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Re: Giving every Taiwanese citizen a MANPAD.

Of what use are MANPADs against the Ballistic Missile salvos which China is guaranteed to use in crippling Taiwan's air bases and air defense units? or against the J-10s, J-11s, Su-30s, & Su-35s which would be used to leisurely destroy aircrafts parked at crippled air bases and every single high value target on the Island? Of what use will they be against the literally thousands of Short Range Ballistic Missiles pointed at Taiwan. Or against the ASBMs & ASCMs that China has diligently developed or acquired for the sole purpose of sinking or are at the very least, significantly damaging large warships far off its coasts.

An Asia War will NOT be Afghanistan 2.0. It would be a war whose success would be determined almost entirely by the Air Force and the Navy, NOT by the Army.

You are viewing a war with China, a neer-peer power, through the lens of the Afghanistan & Iraq conflicts. You forget that Aircraft Carriers would be useless, planes would be fighting in highly contested airspace, and our soldiers would be fighting for the first time in modern history, without guaranteed air cover (a terrifying notion if you've ever being on the receiving end of an aerial attack).

Like they say, don't train your military to fight the last war. Cause the next major war will almost certainly not be like the last one, so fantasies of handing every Taiwanese a rifle, should remain completely speculative, save for the purpose of mounting an insurgency campaign against a possible occupying force.

P.S. Forgive me if I sounded pissed, just that I'm tired of armchair war enthusiasts who are seemingly unaware of what it would take to fight, let alone win, a war with a major power, and the extraordinary costs in personnel and materiel that fighting such a war would entail. Heck if it ever came to that, we'd have a hard time defeating India, not to talk of China.
thats actually a pretty good way to fix it.

It could be misinterpretation of the word power. The survivors and escapees heard power and assumed electricity not realizing power referred to processor throughput.

the only other easy way to retcon it without changing the movie would be to consider the human minds part of the battery tech. similar to how car batteries have programming around them to maximize their safety and charge rates and efficiency, maybe the human minds are part of the overall battery tech, used to keep them charging correctly. it wouldnt be direct energy harvesting tho.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Activities
I went to confirm this, I get around 15-18mbps on youtube 4k, so yea no kidding. Quality is pretty impressive (for the bitrate..) with vp9, but blocking is still visible.

Thank you for the info.
Eliminate the food service and bathrooms. Include a free Depends underwear with every ticket. Etc.
It seems to me there are two sides to engineer's performance: the ability and the productivity. Ability measures how complex tasks can an engineer solve and how well can he/she execute, and the productivity measures the actual amount of work done. Able programmer is not necessarily productive, and productive programmer might not be able to do tasks of high complexity.

As a technical lead, I feel that I'm able to judge the ability of individual team members, but I'm having a hard time objectively judging productivity. Simple count of PRs doesn't really tell the whole story, and some tasks look simple in hindsight, when in reality it took a lot of effort to find a good solution. There are also a lot of other complications I'm not going to dive into, but the end result is that it's hard to have an objective productivity evaluation based on the engineer's output only.

I'd be interested to know how other people evaluate individual productivity?
Hey uh, Doc? are these cat tissue samples?
Re-Entrant vs. Thread-Safe
Plant. HTTP2 and P2P web server for Node.js and browser
1. The reason for platform UI conventions is so users can transfer knowledge between apps. Some specialized apps may want to establish their own conventions, because they are aimed at experts who will be investing a lot of time in the app. Most apps aren't in that category.

2. HTML and JS make sucky UIs regardless of how much "work pools", because the underlying APIs are limited and incomplete. For example, scrolling: there is no native support for large tables in HTML, so apps either do some janky faulting in like infinite scroll, or reimplement scrolling entirely. Cut/copy/paste/undo is another example, along with keyboard navigation in general.
There's an entire book dedicated to this subject:
https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers

It is not as hard as it looks, it is essentially a drunkard's walk. And some strategies to remove bias, which that book covers nicely.
Of course, I'm talking about frameworks for rust that have already done this for me.
the map is not the territory

Not sure what you mean.
The current mass extinction event we're currently in has little to do with climate change, but a lot more to do with habitat destruction from industrial activities, pollution, deforestation, etc.
It’s a trade off. There’s no cognitive dissonance, just refusal to work towards better compromises. Lovely argument, though. Euphemistically it’s clear you’re very passionate about this issue. Maybe my hacker news throwaway should’ve been called cryptopassion
Relevant alternative catering to Vim users: http://visidata.org/
> "However, it is not possible to directly examine this theory in people, because noradrenaline release cannot be selectively manipulated."

This is exactly what ADHD medication like Vyvanse or Adderall does.
Great comment.

