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You just decide to care about the notification. The money that was added on your account and subsequently removed was just bits on hard disc. Those bits didn't affect your life until you decided to demand Paypal to notify about it.
Because nuclear power such a charged issue (pun intended), transparency and trust is especially important.

The nuclear struggles with genuine transparency, which, imho, would go further than anything else to shifting the public's feelings on nuclear power.
SBNation couldn't exist in its current form without Jon Bois. Even if you're not into sports, watch some of his videos - you'll be hooked.
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Home Depot sells a service where you can pay $100 to have a professional handyman come to your house and knock four nails into your wall to install a shelf. People pay this because the level of complexity of using a hammer is too high. I have seen the light go out of the eyes of people with a non-technical background trying to explain even the most basic of engineering concepts (most recently, why I can't get a 10lb meterlong brick to magically lift itself out of its packaging). HTML might be the most simple language we have, but it's not simple in an absolute sense, and nothing about setting up a website outside of the platforms really is. Ask your non-technical friends: I bet most of them are not even familiar with the concept of hosting a site.
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What the courts said went like this:

_If_ you have a mechanism that you've put together to block some content (in this case the IWF to block child porn porn) then you must also use this mechanism to block stuff the court wants blocked, in this case everything Hollywood has arbitrarily decided it might be a copyright infringement.

But if you don't have a mechanism to block stuff (which A&A does not because why would you want to spend money on that nonsense?) then obviously the court shouldn't order you to go around making Hollywood's life easier and you can ignore it.
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The ethos that led to the Internet belonged to the military-industrial complex, not the anarchist hackers.
Like I said, it hits the experienced people hardest. At the bottom of the bust, there were still tons of new web properties going up, redesigns happening, and so on, and you could absolutely get a job building websites. I know plenty of people who got started in the industry at that time.

I'm very bullish about the future for web developers until we see the web contract as a platform. And I think we have a long way to go until that happens.
Some people prefer working intensely, some people don't. So why demand 8h of presence from everybody as long as the work gets done?

From my experience, policies of being in the office for <x> hours significantly reduces productivity, as people spend more time trying to fill their days instead of doing the work.

Regardless, it's patronising to effectively treat highly paid professionals like children with dumb, simplistic rules, and morale will also suffer appropriately.
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> We know some evil people record these vile acts, but we don't think that banning video cameras will solve the problem - so my gut feeling is that banning abuse images online is less about stopping the crime and more about not being reminded it exists.

I'm personally always amazed that people seem to think the problem is the recording and not the abuse.
> Shipyard-constructed nukes on floating platforms, tugged to locations for power and tugged back to port for maintenance.

What’s your opinion on Thorcon?

Also I’m wondering if you have some thoughts on this: I’ve been wondering what holds us back from taking a scale out approach rather than a scale up approach we have now (e.g. with EPR design now producing 1.6GW). Instead couldn’t we pump out naval sized nuclear plants in mass production style since we can apparently still build those and my limited understanding is their smaller size and output makes them safer (less decay heat etc). Ship those around as needed for refueling. And just have a couple dozen on each site to produce the equivalent power. It would combine a national strategic need that we have to do anyway (naval nuclear power), with another need that we seem to be failing to do (getting back on the horse with producing reliable clean power).
> Notification of deducted money is something that is quite reasonable to expect.

You choose to say it like that. "Notification of deducted money". The money was first added, then removed. It would have been different if it was first removed, then added. But it wasn't.
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Don't make recommendations based on predictions. That's a terrible reason to wait for a necessary purchase.
The “tech press” - even the Apple press were complaining about the quality of the keyboards from day one. In John Gruber’s initial review when they first came out he said he didn’t like them as did Marco Arment. They are two of the most well known Apple pundits. At least Marco slso complained about the iMac monitors before he got the iMac Pro.

Gruber doesn’t upgrade his computers as often as Marco but he does usually get review units. So he doesn’t get to comment on long term issues with them. He famously still uses a 20 year old Apple ADB keyboard.
This is pretty standard in the UK under the current political climate. The Conservative Government about 2 years ago was hell bent (and probably still is) on getting rid of "strong encryption" and wants backdoors in pretty much everything.

