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> In my opinion, it's not really worth it to back up books from your Kindle

Use-case: I have bought books from other vendors, converted them to epub format, copied them via Calibre onto my Kindle reader. - I made lots of annotations in those books on my Kindle reader. Does it not make sense to back those books up?
You may not know this, but the Constitution guarantees the same rights to foreigners on US soil as it does to US citizens. (This is a pretty basic part of civic education, but civic education in the US these days is terrible.)

So, no, I would not be OK with the government violating the Constitution.
Right, and where are children going to step on bees?
And https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/GlobalWarming/pag... gives attempts to extrapolate back farther.
The default settings to remove/add spaces between paragraphs amounts to destroying the original formatting.

KF8 is a proprietary wrapper around a regular EPUB file.
I definitely agree with that. If you look at how HN does any individual thing, it's almost always "wrong", but it really doesn't matter. It's become (and stayed) a thriving community for over 10 years anyway, and almost nobody knows or cares how any of it works.

My favorite example is probably how the "AJAX" voting works: when you vote, the Javascript creates a new <img> tag with the src= attribute set to the vote endpoint, so when the browser tries to load that "image" it does a background request.

It's the kind of dirty hack that hasn't been necessary for an extremely long time and could be replaced with a proper method in minutes, but nobody even notices that's how it works.
Very, apparently. Would anyone care to explain?
Fair enough, I guess you're right.
Yes! We're working on the calendar integration :) We find that several business users will omit calendar because of privacy or because they don't keep them up to date, but power users of GCal would love this I think
I think it depends on the city. I've lived in the Bay Area, New England, and Dallas. For NYC and SF that's definitely but for Dallas it is not. NYC and SF almost go out of their way to make cars difficult. But Dallas was developed with cars in mind and is rather weak in public transit. I can see a car like this working OK in Dallas, depending on the availability of chargers.
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The battery isn't supposed to be impressive. It is not for travelling salesmen or Americans. Honda have done their research and they know how far most people drive most of the time.

It is also worth remembering that many in their target audience are in two car households. So there is still the big car to visit the grandparents with.

This is not an e-Golf competitor. The e-Golf is a compliance car that is hard to actually buy. Dealers don't stock them.

This car is designed from the ground up as an EV, it is not an ICE car where the gearbox has been replaced with batteries - that is what the e-Golf is.

The EV options are not actually that huge post 2020. Most people are not in the Tesla price bracket. If you watch any car show there will be plenty of models that are new and do not have an EV option. There are grand promises from all of the different makes but when it comes down to it, in the UK (target market for the Honda) there is just Tesla that can deliver a nice new car to your specifications in four weeks. Other than that you can get a Nissan Leaf with the smaller battery pack in four weeks. For anything else you are looking at 3 to 6 months. The Korean wonders are even further out, eighteen months for them. That means 2020.
Oracle has direct cloud Iaas, PaaS, etc. offerings, and among AWS’s offerings are cloud RDB offerings that compete with Oracle licenses (including derivatives of Oracle MySQL.)

They are absolutely competitors in the spaces of each firm's core business.
Unless you need EV you can just pull some wildcards from Lets Encrpt (as long as you don't use pubkey pinning). No need to automate as it's just a one off.
Actually yes I would. What we see now as abhorrent may and will change in the future. The images you are describing obviously make my stomach churn, but how long will it be until they are scanning to deny access to anyone they want to. For example...."Oh it looks like that is a Jewish ceremony." Once this door opens, it can be used for so many other evil things.
Fannie Mae's "jumbo loan" policy means you have to pay huge money down and also prove that you have enough in the bank to fund like 6 months of payments.
I'd wager that they have a enterprise certificate to sign the iOS app with. Then it's a matter of sending the spy victims to a URL, installing the app and granting access to photos/ location/ whatever.
No, you can't build safe abstractions in C++. The language lacks the ability to enforce memory safety. Every abstraction you can come up with will have some way to subvert it. In Rust, the abstractions can't be broken without using unsafe, which application logic should never use.

This isn't just a theoretical distinction. Empirically, Rust programs have far fewer memory safety problems than C++ programs do.
Curious if a graph like this has been produced considering fractal dimensions? Or would that just be nonsense?