I‘m a bit afraid that alarmists and the likes will manage to restrict the sale and use of electronic cigarettes and nicotine-liquids for adults, as they already managed to do in a number of countries.

Products like the Juul are orders of magnitude less harmful than real smoking and I think adults should absolutely have the choice to use them. And yeah, many of them apparently like flavors such as Mango and Bubblegum instead of using liquids that claim to taste like tobacco.
What’s in OpenShift 4?
Xkcd #2181: Inbox
Let's do it, I was pretty burnt on the past tournaments and looks like Startup School is following the same fate.
Except that in or out isn't clear because it doesn't cover the details of what out means.

I'm assuming you wouldn't expect the Brexiteers to stop campaigning if they had lost the vote? They'd just carry on trying to smash things up until they got their way.

There were supposed to be rules follow with regard to funding and truthfulness on the part of the Leave campaign and it's now clear that those rules were broken. [1]

So in short, those of us in the UK that think the UK would be better off as a member of the EU are still going to fight for that because we care about doing what we think is best for the country.

[1] https://news.sky.com/story/vote-leave-broke-campaign-spendin...
Well, if you have to slaughter the pig to remove its human pancreas for transplant anyway, the ethical thing to do is extract as much value as you can by also using its delicious, delicious meat. (Which hopefully does not contain too many migrated human cells.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yN1D_joRU4
Observation: Although the Starhopper is a purposefully-unspaceworthy tech demonstrator, it still does resemble a comic book alien rocket from the 1950s.
The future of the EU isn't safe beyond all doubt, so there's a risk this'll turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy of EU doom.

There is certainly more potential downside than a lot of people seem to realise.

The EU27 member states are not going to be affected in some uniform way by Brexit, particularly if we get the no-deal version without any sort of overall orderly transition. Those states that are particularly exposed to Brexit overall -- such as Ireland and the Netherlands -- stand to take a large economic hit, perhaps even worse than the UK itself in the Irish case. Other states may do fine in many respects, but specific industries or other collaborative efforts may be seriously affected.

This is why I find the Irish government's strategy puzzling: they continue to insist on a measure that has been a proven deal-breaker for an orderly withdrawal, which means unless they genuinely believe that the UK will fold and call the whole thing off, their strategy is almost certain to cause the maximum damage of any plausible outcome to their own country.

It's also worth saying, because it is relevant but rarely reported, that the economic models for different scenarios and how much effect they would have on various European countries' economies relative to a baseline no Brexit case do tend to assume that in the baseline the EU economy continues as-is or grows significantly. I have yet to see any serious economic model that compares outcomes for different types of Brexit against a no-Brexit scenario where the underlying problems with EU economics do then cause another serious problem or there is some sort of black swan event that affects the EU or Eurozone.
Trust is about degrees. How much time and money do you spend the verify the statements/actions/products of companies?
If Facebook had read this in 2006, I'd still use it every day.
Don't you need probable cause to get a warrant? This might be different in Europe actually... but it seems a bit thin.
Your comment seems to fall into a common fallacy, that "developing the product" is entirely done by writing the code. That isn't true, there is no product if it is not built, tested, deployed, and debugged. Lots of programmers consider this "pointless" grunge work, but there is a reason it tends to be picked up by the more senior engineers on the team. This sort of work has more foundational impact than just writing feature code; it benefits all features written in the future.
The Great Coal Collapse of 2019
In most countries, technically, a 6 year old’s lemonade stand needs a license and to pay taxes on their 72 cents in profit.

But nobody really cares about either.

Until it becomes a business, it’s a hobby. If you’re not earning thousands in revenue per year, treat it like a hobby.

Obviously, lots of caveats with that approach (e.g. your product has a high chance of killing someone), but meh, just start.
Without a credit card, how do you buy anything online, or sign up for any SAAS? (the ones that don't accept Paypal, which is most). Using pre-paid Visa cards are possible sometimes (but not always accepted) but are also a hassle to manage as a primary payment method.

Booking travel online? All credit cards.

Renting a hotel or car can be next to impossible without a credit card to put down. Once I had to pay a $500 deposit to stay in a hotel for 1 night because I didn't have a credit card they could put on file.
Antarctic Research Station's Living Quarters Are Surprisingly Comfy
Happened to someone I know as well. They were top 2 in rank clearly but after final vote didn't get selected as a winner
Because people are awfully good at getting around laws preventing the purchase of things, particularly when those things are legally purchasable by adults -- c.f., cigarettes, alcohol. It's not crazy to think that a multi-pronged approach would be more effective: Try to reduce sales both sales _and appeal_ to underage people. We do this with alcohol, for example, particularly high-alcohol malt liquor [1]. We ban or restrict advertising when it's likely to reach children. [2]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5391327/

[2] https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/who_ban_t...
NULL ciphersuites exist for TLS, but knowing what data is sent is meaningless.

