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Respond to the argument please, don't assume what I say or think. Should has nothing to do with it.

Yes, children suffer when enduring crime, war, and hunger all over the world. This is unfortunate but detainment happens because laws are enforced, just like when child services separates children from criminal parents.

Sometimes children are used by people who are not actually their family members (common in the illegal drug trade) and sometimes they need medical assistance. In all cases, using software to speed up detainment and case processing would greatly help reunite children who may have been detained separately.

The second part of your argument seems unrelated. Illegal immigration is still illegal and nothing causes as much emigration as a failed state. Venezuela and foreign policy is a separate topic.
“Things we should have deprecated, but didn’t”
The performance characteristics of `char` vs. `varchar` vs. `text` certainly depends on the implementation details of each RDBMS. PostgreSQL recommends that you use `text` for basically every textual column, but other databases can be very different. Some won't even allow you to add an index to a `text` column.

The various timestamp-related data types are also very PostgreSQL-specific.
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A 3 degree rise has the effect that close to the equator, temperatures rise perhaps a degree or so. Close to the arctics though, it would be closer to 9 degrees.
For maybe 90% of UK employees you don't need to file any kind of tax return, your employer handles all that for you.

If you do have some uncomplicated deductions (eg. you are a higher rate tax payer and have made large donations to charity, or have business expenses which were not paid by your employer) you can phone the tax office or ammend them online.

Only those in more complicated situtations need to file anything, which most people do through the tax office's website.
You can read who the Scott trust are on wikipedia (or indeed Companies House), so you can be bold all on your own.

Trying to characterise it as a financier might seem a bit silly afterwards....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
I wonder what would happen if government departments were allowed to go bankrupt?

Simply say "this is your budget for the year, if you spend more, we'll fire every one of you and sell the office".

And then hire an entirely new team of non-overlapping staff next year.
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We've just had local elections where the resutl was a swing away from Brexit supporting parties towards Brexit opposing parties.
This will probably happen again given all the money that's on the line.
It's a misdemeanor, though, like speeding or public drunkenness. People are not arrested for speeding unless it's particularly egregious, and are not held for months over public drunkenness.
Lower your standards for Good Enough For Now, and improve your thing later. Building crap and improving on it later is a lot better than building nothing.

Remember the two clay pot classes, where one is graded on pounds of pots and the other on quality only? The former wins.
I'm wondering this too, our company has relatively small and has done a great job at reducing meetings for engineers. But peeking at any other department calendars shows significant meeting creep with weekly syncs that seem important. Arguably some of their jobs (eng manager) inevitably has tons of meetings but as we grow I only see more and more meetings accumulating.
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What would we do if we were in full-on panic mode?
You say this as though it were helpful.
The Guardian editor-in-chief on breaking even against the odds: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/may/01/the-guardian-...
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I think the average person can figure it out.
They would have arrived before the border was sealed. If you think anything short of retroactively applying restrictions is "open borders", we should discuss the colonization of America.
I'm regular reader and I'm not sure that I would agree with you. My problem with the guardian is that it doesn't currently know what it wants be.

The other annoyance - the frivolous clickbait articles.

They have articles on privacy yet have lots of trackers themselves. They're really no better than what they preach, at least the last time I checked.

Still, having said that, I prefer to read a variety of news sources instead of one to hopefully get a more balanced view.
You're only released or skip arrest if you will show up to court, something that's offered to citizens who have no/minor criminal records, no outstanding warrants, and a reasonable expectation of showing up.

The situation is different with illegal immigrants.
> The difference is that there are many city squares to stand in, whereas there are only a handful of social media companies

I’m just not sure this holds up to any kind of scrutiny. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of forums online where people can speak.

It’s a problematic analogy anyway, Facebook is not a public space, if we’re going insist on applying a real world physical analogue, they would be much closer to a city’s incredibly popular nightclub with a stage, which of course would never be required to give extremists or provocateurs free-reign of their equipment or stage. But even this analogy has problems.

