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> you could replace China with "The US" or "Russia" or "North Korea" or "colonial Britain" or almost any other country and it would be true. Those who wouldn't be worthy of the list are those who've never had the resources or opportunity to make the list.

Many Western countries have a checkered past, but it's not exactly as though present citizens of the West were directly involved in the atrocities committed in the past by the West. Every sufficiently long lived state has had its dishonorable days, but it's not like we can't criticize both the past and current behavior of these nations and the /current/ behavior of China.

On the other hand, it is to the current Western climate's benefit that many dare make such criticism openly on the record and without fear of persecution (e.g. Gitmo). The same cannot be said of China.

> And didn't they do well over the last 40-odd years!

While your paragraph has the tone that the West is simply getting its just desserts, I find it unwarranted. This criticism, at its best, is criticism of past bad realpolitik policy by the West. People like the parent comment are only just learning of how woeful it is that Chinese influence is spreading, when Chinese influence is that unjust. It is useful to know that the West may have fed the beast. But the parent comment you are replying to was likely ignorant of the situation then and likely had no decision-making power then anyway. Thus adopting such a tone is in quite bad taste, since the parent comment is likely a victim of someone else's poor decisions and not their own.
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Amazon is not a human person. Which human people pay too little taxes for the wealth they receive or consume? That's what matters.
Is the test out of 100%?

I did a maths exam once where the top score possible was 120% (ironic!). The idea was you could ordinarily complete only enough to get 100%, but if you did complete more you got the marks for it.

Why don't they make it harder and differentiate more easily?
Local latency might be okay (worse then fiber, slightly worse than cable) but using space based routing is going to be a poor experience. There are a lot of latency-adding hops in space, and the terrestrial link bandwidth is so poor that popular destinations (LA or NYC) are going to be congested at their terminal endpoints, meaning you'll go the long way around and exit the satellites at a farther, more rural base station than is ideal, and use fiber for the final hops.
I visited Svalbard in February and the Northern lights were not only bright, but moved very quickly. Like a flowing river of light. Was really an incredible sight.

I plan to go back with a pro-grade camera to try and capture it even better.
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"Cathedrals are unfinished. It is just the nature of the beast"

Always mis-read 'beast' as 'breast' in literature. It gladdens your heart and puts a great spin on everything.
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I am also thinking about this problem constantly. SEO destroyed internet for me. I keep searching on HN using https://hn.algolia.com but obviously you can use it only for specific topics. I think there is a market in this problem
> It's not SEO, it's just age. I am an old man with an old school website that's happened to have been up for a long time.

Disagree. My first personal web page from 1996 is still online and I have a very rare (perhaps unique) name. Until a few years ago, all my personal pages (including FB, Twitter) were ranked high by search engines, but since then they've been dethroned by references to former companies, press coverage, websites that list people affiliated with corporations and other such things.

My conclusion from this is that personal pages have somehow been ranked lower recently and news sites and popular websites will be ranked higher if they mention your name (even if the mention is not prominent and years old). This means that nowadays it would probably be useful to put a personal homepage on a popular site like about.me.
You can say that again
I wonder how much of Nummi's knowledge Tesla has managed to retain. I fear some profound insights have been lost considering how problematic and inefficient Tesla's production has been.
It looked great on my OLED. The true blacks made a large difference in producing detail in dark scenes. I imagine a traditional backlit LED would have looked much worse.
Sorry that is not how it works - basic tenets of accounting (matching revenues and costs) those widgets would sit on the balance sheet and no loss would be recognized in year 1 and just profit in year 2
I don't like these messages. They are really patronized for the ones who are likely to be our future selves.

Radioactive "waste" is rare material, full of energy. It is dangerous and we may not know what to do with it now but it may turn out valuable in the future.

Just describe precisely what's inside.
Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_relatio...
I work solo on my latest side project, but if I were recruiting others I would think of my side project as a mini nonprofit. How do nonprofits recruit talent despite the (usually) bad pay?

It could be that the utility of working for an organization whose mission they are passionate about outweighs the money they "lose", or it could be something else, but it's a good place to start.
This article makes me sad. While not a fad, Silicon Valley is the ultimate manifestation of a place where Americans and contagiously the rest of tech workers value work over life.
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You are all absolutely correct, that it comes down to effort and practice, for the typical adult. If you treat language learning like a serious hobby, and practice it several hours a week, consistently, of course you can learn to speak a language. Practice with an ear to eliminating your accent, and you can minimize that, too.

Most people don't, or they look at how "easy" it is for kids (it's easier, but kids are also more fearless for just saying stuff and making noise), and they give up and say it's hard.

