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> Donating a building is a payment to the university.

> The university then gets to decide to admit your child in return.

> It may not be meritocratic, but it's not corrupt (except perhaps insofar as by pretending the exchange is a donation, the university and donor manage to cheat the taxman).

> The donor is simply paying the university to provide a service that they have every right to offer for money.

> It also benefits other students, which is why the universities take the deals in the first place.

> In this case, we're talking about bribery of specific employees to act against the interests of their employer. That's simply corruption.

> They might be equally non-meritocratic, but they're definitely not equally dishonest or equally socially harmful.[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19369775
Just adding that virtualbox 6 works(ish) [1] with hyper-v thanks to the use of the virtualization API [2] to setup the VM.

[1] https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=90853
[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/
Every elite higher ed institute gets more qualified candidates than they are willing to accept. I don't see why open curriculum and testing/credentials are not a thing.

Of course Comcast is going to try to setup barriers to entry to protect itself from competition. That's why we have institutions such as the FTC. But Non-profits or government-funded educational organizations doing the same is just evil, in my opinion.

If I can self-study for even the MCAT and earn an elite score, should I not be allowed to take the required lab credits and then be eligible for great med school programs? Why should things like donations, private schools... Or conversely bad schools, having an abusive childhood, have any say in qualifying or disqualifying me? Is that not evil that it does?

In a broader sense, shouldn't the goal be to extend a Stanford education opportunity to as many as possible? Not to limit it for reasons of maintaining prestige?
No, its not pedantic. There are real people who will have real and negative health outcomes if drugs are legalized. Ignoring this in the conversation about legalization is to our (society's) detriment. The post which began this chain wasn't only ignoring this outcome, it was asserting that it is not a possibility.

Yes, there are more people who are more negatively affected by the current state of affairs. The law should change. But we should also be cognizant of the consequences of that change.
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Nah, integrations to the system are orders of magnitude better then bash. Powreshell is automation standard for basically all MS tools and tools of many other big companies. You can host powershell in your app with 5 lines of code (not something you can easily do with bash).

Its designed to be integrated into everything. When my sysadmin GUI clicks vmWare I open PowerCLI. When my db admin uses networker for backup I use Sql Server Powershell Module. When my web dude clicks in IIS management studio and forgets the click I give him unmistakable ps1 script that crates IIS site and sets it up in 5 lines of code. Its like that forever.

Poweshell is no typical shell - u do business stuff in it, not text parsing all the time like in bash with 0.1% of what you actually want to do.

The thing that i personally miss is exporting config of Windows (control panel and friends) as powershell script(s). Something like DSC (or better, BoxStarter) but for grannies - press Start -> export everything to powershell script -> reinstall -> run ps1 -> run chocolatey -> show FTW sign.
That doesn't matter.

When a store's employees steal merchandise from a store, and sell it out of the back door, they aren't guilty of raising prices for the store's customers. They are guilty of theft... From their employer. Nobody wastes time moralizing about what impact their actions have on shoppers, because it's a second-order effect.

Selling the illusion of a university being a meritocracy is the same thing. Employees doing it for personal gain are stealing from the university, not the students.
Exactly. For reference, taxi drivers had to pay to work[1], to the benefit of medalion owners like Gene Freidman[2] (a guy who makes Travis Kalanick look like a pretty good person).

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/09/nyregion/driving-a-taxi-d...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Freidman
I'm a bike commuter too, but I stay on dedicated bike paths whenever possible, which is about 90% of my commute. I don't have a way of measuring it, but my intuition says that my chance of death while cycling on a dedicated bike path is much less than if I were driving a car on the road.

I do realize I'm pretty lucky to be in that situation, but for safety reasons I'm a big fan of generally having more dedicated bike paths or at least barrier-separated bike lanes around town. In a lot of Asian and European cities it is pretty standard and it massively improves safety.
>They will forever know that they aren't a 'real' student.

I don't think they care at all.
What about java?
https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-hunter

https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/blog/attacking-kubernetes-t...
Well that was a huge waste of words.

> Mike looked back. He saw the pack getting closer to catching us. He panicked. He offered a deal.

> A rider who is weaker or at a tactical disadvantage will sometimes offer a promise not to sprint for the win if the stronger rider will promise to stop trying to get away.

> Near a sign that said there was one kilometer to go, we rounded a left hand turn. I looked back at Mike. I said to him, “You remember our deal?”

> But Mike can’t remember if he acknowledged the other racer. He can’t remember if he nodded yes, the way I remember it, or if he didn’t do anything at all. He remembers only that when he saw the finish line, a banner across the road at the top of a short abrupt hill, he suddenly was sprinting.