I see "We are here" and think...well, sorta, but if the graph were continuous we're at exactly (3.0,1.0) or so it seems.
Sounds like marketing needs to be agile
Oh sweet pea, don't forbid yourselves from having children because of climate change. :( Your family can still live a conscious life, and you get to rise the most awesome climate change fighters the world has ever seen!
If you mean warming up your car by idling before you drive off then yes, that advice is rather stale.

First, by idling you only warm up the engine, oil and coolant. By the time you drive off your gearbox oil is still cold, as are the driveshafts, CV joints, differential, and your brake fluid.

Lots of new cars have something called a cold start where for the first minute or two they run very rich, burning excess fuel to get the catalytic converter and exhaust up to temperature as quickly as possible for emissions reasons.
> If you want this behavior why not use local storage instead?

My guess would be that the decision was made before a standardized, widely available cross-browser implementation of localstorage was a thing.
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Most forms of technolibertarianism are just feudalism with gizmos.
"June was hottest month ever recorded on Earth after we did 'adjustments' to data to remove the Medieval warm period" was probably too long of a title

https://realclimatescience.com/2018/12/erasing-the-medieval-...
Screen reader users might disagree with you.
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If Superhuman announced they were going to remove the tracking pixels instead of doubling down on defending them, they might have turned all this negative publicity into a benefit. They may have already missed the window for doing that though.
How many terrorists have entered US territory through an airport with a beheading video on their phone and then carried out an attack on US soil?

Answer: approximately zero

How many terrorists would be deterred by this policy?

Answer: none

How many ordinary people would be more likely to carry out attacks or harbour resentment towards the USA because of policies like these?

Answer: more than 0
Yeah I was going to say, I'm sure the polyfill shouldn't be entirely horrible...
And those are opt-in, I hope. Otherwise it's unsolicited commercial email, in other words, spam.

Superhuman is an email client based on Gmail, so it's not only to send commercial emails to people that have agreed to receive commercial emails from you (and you've hopefully gotten them to opt-in to your privacy terms as well).
Why would you need a USB-C port when most USB-C cables have a USB-A connection at one end? The HDMI port seems odd though.
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This is true, and an arbitrary stance like certain videos on your phone prevent entry into the US isn't appropriate. But at the same time, any country reserves the right to deny entry based on reasonable criteria. It's just a question of what those criteria are, and how much access the state should have to search someone upon entering.
You put it in the lease. The owner is not responsible for the personal belongings of the tenant. Your lawyer or broker should be able to assist you with the language or if you're on your own there are example leases online - though personally I'd run all contracts by a lawyer. It only costs a few hundred bucks and you have a sample lease you can use again and again (reuse FTW!)
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Great news for the bees! In related news, I was just reading about a number of councils in the UK leaving roadside verges to flower, saving them money and encouraging wildlife to flourish.

Would be great to see more of this in towns and cities too, new developments that cover an entire area with concrete and a few token trees/shrubs are not a good long term outcome for anyone. I guess it comes down to how much a planning authority can enforce both the implementation and long term upkeep of 'wild' spaces by the private developers and management companies.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48772448
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Allows at the month level.
Creeping thyme works fine in the Twin Cities metro, at least. It grows very well in our yard, and it's all over our neighborhood.

We also have a big bunch of yarrow planted in our hellstrip. It grows great in those tough conditions. We don't even water it, and it's always full of bees and other bugs.
How do you like agile at Pivotal? I'm curious, they have some really strongly heard opinions about how to do agile correctly.
Good thing you're the final arbitrator of that, here to tell us how it is.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the app is a visa requirement while visiting.
As per Marx and other early socialist/communist philosophers in the mid-late 1800's, socialist was generally voluntary and supposed to be a bottom-up movement. Don't confuse human, power-hungry implementations with the underlying philosophy. Plenty of democratic countries in Europe skew socialist to some degree - no boom-sticks required to 'keep people in line'
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How does giving your cats to a friend relieve you of the burden they place on the planet? It seems like you're just passing the buck in that instance.
I've found that you seldom get any deep level Linux admin training in schools. They all teach fundamentals, the seven layer cake^W OSI model, how http works, stuff like that. If you're lucky, they cover /var/log/messages, a few basic commands, then dive deep into stack traces or something else programmer-centric. Then again, I'm mostly self taught and have 10+ years experience. BTW, debugging Docker just sucks. I'm looking for better tools for that.
From the original post: "(I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library.)"
Have you actually been to Oakland?

