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> It seems unlikely to me that there is no coordination between left wing media institutions. They say the same things at the same time using the same language. I don't read much right-wing media.

> I'm not saying there's a shadowy conspiracy (though I'm not ruling out people talking about "messaging" via email). It may be that they read each other's stuff and the demands of the 24 hour news cycle dictate that there's a certain amount of cross pollination and regurgitation.

There is a difference between being a part of a zeitgeist, and actively conspiring to brainwash people.

The original implication was that a group behind the scenes of large organizations was coordinating them—not that journalists might communicate and share ideas.

They also do regularly read each other's work. Many articles are written in response to others. That is not a new feature in North American press.

> I think it's unknown to what degree American intelligence agencies influence the media but I'm willing to bet it's "more than not at all". It may be relatively benign stuff ("Don't use the term 'Islamic terrorism,' Al Qaeda uses that stuff to propagandize") or it may be not so benign.

That just opens the door for anyone to insert whatever they like, though. That's the sensationalist take I was trying to tone down with my post. It's coming out of thin air.

> I agree with the original poster. It's absurd that the left-wing media has been agitating for censorship of "hate" and then complaining when "evidence of war crimes" is deleted. There's been shockingly little mainstream questioning of just how quixotic it is to try to "remove hate".

Again, to this point, the media/press (and in your words specifically the "left-wing" media) is not a uniform entity and doesn't operate as one. What you're seeing are effects, not causes.

As for the rest—I'm not sure what the solution is yet. It's a tough problem, and definitely a nuanced one. I was only commenting on the conspiracy theories coming out of nowhere on a forum that usually prides itself on empiricism and facts.
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I’m right there with you. I’ve been running long distances and it only seems to help my knees. However, when training for a full marathon I realized I had to work my way up to that level or my joints would be sore. I don’t think someone who overdoes it on a scooter has a training program to follow.

I’m not spreading that myth by suggesting that people consider choosing a half marathon rather than a full marathon, gradually increase their training level, or avoid something that might have the risks of running without the rewards.
Yes. The 'market' mechanism for popular schools to find money and permission to expand while less popular ones are closed or taken over is missing and subject to too much political interference. So it arguably ends up as the worst of both worlds.
The economist Theodore Levitt said “consumers don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”
I think you got really lucky. The majority of people would probably need to contact a lawyer.
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I only use google for youtube and cloud print. I'd like to break up with the latter but I haven't figured out how (history says google will force this in the near future). YouTube has a lot of great content (mixed in with even more worthless garbage) that isn't elsewhere, so I can't figure out how I'd break up with it.
Not sure if it would have helped in your case, but when I was going to China for 2 months, I called the bank beforehand and let them know that I'll be in China, and asked to ensure the card would work there.
It depends who you ask. In my point of view, "reference counting" is a strategy that has nothing inherently to do with memory management and can even be manual instead of automatic. GC as the name implies should involve a collector of sorts.
I don't think you really mean "artificial" sugar? The vast majority of sugar comes from natural sources: cane, corn (maize), beets.

Cutting down on foods containing added processed sugar is certainly a good idea.
It seems like it would be to expensive to build and maintain this kind of cabling over a significant portion of the highway, but it would be interesting to have it over smaller sections so trucks can re-charge without stopping.
I guess, size-wise, those are USA definitions.

Not in Germany [1] (which is the topic here), nor in The Netherlands (where I'm from). Amsterdam doesn't have 1M, yet it is very culturally diverse. Zaanstad (containing Zaandam) is 'only' ~150k, and has the most cultures of The Netherlands (a total of 135 different nationalities).

[1] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-biggest-cities-in-ge...

EDIT: Ah, now it makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up! :)
Hey no worries. :)

Yeah statistically speaking you are probably right. It's probably because the vast majority of people around here are from the US. I'm from Spain and I rarely find Spaniards either.
well how about somethingLikePunyCodeButNotActuallyPunyCodeSoThatEveryoneUnderstandsHisPointAndDoesntFocusOnIrrelevantTechnicalities(abc-x.y.z) ?
I was musing philosophically. I know why Facebook is first and google isn’t on the chopping block. It’s because people don’t have the same relationship with google. No one is accusing google of colluding with foreign powers to sabotage democracy. It’s funny, right? If google had the best ad targeting during 2016, they would be on the crucifix right now just like Facebook, but they didn’t (maybe you can argue google ads aren’t as useful or as visceral as fb ads, but I think it’s complicated). You might argue that google wouldn’t work with the Russians, but that’s not obvious to me that Facebook did that intentionally either.