Both major political parties are pretty censorious and many of the smaller parties aren't much better.
The problem with that would be emulating all the embedded controllers and other hardware associated with the various bios menu entries. What would be cool is if the bios interface was coded using a certain menu rendering system that could be replicated in JS and all you would need is a BIOS dump of certain structures which would then render the appropriate menu without having to run the code associated with the underlying choices. Shouldn't be that hard to do. I believe that's sort of how it alrwady works. It would be nice to see it happen though.
Yes, my wife and I have gone through three keyboards among our two iPads. The first two I had to pay to replace, the last one, failing less than 6 months after purchase, Apple replaced themselves. Not been a great experience.
I’ve had consistently good experiences with the Apple store support across 3 countries (over two continents) and it’s the main reason I still buy apple products, specifically iPhones, despite them going down a path I don’t like for the last 4 years.

Apple of 2015 was, really, at the top of the game, I wish I had bought a 2015 retina MacBook when it was new. :(
Well, it’s impossible to have it both ways. If you want the already validated approach then you’ll have to stick with DNA and not some variant structures.

It’s a decent point, however, that if this tech takes off, there may be innovations in storage molecules to improve read/write speed, density, etc.
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I like the design of your site. It's extremely easy to read, and there's no clutter. If I want art, I'll go to a museum, when I want to read I prefer a site like yours.
yes and that is extremely common, that doesn't count as colour blindness? what else would you call it.

Either way the "incomplete" forms of colour blindness are one of the most common forms of disability, so using color as the only distinguishing factor in consumer cable types is pretty exclusionary.
At some point it will dawn on us that the resources needed to build solar/wind is defined by the energy density available in these resources. Nuclear is basically invoking a deeper level of reality, one where energy is measured in MeV rather than paltry eV of chemical binding energy. Solar and wind are even less dense.
It may be an old Physicist’s ramblings, but we have backed away from Prometheus’ fire way too soon to save ourselves.
I'd love to know then why my Nintendo switch(very expensive) doesn't charge at all when using the genuine OnePlus USB A-C cable(very expensive) and their own OnePlus charger(also pretty expensive). It's not just cheap mislabeled crap that sometimes doesn't work - it's proper hardware from big companies that failed the simple "if the cable fits then it has to work" test.
Firstly, letter writing and the telephone are P2P technologies that assume pre-existing association of the (limited) participants in a given communication. While acknowledging that the internet can facilitate such use, a better analogue for the internet might be a notice board in a town square (a commons), via which means people elect to communicate singly or in groups.
Citizens (an implicit membership qualification) are free to post or read flyers on various topics as they please within social or legal bounds. However they are (usually) not free to smear their shit all over the notice board, or torch notices, or set upon others that want to use the notice board.

With respect to ownership, I assume you’re referring to a “right of use” rather than ownership of the underlying physical assets and services. Rights however, derive from somewhere and most rights carry an implicit purpose defining or otherwise informing the scope of the right. For example, the second amendment (right to bear arms) is not a free pass to commit murder or to otherwise use those arms to infringe on the legitimate rights of others. (Note, I’m not mentioning this in order to start a flame war. I’m making no statement regarding gun rights or related topic). Therefore I’d question where or how you believe this “ownership/use” right has arisen.

With respect to the “anarchist hacker ethos” leading to the internet (and as someone old enough to have mostly been there), I’d suggest that no such thing occurred. You are assuming a single philosophy on the part of a great many people and organisations (such as the military) who contributed to the key infrastructure of the internet. What exactly is this hacker ethos? My definition likely differs significantly from ESR’s which may or may not differ from yours. Nevertheless you state a purpose, “liberating humanity from the constraints of gatekeepers”. I’d humbly suggest that the vast majority of users of these commons are not even aware that this is the intent, let alone agree with it, other than that their own ability to use this commons as they wish, even to the detriment of others, be uninfringed.

Historically, gatekeepers have been few. On the internet however, much like in lawless towns past, the good burghers are forming posses of their own to protect the use of their little patch of the internet, via mechanisms such as moderating, rating, voting and karma based systems. Irrespective of the efficacy of such approaches, online communities are increasingly adopting them to filter out or limit the actions of bad citizens. Effectively, communities themselves are becoming the gatekeepers. And from my perspective, good on them. Because however imperfect these attempts might be, I’d much rather HN with its voting system than without (for example).

I don’t support keeping the “normies” out, but I do support the right of each community to decide for itself whether and how they want to keep the arseholes out.
Depending on where she goes to uni, they may have an authorized repair facility on site. I was just able to use the on-site facility at Berkley and have used the one at ASU in the past when appointments at the local Apple stores are all filled.

You can also mail in items for repair which, in my experience, has been just fine except that you need to get a suitably padded box to send it to and from. Apple will typically ship it once you do it the first time and then you can just keep that one and re-use the last one they send you if you need to send it in multiple times.
> As far as dense energy production, what benefit does that have?