> And as Mike drove, he made a call he’d long wanted to make. Long needed to make. He said into the phone that he had that jersey with him. He said, I cheated. I’m sorry.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

We have a carbon problem now, that is causing real damage now. We shouldn't be turning our noses up at "stopgap" just because it doesn't do everything we can dream of doing.
If you want to get a taste with a quality game that doesn't prey on people with IAP, check out Kittens Game.[1]

You can play free online. I paid $2 one-time fee to play on my phone. There's a vibrant community on /r/kittensgame on Reddit and the dev is active there.

It is also arguably one of the most well-done idle/incremental games I've played after playing a few. The depth of it is jaw-dropping once you really start getting into the mechanics of late stage play, and you'll hit several points along the way where you think you are there only to find out everything you've been working on gets abstracted away into new growth concept that becomes critical to the next stage.

[1]http://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/
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> there's no visual cue.

There is. Your editor is going to show the await keyword in a different color. (Unless you happen to be Rob Pike.)
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And the boss get to control a bigger budget, instead of having to ask for the money every time. It would probably be much nicer to work for a company where all exec and middle management where replaced by some AI mastermind, that would give compiler like answers:
- "sorry, we can't order this equipment because the inquiry does not end with a new-line character". Replace HR too, and the answer to your C++ job application would be "Sorry, we could not find c++ in your resume" (case sensitive, it has to be in lower-case). Think of how much money and grief that would save.
I think it probably haunted Mike more than Ian judging by his actions.

I'm glad the story ended in forgiveness. People make mistakes, especially in critical moments when the stakes are high and emotions are surging.
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> I don't think that's ever been acceptable. I mean, people do it, but it's not acceptable in the least.

Given that everyone, from faculty, to students, to employers, accepts it, without batting an eye, I'd daresay that yes, it is acceptable.

You may personally not like it, but society accepts it.

There's a lot of, for instance, sociopathic behaviours that I do not like, and most people consider unfair, unjust, unethical, etc - yet our society not only accepts, but rewards them.
Do you mean to say that Mac OS is boring? I thought we liked boring tech around here!
Mind boggling. Clearly he was trying to stand out, with his video responses, but that's just irritating, you could click a short email and read it in seconds on your phone almost anywhere, or, you have to wait until a time suitable to watch with audio.
The vast majority of the general public has no idea that Amazon is a logistics company (I'm including AWS in that definition) that also happens to do retail stuff. It's similar to how GM was for a long time a finance company that also happened to make cars.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/announcing-wsl-2/
Try messing with the DOM In the browser console (I use Chrome). It feels close to playing a music instrument because it is reacting fast and you can preview what your code does. I find this most enjoyable.
As long as you provide continued support for a product and iterate on it there is nothing wrong with charging a monthly fee. Perpetual licensing could make sense in the early stages of your company as a means of raising money but I think the subscription model is better for maintaining a predictable monthly income.
The concepts around Powershell are good. But the language is a nightmare and simple things like the short-circuit operator are completely broken.
Agreed, but that doesn't mean it's easy. For one, there's so many dark patterns and bad actors in so many sectors of your life. I might be aware of the 80% of stuff that's happening (and hopefully it's the most likely 80%) but I'm not aware of that other 20% and there's always new bad things that come up. It's a constant battle, and many people just don't have the bandwidth to keep up.
About 36% of all crops were used to feed lifestock in 2017. [0], table on page 7 (PDF page numbers).

So - no need to graze.

[0] http://www.fao.org/3/ca0239en/CA0239EN.pdf
Yo dawg we heard you liked desktops so we put a desktop on your desktop.
Does your 60kWh/gallon gasoline quote include the energy needed for airflow to hit the production scale you expect? This is a significant cost and is why https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09685-x#ref-CR33 proposes integration with A/C systems.
I never understood this line of reasoning -- sure you are one big disaster away from bankruptcy, why not pile on and be _also_ at risk of moderate mishaps sending you into bankruptcy spiral.

A meteor can kill me in the next five minutes, why would I ever bother going to the gym? In fact, w
Or driving can just be plain fun in itself. I enjoy driving unless it's more than ~3x (there and back) per week. I mean we control machines here, right? Cars are pretty interesting machines to control. I live in a big city so I don't need a car. I got one that is fun rather than useful. Small, light, quick to accelerate and around corners. The exact opposite of an SUV (what the hell is wrong with people...).
I like this suggestion as well. People without money can instead do community service instead.
That makes a lot of sense. I find it highly irritating though. I'm paying these people to do a job for me, I expect it done without further inconveniencing me. The last solicitor I instructed ended up leaving me with more work than had I not paid him to do anything.
I think its a poor example. How often you are going to write something like that in RL scenario?

