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The point of seasteading is you do not flag your ship under any nation whose jurisdiction you are seeking to evade. To be unflagged is to be boarded by any nation's ships as a pirate vessel, so you use a flag of convenience, like Panama, Liberia, Malta, Cyprus, Marshall Islands, or even landlocked nations like Mongolia--anyone whose navy is unlikely to find and board your vessel, and who will not seek to enforce laws regarding crew and passenger safety or conduct.

The only interest the US is likely to have in this is specifically with the US citizen, not the Thai citizen or the vessel. So the US State Department, which is already involved as much as it cares to be involved.

If anyone in the US executive cared about such things, the US ambassador or a consul might mention that if Thailand does not keep to the LoST, the US would be less inclined to support the right of free navigation for Thai oceangoing vessels that may have cause to transit the South China Sea. And this would disappear right quick. A glorified fishing bobber with two people living on it does not make a Sealand situation.
It's great to live and/or be near water bodies. I love lakes and rivers and the sea. I've not lived very near any, at least for extended periods, but have been to them a fair amount. Also, I once lived for a month or so in a beach hut (bamboo) about 10 feet from the ocean's edge, in Goa. It took about 6 seconds to open the door of my hut and walk to the water's edge. The roaring of the waves at night, from so close (more loud at night than in the day, because of relatively less ambient sound) was initially a little scary, but I got used to it, and liked it after that. It kind of lulls you to sleep. Great experience.
People often just buy soil for their gardens in the local megastore. That soil is often dried peat and has nothing to do with local environment of your garden.
Or "Inflation adjusted US Wages hit a new all time high, first since 1973". There really are not a lot of ways to spin this in a negative way, but somehow they did it. Why try to make people feel depressed about it? It's great!
What I learned was, "be yourself" is terrible advice if "yourself" is the kind of person who writes for Gawker.
This article seems to be unaware that there are many jobs which exist solely for doing shallow work. I'd say for most "knowledge work" or "white collar" jobs shallow work is the point. A job that demands deep work consistently is pretty rare (see: Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber). In that respect, Slack is a perfect fit for most employees.
I've had the opposite experience.

I use a mid 2012 retina that I bought used and have spilled water on 4 times. I keep 10 chrome windows open with around 15-20 tabs open each. In addition to microsoft word, sketch/figma, atom/pycharm/rubymine/intellij, multiple preview books, multiple iterm instances, postgres, and the Books app.

I don't have any trouble except when using docker for mac (which I just use the cloud for now) and photoshop.

I would like to get a new laptop though.
When worked as technical support we had some large banks as customers who insisted everyone who worked their cases be US citizens. We worked with some semi sensitive technical data, but nothing directly banking related. A few banks required drug and credit checks (the credit checks were just dumb).

Amusingly they were happy to hire on connected people in less friendly nations when operating overseas.

I think the citizen thing was reasonable, credit check maybe not.
I was watching a youtube video last weekend of the landing procedures in one of these jets. The cockpit and avionics are very modern. They automate a ton of tasks for the pilot and the displays are more "English" than three letter acronyms.
Some Microsofties say that women's brains make them less interstd in engineering
Smaller vocabularies in some areas. Probably much richer in some others. As an example, I'll cite one of my favorite passages from Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel:

One day, when my companions of the Fore tribe and I were starving in the jungle because another tribe was blocking our return to our supply base, a Fore man returned to camp with a large rucksack full of mushrooms he had found, and started to roast them. Dinner at last! But then I had an unsettling thought: what if the mushrooms were poisonous? I patiently explained to my Fore companions that I had read about some mushrooms' being poisonous, that I had heard of even expert American mushroom collectors' dying because of the difficulty of distinguishing safe from dangerous mushrooms, and that although we were all hungry, it just wasn't worth the risk. At that point my companions got angry and told me to shut up and listen while they explained some things to me. After I had been quizzing them for years about names of hundreds of trees and birds, how could I insult them by assuming they didn't have names for different mushrooms? Only Americans could be so stupid as to confuse poisonous mushrooms with safe ones. They went on to lecture me about 29 types of edible mushroom species, each species' name in the Fore language, and where in the forest one should look for it. This one, the tanti, grew on trees, and it was delicious and perfectly edible.

https://archive.org/stream/fp_Jared_Diamond-Guns_Germs_and_S...
Pointer speed was atrocious and turning off stupid acceleration was impossible without crazy plist hacking
Macbooks used to survive that too. My 2009-ish Pro got half a liter of sweet tea to the keyboard. Keypresses sounded crunchy for almost a year, but otherwise it worked fine.
How does your phone communicate with the "VoIP" provider?
As an American, when I hear Asian I think Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

Despite the fact that I know India is in Asia, I don’t think of people from India as Asians.

