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You can say that about almost anything though. The top post on the front page right now is a system Mozilla developed to manage IoT devices from over the internet. That's probably much lower on the world priority list than this, but I don't see anyone complaining in that thread.
Unfortunately, modern blogging requires hyperbolic or blanket statements to drive clicks. The big statement in this one is "we should refuse to start a development if we don’t have a clear understanding of why we are requested to do it"

This is obviously not going to work as an ironclad rule in the real world of politics, relationships, and experimentation.

Rather, do your homework first, and ask for clarification. A little research up front saves a ton of pain later on.
It's not so much about which apps you are using, you don't want to isolate yourself. You use whatever communication channel your friends/colleagues use.

For me turning off Wifi, and consciously turning it on a couple of times a day is the big difference. Just like checking mail 15 years ago. You decided when to open Eudora or Hotmail, checked mail, en closed it again.

For me any app I use is like old school mail checking. I decide when to check. My friends know it can take a couple of hours or sometimes days for me to respond. If something is really urgent, they call me :)
France was a founding member of ECSC proposed by Robert Schuman, french prime minister, created by the Paris treaty and regarded as the premise of nowadays European union and expanded to up to 28 countries.
France played an instrumental/leading role in building the very idea of a community of nations in europe.
The contributions of that country toward European institutions are literally countless, but let’s name a few major ones: a shared currency (€), schengen area and absolute freedom of movement for citizens, goods, services and capital (none of which UK took part of). No one can sensibly deny France contributions to pretty much any regulation, judicial/defense/scholar/research/scientific cooperations.

I’m not saying UK played absolutely no role in building these institutions, but they’ve always displayed some reluctancy for further integration. Just fyi, France and Germany have been compensating since the 70s the budget contribution UK refused to make.
This is definitely true, can see it anywhere I go. Out of maybe 10 gay friends we currently have, there is 1 which cares about himself on normal guy level. Rest have at home more beauty chemistry than my wife (or her friends), always perfect hair trim, new trendy clothing matching perfectly with each other, also obsession with taking perfect selfies (meaning 30 minute sessions for 1 photo).

Yes there are straight guys similarly obsessed with appearance/presentation (is the term 'metrosexual' still in?), but in far lower numbers
This is a bit uncharitable.

The UK helped the EU be more dynamic than it otherwise might have been, avoiding a certain French big-state mindset that could have seen eurobureaucracy really run riot on national laws. It definitely attracted capital investments from across the globe into the EU market, and it relieved some of the unemployment pressure in poorer countries thanks to a very dynamic labor market.

Obviously there have been sore points (complete opposition to real federalism, coordinated defence, and fighting dirty money / tax evasion), but overall both the UK and EU members have benefited from working together. Brexit is a lose-lose scenario that we will all have to endure rather than enjoy, whichever side of the fence we sit on.
Why would a place like HN where we exchange ideas and stories for free need to be walled off behind some crypto type system?

I see no value in that.
Why wouldn’t spending money boost the economy? Besides when you “invest” in a publicly traded company, unless it’s at the IPO or another stock offering by the company, the company never sees the money and they aren’t getting any money from you.
I'm guessing the same then applies to SY, CU, IR, KP and SD which are also embargoed countries.

Possibly also BL, BY, CF, CI, CD, IQ, LB, LY,, SO, SS, UA, VE, YE and ZW which have current sanctions.
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In the Czechoslovakian 1980s TV series Návstevníci ("The Visitors" [0] - available dubbed in other languages) - the people in the future all are bald. They all use wigs though, different ones. I guess the show decided on having wigs so that the actors didn't all have to shave and only the first few initial parts of the series, those that play in the future (the rest is in 1984), had to be played with only a few seconds of baldness. Otherwise they would probably have gone for complete baldness as the haircut of the future.

By the way, that is one of the best TV series ever. Time travel involved but that really doesn't matter, only once to set the stage, not used to fix plot issues or to have an excuse not to care about the logic of the storyline. Absolutely captivating, like all those Czechoslovakian series from that era. Without any violence at all. If there is an English version, dubbed or subtitles, do watch it. It takes off slowly, it really only starts "for real" after the 3rd part or so, after they arrive in 1984.

By the way, the title music still sounds pretty good: https://youtu.be/_1MlEqeXD-8

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165019/
Way to blatantly steal Stewart Lee’s idea without crediting him. Mr. Sullivan you used to be an opportunist ahole and still are.
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It is definitely a design goal, but I would be very surprised if sha2 did not have 2 inputs that only differ by a single bit, and have the same output.