In case of more complex data generation you could use supplier pattern and combine it with strategy.

No need for any if else statements at all.

Sure it requires a lot more of work but is future proof and clear.
Meh. That's just playing semantic games. I'm using "insane" in IMHO the more common colloquial sense of "inscrutable; hard to understand; inconsistent with existing paradigms". I'm absolutely not questioning your mental health.

Nothing about the soundness of your design means that Rust isn't hard to learn, is all I'm saying. And per the freakshow all around us, it's getting harder, not easier.
The rock band Rush beat you to it:
https://www.rush.com/songs/red-barchetta/
> Forgetting ubiquity of tooling, is there something technical about HTTP that makes it so attractive?

Slightly different than ubiquity of tooling is firewall policies: HTTP(S) is the protocol most likely to get where it needs to without someone configuring something to allow it, so tunnelling everything over HTTP(S) is the path of least resistance to widespread use.
Ever since 2004 Microsoft holds the "Lindows" trademark [1]. Who'd thought then that Microsoft would actually make the product a reality?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
They get tax exemptions on their massive hordes of wealth on the premise that they provide education to the nation's best and brightest students.
Like the sibling comment, I'm a frequent bicycle commuter. I have deep reservations about car culture. But I'm strongly in favor of continuing to allow manual operation for motor vehicles. My fear is that, in a fully self-driving world, cyclists will be banned from city streets or forced to carry transponders "for our own safety". This shrinks your individual autonomy to "places you can walk safely" and places way too much faith in automated systems.
The point is not that particular feature. It's how this new feature interacts with a bunch of existing language features.
As a former catholic, this community component around the church (any of the mainstream sort) is something that new religions like Crossfit, Apple or indie festivals simply can't beat. There are also many volunteering activities and connecting in that context, if you are observant, you can get to know quality people. It's a hit or miss though, depending on your town.
Yes, you could do that now!
I'm happy to be a whale. I can afford it. Why do you want to stop me? I get a lot of joy from spending money on mobile games. I think it should be regulated somehow but not like that.
Thank you for sharing your completely uninformed opinion, and asserting it as fact with literally no reason to think it's more correct than mine.
Also interestingly, the NT kernel is not backward compatible at syscall level. MS even had to invent quite convoluted stuff to run kind of other versions of Windows (but not really...) in their containers, and part of the tech (picoprocesses) was also recycled for WSL1, if I understand correctly.

So I'm really fond of that they wrote: "One of the great things about Linux is its stable and backwards compatible system call interface." I immediately added a big fat: "in contrast with the NT kernel" in my head :D
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"Maybe if you have script disabled."

You are making the assumption that I am using a browser to retrieve the page. I can use a simple http client with no features such as JS to retrieve the page. I have full control over what headers I send and the contents of those headers.

"You clearly haven't seen mandatory javascript sites."

I have seen many sites that prod the user to enable JS yet still return the same text/html even when JS is disabled. Sometimes I am only after the content of the page: text, URLs pointing to images or other resources, URLs pointing to other sites, etc.

I have seen some sites where there is "no content" in the initial page fetched, with or without JS enabled. These are dummy sites, hollow shells, skeleton pages. The technique is simply misdirection. All the useful content is pulled from another site via a second request (JS triggering the request). Maybe this is a CDN. I simply read the JS or use a debugger to find this "endpoint". Then use the simple http client to request the content as usual. These dummy sites are not the majority of sites on the web, nor even the majority of sites posted to HN.

The endpoints supporting these "no content", dummy sites often deliver the text with fewer or no tags, without HTML. Maybe it is JSON. This makes it easier for me to format it the way I like it. What many HN readers may perceive as a growing nuisance I believe could be a blessing in disguise. I prefer delivery of content in a more "raw" format allowing the user to process it as she pleases client-side, with the software of her choice. This leaves no room for advertising. It is more efficient and the user becomes the creative one, deciding how she wants to present the content to her own eyes.
I programed in APL! Sure, I just had to change an already developed code from my MSc adviser. It was weird! First of all, you needed an special keyboard just to use it: http://ageinghacker.net/hacks/apl-keyboard/apl-keyboard-1.jp...

When you were not fluent, the myriad different symbols would overload your working memory, making it very hard to program. Just needing to find the symbols in the keyboard would make you program slowly. It had some nice ideas about matrix programming, probably they are similar of pandas or tidy verse. Cool, but the steeeeep learning were really terrible.

Read the article! Great reminiscences from one of greatest computer science elders. Made me understand better the language.
I enjoy working out in the garden. It is time to reflect and get off the screen.

