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This is an extremely silly article for a media outlet that claims to be about economics. Sure, home computers have come down in price, and sure, we didn't have smartphones in 1989.

But we all lived in houses in 1989, we all bought groceries in 1989 and cars, and a lot of us had jobs in 1989. Are those parts of life just not important enough for any consideration? All we need is a smartphone in these modern times, and smartphones and apps are all the economy depends on? Ridiculous. This article has crossed the line between "editorial" and "ignorant".
Nice clue. BTW there also is a chemical way to overcome this. A person given a sufficiently strong dose of MDMA will probably pass your test easily with a deep profound feeling he is performing an act of worship normal people can't understand as he would perceive everything as a manifestation of love (the rational part of the mind does not get disabled however, so he won't go kill somebody out of love, it's not this dangerrous). As far as I know scientists are exploring the potential of MDMA to dissolve mental complexes and trauma.
"Why don't we start our lives together by blowing obscene amounts of money on a party?"

"Great idea!"

Is that how the conversation goes? I'm genuinely curious...
>It's against their business interest to create a product that works with their competitors.

There's more to it than a simplistic "business interest" to explain it.

For example, the Signal protocol is free to use. No payments for patent royalties or software licenses required. Moxie Marlinspike's company Signal LLC (Open WhisperSystems) is a non-profit entity.

But notice that an organization that isn't pressured into making a profit and that's using an underlying free protocol -- does not want to federate with LibreSignal[0].

This an example of where the "openness of a protocol" runs into a hard reality of "closed wall of implementation". The protocols themselves can cost $0 but implementations (e.g. cpu+disk+bandwidth+staff) cost more than $0 which leads to complaints of it being "not really open".

If people do not examine the economic forces surrounding any protocol, they will always be perplexed why the internet is not as free & open as they think it should be. Even non-profit entities are not immune from economic forces.

[0] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
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drink mango juice, it'll ease the pain
I've been brought into projects as a senior developer to try to revitalise the project and get it back on track after a catastrophe or a failure to produce, and I always recommend, straight off the bat, put down your tools and go be a user for a day/week/month, until you understand what you're doing and have a stable point around which to orient the rest of the chaos in the project.

It has always worked. Software projects (hardware too of course) get off the rails when too much time is spent in the woods and not enough time enjoying the trees. Get out there and use what you've made - you'll see what you need to do after assuming the perspective of a user for a while ..
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Realnames. It was entirely Realnames on launch.

Realnames Realnames Realnames.

Realnames stopped people joining just at a point where Facebook was being incredibly shitty.
"...You know, I know that this steak doesn't exist...After nine years, do you know what I've realized? ...Ignorance is bliss."
> It is their duty and responsibility to give back

You cannot decide what other people's legal duty or responsibility is if they hadn't entered a voluntarily agreement with you. And moral duty should never be imposed by violence - it's always up to individual moral choice.

> To say otherwise is, effectively, to say that it's OK to want everyone beyond the walls of your castle to starve.

No. To say otherwise is to value individual choice and responsibility over the dictate of the masses.
That's not 'like a downpayment' that is a very healthy down payment!
A zero heap allocation _anything_ in the JVM? Probably impossible
But I don't understand. You just said "most" of these don't work. Turns out "most" is 1.

And you keep posting after this?
Not sure I really follow the "cost of beer" thing. One of the merits of high income high expenses is that "luxury" spending is relatively affordable in the long run, because your discretionary income is a larger absolute number.

On the other hand your time becomes more expensive. But since most medium income medium expenses locations means less opportunities to do other things with other people that isn't always a good trade-off. Unless those other people are your family, in which case it tends to make sense.
(Memory) safety and correctness are orthogonal issues. If I'm building a missile's aiming system, I absolutely want correctness. But if I run a web service on the cloud I care more about an attacker taking control of my machines than about another kind of bugs. Same if I deploy
a fleet of connected devices to thousands of consumers' houses.

Computers are all around us, and they are a security nightmare, less because of their lack of correctness than because of their lack of safety. That's why Rust is important.

Formal proofs and tools like Ada are important too in their own domain, and Rust isn't competing with them (yet at least, I know there are some people would like to develope something akin to Spark for Rust adding best in class correctness tools to Rust's toolkit).
That kind of expense sounds outrageous to me. we married in the czech republic (we lived in austria at the time, now in germany - both border CZ) & I believe the bill ended up being around €5-6k which our parents on both sides wanted to split between them (we could have paid for it ourselves had they not).

partially its because it's just plain cheaper there but a lot of it is just how freaking overboard some people go with weddings!
Look into the history of the "philanthropic" income tax deduction.
These two laws seems to target immigrant minorities. I thought Canada was a welcoming country for immigrants. Maybe not.
This is a very good way to put it. When I switched to a bad manager, everything was an emergency, every day.
I hope I’m wrong but my guess is payment/lending networks.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona.