Finding those inputs is essentially impossible, but for a true 'random oracle ' they are likely to exist.
Yeah, it’s going to be Catalunya all over again. Except Scotland is not a little province, and if the SNP is forced underground, stuff will start to blow up for real.
I am vegan for ethical reasons. If one does it carefully, it is not worse than any diet with meat health-wise. So essentially killing animals for food is not necessary and one does it out for pleasure or out of laziness.

As for other points, most fruits are not particularly dense in calories and one needs to eat kilograms of them to consume 100 grams of fructose, which one can get from one bottle of sugary drink. Dates and dry fruits are exceptions, so to minimize fructose exposure one should not eat them in substantial quantities.

As for deficiency, consuming reasonable variety of starchy vegetables and grains with some greens without added oil provides all minerals and vitamins one can get from meat except for B12 as long as one gets enough calories. There are some individuals where a particular component is not absorbed efficiently if it comes from plants, but that is trivial to compensate with supplements. For example, I personally get low on iron (a family run condition) and has to supplement that either directly or indirectly by taking vitamin C with iron-rich vegetables or grains.
This sounds less like we need to cure balding and more that we need to help people have a positive self-image.
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I don't really get why is this downvoted. If anything, the response to that was too weak.

Again, to some soft-hearted people, this might look like a terrible story when alone dev in Crimea can't access his GitHub but I have 0 sentiments here.

Ukraine's sovereignty was guaranteed by the UK, the US, and Russia when they gave up their nukes. So somebody had to at least pretend to do something. The US (compared to the UK) showed a much stronger response.

Now Russia came and claimed a part of Ukraine as their own. If there is 0 response to that, you know how it makes all the small countries feel that have borders with Russia? Ask Estonians or Georgians.

So when the next time they gonna occupy Tallinn or Riga, we all gonna be really happy that some dimwits are really concerned that our developers can't access GitHub. Great.
This has been a perpetual complaint across human history. Every older generation thinks the younger generation is like this.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-peo...

> “We defy anyone who goes about with his eyes open to deny that there is, as never before, an attitude on the part of young folk which is best described as grossly thoughtless, rude, and utterly selfish.” - 1925
While Visa and MasterCard are household names in the western world, there's a similar oligopoly (and similar history) in airline bookings system, which is largely unknown to people outside the domain.

Majority of worldwide airline bookings go through Amadeus/Sabre/Travelport, who similarly get a cut on each transaction. (The GDS industry has long been thought to decline _just in a few years_ but for now it still stays rather strong - although big airlines are actively trying to get more independent). The net incomes are about order of magnitude lower than credit card industry, but that's still hundreds of millions per year.
Agreed. I read his book as a young engineer, an I feel that this has really shaped how I view organisations and the forces that operate within them.
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I'm not sure comparing with a monarchy is the best effort we can make to judge the merits of the EU political system. ;-)

Living in a small, entirely democratic EU country, I can't say I'm impressed with how the Commission was formed and it's also obviously an inferior system to that of the USA.
Manufacturing in Germany tends to be more high-tech on average than America. America has a lot of smaller job shops that buys foreign machines, but Germany has large, highly automated manufacturing companies (esp car companies) that have both the capital and skilled labor to make use of high-tech equipment like this. Probably in part because Germany has better technical education, and worker protection that keeps jobs in Germany (sometimes).
Would solar farms help mitigate the cost of running these vertical farms in any meaningful way?
There's one additional factor: high ceilings.

I used to spend a good chunk of the year in Bologna, where me and my SO rented an apartment with a 3.5m ceiling, thick walls and no AC.

Summer was pretty brutal, but manageable - I was able to maintain a temperature 10C lower than outside during the day.

Our bed was on a mezzanine, which I didn't use during the summer because there was simply a noticeable temperature difference.
Rust has been bootstrapped for a long time now.
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So, would you rather have me hoard this into my local workspace until forgotten? Or release it in the open since I will be working on a project that actually pays money. At least if somebody will be building something similar he/she can look up at this code and maybe make a derivative out of it.
Related: a little while ago, a Iranian developer's post[0] hit the front page. He commented 12 hours ago that GitHub has restricted his account as well.[1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20493699

[1]: http://shahinsorkh.ir/2019/07/20/how-is-it-like-to-be-a-dev-...
I just think of Microsoft when I read these.

Every time they change something in Windows, they never take the old thing away but instead keep both. Which means there's a myriad of ways to get to the control panel. And there's multiple variants of the control panel UI...

Outlook is another good example, there's 3 different UI's where we can add/remove accounts.

Result: New users use the new (default) UI, old users use the old UI, admins use what's quickest.
>The entire idea that losing your hair is bad is socially constructed by the mass media and advertising industry to sell you these expensive crap treatments.

