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is that someone entirely different can take over

That doesn't solve the "hand-over" problem --- which I already mentioned in another comment here --- if you were suddenly given control of a moving car headed in a dangerous direction, how long would it take to assess the situation enough to make a decision on what to do? You have to be already paying attention to react in reasonable amount of time.

Of course there is the "workaround" of having multiple (alert) drivers per vehicle, but that seems more trouble than it's worth just to avoid putting a single driver in a vehicle. (In addition, as all the stories about self-driving-car accidents have shown, even when people are in the vehicle itself, they don't tend to pay as much attention if they already have the "someone/thing else is driving" notion anyway.)
Why are the best equipped? The exhibits still exist, in great condition and can still be viewed by the public, so they must be doing something correct.

Perhaps what you fail to realise is that a great many treasures have been looted and sold into private collections over the years. Looted and sold by locals, to anyone who can pay. So there is a good chance that anything that the British Museum received as loot would have been someone else's loot otherwise.
Will charging speed really only be of minor importance? How do you charge your vehicle if you live in an apartment building? And if you can't do that and charging at a station takes more than 3-5 minutes then you cut out a huge part of the populace.
It's not the US, but UK police do carry out arrests for jokes on social media:

- https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/23/glasgow-crash-tw...

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/02/social_media_arrest...
Wow, I live in Dublin and I never knew up to this point that he worked in UCD for a decade (and eventually died in Dublin).
This sounds like a good idea, I'll give it a try. Do you find your stack growing consistently? That's what I'd expect for myself.
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Judging by last week's forecasts for my region: pretty far off. Sudden rain in the regions of 10mm/m² and a lot of clouds when sunny weather was predicted. The exact opposite happened as well. Temperatures were off by 5-8°C, too.

All of this for same day forecasts, not even 2 days in advance.
By who though? Many were looted by locals and sold on to private collectors and then made it to the British Museum. Are the brotha museum the looters, no, the looters were often locals looking to make money selling artifacts and European collectors who sought them out or actually did the looting.
Oh, just what we need on Hacker News: another Spaces -vs- Tabs War! ;)

Xerox PARC harmoniously researched both spaces AND tabs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_space

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-585-29603-6_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1w9_cob_zw
I have found that taking Magnesium is like turning a switch on in my head and I'm suddenly happy again. I don't get upset or angry in the same way, I'm more patient and my thoughts are not obsessive.

Magnesium is best taken with calcium and vitamin D as both are used in the uptake of magnesium.

I have found that processed foods, alcohol, caffeine and sugar all make me worse, but magnesium gives me the will power to change that lifestyle that caused the problem in the first place.

I don't know about quack studies but for the cheap price and quick turnaround (3 days for small effect, 2 week for a large scale shift) it's a simple thing to try.
I generally agree with you, but lithium is also used to treat bi-polar disorder (among others) and it was discovered by accident. People used to recommend it without any data supporting it. I suspect this is how most treatments start
Whether it’s true or a placebo- sign me up :)
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But would you like to be in rush hour traffic on a bike?
Hey @the_mitsuhiko, any plans to support Django Channels (daphne) out of the box? Debugging async stuff is tough.
I think you folks have better protections on your debit cards.

I would never use a debit card, for anything other than ATM access, ever. If somebody scans my credit card and clones it, or gets hold of the numbers and goes on a spree, no real money changes hands, and I've just got to call Chase or Citibank and dispute the charges.

With the debit card, that money is gone out of my bank account, and I can dispute it, but it takes time, and in the meantime my mortgage and car payment and utility bills have bounced and dinged my credit and incurred late fees and penalties.
Opera popularized them. The notion that it invented them is a very common misconception though.
Some Dutch shops do accept credit cards, but primarily in very touristy areas. No Dutch person would ever use their credit card for anything like that, unless the total cost is higher than the maximum they've set for their bank card and their credit card has a higher maximum. Like when you buy an expensive laptop straight from a brick-and-mortar shop.
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As someone from a country which uses commas as a decimal separator (Norway)... Just use a dot. If you're not going to make a _serious_ commitment to actually make your software work well in all the various locales, use a dot. People will understand it regardless.

You're probably going to do something stupid like showing the user a comma-separated list of numbers at some point, which will be needlessly hard to parse for a human when your numbers use a comma as a decimal separator. You (or someone else, or your users if they are technical) will probably at some point make something which tries to parse some output, and that will break if you switch between points and commas arbitrarily. Your users will want to copy a number your software prints and paste it into a calculator or REPL or something, and that probably doesn't work with comma as a decimal separator.