Incidentally, Israel is also in Asia, but I don’t consider Israelis to be Asian either.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-continent-is-israel...
It sounds like they have pretty clear rules that you're not allowed to do that.
That sounds like a poor strategy over just running Windows Defender or the like
I only see Bing Maps, Google Maps, HERE, and OSM...?
You can make up any number you like! That's what they did.
Am I the only person who is less likely to "like" something that has a large number of likes? If something has already been liked hundreds of times there's no benefit in my liking it.
I am glad the government forced us to pay for those things. That's a lot of the job!
Right now I work from home most days so yes :)

In the past I've napped in my car. At one job they had a "multicultural room" that was basically an interior room with a comfortable chair. At another job (a startup that was collapsing) there was a couch in a vacant office on the same floor.

Note that I've many places did not provide standing desks.
thats different though.
Not the first sentence, but:

> They have been charged under a law on the violation of sovereignty, which stipulates punishment of life in prison or death.
Why not look into other ethinic's ties with foreign nations that taking advantage of US funded research? Probably because they are not considered to be threats, and sharing common good research results is not necessarily a bad thing. (Military tech is different story.) The fact is US is considering China as a threat under Trump's throne, so researchers with Chinese heritage is under much higher scrutiny than other races is the racism happening right now. It is a much more subtle and dangerous form of Racism, reminded me War World II Japanese-Americans. What's happening in this article is just a symptom.
The Delta IV Heavy uses hydrogen fuel even for the first stage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy

Hydrogen offers excellent ISP but poor volumetric energy density, and it needs to stay much colder than oxygen to remain liquid. Fuel tanks for containing hydrogen tend to be more complicated and larger than those for other liquid rocket fuels. Upper stages see more relative benefit from the higher performance achievable with hydrogen fuel. The cost:benefit comparison has led to most rockets not using hydrogen for the first stage.
In my experience living in the U.S. at least, if someone is referring to someone of Indian origin, they call them Indian, whereas if someone is referring to someone of Korean/Japanese/Chinese origin, they'll call them Asian (unless they know their particular country of origin).
Apple has lost sight of it's original motto to be independent, creative and do the things that other people didn't dare to do or simply never thought of. This created a cult, often despised, but mostly admired, and being part of that cult was more important than having the best technical value for the money.

Now their purpose seems to maximize on making money off the brand value. That won't last. There is no vision anymore. Well, the "vision" is thinner, thinner, thinner, and all the while make it twice as expensive. I suppose there is a real market for this, many people may want it, but I think there are many users who don't care about 1cm thicker laptops, or having the fasted custom made ssd-connector. They prefer lower price and swappable disks and batteries. Oh and working keyboards. I'm glad with my 2015 macbook with good keyboard, but I don't know what I would do if this thing crashed tomorrow...
The math doesn't work out. Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution humankind has emitted about 550 GtC (gigatons of carbon) into the atmosphere. All plant life on earth contains about 450 GtC. Assuming all of it is forests (which isn't the case, a lot of it is algae, plankton and weeds) and assuming 100% capture rate (which also isn't the case due to forest fires, rotting and reduced albedo), earth's tree cover would more than double to capture all carbon emitted so far.

Clearly, that is not realistic. A more realistic (but still implausibly ambitious) goal would be increasing the earth's forests by 10%, storing 45 GtC for us. Well, it is better than nothing but at the current (increasing!) rate of 10 GtC emissions added per year that nets us another 4.5 years.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/17386112/al... https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions
I find this comment super interesting, I assume alerting you to the vitamin shop is an ad, but its also a feature that differentiates gmaps from other mapping services. It also feels like a less creepy form of advertising as it is obvious why they are letting you know about the vitamin shop, as it is location dependent and directly relevant to your directions.
Awesome to see other Haskell startups out there!
Or deliver malware, or malicious tracking.
It's 2019 and 1979's Star Raiders is still an amazing game.
Your numbers are wrong but your line of reasoning is actually the basis of how Fastly's network was designed to be different from Akamai's. There's a graph about it at the 2:40 mark in this video: https://vimeo.com/132842124
In 2019, anything mildly differing from one's own opinion can be said to be racist.
"If insurance is priced right..."

Aka if we priced insurance at the right level. You'd likely see people stop buying homes on some of these flood plains. As insruance would cost too much.
Antidepressant medications do not "cause happiness". They make it somewhat more possible (when they work at all, which is not a guarantee for a given drug in any individual) for a person to find ways of becoming less depressed. These are not performance-enhancing drugs; it is wildly inaccurate to compare antidepressant meds to steroids or stimulants (both of which _also_ have legitimate medical uses, but that's another topic). Taking an antidepressant when you are clinically depressed is much more comparable to taking anti-seizure medication if you are epileptic.
> How so? You can in principle store a nuke in anything with a roof so you need quite silly numbers before before storage space places any important geographical constraints.