There but for fortune.
German rail infrastructure is currently shrinking. It is no where near the limit. 2018 we had about 2500km less track than 2005.[1]

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Netz#Netzentwicklung
I think the poster to whom you're responding means things like Cell and/or RefCell, which allow mutation behind the scenes while still being safe.
Is this a joke? Life expectancy has been increasing as people left the countryside for the cities. It's not even a matter of debate.
Having problems with onions or garlic is a common sign of IBS.
... But they have a debit card that work on the internet (and probably with mandatory 3D secure to boot). 90% of users in France are like that.

Paypal is because it's safe. I don't give that website I don't know anything, I give paypal a send order. Vastly different; I know paypal, I know they don't screw with the buyer in case an issue happen, and I know they're a bank here and can't drain my funds.

I hate them when I'm the seller, but my personnal experience with them as a buyer makes it clear as day why I need to deal with them.
People far wiser than you advocated against eating animal flesh. Ham (pig flesh) is especially a big no-no in many religions for a reason.

Cooking is inferior. You cannot better nature. It just is not possible.
Tokyo does work quite well for a city of 37.5 million (metro area).
And most teenagers don’t work more than 20-25 hours a week.

They would bring home around $600 a month after FICA if they had no other taxes taken out.

For the typical middle class family where the teenager either gets an old beater or a hand me down car where the parents buy a new car, the money they make from working is a wash and the parents let them/make them get a job to foster a work ethic.
The point with weakrefs, though, is that they still require developer intervention.

Also, you can use most memory management facilities in Rust (including reference counting) without `unsafe`.
I got 2 words for you: regulatory capture. There's literally no chance that a guy who got invited to Bilderberg is going to have his company broken up (unless that were to somehow work to his advantage). He's made deals with the people that run the world. They won't touch him or his company.
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Ethnic politics in China is like everything else a complete stitch-up. China, though big, is a fraction of the size of the USSR, which was 70% Slavs while China is 91% Han. That's less than a third as much ethnic diversity. The problem is a lot of even that diversity is fake.

There are some powerful members of the ruling Chinese elite that 'belong to minorities', but the threshold for that is having one ethnic minority grandparent, who themselves might have had only one ethnic minority grandparent. Oh, and ethnic minority groups get some educational advantages, so it's an advantage to get the classification. This means the ranks of minorities get heavily packed with people who are in practice indistinguishable genetically and culturally from the average Han, but have the right to represent and speak for their minority group.

Thus in theory minorities are very well represented, get various advantages and have a voice in politics and society. In practice the people who get to do so are hand picked by the party and have the most tenuous links imaginable to the minority they supposedly represent.
Have your upvote and get out ;)
As a business, PayPal can be helpful that way too. But the point is, it shouldn't be the ONLY processor. Credit card input, via another processor, should always be an option.
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Can you share your data? I did a quick search and found few countries that forbid property ownership for non-citizens, and no mention of any restrictions on naturalized citizens.
«I love this paper because it is ruthless. The authors know exactly what they are doing, and they are clearly enjoying every second of it.

They explain that given what we now know about polygenicity, the highest-effect-size genes require samples of about 34,000 people to detect, and so any study with fewer than 34,000 people that says anything about specific genes is almost definitely a false positive; they go on to show that the median sample size for previous studies in this area was 345.»
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I grew up in Italy, left in 2008 at age ~30, and been living in the US since 2012. I've only barely heard about "Dr. Seuss", and had no idea who he was.

I've now read the article and it seems that he's been an important figure for many Americans, and possibly for many people around the world (not much in Italy).

In the article a multi-faceted figure emerges, as if you wouldn't be able to guess much of it just by reading his books (e.g. he didn't have kids; and considered writing for kids a step down in his career).

I find it always fascinating to "discover" an artist (writer, painter, musician, etc) by knowing his biography and reading about his personality, and then to look again at his artwork in a very different light. I guess it's the case for the ones who've read his books and will have a chance to read his biography.
BTW, does anyone know why aren't there codecs that would increase the speaking latency but spread out the information over a wider range of the signal, so that the lost chunks could simply be reconstructed from last and the next chunks received?
I took psilocybin (est) 100+ times. My recommendations are the opposite of yours. First, I recommend everyone who is highly self-aware and extremely curious about the nature of the mind try it, _multiple times_ . There is literally nothing else (besides other psychedelics) that can - so easily - blow apart the doors of the mind and give access to what lies beneath the surface.

I don't suggest reading anything written in a commercial / contemporary setting prior to the experience. It will "infect" you with somebody else's ideas / models of the mind. What I do recommend, is immersing oneself in the myths and archetypes of one's own culture.