Half-assed "localization" from people who don't know anything about how other countries work is just needlessly annoying to be subjected to.

That's at least my perspective as a Norwegian who experiences a lot of _bad_ localization even though I know English fairly well and configure all my computing devices to use English. The perspective of someone from a country where English is less well known might be different.

<rant>

Examples of horrible localization from clueless American companies or organizations include:

* A lot of software will use your IP address to determine your language. That's annoying when I'm in Norway and want my computers to use English, but it's horrible when abroad. No, Google, I don't want French text just because I'm staying in France for a bit.

* Software will translate error messages, but not provide an error code. All information about error messages online is in English on stackoverflow or whatever. If Debian prints an error message in Norwegian, there's absolutely no information about the error anywhere on the web.

* There was a trend for a while where websites would tick the "localization" checkbox by adding a Google Translate widget, so English websites would automatically translate themselves into completely broken Norwegian automatically. That would've been useless if I didn't know English, and it's even worse considering I already know the source language just as well as Norwegian. Luckily, most websites seem to have stopped doing that.

</rant>
> The universe is full of puzzles that mean something to solve. Why not work on those instead? Why would those be less interesting than a contrived set of rules?

Because those rules are designed (often iteratively) to be interesting. They have exactly the right rate of progress/reward to be engaging. In some research areas today it takes two years of postgrad work just to get to the point where you're capable of doing original research - and there's no guarantee that you'll produce anything useful even then.

Acquiring mastery of a skill is a fun experience, and drives a lot of human activity. Certainly most e.g. programming language designers seem to enjoy the skill and craft of doing it; I'm not at all convinced that that's not the real motivation for that activity, however much people claim to be driven by practical value or monetary reward.

Ultimately meaning is what we make it. People tend to enjoy games because they feel that they reflect something meaningful; a game is a "toy model" of reality, but toy models can be useful. There's a reason we consider these games to be interesting challenges and measures of progress for the same AIs that we also want to be able to e.g. drive cars.
It’s a wonderful episode and I’m sure it’s an interesting book but I’d take it with more than a pinch of salt. Most people can’t get to a world class level in anything, whether they specialise early or not. I’d be more inclined to read K. Anders Ericsson’s book Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Stuart Ritchie’s Intelligence: All That Matters, or both.

For most areas of human expertise we don’t have the kind of knowledge about what to do and why, or the coaching infrastructure for youth prodigy breeding grounds like sports or playing a musical instrument. The number of doctors who started preparing for their career in any real fashion before they were twelve might be numbered in the hundreds, ditto financiers. Most things you can start at as an adult.
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My experience is that synapse is not harder than ejabberd
(I don't have experience with other XMPP servers)

Matrix tries to do a lot more than XMPP. In my experience, people find XMPP too limiting, so they don't use it.
Yes. That's why setting trap in some countries is a strictly regulated activity and lethal or harmful traps are almost always forbidden. You can't always catch what you intended to, so you have to give a way out to the guy you caught by mistake. Snares without a stop are harmful by design.
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Oh god. Crows and octopodes are my shortlist of who will succeed humanity as the sapient Terran species. Crows probably first; octopodes are smarter, but crows have culture and that’s more important than intelligence because it provides another axis of Darwinian evolution.
And if they hire someone else to do your job, that wasn't redundancy, that was firing under false pretenses, and you can sue.
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I think it might not be absorbed as well, but often there is just a lot more magnesium in oxide than glycinate. So even though it absorbs worse more actually ends up being absorbed in the end.

Personally I've felt a more potent reaction from oxide than glycinate, possibly for that reason.
There's a 5-valued logic usable in common everyday live, originating from some Buddhist philosophy I don't care to remember, that I actually use fine in everyday life, similar to yours. I has:

- {T}: true

- {F}: false

- {not-T && not-F}: neither true nor false (yet, for us): eg. "unknown" or NULL (so far we're in SQL-logic territory :P, still familiar)

- {T && F}: true and false at the same time: ERROR / paradox / invalid / contradiction / exception / malformed or invalid questions

- {}: "ununderstandable/uncommunicable" or "cannot be put in to words", but NOT error/exception/invalid - for a software system this would be "there is a true|false|null|exception value for this but there is no direct access to this information" eg. maybe "the value is somehow stored in a physical artifact or arises as a result of an agent doing and experiencing something, but it can't be communicated as information, you'd have to pass the physical artifact to other agents for them to 'grok it', or to engineer situations where they could have a similar experience" or "you can't explain to someone 'how it is to be inlove' or 'how it is to be on drug X', they need to have the experience or access to the drug themselves'

I'm not sure why pentaleans are not as natural to other people as booleans, since they seem way more intuitive to me when dealing with information for the real world...
Interface is timeline view. We designed this interface as one can easily tracked deadline and status of a project in one collaborative space only.