Because countries monitor their enemies. If Russia publishes that they have 50 nukes, and we know of 5 locations that each have what we estimate to be 10 nukes, we can be pretty confident that we know of all of their storage locations.
That's the card rate. Their bigger customers aren't paying that.
I do have to question why they needed a specific emergency exemption for "livestreamed sexual exploitation"

My guess is to prevent internet-based sex-tourism: watching stuff that's illegal where you are, streamed from somewhere else, like another country or continent.
How does this close a loophole when its merely the first of 50+ autonomous jurisdictions in the US to do it
There's a distinction to be drawn, certainly. If you walk into a university CS department, entry-level AI and ML are likely to be separate entries on the class roster, and you can make useful predictions about what you'll find in each course.

But the complaint is that "computer intelligence" is the same sort of god-of-the-gaps concept as "human intelligence". Is tool use strictly human? Tool invention? Meta-tool use? Observational learning? Language? Coining new words? In the same way that the list of human-only behaviors has spent a century in retreat, the tasks which constitute "intelligent behavior" in computers are fundamentally undefined, and outside of the Turing Test they mostly consist of whatever problems appear at least 5-10 years out of reach.

"ML techniques" is literally synonymous with AI, obviously. One is a group of algorithms, the other's an abstract concept. But a great many tasks currently handled under the label ML would have been widely accepted as "AI problems" very recently. A computer winning Jeopardy would have sounded like a shocking AI advance in 1997 when Deep Blue won, let alone in 1964 when the show debuted. In 2011, people scrambled to be fastest and most scathing in labelling it "not real intelligence" and mocking it for mistakes smaller than many human errors. The difference is usually semantic, and some responsibility for the sliding definition certainly lies with hype-happy journalists and over-optimistic AI researchers. (Had Watson won Jeopardy back in 1980, it would have roughly matched Minsky and Simon's predicted timelines.)

But that distinction is increasingly used for the very specific equivocation which enables this article. "AI isn't doing that", meaning "it's ML instead", is conflated with "AI isn't doing that" meaning "that isn't happening". If AI doesn't take your job, but a deep-learning network developed by AI researchers does, it seems pretty fair to complain that the two terms aren't actually distinct.
OK, is a mercury delay line memory obsolete?
That says nothing about the statement I quoted from you. Do you know what you're talking about?
Could you please not post combo uncivil-unsubstantive comments? We've asked you already to follow the guidelines so perhaps you could review them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would think that it's micro-aggression not to micro-promote, when there's a reason for.
Unfortunately it turns out that nobody, not even me, likes future-me. So fuck that guy, i'm going to leave that task for tomorrow
I too experience keyboard problems on the new MacBook Air keyboard design. Spontaneously unresponsive keys, and a spacebar that inserts two spaces regularly. In any endeavor that requires precision syntax to be entered in a reliable manner, that is an obvious problem.

On a positive note, the new MacBook Air has an Escape key, function row, and does not include a Touch Bar.
Speaking as someone from the UK, when I say "Asian" I mean East Asian, and when I mean someone from South Asia, I name the specific nationality.

For example, I generally wouldn't refer to someone from India as "Asian".
This is why both my work and personal machines only run LTS versions.
It feels good, and is a good motivator, when your code is received positively. Especially early on when you aren't necessarily confident that you are a "coder" yet. I think that is a great nugget of truth for anyone working on an engineering team.

That said, this person graduated a coding bootcamp + joined their first team less than 3 years ago. I'm not sold that they have much to teach about managing an engineering team (not that I do either).
Well to be honest those descriptions are vague and not helpful

SE Asia is "souther" than "South Asia" (which is still in the northern hemisphere)

Not specifying the country really sounds like a diversion most of the time (and it's rare that "Asian" could be an useful generalization).
It is also a good illustration that sovereignty is fundamental to law, it determines which patches of land the law applies to, and thus defines the nation state boundary. All nation states must consider an attack on sovereignty in the harshest terms on every patch of their land. Otherwise the patches of their land they don't protect just erode under a succession of border violations, until they de facto belong to the violators, and that remaining nation state includes only the parts they did protect. So it's just logical that we keep returning to nations with borders that people will fight to the death to protect, and here we are.
>I think your cynicism is uncalled for. FAA found an issue that is life threatening to pilots and passengers, just because pilot/mechanics are aware about how careful they are with their planes, does not mean that you invalidate the actual manufacturing issue that is found with these AOA sensors.

I'm saying the stupid thing here is that mechanics/owners have to trash the part and wait for a replacement when the fix is to apply locktite and assemble properly (assuming sensor is undamaged) which is something any mechanic can do. Sure it might be life threatening but having a mechanic fix the sensor is no different than having a factory worker assemble the sensor and having the mechanic install it. The "bad" sensors are almost certainly going to be turned in to the company and remanufactured. That process will consist of checking them and if they're good to go then they will be reassembled properly. This is exactly what a mechanic would do only a different person will do each step of the task.