I'm with you as far as not having hair being liberating. I'm not losing my hair, but for many years shaved my head out of pure convenience; the maintenance was so much easier.

But not every thing is a conspiracy to sell you something. On average people are more attracted to not-balding as opposed to balding. If those things concern you, solutions (kind of) exist.
Any articles/tutorials on this?
That's not it. It was a GitLab project, but searching for that is pretty difficult. I'll edit this comment if i find it.

Edit: Here it is: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite
Yes, that's what I'm running at home for almost a year now. There is so much stuff already in this system, it is amazing.

I always found the scripting a bit annoying (programmer by day, so I could, if I would want to, but...).

That's why my HA install is accompanied by a NodeRED instance. I really like just clicking my flows together. And if there is something missing, you can be sure that someone already built a matching node.
You could say that teaching all people to write also has the side effect that the internet contains a lot of bad/lazy comments.
> "Sarnoff(chief of book operation, Warner communications) complained that too many of Warner Modular's(small publishing company under Warner communications) works were written by left-wing writers.

Reminds one of Google, Twitter, et. al.

What's old is new.
I pimp this project any chance I get:

https://github.com/andlabs/libui

We're considering using it for the next generation of the ZeroTier desktop UI. Unfortunately no mobile support (but we already have native mobile UIs), but it looks like the best contender for a cross platform UI lib that is light and fluffy and simple. Rust bindings should be trivial. There are high quality Go bindings here:

https://github.com/andlabs/ui
Depends on the rate. To quote Steve Martin, "All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."

You and I could make Mr. Darcy wages on an hour of work a week, providing that we could find someone willing to pay it :-)
Not available in the US until October, unfortunately. I'll have to wait and see how loud they are.
As the article pointed out, the hallmark here is the "Herxheimer reaction" or "detoxing" elsewhere. I'm not making a statement on endotoxin release one way or another, but one has to be very careful to apply reasoning that explains bad reactions to treatmens.
Perhaps they aim to get rid of the keyboard completely, replacing it with a haptic feedback capable device and a glass plate with the keys inscribed?
Bruce Gilden springs to mind when you mention "obnoxious" photographers. His technique is to just shove a camera in somebody's face and take the shot. Often there's a flash involved too. Watching a YouTube video of him doing his thing on the streets of NY was both quite horrifying and very, very cringey. I'm genuinely surprised nobody hit him yet.
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My pet theory is that every software product has a "peak version". Before that peak version, the product is not yet in a complete state, and it is fairly obvious, both for the developer and user, what features are missing. Once the peak version is reached, new features are not added because they improve the product, but to justify selling the product again to existing customers, and to 'keep the team busy'.

Instead of really improving the product, features become checkboxes on the roadmap. Which eventually results in degrading the quality of the product, it becomes bloated, the UX becomes confusing (especially to new users), and existing features start to suffer because the "maintenance surface" becomes bigger and bigger.

What should happen of course is that the product's feature set is frozen at the "peak version", and only bug fixes and optimizations are happening, that's a hard sell to the bean counters of course, especially with subscription models and "software as a service" which they like so much. From the customer's point of view, bug fixes and optimizations are expected to come for free, because they are fixing defects in the original product and don't add any value, right?

Eventually progress and success is measured in features added, not in satisfaction of individual customers. And as long as KPIs are looking alright - meaning the 'average customer' (which doesn't exist btw) isn't pissed off enough to look elsewhere, all is good, even though everything is terrible.
> it's pretty well understood that in majority we don't want to leave, the other half are mostly a combination of naive, manipulated and coerced based on false claims and social media...

What?

There was a vote. A vote where everyone elligible had the chance to voice their opinion and the majority (albeit slim) said "we want out".

As for the slur of being naieve and manipulated that's bullshit (from my standpoint anyway).

You seem to be referring to people getting their news from social media... if that's their source then hell-mend them. Social media is an echo chamber. It's not designed for two-sided debates.

WRT to the false claims: If anyone actually believes that a politician has their interests at heart then they're delusional.

You seem to just be bitter that you (I assume) voted to stay in... I suppose you want another one until you get the result you would prefer!
All EU officials are elected directly or elected/assigned by the people that were elected.

This will help you to get the facts straight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Uu5eyN6VU
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From a purely functional point of view the man's entire contribution to reproduction can last as little as a few minutes. Therefore the cost of trying again is low, so it's not strictly necessary to consider the personality factors you mentioned. They take a long time to assess, which creates a trade-off between investing in marginal gains for the offspring vs. simply creating more. In short, men have the option of r-style reproduction which skews the selection criteria toward immediate visibility.

