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Islamophobia is a made up word designed specifically to silence criticisms of Islam without having to address them. No other religion has such a word or such protections.

Simply adding 'phobic' to a thing doesn't make it wrong. If Islam really is a violent expansionist religion which degrades women and excuses pedophilia, it would mean we ought to be Islamophobic and anyone who isn't is delusional.

This is up for debate, same as Scientology or Christianity or Communism or Nazism or any other religion or political ideology (noting that Islam is both a religion and a political system).

EDIT: Recommended book on the subject is Shahi Hamid's "Islamic Exceptionalism".

https://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Exceptionalism-Struggle-Islam...
> for a while

Not just a while. The US Patriot Act gave powers to allow border controls to hold people indefinitely without cause.
So then could I hook up a load to a Nest and have a regular, dumb thermostat control my house and get those credits without actually doing anything? That doesn't seem too hard to pull off.
Sure! I barely know what I'm doing, but this worked for me: https://github.com/wneuheisel/Kindle-Notes-Backup

Suggestions welcome!
It's not about being recognized as a tourist. It's about judging people by their actions, instead of how they look. All the other things mentioned are actions that could be considered rude or abrasive. Someone should not have to dress like you for you to treat them well, for that is the fault of the prejudiced.
Why not do it at carrier level? much simpler.

NSA could monitor all of us without installing any spyware.

China should improve its surveillance techniques!
Always tried to get around traveling to the US & mexico.. Lucky there is not much industry automation happening there anyway.
When you pay close to half your income in taxes and recieve few services other than roads I don't think it's fair to say that you aren't owed anything.
You would use it to talk to other amateur radio operators about amateur radio operating and amateur radio equipment, obviously.

The prohibition on encrypted content is a deal-breaker for me, and a lot of other people, who might otherwise want to experiment with connecting to the Internet from difficult locations.

But since the Internet runs on encrypted protocols now, using unencrypted amateur radio transmissions potentially means eavesdroppers and man-in-the-middle attacks, so you can't do anything sensitive or personal, or even anything requiring login credentials.

And since hams are very likely to narc, snitch, or grass on you to defend the sanctity and integrity of their hobby, you can't do anything interesting or unusual for long before someone finds a rule that forbids whatever it is you were doing and forces you to stop.
Since when did HN turn into /r/personalfinance?
You can splice a cassette but it's relatively inconvenient. Adding time to the medium is limited by the capacity of the case.
I have pretty much exactly this use case (think trading!).

I wrote a couple of hundred lines of vanilla JS. It works fine.
You do realize that you replied to the very same person that's presenting in that video, right? :)
I changed that to "stereotypical" tourist above, but I agree that this is still a bit harsh.

What I meant was that: if you are visiting a town in a foreign country, it would at least be polite to research beforehand how locals dress and what is considered rude, inappropriate or simply tasteless.
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>JT8, etc, have reduced "contacts" to a few bytes

I think you mixed up FT8 and JS8 there. :)

FT8 is the (effectively) zero-interaction DX mode. JS8 exactly the opposite-- a weak signal mode based on FT8 tailored for ragchewing.
So my middle class taxes are going to Amazon development.

I don't understand why there is no anti/limited government party in the (modern) United States. The two parties are both advocates for this kind of spending.

There doesn't seem to be any advocates for the masses.
What's funny about this is that Oracle has a long and colorful history of doing the exact same thing[1] that they are accusing AWS of doing in this case. It feels like Oracle is just unhappy that they got outmaneuvered at a game they practically invented.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-04-me-oracl...
Alright, looks like you (and this article) are right. Didn't know the context in which this was made.
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> Nuclear is expensive to build out, it needs investment.

It's not expensive, financially, compared to Solar and Wind.

But it is expensive politically. For whatever reason, Nuclear is toxic in the public's eye. To shift public opinion is not going to be cheap.

Some Nuclear plants were stopped before starting their energy generation due to the public opinion shifting against them.

> government is going to have to step up in a big way.

We have agreement on that but how that's done is difficult.
> the ideal marketing window came and went before the product officially launched, which certainly affected sales.