Finally, it goes without saying that psilocybin is not really a party drug and works best for inner exploration (psychonautics). One should minimize outside distractions by laying down, with eyes closed and listening to white noise or minimal ambient music whilst focusing on an "inner dive".
it would be the end of the world
That is pedantic. There is no realistic scenario where your brain will compel you to consume so much water you suffer long term detriment
Urine is just an aqueous solution containing urea (CH4N2O) and you need nitrogen in the ground since it is absorbed by plants and trees as nitrates. Nitrates are usually lacking in the ground so it's actually beneficial for the trees in the end.

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/environment/the-nitro...
There's actually not that much evidence moderate sugar intake is bad for you, at all. All this talk about "sugar" swings is completely off base, IMO, especially considering most starches are much higher on the GI and II scales than sugars. Fructose is low GI, and most of it is converted to glucose in the gut, anyway. Higher consumption is converted to fat, but most vilifying sugars promote fat, so what's the difference? If anyone can link me evidence that moderate sugar intake promotes worse blood sugar regulation (compared to saturated fat, especially) in healthy, non-diabetic populations, would love to see it.

FWIW, I've had anywhere from <30g total carbs in my diet, to moderate sugar/carb intake, to very high (300+g sugar [mostly from fruit], 500+ carb) diets. The very low carb diets were the worst for my energy levels (and yes, I did intake plenty of electrolytes, and was on it for 12+ weeks). Moderate carb feels best, to me, as an active, healthy body-weight male, for what anecdotal evidence is worth.
Someone should come up with a credit card that has a dynamic hard limit connected to a checking account balance. Paid daily, too, so the checking balance is almost always caught up. Seems like it would meet the needs of those people while letting them benefit from protections, rewards, etc.

Any reason this couldn't work? Does it exist already?
Huge? Don't think so, not now. Name me one of these companies with more than $100M revenues per year. None. It's still a tiny market.
> Like Rust but without the need for Rc and Arc boxes. Rust gets us 80% of the way there.

I think you're qualifying Rc/Arc as kludges to get around the type system. They may end up being used like that sometimes but when well used they are actually encoding extra semantics, just like &Type and &mut Type.

A simple example is a cache get() method:

pub fn get(&self, key: &K) -> Option<Arc<V>>

https://docs.rs/multicache/0.5.0/multicache/struct.MultiCach...

This allows you to get and use a cache value across your program and depending on outside input the value can disappear first in the cache by eviction or in the consumer. So Arc<V> is already expressing to the compiler the exact semantics. It just so happens that the actual lifetime is runtime defined from outside input so it must be managed dynamically.

I don't see a general way around that without copying but maybe a lot more can be inferred automatically so you get similar ergonomics to a GC language by introducing Rc/Arc/etc automatically at compile time. I don't think that's a good fit for a system programming language like Rust though where you don't pay extra costs without asking for them explicitly. But maybe there's space for a higher level language that does all that magic and doesn't use a GC. Someone trademark Rustscript.
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Stretching to the Scale of the Universe
I was an army brat who experienced several schools. I had problems and got into fights. The best school I ever went to was the DOD school in Panama.
It had structure, the parents were forced to be involved. In the Army, you are responsible for the actions of your dependents, you are the one who sponsors them to live on base and their actions can show up on your military record.

My kids seem to like school, I've consciously kept them in the same good school district. It's a bit too wealthy and not as diverse as I'd like, although there is a good bit of diversity. They key is to stay involved. Volunteer in the classroom when your kids are young and you have the chance. Make sure the other kids in you child's grade recognize you and their parents do as well. Don't let your kids get lost in the shuffle and work with people to create a community.

//edit: I have 6 kids and my oldest is graduating next year, so I have experience.
Not forever, but way too long: https://i.redd.it/mbhzuqszr7q21.gif
Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat

Those are by far the dominant social networks in the US. They all compete in terms of fighting for limited user time. WhatsApp is kinda sorta in that group, however it's not particularly popular in the US. Tumblr used to be, it might as well be dead now, it's going the way of MySpace (sold off a few times, passed around, until it's hardly valuable at all).

Snapchat competes primarily with Facebook and Instagram. At the edges there's some competition with sites like YouTube, Reddit, Imgur (and other image sharing networks).

Instagram competes with core Facebook, which is of course why they ate them. Also with Snapchat. To a lesser extent YouTube, Pinterest and misc image sites.

YouTube competes with Facebook and their goal to build a much larger user video platform. To a lesser extent they compete with Snapchat and Instagram, particularly on very short form user video.

Reddit competes with Twitter and some of the smaller niche social networks like Imgur. There's some limited competition between Reddit, Instagram and Pinterest.

LinkedIn competes with Facebook. Microsoft scored a nice protected fiefdom in LinkedIn. It suffers no serious competitive threat other than incompetence.