I don't think I would buy something like this.
Theia is made by TypeFox and the Eclipse Foundation is developing the Orion IDE: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion
Some people enjoy the details. It lets you immerse yourself momentarily in bike racing culture which is incredibly interesting.

After reading Lord of the Rings:

"Well, that was a huge waste of words."

> Bilbo gives long lost evil ring to son Frodo

> Frodo goes on a long journey with friends to destroy the ring

> A few friends die; a lot of enemies die

> Frodo can't destroy the ring in the moment of truth because it has corrupted him

> It gets destroyed anyway

There, saved you from reading 1000+ pages of literature
https://twitter.com/kennethreitz/status/1125491474068639744

"Apologies for posting a draft blog post before it was ready for posting. I intend to post it, once finished."
I am probably extremely naive but I have a feeling I am going to hear a lot about this in the future and that I am witnessing the start of something great.

All the best!
If you read to the end he admitted it was cheating - it wasn’t a mistake.
The cost of solar and wind electricity is low and getting lower. SImilar investments have not been made in renewable heat (like geothermal or solar heat), so they are not as inexpensive. Also, a thermal process needs to run continuously (24/7 if possible), whereas a pure electric process can run intermittently, which is a better fit for the zero carbon energy resources.
My most immediate question (after others you already answered in this thread) is about getting enough CO2.

When you start absorbing CO2 from the air, won't the CO2 in the neighborhood be depleted very quickly? And I'm assuming you can't pump enormous amounts of air either for various reasons (noise, energy usage, other environmental issues).
Of course there's wind to bring more CO2, but I'm curious about your computations.
This. I was thinking the same thing. I would not be shocked if MS switched Windows to a Linux kernel. It would save them billions in R&D and support.
However bad this is, it's better than a plethora of non-interoperable optional IMAP extensions!

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions
I wonder how they are handling resource allocation (memory, cpu cores, etc?)

One thing that is nice about WSL is that you don't worry about any of that. Am I going to see a 1gb block of memory reserved every time I start up an linux terminal?
Or just put chicken wire around areas you don't want weeded
In order to have a pure output of oxygen and fuel from CO2 and water, don't you need a pure source of CO2 and a very clean source of water?

Could you provide some more detail on how these inputs are obtained? How much CO2 are you able to extract over a day? Do the input rates suffer from depleting the accessible CO2 from the local airspace in the same way that plants do?
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The Linux kernel will be isolated by an hypervisor.
not yet, we have to wait until microsoft announces wayland support
who is paying $7/gallon for gas?

In the UK, people pay approx $6 per gallon for gasoline.
you can get both primitives values+settings in addition to entropy similar to canvas fingerprint using shaders which will render slightly different across different devices.
Here's another link to click -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
You've elsewhere quoted 60 kWh per gallon of renewable gasoline. The US consumed 391.40 million gallons per day on average in 2018 [1], and concurrently had generation capacity for 1.153 billion kWh per day from non-hydroelectric renewable sources [2]. That suggests that full replacement of current gasoline usage would require ~23.48 billion kWh per day, which far outpaces what is currently available.

Of course any replacement of fossil fuels is a great goal, but just curious where you see this going at scale, if it were wildly successful? It seems like if you or others were able to scale this up massively, you'd run into unit economics issues as demand for the required renewable electricity outpaced supply, raising the price.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=23&t=10
[2] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php
If I was going to Stanford I've love people like this in the class. These prestigious universities are a great place to work with wealthy and well connected people. You don't go to Stanford/Harvard/IvyX to learn from secret books - the course is pretty much the same as your local state college. Its the mix of people that makes it special.
I would say spending money on games like Idle Heroes is fundamentally different than spending money on cosmetics. In Idle Heroes you literally need to spend money in order to progress and it's a deceiving feeling. Fortnite or skins are not comparable.
I am using a http://www.chalgyr.com/2016/11/tomoko-i-500-mechanical-gamin... (So called Tenkeyless) and I quite like it (sort of an entry level MK).

There are quieter options for mechanical keyboards. Checkout the r/mk wiki:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/index
Try getting out in the country a little on a weekend and you will discover that horses are common on roads. By little I meant distance: far enough that you can own enough land for a horse, close enough that you can get into the city for a real job. (Horses are expensive to own, farmers generally find ATVs work better)

There are horse parks as well. Some people ride their bike on the road for fun (not to be confused with those who ride for some other purpose), some people ride trails for fun.
That doesn't make it an economic island by any means. This is simply due to regulations that virtually only affect gas prices.

By that measure, Florida or Oregon would be economic islands due to their anomalous taxes.
No, I'm quite sure it applies to some, but since it does not apply to all (as per my counterexample) it's hard to predict what percentage of the audience is primed to react in any beneficial way.