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>The war on drugs costs us $51 billon annually and the only upside is that corporations selling legal drugs like alcoholic beverages and prescription medications get to keep their artificial monopoly.*

That $51B "cost" is known as "income" to those on whom it is spent (cops, prisons, misc security contractors, weapons manufacturers, on and on).

Similarly, the "only upside is ... artificial monopoly" -- well, for the artificial monopolists, that's a pretty big upside!

I don't think there's some kind of Grand Conspiracy here (ref. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-c... ), but I also don't think one is needed. A whole heck of a lot of people benefit directly from the drug war, and these people are a powerful constituency. The fact that $51B is spent on that constituency instead of on Medicare for All or whatever is, for much of that constituency, a feature and not a bug.
To some extent Facebook acts the way it does because it knows media attention has no teeth. Zuck knows he can just bide his time and scandals will slide off him like morning dew off a leaf.
HN is not evenly supportive of the trans community (if you look at many of the comments on here). There are a number of quasi-libertarian religious people that are transphobes, but they persist as they often mesh well with the general libertarian bent of this site when commenting on articles.
Cauliflower bread. Not quite there, but its a great start to a healthier alternative.
Police from HK, military forces from China (though they're not involved in these matters). But like in most civilized countries, the police is there to uphold current law and order, not to side with some national or political interest.
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You know what's worse than Kubernetes complexity? A shallow abstraction of it by some mediocre team to get promotion and leave everyone else struggle with something that you can't get help from anywhere else. This happened in past two unicorns that I worked for. They template the templates and wrapped the `kubectl` with some leaky abstraction.

At least raw Kubernetes is Google-able!
Hi @aphyr. I'm a great fan of your work with Jepsen although I know very little about the fault tolerance of distributed systems. Are there any resources you would recommend on the subject? I am an application developer so I don't see myself writing a database in the future. Still it would be great to learn about the concepts.

Cheers!
I tried my luck with that too, trying to upload my iCloud library from my Mac to google photos. It is a giant pile of shit.

I went ahead and wrote a simple app that reads iCloud metadata and uploads directly to Google Photos API. It synced everything in a day.

I dont understand how did they manage to mess this up so bad.
You use smaller buffers so the filters run faster and the next chunk of samples can start on another CPU as soon as they exist.
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1: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Famine_(Good_Omens)
> They are certainly enforcing the laws...

> The police are enforcing the supremacy of the state...

It strikes me that these two concepts are mutually exclusive; that was the reason for my objection in the first place.
> I even recall techies being shunned for doing the tiniest fraction of invasiveness/recklessness that some major companies do today

I remember uninstalling software and dismissing it as spyware for just phoning home. The very idea of a program regularly pinging some remote host to indicate the your machine was turned on and connected to the internet was offensive. Now basically every program does this, usually excused as checking for updates.

I think a lot of the problem was as it got easier for people to get online more and more people were using the internet who didn't understand the technology or how it could be used against them. They didn't care about anything but checking sports scores and online shopping and it let companies get away with taking advantage of them in ways the old nerds would never have accepted and once those nerds were vastly outnumbered by people who didn't know or care about privacy abuses the nerds no longer mattered.
Requiring U.S. citizens denies adversaries the ability to use their own without first having to put them through immigration and naturalization in the U.S. That's not nothing. Sure, adversaries can also recruit Americans, but that's harder than recruiting their own citizens.

Does it prevent espionage by Americans? No. But it does make espionage by foreign adversaries at least a bit harder.
I don't think Bauhaus failed, at all. It's influence lives on in the design of many buildings, especially in Europe. For example, Frankfurt kitchens.

The fact that it has blended so well into mainstream architecture is a testament of its success.

Bauhaus was also highly influential to kick off Scandinavian mid-century design.
Looking back, it was unbelievable to see how huge the storm caused by Intel's "processor serial number" in Pentium 3 was, that even forced Intel to withdrew it.

Meanwhile, nobody has ever said anything about the serial numbers of hard drives, GPUs, motherboards, RAM modules, Ethernet MAC address, etc, etc, etc. Nowadays, basically everything comes with one UUID.

Pretty illogical, isn't it?

> We've long lost the war on privacy.

Agree. I understand UUID is important in engineering for many purposes, but the fact that nobody is talking about it anymore (because they are nothing when compared to more severe issues like fingerprinting) indicates we've long lost the war on privacy.
It's insane that they can get away with this with so little consequence.
The point is the FBI is a neutral collection point, but the source of data isn't as stable or systematic as those by advocacy groups trying to make more complete estimates.
I'm currently using Inoreader[1] with the Supporter plan ($20/yr), works well so far.

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Evolution wasted its time making fish move around, vision, reproduction, gills and so on.