You find out after you purchase the device, are you going to send it back? What if data collection policies change?

Besides, SSH begins with encryption, how do you audit an SSH connection?
If significant % of the population doesn't think it's problematic it should be allowed as long as it doesn't influence lives of the other part. You can easily opt out of any stem cells based research or treatment, we can make it not state funded. Opposing that is the kind of self-righteous aggressive morality I despise.
It's the same with abortion: about half the population thinks it's ok to let a woman decide. It doesn't influence you, your family or your community if you opt out. If you still think your feelings should dictate how others then you're the problem and the reason there are so many conflicts and so much violence caused by "I want to dictate how others live and I don't accept if they disagree".
The busiest day in aviation history
Word salad.
Solar Investment Tax Credit Extension Bills Introduced in House and Senate
France Partially Halts Grain Harvest – 1 Farmer Dead
https://news.yahoo.com/french-region-orders-harvest-standstill-084446197.html

> Farmers have been ordered to stop harvesting in France's second largest grain producing department Oise after hundreds of hectares of fields caught fire during an intense heatwave.

>At least one farmer was killed during when his harvester became engulfed in one inferno, local media reported.

>Harvesting is in full swing in France, the European Union's largest grain producer and exporter, where searing temperatures this week broke records in many parts of northern France and elsewhere in western Europe.

Note how there is no mention of the climate crisis or global warming in the article. Pretty irresponsible reporting by Reuters.
YouTube said it was serious about hate speech. Why is it still full of it?
Is that really a problem? Couldn't you calculate an average across users and us that as the peak measurement instead.
You assume i have ink. Interesting.

My point is that it has never been the case that “tattoos are just for scum”, and that the author of this piece is woefully and intentionally unaware of history and culture, even inside the upper crust of his own british milieu.
> Shouldn’t we get better at that part before we add more things?

Addictions are very pernicious things. Other methonds to combat addictive substances have similarly failed and succeded in varying ways. Look at the Opiod crisis, despite the pills being highly controlled and only given out via the supervision of multiple highly educated doctors, it became an epidemic of additction in parts of the US. The opiods overcame the laws and many people's best intentions.

Nicotine is a different addiction, for sure, but the Opiod crisis provides a good case study.

To combat these things, using multiple overlapping methods is a good idea. Laws, yes. Enforcement, yes. Restrictions on advertising, yes. Taking flavors out, yes. taking candy out of the packaging, yes. All of it together, yes. It is likely to take a multi pronged approach.

Per the article, it does seem that these vape pens are a different animal from traditional cigarettes. It seems that there are significant health risks that are really hurting real people in the real world. It seems that these people are victims of their addictions and victims of the people in the companies that push and sell these things.

More data is needed, of course, and I am not a prosecutor in a court of law.

But, it seems like these companies are trying to hurt children for money.
The problem for me in the UK is that most ISPs are dynamically allocating prefixes using DHCP-PD. So I've not got static address I can put in my firewall for the equivalent of ipv4 port forwarding.
Very cool! Any stats you can share about increased performance switching to go?
Indeed, seeing it mentioned in another article was one of the inspirations for my comment.

On another note, does anyone know how they actually perform (f)MRI on mice?
Everything is easier when you have money in the bank. Unfortunately that's not the case for everyone.
There is no compromise. There is either security, or there is not. You want the not, because you prioritize government access to all communications over privacy.

The rest of the world disagrees with you.
The dot com bust had a massive effect, and still represents the historical peak of black wealth in the US. It was mitigated for some people by an immediate bubble in housing, but that bubble only benefited people who owned houses when it started, meaning none of the people who were wiped out by dot com. Black wealth steadily decreased during the entire housing bubble.

Black wealth is interesting in and of itself, but it's also interesting as an isolated population who we know had virtually no family wealth 100 years ago. If you want to know if an economy is only benefiting the already wealthy, look at black people.
Then get a "partita Iva". It's free to open, allows you to invoice people and companies and pay taxes.
> Products like the Juul are orders of magnitude less harmful than real smoking

Source?
That's literally what it is when your self-taught. You generally don't get a programming job then learn to program.
Yes, it's really a problem. An average fails to be the peak version for anyone, missing some features wanted by some users, and having too many features for other users.
How much of this fatigue for you is with your eyes? How much is it with your head/neck?

I just wonder, because even when they "set" the focus of these HMDs to "infinity", your eyes are still technically only looking at a screen at a fixed distance, mere inches away. Everything I have read about so-called "simulator sickness" and other maladies in HMDs have said that eye fatigue results from this "fixed focus" issue. It doesn't cause as much issue for pilots training in simulators, because the actual screen being projected on is several feet away from their eyes, allowing them to become more naturally focused toward "infinity" (parallel).