I think the real argument is whether or not a company is free to associate its brand with whatever it likes.
I do...my wife actually has some hens. I don't see how that contradicts my question at all. We end up with eggs that I am not eager to be handling/storing without washing, but apparently the rest of world manages this, so I am curious how.
> "I think you mean, the three bus-loads of ~90 CEOs and middle executives that, if they happened to crash/explode, would literally solve climate change overnight."

No matter how many executives you propose to eliminate, the consumer demand for the goods those companies provide is unlikely to go away. People consume energy and it's unlikely that we'll be able to reduce our usage meaningfully in the near future.

If we want to meaningfully reduce energy usage it's going to take organized collective efforts around the planet.
All this for entering a democratic free and open country with a rule of law?
All that left wing propaganda seems to be really effective what with years of conservative governance and New Labour....?

The most read newspapers in the UK are right wing.
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I would argue that they have been rather unique in the British press in keeping the standards of investigative journalism high. No other paper was looking into Cambridge Analytica and their role in Brexit, or the illegal collusion between Vote Leave and Be Leave. They have been fearless when other papers have been complicit
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I honestly thought it was supposed to look cringey as a marketing move. It more or less worked. I kinda think they should run with it and work in the sonic memes and embrace the suck Evil Dead 2 style.
All media is propaganda. It's only when we happen to disagree with an outlet's particular brand of propaganda that we call it out as such.
So they're counting money granted by a wealthy donor as profit. And without that, they would still be losing money.

The Scott Trust isn't a wealthy donor. It's the trust that owns the Guardian and The Observer.
I've also noticed a decline and people just seem unhappier and grumpy. I don't think it's the act of staring at a screen itself. It's the information coming from that screen. It's stressing people out and adding a huge amount of complexity to life.
We definitely still keep track of not only what letters are left in the bag, but what letters are in others' hands - since you can watch them pick them up from the board.
Paranoia? Probably.

But we have eggs that have chicken st on them. (Not covered, but a spot here and there is plenty to make me squeamish). I'm not eager to be handling these, nor keeping them around the kitchen, without washing, but apparently the world has figured this out, so I'm honestly curious what they do.
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Yeah, "stalling."
That's interesting - the only other issue is that I then can't upgrade to Wifi 6 or whatever, but that's probably not an issue until a few years down the track when all my other devices support the same standard.
Seems like the liability for damages caused needs to be replicated between the drivers and their hiring company, making it not worth ignoring signage like this
As far as I know, producing chilli is much easier than producing pepper.
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This might be a bit pedantic but can the mods please retitle this to a lowercase f?
>Some may think my observations are ridiculous, but come spend some time in rural or southern US. Sit with the locals while they watch Fox news and echo what they hear.

Your observations are ridiculous.

I've been there and done that. It's not any worse than having your ears bleed when overhearing the equally "well informed" urban equivalents talk politics to each other on the subway.

People who support Orwellian government are unfortunately abundant pretty much everywhere and on both sides of the isle. The only significant difference is which groups of people they conveniently craft their policy positions to not oppress and which laws they want enforced with an iron fist.
> Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers.

I suppose it's possible that there's a man out there somewhere who thinks like this, but I've never met him and this is the first time I've heard of him.

If anything, most men probably prefer the opposite -- clothing that hasn't been worn by some obnoxious socialite.
I'm interested if you omitted the anti-virals which break reproduction as not-cures in this case? We've got at least 3 of those for influenza viruses.
Not if there is an ecosystem effect, and you need those people to ensure that all the safe content has enough producers, consumers, commenters, etc to make it a living, community and ecosystem.
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Ok after further reading.

Britbox currently airs in America, and is a joint venture between the BBC and ITV.

Britbox are planning to launch in the UK with ITV, and possibly Channel 4.

It still doesn't quite allay my concerns. The whole point of not allowing the BBC to broadcast episodes for a year is to stop it dominating the UK media landscape. Removing most (by some measures) competition doesn't seem to solve that.
They've become less economically left-wing over the years, but that's somewhat obscured by their move toward Salon-like content from columnists.
This is semantics - he's saying that the individual "oopses" were accidental, but you're saying the overall strategy of neglecting Firefox support was intentional. This jells with what others here have said about individual googlers vs. executive leadership / emergent organizational behavior.
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I'm interested in how we can design online communities to better reinforce and facilitate the human experience which digital connectedness often makes us miss out on.
An obvious answer is to encourage more real world, face to face interaction. But there's many questions still on how best to do this.