The replacement just has to taste very similar, not hurt animals, be reasonably priced, sustainable to produce and healthy or neutral for health.
That's correct, however, considering that Zen 2 supports PCI-E 4.0, that's double the bandwidth of the previous generation, it means that those multiplexed 4x can theoretically now support double the bandwidth of the previous generation 4x and it's not like the "stuff" that does get multiplexed over that 4x (USB, SATA, some 1x cards like sound, wifi and ethernet) also suddenly needs twice the bandwidth meaning that in practice, that 4x works as an 8x in Zen 2 motherboards. Great deal I say :)
To add, Swartz also didn't attempt any assassinations. While I see some overlap in the way that Ulbricht was made an example of, he ultimately shot himself in the foot by resorting to such nefarious means to protect himself.
People are conflating 'drug decriminalization' with other policies. I'm agnostic on other homeless policies, but strongly support decriminalizing possession. You can be for more social services for the homeless, or, more law-and-order and advocate for more cops on the beat to stop car camping, burglary, etc. All while agreeing that spending thousands on incarceration just for possession is a poor use of societal resources.

I'd advocate for a) outlawing public drug usage (the same way alcohol is legal but public consumption is not). And b) an officer on the scene can still confiscate illegal drugs- motivating addicts/homeless to be discreet and low-key. Both of these will help prevent public spaces from becoming a free-for-all, while not wasting valuable money on arresting an addict for the 20th time
But none of those taste and feel like real pasta, whereas the impossible burger tastes and feels like a real burger.
When I was in my early 20's a good friend of mine (mid 30's) was on the methadone program.

He functioned more or less fine all things considered, but used to get a little more than he needed and would trade the excess for weed with a guy who used occasionally.

They were only small amounts, and it was methadone rather than heroin so all of those caveats apply, but the situation seemed harmless enough to me at the time.

I remember that sometimes he'd be a little more out of it than normal, though, and it was when he'd have his supervised "usual" dose as a part of the program rather than the takeaway prescription.

Not sure why the weed dealer didn't get on the program himself, but I don't know what's involved -- maybe he really was one of the mythical recreational users, or maybe he was selling it on (seems unlikely in such small amounts, but that would depend on how many people he had that same arrangement with).
I got enough of random 503’s, network errors, slowdowns on mid-to-high traffic and dropped TCP connections yesterday. I setup dedicated VPS’s for our main app servers using Ansible and good ol’ fashion Capistrano. It feels almost old-school, but so much more stable.
I don't think those numbers have any relationship to taste, but if you insist - life first appeared on earth 3.5 billion years ago, so the majority of that will be the exact same, it should take a minor modification to get to fish.
It needs to be paired with housing. If you got shitty credit no one cares if you get 1500 bucks a month, they are going to deny you in this city, period. I know first hand.
That reminds me about the story of a University that an old DEC VAX that got walled up during a remodel. Machine kept running and no one notice. A decade later another remodel came along and they tore down the wall to find the machine just happily running.
In Japan it gets expensive to keep a car for more than about 10 years so people are used to buying a new one more frequently.
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If you think influencer marketing and product placement are already at capacity you have no idea how much worse it's about to get if ad blocking gets much worse. And the irony is that, by design, you won't know a good chunk of the time and other times it'll just merely be implied without being explicitly stated. Continued use of social networks, including this one, collects way more identifiable data than what the non-Google/FB/Amazon ad market collects. Ad blockers have had near 0 impact on FB's operations. Google and others have paid to ensure that their search ads still make it through most ad blockers.

Blocking ads does not drive businesses to be more "honest". They'll just spend more on PR and influencers. And given how hostile this community is to ads and perhaps even marketing overall, (how YC ever backed a marketing or ad startup is beyond me), companies already realize that getting a fawning TC article purchased thru connections and favors and PR chicanery is going to be more effective than ad campaign even though the ad campaign is more honest, upfront and transparent with its agenda.
> does anything need to be added/changed

The background color when reaching 1000 karma, for instance.

Just kidding ;) My post was not meant to be taken 100% seriously. I just thought it might be nice to brainstorm about what could happen at 1000. I agree that pretty much all of the must have features are there already.
The short answer is no. The People's Liberation Army has a Hong Kong garrison with ~6000 troops that could crush pretty much any coup attempt. The only security force that could even in theory do what you are asking about would be the HK police force which has ~30000 officers.