So that we don't blanket the countryside with wind and solar farms? I would have thought that'd be obvious enough.

Also, very few people are really factoring in the environmental costs of repairing and recycling huge turbines and masses of solar pv panels – it's externalities like these (and other externalities besides) that are masking the true cost of renewable tech in the same way that environmental pollution masks the true cost of so-called fossil fuels.

Just you wait and see. The Chinese and Russians are forward thinking, increasing the allocation of atoms for peace in their energy mix.
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It could have something to do with accessibility. My eyes aren't the best, so that font is about the smallest I can comfortably read.
The 0 does not count as a lower number. There at 18 numbers in both the groups 1-18 and 19-36. Each of these give a 18/37 chance of winning, which is lower than 50% and therefore loses in the long run when the money is being doubled on a win.
He is glossing over the major issue with base R, which is its tendancy to switch data types in a way that appears random to new users. As an undergrad I spent nights literally on the verge of tears debugging R code where the types had been mucked up by R's bizarre semantics. Claiming that data[foo] is the same as filter(data, foo) is not correct - the [] and [[]] operators have a lot of strange side effects depending on what argument is passed in. It is like saying map() and a for loop are the same because everything a map can do a for loop can do. That is true, but the single-mindedness of map is a major selling point because you know it is only going to do certain specific things. The issues here will disproportionately affect beginners who are likely to accidentally pass in the wrong thing - it needs to fail with an error or in a predictable way to best help them. Hadley's code fails sensibly.

One of the major innovations of the tibble package is that it puts the types of each column into the headings when it prints the table out. Dr. Matloff is grossly underestimating how painful it is for beginners to, eg, figure out when they are dealing with a column of strings vs a column of factors. If a beginner copies code to someone else for help, the other person can actually tell what types are involved! It is like magic compared to base R.

Given how ad-hoc the R community is and the paucity of people with programmer backgrounds, these minor usability improvements on controlling types are important. And anybody who cares about efficiency is using the wrong language.

EDIT Also, this comment that RStudio is bypassing an Open Source project's leadership - that is one fo the major features of open source. It is usually a healthy sign that the project leadership are lost in the weeds. I recall a situation with broad parallels in the history of GCC for example; it didn't kill the project although I believe a bad codebase died.
A lot of people had to leave during the American Revolution. It saddens me how American school textbooks and pop-history for adults depict the revolution as a simple case of freedom-yearning colonists against the oppressive mother country. The American Revolution was a true civil war: a substantial part of the population wanted to remain under England, but the revolutionaries won their cause by burning down loyalists’ houses, tarring and feathering them, and forcing them to flee to Canada or the Caribbean.
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Considering the way the middle of the market (for lots of products, not just cables, and not just electronics) seems to evaporate and the options become "cheap and shitty and may not work at all", "mid-priced but still shitty", and "actually built correctly and will actually survive normal use but way more expensive than it seems like it should be, thanks to a combination of economies of scale and price discrimination" I wouldn't be surprised if a full-capability USBC cable that doesn't break the first time you unplug it "wrong" or trip over it, and doesn't glitch out or fail to work correctly in some situations, and is of a useful length, does end up around $30.
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There are instructions on how to route all operating system DNS requests through DoH here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/clo....

One advantage that DoH has over DNSCurve is that it is much harder to detect or block due to it being encapsulated as https traffic.
That's common to most projects released by Googlers. Options are either a getting the IP officially assigned over to yourself or releasing it under a Google copyright with a CLA: https://opensource.google.com/docs/creating/

The latter is lower friction, in my opinion.

This is especially common for "personal" projects that people end up working on or using on the clock.

I don't know if this was the case with Cue specifically (this is the first I've heard of the project, but less boilerplate in my JSON has some appeal).
Well a while ago there was a link posted here of before and after of banning ads in a downtown area. The entire place looked several times nicer and cared for afterwards.

It's probably much the same online. Those ads blaring someone else's name, even in what is "kinda" your own personal lawn/profile/whatever, does a lot to remove a sense of ownership. Likewise in hope of getting more engagement, what would be a smaller conversation is likely to end up massively broadcasted for those ad views.
So is CUE. See the section on types and values here - https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...
Any particular niche sites that you have in mind and could recommend to others?
IMO, safety with regards to nuclear reactors is a moot point. The problem with nuclear reactors is that they are centralized and costly. You can't deploy a nuclear reactor in undeveloped countries because you still need to deploy the infrastructure. That's why solar and wind are the only viable solutions. Solar is decentralized, cheap, and mass produced and can be deployed in a matter of days. Storage is following a variation of Moore's Law, so we can expect storage cost to continue to drop over the next decades.
PayPal is stuck between a rock and a hard place. At their scale they are are constantly targeted for all kinds of criminal activity and are under enormous pressure to follow rigorous laws pertaining to handling money.