I wonder specifically, what are the aspects of physical meetups that we enjoy and that keep us coming back.

How can we use technology to remove some of the work in facilitating these, and make us less lonely.

I reckon the HN community will have some interesting personal opinions and experiences on in-person and digital communities. Please chime in with your thoughts!
> I think a pro-tem solution is a law allowing a patient to waive all rights to sue in return for been able to use a device.

I think we arrived at the same conclusion from opposite ends.

The big advantage to the FDA for the drug companies is that if they get FDA approval they top cover from that when they get sued.

Also the cost and scope of getting through the FDA makes it harder for smaller companies to get to market without either selling out to the larger companies or merging which also favours the larger companies.

It's an interesting dynamic, we definitely need some oversight of what is in the market but no so much that will stifle the market entirely.
This is interesting. You are basically saying that free will is the same as non-determinism. I don't think that's the case. For me, non-determinism is just randomness (quantum for example), and doesn't imply free will. Can you just say 'your actions are random, therefore you have free will '?

First, 'free will' in the physics sense doesn't really exist. Everything is particles, and particles don't have 'will'. Your body is constituted of particles that follow their own path and interact. This can be deterministic or not, it doesn't matter.

Then, you can believe that there is something that we cannot see that can be called 'free will', like a soul, but this is a religious belief.

But we can look at free will in the philosophical sense. People have a conscience, they are conscious of themselves, and of their own free will. Also, your actions are only a product of your own inputs (your senses) and your outputs.
I believe those are better arguments for defining free will. As free will doesn't exist in physics, we have to give it a definition. And I think this is true whether the universe is deterministic or non deterministic.
When newspapers and nightly news were the main purveyors of news content should they have been forced to allow anyone with an opinion to air it publicly? I don't think so and I'm not sure I see much difference here. Those who weren't part of the establishment that wanted their voices heard made their own papers and shows, those banned from facebook/twitter/youtube can do the same.
I would love for them to spin out Later...with Jools Holland and some of the earlier stuff and place it on BBC Four, like they are doing with their curated TOTP catalogue. I did find a tracklist on Spotify a while ago, which had tracks from each episode; alas, it is no more.

For those who don't know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later..._with_Jools_Holland
The people getting banned are famous, this is exactly the moment when another platform can allow those people their speech and make a dent in facebook's monopoly.
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Well, the biological angle kind of makes sense if you think of it as taking the branches from a big tree, without the roots and successfully planting them in the ground individually. It doesn't quite work that way in practice, but if it did, you would get a small forest.
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That's a somewhat tendentious analysis. The Tories certainly got a spanking, but UKIP stood in fewer areas than in the previous election and the Brexit Party didn't stand at all. I suspect we'll see a truer picture in the European elections.
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not nearly as loony as daily express and daily mail
The problem is not the argument, but the conclusion of willful negligence. Firefox neglecting Linux is not an underhanded business decision because Mozilla stands to gain nothing by ignoring Linux; but Chrome does directly compete with Firefox. That's the point people here are making.
My advice is more general and not just related to self taught techs. What keeps me from Quitting is the alternative. That gives me nightmare. In my case, running my own company is what I want to do and it is DAMN hard. There are days when I am like "WTF am i doing" BUT what keeps me from quitting is the alternative. For me, the alternative would be to work in a corporate job where I feel empty even though I could make decent money.

So here is what you should do when you feel like quitting. Close your eyes and imagine doing the alternative. If that gives you nightmares, you know the answer. If that doesn't give you nightmares and the alternative starts making sense, it probably is time to quit. Remember it is ok to quit sometimes but you better quit in return for something worth quitting for. Keep fighting the good fight.
Taxes might be different too. our municipality taxes my wife's biz as a percent of biz capital (US)
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True, but you can name certain topics where the possibility of them being correct or to give a neutral perspective is quite low. Still better than most, yes.
While the increase is alarming the scale of this program seems pretty limited ~30,000.