There are a lot of homeless people here for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons is that the 'progressives' you call out aren't making homelessness illegal. They aren't making laws against pan handling, and sleeping on sidewalks. They're not trying to bus these people away to other cities.

Oakland and other cities are doing their best to own the homeless problem and provide support to these people where they are. They've built 'tuff-shed' communities, set up sites with showers and services, recently opened a space dedicated to people living in RVs...

Are they perfect? Do they solve the problem? No. But the city of Oakland is trying to solve a problem that should not be reasonably expected to be solved by a city. This problem is bigger than Oakland - and I think the city should get credit for making the investments they do to try and help.

If every other city was doing the same thing, homelessness would probably not be the big problem it is.
I agree with you, the important is that everyone reduce their environmental fingerprint (less consumption, this is what pull production and all the pollution)

Our planet could welcome 10 billions 'respectful' persons with a low fingerprint. But it already can't support most of the 3 billions first-world people with very high fingerprint

You can still have one child, and raise him well, in a non-consumerist way
Yep, and they could easily find volunteers to improve the site (make the login page look nicer, maybe even implement 2fa) but there's no incentive to improve
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The Xerces Society has pollinator-friendly plant lists for a variety of region in the US: https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/plant-lists/

They're named after a butterfly that used to live in the Sunset District of San Francisco, and went extinct because a city was built on their habitat.
I've seen it as part of the lease terms/requirements.

Generic copy/pasta from a few searched netted me this to put in the lease terms to refute your responsibility for their loss.

>LESSEE is responsible for his own insurance on personal property. LESSOR shall have no liability for loss, damage or destruction thereof. Lessor
may remove and store at the expense of the LESSEE all property found contained herein, after move-out or abandonment of the unit by LESSEE.

Follow it up by a preface under the "Use and Care of the Premises"

>Said premises shall be used by LESSEE solely for residential purposes. Further, LESSEE shall not permit any unlawful or immoral practices to be committed upon the
premises, including, but not limited to, drinking by persons under the legal age of twenty-one, selling tickets to parties where drinking by persons under the legal age of
twenty-one may occur or the use of a controlled substance by any person may occur wherein that substance or substances is bought, sold or given gratuitously, nor use the
premises in a manner which is offensive, noisy or dangerous which may result in an increase of the insurance rate thereon. Further, the use of the premises by LESSEE
shall be in a manner consistent with the rights of other residents of said building in accordance with any Federal, State or local laws or ordinances so as not to cause undue
disturbance. Nor to allow any other persons to occupy premises hereby rented, excepting casual visits of friends or guests to a two (2) day stay. NO OTHER PERSON(S)
SHALL OCCUPY SAID PREMISES FOR MORE THAN TEN DAYS, IN TOTAL, DURING THE TERM OF THE LEASE.

Key part of that statement I found was

>nor use the
premises in a manner which is offensive, noisy or dangerous which may result in an increase of the insurance rate thereon.

Just my two cents, I am not a lawyer
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Wow, maybe a VPN I would actually trust and pay money for. IIRC wasn't cloudflare also doing a VPN service? Was it going to be free?
Momondo.com does it,
Cheaptickets.de as well.

Whenever I talk to my friends from the States I get the feeling no one compares flight prices. Most of them book with 'their' fav airline of choice without comparing different options.
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This isn't actually true. The majority of constitutional rights apply to foreigners, but some don't.

https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/t-he-constitutional-rights...
I completely agree with you, I'm not a fan of them either. Those cars are designed to blend into the crowd, that's why they sell so many of them. But crowd-pleasing designs like that are quite difficult to develop. So why make a polarizing car your EV flagship? Is it so they can later say "oh well it didn't sell very well, EV must not be worth it"?
The individuals being detained would not be permitted to leave the camps to simply go elsewhere. As per Section 1325 of Title 8 in the U.S. Code, they have committed a crime and are being detained on that basis.
Nope.. the user would also have to open Settings and explicitly mark the vendor certificate as trusted.
Having been on both ends of this (developer and user), I've seen all kinds of reasons that bug reports drop off, after the first couple years, that have nothing to do with software quality improving. A few actual examples I've seen:

- I reported 5 bugs, and they were all ignored, so I'm not going to report any more now. It'd just be a waste of my time.