Definitely. I used to see that all the time in the games industry. Getting the right launch window is critical because most of a game's sales happen in the first few days of launch. And yet, games are famous for shipping months, even years late. They usually seem to make it work. I guess you'd be particularly hosed if you couldn't afford the burn rate for the extra X months it would take to get to a decent launch window.
Yes, that would justify the headline, but not the uncritical reporting. Any idiot looking at the graph can see the problem with choosing the last four years as the time frame. It's cherry picking to make it seem like a bigger deal than it is. Both scientists and journalists know better.
He seems to be like me: no matter how many times I read about quantum fields and quantum mechanics, I never seem to get it, and I read a different book on the same topic.
If they do make an API, it won't have very many of the features from the plugin's API. The plugin was based on the full-featured desktop version of Earth, not this limited web-based version.
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I personally support 3 entry level Linux admins / clouds engineers under me (1 well paid intern, 2 full time)

One was in college, one fresh grad 2-year degree, one with degree and 1 year experience.

But I need someone who's actually better than me to help with weird issues that you simply don't get in school... Like adjusting the DNS resolver process.. or dining out why gnome won't start in a virtual infrastructure (which most people don't even know where to start looking in logs)

So I'm very open to entry level people, but I need another experience person to help
> Is tail call elimination the same as tail call optimization? I know that schemes use this to keep the stack from blowing up during recursive function calls, and that currently the JVM, and by extension Clojure is not able to handle this.

Yes, the elimination of the tail call is the optimization.

FWIW, Clojure handles this through syntax, so recursive algorithms are generally implemented with loop/recur forms that don't blow up the stack (instead of having a function literally call itself): https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/loop
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Interesting! Are you guys switching to another EAV store like Datomic or something else?
For a 100 x 10 table i would think you can get away with updating all of it.
Let the "soap box brigade" commence!

I got introduced to Rich Harris via a podcast (not personally), but am a big fan of his perspective on JS. I think we can all agree that; if you don't like Svelte, then fine. If you love JSX/TSX - then great! If you're a Vue person, then awesome - its exactly what makes this community great - the diversity & innovation. Not the soap-boxing antics, polarised opinions & vilification of opinions that aren't congruent with your own.

As someone much wiser than me once said - "always bet on Javascript".
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Don't know enough physics to talk about the specifics of this particular experiment/research. But, it seems to me, that we live in the midst of the intersection of the "real" world and the mirror one. Similar to Newton's third law (action/reaction), for anything to exist (or make sense to us), the complement of that thing needs to exist too. For example, if there was only one color, there would be no colors, we need for two colors to exist so we can tell them apart. Things only make sense to us in contrast to what they are not.

Following the above concept, you could "split up" (conceptually) the world/universe into explicit complements and you'd have the universe and its mirror. And this is in fact a very old concept, very well illustrated by the yin and yang.
I assume you're referring to this form:
https://www.axistravel.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ONL...

Regarding email address, it's under "contact information" same as "home address". What's the problem?

Regarding social media, it says "optional", so...?
Telegraf is nicely done. We spent a lot of time testing solutions in our test harness (https://github.com/timberio/vector-test-harness) and Telegraf was the most impressive of the tools we tested, so kudos to the Influx team on that.

But to answer your question, telegraf is very heavily metrics focused, and their logging support appears to be limited (reducing logs to metrics only). Vector is _currently_ focused on logging with an eye towards metrics, but still has work to do on the metrics front.

For example, we opened the door with the `log_to_metric` transform (https://docs.vector.dev/usage/configuration/transforms/log_t...) to ensure our data model supports metrics, but we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to metrics as a whole. Our end goal is to eventually replace telegraf and be a single, open, vendor neutral solution for both logs and metrics.

Happy to clarify further :)
> I don't know anyone who would be able to answer that one accurately.

Of course, this is typical for dystopian governments. If everyone is technically guilty of a crime, and there is selective or variable enforcement, then you can justify the punishment that you want to mete out to specific people.
and this is exactly why I still drive a Ford Model-T.
Wish Erick could put them on edx.
Isn't it a bit silly to presuppose that what we have now is the best we are ever going to get. I mean, files were state of the art at one point, but i don't think anyone will suggest we go back to punchcards.

"Boring Technology" is the wrong thing to aim for. Aim for simplicity.
Is it worth pointing out that Himalayan Balsam is a major invasive species? Characterised as a 'nuisance plant'.

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I cannot imagine the staff it takes to pull this off. Most publications are not staffed nearly to levels that would make them able to even try to follow what's outlined here. This is pipe dream, and as someone in the industry it makes me question their staffing and funding levels, actually.
any chance I can get an invite? tracker1 at gmail
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I put 'right thing' in inverted commas because I know how slippery it can be.