This seems like another program where only the stupid “criminals” are affected but the harm to all the innocent people caught up in it is massive
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You think you're somehow in the right just because you use your real name on the Internet?

You must be pretty young because here's what I know: It doesn't matter how your politics swing, eventually the other side comes to power and seeks to punish it's opposite. So your candor, while refreshing, won't protect you. The only protection is anonymity, as much as you can get.

We live in an unprecedented era of technology destroying the very fabric of civilization. I don't know that we're going to survive this. We aren't going to survive it with any semblance of "freedom" in the Western legal sense of the word where law rules, where oligarchs don't get away with crimes while the "little people" suffer, and where there is room for individuals apart from the state. From my perspective, technology is quickly enabling despotism and it is happening faster in some places than others.

The worst part is, you won't know that you were judged by something you said online ten years ago when you were a goofball college student. You won't know because they won't tell you that. They just won't hire you for the job or whatever the situation happens to be.

Right now, the left is trying to blackball conservatives in the US mainly because their arguments are weak and they know the things they want to do are dastardly if they can get away with them. Like all communist revolutions, the perpetrators will stoop to murder and mayhem if they can get away with it. They have already left reasonableness and open debate far in the past and now they are seeking to consolidate power by force as necessary. This is all being done with the cooperation of big tech--Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple. These companies have all been taken over by the far left, it seems. No clue how that all happened because last I looked, SV was a bunch of anarcho-capitalists trying to upset the status quo of the world. Next time I turn around, there's a bunch of typical commies in there cozying up to China! That can't end well.

I'm no fan of Alex Jones, btw. Alex Jones is controlled opposition. He is exists to get people to "look over here" to the safe distraction while the real evil plays out somewhere else.
It says at the top of the page you linked:

"This license applies to the Visual Studio Code product. Source Code for Visual Studio Code is available at https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode under the MIT license agreement..."

Source code and final product have different licenses but VSCode and Visual Studio Code refer to the same thing. If you're using the official release channel then you should have the final product that is licensed to use the debugger.
Lib Dem and Green Party, that are Remain/People's vote Parties have made huge gains though
Thanks for pointing that out. I clarified that in my edit above.
After this culture war is over, the first people in the hole will be the actual right wing racists

The second people in the hole will be left wing people throwing that accusation around at any spare target.

The leftist McCarthyists need to go.
The problem, is the author doesn't always know his apps are stolen.
"Society is rejecting these ideas,"

No it obviously isn't. If it were, there would be no need for bans whatsoever, they would simply have no audience.
I have some model and photographer friends who were big on Tumblr and they came to visit me a couple weeks ago. They ran popular tumblr blogs and are fully financed from their Patreons. Their said all their friends who's livelyhood depended on their reach switched to twitter from tumblr. I'm sure the small porn blogs or so just died or maybe went somewhere else. But twitter is where the bulk of the professionals took refuge.
As a novice in the backend world (I'm a front-end guy), it makes it odd to read stuff like this when learning a technology for the first time. I know a lot of the reasoning is "legacy" as to why things won't have been deprecated but it does add to the confusion when trying to learn not just what do I need to do to perform some task, but why am I doing it this way etc.
At least there's an option. Sure there's a problem but at least there's some level of ability to rectify. PDfs of my work show up on pirate sites who make money from ads all the time and I have little to no ability whatsoever to correct that.

That's just doing business in the current economy. You either have to ignore it or actively deal with it. Neither option will totally eliminate it.
With Postgres, yes. Unless there's a real semantic need for a max length, you should always just use `text`.
To me, "should happen automatically" means "program will take care of this, specify this option only when you suspect it is broken or non-optimal"

.. which is what original doc says
So I'm super uneducated on this, please let me know if you know because I'd love to know more.

1. What specific lies has the guardian spread, and what's the truth?
2. Are there news watchdog organizations for this major newspaper company selling actual proven falsities, and is there legal recourse? I'm not familiar if where the Guardian publishes there is a legal mandate to be a newspaper and not disseminate actual lies.
Not saying Model 3s are vapourware, but this is a pretty common result of exciting promised releases on competitors.
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Ok, strong statement, any evidence?