Allowing for some broad exceptions for people whose brains aren't wired to pick up a language, like people who struggle to learn math or music or painting...
Paying wages and by extension R&D is nothing more than business expenses. It's hard to see why that qualifies as losses that can be used to offset future earnings. I'm sure there is an "explanation", but that is ultimately what people are upset about. It has lead to where they are today and to many people that doesn't sit well.
I think that part of the article actually perfectly captures why the author's argument is wrong. Nobody cares why she put the stanza break where she did. That's not what the question is asking. The question is asking about the objective effect of the stanza break in the context of the poem. All the student is being asked to do is recognize that there is an (objective) shift in subject from one stanza to the other, and recognize what those subjects are. Moreover, the student is only being asked to choose the best answer out of the four presented, not to derive the "correct" answer.

Out of the answer choices, only one (C) fits:

> A. compare the speaker's schedule with the train's schedule [incorrect because the first stanza isn't about the speaker's schedule]

> B. ask questions to keep the reader guessing about what will happen [incorrect; the only questions in the poem are rhetorical]

> C. contrast the speaker's feelings about weekends and Mondays [correct, because the first stanza mentions feelings about the weekend, while the second is about dread for Monday]

> D. incorporate reminders for the reader about where the action takes place [incorrect, because both stanzas take place in the reader's bed]
>And as a kid, you certainly can't say a classic author is not interesting. You can't say the text is boring, that you don't see talent in it, that you didn't learn anything from it. It has been validated by society, hence it's good. Now you have to say why you think it is, even if you don't. Actually you have to say what you know what the status quo is, which means repeating something you read elsewhere instead of forming a opinion from that and what you think. The opposite of what's school is supposed to teach.

I completely agree with this, but just want to note that it's possible to do this properly. Usually this happens in college. The societal approval must still be taught, but it ends up being a discussion unto itself. "This writing style was popular at the time, and people had the following social expectations for men and women of the upper class, and these were informed by the following social movements, etc, etc." A real discussion of why this work gained so much esteem allows for constructive criticism, or might even help a student to understand a work that would have otherwise been impenetrable.

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If anyone's read "The Rape of the Lock" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Lock), this is a great example of a work that would have been impossible for me to understand without a great literature teacher an some historical and contextual education. The social norms, expectations, and how someone would politely and indirectly talk around them would have been completely impossible for me to grasp if I were left to my own devices.
> We delve into art we like, insert meaning and extend the stories with our interpretations.

Speaking as an artist, this is exactly what (some? most?) artists aspire to.

I want to paint a (word) canvas that requires you, dear reader, to do some work,... to colour that canvas and paint in the details for yourself. A canvas that evokes your own memories, your lost loves and missed opportunities, your triumphs, your dark moments, your wins and losses. If I don't pull that off, then I've failed. There are no "correct" interpretations, there are only your interpretations.
Looking back at my years of failure at French in school I get the impression that French does not lend itself particularly well to scraping by. Any form of rudimentary word-uuuhm-by-hrmmm-word rendering of French is so far removed from actual French (and noticeably so even to the uninitiated, which might be the key difference), that it's hard to find your "scrapping by voice". Objectively harder than in many other languages I think.
>How ironic that despite the continued protests against picture ID cards based on privacy concerns, the UK is the most watched country based on the number of CCTV cameras per square mile, and now this.

It's because people have given up hope of winning the war against the surveillance state but they still feel like they can opportunistically win a few battles.
I used to feel the same way as you, but then I decided I didn't care if I was interesting or not (I'm not). So I made myself a website. I only update it a handful of times a year when I have something that I'm excited enough to write about. I choose a dead simple design that would be timeless and never need updating.[0]

Turns out a few things I've written about have actually been very helpful and useful to a handful of other people in the world, and they even emailed me to thank me for sharing it! That was pleasant. I'm not looking to be famous or popular, but it felt good knowing that something I had done helped a few other people out.

[0] My styles are based on this: https://github.com/programble/writ

It's basically Web 1.0 but made to look nice and read well on large screens.