>We are aware, we are not stupid, don't tell us what to do." - this is a wrong attitude especially from an Aviation mechanic, unless I am missing something, otherwise please elaborate.

What you're missing is that if the fix is simply a properly assembled part then having the mechanic disassemble the part, inspect it per some spec then assemble it per some procedure is not functionally equivalent to a properly manufactured part, it it literally equivalent to what would happen to the part as part of being properly assembled at the factor. If there isn't something special about this sensor that requires factory conditions to get right the FAA is basically calling the mechanics stupid here. They're basically saying a semi-skilled factory worker can be trusted to assemble the part but a mechanic who disassembles and reassembles even more "critical to aircraft function" stuff all day can't be.
Because laypeople don't think of those things. The divide in the way people look, the environment of their countries, how they sound, and what they believe, is split in Asia by the Himalayas. Obviously there are many differences between the countries but it's easy to see why conceptually some might group some of them together into 2 large regions. Also Indians in America don't generally refer to themselves as Asians when speaking, so if their goal is to be perceived as Asian, they are not helping themselves.
Yeah I get your point of view. I have a MBP. I also maintain a HPC cluster. I didn’t blindside this person with a refusal, rather I asked what use he had for a maxed out iMac pro. When he said it would be used essentially as a shared server for remotely running data analyses, I explained the other options (dell server mentioned above).

As the IT guy I also have to deal with when these macs break or they are misconfigured, which happens a lot more easily than the Windows machines because the latter are in a domain and managed. The Mac guys are way too “I know what I’m doing” until they can’t get the printer working.

If Mac didn’t involve huge increases in price and integration pains for the organization I would be less negative but that’s how it is.
There's a big legal difference between the government working to unmask anonymous users and making it illegal to try to be anonymous in the first place. The latter is probably brazenly unconstitutional while the former is at least a constitutional grey area.
Google's AI Experts Try to Automate Themselves
Agree, the only way to make it work would be to have a credible deterrent. I suspect some private organisations have, or will soon have the capability to deploy orbital kinetic energy weapons. Much cleaner than nukes, and easier to scale a response up and down as needed.
This is exactly why I went for a 2015 MBP instead of a newer one last year. Having a better keyboard and physical escape/function keys (plus the significantly lower price) outweighed the lack of USB C/Thunderbolt 3. This may have a shorter "tail", in terms of long term utility, but hopefully there'll be a MBP refresh at around that time. If that is still found wanting, I suppose I can join the Thinkpad+Linux club.
What's the correct Latin grammar for "Romans, go home"?
I'm not going to shed any tears over CEOs that suddenly have to get first class flights but being thrown under the bus so that someone else can optimize their political situation does not feel good no matter how minor the slight is in the grand scheme of things.
Consider switching to a plant based diet. One of the best decisions I ever made. Feels like I'm 10 years younger.
I would say there is a push to expand productivity of the population instead of simply stroking the ego of the most disciplined and adapt at sink or swim situations.

This does that.

Your experience should go by the way side and tap into the productive capacity of people that shouldnt be distracted by pressure.
Perhaps tangential, but is there a frequency of a gravity wave high enough to "cusp" due to one of the quantization limits?
I would argue yes. Happiness is just a chemical reaction in your brain, whether it's through natural environmental factors or drugs, it's the same reaction.
The issue is that we've yet to find a drug that can provide unlimited happiness without side effects that make taking the drug not worth it.
If there is no tangible difference in the result what is the point in the distinction between how you got there?
The cobalt payload is kind of giveaway too - it’s basically a dirtybomb torpedo designed to do most of its killing over decades which makes it bad for first strike.
It's not a dichotomy — you learned a lot in your situation, but you might have learned as much or more from a different situation. It's normal to assume your own life experience is normal.

It's good for learning to be put into a situation where you have to perform outside your comfort zone "on your own", but in the context of a support system that will back you up if you fail. It's called "emotional safety" and it's an important factor in good teams.
The GP is talking about putting them in cell phone towers.
Have you considered any of the following to protect privacy & mitigate eavesdropping:

+ password or SSO protection for access to the app's data (use Kerberos/AD SSO for credentials?)

+ an end-user controlled encrypted store for the data & screenshots (FUSE/WinFSP?)

+ a daily local push/popup notification displayed to the logged-in user with...
a) app status
b) data summary
c) a quick action to toggle the background recording service on/off

Just my $.02. Cheers!
Make sure they grow well in your hardiness zone! Just in case people aren't aware of them :-)
The harddrive that came with my ThinkPad hasn't seen electricity since it left the factory, I replaced it before I ever turned the laptop on.
that is the most awesome thing (hevqcz) i have ever seen