- I reported a bug, and in the process of fixing that, the developer broke something else even worse. (In one case, it turned a "delete some" button into a "delete all" button which caused a minor catastrophe for all users.) Now I want the developer to not touch anything. I know what little bugs exist in the system, and I've come up with my own ways to work around them, thank you very much.

- As a consequence of some other bug fix, it came to light that the developer has no backups. (I don't have sufficient pull to fix that underlying problem.) I want the developer to not touch anything.

- The users aren't the buyers, and it's easy for the buyers to know where to report bugs, but that information is hidden from the users. As a result, all of the bugs that cropped up during demos (for or by C-level execs and VPs) are fixed, but nothing beyond that.

- We brought on new users, and they don't know that the software is custom built (2 months ago!), so they don't know it's possible to file bug reports. Or they don't know where to report them. Or they're afraid it's going to be onerous. Whatever the reason, they think this program has always been around and can't be changed.

- Maybe the process really is onerous. One company has gotten increasingly naggy about all bug reports including a 1/2GB blob of logs and other PII that takes several minutes to generate. Even when I just want to report "there's no way to do X, and there should be a way to do X", I get nagged 3 or 4 times to include this diagnostic blob, and it's implied that my bug won't get much attention without one. I only rarely report bugs to that company these days.

- Since the early days of a popular website, the keyboard shortcuts were supremely annoying. In the interests of being supportive of that great new venture, I only reported issues which caused the system to be completely unusable. Later, when the major issues had been ironed out and people did report that stealing and remapping all the standard OS text editing keys was maybe not the nicest thing to do, we were told the system was 3 years old already and by now someone else "would surely complain if it was an annoying problem".

In other words, everyone from users to developers comes to depend on the status quo. The softness of software is a benefit during initial development, but mostly just a liability later. We value the status quo even more than quality.
I had a friend who did it in the early 2000's. I say "had" because we drifted apart and haven't spoken to each other in close to 20 years. After we both graduated as EE's, she worked as an engineer for a few years then decided it was time to do something else. She wanted to be a surgeon so she went back to school to become a Surgical Assistant to get enough experience to decide if she would like doing the work.

Last time I spoke to her, she had her MD and was working as a Pediatrician and really liked the work. IIRC, her decision to skip the whole surgeon thing was mainly due to the additional years it would have taken to complete education/training.
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"powered by a rear-mounted electric motor delivering approximately 150 PS (110 kW)"

If like me you wondered what a PS was

"Pferdestärke - German for horsepower, equal to metric horsepower and sometimes referred to as 'continental horsepower'"

http://www.statman.info/conversions/power.html
Wow, what is your new business worth now? Such unique technology
The medieval warming period was isolated to the upper Atlantic and not global. The earth is much hotter globally than that time. Also, realclimatescience is a denial blog. I mean look at all that lovely political commentary.
You are looking at electricity generation, not energy. Electricity production is a subset of energy and that's kind of my point.

We get these rosy images of how far we are with renewables when in reality once you dig into it you realize we are nowhere near anything that can replace our current primarily fossil based system.

We don't appreciate how much fossil fuels are making our lives more livable and how little alternatives add to this livability.

I understand the potential CO2 emission risk etc, but we are safer because we use fossil fuels, not despite of it.

And we are not just talking for energy here, we are talking plastic used in more or less any industry you can think of from healthcare to textiles to toys. We are talking for greasing, we use it for fertilizers which makes it possible for us to produce the amount of food we do etc. Which means that oil will play a very very very significant part of our lives for many centuries unless of course some completely new material shows up with as much versatility and application. And now that we are drilling for the oil anyway....

I understand that this isn't what we want to hear, but that's the reality and there isn't currently much of an alternative.
What is wrong with having a video file of violence on your phone? I'm pretty sure it's totally legal.

And what if it was a scene from saw or something?
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