They keep trying to balance this with good customer service, but I'm not sure you can do any better ... and I hope nobody thinks that cryptocurrencies are the answer.
Protobufs are a data serialization format. Mostly for taking typed data and be able to parse and write to bytes.

This is something that could generate protobuf values, as you can have expressions and such. Really it does more than protobuf and doesn't handle serialization. It's main use seems to be a config language
For those who don't know factorio is truly a masterpiece of a game. It's described as "programming the game". Strongly recommended to everyone here.
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As a middle class Indian who lives in the West much of the time, I think you're dead wrong. First of all, almost all the state investments go to the middle class. I was brought up in a state owned company township - in what's called the public sector - and I got a free education when I was there.

We moved cities and in this new city I went to a private school that took the rich but also kids of government employees since they wanted to play nice with the powers that be.

Then I went to a public university that gave me excellent education for which I paid next to nothing. That in turn got me a scholarship at a major US research university where I got paid to study.

In other words, I had all the support from a poor society to succeed. Sure, I worked hard, but so does every manual laborer, car driver, restaurant worker, house maid and farmer. And guess what: they get very little for their efforts. Meanwhile the people they work for have drivers and maidservants and care givers and what not. That's an unequal society.

I don't want a drone. I would much rather the world had way fewer cars. What I would like is lush forests, cities with sidewalks, good public transport, healthcare for everyone. And the ability to dream a future that's different from Lamborghinis. Perhaps seven dimensional universes in which you can turn a Lamborghini inside out and velcro the seats to a lamp post.

If I may say so, you know very little about India, about what middle class means, what poverty means and what privileges come from making $10000 a year.

My taxes should be higher.
> Not at all. It's the desire to get rich quick without lifting a finger.

I disagree with that. Bitcoin did not start off with get-rich-quick schemes. It started off with a core bunch of people who wanted independent options to wealth.
One of the major issues we're going through today [ in terms of tech-misinformation ] is how everyone assumes cryptocurrency & blockchain are just buzzwords that people only got interested in to make money & scam. Not true.
Bitcoin started off with a completely different ideology among the early adopters before it got to where it is today. Don't look at the current trend of youtube """educators""" [ read: hype-beast / scammers ] and think that's what drives the development.

> "wealth that is not dependent on others" is not a thing

That's actually a very good point! I wouldn't necessarily agree to your ending statement of whether it is / isn't a safer store for one's wealth, but I do agree that wealth needs dependencies. I guess I should have made my statement to be more along the lines of: "Independent wealth OPTIONS where users can control their dependencies."
This has been answered twice[0] by Russ Cox himself[1]. Some of the reasons were familiarity and the need for segmented stacks, but he goes more on the details in his comments.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817990

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1509700
> We live in an age of luxury, splendor and wealth unimaginable just a few hundred years ago.

An unsustainable age of luxury, splendor, and wealth. We're consuming something like 2.5 Earths' worth of resources.

Species are going extinct at record rates. For example, fisheries, which supply a significant portion of humanity's protein, are collapsing due to the efficiency of our magnificent trawler machines.

We can fly around the world in less than a day and eat steak every night, but this is built on unsustainable energy use. Our cross-country flights emit as much carbon as 6 months of driving, and the calories from that nightly steak require another 10x as many calories from the grain required to feed the cattle, all grown using magnificent fossilfuel-created fertilizer, who's runoff into the gulf creates algae blooms that deplete all the oxygen and further collapse the ecosystem.

Calories are a measure of energy, and as thermodynamics tells us, the energy must come from somewhere. A cow is a machine that converts grain to steak at 10% efficiency. Similarly, grain is a machine that converts soil energy to feedstock. And then artificial fertilizer is a technology that converts fossil fuels to soil energy at something like 15% efficiency [1].

The water required to grow all that grain is coming from dwindling aquifers -- farmers in California's central valley are calling in fracking firms from the fracking fields to drill new special fracking-depth wells because all the ones at traditional depths have gone dry.

> Life is too short to spend your precious time on earth in a hell of self-induced punishment.

Yep, eat drink and be merry today, because it won't be around tomorrow. Shit is gloomy because we're squandering our luxury, splendor and wealth, and we're starting see what it's like when it runs out. To the boomers, this was all abstract boogeymen. Today's generation is the one starting to feel the effects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process