Phoenix itself - that is, the "Metro Phoenix" area - doesn't really supply agricultural products, but Arizona in general does, and has a very large and diverse set of climate zones which allow for this.

People tend to think of Phoenix and Arizona in general to be one giant wasteland desert - when nothing could be further from the truth.

Can you find such areas in Arizona? Certainly (but really, they aren't "wastelands" - just really hot and dry areas, but even so, there are plants, insects, and animals around). But there are far more diverse areas climate-wise in the state.

And many of these areas have been or still are large producers of various agricultural products.

Arizona is historically known for it's "5 C's":

https://azlibrary.gov/collections/digital-arizona-library-da...

Three of which are ag-based (cattle, citrus, and cotton).

Finally, this:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yuma-lettuce_n_6796398

...which has had it's downsides and issues recently, but things like that happen and are sorted out.
I've supported multiple Patreon campaigns, and i didn't recognise this logo. It's not featured prominently on their homepage and mailings. Calling something that looks like a simple oversight 'a red flag for dishonesty' sounds a bit unfair to me.
at least you get to keep the car or house.

as an aside, I've been to a few very expensive weddings and one thing that always gets to me is the food. it's usually some very fancy looking steak or seafood dish that tastes totally bland. I can tell it cost a lot of money per plate just to buy the ingredients but it never tastes good. I'm sure if you did something like burgers or pizza, it could be delicious and possibly even cheaper, so why do they do this? is everyone else in on some big game of pretend high cuisine? is it for the pictures?
People are just mad that it's Facebook doing this and probably succeeding where Bitcoin failed.
I'm sure you know, but for the people down-voting you: You often have to kill dogfish when you pull them up because they have poisonous spines on them and you don't want to get pricked while they're thrashing around.

I've never done deep sea fishing, but when fishing with my grandpa he'd cut them up and use them as crab bait, which seemed like a good use for them to me.
You have a working playground and have briefly released a binary. At the very least the second qualifies as a distribution, an important event when we are talking about F/OSS. Your language is therefore still proprietary.

Many current programmers think F/OSS as a norm and proprietary (released or not) as exceptionally shady. Even though some may think proprietary software is acceptable, something being F/OSS is a label with the non-trivial amount of value. Your act can be interpreted as claiming that value without actually being F/OSS, no matter what was your intention.
I have a feeling 99% of these homes they are referring to are condo's in Vancouver and Toronto (VAN,YYZ are the condo building capitals of NA). A lot of these units are owned buy foreigners or as investment properties. According to a real estate friend, some Chinese have purchased entire floors of these buildings to park capital fleeing China. I know that many buildings in downtown Toronto can be up to 50% AirBnb rentals.

Coincidentally, I spoke with someone on the weekend who can't take it anymore and wants to sell their unit or put it to work as an AirBnb because of the amount of prostitutes, drug dealers, etc using the building as short term rentals through AirBnB.

Canada really needs to get a grip on foreign ownership. 10's - 100's of billions of capital outflows over the last decade from China, Hong Kong, Iran, etc have created a tough environment for the local population. Co-op's could possibly solve this problem by creating rules where short term rentals, foreign ownership, etc are not allowed. Although it's tough to get a mortgage for a co-op condo.
She* :)

I would agree that the concepts are relevant to all. Certain parts may be more difficult for those in varying circumstances, but I think the core principles are still valid:
1) Iterating until you find a "good" path
2) Working towards that "good" consistently
Any couple that decides to borrow money for a party probably isn't going to make it very far in life.
This is amazingly common unfortunately
> In nature, a person cannot have infinite wealth.

In nature, most of children die in infancy, might makes right, murder rates are sky-high and starvation is a constant threat.

So, if anything, using "in nature" is working against your case, not for it.

> The idea that someone can have as much wealth as they want

Nobody can have as much as they "want" - but everybody should be able as much wealth as they have acquired through any kind of lawful exchange.
We know for sure that permafrost is melting rapidly.

Observed maximum thaw depths at our sites are already exceeding those projected to occur by 2090 under RCP 4.5.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...
here isn’t even a single long word in German for “hurt feelings,” they just translate the English directly (verletzte Gefühle)

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> It reminds me of the words "cromulent"[2] and "embiggen"[3]; coined by The Simpsons but used in everything from BBC articles to scientific research.

popularized by the simpsons, at least cromulent was a valid english word before the episode, I don't think embiggen was.
They were talking about bugs and correctness generally. CVEs are an extremely biased population of such things, and most types of bugs and incorrectness will never show up in a CVE.