I would suggest you to try it once.
Parental leave (actually only for women) is 14 weeks on 80% pay. After that many women take unpaid leave to enlongate that time. After that they reduce to 20%-60% time on the job or quit their all together to raise their children for a couple of years. This reduces their pension, because they work less.
I've known mahjong players who claimed that was their reason. But while that might be someone's reason to start a new hobby, I suspect that few if any people would be able to sustain a hobby they didn't actually enjoy.
I'm curious what you are going to use instead. I know Matrix is not perfect (and I would wait for some of the planned features to land), but the most commonly selected options have a lot more problems.
That example is quite common within academic context: most of the researchers and professors I know, who have a university homepage, use this.

I guess its because they do want legitimate people to reach them easily (students, collaborators etc) and if spams do go through — well they'd probably ignore it, just like they ignore other emails.
Similar to the port of Carthage: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Punic+Port/@36.8447107,10....
The "obsession" came about from all the problems with binary formats. Byte ordering. Unspecified signedness. Memcpy:ing structs with padding. Programmers micro-optimizing by choosing the smallest possible field size, and then you can't change it when it turns out to be too small. Format specs using WORD as if that's a well-defined size. Using int, long, etc, and assuming they are the same size everywhere.

It's a trade-off of CPU usage versus flexibility. It's not surprising that textual serialization formats took off together with managed memory languages.
Also, for simplicity we have added only those feature to it which was must needed for a project management.
Yeah, and not all past truths are known. You don't know the number of hairs on Aristotle's head, you don't know if the sea battle was going to be fought the day after tomorrow yesterday.
1 and 2 ring very true for me. Playing something where you have to bring every ounce of your intellectual power to bear in order not to be humiliated just isn't any fun.
Well in JS, it's called protocol
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/protoco...
The P.S. is unnecessarily personal, I won't edit it but hereby apologize for the harsh tone.

Other than that I suppose this is personal, since this seems to be the personal pet project of the author (and he constantly assumes a "we" as if multiple people were signing his rant).

And if you read my comments carefully, I never critizise the lack of solutions. My critic relies on the fact that he starts with very clickbaity "facts" which are then elaborated assuming that average joe is running his own homeserver and not knowing the tradeoffs of it. He then happily mixes up problems of any non-TOR messenger (of which matrix.org matrix is one...) and specific problems of running a matrix-homeserver with the recommended settings, using the vector.im phonebook (and apparently a bunch of these settings are bugs...).

Such as it stands, this is convoluted FUD. If he wanted to make a constructive contribution he might as well have stated the problems upfront (the current working matrix implementation relies on proprietary/centralized services) and then gone into a discussion of every problem step-by-step (and advertizing the very solutions he tries to sell). The problems of matrix/vector/riot are as real as Mozilla pivoting to the Firefox Service Company and integrating a host of proprietary tools, but the problem has deserved better than this rant...
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You create a project, paint an arrow in its image and then export the project to a flattened PNG file. GIMP rightfully complains when you try to exit because you didn't save the project. There's no format-pushing agenda behind it (like, WTF would that even want to achieve?), it's just common sense.

Basically, you're angry because GIMP doesn't optimize its UI for MS Paint use-cases. Trading "slightly better for basic usage" with "significantly worse for any other usage" is a bad idea for a software aspiring to be a professional utility.
>lithium [...] was discovered by accident.

No it was not. Development of treatment with lithium was very much a part of psychiatric normal science.
>This is the pattern that I have seen. The problem with much of the cases that I see on the news is that there is no accountability. Police forces are going to make mistakes, and that mistakes can be lethal. But, I do not see self-reflection or improvement.

This. You can blame about cars, tazers, unions, culture all you want (and those things certainly do affect the shape the problem takes) but as long as the police get to keep screwing up with no proportionate negative consequences and nobody to deliver said consequences nothing will change.
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It's particularly funny because they hired Guido (GVR) who is supposedly helping them migrate a million(s) lines of code py2->py3. Whereas a better solution in the long run would have probably been just rewriting the whole damn thing in Rust for all platforms.
You think reading paywall news makes you more successful? I would strongly suggest otherwise.
The thing I don't get, is, I'm using Git repos as source for my packages for years now, why can't everyone do this?
Again, an 11% increase. It's tiny. My point is that it's vastly outweighed by other effects, not that it literally does not exist.