I'm a UX designer in my professional life but the last thing I wanted was a slick, trendy, bloated site. My site is completely static and loads blazingly fast. The CSS is simple too so it should play nice with user-agent styles too.
The Dropbox link referred to doesn't seem to work (or requires a login of some kind).
It’s a pretty ignorant comment considering Nixon and the Republican Party was the one who got the US out of Vietnam and the Democratic Party was the one that escalated the conflict.
It's not like it's actually possible to comfortably read french books when you learn the language, with their specific grammatical tenses only used in literature. I speak French fluently and at home but I'd be incapable to read a complicated book in that language (while I'm absolutely able to read English books and do that all the time, and speak English way less often).
Peer review? I'd think the NYT has professional copy editors.
We should stop praising and erecting monuments or memorializations to murderers and slaveowners and teach and accept how this nation was founded by them, not pretend like this is a nuanced issue.
I think you just need to find better French people to practice with.
Maseratis too, leased from the Ferrari dealership in SF
Forms of that happens in Canada. My effective tax rate was 11% last year because I maxed out my tax shelter retirement savings plan from all the years I made no money.
> If I speak bad French with a French person... may God have mercy upon my soul. Especially if I forgot to say bonjout/bonsoir first (abomination! burn the heretic!)

These are two very different things. In my years of experience, the most likely outcome of speaking imperfect French is just that the French person switches to speaking perfect English.

Not saying hello+good morning is a social sanitation faux pas viewed akin to not washing your hands after using the toilet.

I'm not going to defend the latter, because it's all very formulaic, but I lived in France for years without proficiency and never had a poor encounter because of my unskilled French.
Really liked this post and really hit me deep, given that I grew up hating all "arts"-based subjects only to discover in my 20s that I loved them, but lacked the correct mental model to appreciate them growing up.

The concept that education on arts can bias certain mindsets definitely resonates with me as I struggled with English as a child and I recall struggling to grok what a "sentence" was: once a teacher explained it as being "about a line long" then proceeded to punish me when I took that too literally and put a full stop at the end of every line.

"Hell, I'm pretty certain most writers just wrote something, and never though about it more."
On this particular point, to provide an alternative perspective on the subject, I have had an academic music professor argue to me that even the creator of any art may not be a good objective critic of their art within the context of some wider academic framework. This could be due to at least two reasons:

1. the artist was too emotionally involved in the art so is unable to unbiasedly critique it

2. the framework/wider context of analyzing a piece of art may take shape later after the initial inception of the art.

In any case, I'm probably talking a bit past you - any person who adopts an assertive position "the author did X because they intended to achieve effect Y" is at best lazy and worst wrong if they're unable to back up that assertion with some kind of evidence (e.g. autoanalysis by author or letters/interviews)
If you’re a good test taker, the answers they want are clear, but that’s not the point. The point is that applying this model to art, something which has been essential to the human experience for tens of thousands of years, is a stultification of our culture for no better reason than that we want to measure something.

If the goal of education in a democratic society is to produce an informed, well-rounded electorate then cultivating a relationship with art is as important as an understanding of science. It seems like we’re doing something else here though. I would hesitate to dismiss the damage done by a system that produces questions like these at the societal scale.
1. There is a practical aspect - every person would have to have a balance sheet/financial statements

2. Those expenses are in the furtherance of generating profits rather than for personal consumption are we really going to give people write offs for their Apple watches and $6 latte’s?
The numbers involved are quite large. They don't fit into a single computer word.

The problem is designed so that iterations have to be sequential, but a single iteration can use parallelism.
Also double-aught buckshot.
I have always wondered if you see a termination in the future can you trump it by submitting a 6 month resignation...
I'm not discarding your personal experience. It might be great. I just have questions on how easily remote working is glamourized by the Silicon Valley / Tech crowd.
If I were really cynical, I'd say it's just a massive cost saving effort by tech corporations of which the long term impact is still very vague. I'm not that cynical, I enjoy working remote too on some days, but you catch my drift.
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Why is it better to tax employee personal income than corporate income?
I know that the English gentleman is famed for self-deprecation: very many English gentlemen have explained this in print, at length. (No doubt they'd be happy do so face-to-face, but I've managed to avoid that.)

"“Brother,” cried Bath, “I own it was wrong, and I ask the doctor’s pardon: I know not how it happened to arise; for you know, brother, I am not used to talk of these matters. They are generally poltroons that do. I think I need not be beholden to my tongue to declare I am none. I have shown myself in a line of battle. I believe there is no man will deny that; I believe I may say no man dares deny that I have done my duty.”

The colonel was thus proceeding to prove that his prowess was neither the subject of his discourse nor the object of his vanity, when a servant entered and summoned the company to tea with the ladies; a summons which Colonel James instantly obeyed, and was followed by all the rest."