Gui apps have defaults too, this isn't a problem unique to terminal apps. I'll go further and say GUI apps suffer more because they tend to design around a default and have many fewer non default options, in the name of being easy to use. Terminal apps on the other hand 'suffer' because they don't make enough assumptions about how it is to be used.

Suffer is very much in inverted commas though, sometimes you want to do that niche thing, and having something that makes no assumptions about how it will be used is great. On the other hand having to read a manpage for the simplest of things is not so great.
Oddly, it's a lot like Vue.js, except pre-compiled with a simpler syntax. Vue3 is about to make some syntax changes which will make Vue.js a lot like Svelte... :)
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Does that work for imported documents also, or only Amazon-purchased books?
The idea behind svelte is neat, i wonder though what the impact of its approach will be on a developers ability to understand what is happening under the hood. In my experience opaque abstraction layers can really hamper your ability to properly understand what is going on. Traditionally the JS ecosystem has been a frontrunner in this area (e.g. sourcemaps). But I have had terrible experiences in the Java ecosystem, with all its aspect weaving and annotation magic.
What about it? I'm also happy to stipulate former college football all-star Gerald Ford wasn't actually a klutz.
> Islamophobia is a made up word designed specifically to silence criticisms of Islam without having to address them. No other religion has such a word or such protections.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christophobia

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Judeophobia

What was that now?

I don't care if you have criticisms of Islam. But in the wake of the rise of stochastic terrorism especially among nationalist sentiments throughout the world, I do very much care about people echoing the same dog whistle arguments against Muslims on a thread where it's off topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
Code examples on the Svelte website look jacked... all I see is an alert icon + "loading svelte compiler"
I know. That's what the poster didn't like so I suggested an alternative.
> If it can be shown that Ubhi influenced the decision before departing for Amazon, then there are some serious legal problems in store for both Ubhi and Amazon.

Honest questions coming out of legal ignorance: isn't this just normal m.o. in the USA these days? Isn't that what "revolving door"[0] is all about? Is this really a legal issue for the participants in this scheme at-large? If not, what did the AWS hires do differently that was more egregious?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
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Interesting. Of course, there are some really sprawling counties out west, e.g. San Bernardino County.
It was the 1980s. Everyone had huge hair, huge shoulder pads and huge pockets.
>"China is using technology for the perfection of dictatorship." -Pete Buttigieg, 2020 US presidential candidate

PRC may be blazing the trail, but as the tech becomes proved and available, I won't be surprised to see creeping adoption in more "free" countries (especially following crises).
> The important part is not introducing an entirely new language that no one knows

> I don't know why anyone uses plain old Java anymore

You see, if we refuse to change, we can't ever get better.
You can also be deported if you kick us contractors from a US construction site and hire Canadians or Mexicans. Competition, only in small doses please.
I assume you're fine then with people inflicting as much violence on others as they want?
Others can chime in, but I believe that most serious companies doing business with China have a burner-device policy for employees travelling to China.

Your devices will all be hacked with industrial espionage malware, and just in case you don't have anything on those devices, you will be given devices as "gifts"—like flash drives and WiFi-equipped smart home devices--that will exploit any devices you didn't bring with you.

INAE, but I believe the usual policy is to accept the gifts but discard them at the first opportunity.
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If you're smart, and careful and plan well and don't try to cut corners, you'll be safe.

Chernobyl was hampered by design flaws [1] that can be pretty well avoided these days, and it's not like light water reactors are the only / best option, either.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-23-mn-15781-...
Patrick Collison is enormously well read and just generally an interesting thinker. That leads me to be interested in his curation of what books he thinks matter.
Nuclear is expensive in large parts because of the crazy rules and regulations around it. With nuclear you get the true cost + cost of bureaucracy

If we started actually calculating wind and solars true cost (ex. backup power by coal, oil, nuclear) then it too would be extremely expensive.

If we added the cost of decommissioning which isn't added to solar and wind but to nuclear then that would increase the price even more.
Are the cruise ships really the problem compared to tourists trying to stay in the city? The cruise ship visitors will crowd around the main attractions but at the end of the day they will go back on the ship and not compete with locals for housing.
The link is to the history of communism, not the theory. The history of communism in the 20th century is inextricably tied to totalitarianism. Whether this is because of the nature of communism or just because this particular communist movement was also totalitarian, they’re deeply connected. You can draw a pretty straight line from the totalitarian nature of the USSR to the behavior of the modern Chinese government. They opened up economically but the themes of political control continue.
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Probably encryption makes that harder
I'll raise you a windows service that communicates with Singleton .NET Remoting hosted with a WebForms 2.0 app or a WCF delivering SOAP service. Both talk via remoting to the windows service which talks an SQL Server choked with materialized views.