This doesn't even get into the bigger logistical issues around HK severing ties to mainland china. Last I checked HK is depended on water from the mainland which makes being fully independent of mainland china basically impossible.
Spaghetti Squash really surprised me. You need to figure out how to cook it right or else it gets a bit too "wet/oily", but it can really be quite amazing.
Let's say you are an awesome C/C++ systems engineer.
Interviewer can pose a programming problem expecting an answer using recursion. But as you are C/C++ systems programmer, you know recursion is inefficient and you have never used it in production code.
So, it will not naturally occur to you to use recursion. You will go down the path of coming with a clever iterative solution with complex hand-crafted data structures etc. If the interviewer isn't well-versed in these low-level techniques then they may end up judging incorrectly. And usually such a low-level solution won't be easy to complete in a short 20-minute interview setting. whereas a recursive solve would be doable. which would lead to the interviewer feeling justified in judging negatively. That's how you can be good at production code and bad at trivial code :)
This is why David Gorski and Steven Novella advocate for Science Based Medicine: https://www.painscience.com/articles/ebm-vs-sbm.php Basically, it advocates incorporating scientific principles into reasoning about medical practices.
GDPR does not say that IP address is PII. Among other objections, GDPR does not mention IP address, nor does it mention PII.

The current guidance on IP addresses is ambiguous, but my understanding is that an IP address on its own does not count as personal data. It can become personal data when it's used to create a profile. So if you only have the full IP fleetingly to serve web pages, and all logging wipes the last octet, there's no point where the data that you process counts as personal data.
For the sake of the planet and animals, I'm thrilled with the fact Beyond is focusing on animal product replacements.
Even if we consider earlier history as irrelevant, it's worth looking at the differences of industrialization and wealth in coastal China vs inland China, as many of the industries driving Chinese economy heavily rely on low cost sea import and export.
I'm pretty sure Drive photos are still added to Photos though, which still is an annoying behavior.
I think it’s quite obvious that drugs prescribed this way have to be consumed in front of a supervisor.
OP here. This is a good point. While I certainly think there is value in reading _how_ to do things better, IMO there is an upper limit on this. I more often see people reading about X, Y, or Z, never to actually take action, rather than the other way around. I also think you learn iteratively by doing.

However, I do agree that it is necessary to take a step back and learn from others along the way.
> There was a brief period of time, from 1990 to 8:40 AM, September 11th, 2001, when you could do all sorts of stuff online, and the powers that be either didn't, or couldn't, monitor it.

The belief that September 11 brought in the dark times overlooks the actual history of things. The European Parliament’s ECHELON report, which detailed American massive interception and storage of internet and other electronics communications, was released in 2000. John Young’s website Cryptome was discussing the same stuff pre-9/11 that you found from people like Bruce Schneier afterwards. The revelations may not have been as big in the news like Snowden later, but it was well known that the NSA had rolled out extensive surveillance already by the turn of the millennium.
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No, they're voting shares... He owns the majority of voting shares, but they aren't worth the majority of the value of company, and therefore he doesn't "own the majority of the company".
Makes sense, thanks. I still frequently misread Chinese texts that appear completely obvious with hindsight.
What is the problem with carbohydrates? If it is the refined grain part in pasta and bread, then there are already solutions: whole wheat products.

Who do you thing would go for the beyond wheat products?
Yes, I agree, but it's not what the OP does, also, mostly often, co-routines gets conflated with cooperative threads/scheduling.

For some color to your other points: the previous version was actually using continuation passing style which worked and was very fast (faster than coroutines), but challenging to understand without a good background in FP and FP implementations.
> A lot of (D) folks are looking for someone to blame for the current political climate.

Correct. When the Obama campaign used data just as aggressively as Cambridge, people cheered how "technologically advanced" that campaign was. People have a selective memory, but Facebook data harvesting and exploitation was a critical strategy used by Obama to win his elections. I guess 2008 and 2012 are too far back for most people to remember.
I'm honestly pretty happy about this. I'm hoping that by aiming to replace the commercial products they use with opensource alternatives, the alternatives leave with a better polish and user experience. I also see CERN as an institution that is willing to hire the devs needed to maintain / support a project.
Food science isn't a linear process based on the evolutionary complexity of the organisms we eat.

Arguably cows have been impacted by as much evolution as any organism. It's not as though cows spontaneously generated 100M years ago - there were hundreds of millions of years leading up to cows becoming what we recognize today.
Well, not quite. The reason why the drug wars got started wasn't because of addicts or petty crimes. It was a form of class warfare because they wanted the dirty poors and minorities to stop using their poor drugs.

The history behind the War on Drugs is very explicitly a one divided on racial grounds and a cursory look at things like the legality of marijuana or mandatory minimums tells the full tale.
I wouldn't want to live in your bubble when it comes crashing down and you have to face reality of your competitors.
You make it seem like is isn't a bit of a collective problem though. Sure, you can not use Facebook and you'll miss all the information about your friends and their events. (Did you see the comment in this thread from someone who missed their high school reunion because it was only listed on Facebook?) You either "choose" to give up all of that or submit to every one of Facebook's practices. For some people that might be easy but for others it means they will miss many social interactions with the people they love who still use the site.