Henry Fielding, Amelia.
25 km is less than typical, but remember each direct LEO path between popular destinstions is likely to be congested.
My (not uncommon) name used to have my site in the top 3, then I was pushed to page 5-6 by the opening of a Night Market in Bangkok, I guess there are worse ways to go.
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Hmm...when I look at those numbers, Swift only comes close in a very few, is significantly slower in most (50%-4x) and much slower in one (45x):

fannkuch / pidgins: essentially the same

binary-trees / fasta / Mandelbrot: ~ 1.5x slower

spectral-norm / reverse-complement: >= 2x slower

k-nucleotide / n-body: ~4x slower

regex-redux: 45x slower
I'm pretty sure FreeRTOS has been open source since its inception in 2003, see posts going back to 2004 at [0].

Amazon forked it, merged their fork with the original project and took over it in 2017. You can read about it here [1].

[0] https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/news/

[1] https://freertos.org/FAQ_Amazon.html

EDIT: actually, I don't think they fully merged their fork as there's a variant called a:freeRTOS
That engine will be equally spammed by SEO posters. Look how hard google is trying and still failing.
If I need to solve a captcha to read an article or watch a video I'll read or watch something else. If I can't adblock it, it's not worth my time
truckers are outside, travelling, visiting places, constantly exposed to different circumstances and people.
If you tax revenue, the government can be funded with much lower tax rates. Businesses will always pass costs on to customers. To claim your benefit is really for everyone else seems a bit narcissistic.
if it's your own business go ahead - build what you like for how many hours your like.
But I'll never expect employees working on a salary to this kind of hours except maybe for 2-3 days for a specific project a couple of times a year.
I met a PHD chemist who spent 30 years developing drugs. Over that period he developed 20,000 APIs. 4 were approved. 1 made it to the market.
wait what happened to March-Dec of 2019?

Since there was no 0 AD, we count decades from 1 - 10, not 0 - 9. yes that's stupid
You should consider using a trivet to keep your chicken off the bottom of the dutch oven/where the temperatures are more consistent.
Would a VAT be preferable?
"It seems that wasnt the case for most subs", according to whom? The book you're referencing? Read the abstract:
"After a Soviet Whiskey submarine was stranded in 1981 in the Swedish archipelago ... Today, all evidence for Soviet intrusions appears to have been manipulated, or simply invented. " so NATO would steal a Soviet sub, fill it with Soviet navy guys, and bash it against the Swedish shoreline? Seems reasonable.

I'm going to use Occam's razor here; the SU had extensive plans to invade Sweden (as it had against the rest of [central] Europe). I'm pretty sure they practiced those plans.
Well..CCTV cameras caught the 2005 bomber's at King's Cross Station and helped establish their identities and their full itinerary when cross-referenced with other CCTV videos
This sounds like a new chapter in https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/
You don't quite get what I was saying.

A review is not written by the mechanic themself once they get home from work, is it? My point was that people don't expect mechanics to go home and start blogging about new tools that they use or the latest in car news. It's an absurd concept, yet it's seen as normal for criticizing and penalizing prospective software developers. Artists are in a totally different boat, where they actually do need a good portfolio to demonstrate their personal style and past work, etc. For programmers they do it through known concepts called "resumes" and "interviews".

> But if I can see someone's actual achievements it gives me much more insight and confidence about how I am evaluating the candidate

If I have an accomplishment but I don't blog about it or post on github, did it actually happen?

Not only is this quite preposterous, I literally cannot share code if it was developed under an NDA. I only can discuss vaguely / without specifics in interviews.

> Would I miss some good candidates? Probably. But the strategy is not about not missing all good candidates, it is about ruling the bad ones.

Again, you are arbitrarily penalizing people for not being on their computer 14-15 hours a day. You are penalizing people with children. You are penalizing people like me who have interests outside of programming.

Not only is your reasoning absolutely absurd, you are -still- missing out on good candidates. It's lazy, and I would not want to work at a place that hires like this, because it means they do not value personal lives outside of work at all.

People like you are why people feel like they HAVE to blog and HAVE to contribute to open source projects- on their personal time. Fuck that. It's a sickening practice and as I said, it's not expected in other fields. Why is programming the exception here?
> It's also communicating things to yourself.

Yeah! And remember to back it up. I had a blog in the early days when it was all new, and bitterly regret not backing it up properly - 5 years of content gone.
>those widgets would sit on the balance sheet and no loss would be recognized in year 1 and just profit in year 2

Unless of course the company manufacturing the widgets (A) sells them to a wholly owned subsidiary (B) for a loss...then A can take the deduction.
You mean the ones he specifically says are "rendered"? He mentions Fusion 360, the CAD software he designed the case in.
two thousand and X (200x) here
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