Is that boring? It certainly has some issues.
Until the utility upgrades to the next version of demand response software, which notices that you were sent a control message, but your consumption didn't change, so you're no longer eligible for the credit.
Not sure under which rock you were hiding all this time, so here you are:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48118558

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/05/01/u-s-customs-ca...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/warrantless-phone-laptop-searc...
In my opinion one of the best ways of injecting some new life into the community would be to let people take their test online.
As far as I'm aware Go doesn't return the exit status of a process the way Ruby and Python do. Surely this is a big disadvantage for CLI scripts?
That capability is truly scary. Once the ads are baked in and everyone has that capability, there will be no escape. It'll be worse when they DRM HTML itself and force the ads down our throat.

It feels like we've backslid by miles and miles since I first got on the Internet in the late 90's. I no longer like this Internet.
> several days without sleep

In my experience, lack of sleep is not required to induce burnout. The progression can be very gradual.
Somehow Sony made a cassette player that was barely bigger than a typical cassette case. You rarely see engineering like that.

Today electronics can be made smaller, thinner and so on, but this was a complex, intrinsically mechanical device. That's the amazing part. That player is like a well-made watch.

It was probably an off-shoot of their camcorder miniaturization efforts. Those got incredibly tiny considering they had to act like a VCR, helical head and all.

The sad thing is that as soon as Sony perfected the cassette player the CD was the popular medium and they had to do it all over again. When they perfected that MP3 showed up.

It's like how they made a perfect CRT and then flat panels hit hard.
Don't know the answers to your questions, though it seems the Visuals team produces work for daily stories, not just big features like special podcasts and series. They also produce a few projects that don't seem to originate from the radio/podcast side:

- What do Red and Blue America Have in Common? Craft Breweries and more: https://blog.apps.npr.org/2018/11/19/elex-18-districts.html

- Listeners' favorite albums: https://blog.apps.npr.org/2018/01/03/all-songs-considered-po...

- Visualization of redactions in the Mueller report: https://blog.apps.npr.org/2019/04/22/reading-between-redacti...

- Previously, on Arrested Development (an interactive database of AD's jokes and gags): https://apps.npr.org/arrested-development/

- Playgrounds for Everyone (a crowdsourced guide to accessible playgrounds): http://www.playgroundsforeveryone.com/

- Book Concierge (book recommendations): https://apps.npr.org/best-books-2018/
Not what I was expecting at all, I wish people dressed that well on vacation. I thought you were going to link to someting more like https://goo.gl/maps/AnzFYfXAuCDt2rDD8

That said, all of these measures you describe are a bit much. There are a million ways to tell that somebody's a tourist, are you going to pretend you're there to raise VC?

Edit: Parent's editing their comments a lot so mine makes no sense now, but they linked to https://img.budgettravel.com/_facebookShare/tourists-in-spai... as an example of tourist attire.
> islamophobic

That's rich, so pattern identification is bigotry now? The suffix "phobic" refers to an irrational fear. Nothing about his comment was indicative of irrationality.
At current rate of adoption it may be centuries, but I'm willing to bet that by the end of this century (possibly earlier) there will be a great deal more public pressure to revamp the underlying infrastructure. We could do it in a few decades if we decided to spend the capital on it, its ultimately a question of political willpower.

I do agree that fusion would be the ultimate form of power generation and would have the least impact on the current grid. But regardless, the future of energy generation is in diversity of sources.
Are you doing this by manual inspection or in some semi-automated or automated way? In any case, very nice work.
Isn't this reflected in the 10-second discrepency of decay they mention in the article?
We do what we can.

From our assessment, it looks like that was a complete mistake. And those do indeed happen. But what if someone were to have found it and were malicious, and started randomly mashing buttons?

That's why our jobs as sysads are never done. We occasionally do boneheaded stuff. Users also do. And so do contractors. And I'll do what I can when I see something wrong. Professional courtesy.
In the USA I thought the price already floated based on market rates.

Yes, absolutely this is the way to go. It works well for gasoline, for instance.