Keeping planes from crashing and bank accounts correct matter too. Rust solves a subset of memory safety problems but it is not a programming language for high assurance applications and in that context enables many other types of unsafe behavior.
I imagine the conversation begins "well, my parents/friends expect ..."
Where we are in Fife seems to have a thriving bee population - I wonder if its because there is no arable farming in the immediate vicinity (its all cows and sheep) - its probably over 10km in the direction of the prevailing wind before you get to anywhere that is intensively farmed.
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I don't think there is a conversation. A shocking number of people get married without discussing critical things like finances, or whether they want children, first.
Yeah ... HHGTTG is like a super extended standup routine or vaudeville act. Reading for "coherence" or "an idea" is missing the point.
They're using Webkit, yes, but I guess it's highly customized. The performance is so much worse than Chrome and FF

It's even possible to create pages in a way that reproducibly freezes and crashes Vivaldi. Their rendering process handles pages with many elements and multimedia objects very poorly.
People living on the correct side of mountains are probably situated pretty well compared to people in shallower regions where rainfall will become rarer. Parts of Africa currently have some of the worst droughts ever. These are the regions the we will probably loose first.

A while ago I was certain that we could need more hydroelectric power stations... well, if the rainfall can replace melt water...
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I love mango juice drink, i read it before consuming it
> My refusal to use Facebook means that I tend to miss out on a lot.

Like what? I'm in my 20s--
I haven't used Facebook in 10 years and I have never once had the feeling from my interactions with other people that I had missed out on something.
I hear that. I wish I could deploy Nextcloud at my company. We have plenty of resources and storage. Not paying per user per month would be so so so nice.
> not whether or not it exists

It seems that you're trying to frame my argument as if I wanted to abolish the state completely, but I have said nothing of the sort. Just as you're saying, the question is, in what form should the sate exist. And my answer is, in the most minimal form required to uphold the things that no other institution can.
>Of course, China cannot do anything to Apple without US retaliating.

Not really the main reason. Apple has an extremely good relationship with China, and has been helping them from NAND, Glass, Battery, Display, Plastic, to every other form of components up to speed and quality.
I think your analogy is a major reach, but just to run with it:

That reminds me of catlike movement (very graceful, very limited impact and noise) versus doglike (lots of movement and noise, bouncing up and down).

And as it turns out, dogs use much less energy walking than cats do. Loud “doglike” typing isn’t necessarily a sign of inexperience, it’s actually energy-efficient and comfortable.

I’ve never had RSI but I seriously fear it suddenly striking whenever I have to use one of those super-flat Apple keyboards.

Or along similar lines: most if not all piano/keyboard players (I’m fairly sure, anyway) prefer weighted keys. Why do you think that is? It’s not just so you can play loudly or softly; a digital piano can be pressure-sensitive without having a weighted response.
"Margin trading is akin to gambling"

It is no more akin to gambling than simple trading is akin to gambling. The only difference is that funds are also borrowed, which in this case means it was borrowed plus fraudulently obtained funds. And he was likely extra desperate, as most pyramid schemes usually are, taking extra risks because he really needed to make it whole again.
"wouldn't be caught dead" is pretty strong language to be using when you're only suggesting that compensation isn't as good as it could be, which I'd have to disagree with anyway. Outside of SV startup funbux, the salaries, insurance, and retirement benefits I've seen for public sector postings have been at least competitive with other local business.

I think the real issue is the "work environment" aspect you're talking about. The public sector jobs I've worked have not been keen to chase resume-padding fads and have generally much preferred sensible and simple solutions to the complicated over-engineering that is commonly fetishized of our industry.

Anyway, my point about you being the problem is that you're unwilling to put up with whatever you see as the inadequacies of working for local government. You wouldn't be caught dead doing so, in your own words. You care far more about your own personal wealth enrichment than your community, so is it any wonder you end up with a government that isn't any good?
> You can get an Octopus without an ID, but most people have their primary octopus linked to their ID for one of the following reasons: ... linked to credit card for automatic top-up

When did that become a thing? I've always known Octopus to be cash only. Can non-resident foreigners also top up by CC?
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Too bad neither Microsoft, Google or Apple ever heard about those tools…
#1 global manufacturer for whom? If China manufactures products for America and the Americans are making sure the products pass quality control under American standards and you're buying the American product, not the Chinese one then clearly China can still lack trust despite being a #1 global manufacturer. The Chinese are absolutely awful at establishing brands and exporting their products directly under that Chinese brand but at the same time they are widely successful within their own country.
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Yes, London’s population shrunk into the late 80s as people moved out of city centres but the South East grew very quickly in the postwar era - more than offsetting this effect. Since the 90s, both have been growing.
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ActivityPub (AP) has the advantage of running on top of HTTP. You don't have to convince people to install a new browser. All the tools that communicate over AP run on familiar technologies. The hardest part is convincing people to make an account, so most growth is from people following friends--the key incentive--to Mastodon instances. It's not a big problem in practice. Monoculture concerns aside.