I also wonder about the head and neck areas and fatigue. Most of the HMDs - while lightweight compared to systems of the 1990s - still seem like they have a lot of "nose weight", and aren't balanced on the head. Proper balance (fore/aft and laterally) is crucial to long-term use with lower fatigue, even with a light weight HMD. Also, the more weight that rests on the bridge of the nose, the worse the amount of fatigue.

Much of this knowledge is based on research that was done in the 1990s and earlier, both with those early HMD systems, and other earlier simulator systems. I'm continually surprised that current commercial offerings seems to either be unaware of such research, or that they ignore it for the sake of marketing (distributing the weight on the head results in a more "helmet like" HMD, which probably isn't as saleable to the public; ultimately, the public probably would like to see something as lightweight and wearable like a pair of sunglasses, but current display and optics technology isn't there yet - if it ever will be).
We cannot provide UI feedback during the wait: being a HTTPS proxy, we would need the SSL certificate to reply to the request, otherwise it would be some kind of MitM.

If the client closes the socket before the start of the server, the proxy gives up on its requests.
Just like Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, Microsoft backpedalled between 2011 and 2016 versions (those are for Mac) and removed a significant amount of functionality.

Files closed with the application no longer reopen, UI elements are gone, and, worse yet, you can't completely customize all of the possible keyboard shortcuts any more, you can't even find access to them.

To my understanding, this was for 2 reasons (excuses):

1. Some OS changes Apple made*

2. To push people to subscribe to office 365 and "gain" that functionality

* I paid full price for both 2011 and 2016 (and the corresponding windows office copies). 2011 still works on the most recent macOS with all of the functionality. So, claiming that Apple did something to make the feature of automatically reopening the documents you had open when you quit broken is bull. Their old version still does that on the new OS just fine (despite that little pop up claiming the software is incompatible...it still works, why not use it?)

After buying MS Office with removed functionality, I will sadly not be buying office again. Nor will I be subscribing to office 365, nor will I be supporting it in any corporate ecosystem. The files from the old versions are perfectly fine and when they no longer are, Libre office and (almost embarrassingly) Google docs will have to do.

I'm definitely not the only one bailing. My father has been off for many years and, as a principal engineer at a Silicon Valley medical device company he helps others see that we don't need to let Microsoft maintain a stranglehold on us.

But, I was happy buying the new versions of office year after year until these most recent changes. Excel 2005 was one of their best versions. That was my subscription model: I pay full price every couple years you put out a new version and, in return, you give me a good, solid product that built off the prior one (or at least stayed damn near as useful) while providing support to that product through updates and bug fixes.

Subscription services are already gaining groans from people and we don't need another subscription in our lives.

But, to wrap up, back to the point: even though excel (and the other MS Office software) were incredibly versatile already, you still had the option to install the Analysis ToolPak if you needed to work with complex statistics or engineering analysis or even write your own plugins or macros for it, instead of those features overburdening the software and overwhelming the users by "covering all the use cases".
Here's [1] a phenomenal 'video essay' (there actually isn't much or any commentary besides the careful editing) that really puts this into a fascinating light.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORHB9c8e7ok
Swift-Y JavaScript with Static Initializers
Amazon is basically at this point a diversified conglomerate. For almost every tech startup, there is an Amazon solution. That and online retail is growing. Their biggest consumer facing risk is the 3rd party market, knockoffs and basically cheap Chinese crap. We are basically back to brand name vs generics... at least for some electronics. Also anything you can buy at Walmart, Target and Amazon is usually cheaper or the same price at Amazon.
What on earth... hopefully no one was expecting 100% of ad impressions to turn into sales. Putting ads in the newspaper was fairly effective at driving interest. It still is in some cases, and so is online advertising. You price out your cost per click or cost per thousand impressions and then you see if it changed your sales numbers enough to stand out from the noise and more than paid for itself.
So basically, exercise can help slow the aging of cells in humans through adaption to stress.
I tested a very, very early demo of this, and it used to be hands. I imagine it's still the case.
Here you go: https://www.reuters.com/article/switzerland-bonds/swiss-50-y...
The theme of recurring virtual reality is also explored in Avalon [1]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_(2001_film)
I was in a situation just like yours. I eventually had enough and said either pay me more or I'm leaving. The company decided to go in a different direction, which at the time was scary. It was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It gave me free time to focus on my health, develope a regular exercise routine, and refocus on what matters most in life because it certainly doesn't work. Start saving money so you are prepared, but you cannot continue to work like that. The unknown is scary, but you will come out of it stronger and better off.
I think it depends. I know people who sell exclusively through Google Ads and they do really well. These are mostly niche items though.