Women on the other hand have to invest significantly more time and energy into reproduction every time, so the incentive is to find a mate with the best genes overall. Men are more likely to help raise their own offspring than another's, so a woman's best bet is to find one who is most likely and capable of doing so. Those traits are more difficult to discover but the marginal payoff is huge compared to a man who jets after five minutes.

All of the above is pure conjecture on my part and I have no expertise. But consider the counterfactual: given sexual divergence and the asymmetry of reproduction, why would men and women have the same selection strategies on average?
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>Their Github Pages page was censored. They are unable to participate in the maintenance of an open source repository. This was done, according to Github, as a requirement to comply with the laws of its state.

Software export is restricted to varying degrees, mostly encryption but there are other circumstances where export control exists on software (they used to be far more severe but have become considerably reduced). The BIS - https://www.bis.doc.gov - handles this and other CCL items.

Here is the relevant CFR https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/CFR-2012-title15-vol2/CF...

To export anything that contains encryption over 64 bits you have to register with the BIS and be reviewed before you export. Even open-source software requires that you notify the BIS.

Other countries have similar export/import controls, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement

See also:

https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/encryption

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Currently working on a 10+ year old enterprise system where some downstream components are closer to 20 years old. Massive amounts of technical debt. Thankfully my primary work is with a component that's <8 years old, with most relevant code being only a few years old. That being said, with any of these components there's sadly a ton of tech debt. Doing what I can to reduce it, but so much of it is interconnected it's frustratingly difficult to refactor anything without refactoring external systems it works with, as well. Doing what I can for the time being.
>They're incentivized to encourage doctors to use the drug that makes their company the most profit, not the drug that is best for the patient.

The job of the marketing department isn't "best drug for patient". That's the doctor's duty. The marketing department is there to bring awareness of the product to both doctor and patient. There is no conflict of interest at all.
This story reminds me of my own growing up in Serbia in 90s under UN sanctions. One of the side-effects of it was that we couldn't access Internet directly for a while, we were almost completely cut off (Belgrade University was half-illegally exchanging emails once a day over a private link to Greece thanks to some professors at University of Athens, but otherwise all connections to the world were cut off). And at that moment, first half of 90s, users of Internet were mostly young educated people grouped in and around academia, and they were 99.9% against Milosevic's government. So by bureaucracy applying blindly the rules, not thinking about side-effects of those action, they basically directly targeted and alienated those very people who were pro-west and progressive and their best bet for allies in the country - stopping them from communicating with the world and receiving free news and information, thus directly aiding Milosevic's propaganda.
Can't read the article properly, for some reason, but I can comment on this:

1. Smaller containers have some advantages, which is correct measurement, washing and disposal. I still use 200 l barrels of herbicide, because I require more of it. Everything else comes in 5-10 l containers. Preferably in liquid/gel form to avoid spillage or drift.

2. Absolutely. I'd add that depending on the pesticide, different droplet size mean different effectiveness. Normally, 3-5 bar for herbicides (larger droplets), 10-15 bar for insecticides, and 15-20 bar for fungicides (smaller droplets). There are also different rate anti-drifting beaks one should choose.

3. I apply my pesticides myself. I had training, but coming from STEM helps a lot. Many farmers do not do well with measurements, simple proportions or pH scales.
The author is not the OP.
> I don't remember any sanctions on Chechen republic after it separated from Russia, for example.

The double standards are all explained by geopolitical maneuvering. Western powers pulled Kiev into their orbit and threatened to use that influence to harm Russia's economic and military capabilities.

The tl;dr is that Russia needs access to warm water ports. They were happy to lease a port from the Ukraine until rumors began spreading in Kiev that Russia's lease would be ended.[1][2] Because the Russian economy and military couldn't afford to lose access to a naval base with a warm water port they decided to take drastic action.

Another odd footnote about this situation is that Crimea was given as a "symbolic" gift to the Ukraine while the USSR was still strong.[3] It's not like it's some ancient sacred Ukranian land. It's just very valuable for trade and military purposes.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/na...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Pact

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea#Compli...
> Traveling allows you to viscerally see how people live and value things differently from you. There is much to be gained from it if you do it for the right reasons.

Yes, they also have tours to help you 'experience' the life of a local, like going through a favela in Rio. Anedoctal, but from what I've seen it can be really offensive to people on those places, because it works pretty much like a safari.
Free speech applies to the US. Last time I checked Crimea was in Russia.

US companies have to follow US law. I worked for a company that was fined because they still had employees working in Syria when the war started.
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