When you examine the competitive landscape, it's very clear that Facebook has no direct competitor to their core platform. And further, Instagram has far overwhelmed its competition. Facebook core is Facebook's Google search, Instagram is Facebook's YouTube, all are monopolies at what they do. The scope of Facebook core + Instagram + WhatsApp is breathtaking, it must be something like 2.6 to 3 billion monthly actives now when you include everyone across all three major platforms.

The most interesting social network among the group, is Pinterest. If they don't screw things up, they'll have a far better business than Twitter over time. It's a dramatically more mainstream product with direct, obvious, superior monetization potential. None of the other social networks can compete well with what they do (not without contorting themselves into a pretzel and risking their existing userbase and business).
I synthetic fuels are a temporary solution for cars. If you are changing car infrastructure, IMO it makes most sense to switch over to electricity (highest efficiency and you can use electrical car batteries to stabilize the grid).

Synthetic fuels will make most sense for aviation (higher energy density compared to hydrogen), (possibly) shipping and as a transitional fuel for transport to reduce our emissions.

Synthetic fuels could also be a solution for seasonal storage.
Have a decent bank on the other end that doesn't charge erroneous overdraft and NSF fees?
Yep. Around that time (1996 I think) I built a prototype UI for doing exploration of a network and its connectivity in VRML.
No need to apologize!

Also, careful with guaranteed - AWS has his special wording about SLAs and guarantees, e.g. S3 "designed" for 11 9s of durability, which sounds like a guarantee but it isn't.
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One of my favourite bits of IE was its high contrast support, which no other browsers had. It actually modified the styles of individual elements (rather than using a global color filter overlay like Chrome), so it performed really well, matched the OS high contrast theme, and could also be adjusted by developers with prefixed media query.

I was glad to hear that Microsoft will be adding it to the new Edge[0]. You can read about how it works in this excellent explainer[1].

[0] https://techdows.com/2019/03/chrome-to-get-native-caret-brow...

[1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/maste...
The real problem is that too many people who didn’t have a voice before can leverage centralized platforms to spread their views to too many people (according to the NYT).

The internet has accelerated winner-take-all dynamics for good and bad.

The day will come when there will be no local news covering high school sports events or community activities. People will rely on viewing participant posts on social media. What’s lost here is that it is so easy to game the system and spread BS...
I'd be interest to learn of a country that does not have this sort of problem to some degree.

"teens need to see adults modelling rational, fair, and effective boundaries, and dealing with problems in sane ways". This may sound like sarcasm, but is not intended as such: this is rude preparation for the workplace and the "public square". I agree that education would be better.
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If it’s that much, I’d recommend a lawyer
Until they do it too much and get cut down for it, anyway.
Yes thats the point

Make it impossible for them to operate in this market
While we're discussing Facebook and anticompetitive practices, I'd like to bring the effects of FANG/Unicorns and their current compensation.

I think we are seeing a drop in people leaving established tech to startups, but I think most of this is due to the _ludicrous_ amount of money an engineer/PM can make being a 9-5er at one FB/G. Engineers who meet expectations and get promoted at the minimum allowed rate can be an E5 engineer at facebook within 5 years of graduation where there's a median income of ~$300k. Engineers who are good can get promoted much faster/further than that and make absurd amounts of money. With Level 1 directors at FB making over a $1M a year.

It really doesn't make sense for an individual engineer to ever join a small startup nowadays. Being the founder of a successful startup now still makes sense, but considering that much of the low-hanging fruit of the mobile/internet era has been picked, I think being a founder requires more domain/technological expertise than it did in the era when our current unicorns were born.

I like the state of things as someone making good money relatively stress free at a FANG, but I hope a new fundamental technology wave comes soon and creates opportunity for a whole new set of companies, reigniting the startup scene's energy.
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Given that he donated millions of dollars to fund public healthcare, often delivered for free by a public entity, what should he have done instead that would qualify as giving away healthcare? Bearing in mind that he is not pesonally a medical professional.
What's the best alternative to Paypal today?
> It glosses over a lot of things, like what motivates a person and how we define "good".

My interpretation is that the goal is to try to avoid the queston of Zuckerberg's moral character. Do some people think he's evil? Yes. Is that relevant as a matter of public policy? Perhaps not. It's a matter for personal judgments and personal opinion.

The question at hand is Facebook, not Zuckerberg's soul. For most readers, this helps them focus appropriately.
Happening in Paris as well: the city keeps cutting trees that are more than 100 years old just because they can:

http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-la-place-de-la-natio...
Saab-Scania (70's-90's) was split into Scania (trucks) and Saab Automobile. Scania maintained independent for a long while but is now owned by VW.

Saab Automobile was bought by GM (90's-2000's), who completely ruined the company, sold it for pennies, and now it's bankrupt.