You can say, sure thats why you should use Facebook. But I could imagine a slightly less evil Facebook that still provided that value to me. Perhaps there will be a concerted effort to fund a competitor (see Lyft vs Uber) or some regulations with teeth but Facebook is in a pretty solid monopoly position for now. They dictate the terms and you either agree or you lose out.
> The app is closed-source.

> It stores your credentials locally.

Can you confirm this?
Note that this is 50MW - the UK dispatched down nearly 300000MW last year - so this is a great start and a brilliant proof of concept, there is a long way to go. I hope this can prove profitable.

Though in an 'idealistic model' this would provide 18000MW back to the grid if it were fully charged/discharged each day, so if (in this average thought experiment) that were possible we only need 17 of these plants to 'recover' all that lost power, which if sold at 'peaker' rates could net a huge sum. while the standard wholesale MWh rate in the Eire is about €67, the instant dispatch rate in Ireland can reach €4000 - so if all that energy could be made available for instant dispatch it could be worth €800000000 - if my sums are correct. Obviously this is ignoring losses. But even with 50% loss this is a significant opportunity. Who is in?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19938086
There's roughly three levels of "superpower" as I see it

1) You can do what you want in your region and mostly tell the rest of the world to shove it (e.g. Monroe doctrine, annexation of Crimea, etc.)

2) You can do what you want worldwide but can't do it without consent of the local superpowers (e.g. The British getting tacit US permission to whack Argentina in the 80s)

3) You can do whatever the heck you want, where you want and it's up to everyone else to deal. (e.g. the USSR starting the Cuban missile crisis, the US invading Iraq).

China is a 1 right now but all the pieces are there for them to jump to a 2 or 3 quickly. They aren't lacking manpower, money, internal political cohesion or tech. They just need to practice and get good and they could be a 2 or 3. Obviously this has a lot of people in the west worried because we haven't had to deal an authoritarian regime that was a superpower on the world stage since the USSR fell apart.
Please don't break the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

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Try Feedbro, it is an extension for chrome and firefox. It is free and unlimited and the UI is customisable to a degree.

The one downside is it is not a cloud app, so won't sync across devices.

I have been using it since inoreader and feedly introduced caps and I am a happy convert.
In Pai's world ISPs would break Google's and Facebook's advertising monopolies by tracking your browsing habits, selling bundled services, and otherwise taxing and gatekeeping access to the network and potential competitors. And the Federal government would gladly subsidize them in right-of-way monopolies and rural access grants to do so.
Thanks for the link! Haven't gone through all the historical data, but a data point that stood out: F-100 hit 1724.1 in '85. I suppose numbers like that could bring averages up in a hurry.
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Help me to decode your statement please. Your point was ...?
Yes, but he's not comparing TDP across manufacturers but rather across products from the same manufacturer (and generation).
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>And it turns out 50K rules is actually fine!

No its not. Plus, if you combine Easylist with a bunch of additional filter lists, then it very easily crosses 50k.
Since you can live without carbohydrates but not without protein and fat it seems like the opposite.
As someone who enjoys meat, I'm excited to be able to finally get options that don't involve killing something to get there.
Because email clients can only be as good as email itself, which isn't really good. ;)
I tried deleting a few thousand files from Google Drive and they just got stuck in the trash...had to manually select them all a screen at a time and delete them from the trash, since "empty trash" didn't work. I also ended up with several thousand "unorganized" files at one time--files that are visible to search but not shown in any folder.
There are plenty of people who are on low/no carb diets. Keto being a notable example.
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Thunderbolt has been an open standard (and now royalty free) for some time. I'm sure if someone as big as Apple wanted to adopt AMD that was the only blocker, it wouldn't be a blocker for long.
My laymen's definition of medical reversal: a current medical practice that is worse than what we did before.
You wouldn't want to run a plugin on each core, you would want to run a chunk of samples on each core. Then the data is staying local (and the instructions aren't going to change so they will stay cached as well).
People who want to be healthy. I get fat if I even look a piece of bread or bowl of pasta. But I sure do miss the taste and would love a substitute.
Make the restaurant page look like the area search with that restaurant pre-selected. This way you get the same seo benefit, but your visitors will understand the value.

Also, what’s holding you from adding more cities/restaurants? 500 seems a really low number these days (no offense intended, I’m just curious why you don’t move faster on that side)
So, why haven't the relevant people started working on IPv7/NewProtocol, like... 10 years ago, when it started to become clear that mobile Internet was going to become big and that IPv4/6 and TCP/UDP coudln't work well with it?