AP doesn't have to run on HTTP, but any alternative has the same problem as anything else that needs its own client. Even browser support for FTP is on the way out, and it used to be standard.
Yeah, the NASA article says, "it will be the weakest of the last 200 years." It does not say, "it will last 200 years". Those missing words between "will" and "last" are rather crucial.
This article may be interesting as trivia, but the nuance of many of the words mentioned is so different from the literal translation that it doesn't make much sense.
Yup, and I described my experiences with them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20232444

Also, my taste for un-melodicality tends to cause trouble in this department.
I hate the 2-day book "Lambo guy", but this has nothing to do with him. Edit: "Hate" is giving him too much credit, but I do think he is profiting of fooling already confused and lost people.

I learned some important lessons in life from fiction books, which quite literally changed my life.

Good fiction reflects reality - that's why authors like Branden Sanderson will always be a complete joke, they don't understand anything meaningful "irl".
Do these things matter to most users? The non engineers at my work have never complained about slack.
I’ve always known that so-called “smartphones” are instruments of the devil. Anything containing such immoral temptations is a blight on the world and now we have a whole generation of horned satan-spawn as a result.

This is why I only check hacker news on a desktop pc.
Chances are I'll be upgrading to a Ryzen 3000 this year. Now that I think about it the last time I ran an AMD CPU was indeed the K7.
IMO, HTTP and HTML are counter-examples to the statement 'There’s no money to be made in creating and building on open protocols.' because they're open protocols that have attracted a great deal of money, and plenty of people creating and building on them.
Completely agreed. It's because the name sounds like it's referring to the company instead of a product.

I'm happy to use Gmail, which comes across as its own thing, but I might be a little bit more reluctant to use Google mail. I'm happy to use YouTube, but Google YouTube? I don't know.

Internet companies' names tend to refer to their flagship product, and become synonymous with it. But when they release other things with their name in front of it, like Google plus, it just sounds corporate.
> NOAA indicates that the global ice levels are increasing

Your link does not appear to actually indicate that.

> ice is growing in areas that previously did not host such a large amount of ice before

That's not as good news as you think.

https://qz.com/1249126/a-new-study-on-increased-snowfall-in-...

> It may sound odd to hear news of more snow during a time when scientists keep uncovering more evidence that polar ice caps are melting, raising sea levels around the world. But it makes sense, and it’s not a good sign for the Earth. Warmer temperatures mean more moisture in the air, which creates better conditions for snow over Antarctica. So really, this is a sign of the same climate problems causing droughts, storms, and floods.

> A 2012 study published in the journal Nature suggested more snow correlated with an increase in the rate at which ice breaks and floats away.

Large portions of Antarctica are desert because it's too cold to snow there year-round. Snow in those regions is not a good sign.
I'm planning a wedding and we're taking a decidedly non-traditional route. Because we both grew up on the internet, our friends are scattered across the seven continents. Having a wedding would mean most of them wouldn't be able to come.

Our solution: courthouse wedding (cost of, whatever, the cost of a marriage license). Then, three or four parties in different parts of the world. Each one might set us back, oh, $500 or $1000 if we have to rent a cheap space or hire a DJ, but we'll supply some snacks and booze and let friends bring the rest.

Total cost, including travel (because we can crash with friends once we're somewhere) will probably be $5,000 for several parties spaced out over several months, and everyone gets to celebrate with us. We also throw bangers, so this gives all our mates a night to remember, wherever they are.
How many programs have you worked on that were high assurance programs?
Chinese-American

The stuff mostly propagates out of the depths of the youtube recommended video hellhole preying on older folk who doesn't understand the internet (what else is new)

If you are interested in setting down to look more into it I'd recommend you start by looking into Guo Wengui, and his youtube channel in particular, at the very least I know for a fact that's how my relatives first went down this route. He does regular political videos that spin anti-CCP and pro-Trump.
I’m the one with the idea that they don’t kill people. You’re the one who kills them because they are predators of livestock, which is what the article is about.
Same. Very disappointed something like that takes so long to fix.

It's the kind of bug that makes you question if the developers actually use their own browser.
In something like a TCP/IP stack correctness is strongly related to safety. For example, it could be perfectly memory safe, but deliver packets to the wrong address, allow other programs to read all traffic, or allow easy denial-of-service attacks.
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Well, I've been saying Snapchat can't possibly be worth $29bn when it did IPO. And surprise, it lost most of this value. Snapchat is a lot like Slack - it's a feature, not a product. Once Facebook copied the feature, Snapchat was doomed. Same will happen with Slack (in this case I think MSFT will be its undoer).