startup credits?
Initially it was a caloric surplus from meat, but the largest gains came as a result of cooking, which makes food more digestible.
fetch() has an excellent API. It's native in browsers and it has a good Node implementation called node-fetch.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowOrWor...
Muscle memory is one reason why I chose to disable my caps lock instead of remapping. I use other computers enough that it would present a problem, so my caps lock just doesn't do anything on my computers.

That being said, I've never used the new touch bar and may consider making a similar decision if it really does suck that much. Honestly, I prefer to just not buy stuff like that.
I'm amazed that Google is targeting the EMR space (HL7v2, VPNs, FHIR). This area is one that is ripe for innovation. The incumbents charge high fees, users dislike the products, the margins for operation are very high. Some products are very legacy.

These tools are the things that would make building EMRs much more approachable. Not having to deal with HL7, automatically getting VPNs set up for you, and having someone else be partially liable for HIPAA compliance is a godsend.
The group mostly converses on micro.blog. I cover the various conversations and new discoveries on my site (kickscondor.com). Do you just want to follow along? Or do you have some ideas to share?

This is a very new group that has sprung up in the last few months.