I'm making the case that treating the specific energy/energy density of batteries as the end-all, be-all is foolish. I am not arguing that it is nonexistant, just not relevant.
British police are not a huge influence on politics at the moment, and the extreme weakness of local authorities makes them barely worth influencing; police salaries are set centrally.

There was an attempt to import the American system by establishing "police and crime commissioners". They are absurdly highly paid compared to most political appointments (especially councillors they replaced): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22624096 - but they remain pretty invisible in the news. My pet theory is they were created to establish a funding channel to Conservative party candidates.

All shootings by police are routinely investigated by the fairly independent IPCC.

(The one big exception to all this was the history of the RUC in Northern Ireland, which is a whole other story)
what do you mean by "at odds with the OS file system hierarchy"?

the file organization in a VS project can be totally abstracted from the underlying file structure, or it can be a 1-1 mapping. if I'm using a supported version control system, I might never need to care where the files live on disk. on the flip side, the fact that every file has a physical location mean I can also use whatever unsupported version control I want.

the OS filesystem is a pretty stable and relatively simple interface. I'm not sure how it could be made more intuitive without sacrificing flexibility.
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I'm giving it a whirl, the free trial is generous and pricing reasonable. I'll let you know how we get on.

edit: One immediate bit of feedback is that I can't seem to find any keyboard shortcuts.
For visual communication, I would suggest you giving Sketchnotes [1] a try. Definitely for formal communication of your software design, you will have to opt for those dull and dry diagrams, which I would add to an appendix.

As for handwriting, I think just practice everyday, write as much as you can. There are many workbooks that you can buy to do so, but nothing beats practice everyday. Before you start, it will be good to revisit your decision: cursive vs non cursive. And if you keep analog notebooks for your notes, to-dos etc, that will help you consistently practice.

Good luck!

[1] http://rohdesign.com
I'd think the insulation would be heavy. I like the idea of keeping old clothes out of the landfill, though.
See this article for an in-depth look at implementing these conversions: https://research.swtch.com/ftoa
You write "Nor I am talking about the 10th amendment".

Earlier you wrote "if the Constitution does not Grant the power to the Government then that power is Reserved for the States and the people".

That looks very much like the 10th Amendment, so how are you not talking about that amendment?

You interpret my views as: "it would give people like you the idea that if it was not forbidden by the bill of rights then it was fair game"

That is not my position. Privacy is not an enumerated right. I think there is an unenumerated right to privacy.

Since your summary of my views is not my views, I think you do not understand my position.

You write "Their own individual constitutions" prevented the US states from each being authoritarian governments.

What specifically of those constitutions prevented authoritarian governments?

How were many of the US state constitutions not authoritarian governments with respect to the rights of black people? In addition to slavery, I'll point to the Oregon constitution, which stated "No negro, Chinaman or mullato shall have the right of suffrage".

You write "Well that is revisionist history".

Pardon? You think the support for racial discrimination in the US was only based on Jim Crow laws, and required the support of the government to enforce?

I was specifically referring to personal viewpoints - individual liberty. Here's a concrete example, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#Conti... :

> There were white business owners who claimed that Congress did not have the constitutional authority to ban segregation in public accommodations. For example, Moreton Rolleston, the owner of a motel in Atlanta, Georgia, said he should not be forced to serve black travelers, saying, "the fundamental question [...] is whether or not Congress has the power to take away the liberty of an individual to run his business as he sees fit in the selection and choice of his customers".

Should Rolleston have had the liberty to reject black customers?

You viewpoint seems to be that if there weren't government laws supporting segregation, then there wouldn't have been a problem. But ... there were. The state constitutions allowed it. Hence the ridiculousness of only considering authoritarianism on the federal level.

You write "Entire Books have been written on the liberty we have lost", but I don't think you've grasped my question. I'll try again.

Earlier you wrote "it is sad we as a society has lost respect for indivualism and liberty".

This suggests that there was some point where we had respect for individualism and liberty.

When was this point?

Was it when we had slaves? Is it when women didn't have the right to vote? Is it when Native Americans were treated as wards of the government?

I fully agree that the War on Drugs is one of many things to "chip away at liberty". But we've also added to liberty. Your statement suggests that there was a lost golden era of liberty, which I strongly reject .. unless you were a rich, white, land-owning Protestant man.

When did we have respect for individualism and liberty?
You need to sleep at the time and duration that your feelings indicate to you

It's oversimplification. Those signals are dependent on light, among other things. And unless you live with no electricity they may fool you.
The existence of ETC says to me that ETH has the same problem, that is a bunch of power users can change the rules if they want to (if it is financially beneficial for them to do so). No different to a fiat currency controlled by the government.